skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few months back, I posted an essay here about how I think we are entering an age where the personal library will become an asset class unto itself [1]. This is due to a combination of the advent of semantic search and the revival of personal knowledge management in the deluge of our age.

As such, I’ve been working on the software to bring this vision to life, which is called Your Commonbase (a portmanteau of Commonplace Book and Vector Database).

In short, the purpose of the work is to create a data structure that works the way humans store, retrieve, and share information. By making these three elements as close to zero stress as possible, you catalyze creativity through remixing and augmentation of memories. My hypothesis is a lifetime building a Commonbase creates an idiosyncratic system, filled with the interpretations of an individual or a group. This individualized structure then creates demand that others want. I.e, a curation of all of the books you have read, organized by the marginalia you have added to them. This is a system people would pay for, and also a system that becomes more valuable over time.

I’ve been “working in public” by posting updates on my site [2], and am just beginning a small waitlist alpha testing phase (email me if you want in!)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192359

[2] - https://www.bramadams.dev/
Sure, these are important questions.

Battery storage is more versatile than nuclear power due to its distributability. For example in Puerto Rico there is a concept[0] of a virtual power plant which requires battery owners to sign up to contribute in return for compensation. There will of course be economies of scale possible by centralizing battery storage, for example with non-chemical battery storage such as water batteries[1] that are more vulnerable than the highly distributed model. The point is more that there's more flexibility and variety available to deal with risks of many types.

0: https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/virtual-power-plant/pue...

1: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-giant-water-batt...
There is no place on earth which has laws that abide by this principle.
Most paradox games enable this to some degree. It's pretty limited in terms of imagining what this could look like outside of the european conceptualization of civilization progress but it's there.
Just soft launched my app for landlords to manage their rental properties. It is targeted to Canadians with a focus on Ontario to start.

https://boredlandlord.com
Think that through again. An inline string needs a fixed 0 byte at the end. A heap string does not. Therefore if the last byte is anything other than 0 you have a heap string.

Inline strings only use 0.4% of your possible values.
Yes. I use it every day and it's what I was benchmarking against mentally.
yabai can switch workspaces without that dumb animation but it requires injecting code into the Dock which requires disabling System Integrity Protection.

Really wish Apple would give users more choices here without requiring third party hacks.
Clay Shirky argued in Cognitive Surplus that excessive gin consumption was because those people were bored. It stopped when their job opportunities opened up.

IIRC, he was optimistic that media consumption would similarly dry up once people had more compelling options.
Goodreads is Amazon so its ratings are suspect, like everything else on Amazon.

It would make a ton of sense to have a third party rating and review site with some kind of dependable reputation for posters. You could still affiliate link to books for site revenue.
Not OP, but I have been poking around with LLMs for a year and I'd like to add to the conversation.

In my experience, LLMs are word predictors, and the impacts of that fact are not immediately obvious.

LLMs are capable of "explaining" what code does. What it is doing under the hood is pattern matching: I've seen code that looks like X, with an explanation that looks like Y

LLMs are capable of formatting text. It has seen English written like X, that is reformatted to look like Y

One resounding fact my team has found over and over is that "the things we think are hard for LLMs aren't necessarily hard; the things we think are easy aren't necessarily easy"
Somewhat adjacent, I have been interested in generating mazes of the "cave" form. Many algorithms exist here, even some cellular automata approach for a more realistic simulationist approach. However, I have been kicking around ideas to take the very irregular results from that sort of tack and then abstract them back to a nodes-and-edges parallel data structure. Which is to ask, in this grid of filled in or empty cells, which gaps are the caves, and which are the twisty little passages?

At least for games, I am starting to lean toward the idea that humans like the simulationist approaches as "feeling right," but the abstract graph is better for the machines, and that the ability to start with one and then produce the other is where we will eventually go.
Is there something like Cypher that can be leveraged to make the queries against a postgres graph a bit more digestible?
Smart assistant for kids that takes on the personality of their toys. Christmas gift for my nieces and nephews, so I am building four of them.

Raspberry Pi5 + RFID reader, touchscreen, and some 3d printed enclosures. Going to get a lightweight LLM to run on the Pi5 and some custom interactive software.

I just started this project about two weeks ago, but I've been tinkering with the hardware side of electronics lately and this is the culmination of about 18 months of various hobby projects.
This discovery was made by people who weren't traveling at all.
In hindsight, his least-extendable point is about Christianity. Today, it’s the political right that embraces materialism (he assumes left) and the left that understands the biblical sacrifice.

44 Presidents before Trump grew up in our system and we have some idea what a religious experience could do to any of them. We have no idea how Trump would react to religion.

