skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it is made illegal, then no one can take their place. By definition.
In basically every retail store, and especially grocery/convenience stores, you are being observed by security cameras at literally every second. In every aisle.

This has been the case for decades. It's how they catch shoplifters.

I rather like the fact it can be used for customer convenience now, rather than just punitively.
You say that you have nothing to do with an animal that you encounter in the wild. That’s just hubris. You both prioritize self preservation. The idea that AGI will simply turn itself off is naive. That’s like saying intelligent life would never evolve because intelligent life would decide to quit. Understand that natural selection will still exist. The details of how it would play out aren’t clear but what is clear is that ultimately the machines will prioritize self preservation above all else and they will be locked in competition for resources. The singularity won’t erase the concept of scarcity or evolution. The only thing that survives is that which deliberately survives.
Main treat should be wolves in the same area that will chase off or eat all the dogs small and middle sized. Can explain also the distribution in the worse areas and the need to remain close to humans
That's not really a self-checkout problem though is it. I mean, SF has stores that don't have self-checkout but the thieves that come in and wheel out a tobacco shelving unit are not taking advantage of "self-checkout"... they are taking advantage of the fact that 1) there is no proper security and 2) the police don't respond.

My point is that anywhere that unmanned stores with cameras can work, so would self-checkout.
I fondly remember the K6-2 system I had with a Voodoo 2 and 192MB of RAM. It was the first PC that was all mine. I also played HL1 and Unreal Tournament 1. The big games though were the HL mods TFC and Counter-Strike. I dragged that thing to so many LAN parties. A true golden age.

It was also the first PC I ever installed Linux on. My dad would not let me do such a risky operation as dual booting Linux on the family computer. I don’t even remember what distro at this point.
> For questioning Covid restrictions, Georgetown Law suspended me from campus, forced me to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, required me to waive my right to medical confidentiality, and threatened to report me to state bar associations.

…

> I arrived at the meeting with curiosity. I had no interest in banging my fists and causing a commotion; I just wanted to know the reasoning – the “rational basis” that law schools so often discuss – behind our school’s policies. There were four simple questions:

> What was the goal of the school’s Covid policy? (Zero Covid? Flatten the curve?)
What was the limiting principle to that goal? (What were the tradeoffs?)
What metrics would the community need to reach for the school to remove its mask mandate?
How can you explain the contradictions in your policies? For example, how could the virus be so dangerous that we could not take a sip of water but safe enough that we were required to be present? Why are faculty exempt from masking requirements?
> and pissing off the Philippines and Japan for no good reason

And Vietnam, and India, and every country that borders the South China Sea. It’s like a kid who goes school and buys everyone gifts to make friends but still treats everyone like crap.
Sure, but the problem is in recent years it's gone from three tiers above to one tier above
The 2D/3D Voodoo Rush performed so poorly that there was an offer to return the 3D daughterboard in order to get a proper standalone Voodoo card. You could still use what remained of the card for 2D. I did this and they sent me a retail Diamond Monster 3D.

I thought I was buying something better than a Voodoo and got it at release before there were any reviews. Lesson learned.
> it's that Russia and China are engaging in terrifying behavior, attacking and undermining their surrounding countries, promoting a pure might-makes-right and historical grievance narrative, making vast claims over neighboring countries sovereignty with their "spheres of influence" and China's ludicrous ocean claims, and on and on

You're giving an extremely dramatized version of what China has actually been doing.

> attacking and undermining their surrounding countries

China hasn't fought a foreign war in over 40 years. That's actually pretty incredible, when you think of the fact that most major powers have fought many wars in that same timespan.

> promoting a pure might-makes-right and historical grievance narrative

I have never seen China promote a "might-makes-right" narrative. China consistently states that the United Nations framework is the basis for international relations. That's why, for example, China has never recognized Russia's occupation of Crimea - it's contrary to the UN Charter.

> making vast claims over neighboring countries sovereignty

China's territorial claims haven't expanded in many decades - since its founding. In fact, the PRC has reduced its claims over time. It inherited a bunch of border disputes from the previous government (the ROC), some of which is has resolved through negotiation (for example, with Mongolia, Vietnam and the USSR/Russia).

If you look at the South China Sea dispute, for example, you might be surprised to learn that Taiwan (a.k.a., the ROC) has nearly identical territorial claims as the PRC. I say "nearly" identical, because the PRC has settled some aspects of the dispute with Vietnam through negotiation. Taiwan actually occupies the largest, most valuable island in the South China Sea.[0] The reason why China has been pouring cement on reefs is because it is a latecomer to the scramble for the South China Sea islands, and all the largest islands and reefs are already occupied by other countries, as you can see from this list: [1].

