MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rck | 2025-10-01 20:34:58+00:00
I'm not sure what motivated Parmenides because he was more of a poet than anything - it just happened that his poetry was what we would now recognize as incredibly philosophical. He didn't really argue, he just wrote down what the "goddess" told him. But I think the basic problem is that everyone back then agreed that you can't get "something from nothing," and it sure seems like change requires being to come from non-being. The statue is there now, but before it was cast there wasn't a statue, just a chunk of bronze. If being can't come from non-being, how do you account for the "coming-to-be" of the statue? The Eliatic position as I understand it is that the change is just an illusion. Plato and Aristotle both react against this position and argue that it's silly (I'm very inclined to agree). They then give alternative accounts of what change really is.

I'm not sure about Plato, but the Aristotelian analysis is something like this: every thing that exists has the potential to exist in certain ways and not others, and it's said that the thing is "in potency" to exist in those potential ways. When something could exist in a certain way but right now doesn't, that's called a "privation." And the ways that the thing currently does exist are the "form" of the thing. So a substance changes when it goes from being in potency to being actual, and it does that by losing a privation. Aquinas follows Aristotle in giving the example: "For example, when a statue is made from bronze, the bronze which is in potency to the form of the statue is the matter; the shapeless or undisposed something is the privation; and the shape because of which it is called a statue is the form." Incidentally, Aquinas's short On the Principles of Nature (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~DePrinNat) is a good overview of this theory, which is spread all over Aristotle (in the Categories, the Physics, and the Metaphysics).

As far as οὐσία is concerned, I think this is the complete Greek for Parmenides's poem: http://philoctetes.free.fr/parmenidesunicode.htm. In the places where that translation uses "being" you get slightly different words like γενέσθαι (to come into a new state of being) or εἶναι (just the infinitive "to be"). And looking at the definition of οὐσία (https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CF%83%CE%AF%CE%B1) it looks like most of the uses of that term specifically come well after Parmenides.
by benjiro | 2025-10-01 20:35:16+00:00
The ironic part is, that i often find human readable changes (or slightly faster) better for coding, then a LLM that spends x time thinking and then dumps all the information/changes in one go.

It allows me to monitor the progress, pauze/stop the changes, maybe undo a bad change, and instruct it to fix or add context.

Having a LLM that is ultra fast sounds great, until you need to undo a ton of bad changes. Programming even with a LLM, is still about understanding the changes being done to the code base.

If you only program in non-attenuative mode, and act on the total sum of the changes, you need to be darn sure that your start prompt is very detailed to anticipate the LLMs behavior.
by waterhouse | 2025-10-01 20:35:29+00:00
I have encountered this definition of "spectrum", as a vector of numbers that go 0 to 100, rather than a single number that goes from 0 to 100 (which you call "continuum" IIUC).

But... I mean, if you asked 100 people what they think a spectrum means in this context, how many of them would think it meant "vector" rather than "real number"? I would guess fewer than 10. I consider myself a fairly well-informed nerd, but I think I had encountered many usages of "spectrum" describing a single trait for many years, and I think this is the second time I've ever encountered someone using the "vector" definition (the first one was also using it to describe autism). Has this linguistic battle already been lost? Does it improve clarity to call it a "spectrum" and insist on using the "vector" definition?

(I've personally been using the phrase "collection of imperfectly correlated traits")
by vladms | 2025-10-01 20:35:59+00:00
You have to distinguish between transportation (electricity and oil) and source of energy (only oil).

To have electricity you would need to invest at once in both generation, transport (the grids are not enough), storage and change in use (replace cars with electric ones). Your return will depend as well on the technology developed and none of the above fields is stable yet.

I am a fan of going electric, even if only for more sovereignty, but it is not as simple as "electricity is more efficient".
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-01 20:36:02+00:00
Oh absolutely. I don’t think we’re seeing Behemoth rising [1].

I’m just pointing out that the structural source of American power is our unity across a continent. Nobody else has that hegemony. Our markets are rich because they’re big, and they’re big because they’re unified.

That bigness also reduces the incentives for others to unify, given they can gain our economies of scale through trade and without the pesky reconciliation (or annihilation) unification would require.

I’m not arguing that Eurasian unification is probable. Just that it’s more likely now than it was before, and that’s a real diminishment of American power irrespective of what the accountants say. (I’d also argue that the aforementioned economies enacting a break with America wouldn’t require long-term unification, just a short-term alliance of the power-balancing types that put America and the USSR on the same side of a war.)

