skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically what you're all saying is how it's technically impressive. Okay.

It is also completely and utterly worthless -- an inefficient and slow method of receiving not-very-many words which were written by nobody at all.

The one and only point listening to a discussion about anything is that at least one of the speakers is someone who has an opinion that you may find interesting or refutable. There are no opinions here for you to engage with. There is no expertise here for you to learn from. There is no writing here. There are no people here.

There is nothing of any value here.
Congrats Viktor.

> The feedback cycle in web search engine development is very long....Overall the approach taken to improving search result quality is looking at a query that does not give good results, asking what needs to change for that to improve, and then making that change. Sometimes it’s a small improvement, sometimes it’s a huge game changer.

Yes, this resonates with our experience
Are you part of the project?

Does this include free hosting? I think Google Drive + Google Docs is the killer app. (And that extends to whatever it name of the Microsoft version.)
Show HN: I made an app to improve your alt text accessibility and SEO
Hello,

I often find that my alt text is disorganized and I forget to optimize it, so I came up with an app to help with that. I would love to hear your thoughts.
I've used Contagion to describe tech debt ever since I first read this article. Does a great job.
This is all very new science. No one has written the kind of book you are talking about yet. There have been theories about the quantum nature of of consciousness for a while but the microtubule theory is pretty new.
It did a better job in explaining that there is ambiguity in the question, but still went ahead with an arbitrary assumption in order to answer it. I think it is fair to say it is right, but so was the other attempt. Each interpretation is quite valid.

"Most right" would have been to ask questions about what is being asked instead of trying to answer an incomplete question. But rarely is the human even willing to do that as it is bizarrely seen as a show of weakness or something. An LLM is only as good as its training data, unfortunately.
I think the third Buffalo should not have been Capitalized
On paper, tagging is objectively better for the reasons you describe. But in my experience, the human brain has an intuition for location and object-permanence which is confused by having the same thing in multiple places.
Short, and possible a little one-sided - but revealing and relevant. I really liked the original Screwtape letters and it is timely and poignant to remember that the old ones manipulate the newbies into the ways of the world.
Prop weapons can be made of plastic.
So useless, so beautiful. Love stuff like this!
That’s going to mess up when I use both computers simultaneously.
I appreciate how universal and decoupled this approach is, but it doesn’t fix my main problem with browser bookmarks which is that management overhead gets to be problematic and makes me want to not bookmark things unless there’s adequate “justification” for doing so.

This is what fuels a lot of my tab hoarding. Tabs are quicker/easier to clean up. This has led some browsers (like Arc) to blend tabs and bookmarks into the same thing, but I’m not sure how that this is the right approach either.

I’d like to explore bookmark manager design/UX in a project of my own at some point. It’s not something that’s gotten much attention in browsers in something like a couple of decades, and while plenty of external managers are out there none I’ve seen really nail it IMO.
There are a lot of footguns in react if you don't know how use state works.

If you don't know what triggers a re-render you can end up in a state where the data was changed but the UI didn't update, or where the data changed once and re-rendered multiple times.

In my experience the issues are more noticeable with async state changes, like making network requests or state-driven animations.
> Using shared memory for IPC is like using C or C++ and saying "well I'll be careful then"

Sort of. In the replatforming/codebase conversion case, the amount of care and labor needed to effectively use shared memory for communication is, in my experience, much less than the care and labor needed to make things work in the same address space (and the labor and cost-in-currency of making things work with sufficient performance using traditional IPC is also often preventative). In that regard, I don't think it's equivalent to arguing in favor of C: capable alternatives to C exist that require less care and labor to use; capable alternatives to shared memory IPC in some cases do not.

I'd be curious how much effort and specific shared-memory-IPC-expertise is required on the part of the Postgres maintainers to keep the shared memory layer capable and secure. I hope it's more like iceoryx2 bills itself in that it's relatively well encapsulated such that folks can use it safely without extensive familiarity with the risk domain, but I might be disappointed.

Regardless, I hope we can agree to disagree on specifics; I appreciate the thoughtful response in any case.
Multiplication Routine Based on Reconfigurable Four-Valued Logic Processor
The calculator results page gave me a good dark laugh, thanks for making it! Good writing!
I've learned when setting up a family plan that depending on how many devices you already have (my wife and I each had 1 phone and 1 apple watch) we could get an extra line with unlimited data for functionally nothing. (The sim's sitting in my dashcam right now, been silently plugging away for months)
I think this is just general human behavior.

Think about how comfortable your life is, and how the 17th century version of yourself would kill to live it. Then think about how you aren't in a perpetual state of ecstasy for being given this life.

People quickly adapt to their current circumstances, take them for granted, and immediately want more.
This looks very interesting. Thank you for the link.

