skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apps (as in, mobile apps) cannot be rendered on the sever

yes and no. sure, you can't do standard SSR like for websites. but i've seen a number of spins[1] on "Server-driven UI", meaning "server defines the app views as a big blob of JSON". usually, it's payload looking something like this:

[
{ "type": "Heading", "text": "Our cool products" },
{ "type": "List", "children": [
{ "type": "ProductCard", "id": 123, },
{ "type": "ProductCard", "id": 456, }
...
] }
]

the app "interprets" this and displays the corresponding components in the specified arrangement.

the kicker is that, in a sense, RSC is just a less ad-hoc way to do this kind of thing! instead of `type` tags you get "client references", React handles the relevant parsing/serialization, and a lot of other good stuff on top. it's also quite seamless w.r.t writing components -- react does a very good job of abstracting away all the serialization business. and importantly, you can have an actual ecosystem of RSC packages around it, which a bespoke in-house method of doing this won't have.

now, RSC for react native has barely even been teased, but i'll bet good money that they have at least a prototype somewhere. and yeah, of course this would require your app to be in React Native. but that's the selling point -- IF all your stuff is in react, you get a bunch of power and some good DX.

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[1] some examples off the top of my head:

- Facebook (not public, described by an employee): https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1632217463772393473

- AirBnb: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/a-deep-dive-into-airbn...

- a Polish site called allegro.pl, though I can't find the conf talk about it right now...
You are correct. I kind of took `is None` for granted as it just feels boilerplate when coding in Python.

Although I have written over a hundred thousand of lines of code in Python over the years; I use Python mostly for dev ops tooling, reporting, monitoring and automation so they don't get super complex and they mostly can lean on procedural programming patterns.

I could imagine complex frameworks needing heavy use of Objects that could lean on the 'is' keyword.
Maybe they think this is LinkedIn? /j
That doesn't sound profitable to me.
Base ten is an unfortunate numeric choice and responsible for much of the hesitation to switch to metric. Maybe someday when we have millions of O'Neill Cylinder colonies, one of them will adopt base twelve instead, at which point the main reason against metric would go away.
IIRC there is Kotlin Multi-platform that has been recommended in many similar threads like this.

Persobally what I enjoyed about kotlin is the maturity of its language and its ecosystem. Literally lots of kotlin libraries in GitHub.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html
Growing up, my parents were aficionados of classical music, and fairly well-versed in it. My father's Heathkit stereo set was used to play that sort of genre (but also others like C&W, John Denver, Herb Alpert.)

Classical music, though, was mostly the domain of my mother, and as such, I sort of stayed away from it. It seemed like something For Adults Only, and I was raised on a diet of TV and pop music radio. Even when we had field trips to the Young People's Symphony, I just didn't get much out of it.

However, we did have one beloved vinyl record at home. It wasn't the OMPS for 2001 or Star Wars but it was sort of an unofficial compilation, I guess. Drop the needle in the groove, and a bombastic, stentorian voice declaims: "Two Thousand and One: A Space Odyssey [echo] [echo] [echo]!" and then "Also Sprach Zarathustra" begins to play. I think it had the most recognizable Star Wars music, and other stuff on it. Sci-fi classics of the late 70s. We thought those were cool pieces. I mean, who doesn't love John Williams' scores?

I actually did not see 2001 until it was almost actually 2001. Nevertheless, I could not quite figure out the ending and it left me profoundly moved, but rather perplexed too.
My experience is that you need to do a few back and forth get get it right especially for a more detailed functions. What works really well is if you need it to explain to you how something works, but to verify, you need to have a good sniff test which novices won’t have so they take it dangerously straight up
This right here. Either we collectively as a species take steps right away to correct course and achieve a sustainable now, or nature will do it for us; and the latter will occur cataclysmically. The former, too, except hopefully with less loss of life.
Coming from C++ in python, the thing that still gets me when I am tired is the arbitrary decision of passing some arguments by reference vs by value.

If you look at the argument list you don’t know what will be passed by value and what by reference. You will have to guess their types first. And that is risky.
Stop Ignoring Your Stakeholders
I had read that you wrote asocial. The definitions I found for that were not "finding conversations with strangers exhausting", only "avoiding social interaction"; "lack of motivation to engage in social interaction, or a preference for solitary activities". Your personal experience sounds like the extreme or rarer case. (I and many people I know have been called asocial at times.)

Given that context, in what ways do you find it preferable to attend a (large) church instead of streaming online, or visiting a church when a service isn't on?
Does it give you a sense of community, and if so how do you define community for you?
Paper is more focused on "feedback benefit learning" instead of how long should people wait for feedback.

