skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, the mobile app is pretty nice. A bit unnecessary, but other than ‘sign in with apple’ it works pretty well.
Can someone with some industry experience comment on how RISC-V will change the geopolitical dynamics? From what I understand it's a standardized instruction set (coming out of UCS Berkeley) that would provide a standard design for chips. From what I've read it doesn't sound like the architecture would be able to be able to be used on M1 and M2 chip design, but it does mean that fabrication of chips would be open sourced so long as it conforms to the standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/tech-war-china-bets-on-...

To me this sounds like the US is adopting a bet on entrenched monopolies in Intel and TSMC while China is making a bid for open source architectures (I wouldn't say that there are "good guys" and "bad guys" here, only that in the Machiavellian sense the US has first mover advantage in chips and is engaged in import restrictions and RISC-V is a new standard).

I worry that this could have implications for Taiwan if they lose the geopolitical advantage of having a monopoly on chip production. I'm also concerned that the US administration could be placing big bets for the economy on shoring up tech firms that may become outdated when the chip making market becomes competitive again internationally.

Thoughts?
Early "computers" were also women. Because the engineering work was done by men and the computational "menial work" was done by women. These same women were replaced by digital computers later on, and some of these women felt "at home" with the new medium since they had better familiarity with what is going on in there than men did.

But that was the 60s and 70s, and the women at the time were in their 20s and 30s.

Many of those women remained "computers" and did not go into "engineers", and there is a big difference between the two. A computer is great at solving equations and doing the menial work of data calculation, similar to what we use spreadsheets for today.

Engineers on the other hand is a more creative approach to problem solving, when presented with various problems (not just of math) that need some solutions, an engineer would try and find that solution by being creative.

About 20-30 years ago, there was a large population of engineers around the world who are the parents of today's engineers who are 20-30yo right now. Those engineers were white men, and women, and asian men and women. Not many of them were black families, so today's 20-30yo black men (and women) are not only a small portion of the world population, they are also heavily underrepresented in engineering. That is not to say they are incapable, as I mentioned above, it is more influenced by the "environment" where these people grew up in.

Also, early women programmers does not mean that today's women had the same upbringing and attraction to the same professions as the women in the 60s and 70s. Back then being a "computer" was similar to being a secretary, it involved a lot of menial work and precision. Today's secretaries might be required to be good with spreadsheets and document writing software, quite a leap away from programming.

The above are generalizations, since there are absolutely definitely amazing women software engineers today, as well as black men software engineers. It is just that they are barely a minority in the software engineering industry, there are just very few of them - which makes sense why the software engineering jobs don't have any significant representation of these people working there.
It probably wouldn't be to the benefit of China as a country. But that might not matter given how much Xi has consolidated power - the question is whether it benefits him. And if he wants to end up in the history books as "great leader who completed reunification of the country" or some such, he might have to rush even if that significantly increases the costs.

(There are good reasons to believe that something similar wrt Putin is the primary motivation behind the war in Ukraine, BTW.)
This may come off as a little intense but this seems like the central issue with capitalism in our world today. Competition is competition to lower human expectations to increase corporate profits instead of giving more to humanity on the back of the corporation that has grown a capability to do it.
I just don’t feel threatened by AI at all. Maybe I’m not seeing the full picture, but the quality of your software necessarily depends on a constant re-evaluation of customer needs, business priorities, human values, etc. Lots of squishy stuff.

Programming is not just taking product requirements and spitting out the correct algorithms.
I’m assuming that’s because of America’s deep base of industrial expertise and infrastructure as compared to that of China.
The incentive to put the story on the page along with the recipe comes not from Google, but rather from US copyright law, which has decided that a plain recipe is not copyrightable; there has to be some "personal expression".
Its funny you said Yahoo Answer and not Stack Overflow, Reddit or something similar. Haven't heard of the name for a very very long time.
I used to work in this field (verifying local business listings). Locksmiths are traditionally the spammiest and scammiest industry of them all (along with taxis, before rideshare cut down their ROI). Basically any service area business has huge incentive to spam any and all business listing providers, and for whatever reason the locksmith industry became the worst of them. Flower delivery and personal injury lawyers often fall into the same bucket. You'll still see companies named "AAA Locksmith" and the like because this behavior dates back to the days of the Yellow Pages.

As to why Yelp is better than Google on this, I'd guess it's either that you got lucky, or that Google is more targeted than Yelp these days. I'm not up on the current state of how listing verification works now, but it's possible that Google's process is easier to target than Yelp's, and if there are any weaknesses, a locksmith marketer will figure it out pretty quickly.
This does not seem to have any content, just a form to collect email?

