MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breuleux | 2025-10-08 17:15:32+00:00
Regarding "Alien Message", I don't find that story particularly convincing. I think it's muddled and contrived.

The basic issue is that we have to deduce stuff about the world we live in, using resources from the world we live in. In the story, the data bandwidth is contrived to be insanely smaller than the compute bandwidth, but that's not realistic. In reality, we are surrounded by chaotic physical systems that operate on raw hardware. They are, in fact, quite fast, and probably impossible to simulate efficiently. For instance, we can obviously never build a computer that can simulate the behavior of its own circuitry, using said circuitry, faster than it operates. But I think there's a lot of physical systems that are just like that.

Being data-limited means that we get data slower than we can analyze and process it. It is certainly possible to improve our ability to analyze data, but I don't think we can assume that the best physically realizable intelligence would overcome data limitation, nor that it would be cost-effective in the first place, compared to simply gathering more data and experimenting more.
by Pannoniae | 2025-10-08 17:15:48+00:00
I agree with you for almost all of this, just a small nitpick:

GC isn't really incompatible with games, for the overwhelming majority of games, it's basically a non-factor in performance if you spend even the slightest amount of time on performance.

It's kind of similar to native code - don't allocate too much, reuse resources, don't leak them uncontrollably.

It's only a problem when you need guarantees (i.e. the game should never drop a frame) but basically no game fulfills that nowadays and it isn't a player expectation.
by unoti | 2025-10-08 17:16:04+00:00
> effective management requires that you're able to trust that the person tells you when they've hit a snag or anything else you may need to know

This is what we shoot for, yes, but many of the most interesting war stories involve times when people should have been telling you about snags but weren't-- either because they didn't realize they were spinning their wheels, or because they were hoping they'd somehow magically pull off the win before the due date, or innumerable other variations on the theme. People are most definitely not reliable about telling you things they should have told you.

> if you feel you have to review every line of code anyone on the team writes...

Somebody has to review the code, and step back and think about it. Not necessarily the manager, but someone does.
by gretch | 2025-10-08 17:16:22+00:00
This isn't actually because of 9/11.

For the politicians who are putting this structure into place, 9/11 is a convenient excuse to pin all of this on.

But in reality if 9/11 didn't happen, then any myriad of other things would be used in it's place to justify this.

Just look at things like the chat control proposal in the EU. Which "9/11" is that based on? None, and they don't need one.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-10-08 17:16:26+00:00
> You seem to just want to use vague terms and play word games.

If you don't seek clarity, it's totally ok for you to not ask. No pressure.

> So you're saying Egypt and Israel were the rulers of Gaza

Not sure where you got that from, it makes no sense. I haven't seen any credible evidence to that effect, whereas it's been reiterated thousands of times, via violence, that israel rules over Palestine with an iron, exploding fist.

> There are plenty that disagree with the claims

There are plenty that disagree with those that disagree with the claims. There are also plenty who disagree with the earth being round. That very loud people in the extreme minority disagree with something is not really evidence of anything.

> You have to really ignore the facts to make that claim, exactly like many UN officials do.

More accurately, one would really have to ignore facts to make the above quoted claim, like many supporters of the israeli genocide of Palestinians do.

> What people call journalists in Palestine often includes individuals holding actual hostages[0] and others that are part of Hamas, so those claims are quite problematic in general.

This is a claim often repeated by supporters of the israeli genocide of Palestinians, but unfortunately they never provide evidence of this "often" being the case. That said, the number of people who are both journalists and active combatants could theoretically be as high as 99%, and it still wouldn't justify israel restricting, much less killing, the remaining 1%.

> UN officials showing their bias

If israel wishes to credibly prove their claims regarding bias against israel, they can submit their claims for judgement by the UN or international court. Until then, given israel's long history of bias, lying, murdering investigators, and claiming that everybody who criticizes them is biased, israel's claims can be assumed false wherever they would be self-serving.

> they have so far failed to provide sufficient evidence to back their claims.

Correction here: those claiming israel is perpetrating a genocide in general have provided sufficient evidence to back their claims. Regarding the formal court case around it: the plaintiffs have also provided sufficient evidence to back their claims.

> UN has a way bigger credibility issue than Israel does

You have this backwards: israel has a way bigger credibility issue than the UN (nearly 200 other nations united). So far, israel has failed to convince the world (the UN) that they have more credibility than the rest of the world put together.
by matt_s | 2025-10-08 17:16:28+00:00
I guess I'm in the minority. I set aside some monthly budget for guilt-free spending (ala Ramit Sethi approach) and $70 for a game that I play for 20 hours or more of entertainment is a no-brainer to me. Back in the day that would be like $3.50 an hour at an arcade (or less if more than 20 hours). 14 quarters per hour, I think I averaged way more than that back then.

