skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought pre-hooks react provided a really nice and simple abstraction over how the web works.

FRP is a nice fit for the kind of UI that makes the majority of the web.

Hooks ruined the framework imo. Confusing api (useState returning an array for example).

Having a class component with hooks for lifecycle behavior made perfect sense. Each component’s state being a field on those classes was easy to understand.

Hooks came out of left field and made everything more complex for the worse.
>solar and wind are not baseload power solutions. They are intermittent and unreliable.

Being 5x cheaper more than makes up for that though.

None of the viable modes of storage (pumped water, hydrogen, batteries) are expensive enough to make paying 5x per kilowatt hour worthwhile any more.

If you roundtrip solar and wind via hydrogen stored for months and back into electricity again (the most expensive mechanism), it's still cheaper than every single kilowatt hour of nuclear power delivered on the sunniest, windiest days.

It really is difficult to overstate just how mind bogglingly expensive nuclear power is. Unless it's used to cross-subsidize the military nuclear industry it just isnt worth it.
its interesting that martin scorsese and chris rock both claim that they were essentially raised by television sets. i would say that i was co-parented by a television at least. i would say that it contributed to a blunted, unrealistic understanding of the real world and human relationships. my world view now is that children shouldnt watch television or movies and that they should be immersed in real human relationships. especially those disney movies that have really dramatic, tear jerker scenes. i think that is way too much stimulation for children and that their heart strings should only be tugged by things that are real. those powerful emotions play a role in human development and you shouldnt mess around with that too much.
Rotting fruit also quickly attract bees and wasps and larger problems like raccoons.
Banks are not selling PII’ed a

You know how some banks have a service which tells you how you spend your money? With graphs, 20% on power, 15% on food, etc?

That service is provided by a third party, who is given the data anonymized. A unique id number assigned. Yet it's trivial to deanonymize, and that's what happens.

All that is required is one buy with a points card, an airmiles card, and you are forever relinked to your data. It's how points cards make cash on the side, how air miles do. Exact time, date, amount, location of purchase is a great sync method.

If you pay for your phone with any form of traceable payment, they know who you are, your address, etc. From this immense data is gleamed, such as lot value, neighborhood, and so on. Companies can even get current location and geofence you, being alerted if you move in/out of a certain location.

Mobile phone companies sell this data/service via an easy api. Companies relink a phone from the app level via IMEI and number, which is sold to aggregators along with phone data (contacts, etc). The telco api links to real identity.

Once linked, forever linked.

Most people love free apps, and give up messages/sms, contacts, and more to save a dollar on an app. From this immense relationship data is gleamed, including likely employer and social circke.

Even if you are careful with your app permissions, certainly many acquaintances of yours aren't, so you get linked to their social circle, often with contact name/address.

This is just the simple stuff.

Source: I've dealt with these companies.
I like this take. And yes, you're right, it's not so much speculation as speculation where no value is being generated.
It's a little spooky about being able to infer requirements without writing them out, and taking a large prompt and building a large codebase from it. I would be as clear as possible about the desired output - if you want to run it in heroku, let it deal with the procfile, etc. - but try to treat it as 100% declarative beyond that.
The whole interview feels so fake. Matt consistently avoided answering direct questions, such as whether he had to defend the WordPress trademark in the past 20 years and if so, how. Additionally, he frequently changed the subject, particularly when questioned about why WP Engine was chosen as a sponsor despite his negative characterization of them - calling them “cancer”.

It’s difficult to take the interview seriously. Very disappointing and a waste of time in my opinion.
HN, increasingly, seems like a space where free discourse is not allowed.
You’re talking about possible sibyl attacks. Yes that’s a concern but there’s a large literature on how to reduce their threat.

This might be a place where “proof of x” concepts from crypto land work.

But we don’t need to go all the way to the maximal solution for it to be practical.
Scott Weiner is a total fraud. He passes hot concept bills then cuts out loopholes for his “friends”.

He should be ignored at least and voted out.

He’s a total POS.
When I say subsidizing I mean financially subsidizing (i.e. paying for wordpress.org bandwidth costs) - that's the only way the comment makes sense, and I am not inclined to believe it to be true without evidence. As the other response notes though wordpress.org isn't even the foundation apparently, so is wordpress.com subsidizing wordpress.org? Have they asked WPEngine to cover their costs?
That article claims that without NO_HZ Linux wouldn’t be running in datacenters. Um, no. Many hyperscalers still haven’t enabled it! Stopped reading there.
This is like when VCs were funding all kinds of ride share, bike share, food delivery, cannabis delivery, and burning money so everyone gets subsidized stuff while the market figures out wtf is going on.

