skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nuclear salt reactor one is the answer to the question: "How can we make rocket engine testing more dangerous."
Great question. The three you've listed have their own great use cases as a visual spreadsheet layout for databases.

Some of our features that really help us stand out from this particular pack are the fact you can use EZQL in Outerbase to ask natural language questions on your database without knowing how to query (we'll even expose the SQL if you're interested in what was produced, great for learning SQL). Very helpful for larger databases. In addition to that you can take these queries and create data visualization right in our tool.
Yeah I feel this point isn't well known, but likely will be soon.

I love HN because many of us actually listen to each other and debate in good faith, helping each other sharpen our views.

Glad you found it helpful.
> Our paradigm is exploring the functional take.

The operative word there is 'exploring'. In practice, hooks are still basically OOP, albeit masquerading as FP. You just shuffled the state into a shadowy realm adjacent to the component where it's harder for developers to see. I know a lot of JS developers are allergic to writing the 'class' keyword (even though JS doesn't really have classes in the first place), and I guess hooks help them sleep easier at night by allowing them to believe that they're writing their code in a functional way. But they usually aren't. And I think that misdirection is the source of a lot of the confusion out there regarding hooks.

"The greatest trick the OOP devil ever pulled was convincing the world that state didn't exist"
Oh well that makes perfect sense, clipping it gives them plausible deniability.
> Let's ask chatgpt

No, let's ask you why you envision one being important enough that the tool be trained to treat it differently. Rulers measure the size of books and bullets the same.

> grass is a type of plant, while gender is a complex social construct ...

As you say, it's not a tool for answers. It's easy to make it say "sex is a synonym for gender". They call it prompting for a reason. You choose what you want it to tell you.

> Asking ai for measurements is a bad idea

We aren't talking about AIs though, we're discussing LLMs which are models of the usage of human language. An AI would presumably be an entire being with personality, etc, who could choose to answer a question or not and would lie for its own reasons.

> [LLMs] take in written word, and spits out statistically correlated variations on those words. It's a bias-in bias-out machine.

Yeah, if I ask it for a story set in Scotland the weather should probably be cloudy, and if I ask it for a story set in the mountains there should probably be snow, etc. The bias is the product. If it wasn't biased towards representing reality as described by humans it wouldn't be able to write stories about humans for humans.

This is where you're using the word bias in a measurement sense but applying an emotional exclusionary sense.

> > you can't ask a lying tool this [...]

> A little bit better prompt writing and you can get a reasonable answer [proceeds to ask the existing tool]

Yeah, that's my point. In your future the machine would quiz you to determine if you would misuse the data before it would tell you which professions are male/female dominant. Otherwise it'd tell you that crab-fishing is female dominant to deprogram you of latent stereotypes.

The only reason you can ask GPT this is because people have said these things and it's modeling their words, and is capable of doing so because it hasn't been content-filtered in this area yet. You're capable of getting it to write sex-unspecified characters by simply asking for it and it doesn't block anyone else's ability to get untainted output.
This is one of the things that LLMs seem to be struggling with. They're very good at tone, and feeling right without actually being write.

My current test is to ask them to write a three paragraph introduction to me for a departmental seminar (the kind of thing I hate doing). Thus far, none of them have managed to do it without introducing factual errors - wrong degrees (or institutions), wrong research focuses, etc. But they're all credible sounding in their wrongness.
He claims (or at least implies) to have a lot of contacts in the industry, especially among the cool known brands. If true, relatively few people can claim so.
The gas prices recently have been sky high, but earlier that was not the case. Gas heaters are cheaper and are in general more efficient than electricity. My hvac was down this winter for a couple of weeks and despite the high prices of gas, it was still more expensive (orders of magnitude) to heat the whole house using electric heaters (that my landlord graciously arranged).

This makes no sense.
> Lots of people outraged here, but did any organization step up to fill this (perceived) gap?

Well, quay already exists.

> Everyone around here wants people to pay $20/month for some newspaper, and spend $0/month on infrastructure that helps run the internet.

And you believe that those 2 ideas are both held by the same people?
Years of the electricity provider being liable for record breaking wildfires and passing the buck on to the consumer is what’s happening
Has it struck anyone else that HW avatars creepily resemble chess pawns? Freudian slip on Zuck's part, maybe?