Seems that you are quoting another paper instead. But I don't think it is definitive, as you see, n=27. Also the experiment setting is not about how long after initial test, it is about how short before the next test.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/MC.37.8.1077

> The participants were 27 students enrolled in Grade 6 at The School at Columbia University in New York City.
We have the same in the windows we replaced in our living room. We took the least visible (and hence least IR blocking) option, which reduces transmitted IR with 60%. The coating went up to 90% IIRC though at that point it was a very visible blue. Ours has just a slight blue-green tint.

The difference this summer has been striking. In our bedrooms which are on the second floor, the sun feels hot through the windows. In the living room I can barely feel it.

We're up north so our home is well insulated, hence the summer sun tended to overheat the inside.
Do you mean using this trick in malware?
Once you find out how different many people are from you some day, your head is gonna explode.
> I think that's an acceptable conclusion. So then, what's next? We need to rapidly decarbonize the economy. Current solutions aren't working great, so how do we do it?

In the ideal sense:

- Standardize carbon offset measurements: Proper comparisons can only be made if there's a starting point to work from. Standardizing how much X amount of carbon is offset per action (using only the lower bound to deliberately underestimate the impact of an action) would make it harder to lie about the impacts of said offsets.

- Institute high carbon taxes on coal & coal only. Expect extreme friction from coal lobbies against this, & from environmentalists for not being extreme enough. Use incrementalism as an advantage to separate coal lobbyists from the other fossil fuel giants & reassure the others that they're excluded from this measure, & let them see the can be kicked, but not how far it has been kicked.

- Further subsidize battery & renewable deployments. This MUST be made separate from the next point to reduce political friction.

- Reduce subsidies for fossil fuel explorations & extraction. Lumping this & the above point together makes it much likelier that the lobbies will try stop both measures at once. Don't give them ammunition to do so.

- Subsidize EVs & battery-based home energy storage tech even further. The rollout of cheap solar consequently leads to a worsening of the duck curve, just due to how solar energy is reliant on the sun. Smoothing out the bump from solar into a consistent line via battery tech would reduce stress on the grid for massive ramp-ups & alleviate the need for infra upgrades, which is subject to NIMBYism.

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

This is just off the top of my head, but the main theme is to chip away at the problem rather than finding the Killer. As tempting as it is to try & find the One Solution, such a breakthrough is heavily reliant on luck, whereas the other more relies on consistent effort than luck itself.
Bond yield collapsing as in returns. China 10-15 index is making positive 5% returns, vs US long dated treasuries collapsing by -15%. PRC outperforming US treasuries by 20%, which does not happen to a system in catastrophic trouble. This isn't so much as PRC doing spectacularly as PRC doing alright but US bond doing very poorly. Hence incentive for media deflection trying to paint PRC economic collapse to drive more investment into US bonds.

There's good and bad deflation. PRC deflating is largely due to domestic oversupply due to excess inventory due to global demand contraction. More broadly it's reflection of strength PRC industrial/manufacturing. Consumption indicators like car sales and others are fine. It's not great, but it's fine.

Re middle income: PRC is potentially high income this year if not already (IMF April 2023 per capita estimate for PRC was 13,720 vs WB 2023 high income classification @13,205), they'll get there in a few years of moderate growth regardless. If the central bank strengthened rmb by ~1% vs USD they would be high income right away. But they'd rather deal with weakened rmb (5% this year) to hold on to exports.

The incentive for the PRC is to stay statistically middle income for as long as possible due to WTO perks and rhetoric with the global south. People should ask themselves why PRC has managed RMB in the last few years to be just slightly below high income. Or if PRC is overreporting population then they've been high income for years. Note IMF's PRC per capita estimate in 2022 was 12810 vs WB 12720. IMF 2024 prediction range is 13970-14800 vs WB 2024 high income @13,854. We're reaching a point where trying to STAY middle income for PRC is unsustainable. PRC reaching high income is basically a done deal.

Finally, escaping "trap" with respect to the original middle income paper is broader discussion than per capita GDP - it's really about not stalling in industrial development which in result stalls income potential, in which case PRC is basically the 2nd least trapped country (after US) in terms of having complete industrial chains. Essentially everyone except the US is more trapped than the PRC. The issue middle income trap argument vs PRC (or India) is stupid large population can still be stuck in per capita high middle/low high income even if they have escaped the actual "trap" of inability to continue industrializing/developing because you can only put so many bodies in high end sectors, and base effect of large popluation denominator simply drags down per capita indicators even if in aggregate a massive countries comprehensive power is significantly above small (like NL) / medium (like SKR) /even large (like JP) advanced economies.
> Older generations, who benefit most from fiscal redistribution (via taxes and transfers), are significantly wealthier than younger generations. Wealth poverty is significantly lower for older generations. Moreover, the wealth ratio of older to younger cohorts is relatively high in Japan compared with Germany and Italy, though lower than in the United States. The evidence thus points to significant wealth inequality across generations.

