skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people think that it was Marco Polo's attempt to reconstruct a Chinese dish which led to a Neapolitan chef inventing pizza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong_you_bing#Chinese_legend_s...
I was fully expecting to see a one-liner for this article: npx create next app. I think this article overstates the disadvantages of using a framework like NextJS.

If you don’t want to work on the bleeding edge, then don’t upgrade right away. That’s true of literally every library out there.

And IMO it’s trivial to host a next app just about anywhere. Vercel has done a much better job with portability than you would typically expect from similar companies.

The docs for NextJS are also just… rock solid. It really feels like they cover everything.

I’m not affiliated, just a happy developer using their framework.
My dad was born in the 50s in a small southern town. He didnt learn about pizza until the 60s. My great uncle moved to Queens and came back home to visit with his kids one day. The kids asked my father "Where is the pizza place here?" to which my father replied: "What's pizza?".

I think most immigrant origin foods start in a big city. Then migrates to smaller cities in the same region to other big cities across the country. Only after that will it go "nationwide". And it usually takes a popular chain to make it happen (Chinese being an exception. It was everywhere before Panda Express and Pf Chang's)
Haha, this is near the best explanation I can think of for the "this is not intelligent, it's just completing text strings, nothing to see here" people.

I've been playing with GPT-4 for days, and it is mind blowing how well it can solve diverse problems that are way outside it's training set. It can reason correctly about hard problems with very little information. I've used to to plan detailed trip itineraries, suggest brilliant geometric packing solutions for small spaces/vehicles, etc. It's come up with totally new suggestions for addressing climate change that I can't find any evidence of elsewhere.

This is a non-human/alien intelligence in the realm of human ability, with super-human abilities in many areas. Nothing like this has ever happened, it is fascinating and it's unclear what might happen next. I don't think people are even remotely realizing the magnitude of this. It will change the world in big ways that are impossible to predict.
Utah Gov. signs laws requiring parental consent for minors to use social media
In a previous thread the author mentioned that it is homeschooling without a set curriculum.
I wonder if this plugin interface itself will be exposed as an API for third party apps to call..
> product management for software) is about to be nearly worthless in 5 years

Isn't that one of the few fields in software that should be safe from AI? AI cannot explain to engineers what users want, manage people issues, or negotiate.
Show HN: The url HTTPS://old.reddit.com/r/all.compact makes Reddit readable
What a nice story, I wonder if they negotiated much on offers or if it was really a simple low ball for duolingo to get rid of. Generous if the latter!

To be that attached to your idea after all this time is also very impressive. Most people would have just abandoned it and moved on, even if it was making decent money.
Fed's Yellen expects no new financial crisis 'in our lifetime' (2017)
From the 10-k:

We operate staking nodes on certain blockchain networks utilizing customers’ crypto assets and pass through the rewards received to those customers, less a service fee. In other cases, upon customers’ instructions, we may delegate our customers’ assets to third-party service providers that are unaffiliated with us. Some networks may further require customer assets to be transferred into smart contracts on the underlying blockchain networks not under our or anyone’s control.
Now that's something I would expect to see a European call an American idea. Go figure, I suppose.
Sure, but your credit card company should be paying people who you direct them to, not paying people who claim that you owe them money.
I've read this and I still have no idea what unschooling is. Does the author mean that they literally pulled their kids out of school and instead they just do open university courses? That's mad. Like actually 100% mad. In fact I don't think that should even be legal.
> NYC subway is more expensive per meter? No shit. What's the ROI? How many passengers per day? What do you think are the economic payoffs for those investments?

I don't think infrastructure in NYC is cost-effective. For that matter, infrastructure in Seattle (where I live now) is not cost effective.

Its ROI is in fact negative, as it forces further unsustainable agglomeration of wealth in a small area, while starving smaller cities.

> What survey showed 80% of respondents preferring suburbs?

It's a metric that is pretty constant with only small variations:
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2021/12/16/america...

