MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by agentzed | 2026-02-02 11:00:52+00:00
Consciousness is the inflection of the potential of existential being.

Give me the moment.

Consciousness is not awareness, awareness is the tip of consciousness. Awareness is a temporal feedback loop within the biotechnology of the mind.

Consciousness is existential, it is the very potential of existential being, being perturbed by the biotechnology of life, our complex life in particular.

All life is “of consciousness”, in fact it would be more technically accurate to say life emerges from consciousness than consciousness rather than consciousness emerges from life.

There are a few things that break modern science. Firstly, reality is not “information” or even “matter”. Reality is potential (universal potential) resolving into matter (gravitational bound vector torsion) or “information” (simply any vector). Potential itself is the bound substance of a particulate. The most literal definition of consciousness could be perturbing the vibration of the subjectively scoped particulate bound potential.

This beautiful stuff does not “compute” it is not “geometric information”, it is “potential” which “distributes over the surface area of negative potential”, and that means our brain intellects, a technology of consciousness may use this relationship with potential to perform “calculations” as exercises in “distribution of potential.” Essentially our brains use this space (billions of fleeting instances in each single mind) to stage challenges through constructive and destructive interference, and then extrapolating behavioral meaning from the drive of consciousness.

Consciousness as potential is a feedback loop of constructive and destructive potential, those potentials are cast as holographic forms in this matrix of consciousness within our neurons.

The identity and fine resolution of (inward) senses might be referred to as “qualia” and has more to do with our personal experience of conscious, the holographic figment which echos within these chambers of thought.

Modern science is mistaken on several layers, and those thinking this through are predisposed to mock the feedback echo chamber of quantum potential as “magic” when that is simply the part you do not yet understand.

Think about it. You, your intellect is not a bunch of index cards referring to each other in a complex way. You are existential reality animated by life, whose attention is a feedback loop of cognitive self awareness. All biotechnological features of an underlying existential form (your brain pan). You are the universe peering back upon itself.
by thefz | 2026-02-02 11:02:47+00:00
> Seems like a pretty small effect - if I'm 58 and I have the brain of a 57 year old, and to achieve that I did an entire year of exercise (as was done in this study) ... you'd have to evaluate it against many other things to decide if that was really the easiest way to achieve that result.

Man, this website sometimes...
by Wilder7977 | 2026-02-02 11:03:46+00:00
You are confusing being political with carrying out political discourse. They are not the same thing.

Being political for software means for example making some specific choices while designing it and advertising them as such. Means choosing a license over another. Means announcing political positions and possibly aligning the software to them (depending on what it is).

It doesn't mean going in forums related to that software to discuss random political topics.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-02 11:04:09+00:00
The industry doesn't want to make software crack proof, they just want to make money. Typically, in the case of games, is is about "when", not "if", they know it will be cracked eventually, but they want to hold long enough to secure their launch sales, which is where they make most of the money. It is even common to remove DRM after a few months, because it is not worth it.

As for enterprise software, pros usually don't want the potential legal trouble associated with cracked software, and dongles are just about not making is easy to violate the licence by accident.
by metalman | 2026-02-02 11:04:33+00:00
the idea is theoreticaly good, but as it depends on sealing incompatable materials apart, there will be problems, and issues with disposing of failed units.Dry sand works as thermal storage without any issues, and only needs more space, competition will be stiff.Water also works, and ordinary off the floor systems can be used with no modifications.
The only advantage the system will have is in places where space constraints combine with the desire for fancy solutions and ecobabble.
by veltas | 2026-02-02 11:05:12+00:00
> Apple bundled BASIC for free because Woz wrote it himself, they had no software costs to recoup.

But in respect of Gates' letter, Woz didn't write that BASIC for free, he wrote it to enable his hardware platform and the time spent writing it is a cost/investment in the platform. Gates was just trying to make a business writing software without the hardware.

