MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-11-04 17:07:54+00:00
> I find it reasonable to assume that any civilization will gradually adapt to meet demands, given whichever constraints burden it

So your theory is that civilizations are the way they are because of exogenous rather than endogenous factors? That seems difficult to reconcile with the historical record. Your viewpoint just begs the question. For example, why was Europe in a position to colonize the Americas in the first place? Why weren’t the Spanish greeted by Aztecs with swords and guns?
by trollbridge | 2025-11-04 17:08:00+00:00
“Vibes” sometimes work against you. This is a great app for documenting that you met the rules if you need to.

Back in 2000, entry to Canada was based on vibes. I had no idea what I was doing but looking back I don’t think they’d let someone in who forgets their DL, passport, and is on a “management consultant visa”.
by th12f00 | 2025-11-04 17:08:38+00:00
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by terminalshort | 2025-11-04 17:08:42+00:00
I don't know much about the technical details of lithography, but I do know that EUV lithography is very new tech that has been in production for less than 10 years and the current machines are basically rube goldberg devices. Given my lack of technical knowledge here, I can't say whether or nor this startup in particular is legit, but it does seem very much like the type of thing that could be disrupted by someone who comes up with a new and massively simplified design.
by kentm | 2025-11-04 17:08:54+00:00
It's not going to scale as well as Snowflake, but it gets you into an Iceberg ecosystem which Snowflake can ingest and process at scale. Analytical data systems are typically trending to heterogenous compute with a shared storage backend -- you have large, autoscaling systems to process the raw data down to something that is usable by a smaller, cheaper query engine supporting UIs/services.
by tavavex | 2025-11-04 17:09:10+00:00
You didn't really answer my question, you just assured me that your opinion is right. What could be used here, exactly? Like, suppose I accuse someone. They say they didn't do it. There's no physical evidence or witnesses at this point, so there's no way to deduce anything from impartial evidence. What can be done here to decide who's right with any worthwhile degree of confidence?
by mikestew | 2025-11-04 17:09:36+00:00
When I click the "use my location" icon and I'm in Redmond, WA, 2 out of the 3 gyms listed are in Redmond, OREGON. I imagine it might be doing to same for city names that are in multiple states. But when I zoom into Portland, OR (rather than use the "my location" button) I don't see gyms for Portland, ME (maybe there aren't any in ME?).

And, yeah, that font sucks for readability.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-04 17:10:05+00:00
> There is no computational theory of the mind which we could test "in the field" to see if it indeed models all forms of human expression.

I suspect the core issue here isn't my "lack of curiosity" but your lack of understanding about the theory of computation.

The theory computation builds up various mathematical models and rules for how things are computed, not by computers, how things are computed period. The theory of computation holds as much for digital computers as it does for information processing of yeast in a vat.

Evidence that human minds (or anything really) do something other than what's computational would be as simple as "look we can solve the halting problem" or "this task can be solved in polynomial time by humans". Without evidence like that, then there is no grounds for attacking the fundamental theory.

> What keeps things interesting is that there are arguments (on both sides) which everyone can weigh against each other so as to arrive at their own conclusions.

Conclusions about what? You haven't even stated your core hypothesis. Is it "Human brains are different than computers"? Sure that's obvious, but are the different in an interesting way? If it's "computers can think!" then you just need to describe what thinking is.

> how exactly "extremely boring" these questions might be :)

Again, you're misunderstanding, because my point is that you haven't even asked the question clearly. There is nothing for me to have an opinion about, hence why it is boring. "Can machines think?" is the same as asking "Can machines smerve?" If you ask "what do you mean by 'smerve'?" and I say "see you're not creative/open-minded enough about smerving!" you would likely think that conversation was uninteresting, especially if I refused to define 'smerving' and just kept making arguments from authority and criticizing your imaginative capabilities.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 17:10:05+00:00
The 512KB limit isn't just minimalism - it forces architectural discipline.

