skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, trusting the OS to save you is a bad idea. Why people have one omni device that owns their identity and assets and they will install software "someone online" asked them to on it is beyond me. Horrible opsec all around.
Mhh we're talking about a company that makes furniture here. I bet it's "open factory floor" over there.
What’s a Dutch roll?
I didn't like hooks from the get go because it was the first time I found the automagical behavior that web dev was somewhat leaving behind starting to creep back in.

It's insanely hard (nigh impossible?) to debug an aging app that has use useEffect's and useState's everywhere. (This wasn't the case with the class components (not suggesting that class components were the be and end all))

Now the Compiler sounds nice, and sure there is going to be a lot less code. But, at what cost, it does sound like it's just more magic, moved further and further into the React internals. Which I think unfortunately gives the developer less understanding and power.

I'm just ranting, it's not like the React lib itself is yet entirely divorced from it's principles circa half a decade ago, but I fear it may. Perhaps, they could promote and support more sub packages of React itself e.g. rendering, state
Ok, not any value was of course hyperbole. But putting in comparison to the cash Musk gets, it's fair to say it's almost nothing.
There is always a possibility of a problem, even if you do everything right.
If you are redirecting multiple urls to one page, for example, you may believe you are helping visitors reach the most relevant/helpful result but it could also look like you are trying to artificially boost that one page?

Then there are the vagueries of a search engine becoming ever more dependent on ai where not everything makes rational sense and sites can get de-indexed at the drop of a hat.
Historically it was dipped in wax, and a lot of places like butchers will still use wax paper instead of plastic.
Go on ikea and filter whatever product form higher cost to lowest
DC snd PS had no save function if that logic was followed, there was no dumb memory option for DC at launch.
Meritocracy at Scale
> when in reality it is more nuanced than that.

More money = happy workers, unless of course, you don't give them money, but also other economic benefits that are equivalent to money. I'm not seeing the nuance.
> - Parsing an integer in JSON requires multiplication by 10 and addition / subtraction for each digit. Meanwhile, in protobuf, fixed64 and related types are either in host order or are just a ntohl away; int64 and other varint types only require bit twiddling (masks, shifts, etc). Do you think it's easier to parse "4294967296" from a string, or 5 bytes along the lines of {0x88, 0x80, 0x80, 0x80, 0x00}?

For this one, actually I think the varint may be harder because you have to parse it before you know which byte the next value starts on, but recently there has been some progress in the area of fast varint parsers. For parsing decimal numbers, a good start is here http://0x80.pl/articles/simd-parsing-int-sequences.html. Some users at https://highload.fun/tasks/1/leaderboard are calculating the sum of parsed base-10 integers at about the speed of reading the string from RAM, but this task is subtly easier than parsing each number individually, which may only be doable at half or a quarter of the speed of reading the string from RAM, and then you'd have to pay a bit more to also write out the parsed values to another buffer.
> "The others are irrational actors, crazies. We are the normal ones"

Everyone believes this, not just those on "our" side. Geopolitics is currently best described as a forcefield, where a myriad of interests vie for influence at any cost. To believe that "the other side" is simply responding to the nefarious, expansionist ambitions of the west is not smelling the propaganda too.

The good side is but one, the side that seeks to replace destructive, imperialist, selfish policies from all sides with cooperation and the rule of international law. That is unfortunately a fledgling position to take ATM.

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Did you intend the hilarity of your question? xD
It is exactly that. We make stuff, problems arise, we make new stuff that does not suffer from said problems.

Because everything is a trade-off, new stuff creates new problems. Those are the problems complainers complain about, ignorant of their history.

The cycle then repeats.

Maybe I am not cynical enough but doing easy things from the past is completely trivial and doing unimaginable things from the past is not that hard anymore. Looks like the cycle has some forward momentum in the end!
Fortunately it is very easy to opt out of all of this. Nothing stops you from having a backed deliver HTML and then sprinkle some basic JS and CSS on top. In theory at least, in practice everybody's brain has been smashed to bits by repeatedly colliding with the hype train. But the old approaches still work, even better than in the old days (thanks to improvements to all the relevant standards).
Points 1 and 2 sound like the ravings of a lunatic, but I can agree with points 3 and 4, however unplanned it was by the rulers.

