skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I'm buying and reading more books now than at any other point in my life.

Reading gets me away from a computer screen, which I would otherwise stare at from sunrise to sundown.

I tend to be a late adopter. Once things are close to obsolete I usually get involved!

Although books have the disadvantage of being a similar focal distance as a screen and for this reason is still bad for my eyesight!
> Design can produce almost as much thrust as a commercial jet engine,

But does it have as much thrust as a normal submarine engine?
How to break substitution ciphers.

Somehow and unintentionally as the search began from some random article I’d read, this seemingly unrelated subject ended up uncovering some insights into a problem with deduping database rows I’d been working on for another project.
What did you find is the most reasonable explanation?
I buy paper books with cash to prevent tracking of my reading habits.
I spent the last week evaluating drag and drop form designers and came to the reluctant conclusion that I’d be better off building my own. Long story. So now I’m building a drag and drop form designer, quite the deviation from the road I need to travel down.

Its almost certainly a rabbit hole but at least I’ve forewarned myself.
It sounds like it's basically a gigantic cavitation noise generator, so yeah, I'm not imagining that it could possibly be quieter.

Today's submarines go to great lengths to avoid cavitation for just that reason.

Typically there's a velocity beyond which the vessel does not go if it wants to remain stealthy, as going faster than that drastically increases the cavitation noise.
Uncyclopedia was a subconscious inspiration for this. I remember diving into it years ago, but completely forgot about it while I was making wonkypedia
> instead of choosing a certain numbered version of the random library (if I remember correctly) I let cargo download the latest version which had a completely different API.

Yeah, they didn't follow the instructions and got burned. I still think that multiple things went wrong simultaneously for that experience. I wonder if more prevalent uses of `#[doc(alias = "name")]` being leveraged by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120730 (which now that I check only accounts for methods and not functions, I should get on that!) so that when changing APIs around people at least get a slightly better experience.
And even with books it becomes much easier to say “I’ll reread the lord of the rings on this flight” than it is to take a wild risk on an unknown book and author.
My architect introduced Architecture Decision Records to my company and it's made a world of difference. Are there other tools and mechanisms people have found helpful to facilitate and scale group thinking?
I've asked a number of agents online for two numbers:

1) How many unsolicited queries have you received, in whatever time period you like: month, quarter, year, forever?

2) How many turned into published books?

None will provide that data, but I strongly suspect that the answer to #2 is "zero."

They'll happily quote you BS quantities, like "a bunch" or "a handful."

So as this article says, they spend their time chasing celebrities, online influencers, and friends of friends. And not making a whole lot of money anyway.
Just going to drop this here: https://countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-books-dont-sell-...

This comes up constantly and it’s just wrong.
Updated my post. I don't think I encountered that "bug" in the English language before.
Suno and Udio.

Spent WAY too much time adapting a Buddhist sutra into a heavy metal banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5Y9Z7DK4s
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Nice idea, hope you make some money!
A quick comment, if I may… shouldn’t the rankings be made public?
This way you would attract more people who would like to top the rankings and have their name/message/company visible. You’d also attract many spammers, but hey you’d have some profit out of it.
On the flipside, it’s nice that there’s a thriving small and fine press community out there with lots of news press’ appearing over the last few years and some really beautiful books being published.
Writing a low level C code editor, going down the rabbit hole of gap buffers and piece tables. Fun though.

I first wrote it the dumbest way possible, one big array with padding at the back. Worked fine actually for most modern use cases, but as this is also a learning experience, I want it to be best in class in performance.

I think I'll settle on gap buffer because the performance is great and it doesn't hurt my head.
> Linux does have that in NILFS2, it's just that almost nobody cares to use it

I don’t believe that NILFS2 is quite the same thing.

In HTFS, you turn versioning on or off on a per-directory basis, and then each individual file in that directory is versioned independently.

