skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you rich or at least gainfully self employed?

There’s at least one person who recently put in much more effort than you recommend into making money on the internet who has failed miserably. See original discussion below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34103896
Difficult and unrealistic probably, but I would spend this time to immerse myself in language learning (one of ACEFRS) .
This is the mental leap folks need to be making, the question is when will this type of configurably factual large language model be research benchmarked and productionized.

I have read many similar comments to the grandparent, all saying the same thing, “I tried it, and it turned up wrong facts” all the while they forgot that they were deeply engaged with the content it was producing. Just think of how much our attention is monetized already, money will be poring into this space from here on. It’s only a matter of time.
Aaron Swartz?

> "A much-anticipated report on MIT’s actions in relation to the case of Aaron Swartz, a young computer programmer and Internet activist who committed suicide in January, finds no wrongdoing on MIT’s part."

https://news.mit.edu/2013/mit-releases-swartz-report-0730
Absolutely, and that's a major reason why we specifically teach the React-Redux hooks API as default today, and have guidance on setting up "pre-typed" hooks with the store types baked in:

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-2-app-structu...

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/typescript-quick-start#define...
Many domains. I counted a dozen today. Some .io domains. Some .net domains. Different landing pages. Some video's have 1k online, Others have 5k. This is quite a large crime syndicate.
It's a complex device with life-threatening safety implications and a small base of customers. Also, the services it provides are expensive and profitable. Hence, the device is also expensive and produced profitably, too, by a small number of manufacturers.
I dont use TS, just vanilla JS mostly. As a vanilla JS user, the pipe operator is much harder to understand from a first glance because its effectively a primitive being added to the language.
The economics definition of "product" is "an item offered for sale." Since we are on a forum for startups, most people are likely using this definition. By this definition, Mastodon is not a product. It is not for sale; it is a tool to be used and it is free software. The set of motives behind its creation and maintenance are completely different than something assembled with the intend of sale for profit.
This is probably crazy, but I wonder if it would be possible to leave these sites with better ecology than they have now.

What if, after mining, a smaller amount of the minerals are put back, closer to the surface so that a smaller amount are more easily consumed and life could flourish again with less available?
Delete your Gmail and save the planet!
A lot of the water is consumed, because The Dalles makes heavy use of evaporative cooling. But this is a data enter that powers most of Google's west-coast operations; it was like #3 by number of cores in my day (though it's been eclipsed since then, and I think there's several that are several times it's size).

Cooling datacenters takes a lot of power and water, but a trivial amount compared to... Any heavy industry. Get me numbers compared to say Intel's Albuquerque fab, and then we'll talk.
What I got from your reply is that even you don't believe your previous statement we unfortunately live in a world where the statement "I like Harry Potter" can be weaponized.
Whoa, I might have to try the mouse -> usbc adapter just for fun! I had no idea that was a thing.
I'd like to differentiate between the Col. Jessup "You want me on that wall; you NEED me on that wall" class, and

...the specific Col. Jessup instance that breaks down and calls away a Code Red.

Our Civil Servants are neither civil nor (apparently) serving any but themselves.

How to avoid becoming a cure worse than the disease?

One thing would be to rotate these staffers more frequently, so they are less prone to what looks like GroupThink.
Why specifically PostgreSQL compared to MySQL? Planetscale has a very modern managed offering of MySQL scaled with Vitess, you won't even be adding nodes.
emit and observe an event with a callback passed down?
I want actual reflection a la python so i can use my types to generate all sorts of artifacts for runtime validation, serialization, testing, etc. It's frustrating to make the effort to create the types and then not be able to touch them at runtime
Thanks for the alternative microservices quip, it was better than the original. Indeed, I find that “microservices should only perform a single task” is a really dangerous way to phrase it because we have no idea what the article means by “task.” The classic microservices separation is to separate an ordering service from a shipping service, is each of those one “task”? Or at the most extreme, is saving an order distinct from returning the list of your outstanding orders? Even when people graduate to a language of DDD and refine, often they settle on “one microservice per bounded context” where “bounded context” means “separated however I want it separated at the time,” and has no consistent principle behind... This despite the fact that I think Eric was quite explicit in his explanation of the idea, he meant a mapping of the software idea to the fussy complex world of businesspeople and business language: perhaps a better way to phrase this is that it's one microservice per archetype of user, “we have people from the warehouses who all speak the same shipping jargon, we should have a microservice specifically for them which speaks their language,” and I think most developers target their microservices smaller than that, in which case it is definitely not “one microservice per bounded context”.

Don't get me started on how “strong coupling” is shorthand for “coupled in ways I don't like” etc. ... Sometimes I feel like I'm on an episode of “whose line is it anyway?”, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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> To me, that's a clear evolution of the search engine, especially with all the SEO & ad spam that's plaguing Google and others currently.