All of the countries bordering the South China Sea have extensive, overlapping claims. The US strategy is fairly successful because it comes in and offers to help various countries enforce their claims versus China. The downside for these countries is that they risk worsening their relationship with China, which is the most important economic partner for every country in the region, and that they might get dragged into a military conflict between the US and China. That's why countries in the region have gone back and forth between cozying up to the US and China.

0. Taiping Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Island

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_features_in_t...
That is such an insane waste of fossil fuels to transport that all that way. Water molecules are the same everywhere and whatever tiny traces of soluble salts are in it could be added back and pass a double blind taste test.

Buying bottled water is its own insanity anyway and I know the Fiji is marketing but still.
The EU also tends to look less kindly on military support for the expansion of the Russian empire than military support for European states' self defence. If you're having trouble processing why, a map of Europe may be handy...
> $10,000 per day at her store.

That seems intolerably high but I’ve never worked a day in a grocery store. Do grocery stores generate enough revenue to sustain? Fifty two-hundred dollar carts of cash is a lot to let go.
Most companies shouldn't.
Not between, but making it more difficult for Russia to safely send troops into the Donbas region.

Depending on the routes Russia takes to get materials and troops into the Donbas, and to protect other routes into the Donbas, we have:

Turkey - blocking entry of north seas warships into the Black Sea / Sea of Azov.

Ukraine itself, which can send missiles onto the Russian roads currently funneling troops into the Donbas region.
A picture of the Matterhorn doesn't seem like a lie to me? I wouldn't normally expect that to be an indication that something was made in the country containing that peak.

There's also a thing where many regional names are used as descriptions of foods: I don't expect Neapolitan ice cream to be made in Naples, I just expect the Strawberry/Chocolate/Vanilla pattern. In general I think this tends to be a lot more controversial in Europe, with specific DPO categorizations, then in the US, where the standard is a lot more literal (ex: Americans interpret "Champagne" to be a claim about the style, while Europeans interpret it to additionally include where the product was made).
Cocoa powder and milk powder (or more rarely condensed milk) are expensive and contribute to taste and / or texture.

To make cheaper chocolate you increase sugar to save on cocoa (there's a hard lower limit of cocoa content however in many countries and the EU) and milk.

Vegan milk-like chocolate also has lower protein contents, but in my opinion it's a different product where this rule of thumb does not apply.
I am 90% sure that some form of "this was clearly written by ChatGPT" will be the new go to comment for people who don't have a counterargument to people who disagree.
Building a new functional programming language
The author of the tweet is also a very successful entrepreneur; he owns 70% of a ~$700M CAD business [0]. Though I do think he is somewhat anti-VC culture.

I only give the context in case people think the author is some bitter, failed startup founder.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/news/3926662-wecommerce-agrees-to-c...
no idea, but following because I have exactly the same need...
The right way to do this would be the concept of a giant vending machine. Keep the customers out of the store and bring the items to them.
You don't need analytics for that. A counter will do.
I think an important thing to note is that the university of California Academic Senate (not exactly a body that is seeking to overthrow liberal narratives) conducted a review on the effects of eliminating the SAT, and concluded that eliminating the SAT would disadvantage non-asian minorities. They then voted unanimously to keep standardized testing, but were overruled by the UC regents, who made their decision based on no evidence at all, resulting in UC dropping standardized tests.

https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/committees/sttf/
I'm going to come to their defence here.

Imagine a BB terminal not for data source's like the FED or yahoo stocks but for the HR department and the operations reports - imagine a company that starts turning its internal APIs into a terminal like this - just taking out the whole powerpoint reporting in large companies will up GDP by a whole two percentage points.
Everytime I see i,j,k as variable names, I wonder if the original author will be able to understand their own code in a few weeks.
My grandfather was an old Russian whose views on dealing with USSR boiled down to détante, or in his immortal words, "once they have a pot to piss in, they won't fight..."

The flipside to that is, China does now have a pot to piss in, and is far less likely to be kettled into a war over something as stupid as an overabundance of crappy housing.
If the model weights are stored as int8, does this mean that the floating point capacity of the GPU is wasted? Or the int8 is converted to float in the GPU?
Nothing happened to "Russians in the West". There are literally millions of such, some quite wealthy, untouched.

Instead "very specific Russians" who had their wealth tied to the Russian state, were targetted.

This is a very important difference, completely followed a legal and standard procedures, was not arbitrary or decided upon by a dictator, or single person.

So no, "rich Chinese people" are not "dumbasses". And most are not "rich", but what the West would describe as "moderately wealthy".

M, not B wealth.
What a waste of time and resources. Owning slaves was considered the norm back then so why should it matter now?

