skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're building a product that revolves around React and Typescript and include an email specifically for receiving investors, so it's reasonable that they'd talk up both technologies.
The design flaw was insisted upon by the (original) dutch customer, and the owner seemed pretty proud of the tall mast too. Caveat emptor.
Fantasy artist Greg Hildebrandt passes away at age 85
Call me jaded but

> Stay tuned for exciting updates to come.

the vast majority of the time the exciting updates end up being:

1. The product you know and love will continue with no difference! We just have free funding! Isn't that great!

2. We have stopped sales of the product, but don't worry, if you already own it you can continue to use it.

3. On X date it will stop working. Please migrate over to [other thing] which only has a smallsubset of the features you came to us for. Thank you for coming on this wonderful adventure with us, we are so grateful that you trusted us, though obviously this was misplaced. Byeeeeee.

which, in fairness, is quite "exciting" if you rely on the software / service. Just not pleasantly exciting.
> you can think that today's llms are going to be the same tomorrow as scaling is exponential

Irrelevant (even if true, which is far from established); they're still not going to suddenly become capable of reasoning. They will still 'hallucinate' (terrible euphemism, that, but we are where we are).

> how there is expert consensus on it but still not get it.

Only one of the people you mentioned could be considered an expert (Hinton). And he's an expert his a history of very wrong predictions about this sort of thing. There is _by no means_ expert consensus on this.
Wait, so adding clickable links would make it more useful after being printed??

In all seriousness, I, too, immediately wanted to buy it for the coffee table and to thumb through for inspiration in an analog way.
Indeed - that fact was already established 17 years ago ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--szrOHtR6U
I am a Pixelmator Pro user and this move does not surprise me. The app has a very "first party, use MacOSX the way it is supposed to be used" feel to it and their website has always looked a lot like Apple's. I can't imagine them ever wanting to port the code to another OS.

I purchased Pixelmator Pro years ago. I think I bought it for half price in a sale but even at the current listed price of $50 it is a steal. I am in not way a pro image editor but it has done everything I needed it to.
This is the market GIMP needed to fill but doesn't. It's definitely capable but it's never been "friendly and pleasant" to my eye.
Yeah, I believe this intuition first introduced by the Neural Turing Machine line-of-work and later simplified into AIAYN paper (NTM maintains "external memory" a.k.a. weight_keys, weight_values here).

Disclaimer: these are from my memory, which can be wrong entirely.
No, that's the "homing system" side of this analogy. GP is talking about some sort of poison (chemo), but I don't know which one or what the paranoia is about.
Also wouldn’t a DNA sequence get more likely as time goes on as it builds from the past and is not uniformly random? In the mokey/typewriter thought experiment no previous correct keystroke makes the next keystroke more likely to be correct. However, with DNA/life once it starts the next iteration is more likely to be better since it has the previous success to build upon.
I like Ink as an idea for how to use React creatively. It’s very well done.
At the same I think most CLIs do not need this kind of interaction. It is better to keep them simple and verbose rather than fancy and obscured.
I spent a long time removing Ink from an enterprise tool where it didn’t fit as it was meant more for CI/CD. Not this tools fault of course.
Granted, the schedule is of maximum generosity. But does it not seem unfair to ask a monkey to compose the entire works of Shakespeare, considering Shakespeare himself might have been incapable of such a feat?

And while it may take an army of them, we know these creatures are at least capable, collectively, of operating the Daily Mail, which is still all pretty early given the time remaining.

My fingers are crossed and I still have hope
Brilliant. You ought to write for a living if you don't already.
Adguard on my iphone.

Firefox with Ublock Origin on my browser.

Youtube Premium family plan.

