skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood that line of reasoning. Plants do not have a central nervous system and, as of the current scientific consensus, are not aware of their subjective experience like animals are. Humans are omnivores, capable of thriving on a plant-based diet. The logical consequence, if you try to minimise suffering, is to eat plants instead of animals.

Life is a game of shifting carbon. To stay alive, you need to kill. But you can try to limit that to the least amount of killing required, and to killing those life forms without sentience as we understand it. This is the foundation of any ethical reasoning.

Having said all that, I also reject the vertical ordering of life on the tree of evolution. Plants are just very different from us, not necessarily higher or lower. Considering we have to make a choice as to what we are ready to sacrifice to survive, we can still choose those life forms that likely are not capable of suffering like we do, before turning to those more similar to us.
And yet here we are with Arm cores everywhere you look! :-D
oh and the Calypso link is here: https://github.com/northern-lights-province/calypso-aiide-ar...

As others have mentioned, I have been using Claude to write some prompts for things, give me some ideas for scenarios with younger players, and name some cities and towns in my campaign.
Let me make it clear because I don't want to come across as biased - Reddit, Facebook and platforms like it are 1000% worse and or just as bad, no contest from me on that part; the dialogue just skews a different way depending on the platform.

To the first point though, I guess I just don't understand how such niche and useful discussion ended up on twitter and remains there out of all places. It seems strange to find someone pushing moon-landing-is-fake conspiracies on the same site nuanced discussion occurs on some hyperfocused topic
Classic mistake theory vs conflict theory. Just being right is not a good enough reason for someone to believe you. They have to believe you’re on their side.
Yes please send them to me. Not only has the story of the "40 beheaded babies" been declared a hoax, there is zero proof of rape, let alone gang raping of corpses, let alone burning babies alive. This is the first I've heard of what you are claiming, and I seriously wondering where you are getting your news from.

What we do see is horrific footage day in and day out for the past 75+ years at the hands of israel, from brutal murdering, to starvation, to burning people alive, to sexual crimes, and countless war crimes. It is also confirmed that they employed the hannibal directive.
For me, it is really useful: should I talk to this person never again, since they cannot be convinced by any evidence they themselves would find.

Or with close family, should I never bring up this topic again since they perhaps have nothing to gain from changing their opinion, but a lot to lose.
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The world wouldn't have progressed if everybody'd had this attitude. To actually bring real change you don't have a choice but to engage with the toddlers.

Those who don't, will lose. E.g. Democrats in the last election.
Is cereal soup?
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Why would I argue with you, if I know that your opinion is so backwards it's unsalvageable? If you met someone who genuinely believes that Earth is flat despite all the evidence to the contrary, how would you approach a discussion with them?
To only one specific country. Not in general.
?ing Errors and never actually handling them is just a terrible practice. In fact it is just as bad as not doing error checking at all. Misusing a mechanism is not a point against the language.

What makes this error checking good is that you can use it correctly and it is less cumbersome than the try/catch from C++.

>Come on, let's be a bit more honest with ourselves about Result<T, E> and '?' - it's not a full solution to error handling. After two years I'm sure you've hit this.

Nothing is ever a full solution. But it is meaningless to talk about this without doing comparisons. Do you think try/catch was the superior solution all along?
Seems to under-perform voyage-3-large on the same benchmark. At the same time, I'm unsure how useful benchmarks are for embeddings.
Google Docs is the clunky mess here and gets away with it because they nailed collaboration early and competed with an even bigger clunkier mess in Microsoft Word. Word at least is a full featured word processor, whereas Google Docs is a struggles with anything more than basic layout or formatting needs.

Notion isn’t a word processor, but unless you’re specifically trying to craft documents it doesn’t need to be. It also isn’t a spreadsheet, and you’re going to have a bad time if you try to make it act as such.

If we’re being dismissive, Google Sheets is also a poor tool for “actual data.” Modern spreadsheet usage is just a pile of inefficient hacks to operate them as pseduo-DBs. Unless you’re in the finance or accounting world, in which case you’re probably using Excel, anything else would be better served by using more powerful open-source data analysis formats and tools.

I have a million complaints about Notion, but holding up Google Workspace as the paradigm of elite enterprise product design is a joke. Get back to me when I can take the markdown produced by Gemini Canvas and paste it into Docs without issues.
I see DOGE on the front page like every other day, not sure what you mean...
Is the interface in the screenshot how it actually looks? IMHO, really needs some more visual structure to the messages table.
Encryption went against their AI strategy
Thanks for pointing out the typo, I fixed it.