> A suburb versus what?

Dense urban areas.

> What happens if/when the cities stop subsidizing the completely financially insolvent surrounding areas?

Sigh. Cities do not subsidize suburbs. Most of the US wealth is generated by people living in suburbs.
GPT is not being programmed, and so is not Prolog. Prolog is being set to follow rules, and infer logical consequences. Prolog is grammar, GPT3 is algebraic structure, which perhaps is also ... differential, so non-discrete.
Because a lot of people in America can't get over the fact that living in a society is messy. Sure, there are bad kids at a school that may influence your child. But one day your child will be 18 without mommy and daddy and drug dealers exist. Also, kids going away to school allows them to establish their own personality outside of home life a lot more. Rather my kids do it young and learn rather than wait until they are 18 and moving out.

Although having grown up in the south and from having neighbors who home school, it is more about, "they teach evolution in school and not 6,000 year old earth."
Indoor plumbing wasn't the norm for most of human history. I'd still think it weird if people started digging latrines in their backyards.
For some reason all the banks or tech companies seem to have the same morals, and as soon as one acts so do the others. so you can't just go from one bank to another.

Once twitter banned trump, suddenly so did all the other tech giants. Once visa banned Wikileaks so did Mastercard. These giant corporations typically act in a block.
I think a more rational approach would be to join a company in the AI field, rather than quitting on the spot because you think the robots are going to shortly take-over.
Why not regulate the genetic manipulation and bioengineering? It seems almost irrelevant whether it's an AI who's doing the work, since the physical risks would generally exist regardless of whether a human or AI is conducting the research. And in fact, in some contexts, you could even make the argument that it's safer in the hands of an AI (e.g., I'd rather Gain of Function research be performed by robotic AI on an asteroid rather than in a lab in Wuhan run by employees who are vulnerable to human error).
There will be plenty of peer pressure, bullying, drug and sex culture in their adult life, unless they are going straight from unschooling to off-grid subsistence farming.

Weird as it sounds, the earlier you come in contact with many human pathologies the better.

You might not want to be a corporate drone, being socialized differently to almost everyone is just another extreme.
its another way to say homeschooling, but with an emphasis on what the kid wants to do and not on a govt provided curriculum.
I don't like the fact that OpenAI is a private company, meaning that wealth will further concentrate from its growth. It is ironic too because it can't become public due to the pledge of it's non profit parent to restrict the profit potential of the for profit entity.
Remix is worth checking out as well. I've had a great experience with it so far.
Right. Based on how awful my school experience was, and my wife’s, even though she could be working and commanding a similar salary to mine, we’re home schooling both of our kids.

Our older daughter is the most popular kid in the neighborhood. Everyone wants to play with her. Because she’s home school, she went over and helped a little girl who was just adopted and hasn’t started school yet feel right at home the other day.

Our other daughter is physically disabled and could hold her breath and die at any moment. If she was forced to go to a public school I have no doubt she’d be in the emergency room or worse within the course of a week.
P1: Water doesn't make hot tea when combined with tea leaves.

P2: Yes it does, see <points to directions on how to make tea>

P1: Most people don't bother waiting until the water boils, they just pour it on from the faucet.
I'd suggest unschooling is good if the parents are regimented, habitual, and knowledgeable or willing to put in all the work. Teachers learn how to alter teaching styles to a child, and to repeat information often. Parents have none of this training.

