skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you change "button" for "secondary-button" you'd have to change it in at least a couple of places I guess?

I'm not sure I understand this argument. If I rename a component and the file it's in, I get automatic import renames across the codebase without having to do anything myself. And if I didn't, I'd get errors trying to run the code (I'm not sure how you'd configure CSS to do the same thing with unmatched selectors, though I guess you probably could remove them from the output at least with postcss)

> And what if I don't want to use VSCode? Maybe there are Tailwind plugins for every text editor...

You do you, but according to the 2020 state of JS, 86% of JS devs were using VS Code, and 20% vim (which also has tailwind support): https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/other-tools/#text_editors

They removed the question so I don't know what current trends are, but Tailwind is at least supporting 90% of possible users with just those 2 (and I haven't looked into support for other IDEs)

> On a sidenote, the devtools become real difficult to use in a Tailwind-like paradigm.

I haven't found this to be the case at all, I'm not sure why Tailwind would make the devtools more difficult. If anything, it makes it easier since I typically only have to look at the CSS section for elements which have inherited styles
20 years ago, when you finished your school day, week, or semester, you could go home, on vacation, etc., and not have any contact with your schoolmates unless you wanted to. Nowadays, you see them and they can interact with you or talk about you 24/7 on social networks. There's no escaping your bully by hiding at home anymore, as you can be publicly bullied on social platforms all the time. This is likely a terrible experience for many young people. Additionally, the constant feeling of inadequacy due to having fewer likes, comments, or friends on your profile compared to the popular kids can be quite disheartening.
Social advantages confer every other kind of advantage at least at the statistical level.
Epic’s very first design goal for Verse is “simple enough to learn as a first-time programmer”, and all of their intro docs are framed around making content for Fortnite.

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/verse-lan...

AFAIK at present time there’s no way of even using Verse outside of Fortnite mods.

It certainly seems that it’s best suited for the use case you described, but their site is trying to sell it as a “let’s all learn programming and mod Fortnite” thing.
Hm, I think the national security concerns are far heftier here than kids being influenced. ByteDance can be forced to do almost anything by the CCP. Sure, American tech companies might be forced to do things by the American govt but theoretically there are checks / balances / rule of law to prevent misuse.

On the kids' manipulation -- even though that's not the main intent and American social media co's influence kids as well -- I'd still argue it's significant. A foreign adversary can control how your population thinks... it almost speaks for itself.
They don't control for ethnicity, but they study for 200 countries, not just the US. But more importantly -- this has taken place from 1990 to 2020. Have there been big demographic shifts between rural/urban in that time?
The article dances around the subject a bit

A bit? The article is absolutely atrocious. It's one of those mind-numbing creative-writing pieces that make you want to scream "get to the #!$%ing point!" at your computer. But then you just calm down and reach for the back button.

It's the kind of writing that gets people to cheer for ChatGPT and Co. in the hope that soon all these writers will be looking for a different job.
According to the grabby aliens hypothesis [1] there are reasons to believe that a) humans are early, so nothing else has yet had time to convert the local group into something incompatible with the rise of new technological civilizations, and b) expanding aliens, whether monomaniacal AIs or something else, likely expand close to the speed of light, so we don't get much advance warning before they arrive. However, even if we become grabby ourselves, it could take tens or hundreds of millions of years before our expansion wavefront meets that of another civilization.

[1] https://grabbyaliens.com/
Rust just exposes the complexity an equivalent program in C leaves you to find at runtime. It doesn't have to prevent every bug, just substantially more than the languages it might replace.

You can write simple or complex code in any language.

The Obfuscated C contests exist so I really don't see what points you think you're making.

Some people have fun pushing their tools to their limits. That doesn't mean they do the same thing in production code.
I dunno, the end goal (a pseudo AGI) is more like a nuclear weapon than the advent of electricity. The concern is real, even if we are farther away than the author realizes and the risk (like the risk if nuclear war) is not totally insurmountable even if it is extremely difficult.

The first nuclear bombs couldn't end life on Earth either, but it wasn't long before they could, and the scientists working on them saw the trajectory as clear as day when the rest of the world didn't.
Yes kernel knowledge and a lot of plain C. Surprisingly didnt have to read too much of the USB spec for the first few years.
Having worked with a team building new programming languages and consisting of Haskell creators, I can confirm this was a near-fatal issue in those projects too.
I don't think that counts, because nobody wants to keep polio around, nor does eliminating your own country's polio disadvantage you in any way. Also, it's not as if the elected politicians of each country got together and negotiated an effort to end polio- it was more a concerted effort by WHO, UNICEF, CDC, et al. They just did it under the (correct) assumption that the political entities of the world weren't going to try and stop them.
I also dont see any mention of parent height.

