skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>which is exactly what you'd expect for a sound set of defeasible relations.

This is a leap. While a complex system of rules might coincidentally produce behavior that looks statistically optimal in some scenarios, the paper (Ernst & Banks) argues that the mechanism itself operates according to statistical principles (MLE), not just that the outcome happens to look that way.

Moreover, it's highly unlikely, bordering on impossible, to reduce the situations the brain deals with even on a daily basis into a set of defeasible statements.

Example: Recognizing a "Dog"

Defeasible Attempt:
is_dog(X) :- has_four_legs(X), has_tail(X), barks(X), not is_cat(X), not is_fox(X), not is_robot_dog(X).

is_dog(X) :- has_four_legs(X), wags_tail(X), is_friendly_to_humans(X), not is_wolf(X).

How do you define barks(X) (what about whimpers, growls? What about a dog that doesn't bark?)? How do you handle breeds that look very different (Chihuahua vs. Great Dane)? How do you handle seeing only part of the animal? How do you represent the overall visual gestalt? The number of rules and exceptions quickly becomes vast and brittle.

Ultimately, the proof as they say, is in the pudding. By the way, the CyC we are all talking about here is non-monotonic. https://www.cyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/First-Orderiz...

If you've tried something for decades and it's not working, and it doesn't even look like it's working and experiments with the brain suggest probabilistic inference and probabilistic inference machines work much better than the alternatives ever did, you have to face the music.
Good question, it is not bad to enjoy attention for a project you worked on.

But I feel that, if unchecked, that same impulse can lead to deliberately doing projects specifically for validation which leads to low quality click-bait and vapid self-promotion. I think a healthy indifference for the public at large is a good thing.

That is one of the reasons I got rid of detailed, real-time analytics in favor of a simple hit counter (the other is privacy). If I really stuck to my principles I wouldn't even do that but I am a hypocrite.
If we're abolishing it, we have to really abolish it, both ways, not just abolish companies' responsibilities but not rights, while abolishing individuals' rights but not responsibilities.
Campus security and police at Columbia are not allowing pro-Israel assistant professor @ShaiDavidai on the part of campus being occupied by the far-left and Islamic extremists. To protect the autonomous zone, the university is keeping out its critics.

https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1782419968077803590
LazyJournal is a terminal user interface (TUI) written in Go, designed for easy analysis of system and application logs. It is inspired by tools like lazydocker and lazygit, providing interactive access to search, view, and filter logs from various sources in the local system.
If you are on NixOS for your home server, take a look at my project that does most of the work for you. Bundles router, DDNS, firewall, vpn, ad blocking, and all the apps into a single integrated service if your machine has two ethernet ports. Even if you don't use it directly, the services are broken out into modules which can be referenced for your own setup:

https://homefree.host
There are A LOT of people that are extremely anti-AI that I speak to frequently. One thing you didn't mention in your article is the power consumption used by AI and that's a very valid concern as well.

I think many people are very turned off by the incessant hype being pushed by so many companies for AI. It seems like every company needs to include those two letters in whatever next product they release on the market to increase interest in it from both investors and some consumers alike.

But there's definitely a large section of the population that are highly skeptical about it in general and are very cognizant of the constant hype and it's starting to turn a lot of people away from it.

The other main thing is the slop [1] people see on social media and elsewhere. People can immediately tell an AI image from a non-AI one (at least currently, I'm sure that will change as it advances). For many folks, it demonstrates laziness and even theft from other human artists, based on what they've read and understand from it. On Bluesky, for example, there is a popular community labeler that people subscribe to that hides accounts that post or have posted AI images, have AI generated profile pictures and etc.

At this point, I'm quite convinced that certain companies could even benefit from including that they don't use AI in their marketing materials and would be successful for standing that ground.

