skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My use cases were extracting stuff like this from scientific papers: "what were the interventions in this study, what outcomes were measured, and what was the treatment effect of each intervention on each outcome?"
The industry isn't, a few big players are going and trying to bring the industry but I have the impression that React is going to lose its lead in mind share in 1 year.
What wasn't clear about the phrase "non-video"?
The press release links the two publications:
- http://www.mit.edu/~fadel/papers/VAB-paper.pdf
- http://www.mit.edu/~fadel/papers/PAB-theory-paper.pdf
Unpopular puffin opinion ahead, for the sake of argument only. Pls respond with arguments vs just downvoting.

Throughout history, encryption has always been a government privilege. Only very recently, and then only in the West, practically speaking, is encryption that is safe from the eyes of government available. The liberalization of encryption has been concomitant with a naive "end of history" belief that once everyone was connected as part of a global network, we'd see an inevitable global rise in liberal forces that would make governments unable to control speech. See Bill Clinton's on "nailing Jello to the wall". Clinton whose administration did liberalize encryption quite a bit.

That "end of history" mindset was wrong. We are back in a quasi cold war, with an active proxy war on top of it and a few more smoldering. And so my prediction is that we will see a reversal to the mean of history, and cryptography become again a govt granted privilege with conditions attached. (Yes yes I know public implementations of every algorithm exist, but China showed the blueprint of the machine that nails Jello to the wall anyways.)
It is interesting to look back and evaluate the preferences / intuitions prominent researchers had in the field (most of whom started their careers experimenting with MNIST-scale of data, at best)

With access to unfathomable amounts of data, especially over the last couple of years, the game changed entirely and is not seeming to cool down anytime soon.

The field, certainly, values engineering a lot more than it used to, and it is exciting to see how major advances together with open-source contributions are going to take us
Typescript is divisive. People are passionate in loving it or hating it, not to forget a silent majority that never even tried it.

Typescript is totalitarian. It consumes you whole. It makes no sense to partially adapt it as its supposed benefits will then never materialize. The deeper you're in, the more motivated you'll get to go even deeper.

This is entirely opposite from writing unit tests. Everybody hates to do that, you'll never have coverage to match real world complexity and it easily breaks under time pressure. The more you try to get it to work, the more you hate it and just want to give up on it. Typescript is different, it has a point of no return.

That being said, we should check our passion. Tech discussions have a high degree of confirmation bias coming from a small very vocal minority. This same minority that would advance React, Tailwind, and similar choices as the one and only industry standard.

It's not representative of the wider developer community, most of which are silent. Nor is it representative of every use case one can build on the web, every project size, team size, etc.

As for DHH, it's an unsurprising move. He craves the simpler times we once knew, where web/front-end development wasn't such a hot mess. I think the general point has merit, as to whether the specific point of Typescript fits into that narrative, is debatable. Personally, I think project size/complexity and team size/skill levels are big factors.
Can you share your Hetzner VPS address, do you do your own TLS termination and can I test your endpoint with Apache benchmark? I ask because theoretical numbers, in my opinion, are thrown around to often, and when I hear thousands of responses/second on budget VPS's I want to see real life applications that actually handle that load. In my experience the difference between Apache and nginx is negligible, and if your service that runs on a $5 (or euro) a month VPS handles thousands of requests/second I'm going to be more than impressed when I see those numbers myself through a test.
This looks a lot like Nixery[1]. Can you explain how they differ?

[1] https://nixery.dev/
> Are you arguing that Germany is not a capitalist country? I was collectively speaking about the capitalist world.

Even then, assuming we're not just talking about the US, it's a stretch to say "we" peaked out. We have a lot to do before anyone can make that claim, the problem is that in most countries politicians have been bought off by rich elites to lower taxes and reduce public spending (which has been done especially to education as that's the easiest), so there is no tax base left to fund what needs to be done.

> Uhhhh, maybe read the comments a bit more clearly before jumping in. Do you always just jump in on random threads to say Americans are dumb?

Fair point, removed the rant.
I have read about it on Wikipedia and such, and am puzzled about how it started - by a perceived insult? There must be so much more to it that have not come across in my brief readings about it. Perhaps because it was so long time ago it os difficult to understand certain concepts that today seems insane to declare war for
Counter arguments to what exactly? What arguments are being proposed? Where? By Whom? Can you quote them?

The burden of proof is not on anyone else to prove that TS is making a beneficial difference. The fact that more and more experienced teams are moving _away_ from TS and not towards it certainly cannot and should not be ignored.

This is just a repeat of the "Surely OOP will solve all these different class of problems, trust me!" conversation the industry already had and I thought we had matured past.