I built a Trello alternative (frustrated with limitations: wanted rows and decent performance). Came in at ~55KB gzipped by following patterns, some of which I'm open sourcing as genX (genx.software - releasing this month):

- Server renders complete HTML (not JSON that needs client-side parsing) - JavaScript progressively enhances (doesn't recreate what's in the DOM) - Shared data structures (one index for all items, not one per item) - Use native browser features (DOM is already a data structure - article coming)

Most sites ship megabytes because modern tooling treats size as a rounding error. The 512KB constraint makes you think about what's expensive and get creative. Got rewarded with a perfect Lighthouse score in dev - striving to maintain it through release.

Would love feedback from this community when it's out.
by pgguru | 2025-11-04 17:10:14+00:00
You create foreign tables in postgres using either the pg_lake_table wrapper or pg_lake_iceberg.

Once those tables exist, queries against them are able to either push down entirely to the remote tables and uses a Custom Scan to execute and pull results back into postgres, or we transform/extract the pieces that can be executed remotely using a FDW and then treat it as a tuple source.

In both cases, the user does not need to know any of the details and just runs queries inside postgres as they always have.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-04 17:10:23+00:00
>Explain how to fit a GMC Savannah into a compact car parking space that's 5 feet shorter than it

The same way you do a Sprinter. <eyeroll>

You are confusing the Transit and the Transit Connect. I actually really love the Transit Connect.

I am complaining about the Transit, Sprinter and their ilk.

As an aside, the Ducato is ironically actually best in North American markets because none of their the diesel engine options are great in terms of ownership cost or frequency of downtime but the Pentastar they got when they bought Chrysler is ok, if over-taxed to the point of lesser reliability in such an application.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-04 17:10:49+00:00
There used to be a lot less expectation of post-sale maintenance of consumer software in the era where sales rather than subscriptions were the norm. There was also tolerance for higher up-front prices, and for much of that period sales depended on marketing through and validation by a narrow set of relatively trusted discovery channels, which customer the perceived risk to buyers. Now everything is untrusted, no one wants to pay much upfront but everyone expects ongoing support over they've got the thing. I’m not saying subscription is the only thing that works, but it's pretty easy to see that the calculus facing the average vendor has shifted tremendously over time.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-11-04 17:10:52+00:00
Moving services to the cloud unfortunately relieves a lot of the complexity of software development with respect to the menagerie of possible hardware environments.

it of course leads to a crappy user experience if they don't optimize for low bandwidth, but they don't seem to care about that, have you ever checked out how useless your algorithmic Facebook feed is now? Tons of bandwidth, very little information.

It seems like their measure is time on their website equals money in their pocket and baffling you with BS is a great way to achieve that until you never visit again in disgust and frustration.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-04 17:10:59+00:00
And when you go to the page about the Holocaust, it doesn't mentioned alternative opinions either, and barely mentions that holocaust denial is a thing (instead, "Holocaust denial" has its own article)

Do you believe Wikipedia should "both sides" the holocaust? Or do you not hold the genocide of Palestinians to the same standard?

Any ongoing genocide will have its deniers, its minimizers, and its apologists. Those people will even persist after the "dust is settled". That doesn't mean an article needs to give the same attention to the beliefs of people who are not experts, who are misled, or who are intentionally dishonest.
by ewoodrich | 2025-11-04 17:11:02+00:00
I set up a URL redirect rule in Edge/Brave/Chrome with the extension URL Auto Redirector (previously used Redirector but it was removed, there are other alternatives available for Firefox I'm sure). I also found a similar front end for Instagram but just added a rule yesterday so haven't tested it extensively yet.

I avoid most Twitter/X content after I deleted my account but it's helpful when it gets linked in HN.

Source | Destination ----------------------------------------------------------- ^https?://x.com/(.*) | https://xcancel.com/$1 ^https?://twitter.com/(.*) | https://xcancel.com/$1 ^https?://instagram.com/(.*) | https://imginn.com/$1 ^https?://www.instagram.com/(.*) | https://imginn.com/$1

URL Auto Redirector:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/url-auto-redirector...
by cess11 | 2025-11-04 17:11:11+00:00
None of that matters for the kind of creative work the grand parent likely had in mind.

