skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author of the post :)

I did actually briefly look into it! I was hoping it would work for us, but the first time I tried to perform the compilation with it, it failed due to issues with support for at least one of the dependencies we bring in. I don't remember the exact failure as its been a few weeks, but since the bundle size went to down a manageable (but still largish) 5MB once we enabled aggressive caching, fixing our code to work with TinyGo was deemed less critical.

I very much hope to get back to it soon and see if we can move over to it.
I think the issue is that while the majority of funding through EA and EA-adjacent orgs still goes to poverty-reduction work, the majority of mindshare and interest (among EA!) is in primarily AI- but also pandemic-risk. The first of these especially avoids addressing many real, pressing, ML/AI problems in the world today for philosophizing (and getting paid to do it by people who were previously donating their money to global poverty reduction).

If you consider EA Global as a charity, and the money donated to longtermist AI to be, functionally, salaries paid to employees, the overhead of EA jumps by like 15%. That's not admirable, by EAs own metrics.
They mention abuse as one of the reasons to kill all 3 free products. Wouldn't just turning off free dynos, and making $7 as the new $0, have solved that? Why kill all three and take the minimum to $31 and make sure next generation will see you as rackspace? It appears the decision is taken by people who don't really understand the product beyond what they see in Excel.
I never fill in surveys as they should pay me a bonus for my opinion.
I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with all of the above, especially the part about building libs.

Per the OP's article and my slides, there _are_ many aspects of maintaining a lib that are unique to TS above and beyond a plain JS lib, and it would be really helpful to have additional docs and tools available to help with our use cases.
Thanks. Great mnemonic!
User tracking and/or personalization tick 2-3 of your 4 boxes:

UI - Logging mouse movement, keyboard events, and other types of attention proxies.

Webhooks and/or Bottlenecks - calling out to either internal or third party classifiers, or more recently even generative models, for personalization based on user tracking data.

And I don't think this is just my unlucky experience. The fine article includes user tracking as one of only three explicitly enumerated reasons for queuing:

> Why? Because users increasingly expect a real-time experience. In use cases like order flows, webhooks, user tracking, etc. users expect to be able to see the new data in the user interface instantly, instead of having to wait for some background batch processing to periodically reload.

Of the explicitly enumerated motivations in the article:

1. "Order flows" - tracking/modification is often one of the higher latency items in order flows ("you might also like" / "what to order next" features).

2. "Webhooks" - often used for tracking/personalization

3. "User tracking" - ...this one is easy :)
Those values are totally compatible with dense urban living! I have kids and enjoy all of those things in a walkable/bikeable community (Boston, MA). Most Americans have never seen it work so they think it's impossible. The reality is that it's illegal to build these places and the environment found here was built before NIMBYs strangled it.
I find your comment weird. Make 1 trip to get all of the stuff you need for an entire family in one trip per week, or make 1 trip a day to get stuff for just that day, waiting in line to checkout 5-7 times, taking up valuable time you could spend doing other things.
> No, the culty feeling is this paragraph long explanation about how Rust is objectively good

So to make sure I have this straight, based on your reply to the sub-thread, your objection is simply that I didn’t repeat the exact reasons why many believe Rust to be an improvement over languages that have come before it?

That wasn’t even the damn point of my reply, which was that given the enthusiasm you perceive as cultish behavior, here’s my take on the underlying reason.

Something tells me you’d have been even less happy had I launched into a lengthy breakdown of all the comparative advantages. It’s a no-win situation you’ve constructed. Congratulations, I guess?

> Pretty sure most experienced devs will say "use whatever works, there's some art out there written in erlang/JS/C++"

There’s art in Ruby and I love the language but it’s a terrible choice for long-term projects that grow to large team sizes. A language doesn’t have to completely replace all others to warrant enthusiasm. It doesn’t have to be better along every possible axis to warrant enthusiasm.

> Case in point I think the most valid critique is that Rust is new and lacks a developed ecosystem.

Ah yes, the favorite criticism of bitter and cynical engineers, right up to the moment they switch to “it’s old and crufty and the industry has moved on”. Oddly, none of these critiques ever seem to apply to the languages of one’s own choosing…

> As an ML person myself it's not even useful for me to learn Rust unless I want to roll alot of my own stuff.

Nobody anywhere is arguing any language is the best choice for all use-cases. Nobody anywhere is arguing for ML people to rewrite-it-in-rust. These are straw men of your own making.

> Also, fucking lmao, get over yourself, Rust isn't that hard to learn

More straw men! I literally never said this. Only that the community has made few if any attempts to promote it to complete novices, thus skewing the experience level of those who you do see promoting it (compared to popular languages that do promote themselves to novices).

