MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HaZeust | 2025-10-27 06:43:08+00:00
Neither are steadfast. If we relied on either the Legislative or Judicial branch to take action granting cohesive resolve for Confederates post-Civil War - in lieu of Lincoln's 12/8/63 amnesties as a power vested to him through executive pardons, the Union would have collapsed. Outside of amnesty from Lincoln, it took the next acting branch - the Legislative - 7 years after Robert E. Lee's 1865 surrender for their actions regarding the Civil War to be seen (1872 Amnesty Act).

And, in the systematic event that a law is passed that is grotesque - from the legislative, or in the individual event that a miscarriage of law is applied to an individual case - from the judicial; we need a quick check and balance for either scenario - and the Executive branch is (typically, and on average) the fastest-acting branch of the 3. Lest, one bad-faith branch can reliably depend on its complementary power to be too slow to act (which is happening now, in many ways).

As a result, the executive needs to add tension for either event, and just "Legislative <-> Judicial" having checks against one another in relation to laws, and the judicial proceedings concerning the laws, is not enough.
by 299exp | 2025-10-27 06:43:20+00:00
I think I need to point out some obvious issues with the paper.

Definition of artificial:

>Made by humans, especially in imitation of something natural.

>Not arising from natural or necessary causes; contrived or arbitrary.

Thus artificial intelligence must be the same as natural, the process of coming up with it doesn't have to be natural. What this means: we need to consider the substrate that makes natural intelligence. They cannot be separated willy nilly without actual scientific proof. As in, we cannot imply a roll of cheese can manifest intelligence based on the fact that it recognizes how many fingers are in an image.

The problem arises from a potential conflict of interests between hardware manufacturer companies and definition of AGI. The way I understand it, human like intelligence cannot come from algorithms running on GPUs. It will come from some kind of neuromorphic hardware. And the whole point of neuromorphic hardware is that it operates (closely) on human brain principles. Thus, the definition of AGI MUST include some hardware limitations. Just because I can make a contraption "fool" the tests doesn't mean it has human like cognition/awareness. That must arise from the form, from the way the atoms are arranged in the human brain. Any separation must be scientifically proven. Like if anyone implies GPUs can generate human like self awareness that has to be somehow proven. Lacking a logical way to prove it, the best course of action is to closely follow the way the human brain operates (at least SNN hardware).

>The resulting AGI scores (e.g., GPT-4 at 27%, GPT-5 at 57%) concretely quantify both rapid progress and the substantial gap remaining before AGI.

This is nonsense. GPT scores cannot decide AGI level. They are the wrong algorithm running on the wrong hardware.

I have also seen no disclosure on conflict of interests in the paper.
by wvenable | 2025-10-27 06:43:30+00:00
In some countries that might be true, but not in the US. Free speech protections apply to everyone within US borders, not just citizens. US courts have repeatedly interpreted the First Amendment to mean any person physically present in the United States, including foreign visitors, tourists, and undocumented immigrants, are protected.

I would have strongly argued in the past that the big advantage of US constitution is that nobody would need to be cautious about what political speech they post on social media and online.
by jossephus01 | 2025-10-27 06:43:43+00:00
wren has that minimalism from lua and syntax familarity from js that i always want to have in a scripting language. I was playing with it to build a raylib binding for it using zig a while ago and the language experience was too nice. You can checkout some examples of what you can achieve with raylib + wren here. https://github.com/jossephus/talon
by bob1029 | 2025-10-27 06:44:37+00:00
Simply being interested in the tools and technologies is no longer sufficient for success or happiness.

There was a time when you could walk in the door with a handful of proper nouns printed on a piece of paper. The low hanging fruit has all been collected by now. But, there is always fruit available higher up in the tree. It's just harder to get to. Most people don't know how to climb the tree. They say they can, or that they do it all the time, but they're usually full of shit. It takes a lot of practice and discipline to do this safely.

To be clear, the tree is the customer in this analogy. Your tech and tools are only useful in so far as they complete a valuable job for some party. Reselling value-added tools to other craftsmen is also a viable path, but you have to recognize that the most wizened operators tend to use the older and more boring options. Something that looks incredibly clever to a developer with 3 years of experience is often instantly disregarded by someone with 4 years of experience. The rate at which you stop being a noob is ideally exponential.

I often look back on the things I thought were absolutely mandatory from a technology standpoint and feel really silly about much of it. I wish there was a better way to ramp developers without them causing total destruction. Right now it's like we're training electrician apprentices by having them work on HV switch gear at a nuclear power plant.

