skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't heard of this, but it sounds like it comes from the Theosophist's misunderstanding of an emanation body (nirmanakaya) in Vajrayana Buddhism. There's a reason why many of the practices in Vajrayana are taught progressively and under guidance, and that's mainly because confusion and misunderstanding can arise when not grounded in proper view (samyagdrishti), which can have a very real and direct impact on a person's mind. But from what I can tell this western practice is completely divergent from anything found in the kangyur or tengyur.

Have you considered talking to a Vajrayana teacher to help understand what's going on? Tergar has an ongoing teaching this year on Buddhist psychology [1]. Also, a teacher I practice with posts most of our sessions online for free as well [2].

[1] https://vajrayana.tergar.org/buddhist-psychology
[2] https://www.youtube.com/@ThuptenPhuntsok
"Solving" is a bad choice of word. SEO does not have a solved state.

Digital design of engines can already happen now. AI chip design is already a thing, I think they help lay out more efficient trace lines. Since digital design and simulation can all happen digially. The whole cycle is digital. A system like Claude's computer use can take control and produce 100s or thousands of small modification of existing design to be simulated and if it has testable performance critiera. I think it can be done now. Maybe some finetuning the model for specific UI control.
Strange take ... I seem to remember websites having a lot of point before google.
If they can't, then is it really quantum supremacy?

They claimed it last time in 2019 with Sycamore, which could perform in 200 seconds a calculation that Google claimed would take a classical supercomputer 10,000 years.

That was debunked when a team of scientists replicated the same thing on an ordinary computer in 15 hours with a large number of GPUs. Scott Aaronson said that on a supercomputer, the same technique would have solved the problem in seconds.[1]

So if they now come up with another problem which they say cannot even be verified by a classical computer and uses it to claim quantum advantage, then it is right to be suspicious of that claim.

1. https://www.science.org/content/article/ordinary-computers-c...
Surprising to see consumer acceptance of camera-equipped glasses after the previous outrage over "glassholes" a decade ago.
It does? "Current time is 18:13:17 in Europe/XXXX. We are closed."

Update: the message was updated, now it suggests to work by your local time
If you've not already gotten it, this is the next purchase I'd recommend [1]. Nothing better than instant hot water at the right temp :D. Doesn't take hardly any power to run either.

[1] https://www.zojirushi.com/app/product/cvjac
This was the second go at it, they already tried once with A/UX, even though it wasn't as well integrated, nonetheless there was this previous experience.
An unbridled race to the bottom in art seems bad IMO.

I expect an (ironically academic) argument about how monomaniacal focus on mass-market appeal doesn't necessarily entail a race to the bottom.

I'd be surprised if someone believes that in reality a monomaniacal focus on mass-market appeal doesn't entail a race to the bottom, though.
Privatebin Mode for Emacs
you can also just pay for 12 months (sometimes it comes with some discount) or just pay month by month during last 12 months and you will have the perpetual fallback license after that which lasts forever (though you won't get updates until you start monthly payments again)
> It was a miracle of human accomplishment and now it’s a shell of its old self.

You must dislike him for political reasons, because from an accomplishment standpoint he is still a miracle.
Even when you have reproducible builds and local copies of all recursive dependencies, you have to be able to react when e.g. a security vulnerability is found in one of them.

If you have 1600 of them, you probably don't know them all very well, so you might already be in trouble in the assessment stage.
If there's a fix upstream, you might need to update to the newest version, and that in turn might force you to upgrade more dependencies, or introduce new ones etc.

Reproducible builds are great, but they aren't a panacea for dependency hell.
Wow! This is beyond my expectations.
I'm sure that cargo does a clever job of all of this but this kind of functionality is precisely why I find rust so off putting. It encourages you to take on huge amounts of unnecessary complexity (including complicated dependency trees) and then tries to hide that complexity in abstraction. But in practice these are always leaky abstractions that _someone_ (and likely you) will have to pay for. At a baseline, the poor compilation times and byzantine of rust are to me the most obvious symptoms of this embrace of complexity.
If Python really can be seen as community that thinks very similarly and has similar opinions and expecting the pythonic ways to write code and logic and having like one right way to do stuff, then his really makes it a cult where everyone is expected to be the same.
Even if they're purely complementary, which they're not, when one of them can only "survive"by being bought by the other, that's not survival. Let it fail, and then sell off all the parts to not yet established companies who are trying to make it in, or move into, that space. Mergers and acquisitions of established businesses puts a stranglehold on the market and should be illegal. This is the kind of bullshit that's resulted in four media conglomerates and three ISPs for a population of 300+ million.
It’s reasonable for people to take either approach: are microplastics more like asbestos or are they more like cellulose in terms of harm?

