skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP's criticism was useful, because there is indeed a gap that needed to be filled and you did just that, thanks.

Conversely it would have been bad to take what the article says at face value - that's how you end up believing in astrology. Even Nobel prize winners can go terribly wrong, after all [1]. But as you said, not everyone has the knowledge or time to dig the connection between the two statements out of the paper.

I can only suggest to ask questions when one does not understand something; sarcasm in particular can backfire hard when you're wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
> This is very much debatable. Only around one in four English words is Germanic in origin, whereas half of English words are Latinic or Romanic. [1]

I think that's complicated by the fact that many english words of latin origin were inherited from a germanic source and thus from an intelligibility standpoint the overlap between english and dutch or german is partially additive with latin. e.g. [1]

Unfortunately the source is dead, but at one point a study ranked english/german as 60% lexical similarity compared to english/french at 27% [2]. Anecdotally, I think dutch and german are easier for an english speaker because of comparatively more overlap in simple words. Heavy use of compound words in dutch/german also gives an english listener a better chance of recognizing part of the word and inferring the meaning from context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Latinates_of_G...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_similarity
I'm also having that problem right now, my solution so far is to host an elasticsearch server somewhere else (at home on an old laptop via a tuns.sh ssh tunnel)
we just read the whole linked article about the subtopic of slavery around Norman times and realms, and you think an article that barely mentions even that topic is going to somehow slake my thirst for a more detailed/nuanced explication?
There are small proprietary models such as Claude Haiku and GPT 4o-mini.
Surprised I've never seen this, despite it existing for at least 9 years??
As an Eastern-European, I can definitely say that after year 1000 we were not pagans, but Christian-Ortodox, but it’s true that the Genoese and the Venetians trading us around the
Black Sea called us “schismatics”, i.e. just one step above pagans.
Discussion (668 points, 20 hours ago, 389 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690302
>Can't simulate the brain of an ant or a mouse

We can't build a functional ornithopter, yet our aircraft fly like no bird ever possibly could.

You don't need the same processes to achieve the same result. Biological brains may not even be the best solution for intelligence; they are just a clunky approximation toward it that natural evolution has reached. See: all of human technology as an analogy.
Bills that could kill major new industries need to be reactive, if at all. This was a terrible bill. Thank you, Governor.
Kind of like the "God of the Gaps" concept, where anything science can't currently explain is taken as proof of the existence of God.
Frodo fell in the Barrow-downs (it seems)
Hartford Public High School grad can't read
Who do you think you are? ROFL
> What is perverse?

> Who said anything about commuting?

Commuting is implicit in any RTO discussion and it's also been explicitly mentioned in parent comments, so both of these "questions" of yours are starting to look like bad-faith trolling.
Twitter was never a $44 billion dollar company. Some suggests that the real price when Musk bought it was closer to $20 billion, but I feel like that was also way to high. Twitter/X is, at best, a $500 million company. It is a niche product, and it was never going to be able to justify a valuation of tens of billions of dollars.
Sure, but that's not the threat model being discussed.
ELI5 why are tokens not a single letter?
I live in a high rise in a major US metro (not NYC). A building across the way installed a new HVAC handler that whines at a relatively high pitch (think industrial shop vac) 24/7. One of my favorite parts of fall is being able to have the windows open and have lovely fresh air, but I can hardly hear myself think. And we're a good 100m away from the thing!

This is to say nothing of the traffic noise or garbage trucks or whatnot--but a building appliance? I thought surely that must be regulated, or at least controllable. It's unreal the lack of attention people pay to it.
The server got depleted pretty quickly. I did not expect more than 10 hobbyists at a time. What's wrong with you people trying to bully a hobbit en mass??
> I define tech debt as code or data that future developers will pay a cost for.

One of the best descriptions I’ve encountered.

As in all debt, there’s a “threshold” that should be applied, at the time the debt is incurred, which balances the immediate needs, against the future costs. I feel that most people (not just developers) amplify the immediate, and deprecate the future costs.