I don’t think Rust is hard to learn, but I do think Rust’s ownership model is hard to truly appreciate if you haven’t spent at least some time in the trenches of languages with manually-managed memory.
Why even bother with contacting an account executive? It's $7 per dyno per month for the cheapest hobby tier. That's peanuts compared to any fees for a paid bootcamp. Heck, with inflation, that barely buys a bag of peanuts.

Plus the students would have an incentive to learn about shutting down unused resources that would pay dividends if they ever deploy to AWS. It'd be like a home economic lesson for hosted services.

$7/mo and access to a payment method might be a stopper for someone in the third world. But it's a private company, not a charity. Somebody else can solve that problem for the truly deserving.

I think it's incredible they've provided free services for over a decade and would love to know what percent of their free compute resource have simply be hijacked by crypto miners, torrent downloaders, and VPNs. It's got to be enormous and the simple requirement of a payment card would add enough KYC to eliminate all of them.
Tell HN: DALL-E created an Image just like mine
I was invited to try out Dall-e and I tried to see if it could generate a 3D image like the one I've made a long time ago. This is one of the results of the prompt "piggy bank, 3D rendering" - https://imgur.com/a/3hTzhEo

here's my original image - https://victorribeiro.com/3d/001.jpg

here's the 3D model of my piggy bank - https://victorribeiro.com/piggy/ (click and drag to rotate)

and here's Dall-e creation - https://labs.openai.com/s/u1LU53u5WIeSytNn9pYB2eOr (the lack of supporting edges at the end of the legs make the feet kinda round)

A few days ago I was thinking about selling this piggy bank image as a NFT (don't know why) and I was considering the implications of that, since I already sell the 3D model (in sites like turbosquid and cgtrader). Later I was wondering, Dall-E could as easily create an image like mine...

My question is: could you sell Dall-e's creations? Could you copyright them? Are they infringing rights of other artists ?

Edit: a variation of the above looks even more similar https://labs.openai.com/s/pdKoNCAjmHXRUZoPThRVc0kr
This is what I do. Sometimes maintainers eventually fix it and sometimes they don't. i am happy when they do of course, but work is fine either way.

Of course i make it a point myself to view each dependency as a significant cost and to work seriously to minimize them. I used to version pin or vendor in the deps, and then subscribe to the security announce DL for all deps, and avoid insane things like npm or mvn, but that has become more difficult and having a conmercial dep scanning service in your CI makes mvn or npm safe enough, but it remains true that code dependencies are a long term cost. for personal stuff, i would rather take OSS code I find and take the few hours it takes to modify it into my standards, leaving attribition, assuming the license allows of course. copy, modify and recombine.
Yep, this reads like they want Heroku to quietly die off but don't want to make a hard deprecation announcement.
"If everyone stops sailing ..."
etc.
Wow. I'm deeply frustrated with the author of that article.

> there were a few commenters on hacker news who also guessed [that GPT-3 wrote the articles]. Funny enough, nobody took notice because the community downvoted the comments.

What a quick way to destroy the social fabric of this site.
> New experimental HTTP server API

> Our benchmarks show a 4x improvement in hello-world request per second performance compared to Node.js and a 3x improvement compared to our existing web server.

What the heck was wrong with the previous implementation? :P

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/15405

I think this is the PR for it though.

Unless the performance benefits are from something else in https://github.com/denoland/deno/releases/tag/v1.25.0
Also interesting, "Header image originally generated with DALL·E 2 with caption “purple database icon lifted by crane”, Dall.E is going mainstream. What will gig economy artist do? How will this affect copyright?
When it comes to other mammals, there's this Human Supremacist mindset that since we can't converse with them, they are incapable of intent / complex thought / problem solving activities.
> converting to veganism would greatly outweigh 10% of a median salary to the most effective climate charity

This claim itself is based on probabilities assigned to the potential impacts of veganism and donations. I would argue that this is a form of practical utilitarianism - assigning probabilities of event occurrence, weighted by their negative impacts, and attempting to do the most good despite the uncertainties and evolving information landscapes.
This has garnered quite a lot of reactions from the comments. I'd like to ask a genuine question about this, from the perspective of assuming that Nature is acting in good faith about this.

Let's say someone has calculated the polygenic scores (PGS) of Heteronormativity, meaning that a model, can predict with a decent level of accuracy that someone will or will not be straight from their DNA.

This, in an ideal world, would be good knowledge to have. You can raise you child knowing and accepting this reality.

In the world we live in, this would be used to abort babies that don't pass the PGS to the vast majority of people who have this information.

So, in this case, where we have an oppressed group that can be oppressed further, is knowledge better than ignorance? It seems that many in the comments would say yes, and that the pursuit of knowledge is the clear winner, and anything else is merely the price of progress. Which I might ask, you would say the same thing if you were gay?

I want to make one thing clear, this is not a silly thought experiment. This is very possible right now with the advent of biobanks, GWAS tooling, and machine learning. Nature is thinking about these things when writing that up.

