skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pardon the ignorance but aside from cost, what is wrong with using glass? Why not just make a ton of glass from cheap sand and scale/automate it to make it cheaper?
The way to short circuit this is to make certain classes of adtech de facto (maybe even de jure) illegal.
In 2021, Alex Wang of Scale (the author of the linked article) uncritically quoted the following from Eric Schmidt:

"Eric states that the global growth of AI technology is a national security threat for the United States. In March, we believed we were ahead of China’s technological development in the AI sector, but they quickly showed us that we were wrong. By June, they’d demonstrated a model capable of producing human-like text that was comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-3 model in quality."

https://scale.com/blog/Eric-Schmidt-Geopolitics-TransformX-S...

As such, it's important to note that the author views the entire Chinese AI industry as a threat to the United States, and may believe that the growth of AI anywhere in the rest of the world is a threat to the United States.
The freedom to make their life more difficult?

I live on a farm in the Midwest; there's a reason most people prefer life in the city/suburbs: it's simply much easier.
Being independent is the opposite of selfish.

Seeking a mate and raising children used to be considered a duty to society, where, as a side-effect, and not the main intent, you got assistance in old age, and provided assistance to your children in raising theirs.

You're right that seeking the side-effect is wrong-headed and selfish.
No.

Just to elucidate the general principle a bit: sometimes a reminder or different perspective of past learning using vocabulary you already know can be valuable. Humans aren't perfect decoding and recall machines. And that's assuming the author and target audience learned the advanced vocabulary in the exact same way, which is unlikely. Sometimes you need to fill in gaps in some of your audience's knowledge, perhaps that they should have learned but didn't, maybe because they or their teacher was having a rough day in class.
Simple, Scale AI is likely fishing for federal contracts now that its traditional enterprise customer set is throttling back on spending
I’m out of SATA ports and I have 2 M.2 slots available. When I can test with VM in my current desktop I will.
> As a product of generational trauma, I find the "no perfect time, just have kids" mentality disgusting.

The families of the earth do need improvement. That starts with individual choices to be better, do better. However, you are disgusted at the wrong thing. Having children isn't the issue. Being bad to then is. And money isn't the fulcrum you make it out to be.

> Perhaps these old people's regrets about not doing enough for their children are because they didn't prepare properly to actually have children.

Generally it was along the lines that they regret their unnecessary selfish pursuits over family time. Working more for a nice car or boat, an example.

> assure you that just hoping the poorness goes away after 20 years doesn't magically result in it happening,

That isn't really my argument now is it. And this isn't the only time in your response where you do this. Makes a conversation kind of pointless when you just put whatever words and points in my mouth you feel like and ignore the main points.

> nor does time effortlessly unwind the trauma or mend the damage done by generations of people who were ill prepared to take care of children.

Your life has challenges. Most do.
You are human like the rest of us. Stop blaming your forebears, even if they have some fault, and rise to the occasion.
It's a bit convoluted presentation, that's for sure.

But a particular date in a year (say, Christmas or your birthday) in a 400 year period will fall on Monday 56-58 times, except for the Feb 29 which will only do so 15 times.

The best way to verify this "reading" is to do 7 x (56 to 58) = 392 to 406, or close to 400 (each row should add up to exactly 400).

The next column is about Tuesday, etc. and since they are dependent (eg. when Monday "happens", all the other days follow right after :)), by enumerating all distributions, the poster has noticed there are only 8 different possible distributions (unsurprising because of the repeated nature and 7 days in a week + leap years).
> he likened himself with a messiah

I think most narcissists only metaphorically think they're the next coming of christ, and most of them are too self-aware to say it even if they didn't.

If someone tells you they're Christ, or Napoleon, think schizophrenia or bipolar or manic-depressive before narcissism.
Many important things happened to Unix in 1990s and 2000s. dpkg and apt come to mind for 1990s, and udev and systemd for 2000s.
Advances in AI areas like computer vision seem to mostly come from academics who publish their work. Once an innovation is published, it is available for all to use or imitate. I don't see how a state actor is going to make some major AI advance that it is also able to conceal from other states.

