MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Marshferm | 2025-10-24 18:29:38+00:00
Words are the illusion, they neither exist nor are they directly linked to thoughts. Words are "sportscasting."

All thinking is done without words. This is empirical both from the new neurosciences of dynamics/oscillations (see Buzsaki) and neurobiological linguistics (see MIT Language Lab quote below). This is very likely how LLMs have nothing to do with intelligence or thinking. Thoughts are wordless processes built from Sharp Wave Ripples that flow across the entirety of the brain and probably interact ecologically with the outside. Where they are formed, how they interact and integrate with the senses, emotions, memories, motor, simulations and in what order to make action-syntax is still unknown.

Words have nothing to do with them.

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024
by slg | 2025-10-24 18:30:26+00:00
Currently, number 1 on the front page. I expect it to drop in minutes.

EDIT: 3 minutes. That is how long it lasted after my comment before it was flag killed. I truly wonder what the line will be for all the technolibertarians and the "I don't care about politics" folks here to wake up to what is currently going on in this country.
Show HN: Music Mini Games - an iOS app
by calflegal | 2025-10-24 18:30:36+00:00
I've just released an iOS app that contains a few simple music games. I hope to add more in the future, and to improve the existing games. Over the long run I hope I'm able to build experiences that are both fun and help you become a better musician. It's rough around the edges, and very early, but feedback and feature requests are still welcome. On the marketing page I have an email list and a way to contact me, so I'd love thoughts.

No login, no subscription, no network required, no analytics, 5 MB binary

iOS link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/music-mini-games/id6752395649?...

marketing page: https://musicminigames.com/
by imiric | 2025-10-24 18:30:58+00:00
I mean, we can be cynical about it, or we can acknowledge the fact that running a sustainable business around OSS is entrepreneurship on hard mode.

Yes, many companies start with good intentions which then change at some point, but there have also been companies that have managed to successfully balance both sides.

Grafana comes to mind, as well as ClickHouse, and TimescaleDB. I'm not as familiar with the latter two, but Grafana is certainly a good example. You can probably find some blemishes even on their record, but overall, I would say they have been excellent stewards of OSS. Especially considering the large amount of products they maintain.

So far, Typst seem to be on the right track as well, which is worthy of praise.
by Lammy | 2025-10-24 18:31:07+00:00
> Apple explicitly designed in support for booting other operating systems into the M-series chips

Is it possible to buy a compatible M-whatever Mac and install Linux on it without network access, without it phoning home to Apple for permission?

Sincere question since I have only used one Apple Silicon Mac ever, and it was a work machine so I never tried Asahi on it. I am curious about the privacy implications of non-macOS support.
by akerl_ | 2025-10-24 18:31:54+00:00
The case law I’m seeing does not seem to provide that level of certainty.

There’s plenty of flexibility in the case law for what counts as “public use”, but nearly all of it is about individual cases where the government takes a specific person’s specific property, or damages it in some way. There doesn’t appear to be much case law at all for the guardrails if the government declares an object to be illegal to possess writ large for safety purposes and requires owners to destroy or surrender those objects.

I’m not saying there’s no path where the courts would require compensation, but for the level of certainty you’re claiming, I’d expect there to be a more clear line you can draw to existing cases.
by afavour | 2025-10-24 18:31:55+00:00
Censored is perhaps strong. But yes, it’ll likely get flagged for being off topic or get downranked because of arguing. Which I understand to an extent but I also feel like we’re approaching five alarm fire for democracy levels.

When it’s too late a whole lot of people are going to look up from their terminals and say “huh? What’s going on? You know, I try to avoid anything too political.”

EDIT: and it’s gone
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-24 18:32:13+00:00
> Is FBI being instructed that protesting ice is antifa terrorism?