I presume that most of you would agree that releasing this information for anyone to know would have negative consequences, and should maybe be controlled. So, then, you fundamentally agree with Nature's stance, do you not? We're merely talking about where the line of publishing exists, not if one should exist at all? Are you not being a bit overzealous with your declarations of orthodoxy?
The Cost of Bad Data
I don't want a life without a car within the constraints of the current options for going car-free within the US-- mainly living in a large high density city, and still having to contend with vehicular traffic and pollution. But, I strongly desire life without a car.

If there was a 50K population max car-free walkable town with all the necessities available within said town, I would move there in an instant. I've searched for this, in the past, it doesn't exist. I live in the next best, a <50K population town where I can get most necessities via walking/biking, but have to contend with hostile vehicular traffic that is especially daunting on longer routes to the outskirts of town that are only serviced by freeways (like the college I used to work at)-- I am terrified to bicycle on these routes with 85mph traffic brushing past (technically those sections are not "freeways", but are indistinguishable save the signage "begin freeway" [no bikes] "end freeway" [bikes allowed]).

For long range travel, expand passenger trains. There is an Amtrak stop in my town, and I travel via Amtrak extensively to visit friends-- it is a very nice way to travel long distances.
Okay, here's how friggin' ridiculous this is... I got this from a coworker...

I access Plex normally via an internal hostname. For the life of me I couldn't see any settings and sign-in would basically loop. Coworker tells me he's been fighting with it as well and it for worked once he used an IP instead of hostname. I do the same and bam, I can reclaim my server.

Sheesh.

(Note, I have Plex running on a Synology NAS, so no desktop icon.)
Once you build a family you need 3 bedrooms and probably don’t have $1.8 million for such a condo. But the reason condos cost so much per square foot is regulation. Fundamentally, they should be cheaper than comparable houses.
The Mayo Clinic gets 8,000 international patients a year. That’s quite a few people who are willing to take a flight and pay our high prices for medical care.
My company has a large typescript monorepo with many (~100) devs all committing to it daily. We use rush and pnpm (and eslint and some other stuff).

Very solid repository. No complaints. Pleasant to work in
What do you mean by barcode numbers? UPCs? Barcodes can encode many many different things, some of which are internal, some are proprietary datasets you can buy/license for $$$, and so on.
Start with some basic intro to algorithms. Dig into the field of information retrieval a bit. Read up on things like reverse indices, bloom filters, ranking (tf/idf, bm25, etc.), state machines, etc. Then maybe look at vector search, nlp, and a few other fields. That about should cover the basics and give you some level of understanding of how different features in search engines work. The bar is pretty high if you want to do a good job.
I agree that the Heroku developer experience has been second to none. I'm a front-end & DX engineer at Northflank and we're working hard to evolve and create a next-gen iteration of the Heroku experience anchored around 12 Factor Applications in a Kubernetes/cloud native era. We're getting very close, come and see for yourself: https://northflank.com. Some key features:

* As simple as `git push` to build & deploy services

* One-click addons for Postgres, Mongo, Redis, MySQL and more

* A generous free tier to get developers on board with minimal friction

* Great out of the box observability

* The option to set up pipelines for more complex build/preview/release workflows
Since the Salesforce acquisition the life has been sucked out of Heroku and the product has suffered.

Sad day for the service.
that is not true. I lived in in USSR for five years--in the late 70's--and your statement does not conform to the reality I experienced for five years.

Everyone was kinda middle-class, and nobody was overly rich. The malls were full to the tilt, the prices within reach for everybody no matter their occupation (like Walden Two, by Skinner).

Education was free, hospitals were free, people had house, car, etc. The only things you could not freely buy were some of the "designer" goods that belong to the "want" category (not "need"). And I also recall that the USSR propaganda was working full-time to dissuade the common folk to avoid the trappings of the Capitalist societies.

As for consumer goods? bread disappeared (my father went there in 90's and he told me), milk disappeared, long queues for basic goods. Yeah maybe MacDonald's and expensive shopping bags and jeans arrived--but these were not what people need to live a good life. Their own clothes were fashionable and durable enough, the people were voracious bookworms who did not care about lobotomy and a big a*, like they do now on Instagram.
Non Fungible Tuna.

When a high-status orca eats a really special tuna, then another lower-status orca can pay to virtually "own" the memory of the eaten tuna.
Content, info, arguments, etc. are all propagated online based on their deliciousness. Is it dramatic? Easy to digest? Shocking? Emotionally powerful? Bright and alluring? Sexy or disgusting? These are the elements that push information to the top. Reality, truth and logic can't compete.

