skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two projects at the moment. Both slow-going because of other things, but one is the third in a series and I'm hopeful it will reach (very) low thousands based on the performance of the previous ones (over a period of years, not quickly; it's niche SF), the other is fiction, but will have code fragments in between chapters and I'd consider myself lucky if I sell a dozen. I'm more excited about writing that one...
The smartest people on the planet wanted to nuke the moon; it was a great idea.

It wouldn't make the classic mushroom cloud - it would be a spectacular sphere of luminescence; and by far the most powerful display of power to had ever been accomplished by man.

In fact, von Neumann, citing his infamous Chaos Theory, wanted to preemptively strike the USSR.

It's the stuff we didn't do we don't want to come to light the most.
I'm autistic and have serious ADHD. My ideal world is one where everything I browse online, my slack conversations, sloppy notes after a meeting are all fed into a sting of ML models running on a server I own.

Then I get my own knowledge database that I can query with natural language.

I want to be able to ask my second brain "what do I know about x?" And retrieve a list of articles I've read on the topic, conversations where I've talked about it, projects I've used that concept in. My meat brain doesn't have that kind of recall, it takes a lot of mental effort to sort through the enormous pile of things that I know.

The less effort I have to spend on organizing and maintaining my knowledge, the more effort I have available to use it.

It seems like this ideal is just a few years away. Several people are already building systems like this, but it doesn't seem that anyone's actually produced a polished product yet. And absolutely not one that is local-only.

This is not the type of thing that anyone should ever trust to "the cloud". This is something that must be run locally on hardware you own and control.
How frequently do you find yourself copying quotes or highlights from articles/books/podcasts/videos?

Directly copying them? Almost never - at the very least I'll rewrite or rephrase them to assist in committing them to memory.

The lower the bar to "saving" things, the less impact they'll have on you going forward. Think the invention of the digital camera, and the thousands upon thousands of largely forgettable pictures.

What do you find most challenging about managing your knowledge base?

Until I wrote a personal RAG assisted LLM (Mistral based) chat system, it was difficult to retrieve multi-note information in a way that didn't involve searching for each individual note. I have around 10,000 "rich markdown files" (e.g. contains links to media) representing two decades of notetaking for personal projects, work, etc.

Tagging goes a long way but Context-Aware notes aren't really a thing in most note taking applications.

Final Thoughts:

The tools/applications/integrations (GetPocket, Joplin, Logseq) have never made it easier to take notes.

Reading these forums for years and seeing the same reoccurring topic (best note taking tool, how to take notes, etc) I also think that there are three types of people:

1. People who take notes

2. People who don't take notes

3. People who like to discuss the theory of note taking
In a relevant story, yes. Linus mentions his investment in Framework in each video it comes up. If they had already said it in this thread they'd I'd give it a pass.
Ask HN: How to find good B2B startups fundraising serie A+ ATM?
Looked and analysed Pitchbook resutls but it is always not as updated as needed and response rates are below 10% from emails approach.

As founders or previous VCs, how would you approach this issue?
Assume you're not in the Bay Area in person, so in-person networking is not an option.
> Imagine a world where you wanted something good to read, and among all the garbage out there saw a title and went "this one is by Simon & Schuster, it has to be good".

I feel this way about DK books although they don’t really do fiction but practical titles.
Hey context matters. I'm not responding to someone who complained about that.
If you open the demos in a browser like Safari that doesn't support the feature, the demos remain as normal grid-aligned cells.

There I realize that masonry mainly works when your cells have such different heights that to grid-align them creates a lot of vertical dead space. Images and news blocks with images make sense for masonry for this reason and it feels good.

But text-only cells where the cell heights don't differ much, they seem better without masonry. The megamenu demo also works much better as a normal grid because they start with a header so grid alignment lets you scan the headers left to right easily.

A text-only newspaper could make sense with masonry because you aren't trying to navigate relationships between the items, and presumably the content can vary the cell height a lot.
> If the wealthy don't fund something, it's because they're narcissists. If they do, it's because of statistics.

I said no such strawman, and it's not my main point anyway.

My main point is: the idea that rich & powerful people will generally do what it takes to stay rich & powerful is not conspiracy thinking, it's common sense. The idea that a sizeable proportion of them will resort to unethical (even lethal) means to do so is not conspiracy thinking, it's common sense.

That's it, and I don't think Mr Carnegie here provides any significant evidence to the contrary. I mean, the same guy reportedly had strikers shot and killed, didn't he? It's hard to believe such a guy donated large amounts of money out of the goodness of his heart.
Yup, the Quest for Tetris project caused an entertaining stir for a while. The people that worked on that were the best kind of "hacker" -- fearless experimenters who didn't let their lack of Life-specific knowledge get in the way of cobbling together an amazing structure that fit the bill for simulating Tetris.