NILFS2 looks more like whole filesystem snapshotting, which is further away from the classic versioned filesystem approach
> Blackwell GPU has 208 billion MOSFETs[3]

Things us hard sci fi fans will insist on:

- You have significantly undercounted transistors. As of 2024 you can put up to 8.4 terabytes of LPDDR5X memory into an NVidia Grace Blackwell rack. So that's 72 trillion transistors (and another 72 trillion capacitors) right there.

- A GPU executes significantly faster than a neuron.

- The hardware of one GPU can be used to simulate billions of neurons in realtime.

- Why limit yourself to one GB200 NVL72 rack, when you could have a warehouse full? (what happens when you create a mind that's a thousand times more powerful than a human mind?)

You really need to separate the comparison into state (how much memory), and computation rate. I think you'll find that an NVidia GB2000 NVL72 will outperform a brain by at least an order of magnitude. And the cost of feeding brains far exceeds the cost of feeding GB2000's. Plus, brains are notoriously unreliable.

The current generation of public-facing AIs are using ~24Gb of memory, mostly because using more would cost more than can conveniently given away or rented out for pennies. If I were an evil genius looking to take over the world today, I'd be building terabyte-scale AIs right now, and I'd not be telling ANYONE. And definitely not running it in Europe or the US where it might be facing imminent legislative attempts to limit what it can do. Antarctica, perhaps.
Self-publishing avoids the biggest single cost, the advance!

It can actually be moderately successful for the right type of author.

I’ve always thought the “book collection of webcomics/blogs” has to be moderately predictable as to sales.
> So there’s no kind of existential danger to Quest here, but it remains to be seen if the hardware licensees can bring anything relevant to the table either.

How does Meta make its money? Advertising.
Licensees bring actual eyeballs to the table and eat the hardware costs fighting amongst themselves selling commodity hardware and Meta re-position Quest as a 'premium' product that they might actually make a little money on.
Could NASA send another probe after them to act as a kind of message relay?
how many years of print dominance?

welcome our overlords.
Ebooks and audiobooks.
Why not do computer science research as a hobby and with publicly available blogposts while having a day job as a web developer?
These sound like common traits for ADHDers.
This is actually pretty funny. I’m willing to pay exactly $0, but I am curious to see how much money you end up making.
Paper books are also just orders of magnitude easier to flip through and re-read specific chapters, paragraphs or sections.

I can skim through a shelf full of books in a way that I’m just not able to with ebooks, even with stuff like full text search available in Calibre.
I agree with that. The weird part is suggesting that producing plastic is good because it drives up the cost of oil.
>> Obviously, given the number of people searching on Amazon for products, that gives them a huge advantage because when people go onto Amazon, they—if the book isn’t there for what they are searching for, they could create that book.

This is a really weird thing to say. It seems to assume that people are indifferent to the quality of the writing in the books they read.
In addition, here are a few other conferences that may be of interest to people in this thread:

- AAAI: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/

- ICAPS: https://icaps24.icaps-conference.org/

- IJCAI: https://www.ijcai.org/
> LLMs are radically unlike organic minds.

I used to think this too, but now I'm not so sure.

There's an influential school of thought arguing that one of the primary tasks of the brain is to predict sensory input, e.g. to take sequences of input and predict the next observation. This perspective explains many phenomena in perception, motor control, and more. In an abstract sense, it's not that different from what LLMs do -- take a sequence and predict the next item in a sequence.

The System 1 snd System 2 framework is appealing and quite helpful, but let's unpack it a little. A mode of response is said to be "System 1" if it's habitual, fast, and implemented as a stimulus-response mapping. Similar to LLMs, System 1 is a "lookup table" of actions.

