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41,811,500 | comment | dang | 2024-10-11T17:36:07 | null | "<i>Don't be snarky.</i>"<p>"<i>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.</i>"<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a><p>(I'm sure you could rephrase your point here as a substantive thought in a respectful way and then it would be fine) | null | null | 41,811,460 | 41,808,127 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,501 | comment | AStonesThrow | 2024-10-11T17:36:10 | null | I've a theory that most UX/UI developers started in their youth as gamers, especially in "twitch" genres, because many interactions for me are now closer to playing <i>Descent</i> than typing a paper into Wordperfect. | null | null | 41,808,273 | 41,780,328 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,502 | comment | runjake | 2024-10-11T17:36:16 | null | Ask the author[1]?<p>1.<p><a href="https://medium.com/@e_namefield" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@e_namefield</a><p><a href="https://x.com/enamespace" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/enamespace</a><p>[email protected] (publicly posted un-obfuscated on his website)<p><a href="https://unfoundedlabs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://unfoundedlabs.com/</a> | null | null | 41,810,959 | 41,810,959 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,503 | comment | Shawnecy | 2024-10-11T17:36:28 | null | Weren't those all arrived at from a series of falsifiable predictions? What does string theory even predict that can be tested? | null | null | 41,811,463 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,504 | comment | linhns | 2024-10-11T17:36:47 | null | That's not applicable to the mullahs in Iran. If they have they'd use it on Day 1. | null | null | 41,808,394 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,505 | comment | pfdietz | 2024-10-11T17:36:50 | null | In that case, they wouldn't be in our galaxy, since the Solar System and Earth weren't taken over by aliens long ago. | null | null | 41,811,018 | 41,760,971 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,506 | comment | IshKebab | 2024-10-11T17:37:05 | null | > I'm not getting the same value from it that others seem to get.<p>Another reason I've seen people not realise how good static types are is if they aren't using a proper IDE with code intelligence.<p>The benefits of static typing are:<p>1. Fewer bugs.<p>2. Makes code easier to understand, because you know what types things are. That gives you a lot of information (even "business domain" things) that usually aren't documented in dynamically typed code.<p>3. Navigating code in an IDE that understands the language is a lot faster. E.g. you can just ctrl-click something to go to its definition, auto-complete works reliably, you can find all the uses of an item reliably, etc.<p>4. Refactoring code becomes tractable and easy. You can rename an item and it will automatically update all the usages. Anything you miss will get caught by the type checker.<p>If you don't use a proper IDE you're missing out on half of that.<p>Even so, I don't really see how you can say it gets in the way more than it helps. Unless you're working on really small & one-off projects, the amount of time you'll save by not having to deal with type errors or spend ages deciphering code just to figure out what type something has <i>easily</i> offsets any time adding the types. | null | null | 41,808,484 | 41,801,415 | null | [
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41,811,507 | comment | quotz | 2024-10-11T17:37:09 | null | Irans wants to sew chaos? The whole conflict with Iran started because the US and UK installed a puppet government (Pahlavi) so they can control the oil. After Pahlavi was ousted, the religious extreme took control, and cut ties with the west as a result. Its more like the west wanted chaos and started this whole mess | null | null | 41,809,566 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,811,508 | comment | guidoism | 2024-10-11T17:37:17 | null | Look up “convivial computing”. This fits within that ethos. | null | null | 41,811,166 | 41,777,995 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,509 | comment | pfdietz | 2024-10-11T17:37:24 | null | Yep! I'm old and repetitious. | null | null | 41,809,744 | 41,760,971 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,510 | comment | LinuxBender | 2024-10-11T17:37:33 | null | I should have been more clear. When I say weaponized I meant to manipulate societies and control peoples traditions, compliance with governments and less to do with wars, crusades, jihads and the like. This seems to fluctuate throughout history but then again I am not an expert on this topic. <i>Dominance of the patriarchy vs the sacred feminine and such...</i> I am probably still being too vague. | null | null | 41,810,941 | 41,776,631 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,511 | comment | skhunted | 2024-10-11T17:37:38 | null | When people don’t have expertise in an area they are prone to making really dumb comments. She has a history of this on other topics. As such I think it’s appropriate to mention so that people can evaluate how much weight/time they want to spend on her video and views. | null | null | 41,811,379 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,512 | comment | istjohn | 2024-10-11T17:37:49 | null | > And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:<p>> Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women...<p>Ezekial 9:5-6<p>> Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.<p>1 Samuel 15:3<p>> And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.