The answer being unclear means it makes sense to treat them, from a regulatory standpoint, closer to asbestos. It also makes sense to treat them as an unknowable and not regulate, because any alternative might be worse.

But it does point to there being a dearth in research and answers, and we should solve that as quickly as possible and maybe limit our exposure when viable, known to be non-toxic alternatives exist.
Seems like snake oil. I get 92% British even though I certainly do not have that kind of accent.

FTR, the "how it works" section just says "AI-powered analysis" which is effectively like saying, we have no idea how it works
Tea drinkers in shambles
The Python version and this Ruby version are not equivalent.

In Ruby, default parameters are allocated for each call to the function, which means that they are not shared across calls.

In Python, default parameters are allocated once and shared across all calls, allowing them to be mutated.

This becomes obvious if we change the Python and Ruby versions to print when they're computing something that is not yet cached. For back-to-back calls to `fib(10)`, the Python version prints only on the first call to `fib(10)`. The Ruby version must recompute all values from 2 – 10 again.
Wow, great article. It really helped me understand the poem better. I'm not very good at analyzing these things.
good point is that this integrates some existing models for you to use. You can test different models with this. But still need to upgrade if you wanna try larger models. The more Vram the better
Why not use lithium AA? Duracell aklaleaks are the worse, in my experience. At least if the alkalines do leak, they're in a carrier away from the MB.
> It's fast and no frontend people are needed for it

I guess if you don’t need to maintain it, just an ever growing blob of complexity that will be reinvented into new blobs every time when the old one becomes too immobile :)
Show HN: Unify Browser – WebKit Browser Built with SwiftUI and MLX
Hi everyone! Unify is a WebKit based browser with an AI research assistant built right in. You heard that right. No chromium here.

The project started out as a simple RAG engine to answer queries, but it evolved to become much more in a short period of time. The goal is simple: find the best context, without prompting input, to best answer your questions. One of the biggest limitations of apps like ChatGPT is their lack of personalization. Beyond the chat window, your conversations with the model don’t contribute much to its understanding of your personal context. Every session starts from scratch, as if the model has a blank slate. This isn’t how humans work, and Unify is designed to bridge that gap.

Unify indexes any file format, allowing you to simply drag and drop files from your computer to make them part of your conversational context. The next time you have a question, your conversations from the past, with your files, now have the possibility to aid in answering questions that are personal to you. You can query across thousands of documents without worrying about token limits, lost context, or prompt engineering. LLMs shine when they have enough context to produce insightful, non-generic answers. Unify makes that possible.

So why is it a browser? In some ways using the term “Browser” makes Unify a trojan horse product. But the most important source of them all is the internet. It is the gateway to all information. Just like with files on your computer, Unify will also index any website with just a click. No more copy-pasting text into a chat window, hoping you’ve captured the right context. By integrating both web content and personal files into a single stream, Unify helps eliminate workflow fragmentation and streamlines the search process.

Unify also offers local inference using the MLX framework. Powered by Llama 3.2-4b, it allows you to take your conversations private when needed. While larger online models are still better for generating the best answers, Unify gives you the flexibility to switch to secure, offline, and private inference without sacrificing functionality.

Full disclaimer, I am a solo developer working on this. I would love any and all feedback I can get on this. Please let me know how I’m doing!

You can get Unify on the Mac App store. Check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unify-ai-browser/id6478436147?...
Do you think the error is fake somehow, or do you think this is too much punishment for the number of retractions the journal has had?
Show HN: Llama 3.3 70B Sparse Autoencoders with API access
I dont think openAI has the staffing required to release a phone anytime soon. As far as I know there arent any hardware people there.
explainshell: See the help text for each argument of a command
e.g. https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=git+clone+--recursive provides a concise explanation for `git clone --recursive`
> I want you to ask yourself an honest question. When was the last time you actually had fun in programming?

Every time I write C code.
Because the bond has to be physically presented.

Moving such a document is extremely risky and a lot of work so not worth it in almost any case short of the PR bump/curiousity of having the "world's oldest bond"
Come write products on top of Unreal Engine, you will have the opportunity to dive into 20+ MLoC of real time C++ goodness. Make sure it's a multiplayer experience for bonus points, eventual consistency makes everything extra exciting.

It gives you an appreciation of just how unlikely we're to ever move away from the stuff, short of an LLM innovation that can digest codebases of that size and do an automated port, which I suppose is not outside of the realm of reality these days.
Function is the most general way of describing relations. Non-deterministic processes can be represented as functions with a probability distribution codomain. Physics seems to require only continuous functions.