I love it. More goodies for us
I enjoyed the part where he explains that he has to operate WordPress.org personally because the IRS wouldn’t allow a non-profit to operate a website with commercial value. He then talks about the structure of the WordPress Foundation, explaining that it has a for-profit subsidiary to run the WordCamps which generates around $5 million per year in revenue from commercial partners. Matt, you just shared a workaround that would work for WordPress.org that you’re already using for operating the WordCamps! He speaks with a calm and polite tone but has a complete lack of sincerity. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would at least pause to consider their contradictions.
This sounds like they are somehow identifying the user and querying theworknumber.

You can get a ton from a worknumber query.
> After 70 years of working with fission reactors, we know how to build and operate them at 95%+ efficiency (https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity).

France would like your phone number.
tldr: be young.

why the hell arent you young!

it's cool.
In their defense, in my phrasing, what is sent and to whom had equal weight. But you’re exactly right: obviously it is OpenAI and Anthropic. The private content being sent is the important part.
It's rather decidedly a dog whistle presently.
Linux is boomer tech. It keeps up with the latest hardware, that’s about it. Even real time is decades old. I would rather hear about the latest crypto Ponzi scheme than the latest Linux release. At least that would be novel.
Im currently working on AI agents that control my chrome browser, I have a desktop app with a chat where it does various tasks for me like research/posting on sm/finding free ebooks for me. All using open source LLMs and custom code for the auto web scraping / interactions.
Amazon employees are 'rage applying' for new jobs after RTO mandate
California is also the largest source of Federal revenue: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-gross-collectio...

As your link shows, a much smaller %age of CA government revenue comes from the federal government vs most other states; in that sense California is a net contributor rather than a net taker.
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried peek.nvim and found some cons:

- It required Deno runtime
- It does not support Table of Contents
- It does not have Dark/Bright mode button
- It does not support PlantUML
- It does not support term definition
- It does not support Sequence Diagrams
- It does not support Flowcharts
- It does not support Graphvis Dot
- It does not support Charts
- It does not support local images
AI as a work force could be comparable to interns. They work in a 7x24 shift but fail the task from time to time.
Spoiler: They don't. The phones are hostile to experimentation and the social media apps they will use to kill time are designed to get them stuck in an infinite loop of watching pointless "content" and as many ads as possible.
I don't know what to tell you. This isn't science we're doing; it's a conversation between strangers. Each of us only has what they see to go on.

It isn't going to help to say that nothing I've said is in any way critical of you as a person, but it's true. I'm not saying you're a bad person because you don't understand; I'm saying there are some things you need to have lived through or at least very near to understand what makes them matter, and the way you talk about them is the way I typically see people talk who have not done that. That's all.

I still don't understand what I said in the first place that you took so amiss. You came right in swinging from the start [1], and while I'm sure there was a reason, I don't think it has helped for me not to know what that was. Certainly being made to start from the back foot has not.

If it was about how I'd misread the other fellow, that's entirely fair; if so, that I have since apologized without reservation [2] might help get our own conversation closer to an even keel. Outside of that, though, as I said before, I can't imagine what it might have been.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41689716

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41692004
>Everyone had to shell out a few hundred dollars/month just for phone calls (billed per minute) and txt messages. Now, we are at a point all communication is free.

Not sure where you are but where I am you still have to pay for cell phone data plans and internet to the house.
yeah, a little bit of reason goes a long way.

we don't need to invent a whole new economic system. we can just say "this is bad, and we should do less of it". and making sure that power goes to people's homes before it goes to datacentres is one of those things. and the best part is that's the way the world already works, so nothing even needs to change.
Btw I don't think of it as a shortcut, I think it's actually the ideal end-state.
Agree completely.

Monetizing all of this is frankly...not my problem.
>Alaskan off grid YouTube

isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?
Newsom is the governor who vetoed the bill, not the lawmaker who authored it.
Lennart pointed out the fact you can see readable messages via strace to be a benefit of json. If their average message size is small and they don't expect to ever need high volume or large messages, then it's not really likely to be a problem in practice. He also pointed out that they waste far more cycles today on context switches (he suggested something on the order of 6 per IPC message).

Even if they eventually come to the conclusion they need something more performant in the future, it's probably still a net win to make the switch today. It's also possible it turns out fine for their use case.

I personally would think they would want to benefit from an IPC system that includes provisions for sending file descriptors.
Companies in the business of building models are forced to innovate on two things at once.

1. Training the next generation of models

2. Providing worldwide scalable infrastructure to serve those models (ideally at a profit)

It's hard enough to accomplish #1, without worrying about competing against the hyperscalers on #2. I think we'll see large licensing deals (similar to Anthropic + AWS, OpenAI + Azure) as one of the primary income sources for the model providers.

