skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of what you did requires vite or nextjs and all of the tooling that comes with all of that.

And then in three years when the undermaintained bit of software needs to be updated the entire landscape has changed in the JavaScript world 4x over already and the tooling needs to be entirely redone along with the desired change.

Again, nobody is saying "you don't need JavaScript". We're saying that the way you folks are going about it is Hell's Treadmill.

At least if I have a languishing, old, unrebuildable bit of code on the server side, I can find some exploit to make it run my code changes without modifying any of the original code :D
The number of dumb hot-takes in response to this article is staggering. The system as described so far is opt-in for anything sending your data outside of either the device or a carefully vetted and privacy-first cloud system that was designed by people far smarter than you to make sure that Apple could not get to your data. Apple knows that it is better for them to be unable to see this data and to be able to prove it to anyone holding a warrant.

Will there be a general on/off slider just like there is for Siri? Probably. Will more than 1% of the userbase turn it off? No.

Will I be surprised if, days before Apple Intelligence is released to the general public, it is declared that apps distributed via non-Apple app stores are not eligible for linking to these AI services (payment of the cloud services and OpenAI being funded by App Store revenue, naturally, and TANSTAAFL)? No, I will not.
Have only used it for small projects but it doesn't just "crash" out of no where. There are only 2 issues I encountered:

- Packages using Node functions Bun hasn't implemented yet. Google generative ai sdk streaming mode doesn't work, the rest of packages work fine for me though.

- Bun won't shutdown at the end of the script if there are async functions running in the background. I have to close the DB at the end of every script instead of just using pre-exit hook.
> new-country formation in the last 100 years

Yes, but they didn't really introduce new ideas and philosophies of government, at most slightly different ways of implement old ideas
This checks out - if you search for their names with MIT you'll find both of them. Both are medical doctors.
That’s all true. It’s also why we should have smaller networks that are resistant to a given jurisdiction’s laws. WhatsApp has offices and business presences all over the world and now they’re stuck complying with everyone’s laws. That’s a bad situation for us to be in.
> Now, he is ready to hand off PCRE2 as well, if a successor can be found.

My dear friend Jia Tan – although I hear they go by a different name now – might be interested in taking over maintenance of PCRE.
> There is intelligence.

There isn't

> Maybe "intelligence" is just enough statistics and pattern prediction, till the point you just say "this thing is intelligent".

Even the most stupid people can usually ask questions and correct their answers. LLMs are incapable of that. They can regurgitate data and spew a lot of generated bullshit, some of which is correct. Doesn't make them intelligent.

Here's a prime example that appeared in my feed today: https://x.com/darthsidius1985/status/1802423010886058254 And all the things wrong with it: https://x.com/yvanspijk/status/1802468042858737972 and https://x.com/yvanspijk/status/1802468708193124571

Intelligent it is not
This is probably a much more difficult question to answer than you might expect.

If you asked me, I think liberal democracies all around the world are going through a legitimacy crisis. People have not been feeling, for a while now, properly represented by their politicians so they are always seeking to vote for someone that seems like the outsider. Right now, that is represented by these sort of authoritarian, big demagogue politicians.

I think a lot of the problems of the modern world require much more innovative ways of doing politics and our liberal democracies which are based on this concept of the "vote for your representative" are at the limits of what they can do. The systems we have are slow and inefficient in a world that changes rapidly and requires politics to adapt much more quickly than they can.

For this reason, imo, people have grown dejected from politics and the response of the electorate is a sort of self-destruction where they will vote for anyone that can resonate with a message of "i can fix it". Whatever that character might be. It's easy for politicians to play certain cards; say, immigration is the problem and the fix is to stop it. That seems like a simple solution and it's a message that can be understood pretty easily.

But what are the real problems of the 21st century, in Europe, in the USA, in the rest of the world? I think a lot of people might hyper-focus on certain problems and offer solutions just for those problems and act as if that could solve a much more systemic failure. Ultimately, it is my opinion that the problem is politicians/politics itself and so it is rather difficult for politicians to solve it. Politicians are quick to say "we've failed you" but they don't really mean it, it's true though.

A couple books that have really changed my perspective on how politics should be and why our systems are failing are: Systemic Corruption by Camila Vergara and Open Democracy by Helene Landemore. If you wanna know more.
I think that particular issue could be solved with tooling - if you can autocomplete from “package name” to a given exported identifier, you must already have a mapping from “package name” to “exported identifier” somewhere in your machine’s memory; duplicate this mapping and swap the keys for values, now “exported identifier” points to “package name” as well.

But I do agree that it should be “from ‘foo’ import { … }”, because then the code would look nicer.
You cannot copy a nuclear weapon via drag and drop.
Hopefully you aren't overly occupied with Depend brand undergarments.
"It’s quite natural to program in Haskell by building a declarative model of your domain data, writing pure functions over that data, and interacting with the real world at the program’s boundaries. That’s my favorite way to work, Haskell or not."

