skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why should Japan have excelled here vs any other country?

30 years ago Japan was world-beating, today it isn't. You could say that to not be excelling is the norm, and the causes of success 30 years ago are the things to be investigated; nevertheless, this feels like a decline.

> I watched several large bitcoin startups um, startup. I saw what must have been 11 different payment system appear (PayPay, D-Pay, ...), just as 2 categories.

Japan has dozens of payment systems but how many of them are competing outside Japan? How many are even trying? NFC-F is still technologically better than Visa/Mastercard contactless, but I bet the latter is going to win out, because it's the international standard; even in Japan new cards come with that.
politics is WAN when nuance is harder to find
Well it is still open source and in that case you would be able to access the site with the same browser features just using Chromium instead
Maybe they underperformed because the platforms he used to win in 2016 banned him? Make no mistake, Trump won in '16 because of Twitter & FB reach.
I've often imagined a system that tries to build consensus around which (content-addressed) code snippets can be treated as pure functions with (content-addressed) memorized outputs and which ones need to be rerun.

If you're on a well-worn-path you could operate mostly by lookup and only run the code if something doesn't smell right.
Then you end up with representatives that represent dense areas, and the rural folks don’t like that.
In the context of podcasts where there's a regular stream of episodes, it's perfectly reasonable to say that you have DRM free access to any episode that occurred prior to your subscription ending. It's how every single other podcast subscription service works.

(full disclaimer: I run engineering for a competitive podcast subscription service, Supercast)
Alas, Adani is too big to fail.

The shares mostly came back up, and they raised an additional 700+ million dollars yesterday from institutional investors ... you know, the usual ones, who are also too big to fail

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/ada...
Great submission. I was just thinking the other day "you know what needs to be highly politicised and discussed on HN? Fonts!".
Well Open Source licenses don't make sense for training artifacts for the same reason Creative Commons licenses are used for written and artists "open" works rather than Open Source.
Yeah, I think micro ATX is a great format. You can fit anything in a very cheap case, mobos are economical, and air cooling works.

Those extra small itx builds are interesting when you need power and some degree of portability for some reason, but a laptop doesn’t cut it (eg too noisy).
There are some libraries for dealing with currency. I don't remember the names.

But more importantly, what exactly are you trying to do? It sounds like you want to convert floats to percents and back again to get the same exact values. Double or BigDecimal should be fine to get back to the second decimal place in your scenario. I don't have a proof for that, but you could generate tests and data to test your system. If you're really concerned about getting the original values back, the. You can create an audit table to preserve them, depending on how this scenario is applied in real life.
It's not cheaper if you only want to run the nuclear power plant occasionally.
Amazon is at fault for the amount of fraud on their platform and the amount of damage it’s caused both businesses and customers.

It isn’t at fault for people preferring to buy stuff online or Amazon’s highly efficient supply chain etc.
> I recall reading a news article from a few years ago that said that the Japanese citizenship test is almost impossible to the point that few people try.

I did a quick search and as far as I can tell there is no Japanese citizenship test. There is a test of Japanese language skills but even that is not described as a high bar. Maybe this has also changed?

https://we-xpats.com/en/guide/as/jp/detail/9068/
> I recall reading a news article from a few years ago that said that the Japanese citizenship test is almost impossible to the point that few people try.

Did they substantiate this claim at all? All available public information is that the vast majority of those who try succeed.

People largely don't apply for citizenship, in part because Japan requires them to renounce other citizenships to do so, and in part because a permanent resident can do almost anything that a citizen can in practice.
I agree with your view that nuclear weapons on both sides prevent war. However, they’ve only ever been developed by a small number of capable and motivated nations, with considerable resources involved. The later ones (North Korea, Pakistan) developed them while other nations tried to prevent them from doing so.

If ML models continue their exponential growth in size, a similar outcome is possible.
Impressive to see Japan's floor space per person rise so dramatically.
In addition to the audio, there's also show specific metadata like episode names, summaries, and show notes, which can get pretty comprehensive. It would maybe be a smart idea to have a copy of those outside of your hosting provider, but that's not common.

