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I really like React. I don't know if this particular pattern was explored before, at least I didn't see it, and I used plenty of UI libraries, from WinAPI, MFC to Java Swing and plenty of web frameworks.

I think that JSX support is a genius thing. Especially with modern TypeScript. I spent so many hours because of string-typed templates that I really value templates integrated within a language.

I really liked original React version with classes. It had its rough edges, but it was simple and accessible to me.

Modern React with functions is not simple. It's so far from simple. I consider myself pretty talented developer. But those hooks - I think last time I had to spend that amount of time is when I learned Scheme continuations. That thing really broke my mind. Well, hooks didn't break my mind, but they just seems to be very easy on the surface yet very hard below surface. I read plenty of articles yet I still don't fully understand them (although I think that at least I can use them without bugs).

For me React is like ORM. It's very powerful tool. I allows to tremendously cut the development time. But it requires absolutely expert knowledge on the team. And it looks so deceptively simple at the same time. This is a bad place for technology to be in.
Those "protesters" started having their banking denied once they started advocating for overthrowing the government. They were not just protesting, they were planning and requesting the government to be overthrown and guns were found. So at this point, it is possible that yes, the government will take exceptionally high measures to counter an attack against the state.

Tons of people have been protesting about the Canadian government and COVID measures outside of that blockade (up to this day), and their bank account is still fine.
> Apple has a stronger stance on privacy than Google, Meta or the thousands of no-name companies working on glorified ad-tech.

I don't trust anyone (a prudent stance to take). There is no moral high ground with any of these companies. Apple uses child labor to manufacture disposable eco-disasters that fit in your pocket.

Apple also has an ad business, they will definitely spy on you (just like they're spying on their employees). In no way is that a comment on Google, Meta or any of the others. They should also be taken to task. There's no reason to defend Apple on this though.
I don’t think so. In Wordle you have to guess the word in six attempts. It’s a fun game and often simple.

So it could be that ChatGPT picked up on a pattern in the training data where after a couple of guesses, a lot of the time people pick the right word.

So statistically it might go like. Guess a word. Probably not the right one. Guess a couple more and suddenly it’s statistically likely to be the correct word, and because of that the LLM ends up outputting the congrats and so on
Lemme know which store so I can avoid it.
Google Bard Plagiarized Our Article, Then Apologized When Caught
If you consider a corporation to be an AI that requires real-time training data from humans, AI is already harvesting us for batteries. I've heard the opinion that that's what the Matrix was actually about.
I agree. This is impressive, but the article calls it "almost indistinguishable from the original video" which is definitely not true.
The Origins of Spiral Arms (Charles Danforth, May 28, 1998)
I actually agree with his perspective. AI is simply a another huge leap in technology that directly affects social order. We only need to look at the effects social media has had on society and just amplify them to perceive what may be likely outcomes.

This aligns very close to my own thoughts that I have written about in great detail. I foresee the societal impacts to be exceedingly disturbing long before we ever reach the concept of a Singularity.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Yes. No rapper cares about the UI/UX… Is subtext of songs lost on people?
The marketing department will not allow that to happen.
- Blacklist and sanction services like TikTok that are controlled by adversary nations

- Make sure the FCC removes blacklisted apps from app stores.

- Require ISPs to block access to the sites of those sanctioned companies.

- Make foreign employees of sanctioned companies ineligible for most visas.

- Require U.S. national employees and others affiliated with it to register as foreign agents.
Controls engineer who's designed several production lines for tier 1 automotive suppliers and a couple for OEMs reporting in... you'd be wrong, video footage is kind of useless, because you can't query it automatically.

Instead, our PLCs (programmable logic controllers) report to in-line vehicle sequencing databases. Every step of the process is logged to ILVS, and - unlike our work with furniture or consumer goods manufacturers - that is the only thing they care about. It doesn't matter if you can see that there's a physical assembly with properly torqued bolts that we've delivered to Ford's loading docks, we only get paid if the torques are correctly recorded for that serial number in ILVS. Each line tracks each part with serialized 2D barcodes. Any time a measurement is made or an operation is performed, the PLC will trigger an upload to record that data in ILVS, whether that's a barcode quality grade of the 2D scanner camera, or a force measured to drive a clip in, or a temperature measured while setting a heat stake, or the current drawn by a sensor, or...anything. For jellyroll battery winders I've done, that will include obvious stuff like Hipot test results but also minutiae like the row and column and stack height in the tray that transfers the jellyroll between the winding machine and the pack assembly machine.

This sort of database provides not only recall protections, but also ANOVA gauge reliability and repeatability to retain control over the process, and predictive maintenance to know when a machine or mold is wearing and causing a trend in the measured data (even if it's all within acceptable tolerance).

