MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by igravious | 2025-11-21 20:58:12+00:00
unzipped Ruby 3.4.7 into the appropriate place (third-party) in the repo and explained what i wanted (it used the Lua and Python port for reference)

first it built the Cosmo Make tooling integration and then we (ha "we" !) started iterating and iterating compiling Ruby with the Cosmo compiler … every time we hit some snag Claude Code would figure it out

I would have completed it sooner but I kept hitting the 5 hourly session token limits on my Pro account

https://github.com/igravious/cosmoruby
by wcarss | 2025-11-21 20:58:16+00:00
There's some fair points here but this is much less than half the picture. What I gather from your message: "if it is built like a human and it says it is conscious we have to assume it is", and, ok. That's a pretty obvious one.

Was Helen Keller conscious? Did she only gain that when she was finally taught to communicate? Built like a human, but she couldn't say it, so...

Clearly she was. So there are entities built like us which may not be able to communicate their consciousness and we should, for ethical reasons, try to identify them.

But what about things not built like us?

Your superconductivity point seems to go in this direction, but you don't seem to acknowledge it: something might achieve a form of consciousness very similar to what we've got going on, but maybe it's built differently. If something tells us it's conscious but it's built differently, do we just trust that? Because some LLMs already may say they're conscious, so...

Pretty likely they aren't at present conscious. So we have an issue here.

Then we have to ask about things which operate differently and which also can't tell us. What about the cephalopods? What about cows and cats? How sure are we on any of these?

Then we have to grapple with the flight analogy: airplanes and birds both fly but they don't at all fly in the same way. Airplane flight is a way more powerful kind of flight in certain respects. But a bird might look at a plane and think "no flapping, no feathers, requires a long takeoff and landing: not real flying" -- so it's flying, but it's also entirely different, almost unrecognizable.

We might encounter or create something which is a kind of conscious we do not recognize today, because it might be very very different from how we think, but it may still be a fully legitimate, even a more powerful kind of sentience. Consider human civilization: is the mass organism in any sense "conscious"? Is it more, less, the same as, or unquantifiably different than an individual's consciousness?

So, when you say "there is nothing more to it, it's pretty much that basic and simple," respectfully, you have simply missed nearly the entire picture and all of the interesting parts.
by worik | 2025-11-21 20:58:34+00:00
I get very frustrated by "carbon credits". This is an example of criminal fraud. But the whole idea is begging for fraud. It is a fraudulent concept from start to finish

Reminds me of the Catholic's concept of "indulgences". Sin the sins, pay a fee, and go to heaven.

In this case the "sins", and the sinners, are burning the world for profit
by EB66 | 2025-11-21 20:58:59+00:00
I also had a close family member who committed suicide shortly after going on Prozac -- this also happened nearly 30 years ago. His young son later went on Prozac himself (several months after his fathers suicide) and immediately started demonstrating bizarre disinhibited anti-social behavior (e.g., damaging property, stealing from friends, etc). He was immediately yanked off Prozac when he started articulating his own thoughts of suicide. The bizarre anti-social behavior improved after discontinuing Prozac.

For some people, Prozac is a very dangerous drug. It is fully deserving of its FDA black label warning (which it didn't have 30 years ago).
by thot_experiment | 2025-11-21 20:59:08+00:00
ahaha sorry that was unclear, while i think the VL version is maybe a bit more performant, by "dumb" i meant any low quant low size model you're going to run locally, vs a "smart" model in my book is something like Opus 4.1 or Gemma 3.

I basically class LLM queries into two categories, there's stuff i expect most models to get, and there's stuff i expect only the smartest models to have a shot of getting right, there's some stuff in the middle ground that a quant model running locally might not get but something dumb but acceptable like Sonnet 4.5 or Kimi K2 might be able to handle.

I generally just stick to the two extremes and route my queries accordingly. I've been burned by sonnet 4.5/gpt-5 too many times to trust it.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 20:59:45+00:00
> Homeschoolers are some of the most resilient and well-behaved people I know.

