skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most food in the US it's a turd compared to a semi-decent restaurant in Spain being far more cheaper.
Does anybody have a good resource to learn about the differences between things like Feldera, Materialize, Adapton, and other developments in the incremental computation space? Where are the experts hanging out? What are they reading?
My own solution is along these lines. I have a static html page on my personal server; that's the home for all my browsers. (It's under git, of course.) Just flip to my ongoing mosh session to my server, and a trip into vim can add/move/delete anything desired. It's currently an HTML table, which tells you how long this technique has been serving me well.
It's clever, but not original, so it's not ingenious :)
I mean, you don't have to support those? You still would need something on the other end to produce that type of datatype, which can be documented that it will never happen: you're making an interface anyways. The problem is if you literally don't have the option to represent common datatypes it will be a problem, not a hypothetical one just because the encoding layer can support it. Those are different problems.
> I don't know enough to separate the wheat from the chaff, and still barely understand what I'm doing. Many times one can succeed by blindly following a process without understanding, and over time that understanding arrives, aided by repetition and application of the examples.
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> Folks learn differently with different ways. This was not an effective teaching technique for me.

I think that's kind of the point. Everyone can learn using the method you describe (it's mainly how I go about it), but everyone can also learn the "proper" way. It just requires more commitment and belief in yourself upfront.
I had a teacher that did this circa 2013 before it was en vogue.

There’s some nuance in getting the right balance of interaction but it definitely works.
It's just format-shifting content. Rather than reading an article, someone might prefer to have the content casually chit-chatted at them. Nothing wrong with that, and a handy function if you're into that sort of thing. I can see uses for it.
It appears there is more suffering and misery out there than any single concerted effort could solve.

I’m in NYC and just yesterday saw a homeless guy pick up a used needle from the street and check to see if it had any drugs left in it. The story that led him that state, and where that story goes from here, multiplied by thousands of people in a big city alone…it’s hard to imagine solving that.
Contactless expansion start date cancelled due to Transport for London hacking
That isn't going to handle possibly conflicting changes from more than one source.
For me, it totally fixed the problem you mentioned: each time I find something really interesting, I drag and drop the bookmark to either a folder "MISC" (unsorted) or to a dedicated folder if it's specific to a project I'm working on.

Since the shortcut's file name contains the Page title, I can later search with my OS's search tool "curve fitting .url" => it finds the right bookmark.

If I use it in a particular project, I can copy/paste this .url file into the project folder, etc.

Having thousands of bookmarks creates no real problem: you end up with thousands of 1KB file in various folders, there is no mental burden in that: it doesn't add "weight" to the UX of a particular browser extension, since they are only files.

Drag-drop only takes 1 sec, there is no friction, no prompt.
This sentiment feels overly dismissive about the possibilities here. This is the first pass at a new user experience, and I find it already to be compelling to try for various subjects.

Andrej Karpathy has been tweeting about it positively, and I believe he has a good intuition about these kinds of technologies. https://twitter.com/karpathy
I'd really like to see a Go API backend / React frontend stack instead of using Go to render HTML directly.
You are writing this as if security was a newly invented thing. Having done systems level security development for 12 years, anything that can be produced maliciously will be. By using JSON, you've invented a new vulnerability class for malicious deserialization attacks.

Actually, not new. Earliest CVE I found was from 2017, which feels a decade later than it should be. I guess no one thought of pushing JSON over trusted interfaces, and probably for good reason.
From what I can gather there are three virtual speakers in the one about Pi: the man, the woman, and a third voice whose only role is to say "yeah" once. If they were real people, that third guy would definitely feel left out.

But the one about common words almost gave me anxiety: listening to two people discuss nothing as if they had spent hours of research and had something important to tell is very depressing.

Cool voices, although I'm getting the same vibe I get when listening to radio announcers from the 1920s [1]. If this were a human I'd be convinced that they're parodying the genre.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/06/that-we...
Hmm this might unintentionally be the glue that brings us actually smart Star Trek computer assistants.

Think about it, you can access every single kind of automation through a desktop app or android emulator. Screenpipe becomes a working memory that the LLM develops to have context of its previous actions AND their results.

"Computer, lights" can not only send out a signal like a TV remote, it can check a camera to make sure that the light for the room the user is looking at actually turned on at an appropriate light level for the situation.
This is just a "no true Scotsman" take.