It doesn't support Safari as far as I can see. An extension for Safari (especially on IOS), is quite important. This is perhaps only for me, because my general workflow tends to be quickly scanning a couple of articles that I would want to read later, and I would like to easily bookmark them from Safari.

Secondly, its self-hosted only. This is perhaps not so bad - it just means I have to put some thought into where I would host it.

But again, thank you so much for linking linkding :). I am definately quite interested in trying it out.
Product Hunt Is No Longer Based on Votes
Product Hunt CEO defends decision to hand-pick only 10 products to be on the Product Hunt Homepage for the whole day, effectively reducing visibility for non-featured products on the site by >90%.

Rajiv Ayyangar, the CEO, claims that "no one wants to sift through 200 products per day" ... "it would be impossible for a good product to rise on its own merits", but users say this has effectively made it impossible for good products that aren't one of the ten selected by his team, to rise on their own merits - and undermines the whole system of voting.

The criteria for 'featured' selection remains vague, and the community is letting Product Hunt's CEO know how it feels on Twitter. His response to those who his team did not select to be featured, Ayyangar suggests: "Build better products."
Not cheap, but you can get a Leica that doesn't even have a screen, it's all manual and just treats the sensor as though it were film stock. One of the things I like about the Leica digitals is that they are still rangefinder cameras so your experience of using them is still through the viewfinder and much more akin to an analog experience because of the manual focus / exposure / speed control. Now I just need to save up :-)

As others have said, the Nikon Zf is a nice manual feeling digital option too.
> The money comes from somewhere.

Gullible investors for now.
Russia is facing:

* 20% interest rates

* 9% inflation

* dropping demand for oil

* increased supply from Saudi from oil to drop the price

* increasing difficulty accessing any foreign currency including a big inflection point at oct 12

* a large labor shortage

* accelerating military costs

* about 50% of their reserve funds spent (there’s some accounting magic going on here; the book value is inflated by shares of state owned companies; the 50% here refers to actual cash and liquid assets)

* No apparent will or capacity to exit this war which is now its economic lifeblood

Imo we could see hyper inflation here within the decade
Minor nit pick, but gentoo has had binary downloads since dec 2023 and has supported binary updates for years

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html
Poor souls. Conscripts are sent to war against their will and their deaths are almost like civilian ones. Same for 300 thousands Russians mobilized in 2022.
that's value add right there. Summarizing text into audio saves time.
Can also use the library computer too.
> For years the West provided essentially zero pushback against Russian assassinations even when they happened on German / UK / Czech / Bulgarian soil

That is not quite true, there was quite a bit of repercussions on Russia, lots of diplomats expelled, lots of agents investigated then arrested and so on.
I will have a look.
Study: FB's algorithm didn't promote political polarization. Critics have doubts
The letter (2024) to Science pointing to conflict of interest and critiquing methods and conclusions of "How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?" study published in 2023 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp9364#eletters...

Disclaimer: I had to edit the title of submission slightly since original didn't fit into limits.
Within a given area rich people tend to use more carbon. Poor people are less likely to be taking international flights, etc.

Annoyingly, one big problem is that we've allowed NIMBY's to make it illegal to build homes near jobs, so people who can't afford homes near work are often stuck driving long distances to work through no fault of their own.
Engines replace horses. What does AI replace?
Central control of money supply is a good thing. It helps avoid counterfeiters. It also helps make sure that we are broadly using the same means of exchange.

Crypto moves control from the state to whoever runs the tech stack or has cheap enough power to mine crypto. Which in many places is still … checks notes … the state!

Had Russia kept its reserves in Bitcoin or any other crypto, I am skeptical that the clever finance ministries of Europe and America would be unable to reach them. Moreover, the holders of these reserves haven’t sold them. They’re holding them to secure other financing for Ukraine. Which is honestly what anyone does with money they hold - they use it to invest and generate revenue.

An integrated financial world makes armed conflict more costly by threatening a belligerent’s access to markets. That is a good thing and why blockades (i.e sanctions) can be effective in shortening or ending a conflict.
... and it still won't be music.

The reason why people like music is because another person wrote and performed it. We like watching other people.

Give us an infinite playlist of elevator music and it just becomes oatmeal.
>Second its military complex is only good at dumb ammunitions and outdated equipment fit for human wave attacks.

This comment is not based on material facts. Russia has a lot of SotA military equipment. Including AD, EW, smart bombs, glide bombs, hypersonics and so on. These so called "human wave" attacks never happened and is a complete debunked meme.
The promise of future value from a captive audience. The idea that no competitor could succeed because everything worthwhile is already on Twitter. A self-reinforcing network effect.