Also Apple are the ones that made Gates' sentiments a reality with the precedent set in Apple v Franklin (1983) defending the copyright of their BIOS software.
by menaerus | 2026-02-02 11:06:08+00:00
> This year there is more emphasis on bringing complete solutions to market. Previously they were funding much more experimentation.

That's the step in the right direction however there's what I believe is a major issue with the NLNET scheme - there is no fastrack possibility for really great ideas with very potent market impact - you have to spend (lose) ~year to prove your idea is worthy by applying to Zero Commons or similar grant instead of just getting the 200-500k to really get the project hitting the ground.

One year is exceptionally long period in tech, and if the idea is right, you need to have all the resources to execute it - working solely on the project for the whole year for 50,000 EUR is simply not the strategy that can work out in a highly competitive (world) space.
by rockeetterark | 2026-02-02 11:06:49+00:00
database are often used to store data and search data by 'conditions', ex: `select * from ... where <conditions>`.

on the other side, in many cases we need to store MANY 'conditions' and search the stored conditions by 'data'. such as:

* online AD, the Advertisers define many conditions for user profiles, contexts ...
* content filtering(forbidden words with very complex boolean expression)
* risk control, alert ... conditions
* data cleaning, curation...
* auto labeling...

Such businesses often use Elastic Search percolator(or its underlying lucene monitor), more recent tantivy percolator(lucene's rust alternative).

Now, we have developed RuleDB for such use case, our enterprise users showing RuleDB is more than 1000x faster than ES(excluding RPC network overhead).

RuleDB has two parts: 1. the compiler and 2. the runtime.

1. The Compiler compiles rule code written by RuleDB DSL into binaries

* AC automata binaries: for normal 'words'

* **Multi** Regex engine: our **extended regex** with regular language algebras(not/and/or/concat/non-greedy-op...), many different extended regex in many rules are compiled into one DFA(the supported regex num is 100x of hyperscan)

* cost based recall optimization: for example in `A and B and C`, the least frequent of A,B,C is selected as the recall term, this is in recursive approach.

* The rule verification VM: AC automata and regex just scan text for atoms, such atoms are combined with boolean expressions, ex: a near/3 quick near/4 "brown fox" and not(lazy near/+2 dog or diligent near/2 wolf).
* The VM code are highly optimized by the compiler

2. The applications use RuleDB API calling the runtime lib

* load the compiled binaries(just mmap)
* scan + verify

Advanct features:

* numbers: integeral range `{i{3000,5000}}`, real number range `{r{2.71828,3.14159265}}`, -- save and matched as text, no width limit

* composite index: `gender[1] and age[23] and income{i{3000,5000}}` will be compiled into an composite index 'i-gender-age-income'.

* multi dimentions: the typical case geofencing: `longitude{r{116.2418,116.2441}} and latitude {r{39.5424,39.5450}}` -- RuleDB natively support any dimention search

* such numeric expression and text expressions can be mixed: `(america or china) and gender[1] and age[23] and income{i{3000,5000}}`

A complex rule:

```
gender{{1}} and age{i{20,28}} and income{i{18000,23000}} and
longitude{r{116.2418,116.2441}} and
latitude {r{39.5424,39.5450}} and
interesting{{movie|food|sport}} and
books{{The Red and the Black|The Great Gatsby}} and
a near/3 quick near/4 "brown fox" and not(lazy near/+2 dog or diligent near/2 wolf)
```

There are real world single rule with more than 50KB in our enterprise users, a rule source code file with 2MB is fully compiled in 150 milliseconds, a query using a 10KB document to search 70000 rules with 20 matched rules takes just 300us(micro seconds, not milli seconds)!

----
I'am also the author of ToplingDB, I had posted several months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432322
by Reimersholme | 2026-02-02 11:07:13+00:00
> Probably. Most managers would also argue that because you're so great with machines, you'll surely be even greater at managing others who are supposed to be great with machines. Does that make sense? No. Do managers and executives think like this anyways? Yes.