Popular music has already been synthetic and souless for decades now. People will listen to what sounds good to them, and we already know the bar is very low, and that the hard truth is that it is all subjective anyway.
Still in public preview, but great to finally see this feature coming from Backblaze. It’s been a long-awaited addition for those of us using B2 for S3 object storage.
worse.. a first-hand quote from inside a California Senate committee hearing chamber.. "Don't speak it if you can nod, and don't nod if you can wink" .. translated, that means that in a contentious situation with others in the room, if allies can signal without speaking the words out loud, that is better.. and if the signal can be hidden, better still.
> The reason so much writing, podcasting, and music is vulnerable to AI disruption is that quality has already become secondary.

I was thinking this kind of thing is the perfect way to generate sports commentary.
The answer is an acre of solar panels produces 25-50 times more energy than corn.

This. It's widely underappreciated how much more efficient solar panels are than plants at harvesting sunlight.

Forget amino acids, those are hard; if we could even just create sugar directly from electrical energy we could save a shit ton of corn being grown and turned into HFCS.
I've been working on a tool for identifying samples in sample-based music, specifically vaporwave. I spent a long time building a cool TUI for it, but I realized many people aren't comfortable with TUIs, so just yesterday I finished the MVP of a web version. Here it is: https://barbershop.lukechampine.com

Try it with this classic: https://vektroid.bandcamp.com/track/420
I think you are right and that is what they are getting at, but it is more a property of the system, not thee material. It is hard to reconcile fluid flow of a liquid with tensile strength.
The Relationship Between Screen Time, Fear of Missing Out and Procrastination
Warning.......conclusion wrong....microtubyles cannot do quantum anything as they do not hold a state long enough to do so due to the temp of human body....given that basic fact is questionable how such a clear conclusion mistake could be made in such a lab based research paper..

Now, no one has asked the question about the field effect outside the microtubule, hint its a brief magnetic field perpendicular to the microtubule....
Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?
Ctrl-F in that document for 'hashing'. That step reduces the audio information to a sparse collection of key points, one for each of four frequency ranges per time segment. I would assume that everything up to that step is done on the phone and only the key points are sent to the server.
This has been the norm for most of human history, except for brief periods of time after the people being extracted from organised themselves enough to kill the people doing the extracting.
They don't just state "built on open source" as an obscure deceptive slogan. They clarify quite clearly what it means.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_what-does...

This clarification has been there since at least 2020
https://web.archive.org/web/20200531093348/https://code.visu...

And slighting different wording but also clear has been there earlier.

You may not like the non open source license but it is not deceptive. It clearly states what it is.
For the specific point about useState, I agree about it being too magical. These days when I do write frontend code I use Reagent in Clojurescript. (I use Clojurescript partly for other reasons like its elegant syntax that's better than JSX, and built-in immutable data structures.) Its implementation of (r/atom) is a whole lot more intuitive: you can even think of it as a mutable pointer where the dereferences are tracked. On the other hand useState just feels like a hack for people who really want to avoid writing both classes and closures, and it is a roundabout way of doing things that could have been done in a much more standard and familiar way.
Henry VIII (in his younger, athletic days) could leap into the saddle in full armour without using the stirrups, and was very proud of it.
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To take one example of where this is valuable:

- Take some dense research paper or other material that is unsuitable for listening to aloud

- Listen to it (via NotebookLLM) whilst commuting/washing up or whatever

This way you'll have a big headstart on what it's all about when you come to read the details.

I imagine in future we'll see a version of this where the listener can interject and ask questions too, that feels like a potentially very powerful way to learn.
See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41689100 | The Godot Manager Went Rogue (3000 Accounts Blocked) (twitter.com/grummz)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41690793 | Godot Engine Blocking Users (twitter.com/pirat_nation)
Well it's you a person who is recording the music. So it's the user's responsibility to make sure you are not breaking any laws. So the app cannot be held at fault for this. No one cares if you do a Shazam in public so it all just works out.

But if you set up an autonomous recording device, no matter what you say you are doing, you will have problems.
I'm working on the D&D adventure I'll be running next year at GenCon and play testing at PAX Unplugged. It's based on Jacob's Well, a Dungeon #43 adventure, but updated for 5E and updated in other ways.

I'm also planning on working on some TTRPG tooling that I want and releasing them to the web.
in large apps with tens of thousands of users per day, one of two things will happen with the library:

it's being used in part of the app no one updates, so the old version of the library will continue being used for years

it'll get immediately updated to the new version, and folks will continue building features on it
You've outlined what I reckon is the appeal of "quantum consciousness". I personally feel that randomness doesn't help to explain free will any more than determinism. I'm more inclined to believe that free will (in the strictest sense) is an illusion.
> Schizophrenia has very specific and easily observed symptoms and is specifically affected by medications such as Zyprexa that doesn’t cause similar changes in behavior for people without schizophrenia or psychosis.

