skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I happen to develop a JS-App that also has to be optimised for an Android Phone from 2017. I don't think the amount of JS is in any way related to performance. You can make 1MB of JS perform just as poorly as 10MB.

In our case, the biggest performance issues were:

- Rendering too many DOM nodes at once - virtual lists help.

- Using reactivity inefficiently.

- Random operations in libraries that were poorly optimised.

Finding those things was only possible by looking at the profiler. I don't think general statements like "less JS = better" help anyone. It helps to examine the size of webpages, but then you have to also put that information into context: how often does this page load new data? once the data is loaded, can you work without further loading? Is the data batched, or do waterfalls occur? Is this a page that users will only visit once, or do they come regularly? ...
I don't know much about Rust, but it has the same problem, doesn't it? As I understand it this is something the serde crate (at least) is often used to solve.

This is reasonable, given that untyped data received at a system boundary is going to need some kind of type checking no matter what the language or type system; I'm not sure that can even be fairly called a 'problem'. But it also would leave the putative line of argument rather footless, in that blaming Typescript for something Rust also requires is incoherent.

Perhaps the originator of the claim under discussion will clarify his meaning.
As if you can generalize the culture of different European countries, or even different regions in the same country just by skin color. Now this, in my opinion, is a form of cultural erasure where all the intricacies and interesting aspects of culture are put aside and overshadowed by skin color.
> :)

An entrepot of the British Empire with as much diversity as New York City if not more.
GitHub's probably the worst example of "Pjax" or HTMX-style techniques out there at this point…I would definitely not look at that and paint a particular picture of that architecture overall. It's like pointing at a particularly poor example of a SPA and then saying that's why all SPAs suck.
I would dearly love to "pay attention" somewhere that isn't plastered in advertising.

They didn't do it for approval, but they sure as shit didn't ask for approval either.

And I'd like to see a breakdown of exactly how much the ad revenue contributed to payload delivery.
From the reddit conversation it seems like people are attributing it to heat.

If that's the case I'm not surprised! The glass may look nice and help everyone see your creepy eyes but plastic is much more practical.

The ifixit article said the glass weighed 38 grams. The lighter it is, the more fragile it is...
China currently has a consumer heavy middle class population that is greater in number than the entire population of the USofA.

Your "basic understanding" is certainly that.

FWiW tv and education are great at reducing population growth, Hans Rosling presentations of the past decades show the high correlation between these, women's rights, and reducing population growth.

Mitigating the effects of AGW is multi pronged, population will peak and fall, and then stabilise, this is already projected. Reducing insulating gas emmissions comes with changes in behaviour; alternate energy, reduced consumption, etc.

Doomsayers don't have to go full genocidal in their thoughts, you may consider winding back on that kind of simplistic thinking.
I think you're right. Probably due for a follow-up post.

EDIT: what was the system, by the way?
We did lose the capability. Read up on the engineering behind Saturn-V. There are books that go into extensive detail. A lot of the things described there required completely novel approaches that would be very difficult to replicate in deindustrialized United States of 2024. Not to mention that cost of all this would be absolutely astronomical, far more so than it was back then.
Sanity and normality is returning, slowly.

It's normal to test children at the end of the educational process.

No, it isn't racist/bigoted/discriminatory.

No, minorities aren't too stupid to recognise the test is important. Implying that _is_ racist.

No, it isn't any of the other things it was claimed to be.

No, it isn't perfect.

Yes, it's necessary to ensure that schools are actually teaching and that schools which aren't actually teaching can be fixed.

Really the entire US educational system appears to have come under the influence recently of some people with very strange ideas.
You have shared a discord link. Does it allow publicly accessible links now? I was shown a login/signup screen.
As I said, it means parents who don't want their young children seeing porn (whether you agree with them or not) would no longer be able to let their children use SD. I'm not making a statement on what our society should or shouldn't allow, I'm pointing out what _is currently_ the standard in the United States and many other, more socially conservative, countries. SD would become more heavily regulated, an 18+ tool in the US, and potentially banned in other countries.

You can have your own opinion on it, but surely you can see the issue here?
Then people are going to link to YouTube and benefit of getting lesser copies is small. The rest of media that works within a limit on a microblogging are junk.
I mentioned the content of the law. I told you what the law is called. You can use Google and learn about it.

Being ignorant, asking me questions, and then disputing the answers when you don't know what you're talking about is not productive. I gave you all the information you need to educate yourself, so leave me alone and stop arguing with me about it.
> Part of it is cost

The other side to this is we don't build rockets today like we did in the sixties. Yes, some technical know-how here and there was technically "lost"--I've been in North Hollywood scrounging around for old NASA parts so that measurements could be taken and worked backwards from.