But plans to stop using filters in product searches sounds ominous. I suspect it would end up being something like Amazon's product search: completely ignore all the finer detail and offer sponsored and popular items which are vaguely related to user search.
The Talk Show: Ep. 367, with Craig Hockenberry [audio]
Shouldn't "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" be a spiral ? Why the direction change at n ?
Maybe money laundering front?
Except AI plays to the strengths of Big Companies rather than small ones. So MAGA will be the first to capture the winds of AI. They don’t have to worry about an unknown AI company suddenly toppling them upside down.
It's a very difficult problem to solve in a way that works for most people, i.e. secure, privacy preserving, easy to use, etc. It's easy to have one and not the other. It's not true that it can not be solved at all though. The guys from idena.io have a solution that definitely works, problem is it's not convenient and I highly doubt that it'll ever be adopted by the masses. But it is a sybil attack solution and it does work over the internet.

Edit: Just noticed you said prove that it's always the same person. They can not do that. But they can prove that it's a unique human. Which seems good enough for online reviews imo, where it doesn't exactly matter who the person is.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230122030553/https://www.natur...
These days for me React === Next.

I wonder if Vercel will take over React at some point as they seem to be capable of GSD very rapidly with a great hit rate. It sometimes feels like any improvements these days in the React ecosystem are because of improvements to Next or improvements to key libraries like react-query/tan-query.
There’s something to be said for native support in a library, and Axios having it for interceptors makes me fine with using it instead of fetch.
I have had great luck with Yelp. Maybe this is where Google's "no customer service" strategy starts to screw them up?
You had that due to poor C-Suite leadership. A good C-Suite would have noticed the in-fighting, and re-organized the group into a single threaded leader who is a benevolent dictator. Google's disfunction is due to the lack of clear organizational decision making leading towards a 'democracy' with no movement.
If we put a fraction of R&D into reactors as we have with semiconductors, it would be a VERY different story. Instead we have spent 50 years scared shitless of the nuclear boogyman. The worst proponents of nuclear are so called environmentalists who's feelings over facts have caused far more harm to the environment (mining for rare earths anyone?). If we would have continued research into other than light water reactors instead of abandoning it we'd be burning "nuclear waste" instead of arguing where to bury otherwise useable fuel.
I suspect the PRC won't outright bomb much of Taiwan but instead go straight for the presidential palace in Taipei and try to force an ROC capitulation early.

I think they're counting on the ruling class / landowners / capitalists to pressure the government to capitulate at fear of property destruction, which I also expect to be in line with reality. Doing capitalism in a country like taiwan is better than in the PRC, but doing it in the PRC is better than not being able to do it at all because all your assets were obliterated.

What I think none of these people are counting on is that there are rabidly anti CPC people here in Taiwan, leftist or otherwise, and some of these people engage in post-military service training and drilling. I suspect that if the above comes to pass and the CPC is successful in forcing an ROC surrender, the factories are burning one way or the other, due to "self-sabotage" by workers or guerillas.

Then the PLA gets to have fun for a decade chasing guerillas around the choking thick jungle and mountains that make up the majority of the landmass in Taiwan. Many of these will be indigenous who have lived in the mountains for generations and per capita by demographic make up more of the (non conscripted) military than any other demographic.

I don't think any of this will come to pass though because I, like most people in Taiwan (including the usa consulate staff), believe the possibility of invasion is slim.
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Attempted to Flee to Mexico to Avoid Prison
If you enjoyed xkcd on black holes, you might also enjoy this talk:

Black Holes and the Fundamental Laws of Physics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKp1XeEF74
Is there a technical limitation that allows a maximum resolution of 50cm? Or could you potentially go to 25 or 10 just by dialing up the zoom level on the satalites?
It was a weird situation where the review ran afoul of policy, but the organization wasn’t able to respond in a way that allowed them to follow a Google process. (Ie someone set something up 15 years ago with a defunct domain name or similar, and there was an “orphaned” instance of the place.)

The “fix” was to essentially reestablish the lost ownership of the business (which had paid Google Workspace and GCP presence) with their listing. Once they regained control, they were able to file a complaint and a Google reviewer removed the content.

It wasn’t a situation of “This place sucks” getting taken down.
As a data point, that "overlay of Moore County’s transmission grid" on the EIA website may not be totally open access.

Trying to load the page (https://atlas.eia.gov/apps/895faaf79d744f2ab3b72f8bd5778e68/...) from Australia just now, the user interface framework loads, but none of the maps/data/etc.

Tried with both Firefox and Chromium, so it's not a browser dependency problem.
That's so weird to see.

The information is that it teaches violence is acceptable and people will unironically respond with something like "I was slapped as a kid and I'm not a person who thinks violence is acceptable... that's why I think slapping kids is okay".

