skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, I get the feeling that Lex Friedman wrote a list generic questions beforehand that he will plow through regardless of what happens.
that's what i'm missing here... it sounds like OP is just saying "What if instead of graphql we used some other thing that did exactly what graphql does?"
> I don't know how I missed it.

Haha, I was sure I'd read that post, but had to look for quite a while to find it again, myself, for some reason.

> I guess these days not everyone hears it growing up?

I'm actually not sure I heard it until after it was on The Office and it was suddenly everywhere, constantly. If I did, it wouldn't have been long before that. "Your mom" was big (LOL, yeah she was) when I was a kid, though.
> None of their PR discusses cost of the product.

Or a licensing deal with Dolly Parton. It’s right there. The ad makes itself.
Are there any meal planning apps where I can just use my phone video feed to capture what's in my fridge and cupboards with object recognition and will then spit out meal options?
They lost my whole extended family as customers, this nonsense confused the heck out of my parents and we gave up trying to figure it out. I just told my folks to get iPhones and we use facetime
Is it more or less the same problem as running a GNU Mailman listserv in 2022? That is to say, a fairly hard problem of staying on top of security patches, avoiding getting marked as spam, and avoiding getting put on the big email provider's badlists. In theory, the problem seems simple: replace a manually-managed BCC list with an alias to said list, so it's less hassle for the user/sender. Maybe the answer is an email client plug-in that just autofills BCC to-addresses? Assumption would be the user's sending this email from a known provider like GMail or Fastmail.

I imagine it would be easier for the completely self-hosted email system if signup gave receivers a from-address they could whitelist, if their email provider allows it. Maybe you already do this.

Edit: I'm also assuming email is sent one-way to whoever signs up, maybe with a link to the dynamic chat server/app/platform of the moment. Slightly different from a GNU Mailman list, which enables back-and-forth conversation.
HBO Max, Discovery+ to Merge into Single Streaming Platform in Summer 2023
I am asking if people think they have some possibly good ideas, but feel terribly unsure about them.

I was just giving an example of such an idea (heat pipe to the ocean).
I remember having to slice open part of the catalog to get to the adult section. That must have been 20 years ago now. I'm actually impressed that they managed to survive the transition to streaming.
I'm not familiar with the current thinking about this, but last decade the singularity was understood as a gap in our understanding/model. Of course there's model dependent realism, after all if all you have are models (built on decades or centuries of data), with no means of devising new experiments, what else is reality?
As a developer, when I worked in VBA it was just way more rewarding and appreciated. I was way happier with the work I was doing and having a much bigger (and more visible) impact... Sadly I got paid roughly 1/4 of what I get paid now to muck around in package.json files all day. I know it's not fashionable to say,but yeah I feel like Excel is underrated and scoffed at by the "serious tech" community when it should be lauded as an example to strive towards.
Eh, it's overblown. I use Android, and I don't see ads.

I tried moving to iOS for the bleeding-edge app permissions and privacy protections. But because they forbid any browser besides Safari/WebKit, the iOS version of Firefox cannot run ordinary extensions.

I tried, but I could not find a content blocker that was nearly as effective as uBlock+noScript. So I'm back on Android, where I can browse the web in peace.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1555237572753756161.html
I'm confused what your problem is here.

You use Firefox on your desktop and you're upset at Apple because you need to use Firefox on your mobile in order for tabs etc to sync.

Are you also upset at Apple for needing to use Lightroom on your desktop and mobile for photos to sync ?
>Truck manufacturers optimise max length & volume, so flat front and back, rather than diesel efficiency.

I don't think they do optimize volume, because they could certainly have larger trailers.