Are there any good resources you can share to learn this specific way of programming?
EU citizens don’t directly elect these politicians. They’re made up of heads of state, so people are voting for whoever they think is their best state government, and those resulting heads of state go to the council.

Also the EU isn’t some homogeneous entity, it’s made up of many different countries with many different views, that don’t all align. Asking why EU citizens vote for these types of politicians, is equivalent to asking why some Americans vote for abortion banning republicans. The answer as always is complicated, and there are many different issues that might feed into someone’s vote, and this specific issue might not have been the most important.
You'd just abandon whole state of your paying consumers? Kick yourself of the market voluntarily?

Of course if you pay in tax more than you earn than sure but if not?
> nice to see @middayai generative ui features built on @vercel AI sdk midday is becoming one of the best OSS @nextjs real-world apps

I see this quote on your home page. What's your experience using generative UI?
I don't really care what you call it so long as participation is voluntary and it effectively curtails harmful behavior.
Smart, Personal Calendar Assistant
CalGPT is a chat bot that links to your Google Calendar and makes it extremely easy to schedule, move, and manage your calendar. For instance, tell CalGPT to “Schedule a short meeting with Joe early next week in the morning,” and it’ll find a time that works with you and Joe and accordingly create a meeting.
Try a float tank (sensory depravation tank). IMO it's like easy mode for meditating and I've thoroughly enjoyed it.
Much easier to get out of harm's way when you've already got the example of Manning showing you that you need to.
probably you should donate and also see if you can save what you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KkiKDKw88

governments burn libraries
There's a moment early in Resident Evil 7 VR where you're up to your neck in water in a tight space. You completely fool yourself, you feel the mass of water on your chest, and you start breathing like you're in a pool.
Producing a mosquito brain is easy. Powering it with the Krebs cycle is much harder.

Yes you can power these things with batteries. But those are going to be a lot bigger than real mosquitos and have much shorter flight times.
Arable land is only to grow food.

> Most of China lives in one third of the country

Right, so U.S. has PLENTY of space ;)

I’ve been to rural China (village where my family and ancestors are), there’s tons of space to modernize and build still, China def not out of livable space.
Just throwing it in a hole perpetuates the unsustainable fossil fuel addiction. Does burning it perpetuate that addiction worse (and as a side-effect produce even more CO2)? Yes, so on one level I agree with you, but on another level, we need to get the hell off this ride.
> Being profitable is probably a matter of time and technology maturing. Think about the first Iphone, Windows 95, LCD/LEDs, etc.

Juicero, tulips....

> then you "just" assemble an AI team, and start training bigger, better LLMs, ASAP, AFAP.

There's a limit to LLMs and we may have reached it. Both physical: there is not enough capacity in the world to train bigger models. And data-related: once you've gobbled up most of internet, movies and visual arts, there's an upper limit on how much better these models can become.
I'm not steeped in the history of this issue but I periodically run a maintained and up to date NextJS app via Bun in a dev env just to monitor performance and compatibility. It uses the app router and the edge runtime middleware, hosted from a Docker container. I haven't seen massive benefits using Bun since Next doesn't use the Bun-specific libraries that make their performance numbers great, but I haven't seen any game breaking issues either, it runs and all the app's E2Es pass.
The best example I know for India is a Dr. Devika Icecreamwala, who is not an ice cream seller but a dermatologist. (It's her married name; she was born Patel, which is about as boring as you can get for an Indian surname.)
Imagine the details of every car sale in the US dumped. It would be a goldmine of useful information for everyone except the car dealers.
Lets go!! Looks amazing!
IMHO, message queues were all the hype at the time because cloud was picking up steam and people discovered how to decouple and handle massive loads.

For the blog posts, most were garbage(and still are) if my memory serves right. I recall reading a lot of blog posts and all of those were basically a different derivative of same “quick-start tutorial” that you would find on any decently documented piece of software. Once you delve into the real trenches, the blog posts start showing their limits immediately and the shallowness of the depth.

That all being said, message queues are very crucial part of most complex systems these days, same as your typical tools(containers, git, your language of choice etc.), it has moved onto mature and boring.
When the UK was in the EU we didn't care about the EU elections. Turnout peaked in 2004 at 38.9%, but could be as low as 24%.

If you asked the average UK citizen who their MEPs were, they wouldn't be able to tell you. And if we didn't care enough to know their names, we certainly weren't paying attention to the policies they voted for.

That makes MEPs very susceptible to lobbying, and the EU system very susceptible to corruption in general.

