skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider this hypothetical situation: my grandma is having trouble with something on a website, so she calls me for help. She talks me through what she's doing and what she sees, and I try to follow along, but I see something totally different because unbeknownst to us, the thing she's having trouble with is being A/B tested, she's in the "A" group, and I'm in the "B" group. Does Splitzy offer any solutions for this problem?
I’m just going to delete the group
I want to watch this as well: https://youtu.be/EUbUn9FnrME
Reminds me of a React V11 codebase at work. It is bad enough that I always include it as a heads up during our scoping, as in: "double your estimates because the version of React is so old"
I’m smart enough to not fall for all sorts of things as I sit here and watch Congress pass bullshit on C-SPAN anyways. It can’t be stopped, any attempts to influence are just teaching the system how to get around objections. Until power is actually removed the money will continue to flow.
most notably you can run ESXi (or is it vSphere or something currently?) bare metal and virtualize macOS
I don't understand why he didn't tell them to fork. The risk of him making new changes was so low.
I'd actually guess those casualties would be quite less than WW2. As tech advanced, more sophisticated targeting systems also advanced. No need to waste shells and missiles on civilian buildings, plus food and healthcare tech would continue to advance.

Meanwhile, a single nuclear bomb hitting a major city could cause more casualties' than all American deaths in ww2 (400k).
Percentage changes of a percent are not a very good signal. If a 33% increase in the percent of hardship withdrawals means the proportion of people doing hardship withdrawals went from 1.8% to 2.4% of people doing a hardship withdrawal, an increase of 0.6%, then I do not know if that is significant enough to be newsworthy.

What is the volatility or standard deviation? Are these just normal fluctuations?

I am just trying to figure out if this is clickbait or not. Frequently, sources of data will withhold data regarding the distribution to obfuscate the fact that there has not been a material change.
This is a great start but the only way you really get ahead of this is to get these people on board also:

- AI _hardware_ executives and engineers

- high level national military strategists and civilian leaders

Ultimately you can't prevent _everyone_ from potentially writing and deploying software, models or instructions that are dangerous such as "take control". Especially in an explicitly non-civil competition such as between countries.

You have to avoid manufacturing AI hardware beyond a certain level of performance, say after 2-4 orders of magnitude faster than humans. That will hold off this force of nature until desktop compute fabrication becomes mainstream. So it buys you a generation or two at least.

But within a few centuries max we have to anticipate that unaugmented humans will be largely irrelevant as far as decision-making and the history of the solar system and intelligent life.
We don't need an avenue to super-intelligence. We just need a system that is better at manipulating human beliefs and behaviour than our existing media, PR, and ad industries.

The problem is not science fiction god-mode digital quetta-smart hypercomputing.

This is about political, social, and economic influence, and who controls it.
Care to source/link them? You obviously think they're important so you should do some good and share!
With the level of gerrymandering at the state level I'm less sure that's true today, in theory yeah you're individually a larger portion of the vote but the same anti-democratic processes freezing things at the federal level are in part rooted at the state level. On top of all of that the Republican party who's benefitting the most in most states from gerrymandering is more pro-police power than not, they're just mad their guy got got by it.
For those who understand Kanji or Chinese, do you feel that the Romanji like "Dagashi" gives you quite different feeling than the Kanji 駄菓子? I feel that Kanji somehow conveys more meaning and more emotion, to the point that I'd avoid using English-version of Google Maps when traveling in Japan, even though logically it does not make sense.
But there is so much money to be made on the heroic measures front!

Estimates range from 12% to 25% of lifetime healthcare expenses are accrued on the last year of life [eg https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Res...]

For profit healthcare is an obscenity.
> People in the Netherlands and England where I also lived for a short while, are pretty chill with these kinds of things.

Imagine that, at 5pm on Friday, you discover your IT system has been the target of a huge hack, possibly by russians or north koreans, that they got access to everything, it's been going on for months, and it's certainly a notifiable breach under GDPR.

Would you be chill?

I can say from experience, many people call the cops and lawyers first, and only find the support ticket that first-level support fobbed off with a canned response much later.
EU never put any sanctions against Russian gas. The only reason why EU stopped buying it is because of Putin genious attempt to freeze EU by blocking gas exports.
The entire GP's argument has no citations either and that is the framework we are working under - that superintelligence can do anything you tell it to do. Ask him for his citation, then the rest follows.
> Many modern AED's can be used by untrained people, so if you see a cardiac arrest, find the nearest AED and deliver it and/or follow its (brief) instructions.

AEDs are specifically designed to be used by untrained people.

Don't bother doing anything with ventilation unless it's a pediatric patient who arrested specifically because of an airway issue (foreign body, near-drowning). We (EMS) will ventilate with high flow oxygen and intubate on our arrival, but even for us, it still comes a distant second to compressions and electricity.