<p>Genesis 7:23<p>Two and a half thousand years later, human nature is unchanged. How easily we make peace with wholesale slaughter. | null | null | 41,807,947 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,811,513 | comment | beardyw | 2024-10-11T17:38:12 | null | Stupid answer - I will die years ago. | null | null | 41,810,882 | 41,810,882 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,514 | story | rntn | 2024-10-11T17:38:38 | Data, talent, funding among top barriers for federal agency AI implementation | null | https://fedscoop.com/data-talent-funding-among-top-barriers-for-federal-agency-ai-implementation/ | 1 | null | 41,811,514 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,811,515 | comment | pfdietz | 2024-10-11T17:38:44 | null | Oh, life being common is an older idea than that. In the 1700s it was common belief that each of the other planets in our Solar System was inhabited, because otherwise their existence would be a waste, and because of vulgar Copernicanism. | null | null | 41,811,479 | 41,760,971 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,516 | comment | WD-42 | 2024-10-11T17:38:52 | null | Not sure what agreement they have there, but at the end of the day it’s Wine which has decades of open source development behind it at this point. Plus a bunch of other libraries (gstreamer being a notable inclusion) that are all FOSS. This still fits the pattern of Apple profiting off of OSS projects while contributing back as little as they can get away with. | null | null | 41,810,709 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,517 | comment | KosmoVonderwald | 2024-10-11T17:39:12 | null | Hello,
If someone would be interested in renting AIHawk service to me to apply for a couple of jobs (100-3000) I would be more than happy to compensate you for it good soul. I have no OpenAI plan neither knowledge how. I struggle greatly in my work with a toxic environment and would like to be happy with my job again.<p>[email protected] | null | null | 41,756,371 | 41,756,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,518 | comment | karmakaze | 2024-10-11T17:39:28 | null | So HTML then with no js? | null | null | 41,810,927 | 41,808,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,519 | comment | mhh__ | 2024-10-11T17:39:28 | null | This is a very cruel reading of string theory. Intentional? What? | null | null | 41,811,340 | 41,808,127 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,520 | story | UBER_GheistXL | 2024-10-11T17:39:29 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,811,520 | null | null | null | true |
41,811,521 | comment | dang | 2024-10-11T17:39:37 | null | There are too many things to add if we start adding things like that. Each one is important in its own context, of course—like here—but once you start making lists of important things, you end up in a whole-is-less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts situation. I don't think such lists are likely to be effective in the long run.<p>That's also why the site guidelines (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>) are nowhere near as long as they would be if we tried to include all the important things. Better a shorter list that people can actually read.<p>I hope that doesn't come across as dismissive—I do see your point! | null | null | 41,809,883 | 41,792,500 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,522 | comment | zopper | 2024-10-11T17:39:40 | null | Surprised this isn't getting more attention. It is one of those papers that is very elegant and simple, yet very effective. | null | null | 41,810,150 | 41,810,150 | null | [
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41,811,523 | comment | currymj | 2024-10-11T17:39:40 | null | i think that astronomy/physics/gravitation is actually a pretty weird case in the history of science and most things don’t go that cleanly.<p>better examples might be medicine, where people just bounced around from one insane wrong theoretical system to another (humors to “empiricism” to bad air to Paracelsus to Avicenna and round and round and round). but somehow progress happened anyway. actual steady scientific progress only took off in the 19th century.<p>or chemistry, where alchemical theories were also completely bizarre, mostly mysticism and poetry. but despite being “not even wrong”, people following them became pretty good at laboratory skills<p>After many centuries, this laid the ground for empirical chemistry, and after a few more centuries, a theoretical system emerged that is close to right. But there was a lot of progress even under the “not even wrong” theories. | null | null | 41,806,336 | 41,780,328 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,524 | comment | IshKebab | 2024-10-11T17:40:01 | null | Damn that looks amazing! Such a shame they abandoned RealSense.<p>Still, $300 is not $100 and presumably they were selling at big loss, otherwise they wouldn't have shuttered RealSense. | null | null | 41,807,737 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,525 | comment | danjl | 2024-10-11T17:40:14 | null | I'm curious. Can you elaborate on what CLIP proves about what AI can and can't do? | null | null | 41,807,920 | 41,805,706 | null | [
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41,811,526 | comment | ilkhan4 | 2024-10-11T17:40:18 | null | Yeah, with my info (no drinking, normal weight, no disease, moderate exercise, etc) I'm going to die in 2 years at the age of 44. Maybe it knows something? | null | null | 41,810,919 | 41,810,882 | null | [
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41,811,527 | comment | tim333 | 2024-10-11T17:40:26 | null | I'm guessing mostly for show. I they had a driving system that actually worked they could fit it on a car and try it in real life like Waymo. | null | null | 41,805,778 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,528 | comment | aisyk | 2024-10-11T17:40:26 | null | pluxml is a good alternative : <a href="https://pluxml.org/" rel="nofollow">https://pluxml.org/</a> | null | null | 41,805,391 | 41,805,391 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,529 | comment | rootusrootus | 2024-10-11T17:40:36 | null | Probably situational. Maybe in-person it is more likely to be held until diagnosis is firm? Anecdotally, the raw results that get published to sites like MyChart are pretty to-the-point if you have any idea what you're looking for, and sometimes even for laypeople. My mom had a chest x-ray and the radiologist report came back with a great big, red, bolded "THIS IS A RED DOT CASE" stamped on it. The doctor called within a matter of minutes of that result being published. I had just barely finished googling the likely meaning of that phrase when the doc confirmed it. | null | null | 41,808,815 | 41,786,768 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,530 | comment | johnmaguire | 2024-10-11T17:40:39 | null | When I was a kid, this wasn't something I could afford or that my parents were willing to pay for. I did oftentimes use the library computers, but they were locked down (of course, half the fun was finding ways around that.)