There is still a huge gap in ideas like apprenticeship in technology. Being able to code is such a tiny piece of the pie. Being able to engage in dialog with the non technical business owners such that your code has effect on target is ~ the rest of the pizza. A laser guided munition delivered from 60k feet will not be very useful if you don't know where it needs to go or how many targets there are. A lot of what I see on the HN front page is tantamount to carpet bombing the jungle non-stop in hopes of jostling an apple out of a tree somewhere.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-27 06:46:44+00:00
Oh shit, I totally forgot about comptime lol. To be fair it doesn't really have anything to do with memory safety, but I think it's part of what contributes to the excitement. Instead of a macro system you can just write Zig that executes at compile time. Cool idea. I think Johnathan Blow is doing something similar in Jai, it actually may have been the inspiration for Zig's comptime.

I honestly don't think Zig is doing anything big and flashy, or highly revolutionary, the same way Rust (or even a project like Mojo) is. The stated goal was essentially to produce a modern C that pushed developers towards writing reliable software. I think it's hard to explain the enthusiasm because it's kind of greater then the sum of it's parts in some ways.

There's other stuff we haven't talked about here too, outside memory safety. It has incredible interopt with C, and the Zig build system is ridiculous. I don't know any other build tool that has the ability to handle cross platform builds for not only itself, but also C, in the way Zig does.

To be honest, I think a little of it might be the backlash to Rust as well. Portions of the Rust community (not all of it of course) are down right exhausting. And treat memory safety like it's some kind of moral imperative. I think there is a group of people who aren't enthused by Rust, and annoyed by the vocal minority of the community, that are glad to have something that is more suited to their sensibilities.
Ask HN: How should new programmers learn in the AI era?
by loa_observer | 2025-10-27 06:47:19+00:00
My younger brother just started learning programming. When I was learning, I spent weeks building small demos and exercises — calculators, todo apps, little games — but now, most of those can be built in seconds with AI assistants.

I’m wondering: should new programmers still learn the same way we did — building everything by hand — or are there better ways to learn with AI tools around?

Have you seen examples of new developers who learned effectively with AI assistance? How did they structure their learning or projects?

I’d love to hear what worked for you, your students, or junior colleagues today.
by nicbou | 2025-10-27 06:49:09+00:00
1. I aim for long, uninterrupted work periods. If I have meetings, I schedule them early and aim for an open-ended work day.

2. I clean my workspace and do other minor chores the day before, so that I can get right to work. A messy kitchen means you need to wash dishes before you start cooking.

3. I remove friction for getting started. My art stuff is always out. I just have to sit and start.

4. I aggressively reduce information being pushed to me unless it’s critical. When in focus mode, my devices are totally silent. Nothing should take me out of my task unless it cannot wait.

5. A strong coffee after a long night’s sleep, paired with a good breakfast.
by ramraj07 | 2025-10-27 06:51:08+00:00
Of all the hills to die on w.r.t. how the world is screwed up, this seems like the silliest.

Different folks parent differently, culture evolves. You're free to have your "old school" thoughts as are people who use services like this.

Its not like they're publishing it in public. The service in discussion especially just stores it in the server only temporarily to use ML to detect things such as sleeping or crying. Sounds innocuous to me.

Many of us can do the math ourselves and choose to make choices based on our own beliefs. That's true freedom.
by chebureki | 2025-10-27 06:51:20+00:00
I would think the Bill of Rights applies equally to citizens or non-citizens. That includes the First Amendment. That includes the right to freedom of speech and expression of opposition to whatever he or she desires. The freedom of speech is part of the 'truths' that are self-evident. And almost every time, the Congress tried to restrict these rights, they were struck by the courts. This isn't about demolishing the state, as communists would want to do. This isn't about changing the constitutional order, as any totalitarian party would have to do. This is about a right of a person to express his or her opinion without repercussions.

"This case -- perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court -- squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do.’ ‘No law’ means ‘no law.’ The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence. … No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and non-citizens alike.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282...
by flave | 2025-10-27 06:51:46+00:00
Owning part of one company in one sector is not socialism unless you think nearly every country in the world since the invention of the limited company is socialist?

“Bailing out the rich” isn’t socialist is it? What do you think “socialist” means?

I don’t think you understand why the word “socialist” scares so many people. It’s not a word you can just slap on anything to make it “bad”, many people are actually scared about the underlying ideas not the word.

Some Americans seem to just think socialism=bad “because the CIA and the NYT does propaganda”. You may think America is bad and I may agree with you, that doesn’t make it socialist.

In the GDR you couldn’t start a private enterprise without a license. Any enterprise doing anything.

In socialist Burma, there were no privately-owned factories _at all_.

In Czechoslovakia the constitution banned a private company from employing anyone other than the owner of the company.

In Soviet Russia you needed a permit to move city. If you were a farmer you were unlikely to get that permit. You work for the collective farm, the government set the price they would pay you for your produce, and you couldn’t move city to a new job.