Yes, but they're culturally related. Anywhere where people write with Chinese characters or used to write with Chinese characters has legends about nine-tailed foxes, for instance. The intelligentsia had access to Chinese literature and this diffused into the public imagination. [1]

For me it started out with being willing to enjoy media in an unfamiliar language (first Japanese) that gradually became familiar. Then playing the Japanese game Dynasty Warriors that got me thinking about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and about the characters and the place names and other old Chinese stories like Journey to the West and pretty soon I am enjoying Chinese pop culture about old stories and new stories of the fantastic and even learning some Chinese, getting curious about Chinese mobile games that aren't known at all in the west because Chinese people cosplay as characters from them, etc. (At the university where I work I overhear conversations in Chinese almost every day)

Yes, Japan is a different culture which I still enjoy and appreciate, but for me it was also a gateway to China. [2] I was an anime fan for 30 years but in the last 3 years I've had the same kind of giddy feelings for Chinese pop culture that I had about anime at the beginning and of course that means I'm going to buy a whole fish and eat it with my family because my son's Chinese friend suggests it.

Lately I've been playing the Japanese game Dynasty Warriors Origins which has both Chinese and English voices and find it strange on one hand to hear legendary Chinese heroes speaking Japanese which I mostly understand and then listen intently to the Chinese which to me is still a wall of unfamiliar syllables where I struggle to pick out proper names and an occasional word or phrase -- but I have a great time trying!

[1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosphere

[2] ... and it goes the other way, China's pop culture is inspired by Japan (I think it's funny that many Chinese games like Azur Lane use Japanese voices in the west because they know the kind of person likely to play that kind of game knows phrases like suki da! and has an emotional feel for Japanese even if they aren't fluent in it)
1984, Animal farm by George Orwell

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert.

They fit very good to present time.
Jonathan Haidt's finding from The Righteous Mind that conservatives tend to understand liberal moral foundations better than liberals understand conservative ones is an important example.

His research shows conservatives operate across a broader range of moral foundations—care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sanctity, and liberty—while liberals lean heavily on care and fairness

This gives conservatives an easier time modeling liberal views, as they already incorporate those priorities. Liberals, however, often struggle to grasp the weight conservatives place on loyalty, authority, or sanctity, seeing them as less "rational."

The author is an example of this: he views his opponents as less rational—literal "toddlers"—and thus their arguments can be dismissed.
> divorce your identity from your beliefs about the world

I understand not totally subjugating your personal identity to ideology, but I'm struggling to see how someone could practically completely separate these two things. To use a somewhat trite but personal example, I'm gay, so that aspect of my identity will necessarily affect my perspective on certain issues. Conversely if someone were to convince me rationally that homosexuality was wrong, it would necessitate a pretty dramatic change of my identity no?

Not every issue exists on that clear a spectrum, but you can imagine the views necessitated by different pieces of personal identity adding up over a lifetime.
peopple have done loop to loop picture or video transfers so far, but usually higher bandwith is better, Lora supports 2.4ghz so probably do able in that range
I have huge respect for Cohere and this embedding model looks like it could be best-in-class, but I find it hard to commit to a proprietary embedding model that's only available via an API when there are such good open weight models available.

I really like the approach Nomic take: their most recent models are available via their API or as open weights for non-commercial use only (unless you buy a license). They later relicense their older models under Apache 2.0 licenses.

This gives me confidence that I can continue to use my calculated vectors in the future even if Nomic's model is no longer available because I can run the local one instead.

Nomic Embed Vision 1.5 for example started out as CC-BY-NC-4.0 but was later relicensed to Apache 2.0: https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/nomic-embed-vision
Protection rackets are pretty big in central america. Look at the publicity about the avocado industry. Protection rackets only work when you go after those people that escape your 'protection' payments. So yes, it's reasonable to assume every person that said no to the racket and fled to the US becomes a pretty big target, it's part of the founding principles/business model of running a protection racket.
I wouldn't worry too much about coming up with a "novel" idea on your own. Your advisor should help you select and refine a topic. That's a major part of their role.

Published research is more like a conversation among its participants. There's a stream of thought and continuity that connects each paper to its predecessors. Ideas come out of engaging with the conversation and thinking about new directions and open questions. One of my advisors used to talk about "research taste" -- the process of learning what good research looks like and how to choose topics, which develops over time through exposure to the field.

I'd encourage you, at this stage, to just focus on defining your interests. If you're interested in bluetooth security, for example, why is that? What do you find engaging about that topic? Then you can build from there: who's written about that and what results have they produced? Are there good survey papers about the current state of the art? What are the key subfields and their main questions?

You could think of this as "pre-research" -- getting oriented toward an area and building background knowledge. Let it be driven by your curiosity. Find a thread that seems promising and pull on it for a little while. Use tools like Deep Research for help, but you still want to read the key papers.

