skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! You totally grokked what I'm doing with this--I appreciate it!

Yes I do think a lot about the effectiveness of personal responsibility, and its limits. Certainly I could request my logs and data from every company, although that takes more time than opting out. In the meanwhile, I don't block ads as those as my only clues as to what a corporate database thinks it knows about me (obviously I use blockers to stop info flow from me to them, it's just that I want to see what they think they know). I also use lots of addresses and CC numbers so I can trace data migration and can identify the culprit if so (
https://www.optoutproject.net/what-email-address-should-i-us...)

As for if it's working... There are more quantitative ways to tell for sure. In the meanwhile, my Pregnancy Experiment started in 2013 and in the intervening ten years I have seen zero online ads for anything baby- or child-related, and I have only received an unsolicited catalog in the mail every three years (thanks to the above technique, though, I always knew who the weak link was). When I tell other moms that, their jaws drop.
Every single BASIC variant I used in the 80s/90s right up to and including QBasic?
> do HN readers just think a human isn't such a complex entity?

I've never gotten a positive comment score for arguing that women aren't just optimizing for wealth, height, and appearance in a partner.
Every time I hang up a phone or video call on my bluetooth headphones, Apple Music opens on my mac and starts playing House Of The Rising Sun. I’ve just come to accept this now because there really is no way to stop it.

I expect that at some point in the future Asahi linux will be mature enough and someone will have finally figured out how to support the trackpad properly so we really can enjoy Linux on Apple’s incredible hardware.

Then I’ll have some kind of awakening where I realise it’s not normal for The Animals to play an outro to every meeting, and well… it’ll be goodbye macos my old friend of 20 years.
Curious what you think of Mozart vs. Salieri, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(film)

Or a four star Michelin restaurant vs. a Mall food court, or all art/entertainment reviews?

Seems like it's really common to compare things in ways that aren't objectively measurable?
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I've thought about this and I think I agree with you about the amount of noise around tech rather than other careers. But what I don't want to do is jump to a conclusion about it, it seems like a nuanced question.

My mother made a left field comment a couple of years ago that I've thought about a lot. She was a programmer starting in the 70s through to the late 00s. I mentioned the lack of women in tech thing and she said "Oh. I've never noticed. I always considered it completely equal and never felt treated differently."
As far as I understand, in React, there is no redundancy to compress. You have one algorithm for diffing the virtual DOM and you're done. On a spectrum of biggest bundle size to smallest possible bundle size, the React model (more specifically Preact) would be as far to the right as you can go. Whereas any solution which does more specific compilation on individual operations to minimize DOM update work is going to have special code for each case.
Don't delude anyone pls.

SSRI works for some people it is a matter of fact.
Not being snarky, but when did you last try linux? Your points about volatile DEs and kernel maturity seems almost 10 years out of date.
Thanks for sharing your experience. The video link is fantastic!
> drop in the swimming pool

That's pretty close. It could be a good chance to educate people, perhaps, without turning it into a buzzkill. "This plane burned 27 tons of fuel for that pretty pattern in the sky, but if that sounds like a lot of fuel just wait until you find out that planes burn a million tons every day!"
hehe yup. I had my first in 2010 and panicked. Then because I was second born myself I had to agree to second kid in 2013. But then I really wanted to out-do my own parents who only had two so we had another in 2016. My wife came from a family of three kids so in 2019 we had a forth. But that's it. No more!
I don't suggest Linux to anyone who can't set it up themselves now. Every time I set someone up with Ubuntu or something, they don't realize you have to manually update it so everything is 4 years out of date and the upgrade process doesn't even work anymore so you have to do a full install again.

Windows is built for the average person who just needs their computer to manage itself. The average Windows or macOS user wants the system to prompt regularly and for the "yes" button to just make it work.
I live close to both Silkeborg and Aarhus that have the museums containing the Tollund man and the Grauballe man. I only learned about the Danish bog bodies as an adult while browsing English Wikipedia.

The history curriculum in Danish schools is embarrassingly sparse on pre-Christian history. Danish kids probably learn more about the Vikings from Hollywood and video games that in school. But that doesn't cover the pre-Viking history and the cultures of the people who became bog bodies.
This is nonsense.

If my user base grows instantly because 5 users happen to sign up at the exact same time, then the growth rate of my user base in users per hour is 5/0, or infinite. In users per second, the rate is still infinite, etc.

