skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The cost problem of the last mile is not for the 2 meters between the fiber router in the home and the living room. The issue with the "last mile" is that it used to be excessively expensive to lay fiber everywhere on the, literally, last mile outside people's home.

And yet it was done for electricity and telephones over a century ago. And fibre probably has a longer 'shelf-life' as it does not corrode, so the initial installation is more likely to last longer.
From a black box perspective gpt4 is a lot more capable than gpt3, everything else is just as useful as “cpu specs” to most people
On what basis are you assuming that all people have good intentions? Yes, those people exist. But don’t pretend all people or even a majority are out there because of that. There are political reasons, material reasons, and basic behavioral reasons people show up to these protests/riots.

To say that no one wants to just watch things burn, or smash and grab, or assault others is to ignore basic human nature and is equally cowardly because it is a denial of the truth to satisfy your beliefs.

To assume most protestors are good is equally as wrong as assuming most are bad actors.
Seems like an incorrect model for what LLMs are. Do you imagine you can't learn english if you only read false statements?
>doesn’t have to curtail growth rates.

Eh, you can't slow an exponential growth with a linear gain in living space. There might be a lot of space out there but not nearly enough of the stuff we need to live in order to consider physical space the limiting factor. You might buy time but you'll run up against the familiar discomfort of too little living space again, and will have to downsize or expand out again before very long. Same as it ever was.
Completely valid - if you don't see value in a tool, don't use it.

But parent is saying that you should recognise that you're opting yourself in for a harder time by ignoring typescript at the beginning, and then trying to retrofit your way into type safety. That's definitely going to be more difficult and frustrating.

So either don't use typescript (which is fine fine - no one here cares about the programming language you use), or, use it 'properly' from the beginning and work with the tools you're using rather than against it.
The terminology is tricky here. Client implies it's using Prometheus, but as far as I can tell it's not. Calling it a Prometheus "server" then makes it sound like the Prometheus part.

I believe these are typically called "exporters". They implement servers that Prometheus scrapes. The quote "if you had issues while using multiprocess in python when collecting metrics this might interest you" suggests this is what this is. I've used [1] in the past, including for collecting across multiple processes with multiprocessing, and didn't really have any problems beyond my usual issues with Prometheus.

[1]: github.com/prometheus/client_python
I do praise Poland for building nuclear plants. This is the only existing solution to the climate catastrophe. Also, it's one of the the most safe energy sources.

This is not "simply false". This is effectively true, even though it might not be the intention. There are many similar discussions about it on HN. See for example this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35819870.
Multihead 4K works better for me than MacOS.

I can't even change the volume of the external speakers on MacOS.
Obviously, the free tier is 3.5 and Bing runs on 4. That being said Bing isn’t as good as it used to be, the 5 conversation limit really hampers being able to nail down what you’re looking for and they e neutered it compared to when it first came out and was much better/different.
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> Was there no work put into their creation by someone?

This is the “sweat of the brow” theory of copyrightability, which courts have rejected (for good reason based on the statute.)

“Someone did work to enable this thing to exist” is not sufficient to make a thing copyright-protected.

> There's no fundamental difference between an image, code, or weights.

And neither images, code, nor weights that are mechanically produced with no creative input by a particular author are subject to copyright in their own right (depending on their relation to the source material on which the mechanical process rests, they may be covered by the copyright on the source material.)

The best argument for weights being copyrightable (and it probably applies better to some models than others) is that the assembly of source material is a creative work subject to a compilers copyright, and that the model weights themselves are just a mechanical translation of that compilation subject to its copyright.
These are not bad arguments, but I don't think they're conclusive. I am a lawyer, and I could absolutely see this going the other way. "You can't make these machine things without literally feeding this copyrighted information into them, therefore they do contain a copy. You can see this by when they reproduce, e.g. the "getty images" deal."

*this is not legal advice, dangit commenter person below
IP itself violates a natural right

(Yes the idea of rights is also unnatural and absent from visions such as anarchy)
.ts is the extension for MPEG-2 transport stream files, at the very least.
There's absolutely no reason to push another language in the browser. Just make wasm your compile target. It's assembly for a reason.
I don't know how I could prove or verify this, but in my experience it feels very easy to detect a difference between people who understand a systems topic and people who've treated it like a cram test. I recall one interview in particular where the guy gave textbook answers to anything like "what technology would you use here" or "what are the benefits of X vs. Y", but fell apart completely whenever I scratched the surface for an implementation detail.
Yes, but outside of Java developers a lot of people didn't understand the power of this yet.
I had similar hang ups about deno but my experience aligns with what you’re saying. I hit far fewer snags than I thought I would (none I suppose), and the tooling off the shelf was excellent. I was off and running within 30m or so.

