skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You provide a good hook for the point I want to make, which is that while I agree that many developers underestimate the cost of state, sometimes people can overreact and overestimate its costs too. Less common, as underestimation is still the common case, but it can be done.

I treat it as a cost that needs to be managed and that we want to make sure to exploit its advantages for those costs, but it is still often still something that is better in the system.

In this case, a hybrid approach can be useful. Writing the animation in terms of the initial state and the time is quite useful and powerful on its own terms, something worth doing. On the other hand, dealing with an event stream of changing resolutions, while possible, also nukes all the cleanliness out of the solution. So what do we do? When the window resizes, reseat the original parameters. The animation as written implicitly starts at 0,0 and has an implicit direction in it. Bringing those out as parameters isn't a bad idea anyhow, because that may not be the ideal. Then, when the window resizes, simply look at the current parameters and start a new animation with those as the initial state, handling problems with window becoming too small or something as some simple checks on the initial parameter.

This yields a nice mix of both the advantages of statelessness and the advantages of state. It's a continuum rather than a binary, and the optimum is not always the extrema. Sometimes it is, but not always.
I'm an outlier, a laborer turned foreman turned field engineer in construction who likes nerdy shit so as I've transitioned to more and more office stuff I found hacker news. :V

...I do make 6 figures, but I still wear steel toes to work?
No, I live in the Rockies so my water is plenty cold. It just doesn't bother me that much. I suppose if I could make it warmer I would do that but I don't care enough to deal with putting an outlet in to warm the water.
If you watched the congressional hearing, the evidence of this was already presented here [0] and here [1].

[0] https://futurism.com/tiktok-spy-locations-specific-americans

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...

Could not have been more clearer and is worse than the rest of the US social networks.
> This change is largely explained by the 110.6% increase in unintentional poisonings from 2019 to 2020.

That's the only days about circumstance I could find in the article. Everything else is about the direct cause of death.
> Then one time 20 years ago they make the wrong call vis a vis Iraq weapons of mass destruction, and they've almost completely destroyed their integrity.

If you think about the Iraq war whenever your read a piece by a journalist in the NYT, even if that journalist wasn't even out of their diapers at that time, then you may need to re-adjust your grudges.
https://archive.is/5j1RE
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There's nothing new about publishers revising books to suit current sensibilities. This has been happening throughout the Western world (and no doubt elsewhere) since the invention of the printing press. Any given changes have to be evaluated on their own merits; no doubt some of them may be silly. But a brief look at history shows that there's very little connection between this sort of thing and the kind of censorship that you're Godwinning this thread with.
I am glad to see an example of a better-built API which has pricing terms attached. For someone working in a corporate setting who needs a great off-the-shelf API to get an integration working ASAP, it seems to be just at the threshold of needing a purchase order to get it.

For 'goksan, I'm curious what kind of research you did on the customer base for this, and how you thought through pricing? It feels attractive to me, but curious if there's more rigor involved there.
Maybe we could create a sort of small mutual insurance fund to pay legal expenses in such cases.
yes, everything about this. for websites that still use forums (yes they are out there!) push notifications for quoted replies and direct messages would be extremely helpful. i believe push notifications are one of the largest reasons why forums died out in days of early smartphones - not having that instant feedback of interaction caused their own interactions to diminish as well.

the need for dedicated apps on your smart phone is now almost unnecessary at this point, unless you're doing something extremely niche. what a win.
Ah yes, of course its regulations. I'm not sure how "valid" those reasons are, the amount of people dying in bathroom stalls over here is not getting out of hand last time I checked (which is never).
No, the carbon cycle being disrupted.

From your question I assume you’re on the Timeline of the Far Future Wikipedia page, which references this. It’s the next few boxes below the gamma ray burst.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
Vehicles became a lot safer because of Ralph Nader.

Google “unsafe at any speed”.
5) AI-generated content will become more and more common over time. This will inevitably end up in the training sets of future AI. By recycling its own training material, AI will get less meaningful results over time.
Oh shush, and just go type "lynx" into your beloved green glowing terminal /jk
People have been predicting the end of Moore's law for decades ... eventually they will be right, but it seems there are at least a few generations of process reduction and transistor design left before we start to hit any hard physical limits.

Of course there hasn't been much increase in single core clock speeds or cost reduction for a while now (certainly nothing from Intel), but TSMC and Samsung do continue to make progress, with multiple future process generations under development.

As far as AI, or more specifically training (and running) massive neural nets, it's not single core performance that matters at all - it's all about specialized matrix multiplication hardware whether NVidia's Tensor Cores or Google's TPUs, and more importantly the ability to bring many of these specialized units together to work on a single problem. Distributed NN training has been a solved problem for a long time, with things like GPT-4 being trained across 10,000 machines.

