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by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-01 19:38:42+00:00
I was (previously) one of the fundamental Christians who didn't believe in evolution, but I certainly never doubted that dinosaurs were real. I think "dinosaurs weren't real" is incredibly niche, I don't know anyone personally that believes that, even though I know people that believe in flat earth, lizard people, etc. Definitely plenty of weirdness in the fundamental Christian groups, but I think "dinosaurs never existed" is weird even for that. For example, many (most?) fundamental Christians believe the leviathan is a type of dinosaur, so it would be weird to doubt they ever existed.

But I do still agree with your main point -- fundamentalist religions encourage the kind of belief that persists _in spite of_ evidence, leading to some very strange (and sometimes dangerous) beliefs.

fwiw, here are some interesting and mostly-harmless beliefs that my "cohort" held

- Men have one less rib than women

- Noah's ark is still somewhere on Mt. Ararat, we just haven't found it yet

- If you dredge up the Red Sea, you'll find Egyptian chariots from when they chased the Jewish people fleeing Egypt. Evidence to the contrary be damned!

- Pokemon, DnD, and Harry Potter have real-world evil power. We were not allowed to read / play / watch these things as kids. But LOTR and Chronicles of Narnia are ok, because the authors were Christian, and the stories are basically the Bible in a trenchcoat.

- All languages departed from a single common tongue around 6k years ago, near Babylon

- The first humans lived _super long_, like 300+ years. It's only recently that lifespan is reduced to the sub-100 range. There was serious discussion that this effect is because there was a layer of water high in the atmosphere that was drained during Noah's flood (ie, the "waters above"). With that protective layer drained, human lifespans were cut short. I guess the implication is that the sun's rays are somehow super damaging in all sorts of nefarious ways? Just don't think about it too hard lol
by Rickasaurus | 2025-10-01 19:38:44+00:00
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by looping__lui | 2025-10-01 19:38:53+00:00
Well, you gonna pay for building gas power plants that never run? Customers will need to pay for gas power plants that cover the entire electricity need (read up on Fraunhofer on the thinking: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p... ) . But that infrastructure will sit there idle most of the time. That’s not driving down electricity prices. And you’ll still end up with higher carbon emissions than France.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-01 19:38:55+00:00
I've been surprised personally that there are now a number of these small qwerty-LCD portable devices (that mostly resemble blackberries), but very few? (certainly not none..??) of them boast actual 3g/4g ie "real" cell phone connectivity

I might personally find it a lot more tempting to use a super DIY device (ie a baroque OS, unique input devices, etc.) if I could also make calls out to the public Internet (to read wikipedia? answer SMS? fetch any sort of map/transit info?)

Feel free to pile on and tell me which devices I've missed..! :-) I'm sure there must be some out there, considering that "cell phone in a chip" is pretty much a whole category now ie the qualcomm snapdragon chips, mediatek, etc.

... (reading more about it) actually, is it true that design/certification of a small device that boasts a cellular module is a lot harder than an esp32/wifi-only board? which explains why there isn't a plethora of cell-internet-enabled devices?
by malcolmgreaves | 2025-10-01 19:38:56+00:00
That’s not the whole story. It plays a part, but if it were just that, it wouldn’t be nearly as bad. Your comment makes it think that this is a “both sides” thing and it’s anything but that.

The bigger story is that the Republicans have illegally dismantled safeguards against the centralization and collection of data. And they’ve stopped any sort of warrant process for collecting and analyzing this data.

Buying commercial data with a warrant or a process around it to ensure it is lawfully used is one thing. Disregarding the law and constitution to do whatever you like is a wholly different matter.

And don’t forget the end game. This is about silencing political opponents. It’s not for a lawful use. It’s purely so the Republicans can keep their man in power in perpetuity.

The end game alone makes this vastly different than what’s been done before.
by mistachkin | 2025-10-01 19:39:07+00:00
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by p2hari | 2025-10-01 19:39:12+00:00
Like all the comments below, a show HN should have been the norm, but they knew that would not get any clicks and this. However, I do not understand their pricing. If nordcraft's ppl are here, please tell me how does it work. For open source, you say there is a limit of 20k requests? . But I can always download the code/web-components and deploy anywhere I want right? Then even enterprise can do that? I do not understand it. Also it is Apache License 2.0. I can host it on my own cloud. Are there some restrictions if I do that?
by Too | 2025-10-01 19:39:13+00:00
Good advice. Though I’d say you can count the cloud storage as 2 copies. They typically replicate the data to three drives, that covers all the typical failure modes you’d normally get when running a drive yourself. Then with a simple click you can even get a replica in another region.

The third backup being in a decoupled system on site is what you now count as your ”offsite” backup. Having this last copy is non-negotiable, no matter how many 9s S3 claim to have.
by ElijahLynn | 2025-10-01 19:39:13+00:00
Very good read, love some of the humor in this article. It helped me get through to the end!!

