skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the point but I think the article is overplaying its hand.

Sacrificing performance for a cleaner programming model is a reasonable tradeoff, it's weird that it's being criticized as though it were a matter of principle.

I'm very much a backend person and I don't like React either -- as far as I'm concerned raw HTML on a webpage as God intended peak UI -- but if you're writing full webapps you're going to need some form of framework regardless.
> LLMs aren't self-aware at all, it's an illusion presented to the observer

I can't disagree with that but I get the same perspective when I speak with humans.
As someone who never enjoyed reading non-fiction books (and still doesn't), I've talked about this topic with someone who successfully devours books on the topic of "How to be a great boss". Their suggestion was that while there are many Greats, each with a devout following of their own, you as a non-convert aren't really expected to deeply study GTD and the like and then either Join The Club or better have a good reason not to like this magnum opus. That space of books can be enjoyed simply by lightly reading them, seeing what sticks with you - personally - and then moving on. Since the subject and the methods on offer are so broad, it is really ok to just think "meh" and not waste anymore time on PARA etc., if in that specific case the method just doesn't resonate with you. This is how I arrived at my very slimmed down version of Bullet Journaling - it was supposed to solve my problem and I realized that it's ok not to be a stationery influencer with forty shades of pastels arranged in slightly chaotic groups so they look nice on the Insta.
People at war causing damage to the infrastructure of their enemy isn't that surprising really
Why don't they just buy a Meta Quest 3?
Mexico City could be just months away from running out of drinking water
I think mediation and gratefulness is a good way around this too.

If your take explicit time to recognize and examine the world around you, even in your backyard, time seems to stretch and you notice and retain more.

I’m lucky enough to have lots of different colored birds show up in my backyard, so sometimes I sit out there and wait for them.

It’s not exciting, but every time I see one it’s a new memory and those new memories make time feel more.
originally, yeah
When I login to video platforms, I often spend some time to make bookmarks of videos I want to watch.

When it comes to relaxing and watching something, I don’t like _my own recommendations_.

Maybe recommendation is like that friend who invites you to watch a movie—you know it’s a gamble. Haha.
Well, the world (specifically, the USA and Britain) is currently dropping bombs on "them". Surely you would expect that "they" might be a bit upset about "their" people getting blown to pieces and may wish to return the favor somehow?
> Legacy tech is a thing, and most tech is legacy.

I guess the question we typically get to ask ourselves is this: is there any good reason to choose React for a new project in <current_year>.
I'm going to hazard a guess based on my experience of being the one who brought it to my current employer after learning it at a previous employer: it's really hard to understand for awhile, especially coming from Excel. The paradigm required to build anything more than SUM or AVERAGE can be very unintuitive and feels almost like black magic.

It takes a lot of trial and error and patience to finally grasp how Power BI handles calculations if you are used to the freedom of Excel.

That being said, once it clicks, it feels like you are a magician, and you can do really advanced analytics on giant tables, which is great.

We pull a bunch of data out of the guts of MS Project 2010 and do a lot of custom analysis on it. It took about two years to go from scratch to a set of reports that served everyone's needs that also required minimal maintenance.

Then we got purchased by a larger company, so now the work is in rolling out a similar set of reports for the sister companies, as well as rolling them up into corporate-wide reports. It's a lot of fun.
It already happens a lot. The cables around Matsu keep getting mysteriously cut definitely not by China[0], and there's nothing anybody can really do due to plausible deniability.

I think the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline has shown that even when a blatant act of sabotage occurs under the sea, as long as nobody claims responsibility, the debate will rage on for years about who it might have been. I'm not sure if we can really differentiate between state actors and terrorists any more when it comes to this kind of operation. Perhaps it's more a question of did anyone take responsibility, or did no one?

[0] https://apnews.com/article/matsu-taiwan-internet-cables-cut-...
Joel (& Michael) at Fog Creek are so interesting.

So many well known things came from them.

StackOverflow
Trello
Glitch
Fogbugz
Copilot (not Microsoft’s, though there’s so irony since Joel was an early Microsoft developer)

And more
I don't exactly know how it works but creators tend to call it "my streaming platform" and that feels a little bit like a marketing angle. For the longest time I thought Adam Neely had literally funded and built Nebula.
I loved Cosmos Laundromat, personally. Even though it didn't end up being the full feature it was supposed to. Some of the others were pretty decent, but that was the standout for me.
> Most of us don't ride nor want to ride rockets.

The amount noise generated by pretty much anything new and shiny on this website would disagree with that.

> We do use them to blow each other up, statistically.

Very true — and yet :^)
"Toxic" seems quite the understatement! How sad.

I went to school with a boy who had no photos from his youth. His parents took many photos but didn't get them developed, and when they took all the films to the pharmacy (here in the UK) to get them developed, the pharmacy sadly burned down and they didn't ever get any photos. Quite sad I thought.
The data to support the argument looks very weak.