The project has at least one unnecessary extra layer of abstraction in it, but somehow nobody has quite gotten around to rebuilding it 100x smaller. A "HashLife-friendly" version could run thousands of times more quickly in Golly.

Since then, several people have invented their own independent computer architectures in Conway's Life, so that kind of experimentation is still going on. See, e.g.,

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/8-bit_programmable_computer
Publishers are going nowhere. Who else is going to pay politicians millions for their ghost-written "memoirs"?
> That's the way things used to be done before social/dating apps ... And by and large, it worked pretty well. Who better to matchmake than people who actually know both of you?

I feel like some uncomfortably large fraction of consumer-focused tech is like that: take something that worked, and replace it by some new-shiny junk-food like thing that's actually worse in all important ways.
Juggling, I found a link to the library of juggling in HN [1]. I've been practicing for the last month and learning basic 3 balls paterns.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601201
You could DIY this with: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/desky-standing-desk-es...
And how would you do it sans imagination?
The previous comment talks about founder and ceo Nirav Patel. Comment you're replying to says "I wanted to do this", and is posted by a user named nrp. It's not rocket science.
Discussion[0] (231 points, 20 hours ago, ~60 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117510
There is a major difference though: Holmes's proof was broadly comprehensible, just extremely complicated and easy to get lost in the details. In particular Holmes really tries to make the reader understand, with a fairly gentle/apologetic introduction.

But Mochizuki's "proof" is completely impenetrable even to experts on, like, page 3, and makes no effort to explain what is happening.

Another key difference is that New Foundations is a niche field, so there simply was not a huge amount of human effort spent reading Holmes's work. That's not the case with Mochizuki's proof. There's a big difference between "a small number of mathematicians didn't understand the proof but suspect it's correct" and "a large number of mathematicians didn't understand the proof and concluded it was incorrect."

And, most of all: Holmes's formulation of twisted type theory made the proof a natural candidate for dependently-typed formal verification. Mochizuki's proof is not type-theoretic and does not seem like a great candidate for the calculus of constructions - maybe it is! I actually have no idea. I suspect Mochizuki is the only person in the world who can answer that. But it's critical that Holmes did so much background work to simplify his proof and make this Lean program possible. Mochizuki should do the same.

AFAICT, both in terms of the "sociology of mathematics" and the amount of work required to even attempt a Lean formalization, trying to verify Mochizuki's proof is a waste of time.
It's fragmented.

Some of it is on a shared network drive, some is on SharePoint, some is on Confluence, and some is within a separate ticketing system, whilst the work is done on Azure DevOps.

This would even be manageable if there was some kind of central Index or Contents page that pointed to the right place, but no. Well, maybe, if there is it just ends up being another fragmentation rather than a central reference point.

Over the years I've become a strong believer in the ability to separate the "information index" from the information store and the information itself, and I've gone to some lengths to try to create said Index, but actual work keeps getting in the way.

A knowledge management project is always on the horizon. The small bites at it only ever seen to make the problem worse.
You would like subleq/muxleq languages them.
This was the case for Phi-2, it was notoriously rubbish in practical use.
In my experience the less you seek, the easier it is.

I've never been single for more than a couple of months in my adulthood and I don't see myself as particularly attractive. But everytime I met my new long time partners it was at a moment where I was not really in a mood to enter a new relationship and was pretty much looking forward to spend some time single. But that probably means I was more attractive and looking less like a predator than men who were actively looking. The funny part is that on 2 occasions I used dating apps because as much as I wanted to stay single, I wasn't against the occasional sex but was underwhelmed by the experience and it resulted in very few dates. I've never been much into "marketing" and didn't want to reveal too much which probably didn't help.
Well sure, but the previous poster was making a proposal ("I think"), and just doing a link dump implies ignorance, which fairly obviously isn't the case.

I think anyone who has dealt with both Arabic numerals (as used in Europe) and Arabic numerals (as used in parts of the Arabian world) feels the naming is unfortunate. Arguably this is not the best place to bring that up, but I certainly stopped using "Arabic numerals" after working with some i18n code which supported both Arabic and Arabic numerals.
I'm disappointed with the letter in the OP, but IME Irene's posts wherever I've read them (Discourse and GitHub) have been measured, diplomatic, friendly, patient, etc. I think this is just bigotry. It's an attempt to dismiss the letter by painting her as the sole author and ridiculing her identity categories.
C and C++ are different enough.
Wait, which bit—that the ships were sunk, or that they were sunk by Ukraine?
It's interesting traveling for work and oscillating between the two types of cities:

- Reservations only
- No reservation needed

The most fascinating thing is people in each type expect their way is perfectly normal, and everywhere else is like that too.
You're not alone. A webapp with slow spinny widgets coupled with laggy file management.

