MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by j_crick | 2025-11-01 03:16:37+00:00
"Four main results emerge:

(1) Inducing sustained self-reference through simple prompting consistently elicits structured subjective experience reports across model families.

(2) These reports are mechanistically gated by interpretable sparse-autoencoder features associated with deception and roleplay: surprisingly, suppressing deception features sharply increases the frequency of experience claims, while amplifying them minimizes such claims.

(3) Structured descriptions of the self-referential state converge statistically across model families in ways not observed in any control condition.

(4) The induced state yields significantly richer introspection in downstream reasoning tasks where self-reflection is only indirectly afforded."

X thread from one of the authors: https://x.com/juddrosenblatt/status/1984336872362139686
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-01 03:17:02+00:00
> # Avoid issues when wine is installed.

> sudo su -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/status'

Please don’t recommend this. If binfmt_misc is enabled, it’s probably for a reason, and disabling it will break things. I have a .NET/Mono app installed that it would break, for example—it’s definitely not just Wine.

If binfmt_misc is causing problems, the proper solution is to register the executable type. https://github.com/mozilla-ai/llamafile#linux describes steps.

I made myself a package containing /usr/bin/ape and the following /usr/lib/binfmt.d/ape.conf:

:APE:M::MZqFpD::/usr/bin/ape: :APE-jart:M::jartsr::/usr/bin/ape:
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-01 03:17:03+00:00
I don't know about the worst, but it's up there.

And it's not as if this question hadn't been definitively settled by human-factors researchers in the last century. Light text on a dark background is harder to read on a screen. No room for debate, the studies have been done and replicated. There's a reason why computing left "dark mode" in a junk heap full of green- and amber-phosphor CRT monitors.
by 9rx | 2025-11-01 03:17:13+00:00
> So that means there are exceptions that are bugs

Which, like before, is false. Are you, perhaps, confusing exceptions (the concept; what we're talking about here) with the data structure of the same name? A bug could erroneously lead to the creation of an exception (data structure), but that wouldn't be an exception (concept), that'd just be a bug.

There is no situation where an exception (concept) is also a bug, unless you take "bug" to mean something akin to general "programmer error", where exceptions are subset thereof. But, as before, we know that's not how "bug" is used as there is no other terminology for human expectation violations to fill the void. No need as that is already what "bug" refers to.

> a large, large number of exceptions occur as a bug.

That doesn't really make any sense. Maybe if, again, you have confused exceptions (concept) with exceptions (data structure), then it could start to mean something, but even then "large, large" is one hell of a claim. Let's be real: The vast majority of exceptions (data structure) are created by programmers who mistakenly believe that "exception" is another word for "error". While not exactly a good idea, that use falls under neither exceptions (concept) nor bugs. In second place, exceptions (data structure) are created due to exceptions (concept). I'm sure exceptions (data structure) being created due to bugs has happened before, but I've never seen it.
by UltraMagnus | 2025-11-01 03:18:40+00:00
Not open source, but I have used this before, and they have a very generous free tier: https://www.gitguardian.com/monitor-internal-repositories-fo...

You install their Github app and give them access to your Github repo (private repos are ok too) and they run a Github workflow when each PR is submitted scanning for secrets that should not be in the code. Really happy with how their product works.
by twiceaday | 2025-11-01 03:21:59+00:00
This is a critique of basketed index funds not total stock market index funds like FSKAX. When that observation is applied to FSKAX it reads like this

"An index fund, by its nature, must occasionally dump stock I like and buy stock I don't like simply because the entire stock market dumped the stock I like and bought the stock I don't like."
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-01 03:22:39+00:00
I can't think of an easier way to spark mass revolt

Neither can the Trump administration, which is why they're doing it.

It's almost like this administration is trying to provoke a reaction.