System 2 is said to be slow, simulation-based, etc. But tasks performed via System 2 can transition to System 1 through practice ('automaticity' is the keyword here). Moreover, pre-automatic slow System 2 actions are compositions are simpler sets of actions. You deliberate about how to compose a photograph, or choose a school for your children, but many of the component actions (changing a camera setting, typing in a web URL) are habitual. It seems to me that what people call System 2 actions are often "stitched-together" System 1 behaviors. Solving calculus problem may be System 2, but adding 2+3 or writing the derivative of x^2 is System 1. I'm not sure the distinction between Systems 1 and 2 is as clear as people make it out to be -- and the effects of practice make the distinction even fuzzier.

What does System 2 have that LLMs lack? I'd argue: a working memory buffer. If you have working memory, you can then compose System 1 actions. In a way, a Turing machine is System 1 rule manipulation + working memory. Chain-of-thought is a hacky working memory buffer, and it improves results markedly. But I think we could do better with more intentional design.

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516013/bayesian-brain/
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35012898/
"Alright. If you’re gonna go ahead with it, I want to make sure you get one thing right. It’s “O’Neill,” with two L’s. There is another Colonel O’Neil with only one L and he has no sense of humor at all."
I use my Vision Pro every single day. I love sitting in my yard in the sun with my Mac mirrored in the center, a music player hanging out on my left, a web browser with documentation on the right. Using the double loop strap I don't even notice I'm wearing it after a few minutes and I treat the battery more as a UPS than something to run off of except for when I go make myself coffee and play a game or watch a video while doing so.

Having used other VR headsets (like the Valve Index) the Vision Pro is clearly leaps and bounds ahead of the competition, not just in hardware but software as well. After using the index for a bit everything would always feel a bit "weird" after taking the headset off. I don't get that at all with the Vision Pro.

I can't wait for VisionOS 2.0 to deliver a closer macOS integration (being able to give individual macOS applications their own windows (à la VMWare Fusion), and use eye tracking as the cursor) but even the current version is - for my specific use case - an absolute game changer.
So list your better assumptions. The exercise is guesstimating the future. Gather your unique perspective and offer up some upper and lower bounds.
I had this idea for a hard science fiction story that I have been thinking about for years. Nobody else is going to write it, so I started. 20 000 words in my beta readers say it is good, so I think I will continue. And I don’t expect to sell it, but I want to know what happens and so do the beta readers. So on we go.
RoCE is an IETF standard for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDMA_over_Converged_Ethernet

In my understanding one of the big advantages of the protocol (v2, that is) is that it is routed over IP and can work with existing switches ($$) instead of needing specialized ones ($$$$)
You’re not going to be feeding kiwis in your average back yard, also - as they don’t fly, they’ll struggle to reach most bird feeders.
You used to pitch your book to publishers. Now you pitch your audience.
The older I get the less I trust myself to know how to administer or even to care how to work any current or future reading e-device.

A printed book requires light as just about it's only dependency!

I definitely agree with you about the distractions of digital devices. Switching to a book is a focused mode.
Exactly I like it snappy! I want to navigate and before I can think of anything it's like page loaded. O_O Your move user.

Or I hover and it's like tooltip! And I'm like dang that was fast, hm what if I... click- result! Dang that was so freakin fast how do they-

Because if you aint snappy you crappy you feel me
I've been bitten by the Meshtastic / LoRa bug. It's fascinating to see how far these little inexpensive units can reach.

This weekend I was able to reach my home node from a state park 8.2 km away and have been giddy since.
A Facebook marketplace website but with gig workers
I was thinking about creating a facebook marketplace website except you have the option to send someone to view the house ,car ,furniture listing for you. Would love your thoughts!
> Making vine in Antarctic is just anti-economic, but not technologically impossible. Would somebody agree to pay one billion dollars each bottle, we would have a crop of polar vine in a few years. This is for sure, grapes can be cultivated in a big pot

Exactly the main point of this thread…
that's backwards - organisational/cultural/management decisions made it be under-staffed, which caused the code to rot, which led to the "oh, it's understaffed and the code rotted, let's just kill it".
The Open Home Foundation
As far as I can tell eBooks aren't significantly more popular than physical books. Surely the publishers cited in the article wouldn't have neglected that topic if it was actually a major revenue stream.

