MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
What is your process/stack for "saving for later"
by tenzo | 2025-05-11 22:37:37+00:00
Like many here, I have a habit of tab hoarding. I also have what feels like a gazzilion interests. I often save things in tabs. It might be an image of a mobile app i like and might want to reference. It might be an article on some economic policy that i want to read about. it might be random businesses i've come across and want to revisit later.

It can mostly be categorised as

- work (written text, video, audio etc) - personal interests (health, hobbies, things i want to learn) - random/misc - history, random things i may just reference once

I previously just used to save everything to pocket or a bookmark and in a folder. I then moved to instapaper and then matter. I'm now trying

https://fabric.so/home - articles/websites/ blogs etc

https://www.cosmos.so/ - images

my screenshots are still saved in a screenshot folder.

I am curious to know if anyone has found an effective method of saving for later. Aware that this is very personal and depends on the individual but any ideas on this would be welcome!
by Tsiklon | 2025-05-11 22:37:38+00:00
I’m a lapsed catholic. I look forward to seeing how the new Pope chooses to use his position. I saw Francis as a decent, respectable man, and especially took heart in his and the church’s recent rational missive on AI.

Leo XIV has to rise to one of the greatest organisational challenges anyone could face in the current day; managing this Leviathan institution through a minefield that’s ever shifting, the consequences for gaffes and misspokenness are very real and enormous.
by Voice_of_Void | 2025-05-11 22:37:45+00:00
SingularityForge’s latest, AI and Improvisation: When Logic Falls Behind, dissects whether LLMs can improvise like humans in crisis or creativity. We explore improvisation’s roots—from jazz to biological evolution—and how AI simulates it via temperature, top-k, and top-p sampling. A thought experiment with a rescue drone shows an AI navigating uncertainty, while ImprovEval, our open-source tool, quantifies divergence and novelty.

The kicker? Improvisation raises ethical red flags. High-temperature outputs can mislead, as seen in legal summarization errors (22% hallucinated precedents). We propose traceability and domain-specific constraints to tame the chaos.

Check out the podcast (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3S56fryNj7xCF09n4HeN0f) and dive in: is AI’s “creativity” a breakthrough or a liability?

Comments welcome—what’s your take on stochastic AI?

#AI #MachineLearning #SingularityForge
by secondcoming | 2025-05-11 22:39:58+00:00
It's embarrassing that a satellite designed by the ESA can't be used over Europe.

I've read other information about ICBM-detecting satellites being triggered by the sun glinting off lakes having the same signature as an ICBM launch.

Surely the orbit of this satellite will be well known and so false positives alarms can be ruled out?

I suppose it's possible that a bad actor could time a real ICBM launch to coincide with this satellite's orbit to defeat Early Warning Systems, but then again they could just launch submarine-based ICBMs from the southern equator.
by areoform | 2025-05-11 22:40:23+00:00
I'm quoting their research summary. By reverse engineering, it means that they figured out why the magnetron worked and then optimized it. They X-Rayed it, found a deviation from plans, then developed a model to understand why there was a deviation in performance.

However examples No. 11 and 12 had the number of resonators increased to 8 in order to maximise the efficiency of the valve with the magnetic field provided by the then available permanent magnet, E1189 also incorporated cooling fins to enable the device to be air rather than water cooled. Sample No.12 was taken to the USA by E. Bowen with the Tizard mission and upon testing at Bell Labs produced 10 times the power at 5 times the frequency of the best performing American triodes. A certain amount of confusion arose as the drawings taken by Bowen still showed the 6 resonator anode but an X-Ray picture taken at Bell Labs revealed the presence of 8 resonators. The E1189 or its Navy equivalent NT98 was used in the Naval radar type 271 which was the Allies first operational centimetric radar. The early RCM’s like the E1189 were prone to mode jumping (frequency instability) under pulse conditions and the problem was solved in by means of strapping together alternate segments a process invented by Sayers in 1942. Strapping also considerably increased the magnetron’s efficiency.

via, https://www.armms.org/media/uploads/06_armms_nov12_rburman.p...

and another account, https://westviewnews.org/2013/08/01/bell-labs-the-war-years/...
by Grimblewald | 2025-05-11 22:40:51+00:00
Your "journey" as far as i can tell is just your marketing journey. Youve just joined two months ago, and show nothing much beyond marketing posts or requests for help with marketing.

not selling me on not being a bunch of old dudes using a kids image to sell a unsafe and poor quality product.

if you genuinly are a kid, i'd recommend not using your age as a selling factor. Thats something someone would do to appeal to other kids, but rarely to sell to a serious crowd. It would at best tug at heart strings and get attention but thats will work once, maybe twice. I'd make sure i have a really good product before i waste those free and easy marketing chances.
by leelou2 | 2025-05-11 22:41:34+00:00
As a fellow Go developer, I want to express my deep gratitude for your immense contributions to the language and its community. Your work has not only shaped Go into the productive and enjoyable language it is today, but has also inspired countless engineers—including myself—to build better software. Thank you for your dedication and for paving the way for the next generation of Go developers. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
by yieldcrv | 2025-05-11 22:42:34+00:00
That’s kind of my issue with partisan takes

Like, they’re often not opposite, they’re just different.