Merkel and her finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble were stupid believers in running a country/continent like a family or factory (micro- instead of macroeconomics). If you're in debt, you gotta save. With the Euro crisis and PIIGS (anyone here old enough to remember PIIGS?) inflation problem (caused by the currency pegging masked as a single currency, btw), the continent had a lot of problems. And so Merkel as the de-facto ruler of the EU told everyone to cut social services, social benefits, etc, instead of doing stimulus packages like the Obama admin. The results were more unemployment and destitution, even suicides[1].

And when Merkel decided to show her humane side and allowed Syrians to settle in Germany, it was morally a great move which I agree (how can we call ourselves human if we refuse shelter to humans who are being shot at and bombed - well one way to do it is to not treat them as humans and classify them in our brains, all of them, as cowards (for running away instead of fighting) and lazy benefits-seekers)), but of course for the average Joe European who's been told for many years "There's no money, we have to save", to suddenly hear "We're a prosperous continent, we can do it.", this sounds like a huge truckload of shit. And the half-hearted policy of just sticking these refugees in makeshift camps and probably no budget in proper integration (and TBH, there's probably lazy refugees too, but then again, wouldn't you lose motivation against bureaucracies that don't let you work, confuse you in a language/culture foreign to yours, etc, even though you fought your way out of a warzone on a precarious journey) didn't make it any better.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-27796628
A even smaller 49-bit program whose normal form size also exceeds Graham’s Number was found more recently:

(λJ.J J) (λy.y (y (λg.λm.m g (λf.λx.f (f x)))))

[1] https://github.com/tromp/AIT/blob/master/fast_growing_and_co...
You are extremely confident about what all 3 top AI labs and top 3 cited experts on the subject disagree with.

Should I repeat the common quote of the problem in this world is....
I mean, the numbers for the money in the paper in terms of investment mean that spending is on track for what he’s talking about. 4 to 7 more years is a lot but it’s not entirely outside the realm of possibility.

My understanding of the models and linear algebra combined with my experience of their performance improvements make me think he’s likely right. We have some people wanting to pooh-pooh these machines. They will point to current limitations of the models and weak spots as though the underlying mode of the design rather than the current implementation is the limiting factor. They act as though real intelligence is always right.

I have been wrong before but I am pretty convinced. Everyone’s arguments against it happening is that it hasn’t yet happened.

No one knows what’s on the other side of AI being a better AI researcher than humans.
True; get the cosplayers and ren faire people on it, stat?

I was already happy to have ISS street view: https://www.google.com/maps/space/iss/@29.5602853,-95.085391...

(exercises:

Find the ikon of Gagarin.

Is the speed limit sign accurate?)
There’s also a hybrid version that I like: Write proper scripts (which are easier to e.g. push to HPC servers or deploy later), and explore them using something like Quarto (neé RMarkdown, renamed now that it supports Python).

Then you still get a digital lab notebook that ties together scripts, plots, and documentation, but the scripts remain usable standalone.
Student arrested for using AI to cheat in university exam
Because IKEA is not a publicly traded company. Don't know about the non profit part, but their management doesn't have to worry about growing the stock price every month at the least.
Go to watch as many Asionometry videos as you can :)
Samsung is consistently behind in the sense it's difficult to compete for them in the high end mobile chips. But this difference is virtually meaningless in the strategic sense. Samsung can produce any capability TSMC can. The loss of TSMC would be strategically important only in the lost capacity.
> We still have a great standard of lifing.

Which has gone down in the last 10 years. There's absolutely no indication that anything in this regard will improve. All metrics show a downwards trend. Be it homeownership, financial security or even life expectancy. So it's basically just like saying "I inherited billions and I'm still not completely broke. My financial decisions must be awesome".
How are flexible working hours equivalent to more money?
Honestly I don't feel represented by any party at all.