This type of massive parallelism can continue to grow regardless of what is happening to Moore's law and single core performance.
Thanks for contributing to making the web a worse place, little by little, brick by brick. It's still barely usable but I trust that one day you and your peers will manage to make it unusable at all.
I assure you that you signed on for that. I'm sorry that you didn't know what you were signing.
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The model isn't being trained as time goes on.
They still need to accept dollars, whether they are cash or credit card tied to dollars etc.
I agree with 99% of this, however I feel like the author missed something and was 100% wrong in one case. When talking about bugs in the simulation state, the author states:

> If you resize the window to be smaller you can trap the DVD logo on an edge. Resizing the window in the Animation solution means we recalculate to the correct position.

If you resize the window in a simulation state it's trivial to maintain the same general position of the logo. For instance, 80% across the screen or whatever. With the authors code, as the window is resized, the logo goes flying everywhere in what is obviously a bug. Especially if it has been running a long time, changing the modulus will result in random seeming jumps.
https://archive.is/WMBo0
Apple supports them now. Everyone else has been doing it for years.
17 hours old, still there.
Paypal has fought very hard not to be classed as a bank (which comes with regulations and certifications).

As far as I know, paypal doesn't do fractional reserve banking (because it's not a bank and that would be illegal), it just collects a fee on the seller's side for each transaction, so everyone pulling out all of their money at once would probably not be that disastrous, supposedly they do have that money just sitting in an account. It would be disastrous to paypal as a business, and they would probably use fine print to keep that money, but out of greed, not out of lack of liquidity.
> The current crop of AIs will be very useful but it won't lead to the scary AGI people predict.

I argue that this won't matter. I think Generative AIs will be much scarier than any sci-fi AGI. And this is because while sci-fi AGI apocaliptic scenarios involve the AGI seeking to exterminate humanity usually as a form of revenge (see The Matrix, The Orville and many others) or as part of an optimization, scenarios involving Generative AIs simply involve humanity destroying itself, and these scenarios are already very plausible.

Prepare for the complete destruction of objectivity, the onslaught of spam, grifts and fake news at an unprecedented scale and a flood of security vulnerabilities unlike any other. This will be the annihilation of interpersonal trust and of knowledge.
>Or, in my own words, ignore Push notifications and just use WebSockets.

Battery consumption is a big difference between the two. To keep the connection open, you need constant connection with the radio hardware, keeping it running, having it actively reconnect etc. Push notifications don't need a continous connection, the provider just connects from time to time and delivers the notifications then. There's some latency involved, but the power consumption is orders of magnitude lower.
Spotify's power comes from more than its ubiquity. Pop music, the kind that charts (and the only kind labels care about), is way more commodified than TV shows. If Sony were to make a streaming service with just their music and leave Spotify/Apple Music/Amazon/etc, their artists would simply fail to chart ever again.

The advantage of a single streaming service with all the songs is also much greater than one with all the shows or movies. Nobody puts Netflix on "shuffle" or lets it play random episodes based on what they've watched in the past, but those are some of Spotify's biggest features. Its user shareable playlists also increase lock-in, along with other network effects. It's such a huge advantage to be able to play anything (or almost anything), I don't see how a service with a limited selection could compete.

I don't see any way for the labels to get out of the streaming age beyond serious anticompetitive collusion, and even then people would go back to piracy. Frankly, it couldn't happen to a nicer group of folks.
Who's the actual audience? Elites that want to pretend they're saving the planet with an oversized vehicle they get in after they just got done flying their massive personal jet around?

Why are you embarrassed by reality?
I'll nitpick the "gold doesn't have intrinsic value" part: There's a limited supply of elemental gold on the planet, it takes some effort to extract it, and it has unique electro-chemical properties that make it productively-useful for industries. You could consider the jewelry use of it to be "merely aesthetic", but I would argue that even in that aspect, it has demonstrated intrinsic value. So many cultures over so many hundreds of years have valued its use in to enhance beauty via jewelry, which you can think of as an aid in attracting mates, etc, which definitely has intrinsic value to many humans.
I mean I make proprietary software for a living (as do, I assume, a huge fraction of people commenting on HN). For a lot of use cases I prefer proprietary to open. I have zero moral questions about using my iPhone or Windows desktop and I consider anyone who tries to use open software as a moral imperative do be fooling themselves and wasting their time.

With that out of the way I think it's completely irrelevant for the original discussion. Game developers are going to make games for the biggest platforms. So if you want to play the most titles, you choose the bigger platform.