Clearly Google thinks so, too:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ai-chatgpt-goo...

The podcast Hard Fork discussed the idea of searching being enhanced with this tech in their first ChatGPT episode.

Microsoft invested $1B in OpenAI. (As Hard Fork said) will we all be using Bing in 5 years?
> LBGTQA+

I believe it’s just the “T” in this case, snotrockets.
I agree.

I think the recommendation to remap control onto caps lock is fundamentally misguided and based on poor typing practice. Many Control bindings are on the left (C-x, C-c) and using caps lock for them (without sticky keys) would be very unergonomic.

What I do is remap control, alt and windows key such that control is closest to the space key (like windows, alt, ctrl space ctrl alt windows). Then I can use my thumbs (symmetrically on both sides) to type any control key sequence.
See John Oliver about Museums.

Museums: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
They don't even consume it. It sounds like they're measuring water passing through the facility as "use" -- possibly including for electrical generation.

Imagine if people complained that the hoover dam used 100% of the Colorado river to power Las Vegas? In reality it uses 0%.
> As soon as students raised a hue and cry over some issue — any issue — the administrators just rolled over, as though they were not actually in charge of the institutions they nominally oversaw. Frankly, as though they were terrified of their own students.

How familiar are you with the students and the faculty of MIT? Are the students even pressuring faculty enough on any given issue that we could characterize this statement from MIT as capitulation?
> (insert verb for what a traitor does)

You mean Treason?
Yeah not easy to see on mobile. Their 5/user/mo “premium” plan adds

Features:
- XML and JSON export (vs just CSV)
- Row comments
- Row coloring
- Public logo removal

Views:
- Kanban
- Survey
- Calendar (WIP)
- Gantt (WIP)

10k rows, 5Gb storage per group.

The “Advanced” $20/user/mo plan adds:

Feature:
Role-based Permissions

Support
100k rows, 20GB storage per group
Or a virus that targets caucasians. Or knockout the GPS satellites. Or target 3-4 internet backbone nodes. Or a high altitude EMP (which would probably come from a nuke). There’s a lot of scary scenarios.

The issue the west has with China, is that China produces all the consumer goods and a decent amount of the heavy equipment. The issue China has is the west provides access to food and energy. While that’s changing, to-date the two are too entangled for war imo.
Sorry, I just realized that the pseudo-notation I was using to represent a partial type signature is similar to the actual type signature notation that Haskell and Elm use, so that's probably confusing things.

What I specifically meant by "(A -> B, B -> C)" was "two arguments, each of which are unary functions, and the type of the argument accepted by the second function is the same as the the return type of the first function." I think in formal notation, the full signature would be "(a -> b) -> (b -> c) -> (a -> c)" but I'm not overly familiar with that notation so I may have gotten that wrong.

The goal here is to be able to describe a function as mentioned in the article, that can accept any number of functions (either as varargs or a single list of functions), and ensure that the input of each provided function has the same type as the output of the function that precedes it.
> We cannot prohibit speech that some experience as offensive or injurious.

They are giving credence to the idea that words can injure. I would have rather seen this phrased as "that some believe to be offensive or injurious". But I imagine this sentence was heavily negotiated.
I'm not linking evidence here, but there are tons of examples of this happening on Twitter.
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If you want to freak out the MIT administration and see just how much 'freedom of expression' is allowed, then start a movement to open-source / free-license all of MIT's patents and other intellectual property (all of which were funded at least in part with taxpayer dollars).

That's a lot more significant - and at the heart of what's gone wrong with American academics, i.e. the corporatization and privatization of public resources that's erased long-standing traditions of open sharing of research results - than any of this social justice warrior hysteria stuff that the media likes to talk about.

Really, try to get Lex Fridman, noted MIT-based podcaster/Twitterer, to invite on a guest to discuss the corporatization of the university system - and the related exclusive licensing of MIT patents - in the United States, in which institutions like MIT and the University of California have played a leading role.
Make a lists of social networks, tv networks and universities. For each list, sort them into three columns based on ideology: Left, independent/balanced, Right.

If you were intellectually honest about this, the number of entities on the Left will dwarf those in the other columns. That’s reality.

When someone flips through channels on TV and 90% to 99% of the content is ideologically aligned to one side, that is damaging to a society.

Your example is nothing less than ridiculous. Use race and gender instead of ideology and it might become obvious to you. For some reason people think of ideology in different terms. There is no difference. You do not want racial domination of institutions (by any race) any more than ideological (by any ideology).
This comment is so confidently ignorant of rhythm and melody, lol

Pay attention to the counterpoint (one voice rising, one voice falling) when one big triangle ends and the one above/below it starts.

