skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s RSC?

Edit – I think I found it: RSC is React Server Components. Per React’s December 2020 blog post https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react... and June 2022 blog post https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/06/15/react-labs-what-we-have-..., the technology is still in development.

Searches like “RSC JavaScript” and “RSC Redux” didn’t turn up anything. I only found the term “React Server Components” in the comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994621 while reading discussion of a January 2022 blog post “Remix vs Next.js”.
The productivity chart is very spiky with values changing direction all the time. I’m not convinced this is note worthy
> We need legislation that balances individual rights and collective rights.

We already have laws which provide penalties for 8+ categories of illegal speech: {Obscenity, Fighting words, Defamation, Child pornography, Perjury, Blackmail, Incitement to imminent lawless action, True threats, fraud, conspiracy to commit a felony, etc}.

My assessment is the tools of the law (police departments, prosecutors, courts, and tort litigation) don't move at the scale of internet posters/commenters.

How long did it take for Alex Jones to build a theory about the Newtown School Shooting kids' parents/families/investigators? He probably just remixed some 4Chan theory in a few minutes then went onto his show unscripted.

How long (and how many resources) did it take the plaintiffs and their lawyers to gather evidence, do discovery, fight AJones's legal motions to delay the case? Literally years. The first case was finally settled 10 years after the shooting.

The law doesn't move fast enough because of the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle[1]. New laws are unlikely to solve that problem. IMHO only very consistent prosecution of people that do violate the law would dissuade law breakers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
New America’s Epidemic of Traffic Deaths Is Getting Worse
Would the number of cores in a GPU level off? It seems like intensive computing of all sort will migrate to gpgpu programming.
You can literally copy and paste text out of an image on iOS these days. Your next of kin will be fine.
I think many of the regulations in F1 are because people generally don’t like to watch other people die. F1 drivers killing themselves all over the track is bad for business.
Yes, I think it was listed as that when I found it? You can't keep notes on some things.

Also the article for "New French Extremity" or one similar in the English wikipedia... I could have sworn it used to be... some French word?

It was one of the many things I half looked into chasing some Jeckyll errors after the 2016 election as I applied for jobs.

By the time I got back around to... that... Vice had done an article on hurtcore and a bunch of people seemed to have been clued in on the "people must think I'm a serial killer when they Google me because it looks TOO clean" meme from my early grad school days.

(Happy Halloween!!)
I'd guess we get more hardware acceleration. In classic computers (PCs, laptops, servers), for stuff like audio/video codecs, that's been available for decades, but I'd say the next big push will be ethernet/wifi accelerators that do stuff like checksum calculation/verification, VLAN tagging or even protocol-level stuff like TLS in the chip itself - currently, that's all gated for expensive cards [1], I'd expect that stuff to become mainstream over the next few years. Another big part will be acceleration for disk-to-card data transfer [2] - at the moment, data is being shifted from the disk to RAM to GPU/other compute card. Allowing disks to interface with compute cards will be a lot of work - basically, there needs to be a parallel filesystem reader implementation on the disk itself, on the DMA controller or in the GPU, which is a lot of effort to get done right with most modern and complex filesystems - but in anything requiring high performance removing the CPU bottleneck should be well worth the effort.

Mobile is going to be more interesting because of power, space and thermal constraints and a lot of optimization already being done because unlike on classic computers vendors couldn't just go and use brute force to get better performance, and there is a bit of an upper cap on chip/package size as well. Probably we'll see even more consolidation towards larger SoCs that also do all the radio communication stuff if not on the same chip then at least in the same package, so the end game there is one single package that does everything and all that's needed on the board are RF amplifiers and power management. All the radio stuff will move to SDR sooner or later, allowing for far faster adoption of higher bandwidth links and with it, a reduce in power consumption as the power-expensive RF parts have to be powered on for less time to deliver the same amount of data.

[1] https://docs.nvidia.com/networking/display/FREEBSDv370/Kerne...

[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/
Netflix is clearly a different story from Snap and Uber.
I wish the part about how he actually writes was longer. It's like there is a huge rambling introduction and then he actually discusses advice. Seems like the opposite of good writing advice. Like Godin and Gladwell, Taleb's success shows how important branding and media coverage are.
I’m currently hybrid: 2 days at home, 3 days in office but no one’s really counting. I realize I’m not quite the target of the question, but even I can the difference.

It’s very easy to never leave my home on WFH days and that absolutely has a negative effect. It makes the days going back to the office feel more refreshing, like I have more oxygen. That said, there are of course plenty of upsides to WFH.

