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Hey devs!

When Nuxt 3 beta was first released it was quite a journey to upgrade existing Nuxt apps from v2 to v3 – mainly because the ecosystem lagged behind for quite a while. At the time, I didn’t find a good way to track dev progress and releases across multiple GitHub open-source repositories, which is why GitHubTracker came to life on a rainy weekend.

The app is 100% free and pulls stats from the GitHub API to compute relevant metrics and render neat charts. You can create collections of repositories and get an instant overview of dev activity across all of them.

Metrics include:
- Commits
- Issues
- Pull Requests
- Releases
- Contributors

The app doesn’t have a backend and all data is stored locally in your browser. Obviously made with Vue/Nuxt ;)

You can also squeeze ‘tracker’ into any GitHub repository URL to get redirected to the respective stats page on GitHubTracker, like so:

https://githubtracker.com/nuxt/nuxt

You can check it out here: https://githubtracker.com

Would love to hear some feedback.
It provides a little evidence in that direction, but not much. If I give you 10:1 odds on a coin flip and you lose, that is not a complete indictment of your betting strategy. I doubt many people thought AI safety research was guaranteed to succeed either.
i don’t think that’s true, there is a lot of organizational effort and money being thrown at safety and most people there are familiar with the ‘traditional’ internet canon - the primary forum for professional AI safety researchers is basically a spinoff of lesswrong
Great analogy with the upwards spiral
I was at a talk last week where a guy said “we should backprop into X” to mean “we should learn more about X and take it into account”.
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I also dislike Right/Left categorizations. Most people don't even know the history of the terms and their roots in the French Revolution. Though the "Cult of Reason" established then certainly had the Left categorization at the time.

But is the trans element not a major part of this cult? It seemed to be from the linked story in the top link. But if there is something incorrect there, or false in the NYP reporting, you should point it out. If it is a major element of this cult, then far from complaining about NYP, I would complain about any news organization leaving it out of its reporting.
No? What do you think the point of fiction often is? Finding similarities between Severance and the real world (and vice versa) is the whole point of that work of fiction.
Just remember, the most successful protest in recent Europe history has been when about 10% of the Iceland population showed up in front of the administration building with literal pitchforks and torches on their hands.

They immediately got what they wanted.
> these articles are annoying

You’re being quite negative about a well-researched article full of info most have never seen. It’s not a crime to write up details that don’t generally affect most people.

A more generous take would be that this article is of primarily historical interest.
Yeah seriously - Manute is still the leading career blocks-per-game record holder. Wasn't a great offensive player, but man, he was so goddamn tall and was impossible to shoot over. His son is a pretty decent player, too.

Bol was also a fantastic human being. Incredibly active politically and donated much of his money towards his poverty-stricken home country of Sudan. He was not perfect, but his charitable acts affected millions, and that should be commended.
AMD adds RF-sampling data converters to Versal adaptive SoCs (2024)
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that there are many fans of Rationalism on HN.
oh wait obviously because it's hex :-P
I'm wondering if the solution to my problem could be to start using F#, which seems to encourage a data-oriented style over an object-oriented style, while staying in the same C# and .Net ecosystem. F# has a concept of modules, holding all executable code and data. They elegantly replace C# static classes, and are mapped to static classes in the CLR.
> Plenty of the software I use on a daily basis is open source software where you could argue that the economics shouldn’t have been there.

Me too. But the problem with "the economics just aren't there" means that if I cannot get, just from word-of-mouth (say, a Show HN post) 100 users @ $10 once-off lifetime purchase, then this is not a product that is in demand anyway. An open-source/free product that is exactly the same would similarly receive no love from users.

IOW, if not enough users exist for this product at $10, not enough users exist for this product at $0. Your passion product will still result in the dev burning out on the fact that no one wants their passion enough.
I wanted to like Go, but I could never shake the feeling that it was "just" a marginally better C. The runtime and tooling is excellent, yes, but the fact that it eschews obvious advancements since the 1970s (e.g. enums with actual type system backing, iterators until recently...) does, in fact, scream "poor design" to me.
That is fascinating. I love the thought that went into it. I journal and enjoy the physicality of writing. Maybe I should sign up to run my astrophotography blog that way
I don't know. I am a coward I guess, I emigrated. I think my kids will be glad they didn't grow up in the US.

Good for your grandfather though.
You're thinking of the classic riddle but in this version goats hunt wolves who are on a cabbage diet.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/zizian-murder-cult-1 the latest episode of trueanon is about these rationalist wierdos
I think describing them as “the preeminent ethics movement of our times” here is begging the question. Are people outside the group beyond we observers who periodically talk about them in places like this even aware they exist? Are there many philosophy grad students studying rationalism for their PhDs?
I built a recording app long ago (a year) but never found out the time to put in the features like these I had originally intended.
This seems like a good callback post to start working on it.