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2020/03/shr...

It's not a unique Japan problem tbf. The young people are getting shafted all over the world.
I've used it for performance boosts. It's not perfect, but if I paste a method (my own code) and say 'rewrite in fewer lines' to simplify, or 'rewrite to run faster', I've been in awe at what it comes up with that hadn't occured to me. Tricks in python I wasn't aware of, or hadn't considered using a different datastructure that can be searched faster (for some reason my brain always defaults to lists, when a set may be better, for example).
It absolutely makes errors though, so unit tests are critical, but I've got code running so much faster as a result.
Well, it's not much of a coincidence. There are all kinds of constants around us, and one of them is prone to be close to a round number.

If the Earth's circumference wasn't a nice number, people would have chosen another one.
developing countries' bond outperforms developed's, any news?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37282334, which was posted a bit earlier.
I'm not going to rebut everything but I want to point out that I think Geoffrey Hinton is way more in your camp in regards to faith in the technology (which is what we're discussing). I'm in the camp that thinks LLMs are at best a viable competitor to furby -- I have zero existential fears and have very little confidence in them. I'm not opposed to AIs, I just think the state of the art is really really bad (sorry) and the doom and existentialism is a marketing ploy to a world imbued in conspiracy theory and institutional distrust in order to compensate for a wildly over promised and under delivered product. But hey, when you gotta raise money, you gotta raise money, and as you put it, the "trend line is going up" and that's all that matters.
Seemed to load, but brought my phone to a crawl (Firefox Android).
I guess reasonable evolution for arrow system for gen 5 will be literally jewish space lasers
It's supposed to help with heating too because it would block(by reflecting or absorbing?) the radiation from inside. I guess I will find out about it in a few months. If it's too dark in the visible spectrum, that can be an issue though.
I don't know reverse engineering. But, I guess the ultimate solution would be running a custom OS to fake ptrace results in the kernel level?
I have only glanced at a few examples in the paper so far but I would rate some of the cases listed as being better responses from the LLM than their exemplars.

If you ask someone how to open a can of soda you do not want them to tell you how to check to see if the can has been shaken and what to do if it has. You want the instructions to the question you asked.

If anything I would a LLM to produce code that does the fundamental operation, possibly I might like it to offer a more robust framing of the operation as an extended example but I suspect even that would get annoying after a while.

I absolutely would not want The most technically correct but harder to read response to a question of "how do I X?"
> People die in their homes by the thousands every winter in Europe.

I find that hard to believe. Do you have a source? Preferably one that doesn't include zone of wars.
True. "X" seems to get filtered out of searches like a stop word.
He goes into great detail about the fine-ness of the weave, and projects and business practices designed to reward good craftsmanship and promote the art (and craft) of weaving.

It's a joy to read because he writes well about something he loves.
Yes my term socialist was a bit sarcastic, they are all capitalist mixed economies. But I don't think these kinds of experiments are an issue, it is rarely a zero sum. Externalities like water supply, chemicals, and road maintenance need to be carefully managed for sure. I don't blame capitalists for corrupt or captured regulators. I do think that it needs to be better understood that a capitalist never gave away money, only their widows and children ever did. What we seem to lack now is the backbone to truly regulate. Break up their trusts and monopolies, tax their profits, and create more and better infrastructure for the common good.
but for code llm to be useful , the local machine need to have some very powerful GPU
21% unemployment among recent graduates is a reduction in the workforce because there isn’t any jobs. There are plenty of young people to take employment if it were available.
With some tweaks this could functionally replace top down moderation with bottom up moderation, while improving the results for most people. A Bubble Construction Kit.
Mayo in the US is poison, you couldn't pay me to eat it.
True reliability requires Chaos Monkeys
And FOOD cost less than a dollar per day in those places. An AC, including electricity, and assuming their house is airtight enough to keep the cold, costs the same as 20 years worth of food.

Check your privilege, as they say.
Yeah, cringe really. Wait for it to fail and they go extinct round 2 + it really fucks that ecosystem. This screams laking of robust externality thinking.
It seems to me that with the incessant push from governments over access to encrypted messages that we'll eventually end up with a similar but updated situation that we had with the old POTS telephone system.

POTS was unencrypted but was difficult for the average person to tap into, and even governments/police had a little difficulty tapping in—they'd have to set up line taps on suspected persons' phones, and or follow calls through telephone exchange Strowger switches before a suspect hung up (the switches dropped out).