If they then do see the irony they'll argue that their form of hitting the child is completely different from the bad form of hitting a child.
Basically remaking something that replaces HTML.

We could have tested those idea in a similar fashion as React and next.js in Javascript, and incorporate what works as native HTML. Before sort of refactoring HTML into something else.

But Google doesn't want that. Google wants everything on the web to be Javascript. So yes. Blame Google.
6 months of FAANG severance is better than 2 years of government social safety net, even with a good government.
Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
This works suprisingly well. Just give it instructions like "make it winter" or "remove the cars" and the photo is altered.

Here are some examples of transformations it can make:
Golden gate bridge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...
Girl with a pearl earring: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry/ma...

I integrated this new InstructPix2Pix model into imaginAIry (python library) so it's easy to use for python developers.
All US localities are subject to federal law. Federal law enforcement is not currently enforcing the law in some situations, but the law remains on the books and still is enforced in many situations.
Somehow, "$@" would have to be involved for safe processing. I will ponder it.
The main web page has almost no information on it: the example configuration has no SSL, nothing is mentioned about whether this uses local mail delivery on Unix(like) systems, no mention is made about DKIM, DMARC, et cetera, the documentation is practically nonexistent... Can you even set your own HELO / EHLO name?

And this: "To install dovel you need golang propperly installed, ports 25 and 443 available"... How does an email server work without port 25 and / or 587?
lol - 108 mile range for a thing designed for road trips.
People don't trust the banks, that is correct, but the reality is that nobody buys crypto for that reason --- they buy it because the peso is a volatile currency and to avoid taxes.
Lots of businesses just assume this is how their big features will be purchased. If it doesn't come with a sales rep and discovery call then it's not worth buying. This filters both ways.businesses that sell this way don't want to be bothered with anything less than a $certain amount$ and businesses that buy this way want the sales rep and sales engineering team to come in because the purchasing decision makers don't even know what they need or want.
> Google Maps doesn't have a way to report an entire account as a bot; one can only flag a specific comment. There's also no way to provide enough information for Google Maps' trust & safety team to understand what's happening and figure out how they're evading Google's bot detection. So, it continues unabated.

But didn't they used to? Some of their old support articles used to mention the ability to report accounts, but that functionality seems to have disappeared.

I tried to report a business garnering fake 5* reviews last week and was frustrated that there was seemingly nothing I could do, especially since they buy and sell stolen goods.
Lmao I wanna test later if ChatGPT can entertain me with this.
Wildly offtopic, but not all oil is the same. The oil in Venezuela is tar sands[1] so is expensive to extract. In fact the marginal cost of an additional barrel in Venezuela ($20) is 3x that of UAE ($7), and that's not considering the other issues involved[2]. It is then heavy oil which means it has more bituminous, long hydrocarbon chains with more sulphur so it produces a cheaper grade of product and requires more processing.

Then there is the fact that their oil company PdVSA has been under US sanctions which can't help much[3].

[1] https://www.gem.wiki/Venezuela_Tar_Sands

[2] https://knoema.com/infographics/vyronoe/cost-of-oil-producti...

[3] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/13808.pdf
Obesity in America is more about snacks than giant meals
“echo” is the default action for xargs, so you don’t need to specify it.
The three steps are: (1) clone the repo (2) build the server, write config file, run it and (3) "Configure your MX record in your domain registrar to point to your server."

That's not 3 steps and that's not nearly enough to self host your email. No mention of authentication(!), SPF, DMARC, spam filtering, backups, IMAP access or many other things that are required to have a mail server in 2023, not even in TODO list.
(Actually, I thought you were commenting on NHSTA data. I agree with you about Tesla data.)
At the C level is hardly the only place where there is/was bad rot.

And in this case, it wasn't just one group. It was multiple product areas. Each trying to make the other one execute their vision for them, it seemed. It wasn't "democracy", it was more... feudalism.

Anyways, the parts of Google that were just shipping boring old unsexy $$ making core/search/ads stuff were managed much better.
Genuine question: does the elevation of Xi as (effective) dictator for life change the approach of the Chinese State to be less rational?
No, his parents are not assumed to have assets necessary to cover the full $250M. There may be a judgment against them for this amount if he fails to appear, but they likely will not meet it.

No, the additional sureties are not responsible for amounts beyond the amounts they have already committed.

Ken White (Popehat) has a good explainer here: https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/how-did-sam-bankman-fried-...

Dragonwriter has a good answer with links to the law here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108874
Me too! I'm really hoping Mazda comes out with their rotary based range extender SUV. The power to weight ratio of rotaries is amazing, and their biggest weakness - the seals - is dramatically mitigated when the engine can run at a constant, fixed speed like it would be if paired to a generator and not mechanically linked to a drivetrain/transmission.
I don't think it's a "dupe" if it's a different link. It's more like a "see also"
That's fine you can keep your $500 USD transactions.

