skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't actually know if quantum physics has real randomness or not. Quantum collapse is an unsolved problem.

> I could see early attempts at [introducing randomness] causing a form of LLM schizophrenia because the neural network wasn't resilient enough to the induced error.

1. This is actually already done. Temperature parameter controls amount of randomness.

2. Neural networks are quite noise resistant.
It's interesting I have the exact opposite opinion. I'm sure Mike Duncan works very hard, and does a ton of research, and his skill is beyond anything I can do. But his podcasts ultimately sound like a list of bullet points being read off a Google Doc. There's no color, personality, or feeling. I might as well have a screen reader narrate a Wikipedia article to me. I can barely remember anything I heard by him.

Carlin on the other hand, despite the digressions and rambling, manages to keep you engaged and really feel the events.
C# extension works well and uses Roslyn Language Server that is part[0] of the Roslyn (C# compiler) itself - this is what the base C# extension[1] uses. Both of these are licensed under MIT.

The closed-source part is 'vsdbg' which is Visual Studio's debugger shipped as a component that the extension uses. It, however, can be replaced with Samsung's 'NetCoreDbg' by using the extension fork[2].

[0]: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/main/src/LanguageServe...

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp

[2]: https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-vscode-csharp (please consider giving it a star, it's the only actively maintained alternative and other tools end up relying on it downstream to support debugging - VSCodium as well as Emacs and Neovim with VSC extension bridges)
With this scheme, you can't automatically sync bookmarks across multiple machines though.
Primo Research Assistant launches- a first look and some things you should know
I've been writing a short sci fi story for fun, a michael crichton inspired techno thriller, called Panopticon [0]. Its set in our time frame and is all about encryption and spy craft!
[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VRI4X5fCUpwurUDvKmvzJpT7... (first 20 pages)
Now let's tackle the similar misconception about armor weight: this myth got so absurd that some still believe knights actually had to be hoisted up with cranes onto on their horses. Whereas in the real world, I've seen people doing backflips in full plate.
Are you thinking of kumquats?
Came here to suggest Bear as well, very handy piece of software to generate the compilation database in a mostly tool-agnostic way.
How is the data stored? Isn't this the feature Windows got royally roasted for because it stored the data in something like a SQLite db?

How are you protecting the data locally? Sorry if it's in the README, I didn't see it when skimming.
Every problem has an ‘obvious’ solution on the surface after thinking for ten seconds.

Data centers/supercomputers/similar facilities have agreements to ensure uninterrupted power.

The grid would sooner cut off residential power than risk running foul of SLAs.

Most developing countries are very familiar with this, the technical term ‘load shedding’ having entered common parlance because of the frequency of power cuts faced by consumers.
Political one or ego one?
> the interesting thing is that most people don't really care

no one has gotten feedback from "most people" .. this is raw hyperbole
I do also use React, unfortunately.
It was always popular in South Asia. It's folk tradition.

Folk practices were how religion always tended to practiced until the rise of globalization and literacy pushed more "Puritanized" forms of all religions.

Barely 50 years ago your village Maulvi or Pandit was a barely literate man who's job mostly consisted of farming, lay preaching, mediating disputes, and teaching the 3Rs.

Same way how a significant portion of practicing Muslims in the Balkans would also drink alcohol, eat pig, or not cover women's hair until the 90s.
All of the other commentators have replied with a good diverse set of YouTubers and included ones with biases from both sides; I'd recommend the ones they have linked. Some (take note of the ones that release information quicker) might be more biased or more prone to reporting murky information than others.
I understand exactly what everyone else does here. And nothing intrinsically wrong with that -- technology is unquestionably fun and interesting. I like programming myself. BUT, and this is a huge BUT, I think we as people who are well versed in technology should take a little more responsibility for what we create.

So, not bizarre at all.
yes, and we are going to see a lot more of that, unfortunately. heartbleed was another somewhat similar case, and though the debian openssl hole was probably accidental, nobody will ever be able to prove that conclusively
I stumbled on a parody of Dan Carlin recently. I don't know the original content enough to know if it's accurate or even funny as a satire of him specifically, but I enjoyed the surreal aspect. I'm guessing some AI was involved in making it:

An American Quakening

https://youtu.be/wGpdxsgreOE?si=r7ef1vBOjIvqD_PQ
Inspired by this discussion, I had NotebookLM make three podcasts based on very minimal input: a one-line proverb, pi to 15 digits, and a short list of the most common words in English (“the of and to a in for is on that ...”). Here are the results:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20240930notebooklmpodcasts/index....
It's an interesting idea but missing vital features for me. For example, the star in Chrome tells me that I have bookmarked this page in the past so I avoid having duplicate bookmarks even after editing the name. The standard synchronization also makes it easy to bookmark a link on my phone and then deal with it once I'm back at my computer. Now I would have to figure out a way to somehow download the URL as a file on my phone so it syncs to my computer. The favicon is another neat thing to have on bookmarks.

