skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every law like this drags the Overton window further to the right by normalising the exclusionary discourse. The goal is not to get them passed at first try, but, if nothing is done, they will get passed at some point.
Quantifying Ideological Polarization on Social Media
India Imposes Money Laundering Provisions on Crypto Sector
India has imposed money laundering provisions on the cryptocurrency sector, the latest step by the government to tighten oversight of digital assets.
A big learning exercise I got from creating this was how to properly support High-DPI screens e.g. to have sharp graphics when using fractional scaling, auto rescale when moving the window between different scale monitors + win, linux, mac support... fun :)

I ended up having to use a fork of ImGui and it works quite well, but there are so many combinations to test that it is hard to cover them all.
Thank you confirming my suspicions. The whole startup culture seems very product focused, but it's really hard to find more information about the self-employed contractor style of work.

As a newbie to this world, the biggest questions I have are:

- how do you seek out new clients, are there job boards/discussion boards for these types of jobs? Or perhaps you just reach out to companies that seem to be doing interesting work?

- how do you prove to them that you can earn their contract?

- how do you even begin to match the project requirements and what you can bring to the table, and if needed, bring / integrate an additional member/team/contractor? Is that handled by the project manager at the company?

I have many questions, but basically, if you know a good place to get a primer on this, please share! Thank you.
What have they actually done for AI safety? Written essays and held symposiums in grand Wytham Abbey. Attracted followers and forum posts. Where's their git repo?
Absolutely agree.

My biggest problem with AI safety is that, simply, the problem they envisage doesn't exist yet (generally, at a minimum, relying on the existence of "AGI"). Hence discussions about it have to make a huge amount of assumptions about a whole range of aspects of what the AI threat will be - what the AI will be capable of, what it's impact will be - before getting on to what possible solutions might be relevant to preventing it. But given the first two are so undefined, the later is pure speculation - one that is difficult to criticise directly, because any specific critisms can usually be easy deflected by adjusting any of the above assumptions without making a substantial change to the "inevitable" conclusion.

That's why it feels like an apocalypse cult to me - it's a conclusion, that has little strong evidence today, stacked on top of a constantly shifting set of assumptions, allowing adherents to avoid backing their arguments with evidence.
Not in Australia, they won’t.
I think the first chapter is really fun, then it loses steam and by something like chapter six it has fukky jettisoned the promise chapter one sets up and it is strictly in "ok to terrible" territory for the rest of it.
HP Laserjets are 30+ yo. I don't think patents would be the issue.
Also MoCA (coax)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_over_Coax_Allianc...
Vue is more akin to the old way of doing things with static templates (Jinja, Mustache, Erb, PHP), just with a dynamic twist.

React is not perfect, it's bloated, but the reason it took off is that it brought something new to the table as a general and programmatic way to construct UIs. Being a child of Facebook helped it achieve dominance but considering that before React we had angular (shudder) and jquery, React's success was well earned.

React will be replaced when something actually better comes along. The current contenders seem to want to return us to the technology of the past, it didn't work then and it doesn't work now.
Thinking about Ideas as a System: Effective Communication
Corpspeak sucks and Twitter probably had more people than it needed. That being said, the solution to that is definitely not to hire someone who decides the final word for an exec is to post offensive memes on your account and shame individual employees after you fire thousands of them. The cuts weren’t quite random, but they were pretty haphazard, and a large part of why Twitter is still standing today is the work that went into improving it in the last decade, rather than smart decisions from Elon.
I agree, but MS Paint did so because it was available to anyone who opened up Windows, not because it's a great piece of software.
Good news. But why so late to support this? Debian had this for decades.
Crazy to me that as soon as one GPU wave is dying (crypto), another one is picking up slack.
I do like the dynamic pricing idea. If you're not well situated for panels you can invest in batteries and sell at night what you bought during the day.

I don't have your faith in markets though. The invisible hand is a potent force indeed, but it's just as likely to flip you the bird as it is to solve a problem that you have. There's nothing about a market, for instance, that knows to keep prices high enough to prevent the wintertime aluminum smelters from burning all the stored energy and causing a humanitarian crisis a month later when there's not enough to weather a blizzard.
One of my favourite cameras. Used the 645 + 645NII for years.

Autofocus really helps mitigate my poor vision.
Then use Snowflake:
https://snowflake.torproject.org/
If you can’t find one then i guess you can’t get local prices, but I’ve never had a problem getting an esim, including in Albania and Turkey. You just go to the a carrier store and you ask, scan a QR code, and you’re done. Most of the time the big cities that you would arrive in anyways will have them.
Welcome to ~2015 i guess?
At some point you might turn that idea on it's head and realize that a lot of "intelligent" behavior is mostly parroting what worked before. So ChatGPT just needs a little more data before it's "smarter" than us because it has a little bit more experience to make slightly better decisions and there might actually be no intelligence at all. Just pattern matching
This is very new, give it a few days. Here's one from Shawn: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1632595934839177216
> So why is everything framed as being more deadly now than it was given the all time lows?