I'd be particularly bearish on AI for grand strategy. If LLMs need billions of examples of text to outperform humans, an analogous war strategy AI would need to be trained on more examples of warfare than have been conducted in human history.
Happens to me quite often with searching for apps on iOS, it almost seems perfectly timed to switch the icon you’re tapping on right as you’re tapping it
Is there a reason that I should think of Wang as uniquely qualified to comment on this space? He runs an AI startup, seems knowledgeable about AI in general, but what does he know about war?
AI is strong enough to decide who wins the economic fight. Prediction: 10% gdp growth year over year as we approahc general ai.

The AI Economy will be a new reality. It may not be a good reality. Will it be your reality?
> This is quite analogous to linear momentum being the generator of translation, yet having mysterious components in E&M that aren't a particle moving, but charge interacting with the somewhat inscrutable "vector potential"

As someone who mostly just coasted in my two required physics courses in college and had no interest to study it further, this isn't really _that_ much more "obviously correct" to me than the first quote about angular momentum. Having never heard the term "generator of translation" or anything like it before, I wouldn't have been able to tell if was a rigorous, well-defined term or made up pseudoscience buzzwords before reading this thread.
That's... not what I've been saying?
...which really sucks when you try to use any of those sites via tor (no cookies, "bad" IP) or at a place with a shared external IP (public access points).

Open google.. captcha... every page has a 5 second cloudflare page before opening the page itself.

Bots have the time, they can wait and do other stuff in the meantime, but we, humans get bothered by that.
Any chance of you doing a writeup on using Deming's idea to optimize ads? That would be a very interesting read as most ad optimization methods lack in intellectual rigor and controls.
Glass is heavy and would increase the carbon footprint of some items.
It’s an i3 with 2 M.2 slots available. Enough for the home. SATA becomes the limit.
That's simply not true. There are numerous problem domains in AI where Chinese research groups are advancing the SOTA, or at least are well-presented at the forefront. Your comment reads like little more than casual racism to me.
Ludicrous mode Full Self Astronauting (Beta version).
Where does Amazon accept cash on delivery?
Also, by this logic Amazon accepts electronic cash that can be "bought" with crypto, right? Maybe dollars are just gift cards for bitcoin :P
Harvard's CS50P is also great, completely free, easy to follow lectures and good problem sets.
https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/
Show HN: Explore Useful Things on Internet
If you're using a decent build system[1], it's trivial to test your code with Clang, GCC, and more:

export CC_LD=lld
CC=clang meson setup -Dbuildtype=debug -Dwarning_level=3 build-debug-clang
CC=gcc meson setup -Dbuildtype=debug -Dwarning_level=3 build-debug-gcc
CC=clang meson setup -Dbuildtype=debugoptimized -Dwarning_level=3 -Db_lundef=false -Db_sanitize=address build-asan

Now you can just

ninja -C <name of build folder>

to build any and all of these without affecting your source directory. I usually wrap all the useful configurations in a Makefile-like shell script.

[1]: https://mesonbuild.com/
ClickHouse uses a single primary key index, which matches the sort order, plus skip indexes, which knock out blocks to scan. Here's a writeup that explains skip indexes.

https://altinity.com/blog/clickhouse-black-magic-skipping-in...

You can also check out the following webinar, which explains how ClickHouse indexes work in general. Here's a link to the discussion of indexes.

https://youtu.be/1TGGCIr6dMY?t=1933

p.s. The blog article is missing some images that WordPress seems to have lost but you'll still get the idea. (Should be fixed shortly.)

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity
A great theoretician would pose the question this way. Can what’s playing the government make it to level two?
Anything that wastes users time is not really free.
> which includes them tracking my behavior and using it to sell changes in my behavior as a service to the highest bidder.

