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mhartz··on In the belly of the MrBeast
> The ideal creator has no distance between themselves and their persona. They have been interpellated by audience metrics; their subjective experience already takes audience reactions into account.

Isn't this sort of one of the themes from The Prestige(2006)? That certain magicians were so dedicated to their craft that they became inseparable from it. The performance never actually stopped

mhartz··on PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024
Obviously there's some level of subjectiveness here, but how many years could they realistically have gotten his award?
mhartz··on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
great recommendation
mhartz··on Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
Wasn't this also sort of a feature with Twitter? iirc the retweet and other now popular features were originally hacked together by users
mhartz··on Ask HN: What breakthrough helped you build and maintain better relationships?
The thing I always remind myself on this topic is from Dale Carengie's How to Win Friends and Influence People which is essentially you will make an order of magnitude more friends by being interested in other people than you will in trying to make them interested in you
mhartz··on No evidence screen time is negative for child cognitive development, well-being
Absence of evidence != Evidence of Absence
mhartz··on Mistral 7B
Thanks, so does that mean position within the buffer is irrelevant?
mhartz··on Mistral 7B
Can someone help me understand Figure 2? Why does the newest token appear at the beginning of the sequence rather than next to its neighboring token?