skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite explanation (which IIRC is in a book by Brian Greene) is that you can think that everything always moves at the speed of light in a 4D spacetime. That way, if you stand still, you're moving only along time, and as you tilt your velocity vector more and more toward the space dimensions you have to travel more slowly along the time dimension. At the limit you are moving at the speed of light along some space axis and technically your time is "frozen".
I don't think the situation is as dire as described. More people are ready for Windows 11 than most of these pundits assume-- they say they won't, but they will upgrade.

And onward marches the sands of time.
To be fair maybe the software you write shouldn’t be relied on in critical situations but in this case the only place this software could be used in are critical situations
For those who don't know, you can click the "past" link in the toolbar, and see for yourself what HN was like on any given past day, and judge for yourself whether the quality has declined

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2008-08-24
I'm not sure you're grappling with the actual claim parent is making.

Of course for every individual user, it's better to have minor health problems than be thrown in jail.

The question being posed (if I understood correctly) is - if legalization means 10x more people use marijuana, and therefore 10x more people have health problems, is that better or worse than marijuana remaining illegal, and some fraction of the X go to jail.

(Btw this is a false dichotomy, it can be illegal without meaning you go to jail for using, but I digress.)
As someone currently on Windows 11 for the last two years; I can say these things have never happened to me.
In the end the power consumption means the current models that are "good enough" will fit a much smaller compute budget such as edge devices. However, enthusiasts are still going to want the best hardware they can afford because inevitably, everyone will want to maximize the size and intelligence of a model they can run. So we're just going to scale. This might bring a GPT-4 level to edge devices, but we are still going to want to run what might resemble a GPT-5/6 model on the best hardware possible at the time. So don't throw away your GPU's yet. This will bring capabilities to mass market, but your high end GPU will still scale the solution n-fold and youll be able to run models with disregard to the energy savings promoted in the headline.

In other sensationalized words: "AI engineers can claim new algorithm allows them to fit GPT-5 in an RTX5090 running at 600 watts."
WINE gets a final version of its interface, and Gaben has a happy day.
Although this is only tangential, the untapped potential for AR (once the price comes down) in education is absolutely fantastic.

Everything from:

- overlaying explanations, diagrams, realtime simulated current flows onto circuit boards as you are looking at them

- appliance / home repair

- juggling/sleight of hand - its significantly easier to learn these kinds of skills from a human (or in this case a virtual human) so that your angle is the same instead of a video where its reversed

- artistry - place a model of something in the center of your living room, and sketch on a canvas from it as you walk around it

And these are just a few things I came up with based on my own personal hobbies. Everyone who worships at the proverbial alter of Apollo will likely have their own wishlist.
Check out 'refurbished' ThinkPads when trying to get a deal on laptops. Many are off lease business machines that were lightly used, best value for the money imo.

What you described sounds fine also.
Programming Is Fun
May the gods of equanimity forgive my snarky intrusion.. if a bit-hacker gets into a fight [bitva] with a it-hacker, i’m ever only going to side with the it-hacker (even if the elite ex-it-hacker bit-hacker has a history of lauding (/laundering the reps of reputed) it-hackers..

I dont know what the general solution is here.. make sure (organizational) Hierarchies are as fluid as the Recompense (including, by reputation) & Responsibilties, i suppose

nu_H = nu_RR

where nu has units of viscosity

Failing so, i’d prefer to defer judgement after we’ve had blood samples from both Kelly n Musk. (For lead, fluoride, other psychoactives etc)
Racing games seem to be a niche that makes sense.

The tech will keep shrinking and the cost will come down. We are still in the early adopter phase.
Because Google puts whatever they want in their browser for you to beta test and you’ll be pleased about it, peasant /s.
i read about vue vapor mode here https://www.vuemastery.com/blog/the-future-of-vue-vapor-mode... but did not understand the final parts. Are they going to compile your template like svelte does? It says it is inspired from SolidJS but doesnt Svelte do the same thing?
You're not getting it. The very proposition of discussing cognitive processes as comprehensible without language inherently relies on circular reasoning. The claim that thought occurs without language cannot be falsified. To analyze or describe thought, we must use language, which is the very tool that shapes and defines that thought. The discussion itself becomes impossible if you remove language from the equation, meaning language and thought are co-constituitve.

Just as Gödel showed that no formal system can be both complete and consistent, language as a system cannot fully encapsulate the entirety of cognitive processes without relying on foundational assumptions that it cannot internally validate. Attempting to describe thought without acknowledging this limitation is akin to seeking completeness in an inherently incomplete framework. Without language, the discussion becomes impossible, rendering the initial claim fundamentally flawed.
The telecom sector uses SCTP in lots of places.
Not sure if you've experienced the Vision Pro demo.