Then there are subscriptions like PS+ for Playstation that is about $15/mo and I get 3 games that I mostly add to my library and hardly play.

If I play half a game and get distracted or bored, I just stop. If I'm not naturally pulled back in, I don't care. The whole "guilt free spending" budget concept really shifted my perspective from wanting to "get my money's worth" to more "its spent, I had fun, what's next/interesting now?" approach.
by jfengel | 2025-10-08 17:17:18+00:00
Congrats to Kurzweil. I would have made the same bet.

I find it puts us in a very surreal philosophical place. In 2002 I would also have said that passing the Turing test would require AGI. It's pretty clear that we have passed the Turing test without AGI.

I suspect Kurzweil would still take the bet that we'll hit AGI before 2029. I suspect that he's wrong, and that real AGI will require a significant climbdown before making new progress forward. But I'm definitely not 20 grand sure.
by jfengel | 2025-10-08 17:17:24+00:00
If Trump can get Israel to release those militants, then I'd say he does indeed deserve the Nobel Prize he craves.

(At least as much as anybody does. The Peace Prize has a really embarrassing history. And I include Barack Obama in that history, a President I admire very much but who did not deserve a prize for not-being-George-Bush.)

I'm afraid that this seems like a situation where any compromise will leave both sides utterly furious, but at least not killing each other any more. October 7 was beyond horrific; Israel's response has managed to be even more barbaric. (And I say that despite also believing that Hamas is deliberately using its own population as a human shield.) There is no solution that both sides will not consider wildly unjust. And they'll be right.

The US President has no leverage on Hamas, but some on Israel. If he can use that leverage to get Netanyahu to do the unthinkable -- release some absolute monsters -- in exchange for peace, it would be a significant feat.

TFA suggests that Hamas doesn't believe that this is is possible, and is using this as a tactic to prolong the war. That meant it's a real opportunity for the President -- if he can call them on it, and not immediately look like an idiot by having the process fall through anyway. Good luck.
by npilk | 2025-10-08 17:18:33+00:00
Claude Code built me a custom RSS feed reader in just an hour or so. I wanted a simple list of unread posts, which would be auto-deleted when I clicked on them to read them. It took less than 24 hours to go from "ok I'll try to make this" to having it up and running "in production" on my home server.

AI could be a real game changer for anyone who runs their own server or homelab. If you can't find a reader you like, just make one! It's not that hard these days.
by apeytavin | 2025-10-08 17:19:08+00:00
The agentic OS allows to abstract away from ROS2 by creating the concept of "skills" that can be triggered by the agent; you don't really have to care anymore about defining nodes or racing conditions between them, our framework is a lottle simpler in that way. Triggering a skill is the equivalent (almost) to triggering an action in ROS2 btw.

But the interest of it is how it is packaged and that it can be triggered by this VLM-based agent called BASIC that we created.

This agent has a special kind of architecture which gives it spatial memory, capability to react in time, and ability to navigate. This means that skills can be triggered in the right place at the right time, like a true entity. BASIC can interrupt skills in execution depending on how you configure it. So that if it's chilling navigating around and it sees you, it would interrupt navigation and get to you, shake hands and ask if you need help instead of finishing the task without reacting.

Hope this helps!
by dingnuts | 2025-10-08 17:19:09+00:00
Hotels are a specially designated category for temporary housing so that permanent residents can exclude travelers from their neighborhoods.

You aren't flipping it on its head at all, the reason hotels exist is because travelers exist and need somewhere to go.

Why does Airbnb think they have a right to invert the social contract that has created a designated place for people who are likely to not know local norms and be operating on strange hours?
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-10-08 17:19:17+00:00
It may feel cathartic to talk about hypocrisy and grift of right wing politics, but you should know that nobody responds to it. Saying "I told you so" doesn't work, even through snark. The people whom it would benefit you (and me, and mostly also them) to sway aren't swayed by it.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-10-08 17:19:31+00:00
I recently enabled RSS for my own blog¹ and found it very frustrating getting the images/thumbs to display properly. The reason it was frustrating is the aggressive caching by the RSS readers. I had to debug it on a bunch of different readers, then once it was finally working change the URL of my feed to force them all to refresh.

The RSS feeds are surprisingly non-standardized for the media content extensions, even a simple thumbnail.

[1] https://www.jasonthorsness.com at https://www.jasonthorsness.com/rss.xml
by brudgers | 2025-10-08 17:19:40+00:00
General advice:

+ As a guest it is rude to behave in ways you know your hosts consider impolite.

+ As a matter of personal safety, unwarranted risks are unwarranted.