For myself, I have an almost pathological aversion to debt, of any kind. I will spend an extra day, factoring out stuff that might be useful, in the future. I seem to be right, about 50% of the time. That said, every time I do something like that, I reinforce habit, which accelerates my basic workflow.
They are way bigger than 1B or 3B.
Right? The fact that the LLM output is indistinguishable from a podcast says more about podcasts than about LLMs.

If anything, listening to that reminded me of why I stopped listening to podcasts in the first place - every 5 second snippet of something interesting ends up suffocated by 5 minutes of filler and dead air.
I've tried both methods.
> but I wonder if it's really a "disease"

Not a disease but a real illness, with no cure but treatment like cancer.

Even with effective treatment, sometimes the psychosis wins, and the patient can backslide into full blown illness.
2 years ago, just around Christmas I found a perfect fat PS2 on the street (which later turned out to be also modded), along with a bunch of accessories. When I first saw it in the morning, I thought what a nice gift for someone who picks it up (I have a non-modded slim PS2, so I didn't pick it up at first). Then late afternoon when I went home, that poor package was still where it was left. So I gave it a good home - when I noticed that it is modded, I also installed an SSD, so now I have a non-plus-ultra (at least for me) fat ps2.
It still drives me up the wall when people think that Apple created Webkit. Just another FOSS project that Apple forked. Not only that but they didn't want to play nice with the original project so KHTML was dead within years.
yeah so this means that if i want to use a page's font family but not its font size, the user has to do extra effort, and set not just `font-family: "Comic Sans"`, but also `--some-component-font-family: "Comic Sans"`. i'd love it if i could just selectively inherit stuff and not other stuff, without the user having to learn which css variables my thing supports. of course you can't do this with domain specific stuff, but you could make a thing fit kinda sorta well into its environment by default, and right now using a shadow DOM doesn't let you do that.
Yeah my phone went into SOS which prevented me from paying for parking (app-based lot)
1. Is creating a proper twitter alternative that difficult ?
What is google , msft and maybe companies in entire eu (and us) doing ?
2. Is there a chance twitter will be sold ? or a get a government bail out . Twitter's reach is too valuable to let it go bankrupt/ crash .
It's not so uncommon in science to come to a strange conclusion by excluding all "reasonable" alternatives. For example, black holes have a similar status: no one has conclusively seen one, but we know of no mechanism for matter to support itself beyond a certain density, so black hole it is.
I haven't. I tried them out for a good while, but didn't find the cost/benefit ratio of using them to be to my advantage.
I don't think so. I think the social dysfunction driving it is tied more directly to other factors like technology and the erosion of traditional community.
> most people selling LLM today pretend it is AGI

Who exactly does this in this space? Would be good to be able to call them out on it right now.
There was/is an extension for FF to do a simple dictionary replace.

Not good for anything serious, but fun.
Commercial is just Government by another name. walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. Is granted duckhood by the Ur-Duck.
Please do! i would love to contribute, ive been looking for something like this for some time but didnt want to install toucan since its closed-source and i dont trust it
Coolify: Open-Source, Self-Hostable Alternative to Heroku/Netlify/Vercel
Forecasting in Excel Using Techtonique's Machine Learning APIs Under the Hood
If you actually look at Apple's history with these, it's embarrassing for Apple.

Apple effectively abandoned CUPS when Michael R. Sweet left the company, which is why the OpenPrinting fork exists. For something like a year they let the project languish and accepted virtually no patches, either. No one but Apple uses Apple CUPS anymore.

Darwin is subject to periodic, incomplete code dumps to the point that for decades even getting it to build has been a struggle that includes tons of downstream work. At the moment, such efforts are in a historic slump; no recent stack is usable for anyone and it's been that way for years.