But everyone that I know who has came away fully understanding what Apple is trying to do. Virtual experiences e.g. being front row at a sports game or concert, watching movies with friends in a theatre, climbing Mount Everest etc. And working with multiple screens.

If it can just do those two things it will be another iPad sized business which is still worth tens of billions to Apple.
My theory is that it's two things:

1. People change. My HN account is 15 years old, and my interests and ambitions and tolerances are not the same as they were in 2009, when I was 28 years old and in a very different place in my life. When you interact with something for many many years, even if that thing stays exactly the same, you change, and think differently about it.

2. The site changes, too, of course. They aren't necessarily bad changes (and often I would say they're good changes!), but people sometimes associate change with negative feelings, especially with something they have an emotional attachment to or at least have been a part of for a long time.

Mind you, I don't think discussion quality has been declining here. In many ways I think it has been improving, or at the very least staying the same under a barrage of new users, higher scale, and low-effort LLM-generated comments.
It does not answer why PDFs can have virus.
Do you have any information on patients could be billed more for an autism diagnosis? I've never heard this claim before.
A bare metal raycaster, boots from a floppy image
> A formal notation for reasoning could possibly solve some reasoning issues for LLMs. Perhaps something like Lojban or symbolic logic. We don't have a lot of data for it, but it might be possible to synthetically generate it.

There's definitely anecdata supporting this. For some time chatgpt was better on a lot of arithmetic/logic type tasks if you asked it to generate a python program to do x than if you just asked it to do x for example. I haven't tested this specifically on the latest generation but my feeling is it has caught up a lot.
Connecting with https prevents any DNS poisoning, unless the ISP managed to get a fraudulently issued certificate or a MITM root CA installed on the end users' devices. Neither seem likely.
safeboot for firmware, by the people who keep losing their keys. great
Single handedly most important class in my career back in the day. It took me 3 months to really grok and generalize the Qpig algorithm, even my professors couldn't explain it.

It's amazing how he never used the words "AI" once in this course despite the fact that it is a straight up AI course.

I revisit the course notes at least once a year and I still walk away with something new every time.
It's so cheap to use a SaaS auth provider like Auth0 or Clerk.dev that you might as well implement one of them. It should take less than a day.
Came here to say this.

And even in the case where the company's decision is arguably just "bad," it still might not be a problem from the company's point of view.

Companies (including start-ups) create buggy products all the time and don't care, and aren't very responsive to requests for support, as long as money is coming in. I don't think they are using special accountability-flushing techniques. It takes real work, intention, experience, and power in a company to create feedback channels, and use them, and ensure that the customer has an experience of quality. It doesn't happen by magic or by default.
No, I'm not imagining things. You are, however, imaging (incorrectly) that I'm not an expert with AI who's already seen superhuman performance out of LLM prompts in the vast majority of every software development question I've ever asked them, starting all the way back at GPT-3.5.
100% deeper thought - and to a large extent the capacity for linguistic categorisation of objects is incredibly helpful in developing a deeper cognitive understanding of the world around us...

But the most fundamental boon that it offered was in terms of planning and organisation. Before language we'd point and grunt and go there and do the thing that we were gesturing that we were going to do.

But that's a very crude form of planning - you're pretty much just going all in on Leeroy Jenkins.

But actually (and horrifically) I think it's the gift of Kane that speaking and planning permitted; well organised humans (the smartest things on the planet) have been figuring out increasingly better ways to both kill each other and not to die themselves in a brutal feedback loop for a very long time now.

It's brutal as fuck, but it's Darwinian gold.
To me, it seems obvious that they're trying to line things up now for when the hardware is developed enough in the future to actually be comfortable. In other words, they're targeting the tablet/phone-as-sunglasses market that doesn't exist yet, so that when it does arrive they're already the best offering by miles.
had a lot of fun as a kid trying to figure out a working ram pair pattern among 16 RAM sticks to get a Sparc 2 "pizza box" to boot. After a couple of days, she booted! Rewarding.
Arguing for the sake of it; you wouldn't take that risk reward.

