skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But I'm undecided about who/what it says more: MrBeast & his antics, his audience, YT, its audience, other populair platforms & their audience, today's public in general, or how its preferences are changing.

I think it's a sign of a new generation approaching the internet in a different way. We're at a point where Gen Alpha is starting to hit its teens and social media isn't a flashy new tool but a medium of life. When everything starts out shiny, nothing is. So they will start to cut through the glitter and simply be efficient with the platform. short form content made for the smartphone they co-existed with their whole life, a focus on more relatable creators (or the appearance of relatable) instead of the most eye catching, and a general resistance to clickbait and ads that have disappointed them young and early.

meanwhile, the Genz/late millenial era is aging into its 30's and their interests are shifting. They literally grew out of the high energy roller coaster style of content and are likely still cynical of the world they grew into. They've had their fun but they will probably settle into different forms of content on Youtube. and/or creators will adjust their formats. I remember the early 10's era of "skit comedy" where every video felt like it needed to copy AVGN/Nostalgia critic and insert small skits between their reviews/analysis. That's pretty much all shifted towards a more documentary style of video with minimal fluff (or at the very most, very short interjections with meme visuals/sound FX, usually using the piece of media in question).
Yep. The one non-webrtc website I reasonably trust with webcam is https://webcamtests.com/, but for a fun art projects, I'd just like screenshots please.

Edit: Removed my comments about not finding a source
A comparison of C compilers targetting STM8
I work at a non-profit organization and part of our mission is exactly this. You can find more details here: https://indieauthorproject.com/

Another part of our mission is providing libraries an open source ebook and audiobook reader called Palace. Our project is on GitHub here https://github.com/thepalaceproject.
Evaluating conditions don't introduce bindings in COND. In Lisp typically bindings are only introduced in forms together with scope: DEFUN, LET, and a lot of other constructs. Binding construct which affect forms outside its syntactic scope is rare in Lisp.

In Scheme there is sometimes:

(define (foo)
(define a 10)
(+ a 42))

But even there all the embedded "define"s, by standard, need to be at the top of the body, directly at the start.
>Cut copyright to a less stupid number like what it was originally 14 years. Make maintaining a copyright for those years contingent on having X % of sales available for free in libraries

I’m nitpicking but this isn’t less regulation, it’s different regulation. Some would even say it’s more. You’re reducing a number but adding complexity with the percent sales requirement.
Weirdly enough, according to the fine print of the internet no no you can't.
If I go buy a box of crackers at Walmart, am I funding Walmart? Is Walmart now beholden to me?
This happens with remote teams even in the same timezone. Many people don't work 9-5 and you can get many hours of delay (often effectively a full business day).
It doesn’t exist indeed. I understand the PG maintainers stance, but I can’t agree with it.

First because “we get bugs fixed quickly” is true but not true enough (my own experience: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/17540-7aa1855ad5ec18b4... has not been fixed since reported 1.5y ago)

Second because all the knobs available to tune the query planner (listed in your last link) are obscure and require deep understanding of Postgres internals to make sense of them, which means that only a fraction of people understand them whereas query plans are more pedestrian. They’re also often database-scoped or session-scoped rather than query-scoped, it’s a huge risk of making things worse rather than better.
Just mandate all media to be in latin, and maintain a class of experts versed in the language to interpret it to the masses.
I get .tk was popular because it was free and you do need a home for your website that’s portable across providers (not like a .netlify.app sub).

But like we learned from .af, any of these TLDs technically meant for a country need to be considered ephemeral. You are sort of borrowing it without explicit (or lasting) permission.
That is unfortunately my reality working with other Java developers. I mean, it would be if it actually wasn't even worse than that.

They are constantly pushing to create more "microservices" which is just just a misguided trend to spread your functionality over as many machines as possible and have your user wait until a graph of a hundred network calls finishes to get any simplest thing done.