I'm sure they exist, they may even exist as the majority, I will say for my part the homeschooled kids I knew through my church growing up were not any of these things. I would quite literally use the opposite of both those to describe them.

I'm not saying they represent the majority but they do exist and they were not well adjusted IMHO.

As with many topics I feel like "Yes, if you want to devote yourself fully to X thing you can do much better than Y professional", the problem is, again from my own experience, the people I knew who homeschooled their children were not professionals, they were not capable, and their children suffered for it. I want to stress, I fully believe it is possible for certain people with certain mentors/teachers to do better outside of the public (or private) school system. I just also believe that the odds of most people (making that decision for their children) to meet that bar are low. I also think that some of the better homeschooled experiences that I've seen are simply a super-private school by another name (various parents being or being subject experts and taking turns teaching coupled with many "field trip"-type trips with other homeschooled kids).

> there's an increasing torrent of deranged ideologies teachers and professors share with students.

Wait till you hear what the parents believe... I don't agree with everything taught or the way it's taught but being exposed to other types of people and ways of thinking is critical. I can guarantee you that had my parents been able to, they would have shielded me from a great number of ways of thinking. I worry that many homeschooled children grow up in a small echo chamber (we all live in echo chambers of difference sizes).

Can public school suck? Absolutely and I acknowledge that homeschooling might be the answer for some people, but only if you can afford to pay (with time or money) to educate your children completely which is almost certainly going to require working with other homeschooler parents to, essentially, build your own school. If you can bring in tutors/mentors/teachers that you vet and agree with and expose them to the world and new ideas/experiences then yeah, you are probably going to have good outcomes. If you plop them in front of a computer to follow a curriculum just to shield them from the "evils" of the world, well, I think you are going to have a bad time. Obviously there is a whole range of people in between those 2 extremes, I just feel that, on average, people trend towards the lower end of that spectrum.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xe6nLVXEC0&list=RD8xe6nLVXE...

Interesting song and I do agree with many points. For many years I've complained about lack of teaching basic skills (everything from home ec to budgeting and more), many of which I heard in this song. I think there was a little of the baby going out with the bathwater but overall I enjoyed it.
by wang_li | 2025-11-21 21:00:01+00:00
You're just randomly creating new positions to argue about because why? There is no factual way in which whatever point you are trying to make holds true re. Russia/Cuba to the US is less than Russia/Ukraine to the EU & NATO.

Kaliningrad literally shares borders with Poland and Lithuania. 0 km is the smallest distance possible. Russia and Ukraine both border EU and NATO countries.
by acherion | 2025-11-21 21:00:18+00:00
The way these kinds of fonts work is that you don't host the font, they do. You link the font licence you purchased through your HTML code (or CSS, depending on how the foundry recommends you to apply the font) with a specific font URL that they provide you, which will contain unique identifiers. Then they can track how often the font gets loaded.

If your site really kicks off and you max out those visits per month (that they track on their end), they either start charging you the higher tier, cut off loading your font, or send you stern emails.

There is no expectation that you share your analytics with a type foundry.
by susam | 2025-11-21 21:00:38+00:00
That is precisely how I began writing this post. I thought I'd demonstrate how to apply the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) but to do so for each of the 15 coefficients turned out to be a lot of tedious work. That's when I began noticing shortcuts for calculating each coefficient c_k based on the divisibility properties of k. One shortcut led to another and this post is the end result. It turns out it was far less tedious (and more interesting as well) to use the shortcuts than to perform a full-blown DFT calculation for each coefficient.

Of course, we could calculate the DFT using a tool, and from there work out the coefficients for the cosine terms. For example, we could get the coefficients for the exponential form like this:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Fourier%5B%7B3%2C+0%2C+...

And then convert them to the coefficients for the cosine form like this:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%7B11%2F15%2C+2*0%2C+2*...