Also, If anyone was wondering where AV1 stands in comparison to VP8 and VP9... I just looked it up after a few years of not paying attention and I guess Google donated VP8 and VP9 to the alliance for open media foundation (AOMedia) in 2015 and they created AV1 and released it in 2018.
by lbrandy | 2025-10-01 19:39:31+00:00
> My point isn't that coordination is easy - it's that treating it as impossible becomes self-fulfilling.

While I see what you are getting at, and I think its super important we come up with philosophical frameworks to push back on the central idea in question (ie, the moral hazard of "its gonna happen anyway so why not pour a little more into the river").... I think your writing/responses miss the central point.

As I see it, the fundamental issue with this essay, and your responses, is you keep conflating impossible with probability zero. People are saying "this is inevitable" to mean this has probability 1 of occurring, with basic game theory reasoning (its a giant iterative prisoners dilemna), and your response "but it's possible". Yes, with measure zero.

Telling us that such a path surely exists isn't useful. If you want to push back on "inevitability" you need to find a credible path with probability > 0 (which is not the same as impossible).
by echelon | 2025-10-01 19:39:35+00:00
Never heard this before either.

I googled "Tinker Slur" and Gemini said this:

> The term "tinker" is a racial slur when used against Irish and Scottish Travellers and Romani people. Originally derived from the name of an itinerant profession, the word evolved into a derogatory ethnic insult with connotations of being dirty, dishonest, and criminal.

Further sources:

https://hatebase.org/vocabulary/tinker

https://www.threads.com/@yourlocaltj/post/DCbY6wMIJ7J?hl=en

TIL

Shame that people do this. It's been a salient word all my life, and it's a useful word too.

I'll keep calling myself a tinkerer.
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-01 19:39:38+00:00
Ideally, individuals are the ones responsible for moderating content. All filters should be implemented client-side. A person can have all the freedom to decide what they see, but not what anyone else sees.

The problem with group moderation is that it will form disparate, isolated groups that get larger over time. This gradually reduces the effectiveness of democracy and destroys social cohesion. The people in the same group see other groups as more and more evil as the groups get larger, so they don't talk to eachother as much. The effort required to talk to people in a different group becomes larger as the groups get larger, so fewer and fewer individuals are capable of dialogue, until eventually, there are just two echo chambers that absolutely hate eachother. And what follows is either violence or oppression, or both, because the conflict has reached the government level.

There used to be a cap on practical group size before the Internet (except in rare cases, those become authoritarian states), so this went unnoticed in democratic societies. But now there isn't. We ought to consciously realize that the base unit of a democratic society is an individual, and create policies that enable decisions at the individual level.

We ought to talk to people that we think are evil. And let them talk, too.
by sneak | 2025-10-01 19:39:41+00:00
Because it's not really illegal. People are voluntarily sharing their data with corporations via social media and apps, and those corporations are voluntarily selling it to data brokers, who are then voluntarily selling it to the SaaS that ICE is using here to track people.

The problem here is a lack of data protection laws. It's entirely legal for any private citizen who wants to to purchase huge amounts of mass location data/history for billions of people.
by superkuh | 2025-10-01 19:39:48+00:00
If you carry a radio based tracker on your person you will be tracked. This information will eventually be abused. It's not a hard conclusion to come to, and one supported by too many repetitions of abuse in both sensible and not sensible nations to disregard... but somehow it is (disregarded). Cell phones are just too useful for people to acknowledge what they are and what the solution is: stop carrying a radio tracker or at least leave it turned off most of the time.
by nemo44x | 2025-10-01 19:39:52+00:00
This is exactaly right. To silence even offensive ideas is to appoint someone as the final arbiter of truth — something history shows to be dangerous. Truth doesn’t need protection — it needs criticism. Censoring ‘offensive’ or ‘sacred’ ideas kills the very process (open debate) that lets society correct errors & find truth, even if it's uncomfortable. Everthing else is dogma.
by evaneykelen | 2025-10-01 19:40:12+00:00
A cruder version of this was created by the 1001 Crew already in 1986 by the name of ESCOS (Expanded Screen COnstruction Set). There's a video [1] and info page [2].

It was able to import images from KoalaPad, convert, and render it fullscreen using sprites both inside and outside the C64's border.

I will definitely take time to read the full article, it's super interesting at first glance.

[1] https://youtu.be/_lsgp_SBEtA?si=gTGL9X7koaYflTRx

[2] https://csdb.dk/release/?id=744
by esafak | 2025-10-01 19:40:23+00:00
I would if the image analysis library was backed by a VLM. I have not fully read the paper, but couldn't figure 6 have been done by an LLM writing a script that calls libraries for time series feature extraction and writing a hypothesis test or whatever? They will do the heavy lifting and return a likelihood ratio or some statistic that is interpretable to an LLM.
by ankit219 | 2025-10-01 19:40:46+00:00
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by DFHippie | 2025-10-01 19:40:59+00:00
For most of human history cultural change was extremely slow, so slow as to be imperceptible. I'm not sure the neanderthals experienced any less dynamic a culture than the modern humans living at the same time.

