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by mikkupikku | 2025-11-03 19:11:15+00:00
I think we don't do democracy because we think the masses are informed and make good decisions, but rather because it's the best system for ensuring peaceful transitions of power, thereby creating social stability which is conducive to encouraging investment in the future.

So uninformed people participating isn't an unfortunate side effect, but rather the point: making everybody feel included in the decision making processes, to make people more likely to accept political change.
by zzzeek | 2025-11-03 19:11:23+00:00
async python has problems, but "anyio exists" is not one of them that can be blamed on python, simply dont use weird third party libraries trying to second guess the asyncio architecture

edit: ironically I'm the author of a weird third party library trying to second guess the asyncio architecture but mine is good https://awaitlet.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/ (but I'll likely be retiring it in the coming year due to lack of interest)
by Jtsummers | 2025-11-03 19:11:38+00:00
> Hey, not super familiar with HN norms.

You can learn more about the intended norms through the Guidelines and FAQ, at the bottom of almost every page but here are the links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Regarding relevance to the community:

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

And regarding comments about whether it's on- or off-topic:

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
by Spivak | 2025-11-03 19:12:33+00:00
I mean it's not really a paradox. Stallman's vision of open source is one where software serves its users' interests and no one else. This came at a time where people were buying bits-in-a-box to install on their computers or electronic appliances like printers where the vendors leveraged their position to deprive you the ability to do as you please with your own device. Looking back these complaints seem almost inconsequential compared to what we deal with today. The degree to which your computer is no longer yours is significantly more impactful than some ink cartridges or interoperability issues.

Stallman recognized that someone else's computer was going to serve them and open source was, maybe ironically, meant to facilitate that. Open source client to a proprietary service isn't some kind of contradiction, it's respecting your freedom to control your computer same as it always has been.
by pyriku | 2025-11-03 19:12:41+00:00
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by amluto | 2025-11-03 19:13:07+00:00
What do you mean? Modern LFP cells have quite high power density. LTO is even higher.

An e-bike with a 100Wh battery and a 300W motor would be extremely useful if it were light enough: you could carry it up stairs, onto trains, etc easily, and it would give plenty of boost to navigate traffic for short distances and make it easier to go up hills. The idea would be that most of the energy would come from the rider. 100Wh of modern LFP cells doesn't weight very much, but you still need to carry around the motor and the structure to support the motor.

In an airplane, you need a lot of power to take off, and weight is a big deal.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-03 19:13:08+00:00
I think LLMs are conscious just in a very limited way. I think consciousness is tightly coupled to intelligence.

If I had to guess, the current leading LLMs consciousness is most comparable to a small fish, with a conscious lifespan of a few seconds to a few minutes. Instead of perceiving water, nutrient gradients, light, heat, etc. it's perceiving tokens. It's conscious, but it's consciousness is so foreign to us it doesn't seem like consciousness. In the same way to an amoeba is conscious or a blade of grass is conscious but very different kind than we experience. I suspect LLMs are a new type of consciousness that's probably more different from ours than most if not all known forms of life.

I suspect the biggest change that would bring LLM consciousness closer to us would be some for of continuous learning/model updating.

Until then, even with RAG, and other clever teghniques I consider these models as having this really foreign slices of consciousness where they "feel" tokens and "act" out tokens, and they have perception, but their perception of the tokens is nothing like ours.

If one looks closely at simple organisms with simple sensory organs and nervous systems its hard not to see some parallels. It's just that the shape of consciousness is extremely different than any life form. (perception bandwidth, ability to act, temporality, etc)

Karl friston free energy principle gives a really interesting perspective on this I think.
by quacked | 2025-11-03 19:13:22+00:00
I tried to in my initial comment draft, but I couldn't really come to a satisfactory answer so I thought I'd just post the observation.

I believe the average person today is far more apathetic about the parts of their own civilization that aren't explicitly political than ever before. Morality, cultural expression, architectural aesthetics, manners, fashion, product design, whatever. I think this slide into apathy predates the Internet and has something to do with copyright law, mega-corporate capture of the supply chain (and it's subsequent off shoring), excessive focus on cultural and behavioral neutrality in education, lawsuit culture, and endless video evidence of everything, but I can't spin that into a coherent narrative.

I'm not entirely sure what this implies, but I definitely don't think the introduction of LLMs is going to move the needle back toward widespread elitism and highly motivated creative industries. I wish I had a better answer to your question, which I appreciate you asking.
by Chabsff | 2025-11-03 19:13:34+00:00
Ok, but how do you go about measuring whether a black-box is doing that or not?

We don't apply that criteria when evaluating animal intelligence. We sort of take it for granted that humans at large do that, but not via any test that would satisfy an alien.

Why should we be imposing white-box constraints to machine intelligence when we can't do so for any other?
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by egorelik | 2025-11-03 19:13:41+00:00
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that some engineers are not great at arguing the merits and challenges of a programming language. GC vs non-GC should be one of the first and most straightforward decisions made when picking a language. It's hard to tell in this situation given that there are no concrete examples of what the arguments were, but if one is seriously considering Go for a domain, then they don't actually need the complexity a non-GC language brings.