<p>I was very lucky that my middle school (in a fairly low-income area) was given a grant by NASA that allowed them to supply all of us with laptops during the school year. I surely wouldn't be where I am today without it. | null | null | 41,810,939 | 41,801,334 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,531 | comment | karmakaze | 2024-10-11T17:40:44 | null | Both the website and this demo does a terrible job of showing how good the plain text renders, to the point I have no interest in looking further.<p>Perhaps they meant "...in the browser on your phone." | null | null | 41,810,477 | 41,808,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,532 | comment | paulnpace | 2024-10-11T17:40:47 | null | Why is GitHub better than WordPress? | null | null | 41,806,173 | 41,805,391 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,533 | comment | fasa99 | 2024-10-11T17:41:17 | null | >the expression looks almost grotesquely bad:<p>"at some point the learning stops and the pain begins"<p>- S. Rao Kosaraju, Professor Emeritus | null | null | 41,805,217 | 41,753,471 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,534 | comment | hggigg | 2024-10-11T17:41:55 | null | 30 years ago I spoke to a fairly well known and regarded physicist who said something rather interesting along the same lines. Quoting as accurately as I can <i>"physics looks sexy from the outside due to some celebrities but inside it's mostly worse than anyone wants to admit."</i>. He also suggested I go and study mathematics instead because at least there will likely be some applications for it. I did and I am glad I did. | null | null | 41,808,143 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,535 | comment | ndsipa_pomu | 2024-10-11T17:41:59 | null | How is it "intentionally untestable"? I get that it is practically untestable, but as far as I know, there are people working to try to find some possible tests. | null | null | 41,811,340 | 41,808,127 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,536 | comment | addaon | 2024-10-11T17:42:02 | null | > Except that the current state of physics says that we just can't possibly reach another galaxy. Period.<p>Yes, that's exactly why my comment limited itself to discussion of population of /this/ galaxy. | null | null | 41,811,471 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,811,537 | comment | susam | 2024-10-11T17:42:36 | null | I haven’t kept track of how much traffic it brings to the whole website but I have some data about how much traffic it brings to the particular page that is trending on the HN front page: <a href="https://susam.net/from-web-feed-to-186850-hits.html" rel="nofollow">https://susam.net/from-web-feed-to-186850-hits.html</a><p>To summarise that post, it brought me about 95000 hits on the first day. That was a simple, static, standalone HTML page and the traffic was way below what Nginx can handle without breaking a sweat, so never had any trouble on the web server. | null | null | 41,808,941 | 41,808,941 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,538 | comment | drcongo | 2024-10-11T17:42:46 | null | Good questions. Firstly though, given llamaimperative's post above, I think I should clarify that I couldn't see triple the value of Slack just by browsing the website. And while Slack has a bazillion features, I'm also well aware that most of them are so badly thought through as to be worse than useless. For instance, nobody in our company even understands what Slack's "canvas" is, or why we would use it.<p>So, for your questions - yeah, I definitely think a $10 starter tier would help, but I guess that would depend on what gets left out. If the story you mention in question 2 is as good as you say, I'd imagine you'd convert a lot of those users to the fuller tier anyway.<p>So on question 2, definitely! I could only see on the site one screenshot of the entire UI (which looks lovely btw), so it's hard for someone coming in cold to see how it <i>behaves</i> - I've tried out a <i>lot</i> of collaboration apps over the last few months and there's been more than one that looked beautiful but actually interacting with it was suboptimal to say the least. Having agreed with every word you wrote in the OP, I suspect you've paid a lot more attention to the user experience than these apps had though.<p>The other thing I think that's possibly missing from the website is differentiators that set it apart from Slack - the better async comms angle is up front, but as a shopper looking for a Slack replacement I want to know if this is going to solve some of my pet-peeves with Slack, like, can I actually assign tasks to other users? Does it even have the concept of tasks? Am I going to be able to hook it up to GitHub in a way that's more useful than Slack does?<p>There's also not much on the site about the docs / wiki / evergreen content side of things - we use Notion as well as Slack, and in all honesty we only ever signed up to Notion because Slack is like an information black hole. The idea of both of those things in a single app is appealing, especially with the backlinks feature.<p>Thanks to both you and llamaimperative for engaging here, would have been easy to dismiss my comment as a grumpy edge-case.<p>Oh, and one last thing, some of our Slack usage actually <i>is</i> just team members chatting as we're mostly remote - is there a space inside Campfire for more disposable type conversations? | null | null | 41,809,260 | 41,805,009 | null | [