Yes, both the President and the Attorney General have been doing this openly, and explicitly citing it as the basis for their instructions to federal law enforcement. They have also been prosecuting based on false testimony of federal officers about assaults (and being forced to dismiss a stunningly high number of filed cases on that basis), and still using the numbers from those false claims as basis for asserting a huge spike in assaults on federal offficers, which also is being cited directly as justification for reallocating resources and setting enforcement prioirities.
by lepicz | 2025-10-24 18:33:04+00:00
they have their own pain - there are those different mosquitoes, that tries to enter your every orifice. eyes, ears, nose, urethra. very annoying.

after long journey we arrived into the camp. we wondered why we were the only ones there, so we got out of the car and there they were. a lot of them. that was the fastest i ever built a tent and we jumped in it and called it an early night :)
by ekr____ | 2025-10-24 18:33:40+00:00
It's important to realize that about:config flags aren't part of the official configuration interface, so there really aren't any guarantees about how the system will behave if you frob one. Generally, updates are designed so they don't interfere with things that are set from the official config interface (this is hard enough!) but a lot less care is taken with any other about:config settings.

Update: I think a much better complaint is that there's no official way to disable these features.
by buzer | 2025-10-24 18:34:08+00:00
NEB in Finland is Traficom, but they don't handle individual complaints. Those handled by Consumer Advisory Services and European Consumer Center & these are residence based as far as I understand (I'm Finnish citizen but I don't live in EU).

The only alternative to court is Consumer Disputes Board but their resolutions are just recommendations & Finnair has a long history of ignoring them so spending 2-3 years there seems like waste of time.
by scythe | 2025-10-24 18:34:36+00:00
The definition is holistic:

>As shown in Figure S1, we began with a list of 588 public Montessori schools in the United States supplied by the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector

>[procedural stuff, possibly introducing bias but not definitional]

>Finally, because “Montessori” is not a trademarked term, we checked whether schools met our minimum standards for Montessori inclusion

>- At least 66% of the lead Primary classroom teachers are trained by one of the two most prominent Montessori teacher training organizations, the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) or the American Montessori Society (AMS). One school was excluded on this basis.

>- No more than two adults, the trained teacher and a non-teaching assistant, in the classroom on a regular basis. No school was excluded on this basis

>- Classrooms are mixed-age, with at least 18 children ranging from 3 to 6 years old. Five schools did not mix ages so were excluded.

>- At least a 2-hour uninterrupted free choice period every day. Five schools were excluded on this basis.

>- Each classroom has at least 80% of the complete set of roughly 150 Montessori Primary materials, and fewer than 5% of the materials available to children in the classroom are not Montessori materials. No school was excluded for failing to meet this criterion. [italics mine, furthermore, holy crap!]

I think one thing that is particularly noticeable is that, while there is definitely some particular form of education being put forward here which is interesting, there is obviously a very "aesthetic" trend as well, because plenty of schools are failing on the practices and the teachers while somehow none are failing the materials. But maybe this is actually just path-dependence in measuring the exclusion per criterion?
by Arrath | 2025-10-24 18:34:38+00:00
I have the privilege of being licensed and insured for such and have a working relationship with the county fire marshall who issues the permits, so I used a rock bar to open a little hole to the right depth and then sprung the hole with a small binary explosive charge. Covered with matting hung from a borrowed tractor's bucket, so no danger of launched projectiles.

Saved a whole lot of backbreaking digging, do recommend.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-10-24 18:34:55+00:00
It's not that I actually write code over SSH (I usually work with wifi disabled), more that I just push things to big machines for building and testing them, rather than doing that locally. My pair of 32-thread Ryzen machines are worth their weight in gold for the amount they juice my productivity. No laptop can ever touch that, for obvious physics reasons.