If anything, maybe this says there is room for a Rust-like GC'd language.
by grim7reaper | 2025-11-03 19:13:42+00:00
Author here!

Funny to see this on the front page xD

That was the blog post for the initial release, and a lot of things have changed since then (definitely deserves a new blog post ^^).

The first big change happened six months after the release, when I rewrote most of the geometrical algorithms (leveraging the excellent geo crate) and got a massive boost in speed and reduction in memory usage which made it applicable at high resolutions and country-scale levels (e.g. some computation went from 15h to 7min, and from 18GB of RAM to 100MB). I also added support for alternative coverage methods (back then H3 only offered centroid containment).

Since then, the reference implementation has caught up in term of coverage predicate and even provides a new experimental coverage algorithm addressing some performance issue. I haven’t implemented yet but, IIRC, my current implementation still outperforms theirs (but less dramatically so).

I’ve also developed a little ecosystem of libraries around h3o: - Tailored compression algorithm with h3o-zip (in optimal cases I’ve observed reductions from ~2GB to 100KB) - Compact data structure for fast lookup with h3o-ice (based on FST) - Map rendering with h3o-mvt

Most of these things run in production at Amo, where one of the main use cases is powering the Scratchmap feature, both client and server side, in the Bump app. I’ve also seen adoption from other projects (bindings for R, Erlang, Polars, ...) and enterprises :)
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by LorenPechtel | 2025-11-03 19:14:05+00:00
Yeah, the only real solution is to eliminate commons.

In case of the ocean I would say that every country should have the economic right to all points in the ocean closer to them than to any other country. Everyone else gets free passage (subject to your reasonable environmental laws) and to engage in scientific operations, but only the country has any right to remove anything beyond scientific samples.

It's not perfect given that some species move about, but it would go a long ways towards controlling the problem.
Show HN: Extrai – An open-source tool to fight LLM randomness in data extraction
by elias_t | 2025-11-03 19:14:40+00:00
A few months ago I was working on a flight search engine that would include pet transport costs (I know a few by hearth but storing them and make the calculations in the UI would be nice) While I was collecting pet pricing from several airlines I strugled to extract data in a common format without hallucinated values.

That's when I thought: What if I use multiple LLMs and take the most common response to improve accuracy?

This idea became this new project. You provide your documents, an SQLModel schema, an LLM provider, plus what you'd like to extract and Extrai does the rest. Including storing them in a DB afterwards.

There are a few other features such as SQLModel generation based on your documents, hierarchical extraction to manage nested objects more efficiently and built-in analytics.

Feedback is more than welcomed, since it's still a work in progress!

I built a landing page for people interested in a managed solution (I also had fun with threeJS!)

Let me know what you think

Landing page: extrai.xyz Github: https://github.com/Telsho/Extrai
by twojacobtwo | 2025-11-03 19:14:46+00:00
Vurtually anyone saying "left wing Marxists" in the US, in reference to an organized movement, is full of shit and/or fully captured by the American propaganda waves still echoing from the the red scare era of the 1940s and 50s. These people are the type to call literally any social safety net "communist".

America has been pulled so far to the right in the last 70+ years that the average voter now seems to think 'the left' starts at authoritarian communism.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-03 19:14:51+00:00
That would be a small slice of the section of people you'd be able to speak through the internet. I've probably, since starting to use the internet, spoken with more people in my lifetime than my whole linage before me, by just conversing on internet forums and emailing lists for decades (not that it's a leaderboard or anything, just illustrating the point).

Besides, it'd probably get boring talking to the exact same people always, new perspectives are always refreshing regardless of how much I disagree with them :)
by slowmovintarget | 2025-11-03 19:15:20+00:00
The definition of Social Media [1], as opposed to say, forums, email lists, or comment sections typically includes algorithm-driven content pushes and a social network. In that sense, while HN facilitates communication between posters, it is not what is commonly referred to as "Social Media."

So Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, BlueSky, YouTube, LinkedIn... Yes. HN, Slashdot, no. Reddit is now social media; it has both networking and algorithmic pushes now, though in it's better days was more like HN or Slashdot.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-media
by freefaler | 2025-11-03 19:16:16+00:00
Where do you think the tax comes from? If there is no profit, there is no business and there is no tax base?

Taxes currently are for both the busness and the employees.

On the producer side: - business pays tax on sales (or VAT)

- business pays tax on profit left

- business pays tax on each employee in the form of empolyers "contributions" (just another way to tax the work of the empolyees)

- persons pay income taxes and social contributions

- persons (owners) pay divident taxes

On the consumer side

- sales/VAT tax

- import duties on stuff you buy

- various local taxes on property, vehicles and etc

In EU many contries have on the producing side 35-39% and on consuming side around 20% VAT, e.g. the govenment takes about 50% of an average workers pay.

