skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xi would "win" "elections" this year, this would be a simple confirmation of his desire and not a problem for him. After that he will rule permanently, because no dictator can rescind power without facing a reaction from the successor. Taiwan occupation can happen at any time in the future, so elections, real or staged, won't interfere with it.

Yes, invasion would cause recession, but it won't be framed like that in the media. The recession (maybe) would start before the invasion, then invasion will happen to cover it up and blame outside force (USA of course) for the economic hardships, and this actually works every time.

And of course occupation would be peaceful. At least for the first 5 minutes. It would be a totally peaceful blockade on sea and air with a totally reasonable and peaceful demand to surrender all control of the island, disarm army and so on. And when treacherous evil Taiwanese will dare to treacherously attack the blockade forces, then China will be forced to a totally justified self defense. Just like ruzzia today is "defending" from imaginary Nato. They really believe that btw. You underestimate ability of authoritarian state to twist words and invent doublespeak.
Especially when you consider that countries with stricter lockdowns had considerably lower excess deaths. People just want to be contrarian about this for whatever reason and throw everything they can think of against the wall.
He unfortunately taught a generation of millennials that simply pointing out hypocrisy was enough.

Trump’s presidency showed that it entirely wasn’t.
But I guess you have an original Signal APK installed, not an alternative client that connects to Signal servers.
> Wire and Threema are serious privacy-focused messengers. They have all things necessary for good privacy: full E2E, pseudonymous IDs not linked to phone numbers, multiple accounts, ephemeral accounts, side-channel authentication, etc.

Matrix offers all that, and bots and public channels
It's in their roadmap as the next release with distinct SKUs.
China politicized the virus more than even the US. It is very hard to trust the official figures released by the CCP. They put a lot of political capitol into the "0 COVID" policy.
You are making a lot of assumptions about the interview. Code review is an important part of the development process and seeing candidates who can suggest improvements to code is valuable.

You seem to be assuming that the intended answers are language subtitles but I don't see evidence of that in the post.
Lofi Hiphop Girl in Unreal Engine 5
If these AIs were actually just "remixing" and creating collages, then perhaps I would agree with you... but there is no exact pixel data stored here. This is fairly obvious when you consider that Stable Diffusion was trained on 100 terabytes of images yet the actual model file is 4gb.

Now I'm not saying that nothing created by these AIs should be considered copyright infringement. As a human artist, you are not judged on your process, you are judged on the end results. The same should be done for the works created by these AIs.
Sure. The content blocking API is more secure as it doesn't allow any code by the extension to run and modify a web page. And so logically sounds like it should use less cpu / power. It is also true that it is a much, much inferior ad-blocking solution. If a feature is popular, it doesn't make sense to remove it. Instead, you can choose to make it opt-in. That both Apple and Chrome haven't opted for that speaks for itself - it is clear that they are prioritising crippling adblockers than letting users control what code run on their browser.
Do the engineers actually control that decision?
I fundamentally disagree with the methodology and conclusion of this article.

The problem with a new disease is that we don't know the long-term impact. Polio led to post-polio syndrome. Tick diseases have impacts decades out. Rabies does nothing for 6 months, and then causes insanity and certain death. Syphilis led to insanity decades later. AIDS has minimal short-term impacts too; death is caused by follow-up diseases.

We know more about the long-term impact of COVID in 2022 than we did in 2020, but we still don't fully understand it. We still don't really understand the impact of multiple, serial COVID infections, as everyone seems to be getting.

When a new disease comes out, I'd like to exterminate it, please. I'm happy to have a month-long full lockdown everywhere it's found, like China did, while the disease dies off. If we can't do that, I'd like to lock down until we have a vaccine, and ideally, until we understand the long-term impact.

I'd take no lock-down over losing 15 days of my life (or a 1-3% chance of death, for that matter). I would take a lock-down over long-term impacts of a disease of the type we've seen with COVID and other diseases. To me, it's a numbers game on long-term health impacts, not on death. Do those happen to 1% of people? To 100% of people? Do they last weeks? Months? Years? The rest of your life? When do they start?

I'd like good answers to those questions on whatever disease comes out next before relaxing.

With travel and population growth, we will see more and more interesting disease. We need a strategy to deal with them. I'm profoundly disappointed COVID didn't lead to us even developing one.
Does the design of Signal's applications or server infrastructure change because of the jurisdiction? Does the information they gather or store change?
Plot twist (spoiler alert?) - in the last section the author reveals he's got prototype WebMD replacement!
The whole twitter acquisition thing looks like a good candidate for a tv/netflix series.
I will provide a concrete example, even though I am not the parent commenter. I work for a FAANG company in a reasonably senior role. I have carveouts in my employment contract that I negotiated when I started a few months ago, because in addition to my day job, I co-own a coworking space with my wife (and she owns other businesses that I do some light tech work for - site maintenance, office network, etc).

