skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because to make it focus on always producing accurate results (or rather a very low false positive rate) you need to dramatically change and tune the model. Which is much harder than what Google does because it means you'd also need to vet a lot of facts as well (by weighting certain sources, not individually). Or allowing it to search the internet (which also comes with other issues and if it is using Google to do that then it doesn't really kill Google). I do think Google's knowledge graph is more in line with what you're actually thinking. Lots of Google searches can be done without actually clicking links.

There's also the ethical question. For example, duckduckgo will show you stack overflow answers. Google could easily do this but they have already gotten flack for displaying answers and taking away clicks from sites, which means reduced ad revenue for the resource actually being used. We could make even stronger arguments about services like ChatGPT in their current form, let alone the one we're talking about.

If we think a bit further in the future there's another extension that might not be what we want. Suppose our model contains all current human knowledge and can accurately give you answers and even produce paragraphs at will. This kills off a lot of websites. Is this a good thing? Suppose we incorporate an image generator along similar lines and now we have text and image search. That's a huge centralization force. There are a lot of great benefits to this that I don't want to downplay, but we should also think about if this is actually what we want because there are downsides too.

I thought I should also add that I had an at length discussion of these LLMs being Stochastic Parrots (an how we know they are) in a thread from 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34113011
What are you creating in hypercard these days?
Why are you assuming that rare earth metals deep below the surface of the earth would benefit the life ON the surface that has evolved to live in the absence of those metals?

Even if for some bizarre reason the metals were beneficial, what about when the mining operation is done and humans leave the area? It just goes back to the previous status quo.

It’s a disruption either way.
> I enjoy that PG “quit” Twitter, but within a day or so was back lol

He predicted that the policy he quit because of would be reversed and he would be back at the time he quit, the policy was reversed quite quickly, and he was back.

Seems…routine.
Mainland Chinese vaccine tourists flock to Macau for mRNA Covid jabs
Technically not a “hologram”, since they use wave interference, but still super neat!
By that logic nobody consumes or uses water. I think you are conflating local scarcity with global recycling. If I irrigate a new golf course in Arizona I am consuming scarce local water that will become rain in somewhere wet like Florida or Georgia or the Atlantic.
Surely one of the purposes of a search engine is to assist the journey from generic to specific. I don’t see how filling page 1 for generic queries with non-specific DR90+ behemoths helps.
The Dalles is miniscule...
Wait, who is "we" here?

I assumed we were talking about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So... which isn't really related to Japan.
You're not wrong. If Reddit built a useable search, my Google use would drop by 2/3.
Reminds Leviathan.
Deducing types from Object.entries would be pretty awesome. That would feel like black magic. I had a lot of fun messing around with Copilot seeing if it could guess exactly that kind of thing, sometimes directly from
raw results of SQL queries once it understood the DB table structure. Occasionally it could. (Nonetheless, I don't feel like paying for it).

Still, it feels dangerous to be able to feed a generic object method in and expect the return to be typed based on a previous typing of the composite instances. Or maybe it feels like something that should always pass a compile check - because Object.entries can always be any - and only fail at runtime. Even if it was a feature, it's something I wouldn't implicitly trust a compiler to catch all edge cases of.
Because life does depend on these deposits at the surface. That’s why this is a huge danger to globally ecology. They feed a unique ecosystem.
It evaporates, the heat is used to evaporate the water.
It can bring with it the anxiety of living up to their expectations. This is present for big celebs too, but in this case the pressure is amplified because you are kind of close to these 1000 or so guys, and they pay you.
And honestly, this is why I'm ok with big tech getting highly regulated.

In many ways they're _ALREADY_ more powerful than state actors. They were pretty open about their attempts at manipulating the last presidential election, and I personally think it was a gigantic mistake for them. It's only going to get worse imo.
Interesting. You might want to enable core dumps, and the next time you get a crash of a program, load it up in `gdb` and at least get a stack trace. That probably won't give instant blame among a C program and libraries, but it might at least point in the right direction for why it's crashing.
Could be. I've never encountered one, and I think they would be a dead loser where I live. In fact, the thing I dislike most about our electric vehicle is that it's heaters are so wimpy. Probably wouldn't matter if I lived South of the Mason-Dixon line, but at -20F, they are awful.
I remember as a kid with these graphics, thinking that there would be no way a computer could ever replicate full motion video like on tv. Crazy to see how things worked out and how wrong I was.
Hey, TILvids here. Veronica Explains is awesome, glad you found their channel!