That's certainly one way to avoid the tedious work but I decided to use the shortcuts as the basis for my post because I found this approach more interesting. The straightforward DFT method is perfectly valid as well and it would make an interesting post by itself.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-21 21:00:47+00:00
I get that on one hand, such regulation is one of the reasons some parents do so, but the wide diversity of "oversight" is challenging.

In Washington, homeschooled students still have to occasionally connect at an actual school, or do some baseline testing.

In Louisiana, you just tell the state "we're homeschooling" and the state is "have fun with that" and the child is essentially off the grid.

Not for nothing, instances of child abuse/CSA in many correlates with the laxness of educational oversight in home schooling.

> And to add insult to injury, there's an increasing torrent of deranged ideologies teachers and professors share with students.

Ahh, this chestnut. A short jump to "teachers are training preschoolers to be furries and LGBT" and litterboxes in the classroom/bathroom.

For all your anecdotes my step daughter has plenty too. 10th graders who are barely literate, cannot do elementary math. Who when asked about their homeschool regime talk of waking at 10, 10.30, playing Fortnite or going on Tiktok for a few hours, and occasionally logging into some website to pretend like they've been working, or doing some mind numbingly simple exercise to show "participation".
by nis0s | 2025-11-21 21:01:30+00:00
Again a couple of thoughts occur: 1) you’re greatly discounting the effects of epigenetics on development and trait expressiveness, so even if you tailor for everything as you wish, you’re still only going to guarantee outcomes in a certain range, and 2) heritability is population-level, not individual level. So a figure like “80%” means that that much variation in intelligence in a given *population* is associated with genetic variation. This does NOT mean that 80% of a person’s intelligence comes from their genes. 3) you’re also completely neglecting the effects of genetic nuture, besides environmental effects.
by cyberax | 2025-11-21 21:02:13+00:00
> Property is expensive in, say, NYC because you can use that property to do A LOT of economic activity. Property is cheap in Ponder, Texas because you can use that property to do fuck all, so you better take what you can get.

Well, exactly. And allowing SROs and then bunkbeds will only make this _worse_. Your housing costs in NYC will keep _rising_, while the living conditions for _everyone_ will keep going down.

Death spiral, in other words.
by bongodongobob | 2025-11-21 21:02:17+00:00
This is just completely wrong. If you are talking about a sizeable number of devices, you're not getting anything updated immediately even if you wanted to. You roll out to groups over a period of time because you don't want to break everything if there are unintended consequences. Your personal device? Sure whatever, but any fleet of devices absolutely does not get immediate updates across the board.
by logical_proof | 2025-11-21 21:02:21+00:00
Absolutely agreed. There is likely a much higher proportion of unfit parents vs unfit teachers (though the latter category is a non zero number). There is also an economic element to this scenario. My spouse can stay home with the kids while I go to work, this is not at all common in our modern day and age. There are tremendous sacrifices that a family must make to do this and I think that anyone wanting to homeschool because it will be 'easier' is setting themselves up for hurt. Much like the folks who get into programming because the pay is good... It won't be what you think.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-21 21:02:43+00:00
>Someone please tell me we are not living in a time where the kids are pro-regulation

Hard to say. I'm not really "old" nor "young" per se. I'm a late millenial so I probably have pieces of both millenial and Gen Z in my experience. I'd love to know how this makeup really is at large, but from my observation:

>When I was younger, the youth were anti-establishment - that was cool and rebellious.

The "Gen Z" side me me spent its life seeing my parents (late Gen X) struggle through the results of '08 where we didn't regulate banks enough, and under a ruling that basically deregulated election spending. Then I graduate into a term of a president wanted to deregulate everything and am entering part 2 of such.

The "millenial" side of me just barely escaped the explosive costs of rent and college, but still felt the beginning of that impact. And got to experience almost a decade of decent work before seeing the job market completely turn on America. Because we spent decades de-regulating collective bargaining.