One group is saying “no, we don’t want the government to pay for that, in that way, or at all” and another group is saying “you aren't acknowledging this is a problem at all or are apathetic or plain evil”, which isn't a useful way to gain friends and influence people

but the stances generally aren't opposite about the existence of the problem, but the sides do get entrenched until the party line becomes denial instead of merely about the financing
by const_cast | 2025-05-11 22:42:38+00:00
According to who? Certainly going from a 21 mg patch to nothing will give you withdrawal - I know because I tried it.

Nicotine patches aren't perfect, and the reason they might be less addicting is because there's no hit. It's a constant stream of nicotine which ends up feeling like no nicotine at all. Instead, it feels like it's just preventing the affects of a lack of nicotine, i.e. it's inhibiting withdrawal. But it's not giving you the effects of nicotine.

Like when you smoke a cigarette you immediately feel relaxed and happy and it's a very sudden effect. But with nicotine patches since there's no curves you don't get that.
by ZoneZealot | 2025-05-11 22:42:58+00:00
The trust we have in the CAs who are embedded in our root stores is very important - yes.

Thankfully, in this case the issue at hand is entirely unrelated to TLS, rogue CAs etc. Or even DNS record manipulation (for now)...

Cloudflare put a 'You're blocked' page, on the web server that Cloudflare are already running for their customer. The customer being the website that Cloudflare is being ordered to block (for users in certain countries).
by margalabargala | 2025-05-11 22:43:12+00:00
> > Is financing your lunch a sign of societal decay? Maybe, maybe not.

> Financing your lunch means you can't pay for your lunch. And then somebody comes to search profit in that. Yep, it's societal decay.

Counterargument: almost always when I buy something, lunch or otherwise, I put it on a credit card, which I pay off always before the due date but essentially never on the same day I had the lunch. Viewed through the lens of a society that only paid up front in cash, what I do would be viewed as risky and irresponsible; but it is not.

BNPL as it currently exists, in the form described in this article, is exploitative. But the American credit card system, which is the same sort of thing mildly rearranged, is far less exploitative.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-05-11 22:43:29+00:00
Me fell into the chaos of this world in the summer of 1969 :-)

I can understand the lack/loss of enthusiasm for trying things out.

It's just that I'm not that much constrained by time, or other things stressing me out, even if I have the time.

Or not having enough hardware to try things out, without compromising my daily drivers.

I just need to watch out for balance between physical activity and morphing into a hunchbacked nerd from being online so much :)

Regarding Genode, and daily driving, I'm not doing that ATM, though it blew my mind.

I can imagine using it as something like a very lightweight Qubes by means of bundling applications into Unikernels like NetBSDs RUMP, Unikraft, Googles Distroless, or even most minimal Alpine. And 'sculpting' their capabilities from Genode.

But that's a hassle. But maybe not more so than how it is done now in general. And probably way more secure.

How it really performs fully loaded over time remains to be seen, and I haven't done that, yet.

Anyways, I just nagged you with that thing because I have the feeling people don't know this, while talking about exactly the things it could enable, and wouldn't it be nice to have something like that? :)

Or IF they know it, only from reading/talking about it, which is not the same as having seen it in action, and playing around :)
by int_19h | 2025-05-11 22:43:31+00:00
VB.NET is an underappreciated language for teaching in general, IMO. I especially like their choice of keywords being very descriptive rather than traditional. For example, `Overridable` rather than `virtual`, `MustOverride` (for methods) / `MustInherit` (for classes) rather than `abstract`, `Shared` rather than `static` etc.
by deergomoo | 2025-05-11 22:43:50+00:00
I bought a Mazda3 a few months ago and I love it. It is exactly what I want as a driver.

I even adore the scroll wheel and wish it could be in any car I own in future. Yeah it takes slightly longer to do certain actions in CarPlay, but I can do it so much more safely than I could in the Civic I had before. The infotainment boots basically instantly; as you mentioned CarPlay starts itself, and the patronising-but-mandated “don’t use this in motion” warning dismisses itself. In the Civic I would be half way down the road already by the time it booted, blindly prodding at the screen to try to dismiss that warning so I could pause the podcast that started playing itself because I plugged my phone in.

And, while my 2022 car predates the stupid auto-re-enabling ADAS requirement in Europe, the 2024+ models have single button deactivation. I dunno how, cause it’s supposed to require a minimum of two presses legally, but it sure makes me wanna stick with Mazda.