Somewhere along the way it just feels like a backup makes more sense.
my first job out of college was at a big name management consulting firm... to riff on your point: yes, such is the entire career for many. and theirs aren't even such bad careers if one only considers money and prestige. two years there completely cured me of any illusion of positive correlation between prestige and intelligence. I used to wonder if the partners at the firm actually believed the bullshit they were spilling -- actually "delivering value" per consulting parlance. I get it that people do intellectually dishonest things just for the money... but the partners seemed to genuinely believe their chatgpt-esque text generation. In the end I figured it was a combination of self-selection (only the true believers stay for the years and make partner) and a psycho-hack where if you want to convince your client, you better believe it yourself first (only the true believers make good evangelists).
I decided to turn my philosophy class's readings into 'podcasts' to introduce and summarize the topics before fully sitting down and skimming for information I missed. It's been hugely helpful - sitting down and reading a 30 page PDF can be daunting/inconvenient, so having a lighter introduction in a more palatable audio format (during workouts, commutes, etc) is amazing. I even uploaded it to Spotify to share with classmates.
Borrow Checking Hylo: an alternative safety model to Rust
Developing your point of sale app and increasing your offering from hardware to a complete integration sounds tempting initially. But there are many nitty-gritty details involved in this approach. Learn about how you can handle big projects effectively.
I'm sorry but anecdotal evidence is barely any evidence at all. I could list a very large number of news reports of cars ramming in to houses an businesses, which I can promise you are not built in a lane.
Bike lanes and car lanes should be physically separated, sure for bikes to not veer out of lane, but more importantly to keep cars in theirs.
In any of these situations cars are still the ones bringing a 1.5k bundle of glass and steel to the fight.
Just take a quick look at https://x.com/WorldBollard for numerous examples of cars going all over the place and making a mess of it.
Nobody here is blaming *BSD for not supporting closed hardware: it's a huge effort whose failures are entirely on manufacturers' stubborn refusal to cooperate with anyone that isn't a corporation. Unfortunately that's the reality we must live in today. The point is that Joe User doesn't give a damn about installing closed blobs that can't be examined nor updated, he wants his machine to work, and if it doesn't, he blames the software while switching to something that supports his hardware.
I'm a big fan of the film grain modelling in HEVC over h264 at almost any bit rate. It just makes everything look way less 'compressed' to me.
How Defense Experts Got Ukraine Wrong
scala? why not haskell instead?
I use raindrop.io, which has the advantage that it is easy to share bookmark lists with others, which I use fairly frequently.
cars have made us much less fit though...
America keeps choosing poverty – but it doesn't have to
I am a fan of a carbon tax, but one issue I’ve never seen addressed by proponents is the regressive structure of the tax. Oftentimes the poorest areas are using the most carbon-intensive energy sources and thus stand to be hurt the most by a carbon tax. There is little the average poor person can do to avoid this Similar logic applies for, e.g. EV subsidies - the people most capable of dishing out the cash to secure a subsidy are those in the financially best positions.
And not just that - also dependencies of dependencies.

You have $FRAMEWORK using $BUILD_SYSTEM and depending on $NODE_VERSION which is running on $OS_VERSION in $ARCHITECTURE.

Eventually, there will be a security flaw in $OS_VERSION which will force you do update the OS (which eventually will be a major OS update) and on which $NODE_VERSION might not run any more at which point you find out that $BUILD_SYSTEM doesn't run on newer node any more because it relied on a package that shipped some binary do do its thing and the source code of that binary doesn't compile on later GCC versions any more.

And now you're in deep-shit because of a very distant but yet super important security issue that brought your house of cards crumbling down.

This is not a theoretical issue either. I've seen this happen to applications with a JS frontend that was only as little as 5 years old. It was impossible to build any more and needed some serious changes because of underlying OS updates cascading up the stack.

The fewer dependencies you have and the smaller they are, the bigger is the chance that things keep running as you exchange parts of your stack when you're forced to and the bigger the chance that you will remember what you have to do to rebuild if disaster strikes.

I'm aware that for many people 5 years is a huge time span though and that you either start a new thing every year or two at which point none of this matters, or you're at the other extreme and run RHEL and are able to back-port security patches manually if the need arises at which point none of this matters either.

But if you're in the middle of the two extremes, then keeping up to date incrementally is super important and being able to do that quickly and easily is inversely proportional to the amount and size of dependencies.
AI has been so conflated with LLMs as of late that I'm not surprised that it feels like we won't get there. But think of it this way, with all of the resources pouring into AI right now (the bulk going towards LLMs though), the people doing non-LLM research, while still getting scraps, have a lot more scraps to work with! Even better, they can probably work in peace, since LLMs are the ones under the spotlight right now haha
You're suggesting to people that they should buy research use only chemicals and attempt to compound them at home? That is incredibly irresponsible and dangerous.
> He reads bullet points he has prepared, and makes predictable dad jokes in monotone, re-uses and reruns the same points, icons, slides, etc.

