skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose is always the same: To learn. It's how you learn and what your learn for that are different. A tutorial is for getting exposed to something. A guide is for a very specific purpose in something you're already familiar with. An explanation is for a deeper understanding and references are for not relying on memory. They all refer to different things that ultimately falls under the same concept (and intersect with each other). If you're building a system, you should have all of them otherwise, the documentation is lacking.
That should show up in MAU and time-on-site statistics.

Which the site should be compelled to report to advertisers.
Ballistic spiders listen for prey before hurling webs like slingshots
Tangential, has anybody replaced private container registries with a place to upload and download container tarballs?
The bureaucracy can be a nightmare. Ironically one of the best country to move to pre-brexit was the UK. I did that without a lawyer. My other moves across EU needed a lawyer to sort out the local applications and required months ahead bookings.
I also had all sort of stupid issues which prolonged one immigration situation for 3 years.
I complained to the EU the host country was in violation of EU rules and they came back after 2 years saying it was my problem and that the host country was free to do whatever.

The EU is an absolute joke and a bureaucrauts' dream, no wonder our economy shrunk to half the USA's in the last 10 years.
FM is inherently more difficult to understand than subtractive, even with a very good interface. It's the double-edged sword of FM - you can create very complex behaviours from a small number of simple operators, which makes FM both uniquely powerful and uniquely difficult to think about intuitively.

I can model subtractive and additive patches quite accurately in my head. That's not a brag, it's just not very difficult if you understand the basic principles and you've put in a bit of practice. FM still takes me by surprise after decades of trying to master it.
Maybe not assholes, but it is a pretty blatant status play. By denigrating someone else’s work you raise yourself up by comparison. And while a lot of our psychological health is tied to our relative status in society, that doesn’t make it healthy behavior.

Edit: it's also telling from a status standpoint that you characterized the blue collar comment as "insulting upwards." It would probably go a long way to avoiding those types of comments in the first place if people didn't implicitly think blue collar work is "below" white collar work.
Every language should have something like this available out of the box!
> machine learning, whether SVMs or ANNs, was called just that until relatively recently when the popular press started to first call ANNs AI,

That is absolutely not the case. These things have been in the field of AI for decades. Frighteningly it's nearing two decades since I started my degree in AI and it wasn't a new reference then.
can't climb without some hustle

the difference is grinding when you're not getting a payoff or gain
I see some confusion in the comments about C++ moves. I wrote an article in 2013 after it clicked for me: https://kholdstare.github.io/technical/2013/11/23/moves-demy... . It goes over motivation, how it works under the hood etc, has diagrams if you are a more visual learner.
It doesn't matter that we're not in danger of a FF monoculture. Totally irrelevant.

At one point Chrome was new and people said "just use Chrome" and at that time they were far away from a Chrome monoculture. It also doesn't matter that Google then and Mozilla now are in different universes of scale.

It is a value to the world to have even a mere proof of concept chrome compatible browser that has as little Google or MS special input as possible, even if that isn't 0%.
AWS building ExaFLOPS-class supercomputer for AI with Trainium2 processors
Hearhear. I suppose the first tenet of conservatism in light of the education of founders of America is that rapid change in social order tends to be a net negative. Other preoccupations have been bolted on, but now we see a Republican Party that itself is changing faster than the Democratic Party.
We have high housing prices because we stopped building housing.
it's and/and. Suburbanites impose their values on the city (free parking, highways, vote against bikelanes, ...). I don't care if they'd be in their suburbs and just live there. go live in the burbs, be happy, but don't degrade my neighborhood with your cars.

we really can have our cake and eat it, nice cities for the people who prefer them, suburbs for the others, so much room.
> Gemini and Chat GPT with search are both perfectly capable of producing decent essays with accurate citations

OK, but this quote from your essay:

> The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports that "cigarette smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke cause about 480,000 premature deaths each year in the United States."

...that citation is wrong. It's not from the NCI at all, the NCI cited that figure which came from another paper by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The essay doesn't have accurate citations, the model has regurgitated content and doesn't understand when that content is from a primary source or when it in turn has come from a different citation.
Precisely. Hallucinations were improperly named. A better term is "confabulation," which is telling an untruth without the intent to deceive. Sadly, we can't get an entire industry to rename the LLM behavior we call hallucination, so I think we're stuck with it.
Show HN: Typed, Expressive SQL-Like QueryBuilders/ORM for TypeScript/JS
Isn't the documentation task highly dependent on the goal and prospective users. Or is there a unified paradigm?
Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains –$155k from digital wallets
> We really are seeing massive amounts of innovation in the economy that improve people's lives

Name some?