The correct metric seems to be diesel consumed per kg/cargo mile.
I don't think it's a clear win. Because the scale of either initiative seems to be massive it warrants further study. Regardless, electrified freeways are a very interesting concept and I have never seen them anywhere yet.
Is the lack of GC that much of a showstopper for novice learners? If all they're writing is toy programs, they might as well use Rc<...> and accept that cycles will leak.
Oh shit I forgot about it being in Wayne's World. That's very likely the first place I heard it.
Implementing "responsive UI" using exclusively JavaScript and CSS-in-JS (rather than using CSS or not doing anything) was naughty and kludgey in 2010. The fact that it's now the "best practice" seems to have increased the rate at which forms delete themselves and the data users have typed in when the user makes the mistake of resizing the window (causing the user to briefly wonder whether computers have on the whole been worthwhile compared to the alternatives offered by mechanical printing presses, abacuses, papers, quills, and if one is feeling provocative, a typewriter, before repeating all the labor that they previously performed for their silicon master before it decided to unceremoniously discard it)

Preventing the browser's "find" feature from searching the text on the page (causing the user to tear their hair out, bash their computer with a rock, borrow a wilderness survival book from the local library, drive to the countryside, abandon their vehicle at a rest stop, and renounce civilization once and for all) is a technique called List Virtualization and you can learn how to do it in React here: https://www.patterns.dev/posts/virtual-lists/. react-virtualized has over 1 million weekly downloads on npm.

The benchmarks I was able to find comparing identical operations in different web frameworks look pretty bad for React as well.
I wonder if they should account for evolutionary adaptions in the grape plants. This article doesn't seem to touch on that but it seems like a species of plant could change a lot over 650 years!
Some old sage: when you're relatively to new to computers, you don't understand the difference between an interpreter and a compiler. After a while, you see the difference, and it's substantial and important. After a while longer, you don't see the difference anymore, though for different reasons than at first.
Seems to me like he’s gotten along just fine without any ‘media training’, whatever that is. Calling him a grifter seems a little unwarranted
Interesting, lots of models are already trained on MLM (masked language modelling), so you can iteratively add mask tokens in the middle but you need some rules around termination such as probability/length of mask tokens...

I'd be interested in how to convert models without retaining, or minimal retaining, I'd have thought it would just work with iterative mask tokens at least for models trained with MLM
Can you expand on that? My view of VBAis that it is a dated, but pretty much standard procedural language.
I enjoy his interviews, which are mainly about his guests, not about him.
Congrats on the uptick in traffic :-) Some monetization ideas, just off the cuff:

- Access to additional estimation models: "Here are two free basic models of how long you'll live and you can pay for the whole set."

- Integrate models of how to live longer, and how much longer you'll live. Add up to 5 to stack, or stack up to 50 models with our "stave off death lmao" plan

- You could do some basic ads with marketing for anti-death stuff. Supplements or healthy diet products for example. Or you could reach out to a store like Archie McPhee to rep their products [1] or sell your own.

1. https://mcphee.com/products/final-notes
I absolutely believe it. Even if I manage to do the same things I normally do and avoid eating more, my depressive episodes wreck my physical health. Something about depression causes changes that no amount of healthy living can stop.

And of course every time I see these studies, I wonder just how screwed I’m going to be by the time I’m 40… XD
How did you get "imagination" out of gp's comment? They described something quite clearly and it's not reasonably summarized as "imagination".

Per gp, bullshit is cynically self-interested pontificating. It's performance. Maybe you could say that the bullshit produced is imaginative, sometimes. But it has nothing to do with "imagination" as a simulation-like capability used for planning and learning.
How much does a hereditary aristocracy play into this?
This position doesn't even make any sense.

- Google has a monopoly on ads on Google Search.

- Facebook has a monopoly on ads on Facebook, Instagram etc.

- Apple has a monopoly on ads on App Store, News+ etc.

Every company has a monopoly on ads on their own properties.
The autobahn??? The highway between London and Montreal is 4-8 lanes, what's the issue?
I appreciate your well reasoned and thoughtful reply and I would like to add that I find your assessment completely plausible and I myself tend to agree with it. Although, I still question the validity of using IQ as a universal objective measurement of intelligence. At best I can see there being a fairly wide pareto front of optimal intelligence for most situations. But who can ultimately judge?