I can do everything you're describing with my XPS13. I regularly go days without plugging it in.
by kovek | 2025-10-24 18:35:20+00:00
I tried to ask a model to tell me what is the "long multiplication algorithm". It gave it to me. I asked it to follow that algorithm to solve eg. 12987318927 * 12098102983, and it followed the algorithm, and it got the right answer. It DOES fail more when the numbers are longer (because it results with more text in the context), but that can be improved by having the model focus on the right subset of the text, right?
by suddenlybananas | 2025-10-24 18:35:56+00:00
Doing multiplication in your head isn't the point though, you can externalise language and use it to do things you can't do in your head by writing it down.

Mathematics was born out of very careful reasoning that we do through language, we only use formalisms as they allow us to avoid the massive ambiguities that exist in natural language. Formal symbolic manipulation came out of our already existing abilities of symbolic manipulation through language.
by OutOfHere | 2025-10-24 18:36:22+00:00
> all differences in material outcomes are short term; and while it would be nice if optimally moral behavior (including honesty) were also the optimal behavior for personal benefit, that’s not usually the case

What a crappy worldview that is, and while it may have been true in the past, times have changed, and it no longer is the case. People can and will expose and report fraud rather immediately. Of course if one is demented or just not interested in fact-finding, then it makes no difference. Whether choosing to seek truth or ignore it, either way it is a choice.

Let me sum it up by saying that those who reject the truth have far shorter lives than those who accept it. So, yes, the ones disinterested in it will be dead sooner, and in this way they have more to gain from being a part of the lie.
by PiRho3141 | 2025-10-24 18:36:46+00:00
I send my child to a private Montessori school. With that said, there's no denying that sending your child to a private Montessori school is similar to parents who buy books in learning to parent are typically better parents not because they read the books but because they care enough to buy the books. If you care enough to send your child to a Montessori school, the parent is invested in the child's success and I think that's way more important.
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-24 18:37:14+00:00
USB-A has much larger pins, meaning it will continue to work even if slightly damaged. USB-C has much higher pin density so the slightest misalignment (due to damage or just bad manufacturing tolerances) causes dropouts.

I'm just salty because I will have to replace either the ports on my Macbook or my USB-C wireless headphone receiver (both are a pricey endeavor, not to mention the downtime of having the laptop shipped for repair) just for the same issue to most likely reoccur a year down the line since it wasn't a result of any kind of misuse (both devices are exclusively used in an office environment and otherwise in brand new condition).
by EGreg | 2025-10-24 18:37:17+00:00
AI fan (type 1 -- AI made a big breakthrough) meets AI defender (type 2 -- AI has not fundamentally changed anything that was already a problem).

Defenders are supposed to defend against attacks on AI, but here it misfired, so the conversation should be interesting.

That's because the defender is actually a skeptic of AI. But the first sentence sounded like a typical "nothing to see here" defense of AI.
by raybb | 2025-10-24 18:37:18+00:00
Have only lightly dabbled in latex but Typst was super easy to pickup. I recently even published a whole book[0] in Typst. The process was straightforward for the most part. It took a little time to work out how to get page numbers alternating between the left and right side and a few other small formatting details but by and large it was very easy to create a beautiful PDF that's ready for printing.

Also, pandoc has fairly good support for Typst so I use that to create a docx (which Draft2Digital converts to epub). I even opened a few issues (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc%2...) for pandoc support and they were almost all resolved pretty quickly.

[0]: https://thelabofthought.co/shop/p/nbmi3
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-10-24 18:37:44+00:00
A lot of savants that are able to do really cool calculations, or even people that have synesthesia seeing numbers as colors, don't actually do "real" calculations.

I think most humans that do math aren't actually literally computing things as some kind of logic machine.

We can produce logic, and follow the steps of using that logic, but it doesn't seem to me that our cognition is some kind of logic machine itself.
by pmarreck | 2025-10-24 18:38:03+00:00
I have a Framework laptop and it's pretty sweet.

I also own an M4 so I can compare the two.