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41,811,539 | comment | IncreasePosts | 2024-10-11T17:43:06 | null | My biggest fear is either there will be long term negative consequences to Ozempic et al, and a huge swath of the population will be dealing with issues 30 years form now - OR - there will be some long term positive consequence to using Ozempic et al, and I'm not getting any of the benefits because I'm not overweight. | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,811,540 | comment | kuhsaft | 2024-10-11T17:43:16 | null | > Still a shit poor pathetic excuse to screw over the userscript/grease monkey users.<p>Tampermonkey still works fine with MV3<p>> We cannot pander to imagined ever worsening users forever.<p>The most popular software/hardware will always pander to the most users. That’s why they’re the most popular.<p>You can’t complain about the most popular option pandering to the most users. Well, you can complain, but you might be in the minority of the users.<p>> It feels like the things being done in the name of security are really building an immense prison.<p>I get that, but we are running so much untrusted code on our machines now. Applications that use thousands of dependencies with the hope that someone spots a bad actor. | null | null | 41,811,404 | 41,809,698 | null | [
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41,811,541 | comment | tatersolid | 2024-10-11T17:43:18 | null | Okay, so now your dead man’s switch depends on your home or colo’s power, internet connection, compute hardware, storage hardware, network hardware, software stack maintenance, plus the ability to pay bills for those on time?<p>Pre-Paying a cloud service pennies per month to do all that for you will likely be more reliable and much simpler. | null | null | 41,811,259 | 41,809,879 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,542 | comment | kgwgk | 2024-10-11T17:43:22 | null | They are clearly atomic weapons - they are made of atoms. | null | null | 41,808,103 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,543 | comment | mhh__ | 2024-10-11T17:43:31 | null | As a non string theorist my understanding was that string theory actually makes quite a lot of empirically verifiable statements, just that those statements are only interesting at either never or extremely high energies.<p>I think ppl are asuming that sting theory comes from the meme about turning 1+1 = 2 into some massive integro differential equation. The world is rarely so simple. | null | null | 41,811,503 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,544 | comment | groby_b | 2024-10-11T17:43:55 | null | The debts very much don't die with the person - the estate is on the hook to pay your debts before distributing to heirs.<p>Obviously, with some "it depends" nuance - but if the difference between this and your world view would make a significant difference to your loved ones, you might want to talk to an attorney. | null | null | 41,811,373 | 41,809,879 | null | [
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41,811,545 | comment | diggan | 2024-10-11T17:44:00 | null | > If you don't use a proper IDE you're missing out on half of that.<p>Ok, does Visual Studio Code and/or Visual Studio and/or the various JetBrains IDEs count as "proper IDE"? If so, those are the editors I tried, and while they're nice and all, none of those things you listed got better compared to my non-static typed languages usage. In fact, I'd argue that some of those things get worse when using statically typed languages, especially #2 and #4.<p>> Even so, I don't really see how you can say it gets in the way more than it helps. Unless you're working on really small & one-off projects, the amount of time you'll save by not having to deal with type errors or spend ages deciphering code just to figure out what type something has easily offsets any time adding the types.<p>I don't have to spend any time figuring out what type something has because that's not a typical problem I have when reading and writing code in for example Clojure. And if I do wonder about the shape of the data or whatever, I evaluate that snippet of code in my editor and it shows me what data is inside of whatever I had selected.<p>It's OK that we have different ways of working and our brains work differently. Static typing is not <i>objectively better</i>, some things just work better in one way for some people. I really love the feedback cycle of "Read code, evaluate it, change it, evaluate it, write a test, evaluate it, save file" for producing/modifying code, and others want a cycle of "Read a lot, type a bit, run type checker, run unit tests" or whatever, and that's perfectly fine. | null | null | 41,811,506 | 41,801,415 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,546 | comment | vkou | 2024-10-11T17:44:09 | null | My parents had no problem reminding us that we all live with a nuclear sword hanging over our heads.<p>It just so happens that most people in the West are comfortable, are completely insulated from the consequences of war, and can't even imagine a <i>regular</i> war happening to <i>them</i>.<p>And nuclear war is so much more horrifying and its consequences are so much beyond the pale, that people can't even think of what it would mean. | null | null | 41,807,938 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,811,547 | comment | mejutoco | 2024-10-11T17:44:09 | null | Franco designated his successor. It was supposed to be the previous king Juan Carlos. He reinstated the monarchy and became king instead.<p>In terms of getting rid of dictators, you also have to realize that since the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) there was a dictatorship until 1975. That is a lot of time to purge any opposition. Your last sentence is uncharitable and overly simplistic. | null | null | 41,805,312 | 41,799,016 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,548 | comment | andoando | 2024-10-11T17:44:11 | null | You also need a problem that hasn't been copy pasted a million times on the internet. | null | null | 41,809,329 | 41,808,683 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,549 | comment | farts_mckensy | 2024-10-11T17:44:12 | null | You are making it sound as though string theorists are asserting some kind of flying spaghetti monster theory. Do you think these people are not genuinely interested in advancing science? That's an ad hom fallacy. There is a difference between a hypothesis being conceptually unfalsifiable and a hypothesis that is incredibly difficult to test from a practical standpoint, or impossible with present energy constraints. | null | null | 41,811,503 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,550 | story | pr337h4m | 2024-10-11T17:44:38 | Next generation Tesla Optimus hand with 22 degrees of freedom | null | https://twitter.com/tesla_optimus/status/1844789517833629717 | 6 | null | 41,811,550 | 2 | [
