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Show HN: A unique way to discover books, TV shows, video games, and more
I created this little web app after finding it hard to books I actually enjoyed reading.

The apps makes it super easy for you to describe what you're looking for, then gives you recommendations that match your description.

It currently works for books (fiction and non-fiction), TV shows, movies, video games, and songs.

I've found that a little bit of exploration goes a long way... and I've personally found some great stuff.

Please let me know what you think!
This is kind of what I'm thinking, or even an API for the ones where you need to store information like "I only want x cookies" but just in some uniform way.
In plain sight: A tweak to planning rules could unlock up to 350k small homes
From the "Help" modal:

"Illuminate is an experimental technology that uses AI to adapt content to your learning preferences. Illuminate generates audio with two AI-generated voices in conversation, discussing the key points of select papers. Illuminate is currently optimized for published computer science academic papers.

As an experimental product, the generated audio with two AI-generated voices in conversation may not always perfectly capture the nuances of the original research papers. Please be aware that there may be occasional errors or inconsistencies and that we are continually iterating to improve the user experience."
> All the EU regulations accomplished was adding an infuriating dialog about cookies that the vast majority of users just click-through anyway, which I suspect will also happen to anyone subjected to surgeon general's warnings about how bad social media is for you.

I tend to agree regarding the current state of things, but most nagging pop-ups are not compliant with regulations, and are bound to get slammed sooner or later. I think they will last a couple of years before being seriously challenged and be gone (possible replaced by something worse, though).
As I said in another comment if it were otherwise everyone would ignore all the other laws to get a launch permit.

If you read esghound's Twitter/threads he argues that the violations are so serious/done-in-bad-faith/contrary-to-submitted-paperwork that they would require a significant redo of the environmental impact permitting. In particular the FAA initially ruled that there was a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) and they did not require a (time-consuming) environmental impact statement (EIS). Esghound argues that they will legally need to complete an EIS which will take months. I wouldn't necessarily bet on that given how powerful Musk is.

https://x.com/ESGhound/status/1833544766019276923
They're still very bounded systems (not some galaxy brain) and training them is expensive. Learning tradeoffs have to be made. The tradeoffs are just different than in humans. Note that they're still able to interact via natural language!
Well, seems this case was started back in 22/03/2022, https://curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche.jsf;jsessionid=C3548B21A...

Not to mention Google already lost a previous similar (identical?) case back in 2018 or something, but didn't do enough changes so they had to be fined yet another time.

Not sure why Google are unable to get lawyers good enough to explain laws and regulations to them, or if executive team just ignores the lawyers they have.
One of the biggest places I've run into hallucination in the past has been when writing python code for APIs, and in particular the Jira API. I've just written a couple of CLI Jira tools using Zed's Claude Sonnet 3.5 integration, one from whole cloth and the other as a modification of the first, and it was nearly flawless. IIRC, the only issue I ran into was that it was trying to assign the ticket to myself by looking me up using "os.environ['USER']" rather than "jira.myself()" and it fixed it when I pointed this out to it.

Not sure if this is because of better training, Claude Sonnet 3.5 being better about hallucinations (previously I've used ChatGPT 4 almost exclusively), or what.
I think you are overestimating ChatGPT, but perhaps one day. And the book was capable of doing all of this while off line. Again, perhaps one day :)
This doesn't work because competition and/or free usage become trivial.
This couldn't be less true, for what it's worth. VCs from the largest funds are in it ~entirely for the DPI (distributed to paid-in capital; investment returns). Not only is this far, far more profitable than management fees (which are mostly spent on operations) — DPI is the only way to guarantee you can raise the next fund.
I am not knocking the article but seems like if you are going to dedicate the effort of learning quick mental math it's probably more efficient to 'just' know how to multiple 2 digits quickly than specifically focusing on 2 digit squares...
No regrets bowing out of this console generation and going PC only. I always had a Sony console for access to exclusive games but between the terrible launch, the almost PC price point, and the dwindling draw of 1st party exclusives (which all now end up on PC in a few years) I'm fine without a console. I do miss gaming laying in bed when sick but that's a solvable issue if I every care enough.
There are many analytics platforms but Google Analytics is still the champion with almost 90% market share of the analytics market. It may not be as user-friendly and may lack some features, but it's very good for a free product. In this video we show how to integrate WebDigital websites with Google Analytics to be able to track and report website activity.
You can now buy a 7" tungsten cube for $30,0000
This is really cool. Although I wouldn't put money on a Google project sticking around even if it was a full fledged product!

More of a tech demo than anything else.