I'm not anti-AI. I think it's quite interesting and has some very valid use cases. I'm sure many people use it in secret and tell other people they're against it. An interesting discussion I remember seeing from Twitter is a user said that there would be some sort of digital divide in the future for people who use technology but are AI "luddites" and refuse to use it. He referred to them as the "digital Amish".

Good article though!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
Yup, we will be working on this in the next week or two.
This is like if Toyota were to announce that for each shipping car, they kick all the tires, slam the doors, and honk the horn.

It is probably just a joke for show and to fool naive competition.

Behind closed doors, they must do some actual quality tests.
It's the reverse direction which always warrants us fulfilling a causal chain. If we see something then we should be able to talk about it, even if there's an army of meta-commentators producing downstream effects. For example, we should be able to talk about an ongoing bank run even if it tilts the outcome, just as we should be able to talk about the plain observations of race in front of our faces.
Why not - IMO you perhaps underestimate human complexity. There was a guardian article where researchers created a map of a mouse's brain, 1 cubic millimeter. Contains 45km worth of neurons and billions of synapses. IMO the AGI crowd are suffering expert beginner syndrome.
If only American mains power were 230V...
I don't even think it's true that a high proportion of developers use Macs. My guess would be that most developers use Windows, because most developers work for corporations and most corporations issue Windows machines to all employees. Companies which offer a choice are in the minority.
(This was posted last night with https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/whats-new-wit... above. We've changed the URL to the product-specific article.)
The biggest mistake liberals have made is thinking leaving the markets to their own devices wouldn't lead to an accumulation of wealth so egregious that the nation collapses into fascism as the wealthy use their power to dismantle the rule of law.
Answer: No.

Why? Because the moment you suffer catastrophic wealth destruction, you're fucked for life, with the tax based on your "to-date" income hanging around your neck like an albatross.

Imagine a 6-figure earner reduced to flipping burgers, and now sentenced to paying a punishing chunk of their $1000 a month to the taxman for the rest of their lives.
To assess the env impact, I think we need to look a bit further:

While the single query might have become more efficient, we would also have to relate this to the increased volume of overall queries. E.g in the last few years, how many more users, and queries per user were requested.

My feeling is that it's Jevons paradox all over.
Answer: Never

Marx aimed to theorize on a worker based authority. Anti dictator or anti oligarchy, sure.

Unfortunatley he outlined inadequate protections against an oligarchy, because he believed a society could self regulate equality (between workers).

Google: Marx on Authority
That is a reasonable strategy, but I need to figure out a way to delete SPAM emails only.

I still need transactional emails to go through, unless I change pharmacies, which isn't impossible to do, but has downsides that may be more painful than having to "Mark As Spam" a couple of times a week.
$250 for something that is a week long arduino project...
You can even 3D print the whole thing nowadays
I think D1 actually requires multiple round trips, so the higher figures start to make some kind of sense.

I read a blog post about this but can't find it now. I did find this [release note](https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/platform/release-notes/...) though.

They describe removing _at least_ two round trips back to the DC hosting the D1 instance.
Ink is such a cool language. I worked really hard on that game and entered it into an interactive fiction competition last year. It didn't come close to winning (I didn't expect it to) but people seemed to like it, especially if they grew up watching Star Trek.
Especially the Highlander, a film set mostly in Scotland and Connery is supposed to be Spanish...
Until it's a burden weighing us down. Shift loads towards the ground and add skis.
My guess: by measuring the minimality of the amount of energy spent restoring neuron depolarization capability by way of efficient clearance of metabolic waste (and wider network adaptivity) of thalamo-cortical circuits. The hypothesis being: 'for a neuron to struggle to repolarize = thinking feels and works bad'

How to improve it? Good hydration, good vascular system architecture, good sleep, good hemodynamics, low tension, low inflammation, good glymphatic drainage during sleep, good interspersed periods of rest between thinking, good perception of one's own fatigue so you don't burn yourself further with more activity - or even better, so you know how to make yourself feel at ease and comfortable to think, etc.

https://neurosciencenews.com/thalamus-conscious-perception-2...
Since I'm too lazy to do this myself, I'm putting it out there for the world to make for me.

