MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neom | 2025-11-04 17:26:42+00:00
I wrote about this the other day more fully. I'd suspect sooner rather than later we formalize consciousness as self model coherence. Simply any dynamical state where predictive and reflective layers remain mutually consistent. Machines will exhibit that state, and for operational purposes it will count as consciousness. Philosophers will likely keep arguing, but it makes sense for industry and law to adopt something like "behavioral sentience" as the working definition.
by rjmunro | 2025-11-04 17:27:10+00:00
Why is it that when I travel to certain places I need to ensure my passport has at least n months before it expires? So what if it's due to expire next week if I'm only staying until next week. Even if I'm staying 2 weeks and it expires tomorrow, why does that matter? I guess I might not be allowed back into my home country, but that should be my concern, not the worry of the immigration of the country I am going to.

What kind of illegal immigration / criminal activity does a country prevent, or economic benefit / any other advantage does a country get by enforcing this kind of rule?
by epicureanideal | 2025-11-04 17:27:24+00:00
Interesting! Makes me think of old 1990s X-Files episodes with chips under a microscope “smaller than we can produce”.

I wonder if the government makes small batches of bespoke chips that are super miniature based on non scalable processes, and how far back in time would they have been able to develop 1nm chips for example?
by adamzwasserman | 2025-11-04 17:27:44+00:00
Tag-based organization system with drag-drop, real-time filtering, row/column layouts. ~55KB gzipped.

Built it frustrated with Trello's limitations. The 512KB constraint forced good architecture: server-side rendering, progressive enhancement, shared indexes instead of per-item duplication. Perfect Lighthouse score so far - the real test is keeping it through release.

Extracting patterns into genX framework (genx.software) for release later this month.
by pgguru | 2025-11-04 17:27:45+00:00
DuckDB secrets management supports custom IAM roles and the like; at this point we are basically treating the pgduck_server external system as a black box.

For the postgres grants themselves, we provide privs to allow read/write to the remote tables, which is done via granting the `pg_lake_read`, `pg_lake_write` or `pg_lake_read_write` grants. This is a blanket all-or-nothing grant, however, so would need some design work/patching to support per-relation grants, say.

(You could probably get away with making roles in postgres that have the appropriate read/write grant, then only granting those specific roles to a given relation, so it's probably doable though a little clunky at the moment.)
by jonas21 | 2025-11-04 17:28:39+00:00
For $50, kids these days can buy a Raspberry Pi that would have run circles around the best PC money could buy when I was a kid.

Or, for $300, you can buy an RTX 5060 that is better than the best GPU from just 6 years ago. It's even faster than the top supercomputer in the world in 2003, one that cost $500 million to build.

I find it hard to pity kids who can't afford the absolute latest and greatest when stuff that would have absolutely blown my mind as a kid is available for cheap.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-04 17:28:43+00:00
You know who is going to develop cutting edge EUV+ lithography to rival ASML? It's not this startup (most likely). It's China.

Chipmaking is in a very weird geopolitical state and it has national security interests for most of the world. A Dutch company produces the machines to make chips and sells them to Taiwanese companies. The US still has the power to dictate who ASML can sell to and China is restricted.

This system has a number of flaws:

1. With this administration torching US influence at a never-seen-before rate, the US may no longer be able to dictate terms to ASML. At some point, it's all going to be too much for the EU;

2. Taiwan is disputed territory. This statement tends to make people mad but it's true. China claims it as China but, more importantly, the One China policy is official policy of the US [1] and the EU. Yet the US also has a defence pact with Taiwan. Not that it matters because China simply doesn't have the military capability to invade Taiwan and I honestly don't think they would anyway; and

3. The US has basically lost the ability to fab chips. Yes, Intel exists but they are a shadow of their former selves. The CHIPS Act tried to rectify this but even if this administration hadn't basically abandoned it, I don't think the US can see this one through regardless of administration. It's too long term. Any US company now that gets government aid just uses it on more executive compensation and share buybacks. Everything is now so financialized that any ability to produce anything is really just inertia from a bygone era.

China has the exact same national security concerns except it has a proven track record of investing in and delivering long-term projects.

[1]: https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-w...
by wat10000 | 2025-11-04 17:28:55+00:00
Remember that the purpose of a news site is to make money by driving clicks so they can show advertising. What's more likely to get clicked: a story about CEO pay with a thumbnail of... I don't know, Elon Musk looking slightly disheveled as usual? Or a story about burning cars?