You can use Ad Block while using YT Premium.
What an apt analogy! I always thought of it as a transformer unspooling from its compressed “car” form.

But thats what we get when multiple teams are responsible for the same web real estate.
Can what’s playing the tobacco industry make it to level two?
As a native English speaker for over fifty years, I have never before heard the terms "dark L" and "clear L".

Could you ELI5?
This isn't going to happen by recruiting people to work for government labs. It'll happen by contracting the work out to companies that are already doing top AI research (many of which also work in adtech) and through grand challenges that incentivize research teams and startups to make new breakthroughs.

Google, for example, would have gladly accepted Project Maven contracts if its own employees hadn't protested. If China does supersede the U.S. militarily, that may end up looking naive in retrospect.
What would you do if you had 193k Argentinian pesos? Probably convert them to USD, too. Is it because you believe it's not money?
The real issue here is that memcmp has a horrible interface that only C programmers would find acceptable. The author seems to understand this to some extent.

> Or maybe I should stop using pure C...

Yes, you should.
I imagine they’re more than happy to take your cash at their 4-star and pop-up physical locations.
However, that's not a solution but a patch.

Google accounts give you a good score and tend to deliver easy captchas while dealing with Recaptcha; however, for this reason, google accounts are being sold and bought constantly.

People have tried similar fight tactics in the past. SMS and phone verification have failed because the return on investment is far greater than the price barrier it adds to get any of those "virtual identities".

iPhones might work but then, for how long? If you guarantee that an IPhone won't get captchas, it's a good investment to buy many old(or new) ones and sell token access to skip any captcha.

Many farms already have thousands of phones scrolling through youtube videos to get views, likes, and other stats for videos/channels.

The same "logic" applies to yubikeys and similar auth hardware; attackers can exploit it similarly.

Companies will tell you that they have abuse policies and actively fight abuse/bot farms, but again, they are not solving a problem but solving the problem with tape.

ReCAPTCHA was very useful for a while, it did genuinely stop bots reasonably well, but none of the "newer" versions seem as efficient as the older versions used to be. Progress stopped after V2.
No I read the academic research all the time. Most state of the art papers take an existing method and incrementally change the model to get a better result. They aren’t real advances. Anyone that actually publishes and works in the field knows this. Basically all major advances have come from Fb/google
I've never understood this attitude to crossing the road. In every European country, you simply cross the road if you can get across to the other side safely. If there is a signal, you can use it to stop the cars. The middle of the road seems like it would be a much safer place to cross than at intersections in many instances as there wouldn't be people turning unexpectedly.
Young people should be lazy considering how fucked they are with inflation, the rising costs of housing, the looming climate disaster, stagnating wages, and they get to watch as the wealthiest people and corporations gobble up more of the world around them with every passing year.
The convenience of using your voice. I can use a phone but voice works better in many cases.
If you told me youre a Nigerian who made himself a prince crown and made himself a prince, then yes the situation is comparable

Ftx claimed a token they made up had value and it didn't. Everyone knew the token was made up
An interesting site with lots of information about 35mm photography and film vs digital techniques is 35mmc.com. Here for example is a very clear and concise discussion of depth of field and the factors that control it (such as aperture, focal length):

https://www.35mmc.com/25/07/2016/basic-optics-photographers/
Considering American aggression in Iraq and Latin America, China is a dove. However, it is true that China has been aggressively expanding borders into half of its neighboring countries. They are also extremely internally aggressive committing genocide against Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun gong etc.

A counter balance to the American threat is not a bad thing.
I live in Vietnam.

The first time I saw this, I asked my colleagues: Who would want to work one day more per week, for half what someone makes in the UK?

We were all willing to do it without hesitation (actually many of us already do this for less revenue -- side gigs are fairly ubiquitous here).

One of us added that they hope the West shifts to a three day week soon, so we can get 2 more days of work!

I know this misses the point about time vs. productivity, but thought I'd share that the attitude here is very different.
Front end developers: Stop making SPAs.

