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by krisoft | 2025-10-13 15:57:40+00:00
> Most animals take care of their wounded peers

The "most" part is not true. Some animals take care of wounded peers. Specifically social animals do. Ants, elephants, monkeys, whales are good examples of social animals and they do take care of their wounded peers.

Many animals are solitary. There is nobody to take care of a wounded polar bear, guppy, owl or c. elegans in the wild.

We can't even say that most animals are social. Perhaps by biomass, but definitely not by diversity.

> often enough to be on countless documentaries

That says more about what we humans find interesting and worthy of documenting.

> not driven by interest or strategy. Compassion is innate.

Something can be both innate and strategical. Having the innate drive to help wounded conspecifics can increase the surival of the whole species.

> Cruelty and contempt for the weak is a specifically human trait

Absolutely not. What does that even mean? When a lion takes over a pride they are documented to kill the cubs sired by the prior male. Is that "cruelty and contempt for the weak"? We would sure label as such if they were human males killing a dad and moving in with mom killing her babes. Should I find more examples of "cruelty and contempt for the weak" in the animal kingdom? There are tons. Cruelty and contempt for the weak is not a uniquely human trait.

> But why wouldn't they??

This is fundamentally the wrong question to ask.
by Findecanor | 2025-10-13 15:58:03+00:00
> Fil-C running on any x86 box is faster than any CHERI implementation that has ever existed.

Heh. I don't doubt it. Just like RISC-V in QEmu on a x86 box is faster than any RISC-V core that anyone can get their hands on ... but only so far.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-13 15:58:10+00:00
You can't invest in me currently (except by retaining me as a consultant/architect), and if I was in a position to be invested in, the article would have had a different structure. My position is integrity first, you can stalk my LinkedIn to see that if you need proof -- I've never worked in adtech or other predatory industries, most of my work has been in the interest of public good and the protection of democracy.
by joshheyse | 2025-10-13 15:58:17+00:00
In the age of Claude Code and other MCPs, the last thing I want is my commit history to be mutable. I've added instructions to Claude which make a commit before each modification with a summary of the conversation that caused the change. Once I'm happy with the work, I squash the commits and push up. (Which I believe is more or less equivalent to the jj workflow.)
by throwaway290 | 2025-10-13 15:58:18+00:00
They did it because they were losing money to capture market.

The smart places knew it and regulated uber or killed it and keep local taxis working

Kind of like a country can subsidize car industry export tons of cars and kill domestic production in another country. Then they can jack up prices and profit on their terms.

They don't win because their cars are better. They win because they are lying by price

Same with closedai and friends now.
by pqtyw | 2025-10-13 15:58:53+00:00
Well in Ukraine both sides are generally too afraid to get their jets anywhere near the frontline and just use them to launch long range cruise missiles and such from a safe distance.

Air defences are just too effective and modern jets are so expensive that nobody can really afford to risk losing them.

Maybe F-35 could change that, it seemed very efficient in Iran. But AFAIK Iran didn't have anything better than the S-300 so it wasn't exactly a fair fight...
by Towaway69 | 2025-10-13 15:58:57+00:00
Great job and many kudos for the determination to maintain a tool for 11 years!

I thankfully have no use for the tool since I no longer have to code SQL - the world is a better place for it.

It raises the question how many more "bus tools"[1] are there? Tools maintained and developed by a single developer with whom, when hit by a bus, the tool would die.

[1] no offence meant but "bus developers" is the term I learnt, it seems a little cruel to speak of folks being hit by buses - is there something better nowadays?
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-10-13 15:59:21+00:00
> Share buybacks allow companies to reward executives directly as their compensation is tied to stock price.

To be fair share owners also like the stock price to go higher, they also like dividends (and higher dividends would tend to drive the stock price higher too), but an X% increase in share price caused by buybacks is favoured over an X% dividend because it isn’t immediately taxed.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-13 15:59:32+00:00
I think a lot of HNers are too close to the topic for the right perspective.