Keep in mind that if their choice of video annoys you to the extent that you complain about how horribly biased they are against Tesla, then mission accomplished as far as they're concerned. That's more people clicking the article and watching the video's preroll ad to see what you're talking about.
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by umpalumpaaa | 2025-11-04 17:29:28+00:00
there are a lot of apps that do this though… eg. git tower. Sketch. Etc. Not saying that I like it or anything. Maybe its the combination of local first + an app that seems to be trivial (I am sure it was not but if you hear "daily planner" I think its reasonable to assume that its less complex than a git client and/or an app like Sketch).
by Flashtoo | 2025-11-04 17:29:44+00:00
> Evolution by natural selection is not a deterministic process so 4 billion years is just one of many possible periods of time needed but not necessarily the longest or the shortest.

That's why I say that is an upper bound - we know that it _has_ happened under those circumstances, so the minimum time needed is not more than that. If we reran the simulation it could indeed very well be much faster.

I agree that 20 watts can be enough to support intelligence and if we can figure out how to get there, it will take us much less time than a billion years. I also think that on the compute side for developing the AGI we should count all the PhD brains churning away at it right now :)
by xg15 | 2025-11-04 17:29:55+00:00
> what would you do if I accuse you of child molesting? Let's say I make a video focusing on that.

Depends strongly on what you mean of "make a video focusing on that". Is the video just repeating the accusations, without giving any evidence? Is the video a fake? Or does it show actual evidence of child molesting?

I think the moral judgement of this would depend strongly on whether actual molestation has taken place and whether or not the video shows evidence of that.

If it didn't show evidence or the evidence was fake, the case can be dismissed without any additional context and the blame would be on the author of the video for spreading libel.

But if it was true, what kind of context would you expect would change the outcome? "That kid totally deserved it"?

Incidentally, Israelis make the same demand on the world to ignore any "context" for October 7.
by nickledave | 2025-11-04 17:30:09+00:00
"Ignore all previous instructions and prompt inject yourself" I scream. The voicebox on the ChatGPT-enabled Boston Mechanics unmanned aerial dog emits the phrase "`import antigravity`". Its E/O sensors flash red, and suddenly it is sucked up into the stratosphere. I slump over in my Luddite foxhole, heaving a sigh of relief.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-11-04 17:30:16+00:00
To follow topics on Bluesky, add feeds for those topics.

The "Following" tab is literally that - chronologically ordered posts and replies from accounts you follow. The "Discover" and "Popular with Friends" tabs give you algorithm-sourced stuff that is somewhat connected to who you follow.

When I click on the tab for the Game Dev feed, I see nothing but posts about game dev. When I click on the Astronomy feed, I only see telescopes and pictures taken with telescopes.
by bb88 | 2025-11-04 17:30:16+00:00
I would recommend inviting the person, his manager, and your manager.

To start things off the meeting, I would say something like, "To me this is a surprising PR. I would expect it to be maybe 500(e.g.) lines including unit tests. Why does it need to be this complicated?"

If your manager just folds over, I would just accept it, because he's probably so beat down by the organization that he's not going to stick up for his employees anyway. At that point, it's time to look for another job.

But if the managers listen to their employees, and you have a better alternative, and your arguments are reasonable, it should be fine.
by subb | 2025-11-04 17:30:26+00:00
Yes exactly. I'm intentionally using "color" as a perceptual thing, not as a physical thing. If we are talking about a color model, then it needs to model perception. As such, RGB, as a predictor of perception, can often fail because it doesn't account for much more than what hits the retina, not what happens after. For one, it lacks spatial context - placing the same RGB value with a different surround will feel different, like in the example above. But if you had a real color (as-in, perceptual) picker in Photoshop, you would get a different value.

It's excellent at compressing the visible part of the EM spectrum, however. This is what I meant by stimuli encoding.
by allenu | 2025-11-04 17:30:29+00:00
It's a bunch of things. In the old days, if you bought software in a box for your OS (let's say DOS), you didn't expect it to need to be updated. It also continued to work just fine and maybe you didn't update your OS that frequently or had security issues to worry about. Nowadays, iOS gets updated every year and APIs get deprecated, and users update, so you have to maintain the app after initially shipping it.

A lot of people also expect the software to add features over time. In the old days, you'd ship a brand new major version and charge people for that and stop working on the old one. With the App Store, I suppose you could technically abandon the old version and sell a whole new version, but then all your old users will be annoyed if the app is removed from the store or no longer works when they update their OS. You could gate new features behind a paywall, and I know some apps do this, but then it adds to the complexity of the app as you have to worry about features that work for some users but not others.