There's a graph showing JavaScript execution time for "sites with JQuery" and "sites with React". With no further context about what kind of sites these are, the comparison is useless. It's like sampling binaries found on your local OS to count the number of machine code instructions per binary, then concluding that certain subdirectories are more efficient than others. "We found that you should put your code in /usr/bin to make it run faster."
Open Letter to Tim Cook: Ban web apps, they suck. Even better, fork the web and base it on Swift. If anyone can do it Apple can.
This is at best an incomplete, complacent position to take.

Homo plasticus has polluted the atmosphere and oceans, exploited topsoil and groundwater to the point of long-term destruction, and made polymers part of the global food supply. [1,2,4]

> Used to be if you survived to reproduce, you were doing pretty good.

Used to be.

And if you were lucky, you lived in a stable democracy instead of any one of the variants of violent dictatorship.

Fertility levels are in steep decline. Today's children will grow to adulthood in a world abused to the point of global disaster. [3]

Things have changed for the worse in ways that our species has never before faced.

= = =

[1]_ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-a-first-micropl... , https://www.theseacleaners.org/news/microplastics-in-human-b...

[2]_ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2023/06/16/humans-...

[3]_ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230327-how-pollution-is...

[4]_ https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/07/1123462
It feels like they are intentionally making it complicated to figure out to avoid people actually setting hard limits. Vercel recently had a customer get charged 20k+ that posted on twitter. When Vercel employees mentioned this way of controlling it through a webhook, most people didn't even know about it. I feel like a hard limitbshould be easy to set in your projects settings and that it should have a default value.
If PG doesn't like my comment he can delete it or ban me. I am saying what I am thinking based on my experience with arpgs. Sure this tool would be useful for some, and I know there are people still modding the game, running seasonal ladders and so on trying to keep it up for some time. And with all respect to the original it's time to move on and clearly this person has skills and passion so I suggest a way use it.
It's a shame they don't list ö, ä and ü (or ß) in their alphabet (although to be fair they are listed in the full list of glyphs) - those are pretty fundamental to .

I kinda like how they're done in the sign for Möckernbrücke - they also seem like an afterthought, desperately added in whatever space was avaliable! See https://www.dreamstime.com/metro-train-station-sign-m%C3%B6c... (apologies for the awful, watermarked photo).
To latch onto this comment; never switch an application's primary framework for the sake of switching. Consider other things, like time spent maintaining, hiring, training and onboarding required, support, etc.

Anecdote, we switched to React Native from a thing called Nativescript, primarily motivated by the dwindling development and support, and the huge overhead that Nativescript brought.

But I have to hold my hand up and say I didn't like Angular and the redux-style beating around the bush either.
> children would likely drink proportionately less water all things considered

Children tend to be more physically active, and have higher surface area to volume ratios, so proportional to body mass their water intake must be higher.
I think there's a bifurcation between the startup/tech world, who indeed work a lot from home, and all the other tech workers in non tech industries (bank, insurabce, govt, corporate), who have mostly long since been recalled to office (in non US OECD countries).
Imagine a landscape painting whose sky always reflects the current weather and time of day!
90% of Ukrainian evacuees in Japan unwilling to return home
"47.1%, said they want to settle in Japan"
...
"she is happy in Japan and feels like she is at home, noting that her anxiety is receding as she remains in the country"
Sorry, yes. Swenglish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braniff_International_Airways
To each his own.

I've been enjoying getting familiar with the sun's location and cyclic changes of nature as the seasons and years pass where I live.
"More commonly, independent creators utilise audience monetisation to supplement other incomes." as the article says and it is the reality for content creators and platforms as Patreon. It is hard for them to monetize the audience by the platform and make it their main source of income.
> Like IBM, React will one day lose its crown by virtue of its own mass and inability to innovate towards better solutions.

I always thought one of the complaints of React was that they innovated too much. Things like Hooks and Server Components and Fiber were controversial, but seemed like radical attempts at innovation.

What kind of things are other frameworks doing to out-innovate React such that React won't be able to keep up?
There's a lot more content too though, and the attention span of the average viewer has gone down dramatically with TikTok, which is why YouTube launched Shorts and Instagram launched Reels.
React is the new Apple :)
Downvoting my question will make it go away. It will not make the
problem go away.
Differentiation is a mechanical process. You follow the steps and you get the right answer. Performing differentiation is mostly an exercise in following rules. Understanding the proofs of the rules does not help in knowing how to apply the rules and for the vast majority of calculus students they need to learn how to differentiate rather than how to prove the rules of differentiation.

Also, the geometric idea behind the proofs is nice but does not constitute what we consider rigorous. Such geometric intuition quickly fails in more complicated situations. If one has to learn the proofs they are better off learning the analytic proofs and how to operate with and reason about limits.