Sorry, but there's not much evidence that can support human exceptionalism.
This is baffling. I’m sure there are many technical reasons I don’t grok that AMD’s job is challenging, but it’s wild that they are dropping the ball on such obvious stuff as this.

The prize is trillions of dollars, and they can print hundreds of millions if they can convince the market that they are closing the gap.

It’s embarrassing that whoever actually tries to use their product hits these crass bugs (same with geohot who was really invested in making AMD’s cards work; I think he just ran their demo script in a loop and produced crashes).

It seems they really don’t understand/value the developer flywheel.
> But importantly, we don't regulate your destination.

Roads and cars aren’t food. I am not sure what the merits of this analogy are beyond the fact that both are publicly provided goods funded by taxes which use is regulated by the government by virtue of that fact.
At an individual level, sure - there is tons of conflicting information out there so you just need to use your best judgement to decide what to do for you.

At a broader level, though, I am certainly not happy this erroneous study got my (and many other people's) attention, because it's conclusions were complete bullshit. I don't understand these kinds of unscientific apologetics - it's the exact same kind of thinking that leads people down the road of "Sure, that study of vaccine implications in autism may have been completely fraudulent, but I'm still glad it got my attention because it informed me of all the random chemicals in vaccines!"

I personally did not ditch my plastic cookware, and I'm glad I didn't, because so far there is zero actual evidence that one needs to.
yes on the boundaries. it varies by town but some of them require you to change the sign each year and keep it up to date with the town. so it's like an annual task for a landowner who typically has a million other tasks to do. here is an entertaining video series related to this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc-AG0_QlqbCo_rhLic0A...
When you say "OAuth", what exactly do you mean? It looks like this is really just a tool for associating email addresses with SSH keys.

This is an interesting concept, but it smells a bit like a solution in search of a problem. Perhaps it will feel more useful to me once there are two or three SSH apps that I want to access. Even then, I would suggest that prospective SSH app developers just lean on github's public SSH keys instead, as basically all developers will have a github account and this reduces your (already high, relative to webapp) startup friction.
In this study, they placed 300 tea bags in 1 liter of near-boiling water. For those asking "why tea bags?" they're widely used and easy to research. Putting 300 tea bags into a container is much easier than sequentially microwaving a liter of water in 300 different plastic containers to measure the impact of microwaving food in plastic.
If you watch the footage, MANY of them appear to full on propel themselves at the ground, not just fall. Something went very wrong.

https://www.wesh.com/article/mom-speaks-out-after-son-was-hi...
I think the algorithm is pretty different though I'm not expert on the stuff. I don't think the brain processes look like matrix multiplication.
It's in the UK somewhere: https://bgp.he.net/AS13037
Why not just the tint the windows?
See, that's what I'm avoiding with IPP Everywhere[1]: no configuration required.

It just magically shows up instantly as a printer on Linux. It's the best printing experience I've ever had.

[1]: https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html
It’s ultimately a “won’t break ABI” issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70587711
I did C and C++, then moved on to Objective-C and Swift. I recently switched back to C++, after getting tired of Apple’s shit treatment of developers. I also have no interest in learning SwiftUI.

Having to define header files in C++ is pretty annoying after doing Swift for many years.
History’s book information ? 70-80years ago?
"why" doesn't work either.
The paper was right and for the right reasons. They just decided to lie to catch more headlines (nobody would have cared about it being high but under the FDA limit). It was just more effective to say "oopsie our bad but it changes nothing to our recommendations".

I'm sure the authors weight the impact on their reputation versus the benefits of catching more headlines for the public good.

I think it all worked as intended.
There's too much wrong in this rant to list...
they’re still bad for generating any significant body of code.

They’re a little bit better about deciphering errors.

They’ll still bullshit* you and send you on wild goose chases.

*hallucinate if you prefer
Gmail supports IMAP.
That claim certainly warrants a serious example. Perhaps you mean "something ... requiring maximum performance ..."?
Mine speaks to me in a thick new jersey accent so it's definitely not me, I live in Canada.
The one I liked was the postgres genetic optimizer.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/geqo-pg-intro.html

The theory being an exhaustive search of all possible query plans is np-hard and would take too long, so you do a limited, iterative, best fit search.

My understanding is it never worked super great and would only be used if your query exceeded some high level of complexity. I distinctly remember it being removed at some point, but I see it mentioned in current docs, so I am probably wrong about that.

Anyway I wonder if, with some of the new advances in machine learning, it would be worth revisiting this approach to optimization.
>They did not need more than basic maintenance.

