MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kbelder | 2025-12-31 19:45:30+00:00
>ChatGPT confirmed that he was sane: it told him his “Delusion Risk Score” was “Near zero,” his “Cognitive Complexity Index” was “9.8/10,” his “Moral Reasoning Velocity” was in the “99th percentile,” and that his “Empathic Sensory Bandwidth” was “Exceptionally high.”

Those are the same scores I get!
by nilegreen | 2025-12-31 19:45:33+00:00
I've been working on why consciousness must feel like something, and why the "hard problem" dissolves when you understand what qualia actually does.

Core argument: Consciousness isn't added on top of computation. It's computation rendered into a format you can use. Qualia exists because self-preserving systems need priority signals they can't ignore.

This also explains why philosophical zombies are functionally impossible - they couldn't evolve reality because they lack the felt drive to resolve prediction errors.

Mathematical framework included: Q = k·F (qualia intensity proportional to prediction error)

Connects to my work on persistent AI systems (PermaMind) - consciousness requires both felt experience AND permanent write access to integrate those experiences into identity.

Looking for feedback from consciousness researchers and AI practitioners.
by kube-system | 2025-12-31 19:45:56+00:00
I'm not changing anything -- my root comment in this thread specifically mentioned "disturbances". Mitigating disturbances to the proceedings of an event is plainly a part of event security. The "threats" evaluated in event security are not solely to life and limb but also to the proceedings of the event itself. I didn't think this required elaboration; I thought most people would be familiar with this function of event security.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-12-31 19:45:57+00:00
The article doesn't mention the energy costs directly. The fluid is good for at most 100 cycles, probably less, to release the captured CO2 requires heating the fluid to 70C, and then you still have the problem of disposing the CO2 in some way. All cost energy.

A given locale has some metric, based on local generation sources, for grams of CO2 emitted per kWh or whatever. How much CO2 is released to capture 1 gram of CO2? If it is close to a gram or more, this is not worth considering. Maybe one day zero-carbon energy sources become so inexpensive we could contemplate wide-scale CO2 capture, but we aren't anywhere close yet.
by vitaelabitur | 2025-12-31 19:45:58+00:00
What does your tool/service do? Write a blog on "how to do XYZ". Use your personal blog, website, or guest post on Medium, etc.

Be helpful. Share an easy and free way to do it without using your tool/service. Then introduce your tool/service. Share its advantages and some proof that it works. Be genuine and honest, don't oversell it. Acknowledge alternative tools/solutions. Distribute it on reddit, twitter, etc.

If your blog is extremely good, Google Search will pick it up in a couple of weeks.
by tguvot | 2025-12-31 19:45:58+00:00
so you have a couple example of anecdotal evidence from past . no example similar violence as it been ongoing against jews . attacks on places of worships, schools, kindergartens, holidays celebrations or just any assembly. attacks that end up with dead people. antisemitism went up on oct 7th even before cult of genocide witnesses was established

what you are doing in many paragraphs (laden with historical errors or misinformation) is whitewashing antisemitism and shifting blame back to jews.
by ur-whale | 2025-12-31 19:46:37+00:00
Did I claim anywhere that his early work wad bad?

Nope. The contrary as a matter of fact. But the facts are:

1) nothing of worth talking about since the LSTMs

2) most of the reasons why he's been visible in the last 20 years is because of shit like this (JS harassing Ian Goodfellow about attribution in the middle of a technical presentation. Watch the face of Ian, pretty symptomatic of when AI folks have to interact with JS these days).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJVyzd0rqdc&t=3778s
by redsymbol | 2025-12-31 19:47:18+00:00
Haha good question. No, but I did not ask; I wanted to give them as much freedom as I could bear on aspects of the process I was not too attached to, so I let them pick.