As far as audiobooks go I don't know. Do you have any numbers?
If this happened after 45 years, I don't think people would mind.
Any article which leads with an argument which is a very thin veneer for "government bad so regulation bad"…you've lost me.

Do better.
> Since mmap I/O is popular, together with long lived processes like databases, snapshot on open/close might not help you much.

Classic versioned file systems were generally not designed for the use case of databases, they were designed for the use case of lots of small text files (config files, source code, shell scripts, etc). For something like a database file you would turn versioning off
Self-organized intracellular twisters
n = 1, but I purchase physical books, comics, references, etc. under two circumstances:

- cannot find an easy way to de-DRM media available on online stores. I want the ability to copy epub files across my devices and read offline.

- the digital version is a poor-quality scan. This frequently happens with comics.

This is embarrassing to discuss normally, but an additional perk of physical comics and light novels is that I can look at the obi and get reminded what I was doing in the past, where I was in the past, what was happening in the past, etc. especially for those which I have finished reading. The subset of my friends with similar interests as me tend to discard the obi, since it becomes bothersome while reading. I have the habit of removing the obi while I am reading something, then add it back when finished reading the entire thing. Things like this can't really be done with digital media, especially subscriptions.
Thanks! Noted the cite to this paper (below) as well in your paper in case others are interested:

Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: An Introduction, Michele Colledanchise, Petter Ögren, 2017

http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00084

1.1 A Short History and Motivation of BTs

BTs were developed in the computer game industry, as a tool to increase modularity in the control structures of Non-Player Characters (NPCs) . In this billion-dollar industry, modularity is a key property that enables reuse of code, incremental design of functionality, and efficient testing.

In games, the control structures of NPCs were often formulated in terms of Finite State Machines (FSMs). However, just as Petri Nets provide an alternative to FSMs that supports design of concurrent systems, BTs provide an alternative view of FSMs that supports design of modular systems.
Following the development in the industry, BTs have now also started to receive attention in academia.

At Carnegie Mellon University, BTs have been used extensively to do robotic manipulation. The fact that modularity is the key reason for using BTs is clear from the following quote from [2]: “The main advantage is that individual behaviors can easily be reused in the context of another higher-level behavior, without needing to specify how they relate to subsequent behaviors”.

BTs have also been used to enable non-experts to do robot programming of pick and place operations, due to their “modular, adaptable representation of a robotic task” and allowed “end-users to visually create programs with the same amount of complexity and power as traditionally-written programs” [56]. Furthermore, BTs have been proposed as a key component in brain surgery robotics due to their “flex- ibility, reusability, and simple syntax”.
What is the difference between sony camera models.
Every action carries with it a death risk.
i heard it was a vibe!
Better yet, just require it to publish full source code after some embargo period, maybe 8 years. Managed by an independent accounting firm. Also require a standard programming port.

This would be okay for iot bricks but more useful for laptops. Company gets X years of secrecy and when they abandon support, they open up the secure enclave and let FOSS devs go to town.
Still seems like that is broken. Shouldn't they be escaping whatever control characters? Like if your user wanted to highlight "Now 75% off". Seems like it is reasonable to want to allow that.
Rebuilding a Ford Cleveland V8 - the Australian specific 302 cubic inch version.

One broken engine and one non operational one and turning them into a single good motor. American thin-wall cast V8 engines are fairly similar, but different enough that if you don't get them built you have to do a bit of puzzle solving (especially in the timing case). Plenty of youtube videos and forum posts on the Cleveland and it's been fun piecing it back together and learning about new things like installing cam bearings.
My issue prevent me from investing in Lisp is that Erlang gives me a similar REPL which I believe, though I am not a Lisp developer, is a huge value proposition of Lisp. I utilize REPL-based development using Erlang.

