skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the above is what you need there's not strong reasons not to use React or similar. But for most things that will lead to an interest in "Vanilla JSX" this line of thinking is premature optimization - the advantages of vdom are extant but enormously overstated. JSX has many other advantages.

It's also not even an either-or. I've worked on a codebase that did both: React was loaded for some views & others were served with a lightweight JSX renderer.
They emailed you the password reset link?
Thing is, if you eliminate the risk of unauthorized transactions, you can then reasonably discontinue the concept of chargebacks as a whole, replacing it with a mediation/arbitration service that consumers can opt-in for an additional fee.

This would open the door to cheap or even completely fee-free transactions if the user doesn't want to opt-in to additional protection, which they reasonably may not want when the stakes are low enough (you weren't gonna chargeback a lunch anyway).

But for this to be viable, the risk of unauthorized transactions/origination fraud needs to be eliminated completely at a technical level, something I believe an oAuth-style system would do, and currently none of the many of hacks on top of the legacy system address. Otherwise, you'd still need to take some fees to refund unauthorized transactions, separate of customer-merchant conflicts.
Go check out STUN and ICE.

The best article I've found about NAT traversal is this article from Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
> If you mean Russia

Yes.

> (which by the way is only 600-700k)

700k was the official figure for 2022, which, besides the obvious reasons to be an outlier, is also skewed by the fact 300k more cars were imported as "used" to workaround stopping of the official deliveries. It was more than 1m new cars sold in 2023, now it's 700k just for the Jan-Jun 2024.

> then those Chinese players face secondary sanctions in most markets which settle trade in USD

Yet the reality shows they don't really care much. Why should they, though? The big ones have the leverage of controlling the access to the Chinese domestic market, which is too important for the Western manufacturers. And the small ones are already effectively excluded (by the tariffs and such) from the markets that can implement secondary sanctions.

> Which is dominated by a mix of American (GM) and South Korean (Hyundai) JVs with UzAutos

There is no economic reason why GM dominates that market. GM produces too little cars, of a questionable design age and quality. The day someone is able to talk local government into a deal with favorable tariff conditions (not circa 100% import tax that exists now), GM business in Central Asia is dead.
Yeah, people tend to think server utilization as black and white.

Look, we're using just 50% of that RAM. Look, there're two cores that are almost idle.

No & No. Rest of the RAM is your secret for instant responses, and that spare CPU resource is for me to do system management without you notice or to front the odd torrent of requests we have semi regularly (e.g.: /. hug of death. Remember?).
Isn't there some math which crosses over between what Lidar is showing vs what photogrammetry provides from overlapping photograph images -> providing depth corrected/adjusted/ground-truthing of images?
an unbiased llm shouldn't be producing "style", it should be generating outputs that closely match the training set, as such their introduction should constitute only some biasing toward the average, which also happens in language usage in humans over time. the outcome is likely indistinguishable for large general data sets and large models. i am interested to see how chatbot outputs produce human output bias in generations growing up with them though, that seems likely and will probably be substantial
That's good to hear.

Lest you feel any guilt for how you may have felt before reading this piece, I have to say that artists are going to art — whether they are successful or not. It's what they do and it's something that they cannot stop doing.
Not something I have experience with so can’t speak to that.
As was this, thankyu sir
Sure, you're actually charged with a crime. And the kind of limitations you talk about do apply.

Even in situations where you could be held in jail, there's a tendency to let you go unless it is impossible to prevent you from jeopardizing the investigations by any other means. For instance, if the only real worry is that you flee to another country, you might have your passport confiscated rather than being held in jail. Likewise, if the worry is that you can use your influence to make others do stuff for you (stuff that jeopardizes the ongoing investigations, I mean), then you might remain at home, under surveillance, and so on.
Not surprising since the US is the only country in the world with freedom of speech.
This is being dense for no reason. 'Why is there poverty? ' means 'Why is there poverty [when there could not be]?', obviously. Same with every other question they pretend to be surprised by an inverse formulation of.
I have a list of things I look at every few weeks to see if we’ve developed any new bad habits that are going to bite us.

Open feedback loops make it difficult for people to adjust their behavior. Catching the bad habits early makes them a lot more shallow.
8 months ago, Flight aware wrote a blog post about moving their entire tech stack from TCL. The post is called "Managing a Technical Transformation (Part 1)". I couldn't find Part 2.

https://flightaware.engineering/managing-a-technical-transfo...
So, this tickles an idea in my head. Under EU / UK regulations one can “overlay” a users bank account. I had always thought that was useful only as a Mint style approach but this seems feasible
I find value when in asking questions when I’m interviewing for a particular team.