CDU/CSU: Scheuer, Spahn, Merz, Altmaier, Klöckner, ...

SPD: What do they even stand for nowadays?

Grüne: Totally out of touch with reality

FDP: Unfortunately I'm not rich enough for a Porsche

AFD: Just no

Heimat: Just no

BSW: Not sure what to make of them yet

Linke: They are just irrelevant

+ all the other small ones that are also just irrelevant.

I voted ÖDP recently btw. Also irrelevant but idk.

IMHO no party tackles anything important:

* Totally out of hand federalism

* Digital administration

* Education

* Controlled migration

* Climate change

* plus all the other stuff
I have increasingly found myself thinking lately that perhaps it is fungi of anything in fact, that are able to provide the ultimate solutions to many of the World's biggest issues but even to treating certain diseases ...
The part of China in this situation is that the Chinese government does not allow foreign inspectors into China to check if the sponsored projects are actually doing what they claim, and either China does not check these projects itself or does a bad job at it, thus enabling fraud. I don't know why anyone would sponsor a project in China under these conditions in the first place (or anywhere under similar conditions), but that's a different story.

Of course, that does not change that multinational oil companies are the ones conducting the fraud or that a local Chinese competitor fingered them, so that things came to light.
People buy Crocs so just because people buy something doesn't say anything about quality.
The trouble with this is it's a playbook for huge inequality. If there is very little cost to holding onto land, then as soon as someone accrues some, it never leaves their family tree. For example, do you believe that the Duke of Westminster should be the beneficiary of his aristocratic ancestors? He is literally living off of land accrued hundreds of years ago.
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-censorship-circumvention...
That's why it's extended release. So you get an even release throughout the night, and it helps you stay asleep.
Bullshit. Amish folks are feeling the economic pain of high interest rates and have seen sales slow significantly. You can get crazy good deals on Amish made furniture right now, and both from in terms of the quality of materials and the quality of the assembly, it will be superior to anything at similar price point to Ikea.

Folks keep acting like it's still 2022 and that we are somehow in a ZIRP era. It's not, and most assets are not selling and are therefor to be had for cheap.
Looks good to me, I'm a native speaker.
Incorrect.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/In-the-media-TUXEDO-proto...

"TUXEDO Computers showcased a prototype of its ARM notebook at the Computex trade fair in Taiwan. This prototype is part of the company’s ongoing project, internally dubbed “Drako,” aiming to port TUXEDO OS with KDE Plasma to the ARM platform. The development is currently in the alpha stage, with some drivers still pending. TUXEDO is optimistic about resolving these issues with the next two kernel versions. While a release date is not yet set, the possibility of an ARM notebook under Christmas trees in 2024 is tantalizingly close."

"Qualcomm has been working to ensure good Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite high-end laptop SoC. That work is still ongoing but the initial bits are already in the mainline kernel while other optimizations and other features remain in the works. So far for the Snapdragon X Elite has been many vendors showing off Microsoft Windows based laptops but it looks like from at least TUXEDO Computers there will be a Linux-focused laptop using this ARM64 chip."
Is there a single CO2 certificate, which is not fake?
This is a pretty weak argument, in my opinion: "we shouldn't do this because powerful people who don't benefit will try to undo it."
As I understand it, lead in gasoline was used for motor longetivity, but other approaches have been invented to reduce pollution. So now we use only (or just mostly?) unleaded gasoline, which is used basically the same as leaded.

What's your microplastic-free alternative to replace most uses of plastic? Microplasticless plastic that would work for all plastic use cases doesn't exist, as far I know.
Thank got at least the new Ultras have only snapdragon

I had a exynoss s22 and my experience was miserable, in and out the repair center.
By your logic that post should be on the front page.
The giant pink boar has a third back leg ... but yea looks impressive overall
I think there's a bigger issue going on here.
I too have received the same email for my open source project (1) which also was on Vercel's sponsorship deal.