By the nature of these drugs, each and every symptom of what you pronounce Schizophrenia would be your daily life once on the poisonous neuro-toxic agents.
Unlikely. It's just that our brains are so fried by our smartphones/social media/24h of news/media consumption that we've lost the plot.
And happily VS Code runs in the browser (vscode.dev, github.dev) if you do choose to make that security/performance trade off at some point for some reason. And with sync you can have all your UI extensions and keybindings ported over under the covers.
It gets consumed and released by detrivores, i.e. fungus. This takes a long time, and wouldn’t work nearly as well these days because the fungus would eat the cellulose as well.
The article makes a passing mention that the skin and seeds are toxic, but I've heard that the flesh can be toxic too. The neurotoxin in question is annonacin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annonacin So I'd recommend enjoying it only in moderation, and don't give it to your kids.
The First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240929232804/https://theinterc...
Didn't Internet Explorer do that? It was just the "Favorites" folder c:\users\username.
Slowly but surely adding things to https://plaintextwaittimes.com/

I have really enjoyed going back to a text first information dense design. I'll likely build more tiny sites like this in the future.
If we could just, like, stop it, like, saying like all the, like, time. That would, like, make it 100x better.
This is not an okay take at all.

Cutting the internet is an authoritarian move, that’s used as threat on communities (usually minorities).

There is no moral irresponsibility when it comes to giving the general public access to data. The moral irresponsibility here is India bullying a minority population through their nationalist right wing government.

Also my god I can’t believe the pendulum has swung so far the ass of nationalism that it’s not a moral quandary to restore access to communications to marginalized communities.
Not even close. Discords owns your data and once the so-called-Discord-groupchat (server my ass, is NOT a server) closes down, you are out.

WIth Usenet your posted data and articles/discussions could be in your hard drive forever.

With Jabber and IRC you could bring your chat client, anything. Heck, even MSN/AOL supported several clients, both graphical and terminal, such as AMSN, tmsnc, Gaim/Pidgin, Miranda IM...
I don't know what controls are, but is it by chance similar to meshlab? The controls for it were quite good for a desktop 3D navigator
If you are interested in this topic, the author of pooltool[1], a billiards simulator, has a nice blog series about it [2].

[1] https://github.com/ekiefl/pooltool

[2] https://ekiefl.github.io/projects/pooltool/
I like having my recipes in digital format, but the lack of notes, annotations, and editing history is a big weakness in most of them. I would love one that offered a git-like interface for recipes: it could track the "diff" of a recipe as you tweak it, and you could "commit" each variation along with notes about the outcome.
Probably acquainted with «modern society» and a bit edgy in the nerves about it.

Probably calling "impressive" something which adds value and does not suggest eerie bits.

Sam Altman: «They laughed at us... Well they are not laughing now, are they». No, but a different kind of "serious" was raised.
Firefox can store bookmark tags, but they don't save with the bookmark export without reading the SQLite database with a different tool: "Allow reading and writing bookmark tags" (9 years ago) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916

With bookmarks as JSONLD Linked Data, it's simple to JOIN with additional data about a given URI.

The WebExtensions Bookmark API does not yet support tags.
Didn't pan out because it's not the plan to pan out. The plan is to make people think there's something wrong with them and recycle them with insurance.
Thank you! I just learned I don‘t need Arc to achieve this
For this particular project, I was initially inspired by the way Gauntlet II draws huge fields of enemies, using the trick of placing them on the background layer. I wondered if CotN's mechanics could be imitated using that technique, and then I realized that the nature of the rhythm tracking meant I'd have more than a single hardware frame to process updates. That made the project possible at all.

Separately, I enjoy the process of writing 6502 assembly and working with hardware restrictions. It's nice that I can hand someone a real cartridge, to plug into their almost 40-year old game console, and it just works. There's a certain nostalgic magic there that's thrilling in its own unique way, that a modern fantasy console just doesn't deliver on. (The Pico-8 is delightful in its own way, of course. It's a great little toolkit.)
In what way can you consider a point of view without considering it to have merit? He’s not discussing relativism (everyone is right about everything), just social evaluation of epistemological credentials. Aka “merit”.

Re: the broader question of “are/were Americans the most scientifically minded culture”, I’d like to see some more rigorous evidence than “think of ancient Chinese emperors”. Or, for that matter, “equatorial cultures tend to promote violence”??
Thanks, you have really raised the quality bar for discussion by combing through another user's comments and cherry-picking ones you don't like. Especially complaining about comments on political posts being political. And complaining about the same thread multiple times is chef's kiss.

The rest of your comment was only added an hour after the comment was originally posted, presumably because you realised in hindsight you were doing the thing you were complaining about. It was a good start, but you should have deleted the old comment instead of appending to it.