As far as breadth of topics...you are correct, it's still very FOSS-heavy. That said, we do have some other interesting channels worth following. Here are a few:

Yesterkitchen, dedicated to the history behind recipes!
https://tilvids.com/c/yesterkitchen_channel

Let's Talk Philosophy, focused on learning about great philosophers from history!
https://tilvids.com/c/letstalkphilosophy_channel

ArtsHole, who covers artists throughout history!
https://tilvids.com/c/theartshole_channel

FastPassFacts is dedicated to talking about different historical/social topics from theme parks.
https://tilvids.com/c/fastpassfacts_channel

The big challenge is trying to find creators who are willing to use a video site that doesn't have direct monetization. I can talk to them until I'm blue in the face about the importance of controlling your own means of hosting and distribution, etc. but at the end of the day, making content takes a ton of time. They won't do it unless people are watching. So if you want to support alternative platforms, the best thing you can do is USE them, and reach out to your favorite content creators and let them know that you're using them.
Twitter spam, false account prevalence, detection, and characterization survey
Surely that statement admits the possibility that some words are 'violence'. It just specifies that the signatories think that harm is a necessary cost of the speech. If the signatories instead thought that words were incapable of violence, there would be no worry of speech which is "harmful to some". I would also argue that that view severely downplays the power of speech, both for good and evil.
Heres a link to Google's own water report calling it "consumption", linked in the article

https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/2022-us-data-...
And so are their needs however Google is consuming more than it's share at leaving neighbor residents with dry wells.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132152 (75 comments)
https://archive.ph/wJNqd
I came to suggest scrcpy - I've successfully saved data off a locked phone with a broken screen using scrcpy.
If you are not comfortable talking with someone else because you do not want to burden them then you may wana record what you wana share and post as podcast or any other medium where we can listen and post comment or at-least you would know listening to you.
Yet, actually providing ECC costs practically nothing. RAM could cost something less than 12.5% more, for the extra bits. If end-to-end, the bus might have a few more traces.
If so, there would be lawsuits. There are none, so let's consider that you are wrong.
why doesnt google just incorporate it into their search results? and then based on what people click, weight it more or less for each type of search? kind of like an ensemble search result
Sure, but not in JavaScript.
>The fundamentals are things like files, sockets, TCP/IP, operating systems. Or said differently: things that have been with us since the 20th century.
Wisdom I got many years ago from an old hand was to run this thought experiment:

* An HTTP request

* A business object

* A database transaction

That's web architecture, more or less.

I disagree, IMO the fundamentals are: Naming Things, Immutability, Idempotence, Behavior/Workflows/Transactions/Business Processes, Distributed Systems, Cryptography, Algorithms and Data structures, etc.

In addition to technical fundamentals, there are people fundamentals/soft-skills.
I have a friend who has been in china since before covid hit, teaching english to kids.

He just told me today that China has lifted all restrictions surrounding covid and are letting it run its course. As a result, he and his gf have both gotten covid for the first time.

When it first hit they had tanks driving up and down their streets making sure people stayed in their houses, so it's definitely a shift for them.
Stallman wasn't exactly just a free speech issue.... he was sexually harassing students.
It depends on the problem you're trying to solve. In some cases you have a team and you need everyone to have a reproducible environment so you can be sure that behaviors are due to code changes and not subtle differences in environment configs.
Mine too! With 17mb of ram, which was always a goofy off-by-one feeling.
Replacing a battery once a year in a laborious process isn't an acceptable comparison for a device who's battery lasts a week at best.
No it isn't. That post is 10 years old. I've done multiple searches of mute the bark, Linux bark, etc etc. Can't find anything.
> ChatGPT in its current form can’t replace google but plausible to think in its next few incarnations it will get there.

I don’t think it is.

> Why can’t it have a mode where it returns more rigorous results, and includes some system of links as citation?

Because it is a statistical text-generation model; connection of results to specific sources is fundamentally not part of the way it works, so it can’t just be asked to supply them. You’d need a fundamentally different approach to do that.
As a non-American these SJW movements terrify me. Because like spreading democracy these movements will be used to justify invading other countries. Hollywood and the woke media apparatus will prime the American suburban class how the regime needs to be changed to protect your favorite oppressed minority class. Or at the very least Americans will be provided opporunities to feel good about themselves. Your country, America, is killing innocent people in other countries; but don't worry, feel good about yourself by using proper pronouns for the new they/them celebrities.
You can write a type aligned list of functions datastructure in any language with generics and some form of interface, the same way you'd write a cons list. (To write a generic version of it you need HKTs, but with the type fixed to -> that's not an issue)
For anyone wondering, it's the link next to The Golden String.
How many of these are free speech issues?

Lindzen doesn't raise any. He's retired, and speaks only for himself. He's an embarrassment, but there are no issues there.

Ito? No attempt has been made to silence him.

