skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This “really smart new grad” take is completely insane to me, especially if you know how LLMs work. Look at this SQL snippet Claude (the new Sonnet) generated recently.

-- Get recipient's push token and sender's username
SELECT expo_push_token, p.username
INTO recipient_push_token, sender_username
FROM profiles p
WHERE p.id = NEW.recipient_id;

Seems like the world has truly gone insane and engineers are tuned into some alternate reality a la Fox News. Well…it’ll be a sobering day when the other shoe falls.
The whole String Theory affair is amusing but also a sad spectacle.

These people convinced the world they were geniuses, but ended up fleecing funding agencies and universities for millions with zero accountability and scientific progress.
These Record-Breaking New Solar Panels Produce 60 Percent More Electricity
Lots of apps implement this by autosaving to a different location from the manual save. So autosaves overwrite each other, but they don't overwrite the user's explicit choice. On loading a save, if they detect the autosave is more recent than the manual save, they offer the user the choice of which one to use.

Microsoft Word has had this since the 90s (with slightly different presentation from today, and definitely without sophisticated history tracking). Their computers used to fail (blue screen) much more regularly. It's not about web apps vs desktop.
Dram cache is not comparable to sram cache.
I don’t know the particulars of this debate, but as it is written, the claim is (IMO) trivially true: most people offering “out there” views are wrong. The hypothesis space is infinite. On the other hand, it’s useful to have epistemic practices that help distinguish true from false. A good one is experimental confirmation. That seems to be challenging to acquire here.
I agree.

What I said may have come off as ridicule. This campaign is an important effort. I argue that we should have more such efforts, bigger efforts, and even alternative efforts to prevent people’s addiction to social media.
Well, it'd be a surprise if the latest chip weren't the fastest. Intel is finding this out the hard way right now.
"Single mast for better sailing performance"

and then

"only sailed once in 5 days, motored the rest"

silly tradeoffs.
Not quite a breeze, to be fair. You gotta manufacture a bit of drama, install bad actors in key positions, pull media strings, etc.

But yeah it can be done.
I think outcome is the measure we should look at. With regards to disease and longevity there is nothing saying about 50-65% of energy from carbs has to be bad. What matters is what kind of carbs. Bulgur. Quinoa. Whole Rye. Oats. Beans.

In fact, this kind of diet that is the basis of the modern dietary recommendations because we know it is associated with good outcomes.
You will need a display that can show the full page comfortably, that is true, but a 27inch monitor or a large iPad will do.

I'd prefer something more flexibel than PDF as well, but all alternatives compromise on quality and/or ease of use. There seems to be no market for good looking digital documents other than PDF.
These old ThinkPads can be really capable to do some work, even today: https://willem.com/blog/2023-05-01_working-offline-first/
To understand physics, we need to tell – and hear – stories Essays
The first online conference in the COVID era I attended opened my eyes to an enormous benefit: suddenly a lot of people from restofworld were attending. Yes, online conferences are weird and everything except the lectures are hard to organize well or at all, but I think we shouldn't underestimate sharing with people we otherwise wouldn't share with. I kinda think it's a pity this seems to be over now.
my mid 2012 MacBook air refuses to die.
are you looking for a classic cube specific source, or techniques that will solve much slower but generalize to other shapes of permutation puzzle?
Crowds gather in Dublin for fake Halloween parade posted on social media
Many browsers will accept a favicon.ico that's actually a PNG file with no issues.
I have the opposite experience. Apple is incredibly difficult and expensive to repair. But I have been pleasantly surprised by the longevity and repairability of ThinkPads. I like those Apple M processors, but I know where I'm spending my money.
I just learned about the Aviation Monetary Unit, or “AMU”. Same thing.
Fine, I tried it. The very first thing it did on the very first video I loaded up was yell "sponsor block!" and jump over the first 30 seconds of a video with no sponsored material. And, of course, I no longer have the convenience of controlling it with my phone, instead I have to use the d-pad on the remote. No ads is nice, but it'll take some time to convince me that I actually want to use this.
You sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole... you don't have to have ID to vote, but you do have to be registered to vote (which requires ID). So in order for an illegal immigrant to vote, they would need to impersonate a registered voter (and presumably if that person did vote, it would be flagged as multiple votes under the same registration). Not impossible, but not the same as being able to just walk up and vote no questions asked.
Author here, I'll try to collect my thoughts into one comment here about why there is no auto-save.

If you implement auto-save, users will expect every click/keystroke to be saved, like how Google Docs does it. Simply adding a 1-minute timer will make people lose work in the last minute, as they switch tabs, go offline, etc. and forget about it for days, when the browser clears tab state.