However that makes the upcoming 6E that much more disappointing. They’ve partnered with a Chinese manufacturer, I assume because they don’t have an EV platform of their own ready yet. Looks fantastic from the outside, but the inside is a sea of touch screens with barely a physical control in sight.
by akoster | 2025-05-11 22:44:14+00:00
Thankfully their forums are quite active with folks sharing lots of sample code [0]. I was able to get some assistance with getting their SQLite library to work. Also the wiki has quite a few tutorials - when I get some more time I hope to check out this pas2js Electron tutorial. That would be something quite useful to go from a WYSIWYG RAD IDE design to a working JavaScript web app running in a browser.

[0] https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php [1] https://wiki.freepascal.org/lazarus_pas2js_integration
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-11 22:44:22+00:00
Somehow no one was ever making this argument when companies were spending tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to move their on prem workflows to the cloud.

At that point it was all “you will save the money because you will need such a smaller ops team”.

But once people actually did make the move and noticed that their ops teams didn’t get any smaller, then we started being gaslit into “well the cloud was never about saving money…it was about <fill in the blank>”.

Thenper user calculation is a terrible one. It essentially justifies any inefficiency as long as it’s not some arbitrary multiple of your user base, but inefficiencies add up.

The correct approach, that you even allude to, is to do a complete cost-benefit analysis. And the costs and benefits should include non dollar factors such as time, risk, control, reputational risk, data being available to 3rd parties, etc.

There’s no reason to divide your cost/benefit analysis by your user base at all. You can simply compare the absolute and total values against other potential initiatives and stack rank them based on their net expected benefit.
by GenerWork | 2025-05-11 22:45:43+00:00
The national average salary is $63,795 [0], so they're making about $4k more. Just because they're not earning 6 figures working in their first tech job doesn't mean that it's bad.

>I remember earning nearly exactly that wage back in the early 2000s, and barely making ends meet in a cheap rental

I made $10/hr my first job after college while living in a studio by myself in 2011 (and that was with student loan payments!), and I was barely able to get by, so how were you barely able to get by then on almost $70k a year?

[0] https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-salary-in-us/
by kweingar | 2025-05-11 22:45:53+00:00
I keep hearing people express dismay that people are financing their lunch, sneakers, or concert tickets.

But this has been the norm for a while, no? I can't remember the last time I didn't utilize credit at a restaurant or retail store. If you use credit cards, it doesn't make sense to reflexively admonish people for using BNPL for everyday purchases.

To be sure, BNPL is in many ways a predatory innovation. But it isn't totally novel. It seems like a natural consequence of what came before.
by thrance | 2025-05-11 22:46:14+00:00
OK, to be fair I exaggerated a bit in my previous comment. Looking at lists of known quantum algorithms, I just don't see many that have practical use cases, and even less that could possibly be implemented in a reasonable time scale.

I feel, and that may just be a feeling, like Shor's algorithm and its modern variants are the only serious applications so far.
by const_cast | 2025-05-11 22:46:19+00:00
The only difference, really, is that housing as a market is just significantly less volatile. But in essence it's the same - you may pay property taxes on a valuation of 700,000 dollars but next week your house is only worth 100,000. That would be extremely rare, but it's possible.

On the other hand, valuations for startups and even some large companies like Tesla seem to have absolutely no relation to the actual value of the company. Whereas home appraisals are, generally, based on the actual value as calculated by real metrics - like square footage and zipcode.

So, maybe it's just easier to deduce the value of a home, I don't know. Or maybe the stock market is just too irrational. Part of me wonders if the stock market is so irrational because there's no wealth tax.
by wbl | 2025-05-11 22:47:06+00:00
"The only secret worth keeping is out: the damn things work".

What products could Shanon have made only knowing information theory? Or CSRO knowing only ODFM solved multipath? Did Bob Metcalf make more money when everyone had Ethernet or if he'd licensed it much more exclusively?

It's very hard for a single fundamental result to be a durable competitive advantage compared to wider licensing on nicer terms. That's particularly true when much else goes into the product.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-11 22:47:11+00:00
Also the AWS cloud engineers are so much more expensive because the AWS learning treadmill runs at a 10x speed compared to the on-prem one.

Our cloud engineers spend so much of their time simply keeping up with all the things they need to keep up with, even for workflows that have been running just fine, for years.

The on-prem engineers also need to be up to date, but the changes are more measured and easier to manage.
by bob1029 | 2025-05-11 22:47:26+00:00
I've transcended the vanilla/framework arguments in favor of "do we even need a website for this?".

I've discovered that when you start getting really cynical about the actual need for a web application - especially in B2B SaaS - you may become surprised at how far you can take the business without touching a browser.