Into adulthood I find it very difficult to say whose intelligence is "better" in anything close to an objective way. While the results of genetic influence may become evident in some kinds of tests, it is just as easy to conceive tests at which the same candidate would fail yet someone else with a lower IQ might do very well. The possibilities are endless and I really don't think outside of cases of abuse or neglect creating specific developmental deficiencies as you mentioned that we can meaningfully quantify intelligence generally. If we could better do so I think the influence of parenting might still become more evident than what we see in IQ tests.

> No one is arguing that.

Well, my initial comment was simply an attempt to make the point that parenting can have an effect whether or not genetics do and the reply I got was "look it up".
I don't do any of these things but I'd like to add that glinet routers are awesome, come with wireguard/tor support for client or server mode right out of the box, and are great for granting access to all devices(e.g watch, phone, laptop, tablet) simultaneously when using internet behind portals like hotel WiFi
Surely devs have very limited influence over this? I can't imagine everyone else also does leetcode?
Cognitive scientists have been exploring this idea for a while, e.g. the Modularity of Mind Hypothesis. It would be very interesting to see if learnings from this field can be further applied to AI development.
Could also be a fat-finger mistake. I tried upvoting your post but on the first attempt hit the down arrow by mistake. Not the first time it's happened to me, and I guess others have experienced it too, especially on devices with smaller screens.
Neat. The thing is that people selected for different things in grape harvests over different eras. The style of wine for Bordeaux "Claret" back in the 17th century for example was a very light ruby coloured wine. Now the typical Bordeaux is a very dark and extracted product. And consumers in general are often seeking out higher alcohol "hotter" wines, partially out of the influence of new world wines.

So there could be more compounding factors in grape picking dates. Though in general seeking out a darker and higher Brix product would mean later picking dates, not earlier.

But grape varieties planted have also changed somewhat overtime, too. Not so much in Burgundy where this article is talking about, though, so TFA's Beaune is actually a good choice as a point to compare.
Very fun. Didn't realize I was being timed? When did the timer start? Maybe show it on screen real-time? Increases the pressure!
A recent favorite, which you can use whenever something bad happens in the world:

"My grandfather of 73 y/o didn't fight in WW1 and WW2 to let it come to this!"

"What?? He wasn't even born in WW1, and a toddler in WW2!"

"Like I said, he didn't fight".
Software engineering books to read and reread
> (I can’t enjoy this kind of thing [The Office] —I feel only agony. Why enjoy this and not videos of people falling off of skateboards? But I guess most people are different.)

This was only a tangent, but I agree with this. I really don't like "cringe" humor.

There seems to be an entire British subgenre catering to that (which apparently the British original of The Office is a part of), and only to that. It's pretty extreme. As far as I know The Office in the US was retooled to be more "funny" than the original, which was apparently just cringe. (Didn't watch it so it was hard to say, but I've tried to watch other similar British shows like that.)

Fortunately it's only a subgenre, because there's plenty of other British comedy that is absolutely, and famously, fantastic... If you haven't watched Coupling, Look Around You, or The Peter Serafinowicz show, you're really missing out!
Reinforcement learning is the thing that integrates the network across time though. In one sense, I think it's doing at least part of the job that consciousness does: mediating between memory(past) and the present.
How deep do we have to simulate before we capture what the brain computes? If we have to model particle interactions then there's not going to be much hope of accurately "uploading" a person.
There's also the "commoditizing your compliment argument" for building a messaging platform but does that strategy make sense if all your competitors are doing the same?
The second para though is not part of boredom.
Yeah mostly formal writing, but in an engaging way.

I find it very difficult to articulate complex ideas and write well. Communication is important in every aspect of my life and something that I'm very poor at.
How did he misrepresent his role at MIT? He never claimed to have gotten a degree there and he never claimed to be a professor there. He taught a course there though, as an independent researcher.

