skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taiwan is conveniently located to be pirate land in a way, choking off both China and Japan. The bad actors in both countries can easily sustain Taiwan and siphoning off resources from their own motherlands... an independent and impartial Taiwan is in everyone's interest; even more so for those within the region, whether they realise it or not. I think it'd be centuries after dismantling of CCP before they can fully realise their full potential, such waste.
They also want to spend $68b on Activision which might put a bit of a dent in that cash hoard.
It will never work that way, except for the lucky few.

Have you ever tried selling books back to the school store? They'll buy it from you for $10 when you paid $100 for it. Same thing will happen for this.
Real-world experiment proved that we should all shift to a four-day workweek
Exactly, like in 1914 when the Austro-Hungarian empire and the German Empire were the worlds 2nd and 3rd leading exporters of electrical appliances, and had this massive trade network where German goods were going all over Europe, financed by English capital.

No country would be stupid enough to bring all that crashing down because some stupid nationalist dispute in the Balkans, that would be idiotic and stupid. Clearly people are to rational for that.
Why a Möbius strip? That would imply that if I travelled around the universe and back to Earth, everything would be like it had been reflected in a mirror.
Trading using GPT and FinRL, intersting YouTube video
Is AI going to change algo-trading forever?

FinRL can be found here: https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation

There is a previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30819436
Maybe they're doomed to follow the footsteps of their predecessors, IBM, HP, Cisco, Nortel, Dell, Intel, etc.
You should look up what happened to the native Formosans when the "legitimate government" (occupying army) went into exile.
The article/headline is confusing; the real comparison is between a non-invasive PET-CT scan using metomidate as an imaging medium, and invasive and specialized adrenal vein sampling (AVS), both as diagnostic tools.

AVS is correlated using a non-metomidate adrenal CT scan anyway, so a CT-only option would be less expensive and could be performed in more facilities, making it more accessible:

> Until now, 99% are never diagnosed because of the difficulty and unavailability of tests.

And since AVS has such a low predictive success rate (63% per the study), the CT-scan-only alternative doesn't even have to be good, it just has to be about as bad as AVS.

The results of either could very well be "keep taking meds for 40 years" or "surgery helps immensely", but the real cost savings are in avoiding AVS and also potentially diagnosing and treating more people sooner.

(Also mind that the study's done in the UK, where CT scans cost patients about £800/US$1,000 even when done privately, and in Scotland/Wales/N. Ireland the meds are free to the patient. In the US, a CT scan averages about $5,000, $12,000 isn't unheard of, and the meds cost $7,000-$20,000 for 40 years.)
GPT-3! Thank god I don't have to hand write them lol.
note: not for commercial use; just like writing crap for myself/friends and I playing around after a few drinks
I too love living in a society.
TensorFlow Lite (tflite) uses flatbuffers. This format, and vendor-specific forks of it, ship on hundreds of millions of phones and other embedded devices.
Why shouldn't it be up to the user? Who asked the government?

This is not how the Internet was supposed to work.
I can't even resume my Ubuntu ThinkPad from suspend without the nVidia driver going absolutely off the rails. I'm generally happy with the laptop, but it's got basic issues that Macbooks solved decades ago. The touchpad is noticeably worse.
Ask HN: What is one thing that improved your cognitive skills the most?
I’m wondering what people here are doing to help with their concentration, memory, energy etc
Tinder testing $500 per month plan
Might be easier to just jail the employees with real decision making authority. Most companies I know that is a very small subset, most everyone else is just supposed to do what they're told.
The US military was unable to defeat the conventional Vietnamese military. It was very much a different war to Afghanistan. The US military failed to degrade Vietnamese logistics and force generation capability to prevent North Vietnam from invading and occupying South Vietnam. There were guerilla tactics, but the NVA was very much an industrialized and mechanized military, despite failed US attempts to degrade that.