Most code has bugs from time to time even when highly skilled developers are being careful. None of them would drive if the fault rate was similar and the outcome was death.
The friendship paradox, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
Launching a prototype rocket with the expectation that it will probably blow up and then having it blow up isn't a failure, especially when the goal is to see what happens.
It feels like some threshold was crossed in early 2023. That's when I noticed it, at least, in the long, crazed threads on the SVB bank run and murder of Bob Lee. There've been a lot more of those low-quality discussions since, but the good parts of HN are still here, too.
I'll probably start offering Linux to business clients. 90% of mine just need an os with a web browser these days. The 10% that don't I'll push to migrate to cloud offerings of whatever software is keeping them on windows and migrate to Linux after that. It's been some serious consideration for me to go down this path but it's what I forsee happening. It'll be framework laptops and Linux. Gonna have to bite the bullet tho and do a whole host of work settling on a disrtro/rollout and support plan. I'm lucky tho and many of my clients are heavy on ethics, right to repair and so on, so apple won't get a look in at all.
By all indications, they never expected it to be a wild success in the first place (just look at how limited their own orders for screens/lenses were). Of course, Apple is notoriously tight-lipped, but from the outside it looks to me an awful lot like a continuing R&D program that's also coincidentally made some money by selling alpha hardware.
Amazing. On one hand it was n=16 and the tumors were class II and III (early stage cancers are known to respond better to immunology), but seriously, wow.

>> A total of 12 patients have completed treatment with dostarlimab and have undergone at least 6 months of follow-up. All 12 patients (100%; 95% confidence interval, 74 to 100) had a clinical complete response, with no evidence of tumor on magnetic resonance imaging, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose–positron-emission tomography, endoscopic evaluation, digital rectal examination, or biopsy. At the time of this report, no patients had received chemoradiotherapy or undergone surgery, and no cases of progression or recurrence had been reported during follow-up (range, 6 to 25 months). No adverse events of grade 3 or higher have been reported.

Something to look into, but oncologists tend to view progression as a time to stop and switch:

>> One contributing factor might be that we administered 6 months of immunotherapy, whereas the other studies investigated shorter exposures to checkpoint blockade.

Lots of interesting points in the article overall.
From the FAQ: "Our database includes thousands of plant species, and we continuously update it. However, in rare cases or with very similar species, there might be slight inaccuracies. We always provide a confidence level with each identification"

As a casual user of LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT) with multimodal capabilities, I've snapped a few pictures of random insects/plants and gotten pretty good identification out of the box.

The first thing you should do is point out how deep your moat is, and what makes it different. Your site says its uses AI and an internal database. I would give some clear examples then of how your product has better accuracy then any of the widely accessible LLMs already in use.
Your potential customers are the ones to ask. The opinions here will be varied, and unhelpful.

Unless your target market is HN folks. If it is, you're absolutely in the right place and ignore everything I said.
i have a feeling those dates are an illusion of sorts.

I get the feeling they frequently deploy hot patches for edge cases. I hate to call them edge cases because they are actually “real cases” - things like adjusting system prompts so one day it might happy answer “Fill in the blank: F _ _ _ you”.

To truly freeze a model, you would need to freeze its weights, freeze its system prompts (no one sees those), and avoid any and all action that might impact its output. Perhaps would even need the default temperature to be 0 so it’s truly a deterministic API, with the option to add in some temperature to the responses.

Until then, I consider those “versions” but only reference the model weights and not the abstractions around the model
> Although this is only tangential, the untapped potential for AR (once the price comes down) in education is absolutely fantastic.

I'm highly, highly skeptical. There is a lot of evidence that people (especially children) learn much better through low tech approaches than higher tech ones (I'm pretty sure there was an article on HN recently comparing how kids learned when reading paper books compared to screens).
My account is a few weeks older than yours, and my opinion is pretty much the exact opposite of yours.

I still get a ton of value out of HN, even after over 15 years. I visit multiple times a day, and genuinely enjoy reading articles and comments, and joining the comment threads myself. It's not perfect; there's certainly annoying crap, bad-faith posters, trolls, spam, LLM-generated junk, etc. But (with the exception of the LLM-generated junk) none of that is new since I first started hanging out here. Overall the quality of discussion (like this one!) is still quite high, and there isn't another news/interest/discussion site on the internet where I spend anywhere near as much time, even after 15+ years.

(I'm not going to argue about whether or not it has "peaked", since that's not a particularly useful measure. If quality is a scale from 0-100, and we already hit 100 but are now hovering around 80, stably, then who cares if the peak is in the past? The quality is still fine.)
I think that all living beings and even cells within a living being possess a form of intelligence. Though I don't know enough about biology to defend that intuitive understanding with the rigor that many HN readers would require and many here would possess.
"Any massless particle must move at the speed of light"

Does not change my argument. Human body is not a massless particle.
96% Accuracy: Harvard Scientists Unveil ChatGPT-Like AI for Cancer Diagnosis
Even in cognitive tasks expressed via language, something like a memory feels necessary. At which point it’s not a LLM as in a generic language model. It would become a language model conditioned on the memory state.
My year as an independent AI researcher
This is exactly how it'll happen. This is also exactly how Apple Watch happened.
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning TypeScript?
I use TypeScript every day, and I most definitely know the basics and even a bit more. But the last time I sat down and actually studied it was a few years ago, and there's been several changes since.