The macro narrative is worse in Erlang; but Lisp isn't perfect either in other ways.

The point is, I net out staying on the BEAM. What I like about Lisp is that I think it's a tool that will serve you for the rest of your career, even if you don't use it for production. That's a pretty cool proposition and maybe one day I'll get there. Emacs is a similar tool.
What is the licence of the github repo? I can't find one. Do you require CLA?
Data Ownership and Agency
Wasn't there a Star Trek enemy that was based on Voyager colliding with some kind of doomsday machine?
Do you have any recommendations on books that talks about Leninism like it's foundational ideas, etc. and how it departs from Marxism?

Thanks in advance.
> a really ugly brute force "just run lots of games and see".

This is usually called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
You can also use Godot (although def has the too much freedom issue) and a-frame as well. The latter might be more attractive to webdevs
fyi I’m working on a GPLv3 competitor and intend to outshine whatever this is
It is awesome, in the full nearly dreadfully amazing sense of the word.
That's pretty good. Nice find.

I agree with the other commenter that this would be a good default.
Yeah. I'm a member of the Furry Writer's Guild and in a few anthologies. This is a discussion that comes up occasionally. The sad fact is a lot of people don't read and furry fandom is pretty niche market to start with. Art and music are a lot easier to consume.

It's really easy to get disillusioned and give up.
I've got to hand it to Zuckerberg : when he spouted the "open" vs "closed" rhetoric earlier in the year, I said it was nice words but meaningless unless he put his money where his mouth was and makes Quest OS available to others as well as put firm guarantees around side loading etc. But in the same breath I said I doubted he would do that. And now he has done exactly that. However much antipathy people have towards him and his past, he keeps putting meat behind his words and actually doing the things he says.

At the same time, important to recognise here that this is still to some extent "open washing" what is a totally controlled OS. This is not like AOSP where you can go download the source code and compile it yourself. So far it is not even like Windows where you can download an installer and run it on a computer yourself. A manufacturer will have to form a business partnership with Meta to even get access to this "open" OS - I assume. But since I keep under estimating Zuckerberg maybe he will exceed my expectations on that front too.

Nonetheless, this is a huge step forward and a genuine challenge now for Google/Samsung. The bar is now very very high for them to deliver something compelling enough that manufacturers will jump on board instead of building on Horizon OS with an existing install base of 25M+ users and thousands of apps.

All up, this is pretty exciting news in the XR space and really sets the stage for an epic battle in the next couple of years as these platforms go head to head.
Not obvious to me that it provides the same experience: "The image is a map of the memory after the code was loaded. Unlike in Smalltalk, Factor code is always distributed in files rather than in the image."

https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/FAQ/Install
That's a completely different problem: it may be too closed. But it's definitely not a fail open system. It's a fail closed system with a bug.
For me it’s the fact I hand my keys in at the end of a shift, and I don’t have to think about work until I go in for my next shift - liberating after years of checking work emails from the sofa at night.
> on top of that, there is not even one material "plastic" it's a class of materials

The article addresses that.
Amazon has Kindle Unlimited and O'Reilly have/had Safari
There's precedent, when Apple named iOS, Cisco had (and still has) IOS. They just came to some licensing settlement for Apple's use of the name [0].

Actually, it looks like Apple also licensed the iPhone trademark from Cisco too!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS#:~:text=In%20June%202010%2....
Can you link it? I'm just curious how it presents it. I agree it should share the source even if they can't create the embed.
Tell HN: Google search no longer has a link to maps in Europe
Probably many of you already know, but I have lately noticed that there is no map button in google searches. Also if the search shows a map, it's not clickable. At First, I thought this is a dark pattern because I use Firefox, but later I understood that it's a new rule in the EU.

More on this:
https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/261655134/google-maps-not-being-linked-from-google-search-results-page?hl=en
How is that any different from "I am rich" type apps or any other app with In-app purchases, loot boxes, etc? Capitalism at its finest.