On the first encounter with the subject almost no one is able to appreciate the intuition behind it. Sometimes people go back to freshen up their skills and are able appreciate and desire a deeper understanding. They wonder about the approach taken to teach the subject and ask why we do things the way we do them. They don’t see that they are no longer at all like the average student who is 18 or so learning it for the first time.
Yes in that context it's pretty clear, but if you encounter the word "chat" in any french text, wouldn't you normally assume that it means the animal?
I have a similar example in german: The word "Fee" in german means "fairy" and when we used it to promote a product in the past, someone who came from a financial background read it as the english "fee" and was pretty confused about that sentence :)
I think at least some of the blame falls on companies seeking to delivery features as quickly as possible, rather than taking the time to really think about the problem and solutions and solve them in the right way, that can stand the test of time, rather than getting thrown out every 2-3 years and remade with whatever the latest nonsense is.
Just an entire post of copium. React is fine move along
> I’ve been sitting on some code for about 15 years because it’s the key to disrupting a couple of entrenched players

I have a difficult time believing that any piece of code that can be "sat on for 15 years" would disrupt anything. 15 years, especially in tech, feels like a couple generations these days.
lol no, that is just a terribly weak argument with a logical error. not to mention ignorant of what capitalism is.

also, some amish communities even call it "mutual aid" which is very anti-capitalist.
This thread is better than the article. Though this quote:

> just another blatant example of how AI needs to be regulated in so many ways immediately as an emergency of sorts. This is just going to get worse and its happening fast.

Rubs me wrong. We already have laws around false advertisement or not delivering what's promised that apply here. I'm not saying AI doesn't need to be regulated but AI isn't to blame here. Bad planning and false advertisement is to blame. Yes, maybe AI makes it easier but you could fake pictures or use a different event's pictures to lie about your event before AI.
My hard disk failed which had the last 20 years of my life on it including wedding photos etc. which I hadn't developed yet.

Now I back data up religiously. You don't think you need it, until you actually do.
sure:

- Everyone knows it.

- It's easy to hire for.

- It's good enough and getting better.

- There's a rich ecosystem and a wealth of libraries.
I think this is a misunderstanding of the "nobody ever got fired for using tech stack X"

The background is something like:

1. I'm a profitable (or governmental) organization
2. I'm doing a thing in a critical part of my enterprise
3. That thing is not seen by stakeholders as a core business competency

So examples might be the computer network of a hospital or inventory management for a manufacturer.

The "build / buy" is more "I want to give someone money who will make my problem go away."

And with a sufficiently large organization even ordinary problems potentially turn into complex problems, so when you find an organization to give money to to make the problem go away, you want an organization that can make all of the problem go away even if it means spending a lot of money.

IBM (and microsoft / cisco, oracle, amazon, and a pretty small number of other players) can all cash the "give me money and I will solve all your problems" check.

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In case some still haven't realised, Apples has become mostly a status brand.

Not an innovative, way ahead in quality maker. With a good touch of status. That flavour mix has died long ago along with Jobs.

What's left is a money making machine sitting on its legacy. They are in the prada, gucci business. And have more cash in hand than most fortune 500 have in yearly revenue. Even if some combine.

They can launch series of product that flop. They can RnD many cool things catering to the very rich, break even. At loss even.

They could make new generations vision thingy with a 3k or more market, and at loss, at profit anyway in the end by selling specialised apps for other thousands of dollars a piece to feed the 0.01%, those are running out of ideas on how to spend their money.

Apple is the shadow of itself 15y back, but got the power to continue surfing on that market for status money making business for years.
Ethical Source: open-source, Evolved
When you say sponsor do you mean a 1 minute advertisement in a 10 minute video where you say "Today's video is sponsored by ABC Corporation, they make this useful product to do XYZ" or do you mean a video where you got a free product and paid money to do a promotional video about the product?

I've seen both and I don't mine the advertisement style but when someone makes an entire video about a product that they got for free they seem like a shill. Usually their enthusiasm level is off and the whole things seems fake and I don't like watching them.

As for Patreon being a lot more work, I am wondering how? Every month Patreon charges me $12 for the various creators I support. Some of them create videos full time but many have full time jobs. The Patreon money lets them buy old computers, toys, or games to review. I'm nostalgic about my 1980's childhood.

Patreon seems really easy when they say for 10 seconds "If you would like please contribute to my Patreon account"
Surfing dangers: How a ruling in California might make things worse
This seems to be happening quite a lot. Of course, it's particularly likely to be _caught_ early in law; the law is inherently adversarial, and it's a small enough world that people will be conscious that their opponent is the sort of lazy idiot prone to do this.

