skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wall-E wasn't supposed to be a utopia, and being trapped for 15 hours per day in Zuckerbergs AI Metaverse is not the kind of 'content' we ought to be looking forward to, even if it costs zero dollars.

It doesn't really matter what you, me or the public thinks. If you set up a system that constantly forces people to optimize for lowest cost and highest profits without concern for other things, you eventually will end up with a race to the bottom, where content does cost zero monies.

And that's the system most of us live in today. There is seemingly nothing else to do about than to join the rat race, otherwise you get left behind and on the streets. You can try to fight it, but eventually capitalism will overrun you, either by force and sneakily. It eats everything around you.

Capitalism and globalism was supposed to be the system that forced everyone to be friends via trade, because why would you hurt your trading partner? Instead we got what we have today, which might be less violent, but maybe the same amount of cruel.
Good point. Satisfying your cravings, like you have done, seems to be positive, just replacing sugar with zero calorie replacements seems to be a bad strategy though.

I have a friend who drinks about 10 liters of 'sugar-free' fizzy drinks per week, and uses artificial sweeteners for stuff he bakes, all while trying to lose weight (and failing).
I, for one, don't think there will be any shortage of demand for actually good human-created art.

I also don't think that much of what's available online is true "art".
RE: Microsoft

1) MSFT has already used React for far longer than 2 years.

2) They have basically never used the technologies you mentioned (WPF, Silverlight, WinUI). They offer them as UI toolkits that run in their Windows environment and that’s it. Their failure to market and support these technologies is independent of what they do for their own development strategy.

3) They bought GitHub and effectively own electron now. Many of their biggest apps are on electron (Teams, VS Code, Azure Data Studio).
Good question, so the builds are specified in Earthfiles, which are run by our buildkit backend.

Buildkit runs the builds in runC, so basically containers are used to keep things deterministic, but the buildkit backend isn't shared, each is in own EC2 instance.
> This comes back to Jeff Bezos' wisdom: there will never be a time when users want bloated and slow apps so being small and fast is a permanent advantage.

Did he share that with rest of the company or kept the knowledge to himself ?
Web Components, Service workers, Lit.dev, htmx, declarative shadow dom. These are the modern tools you need.
I can’t help but wonder what Einstein would’ve thought about the use of his name and likeness as a branding tool for an AI sales and marketing capability in a CRM. Surely reserving his name for something either more scientific or education based would be more appropriate.

I don’t love the idea of even more generative sales spam, but it was happening anyway, so hopefully this at least produces better material than what is already out there. Business-wise this is a smart move by Salesforce. As more and more of the big platforms end up building in their own AI capabilities, it’ll be interesting to see what happens to the ecosystems surrounding them. As these improve, will they end up killing the businesses that are built as add-ons to these platforms?
That's indirect at best. The government also decides who it sends as ambassadors to foreign countries, but would you say that ambassadors are elected?
From CI pipeline to bootloader would make me about turn and nope out of embedded so fast if that was my first job.
That level of skill requirement is like a department in one. Hopefully that company had some patient seniors.
> It's easy to hire people, onboard people

Yes they'll know the React part. It's the Redux/Mobx/React Router/whatever snowflake libraries you chose part that will be more difficult. I really don't like incomplete solutions personally.
Their label printers also don't do DRM like now Dymo does.

The scum even introduced drm-checking printers under same model name and number so the previous good reviews stay
This nailed it for me:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34063118
But popular support is. If you had no support from population, you would have harder time with waging war or defending. When your opponent has better propaganda and is able to spread it in your population, your population is slowing you down. We currently have better quality propaganda, and can spread it easily thanks to the internet. Russians can spread their propaganda but have worse quality, so they don't have support in west. We can't spread our propaganda easily in Russia, so Russians believe in their side. Those Russians who saw both sides mostly left Russia.
The "system_prompt.txt" file is hilarious. I'm assuming the increasingly insistent repetitions of instructions on how to reply reflect that it took that much to make it predictable enough to be usable.
Slowly, Then Suddenly: How Products Fail
Some people won't touch freecad because of the dated UI.

But to me, the main problem with freecad was lack of good organisation among workbenches. Its just too much back and forth between half finished workbenches to get anything done.
> You might as well say, having users is very very rarely a contributor to success.

These two things are not even remotely the same thing.

Having users is a path to monetisation but having a high performant app no one uses is not.

In fact, if you have users despite performance, it suggests you have a home run product that can be optimised for performance.

