skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is, practically speaking, an enormous difference though!

Any CDN (CloudFront, CloudFlare, etc) coupled with any blob storage (S3 and others) vs the following:

- Servers to run your node process

- Load balancing to handle distributing traffic between several servers for your SSR’ed app

How do you then run and update your servers? You now need to start thinking about zero-downtime rollouts, and grab something like ECS or the big hammer k8s. You can still handhold your own EC2 instances, but then you’re now home brewing a solution.

The simplification of infrastructure that “static files” bring is not to be underestimated :)
I don’t think it’s a SWE thing at all. Just bog standard human behavior.

People like consistency. They hate change. If they get used to a specific tool or way of doing things, I’m pretty sure you’ll find similar behaviors.

The key is time spent with a tool. I would expect if you took away an engineer’s favorite CAD software, even if it costs many thousands of dollars, you’d see a similar reaction. Would they be able to do their job with another tool? Certainly. Will you hear about it? Even more certain.
Absolutely not. If it was just an accent, I'd like back all those times my father couldn't help with my Spanish homework.
Enthusiasm aside, I'm waiting a few years from now to see how easy it will be to self manage all those hardwares, change or upgrade servers, disks, ram, etc... I'm not an advocate for the cloud (all my businesses are served from selft-hosted bare machines) but it sounds like a mode effect.
Is it cbt focused? What is your methodology here (there's different types of therapy).
In some countries, the suppression and sidelining of the voice of the common person in favour of the peculiar priorities of the liberal middle class dominating mainstream media which ultimately led to things like the rise of Trump, Brexit and currently the growing revolt against woke culture as awareness of it has gradually broached the mainstream.

Related has been the destructive/enabling effects of social media and their particular efficacy in the scaling of division and discord and their amplifying of obnoxious voices on each side of the political spectrum.
After the Better Help fiasco, I’d imagine people would be very hesitant to use something like this without some kind of third-party auditing and certification that their data aren’t being used to sell them stuff.
You are at least 23 days late: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186160

Also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35210093

Go faster of you want to succeed on such an obvious idea.

Do you have cofounders? Are you in SV? What about fund raising? Are the questions i would ask myself. And also you need to hire one of the bests.

Edit: not about microsoft 360, it's just about my comment.
This is still fallout from the wirecard debacle.
Agreed. Lack of comments and lack of proper schema enforcement makes JSON a junk pile of a data format.

Definitely not an improvement over XML. Hopefully the next popular standard data format will learn from the past and take the best of previous attempts.
>"How often do you have drugs or alcohol?"

>"What medication are you taking?"

Um.. Is this HIPAA compliant?
I don't think I can do justice to the whole history of why there are so many Vietnamese-run sushi restaurants serving this style of "kimchi" in this country, sorry. I can barely even explain the crispy asparagus and raw bell pepper maki.
Yes, long dark winters are a known factor contributing to suicide
> lack of static and algebraic types in Elixir, which makes debugging very difficult

In about 6 years of working with Elixir, I've found it easier to debug than pretty much every other language I've ever worked in. But to be fair, I've mostly been working on code I've written myself in that time (although you'd be surprised what you forget in a year and then go back to).

You can also add typespecs; I know it's opt-in, but it's something, and it will get checked.
I thought the libertarians were saying “it’s a private company so they choose what to host”.
How would you drive down cost in housing? Automate building prefabricated homes of a simple common designs. Use smaller lots of land. Build smaller units. Build higher to put more units on the same land. Build multi-family/apartment style to reduce single family home costs (siding/roofing/boiler/yard/etc). Basically all the things government tends to ban and populace tends to frown upon.

Most stats have shown we haven't really made much labor efficiencies on housing construction. No one wants to live in a prefabricated / factory built home, which is what would drive down the labor costs dramatically. That said I'm kind of a weirdo and like to browse the container home websites frequently, lol.

Further, modern homes are bigger (and nicer) than our parents or their parents generation lived in.

Couple that with the land component being basically inflationary due to natural scarcity PLUS government zoning rules restricting lot sizes to be artificially high, banning multi-family construction, etc.

You have a lot (basically all) tipping the needle towards higher cost.
Hilariously, if you searched for "substack" but misspelled it you would get an autocorrected search with the correct results (that is, results containing "substack").
if only this were limited to ethics and compliance.

expertise is a virtue in modern society. signaling it well is often easier and more successful than developing and maintaining it.

damn lucrative, too.

this is why we can’t have nice things.
Judging from my past experience working with Zig — now it will get many eyeballs, some of which are the best in the field.

