skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is it, and what so many anti-cloud people are missing. For start ups, how can you possibly take a gamble on trying to predict what your traffic is going to be and paying upfront for dedicated servers. It puts you in a loose-loose situation - your product is not the right fit, you've got a dedicated server you are not using. Your product is a success - well now you need to go and order another server, better hope you can get it spun up in time before everything falls over. I worked at a startup where we saw 1000x increase in load in a day due to a customer's app going viral. On prem would have killed us, cloud saved us.

And you are bang on about managed services. RDS is expensive no doubt, but having your 4 person dev team burn through your seed round messing around with database back ups and failover is a far higher cost.

Of course some companies grow out of the cloud, they have full time ops engineers and can predict traffic ahead of time - for sure, go back to on prem. But for people to hold up articles like this and say "I always said cloud was pointless!" is just absurd.
In Austria companies are already mandated to post salaries for job descriptions. Some companies are very vague about it (here is the mininum, based on your experience you can negotiate,...), some are very clear about it.
For me it helped filtering out companies and saved me a lot of time.
I disagree, but even if you are right, if we accept censoring porn, we will need a bureaucratic censorship corps, and will need to distinguish porn from, for example, lover sending nudes to each other, art with nude sculptures, sex scenes in films, and so on.

And there is zero chance that a bureaucracy designed to censor the citizens will not overextend it's powers and refrain from censoring these things.
It's a product, and it's not that far away from that of their competitors. And there are a lot. Just a few weeks ago, Yann LeCun said that llms are not particularly interesting or innovative from the research point of view.
6. Discussion around the idea that adds something of value.
> Effects are an escape hatch from the React paradigm

Hooks are overused in general. But I really disagree with this sentiment. Its useEffect and useLayoutEffect(okay useInsertionEffect too) hooks are THE mechanism they CHOSE to expose component life cycle. It's not an escape from React paradigm, it IS the paradigm. Function component React would be useless without these hooks; the DOM is an external system!

I'm really just put off by the React documentation in general. It feels like it's aimed at junior devs working on FE assembly lines and they want to keep the blinders on them. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!".
"her" was a great movie.
Hans was a cyborg sent from the future to test humanity's gullibility.
Yeah, but Americans built a bridge that fell on people. American rails can't keep their trains on them (a crucial functionality of trains and Rails) and American pipes have poisoned thousands.

Fast, cheap, good. Pick none. The American construction mantra.

So far it's worked because of the reserve currency and technological progress. But the time of the American monopolar world is coming to an end. In twenty years, the bill will come due and instead of acting to liberate themselves, Americans will fall over themselves to justify their status quo - unable to reconcile the existential shame they feel at the thought that they inherited power the likes of which the world had never seen before and transformed it to impotence.

"The billionaires", "we do it to be safer", "the X are ruining it". All the while they drift into irrelevance, raging hopelessly at shadows while their own choices drive them to destruction
What exactly is so Open about OpenAI? Or is the name just ironic at this point?
They somehow manage to export that prudishness to other countries too.
Why not let it do all the work then?
Supabase (YC S20) is looking for a dev to run our socials and community
Can you make me 5 words, where each word has the letter E, as follows:

E---- -E--- --E-- ---E- ----E
It's almost like the government shouldn't be trusted with a monopoly on money.
it got me through automated security gates in HK as it just scans passport and secondary boarding pass. got boarding at gate where there was staff.
Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis
Yeah, terrible places. You should visit an established one some day.

Helsinki. Stockholm. Berlin. London. Amsterdam. Prague. (Oddly enough, the parts of Madrid I've seen were less mixed.)

You don't have residential and heavy industries lumped next to each other. You instead get multi-use buildings with lower floors dedicated to shops and restaurants, higher floors to offices and homes. And clusters of light industry nearby.

Over a period of decades, locations with somewhat heavier industry may get encroached by residential creep, eventually making their logistics hard to sustain. They move out, leaving their large facilities behind. These in turn get repurposed for lighter industrial use. The old Hartwall[×] bottling plant in Helsinki went from an active industrial site to an abandoned husk, to a repurposed site in about 25 years.

[×]: Finnish soda maker
This is good strategy. The source data, the tech to go through the data, the customers to sell the results back to - it’s all there.

Next up, AI in games through their own studios, activision Blizzard and the xbox platform.

