MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-09 17:56:25+00:00
It's understandable why society would be afraid of doing such things. It feels too much like playing god. Some things can be labelled in a different way to make them more palatable. But in this case i feel the wider harm to society outweighs the potential good to the individual. Which is the same reason i don't like assisted suicide.

On the subject of colour blindness, i know many people who are colour blind and it's little more then a minor inconvenience for them. A large portion of the population probably don't even know they are colour blind. It's pretty widespread.
by simpaticoder | 2025-11-09 17:56:41+00:00
The big question for me is how to give a child an experience that builds an accurate mental model of what a computer is and what software is. This was easier back in the day (like, Apple IIe times) when you ran one program at a time and if you didn't interact with it, it sat there, inert. (Yes I realize there is always some steady-state physical process going on, e.g. the pulsing of the clock-crystal, refreshing DRAM, etc. But I'm talking about software.) There is something beautiful and....solid about running a single process running in immediate mode on a simple CPU.

Contrast this with a modern experience. There are hundreds of inscrutable processes running, constantly talking to the network, to disk, doing who-knows-what. What does "software" mean on a modern machine? Software runs the gamut from a command line one-shot tool, to an invisible daemon, to a desktop app with a window, or multiple windows, to something hosted in a browser, to something hosted by something hosted in a browser. How can you build a clear mental model amidst so much noise, clutter and (both UI and runtime) heterogeneity?

In the same why "phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny" I'd argue the correct computer for a kid is a single process box with either hard-coded programs or a floppy-like experience (e.g. SD card "floppies). Given all of this, the perfect kids computer system is an HDMI TV dongle that runs an Apple IIe emulator, Logo, and a handful of retro games, and an SD card slot for other programs (prepped by the parent). No wifi or internet, bluetooth for connecting a keyboard, and no mouse.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-11-09 17:56:43+00:00
Opposite experience in my case

It’s super hard to find someone who can put the same time, energy and effort in as me on any project where it’s not an employer-employee relationship and I’m paying them

Since gpt 2 came out I’ve been way happier doing hobby or side projects with it than I have ever been working with other people, and it’s not even close

My setup is basically myself, my environment and then a chorus of cgpt, claude and Gemini acting as a large GAN.

I’ll give an exceptionally specific prompt with a proposed architecture then it’s just iterating, testing, debug etc…
by anovikov | 2025-11-09 17:56:58+00:00
Which, given times we live in, makes them look like a great investment. Just look at which stocks made enormous gains in the last 10 years! Perhaps the only large company that did the real thing is SpaceX but you can't buy their stock. The rest sold us bullshit or tools to build even more bullshit (Nvidia that gave us crypto, then NFT, then "AI" - my pet theory is that all of this stuff was invented by their proxies to boost GPU sales).
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-09 17:57:20+00:00
I suppose the distinction is worth making, since if it was actual AI replacing jobs, i.e. AI that is capable enough, today, to do someone's job, or more likely to increase someone's productivity so that headcount can be reduced, then that would seem a permanent shift and is only going to ratchet up.

OTOH, if it is only dreams of AI, manifested as AI spending, or CEOs laying people off thinking that AI will soon (even if not today) be capable of backfilling them, then this may well backfire, and will be "reversed" if demand is less than forecasted and/or job-replacing AGI doesn't materialize, and all we get is productivity tools, useful mostly for a narrow band of jobs.

Incidentally, I think Karpathy might be right that there is pretty much only one job that seems it actually could be replaced by AI today, at least potentially, which is call center tech support, or customer support, staff, who are dealing with a narrow domain and just reading off a script.
by steveklabnik | 2025-11-09 17:57:51+00:00
The Rust install page says this when I load it up on iOS:

> It looks like you’re running macOS, Linux, or another Unix-like OS. To download Rustup and install Rust, run the following in your terminal, then follow the on-screen instructions. See "Other Installation Methods" if you are on Windows.

“Other Installation Methods” links to https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-installation-methods... which has offline installers for every platform, including various Linuxss.
by rpdillon | 2025-11-09 17:58:46+00:00
My boys are sitting and reading through this with me as I make comments. They are very surprised by the resentment expressed by many of the comments.

My eldest read your comment and said that Battlefield and Fortnite are trash because of the multiplayer component that leads to gameplay that's low quality. He doesn't feel this way about Elden Ring, for example. In short, we exercise judgment.
by delaminator | 2025-11-09 18:00:09+00:00
Which is quite a chunk. But that's one player and it's not even listed, so it can't be sold off.

AMZN is +10% in the last month, -1% last week.

The same AMZN the powers Anthropic.

