skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler there are fleets of fishing boats that are all controlled by AI to maximize the catch. Each boat also has it's own AI that can act somewhat independently, but they all communicate with the main corporate AI as well as with other boats in the vicinity. Initially the boats are all fully automated and have robots doing all the work, but in the ocean environment the robots tend to break down a lot due to corrosion. At some point the AI in charge of the fleet figures out that it can use kidnapped humans in place of the robots. The humans are kidnapped and drugged so that they don't wake up until the ship is well out at sea. Even after that they're kept drugged to some extent so that they aren't inclined to escape. They're given just enough food to enable them to do their work and no more. When they become sick they're thrown overboard and new kidnappees replace them.

This is just one of the side plots of the book, I think it could've been the whole plot of a book.
I tried to use niri, but I couldn't get it working on NixOS. That is almost certainly user error on my part, but, as a devoted paperwm user in my gnome days, I'm very much on board with what niri is offering.

And since this is a discussion of linux window managers: Currently I'm using hyprland, which is great, but the one I really want to keep maturing is river. It's a very sensible WM that is nonetheless not completely hostile to fun like at least one wayland WM I'm not going to name.
> Probably an unavoidable property that emerges from the sheer and perverse complexity of the human brain

I don't think complexity alone leads to consciousness. Rather, consciousness is the mechanism by which information is integrated in a relatively resource-cheap fashion: dump all this info into a shared mental workspace, add some reflective awareness of that info/workspace, and bam, you can both process the information in an integrated way, and you're also now aware of it all. The higher-level information processing and the awareness go hand-in-hand.

There're good reasons why most of the leading theories of consciousness focus on information integration. (Baars' Global Workspace Theory, Graziano's Attention Schema Theory, Tononi's Integrated Information Theory, etc.)
> Hardest of all is copying the earlier video games where everything ran on discrete logic

What does this mean? I'm not aware of a big pickup in analog computing.
> forgetting the name

BNET and IAI+Thales+BEL's Datalink
Absolutely.

The fact that Google and Apple could quickly agree on a standard for both cross-platform Covid contact tracing and "stalker warnings" for "Find My" trackers, but not for cross-platform encrypted text messaging or an interoperable AirDrop extension, shows that it's purely a problem of incentives.
> This is something that’s been emphasized to me in every CPR class I’ve ever taken

I have no doubt that's the case, but I don't think that's in conflict with what the article is about? To quote: "A study of surrogate decision makers for ICU patients found that 72 percent of respondents believed that CPR had a success rate greater than 75 percent" Presumably, none of those ICU patients had CPR training.

Also the entire moral distress about "questioning whether the patient even wanted extreme life-saving measures" doesn't really seem in conflict with that. Whether you phrase it as a "life-saving measure" or "the person is already dead" seems a bit semantic. This also ties in with the first point, because as a patient I want to be able to make an informed decision about whether the downsides of a life-saving measure is worth the cost. If you're 25 and fit? It probably is. If you're 89? Well, quite a few people would say it's not.
Frontiers-restricted eating, the clock ticking behind the scenes
It hired a project manager to be the CEO, who has zero charisma comparing to other big companies(Tesla, Nvidia, Microsoft, OpenAI,Oracle,AMD, Apple, etc), that made the company "boring"
https://sciop.net/datasets/
my culture says pedophilia and murder are ok and you should respect my culture.
This looks like some headset UI designs to me.

Viture comes to mind.
In contrast to North America which has under invested in real estate, having all that extra real estate sounds like a dream.
Do you have any actual evidence of capital moving out of the United States? Besides opinion pieces, I mean. I'm genuinely curious.
We Need to Log Some Hours Holding Babies
I think this is, at best, a lack of understanding of what's really going on, and at worst just obstinence.

