skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine most of them could be, but this is an API which would require a lot of additions to the existing React.Component API, and would end up duplicating a bunch of already-existing functionality for something which in the end would probably need to conform to the same rules hooks do, but with what certainly feel to me like clunkier ergonomics. You'd also still be left with the problems of class components like poor minifiability and unreliability for hot module replacement.

I have to go to bed, but if you'd like to see a much better explanation about why hooks were adopted, I highly recommend the [checks notes] 1,401 comment-long discussion[1] on the PR for adopting the hooks RFC back in 2018, as this sort of design was brought up frequently. Especially worthwhile is Sebastian Markbåge's ending summary about why the team was going with hooks[2].

[1] https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68
[2] https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68#issuecomment-4393148...
Thank you! I have wanted to write a blog article about this for a while but I’ve accepted that I will probably never get around to it. So this is my lower effort typed-on-mobile-while-wasting-Friday-evening abridged version
U.S. regulators willing to share losses for sale of SVB, Signature Bank – FT
Not just phone support. Support, period. It feels like Covid broke things and nothing has fully recovered. Take for example the Subway app. It has no built-in support. You can't report issues with an order or the fact it never even showed up. I used their mail forms and even tried to get their attention on twitter. I got one auto response once from a form (but with a woman's name like it was a real response) and never heard back about anything.

Just one of many many many things I find are just "missing" nowadays.
Why does it bother you?

As Richard Feynman said, "Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds." Sure, lots of what scientists do, including Feynman, involve an implied philosophy. It is easy to read https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm or https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm and extract a lot of important philosophical ideas from them. But I have yet to see any self-proclaimed philosopher successfully do so without totally losing the key points.

There was a time when I thought that philosophy must have something important to it, and philosophers must have something useful to say. So I wound up reading works by various philosophers that were recommended to me. Some works, like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, were invaluable. Most weren't. The ones that were invaluable to me inevitably were written by people whose primary profession was NOT philosopher. For example Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor.

After a time I learned that if an important philosophical point happens to be made by a philosopher, I'd prefer to hear it filtered through the brain of a non-philosopher. Every time I try setting this rule aside, I am reminded of why I adopted it in the first place. And so, even if I'm reading about something which is apparently philosophical, I skip past the philosophers.

Paul Graham offers an explanation of why this might be in http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html. I don't completely agree. But I also don't have a better explanation to offer.

And I'll happily laugh at anyone who tells me that I should think of myself as a philosopher because I happen to be interested in a bunch of philosophical-sounding subjects like "philosophy of math", "epistemology" and so on.
As I stated in a previous comment, you also don't seem to understand how impulsive these people can be. They aren't capable of following the detailed instructions about supposedly safe 'self-injury' without inflicting life-threatening injury.

The parent comment, as well as the fact that you're making no distinction between information on harming yourself in an article and interacting with a bot that is instructing you in a human-like manner, especially when we're talking about the mentally unstable, on what to do is prohibiting enough to never have any insight on the subject.
No raw numbers, no cooked numbers, really no information of any kind.

That doesn't even really qualify as an "article".

More just like an excuse to send out links to a website...
$299/mo might be a little overpriced. Not in terms of actual value but in terms of psychology. You might find a bigger market share by dropping to $29.99.
Has anyone compiled a list of every promise this guy has made with a date attached and whether it actually was delivered?
Probably middle eastern funds and governments.
React is already looking to use a compiler, but for memoization rather than fully removing the VDOM.
#1 is really out of date though; looks like published in 2005. I recommend Horstmann's Core Java, which covers up to Java 17.
Someone should start a company that will let you transfer your mortgage to a new property for a flat fee. People would be lining up down the block to hand over their money.
Is it possible to distribute AI training like this so that people could donate their idle processing power to creating a truly open source unencumbered LLM?
With a bill in both the House and Senate, and the vocal support (and implicit support, given these "leaks") of the administration, I get the feeling that the average techie doesn't quite get how close we are to a TikTok ban... I would be shocked if TikTok exists in its current form 8 weeks from now.
The Chipotle and Wendy's apps and websites have nearly the same issue, and Chipotle won't let you even call your local store anymore, it just goes to a useless AI Chatbot.
Yea the WSL option is what most places I know are doing. Unfortunately, I like using MacOS so it won't work for me haha. I don't trust the team writing the generic free version for Macs.
i've been running this shit for years and i never detected any aliens... bah
It does indeed take inputs and produce new outputs, but so does your brain. Both are equally a black box. We constructed it, yes, and we know how it operates on the "hardware" level (neural nets, transformers etc), but we don't know what the function that is computed by this entire arrangement actually does. Given the kinds of outputs it produces, I've yet to see a meaningful explanation of how it does that without some kind of world model. I'm not claiming that it's a correct or a complicated model, but that's a different story.