Perhaps tall people are more likely to find work in rural areas and short people's skills are more likely to align with urban environments.

I still wonder if there is something else going on. But feel like instead of a survey of 200 countries it would be more interesting to just focus on one country with a more homogenous genetic population and measure lots of different possibel variables
I think it might. I firmly believe that mental issues can be compounded by too much empathy and care. Too much 'awareness'.

Sometimes sucking it up is, psychologically, the right answer, and results in a more resilient individual. (Not all the time, perhaps not most of the time. But sometimes.)
Nobody had an economic interest in the continued spread of polio. (well, crutch manufacturers perhaps? probably not a powerful lobby.)
White flight? More like, most immigrants don't move to rural areas to start a farm. White flight is to suburban areas, not to rural areas.
It does mention nutrition, but doesn’t consider pollution. Banning specific chemicals and possibly the organic food movement seems likely to have a real impact on rural populations in aggregate.

However, I doubt you can pick any one specific cause and say it’s definitive.
I’m Australia/New Zealand the primary driver would be international migration for urban job/education opportunities
> I don't want to be that person who says "mrahhh a new CS graduate could have built Teams in 2002 and it would have been faster!" But I'm also like, whatever is stopping it from being faster, I can't imagine what that is from where I'm sitting!

One way to test this...MSFT could open the Teams API and some 16 year old could try building a client.
Yeah, so? That's not what the article is about. It's a highly personal essay about the author's pursuit of beauty.

A bit up its own ass, sure. But it reflects an immense amount of effort and real passion, and I'd prefer 10 articles like this to yet another HN couch monkey holding forth with yet another tired middlebrow dismissal.
Soda consumption is quite high in rural areas in the USA too, though.
Thank you for this inspiration!

Talking about our limitations is extremely important. Ignoring them can lead to very bad outcomes.

I think we should do this more.
Have you ever tried to navigate the immigration process? I have, twice now. It's a Kafka-esque nightmare of Orwellian bureaucracy, and I wish I could think of a third famous writer to reference to finish this sentence.

The first time, years ago, they "lost" a packet of information we had to reconstruct at great pains, and then had to get a second physical because they lost the report from the first one. We only found that out after getting our state's federal senator's office involved.

The second time, we ran into both rapidly-changing immigration requirements[0] and a pandemic, which made it super-unclear which issue was more relevant to the seemingly-interminable wait of years.

The instructions are vague in the best of times, and even immigration lawyers have no idea what a given USCIS staffer will care about on any given day. A rejection can mean anything from another year or two in the queue to a demand to leave the country and the life you've built within 30 days, so the stakes are high.

In my most recent application packet, I did include a photo I wouldn't publish online. While it featured no nudity, it was taken in bed. The same photo rotates through a digital frame on my desk in a house with a child in it, so it's by no means risque, but that is why people send in photos you might consider unwise.

0. I can't think about this without offering my best wishes and condolences to Mrs. Miller, who married the architect of that immigration nonsense the same year I married my partner.
Why building security products is hard
Maybe we can start saying "stature" instead of "height." And like gender, stature is a social construct
Again we see that irredentism is the great evil of our age, combining as it does a toxic nationalism with a total disregard for the peoples whose homes and lives are slated to be steamrollered by invasion.
Why does it matter if they reach their full possible height, barring health complications? At least 80% of height is genetic so creating a value system based upon something that has no bearing on a person's qualities, aesthetic or psychological, is of no importance. Always substitute race for height and see how the line of argument sounds. The only difference is that one trait is generally culturally acceptable to disparage while the other is not.
> China has good people living there too you know ?

Are they in charge? If not, are they at least able to elect good people into office?
> At any given time, Google has thousands of employees who are under a litigation hold for document preservation.

Crazy, it's an order of magnitude more than I'd guess.

> Lim testified that the thought process that he might need to save something that was
said because he was subject to a legal hold simply “doesn’t occur because, as I said, I’m under so many legal holds, it’s impossible to think that way.”