Perhaps there was a memory leak in Unidentified Flying Assholes or the endless line of punch-a-celeb games or the thousands of stick fight productions and so on, but no one cared and enjoyed them immensely anyway. You could do something cool without ever learning about things like memory leaks or vulnerabilities in the underlying platform.
by chao- | 2025-11-04 17:11:20+00:00
Do those regulations really "ensure that [incidents like this] could not happen"?

I ask this in good faith, because my observation of the last few years is that the incidents still occur, with all of the harms to individuals also occurring. Then, after N number of incidents, the company pays a fine*, and the company does not necessarily make substantive changes. Superficial changes, but not always meaningful changes that would prevent future harms to individuals.

*Do these fines tend to be used to compensate the affected individuals? I am not educated on that detail, and would appreciate info from someone who is.
by gsivesind | 2025-11-04 17:11:23+00:00
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by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-11-04 17:11:25+00:00
This is the discussion that led to the opening sentence of the article being changed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gaza_genocide/Archive_12#...

As you can see, it wasn't just a few editors saying, "lol, let's just say it's a genocide." Hundreds of people weighed in on the proposal. They looked at lists of recent sources.

There were previous discussions like this that came to a different conclusion. But as more and more sources started calling it a genocide, Wikipedia editors eventually decided the opening sentence had to be changed.
by chpatrick | 2025-11-04 17:11:40+00:00
If a human uses their general knowledge of electronics to answer a specific question they haven't seen before that's obviously thinking. I don't see why LLMs are held to a different standard. It's obviously not repeating an existing answer verbatim because that doesn't exist in my case.

You're saying it's nothing "special" but we're not discussing whether it's special, but whether it can be considered thinking.
by sireat | 2025-11-04 17:11:50+00:00
OpenAI has ridiculous guardrails for illustrations covering any public domain subject that has been covered by Disney or any other major public corporation.

So by that benchmark Japanese companies have a case.

Try generating a 19th century style illustration of Snow White. You can't at least not on OpenAI platform.

Try generating a picture "of flying boy fighting a pirate on a ship".
by _aavaa_ | 2025-11-04 17:12:00+00:00
It is a problem. The engineering tradeoffs have to be done at each level of the stack. And as progressively more layers of the stack make the trade off away from speed the effects compound.

Nothing about a cross-platform UI requires that it not be snappy. Or that Electron is the best option possible.

Did VSCode do a good job with the options available? Maybe, maybe not. But the options is where I think we should focus.

Having to trade off between two bad options means you’ve already lost.
by naasking | 2025-11-04 17:12:04+00:00
> In any case LLMs most likely are not minds due to the simple fact that most of their internal state is static.

This is not a compelling argument. Firstly, you can add external state to LLMs via RAG and vector databases, or various other types of external memory, and their internal state is no longer static and deterministic (and they become Turing complete!).

Second if you could rewind time, then your argument suggests that all other humans would not have minds because you could access the same state of mind at that point in time (it's static). Why would you travelling through time suddenly erases all other minds in reality?

The obvious answer is that it doesn't, those minds exist as time moves forward and then they reset when you travel backwards, and the same would apply to LLMs if they have minds, eg. they are active minds while they are processing a prompt.
by marlonm101123 | 2025-11-04 17:12:38+00:00
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by rambambram | 2025-11-04 17:12:51+00:00
This. And the hordes of people reacting with some explanation for why this is. The 'why' is not the point, we already know the 'why'. The point is that you can if you want. Might not be easy, might not be convenient, but that's not the point. No one has to ask someone else for permission to use other tech than big tech.

The explanation of 'why' is not an argument. Big tech is not making it easy != it's impossible. Passive sufferers indeed.

Edit: got a website with an RSS feed somewhere maybe? I would like to follow more people with a point of view like yours.
by _flux | 2025-11-04 17:13:15+00:00
That's slightly disingenuous, as in the case of ppx_deriving you always need to state the type of the expression to call it, e.g.

show_file

or

[%derive.show: (int * int) list]

from the page. It's basically the same story for Format.

What many other languages do that if you have an object, you can just transform that object into a string or output it with debug formatting, without any particular support from the object. It isn't much of a chore, but it is some; and polymorphic functions now need one extra argument for the formatter.