LLMs are as much of a feature of an existing technology as computers are features of electricity. ML and neural networks have been around for a long time and the transition to LLM usage for us feels like "yup, another feature, just a really good auto-complete".

For most users of LLMs, this is a magical feature that answers any questions and saves so much time and effort. I would even dare say that LLMs are a bigger leap in technology than the internet itself was. The internet connected people, "AI" made it so that we need less of each other!

What was the cause of the enlightenment and renaissance period in europe that led to a boom in science, technology and the industrial revolution which is responsible for computers to begin with? It was the discovery of the new world and the expansion of europe into asia and africa. Get gold and pearls from the new world and sell use it to buy things in the near and far east. This meant people can spend time studying science, but it also meant military R&D. Better ships, better guns,better cannons. You need better science for that. Not just for colonization but the competition between european powers.

What's my point? AI/LLMs, are a leap in that people can now do a lot less things they don't want to do. Even if it means social instability. There is a very active arms-race in military capability, disinformation, control of markets and influence of governments going on as we speak. and this in turn is going to result in better and better improvements in every sector.

The internet meant we had to learn new things, move to more efficient work. LLMs meant without learning as much we tell the computer to do things and all it needs is guidance and some correction.

We all see the fads and the hype all over. But there are very real and very dramatic advantages and values to be extracted from LLMs, which in the long run would be the equivalent of the industrial revolution.

The pessimism feels a lot like people were being pessimistic about the internet back in the 90s.

AI isn't just too big to fail, it isn't something that can fail. Can long distance communication "fail" , can electronic computing fail? can transportation on wheels fail?

All the grifters slapping AI on everything will fail, but the AI tech and all the value and change that comes with it, isn't something worth even consider as having a potential for failure.

(sorry for the long post)
by lanfeust6 | 2025-10-13 15:59:34+00:00
> As a post-symbolic, post-causal thinker (not a "socialist" which is also political nonsense)

That tells me nothing about your perspective. Your ideology is as identifiable as anyone else's and you have to do politics like anyone else.

> economics is purely the translation to settlement coercion for the production of Myth of the State/center-worshipping

It's not up to you. Economics has a definition.

> richest citizens in the world" in what sense? cash? real estate? these are arbitrary variables).

Wealth.
by leemartin | 2025-10-13 15:59:44+00:00
A lot has changed on the Spotify Web API in the past year: deprecated features, increased security, and steep new criteria for extended access, which alienates indie apps. Rather than complain about it, I've put together a report to understand these new restrictions and find practical alternatives. If you have developed with the Web API in the past or are considering building with it in the future, this is a must read.
by triceratops | 2025-10-13 15:59:51+00:00
> all shareholders

That's the key phrase, they benefit all shareholders. Buybacks on the other hand only benefit the following shareholders:

1. those with regularly vesting stock options and stock grants - basically employees. For non-tech companies especially, this only means high-ranking employees

2. those who intend to sell - that is, soon-to-be-ex shareholders

3. those who borrow against their stock - typically high-net-worth individuals who own a lot of the stock

Stock buybacks are thus a non-egalitarian way to return profits. To reward all shareholders equally, pay dividends.
by jayd16 | 2025-10-13 15:59:56+00:00
Is there any tool or ssh extension that would bring these apps into the remote session?

Is something like that possible? Seems like you could conceivablely dump these small file size tools into a temp folder and and use them and that could be automated.

Is there a security issue with that? Do any of these tools need more permission than the remote session would have?

Maybe the main issue is portability of these apps?

This is certainly a common sentiment (I've felt it myself) so is it at all possible?
by maxglute | 2025-10-13 15:59:57+00:00
Wonder if US/USN is even institutionally capable of moving away from carrier expeditionary model if on paper it's borderly demonsntratbly not survivable. Feel like too much of US national prestige is tied to muh 11+10 carrier+lhd literally legislated into law (10 US Code 8062a). Too much big dick energy ego tied to arguably obsolecent platform, well at least for peer war.
by 112233 | 2025-10-13 16:00:14+00:00
I have yet to see anything to convince me he was not being a troll and making that argument deliberately so jumbled up in bad faith.

