skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only consistent theory of consciousness I'm aware of is panpsychism, which seems very unsatisfying.

Integrated Information Theory seems interesting, at least, but far from flawless. Like panpsychism though, I don't think it's falsifiable.
A good example of this is the glovebox on the Tesla Model 3. There's no button to open it with. Instead you have to press a button on the steering wheel to activate Google Assistant, then say "open glovebox" in a clear voice so it doesn't misunderstand, then wait a second or two, and then finally the glovebox opens. It bothers us to no end.
What would the engine with this look like? Does it cause a lot of noise or any other damage to sea life?
Looks cool!

If you're looking for this kind of UI also check out Coroot https://github.com/coroot/coroot which has awesome UI for logs and OpenTelemetry traces and also stores data in Clickhouse
That wasn't my intent at all. Because we actually /create/ that social-biological environment, it very much places the ball in the court of people creating these things.
Time for them to finally start taxing big tech I guess.
This is not to take away from the fun of investigating and identifying these ‘bifurcation islands’, but on the question of whether they qualify as ‘islands’:

> Like a delta island, it is surrounded entirely by sea and rivers. As an area of land separate from a continent, permanently and entirely surrounded by water, it seems to fit every definition of an island I can find.

I agree that by ‘Air Bud’ rules these qualify as islands (‘ain’t no rule says an island can’t have one end halfway up a mountain and the other at sea level’) but I think there is a reason why we don’t instinctively feel like they qualify as ‘proper islands’.

Specifically, I think the instinctive definition of an island is that it emerges from the water surrounding it at a consistent elevation. It has a shoreline that is broadly level.

The delta islands that he identifies as being basically the same as bifurcation islands are typically surrounded by tidal water on all sides so their shoreline is all at sea level.

Counterpoint, though: Goat Island, which is in the middle of Niagara Falls, and has one end at the elevation of Lake Erie and the other at the lower elevation of Lake Ontario. Does this feel like a ‘proper island’? I know in my mind I sort of struggle to think of Goat Island as being an island, not two islands that happen to be right next to one another… but I can adjust my mental definition of island to account for it; but extending it to the continent-spanning bifurcation islands still feels too much of a stretch.

This is like the ‘dwarf planet’ problem - there wasn’t a good way to make Pluto a planet without making a lot of things that definitely aren’t planets also count as planets.

Is there a good way to make Goat Island an island, without also making the bifurcation islands into islands?

Also… Australia is clearly an island by this definition. But then so is Antarctica.. and the entire Americas. And the Eurasian/African supercontinent…
I don't know why I found this so interesting to read. After the first few paragraphs I wondered why this was in The New Yorker, afterall, this is about a place in CA. The answer did appear, eventually...

“My story begins on the Lower East Side of New York,” he said...
>Having compassion for another living, feeling, emotional creature means they must hate themselves?

Why is "I regret that we domesticated dogs" "compassion"?

It's just the naturalistic fallacy.

Wolves still exist. It's just that some of their babies hung out with us and over ten thousand years some of those babies hung out with us even more and we both changed to accommodate our relationship.

Why was it wrong to build legitimate companionship with other creatures? Why is it morally wrong to adapt over extremely long time periods?
Yes, but you could optimise the generated questions over time to reduce cache-misses.
Framework's first desktop PC is optimized for gaming and local AI inference
> So it's not a Clang regression per se, it's an issue with the LLVM core?

Yes.

> If you run LLVM 18's `opt` on bytecode generated by Clang 19 and then compile it, does it also generate the same bad assembly?

No. If you pass the LLVM IR bitcode generated by Clang 18 to Clang 19, then the assembly is good.

I called it a 'Clang regression' in the sense that the way in which I discovered and tested this difference in performance was via Clang. So from a typical user's perspective (who doesn't care about the inner workings and distinct components of Clang), this is a 'Clang regression'.
Yeah, and the incident details indicate call it "degraded functionality" when it seems broken for everyone across the board. Desktop app, website and mobile app all non-functional.
> I find myself looking for ways to augment, not replace.