WebKit was a hostile fork (without any history of antagonism to motivate it) of KHTML, essentially classic code-over-the-wall stuff. Its original announcement was cause for consternation in the F/OSS community, not celebration.

LLVM I don't know much about the governance and maintenance of. Maybe someone else can speak to that.

But as useful as LLVM and WebKit have been to downstream projects, Apple's record with open-source is mixed at best.
Ireland had viking settlement activity in the 800s and 900s. Newly formed settlements/kingdoms were consumers of slaves to further develop. But also, maybe they were named simply because Irish viking rulers had close ties with York, and therefore, there was more trade between nearby and politically close viking kingdoms.
why should anyone have to build extra logic to block EU users? Let EU block themselves.
They seem pretty careful all around. When I was just starting out I’d work all nighters in an office with a rat problem. One thing I tried was to trap them in a garbage can with a trap I devised and some good smelling food scraps. He took one look at it and never went near it again.
> I'd just have to deal with figuring out a good, standardized text-based format

Why? Recipes are for humans to read, and we're good at accomodating a wide variety of formats as long as they are reasonably sane.
Boosting Search and RAG with Rerankers
Smells like the same old tired world of bizarre tricks by the rivals of V. This and the previous strange rants like it. From what I've been seeing, glad people are also figuring this out, with the rinse and repeat smears, distortions, and then spamming it around.

Anyways, have used V and thought it was a good language, for its age. Keeping it around for some side projects, and may post them, to a repo or gist. Interested to see its continual development and respect the V team's tenacity. New release came out a few days before this post. Definitely a project worth contributing to.
That part is to stop them from choosing the decryption key after sharing the encrypted strings with the intended result of guiding the outcome of the hash. If the content of the strings was wholly random a participant would be able to claim that the gibberish resulting from using a key chosen later was what they had meant to encrypt in step one.
it's been much worse in the past, so we know it can be much worse. probably at the time it was hard to imagine the evolution to where we are now, so maybe it can get much better too. certainly i had no idea 30 years ago where we'd be now
The problem is not technical. The main task is convincing the masses to use it. When there was only 1 player (twitter), it was a trivial thing. When the market is fractured, it gets more exciting.
Causes and Effects of the Rapid Sinking of the Titanic
The key to enjoying it is (1) really caring about eating good food and (2) deeply feeling how absolutely horseshit the cost of good pre-prepared food is. After a while the cooking part just becomes instinct and muscle memory, and repetition/practice is the key to that
> quotidian

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Been a long while since I read it, but isn't the UK supposed to be a ravaged wasteland populated sparsely by a few surviving cannibals, ever since the 1980s?
Scaled up 10x, looks like it's playable now.
Remove the stigma of mental illness and new drugs are not really needs. The current class of drugs are excellent at controlling psychosis.

Sure there are side effects, but in this case the side effects are better than the psychotic behavior and breakdown of the patients.
Do you have a counterargument beside, "I can't believe you said this"? I would be legitimately interested to hear it.
This was my experience. Code autocomplete disrupts and derails me much more than it helps me.
I'm all for a rant on how computer science isn't, but this attack on only the comments seems a bit over the top. Why not attack the posting of the pop-sci article with quotes so bad in the first place?

My issue with the ScienceDaily and even the original eNeuro article isn't with individual quotes, but with the apparent motivated reasoning of the papers. I'm generally aware of the field quantum-consciousness, Orch OR, and with Penrose's theories. I'm also aware of the funding/publishing methods in science and this looks a bit weak. The evidence is, we didn't find another mechanism. That there had to be corrections on supporting research, which included the names of additional funders (Templeton Foundation) is also not a wonderful sign (if you know you know).

