MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-11-22 15:09:01+00:00
If the brain does not exceed the Turing computable, then it does mean it is possible to accurately simulate the brain. Not only that, but in that case the brain itself is existence proof that doing so efficiently is possible.

If the brain exceeds the Turing computable, then all bets are off, but we have no evidence to suggest it does, nor that doing so is possible. This was in fact my original argument.

The only viable counter to my argument is demonstrating that there are computable functions outside the Turing computable, and that humans can compute them.
by philbe77 | 2025-11-22 15:09:06+00:00
GizmoSQL is definitely a good option. I work at GizmoData and maintain GizmoSQL. It is an Arrow Flight SQL server with DuckDB as a back-end SQL execution engine. It can support independent thread-safe concurrent sessions, has robust security, logging, token-based authentication, and more.

It also has a growing list of adapters - including: ODBC, JDBC, ADBC, dbt, SQLAlchemy, Metabase, Apache Superset and more.

We also just introduced a PySpark drop-in adapter - letting you run your Python Spark Dataframe workloads with GizmoSQL - for dramatic savings compared to Databricks for sub-5TB workloads.

Check it out at: https://gizmodata.com/gizmosql

Repo: https://github.com/gizmodata/gizmosql
by VorpalWay | 2025-11-22 15:09:44+00:00
Ah, I have a Mk3.9s, and definitely don't need more than one printer.

I looked at the model on printables, and have a followup question: why does the slit go all the way through? You can make the first few layers print normal and solid (in fact this is very common), so I'm slightly confused as to why you didn't (it would probably increase the strength a bit).
by dataflow | 2025-11-22 15:10:52+00:00
> It create an adhoc device-to-device wireless connection and the files are sent that way. So the two phones don't even need to be on wifi or be on the same network at all.

Isn't that just Wi-Fi Direct? Which I understand establishes a separate, dedicated temporary network for that task over Wi-Fi, with the two devices being the only ones connected to it? Isn't that still two machines on the same network via Wi-Fi, merely separate from prior networks they may have been connected to? How can you claim there is no local network or that the device doesn't need to be on Wi-Fi at all? Surely they need both a local network and Wi-Fi? Or are you referring to Bluetooth-only transfers?

In any case, my point obviously wasn't that I my home router has to see the packets, but whether/when servers on the internet become involved...
by throwup238 | 2025-11-22 15:11:30+00:00
Our energy costs are due to the distribution network and the massive amount of deferred maintenance on it that has come due in the last decade, accelerated by the Camp fire court case. There was a two year period a few years ago where power went out at least once a week while SDGE replaced every power pole in the rural east county by flying them in on helicopters. That's largely what we're paying for.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-22 15:13:07+00:00
All the ones I've had have had a firewall by default for IPv4 and IPv6, yes. If ISPs are shipping stuff without a firewall by default I'd consider that incompetence given people don't understand this stuff and shitty IoT devices exist.

I do wonder how real the problem is, though. How are people going to discover a random IPv6 device on the internet? Even if you knew some /64 is residential it's still impractical to scan and find anything there (18 quintillion possible addresses). If you scanned an address per millisecond it would take 10^8 years, or about 1/8 the age of the earth, to scan a /64.

Are we just not able to think in such big numbers?
by bluefirebrand | 2025-11-22 15:14:24+00:00
> I'd ask for some rational as to why sentient AI would opt to kill us

I never made that claim

Humans have a long track record of killing humans.

Ask yourself, will the humans who control a legion of AI murderbots keep the rest of us around just out of altruism? Keep in mind that a non zero number of the elites in society are likely sociopaths
by xp84 | 2025-11-22 15:14:36+00:00
> Why does society need to create an increasingly out of touch class of people that think they are morally justified in telling people how to live their lives.

Is that a… libertarian argument for wealth confiscation?

Why does government need to take a bunch of people’s money for no reason other than “because I’m mad you have more money than me”? Or I suppose the motivation you described is actually that we don’t like how influential successful people are. So, should everyone whose opinion we don’t like be treated this way?

There are rich and poor in every society and always have been - it’s not a government failing to have income inequality. In extreme socialist regimes, the government officials themselves are always the ultra-wealthy - because they make the rules on who gets to keep their money and their choice is “Me.”
by theshackleford | 2025-11-22 15:15:39+00:00
Thank you for this post. It’s so obvious in hindsight, but I’ve been struggling for the last couple of years with my day job, especially the last while since I’ve been unmedicated.

In office, I listened to music almost my entire career, it’s the only way I got anything done for whatever reason, to the point I almost got fired once when a manager tried to stop me heading out briefly to pick up a replacement set of headphones when mine broke. I threw a literal tantrum almost, all I knew is I had no music, and that it was essential I did so I could continue doing what I was doing.

