skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why facism in america completely died out after Charlottesville and the completely mask off "blood and soil" march? No? There are still honest to god nazis, swastika and all, protesting in Florida. Supporters of what happened in Charlottesville still have millions of causal followers, and militias are probably having no issue recruiting.

This is why the ACLU stopped carrying water for facists: The "marketplace of ideas" has not seemed to work, and in general, globally, desire for authoritarianism is increasing as people feel squeezed and stressed and scared, basically the same as it always happens.

So we espoused this pro-speech plan, and then spent decades educating on the values of democracy and how obviously better it is than facism or other forms of authoritarianism, and then the second things get a little scary people turned to easy solutions of "Just hate that out group" like they always do.

It's like humans mostly work on emotions and aren't perfectly logical creatures or something, and addictive emotional stuff is just better at spreading than the nuance of reality.
> Port binding - your app listens on a port and you put nginx or whatever in front of it

Apache for my personal projects, in front of the docker containers.
Vastly increased power usage would be a big one I would think. For one the USA power grid probably couldn’t handle it as is. Increased brown outs/black outs from higher demand could cause health issues from loss of climate control devices in locales where that’s a dangerous prospect. Like losing heat during a Maine winter or A/c during a phoenix summer.

Even ignoring that, ~20% of us electricity is coal generated. ~60% is fossil fuel generated [1] so it’s ultimately just shifting the problem unless there are equivalent infrastructure investments as well.

[1]https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
As a TA the remote schooling definitely had an impact on the quality of incoming students.
One small caveat: OpenAI gets to see all your prompts, and all the responses.

Sometimes this can be unacceptable. Law,, medicine, finance, all of them would prefer a self-hosted, private GPT.
Other than fun, being able to shift lights in the kids bedrooms to a more yellow hue for storytime then a dark red for a nightlight has been good.
The problem with that theory is there does not seem to have been any effect of shorter or longer remote schooling. Every school was closed for a few weeks, and about half of schools were closed for a year+, which sets up a perfect natural experiment. But there is not an observable link between longer remote schooling/closures and lower ACT scores.
This is great! Keep going with this!
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has a regular program increment cadence of every 8-12 weeks. This provides intuitive places for work, rest, and celebration.

https://scaledagileframework.com/planning-interval/
It is hard to remember how I felt about the company before (as opposed to the product idea). To be even more clear, the request was explicit. Like "we are super passionate about this product here and want people who are just as passionate, send us a video showing how excited you are".

I'm sure some others can't understand and I view it as a mistake. 2 minutes of performative "I can' wait to be a full stack engineer!" or "we're really going to change he world!" energy might have netted me some big payout? If I passed the interview? Who knows.

It's one thing to have genuine passion for working hard, doing a great job, making a great product. There is something else in being asked to make a video performance of that.

It's something like how I hate leet code. It is almost just a hoop you jump through to prove you are willing to jump through hoops. But I suppose it does provide many companies with a lot of value. And some of those companies end up exiting high. Maybe if I was less prideful I could have taken more advantage.
What company do you work for? I'd like to cancel my subscription.

Seriously...bad idea. One repo leak or even one bad copy/paste in StackOverflow and you're done.
Noted. Will address asap! Thanks.
I think the confusion arises because people view "cable" as something that requires coax and a set top box, and they view "streaming" as anything that goes over the internet, therefore they mistakenly view YouTube TV as streaming, when it's actually just cable. The US government uses the term "multichannel video programming distributor" for platforms like this, which is a mouthful, but at least defines the concept separately from the distribution method.
I do think that the students who don't get accepted into the selective schools need better options. It's just when the options are keep all the students together or separate them and some will become better and some will become worse I think providing the students who want to succeed with a way to accomplish their goals is the correct choice. Hopefully there will be another option that isn't so exclusionary in the future.

I'm not super interested in who gets the credit here. If the public schools were able or willing to kick out problematic students like the charter schools then I think we should be doing that instead of charters. But that's not the reality. So yes, I do think that outcomes overall are better, at least in my district, because of charters.
It's especially surprising when you consider that cheaper plans exist, probably using the same network you're on, and that changing carriers can be extremely simple.

I switched from T-Mobile 3 months ago (when they announced changes to the autopay discount) to Mint. My bill went from $60/mo to $180/yr (breaks down to $15/mo, and I think claiming something is $15/mo when it's actually $180/yr should be illegal, but that's an argument for another day). It's "only" a 5GB plan in comparison to whatever I had before, but my highest month so far has been 1.06GB.

Transferring took 15 minutes. It's the same network.