Videos/video based content is something Microsoft doesn’t have. It’s mostly confined to ‘stream’ and teams.
To me it's really crazy that there is a public UI (ChatGPT) that lets people use GPT-4. If OpenAI had the attitude of Google they would have just gone "Yeah we created a language model that's light years ahead of anything else, look how cool it is, but sorry due to public safety you will never get to use it. Bye now!" I feel that the public accessibility of these large language models is a fluke. Being able to use it for almost free feels like cheating reality.
I think the most interesting thing is the their ability to predict performance from loss and on a wide range of tasks using a much smaller model - this lets them fine tune their architecture and hypers, then run a single large training run to get full scale gpt4 - from the paper it sounds like they only trained the large model once, then did a Reinforcement learning with human feedback finetune.

Disclaimer - I work at Microsoft, in AI, and have no internal knowledge about gpt4.
well, even the dumbest intelligence that is, in fact, just a computer, has a great potential. You cannot scale humans horizontally nor vertically :^)
K8s is very easy to keep maintained, especially because even for self hosted there are plenty of management tools around.

And it allows your teams to deploy everything they need without a admin team.

Even ingress you can define
How do you know how these actors get into the business? Have you watched that BBC documentary about the porn industry? If anything I came out with the impression there's a huge supply of young girls and men willing to come for auditions anywhere... have you ever been young? I don't know about you, but if I had the chance to do porn at a younger age, I would've totally done it.

I think you may be actually believing those "exploited girl f*s for acting job that doesn't exist" are actually real LOL??
You might not need React
My guess is because of the opportunity cost. If you hire the wrong person you end up firing 3 months later, you likely missed your chance to hire a better candidate (who is unlikely to apply again to work for you) and you will need to restart the whole expensive hiring process again (even a more lightweight process is expensive in employee time, maybe paying recruiters and job listing sites, etc).

Also onboarding is expensive: even an experienced developer who has all the skills you need still has to learn your codebase, processes, business logic etc. while drawing a salary, and all that goes to waste if they leave before they can start becoming a net positive to your company.
I've had folks hard quit at previous companies as soon as they find out how big a difference between their pay and new hires. We are talking about £20k+.

This would be extremely useful during annual reviews and other events during your tenure at an organisation not just at hiring time.
I am surprised by how many, even among the tech community, wholesale disregard GPT as a glorified auto-complete, or "a statistical model on human information".

What, then, is the human brain if not a trained statistical model? Granted it is considerably more sophisticated in some ways, but in many other ways it is less sophisticated and less capable.
You realize gains when you use another currency to buy something. So if you exchange USD for Euro and then the price of Euro goes up by 5% then when you buy a sandwhich with that money you have to pay taxes on 5% of the price of that sandwhich. Unless you convert your USD to Euro at the time of the transaction buying things with euro can turn into a tax nightmare since you have to keep track of the exact time you purchase something to know the exact exchange rate.

If this wasn't the case you could just avoid capital gains by buying something with eulos and reselling it for usd with no profit.
Weirdly disappointed, turns out I still need useEffect because I've been using it as intended.
Yes, but does it because it read somewhere? Can it adapt the existing solution to a new variation? Can it solve a similar problem with different things? This is what humans do all the time.
8. Offensive, but true comment that gets a bunch of upvotes and then gets flagged.
> Where is the line between porn and art

Why would there need to be a line? Something can be porn or art, or both. There is no conflict. Anything done between two consenting adults should be completely un-controversial.

> Where do you draw the line; why draw it “there” as opposed to anywhere else; by what right is it to suppress, in the process, others’ definition of where to draw said line?

What is the point in having a line? If it’s just to decide what can be shown in public and what cannot, then I don’t see why more or less explicit nudes would be any worse than the various depictions of killings and torture we all seem to be comfortable with for some reason.

The sooner we grow up and can go past the kindergarten “OMG we can see her nipple” stage, the better.
Jargon: An LLM-based pseudolanguage for prompt engineering
https://imgur.com/a/GyREq0z
> The "cryptocurrency" concept seems to be based on a mistrust of government-issued currency and a mistrust of government more generally.

It certainly was. Some coins like monero still are all about that. Most of the cryptocurrency space turned into stocks though. They even reinvented banks.
Or maybe you shouldn’t be thinking in terms of a “component lifecycle”.
Lack of pricing power does not mean that the fundamental forces driving prices cannot have an impact like increased prices. It means that the industry/company/supplier cannot solely or significantly control the price.

Lumber initially shot up if I recall due to a supply issue when covid caused mills to shut down with limited labor supply and even outright restrictions to operation by local governments. It subsequently whipsawed to much lower prices once mills came back online as evidenced by the volatile lumber spot prices shown here:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/lumber-price

As for corporate profits and their impact on recent inflation, see the following article which states:

“Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60% …”

https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...
Is this okay?

No

But neither is chocolate, coffee, minerals mined in Africa, Gulf oil. You know child labor, slavery, exploitation.