For some reason however, when I made a transition in the last few years to WFH, I’ve been living this bizzarely very different approach where I sit in almost complete silence all day long, and it’s the most I’ve ever struggled with my…focus for lack of a better word.

I now truly wonder how much this may have to do with this huge struggle I’ve felt to remain engaged or on task. I’m getting my job done, but 90% of my effort is me having to force myself to get it done rather than…just getting it done like I used too.

I suddenly feel very stupid.
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-11-22 15:15:44+00:00
> does anybody know why there’s no agentic tools that use tree-sitter to navigate code?

I would guess the biggest reason is that there is no RL happening on the base models with tree-sitter as tool. But there is a lot of RL with bash and so it knows how to grep. I did experiment with giving tree sitter and ast-grep to agents and my experience the results are mixed.
by MarkusQ | 2025-11-22 15:15:51+00:00
Hotter _incandescent_ bulbs (e.g. tungsten wire, halogen, etc.) produce more light than cooler ones, but the heat is still wasted. That's why such bulbs are going away.

With non-blackbody bulbs (e.g. florescent, LED, etc.) the light is produced directly. Any extra heat is still wasted, but we can (and do) engineer to reduce it, thus making the bulbs far more efficient.
by rlupi | 2025-11-22 15:15:59+00:00
I doubt. Without the Google's money that PageRank created, others wouldn't have assembled the mix of compute, information, and brains that made the invention of transformers possible.

You need the vast amount of compute to accelerate matrix computation, that came from accelerating distbelief (https://research.google/pubs/large-scale-distributed-deep-ne...) for Search and Ads. Google developed custom ASICs (TPUs) because it would have been too costly to use CPUs and GPUs for their use cases.

You need the world information that came from Search.

You need the money to pay the researchers, and the willingness to do discretionary research that may not be directly applicable to your main products.

Transformers derive from neural machine translation.
by vidarh | 2025-11-22 15:16:47+00:00
> While all Turing-complete systems can theoretically compute the same class of functions, this says nothing about computational complexity, physical constraints, practical achievability in finite time, or the actual algorithms required.

True. But if the brain is limited to the Turing computable, then the brain itself is existence proof it is possible to do so efficiently. It might require a different architecture, but that is a detail.

Personally I think that we have gotten this far this quickly with brute force suggests that the problem is fairly tractable, but it may in fact turn out to be much harder than we think.

The point is that when people dismiss it as impossible, that is a belief not backed up by any evidence.

> Additionally, "No mechanism to exceed Turing computable" is a non-sequitur. Even granting that brains do not perform hypercomputation, this does not support your conclusion that artificial systems are "computationally equivalent" to brains in any practical sense. We would need: (1) complete understanding of brain algorithms, (2) the actual data/weights encoded in neural structures, (3) sufficient computational resources, and (4) correct implementation. None of these follow from Turing completeness alone, I believe.

Computationally equivalent here refers to any two Turing complete systems being able to compute all functions that the other can, and so on that basis all four of your points are irrelevant to the question I addressed.

> yet it is still knowledge

You claim my statement creates a false dichotomy, but here you concede it is not.

> Current AI systems lack this evolutionary substrate.

That is irrelevant to the question of whether it is possible. That's an engineering problem, not a fundamental limitation.

> Correct me if I'm misinterpreting your argument.

It seems you're arguing difficult and complexity, while I argued over possibility. Your argument is mostly not relevant to mine for that reason. Most of it is not unreasonable, it just does not say anything about the possibility.
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by ivanramos | 2025-11-22 15:17:14+00:00
TrustMRR became popular by showing startups ranked by revenue.

But if you have no sales yet, you have nowhere to show up.

So I built PreMRR: https://premrr.to/

A simple, free directory for pre-revenue startups.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-22 15:17:17+00:00
> people fight back. There are courts, NGOs, law firms, journalists, people can protest, can petition their representatives, etc, etc.

It's actually pretty normal for modern dictatorships to have all that too. During eras where common people and peer nations appreciate democracy and liberalism, the typical way of operating a dictatorship is to allow for nominal expression of all those things but to structure in limits on its efficacy. They happen, they're just made sure never exceed the regime's capacity to rein them in, and sometimes are even instigated by the regime as an alternative means of influence.