I do recall there's a module for OCaml that can do "debug level" printing of objects by traversing their runtime structure, but that of course doesn't suite all objects.

At least in Rust it's not automatic that you can print an object in the first place :).
by nostrademons | 2025-11-04 17:13:48+00:00
I think there's always been a rent-seeking middleman service. In the 80s it was retail: you'd go to a physical computer store to buy a game for $50 (note: that's $150 inflation-adjusted, more expensive than most games today), and the retail store, the distributor, and the publisher would all take a cut. In the 2000s it was the developer's ISP, web developer, and credit card payment processor, which were non-trivial in the days before Wix and Stripe.

The shareware/unlock-code economy of the 90s was probably the closest you'd get to cutting out the middlemen, where you could download from some BBS or FTP server without the dev getting involved at all and then send them money to have them email you an unlock code, but it was a lot of manual work on the developer's part, and a lot of trust.
by artdigital | 2025-11-04 17:13:55+00:00
I’m with the parent on this. I don’t mind subscriptions if a service is provided that justifies the recurring cost. If it’s a local offline app then I don’t see it justified. Price it accordingly or at least give an option for one-time.

But yes, sub vs non-sub model is a very divisive topic. Personally would never subscribe to something like a offline local todo list
by nidnogg | 2025-11-04 17:15:35+00:00
Toribash is awesome! I last checked it a year ago but it was still alive then [1]. Worth checking out still. People who were great at it back in the day were legitimately doing dark arts with the tools the game came with. I wonder if we'll have an era of appreciation and rediscovery for pre-AI software.

[1] - https://www.toribash.com/
by nostrademons | 2025-11-04 17:15:47+00:00
Depends whether or not there's a big bubble burst that involves bankruptcies and Big Tech massively downscaling their cloud computing divisions. Most likely they'll just end up repurposing the compute and lowering cloud rates to attract new enterprise customers, but if you see outright fire sales from bankruptcies and liquidations, people will be able to pick up computer hardware at fire sale prices.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-04 17:15:54+00:00
After things like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasser_(computer_worm)

Bill Gates sent out the "Trusted Computing" memo to harden Windows and make it somewhat secure.

Essentially, Windows used to be trivial to exploit, in that Every single service was by default exposed to the web, full of very trivial buffer overflows that dovetailed nicely into remote code execution.

Since then, Windows has stopped exposing everything to the internet by default and added a firewall, fixed most buffer overflows in entry points of these services, and made it substantially harder to turn most vulnerabilities into the kind of remote code execution you would use to make simple worms.

>better at security than we were way back then

In some ways this is dramatically understated. Now the majority of malware comes from getting people to click on links, targeted attacks that drop it, piggyback riding in on infected downloads, and other forms of just getting the victim to run your code. Worms and botnets are either something you "Willingly" install through "free" VPNs, or target absolutely broken and insecure routers.

The days where simply plugging a computer into the internet would result in you immediately trying to infect 100 other computers with no interaction are pretty much gone. For all the bitching about forced updates and UAC and other security measures, they basically work.
by armada651 | 2025-11-04 17:16:00+00:00
It is actually relatively easy to make a lithography machine that can etch features beyond what EUV can do. You simply use an electron scanning beam rather than photons.

It's what the industry uses to create the masks used in lithography machines, but it could just as easily be used to make the actual chip. The problem is that it doesn't scale, at all. A scanning process is way too slow to be useful in mass production.

Thus you should always be skeptical when someone says they've built a machine that beats ASML's machines, because that's actually the easy part. The hard part is scaling it up.
by sndjdbs | 2025-11-04 17:16:37+00:00
This group is basically just the Israel lobby, which thankfully many more Americans are becoming familiar with due to recent events. They were immensely powerful back then (Buchanan was sidelined for going against them), and they still are today.

I think the more interesting question is why isn’t it colloquial knowledge the Rumsfeld et al were basically in bed with a foreign country? It’s especially important today given how our current presidents are still unable to control Israel. Both Biden and Trump want a ceasefire, deescalation etc yet Netanyahu (who played a large part in the clean break report linked to in your Wikipedia link) constantly rebukes them. Either they’re ok with it in private or they don’t have power…both of which should be very concerning.