MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-13 17:52:56+00:00
I am saying consciousness is the vibrational purturbation of our life’s medium (microtubules?) I am advocating that we may use this quantum domain as a holographic sieve. One might call that hologram “quaila” or merely the subject of thought. Our mind has not one or two, rather two billion fragments which combine or separate, process or rest relentlessly as we cope with our priorities.

I do not suggest consciousness emerged from life, I suggest life is a technology which emerged from the potential of consciousness trapped within existential being.

This magical dust, when animated by circumstance of “life”, does introspect and actualize inner worlds upon the outer. Our line is merely the most advanced we recognize.
by TrackerFF | 2025-11-13 17:53:06+00:00
In the grey areas of business, it is not uncommon to be allowed to keep doing gray area shit if and only if you're willing to play ball with authorities. Once you start making their work impossible, they'll bring down the hammer.

Everyone should just assume that if they're trying to hide themselves via some service, that said business will provide your information/data to the authorities, if asked to.
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 17:53:11+00:00
I run this one, but valid that you don't know or trust me ;)

Totally hear you on the permissions/access, and there isn't really a workaround:

In order for us to be able to execute your scripts that do powerful things (send notifications, save to local storage, download things, etc.), our extension needs to have those permissions itself.

I started off doing the same as you, having GPT to write scripts for me, and you can go a long way with that. I personally ran into the ceiling and felt I could build out a more robust solution, but it serves your needs well, by all means
by abustamam | 2025-11-13 17:53:34+00:00
Yeah, that's true, never thought of it that way. The way CA did it is certainly better, but I think it's still solving the wrong problem though — political power should not be able to be swayed by politicians moving borders around, with or without a vote. Redistricting is important because every district should have equal population, but they should be drawn by independent committees (and in many states they are, just for "some reason" a bunch of states decided to do it with a partisan spin).
by godshatter | 2025-11-13 17:53:45+00:00
> An app can read the content of notifications if the appropriate permissions are granted, which includes 2FA codes sent by SMS or email.

Do apps generally do this? I've never run into one that doesn't expect me to type in the number sent via SMS or email, rather than grabbing it themselves.

I don't use a lot of apps on my android phone, though, so maybe this is a dumb question to those who do.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-13 17:53:47+00:00
It looks like it's designed to inflict maximum harm, but it seems that it's actually less likely to kill you than an F-150 or Silverado or Ram. It has a lower hood height which is the aspect that has been hypothesized to be the reason that trucks kill pedestrians at a much greater rate than cars.

I'm not trying to condone Cybertruck here. I hope the Cybertruck becomes a rallying cry to mandate pedestrian safety in the US, and that mandate becomes data driven and indicts F-150 et al.
by eminence32 | 2025-11-13 17:53:49+00:00
This is obviously just a research project, but I do wonder about the next steps:

* After exploring an learning about a virtual world, can anything at all be transferred to an agent operating in the real world? Or would an agent operating in the real world have to be trained exclusively or partially in the real world?

* These virtual worlds are obviously limited in a lot of important ways (for example, character locomotion in a game is absolutely nothing like how a multi-limbed robot moves). Does there eventually need to be more sophisticated virtual worlds that more closely mirror our real world?

* Google seems clearly interested in generalized agents and AGI, but I'm actually somewhat interested in AI agents in video games too. Many video games have companion NPCs that you can sort of give tasks to, but in almost all cases, the companion NPCs are nearly uncontrollable and very limited in what they can actually do.
by taeric | 2025-11-13 17:53:53+00:00
None of those are difficult in the modern world. Computers have pretty much solved all of them. There are confusing to talk about cases. But none that are truly problematic.

Consider some of the most sensitive for people. Take your medication twice a day. What do people do when they fly across the country? Most don't keep the same schedule they had back home on the medication. They just start doing it at the new place.

Folks that do have "take this exactly every 12 hours" rely on a timer, not a clock.