I don't think he got famous through Elon Musk, but maybe through Joe Rogan to some degree (he already had hundreds of thousands of views before his first episode with Elon Musk.)

How exactly is he a grifter? Sure he runs ads, like almost any podcast, but I don't think he's trying to sell anything or so.

His interviewing style is peculiar, but that's a matter of opinion, and you're free to not watch his show. He undeniably has a lot of very interesting guests on, and that's probably the main reason why people watch his show.

So what are you even saying?
StopTheMadness already had this feature 9 months ago.

https://apps.apple.com/app/stopthemadness-mobile/id158308293...
Electrodermal activity enables autonomic nervous system activation inference
Just the history I guess.

> If you're in the US or Singapore, Google Wallet is now the primary Android payment service and wallet to store your hotel keys, driver's license, boarding passes and more, as well as make contactless payments. Google Pay will stick around, but only as a service to send payments to friends and family.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/google-pay-vs-google-wallet...

Might be a regulatory reason, but also totally willing to believe it's just poor planning on Google's part.
I would love if we went back to more personal websites, but I don't see what the catalyst would be. Google reader is a good point, it's been 10 years since it's gone and we still don't have any replacement in the sense that it's something that non-technical people at large would be aware of it. Heck, most people don't know what RSS is. Look at Wix, WordPress,... - setting up your own site has never been easier, yet so few people do it.

In reality, we're moving to ever simpler UX solutions - TikTok doesn't even require searching for and connecting with friends before you get your dopamin kicks. The next big network will probably be one that's figured out how to continuously serve people personalized content without them having to actively like anything or make active choices (maybe using pupil dilation or whatever).
Are there any tools that are used to manage all the pieces?
>It seems to be enforced by the credit card companies and processors

Who are an unofficial arm of the US government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Hmm.

A lot of my favorite anime still come in from Hidive / Sentai Filmworks. I really enjoyed "Ya Boy Kongming" for example. And Sentai Filmworks are the current owners of When they Cry (2006) and Fate/Stay (2006).

I'm definitely worried about consolidation wiping out the competition. Then again, I hope people can give Hidive / Ya Boy Kongming a try. Its basically an idol anime crossed with Chinese Romance-of-the-Three-Kingdoms / Zhuge Liang as the manager, and my favorite anime this year so far. Give the first episode a try, there's ~3 songs in there. If the songs match your musical tastes, you'll probably enjoy the show. And yes, that's a Liu Bei reference. (Liu Bei visits Zhuge Liang 3 times before the young tactician agrees to join Liu Bei's cause. This parallel's young Eiko's journey as an idol, as she sings three times before Zhuge Liang is convinced to help her). Its actually an excellent mix of subtle Three Kingdoms stories with a good idol anime.

Crunchyroll/Funimation merging, and Sony/Aniplex all being involved here is convenient for sure, I like a lot of what they do. But anime has a lot of niches, and one mega-company will inevitably have blind spots over time. Most of my favorites are in Crunchyroll / Funimation and even Aniplex (Ex: Oddtaxi, Madoka, Dragonball Z/Super).
It is known that if you manage to fold a paper in half more than 7 times it becomes a black hole
I suspect that Amazon Retail's days may be numbered. They know it, and don't care. They make most of their money from AWS/Cloud stuff (apparently, a lot of money). I suspect that Retail is becoming a boat anchor. They may spin off their Logistics into a separate business unit; as it's doing fairly well.

They are more aware than anyone, about how bad things are. They have meters on everything. Amazon is famous for being a data-driven corporation.