99% of the time I'm forced to use a site that turns out to be a horribly bloated SPA that I only get to see after enabling JS, and which will do irritating things like what is described in the article, among others, it's to do something that could've easily been done with a simple HTML form and perhaps a bit of JS enhancement.
The bars wouldn't be exposed to air, that's what edible wraps like what is described in the article are for.

For backpacks and the like you will need something else to keep it clean, same as you would for an apple. May I present to you the lunch box, already used by 100s of millions.
> so Google can not even track what content is consumed by your IP.

"Google uses IPs to track you" has been theorized since 2010 or maybe even before, but I've never seen any study or evidence that it actually does so. So, so much of the internet is built on NAT, shared IP space, and short-lived IP addresses that it really doesn't seem like there is any ROI in having engineers keep their IP correlation tech in service and tracking its efficacy.
Wow that's not trivial by any definition of the word. With bazel and the standard bazel toolchain config, you just do:

CC=<whatever> bazel build
Academics didn't invent them.

IBM and Bell Labs, maybe.
Recommendation AI seems like a real factor. Tiktok has the best recommendation algo in the industry- I use tiktok a lot- and the closer you approach it the better.

Please don’t make the UI full of obnoxious dark patterns. That’s killed Medium for me.

I have a lot more to say on this list of issues, but those are the most important to me. Also, if you’re reading this, please comment. I’m always excited to give feedback.
The last two decades have aimed at perpetuating dependence and collectivism, not independence. Part of that is emphasis on feelings, feeling good, aiming for self-fulfillment, claiming one's entitlements, and resenting achievements of others. Destruction of the nuclear family is one of the intents.

The side-effect is people being old and alone. Being married, becoming a "breeder" is offensive and oppressive (again, collectivist rhetoric, not the rhetoric of independence), because it "perpetuates the patriarchy" or "it continues systemic racism" or "advances white European values and disenfranchises minorities."

You'll find all of this out there, and not a lick of it is advocating independence. Quite the opposite.
The Kodi Youtube addon can play videos without API key. On Android you can share a Youtube URL to the Yatse remote control app and it will play on Kodi
It looks like hookups are $5-10k per house for the Los Altos Hills community fiber network: https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item.... Monthly fee is $155/month to start, going down to $60/month when it hits 300+ users. The economics of that totally checks out. As I recall, the municipal fiber in Stockholm uses a similar model with large ip front per house hookup fee. Most US municipalities also use this model for water and sewer.
I am definitely afraid of mass data collection and drones, both for warfare and law enforcement. They lower the cost of coercing and if need be killing, both emotionally and financially.

AI will lower this cost further, and enable fewer and fewer powerful people to threaten or control the rest.

The Chinese government has so far turned much of its technology inward toward the control of its own people, who seem either OK with it or unable to resist. Perhaps they are just early adopters, and one by one all governments will follow their example, first trusting their own judgment more than the will of their constituents, and then using technology to keep it that way.

We may not need a world war 3, or even an external adversary to lose this race. How about we spend more time on defensive technologies for individuals and laws protecting their use?
Glass is incredible carbon intensive to make, and takes practically forever to break down. It's also fragile.
> 3. ubiquity

Hardly. A std library update is often easier and faster to ship than a new compiler toolchain. Especially in C/C++ world, although it is moderately uniquely terrible in this regard

> 5. one construct instead of two (vector and span)

Incorrect. Vector is an owned type, while both span and your proposal are borrowed types.

> 6. overflow behavior selectable with compiler switch

That sounds an awful lot like a negative to me, not a feature. It's not generally desirable for code behavior to change depending on how it's compiled, makes debugging kinda hard.

Unless you're just referring to things like sanitizers, in which case yeah span & vector both have those same flags.
I’ve heard this called “um carioca” in Portugal where they will pull a second shot from an already extracted espresso puck.
Many people would think it's ethical, if anything morally positive. Do your part in demonstrating to the govt that if it plays stupid games (in this case, seeing if Prohibition would work better the 2nd time around), it would win stupid prizes!
It's actually a healthy and non-threatening paradigm?