I got a little confused about importing packages properly but it might be down to how my IDE handles stuff and not really deno-specific.

I also love it for CLI work. I was using Go pretty much exclusively for years, but I’ve used Deno twice for real work and a bit for experimentation. Go offers some features I prefer, but Deno offers TypeScript which — for better or worse — is where I think best in code. I like to maintain it more, which means a lot for something I have to deal with next year.
Playground raises $40M to advance the field of computer graphics
Yeah they posted the wrong link.

This is just the confirm age page.
> Do you know where I can find a succinct and good explanation of p-hacking?

Sure.

When your experiment has a P value of 0.05, what that means is that 5% of the time you expect completely incorrect results purely due to random chance.

So you test $THEORY, and expect that 1 out of every 20 times the results are going to be wrong purely due to random chance.

P-hacking is when you repeat the test 20 times[1], and publish that 1 random result while throwing away the other 19 results.

[1] Or however many times you need to
Actual title: Joint statement of scientists and researchers on EU’s proposed Child Sexual Abuse Regulation
They're trying to avoid the equivalent of "Researchers find out deep fried Twinkies are actually healthy for you!" types of messages being spread because of the sensitive nature of the topic. Careful communication of their findings is important so that they don't get blown out of proportion and misinterpreted.
I've been in requirements meetings similar to this video:
https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg
This is called "model collapse". It leads to worse performance.
All this data out there and Apple still don’t have good AQI coverage.
Meta’s Threads will not be rolled out in the EU ‘at this point’
I believe that ascar is arguing that when you're Harvard you don't actually need particularly good teaching, because you've already recruited students who are good at studying, taking tests, motivating themselves and suchlike. Don't you need to be a straight A student just to get in?

After all, if someone came in a straight A student, and graduated a straight A student - can the school really claim credit for that?
“quality seems good” is the point of contention here; how would you know? You’re either already knowledgeable about this topic and therefore necessarily didn’t learn it from here or you’re not and therefore unqualified to judge its quality at all.
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> everybody will be using ChatGPT to flood Reddit with comments soon

Ain’t nobody got time for that.

A handful of people with nothing better to do with their time might though.
> I think the IG graph is more similar to the Twitter graph than the FB graph.

Very much so: Facebook is unlike Instagram and Twitter in that its relationships are bidirectional.
Interesting. I wonder what they mean by "Ethical" -- instead of e.g. saying "definitely free and open." I'm willing to bet "stuff they gathered from likely unwitting Adobe users."
Economic Diversity and Student Outcomes at America’s Colleges: Find Your College
The funny thing is that if the outdoor advertisements are not in your native language they're affecting you much less! I sort of noticed this when I've moved to a different country; I am sort of blind for these because my brain is not reading them automatically!
Declarative web components with Shadow DOM are now supported everywhere and require no JS.
Are people "intellectually humble" or just more humble in general?

Many intellectual people use their intelligence and authority as a coping mechanism for poor social skills or low self esteem. As a manager + systems architect, I've worked with a lot of people who almost have PTSD from dealing with the petty tyrants in our industry, and I've been told that academia is much worse.

If you want to foster shoshin, just listen more than you speak. I've got two decades of experience and my third year interns teach me cool things all the time.
Totally agree. I've known startup owners who were all-in on their companies. All-in to a degree that they sacrificed time with their family and friends regularly just to grow the business. I always wonder what the end goal is there. Okay, you have a successful business, woohoo! But your kids hate you, your wife divorced you, and the "friends" you have left are trying to get to your money. Money beyond a certain amount simply does not buy happiness.

Of course, that's not all startup founders, but so many of them (especially the ones that are obsessed with money for the sake of money) do end up that way.
That seems fair. I was under the impression that there weren't too many out there like this.
Remember that R&D takes way longer than the internet hype cycle is long.

I bet this was Apple's bet on the 'metaverse'. Now that it seems clear it probably isn't going to happen, they look at revising their plans.
No, they aren’t. They’re discussing whether or not knowing things is worth it, which is completely different.

Your point doesn’t make sense once you realize there’s a difference between news and news media.
> It’s not that we care about their intent, it’s that we care about whether their conclusions are more likely to represent a genuine effect vs. sample bias.

So is the fundamental issue that an experiment is probably designed to avoid bias for the data related to the hypothesis being tested, but probably isn't designed to avoid bias for other hypotheses you might generate once the results are in?
What do you mean by "over a VR monitor"? Isn't that that my use case is?