This means that someone, somewhere, has calculated the destruction of their brand, and has decided that the end justifies the means.
The solution is simple. Now what we need to do is - hang with me here - shop _inside_ the stores selling the product, so that you can see and test it first hand _before_ you buy it.
I used it in 1985/6 at UCL-CS on a sun workstation, and it was lovely. The port to sunos had some issues. Mike Lesk from Bell labs was in residence and had brought it with him on a tape. (Mike invented UUCP)

The thing is, the labs people hated time wasters (like me) They used a simple test as an entry key to investing in helping you: if you claimed to be a programmer and said there was a problem they waited for you to proffer patches..
No. Spreadsheets allow for easy manipulation of large tables of numbers and immediately see the results. It’s this ability to ‘tweak’ the numbers quickly that makes it so dangerous.
Super interesting! Do you know the kind of data that it's usually used for? And in the remaining 80% to 60%, do NNs acccount for a large portion of the best models?

Bonus question: are the stats you're mentioning publically available?
How does he misrepresent his role at MIT to sound more accomplished? I have watched a ton of his episodes and he hardly mentions anything about himself. He's fairly humble overall, especially compared to other podcasters in this space.
MIT itself does the same shit, they make every minor toy cobbled together by just-recently-high-school students sound like something it's not.

MIT Researchers Invent ________, where the blank is billed as a self-aware machine, when in reality it's Eliza re-implemented in PHP.

In fact, if MIT students reinvented the wheel, the MIT press office would bill it as "MIT Researchers invent matter transporter".
> difficulty of defining an objective measure for intelligence

IQ is not a perfect metric, but it is a decent predictor of many outcomes.

> the confounding factors of upbringing

This is why you do twin studies and studies using adoption as a control. We have quite a wealth of them. A good critical review of the evidence on both sides is here: https://humanvarietiesdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/the...

* Identical twins have a much higher correlation coefficient of intelligence than fraternal twins (table 5).

* Identical twins raised apart have a correlation coefficient for intelligence of around .73 (MZA studies).

* Correlation coefficients of IQs of biologically unrelated siblings raised in the same adoptive environment are approximately 0.

There are obvious confounds the paper mentions:

* Fraternal twins may not have identical environments.

* Adoptive environments may not represent typical parenting environments.

* Some of these studies have had poor controls and practices.

* Distribution of results from studies looks bimodal which indicates something weird is going on.

Still, even if you take the most critical view I think you have to accept that there is still substantial heritability of intelligence. These results cannot be convincingly explained any other way.
Attacking someone's character just because their name is mentioned and you don't like them is pretty boring conversation.

If you're going to drive-by crap on someone, at least recommend podcasters that you do like assuming there are any, especially those that might appeal to Lex's audience.
It's a great point, one interesting thing we've found is that backend developers are welcoming of using a drag and drop frontend builder, as long as it is extensible with code. For them using React, HTML, CSS is painful especially for an internal tool where the speed of getting their tool shipped is paramount.
I just use Gulp and PostHTML to render markdown, do some light templating. It does nothing more than put HTML files in a build folder. These tools never change so it's been pretty reliable.

I found myself forgetting how static site generators work, and barely used any features. I update my site like once a year.

Idk its in the JS ecosystem so HN will probably hate it lol.
He also interviewed Jo Boaler.
Except nature's engineers are also working in the bounds and constraints of their system, and occasionally end up building things such as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evid...
AI system is good at what it was trained to do and bad at what it was not trained to do! News at 11!
Is scale-out something most services need though? TFA points out that it's likely only a subset of the data that needs strict-serializable; the flip-side of that is that it's likely only a subset of the data needs scale-out.
The relationship is mentioned on the page to which you linked:

> The SDF-EU is supported by its members and is an independent subsidiary of the non-profit SDF Public Access UNIX System.

Neat! I never knew they had an EU subsidiary until today.
Or just use AJV which has the ability to statically represent JSON Schemas as full-fledged types, so that the schemas themselves become the authoritative IDL, via the new JSONDataType in AJV@7.
Only game updates; steam still fucking updates everyday or so....
Not to hate on him but the credentials are not really there. He taught a fluff seminar course on self driving at MIT and used the brand of the university to line up a ton of great guests for an AI podcast that he then pivoted into a personal brand. From what I understand his research at Drexel was focused on HCI and from the interviews that I've seen it looks like he has a pretty shallow understanding of ML.