Because it's a false predicate for the war on the car and the removal of personal agency in urban areas - a war being waged at multiple levels of government in the UK in particular.
1) US has by far the biggest spy network in the world;
2) it is practically fake news as shown in many recent court cases that tried to criminalize these Chinese "spies", but in the end found out to be not the case.
What we will get are specialized hardware, with not so open APIs anyway.

With a bunch of people trailling behind with "it kind of works" open alternatives.
Probably realized there’s a multimillion severance contract in place.
I'm pretty sure they have stock arguments against what you said, even from people like Nick Bostrom who I think have a bit better handle on the situation. In that vein though, I think making the world more robust in general might be a way forward. Having multiple broad spectrum anti-virals for every class of virus ready to go and stockpiled, having flexible on-shore manufacturing infrastructure, with supply chains that are on the same continent or at least have massive component stockpiling on national levels, and having smart and vigilant people running these systems from the very top down to the janitors and security guards. Make a world where the machine stopping because a few agents, human or otherwise, doing something unexpected, much less likely. At least to the point EAs can start buying mosquito nets again.
The future of clipart
If you hack around the state management and update logic, what is React bringing to the table? Just the cross platform widgets?
>a pullup capacitor on the UART VCC

Why was it there? What were its two ends connected to? I have heard of pull-up resistors and decoupling capacitors but not a pull-up capacitor.
I'm not from the ticktock/insta/snapshat generation and do not care about it, but, having a little sister and a young coworker :

Ticktock is almost as good as YouTube and way, way better than most social media to learn stuff. History, science, but also cooking techniques (my sister worked at a starred restaurant and still learned from it), tech and CS tips. Actually it seems better than YouTube on that last point as you don't have to watch the full 20 minutes to find the code example.

Still inferior to text, but Ticktock 'numbing the mind' : less than most other social media apps, as much as YouTube.
I've been in the same boat with these discussions.

When I do encounter a component with countless re-renders as described, it is usually painfully obvious what causes them and easy enough to fix.

I think we're going too far if we're expecting React, or any framework, to be fool-proof to the point that we can just throw "whatever" we want at them and expect it to have peak performance.
Isoflow is going open source
Isoflow was a free diagramming tool I launched back in 2020 for sketching network diagrams quickly. It grew quickly after reaching #1 on ProductHunt, and since then I've built it into a small SaaS with a modest customer base.

Over the last year, I’ve hit a ceiling. As a developer I've found it hard to grow Isoflow past the 50 customers it currently has. As an alternative route, I've been thinking a lot more about open sourcing the diagram editor, but couldn't really get a full picture of the benefits until recently. So how do I justify open-sourcing the core of my SaaS business (which I've been working on for over 2 years as a solo developer), and is this the best thing to do for Isoflow's future (spoiler alert: yes!).

For one, contributing to OSS is A Good Thing(TM), and I believe it will ultimately make Isoflow into a better diagramming tool (which is important to me as I believe the future is full of diagramming tools that help us learn faster and grasp ideas more easily). But what really convinced me are the examples I've seen of other diagramming SaaS's that benefit from open sourcing their cores (Excalidraw and React-flow to name a couple). I'd like to live off my project someday, and previously where I saw more drawbacks than gains going open source, I now strongly believe that if Isoflow becomes a success on the OSS side, that success will feed back into the business side (for example, through people finding the repo and then driving through to the SaaS, sponsorship, or custom support requests coming in from companies), and so everyone wins.

I'll be working to release Isoflow under the MIT license, you can find the start of the open-source project here at https://github.com/markmanx/isoflow (feel free to star!).
I deserve this since sarcastic comments are really the lowest class of Internet comments.
I’m not sure why you find it strange that people who have lost their jobs look to their network for support?
They aren't legally obligated to make opting out as painful of a process as possible by presenting you a gazillion individual options and then some kind of loading spinner while they "Process your request" for half a minute as an extra "screw you". When that happens I just bail out as that shows just how little respect the site owner has for their visitors.
This is true.

It’s hard to imagine in 2023 4chan, reddit and wikipedia all turning dark because of net neutrality. It feels like “we used to care about that?” issue.
Bashing Teams is tooo much of a low hanging fruit at this point.
The Great ML Unbundling with Serverless Machine Learning
Looks like a great pairing. Subscribed for more! :-)
Ionic gives you a solid base for mobile and the web with a slight bias towards mobile. It's all web components, no native renderers, but quite polished, because it's been around for a while. Imho, you can get quite far with it.
> When I build libraries for React, ironically, I don't really use hooks like useState, useReducer, etc. One of the best perks (and footguns) of managing your state outside of react is that you get to have full control over when a component should rerender.

