skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn't: it's neither about websites nor GraphQL.

The query language is substantially more powerful than GraphQL, much closer to SQL. And the idea is unifying and querying any kind of data, not just websites but also databases, raw files, ML models, anything at all.

For example, the cargo-semver-checks semver linter for Rust uses Trustfall to abstract over the different JSON formats in which different Rust versions describe a library's API. The lints are written as Trustfall queries (GraphQL isn't expressive enough for this!) and don't care about how the underlying data is represented. Recently, I was able to tweak how those JSON files are used to serve data, and sped up cargo-semver-checks by over 2000x -- without changing a single query. More info here: https://predr.ag/blog/speeding-up-rust-semver-checking-by-ov...

If you want to see more of it in action, there's a 10min talk featuring demos and real-world use cases here: https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/how-to-query-almost-everythin...
Is there a reason we couldn't grind the blades to sand-like pieces and use it as concrete material?
This is one of those things that make me feel old (45 here). Articles like these would be the kind I’d either read or write in my 20s. There’s a sense of self importance that you have at that age and everything feels important and new to you. Now I just can’t be bothered to read things like this since I know better.

It helps to at least know the age of the author. There are many articles out there that make me shake my head, but if I knew the author was still relatively young, I’d at least understand the context something was written.
"US playgrounds: fears grow over health risks from rubber particles"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/25/lawmakers-co...

"Profiling and potential cancer risk assessment on children exposed to PAHs in playground dust/soil: a comparative study on poured rubber surfaced and classical soil playgrounds in Seoul "

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31134396/

"substances of concern that were recently detected in recycled tire rubber samples.3 The nine chemicals are benzo(a)pyrene, hexavalent chromium, zinc, 4-methyl--pentanone, benzothiazole, lead, dibutyl phthalate, diethylhexyl phthalate, and 4-tert-octylphenol. UC staff identified acute, subchronic, and chronic TRVs, where available, for the oral, inhalation, and dermal routes"

https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/Final-Report-on-Technical-S...

There's a vast array of stuff on google if you search for playground cancer.
I shared this sentiment in one of my comments recently: “certainly I can’t be the only one who wants their search engine to search, right?”
Would you mind sharing your thought process to get from `daily_users` to `reqs_per_sec`? I'm playing with some estimations of `concurrent_users` for a basic website, and I'd be quite interested in the breakdown.
An average Ecuadorean robusta is better than most Vietnamese robustas. Suedhang, the German boutique cafe quoted in the story, has only Ecuadorean and Indian robusta in stock (as canephora, its scientific name), and the Indian variety is only available in a Robusta/Arabica espresso blend, like the one the Boston-based roaster at the end of the article mentions not hating.[1][2]

Couldn't speak to Black Sheep Coffee, which is a UK chain and is only opening its first US location in Dallas this week. Despite promoting robusta's higher caffeine content, it also doesn't sell a caffeinated Vietnamese robusta, only from "southern India, Papua New Guinea, Brazil".[3] Despite the founder's dislike of Arabica, Black Sheep also serves it.[4] Only two of their five beans for shipping are robusta; one's a light/medium roast from India suggested only for espresso, and the other—which is from Vietnam—is decaf.[5]

tl;dr: If you can get an Ecuadorian or Indian light roast robusta/canephora, it probably won't be terrible. Or you can just get a local roaster's average-quality bean and not worry about it.

1: https://www.suedhang.org/en/product/chakra-warmi-en/

2: https://www.suedhang.org/en/product/cuerpo/

3: https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/black-sh...

4: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/black-sheep-coffee-lo...

5: https://leavetheherdbehind.com/collections/all/beans
Checking out Mach and seeing it's written in Zig. Bit surprised to see it being "used in anger" given that Zig is currently at 0.10.1. Can you share how your experience with the language has been so far? Thanks.
Nobody wants you to carve out your eyes. They want you to stop shoving eyes into everything you touch.

Meanwhile, I'll decide what I must or must not adapt to, thank you.
Perhaps if it was retrained on a corpus that included its own prompt, it might be hallucinating that a date in 2022 is what's most likely to come after it has regurgitated its prompt!
Don't listen to your brain, it doesn't even have arms, stop letting it push you into things or hold you back.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMY6dDMx7/
Twitter outage sees users told they are over daily tweet limit
You do sound a bit rude. It’s certainly not a given. I know probably more than most here about DNGs and other image processing. Check my profile/websites.

I have a camera that shoots cinemaDNG, but I would not necessarily expect resolve to support a single dng frame. Plenty of dumb things out there, and no need to be snarky when someone learns something.
I'm about to start implementing this sort of thing myself. We have a handful of webservices, an online store, a customer design tool and some third party connections to customers and suppliers. Then we have a factory of machines and operator stations that need to fetch and display information.