Yes, so long as people keep using windows, the games will keep coming to windows . But I'm not going to waste my time crusading against that in order to maybe see Linux be a more viable gaming platform in two decades. Life is just to short. I'm not enjoying Linux on the desktop much to begin with, so in my case the game issue isn't really the deciding factor. For a lot of gamers it probably is, though.
I've been using push notifications for a while now. They can be very useful. I have a back end that send server events (PHP SSE) to my web app everytime a new there's a new entry on a DB, which triggers a push notification. That's how I did my sensor of presence [1]

1 - https://youtu.be/D4wimodtpKk
We all do our jobs for money. That is, for a profit.

Are you claiming that none of us has integrity in our professional work?

Articles are not written by institutions. They are written by individuals. Just like the code I write every day. For money.
I am personally doubtful. The problem with BABA is that it is a variable interest entity (VIE) listed in the Cayman Island that means shareholders are technically owners of shell company rather than the Chinese enterprises that they they think they are buying.

I also think the divisions are worth less apart then together as retail has no margins, cloud and entertainment are overcrowded, and logistics is highly competitive.
A related problem: I started to notice an increasing number of websites or apps where there is some interactive element at the bottom that keeps getting hidden by navigation unless I actively keep dragging up. The Search bar here on HN is an example of this. It didn't happen till a year or so ago. Happens on my 14Pro and when on my wife's 14 Plus. Does anyone know what's up with that?
Do they even know your mom's birthdate? Can't you just give them a random date?

Also, if you bought something at a webshop, why does PayPal know who it's being sent to? They just need to know you and the webshop, don't they? Who the webshop sends it to is between you and the webshop.
I think it’s quicker than that, but I took a different approach. I
steamed, switched to espresso then released the excess pressure into a jug. Then made coffee.
1. Go find any of the text commentaries that Austin Wintory has done about the Journey soundtrack.

2. Clear an hour off your schedule, close your eyes and listen.

Edit: On second thought, keep your eyes open and enjoy the beautiful artwork by Matt Nava (taken from his book on Journey) as well as a selection of fan art which is equally stunning considering most of the people are probably not professional graphic designers.

Fuck...it's so good it makes me emotional just typing this sentence.

Also worthy of note: Tan Dun and Yo Yo Ma's recording of the Crouching Tiger soundtrack and his recordings of the Bach solos.

Alas, I must end with the complaint that the current recordings of the original Star Wars soundtracks use track listings that are out of order with their "appearances" in the films.

This is not accceptable.
Also they'll fine you $2000 for "misinformation" on any platform. They snuck it back in very sneakily after the outcry when it was announced.
Mediated by the CNS or not, placebo effects are ultimately very chemical too.
I am not smart enough to know if that is already a thing or not...
I think the conclusion is that the group definition matters: a group of people age 1-19 is different than 2 groups. 1-17 and 18-19.

If you use 1-19, firearms are the leading cause of death, if you use 1-17 they are not. In almost every other context we consider 18-19 adults.
You might want to check if lawyers are even allowed in small claims. If they aren't they would have to sent a company representative, and there would be no 'lawyer fees'.
Technologists predicted we'd have AGI by 1980. Assuming their claims are accurate is pretty naive.
> You are selling the end product, not your tech stack.

I think the mentality is that by having a better tech stack the product will be better and also more "future-proof". Personally, I always spend (waste) time upgrading all the libraries to the latest versions and maintain the code up to the current standards. Maybe it doesn't really improve the product, but it gives me confidence that I am always ready to implement whatever features or most recent improvements in technology I could take advantage of.
Did you miss where the original person is unable to unsubscribe because they were banned? In this specific scenario, it is absolutely spam, otherwise known as Unsolicited Commercial E-mail (and by virtue of them being banned, these specific mails are by definition unsolicited).
A friend of mine once got his PayPal account suspended (and never got it back) because he transferred money to another friend with the title "NS" or "Money for NS". The NS referred to "Nobelhart & Schmutzig", a Michelin-star restaurant where the two went for dinner and one of them paid. It obviously had nothing to do with National Socialism, but PayPal did not care.
I mean, I'd report it as spam rather than as 'malicious' so I disagree with the GP on that part, but...

> sometimes I wonder if spam is such a big issue in part because users report anything they don't want in their inbox, like a newsletter they previously signed up for, as spam or similar

It's been a problem ever since some green card lottery lawyers decided to spam Usenet and then moved on to using botnets and whatnot while people fought back with DKIM and SPF and such, so I doubt it.

> This doesn't hurt paypal but might annoy a small email hoster that might have to clean up your mess.

It's not clear to me why Paypal would be routing emails through a small email host and most people are using the few big webmail providers at this point.

> If you want to hurt them

I don't think people want to hurt Paypal, they just want to turn off the damn marketing campaign when they're literally banned from the service. Personally, I just set up filters to dump all the junk like the constant emails from Amazon so that I don't have to deal with it.
And how effective do you think it will be to ban guns in cities and doesn’t that go back to my point of giving police yet another reason to harass minorities unequally?
> federal reserve defines the "natural rate of unemployment" as being around 5%

Source? The natural rate of unemployment, like the neutral interest rate, floats with economic conditions and cannot be directly estimated.
Thanks Washington Post, we wouldn’t want this tragedy to go to waste.