What's wild about this is that the voices seem way better than GCP's TTS that I've seen. Any way to get those voices as an API?
One problem I see with this is legitimizing LLM-extracted content as canon. The realistic human speech masks the fact that the LLM might be hallucinating or highlighting the wrong parts of a book/paper as important.
You know what helps prevent fines? Following the law.
I think there is/are some executives at Google/Alphabet that utilize GV so much that they couldn't kill it if they wanted to. I used to have a voip device that worked with my GV number, and Google extended the life of the API used several years, I since stopped using that device and the service had still been working for it.

I do miss when GV and SMS were integrated with Hangouts though... was imo a much better experience than you get today with all the broken out apps.
My wife's cousin worked the case where they forced Nic Cage to give back the dinosaur skull he bought for a quarter mil at an illegal auction to the Mongolian government. He had to take every role ever offered to him because he made some amazingly stupid financial decisions.
Is the hypervisor multicore? How do you handle shared memory non-determinism? What is the runtime slowdown for shared memory multicore (lets say 16 cores if you need a concrete example) execution?
There is a diff functionality which I have provided in unify-jdocs that I think does exactly what you are looking for. You can get the details here -> https://github.com/americanexpress/unify-jdocs. At present it is only for Java. And if you do take a look, please feel free to give feedback - thanks.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498358.
You can ask it „Is the McDonalds nearby open? I live in Brumbledon, Ohio.“
It will do a search, and then confidently state that the McDonalds in Brumbledlon, Ohio is in fact open 24/7.
I guess it doesn’t matter that no such town exists.
Alrighties, thank you. It is expensive to me, I wish I could just do it myself. There are no Apple stores in my country. I may be able to take it to a store though and they may replace it for less than $99 but I am not entirely sure.
Russias trooo participated fully as insurgents in the donbas conflict. There are even videos of the participating troops admitting to it.So a insurgency is not needed, just the illusion of one.
Seems very suspicious. 3 fake accounts made at the same time pretending to be random people. Not sure about the actual product, but given this, I wouldn't trust it.
Yeah, and anti drunk driving laws are discriminatorily tailor-made to target heavy alcohol enthusiasts.
> For example, source IPs belonging to a legitimate Italian ISP should not arrive in a Brazilian datacenter.

You sure about that?

If the entire network is healthy. Yes, and maybe by two(?) transatlantic cables is not the efficient way to serve a page. NYC is probably closer to Italy by network topology than is Brazil.

But if CF had a data center in Italy and one in Germany, there are very valid reasons for Italian traffic to end up in Germany. Like a grid failure, flooding. Or fire. So how far you can take this and still meet SLAs is a little tricky.
I don’t follow. They don’t hold any keys at all. The private keys never leave users’ devices. They say this clearly.

You can also enable Taillock. That will prevent addition of nodes to your network.

It will be a joke otherwise.
Compelled speech. Strike it down, SCOTUS.
Whenever I come across a thing that contains a "terms of service" or "license agreement", I refuse to read it and make the assumption it says the following things:

> you own nothing

> the company owns everything

> you have no rights

> you promise not to try and exercise any right you think you have

> just in case you ever get it in your silly little head that you do have any rights whatsoever, you agree to binding arbitration with the firm we pay

> you cannot do anything the company doesn't like

> the company can do literally anything it wants whether you like it or not

> the company is not responsible for anything ever

> the company makes absolutely no guarantees about anything

> but you agree to indemnify us in all possible circumstances
Why VR Games Still Haven't Taken Off
Ah thanks - I've merged the threads into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41498358.
What sort of extensions do you find yourself writing? I think that is fascinating and thinking back, probably something I should have at least considered a few times.
As a frontend dev with some full stack experience, I don't think this should really be a matter of "we want vs they want", but of your underlying resource constraints and UX needs (UI performance, database indexing or write performance, caching layers, app store limitations, etc.). It's not a game of hot potato, but how it impacts the overall data flow, both ingestion (from data sources) and serving (to the end user). Ideally you'd choose what's best for the project and company overall, not any particular team's microscopic preferences.

But in this particular case it doesn't seem like there's much to debate. It's like a single line of code for the frontend to map or reduce that simple JSON into whatever they want. It shouldn't require a rebuild (or how do you do any sort of dynamic data?).

If this is a common problem though, then yeah a BFF can help with the political side of things, if both groups can co-maintain it. It's really just a codified API layer. Backend sends data to it, frontend can choose how they want to present it through simple transformations.
As one of their first customers was sad to see Simple not make it.
I'm still dealing with the fallout of the domains selloff.
Go write up the code to connect two parties. Just A and B. A knows about B and wants to connect to B specifically, B will talk to anyone, but wants to know exactly who. It's far more than just Serve and Dial, and often you have to involve a 3rd party, or know a lot of details about self-signed certificates and the particulars of authenticating them.

If it was just Serve and Dial with the guarantees I mentioned, we would be in agreement that it was easy and a suitable default.