I see enough "hippy, uneducated types" unschool and it becomes dramatically less effective for the child. The child becomes unable to deal with routines, may be less social [depending on outside activities], very weak in the areas their parents are weak in, and often behind a grade level or two. While yes, they may be a more "creative, free spirit" at times - that only gets you so far.
No. We homeschooled, and kid went to gymnastics, violin group lessons and orchestra, homeschoolers park day, homeschool coop classes... Sure, you can lock your kid in a box. Most don’t.
If you are targeting native and web, I think the Tamagui + Solito starter that lets you share code between Expo/Nextjs is unbeat (disclaimer, I made Tamagui):

Just `npm create tamagui@latest`

See: https://tamagui.dev

Happy hacking!
Here's a few EU and Europe technology companies I could find information on,
including their market capitalisation:

ASML (Netherlands, Market cap: $262.07 Billion)
Accenture (Ireland, Market cap: $171.21 Billion)
Deutsche Telekom (Germany, Market cap: $118.43 Billion)
Schneider Electric (France, Market cap: $91.00 Billion)
Dassault Systèmes (France, Market cap: $54.24 Billion)
Adyen (Netherlands, Market cap: $48.95 Billion)
NXP Semiconductors (Netherlands, Market cap: $47.24 Billion)
Orange (France, Market cap: $31.21 Billion)
SAP (Germany, Market cap: $31.21 Billion)
Ericsson (Sweden,Market cap: $31.21 Billion)
Vodafone (UK, Market cap: $30.67 Billion)
STMicroelectronics (Switzerland, Market cap: $45.92 Billion)
Infineon (Germany, Market cap: $50.75 Billion)
TE Connectivity (Switzerland, Market cap: $39.56 Billion)
Amadeus IT Group (Spain, Market cap: $28.69 Billion)
Nokia (Nokia, Market cap: $26.18 Billion)
Cellnex Telecom (Spain, Market cap: $26.24 Billion)
Spotify (Sweden, Market cap: $25.34 Billion)

Note that I selected those for being strictly "tech", as in software,
electronics and telecoms. That leaves out plenty of big names in other sectors
like fintech, or biotech, etc. For example:

AstraZeneca (UK, Market cap: $209.57 Billion)
Novo Nordisk (Denmark, Market cap: $338.28 Billion)
Siemens (Germany, Market cap: $117.07 Billion)
Air Liquide (France, Market cap: $85.75 Billion)

And so on.

Note that the EU is 28 independent countries in a common market being built in
the last 40 years or so whereas the US is one country, so the comparison is
not straightforward. For example, Orange's $31 billion may not be a lot
compared to Apple or Gogole, but France is ~70 million people whereas the US
is ~330 million.

Edit: info from:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/
Profession that require hands are still safe. Professional like Plumber/Electrician/Surgeon will be safe for some considerable future.
There's always an obsession with how much something costs.

You could do this cheaper. It would be much more beneficial to learn about "how" you unschool, not just a receipt of extra curriculars or supplemental materials.

How much is it costing you to teach english, history, math, etc? What curriculum are you using if any? How far is your kid's natural curiosity going compared to a public standard? At least that would make this more interesting to read.
Exactly!

So with that in mind, rereading the post I responded to:

> Why would you have that happen? Serious question. Isn’t that putting kids in an echo chamber and restricting their access to friends?

The answer is obvious.
How hopelessly naïve.
You could say it's homeschooling without the pressure to follow some arbitrary curriculum.
Wait, do you think people / corporations should be free, or do you think corporations should be forced to carry messages they don't support?
> bleeding edge tech solves many problems ...

> which day to day tech workers working on internal B2B do not face

That's so true. Good luck explaining to management that the front-end app needs additional cloud resources, such as a server, so we are on the edge of the trend with SSR.

Most apps behind a login face tough architectural / security meetings, defending SSR for their use-case.
> ...how to socialize.

Ah, yes. The "Socialization" argument brought up every time people mention homeschooling, as though there aren't homeschool coops and plenty of other ways to interact with people of a wide variety of ages, instead of just your own age.

And if you drill down, it usually ends up being some version of "Well, I had to deal with the fact that other kids are little shits for 12+ years, so everyone else should have to as well."