Music is harmony, melody, rhythm, and dynamics. Dynamics means variations in softness/loudness, but none applied here, and someone else has noted the rhythmic component.
Twitter reversed the policy of banning mastodon links that prompted Graham to leave.

In any case, the real story is never the character of the messenger, which says nothing about the merit of the message.
This is a highly biased and misleading account, both of Webb's role in the Lavender Scare and of the supposed rigor of the arguments deployed in support of the JWST naming.

Personally the most compelling accounting of this matter I've seen is in the internal emails exchanged within NASA discussing the naming, which were made public by FOIA [1 & 2]. I would especially draw your attention to the analysis of an external historian (whose name is redacted) beginning on page 301 of [1], which rightly emphasizes Webb's direct, personal involvement in Oval Office discussions with President Truman about these matters. NASA chose to ignore this information and retain the JWST name. After substantial community pressure a more detailed historical report was released [3], which in my view clarifies that Webb was not the motive force behind the efforts at State but in no way exonerates him.

At the end of the day, the telescope was named by a NASA administrator for another NASA administrator. Was Webb personally a bigot? Unclear. Was Webb a person of his time and a practitioner of realpolitik? Seems likely. Did the actions taken under his direction make life worse for gays and lesbians? Definitely. Would it have been better if NASA had chosen to honor someone else with the naming of a $10B telescope? Indisputably.

[1] https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-022...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00845-6
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-shares-james-webb-history-...
I don't know about India, but races/racial terms like "white" are culturally defined. E.g. apparently Americans (sometimes?) refer to Pacific Islanders as "black"? That's absurd to me.
"Water vapor rises above the cooling towers in The Dalles data center in Oregon. These plumes of water vapor create a quiet mist at dusk."

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/the-dalle...

They are using evaporative cooling so the water isn't flowing downstream or going back into an aquifer or whatever. How is that not consumption?
Haha yeah happy holidays, and thank you :)
This seems so opposite to me to the only example of student activism at MIT that I'm aware of, which was against the closing of Senior House. Administration didn't care about students raising an issue. Students felt totally unheard and disrespected.

What's the difference here? Different, better-connected students? A campaign that better aligns with the broader zeitgeist in our society? Something administration _wanted_ to capitulate over?
I’m assuming models will be updated in near real-time to reflect searches with results that often change unexpectedly? Like what time my physician’s office is open on Christmas Day vs. tomorrow vs. Black Friday?
It is, because the runtime is bundled with the OS (similar its counterpart the JVM is also extremely widely deployed) and its output is significantly lowered. C.f.

> (or even Java/.NET style lowered bytecode binaries).
Am I the only one who thinks the 'true fan' definition is a bit... icky? If I have a person who buys everything I offer, regardless of if it's a duplicate of something I already offered earlier, regardless of quality, that person sounds like they put me on way too much of a pedestal. I'd rather have fans that go 'nah, this ain't worth it, I ain't buying' when I send out something that's dog shit. The 'true fan' definition on offer sounds a bit too stalker-y to me.
I've seen instances of wealthy or powerful individuals publicly calling for private platforms to deregulate speech not because of a dedication to the ideals of free speech (the ostensible reason) but as a tactic to achieve some political goal, e.g. in order to promote confusion about anthropogenic climate change to benefit the fossil fuel industry.

I've also seen instances of individuals defending free speech because they hold unpopular (or sometimes even hurtful) opinions and want to be taken seriously, or want a megaphone – both of which they are free to demand but which no one is obligated to give them.

I signed the MIT Free Speech Alliance's petition and signed up for its newsletter because I agree with the aims of the movement, but I had the impression that some of the alumni leading the alliance have political motives, or are less angry about the loss of freedom at universities [1] than they are about the social opinions of the rising generation, which worries me somewhat.

[1] which IMO ought to be the paragons of free speech.
How tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end
Where's he water that passes through the facility go? Does it go into the fresh water reservoir for the city, or the sewer, or into a river? If it isn't going directly to the city's residents in some fashion without needing to be treated, I think it's pretty reasonable to say "consumed".

To say it more succinctly: the water you flush down the toilet in your house is, in fact, "consumed".
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave and Sonic Pi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvsoWehBbec :)
The US has a large naval presence in the area, not least the ships based in Japan.

No-one wants a shooting war, but the US is eager to keep China contained, and enforcing the EEZ rules serves that interest.
More constructive commentary /sarc

And I’m far from a conservative. I just think socialism is more stupid & damaging in the real world (as opposed to in theory) than any of the realistic alternatives, but that doesn’t make me a supporter of the Coke party rather than the Pepsi party, or indeed of Rupert Murdoch.
I enjoy that PG “quit” Twitter, but within a day or so was back lol

Also does this mean Stallman is back?
I'm not suggesting formal conquest of territories.