Sure, many people don't switch out of ignorance, but I know people for whom the reason is simply laziness (because I told them about the cheaper plans).
It's also worth noting that if you build your business on using OpenAI's LLM or Anthropic etc, then, in the majority of cases I've seen so far (no fine tuning etc), your competitor is just one prompt away from replicating your business.
Yes. While some of the Anime mentioned by the parent may be known to a more general public, that doesn't mean that it is the same for the vehicle.

For those that know the Anime, Takumi's AE86 is really something different. The car has made more than one cameo in other Anime ([1] for example, but I remember in School Rumble too), street race or drifting scenes often involve a reference to the serie[2], and the Internet is full of people slapping Eurobeat songs on top of a random cartoon [3] or their own driving [4][5].

Write AE86 on Amazon and you will find plenty of stuff about the car.

And I saw more than one case of old Toyotas painted up like in the Anime, "Fujiwara Tofu shop" writing on the side include. And I mean in Europe, not Japan.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDTqU0GAKI
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgmyVTVc-Yc
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97xT8C07crI
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyO2vMGCaK8
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptz91D97R0g
I don't see where to use it or how, doesn't appear to allow you to record your screen...
All valid points, I think I looked at it too trivially and fired an opinion from the hip.
The censorship is likely an uncomfortable trade-off. In an ideal world, we would allow speech and carefully police when that speech turns into death threats or violent action.

However, state capabilities and surveillance capabilities are not sufficient in the west for the second part of that. So the devil's compromise is to restrict the former (because people who would be motivated to issue death threats or commit violent actions are frequently encouraged by the former actions of free speech).
Considering that my classmate's father was a car salesman, I think you are right to say that the story was likely exaggerated.
While I "jailwalk" pretty much all the time (in Europe), nighttime is when I am the most reluctant to do so. Poor visibility and higher chance of meeting a drunk driver.
The #1 public school in the US is Thomas Jefferson in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). FCPS is a suburb of DC, and a fantastic amount of the kids there are children of military servicemembers and FedGov civilians.

A lot of those well paid contractors are former military as well.
Maybe every T-Mobile customer should switch to Mint Mobile or other low cost carriers en masse. They will lower their prices right after the mass exodus.

However they are counting on the misleading practice that most people are busy and won't ask questions.

Lot's of nonsense gets pushed like this.
I completely agree — open-source models and custom deployments just can't compete with the cost and efficiency here. The only exception here is if open-source models can get way smaller and faster than they are now while maintaining existing quality. That will make private deployments and custom fine-tuning way more likely.
Will the wealth then “trickle down” to benefit everyone? Yeah… I think I’ve heard this argument before.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/23/tax-cuts-...
Many universities stopped looking at the ACT and SAT for various reasons. The article mentions this:

> Many universities have made standardized admissions tests optional amid criticism that they favor the wealthy and put low-income students at a disadvantage. Some including the University of California system do not consider ACT or SAT scores even if submitted.

Anecdotally, I've talked to a few parents of HS students who saw these headlines and believed that standardized testing was no longer relevant. I'm not sure how many universities do or do not consider the ACT, but I suspect the downplaying has reduced people's urgency to prepare for it.

Now for purely anecdote-based speculation: I've seen a strange social-media fueled malaise overtake the high school aged kids I've worked with. Teenagers are naturally going through ups and downs, but there's something weird about social media that lets them find content to fuel their cynicism and disdain for society.

I'm not talking about the likes of Instagram, but rather the teenagers doomscrolling Reddit or TikToks about how society is crumbling, the world is ending, and there's no point to trying because "the American Dream is dead". Weirdly, this mentality was rampant among the computer science students I talked to, who were seemingly unaware that they were on track to earn a decent living with one of the most comfortable careers around. Shaking them of this belief felt like an impossible task when they were just going to go back to their homes and doomscroll Reddit for hours every day. I have no doubt this doomerism is playing into a decreased motivation to study and prepare for anything among a large subset of students.
TLS secures your message till the endpoint which is a (plaintext) code repo. Why would you want a special tool to read plaintext code? Your argument makes no sense whatsoever.

I’m not sure what you’re getting at here but it sounds more like an irrational hatred of email than something genuinely technical to me.
How do you deal with the fact that Azure et al are not appearing to sell anyone additional capacity?
"There will be an exact point at which a certain molecule has interacted with another molecule" statement is contradictory with the uncertainty associated with time as described by quantum mechanics and molecular interactions due to Brownian motion. Material that is returned when searching for those topics will better answer your further questions about them and those above than I here.
SponsorBlock helps with this also, even when it's incorporated into the video (via muting the audio).
> Local AI will never be as capable as AI running in massive GPU datacenters

I'm not sure this is true, even in the short term. For some things yes, that's definitely true. But for other things that are real-time or near real-time where network latency would be unacceptable, we're already there. For example, Google's Pixel 8 launch includes real-time audio processing/enhancing which is made possible by their new Tensor chip.