If I was recording bolt torques that were manually driven by a human (rather than a robot), I'd probably use a wireless electronic torque wrench with a UWB RFID tag on the socket (or some discrete tags on the jig) to verify that you'd reached the appropriate torque at the appropriate location. You'd be able to automatically query the database for the barcode of the assembly with any data that came with its forming/casting/other production data, the lot ID of the bolt, the calibration source of the wrench, the employee ID, the time and date that it was torqued, how much time it took the operator to torque each bolt, and on and on.

We do still have video cameras pointing at our machine recording to a ~1 week circular buffer, but that's more so that we can reconstruct the sequence of events that led to a machine fault.
> "Function f is supposed to be declared outside of render function."

That's the cinch. To get the benefit of this proposed API design, the effect handler functions must be be outside of the render function so they can't capture any values other than the explicit dependencies. That's not a requirement you can enforce in JavaScript, so it would have to be a linter-level thing.

I think it would aesthetically run counter to the prevailing design of React functional components. For better and worse, it feels like the framework designers have made a substantial effort to contain a component inside a single function. With this design, you'd have the component and its effect handlers in the same parent scope even though the handlers are subordinate to the component.
I can't wait to see what Corridor Crew does with this
One task that ChatGPT-3.5 is hilariously bad at is reversing strings (both words and pseudorandom input). It seems to have only a vague concept of what that means, even if I try to hold its hand through the process. Maybe some prompt engineering can get it to succeed on anything longer than four letters.

ChatGPT-4 meanwhile seems to have no issue with this at all.
> Executives would sometimes take customer service shifts.

This won't happen among most companies, but I'd love to see that become a common practice with at least some high-level developers.

There's so many pain points in many customer service organizations that are easily solvable if a developer understood the frustration and waste with many customer service tasks. Nothing motivates more than having to do some annoying manual billing process that's error prone or looking up customer information by logging into 5 different systems.

Alas, Google has no customer service, so their developers shall be placed in the void until morale improves.
Sry I'm not getting your point.

If I understand it right: VMS were not there because people needed VMS they were there because people needed compute.

We moved everything to k8s and we were able to do this because k8s can
Really annoying that they don't put the number of vehicles recalled (18) in the headline.
> So your example speeds up something that was already possible, but doesn't necessarily introduce anything novel.

yes that's true, but you could say the same thing about a spreadsheet.

with the correct tooling this thing will have a serious impact on the productivity of a lot of people.
Apparently this is why some of the McDonalds restaurants in the Oak Brook / Chicago area are very good (or at least perfectly to spec)... they are owned by corporate and used for executive training.
This is great. Maybe one day we'll see action on timeshares. I got one a long time ago that was impossible to get rid of. Fully paid for, Westgate told me it had a lot of value so I told them to just take it back, but they would't of course. I ended up just stopping all payments, went through a few years of harassing calls, and then done, nothing more. Still haunts me though, I'm afraid it could come back up with outstanding balance owed.
My point is mostly that there exists a ton of talented writers and people with imagination who aren’t getting a chance to actually produce movies and tv shows. (I don’t think the issue is lack of talent doesn’t exist on the planet, I think they just aren’t lifted to the highest positions in hollywood, like they used to in decades past.) Admittedly there’s gonna be a ton of garbage via gpt too.
Ok, but then you completely give up the ability for human actors to understand and fine-tune the process. It would necessarily be a stochastic product: we don't know exactly how it works, it seems to output correct results in our testing but we can't guarantee it won't cook your dog in the microwave.
Thanks for posting this. It should be higher.

I can't believe NewScientist left that out of their headline.
A non-hallucinogenic LSD analog with therapeutic potential for mood disorders
Apparently, if you live in California, you have an easy online unsubscribe process.
> the usual debate on emerging technologies between Thymoetes and Laocoon.

Could you expand on this?

> Something that works 99 times out of 100 is 99% correct from the first perspective and 100% wrong from the second

Interesting. From a _manufacturing_ perspective, you can't achieve 100%, you can only get asymptotically closer to it with statistical process control. And of course there are limits to the perfectibility of humans.

This suggests that the big deployment of AI will be in areas where there is no clear boundary between right and wrong answer.
Interesting, but it seems it can really only do generic Southwest English and American accents. I asked it for Scottish accent and got English. I asked for an Irish accent and got American.
> you should be scared off... the fewer langauges you use, the better

As an engineer, I see this differently. A "language" is not simply (or always) syntax. Generally speaking, any API is already a language, and it's normal to use several APIs in one application; I'd even say, the more the merrier. Further, it is OK for an API to be represented as a DSL (domain-specific language) with a syntax of its own, so it's all good.
As a faang employee who works with lots of contractors: we did. We've cut millions of dollars of vendors and contractors. Everywhere. It's just not making headlines.
What do you mean by "data moat"? I would imagine that the Bing index is not much smaller than the Google index, if that's what you mean.
> > You can't trust the AI's code!