Then there was this experiment: https://thegradient.pub/othello/. TL;DR: they took a relatively simple GPT model and trained it on tokens corresponding to Othello moves until it started to play well. Then they probed the model and found stuff inside the neural net that seems to correspond to the state of the board; they tested it by "flipping a bit" during activation, and observed the model make a corresponding move. So it did build an inner model of the game as part of its training by inferring it from the moves it was trained on. And it uses that model to make moves according to the current state of the board - that sure sounds like reasoning to me. Given this, can you explain why you are so certain that there isn't some equivalent inside ChatGPT?
not really good for learning Java though, more for intermediate Java programmers. A much better book for someone learning the language is Core Java by Horstmann, which starts from the beginning and goes into depth.
> No one’s ever seen this before

Except for (at least) the guy that discovered and presumably named it - André Blanchard?

The article is full of this kind of stuff.
This interview explains how nukes can be misplaced, and the nightmarish amount of paperwork afterward:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warfare/id1526490428?i...
The World the Children Made

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story)
The baby bells, especially Verizon lean heavily on automation and self serve tooling, its how they keep shedding employees year after year despite increasing revenue.

Verizon on the Wireless side has so little bloat compared to AT&T from what I saw.
Maybe the existing data contains patterns that simply are not in a form humans have the capacity to comprehend?

Maybe the path forward is not through seeking the patterns we were looking for harder, but in creating AI's that have been told that patterns exist, and they must determine the nature of those patterns on their own, until 1000 AI's with typewriters produce an alien Shakespeare.
Gotta state your credentials for your Medium post's credibility.
Google does this. They even tell you that they cannot help you because but you get a lot of empathy
A post more suitable for LinkedIn than HN. Keep this bullshit out of here please.
SBT is the worst thing about the Scala ecosystem. Just stick with Maven (or Gradle, if that's what you're using), enable the Scala plugin, and start trying Scala in more flexible leaf areas of your program (e.g. integration tests, ancillary tools, data migrations). See if it feels right for you.
Looks good! I would like to see more examples of what it can discover / remember / remind me. I think putting together persona specific examples would be good. Startup founders, parent of young children, university student and so on. I want to see what it can do for me.

Also mention privacy and where the data is stored, is it shared in the model somehow, who has access to my data and so on. That is important as this is an app for your most personal data and possibly secrets!
I expect what would most-likely happen (could still happen?) is that you'd get differing groups radicalizing different groups of youths via their AI, ending up with hyper-radicalized subsets of society, each filled with their own personalized data and companionship that actively conflicts with each other (and reality).

And arguably, this is already present -- Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Fox News and the like have done an incredible job of presenting variously alternate and customized timelines to people, radicalizing them with completely incompatible worldviews to many others.

Plus ca change...
Remember MOOCs? Some would do well reviewing a bit of history before taking on Medium posts.
Anyone up for Llama training?
On Large Language Models
The Poe app by Quora could be inspiration for this.
And not so lucky (I suspect the majority) can not work when on hold
In a textbook prisoner's dilemma, the prisoners both get a hefty sentence if they failed to cooperate and both defected. They had a lot to gain from cooperating.

In the SVB situation, most of the losses are borne by the bank, investors of the bank, and the general public (in the sense that it caused financial instability across the nation). It's not a prisoner's dilemma because the downside to not cooperating is mainly borne by other people. The VCs and the startups who decided to "defect" are fine.

I'm personally unable to understand the anger here and finger pointing here, the bank was obviously in a bad shape due to their assets being underwater, why would bank clients have a moral responsibility to continue depositing in a bad and failing bank?

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And btw, the fact that parties could communicate with each other doesn't really change the game much. And nobody in their right mind would sign an agreement to keep assets in a bank or face penalties just because of some moral obligation to protect shareholders of a bank that made risky bets. That's just nuts IMHO. Anyone is free to create a time deposit if that's what they want to do.
For code to do "all of the above", it has to change. In which case, bad code does not get the job done because it's highly resistant to change and gets more resistant as time goes on.
I hope that class action suits will force companies that use “Buy” buttons to actually give ownership of digital products to the buyer. Making the companies unable to revoke a “Buy” later for whatever reason.

If your customers are just buying a limited license to use a digital product until cancelled at the whim of the company then make that 100% up-front obvious. And adjust the prices accordingly.
The money is their already. Why doing anything to support customers. Unless someone sues them.