The bigger thing though is less about the data and more about your listeners. If you move to another podcast host, it's obviously important that your existing listeners move with you, and every public podcast host I'm aware of will happily redirect your feeds (as mentioned in the article)

With Apple you have to ask people to move, and asking people to take an action is necessarily going to involve a lot of churn and confusion.
They even have a visual editor, if people don't want to mess with Verilog and prefer direct drawing of logic gates

What if you prefer direct drawing of the mask layers?
So are we as a society not supposed to take advantage of learning from past mistakes? 100 years ago we flushed raw sewage into rivers and streams. Then we learned that sewage wrecks our water supply and also our health so we started to treat the sewage. I'm struggling to understand your angry and bitter tone. I guess if we lived in a true libertarian society then we should/could let anyone build whatever they want along the coastline because society wouldn't be tasked with shouldering the cost of poor individual planning. But that's not the reality we live in.
probably /1000 tokens
This is a common misconception. The reason you don't hear more about English-speaking westerners gaining Japanese citizenship is because they don't recognize dual citizenship. Renouncing your non-Japanese citizenships is a prerequisite to gaining Japanese citizenship, which is understandably too big a hurdle for many.
The Ambanis are very different than the Adanis.

1) The Ambanis didn’t exist when the Ambanis were rising. This is similar to how everyone wants to be the next Amazon, ignoring the little fact that unlike when Amazon was growing, there already is an Amazon now.

2) The Ambanis were able to ride a wave of massive growth post liberalization to cover up their illegal dealings and essentially become legitimate. It’s not clear that there is any such wave of massive growth available to the Adanis to cover up their illegal dealings.

3) The Ambanis raised money illegally almost entirely locally, which meant they avoided international scrutiny, and they did so at a time when the Indian financial agencies were simply not mature enough. The Adanis will be raising foreign funds which increases scrutiny, but also Indian regulatory agencies are far more mature at this point.

4) The Ambanis valuation did collapse dramatically for a significant period of time. The difference is that the business has been split between the 2 brothers and one went to almost 0, while the other grew slightly. Their combined wealth, simulating the market cap of the company, has declined drastically from its peak level.
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I'm assuming it wasn't anywhere close to 100% though, which a simple 301 redirect would give you.

Every podcast host I'm aware of would be happy to do that for you.
I realize that it was just an example but newer bluetooth TWS chipsets can do multi-point pairing just fine. Also, Google's Fast Pair API is currently being expanded beyond just pairing headphones.
They aim for more than just surface-level UX.

I doubt apps can stay on the playstore after asking for card details in a form. Google wants their cut too
I am not asking "us" in that sentence though. I am not sure admins will be responding to random questions like mine if i email the question to them.
It's only a "CSAM proposal" as far as the Patriot Act is a "anti-terrorist law", even though it's routinely used against ordinary citizens and lower level crimes.

CSAM is merely the trojan horse, it's not hard to see how this would be extended to ban wrongthink. After all, Germany and the UK already severely limit speech.

For example, the UK charged and convicted a young woman for posting the lyrics to a rap song in honor of her recently deceased friend because it happened to have the soft N-word in it. [1]

Europe has repeatedly and systematically attacked free speech and encryption on multiple fronts.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921
My understanding is that the Colombian citizenship test is quite hard too.

I don't think one can meaningfully use the difficulty of a citizenship test as a data point in an argument with zero contextualization. How hard exactly is it compared to the test your average country has in place? Maybe no such survey exists but
LLC University is probably the best resource on this: https://www.llcuniversity.com/

Matt explains why you should just register in your home state, not Delaware: https://www.llcuniversity.com/delaware-llc/why-you-shouldnt-...

A big discount on LLC registration and Registered Agent fees at the best place to register them online. (Also good explanation of Registered Agents): https://www.llcuniversity.com/when-forming-an-llc-who-is-the...

There's enough info on the site to do all the paperwork yourself, if you wanted to.
By the way, one of the most popular tasks is information extraction, for example reading an invoice. This is fancy copying.
It seems like a really weird PE acquisition to me. Did they have iron-clad, shockingly lucrative data distribution contracts? The site still has a donate button on it as of this moment, and somewhere says something along the lines of “in the very unlikely event our revenues ever exceed our opex, all excess will be reinvested in the project.”

One of the technical leads on the project said the site was generating between $500-3000 a day in revenue. It wasn’t clear if that was just ad revenue (which is a cash flow PE is definitely NOT buying) or ads + data subscriptions, but I just can’t imagine they bought much of substance here, when it sounds like the entire technical team has moved on. If the feeder network declines, what’s left? Stale flight data?

Super weird investment.
I just heard about https://opensky-network.org/

"The OpenSky Network is a non-profit community-based receiver network which has been continuously collecting air traffic surveillance data since 2013. Unlike other networks, OpenSky keeps the complete unfiltered raw data and makes it accessible to academic and institutional researchers."
> In other words, we have made great strides in teaching AI "physics" or "recognition", but we have made very little progress in teaching it metaphysics (categories, in this case) because half the people working on the problem don't even recognize metaphysics as a category even though without it, they could not perceive the world.

A bold claim, but I'm not sure it's one that accurately matches reality. It reminds me of reading about attempts in the 80's to construct AI by having linguists come in and trying to develop rules for the system.