Also, whenever I see something like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41865642

... I realize that maybe I know even less than I thought! Although maybe that's a good thing, types should be kept as simple as possible after all.

I'd like to update and increase my TypeScript knowledge. What are the best resources for this? I like books and docs, and get plenty of daily practice without following challenges, but in the interest of making this useful for people who find it from a search engine, please share all resources that you've found useful :)
I saw the unreal 5 engine demo the other day and it was showing the BMW digital twin and how they could select individual parts and remove them from the car. I thought how unreal would that be to be able to see exactly how you do mechanical work on your car before going out and doing it. This could be a huge learning advancement being able to visualize every singe component and digital tutorials on how to do it. Anyways check out the video I linked the time it shows the BMW
https://youtu.be/WpnYqJsh-Dc?si=wHXz5A-pkOtGDDFV&t=392
When I recently looked at SvelteKit, what confused me the most was the universal load function.

If you use "if !browser" with sveltes browser object, the things inside that branch will only run on the server.

But because svelte is compiled, these functions get compiled to two different versions, one for the server and one for the client, in which that if statement has been completely compiled out. That in itself isn't bad but it's weird that normal code and control flow influences compilation. In other languages this would be a macro or something that clearly expresses that it's metaprogramming.

Then there are some other weird things like props being merged and potentially overwriting each other in a deep level. But that is by design and can be reasoned about.

What also felt weird to me is that there is no recommended way to do initialization logic such as reading in a config, reading from the environment and preparing something for the rest of the lifetime of the application.

Has anyone had similar experiences/confusions when learning SvelteKit?
Lol I've never seen any of that and I've been pushing 11 to clients since it got out of the dev previews.

I find 11 way more stable than 10 ever was. Less bsods and all.
A new artificial intelligence tool for cancer
The Apple Vision target isn't VR, it's AR (but can also coincidentally do VR, because the necessary hardware for AR enables that).

That may sound pedantic, but actually it's a pretty huge difference. They don't want to sell a device primarily for closed-off experiences; they want to sell an iPad on your face that you can also, if you want, use for movies and whatever.
Thanks for the writeup, I especially liked the Committing section.

Question for the author: when working alone on a personal project, what's the benefit of pushing every (minor) commit you've made?
If you don’t read or understand the code, then no, you aren’t reasoning.

The condition of “some people are bad at thing” does not equal “computer better at thing than people”, but I see this argument all the time in LLM/AI discourse.
https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
Not the commenter you asked, but for me I often find it in Google alerts, where to legitimize the site they have front-loaded it with real text scraped from legit sites.
> Accidents caused by human drivers are one of the largest causes of injury and death

In some parts of the world. Perhaps some countries should look deeper into why and why self-driving cars might not be the No. 1 answer to reduce traffic accidents.
You are under the false assumption that thought can only be described by language. Why are you constructing this false hierarchy? Furthermore, symbolic constructs are not by definition language. The opposite, really. Language cannot be formed without symbols. Symbols, however, do not need language.
Farmers like the automation bc it's increasingly a single farmer running a family farm and even corporate farms can't find people to employ - hence the widespread employment of illegal immigrants, it's practically and functionally necessary for the agricultural industry in the United States today to have access to cheap, off books and unregulated labor.

I live near a farmer that owns a several thousand head dairy, the company that transports the milk to the creamery that he also owns and the brands that creamery sells to local business - he just keeps buying farms as soon as they go up for sale, anything in the area.

He rips out the homestead and leaves only building that he will use immediately and plows the entire acreage - not a tree in sight. Those trees between fields exist bc of the dust bowl in the 30s - we literally already kno what happens when people do that, he doesn't care at all.

The land he owns is larger than the estates barons of old would rule over - larger by a lot.

Once he automates and all the land outside the cities are owned by him and ppl like him - it can stay that way indefinitely... much like the dark ages. That's their goal - a permanent divide between the rural and urban populations.

This seems like a tangent but it's not - the family farms are being pushed and bought up by the farmers that willingly play JD's games bc they kno only so many can.

JD doesn't want millions of repair contracts with farmers - they want to consolidate that into something more controllable.
In practice at the time I know we used Sparc 10 and Sparc 20 pizza boxes as servers. Until the various Ultras came out it was pretty common to see stacks of them running firewalls, dns (...and sometimes nis) or web servers next to the big iron running databases and such.

The 10 and 20 in particular had a much longer lifespan than a lot of folks realize. There were cheap (for the time) upgrades to put quad CPU's and a decent selection of SCSI HBA's, Ethernet NIC's and even some ATM interfaces. I know I still saw those units fairly commonly well into the mid 2000's.