First of all, what purpose the person in the room serves, but to confuse and misdirect? Replace that person with a machine, and argument looses any impact.

His response to system reply is extremely egregious. How can that have been made in good faith? (to paraphrase: "the whole system understands chinese" — "no, a person can run the system in their head, it means the system cannot understand anything that the person running it does not") What kind of nonsense response is that? Either the guy was LV80 troll, or I dunno..
by titanomachy | 2025-10-13 16:00:21+00:00
Because talent and ideas move so easily between the US and Canada, any useful basic science that Canada comes up with will ultimately be monetized in the country with 10x the population, 15x the GDP, and 100x the stock market and VC funding depth.

This could start to change if present US hostility towards all things foreign results in a shift in investment and migration.
by MrDarcy | 2025-10-13 16:00:33+00:00
Not much to add other than I switched to this exact model in 2020 and have had the same pleasant outcome for 5 years now. I’m much more productive and can execute deep work for weeks on end. I remained in the zone on my current project for 4 consecutive weeks. I attribute this to having no distractions. The outcomes produced from remaining in the zone for so long are objectively measurable and high level.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-10-13 16:00:35+00:00
It was just one item in a list and they used "etc." which prob refers to all the other obvious upsides, like why you would use pgadmin/postico to write postgres queries instead of psql cli.

So to double down on that one detail as if it were a load bearing remark comes off as trying to win a point.

If `sqlite3 test.db` launched a rich UI with tabs and such, then maybe they'd be onto something, but it does not.
by general1465 | 2025-10-13 16:00:36+00:00
> Edit: Actually, I don't think that technique would have helped, the problem wasn't a botched update, but a seriously buggy one. From the OP:

That and combined with general refusal of new automotive bootloaders to downgrade. You can go only up in versioning. So even that you could have working version on second partition, it will never get loaded because it has lower version than currently one you are running.
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by OGPrinceJain | 2025-10-13 16:00:56+00:00
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by miningape | 2025-10-13 16:01:21+00:00
China (or rather the CCP) have their hands are tied by 3 opposing forces 1. Birthrates 2. Revolt 3. Economic collapse

For example, if they try to increase the birthrate by liberalising the economy, reducing social control measures (e.g. hukou), etc. it will give the people the tools to rise up. But it would potentially fix the economy long term.

On the other hand, if they try to crack down on freedom to ensure their own power and economic survival - it will collapse the birthrate even further and/or cause revolt.

Lastly, if they do nothing the economy will collapse under the weight of the one child policy.

Robots would be the perfect solution - birthrates can collapse, they can maintain economic control - and their "workforce" will never decrease. It's of course a pipe-dream.

This line of thinking is of course similar to how the US requires the forever growth of the services economy which drives the need/hope for AI to solve that problem.
by pxx | 2025-10-13 16:01:21+00:00
Is that actually the story of Uber? They didn't start with "let a random person drive you around"; they did licensed-limousine-by-app (which is the incremental "boring" improvement this post hates) until Lyft came around. They quickly copied the model (Lyft launched in May; "Uber X" in July 2012 [0]) but that's something to be said for agility and not necessarily getting the right idea at first.

[0] here's a launch announcement with Lyft being listed as already being operational https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/01/uber-opens-up-platform-to-...
by tacticalturtle | 2025-10-13 16:01:38+00:00
I knew this comment was coming on HN.

The answer, as the other commenter suggested, is that I’m providing feedback for technical communication.

If your documentation or marketing materials are making me focus on unreadable font choices or poor color schemes, it’s not doing it’s job.