But, some companies do team matching and allocate time for you to ask questions to managers/ICs you won’t be working with.

What questions are worth asking in this context?
I see a lot of “technical” reasons being given here, but my gut feeling is that it would also clash with the image Apple is trying to project through its products: tools that are used by individuals to “be creative” and connect to their loved ones. If most users interactions with their Apple device (in this case, mostly computers) started to be bland business tasks and interactions it would probably just taint that image and users would start to equate Apple as “yet another boring hardware company”.

So not only is the enterprise market a thankless one, but it would also clash with their message.
I don't think it's designed to end, they're just trying to:

- Prevent piracy

- Extract more money per user (subscriptions, repeated purchases in-game)

Look, you can live perfectly fine without all of those services, there are indie games and there are old games and, according to some, they're much better than any online crapware from today.

Make it a point not to buy Free to play online crap, forbid your kids from playing that crap. Absolutely don't give them any money for this crap.

If enough people stop buying the we'll see a shift to the DRM & no hassle approach of indie games.
I'd also prefer giving my money to a small team of devs than some corporate ladder who happend to purchase the latest AAA game built by a studio of overworked and underpaid devs.
> isolate them into their authoritarian dream shithole so that the rest of the world does not have to be involved in their personal fetishes

That sounds like a rather authoritarian approach to this problem.
The pictures in the paper are pretty damn close, and this is just a prototype. Plus, as you said, phones already have AI filters.
Amazing suggestion! Updated now :D Thank you!
It's login/email walled. If you do want people to try it, the try button shouldn't immediately greet you with a popup to provide your full name and email address. I stopped at that point.
Which, we've got to ask about the false positive and the false negative rate. it's annoying when it's really me and I try to charge something and it gets declined, but also the fraud detection can't be 100% effective, so the real rate is probably higher.
Cameras are already cheap enough to put in everything.
And Laurie Anderson got a job at McDonalds. But somehow I think with her it was kind of part of her art, ha ha.

> Standing behind a cash register in her uniform, Anderson became practically invisible, even to her friends. "They would come in and I would be like 3 feet away from them," she says. "And I wasn’t trying to disguise anything. But I wasn’t supposed to be there, so I wasn’t."
> Do experience and rationality not count here?

Bear in mind that the title question actually has (as the article makes clear) a crucial qualifier: the question is why people believe true things "beyond their immediate material and social environment". In other words, in the domain where experience and rationality obviously work--the immediate material and social environment--it is not surprising that people believe true things, because believing true things in that domain has obvious and immediate survival value. It's when you go beyond that domain, to things which don't have any clear, immediate connection to one's daily life and survival, that believing true things is surprising--because, as the article points out, the default state of almost all humans who have ever lived is the opposite.
Cannot recommend --video-sync=display-resample enough. The one reason I use mpv on every OS over every other media player
Vala is an interesting language - it looks like C#, but is a compiled, reference counted, GObject based language (which is Gnome's/GTK's object model library), that simplifies/streamlines writing app code, compared to writing it in C.

Which brings on an interesting historical tangent - back in the day, Windows applications were written against the COM object model, either in pure C, or C++ with MFC. The parallels are obvious - Microsoft needed a language that was easier to use and better suited for the needs for applications programmers.

The obvious thing would've been to build something like Vala - a COM based reference counted compiled language - but they decided to build .NET/C# a garbage-collected JITted language with an entirely alien library and execution model. And while it became somewhat a success in the world of generic software dev, it never fulfilled this niche, with none of the core MS products ever integrating it, and most of the internal teams treating it with animosity.

I wonder why Microsoft decided to go down this route.
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You aren't guaranteed to be able to do that but in practice most times you can.
Difficult to answer all these without a wall of text that will bore the other readers. DM me on LinkedIn? Address in HN bio.
You are presenting a false dilemma. The only options are not American corporate capitalism or authoritarian communism. We could instead have varying degrees of welfare capitalism or one of the numerous other systems that have been suggested such as anarcho-syndicalism.
This looks incredible. I used to write Go, but it always felt like wearing a straight jacket. Too many missing features relative to alternatives, but this fixes a big list of my complaints.