What a great opportunity to push for disarming lawful citizens, right?
I'm not at a loss as to why my friends aren't having kids. I'm at a loss as to why you think your list is relevant to why my friends are having kids. You've produced a fine list of culture war talking points but none of the simple stuff. No talk of economic problems or people not wanting to continue the same destructive cycles and finally feeling like they have the option. Instead it's all "Greta" and "woke culture" and "white guilt".
Having had to deal with this is a previous job, from what I remember the rules DD are pretty strict and if you mess up as the collection agency, you have to put it right. You also don't get to just recollect - the few times we had software issues, we needed to write to all the people you are going to recollect from and inform them it will happen.
It's in people's nature to take sides, and, as you pointed out, technology serves whomever happens to control it. So people who control technology should use it to try to help other people. I realize it doesn't often work out that way, but I see no reason to give up on the ideal. In the end, it's in the interest of those who control the technology to make the end-users happy. If everyone actually turned off all push notifications, companies that send push notifications would have a useless channel. It's not in their interest to spam people, and from personal experiences I can say that I think most of them know that. The tool set for sending smart notifications has just been incredibly limiting until recently.
I believe that was shown in 2011 (though as this follow-up states, there was a slight mistake that needed to be corrected).

https://accodeing.com/blog/2015/css3-proven-to-be-turing-com...
Their European branch, PayPal Luxemburg, has a European banking license. The US company maintains that they are not a bank. So it kind of depends on where you are, or which arm of PayPal we are talking about.

I don't think they do any fractional reserve banking though (at least they didn't two decades ago), so there shouldn't be any liquidity risk. All dollars in deposits should be backed by real dollars.
Oh give me a break. You're so brainwashed that you don't see the marketing bs EV manufacturers pull is the same thing and you're out here touting their products FOR THEM.

You need PROVE you're saving the planet by mining precious metals out of Africa with slaves. But, hey you've got a "green" vehicle so who cares.
A suggestion is people project themselves as what they want, and not what they are - and answer that way. Self reporting & self contextualization of meaning of the questions could be considered low accuracy.
So your solution is?
I don’t think PayPal has any influence over Zelle which is run by a consortium of US banks and competes with PayPal.
> It seems to me that people tend to vastly overestimate their uptime requirements. "Real time 'web application'" used by hundreds of millions of people can be down for hours and yet succeed wildly

That may be true for social media apps where the Terms of Service don't include any SLAs/SLOs, but if you're a SaaS company of any kind, the agreements with clients often include uptime requirements. Their engineers will often consider some form of "x number of nines" industry standard.
Neither of these statements are true and time will show the ignorance of it.

I'm a crypto and AI optimist, but a tempered optimist. I don't think either tech is imminently going to disrupt everything, but I think both technologies have their use cases. They are far more modest than their most ardent supporters would believe. However, over the course of decades, the tech can transform society, I still think that.

However, as with the internet itself, which never did live up to its loftiest, most optimistic ambitions, it's not to downplay the impact at all. Just thay eventually you do find a point where you grapple with the tradeoffs inherent in the technology and those are often sticky and intractable.
Archive.ph is down and was down yesterday when I checked as well.
Why are you booting your laptop so often? Surely once a month or so to install updates is enough
Haven't tried this one but Reviewable and Graphite. They're all very nice and yours looks nice also. The problem with all these third party SaaS-es on top of GitHub:

- You have to trust a random (no offense meant!) SaaS company with full access to your repositories, and to not disappear in a year or two.

- GitHub API rate limits end up causing issues sooner or later. For instance, Reviewable would randomly break and ask you to add more admin users so it could load balance API requests across multiple accounts!

- Likewise, you are still forced into the PR model and things that are trivial in Gerrit, like stacked diffs, are still hard. spr helps[1], but at that point you are piling workarounds on top of workarounds, might as well use a tool that supports the workflow natively...

- It gets messy unless 100% of the team is using it because then you have to somehow sync comments and approvals back and forth... And getting 100% of the team to use it isn't much easier than convincing them to use Gerrit, with all of the downsides.

[1]: https://github.com/ejoffe/spr
Also, people here REALLY misunderstand why China is doing the things it's doing.

Their FX reserves are running perilously low. They are looking for ANYTHING they can do to get foreign cash. I'm hearing rumors that they are the ones who tapped out the FIMA facility. Could get ugly.

I know somebody is going to @ me with the 3T number, but the only data I trust is China's holding of Treasuries. That's been falling quickly.
Two(!) of them were about Musk.