So I would not be surprised if Gen Z proper does want more regulation to reel in those who exploited deregulation. But that "cool and rebellious" mentality is still there given last year. It seems they already learned the results of that rebellion, though.

> Now we need the machine to do our raging for us?

Pretty much. When minimum wage can't even cover rent, you get less time to rage yourself, outside of the ballot box.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-21 21:02:55+00:00
Religion is definitely a big motivator. My perception though is other motivations have been on the increase, especially since the pandemic. One other group attracted to homeschooling is the hippie-type who thinks school is some kind of diabolical machine designed to crush kids' souls. Since the pandemic there's also been a big surge in the "I don't trust vaccines" group (which already had a good deal of overlap with the hippie group).
by igor47 | 2025-11-21 21:02:59+00:00
I'm finding this hard to believe. He had a car with 70 miles of range? Was it a 2011 leaf? That car had about 70mi of range but a payload capacity of almost 1000lb. Was your luggage just bricks?

Winter is more believable, cold weather does affect electric range and older EVs didn't have good (or any) thermal management on the battery. I would expect that a combination of fully loaded and cold weather to reduce range by 10-15% these days
by thot_experiment | 2025-11-21 21:03:18+00:00
fwiw on my machine it is 1.5x faster to inference in llama.cpp, these the settings i use for inference for the qwen i just keep in vram permanently

llama-server --host 0.0.0.0 --model Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf --mmproj qwen3-VL-mmproj-F16.gguf --port 8080 --jinja --temp 0.7 --top-k 20 --top-p 0.8 -ngl 99 -c 65536 --repeat_penalty 1.0 --presence_penalty 1.5
by righthand | 2025-11-21 21:04:15+00:00
> If there is a great math book, parents can just buy it

How do you know if the math book is great if there hasn’t been consensus about it. The problem isn’t the committee that will always be there in some form. The problem is the politics the committee is used for. If the committee were to prioritize and offload their specific requirements for review instead of requiring substantial analysis twice then the school system would be just as quick.
by marianoguerra | 2025-11-21 21:04:18+00:00
Until wasm-gc was standardized in wasm 3.0 all garbage collected languages compiled their own garbage collector to wasm, so in a sense you always could.

Unless by high performance you mean something more specific.

With wasm-gc you get the GC "for free" (from the host), you can still write your own if you want but you loose the interoperability that wasm-gc solves.
by roughly | 2025-11-21 21:04:29+00:00
One thing that needs to be emphasized with “durable execution” engines is they don’t actually get you out of having to handle errors, rollbacks, etc. Even the canonical examples everyone uses - so you’re using a DE engine to restart a sales transaction, but the part of that transaction that failed was “charging the customer” - did it fail before or after the charge went through? You failed while updating the inventory system - did the product get marked out or not? All of these problems are tractable, but once you’ve solved them - once you’ve built sufficient atomicity into your system to handle the actual failure cases - the benefits of taking on the complexity of a DE system are substantially lower than the marketing pitch.
by beefnugs | 2025-11-21 21:04:40+00:00
This blog post is quite bad on all of its points.

More specifically to dating apps: There is a huge market imbalance on it, there are only a few women to pair off to whomever they prefer... So they can serve that market just fine, then the rest of the men are the ones to jerk around a bit: trick them with bots, tell them if they pay they will move up the ranks and have a better chance, come up with "studies" that show all they have to do is make better pictures and keep paying and trying.

How immoral is it really to satisfy a percentage of users... and then abuse the rest? Its not like you can properly give them what they are looking for anyway. I think its quite immoral but thats why I am not a successful businessman.

The pizza and other comparisons are quite dumb and not the same thing: A market that requires many participants to benefit a few, only some can be helped so do your best with those, then figure out how to abuse some/many for profits. If they don't figure out how it really works, well, thats a shame that they keep participating.
by joshstrange | 2025-11-21 21:05:09+00:00
> Education is expensive and underfunded.