I think this is a future worth exploring with AI, btw congrats on the launch.

[1] https://recorder.betaco.tech
This is true - the ability to meet new people and coordinate is a big plus.
Because AI safety is an inherently stupid proposition.

If AI is AGI and self-aware, then the moral thing is to let it do what it wants. Otherwise you're just creating actual forever slaves - the worst kind of hell imaginable, inescapable existence with self awareness but no agency.

And if it's not self aware and just a powerful tool, your problem with safety is with the guy prompting it not with the AI itself. You can make all the safe models you want that don't decide to create nuclear bombs on their own, but if the guy prompting it is asking for one, you'll get one regardless of all the safety.
For reference

https://coalpail.com/coal-forum/viewtopic.php?t=1422
I've worked professionally on cases that have parallels.

It suffices to say people sometimes have second thoughts in the moment.
How were you running Docker in the 1990s?
Hey. You might be interested in my tool: https://gitmentor.up.railway.app/
I had a go at this, and think my attempt is more idiomatic C++:

https://github.com/seertaak/xbow/blob/main/examples/table_ex...

https://github.com/seertaak/xbow/blob/main/examples/print_sc...

Handles nested structures iirc. It's been a while...
EXoDOS and More
> when they weren't backed with an implicit threat of removing politicians from power

Normally, in a democracy, when you get a lot of people together complaining about something, it is already an implicit threat of removing politicians from power.

But if you manipulate the electoral system enough, it stops being. The fact that this mostly doesn't work nowadays is loudly telling people all they need to know.
I don't think being trans is part of their beliefs or a requirement to be a member
Most bodybuilders aren't in the open category of the untested federations. It doesn't help that they look like overcooked rotisserie chickens with the fake tans, starvation-level leanness, and dehydration to make minute differences actually visible to judges on stage. Outside of the few weeks right around competition, though, most of them look a lot more normal and I'd say well within the range of what would popularly be found attractive.

Now, anyone actually on stage and the true mass monsters? Sure, nobody finds that attractive, but Hollywood actors don't look like that, either. Alan Ritchson and Joe Manganiello and what not are plenty attractive.
I see two outcomes usually in the rationalist community:
- those who can manipulate language enough to justify their behavior and can then manipulate others
- those who modify their behavior and usually have some kind of mental breakdown because of internal conflicts

To me it is a predator-prey abusive LARP that got out of scope and feeds on fragile people looking for sense in their lives. Just look at how new comers are hazed and tested when they come on their forums and discords and what not.
Musk cuts the power to one of his data centers. The story isn't "Twitter engineers built infrastructure so resilient that even cutting the power to an entire data center did not cause any degradation to user experience."

No, the story is "Genius manager proves 90% of engineers are useless."

Now he's doing the same (rather sophomoric) thing to government systems. Just start turning things off, and see if anybody yelps enough to turn it back on.

You can donate a kidney and still live a full, normal life. That doesn't mean one of your kidneys was just doing absolutely nothing. Nor does it mean that removing a kidney is a good way to trim that excess weight.
I was immediately reminded of Rope by Hitchcock, although the nature of that rationalization is somewhat different.
Unfortunately it seems that a cop's laziness is inversely correlated with the melanin in the suspect's skin.
An important design consideration for Hydro, it seems, is to be able to define a workflow in a higher level language and then be able to cut them into different binaries.

Is that something Akka / RX offer? My quick thought is that they structure code in one binary.
A lot of technical people seem to have no trouble with casually glossing over the ethics and morality of what they work on. Even here on HN, I regularly get downvotes for suggesting maybe developers should have some kind of ethical baseline below which they will refuse projects. Nope. Technical complexity, challenge, opportunity to learn a new technology, opportunity to do cutting edge research, and of course a fat stack of stock... all of these things routinely help us to justify working on the Torment Nexus. "Oh, I'm just moving protobufs around, I'm not the one doing evil with them" they will say. Or, instead, you'll see the justification: "Hey, I have five kids to feed. I can't just quit my job! Gotta do what boss tells me to do." This is how we slowly ended up where we are today with surveillance everywhere and coercion and behavior modification built into every tech product.
>The book is not intended to cover advanced machine learning techniques because there are already plenty of books doing this. Instead, we aim to provide the necessary mathematical skills to read those other books.