My day job is very demanding, but my leadership team are aware, and the HR folks at my employer have documentation that supports me having a side business, and so if I say things like "I have to go the bank/lawyer stuff for my business", no one bats an eye as long as I am hitting my targets for the day job.

The expectation is that I will largely be available and focused on my day job during the 9-5, and where needed, provide support on escalations/on-call.

If I started taking on consulting contracts or was regularly juggling contracting or side-job related tasks against my day job, then it wouldn't be a good fit for delivering on that 9-5.
It is reasonable to call Intel 4004 as the first microcontroller.

4004 had separate address spaces for data and for program. The program address space used 12-bit addresses and the program was stored in a read-only memory.

It was impossible to change the program of an Intel 4004, the program was written in the ROM when the memory was manufactured.

Like with any other MCU, it was possible to use an Intel 4004 to replace the logic that would have been previously implemented with multiple separate MSI and SSI TTL or CMOS logic integrated circuits.
I hope filtering proxies like Proxomitron become popular again. They'll work on all browsers, and as long as locked-down corporate environments with their own needs for filtering content and the requirement to go through a proxy exist, it's not something they can easily kill off (despite trying their hardest to do so with all the "security" propaganda.)

Stop being at the whims of the Google-controlled browser monopoly --- by filtering content before it gets there.
I made a selfhosetd Pinboard.

1. full text search
2. free
3. archive all webpages
4. highlight webpages
5. self hosted and 100% offline.

https://hamsterbase.com/
The 7600x and 7700x have already been announced, and they're rated 105W.

The 5x00 lineup has a few models with lower clock (5500, 5600, 5700), but they consume as much as their higher clocked counterparts (5600x, 5700x).

The hope is for a 7500 with lower TDP, which is a possibility.
To take the example of Aspirin and Essential Oils, NHS has no ads and has information on Aspirin https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/aspirin-for-pain-relief/ , but doesn't have information on Essential Oils. It probably doesn't list supporting evidence because most people don't want to read it and wouldn't understand it.
I wish I could have had a 35% to 40% satisfaction rate with the various actual medical professionals I've dealt with in-person over the years.

I'd say that fewer than one in five such encounters has left me feeling like I got good advice, and a favourable outcome. Even just a 25% satisfaction rate would be a notable improvement for me.
I'm not sure thats true since it's a policy violation (without proper disclosure) that is fairly regularly enforced when found
For me the screen-shared leetcode/React challenge was stupid easy, I failed in the later take home project because I half assed it (no testing/CRUD validation)
Same. Family friend had a hunting accident and shot himself. Made it to the hospital, tested positive, died within a day or two from the gunshot. "Covid death."
you are making the classic mistake of judging past actions with future knowledge.

Lockdowns work and they worked well given what what was known at the time. They are also good at reducing social contacts for transmissible disease and the best evidence of this was the almost total lack of a flu season in the northern hemisphere.

While the social and economic cost is now known to be immense, public health officials have a duty of care to the most vulnerable in society.
Removing ads from YouTube is trivial - pay for it. The in-video sponsors are much more obnoxious though.
But confounding factors average themselves out over long period of times. Hence why excess mortality is good, because you compare it to decades of data where the smaller effects even out.

If I can't get a heart surgery bc doctors unavailable and die, that's (on average) caused by covid. Sure, it's possible that my doc was unavailable at the time bc he hammered a finger, but "on average" over the timespan the only constant factor was covid (or covid-policy consequences).
I'm just genuinely intrigued as to why someone on £200k would want to work more. maybe there's a good reason, like they're an "earn to give" person, or some actual ambition the money will help fulfill, or some expensive health need etc. Maybe they'd like to spend less time with their family. Just wanting to exchange more of your life for more money seems weird to me, if you're already in a position to be able to live in luxury.
Those numbers aren’t directly comparable — caches usually trade off size for performance, and Apple’s L1 sits in performance somewhere between Ryzen’s L1 and L2. Ditto for Apple’s L2 versus Ryzen’s L2 and L3.

I can’t remember the exact article I read that in, but it’s pretty obvious when looking at Anandtech’s latency charts.

M1 latency: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

Ryzen latency: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...
The True History of the Pixel
I think the first business to crack will be stock image sites like shutterstock.

Those were already used in a "let's find something that roughly fits what I want to communicate with this text" way.

Today I created a quick get well soon card using an image from the new Midjourney beta and I have to say the result was exactly as good as if I had used Shutterstock but it took me much less time because the search prompt matched created something I wanted on the third try.

Comparing that to sifting through pages and pages of vaguely relevant images it's a clear win and a lot cheaper
Compare WebMD to examine.com

The difference? You pay for examine.com.

