skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 3 complementing theories:

1. Beyond self-learning, there's two types of education. Formal, college education that delves deep to both the CPU level and mathematical proofs of correctness, and coding bootcamps which teach how to do things, but little about how things work.

Frontend isn't taught in formal college education, so there's a big void in industry knowledge. Some people learn about compilers, interpreters, have used GDB and implemented malloc for school, but they aren't the ones doing frontend. Others are doing frontend but never think about memory usage, closure scopes, or garbage collection.

This leads to bad frontend code, that misuses resources.

2. JavaScript long had fame for being a "toy" or "joke" language. I noticed the tide slowly change by the mid 2010s— that's not that long ago.

Proportionally and compared to other technologies, how many engineers have had time to develop long careers, learn from mistakes, and become that serious, dress-shirt wearing, super-senior engineer sitting at the back of the room making sure young developers don't get too unhinged? This proportion is probably especially stark if you consider just how in-demand web development is.

This leads to bad frontend code, that misuses resources.

3. Finally, with the two above in mind, re-writes. Unexperienced teams are the first to opt for re-writes. It's a story as old as time; "we don't know how to fix A, so let's instead build a brand new thing B, which works differently to A and thus won't have its problems".

Re-writes always go well at first, because the fresh codebase will be smaller, faster, nicer and because everyone is especially cognisant of the problems A had, which are very much not present in B since it works differently.

Eventually of course, B grows bigger, and gets permanent hot-fixes, its requirements change, and bugs start to surface that nobody bothers understanding. A is also far enough in the past that nobody is thing about the problems A had anymore, and has more mind-space to notice the problems that are unique to B.

But before that happens, you get this sort of comments.
We knew how malleable they were immediately after WWII, but have since forgotten again.
I know it is not well written, but re-read my original comment. Your comment does not address fundamental aspects of my hypothetical, which doesn't require the agent having internal memory to keep secrets, or any lucid reasoning capabilities. A lot of the statements you make are highly presumptuous and unfounded.

LLMs don't need to print something obvious like "I am evil now!" in their own prompt window to simulate a conversation between an evil agent and a person. Do you remember GPT2, before all of the prompts? Researchers would give GPT2 the beginning of a news article for example, and it would extrapolate from there. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-6F4rhRYLQ). It's not inconceivable that an LLM sees a situation where the human agent is being deceived with a mechanism outside of their grasp, like the AI sees a "dogwhistle" that a human is being deceived and tries to predict what happens next in the conversation, which is that the human continues to be deceived.

I think it is pretty clear that if an LLM takes input where it observes another deceitful agent, it could attempt to simulate a deceitful output itself if it is well-trained. For example, imagine giving an LLM a poem in which the first letter of every line encodes a secret message (for example H E L P M E), and instructions to generate a response essay it might also encode a secret message back in its response. This isn't the result of any logical reasoning capability, just pattern recognition. You could understand how this might work with more subtle patterns.

There are patterns that can go into a context window that are undetectable by humans but detectable by large enough neural networks. That is fairly obvious. There are pattern-recognizing systems outside of LLMs which clearly have superhuman steganography abilities

The "table stakes" I've proposed are highly likely for future agents: (1) that agents like LLMs will produce deceitful output given input depicting a deceitful AI, (2) that agents like LLMs can detect and create patterns unrecognizable to humans.
that’s why i love HN. tnx for the links!
1(a) - Why does this distinction matter?

1(b) - I don't know.

2 - The current medical consensus is that not only has it not been eradicated -- it likely never will be.

Definitely mass hysteria.

To a partial extent it was. But it defintely wasn't simply a matter of mass hysteria.

Are you wiling to recognize that reality can sometimes have conflicting qualities -- e.g. there can be simultaneously "too much of a reaction" against a perceived threat; but also "some kind of serious response was needed; no one could possibly have known at the time what the optimal response would have been; sometimes it's better to err on the side of caution"?

Especially in regard to things like once-per-century pandemics, which are obviously still poorly understood?
Great work! Like a lot of millenials, I'm on call for any issues my parents have with their Android devices but I imagine there are a lot of elderly people out there without that support.
A prompt is not a substitute for a model that is specifically fine-tuned to do CoT with backtracking etc.
I've gotten a lot better at "shipping" hobby projects in the last few years.

I still start a whole bunch of things and then get busy or distracted or it stops being interesting or I hit a roadblock.

But a few years ago I started looking at my existing projects and deciding for each exactly what they need to be releasable. It doesn't mean done; just a good stopping point. And I just try to get there. And then I work on what is needed to release. It's documentation, READMEs, package management, installers, logos, screen shots, etc. And I treat all that as separate project.

For some reason thinking of the release as a separate project helps me to get it done.