> "TLS is bad because it is complicated. We should replace it with something logically equivalent, but better in some way that I have not defined."

I thought I was fairly clear in saying: less complicated == better. That is the way in which it is better, that I am now defining explicitly for you. If that's controversial then that probably explains most your disagreement. The complexity has to be so low relative to other solutions that it is more likely to be used than not.
Just one quick example from Spanish Amazon: https://i.imgur.com/XnR6BrF.png

Maybe a better example where the search is for "e-book color" and the listing for the Paperwhite doesn't match either "e-book" or "color", so it's not ranking high because it's matching the search terms well with the titles but seemingly because of something else: https://i.imgur.com/BoUjPPv.png
You said (implied?) that your reason for starting a company was that you were waiting for somebody (MS) to build your favorite tech, and you realized it was monetizable. Finding a gap is a great start. But, if money is your goal, it is far easier to make money working at a company than starting one. Existing companies are great places to learn about technology, business, and the issues that should really drive your desire to start something yourself.
Logos: Create Fast Lexers in Rust
Having used both at home, Tomato is much easier for doing standard home WiFi things. You can change wireless power levels, setup guest networks, etc easily within the UI.

Pfsense/opensense is easier when you have complicated routing needs, like multiple vlans with various split tunnels, etc.

It’s not 100% accurate, but imo if you want a short-hand you could say tomato is WiFi focused with routing support, and opensense is routing focused with WiFi support.
Almost all fonts commonly used today support most if not all of this (except for variable axes, because that's still a relatively new development)
The Gambler's Fallacy is not a fallacy
The FBI leads US domestic counterintelligence, so during the Cold War it isn't surprising that someone from a Warsaw Pact country who seems to travel randomly around, moving within (and staying at the homes of!) a group of intelligentsia whose work is foundational for cryptography, hydrodynamics, and celestial mechanics, would have had a fair amount of resources devoted to them.

> All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and celestial mechanics (financed by military and other institutions dealing with missiles, such as NASA). —VIA

(Pedantry: the FBI also does some drugs stuff, but Erdős would've been way too small for them to bother)

Lagniappe: https://simonsingh.net/books/fermats-last-theorem/wacky-ferm...
Then you need to explain why statistics isn't enough to be intelligent. We are at the point where that isn't an obvious argument anymore and I'll point to the best models as to why you might be wrong.
I've found that feature really difficult to trigger reliably without hitting buttons on the bottom of the screen if they're there. Maybe it's just because I'm on a 13 mini, and before that a 12 mini. But if an app has a bottom navigation bar, I've found it absolutely impossible to trigger reachability without also hitting the bottom navigation.

I did also set up an accessibility feature where you can map a handful of actions to a double or triple tap on the back of the glass, and I mapped double-tap to trigger Reachability. But it's not super fast and overall a bit of a downgrade from the double capacitive TouchID tap on older models.
Can podcasts creators benefit from this tool? I think so...
I never said it wasn’t statistical at any level so I’m not sure what your point is. My point was almost everything we do is an approximation (I mean, all of science and technology and engineering) and very little of it isn’t. Fake it until you make it is pervasive in human endeavors. Over time the errors and issues will be smoothed away until it’s still there but it’s not noticeable enough to be a major problem.

It being statistical doesn’t make it useless. It not being some metaphysical concept of awareness doesn’t make it useless.

But the multimodal model support puts the lie to it being just a stochastic parrot of language. The domains it works in -is- more abstract than syntax and grammar even if it’s grounded in it. That’s part of the entire power of the model. In the end it leads to a predicted token but the path it takes is more subtle and complex than a simple Markov chain of tokens.
Profit is taking more than you invested.

"How much it is worth" isn't on the previous sentence.

You make a profitable business by creating things that are worth more than the things you consume making them.
you asked...
We often decide on things by process of elimination: it's easier for us to identify what we don't want than what we do.

If there are 5 choices available, the effort to decide on one is low as the contrast between choices is high … and holding all options in memory is easy.

If there are 1,000 choices, the effort is high and the contrast is low … and you can't hold them all in memory, so there's always _something_ right around the bend that _might_ be the perfect thing.
What this ends up being in practice is "give away everything that I am better at than AWS for free, and charge for the things that AWS is better at than me." It shouldn't be surprising that AWS comes in and eats your lunch on this arrangement.
Noto doesn't ship with OS, and users need multiple fonts for different use cases.

Grandparent comment is saying that Microsoft, Google, Apple could settle on a common set of open licence fonts and bundle them with the OS (and Linux distros / other OSS OSes could also do the same). Then web design & dev could rely on those fonts without having to locally serve them, or embed with Google fonts, etc. Noto could indeed be one of the bundled fonts in this alternate reality.

