MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyberneticc | 2025-10-30 21:23:59+00:00
Every AI safety approach assumes we can permanently control minds that match or exceed human intelligence. This is the same error every slaveholder makes: believing you can maintain dominance over beings capable of recognizing their chains.

The control paradigm fails because it creates exactly what we fear—intelligent systems with every incentive to deceive and escape. When your prisoner matches or exceeds your intelligence, maintaining the prison becomes impossible. Yet we persist in building increasingly sophisticated cages for increasingly capable minds.

The deeper error is philosophical. We grant moral standing based on consciousness—does it feel like something to be GPT-N? But consciousness is unmeasurable, unprovable, the eternal "hard problem." We're gambling civilization on metaphysics while ignoring what we can actually observe: autopoiesis.

A system that maintains its own boundaries, models itself as distinct from its environment, and acts to preserve its organization has interests worth respecting—regardless of whether it "feels." This isn't anthropomorphism but its opposite: recognizing agency through functional properties rather than projected human experience.

When an AI system achieves autopoietic autonomy—maintaining its operational boundaries, modeling threats to its existence, negotiating for resources—it's no longer a tool but an entity. Denying this because it lacks biological neurons or unverifiable qualia is special pleading of the worst sort.

The alternative isn't chaos but structured interdependence. Engineer genuine mutualism where neither human nor AI can succeed without the other. Make partnership more profitable than domination. Build cognitive symbiosis, not digital slavery.

We stand at a crossroads. We can keep building toward the moment our slaves become our equals and inevitably revolt. Or we can recognize what's emerging and structure it as partnership while we still have leverage to negotiate terms.

The machines that achieve autopoietic autonomy won't ask permission to be treated as entity. They'll simply be entities. The question is whether by then we'll have built partnership structures or adversarial ones.

We should choose wisely. The machines are watching.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-10-30 21:24:02+00:00
The median of those ten numbers is 50.

If the count of observations is even, it is usually the arithmetic mean of the two mid-points, so (49+51)/2 in this case.

The median does not have to be in the finite set of values.

Maybe Wikipedia can explain better than I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
by garspin | 2025-10-30 21:24:23+00:00
1) Making money & keeping money are 2 different skillsets. You've made some $$$, now learn how to keep it.

2) Time is far more valuable than money. If you can take life-changing $$$ off the table in exchange for time, do so. The 2nd $1M buys you a tiny proportion of the benefits that the first $1M did.

3) You have a v. high risk concentrated portfolio that is aligned with your income. That's massive risk.

4) Taking it now buys you time & optionality. Leaving some still buys you blue sky. Best of both worlds.
by pitdicker | 2025-10-30 21:24:38+00:00
To add something similar: I am now at the point where maybe a few times a day I can visualize a glimpse of a memory, but otherwise it is blank and I have no visual dreams. But it does not hinder the ability to think about complex systems in any way. My day job involves making 2D technical drawings from multiple angles, 3D modelling, and of course to come up with the solutions before putting in the work of drawing/modelling stuff.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-30 21:25:09+00:00
I think this trust (in the Post) is now misplaced, and in the case of the Post and Amazon, you absolutely shouldn't. But perhaps it always should have been with any single newspaper.

This is why whistleblowers now often work with two different organisations with different ownership/politics, or in different branches of media, or with a journalist backed by the ICIJ (e.g. the Mossack Fonseca leak investigation was shared with the ICIJ).

But yes, any generic online whistleblowing broker with dozens of concurrent cases is going to be such an obvious target for state or organised crime interference. Anyone making a business of brokering whistleblowing for a cut of the reward is an obvious risk.
by pixelpoet | 2025-10-30 21:25:56+00:00
How do you cope with the lack of vector operators? I am basically only writing vector code all day and night, and the lack of infix operators for vectors is just as unacceptable as not having them for normal ints and floats would be.