The very last arbiter of reality I want is Merc Fuckerberg.
Python went from 3.9 to 3.10 some time ago. And many people with YAML-based pipelines found out that 3.10 is turned into decimal 3.1, and ended up trying to build with an ancient version, because quoting was optional (and because YAML is a terrible language).
Free data-center heat is allegedly saving a struggling public pool $24K a year
True, but I could run my gas heat with a portable generator. Most of my neighbors with electric heat could not. Same with my pellet stove, it requires power for the auger and blower, but significantly less than an all electric system. I think the right thing to do is to ensure the public is aware of the tradeoff and if indoor air quality is a concern, then ensure proper ventilation in the building code. I worry about going all in on electric when reliability is not robust.
Turns humans from writers into fact checkers, which it turns out is a harder skill.
USA's DoJ isn't in charge of other countries DoJ / equivalents. If you're going to confess to a crime you committed outside of the USA you might want to get that country also to sign onto immunity.

Or you might want to be confessing to a country you're a resident of so that you have actual standing to oppose being extradited.
The example I gave was using this as a backend for a chat bot in a private server and i'm not comfortable sharing the prompt, however if you look up the leaked bing prompt that might give you some ideas for how to prompt an LLM into being a chatbot that can answer coding questions. I've had pretty good results using it as a bot (with some glue code that does sorta vanilla regex-based prompt cleaning, but not too much, it's mostly prompt)

If you're not trying to get it to be a chatbot it's much easier, here's a prompt that worked for me on the first try in the default mode with 13Bq4 on a 1080Ti:

Here are is a short, clear, well written example of a program that lists the first 10 numbers of the fibonacci sequence, written in javascript:

```js

and when given that it finished it with:

function Fib(n) {
if (n == 0 || n == 1) return 1;
else return Fib(n-1)+Fib(n-2);
}
var i = 0;
while (i < 10) {
console.log("The number " + i + " is: " + Fib(i));
i++;
}
```
\end{code}
Imagine the devastation wrought by automatic looms, that put all the weavers out of a job!

97% of jobs used to be working on the farm. Now it's something like 2%.
https://grist.org/energy/electrician-shortage-electrify-ever...

Extremely relevant story
Very true. But that is not the only alternative gas heating appliance available either.
sure. See image on the tweet that started this thread.

Now, take a look at these hands from MJ3: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/wlujgw/midjourn...

It's important to note that MJ3 reliably did not produce human looking hands.

It's equally important to note that MJ5 usually does, at least from a quick count/survey of the hands shown in the provided image.

Is that sufficient? If not, what proofs would be sufficient?
> It's not even clear what people are upset about.

The upset seems centered around the perception that rules were changed ex post facto to protect political donors.

I get that impression from HN, from newspapers of all ilks and biases as well.
Or the US could start burying its residential power lines like the other industrialized countries do. Day-long power outages just do not happen there.
> I am one of those who has been harmed.

How were you harmed specifically?

> you will not see the interest rate on savings accounts go up as much as it might have otherwise.

Bullshit. Interest rates for savings accounts are and have been an absolute joke. Are they going to become a more hilarious joke? Probably but seriously, who cares?

> I'm not saying this outcome is terrible, perhaps it was the best solution for the system as a whole.

Yes, it is the best solution, otherwise you'd have written a completely different statement if the bank run went viral and you would have been really harmed.
They really think we're idiots!
3. Let paying teams sponsor free teams. Maybe allow multiple organizations to sponsor a single team. (The free team should be able to refuse sponsorship on a case by case basis)
What if you get fired from your job because your mandatory community service is at the same time as your shift?

All I'm saying is it's not clear-cut that community service is less disruptive to the poor than a fine. Maybe the fine should be a percentage of your income instead of a fixed number, as is done in some places.
Maybe you can fetch the with an await and pass it down as a prop to the component in renderToString?
It's pretty easy to get to $700/mo. There's a lot of old housing stock without good insulation, leaky windows, etc. Leaving a typical server on is like $70. I can see a 3bd 2ba apartment easily hitting $700/mo with an active family living in it. Add in an EV, that's another $50/mo right there, maybe more!
React's first implementation (on top of Ocaml) is from 2011 I believe.
I think the thing is that you're focused on this specific implementation detail of React. I just don't care. Not that you're not right, either! It's just a matter of competing interests.

I'm running two businesses with a third on the way. I have bigger problems than people reinventing stuff with no benefits compared to what we were doing 20 years ago.

I'm writing software every day, so I'm still involved in front-line work, but I'm interested in being the level of productive most people aren't.

So the bigger questions on my mind are things like, "What knowledge can I build up that doesn't become obsolete?" "What social effects drive adoption that endanger those goals?"

Those are questions that have, at least immediately, very little to do with implementation details, and are questions that help me navigate whether to ignore new technologies all together, or when I identify something new when I decide to adopt it.

A part of that is looking for cues from maintainers that say, "Hey, we care that you're shipping, and we're not going to endanger your labor spent learning our intellectual property."
I lived in central SF for many years. I prefer a cool house (some visitors might say “cold”). I was able to go months at a time, winter and summer, without using gas heat at all.

