skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah they are “cheap” to produce but expensive to clean up and dispose of. As long as governments “subsidize” plastics by cleaning after them themselves rather than forcing manufacturers to pay for it, you will have straws and plastic trash on the streets/parks/rivers/oceans.

The funny thing is that we are _already_ paying for it with all the trash handling infrastructure - mostly government payed and supported by taxes around the world.

The money is there - imagine paying less for trash, but a bit more for the product - still the same amount of money spent. But now the manufacturer has the incentive to use those new films and _not_ pay for its disposal. As economies of scale kick in, we can have clean environment and pay less for it all (less trash infra).

I just hope people (governments) realize this in my lifetime…
I wonder how the world would be different had Zheng He sailed his junks east rather than west.
This all mind blowing.
Can we make a guess of what the structure of the universe is?
Are there illustrations?
I want to live in a world where liberal democracies have the most power over the world. The power of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea should be minimized.
> "This network originated in Russia and targeted primarily Germany, and also France, Italy, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. The operation centered around a large network of websites carefully impersonating legitimate news organizations in Europe. There, they would post original articles that criticized Ukraine, praised Russia and argued that Western sanctions on Russia would backfire. They would then promote these articles, memes and YouTube videos on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Twitter, petitions websites Change[.]org and Avaaz, and LiveJournal"
Russia is definitely taken apart. They may be able to hold that bit of territory with suicidal bodies in trenches, but they are in really bad shape.

They are down to ancient weapons, ancient tanks, their Navy almost entirely defunct.

Most of their 'fast air' remains.

And they are going to have a very difficult time rebuilding with sanctions, and the severe economic problems with talent and resources.

They could 'come back' over a decade but I suggest Europe is becoming ready for that, and without the offer on the table of a nice, juicy, undefended territory, neither Putin nor his successors will have much luck.

It's the ambiguity that's the problem.
I have done a lot of diving and snorkeling. In the proper environment you can have the full-on "Jacques Cousteau" experience with just a mask, snorkel, fins and some patience.

The two sports are quite different -- but the difference in risk profile, costs and equipment required understandably rules out scuba for some.

On non-dive days in the tropics I will typically get up at 6am and start snorkeling right away usually until 9 or 9:30a. My wife says I am first to turn snorkeling into a endurance sport.
Why does there have to be some conspiracy or hidden agenda? Uncontrolled Covid spread would result in an extremely large number of deaths and overwhelm the healthcare system.

That doesn’t mean that zero-Covid is sustainable forever as time goes on, as lockdowns and other frustrations take more and more of a toll. New Zealand and Singapore already had to give up on it. Even putting protests aside, this wave could easily be the one that can no longer be controlled.
The prudent thing is to invest in the technology even if china isnt.
Well said, I was thinking the exact same thing. This guy acts like this is a foregone conclusion that we must have war. It's a choice to stand back or to stand up.

And given the aforementioned disparities, we should really consider if giving China it's space in a multi polar world is more in our best interest than going to war to keep the hegemony alive.
To make glass resistant to shattering from jostling in shipping, it needs to be thicker than the equivalent sturdiness from plastic. That means excess weight and volume, making transportation more energy-intensive.

Plastic is also easier to mold into a variety of shapes, so you get conveniently stackable containers and lids without much extra cost (the same shapes introduce stress points in the glass where fractures could occur).

Plastic can also be made flexible, i.e. as shrinkwrap (which this product would replace in some cases). You aren't going to wrap vulnerable fruit and veg (like english cucumbers) in glass wrap.

Glass can be easier to recycle, but again you're fighting volume and mass in transportation as well as waste management. It's great for things like liquids if you have businesses willing to re-use them, but they also have to expend the extra energy to properly clean and sanitize them before they can be reused.

The last time I bought a soda from a company that would take back glass bottles and reuse them, the flavor could only be described as "soap". I never again wondered why every other company sold disposable aluminum and plastic after that.
I was about to name some innovations from Linux and *BSD worlds, but that is not technically Unix. (*BSD is Unix derived but cannot use the trademark). So I think your example is not technically Unix technical history.