Then they spend huge amount of time trying to resolve performance issues and call me, a "performance expert", to try to help find ways to improve the situation. Then dismiss my calls to maybe modularize their applications using regular programming language mechanisms like interfaces and packages.

Anyway... it's been quite long since I met a Java dev who even knows what MMU and TLB is. It's a rare candidate who knows what is a virtual memory in the first place.
The problem is that "free for kids" is also "free for scammers" and it's hard to square that circle.
The people complaining that Cloudflare hosts these criminals would be the first ones complaining that Cloudflare has too much power when taking down websites it doesn’t like.

You can’t win with these people, I personally think this is the best outcome and shows our systems work (albeit slowly). Sure it took a while, but now there doesn’t have to be a precedent of Cloudflare acting as the internet police more than it has to.
Your desire sounds a bit like the fluid based, piezoelectronically pumped haptic display presented by Shultz, et al, in 2023 [0]. I can't speak as to whether these could be packed in enough. The video indicates they can make cells of 2mm wide.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_rErbhxNFM (4 minutes
I would question that you don't need a university textbook after a year. I can't say I remember specific examples but I'm pretty sure I referred to earlier textbooks for later engineering classes.
People learn in school, then after they estabilish their career, they have kids and other interests and this and that and they get intellectually stuck. Don't grow. Don't learn new things in their field of (supposed) expertise... I see this ALL THE TIME. Now if middle aged programmer refuses to learn new things, it's annoying to work with them, but you'll survive. If a middle aged physician refuses to learn new things, you're kinda fucked. Sadly, the amount of physicians out there who don't keep improving is pretty large given the importance of their job. Yes, the "pretty large" part is mostly anecdotal - my experience and experiences of my friends and family - but if I see the stuck programmers in my field, I'm pretty convinced there must be quite a few of the stuck physicians.

So yeah, 10 years in medicine? Seems like a brand new paper to me. I expect that knowledge to bubble its way to your average physician some time around 2040.
I think they mean OS in the broader sense than just the kernel.
I love the idea of universal traceable media and data. I'm sure that will in no way be a bad thing.
I agree with the premise that ebooks can be a better experience than paper books, I don't agree that pirate libraries can replace, or even serve a similar purpose to physical libraries though.
I don't have any experience with Chatbot tutors, but I have used ChatGPT to troubleshoot problems. Most of the time, it hasn't helped me directly, e.g. solutions were incorrect, weird, or overly complicated. However, explaining my problem was helpful.

I also have experience tutoring struggling school students. The impact of emotional intelligence when tutoring cannot be overstated-- in many cases you'll have to work on improving low self-efficacy. Building a trusting relationship is very important to this process; knowing when to push your pupil or back off is vital to being a good tutor.

Will a great chatbot ever replace a tutor? I don't know.
Link to paper:https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.09611.pdf
This is exactly what I am suggesting to address.

We currently have separate narratives of "<side 1> engages in manipulation, here is their misinformation" which polarizes and causes highly emotional reactions against the evil supporters of that side. This also means that people, due to that emotional response, are unwilling to consider opposite views and we get the polarized society we have today.

If instead we are teaching with examples of manipulation of both sides of the same argument, people see the value of debating on merits, instead of emotions, cross checking references and correcting for the speaker's viewpoint. They also get less affected by misinformation, since they have seen it, many times, including coming from the side near and dear to their hearts.

This last thing is critical. One would not get too riled up about messaging if they see both sides doing that. My 2c.
The article presents this as a loss - but cloudflare has a free tier, do we know if these were paid accounts? If cloudflare weren’t going to convert these users then this could be a gain.
A Markov Chain is a mathematical structure, not a machine learning architecture. If there are a finite number of states, and a function to determine the probability to transition to any given state from any other state, then it’s a Markov chain.

Transformers with finite block size have a finite number of states, so they are Markov chains.
Source code for the second book:

https://github.com/gwf/CBofN

Use DieHard to avoid crashing newer window managers such as CWM:

https://github.com/emeryberger/DieHard
What on Earth is the background reading supposed to be for https://std.divnix.com/explain/why-std.html, a supposedly motivating page for newcomers?