Buying a cheap phone in Iran and enjoying your bucket list trip is the simplest thing that might work. Why try to fuck with a nation-state. Good luck.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-08 17:20:08+00:00
Did you compile with optimisations? I think GCC will do a bunch of activity on the stack with -O0, but it'll generally coalesce everything into one push/pop per function with optimisations (not because of any rule, but just because it's faster). alloca and other dynamic stack allocation may break this, but normal variables should in pretty much all just get turned into one block on the stack (with appropriate re-use of space if variable lifetimes don't overlap)
by draga79 | 2025-10-08 17:20:34+00:00
Of course, you're free to think that. Sometimes dynamics aren't very linear and people are more inclined to avoid problems rather than create more. The concern about this company was obviously well-founded and valid, and the people involved didn't like it. Some of the choices they made were undoubtedly questionable, and I admit I was disappointed. Of course, I couldn't tell the whole story or all the details, but in the end, the company didn't get away with it completely. This event gained some traction through word-of-mouth among colleagues, and their user base plummeted in a short time.
by ajmurmann | 2025-10-08 17:20:34+00:00
Eric Ries first started talking about a Long-Term Stock Exchange, he suggested long (potentially multi-year) lock-up periods. The LTSE he actually implemented doesn't have that. I speculate that this was a compromised because they are allowing dual listings which helps them gain market share but also would undermine the entire concept of very long lock-ups.

I'd love to see a stock market actually do this.
by thatguy0900 | 2025-10-08 17:20:44+00:00
It doesn't help that really everyone already understands that basically every company is completely devoid of morality and ethics. Noone who pays attention is surprised or shocked at companies taking advantage of disasters. They're not even above manufacturing the disaster themselves if they think they'll get away with it. Reporting on what they do feels like screaming into the void.
by apeytavin | 2025-10-08 17:20:44+00:00
What would you define as "complex"?

This kind of architecture is very similar to what Physical Intelligence used for Pi-0.5 (a VLM triggering a VLA in different areas), albeit to a smaller size for now.

You can also see some example (autonomous!) use-cases here: https://docs.innate.bot/welcome/mars-example-use-cases
by andsko | 2025-10-08 17:20:55+00:00
I keep hoping that someone else sees something in it and comes up with a neat description :D

People often surf the internet, or even chat with friends - to simply rediscover concepts. Noticing a word, "trust", for example, and thinking "ha, that's that word that explains most of the friction in our team". Then your mind starts coming up with all the associations related to the concept of trust and how it applies to your situation. "Time well spent" you think to yourself, often downplaying the tax that you have to pay.

This application is an attempt to gather some of those keywords without all the extra noise. To help a user to register information from his experience, to find connections and to get new perspectives on ordinary things.
by delecti | 2025-10-08 17:21:16+00:00
ICE doesn't have legal authority to punish people. Despite that, they are actively doing it all over the country at this very moment. At least if a TSA agent got a bug up his ass and decided to fuck up your day, you'd probably still walk out of the airport unencumbered by handcuffs. ICE might just black bag you and ship you out of the country.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-08 17:21:31+00:00
The US did do this for most of the 20th century. Or at least something close to this: Many utilities were private companies but they were regulated monopolies. The state allowed them to be monopolies in exchange for tight state control.

In the 1990s this started to change. The idea was that the different utilities could compete for customers, and thus they wouldn't be monopolies any more and thus market forces would take the place of government regulation.

Of course this has failed spectacularly. Deregulation brought us the Enron disaster and the 2021 Texas grid crisis, among others. But since corporations control the US government now, there's no chance regulation will be brought back.
by bigthymer | 2025-10-08 17:23:19+00:00
> there's no reason to trade them anywhere else than the one place that has the highest volume and lowest spreads for that stock.

Norbert's Gambit is a good reason. It is potentially the cheapest way to effectively do a currency exchange.

[1] - https://www.finiki.org/wiki/Norbert%27s_gambit
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-08 17:23:25+00:00
Yeah, maybe you're expected to be of a certain age or into retro underdog gaming systems? It was upvoted to the front page so…

Yeah, Vectrex was a vector gaming platform (as opposed to bitmap) that came and went in the 80's. Vector arcade games were a kind of niche anyway — like "Asteroids", "Battlezone", "Tempest" and a Star Wars game. But they were also kind of magical. The Vectrex captured that.
by aag | 2025-10-08 17:23:49+00:00
I like the modern social contract and hotels, but to be fair, AirBNB is inverting what had already been inverted. In some sense, AirBNB is returning to the old model before hotels were everywhere. A traveler would reach a new town and ask for lodging in someone's home. In many countries, providing lodging to strangers is still the norm.
by apeytavin | 2025-10-08 17:24:05+00:00
This does not sound negative to me and actually is great to read because this is definitely in the list of potential use-cases so we could make a video for it!