Allowing API to change, sometimes drastically, and somehow having a way to attract best contributors does lead to a great outcome.
2000x by mass maybe, but not airborne particules, so this number is irrelevant to the discussion of clean air
>Why doesn't anybody open a food shop there?

Because they don't have as much money as other areas so people follow the money with where they provide services

>tend to lack education, including knowledge about healthy foods

This is also true and again structural - see above. Poor areas don't get school funding because school funding is based on county property taxes and thus, do more poorly than rich areas

It literally all boils down to structural inequality
I don't see that being a problem--they sold junk, and rightfully their profits will decrease because that junk was returned.

They wouldn't have this problem if they sold quality products.
Late to the party but I think they're referring to the style guide of the New Yorker magazine [0] which calls for diaeresis marks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker#Style
Ask HN: What's the best framework for text classification (few-shot learning)?
I am looking for software to classify documents into 10-20 categories.
The documents are about half-screen to screen long.

There are some labeled data (about 50-80 labeled documents per category. not 500 per category), so a few-shot learning might be an option.

Algorithms used: it might be something like KNearestNeighbor or some ML/Neural networks (transformers? LLM?).
Should just do the proper classification.

Some restrictions:
It should be a "ready to use" pipeline with documentation about training the model, parameter optimization etc.
If possible - there should be some way to use this framework/library without Python (I'm not a Python developer)
For example, the [1] and [2] allow to use command-line interface for everything - it seems using Python is optional for these frameworks.
The SetFit framework (see [3] and [4]) looks quite promising (good results with 8 labeled samples per class!). But requires doing everything in Python.

[1] https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/supervised-tutorial.html

[2] https://neuml.github.io/txtai/pipeline/text/labels/

[3] https://github.com/huggingface/setfit

[4] https://www.philschmid.de/getting-started-setfit
I just finished The Prince podcast. Pretty good. I learned quite a bit. The later episodes cover how the CCP deals with criticism.

The Prince: Searching for Xi Jinping

"Xi Jinping is the most powerful person in the world. At China’s 20th Communist Party congress in October he secured a third term as party chief, and may rule China for the rest of his life.

But the real story of China’s leader remains a mystery. The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong finds out how he rose to the top in our eight-part podcast series. The Prince is the epic story of Mr Xi’s turbulent past, how he has changed China and how he is trying to change the world."

https://www.economist.com/theprincepod

--

This podcast is worthy enough to overcome my distain for The Economist. (I canceled my subscription over their endorsement for the Iraq War.)

It's not quite as over produced as the Radiolab genre. The signal is discernible from the noise without excess effort.

I'm liking the followup Drum Tower podcast so far. But it's too soon to cast judgement.
Yes, it is, you're right, maybe we'll add this as a feature as well
I almost look at it the same way I'd look at Duchamp putting a urinal in a gallery or taping a banana to a wall. It's not the work itself it's the context.
Such an odd decision to make from Twitters perspective.

On substack, it seems to me the quality of the content there is in part at least due to paying creators based on subscriptions, vs e.g. medium which I believe pays based on how many minutes people spend reading. It seems that business models that are subscription based, and models that promote low quality click bait like content are not mutually exclusive. I hope the short form of social media content doesn't lead to substack loosing what makes it great.

On a side note, I wonder how this post in particular made the front page, I have been expecting it for a few days but none of the posts so gained traction.
That's pretty much my point actually: the art world keeps repeating some things as true, while the general population completely disagrees. It's like how architects keep saying "ornament is a crime", while most people want it.

I don't doubt your competence nor your intentions, but do you not agree that marketing to billionaires is not a strong correlation of the value of a piece of art?
>the context is that you're saying we need to force people to work under the threat of losing their livelihood or they can't be fulfilled.

That's one (bad) way to frame the context of the conversation. The better way is that the need to work is intrinsic to our psyche and core to our self-worth, but the ability to self-actualize is not. The need to constantly work has been a steady feature of our environment ever since we left the trees. Self-actualization, on the other hand, has not historically been a part of this. Meaning in human lives has largely been external, deriving from one's place in the social hierarchy. And work was a key facilitator in securing ones social status.

It should be a given that drastically changing the environment away from the historical baseline will have serious psychological ramifications. The progress of technology has had strong impact, but the social environment overlaid on the technological milieu has largely remained constant. So people got by mostly just fine. The internet has changed this calculus and we've seen widespread psychological damage as a result. AI stands to explosively accelerate this transformation.