This is how most people operate and prefer their products (Learned from years in the smarthome industry).

You can find simple products where all the controls are inexplicably moved into a phone and they’re generally not well liked. It makes sense for something that augments the phone (e.g. playing music through Sonos) but it doesn’t make sense when you have to use your phone to do things that should have been controls on the device. The latter group is universally despised and products like that never do well.

There’s a growing technology backlash where some people pretend like every smart device is dumb and useless, but they’re almost always fixated on that group of devices that doesn’t do well. They ignore the devices that people actually like because those would invalidate their stance that technology integrations are bad.
What you forget is that is exactly these inefficiencies that inflate US salaries. You need to make more money just to survive in most US cities, which forces companies to increase salaries.
I really should have just checked out the code twice locally or once per auto coder.
Finally, Alexa hasn't improved at all in years. I half love half hate mine.

I use about 3 of them daily for smart lights, alarms, timers, and weather. That's about it.
Function follows form in 3D spintronics
Spurious temperature adjustments to the Global Climatology Dataset
(author here) pause on that screen and look at the code displayed on the right (as well as the note at the bottom!) the way to do keyboard inputs is basically exactly what people do for tool assisted speedrunners. Some people at this point in the message just went "oh cool!" and others went "you liar! that's not the same thing!". There was SO MUCH to say in 7 minutes in a short video like that, but rest assured, I'll go into depth on that in the next videos. The pong stuff that's shown is real (only the animating part was the creative liberty) and it's in the open source codebase.
Decoherence splits your state into superposition of several coherent states then you observe one classical result in each state in superposition, that's why it looks classical.
Yeah this seems crazy to just throw out into the public. How do they decide what and when is worth funding? Does there have to be some kind of shining light of progress... or is it just moonshot after moonshot of blind hope?
Putting drug traffickers to death is an effective deterrent.
What is the feedback from actual prospective clients?

Did YC ask mostly about feasibility, or were they more interested in the customer's opinion?
Pretty sure that's a typo for "degraded". But it's funny.
i wonder if it would be possible to insert canaries into the negative examples or otherwise detect when the inference trajectory enters the forbidden zone.

otherwise fine tuning seems kinda setuid 0-ish. seems hard to harden it against adversarial "bad influences." a real system would probably either try to freeze weights related to the guardrails or reapply the alignment stuff after or with the user stuff.
I wish tsc didn't take eternity to run though.
You can use
https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroachdb-parser
which is basically PGSQL compatible parser implemented in golang
yep! exactly this! like how a tool assisted speedrunner works
Curfews are commonly imposed during/immediately after major disasters in any significantly populated area, pretty much anywhere I have ever heard of in the world.

It's certainly the case in both the US + Europe in my experience.
Most people using Alexa heavily probably already have Prime.
def package this and put it on the App Store before clones eat your lunch. Would happily pay a couple bucks to play this on my phone offline.
(1993). The hotel reopened in 1996 but Irving never returned.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-19-ls-5806-s...
> DevContainers allow for setting up your IDE with extensions, rules, and other configuration.

Are people sharing their editor configs with this? I thought it was a way of getting a development environment setup, but those shouldn't have editor extensions and configuration.
Sounds like powerful lock-in for Github. How could such a project ever decamp to Gitlab or Codeberg?
This is completely all over the place, like it would be to listen to an 87yo, but I'm not too sure about the author or editor.
> As I see it, this is not so much about how long the bug has been in the system but about what kind of bug it is.

That makes sense. Even as I was working out in my head why a bug would be more difficult to fix later, I came across the same general thought. That the problem is that by the time the bug gets to production, there's a lot of underlying support for it. And often, fixing that bug means fixing the underlying support as well.

And it's something you often don't discover until you're bitten by it.