> Yeah, but you can't trust your own code!

No, really, you can't trust the AI's code. It spits out code that references functions that don't exist. It spits out code that does something you didn't ask it to do, or doesn't do something that you did. It spits out code that does something vaguely related that the Stack Overflow guy it's cribbing from did, but you aren't doing. It spits out code that confuses your syntax for JS's halfway through. You can skim other people's code; you know what common failure modes are at their experience level, and you know where the complicated bits are that will house the bugs if there are any. You cannot skim the AI's code. Every word of it must be examined. You must be in full reviewer mode all the time, which is an unproductive state to be in when actually writing code, which makes specifically Copilot less useful. You cannot use it to replace a no-code tool, because you must understand the language it's emitting.

I find that proponents shift between whether its ideal use-case would be Copilot or no-code; any flaws with the one approach get interpreted from the perspective of the other, where they can be dismissed.
You can really see it when she closes the eyes, that particular part makes it look super video-gamey.
He knows. He’s just selling a product.
Artists... don't you mean AI?

The next 10 years are going to be interesting. I wouldn't want to be a 16 year old trying to decide upon a career path.
So you're okay with your bank assisting ISIL in their weapons transactions?

What about illegal activities outside of the law's jurisdiction?
Been seeing some tiktoks on this exact scam being run in bars, too - a man/lady will chat the victim up, ask for their phone to put in their number, and then go to cashapp and send themselves money, and disappear into the night. And yes, no recourse for the victim at all.
Trying to point out where it was going was impossible.

“What if your opinions become deemed unacceptable?”
“What do you mean? My opinions are acceptable.”
“But what if one day they aren’t?”
“They are though. Why do you keep saying they aren’t?”
Show HN: Tripnotes.ai: Intelligent Travel Planner
Hey HN,

We're excited to announce the public beta preview of Tripnotes, an intelligent travel planner that mixes a custom recommendation engine, our own data, and a bit of GPT to help you find the right places to go while traveling. Our team has been working hard on this project for 6 months, and we're excited to finally share it with the HN community.

With Tripnotes, you can keep track of all your notes about travel when planning to visit a city. Paste in article URLs, videos, emails, text messages, any other text, and if you need some help with research, ask our Concierge which will provide useful recommendations and itineraries for the city in question - with a fallback to GPT for things we didn't quite understand.

If you're not ready to dive right in, here are a few short highlight videos:

https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1619047755271536640

https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1621172173598756864

https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1623703548545445890

https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1638010661694234625

All the places by Tripnotes are from our own database, but we rely upon GPT to understand the intent of the incoming prompts, as well as to help with the prose in our response to ensure the place descriptions fit what's being asked for.

Since we tweeted about our preview release on Monday, we've had over 15,000 people come and try at least one prompt, with over 40,000 unique notes generated from prompts about cities all over the world.

We'd love for you to give Tripnotes a try and let us know what you think. The "unauthed" version is open to everyone. If you're interested in using the full version, please join our waitlist.

The full version maintains a history of your notes and allows you to edit the text and auto-highlights any text you write/paste in on the fly, which can be useful for pasting recommendations from friends (say via SMS or Email) and having them auto-highlighted and mapped. You can also paste in links from articles, websites, blogs, even Tiktok or Youtube. We scrape those urls, gather the list of places that are mentioned, and then show them on the map along side the rest of your note.

We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback, so please feel free to leave a comment or reach out to us directly. Thanks for your support!
When IBM was hit by anti trust and entered a consent degree or when Microsoft got hit for its Explorer bundling practices it spelled the end of growth. This is not only a question of fraud and size of fines. The real question is are the current multiples in its stock valuation justified?
Legislation hasn't even been able to fix people dying due to daylight savings.
Where I live, libraries pay royalties based on loans, similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right
I worked with some Accenture people on a gov.uk project not a lot of years ago -- they were hand installing redhat 6 machines that we'd have to request via spreadsheet....
People have built libraries for thousands of years. My neighbor runs a small library using donated books. Your local library could do with donations.

It does not take a billionaire to build a library. That you are giving me this excuse that you can't do anything because you are not rich is just an excuse.

