skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My general take on this is that people can make whatever arguments they want about whether NPR is According-To-Hoyle state media (I don't think it is, by the spirit of the term, but it's a gnarly enough question that I wouldn't want to burn a whole thread trying to hash it out).

The real issue here is: if Twitter is going to continue to be ad-sponsored for commercial viability, running a social media platform that chases National Public Radio off is very bad for business. You already have major national brands hesitant to re-engage there (whether you like their reasons or not). Playing chicken with NPR and losing is an awfully powerful arrow to put in the anti-Twitter quiver at those companies.

I wouldn't want to look at this through the lens of politics, so much as just plain mismanagement. It's part of a broader theme of Twitter, which depends utterly on user-generated content, doing things to deliberately antagonize the minority of their user base that actually produces content people want to see.
I have been using phind on and off for a few months. I found it amazing for discovery of software libs for a project I was working on. I could not find the libs when searching google, etc, but found them through phind.

When I compared the output of phind to GPT-3 I found phind vastly superior for this kind of discovery. Were you previously augmenting the expert with GPT-3 or was it some custom model?

Best of luck for the new launch!
I see refurbished m1 2tb/128gb for $4700, looks like similar price for an m2 with same storage/ram with my corp discount (20cpu/48gpu). This is a tough decision.
Another example of the peril of central planning and total authority.

Make me think of the climate change orthodoxy were we focus solely on co2 and forget about all the other human problems.
The way the south ends after Orlando always cracks me up. Growing up in Broward it felt like all my friends parents were lat am immigrants or ex new yorkers
Less common than not paying for a cable subscription service I would imagine. There's still a lot of advantage to possessing a really big screen even if the traditional way of consuming media on it has gone out of fashion
You can move it to the first layer. I can do it without looking at the remote now.

I don't remember how I dit it though.
Grew up on the border between "trash can" and "garbage can". The former is indoors, the latter is outdoors.
Something like 97% of all households have a TV, down from 99% around 2000. So yes, not owning a TV is still very rare.
Not enough rentable hardware exists on the planet. The article's suggestion that someone would throw billions of dollars into a black hole to "buy up" all hardware globally, get nothing in return, and outpace those who act in their own rational self-interest is just silly.
I know China requires Communist party committees within most large businesses. It would surprise me if this is not also the case for their news media. Note that these aren't affiliations, but actual political organizations within the businesses.

The Republicans control the house. The US is not a land of political "rulers", at least not at the moment (arguments can be made for FDR's presidency).
>Would you have felt comfortable articulating that opinion, two years ago?

I posted rather often about how awful Twitter was long before there was a whiff of Musk buying it. (It's still awful.) I didn't really talk about "information control", but I don't care about that now, either; Twitter's audience was never that big.
Seems like what you need is a triumvirate... an idea guy (The Jobs), a tech guy (The Wozniak), and a 3rd person who's main job is to keep the first two from killing each other, and ideally a sense for operations and PR.
Have you faced issues with packages being too old on Debian Stable though?

"Missing packages" may be packages missing important features or bugfixes.
> "Ask" it about [...] sound plausible.

Yeah, that's because the API is /completions not /answers.

We, as devs, need to know what we can do with text completion and what it's not good for.

> But for anything that's hard and matters, it's a parlor trick unfit for use.

Sure, you can't just ask it to synthesize a new drug and cite relevant sources.

But you can ask it to take a text like "the guy with the red house rides a bike, ... who has solar panels?" and spit out a testable proof if your language of choice. Sure, you then have to pass that to Wolfram, or Heroku, but so?

You can have it summarize a list of product differences, but focusing only on physical UI issues, and making it clear to only summarize, not extrapolate, from the sources you provide.

You can have it take unclear and incorrectly written free-form user input and select from a list of intentions, what the user most-likely wants to do and write an explanatory log-line, or flagging a user for more direct QA oversight and maybe help.
I haven't been impressed with the GPT for X thus far but having it filter search results sounds excellent. If it could figure out which results are not SEO junk then Google would be fixed.
> Statistically unlikely given that SUV carries more people,

And yet I'll bet the average number of morning commuters in each vehicle is ~1.
"Le pluriel ne vaut rien à l'homme et sitôt qu'on
Est plus de quatre, on est une bande de cons"

(The plural is worth nothing to man, as soon as
we are more than four, we are a bunch of idiots)
Printing plates of the Wall Street Journal when the Dow first closed above 10000
I doubt it. But it's a great way to find out about opportunities. I've had 3 jobs that I only heard about because somebody mentioned it on some social medium. One was on Twitter, one Facebook, and one in a specialist Slack.
You might compare with a government contractor like SpaceX. Private organizations can depend on government funding without being fully government-controlled. Speaking of SpaceX as a privately owned company is still accurate. Calling it state-affiliated wouldn’t be entirely wrong (they work with NASA), but a bit weird.