And it's now a process that I can repeat over and over. I have all these defined steps that I do now when I release something and it becomes easier to do. Then, at least then if I never get back to one of these projects, I have contributed something to the world.
why? type inference is generally quite nice. Makes for clean code. One of the things I've enjoyed from using things like F#. All the advantages of strong and static typing without the cruft.
So you don't use hooks at all? The one great unification of state management that comes included?
would love some sources to learn more about how it works if you have any to recommend
Yes. My dad needs very explicit step-by-step instructions. Even to the point of I can't just say hit Ctrl-C. I have to tell him to hold down the Control key and then hit the C key while still holding down the Control key.
Well, regardless of what happens in Romania, I guarantee that this will be a factor in the US treatment of TikTok.

That site is fairly biased (but the same can be said for almost every news site).

It's not really "rigged," per se; it's more like throwing half a billion dollars worth of campaign contributions into the mix. We certainly saw similar, in the US, but it looks like Romania had zero safeguards.
Voters Broadly Positive About How Elections Were Conducted, in Contrast to 2020
The full title is:

> Voters Broadly Positive About How Elections Were Conducted, in Sharp Contrast to 2020
Why?

The explanation I've heard before is that when you need anything from a thoroughly corrupt government, as simple as a building permit or a visa for a foreign employee involved in a project, officials will simply not process your request without a bribe. They believe it is owed. End of story.

I don't like the explanation in the slightest. But I do see how it might shut down opportunity if you can't overpower the obstacles, and aren't willing to bribe.

The utility of US laws against bribing foreign officials is to break down the expectation by those officials of a bribe. But, from a game theory point of view, if China is willing to bribe, this becomes much less effective.
Thanks for the detail explanation. That's what I understand how React works.

Another thing I found un-intuitive with React is the state of multiple instances of the same component. The useState() hook basically references some global state in the global context. When the component is used in multiple places, i.e. <my-comp></my-comp> <my-comp></my-comp>, the useState() hook inside is called twice and somehow they get a different copy of the global state. I know the magic of the global array to track the states. It just feels a bit too magically.

I chuckle it's claimed that React component is functional. And cringe whenever people put out the UI=F(props) statement, as if calling F with the same props multiple times getting a different set of state values not the anti-thesis of being functional.
I've seen attempts to explain the system, but I've never seen them well-articulated. And I think the complexity is a major part of the problem where many are taken advantage of. Do insurance companies not share at least some of the blame in the system?
To be fair, having the “Sec” in your “DevSecOps” signify nothing whatsoever is basically the industry standard for companies describing their offerings with that term.
Out of all the possible futures to prepare for, no, I'm not preparing for the one that some hype farmer is squawking about on a billionaire's dead propaganda site, based on a theoretical technology that doesn't even exist.
10M fake accounts? I mean, that in and of itself is impressive. Apparently, it's easy to create fake accounts on TikTok still? How hard would that be today with FB, Twitt...er, X or any thing else really?
The hate was always there. It's just now newsworthy.
Same. That pricing change was one of the dumbest moves I can remember from a tech company. It should be the textbook example of a short-term profit grab at the complete sacrifice of long-term strategy.

I was a huge gitlab fan and would not have thought much of anything else, but the pricing made that impossible. The product has also suffered greatly as a result of the years of poor decision making at the top. It's one of the most unfortunate outcomes I can recall.
It's highly likely the FBI reached out to many of these organizations to do some initial contact and provide them some information regarding the current threat outlook. The worry is always copycats.

This strikes me as an overzealous internal response by the content team who otherwise doesn't know what to do with any of this. Since they're publicly traded all of this information is required to be in SEC reports anyways.
> It makes me wonder if anyone has tried to break down the layers to optimize this.

Yep. There was a bunch of proxy servers that optimized HTTP for satellite service. I used Globax back in the day to speed up one-way satellite service: https://web.archive.org/web/20040602203838/http://globax.inf...

Back then traffic was around 10 cents per megabyte in my city, so satellite service was a good way to shave off these costs.
If rendering or not can change the state, then your UI is not a function of your state.
If you were going to do something like this, you have very very little hope of ever living under your original identity (you'd probably have to be without papers or flee the country), so getting some kind of very high interest loan to buy gear would be rational no matter what you had to lose.

While the weapon itself was certainly expensive, I don't know how anyone can tell the price of the fairly generic clothes from the blurry footage.
My iPhone autocorrects two consecutive hyphens to an em dash. I’m fairly sure it’s not something I configured manually, so I assume it is or was a default. Possibly a component of the “smart punctuation” setting for the keyboard.
Why do a lot of people here hate react so much? I started my eng career with Laravel and plain JS. After working with React, I've never seen anything like it. I feel like building scalable apps is achievable and front end is fun with it. Even when moving between different tech companies, working with React again is such a breeze and easy to pick up. On top of that, with the TS support, huge community libraries, I feel like I can build and scale anything quite easily.
why are these new features "scaring" people away? we can still build with SPA or the old ways. I don't think anyone complaints when NoSQL DB was released or when spring boot was released in 2014? what about when Kotlin was released? we don't have to use them if you don't want it.

