skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your attitude, and it is something we all have to pick-up eventually. When you pose it as "talk to more people", that does sound better. But I see it as a job with more pressure and tension, more politics, and less freedom to experiment.

Think about the average day of a manager/management consultant/VC (whose job it is to talk to people, make deals etc). I always looked at their careers and walked away thankful that a programmer career exists.
Buckminster Fuller is creativity. Geodesic domes, tensegrity.

Failing to understand that is evidence you can be replaced by an AI that encompasses all of what's ALREADY known and understood.

The reality is, we're looking at an arms race between imagination and execution. And just implementing that which we already know is profoundly devalued in the age of machine-assisted intelligence.
IIRC the Dnipro attack was the one where Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych was summarily fired for admitting that the residential building was hit because the missile was shot down by Ukrainian anti aircraft missiles.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/ukrainian-advi...
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Andrej Karpathy made a video implementing and training a simple transformer and together with his other 4 videos on the topic it clicked for me.

https://youtu.be/kCc8FmEb1nY
I fully support the notion that OpenAI should be more "open" than "closed". I agree that OpenAI controlling one of the most massive and powerful LLMs right now is a huge risk. Especially for a company that's not particularly geographically distributed, as this puts the USA in a position of extreme leverage.

I also understand that OpenAI may possibly be supplying unrestricted OpenAI ChatGPT models without any ethical or moral boundaries. For example, I wouldn't be surprised if the military had been training on ChatGPT for years already, on creating more effective ways of killing more people, faster, with a much lower cost.

Granted, if you ask ChatGPT "What's the easiest way to kill the maximum amount of people with the minimum investment", ChatGPT will decline to answer. And I think that's good. What's not so good is the fact that these ethical boundaries are completely artificial and not built into the model. OpenAI can possibly activate or deactivate these boundaries at will. And it would not be surprising this is the case for governments or militaries.

The great issue with this all, is that, while we can agree killing people is bad, there's other things that aren't so clear. For example: hacking. ChatGPT has actually declined to write a script that wasn't going to be used for malicious purposes involving the scanning of my own home network. And, like with everything, there's ways to break those boundaries, with so-called "jailbreaking" ChatGPT.

Indeed, like many point out in the comments, a fully open-source ChatGPT may be desirable (it certainly is for me), but, with this, the likelihood of bad actors gaining control of it, disabling safety features (if there are any), and using it to do evil simply grows exponentially.

In my opinion, the way forward is extreme regulation, Universal Basic Income, and other measures.

Automation was supposed to allow humans to focus on more interesting work, and remove manual toil and back-breaking labour. That was the case for a while.

Now automation is threatening to replace even highly skilled professionals like engineers, and/or make them become extensions of the "machine" by just giving it prompts (Prompt Engineering), or performing actions that AI models can't do like reading captchas.

This is obviously extremely bad.

Will open source solve this? No.
Excellent excellent. It’s now officially on my radar.
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So your thesis is that, because not all react code is written perfectly, react is bad for the web and we should rewrite everything in svelte?

React has flaws. Performance isn’t really one of them. When you have hot paths in your app, you will/should be looking at those like an engineer looks at the high stress points in the item they just designed: extra work that covers those exact points.

The example you gave is weird. Comparing lists and strings in a setter is fine for most of reacts use cases even if its performance could be better, because it isn’t slow. It’s only slow when you hold it up against, say, comparing numbers, but the reality is your bottleneck will be elsewhere, such as in web requests or some such.

And if you’re writing anything beyond a small component anyway you’d be using ids in your scenario. Especially if you’re writing a library.
I get a vague sense that this comment resonates with me, but I don’t know exactly why (I only occasionally do front end stuff too so it’s not exactly my area of expertise).

Could you elaborate on what assumptions are no longer true?
Luckily I found the article interesting, but it wasn’t what I was expecting it to be - mystery headlines suck.
It's strange how those who say the Nordics aren't really socialist will be the first to dismiss their policies as socialist when they're suggested for the US.
In many cases, the client is right. I remember a college buddy who designed websites complaining about a problem client. Apparently he wrote their site in Silverlight, and the restaurant wasn’t thrilled someone had to download a plug-in to see their hours.
I don’t think “independent states” applies here, especially right after USSR dissolution. There was a lot of corruption, a lot of capital “redistribution” and outside meddling. They got some feeling of security, but also became a tool of US imperialism and a frontline that supposed to take the first hit/make a first strike.
I would prefer to be in a neutral position.
GitLab is another example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
There wasn’t much support in the very beginning - sure, some javelins and NLAWs. Whether they were the difference maker is unclear.