This is also a crazy thing to say. But I guess I misunderstand something here, just before that it says that he did try to save _something_ copying it into docs etc and the problem is that he wasn't saving _everything_.
I can give you my trivial experience from a couple of days ago:

Google:

> latex macro behaves differently math mode normal mode

ChatGPT:

> How can I make a LaTeX macro behaves differently in math mode and normal mode?

Google failed, ChatGPT succeeded instantly.

Now that's but a single data point, but I found it cute.
The problem is that anyone with sufficient money could rent out the infrastructure required to train GPT5 or what-have-you. They need not share it publicly, they can use it for their nefarious purposes privately.

The analogous scenario would be preventing your military from experimenting with TNT, when the recipe for TNT is public knowledge. You can't copyright away public knowledge.
I'm fine with waiting if the org in question is making progress toward fixing things. It probably takes more than 90 days to do a proper FDA review for a pacemaker fix, and if the update requires surgery after that it could be years. But they need to show reasonable effort to fix all the issues.
People will ride the bus if it’s not worse than driving. If you have dedicated bus lanes you need fewer buses to provide better headways because they’re not stuck in traffic as much. Density affects the cost per user but you can get a lot of traffic reduction immediately simply by having reliable service – people much prefer watching Netflix to staring at the bumper in front of them and saving $10k/year on average is pretty nice, too - and while American suburbs have sprawl problems there are still many millions of people living in cities with enough density to support bus service.
Height certainly exists, but it has no bearing on a person's worth, despite what this article or society at large would have you believe.
Edit: Oops, this submission is a dupe of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348353

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Direct link to the petition signed by the likes of:

- Musk

- Wozniak

- Emad Mostaque, CEO, Stability AI

- Evan Sharp, Co-Founder, Pinterest

- Craig Peters, CEO, Getty Images

- Nancy Chang, Google, Research Scientist

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...

Draw your own conclusions.
You might be on to something, NVIDIA stock is up 90% since the start of 2023.
Translated: “we all went paying attention and the new startup is going to crush us. Please give us time to catch up”
Ask HN: Is it possible to use current gen AI models to train next gen ones?
If possible this should be able to make it significantly cheaper and accessible to all.
I agree. It reminds me of Jonathan Blow's talk on Preventing the Collapse of Civilization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Do you believe in God. You can make exactly the same argument to support whatever religion you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
I don’t understand why people think this information, to solve biology, is out there in the linguisticly expressed training data we have. Our knowledge of biology is pretty small, it because we haven’t put it all together but because there are vast swaths of stuff we have no idea about or ideas opposite to the truth (evidence, every time we get mechanical data about some biological system, the data contradict some big belief; how many human genes? 100k up until the day we sequenced it and it was 30k. Information flow in the cell, dna to protein only, unidirectional, till we undercover reverse transcription and now proteonomics, methylation factors, etc. etc. once we stop discovering new planets with each better telescope, then maybe we can master orbital dynamics.

And this knowledge is not linguistic, it is more practical knowledge. I doubt it is just a matter of combining all the stuff we have tried in disparate experiments, but it is a matter of sharpening and refined our models and tools to confirm the models. Real8ty doesn’t care what we think and say, and mastering what humans think and say is a long way from mastering the molecules that make humans up.
GPT3 Summary:

The article discusses the issue of having too many things to read, listen to, or watch, and how it can be overwhelming. The author argues that the problem is not a lack of filtering technology, but rather too much information that we actually care about. They suggest that instead of trying to reduce the size of the to-read/listen/watch pile, we should treat it like a river, and pick a few choice items from it, rather than trying to empty the whole pile. The article also emphasizes the need to make tough choices about what matters most in life, and accept that we cannot do everything.
What about a tokenizer where the digits 0-9 just get the tokens 0-9, all other tokens are derived in the usual BPE manner (except that no token other than 0-9 is allowed to contain digits). Such a model wouldn't have a notable reduction in context size and should behave largely the same in terms of training speed and language tasks, but if sbierwagen is right it might be significantly better at math (and at least on an intuitive level this seems to make sense).
I have to admit I've had to try really hard to not get sucked into this side debate on the efficacy of transition. I've found conflicting data here, I'm willing to acknowledge it may be true that it leads to better outcomes for many individuals. In any case, as I've said, there's little I can act on there as I have no right to impose that kind of control on others.