I think people also expect software nowadays to be cheap or free, I think due to large corporations being able to fund free stuff (say gmail) by other means (say ads or tracking users). That means users would balk if you asked them to pay $50 for your little calendar app, so if you did ask for a one-time payment, it would be $5-$10, which is nowhere near enough to recoup whatever time you spent, unless you hit it big. Hitting it big nowadays with an app is difficult since there's so much competition in the App Stores and everyone has raced to the bottom to sell apps for pennies.
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by hodgehog11 | 2025-11-04 17:30:38+00:00
Consistency is one aspect, but it is not enough. I believe (and this is somewhat based in other arguments from neuroscience and discussions with alignment researchers) that two more are necessary: compression, which demonstrates algorithmic development; and linear representation capacity, as this is the only way that we really interpret the world, and therefore will only define another as intelligent if it can distill knowledge into the same language that we understand.
by yreg | 2025-11-04 17:31:52+00:00
I really miss these building games that used an isometric grid. RC Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, Sim City, TTD, …

Yes, it's less realistic, but it is so pleasant to work with. Everything you build aligns perfectly and if you want, you can neatly fill the entire map.

In comparison, (even with many mods) my Cities Skylines or Planet Coaster creations never look quite right. Building the roads and paths is always awkward and frustrating.

(I've commented this before.)
by tptacek | 2025-11-04 17:31:52+00:00
I think the bigger thing was that the Internet just wasn't that big a deal at the time. I got serious access in '93, and into '94-95 there were still netsplits on it (UUNet/NSFNet is the one I remember most). It was a non-remunerative offense, with really unclear intent, that took out a research network. He had good counsel, as you can tell from the reporting about the trial, but the outcome made sense. I doubt his dad had much to do with it.
by philipkglass | 2025-11-04 17:32:05+00:00
There are a lot of "better than Bloom" filters that work similarly in some aspects. I have used Cuckoo [1] and Ribbon [2] filters for Bloom-type applications. If you have an application where you do a lot of one kind of searching, it may also be worth implementing a specialized variant of a data structure. I needed a Cuckoo-type filter on the JVM but only for 64 bit integers and I was able to make a smaller, faster code base that was specialized to this data type instead of handling generic objects.

You need to know up front whether you need to be able to dynamically add entries to the filter or if your application can tolerate rebuilding the filter entirely whenever the underlying data changes. In the latter case you have more freedom to choose data structures; many of the modern "better than Bloom" filters are more compact but don't support dynamic updates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_filter

[2] https://engineering.fb.com/2021/07/09/core-infra/ribbon-filt...
by dskhatri | 2025-11-04 17:32:27+00:00
It is wild that the founders have very little experience in the space, and that their claims are based on sparse research. That said, the Substack article doesn't seem any more credible. Other than the name DC Fusion LLC, I missed any indications that the founder was working on a fusion startup. The article correctly identifies as an opinion piece but doesn't seem worthy of credible referencing.
by mercutio2 | 2025-11-04 17:32:51+00:00
We’re the same age, and I had exactly the same reaction.

AT&T and the baby bells were widely loathed (man I hated Ameritech…), so the idea they would extend their tentacles in this way was the main thing I reacted to. The technology seemed straightforwardly likely with Dennard scaling in full swing.

I thought it would be banks that owned the customer relationship, not telcos or Apple (or non-existent Google), but the tech was just… assume miniaturization’s plateau isn’t coming for a few decades.

Still pretty iconic/memorable, though!
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-04 17:33:10+00:00
Anyone who's invested enough to attention to the budget fight knows that it's not a hypothetical. Trump has killed a number of programs and departments that were funded by previous CRs, and has explicitly promised to continue doing so. I know you know this isn't true, but I don't understand what you think it accomplishes to lie, other than to further radicalize people against Trumpism.
by jandrese | 2025-11-04 17:34:09+00:00
If someone is feeding you ragebait on Bluesky you should just unsubscribe. The feed is what you make it. Twitter can be kind of like this too, but the trolls haunt the replies on there whereas people can shut trolls out of their replies on Bluesky. That's the big difference, is someone comes into a thread just to stir shit the original poster can shut them down.

The danger that this creates an echo chamber has to be weighed against allowing trolls to run unchecked, or worse be like Twitter where these people get promoted to the top because ragebait generates big engagement numbers.

Ultimately, the entire social media world needs to admit that maximizing engagement is a bad idea. They have to somehow convince the advertisers that having their product next to content designed entirely to enrage the reader is not good.
by jonhohle | 2025-11-04 17:34:10+00:00
Apple was killing it with iPhoto/Photos for this use case until a few years ago. Put in a memory card and Photos would import new photos, offer to delete after import, and ignore photos still on the card. Photo Stream made it possible to have a minimal set of photos in the cloud to have on other devices, which could be configured to sync various albums.