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41,811,551 | comment | hinkley | 2024-10-11T17:45:07 | null | That is the typical scenario in the context of software.<p>Not that it happens often, but that the incidents are so memorable. | null | null | 41,810,898 | 41,809,879 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,552 | comment | ChadNauseam | 2024-10-11T17:45:08 | null | Actually, you pointed out a true inaccuracy in my comment, because when I said:<p>> zuckerberg controls 53% of the voting stock of facebook, so whatever zuck says goes and if other shareholders don't like it they can kick rocks<p>This is only true in cases where zuckerberg's actions are not intended to benefit his interests at the expense of other shareholders'. I think in the Ford case, there was not a majority of shareholders who wanted to expand the business and increase wages at the expense of profit, So it was essentially two minority shareholders fighting. | null | null | 41,806,590 | 41,797,719 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,553 | comment | kouru225 | 2024-10-11T17:45:16 | null | And winner of Best Title of the Year goes to: | null | null | 41,810,753 | 41,810,753 | null | [
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41,811,554 | comment | aguaviva | 2024-10-11T17:45:18 | null | Indeed, and the ability to make heads or tails of slightly-slippery problems of this sort is an extremely important real-world math skill. It's not extraneous at all.<p>And their poor performance on these tasks highlights deficits in exactly the kind of higher-order, off-the-page reasoning skills -- i.e. to not just reason based on the apparent objects in the stream (the kiwis and the numbers in this case), but to reason about the token stream itself: "okay, these tokens are important, but these others I can leave out", efficiently and seamlessly (like humans do) -- that the models are supposed to develop.<p>This whole attention business, they're calling it. | null | null | 41,811,015 | 41,808,683 | null | [
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41,811,555 | comment | m101 | 2024-10-11T17:45:24 | null | I've said this before in not the same words, and I am always downvoted here on hackernews: people need to understand theory of knowledge before they understand science. Physics and physicists are the worst offenders. | null | null | 41,808,127 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,556 | story | fzliu | 2024-10-11T17:45:41 | AI Winter Is Coming | null | https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2024/09/20/ai-winter/ | 3 | null | 41,811,556 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,811,557 | comment | k3vinw | 2024-10-11T17:45:44 | null | I love JavaScript! It’s such an exciting development experience loaded with surprises! I was just thinking the other day how cool it would be if it had unsafe blocks like in Rust. What an exciting time to be alive! | null | null | 41,787,041 | 41,787,041 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,558 | comment | rqtwteye | 2024-10-11T17:45:57 | null | It's a pretty sad thought that everybody will be on a drug that keeps weight in check while most people will still eat a basically toxic diet. Weight is certainly an important factor but there is more to a healthy life. | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,811,559 | story | thrusong | 2024-10-11T17:46:03 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,811,559 | null | null | null | true |
41,811,560 | story | deqian | 2024-10-11T17:46:05 | Best way for startups to share pitch/sales deck? | null | https://peony.ink/ | 1 | null | 41,811,560 | 1 | [
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41,811,561 | comment | deqian | 2024-10-11T17:46:05 | null | Founder here. It's 2024 and file sharing needs some love. Email attachments have severe limitations. Tools like Dropbox/DocSend doesn't help you stand out. My vision for the best file sharing tool needs to be beautiful, personalizable per file share and come with all analytics out of the box. So I built Peony. Would love to hear your thoughts? | null | null | 41,811,560 | 41,811,560 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,562 | comment | kortilla | 2024-10-11T17:46:05 | null | No, abrupt deaths are much more disruptive to society | null | null | 41,811,262 | 41,807,681 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,563 | comment | btilly | 2024-10-11T17:46:29 | null | That statement is only true for a few of the things on your list..<p>Yes, it took a couple of decades to test the existence of neutrinos. But, for example, general relativity was successfully tested within 5 years of being published. Gravitational waves were a prediction that took decades before we could test them, but the theory itself had lots of other verifications.