What I am asking is whether people as a whole will be better off without necessary work being a driving force in their lives. People like you take it as axiomatic that a post-work society will be better, and offer misplaced moralistic arguments in favor of it. All I am saying is that its absolutely not axiomatic and should be considered directly on its merits and demerits. We've already seen many of the problems I'm talking about materialize.

>And I wonder if those blue-collar workers would agree that guaranteed income would be "taking away" their purposes

For gods sakes, this has nothing to do with the blue collar, white collar division. It's a division between the self-actualizers and non-self-actualizers. I used "class" as a generic grouping term. Although I expect the non-self-actualizers to be overrepresented among blue collar workers. That is, people who don't have the skill or the interest to engage in intellectual pursuits, but just want to make an honest living and take pride in their work.

>The least we can do is not pretend that this arrangement is somehow created for their benefit.

That's obviously not what I'm doing. Spare me these silly moralistic arguments. We need to be willing to discuss this issue as plainly as we can, not be hamstrung by misplaced political correctness.
And don't forget his uncle works for Nintendo!
That's the way it is done right now: by playing it against other software implementations and judging them in the exact same way they would judge humans.

Stockfish has an Elo rating over 3500 in spite of no human being even close to that.
> I'd expect a lot more differences, bordering on unintelligible, before I call it a dialect.

I'm not sure if I could help you with examples since it's my father's tongue, not mind. But I assure you, he found it very difficult to communicate with other Spanish speakers in California. However, he did have a much easier time talking with someone that grew up in the Philippines!

I do remember very distinctly that my dad did not know the word "dormir" or "to sleep" and the word he had started with "ad" but I don't remember it.

> but for now, it just sounds like some peculiar word choices.

Remember, the area is changing. The Spanish that's being spoken in New Mexico is altering to match the wider world. If you want older dialect, you really do have to find people in their 50's or older.
How do you explain the success of American Giant? They use US grown cotton, make all their clothes in the US. Granted, you're not going to be able to buy a $5 t-shirt from them, but a $40 t-shirt that doesn't rely on crappy labor practices seems like something people have gotten behind.

Same with New Balance. Their shoes compete with Nike made in Asia, and are MIUSA.

We've just become addicted to cheap crap shoveled into Walmart and Amazon.
Minor typo near the top: 0x0800 should be 0x0080. Otherwise a very nice article, if you're interested in Rust.
> The next step would likely be a built in foundation LLM model, extending what they have supported with BERT models, etc.

I'm thinking deeper. It wouldn't surprise me if self-attention itself becomes a primitive building block of future co-processors, e.g., with instructions and memory layouts engineered to make ultra-low-precision self-attention as compute- and memory-efficient as possible. I'm expecting LLMs with hundreds of billions and eventually trillions of parameters will be able to run locally on my laptop and mobile phone, in the not-too-distant future.[a]

[a] If this sounds far-fetched, consider that you can already run LLMs with tens of billions of parameters on mobile phones: https://justine.lol/mmap/
I recall that they even tried to make Lincoln Logs out of plastic for a short while, but there was a near-universal uproar.
No worries, ChatGPT will eleminate ALL audit business in year or two anyways.
That's interesting. I personally like regexes very much but I'm slow to create them so I figured I'd ask ChatGPT a few times and just double check its work and it got them all wrong.
"What is your MBTI type?"

Surly you should also be asking for my star sign if you're operating at that level?
Your analogy has a fatal flaw:

Both my email provider and I agree on what constitutes spam. It does not decide to block my emails containing a link to a competitor as “spam.”

It does not modify my emails to insert a “warning, this link is dangerous” page for my recipients.

If it does send an email of mine mentioning a competitor, it does not block my recipients from searching for my email.

If it did any of these things, no I would not use it, and yes I would lambaste such a company and its CEO.

———

Addendum:

But even if someone did use such an email service, and didn’t criticize the company or its CEO, that would have no bearing on whether their criticism of Musk was valid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Why would you want to do that? Just curious
Ummm, about those breeder reactors ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Fast_breeder...
Libraries also have to get funding. If they don’t provide what their customers want, their customers won’t vote for the taxes they need to run. The people running these things aren’t stupid.
Can you elaborate on the BetterHelp fiasco? I know that a lot of people found it ineffective, but would love to know about a fiasco.
How could one be even remotely uncomfortable because of it?

The part that was cropped looks like a normal portrait photo.
Countless people die every day to all kinds of horrible diseases and most people were not even affected. Guess what there is even a war going on, tuberculosis, cancer and still covid.
Massive control mechanisms combined with widespread brainwashing and propaganda.
Well, because populations have grown so much in the last two hundred years, to the extent that a sizable chunk of all lives ever lived are after 1800 or so, I don't think that a long history in pre-modern times would move the needle that much.