The actual article research covers the effect of epoB on tolerance and latency of anesthesia in rats, which support the action of isoflurane on microtubules (MT) as at least one mechanism. There is a bunch of other stuff about quantum consciousness that reads like a review paper. Quantum is mentioned 58 times and plays no role in their actual measurement or results.

https://www.eneuro.org/content/11/8/ENEURO.0291-24.2024

I actually didn't find the paper that hard to read, it's mostly basic science and huge review of Orch OR. I don't consider it a big prestigious journal, and I don't recognize names on it, but the actual results (limited as they are) don't seem outrageous or unsupported. I'm also not sure they're that interesting unless you already have a fringe theory to support.
I don't regret learning how monads work, on the type-theoretic level. With that, it becomes very clear what things like null / None and operations like foo?.bar actually try to represent, or what transformations you can expect to work on various collections (like map() and flatmap() or filter()), how futures and promises work and how to easily combine them (and why JS promises are almost but not exactly monads, and where it matters), and, for bonus points, what does the "semicolon operator", that is, statement sequence, does from the logical point of view.

Understanding how state and IO can be represented as monads, and thus what useState() and useEffect() do in React, was also a nice consequence.

But certainly you are free to dismiss this piece of theory, and think about all these things as separate and peculiar. It usually very well suffices
Listen, if we use the Ring as collateral on GollumCoin, you can easily make 200%!

You even get an NFT of it, so it's not like you ever _actually_ gave it to me!
What kind of furniture lets the robot vacuum under it and around its legs in the place it typically goes? What apartments and homes are large enough to have a robot-width distance between walls, corners and everything that is on the floor? How much do you think Ligne Roset sofas cost? And at $1,000/sqft, surely a lidar can be cheap in comparison. You're kind of proving my point of how off the mark iRobot is.
I was looking for this and thought I was doing something wrong not finding anything...
Great job!
I do think though a "clean" development mode not needing this would be to work with a virgin virtual environment starting a new project and running pip freeze on that env.
>> It's incredibly frustrating seeing takes on science by engineers on HN.

That’s crazy talk. I personally find the various takes on topics here on HN valuable and insightful and sometimes it’s the out of the box thinking that you get when an engineer talks about science - especially when it’s broken down to levels I can start to understand.
That's probably mostly fair, but then would you also agree that a hand-wavy piece of bloviation about purported quantum effects in a ubiquitous cytoskeleton component really doesn't have anything to contribute to the matter either?
Incels are a result of all of our mate-pairing institutions having failed with no new institutions that could take up the slack.
Or just brute-force it with string_replace of all "\n" with "</p>\n<p>" and then remove all the empty "<p></p>".

(why yes, i am a PHP guy, why do you ask?)
It is, after all, a great tradition of UNIX™ systems to install the OS... and then immediately install GNU tools on top to make it less painful to work on. This is just macOS carrying the banner proudly:P
You would still need a way to map the music to the person listening to it.

Apple and Google could do this if you use their music services, but they already know where you are.

I suppose if I have very unique taste in music and someone else knew about it, they could track me, but this is easily foiled by wearing headphones.
They aren't a design pattern, they are an abstract algebraic concept with two trivial operations (pure/flatmap) and three trivial laws (right identity, left identity, associativity).
Exciting assuming the future apps or users are too excited to choose alternative ? I don't really think there are any proper alternative on the market even after a year for users to move . Bluesky ? no algo , Threads ? no politics and meta , t2/pebble ? bankrupt .
Thank you prostgresfan, it's nice to see a completely unbiased source on database technologies.

Jokes aside, you're largely right. Postgres really does cover 99.9% of database usecases. But, I think Discord might still fall outside of that.

The problem is that Discord's scale pretty much requires heavy sharding. While you can make this word with Postgres, you can tell it was never designed out of the gate for this.

IMO, Discord isn't even taking it far enough. Working under the assumption every server is its own isolated pocket, I see no reason not to have 1 database (or database-like thing) per server. Then it's truly a distributed system, which matches Discord's business use cases. I often find matching business use cases to technology like this can greatly simply architecture and reduce friction.
This is misinformation. My employer mandated it for all employees, and my entire IT organization 100% WFH, coming in wasn't even an option.
A list is a monad, but not because it wraps another type. What you're describing is higher kinded types.