I'm sure it used to be better. I don't need a weather widget telling me what the weather's like outside in a file store and sync app.
When I did a CS degree in the 1980s at a UK university I think we had at least 4 hours of lectures per day - with lab hours and tutorials on top of that (maybe a couple of hours a day).

We thought we had it easy - the Electrical Engineering students we shared a lot of classes with had 8 hours a day in their timetables.

Edit: By fourth year I was practically living in the department building - easily averaging ~10 hours there then going to the pub or for a run...
If they get rid of the libraries the savings will be used for tax cuts. Guarantee it.
What would that investigation look like, just large amount of trial and error?
What I got from his interviews is not that he disliked the GoL, it's just he disliked the GoL overshadowing everything else he did (basically, becoming the GoL guy). He personally didn't see much more interesting mathematics that could be done after answering basic questions like universality (although it's likely he wasn't aware of everything the community was up to). Also, it's clear he seemed to come to terms with it in his final interviews (including the second one you linked) :)

I've played around with several CAs and Conway's rules stands out to me as one of the most interesting still, for many reasons (like simplicity, interesting patterns, long lived structures).
The real reason is here folks https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-a...

All independent journalists have said this is ONLY because of Gaza. Trying to suppress young people's opinions i.e. Free speech.
Yeah, really unsatisfying that there was no attempt to explain why it might be slower since it just gives the compiler more information to decide on optimizations which in theory should only make thins faster.
Mental models are rigid, cultural inertia, etc.
Excellent info.

> which led to Stephen Wolfram's success etc etc.

Wolfram's A New Kind of Science takes the idea a bit too far, in my opinion. It's an exposition of the hypothesis that the underlying stratum of life and the universe is, like cellular automatons, discrete—and therefore can be understood in terms of discrete processes, which he views as analogous to real life. He points to emergence in cellular automatons as evidence that an analogous emergent phenomenon was the reason biological life came into existence.

Mathematically and philosophically, it's a very interesting idea, but I'd hope that at this stage in scientific history, we'd understand that step 2 to validating an interesting hypothesis is testing it.
Silly developer, Apple hasn't gone nuts. They're simply using their vertical integration to protect you from attaining any form of revenue they can't legally demand a part of. From Apple's perspective, it's you that's gone nuts and is trying to destroy their ecosystem with your heinous donation scheme: https://developer.apple.com/security/complying-with-the-dma....

It's about safety; that's iPhone. (cue the trailing list of comments a-la "Exactly right, this is why I bought my iPhone.")
> Either way, it's not as easy as it looks.

And exploring the tradeoffs might lead those exploring to reconsider their preferences going in.

Not directly related to the topic, but I recently did some prototyping on a second iteration of an interface with a similar tension—proliferation of similar but distinct types in a data model, or expanding the set of nuances within each existing type to support refinement within it. Going into that prototyping session, I had a very strong bias in favor of the latter. But after exploring the options, I found it vastly simpler to consume the “bloated” interface, and to reason about the resulting application code consuming it.

I don’t have strong feelings on the topic as it applies to CSS masonry, but I suspect there could be similar surprises in how people think about this tension intuitively versus in practice.

And while I think CSS in particular will have a hard time justifying “bloat” (proliferation of use case specific semantics), I think it’s possible that users do tend to find more difficulty using CSS’s denser APIs (like grid).
Indeed, it was less than half a decade later that Operation Fishbowl [0] commenced, a series of high-altitude nuclear tests, and they were pretty awe-some displays.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fishbowl
Real reason why this is happening now.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/02/younger-a...
I'm really not from the field but wasn't there some Gödel theorem showing every system strong enough cannot show its own consistency?
Theres a difference between the user breaking an assumption and a self inflicted breaking change. For starters the former can happen after compile time.
Show HN: $1k Solar Self-Sufficiency – Without Your Landlord Noticing [video]
Its the quote that is misleading. They picked the one paragraph in the CR article this just mentions maintenance. Everyplace else says "maintenance and repairs". In particular the chart of costs by brand they copied from the CR article is titled "Maintenance and Repair Cost by Brand" there.
iOS 17.4.1 with an iPhone 12 Max. I tried with and without an add blocker before getting frustrated and giving up.
Neanderthals certainly had bathrooms!
No the doctors shouldn't lie.

However, rat studies, theory, experience, ect are all evidence.

