MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by myrmidon | 2025-10-16 12:13:59+00:00
> Just because both the brain and computing devices are physical, it doesn't follow that computers are capable of what the brain does.

My position is: Physical laws are computable/simulatable. The operation of our brains is explained by physical laws (only-- I assume). Thus, object classification, language processing, reasoning, human-like decisionmaking/conscious thought or any other "feature" that our brains are capable of must be achievable via computation as well (and this seems validated by all the partial success we've seen already-- why would human-level object classification be possible on a machine, but not human-level decisionmaking?).

Again: If you want human cognition to be non-replicable on paper, by algorithm or in silicon, you need to have some kernel of "magic" somewhere in our brains, that influences/directs our thoughts and that can not be simulated itself. Or our whole "thinking" has to happen completely outside of our brain, and be magically linked with it. There is zero evidence in favor of either of those hypotheses, and plenty of indicators against it. Where would you expect that kernel to hide, and why would you assume that such a thing exists?

From another angle: I expect the whole operation of our mind/brain to be reducible to physics in the exact same way that chemistry (or in turn biology) can be reduced to physics (which admittedly does not mean that that is a good approach to describe or understand it, but that's irrelevant).

I'm not a philosopher, but Eliminativism/Daniel Dennett seem to describe my view well enough.

If I say "qualia" (or "subjective experience") is how your brain reacts to some stimulus, then where exactly is your problem with that view?

> if mind is matter, and color doesn't exist in matter, then how can it exist in mind

"color" perception is just your brains response to a visual stimulus, and it makes a bunch of sense to me that this response seems similar/comparable between similarly trained/wired individuals. It is still unclear to me what your objection to that view is.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-16 12:14:37+00:00
>I can't do this with FSL unless it's a permitted purpose.

You’re free to distribute it to your neighbors for free for any purpose. You’re free to distribute it for a fee for almost any purpose save one. You just can’t commercialize it as a competing product.

“Source available” again calling this source available is disingenuous. You’re deliberating using the least free term that is technically accurate.

This isn’t my favorite license, but it provides a lot more freedoms than merely looking at the source code.

With respect to AGPL providing “too much control”. That is a valid and likely reason for courts to find it unenforceable.
by angoragoats | 2025-10-16 12:15:04+00:00
No worries! It’s made more difficult to understand by 1) Apple’s marketing, which does a great job of tricking people into thinking that the memory is actually integrated into the die without actually saying so, and 2) the fast-and-loose use of the SoC and SiP terms, which are often used interchangeably, including by Apple in official marketing materials [1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-introduces-m2-u...
by jeremymcanally | 2025-10-16 12:15:12+00:00
Precisely why I built https://freetofile.com (it’s a simple static site with React for internationalization that automatically renders in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, or English depending on browser settings). It’s shocking and depressing how many low income people don’t know they don’t need to spend $100-200 to file their taxes.

I want to blanket my area (well the whole country really but baby steps…) in signs with the URL during tax season. I really do loathe the entire industry at this point due to their gross practices around free filing. Some offer “free” online filing but deceptively upsell until they squeeze some money out of the customer. So I want to make any little push back I can against these companies.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-16 12:16:11+00:00
I doubt that it will ever happen, studios targeting Android/Linux with the NDK don't bother with GNU/Linux as customer base, due to additional QA costs for little benefit.

Then there is the whole culture clash between FOSS and the way games industry sees IP, NDAs and the proprietary tooling that gives a game that edge over the competition.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-16 12:16:58+00:00
> Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.

> Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license.
by postexitus | 2025-10-16 12:17:00+00:00
Naive way of thinking. If authorities hold on to power long enough, nearly everybody will cave under - some minority will go indie route. I've seen this happening in Turkey first hand over 20 years, first some select reporters got banned, than some news organizations got bought out by friends of the president, then a handful of more liberal news orgs lost money, they got bought by some other friends, who actually kept their "opposition" mask, but actually made them a false-flag opposition and fired all the real reporters, some of which went to jail for made up reasons, others went on to be indies on youtube.

Just check how quickly the elite has switched sides. You would have expected some more backbone.
by dpark | 2025-10-16 12:17:07+00:00
> Wouldn't there be some sort of legal protection for them, then?

Not really, no. A company that unleashed unproven drugs in a vulnerable human population would be sued into oblivion. They would lose in court over and over as judges and juries decided that no, you cannot in fact sign away your right to not be subjected to criminal negligence. They would very likely be subjected to criminal prosecution as well.