I've even used Nix a little bit (though early days, before flakes) and it makes absolutely no sense to me.
I was thinking particularly about the DDoS protections they advertise (and explain in lovely technical posts on this site). So you're saying that they protect their network from others, whilst disregarding harms their clients cause to others. That was something I was missing, so I thank you.
Playground-v2.5-1024px-Aesthetic
Skyhook apparently threatens companies that try to crowdsource such things, case in point Mozilla. So, you're either paying off the patent troll or using their services.
I purposely avoided mentioning any but these are platforms that allow businesses/developers to build voice ai products on top of it.

I'll limit my response to YC companies only - platform examples are Vapi.ai (the best in my opinion), Bland.ai, Toma.so, Retell AI, Infer.so, Marr Labs, Elto.ai

Voice examples are - playht, elevenlabs, amazon polly
A multi-dimensional image information fusion algorithm based on NSCT transform
The only thing muslims hold against Jews is that they succesfully defend themselves. Kurds are being massacred, no one cares, least of all muslims. Armenians were being subjected to an Azerbeijani genocide, a month before this conflict started. No muslim cares. In Yemen, Sunni and Shi'a are committing genocide on eachother ... for decades now. Aside from an obvious disastrous failure by Saudi Arabia, no-one is doing anything. In Sudan, somewhat black muslims are killing somewhat more black muslims, because of skin color. No one cares.

EACH of the named conflicts has at minimum double the number of victims of the Gaza conflict. Sudan at least 10x more. Yemen, as well, is far worse than the Gaza conflict.

The problem in the middle east ... is not hatred against Jews. Sorry. It isn't.

Given what muslims in the middle east call peace, then I'm sorry to say but peace is worse than war. Much, much worse.
The caption for every image is cut off so you can't read it...
Show HN: BewCloud is a simpler alternative to Nextcloud written in TypeScript
For the last month or so I've been working on bewCloud, and today I'm making its source code public and open!

Right now, the Dashboard (URLs + freeform notes), News (RSS/Atom/JSON feeds), and Contacts (CardDav) are working.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or recommendations, I'd love to hear it.

Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!
I think this is a false dichotomy. There are more options than two. We don’t have to choose between the free-for-all of “conspiracies, propaganda, cons, scams, ads” and Chinese State Censorship. There are many middle grounds.
In functional programming, a type is just a function that returns a list of possible values. It’s not a class.
Slack or Discord?
Hey over there. I’m very much grateful for the privilege of this boring job, which is not 100% of my job, but a huge part of it. Grateful because it allows me to feed a family of four. I’m sure in your Musk’esque utopia without boring work is place enough for all mankind. But please, don’t forget to draft a bridge that will bring us all over there and not just a bunch of filthy rich Silicon Valley assholes. Because that wouldn’t be a utopia. Thank you.
Even today you'll have detailed descriptions and explanations of some dinosaur, and it turns out we have half of one bone and part of a head, and that's basically it.

Without spending years studying the stuff, it's really hard to figure out what is "this is absolutely known" (as in, we have a full fossil found in one location and in one piece) and what is "this is our current educated best guess".
Especially from languages that don't have the same final and consonant cluster options that English does. For example Richard in Chinese is commonly transliterated as Lichade (lee-char-duh), even though it's only two syllables in English, and Charles is Cha'ersi (char-err-suur).
>Even if you consider “at first” to be half a decade since inception

in the grand scheme of tech, sure. Around this same time, Justin.tv wasn't even off the ground yet. Companies fail fast often these days, so it can be easy to forget that a few companies had to invest years before hey even saw a spark.