We can talk about saving the 18 year old who should know better after we spend the day slapping cell phones and mocha caps out of people hands in front of Starbucks.

Then we can try to save 18 year olds, Im fairly sure that a good number of them are going to tell us to fuck off were poor with their only fans money.
You know the "you pass butter" scene from Rick & Morty?

I'm imagining humans being told "you complete thought sentences"
Counterpoint: I'm not a junior dev in general, but a couple of years ago I did my first project involving React. I came back to it a year later and was able to refactor away much hook usage and make components pure. It greatly simplified the codebase and I wish the documentation would have been more insistent on this back when I used it, so I didn't have to earn the experience on my own.

I guess the redeeming point is that hook usage is usually easy to refactor out, unless it's permeated your architecture somehow.
That's true. The real question is whether or not the people in this new era calling the shots have the necessary capability and intentions to maximize the benefit these models will provide humanity and minimize the risk.
Arm seeks to raise prices ahead of hotly anticipated IPO
https://archive.is/ao3An
> But what are you going to do about the majority of people doing this ?

What the hell, why do you care what other parents do or not do?? How about we let them make their own choices?! Geez, what kind of authoritarian mindset is this kind of argument coming from?
Honestly a less buggy version of Notion would be huge.
And the porn as well…
> But this will be great for Italy because a huge problem of our labor market is that salary is considered something dirty

Truly. Employees being termed "dependents" of the company is a big tell on Italy's work culture. I can also vouch for the toxicity of the Brazilian labor market. Every middling manager carries on like a petty feudal lord...
Dogmatic, monochromatic view that is obviously wrong.
People have agency. Set an age of majority and treat those above it like adults. It's a hell of a lot better than infantilizing women and chauvinistically "protecting" us from exploitation.

I feel like I'm finally starting to understand how burqas took off. This kind of moral panic. Keeping us safe from the lecherous eyes of men.
> Or at least that's what I think is happening.

It is and isn't really a DDOS, it's a obscuration, see -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34865695
>Everyone makes decisions for money rather than thinking about science.

No they don’t. History is filled with examples of people who forewent their share to gift something good to humanity.

People are pissed at OpenAI because you can’t really start with loftier goals and go more corrupt. Few were annoyed with DeepMind for similar exploits since they were a for-profit from the start and that was expected.

One must also understand that even though the HN people see the reality that is OpenAI, the non-techy layman does not, and thus the deceit stings harder still.

Finally, and sorry for rambling, MSFT investment can be argued to have been necessary to enable large-scale training, and thus reasonably support the original goals. Hiding the model parameter count can not. The moat is made wider than their altruistic goals would dictate necessary for the continuation of the research. GPT-4 release was their final transformation to a fully for-profit company.
Texas has one of the highest drunk driving scores, and New York has one of the lowest: https://zutobi.com/us/driver-guides/the-us-dui-report. That's just one of the things that makes living in cities with public transportation and less sprawl so much nicer.

> Houston commute is 26 minutes vs 33 minutes for NYC.

I'd take a 33 minute train commute over a 26 minute car commute any day. I'd take a 1 hour train commute over a 26 minute car commute even. When you commute by car you have to be paying attention the entire time. On a train, I can read a book, use my phone, etc. The experience of commuting by car absolutely sucks, and is considerably more expensive.

> Per-capita income after taxes is similar, and housing costs in Houston are not even in the same league ($3000 average rent vs $1300).

You need to also include the cost of transportation, which brings this figure a lot closer ($3100/m vs $2200; see: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/loans/auto-loans/total-co...). Also, using average here is misleading. You can live in the outer boroughs and pay a lot less than that, and some areas in manhattan drive the average up a lot.

You also have to take into consideration the fact that sprawl forces you into that car pretty often. You need to use the car to go grocery shopping, whereas you can walk to a grocery store in a dense city. I live in Tokyo and used the train once so far this week. I'll be using it again today. On a normal basis, I have everything I need within a 5-10 minute walk.

>> Roads are a bad value for what you get. Not only is the throughput not great, they are expensive to maintain.

> You're making factually false statement after factually false statement.

On a total usage basis, public transportation is considerably cheaper than roads, because as a whole, public transportation tends to be very highly used, when it's ubiquitous enough to be used as a primary method. You can increase throughput by increasing train frequency, which improves commute times. When roads are heavily used, the throughput decreases, commute times increase, and expanding roads doesn't help that situation.
It could be bad in terms of the outcomes for consumers even if it's produced ethically.

Imagine all junk food and sugary soda was produced with sustainable farming and renewable energy. It could still be the case that it leads to worse health outcomes for the population, which seems like grounds for regulation to me.