I want to see Rogan Minus Rogan and Lex Minus Lex podcasts where all the host's speaking parts are cut out and you only hear the guest's replies.

Thanks in advance.
Maybe they're all the same conspiracy theories. All the current conspiracy theories are that immigrants are invading the country and Biden's in on it. Where is the next Time Cube or TempleOS?
Calvin and Hobbes, minus Hobbes: https://calvinminushobbes.tumblr.com/
I made a gallery of ChatGPT image styles to explore and inspire
This site was 100% vibe coded with ChatGPT.
> This makes Google the only major cloud that has low-latency single-zone object storage, standard regional object storage,

Absurd claim. S3 Express launched last year.
And sometimes baby pioneers.
My 100% favourite part of this write up is the mention of "piano piano".

In 2018 i was renovating my house in Little Italy Toronto (Canada). There was this 91 year old Italian woman, Assunta, living alone in the house next to mine. She was always curious (or nosey?), but only spoke Italian, so we struggled to communicate. She would always say in broken English encouraging statements like "You make it nice", "lot of work, you do so good" to which I would say "thanks" and often talk about the amount of work ahead of me. She would always follow up with "eh, piano piano...".

I had no idea what she meant until one day I Googled this term and i learnt it essentially means "slowly slowly" or "take it slowly".

Assunta is gone now, but she was a lovable character. I think my dog misses her treats, and I miss the snacks she would bring me when I was working on the house.
> Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

Did not think I would be relating to Jon on a Thursday morning.
Yes, I need to re-design my webpage for my Station Display.
Browser makers should straight up remove the JS API for interacting with history. There are legitimate uses for it, but the malicious actors far outweigh the good ones at this point. Just remove it.
What constitutes "being asked many times". Is it a statistical significance in the general population? I don't know anyone who is even remotely thinking about or concerned about this.

If you read farther they say: "When I asked each of our guests whether Americans would still be welcome in their country, they all said the same thing: Yes, of course! Why on earth wouldn’t Americans be welcome here? Some of them seemed perplexed, even offended, by the premise of the question."
"AI performance on demanding benchmarks continues to improve."

My feeling is that more AI models are fine-tuned on these prestigious benchmarks.
Yep, I love Apple, follow them closely, own a Mac Studio with an M3 Ultra and a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max, and it's still confusing. :)

I mean, surely a Mac Studio with an M4 Max must be the best, right? It's an entire CPU generation ahead and it's maximum! Of course, it's not... the M3 Ultra is the best.

Naming things is hard.
Yeah it's more of an issue for small projects. But I don't think Buck/Bazel should be reserved for megarepos with thousands of contributors. Why can't small projects use it?
We use cloudflare, and i am wondering why you would want to talk to a salesperson, over just using their console yourself.
He doesn't need to repeal the Clean Air Act when his EPA conveniently changes how they interpret it. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-clean-air-policy-trump-admi...
Discovery Channel Ancient Aliens II: The Search for More Money ;)
I used it. Once you get over the novelty you realize that all the songs are basically the same. Except for https://www.immibis.com/ex509__immibis_uc13_shitmusic.mp3 which you should pay attention to the lyrics in.

> they are arguably no worse than 99% of what the commercial music business has been pumping out for years

Correct, and that says a lot about our society.
fwiw, I found the 'the sleep fix' much more helpful
The withdrawal of the United States from the agreement in January 2017 effectively ended any prospect of the agreement entering into force. In response the remaining parties successfully negotiated a new version of the agreement that lacked the 85% GDP threshold, the CPTPP, which entered into force in December 2018
The YAML Exponent Problem causing chaos in your config files
We actively pursue fiscal policy to promote inequitable wealth distribution

But you don't see free trade as a policy promoting inequitable wealth distribution? As designed, free trade is literally moving jobs overseas for lower wages. The primary benefit is higher profits for big companies, and the primary loser is middle to lower class that loses jobs. The best case argument is that the people who lose jobs, and end up underemployed, enjoy cheap imports.
kind of spooky and sad
Now I understand, makes sense!
To get private volume or contractual pricing, for one.
Haystack Code Reviewer: Review code as a visual story on an infinite canvas
Hi HN!