I guarantee ChatGPT's growth rate was not faster, at any point, than my infite number of users per second. Equal, certainly, but not greater.

There is no such measure as "fastest-growing". It is nonsense peddled by idiots who want to attract eyeballs and sell soap, or else fools who don't understand math.

Fastest to a particular arbitrary milestone, perhaps. But who sets that milestone and what does it mean, really?

If I offer to give away a gold bar to everyone who signs up, I will likely be able to claim that my time to 100 million subscribers was the fastest in history.

Those users will likely remain active right up until they find out there are no gold bars. So what does that growth mean? Nothing, that's what.

I wish humans would stop and think for a minute about what rubbish they are taking in.
> I've had trouble with sound, wireless (both wifi and bluetooth), graphics, boot, and power-state management with Linux,

Hah! I could say the same for Windows! I'm the family IT support person and I've experienced all those problems and a whole lot more in Windows. Especially after Windows upgrades (e.g. going from Windows 7 to 10 or 10 to 11).

At least with Linux there's always a way to fix it. It might be in some obscure StackOverflow post or the Ubuntu forums or the Arch wiki (which is fantastic BTW) but there's always a solution.

With Windows there often isn't a solution other than, "wait for the vendor to fix it." There's not even good troubleshooting options in Windows because the built-in logger is the worst in all of the history of computing and I don't know how anyone can put up with it!
Kubrick was indeed hired by NASA to film the Moon landing, but his pefectionism ultimately required that they film on location.
> I think you've missed the flurry of political opinions

I doubt I've seen all his political opinions, I don't judge people on their political opinions, nor do I represent myself with my own. I prefer the world of my grandmother, where she says some married couples didn't know how the other voted. FWIW I think I disagree with probably ~half of his public political positions that I've heard about.

The only reason I think political alignment might be important in this case is because you may be right--it may have had an impact on the opinion of him. I actually imagine it did, because the media all shifted at the same moment, and they are really why politics matter. When you're as big as Twitter, the media can actually affect your business.

> People weren't really predisposed to hate rich people, Elon Musk has been rich for decades

Yes but nobody heard of him until SpaceX/Tesla. I think his step into the national consciousness happened at about the same time he started voicing political opinions. I think it's almost certainly a combination of both. I just know all kinds of people who hate every rich person, regardless of politics. They hate Elon Musk and they think Bill Gates is trying to secretly collapse America.

I'm trying to imagine a time I've seen a discussion about a rich person that didn't have some hate in the comments. Who's the most wholesome widely-known billionaire? Assign me a task, I will find people hating them in the comments somewhere, everywhere.
I think your comment is a great expression of what I'm referring to. I've always considered that the way the result is being produced does matter. That intention is significant even when the result cannot be distinguished. Of course I also believe that in time, that significance will cause important distinctions to emerge. But even if that doesn't happen in a particular case, I still take it that the human intention behind it is meaningful.

Of course what this kind of AI could prove is that our inner states are meaningless, which would be interesting - but terminal for my world view.
When were you last at Disneyland? While you may not need a phone to enter, there's no other way to fastpass, check wait times (without actually walking to the ride), schedule <anything>... It would be like paying for high speed and throttling to dial-up
I was really hoping they would stick to their "window 10 is the last windows" rolling release idea. They could've avoided this whole thing this way. (It could be still bad for the users though...)
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Yes I think many posters here regularly undervalue human capability and experience compared to AI or even regular code. Probably due to motivated reasoning more than any explicit misanthropy - no one wants a stick in the mud to deride their fun new technology. I think on the whole "all" sides are represented here, just far more slanted towards tech than most other sites.

Some other arguments paraphrased:

Car on autopilot crashes itself in completely clear conditions - "many humans are bad drivers too"

Stack Overflow buried in confident confabulations - "many human answers are incorrect too"

prospect of next-gen GPT bots posting on news sites and forums - "if you can't tell the difference, why would you care if you're talking to a human?"

prospect of image generation models razing the entry-level art job market - "pictures made by clicking a button has just as much artistic value if they look good to me"
I had a 2019 Macbook and it felt like an unbearably slow piece of crap that constantly had the spinning ball and fans blasting full speed doing just about nothing. Now my 2020 M1 feels extremely snappy. Everything is instant now.
I’d say DSLs in general are really annoying. They’re almost never as well designed as a mainstream language, their tooling is usually worse, and good luck if you ever need to do something that isn’t well supported by them.