That is precisely what they are trying to do. See the Project 2025 documents. They are trying to justify invocation of the Insurrection Act.
by alyxya | 2025-11-01 03:23:06+00:00
I tried warp last year and I wanted to like it but it just felt slower and more bloated. I don’t know if it’s improved since then, but I have a hard time seeing how the terminal is worth using. I’m ignoring price here and focused on value add. My main issue is that I don’t see more features as being more value, rather there are a lot of distractions and the learning curve to learn the various features doesn’t seem worth it. I also dislike vscode forks like cursor due to complexity, so maybe it’s meant more for certain kinds of users.
by musicale | 2025-11-01 03:23:40+00:00
When you lose (most people, most of the time), you don't have to pay tax on winnings because there aren't any. But gambling itself seems like sort of a regressive tax that preys upon those susceptible to gambling.

Edit: at least with state lotteries the state gets most of the money so it is more like a tax; in the case of corporate sports betting the corporation takes the money and then pays a small corporate tax on it.
by koiueo | 2025-11-01 03:23:51+00:00
+1 to that. Simply horrendous post-purchase support. Company representatives on all levels, from a simple technician to head of Linux support department, will be lying straight in your face, just to scam a few thousands bucks out of you.

But their keyboards are still the best, and trackpoint is unmatched. As soon as System76 or Framework or any other vendor offer that, I'm giving them my money.
by blahgeek | 2025-11-01 03:24:01+00:00
Speaking from a developing country with a large population of less educated people, I think you would be surprised to find out that a majority of the people in the world simply don't do "research work". Successfully booking a flight ticket from a straightforward app on their phone is already at their limit (BTW, ~80% of people in the world have never taken a plane). For most other "research" requirement like planning a trip, they would just search on tiktok to see what those influencers have to say (or nowadays, ask the AI)
by stormbeard | 2025-11-01 03:25:21+00:00
Are you an actual bot? 4-month-old account, 0 karma, and that's not even what the article was about.

NASA Goddard is being illegally dismantled during the shutdown. The events/timeline is shown and the full emails sent to Goddard employees are provided. Don't dismiss this as people complaining about a WFH policy--the buildings are being demolished.
by coldfoundry | 2025-11-01 03:25:56+00:00
I’m confused. Isn't this more or less just listening to someone when they speak? I guess seeing it from their perspective isn’t a default for some people?

I usually work in analogies when trying to share my understanding of what they said, whether it is a story or a question.

I may be misunderstanding this a bit, but the inverse or active listening seems to be someone who is distracted and not actually listening to another person? For example: “Wow, yeah, thats crazy” when someone is rambling.
by anon291 | 2025-11-01 03:27:13+00:00
There is no jurisdiction on the planet with as diverse and open an environment as America which is why many Indians come here to become citizens and contribute to the country, including my own parents.

Now, India actually does have a lot of potential, and could actually do something similar. Unfortunately it is currently undergoing fairly intense and violent nativist hindu extremist fascism.

Honestly, the Hindu rashtra nonsense would be fine on its own but given how undeveloped India is, it really has better things to focus on. I mean, but yeah if India ever manages to develop and revert back to a more pluralistic society then yes it would be a potential alternative market. Unlike Europe and China, India has a long history of accepting foreign peoples and incorporating them into its society, similar to America.

Unlike Europe, India pays for its own defences and is thus a real country. Europe is a vassal of the United States.

But like realistically, I see no possible path for India to overcome its issues at this point. There are few rational voices in its politics. The Indian left wing is honestly insane. And the right wing is equally unhinged. Speaking for myself as the child of Indian christians, I know a lot of Christians secretly vote for the BJP because the alternative is honestly insanity. There is no technocratic, pluralistic, and not self hating party that is actually in it for the country's success. Thus I don't see any path forward for it. I'm not saying this out of any sense of superiority. I think it would be awesome for India to be a liveable nation. It would be nice to be able to live there frankly. However, it's just not a realistic prospect in this century

India will be a perpetual off shoring center for the US. Ambitious Indians will leave to become Americans. Those who are unable to due to American policy will flounder in India and not achieve their potential. You can frame this as America's fault. But it is actually India's.