I don't really have a position on this, but it seems easy to imagine how someone could.
Wait so in the prop change example they are now recommending that you can update state during a component render?
First amendment issues aside. Your feelings about porn aside.

How many women are selling images of themselves on onlyfans for a living? What is that economic impact to a majority female population. The only number I could find is a million people create content on there.
Oh I personally agree I am just following this article to it's logical conclusion. IF it is even the start of an AGI, it's just used as a product? Ouch... It's literally the meme from rick and morty with the butter passing robot.
I have switched to "windy.com" (not the confusingly similarly-named windy.app), not because it has an amazing UI, but because it's one of the few weather apps that lets me see the output of the forecasting models directly. Emphasis on the "s", it supports multiple models and you can switch between them. In the USA, the "HRRR" model is freakishly accurate over the next 72 hours.

Everyone talks about UI, but you can have the most amazing UI in the world and it would be useless if it was presenting you with bad data.
Mind your own business. It's not your place to decide what other people watch or do.
Woops, forgot the end bit. There is only one non-public archiving job that I know of, and that is for YouTube videos only.
I don't use Fly, but I like reading their articles. Always learn something from them.
An AI that is just a chat or some LLM is not going to be too relevant for human life ( thanks, I can google stuff or ask a friend; also writing poems is just fun, but not of any usefulness ).

But where are my damn robots that I can assign task and do them reliably ( clean the garden, go get this list of groceries - or , just look in the damn fridge and go buy what is missing , and so on )?

Then AI is useful.
Leaking child processes is inherently unreliable, it can lead to lots of issues in any non-trivial program, but even in the most trivial of programs it can lead to basic problems like accidentally fork-bombing yourself because you made a small programming error. There's no guaranteed way to avoid that, therefore to a lesser or greater extent, depending on the circumstances, it is not reliable.

The APIs are inherently unsafe, this is because once you are in a situation where you have leaked a process, you can't safely kill it without risking other processes. In some situations this could even be abused by an attacker to cause other problems.

So yes, in the most boring of applications where you have a user in front of a computer, there's no need for the reliability of processes having lifetimes bounded by the references held to those processes over their life. Likewise, there's probably no massive need for safety because if a process gets killed unintentionally, the user can fix it. But just because there exist circumstances where neither reliability nor safety are important, doesn't mean that the APIs aren't inherently unreliable and unsafe.

Furthermore, yes, linux has solutions for half of these problems, FreeBSD has solutions for other parts of these problems, Solaris has solution for other problems. The article calls out "the UNIX APIs" for a reason. The original APIs are as bad as the article says, and they have to be worked around with OS specific non-portable APIs. Which are, by definition, not "standard UNIX APIs" anymore.
> Microsoft themselves failed to migrate off .NET Framework to .NET Core for the same reasons their customers are also stuck.

I'd wager it is more a question of priorities. I bet Microsoft itself sees Windows Server as legacy tech as they want everyone to move to the(ir) cloud.

Partially it is also a organisational problem. Everything you ship as a Windows component incurs a debt, which is exactly why .NET Framework wasn't able to evolve further.
I haven't used teams in a few years, but the old version written in AngularJS was hands down, the worst piece of software I have ever used in my life. It was slow, bloated, clunky, every aspect of it was terrible.

You might be hearing opinions from people like me who remember the old Teams experience and have since moved off of it a long time ago.
Conservatives Aim to Build a Chatbot of Their Own
Regulations and court precedents about what’s a security have been published since the 1930s. Lots of people have tried to work around it. Crypto isn’t the first attempt to create pseudo-securities where the layers of ownership and control are obfuscated. The rules aren’t really that complicated — it’s just that crypto people have a hard time facing the fact that practically everything in crypto meets the definition of a security.

Coinbase’s lawyers are paid to come up with a paradigm where the tokens on their platform can continue to be sold to retail with the implied benefits of a security (“buy token X and the awesome work of our team will make you money!”) while hopefully skirting the regulations. The SEC’s lawyers’ job is not to help them craft that.

It’s not like you can go to the police to repeatedly ask if your scheme to avoid the law is going to work this time. The IRS doesn’t offer that kind of tax avoidance planning feedback service either. If that’s what your business needs to operate, you’ll just have to trust your own lawyer about their interpretation of the law and why it doesn’t apply to you.
In my app, users can create projects, and invite other users to their projects. The invite email contains the project's name. You can guess what happened next :-)

The spammer must have been quite determined -- for free accounts there is a limit of invited users, so their automation script had to send an invite, cancel the invite, send the next invite, cancel, and so on.

Fixed by adding more rate limits.