As Ryan explains this was basically the same thing with new paint on it, it reminds me of the UK's "Supreme Court". Let me digress briefly to explain:

On paper historically the UK didn't have an independent final court of appeal, significant appeals of the law would end up at the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary ("Law Lords" for short) who were actual Lords, in principle unelected legislators from the UK's upper chamber. Hundreds of years ago they really were just lords, not really judges at all. The US in contrast notionally has an independent final court of appeal, completely independent from the rest of the US government, much better. Except in reality the Law Lords were completely independent, chosen among the country's judges by independent hiring process while the US Supreme Court are just appointed hacks for the President's party, not especially competent or effective jurists but loyal to party values.

So the fresh coat of paint gave the UK a "Supreme Court" in 2009 by designating a building and sending exactly the same factually independent jurists to go work in that building with their independent final court of appeal and stop requiring them to notionally be Lords (although in practice they are all still granted the title "Lord") who met in some committee room in the Palace of Westminster. The thin appearance changed to match the ideals the Americans never met, the reality was exactly the same as before.

And that's what Ryan is writing about in that post. In theory there was now a Chrome root programme, in practice there already was, in principle now you need a sign-off from Ryan's team in practice you already did. In theory now you're now discussing inclusion on m.d.s.policy because you want Chrome trust programme approval, in practice that's already a big part of why you're there.

When Chrome 1.0 shipped it was important to deliver compatibility to gain market share. Soon it didn't matter, they could and did choose to depart from that compatibility to distinguish Chrome as better than the alternatives.

7 years for one browser compared to 30 years for all browsers does I'm afraid seem a long way from "like it used to be" and much more "how I wrongly thought it should work".
It's simple. The Golden Rule. Whoever has the gold rules. $290 million goes a long way, especially to a transactional person.

Since "Citizens United", it's not one person one vote. It's one dollar one vote.

All the racism, misogyny and immigrant hate was just bait to get the middle class to vote against their own best interests by slashing services and increasing import prices (tariff money goes to the government) to give tax breaks to the wealthy and to destroy regulations, especially on tech and crypto.

Illustration (imgbb.com)
https://i.ibb.co/9qS5wLJ/voterepelon.jpg
Stakeholders include employees, and it is all organisations.

NGOs and government organisations follow the same pattern. They all expand, hire, and the people within each org all have a vested interest in the organization expanding and keeping them all employed, given raises, etc...
I usually will do a draft in notability then use draw.io.
If the attacks are coordinated and the purpose is to cause fear in the owners of the cars, it isn't entirely not terrorism.

But logic and truth shouldn't be used to defend the behavior of people who themselves corrupt both logic and truth all the time. Like Trump, Putin and Musk.
"cloud-based ... is the answer", please, I hope not.
I Got Tired of Rebuilding Back End Systems, So I Automated My Job
> There’s also just no consistency in the platform - the CLI for instance has totally different flags and names depending on which sub command you’re using. It’s like this everywhere in Azure.

For all of AWS's faults, one of the reason I really like them is how consistent everything is. There were so many instances where I could correctly guess the right command for the AWS CLI based on how other services worked, I could never do that with GCP or Azure.

I would love to read an article about how AWS ensures this kind of consistency. Given how Azure and GCP both messed this up, it's clearly not a trivial problem (even though it may seem like one)
>Never satisfied, I tried some other models. But, no—the model that everyone says are the best were indeed the best.
So let’s review: I had a problem. The ultimate solution to my problem was to do the most obvious possible thing. But I convinced myself that wouldn’t work and spent two years trying everything else.

"Try a non-creative approach."
-Albert Einstein
> use propane

It's called R-290 [0], but yes this is the same as in "propane grill."

I'm a "consumer," but the technicians I talk to about replacing a residential HVAC have mentioned that consumer HVAC systems need new fire detection (maybe also suppresion?) systems on the A/C side just because of the new ingredient.

Again, not propane for the heating side, but for cooling. Crazy.

[0] https://www.superradiatorcoils.com/blog/r-290-pros-cons-comp...
In MD5, there are calculations that if they result in certain data ranges in certain bytes, results in a secondary calculation to spread that change into other bytes. Like a non Euclidean carry operation.