It's sad. But it could be a rational behaviour for the companies.
If we are going to have an human level AGI or beyond what is the point for children to learn or study anything. Maybe except some basic skills for them to be able to interact with the assisters.
I found just the opposite. Kotlin would rather add 10 special cases than one higher-order abstraction; I'd rather learn one slightly fancy concept than a laundry list of ad-hoc cases.
Makes sense, they can combine their money laundering expertise.
Yeah, this is the real reason.

Godot doesn't compete with Unreal. It competes with their largest commercial competitor: Unity.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And when they want to "upgrade", Unreal is right there, and they already have an Epic account.
Procedurally Created Reality Using Generative AI
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, you're correct.

I'm unabashedly on the "we must do something about late-stage capitalism, a thing that exists" political team, but you're absolutely not wrong that this is a political viewpoint, explicitly.
That article is written by the same philosopher Price.

The Conversation is a site where academics blog about their papers.
Radiators scale at best linearly, so once they are dominant you don't get any improvement with power.

A mylar mirror is extremely cheap and light (kW or tens of kW of heat can be trivially concentrated per kg), so the fact that there are no even semi-serious proposals for space based CSP should be fairly telling as to the viabity.

At 200W/kg, a hypothetical fission generator is strictly worse than a current generation solar array in the inner planets for space based acceleration.

Seems useful outside mars though.
For those wondering, some of these birds can fly over 5 miles high. From 5 miles above sea level, the distance to horizon is 200 miles. From 5 miles high, you could see the tip of mount Everest above the horizon from 410 miles. Great snipes can fly thousands of miles in one continuous 60-90 hour flight.

https://www.inverse.com/science/migratory-birds-flying-ocean

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature
Sounds like shithole company behavior at its finest, who cares about responding to support queries after all? Cheaper to not backfill vacant support positions than engage with actually supporting your products.
> Are you implying that DPR/LNR are Russian?

Russia has described them as Russian by identity and allegiance and responsibility of the R.F., even if not juridically (and has since purported to annex them juridically, as well.)

Putin also cited direct military threat by Ukraine to Russia generally (including nuclear threat), and invasion threat to “Russian” Crimea specifically, in his speech coinciding with the opening of the 2022 invasion.
Total nonsense. When this war is over, the Ukrainian people will have survived by avoiding Russian fascist purges as we saw in Bucha and other deoccuipied places. That's why Ukrainians are fighting back so fiercely, against all odds, and ready to suffer all hardship. It's about survival and no more no less.
Those features are in incubator/preview mode in Java 20. While they might be released with 21, they might as well not. So I wouldn't hold my breath, unless you can jump on preview features (and if you can, why even care about LTS).
But then, this is just entropy from a one-off event long ago. Meanwhile, life is an entropy producing reaction with a strong exponential factor.

To butcher an insightful quote by (IIRC) Hamming, any positive slope will eventually make up for y-intercept of a constant function.
I do not think that is quite true. Most of what I am seeing is hesitance and wariness.

Every innovation can be used both for good and for evil, and it often has unintended side-effects. Just ask Thomas Midgley Jr., who played a major role in both leaded gasoline and CFCs. Or Alfred Nobel, who tried to make mining safer, only to be appalled at an erroneous obituary to describe him as the "merchant of death" due to its military use.

Over the last two decades we've seen tech giants go from a bunch of nerds in garages to parasites invading our personal lives and consuming every bit of data about us they can get their hands on - and social media went from a cute gimmick to a society-destroying tool powering genocides.

AI is undeniably extremely promising, and it is not hard to see that it has the potential to change the world forever. However, we are inherently unable to understand how it works, or to alter it in a meaningful way. It's a Pandora's Black Box: will it give us a better and easier life, or will it destroy us? Nobody knows, least of all the people who are opening it!
Pornhub owner sold to Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital
I was shown one of these built in minutes from found components at Noisebridge in SF a few years back, an old TV flyback transformer, a couple of resistors and caps and a pair of straight edges almost parallel for the spark gap (the lasing exits parallel to the edges) - you can detect it with a sheet of paper (because of the dyes embedded in it)
> Why not double down and give each child two tutors (furthermore called parents) @ $50,000/yr?

What happens if they have two or more children? What if they want other jobs? What real bearing does this have on the fundamental problem?

> I hate to have to say this but GDP isn’t the absolute upper limit for government spending.

I didn't suggest it was. I'm showing that if you want to have high value education, it would become about 10% of the total economy. Does that seem "prohibitive" to you?

> At some point someone has to generate actual value for them to appropriate for their political ends.

And educating children has no value?