But even if we had that know-how, we wouldn't do it the same again. From novel materials to simulations to communications and onboard computing, modern spacecraft deserved to be redesigned. (For the counterfactuals, see ULA and Arianespace.)

So until someone (SpaceX) started eating that node-transition cost, we entered a period of apparent stasis. But that vacuum was energetic, and it wasn't about rediscovering lost knowledge, but inventing new kit.
This seems to go against YAGNI, and I'm not sure I agree it's good advice.

A system I worked on recently modeled users as potentially belonging to more than one organization, even though there wasn't a good use case for that and there wasn't any plan for how it should work if implemented. It made all of the code to get the organization from a user more complex than it should have been.

Another system I worked on had a view hierarchy that allowed a view to have more than one parent, even though there was absolutely no support anywhere in the system for a view to actually have multiple parents in practice; if you tried, everything would just crash or get into an endless loop. The only use case suggested in comments was that a cell could be a child of both a row and column in a grid, but that was just theoretical - it didn't allow for any functionality that couldn't be achieved some other way.

If you know how something should behave with a one-to-many relationship, and you know it's a use case that you might want to support, then yes, you should model it that way.

But, if you don't know how it would behave, and you can't think of a use case, then don't overcomplicate things.

Yes, a person can have more than one pet. But a person can only have one head, so why complicate things when there's no known use case for a two-headed person?
Gemini isn't bias because of the training data, it's bias because Google chooses to makes it bias by hijacking your prompt.
You are literally saying that the training data, despite its bias, should somehow enable the AI to correct to acheive a different understanding than that bias, which is self-contradictory. You are literally suggesting that the data both omits and contains the same information.
> As a backend engineer I Still haven’t managed to learn how react data management or JSX works.

What are your specific pain points?

JSX is HTML-like syntactic sugar, just write normal html but put JS stuff in curly brackets.

Data management can be tricky at first, but as long as you remember that everything that isn't memoized (via e.g useState) is recomputed on every render pass, you're 90% there.

You can get into the reeds of it of course, but you really don't need to if all you want to do is just build a regular app.
Perhaps an analogy with other crime can help here.

Just because your store can be broken into doesn't mean you can't take measures that make it much more difficult.

It's not that security mechanisms in a store are pointless, simply because you can't defend against the most advanced criminals.

You can make things much more difficult for criminals so they'll go to another store instead. Or at least they'll have to put in more effort as well.
You’re very welcome to ask for clarification - I kept it abstract because there is a lot of grey area and it’s something we need to understand and discuss as technology and society evolves.

To spell out one such instance: I would like to live in a world where it is not trivial to depict and misrepresent me (or anyone) in a way that is photorealistic to the point that it can be used to mislead others.

Whether that means we need to outright prevent it, or have some kind of authenticity mechanism, or some other yet-to-be-discovered solution? I do not know, but you now have my goalposts.
I've been seeing more lately that the stack is being mentioned as htmx+alpinejs.

Not sure how long it'll be until the htmx part gets rationalised out in those instances. Maybe it won't, and people will keep shipping both. Stranger things have happened
> lot of the things described there required completely novel approaches that would be very difficult to replicate in deindustrialized United States of 2024

Give me one example.

> cost of all this would be absolutely astronomical, far more so than it was back then

Inflation adjusted, the Saturn V was a $45bn project [1]. That's a mulitiple of the total capital SpaceX has raised (or been granted).

[1] https://apollo11space.com/the-cost-of-launching-a-saturn-v/
that explains a lot
Fancy pour-overs in the U.S. can cost more than $15 for a small cup. The people buying those aren’t the same as the ones complaining that the standard drip at their local spot is now almost $4. And similarly, the target market for spending 68 kuai for this at the Starbucks Reserve in Shanghai probably aren’t among the most price-conscious Chinese people.
You can make a reasonable interactive app with htmx + javascript, but tings will be rather barebones -- you'll need to invent some patterns outside of what HTMX prescribes.

With react you get somewhat prescriptive low-level patterns when it comes to "managing data flow", so I would probably use react to keep things consistent.
Im inclined to agree, but the same thing happens on GitLab.
Sure, actual cost is somewhere lower, pharma companies make about half list price, but then insurance, doctor, pharmacy, and PBMs all add more cost.
How about a software development analogy then?:

A unit ball along with the possibility of doing linear transformations on the unit ball are dependencies for constructing an ellipse.

:)

The physics metaphor is meant to communicate that you can have different materials (like aluminum or air), depending on the combinations or parameters used for a particular ellipsis case. And the physics or dynamics of ellipses would be the study of how the combinations on the dependencies (that is, the atomic elements) create different ellipsis shapes and properties.
that was my reaction to it as well.
Super interesting perspective and insight. I really appreciate you chiming in. Hadn't considered something like this.
> It's like when Microsoft and Google tried to force text completion on emails, it just gets in the way and makes me lose my train of thought

I have been using a paper notebook to take my notes for a while and I like that I can remember what I scribble spacially.