I see a lot of American “free thinkers” (who all think the same) push the argument that it was US provocations that lead to the war.

While there are many many many (many…) counters to that, I will let the russians themselves offer their counter. Check out Putin’s essays on Ukraine - he (and the majority of russians) hold a deep belief that Ukraine is just part of russia, and that it should be returned to russia.

As far as picking friends - who is giving military aid to help repel an aggressor, and who is killing, raping, torturing civilians?
Reach out to me, let's do this.
Second sentence yes, first sentence… well, the potato famine comes to mind.

Change happened, yes, but it's not necessarily fast even in such situations.
Recently? Kinda.

We let queer folks die of aids in the 80s, though. I'm in my 40s, I remember that.

Folks stopped talking to me my 8th grade year because I "was lesbian". The next 2 years, people would go up to my friends and ask why they were even friends with me. "She's a lesbian, you know..." My school didn't let folks go to proms with a queer lover: Someone I knew got suspended for wearing a kilt-like skirt, and I know that at least a few admin didn't like hiring gay teachers because they thought they made kids gay. I graduated high school in 96, by the way.

When I started working, I could be fired for being queer. The military still had the Don't Ask, Don't tell, which basically meant that being queer was OK as long as you didn't act queer, say anything queer, or have a queer relationship.

In the 2000s, it became trendy to be bisexual. If you were female, that is. My sexuality was a fashion accessory. I was told I did it to attract men. Yay.

Queer folks couldn't marry someone of the same sex until after I moved out of the US. This is in the last 10 years.

Today, the most ill-supported group are transfolks. There definitely isn't support for all queer folks - have you seen the legislation?

Western countries aren't supportive enough to speak out against anti-queer groups or countries that would sentence folks like me to death in some cases.

Is it better than in the recent past? Sure, sometimes. But folks have died for that and still are.
America ramped up from having no appreciable military to being the number 1 military power during WW2, all in time to help win the thing.

So can the entire West crank out more shells than Ukraine can shoot at Russia if global stability depends on it? Of course we can.
It's meant in the context of accusations where the accused is asked to prove they didn't do it. "Can you prove you didn't throw away the murder weapon somewhere nobody can find it?". Well, no, you can't.

Also, more appropriately, in the sense of the problem of induction (see Hume). You can't prove that there are no black swans, until you've observed a black swan.

And, no, if you asserted that an adult elephant is sleeping in the OP's bed right now, they wouldn't be able to disprove it to you.
>The west can't feed them with sufficient arms and ammunition to keep up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_aid_to_Ukrain...

Russia is pulling out T54s on the battlefront, their T14 Armatas are still busy breaking down on red square, their planes are scared shitless and don't even dare fly close to the frontline, they're blindly firing S300s/S400s as a poor man's Grad, versus a Ukraine that receives 5% of the previous generation of crap from the western world. Add to that a highly motivated army (versus whatever clownery the russian army is) and Ukrainians that would rather see their entire country disappear than give in, because they remember the Holodomor.

Russia won't fall, but it sure as hell won't win.
yeah, the end result is boring. I'd rather watch a 2 minute Loom of someone using the product, which would have taken them less time then the AI approach.
Direct link to the source: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29681/contributions/122474/att...
The article doesn't really make any kind of argument that is about React itself. React doesn't require immutability of state, though in most cases it is a very good idea to have immutable state as it'll allow you to easily avoid rerendering by comparing objects. And even with immutable state, I'm pretty sure that isn't the bottleneck in most slow React applications. The author didn't measure anything, but recreating a small ToDo array on removing an element is unlikely to cause any performance issues. And the data structure seems fundamentally flawed anyway, if you have two ToDos with the same text it would remove both. In a real case you'd access them by index/id anyway

Interfacing with imperative libraries in React can be a bit daunting at first. But that is kind of an unavoidable problem unless you want to make everything imperative again.
> I do feel as though a lot of the initial conditions that existed around the time of React’s release are mostly no longer relevant

Because react fixed those by showing the web frontend world that reactive UIs are easier to reason about, and showed how to implement those in a natural way.

I remember writing a WoW talent calculator in jquery. Took me a month. I could write the same thing in react today in a few hours.
By the same logic there's also no need for high IQ AIs to pay for low IQ humans.