To conclude, there is no place as diverse and welcoming as America or any place that even seems on that path. The other possible place (south America) is in many ways even more backwards than India. China will always be a Han ethnostate. Europe is also an ethnostate and has no history of assimilating anyone (see Jews and gypsies)

> any individual H1B placement in the future exists at the whim of the executive

America attracted migrants before h1b and was basically closed off to much of the world before 1965 and is still the preferred destination of pretty much anyone.
by stackskipton | 2025-11-01 03:28:26+00:00
You mentioned in the blog article that it's doing listwatch. List Watch registers with Kubernetes API that get a list of all objects AND get a notification when anything in object you have registered with changes. A bunch of Vector Pods saying "Hey, send me a notification when anything with namespaces changes" and poof goes your Memory keeping track of who needs to know what.

At this point, I wonder if instead of relying on daemonsets, you just gave every namespace a vector instance that was responsible for that namespace and pods within. ElasticSearch or whatever you pipe logging data to might not be happy with all those TCP connections.

Just my SRE brain thoughts.
by dalyons | 2025-11-01 03:29:32+00:00
What are you even arguing?

These are the hybrid cars that are getting built, and this is the way people drive them. Yes the cars could theoretically be made different, but they arent today and they wont be in future. Yes people could theoretically use them differently, but they aren’t today and they wont.

The data is in. They are a bad solution for real people in the real world today. Saying “oh if they were just built different and people used them differently “ is … not a good argument. Let’s wait and see whether those two things change before EVs completely obsolete them in few short years.
by reaperducer | 2025-11-01 03:32:23+00:00
I really don't get how people do research work (like finding good flight tickets, or comparing hotels to stay in for a trip) without a computer.

For a lot of people, time is more valuable than money.

They get on their phone and complete a task and move on.

Spending an hour comparing a dozen tabs on a computer to save $30 on a flight is less important than spending that time with their loved ones.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-11-01 03:34:27+00:00
TSMC in Taiwan has a significant share of the wafers produced by the world every month. If those wafers were not produced the global economy would suffer badly.

It takes years to bring a fab online. Fab 21 in Arizona took 5 years to enter mass production from ground breaking. Some believe it could be done in two but that’s yet to be demonstrated. Then there are the wafers themselves. The total time it takes to process one wafer at the single nm scale is around 100 days.

So realistically, even if one makes up their mind to make a fab fast, you’re looking at 3 years before you have your first sellable wafer.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-01 03:35:15+00:00
And how would you contrast that against intentionally structuring your income, in collaboration with foreign institutions and carefully designed/funded shell entities where do you things like [defacto] license your own tech to yourself, all in a effort to avoid tax obligations? Would you not call that a 'conspiracy to avoid taxes'? And it's 100% legal, because everything is legal if not explicitly outlawed.
by wtallis | 2025-11-01 03:35:28+00:00
> and these being mini-LED displays, contrast is already infinite.

I think you may have mixed up mini-LED backlighting with OLED and microLED displays. mini-LED backlights merely allow for better local dimming of the backlight behind an LCD, but the number of independently variable backlight zones is still orders of magnitude smaller than the number of pixels. Over short distances, an LCD with local dimming is still susceptible to all of the contrast-limiting downsides of an LCD with a uniform static backlight (and local dimming brings new challenges of its own).

OLED is the mainstream display technology where individual pixels directly emit their own light, so you can truly have a completely black pixel next to a lit pixel. But there are still layers and coatings between the OLED and the user, so infinite contrast isn't actually achievable.

microLED is an unsuccessful technology to provide the benefits of OLED without as many of the downsides (primarily, the uneven aging). But nobody has managed to make large microLED displays economically yet, and it doesn't look like the tech will be going mainstream anytime soon.
by rincebrain | 2025-11-01 03:36:31+00:00
The problem is a lack of firsthand experience.

If your experience with polio is nonexistent, it's easy to dismiss "1 in 1000 people suffer from paralysis" as a small fraction of cases without considering the horrific reality of that paralyzing thousands of people in a city of millions, to say nothing of the other effects.