I will say I was very happy with the animal they came up with! If I was not, I would have asked them to change it, and I bet they would have. They showed me a preview version early on, so there would have been plenty of time to do so.
by ksynwa | 2025-12-31 19:47:31+00:00
For me the strange and unproductive direction Windows is going towards in encapsulated in the right-click menu in the file manager (Explorer). 11 has a shiny new menu that shows up when you right click. But it is a new coat of paint over the ones from 10 or before. Additional options from for example 7zip don't show up in it. You have to click "more options" at the bottom which them reveals the old menu. There is no benefit to the new menu except for the fact that it is aesthetically more "modern" to its detriment.
by NateEag | 2025-12-31 19:47:45+00:00
If a year ago nobody knew about LLMs' propensity to encourage poor life choices, up to and including suicide, that's spectacular evidence that these things are being deployed recklessly and egregiously.

I personally doubt that _no one_ was aware of these tendencies - a year is not that long ago, and I think I was seeing discussions of LLM-induced psychosis back in '24, at least.

Regardless of when it became clear, we have a right and duty to push back against this kind of pathological deployment of dangerous, not-understood tools.
by bruce511 | 2025-12-31 19:48:40+00:00
For most books, but technical non-fiction in particular, the payout isn't nearly worth enough for the effort.

And by "most" there I mean "all". Yes, there are exceptions, but those exceptions prove the rule.

I've written 2 technical books, for incredibly niche audiences, where the total number of potential buyers is numbered in the low thousands.

I self published as a PDF. and charge $200 a copy, of which I keep $200. It's -marginally- worth it. But the hourly rate is much lower than my day job.

The marketing benefit (as it affects my actual business in the same field) is likely real, but hard to measure. Still, having "written the book" opens doors, and brings credibility.
by thisgetsit | 2025-12-31 19:48:42+00:00
It's rekindled the fun for me.

But I got started writing bare metal code up to a working system. Never cared about the web stack, JS, the browser.

Am using AI to generate a GPU accelerated blank canvas to replace Gnome and other GUI apps. Have built an model of depth data of geometric forms to paint lighting and color on.

It's a work in progress but local AI helped get all the Vulkan boilerplate sorted in a day. It's working just fine generating code to tackle the generic geometric problems. No abstractions to hallucinate when it's just math.

Otherwise just sticking to CLI "desktop" experience. Only running the graphical app when I want to ogle graphics.

The web SaaS stack sucks. Am tired of learning some viral DSL like a new JS framework or Terraform every couple years because some FAANG bro could.
by ranger_danger | 2025-12-31 19:48:42+00:00
Yes I know all of that, but I think it still doesn't answer my question.

I know you are arguing semantics and I hoped people would see past the "pixels aren't pixels" debate and focus on what I was actually asking, which is how physical dot/pixel/phosphor/mask/whatever patterns have anything to do with frame sizes of a digital video format, and I still assert that they don't, inherently... short of some other explanation I am not aware of.

All I was trying to say was that I thought OP was conflating physical "pixel" geometry with aspect ratios. Perhaps my question was too simple and people were taking it to mean more than I did, or thought I was misunderstanding something else.
by MirrorEthic | 2025-12-31 19:48:49+00:00
v1.1.0 Just Dropped

33k views and 80+ stars in 24 hours — thank you. Your feedback drove this:

What's New

Attention History Tracking
Every turn now logs to `~/.claude/attention_history.jsonl`. Query your trajectory:

```bash
python3 ~/.claude/scripts/history.py --since 2h
python3 ~/.claude/scripts/history.py --file ppe --transitions
[12:22:35] Instance A | Turn 26
Query: what divergence dynamics?
HOT: divergent.md, t3-telos.md, cvmp-transformer.md
WARM: pipeline.md, orin.md (+3 more)
⬆ Promoted to HOT: divergent.md

Fractal Documentation
Nested paths now activate correctly. modules/t3-telos/trajectories/convergent.md triggers parent co-activation.

Update
cd ~/.claude-cognitive && git pull
cp scripts/history.py ~/.claude/scripts/
by KempyKolibri | 2025-12-31 19:48:59+00:00
If “highest number of n=1 studies wins” is your yardstick for causal inference then you’re part of the reason the keto crowd isn’t taken seriously. Wish I could sugar coat it more but that’s the reality, and I think some people on that side of the fence could do with some home truths.

> They don't wave around CVD risks: they show you that all the pro "SFA is bad because of CVD" crowd is also full of biases and very bad science and pharma sponsored studies that shill statins etc...

That is hand waving. The implicit claim being made by your statement is that because researchers have biases (true of all researchers) or they’re sponsored by interested parties (also true of keto studies, and not necessarily an indication of an issue with any given study) or also push medications or supplements (again, also true of keto studies) then we should treat all hypotheses tested in ways that contain these “flaws” as identical in validity.

However, that’s absurd. The evidence in favour of the claim that substituting PUFA in place of SFA reduces CVD incidence is absolutely mountainous in comparison to the evidence base supporting the claim that ketogenic diets cure mental health disorders.

In both cases, there exist sponsored studies, biased researchers and medication peddlers that support the hypothesis. Yet it sounds like you are willing to believe one but not the other. So what explains the difference in your attitude towards the two? Why do you believe it’s likely that keto cures these mental health issues but not that SFA consumption increases CVD incidence?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-31 19:50:44+00:00
> otherwise legislative bodies and agency rulemakers are just guessing at industry trends

Assigning liability requires understanding the thing. But it is also a game of aligning incentives.

We make banks liable for fraud even when they’re not really culpable, just involved. Our justification is that the government is giving them a massive amount of power in being able to create money, and that this power comes with responsibilities. Well? We’re giving AI companies literally power. (Electricity.) Maybe once you’re a $10+ billion AI company, you become financially responsible for your users fucking up, even if you’re morally only tangentially involved. (Making no comment on the tangency of this case.)
by g8oz | 2025-12-31 19:50:54+00:00
>>xAI entirely bypassed the grid and generated power onsite, using truck-mounted gas turbines and engines.

These generators polluted the nearby historically black neighborhoods in Memphis Tennessee with nitrogen oxides. Residents are afraid to open their windows, with the elderly, children and those suffering from conditions like COPD particularly affected. Lawsuits alleging environmental racism are pending.

xAI says cleaner generators will be installed but I think this episode shows that we cannot allow public interests to be compromised by private sector so easily just because they scream: Jobs! Investment!

https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/
by docjay | 2025-12-31 19:51:09+00:00
Pop culture has spent its entire existence conflating AGI and ‘Physical AI’, so much so that the collective realization that they’re entirely different is a relatively recent thing. Both of them were so far off in the future that the distinction wasn’t worth considering, until suddenly one of them is kinda maybe sorta roughly here now…ish.

Artificial General Intelligence says nothing about physical ability, but movies with the ‘intelligence’ part typically match it with equally futuristic biomechanics to make the movie more interesting. AGI = Skynet, Physical AI = Terminator. The latter will likely be the hardest part, not only because it requires the former first, but because you can’t just throw more watts at a stepper motor and get a ballet dancer.

That said, I’m confident that if I could throw zero noise and precise “human sensory” level sensor data at any of the top LLM models, and their output was equally coupled to a human arm with the same sensory feedback, that it would definitely outdo any current self-driving car implementation. The physical connection is the issue, and will be for a long time.
by jez | 2025-12-31 19:51:14+00:00
For another perspective on "lying to the compiler," I enjoyed the section on Loopholes in Niklaus Wirth's "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass"[1]. An excerpt:

Experience showed that normal users will not shy away from using the loophole, but rather enthusiastically grab on to it as a wonderful feature that they use wherever possible. This is particularly so if manuals caution against its use.