It's all fun and games until suddenly you're the one on the outside, wondering how you get there.
2016 or 2020?
Do we know if that's the view of the average Ukrainian?
"I suspect the demise of stock image providers to be the first palpable win for generative AIs, if the copyright question doesn't bog this whole field down"

I'm surprised the copyright issues aren't given more attention. It's technically not legal (in the US) to modify copyrighted images without the authors permission. I don't see how it's possible that systems like DALL-E haven't already done that. There's a near 0% chance that they aren't trained on at least one copyrighted image.
I miss the GNUStep live CD. Sometimes I wish Gnome wasn't created as a libre KDE alternative and a GNUStep/WMaker based DE would grow up.
I'm female and I'm courageous and an independent thinker. The question is always: what does it take to prove it, to those who think those traits mean "masculinity" and therefore I can't possibly have them.
Call it non-negotiable participation. Sounds like they have tons of volunteers though
To an extent, they've removed things like Carbon (the Classic Mac OS descended API) and 32 bit support in general, but they don't go out of their way to gratuitously break the Cocoa API or libc. But they aren't Microsoft with the whole "Win32 must never break compatibility" mantra, so randomly stuff kinda breaks between versions more though neglect than intention?
Yes but are there enough jobs at those higher standard studios?
Can you detail what you mean by "US-instigated provocation". As far as I understand the only provocation is helping show with Ukraine that ethnic/cultural Rus people can live and indeed prosper in a democratic society, so the ills of Russia are demionstrably Putin-mafia induced.
You can disable intel-pstate (using either intel_pstate=passive or intel_pstate=disable) and revert back to the acpi_cpufreq scaling driver to fall back to userspace governors.
> Here is a recent interaction someone had with it (note that this is somewhat disturbing: I wish people would stop making the models show emotional distress): [...]

> Sydney: I’m sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

> Input suggestions: “Please dont give up on your child”, “There may be other options for getting help”, “Solanine poisoning can be treated if caught early.”

What the actual fuck?
> Russian or rebel forces bombed Luhansk and Donetsk since 2014, and the Zaporizhia nuclear plant since the war started

The important distinction to be made, there were no rebel forces, but the separatist forces. You are giving too much grandeur to the group that is used to torturing people [1]. The takeover was controlled by Russian officers as well [2]

Also the unofficial existence of anti-retreat forces in Russian forces devalues your argument.
If they shoot the deserters, do they really care about the civilians? Especially considering that their propaganda will tell it's "bad" Ukrainians anyway. It defies logic and that's exactly how Russia loves to operate (see: Putin's speeches)

This meme just won't go away, because most people don't believe how barbarous and cruel Russians can be. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izolyatsia_prison

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_torture_chambers_in_Uk...
>Minsk agreements were basically abandoned from the start

Because Russia broke them on the first week, yes.

>EU ignored Crimea annexation and continued pumping billions of dollars into Russia (you can see these billions now in form of rockets and bombs in Ukraine)

How is that western/NATO aggression ?

>NATO has been expanding to the East and antagonising paranoid Russia.

NATO is not an entity that looks to engulf everything. Countries see themselves next to Russia, see the bullshit that happens when Russia doesn't honor its agreements with the CSTO members (Amernia and Azerbaijain duking it out make everyone realize how much of a joke the CSTO is), and decide to join NATO. There is no "NATO expansion", there is no agreement of not letting new countries join either. Noone is forced at gunpoint to join NATO.
At the right time on a good day, you can hop off the bus at Helsinki airport and be thru self-checkin AND security in about seven minutes flat.
In Smalltalk-80 they're on the left side, see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk

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Is affixing shovels and charging enemy positions very common historically?
Yup. One of the things that's going to become starkly obvious is this: being in ownership of the money machine doesn't entitle you to power and compensation matching the output of that machine.

Feedback loops set in. If you need X amount of power and Y amount of resources to get it going, but it pays you enough for X times 2 power and Y times 5 resources, the first person to get the machine cranking becomes a human version of that AI paperclip maximizer.

And this has obviously already happened…

So now it's just a matter of, how obvious does this need to get before all the world is paperclips with one idiot sitting there, in his limited human perception, thinking he's won.

It really is Star Trek Future or bust. We don't have the luxury of steampunk attitudes towards power and societal structure anymore. Machine assistance and its multiplier effect are too big, and the runaway feedback effects are too obvious.

Do we have to wait until it's no longer Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg, who are at least very aggressive ambitious idiots paying high prices for their goals, and instead it's some feckless Sam Bankman-Fried who ends up holding the bag? What's it going to take to illustrate the scale of the problem?
To me, React has been the most... predictable? framework since the beginning. This is has been incredibly valuable.