A good undergrad project is often a tweak of an existing result. I really like projects that use a well-defined, standard methodology, which allows the student to focus on developing research question and the work of data collection, analysis, and writing -- without having to design the entire process from scratch. If you find a paper that you like, think about keeping the same basic approach, but modifying the research question to explore a different angle on the topic. Conclusions will often suggest open questions for further work.
Your drone makes a loud buzzing sound, and blocks the street for anyone else trying to get in, and does not move on its own. This is where it escalates from "Taking advantage of public information" to "Harassment".

Crawling source hut once is public information. Crawling it once a day using deltas might still be that. What these AI companies are doing is not that.
The sticking point for me, though, is side effects. Once you need to call an external API—maybe to insert vector embeddings, send records to a SaaS service, or update some non-SQL store—you lose the comfortable ACID guarantees and pure SQL elegance. Even if you stage data in a DuckDB table, you still have to process each row or batch with an imperative approach. That’s where I start feeling the friction. SQL is brilliant for purely data-driven transformations; it doesn’t inherently solve "call this remote side-effect function in small batches, handle partial failures, and keep the pipeline consistent.

Can we unify those worlds? If your project, Sqlflow, manages to let folks stay mostly in SQL—while also elegantly handling side effects—that might be a huge step forward. For strictly data-focused workflows, I’m 100% on board that SQL alone is often the best "DSL" around. The complexity creeps in when we go from "write results to a table" to "call an external system" (possibly with partial commits, retries, or streaming needs). That’s usually where we end up rolling bespoke logic. If Sqlflow can bridge that gap, it’d be awesome. I’ll check it out—thanks for sharing.
People on the waitlist, but most aren't active
As the solo maker, I'm building this on nights and weekends.
lit.money is a simple & privacy-first personal finance web app, but no active users.

My next focus is just to talk to existing people. No more features or other things.

What do you think?
Weyl phonons: the connection of topology and chirality
Being ideals, all of those ideals in reality are implemented with different tradeoffs in different nations with different risks going forward. Discussing in more detail how one arrives at that particular choice of options is more interesting than an end presentation of what looks like a fallacy of false dichotomy.
That stuff is all over Silicon Valley. Santa Clara County actually has one of the most if not the most EPA superfund sites. It's the leftover legacy of chip manufacturing. When you rent in the Bay Area, the landlord does not have to disclose TCE contamination to you. TCE can cause birth defects and low birth weight in weeks if breathed in by pregnant women. If you're renting in the Bay Area, Google the address and make sure the property is not over a TCE contamination area.
> Like the traditional password authentication approach, the user and the authority (server) still needs to agree on a common secret key.

Not sure what you mean by this, the server checks the hashed version of the password.
Not MS yet. I am still paying extra
Demeaning and applying labels to people who disagree with you are not really conducive to the healthy arguments the author is looking for.
p.s. 180 people are on waitlisting
That's funny, the shader doesn't appear to be doing anything…
I was thinking more of from the individual consumer perspective rather than diffuse externalities, but that's a good point as well.
Yes,also beware of power strips and electrical wires in general: those coming from there are increasingly made of coated iron instead of copper or brass in contacts. The side effect is a much higher resistance that makes the wire dissipate a lot more power than it should, even to the point it can overheat and catch fire if under serious load (heaters, ovens etc.). Their exceptionally bad insulation and usually smaller size than advertised make the problem even worse. Such bad cables can be used for breadboarding where small lengths and low currents mitigate the effects, but they shouldn't be considered for anything serious. I've learned to ditch almost every bundled cable coming from there after multiple bad experiences. Surplus is a good source of top notch cables that can last decades.
Crappy cables can be checked using a magnet: pure copper ones won't stick. There are also reports of junk coated aluminium cables that wouldn't stick as well to a magnet, but they're rare as aluminium, at least good quality one, is not cheap.
Let's not forget eating cats and dogs.

Defending a firehose of lies because there was once one nugget there that sounded like something that might have happened for real is pretty weak.
This is objectively untrue, tariffs exist all around the world and countries are still trading.
>This naively (or maliciously perhaps) maintains that the "purpose" of the certificate is to identify an entity. While identity and safeguarding against MITM is important, identity is not the primary purpose certificates serve in the real world. At least that is not how they are used or why they are purchased.

"example.com" is an identity just like "Stripe, Inc"[1]. Just because it doesn't have a drivers license or article of incorporation, doesn't mean it's not an identity.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20171222000208/https://stripe.ia...

>This is just another gatekeeping measure to make standing up, administering, and operating private infrastructure difficult. "Just use Google / AWS / Azure instead."