The other reason is that there is no Undo-Redo implemented on MapHub. Implementing Undo properly in a web app is not trivial if you haven't designed the whole app around a time-traveling state management. It's actually a really difficult problem to solve, even though it looks simple on the surface. Combining it with real-time collaboration is even more complex. Short story: there is no Undo-Redo.

So if you don't have Undo, then Save button plays the role of making a checkpoint, trying out something, reverting if needed. With autosave this could be ruined.

Also, you write that you expect every web app to auto-save, but this is still not the universal case today and definitely wasn't the case a few years ago. I agree that most VC-backed startups with hundred-million-dollar valuations have autosave in their web apps. Again, the proper solution is to have a time-traveling diff system implemented, which can easily get really complicated with real-time multi-user collaboration. Have a look at Figma's technical blog post about this topic [1].

You might be right in saying that it's not a generation of users, but the same users being conditioned to web apps doing auto-save. I agree this is probably the case. The point of the article is this definitely wasn't the case all the time, and how I've experienced this on my side, during my 8+ years of running MapHub.

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...
Binary is not interesting. Data it operates on is.
People aren't surprised that crappy overloaded rafts sink. But they're surprised that top-of-the-line yachts sink in a minor squall.

It's not confusing to me why one is more noteworthy than the other, technically. The wealth of the loss of life isn't really what's the difference here.
The website this post is on is a wiki that explains how to solve a lot of different puzzles like the rubix cube.
It's a dystopia all right, but one that is already very real. WFH is a reality for many, groceries to the door hasn't become mainstream yet but the supermarket might well be on the trajectory taken by book stores two decades earlier and people who don't attend outdoor or team sports can have surprisingly few occasions to leave home unless they go out of their way to find an excuse.
Nice to make your acquaintance! I've spent the last four years working on similar tech, though I'm not affiliated with any school or company. I've gone over to the Hazel implementation many times for inspiration and just to check in on the progress.

Here are some of the biggest questions I have:

Do you have any plans to bring editor gaps to languages other than Hazel?

Why is the Hazel editor first a text editor? E.g. it seems 100% happy to let a single poorly judged keystroke create an unbalanced brace or quote pair when it has much more semantically correct options for the next state it could generate...

P.S. Feel free to come check out BABLR: https://github.com/bablr-lang/, https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX
Yes you can. Here are the instructions to disable it:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/disabling...
I suspect when Susskind was talking about ideas away from the consensus _usually_ being suspect, he was talking about what the general public or non-practitioners should think about, especially since they are not usually in a position to judge those ideas. As a practitioner you certainly can’t ignore non mainstream ideas, or else no new ideas would ever become mainstream.
Fair enough, I guess you are overall happy with the OS though
"all hail to the king" :-)
>As a layman, considering the technology at the time, it does not sound so much more wider.

Think about the lever arm of that "other half meter" of ship that you're dragging up into the air when you heel the ship over plus the increased displacement of the half meter you're burying into the water.

Remember, ships aren't really subject to huge propulsive forces relative to their mass compared to land vehicles. So something like an extra meter is gonna make a pretty big difference.
The mind hack I use most often is "It is what it is"
From other LLMs of course.

Which is the main issue I see with them, if no one publishes anything new, all you will get is whatever was there before, which may be incorrect or obsolete. If you want something new, an LLM can't discover it if no data source exists. So over time the LLM becomes useless for current information.
NASA panel calls on SpaceX to "maintain focus" on Dragon safety after anomalies
This has nothing to do with Western concepts of credibility, justice, or fairness.

Russia only cares about raw power and force (in the old, imperialist sense), because that's what makes them able to challenge the world order and bring other nations to heel (whether successfully or not remains to be seen).
Billionaires vs. Democracy
From my perspective simple boolean means a single known value stored in one variable. I suspect the underlying code performs a number of calculations for each one of the flow chart "booleans". Of course, maybe that points to a design flaw and there should be a single policy instance that aggregates all of the variables into one place.
Um...the court in questions is in Russia. Where (many allege) that the courts & judges are very interested in demonstrating zealous loyalty to the Russian government. But (again alleged) very little interested in convincing skeptical foreigners of their commitment to Western ideals.
I am not so sure. I had a Pentium4 eMachine that made it all the way to around 2012. The same kind of life for my first Athlon64 machine from the same company. In both cases, the machines ran Linux, and they still work today. They were only retired because no meaningful software could run on them any longer. My PowerBook G4 got no where near that longevity, and owners of late era Intel MacBooks are probably going to have similar issues.
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Eh, the friends that don’t know this almost certainly aren’t solving the cube anyway. The ones who would be likely to solve it would catch on pretty quickly.
A nice; I didn't know about that. Do Firefox and Chrome actually check it though?
'Cheat Engines' and Copyright in Video Games in the EU
> your answer to "Who gets to decide what's true?" is basically "there is no truth, and any truth that there might be is relative to the person asking the question". Is that right?