From my experience, current methods of developing AI are a lot closer to how most humans think and interact with the world than academic philosophy is. Academic philosophy might be fine, but it's quite possible it's no more useful for navigating the world than the debates over theological minutiae have been.
Short answer is of course yes. There are plenty of small businesses that need a web site to advertise their presence, etc, but without dynamic content requiring a database.

Of course finding clients will take a bit of leg-work, and given they don't have a site already, it would suggest they wouldn't be willing to spend a lot of money.

You'd be competing with things like Wix, Squarespace and so on though. There are lots of ways to quickly and cheaply make simple info sites.
And with software a lot of your costs and overhead are fairly fixed. So as you scale up, more of your revenue becomes profit. Investors are looking at that future scaled up state.
Why does it matter whether anti-vaxxers agree with him? People are allowed to have their own opinions about what they put into their own bodies. That's a fundamental right that we all inherit be being born.
What about String theory??
A fertility rate of 1.3 is still a demographic crisis. Just because the neighbors degraded to the same level also isn't supposed to be a point of pride.

Japan at 1.3 and China at 1.2 are both far below replacement rate of 2.1 and both are heavily detrimental to a nations economic and demographic outlook and on par with only the European with the worst outlooks like Spain, Italy and Ukraine.
Events in Ukraine would suggest that even older weapons in the US arsenal do in fact work exceptionally well. US performance in Desert Storm and the battle of Khasam also suggests that the U.S. military does possess the acumen to deploy its weapons effectively.
I gave up on ChatGPT for code generation because I ended up spending more time tweaking prompts/fixing outputs than if I had just written it myself in the first place. I think this is probably the future of "coding" but it's not quite there yet.

Is CoPilot any better?
I agree with this. We actually dynamically render RSS feeds (we have some personalization options) and while we've had to optimize it here and there, it doesn't even register as a real cost or problem (streaming MP3 files to listeners is the real cost of hosting podcasts).
Telegram have some successful experience with situations like that

Russian censorship machine given up on blocking telegram
The only dual nationals I know with Japanese citizenship are operating under the argument that they were born with both citizenships and the non Japanese one is legally impossible to remove by coercion. So they claim that the Japanese state is doing the coercion and don't mention it to the authorities. This would be an interesting case in international in law, but I hope it's never a problem for them.
Never understood why people didn't steal this idea to eliminate typosquatting and "all the cool names" squatting.
3b is not a new step, that's just a repetition of step 1. Are you saying you believe ownership of a company is unethical?

It seems to be that statement needs to be justified with a little bit more than "because I say so".
FYI, The length-of-stay requirements for permanent residence are actually longer than for citizenship.

Guidelines for Permission for Permanent Residence [1]

> In principle, the person has stayed in Japan for more than 10 years consecutively.

What are the conditions for naturalization? [2]

> The person must have been domiciled in Japan for five years or more consecutively

[1] https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/content/930003492.pdf

[2] https://www.moj.go.jp/EN/MINJI/minji78.html#a09
> Indeed, most political science supports the opposite conclusion. Almost all politics is local.

Interesting. I'd say all the very toxic politics is non-local. The local stuff might be more, but it's mostly mundane.

Which makes sense. My city and county representatives can't get away with passing something wildly unpopular that >> 50% of local people hate. While it's far from perfect, there is a reasonable amount of accountability with local politicians.

Federal-level politicians though, are so far removed from the people they purportedly represent and their election is so heavily gerrymandered that they are untouchable. They can get away with serving only special interests and passing laws which most people hate.
Are you the person who made up that insult? Or do you just go along with all the other people who use it?
In most countries you just hire some officials as part of an independent agency and tell them to create reasonable districts based on geographic and social groupings, and it works fine.

I'm not sure if the problem is that the polticians are afraid of giving up the power to control the districts, or if the extremely adversarial nature of American politics means that Americans mistrust their goverment and their fellow citizens so much they don't believe that the possibility of that government making non-partisan decisions even exists.
In every company I've worked at that does ML work, the data scientists building the models don't have a strong software delivery background. They aren't building a production system with fail safes and redundancy. Their focus is the model itself. Consequently, when they stand up services in front of these models they are not even close to "production grade". I'd hope that a company focused on ML (versus an enterprise just dipping their toes into ML) would have solved these problems, but I wonder if it's related.
You saying that this is required is not proof that it is so.
UTC?
Imagine a workflow:

- clone a repo

- run a command

- run another command

It runs several times daily. Maybe it's CI or something.

Now suppose you want to cache the filesystem state for each command so that they can be rerun in a debug scenario where you'd expect them to behave the same as they did the first time because they have the same filesystem. (Having then recreated the bug, you could then start making changes towards a fix).