A little Googling shows others piping up in the last couple of hours who received a similar message (2).
What seems odd is that they make it sound like the deal 'expired'. But I find it more than a bit curious that all the reports I find about this are from the last couple of hours, all expiring at the exact same date (14 June).

Given that Vercel no longer offers sponsorship (3), this feels like they decided to revoke the deal, and offer a 6-month credit to ease the transition.

Obviously, I am appreciative of the free service I've received, but the messaging about these changes could be a lot more honest IMHO.

(1) https://freesewing.org/
(2) https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/1dfh7ak/vercel_just...
(3) https://vercel.com/guides/can-vercel-sponsor-my-open-source-...
Apple seems to be betting that something polished which is “less than state of the art” will sell better than something less polished and more advanced.

Technical capability is rarely more important than product market fit.
Yeah, that seems like a weird assumption to make.

I guess one could make the argument that wealth will be useless in a post-scarcity scenario, so why not spend for today. But, and this might just be me speaking, I sleep a lot better at night now having some nonzero amount of money invested and going to work for me one way or another.
When you rely on volunteers blindly reverse engineering Apple hardware you're never going to reach a level of support and stability that meets mission-critical requirements. It's a hobbyist solution.

"Qualcomm has been working to ensure good Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite high-end laptop SoC. That work is still ongoing but the initial bits are already in the mainline kernel while other optimizations and other features remain in the works. So far for the Snapdragon X Elite has been many vendors showing off Microsoft Windows based laptops but it looks like from at least TUXEDO Computers there will be a Linux-focused laptop using this ARM64 chip."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TEBKEhhcqM
Source code may be found at https://github.com/ascandone/elm-lambda-interpreter
So anyone who disagrees, including you for a short time, is actually not an intelligent being?

Not to mention that ignoring the size of the grid, one might disagree about the answer of one of the tests.
An alternative here is to make a script with `# %%` code cells, so you can send one cell at a time to a REPL while developing the script.
Meh, the only cogent argument against taxation is "I like the Mad Max franchise so much I'd vacation there". Everything else is just trying to find someone else's pocket to pick to pay for the services one enjoys. Anyway, we're currently pretty damn close to having unwound corporate taxes. Check this out:
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/historical-corpor...
You should realize too that the politicians may have been well aware that the industry is faking.

In the grand scheme, this is (yet) an(other) elaborate scam against the public. Politicians outsource the responsibility of implementing policies to the "market" and pretend they're doing something, just to get votes. The "market" outsources what they promised to implement to the lowest bidder in some distant land with no oversight. And then they can all blame it to "China".
> Instead we should simply be billing for carbon actually emitted. If you emit less, your bill is smaller.

Poor people have the same human rights than rich people. Therefore it should not be dependent on money how much a person can emit. There should be a hard limit of allowed CO2 emissions per person.
I blogged about this when I stumbled up on it the first time: https://stoppels.ch/2022/11/30/io-is-no-longer-the-bottlenec... "Trick 2: Creating masks efficiently". It's pretty neat.
I looked for some reliable numbers on Apple's tax payment and didn't find any, so I won't comment on that, but I do want to say some things about...

> capital gains tax exists but is deferred until you sell the shares and then rich people don't do that

This gets pretty quickly into the philosophical what-are-we-doing-here-exactly of taxes, but:

1) Shares don't do very much on their own, so there isn't really a problem with that. I mean, dude owns a billion in shares - if they earn income dude will pay tax, if they don't the only true to get to the value is to sell them.

I imagine there are some gaping loopholes involving charities and debt, but that isn't anything to do with the deferment of the tax.