> it doesn't become a dictatorship just because one person wants that

Sure. And it also doesn't only become a dictatorship when those things are no longer visible. If you only see dictatorship as some abstract platonic ideal of complete repression of dissent, instead of as a concentration of power effectively beyond the reach of the demos and its guardian institutions, you'll miss most of its occurrences in the real world.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-11-22 15:17:24+00:00
If you see "red flag" about how I (and other people) live their life: I know that this is a situation that should be changed - but not everybody is in the position to do thar,

If you, on the other hand, consider "red flag" to be against the respective person, I can only say that you are an evil bully.
by mitchellh | 2025-11-22 15:17:38+00:00
This is why I use the agent I use. I won't name the company, because I don't want people to think I'm a shill for them (I've already been accused of it before, but I'm just a happy, excited customer). But it's an agentic coding company that isn't associated with any of the big model providers.

I don't want to keep up with all the new model releases. I don't want to read every model card. I don't want to feel pressured to update immediately (if it's better). I don't want to run evals. I don't want to think about when different models are better for different scenarios. I don't want to build obvious/common subagents. I don't want to manage N > 1 billing entities.

I just want to work.

Paying an agentic coding company to do this makes perfect sense for me.
by flohofwoe | 2025-11-22 15:18:03+00:00
> WebGPU is in many ways closer to Metal than to Vulkan.

If only that were true for the resource binding model ;) WebGPU BindGroups are a 1:1 mapping to the Vulkan 1.0 binding model, and it's also WebGPU's biggest design wart. Even Vulkan is moving away from that overly rigid model, so we'll probably be stuck with a WebGPU that's more restrictive than required by any of its backend APIs :/
by rr808 | 2025-11-22 15:18:42+00:00
> 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value.

ugh, I hate this. Often when doing a search for how to do something I get 100 beginner blogs that cover the absolute basics but have no depth. People who know what they're doing are drowned out.
by danans | 2025-11-22 15:18:55+00:00
Perhaps they should pursue building around Mediatek CPUs.

Google has already built Chromebooks (which are Linux based) on them, so presumably the necessary drivers exist.

Outside of laptops, NVidia sells its Jetson Devkits and DGX workstations which run Linux and are pretty fast and ARM based.

And System76 also sells a high powered (and $$$) Linux workstation based on an NVidia ARM chipset

So at least for some ARM SOCs, performance issues have largely been solved.
by cedws | 2025-11-22 15:20:09+00:00
Yes, I watched a video[0] about using CHECKs and pg_jsonschema to do this in the past. However this only checks for conformance at insert/update time. As time goes on you'll inevitably need to evolve your structures but you won't be able to have any assurances to whether past data conforms to the new structure.

The way this article suggests using JSONB would also be problematic because you're stuffing potentially varying structures into one column. You could technically create one massive jsonschema that uses oneOf to validate that the event conforms to one of your structures, but I think it would be horrible for performance.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6X60ln2VNc
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-22 15:20:11+00:00
> The public cannot be trusted to engage in a discussion about anything “nuclear” in good faith.

I agree the fears and subsequent responses are generally not warranted but to call it “bad faith” (by saying not in good faith) is not fair either. Some people are afraid and don’t understand it. We’ve all seen seen the disasters and communities impacted with higher rates of cancer even decades later as a direct result of the Manhattan Project. This stuff can be dangerous so it’s not meritless even if the reactions are wrong and generally uninformed.

People not engaging in good faith are doing it very deliberately.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-22 15:20:22+00:00
I find it bemusing that so people are simultaneously extremely agitated by high prices but also completely disinterested in doing anything except paying them. With this mindset it's not particularly hard to guess which direction they'll trend in over time, even if the world wasn't going nutters.

I mean these things are not difficult to make. They even freeze extremely well, and then you toss them in the microwave for a couple of minutes while you're getting ready and they're done. And the food you create is not only much cheaper, but also way healthier and also higher quality. When you go to a McDonalds you're getting the cheapest possible find they can source on a global level. The only reason they dropped pink slime [1] is because they were outed using it on television.

Incidentally that was a long time ago and while Wiki is quiet unclear it seems that the USDA chose to reclassify back as simply ground back in 2018. If it's been rebranded and remains legal, that's probably what people are now eating, again, at least in the US - as it's deemed unfit for human consumption in Canada and the EU.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime
by ghaff | 2025-11-22 15:20:24+00:00
>Biggest downside I know of: Wordpress is too much learning curve & overhead for a simple personal blog.

That was the conclusion I came to when I was muddling through various options last year. I had a Blogger blog already and decided to just roll in whatever professional content I wanted to add, which was the right solution for me. It helped that various folks I knew didn't bother having hard boundaries behind personal and professional content and that worked for me as well.
by omnicognate | 2025-11-22 15:20:35+00:00
The Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London contained a secret, operational nuclear reactor from 1962 to 1996. Decommissioning it must have posed some interesting challenges, given it was inside a 300 year old building designed by Christopher Wren that is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_reactor
by bragh | 2025-11-22 15:20:47+00:00
It doesn't matter how easy something is to set up and run from technology side if actually being able to set it up and run it takes half a year or more coordination calendar time, justification to several different departments, their review and approval. It's completely understandable, regulations and audit requirements are what they are: but then it is strange to read that modern developers somehow are paralyzed with terror. Well, the ones who were willing to try new things got shitcanned long time ago, this is the people who you have.