I wrote to all the UK MEPs when the awful Copyright Directive was being proposed, with its completely impractical technical demands and chilling consequences. Most of the MEPs didn't have a clue what was going on, and they didn't seem to care, because they just parrotted the talking points that the Commission had put forward when it pushed the Directive through, and the MEPs planned to obediently vote for the Directive. The only ones that didn't plan to support the Copyright Directive were the Euro-skeptic MEPs, and thank goodness they were there in the mix.
Breaking gyros are a recurring issue for Hubble. Hubble has 6 (3 spares, 3 for full operation). They replaced them 3 times with space shuttle missions because they kept breaking. Now Hubble is down to 2 functioning gyros again and we no longer have a space craft with the capability to service satellites. They decided to shut one of the gyros off so they still have a slightly used spare once this one breaks.
I was worried how they'd do as it felt like Opus was very expensive compared to GPT-4o but with worse performance. They're now claiming to beat GPT-4o AND do it cheaper, that's impressive.
> nothing you do with plastic actually makes a difference

... yet.

Do you think that in a wonderful future where we get some technical advancement to be able to deal with plastics effectively, will it be easier to deal with it when it's uniformly spread through the world's landfills, or when it's sorted and dumped in bulk?
No need to waste a strawberry. Just test the furniture in the library. Either you have super intelligent chairs and tables or not.
I wonder if they used new mech interp techniques on this
> Out of all the companies who've built AI tooling they're the* last one I'd expect to see dragged out as an example of copyright misbehavior.

I was surprised, too: I thought Adobe's main problem was their abusive pricing, and I was actually a little impressed by their take on this hype wave. And yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607442
> NASA really needs to just fill their telescopes with gyros upon gyros

It’s an interesting tradeoff. Missions are designed (and costed) for a nominal mission lifetime; adding more redundancy increases costs. But it’s true that the successful missions tend to stay in operations much longer than their normal lifetime.
For Midday, it makes a lot of sense to include graphs and visual components. Using the Vercel AI SDK, we can deliver this in just a few days. I really enjoy working with these technologies. You can check out the PR for the implementation here: https://github.com/midday-ai/midday/pull/125
One thing that I would really really like to emphasize: the biggest source of micro polymers, those that you can find in antartica, oceans or the everest comes from car tires.

If we want less plastics pollution, this has to be handled first.

The world desperately needs a tax tied to how polluting things are.

If money's on the line industries and people will quickly adapt. Without it? There's way too much convenience to prompt looking for serious alternatives.
> Two decades ago you could set up a simple site that needed no attention for twenty years.

...but as of yesterday, you can't?
This is a very strong offering. I've been really impressed with 3.0 Haiku for smaller tasks, but I'm going to have to test 3.5 Sonnet as our primary pipeline model.
It's called Physical Modelling, and it's a big sub-branch of audio synthesis. A very good intro is Perry Cook's "Real Sound Synthesis" book.

To understand the physics behind the software, the field you need to read is called Acoustics. A great intro (and the textbook we used in grad school) is "The Science of Sound" by Rossing et. al.

(And +1 to Julius Smith book recommendations).
The roadmap for the next 6 months is very nice.

If it were really accomplished, then the computers with this family of Qualcomm CPUs would become a viable alternative to the computers with Intel or AMD CPUs, for the people who want to own a computer (as opposed to those who are content to rent a computer from Apple, Microsoft or the like).
Most countries don’t let you bundle legislation together like that. US problem with stuffing everything in giant uber-legislations to work around the congress’s ability to do anything is fairly unique to US, and doesn’t everywhere else.

Heck, in the UK there are even rules around the naming of legislation which makes it illegal to give legislation marketing type titles like “The Patriot Act”. The titles have to explicitly outline the purpose and objective of the legislation (which then results in some very long titles).
If anyone thinks we can build SAFE superintelligence, I think they are wrong.

I highly, highly recommend this book "Superintelligence" by Nick Bostrom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...

It has one of the highest information and idea density per paragraph I've read.

And it is full good ideas. Honestly, reading any discussion or reasoning about AGI / Safe AGI is kinda pointless after that.

Author has described all possible decisions and paths and we will follow just one of them. Could find a single flaw in his reasoning in any history branch.
Euro 2024 viewers will see how 'snickometer' technology can aid decisions
This is amazing - I far prefer the personality of Claude to GPT-4 series models. Also, with coding tasks, Claude-3-Opus and been far better for me vs gpt-4-turbo and gpt-4o both. Looking forward to giving it a spin.

Seems like it's doing better than GPT-4o in most benchmarks though I'd like to see if its speed is comparable or not. Also, eagerly awaiting the LMSYS blind comparison results!
This is awesome! Until GPT-4o dropped, Claude 3 Opus was hands down my go-to for code generation.

Between these model performance improvements and their new "artifacts" handling, I get the impression this update may sway me strongly back towards Anthropic (at least for this use case).
Can anyone find pricing details?