I’m not sure what a software solution would like. Maybe reminders to get out of the house, or something that tracks how long it’s been since I’ve seen a friend in person.
It doesn't even matter what's in the article, the fact that this is on the HN front page tells me it's going to happen - though who knows when

For context I've been "into" AGI since I read the term in the late 1990s in a Ray Kurzweil book and decided that I was going to work my whole life to realize it

Much later, Ben Goertzel (arguably the guy to popularize the term) was my Masters Thesis advisor, at the National Intelligence University in 2013 (Literally a secret graduate school program for people in the intelligence community). My thesis was "How will AGI impact national security."

Almost nobody cared then, though I did have a lovely lunch with Yoshua Bengio in 2014 at the Quebec AGI conference. Ben has hosted the AGI conference since 2008 and it has always been sparsely attended.

In fact bringing up AGI was likely to get you laughed out of any gathering of computer scientists - and outside of that it was pure speculative science fiction.

It's tragically sad to me that, inevitably, the early people who have been thinking about and working on and pushing this vision since day one will likely not be the ones who realize it. Such is life

edit: Worth acknowledging that this was the original vision of computers after all - the business people fucked it up
I love that this comment defines productivity as lunches, jokes, playing board games, and going to the pub. Though, I agree all those things are more fun than sitting at a computer.
"We will one day soon each have our own ‘mental palace’ expressed in multiple interfaces — a mental/cognitive and digital/visual place where we store our memories, which we can access via augmented reality and eventually, neural interface." - Possibly today with Stable Diffusion?

There's a lot of interesting sci-fi examples for what education technology can be like in this piece. It's definitely worth a read.
I remember hearing about the helm, but didn't recall the details. Looks like a personal, privacy-oriented cloud server/service:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220403002204/https://www.thehe...

a shame, it looks like a very cool idea: great concept and attractive and minimialist hardware... :(
If you're talking about the tongue-in-cheek, it couldn't die quicker as far as I'm concerned. Even as a proud Brit (from the North, so that may be a factor), I find the tongue-in-cheek style and excessive puns nauseating when I'm just trying to scan articles to catch up on news, to the point that I keep telling myself I need to unsubscribe from their newsletter. The only reason I'm still subscribed at all is because I know of no good equivalent for UK-specific tech news.

Then again, the writing style is not the worst part of The Register - it's the comments section that's overrun with boomers and their predictably bitter takes when it comes to news involving Big Tech, Silicon Valley or pretty much anything that doesn't have the effect of transporting them back to their nostalgic heyday.
Nope. Seems like a scam like the Kensington Stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone
Not sure if it's exactly accurate with the plateauing trend -- single-threaded performance almost doubled in the last 5 years.
How does PPC differ from SEO?
PPC is often seen as a faster, more reliable and controllable way of earning traffic and sales from a search engine than from organic traffic. There is a lot of evidence to support the theory or claim that Ad traffic has a very high buyer intent – as users associate ads with companies that are live and doing business. Arguing theories against this demonstrate that many users use ad blockers therefore making organic traffic (from SEO) more reliable. There are certainly search verticals or markets which have varying constituencies of users with higher or lower propensities to have an Ad Blocker, for example life hackers, people who like to live off the grid etc.
I did an internship there like 10 years ago at the end of my uni course, where one of my projects was to do a proof of concept of re-implementing their point-of-sale application using web technologies, maintaining the DOS-y look, feel, keyboard shortcuts etc.

At the time I had no idea why. In hindsight, it's hilarious. I'm guessing it was the result of a clash between someone that wanted to use modern tech for the sake of it and someone representing the users that told them to get fucked, probably went through 15 meetings before eventually getting palmed off on the intern so it didn't pick up too much steam (probably the only good decision that was made in the whole process).
but the solution is still to slow down the cars and reduce their prevalence.
Turbopack is indeed faster, which makes it more confusing. Like why not use the actual verifiable "apple to apple" benchmark results?

Even in this article, they do not refer to that acknowledgement, which because it was from a competiting OSS author, would have a lot more weight
last sentence:

This leads us to nuclear: it has undeniable advantages as an energy source that is both carbon-free and reliable. In order to make use of this powerful technology, we must focus on public and government support, reforming our regulatory frameworks, and bringing costs down, so we can realize the full potential of nuclear energy.

Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya,

Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya, oh, Lord, Kumbaya.
What if aliens show up and they are thousands of years ahead of us and they don’t have anything much more powerful than an i9 running their UFO?
The article doesn't really mention one of the biggest problems: cost. These new process nodes are insanely expensive. Far moreso than before. This is one of the biggest drivers of new packaging technologies (chiplets). Companies simply can't afford to manufacture their entire design on the latest process. There are even still newer transistor designs that promise further improved performance but will be even more cost prohibitive.