I don't understand this quote from Tanner. Aren't React hooks, like, the only way to tell a function React component (while inside of it) to re-render? And if you look at the code of, say, the useBaseQuery hook of tanstack-query, you will indeed find React's native hooks being used there [0].

0 - https://github.com/TanStack/query/blob/main/packages/react-q...
We need common sense regulation in this space, not what we have now. What we have now is Google fiber being told to pound sand all over the country even though they offered to pay for everything when laying down a separate, competing fiber network. Why were they rebuffed? Verizon/Att has the local gov. wrapped up. Let’s break THAT gov-enforced monopoly.
In addition to concerns relating to carbon dioxide levels, when I contemplate the push for ever-more-tightly-sealed homes and particularly smaller homes with lower ratios of internal air volume to internal surface area (of walls, built-ins like cabinetry, and furniture), the issues stemming from outgassing of volatile organics from the adhesives and sealants as well as from the materials (solid wood became plywood with wood veneering, became sawdust-and-binder with plastic faux-wood veneer, etc.) now composites made of multiple substances and multiple binders and glues.

Some years back, "sick building syndrome" was a prominent topic of discussion and there was a push for fresh air, windows that opened, etc. but this seems to have largely dropped off the radar, afaict.
Uber’s move to the Cloud Part 1
There are hundreds of projects like that. One example:

https://wiki.debian.org/IRC
https://lists.debian.org/
Depends on what kind of so your building. For a while, a lot of the form libraries out there triggered huge numbers of rerenders and caused perf issues. That's still a problem, though some of it has gotten better uncontrolled components.

Timing-based UIs are (such as a sequence of triggered animations) can get really messy really fast. I've seen some really messy bugs in a app that had visuals and audio tied to different timers and user inputs in the app. We eventually moved all time-based animations to observables, which helped some
Also you are not breathing high concentrations of NO2 in city centres as is the case today.
I saw signals in Preact and I thought the same.
This has been true even in the old class components. A component always updates when props update.
“We believe that the genocide against Rohingya was possible only because of Facebook,” (all for the benefit of Facebook)

Happy to see other allegations aired out, especially when the consequences are a little more than squatting .tk domains (I suspect the real problem is those pesky .ml domains).
Maybe it is coming now instead of earlier not because of a clear choice, but because to get features in to the project people need to spend their own free time on creating them.

Thank you Klemens Nanni and others for taking the time.
Everyone already actively works at protecting their own self interest. We don’t need help promoting good societal outcomes when those are a natural result of people looking out for themselves. Government exists for us to collectively agree that there exist goals that require us to set aside self-interest for the better of everyone.

It’s in my self-interest to take everything you own and to dump my waste in the nearest available yard that isn’t mine. Nobody wants to live in a world where people act like that, so we collectively agree that things are better off for everyone if we respect one another’s property rights and pay someone to take our trash and sewage somewhere else to be dealt with.
Those three compilers don't work everywhere, aren't allowed everywhere, and mostly works isn't "The standard gets pretty well-tested before being standardized as the most recent".

How were GC API, auto_ptr, modules, concepts and co-routines pretty well tested?

In those three compilers they surely weren't, so in which ones?
You say that as if 15 miles to the grocery store is an unavoidable fact of life. Grocery stores can and should be a lot closer to where people live. My grocery store (in Amsterdam) is a 5 minute walk from my home.

The big problem is that everything in the US has been designed around extreme car dependency, and more than that: extreme gas consumption. Because American cars are also much larger and heavier than they reasonably should be. Much about how American life seems to have been explicitly designed to maximise oil use and oil profits, even to the point where it stops making any kind of sense.

So if there's a reason this can't change, then it's because oil companies hold far too much power over American politics and over the way people think.

See also the recent conspiracy protests against "15 minute cities". The only meaningful reason I can think of why anyone would oppose that, is because it's going to hurt oil profits.
That's the consequence of them being wrong, not the cause..
> don’t count CVEs without looking at the context and content of those CVEs

The CVEs are counted as they're memory issues (not only logical issues) that can technically surface in safe Rust code and are also considered UB in other languages (those which finesse other conditions to be "unspecified" instead of "undefined") too.

CVEs have rating systems to better interpret their relevance. Whether these ratings incorporate how easy it is to trigger or how practical the damage could be is subjective. They primarily report potential exploits, not a standard for judgement. All this nuance though was lost with the parent commenter claiming "zero memory bugs in safe rust".

