MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yair99dd | 2025-10-19 18:03:39+00:00
Harrari on humans

> in the industrial revolution of the 19th century what Humanity basically learned to produce was all kinds of stuff like textiles and shoes and weapons and vehicles and this was enough for very few countries that underwent the revolution fast enough to subjugate everybody else

what we're talking about now is like a Second Industrial Revolution but the product this time will not be textiles or machines or vehicles or even weapons the product this time will be humans themselves.

we are basically learning to produce bodies and Minds bodies and minds are going .... the two main products of the next wave of all these changes and if there is a gap between those that know to produce bodies and minds and those that do not then this is far greater than anything we saw before in history and this time if you're not part of the Revolution fast enough then you probably become extinct

once you know how to produce bodies and brains and Minds so cheap labor in Africa or South Asia wherever it simply counts for nothing

again I think the biggest question ... maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people

I don't think we have an economic model to for that, my best guess which is , just a guess, is that food will not be a problem uh with that kind of Technology you will be able to produce food for to feed everybody the problem is more important ... what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless worthless

my best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games

https://youtu.be/QkYWwWAXgKI
by pu_pu | 2025-10-19 18:03:57+00:00
The biggest problem with retrieval is actually semantic relevance. I think most embedding models don't really capture sentence-level semantic content and instead act more like bag-of-words models averaging local word-level information.

Consider this simple test I’ve been running:

Anchor: “A background service listens to a task queue and processes incoming data payloads using a custom rules engine before persisting output to a local SQLite database.”

Option A (Lexical Match): “A background service listens to a message queue and processes outgoing authentication tokens using a custom hash function before transmitting output to a local SQLite database.”

Option B (Semantic Match): “An asynchronous worker fetches jobs from a scheduling channel, transforms each record according to a user-defined logic system, and saves the results to an embedded relational data store on disk.”

Any decent LLM (e.g., Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4/5) immediately knows that the Anchor and Option B describe the same concept just with different words. But when I test embedding models like gemini-embedding-001 (currently top of MTEB), they consistently rate Option A as more similar measured by cosine similarity. They’re getting tricked by surface-level word overlap.

I put together a small GitHub repo that uses ChatGPT to generate and test these “semantic triplets:

https://github.com/semvec/embedstresstest

gemini-embedding-001 (current #1 on MTEB leaderboard ) scored close to 0% on these adversarial examples.

The repo is unpolished at the moment but it gets the idea across and everything is reproducible.

Anyway, did anyone else notice this problem?
by Fwirt | 2025-10-19 18:03:58+00:00
Sadly the article alludes to the probable destiny of these pieces: being broken down for melt value. The big stones will get recut to hide where they came from. If the thieves are “smart” it’s likely these will never be seen again in their current form. It just so happens that the Crown Jewels pack a lot of gold and precious stones into a convenient and easy-to-steal package. That the historical and cultural value of these far outweighs the material value is of zero concern to thieves looking to make a quick buck.
by YZF | 2025-10-19 18:04:42+00:00
In Egypt the historical gold bracelet was just melted for its gold value:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kw8dwy4dro

Depending on what exactly is this you can find someone to refinish the stones and melt and precious metals. Possibly the stones are not recognizable anyways when taken off. Other than that I assume there is an underground market for these sorts of goods. These thieves seem sophisticated enough to have access to someone who will take this.

Sad.
by n42 | 2025-10-19 18:05:05+00:00
I stopped using Rust because of this. I spent more time learning and cursing at other people’s abstractions versus thinking about what the computer is doing.

> the ones who’d use Zig if it weren’t allergic to syntactic sugar

You’re very close to understanding why some people prefer Zig. There is a correlation between language design and how things are built with it.
by Doohickey-d | 2025-10-19 18:05:09+00:00
One thing to be aware of: nichrome wire heats up. Solder melts with heat. So if you solder them together, and your nichrome wire gets hot enough, they will not stay attached. Hence commercial devices use a mechanical, crimp connection.