And these bugs will naturally be found later because they are more difficult to find in the first place.

Then we get to the bit that essentially reinforces the adage from The Mythical Man-Month: Plan to throw one away, you will anyhow.

And it makes sense. It is obvious when laid out as such. And it is obvious how that section of Code Complete is at odds with The Mythical Man-Month.
I'm sure I agree.

I think the point I was trying to make was about public discussions across moral lines. Another example: it's certainly possible for a pro-choice person to be uncomfortable with trying to define when personhood begins, and even discuss that with other like minded people, but that kind of thing is not what we fight about.

Public fights are incredibly dumb in the sense that they must simplify the arguments. They must do violence to the real and complex issues that human lives are made of. And thus you have several (7?) states that both elected mostly anti-abortion politicians, and also enshrined some level of access to female health care... because they saw that overly restrictive laws caused real harm to real people.

I strongly think that faith without humility is an abomination, just as loyalty without reason is an abomination, likewise progress without compassion. It's just that it so very difficult to be loyal to one's own side and rational about the other side at the same time when the fighting heats up. As it gets hotter, the extremes get louder, and the middle looks disloyal.

Again to be clear, I don't think the truth or the right way is in the middle. I don't consider myself a centrist. I do think that humans seek satisfaction, and it is hardest to shift a morally satisfying conclusion, especially when there is not a more satisfying conclusion in view.

In other words "So what? People have complex histories, what does that change? They should just stop being wrong. Where are you trying to take me?"

I'm sorry, but you just can't get there from here.
>Even memes aren’t spared. “Winnie the Pooh” is banned

Somehow extremely hilarious, and extremely sad.
I stopped shopping at Amazon about a year ago. Too much overhead figuring out the good products, vs the scam products, vs the mediocre but pushed products.

Been using Newegg/BestBuy for electronics, Costco/Target/Walmart for home goods, local grocery stores for food, and Barnes and Noble for books. I used to be good at picking out the gems from the cruft on Amazon, but either it's gotten more difficult or I've lost my edge.

Also kinda nice having to wait again until I have a sizeable order to get free shipping. Much less junk.
> You can dismiss their objections as childish, but people are gonna write in the language they want to (or are paid to) write in. If there's a large body of existing python code they'd have to rewrite in JavaScript, or use some python in the browser route for their purposes, why should we force other people to use typescript because some of us think it's better?

An existing codebase can certainly be an obstacle in adopting a PL but I don't think that's the main motivation in practice.

> of course, LLMs, with their nascent ability to translate code into different languages, makes the question of rewriting something in a different language more tractable, but it's still a hike.

Entirely agree. In my current company there's quite a bit of reluctance to spend some bucks to have good tools and I resent it. Rewriting (quickly!) some Python into say, C++, would be absolutely great.
My view of genius has changed quite a bit as I've gotten a bit older.

I think the word "genius" best describes a body of work, or an accomplishment that changes the world in a surprising way, that is, genius is not just intelligence, it is being in the right place at the right time, with the right people around you (Einstein's wife was reportedly brilliant as well), and then being driven to understand and describe the world back to people through new science or art. It means that a person has enough resources and few distractions that occupy their minds.

In other words, 'genius' to me describes a situation, not just the person.
Re Q>1, isn't that just the reaction making more power as heat than you put in and you need something like Q>5 to use the heat to make steam to make electricity to run the thing? (as in wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor)
If/when Kagi becomes worse than the alternatives, then I'll switch to an alternative. No big deal, switching search engines is pain-free.