> Don’t assume that some software is secure simply because they don’t file CVEs

I agree. This extends across all languages. Another warning to add is that high profile security bugs can still occur without memory safety issues (with wormhole/dao exploits being practical examples).
That's because it is. Free-market socialism is a thing, with a spectrum from centralized demsoc to left libertarians to anarchists. "Freed markets" is the term usually used specifically in the latter context:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sheldon-richman-libe...
It's not really about rationality past the first four chapters or so, after that I don't really know what its about but when part of the plot is helping Voldemort break people out of azkeban then rationality is clearly not an important theme.
> I do wish it had copy and paste

Have you tried Ctrl + C/V in calculator? Or righ-clicking on the numbers and seeing the Copy and Paste options that pop up?

It definitely does have copy and paste. I double checked it right now.
I don't know about Vue3 (I used in the past Vue2 only), but Svelte is similar to React, I'm migrating a small/medium project from React to Svelte and it feels too easy most of the time to port component by component, also to me, at least to this point, Svelte feels more performant and you have 100% control over the reactivity without too much `use{function}`.

I would recommend you to build a small project, maybe a Todo app in every framework you want to try, or maybe if you have a project, build a small part of it in each (I will pick the part that you think is the trickiest to build with React or the framework you are actually using).

Also I'll recommend to also check Qwik and Fresh(deno).
It was indeed the second link I clicked after a summary search. Personally, I have not used the Windows Calculator app in a decade or so, but I blame Microsoft for other thousands of hours of pointless eye strain trying to fix and get work done through their applications. Still, I don't think one is unreasonable to expect that a calculator app should never crash after an update or be a nuisance if it's made by a 1.89 trillion USD market cap company with over 100,000 software engineers on payroll and aspirations to open the new world of statistically learned agents.

Nevertheless, as pointed out by Greg Kroah-Hartman and others, our stack is extremely feeble, so it becomes reasonable to expect the unreasonable from time to time, even with somewhat trivial applications.
If there was an apocalypse cult in ancient Pompeii predicting the mountain would explode and bury everyone with ash, they would not be here. And there easily could have been.

This is not an argument, it is a tautology powered by the anthropic principle.
That is clever and yet so simple !
I just started one small project that is a single component that talks to our API and is rendered on an external website. I used lit-html for it. Very small, very fast library for this kind of thing. No build tool required. I choose my own (smaller, simpler, more straightforward) way of managing state.
This is one of the things the OpenBSD folks gave me a _hard_ time about when I was trying out their system.

Yes, I said theirs, because since then I want nothing to do with that.

"Unix grey beards are forged in suffering".

Yeah, well, suffer if you'd like, but I have better things to do with my time.
There's been a recent Launch HN of Depot.dev [1] - I've integrated it quickly into my GitHub Actions workflow and it's blazingly fast (13x speedups for me). It also was a drop-in replacement since I was using Docker Bake and Docker Action and Depot mimics that almost fully (except SBOM and provenance bits). It also works with Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation so image pushes to Artifact Registry didn't need any tweaking.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898253

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`cargo install` doesn't install the locked dependency versions tested by the program author, but ignores Cargo.lock entirely and automatically updates all dependencies to the latest versions (usually semver) allowed by the Cargo.toml file.
A picture of a pancake cut into 7 pieces in 3 cuts:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PancakeCutThrice.agr.jp...
I like that definition of self-employed.

How does one handle collecting payments if the contract work is remote?

How do you even begin to market yourself for a contract/consulting project? Unlike a product, you can't place ads, or use traditional advertising, you would instead need to do things like beef up your linkedin/twitter/github?

I can see that thought where the actual coding work would only be a small part of it.. and I suppose that's something to think about.

The product route sounds very shiny and the one discussed most, but that puts me off. I do not enjoy the thought of writing twitter/linkedin posts to advertise stuff, nor do I enjoy hiring SEO and doing much marketing.

My hope is that avoiding the product route will allow me to get away with not having to worry about all this stuff, but I get the feeling there's no escaping it.

I'll copy paste some questions I posted to another comment here, if you feel like answering:

- how do you seek out new clients, are there job boards/discussion boards for these types of jobs? Or perhaps you just reach out to companies that seem to be doing interesting work?

- how do you prove to them that you can earn their contract?

- how do you even begin to match the project requirements and what you can bring to the table, and if needed, bring / integrate an additional member/team/contractor? Is that handled by the project manager at the company?
With that wording, can't they justify throttling a user that has already downloaded too much from Netflix a way to deal with congestion?
Is this true? Is it possible? 1 horsepower exoskeleton for everyday adventure, with 25km long range.
There is also https://svelte-native.technology/ (and I suspect similar projects for other frameworks) though I haven't used any of the "* Native"s
I feel the same. Especially this shitty company that has proved over decades now that they are up to no good.