> What they can't do is force people at gunpoint to adopt American and/or modern or western values

The Soviets didn't have to do it. They were acting in support of an existing Afghan state which was fighting a war against Pakistan and US funded Mujahideen which wanted to overthrow them. Plenty of people in Afghanistan were open to modern values. The issue with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is that the USSR fell, and the issue with the American invasion is that there was no pre-existing state and that the US didn't have a compelling value proposition for Afghans to die in defence of after they pulled out.

Afghanistan is not some kind of bizarre land where everyone hates the concept of modernity. The Americans just didn't figure out how to organize an Afghan state, and didn't figure out how to win militarily either. The Soviets figured out the former, but they collapsed. Though their state survived the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan until the collapse of the USSR and the end of economic aid.
I think it's very easy to live in a capitalist society and still treat people as human beings rather than financial instruments, but if you live like that you probably will not become CEO of Microsoft.
If you’re waiting for the electoral composition to change you’ve got a long wait. A decade after democrats declared permanent victory based on “demographic change” the GOP just won the House popular vote, and had its strongest year with minorities in decades. The only thing that saved democrats from a whopping was a one-time boost from Roe being overturned.
MSFT stock is barely moved on the announcement. Doesn't necessarily seem like the market is rewarding them.
It is difficult to watch from a distance, in a country with a Westminster parliamentary system. (Which has its own problems, to be sure).
That's not the case for their new batteries:

> Moreover, independent 4680 battery teardowns and chemistry analysis shows that Tesla is still using the regular 811 nickel-manganese-cobalt mixture for the cathodes and ordinary graphite anodes.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-Tesla-4680-battery-teard...

They also aren't using added-silicon anodes yet, which may explain why the energy density is so poor. I'm not sure if they are having trouble working on this, or if they are waiting on patents to expire.
a solution has been around for ages: lockstep processors.

https://www.microcontrollertips.com/dual-core-lockstep-proce...

https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/processor-solutions/a...
UT-Austin doesn't operate commercial cell phone service, and jamming cell phone service is illegal.
> My experience in flyover republican country is that anything that makes a government agency worse, or makes a government worker less happy is good, because it can help bolster the private industry alternative

And that's at best! For many, the cruelty of making their perceived opponent less happy (without any benefit to oneself) is sufficient motivation for them to support policy. Policy as a tool to "hurt people"[1].

1: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...
This is like doing integration the wrong way.
he has a saas that return hello world.
Jasper grew to $45M ARR in 12 months with a team of 8
I just learned that Jasper.ai scaled to $45m ARR in 12 months...with a team of 8. Here's how it happened...

Jasper is one of the fastest-growing companies ever. Growing from $0 to $45m ARR in 12 months before raising $125m at a $1.5b valuation.

8 years of work left them with a string of startups that never quite made it:
- 2 failed software businesses (couldn't make money)
- A SMB marketing agency (maxed out at $25k/mo)
- An online course company (hard to get big)

In December 2020, Dave Rogenmoser and his co-founders were on the brink of shutting down their business. They'd spent 3+ years building a conversion optimization software called Proof...and it was flatlining.

In January 2021, they had an idea to use Chat GPT-3, the generative AI model released 6 months earlier, to write high-converting Facebook ads.

Within 30 days, they launched the business.

With the skeleton crew remaining from the last startup, they scaled the business to $45m ARR and 70,000+ customers without hiring a single new person.

Soon after, they raised $125m at a $1.5b valuation.

Here are 3 lessons from the CEO:
- Right Skill, Wrong Vehicle: 8 years of building marketing businesses gave this team the knowledge and confidence to spend $1m/mo on sales and marketing to scale the business to $45m ARR in year 1.
- Launch Fast & Iterate Quickly: The team agreed that if the business didn't work in 30 days, they'd shut it down. Dave says, "If you have been working on a problem for more than 18 months and haven't found Product market fit (PMF), odds are you won't...Make the hard pivot."
- Ride A Big Wave: Generative AI technology is a new technology that is changing the way we work. But it's not just text. It's images, voice, etc. Identify new customer segments (e.g., Municipalities, Banks, Lawyers, etc.), learn their problems, and apply this novel technology to solve them.