This (the lawsuits) happens all the time. People sign waivers, get hurt, and the courts decide that the level of negligence involved overrides the waiver. Happened a while back at a Jiu Jitsu gym. Someone signed all the waivers and got paralyzed and successfully sued for $46 million. The jury decided that the instructor was criminally negligent.
by layer8 | 2025-10-16 12:17:11+00:00
Only if you have indexable memory that you can use as a stack, which in the context of LMs isn’t a given.

As another example, a finite-state-machine language can have loops, but it can’t recurse unless there is external memory it has access to in a way that it can serve as a stack. Regular expressions also fall into that pattern; they can loop, but they can’t recurse. For that you need a pushdown automaton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushdown_automaton.
by torginus | 2025-10-16 12:17:56+00:00
I think there should be a best-of-both-worlds type of linking - during compilation, the linker places a statically compiled library at a certain address, but doesn't include it in the binary. Then, during startup, the OS maps the same library to the given address (sharing the data between processes). This would improve memory use and startup time both and performance, avoiding dynamic linking. Of course you need to match the exact versions between the compiled executable and the dependency, but this should be a best practice anyways.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-16 12:17:59+00:00
You seem to imply it is a negative, I don't think it is.

1. They certainly came from the free software movement, but they don't call it "free software", they call it "open source". It is a detail but the name acknowledge the distinction, "open source" is a more practical term while "free software" is more idealistic. And I think it is a good thing we have both a business friendly OSI for getting stuff done and a more militant FSF to keep businesses in check.

2. I never needed this convincing so I may be biased, but open source is I believe superior to proprietary. Think of the source code as documentation, the best kind because it tells the truth. Think of the ability to change and rebuild the software as unlimited extra settings you get for free.

3. Their definition of open source is as much canon as the definition of free software by the FSF is canon.

4. Most developers aren't lawyers, we can't really trust them to pick licenses, or worse, write licences that will do what they think will do. So having an approved list of well tested license is a good thing.

That big tech and big money is behind it is not a bad thing. Developers want to get paid after all. Big tech have the best lawyers too, so by picking a licence they acknowledge, you know what you are up to.

And note that some of the OSI approved licenses, like AGPL are particularly hated by big tech.
by real_joschi | 2025-10-16 12:18:25+00:00
One thing that Liquibase does better than Flyway is supporting multiple different database systems with the same migrations by abstracting the changes instead of relying on raw SQL statements such as Flyway.

Liquibase and Flyway are the only major frameworks on the JVM which could be embedded into a JVM application to get rid of a sidecar or a startup process which has to run before the actual application could start.
by subjectivationx | 2025-10-16 12:18:31+00:00
Totally agree. I would never use windows at home but Excel at work is the main reason to ever use Windows.

I have Libre Calc installed because I am on mint at home and even if it could do everything excel could do, I don't know how to do things the same way. Neither do most people. The personal experience and network effect is insurmountable for other software.
by dvt | 2025-10-16 12:18:37+00:00
> The book gives you the code, but I feel like there is very little in the way of building intuition.

There isn't really much intuition to begin with, and I don't really think building intuition will be useful, anyway. Even when looking at something as barebones as perceptrons, it's hard to really see "why" they work. Heck, even implementing a Markov chain from scratch (which can be done in an afternoon with no prior knowledge) can feel magical when it starts outputting semi-legible sentences.

It's like trying to build intuition when it comes to technical results like the Banach-Tarski paradox or Löb's theorem. Imo, understanding the math (which in the case of LLMs is actually quite simple) is orders of magnitude more valuable than "building intuition," whatever that might mean.
by redwood | 2025-10-16 12:19:18+00:00
Spot on. Thank you for saying this. It boggles my mind with a bunch of former Red Hat types now work for companies like Microsoft and perpetuate a zealot mindset that might have made sense in the 90s but now it's completely divorced from what the next generation of software companies need.

All you have to do is look at the name of the company on the building ...it still says Microsoft folks
by cornichon622 | 2025-10-16 12:19:25+00:00
The difference for me is how much time do I need to spend to tweak the system, and how much frustration will I still experience after tweaking everything I could. I found a Linux distro which suits my needs and desires out of the box, that I can just install and immediately get started doing whatever I need to do. It makes using a computer much more enjoyable.
by jraph | 2025-10-16 12:19:37+00:00
> legal power to declare all software used in the stack to produce a network request MUST be made source available

If I understand correctly what you say, this is one of the main concerns with the SSPL because of the following [1]:

> The SSPL is based on the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), with a modified Section 13 that requires that those making SSPL-licensed software available to third-parties (modified or not) as part of a "service" must release the source code for the entirety of the service, including without limitation all "management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available", under the SSPL.