Even talking about how long ago something was is just not that important for folks in most scenarios. Consider, when people move they don't change their birth date if it would have been a different day in the new location. (That is, nobody does their birthday by GMT.)

Now, about the only idea I fully reject is that we could just tell all businesses to change their opening hours so that we don't have to change the clocks. This is mind numbingly crazy to me. The entire point of changing the clocks is to get everyone to update together.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-11-13 17:53:55+00:00
"Timely" is relative, right? If I build a house in a week, that was done in a timely fashion, as it was done faster than average,

If i build a house of cards in a week, that took way longer than the average house of cards, and it would not be fair to call it "timely".

In a world where most companies report breaches months after the fact, yes, I think "last week we found out about it and we're now confirming it" is fair. You need to work with Law Enforcement, you need to confirm the validity of the data and the hacker's claims, and that they data they are ransoming is all they actually took. You need to check the severity of the data they took. Was it user/passes? Was there any trademarked processes, IP, sensitive info? You need to ensure the threat actor is removed from your environment, and the hole they got in with is closed.

If you choose to pay the ransom, you may need to work even closer with LE to ensure you don't get flagged for aiding and funding criminals.

With them choosing not to pay, I'm sure they need to clear that with legal still. Finance needs to be on board. Can you actually call it a charitable donation for a tax write-off if its under this sort of duress? (And I'd assume there's other sort's of questions a SysAdmin can't be expected to come up with examples for)

While ALL of this is happening, you can't announce your actions. You can't put our a PR until you know for sure you were compromised, what the scope was, and that any persistence has been removed.
by davnicwil | 2025-11-13 17:54:08+00:00
> code-walks

it's probably subjective, but I find these collaboration features can be overused for this kind of thing.

If someone is walking me through something, I just want to see what they see so I can focus entirely on what they're saying and no part of me is distracted by having to follow along or seeing other code.

I know typically these collab modes have an auto follow feature, but it's not as simple as just read only video being streamed to you, there's loads more ways it can go wrong and add noise / distraction that provides no benefit.
by westurner | 2025-11-13 17:54:35+00:00
Did they control for that people don't write tests and test assertions in notebooks?

Did they control for that people tend to not maintain expository code in notebooks in the same way that they maintain modules?

Are most .ipynb demo notebooks?

What percentage of users use a notebook-first workflow; such that code written in an .ipynb is auto-exported to .py modules?

ipytest is one way to run pytest in a notebook. assert statements in named test functions are another way to run tests in a notebook.

How much of the difference in code quality between notebooks and modules is due to the tool and how much is due to the type of code that people tend to write in notebooks?
by mikestew | 2025-11-13 17:56:30+00:00
Then it took me a year and a half (!!) to get my deposit back from time of request

After we decided against an F-150 Lightning because it wouldn’t fit in the garage, one click of the “cancel reservation” button, and the money was back in our account within two weeks. When we were disappointed with the VW Buzz that the U. S. was getting, same deal: VW gave our money back in a few weeks.

Granted, your situation is arguably a little out-of-band if you squint really hard, but c’mon, Tesla.
by jhonof | 2025-11-13 17:56:48+00:00
Sure but pensioners care about consistency vs. gross returns. You really don't want your pension to lose a ton of value in a downturn because people are constantly drawing from it, it's a risk off investment. Bonds are also poor investments compared to an index fund from a gross return perspective, but that's not why people/funds buy them, they buy them to lower risk.
by aaroninsf | 2025-11-13 17:56:56+00:00
OpenAI openly moving engagement farming is the tip of the iceberg.

The bottom of the iceberg is how this is going to work out in the context of surveillance capitalism.

If ChatGPT is losing money, what's the plan to get off the runway...?

What is the benefit in establishing monopoly or dominance in the space, if you lose money when customers use your product...?

OpenAI's current published privacy policies preclude sale of chat history or disclosure to partners for such purposes (AFAIK).