In NPR’s case, their customers (public radio stations) receive a lot of government funding, so it’s one step removed compared to a government contractor.

NPR is a nonprofit with a board of directors that includes NPR member station managers, though. Control over NPR seems rather diffuse? Nonprofit boards are often kind of weird that way.
CVE-2023-26964 GitHub Issue – DoS within Hyper, Rust HTTP library
It may just work in Firefox on OS with xHE-AAC support since they already rely on the system for AAC decoding IIRC. canPlayType/isTypeSupported probably indicate no support unless they've explicitly added support though.

I'm not aware of any hardware acceleration.
Part of the "mind over matter" aspect of the human body is that a deliberate act is sometimes enough to get things moving. That act in increasing the number of times of day you think about your predicament and the depth of attention you apply to it.

While there's a lot of promise in harnessing that, it's also the source of a lot of superstition.
In southern New England we pronounce that "bumpah stickah".
I would just give her a hug in person.
The Gates’ have a pretty spectacular track record, what do you mean?
When people panic about small banks they flee to big ones and Buffet would benefit from _some_ panic:

> Berkshire's equity portfolio includes several banks, including a $34.2 billion year-end stake in Bank of America Corp
I think one disadvantage of putting everything (nginx, web server, database, monitoring tools, etc.) in one machine is that suddenly your machine is exposing a myriad of ports to the internet and one mistake on your side (e.g., misconfigured auth module) is all what's needed to compromise your entire service.

Having some sort of vpc where you can safely put your db server that only listens to requests from servers within the same vpc (e.g., web server) sounds like good practice to me.
Related:

FerretDB 1.0 GA: open-source MongoDB alternative built on Postgres - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524235 - April 2023 (2 comments)

FerretDB: A truly open-source MongoDB alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29448906 - Dec 2021 (110 comments)

MangoDB has a new name - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407987 - Dec 2021 (5 comments)

Open source MongoDB drop-in replacement, built on top of Postgres - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096331 - Nov 2021 (2 comments)

MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071623 - Nov 2021 (200 comments)

Show HN: MangoDB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4139723 - June 2012 (2 comments)
Nice - I've used the product before but noticed it sometimes gives hallucinated answers if I ask something for which there's no good google result. Is this something you plan on addressing soon?
From the article:

> It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
> This is a bigger story that isn’t being told properly often.

It really isn't! I actually thought that the dollar was doing very badly because it has been going down in price in comparison to my local currency for the last 9 months or so (around 15%) (back to 2016-2018 levels).

And such a decrease hadn't happened in more than a decade.
Personally, that blog post is just arrogance from OSI. I read it. It didn’t make clear which freedoms were being removed. They are still able to run cloud hosting just release their custom code?

And OSI thinking they alone get to decide what is and what is not open source is arrogant.
Hi. I was checking out the pricing for supabase database.

It seems like it may be more costly than firestore, although you are offering postgres as the underlying data store.

I'm wondering if I'm reading that right.

When it says 500 connections, is that 500 clients connected at one time? Just trying to compare the pricing vs firebase.

Thank you
Would you consider adding Pythia12B, LLaMa and Alpaca since that's what you're directly compared against/based on?

GPT3.5/GPT4 is what everyone would also love to see but I understand you're performance is inline with GPT-neoX.

Vicuna/GPT4all would be intersting but IMO are less important.

RWKV would be interesting because it's a completely different model from the transformers.

EDIT: Also thanks for the opensource contributions! Highly appreciated!
That’s easy, really. There was a person behind ferretdb-bot account – me. :) I still maintain our projects mostly manually.

That being said, we do have some automation in place. The public part is there: https://github.com/FerretDB/github-actions We are planning to do more there, open source the other part, and then blog about it.
> what label do you put on a media platform that's captured by an ideology favorable to a single party which comes to power every few years?

a dog logo
"I haven't tried Heroku, but expect similar prices and nearly as high of a configuration burden."

Are you kidding me? Prices, sure, but comparing the configuration burden using AWS or GCP alphabet soup to a dead-simple Heroku setup is ridiculous. You set up something like hirefire.io for autoscaling, you connect your Github repo and that's it. You're done. Compared to weeks worth of headaches setting up Terraform Cloud and CI actions and massaging your state file and spending days tearing your headout over insane obtuse NAT configuration parameters? It's literally night and day.
I could criticize or compliment all 3 depending on the topic or my mood.

If we're so much better in the west, maybe we can hold ourselves accountable and question our own biases.
> That is a pretty good structure for this type of web page.

Not really. Honestly, it was kind of confusing to me too...