These problems are surmountable, but man, I’ve used and created some crappy DSLs in my time. If you’re wondering, “Should I create a a DSL for this?” Default to “No” unless the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of it.
It's good as long as you don't need the live share feature.
One Company’s Trick to Getting 95,000 Hours Back?
BTW, it is great to see that Go1.20 and the upcoming Go1.21 [1] return to good things instead of generics:

- Performance optimizations (profile-guided optimization, GC optimizations, etc.)

- Reducing compile times

- Reducing binary sizes (improved linker, which can throw away unused code more aggressively)

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/V8ez4YunkeE
This article is missing the point. It's not just any "powerfulness" that we need to drop.

Languages evolve by limiting expressiveness in ways that increase composability.

The desired direction is one that increases composability, without sacrificing any other valuable properties (like performance).
Yea, it sucks for the kids whose parents do not care at all, but this has been the status quo for a long time with things like lack of involvement with education and just putting the kid in front of the TV. Obviously neither extreme is beneficial, but surely privacy neurosis will rub off on the kids and and more dangerously isolate them socially.
See my last edit. 22.04 LTS on a ThinkPad T495s Ryzen. Hangs after 2-3 minutes. Absolutely no issues on Windows. Last updated about 2-3 weeks ago.

This is the hilarious thing: https://ubuntu.com/certified/201906-27170

And yes it hung on 18.04 LTS as well.

I don't have the time or energy to deal with that shit in my life.
That sounds ideal. I'll see if anywhere close to me offers anything like that.
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Meh.

Even countercultures replicate sameness.

Find someone from any counterculture and everything from his/her ideas, to their music, to the perfume they stink from are probably all exactly the same. There's really nothing new that 99.99999999% of humans come up with. I mean a 4chan user in Poland spouts the same tired nonsense as a 4chan user from Argentina or the US. Same styles of dress. Same haircuts. Even uses the same wording in their posts. Try it for yourself, you'll find yourself reading the exact same comments and posts over, and over, and over again. There's literally nothing new there. Or, as another example, when was the last time you heard a genuinely new idea from a conservative? Or from a liberal? If we're being honest, I mean, we'd have to admit that we haven't heard any new ideas out there.

So you end up with 4chan users all having the exact same crap in their rooms, and political parties all having the exact same formats, colors, and even overall look to their "conventions". You only noticed the "sameness" with coffee shops. The reality is that cultures, and even counter cultures, thrive on sameness. Without sameness they don't exist.
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To be fair, the comparison is against the way Windows updates itself which is like Russian roulette.
Show HN: PromptLayer – Track, debug, and maintain GPT prompts in prod
Not likely, the reduction in memory clock speed is pretty small (I think only 6800 vs 7000 mhz)
>Punk was a reaction to rock becoming boring and stale.

...

>None of these creative outlets were a result of anyone overtly TRYING to offend anyone.

So when Sid Vicious (and other punks) wore a swastika, he wasn't trying to offend people?
I'm only here for the drama.

5 comments in and 5 wild hot takes already.

Here's a kicker, give someone an SSRI and a pep talk and their dopamine signalling changes as they recover from social anxiety. No SSRI and nada, no pep talk and nearly nada.
> A fresh Linux system is unparalleled zen, as long as you coughed up the money for a properly supported machine.

In before, “Yeah, we’ll, I just don’t use that feature so it doesn’t bother me.”
While air unmanned ballons are operating higher any airship I'm aware of had much _lower_ altitude limits then many aircrafts as far as I remember. But I don't know weather it where piratical or technical limitations.

And it it's sensitive to wind you probably don't want to get it anywhere near to either of the jetstreams (which in some areas are rather turbulent as far as I remember).

The google patent probably is from when they operatted unmanned balloon and drone mounted radio stations for special purpose usage. I think they stopped it even through it worked okayish because it wasn't profitable enough but I don't remember for sure.
> … to [most programmers] expressiveness isn't a big issue…

> Making languages less expressive […] at the cost of all the other programmers

Apologies, I’m reading a contradiction here. Help me out?
The only actual benefit I've ever been able to come up with for HATEOAS / "true" REST, is that it allows servers to evolve independently from clients. As in, you can change endpoints under the hood, but as long as the names of the hypermedia controls stay the same, the client doesn't actually need to change. That is, it's just a level of indirection based on names.