Certbot is trivial to set up yourself, and deploying it in production isn't so hard that you need to be "Google / AWS / Azure" to do it. There's plenty of IaaS/PaaS services that have letsencrypt, that are orders of magnitude smaller than those hyperscalers.
Indeed... I honestly don't remember where or how I sourced the value, and why I did not use the "correct" one - I will correct in the next release of the package. Thanks for pointing it out!
So your gripe is that my theoretical argument could be happening in the future, or that you have to change "citizen" to "legal resident", or that you have to change "stop" to "don't", or that you have to substitute it for any of literally dozens of abhorrent Trump policies? And that's why my point is invalid? Trump has openly stated that he wants to send American citizens to El Salvadorian prison camps, and I'm being completely unreasonable in imagining arguing against that?
"It depends". Out-of-the-box Meshtastic configurations are tailored more for relatively infrequent and short plaintext messages. You can look at nominal data rates here: https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/radio-settings/#data-ra...

It is intentionally designed for longer range, with lower datarates, with lower power consumption. It's in the name. "LOng RAnge".

Not to be too annoying but "Radio like LoRa" reads to me as "microwave" which includes "WiFi" which is plausibly something you use for file transfer all the time. So some more clarification would be helpful.
America doesnt really have an empire. What is America's Hong Kong, India, etc?
Show HN: LoveSet – Tinder for Movies
I got annoyed with the time I spent everyday looking for shows that I would actually like to watch so I built a an AI agent to do it for me.

LoveSet is “Tinder”, but for movies, it gives you the right recommendations every time for the movie, tv show, animation, documentary, or even short film that you are most likely to watch. Swipe right on those you love, swipe left on those you do not like. The algorithm improves and there are no limitations to what can be suggested to you. No ratings, reviews or marketing nonsense, you are recommended what you will actually love.

Features include:
- Detailed info on the show, including cast, synopsis, genre and more.
- Watch trailer: No need to search the web, the trailer is ready to watch with one click.
- A watchlist of shows you’ve liked.
- Streaming availability: See where a show is available to watch.
- Tools to guide and customize the algorithm for more personalized recommendations.

This is an early version, but I’d appreciate feedback from the community.

Get started: https://loveset.platle.com
I think the courts were pretty clear, prove damages. I'm not saying I agree in any capacity, but the AI companies went to court, and it appears they've already won.
The internet has sparked so many of these useless investigations, same with all those lost media forums, how many man hours were spent trying to find some obscure 1999 failed pilot for some Nickelodeon show no one’s watched. They stitched Jack Nicholson’s face over a photo of some guy from 1921. Who cares who the guy is? Are these people that bored? Is it some OCD tendency that every trivial detail in history should be logged and archived?
Rationalism is essentially a tech-flavored self-help movement, and the people who tend to gravitate towards self-help in general tend to be emotionally vulnerable people who are strongly susceptible to cult techniques (there's a reason so many cults start out as self-help movements).

On top of that, given the tech-flavored nature of Rationalism, its adherents seem to gravitate towards strongly utilitarian ethics (evil can be justified if done for a greater good) and an almost messianic relationship towards artificial superintelligence (a good so great it can justify a lot of evil).

Finally, it seems to me that Rationalism is especially prone to producing tedious writers which create insularity (by making it impenetrable to non-insiders) and lots of schisms over minor disputes that, due to insularity, end up festering into something rather more cult-like that demands more immediate and drastic action... like the Zizians.
There are a lot of us that live in countries where government jobs are still extremely stable. You’d have to break the law in a very big way to get fired.
I get why so many teams roll their yaml based system, as it feels more straightforward to build something tailored to your needs than trying to shoehorn the generalities in. But that’s exactly the tricky part: the moment you try to accommodate every possible use case, the framework either blows up in scope or ends up too niche to be widely adopted.
Exactly, but surely they weren't actually losing money? Why not keep the business afloat selling expensive drones to specialty companies until the broader market picked up as they envisioned it would when they bought the company. I think we paid more like $25k for our Falcons, though buying them wasn't on my side of the company. We would have gladly pay $35k for a next gen Falcon if they ever made one. Now DJI makes good enough drones for less than $10k, but there's a chance we still would've went with Intel just we could tell our customers we weren't flying Chinese drones.

In real estate inspection, we had the same sort of concerns, can't fly too close to the object for safety reasons, and we need high resolution photos to determine quality of the masonry, paintwork and roofing etc..
The "less trustworthy" refers to key compromise, not the e-shop going rogue and start scamming customers or whatever.
How can AI code be added to any kind of open source license, or would it just be that code that isn't covered under the license (since it's effectively public domain?)?
Ah, the destroy all software talk is coming true!
I feel like all SaaS are eventually building a variant of the same things, whether it's email client, CRM, analytics, or AI interface builder now. We end up working with dozens of SaaS with overlapping features that are ever so slightly different and solving just one use case.