If Russia falls apart, and as the last grand colonial empire, it bloody well should, China should have a lot of influence over the regional pieces.

It's hard to imagine something this ingrained ending, but nothing is forever.
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No, it's also about everybody associated in any way with Rowling, who were also forced into servile apologies to avoid getting cancelled themselves.
You can also get USB-C to DP/HDMI/VGA/DVI adaptors that support USB passthrough. "Most" (?) modern phones support DP-over-USB-C now and some even open a DeX-inspired desktop environment when connected (which even if it's broken/buggy like Huawei's implementation means the external display is driven at its native resolution, so media plays properly).

The adapters on AliExpress run $6-15 and are entirely adequate for the task IME.
I think the answer is no, based on the evidence lol
Without linking, there’s no value to that statement as the reader can’t evaluate whether those statements are true, leaving out significant details, or representative of some trend.
A lot of state either never or rarely changes, so one must wonder if you really need a lot of complexity to manage all of that.

Some state does change a lot, and for that: sure. But if you just have currently logged in user or some such (which is quite often the case): meh, it just seems like a complex way to set a global variable.

This week I spent some time removing the Vuex state management in favour of window globals and it made everything a lot simpler and the bundle size a lot smaller (the other option would be to migrate to Pinia, which is significantly smaller than Vuex, but then I'd probably have to update to the next incompatible version in 2 years, and this seemed more robust).
What genre if you don't mind? I'm curious if we can hear your mix.
It’s because all five notes are adjacent to each other on the circle of fifths. Notes that are a fifth apart (adjacent on the circle of fifths) are consonant when played together. Limiting it to 5 notes makes it so that no two notes would sound too dissonant together. The more colors you try to use from the 12 chromatic notes, the greater potential for clashing colors. (The circle of fifths is kind of like a color wheel in that colors on opposite sides of the circle are maximally dissimilar to each other, so limiting yourself to 5 consecutive colors on the wheel means no colors are opposite each other)
This is pretty cool, even if by good it just means consonant. I happen to use fractals a fair bit in my own musical experiments, and I do it with a specific synth module called a fractal sequencer from Bloom. It takes a scale, a sequence length, a root sequence, and then various depths of mutations and iterates them. There is something about the way our minds select and sort information from noise that it's just complex enough to entrain the listeners attention where it seems predictable but it isn't, and it has just enough texture to create satisfying tension and release. My use of it has been pretty coarse and I just record live sessions without any composition, but as I get more competent with it, I could see some formal fractal techniques emerging.

Technically it's noise, but 1/f or recursive noise, and consonant instead of the dissonant noise we think of when we hear random music.
I do not trust the Zoom native app. What am I missing?
Unary Computer for Matrix Multiplication [pdf]
Or better yet, one employer. Go follow Dan Luu's advice and educate/train/practice yourself into the top 10% of software developers, then get a FAANG job. That's the surest path to financial security and a safe, comfy upper middle class lifestyle.

But if you don't want to go just be an employee and beholden to one employer, then keep that line of reasoning going and you'll see that 1,000,000 casual listeners > 100,000 sh*t fans > 10,000 mediocre fans > 1,000 true fans > 100 scary stalker fans > 10 b2b customers > 1 employer/patron.
You can't deployed the apps generated in any useful business capacity so it is not truly free except for a minority of personal users (or if you are in a country where IP rights are not easily enforced).

These platforms' primary customers and audience are enterprises and companies. The open source part is a red herring. It is not "free" to use in any sense for most organizations unless you are a non-profit with a majority of network infrastructure being under copyleft software. Don't be disingenuous, there is a very big difference for a web application builder and PaaS under rigorous viral copyleft vs e.g. a generic web server that will never be seen or utilized directly by users.
For the same reason why it might produce a bogus answer: it's a language model, not a general AI. Prompt it for footnotes and it will generate footnotes for books that don't exist or that don't actually contain the citation. They'll match the form of a footnote, because that's what the model was trained to do, but the citations won't resolve.

For example, I asked who the first president of Argentina was. It gave the wrong name (Juan Manuel de Rosas) with a half-true bio. I then asked it for books where I can learn more about this person.

It produced five books. None of the book-author pairings were correct, though three of the books were real and four of the authors actually wrote books. Of the four authors that existed, three actually did write about Argentina's history, while one is a professor of Spanish and gender studies.

This is my point: ChatGPT was trained to produce text, not to produce facts. What I'm seeing here isn't just something that can be optimized away, it's fundamental to the model's design. It was basically told to produce text that looks like it could have been written on the internet. Its text is really convincing: when I saw the list of books I thought for a minute it had actually done it! But it's still just inventing text that reads well, because that's what its training was optimizing for.

It could be paired with a different system that searches for facts, but then it's just a friendly abstraction layer on top of Google or some other system, not a revolution in search.