Again, you can’t optimise your way to user growth.
I can look at the javascript of many "big corporate" websites and see they are often a sprawling mess of homebrew code. I'm sorry your electricity company's React website is bad, but I don't think an anecdote is data. Any framework can get abused, not using a framework doesn't mitigate the problem. But trying to update a site that uses a different approach for every little feature spread across many pages, without any idea of what a component is, that's a nightmare. At least you can sensibly incrementally improve React across a site's components with well worn tools, especially as a team.

I don't love Microsoft, but it's for the best they adopt a well known and rounded framework like React, rather than try to invent yet another of their own frameworks, like the ones you mentioned. I don't know why this has anything to do with Electron, since their React push is for their front end frameworks for their main corporate product, Office365 (or whatever it's called today).
I thought this was a nice analysis of the study: https://peterattiamd.com/more-hype-than-substance-erythritol.... Since our bodies produce erythritol as part of the pentose phosphate pathway (which is activated heavily by many of the same factors which increase the risk of heart disease), it's possible that high circulating levels in our blood are just a marker/signal of other factors.
I like `fast-copy`. Never had an issue with that.
Didn't know that the SumatraPDF author had a blog, loved the read
One thing IA has going for them at least is that even though some material they have cannot be online and viewable by anyone, you can physically access their location and get access to any and all of the content, DMCA strikes be damned or not. Thanks to their library status if I'm not mistaken.
Lol... You are going to switch to PowerShell in initramfs?

PowerShell is just another Perl / Python / Ruby. Except made by Microsoft, so it's got a ton of useless features, lacking some essential stuff and has bombastic syntax. It's not suited for the role of UNIX Shell. Not by a long shot.

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On a larger note, the whole idea of needing a shell is bad. It comes from a defective (or rather overly simplistic and un-insightful) design of UNIX. A better system wouldn't need a distinction between a system programming language and a shell. You would just use one and the same thing for both purposes.

If you are on Linux, Guile is supposed to be that, but... maybe it was supposed to be that?.. I'd still want it to take the role of Shell, even though it doesn't tick all my boxes.
It's not just an American issue. Quite a few places in the world have similar situations (for various reasons). That problem is rarely a major issue, though; transportation in urban areas can be improved a lot and there's no reason to not implement different solutions for different circumstances, such as urban and rural areas. Fossil fuel-dependency _is not_ a problem we can solve with one single solution that fits everyone.

The tricky part is getting someone else to take the first step -- there's going to be a lot of changes if we really want to do this, and most people seems firmly convinced that someone else should take the lead.
That's half-true for the running costs (if you ignore material wear, like tires and stuff). But the manufacture of cars (and stuff in general) and the gathering of materials (read: mining) for that costs a lot of energy and, more importantly, causes a ton of other environmental impact.
Construct 3 and Construct Animate are not Chrome only, it works in all major browser and even mobile/tablet devices. Chromebook support has been a major plus for us in the educational market.

Construct 2 was pay once, but we found after a few years sales really plateaued. Going to SaaS was a difficult transition for us, but it's worked out well and we now see year on year growth which gives us a lot more breathing room.

I think it's important to also recognise that pay once software just doesn't work as a model for a lot of countries around the world. As an example, for Construct 3 we charge the equivalent of ~$12 USD per year in Malawi which makes it a very affordable option, whereas a one-off price would have to be roughly quadruple that for it to be economical for us, and would likely put it out of reach of a lot of people who otherwise may of paid annually for it.

SaaS puts more onus on us to cater for our current paying customers, before with pay once our focus was weighted on acquiring new customers. To what extent this actually plays out is kind of tricky to put your finger on especially from where I'm sitting but there is certainly an element of this in our work.

I'm not going to pretend that SaaS is suitable for everyone and every product and I understand why people are adverse, but for us it's worked well and a lot of noisy predictions from some of our customer base about this being our downfall never played out. The transition to pay once to SaaS was a vulnerable time for our business and a very interesting one at that.
Delusional research. Why not 20 similar interviews of French Foreign Regions? There are many Russians, Americans and French there that joined Wagner. Also, Russia has this at SMO level, meanwhile Americans had it at war level with Afghanistan, Vietnam and Iraq. All 3 concluded with American defeats especially humiliating with the recent Kabul flee. It is best the research higlights why this war shouldnt happen in the first place and analysed Minsk 1 and 2 failures by West (especially French and Germans to adhere to). Also, China is entering this war with military support (sending drones, equipments and mercs). Ukrainians will prevail...like Libya where many of its people suffering and participate in fresh trades. I dont think this is what we want how Ukrainian prevail.
Why make such a rude and useless comment? If you don't like what people say you don't have to read or listen.
Yup. It's poorly filmed, but the reaction makes it 100% worth it. :-)
Does anyone else find it a little strange that the logo for Ubuntu is used in the download section against the Linux version, instead of Tux?
Using [ is a mistake. Use [[ and relax!
Well, we're past the asteroids, at least. [1]

The AIpocalypse seems incredibly unlikely. I'm a lot more worried about the nukes, and even if we end up with robotic overlords, I'd bet they'll be a whole lot better at administration than meat -admins have proven.