I meet interesting founders 2x per week and share the learnings here.
I remember it too, but my memory is that a large portion of the US population opposed it, just not a majority. The majority supported it. Mainstream media was mostly on board, in manufacturing consent mode, though they had some problems navigating Colin Powell's less than convincing presentation at the UN on supposed Iraqi WMD, but they succeeded anyway.
Sure. I'm merely pointing out a timeline here.

Edit: I don't mean to dismiss your argument that things with regard to Japan have not changed since then. Reasonable people can disagree on if that's true or not (I think you're mostly right).
I was wondering to which year of employment level will all the lay-off roll back. For instance, FB has the same number of employees as they did back in Jan 2022 after the laid-off. Let's say the employment level went back to 2018 for the tech industry, would it be a bad thing? The packages back in 2018 were still pretty cushy.
The only reason I stick with scaleway. No direct data charges.
Here's a good start for financial preparation:
https://www.ramseysolutions.com/budgeting/budgeting-after-jo...
Once again they ruin the extension API to please their overlord google.
> Considering the enormous population of the countries in that part of the world, for how long the west could claim influence on them anyway?

As long as China is aggressive with its neighbors (e.g. Vietnam), they automatically fall into being friendly with the west and in to the west's sphere of influence. But if Taiwan is conquered by the mainland, all bets are off. There would basically be no counter-balance to China in Asia.
It's trivial to prevent the power company from doing this -- just unplug your car.

They can't force anybody to participate, so if they want participation they'll have to pay and pay well.
> They won't even let people with solar panels feed their excess power to the grid.

Is that true? If so, TIL...
> In practise, a recursive descent parser can be thought of as meaning "a hand-written written parser": unless you go out of your way to do otherwise, nearly all hand-written parsers are recursive descent parsers.

I don't think this is true. Yes, almost all hand-written parsers are recursive descent (top-down), but not all recursive descent parsers are handwritten. PEG parsers are top-down, but can be generated very similar to bottom-up parsers. See for example PyParsing. Packrat parsing seem to me to be the best of both worlds and there is not much use for bottom-up parsing anymore.
Because the PRC is a nation subject to an authoritarian party that is antagonistic to the liberal democracies in that region that given half a chance looks for new and innovative ways to subject private society to more of its influence and control. Nobody should have any reason to think that short of being contained that it will stop at the “boundaries” of Asia, nor does anyone in Asia actually deserve to live subject to the CCP.
Exactly! And especially if it's provided by a cable ISP. It's just VoIP. Maybe with some QoS on their network and battery backup.

It's not a real circuit-switched network with its own power supply like traditional POTS service.
It is as deterministic as RC algorithms, which is usually the point being discussed.

Yep, splitting hairs. :)
For other folks who don't write D:

D has GC, no GC ("@nogc" mode), or Ref-Counting (experimentally) with "@safe" and "@live" modes.
I hope you are talking about living long enough to see China stopped from this, because otherwise, you are wishing an unwelcome autocracy on almost 24 million people, almost all of whom are willing to fight and die to retain their freedom rather than be ruled by the CCP.

If you are actually hoping that the CCP can rule over Taiwan in your lifetime, I have some unprintable words for you, and suggest you rethink your life.
A fantastic thing in fact!
Strongly indicates? I question that.

As I understand it, the standard cosmology includes inflation, which stretched out the "full" universe to much larger than the observable universe. This also made the observable universe very, very close to flat, which makes it almost impossible to observe the difference between "flat" and "not flat, but very close to flat in the observable part of the universe".

So if you think there's evidence that strongly indicates "truly flat", I'd like to hear what it is. Ditto for evidence that strongly indicates "infinite" as opposed to "finite, but considerably larger than the observable portion".