I am intrigued by the intersectionality of transition and social acceptance. You seem to have been following some research here, what have you found regarding the social acceptance of trans persons before and after transition? Are they finding more social acceptance after treatment?
I sometimes order things directly from China off Aliexpress et al, and I can say that that sounds more or less like the kinds of things they write (presumably native Chinese speakers with a decent grasp of English). They'll write things like, "this isn't great but it's cheap" or "if you want something perfect you'll need to spend a lot more money". I actually find it pretty refreshing coming from American culture where every interaction with some sort of product marketing just feels full of weasel words which makes me think I'm getting scammed.
The first time I went through this, in the end it's possible that the only thing that mattered was my partner being several months pregnant at the time of her interview.

The second time, I wrote a photo-story instead of just packing in a pile of 4x6 prints. "Here's us dating, here's us married, we took this trip here, this other trip there, here's my partner and her child with my parents and one of my siblings, here's me meeting her parents, here's our wedding, here's me and the kid, here's all of us at various events, here's us celebrating an anniversary," etc.
Replit and Google, the Google Perspective, Twitter’s Bad Idea
In case anyone doesn't know - the founder of Beeper is Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble!

Beeper originated out of their troubles getting messaging on the Pebble working.

> “We really wanted Pebble to be able to send iMessages, but we could never figure out a way to do it because there’s no API for iMessage,” he explains. But the idea for Beeper came to a head two years ago when he learned about a protocol called Matrix. “All of Beeper is built on top of Matrix, which is this open-source federated, encrypted messaging protocol,” he says.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/21/pebble-founder-launches-be...
The average for non-Hispanic white men in the US is roughly 5'10"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...
You misread the headline. People outside cities are taller.

Also, taller people are healthier (admittedly only indirectly because of their height). It’s not just a comment on health. Height is a social advantage.

That being said, the article is a gross oversimplification. The top comment accurately points out a lack of control for even ethnicity (which would completely explain the difference in height in the US).
Me too, but from the inside. I spent a lot of time watching C-SPAN and similar “raw footage” sites in my youth. It was fun seeing inside the sausage factory.

The raw footage has changed substantially in recent years.

I watched recent senate hearings and, instead of bringing expert witnesses to educate senators to help them better do their job, it seems hearings (and basically any other chance at being in front of a camera) is an opportunity to PWN the “other side” in a series of 30s sound bites.

Senators yell at each other, talk past each other and their guests, fall back on their pre-written “serious burn!” scripts no matter where the conversation goes, and insult the guests they invite in to speak. Everyone is freaking out about whether or not everything was shared with “their side” prior to the hearing because they need to have pre written burns to score more “points” than the other side.

You see these 30s clips floating around the internet and wonder how they can all come from the same hearing. It’s because they are all rapid firing a bunch of pre-written dribble optimized for 30s sound bites.

I don’t know how we come back from this.
Well, improvements happening now will show up in the next generation, not the current one that has already been growing in the old conditions.
The "name a specific company" is known as a bill of attainder ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder )

> A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial. As with attainder resulting from the normal judicial process, the effect of such a bill is to nullify the targeted person's civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs), the right to a title of nobility, and, in at least the original usage, the right to life itself.

Within the US...

> In 2011, the House voted to defund Planned Parenthood. Democratic Representative Jerry Nadler called that vote a bill of attainder, saying it was unconstitutional as such because the legislation was targeting a specific group.

With that in mind, calling out a specific company gets dicy.

Thus, they are instead written as:

(3) COVERED HOLDING.—The term “covered holding”—

(A) means, regardless of how or when such holding was or will be obtained or otherwise come to have been held, a controlling holding held, directly or indirectly, in an ICTS covered holding entity by—

(i) a foreign adversary;

(ii) an entity subject to the jurisdiction of, or organized under the laws of, a foreign adversary; or

(iii) an entity owned, directed, or controlled by an entity described in subparagraphs (i) or (ii); and

(B) includes any other holding, the structure of which is designed or intended to evade or circumvent the application of this Act, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary.

...

(10) ICTS COVERED HOLDING ENTITY.—The term “ICTS covered holding entity” means any entity that—

(A) owns, controls, or manages information and communications technology products or services; and

(B) (i) has not less than 1,000,000 United States-based annual active users at any point during the year period preceding the date on which the covered holding is referred to the President; or

(ii) for which more than 1,000,000 units have been sold to persons in the United States before the date on which the covered holding is referred to the President.
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