The presentation is a matter of taste (I like it better than you do), but the content is very informative and insightful.

Its not really about what is happening at the frontline right now. Its not its aim. Its for people who want dense information and analysis. The state of the Ukrainian and Russian economies (subjects of recent Perun videos) does not change daily or weekly.
Rape is endemic throughout the prison industrial complex, protections for prisoners are nowhere good enough. Subjecting transwomen to rape in men’s prisons isn’t the solution.

The JD Vance/Peter Thiel/SSC rationalist sphere is such a joke. Just a bunch of pretentious bigots who think they’re better than the “stupid” bigots.
Yeah, I remember that argument, I also thought, "I don't have weed on my backpack, but what if I had weed?"

Man, fuck that. Glad I quit weed anyways.
Serde is a rather chunky dependency, it's not just a matter of binaries getting bigger, but also compile times being dramatically slower.

IMO CBOR would be a better choice, you aren't limited to IEEE 754 floats for your numeric types. Yeah, some (de/en)coders can handle integer types, but many won't, it's strictly out of spec. I don't think building something as fundamental to an OS as relying on out-of-spec behavior is a great idea. It will result in confusion and many wasted hours sooner or later.
Show HN: ProductHunt as it was meant to be
Every day all PH products are copied EXCEPT the order.

People don't have to submit their launches separately.

Built-in mechanism to prevent voter fraud.
New drugs are sorely needed

The current crop can best be described as chemical lobotomy. Impossible to focus on anything for more than 30 seconds. And it's not even a pleasant stupidity.

There's Abilify, but unfortunately doctors don't like it (due to it being perceived as less effective).
LLMs are variable ambiguity, variable precision compilers
You can get to this conclusion more directly by noting that computational complexity of any Turing simulator of anything more than a trivial system increases very fast as the precision of the initial conditions for the simulation increases. Even the shift map exhibits this phenomenon.

This can be an even more severe boundary for prediction than the actual measurement accuracy.

In the discussion about determinism vs free will, this leaves us with the situation that we can predict what somebody will do even if we assume perfect measurements, but will only be able to produce this prediction after the fact except for very short term predictions.
Please correct me if I am wrong but the only application (class) that currently sandboxes extensions is a web browser. So the bar is pretty high.

Sandboxing does not come for a free, as it creates more complex development APIs and a performance hits.
(Note that I meant the following)

> nuclear reactors

Reactor plutonium != bomb grade plutonium. The Uranium supply used to be enriched by Russia.
The audio output from NotebookLM is amazing - but I've heard probably a dozen audio outputs from it over the last week. At first listen the cadence, intonations, etc... are absolutely incredible. But then format quickly gets tedious as it all follows the same pattern.

In separate news: I've been looking into building a web publisher plugin that allows you to "save articles" and then generate a podcast for later listening. With summarization and more advancements in text-to-speech, this is getting easier to hack together something really compelling.
Cookbooks are very western culture specific.

Ask Asian (Thai, Korean, Chinese) families and youll notice fewer cookbooks used. They don’t cook with a recipe as often and information is passed by word of mouth.

A better way to preserve is through video of the person cooking the recipe.

My favorite webseries for Japanese home cooking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_with_Dog
Agreed - surprised gorm or something a little more mature wasn't used.
This is our paper describing the theory underlying Feldera: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p1601-budiu.pdf
The whole microtubules hypothesis is based on flimsy reasoning. Correct me if I've gotten any of this terribly wrong:

The premise of Gödel's incompleteness theorems applying to his own brain hurt Penrose's feelings, so he decided there must be a way around that. Quantum woo was such a way, a least he believes, so he decided that must be what's going on. Later, microtubules were determined to be the most plausible quantum woo found in brains so far. The reason microtubules being a keystone of consciousness is considered in the first place is because people are fishing for quantum stuff to protect their egos from the implications of brains being having classical computation equivalence.
Is there a `like_temperature` that could be, like, adjusted??
Not assuming you’re serious, but in any case: the reason is the JVM (+ Scala) ecosystem in the data space.
What is scary about AI is the speed of improvement, not what it currently is.

People keep forming these analogies/explanations with the inherent premise that what we have now is what AI is going to be - "It's actually kind of shitty so don't fret, not much will change".