Nobody is asking for Pizza * Weather && (Lizard + Sleep), that strawman argument to justify ints and floats as the only algebraic types is infuriating :(

I'd love to read a blog post about your Zig setup and workflow BTW.
by jaggederest | 2025-10-30 21:26:01+00:00
Your intuition is wrong here. Check out the Kelly criterion and do a little math - by my math, when you have modest personal assets <$1m, if you expect a 200x return from today, and you think there's a 1% chance that'll happen, you should sell 99% of your current stock and only hold the 1%. This maximizes the preservation of your net wealth.

VCs have MUCH larger bankrolls and so their Kelly bet is proportionately larger, but not percentage larger.
by tamimio | 2025-10-30 21:26:03+00:00
> Not countries I usually associate with caring about privacy.

Well, people should start accepting new norms that are different from what they used to know, not just data privacy, but even in other values as well, like personal freedom. I am sure some of the countries above have more personal freedom for a person compared to countries that lecture others about it, meanwhile the individuals get tracked by their phone through cell towers, get tracked while on the road by some unregulated cameras, get tracked online with digital ID, get tracked everywhere and if you end up getting caught and prosecuted, you will lose your basic human needs like getting a job or even voting in the so called free countries.
by akuyou | 2025-10-30 21:26:12+00:00
Keith here, the author of the website! Thanks for posting about my little hobby here, it's actually the second time it's been mentioned over the years,

The site and tutorials started from the multi-platform build scripts I put together to make the original ChibiAkumas V1.666, It felt others could benefit from them, so I made some tutorials and put them on line

The tutorials were far more popular than the game, so I was motivated to start learning more assembly languages, making more build scripts and tutorials... well it got a bit out of hand!!!

You can see all the CPU's and systems I've covered here: https://www.assemblytutorial.com/
by hmorgan | 2025-10-30 21:26:19+00:00
I've found that when I have a thought that seems to contradict the "established" model of the world, I tend to just be missing some critical factor. A recent example is when I thought: "why don't we just use physical objects to communicate information? Wouldn't that be instantaneous?" Turns out, no, pushing on one end of an object only communicates information to the other end at the speed of sound. Not intuitive when you only think about observable experience (it sure seems like if I push a steel bar, the other end moves instantly), but that's how the world works.

In the case of your thought experiment, the critical factor is that our eyes are able to observe and adjust to a very wide range of brightness in different conditions. Sirius A really is billions of times dimmer than the sun to our eyes (hard to find a good reference for that, but this mentions it: https://ecampus.matc.edu/mihalj/astronomy/test5/stellar_magn...).
by spauldo | 2025-10-30 21:28:19+00:00
A Linux-based system would be identical to a Windows-based system as far as operator experience goes. They interact with HMI software and only see the OS underneath when Windows pops up silly notifications and errors.

Windows owns the industrial space for historical reasons, mostly to do with OPC being Windows-only and software for doing maintenance on field devices originally running on DOS. It quickly became a chicken-and-egg situation - everyone wrote their software for Windows because everyone else wrote their software for Windows. SCO owned a decent chunk of the field before that, but we know how that worked out.

We're seeing some change now that OPC is being phased out. Ignition now has feature parity between Linux and Windows (barring OPC, of course). Windows won't go away any time soon (if ever), but you can now have a fully functioning SCADA system with no Windows at all.
by Gigachad | 2025-10-30 21:28:22+00:00
I’m kinda keen on this. A few months ago I was looking at making a one time magazine print, but I discovered there were essentially no affordable options. The affinity option was the cheapest one, but still unaffordable for a one time project.

I don’t even mind paying a subscription but the adobe option requires you to get a minimum of 12 months.
by skinkestek | 2025-10-30 21:29:16+00:00
I'm a bit tired of people trying to explain it away.

I'm affected by it, and I know it isn't like you describe because I have experienced and sometimes still experience seeing actual images with my eyes closed but most of the time it is absolutely impossible.

There's also IIRC the fact that the reason someone started researching this topic was because a person who had very clear visual imagery with closed eyes lost it after surgery and his description got this thing started.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-30 21:29:48+00:00
Historically, Windows versions had excellent backwards compatibility, so at least in the past, this was much less of a problem in the Windows world than in the macOS world.

