skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit off topic, it took me a while to figure out that the article is about “handling errors in clojure in an idiomatic way” and not “error prone clojure code that gets written so often it can be considered idiomatic”. Especially since some of these can be controversial, e.g. error maps.
It sounds like they were worrying about Demis Hassabis rather than Putin.
I only was offered to select top level folders. Nothing below them.
Well, the HTML spec is missing that, has been for decades despite people asking for it, and to my knowledge has never even made it to a roadmap.
> This is like calling the constructor of an OO class a pure function.

No, because again I must stress that you cannot control the injected state. You merely ask React to set state in the next render. The next call to your function may not have the new state! React can and will call your component function multiple times with different values of state, so you must assume it could be anything. This is why component functions must be written without any side effects, because there is no way for you to know which invocation React will actually persist to the DOM. For this reason, you really are writing a pure function with respect to props and state. It's a requirement in React!

> There's no difference in handling state update ordering between React and others.

The huge difference is that because state is fixed within a render cycle, it is not possible to read an intermediate value. You can't get in a situation where one handler updates a state value, and another (or the same) handler reads that new value within the same render cycle. That's the sort of order-dependent nonsense that can make a component very buggy and fall into an inconsistent state.

> Both of these are because React's inability to detect changes to state updates in a comprehensive and fine grained way.

That's because React is built in a way to provide a set of very specific guarantees when it comes to managing state and rendering it. You are free to come up with "simpler" solutions, but you are going to have to sacrifice some of these guarantees for that simplicity. React component functions have no side effects, and are defined completely declaratively. That is extremely powerful with a lot of advantages, such as being trivially composable. It is extremely easy to extract functionality out of a component and turn it into a reusable hook, because everything is already stateless.

If you ditch all that just so you can use variables, you lose all of those benefits. You'll have to deal with truly stateful components, ones that are path dependent and difficult to reproduce for debugging. By contrast, you can reproduce any React component's UI by passing in the same props and state. This is only possible because state is external to the component and out of your control.
> Apple turning our devices into jail cells.

> These tech titans need to be regulated.

You say this as though anyone buying a Macbook in the past decade reserves the right to be surprised. New Trump administration isn't going to budge on this - he's actually rather upset at the EU for how they've been treating his good friend Tim Apple. Chances are, he likes this lockdown and wants Americans to accept it.

If you're an American owner of Apple hardware, you've involuntarily signed yourself up for the Apple Isolationist program. There is no government to save you, and no god Apple will answer to.
Depends on what you’re serving up. Blog? Yes. Video game? No.
I did not understand how to play at first. What's the connection between the numbers of the clues and the placement on the board?

The example has the following clues:

ACROSS
1.Common breakfast drink
3.Not in operation
5.Underground resources
7.Chinese capital
9.Faculty of perception

But the grid is 5x5
Why doesnt money work for Kim Dotcom?
> fresh microroasted beans

I am not a coffee drinker. What does this mean?
> If you or I killed a half a million people, we wouldn't be facing 20 years in prison. We'd be lucky to not be facing a firing squad or a noose.

Yeah, Martin Elling made 2 million in political donations over the years: https://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-company-oxycontin-d...

> During the past two decades, Elling has spread nearly $2 million among dozens of federal-level political committees, almost all Democratic. The political committees of President Joe Biden and dozens of US Senate and House candidates have benefited from Elling's contributions.
I didn't recommend it, I offered three options (one specifically created to fix the exact issue you're probably complaining about - GIMP's horrendous UI)
pymupdf has a commercial licence that couldb be a problem if use in a compagny.
Space is a lot bigger and a lot nearer
They are not free
sorry, where is the off by one? the code offered is of course only a solution for the fixed-size groups
Nothing new is really said? Yet, things are going to happen!
AIs will need to start asking people questions. Should make for some very strange phone calls.
Tracking AI bias with political compass
Half an hour of talk with his relatives, friends, girlfriend etc and I can suggest if he or someone else murdered him. I doubt the police will go such hassle
An important point from this talk:

The better the models are at reasoning, the less predictable they become.

This is analogous to top chess engines which make surprising moves that even human super grandmasters can't always understand.

Thus, the future will be unpredictable (if superintelligence takes control).