My thinking was to use something like Kafka, leaning towards NATS, as a big pub sub pipe.

I'm not looking for scaling. We are slow and don't need real time. What I need is uniformity. I don't want this connection to interface through FTP while that one is over a REST API. I'd prefer one connection for our main system and little interfaces to connect everything to the same pipe.
Why the Odds Are Stacked Against a Promising New Covid Drug
Of course KBM is better, and the touchpads involve a lot of pausing to make up for the less immediate reaction, but the fact that the experience is enjoyable at all is surprising. The form factor and the ability to be able to instantly pick up were you left off for a 10-20 mins session more than makes it up for the awkwardness.

Edit: I guess it also help that while I've played Stellaris extensively on a desktop, I never played ONI outside of the deck, so I don't know what I'm missing.
? The most watched news media in America is Fox News. The leading party in Congress is the Republican party. In actual statistical terms and in actual political power terms, that's the definition of mainstream, but somehow those who have the power like to pretend Hollywood has it, so they can sell a narrative of victimhood even as their culture is, just as a matter of fact, the dominant one.
It clearly lacks a meta lesson about letting go of strong opinions, especially when he held them before doing any prior research.
The effects of me printing dollars and the government printing dollars are the same. They just don't want me cutting in to their profit.

The US government is only authorized to coin money. That is making coins out of metal.
It's possible the work started in October 2022 and only became public knowledge in 2023.

Shrug. Just sayin'.

p.s. Gwern, your website is prolific. Thank you!
The actual activities involved in gardening or homesteading-related hobbies change on a nearly weekly basis. It's maple sugaring season now. After that it will be time to look for deer antler sheds. A few weeks after that it will be time to forage for water cress and wild parsnips.
It's certainly a better story than the one told by Washington, of an unknown coincidental accident with unknown actors.

I would be surprised if anyone outside the US media sphere even gives that implausible happenstance a serious consideration.
> it’s possible to have some kind of model representation of higher-level processes exposed as an interface

Basically it's not. The weights of neural networks -- which are trained, not designed -- are not ordered or separated in any organized or meaningful way.

The only ways to approach this for a neural network would be either (a) manually tag the training set with some sort of "thought-process" annotations, so those can be trained as part of the model, or (b) train another neural network using the internal state of ChatGPT compared against such tags of output it generates.

Either of these approaches encounters the scalability problem of creating those tags. One could imagine creating a model of thought to automate that process, but that I surmise is a _much_ more difficult problem than building ChatGPT (which has a relatively simple design).

Another approach could be to train smaller neural networks against text that only represents certain types of thought, and then join those together into a larger network which is trained on general text (like ChatGPT). You then may have a more "ordered" final neural network product you could gain some insight into.
No, because ostensibly that is the date for the current context, which should be sometime in February if not today.
Also Paxlovid itself is hard on unhealthy kidneys, according to my doctor.
Ok but… this is so obviously a generational thing. You know who does know the YouTuber? His peers. He does not watch cheesy 80s films and you don’t watch 40s theater. People absolutely don’t need mainstream media. Mainstream media hits the lowest common denominator and tends to suck.

I think most YouTubers and uncomfortably fake to watch, but I would still prefer people watch that over mainstream tv…
FYI He was on the Lex podcast [0] ~3.5hrs

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0
Most of the interactions can be managed, but I think the message got out among primary care docs there are drug interactions and so they get scared to prescribe it. There are relatively few meds that are absolutely contraindicated, while there's a large list of meds that require some dose adjustment or holding the med for a few days. This is an issue with the ritonavir in the paxlovid, which has been extensively used in HIV treatment -- so, this isn't a new issue that we know nothing about.

And then I've heard from too many patients their doctor doesn't think they need it because they're not that sick, so it's not worth managing the drug interactions. Unfortunately, paxlovid needs to be started within five days of symptom onset, but most patients aren't going to be hospitalized within those first five days.

Given the lack of monoclonal antibodies, the potential mutagenic effect of molupiravir, and the less-than-steller impact of remdesivir... if I or someone I loved got covid, I'd be jumping on paxlovid since there aren't many other options right now.
It's particularly surprising in a place where people who create software gather. You'd think we'd all know better...
Howdy! I'm the author of PhotoStructure.

If you're thinking about self-hosting anything, my first recommendation is to get your backups in order now, before doing anything else. I wrote this a while back: <https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/>. Having a full, offline backup will only cost ~$20/TiB nowadays, which is cheap insurance if whatever app you try out doesn't quite behave as you expected it to.

The second step is to make sure your server is both hardened (<https://forum.photostructure.com/t/server-hardening-for-begi...>), and ideally, only available via a VPN (like TailScale) or at least via a reverse proxy (Cloudflare has a free solution). I compared and contrasted some of these solutions (along with instructions) here: <https://photostructure.com/faq/remote-access/#accessing-your...>

The situation for self-hosting your photos just a couple years ago was pretty bleak--especially if you had hundreds of thousands (or more!) of photos. That may sound like a lot of photos, but for people shooting digital for 20+ years, it really isn't!