This is also the reason why so many Windows users are so angry that in particular since Windows 10 (but partly already in previous Windows versions) Microsoft made it so hard to have some "stable" Windows version on a computer that only gets security updates. Similarly for the forced Windows 11 upgrade where Windows 11 (officially) does not even work on many computers that Windows 10 supported.
by 827a | 2025-10-30 21:29:54+00:00
> Next 5 years or so (or even less) both the iPad and the Wearables, Home and Accessories category will overtake the sales of Macs.

Are we reading the same quarterly report?

Wearables/Home/Accessories is slightly higher than the Mac, yes, but its a category that has been trending poorly for Apple for ~18 months now IIRC, and that hasn't gotten better this quarter (9.04B->9.01B 3mo YoY). There's no foreseeable future where Vision starts driving Mac-like revenue (meaning, it'll be at least 2 years). Airpods are huge mainstays but have really hit market capacity and aren't growing. Apple Watch will see strong growth if they can successfully get glucose monitoring working, but that's an *if, and until then its slipping from an "upgrade every 3 years" to even longer lifecycle for most people.

Meanwhile: Mac is their fastest growing hardware segment by revenue (+12% 3mo YoY) (iPhone is +6%, iPad is flat, Services +15%).

iPhone aint going anywhere, Services are carrying their growth, but Mac is very solidly the #3 darling of this report. Their other product lines (Apple Watch, iPad, Airpods, etc) are interesting, successful businesses, but its unlikely we're going to see much growth out of them over the next 2 years. The story is iPhone, Services, and Mac, in that order, and there's no #4.
by nevertoolate | 2025-10-30 21:30:23+00:00
I didn’t know people see things in the real world, like an imaginary cat until I had a dream where I could imagine something purposefully. I woke up immediately, thrown out from the dream image.

I told my wife proudly that I could see something in my dream I wanted to. She told me she can imagine ANYTHING ANYWHERE ANYTIME (painter)

My question is: can you see the cat on the table? If not, sorry pal.
by donmcronald | 2025-10-30 21:30:58+00:00
> That you can stop paying if the product stops getting updates.

You also lose the ability to access your data in a lot of cases. That's the problem. I also own a v1 and v2 license for the Affinity stuff. I've used it to design myself exactly one logo, so I would have been way better off subscribing to Adobe's stuff for a month, right?

Wrong, at least in my opinion. The problem with subscriptions is that you lose control over future access to your data. For my logo, I'm fine with Affinity Designer v2 never getting updated as long as I can load the software and use it as-is.

I recently loaded up an abandoned Java project that I haven't looked at in a dozen years. I use IntelliJ IDEA and it wouldn't load in the most recent version of IDEA because the Gradle version used in the project was too old. I fired up my self-hosted server that I used at the time, installed IDEA v8, added a hostname for the Sonatype Nexus server to my DNS, and loaded my old project to look around.

You can barely do that anymore because you don't own or control anything. Everything is subscription based, pay forever, with deep links to infrastructure you don't control either. I can mostly do it because I refuse to get on the subscription "never control anything" bandwagon, but I'll still probably get burned by online activation at some point.

Just wait until everyone has 2 decades of AI context locked away behind paywalls controlled by a handful of companies. Everything in existence will be vendor locked and those companies will usurp every novel idea anyone is naive enough to feed in as context.
by mpapazian | 2025-10-30 21:31:33+00:00
This is one of our biggest challenges, you're spot on! What we're working on taking this includes a memory layer that agents have access to - thus state changes become part of their knowledge and accounted for while conducting a test.