But if we could include these things, I'd say also:

* Epoll and kqueue. The recognition that select(2) and later poll(2) do not scale.

* Interactivity. One thing I remember about 90s Unix is how terrible the usability was on those old terminal emulators or termcaps. You'd type a backspace and see ^H. Arrow keys that didn't do the right thing. You'd log into a Linux box and by contrast you'd get good tab completion, colors, etc.

* Secure defaults. First noticed this in OpenBSD. But the internet forced everybody to reconsider the set of daemons you get on a default install.

* Deprecation of unsafe libc functions
no adblock blocks in-content ads, and if we are talking technicalities and theory anyway, surely it violates the tos. I'm not sure what this suggestion even meant to accomplish now that I think about it.
The conductors appear to be separately insulated, so this poses no risk. However, it's generally a safe bet that modifying devices or equipment is a no-go. These lights were probably reviewed by a "listing" agency (e.g. Underwriters Laboratories) that's accepted/required by the municipality having jurisdiction and modifying the device invalidates that listing.
Not to mention that IP theft in the late 18th into the 19th century was basically the bedrock upon which the US's industrial and economic systems were built...
Paycheques are very hard to walk away from but a lot of very bright minds will go into defence right out of school and never look back.
Right, sorry. Not on the sensor, but the hardware that's reads it off the .. which I guess is not technically the sensor.. haha

You're still multiplying what is the photo-count or shotnoise

Didn't know there is technology built on top of that... Does changing the capacitance increase the sensitivity somehow? I guess then the question is.. why isn't that always enabled. There must be some downside to it
> that a second pair of eyes will also help.

This code will not pass a code review in my last shop:

1. First get the return code: rc = memcmp(…

2. Then compare, and please put the constant first: if( 0!=rc ) …

C and C++ are dangerous tools, you should not use in production all the “sugar” they provide.
At the end of the day, are they all just wrappers around QEMU?

The aarch64 -> x86_64 virtualization performance is pretty rough.

Like, to the point where compiling a small hobbyist Rust project that needs to be deployed on Linux x86_64 in the cloud (cheap VPS)... you might as well just build it in the cloud and not locally on Mac host because it takes 10 minutes instead of 10 seconds
This works fine until Google changes the image set. Of course then you can pay another $800, but then your product doesn't work until you update.
Why don’t we just burn plastic for energy. We burn hydrocarbons for energy anyway, why not substitute some coal for plastic waste.

Not an expert on this matter but I am pretty sure most hydrocarbons can be burnt pretty cleanly in the right conditions.
From my experience, too much CaCO₃ is far worse than too little.
We're super excited about partnering with TiDB. This is the first truly serverless HTAP db in the market, which means the average app developer will never have to worry about complex data sync jobs or having entire categories of really slow or expensive queries (…or even worse, limit what their product can do due to insufficient db infrastructure!)
Python really got that right. In Haskell, it’s similar:

import qualified Foo.Bar as Baz
Are you raising funding to pay people up front?
This is a Yogi Berra type comment. "ACLs aren't supported. Nobody uses them."
I just use an Airtable database with a bunch of customization. It’s great.
I wouldn't say it's your first 10k photos. Because anyone can just hold down the button and take hundreds of photos. And those hundreds of photos don't really count as separate pictures in this regard.

I would say that it's more like your first 10k different photographic compositions/subjects.