Advertisers figured this out in the middle of the 20th century. Prior to Edward Bernays' (Sigmund Freud's relative) revolution of advertising, products were marketed based on their functional qualities: how effective they were, how efficient, etc. Bernays realized from war propaganda and Freud's ideas of the unconscious, that selling with emotional coercion and sex was far more effective. In fact, you could make people buy things they didn't really want or need, by making them unhappy without them. He was able to convince women to smoke cigarettes by having trendy, independent women smoke openly at a parade, followed by a branding campaign calling them "torches of freedom". This concept of emotional manipulation trumping factual data is how our entire society now operates.

If we want a skeptical and thoughtful populace, our entire education system must be restructured and information dieting will have to become an innate part of the online experience.
If the advice given by EA were simply, "here is our charity that tries to make good use of their money, you should donate to them", I think it'd look a lot different as a movement, and many common objections to it would be moot.
I've eventually settled on using fastmail and their masked email feature which can create addresses on my own domain for this. I love DDG and appreciate anyone helping in this space to make email more manageable but I assume these addresses will be quickly blocked from many services just like the firefox relay addresses are.

I wish there was a way for these relay services to be effective since they are much, much easier to get someone to use than telling them to just up and move from gmail to fastmail.
>Refresh this page as many times as you want, and I'll show you the living Internet

You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Civilized countries can’t. But once this technology becomes more widely available, would Hamas hesitate to send a swarm of high altitude drone bombers into civilian populations? If ISIS had this technology, would they have hesitated to carpet bomb every city in their path?
this one looks even similar: https://labs.openai.com/s/pdKoNCAjmHXRUZoPThRVc0kr

I've generated a variation of the first one.
Things like this will not foster review/magazine based publications.

Well they are on their way down, this will just speed that up.
Well, you're invited to join research on network ... because it's impossible to hide your ID from your access network. Tor and similar can hide your ID in transport, but that's no option in RAN.
The Netherlands seems to pull off having a high fertility rate [1] and high population density [2]. Anecdotally, my friend who was born there in the late 1980s described being allowed to travel alone starting from a young age. I had one American friend born in the same generation who was allowed to bike around LA in his mid-teens, and my parents almost called CPS on him.

[1] https://i.redd.it/k03mlnruuro61.jpg
[2] https://www.stockingblue.com/article/126/european-union-stat...
That's a great idea. Free databases are limited to 10,000 rows so they are likely to be very small in most cases, would totally fit in an email attachment.
modern american broiler chickens can turn feed corn into chicken meat calories at a rate of around 50%, and feed corn is our most efficient crop per area by about a factor of two, after potatoes, I think, but isnt really human food. thats just back of the envelope stuff, but i think you might be doing some of that working backwards yourself.
> Apple talks a good privacy talk

but they don't walk the talk
Ok, get a motorcycle then.
I would also require reading on the major OSS search engines, e.g. Lucene, Solr and then Elasticsearch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Lucene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

those who dont know history will repeat it, etc

then maybe the newer stuff like https://typesense.org/

to be clear i dont know these things but thats what I would do and I'd happily read fly.io style blogposts drip feeding out knowledge over time
I would never consider a work survey to be anonymous and treat it such that I would only say things I was willing to say directly.
Tether will get to keep all the bitcoins and people will be holding the bags.
Land value. Where I live, 80% of the cost of our property is the land itself, and only 20% is the building or "improvement".
CIDR country-level IP data, straight from the Regional Internet Registries
> The article makes no allowance for things like loyalty or obligation.

No such obligation to users exists in open source. The open source developer is his own customer. At best, you could argue there's a reciprocal duty to your fellow contributors, but I don't see how you can extend that any further.

By contrast, Gitlab and YouTube only became profitable because of the free contributions from others, and your views that YouTube monetized, so in fairness it seems like there should be some reciprocal duty there.
In the wild most humans do not fuck around with Orcas long enough to find out. I’m fairly certain an Orca would eventually kill a human for fun.
not sure what kind of Russian you were but I lived there a a foreigner around the same time and I don't buy this "hard time" buying food thing...If anything 90's was the decade where food became scarce, after the USSR collapsed.
Humans have been piloting boats across the Atlantic for around 800 years (beginning with Greenland), and the great cod collapse happened on the quincentennial of Columbus's voyage. Each of your explanations has a "why now?" caveat. Fads fit in the gap, unless they've recently developed weapons.
It shocked some managers in telco, something we consider a good thing ...
Contrary to sharks, Orca's actually don't have the ability to smell
https://www.treehugger.com/surprising-facts-about-orcas-4864...
Maybe I'm just not exposed to these ideas because I live in the Midwest, but this entire post sounds like some weird borderline clinical phobia of cars and driving that just doesn't jive at all with my experience, except perhaps a hatred of long car commutes. I can't imagine ever hating cars so much that I'd want to move to a new country...
Sorry to hear, I have the same problem and was hoping the update would fix it. Although the latest (beta) update did improve things a lot.
Most public transit is subsidized by taxes too.
The generated code is derived from a template file for exactly this reason.