But no real incentive for any of those big players to do so, and disincentive for Google who gain surveillance data from font embeds as noted elsewhere in thread.
Not really, antitrust is far from being a new concept. It predates all the major tech companies. In fact, a cursory web search traces it back all the way to the Roman empire. and Google is definitely not the first to be hit by it.

However, if Google (or any major US tech company) believe they are being wrongfully targeted, they can always stop operating in EU.

Or you know, they can continue operating there, but follow the rules instead. Again, a very weird concept. Not sure you will understand it.
Something tells me that the author [0] is probably well aware of how these work under the hood, and the math behind it - When writing scientific articles with a laymen audience in mind, you'll often have to use laymen-specific terms. But feel free to enlighten us further!

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Waldo
> Are such huge monorepos a good idea in the first place?

In just one question, the comment above has done an impressive trifecta; it (1) ventures off-topic; (2) invites a holy war; (3) nerd-snipes. So, let's see how this train wreck unfolds.
I recently leafed through "Mathematics for Engineers"[0], originally from 1926, which begins with many such methods for making arithmetic easier. Though maybe not always more space efficient.

Luckily I got to use a calculator for school.

[0]https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.11725/page/n9/mode/1up
Cool tech. Now we know that very soon no one will be able to trust podcasts or video narration.
Can you believe that investors keep falling for this?
> The AGPL isn't used to uphold OSS values, it's used as a defense against competition.

It's only a defense against competitors who want to use it and not give back -- just like the original GPL. If you prefer the BSD ethos, that's fine, but just say "I disagree with the copyleft philosophy", not "AGPL doesn't uphold OSS values".
Most of the reviews for this extension look like they were generated with LLM.
There can be highly disbalanced and problematic transactions. If you life is on the line and I am the only one with the cure I have enormous leverage. That’s a type of market failure that hopefully we will see less off. But I don’t think it’s right to see every type of transaction with that view.

I like to think most businesses want to make money but also have happy customers.
Any way to add support for something like razorpay.com ? Stripe is not available everywhere
Soon. Everyone will want a piece of yellow cake now that everyone has shown its colors. Which makes the Russian conquest a race to gobble up as much territory as possible before every neighborhood goes full selfdefense forever.
Government racket.
Expected by large corps.
Probably some handshakes and kickbacks are happening behind the closed doors.
People have been reading bot spam for ages, and already watch auto generated spam. I'd expect this to pick up once it gets cheap enough
TIL several useful things about typefaces!
Wow. I did not pick anything in the voice as a clue that it's generated. So does it make it current best text to audio system?
Entirely different situation compared to Ukraine, Georgia, etc. and there is basically no group of people that would make up that insurgency.
I'm interested to know why the regex crate didn't do better. I believe it should compile a search for multiple literal strings into an Aho-Corasick automaton, which is structured very much like a trie.
Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?
I don't think it's fair to characterize it as "sloppy" or "clickbait" at all. The author is a game developer, and they use terminology in a way that is common and accepted within their field -- sure, it's nonstandard and "wrong" outside of the game industry...but I'd say it's a little hypocritical for software developers to complain about jargon.

As a supporting example: the game Super Metroid alternates every frame between checking collisions from left-to-right or right-to-left. The direction of collision checks can make a difference for speedrunning tricks, and there's no (practical) way to control for it, so it's referred to as "RNG". From a player's perspective, the fact that it's just a frame counter rather than an LCG or something is irrelevant -- it's a luck-based factor that's outside of the player's control.

And the same frame counter is used as a source of entropy elsewhere in the game, so there's an argument that it's not even wrong to call it RNG. Similarly, a Git hash is a SHA-1 of the repo contents commit message, commit date, etc., and a cryptographic hash and pseudo-random generator are very similar constructions...so calling it RNG is a little cute but not exactly inaccurate.
I think it depends on how we balance AI innovation with preserving human elements in mdia
I don't know, it depends on whether I get to control the auto generated podcast or someone else.

If I get to control it and I can have it draw in enough interesting angles into something, I think it could be fun. I wouldn't replace one of my favorites, but I'd gladly use something that could generate creative new content.
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I'm not convinced at all. The only thing they are doing is perturbing some of the model weights in intermediate layers, and seeing if the output of the final layer is consistent with the perturbations. It would be a shitty model if that was not the case.

The fancy part in the paper is figuring out how to perturb the intermediate layers in the way you want. But the findings are not impressive.

Note also that the "probe geometry" stuff is so speculative they left it out of the academic paper completely.

In the same way, it has been known since the 90s that if you take the matrices from Finite Element Models and visualize them as graphs, structures appear that kind of resemble the physical appearance of the object being modelled. Here for instance is for a helicopter:

http://yifanhu.net/GALLERY/GRAPHS/GIF_SMALL/Pothen@commanche...

Yet nobody thinks Finite Element Models have an internal mental representation of the world.