I'm going to keep an eye on that.
by snovymgodym | 2025-11-13 17:57:00+00:00
I do not like the Cybertruck, the company that makes it, nor the man who owns said company.

That being said, I still appreciate seeing them out on the road as an example of what's effectively a concept car that made it to production. It also looks cool and stands apart aesthetically from pretty much everything else on the market, even if the giant 1-piece wiper and black plastic wheel well trim pieces mar the clean lines of the original design.

I'm not sufficiently familiar with the data to say whether or not Cybertrucks or Teslas have significantly more design problems or QC issues than other manufacturers, or if news outlets just latch onto the stories more because Musk's public behavior makes him such a lightning rod for controversy.

Regardless, I think the Cybertruck will go down in history as an iconic car and a symbol of the 2020s, even if it was an objectively bad product (think DeLorean).
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-11-13 17:57:01+00:00
Or more realistically because no one else actually produces enough missile or bullets to shoot. It's like France being such a joke right now suggesting that Ukraine use their missile system instead of the USA's.

Oh France sure how long until you can supply a fraction of what we are buying from the USA? What a decade!?!?! Ukraine won't exist in a decade if we wait and what's that you won't even ramp production unless you can get guarantees from multiple member nations? What a joke.
by cortesoft | 2025-11-13 17:57:03+00:00
This is funny because I feel the complete opposite. I am in my mid-40s now, and I go to maybe one 'party' a month, usually at a family friend's house for a pool party or a dinner.

When I was younger, I thought I was SUPPOSED to want to party, so I went out with friends many nights a week. Sometimes I would have fun, but I would always dread it. I hate the noise, the crowded feeling, bumping into other people, trying to make small talk with people I was not that interested in talking to. I much preferred being home by myself, playing games or working on hobby projects. I remember in college I loved when I was too young to go to the bars; we would pre-party at our apartment and I would enjoy it for an hour or two, and then they would leave for the bars and I would stay home and do my own thing. It was perfect.

I just thought I was supposed to like parties and going out.

Then I got older, and I met my now-wife at work. On one of our first dates, we were going to pick up her cousin from a bar. We get there, and it is HAPPENING. Loud music, people dancing, people waiting in line to get in. It looked miserable to me, but I was getting ready to act like I enjoyed it... and then I look over to my future wife and she sighs and says "that looks awful". I knew right there she was the woman for me.

We have been married for over 10 years now, and we still hate going out to loud events. We don't mind socializing in smaller groups, but we are comfortable that we don't like going to loud bars or clubs or big parties. We like staying home with the kids, quietly playing games or reading. We have also learned, through having our kids diagnosed and then ourselves, that we are both on the autism spectrum. We are no longer ashamed of who we are, and don't pretend we are the same as everyone else.

I think people are different, and need different things. We can't assume that what we need will work for everyone else.
by aeternum | 2025-11-13 17:57:08+00:00
I'm not sure this is very fair because humans are often not given the right tools to make a good decision. For example:

To gift to a 529 regardless of the financial institution, you go to some random ugift529.com site and put in a code plus all your financial info. This is considered the gold standard.

To get a payout from a class-action lawsuit that leaked your data, you must go to some other random site (usually some random domain name loosely related to the settlement recently registered by kroll) and enter basically more PII than was leaked in the first place.

To pay your fed taxes with a credit card, you must verify your identity with some 3rd party site, then go to yet another 3rd party site to enter your CC info.

This is insane and forces/trains people to perform actions that in many other scenarios lead to a phishing attack.
by paganel | 2025-11-13 17:57:18+00:00
I’m Romanian, write this comment from Bucharest, a lot closer to Donbass than both France and UK. If those guys are “disgusted” about Russia then it’s their choice, but they shouldn’t re-create the Crimean War and battle the Russians on our (Romania’s) soil, with the destruction that would accompany such a war. If anything, I’d rather actively choose Russia’s side on this against the West, at least Russia is the devil we know. I’m not alone here in Eastern Europe when it comes to this ideological choice, just look at what people vote (when they’re allowed to do that freely, that is, just look at the Călin Georgescu case).
by Marshferm | 2025-11-13 17:57:27+00:00
These are not approximations, they are arbitrary simulations that have nothing to do with observation.