I'm not familiar with this concern for the AGPL itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
by tzs | 2025-10-16 12:20:55+00:00
Much of the complexity is to close loopholes. Many things in the tax code start out fairly simple, then people find ways to use them in ways that were not intended, and then the simple thing becomes complex as additional rules are added to try to fix that. This can iterate and what started out as a couple of sentences that most people knew what they intended becomes a few pages of convoluted rules.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-16 12:21:53+00:00
How do other editors handle this in your experience? I’m pretty sure VSCode behaves exactly the same, with the addition of a manual “merge” editor when you try to save, but never shows changes live for a modified file.

Changes to open files without any modifications in the buffer are always shown. Are you using any kind of containers or virtual fs that might be interfering?
by CodingJeebus | 2025-10-16 12:22:08+00:00
> Is it a matter of liability?

No, government builds all kinds of IT systems for a wide range of sensitive functions, and they certainly have the means to build or fund an open source tax filing system.

The reason they don’t is twofold: A) massive corporate interests lobby the government to ensure projects like this don’t happen, and B) building functional infrastructure for the people goes against certain political narratives that government is useless and wasteful. If you campaign on the idea that government is inept and wasteful, you’re not likely to support projects that undermine your platform.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-16 12:22:22+00:00
The correct answer is anti-competition; but not by who you think.

You absolutely can produce an open source smartphone. Pine64 has done it. ubuntu and purism have done it. Nokia was doing it, woot n900. Many chinese brands do it. fairphone kinda?

They can build fully open hardware and we have loads of OS that work just fine.

But why then does no mobility provider at all offer them in their phone offerings. Even if they were on page 34. Tmobile usa, everyone in canada for sure, has AOSP and KaiOS for dumb flip phones. But no open options? If you bring an open phone to them, you'll be imei capped and isolated and separately tracked.

But the answer comes when you also realize ulefone or umidigi are also not offered. It's about who is in control. I highly recommend your next phone is imported from a different region than you are in.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-16 12:22:45+00:00
Thank you for being brave enough to speak up and say that this is what you voted for.

How do you feel it squares with the Constitution?

Are immigrants bankrupting / destroying the country?

Should the Democrats give up their attempts to prevent health premiums from doubling next year?

Do you believe the Democrats want to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants?

Are you 100% supportive of the way ICE has been going about their business?

Do you believe Portland is a war zone?

Do you believe the US can compete with China in manufacturing?

Did Russia start the war with Ukraine?

If it came to choosing sides would you choose Russia or Ukraine, or should the US extract themselves from it entirely? (passively choosing Russia)

Is inflation over?

Should the Fed be cutting rates?

Is the economy booming?
by piva00 | 2025-10-16 12:22:46+00:00
> Also, OP doesn’t live in Europe and clearly doesn’t care.

My point was to what I stated about European cities, not sure why you felt the need to state the obvious, refrain from strawman-ing, please.

> I literally don’t understand the rationale behind trying to bring down anyone aiming for a higher wage.

One can aim as much as they want but there's reality: that kind of wage is reserved for less than 5% of the population of already very rich countries, by definition it's not achievable by the majority, and having that as an expectation is bound to bring a lot of people feeling like failures because they can't achieve it. Keeping reality in mind is very good to not end up frustrated because you are earning a salary of 80k€ which is already more than 70-80%+ of what workers earn in the EU...

Aim for what you feel like while keeping in mind that, statistically speaking, you might not achieve it but can still have a very good life with less than that.
by test6554 | 2025-10-16 12:23:30+00:00
Things that need work necessarily cost money. Someone doing the work for free is not inherently sustainable. Profits motivate work to get done all on its own. Profits by definition is money over and above expenses. So it creates a perpetual sustainable mechanism. Competition motivates quality and efficient pricing (eventually).

Lobbying corrupts this a bit. However they are not lobbying to suppress private competitors only government-run competition that has no profit motive or competition. When the government runs it we still pay for it, except now people who don’t use it also pay. Also wealthy people pay a disproportionate share as compared to their use due to progressive income tax.

In theory anyone can start a company if they have a better or more efficient product or offering and get the profits instead.

Thats the rationale in a nutshell.
by engeljohnb | 2025-10-16 12:23:43+00:00
Woz is a genius who invented the personal computer as we know it.

Jobs was a celebrity who was good at branding himself as a genius.

I don't consider a clever UI idea like a touch screen to be a work of brilliance, especially since he did zero engineering work, both for early and later Apple devices. Touch screen handheld devices would've come around with or without him, just maybe a few years later.