Brief commentary on the appended content: the blockchain rules constitute a state (as in a country/government/central authority) and it's good that there's a way to take money away from criminals, actually. Even cryptocurrency people agree, since Ethereum even forked itself to cancel a criminal's transaction once, and the post-fork chain is massively more popular.

It's simple selfishness - the people with authority to choose to fork had much more money post-fork, so they chose to fork and take the money away from criminals. In other circumstances, they are the ones having money taken away by the government, so they choose to not fork or design protocols in ways that help the government get money. No moral position is involved.
They seemed to trade quality as well. Its now a net negative signal for a company's success if they are accepted into YC.
I do the same, but I recognise that being able to stand up and be recognised is a freedom and privilege not enjoyed by everyone.
> No browser extension needed.

No but you need an additional app to search/manage them (the file browser)?
My monthly opportunity to put out the idea that bookmarks should be centered around content and not metadata (links).

I've written a lot about this, and I got so annoyed with bookmarking and highlighting services getting it so frustratingly wrong[1] that I wrote my own solution from the ground up in 2020[2], and I have never looked back to browser bookmarks or services like Pinboard, Instapaper, Readwise etc. which are built around bookmarking metadata instead of content.

It's amazing once you get the mental model, and if you aren't interested in using a service you can easily build something that suits your own needs over a few weekends.

My favourite part of this mindset switch is that it makes bookmarking user generated content[3] both sane and easy, and automatically enriching those bookmarks with additional metadata a breeze.

[1]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/the-bookmarking-data-model-is-wr...

[2]: https://notado.app

[3]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/best-of-hacker-news-comments/
My first take was it's another case of sci fi fans discovering that the author doesn't believe in the stuff they write.

Charles Stross confessed that he doesn't believe in space colonization and interstellar travel. As a non-fiction author Issac Asimov railed against the belief in ESP although he wrote as many trashy stories about ESP as any author had to to get published in the Campbell era. Maybe Heinlein never broke character or maybe his combination of earnestness and naivety was real (and provided future authors such as Haldeman a chance to write stories somewhere between a homage and refutation such as The Forever War and Worlds) Never mind the writers of fantastic fiction masquerading as non-fiction such as Lily, Castenada, Roberts, etc.

To be a fan of fantastic fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, comic books, etc.) you have to be able to hold an imaginary world and its rules in your mind and take it seriously enough to care what happens to the characters. A certain kind of pornography can interest people for a while without any conflict but Superman would be entirely uninteresting if he didn't have meaningful limitations or worthy adversaries. (And he struggles... in Superman Returns he rescues people who are launching a freaking space shuttle (unsafe at any speed to begin with) off a commercial airliner. I'm sorry if your judgement is that bad you don't deserve to get rescued.)

A good example of a 'serious' short story is The Cold Equations

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-cold-equation...

where the story depends on believing certain constraints about space travel. The more fantastic it gets the more you're going to think it's silly unless you've got the ability to jump into a counterfactual world with both feet.
"Blunt" in a stage fighting or practice sparring context is completely different from blunt in a kitchen context. You are still swinging these swords are very near full speed at another human being. In a stage context, they might be wearing very minimal protective gear. You blunt kitchen knife will cut through meat just fine if you overhand swing it down.

For example, here's a practice sword that has 1/16th in (1.6mm!) thick edges: https://www.reliks.com/functional-european-swords/practical-...

With the degree of difference in edge thickness, you can probably see how the cross section of a sword (and therefore its weight) will vary substantially, especially if you keep the maximum thickness about the same.

It's absolutely possible to craft these types of swords that are both safe and well approximate the real shapes and weights and handling of a "real" sword. But it's also easy to just... go for look and safety to try to save money.
Putin has been transparent and explicit for more than 20 years about their goal to recover as much territories from the Russian Empire as they can, either by soft or by hard means. This includes the Baltic Republics.

I think that the fact that the government of Russia were debating in 2022 about if the Lithuania independence from Russia was "legal" or not, is very revealing in itself.

But what Russia says does not matter anymore, only what they do. Putin has started one war on Georgia, two wars against Chechnya and one war on Ukraine. All his actions had been solid and consistent towards that dream of "rebuilt Russian empire again". Everybody knows that Lithuania hasn't been invaded yet because NATO. Is also of public knowledge that Russians want madly a land connection with Kaliningrad. Lithuania can't expect anything friendly or casual from the current Russian regime.
Advertizing is pretty much evil. Selling things to maximise profits only is a net loss for humanity. I feel differently about technology though. Technology can feed us, keep us warm and let us share information and culture. Maybe just get out of advertizing and do anything where you make valuable and useful things? So many options really. It doesn't matter if the bosses make more than you as long as the things the company does are decent.