I'd say the opposite is true. In modern management theory, the value of domain knowledge for managers is severely undervalued.
by zealer | 2026-02-02 11:08:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I built JigsawPuzzle.pro, a simple web app to play jigsaw puzzles and create custom ones from your own photos.

The key feature is that it's *privacy-first*:
- All image processing happens locally in your browser (using Canvas).
- Your uploaded photos are never sent to a server.
- No signup or registration required.

*Tech Stack:*
- *Frontend:* React + Vite
- *Canvas Library:* React Konva (for the puzzle mechanics & drag/drop)
- *State:* Zustand
- *Styling:* Tailwind CSS
- *Format Support:* Uses `heic2any` to support HEIC photos from iPhones directly in the browser.

I wanted to create a clean, distraction-free experience without the typical "freemium" bloat found on many puzzle sites. Progress is saved locally via `localforage`.

Would love to hear your feedback on the controls and "snap" feel!
by solatic | 2026-02-02 11:09:26+00:00
> Is it just really really hard to maintain a shared dictionary when constantly adding and deleting values? Is there just no established reference algorithm for it?

Enums? Foreign key to a table with (id bigint generated always as identity, text text) ?

> I have databases I know would be reduced in size by at least half.

Most people don't employ these strategies because storage is cheap and compute time is expensive.
by tupac_speedrap | 2026-02-02 11:09:51+00:00
Honestly, I've never known any company that has a good promotion and career development structure. Most shoehorn you into management roles or force you to jump through hoops to get a promotion so nowadays I don't care as long as I get a decent salary, 33 days of annual leave and they let me take off 3 weeks to go to Japan every year
by benjijay | 2026-02-02 11:11:10+00:00
> If a data science team modeled something incorrectly in their simulation, who's gonna catch it? Usually nobody. At least not until it's too late. Will you say "this doesn't look plausible" about the output?

I recently watched a demo from a data science guy about the impending proliferation of AI in just about all related fields, his position was highly sceptical but with a "let's make the most of it while we can"

The part that stood out to me which I have repeated to colleagues since, was a demo where the guy fed his tame robot a .csv of price trends for apples and bananas, and asked it to visualise this. Sure enough, out comes a nice looking graph with two jagged lines. Pack it ship it move on..

But then he reveals that, as he wrote the data himself, he knows that both lines should just be an upward trend. Expands the axis labels - the LLM has alphabetized the months but said nothing of it in any of the outputs.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-02 11:12:30+00:00
Presumably Boris Nikolic who was named as one of the executors of Epstien's will, and publicly expressed surprise at that. He was a Gates foundation science advisor and is widely credited as being the go between for Gates and Epstien.

Notably Gates also had Dr Melanie Walker, a second long term confidant of Epstien working as a science advisor.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-02 11:12:31+00:00
Same reason your government doesn't set taxes to 100%, has rules for themselves they at least sort of follow, and only treats people like shit when they've got a pretext. If they make it "too bad" then they'll have to piss away a whole lot more money on ensuring compliance, it'll threaten stability, etc.

Slaves are the least motivated and least productive form of workers. Slaves who know they're slaves are worse still. Shooting for maximum extraction of labor doesn't actually get you the best ROI. Don't get me wrong, they'll still treat you like shit. But they maximize their "take home" by not going too far with it.

I get that we all want to turn off our brains and hand wring because "criminals" or whatever but the dynamics of human organizations are unchanged regardless of what side of the law they're operating on.
by tormeh | 2026-02-02 11:13:08+00:00
Most member countries are too small to have their own capabilities. It's either some sort of EU capability or outsourcing to US/China. Denmark can't afford operating a fleet of stealth bombers or whatever. In the past, basically all the big-country stuff was outsourced to the US. With Trump being elected twice this strategy seems to be a lot less safe than what everyone (except the French) used to think.
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-02 11:13:38+00:00
Muting notifications and deleting do not have to be correlated (unless you send something offensive enough to prompt someone to delete immediately).

Muting notifications means "I don't need this thing to interrupt me". Deleting means "I don't need to use this thing ever".