With the second (and higher margin) being user facing subscriptions. Right now 70% of OpenAI's revenue comes from chatgpt + enterprise gpt. I imagine Anthropic is similar, given the amount of investment in their generative UI. At the end of the day, model providers might just be consumer companies.
I made a web metronome to learn music https://lab.est.im/metronome/

source code at https://github.com/est/metronome
Just wait 'til you read the case against free will...
The party isn't doing much lately to encourage the actual democracy part of the name, other than whining about national popular vote every 4 years knowing full well that's now how that process works.
I don't think it's a bad thing, but it is most strongly a Midwestern and Southeastern thing, and I'm from the South. Boston might give a different answer.
Handmaid's Tale?
I don't know if they're "good".

StrongArm Punches Up ARM Performance by Jim Turley:

https://websrv.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/ARTICLES/091504....

StrongARM: A High-Performance ARM Processor by Rich Witek and JamesMontanaro

http://gec.di.uminho.pt/MInf/ac0203/ICCA03/strongARM.pdf
> Other notable examples: the EPA

I wish the EPA hadn't dropped the ball on noise pollution.
I imagine they will just finance their own small nuclear reactor plants probably through power purchase agreements in whatever states which will allow them to do so. Those states will be where the new data centers and jobs go.

They're not going to build a second grid, or power plants for everyone else. That's an awful business. These companies are in good businesses. They don't want to get into an awful business.

There's so much wealth to be created given the multiplier these SMNR companies are likely to have. And the tech companies will invest in the SMNR companies they purchase power from. Some of them are already invested.

Hopefully, they'll have enough scale that whatever they need to do makes it cheaper for the grid at large.
To be successful you don't really need to be clever and you don't need to be brave.

You need to get lucky, and if that doesn't work, then yes persistence is the next most important thing – keep trying until you do get lucky.
She wasn't wrong at all though.
>On an island you can call for a boat or a helicopter.

Boat, yes; helicopter, no, unless the island is pretty close to civilization. Helicopters have very limited range. No helicopter is going to rescue you from some remote island in the south Pacific, unless it was launched from a rescue ship (in which case it was really the ship that rescued you; the helicopter was merely more convenient for transportation between the ship and the island than a tender boat).
I expect the long term CAGR for the top models to be in the 20-40% annual range. That's certainly high enough to get wealthy over a couple decades, or sooner if you are already starting with 8 figures, but it's not overnight Roaring Kitty style fast money. Grizzly Bulls' growing revenue helps even out my overall income, and I could definitely see it growing to $10M+ ARR over the long term, very significant even with a 9 figure net worth.

The models are not HFT. Swing-trading the most liquid instrument in the world (ES futures) has extremely high strategy capacity, well into the billions or perhaps 10s of billions, so selling signals does not (currently) in any way negatively impact my own returns.

The alternative would be to start a hedge fund, but that's an expensive and highly regulated endeavor that appeals to a different audience.
the hype will never die. all the smartest people in industry and government believe that there is a very high probability that this technology is near the edge of starting the AGI landslide. you dont need AGI to start the AGI landslide, you just need AI tools that are smart enough to automate the process of discovering and building the first AGI models. every conceivable heuristic indicates that we are near the edge. and because of this, AI has now become a matter of national security. the research and investment wont stop, because it cant, because it is now an arms race. this wont just fizzle out. it will be probed and investigated to absolute exhaustion before anyone feels safe enough to stop participating in the race. if you have been keeping up you will know that high level federal bureaucrats are now directly involved in openAI.
Like most things, the facts bear out the exact opposite. The CA HSR has been such a complete failure that it’s probably set back rail a decade or more. The only saving grace is Florida’s privatized high speed rail, otherwise it would be a completely failed industry.
What about https://lucia-auth.com/
Excellent comment. A “symptom” of schizophrenia is thinking that one does not have schizophrenia. A “heads I win tails you lose” situation where the single doctor is solely and individually responsible for diagnostics and treatment, but not liable. Criminals are given more rights and protection from abuse, and the legal systems has known and documented failures. For those who are labeled mentally ill there have not been established effective safeguards to protect and support those who might speak out, and by definition of competency their perspectives are not valid. Those who are economically incentivized to argue in favor of a biological explanation can be expected to do so, despite no personal expertise in the matter, and regardless of reproducible evidence.
There are a lot of poorly drafted laws on the books that people don't care about because the nefarious edge case isn't widely enforced. That doesn't make them good laws, it makes them quietly dangerous laws.

Also, in general any kind of "people support harsher X" where X is Think Of The Children-related will be true, but that's a heuristic for discovering bad laws that should be repealed because of the known effect that Think Of The Children rhetoric causes people to support bad laws.
I had a very short back and forth with someone here. One thing makes you wonder about another.

You calculate the cost of manufacturing hydrogen from water to feed into a the Haber-Bosch process to produce ammonia. All you are doing is replacing the existing steam reformer with an electrolysis plant.