The M4 wins on slickness due to 1) unibody 2) Apple Silicon (and running local AI models, and the occasional game that is actually optimized for Mac like BG3) 3) excellent screen (HDR, high contrast, etc.), but the Framework wins on cool-ness and, frankly, ethics. (Especially since I put NixOS on it with ZFS-on-root mirrored across 2 internal SSD's.)
by Melonai | 2025-10-24 18:38:10+00:00
I don't know... As someone who many people would characterize as "way too woke", this doesn't really quite ruin Framework for me (though I don't own any of their products).

DHH is certainly an ass, and this is my first time reading about the racist stuff (before this I just found him generally extremely unlikable), but just general association with someone with shitty opinions doesn't fully ruin a project for me. I guess Omarchy is popular nowadays (I'm really not sure why, if someone really knows, please explain), people are going to want to use it on their Framework computers, ergo: Framework has a reason to cooperate with Omarchy developers so their devices work like the customers want them to, and I guess I'm fine with it even if DHH leaves a bad taste in my mouth...

I guess I sort of feel similar in regards to suckless, I don't really like most of their projects, from what I've heard there are some abhorrent people involved, but I wouldn't really put blame on the distro maintainer that packages their projects for their users to use, I guess?

Though, I definitely get why people might feel differently.
by roscas | 2025-10-24 18:38:23+00:00
Still, don't forget to install uBlock Origin on Firefox. If you don't have a Pi-hole, considerer installing one. If you use Windows (or android/ios/macos), there is no way MicroDollar won't know what you do or go, even if you have a VPN it still goes around the VPN. But if you use Linux, install OpenSnitch so you can control some other nasty connections.
by tgma | 2025-10-24 18:39:28+00:00
I agree there are incorrect information, incorrect analysis, and incorrect predictions by the electorate. What I am saying is that in aggregate, the political machine on both sides is fully incentivized with enough financial and media backing to counter the other side. It is not even inconceivable to see each individual vote for their "right" candidate for the wrong reasons. I fully acknowledge that.

In aggregate, however, I believe in the US presidential elections end up voting for their own best interests, as they see it, and even if they become unhappy with the state of the world after four years, it appears to be unlikely to find people who say they would have switched votes. If anything, they are becoming more polarized and committed to one side, thus harder to "fool." In that sense, they are not mistaken. The human experience is not a set of entirely quantifiable metrics, and being "happily-fooled" is also a human interest, as long as they don't get buyer's remorse. Lots of buyer's remorse is really the only metric that can prove the counterpoint.

What GP is saying is isomorphic to telling Apple customers "you don't know your interests and Apple is charging you too much while keeping you in the walled garden." Maybe right, maybe wrong, but who are you to judge they would have been better off with a Dell?
by mrandish | 2025-10-24 18:39:43+00:00
I don't think it's literally "X-Rays". A couple years ago I saw an infrared transparent table being demonstrated as a product prototype by a distributor of magic props at a conference for professional magicians. I played with it a while because I thought it was quite remarkable and had never seen anything like it. The top surface was a half-inch thick hard black plastic which appeared completely opaque. It was perfectly convincing as it even had faux wood grain texturing on the surface. It looked for all the world like a table you'd see at IKEA or Target. I put my phone's flashlight on full brightness under it pointing up and couldn't see any light coming through, even shading the spot with my hand.

The table had a bunch of IR emitters pointed up built into the supports holding the table surface but they were at least two feet away and well-obscured into the table leg design by more normal-seeming smooth plastic I associate with being IR-transparent. Of course, if you suspect the use of IR, it's quite easy to detect with your camera phone. There was a camera hidden into the middle of the table supports looking up which transmitted the image wirelessly to a monitor nearby. My own face-down playing cards were visible on the camera plain as day, so it doesn't require special cards.

Interestingly, the magic distributor showing it wasn't giving out any info on who made it, what it cost or when it might be available. They just said they were "showing it to gauge interest" and might carry it at some point in the future. They're a large, long-time, reputable distributor of other people's products so I don't think they were involved in creating it. It hasn't made an appearance at subsequent conventions, so they must have decided it wouldn't be popular with magicians - which makes perfect sense. It would have been expensive and pretty technically involved for a limited-use magic prop. Good magicians have a many easier and cheaper ways to learn the identity of hidden cards :-). But the fact such a thick, textured, optically opaque surface could be IR transparent was pretty nifty.

