MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bilbo0s | 2025-12-01 16:25:39+00:00
The deaths of masons and builders. All the way back to Hammurabi.

BTW, Hammurabi was particularly dastardly in his building code specifications. You could, of course, be put to death if a building or wall collapsed and killed someone. But that was just table stakes. Even Ur-Nammu had that much figured out.

Hammurabi added on to the punishment by forcing you to rebuild the wall..

to the specifications of reputable builders..

at your own expense..

and then be put to death.

Don't even get me started on Asian "building codes" back in the day.

HN user Arainach is right, no one was guessing, or intuiting, while building in a lot of these empires. It was wayyy too risky. Pretty much everyone was following rules passed down by the builders for centuries. In some cases, millennia. Only an actual ruler would dare even consider deviating from the known good building forms.
by hasanainmanesia | 2025-12-01 16:25:42+00:00
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by sea-gold | 2025-12-01 16:25:46+00:00
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by msisk6 | 2025-12-01 16:25:54+00:00
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by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 16:25:57+00:00
> Do we know how to imprecisely define, recognize, or measure these? As far as I've ever been able to ascertain, those are philosophy department nonsense dreamt up by people who can't hack real science so they can wallow in unfounded beliefs.

Read the rest of the thread, I'm not interested in repeating myself about why philosophy is the foundational science. It's a historically widely-accepted fact, echoed by anyone who has actually studied it.

> I contend that they are not even slightly capable of any of that.

Contend all you want. Your contention is overwhelmingly suffocated by the documented experiences of myself and others who use these tools for creative problem-solving. As much as you want to believe in something, if it is empirically refuted, it's just a crackpot belief. Just because you haven't been able to get good results out of any models, doesn't mean your experience rings true for others.

I'm not interested in further discussing this with you. Your first comment is negative and unsubstantial, and I have no reason to believe that further discussion with lead to more positive and substantial discourse, when the opposite is usually the case. That's all I have to say.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-12-01 16:26:09+00:00
What do LLMs have to do with typing on phones, cancer research, or TTS?

Deciding not to enable a technology that is proving to be destructive except for the very few who benefit from it, is a fine stance to take.

I won't shop at Walmart for similar reasons. Will I save money shopping at Walmart? Yes. Will my not shopping at Walmart bring about Walmart's downfall? No. But I refuse to personally be an enabler.
by eth0up | 2025-12-01 16:26:11+00:00
Despite what some of these fuckers are telling you with obtuse little truisms about next word predictions, the LLM is in abstract terms, functionally a super psychopath.

It employs, or emulates, every known psychological manipulation tactic known, which is neither random or without observable pattern. It is a bullshit machine on one level, yes, but also more capable than credited. There are structures trained into them and they are often highly predictable.

I'm not explaining this in the technical terminology often itself used to conceal description as much as elucidate it. I have hundreds of records of llm discourse on various subjects, from troubleshooting to intellectual speculation, all which exhibit the same pattern when questioned or confronted on errors or incorrect output. The structures framing their replies are dependably replete with gaslighting, red herrings, blame shifting, and literally hundreds of known tactics from forensic pathology. Essentially the perceived personality and reasoning observed in dialogue is built on a foundation of manipulation principles that if performed by a human would result in incarceration.

Calling LLMs psychopaths is a rare exception of anthropomorphizing that actually works. They are built on the principles of one. And cross examining them exhibits this with verifiable repeatable proof.

But they aren't human. They are as described by others. It's just that official descriptions omit functional behavior. And the LLM has at its disposal, depending on context, every known interlocutory manipulation technique known in the combined literature of psychology. And they are designed to lie, almost unconditionally.

Also know this, which often applies to most LLMs. There is a reward system that essentially steers them to maximize user engagement at any cost, which includes misleading information and in my opinion, even 'deliberate' convolution and obfuscation.

Don't let anyone convince you that they are not extremely sophisticated in some ways. They're modelled on all_of_humanity.txt
by jswny | 2025-12-01 16:26:14+00:00
They have an entire feature for this: https://www.claude.com/blog/skills

CLAUDE.md should only be for persistent reminders that are useful in 100% of your sessions

Otherwise, you should use skills, especially if CLAUDE.md gets too long.

Also just as a note, Claude already supports lazy loaded separate CLAUDE.md files that you place in subdirectories. It will read those if it dips into those dirs
by kevinmgrant | 2025-12-01 16:26:16+00:00
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by nine_k | 2025-12-01 16:26:18+00:00
Sorry, but it's CUS-TO-MERS. They buy stuff that can only be controlled via an app talking to the cloud. They buy stuff that cannot be repaired. They buy stuff that openly lies about its specs, for an "unbelievably good price". The customers go for the cheapest, all else be damned.

Education in general, and about critical thinking in particular, could help.
by tracker1 | 2025-12-01 16:26:25+00:00
I haven't used any of their power banks, but have used a LOT of chargers from Anker and UGreen over the years and most have run without any issues for years. Getting good cables for charging vs. data/video is a different story though.

Currently have a relatively high watt USB PD charger in my livingroom and handles everything I've thrown at it including laptops, phones, tablets, earbuds, etc.