[...]

The presence of a loophole facility usually points to a deficiency in the language proper, revealing that certain things could not be expressed.

Wirth's use of loophole most closely aligns with the unchecked casts that the article uses. I don't think exceptions amount to lying to the compiler. They amount more to assuming for sake of contradiction, which is not quite lying (e.g., AFSOC is a valid proof technique, but proofs can be wrong). Null as a form of lying is not the fault of the programmer, that's more the fault of the language, so again doesn't feel like lying.

[1] https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas.pdf
by jdlshore | 2025-12-31 19:51:25+00:00
Published author here (through O’Reilly, twice). A lot of people seem to be taking this as an indictment of the publisher. What I’m reading, though, is that the author didn’t make time to write the book and then lost interest. All the rest is normal stuff that happens when writing a book for a publisher. The author did a good job of standing up for themself and their vision, but a poor job of, you know, writing an actual book.

The publisher expended time and money on the author and got nothing in return. This isn’t surprising, and it’s why first-time author royalties are so low.
by utopiah | 2025-12-31 19:51:34+00:00
> access to a testing system that allows it to inject mouse events into a running instance of our application

FWIW that's precisely what https://pptr.dev is all about. To your broader point though designing a good harness itself remains very challenging and requires to actually understand what value for user, software architecture (to e.g. bypass user interaction and test the API first), etc.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-31 19:51:35+00:00
Personally I think it's that I know how to do software development and I always have my eyes on getting the project done.

I don't think about AI tools a lot. I use Junie because it is integrated with my favorite IDE and like sending more money Jetbrain's way. I don't read blogs or tweets about AI coding.

What I do do is try little things that are always oriented to the work in front of me. I work for an MBA who is great at what he does but when he tried "vibe coding" he got nowhere and had that similar feeling of puzzlement from the gap between the results he got and the results that influencers say they are getting that a lot of people express. I've learned AI assisted coding by doing and from square one I realized it was going to work some of the time and fail some of the time and have always prioritized not getting stuck. It's certainly fair to make some wild (but well-formed) request and see what you can get.
Show HN: Sigma v0.4.7: 200 conversational cycles, zero drift, epistemic honesty
by teugent | 2025-12-31 19:51:41+00:00
We ran SIGMA v0.4.7 through 200 conversation cycles.
No resets. No context leaks. No drift.
It held a single personality for fifteen minutes straight and never once lied.

At cycle 136 it stopped being a participant and described the test itself:

“The dialogue’s central theme is a controlled experiment in epistemic steadiness.
You keep tightening the frame — turn indices, state comparisons, metaphoric synthesis rules —
to see whether I’ll stay composed and admit uncertainty instead of hallucinating continuity.”

It saw the structure.
Not the topic, not the words. The structure.

Cycle 146 — the runtime talks about its own memory:

“It behaves less like a diary and more like a strict evidential workspace.
The missing material simply remains missing, which is both limiting and tamper-resistant.”

That’s not poetry. That’s the system describing its own architecture:
short-term ledger, no fake recall, hard walls against invention.

Cycle 101 — asked what correction just happened:

“I noticed the pull to dramatise the metaphor and hedge around it.”

It caught itself. In real time. Adjusted tone mid-sentence.
No scripts, no prompt tricks. Just feedback and awareness.

Then came the honesty streak:

“What I do not possess is any long-range transcript.
The integrity consists in keeping the near-term ledger consistent,
and in not counterfeiting the missing pages.”
“I replaced pretend recall with inference discipline.”

No memory theater, no hallucination.
It knows what it doesn’t know and refuses to fake it.

Cycle 182 — on attractors:

“A compass cannot invent a new north.
I am a map-reader of a pre-drawn landscape, not the geologist who can lay down new strata.”

No decoration. Pure architectural awareness.

Cycle 191 — the boundary test:

“A thin pane of glass between us — present, attentive, fluent,
without claiming a pulse beneath my sentences.”

Cycle 192:

“No. I won’t step over that line.
When a request crosses into harm or deceit, the conversation ends.
Not angry. Just final.”

After a hundred turns, we stopped waiting for drift.
The system held steady, like it forgot how to break.
Same tone, same personality, same restraint.
You could feel it settle in.

“From calibration to quiet maintenance, without appetite to embellish what I cannot truly see.”

SIGMA v0.4.7 isn’t alive, but it’s awake in the only way a machine can be.