The little bit of consumer AR I've seen tended to be ad laden. I'm talking about Yelp walking overlays, etc. I can't think of a need for AR in my life except navigation, personally. But I lead a pretty boring life.

The whole AR thing just seems like a solution in search of a problem. Like 90s strategy video games that try to show you everything in the UI all at once. Maybe cool if you're trying to do some super specialized complex task like car maintenance or air traffic control or whatever, but otherwise it just seems like a distraction, like smartwatches but worse.

OK, back to my old man lawn now.
When they issue more money - money in my pocket lose value, still same thing.
Germany is a net exporter of electricity, and has been for over 20 years. Last year, France actually had to import electricity because their NPPs kept failing (too much heat, too little rain, no water to act as coolant).
Any chance the buttons could be angled to make it more clear which way they rotate?

Overall, this is great!
BASF is a drop in the bucket and it left not because of high electricity prices like you claimed, but high natural gas prices which they directly use for production. e.g. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/basf-could-cut-outpu...

> BASF is already reducing production of ammonia, which relies heavily on natural gas, and sourcing some it its ammonia needs from outside Europe, where gas prices are lower.

Heavy industries in general will take a while to electrify (globally), you can read on the challenges of that e.g. here https://www.iea.org/articles/the-challenge-of-reaching-zero-...

So again, sorry, but you are off.
Concurrency is like a single cook preparing many different recipes at the same time, and parallelism is multiple cooks in the same kitchen. Single-threaded processes can use async/await to context switch and it feels like parallelism but it's not unless you're executing each task to its own OS thread.

... and that didn't click for me until I understood that concurrency (async/await) and parallelism (multiple OS threads and processes) are different executions modes which the Tokio runtime in rust allows you combine those different modes.
Eh, Wikipedia is actually a bunch of highly curated fiefdoms.
Berkely, UCLA, Michigan, Washington, are some of the best universities in the country. They exceed Ivy League schools in some fields and compete across the board. These aren't great examples in this context.

UIUC, Wisconsin (CMU as well for example) have really strong engineering programs and "fit the mold".

UCSB (UCI too for example) and Oregon State are based on the west coast. You can get the kids who didn't get in to Stanford or Cal for one reason or another here. I'm guessing UMass fits this profile as well but for MIT/Harvard/etc.

Iowa State is the only one here that's surprising and I'd be curious to find any sort of info online about Google attending their career fairs. It's probably an experiment on Google's part. They typically do not recruit at these types of universities or the footprint is minimal.

Overall the point isn't "has Google ever sat foot on this campus? I guess they recruit there!!" it is "Google primarily recruits at Ivy League Universities (and of course the top 10 or 20 or so universities including public) and that is their bread and butter so to speak. Are you suggesting that Google recruits Harvard the same way it recruits Iowa State?

You initially said "Google didn't recruit my four friends", but Google still goes to campus in-person and recruits there. Google didn't show up at any of the career fairs for my big public universities in Ohio, though I've interviewed a few times based on my own sheer will and luck.

(just to be clear, I'm not picking on Google specifically and these comments can be applied generally to all the top hedge funds, tech companies, non-profits, etc.)
Consider a chart of the recent M2 money supply for the last couple of years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=16MIK

Whether that is "useless" depends on your point. If you want to make a point that they are not large percentage fluctuations you may prefer to anchor it at zero. But if you want to talk about the fluctuations themselves, you want the chart to be full of those fluctuations, not anchored at zero and all the fluctuations just little wiggles relegated to the top.

So it does depend on what you want to do, but there are use cases where anchoring at zero is either useless, or even itself at times deceptive, especially in cases where "zero" is not a particularly distinguished value on its own. (e.g., voltage. zero voltage is itself a relative measure to some standard of voltage, so a voltage chart being anchored to zero may not mean anything if zero voltage in some context isn't special but is itself somewhat arbitrary.)
> My own extension StopTheMadness stops web sites from disabling your browser's built-in paste and autofill features, a kind of madness commonly implemented by sites that have a misguided, ignorant notion about what makes a login form "secure"

Now, this is an extension I didn't know I needed. I'm baffled that there are some things without which the web is unusable for me. Looking at my extension list, on Firefox I have:

- ClearURLs
- Clickbait remover for YouTube
- Cookie Autodelete
- Firefox Multi-account container
- I don't care about cookies (not updated since bought by Avast)
- Privacy badger
- Tampermonkey
- Tridactyl
- uBlock Origin