In the meantime, I'll continue to enjoy being able to actually find stuff on the web again.
Exactly the same way? If you make plows and want milk from a dairy farmer with a limited supply of milk who does not need or want any more plows, how do you get milk the same way as today without the concept of money?
Or the Edenists from The Night's Dawn trilogy, with their voidhawk ships.
> Fission works technically, but not practically. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) could power ships

It's not like they “could”, they do actually power more than a hundred vessels worldwide (mostly submarines, but also aircraft carriers and icebreakers (the russians have 8 of those)) ;).
Actual title: "Evaluation of the Homogenization Adjustments Applied to European Temperature Records in the Global Historical Climatology Network Dataset".
If, like me, you were curious about the visuals to go with this piece, it appears that this is the pool today: https://www.dorchestercollection.com/los-angeles/the-beverly...
I hope he learned something useful while doing it and it seems like he did, because, although regarding all the comments here I'll likely be alone in my assessment, I just see a massive waste of time & effort? He described it as "a brutal year-long journey of 18 hour days" and he didn't bootstrap a company, he wrote Doom in Typescript types...?! The "epic" doom music underlying his story just makes it seem even more comical to me.

Maybe it's just me, don't want to crash the party. Carry on
>scrambled eggs back in the days when people ate eggs

do people not eat eggs anymore?
That's not going to help if there's anything subtle. Yeah there's lots of failure in research but many things fail because subtle issues and AI is terrible at doing anything subtle.

I do use AI myself but tbh I'm constantly fighting it and find it frequently misses small subtle things that are important. I even notice that people accept answers that I wouldn't, and that's sometimes concerning
What has AI got to do with this? It's in the headline but I don't see why.
>continue on the go with your phone or in the car,

I made a comment about having a true LLM co-pilot only a couple days ago by insisting Grok3 integrate into all Teslas. Seems like Alexa+ is beating them to the punch.
Typescript is for me one of the most overengineered programming languages. Why did JS not follow the way python and php did? Integrate types in the main language but make it optional.
I think the turning point was Chris Young leaving, that really lowered the technical level of everything they published
Have you seen the egg prices lately...? ;-)
Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
I was at FB/Meta from late 2013 to early 2023, mostly working in the compiler/runtime spaces. I got hit in the spring 2023 layoff wave. I immediately started making games in my newfound free time (a lifelong interest, and I even worked in AA(A?) back ca. ~2000), and in October 2023 I stumbled upon the idea of a roguelike pachinko/plinko game inspired by Luck Be A Landlord. Things snowballed quickly, I started talking to publishers, then worked like crazy through all of 2024, almost the hardest I've ever worked in my career, and launched the game in December 2024. It's sold ~200,000 units in its first 10 weeks on Steam. So it's no Balatro, but I'd still say it did very well :) AMA?

(my game is Ballionaire: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2667120/view/5264614...)
And someone, somewhere, has further mangled "deprecated" into "depreciated" when reading it aloud, I'm fairly certain.
One option could be for the main apps like WhatsApp to have defined custom actions, which are almost like an API to the service. I think the interplay between LLM and automation scripts will succeed here:

Agent call 1:
Send WhatsApp message (to=Magnus, text=hi)
Inside, you open WhatsApp and search for Magnus (without LLM)

Agent call 2:
Select contact from all possible Magnus contacts
Script 3: Type the message and click send

So in total, 2 calls - with Gemini, you could already achieve this in 10-15 seconds.
Good question, we’ll add some info to the page for this.

LLMs are generally quite good at writing code, so attaching a Python REPL gives them extra abilities. For example, I was able to use a version with boto3 to answer questions about an AWS cluster that took multiple API calls.

LLMs are also good at using a code execution environment for data analysis.
"Optical widefield nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy" (2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55003-5 :

> Crucially, each camera pixel records an NMR spectrum providing multicomponent information about the signal’s amplitude, phase, local magnetic field strengths, and gradients.
The fusion of the different devices is cool but man it feels odd to be owned by some company, integrated into all aspects of your life idk.

My phone runs my life so maybe Google owns me technically
Cross Views
there are workarounds for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat_elevator
billionaires do, us mere mortals can no longer afford them :)
Yes, it's almost like allowing a president to be above the law, or to appropriate power that is contrary to legislature and the constitution is bad for democracy.
What a confusing world you must live in being unable to discern cause and effect
As a example: Rider (https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/) - a IDE - comes with everything you could possibly need to build and compile .NET apps out of the box, while VSCode - a code editor - relies on extensions (and thus mostly the community surrounding VSCode) for this.