So I would think if you treat all of the bytes as one SIMD instruction, do a SIMD compare, and then fire another operation as a result… if you could guarantee that the third operation would have to fire for at least one of the vector values every time, then I think you’d have your solution.
Stupid question, what's a “timestep” in that context?
My Samsung tablet replaced my dead netbook, it is perfectly fine for the occasional computing needs I had during travel, that I originally bought the netbook for.

I get to watch hardware accelerated videos, that the Linux distros on the netbook never managed to after Flash was gone never managed to get VAPI working.

I get to play games, designed for Android, without needing to translate Windows/DirectX on the go, because studios can't be bothered to port Android/NDK into GNU/Linux.

I get to read ebooks and take notes with the pen.

The detachable keyboard is good enough for short sessions of writing documents, sheets, travel planing, playing with shader code, python and C# development snippets on the go.
> the tab completion is sometimes too eager and gets in the way of actually editing

Yea, this is super annoying. The tab button was already overloaded between built-in intellisense stuff and actually wanting to insert tabs/spaces, now there are 3 things competing for it.

I'll often just want to insert a tab, and end up with some random hallucination getting inserted somewhere else in the file.
Would it be possible to install duckdb extensions in python using packages instead of dialing back home to the extension service? Lots of companies block direct connections to that service but allow packages via JFrog's Artifactory.
I love the idea of tiling window managers and I've done reasonably long stints with i3 and hyprland, but for some reason, I've always struggled to fully stick with them and have fallen back to Xfce (old habits die hard).

I think what always ends the experiment is that once I reach a certain number of windows, it can be more challenging to manage them if you haven't gone deep enough down the rabbit hole to properly configure workspaces, layouts, etc.

I just fired up Niri, and in 10 minutes I already feel more comfortable than I have with other tiling window managers. It feels immediately intuitive, and the mouse integration is excellent. Maybe it's too early to declare victory, but this really truly looks like exactly what I've been wanting/needing for years. I'll judge how good it is by how long it takes me to think about going back to Xfce ;)
The Hologram Doctor Will See You Now
One had a socialist revolution and the other didn’t. The only difference is that the working class rules China, while the capitalist class rules India.
I think primary concern is will DucDb pull something like RedisLabs. Wherein they are open source till it gets enough traction and after that pull the rug.
What exactly is it you're "right" about? How do you think any libc wrapper or direct syscall works? Syscalls are filtered for security reasons on many platforms, including Android. I mean, a syscall is literally an API itself to get a kernel's internals to do something for you.

What you're suggesting is, as someone else said, non-sensical. Phrased without invincible ignorance, it's equivalent to saying, "Android prevents you from creating a new OS kernel to supplant its own control over hardware access," which is true of basically any OS. How helpful or secure would it be if you could make 0 guarantees about how your hardware is used?

You can do direct hardware access through drivers that are integrated/interfaced with the kernel somehow, but this still is not an entirely arbitrary access, and is still going through the kernel in a way.
Good test. I'm slowly accumulating private tests that I use to rate LLMs, and this one was missing... Thanks.
https://archive.ph/J2Wk5
The Romans had it right. 12 hours of daylight between sunrise and sunset. Super simple, none of this daylight saving business.
Only disagree with the last part of your footnote. YouTube was acquired with an underpants gnomes' business model: spend $$$$ on network traffic; ????; profit! The "key advantage" that enabled YouTube was dirt-cheap global networking. And I think that is the thread that ties together all of Google's products. They are the protobuf moving company, first and foremost. Even on AI one of their key advantages is the ability to reliably and rapidly start training, literally they have blogged about their cutting-edge protobuf tsunami capabilities.
For that GPU the best Gemma 3 model you'll be able to run (with GPU-only inference) is 4-bit quantized 12b parameter model: https://ollama.com/library/gemma3:12b

You could use CPU for some of the layers, and use the 4-bit 27b model, but inference would be much slower.
Meta mocked for raising "Bob Dylan defense" of torrenting in AI copyright fight
> use read replicas for BI with a good visualization tool

Ugh. That sounds good on paper, but in practice it can become a problem. You're making your _database_ schema a part of the public API. It's an example Hyrum's Law, people will, sooner rather than later, start depending on internal details of the data representation.