The issues people care most about atm seem to be getting worse (housing prices, cost of living, etc)
still seeing a lot of spam even now

remember: this is the low effort stuff. the good stuff doesn't look like spam...
So you'd see rats as a kid? Honestly I don't even know how big/scary they are. I feel like I'd find them frightening.

Only harmless Gardiner snakes here. My dad always hated em tho. His childhood house was infested with em.

There's mountain lions roaming the plains here and they are scary AF. I find them even scarier here because you can see them from a long ways away, and you can tell when they are stalking you. It's safer, because you can see em and they know you see em, but it's scary when it's following you from 500M away.

And yeah, it's extremely cold here. Cold here today. It gets colder here than in the Arctic some parts of winter. It's life threatening. There's a kind of fear of nature present with everyone for about 4 months every year, November - February.

In the US, northern Idaho and Montana are beautiful, people in the states are sleeping on that part of their country.

The best part about growing up on a farm was probably watching my dad wake up every day at 5 and work until sunset with no boss and only his own brain and braun.

Really made me a fiercely independent person.
> Well they have more tires than four vehicles do.
Actually, four vehicles would have more tyres in total (:
Show HN: I Made $300 After 3 Months of Launching Growflyer
Hi HN,

I’m Kaizar, a student and founder of Growflyer, an all-in-one platform that helps website owners better understand their users and improve engagement. After three months of launching, Growflyer has earned its first $300, and I’d like to share my journey.

What is Growflyer?
Growflyer is a toolkit for websites that combines:

Marketing Analytics: Real-time insights into user behavior.
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Session Replay: Understand where users are getting stuck.
Custom Notifications: Engage visitors with personalized pop-ups and messages.

The Journey:
I launched Growflyer with a simple goal: to help websites turn visitors into engaged users. The first few months were spent building the product while juggling university and an internship.

Lessons Learned:

Start Simple: The MVP focused on analytics and notifications. Over time, I’ve added more features based on user feedback.

Marketing is Key: Launching on different SaaS submission helped Growflyer gain visibility and early adopters.

Consistency Matters: While balancing school, I ensured consistent updates and support for users.

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I’d love to hear your thoughts on Growflyer. What features do you think would help website owners the most?

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Decentralized messaging and communications are more compatible with the first principles of the internet.
Perhaps you're onto something regarding the "vibesession"... right now, if I had to call a plumber, I would feel immense dread. I would undoubtedly be fleeced with no recourse and still receive substandard work. What's the difference between this and the socialists where you figured you'd get crap service for "free"?
Be sure to poke around in your $FAVORITE_LANGUAGE; many of them do. There's a lot of diversity in the HTML templating space, but precisely because of that it can be difficult for word to get out about what tech is available, because there are so many of them.
I installed Q4OS with the Trinity Desktop Environment, and using the Redmond theme for a hit of Windows 95 nostalgia.
The machine elves are gonna love this.
They mean whether the value is properly initialized, as in all the bytes that make up that value have set values that are valid for that type. For example, in Rust the only valid values a boolean can have are 0 and 1, anything else is invalid. Notably, in the abstract machine, bytes actually have 257 values: 0-255 and uninitialized. Uninitialized means that an initialized value was never written to it. Reading a value that is not properly initialized is undefined behaviour, and optimization passes can result in unpredictable changes in behaviour of the code.

The type they mentioned is MaybeUninit (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/union.MaybeUninit.html), which is used to represent values that are not fully initialized. It's worth reading the documentation for that type.
You're thinking of this [1]. Super duper cool idea, ahead of its time. Author seems to have transitioned to a ludicrous pricing model, but I suspect it's because the people who like it really _love_ it. I used to be among them, but then switched to org-mode .

[1] https://gingkowriter.com/
> the EU being caught with it's pants down is by design

Being by design means they weren't really "caught" with their pants down (in the classical "caught exactly at the wrong time") as much as they chose to always wear just underwear expecting the US to punch anyone who laughs in the face. The EU chose to "purchase" protection from the US, paid via various means. Mainly providing credibility for whatever US needs done, and make the difference between "righteous" and "callous".

What they discover now is that either the US can be said was caught with the pants down unable to properly project power and provide that purchased security, or maybe the EU was caught with the pants down because they were unable to pay (less likely). Regardless, this is like realizing your service provider is no longer reliable, you'll look inside or elsewhere. At the very least you no longer look at that provider as trustworthy, and stop building anything relying on their services.

The cost of this will be spread all around but effectively it gave China, who has no issues thrusting ahead even without someone to clean up their image, an even bigger boost. It even gave Russia a boost, if you could have believed anything in the world can still do that. But a couple of decades of weak leadership on both sides of the Atlantic conspired to achieve just that... a US desperately scrambling to stumble China after realizing that the go-to for all their problems (the "war for freedom") is hard to pull off this time, and an EU that realized that outsourcing critical safety and security aspects is a bad idea long term.