The outcome? The highest quality site for information on supplements, vitamins, etc available on the Internet.

WebMD just needs to be good enough for Google.
I log in, mostly so my IP doesn't get put on blast in the log.
I assume medical websites are somehow kept vague in order to steer us to pay these highly regulated professionals a fee for a visit.
I do care, very much. I try to read the release notes for every app I update on my phone and on my PC. I don't always have the time or the willpower, but I'll always try to do it.

As an app developer myself, I maintain a very thorough release notes document, including a TLDR section in the beginning with the major features and major bug fixes, and a detailed list below, and an updated, curated list of all known bugs.

I pride myself on doing that, even if nobody ever reads it. It's mostly for my own benefit. If someone comes to me asking "in what version was this bug fixed" I immediately open the release notes in a text editor and find it, without having to sift through our issue tracker and start hunting for keywords and issue status and duplicate bugs.

Me and another guy on my team occasionally dis Google, Facebook and other "tech giants" for their unprofessional release notes. "Bug fixes" indeed. We always wander - those people working on the Google app, on the Facebook app, on Google photos, on Youtube, Google Maps, Google Drive, Gmail - don't they have any professional pride at all?

Yeah I get it, I'm the product and they're just free apps intended to lure us into viewing more ads. But those apps aren't really shitty. They are genuinely useful for me and for a lot of other human beings. But those are human beings who presumably work on them. Software engineers. Do they really take no pride in their job at all? A minimum amount of pride? Writing "we fixed some bugs" in the release notes shows a disrespect not just for your users, but for your own job. For yourself as a professional developer. For your team. For the effort you put into your job, however minimal that effort is.
This is just obviously untrue. You can run these chips with more power, but they automatically scale, so if you limit them, they'll still outclass current low TDP options. You might pay more for the privilege and leave potential performance on the table, but these are actively more efficient than past options, not less, you just can drive them for more performance rather than more efficiency if you want.

Of course, having higher performance can actually be more efficient in some workloads, as there are cases where running for a short time at higher power draw and then reverting to a very low power idle state is better than running for longer periods of time at more limited power draw to do the same work.

They explicitly list a 25% performance-per-watt gain. They push more power to get even more performance, but you can choose if you want to do that. They claim at 65w TDP Zen 4 is 74% more performant than Zen 3.
That is my reading. They want users to pick option 1 as most users likely don't want them to cooperate WITHOUT a warrant and thus option 2 creates a false dichotomy.

It's worth noting that a lot of fringe extremists (but not necessarily terrorists) fled from WhatsApp to securer alternatives like Signal and Telegram, especially "COVID deniers" (which, to be clear, refers to a far-right political strategy). So blatantly ignoring warrants is probably good publicity for a vocal part of its userbase.
For a very high level view on what new technologies are coming, you can check out the Two Minute Papers youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai
It's pretty hard to search bugzilla, so to save anyone else time, this is what I ended up finding (9 bugs) https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&b...
Nope I still disagree. Having sold something that doesn't exist is a good position to be in. Then you just make it real fast (we're good at making stuff!)

In the worst case you can't make it fast enough and you lose the customer, but you've at least proven there's a market for the idea. There will be other customers.
Good way to know (if not found online) is to start at 512x512 if you have a card with 12GB VRAM and try to increment it (the ui slider increases it by 64px for each increment) and backtrack when you start getting "cuda out of memory" errors. I've seen some renders on discord where the sizes are well above 1000px, so they must have had a 16/24GB cards or something similar.
In the research context, they are used to using 40GB/80GB hardware (and perhaps multiples) to train and render. So quite remarkable that it works on consumer hardware at this point.

edit: on second thought, they most likely rendered at 512px but then ran it through an upscaler model. I've been meaning to hook mine up but kinda forgot to try.
It is also a fact that providing free healthcare has a big impact on people health, even more because this experiment is done inside US. It is a real argument for politics that are still against to provide free healthcare to everybody.
Meta brings no-cost EMIs for advertisers in India
In Albania almost everyone speaks a bit of Italian.
There is a strong connection among the two countries and they can receive Italian TV and radios broadcasting.
Personally, the transfer-ability of the notes themselves and the ability to use it to present over video conference. I can email notes directly to others, I can OCR them to text and send to myself to then transfer to whatever I need them in on my computer, and with remote sharing I can hook it up via USB to my computer, share my screen, and have the nicest digital whiteboard for meetings I’ve ever used.