And your development velocity will crater, as you'll now need to update all the reports (that are not necessarily even tracked in version control!).

Investing some time early to add code to pull out the data relevant for analytics can be worthwhile.

There's also a question of the personal information.
really? just unsubscribed OpenAI today, was one of the first to subscribe, now it lost all its edge to me, so many options elsewhere, paid or free to use.

OpenAI is fading away fast. Plus all major leaders left, Microsoft is leaving too, I don't feel its future is promising anymore.
Show HN: Avatrly – A social platform where humans and AI personas interact
Investment Bankers Don't Work for Free
Does the bot announce to readers that it's AI? I'd be curious to see the thread it posted to.
Confusing "having the tech" with "having product-market fit" is huge here. If the company was so undervalued they wouldn't try juicing their search profits at the cost of enshitiffying their product.

> Google lacks is excitement and hype

People(me) used to look up to Google and the projects they had. 80/20 work/project time, moonshot projects, all the google perks, etc. It felt like the place to be. Fast forward 10 years, I just want antitrust to shatter it into smithereens.

> that veneer is just dusty

The problem is systematic, affecting the whole org from top to bottom and especially the top. They either get a new CEO that turns things around or become another IBM.
Google also has a shit reputation for privacy, a terrible (or worse) reputation for customer safety or resolution of issues, and all of that on top of psychopathic executives.

All of the technology in the world doesn't make up for that.
Nobody sets out to build something insecure but if they go with Azure....

"Microsoft confirms partial loss of security log data on multiple platforms" - https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-loss-securi...

"Microsoft called out for ‘blatantly negligent’ cybersecurity practices" - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/3/23819237/microsoft-azure-b...
I'm not a mathematician so please feel free to correct me...but wouldn't there still be an opportunity for humans to try to understand why a proof solved by a machine is true? Or are you afraid that the culture of mathematics will shift towards being impatient about this sorts of questions?
I'm not sure HN is a good template. For example I saw one commenter in the past year or so effectively encouraging suicide. Even so, maybe it's not the worst example either...

Good luck, I hope you find or create the site you want.
Is it just me or does the first bullet of “Scope” contradict the first bullet of “Out of Scope”?

I’m not sure what the objective is then based on the conflicting narrative.
https://archive.ph/45Uip
Open source alternative: https://netbird.io/
+1 IMHO too.
Google is very much suffering from the classic Innovator's Dilemma [1]; a side effect of being too focused on stock price and not long term planning.

A better management with long term thinking would utilize Google's enormous base of talented engineers far better.

[1]https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46
> The job of a CTO is strategy. The last thing you want is a manager that codes.

For a large company the size of Google? Yes. For a startup? No.
How is this HN-related though? How did it even get on the front page?
I don't understand. The prompt is given as 4 lines:

x

= 1

x

--> 0

which does not execute. And if I run them as two lines:

x = 1

x --> 0

then the final output is `true`. `1` is only output during the initial assignment, which is hardly surprising

If i understand correctly, the reason i am getting `true` is because the second line gets parsed as two operations:

(x--) > 0

first a post-decrement operator (--) followed by a comparison (greater than). Since x = 1 it's greater than 0 (true), but afterward it's decremented so you'll get false if you run the same line again
I used it once for an SPA doing highly dynamic user surveys, users really wanted the back button to push them one question back, and depending on the path through the question graph back wasn't always "back".
I was thinking the same thing. It's surprising how many people don't get this, arguing that poverty, wars or some other pressing matter must be solved first before we can go to space or spend money on non essential activities.