Isn't it anyway better for admin and security folks to have developers not get any ideas and stick to the bounds of the box?
by torginus | 2025-11-22 15:21:10+00:00
I don't like Godot that much either - Imo what an engine needs is a clear and easy to use high-level API for grunt work, and good low level access so you can program your features just the way you want to.

If you understand how engines and rendering works in general you have an idea on how to implement something - but then you either run into A: a tool that can't quite do what you want but almost, B: an incredibly overengineered API that's somehow way more byzantine than OpenGL C: Some obscure quirk or bug of an existing feature that either works in a strange way, isn't documented, or is buggy.

In all these cases, doing the feature yourself is much easier than relying on the engine.

Particle systems are a good example for this.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-11-22 15:21:22+00:00
On a personal level I just don't give a shit about the loot crates or cosmetic stuff because I don't buy them, they hold no interest for me, and they typically don't impact gameplay.

I acknowledge that there's a legitimate ethical concern there the same way there is for, say, Magic the Gathering or other card games. But much like MtG, I can't bring myself to be all that upset about it.
by shagie | 2025-11-22 15:21:44+00:00
The per person time commitment and food options for cooking for one is difficult. I would contend it's harder to cook a balanced meal for one person than it is for a family of four.

Buying things with portions for single servings has a premium on the price. Buying things at family size portions means that you have to have that for four nights in a row otherwise you've got wasted food (that is more expensive than the single portions).

For example, I've got a wok and can do a reasonable stir fry. Going and getting chicken for it meant that I had to get a pack of four chicken breasts... and I need to cook it before they spoil in my refrigerator. The vegetables (broccoli, pepper, carrots) were a bit better for keeping but you tended not to have one or two carrots unless you shopped the more expensive organic section. You get a 1lb bundle of carrots... and a lot of times, I'd end up throwing out some at the end of the week.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MealPrepSunday/ just isn't something that I can do and stay sane.

I can get a 3500 calorie deep dish pizza from Little Caesars for $15 ... and that's a good two days of caloric intake right there (there are even less expensive ones - I'm a fan of Detroit style). Four meals for $4 per meal. I think it was $12 when I was unemployed for a while a couple years ago.

I still have difficulty with grocery shopping portions for single servings and getting enough variety. I currently have a meal delivery / ready meal subscription that sends boxed raw ingredients that are 2 minutes of prep for a toaster oven and is about $12 per meal (600 - 800 calories). It's less expensive than door dash, the local diner, or the sit down casual dining and is portioned for cooking for one (and a lot healthier than four meals of pizza).

... However, being able to pay that much per meal isn't something that people who are getting priced out of McDs are able to do.
by foodriver | 2025-11-22 15:21:46+00:00
OT: "

My hunger-self does feel so memories are as lucid made with others in hope

"

...say, "People making a name of 'themselfes' for profit (boinboing IIRC), cos it has to be a (1994) profit ?

And to say something, that: it is only "the complexity of big-tech-companys", in terms of content" ?

Asking, cos i tryed...

I do it for um... "politikum" (if that is the correct term) maybe while keeping to give someone an excuse to laugh about...

...try, but remember mostly after a day or two, maybe one week... often before i lost a (often needed) password or email-adress, i delete it.

Did it for fun, get lost...than => doing something other...

> //deviantart.com/journalseducatethink/gallery

regards, ...

PS: rewritten while listening to: > //youtu.be/dzw7u9KOOBM?t=66
by thelock85 | 2025-11-22 15:21:51+00:00
I have a slightly different take that everything was really broken right before, but Covid and its response brought everything to bear.

I see this play out a lot in ed reform politics where leaders conveniently compact decades of prior failure into the “Covid gap”.

To be sure Covid and the response produced a slew of new problems, too, but I think they are massively inflated by prior failures.
by Dayshine | 2025-11-22 15:21:57+00:00
None of the things you mention are things I've seen in my union covered jobs in the UK.

I've never heard of union rules here. Employees are not required to be part of the union in order to get their benefits, the unions just negotiate with employers on behalf of all employees. I've also never heard of credentials/gatekeeping for unions in the companies I've worked in.

For reference, I was working as a software developer at a University on a research project: I got the benefits of the higher education university (nationally negotiated pay scales, holiday benefits, etc) but was not a member.

Pay was lower, yes, but that wasn't mandatory; that was just the budget of a research project.