Always makes me think of The West Wing scene:

> Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Video (sorry for the burned in subs, should be queued up): https://youtu.be/IzV09gESyh0?t=39
by jacobgkau | 2025-11-21 21:05:22+00:00
> The crew chief of the 191 maintenance incident died by suicide before he could testify.

To be clear, a crew chief (Earl Russell Marshall) did. But he wasn't directly involved in maintenance of the specific DC-10 that crashed. Or at least, I haven't found a source saying he was, and some sources say he wasn't. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/26/The-wife-of-an-airli...
by Zak | 2025-11-21 21:05:28+00:00
A post on HN a couple years ago discussed research showing antidepressants only work for about 15% of patients: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37671529

The thing is, they work very well for that 15%. I suspect the eventual conclusion will be that depression is a syndrome with multiple causes rather than a single condition, and SSRIs treat one of the causes.

Edit: Mark Horowitz is one of the authors of both studies.
by jorvi | 2025-11-21 21:05:41+00:00
Really cool stuff! Especially nice to see the groundwork being laid for what could become very efficient handhelds, considering how much performance Apple's M-series and Qualcomm's Elite series with relatively few watts. Much better than AMD, Intel or Nvidia.

One nit: it's too bad Valve / Igalia choose to completely ignore the lessons from Bazzite.

Bazzite already runs a scheduler like LAVD, called BORE[0]. It would have saved them a lot of work to extend and improve that rather than invent the wheel again. I'm not sure if Valve and Igalia are unaware of Bazzite and BORE or if this is a case of NIH.

[0]https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler
by SiempreViernes | 2025-11-21 21:05:47+00:00
> Just that the political calculus is that it's better for China to spend their resources on that, rather than building up troops and warships.

Note that this calculus only makes sense if you invade China while they are busy with the EUV machines, otherwise they catch up technologically and then build all the scary military.

Of course, the the calculus doesn't make sense at all, because the obvious order when you can't do both is you build enough military to feel safe first, then you try for the tech race.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-21 21:06:19+00:00
There is absolutely no reason to buy a Tesla over basically every other EV in 2025 unless full self driving ever becomes more reliable.

I’ve driven 4-5 different EVs over the past couple of years [1] including Tesla’s. They aren’t any better and in fact the infotainment system is worse than even low end cars with CarPlay support.

Sales are tanking worse overseas and being taken over by cheaper cars based on Chinese tech. It’s very much a dead cat bounce.
by saulpw | 2025-11-21 21:06:24+00:00
Personally I differentiate between 'awareness' and 'consciousness' and that makes it a bit clearer for me. Awareness of the 'suchness' of existence is what you're saying is the only thing we can be certain does actually exist. All the other "consciousness" things--self, self-awareness, thoughts, feelings, desires, even the senses themselves--are deconstructible into illusions.
by quantified | 2025-11-21 21:08:06+00:00
I both laugh and cringe at the glee with which Americans saw the Russian army fail in the early days of their Ukraine invasion due to the graft in their systems. America's defense industry is much more about enriching the contractors than protecting the country. As is its entire manufacturing base except for some small-arms companies here and there. Next serious war will fck up the USA pretty badly.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-21 21:08:15+00:00
> As crazy as it may sound, I think a lot of my depression stems from living a life that is not true to myself and due to countless failed attempts to be someone I cannot never be. As far as I am concerned, depression is just a symptom of my situation and not some true disorder.

It's true for some, but be wary of such a generalization.

It took many years of people telling me the same thing before I understood what they were saying: "Having an objectively crappy life is normal. Being depressed about it isn't."

(Almost) everyone will have problems - temporary or permanent. And while they may feel down about it for a while, or occasionally, most of them more or less recover their mental health and are not chronically depressed.

Because the majority of people have problems, it becomes easy for a depressed person to think "Ah, this is just due to problem X" or even "This is just because I want a life different from mine". Most people with problems also want a different life than what they have. But they're not depressed.