All they had to say was "Apple makes it impossible to avoid playing a screen or animated screen saver during a podcast or listening to music. So, this app lets you listen to a podcast or music over a blank screen. That's it. That's all it is. It's a feature that AppleTV should have, but doesn't, so I made this app for it."

Literally don't have to write anything more than that.
NPR is very up front about its funding: https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
I’m more curious the last time you saw a show with significant text on screen. It seems far more common to have essentially no text or “complicated-science gibberish-for-the-geek”. Everything else is read by a character.
Weird TLDs don’t inspire trust. I would have never guessed that mastodon.social were the most serious place to start a Mastodon account.
> Bitcoin's value does come from the community and authority of the chain

Agree it isn’t a dig. But it’s a refutation of a common argument in favour of crypto, namely, that it’s protected by math, not custom.
>Sometimes the washing machine is in the basement and can't connect to your WiFi

...snip...

>The cloud approach solves this.

How? You just stipulated the machine can't connect to wifi
Someone once commented to me that rather than blaming Mao personally, the blame for the negative consequences of The Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution should be placed on the systemic forces that legitimised the absence of domain experts in policy making.

It's a nice sentiment but I have a gut feeling that these kinds of frameworks - where blame is taken away from people and attributed to abstract concepts - lead to worse outcomes long-term. Is that gut feeling just my evolutionary instincts talking or is it a sign of something useful?
> "hey, middle class: here are \infty reasons to reduce your life quality expectations and for hating yourself if you don't want to play along"

Can you give an example of stories with this message?
Even when buying puts on a regulated exchange like LedgerX, which custodies all the cash that would pay out on the bet?
Bobby Allyn (Tech Reporter for @NPR):

>NPR's analytics show that less than 2% of our traffic comes from Twitter. It's not a surprise to people who work in media, but even before the labeling saga, there was a pretty strong business case that the game wasn't worth the candle

https://twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/status/1646195092661891072
> You’re avoiding allocation by giving up amortized O(k) lookup

What's "k" here ?

Here's an experiment, I know how to write it in Rust, but not in Go, so let's make it a thought experiment. We have 623 custom Doodads which we've arranged (this is the part I know how to do in Rust but not Go) to have identical hashes despite being different. This clearly could happen (though it's fantastically unlikely) for real data but we're doing it artificially.

With Swiss Tables, and several other techniques that come to mind, we end up with 623 contiguous entries, and a 312 average probe length which means our performance sucks, but we didn't allocate beyond the original 1024 single item "buckets".

What happens with Go's approach? I think it ends up with all buckets empty, except one, that one is full and has 77 overflow buckets connected. In this case we've also got 312 average probe length and the performance sucks even worse. We have to allocate those 77 overflow buckets, and if we make the mistake of trying to re-size we allocate for that and improve nothing at all.

EtA: Oh, and pre-allocating makes sense when we know up front how many things will go in the hash table, which happens really often when we're building it once, using it, and then throwing it away. It will usually make sense to pre-allocate even if the table will latterly grow, because we can skip all the little sizes that we'd otherwise have to grow past.
I wonder when will Markdown adopt enough features of Org Mode to become a viable replacement for people not using Emacs.

(Yes, Org Mode has spreadsheets, of sorts.)
> It's not exactly a vote of confidence when the other guy trying to do this is Bill Gates

yeah, a super-villain trying to wipe out malaria - what is his cunning plan?
Gen AI, you got me here, for a second I thought it is the next one after Gen Z.
I have listened to random YouTube content and podcasts to fall asleep for years now. When I live alone I simply use a tablet or phone, with screen facing down before YT Premium, now with the screen simply off. If someone is sleeping in the same room or besides me, I put in a single 2nd gen AirPod to the ear facing up, sometime near the morning I find it in the bed and put it to charge. In case I don't fall asleep for long I change the AirPod to let the other one to charge. No wireless earbuds before plain AirPods did it for me, the sealing ones (i.e. pros) are not comfortable to me.
Most certainly, yes, it's as poor as saying that.

But we live in distressed times, and the law is not as sane and sober as it once was. (Take, for example, the Tiktok congressional hearing; the wildly overbroad RESTRICT act; etc.)

If the people making and enforcing the laws are as clueless and as partisan as they by-all-accounts now are, what gives you hope that, somehow, some reasonable judge will set a reasonable precedent? What gives you hope that someone will pass a bill that has enough foresight to stave off non-obvious and emergent uses for AI?

This is not the timeline where things continue to make sense.
I'm fine getting private messages on platforms but I do not want to put out my email for the general public to contact me. That information is also far more dangerous to put out than just messaging me on a platform. Yes you could just create an email for that purpose but I feel most people won't do that.
The judgement criteria itself looks step-like for many of these things.

Word unscrambling, for instance: does a 15 percentage point increase in accuracy suggest that you're 15x better at it (from close to 0 to 15%ish)? Or could you do that by being modestly better, but that's just enough to cross the threshold to solve the simplest 15% of words in the task challenge you're being graded on?