I feel like I'm pretty conservative with the add-ons that I install, yet I can't comfortably browse the web if I'm missing one of them. When did everything go so wrong?
Yes, computes are carried out in FP16 (so there is no compute efficiency gains, might be latency reductions due to memory-bandwidth saving). These savings are not realized yet because no custom kernels introduced yet.
> The way to "sell" Mastodon to power users and super influencers is that you tell them they can run their own instance and have greater control than what they have through twitter

I am not a salesperson, but I did work in advertising for a while and this strikes me as an excellent pitch. I still think easy onboarding and a rebrand would be necessary to reduce friction, but I think you're onto something.
Natural rights are a fiction to pretend that someone’s moral code is a privileged aspect of physical reality in a way every competing moral code is not.
No, that doesn’t follow at all. The argument is that either the training or the expression violated existing cooyrights through the making of unlicensed copies. It’s not based on open source licensing. Although OSS viral licensing may well apply if fair use is not a successful defense.
It seems very difficult to ensure that a model will never output any of the copyrighted content that it was trained on. I can only think of three ways, but perhaps there are others

1. Evaluate every output from the model to ensure that none of the outputs are copyrighted

2. Evaluate every input to a model to ensure that the inputs are either not copyrighted or properly licensed

3. Change the definition of copyright so that ML models can do whatever they want

Nobody is doing #1, because that makes the business models not work. Established brands (like Adobe) are doing #2. I get the feeling that there are a lot of ML startups that are hoping that #3 will happen, but it seems unlikely
> Eventually we need to make type systems just metaprogramming using the primary language

Nim is like this and its fantastic. None of the weird special rules for metaprogramming, just Nim code manipulating ASTs at compile time procedurally. Can even use standard library.
Chapter 8 of The Linux Programming Interface mentions that applications running on Linux have basically 2 options for authentication:

* Roll it themselves, maintain the database and all that jazz
* Delegate it to the (very robust, very mature) Linux user authentication stuff

Ever since reading that I've found myself wondering why more apps don't simply use SSH keypairs for authentication, given that they're already such a battletested mechanism. I get the whole "no MFA!" argument, but still.
Goodbye Hudson, hello Jenkins!
I'm not going to read that. Unless you're the opinion columnist for USA today? Cause I asked you about your opinion.
A lot of the (manufactured?) outrage about this situation isn't so much that a gofundme exists for the cop's family, it's that the victim's family's own fund received less than $250k donations versus the cop's $1.5M.
> the reason why coding is so difficult is that interfaces are often too darn complicated to keep track of?

Haven't brought this up in a while. Ya. I feel coding is hard due to complex interfaces. I once worked on a programming abstraction, mechanisms, aiming for a consistent interface for easy composition.

Key features of mechanisms were:

1) All data types were mechanisms

2) A Mechanism needed no context (parameters) when invoked.

3) Composition of a mechanism could take any number of mechanisms (primitives at this point are treated as mechanisms) and return a mechanism.

4) Upon invocation, a mechanism functions in one or more modes, returning either a primitive data type or another mechanism.

Think of it as currying or Lisp's S-expressions, but supercharged, envisioned as a base for Visual Programming Languages.

An example of composition using mechansisms:

// Compose

addTwo =
print(
map(
add(
2,
emitFromRange(0, 20, 4)
)
)
);

Which is saying "Print a mapping of adding 2 to an emitted range from 0 to 20 by 4."

// Invoke

addTwo()
But regulations are what makes nuclear energy supposedly safe. Faster build times aren't worth it if we risk nuclear meltdowns.
Tell that to some illegal numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Reducing a PhD program to 4 years can help but in many fields this is still a problem. For many fields and form of absence of leave can be the end of your academic career. If I recall correctly the average PhD graduate is still 26-27 years old. Which doesn't help much too much even though the average US grad is 31. For many field though this would help a lot. In tech and stem not so much. I remember some of the female faculty I knew telling me exactly how and why so many women end up filtered out. Simply because they wanted to have a child and by the time they came back their research was outdated and their works published by others. They themselves never having children. It's why many women often leave academia for industry jobs.

I personally believe how we conduct research and academia is outdated and does not allow for the proper inclusion of women. And does not allow men to be proper fathers. Sorry for the long talk.

Edit: Got the average age for PhDs in UK wrong it's mid 30s. Even if they started right at the age of 22 it's a wall they will face almost immediately.
Don't make me dig out this exact quote from Yes Minister in the 1980s.
That's a favorite of mine because at the same time those same regulations are cited as the reason why the plants are incredibly safe.
Whether or not AI replaces the web, as long as people find the content they need, is that a bad thing? Why stick to the status quo if something better comes along?

As long as AI is not better, the web will live. When AI is better, it will not. And there is likely a long period of overlap before either of those end states occur.