Recently I decided to also use the notebook to sketch the really important e-mails - the ones you send to people either really high up or that you value a lot but can't reach often - in paper. I have been able to scribble rather quickly in paper and come up with concise but also complete write-ups and also noticed I am happy to not be looking at the computer screen.

I started this because I noticed there was a lot of noise going on when using outlook with all the notifications popping-up and the hard to understand new interface that just scales like ass and becomes unreadable in my 4k laptop, and the autocomplete kept axing my thoughts.
Nah, America is past "peak woke".

If it gets Trump 2.0 there might be a hyper-woke backlash though (or double backlash?).

But if there's another Biden term, things will be chill, culturally.

Also, Twitter is dead, and that's where the spirals got out of hand.
> Or when someone is intelligent enough you don't figure out they're not honest until it's too late. <shiver>

Very true, and it may not even be malicious on their end, just avoidance and their brain rationalizing/minimizing without them realizing it.
This whole thread is oof. Modern politics, to include both sides of the spectrum, has devolved rapidly. It feels like a real-life version of the Spiderman meme.
At least they did something about the landlords.
Is it that they get a negotiated price that's lower or that the cost is spread around all the people who are insured?
I've been thinking about how pretty much no USA infrastructure of today is as reliable as of the last half of the 20th century. Just my imagination, or true? And what does it mean?
Should have much easier odds on the legal case.
Your comment is correct but misdirected.

I didn't say anything about OP's first question. Your comment is about that.
Your site says 'No more writing automated tests or waiting on manual testing.'

but this solution only appears to do e2e testing ignoring api and unit testing. Additionally, automated test are mostly used for regression testing not exploratory testing of new features where most bugs will be found.
The voter's fallacy is "this happened while this guy was in power; we should replace him" repeated ad inf.
Not to say there's no better alternative being used somewhere, but "holistic" admissions practices often amount to rewarding nontraditional students who prove good at mimicking at WASP class signals or who fit some patronizing, objectifying trope.

If you're aiming for meritocracy, those are not an improvement over standardized tests or prior academic acheivement (and neither are they doing a good job of culturing authentic, plurlistic diversity).
Swapping teams can sometimes help for a little bit. But within a couple months it's back to the same burnout for me.
Hmm I guess it's tricky with these two because they can get around in-app payment for their core business. Sneaky!
Yup, I run an IRC bot with a !dall-e trigger (with protections so people don't run up my OpenAI bill!), and when I get the response back, my bot gives the revised prompt in addition to the image result URL.

Lots of added diversity in the prompts.

Note that I call it added diversity, not forced diversity, because if I ask for a specific race, it will give it to me, and does not override or refuse the requests like Gemini does. If I ask for a crowd of people, I don't mind it changing it to be a racially diverse crowd.

Semi-related note, those revised prompts are also nice because if you create a very non-specific prompt and get something you didn't expect, it gives you insight as to why you got what you got. It added details to your prompt.
I think we agree, or maybe you misunderstood what I meant?
it feels i’m re-reading part of wework first S-1:

“Similar to how cities are made from cement and steel, but are really built by their citizens, Reddit is made from code and algorithms, but is really built by our users”

“We see a spirit of entrepreneurship among Redditors, who are constantly pushing the boundaries of what Reddit can be used for. To support their creativity, we are developing new ways to earn money on Reddit. We have enabled artistic users to earn millions creating avatars”
> For a sequence with N = 100,000 tokens, it would mean cost dropping by a factor of 100,000×

I'm not sure I understand the intended interpretation of this. Concretely speaking, if it cost CoolAI 100k seconds of compute to process a sequence of length 100k, it would not take them 1 second now.

I agree that as sequences become longer, the quadratic component will become more important. But as models get bigger, the attention component also becomes less important.

For example, to take a concrete model (say Llama-70B), it takes about 1.4e16 MLP FLOPs (70 billion * 100000 * 2) to process 100k tokens. The attention component takes about 6.5e15 FLOPS (80 [layers] * 100k [sequence length]^2 * 8192 [hidden dim]).

So even if attention turned constant it would reduce runtime by about 30% with today's model at 100k sequence length.
This comment deserves to be on the front page
I thought this was going to be about Y2K, since it was written just after.

I worked for years in the late 90's on Y2K projects, helping to stop the UK's critical infrastructure from just stopping at midnight. Wales would not have water or gas without our efforts, for example.