AI music creation has improved more in the last 5 years than keyboard accompaniment improved in the previous 40 years. It would be very brazen to bet that the tech 5 years from now is hardly any better. Especially when scaling transformers has consistently improved outputs. Double especially when the entire tech industry is throwing the house at scaling it.
Those are what my recipes look like. I keep them in a binder and edit them as I cook them again and again. The chocolate cookie recipe looks like it was written by a crazy person with dated notes going back 4 or so years. I have an idea for a cooking/recipe sharing website, but I never find the time to make it..
Why would “my decisions are determined by sub-nuclear divine dice rolls” be any closer to free will than “my decisions are determined by algorithms operating on my sensory inputs and memories”? What’s more “free” about introducing that factor?
I live in WV. This explains why my local farmer's market doesn't stock them.
Put the folder in OneDrive, iCloud, DropBox, Google Drive, Syncplicity...
There are examples in several cultures of songs that boast of annoying others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_IWlPHMziU

Other cultures seem to feel more entitled, thinking that THEIR music could not possibly bother anyone. I've certainly heard people blast Wagner or Orff at high volumes.
You don't need to be an extrovert to be good at marketing
Love it! :-D In the World of opinions, including Data sources adds a really nice touch to it, too.
At what point did AI-generated human speech become so remarkably realistic?

I recall just a couple of years ago when even the best models, like WaveNet, still had a subtle robotic quality.

What architectures or models have led to this breakthrough? Or is it possible that, as a non-native English speaker, I’m missing some nuances?
Archive link: https://archive.ph/1mD31
Malcolm Gladwell on how he found new tipping points
> i don't have to rewrite major swaths of code because somebody else decided to change the abstraction.

You also could solve this concern by using an existing library, then simply not upgrade when new versions come out. After all, if you can write it all yourself, surely you also could fork from your starting version if you ever need a change?

I look at it similarly to how I buy a bicycle. Sure, I could buy all the individual parts and assemble my own bike. Or I can buy a complete bike that is close to what I want, then update a part here and there as needed. After all, the goal is to ride the bike, not spend all my time tinkering with parts in my garage.

Same with code - sure, I could write it all myself. Or I can use existing work to skip all that, and focus on just what my product needs. And still dive deep and make changes when the business needs the change.
(on an unrelated note): I tried to move to Berlin for summer but quickly discovered almost no apartments have AC, I mean strong South Asia-level AC.
It was a major no for me as I cannot sleep with temp above 20C, 18C is perfect.
Any idea how to find an AC apartment next summer on local estate apps? Any "checkbox" somewhere to tick?
I built a simple tool to estimate the cost of using LLMs: llmcost.me
I’ve been working on free tools that rely on LLMs, and one of the challenges I faced was figuring out how much it could cost me at different user levels. To solve this, I built https://llmcost.me/, a simple calculator to estimate LLM costs based on input/output token counts and model rates. It’s been really helpful to get a rough idea of how much offering a free tool with LLMs might cost me as I scale to X users.

It’s 100% AI-built (v0), so it’s pretty basic, but I’d love to hear any feedback from the community on how I can improve it or if you find it useful.
It's important to accept that you will screw it up. Repeatedly. Interfaces have to be designed before you can start using them, which means that you will never have less information about how a module will be used than you do when you design its interface.

The best defense against this that I've found is to ensure, as much as possible, that interfaces can be replaced. The single responsibility and interface segregation principles can help here. Using small, focused interfaces and letting modules implement more than one of them makes it easier to use the strangler pattern to replace interfaces that no longer work well with new and improved ones.

Also avoid temporal coupling as much as is feasible. Unnecessary statefulness is the easiest way to make this sort of thing harder than it needs to be.
Bobby short for Barbara, a secretary who worked at his managers office. He also didn't write it exactly _for_ her, his manager guy had the idea for the name and theme during a conversation with the guy who's secretary was bobby mckee.

All this can be seen at the link in gp comment
Hindus are vegetarians. And PETA support veganism. https://www.peta.org/living/food/free-vegan-starter-kit/
Absolutely, see for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-bnM5SuQkI
Especially on a Sunday
> why a shadow root instead of the markup directly, well, that's kinda like asking why use web components at all

that's way off. Web component is about encapsulation/reuse of code & markup.

I am willing to entertain the idea that at some point, some people with authority did think the shadow dom was a key part of web components. However, as of now, if you just scan comments in this entire thread, everyone think it's an annoying abstraction that unfortunately people have to deal with in order to enjoy other benefits of web components.
The biggest issue was with using older versions of ruby or older versions of the bundler itself.

We had to pin our bundler to a specific version and it caused all sorts of issues when installing gems.
NYC-Mississippis is a unit of energy!
Finally we can set up verifiably fair betting!

$10 that the NIST beacon at 1727710980000 will have more than 15 A's in it!
In fairness, that misconception doesn’t just spring from imagination. Prop weapons generally are heavy, because they need to be thick to have blunt edges.
Can you server-side render Vue? If you answer "yes" then it has exactly the same type of back-end security concerns that Next has by way of it rendering React.