You might have seen our previous post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42935218. Since then, we've upgraded Haystack Code Reviewer to break down a pull request into logical chunks and lay them out on an infinite canvas. It walks you through the changes as a structured visual story, helping you focus on architecture, intent, and maintainability instead of chasing nits. We hope that this new version of Haystack Code Reviewer makes code reviews less of a last-minute, unwanted chore. And if it doesn’t, we would love to hear about it!

We built Haystack because code reviews today are fundamentally broken.

The typical line-by-line diff format forces reviewers to focus on individual changes to catch bugs, style issues, and bad variable names, rather than the bigger picture of what the code is doing and why.

However, we don’t think that’s what code reviews are for. Tests (and angry users) catch bugs. Linters catch style issues. And nitpicks almost always bog down the review and make it take longer for the code to merge.

I believe that the point of a code review is to help teammates understand how the author is trying to achieve their goal, whether that’s a bug fix, a new feature, or a refactor. A good review requires understanding the narrative behind a change, determining whether the structure of a pull request reasonably fulfills that narrative (interface changes, new data structures, etc.), and deciding whether the team is OK with maintaining this new shape of the codebase.

The current pull request interface makes this hard. It's just a wall of unordered diffs that you're left to piece together by jumping between files. When reviewing a pull request from a teammate, We found ourselves spending more time reconstructing the big picture of the changes than reviewing the code itself.

With Haystack, we're trying to fix that!

If you’re interested:

1. Take a look at the demo playground https://haystackeditor.com/playground

2. Watch a walkthrough https://youtu.be/K_qLwXFwr8I

3. Try it at https://haystackeditor.dev
I would like to see a followup on that graph in a few days :)
Owi: Performant parallel symbolic execution made easy with OCaml and WebAssembly
Way, *way* darker than I imagined.
Obviously the point from the company's perspective is that they are leaving 20% productivity on the table because people slack off instead of doing actual work.

There must be a balance. You can't just say, as you do, that employees might as well go home since they aren't working.
What motivated choosing 4 as the number of beeps to occur?
yes, I read the book before I got to the boat when I was at nuclear reactor prototype training in Idaho. Read it on the long bus rides back and forth to the site. Yes, it was good and pretty operationally accurate. All the sub lingo etc, is accurate. Some of the actors on the bridge of the Dallas were active duty sub sailors at the time.
Couldn't you do that now already? you wouldn't make as much money as on software but construction or farming are both viable careers.
I did not know switches weren't compulsory!

"A variety of designs and colors"
I only see a very few actually available, even via the internet (when I've looked). But you're probably right. I lived in the U.S. for a while, where variety in receptacles is easily obtainable.
>My intuition for this comes from our inability to be confidently precise in our probabilistic rationalizations: I don't know about you, but I don't know whether I'm 57.1% or 57.01983% confident in an expression.

LLMs are probabilistic and notoriously unable to be confidently precise in their probabilistic rationalizations.
Ah, you're right. They are setting it in HTML. Updated!
Rust developers don't "not want their users to be fully free", they disagree with you on which license is best. Don't deliberately phrase people's motivations in an uncharitable way, it's obnoxious as hell.
Show HN: Locally: I built a Rust-powered local development manager
Hey HN,

I'm excited to share Locally, a tool I've been building to simplify local development workflows. As my projects grew in number and complexity, I found myself juggling multiple terminals and constantly checking for outdated dependencies across different frameworks.