In my experience, homeschooled kids are "a bit weird" as kids, but tend to interact smoothly with a far wider variety of ages, and they tend to not stand out as anything different as adults - except perhaps a lot more interested in longer form learning. If I run into someone who's got an oddly wide range of skills, odds are good they were homeschooled.
Happy to disappoint you. But I started adding more content to my personal website which was really just a CV on a wordpress website… with the help of ChatGPT. It looks genuine and all the content is very tweaked. My calendar entry now has a task to write content alongside ChatGPT for an hour every week and schedule it to be posted randomly. Started getting some followers on LinkedIn because of it.
The DoD really needs to step in and mark this tech as non-exportable due to the advantage (or potential advantage) it provides in many different fields.
The rich and powerful can and do hire actual people to write propaganda.
Ah, Republicans discovering that "Rules for thee, but not for me" sucks when you are "thee".

Kind of hard to sympathize.
Now you're the one revising history. Separate processes per window and process isolation was a big deal in early Chrome. Yes, Google has taken away much of the user control that made Chrome good and replaced it with things that optimize for the comfort of their advertising model.

But there's also a reason software people switched to Chrome for a long while. It was just better. It's not anymore. I switched back to Firefox when Chrome broke ad blocking.
I'm sorry to hear that, but that's just an anecdote. I've never been bullied, only attended public schools, and the idea of home schooling a kid is just beyond weird. It's not even legal where I'm from(Poland) and I believe for very good reasons.
> whether intelligence can be achieved without any agency or intrinsic motivation is an important philosophical question.

Important yes, philosophical no -- it's an empirical question.
Tried it, went well for awhile, but when you get stuck it's tough to find support. Very small community. Probably 1000x less content/resources/references out there for it.

On the other hand NextJS/React have been both productive and intuitive. There are so many examples out there and people are constantly talking about the nuances of both here and on other sites.

It'd be great to see Next integrate something like TRPC/OpenAPI into it so calls to the backend could be statically typed. That would really polish up the end to end experience.
yeah I agree, I've tried to follow that EANAB's example when throwing parties elsewhere too. I most certainly do not submit any party plan to anyone in advance
In school I also learned that peace is an unnatural state for human society. And that war is a constant threat to our relationship with others.

So, to achieve peace, we have to create it ourselves. Crying about it won't bring it about, or make it last. Each one of us must go and seek it out.
It might seem chaotic to you, but the docs change has been a long time coming, and isn't a surprise to anybody.

> Is this just a really bad time for React

There are some concepts you may struggle with. That's to be expected.

But the new docs don't represent negative change. The old docs were not representative of how most react is written today. That was really confusing for newcomers. There's nothing "wrong" with doing it the old way, but most jobs that use React are going to require you to work with hooks in some capacity.
Can you name another industry in tech that doesn't have a lot of options? Lets try backend, database, infra, ML, data science.
Here are a few benchmarks:

https://paperswithcode.com/sota/common-sense-reasoning-on-wi...
I run Fedora 37 on my AMD Ryzen 6800 Zephyrus G14 just fine. Both the GPU and CPU are fully supported, along with AMD’s chipset.
> Certainly homeschooling isn't the only answer

Can you list a few "other answers"? This is a serious question. The public schools around here are terrible and the private schools (which are by no means guaranteed to be much better,) are absolute highway robbery.

With the educational resources that are available to everybody at the push of a button, homeschooling seems compelling, to me. I'd even spring for private tutors. What other options are there?
With homeschooling, extremist political groups can rewrite history to match their agenda? No wait...
FWIW I have no problem with any of that. Sure, the legal framing might be wrong.

What I took offense at was calling a point of debate an "authoritarian" tactic.
While that is true, and there are always exceptions to the rule, being older and more mature when you’re exposed to those things definitely helps.
There's a good reason it's illegal in many countries.
Just an anecdote so take it for what it is. Sharing as this is something that used to concern me.

We home school our 9 year (autistic) child and he's more socialable than I am (I was schooled prep to 12 at a relatively expensive private school).

Just the other we were at a wildlife sanctuary and he ran off in the bird enclosure. I went to check up on him and found with one of the keepers feeding live worms to the birds (one of a number of interactions he had).

