skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody has mentioned:

- The Lord of the Rings. It is the secret gateway for us nerds to get into literature and poetry (do not skip the poems!). Read all the reference materials like The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, J.R.R.'s letters, the books his son Christopher edited and published, etc. If the poems seem weird or don't make sense, research why they are worded and structured the way they are.

- The Master and Margarita. Obscure and very unique. Make sure to get a good translation (if you don't know Russian) that has some annotations to explain the "inside" jokes/references
Watermarking I think is supposed to be the goal, but I don’t think anyone can think that the web is in anything but managed decline. The AI feeding itself AI will just end it all. I think Platformer describes it best: https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-picha...

The question is what comes next, and I don’t think anyone has an answer to that.
This is in no way true.
Would be really interesting to see a similar study but with skiplists!
I'd imagine it would be slower than hashmaps for many of the exact same reasons outlined in the article, but numbers would be cool.
"Island of the Blue Dolphins" (I was definitely younger than a teenager) stuck with me forever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins
What the difference between this and using chat history to concatenate outputs and prompting with something like “Now write the next section” repeatedly? I’ve done that with NotebookLM and it’ll write a complete fictional story based on sources, for example.
American democracy does not give special preference to information content of a voter, nor should it. Did you skip the entire Jim Crow era of history where the racially-presumed information content of a particular voter was used to disenfranchise those voters, even spuriously?

Our constitution does not begin, "We, the highly-informed people..."

Anything else, and you are no longer talking democracy.
> It is not certain that the slow metabolism of reptiles is primitive and that birds and mammals have developed homeothermy independently.

Reptiles are just as evolved as mammals. So their metabolism is not primitive, it's just not high-intensive.

> Because there are certain similarities between the homeothermy of birds and that of mammals that seem less likely to be coincidences, there exists an alternative hypothesis, that homeothermy and fast metabolism has already evolved in the ancestor of all amniotes.

Nope. Warm-blooded metabolism is not that hard to evolve, it's just that the intermediate stages are not viable in the presence of very adapted mammals with which you'll have to compete.

For example, tegu lizards are optionally endothermic. They can raise their body temperature by more than 10C, they use that during the mating season.

> Later, in the ancestors of crocodyles, of turtles and in that of lizards and snakes

Crocodiles and snakes are just as [un]related as birds and mammals. If you want to separate birds from crocodiles, then you need to include mammals into reptiles.
This is sort of pointless, because no matter how awesome it is it appears I have to pay....

I'd also like to know more about what its doing.
Why? What redeeming qualities does it have that make you prefer it to less mediocre books?
A new sales point for Web3.
I'd say this speaks more to the metaprogramming capabilities of rails rather than the team itself.

Rails simply does more for you out the box with just a few macros.
All the Solid Adapters but they couldn't name one as Solid Snake. Huge waste of opportunity. Hopefully more to come in 8.1
> This study was not blinded so there could be a placebo effect.

Saved you a click.
Some really great ideas came out of Rails 1 and 2. After that Rails became more of a business, but good ideas still came out of the ecosystem and germinated (in my view more successfully) in the fertile soil of node / js, as well as sinatra -> flask / express, etc.

But Rails' core value prop (doing a lot with strongly opinionated structure) is still useful to a lot of people.

My complaint was always that version upgrades in rails were too costly -- teams would spend months -- and it wasn't usually clear whether upgrading was worthwhile. Also the business aspect led to a lot of ephemeral (very hot and then soon unmaintained) patterns/libraries.

Rails 8 makes me want to look again and see how the system overall has matured.
> note: it requires a 100MB download

Is this how big a clang toolchain usually is?
What happens later in the relationship when you reveal you lied about your favorite book as some weird social vetting process? It seems the insincerity would turn a lot of people off.
Oh god not gun control! /s
Well, on the "bright" side, all but 2 of the striked ones are either explicitly AI generated art (the 3 Adobe Stock ones, 2 from freepik, and the 1 from Instagram) or about noting the images aren't real (the 2 Snopes and the 1 in the bottom left calling out the feet).

On the sad side the TikTok and YouTube ones that likely led to all of this aren't labeled and are present, not to mention the complete lack of "I want the AI things automatically filtered, I'm not interested in trends I'm searching for actual things right now" button. Without something like that it will become harder to use Google to find new content.

I mean people obviously like the content, it's cute enough to get shared around so much to make itself popular in these images and to trigger the post on X about it. Nothing wrong with that... but if it's not easily filterable for what the user is actually trying to find then Google has somewhat failed at its goal.
The Dawn of Everything, GEB, and House of Leaves are probably my top 3.
Injured sea walnuts can join bodies and thrive by merging some of their systems
I truly loved Cloud Atlas. It's also a rare example where the book and movie adaptation both lift each other up (though I saw the movie first, and can't know if I would have felt that way in the other direction). I felt like the movie is better at emphasizing the thematic connection between each story, while the book is better at showing the impact of each story on the next, and showing that each story exists for the characters in the next. I loved the movie even more after reading the book.
The opening in your demo is disgusting, way to ruin a Sicilian....