2) Because of inflation - and asset inflation is markedly higher than CPI - CGT is effectively a wealth tax because fairly quickly most of the value of an asset is the inflationary component. I've got gold bars where I allegedly am making a 100-and-something% return and that just flies in the face of the inert reality of the metal itself. The tax is markedly unfair, anyone trying to be a responsible saver ends up paying much more of their income in tax than someone who just spends it on the day and it effectively becomes a wealth tax that stops anyone in the middle class moving up over time. Moving wealth between assets is catastrophic to your financial health once CGT is a factor.

There are a bunch of quirky distortions in the tax system. CGT might even be one of the contributing factors to why people don't tend to have savings (although the biggest factor is probably psychology). Rationally speaking saving is quite an inefficient use of money if you end up paying CGT.
Thank you for this absolutely useless comment. Have a nice day.
There's a lot of expertise with lasers and precision optics around the world.
Amish made goods could be considered luxury products if handmade to high standards.

The problem is availability (online and in person) and warranty (not only in a legal sense , but quality assurance)

Can you tell me what's the price of a table with 4 chairs from a Amish workshop, for example?
With climate change worsening, I can't see this improving. Yeah okay right-leaning governments letting corporations getting away with too much shit and shoving more neoliberalism down our throats[1] is probably more to blame...

That's why I fear rightwing populism will keep rising.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-...
"Navigating to a new screen" is such a basic behaviour of the web the idea that we need to rely on a framework to manage this in some way is absolutely insane. At this point the complexity that React imposes on developers is out of all proportion to the benefits that it provides.

Yes there are cases where React is exactly what's needed but when each new version introduces new "best practices" based on how "bullish" Meta's developers feel about a given approach it removes a crucial advantage that helped these libraries become popular i.e. that it's easy to onboard new people on to a project because thewre's a consistent approach across code bases. Right now there's not a consistent approach across 2 or 3 years of React releases and that's before we come to the torrent of metaframeowrks designed to smooth over inconsitencies and deficiencies (state managment! styling!).

I don't know what the answer to this is but having spent a good portion of the last 7 years or so on and off React projects I would advise anyone to think carefully before investing time and /or money in the ecosystem. On balance the benefits aren't worth it the large majority of cases.

note: i've used library and framework carelessly and interchangably here, React has historically been keen to market itself as a library i.e. something you dip into when needed but in practice it bends the whole dev process around it so I feel framework is more apt
Not if the deal was fraudulent.

According to the verdict it wasn't a real negotiation.

Like politicians when they raise their payment.
Since llama3, yes, quite satisfying.
Oh wow I completely blanked ACT out of my memory... That comment was like a wet slap to the face... :-)
Yup, I don't have kids myself, but like that my company offers benefits to parents. It keeps the company more diverse and more enjoyable for me as well in a sense.

> It's weird, in some ways, that we offer benefits.

In some cases it also makes economical sense. It can cost a company $1000 to give you a benefit, but to buy it yourself would cost $2000 (and the difference is even greater if the benefit isn't taxed at the same rate as cash would be).

Or the $200 the company spends on beers for me each year, many would perhaps say that they'd rather have the $200 to spend as they please. But in a sense, I get more value than $200 by getting to know my co-workers better and having a better time every day at work.
A delicious pastry the pilot and co-pilot got to enjoy at the end of their flight as a treat for all their hard work.

/s
nit: I hate trying to work out what "10x fewer" or "10x less" mean.

Let's say I have a counter value, X = 100. I reduce that to 10. How can I phrase that in English?

"Value reduced to 10% of original value"

"Value reduced by 90%“

"New value is one tenth the original Value"

Using multiplication with a positive integer and saying "less" just seems incomprehensible when it flies by during a sentence and I can't stop myself from mentally saying "No", like Neo at the end of the Matrix when the three agents fire a volley of bullets at him down the corridor. "No, this sentence stops right here while I pick it apart"
Sufficient for fluent conversation.
Ah ok, no specific examples then.

That's a poor heuristic that's repeated ad nauseum. The trouble is even expensive IKEA lines are mostly poor quality but they have such good marketing and styling that people refuse to believe it

But if you're happy with the most expensive IKEA products, good for you!