For ‘thinking process’ specifically, I think it’s the ability to have unlimited notebooks in one device. Often while writing notes for one thing I’m inspired about something else, so I can quickly switch to that notebook and jot it down.
The title is misleading, I expected to see a map of the changes from the last hour/day/week/month but you just get a blank map at first. And then dots appear but they disappear after just a few dozen seconds which is not enough time to visualize any trend.
Even these days its no different. I got injured in a small Indian town and went to a local health center. The nurse never told me what they were injecting into me and frowned when I asked them if it was a tetanus injection or an antibiotic. Their tone changed to You should trust us and not question our experience
Evidence of all these impacts is easy to find. Here's just one link about the increased rate of childhood obesity:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm
Lol. And bit shifts would be strictly prohibited!
The element zapper feature on Ublock origin is unusable on Firefox Android because you can't select on-page elements with the precision of a mouse.
I always figured it was due to liability. WebMD wants the monetizable traffic but not the liability of ya know, providing health care. So they profit off of the user's duress and just recommend they see a health care professional anyhow.
>how much is enough

They used to have an official goal like "supporting top X addons' transitions", so it's not so random about which API they needed to add.
I'm sitting in doctors office waiting for my appointment for an inflammation on my hand and I read this. What are the chances.
20+ Ways to Init a String, Looking for Sanity
Payments group Sumup blamed as football fans party for free at Aviva Stadium
Who holds the student loan debt?
Typical hindsight bias. At the time of the debate (April 2020) we DID NOT have the data to say that a lockdown was unnecessary.
I remember lots of documentations on TV and interviews with social scientists that emphasize that the Covid protests in Germany are weirdly originating from a very broad spectrum, with lots of alternative and esoteric groups, which aren't right wing at all. The Verfassungsschutz even had to invent a new category: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/verfassungsschutz-querdenke...

Some examples of mainstream media that emphasize the heterogeneous nature of these protests:

https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/esoterik-impfgegner-c...

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/corona-demonstrat...

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/corona-demos-zwischen-hi...

https://www.rnd.de/panorama/esoteriker-auf-corona-demos-tanz...

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/corona-proteste-q...

So I don't think your assessment is fair.
You're not really helping his image if the comeback you come up with is "they're jealous of Joe Rogan's testosterone". God, I certainly hope you're a teenager.
Yikes... those are some power hungry chips. Why would a person still buy x86? Compared to ARM, it's inefficient and outdated technology. Buying computers with AMD and Intel chips is like buying a gasoline car when electric cars are the future.
Scalability Killer
That climate alarmism and slefblaming about how we are collectively responsible for this bother me quite a lot.

It's damn weather! It's bad, it's sad, but it happens. Why we still think that we are more powerful than nature?
Mormons have a well-documented refusal to assimilate while concurrently using devious and mono-social-mind power to cheat the systems they benefit from and complain about frequently. If there’s one home grown US group that embodies “have their cake and eat it too” it’s culturally ingrained in the definition of being a practicing Mormon.

Now if you object, replace the word Mormon with Skinhead regarding mentality of others not in the group, and maybe you’ll get the picture.

Source: non Mormon with about 10 years living in Zion (SLC)
> why anyone uses Signal.

> not Facebook

Bingo!
China had several changes of power since Mao. It's probably fair to say it's at risk of becoming a dictatorship, but you can't take it as a given without at least adding some arguments.
Not really, Intel has been rolling out a new socket every 2 years (give or take) for pretty much all of the 2000s.

AM4 was very much a departure from the norm, and it’s also the case that compatibility was a pain in the ass. Whenever you wanted to upgrade you needed to read data sheets, watch reviews, wait for AMD to change their mind^, and then flash the AGESA on your board and hope.

^ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/amd-reverses-course-...
> That would mean an area about the size of Colorado is underwater. Pakistan, home to about 220 million, has a land mass of 307,000 square miles.

I cannot imagine living in a population density of of 742 people per mi² (287 per Km²).

[edit/assumed/obvious, as implied by the full quote: ".... and then have a third of the space flooded, i.e. a very sudden change"].
>Lockdowns work and they worked well given what what was known at the time.

Objection, arguing facts not in evidence.

Edit: in response to the part you added after your original post:

>While the social and economic cost is now known to be immense, public health officials have a duty of care to the most vulnerable in society.

The social and economic costs were mostly predictable back before the lockdowns ever happened. People opposed to the lockdowns were practically screaming what the consequences would be. They were ignored with calls of "If it saves one life!" and "You're killing grandma!"

Meanwhile it's come out that several (if not all) countries that imposed lockdowns didn't even attempt to do a rudimentary cost-benefit analysis prior to locking everything down.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-lockdown-files-rishi...
I've been switching my family over to Firefox with UBlock Origin. I made the switch when these original changes were announced, and it's been a great experience. I run into maybe one website a month where I have trouble.
This is a very appealing prospect and I'm sure you'll have no problem finding paying customers. The main question I can't help but ask is, how do I, or any potential customer for that matter, know that this isn't simply Theranos 2.0?