Making a drive by dismissal comment that has quite grandful stands isn't really driving the conversation anywhere. You could have at least disagreed in detail.
Canada has most of the cultural and timezone compatibility and yet their wages are <40% of the SF wages. No wonder bulk of the new hiring in our team has been in Canada after doing two rounds of layoffs in the US.

Add to that, Canada has been inviting talented migrants in bulk (good for Canada and those migrants!) and that is a recipe for disaster for high tech wages in the US. Again, asking for remote work is just digging your own graveyard.
Microplastics are just one of many ways in which cars do a disproportionate amount of damage to our environment, especially where shortsighted public policies have ensured that car traffic intersects heavily with (and overrides the interests of) urban dwellers[1].

[1]: https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/ny_asthma/pdf/2018-2019...
And yet many countries are investing hard in making "plastic roads". Plastic waste is put into the road, turning it into a horizontal garbage dump where cars and trucks run over it and grind out the microplastics into the air, water, food, soil, plants, animals and people.

Why do they do this? Because plastic in landfill is apparently the worst thing that can happen to plastic waste. Instead of containing the toxicity to the local area of the landfill, it is spread everywhere via the roads.

Places in India make it a legal requirement.

I feel sorry for India - all those schools and houses with toxic roads running right in front of them.

The biggest argument I have heard against plastic roads is "well roads are bad for the environment anyway, so no reason not to fill them with plastic".

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jun/30...

Vested interests hard at work to legitimize plastic roads:

https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2023/aug/recycled-plas...

And those pesky environmentalists getting in the way of progress:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/the-science-stacks-up-for...
I see, I misunderstood
Some alternatives are:

Vue3/composition API -- probably the simplest if you're coming from React. Definitely feels like it was inspired by hooks.

Svelte/store -- svelte has a term called 'hook' but it's unrelated. The equivalent would be Svelte's store.

The other frameworks use something called 'Signals' (Preact, Qwik, Solid, Elm and even Angular/backbone though I don't personally have in depth knowledge of all of these).

IMO, I would prefer Svelte if you are adventurous, or Vue if you like React but just want something like 'better React'.
There’s a vega launch next month
You told in another comment that the files are not decompressed on the server. Then if you don't require JS, where is the decompression happening?
Those look a hell of a lot like sling shot to me.

Wikipedia says: "The sling is an ancient weapon known to Neolithic peoples around the Mediterranean, but is likely to be much older. It is possible that the sling was invented during the Upper Palaeolithic at a time when new technologies such as the spear-thrower and the bow and arrow were beginning to emerge."

Seems unlikely, though - 1.4m years vs 50k years.
Didn't know about it. Seem nice.
I was mad about it at first, but turns out there is a "filter" option and you can filter it to be either exactly the same as before, or even more precise now. So I'm not too fussed. I will say it was a bold move of them to launch the feature and put a "send feedback" link right next to it.
The way I was picturing it, you light the balloon and, besides some burn marks and a boom heard miles away, water appears in its place and falls into a bucket you placed below.

Not like I know how this stuff works. Someone says methane turns into water when burned, I imagine based on farts that it floats like in a nice balloon or Hindenburg, I figure this do be how this was intended ¯\_(:))_/¯
> Einstein talks of a planned economy towards the end. It's easy to see how someone in 1949 might think it's a good idea, but in 2023 the idea seems antiquated

From the article: "A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society."

This has been tried, and results in horrible oppression within just a few years of implementation. I can see the appeal, but you have to re-invent humans to make it work.
A more practical solution would just be encouraging funding in high speed trains and, critically, not constantly lobbying against it.
for what it's worth i found the info you provided good to know
Apple Buys BIS Records
Tu-Th is my team's arrangement. The only requirement is 3days rto so not all teams are the same
An "interesting distance" at which this device could communicate is the distance which the Titan submersible operated below its ship.
> If unemployment did not exist, the capitalist class would have no power to make workers work harder using the threat of losing their jobs.

What is the capitalist class in this case? In a perfect world this would be done by beatings and imprisonment, right?

> Of course, very high unemployment is not good for capitalism, nobody was arguing this.

It's not good in socialist or communist countries either. Or is that a uniquely capitalist problem?

> But very low unemployment below some threshold is also bad. Marx explained this, but if you do not believe him, capitalists themselves and their theorists say exactly the same thing.