From there, I agree that you really learn in the editing.
Can’t hear what the actors are saying, and can’t see them either because interior scenes are all now lit like a haunted house at midnight.
That's what Japan does. I was just over there, you have to sort all your trash. Burnable or not burnable.
Doesn't matter if it takes forever to break down, glass is inert and nontoxic
If you can tolerate a .gov email address, there are high-performance computing, edge computing, and AI groups at DOE labs. My impression is that they're always starved for talent in these areas due to stiff competition from industry and lifestyle restrictions that come with a security clearance (being a US citizen, reduced international travel, no drugs other than alcohol and nicotine, your work may require on-site). Defense labs are probably similar.
Let's see

Alex is the CEO of Scale

Scale is a DOD Contractor

Scale is an AI company

Alex suggests DOD allocate funds for AI

Here's some news from someone who has seen the AI leaderboard game closely and led teams that won some

Leaderboards like COCO that Alex cites are not a good indicator. They are flooded incremental performance improvements that hardly translate to any real world application
Why wait for a language; here is a macro:

Firstly, we define a place (temporal x y) such that when this place is accessed, it denotes x, and when it is assigned, the assignment goes to y:

(defplace (temporal-place var var*) body
(getter setter
^(macrolet ((,getter () ,var)
(,setter (val) ^(set ,',var* ,val)))
,body))
(setter
^(macrolet ((,setter (val) ^(set ,',var* ,val)))
,body)))

(define-place-macro temporal (var var*) ^(temporal-place ,var ,var*))

(defmacro temporal (var var*) var)

We can then use that as a building block whereby we define an apparent variable v as a symbol macro which expands to (temporal vold vnew). All accesses to v get the value of vold, but assignments to v do not affect vold; they go to vnew.

Here is a let-like macro which sets up the specified variable as temporal. The initial values propagate into both the old and new location.

Then before the last form of the body is evalulated, the new values are copied to the old values.

(defmacro temporal-let (vars . body)
(let ((olds (mapcar (ret (gensym)) vars))
(news (mapcar (ret (gensym)) vars)))
^(let* (,*(zip olds [mapcar cadr vars])
,*(zip news olds))
(symacrolet ,(zip [mapcar car vars]
[mapcar (op list 'temporal) olds news])
,*(butlast body)
(set ,*(weave olds news))
,*(last body)))))

Test. e.g:

1> (temporal-let ((x 1) (y 2))
(set x y)
(set y x)
(list x y))
(2 1)

The expansion is:

2> (expand '(temporal-let ((x 1) (y 2))
(set x y)
(set y x)
(list x y)))
(let* ((#:g0024 1)
(#:g0025 2)
(#:g0026 #:g0024)
(#:g0027 #:g0025))
(sys:setq #:g0026
#:g0025)
(sys:setq #:g0027
#:g0024)
(progn (sys:setq #:g0024
#:g0026)
(sys:setq #:g0025
#:g0027))
(list #:g0024 #:g0025))

Let's see how it compiles:

2> (disassemble (compile-toplevel '(temporal-let ((x 1) (y 2))
(set x y)
(set y x)
(list x y))))
data:
0: 1
1: 2
syms:
0: list
code:
0: 20020002 gcall t2 0 d1 d0
1: 04010000
2: 00000400
3: 10000002 end t2
instruction count:
2
#<sys:vm-desc: 903ec50>

Oops, it got compiled to a single call instruction invoking (list 2 1). Let's try opt-level zero:

1> (let ((*opt-level* 0))
(disassemble (compile-toplevel '(temporal-let ((x 1) (y 2))
(set x y)
(set y x)
(list x y)))))
data:
0: 1
1: 2
syms:
0: list
code:
0: 04020004 frame 2 4
1: 2C800400 movsr v00000 d0
2: 2C810401 movsr v00001 d1
3: 2C820800 movsr v00002 v00000
4: 2C830801 movsr v00003 v00001
5: 2C820801 movsr v00002 v00001
6: 2C830800 movsr v00003 v00000
7: 2C800802 movsr v00000 v00002
8: 2C810803 movsr v00001 v00003
9: 20020002 gcall t2 0 v00000 v00001
10: 08000000
11: 00000801
12: 10000002 end t2
13: 10000002 end t2
instruction count:
12
#<sys:vm-desc: 9de1b50>

TXR Lisp's compiler performs frame elimination optimization whereby the v registers get reassigned to t registers, eliminating the frame setup. The t registers are subject to some decent data flow optimizations and can disappear entirely, like in this case.
Sam Vaknin and other youtube personalities surrounding NPD are people who make a lot of money convincing you they uniquely understand this pervasive threat and can help you protect yourself from it. They don’t have incentives to present accurate, holistic information, they have incentives to get video views. He has some interesting ideas, but the overall presentation is skewed by the medium it is presented in and is basically just his opinion.