A monad is a specific variant of a higher kinded type whose primary property lies in the fact that its value can be "evolved" via a specific function application (usually known as the "bind" operation). This sounds confusing but it's really a simple concept: if you take a higher kinded type, you can think about the values within it as the data and the type itself as metadata or a context of some sort. For example, an int is a piece of data, but a `Maybe int` is the same data with the added context of it being possibly absent.

A monad is not the only higher kinded type. Probably the most familiar HKT to working programmers (even if they don't know it) is the functor, which is a type that can be mapped over (in the sense of map-filter-reduce). If you have a `Foo<A>`, you can apply a function to turn it into a `Foo<B>`. However, a limitation of the functor is that you can only affect the data at the individual item level, not the context as a whole, so if you put a list of five values in, you'll get a list of five values back.

If we want to affect the context as well, we instead need a type like the monad, where we can "bind" a function that takes the inner value and returns a whole new wrapper based on it.

Why is this useful? Well, it can express a lot of different things very neatly - for example, fallible computation. Let's say you have two functions that both return a Maybe monad. In a language with nulls, you'd likely have to do something like `a = foo(); if (a is null) return; b = bar(); if (b is null) return`, which is tedious and error prone. Monads lend themselves to composing such chains extremely well, so you can simply do `foo().and_then(_ => bar())` and in the end have a value that combines the result (success or failure) of both of those functions.

Null values = chains of null checks = monads! Futures = chains of callbacks = monads! Mutable state = chains of writes = monads! Sequential execution = chains of statements = monads! And so on and so forth. You can get pretty crazy with it, not that I would recommend it.

Monads seem complicated and scary because most mainstream programming languages don't have the necessary abstractions to talk about higher kinded types as its own thing, but in reality most programmers are using monads daily without even realizing.
Please do see yourself out mr, I can't have multiple meats
The slow crawl of locking down Macs has made me consider abandoning the platform. I think I’m done with Macs. Might hold on to iPhones, but I want to be able to use my phone however I want, too.
One frequent situation is, that companies are not aware of how bad this can get and their frontend devs have a resume/hype driven thing going on, building it in the new tool, leaving after a few years for greener pastures, leaving behing a ticking time bomb for someone else to deal with. Not so many people stay at the same job 5y+ these days. Companies don't know how to keep their talent and engineers are forces to switch jobs every now and then to keep or improve their salaries.
Once you understand all the gray points are debris it makes more sense (header > layer icon)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/from:2000/until:2000/sort:mob...

2296 results
Yeah, don't even get me started on audiobook narrators. Sometimes these people read entire books of nonfiction that was written entirely by someone else.
"Moderators will now have to submit a request if they want to switch their subreddit from public to private. Thousands of subreddits went private as part of last year’s protests."

Reddit hates all the people that make all the value their platform has
This is a good point. While LLMs being incapable of reliably doing a simple task that’s been doable by computers since the punch card days is an important consideration for anyone that might be thinking about using them for anything other than as a toy, this fact is uninteresting because of Reasons
Wyoming being a near-square state, a Root Wyoming would be the unit of length, and a California a unit of temperature, calibrated to the Death Valley record.
Optimizely Acquires NetSpring
Noah Smith is too down on nuclear energy
all of them can.
Chances are the author is in 11th or 12th grade. And you two might be on the same page.

(Just joking).
I have no idea. I never considered that it would affect using the race detector and it's been so long now I don't know that we cared / ran into this issue so no clue if it has been fixed.

Thanks for opening my eyes to this shortcoming.
Since it also doesn't mention friction I'm a bit confused what effect, if any, you were expecting to see.

Dealing with friction complicates matters significantly. At the very least you can't expect the collision to be elastic.
Which is why we try to set these things up in arizona where the only natural problem is heat.
Yeah good luck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV9z0c1hjnA

:D :D :D :D