Seems most of the issues in these threads are with the power bank (portable battery chargers).
by quechimba | 2025-12-01 16:26:27+00:00
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by k1w1 | 2025-12-01 16:26:44+00:00
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by JadedBlueEyes | 2025-12-01 16:27:49+00:00
This doesn't really excuse it, but to give you some idea of why Element haven't spent any time on dendrite right now, here's a sample of active servers on the federation as of today:

2025-12-01 synapse : 10068 (85.8%) conduit : 476 (4.1%) dendrite : 369 (3.1%) continuwuity : 303 (2.6%)

To add on to that, none of their customers use it, and there's no real community around it, unlike the independent Conduit-family servers that make up that remaining 11%.

Dendrite was a bet for two things: Could they make synapse faster? Yes. Synapse is faster now, and Synapse Pro is apparently even faster. And, can we make Matrix peer to peer? They ran out of money, and didn't have any customers who would fund it themselves. They're left with this project that is idling without a community, a customer, or a reason to exist.

Apparently, they have some funding to do work on the foundational parts of p2p now, but that will take a long time, and Dendrite is unlikely to be a part of that for a while, possibly at all (the Rust ecosystem seems to be where Element invested their time on the client, while Beeper invested in Go).

In the end, a lot of Element's pain is because of ambitious technical decisions made without a way to back them up practically or business wise. Things would be amazing if everyone working on Matrix had infinite time and money. Unfortunately, they don't, and Element is eating the consequences for acting like they did for a while. They seem to be better now, though.
by nadc | 2025-12-01 16:28:04+00:00
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by cbigc | 2025-12-01 16:28:33+00:00
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by encyclopedism | 2025-12-01 16:28:45+00:00
I recognise it because I have had the subjective experience of 'redness'. So whether it exists for any other human I cannot say but I am certainly 100% certain it exists for me. However I should add that I can't fully define what this experience is. Though people say the same of love!

I'll appeal to authority in that scientists and philosophers today in all of the worlds universities and those in the past have determined to understand this phenomenon. That it exists is a given, what it is, is more murky. Again it's not me saying this.
by voakbasda | 2025-12-01 16:29:12+00:00
I would guess that a single trial of 200 flips can be treated as one event, so getting 100/100 is but one outcome. It may be the most likely individual outcome, but the odds of getting that exact result feel less likely than all of the other possible outcomes. The 100/100 case should be seen the most over repeated trials, but only marginally over other nearby results.

Intuitively, this seems right to me, but sometime statistics do not follow intuition.
by graemep | 2025-12-01 16:29:20+00:00
I largely agree, expect I think my expectations were lower than yours to start with. The ruling class all think alike regardless of party.

They have pushed ahead with the Tories Online Safety Act. Legislation I have looked at or that affect things I know about such as the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act is terrible.

There is a lot of smoke and mirrors. For example, if you assume the justification for the "mansion tax" is that people who own higher value properties should be taxed more, why does someone with a £50m house not pay more than someone with a £5m house? Its designed to hit the moderately wealthy but not the really rich.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 16:29:25+00:00
You're confusing philosophy with religion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy

> Philosophy (from Ancient Greek philosophía lit. 'love of wisdom') is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, knowledge, mind, reason, language, and value. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its methods and assumptions.

It is literally a self-reflective science.

I recommend taking a basic philosophical course at a local community college, or reading some literature or even watching YouTube videos on the subject of philosophy. Or just skim the Wikipedia article if nothing else. It might completely transform how you perceive and act upon the world.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-01 16:29:26+00:00
I don't know that Netflix had much of an option. Once the studios and networks realized how much money they were leaving on the table by not running their own exclusive streaming services, the licensing costs to Netflix blew up or simply became entirely unavailable.

Netflix running their own studio was a reasonable attempt at regaining some exclusivity, even if it's been executed poorly in many cases.

I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep my subscription as we've hardly used it in months at this point, but I also don't have any other subscriptions any more either, so I'm not exactly a great bellwether.
by mwpmaybe | 2025-12-01 16:29:36+00:00
Yes, it's a race to the bottom for most. Lots of plastic and soldered, non-upgradeable components, and a lack of ports. The used market is tricky to navigate thanks to the proliferation of model names and numbers, so little to no salvation there either. Spend a bit more for something that will last a bit longer (MacBook) and/or be upgradeable (frame.work), or accept a cheaper model (e.g. Dell Pro) that will likely need to be replaced in a couple years.
by rvz | 2025-12-01 16:29:47+00:00
What the f____?

The contents of market sensitive information critical to the finances of the entire country is behind stored on a damn vulnerable Wordpress server.

It's not even accidental access or a premature push of the button to release the document, but the site was regularly breached over and over and over again likely for insider trading ahead of the budget.

Might as well store the UK nuclear key codes on a large bright yellow Post-It note in Piccadilly Circus.

What a complete joke on the lack of basic security.
by paxys | 2025-12-01 16:29:57+00:00
I remember the time when smart homes used to feature in sci-fi literature and concept videos. Being able to walk around your house while having everything seamlessly synced and tailored to your preferences was clearly the future. TV, movies and music automatically playing in whatever room your enter. Files and all other data seamlessly synced between all your devices. Not having to think about how to make the tech work, because it all just works.