> This is the only time I’ve ever wanted the AI to generate a reply for me but, alas, that’s not in my current skill set.

Well, some educations have no value, I guess.
And it was 100% polite, responsive, etc. Except it actually hallucinated the control that it told you to toggle to resolve the issue.
The best part of this post is that it comes from a supposed PhD in neuroscience. Either they were born yesterday or that PhD wasn't worth two shits. What's more concerning is that they also run a school.
Sadly, a direct replacement of words doesn't work well, eg:

> The number of examples for which the code is essentially "create a vector of objects, sort them on the x, y, z, or t axis, and pick an index" is quite tripping balls.

Because 'high' means 'drug induced high' too.

And of course those pesky declensions...

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Gelasio:ital,wght@1,600&display=swap');

Yeah, sure, we can't do shit without notifying almighty Google, right?
I don't know how others do it, but my main tools are:

* Reading rather than watching/listening.

* Going out of my way to consume content from authors/publications whose worldview I disagree with. Ditto for non-U.S. sources.

* Filter based on seriousness rather than passion. The whole information ecosystem is full of people and institutions ready to be passionate about almost any topic; the number willing to be serious is a lot smaller. This, more than any other filter, will improve your news-consuming experience.

* Read what the journalists are reading to get their story ideas. That means niche-y Substacks, newsletters and industry websites.

Investigative journalism: There are some nonprofits doing an very good job, like ProPublica. But too often, those newsrooms are political/cultural monocultures. To use the ProPublica example, you're much, much more likely to see stories about evil billionaires and how government should have done something(tm), than investigations about how, say, government is holding people back.

Some of this stems from hiring trends in journalism, which have skewed more and more to hiring coastal, degree-holding (relative) elites compared to the more blue-collar newsrooms of the past. Hire for monoculture, get monoculture results.

But the other part is funding diversity -- left-leaning donors have embraced nonprofit journalism in a way right-leaning donors have not.

When the right gives to journalistic efforts it tends to take the form of local investigation (and there are some GREAT reporters doing local-market work with that model), open-the-books efforts aimed at government transparency or, these days, own-the-libs clickbait. This reflects the growing delta between how much the right and left trust the press in the U.S.
Engage with a lawyer. If you work for a mid-size or large firm that gives a hoot about their employees, they will have a disability law firm on retainer for their employees and spouses to use as a privilege.

Having seen said law firms in action, I have never seen such an expedient processing of disability claims by private insurers and Social Security.
I don't specifically miss SETI@home as much as I miss the spirit of the internet back then, the "what will they think of next!?" The idea that all of us could together could crack RSA keys wasn't just a thought exercise, people signed up and did it. Now computers are so complex and task heavy and fraught with problems it seems like more hassle than it's worth. I liked when wondering "why is my machine so slow", that "top" or "ps auxww" had a chance of fitting on a screen or two. Now I wouldn't look forward to unleashing an eternal, 24-7, intensive task with a connection to the internet, even though I have a lot more bandwidth.
FWIW I don't think that single-payer healthcare on the federal level is actually a realistic pathway to reform healthcare. There's too much gridlock for anything major like that to pass, and I don't think this will change for at least another decade.

State level feels much more doable. Not only that, but Canada did it that way - IIRC Saskatchewan did it first, it worked well for them, and those results entered political discourse in other provinces causing a domino effect of sorts. Then finally the feds jumped in to regulate the baseline and assist with money to help the poorer provinces keep up. But to this day, it's actually a voluntary arrangement that any province could leave at any point; it's just that even in Alberta ditching public healthcare is such a fringe extreme right position that no politician hoping to have a successful career would seriously contemplate it.

And ofc if you do it state by state, then it doesn't have to be single-payer everywhere, either. We could try that in states with a more socialized political culture, and e.g. the Swiss model in more conservative states, and maybe something like Germany's private non-profit healthcare coops elsewhere. I would probably prefer the latter for myself for the sake of decentralization.
It’s harder because gradient descent is usually done with near synchronous updates of the parameters across the whole model on all training hosts.
This comic is my first memory of the word https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/08/07
> MacOS is a terrible server OS if you're exposing TCP services to the public.

I wish you had listed at least one or a few technical reasons why that is the case. It's assertions like these which uninformed people then go around parroting in unrelated contexts, in the hopes of gaining HN points because someone with 18k odd HN points made this statement, so surely it must be true. This is how all the "experts have said ..." information gets born.
> I truly believe that most major companies do not want their customers to talk to an individual, and use tactics to dissuade customers from calling and frustrate those who do.

Not in every country. In Japan, most companies have a responsive help line.