Whatever image manager you pick, make sure the app follows existing metadata storage standards, so in the (seemingly inevitable) future when the app is abandoned, your photos are in directory structures that make sense to you, and the work you've put into organizing them isn't locked up in unreadable databases or folder structures.

Spoiler alert: I got burned by this issue with prior apps, so I designed PhotoStructure from the ground up with exactly this in mind: <https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/#open-stan...>. Unfortunately, many/most self-hosted solutions don't handle multiple source directories and configurable destination directories.
> "Everything I can think of (drivers, screen res, multiple monitors) is incremental improvements to what we already had"

All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? (Besides, they're just improvements on what we had before so they don't count).

Apart from the drivers, screen res, multiple monitors, virtual desktops, Windows Defender, updated DirectX, newer hardware support, hypervisor isolated secure password store, app store, WiFi, audio stack with per-program volume control, OCR engine, voice recognition engine, Cortana, online backup and file and settings sync, touch UI and the $8Bn/year Surface line it enabled, improved security, hypervisor backed WSL Ubuntu and Android engines, Windows Sandbox, SSD TRIM support, Bitlocker full disk encryption, ClearType and improved fonts for screen reading, GPU accelerated compositor, face recognition biometric login, QR codes on BSODs, all of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#New_or_changed_f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_11

... what have Microsoft added or changed in Windows since XP? btw I don't even use windows and I didn't want any of those things anyway.
seriously, the about page on this dude's site is more interested in telling me he's a big fan of Slate Star Codex and Gwern than sketching any details of who he is, where he's come from, and why I should care about his opinions.

And half of what it does say about him is that he seems to have written and said a lot about why you don't need to sleep. Hell of a thing to build a reputation on.

I wonder if he's going to write a recantation of the 2020 post that's an extended fellatio session on Elon Musk next. https://guzey.com/why-is-there-only-one-elon-musk/
Dude they are running an open public taxi in Phoenix, it has the run of the whole city.
Indeed! A lot of the software is divided at most by 'industry verbiage' than it is genuine interop...

Love your website/blog... Phase deserve pinning every now and then ;)
> Thus the default is to not use them unless there is some reason to believe they are actually useful or you’re conducting research. Yolo it is just a really really bad idea.

There actually was such a reason to believe:

2021, The Lancet: "Antiviral effect of high-dose ivermectin in adults with COVID-19: A proof-of-concept randomized trial"[0]:

"[A] significant difference was found in patients with higher median plasma IVM levels (72% IQR 59–77) versus untreated controls (42% IQR 31–73) (p = 0·004)."

2021, The Japanese Journal of Antibiotics: "Global trends in clinical studies of ivermectin" (authored by 4 doctors, including Satoshi Ōmura, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on ivermectin)[1]:

"As of the 27th of February 2021, the results of 42 clinical studies worldwide have undergone meta-analysis and concluded that ivermectin is effective in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19. In the UK, a consensus-based recommendation by 75 healthcare professionals from 17 countries around the world has been carried out and submitted to the WHO to further encourage the issuance of guidelines for the use of ivermectin in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19."

2017, The Journal of Antibiotics: "Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations"[2]:

"Recent research has confounded the belief, held for most of the past 40 years, that ivermectin was devoid of any antiviral characteristics. Ivermectin has been found to potently inhibit replication of the yellow fever virus, with EC50 values in the sub-nanomolar range. It also inhibits replication in several other flaviviruses, including dengue, Japanese encephalitis and tick-borne encephalitis, probably by targeting non-structural 3 helicase activity. Ivermectin inhibits dengue viruses and interrupts virus replication, bestowing protection against infection with all distinct virus serotypes, and has unexplored potential as a dengue antiviral. Ivermectin has also been demonstrated to be a potent broad-spectrum specific inhibitor of importin α/β-mediated nuclear transport and demonstrates antiviral activity against several RNA viruses by blocking the nuclear trafficking of viral proteins. It has been shown to have potent antiviral action against HIV-1 and dengue viruses, both of which are dependent on the importin protein superfamily for several key cellular processes. Ivermectin may be of import in disrupting HIV-1 integrase in HIV-1 as well as NS-5 (non-structural protein 5) polymerase in dengue viruses."

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210325035449/http://jja-conten...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
Well TSO support is kind of important.
> This was a clear threat, clear as day, that the US could destroy Nordstream [2]. It should surprise nobody that the US was involved.