I tried pihole but it just caused way too many small hiccups that annoyed my family more.
For some, including C and C++, the standards committee works in the open and make draft standards freely available. The final draft is [edit: almost] exactly what was voted on to become the standard.
I mean this is a really simply thing to work out. There are 30^n strings of length n that can be made by mashing a 30 key keyboard. The time to the heat death of the universe is 10^100 years which is approximately 30^72 seconds. Your odds of getting a string of length n in the lifetime of the universe is

( number of monkeys * typing rate in characters per second * 30^72 ) / 30^n

The authors plugged in 200,000 (=30^3.5) and 1, meaning their odds are 30^75.5 / 30^n = 30^(75.5-n)

For a string of less than 69 characters, the odds are fantastic. For a string of more than 82 characters the odds are abysmal. At 69 the odds of the substring existing are roughly equivalent to losing the lottery, and at 82 the odds are equivalent to winning the lottery.

Shakespeare's shortest sonnet, 126, is a string of 533 characters.
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UTF-8 is simply an encoding; "UTF-8 characters" is just not correct use of language. Just like, say, "binary number"; a number has the same value regardless of the base you use to write it, and the base is a scheme for representing it, not a system for defining what a number is. This is a common imprecision in language which I have seen cause serious difficulties in learning concepts properly.
The most likely thing by far is that the download failed part way through, but the error was never reported, or the reported error was never checked.

Also, it's quite possible that the HTTP client didn't even know that the download failed: a common pattern is for the server to send a Content-Length of 0, and simply close the connection when it's done sending all of the traffic (i.e. set the TCP FIN flag on the last data packet). If the server decides to abandon the connection early for any reason, then it will... close the connection - which the client will just interpret as the end of the body, and have no idea that the file failed to download fully.
> A few billion seems like not enough time.

Where would you get an intuition about how much time a billion years is? Or for what is "mind boggingly complex" and what not? How many eons have you lived? People who claim it is possible have better arguments than "to me it seems". Do you have a number for "this would seem to me as enough time"?

Do you also struggle with the idea of a poll being close to the truth when done on a sample of 1000 persons, out of tens or hundreds of millions? Math and science are often not intuitive. But they work.
What makes React great is that you write a UI tree that updates when state changes instead of imperative code like a clearRect() + drawLine() cycle.

This project and others like React Native show that it works outside of the DOM: you just render something else instead.

Thinking that React is only helpful for DOM UI seems like a misunderstanding of what React is and what makes it great.
Some people may not be familiar with the fact that BlackMagic Design incorporated its motion graphics and VFX package, Fusion, into Resolve a few years ago. It's an incredibly powerful compositing package, though its node-based architecture may present a nontrivial learning curve for people accustomed to the pre-comping workflow of AE.
> Code bases in Cocoa were too heavy to switch to Swift

C#, not Cocoa. Cocoa is an API. You can write a Cocoa application in Swift, if you really want to (but you should really use SwiftUI for anything new)
I believe the Logic team are still based in Germany, where the original Emagic team that produced Logic were based, so it's not that they are languishing, but an intentional decision has been made (either by them or Apple) to keep this structure.

Logic has such a long history, it's not surprising that it shows it's age, and has 'weird' behaviour that you wouldn't choose today. It's got stuff in there from the early 90s, as it started out as a midi sequencer before pulling audio into the product.
You can now run prompts against images, audio and video in terminal using LLM
> Why would it have to re-occur again and again? If the mutation is beneficial to the reproductive success of an organism, by definition their mutation will be passed on with no need for it to occur again by chance.

Are you certain this is correct? An individual with a genetic mutation does not necessarily pass it down to its offspring, even if it was beneficial, in my understanding. So there is a probability p of passing it down and 1-p of not doing so.

In the latter case, the beneficial mutation is lost. Now the way evolutionists seem to "solve" this is by conjecturing that since the mutation is beneficial, it will arise in multiple individuals independently and eventually get passed down. Even if I grant this, it makes the statistics once again much more unlikely for this to occur.

> The predictions of evolution are generally supported by the available evidence at any rate ...