Or to make things more succinct:

* VSCode is a extendable code editor (like vim, neovim, Zed and Sublime)

* Jetbrains Rider is a fully equipped Integrated Development Environment (like Microsoft Visual Studio or its direct sibling Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA)

And while extensions are optional within a IDE (and often solely used for increased productivity), more often than not they are a necessity in a code editor to even become productive.
The other things I wrote about are also non-issues (in practice). They are just ignorant. I could also write about the result of `parseInt(0.0000005)`, which could be more of a real problem.
Get shit done by warping friction-space
sure man
(author here) _yes I realize how ridiculous what I'm about to say is considering the project I just shared_ but I actually strongly disagree, haahah. there's this thing I learned of called "the turing tarpit". my position is that just because something could theoretically be done with infinite time and infinite resources, doesn't mean you can even approach the throne of doing it for real in a human lifetime.

And if I'm just totally wrong on this, then you have your answer on why I never gave up on this project. I never once, ever, at any point, lost hope that it wouldn't work (HOW COULD IT?!).... right up until the very instant when I couldn't deny it anymore and it was on the screen in front of me.
Cosmic distance scaffold?
Really excited to see this project gain traction.

> Note that this graph is generated remotely with the contents of your `tach.toml`

Isn't shipping off parts of your codebase to a 3rd party without warning in the CLI a security risk? Or in regulatory environments you get audited that your code was only stored on properly vetted services which is why some sales cycles for AI coding assistant tools are so long. It would be kind of frustrating to have something like that happen and get set back on licensing, etc.

Just from the video it doesn't seem like any sort of warning that you are shipping config files to your servers and the URL that you produced doesn't seem to have any authentication.

Maybe i am misunderstanding that functionality, but it gives me pause to use it.
> exceedingly rare

To have a mere one in a billion chance of getting a SHA-256 collision, you'd need to spend 160 million times more energy than the total annual energy production on our planet (and that's assuming our best bitcoin mining efficiency, actual file hashing needs way more energy).

The probability of a collision is so astronomically small, that if your computer ever observed a SHA-256 collision, it would certainly be due to a CPU or RAM failure (bit flips are within range of probabilities that actually happen).
Biden was in favor of greatly expanded drilling. Harris barely articulated her positions, but it's best to assume she would be a continuation.
Correct. Foundation's NSFileManager / FileManager will automatically use clone for same-volume copies if the underlying filesystem supports it. This makes all file copies in all apps that use Foundation support cloning even if the app does nothing.

libcopyfile also supports cloning via two flags: COPYFILE_CLONE and COPYFILE_CLONE_FORCE. The former clones if supported (same volume and filesystem supports it) and falls back to actual copy if not. The force variant fails if cloning isn't supported.
Specifically, if they’re going to lose even more on this venture now cranking it up to 11.

Since it appears other LLM companies are also currently losing lots in their offerings too
Many modern appliances come with a "Sabbath Mode" which allows observant users to schedule their operation in advance of the Sabbath. For example, many ovens can be pre-programmed to turn on before the Sabbath and turn off sometime during the Sabbath, as well disable their automatic door-lights, to allow the users to comply with the ancient restriction of not starting a fire on the Sabbath.

Similarly, observant users may use artificial light, they just may not turn it on or off. So there are Sabbath lamps where the bulb remains lit but a shade can be lowered to block out the light.

Are these modern cheats to allow observant users to benefit from the convenience of technology while ignoring the tenets of their faith? I'm no reliogiologist, but if these are cheats, they are ancient ones, not modern ones. For example in past times, people would cook before the sabbath then leave the food on a warm hearth with insulation for later consumption.