They’re irrelevant in terms of any idea of intelligence as intel is built upon topologies.

Intelligence is tied to development where functional outcomes are by genetic tinkering with environments for flexibility. These gaslighted trivial models are function aimed, so they have zero ability to even mimic what intel is.

Face it this is a massive washout. It has no ambition. It lacks even a weak definition of the models name “spatial intelligence” and it lacks one because there is no such thing.

Fundamentally world models do not exist and are oxymoronic.
by beedeebeedee | 2025-11-13 17:57:48+00:00
Ehhh- if these men really wanted companionship, they could find it. It only takes a little social courage, and accepting others (as they wish to be accepted). They are not being canceled because they don’t play by women’s rules.

The fact is, these men are deeply confused and push away as they pull in.

My suggestion would be to lean into monasticism and not just use the term ‘monk’ as a euphemism for not having female relationships. I don’t think anyone should be a monk long-term, but use it as a transitional period to examine and explore why they are so confused and come to terms with it.

Blaming women for their problems just makes it intractable because their problem is within themselves
by eduction | 2025-11-13 17:58:12+00:00
These are more incorrect emotional claims. Withdrawing from an agreement (all three of your examples) is not the same as reneging or “breaking” the agreement. The US has not withdrawn from NATO; meanwhile, it has proactively withdrawn from agreements it does not wish to be in any longer. That actually bolsters the case that nothing has changed w/r/t article 5.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-13 17:58:23+00:00
> Investors like him are the enemy on long term moonshot R&D

That's because he comes from a generation who has "the government and universities take care of R&D" as a mindset. A lot of the stuff we take for granted today - *nix, TCP, IP, the Internet itself, lasers, microwave, radar - came out of universities, government grants or the military.

The idea that the government is incapable of R&D is relatively new and originates in small-state / lean-state / starve-the-beast ideology.

And personally, I rather believe the wisdom of an old man who made a metric shitload of money by being a good honest citizen than others who got rich on advertising and stonk market shenanigans.
by some_furry | 2025-11-13 17:58:24+00:00
You'd think that, but I'm as much a critic of the worst parts of the furry community as any outsider.

And, to practice what I preach, here's some evidence:

https://soatok.blog/2025/06/12/furries-need-to-learn-that-su...

https://soatok.blog/2022/06/21/a-greymuzzles-lament/ +
by torginus | 2025-11-13 17:58:32+00:00
While I wouldn't argue that Russia is richer than Germany, I think GDP is a rubbish figure - at least it clearly doesn't translate to anything I would consider meaningful.

For example, can the person of today afford a higher standard of living than one of 20 years ago - unclear, food has become disproportionately more expensive, housing cost has by far outpaced the wage growth, tech has become cheaper, but big-ticket items like cars are proportionally not cheaper.

From this, the person of today is poorer in tangible terms.

Did the infrastructure improve? - some, but I'd say it was a (sub)linear improvement in absolute terms - we certainly didn't build as much stuff as we did in the mid to late 20th century, and what we built before was the more important stuff, so the new stuff has marginal utility.

Did European industry and technology improve? I'd say in terms of relative importance, we regressed - there are huge gaps in European technological capability for which only foreign options exist - this didn't used to be the case.

Were there some big ticket innovations like Concorde or the Moon Landing or whatever - clearly no, the world seems to have lost its appetite for these kind of hugely ambitious projects.

This 'number go up' style capitalism is clearly not to the benefit of the individual, but I can't for the life of me think who does it actually benefit.
by marssaxman | 2025-11-13 17:58:34+00:00
> but AI just whips React code up effortlessly.