[1] https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-world-ocean-versus-the-c...
by pixelesque | 2025-10-01 20:36:08+00:00
While it's likely due to other factors (i.e. like maybe the stock indices have just completely de-coupled from reality or are just being helped by AI-hype?), the fact that US job openings seemingly de-coupled from S&P 500 in Nov/Dec 2022 when ChatGPT was publicly released (as a web app) is pretty interesting.
by asdff | 2025-10-01 20:36:09+00:00
If the sky doesn't fall the sky doesn't fall. Buddy of mine in sales is using some old DOS software from the 90s to control inventory and quotes. I bet there are absolutely zero people who know how it works in that company today. But, it works.

Turns out when you make relatively simple software, it doesn't really need maintenance. How often do you need to maintain a function like f(x)= mx + b? If it works it works.
by kieranmaine | 2025-10-01 20:36:22+00:00
To provide some numbers on the storage side of things. On European battery storage [1]:

* 2024 - 21.9 GWh installed.

* 2025 - 29.7 GWh predicted to be installed.

* 2029 - Between 66.6 GWh and 183 GWh to be installed for 2029. Total capacity estimated to be 400 GWh.

The UK also recently received applications for 52.6 GW of storage Long Duration Energy Storage cap and floor scheme [2]. LDES in this context is classed as 8hrs or greater. Seasonal storage is not included.

I don't know if this sufficiently plugs the gaps, but it does show a large increase in installed battery storage, which appears to be accelerating.

Edit: Include total capacity in 2029 figure.

1. https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-e...

2. https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2025-09/LDES%20...
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-01 20:36:23+00:00
Galileo may not have done the exact "drop balls off the tower" experiment but he did formally study gravity by rolling balls down a ramp and timing it, and that experiment would have shown that heavier things don't fall faster than lighter things (until you get to things being large enough that the gravity force between them is meaningfully increased, but they wouldn't have been able to do that).

It still took like a thousand years for this to be experimentally demonstrated.

The important part of this "thought experiment" in the history of science is that it is part of the shift to empiricism that really drove science. It was important to go from "Well they were smart and they said, so it must be true" to "I don't care how smart you are, what you say doesn't match the data"

This is important, because "smart" people like Archimedes said a lot of stuff that was never true, but was taken as true for a millennia, often because it "sounded" right or obvious. More importantly, Archimedes could have done the exact same experiments that Galileo (and others) used to demonstrate he was not correct. There was no technological advancement required. He didn't, because the philosophy at the time was to "just think really hard about it" and "reason from first principles" and you would obviously get the right answer if only you are smart enough. Who needs data? You're smart and you thought hard about it, so you cannot be wrong!

People should recognize how important that is to remember in the current world.
by nielsbot | 2025-10-01 20:36:34+00:00
What he is doing is counter to the Fed charter, but if you're pro-Capital, you like some unemployment because it disciplines Labor.

> The chair's main responsibility is to carry out the mandate of the Fed, which is to promote the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.

(per Investopedia https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/082415/what-...)
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-01 20:36:36+00:00
> If you imagine neurotypical and autistic as two "languages"

This analogy is very analogous. Damian Milton introduced it to academia as the "double empathy problem", and there are a trickle of studies confirming the obvious corollaries of the analogy (e.g. doi:10.1177/1362361320919286 "Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective") which are considered surprising by academia because autism (like most psychological conditions) is defined badly:

> Autism is defined clinically by deficits in social communication. It may therefore be expected that autistic people find it difficult to share information with other people.
by drdaeman | 2025-10-01 20:36:55+00:00
Immigration issues of any scale do not justify violating citizen's rights, though. Side effects matter and the risks are tremendous. 52% enough or not - that's what already happened in the past and no one can change the past. There's only the present, that needs to be carefully driven towards a desirable future, with conscious and significant effort to avoid undesirable ones. History is full of stories about how easy it is to fuck up.

It possibly would be very different if federal administration would openly recognize the potential issues and put at least a sliver of effort in showing how it deals with those. I can understand their statement that the scale of the problem requires action of comparable scale - that is logical. However, careless actions become incredibly dangerous at scale, and I have yet to see a sliver of understanding of this, for all I'm seeing so far is arrogant stubborn self-confidence that is very hard to distinguish from malicious intent. And I'm putting a lot of effort here with my suspension of disbelief for the sake of civilized discussion.

Those hotheads are supposed to be a conservative government. They don't act like one at all.
by chb | 2025-10-01 20:37:00+00:00
An astute and accurate observation. However, there is no numeric target set in the mandate you allude to: "The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. In 1977, Congress amended the Federal Reserve Act (FRA) to provide greater clarity about the goals of monetary policy. The amended FRA directs the Board of Governors and the FOMC to conduct monetary policy “so as to promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.” [https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/files/the-fed-exp...]
by WrongOnInternet | 2025-10-01 20:37:04+00:00
Apparently it is possible, at least for some people, to "cure" aphantasia with a training technique is called "image streaming." I'm on the aphantasia side of the spectrum, and it has certainly help me see more vidid images in my mind's eye. Here is a link to the article where I learned about it, which also includes a video explaining the technique. https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photogra...
by submeta | 2025-10-01 20:37:40+00:00
That’s what I thought almost thirty years ago: That MS Access is the solution to all problems in an office environment. I‘d model the domain and create a full working app with database backend in days.