The left has a major movement to sacrifice their power in our flawed system in order to purge candidates who are uncertain on Palestine.
It's totally task dependent. On some tasks, large well-trained models are already great; if the large model already exhibits human-level performance, a small-model finetune is unlikely to beat it. Similarly, on very general tasks (e.g. "coding" as a general task, as opposed to "writing idiomatic NextJS" being a specific task), a small-model finetune will be unlikely to beat a large model.

But there are plenty of tasks that even large, well-trained models struggle with. If the OP is struggling to get useful root-cause analysis for cloud service incidents out of an existing large model, that seems exactly like a use case where a finetune would shine.

Also, finetunes don't have to be just for small models! Medium-sized models like Llama-3.1-70b can be finetuned, and if you want to burn a lot of GPUs you can finetune 405b as well.
My point is that the vulnerable points, regardless of where they come from, are ultimately there because the purpose of the Defender is not to have perfect cyber security, but to use computers and technology to enable business. Or as you said, "losses are a part of the business"; and that's so because "the business" isn't cyber security.
Boeing management seems to be the real crushing blow for Boeing.
Show HN: Outperforming VByte for Large Integers Using Phi-Encoding
Really like what you guys are doing, keep it up! :)
Can someone answer a dumb question for me: plastics are made from petroleum, a class of molecules that has been in the ground for hundreds of millions of years, but are bad because plastics take a long time to degrade?

I don't understand. The thing they are made from apparently takes hundreds of millions of years to degrade!

I must be missing something important.
Hey guys, at Dispensed are working on Vending as a Service.

For $100 we ship a vending mechanism for you to put on your own custom vending box.

We then provide online marketplace and payment services (Shopify for vending machines) so your customers can use their phones to buy products from your vending machines.

Great alternative for products that don’t justify big $10k vending machines.

http://about.dispensed.app
Yeah, this is definitely an important aspect of the problem I'm hoping to solve. I've found that selecting interesting preferences yields some interesting, non-obvious results "out of the box" - but if you really want to go off the beaten path try selecting the "Little known" preference under Other (and make it Required).
This is an excellent idea. Make the brands accountable to the consumers by giving visibility to what they might consider a health risk.
Since the video on the site isn't working
https://youtu.be/C97kMKwZ2-g?feature=shared
Even further: I don't think there is any evidence Shakespeare wrote his works as we know them. After his death some friends worked together to assemble his works
Lately I've begun thinking that the way maths is taught, with each new concept following on the previous and no real way to revisit older content, just might be why people think there is a sharp divide between people who seem to understand all maths immediately and people who don't get it at all. Of course it might be the case that maths people exist, but maybe it's mostly survivor bias.
'Greene isn't a paragon of scholarship either though - again, superficially, for many years now he's been a popsci celebrity rather than a real, actual, string theorist' - Working at Cornell and Columbia, doing research on string theory and writing best-selling books on physics today qualifies a person as a pop-sci physicist? What would you have grouped Einstein as when he was working at the patent office? No really - serious question.
Yes, I know this, as I have said in another comment. Sorry.

Me:
>Also Telegram is not E2E by default. You need to activate it per chat. By default and in groups it is only server encrypted.

But if it was fully E2EE, would this arrest not have happened?
> I found that being able to jump around easily would hide the fact that my projects were growing in size and complexity.

That is a good point. Having IDE features like auto-import, jump to definition, etc., definitively allow for a more messy project structure.

Still, I always wonder how big projects people advocating "no IDE features" actually have worked on (or alternatively - if they are some sort of memory savants). One thing is a small-medium sized personal project. Another is a 10-20 man cooperation where you have only written a portion of the code, and a big chunk of that is a long time since you written. IMO that require lots of code reading, which is very painful without jump to definition... I don't really see how a perfect project organization could sufficiently remove that reading friction.
Yes, I know this, as I have said in another comment. Sorry.

Me:
>Also Telegram is not E2E by default. You need to activate it per chat. By default and in groups it is only server encrypted.
They should probably get idea from Laravel docs.
Indeed. But I’m pointing out if it’s not the goal, then it’s a cost to minimize to achieve the goal.
Ask steam if you can swap out the store pages. I've never seen it done before though.

$1/WL is good (not great or bad), depending on how much your game is going to cost and the projected WL->Sale conversion.

I recommend you read through most of the articles and blog posts here: www.howtomarketagame.com

It's a good starting place.
There's an interesting documentary about flatearthers called "Behind the Curve" that gets into individual flatearther origin stories. The interesting thing is they are not stupid it's more than they have learned to not trust people in positions of authority on topics of science (often due to an experience in grade school).

Towards the end there are a few funded research projects that are erily more similar to the social dynamic of actual "legit" academic science than the film makers probably realize.
Your Mathematical Potential Has a Limit, but It's Likely Higher Than You Think
Your assertions are unfounded and not based on the evidence we have.
Betrayed and resolving to not help YC anymore.