Probably not an issue for oven or cooking temperatures, but it is if you're working on hotter things like heaters or hairdryers and such.
by EchoReflection | 2025-10-19 18:05:42+00:00
it's only for "the enrichment of the elite" if one looks at life with a perspective of entitlement, resentment and disregard for the nature of...nature (existence,randomness, realty itself).

just because humans can't "outdo" technology doesn't mean we should "blame" "the elite". that's literally how the great catastrophes of socialism, communism, Marxism, etc started

Humans aren't "forced" to do anything, (depending on how you look at it). You could just lay down, "live" in your own excrement until you starve to death. That seems reasonable! Liberate the proletariat! Why doesn't everyone else work for me?!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ressentiment
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-19 18:05:53+00:00
Similar but different, I really dig the nice spatial/3d webcomponent https://Lume.io 's ECS / behavior system. Standalone library, works for anything. https://github.com/lume/element-behaviors

Here, the presence of an attribute signals behavior. With element-behaviors, has= attribute is used to say what behavior classes to apply. Different paths but doesn't seem super dissimilar end result. I feel like web-directive giving a simple callback leaves a lot to the developer, where-as element-behaviors API surface tries to parallel WebComponents, which is familiar & has lots of nice understandable lifecycle builtin.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-19 18:06:02+00:00
The problem is there are many people who think AI is a big scam and has no chance of long-term profitability, so a fund would be a non-starter, or people who think AI will be so powerful that any paltry sums would pale in comparison to ASI's full dominance of the lightcone, leaving human habitability a mere afterthought.

There honestly aren't a lot of people in the middle amazingly, and most of them work at AI companies anyway. Maybe there's something about our algorithmically manipulated psyche's in the modern age that draws people towards more absolutist all-or-nothing views, incapable of practical nuance when in the face of a potentially grave threat.
by toinewx | 2025-10-19 18:06:10+00:00
the name is obviously a pun/joke, and the website is also trying to be humorous.

but I don't think it helps your product by now. It looks you built something that is actually useful and the pun/joke is not needed anymore. same for your website, I think the humorous part is distracting.

I think you should pick a unique name, the joke is no longer needed.
by Humbly8967 | 2025-10-19 18:07:20+00:00
EQing for a flat in room response is NOT ideal!

Correcting a speaker requires measuring the *anechoic* response, and only the bass should be tuned to subtract the room's effect.

This video [1] provides a crash course on science of audio reproduction.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpUDuUtxPM
by reify | 2025-10-19 18:07:23+00:00
There is a problem

it is only a temporary solution

here is the process:

I have no "Manage Your Extensions" only "Debug Add-ons".

enter Manage Your Extensions click gear icon select Debug Add-ons about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox select Temporary Add-on Select the manifest.json locate the file click Open done

works OK

Once I restart it has reverted and gone
by bkraz | 2025-10-19 18:07:25+00:00
In Win11 as admin, take ownership of the following files, and remove all permissions for the system user. This prevents any updates and can be easily undone at any time. I turned off updates, and life is much better. I no longer feel guilty about having my system "at risk". It's no longer worth the pain of updates.

C:\Windows\System32\WaaSMedicSvc.dll C:\Windows\System32\usosvc.dll C:\Windows\System32\wuaueng.dll
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-19 18:07:28+00:00
Did you copy and paste the numbered list from somewhere else? That isn’t how folks on HN typically format things here, and it seems reminiscent of AI output, which is not allowed under the HN guidelines.

> I agree there may be some folks in the US who delay diagnosis but population-wise, data doesn't support that.