And had you researched this, you would see that most of the top billionaires DO contributes millions to building libraries. Gates alone has built a significant amount around the world.
Besides wasn't releasing GPT3 supposed to have caused major harm to society? Which is why they held off for so long. Still waiting for evidence of that harm (mass fake news, Google being ruined by even more low ranking spam sites, etc).

It must be nice thinking that a small group withholding the keys R&D (for a short while until other R&D groups catch up) will somehow help the problem. Do these few months to a year really provide much value in finding ways to stop the "AI apocalypse"? What real work are they doing to prevent it in those few months? More philosphizing and high level analysis?

It might work for messaging/marketing that they are being "careful" but I'm not convinced this is tangible. Seems as arrogant and naive as most AI ethics stuff I read.
Arguably, there are likely some services in which you should be obligated to provide to the public regardless as a public service. Pharmacies seem like they'd fall into this bucket. That said, let's entertain your scenario... yes. Joe's Corner Pharmacy is not the only pharmacy wherever it happens to be (mostly because there's very few independent pharmacies left in the US), but Walgreens and CVS may be the ONLY pharmacies in an entire major metro that aren't inside of a hospital.

Walgreen's and CVS as a consequence of their duopoly/monopoly position do not have the right to kick you out of their pharmacy and prevent you from getting the medication you need to sustain your life (possibly quite literally) because they don't like the racist slogan on your t-shirt.

If you don't agree with this, you don't agree with freedom of speech, and any further conversation is basically pointless. You don't get to kill people by proxy or make people homeless by proxy because your don't like what they say as long as you can proxy it out so it's not the government literally directly doing it. It's just as unethical as the government warrantlessly wiretapping all Americans by buying data from data brokers hoovered up by FaceGoog, rather than building said system itself directly to skirt the laws.

The Constitution was conceived at a time when the government was the most powerful entity. Modern multi-national megacorps are arguably more powerful, and should be reigned in with similar restrictions.

Since I've entertained your scenario, in your reply to me, I'd expect an acknowledgement that preventing someone access to medication required to sustain their life, due to their speech, is effectively equivalent to killing that person due to their speech. You cannot have "freedom of speech" in a society where you can legally kill people because of their speech.

There's a huge gap between "social consequences" and material life consequences, and this is why "muh consequences" is a disingenuous argument made by people who actually are opposed to freedom of speech, but don't have the balls to say it (ironically, because they have the right to do so, but are afraid of the consequences).
The Django Node.js alternative (NestJS)
This blog explores why NestJS is a good alternative to Django.
It's a noble idea, but it's not enough to give someone who's already wealthy beyond imagination a sense of the precarity of people who have to work to live. That's the real problem: people with all the power making decisions that impact people in circumstances they can't imagine even if they might have experienced something that vaguely resembles it 20 or 40 years before.

No matter what he does, he knows he gets go to home to a safe place with plenty to eat at the end of the day. You can't simulate the effect of the lack of that certainty on someone's work.
Well, their name is "Hindenburg", the most famous crash in history after the Titanic.

The first time I heard their name I guessed they were short sellers, and two minutes on their site confirmed it.
I used to work in hospitality.

One of the higher ups had worked his way up from the bottom of the totem pole. He would come and work the frontline and the employees were generally appreciative.

One of his subordinates followed his lead - except he had no idea what he was doing. He was slow, got in people’s way, and did things no frontline employee would ever be allowed to do - just give stuff away constantly.

At the end of the day, the CEO isn’t ever going to be under the same pressure or constraints as a normal employee. This is extremely likely to just end up being a vanity project.
What? There's no way to classify vendor or contractor spend as capex.

The reason they are used is for tasks that are repetitive, or with no career progression, or that may not be needed long term. Your comment about cost is correct as well.
> curious to know where he'll be deported to

It looks like Montenegro can extradite to Korea [1][2].

[1] https://www.coe.int/en/web/transnational-criminal-justice-pc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Extradi...
When you say in combination with AI, are you talking about teaching them ML fundamentals or high level ways of using AI?

I think both fields are going stay separated in most curriculums for a while
In my third world country (Brazil) we actually have strict regulations on cancellations (among other consumer focused laws):

- Companies need to choose at least one channel to work 24 hours a day seven days a week.
- The consumer can only be transferred from an attendant once.
- If the call drops, the attendant must return the call and complete the service, without the customer having to repeat everything again.
- Phone calls with human service must be available for at least eight hours a day.

I'm a particular fan of the "mirror" concept, where cancelations/returna should work in the same channels and be as easy as the purchases/subscriptions.

Consumer laws here are surprisingly good in my opinion and I am also surprised on how little lobby power consumers have in developed countries, to be treated like they are, with all the black hat tactics companies throw at them.
TxF is deprecated:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/about...