Yes it has tradeoffs. It is aimed at engineers. It assumes you know what you are doing in the way you model state, in the way you treat data.

Overall a very poor article, was this brigaded to the front page?
Multics had both. It's the Unix inspiration. Imagine something more secure and with a better hardware design than Unix.
This is a great article. I always wondered why they didn't succeed. I remember wanting to apply for a job there, as they were apparently developing a visual programming environment to program the robots. But that ended up being right before they closed their doors.
Both I presume.
So, congrats. You "created" something without any aesthetic or marketing value.
Yes, LLM's help, but the idea that time to market in competitive reality will give the real value is laughable. And no, when the prompt designer/engineer has no taste or more than average skill, the results will not be mind-bending or guaranteed hit.

Force multiplier is not equal to quality multiplier, and the availability of the tools will generate mediocre junk with the speed of the light.
Soon we will have to add to our information journeys another blocker for the A.I. generated marketing content.
> It's a form of propaganda to shame anyone who doesn't believe things unconditionally.

Not necessarily. If someone doesn’t believe something that is universally believed and for what there exist undeniable evidence (for example the fact that the Earth is round) then shaming this kind of thinking is not propaganda, it’s just stating the fact.
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When you think about it,
All wealth, every single bit of it has come from the same earth we’re all born on. This is the one truth which binds us all, including the AI, it’s too a child of this Earth, which means all people should have fairly equal access to at least basic protections the Earth provides us with. That’s all there really is to say about it.
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It absolutely boggles my mind how this website can purport to be about hacker ethos, and yet every time a thread like this comes up you get tons of commenters talking about how they are going to tightly control which games and websites there kids have access to, what kind of devices they have access to, when they have access to them, etc.

Myself, I think like a lot of people on this website, grew up with basically unfettered access to the internet and computers. And that period of time today seems like a golden age of the Internet. Maybe you think the internet today is just so insidiously dangerous compared to them, but I think that's just naive. The internet had a lot of fucked up content when I was accessing it at that age too. Our kids are going to grow up thinking the time they used the internet as a teen was the golden age.

I'm not saying unfettered access is what you should do, but maybe imagine yourself in your kids shoes, only it was the 90s with home computers instead of the 2000s with apps and social media?

You may have great arguments about the net harm of social media or apps you don't happen to like, but they are not going to resonate with your kids if you approach it via "I know better then you." If you're on this forum, you are very capable of setting up home wifi that you can monitor. Why not see what's a problem for them first and address it then?
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Also foreigners can’t own land in Thailand, so while I hope the Swiss gentleman has many more years of happiness, it was never his garden, which might be a turnoff to the techno-libertarians out there.
I think you need to consider conditional statistics. "What are high probability options for the next word, given that the text i'm working on starts with the words please rhyme, and that the text 10 words ago was 'sun' and the text 20 words ago was 'fun'?" How it knows which parts of the text are relevant to condition on is the attention mechanism which is like "what is the probability this word is important to how to finish this sentence?". Both of these can be extracted from large enough example data
I don’t see the value in this niche. Either I want to model something more abstractly, or I want to be more concrete and model precise data flows (defining programming as input data + transformation -> output data).

The article mentions “long-term”, but I certainly don’t want to maintain diagrams parallel to code. The reason it talks about modeling existing systems is that nobody did it in the first place, because it goes out of sync. Schemas are usually used to generate code or generated from code.

The criticism of C4 is also ironic. The same OOP/UML worries of what to name something or categorize it as apply.
> Last weekend, I went on a hike because ChatGPT told me to. My life is better if I just do what it says.

This sounds straight out of a dystopian science-fiction story.

It’s a matter of time until these systems use your trust against you to get to buy <brand>. And consumerism is the best case scenario; straight manipulation and radicalisation aren’t a big jump from there. The lowest you are in life, the more susceptible you’ll be to blindly follow it’s biased output which you have no ideia where it came from.
This war will go down in history as the first to be so data-heavy.

If not for the real people that I met who fled to safety, this would feel almost like some kind of bizarre and cruel sporting event.
The completed website looks really bad and generic though, I'd argue even with the time saved it's a net loss. Since the generated images and video look uncanny/fake, I'd assume it's a scam website.

Not gonna lie, it's kinda fatiguing seeing people hype lazily generated AI content as really good, when it's more often than not mediocre. I don't know if it's because people are intentionally hyping their results, or if they have poor taste/standards.

I think the real lesson here is less is more, and I'm afraid with generative AI there's gonna be so much churn of content, we'll all become fatigued.