Yes, that's what we're all agreeing on. It's not saying "Marx said it's bad, thus he was right about everything"

What is the substance of your post? What are you trying to say? Because it sounds like you're agreeing with capitalism but under the guise of supporting Marx
Typescript has been revolutionary and made me love doing frontend work. It’s solved so many issues with reliability that I’d never suggest using an untyped framework like rails for a new project.
How about Manhattan??
>Throughout history, encryption has always been a government privilege.

no, throughout history has always been the privilege of those with the ability to encrypt, which was often governments, big businesses, or in some cases very clever individuals.

with the ability to encrypt becoming simpler it follows that the cleverness of individuals to achieve it has decreased.
excellent!

and my website _is_ already in a zip hehe https://redbean.dev
Don’t get high on your own supply.
Nope, but from TFA it looks like it's barely better than llama 2, which is significantly worse than GPT4.
It's easy to hate typescript if you're trying to write it as javascript with types bolted on. All you'll see is restrictions and arcane complexity which exists solely to assuage the compiler. If you instead write types first and go from there, the value becomes evident really fast - and you avoid writing untypeable code which likely would've grown into a difficult to reason about api.
You may wish to investigate cloudflare's image API: https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/cloudflare-images/

If the reason you were unable to use a CDN cache was because your access patterns require a lot of varying end serializations (due to things like image manipulation, resizing, cropping, watermarking, etc.), then this API could be a huge money saver for you. It was for me.

OTOH if the cost was because compute isn't free and the corresponding cloudflare worker compute cost is too much, then yeah, that's a tough one... I don't have a packaged answer for you, but I would investigate something like ThumbHash: https://evanw.github.io/thumbhash/ - my intuition is that you can probably serve some highly optimized/interlaced/"hashed" placeholder. The advantage of thumbhash here could be that you can optimize the access pattern to be less spendy by simply storing all of your hashes in an optimized way, since they will be extremely small, like small enough to be included in an index for index-only scans ("covering indexes"). (I have not actually tried this.)
Genuine question: how big of a problem is this, really?

Just because it seems like nobody was talking about it until a few months ago, now that there's growing realization that while EV's reduce ICE pollution, the battery packs make them heavier and so tire pollution will be increasing.

But in the context of everything else that gets dumped into waterways and the air and the soil, how big of a deal is this? Like is this something that we really need to find a solution for soon, and is there even a solution? (Hard to imagine tires that don't wear out.) Or is this only really the 1,000th top priority, of all of the categories of things we pollute with?

I just have no idea, and none of the articles I've been reading have managed to put it into any kind of context.
This is terrible and frankly self serving advice.

"Don't build on top of deep learning. Build on top of MCMC-like methods"

I used to do research into such methods. That game is over. It's a massive waste of time at the moment. The whole idea is how do we import what was good about those methods into the modern deep learning toolkit. How do I sample from distribution with dl? How do I get uncertainty estimates? How do I compose models, get disentangled representations, get few shot learning, etc.

The idea that people should go back to tools like MCMC today is pretty absurd. That entire research program was a failure and never scaled to anything. I say this of my many dozens of papers in the area too.

I would never give this advice to my PhD students.

Maybe in a decade or two someone will rescue MCMC like methods. In the meantime your PhD students will suffer by being irrelevant and having skills that no one needs.
What, no mention of Imitone[1]? I got a license years ago, and I still get frequent "new version available to download" from SendOwl. It doesn't work perfectly, but it's still pretty fun to use as a midi controller and doo-doo-doo to play shredding metal guitar.

1: https://imitone.com/
That’s not exactly true. When the Russian gas stopped the adoption of renewables accelerated in Germany and other places in Europe. If oil is phased out people will adapt. Most of Norwegian oil customers are in Europe so switching to renewable energy and phasing out oil is doable. Instead Norway wants to explore oil in the arctic.
And FoxPro! :)
> Is it all just framing used to justify hating people for bad-think?

Do you also think donating money to the Taliban counts as merely bad-think, or is that limited to when the cause is homophobic only?
OpenELA Brings Stability And Predictability To RHEL Ecosystem With Collaboration Around Source Code
Is the cost of a single core with a 32 way splitter really a lot cheaper than a 32 core cable?
It is very hard to overstate just how advantageous a bigger investment in mass transit would be for health, climate change, and the economy.
Economics always win.

If the labor supply increases, new enterprises will be able to hire and grow. This will shrink the labor supply and increase the price of labor.

The only time there are massive shifts are when some sizeable factor creates a disruption. Sometimes that’s technology advancement.

Other times it’s a policy change due to government intervention. The area where I live used to be the textile capital of the world until a policy change shifted all of it overseas and gutted the entire area.

And now that same area is thriving after years of being destitute. Old mills converted to fancy apartments. Old train tracks used to ship product converted to bike trails. Thriving tech community.

It ebbs and flows. But nobody making centralized decisions would have made the choices that led to it.
Is the lack of cubes evidence of utility? I mean, if they're just doing it for fun, like your daughter, wouldn't there be more that just spheroids?
I love this comment because it is strongly hinted that Evrart Claire is the real deal and he likes to play the part of a corrupt Union boss
If you like to see how much of your life expectancy is lost due to air pollution in your particular region or city, I can recommend the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) map [1] created by the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute.