We aren’t talking about population-level statistics in this thread, but rather a specific named individual meeting their personal healthcare costs, so your point is off-topic, not OP’s.
by Figsy | 2025-10-19 18:07:29+00:00
So you've learned about SharedArrayBuffer and its incredible potential for performance. But this superpower comes with risks like race conditions and needless complexity. Before you refactor your code, master the three golden rules that separate the pros from the novices. This guide covers the non-negotiable use of Atomics for thread safety, the smart strategy of isolating parallel work, and the crucial step of profiling to ensure your efforts actually speed up your app. Learn to wield JavaScript's most powerful feature the right way.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-19 18:07:35+00:00
Related, for me, was that high school just wasn't very challenging. I got As without ever really studying or feeling that I was working very hard. I took that approach into university and it worked for my freshman and most of my sophomore courses. Then things got actually tough and I realized I could not just intuit my way through exams, and I had never really learned how to study.
by ben_w | 2025-10-19 18:07:42+00:00
> How come I never see any concrete proposals for how to equitably distribute the wealth of AI?

Probably because most politics about how to "equitably distribute the wealth" of anything are one or both of "badly thought out" and/or "too complex to read".

For example of the former, I could easily say "have the government own the AI", which is great if you expect a government that owns AI to continue to care if their policies are supported by anyone living under them, not so much if you consider that a fully automated police force is able to stamp out any dissent etc.

For example of the latter, see all efforts to align any non-trivial AI to anything, literally even one thing, without someone messing up the reward function.

For your example of 10%, well, there's a dichotomy on how broad the AI is, if it's more like (it's not really boolean) a special-purpose system or if it's fully-general over all that any human can do:

• Special-purpose: that works but also you don't need it because it's just an assistant AI and "expands the pie" rather than displacing workers entirely.

• Fully-general: the AI company can relocate offshore, or off planet, do whatever it wants and raise a middle finger at you. It's got all the power and you don't.
by mock-possum | 2025-10-19 18:07:58+00:00
This looks kinda neat - I’m not really sure I have a good sense of what I would use this for though.

If I’m working in vanilla js, I don’t really have any issues when using element selectors - deferred or otherwise.

If I’m working in an app framework, then that framework already provides this functionality - for instance Lit lets you bind event listeners to elements as defined in your templates @event-name=${this.onEventName}

I guess - is the aim with this, that it’s useful for if you’re working outside the context of a specific site or project, and aiming to write code for an npm package or similar, where you need something portable and framework-independent? I suppose I could see reaching for it in that case.
by lproven | 2025-10-19 18:08:30+00:00
This is just a bundle of your opinions -- to which you're entitled, even if they're totally wrong -- but downthread I see you attempt to defend them and claim they are objective fact, which is simply ridiculous.

TUIs are a superb tool. They were when they were first standardised in late-tera DOS apps in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and they still have a place today.

Here are some primary reasons you have not considered in your rant:

* UI standards and design

TUIs bring the sensible, designed-by-experts model of UI construction and human-computer interface from the world of GUIs into text-only environments such as the terminal, remote SSH connections, and so on.

For example, they let one set options using a form represented in dialog box, by Tabbing back and forth and selecting with Space or entering values, without trying to compose vast cryptic command lines.

This is not just me; this is the stuff of jokes. This is objective and repeatable.

https://xkcd.com/1168/

https://xkcd.com/1597/

* Harmonious design

A well-done TUI lets users use the same familiar UI both in a GUI and at the console. This is the actively beneficial flipside of the trivial cosmetics you are advocating: you praise a text-mode app implemented in a GUI because it can do more. That is a poor deal; a ground-up native GUI app can do much more still.

But TUIs bring the advantages of familiarity with GUIs to situations where a GUI is unavailable.

* Common UI

The apps you cite as positive examples are markedly poor at following industry-standard UI conventions, which suggests to me that you are ignorant that there are industry standard UI conventions. Perhaps you are too young. That is no crime, but it does not mean I must forgive ignorance.

Nonetheless, they exist, and hundreds of millions of people use them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

TUIs allow familiar UIs to be used even when a GUI or graphics at all are unavailable.

TUIs are not just about menus; they also define a whole set of hotkeys and so on which allow skilled users to navigate without a pointing device.