If they think they're the best and have no reason to expand because of that, the only threat is to our egos.
this is fascinating, I was 4 years old haha
I passed my copy on, but here is a nice 30 minute read where Tokyo waitresses were using the principles to sell sake.

https://www.amazon.com/Spc-Esquire-Club-Donald-Wheeler/dp/09...
Ah, yes, the solution is to cede more of the country to corporations!
in "the magnetic potential is gauge invariant". It differs for different gauges, so is not gauge-invariant, but gauge-dependent. A choice of A _is_ a choice of gauge. The theory using it (i.e. E&M Lagrangian) is what is gauge-invariant.

This is a hyper-correction; in practice physicists apply the term in places adjacent to where it should be all the time.
Most quality whole-home HEPA air filters I know of are available with UV lights that can be added to the mix to further help reduce the viral load in the house. And excessive ozone production is specifically avoided.

For those units, I don't think there's anything to be concerned about here, except the added cost of the UV lighting and what might happen if you (or a technician) were accidentally exposed to the UV lighting during maintenance of the equipment.

IMO, you're going to have to provide some extraordinary evidence if you want to claim UV health risks beyond these two factors.
Can we get these into dandelions so the DEA will mow my lawn?...
And I don't know the economics for making it not so, but it's quite dangerous when it breaks. Not something I want around food (barring glassware that's not particularly fragile).
Did you read until the end?
I _still_ can't find a calendar app for iOS that's as nice to use as my Palm's. Making events that will happen at a certain time irrespective of time zone is just too beautiful for this world now.
> It's never really had a history of imperialism like the West has

Vietnam, Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang might beg to differ and that’s before considering that the leader of China was literally an emperor up until recently. However, if by “imperialism” you mean across oceans and hemispheres then point taken but that isn’t really a virtue as China has never had a navy capable of doing so. It still doesn’t although it sorely wants to.

> the post… assumes as a forgone conclusion that China has aggressor ambitions.

With the advent of wolf warrior diplomacy, the aggressive and illegal construction of military bases in disputed waters all over the South China Sea, the interference in US elections, the rampant IP theft along with constant attempts to steal military secrets, along with threats of total war whenever the US sneezes in the direction of Taiwan… what would you think?
I appreciate the comment.

In my mind, the sync feature for this app is less about backup and more about maintaining a single instance across multiple computers/browsers.
A generally applicable rule of thumb to apply is as soon as you need to generate heat, you're spending a lot of energy on the process, which is far more damaging and requiring of an overhaul than packaging.
He was the wisest mortal man to walk the Earth after King Solomon, and one of the most righteous also.
Yeah I should’ve made it clear in my comment that I agree with you, I think the fetishism of pre-historic humans is a little odd. Of course there’s things to learn, but it’s strange to think that a period when you died from something as trivial as a minor infection is somehow ideal. I was only nitpicking on the dental thing, because eating so much sugar really is relatively new in human history and is the source of a number of health problems, beyond bad teeth.
Of the many things capitalism excels at, pricing in externalities is not one of them.

Find a more ecological alternative and then tax the hell out of the current methods.
The longer Xi Jingping stays in power the less I worry about China on the international stage.

The subleaders will need to do increasingly extreme things in order to show results to the Supreme Leader. That's starting to play out--the Apple shakedown, Chinese police stations in foreign countries, etc. Those things have finally gotten the Western powers to realize that China is a genuine enemy, and they are starting to retaliate.

In addition, now that Russia has basically been dismantled, the defense system in America needs a new boogeyman. Congratulations, China, you're on deck.
It's funny that OP doesn't realize "the AI war" will be between the AI and all of humanity.
In the article https://www.riskofbias.info/ "Risk of Bias Tools" is linked, if anyone is interested.