Very cool program though :)
The unbearable pixel graphics on such a large display make it unplayable. It's a nice one, though. I think I should shrink the size of my terminal window. Or can you make everything smaller? Need Keyboard support.
Speaking from my own experience at work, for non-webdev, if the project is something I'll want to share with other people, there is a great incentive in just using Python. I can't seem to get people to be interested at all in my tools if they're in Ruby. When I write stuff in Python, people naturally read, use and contribute.
i havent tried the combination - perhaps this is the thing ive been missing. any recommended intro/resource for alpine + htmx that we can browse?
For fiction no idea, really hard to come up with a criterion and that is great actually.

For non-fiction, by far the one that had the most novelty factor and effect of my worldview probably Chomsky - Understanding Power. Not 100% because it's almost a tie with Manufacturing Consent - this one being much darker.
https://docs.raku.org/language/operators#Hyper_operators
Is it possible/already existing to have interactive C++ lessons where the user's C++ code is compiled an run client-side in a web page?
>something which 9mm doesn't do reliably

Neither does .45, of course. Handguns (well, 9mm anyway) dispense what is functionally a single pellet of buckshot- the pellets (while still potentially lethal) aren't that powerful on their own, which is why the shotgun launches 8 of them at a time.

>but there are draw techniques which rack the slide and the gun is designed to enable these

The 1911 was designed back when pistol doctrine was "carry with chamber empty" and "fire one-handed", despite that not being particularly conducive to accuracy. Pistols are a badge of rank more than anything else; the overwhelming majority of military casualties caused by them are same-side (used on deserters, etc.).

>small magazine compared to 9mm

Not really. Remember that until the '80s, the concept of a "double-stack" handgun was limited to the Hi-Power; every other 9mm handgun had a capacity of 7-8 rounds, just like the 1911. And now you know why revolvers lasted so long in service- because not only were you not giving up capacity in those days, but you had a consistent and safe (though heavy) trigger pull, and you could use hollow-point ammunition without risk of a jam (which 1911s are just flat out unreliable with).
> - OTOH another big earthquake/tsunami can potentially wash it all away and release clumps of radioactive and poisonous metals to the environment...?

The reactor itself is high enough to be safe from tsunamis.
> At that point dollars positively affect your outcome because with paid mediums , low information voters can now get more information, despite being unwilling to inform themselves via hard work. So that's a benefit. That information flow is subject to competition, so the best ideas (and information) will win out.

I don't believe in this rosy view of the "marketplace of ideas", fear wins out, populism wins out, not the best ideas. The best ideas have nuance, they demand to be understood in context, they aren't catchphrases nor explore scapegoats for societal problems. All of that demands a high-information voter to parse through and judge what's the "best idea" within their context, environment, community, etc.

No, I do not believe that allowing ideas to fight it out inevitably leads to the best ideas raising to the top, people don't vote intellectually, they vote emotionally and the person who tries to fight strong emotions (such as fear) with ideas will lose out.
That new proxy they've developer "thruster" is written in go

https://github.com/basecamp/thruster
As someone who used to read voraciously as a kid, and nearly stopped entirely as I burned out throughout school, There Is No Antimemetics Division, and later Ra by qntm got me back into reading by reminding me how satisfying science fiction can be.

Antimemetics Division is a fantastic read if you're at all a fan of the SCP Wiki -- being the author of some of the foundational entries in the wiki, like SCP-055 (https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055), qntm shows a deep understanding and appreciation for the SCP universe and uses it to tell a compelling story about ideas, memory, and sacrifice.

It's worth noting that you can't currently buy a physical copy of this book anymore, but the original story is still available to read for free on the SCP wiki. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

[light spoilers in this paragraph]
This book caught me during a particularly difficult part of my life, when I was struggling with depression and self-doubt. Reading something that framed ideas as being things that are not only infectious and mind-altering, but killable was comforting for me, and gave me hope that I could climb out of the hole that I was in.

Ra, on the other hand, is a book set in a completely different universe, one in which magic not only exists, but is a bona fide scientific study, having been discovered in the 1970s. It starts out by exploring the ramifications of magic's use as self-defense, but evolves into mystery when the main character witnesses her mother performing magic that by all accounts should be impossible, compelling her to devote her life to uncovering the phenomena's true nature and origin.