SpaceX also sold out and now does offensive war capabilities.

The enemy justifies installing into you when you engage in military production.

Sequoia buying UFC is really strange, too.

Are the original founders of YC still in control of this vehicle?
No, but you’re the first person I’ve ever seen mention TileDB in the wild. I applied there a few years ago; didn’t go anywhere, but I’ve been keeping an eye on them ever since, because I think it’s an interesting idea.
I recently did an inverter replacement and my solar guy recommended this model:

https://eg4electronics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/EG4-18...

Max output is 50A, so it should be plenty for your pump and mine. You can also chain them together if you want huge battery capacity.
V2ray-Core: Open-Source Platform to Bypass Network Restrictions
Same, I’m in my late 30s and it’s one of my best high school memories as well. Learned so much, made so many great friends, and worked with amazing technologies.
ngrok, localtunnel, pyjamas, the list is endless..

Yeah, many ways to do it, one is running your own DNS server and have wireguard connections use that DNS server.

I want to avoid having DNS issues, so I'm thinking more like this:

1. DNS CNAME *.internal.example.com 123.23.45.67

2. On 123.23.45.67, run wg.

3. On 123.23.45.67 , run nginx. nginx must be in the same network to do geo blocking on Wireguard peer addressess.

4. Create one nginx server config per service to map domain names to upstream servers. Use variables for upstream servers, allow nginx to start even if upstreams unreachable. Add internal locations for custom errors (Forbidden, Unreachable, etc).

5. When connecting to 123.23.45.67 via Wireguard (ie, Peer Endpoint = 123.23.45.67), ensure 123.23.45.67 is in the range defined by Peer AllowedIPs.
My ex had an erdos-bacon number of six or seven when she was in grad school. One paper with your thesis advisor and having one role as an extra gets you there quickly.
Just a reflection in general on how your exact comment made by different people has evolved over the years.

Generally the research sees no problem with 100% renewable energy systems.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

So the question is what problem are you trying to solve?

1% 0.1%? Or even 0.01%?

That is a problem we can tackle when we get there in the 2040s with the solutions available at that time.

No need to force through expensive white elephants for potential made up problems.
I would be interested in a computer science only version.

A quick search didn't bring up an already existing one :(
Oof, you're right, thank you. In my mind the last byte was obviously zero for a heap string too, since the pointer or sizes would've had a zero upper byte. Somehow I never accounted for the fact that on 64-bit there's no need to represent it that way. Fantastic point!
Hey everyone! We have a struggling economy here in South Africa, so working on an interesting way to help consumers save money by onboarding product pricing and helping people track their savings while still choosing their preferred brands from stores nearby that are cheaper.
I'm using this as a project to learn Swift and SwiftUI for iOS, then I'll get my team to rebuild in Flutter if the prototype yields interest.
The idea is to focus on a small community, and give back to that community.
The working name is Savery. :)
If this is successful, it could be launched in other places, in which case we'll likely open-source the code and have communities manage their own systems.
My context is that I an a founder in a solutions company in South Africa, and I am learning to build things as a hobby to be able to best relate and discuss technical things with my software engineers.
Show me the study that says non-naturally occurring bleach has been observed in human testicles.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/22/1252831...
McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeings money. Engineering culture died and became bean-counter, lowest common denominator corporate-culture. Lobbying went up, outsourcing to third world went up, quality went down, whistleblowers fired and suppressed.

These organizations no longer exist for the purpose of building great products and pushing the limits of engineering. It's easier to operate on the tit of the state and rake in billions through sleazy backroom deals and lobbying with the state acting as an artificial intermediary between cause and effect.
I hear Usenet is getting a bit more popular again. Also traditional forums for those niche topics.
Open WhatsApp directly without saving a number to contact list
Go to WhatsApp directly without saving a number in your contact list. It is very handy if you want to talk to a taxi or a delivery driver, someone who call you and asks you to send him a location for example.

Install it on your phone, alow the app to access the clipboard, answer yes to the permission prompts and you're good to go.

This application does not store your data or talk to any third-party servers, all the files are downloaded to your phone and can be used offline, the application is fully open source.

Youtbe demo https://youtu.be/eVeuxTYB8hM
> Ah, that makes more sense! I do think tpmoney was quite clearly talking about truly airgapped systems, however.