Similarly, if your marketing materials are making me think about a convicted sex offender instead of your project, they’re not doing their job.
by cjs_ac | 2025-10-13 16:01:41+00:00
> Countries that neglect science become dependent on those that don’t. U.S. post-WWII dominance came from basic science investments (OSRD, NSF, NIH, DOE labs). After WWII ended, the UK slashed science investment which allowed the U.S. to commercialize the British inventions made during the war.

> The Soviet Union’s collapse partly reflected failure to convert science into sustained innovation, during the same time that U.S. universities, startups and venture capital created Silicon Valley. Long-term military and economic advantage (nuclear weapons, GPS, AI) trace back to scientific research ecosystems.

The US has an extremely entrepreneurial culture, which is why Americans are so good at building innovative businesses. In the UK, money is seen as grubby and the class system has consistently placed barriers between those with ideas and those with money. Similarly, the Soviet Union struggled to make use of its innovators due to the strictures of central planning. Australia punches well above its weight in scientific research but is unwilling to engage in any economic activity other than digging rocks out of the ground and selling them to China.

So the idea that scientific research is a limiting factor in economic growth is not general; it's specific to the US and countries with that same entrepreneurial culture.
by ratrocket | 2025-10-13 16:02:01+00:00
(To address sibling comment: If I were colorblind, I would lead with that in any conversation about syntax highlighting; I am not colorblind.)

To answer the question: it's a feeling, like lots of things in software development. I tried "no syntax highlighting", found that I liked it, and I no longer use syntax highlighting. To say "specifically" how it's "better"... I'm not even saying it's better. "I like no-syntax-highlighting" is the statement I'm making (which, when it comes to syntax highlighting, is a statement a lot of people have issues with). So, from my personal experience, I take issue with the statement that no-syntax-highlighting is making things "difficult for the sake of it".

Try this out for analogy: I ate Red Baron pizzas every Friday night for 15 years, then I heard about homemade pizza 10 years ago. I tried making homemade pizza. It was good! ("I tried it and liked it") Now I only eat homemade pizza on Fridays. How is homemade pizza specifically better? It's better because I like it more. That's all there is to it. It's a preference.

(For the analogy to work, you have to like or at some point have liked Red Baron frozen pizzas. I happen to like them... the analogy is flawed though, I admit!)

(Let me preempt criticism that I'm comparing Red Baron frozen pizzas to syntax highlighting. I am not. It's only about the preference, not the object of the preference.)
by wltr | 2025-10-13 16:02:09+00:00
I researched this phone, and while being cool (I like the idea), it’s not practical for me to hunt it, it’s not trivial to buy in my area. However, I have a similar idea to others: an old tiny iPhone (4S or 5S if you can survive with the obsolete system, FaceTime and iMessage works there last time I checked, a year or two ago), or SE 1st gen (I use it as my second phone to my 12 mini), which is perfectly usable (Safari is stuck at whatever version it has from iOS 15). It’s not very practical everyday phone, but it works for most tasks, including navigation with maps. So if you’re hunting a small distraction free phone, an obsolete iPhone is a pretty decent thing to buy, and is usually cheap. I bet getting a new battery might be more expensive than the phone itself, unless you’re up to the task (it’s not complicated, if you have the basic instruments). I know it’s the opposite of an open phone with an easily swappable battery, but it’s a decent step into the direction. And I found an old iPhone being very usable for very basic tasks. If I had a Pro Max, I’d surely wasted much more time on it. I know because I had one before.
by karimf | 2025-10-13 16:02:11+00:00
I've always thought about the best way to contribute to humanity: number of people you help x how much you help them. I think what Karpathy is doing is one of the highest leverage ways to achieve that.

Our current world is build on top of open source projects. This is possible because there are a lot of free resources to learn to code so anyone from anywhere in the world can learn and make a great piece of software.

I just hope the same will happen with the AI/LLM wave.
by antognini | 2025-10-13 16:02:26+00:00
This system, OJ287, is perhaps the most important system we have for understanding what happens to supermassive black holes after a galaxy merger. This is the so-called "Last Parsec Problem."