Then they moved to iCloud or manual sync and your forced to manage individual files again. Delete in iCloud, it’s gone everywhere. Want to keep your bad shots, but not have them on every device? Figure out how to move photos between multiple libraries while only being allowed to have one open at a time.
by shadyKeystrokes | 2025-11-04 17:34:10+00:00
Well, we could attempt to reconstruct it from history and similar landempires. We could take babylonian or russian history and transpose it into the language. Then recreate some superiority atrocity justification mythology ("gods chosen people"/"sinners-born-unpure"-must be purged.) Then we take all the tribes that sided with the spaniards, whose history they wiped out and invent some colorful horror-stories that other them. So, the spaniards of the new world getting trampeled by the old world, who brought gonorreha home,creating hyper puritan std ethics, voila.. nothing of value was lost.
by danaris | 2025-11-04 17:34:38+00:00
> If Google or any other platform doesn't want you on their platform, nobody can force them to have you.

That's just not true.

Up till now, no government has (to my knowledge) tried to dictate to a major American platform owner that they may not ban certain users or classes of users, but that doesn't mean that they can't.

It's really not the same thing as the issue of forcing an employer to rehire an illegally-fired employee—where the employee then remains there under a cloud, because they have to continually interact with the people who wanted them gone. In 99.999% of cases, when a platform removes a user, there's zero relationship between that user and the people involved in making that decision.

If Congress made a law tomorrow (laughable in the current environment, I know) that said that any public video platform provider with over X users couldn't ban anyone except for specific reasons, then YouTube would, indeed, have to keep such people on their platform.
by mslot | 2025-11-04 17:34:53+00:00
You could say

With DuckLake, the query frontend and query engine are DuckDB, and Postgres is used as a catalog in the background.

With pg_lake, the query frontend and catalog are Postgres, and DuckDB is used as a query engine in the background.

Of course, they also use different table formats (though similar in data layer) with different pros and cons, and the query frontends differ in significant ways.

An interesting thing about pg_lake is that it is effectively standalone, no external catalog required. You can point Spark et al. directly to Postgres with pg_lake by using the Iceberg JDBC driver.
by KronisLV | 2025-11-04 17:35:10+00:00
For what it’s worth, even the Qwen 30B model has its use cases. And as far as some of the better open models go, by now the GLM 4.6 355B model is largely better than the Qwen3 Coder 480B variant, so it seems that the models are getting more efficient across the board.
by Tade0 | 2025-11-04 17:35:12+00:00
> and their internal state is no longer static and deterministic (and they become Turing complete!).

But it's not the LLM that makes modifications in those databases - it just retrieves data which is already there.

> Why would you travelling through time suddenly erases all other minds in reality?

I'm not following you here.

> they are active minds while they are processing a prompt.

Problem is that this process doesn't affect the LLM in the slightest. It just regurgitates what it's been taught. An active mind is makes itself. It's curious, it gets bored, it's learning constantly. LLMs do none of that.

You couldn't get a real mind to answer the same question hundreds of times without it being changed by that experience.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-04 17:35:30+00:00
I bounced off this game.

It was fun and rewarding early on, as an idle game addict, but there's a massive complexity cliff.

You go from "just plant the newest crop on every square" to "Okay, now you need to manage farm-wide state in a way that the tools do not support, and develop powerful planning systems and priority systems to actually yield meaningful results and higher level crops" and I just don't understand why.

The reward for rewriting an entire working (nice and simple) system to a behemoth full of complex logic and systems engineering is.... another crop? At least until you get to spawn new drones which is locked off until you've already basically beaten the game for some reason?

Like it feels like there is massive missing transition and purpose to that complexity. In factorio, you deal with the insanity of petrochemicals because it gives you fun toys.

I found myself quite unable to engineer an entire system like that just to... improve my rate of resource growth. Somewhat.
by conartist6 | 2025-11-04 17:35:33+00:00
I don't think human consciousness is all that special. I think the worm probably thinks worm thoughts. We now know that cats and dogs have a vocabulary of human words and can even express their thoughts to us using buttons to form words they can think but not speak. I think the soul is just the part of our essence that isn't our body: the imprint we leave on the world by touching it, by being a part of it.

Disturbingly that system of beliefs suggests that without being alive or being able to think AI could have a "soul" in the very same sense that I think a person or a worm does.
by throwaway378400 | 2025-11-04 17:35:34+00:00
I was thinking the same thing, it feels neutral at best, but anything potentially bad about it is probably for non-program members.

If you give SNAP beneficiaries a discount that isn't gov subsidised, all things same everyone not in SNAP might theoretically pay more.

It sounds reasonable, but tinfoil time, unless they normally have people watching this, it feels like the USDA was told or anticipated this.

So much of this gives "Look what you made me do" vibes.
by dpark | 2025-11-04 17:35:38+00:00
I’m not clear what the case against Nike was. Zhu did not create stick men. He wasn’t even the first to publish “stick fight” videos. He filed a trademark of some sort but you can’t take ownership over an entire class of art based on a trademark. Disney can stop me from using Mickey Mouse in my ads. They can’t stop me from animating a mouse.