Depends which subarea of evolution. No actual speciation based on random mutation has ever been observed (let alone ones predicted by evolution) as far as I'm aware.

Micro-evolution or expression of previously not-expressed but already present genes is a different topic, and not something I have issues with.

All I say is evolution is at best insufficient to explain us. And we haven't even touched consciousness.
Good catch! Indeed, without me realizing it, this trigger/data duality is pretty much what Event Message and Document Message are in "Enterprise Integration Patterns" (which is what the post you linked refers to). As it happens, in the book the authors also speak about "a combined document/event message", which is how me mostly use events in EDA today, I think.
Yeah for "Semantic Hashes" (that's a good word for them!) we'd need some sort of "Canonical LLM" model that isn't necessarily used for inference, nor does it need to even be all that smart, but it just needs to be public for the world. It would need to be updated like every 2 to 5 years tho to account for new words or words changing meaning? ...but maybe could be updated in such a way as to not "invalidate" prior vectors, if that makes sense? For example "ride a bicycle" would still point in the same direction even after a refresh of the canonical model? It seems like feeding the same training set could replicate the same model values, but there are nonlinear instabilities which could make it disintegrate.
The final draft is [edit: almost] exactly what was voted on to become the standard.
That's more or less my life, except that I don't live somewhere walkable, and do still buy groceries in person (although I will, especially when my mobility/fatigue/general health issues acting up, use their curbside service), but that store is a 2 minute drive from my house. As I mentioned, I have medical issues that are currently rather sucky and limiting, and being chronic, largely irreversible conditions, well, they aren't gonna get better. Maybe with stem cells one day... Anyway, point being that these sort of services (which, in my case, can also be stuff like... buying the pre-cut fruit rather than whole) can be a pretty big deal for the disabled.
Logic Pro has both of those features: https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/edit-fades-lgcpf7c0... https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/snap-edits-to-zero-...
Yes you are. You probably live in the US, Canada or the UK.
A large number of statistical packages in R make use of C++ for their core algorithms. See here, for example: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html
Frustrating that we’ve seem to built thousands of assumptions on an unproven base.
Hasn't Apple just discontinued Vision Pro?
I've searched for ISO specs there before and come up empty-handed. Maybe I was querying it wrong?
it doesn't? I never heard pops when trimming clips
LOL. Yes, of course. It'll probably go terribly.
I think the point was that cross-platform is mothballed now, there probably won't be a windows version of pixelmator now.
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> Metal porting is the only official supported way to go.

Apple already provides its own native implementation of a DirectX to Metal emulation layer.
Tell me you don't manage a lot of people without telling me you don't manage a lot of people.

In some roles you have to over-communicate. All people -- me included-- over estimate how carefully they pay attention to communication. So people will say you could have just sent me an email in good faith and sincerity and the reality is that would not have gotten the point across, the discussion started, or coordination happening.
Some people here seem to have a hard time understanding that React !== DOM

React is descriptive. It creates a virtual tree and tells how that tree should be changed.

What that tree renders into is a completely different problem. On the web, it renders into HTML. On your phone (ReactNative), it renders into native GUI. In ink, it uses a render engine to concat and output the text results (it's a little more complex than that as it uses Yoga[0] today).

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On acquisitions like DarkSky (RIP), sure. This looks a lot more like a Logic-style acquisition.

Pixelmator would slot nicely into the same consumer set of productivity apps that ship with all Macs (Pages, Numbers, Keynote). Photomator will get them back into the market they abandoned when Aperture was shuttered.

Speaking of Aperture… am I the only person who remembers that Apple owns Claris? Why didn't Apple just hand off Aperture to Claris and say "just keep this thing working on new MacOS releases"?
About 15 years ago my wife needed a fair amount of dental work due to a dentist screwing up her mouth in childhood. We traveled to Brazil and got the work done by a dentist that my family knew and spent a week hanging out with my family there. The cost including travel and the dentist, etc. was far less that what the US dentist quoted and my wife hasn't had a dental problem since. The procedures were far less invasive than what was recommended by the US.