Locally solves this with a unified interface built with Rust and Tauri, providing:

Central project management across React, Angular, Next.js, and Vue
Visual dependency tracking and updating
Package installation via a clean UI rather than the terminal
Multi-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux)
I chose Rust for the backend to ensure it stays lightweight and performant, even when scanning large projects. The Tauri framework keeps the app resource-efficient compared to Electron alternatives.

The project is still under active development, but I wanted to share it early to get feedback from fellow developers. You can check out screenshots and more details on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/Jihedbz/locally

I'm particularly interested in hearing which additional features would be most valuable to your workflow. Would you use something like this?
Searchception
> the shutter just works with minimal resistance

11 years living in the UK. I don't think even once I thought of it as _minimal resistance_. At best it requires a firm push. At worst, a couple of hammerings with the side of the fist.

Note that I don't mind the ground pin or having things grounded by default. Even if it wasn't more or less essential due to the mind blowing lack of safety of the ring circuit, it's still a nice and cheap enough extra bit of protection.
There's plenty of batshit to go around tbh. I wish people would notice more of it on their own "side", as it is easy to notice it on the other. Both the Left and the Right are utterly unhinged in their own ways.
we, as a society didn't get together and vote on "hey how should we best teach computers to people?" It came about through capitalism and having a free market of ideas. Framing it your way makes it seem weird.
wow! didn't even think to look at that! ty!
Probably yes, even before the pandemic. Packing thousands of people into a tight space is a great way to spread disease.

Post-pandemic it's become a highly political thing now and depending on where your at you may get some unfriendly looks.
Some more explaination and the mitochondrial isolation protocol can indeed be found on his website[0].

0. https://sites.google.com/mccullylab.org/mccullylab
A world power with extensive cutting-edge electronics manufacturing.. vs. the US
you dont need all of that to improve focus. start with 30 seconds, clear your mind, set a timer for 30 seconds, sit in a corner and start meditating. the challenge is that as soon as you think of something inside your mind, stop the timer. do this daily and your meditation times will slowly improve and your focus will come back
The old tried and true Pap test is still the best screening tool we have for cervical cancer.
Writing into a zip file is just a small matter of programming.
With GCC error messages usually the only part I wanna see is "required from here" and yet it spams zillions of "note: ...". With the nesting enabled, it's way easier to read --- just look at the top indentation level. Hooray!!!
Capt Tom Fargo was better. As you learn from that YouTube video, he went on to run 7th Fleet as an Admiral. The stuff we did while he was CO was important in the Cold War for the security of the US.
Wow! That's pretty slick. I've only thought of EXIF data in the context of my digital camera.
I often do the reverse -- have LLMs insert docstrings into large, poorly commented codebases that are hard to understand.

Pasting a piece of code into an LLM with the prompt "comment the shit out of this" works quite well.
Sunbird was almost what I wanted, back in the '04 timeframe, but it seemed unstable. I lost some appointments when they never made it up to the server. I used CalDAV with Sunbird using a DAViCal server.

Sunbird was abandoned. I haven't looked recently to see if there's a reasonable replacement that might run on Windows.
I haven't advocated for re-licensing GCC to be permissively licensed. And patching GCC is necessarily going to be much easier for vendors than to build a new C front-end which generates GCC IR. So I'm not sure what difference you think what I'm proposing would make with regard to your concerns.
You probably misread it and it said to pick objects that go inside the refrigerator, so you were supposed to pick the avocados.
A state which commits genocide forfeits its right to exist. A secular pluralistic state can exist in the place where the ethnonationalist Israel currently exists. But its formation and continued security must not be contingent on the genocide of a people.
Italian cuisine seems to have a deeper understanding of bitter flavors than other common Western cuisines. They understand bitter vegetables like chicory and agretti, they understand bitterness in chocolate, and the coffee I had there always had the faintest hint of bitterness that enhanced rather than detracted from the flavor.

It probably also helps that they are downing a demitasse in a minute or two instead of a giant venti size beast that lasts for an hour.