But I've heard people since say things like "why did we spend all that money on Y2K, when it clearly wasn't a problem since nothing happened?" and even "Y2K was a hoax invented by the IT industry".

We won. We successfully stopped the Y2K bug, and it was hard work, and it wasn't obvious that we had caught it all by midnight. Yet rather than celebrating, some people saw it as evidence that we had been ripping them off. People are weird.
> but BTC is up 112% over 1Y

What's the risk-adjusted return and correlation with other securities? Those are both more important than share price.

Since it doesn't pay dividends in USD, its USD value is only achieved if you go around convincing everyone else to stop selling it so that you can sell it. Which I think conflicts with it being used for payments.
Obviously you should choose a hosting provider that doesn't allow bandwidth overages.
From somebody with this problem: "UPDATE: apple is going to charge $300 for repair even though i have apple care. pretty ridiculous. big VP advocate, very excited for the future, but after this experience i can’t recommend anyone pull the trigger on such a delicate 1st gen. I would have no issue paying for the repair fee if i caused the damage, but this was not damage that i caused."

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1awr2di/comment/...
It depends on their business model. Maybe running the server can't make money anyway.
Don’t forget the parasocial relationships they form with fans who are increasingly lonely, the new frontier in emotionally manipulative AI chatbots, and surveillance capitalism.
I love it when sarcastic white men on twitter tell me how just how much they know about DEI. Surely if there's one person that is going to not be over zealous or completely miss the point of inclusivity and diversity... it's a white dude tech bro like the guy we are talking about here! Always nice to know we minorities can count on such saviors to be saved from the perils of... generating pictures of white people.
I respect them for shipping a prototype. Really. But it's also a $3500 device. It's really difficult to feel premium and delightful with a rough experience.
The work would have to be large enough to be worth the cost of kernel context switch IIUC.
Whether advertising is objectively bad isn't necessarily the debate, but at some point it can cross a line. That line might be different for everyone, but most people will have it. You yourself give an example of something you suggest might be unaccaptable to some:

> billboard in a nature preserve

Where's the line? Why shouldn't we put billboards in nature preserves?
Aider looks interesting. I wrote my own similar console based chatbot
> public was actually never in favor of the Apollo program except for when we actually landed on the moon

Wow, I wasn't aware that the "only point at which the opinion surveys demonstrate that more than 50 percent of the public believed Apollo was worth its expense came in 1969 at the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing" [1].

[1] https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/exploding-the-myth...
The High Velocity Edge had a lot about this subject.

The most memorable example was at a hospital, nurses would occasionally pick up the wrong vial. They always noticed before injecting, but there were lots of close calls that didn’t get tracked anywhere. Once they started tracking that as a leading indicator, it became pretty obvious that the vials needed a better design to prevent even the possibility of grabbing the wrong one. Also, if the hospital never realized this problem and someone got hurt, they would’ve ended up with a much worse solution like “double check really close”
you have been repeatedly posting this incredibly niche complaint for years at this point
Looks like Millison is with Oregon State University

https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/osu-permaculture-design
I've never been able to use Chinese pay services even when living in China. It used to require a Chinese ID card, which you don't get unless you are a Chinese citizen with hukou.

My wife has wechat/pay, so it won't be a big deal when we go back. Starbucks will take foreign credit cards (or at least they did?), you could suffer at McDonalds though. I wonder if the xiaochi's still take cash?
Is there a way to configure this with media colocated with posts (i.e., not in a /media folder but in/a/post/subfolder/image.png)?
Holy shit red eye gravy. This is the fourth reference to that I've come across randomly in the last two days. I guess I'll have to try it.

Do you have a recipe?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39475528

My source is me :) I work at PyTorch on ML compilers.

If you don't believe me, perhaps you'll believe Karpathy's diagram (and the general discussion in the thread): https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1658161721251602432
Anything run by someone like Jack Dorsey should be away from something like fediverse. He literally killed third party ecosystem on Twitter after multiple times begging developers to come and revive the platform. Without those third party apps Twitter would not have been anywhere close to the size it reached.

Yes, he, Dorsey, did it. I don’t should discount that one bit!

Should we give him or people like him another chance? Fuck no. History is filled with examples of embrace and extinguish. Let’s wish him luck for AT Proto (actually BSKY; he is not interested in AT; AT is the bait, the lure, because he knows well people will just flock the first and the biggest).
Performing some heroics once in a while shows someone can be relied on. However, if heroics are the norm, it’s either bad work or bad management, and it should be looked at with some scrutiny.

I also find it more impressive when someone fixes someone else’s problem. I’m not one to shower praise on someone for fixing their own mistake, nor do I expect any praise if I fix my own mistake. I would be apologizing to everyone for screwing up in the first place.
Oooo.