Or you could take a breath and realize that Nordstream 2 was not yet complete. It was an ongoing, non-operational project. In that context, “bringing it to an end” could easily mean not completing it. In fact, that’s the far more reasonable interpretation—-the literal physical destruction interpretation is only made by someone who wants to believe that.
For the sake of thinking outside of the box, I would want someone to comb through all data and evidence and try to find out if MAYBE the teen mental illness epidemic could be correlated to the other gigantic epidemic that is currently bringing down western civilisation: Insulin Resistance.
> They are not suicidal, I don't think.

I'm afraid something as drastic as the annihilation of Kiev will lead to actions that are beyond the usual risk assessment levels. Countries will be compelled to act, (repeated...) threats of nukes be damned. Europe will not tolerate another Nazi Germany on its borders, period.

Put another way, a massive, discontinuous step in escalation will inevitably lead to a similar step from the other side. There is no world in which Germany and Poland go "OK then" and withdraw all aid.
> Finally, a bit of advice for myself: be just a bit less confident in your beliefs & remember Joel Becker’s minute-long “hmmmmmmmmmmmm” whenever he hears you be 100% confident and just maybe stop at 95%.

Sounds like he got it.
If you have something specific that the author has gotten wrong, perhaps you should state what it is.

You write:

> Yet another article about Fuller that categorically dismisses his ideas and historical importance based on a few shallow misunderstandings that likely came from reading other shallow summaries rather than actually reading his work.

It's hardly shallow. Nevala-Lee's book is well-sourced, and the author worked closely with the BFI. The error seems to have been that past writers' MO was to uncritically take Fuller's claims (even the mutually contradictory ones—of which the book documents many) at face value.

The best evidence of shallow reading and speculative guesswork connected to this article, ironically, is the one I quoted above...
There are renal dosing standards for paxlovid. So if you have not-great kidneys, they just give you a different dose. Covid can also cause kidney damage, and kidney issues are associated with worse outcomes from covid. So, it's all a bit of a double edged sword.
That's another misconception propagate in the textbooks - and you can blame Keynes for this, it was in the Macmillan report that originated the false description. Banks do watch that issue aka "liquidity" very carefully. Part of it is that they work to keep transfers on their books as much as possible, but also borrow and lend to other banks (interbank lending market) to cover short term imbalances.

In the long term... any bank that is careful not to have too many insolvent loans is guaranteed an inflow of money from the capital and interest repayments - some of which will be on their books, and some will be coming from money deposited at other banks, effectively transferring the asset cash back.

It's actually quite an elegant system at this level. Horribly fragile with respect to losses on loans though.
CO2 is not benign, it's the cause of one of the biggest problems we have these days.
As long as the data is retained in some form - the pipeline part is irrelevant.
My morning coffee is Vietnamese instant. I pay a premium to get it here in NZ. I don't know why but the taste of Robusta grew on me. I can't get enough of it. My last time over there the resort had a huge spread of breakfast but I normally just had a coffee and a donut. I loved the taste.

I can see why people would hate it after getting used to western coffee.

Maybe it has improved? I was last there just before Covid.

Also when I was last there I had an egg coffee the beans in that could not have been local. It tasted just like a good espresso from NZ. Maybe they're starting to move toward more western flavors?
Your work future could depend on how well you can talk to AI
My main source of "internet addiction" (I don't completely agree with the term) was compulsively checking Instagram and Twitter. I allowed myself to do this during the pandemic because it was often my entire social life. But afterward, I found it interfering with my IRL social life. The Twitter habit was broken when Musk took over Twitter, since I was unhappy with the changes and took the opportunity to delete my accounts. For Instagram, I've found the iOS app "ScreenZen" to be great at breaking up my habit. It adds a timer before opening selected apps, giving you an opportunity to change your mind, and a timer after which the app will automatically lock again, preventing mindless scrolling. Just 60 seconds to bail out is enough to reduce 90% of my Instagram usage, and after two months of this, I find the impulse to check Instagram is almost gone.
The smell of the stuff you get from the hardware store ought to be warning enough that it shouldn't be used carelessly.
I’m responding to

> less cultural cohesion due to hyper diversity in memes resulting in fewer shared experiences

My take is it’s a bunch of people who are out of touch with the youth assuming that the youth feel out of touch with each other.
That “if” part carries a lot of weight. There’s a whole branch of questions around the quality and suitability of tools available - for example, I was surprised when we hired a couple of JS specialists and their Next.JS project left me surprised to see how many areas it was behind Django circa a decade ago when it came to basic things like performance, authentication, internationalization, etc. and that massive tool chain soaked up a good chunk of time on an ongoing basis.

The deeper question is how often you actually benefit from code reuse. There are certainly some areas where you can share things but you also run into a lot of coordination concerns because the environment for JS in a browser is not the same as in Node, which increases the friction of sharing, and a large chunk of the benefits are things like data validation which can also be substantially eased with things like JSON Schema. Simplifying those test matrices and formalizing your boundaries has more value than I tend to assume at first.