This one is considerably longer, and paced slower than Antimemetics Division, but in my opinion is no less satisfying. The parameters by which magic works in-universe feel believable and self-consistent, and so do the reasons behind why some mages are able to bend them. The ending does feel slightly unsatisfying when the book is taken as a complete work, but when considering that Ra was originally released as a web serial over the course of years, I feel it's a bit more forgivable that the landing wasn't stuck perfectly.

What's particularly interesting to me about Ra is that after completion, the author hosted a Q&A thread on their site where people were able to ask questions about how certain mechanics of magic work in-universe, and the answers given by qntm show just how much thought and care they put into making magic feel less like a hand-waved deus ex-machina and more like a complete system.

Highly recommend both of these, as well as qntm's other works if you're looking for something that scratches a particular sci-fi itch.
Not only is it a fun exploit, this is also a cool mini-introduction to how caching works for CPUs.

I remember a year ago or so there was a submission here which detailed how computers work and are build starting at the tiniest part: starting with logic gates, IIRC. Anybody remember what that website was?
I missed the big Ruby on Rails fad because I was busy doing scientific computing at the time. But I picked up Rails 3 years ago for a job, and its fantastic. I do wish I picked it up 15 years ago though, I would rather use Rails than Spring, akka, node, or any of the other frameworks ive been using.
Are you talking about C64?
I like this framing.

Anyone care to suggest what money "wants" or where it wants to go?

I know it's a flawed question, because money is in many ways inert, but we have similar caveats around genes and evolution. Non-sentient things can still create persistent structures that we can label with our human values. Or something :)
I'm not sure if I follow this example, though.

Doesn't a searchbox with typeahead and instantly updating results still require a backend? Isn't that backend not the most important ingredient of this use-case?

Or did you send a large payload of objects to the frontend and have it indexed clientside with e.g. lunr.js?
I've used fuse.js for this, but for a use-case where we knew we had less than a hundred documents to index and where the access control was simple and the content reasonably stable. I'd never use this for a search feature in e.g. an admin backend or a large, content-rich webapp.
There's various PRs where Fiber adapters are making their way into the Rails stack. Rails 8 added a ton of support for Fibers, with the exception of ActionCable. There's a PR open for that, which I assume will land sometime soon.

Rails has been really slow to pick-up async/http-2. They don't know it yet, but Falcon and all async libraries Samuel is working on will probably be a huge them 1-2 years out when more people find out it means less infra has to be deployed to production environments. Right now folks are happy to deploy without Redis™ with the Solid stack, but a lot of that won't be needed if proper async support is baked into Rails.

There's been a lot of Fiber features being committed into the Ruby language that I barely understand, but have improved all of these async libraries over the past few years. That's finally starting to bear some fruit for people like myself who don't really understand all of those details, but understand the benefits.

It will happen, but these things tend to play out more slowly in Ruby, which is a feature or a bug depending on how you look at it.
I think the takeaway here is "make the easy things easy, don't use it for the hard things".

One of the most exhausting things about any discussion about front end web dev is that it gets treated like a monolith. It _can_ be incredibly complicated. In many scenarios that complication is unwarranted. But in some it's justified.

Htmx is a poor choice for a full single page app. That's fine. It excels in other areas. Right tool for the right job.
> Would be nice if there was an actually affordable, programmable Iridium device.

I remember reading about this a while back, but doesn’t SpaceX offer some kind of IoT modem for a low cost (not the Starlink dishes)
It seems like a bad move though, I mean these are nerdy investor guys, right? They do well in this meritocratic system. If I was a tech billionaire I’d be very worried that a guy who’s only skills were catering and gangster stuff would have had a lot more time to study the latter, than me.
As per GitHub's popularity chart, Ruby was the #5 language in 2014, and #10 in 2022 - https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

Starting a new commercial project/company in 2024 in Ruby is questionable.
Barring societal collapse, I don't see a scenario in which extra energy isn't used up and as long as it's sold at market prices the government investments should be fine.
> The daylight raid aspect, however, seems to me to be more grounded in ego and dogma than military utility. I don’t think avoidance of civilian casualties was a deciding factor. Those airmen were sent into a meat-grinder.

They were, but also remember that back in 1945 there was no such thing as GPS or any kind of more precise navigation than a compass, a sextant and star charts. It was very easy to get lost at night or to hit some mountain, particularly as Germans were pretty strict in enforcing Verdunkelung [1].

Flying during daytime was obviously more risky because AA defense can see you, but it was also less risky because navigation was easier - and more precise, because you could actually see where you were.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdunkelung_(Luftschutz)
So you can range around looking for water

Which most folks know how to do, of course. And we can be sure that when they encounter other groups of people at their favorite puddle, everyone will get along just fine.

Most people can survive without eating (or eating only what food they happened to have around at the time of the attack) for a few weeks.

And wouldn't be in the least motivated to leave their shelters. Howabout you try it first, and report back to us?