When two galaxies merge, their supermassive black holes fairly rapidly sink to the center of mass of the newly combined galaxy via dynamical friction and enter into a slow orbit around each other. Over time, the SMBHs kick out interloping stars, which removes energy from the orbit and causes the two SMBHs to come closer together. If the SMBHs were able to get within ~0.1 parsecs of each other, gravitational wave radiation could take over and cause the orbit to shrink fairly rapidly and lead to the merger of the two SMBHs.

However, the theoretical models we have generally predict that at about 1 parsec, the SMBHs have kicked out all the stars in their neighborhood, so the process stalls out. In practice we don't observe many SMBH binary systems (OJ287 being the main exception), so there must be some mechanism that causes these systems to shrink from 1 pc to 0.1 pc. But we don't know what it is. The hope is that detailed studies of the orbit of OJ287 can provide some clues as to what that missing mechanism is.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-13 16:02:39+00:00
I feel like Airbnb started more on the provider side as "fuck you landlord/local government I'll sublet if I want and you won't catch me" more than a fuck you to hotels specifically. Any "fuck you hotels" on the customer side was mostly on the price side - Airbnb was indeed cheaper when it was a bed, a towel and a plate in someone's flat rather than a specially-bought and renovated property where you never see the host except to pick up a key. Maybe the "meet real new people" thing had some legs at first for some gregarious types, but it clearly wasn't that important since it's mostly gone now. It bootstrapped into a whole property market thing when it turned out to be outrageously profitable in tourist areas and created a whole new supply of holiday let properties at the expense of local residential supply.

Hotels/Booking.com are more of a fuck you to travel agents and/or opaque or fragmented hotel pricing, since they don't provide an alternative to the hotel itself.
by nodesocket | 2025-10-13 16:03:53+00:00
I have an Intel (12th Gen i5-12450H) mini-pc and at first had issues getting the GPU firmware loaded and working in Debian 12. However upgrading to Debian 13 (trixie) and doing apt update and upgrade resolved the issue and was able to pass the onboard Intel GPU through Docker to a Jellyfin container just fine. I believe the issue is related to older linux kernels and GPU firmware compatibility. Perhaps that’s your issue.
by Zarathruster | 2025-10-13 16:04:12+00:00
Ah ok, gotcha.

> When you said, "consciousness can't be instantiated purely in language", I took you to mean human language

No, I definitely meant the statement to apply to any kind of language, but it seems clear that I sacrificed clarity for the sake of brevity. You're not the only one who read it that way, but yeah, we're in agreement on the substance.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-13 16:04:14+00:00
It would seem so. Looking at their website, they're not made out of graphene. For example, their flagship jacket is described as nylon + polyurethane underneath.

It looks like they're using "graphene" as a pigment in the plastic, and I'd wager this probably means "99% conventional black pigment and 1% graphene"...
by dilap | 2025-10-13 16:04:39+00:00
There is a website forvo.com which has a bunch of community-generated pronunciations of words in a ton of languages. I used to use it a lot when I was playing around w/ learning languages.

There's also a paid API. I made a very basic command-line client which might still work: https://github.com/erinok/forvosay
by psunavy03 | 2025-10-13 16:04:48+00:00
Yes, 40 years ago, a submarine sunk a WWII cruiser. ASW is a thing, and subs are a legitimate threat. But this is also why we have submarines, because the best tool for hunting a submarine is another submarine. But claiming this magically makes aircraft carriers obsolete is largely internet fanboy noise.

The US military trains and fights as a team, and the entire point is to use the strengths of one platform to protect the weaknesses of another and vice versa.
by hearsathought | 2025-10-13 16:04:50+00:00
> Alien: Earth was the dumbest addition to the franchise. Hybrid synths that can “talk” to the aliens… pffft. Off the rails.

It started off so well. The first few episodes were good/interesting/promising and the series seemed destined for greatness ( if they could stick the landing ). Unfortunately, it fizzled out in the latter half of the series as they turned the xenomorph into a silly pet.