But the what if is what if you can take a further step and directly create amino acids instead of ammonia. You go why do that. The answer is an acre of solar panels produces 25-50 times more energy than corn.
Doesn't he have a whole story about having to enforce the WordPress trademark against a company reselling rebranded GPL WordPress plugins as "pro" versions, jus a few weeks ago? Where did you stop watching? This comes up just after the first appearance of the cat.
I'm already keeping an eye on what NVidia gets into next... because that will inevitably be the "Next big thing". This is the third(ish) round of this pattern that I can recall, I'm probably wrong about the exact count, but NVidia is really good at figuring out how to be powering the "Next big thing". So alternatively... I should probably invest in the utilities powering whatever Datacenters are using the powerhungry monsters at the center of it all.
Off topic, if 'Three New York Cities' has the dimensions of power, and 'Three Mississippi' has the dimensions of time, we've got a starting point for a new system of units...
>what made him pathetic was

untreated (untreatable?) mental illness
Relative to the beginnings of the internet, your current internet bill is closer to "free" for communication than just about any other time in history. In 1996, AOL introduced their "unlimited" dialup plan. For a mere $19.95 / month, you too could browse the information super highway at a blisteringly fast 56kbps. At today's prices, that would make it $40 / month. But that was their unlimited plan. In 1995 AOL charged you $9.95 for 5 hours and the $2.50 per hour after that each month. Assuming you wanted 24/7 access like we all do these days, AOL would have cost you ~$1,800 per month, or ~$3,700 / month in today's money. Even assuming you don't want 24/7 access, the average internet user today supposedly spends 6 hours a day online[2]. Even at that rate you're still looking at ~$435 / month (or $898 / month today).

And that was just your access costs, you still needed to pay for the phone service. According to the FCC[1] you could expect to tack another $20 / month on to those costs, just for your local phone service. And all of that would have probably been enough to service one user online at a time. If you wanted multiple people in your household to be online at the same time, you at a minimum are going to want multiple phone lines, never mind the additional hourly access charges.

[1]: https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports/FC...

[2]: https://www.independent.co.uk/advisor/vpn/screen-time-statis...
Disappointed that YC helped with this.
Some feedback:
- The constant interrupting each other made it hard to listen to
- Also the interviewer Theo/T3.gg giving his CEO take on strategy to sandbag silverlake after finding out more context behind silverlake and automattic's relationship led me to have an unfavorable impression of the guy
Type-erased generic functions for C: A modest non-proposal
Not surprising tbh.
The concern is that near future systems will be much more capable than current systems, and by the time they arrive, it may be too late to react. Many people from the large frontier AI companies believe that world-changing AGI is 5 years or less away; see Situational Awareness by Aschbrenner, for example. There's also a parallel concern that AIs could make terrorism easier[1].

Yoshua Bengio has written in detail about his views on AI safety recently[2][3][4]. He seems to put less weight on human level AI being very soon, but says superhuman intelligence is plausible in 5-20 years and says:

> Faced with that uncertainty, the magnitude of the risk of catastrophes or worse, extinction, and the fact that we did not anticipate the rapid progress in AI capabilities of recent years, agnostic prudence seems to me to be a much wiser path.

Hinton also has a detailed lecture he's been giving recently about the loss of control risk.

In general, proponents see this as narrowly tailored bill to somewhat address the worst case worries about loss of control and misuse.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/28/ai_senate_bioweapon/

[2] https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/05/22/how-rogue-ais-may-arise/

[3] https://yoshuabengio.org/2023/06/24/faq-on-catastrophic-ai-r...

[4] https://yoshuabengio.org/2024/07/09/reasoning-through-argume...
most on the left have a strong support of Hamas.

"Most" do not. Some do, but they're a minority and it's mostly confused apologetics and certainly not "strong" support.

If you've been led to believe otherwise, then it's time to start taking a careful look at who's been drip-feeding you content that would cause you to do so, and why.
>delivery to residential customers and essential services should always be prioritized over industrial bulk purchasers.

This is not how the grid works in the US. Industrial is very frequently critical and gets higher priority over residential. Outages at major industrial operations can cost millions in lost revenue and can cause direct damage to hardware.

The grid absolutely is a market and should be. Reliable power at fixed prices is a thing you can try to buy from it, but that’s by no means guaranteed.
Closed source, and the HN account just for this purpose/service.
The tone is very calm, Mullenweg is vocally very soft spoken and I think it made sense for Theo to follow this. However he does confront him on some things. Especially here: https://youtu.be/OUJgahHjAKU?si=VnIqx8LPHcEXnTl-&t=2366
This is just a long way of saying "tl;dr", isn't it?
How tolerant of them. I saw someone get banned in the discord server LIVE, just because he thumbs downed a message by the community manager. How fragile an ego, how weak a person. Use your personal social media for the activism, not the company's official social media. I am not going to donate to this crazy org anymore.
No, it means creating a bunch of unprofitable businesses that make it really hard for folks trying to build a sustainable business without VC money.