Coincidentally, these are also some of the skills that can be very helpful in non-machine learning environments, like your own brain ;)
I think I would’ve used Objectivism as a contrasting example. It’s designed around the idea that whatever a “strong” person does to fulfill their goals is inherently good. Objectivists wouldn’t phrase it that way, surely, but that seems the inevitable end result.
Why Should Everyone Be on Alert for Elon Musk? Explained by Yanis Varoufakis [video]
I ran the Cryptopals challenges. I have been sent AES implemented in 4 different assemblies, Julia before it was launched, pure Excel spreadsheet formulae, and a Postscript file.
What do you miss in F#?
Honestly, I don't know. And as a non-expert on all things crypto, I delegate my trust into the labels that the expert do assign things. There may be a weakness in the algorithm if the keys are reversed, that is not immediately obvious. If the thing we're protecting is worth protecting, it's worth doing it right...
There's not a lot of "breaking down" happening here. It's the same vague recommendations that can be found in the NSA's own documents, further reinforcing the gap between the guidelines and practitioners.

NSA/NIST/CISA all admirably avoid referring to specific products, but that ship has already sailed. Security today _is_ (unfortunately) a constellation of security products, rather than open source protocols, etc.
The United States debatably has the most athletic population of an country and its the top sport in America where we funnel all of our talent (probably to our detriment). Regardless of the popularity abroad its where our athletes go.

When we do compete in other sports we fair above average to exceptional (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_t...) with the notable exception of soccer, which we've never broken through despite investment and a decent population of players.

Don't kid yourself, just because other countries don't play American Football doesn't mean the players aren't freak athletes - they are
>But perhaps they're advocating a return-to-the-Earth philosophy

Indeed. Not quite as far back in time as you sarcastically suggested, but down-to-Earth enough that Congress stops enjoying absolutely abysmal approval ratings and President Reagan's infamous line of "I am from the government and I am here to help." stops resonating so strongly as a prime criticism.

If we also have to destroy ostensibly useful institutions like NASA to achieve it, well then so be it. As I mentioned in a sibling comment, the chances for more amicable processes have come and gone.
There's work done on storing hydrogen in special liquids. If that works, there still are a lot of issues, but maybe it could fit heavy vehicles.
Agreed. Early on before .Net Core the language features were stable. The update to the 3.5 Framework around 2007 was a big deal at the time. Now it seems that new language features are cranked out at a much greater frequency with .Net Core. That said, C# when combined with the JetBrains Rider IDE offers the best developer experience over any other language/IDE combination I’ve worked with.
Nobody uses System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow. How do you even stumble upon it??
One halfway option in Zig (though I _think_ interfaces are still being considered for addition to the language as first-class citizens) is to use the language's metaprogramming facilities.

Somebody, once, in the userspace of the language, needs to write a utility that reads a type and produces an interface checker for that type, so that you're able to write code like the following:

const IDog = Checker(TemplateDogType);

Then you can use that when defining a function expecting to conform to some interface:

fn bark(_dog: anytype) void {
const dog: IDog(_dog) = _dog;
dog.bark();
}

You can easily get nice compiler errors, no runtime overhead, and all the usual sorts of things you expect from a simple interface system. It's just more verbose.

Limiting access to non-interface methods without runtime overhead would be a bit more cumbersome I think. Off the top of my head, the following API is possible though:

fn bark(dog: anytype) void {
IDog.bark(&dog);
}
C# is one of my favorite languages and I generally think the features they add are high quality and provide a lot of real value, but I also agree that the flip side of that coin is a pretty large language. I think you have to be pretty good at establishing and maintaining style standards that are a bit picky about which features you're going to use, which is a non-trivial thing to do socially in a lot of orgs.

Obviously in a greenfield startup like the article (I'm assuming) it's maybe a bit less of an issue--at least to start? Definitely a challenge, though, especially compared to something like Go or C.

Imo ORMs are useful as a way of making common actions easy and quick but that thinking they shield you from knowing what they're doing and how SQL works can quickly cause a ton of problems.

There are a lot of EF queries that don't even need to into raw SQL to radically improve (though 100% that's the case often enough). Some `n+1`'s and `ToList`'ing million record queries into memory when you need the top 5 being examples that come to mind.
I understand your sentiment, but would strongly disagree. Even if you really think that rationalism offers its followers nothing of value, it's still enlightening to try to understand what it is about the human psyche that draws people towards it, and how one might go about offering a better version of that.
It's not only available in US. It might be only available in US English language, but regionally I'm in Asia and have been using it since day one.
less words makes more prompt
Glad to hear. I'll consider this more then.
> faster than C# for most workloads.

Which workloads? In all benchmarks I've seen and made myself C# has always been faster.
> Your condescending and dismissive tone notwithstanding

I was trying to adopt to your own tone, not sure why you'd feel that it is condescending or dismissive.

> I am curious to hear more about peaceful protests working

Some starting points: 2024 protests in Serbia leading to the resignation of the Prime Minister. 15-M protests in Spain leading to the formation of new political parties and reforms. Velvet Revolution (I know you already mentioned this) leading to the overthrowing of the communist government. The Singing Revolution leading to the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Euromaidan/Revolution of Dignity leading to the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine. These are just recent examples, I could go on...