Of all the areas that could manage this, SFBA seems up there in terms of feasibility at least.
No kidding. In Northern Canada in the winter my apartment is $50/mo electricity, including heat. Caveat, new building.
My first job out of college was like this. My manager knew I had no work and had no particular interest in letting me take on anything I proposed or found. I ended up quitting a few months in because (on top of a few other issues) I found it way too soul-destroying to have nothing to do.
Meanwhile tsconfig.json keeps getting bigger, with combinatorial explosion of Haskel like feature sets, regarding how a source file is to be understood.

At least we get lots of opportunities for interview questions.
Right on!

Just checked out your website. I'm also doing Software consulting in Arizona, would love to grab coffee (digital or otherwise) and compare notes.

If you are in the PHX area, checkout https://www.heatsynclabs.org/ - they do Coffee & Code every Wednesday.
> but we could also materially support efforts to end armed conflict.

... if we wanted to ...
Comparing affluent ivory-tower digital landlords to vulnerable people being blamed for things outside their control is definitely one of the decisions of all time. It also seems like a lot of exercise just to feel justified in discarding a large group of opinions.

People start generalizing about groups like this when they've stopped caring about negative policy consequences which affect those groups. Politicians who blame wage stagnation on immigrants do not expect to have those immigrants who gain citizenship vote for them. Why do you think people might have stopped caring what happens to the group designated "tech bros"?
The sheer amount of third-world problems concentrated in a rich state like California just never ceases to amaze me. You will get better power supply in rural Bulgaria.
Good luck with that. I hope it works, but I have come to have a grudging respect for the ingenuity of the scammers.

Lately, I have been getting a dozen or so "We've Locked Your Account" phishing texts per day. I will tend to get them in "bursts," where several come in, within a few minutes.
It makes very little sense to treat depositors as risk takers. These aren't people investing in stocks or bonds. These accounts are places to park your cash. It would be very bad to discourage deposits.

Putting a ceiling on FDIC insurance is effectively an outdated idea that doesn't work.

Take the example of a company that keeps payroll in a cash account. Let's say that company has 100 employees. Should the FDIC treat the account as belonging to 1 person or 100? If you say 1, I say you are irrational.
> the capital class has been able to take a bigger piece of the profit pie without sharing.

In the current world, where do you think a lot of the capital class is able to get their capital?

Technological progress, and especially the Internet, has made much bigger markets out of what were previously lots of little markets, and now th "winner take all/most" dynamics make it so that where you previously could have, for example, lots of "winners" in every city (e.g. local newspapers selling classified ads), where now Google, FB and Amazon gobble up most ad dollars - I think someone posted that Amazon's ad business alone is bigger than all US (maybe more than that?) newspaper ad businesses.
The pro sports restrictions are because they have a union and a collective bargaining agreement. If it weren't for that all the draft, trade, free agency, and so on rules would be unenforceable.
Can the images be updated after the organizational data is gone? If not, is there a security concern, since vulns are likely to be discovery in future?
C#11 defaults to nullability and has top-level functions giving it a big advantage over Java. The idiomatic Pascal case takes some getting used to but it's worth it.
My apologies. That was presumptuous. I just think of things like Unix and C interfaces and wonder where you're getting those ideas from.
From an employee perspective I don't think it's really worth being outside London right now. I want to live somewhere where there are more than a handful of places that I could work locally (and I don't count companies bashing out websites in PHP etc). I'm not really interested in working for startups, but if I were I would definitely not move across the country for a single employer. It's just not worth the risk. It's sad, because I grew up elsewhere in the country and it would be great for those areas to have the same opportunities as London, but it is what it is.
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I've been streaming our Linux gaming show on Twitch since the Justin.tv days. Not much has changed from my POV.

Granted, I treat Twitch as a CDN that occasionally cuts me a cheque.
Only If you want to keep doing it the old lematization way.
WotC tried to retroactively revoke an open gaming license that had been in widespread use since 2002. They had a legal theory why they could do this, but that theory contradicted quite a few public statements they had made on record. IP lawyers had very mixed opinions.

Many TT-RPG players enjoy reading rules carefully and figuring out fun ways to "exploit" them. So everyone jumped on WotC's changes and dissected the implications. And many companies in the larger ecosystem quickly announced plans to ship their own games competing with D&D.

WotC decided to back down and to just use Creative Commons, which largely resolved the immediate issue.
Presumably it will improve the same way humans did -- once it's roughly on par with us it'll be just as capable of innovating and trying new things. The only difference is that for humans, trying a truly new approach to something isn't really done that often by most. "GPT-9" might regularly and automatically try recomputing all the "tricky problems" it remembers from the past with updated models, or with a few tweaked parameters and then analyze whether any of these experiments provided "better" solutions. And it might do this operation during all idle cycles continuously.