And five years later I consulted companies who had business critical solutions built in MS Access that were not scaling anymore (concurrent users, faster database etc)

Applied to this article: Yes, you can use Google Sheets for all sorts of tasks, but eventually you will need to move on to a more robust solution.
by troupo | 2025-10-01 20:37:51+00:00
I've found it slower than Claude but:

- significantly less obsequious (very few "you're absolutely right" that Claude vomits out on every interaction)

- less likely to forget and ignore context and AGENTS.md instructions

- fewer random changes claiming "now everything is fixed" in the first 30-50% of context

- better understanding of usage rules (see link below), one-shotting quite a few things Claude misses

Language + framework: Elixir, Phoenix LiveView, Ash, Oban, Reactor

SLoC: 22k lines

AGENTS.md: some simple instructions, pointing to two MCPs (Tidewave and Stripe), requirement to compile before moving onto next file, usage rules https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules/readme.html
by looping__lui | 2025-10-01 20:37:54+00:00
You factored in a new grid and backup nuclear plants/gas power plants requiring >100B investments in Germany or Tesla Megapacks in excess of 100 metric tons? Take a look at what is needed to make Germany “green” by a reputable and independent institute: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...
by cnity | 2025-10-01 20:38:06+00:00
Maybe let's loop in other senses for a second. Since, presumably aphantasia doesn't apply to all senses? I can imagine the sensation of my tongue on a cold ice cream, and even the taste. But I don't _taste and feel_ it. I can imagine burning my hand on a hot stove, but I don't recoil. See how they are separate but related? The same is true for how I imagine things visually. I don't actually see them, but I imagine them. I don't know how else to articulate that seeing and visualising are not the same thing.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-01 20:38:09+00:00
That was the point: I also wouldn't say that about neanderthals.

The evidence on the ground is of course, limited. But it's a fairly common view among anthropologists/archaeologists that our perspective on ancient societies is immensely limited by the material record, hence the generally positive reception to Dawn of Everything despite its sketchy details and interpretations.
by sodpspsosk | 2025-10-01 20:38:19+00:00
Mass self deportation is a fairly easy solution too. It’d cause an immediate glut of homes and jobs. It would also cause economic shock, but that would by and large hurt the capital class. We are in for pain either way, might as well ensure the next generations have ample opportunity.

Cut back/tax on legal immigration, tax remittances harder, and penalize those employing illegal immigrants. None of this ICE kabuki theatre is needed (and frankly is cruel and immoral).

Obviously this won’t happen because both left & right want immigration.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-01 20:38:29+00:00
Interesting, thanks for sharing.

Obviously because each person is different a/b tests are somewhat impossible for qualia issues. All I have is access to my pre/post expierence. It seems aphantasia can be intrinsic or emergent and since mine developed potentially through damage or re-wiring during surgery I wouldn't be suprised in the slightest that the pathways and compensations are different or non-existent for my case but not for others.
by ge96 | 2025-10-01 20:38:34+00:00
I wonder how the indie/entrepreneur space is doing nowadays. I tried to do it myself but never really got anywhere this was back in 2016. Whenever I go on sites/subreddits around this topic a lot of the posts just seem to be about generating clout/some fake revenue numbers/screenshot of earnings. It's like entrepreneurs selling to each other.

I suppose nowadays it's probably around LLM wrappers, photo generation, video generation services... there were those niche ones in the past like the teacher with her bingo cards maker

It's still in my mind as I don't like waiting for a paycheck, just wondering how the space is doing nowadays
by magicalist | 2025-10-01 20:38:52+00:00
> and they didn't look like the sort to have wasted much of it on insurance or overhead

This is in general a really bad idea. Not only can you be on the hook if they make a mistake with the install, or mess something up like venting that ends up damaging appliances or plumbing, but if one of them falls off your roof, depending on the circumstances you could be personally liable for their possibly life long medical treatment (or end up in an extended lawsuit as they try to claim that you personally directed their work). Make sure your contractors have insurance.
by recursive | 2025-10-01 20:39:30+00:00
I don't even have an autism diagnosis, and I never skip breakfast because of the energy drop. I bike to work, run 5ks, and am not overweight, even by standardized BMI metrics.