Stallman isn't a speech matter either. His behavior was off putting enough that women were choosing to change their careers to avoid having to deal with him, so now he and his FSF have to do their thing off campus.
Hypermedia Systems
Oh no! Think of all the vaccine injuries! Oh, the humanity!
Alternative moral: Write a bash script to adb backup your phone, and run it every month. I personally back up the photos, voice recorder, and data directory of a note taking app. My contacts and calendar are synced to Nextcloud via Davx5, and I use Ankidroid's inbuilt sync mechanism.
I intentionally made predictions that could be verified after a year but would also be minority views on this site, since repeating where I agree with the majority does not add to the debate. Sure, they won't all happen, but say, a 50% chance of happening or better, and made a sufficient number of them that I expect a lot of interesting predictions will take place. With the Turkey/Syria meeting, Erdogan has already been asking for it, and at some point Assad will give in. US troops there are surrounded and having trouble resupplying. For the mutual aid treaty, this is based on some under the radar meetings already taking place. That Ukraine lost 100K was inadvertently leaked by Ursula but really everyone paying attention knew -- for example they announced they needed to do a new mobilization of 100K to replace lost men. 100K is most likely a sever under-estimate. Presence of Polish, Georgian, and other troops in Ukraine is already well known, but they haven't been focused on in the West yet. The arrivals of 1000 dead bodies to Poland is forcing the issue into public debate. Other documents have also been leaked.

But this just goes to show how strong Narrative enforcement is in the west. Downvoting is nothing, you have people denied banking services, getting fired, put on no-fly lists, fined, and in Europe even imprisoned for speech -- for questioning NATO narratives. So HN downvotes is not important, it just reveals the various narrative enforcement mechanisms at work even here, but with a lot less at stake.

If this was a Chinese message board or Russian message board, I could make opposite predictions and be met with much more interesting debate and intellectual curiosity, as their information control mechanisms aren't nearly as sophisticated, and as a society they tend to be much more pragmatic and intellectually curious. The West is unique in being so ideological in the present moment - basically it is going through something similar to the cultural revolution period in China, and of course that was not a time to go against official narratives.

But in any case -- just wait a year. I'll be happy to compare my predictions in Dec 2023 against others'. It would be funny -- and quite appropriate -- if the some of the most interesting and accurate predictions of the last year were flagged on this site. But that's up to HN management, and they most likely have limited capacity to stand up to information warfare policies in the west and the hordes of professionals with hurt feelings flagging everything they disagree with. I don't take it personally at all, it's just a sign of the times.
from https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1605701630481125378

> I stopped using Twitter because of a policy I didn't like. The policy was reversed.
What the near future would look like is-
1. Google: will implement some form of LLM on their engine and the contextual answers will significantly improve(~close to what ChatGPT produces) satisfying most people. But also displays the top links that contributed to the context. This is difficult to do but somehow they gotta figure out or risk their entire core business getting affected.

2. ChatGPT and other LLMs: will take some more time to meaningfully compete with google(as in becoming a noun) and in the mean time they would provide APIs to their models so that large orgs(businesses, scientists etc) can plug it in with their own data and use. They may or may not charge a fee for it.

In both cases there is one big pro and con:
Pro: Death of SEO and ads as we know it
Con: The model dictates what majority of internet users read, change their views or manipulate. And eventually becomes an AI weapon.
Letter regarding proposed free expression statement from MIT
> larger orgs currently building on Matrix would feel victim of a rug-pull or a bait & switch

Fair. The bait and switch could be avoided by grandfathering in current orgs. A more hands-off, related idea is that you could come up with an unenforced, suggested payment. Essentially consider what an ideal economically sustainable licensing system would look like, and publish that as a suggested donation.

> We've always aimed to avoid Matrix being pay-to-play (e.g. eschewing tokenisation schemes).

I agree with eschewing pay-to-play or plopping some half-assed crypto grift on top (or what some would call a "tokenization scheme"). I would dispute characterizing my suggestion as pay-to-play, as payment wouldn't be required to use the system. It should be totally up to the user how much to set their bounty at, including zero if they're willing to accept the greater amount of spam (or wish to use some other spam filtering method). The idea here isn't for anybody to make any money off of getting messages (the money would just be returned if the receiver accepted the message as non-spam), it's just to make large scale spammers lose money.

> Instead, the angle we've taken has been to let users publish and subscribe to reputation feeds (a bit like email DNSBLs, but more transparent and less of a shakedown) in order to empower users to block stuff they don't want to see.

That makes sense as a feature generally, although I think its solving for a different sort of problem. The blocklist seems like it would work best for allowing users to cultivate a particular culture (i.e. subscribe to a blocklist for those who use excessive profanity, or talk about certain undesired topics, etc.). But a "Nigerian prince" style spammer can make new accounts and blast out messages faster than you can identify and add them to a blocklist. However if it on-average costs that spammer $2 per message that they're unlikely to get back, it suddenly becomes prohibitively expensive to engage in that type of behavior.