I hope these examples show why “the us government is socialist partly because it owns shares in Intel and partly because it’s a lender-of-last-resort for rich people” sounds fatuous.
by thinmalk | 2025-10-27 06:52:08+00:00
The tests for AGI that keep getting made, including the ones in this paper, always feel like they're (probably unintentionally) constructed in a way that covers up AI's lack of cognitive versatility. AI functions much better when you do something like you see here, where you break down tasks into small restricted benchmarks and then see if they can perform well.

But when we say AGI, we want something that will function in the real world like a human would. We want to be able to say, "Here's 500 dollars. Take the car to get the materials, then build me a doghouse, then train my dog. Then go to the store, get the ingredients, and make dinner."

If the robotics aren't reliable enough to test that, then have it be a remote employee for 6 months. Not "have someone call up AI to wrote sections of code" - have a group of remote employees, make 10% AI, give them all the same jobs with the same responsibilities, and see if anyone notices a difference after 6 months. Give an AI an account on Upwork, and tell it to make money any way it can.

Of course, AI is nowhere near that level yet. So we're stuck manufacturing toy "AGI" benchmarks that current AI can at least have some success with. But these types of benchmarks only broadcast the fact that we know that current and near future AI would fail horribly at any actual AGI task we threw at it.
by Tepix | 2025-10-27 06:52:53+00:00
> Blows away any consumer GPU.

Nah. Do you have 1st hand experience with Strix Halo? At less than 1600€ for a 128GB configuration it manages >45 tokens/s with gpt-oss 120b. Which is faster than DGX Spark at a fraction of the cost.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-27 06:53:01+00:00
Their architecture is internet bandwidth heavy and storage heavy; these are some of the most expensive things in AWS. You probably want to use a different provider for those things.

> It turns out that when AWS says an instance can do “Up to 12.5 Gbps”, that’s burstable networking backed by credits; when you’re below the baseline, you accrue credits and can burst for short periods.

Yes, AWS has a burst rating and a sustained/baseline rating for both EBS types as well as instance types. Use https://instances.vantage.sh/ (and make sure you choose specific columns) to compare specific criteria and then export as a CSV to find the lowest price that matches your performance/feature/platform criteria. Design to the baseline if you need guaranteed performance. Do sustained performance testing.

> When we Terminated connections idle >10 minutes, memory dropped by ~1 GB immediately; confirming the leak was from dangling sockets. Fix: make sockets short-lived and enforce time limits.

We used to do that with Apache 20 years ago. Config option forces a forked subchild to exit after N requests to avoid the inevitable memory leaks. AKA the Windows 95 garbage collector (a reboot a day keeps the slowness at bay).

FWIW, if the business feasibility of your architecture depends on custom stuff, performance enhancements, etc, you will find that you eventually have harder and harder problems to solve to keep your business functioning. It's more reliable to waste money on a solution that is brainless, than invest human ingenuity/technical mastery in a solution that is frugal.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-27 06:53:57+00:00
>The LLM can replicate the trick of fooling users into thinking it's conscious as long as there is a sufficient supply of money to keep the LLM running and a sufficient number of new users who don't know the trick.

Okay ? and you, presumably a human can replicate the trick of fooling me into thinking you're conscious as long as there is a sufficient supply of food to keep you running. So what's your point ? With each comment, you make less sense. Sorry to tell you, but there is no trick.
by harrall | 2025-10-27 06:55:21+00:00
Until LLMs came around, I rarely saw other people use interrupting/parenthetical clauses at all, em dash or not. Kind of the same with semi-colons even. Or bold or subtle italics.

I’ve always enjoyed the style that em dashes and semi-colons add to a piece of writing and it was what made me start using them. It was always notable to me when I noticed them in someone’s else’s writing, which was always rare.
by theemptiness | 2025-10-27 06:55:21+00:00
Small semantics nit: it is not overengineered, it is engineered. You wanted more throughput, the collection of coreutils tools was not designed for throughput but flexibility.

It is not difficult to construct scenarios where throughput matters but that IMHO that does not determine engineering vs overengineering. What matters is whether there are requirements that need to be met. Debating the requirements is possible but doesn't take away from whether a solution obtained with reasonable effort meets the spec. Overengineering is about unreasonable effort, which could lead to overshoot the requirements, not about unreasonable requirements.
by ilikehurdles | 2025-10-27 06:55:23+00:00
It has always been legal to deny visa/entry to people based on speech and affiliation. Pretty long list of evidence for that.

As for non-citizens lawfully present in the U.S., they have more First Amendment protections than those seeking entry, but still less than citizens.