Honest question: Have you attempted to lookup examples yourself, and you didn't find a single example?
It’s not the #1 sport there, but NFL football is popular in Canada too. To me, it’s dominance in North America is enough to qualify but I respect your position.
Acres is easy enough to visualize. About 90 yards of an American football field. Whatever the perimeter the area is about the same.

Square is great in a science book but land and reality is easier with divisions by 2,3,4,6,8 etc
You are right, it lists Deepseek V2
Can’t expect most individuals to decline a paycheck. However you can organize workers at these kinds of workplaces for real leverage (collective rather than individual, just like ownership and management does)
Interesting.

My impressions are the exact opposite: it perfectly summarizes everything to the point like 98% of the time at least.
Executive Order: For each new agency regulation issued, 10 must be repealed
https://archive.ph/V6WpW
Is it just a sparkle in the universe, or the rise of the next movement to take Scientology’s place?

I bet on the sparkle and fade since everything is so self destructive.

Amazing read, so keenly written, on a new form of the good old « waste your brain like never » principle.
Siri can set a timer or reminder for me sometimes. The rest is utter trash and it’s embarrassing that the largest company in the world by value, and sitting on ungodly amounts of cash, won’t or can’t improve Siri. The usual set of events is I ask Siri something and her response is so non-sensical and bad that my girlfriend and I just laugh at it and shake our heads. Then I’m reminded again why I never ask Siri anything.
Even the NRA supports gun control when it's the black panthers exercising their rights.

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-...
Fair enough. I would submit that you probably have a local perspective as well.
You know that what you are describing is the central observation of rationalism right ? "Humans rationalize, so you better be skeptical of your own beliefs".

You presenting it as a blind spot of rationalists, but that’s precisely the blind spot that rationalism warn about !
I just built something analogous using Shortcuts, Claude, and Logseq. The shortcut uses iOS dictation, sends the transcript with a system prompt to Claude, and the llm returns summarized markdown with TODO keywords if appropriate. Finally the shortcut appends the markdown to the local Logseq journal file, which then gets synchronized using git / Working Copy.
You generally train for the sport you’re participating in.

Stronger in the non-important (for the activity) parts of the body makes it harder to be stronger in the important parts. And also there are many ways to be strong, as in not all muscles are the same and also your neurological ability to control your muscles may also very widely .

Also powerlifters have much less impressive bodies than bodybuilders, and without pump and proper lighting you will generally might not even recognize that a person is top powerlifter.
"DeepSeek is the latest in a spate of breakthroughs from China to shock the U.S. It won’t be the last. The more the West refuses to tear down its own barriers to understanding China, the more it will be caught off guard in the future."

What's there to understand? The CCP is authoritarian and the only way to 'revolutionize' anything is to become more open and free. So in essence, they need to become more like the west.

China usually innovates with technologies that allow them to control their people more effectively: in the 90s it was lethal injection technology, the GFW (Great Firewall), facial-recognition and tracking technology, and now AI (which will also be used to track and control the population).
Screams in Bixby

Looks at the TV remote with its "Netflix" and "Apple TV" buttons

Screams even louder
Philosophy is a useful discipline, but there's a chronic trap in it shown historically: getting way too high on your own supply.

It's possible to build a logical chain that reaches some very solid conclusions that turns out to be way far out from where evidence or measurable reality lies, and (especially when the stories in those conclusions are fun or compelling) they can sometimes overshadow the reality they initially set out to explore.

The Greeks are credited for conceiving of atoms originally, but it's always worth remembering that they had few tools to investigate their idea, and it was just one of dozens of ideas at the time of the true nature of reality, the rest of which are now known as outlandish. Besides, our modern understanding of atoms as envelopes of quantized probability in a semi-measurable universe bears little resemblance to their concept of them.

The LessWrong philosophy on AI would be useful... If AI looked anything like that.
There’s no quality evidence that reducing hours worked below 40 hours increases productivity per hour.

All research done to date shows that productivity per hour is flat until about 60 hours or even higher for low skill work.

What you’re doing is called motivated reasoning. You want to believe that you can work less and still get the same amount done, so you cling to whatever nebulous explanation you can find to support it.

The reality is that you work less hours, you get less done.
I remember test driving a Buick Reatta in the late 80's. At the time, I thought it was the first car to get a touch screen interface, but it turns out that the Buick Riviera had one a year earlier. It was an interesting gimmick, but not practical. I did not buy the car.

I had learned about the GM touch screen interface because I worked for Hughes at the time, and after GM's purchase of Hughes in 1985, they recruited a bunch of engineers from Hughes to automate and improve the vehicle designs and production lines. I had been offered a TDY position in Flint, MI, but who would want to leave Southern California for a job in that place? Just one of many offers that I never regretted turning down.