That's really not how I interpret it.

Assuming we agree on what "mixing" means, which itself isn't that trivial but even without a formal definition I think we have the same idea of "homogenous at molecular level on a longish time period".

The truth is "yes you can mix water and oil", there's no doubt about that. It's testable and tested.

The fact that we use context to interpret the question (rather than being entirely literal about it) and decide whether the literal truth is really what's appropriate to answer, doesn't change the nature of truth.

There's also the question of knowledge (I might not know that you actually can mix water and oil), but again that doesn't change the nature of truth.

Like so many philosophical questions, it only sounds interesting because we assign different meanings to the same words: here conflating truth and answer.
Show HN: Block Sort, a mobile/PWA puzzle game without ads
I like small puzzle games to play on my mobile, (because you can put them away easily as well). But I got really annoyed that a lot of them force feed you advertisements.

To counter this I made my own puzzle game, as a progressive web app. This means you can install it on your mobile or desktop as an application, and play offline.

After the game is offline ready, no requests should be outgoing except checking for updates of the game. So there is no tracking/reporting going on. This also means I rely on old fashion email to get feedback!

The game is build in React + Typescript + Vite, and is open-source at: https://github.com/matthijsgroen/block-sort

Challenges:

- I wanted to make the game using open web standards such as HTML + CSS. The game actually features one image, the rest is done in pure CSS (the cubes, buffers and placement stacks);

- All animation is done through CSS animations;

- All levels are randomly generated, and then proven playable by a solver before a player gets the level on screen. To remove loading times for the high difficulty levels, a process was made to generate these levels offline, and the game only contains the random seeds to reproduce them (and then they are still solved by the game first before offering)

- The entire game is statically hosted, so there is no backend involved. This proved challenging for data transfer capabilities. The game now generates a QR Code image containing all encrypted/compressed game data, that can be loaded into another instance of the game.
"Unmolested" during the war and until Stalin's death. After that, Khrushchev closed churches and started the anti christian campaigning again. The mass murder of "state enemies" mostly ended with Stalin's death, but the church and Christians were still molested, even though they weren't tortured to death.
well, they're all CC-BY-SA-4.0 (i think), so feel free to repost on peertube or wherever :)
You can do math with word embeddings. A famous example (which I now see has also been mentioned in the article) is to compute the "woman vector" by subtracting "man" from "woman". You can then add the "woman vector" to e.g. the "king" vector to obtain a vector which is somewhat close to "queen".

To adapt this to your problem of ignoring writing style in queries, you could collect a few text samples with different writing styles but same content to compute a "style direction". Then when you do a query for some specific content, subtract the projection of your query embedding onto the style direction to eliminate the style:

query_without_style = query - dot(query, style_direction) * style_direction

I suspect this also works with text embeddings, but you might have to train the embedding network in some special way to maximize the effectiveness of embedding arithmetic. Vector normalization might also be important, or maybe not. Probably depends on the training.

Another approach would be to compute a "content direction" instead of a "style direction" and eliminate every aspect of a query that is not content. Depending on what kind of texts you are working with, data collection for one or the other direction might be easier or have more/fewer biases.

And if you feel especially lazy when collecting data to compute embedding directions, you can generate texts with different styles using e.g. ChatGPT. This will probably not work as well as carefully handpicked texts, but you can make up for it with volume to some degree.
MAUI is the official one but Linux support AFAICT? Such a shame!
Shuhari – Alchemists
Copy-pasting UI elements to ask for help on support forums is absolutely not a niche use case. You're asking for a world of even more terrible screenshots in support channels. Truly cursed software.
Yachtmaker: But… money
I did some resarch because i didnt believe your comment at first.

It seems true, the preussen had a similiar height and was a really big ship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preussen_(ship)

It shows how utterly insane the design of the bayesian was.
Just out of curiosity (no rubiks cube affinity at all), but how can there be an unsolvable state when there are 'tricks' get in a solvable state? Does that not imply that there are no unsolvable states at all? Or is that maybe related to a certain method of solving?
I dare say RAG with vector DBs is underwhelming because embeddings are not underrated but appropriately rated, and will not give you relevant info in every case. In fact, the way LLMs retrieve info internally [0] already works along the same principle and is a large factor in their unreliability.