I'm not convinced that there are any hard EDA problems here, despite the fact that EDA as an industry in general is woefully archaic, especially when compared to the equivalent in the software world. We've been doing multi-layer and/or multi-die packages for a long time. It's more of a project management challenge, having to get different teams (process, packaging, design, verification) to work together earlier on in the design cycle, and more frequently throughout.
If you live 20mi from work, and aren't moving house, ditching your auto means switching to walk + bus/train.
This is the first one that came to mind for me (even if it's unofficial). Same as the "Tuck Rule" means Brady rule.
I was trying to figure out if you meant the SB held for the 2013 season or the SB actually held in 2013 but then I remembered that it happened in both lol
Interesting, I always found Paul to be intentionally difficult for the reader to relate

This take is interesting but it’s worth noting that in the Duniverse, thinking machines (AI) are banned as a result of a massive human vs AI war.

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
My entire career in computers spans the 40 years in that graph. The constant leaps in fundamental speed were exhilarating and kind of addictive for technologists like myself. As the rate of progress has fallen off over the past decade it's been sad to see the end of an era.

I'm sure speeds and capabilities will continue to increase, albeit much more gradually, but significant gains are going to come slower, harder and at greater cost. The burden will have to be shouldered by system architects and programmers in finding clever ways to squeeze out net gains under increasingly severe fundamental constraints (density, leakage, thermals, etc).

Back when I started programming as a teen in 1980 with 4k of RAM and ~1 Mhz 8-bit CPUs, knowledge of the hardware underneath the code and low-level assembly language skills were highly valuable. Over the years, the ability to think in instruction cycles and register addressing modes grew anachronistically quaint. Now I suspect those kinds of specialized 'down-to-the-metal' optimization skills may see a resurgence in value.
Pitfall #1 is a very good example where ML diverges from regular software development. You can't throw more cores, developers, time or fancy models at that problem. Sometimes, your data is going to limit what you can do and 80% accuracy just might be the best result you can get. Managers need to understand this and know when costs are sunk and when to move on.
Evan is credited in the post (this tweet is from three days ago).

> Turbopack and Next.js 13.0.1 are out addressing a regression that snuck in prior to public release and after the initial benchmarks were taken. We also fixed an incorrect rounding bug on our website (0.01s → 15ms). We appreciate Evan You's work that helped us identify and correct this.
Sounds to me like the landlord is just a useless middleman. Do we really want those?
By the time the FBI gets a warrant and takes my safe with all my secrets, it's too late. Maybe I'm naive but I don't have time to live my life with your degree of paranoia. Good luck to you in your endeavours to avoid anyone knowing anything about your life.
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This is normal and desirable.
destructuring, not destructing.
> Failing to follow regulations IS a failure.

It's not a mechanical failure, which is clearly what was being talked about. This is why the above poster was asking if anyone had anyone with experience with the actual atv. That it is out of spec is not something anyone here is disputing.
Getting into the wall usually means a flat tire or at least being slowed down considerably. I don’t think you could do this on a superspeedway track because the forces and friction would just destroy the car before the turn was over. On a short track it looks to be a different story.
Something that isn't clear to me: Why, exactly, is it so much faster than even its own build tool(swc)?

In other words, what's speeding up here isn't build speed, but the ability to download the updated changes. Right? Or am I wrong?
in climbing "send" is used in other forms... sending temps = cold enough for the rubber to stick well, usually below 50°F. getting sendy = eager, anxious to climb. sending shoes = aggressive pair of climbing shoes with downturned toes.
Turbopack is alpha – currently only for local dev (e.g. dev server with hot reloading). Support for production builds hasn't landed yet. Once that lands, we'll add some benchmarks there as well.
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Thank you. Appreciate your thoughts.

> Sometimes the most important thing isn't absolute max productivity.

This is a really great point to keep in mind.
>> I can't see how to reconcile this belief with an all-knowing and all-powerful God. If murders were disruptive to his plan, wouldn't he just prevent them from happening? Are all non-murder deaths part of his plan? If I am hit by a car while in the crosswalk by someone who looked down at their phone, is that part of God's plan for me, but if the driver maliciously ran me down, it isn't? What if it was an accident, but they were drunk? Is God somehow frustrated or annoyed when a murder happens? Does it surprise God?

It depends on how a religion views free will and God's role in governing the universe.