I'm with you on engineered superviruses. Feasible, likely, and incredibly high impact.

What I kind of keep coming back to is the risk profile of all this stuff. That magic vector of likelihood * impact. Global warming is happening now. And it's real bad - worse than I think we give it credit for.

What I worry about is that we're the proverbial frog in the pot. Things get just slightly hotter each year, so we'll miss it when we actually boil.

1 https://www.google.com/search?q=double+asteroid+redirection+...
The bot is not meant to completely replace code review but to improve the code to be more production ready and catch any errors that might not be caught by the developers. In my experience more than 40% of code review comments relate to the specific changes and do not need a global context from the project.
> factful texts

That might be the problem here. Humans can't agree on facts apart from some very basic ones, so I'd argue we don't have truly "factful texts" at all. We have our own definitions of truth, and they are all built on flawed data. If factful texts are needed to have a model of truth, then humans don't have one, either.

Or at least then humans have imperfect models of truth informed by the training data, and, as far as I know, this fits ChatGPT as well.

> pretty easy to guess that having a fact checking model instead of just a text structure evaluator would greatly improve reasoning

I read this as "feeding the model better data will improve things" - after all, I just explained that I see fact checking and structure evaluation as effectively the same kind of a task. And with that in mind, I do agree with this guess :)
Thank you for all that great context. For what it's worth, as I study my religion more, I get a deeper appreciation for the non literal interpretations. After all what does it mean to have 6 days of creation when the sun wasn't even around for some of the days.

I do think "created" vs "always been there" is a pretty good definition of the chasm between religious and scientific views before the big bang
I might not as well say that. I in fact said something completely opposite - that users don't care about performance. Hence more features->more users.
My wallet has never been so happy (and sad at the same time)! My C220 is getting some new gear.
Jira is a not very good product, implemented by worse engineers, that happens to be better than its competitors (ironically proving the point I made further up thread).
> But it’s not reasoning

Can you define what reasoning is if not the ability to go from A to B, something that most basic computers can do (e.g., ALU). Granted LLM's do probabilistic reasoning but I don't see that as a seismic shift away from good ol' fashion reasoning which requires much less computation anyway.
> They're cleaner, no doubt. But are they clean enough that a 1-1 replacement could avert massive ecological destruction à la global warming? No they are not.

This is the main reason why I sold my Tesla and went back to my horse and buggy.
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>Which of those technologies were based on billions of copyright violations?

All of them, no one is reinventing the wheel every time something new is made, every invention is based on the inventions that proceeded it, it's how human society advances and learns.
Didn't see anyone mentioning Lodash's IMO biggest flaw: being null/undefined safe. As in `_.map(undefined, (item) => item)` returning an empty array. Promotes sloppy code and interfaces really badly with TypeScript.
I've been using the relay for months. It is very stable BUT, it sometimes takes minutes before peers realize they can also talk to each other on the local network.
So you have no qualification to say in Taiwan.
The customer

- "Wants" "stable", i.e. the default gcc

- Doesn't care what Boost version is used

- Pays the developer

The developer

- Wants the latest toolchain

- Wants the latest Boost

- Makes money

The developer

- Accepts using an old compiler because Boost keeps compatibility with it

- Does not pay Boost developers for it

There is no single entity that wants old compiler (other than to satisfy others) and new Boost.
I adore Pohl's work, but I am (very) surprised to hear Banks described as inaccessible.

May I ask, where are you from?
> Grocery stores can and should be a lot closer to where people live.

And how do groceries get to the vast network of local stores ?

Besides that the US is a MUCH larger country than the NL, distances in the US are also much greater than anything you can imagine in Europe. There's a reason our US friends measure travel in time taken, and not distance travelled. The number of shops needed to "locally supply" everybody would be gigantic.

The more stores that needs to be supplied, the more trucks needs to drive around supplying them, which leads to the question; what pollutes the most ?

If humanity wants to make an improvement, we need much more public transportation, and not like today where it's "once per hour unless you live downtown", but in a way that doesn't make a 30 minute trip take 90 minutes. If we manage that, it doesn't really matter how far away the grocery store is.

To give an impression of the size difference, the Netherlands covers an area of 16,160 sq mi (41,850 km2), and New York State alone covers 54,556 square miles (141,300 km2), and New York State is the 27th largest state in the US.