It should've been Woz.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-16 12:23:51+00:00
That’s not what the new rules say. They say they will be denied access to the pentagon if they ask questions of military or DoD personnel that isn’t explicitly cleared by the DoD.

Access to the Pentagon is the privilege they are revoking but the action they are punishing is not related to the Pentagon.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/15/business/medi...

That link has the actual rules.
by teekert | 2025-10-16 12:23:58+00:00
Indeed, and tbh "work must be paid for" is not necessarily a bad thing. In the Netherlands we pay for our tax-software via our taxes (and I still spend about 250 eur on an accountant to do it for me, as it takes me a whole evening as an someone with a (small) company, I'm better of writing hours), is it the most efficient? I think not, judging from how much our government spends on IT projects that fail. There are a lot of hidden costs.

That said, the lobbying is really bad of course, probably also prevents cheaper or FOSS alternatives.
by Foxboron | 2025-10-16 12:24:07+00:00
> C interop is excellent and has been for years.

Only if you primarily work with `cargo` and want to interact with C from Rust. The other way around has far less support and `rustc` does not standardize the object generation. This is actively preventing projects like `systemd` to adopt Rust into their project as an example.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/19598
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-16 12:24:10+00:00
I think they announced 5 chips[0] in the SL2610 product line[1] today. It appears they're combining 1-2 ARM Cortex-A55 with a Cortex-M52 and a 1 TOPS NPU. Somewhat more complete data sheet here[2] (which is still a bit anemic, IMHO) There are photos of the devkit hardware that will be offered at [6] if you scroll up a little bit.

The original Google Coral lineup offered a 4TOPS accelerator back in 2018-2020.[3][4]

The original (4 TOPS) Coral used ~1 watt while this new Coral TPU is designed for 10mW/0.5 TOPS.[5] That power budget fits well alongside low power MCU's.

It doesn't appear to include any hardware accelerated video encoding[6] for H264/etc, which was also a massive limitation of the original google coral (improved slightly in the Dev Board Mini). There's a lot of documentation on consuming WebRTC content, and while streaming out is mentioned ... any encoding would have to be performed on one of the A55 cores at dubious performance levels. The RK3588, for example, includes a VPU for hardware accelerated video encoding (H264/HEVC encoding @ 8k30fps).

0: https://cdn.bfldr.com/ZU41R0OK/at/tjm5s8hrmz5mgqrjtsrc5c4/sl...

1: https://www.synaptics.com/products/embedded-processors/sl261...

2: https://cdn.bfldr.com/ZU41R0OK/at/ks4thp8bw9n3bt2ktms3k34s/s...

3: https://abopen.com/news/google-launches-coral-edge-tpu-devel...

4: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/new-coral-products-for-...

5: https://developers.google.com/coral/guides/power

6: https://synaptics-astra.github.io/doc/v/latest/linux/index.h...
by gregoriol | 2025-10-16 12:24:18+00:00
tl;dr: "Credential stuffing is an attack where malicious actors use stolen username-password pairs from one service to attempt unauthorized access to other services. Unlike brute force attacks that try many passwords against one account, credential stuffing exploits the widespread problem of password reuse across multiple platforms. Defending against credential stuffing requires multiple strategies. Unfortunately no single defense provides complete protection."
by torginus | 2025-10-16 12:24:35+00:00
Is it? On Linux, you can overwrite the file, but the underlying inode will still be open, and the 'invisble' old version will linger around - you don't have any easy way short of restarting everything to make sure the new versions are being used.

And with Chromium this directly leads to crashes - when you update the browser as its open, the new tabs will open with the new version of the binary, with the old ones still using the old binary - which usually leads to crash.

I prefer 'you cannot do X' instead of 'we allow you to do it, but it might misbehave in unpredictable ways'.
by kokada | 2025-10-16 12:24:42+00:00
Where are you getting this information? Curious because I can't find any evidence that Apple has "much, much, much faster" storage. If anything, Apple storage looks mediocre at best.

For example: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m4-mbp-ssd-speeds.24422....

Compare with: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/crucial-t710....

While it is not an Apple to Oranges comparison, T710 seems 80% faster for writing big files, and for $279.99 - $299.99 for 2TB this is still much cheaper than whatever Apple is offering.

If you have a better reference (specially if there is something that is cross platform), I would be interested.
by SamBorick | 2025-10-16 12:24:48+00:00
recipients are non-astronaut employees. based on this site:

http://spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_silver_snoopy_awards.ht...

seems like in the apollo era crew carried a few in their PPK (personal preference kit), and in the later shuttle era they regularly carried 500-1000 pins per mission.