Link to the full talk & the time he talks about this: https://youtu.be/1yvBqasHLZs?si=3M6eZCQtXnW2tSUd&t=866
Humans doesn't need trillions of tokens to reason or ability to know what they know. While a certain part of it comes from evolution, I think we have already matched the part that came from evolution using internet data, like basic language skills, basic world modelling. Current pretraining takes lot more data than a human would, and you don't need to look into all Getty images to draw a picture and so would a self aware/improving model(whatever that means).

To reach expert level in any field, just training next tokens for internet data or any data is not the solution.
You suggested it was a joke and unlikely, and then said you'd need more evidence. This suggests you are skeptical that the US healthcare system works this way and that you are rejecting the claims of the article.

Anyone with experience with US healthcare would find this story immediately plausible, and the burden of proof is low. It's how Americans would expect the system to operate. Even if they hope it didn't.
Suchir’s suicide (if it was a suicide) is a tragedy. I happen to share some of his views, and I am negative on the impact of current ML tech on society—not because of what it can do, but precisely because of the way it is trained.

The ends do not justify the means—and it is easy to see the means having wide-ranging systemic effects besides the ends, even if we pretended those ends were well-defined and planned (which, aside from the making profit, they are clearly not: just think of the nebulous ideas and contention around AGI).
Security Review for Mullvad VPN [pdf]
Wine 10.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
All of those work. As for bluetooth, I can connect multiple bluetooth headphones and playback audio at the same time. This is a bit fiddly, but I wouldn't even know where to start on some other systems.
Not enough of it, not hooked into the right systems. It works for Elon Musk because he has a lot more and because he controls critical piece of infrastructure (starlink, SpaceX) that the defense industry needs.
Thank you. I used the word inane for a reason.
My bext comouter will not be a Mac. Works nice but the lock-in is crazy all the time.
Mentioned was a pretty fundamental issue with time machine, to this day. In that it doesn't (de)allocate older backed up space to make for up space for newer back ups. This or some variations of that.

The bug may not always manifest itself I suppose which makes it worse emotionally.

I'm there setting on a 1tb backup disk dedicated to backup a 500GB root HDD, it keeps saying there isn't enough space available after 1h sorting out what needs copied over. Deleted a series a snapshot but it won't tell what doing this is saving me. I can only resort to wipe the entire backup and backup again. Now wondering, what if I deleted some documents a while back which I thought would have a snap. Do I care more about getting a fresh backup or unweilded snapshots that may or may not contain something I don't know I've lost.
I have only ever used GIMP and I will admit that the UI looks like hell. I also rarely do anything very advanced in it anymore so I can’t say whether it has feature parity with PS.
This recap misses one major point from the talk.

He mentions that biologically all mammals follow a scaling law of body size to brain size. The glaring exception is hominids, the ancestors of and present day humans. So there is a way that's different than everything else.

Meaning, just because the scaling law of data to AI quality is what we see right now, it doesn't mean a new fundamental paradigm or architecture can't come around and change that scaling law significantly on us. There's precedent for that.
I disagree with Medicare for all and single payer.

The role of govt is a catch 22 - it is by design a monopoly, and monopolies are usually inefficient, so too much govt power gets monopoly capture but too little means govt can’t break the monopolies.

The largest issue with US healthcare is lack of price-quality transparency and competition.

This means tons of middle player monopolies e.g PBMs.

I can’t go shop around for a procedure on a marketplace and pay out of pocket, the same rates an insurer would.

I can’t deal directly with service provider or the labs. It has to be intermediaries.

The # of medical licenses are capped, they’re not growing in proportion to population.

Demand-supply dynamics, the basis of capitalism is wildly inefficient in US.

Get rid of employer given insurers, make a law that insurers cannot negotiate a lower price than out of pocket price. Every procedure price should be openly put on an easily searchable marketplace.

Make it easy to start new practices, more doctors and nurses and hospitals.

The prices will come down.

Single payer is a bandaid fix. It does nothing to fix the supply problem.
Do you feel the same way about SSR for non static websites vs an SPA?
So Luon has reference types and value types, and reference types are always nullable?
I invested in a couple of fusion startups (because why the hell not?), and the word on the street is that flexible tapes/wires are still not a solved question. Nobody can make them with consistent quality in large enough batches.
> Thus, the future will be unpredictable (if we let superintelligence take control)

As opposed to the predictable future we've had for the past few decades?
Quantum computers are never* going to be good at a whole lot of tasks that classical computers are already used for.

* Some people have weird ideas.
> Second person told me to buy a new Mac with 2 tb ssd and restore to that.