Also, the Nazis are just really exceptionally bloody-handed. In terms of intentionally, directly killing people, they killed like 16 million people. In terms of intentionally, indirectly killing people, their deliberate use of famine killed eight or nine million civilians in the soviet union alone. Then you add all the people that died due to massacres, or were killed as collateral damage, and you can understand why 30 million people died in the USSR, the vast majority of whom were civilians. It generally gets much worse in areas the Nazis had a longer duration of control: in Poland, they killed about one in five people.

It's generally pretty hard to kill that many people before the 20th century, because the means of killing are too innefective, and the number of potential victims is too small. For what it's worth, Genghis Khan is probably the most bloody-handed pre-modern figure, so if we're going to blame religion for his behaviour, it's probably shamanism that has the highest death toll.
that would be awesome, thank you
What problem are you solving with this “unholy combination”? Typescript gives you the relative safety. If you need faster compilation than tsc, you can use swc.
Ridiculous! If this is useful, people will be using it for years. Making it work is 20%, the other 80% is keeping it alive.
Is there any scientific evidence to support the value of AI therapy?
By having an actual portfolio of work that demonstrates your ability. You don't need a PhD if you've actually done something valuable. The reason people don't do it because their parents told them to go to uni, because their parents told them to go to uni because etc, it's that simple.

If Ramanujan did it you can too.
Is this about Microsoft Copilot? I think you didn't fully understand what our product is about.
>words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America.

>thought to be Tlaxcalan Indians, who spoke Náhuatl, the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire.

Why would a dialect of Spanish in southern Spain have indigenous native American words?
It's a flawed argument. Consider the profit equation (revenue minus costs). The argument ignores that crypto is designed to have a minimum in cost (and that minimum is high). For most other computing applications, compute cost is just a cost and does not have a fixed lower bound. In other words, crypto is designed to be an energy use competition, AI is not.
One-Night Stand Syndrome
AI: "What is your MBTI type?"

Patient: "What is your (creator's) degree?"
I'm ready to pay for a service like this that can let me use my own openai key, can maintain privacy and work with OAuth.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491275
So Twitter starts "disabling" URL forwarding links to Substack months ago.

And Substack announced Notes ... three days ago.

Did Matt miss something?
This is an ideological take, and an American one at that. Not necessarily a fact.
This Spanish has similarities with the one used in some areas of Chihuahua Mexico (south of New Mexico) specially at the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains. It makes sense since many original Hispanic New Mexican families have consanguinity with old Chihuahua families.
Alright, I will.

> One kind of bad hire is the technology-lover who values their own preferences over the needs of the business.

OK. This is not a mutually-exclusive relationship. One can prioritize both of these; the best team player will prioritize the needs of the business (and the team) more, however. This to me seems like you're really addressing the problem of "vanity/primadonna devs" who are not team players, and not just devs who really like certain technologies which will possibly blind them.

I also think experience tempers this quite a bit. I've certainly had dev experiences where I became enamored with an idea or trendy tech, felt I absolutely had to implement it, and then ended up regretting it later. I think this happens a lot with younger devs and that's OK because that's how you learn. (Make sure they get assigned the mess cleanup when it doesn't work out though. LOL)
Somebody actually tried with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa, but it didn't last too long until it was also figured out!
Most decentralized PoS chains (Cardano, Tezos, maybe Algorand) seem to fit the "safe + low cost banking" question. Well maintained Stables are your "safe hedges". Warning, most stablecoins one would think of are not well maintained, some are actually badly flawed by design.
Crypto has delivered quite a lot in these regards but one needs to get past the headlines and keep a clear head to get it.
I live in Southern California. Let’s hang out!

I’m free all day Mon-Thurs. Would you like to meet in LA/OC? Alternatively, I live up in the mountains between Big Bear and Palm Springs if you’d like to hang out in nature for a bit.

And I’ll be at Coachella Fri-Sun if anybody wants to meet there :)

Email me at hello@taylor.town
> My father speaks this dialect of Spanish... or at least, he used to. We moved to Northern California when I was very little. But, if we had stayed in New Mexico, my cousins don't speak it either. I asked Dad why he didn't teach me. "What would I do? Speak it to myself?"

I have the same reasoning. I speak a language that is not necessary anymore even in the place my parents came from, since the national language and English are what official business is done in.

My grandparents taught me the language, but none of my cousins have a similar grasp of the language. I still speak it with the older generations in my family, but they do not live near me to interact often enough with my kids, so I would effectively be teaching them a language they will have no use for by the time they are adults.