[Edit: If you want to say that inflation is a just-so story, I'm not sure I will disagree. And if you say that inflation looks like it was specifically designed to be untestable, I could probably agree with that, too. But those are different from saying that you have sufficient evidence to rule out inflation.]
Dear ChatGPT: Please produce a spam filter that differentially filters out emails from party X (vs party Y) and yet seems in all regards to be intended to produce only neutral results (at least with respect to human-comprehensible analyses).

You might not be bothered by the value of X and the effect in this case, but extrapolating to society as a whole, this is about to become a huge problem.
This bill only exists because it didn’t go for the worst option on remote work.
I remember it also. I remember lots of people speaking out against it, and a lot of hand wringing on CNN about weapons of mass destruction that no one could find.
Totally true. And as I think about this more, I'm not thinking enough about other impacts of that sprawl: Sure, I'm not driving as much, but that's because I'm getting a lot of things delivered to me, so SOMEONE is driving around a lot on my behalf (and I'm having to pay for it too).

Although with package deliveries, the impact is amortized by all the packages so the impact is probably less than if I had driven to the store, this isn't true of grocery and food deliveries. Those are about as inefficient as would be if I did that driving myself.

The approach of thinking about suburbs/city/etc will all have to account for the new hybrid lifestyle of remote work now – where people are living in remote areas but still not driving that much either.
My company doesn't do that and I assume companies don't do pro rata bonuses as they are a tool for staff retention.
This is not a CT but a PET scan, it records passive radiation from a molecule injected into the body, and therefore a 10 min long scan. Then it is based on radioactive carbon (C-11), which is pretty uncommon and needs quick use after production, so not every PET(CT) can do that, it needs be in the vicinity of a production facility (i.e. close to a university/research hospital). This is the sense of the last sentence: it needs a replacement the carbon with another radioactive isotope (fluor for instance) to be doable at every PET/CT place. I don't blame the title here, because the article itself is very strangely written, it says as well "CT scan" but this is no "CT scan", this is a PET scan.
re >> #1 priority on increasing head count to grow empires and get promotions.

I'm sure that's the case always, but I'm convinced it's the case more often than many of us realize. I also recall this being discussed in David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs"
Outside of the retreat in Korea after the entry of China I can't think of an example where the US lost a tactical encounter after WW2. We lost wars but not due to military reasons. We were not defeated on the battlefield in Vietnam or Afghanistan.
Do you have a source for that, that they had said that from the start? This is the first I've heard of it.
A proposal to stop the purchase of property by nameless numbered entities ("123 LLC") would have my full support.

It's not like foreign buyers put down "China Inc" on the purchase forms.
No, but they're ramping up oil production at a tremendous rate, are the biggest EV market in the world and have a shrinking population. That 33% number is going to increase quite quickly.
wrt the driving concern: stomach aches, back pain, et al are often psychogenic, and institutionalizing generalized recording to find broad associations are unlikely to be helpful.

I would recommend being more of a scientist: identify a specific issue, canvas the literature for some causal hypotheses based in what we already know, and then design the experiment. Or, ask a professional, i.e., a doctor.

Probably the most fuzzy but prevalent driver is inflammation or an overactive immune system. Blood tests will say if it's hyper-active, and panels can tell you if you're allergic to everything from gluten to types of seafood. (You can order them directly from Quest Diagnostics for ~$200-$600 in the US.)

wrt system, I use markdown both for journaling and for analysis. I reduce everything to headers, bullets, and tables. Then I use full-text search from the keyboard to find things, and parsing to process, e.g., searching for data under a given set of topics.

For document granularity, use some combination of workflow and deliverable. My WIP stream has preliminary evaluation in time order, but I glean results to deliverables -- like lab notes vs. papers.

For details, you end up with your own tag/format system. e.g., most of my urls are something like

- [name - description in {language or system} from {source} on {plaform or date} from {domain}](url)

It reads normally, and allow me to find e.g., matching items from a source.

Obviously, the killer app here is a personalized voice assistant, which chunks your information, instead of your having to fit into some system. I'd pay for that.
The level of nastiness in your comments here makes it very hard to take you seriously as an "objective" observer. Considering that you're using your HN profile to attract clients—"Hire me for your development needs!"—you might want to tone that down. I wouldn't want to work with anyone who thought it was appropriate to behave that way.