Some religions hold that free will exists and that God allows people to act freely according to their own will and choice. In this view, God is all-knowing and all-powerful, but God lets people act freely. In the afterlife, God judges people based on their actions during their lives and rewards or punishes accordingly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will discusses many of the concepts around free will.
Definitely doesn't redirect for me.
They signed up for the email list. The platform doesn't exist yet.
Yeah, if it were possible to do that, it'd make sense. Best people can do is mentally bill themselves for their time and factor that into personal decisions.
What is the real business for snap?
Professional shyster making something like the Georgia guides tones or golden tablets to "discover" and then use as the basis of a religion, is the first thing that comes to mind.
Just as a Dad-joke, this is kinda ironic; bc "git is a blockchain" :p
You can send and receive SMS using Wifi only (VoWIFI) which most carriers support even the cheapest MVNOs. It's usually referred to as "WiFi Calling"

Again, you DO NOT need a cell phone tower to send and receive SMS and phone calls. You can register your phone on its home network near a tower and go WiFi-only forever after.
The "cores" are becoming more specialized and optimized for domain specific tasks.
Compiler technology advancements are needed to take advantage of such heterogenous architectures in a transparent way.
LLVM MLIR started that already.[1,2]
The alternative is being stuck with each silicon vendor's proprietary solutions like CUDA.

[1] https://mlir.llvm.org/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/04/compiling_the_future/
Shrinking has almost stopped too and you can only make a chip that big before it runs into other constraints.
Good engineers aren’t slaves they have options. You don’t just transfer them between groups or companies and locations for that matter.
Interestingly, Musk wants to turn Twitter into WeChat for the West. It'll be interesting to see if he can pull it off and eat Facebook's lunch while they're distracted.
That’s a terrible analogy.

GDP is like measuring how useful the car is.
Makes sense unless those 25% actually contribute to revenue.
Shared library? Simply barbaric!

Read the other comments and learn how to set up 10-out-of-17 secret sharing across your relatives and friends, how to have at least 3 secret spots to stash encrypted passwords, and how to configure online services to alert those relatives and friends when you are dead.
There's also ideas like the Mill processor. Though it's hard to avoid comparisons to Itanium, and how a mountain of money still didn't produce a compiler that could unlock what initially sounded like a better ecosystem.
No it’s not. Fiat money can easily be used for a 0% growth economy.
The level of contempt with which the Laptop Class treated everyone else will not soon be forgotten.

These people will have to answer to a generation of kids they kept out of school for two years.

On top of everything, they genuinely don’t think there was anything wrong with their behavior.

We have seen how this class of pseudo-intellectual ideologues acts when times get tough. It’s not pretty and it isn’t going to be forgotten or forgiven by anyone, anytime soon.
Seems to be fine and now thanks to the quick radical changes, Twitter will be around for another ten years.

News organizations and media outlets like this one, know they need to rely on Twitter for maximum eyeballs and outrage on their articles like this one and they are already telling us they need Twitter without directly admitting it.

Business as usual for the news organizations as they will still continue to use Twitter.
Correct, still very early. While the happy path right now is through Next.js, there's a hacky workaround for general use outside Next.js. As we move forward in stability, we'll be publishing more guidance for using it as a general bundler with any framework. Next.js is helping dogfood Turbopack prior to that, while in alpha.
When I was in high school a local science museum had an annual paper airplane contest. One of the events was duration of flight. The launch platform was a second-story landing. One year I won with a simple piece of paper the size of a dollar bill that was bent into a S-shape profile so that it would twirl as it fell. It turns out this is actually a legitimate way to produce lift, and actual human-carrying aircraft have been built with wings that use this principle, but I didn't know that at the time, and neither did the competition organizers. They thought I was cheating, and so did I. So the next year they tried to change the rules in a way that would disqualify my design but they couldn't come up with a legitimate way to phrase such a rule, so in the end they decided on a very clever solution: all entries in the duration-of-flight event had to carry a penny as a payload.

So I built a very large version of the same design out of computer punch cards taped together, and won again. I'm still proud of that.
I'm impressed it's the bank having a hard time and not their customers!
The already placed checkmarks are wrong. An AGI by this list would be able to beat humans at chess and win an art competition, both of which are already checked off. But the chess playing AI and the art competition AI are completely separate systems, the art AI can't win a game at chess, it doesn't know a single thing about chess and it's never going to and vice versa. By this checkmark logic you could complete the whole list with one specialized neural net for each task and, while that would be an absolutely quantum leap in technology and the ramifications for the world, it still wouldn't be AGI. I know he discusses this at the beginning to say that computers can win at chess without being general but then the idea of generalness is basically just left there. Items should only be checked off when one system is capable of completing both tasks.
People can drive under the influence, over the speed limit, distracted or with road rage

Vs autonomous driving where none of those impediments come into play
A bit like how pretax salary doesnt measure income. Too few understand that.
I am a paid customer and I've been trying to use it, but it's not useful yet. I bought this as a specialized IDE for Go but then they added Ruby and other languages I don't really care about and Go is not in focus anymore, so, what's the point of being one of the many - Nova, CodeEdit, Sublime Text, VS Code, you name it!

I am disappointed!
Figuring out the limits of the law is definitely AGI!

Most humans can't do it.
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