Look, I'm not trying to be cute here. And we agree that it won't end global industry capacity (and even the countries directly affected would eventually spring back, as after WW2). I've also done my time in physics classes, and know about all that neat physics stuff.

But your arguments sound very hand-wavy, and something tells me you're glossing over lots and lots of additional factors, and are basically trying to spin the situation as being far less of a calamity than it actually would be.
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
The Gospel to According Jesus Christ - Jose Saramagu

etc.
The "best" book I ever read was Moby Dick because everybody tells me it was, and because I could never make it through Ulysses. The book that was the most fun to read was The Count of Monte Cristo. And my favorite book is The Diamond Age.
I mean, would you have said the same thing about Zeitschrift für Physik in the 1920s if they had objected to the accumulation of influence by "good German physics?" If you warned the editors to stay in their lane and avoid politics, you wouldn't been wrong, but... neither would they.

Failure to speak up when you see an enemy on the horizon may be polite, but that's all you can say for it. Right-wing politics in America is careening headlong toward flat-out racism, which in addition to being Wrong and Bad is also just plain unscientific.
We have two problems:

1. We are living in a mass extinction (that's not going to happen: it's happening now and we can observe it). This is due to what humans do with abundant energy. Solving the energy problem will not solve this issue.
2. We depend mostly on fossil fuels, and those are not unlimited. Alternatives don't seem to be able to compensate for fossil fuels (which is not a bad point given 1. above).

We should start accepting this and moving towards a world that needs less energy. And stop with nonsense like this.
The fact that their system cost is prohibitive in the real world? The fact that we don’t fucking have the slightest idea of how to deal with recycling that stuff on their EOL? Or would be the fact that mining cobalt and lithium in the required quantities to indulge on the fantasy of a solar/wind based grid would poison an inordinate portion of our environment? Or would it be the fact that every single fucking country that went all in on the siren’s song of the renewable industry scammer is now plagued with absurdly high energy costs and are slipping into becoming impoverished third world de-industrialized economies like the UK and Germany?
>That information flow is subject to competition, so the best ideas (and information) will win out.

Did you miss all of COVID era on social media?
I would have liked to have seen if there was any difference in the effects over time. I think it is easy to find something that helps with anxiety in the short term, but over enough time habituation, tolerance, and dependence can develop to most substances.
I think when you read it matters. I read it after cyberpunk was already established and so I honestly don't remember much about it.
Ask HN: Recommend youtubers/podcasters that are experienced engineers
There has been plenty of requests for you favorite podcasters, bloggers, youtubers etc.

What I want to emphasize here is that if you know any youtubers/podcasters with at least 10 years of decent production hands-on software engineering experience (youtubing or teaching doesn't count) — please share.
I'm reminded of a documentary I saw a few years ago, where they discussed ways our modern cities are already starting to affect the evolution of animals that live in them.

One example was of a species of birds in a specific area starting to develop shorter wings with higher maneuverability, because the ones with larger ones were more likely to get hit by vehicles: https://www.npr.org/2013/03/22/175054275/birds-evolve-shorte...
Money tends to want more money. Thus, it's extremely amoral so we shouldn't be shocked when it does things people consider bad.
It doesn't turn to mush, though. Decades old fuel runs just fine IME. It may not have its full cetane rating but it goes brr anyway.
You're making me wonder what the stats are for how many people try to abuse arcade machines in a country like Japan versus the United States. (Not that people in any country are gonna be entirely honest, but the entitlement to break the system and the comfort to brag about it seems cultural.)

In fact, that could be why some of the machines weren't better protected against that stuff in the first place, right?
Thanks for this post. Just what I was looking for. <3
UV has been mentioned recently, notably by Simon Willison [1] - and I'm quite liking the speed and use cases it supports.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=uv
In the near future, a significant portion of YouTube videos and podcasts will likely be AI-generated (e.g., through tools like Notebook LM).

However, I'm uncertain whether audiences will truly enjoy this AI-generated content. Personally, I prefer content created by humans—it feels more authentic and engaging to me.

It’s crucial for AI tools to include robust detection mechanisms, such as reliable watermarks, to help other platforms identify AI-generated content. Unfortunately, current detection tools for AI-generated audio are still lacking - https://www.npr.org/2024/04/05/1241446778/deepfake-audio-det...

[Edit] We just put together a list of notebooklm generated "podcasts": https://github.com/ListenNotes/notebooklm-generated-fake-pod...

Consider whether you'd enjoy listening to AI-generated podcasts. I believe people might be okay with shows they create themselves, but are less likely to appreciate 'podcasts' ai-generated by others.
Doesn't seem to include Costco Isopure, which is $60 for 3.5lbs, sometimes found on sale for $50. It's my goto because it has nothing except protein.