Or you can just upgrade the SSD as you would do with any normal laptop. Oh, wait...
Yup both Mac and Windows have a better replacement now: Linux. Thanks to all the hardware vendors and Valve, Linux has become a better desktop alternative for sure.
I have been using gimp for almost a decade now.

Granted, I am not a professional in that field, but why would I not recommend it ?

It does everything I want to, and more.
Wow this is super cool! Will you use something to draw this on a map? If so what? Is it the same data format available in Europe and North America? What is something you suspected was going to be trivial and turned out to be extremely difficult?
The fines are the negotiated outcome after you have directed prior sums through the right lobbyists and law firms.
So you were only trying to say that page refreshed aren’t common on some subset of pages where it isn’t common? What’s the point of that argument.

Also curious, why are you arguing so intensely for a “solution” that seems to only be worse and introduces issues as explained, without ever having stated any problem you are trying to solve with the change?
Every single developed country today touting moral rights has its foundation in those "wrongs". Its citizens gleefully consuming the resources those "wrongs" have created, so they can preach morality online.

It is the nature of life itself to "kill and perform violence", children and otherwise. "The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must".

Death is, as of now, life's only mechanism for iteration in its process of endless prototyping.

Every marvel that humankind has produced has its roots in extreme violence. From the creation of Ancient Greece to the creation of the United States, children had to die horrible deaths so that these things could come to be.

Anyone can make arbitrary claims about what's right and what's wrong. The only way to prove such a claim is through victory, and all victory is violence against the loser.
> dd would do it, but at great cost in flexibility (can’t back up to a smaller disk, or select files) and speed

I mean if we are talking about copying the whole OS or disk, that is a very macro operation. The fine-tuning can be done at the target location after copy like removing unwanted files/resizing partitions etc. No idea how slow would dd be but I thought you could specify larger blocksize for better performance (hoping someone more knowledgeable on dd can add their views).
LBC Tracking – Track and Trace Your LBC Express Packages
I don't know what you mean by "professional level" which is quite the shift from titled player, as you originally proposed. Kramnik, for instance, has estimated Steinitz (in modern times) would be around 2400 and Lasker around 2700. [1] Chigorin was +24−27=8 against Steinitz, and +1 -8 =4 against Lasker. He would definitely be a master.

There are plenty of examples in modern times as well, but the problem we face is you're only going to run into people who publicize themselves unless you just dig through each master level player in the USCF, FIDE or whatever database. For instance I know Rolf Wetzell wrote a book about his journey from class player to becoming a master at the age of 50! Then there was Michael de la Maza who wrote a book about going from 1100 or something to 2000 as an adult, but retired at that point because he didn't want to put in the work to go further. I'm sure if you dig through the databases, you can find far more striking examples than these two - again those two I only know because they both wrote books, and of all people who achieve significant success as adults and write, only a tiny percent will publish books about it!

And in modern times another group you might run into is people like me. I started as an adult, have only played one rated tournament otb, but am around 2500 blitz online and would certainly hit master if I actually bothered to play more rated events, but have never really gotten around to it for a mixture of cost (living outside of major chess events means $$$ for travel + housing + tourney costs) and time, even moreso now a days with children!

[1] - https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrowski/vladimir-kramnik-from...
I think it's reasonable to assume that any large social media company is already tracking video similarity in reuploads/edits. The remix and reused audio features are already baked in. Reverse image search screen caps of tiktok/reel pretty often return the source/original
"Stealing data" seems pretty strong. Web scraping is legal. If you put text on the public Internet other people can read it or do statistical processing on it.

What do you mean he was "stealing data"? Was he hacking into somewhere?
> The scenario I described is to ensure the whistleblower being alive or dead has minimal change in impact to the company.

That may not be enough to keep you alive though. Assuming there is minimal difference in the impact to the company, potential killers may want to get revenge. The difference also may not be that minimal. IANAL, but it wouldn't surprise me if evidence released that way would be easier for the defendant to block from being used in the courtroom.
OK so I've now tried this with a new USB-C iphone.

Yeah it's painful to use! You can set up a mouse, and use a physical keyboard for input, but it doesn't attempt to do any more than mirror the screen onto the external device by default.