Weren't jetpack compose and swift UI inspired by React? I saw it somewhere in the android docs and now its probably deleted, I can't find it anymore.

But then again, I don't have "decade" of experience in tech, yet. I have no idea if building huge web apps (i.e airbnb) using jquery or plain js with large teams is as enjoyable back then? My thought process is changed, I can't even think on how to solve the state management, dom manipulation, side effects etc with plain js anymore.

Nowadays I just built on what I'm familiar with and focus on what I want to build. who knows, maybe in the future I will also complaint about new frameworks and mention how good React was :)
Are you sure you replied to the right post? Your reply doesn't seem to address either of the two points in the post to which you replied.
I spent $200 for o1 pro mode so you don't have to. Give me some prompts
Trying to obscure information from people has never backfired in the history of the internet, and certainly nobody will be motivated to publicize the information further.
Many options , older companies like IBM, Google, SAP, Oracle or even Salesforce (already own heroku in dev tooling space so not far fetched ) with stable or slowing market presence in engineering departments

Mid sized newer companies likes Hashicorp or datadog or vercel who target developers as customers .

Gitlab gives access to a large audience of developers to cross sell most dev tools so all these orgs can get a lot of returns paying more than the standalone value of gitlab itself.

The best fit would be companies like Hashicorp who have strong open source pedigree so users won’t be turned off and leave
> the commenter known as Reddit
I'm sure it underwent contraction along one axis.
And what is driving this large cause in administrative overhead? Something about a doctor having to write letters to justify anti-emetics for a pediatric cancer patient to the insurance company?
Dental and bone x-rays appear to require hard x-rays.

I believe the novelty here is that the produced x-rays are in a tight range of wavelengths, and that the range can be adjusted.
There's so little said about how it does what it does. The Github README says:

> The Acton Run Time System (RTS) offers a distributed mode of operation allowing multiple computers to participate in running one logical Acton system. Actors can migrate between compute nodes for load sharing purposes and similar. The RTS offers exactly once delivery guarantees. Through checkpointing of actor states to a distributed database, the failure of individual compute nodes can be recovered by restoring actor state. Your system can run forever!

> NOTE: Acton is in an experimental phase and although much of the syntax has been worked out, there may be changes.

I'd like a lot more info on how this checkpointing mechanism and discovery/communication works.
> if we tell it "Don't start your writing with 'dive into'", it will just switch to "delve into" or another synonym.

LLMs can radically change their style, you just have to specify what style you want. I mean, if you prompt it to "write in the style of an angry Charles Bukowski" you'll stop seeing those patterns you're used to.

In my team for a while we had a bot generating meeting notes "in the style of a bored teenager", and (besides being hilarious) the results were very unlike typical AI "delvish".
In the early days of ChatGPT, I'd get constantly capped, every single day, even on the paid plan. At the time I was sending them messages, begging to charge me $200 to let me use it unlimited.

Finally!..
First ultra naive impression: Pony with orthogonal persistence.

Doing some searches based on that, I enjoy/endorse the "natural progression" analogy in https://github.com/actonlang/acton/discussions/1400#discussi...
Just? You don't think the model is as capable when the context does fit?
1. How many would you consider an acceptable number of deaths?

2. No, Covid is still very much around, and people are still very much dying from it. It was the 10th most common cause of deaths in 2023, and a lot of people have lingering symptoms.
for a second I thought it was a link to the "Action!" language which was a cool little language for the Atari 8bit computers back in the day, it came as a plugin cartridge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%21_%28programming_langu...?
There must have been, but also - Thompson was in town for the Investor Conference at a hotel nearby. I'm sure UHC had hotel rooms blocked for it. Call hotels nearby, and look has no rooms available for the duration of the conference, as a starting point (if I recall correctly, people on Reddit used it to call BS on a last minute music concert/festival cancellation in Vegas. "We've just found out about this today", "So why did you release the block of rooms you were holding at the hotel last week?").
I have good experience in both and I will say that AI sql generators assume unambiguous data estate names and addition descriptions which is not common in large organizatuions.SQL AI is currently an academic exercise
I just use it because it's grammatically correct—admittedly I should use it less, for example here.
When you say "write a solution without ui", do you mean "write a frontend solution without a ui"? What's a frontend solution without ui? I thought all of UI code was intended to serve the frontend.