IMO, this sort of held up, even with Musk's hijinks. There has been no mass migration to Bluesky, Mastodon, or Threads. The problem is, people are just moving shortform expression to video-based networks, like TikTok or Instagram.
The Diffusion Deficit in Scientific and Technological Power: Re-Assessing China [pdf]
Why do you care? Or are you just against the general idea of a framework having constaints that are a bit unusual for their language, like "components must be pure"?
With a probability of 100% a number of people who returned to office work after working from home during COVID were going to die at work shortly afterwards. This is pretty much inevitable because tens of millions of people are involved and people die sometimes. What's shocking is the fact it was several days before anyone discovered Denise Prudhomme had died.

However if we consider that this was over a weekend in August when offices are quiet with many people are on holiday, and that she was in an area reserved for people working from home at other times, and that people disproportionately work from home on Friday/Monday, it's clear this won't have been the only office room which was empty over that period of time.

I think it's tragic what happened here and I'm definitely not an apologist for enforced face time in the office, or for banks, banking, or Wells Fargo, which all have real issues. What I'm trying to say is that a sad event which actually says relatively little about whether returning to office is a good idea.

To see this consider that if all employees were asked to be in the office full-time it's much more likely someone would have been in the room to help Denise, or at least notice her death. If she'd been at home then presumably nobody would have noticed (as nobody at home seems to have altered the police or her employer for several days either)
>we made a tweet that unexpectedly led to a wave of harassment directed at our staff and community.

What terrible gaslighting here, shifting the blame from their community manager in charge doing the harassments, to the community itself as being the harassers.
Charlie is a nickname for Charles and Charlene.
Sounds like that's the price your org is willing to pay for your its flavor of Infosec.
Yeah they perfectly recreated the annoying useless podcast chat format!

Amazingly impressive but not actually useful.

I wonder why they wouldn't try to recreate a more useful format?
The Shadow DOM does exactly what you are asking for here. Just use CSS variables, they pierce right through:

https://open-wc.org/guides/knowledge/styling/styles-piercing...
> CBOR would be a better choice, you aren't limited to IEEE 754 floats for your numeric types.

The other side of this coin, of course, is that now you have to support those other numeric types :) My usual languages of choice somehow don't support "negative integers in the range -2^64..-1 inclusive".
they can be, but they were not as being recanted above. Prop weapons can be made of aerogel too but im not making a lame point about it.
Gotcha. Yea, my impression is that they always have a pretty deep backlog of maintenance tasks that can be done any time there is downtime or extra hands. That might also be true for science, e.g., repeat some experiment with different settings/conditions. (Certainly, in case of unexpected problems/delays they already have a triage plan for which experiments are performed and which are sacrificed.)
What’s the power consumption like for running this 24/7? Is it event based to reduce the need to process data when pc is idle? It’s an interesting idea for sure, but seems like a lot for an alternative of providing specific context.
> I would definitely listen to AI-generated music if it were good enough

Why not just seek out the original works that the AI stole from?
Not sure about other browsers, but Firefox's built-in bookmarks support tags - no need for external apps.
In Firefox, it's an SQLite database in the profile folder, readily accessible by normal SQLite tools. The profile folder is accessible through the Help menu, if you don't like to dig for it in a file manager.
> The one and only point listening to a discussion about anything is that at least one of the speakers is someone who has an opinion that you may find interesting or refutable.

No. Maybe that's true for you, but people enjoy learning in different ways, and some people learn best by listening to a discussion.
> These are simply economic forces testing each other, and whichever is strongest will prevail.

I guess the mob making demands on business is simply economic forces testing each-other, by one accounting. But it feels a tad incomplete.
Already in the sample embedded by Simon. "Gosh", "wow", "like", "like", "like", "[wooooaaaawiiiing, woooooooaawiiiiiiing]", "Oh my god", "I was so, like...".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssDdqq_9TzI&t=34s [April Ludgate meets Tynnifer, Parks and Rec]
Geostationary satellites are required to maintain their longitude (it's a license requirement to get their assigned orbital slot), but not their inclination. Sometimes operators will let the inclination drift a bit to save fuel.

Obviously it's a tradeoff, since if you let the inclination change to a non-zero value the satellite will move around in the sky. After a certain point it becomes unsustainable because it will start to drift outside the receiving beam of your customer's antennas.
Is Speed Brain from Cloudflare Good or Bad. Is there any negative side?
This is some insane catastrophizing. The value is that it turns it into a form factor that may be easier to consume, pay attention to, etc.
Flow Battery Research Collective
If you want to be cautious, I have somewhat higher confidence in the versions of Emacs packages published on the Debian repositories[1] than the ones on ELPA/MELPA.

The downside is that not every package is packaged for Debian, and the versions are a bit stale.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ELPA+&searchon=n...
I have had to use older versions of npm on unsupported nodejs. There was no pinning, or guard rails with upgrading. I have borked the entire npm install doing that because the later npm wanted to use newer syntax that was not backwards compatible.