Whereever we go, he has a tendency to walk up to workers and start conversations.

I'm not sure how much his autism diagnosis is at play, but he does seem to lack a lot of the inhibition and intimidation in interacting that a lot of other students his age display.
Something wrong here: government agency taking action on behalf of citizens, against corporate overlords??
TypeScript.

Rails is faster for building an MVP. But it's significantly worse than a project built with a typed language when it comes to extending and maintaining.

I thought I had misconfigured Sentry (for error logging) because the type of errors that plague Rails, or any language that is not typed, just don't happen with a typed language (unknown method called on NilClass).

We can decide to make a column in the DB to no longer allow NULL values, and we are immediately notified by the TypeScript compiler about every line that needs to be updated.
False equivalence. Sea level raise is unequivocally harmful.

While everyone getting Einstein in a pocket is damn awesome and incredibly useful.

How can this be bad?
:-D There was someone working on firmware that could remap keys (let me see if I can find a link... Welp, it looks like it can be remapped bios today

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-and-open-source/107...

and the firmware is open source https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController)

and https://community.frame.work/t/changed-my-keyboard-layout-in...

I never did find the post I was thinking of (EDIT: Maybe this one: https://community.frame.work/t/a-qmk-configurable-keyboard/2...)
I haven't said anything about redistributing wealth.

The point is not that redistribution is a good idea. The point is that wealth inequality makes the economy less efficient, and that it is something we should take into consideration.

Redistributing wealth might also make the economy less efficient, that's an argument that can be made.

From where I stand, it seems the inefficiency caused by wealth inequality is too rarely discussed relative to its harmful impact.

The problems caused by redistribution/taxes etc. are otoh extremely often raised.
Socializing is fine, but school just seems about the worst possible expression of it.
> if it was really a simple low ball for duolingo to get rid of

At 4K MMR it was probably a pain in the ass for Duolingo to maintain and the reason for acquisition was hiring the developer and avoiding a potential concurrent (which in the end never realized) so I'd imagine it was a very easy buy.

And I'm not saying that as a criticism of ReadLang, I think it's a great tool actually.
People that come out of schools are different though.

I could send my daughter to private school, but would prefer for her to be a part of the rest of society.

Inequality becomes embedded when we separate ourselves from each other, and money is one way people are enabled to.

In the UK, none of the people in charge have actually used the systems they are in charge of and schooling is just one small part.

If you travel on our rail system for longer distances you'll notice that half the train is virtually empty and reserved for 1st class tickets.

If you usually travel in the rest of the train and get one of those tickets it's amazing how isolated from the general problems caused by this system you are.

Yes - the private school system has advantages; they actually aren't in the level of education, but in the connections that people make along the way, in a way it's a very small taste of how corrupt the system is.

There are of course disadvantages to "private schools" (called public schools in the UK for historical reasons), there is a real hierarchy and bullying based on how rich you are, it all enforces the class system that we have.

Lord of the flies was not a commentary on what happens when children are left on an island, but directly on what happens when pupils of that private educations system "public schools" of the UK, are left on an island.

Right now we have a government that is full of exactly that type of person - it's worked out very badly, why on earth would we want more of that sort of thing ?
Not select public sector unions in New York. PBA and NYUST get whatever they want.
I completely agree with this..

I have been trying to get into front end JS development and it feels like every guide is broken within 6 months... When I actually succeed at one part, I then realize that to add testing, or bundling, I need to follow this other guide, which isn't stable anymore, and then breaks the whole project. I have tried 4 or 5 times now trying different frameworks and "quick start" features or following recent YouTube videos, giving it 3-5 hours each time, and I can't get a working typescript based UI + test + bundler to work.

Edit: I should say, I'm open to any _working_ guides that go from start to bundle that you all know about...
There are small teams that are highly effective without PRs, given how little their owned areas intersected. Forcing the PR reviews there would only harm - any knowledge sharing is more effective at the whiteboard, anyway.