A vast majority of the hours I've spent building web sites & applications has been devoted to administrative-style UI/UX wherein we are ultimately giving the admin a way to mutate fields in a database somewhere such that the application behaves to the customer's expectations. In many situations, it is clearly 100x faster/easier/less bullshit to send the business a template of the configuration (Excel files) and then load+merge their results directly into the same SQL tables.

The web provides one type of UI/UX. It isn't the only way for users to interact with your product or business. Email and flat files are far more flexible than any web solution.
by smj-edison | 2025-05-11 22:48:01+00:00
> it's been nearly impossible to hire anyone who wants that freedom and autonomy

Interesting, this is something that I'd love to do! I'm already planning on pursuing custom chip design for molecular simulation, but I don't really want to handle the business side of things. I'd much rather work in a paid lab than get rich and sell it off. Plus, you can do so much more with a team vs being independent.

I was also homeschooled though (unschooling and tjed philosophy) so I've always been picking my own projects. Sometimes I wonder if the lack of generalist researchers comes down to education (another thing I'd love to pursue).
by ghaff | 2025-05-11 22:48:10+00:00
I think it's complicated.

A lot of large US tech corporations do have sizable research arms.

Bell Labs is certainly celebrated as part of a telephone monopoly at the time though AT&T actually pulled out of operating system development related to Multics and Unix was pretty much a semi-off-hours project by Ritchie and Thompson.

It's true that you tend not to have such dominant firms as in the past. But companies like Microsoft still have significant research organizations. Maybe head-turning research advancements are harder than they used to be. Don't know. But some large tech firms are still putting lots of money into longer-term advances.
by austin-cheney | 2025-05-11 22:48:26+00:00
Updating content in raw DOM methods is as direct as:

1. Get the desired node.

2. Write the content.

That is it. The corresponding code is two lines.

But but but... what about state? State is an entirely unrelated issue from writing content. State is also simple though. State is raw MVC plus storage. The way I do it is to have a single state object, the model. I update that model as necessary on user and/or network interaction, the view. When the page loads I read from the state object and then execute the corresponding changes using the same event handlers that would normally execute in response to the user interactions that wrote the state changes in the first place, which is the control.

That is simple, but many people find that simple is not easy.
by mmooss | 2025-05-11 22:48:32+00:00
I think you are defining 'liberal' as 'whatever was favored in that time period' or the now popular 'not contemporary far right populists'. The White House, however, was controlled by Republicans, for example, from 1968-1992 with one four year break.

> Universities are the main gatekeepers of the class based oppressive system you complain about.

How so? Before Republicans cut funding, universities were widely available, especially public ones. Many like NYC's city colleges were free. Once you got a degree, you were in a different socioeconomic class, but degrees were available to those who could get them. The number of people with degrees grew considerably, including through programs like the GI Bill. That's substantial opportunity and class mobility.

Now whether you get into college depends, most of all, on the class you're born into. US social mobility has dropped significantly.
by XCSme | 2025-05-11 22:48:35+00:00
If anyone is interested in trying the analytics app I've been building over the last 13 years, I have just added a docker-compose you can try. A client requested to have a production-ready alternative to the existing all-in-one Docker image, which was just made for testing the setup the app using a single command:

``` docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name uxwizz -v uxwizz_www:/var/www/html -v uxwizz_db:/var/lib/mysql uxwizz/uxwizz ```

This has both the web-server and DB in the same container, which is not best practice, but avoids the need of having to download a docker-compose file.

Now, I also made a docker-compose for those who want separate web/db containers and more control over the setup.
by kumavis | 2025-05-11 22:50:53+00:00
Caja's spiritual successor is HardenedJS (https://hardenedjs.org/), authored by some of the same folks (Mark Miller + friends). As I understand it, Caja attempted to secure not just javascript but the DOM as well, which ultimately proved to be a too large, interconnected, and rapidly changing surface to keep up with.

LavaMoat (https://lavamoat.github.io/), while not quite object capabilities, builds on HardenedJS to provide runtime supplychain security protections to js apps (nodejs or browser) by eliminating ambient authority and only exposing global capabilities per npm package according user-specified policy. LavaMoat is used in production at MetaMask, protecting ~300M users.

OCapN (https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn/) is a nascent effort to standardize a distributed object capability protocol (transferring capabilities across mutually distrusting peers).
by int_19h | 2025-05-11 22:51:13+00:00
It would be more accurately described as a blend of Delphi and Java, the latter via J++. The overall object model is from Java, tweaked to merge the primitive types with their boxed wrappers (i.e. `int` vs `Integer`). C# strings and arrays were also almost a carbon copy of Java rather than anything Delphi-like, although it did add multidimensional arrays. From J++ it got delegates and events. From Delphi it got things like properties and explicit `virtual` on methods, but notably not e.g. overridable class (static) methods or named constructors. Also, Delphi had manual memory management, not GC.