<p>To date string theory has had many predictions that leads to failed tests. But not a single successful test in its favor. | null | null | 41,811,463 | 41,808,127 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,564 | comment | danudey | 2024-10-11T17:46:38 | null | > it's now just sponsored spam<p>Is it? I get a lot of product recommendations from Amazon that aren't sponsored. For example, we bought a countertop dishwasher a few years ago, and then for two months afterwards Amazon kept showing us other countertop dishwashers that we might want to add to our collection. | null | null | 41,803,652 | 41,797,719 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,565 | comment | ChadNauseam | 2024-10-11T17:46:46 | null | Why would they necessarily be replaced? they would need to willingly sell their stock | null | null | 41,809,949 | 41,797,719 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,566 | story | _____k | 2024-10-11T17:46:54 | The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty | null | https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/io_domain_uk_mauritius/ | 4 | null | 41,811,566 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,811,567 | comment | jaredwiener | 2024-10-11T17:47:03 | null | FWIW, I was prescribed a GLP-1, but my insurance will not cover it. It's incredibly expensive out of pocket. | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,811,568 | comment | trzy | 2024-10-11T17:47:11 | null | Sure, I uploaded it to my YT: <a href="https://youtu.be/-iW3Vzzr3oU?si=QDhB3wxnP0KYvocl" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/-iW3Vzzr3oU?si=QDhB3wxnP0KYvocl</a> | null | null | 41,810,805 | 41,810,373 | null | [
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41,811,569 | comment | lostmsu | 2024-10-11T17:47:12 | null | Do you have expertise in the area of deciding source trustworthiness or relevancy in certain fields? | null | null | 41,811,511 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,570 | comment | hinkley | 2024-10-11T17:47:29 | null | I could see people in a somewhat toxic situation do things like this but it’s better to get out.<p>Especially if there’s some complex onerous task that needs to happen and you get no credit for doing it well. Leave, and let them find out what it’s like being one of the other characters in It’s a Wonderful Life in the worst timeline. | null | null | 41,811,113 | 41,809,879 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,571 | comment | sss111 | 2024-10-11T17:47:32 | null | There were several side effects related to pancreatic cancer associated with the precursors to GLP-1 drugs. The same companies promoting GLP-1s were responsible for driving up insulin prices. So I'm hedging my bets.<p>There's a really cool Modern MBA video [1] on this topic btw :)<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUoZVke_30" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUoZVke_30</a> | null | null | 41,811,539 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,811,572 | comment | resters | 2024-10-11T17:47:47 | null | I realize there is subtlety to the question of which is first. An infant, crying when it is hungry and pre-linguistic, is applying modus ponens. C -> F crying implies food, so I cry and then I get fed. Language grows in humans just like arms and legs, and so does reasoning. Baby animals do the same behavior but don't use language, so perhaps some logic is wired by instinct. Either way I don't think we need to worry about that detail.<p>Consider how language input to an LLM is tokenized. Now imagine a tokenization scheme that introduces tokens that track the strict logical reasoning in the language. Thus two completely different English sentences could both tokenize as the application of Modus Ponens over assumption 1 to conclude conclusion 2, for example.<p>Now consider that we can tokenize formal notation as used in mathematics and logic, and we can train LLMs on mathematical papers, peer review write-ups, etc. We can generate millions of correct proofs and teach it which ones are remarkable and why, etc.<p>Ultimately we run into the same barrier as mathematical constructivists run into, but I think it's still quite plausible that LLMs trained as I describe would be able to reason quite well and find oversights humans missed. However creating the optimal scheme and implementation is not trivial. | null | null | 41,811,441 | 41,808,683 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,573 | comment | RheingoldRiver | 2024-10-11T17:47:55 | null | The important context here is that this book is not "HTML for programmers," it's "HTML for people who are probably pretty damn scared about the word HTML right now"<p>In this case, the single most important thing is *early successes*. Kids spend years learning about the number line and what is the difference between + and - before they ever do 2+2=4. Or if they learn 2+2=4 first, it's just some abstract syllables they were taught to parrot, and they probably don't understand.<p>For a new programmer, who is ALREADY SCARED OF PROGRAMMING, the single most important thing is early successes. If they can make something work on their first attempt, without realtime help from a friend fixing their mistakes, they are SO much more likely to have the needed self-confidence to keep learning.<p>For a concrete example, every time I teach regular expressions to people I say, `cat` is a regular expression! Let's search for `cat` in `catastrophe` and turn "regex" mode on! Congrats, you have now written and used your first ever regex!! And this goes over SO well. It's SO much better than trying to start out with a symbol, because I give them an initial win that they achieved and that they were able to do. And if they get stuck later, they can always go back to knowing that `cat` is a regular expression and search for `cat` in `catastrophe`. And if it doesn't work, there's a different problem.<p>In other words, not only is giving people an early success like this good motivation, it's also teaching them the negative control that they'll use for the rest of their programming careers, even if they don't know it.<p>"Make a file on your computer" is not useful by itself. It's not a negative control. It's not an early success. It can be learned later, once you have the other things. | null | null | 41,809,559 | 41,801,334 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,574 | comment | teeray | 2024-10-11T17:48:01 | null | We need to do for CUDA what was done for Jell-o and Kleenex. | null | null | 41,808,882 | 41,787,547 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,575 | story | sss111 | 2024-10-11T17:48:09 | Modern MBA: The Dirty Business of Weight Loss [video] | null | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUoZVke_30 | 4 | null | 41,811,575 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,811,576 | story | fastprocrypto | 2024-10-11T17:48:14 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,811,576 | null | [