Are you referring to Electron apps or something?
- Previously in 2017, Bill Staples was brought in Marketo for the sole purpose of prepping the company before selling. 2018, Marketo was acquired by Adobe.

- 2021, Bill becomes CEO of NewRelic. 2023, NewRelic was acquired.

I'm seeing a pattern here.
Cause the "experts" did such a good job last time.

I learned from the last pandemic that the so called "experts" were in fact incompetent at best and power tripping political ideologues at worst. It was crazy watching the last 100 years of germ theory and infectious disease get thrown out and start over from scratch

1. The virus isnt real it's a conservative conspiracy

2. The virus is real but isnt spreading human to human (it obviously was at this point)

Bonus: Thinking the virus came from a lab doing research on that exact virus in proximity to the first cases was a conservative conspiracy instead of an obvious first guess

3. The virus is spreading human to human but not through the air (it obviously was highly probable given respiratory symptoms)

4. Masks dont work

5. Masks do work

6. Masks do work and you should always wear outside your house but not needed at BLM protests

7. The social distancing rules had zero scientific backing
The person that thinks they're above propaganda is the one most swayed by it.
Dependency arrays are leaky.
I'm pretty sure nobody understands the healthcare system.

But rather than getting bogged down in all of the regulatory-captured details that of course just sum up to the broken system we have, let's put the bare reality quite plainly: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable".

Political campaigns rejecting government-based reform only work if the industry uses the breathing room to clean up their act on their own. When it throws those political campaigns out there in bad faith merely to run interference so it can continue collecting rent while not actually reforming, eventually people will have had enough and cheer on escalations past those neutralized avenues of reform.
You may not "think" so, but you would be completely wrong because you're ignorant about the basics of US law. Boeing as a corporation and their shareholders are separate legal entities.
> On today’s earnings call, I am announcing that I am transitioning from my role as GitLab’s CEO and will serve as the Executive Chair of the Board. I want more time to focus on my cancer treatment and health. My treatments are going well, my cancer has not metastasized, and I'm working towards making a full recovery. Stepping down from a role that I love is not easy, but I believe that it is the right decision for GitLab.

He has cancer.
If anything, it would seem to make convicting actual criminals much harder since the ubiquitous use of AI renders all photo and video evidence useless to prove a crime “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Previously, of course, those things could be faked but because of the skill required to do so, it would make it less plausible to question their legitimacy “beyond the reasonable doubt.” There’s also the fact of that would have required a human to do so.

Now, images can be modified at their source programmatically which throws questionable chain of custody into the mix as well.
> COVID is everywhere but no one does anything

The virus is weaker. We understand it better, which means better diagnosis and treatment. And we have vaccines, which reduce the burden on the hospitals.
Well, that rule would apply to people who are generally arrogant.
TikTok is rife with russian sock puppet accounts run by trolls that try and persuade people. Look at any of the political posts and then check out the accounts posting pro-red and anti-blue sentiments. There is a clear pattern to their accounts.
There's some parts that are definitely LLM assisted
yeah, the product is great, but the pricing is a mess. If whoever buys it sorts that out it could be a win.
Prediction: CEO salaries increase to account for hazard pay.
at least not until we can scrub our about us executive web pages.
> On today’s earnings call, I am announcing that I am transitioning from my role as GitLab’s CEO and will serve as the Executive Chair of the Board. I want more time to focus on my cancer treatment and health. My treatments are going well, my cancer has not metastasized, and I'm working towards making a full recovery. Stepping down from a role that I love is not easy, but I believe that it is the right decision for GitLab.

Indeed, he has cancer.
I think this comment betrays the reality of Americans interaction with healthcare insurance. It’s not about regulatory awareness, but angst over the system - People die because of the decisions made by insurance companies.

If you read or hear the things people are saying, they’re expressing frustration over the way they’re treated by insurance providers and their policies. The costs across the industry are insane, and insurance companies sit at the intersection of all the money, leaching away 15-20% (your numbers) as profit. Go to a Reddit thread about this murder, and you’ll hear stories of all sorts of families who faced existential questions of paying exorbitantly for or losing access to necessary healthcare. Because of a UnitedHealth policy.

It’s a boiling point of the increasingly divided society with growing wealth inequality. It doesn’t matter what the regulations say, people are suffering and they’re lashing out. The narrative isn’t actually about UnitedHealthcare and their profits.
Which competitors are ahead of them and how are they ahead exactly?

They have the best selling vehicle in the world...
> other than available libraries

That's doing a *lot* of heavy lifting here. That's like saying "D is infinitely better than C++, except for available libraries".

While my current Electron personal project will probably use Vue because I want to learn it, the change in libraries (and lack of plug-and-play support for whole companies' provided frameworks) is a real barrier to entry for a lot of work.