> My grocery store (in Amsterdam) is a 5 minute walk

And how many of those groceries are produced in Amsterdam ? Each an every one has been transported on one or more trucks to arrive in a convenient walking distance to you. I fully agree and understand that shops needs to be local, but they're not the most environmentally friendly solution.
A recent poll of published AI researchers showed a median estimate of a 5% chance AI causes human extinction, with half believing the chance is greater than 10%.

https://aiimpacts.org/2022-expert-survey-on-progress-in-ai/

A poll of NLP researchers showed 37% agreed that catastrophic outcomes of AI comparable to nuclear war were plausible.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12852
You'd never do [ "x$left" = "x$right" ], but [ x$left = x$right ].
The whole reason for the x-hack was to omit the double-quotes. With the dquotes you can of course leave the x out. [ "$left" = "$right" ]
>The West is definitely not in the business of warmongering.

You are honestly making this statement without deceipt?

The West is in the warmongering business.
Unportable
Dear hypothetical deities, please no!
The bot does not work like a linter or testing framework, these are suggestions that are subject to discussions, and the pull request is a great place to get reviews from the team
The web is (was) a pretty good example of something akin to FP: REST means all state is transferred with the response and then the whole thing is rendered in the browser. And then there is HTTP, so if you want a new page, you simple call another URL (like a function call). OK this is glossing over some parts like that cookies are also send, but they are additional optional arguments of that request (function call). That's what the mean (or meant, since the term is now muddied), when they say the connection is stateless.

What we have with badly written React apps now (90% approx.) is a UI, that is not at all behaving like a typical website and very far from being like FP. We often cannot simply go back with the back button and expect to see the same page rendered. I mean we can, but the websites will fart in our face, if we do. We do not get the ability to simple send a link to someone and have them see the exact same page. It is a huge departure from anything FP.

Furthermore from the dev perspective components feel more mainstream OOP than FP, since they store internal state and update it, which indirectly causes things I described above.

Not sure where people see the FP. Not sure they really have done any FP language before or tried in projects to strictly adhere to FP principles, because that looks a lot differently than React components and mixing state, layout and styling in JSX/TSX.
Imagine I show you a string of numbers and letters.

Will you spend time trying to decipher the code?

Does the answer depend on whether I told you there was a meaning encoded in there, vs it was produced by a random number generator?

In the most logical view if the universe was randomly created, there's nothing to be curious about, it's all noise.
Coz you need working multicast across entire network or server-per-datacenter to multicast (and data still needs to get to that server).

It's much simpler to just point a server to torrent tracker and let them exchange stuff between themselves
Been using SumatraPDF for probably a decade now and it’s always been great. Thanks, Chris!

If there’s one feature I’d absolutely love, because it’d let me delete Acrobat Reader again, it’d be digital signatures. Clients demanding that documents be digitally signed (but self-issued certs were ok?!) was the only reason I grudgingly reinstated it on one of my machines.
No you can't. Read the post.
> Sooner than most and the media.

This is a very low bar to jump over!

Anyway I read through that article. There's a lot of guff about Newcomb's paradox and Eliezer, and a single paragraph referencing COVID, with two links supporting your statement. I've clicked through those links and have come out unimpressed.

The first link is used to supported the claim that "The rationalist community was well ahead of the public": https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/14/a-failure-but-not-of-p... .

Scott rightly highlights how the media and institutions got things wrong, but conversely gives only a few examples of "generic smart people on Twitter" getting some things right in the early days of the outbreak. He confesses that he himself did not predict the seriousness of COVID.

The second link is used to support the claim "the wider tech community, were using masks and stocking up on essential goods, even as others were saying to worry about the flu instead": https://putanumonit.com/2020/02/27/seeing-the-smoke/ .

The linked article was written at the end of February, when panic-buying had already firmly set in across the US.

There is nothing here about the reasoning or predictive abilities of the rationalist or EA community specifically. Nor is there any compelling comparison of its response compared to the wider public.
Adobe’s goals for Acrobat Reader are almost diametrically opposed to yours.
Probably because social media use is easy to model and a relatively tight distribution, from a bandwidth perspective. The more targeted your pricing tiers, the more you can compete on price without taking a beating from top talkers.

Nobody wants to service the top residential users because they cause way more traffic and trouble, but it's probably hard to fire individual customers in most places. It's like zoning in that way. Nobody cares if I have chickens in my backyard, but it's illegal because 15 years ago someone's neighbor had 20 chickens and a few roosters, and the neighbor got a law passed rather than resolving it with the neighbor.