With adults, blood can remain sufficiently oxygenated for cellular respiration/metabolism for about 8 minutes of compressions. Survival rates for adult CPR as a rough average go down about 10% for every minute of compressions required.
But did it have to be that way? Relationships are a garden you can choose to water without the aid of social media. When I quit Facebook I made a short list of people to occasionally reach out to individually, and in so doing have lost no social connections I wanted to retain. But I also have zero problem with texting, emailing, or even calling someone I haven't interacted with in years to say hello and see how they've been. I appreciate that for many, the idea of doing that will give them some anxiety.
I suspect the year before was a jump up from the prior year as well.
Why are doomsday scenarios are certainty then. What's the model to get to that that isn't just some sort of scary story that waves away or into existence a lot of things we don't know if they can exist.
It's a common target. The question is more about curiosity of why the choice was made
Most of those "community" forums are not monitored by actual staff. Google uses "communities" as a way to get free tier one support out of the community, and to save even more money they just never bothered with any tiers beyond that.
I used to be in this camp, but we can just look around to see some limits on the capacity of human intelligence to do harm.

It's hard for humans to keep secrets and permanemtly maintain extreme technological advantages over other humans, and it's hard for lone humans to do large scale actions without collaborators, and it's harder for psychopaths to collaborate than it is for non-psychopaths, because morality evolved as a set of collaboration protocols.

This changes as more people get access to a "kill everyone" button they can push without experience or long-term planning, sure. But that moment is still far away.

AGI that is capable of killing everyone may be less far away, and we have absolutely no basis on which to predict what it will and won't do, as we do with humans.
IMHO this article, and any resource behind a paywall shouldn’t be here
They're only grossly inefficient if you wouldn't otherwise need to frequently make copies of large mutable data structures. It all depends on what you're trying to do.
Let's rephrase "throwing Ukraine under a bus" as "not getting involved in a border dispute between two Eastern European countries", and maybe the answer is less obvious.
I sure hope they’re throwing OSM some cash donations as a thanks.
But can't you use services that provide the exact same analytics benefit without Google's abysmal privacy policy?

Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternatives include: Matomo, Plausible, Umami, Nullitics, Shynet, Pirshc, Swetrix, Cabin, Aptabase

I haven't used these and would use Google Analytics if it were indeed just too much better than everything else out there. But if another service gives me everything Google Analytics provides and more, why continue using Google Analytics?

I wouldn't know though since I've never tried using these. I just know about them.
Other than the title seeming to imply Crablang is now the canonical language, I see no problem with this as a casual observer.

They say they want to keep the fork in sync with "upstream", so they aren't trying to split the community away from Rustlang, but to have an alternative administrative structure.

Alright! That's always been a core feature of open source.
2023 Finalists – Best Illusion of the Year Contest
> they're still figuring out a governance structure that works for everyone

If they are indeed trying to figure out a structure that works for everyone, I’m afraid they’re pursuing a dead-end. One should be OK, in principle, to not aim for pleasing everyone.
If it involves people, it will be political. There's absolutely zero way to avoid it short of it being a single-person project (and arguably even _that_ will be Political at the very least).
Show HN: NakedJSX – command line JSX based static site generator
I have built an open-source static site generator that is based on turning JSX into HTML and CSS at build-time. No JavaScript remains in the output unless you add your own.

I wanted to present it to the community for the first time, and ask for your feedback before I solidify the Page.* API and make a 1.0 release.

The focus is on build-time functionality, but NakedJSX also provides an optional (tiny) runtime that enables client JavaScript to use JSX to create DOM nodes. It’s totally up to you how and when they are added to the document. Lots of magic happening at build time, back to basics in the browser.

It aims to be low friction - no need to set up or maintain a Node.js project unless you want to. Just run npx nakedjsx on a source folder to get a website in an output folder.

A development mode build & web server with a browser live-refresh facility is included.

Several more features are documented in detail on the website.

You can try it right now, and I would really appreciate it if you could share your thoughts!
Here's my proposal: https://gfodor.medium.com/to-de-risk-ai-the-government-must-...

tl;dr: significant near term AI risk is real and comes from the capacity for imagined ideas, good and evil, to be autonomously executed on by agentic AI, not emergent superintelligent aliens. To de-risk this, we need to align AI quickly, which requires producing new knowledge. To accelerate the production of this knowledge, the government should abandon decelerationist policies and incentivize incremental alignment R&D by AI companies. And, critically, a new public/private research institution should be formed that grants privileged, fully funded investigators multi-year funding cycles with total scientific freedom and access to all state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems operating under US law to maximize AI as a force multiplier in their research.
Indeed—Chris Lattner has mentioned recently that in retrospect, he regrets certain Swift design decisions which have made the compiler so complex and relatively slow.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36125048
I work with people who think animals are "automata." Such a position is insane to me. We can't understand their valences but it's clear that evolution must've conserved much of what it is to be aware.