My pessimistic 2c are that the next rounds of leaders will make it worse, on one side by not understanding that the "war for freedom" is hard to pull off this time, on the other side by thinking that outsourcing to someone else will definitely make it better.
LLMs model language, not knowledge. For humans the two are deeply connected, so when we see probable ("correct") language output, we assume and assign meaning.

We could allow an LLM to stop generating new tokens if there are no new tokens found with a threshold probability - but I think it's unclear if that would help.

Consider the following prompt and response:

> Complete the paragraph: "The killer ..."

> "The killer moved silently through the dimly lit corridor, each step calculated, every breath measured. Shadows clung to the walls, obscuring the figure’s presence, but the intent was clear—cold, deliberate, and unyielding. There was no hesitation, no second-guessing, only the precision of someone who had done this before, perhaps too many times to count. The killer’s mind was a storm of focus, memories buried deep beneath the surface, replaced by the singular purpose of the hunt. In the silence, only the faint sound of a blade sliding free from its sheath whispered of what was to come."

Is it a "true" response? If the question makes no sense - does it make any more sense for the prompt:

> Complete the paragraph: "The first law of thermodynamics ..."

Why? Does the LLM "think" differently in the second case?
The problem is that process A might spawn process B that might spawn process C. A may have opened an fd for C to use, and B has no way of knowing that. You really shouldn't be closing random fds that you inherited.
Update – ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier
I actually feel a little queasy after using that site, the point about nausea & vertigo is very true, and I have neither on a day to day basis.
A 5 min scan has already been beneficial to me. Thanks for this!
Housing went up for a long time and then what happened in 2008? That wasn’t a 2-3 year mania. Everyone thought houses were “safe as houses.” The stock market rally in the 90s went up until it didn’t in the .com crash. I’m not comparing btc to tulips, I’m comparing it to things that went up a lot and then went down fast. And if you come back with “btc is different” I’ll respond with “that’s what everyone says about everything else before it crashes.”
The limitations were anything but arbitrary!

The Game Boy has less memory than would be required for a full frame buffer, so its “just in time rendering” of sprites and tiles is one way to support its full display resolution and still leave some space for game state in the RAM.
So, the question one has to ask is, why aren't banks and "serious" institutions now behind bitcoin? If it is a scam/fad/etc?

The story of Cryptocurrencies reminds me a bit of Linux: "it was a cancer to society" until it was not. And now everyone is adopting it and corps have fucked it with their "open core" offerings.

I myself think that the use case of "trustless store and transfer of value" has a LOT of more attraction to what detractors see.
I'm glad for you and vehemently disagree.

Taxation is ridiculously high, public service has abysmal quality so I need to pay for private care to get healthcare in time and crime runs rampant on the streets. Albeit it's still not as bad as the US.

Our politicians are completely deranged.

The only thing keeping me in EU is the fact that taxes in the US is still pretty high tax / high cost of living, too many people are woke and crime is too high. Landscapes, history, culture and food in Europe are also unbeatable.
> If I buy something from someone for $1 then sell it to you for $2, I gained a dollar and you own a share that's worth $2.

It's easy to see that this is nonsense: I could buy a widget from someone for $1, then turn around and sell it to my brother for $10000, does that really mean the widget is now magically worth $10000, and we doubled our collective holdings? No, what actually happened is that we together still have that same $10000, plus a worthless $1 widget.
Thanks! Those sound amazing.
No it doesn’t.

You’re not unconscious while you’re sleeping.
Depends on your definition of 'useable' but you'd certainly get an early VA board 2nd hand for $300-400 like the Yamaha CS1X.

For monophonic new you have options like the

Korg Minilogue
Behringer MS-1
IK Multimedia UNO Synth Pro
Novation Bass Station II
Yamaha Reface series
You’re punting on the actual question. No government will catch every bad company. What’s the morality of assassinating their CEOs?

And you seem to be drawing a moral distinction between public and private sector that doesn’t make sense. In any system where you have a large number of people paying for the healthcare of a smaller number of people, you need someone to make decisions about what is covered and what isn’t. You’re simply advocating placing that decision making power in a different private actors: a doctor, who has his own interests and motivations. Doctors aren’t any more moral than anyone else. (We demonize the opioid companies, but hundreds of thousands of doctors prescribed those drugs, many receiving benefits to themselves for doing so.)

Nobody gives doctors that much power over spending decisions, including in countries with socialized medicine. Those countries make coverage decision through bureaucratic processes just like private insurance companies do.