Ah it is "The model costs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens"
What's with all the 'harvesting' of polar bears?
If I’d get a penny every time I heard someone say “AGI is around the corner” I’d have enough money to build myself a house on mars or to afford a 2 room apartment in NYC. Add the Pennies from “Sustainable fusion around the corner” people and I could afford both.
The advantage of federation is you don't need to become big. XMPP works like email; you set up your DNS records and other servers can talk to yours when someone wants to chat with an address in your domain.
There are more error cases for invalid Rust code than for other languages, that might be true, but the friendliness of the errors is a consequence of project phylosophy and engineering effort, not a foregone concussion. Some errors fill in on ergonomic holes, but on the whole they are an attempt to make the DX as good as it can be and making the compiler part of the learning experience, not an inscrutable tool that you need a mentor and experience to even have a chance of understanding.
Maybe https://32bit.cafe/ could be up your alley - small but quite active for its size.
The thing is, the kind of people who become politicians at all are predisposed to this -- they are the kind of people who want to be in charge, to control, to decide.

(It's not just the EU, it's everywhere.)

Without pushback, politicians will just naturally move toward increasing their own authority. The new technology has opened up a new opportunity, so of course they are making their push.

Democracy, as messy, inefficient, and imperfect as it is, is the only form of government that gives all us non-politicians a reasonable chance to push back.

Let's keep doing that.
> Ray

A drop of golden sun?
defo colloquially, because (in the tradition of M Jourdain) I'm ignorant of how one might even make an epistemic assertion thus?

When I say "[I] address subjects reasonably", I guess I'm trying to implicitly communicate a few things:

(a) if I gave you a model of a large rock, and you find something physical that can be mapped onto what I claim to be a large rock, and thereupon proceed to kick it, then no matter what your (or my) epistemic views "reasonably" suggests the model predicts that your foot will hurt before long.

(b) this model is continuous: the "easier" it is to map your bundle of sense-perceptions onto my ideal rock, the "better" my theoretical prediction of pedal pain will hold up in practice.

(c) pace James, "you get what you pay for": given that it took you seconds or minutes to understand the cheap and cheerful model, don't expect it to make better predictions than another model that takes days or years to understand.

for an example of very small models, see the algebraic metaphysics in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39885475

(do we have a set of models that are the equivalent of the feed store "gimme cap"?)
No, now you've confused SciFi universes. Red Matter is a Star Trek plot.
> Like how with enough NAND-gates daisy-chained together you can build any logic function you like.

The version of emergence that AI hypists cling to isn't real, though, in the same way that adding more NAND gates won't magically make the logic function you're thinking about. How you add the NAND gates matters, to such a degree that people who know what they're doing don't even think about the NAND gates.
A lot of people can die in 20 years.
My landfill has mixed stream recycling that they sort and sell, because it's cheaper to sort it than it is to put it into the on site landfill.

Is the theory that someone is paying them for the sorted, baled plastic, trucking it elsewhere and then putting it into a landfill?
React Lua
Super cool! Looking forward to the public beta
There's a billionaire who has offered to do a repair mission. NASA considers this too risky to let some random guy go up there and fix it. If they worked together on a plan I feel like they could get this done in a way that reduces the risk, but it seems like they just don't want to.
I don't think this is the right approach.

In fact, I think this kind of effort alienates people and turns them precisely into a direction where they vent their frustration with the system on wrong avenues.

In many ways, the people are voting for far-right politicians because there's been an intellectual elite that has told them again and again "your concerns don't matter, so just shut up for a moment". It turns out, they do matter. We ought to respect each other and listen to each other truthfully to be able to reach agreements.

Overall, I'd say, large groups of people are more than capable of reaching reasonable outcomes. The problem is our system of politics are not really encouraging dialogue and change of mind. In fact, a politician changing their mind is seen as a bad thing and is usually punished. But that's just how the system is set up to be, of course, a politician is supposed to represent an electorate so the politician needs to be rigid in their views and the electorate is the one that needs to change. But this comes with the problem that electorate cycles are slow and "the people" have a much harder time accessing and parsing information than a politician might have.

Ideally we'd ought to have a system where our representatives are capable and encouraged to come into an issue with an open mind, and upon deliberation decanting into a certain position. Regardless of political color.

And I think that's kind of completely the opposite to "these people should shut up", no, they should speak up and be heard. But it should be done in a context that allows for a fair and reasonable debate.
The dedication to the Unicode textual representation of your ASCII demise is much appreciated.
No, accelerometers detect acceleration in linear direction (up/down, left/right, forward/backward), while gyroscopes detect rotation (pitch, yaw, roll). Smartphones have both, to detect all six degrees of freedom.

Edit: Apparently, for smartphones, all these sensors are integrated into a single MEMS chip, one sensor for each degree of freedom, three accelerometers and three gyroscopes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9X4frIQo7x0