If you are navigating uncharted territory, your should listen to the opinion of your local guide. "I don't like that drug because every one of my patients that took it died horrible deaths" might not mean much statistically, but if there isn't any other data, I would want to know. Same if my doctor thinks a treatment is crazy and will never succeed.
Reposting as a top comment for more visibility:

I have a website with my photos, which doesn’t use any JS for layout. When I was making it, I considered using JS masonry libraries, but I wasn’t satisfied with the results. Proper masonry layouts which fill all available space in practice actually crop some images. Leaving space around photos is required when you don’t want cropping and want to preserve aspect ratio. The only way not to do that is to have infinite scroll, which I guess is what corporate addiction machines want, but that’s not what I want on my own website. Here is what I did:

https://yakubin.com/photography/albumless/

https://yakubin.com/photography/album/kenya-2023/

I used display:inline-block to achieve this result, effectively treating photos as text that needs to reflow into new lines. I’m very satisfied with the result and prefer it over what the masonry libraries do.
Perplexity AI launches Enterprise Pro and raises at $1B valuation
tomorrow is now: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct
Well, it's not as if the people who do this sort of thing professionally are doing a competent job.
The graph in the article is woefully different from my own experience
This can easily become an economy-wide problem. Canada is an example of this, and it has certainly harmed the country's overall productivity.

Language has long posed a challenge for organizations in Canada with operations and customers in both the English-speaking and the French-speaking regions of the country. These days, though, that has become a comparatively minor issue to deal with.

Severely flawed immigration policies have very quickly brought in a huge number of people who don't know English well, and who also don't know French well, too. In effect, these people don't really fit in linguistically anywhere across the country.

As this third group has gotten larger, especially over the last decade, unnecessary friction has been introduced into even the most basic of interactions, for pretty much all of the participants involved.

In the major cities, for example, it's not uncommon to watch one customer after another with limited English and/or French skills have trouble interacting with a cashier who also has limited English and/or French skills.

Native English and French speakers are left in a position of constantly being unsure if they were properly understood, too.

Miscommunication, misunderstanding, and mistakes have become far more common than they were even as recently as the 1990s and early 2000s. Lots of time, money, effort, and resources are frequently wasted thanks to this.

Canada's productivity has certainly taken an unnecessary hit due to language issues.
Well, at least show us your ideal replacement for that logic that's more intuitive.

Until then, these complaints usually cash out into unfamiliarity + assuming it's very hard to understand if you were you trying to understand it.

Declarative UI is a very hard problem, so it's not always going to be `text-decoration: underline`.
There is also RustDesk which works on Windows but also Mac, Android, and Linux.
The Japanese figured out how to build and manage American auto factories, I’m hopeful the Taiwanese will figure it out as well.
Relevant link:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024...

"After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale."
> People work from home and don't go out as often.

Is that really the case?

I think people feel the need to go out, especially when they are single. Not necessarily for dating purpose but when you have nobody to talk to at home you look more easily at danse/gym classes, sports club, art events, etc.
"Soup searching" generally means not looking for anything in particular. It just involves setting up a random initial configuration, letting it run until it stabilises ("goes boring") and then takes a census of what's sitting around in the ashes of the burned-out pattern.

Mostly, of course, the census just reports piles and piles of blinkers and blocks and beehives and boats and everything else that you almost always see when you run a random scribble -- but every now and then something turns up that has never ever been seen in the history of Life, and that turns out to be useful and building new mechanisms that weren't possible before:

https://mathematrec.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/richs-p16/
https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Rich%27s_p16
I see two signers in the top 6 displayed on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/graphs/contributors
You mentioning helping the homeless in this convo has the same kind of vibe to me as conservatives only mentioning mental health when talking about gun control.
They only ever mention mental health as a distraction from issues they do actually care about (like gun control), and have no interest in actually solving mental health issues. It's a typical way of bad faith arguing. That's just vibes though; there's a good chance you'd actually in earnest like to divert library funds toward helping the homeless. It's an issue that's very close to my heart too, so I get the sentiment.

Still, I disagree. Just because one of two problems is worse (e.g. literacy and homelessness, or murder and burglary) doesn't mean we can just ignore one problem in favor of another. Just because murder is worse than burglary doesn't mean we should divert all police attention and money currently being spent on burglary to solving murders. Just because women's rights in the US by far surpass those in Saudi Arabia doesn't mean we should take the efforts we put into women's rights issues in the US and divert them to solving women's right's issues in SA. Just because homelessness is in some sense worse than illiteracy and low education doesn't mean we should divert funds from libraries to solving homelessness.

Having written all this out, it feels far too obvious for you to not know this. Maybe it's not just vibes.
I'd argue any restriction on free flow of information is anti-capitalist. Copyright is actually antithetical to property rights, in that it restricts what a person can do with physical goods that they own:

I buy paper and toner. Now you're telling me that restricting what configurations of that toner and paper are allowed is pro-property rights? Do I really own the paper and toner if I can't configure them in any way I wish?
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Ooh answer this one!