This Amazon PR video was doing the rounds this same week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TnHSRNqDqM

6,435 views Oct 29, 2025

Project Rainier is one of the world’s largest AI compute clusters. The collaborative infrastructure innovation delivers nearly half a million Trainium2 chips, with Anthropic scaling to more than one million chips by the end of 2025.

I'm still bullish
by bdangubic | 2025-11-09 18:00:26+00:00
sanctuary cities are there partly due to government trying to be (just a little bit :) ) lawless… if ruling party was obeying the laws there wouldn’t be any need for “sanctuary cities” so pick another example

your “tribe” in particular is *all about State rights” unless of course States do what the Tzar doesn’t like, right?!
by sixtyj | 2025-11-09 18:00:33+00:00
Offshoring/outsourcing is nice on paper, but as management doesn’t have to deal with time zones, in reality it is much more chaos than expected. And how do they want to deal with fuckups? Thru Slack or Discord? :)

We had British SaaS supplier and all the time I have talked with Bangalore-based people. They had to work in night I suppose…
by panstromek | 2025-11-09 18:00:47+00:00
Feels like a lot of jumping to conclusion in the article. It just assumes the causation like it's been proven.

It also assumes the finding is negative, which is more subtle but similarly problematic. Decline in memory might just mean that our brain is reallocating capacity for something else. It could also mean that the nature of what we're trying to remember has changed and it's now more difficult (e.g. There's more entropy in the data, or the data is changing more often).

Research good, article reasoning sloppy.
by wredcoll | 2025-11-09 18:01:12+00:00
So this is a fascinating example of left vs right thinking.

To those on the left, why you do things matter. Breaking a law that is widely regarded as unjust is considered to be a moral action as long as it helps people.

The difference is being able to understand that "defying the federal government" is neither an absolute moral good nor is it an evil. Why you're doing it is the more important reason.
by cowboylowrez | 2025-11-09 18:01:30+00:00
it was more a simply reply to

>How can infinite AI content be strictly awful if it forces us to fix issues with our trust and reward systems?

I should have quoted what I just did in my original reply, I feel like I wasted your time by not including it. Still you did post interesting things so not all is lost.

>how can crime be bad if it forces us to police crime?

crime can be bad whether we police it or not. we actually police crime because its bad, at least in societies that are so inclined to have a police force. a desire to reduce somethings occurrence is not speaking positively of such occurrences.

> How can infinite AI content be strictly awful if it forces us to fix issues with our trust and reward systems?

this is neither a disqualifier for being "strictly awful", nor the newly arrived unique event finally necessitating fixes to trust and reward systems. I would hope that we dont evaluate the goodness of AI based on whether we have functioning trust and reward systems.
by mrsssnake | 2025-11-09 18:02:05+00:00
Nextcloud is AGPL, that ensures when using an external hosting provider you still has the freedoms, access to source code (their modifications) and the setup is portable.

It can be very buggy and slow, especially the addon apps, but after years of usage I cherry-pick the functions that works for me from those that are too basic or unstable. The experience of Nextcloud is very uneven.
Parameter Selection for Computing Modulus Values
by Patternician | 2025-11-09 18:02:24+00:00
Is there anyone here that has to calculate parameter selection for computing modulus values on a daily, weekly, or monthly bases? Currently, how long does it take to calculate, review, and validate the modulus'? How much time and money is spent before it can be implemented into your system? If there was a provably correct method so all you would have to do is input b= base, p=prime, t= depth, and r= residue and it gave you the correct value every time for the local and/or combined modulus would this be something you or your company would be interested in? If so, how much would you or your company be willing to pay per calculation?
by throwaway94275 | 2025-11-09 18:03:01+00:00
- Any work can be said to reduce the human body/mind to a decomposable commodity.

- Everything you say here about sex work applies to non-sex work.

- The name for "class of workers that doesn't have any tangible talent or capability beyond being used by someone else" is "slave." It's incorrect while this is true: people can voluntarily leave jobs. I don't think anyone is saying sex workers have to take jobs they don't want or be stuck in sex work for the rest of their lives.

Do you think modern workers are slaves? If so, solutions should address all workers and not just sex workers.

Also equating prostitution to kindney selling is incorrect. Prostitutes generally keep all their body parts after providing services.
by al_borland | 2025-11-09 18:03:19+00:00
The author seems to confuse difficulty and skill. Just because a job is difficult doesn't mean it's high-skill.

It's all about how big the pool of people are who can do the job, and how quickly a new person off the street can take over. If any able-bodied and employable person can do the job and be trained to be productive in a few minutes or hours, that's a low skill job, regardless of how difficult it may be in terms of some physical or emotional metrics.
by ttoinou | 2025-11-09 18:03:20+00:00
Yes those are the ones, although not all transatlantic are "repositioning cheap", it depends on the current market. You can also look at cruise comparators / cruise resellers to see all of them, and sometimes you have better prices with them.