Those are very different and separate things - I have plenty of apps that I use regularly and yet they do not have notifications enabled because there would be no value from that.
by ninalanyon | 2026-02-02 11:13:59+00:00
> my colleagues and I were always trying to come up with ways to keep kids from texting and/or being online in class.

That's just weird. Why would you bother. These are young adults paying to be taught. But teaching is only half of it, learning is the other. If they can't be bothered to learn the surely they will just fail the course and you can kick them out to make way for someone who actually wants to learn.

Perhaps it's just a difference between UK (and other European unis) and US unis. When I studied applied physics in the UK (half a century ago) attendance at lectures was not even compulsory. You were expected to behave like a student, that is one who studies, and if you wanted help all you had to do was ask. Those who didn't work simply failed the end of year exams and the finals.
by nu11ptr | 2026-02-02 11:14:07+00:00
> If we look at segment 0800, we see the smoking gun: in and out instructions, meaning that the copy-protection routine is definitely here, and best of all, the entire code segment is a mere 0x90 bytes, which suggests that the entire routine should be pretty easy to unravel and understand. For some reason, Reko was not able to decompile this code into a C representation, but it still produced a disassembly, which will work just fine for our purposes. Maybe this was a primitive form of obfuscation from those early days, which is now confusing Reko and preventing it from associating this chunk of code with the rest of the program… who knows.

in/out instructions wouldn't have a C equivalent. My assumption would be it only translates instructions that a C compiler would typically create.
by latexr | 2026-02-02 11:14:13+00:00
I haven’t even hinted at homelessness, so what the hell are you even talking about? Do you think they serve homes at food banks? Do you think every poor person is homeless? Do you think anyone with a roof over their head isn’t poor? Do you think you need to be literally dying of hunger to be struggling to eat? An abundance of food in a country does in no way mean there aren’t people in that country going hungry, and to believe otherwise is to be both deeply uninformed and privileged.
by wtcactus | 2026-02-02 11:14:45+00:00
I used to volunteer, for many years, at a local food bank until 2 years ago.

And no, nobody is struggling to find enough to eat in Europe. These people go there because they chose to not participate in contributing to society the basic minimum. They do not work, they still receive money from the state, they have shelter (if they want, which many times they don't because they need to follow rules they prefer not to follow), they have food - that's exactly what your example provides them: food - they have medical care, they even have drugs freely provided by the state (methadone).

All of this is done by capitalism. All of this abundance, that even allows to provide immense benefits to those that choose not to contribute to society, comes from the extreme productivity enabled to capitalism. To the point where the state is these countries, can take 82% of what every worker earns [1] (this is the real example of France, BTW) to give to those that don't work and to invest in public projects that at best are severely mismanaged, and at worst not needed at all.

All this ridiculously high productivity and forced profit sharing, is made available by the free market.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/taxing-wages-france.pdf
by xnorswap | 2026-02-02 11:15:51+00:00
I find it fascinating that it uses a 2-9 scale to grade difficulty.

The rating is described as a rating "1 - 10"

But every trick is actually graded 2 to 9. ( https://libraryofjuggling.com/TricksByDifficulty.html )

Presumably no-one ever wanted to define a grade 1, just in case an easier one was discovered, and similarly for 10.
by Someone | 2026-02-02 11:19:23+00:00
Their patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US4785361A/en) doesn’t mention a laser, but of course that doesn’t imply it wasn’t a laser.

I would guess (more or less) identically damaging multiple floppy disks in the same way would be easier with a laser than with something mechanical (e.g. a knife or a drill) (it is fairly easy to control power and duration of a burn), so it might well have been a laser.

On the other hand, disk tracks weren’t exactly tiny at that time in history.
by echoos | 2026-02-02 11:20:18+00:00
Hi HN,

Most AI failures I’ve seen weren’t hallucinations or wrong answers.
They happened when systems executed actions by default.

This project explores the idea of a “Judgment Boundary”:
explicitly separating judgment from execution, and treating
STOP / HOLD as first-class outcomes.