This is also, I think, related to why doctors are often dismissive of patient concerns - our expectations have shifted, because so few things that occur frequently require active intervention to reduce mortality any more, comparatively.
by hajile | 2025-11-01 03:36:35+00:00
According to this[0] study of the Ubuntu 16.04 package repos, 89% of all x86 code was instructions were just 12 instructions (mov, add, call, lea, je, test, jmp, nop, cmp, jne, xor, and -- in that order).

The extra issue here is that SIMD (the main optimization) simply sucks to use. Auto-vectorization has been mostly a pipe dream for decades now as the sufficiently-smart compiler simply hasn't materialized yet (and maybe for the same reason the EPIC/Itanium compiler failed -- deterministically deciding execution order at compile time isn't possible in the abstract and getting heuristics that aren't deceived by even tiny changes to the code is massively hard).

Doing SIMD means delving into x86 assembly and all it's nastiness/weirdness/complexity. It's no wonder that devs won't touch it unless absolutely necessary (which is why the speedups are coming from a small handful of super-optimized math libraries). ARM vector code is also rather Byzantine for a normal dev to learn and use.

We need a more simple assembly option that normal programmers can easily learn and use. Maybe it's way less efficient than the current options, but some slightly slower SIMD is still going to generally beat no SIMD at all.

[0] https://oscarlab.github.io/papers/instrpop-systor19.pdf
by pavon | 2025-11-01 03:36:44+00:00
Its not just the lost sale of the specific out-of-stock items that are at risk in a competitive market though. Over time their customers will notice that frequently one or two items they need are out of stock, but when they go to the competitor to get those missing items, they always have them. So they start shopping at the competitor to begin with and rarely have reason to return to the original store since everything is always in stock. Now the original store has lost most of the sales they used to get from that customer.

It similar to why not offering vegetarian food at a restaurant can have a much larger impact on sales than just the loss of the small number of vegetarian purchases - you loose out on the entire group that came with the vegetarian.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-11-01 03:36:58+00:00
Grant that overordering will often be the correct strategy, economically, since the marginal cost of unloading a few units is low and the damage when customers think you're poorly stocked is high. In a perfect world, they'd discount the extra food instead of throwing it out, but that devalues your stock and people start expecting that as the real price.

Enlisting social cooperation leads to an even better world: the store always have products in stock, and never wastes any, while consumers get to feel the moral satisfaction (not guilt) of cooperating to choose the food that avoids the most waste. Highminded signs about "please choose the earliest expiration date" may give less of that satisfaction than a sticker that makes you feel like you're helping the food.
by gausswho | 2025-11-01 03:37:22+00:00
Along these lines there are at least two modules that I know of in Eurorack focused on strange attractors, and they're both a LOT of fun adding this kind of unpredictable-but-cyclical movement to your sounds:

- Hypster by Nonlinear Circuits (https://modulargrid.net/e/nonlinearcircuits-ian-fritz-s-hyps...)

- Orbit 3 by Joranalogue (https://modulargrid.net/e/joranalogue-audio-design-orbit-3)
by toast0 | 2025-11-01 03:38:04+00:00
> You also have the complication that military pilots usually try to make sure their plane will crash in a "safe" area before they eject - many have died because they waited too long to eject trying to avoid a populated area. Giving the plan a mind of its own after they pull the handle would be unlikely to go over very well.

If the plane could be trusted to do the right thing, maybe some of those pilots would have ejected where it was best for pilot survival and let the plane do what was best for bystander survival.

That's a good reason to consider what behavior is desirable and achievable when the pilot departs before landing. Possibly also useful if the pilot loses conciousness as well.
by tinfoilhatter | 2025-11-01 03:38:47+00:00
> I have to challenge this, because for the last couple years, there have been almost no incidents or drama. Moderation was almost exclusively dealing with spam messages. I think, on the forum, a couple posts were closed because of heated or offtopic discussions. But in all cases, participants were agreeing with the decision of mods (you can see them leaving a 'like' on mod's message).