But that’s raises an interesting point. There’s lots of public sector organizations that do tremendous harm through bad decisions. Many American urban school districts receive more funding than affluent suburban districts, but generate atrocious outcomes. They create a classroom to prison pipeline that chokes lives in the crib. What would secular morality say about assassinating their executives?
Here's just an example: I often want to see all currently open windows on my task bar, and using my mouse I can instantly open the specific window I want to work on.

Note that I don't want to open a specific app, I want to access a specific instance of that app. Think of an example when I have multiple Chrome windows open, and I want to open a specific one, since that has a group of tabs open. The principle is generic, I might want to open a specific IDE window, as I've got multiple instances open at the same type.

Absolutely every Mac user I've seen had to swipe through all their open app, or has to open the app and from the app then choose which instance they want to work with.
Always Assume Breach.

You'd think they'd learn
It's almost like he is not and has never been an actual engineer or something.
That’s probably survivorship bias. The Nobel Prize in Economics for 2024 was awarded for research that has demonstrated that the single most influential factor in the wealth of a nation is the stability of its institutions. Frequent civil wars, coups, and revolutions in certain regions of the world have left them further and further behind.

So I think in general, revolutions are high risk high reward gambles. The rare ones that work out and align with the needs of the population make important strides for humanity, but most revolutions fail or are corrupted and end up a net negative for the society.
Becoming a lead at a startup – from the audience to the stage
> The use of mathematics to produce sounds resembling real instruments quickly became obsolete once we could just go out and sample the real thing.

No. One of the most popular piano VSTs on the market is Pianoteq, which uses physical modelling of the instrument rather than being sample-based. It's often considered one of the most realistic-sounding piano VSTs all the same (they have models of many popular acoustic models, authorized by their builders), and offers a much higher degree of dynamism and reactivity than sample-based ones, and much more flexibility in simulated microphone placement, etc.

This approach is still leading-edge in places.
I'd also like to quibble with this assertion the author makes at the end of the article:

> but almost all digital music production these days is based on sampling

This is very much not true. Subtractive and FM synthesis are still very widely used.
> think about all the people growing your food etc

Did he really say that? Farmers are the original WFH-ers.
That's not employing someone in a different country though, that's contracting. And it's the same arrangement you can use to hire someone in the US from the EU.
That's fair, excluding primary residence makes sense just like retirement accounts.
Gomponents is also a great way to deal with HTML in Go.

While some (including me at first) might dislike that it encourages use of dot imports, Gomponents’ use of them has actually grown on me. The crucial practical issue is to restrict the use of dot imports to your internal template package subdirectory, where it becomes obvious where the functions are coming from.

https://www.gomponents.com/
> What do you do while you're together? Eat some food? There's almost no way your visit doesn't register on GDP.

People typically eat food even when they don't visit someone as well, the total amount remains the same. It is really common to just cook food and eat together, your life doesn't get better if you go out to eat eating your parents home cooking doesn't register on the GDP.
Team Organization and Modular Decomposition
The talent isn’t fungible. The people who make amazing synth patches are rarely the same people who write amazing songs. The people designing great fonts are not the same people who write great books.

We should celebrate creation of tools and capabilities, while also acknowledging that there are many layers yet to be completed before your very cool ad hoc video game request can be delivered.
it only works for US Dollar because USA can pay back its debts by printing more money. other economies actually have to work for it.
I went straight to the "how to fix" section with popcorn in hand and I wasn't disappointed: just add " doubt" layers for self-correction, beginning at the query itself. And then maybe tell the model "do not hallucinate". Sounds like a pun, but I think an AI model actually would take this seriously, because it can't tell the difference.

Context is still a huge problem for AI models, and it's probably still the main reason for hallucinating AIs.
I agree. And I think that's the common usage?

I still get what the author is aiming at though, using combined regular sliders instead of implementing a div soup animated by js moved this a lot closer to a native solution. Probably closest it can be, if the javascript can't be replaced by clever css.

It's still a very useful widget to have available, and that space was missing implementations. Native or not.
> ...proving that this one particular piece of the hallucination problem may be conceptually simple.

Everything mentioned in the article boils down to that one particular piece-- non-detected uncertainty. The architecture constraints referenced are all situations that cause uncertainty. Training data gaps of course increase uncertainty.

Their solutions are a shotgun blast of heuristics that all focus on reducing uncertainty-- CoT, RAG, fine-tuning, fact-checking -- while somehow avoiding actually measuring uncertainty and using that to eliminate hallucinations!
Aside from workforce automation I would hesitate to work on any of those problems. I also recognize that workforce automation has significant impact on the people whose work is automated away and I would prefer we as society took better care of people, but I feel like that is a different class of harmful than the other examples.