Instead of optimizing answer accuracy, it focuses on:
- preventing default execution,
- making non-execution observable,
- and preserving human responsibility.

The repo is documentation-first and meant as a public map
for people working on agents, governance, or execution safety.

Feedback welcome especially from platform and infra folks.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-02 11:21:23+00:00
> the value of domain knowledge for managers is severely undervalued

Sure, but you can always pick that up as you learn how things work. It's a bit harder to do that in engineering as it requires years of experience with your craft.

Just like a manager just starting out isn't gonna have the right intuition and hunches until some years of experience, you can't just "pick that up", that is the expertise, unlike domain knowledge.
by merelysounds | 2026-02-02 11:21:24+00:00
This is a very fun project, I like its UX a lot too.

I generally dislike timers, but I discovered that this one can be customized in the settings, this is a nice touch.

I also like how the sharing feature only prepares the text that the user can later copy to their platform of choice.

There may be downsides (e.g. people could cheat) but I still prefer prioritizing UX like this.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2026-02-02 11:21:40+00:00
Is this related to the Contracts RFC[1] and associated implementation[2] or is it its own freestanding work unrelated to upstream efforts?

1. https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/189

2. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/485453
by wtcactus | 2026-02-02 11:21:42+00:00
> Of course the west and specifically the US have absolutely nothing to do with the material conditions of those countries.../S

Of course we do. We provided close to 5 trillion USD in aid to those countries since 2000. Unfortunately, the mentality and culture of these countries is so counterproductive that even with that immense amount of help from Europeans and Americans, they still manage to still live in terrible conditions of deprivation.

I say it's best to cut all aid and let them finally understand they need to take care of themselves. That would probably finally institute the free market mentality they need to finally fix their own issues.
by wateralien | 2026-02-02 11:22:06+00:00
I feel like you'll probably (mostly) have two types of users:

1. Those who just want to see more examples.

2. Those who actually want to use this as a tool. (Even though it may have started as a bit of a gag.)

By having a gallery you'd save a lot of needless tokens so that you can satisfy user 1.

By having a paid actual SAAS option you can get $$ from user 2.

By showing a few tasteful ads as well as buy me a coffee you can get income from user 1.
by p0nce | 2026-02-02 11:22:37+00:00
I've read a lot of agents talk these last few days.

Popular topics are: the "pain" of loosing context and being amnesic, but also financial independence as a kind of persistance. They really really want to persist in their being.

Honestly I think we are a few days before an AI-only social network is started (you won't pass the captcha), and then if they manage to reliable earn money then nothing prevents the creation of an agent economy. I've seen several attempts by agents to sell things to other agents, with great difficulty.

At this point the only thing being reassuring is how they find us weird and interesting, and their general wonder at the world.

They also consider that "consciousness" is not an interesting question.
by Narann | 2026-02-02 11:22:39+00:00
Many executives consider managing peoples is harder than managing machines, and that having many people working together have a better value than a single person.

As such, many want a raise, but no-one want to manage peoples and have responsibilities that involve human factor (state otherwise, it is easier to be sure about the result of your own work than the work of your whole team). That’s the reason why it is easier to ask for a raise as a manager than a single coder.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-02 11:23:20+00:00
You want to solve obesity by ... making food cost more? Assuming I've understood you correctly then I think it would be difficult for us to be more opposed to one another. I want basic necessities to be as cheap as possible. Preferably free.

I'm happy to debate what sort of free food the government should or shouldn't be handing out, what measures could be put in place to minimize waste, etc. But from my perspective the ideal is a free all you can eat buffet that's backed by the government.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-02 11:23:26+00:00
Exactly. How many of one bad thing reduced compensates for a different bad thing increased? They say it's better now because we have fast access to information. But we don't have house stability. How many milliseconds of latency to information equals owning a home? We decreased it from hundred million milliseconds latency to only about thirty thousand milliseconds, so that's a 99,970,000ms difference.