I am leery to tap into a new ecosystem, but the risk in this case might not be terrible. Theoretically, you could always take the transpiled code and port to idiomatic Go if the project died.
> if receiving payments would’ve been as easy as receiving email from the beginning.

In Germany, every business (and some individuals) has published their account number for ages (on the letterhead, website, etc.), typically right next to their address and email address (or fax number, for that matter).

And with that account number, you can just transfer money to the recipient. It really is as easy as email.
The correct place to handle character sets is when you're reading the file, not to sprinkle it all throughout your program.
> All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole
and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked
monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a
radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children
and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.

This was a great read
Well, if the claim is that a majority of all bullet hell games were made before 2000, then it's just false,

That's what you think I said?

C had setjmp and longjmp in 1979. Why would Lua need them?

I don't know what this is supposed to mean, all I said was that lua didn't have them until 2003.

I can't even follow what you're saying, you're all over the place.

Are you really trying to say every video game ever made uses coroutines?
I don't know why people look down on trust-fund kids. Being born smart ,as this author clearly was- is just another innate advantage, like being born rich. It's that the latter is denigrated. High IQ, or music talent, or sports talent is just as unearned as having rich parents. Yet we're supposed to downplay or feel ashamed of the latter.
> Could AI help you build a competitor to beat TikTok in just a few minutes? Maybe in the next couple of years, according to Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO.

Seems like there's an obvious flaw in this premise since it could also help a billion other people do the same thing so in that case... no, pretty much none of you are "beating TikTok"?

Same way that creating a N64-level game in 2024 doesn't get you the same press or audience as it did back then.

I think we're already at the point where programming skill isn't the barrier between making "netflix history-based tinder" or whatever.

So are we really just talking about making a shit-ton more spam of all sorts? App spam, super-SEO spam, fake social-media post spam, etc.

Is making it easy to make race-to-the-bottom spam plays gonna give you ROIs on hundreds of billions or trillions for OpenAI or whoever else?

On one hand, MS made a lot of money selling Word despite it being harder to make money as a writer now that the barrier to entry is so low. On the other hand, the capital costs to create Word were far lower, and the market-barrier to entry for Word replacements back in the 80s and 90s was higher.
A rare good profile from the NYT.

Maybe not quite as good as the recent one on Palmer Luckey, but Tablet > NYT. [0]

[0]: https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luc...
The hero worshiping of people who’ve made a lot of money is really boring. What impact does this “prophecy” have? None. It’s just bullshit. Just like the work from home causing Googles issues, it’s just vibes bullshitting.
Loved the last paragraph of the long, justified rant. Hilarious:

“All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole
and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked
monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a
radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children
and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.”
Switching USB controller at boot on ESP32-S3
Thanks for the summary. I was looking for this.
I studied neuroscience and I agree, this is unlikely to have anything to do with anything. In my view it's much more likely that the speed of processing is due to the brain constantly making predictions - it's an interesting thought experiment to consider the brain as simply a huge prediction machine in various modalities - most of which are pretty accurate, and therefore fast, once you've been alive for a while.

Once you get unexpected outcomes then the speed of thought slows down a lot. I was studying the neurobiology of reading and a good example is the difference in brain activity caused by the two sentences "The jam on the motorway was very slow" and "The jam on the motorway was very sticky" - the first elicits almost no activity, but the second causes a lot more activity because of the unexpected word "sticky" needs to be parsed consciously.

I think it's an issue of scale in some ways. The brain is so complex it's almost impossible to think about it clearly except in very focused studies. There's a lot of deeply methodologically flawed research out there making overly broad claims.
Not a chance. The app checks don't see what users see. They're not gonna have automation that loads in every map tile to scan it for CSAM or whatever.
Does anyone else have a problem with it on Mac when trying to open videos using the 'Open With' dialog in Finder? I see it start for a second, and then it just quits. It works properly from the command line
I would think that the opportunities to immediately "use" multiplication, instead of just practice it for tests, or some future numerate citizenship, would be omnipresent.

If you don't use something after you learned it, you miss out on:

1. Learning how it is actually applied

2. Discovering how the knowledge is useful for you personally, in ways you may not expect if you don't actually experience using it

3. Deeper understanding and mastery of the knowledge

4. Much much much better retention

It is worth creating some immediate use for new knowledge, even the smallest possible useful or creative project, for better retention alone.