* Disabilities and inaccessibility

Presumably you are young and able-bodied. Many are not.

GUIs with good keyboard controls are entirely navigable by blind or partially-sighted users who cannot use pointing devices. They are also useful for those with motor disabilities that preclude pointing and clicking.

Millions use these, not from choice, from need.

But because those tools are there, that means that they can also use TUI apps which share the UI.

And the fact that this common UI exists for keyboard warriors like myself, who actively prefer a keyboard-centric UI, means that the benefits of a11y carry across and remain benefits for people who do not need a11y assistance.

=====

That's 4 reasons, intertwined, that you showed no sign of having considered. IMHO any 1 of the 4 is compelling on its own but combined any 2 would be inescapable and all of them together, for me, completely rebut and refute your argument.
by rekabis | 2025-10-19 18:08:37+00:00
I cannot seem to find the exe/msi for Windows, or the dmg/pkg for MacOS, to install with.

I am looking for the exe/msi installers for Windows, in particular, for the more extensive installation options they provide, including start menu entry placement.

Yes, I abhor the Win8/8.1/10/11 start menu, and have been using StartIsBack for a traditional XP-style start menu, along with the All Programs fly-out. Being able to put start menu entries into specific categories allows me to sort and “clean up” the All Programs fly-out so that it isn’t as overwhelming.

And no, I don’t like to just move the All Programs entry, because updates and upgrades of most programs just re-insert the default entry, cluttering everything up. As such, the installer needs to provide the user an option for where to put the Start Menu icons, so that the setting is saved in the registry for updates and upgrades to work with.
by otterley | 2025-10-19 18:08:38+00:00
This is what taxation and wealth redistribution schemes are for. The problem is that Americans generally find this idea to be abhorrent, even though it would probably benefit most of the people who are against the principle. They don’t want a dime to go to people they feel are undeserving of it (“lazy” people, which is typically coded language to mean minorities and immigrants).
by ryandrake | 2025-10-19 18:08:48+00:00
That explains the ultra-wealthy, who likely will be able to buy their way out and live their comfortable lives.

But how do you explain the non-elites who are cheering on this dystopian reality? Some of them here in the HN comment section? If this thing that you are cheering for comes true, you'll be just as out of work and underclass as everyone else!

Do people really think the measly $2M 401(k) they got from their tech job is enough to buy them a ticket to the Elysium space station?
by patagurbon | 2025-10-19 18:09:26+00:00
What parts of the biology of sex mandates different treatment? Do you mean that medicine should be tailored to biology? Yes obviously, and even very progressive research hospitals take great pains to ensure the treatment is tailored to biology. Perhaps more so than conservative hospitals. You would know this if you engaged with the research outside of the news.

Outside of medicine? What different treatment does “biology” merit?
by INTPenis | 2025-10-19 18:10:25+00:00
This is a hot topic among some of my nerdier SME friends, and our conclusion is that the major players are HPE and Nutanix. At least from our perspective over here in Sweden.

HPE did a big brain move to support multiple hypervisor backends with their own frontend. The only way to go forward imho.

I'm using Proxmox at my current $dayjob, and we're quite happy with it. I come from a big VMware shop and I think most businesses could easily replace VMware with Proxmox.

I think Proxmox should just launch an Enterprise contract, regardless of the cost, just have one. Because right now I think the main obstacle halting adoption is their lack of any Enterprise SLA.

On a personal level I would love to see KubeVirt, or Openshift with KubeVirt, take over more. It just seems like a genius move to use the already established APIs of kubernetes with a hypervisor runtime.
by Archelaos | 2025-10-19 18:11:27+00:00
From the Web-site of the Louvre:

Admission is free for the following visitors: Under 18s Proof of ID required. Under 26 year-old residents of the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) Proof of ID and residency required. All visitors On the first Friday of the month after 6 p.m. (except in July and August)

(Source: https://www.louvre.fr/en/visit/hours-admission)
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-19 18:11:30+00:00
> But only a few years after the 102-floor apartment tower near 57th Street was completed, water began seeping through some ceilings, the elevators broke down repeatedly and owners complained that their living rooms creaked and swayed in the whipping Midtown wind.