All the expertise on the really deep psychological stuff is like that to an extent, and I think the best way to understand any of it better is to compare a few different perspectives from academics, practicing therapists, and people who worked on healing themselves. I recommend learning about Object Relations Theory and Attachment theory from an academic perspective, Pete Walker’s CPTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, and Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems Therapy from a personal/clinical perspective.
What makes rust version into be fastest?
There is a thing called a "Resort Dive" that most places in the Caribbean offer to non-certified.

It is better than Snuba.
This is very cool. Thank you.

I use Apple’s Quick Notes in a similar fashion. It lets you highlight text in a web page and by choosing Create Quick Note, it will highlight the passage and next time you visit the site, a small modal appears in the bottom right of the page as you scroll by the annotation. Click the mini modal and Safari jumps you to the spot on the page. And what’s nice is everything is stored in Apple Notes so you can always save it elsewhere.
"then the next setting up from that will reset to a lower snr"

How does it magically make more photons fit the sensor..?

And why wouldn't you use that same magic at lower iso gain factors?
Is it wise to compare spending within defense budgets between these countries? Much AI research in the US is conducted by private firms. How does the current defense budget compare to historical defense budgets, such as during the early days of the digital computer in the Cold War?

On a related note: yes, Chinese researchers have models that perform certain tasks well. But are those models useful in the contexts the author mentions?

To be sure, I don't disagree that AI research needs funded. I'm just genuinely curious about these points.
The labor theory of value has basically never been shown to work, while the subjective theory of value, however many its flaws, has been shown to work and bring us the world we see today.
>you are free to do whatever you do with your own life, not to involve someone else by force.

are you a vegan?
I never heard about this sentiment being commonly agreed. What make you come to that conclusion?
what geopolitical and science do you read/follow? I can find pretty alright science (either very high level or just papers at some point, some industry niche websites strike a better balance), but not that many geopolitical sites I feel good about
With government salary bands what they are, there is nothing they really can do.
Firstly, "millions of deaths" is inflating things. Even the most extreme estimates put deaths in the hundreds of thousands. Most estimates put them in the tens of thousands for Afghanistan and low hundreds of thousands in Iraq.

As to your other point a broken clock can be right two times a day. Just because they took the very easy and obvious position of being against the wars in the middle east does not make them a fount of knowledge. The fact that they effectively argue for Ukraine surrendering to Russia shows how little they care about "responsible statecraft". There's a lot of groups that I used to support that correctly opposed the middle east wars but then suddenly flipped to giving tacit support to Russia.

From what I can see they are a "tankie" organization as they borrow many of the talking points. If it's America doing it they're against it, which is the common tankie position and if it's some other organization that America is helping defend against, then America is still in the wrong.
Either he’s trying to be manipulative by using that data, or he doesn’t understand “ai”
Nobody should be expected to tolerate people who will try to manipulate, degrade and harm them. Mental illness, outside of the most extreme cases, does not rob you of your individual ability to act. Narcissists are not compulsed to hurt other people by forces out of their control, they choose to give in.
>...crypto are every bit as dependent on a constant supply of greater fools.

But it isn't really. The crypto market goes in approx four year cycles and the number of greater fools goes up and down but things like bitcoin don't cease to exist, they just go up and down in price.
Oh my god that's so true. It's like they've invented hire order lying.
This is such a brazen deflection I had to create an account to point it out. Racism, seriously? No, papers that advance the SOTA, and more importantly introduce powerful novel concepts and techniques, have plenty of ethnic Chinese authors. The Chinese are very numerous in the field, just like in software in general, unsurprisingly.

It's just those authors overwhelmingly work in the United States, and rarely in other allied countries. Perhaps the highest-cited ML paper that can be attributed to Mainland China is still affiliated with Microsoft [1].