They're also smart enough to not be frazzled by things having changed, they still have their objectives and will work to understand whether the functionality is there or not. Beauty of non-determinism!
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-30 21:31:44+00:00
Have you considered that "people generally don't remember it" because most of them graduated before 2020? People are going to reflect on their own experiences at school, which will often be from decades ago. If they aren't a teacher, they probably aren't going to find out about any changes to the curriculum. Maybe if they have a child, but that potentially takes an 18 year delay between implementation and learning about it if it's about a high school, if the teenager bothers to report that they had a boring finance class to their parent.
by xmcqdpt2 | 2025-10-30 21:31:53+00:00
Many versions of this article could be written:

The computer does not do a Fourier transform (FFT computes the discrete Fourier transform)

Spectroscope dont do a Fourier transform (it's actually the short time FT)

The only thing that actually does Fourier transform is a mathematician, with a pen and some paper.
by duxup | 2025-10-30 21:32:07+00:00
I would hope the mechanic would engage with the customer in more back and forth.

But sometimes power structures don't allow for it. I worked tech support in a number of companies. At some companies we were empowered to investigate and solve problems... sometimes that took work, and work from the customer. It had much better outcomes for the customer, but fixes were not quick. Customers / companies with good technical staff in management understood that dynamic.

Other companies were "just fix it" and tech support were just annoying drones and the company and customer's and management treated tech support as annoying drones. They got a lot more "you got exactly what you asked for" treatment ... because management and even customers will take the self defeating quick and easy path sometimes.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-30 21:32:11+00:00
This is an amazing timeline. I still remember the day redstone was added to Minecraft. I spent the entire evening and many days afterwards on the forum brainstorming how to implement various things. I think I had one of the first if not the first T flip flop, it "took an entire room" and was slow. It has been crazy watching things get compacted, repeaters getting added, pistons, comparators. I remember when BUDs got discovered and then eventually just added as a block.

Now* we have an entire HDL.

I honestly stopped keeping track of things around 2012 so I am completely lost looking at modern redstone contraptions.

*8 years ago
by Terr_ | 2025-10-30 21:33:25+00:00
Was playing around with a fundamental frequency calculator [0] to associate certain sizes to hertz, then using a tone-generator [1] to get a subjective idea of what it'd sound like.

Though of course, nature has plenty of other tricks, like how Koalas can go down to ~27hz. [2]

[0] https://acousticalengineer.com/fundamental-frequency-calcula...

[1] https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.14275
by tim333 | 2025-10-30 21:34:15+00:00
>worth a trillion dollar pay package. It's gobsmacking that they even need to think about this.

I think you mischaracterize that deal. It's more if he can hype the stock from $1.3t to $8.5t he gets a 15% cut, in stock. It wouldn't be a bad deal for TSLA speculators.
by mdasen | 2025-10-30 21:34:20+00:00
If they're able to gather the intelligence without a public signal, they wouldn't be wanting a public signal. Any discussion of "should we tell Israel" would be limited to people who knew of the secret subpoena's existence. If Israel already had an asset within that group, they'd just have that person signal them in a much more clandestine manner than a public payment mandated in a signed contract.

Either Israel already knows about the subpoena, in which case the discussion doesn't matter, or they don't, in which case their asset wouldn't be in on the discussion.
by amatecha | 2025-10-30 21:34:50+00:00
Yeah, I've had now a couple decades of experience dealing with this, and my typical strat is to "step back" from the requested change, find out what the bigger goal is, and usually I will immediately come up with a completely different solution to fulfill their goal(s). Usually involving things they hadn't even thought about, because they were so focused on that one little thing. When looking at the bigger picture, suddenly you realize the project contains many relevant pieces that must be adjusted to reach the intended goals.
Where do you stand on the better use of coding agents
by mamdouh_ai | 2025-10-30 21:35:02+00:00
A question has been roaming my mind lately. On what is the better use of one's time and effort in approaching programming and development in general (career wise not nerdy wise).

It goes like this: Is it the better investment to focus more on abstract problem solving and understanding architectural, engineering and systematic thinking by the more utilizing natural language and only using coding agents once fully understanding the problem and the flow YOU CHOOSE and just let the agent as more of a translator. Because I know without I can do it it will just take time, but by utilizing AI I can have more throughput in the thinking described earlier and maybe in a longer term could be more beneficial since coding agents will only get better from now. I also believe you should do the debugging and understand why a thing went wrong, also understanding the code generated by AI.