You can click on a particular region and see exactly how the air quality impacts you long-term and also can see the developments from 1998 till today. It is interesting to see e.g. for China that the air quality got substantially worse until the 2010s and then better in recent years -the same development the article talks about. Other countries like e.g. India unfortunately seem to get worse.

I often use this map and information on life years lost when advocating for clean air action in my talks as it makes the more abstract micrograms or standard AQIs much more tangible.

[1] https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/the-index/
Citation needed on Amazon's stock price and WFH setup. I'd argue it was more because of crazy levels of money printing. As soon as stimmies dried up and the Fed started hiking interest rates, stocks dropped while we were still WFH.
I've written maybe a couple thousand lines of TypeScript. I'm an utter neophyte there. I didn't hate the experience, though.

I've written maybe a few hundred thousand lines of Python. I didn't use type annotations until recently because they didn't exist. My first forays into playing with them were painful: it revealed a whole lot of unfound bugs in my code. In most cases they were minor and probably wouldn't have caused a real-life problem. Fixing them was often challenging because changing a function frequently meant breaking an internal API and having to also tweak every bit of code that called it. And yet, I powered through it because typing found bugs that none of my tests had.

I'm not going to say that everyone who dislikes type annotations in Python (or TypeScript) writes crummy code. I will suggest that at least some of the people who complain that types make it harder to write a program are actually annoyed that it makes them write more-correct code.
Their criticism was accurate and well intentioned. Getting downvoted not for the content but perhaps poor phrasing is perfectly normal. Complaining at all about the votes your internet comment gets is asinine.
If they "solve" that then they risk being the next Java Applets.
I cannot see where this fee is mandatory, either. It seems to be a value-add by the council. It says right in the article what the fees are for the Visitor's Center and path use from non-Council areas. So I feel like this is not the council trying to gatekeep or profiteer, but rather, they just want to package up something attractive for people who are wont to spend more than the minimum government-imposed fees.

And yes, "unaware" tourists can get "ripped off", but isn't that the nature of tourism? Do your homework and be wise about the spend!
It's a language model? almost no math
Visibility is so bad in some new vehicles.

The windshield on my old Chevy truck is greater than 180°, it's fantastic, especially since it's such a large vehicle, you really want to see as much as possible
In our team it's causing a lot of confusion an inconsistency that types and interfaces overlap 90% in functionality, but have different syntaxes.

You can find many articles trying to explain which is best under which circumstances, but there are no correct answers.

I would wish for TS to deprecate one of the syntaxes (probably interfaces because they read as statements rather than expressions), and instead extend the other with the 10% functionality that would be lost.

For instance a type could be declared as open, to make it possible to reopen and extend it.
The US is far more diverse than most other countries. There is no “we” with respect to demographic health data.
There's actually a Norwegian show about Norway getting invaded and occupied by Russia, with support by the EU, because they decided to stop producing and exporting fossil fuels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupied
The US had exactly this back in late 1990s.

Then the US government let the telcos off the hook for carrying all traffic.

And thus the shitty system we have now.
One of my favorite blacksmithing channels is https://www.youtube.com/c/TimothyDyck. Interesting work and so very Canadian.
I know but people still need cars and they will buy it even if it costs twice as much. When public transportation is not convenient and reliable there is not really much choice.
That is exactly how I took your comment.

This is a weird cursed thread that started out with a pretty silly† claim about FreeBSD vs. Linux network stack performance (neither of us started it; it's a standard platform war argument). Someone made a comment that the hyperscalers all depend on the Linux kernel stack, to a far greater degree than they do on FreeBSD. That's a true statement; at this point, you and I have both agreed on it.

When that point was pressed earlier, you and another comment brought up kernel bypass (usermode networking, specifically) as a way of dismissing hyperscaler Linux dependencies. But that's not really a valid argument. Hyperscalers do kernel bypass stuff! Of course they do! But they're doing it for the things that you'd formerly have bought dedicated network equipment for, and in no case are they doing it in a situation where deploying FreeBSD and using the FreeBSD stack would be a valid alternative.

The disconnect between us is that I'm still talking about the subject that the thread was originally about --- whether Google using the Linux stack is a valid point backing up its fitness for purpose. I think it pretty clearly is a valid point. I think the usermode networking stuff is interesting, but is a sideshow.

† "Silly" because these kinds of claims never, ever get resolved, and just bring out each side's cheering section, not because I have low opinions of FreeBSD's kernel stack --- I came up on that stack and find it easier to follow than Linux's, though I rather doubt the claim that it has a decisive performance advantage.