As for humidity, we don't have a sensor for it yet BUT the platform was made to be extensible specifically for this so it's easy to add one (see https://docs.innate.bot/main/robots/mars/extending-mars)

Thank you!
by bormaj | 2025-10-08 17:24:11+00:00
My use case isn't IOT, but about once a month I get a massive data dump from a vendor. Think tens of millions of rows and 100+ columns. Cleaning, ingesting and querying this data via standard RDBMS is a slow and brittle process. There is a time series aspect, but partitioning across other keys/groups is critical.
by ameliaquining | 2025-10-08 17:24:36+00:00
This discrepancy is precisely the reason (or at least one reason) why AI 2027 hypothesizes that all the interesting developments will be happening inside whichever AI lab is in the lead. The kind of AI agent that AI 2027 hypothesizes in that timeframe could do the migration in much less than 24 months, but only if the organization completely changes how it works internally so that everything is driven by the goal of exploiting the AI's capabilities to the maximal extent. Microsoft/GitHub probably can't do that that quickly.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-08 17:24:45+00:00
So can Synology. "I'm sorry, sir, but your XYZ drive doesn't appear on our list of recommended/supported drives. I'll need to refer you to XYZ Corp for this issue. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"

That's all they ever needed to say. Instead, they said, "Fuck you, pay me."
by selendym | 2025-10-08 17:24:50+00:00
> If anyone else knows of similar interventions, I would love to learn of them. It makes me think about how individuals can force multiply their impact, and whether there's methods for personal empowerment to be learned from these examples.

One that comes to mind is Keith Gill [1] of GameStop fame [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gill

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameStop_short_squeeze
by efitz | 2025-10-08 17:24:55+00:00
Are you so nakedly partisan that you can’t accept a win at face value?

Gabbard et al were targeted by Quiet Skies. It was mentioned many times during the campaign and during the administration. I don’t think Noem is Machiavelli; the administration clearly signaled an intent to end this and it doesn’t surprise me that they did so and I think there were valid reasons given and I accept that anything politicians do may ALSO have a political goal in mind but doesn’t make their stated reasons insincere.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-10-08 17:25:29+00:00
Breaking laws is not behaving morally. In fact those are nearly always mutually exclusive. Morality is for you to have an opinion on, but it is not an objective truth.

You find yourself in a reality of consequences wherein choosing to break laws is a really bad option in nearly all cases.

Because of that, one cannot call it a duty. A duty obliges ALL citizens to break laws. ALL and seldom/last resort are mutually exclusive, logically.

You have found yourself in contradiction. You can't both believe that breaking laws is a last resort and also believe that it is a duty based on subjective criteria like morality.

It is a logical impossibility.

Can you break unjust laws? Yes. Is that ever the best option? Yes.

Is that a duty? No.

It's almost NEVER a good choice. It is a last resort. It was a good choice in extremely rare cases and a terrible choice for the majority of humanity in the majority of cases so often that it's justified to generalize that it's never going to be good for you as an individual.

You need to be a megalomaniac to believe it's going to be good for you. That you are somehow special like MLK. And let's not forget it wasn't good for him either. Sadly.

Don't let your star struck glamorization of moral icons and historical outliers lead you to make statistically bad decisions. These examples are famous moral icons BECAUSE they are outliers. They aren't MORAL outliers, they are rare examples of cases in society where morality was not overwhelmingly agreed upon. That's the expected course of growth for nearly all legal frameworks of justice.

You are most probably not an outlier and when you are you won't know that you are because legal framework is derived from the same majority opinion from which your understanding of morality originates anyway.

It's safe to assume, if you are breaking laws in a democracy, that you are on the wrong side of morality because the laws themselves, in a democracy, originate in the majority's moral agreement.

There is no way in hell, given that the above is true, that it should be a duty.

That rhetoric of duty throughout history has been used to charge the public for revolutions, and most especially violent ones. It is by no means a rational, or scientific conclusion. That is the objective reality, sir.

Don't be a jackass. Obey the law. You're not smarter than everyone that made the law. When you are, we'll tell you. That's democracy.
by jacobgkau | 2025-10-08 17:26:14+00:00
You're going to need to cite your statistics about the specific Windows-only professional requirements and how many people need them instead of continuing the snark chain.

Here's an example to start: https://www.digitalsilk.com/digital-trends/mobile-vs-desktop...

> 15% of adults in the U.S. only use mobile devices to access the internet.

You're down to 85% already who even have the possibility of using your unicorn Windows-only software.

Yes, CNC machinists, mechanical engineers, and graphics designers exist. No, they're actually not the majority of the population. Also keep in mind this thread was talking about personal computers and not just work computers; just because some cashier's required to use a proprietary Windows XP program on their cash register doesn't mean they need to use Windows at home. Your argument is restricted to the small proportion of people who're either required or desire to do day job stuff on their personal PCs (of which not all of them actually need that highly specialized software you're referring to).