Essentially, people in the POTS era had the expectation that their calls were mainly private but they knew that government could gain access under certain circumstances. Also, criminals were aware of this, either they wouldn't use the phone network or they'd use public telephones and keep calls sufficiently short to the point where police didn't have time to trace them.

The POTS system never had absolute privacy and it seems to me that unless there's some major upheaval or reversal of policy—which seems very unlikely —that the best we can expect to end up with is a digital equivalent or similar.

It sort of stinks but that seems the likely reality.
I have been happy about 90% to 95% of the time with code that gets spat out by ChatGPT, though I don't fear for my job being taken by an LLM any time soon. It usually gives good insight in to unfamiliar code, or code in a language that I am familiar with but might have forgotten how to use. That said, I don't use it for every piece of code I write. Usually sections where I am exploring an idea.

At times, I need to correct the LLM on some usually obscure detail. It got the memory layout of the video screen on the BBC Micro completely mixed up with the ZX Spectrum, and I had to correct it about five times before it got it, and then it stuck for the rest of the conversation.

I've been on some wild goose chases, where I have fooled myself into thinking a particular approach would work and ChatGPT has been enthusiastically right there cheering me on.

It's like my dog going on an adventure with me, the dog doesn't care about where we're going or what we're doing, it's just excited to be part of the journey.

And in other cases, ChatGPT has been exceptionally useful in pointing out some blindingly obvious mistakes. It is like having a very knowledgeable, but exceptionally junior developer at your elbow.

If you ask the right questions, and don't except one shot questions to provide perfect answers, it works well for the most part.
Milk bag
It might soon turns into Quora, not sure if this is better or worse than the current state
I would peg gpt as between junior and mid. Mids (around 5-10 years of experience) tend to produce overly complex code for the problem at hand.
Well on Pycharm 2022.3 which is what I still have installed even this simple function doesn't show any error.

def foo() -> int:
pass

I sure hope they improved the type checker in later versions...
How would that possibly true? A native app doesn’t go through the three or four phases that a modern JavaScript engine goes through.

Especially on iOS more so than Android apps since there is no JVM like environment.
PSA: Load docs for use offline w/ devdocs.io *before* your flight
You need bigger feet
Trivially easy. Just try to beat a C compilers optimization for constant integer division.

https://clang.godbolt.org/z/MrMxo678x
Stopping doing things we're doing today is one possibility. How are you going to do that?
I used to work across the street from UCSD, but I lived inland - about 25 minutes east along 52. In the summer, it would reliably approach 110°, which is plenty hot even if it’s dry but it did at least cool down somewhat overnight. On my commute into work, I was leaving 85+° and driving into an uncomfortably cold fog bank.

Most of the people in San Diego live inland. When you look at the coastal areas where the ocean moderates things, you’ll find a lot of multi-million dollar houses which are totally out of range for the median county income.
It's quite a leap to imagine that developmental processes in cells are entirely reversible, but maybe it's possible. The main thing to look at in this study is this:

> "Professor Polo said the precise molecular mechanisms underlying the iPS epigenome aberrations and their correction were not fully known, and further research was needed to understand them."

Think about the truly ridiculous level of programmatic fidelity involved in human (or any mammalian) reproduction. Two cells, one from the XY male and one from the XX female, merge to form a viable zygote. One cell. Somehow, that cell contains all the information necessary to develop into to a kangaroo, or a whale, or a human, or a naked mole rat. Hundreds of different cell types, expressing thousands of celluar receptor proteins, to keep it all coordinated.

A lot of the developmental processes involve selective deactivation of large regions of the genome (nerve cells don't need much of what heart cells need, and so on), but somehow it's all coordinated. What they're claiming is that this selective deactivation can somehow be reversed, but they don't quite understand how, at a molecular-structural level.

It all points to the 3D structure of the genome being important at many levels, but there's no good way to experimentally analyze that yet, not really.
> Plus there's the San Francisco factor.

I think this is huge. Extreme heat kills more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes, or extreme cold. However, the people it kills tend to be poor and far away from the political and cultural power centers in the US.
Tons of things are necessities: food, water, medicine, clothing. You repeating that doesn't change the fact than many people CAN'T AFFORD IT.

Doesn't matter if they'll die without it, doesn't matter if you feel they should be forced to have one. The reality doesn't care about your feelings.
Why before a flight?
> And if there aren't any, well, people might want to think really hard about why.

The Conservative's demonization of unions for the last several decades seems to have worked quite well.
Nice analogy!
So no Xen security updates for 13 years? [1]

> The external services were active but inaccessible, wisely kept hidden from potential threats

Probably a good idea.

[1] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/