The other guy was probably working on ones that didn't get the basic maintenance. People always skimp on preventative care and then are surprised when things break.

When I worked in a computer lab 20ish years ago, being consistent about which side of the paper we loaded when we loaded paper made a huge difference. They are always stacked on the pallet the same way and had a little indicator on the flap of the wrapper around the ream that pointed down.

I'm always surprised when schools want people to donate reams of paper, instead of just ordering a pallet of paper, swapping between a bunch of different weights and qualities is going to cause more way more costs in repairs than just ordering paper by the pallet.
Hence the demand for interoperability
OpenCyc always had that failing that it never felt accessible hidden away.
GraphRag for opencyc maybe?
Doesn't that depend on which generation collects payments on the bond, and which makes the payments?
Hi K0IN, thanks!! Yes, that's true, we are still working on those kind of details, like some of the ccTLD specific rules you mention, as well as only showing registrars that actually offer that extension. Thanks for your feedback.
China's lack of highly liquid equity markets makes it an extremely potent breeding ground for bubbles. Combined with their cultural propensity to save instead of consuming and its easy to see how their real estate bubble happened. Chinese government is going to have to pay very close attention to any speculation possibilities if they dont start selling equity in state owned companies or at least make it much easier and safer to invest in foreign equities.
Sure. I use whole leaf, brew it in a glass cup, and pass it through a stainless steel sieve. Bags seem wasteful on so many levels.
They had a point back then because no alternatives existed.

How many websites back then would be youtube channels, podcasts or social media accounts if they had existed back then?

Nowadays most sites survive via traffic from google, if it goes away then most of those sites go away as well.
> Am I out of date on that? Is video the primary format for podcasts now?

No, but many podcasts are recorded and released on video as well. Its not that much extra work if you are already set up to record audio and it gives you another monetizable product from the same content.
Something like this. It's not a prank just because you're feeling the lulz and filming it.

This kind of behavior was relatively unheard of before everyone could have their internet audience. I say "relatively unheard of", obviously Tylenol got poisoned, etc. Downside of finding out what everyone has to say and offer is what some people have to say and offer.
WFA stands for workflow automation.
The only thing worse than that is when those things are soldered and not in a DIP socket. They still make them (or a compatible version) by the way, sealed battery and all.
Hopefully they come with a better way to power the doorbell. Currently you can buy battery only, wired using the old doorbell electric wire, or a combo. The problem is that in many older houses the doorbell wires no longer work. I see Eufy now offers solar powered cameras and Ring offers Solar powered doorbell.
Bearer bonds exist in crypto and are extremely popular there, for anyone lamenting the loss of the concept

What I love about this is how in just the last 20 years, a lot of work has been done to jettison bearer bonds from existence in jurisdictions across the globe, and cause the “registration” of any existing bearer bonds so that they couldnt be grandfathered in

But no sooner than this advancement in global geopolitical hegemony was developed and leveraged, the crypto market reinvented bearer bonds and they work even better
github public ssh keys are not connected to mails. and using the api from the terminal requires installing some tool.

I hope there will be lots of apps for the the terminal, for e.g. cde (cloud dev env) managing, task management, project management, compute as a service, etc.
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DRY on Steroids with Literate Programming
the unverifiable regime is a great way to extract funding.
They’re using rechargeable NiMh, not alkalines. I would have used the older Eneloops or current Fujitsus, but maybe rechargeable Duracells have better quality than their alkalines.
This has been ever increasing for years now. Bots, attacks, scrapers, AI, all these things seem to be the majority of traffic on most sites.
This 1000%. There are so many cool networking/virtualization/hardware things I love dealing with. But the stress of doing ceph upgrades isn't the right trade off usually.
I also pipe to `ts` and successors since that gives me a running timer of when the last thing happened. It’s in moreutils.
I honestly don't know.

It seems to me that the field lacks a solid definition of what consciousness is. Merely defining it seems to be the core of "the hard problem".

https://iep.utm.edu/hard-problem-of-conciousness/

If the field accepts that it can't describe or define what consciousness is then any competent practitioner in that field will go out of their way to avoid saying that an entity, or class of entities -- such as LLM bots -- do not possess it.

To do anything else would be to lay themselves open to attack. It would be a career-threatening move.

Not being able to say "this type of software is not conscious" makes it necessary to beat around the bush somewhat in trying to say what amounts to "this type of software cannot think".

I don't know what you perceive as "woolly" here, but it could be due to that.
I suspect this is something like Tazo that has the little pyramids make of a nylon type material vs the basic Lipton type tea bag that's just a paper product.
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