As a former magician I was surprised to read the gang was using 'reader' cards (backs marked with ink visible to special glasses). No one uses those anymore as there are so many better ways to do the same thing. Seems like this gang was just into various tech toys and kind of lazy. In reality, once you control the environment, cards and have confederates in the game - cheating to win is trivial without any tech if you know what you're doing.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-24 18:39:51+00:00
> The people that make theorem provers [...] are very aware of your last point.

> Clearly he is a believer in "no one true ontology".

My point wasn't that you should aim for some kind of fictitious absence of ontological commitments, only that whatever language you use will have ontological commitments. Even the type judgement e:t has ontological implications, i.e., for the term e to be of type t presupposes that the world is such that this judgement is possible.

You can still operate under Fregean/Russellian presuppositions without sets. For example, consider the problem of bare particulars or the modeling of predicates on relations.
by emckay | 2025-10-24 18:40:10+00:00
Low participation rate shouldn't matter too much for an RCT right? Just makes the sample smaller so finding statistically significant results is harder.

Different levels of Montessori authenticity make the results even more impressive. They do have some inclusion criteria, like 2/3 of the teachers must be AMI/AMS certified but even so I'd expect a lot of these public school montessori programs to be less "true montessori" than what you'd get at a fully certified AMI/AMS school.
by allthetime | 2025-10-24 18:40:22+00:00
You cease to be a "fringe crank" when the Vice President of the most powerful nation on the planet has directly referenced you. Being a verifiable direct influence on the richest people currently calling the shots and guiding the direction of reality also removes your "fringe crank" denomination.

Otherwise, Peter Thiel's company has billions of dollars of contracts with the government in completely non-trivial spaces (mass surveillance and military).

Calling one of the richest, most connected-with-power individuals on the planet a "fringe crank" is somewhat ridiculous.
by flipgimble | 2025-10-24 18:40:24+00:00
I grew up in communist Poland before the fall of the wall in 1989 is just one story among many from this year that sounds like an echo of what my parent's told me they had to grow up with.

That so many Americans, in the self proclaimed land of the free, voted for this reality under the delusion they were against "socialism" is the most historically illiterate thing ever.
by I_dream_of_Geni | 2025-10-24 18:40:28+00:00
Haha! We did the same thing! And we caught about 2 gallons of yellow jackets too. We let it run for about 10 hours (it gets them coming or going), and then when we took down the vac, I let it run and sprayed wasp spray to make sure they were dead. I freaked out when I opened it, seeing the shop vac was half full!!!!
by mrjay42 | 2025-10-24 18:40:33+00:00
This is one of the oldest trick in the book of very very dumb people who confuse "the truth" with "what they think".

I'm sure we all met that person in the family or in a new job, or at school being so proud of themselves for being "honest", and later on you discover that their honesty is not honesty, it's just "saying whatever crosses their mind unfiltered".
by tb_technical | 2025-10-24 18:41:11+00:00
Conversely, if you've never worked in a factory or a shipyard, I don't want to hear your opinion on excessive safety regulations.

I've seen OSHA violations of such severity, of such imminent danger, you couldn't get a tailor pin up my sphincter with a jackhammer.

They exist for a reason, and you're going to have to do your project on the cheap by yourself, sorry.
by beloch | 2025-10-24 18:41:41+00:00
If protesting ICE is anti-fascist, what does that make ICE? Sending the FBI to the homes of law-abiding citizens who happen to be planning to protest against government actions... What's that? More Americans need to start asking themselves questions like these.

I'm in Canada, but what's going on South of the border has become highly concerning. It's starting to feel like Belgium up here.