I'm no fan of Apple, but I think they're on the right path with local AI. It may even be possible that the tendency of other device makers to put AI in the cloud might give Apple a much better user experience, unless Google can start thinking local-first which kind of goes against their grain.
A modern equivalent of this is the death toll from kerosene heaters/lamps, which are considerably safer than candles:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/kolkata/two-west-bengal-toddl...
Same. My game is using roll20 for maps and D&D Beyond for books and character sheets. There’s a chrome extension that can link them together.
I signed up for OpenAI's ChatGPT tool, and entered a query, like 'What does the notation 1e100 mean?' (just to try it out). And then when displaying the output it would start outputting the reply in a slow way, like, it was dripfeeded to me, and I was like: 'what? surely this could be faster?'

Maybe I'm missing something crucial here, but why does it dripfeed answers like this? Does it have to think really hard about the meaning of 1e100? Why can't it just spit it out instantly without such a delay/drip, like with the near-instant Wolfram Alpha?
Therefore, Bitcoin code has to have been always free of bugs (malicious or accidental). That has not been the case and will not be the case. The assumption doesn't hold, and double spends are therefore possible.
OpenAI will make its money on enterprise deals for finetuning their latest and greatest on corporate data. They are already having this big enterprise deals and I think that's where the money is.

They will keep pricing the off-the-shelf AI at-cost to keep competitors at bay.

As for competitors, Anthropic is the most similar to OpenAI both in capabilities and business model. I am not sure what Google is up to, since historically their focus has been in using AI to enhance their products rather than making it a product. The "dark horses" here are Stability and Mistral which both are OSS and European and will try to make that their edge as they give the models for _free_ but to institutional clients that are more sensitive to the models being used and where is the data being handled.

Amazon and Apple are probably catching up. Apple likely thinks that all of this just makes their own hardware more attractive. It's not clear to me what Meta's end goal is.
This is _the_ playbook for big, fast scaling companies...Uber subsidized every ride for _a decade_ before finally charging market price, just to make sure that Uber was the only option which made sense.

While it's nice to consume the cheap stuff, it is not good for healthy markets.
It's not even just the cost of finetuning. The API pricing is so low, you literally can't save money by buying a GPU and running your own LLM, no matter how many tokens you generate. It's an incredible moat for OpenAI, but something they can't provide is an LLM that doesn't talk like an annoying HR manager, which is the real use case for self-hosting.
there is also selection bias. happy teachers are less inclined to post . But I can imagine things have gotten worse. Entitled parents who think their special snowflake is a genius, rowdy students, politization of the curriculum, fighting, and a helplessness and powerlessness to do anything about it due to bureaucracy.
Germany is complicated, because they mostly use gas for heating, not electricity. So switching to heatpumps will require more generation. And for now this means new natural gas plants.

This is not _too_ bad in itself, using gas for generation and then powering heat pumps is more efficient than burning gas for heating. But the capital requirements for new power plants will cement Germany's dependence on fossil fuels for at least another 2 decades.

It's a mess.
The service quality sucks. You're getting what you pay for. We switched to Azure Open AI APIs because of all the service quality issues.
> I think OpenAI may eventually have to go upmarket

Let me introduce you to the VC business model. Get comical amounts of money. Charge peanuts for an initial product. Build a moat once you trap enough businesses inside it. Jack up prices.
https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html

It dates back to the earliest days of the FSF ('84 ish) It was meant to have it's own Kernel (Hurd microkernel) but largely means Linux User Space these days imo.
We don’t even know what consciousness is, where we come from and why we are here. When you start to delve in the areas of synchronicities, archetypes, placebo effect and quantum mechanics, you realize that science can only get you so far.

I long for a new company exploring the fringe of such phenomena, something like Sony did with ESPER (google it, it’s a nice rabbit hole).
I could bet that some people in the world are currently doing this, just not in public.
> There is nothing fundamentally wrong with multiple apps (as in separate pods/containers/processes) being developed in a single repo, as long as they are tightly coupled functionally, share the release cycle, but still need to be deployed separately to get advantages of separate processes and independent scaling.

We disagree on fundamentals then and I think more of the world agrees with me and with the 12 factors.
> Tithing is horribly, gruesomely regressive.

No, it’s not: regressive would be if the poor had to pay a larger percentage than the rich. They don’t. Progressive indicates that the rich must pay a larger percentage than the poor. Meanwhile, a flat fee would be the same number for everyone.