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41,811,577 | comment | fastprocrypto | 2024-10-11T17:48:15 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,811,576 | 41,811,576 | null | null | null | true |
41,811,578 | comment | Koshkin | 2024-10-11T17:48:43 | null | > <i>enough of these people</i><p>There’s more than enough already. (And, historically, you only need less than a dozen.) | null | null | 41,811,316 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,579 | comment | danudey | 2024-10-11T17:48:48 | null | I'm not sure if "search engine that was good and is now sometimes crappy and full of ads" is worse than "AI-powered plagiarism factory"[0].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2024/06/11/why-perplexitys-cynical-theft-represents-everything-that-could-go-wrong-with-ai/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2024/06/11/why-perp...</a> | null | null | 41,810,086 | 41,797,719 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,580 | comment | greiskul | 2024-10-11T17:49:18 | null | > I can even claim that this "old" style forces you to name the outcome of each step.<p>Yeah, but that does not necessarily make something easier to understand. Which function do you think is easier to understand?<p>func quadraticFormula(a int, b int, c int) {<p><pre><code> return (-b+sqrt(b*b-4*a*c))/2*a;
</code></pre>
}<p>Or naming intermediate steps (since we only get to apply one function at a time, and math operators are just functions, why should they be special)?<p>func quadraticFormula(a int, b int, c int) {<p><pre><code> minus_b := -b
squared_b := b*b
four_times_a := 4*a
four_times_a_times_c := four_times_a*c
inside_of_sqrt := squared_b - four_times_a_times_c
sqrt_result := sqrt(inside_of_sqrt)
numerator := minus_b + sqrt_result
denominator := 2*a
return numerator/denominator;
</code></pre>
}<p>Sometimes naming intermediate steps makes code easier to read. Sometimes it doens't. It depends a lot if the intermediate step has a semantic meaning or not, if you want the reader to pause and do a mental checkpoint or if it makes more sense to keep going. Kind of like when you are writing English, and you decide to stop a sentence, or keep going, you don't want your sentences to be too long, but also not too large. That's why good code should follow guidelines, but not hard rules. The programmer should write it in a way that is easier for the reader to understand, and that depends on the context of what is being done. | null | null | 41,807,320 | 41,769,275 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,581 | comment | flaque | 2024-10-11T17:49:36 | null | Hi! I run sfcompute.<p>We don't have a limited number of slots!<p>We just go down a lot. It's VERY beta at the moment; we literally take the whole thing down about once a week. So if we know of some major problem, or we're down, we just don't let people on (since they'll have a bad experience).<p>You're right though that the prices are probably lower because of this. That's why we have a thing on our website that says "*Prices are from the sfcompute private beta and don’t represent normal market conditions."<p>If you'd like on anyway, I can let you on, just email me at evan at sfcompute, but it may literally break! | null | null | 41,807,040 | 41,805,446 | null | [
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41,811,582 | comment | gandalfian | 2024-10-11T17:49:41 | null | Seven years, December 2031. That's when the patent expires, the kinks and side effects will have been found/ironed out and it becomes a cheap plentiful generic. I'm healthy enough to wait. | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,583 | comment | tim333 | 2024-10-11T17:49:46 | null | I must say the show seemed a bit lame and the market seems to agree - TSLA down 8% at present.<p>The robotaxis did 5 mph on cleared streets and so seemed much less impressive than Waymos which can deal with real pedestrians and do 30 mph+<p>They only had two seats which is not how you'd make a commercial robotaxi and so probably just made for show to try to impress investors.<p>The robots serving drinks etc seem to have been remotely controlled by humans.<p>It's not that impressive when Waymo are driving people around in real life and also various robotaxis in China eg. <a href="https://youtu.be/izLfWY4c0Ko" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/izLfWY4c0Ko</a><p>I've always defended Musk saying robotaxis will be here in a year or two over the last decade because new tech is hard but they now look a bit in danger of being left behind by the competition. | null | null | 41,805,706 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,584 | comment | wilg | 2024-10-11T17:49:46 | null | I’m not sure, I think it’s technically feasable given the current state, I expect that scope has pretty good safety numbers on current software, since it’s such a narrow scope.<p>But they would probably want to do all kinds of extra training and validation and fine tuning on it first rather than just blast out the current version. | null | null | 41,811,137 | 41,805,706 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,585 | comment | brudgers | 2024-10-11T17:49:48 | null | Some comments last year, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771587">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35771587</a> | null | null | 41,783,856 | 41,783,856 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,586 | comment | ruined | 2024-10-11T17:50:03 | null | frequency illusion | null | null | 41,811,056 | 41,760,971 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,587 | comment | apsec112 | 2024-10-11T17:50:11 | null | This compares Ozempic with past drugs, but sales of past drugs are almost always limited by demand. I'm not sure there's much to learn here for a drug that is limited by supply. Also, this part is silly:<p>"The announced investments across both companies total $32 billion. GLP-1s were 71% of Novo’s revenue in 2023, 16% of Lilly’s in 2023, and 26% of Lilly’s in 2024Q1. If these sales are proportional to the manufacturing capacity used to create those drugs, then about 40% of Novo and Lilly’s combined estimate of $45 billion in gross PP&E is for GLP-1s, for a total of $18 billion; $25 billion would then mean a 140% increase in GLP-1-relevant PP&E."