Even if someone guaranteed to me that this was the safest building in the world, my acrophobia would absolutely prevent me from living in a place that swayed in the wind like this.
by kevmo314 | 2025-10-19 18:11:41+00:00
> All-nighters are not worth it.

I disagree. I made some of my best friends through all nighters and continue to occasionally pull them because they reinvigorate meaning into my work as they did my coursework.

If your only metric for success in school is your GPA, then yes all nighters aren’t worth it. But climbing a metric leaderboard isn’t the only measure of doing well in a course.

It is curious because Andrej recognizes this with his comments concerning coffee.
by blowsand | 2025-10-19 18:11:42+00:00
Similar background and weariness with tech, but I’m a bit older, and I’ve actually left and returned to tech a couple times.

A question I’d ask you is, are there other things that really call out to you? If you could do anything as a career, or at least in a phase of your career, do you have deeply felt answers?

I’ve made the “anything but tech” move before and regretted it after a period of decompression and perspective reset.
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-19 18:12:02+00:00
Seems like everyone forgets that the USA literally invented all these things. In fact some of the Americans who invented these technologies and processes are probably still alive, if not a bit older and retired. Photolithographic semiconductor fabrication was invented in the United States. Americans invented the transistor. Americans invented the integrated circuit.

I’m pretty sure the USA would do fine in the semiconductor industry in a short while if it was economical (i.e it stops being profitable to undermine American workers with cheap overseas labor).
by vidarh | 2025-10-19 18:12:31+00:00
As exciting as this might be (and as someone who had two grandparents develop Alzheimers, I'm more than average invested...), per the article this is purely speculative at this stage, with simulations and animals tests suggesting it might possibly have a function in inducing differentiation of stemcells into neurons more effectively than alternatives, and no evidence that this would actually be sufficient to have any effect on Alzheimers.
by lucas_v | 2025-10-19 18:12:47+00:00
> superhuman persuasion and means of manipulating human urges such that, if it wanted to, it could entrap anyone it wanted to complete subservience

Wow this potential/theoretical danger sounds a lot like the already existent attention economy; we're already manipulated at scale by "superhuman" algorithms designed to hijack our "human urges," create "cult-like" echo chambers, and sell us things 24/7. That future is already here
by goku12 | 2025-10-19 18:13:11+00:00
They were going to have to choose a name for the entire document series, irrespective of the stage of evolution each document is in. I don't have a good answer to why they choose RFC for it, though a sibling comment does address that part. What you're looking for is an indicator for the stage in its evolution. That is fulfilled by the RFC's 'Status' [1][2]. You can use it as a search criterion on the rfc-editor website [3].

[1] https://www.ietf.org/process/rfcs/#statuses

[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026#section-4.1

[3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php
by basilikum | 2025-10-19 18:13:24+00:00
Here is the BTC and ETH address for convenience for anyone who wants to check: https://mempool.space/address/bc1qrzh7d0yy8c3arqxc23twkjujxx... https://etherscan.io/address/0x10A8B2e2790879FFCdE514DdE615b...

They are empty as of now.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-19 18:13:53+00:00
Too late to edit now, but it might help to remind that it's always possible for people to indicate they are not very aware of a subject by their superstitious or misleading behavior, without having anything factual to add whatsoever, or even anything at all.

Which is well recognized as even dumber.

You don't see anybody trying to point out when actual zoning was enacted, or that Houston was founded where it was when it was for any other reason than to be the industrial powerhouse of the independent nation of Texas.

Except to serve as the Capitol of the new Nation too, but those guys moved to higher ground one day, I wonder why.

No brag, just fact.

Enquiring minds wanted to know.

Remember what Davy Crockett said when he was going back to Texas that time?

To some people it applies more than others.