I get what you’re trying to say: folks’ utility functions may be different, and a rich man may possibly miss his 10% less than the poor man. But ‘regressive’ and ‘progressive’ have specific meanings in this context.
"You should set your PC value equal to your peak TPS divided by the execution time. For example, if you have a peak of 50 TPS and your execution time is half a second, the most effective PC value would be 25."

This confused me. Wouldn't 50 / 0.5 be 100?
Isn’t OpenAI too cheap to be sustainable, and currently living off Microsoft’s $10B investment?
Summer breaks for teachers are much shorter than for students, especially when you take into account required continuing education and professional development.
And I thought this is the most transparent war ever. I mean, you've got tons of footage filmed by drones, helmet cams and smartphones from both sides. Not to mention high res commercial satellite images that you can pay for.
VexFlow is kind of tricky to use but extremely versatile and probably saved me a year (or two) in getting pianojacq.com up and running but I am still in the process of optimizing the code, last year during a holiday I did a complete refactoring to make it all more readable and I still have a plan to re-work the interface to VexFlow into something nicer than what is there right now. The problem is that there are 6 different representations of the score in memory right now (midi, VexFlow, visual (bitmaps), timing (milliseconds), pianoroll (for the sustained notes) and finally beats and bars. All of these serve different functions and have to be kept in sync so the bookkeeping gets to be a bit ugly. There is yet another representation used to reverse from pixels on the screen to notes. I suspect every program like that suffers from a similar problem that in order to do things fast you need to keep it around in the representation that is most suitable for the problem you're solving at that moment in time. For instance, during midi decoding I don't have time to parse the whole data structure but I do need to know if a note is still sustaining.

Edit: I looked at your stuff, did you know about:

https://guides.loc.gov/music-notation-preferred-preservation...
Oh, I never thought of Nebula as a curation service, just a hosting service that the creators I like seem to prefer (who knows why, maybe they get paid more there or have some promotion with them?). But I eventually moved back to YouTube too, for unrelated reasons (auto captions etc.)

I don't think any video site these days can be easily "browsed" if you want to avoid the garbage :( It's all about picking and choosing specific channels/creators to follow and ignoring the crap... sadly.
despite what a lot of people think, you can ask for forgiveness from the IRS and will typically get it if you're a first time offender and it's clear your intent wasn't malicious.

Sometimes people screw up on their taxes, etc.
>I am going to give my kid all the advantages I can, of course. But...personal optimization != societal optimization. Yes, I can put my kid in a better spot to succeed, but we aren't making progress as a society, things are getting very much worse actually (e.g. income inequality).

Good intentions but empirically it doesn't work; forcing troublesome kids to be in school with the kids who genuinely want to learn drags down the score of the kids who want to learn and doesn't improve outcomes for the troublesome kids. Countries with school choice like Sweden have much better educational outcomes than the US.
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Nothing in that article convinces me the situation couldn't change entirely in any given month. Google Gemini could be more capable. Any number of new players (AWS, Microsoft, Apple) could enter the market in a serious way. The head-start OpenAI has in usage data is small and probably eclipsed by the clickstream and data stores that Google and Microsoft have access to. I see no durable advantage for OpenAI.
you might enjoy this write-up of someone's yuru camp pilgrimage, then: https://old.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/86c4rg/i_went_to_the...

i actually visited sendai for haikyuu! i enjoyed my time there a lot - there's a lot of beautiful day trips available like matsushima and yamagata - but i wouldn't recommend visiting it for haikyuu. sports stadiums are not that interesting from outside and most of the actual locations in the manga are based on a small town deep in the countryside.
Abbreviate Mix of Experts as "MoE" and the Anime fans immediately start rushing in...
You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.

Look how much hatred there is for Neuralink. A company actually trying to productize and bring to market a device that will allow quadriplegic people to move and walk again, which could restore life for so many people who need help and have no other options.

So if you do try to bring it to market you’re pilloried by the press and everyone online and if you don’t it’s sad because it seems like there’s nobody trying to make the technology accessible.
Indeed.

Hard to believe that treating best practices as strict rules would not turn out to be best practice, isn't it?
You can but it’ll take longer. So one way to get faster answers is to stream the response as it is generated. And in GPT-based apps the response is generated token by token (~4chars), hence what you’re seeing.
The good news is that these people are so committed to their cause that they're willing to go to jail for it. From that perspective, it's a win-win. Everyone gets to see them show the world what they are, and then to see them disavowed by society.
Its a result of how these transformer models work. It's pretty quick for the amount of work it does, but it's not looking up anything, it's generating it a token a time.
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