Or we could look at the project's contributor graph: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/graphs/contributors instead of likes on moderator's posts on the forums

> I know that some of people that left were also the ones causing problems with moderation and being toxic. I don't want anyone to draw strong conclusions, but Nim community was much healthier and friendly after the fork people and certain moderator leaving the project.

What definition of the words toxic, healthy, and friendly are you using?

> This is just false. You can see Araq answering the noob questions on the forum all the time. He might be not the best person to do that, because his answers on the short side. I believe, noobs often need more context, examples and explanations than he's providing. But it's thought and effort that counts. Some people even hate when you treat them as complete beginner and try to nourture them common CS knowledge.

Maybe if he's not the best person to do that, he shouldn't be doing it? You seem to just be playing devil's advocate here, instead of offering any real example that contradicts my claims.
by bb88 | 2025-11-01 03:38:47+00:00
I tried with the same laser and settings as well, and couldn't get it to work either.

I think the issue is that if there's a tarnish on the copper, it will work okay. The problem is when you polish the copper. It turns reflective and will not absorb the energy of the laser.

A 5W UV laser or a 100W MOPA laser will give better results. I'm thinking about a 200W version for black friday.
by picture | 2025-11-01 03:40:53+00:00
QFN packages would not benefit much from this (you cannot make much more than a basic breakout board, whose same purpose is better fulfilled with one of those SMD adapters from aliexpress)

And regarding high-speed digital buses... are we being genuine here? Just the fact that you cannot have meaningful design over ground return paths with this thing makes any moderately fast digital link unfeasible. Best you'll be able to manage is regular speed SPI (which also does not need a board like this), you can forget about RGMII, ULPI, LVDS, MIPI, SLVS-EC, or anything else for that matter.
by wtallis | 2025-11-01 03:41:37+00:00
We're still waiting to see any CAMM-style memory module show up in a mass market product at any speed, instead of merely getting press coverage where the number of articles written seems to outnumber the number of laptops actually built and shipped. But even if you are willing to take the examples thus far seriously as real products, they haven't come close to matching the speed of soldered LPDDR.
by Jedd | 2025-11-01 03:44:59+00:00
> Are there any real world situations where it’s confusing as to who they would be returned to?

Yes, many.

Artifacts whose creation predates the current dominant culture in a region (assuming nation state borders and names have morphed over the time), especially when that contemporary culture actively rejects those earlier cultures, are a prime example.

The Bamiyan Buddhas are a great example - or at least lead to a follow-up question to your question. If, say, the British Museum had transported artifacts of similar historical value (beauty, etc, whatever criteria you want to use) decades or centuries ago, but the ruling regime there now demanded their return, whilst making no secret of their intent to destroy those artifacts upon receipt -- what's would you advise the British Museum?

Beyond the dubious nature of geographical happenstance implying inarguable custodianship - another example of nuance to counter your 'everything is black and white' position would be around artifacts from pre-partition India (Pakistan), and who should own those, or more recently Yugoslav-era artifacts. There are myriad examples like these, of course.

Again, if you're happy to ignore the complexity and potential dubiousness of ancestry claims, or orthogonal religious / cultural values, etc - you're back to a geographical claim - 'there are people in roughly the same region as some different people, some time ago'.
by jjbigs | 2025-11-01 03:45:16+00:00
It's quite reactionary to label betting as addiction markets. I see little reason to draw that corollary to other, often detested, vices.

To label such activity as a tax on the poor is nothing more than a euphemism. I understand what is being said by the verbiage "tax" in this context. Although no real tax is voluntary.

Labeling this as an issue that disproportionately affects poor is misleading. This is an issue for a few select individuals who make poor decisions. The correlation for poor decisions and lower disposable income is higher than the contrary.

Wealthy by all means have the ability to wager more than they can afford. Often times, they wager significantly higher than average income individuals; however, they stay within their means