Where I'd _really_ worry about it is in environments where there's an expectation that the 'expert' is operating in good faith. I'd expect over the next few years we'll see some deaths whose root cause is ultimately "the doctor/engineer believed the magic robot".
'Couldn't Read' more like
Magnesium Oxide and Magnesium Citrate also do that to me. Magnesium Glycinate (and especially Magnesium Threonate) seem to be a lot better in that regard. It also seems to help to take 25% RDA in the morning and 25% at night, rather than 100% RDA at any one time.
That doesn't mean it wasn't profitable, just that the network thought another show in that slot might be more profitable.

Talking about audience thresholds for profitability of TV shows is a bit pointless though, because there's so much variation in how much they cost to make. Effects-heavy action shows are ~30 million dollars an episode at the moment. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is ~1.5 million. Gameshows and reality TV are even cheaper.
Ultimately all water comes from the creation of the earth, which in turn got it from space. The ultimate origin is not very useful.

If we just want the first step before treatment plants, it depend on location. Generally it is what ever water that is cleanest and cheapest, usually lakes and rivers with the best connection and high flow of ground water. Ground water tend to be highly filtered which lowers the amount of treatment that treatment plants has to do.

Rainwater collection is usually not used for drinking water given the high amount of pollution. It can be used in industry/agriculture, or as backup for areas where the ground water is severely limited.
Intel expects 144-core Sierra Forest chips to boost perf by 2.7X at lower power
That's gotta be a might large battery.
I keep seeing this note about the European System.... if that system is so great then why aren't the best Medical Universities in the EU?

From my quick search a majority seem to all top-ten be in the US and UK. #16 gets you Karolinska Institute but even then they are followed by more US Medical Schools.
Re a): Or option 3: Buy something that's much less than a million dollars, and live in that for 30 years.

Re b): They did attempt to account for inflation.
It's just a fairly lengthy fall into a trap that many, many programmers fall into: detaching their craft from the business purpose it serves.

A webpage rendering Xms faster has negative value if it e.g. took 3 months longer to hire the programmer responsible for writing it, or if that programmer costs $100,000/yr more, or if training them to proficiency took 6 months, etc etc. The advantages of well-known frameworks are very real to the business, they just offend some programmers' sensibilities which should be simply ignored.

In any case, the IBM analog is also weird/wrong. The takeaway from IBM has to do with bureaucratic decision-making and especially the principal-agent conflict between people who buy systems like IBM and people who have to use them. I have never seen a similar dynamic be responsible for the decision to use React. There is no React salesperson wining and dining the C-suite.
And you still didn’t dispute anything I said. If it’s only Apple keeping the wonderful world of PWAs back, why are the same companies that create iOS apps creating Android apps instead of just creating a PWA?
Sora makes great CLIPS.

The gap between a clip and even a short film is a massive chasm.

I could see Sora helping create assets though.
Native windows is perfectly usable for development. I’ve also been doing it for 10 years on windows and have always found it awesome.

The only people who think it’s not usable are the ones who are trying to make it POSIX or have built their code bases on tools that aren’t cross platform.
Not dead but we have the increasing prevalence of cancer
This is good. Flight 1 had 63 corrective actions and it took 5 months to complete the report. This one took 3 months and had 17 corrective actions. They'll get to orbit this year for sure
Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report
I just chose it and having a fun time with nextjs.
The person you're replying to did not say that, you're arguing against a straw man. Looking at the manual, upgrading to 18 seems straightforward, matching the "minimal efforts" they mentioned: https://react.dev/blog/2022/03/08/react-18-upgrade-guide
No ESU has ended.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/say-goodbye-to-windows-7-as-mi...
> In any case, it changed years later when a startup using Nodemailer was acquired for half a billion dollars. I was financially not in a good place back then, and when I saw the news, I started to wonder – what did I get out of this?

This is really what you should expect when you work to improve the commons in the same world where there are entities that are hyper-optimized to make the most short-term profit out of anything they can exploit. Of course they're not going to give anything back. It could happen to any FOSS dev. It sucks, and it's definitely human to look at all the money they're making and feel like you deserve some of it. You do deserve it! Everyone deserves to make a living. But the world is still a better place with FOSS in it. It's a shame for this to happen to someone and for them to decide that improving the commons was a mistake and instead they should have been making projects that FOSS orgs can't use and individuals and small orgs are priced out of (but is still "peanuts" for big businesses.) If you make best-in-class software that's FOSS, everyone benefits, and you can feel proud that individuals have access to the same resources as big corps because of what you've done.

I'm also tentatively in favour of the idea of scaring away big corps with GPLv3 or AGPL licensed software.
... I mean, given how much money is being spent on LLM-based startups at the moment, it certainly _seems_ to be a goal for a lot of people.
I sympathize for the recent graduates who took on a lot of debt to attend only to see a massive endowment swoop in and make tuition free.