I don't even have an autism diagnosis. It never occurred to me that something might be "going on". Breakfast imparts energy. To me, that has been a given.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-10-01 20:40:28+00:00
I don't think they were buying someone else's overproduction. 2 buck Chuck (2BC) is made by a huge winemaker that sells under a lot of different labels. So the stuff that ends up as 2BC was already in their inventory and 2BC gave them a way to get rid of it.

The main innovation of 2BC is it being sold cheap in respectable looking bottles. Cheap decent wine has always existed as box wine or jug wine.

Long before 2BC there was an actual person named Charles Shaw who was a niche winemaker whose company went bankrupt. Bronco Wines (the huge winemaker above) picked up the assets including the brand, and used the brand to create 2BC. Shaw was apparently pissed, but oh well.
by chadwittman | 2025-10-01 20:40:36+00:00
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ELDRICK is building the world’s fastest-growing AI golf club fitter. We recently launched our beta & fittings are growing quickly. We now need an ML Engineer who golfs to fine-tune our existing model for best-in-class fittings. Non-golfers will not be considered.

You’ll:

- Fine-tune and optimize our current ML model for accuracy + trust

- Work with swing/ball data (club speed, ball speed, spin, launch, carry)

- Ship improvements fast with the founding team

You have:

- Hands-on ML experience (PyTorch/TensorFlow/sklearn)

- Proven ability to tune and evaluate models in production

- Startup speed and independence

- A real golf game (handicap required with your application)

Why join:

- Early technical role in a sports/AI startup with breakout traction

- Shape the model golfers will rely on to choose their clubs

- Remote-first, US preferred

Apply: wittman [dot] c [at] gmail — send resume + handicap.
by downrightmike | 2025-10-01 20:40:48+00:00
The adage "The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets" advises a contrarian investment strategy of acquiring property or other assets during periods of extreme economic or market turmoil. The saying is attributed to 19th-century British banker Baron Rothschild, who is said to have profited significantly by purchasing assets during the panic that followed the Battle of Waterloo.
by mothballed | 2025-10-01 20:40:55+00:00
I think people way underestimate just how badly the US fucked themselves with the tariff regimes, amongst other reasons.

The way US workers survive in a high-skill economy is having complex, internationally supplied machines/services/trade.

People think what will happen is more stuff made in US, but then that room sized CNC milling machine you ordered from Germany so you can actually operate a US company suddenly has a massive tariff bill and now you have to fire 3 guys to pay the bank for that. And people are buying less of your stuff because they're already spending more money on all their other goods, either because of tariffs or because it's now made by people with less comparative advantage.
by mettamage | 2025-10-01 20:40:58+00:00
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by gwbas1c | 2025-10-01 20:40:58+00:00
This does not look like a slur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tinker

There's also rather significant modern use of "tinker": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_(disambiguation)

It appears that you're getting stuck on "tinkers", which is mentioned in the above disambiguation page:

> Tinkers, an alternate (and often pejorative) name

Anyway, language is malleable and changes. In this case, I will again emphasize "get a life."
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-01 20:41:15+00:00
> colloquial meaning carries all of that baggage. You just weren't aware

The baggage—hell, all meaning in language—is carried by awareness. We don’t consider the word hostile racist because we’re not ancient Romans facing the hostis.

Maybe there is a cause to censor the word tinker in British English. What there isn’t is censoring it in American or international English.
by coldtea | 2025-10-01 20:41:21+00:00
>... which is totally different from attaching strings to ToS'es or employment contracts

Yes, quite different, since government is a singular entity, and also a monopoly of power and a monopoly of violence. You can find another job, not another government, lest you immigrate.

>And similarly, you to realize that you only critized goverments, without a UBI-unique spin or a constructive solution.

I already gave the UBI-unique spin: governments with UBI control the very basis of the livelihood of the citizenry, including creating a whole large underclass with no other income than that.

>What if governments are 100% transparent and democratic in the most ideal sense?

What if everybody got a magical pony?

>Careful, whatever you want to reply here, i am going to project it onto large private corporations immediately ... something you seem to be unable to.

Or you know, there's a trivial answer for that, which I already half-gave in this post. You seem to believe I think "large private corporations" are fine, or I'm some Ayn Rand type - as if you can't understand any other angle of critique to UBI.
by vizzier | 2025-10-01 20:41:23+00:00
I've been working with python professionally for just over a year now and the main difference from having come from a .net background seems to be that tests are far easier to write and more prevalent in our codebase. I'm sure some of that is cultural, but "runtime" errors are quickly found by any reasonable test suite.

That said, it always saddens me that ML (as in oCaml and F#) don't get more love. They basically can hit all the same bases with ease of readability, multi paradigm, module first programming that python can but just never got the same love.