This kind of thing certainly upset me and caused a lot of anxiety the first couple of times I experienced it, but as it's happened over and over again through the course of my career, I've learned to shrug it off. Some new thing comes along, people make lots of money working on it, then it becomes well-enough understood to automate, and all those jobs disappear.

It does suck, when you enjoyed doing whatever that thing was, to watch the robots take it over.

The thing of it is that Jevons' paradox applies to software development as much as it does to anything else. When it becomes easier (and therefore cheaper) to make software, people demand more of it. This creates new demand for human engineers to work on whichever parts of the problem are not yet well understood enough to be automated.

A software engineering career never stays put for too long, especially the closer you are to the applications end of things. You might get to ride a groove for as long as a decade, if you're lucky, but change will always come. It doesn't mean your career is over.
by FabHK | 2025-11-13 17:58:43+00:00
> Like most things, it gets pretty complicated.

As far as I know, there are also different paradigms for ambulances: "scoop and run" (ie stabilise the patient and take them to a hospital ASAP) vs "stay and play" (try the first line of treatment there before taking the patient to the hospital).

Different countries (with different urban environments, distances, etc.) use different approaches.
by nr378 | 2025-11-13 17:59:56+00:00
> Today, we’re pleased to announce a new round of financing: our Series D of $2.3B at a $29.3B post-money valuation.

> We’ve also crossed $1B in annualized revenue

A 30x revenue multiple on (presumably) relatively low-margin revenue is certainly punchy.

One wonders how much of their $1bn of ARR they're paying straight through to Claude/Anthropic.
by NewUser76312 | 2025-11-13 17:59:58+00:00
I loved Pebble back in the day, and Eric is a great guy and friend to entrepreneurs trying to build cool things.

I do wonder how a modern revival of Pebble will compete from a product perspective within the current landscape. Obviously there's the high-end Apple Watches, but there's also incredibly cheap and long battery life products from China that you can see on Aliexpress and similar. Fitness tracking is another related niche that seems oversaturated, unless you do something really unique in biometrics sensing.

So it seems like a hard market to get back into, curious where they take things.
by dspillett | 2025-11-13 18:00:00+00:00
> You're using a single server in a single datacenter.

This is a common problem with “bare metal saved us $000/mo” articles. Bare metal is cheaper than cloud by any measure, but the comparisons given tend to be misleadingly exaggerated as they don't compare like-for-like in terms of redundancy and support, and after considering those factors it can be a much closer result (sometimes down as far as familiarity and personal preference being more significant).

Of course unless you are paying extra for multi-region redundancy things like the recent us-east-1 outage will kill you, and that single point of failure might not really matter if there are several others throughout your systems anyway, as is sometimes the case.
by Y-bar | 2025-11-13 18:00:01+00:00
> The distinction I think that most people from outside of the US probably don't fully understand is that, unlike in a lot of countries, each state is its own economy, government, politics, etc. rather than one sort of unified government that covers the whole country.

This is exactly how I see how my country and EU works. I feel like this is something I am intimately familiar with.

> Thus comes the senate, where a majority of states can decide that the law is inappropriate or against their interests and vote against it.

What mechanism causes the senate to be more resilient to those issues than a unified Congress?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-13 18:00:03+00:00
Tesla is currently renting vehicles for $60/day due to diminished demand; if one would like to test this personally, the cost is minimal. Avoid bodily injury whenever possible during testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeaqdexknE

https://electrek.co/2025/11/10/tesla-cant-sell-cars-so-renti...

Edit: @romaaeterna Are you willing to stand in front of it while it is at speed without a safety driver? I am trying to reconcile the mental model with risk appetite and potential gaps between priors and current state.
by apsurd | 2025-11-13 18:00:20+00:00
automated commit message will tell you the "what" not the "why".

In any circle of "what makes a good commit message and why even do it" discussions, invariably the recommendation is to explain the "why" and leave out the self-evident "what".

If your stance is that commit and commit messages can be automated away then we might as well not even have them.

I don't share this view, but yeah in this world we don't need AI to do things that shouldn't be done in the first place.