[0] https://nonint.com/2023/10/18/is-the-reversal-curse-a-genera...
Calling a LLM 'him' will always amuse me.
Understanding Presenter Objects vs. Direct Rendering in Ruby on Rails
I agree on modern Mac's being difficult to repair. I also will say that back a decade or two ago, it was likely you'd need to repair your computer after four years. Now, a four year old Macbook Air still feels brand new to me.
Which is why large companies, and companies in general, have far too much power.
Is part of it that we just can’t test any of this because we can’t either examine a black hole or run an accelerator the diameter of the Moon’s orbit?

Maybe planet nine if it exists will turn out to be a small primordial black hole within probe range, or we will locate a micro primordial black hole within the solar system.

Would building an even bigger deeper into time gazing JWST help?

I’ve gone down the black hole rabbit hole lately and personally I’d love to see an ultra sensitive fish eye X-ray and gamma ray telescope to hunt for the weak signatures that might be emitted by tiny accretion discs in or near our solar system. Find us a lovely marble to go examine and chuck stuff into.
The focus seems to be on games, but I wonder how well e.g. Microsoft Office or Adobe apps run.
Best practices for password storage use one-way hash functions (like bcrypt, Argon2, or PBKDF2) rather than encryption algorithms like AES. AES is not one way and in theory you can generate 2nd, 3rd, etc. master keys to decrypt. :)
I wish them luck.

My experience with KDE is limited to the early 200Xs, when it was one of the desktop options that came with Red Hat Linux. "This is great, everything works together, Konqueror is so much better than every other web browser" I recall thinking. It seemed like they had it all figured out already and I didn't understand why everything kept being reinvented, badly, for Gnome or whatever.
I use the one at https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

It seems to be all I need. I like that it blocks the crap on all browsers without needing to install extensions. Youtube is still practically useless though.
apparently that will be soon required in Malaysia. And they use a OASIS standard
Well, I'm not quite that optimistic. The only way the US crashes is if it stops being the best option out there. If the EU and the euro, or China and the yuan, or India and the rupee become better options than the US and the dollar, then people will stop holding so many dollars, and the US will be in trouble. That is a thing that can happen, even though it hasn't in 80 years.
I don't know if this counts as a hack but the most recent one revolved around a trash company that overloaded itself and could not pick up trash for a week. I temporarily stopped using large trash-bags and instead put trash daily into disposable shopping bags. It turns out I can fit about 60% more waste in their garbage container using disposable shopping bags than I can using the 30-39 gallon bags. This might be useful for people that rent two or more of the garbage containers. To list all my hacks would need a blog.
I think he meant to say smallest maybe? Ie its description is terse, not its runtime.
Apple Plans to Drop Broadcom Chip by 2025 to Use In-House Design (2023)
What are some of the bugs? I’ve not noticed any. The feature lag is real, still no canvas.
Reminds me of NFL's copyrights claim: “Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited.”
The coincidence is shocking, but coincidences often are.
Is this an Altavista -> Google moment? If this actually takes off, Google may become the next Yahoo
It is nothing special or so. Just my learning curve for JS, Next.js, Supbase, etc. And testing some functionality of AI.

And it's like a small manifest for builders, solo makers, and entrepreneurs reminding them that there is no easy way. Everyone, even the best, has struggled on their way to success.

And sometimes if you feel that there is no hope, check some of these inspirational facts, stories, quotes, or whatever you can call it. Tap, scroll, and share with friends who are already losing hope.

Maybe it will inspire someone to build something new and disruptive.

You can do it too!
I think it just goes to show how desperate we are to find a unified theory after all this time and effort.
The worst of it reminds me of cryptocurrency schlock and how it has drained capital from our industry with little to show for it.

The pattern is similar: an infinitely fascinating puzzle to solve full of interesting math with potentially revolutionary implications if only… if only… but not enough people ask if it’s the right math solving the right problems in the right way or if it’s even applicable.

This phenomenon of smart people being nerd sniped to this degree reminds me of that episode of Star Trek TNG where they figured out a way to possibly destroy the Borg by giving them an infinitely fascinating unsolvable geometry problem to ponder until they lost their minds.

I also see some similarity to how people get triggered and sucked into and addicted to spirals of culture war and political rage or fear mongering or other media driven mind traps. This is less intellectual but seems similar in that you’ve got this meme that hooks us and creates a discourse around it that hooks us more and not enough people poke their heads out of the vortex and say “hey everyone is this really this big of a deal?”

We should become skeptical when we see a big idea accrete a lot of sound and fury around it but it’s not producing much and the main focus of the community circling it is self referential fascination with the idea itself.