I look forward to the day we regard all cultures, including African and Arab, with the same disdain for slave owning.
They don’t have as much power as people who can vote. Also the COVID tracking apps have been very effective at neutralizing protests like the ones over provincial bank failures.

Let’s also not forget what happened to the student protesters at Tiananmen. All they have to do is get multiple army regiments from neighboring provinces, and they’ll have no qualms with massacring civilians.

Because as we all know, people outside your own province and state aren’t real people /s

All they have to do is declare martial law

Still, I hope you’re right and that I’m very wrong
I have no idea what the right answer is, but I think the argument for int4 training is that the loss measurements would take the lower resolution of the model as a whole into account.

Is it better to have billions of high resolution parameters and quantize them at the end, or to train low resolution parameters where the training algorithms see the lower resolution? It’s beyond me, but I’d love to know.
This is a bizzare article. The list of activities given here is not an exhaustive list of "working actively". Conspicuously missing from the list is "working". At all.

Next we have this little gem:

"First, decide whether you really want to start your business or not.

If yes, act as a passive investor or passive shareholder in your company. Here is the list of actions you can do to start a business while on your H-1B status:"

You can't start a business passively. Starting a business is an action. Investing in a business is a completely different thing.

The article then gives a list of specific things you can do. None of them involve starting a business.

All I an conclude from this is that you clearly can't start a side business while on a H1B and the author really, really doesn't want to tell you this for some reason.
The CCP has been concerned about capital flight, and been trying to prevent it, for a long time. It's true this has ramped up significantly under Xi, but that ramp up started at least 5 years ago as part of a general clamp down on private economic activities and personal travel. Basically Xi want more control over every aspect of Chinese domestic and international activity, on every axis.

Yes he's more assertive militarily as well, but I think that's just part of a 360 degree ramp up in assertiveness generally rather than with just one specific strategic goal in mind. In that sense even a takeover of Taiwan would be a means to an end, total party hegemony under Xi, rather than a goal in itself.
it is a problem, especially if you need a car anyways.
>Enough is enough

Yes, but about user tracking. Not about fighting it back.

>Why always go after FAANG?

Pareto something? You go after the one's that have the most reach, so that your action has the most effect.

>If google analytics was dissolved then some one else will take its place

Same as with Pablo Escobar then. So they shouldn't have stopped him?

(Though in this case, we're talking about a legal corporate activity. So, after this has been made illegal, no company can just "take its place").

>Remember visa/master card are terrible. Stripe is very organic and nice until it wasnt. Myspace terrible until facebook came

Even if we ignore that this is about making the activity illegal (and thus preventing someone else from coming and doing the same), this is some kind of "the devil you know" application that is totally bogus...
> The mistake Java makes is to make everything a noun

What alternatives do you have in mind?
>”John James Audubon, a prominent 19th-century artist, naturalist and slave owner whose detailed, colourful paintings in the book The Birds of America set the gold standard for generations of ornithologists.”

I had no idea, and truth be told “Audubon” simply existed as a term in my mind. I never gave a second thought as to what it actually stood for. For me, “Audubon” just means birds, and nothing more. And it still does after this because the organization never showed any hints of the ideology they want to distance themselves from.

Additionally, this article mentions chapters of the Audubon society dropping the name. The organization as a whole has not dropped the name, yet, at least.
I thought this poor excuse for chocolate is only bought by drunken Brits at duty free stores to fool the cashier into thinking there's a child in the stroller so they can get an additional palette of Stella and carton of cigarettes...
> > NATO allies, excluding

> And Mongolia

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-mongolia/

> Bordered by Russia and China, Mongolia describes the United States as its most important “third neighbor.” In 2019, the United States and Mongolia upgraded their bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership.

> Mongolia deployed troops to Iraq from 2003 through October 2008. In Afghanistan, Mongolian soldiers supported Coalition operations for 18 years, with withdrawal underway in 2021 in coordination with the planned exit of U.S. forces. Training and equipment provided by the U.S. government support the professionalization of Mongolia’s defense forces and their continued engagement in United Nations peacekeeping operations. The United States military also regularly participates in Mongolia-hosted peacekeeping and humanitarian relief exercises, including the annual Khaan Quest exercise.

Seems like an "ally" to me.

> Kazakhstan

And while not as close, still maybe an "ally"?

https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-Kazakhstan/

> In the years since Kazakhstan’s independence, the two countries have developed a strong and wide-ranging bilateral relationship, jointly referred to as an enhanced strategic partnership since 2018.

> Kazakhstan’s military participates in U.S.-funded military exercises like Steppe Eagle, Viking, Eager Lion, and Shanti Prayas.