Honestly as a human who grasps how the economy works, this doesn't sound like a good thing, but I don't see any path to trying the fundamental changes that would be required for really good general AI to not be an absolute Depression generator.

The only thing I'm wondering is, will the wealthiest ones, who actually have any power to influence these fundamental thing, figure this out before it's too late? I really doubt your Musks and Bezoses would enjoy living out their lives on ring-fenced compounds or remote islands while the rest of the world devolves into the Hunger Games.
I'm always wondering, why it took web devs so many years to create some meaningful reusable UI components (and I still don't see a wide adoption of something like that)? I just can't understand how reimplementing even such things as simple buttons every time from scratch is productive
Burying is a good idea and I'm a fan of it for sure. The issues I've seen on my block is the transformer out on the pole fails about every 7 years.

As an aside, it's an interesting failure scenario because there's a loud explosion outside my window, then I get 120v 50hz power from whatever is left of the transformer so half the house lights work at an odd warm glow. :D
Oh, here is another 1 I caught:

> There is currently no way to write an error boundary as a function component. However, you don’t have to write the error boundary class yourself. For example, you can use react-error-boundary instead.

https://react.dev/reference/react/Component#catching-renderi...
Correct. The original phrasing is a question of universality, the new phrasing is one of existence. Gpt4 continued to explain the joke in terms of the former when it should have been able to adjust for the latter. It has never heard the latter, but it sounded close enough.

On the upside, this makes for a good way to test the logical abilities of a LLM. On the downside, whatever part was considered a "joke" before has been completely obliterated.
Runtimes exist above processors, you know.

Here's types existing at runtime: https://go.dev/play/p/rc--yVzJ9bt
Yea microsoft mostly cares about the enterprise market now. They prefer people pirating windows over using other operating systems because it ensures their enterprise productivity software monopoly.
> instead of wasting time trying to make UI behave properly across a plethora of browsers, OSes and platforms

Cross-browser compatibility was the problem that jquery was trying to solve back in 2008 or thereabouts. Not a problem that react is trying to solve in 2023.
Are you a PGE customer? I only have them for gas, but this winter has been crazy expensive.
> I think Web Components, maybe with Lit or Svelte, are making more sense for beginning dev

Beginner devs want to get a job, so they should probably spend their time learning the framework that dominates the ecosystem. Lit and Svelte are cool, but I don't think they're a great target for a first time web developer. Svelte maybe. But definitely not Lit - it's a relatively new library and a moving target without a lot of adoption, meaning there is a sparse ecosystem to fall back on, and you'll need to fill in a lot of gaps yourself (both in terms of libraries for common functionality, and docs/stackoverflow answers for telling you how to do things). Experienced devs can read the source and official docs to figure it out, but newbies need more hand holding.
I go all year (since July is the coldest) with just a 750w space heater, but I also prefer cold.
Decoupling your personal future from Silicon Valley devs' pursuit of promotions is always a great idea.
> Gas heaters are cheaper and are in general more efficient than electricity.

If you count heat pumps as electricity, this hasn't been true for a long, long time.
The German media made a documentary about this (~2013) and I started to fly with a special mask capable of filtering the toxic fumes. People kind of stared at me, when it was not normal to fly with a mask..
Crazy, that it took more than 10 years before things are finally starting to change.
We removed boilerplate for higher complexity. We made the 90% cases simpler but overly complicated critical paths.

So many useMemo, useEffect, useCallback madness was trivial with basic class component lifecycle.
Yes, I find that students straight out of school understand the concepts of coding, but have trouble applying their knowledge. Knowing how to write a function in Python is one thing, but if you can't install it on a computer and use it to solve a problem, you're not going to be productive unless we have other employees who will do those things for you. And some organizations do. Particularly the large organizations that hire lots of students straight out of school.
That's a great idea! Similar to the hacker news /best page, where stories of the past 7 days are sorted by their upvote count, we could provide a page where those stories are sorted by their upvoteRate. Should be easy to do.
This is great! Thanks for BigQuery integration, I was passively looking for an alternative interface. Looking forward to try it. Possible feature request (not sure if you have it) - BigQuery creates temporary tables after each query run. When exploring the data it would be super cool to write queries sequentially by using those temporary tables. I do it in BigQuery UI, but it's quite tedious.
It is actually much harder skill. And what worse is that any successful check makes the future checks harder. But there might be no significant improvement on the quality, just the difficulty of detecting the fallacy.
>But it is sad that US comes to the same conclusion as China.

Not if that conclusion is correct though. Both China and the US think the sky looks blue and the ocean is wet. Both are concerned about the power of social media to shape the narrative for millions or billions of people.
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