Perhaps expecting change makes change more likely. Also, when things are scarce and life is tenuous you are less likely to experiment. Why waste the resources? Why take the risk? When surplus calories became commonplace is when cultural change took off.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 19:41:37+00:00
> but none of it should feel like politics to your typical "I hate politics" engineer [...] Who doesn't like to share the cool stuff they've done?

Certainly many would prefer to just enter flow state and work on their craft, work the wood with the chisel (=do the engineering work), etc. It is of course not a good strategy in reality, and it doesn't matter what people "want", but let's at least admit that plenty of people don't enjoy having to interact a lot. People-oriented vs thing-oriented.
by Nition | 2025-10-01 19:41:46+00:00
Your Musashi quote reminds me of another relatively well-known quote from philosopher Eugene Gendlin:

"What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it."
by Onavo | 2025-10-01 19:41:46+00:00
> We kept this obsessively simple instead of using MinIO or Ceph because we didn’t need any of the features they provided; it’s much, much simpler to debug a 200-line program than to debug Ceph, and we weren’t worried about redundancy or sharding. All our drives were formatted with XFS.

What do you plan to do if you start getting corruption and bitrot? The complexity of S3 comes with a lot of hard guarantees for data integrity.
by pino999 | 2025-10-01 19:41:51+00:00
I had to laugh about your comment, this is exactly how it goes. People are used thinking in time units.

Then you have modified fibonacci, which make me puke. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20. I get special headaches because of names like this.

However you can find this page if you adding them up by as strings, it isn't connected, but attack on titan was a good anime: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/123581320

Weird coincidence. I need to sleep, spend a lot today in my headspace.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-01 19:42:12+00:00
And we're going to pretend this is an issue because of immigration enforcement, rather than government from top to bottom being able to use commercial data brokers to get around legal limitations on their own actions, or the fact that commercial data brokers collecting huge numbers of dossiers on normal people are allowed to exist and work with impunity.

And both will continue to be allowed to do this, obviously. Something something private business free speech child protection that doesn't apply to ICE because I'm against ICE right now.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-01 19:42:15+00:00
>Democrats would be different as it relates to the current wars?

Threateninv a civil war isn't a partisan issue. I believe we need to go all the way back to Andrew Jackson to think about a time where a president is openly threatening it's own US cities. The Civil War under Lincoln was provoked first under the confederate states. I legitimately can't think of anything more recent than that, no matter the alignment.

We can talk about warmongering, but you just don't threaten your own people. At least not until they threaten the government. Because provoking and. attacking the people you lead is just profoundly stupid. There's no rebellion to quell, no land to annex. It's just a man pretending to be a dictator in the stupidest way possible.
by fxtentacle | 2025-10-01 19:43:51+00:00
"the Tinker API provides simple functions to compute gradients, update the weights, and sample outputs from the trained model"

It sure sounds like a PyTorch tutorial, but I believe it's yet another "AI training made slightly easier for you" start-up. But all of them seem to solve the easy problem of managing data and compute, while very few tackle the hard problem of generating good training data.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-01 19:43:52+00:00
Maybe :)

To elaborate, there seems to be a difference between physical curiosity and intellectual curiosity.

Many mammals, especially when young, are very curious about their environment, peeking, sniffing, burrowing in the ground etc. So are human children.

But the ability to ask more abstract questions "why do the stars shine?" does seem to be limited to humans alone, and maybe not even all humans. And it is very uncertain if archaic humans had it as well.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-01 19:44:00+00:00
However, electrical solutions are often more efficient, so this can be misleading because a transition means you're getting a large amount "for free" as a result of the improved efficiency.

Instead of moving your car from oil to solar, you're moving the car from oil to electricity, and then electricity is fungible so you don't care that it was made with a solar array - but the efficiency win was from going to electricity.
by vmk | 2025-10-01 19:44:06+00:00
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by stackskipton | 2025-10-01 19:44:37+00:00
They totally are but since we don't have data privacy laws and SCOTUS has ruled time and time again that getting data from 3rd parties the user has voluntarily turned this information over to is not illegal, I'm at the loss what to do here.

I talk about this issue with people time and time again including my wife. I then watch her pretty much turn over location to every app because she just clicks top button to make prompt go away. I finally got into her iPhone and number of apps that had widespread location access was so frustrating.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-01 19:44:51+00:00
Why would they even wait for a civil infraction? What difference does that make? Why are they doing mass surveillance on people wearing brown shoes?

If the dossiers are available on the market, and the price is right, and they're allowed to for some reason even though they wouldn't be allowed to collect that information themselves, they should just buy them for every citizen just in case.
by cinci | 2025-10-01 19:44:55+00:00
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