Too many people uncritically accept the highly motivated claims of experts. Fortunately, if you get a second opinion from another dentist, they are unlikely to imagine the exact same set of fake problems as the first dentist.
Just because something isn't legally owed, doesn't mean people shouldn't demand it.
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IMHO, against of this is really a problem of "monkeys will never type Shqakespeare", but more a problem of "can LLMs create a human-like-inspired-artwork"
Washing and folding clothes won't become obsolete. But washing machines might. The robot can "hand" wash your clothes while you sleep. You can reclaim the space that your washing machine took up. Same with the dishwasher. No need to save labor means no need for labor saving devices!
one hundred percent - and i felt like when they initially launched garageband they were doing a great play to get people (particularly folks who dabble and school kids) invested in the logic-style workflow to build up their familiarity so that folks entering the industry would demand it in their workplaces... and then it all just fell off. they actually seemed to want to have that kind of flow in place for basically every kind of professional tool! imovie->FCP and garageband->logic being the prime examples (or maybe only, I guess) that I can think of.

I assume there was some shift in how they thought about serving professionals and where apple's place in the work ecosystem was because the beginning of the end for apple pro software in terms of prominence aligned roughly, it seems, with things like the discontinuation of the xserve line (which itself wound down as apple seemed to rebrand itself as a consumer device company first on the heels of the iPhone's success.)
I am genuinely curious if those barriers have technical justifications. There's a pretty stark difference (to me, at least) between ignoring standards in order to reinvent better wheels and intentionally diverging from standards to prevent compatibility.

It's a question of whether they're _not_ investing resources to maintain standard behavior or they are actively investing resources to diverge from it. If it's the former, I don't find any fault in it, personally speaking.
I wonder if there is room for a service that just performs X-rays and passes them through some kind of AI model as a kind of a "dental fizz-buzz." Surely they wouldn't have any perverse incentives in that case.
Chrome with Ublock origin until June 2025, as "browsers using the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will be exempt from any browser changes until June 2025". Discussion on how to enable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41812638
The main worry is that it will be an acquihire into the Photos app and Apple doesn’t actually want to have a separate image editor (let alone two).

They used to have Aperture competing with Lightroom and then decided pro photography wasn’t a space they needed to be in, has something changed where now they want their own Photoshop competitor?
RIP Pixelmator.
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Bring more monkeys!
CK standardization was before my Lisp time, but from the historical accounts that I read about, many people in the Lisp world were unhappy because Common Lisp didn't have this or that from whatever they were working on, and because CL was standard they would have to use it.

CL is fairly carefully designed with regards to compiling. This is why math functions are not generic for instance. Redefining standard functions is undefined behavior, as a self-modifying code. It omits features that don't integrate well with conventional run time and machine models like continuations. It doesn't even require implementations to optimize tail calls.

I have no idea why ANSI CL has such a large page count. In my mind it's such a small language. I think it could have benefited from an editorial pass to get it down to 600-something pages. But that would have delayed it even longer.

Once the horse escapes the barn it's risky. When you rewrite technical text you can very easily change the meaning of something, or take a particular interpretation where multiple are possible and such.
I'm curious how developers that use React, but have never written an application using the MVC paradigm, would describe React.
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US FTC probing Deere over customers' 'right to repair' equipment
In 1998, the Web was incomparably smaller. Google could put their whole infra into a dozen boxes, and then grow along with the Web, gradually. Modern competitors don't have this advantage.

By now, crawling and indexing is a herculean task, and also quite expensive, due to the sheer size. There is Common Crawl [1]; at 400 TiB it is huge, but at 60 days refresh interval it's far from being very comprehensive or very fresh. Good for research, but likely not good for a commercial search engine.

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It’s a lot easier to kill a person than to kill a company.
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