Who pays the worker? The business by making a profit.
by Kraji | 2025-11-03 19:16:16+00:00
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by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-03 19:16:17+00:00
> The attention economy optimizes for what is novel and upsetting

Upsetting some people has been part of art at least since the épater le bourgeois attitude of early twentieth-century modernism. One of the reasons that culture feels stagnant, is that the attention economy optimizes only such such upsetting that is conducive to maximizing engagement and selling advertising. This has resulted in a lot of stoking of outrage about the social and political contexts around art, while there is much less discussion of anything upsetting in the actual content of the art (the melodies, harmonies and rhythms that a music uses, the linguistic resources used in fiction or drama, etc.)
by mywittyname | 2025-11-03 19:16:50+00:00
2.7 was end-of-life in 2020! And Python 3 outdates 2.7 by a few years.

A company using 2.7 in 2022 is an indicator that the company as a whole doesn't really prioritize IT, or at least the project the OP worked on. By 2017 or so, it should have been clear that whatever dependencies they were waiting on originally were not going to receive updates to support python3 and alternative arrangements should be made.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-03 19:17:08+00:00
The Jeep YJ he is talking about is an 80s design, and some models topped 3200lb by the end of the run. So he is comparing the weight and handling of a car from the 80s to a car from the 2000s at the earliest (although the curb weight he cites means that the fit he is talking about would have to be a later model, from 2015 or later).

The modern Jeep Wrangler, and the one that would be contemporary to the Honda Fit weighs in at 4,000 lbs in the 2-door base model or significantly more depending on options.

If you compare a YJ to a Honda Civic of the same era, you see that the 1986 civic was 1800 lbs up against a 1986 YJ at 2800 lbs.
by webnrrd2k | 2025-11-03 19:17:18+00:00
It's commonly taught in grade and high school civics classes that, since the Declaration of Independence, the US has a tradition that certain rights are unalienable. It's a direct statement that there is no way to separate or sever those rights from a person.

It's a whopper of a run-on sentence, but it's in there: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-11-03 19:17:28+00:00
> That would be a small slice of the section of people you'd be able to speak through the internet

i mean, you did say "anything in the world" :) that could include a large community, if we decided to get offline more often.

> Besides, it'd probably get boring talking to the exact same people always, new perspectives are always refreshing regardless of how much I disagree with them :)

how is that different from being offline?

* i'm probably coming across more accusatory than i feel - i'm interrogating my own feelings on this subject and i've found that i tend to feel like being online has been a net negative for me in pretty much every aspect of my life.
by everdrive | 2025-11-03 19:17:38+00:00
>But I still visit HN and YouTube multiple times daily.

Youtube is definitely the greater evil here. Anything with an algorithmic feed and an engagement-based UI will be harmful to you. HN could be harmful in a much more mundane way, the way that some kids could get addicted to Pac-Mac. There's nothing really addicting built in, but some people are susceptible. When it comes to algorithmic feeds, everyone is susceptible.
by mandevil | 2025-11-03 19:17:52+00:00
Interestingly, it looks like there is a move away from financing these data centers with tech company cash-on-hand and moving to Special Purpose Vehicles over the past 18 months or so. So now there is a lot more debt involved in funding DC's than equity, in ways that are a sudden change to what was largely a funded-by-equity process at the beginning of 2024.

The one I found best documented (1) is a Meta's SPV to fund their Hyperion DC in Louisiana, which is a deal that is 80% financed by private credit firm Blue Owl. There is a lot of financial trickery to getting the SPV to be counted by the ratings agencies as debt belonging to a different entity that does not count against Meta's books but treated by the market as basically something that Meta will back. But xAI's Memphis DC is also a SPV, and Microsoft is doing that as well. I'm not sure about AMZN, but that we're starting to see that from their competitors suggests they will also be going to this way.

1: By the invaluable Matt Levine, here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-10-29/put... but the other major companies have their own SPV's
by phendrenad2 | 2025-11-03 19:18:04+00:00
Yeah, no, after Charlie Kirk was assassinated (and a few lesser-known political figures who immediately became household names post-Charlie Kirk to keep some kind of gross political peropaganda balance), I was immediately fearful that this would be the start of a new trend. But, has there been anything since? It seems like everyone is too afraid of the government cracking down on them to do anything, and that's a good thing. Now, the 1/5 of every tax dollar the US government takes in goes to servicing the national debt, another 1.5/5 goes to medicare, and another 1/5 goes to social security, and 1/5 goes to fighting ongoing wars, that leaves 500 billion dollars "spending money" to try to keep the peace.
by xp84 | 2025-11-03 19:18:07+00:00
I have to say, (caveat, I have not tried any of these yet) that I am intrigued by all these features like graphics being added to terminals. It feel like exploring an alternate timeline 1990s where the GUI “lost” — of course in the absence of a successful Windows and Macintosh, terminals would have naturally gained these graphical abilities 30 years ago.