Something to take into account is that USA residents have different cruises prices, usually cheaper, the rest of the world usually has to pay more
by scoofy | 2025-11-09 18:03:24+00:00
>Because as far as I’m aware, immigration law is not a concern of the state, and what folks typically mean when they say “nullification” in this context is “the state isn’t doing the fed’s job for them.”

It's not just immigration law, it's any federal law. States have the right to ignore federal law if they like. This is called nullification. However, it very, very rarely happens because its inherently undemocratic. It especially rarely happens to the extent that cities and states pass explicit laws that order state law enforcement to ignore federal laws, and even work against the federal government's interests.

It's happened recently with marijuana legalization, with success. Where the federal government did some raids, but marijuana legalization is politically popular, so they backed off... and there has even been talk in some years of ending the illegality of marijuana federally.

State nullification has been somewhat unsuccessful with illegal immigration. These raids are the result of the federal government going its own way to enforce the law without cooperation of the states. The last time we saw this level of federal enforcement against state objection is after Brown v Board of Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Rock_Nine

I good comparison to the seriousness of nullification as an act that is inherently an escalation is gun control laws. Suppose some red states wanted to just nullify the National Firearms Act -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act -- The are perfectly in their rights to ignore federal laws and allow firearms dealers to sell unregistered, suppressed, machine guns to felons. The only way neighboring blues states -- obviously outraged that this is happening -- can do anything about this is by seeking federal enforcement, again, which would include raids, arrests, etc.

>You also brought up warrants to enter private property. What do you make of the incident a few days ago where an agent hopped a fence to arrest someone, without a warrant? Should we just ignore those violations of our rights?

I'm very much not saying ICE is always acting within the law. Like any other policing force, they're going to make mistakes (intentional or otherwise). We should be very angry about those things, especially if they're happening in bad faith. The problem I see is that when we're yelling about actually -- and unfortunately -- legal things then those serious issues are just going to look like background noise. The other serious problem is that all this crying wold literally makes the left look undemocratic. You don't like the law? Fight to change it. Don't just take the ball and go home, and then cry when the neighbors come to your house to get the ball back.
by mbork_pl | 2025-11-09 18:03:47+00:00
FWIW, I get on the order of $40/hour as a senior with almost 10 years experience, and it allows me not to worry too much about spending (with a wife earning about a third of my salary and two kids). I think I could easily earn at least 50% more if I wanted to work for some rich but soul-crushing corp, but for obvious reasons I don't do that. I guess US cost of living is just insane. (I live in central Europe.)
by xvector | 2025-11-09 18:04:11+00:00
> But in this case i feel the wider harm to society outweighs the potential good to the individual.

This is where you have it wrong. The risk is not to society, it is to the individual. One family can take on immense risk to discover something that benefits all of humanity - whether it makes us live better, cure a disease, etc.

Yes, there are society-wide upheavals that a new technology like this might create, which you might be referring to as a "risk" - but upheavals are a fact of life all major technologies throughout human history. We will adapt.
by mystraline | 2025-11-09 18:04:12+00:00
I'm not adverse to smart hardware.

I am adverse to being trapped with rental hardware masquerading as as 'sale'. Almost all corporate cloudshit is that.

As a counter example, I have 2 of these opengarage for my garage doors. They work superbly and integrate seamlessly with HomeAssistant.

https://opengarage.io/

And yes, I control them completely. FLOSS and all. And they just work.
by vejeta | 2025-11-09 18:04:40+00:00
I am the author of the article. I have put a quick prototype to see how a game like this could be played from the web. And it is certainly possible. I used "ttyd" as a bridge from a shell program and show the output through websockets with apache. You can check the code in https://github.com/vejeta/conquer-web.

The game is playable through the web, with the original curses interface, you can login with your nation and play, but I want the experiment to be more "curated" by providing a proper login system, to avoid any kind of attack, although the process running conquer is in an isolated docker container. Also I want to provide the help system in the web, so people can learn to play without having to login into conquer first.

I will make it free, or anyone will be able to host their own instance. If you want to tinker, what I have it is already in https://github.com/vejeta/conquer-web
by softwaredoug | 2025-11-09 18:04:56+00:00
> I worry about other students being lazy and just ripping my hard work and claiming it as their own. That really pisses me off when I hear some horror stories like that.