<p>Manufacturing investment is not proportional to sales, because there's a fixed cost to making a certain drug regardless of how much you sell. If a rare-disease drug will have a few thousand patients ever - not uncommon! - you still need to figure out a synthesis path for that particular drug, run QC tests on the production line, get regulatory approval, etc. Economies of scale matter a lot (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects</a>). | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,811,588 | story | tambourine_man | 2024-10-11T17:50:12 | LnL7/Nix-Darwin: Nix modules for Darwin | null | https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin | 2 | null | 41,811,588 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,811,589 | comment | jjk7 | 2024-10-11T17:50:29 | null | Not a chance -- if I can't easily return things I might as well go back to in-store or use aliexpress or similar. | null | null | 41,807,062 | 41,799,068 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,590 | comment | winwang | 2024-10-11T17:50:38 | null | Is this really true in general? I'd expect it to be true for highly homogenous blocks, but I'd also expect that kernels where the warps are "desynced" in memory operations to do just fine without having 3-4 blocks per SM. | null | null | 41,810,073 | 41,808,013 | null | [
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41,811,591 | comment | ants_everywhere | 2024-10-11T17:50:38 | null | > (And, historically, you only need less than a dozen.)<p>This seems initially like a pretty outlandish claim to me. Could you clarify what you're referring to here? | null | null | 41,811,578 | 41,808,127 | null | [
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41,811,592 | comment | AdamJacobMuller | 2024-10-11T17:50:39 | null | Revision history is the only fig leaf here though about wp-engine being "bastardized wordpress" ?<p>I suppose I understand the argument about wp-engine using significant wordpress.org resources has some merit (but is entirely unrelated to the bastardization argument) if wp-engine is just fetching things like wordpress updates and plugin lists and plugin updates, etc, all directly from wordpress.org servers on a per-blog basis but I find it hard to believe that wp-engine doesn't cache or have their own layer for that. | null | null | 41,794,616 | 41,791,369 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,593 | story | jgarmon | 2024-10-11T17:50:39 | What "The Monkey's Paw" can teach us about AI prompt engineering | null | http://www.jaygarmon.net/2024/10/what-monkeys-paw-can-teach-us-about-ai.html | 2 | null | 41,811,593 | 1 | [
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41,811,594 | comment | jgarmon | 2024-10-11T17:50:39 | null | As a test model, I asked LlamaCoder to "Build me an app for generating characters for the Dungeons and Dragons TTRPG, using the the third edition ruleset." Here's what happened. | null | null | 41,811,593 | 41,811,593 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,595 | comment | johnmaguire | 2024-10-11T17:50:45 | null | Mm, that's not exactly true. Having done a bit of Android development, these days you're rarely operating on a "home directory" structure like you might be familiar with from Windows, Linux, etc. Instead you're saving files to a "container" filesystem that's exposed to the user in a few facets: Downloads, Photos, Music, etc.<p>What's even more confusing is that some apps save images directly to the "Gallery" which is separate from the "file and folder" view you get otherwise. So (as an inaccurate example), Fujifilm's app might download directly to your "Camera Roll" while GoPro's app might create a "GoPro" directory to dump photos/videos in, which offers more separation but doesn't appear in the "Photos" app by default.<p>Some apps even have toggles to switch between these two methods of saving files - though if I recall correctly, the non-Gallery/Camera Roll method (while desirable to many users) of saving images has technically been deprecated for a while.<p>You can read more here: <a href="https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage" rel="nofollow">https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage</a> | null | null | 41,806,218 | 41,801,334 | null | null | null | null |
41,811,596 | comment | fredgrott | 2024-10-11T17:51:01 | null | for those that do not know there is a herb that targets GLP-1...its called Berberine<p>And yes its over the counter....I currently take one dose per day at 1200mg | null | null | 41,811,263 | 41,811,263 | null | [
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41,811,597 | comment | nrml_amnt | 2024-10-11T17:51:04 | null | What is the Russian narrative? How to give consideration for something that is not even meant to be sensical? | null | null | 41,810,220 | 41,807,681 | null | [
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41,811,598 | story | ostadgeorge | 2024-10-11T17:51:05 | Regrad Is Micrograd in Rust | null | https://github.com/ostadgeorge/regrad | 1 | null | 41,811,598 | 1 | [
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41,811,599 | comment | ostadgeorge | 2024-10-11T17:51:05 | null | I recently embarked on this project and have been dedicating my free time to its development. In the coming weeks, I plan to expand its capabilities by adding GPU support, Tensor operations, and popular optimizers in a separate module.<p>While it currently resembles Micrograd, my goal is to continuously enhance its functionality and introduce new features in the days ahead. | null | null | 41,811,598 | 41,811,598 | null | null | null | null |
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