Regardless, this seems to be a nitpick that doesn't amount to much. be it a crappy hand camera recorded with an unregistered hypercam 2 or early smartphones as cameras developed, the main point was that Youtube started out very amateur before Google came in.
Read about Joy and stop babbling nonsense:

https://github.com/Wodan58/Joy

https://wodan58.github.io

https://wodan58.github.io/j02maf.html
Is it about the style or look of the product? or is this a "weekly pill organizers are for old people" thing?

People learn to be comfy over time. I dont need to live life like i dont know what I'm doing.

Getting old rocks, but maybe that says more about the terrible quality of life during my younger years then it does about current year.
Why would they need to publicly announce a new program to continue doing that?
> It's not actually unreadable - you just have to learn convention on top of the Nix language. For instance, what mkDerivation does. Actually, the Nix language usage here is somewhat minimal. Mostly let bindings (aka lambda calculus).

> I wouldn't expect a layman to be able to grok that file. That's fine though - it's not for laymen.

This is the kind of comment that makes me want to stay far, far away from Nix and the Nix "community".
> Their beliefs came from their own thoughts validated by others and long before anyone embodied it

> What matters more is that enough people arrived at the same thoughts independently and usually from gentle suggestion building off previous authority.

Highly debatable. Most ideas spread as opposed to originating independently millions of times over.
> I think it's fine if libraries die out.

Honey, a new copypasta just dropped! This made me laugh almost as much as the first time I read the navy seal 'nothing personnel, kid' copypasta. Amazing.

I genuinely cannot tell if this is sincere or satire (a hallmark of satire!). It's peak HN. I don't know what's funnier, this being sincere or it being a well crafted satire of the utterly insane beliefs of the deeply out-of-touch rand apologists (who genuinely don't seem to be aware that other people experience the world differently than them) that plague the tech industries. Beautiful.
> In the feudal system of medieval Europe, the king owned almost everything, and everyone else’s property rights depended on their relationship with the king. Peasants lived on land granted by the king to a local lord, and workers didn’t always even own the tools they used for farming or other trades like carpentry and blacksmithing.

If the government says I don’t own something, then I don’t own something. I don’t see much practical difference today. Biggest difference I see is that if the people decide they don’t like the leadership anymore, there’s no longer a single person to hold accountable. Modern democracy has created a hydra of corrupt leadership.
What sounds sensible to me is for Israel to somehow incorporate the Palestinians in a way that Israelis can still feel secure and trust their own government, but without the need to keep a boot pressing on the neck of the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people should be afforded the same judicial and military protection that Israelis currently enjoy.

What the wider region thinks of Israel is something else entirely. I most definitely do not condone any kind of ethnic-based violence. Israel should still continue to serve as a safe haven for Jews worldwide.
Apologies. I may have not expressed my thoughts clearly.

What I meant was that if legacy media managed to position itself as 'organic only' source, it could benefit from renewed trust as people will try to seek out 'non-ai' content. Now, that would require humans ( and money ).

The natural question is whether, as a species, we would rather fool ourselves with.. w/e we want generated in our search, or read a verified account.

<< What makes you think they haven’t been leaning into it for years?

I think.. to answer the original question, I think that because, if that is true, they have failed hard.
The study [1] doesn't say who the experts were, but a related paper [2] by the same authors states that the sample drew heavily from the Effective Altruism community.

I would be pretty skeptical of generalizing these results to a sample of people who aren't EA or EA-adjacent. That's a very specific type of a community/person with a lot of priors and methods of thought that are both highly specific and relatively uncommon outside of EA circles.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/635693acf15a3e2a14a56...

[2] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/635693acf15a3e2a14a56...
> Both of those killings were in pseudo-mafioso states

ugh? there is more law & order in Malta than in the US.

been there for nearly a decade and according to Wikipedia [1] the homicide rate in the US is 6.4 while it is 0.4 in Malta.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
I like it as an emergency measure, but I often see them used when there's a shallow understanding of operating the db.