> We have generated more death and destruction for life on this planet than any other animal, past and present.

What about the first photosynthesizing microbes which triggered a mass extinction? Capturing light in carbon bonds was a mistake? Valorizing the "state of nature" is error.
Let's look at the Magic Mouse:

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

> The charging port of the second-generation Magic Mouse is located on its underside, preventing the mouse from being used while charging.

I've never seen another wireless mouse with that problem. Never. Only Apple, it seems, could dream up that specific misdesign. There's no benefit to anyone in that, only detriment, and I am at a loss every time I think about it.

Onwards:

> The Magic Mouse uses its acrylic multi-touch surface for 360-degree scrolling, replacing the rubber scroll ball on the Mighty Mouse. The mouse does not support left and right-clicking simultaneously, and also removes the ability to middle click without third-party software workarounds.

I will be honest: I straight-up don't like the idea of a mouse having a touch pad on its top. I think a touch pad is a poor imitation of a mouse, such that if you have a mouse, using a touch pad (literally) on top of it is using a better interface to replicate a worse one.

However, my personal likes and dislikes pale in comparison to the simple fact the touch pad was also a usability regression for clicking. I absolutely cannot see this as user-focused.

Did it have good build quality? Maybe, but it hardly matters if something is a good implementation of a bad design.
Apple Releases Apple Music Classical for Android Before iPad or Mac Apps
Does anyone know if Lyft plan to contribute their map corrections back to OSM? They mention other companies doing so in this blog post, but don't make it clear whether or not they, too, intend to.

I'm curious to see how good Lyft Maps is, too. Uber Maps is, frankly, a disaster in my area, frequently suggesting illegal and/or impossible turns. I try to submit map feedback every trip (very hard as a rider, as most forms of available feedback seem to be to punish the driver rather than the platform), and it's still never been fixed. Most drivers seem to use Google Maps or Waze instead and if I see a driver using Uber Maps, I need to watch the trip and suggest several corrections. Ironically, I'm only a few miles from the office where most Uber Maps staff used to work.
These are all languages that were designed expressly to run on the JVM, whereas WASM aspires to support existing languages. I'm not familiar with JVM bytecode (and would love to hear from someone who is), but I'm guessing the JVM bytecode offers less in the way of low-level control over memory allocations and so on which would be required to compile C, C++, Rust, Go, etc programs with reasonable performance characteristics?
That's not really the intention behind the price caps. Unfortunately world is still quite dependent on Russian oil and removing it from the market would cause a significant price rise which might cause (political) problems for the western countries (and all other non-producing nations as well of course).
This is just blatantly untrue. The changes were definitely not overnight. Not even close. You’re still free to write React in the old way. The docs were there for half a decade.

If they had just made a different project, we’d still be talking about the same thing. You would still be complaining that things changed and you didn’t feel like bothering to learn a new thing.
I've been maintaining a project for 4 years now (~40k downloads/mo on NPM, 400+ stars) that is simply glue code between a React form management library and a React UI library. It was really hard to get right, still isn't perfect, and over the years has required several major upgrades to keep up with changes in all three. Luckily, I have very good unit tests and snapshots that ensure upgrades don't break things. You'd think it would be easier, but it isn't.

I really wish React would just own the low level forms stuff and get rid of the need for a 3rd party form management library. That said, because it is frontend JS, there are 1000 different ways to bike shed this problem and because it is form stuff, there is no one solution that fits all use cases.
A "victory for politicians"?

Some of us think it was a victory for world civilization.
How does licensing work, or am I hopelessly out of date? My understanding is historically the EULA-type thing on the OS only allowed you to virtualize on another Mac running macOS, or something along these lines, similar to other comment above. This always caused all sorts of fun for automated testing scenarios for me in years past...

The technical barriers weren't the biggest headache around this in a commercial setting previously.
> By late 2019, Lorimer and Justin Moore, then the head of engineering, were ready to form a team to “do the impossible” — create a home-grown mapping system.

THE IMPOSSIBLE: A "home-grown" mapping system built on OpenStreetMaps?

Lyft seems to really lack any imagination if _that_ was considered impossible.
Does anyone seriously expect nothing to change and improve for 30 years, or however long their career is? Not just in software, but any profession. Long gone are the days when the same plow is used for 10 generations.