What you and I describe is not a bundler or npm problem so much that the software we are working on requires an outdated version of ruby and nodejs.

I agree with the the other comment though — npm has more problems even when with the latest version. Like Nodejs, it is flawed by design.
Well, this is left to the application developer to decide and the library should not make the choice for them. In my own application it makes sense to use time.Now(), for example.
This is overblown reaction t
What more could one possibly need than "it'd be fun to build"? Does everything in the world have to be novel and important? Or can some things just be cool and for fun?
I would like to give Firefox a try. I currently use only Chrome/Edge/Safari.
Let me check if it works in IOS.
You misunderstand how Shazam works. Nothing is “sent in full”.
Same here. Go community has a tendency of not using frameworks as much (which I guess is confirmed by the lack of long term maintenance for a lot of Go frameworks), compared to say Ruby. I don't think that is a bad thing. We ended up using Gorm as one of the few frameworks for our web stack and I personally have mixed feelings about it.

On the one hand, it's a very comprehensive ORM (support for different DBs and types of queries, joins, associations, etc). On the other hand, the documentation is not very good and often its behavior leaves you baffled (updates of columns and the associates in different times, for example).

Overall, I think I'd still choose an ORM over writing SQL or quasi-SQL in the code for the sake of maintainability and readability of the code. GORM is the best one around but I wish there were more options.
Firefox/Netscape used to do that.
vscode tunnel is already a massive step up from vscode remote SSH here.
There were eventually Deluxe Paint versions for both DOS and Amiga. I think the Amiga one was first out as the PC graphics were more limited until VGA.
Surprising that anyone still thinks the Penrose model could
work. Microtubules do not exhibit harmonic motion like violin strings. The reason is that all motion at the length scale of cells or smaller is heavily overdamped.

The environment within a cell is nonintuitive. To find out more about this, read “Life at low Reynolds number” or “Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton” by Joe Howard.
It's often the change that happens with experience. Most developers join Go looking for their Laravel, Rails, Next.js, Spring framework. Because it's almost impossible to write something in those languages without a framework.

In Go, the longer you use it, the more you realize "just use the stdlib" actually works for most things. A lot of these projects die because most Go devs either 1) need a mux and use httprouter or gorilla or 2) need a more robust multi-instance setup (go-kit, goa.design, smithy, etc..)

Most big projects just don't use a MVC (or otherwise framework) as it's more work to use, update and understand than just writing your own glue for the libraries you do need.

I might have explained this poorly, but I like to think of Go as a collection of packages where other languages are a collection of frameworks because the packages can't be used together easily and need organization on top to ensure everything works.
I mean, I wouldn't compound drugs for myself for the same reason I don't do maintenance on my car's transmission myself: I don't really know what I'm doing and would probably get myself killed.

From what I understand - may be wrong - the 2000x has more to do with IP protections than production safety.
> But, we know there exists places that we cannot directly observe or perceive, aka quantum uncertainty, represented by σxσp ≥ ℏ/2 [1].

> So based completely in theory, I figure the only way we square FW & determinism, is that free will exists somewhere/in a form we cannot directly observe, and it manifests as tiny influences that add up, in the complex system that is a brain.

These two things not only don't follow from each other, the first one actually all but refutes the second.

First of all, Heisenberg uncertainty affects all physical systems, but clearly not all physical systems are conscious.

Second of all, there is no pattern allowed to exist below Heisenberg uncertainty. That is, if you could determine exactly the momentum of a particle, the particle could literally be anywhere in the universe, with equal probability: there is no bias, it wouldn't be more likely to be here or there. So this is pure randomness, there is no "consciousness signal" you could extract from it.

Or, to put it another way, if our consciousness was a result of Heisenberg uncertainty, that would mean it's a purely random phenomenon, and every human at every time would be exactly as likely to type the next word in this comment, start running in a random direction, gouge out one eye, or any other thing they are capable of doing. There is, in a very fundamental sense, no way to get patterns or intention out of Heisenberg uncertainty.

Besides, the best way to square "free will" with determinism is Compatibilism. Every human is an automaton whose behavior is fully determined by genetic and epigenetic make-up and by everything they've ever learned and otherwise experienced. In a fundamental sense, my whole life's course was determined the moment I was conceived; but still, in any given situation, what I will do is different from someone else might do, because they have a different history and thus different values and biases. There is no magic that allows some "fundamental me" to "choose" how some electro-chemical processes will fire in my brain, any more than I could "choose" to emit electrons from the tips of my fingers. But that doesn't mean that I (the adult I am today) would do the same things Hitler did if I were somehow catapulted into his shoes today.
Sqlite3-Rsync (Draft)
People would choke to death before we could use that much coal, so I doubt that will matter. It’s effectively infinite: We have access to more than we will ever want to use.