You either end up with many many copies of that repo, or you use something like this to only store the unique files and instead have many many indices into that store.
I wonder if your parents would agree with this statement.
A large leap in what way? That companies have a hard time producing useful things, or that those useful things are valuable?
Why not? Please correct me if I'm wrong but from what I've heard, It's not millions or hundreds of thousands, it's "only" tens of thousands dollars' of hardware we're talking about. There are enthusiasts that spend comparably on their hobbies.

And a few dozen like minded people banding up together, shelling out a couple grands each? I'd say that's a totally realistic scenario.
That’s a reference to the dozens of Americans detained for over a year with no charges or due process. I would pick a different hill to die on.
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> Rubber Duck AI chat bot

This sounds more like friendly AI than [different] "Devil's Advocate chat bot."
Can you do it in 1000 logic gates, in a size of 150 x 170 um?

There are very few things that are more complex than toys which fit in that space. It's primarily a learning opportunity, not a hack to build a product.

A 6502 with 3.5k transistors might fit comfortably in that size: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703995

A 4004 has 2.3k transistors and may also fit.

Regarding the other comment about there only being 14 pins, if I was determined to try putting an early CPU replica in there, I would try multiplexing the pins. The 4004 is already in a 16-pin package, with 2 of those being power and ground.
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Kneeling chairs aid in keeping natural posture of spine.
more likely than if you post the question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> the overall culture is extremely hostile to granting citizenship to non-native people

Sorry, I need to disagree with you.

The process is fairly straightforward and formal. You need to fit very few and fair formal criteria, but if you do, then there is nothing special about the process.

For a sincere applicant, there should be severe reasons why citizenship is not granted. There are statistics by nationality. I think Chinese, Korean and South Eastern nationalities are topping the statistics.

Here is a good starting point for better understanding of the process.
https://www.turning-japanese.info/
Japan peddled its own tech like PDC, i-Mode etc pretty hard overseas, and at one point Sony, Panasonic etc were serious contenders in the mobile phone business. It's kind of striking how they completely managed to fail.
I guess my issue is that the claim was not demonstrated in any way whatsoever besides "because I say so", so I assumed that the poster must think that it is a logical impossibility – otherwise how could they be so certain?
Patreon and Substack do have RSS feeds available.
Japan was world-beating in what categories 30 years ago (1993)? It wasn't computers. Cars? Toyota is still #1 in the world. What else? Phones (no).

> Japan has dozens of payment systems but how many of them are competing outside Japan?

Why would they? Japanese companies speak Japanese and make things for Japanese. The exceptions are just that, exceptions.

And to be clear, my point is why is Japan called out for this? Where's the article that Germany is a failure because they don't have a global payments competitor? How about France? India? China? Why is only Japan that gets this special "you're a failing country because you don't have a global payment offering"
Not sure what "perspective" you are trying to put this in by offering these comparison points between OpenAI and Google. Are you trying to say that OpenAI is more reliable than Google?

For additional perspective, OpenAI has a very small number of highly similar offerings (neural net with API access), while Google has a huge host of very different offerings, from web indexing and search, to email, to file hosting, to video streaming, to cloud compute... etc. Google also has a vastly larger user pool by at least a couple orders of magnitude. Google's core services are extremely solid even at ridiculous scale and have few outages, any of which would be considered major news.

Google also operates all this at a profit, while OpenAI works at a deficit. Google has had to scale larger than nearly any other service while maintaining profitability while OpenAI is more or less free to throw more compute power to solve problems, at any cost, to build valuation. Google has written entire programming languages to help them keep up at an unprecedented scale.

Comparing a single minor Google offering going down to an OpenAI outage isn't a fair comparison to either company. Yes, Google has, by your numbers, about 400 times the number of OpenAI employees. I'd be willing to bet that a single large Google service like YouTube handles more than 400 times the amount of compute, data, and traffic that OpenAI does. I wouldn't draw a comparison between the size and efficacy of the employees, but again, Google operates at a very different scale, and has operated at that scale very well.

Also anecdotally, half the time I've tried to use ChatGPT it's "at capacity" or throws an internal error, and I've also seen Dall-E unavailable even though I've barely tried to use it, so I wouldn't say that OpenAI service has been ironclad this whole time.
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Hungary does this too, and the party list seats are filled in a way that increases the influence of smaller parties. The first seat goes to the party with the most votes, but once that seat's assigned, the winning party's vote total is cut to 1/2. Then the next seat is assigned to whoever has the most votes afterwards, and the winner's total is cut to 1/2 if it's their first time winning, or 1/3 if it's their second time winning. And so on.