From my experience its not learning something new thats a problem, but getting the organisational support to push a major change through
It's not intended. In current situation more money go to middleman compared to ru, because rubis forced to sell at discount with fewer clients, so generally situation is the same but profit margins are bigger for middleman compared to ru
the real immediate risk isn't either of these imo. it's agentic AI leveraging some of that to act on the wishes of bad actors.
I really like reading/writing Rust, but stay away from the community. Highest drama mainstream lang community ever but they've created a pretty good ecosystem.

Except for the actix fiasco, it's generally been quite chill as a user. You float above the twisting nether and grab what it throws out, which is pretty good.
It doesn't matter until it ends up mattering. Contracting an illness that prevents you from working and needs medical supervision can be life-ruining if your social security, etc. is tied to your employment.
Why are you so confident in calling existential AI risk fantasy?
Right I think they're saying that someone's social/family/community life is more complex than a financial calculation. It's not about making this "make sense" in terms of endorsing it as an outsider, but about understanding what circumstances would lead to someone feeling like this makes sense for them.
No, it needs to become impossible, since it's what allows Treacherous Computing.
Are you really arguing ChatGPT is already super-intelligent? What is your basis for this conclusion?

And many people argue against the idea that GPT is already super intelligent or even can become so at this stage of development and understanding. In fact as far as I can tell it is the consensus right now of experts and it's creators.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/nt9qoqmzz
Why does it have the chance to be superior?
The biggest difference in execution speed is found in the competency of the programmer, not in the choice of the language.
> How can it not be obvious to you

It isn't obvious to me. And I've yet to read something that spills out the obvious reasoning.

I feel like everything I've read just spells out some contrived scenario, and then when folks push back explaining all the reasons that particular scenario wouldn't come to pass, the counter argument is just "but that's just one example!" without offering anything more convincing.

Do you have any better resources that you could share?
Agree -- it's nice that there are (usually) options we starts diving deep enough
Both those encourage “best and highest use” as the real estate term goes, but that is not necessarily what we want to encourage in every case.

Of course never allowing and redevelopment has its own problems, but the solution is probably somewhere in the middle.
The new gym model is annual payments. (Gyms use them too.) And chargebacks are very relevant there. Which they avoid by getting people to use other payment methods. But they also take credit cards.

Edit: Ooh, they charge the same whether you sign up monthly or annually. Not too shabby.
> This item hasn't been started

Open for a week. What's the matter, they're figuring out how to create a git branch? It's `git branch experimental && git push`, and running that would have been quicker than creating this ticket.

I wish everyone who read this thread yesterday could have also seen this - a shining example of the capabilities of the clout chasers involved in this project. They've delivered on their promise of "no bureaucracy" by avoiding software development altogether. Genius.
As an armchair fan of the German language, I appreciate you teaching me the phrase “ Otto Normalverbraucher”, it’s delightful.
Hey Joseph, thanks for the comment. To be honest, this scenario never crossed my mind once xD. I have not implemented any solution to this problem... and as I'm writing this comment I'm not sure what the solution would look like. Surely the other big A/B testing tools have solved this and I could inspire myself from their solutions. Splitzy is very new (a couple of weeks old), so I haven't really covered all the possible use cases. It's very simple right now =).
I think your only option would be screenshare or visit your Grandma, there's not really a lot an A/B tool could do about that problem
Perl is hardly alone in the million and a half implicit variables. Python is a far worse offender on this point and probably equally so in the context specific meaning of a statement (is this a generator or a list). My guess is this gripe is a familiarity thing. Iterating a hash in perl isn't that complicated, neither is iterating a hashref but you do need to be aware of which it is - which you should be anyway so you know whether you're modifying it locally or for the caller.

That said, I'm also in the camp of "I don't care much for sigils."
It'll be a long time before something comes along and dethrone react. React ecosystem is too vast and the community is large and engaged. Nothing comes closer to React atm.

Other than that, prob. lit-dev (with time).
> it prevents Russia from having direct control on energy supplies in Europe, which improves Europe's (

This mainly applied to gas and not oil though. The point of the sanctions is to primarily decreases Russia’s oil revenue.
Why I'm Done with Rust
Oh wow that's brilliant, I hadn't ever considered combining LiveView and Stimulus.js. If you don't mind me asking, what is the benefit over using `phx-hook`? Portability/interop with RoR, or?

Either way, I'm shipping it to production immediately!
Great can someone at Lyft either comment on if they will contribute what they made on top of OSM or if it is even useful to contribute back ? I think the answer is No and this is HN clickbait.

I really want to be wrong.
So are the Java 8 changes? Java lambda functions, streams and futures look nothing at all like traditional Java methods and threads, yet you're still free to write them, but nearly every Java Stack Overflow question has a dedicated Java 8+ answer because it is so different.
The factory needs to be shielded. You can't really harden fine processes.

Right now, space manufacturing makes sense for exactly nothing. With enough research, it can in theory make sense for almost anything.