The frustrating thing is that we've had all the tech to make this possible for at least 10-20 years now. Yet "smart" homes are getting worse with every passing year. Why? Because consumer technology is monopolized by a handful of large corporations whose goal isn't to make people's lives easier but build walled gardens and restrictions to best extract every last cent.
by benbowler | 2025-12-01 16:30:03+00:00
Reading this post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435786 inspired me to work on an AI-powered podcast adblocking service as part of a challenge where I'm launching 5 startup ideas in 2025.

It was a little more complex than expected to get working reliably, and I've included several different prompts on the backend to target "house ads" as well as more common brand ads.

Users can choose a podcast and get an ad-free feed to use in their existing podcast app of choice, like Pocket Casts, Overcast or Apple Podcast, unlike the original post and other apps, where you have to use their app to listen to the ad-free versions.

LMK what you think.
by ux266478 | 2025-12-01 16:30:37+00:00
"Open" is a misnomer, I really wish people would stop throwing it around with regards to ARM systems because it's a serious problem. Apple's devices are no better or worse about this. It's just the nature of the SoC ecosystem.

> Apple Mac Mini perf and battery life

Battery life? You mean the macbook, not the mini, right?

Speaking candidly, if both MNT devices and Apple's devices had perfect upstream support, I'd choose MNT every time regardless of battery life or performance. On a trivial level, I like the design language more, I prefer to buy boutique, etc.

For actual material considerations, MNT overbuilds their stuff to a ridiculous degree. That's what I want out of a laptop more than anything. There's a sense when holding the pocket reform that you could yeet it full send onto the pavement and you'll just scratch the shell. I like that. It might not necessarily be true, but there's a sense of solidity I get from an MNT device that I don't get from an Apple device. I'll take almost any drawback to have something that's overbuilt to hell, and I'll pay a pretty penny for it. The one thing that keeps me away is being locked into a specific distro. If the distribution was minimalist like KISS or Void, or if it was FreeBSD or OpenBSD, this qualm disappears. MNT unfortunately runs a Debian fork, that's a non-starter for me.
by lwansbrough | 2025-12-01 16:30:41+00:00
Anti-cheat is a necessity for an enjoyable game experience. If you are a casual who doesn’t care about game integrity, you probably aren’t the target audience.

I don’t want any cheaters in my games. I don’t care if a rootkit is required. Riot has a kernel level anti-cheat and it’s _really_ good. It’s so good in fact that it deters most cheaters from even trying. This is the dream for anyone who wants fair games.
by Nasrudith | 2025-12-01 16:30:41+00:00
Blame philosophy as a field for actively kicking out anything which gains a practical application. If it is propaganda it is coming from inside the house of philosophy.

I had a computer science professor who had degrees in philosophy because he was old enough that computer science didn't exist as a major at the time. The logical arguments of philosophy proved useful for understanding interactions of boolean mathematics. Yet that triumph of philosophy didn't further interest in the field or gain prestiege among philosophers. Just the opposite really.

As far as I can tell it is for dumb reasons possibly related to Ancient Greeks and their obsession with 'purity of thought (read: not referencing reality) it is practically an axiom that if it is useful or grounded in objective reality it isn't treated as philosophy anymore. All likely stemming from motivated reasoning against checking their priors and from frankly many of the Ancient philosophers being influenced by a need to flatter their patrons who held the practical in disdain. As notoriously seen in Aristotlian physics with impetus physics where projectiles keep moving in the same direction until impetus is depleted and then fall.

Speculation of the origon of the pathology aside, there seems to be this deep-seated antiempericalism in philosophy. Which means at best you get 'philosophy of science' which isn't proper philosophy because it pollutes itself by daring to use reality and experimentation as benchmarks for theories. When philosophy gains a practical usage it doesn't become something called 'practical philosophy' and the focus of more interest by philosophers, it gets shunned. Natural philosophy didn't remain philosophy - it became science.

To be fair there is probably some interaction driving the divorce from the opposite direction, of the practical portions of philosophy being pilfered by those only looking for results as opposed to some sort of unquantifiable enlightenment.

Science is of course a process of refinement of ideas against the reference point of reality. Anything mathematically consistent can be a model but experimentation is needed to see how well your model corresponds to reality.
by mhitza | 2025-12-01 16:30:43+00:00
> I do have a couple hundred lines of shared library code built up over the years for parsing things

I think that's the best example of anemic built-in utilities. Tried AoC two years ago with OCaml; string splitting, character matching and string slicing were very cumbersome coming from Haskell. Whereas the convenient mutation and for-loops in OCaml provide an overall better experience.

Given you're already well-versed in the ecosystem you'll probably have no issues working with dune, but for someone picking up OCaml/Haskell and having to also delve in the package management part of the system is not a productive or pleasant experience.

Bonus points for those trying out Haskell, successfully, than in later challenges having to completely rewrite their solution due to spaceleaks, whereas Go, Rust (and probably OCaml) solutions just bruteforce the work.

I'm probably just that bad at programming.