> learning a topic deeply as needed

That is the ultimate use-driven learning model.

As for non-sequential, I agree. The more we manage our own learning, the more it is a directed graph (i.e. prerequisites translate to many follow up paths), and eventually just graphs (many ways to order topics, and alternate combinations of prerequisites for each topic, in any complex area).
Why do you think a card number would be enough to issue a payment?
You want a democratic government to have "undemocratic" guardrails, because otherwise you are ok with mob rule. Democracy without rules is pure and simple majority rule. You do not want this. Unless of course you are ok with slavery, going back hangings, etc. If that's the case, I rest my case.

You want democracy to be prevented from acting out on its passions by a balance of powers.

IN the brazil case, the state powers, and the brazilian voters are not preventing 1 judge from acting out his passion "to protect democracy". Ergo, this is the problem. The mob is granting him this power, when in fact it should be voters, via congress or even the office of the president which brings this loose cannon of a judge back within the powers given by the constitution of brazil.

In this case, brazil is behaving like a raw democracy. It is true majority rule. Laws apply as the majority sees fit.

Hope you don't end in the minority.
Gemischtes Brot!
If you can't fire employees who refuse to perform at the level required or show a commitment for that then it was very right to be fired.

The staff member had a choice, agree to an increased level of commitment or decline, he obviously declined.

If companies can't decide who stays on or not, then definitely they would be more hesitant to invest / movel locations to Ireland.

This will take time and certainly one of the things considered among a thousand others when choosing a location!
It's an interesting test, pretty cool idea. Thanks for sharing
> I do agree though that an ordered map would nicely solve the issue.

To be precise, Rust does provide an ordered map in the standard library, it's std::collections::BTreeMap. However, iteration order is key comparison order, not insertion order.
The users noticed that other players can do that, so it wasn't hard to deduce this is possible. You don't need to know how to code to notice that someone, somewhere had done something
They didn't "show" anything; that would require scientific evidence (in the form of an experiment).
Are we again in a Microsoft 2000 phase?
It seems like everything Microsoft is broken these days.

GitHub barely works after the acquisition. Azure is a joke. Teams is the bane of my existance. Outlook is the second one.

Do they need to ask harder leetcoding problems during the interviews?
Not the "entire" community, the places I spent time on years ago were focused exclusively on improved sleep efficiency, if there is such a thing.

I used piracetam for a few months and functioned well on six hours of sleep per day (the norm is 1.5x that). Remembered dreams pretty well too (I very rarely remember them before or after that period).

It also greatly reduced the effects of alcohol intoxication, but that was more of a downside (strip ethanol of its effects on the mind and you get pure poison).

The were no other noticeable effects, and I stopped taking it because dosages were measured in hundreds of milligrams and I was worried about load on the kidneys.
I work at one of the top companies in this field. Schmidt doesn’t know anything about this. I do think we’ll make significant efficiency gains (by which I mean inference, weight, and sample efficiency, all three) but I do not see any technology in the foreseeable future that’d mean a qualitative, or even significantly quantitative change in capability. So in the next few years at least we’re going to be in the flat portion of the sigmoid with only very gradual progress in what these models can do. Which is fine, because they already can do a lot, and FOSS needs time to catch up.
I have wasted an inordinate amount of time hn. i scored 2/15
The rise of social media and 'smart culture' has led to huge, sudden interest over the past decade in all sorts of niche or esoteric subjects. Talented people are making a good living at math videos, TikTok tutoring, playing instruments on TikTok, reaction videos, food videos, etc. In the '90s, if you were a 'philosophy buff' your options were limited to academia. Now there is a devoted, captive audience for practically anything you can think of.
> I'm skeptical that rust magically deals with, for example, character sets in 30 year old subtitle files, in a way that makes C seem inadequate.

It's not just that C is "inadequate" - C and its standard library provide no assistance in that task. As the mpv author explains in profane detail in the linked commit message, POSIX locales are an active hindrance, not a useful form of "legacy compatibility".
As a Volvo EV owner I was really excited for Suoerchargers to be available this year. Now it seems Musk firing everyone on the Suoercharger team has put a massive delay into everything, if it happens at all now.
That's quite the straw man you've constructed there. Please don't put words in my mouth. That's not what I said, or intended.

Try the HN guidelines on for size: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."