Before using a hint or rewriting a query to force a specific plan, I try and push the team to do these things:

1. Run `vacuum analyze` and tune the auto vacuum settings. This fixes issues surprisingly often.
2. Increase statistics on the table.
3. Tweak planner settings globally or just for the query. Stuff like `set local join_collapse_limit=1` can fix a bad plan. This is pretty similar to hinting, so not a huge argument that this is better beyond not requiring an extension.
I don't think children's books are a good source of facts.

Probably a bunch of reasons for this... They necessarily have to be greatly simplified. There may be a bit of an urge to jazz it up to better capture the imaginations of children, which may lead to include and overemphasizing some of the more fanciful ideas... It would take a lot of effort to rewrite these books as the science evolves... it's possibly seen as unnecessary to be all that scientifically rigorous for an audience that, e.g., largely believes in the tooth fairy and easter bunny.

We all have to be willing to let go of the BS we were taught as children (and in high-school and as an undergraduate, and in our careers, and on through to today for that matter).
Wasn't it the brontosaurus that was a dinosaur, and then was just a rename of another dinosaur, and then became a dinosaur again?

Imagine if Pluto kept changing between planet and planetoid every few decades.
AI doesn't seem like it's able to automate software development yet. It's not autonomous enough. The examples shown in the paper are toys. It might become more capable after training LLMs against code execution, to iterate based on feedback, because that way of generating training data is scalable. But strangely I haven't seen much progress yet.

Another domain where I expect to see lots of progress but nothing shows is training from chat logs. I estimate "OpenAI" is making 1T tokens per month from 100M users. That's some serious corpus of text, on-policy data, alternating LLM outputs and human feedbacks, we should see iterative improvements. Why are there no papers? weird
does it come with no-snopping warranty, as well ?

Or do i need to pay a monthly subscription for that ?
Im trying to remember I think it was 8m.com or something like that? Which also let you have stuff like username.8m.com its probably gone now.

I also miss tripod, not sure if its still around how it used to be. Angelfire comes to mind too.
> You are sort of borrowing it without explicit (or lasting) permission.

To be fair, this is true of all domains. The broader concern with ccTLDs is this borrowing dynamic layered with whatever geopolitical situation the country is in, how stable the administering authority is with respect to the current regime, or just the political forces at work within the country that may lead to changes or requirements for the ccTLD within the country are registered. There is often a concern of DNS infrastructure and local bandwidth considerations for the data center in which the root nameservers are housed, assuming they are not outsourcing that.
Speed is impressive. Accuracy could use some work. Input for authors:

1. DEP003 'click' imported but it is a transitive dependency
(In my code base click is used @click - which it doesn't look like it sees)

2. DEP003 'numcodecs' imported but it is a transitive dependency
Usage was open(...,compressor=numcodecs.xxx,...)

Perhaps these warnings/errors should be removed?
> using LLVM backends

Wait, there is an LLVM based Go toolchain? I thought the Go crowd was known for their NIH obsession.
Hashing with SIMD: Linear Hashing and Double Hashing (2018)
People are now boycotting knowledge?
Not an expert, so a more nuanced view may help, but from my understanding, developing an ASIC even for a simple task is a lot of work. JavaScript is already optimized to run on a CPU. It has many different general roles as a language itself, and making an ASIC for JavaScript as a whole would basically be making a CPU itself.

Typically, you don't run a general code engine on an ASIC. They're more for a specific application, where it can do the job it was hard designed for, which is why they're so fast and efficient
And yet sleeping on your back contributes to snoring and sleep apnea.

Humans. Just can't win can they.
Rejection is a valid way to maintain a boundary. So is knowing ones own capacity. There is more nuance to relationships and maturity than "adults don't reject."
Banks aren't facing up to tech fraud
> Mozilla doesn't seem to have much of a clue what it ought to be doing, either.

They know exactly what their purpose is: to provide a figleaf that Google can point when facing allegations that they control the browser market.
Does your cracker purchase represent the majority of Walmart's revenue? Not the same thing.