> But perhaps one could combine the two ideas: you could have a personal rep list which users pay to be on, and you get the payment if they turn out to be spammers - similar to systems like https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20181023-people-pay-20-....

Hmm, that's an interesting modification. I'll need to chew more on the incentives. I would say the approach in that article is closer to my original suggestion, except instead of the money actually going to charity it would just go back to the sender once the author replied to their message.

> Much like email, i'm not sure these semantics should be baked into the protocol itself. (But the infrastructure to support it could be - thus MSC2313: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/msc...)

When I look at that proposal, it seems to me like it's "baked into the protocol itself" insofar as its proposing how to use existing room primitives (namely state events) to implement the concept.
These keys are revoked in earlier time. They are samples.
The official team have remove secrets, tokens and keys.
> gmail is one of the main reasons why e-mail is mostly dead outside coroprations.

Gmail is one of the main reasons why email is used by almost everyone. Together. It made e-mail truly accessible, and made it so anyone can use email, and can email anyone else.

It was always used by corps (or universities), and some indie folk ram it themselves (I too tried running mine on-off for like 5 years and gave up recently). Gmail was one of the people that made it harder for indie folks, in the name of spam prevention, but it hardly killed e-mail.

Everyone has email now. It’s not a walled garden, it’s just productized and made palatable for the masses. Apple runs an e-mail service too, as does most major tech companies. There are plenty of third party clients, with plenty of features, gmail be damned. I use third party clients, and they solve my needs, so i know they exist, even if maybe the ones you wanted don’t exist.

> So your example is very... illustrative, so to say.

Yes. While I disagree with your view on the state of email, I think that if I’m right about a successful mastadon, we’ll have parallel opinions then too.
Admin just doesn't care that much which speakers are allowed on campus. Like many progressive things students loudly champion, it's pretty immaterial and easy to just give in. It's not like it affects MIT's status or funding as a world-leading research institute.

By contrast, Senior House was a significant legal liability due to large, public parties with a habit of sending people to the hospital for more interesting reasons than booze. That, the institute has financial, practical, concrete reasons to care about.

It's unclear to me that SH created more liability than frats and alcohol, but maybe, and it was certainly the perception.
New Reformed Amish
aw man... I also read Mondo as a kid, and MY first mac was a IIsi!!! ResEdit, Hypercard, SuperCard (it was in color! And could compile binaries!) ... plus pirated Infini-D, Stratus, Renderman, Playmation... and a 680xxx? FPU.

Sadly it seems HN love brought this site down. Web admin is probably really gonna enjoy what happened next time they check their traffic stats in a few months or years...
Mining exploration of any kind impacts ecosystems, what of it?
Every drop that evaporates from the reservoir, that would not have from the naked river, is consumed. Every drop pumped out of the reservoir to irrigate desert farms, that could not have been without the dam, is consumed.
Gattaca draft script (1997)
I’m not sure if this falls under your definition of “technical books”, but Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial is an incredible example of a 1000 fans-esque type of (light) technical book.

That was started in 2010, and for a long time the online version was free (he made money from videos, pdfs, etc. He has since expanded his library. He has many fans, and makes quite a bit of money from his projects.
Got a new Laptop. Runs Win 11. UI ugly as hell and doesn't make much sense. Impressive feat to find ways to further downgrade from there.
Pure being the default would lead to most functions being written to be pure. Same idea as immutability by default.
The original statement was proposed in a September report by the Ad Hoc working group on free expression. The report is much more interesting since goes into quite a bit of detail on MIT's current de facto policies and proposes real steps for moving forward. The cancelled 2021 lecture by Dorian Abbot is discussed. Their recommendation #6 explicitly says that "Rescinding an invitation to deliver protected speech, as defined and explained in this report, conflicts with freedom of expression." . Their full report, including the original proposed statement and their recommendations, is here: https://facultygovernance.mit.edu/sites/default/files/report...

And here's final ratified statement which had only minor edits: https://facultygovernance.mit.edu/sites/default/files/report...

Also there's this note at the bottom of the final statement suggesting more clarity on how this manifests itself as policy could be coming:

"Note: A motion is pending before the Faculty to refer the statement to a committee that would edit the
statement for clarity."
I’m admittedly not primarily a TS dev, but I agree with your points completely. Even though you’re reading the piped functions right to left, and most code is going to be read from left to right, in order for a parameter to be passed like a value it’s gotta be computed.

If I’m solving a math equation, I know that I need to follow the order of operations—I don’t need to rewrite the equation in an entirely new way. It’s more intuitive for me, at least, to wrap my head around the current approach.
Except if you actually compare the three, you'll see that the WSJ is quite a bit to the left on its news pages, and somewhat left of them on its editorial pages. The quality is a lot higher, of course.