(And I'll say your rosy impression of Twitter seems a little strange for a supposedly objective observer, given the recent outages/pervasive legal problems/chaotic feature rollouts/various fits and reversals/overall dysfunction that has characterized that company since it was acquired by Elon Musk.)
I want to do the opposite - i. e. administer it from another phone, or Web UI, which I have the password to.
Presumably the program has to check bit in a status register or something like that to tell if the previous instruction caused overflow, no? That means an extra branch after each arithmetic instruction. I imagine that's not cheap?
How many employees did Microsoft add since the beginning of the pandemic. I know there was a lot of hiring during that time.
Feature phones in the later '00s usually had cameras, it's not a feature that started with smartphones.
Gmail allows lots of obvious spam into my inbox. Seems like the spammers are winning the war.
If there are consistent price cycles and a good API for reading price, it should be pretty easy for an EV owner to control how much they interact with the arbitrage opportunities with some simple rules. Ex. "only sell if it cost at least 15% less to charge", "always charge to X%", "charge to 70% if < $Y", charge to 100% if < $Z", "never sell below X%"

The aesthetic vibe of having an autonomous energy trading bot in my garage is attractive to me.
It is according to CS definition, and will keep being one unless @nogc is enabled by default for everything.
Sometimes, sure. But an overflow doesn't have to be an error, it can be what you're after and you just want to know when it happens.
Bike helmets: what the science says about an American safety obsession
This article is reporting on this tweet from @TwitterDev:

> Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.

Lots of interpretation needed to get anything out of this message.
Between 2020 and 2021 they grew by 40k. 11k doesn't seem that much considering.
You can get people to "show up" for far less than MSFT salaries.
Well, in Python for example there is the classic bug where if you change a dictionary in some function, it changes everywhere else. Can't do that with immutable data.

It is easy to avoid, but if you can't do it anyway, the potential for bugs go away.
You just used an appeal to Elons other companies while telling others to not use credentialism?
It's used for several ML-related projects, including as the model format for TensorFlow Lite (TFLite). The TFLite format also has long-term support as part of Google Play Services. The main attraction is ability to pass large amounts of data without having to serialize/deserialize all of it to access fields.

(I work for Google but don't speak for it.)
I calculate about $12 per Model Y full battery cycle, how did you get 2 cents?

$12,000 (Model Y bat replace cost) * 300(miles for full drain)/300,000(total miles per pack)

= $12 per cycle

Edit: or 18 cents per kWh
You don't even have to go so far back. In January 2022 few believed that Russia would invade Ukraine because Russia was heavily depending on exporting gas and oil to the EU. The sanctions in 2014 for the annexation of Crimea were deemed to scare Russia away from doing so.

Then Russia invaded anyways and is apparently now in the process of doubling down by mobilizing hundreds of thousands of fresh recruits.
It also reduces the amount of commercial office space GSA has to lease/manage.
A Four-Step Seasoning Approach That Supplies a Lifetimes Worth of Cooking Ideas
Only if i go off my meds.
It's exactly that imprecision that means the person making the statement gets to tell you what it means for them, and they're not unreasonable for being very explicit in telling you that you will not convince them that their definition is more appropriate.

Furthermore,

on a purely mechanical level, what you're doing here is trying to escalate scope specifically so you don't have to give the point. Just give the point.
TikTok is hardly the only service that blocks what it thinks is VPN traffic. I only ever get captcha completion requests when I try to access sites via VPN.
There are different ways to design it, but a simple version could be a function that takes 2 operands and 1 result pointer as inputs, and returns boolean (true if success, false if it overflowed):

bool SafeAddIntInt(int32_t x, int32_t y, int32_t *r);

so the caller could say

int32_t result;
if (SafeAddIntInt(x, y, &result)) {
// do something with result
} else {
// handle overflow
}

An even simpler version could just abort on over/underflow.