Make the code part of your professional marketing. It’s not code for code sake but to enable you to blog, speak, etc about something interesting. Then there’s little chance some theoretical thief is also communicating those ideas. And if you’re good at evangelizing yourself it SHOULD happen that someone steals your code. If anyone looks up the ideas, they’ll be inundated by content you created. The code is secondary.
by CivBase | 2025-11-09 18:05:01+00:00
I'd be more inclined to work in the office if most of my coworkers weren't in India anyways. I can't exactly have water cooler talk with Manglesh while he's asleep on the opposite side of the planet. At least at home I don't have to spend 10 minutes of each meeting finding an empty conference room and getting the audio/video setup to barely function.
by imtringued | 2025-11-09 18:05:13+00:00
You seem grossly misinformed about how the internet works. The server isn't located in the country that made the request. There is an entire network between the server and the client. A part of that network exists in the US and another part of it exists in the UK.

The network infrastructure is the thing that is performing the delivery that is actively reaching across borders. Not the webserver.

The entire HN submission is full of people saying that it is the UK networks responsibility to make sure that their laws are upheld and that anything happening inside US borders is simply people going above and beyond in assisting the UK in the pursuit of the enforcement of its laws. The geoblocks on the side of the webserver are a form of optional assistance and a sign of goodwill.

Meanwhile Ofcom seems to be of the opinion that this isn't enough yet they simultaneously do nothing about the violators physically located in the UK. This means they are going out of their way to make an unenforceable and impossible to implement law so that they can manufacture probable cause.

Website operators can give the UK a list of IPs to block, which would make it very easy for the UK to enforce their own laws even against VPNs, but it is only the UK that is capable of doing that, and they are shirking their responsibility onto those who can't do it on their behalf.
by aaaronic | 2025-11-09 18:05:42+00:00
Building floor numbers in at least a few countries I’m aware of start from zero or “G” ( or the local language equivalent for “ground“) with 1 being the first story above the ground.

I think you’re just biased to think that starting must “naturally” begin with 1.

Zero is just a good a place to start and some people do start counting from zero.
by aatd86 | 2025-11-09 18:06:06+00:00
Ok so it was tongue-in-cheek if not obvious but thanks whoever for the downvote. Then a bit more serious... There might be even better examples but let's consider that someone is part of a community that can use what is considered a slur, depending on context, or a term of endearment, depending on context and who uses it etc... If someone else uses it but fails to disclose their appartenance to said group. When asked, they can refuse to disclose it.

Is it fair to get them banned from the community? Can we consider that they might be lying by omission? After all they didn't answer and they might pass themselves as part of a community.

There are also colloquial considerations in online interactions that might be taken into account.

This is not really what I was veering toward initially but simply as a way to bring some more nuance since humor doesn't work here apparently.

This is the sort of things we see on twitter/X etc. You can't force people to speak differently, you can't force people to disclose information they would not want to disclose, but you may want to have some sort of policy to rule these kind of issues.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-11-09 18:07:18+00:00
"Are the people doing the humane and civil things the same as the people actively supporting and promoting evil and hate? I guess so!"

If you're not being disingenuous you're being incredibly infantile.

Take a big, long think.

>agreeing to disagree,

Disagreement about what exactly? Please, spell it out.
by philipp-gayret | 2025-11-09 18:07:18+00:00
Had me in the first half. But from the "The Microsecond Window" chapter and on...;

> No warning. No error. Just different methods that make no sense.

> This is why write barriers exist. They're not optional extras for C extension authors. They're how you tell the garbage collector: "I'm holding a reference. Don't free this

It's all ChatGPT LinkedIn and Instagram spam type slop. An unfortunate end to an otherwise interesting writeup.
by m01 | 2025-11-09 18:07:28+00:00
Get the Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB (or more if you care). Get the RasPiKey [1] for faster storage (compared to SD cards), without needing to get an SSD. Just use the Raspberry Pi OS.

Re: software setup, curriculum etc.. there are so many resources that target the Raspberry Pi that you can choose something that the child finds interesting.

You can do a desktop computer build if/when they outgrow the Raspberry Pi.

[1] https://www.uugear.com/product/raspikey-plug-and-play-emmc-m...
by vejeta | 2025-11-09 18:07:43+00:00
It is a different game, conquer is a multiplayer strategy game, loosely based on middle-earth atmosphere, nations could be: elves, humans, dwarves, orcs, there were npc nations too: lizards, nomads, etc. Conquer is still ncurses based, probably originating from the same times (the 80s). The original author, Ed Barlow, originally published the game in USENET, comp.sources.games, as conquest, but changed the name on the second release, when noticing there was already a game called conquest, probably this one.

Thanks for the link!
by moritz | 2025-11-09 18:07:48+00:00
It’s astonishing to me that even so many long-term Apple observers don’t see this, even though they are sorta obvious about it. “Now that the hardware is so close, the systems converge, etc., there is really no reason iPad will not eventually run macOS” – No, macOS will continue to be dumbed and locked down (“security!!11”) until the point where the Macs can be safely switched over from the terribly open legacy OS.