What I'm looking for someone to answer is, when I control both the client and server, why is this a benefit?
It's mom who's obsessed. Dad just enjoyed the experience ;)
Agricultural Water Use Efficiency
Infra won’t amend or refund bad transactions that were committed, I’ve seen a few people have to burn their weekends recovering from that.
How do you run Kafka?
Thank you for corroborating this, every time I bring it up on HN people ignore it like it's a non-issue. My headphones should not be a shortcut for launching Apple Music; that is a terrible default setting.

> someone will have finally figured out how to support the trackpad properly

We're there, if you use Wayland. In Firefox I have pinch-to-zoom, forward/backwards swipe shortcuts and KDE has 1:1 desktop navigation gestures. I'm using a wired Magic Trackpad, but I'm sure the behavior is the same on all of Apple's trackpads. Give it a whirl this weekend, if you've got the stuff lying around!
You are correct that if Badco completes the bankruptcy process the payments will come from a trust fund. But J&J doesn't control how much money goes into that trust fund. The 2.5B is their opening bid but it will ultimately be determined by a judge or jury.
Interesting to match with the observations from the practice of using ClickHouse[1][2] for time series:

1. Reordering to SOA helps a lot - this is the whole point of column-oriented databases.

2. Specialized codecs like Gorilla[3], DoubleDelta[4], and FPC[5] lose to simply using ZSTD[6] compression in most cases, both in compression ratio and in performance.

3. Specialized time-series DBMS like InfluxDB or TimescaleDB lose to general-purpose relational OLAP DBMS like ClickHouse [7][8][9].

[1] https://clickhouse.com/blog/optimize-clickhouse-codecs-compr...

[2] https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse

[3] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/crea...

[4] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/crea...

[5] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/crea...

[6] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/

[7] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.09795.pdf "SciTS: A Benchmark for Time-Series Databases in Scientific Experiments and Industrial Internet of Things" (2022)

[8] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/incubation-engineering/apm/apm... https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/incubation-engineering/apm/apm...

[9] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705091...
The whole point of automation is to reduce the necessity of human labor. Automation is not a bad thing itself but people view it negatively as it does impact their livelihoods and that's understandable.

This is a big issue, because I think these sort of tools and technique should be absolutely welcomed. Reducing the barrier of entry and the effort required to produce these works of art is a good thing. And I'm not here to call artists greedy, not at all. But it seems like our socio-economic system is becoming at odds with innovation when it comes to automation. Specially AI that benefits from all the public work that is available!

In any case, this is not really a problem that Netflix needs to solve, this is a problem that we need to tackle as societies; what should we do about it? This is not really an answer I have but I think it's something worth discussing. I do feel like this debate has been mostly unproductive in that there's a side that says "we want this" and another side that says "but you're stealing from artists" without ever really going into the fundamentals of why we wouldn't want automation to be a thing.
No, just digging up a thousand tonnes of uranium and then lugging spent fuel around in several thousand tonnes of copper casks every three to six years.

Way easier than recycling a few GWh of batteries every 20 years, or simply using a pumped hydro station.
ChatGPT Stole Your Work. https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-generative-artificial-in...
The fact that there are people who think GPT is a living, sentient being because it can autocomplete its way to sentences like, “Of course I have real feelings”… including people who are engineers, who understand how language models work… should tell you that some humans have a pretty strange idea of what humanity consists of.

It’s like confusing a photo of a person with a person, and a photo generator with a human cloning machine, and saying, “But when I look in the mirror, that’s me! So I am equal to my visual reflection.” Language is the I/O of a cognition process that is itself only a small part of being human and alive.

A lot of activities and jobs do use humans as “cogs” in a machine, and in some cases an AI might make a better cog, but I think some commenters do underestimate the amount of context humans bring to various tasks. You don’t have to analyze the humans to see how complex the jobs are, just try to do the jobs by AI, or watch as others try. Like try to make a self-driving car; it’s hard. Try to replace a cook at Denny’s with a robot. Or a lawyer. See how long the tail of edge cases is.