The fearmongering is miscalibrated, whether it be about PRC-developed AGI or about Chinese people stealing our tech. To a great extent, they are building it.

Native Chinese development, on the other hand, is exactly like OP says, incremental and constrained to internal-policing-related niches like face recognition (actually that's pretty much it). They also opensource pretty powerful models [2], [3], so that's nice of them.

But nothing seriously game-breaking.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01497

2. https://huggingface.co/spaces/THUDM/GLM-130B

3. https://huggingface.co/BAAI/EVA
The cynic in me says because I resent being forced to help multi-billion dollar companies crowdsource their AI training.

The techno-optimist in me says because I want to force them to improve their underlying models. When their engineers notice that their model struggles with weird edge cases that I purposefully mislabel (e.g. when prompted to select images containing motorcycles, I also pick a mountain bike with fat, motorcycle-sized tires), perhaps they will contemplate how to rigorously encode the concepts of “motorcycle” and “mountain bike” into their model, rather than simply pushing an abundance of training data through a black box classifier and hoping that by adding more crowdsourced data, it will eventually arrive at the right answer.
There will be soon if not already, but they won't be accessible without an Asian-specific variant of the device and outside of specific Asian countries.
My two cents on funding and co-founders:

Here in the US, recent deregulation has opened up venture funding online, drastically reducing the 20% carry (commission) Silicon Valley has traditionally charged. As an example, RUV Alliance, a syndicate of angel investors, gives founders access to 1,200+ accredited investors at zero cost (investors pay a one-time 2% management fee). I don't know what the implications of being in Europe are, but you can find out more at https://ruvalliance.notion.site.

Assuming you've already got the technical side covered, I'm thinking a co-founder should be recruited mainly for their sales or, perhaps, regulatory expertise. Not sure how Germany compares, but B2B (business-to-business sales) here is built primarily on relationships and healthcare's heavily regulated nature makes it even tougher to navigate. Guessing someone with the relevant experience and contacts could make or break the company, making a sizable minority stake worth the sacrifice.

Hope that helps!
Yes, at the largest scales there are large structures composed of galaxies with voids between them. At smaller scales, we can observer large clusters of galaxies.

See, for example, Galactic Filaments [0]

Really cool stuff!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament
They didn’t push an update to prevent people from talking about ‘burning alive’ during zero covid.

That’s insane fantasy, utterly disconnected from reality.

However, they were compelled by the CCP to disable P2P file sharing between iOS devices, to limit the spread of dissident messages.

That’s certainly oppressive, but note that the oppressor is the Chinese government.
What's cool is that even in this case ClickHouse is still stupid fast compared to most other databases. ;)
He started north of 275 lbs if I remember. He was working out 3x a day. There are lots of videos out there about it. He was also overweight when he started, and he was going into hell week (military) so the first n lbs of weight would come off “easy”.
"The artist said he [...] takes drugs to lower his heart rate in order to produce his works.

[...]

Mr Short explained that he also has Botox-style injections around his eyes every three months to ensure there are no distractions from his nerves and muscles while working."

Not so cool after reading all that.
Not if you believe that the people working on this are going too fast and/or have a misguided goal.

I think it's reasonable to believe that real self-driving cars are not inevitable, or even if they are, deliberate disruption of this process is healthy; e.g. it shouldn't rely on something this dumb.
The container landscape is getting crowded. As a person who just wants to get things done with containers it’s not immediately obvious where I should be focusing my efforts due to the proliferation of “container solutions”. It seems especially bad on the mac right now.
There's no shortage outside Canada.
>It's as binary as IT

Yup, it either leaks or it doesn't.

IOW in the case of helium leak testing, it either leaks an unacceptable amount or it leaks an acceptable amount.

For higher pressures or stronger vacuums there's always this:

https://products.swagelok.com/en/all-products/fittings/c/100?

https://products.swagelok.com/en/all-products/valves/c/200?

For things like aerospace or energy.
hah! 2 seconds later this is in my feed

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33765399