We're also using a log scale on the X axis there but a linear one for the Y axis which amplifies the "steppiness"
That's quite cynical. If he still holds bank stocks he clearly doesn't expect trouble himself.
And whoever publicly even doubted the decision of Mao was labeled as right-wing who spread misinformation, or counter-revolutionaries who sabotaged the great socialism movement. Maybe there is some truth in the question: who's the arbiter of information?
It may also mean poor schema design. You can absolutely model relational data in MongoDB without relying on joins. If you want to normalize your data don't pick Mongo.
Maybe a better attack would be to create and sell a usb condom with malware built in.
"Most economists couldn't pass an undergrad econ exam" is probably untrue, right?
You’re conflating “these Christians are behaving poorly (or in ways I disagree with)” with “these Christians are only pretending to worship God.” That’s the foundation on which you build a basis for sectarian violence, which is why I’m arguing here.

You can see Christians who are behaving the wrong way, by your judgment, without accusing them of acting unfaithfully.
I think that's kind of the problem with these tools lol, there is no obvious solution to this. Automatically fact checking an AI model would probably require a bigger and more sophisticated AI model.

E: That said this does look sick
> The company's value derives from the users and the content they generate.

So you're conceding that Twitter isn't the entity generating the content.

> Meanwhile, some Deere buyers are there for the tech.

By your analogy, John Deere is a food company, because people aren't there for the tractors, they're there for the harvested crops. But that doesn't work because John Deere and Conagra are not the same kind of operation.
I'm in fact not doing that, and have said so repeatedly. My position in this thread is that you are wrong, and have produced faulty evidence for your arguments. It's not that I have a countervailing argument. I don't care about the rest of your theories.
And Sony TVs, you go into the action menu and hit screen off.
Cineworld (the main cinema chain round here) mentions in their membership small print that if the credit card transaction fails for whatever reason, they will send debt collectors to hunt you down...
It’s totally possible right now but at .002c for 750 words it could easily cost 10c for a single search.
The risks keep stacking up. It's not looking super great for avoiding all the landmines. The path is getting narrow and it's one thing or other that'll get us.
I don't follow your attack logic. If mining hardware becomes inefficient why would using it to "attack the network" be profitable? Can you say more about what attack you're thinking of?

He absolutely did imagine speciality hardware would be used to mine:

"At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware."
Yep, services from the libc would be libdl-ed too. You would have to decide: either you use the machine code in a shared object, or you would statically link that machine code, but the idea is to make those explicit and different, not that current mess.

It means using the sysv x86_64 ABI entry point (which is basically a main()...).

The file format alone is useless, you need the ELF and ABI specs to know how to use properly the information defined by this very file format.
Not a direct answer. Just some advice from someone who has tried and failed at blogging, and can’t help but wonder if this question is being asked for the wrong reasons.

I’ve had several blogs in the past that all died out because I didn’t have the time (or couldn’t be bothered) to keep adding to them. If you don’t have a plan for a continued theme, regular posts, plans for when ideas dry out, then it’s a non-starter. Sure, you can maintain it for a long time if it’s just for personal writing, but you’ll only do so if you aren’t chasing popularity.

My mistake in the beginning was being a perfectionist - trying to write the killer post that made me an international blogging superhero or something. And one or two did see a lot of traffic (at cost to me) for a short while, but didn’t create engagement. The time and effort that went into it was just not worth it, and the low frequency of posts (because of the overhead I’d added) was what made people fail to stick around.

What I found was that it didn’t matter about making one awesome post. What mattered was regularity - twice a week without fail.

If I couldn’t think of anything to write about I just looked at recent commits to projects that I followed and painted an obviously-contrived arching theme to the direction of the community. “so you can see that there is a growing frequency of PRs that focus on the build system and testing, rather than core functionality. Is the community entering the get-your-shit together phase?” - post it under the title “Developers are getting their shit together. What does this mean for you?”. Done. Half an hour, easy peasy.

By keeping up the regularity, people were more likely to click. Perhaps it was that they’ve seen the name of the blog a few times and their intrigue has grown. They were also more likely to click onto other articles when I sorted out a decent tagging system, and once they had seen three posts on a single visit their chances of sharing posts, commenting or visiting the RSS feed skyrocketed.

The thing is, this was a long time ago in the 2000s. Things have changed big time, and not in a good way, when it comes to blogs. People don’t subscribe to blogs any more (well, it’s rarer), they subscribe to PEOPLE who sometimes SHARE blog posts they find interesting. If I were to try again (which I won’t - I’d sooner start doing YouTube videos or something), my aim would be to be noticed by the influencers (10k+ followers) in the right community.

That’s my 2c anyway.