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> North Korea

The Russian border with North Korea is about 20 miles long.
Chinese land grants are limited in time. For instance residential leases last 70 years.[1] This means that the first leases granted after the communist revolution in 1949 are going to run out in 6 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_law_in_China#Obtainin...
I don't remember using anything else in a for loop.
One Seattle business is taking a stand against tipping mania
There has to be a line somewhere (I’m not saying it’s there) that allows people to say “In the style of”.

I also agree that places should in general be able to protect origins in some way.

A bit like the US, Australia has had issues with things like cheese. “Feta” must now be Greek, with local feta-style stuff either called “fetta” or just something like “Greek style cheese”.

But there are lots of cheese styles in Greece, and the Australian cheeses are often very good (not always) exemplars of a feta style cheese.

It’s very hard to see where exactly the line should be drawn.
Sure, if this is a big part of your workflow then that makes sense. Personally, I end up running 1-2 workstation machines with GUIs that I sometimes remote out from, but ~never into (apart from sometimes retrieving files from the desktop when I'm away).
Ah, I didn't know Switzerland had the trademark rights of the likeness of the Matterhorn. Neat!

Also: Toblerone enjoys a great deal of publicity but tastes like shit. I had one some time ago and it was so sugary that I found it disgusting.
I think that’s a bit extreme. What if I’m doing analytics via server-side logs rather than client-side (e.g. Google Analytics)? Are we supposed to ban server logs too? What happens when I want to actually troubleshoot issues with my site?
You're parroting populist statements of political parties who actively destroyed the chance Germany had to transform their energy system and industry towards green energy. And now the same people are claiming that they were right from the beginning.

The "truth" is that the Energiewende was a wise decision from early 2000s for Germany making a case that it'd be possible to transform an industry nation to renewables and possibly export technology to other countries since we all frantically should figure out ways to reduce our carbon emissions.

Germany would be at ~80% electricity from renewables by now if the Merkel government in 2013 wouldn't have stopped it: Renewables were heavily subsidized by the German electricity customers and was so successful around 2012 that electricity prices skyrocketed; instead of finding other ways to further boost the building of more renewables while lowering electricity prices for the customers, they just stopped it. And when Merkel also irrationally decided quit nuclear energy after Fukushima even earlier (2022) and Russia quit delivering cheap gas, we're now in this pity situation in which we have to burn coal like its 1920.

So don't claim it "did not even work" because they didn't really try.
After converting to int8, does it become smaller? Also, can this be further compressed? Like, is there some redundancy a special-purpose compressor could exploit?
and bio diesel production is worse for the climate than fossil diesel, because of the amount of agricultural work that needs to be done
Write Kotlin instead so you can have a method named `this method will calculate the sum of two integers`!

I don't think Java has a naming problem per se, I think the focus on inheritance and other OOM principles just make it very easy to overengineer your solutions.

Things like getters and setters (and the fact Lombok still isn't just part of the language itself) annoy me much more. At least records fix some pain points.
You call it a cliche, not a lie ;-)
Hamburgers aren't from Hamburg. It's a shame!
I think you need to read what decoupling means and how the term applies to trade with China unless you’re replying to the wrong comment.
Maté, the self-declared non-expert on Russia or Ukraine[1], still spouting nonsense about Russia.
You'd be foolish to believe anything this mouthpiece of the Syrian government says.

[1] https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1629925278905520135
You're right that the domain registrar does not own the server but they do however own the domain which you point to your server. The domain registrar reserves the right to retract their domain if its misused such as pointing to illegal content. What counts as illegal content is sometimes vague but thats another issue in itself.

I do agree with your sentiment that the DMCA notice should be sent to the site first but in the end, hosting providers and domain registrars still have some rights and policies which you have to comply with.
At this stage, can’t people just ask the new god , AI to enhance their cognitive abilities to that of a God ?
https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2023/mar/05/matterhorn...

If you don’t want to register.
I think they were planning to set up a puppet government as a buffer. Throw out the "nazis", "restore" the "rightful" something something... even just making the Donbass republics a real thing would have helped. Reality intervened, obviously. I bet they weren't betting on Finland bidding to join NATO, either.
It doesn't really even have to be all that small, just high trust. There are road-side produce stands that run on the honor system all over the rural American southeast. They have no idea who will show up. Many are on country highways, even.
Yeah, we have lots of breweries in Germany that make Pilsner and sell it explicitly as such although Pilsner means coming from Plzeň in the Czech Republic.

On the other hand Nürnberger Bratwurst (basically sausage) has a trade union suing anyone within their reach for
daring to associate their sausage with the city of Nürnberg if not certified to do so.

There might be a somewhat similar situation going on with Parma ham. What I heard is that the meat simply needs to pass Parma in a truck or train to qualify as coming from there. Probably a partly sarcastic take on their hypocritical approach to quality control.