All this can get visa holders deported:

1. Material support for terrorist organizations (even verbal/written advocacy.

2. Speech deemed to violate the terms of their specific visa category.

3. False statements to immigration officials.

4. (Most obviously) Criminal convictions stemming from speech acts (fraud, threats, etc.)
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-27 06:58:07+00:00
A second-order issue there is the pervasive phenomenon of people wanting things cheap which results in hidden costs. When it costs more to make things safer or to test that they are safe, bad actors can succeed by not doing that and finding ways to dodge responsibility, because people just gravitate towards low prices. Part of the "governance" challenge is forcing market participants to internalize their costs.

Somewhat ironically, a countervailing strategy has emerged of charging more for something based on the claim that it's "natural", "organic", "handcrafted", etc. This strategy can also be seen in various types of "detectors" and at-home tests for things, and perhaps even things like the ConsumerLabs mentioned in another comment.

This muddies the waters even more, since even people who are willing to pay more for something that's better can't figure out how to avoid paying more for something that's just equally bad. These problems exist not just in the realm of food and health but in all product categories.
by whatshisface | 2025-10-27 06:58:35+00:00
>Should a visitor to a country enjoy the right to explicitly espouse opposition to that country without any negative consequence?

What I imagine is the biggest, most obvious crack in this argument, is that "the country" includes people who support every side of most issues, especially the question of how many Palestinians Israel will be allowed to kill before they're made to stop it. Arresting tourists that espouse a particular view represents once force within the US dominating another within the US.
by arjie | 2025-10-27 06:58:39+00:00
Haha you guys are funny. We went along with every one that he recommended. Just a straightforward Yes To All. The COVID vaccine wasn't on the list. No manual opt-out. There's a manual opt-in but I'm fine with things as they stand.

I should have known better than to mention that. For obvious reasons this one virus is a bit of a politicized subject and activates the outrage machine.

I've got no problem with our paediatrician. Rather like him, if I'm being honest. Wouldn't be going back for every subsequent appointment if I did have a problem. The "long lecture" bit is more affectionate than complaining.
by ilikehurdles | 2025-10-27 06:59:17+00:00
The bill of rights does not apply equally to both citizens and non-citizens. There’s a deep history of cases testing most of those amendments on this line, some landing one way, some landing another, and a few “it depends”.

And a district court judge’s rather inappropriate screed sets no legal precedent. It’s old man yells at clouds. It would be relevant to discuss founding documents or Supreme Court opinions.
by miellaby | 2025-10-27 06:59:18+00:00
I share with the author this youth where a child learns coding before everything else. I really loved coding and made it my carrier. Yet I don't think I would have been on the side of recognized genius if born earlier. I don't think any of them spent most of their time smashing keys. They were rather conceptualizing and planning stuff, and had human skills I could only dream of.

That being said, we untalented programmers are experiencing what most jobs suffered in the last 2 centuries: massive automation of their everyday activities. I especially identify with these traditional farmers who took their life as their way of life was wiped out by artificial fertilizers, mechanic, chemicals and hyperscaling.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-10-27 06:59:19+00:00
She had American citizenship until recently. She's overcompensating by larping as a native when she isn't. She was intentionally picked to be a token foreigner to lead the anti-immigration policy of the new administration, just like the US's regime can say "You can't call us far right! That Stephen Miller guy's Jewish!" They love their token minorities since it's an easy counterpoint that they think proves they're angels with good intentions, and unfortunately, half of any given country will completely believe a government that uses minorities for that purpose.
by waste_monk | 2025-10-27 06:59:54+00:00
Also worth noting that FTPS (FTP over TLS) exists and obviates the fuss around SSH TOFU and key management etc. Especially given we're in the era of free certificates via Let's Encrypt, this is a great option.

The main downside is people will sometimes assume you mean SFTP (not having heard of FTPS or realising they are different), and then get upset when it doesn't work as they expect. However good tooling will support both e.g. Filezilla.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-10-27 07:01:05+00:00
Considering many (most?) countries such as the UK, Germany, Australia, Spain, etc. don’t vaccinate healthy children for COVID because there’s basically no reason to, which presumably the doctor knows, he probably wasn’t disappointed. Having a blanket policy of vaccinating healthy children against COVID, especially now, was a terrible ideologically-driven idea that almost certainly drove more people to be antivaxers.
by rendaw | 2025-10-27 07:01:34+00:00
> For high-throughput workloads (>500 req/s), we actually saw better cost efficiency with S3 due to their economies of scale on bandwidth. The breakeven point seems to be around 100-200TB of relatively static data with predictable access patterns. Below that, the operational overhead of running your own storage likely exceeds S3's markup.

I just spent 5 minutes reading this over and over, but it still doesn't make any sense to me. First it says that high throughput = s3, low throughput = self hosted. Then it says low throughput = s3, (therefore high throughput = self hosted).
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