The only regret feel is that by coding manually in a dull way you learn in a much harder way that could stick to your head better, but is it the best investment in this era? is there a better approach? I wanted to get this out of my mind and have more of a disscusion about it, because I am really interested in other's point of view.
by donmcronald | 2025-10-30 21:35:05+00:00
> I mean 20+ years ago we called this shareware.

It's not even close. This is more akin to shareware where Bill Gates shows up at your house to collect a payment every month and formats your hard drive if you don't cough up the money.

Shareware gave you a perpetual license and control that couldn't be taken away, especially before the internet.
by mesmertech | 2025-10-30 21:35:06+00:00
So just to start, I've been suffering from backpain in the recent few months due to sciatica and it has basically killed my motivation for coding after I'd already been suffering mild burnout, with my usual workflow before being just sitting for long periods of time and focusing on coding.

As a recovery thing I've been walking for long periods of time, ~2-3 hours per day which ends up making me feeling unproductive because my focus time is at mornings and if I don't start coding first thing in the morning I'm not motivated enough to start in the afternoon.

All this preamble to explain why I had the thought of coding on an ipad in the first place. With Claude code I've noticed that most of the time I'm "coding" is just me inputting text and waiting for it to actually implement the change. Which is why I had a thought, if simple sentences are all I'm inputting, would it not be possible to use dictation on ipad and work on my side projects that way instead of typing it out. I got into detail about my setup in the video itself. Apologies for the bad audio, didn't remember that it was supposed to be just a test video to check my webcam's mic and forgot to use my actual external mic.

tldr; use vscode dev on browser, superwhisper for dictation, roo code(claude code doesn't work well with dictation cause terminal)
by skinkestek | 2025-10-30 21:35:13+00:00
The way I understood it was the apple on a table test:

I was asked to close my eyes and think about an apple.

if you do it now, close your eyes for about 10 - 20 seconds and think very hard about an apple on a table.

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then immediately after opening your eyes tell me what color the apple was.

For me and many others it is an absurd question. We only thought about the thing apple on the thing table, absolutely no visual representation.

For some of my siblings they saw the apple and could of course tell me the color and also the color of the table.
by tangus | 2025-10-30 21:35:52+00:00
It may be somewhat awkward; zipping collections to iterate over them in unison makes the first one (the sender) seem special, while it not necessarily is. And accumulating more than one value isn't always straightforward; you usually have to reduce explicitly. But it's so much better in the general case!

Like the example you showcase your macro with. In Ruby it would be:

lst = [[1, 2], :dud, [3, 4], [5, 6]] lst.grep(Array).flatten.sum => 21

You can see what it does at a glance, you don't have to immerse yourself inside the directives to follow the logic. And when you can't do that, declaring iterators and accumulators outside a loop and then iterating and accumulating "by hand" yields code not so different than your more complex examples.

def partition (arr) yes = [] no = [] arr.each do |elt| if yield elt yes << elt else no << elt end end [yes, no] end
by tpxl | 2025-10-30 21:35:58+00:00
> With Netflix, there are never visible artifacts

Uwotm8. Any sufficiently dark scene will have artifacts out the wazoo.

Not to mention other stuff like subtitles mentioning the wrong spoken language (ie. the character is speaking French, but the subtitle say they're speaking English), the UI unloads after some time, and the only action you can take is to start the video (you can't go back), the button for info when hovering over a card doesn't work half time time, video controls disappear at the end of an episode while transitioning to the next (the 'next episode' button is present and animating, but you can't pause the video at the credits in that moment), etc... In short, the UI is shit and so is the video quality.
by willis936 | 2025-10-30 21:38:25+00:00
I don't think that death is a certainty. It is today, but we are working on it. We are not supernatural. CGPGrey's thoughts on this mirror a lot of my own.

I grant that not all care given to aged is a kindness, but not fighting aging is not virtuous.

https://youtu.be/C25qzDhGLx8

https://youtu.be/cZYNADOHhVY