Huawei's desktop mode was limited, but I think you're right - you can say the iphone has good device compatibility, but there's not a good way to use it docked. Not that the android ones were 'good', but they made an attempt!
There is no thing in itself here either to which one might ascribe a particular quality. There is a history of violence expressed through the language itself; I am doing my analysis immanently. When I say hierarchy I don't mean hierarchy outside the text.
Yep. Dunno. A question! It's the Internet, I get it, I'd bucket responses into "this is amazing" and "this is the worst" too. I have a more philosophical question here. :)
Why AI Ethics Is Killing Innovation
But then someone has to sacrifice their life to create some justice.

Much better for it to be a part of the system. Jail for criminal executives.
The word "thoughtful" can carry different meanings. It can have a literal meaning (as in "deliberate") which you resonate with, and a different meaning (as in "solicitous" toward AI) that I resonate with. Neither meaning is wrong.

Reference: merriam-webster thesaurus
I think it's a matter of magnitude and semantics. It was quite predictable that the Internet would take off, become ubiquitous, and highly influential.

If superintelligence emerges soon, we may not even know which technologies will emerge and how many will be unleashed in the next 2 decades.

ADDED: Examples of some concrete predictions:

(1980) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(Toffler_book)

(1995) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Gates_book)

Obviously, specifics differ from predictions and plenty of people got it wrong. Many good forecasters got the broad strokes right though.

Which forecasters can even predict most technologies that would be invented after ASI emerges?
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> Even if I didn't despise Bezos

Why do despise him?
Isomorphic Web Components
When it comes to technical writing the only thing I can really discuss is documentation, and the key thing I'm personally looking for there is structure.

It could be about basically anything, just please, pretty please, for the love of god, make it structured. And I don't mean sections with catchy headings, I mean as structured and reference-like as possible.

I want to minimize the amount of time I spend reading prose and searching around, as well as the chance of missing things. I want to hit CTRL+F and be put where I need to be stat and have that be enough. Structure alone can convey a lot of the idea behind how something works - please trust me to able to utilize it to make basic leaps in logic.

A bad example for this is AWS documentation. It's a mish-mash of prose and structured reference. A good example is the AWS CLI documentation (although if they lead with example usages first, that'd be even better).
Plenty of people predicted that the Internet was just a fad.
> create a custom instruction by trapping an otherwise unused bit sequence. ..

... until a new CPU support an instruction extension that use the same bit sequence.
I've really been noticing how Apple software quality has been on a slow decline since Snow Leopard. I look at some of their older source code and it's a joy to read!

Nowadays, my daily travails with restarting Xcode multiple times a day to work around bugs (package blahblah is not available) have really worn thin (I mean, Xcode has always had problems, but not THIS bad). Add to that the fact that the "system data" on my mbp now takes up 80% of the space on my SSD (800GB of system data! Even after manually deleting caches and derived data)...

It's like they don't even care about code craftsmanship anymore. And yet their culture of not putting in useful debug messages (because "it just works") persists.

My latest and greatest headache? Some parts of AppKit now directly call [NSApplication _crashOnException:] regardless of the "NSApplicationCrashOnExceptions" setting, and WITHOUT even calling [NSApplication reportException:]. So now you lose the exception entirely and good luck figuring out what caused the crash. Ugh...
but they're not making money and there are plenty substitutes. I bet they have practically zero paid customer retention rate. People say they love it, so what.
On Reddit there’s this thing about suicide prevention. Essentially, if someone thinks that you are suicidal, they can make reddit send you a very official looking “don’t do it” message.

I found that people are using it to abuse those they hate. I’ve received the message a few times when I had an argument with someone. Apparently it's a thing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/questions/comments/1bp1k9h/why_do_i...

There’s something profound about someone looking serious(official looking reddit account) giving you the idea of suicide. The first time I remember feeling very bad, because it’s written in a very official and caring way, it was like someone telling me that “I hate you so much that I spent lots of energy to meticulously tell you dat I want you to kill yourself” but also made me question myself.
The day Microsoft decides Proton is a nuisance that gaming alternative is gone, as Valve decided fostering a GNU/Linux game ecosystem wasn't worth it.
And Linux works pretty nicely with Android too - not hand-in-glove cohesion like Apple can provide for obvious reasons, but practically all vendors provide tools to switch pretty easily during the device setup stage and Syncthing provides amazing flexibility in managing data between Android and Linux devices on an ongoing basis.
Hahaha. I feel bad for all the middle class people who think Trump is on their side.
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Think about the current geopolitical climate and the possibility this person was actually targeted by malicious actors as a way to sow chaos and distrust in the establishment in the West. What better way to make people grow weary of the digital platforms that are making up a majority part of their lives in their bubbles.