Very much so. My point being that a truly air gapped system is objectively more secure than one that is networked, and yet, a bank or social network company that only operates with truly air gapped systems will be strictly worse off than their competitors in their actual business of banking or social networking. And so since their actual job is not objectively better cyber security, but banking or social networking, then they are inherently at a disadvantage compared to Attackers whose business IS attacking (or at one step removed, selling the resources obtained from attacking). In the name of making their business better, Defenders will chose weaker security, and attackers will chose stronger attacks.
"Hacking back" has gotten hackers into jail in the past.
That kind of performance will still require significant cooling, which if you want it to be quiet is helped by a larger box.
I guess if you are on team carbon sequestration, plastics are better than burn and release into atmosphere. If you are on team plant life, more carbon = more vegetation.
I can't tell you what 6x9 is. But I can tell you what 9x6 is. I always turn that one around. My mind immediately jumps to a visual 60 coz 10x6 is super easy of course and subtracting 6 from it is easily 54.

Similarly 8x7 I can't tell you but 7x8=56 in my brain feels like a little "rhyme" I just need to repeat and I have the answer.

That's also how I remember (somewhat) arbitrary passwords. If it "flows" well almost like a rhyme and can be typed fluently I'll remember. Actual arbitrary ones don't work as well.
We were shooting bottle rockets across our robotics shop using an acetylene torch when my friend blasted the skin off his hand.

Our shop keys were revoked. High school kids do stupid things. But they learn and most live on
I suspect it's not so much the "expert" instruction but the list of subjects of the expertise. These words will generate embeddings that have a better chance of activating useful pathways and relationships within the LLM's generation path.

My understanding is the goal is to prime the LLM with context that it will use when generating answers, rather than hoping it will infer connections in the feed forward layers when generating answers based on a sparse prompt.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/22/1252831...

How much petroleum does the average human testicle contain?
This is idiotic.
I feel like this does not go deep enough. :-)

"lists" is just short hand for components. "Graphs", shorthand for interoperation. The component view is analysis, the interaction view - well we don't have a really good word for that, and yet as the article points out, that is often the attack surface.

Complex adaptive systems (see John Holland's "Hidden Order") have components and a messaging bus which crucially provides a way for the constituent components to interoperate. You can swat ants individually, but if you want to stop them, you destroy the ability to leave pheromone trails.

Maybe there should be a word like "analysis" for understanding how things interoperate. Gestaltysis?
I'm working on a workout API and native apps (iOS/Android) for Strength Level [1] as another interface for my.strengthlevel.com [2]. Strength Level helps you understand your relative strength - how strong you are for your bodyweight.

Using PHP Slim Framework, MySQL, and vanilla Swift/Java. Prioritizing reliability and efficient sync between local storage and server. Currently finalizing API endpoints and feature matching the web app. Next up is adding a subscription model.

It's challenging as:

- Users want to use the app offline which means we need to sync

- We have to match our existing features on [2] in the first version and evolve the API and database to support reliable sync

- Users want to also track their cardio too e.g. Running Level [3] and Rowing Level [4] but that will have to come out in a future version

[1] https://strengthlevel.com/

[2] https://my.strengthlevel.com/

[3] https://runninglevel.com/

[4] https://rowinglevel.com/
Lol blackberry fail due to organizational rot and not because apple had bought the global run of next gen touch screens for three years
We end malaria–everywhere [video]
Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache
The async design allows the language to do garbage collection in Rust because there are defined time when the language is running and not running. This gets around the aliasable or mutable limitations of Rust. There are also benefits around the stack uniformity vs regular Lua. (I.e., in regular Lua you can have some differences between C stacks and Lua stacks.)
> VSCode is very slightly more capable than plain text editor

What? For which languages are you talking about? For python, VSCode is leaps and bounds ahead of PyCharm if your project is well typed.

JetBrains offer a remote solution now though: https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway/
I can provide a use case, although I don't use this site specifically, I do use LLMs (generally Claude) to get command line syntax fairly regularly.

The answer is it's faster and (in my experience) generally accurate for common command syntax. I don't remember all the params for a variety of commands but Claude can get them quickly and easily. Where (IME) LLMs fall down is for more obscure commands but then those are harder to find via traditional searches anyway :D

Googling is very hit or miss these days you end up with a load of sponsored results and then have to try and find an example with ideally the exact syntax you're looking for.
Yes making the actual product is very very secondary to successfully appeasing Congress, produce 'jobs', and follow the litany of rules in place about now the money is used and paperwork after to check boxes.

These aren't businesses operating in a competitive market with pressure to produce the best things quickly. Their goal is simply to be the best gov lapdog vs the only 1 or 2 other gov lapdogs.

Being extremely late and extremely over budget is standard practice in that world and worst case is usually the project gets cancelled for budget reasons then restarted 5yrs later doing the same thing.

This is the environment the gov fostered, they made Boeing etc critical to national security and industry while having a total aversion to risk, and zero forethought into long term investment in legitimate competition. All we get is the same growing monster that becomes the living embodiment of The Iron Law of Bureaucracy https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Let's build iOS 18's navigation title card in SwiftUI