I am talking about the larger financial transactions that actually underpin the global economy.

And for those crypto very much has borders.
Some fun personal projects using AI? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8sZ6dLrhDs
When the sun shines people also run their air conditioning. We get a huge spike in power use on sunny days.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just saying we’re a long way from that problem.

And when we get there grid-scale batteries are probably the way to go. Australia has experienced phenomenal improvements in the places where they deployed battery systems. It’s actually useful everywhere since you can buy power at the usage trough when it’s cheap and sell power at the peak when it’s expensive. Large-scale batteries pay for themselves in less than five years. Simply by buying low and selling high.

Battery storage also allows you to generate steady state rather than ramping up and down production as the grid demands go up and down. That’s more cost-effective if you’re using renewables or coal or anything else.
This is magic. I love it.
What if there's really no algorithm, and it's really just a bunch of human moderators intervening and controlling a few basic scripts?

-Questions no one is asking.
> Less divisive stances on CSS solutions

Yes, and emphatically yes.
What's the grand strategy behind the idea of forever spending more money than we have? Are they betting we're going to invent replicators and end scarcity? Are they just hoping to keep kicking the can down the road until they die of old age? Sooner or later the bill comes due. How utterly fucked are our grandkids?
Some years ago (perhaps 2015) I told a non-programmer that MOST programmers would be obsolete by the end of the century because of AI. Surprisingly he scoffed saying there is no way AI will be able to handle all those business edge cases. The stuff in the article is pretty basic and a long way from complex business logic, but we are on our way. I just hope business application developers like myself can survive until retirement, which for me is sometime around 2050. I am getting less optimistic.
Yeah I don't get that either. If I'm going to pay a lot for a vehicle it's got to be because it's more practical for what I want to use it for. Also, this was my first time buying new because I figured that 0% interest wasn't going to last long.
I'm an engineer who does a lot of "applied research" projects. I've used (still do some) octave quite a bit.

There's nothing like octave (or MATLAB) for scripting to "get shit done." There is a plethora of packages and tools to do whatever you need.

Need to import excel data and graph it? Octave is great. Need to connect to an sql database, pull data and export it? Octave. Linear algebra. Nuff said.

It's a great tool for engineers / scientists who don't want to "program" (although you can!) and want readable syntax to just git r dun. Also, there's a shit ton of m code floating out there on the internet and in engineering schools / university research groups. Octave isn't 100% m compatible but if you don't have a special tool boxes & functions you can get them to run in octave with a little debugging.

I love octave. It's gotten me out of a lot of binds.
To punish people who save money. It's that simple. It's a way of taxing wealth.
I'm guessing just to make it more interesting, and have name drawings turn left/right, instead of just turning left. Note that n is the halfway point.
“Stories Untold” on Steam might be a fun start. It’s a 3D game which simulates the experience of playing short horror text adventures alone at home.
Several years back I needed a plumber in a bit of a hurry. I used Angie’s List, now angi.com, with a little less hesitancy than using Google reviews or yelp.

The plumber I hired this way did a good job at a fair price. For less urgent work I hired this company for other work even after getting bids from others.
> Sooner or later the bill comes due.

No it doesn't. The whole world runs on debt, it's not a terribly big deal.
Hmm, Fushcia builds a whole new kernel in a different paradigm and then a userspace upon that. Android was built upon an existing and mature kernel. It doesn’t surprise me that Fushcia takes longer.
Hmm, I wonder, would that be treason? It would basically be a organized attempt at crashing the US economy. Though I suppose banks have gotten away with it before.
Very little. In fact, in my interactions with them when Google Ventures were looking at a possible investment in a company I worked for I would say they stood out as by far the least technically-competent VCs we spoke to, and we spoke with everyone you might expect from the valley as well as several family offices and other investors.

They definitely rated themselves highly though.
If you assume markets are roughly efficient then eliminating all R&D would cause stock prices to tank (assuming R&D is important to the long-term success of the business). I think many people on HN are biased against business concerns (as opposed to technology ones) and wrongly think they could run a business better than they really could.
I remember Google upfront said when they started development of fuchsia that it would take seven years before there was anything to show. Cannot find the reference. I also remember Microsoft saying the same when they were fiddling with Midori (now canceled windows replacement). It appears that 7 - 10 years is the typical timeline when developing an OS from scratch.
So far we're looking at ~200,000 layoffs, a far cry from the 1,000,000 laid off in the dot-com bubble. And nowhere close to the capital bonfire of the 2008 housing collapse.