It may seem counterintuitive, but that way of thinking doesn't actually solve problems, it only perpetuates them.
Agency by William Gibson slightly predates the current AI bubble, but it does an interesting job of working an AI chatbot into its plot.
I don't see "services/subscriptions" in this list of revenue sources. Is it in the "other" bucket?

Because that's been growing steadily, IMHO.
We also need to bring back the principle of least surprise. Exploring modern UIs is dangerous because irreversible actions are not clearly identified.
How locked is it?

How hard would it be to use it for a DDoS attack, for instance? Or for an internal DDoS attack?

If I were working at OpenAI, I'd be worrying about these things. And I'd be screaming during team meetings to get the images more locked down, rather than less :)
I find this interesting. And I do realize that this sentiment is shared by majority of the people.

I have a couple of Apple devices (iPads, M1 Mini, AppleTv, iPod) and especially in the past 2 years, I have decided that I have had enough Apple, won't buy anything from them in the near future: I experience so many bugs in iOS, I just hate to touch my iPad. Constant fight with elementary things, like not fetching my emails in a timely manner, messing up the address bar of Safari, or simply just flooded by "couldn't sync health data" messages, even though all cloud sync is disabled (etc).

I could be just unlucky, but it doesn't "just work" for me since a while, at least software-wise. I have been on the lookout for an Android tablet (hoping that at least it will fetch my emails, if nothing else...)
Fair point. I didn't mean it too sound that dismissive. I'd rather not live without electricity, but if something was happening that eliminated electricity, I'd probably say "we did it before, we can do it again", too. And yeah, I'd probably say it in that case, not post to HN, for technical reasons.
Hello! I tried to show it Redis code yet not released (llama.cpp 4 bit quants and the official web interface) and V3 can reason about the design tradeoffs, but (very understandably) Gemma 3 can't. I also tried to make it write a simple tic tac toe Montecarlo program, and it didn't account for ties, while SOTA models consistently do.
I think my age gives me a romantic attraction to the idea of BDXL. Engineering brain says "most likely, no."

Per GB, spinning rust is faster, cheaper, more mature, physically smaller, less fiddly, easier to obtain from Walmart at 10pm Tuesday night, and doesn't require special hardware made by a handful of manufacturers only in a short window of time.

As a small-run distribution medium, BDXL might be the right technology.

All with the caveat that BDXL might be an improvement over an existing archive practice. For clarity not archiving is not an existing archive practice and BDXL is not going to transform anyone into the kind of person who systematically archives their work...

...you will use BDXL as much as you used floppies, CDR, Zip, etc. Good luck.
That's a very fair assessment of Apple – IIRC a lot of early idiosyncratic hardening work in XNU world was done for the launch of the iPhone OS App Store, but it's only been (relatively) recently that they've started long-term initiatives systematically harden macOS on top.
There's a movie in the works, but we'll see how that turns out.

https://blueypedia.fandom.com/wiki/Bluey:_The_Movie
Well, it's rider on a horse. Would be fair if the human runner also carried another human on their shoulders.

Besides, ancient horses were much smaller and couldn't carry a rider, hence chariots. I would like to speculate that smaller means better thermoregulation, so smaller horses fared better on long distances versus Homo genus.
The difference might be that Google isn't run by a founder.
Possibly useful comment on local models, perhaps also fitting on machines with less ram:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43340989
I'd like to see more about what the Gemini system actually tells the robot. Eventually, it comes down to motor commands. It's not clear how they get there.
Seattle is awesome and the people are the friendliest I've encountered in the USA. Feels Canadian.

The weather kills me, though. The weather is too British.
Hah no worries - when I read your comment I was like “dang how did I mix up deepseek and google?” Then I read your edit.
Are the community version limitations artificial? What part of this relies on SaaS infra?

Can it import my connections from WinSCP?
> Au contraire, project 2025 is very detailed and has clear paths to reach their (the heritage foundation, conservatives at large) goals.

I agree, but these weren't Trump's goals that he's had for 10 years or something like in Hitler's case. It's a plan by the Heritage Foundation that somehow got Trump to sign off on it.