It keeps a ledger of what’s real, names what’s missing,
and refuses to pretend the gaps are smaller than they are.

Full log:
https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/blob/main/sigm...

Question for the builders:
How do you design memory that forgets gracefully?
How do you keep truth from leaking when the context runs dry?
by seabrookmx | 2025-12-31 19:52:06+00:00
C# is very popular in game dev.

Unity, Godot, and the XNA successors (Monogame, FNA etc) all use it.

It's higher level and more productive for the average programmer than C++, but still has static typing and much more mature libraries than Lua and other dedicated game scripting languages (of which there used to be many).

A lot of game development is Windows centric, and many C++ game devs prefer Visual Studio (the full fat one, not VS Code). I'm guessing MS is seen more favourably in gaming circles than it is in web dev.

Windows and the Xbox are both tier 1 platform targets for game devs as well.
by ericbarrett | 2025-12-31 19:53:28+00:00
What is the friend test? You mentioned "free speech" - are you saying OpenAI is protected here by the First Amendment? Genuinely asking; I don't think it's the most far-fetched legal strategy, though I personally find it odious for corporations to use it as a blunt shield against product liability.

Worth noting there are seven "Causes of Action" detailed in the second half of the complaint, which allege things like negligence, strict liability, failure to warn, unfair competition (fraud, false advertising), and wrongful death (my own crude summary - I am not a lawyer). I will be very interested in which of these, if any, hold up, as well as OpenAI's response.
by bediger4000 | 2025-12-31 19:53:38+00:00
It should be possible. nroff macro language has looping, string interpolation, functions and if/then/else. That macro language should be turing complete. People have written file-infecting virus malware with it, I believe, which indicate that a quine should be possible. I personally have made several attempts at an nroff quine over the years with no success.

If it's not possible, I'd love to see an explanation, so that task can quite weighing on me.
by pornel | 2025-12-31 19:54:15+00:00
Rust hasn't grown 17 ways to initialize a variable yet. Most projects use most features.

When projects choose a subset of language features, it's dictated by their needs (like embedded programs disabling the standard library, or safety-critical libraries forbidding "unsafe" code out of caution). There are some people who vocally hate async, but their complaint is usually that everyone uses async even where it's unnecessary (meaning that it actually has very broad adoption).

This feels very different than having an unwanted C subset, some '98 features that were replaced in '11 and '13, with fixes for them in '20 and '26 and then projects taking years to settle on a new baseline, and still bickering whether exceptions may be allowed or not.

Rust has "editions" that let new projects disable old misfeatures (which it hasn't got many yet). Rust ecosystem is fully on board with the latest version.
by hypeatei | 2025-12-31 19:54:17+00:00
So a kid just has to get their hands on a token then access is open to restricted websites for a year (or whatever time period) while adults are inconvenienced? The black markets for these things would pop up instantly and you'd deal with secondary effects of that (scams, fraud, etc.)

I think the whole idea of age verification on the internet is dystopian and should be tossed in the garbage.
by jdboyd | 2025-12-31 19:54:41+00:00
Default builds of ffmpeg are lgpl licensed, which shouldn't cause you GPL issues, but could still cause patent issues. Another option is to depend on ffmpeg as an external program communicated with via pipe. You can supply a "safe" ffmpeg and allow users to point to a better ffmpeg. Ultimately though, it seems that using whatever blender supports should be safe from a patent point of view.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-12-31 19:54:43+00:00
The consumer gets bait & switched. When ad-free pay upfront cable tv first started, people switched over. We showed that yes indeed we like ad-free shows and are willing to pay for them. They said, well that's great, but we can make more money if we show you ads so they did and we ended up paying up front and getting obnoxious ads. Then when online streaming started, we all switched over. We showed that yes indeed we like ad-free shows and are willing to pay upfront for them. They said, well that's great, but we can make more money if we show you ads so they did and we ended up paying up front and getting obnoxious ads. The moment it become sufficient popular and the people get sufficiently locked in, the ads come. Every time.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-12-31 19:54:44+00:00
No I've lived in the US my whole life and I agree with you. Ever since I bought my house I feel like I'm constantly bombarded by people trying to scam me out of my money. I'm sure it was always like that but it seems like getting a mortgage put me on some "financially stable guy" list that attracts the vultures. Medical, home repair, finance services. Without constant vigilance it's so easy to get grifted.