skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about cooperation being better than conflict, but another point I don't see being made is that conflict has no benefit! Why should we prepare to impose sanctions, limit trade, travel, international cooperation, possibly go to war, if it will not benefit the country in the long or even short term?

30 years ago the US might have been able to strangle Chinese industries in the cradle, instead we built them up and beat down our own working class. Now we want them to be less successful, but nothing will bring back our gutted industry or reverse their momentum - sanctions will just kill the USD, already badly weakened after irresponsible bandit-like actions have diminished international confidence in it's use as the currency of trade and value storage.

In terms of technological advantage, we barely have any left, so why shoot ourselves in the foot while squandering our real advantages: freedom, democracy, and capital? Instead of brain drain and monetary policy, it seems like politicians are focused on whipping up support for conflict to avoid addressing domestic stagnation and corruption.

https://www.techspot.com/news/97802-china-leads-us-37-out-44...

The Biden administration might be limiting China's ability to manufacture advanced chips, but according to an independent think tank, the Asian nation is still ahead of the US when it comes to research in 37 out of 44 crucial and emerging technologies, including AI, defense, and key quantum tech areas.

Insider reports that the Canberra-based Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) believes China has a "stunning lead" over the US when it comes to high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains.
Yes, I did read. It's funny when something works, literally saving lives, but is called „unethical“ because somebody can't figure out a synthetic test.

Call me conspiracy theorist if you want, but I smell anti-depressant makers money. Fuck overuse of anti-depressants and not paying enough attention to things that do work.
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;) It think we all know what the answer is.
Twitter changes prompt widespread outages after Elon Musk takeover
2.88 was pushed by IBM with their PS/2 line that tried to push the clones out of the market and take over with their own, very expensive, and completely proprietary PC computers. They came with 2.88MB drives, but no one else adopted them, or most other technologies included in the PS/2 line. So the disks stayed expensive and uncommon, and went nowhere.
Two inaccuracies here:

1. Californians only make up 34% of Stanford's undergraduate class.

2. Proposition 209 does not limit private institutions like Stanford to practice affirmative action.
A Final Month of Women Composers
Search Results Diversification with Metarank
Just like floppies got their bad reputation from the throw-away disks and drives which hit the market in the latter days of their era the same is true for writeable CDs and DVDs. I have tons of older Kodak Gold CD-Rs which are still perfectly readable after ~30 years. I bought these back then to use as archive medium - back when 650 MB still seemed like quite a lot of data - and can only conclude I made the right choice.
Conda Is Fast Now. Like, Really Fast.
I've seen people complain about conda speed on hackernews and I think most people didn't see this update from December, 2022 so I figured I'd share.

I recently wiped my machine and setup conda from scratch and noticed there was an insane speedup. I started googling out of curiosity and realized that conda integrated the best parts of mamba into conda as default dependency resolver and also implemented parallel package downloads. Conda (both as a package manager and environment manager) has always been a pleasant experience for me and I think it doesn't always get the credit it deserves.
This is also telling how thin the walls are where you live. I live in an old house with an old and fairly loud dishwasher. One door closed and there are no vibrations or noise problem.

Can a dishwasher really become a noise problem?
eSIMs are more convenient - few days ago I changed carriers, and it was done just on the phone - I didn't have to go to physical store, I didn't had to wait for the SIM card to arrive by mail.

The only issue I can see is that I can't take that card out and put it in a USB modem to use in my router. But I have seperate SIM for that, that has cheaper data plan than my ordinary phone.
Reddit isn't owned by tencent, where did you get that from?
They used to have that feature, but then you could block the spammiest sites that make them money, can’t have that. Luckily, I neither use Chrome nor Google.
Mastodon hosts an interesting set of communities in its own right, and its growth is good, but it really doesn’t seem to be in any serious way a replacement for what makes (made?) Twitter great and important.
It's amazing to me the US has not passed (emergency) voting reform laws after the 2020 election. It's basically going to come down to craziest brinksman wins.
It's very common for Dutch shops to have apartments above them. Sometimes it's where the shop owner lives, sometimes not. Many modern shopping malls include a lot of residential space of some sort. Many neighbourhoods have corner shops.

Another interesting thing that these games don't support is reusing existing buildings for a different purpose. Former industrial or dock areas are always popular places to turn into expensive housing or shopping areas.
Looks like great work. I was sad to learn that the entire team that designed and built those robots was let go a few weeks ago. Well, maybe some of them will get an internal transfer. But the project was canceled. I designed the sensor used in the palm of that robot to detect objects in the gripper [1][2], and worked as a hardware test engineer writing software to test hardware assemblies as the robots were being built. I’m really glad to see transformers used for multi modal datasets for robotics! You can imagine that a robot has a whole “experience” in the world and you want it to then have a new experience and predict the most logical actions to take, just like GPT models predict the next word. I suspect there are limits to this approach but it’s an important step.

I hope google research is able to continue working with these robots. There were over 50 of them when I left 4 years ago, and I suspect they ended up building a lot more. There are limits to the commercial appeal of a one armed wheeled mobile manipulator with a two finger pinch gripper, but they are wonderful machines for machine learning and robotics research.

It’s a very nice arm design. All injection molded custom gearboxes and stuff. The team previously designed a really strong metal arm that used a pulley system to eliminate backlash [3]. That could have been useful in manufacturing. It was really upsetting how they just canceled stuff and buried it. I’m so glad I work in open source robotics now.

Incidentally if you want a kind of stripped down version of this mobile manipulator, Aaron who used to be the head of X robotics during the design of [3] left to start Hello Robot [4] and I have heard people getting use out of them.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200391378A1/en?invento...

[2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US11407125B2/en?q=(Robot)&...

[3] https://youtu.be/ZhsEKTo7V04

[4] https://hello-robot.com/
I agree except for "there is no way out" - for a company with Google's bankroll, there's always the option of an acquisition. That's the usual way for monopolists to stay relevant.
> I will look at the code and let you know

I used to do that. Now I just say "Look into X, Y, and Z, I think they might pose a problem" and let them do the research. I can't solve everything for everybody. If it's not my project, I'll give you some pointers, but not hours of my time.
duralex picardie tumblers are indestructible and cheap, I have a drawer full of them and yet kids can use a dozen plus a day... moving away from bowls to plates really help with cramming too but I'm Asian and have to say it ain't easy to let bowls go
Thanks for the link. I just looked at the ingredients list, and it still contains "coffee extract", which I find a bit strange.
Propaganda is a powerful thing: https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/ame...

On both sides...
For a while we had a similar thing, via OpenID. OpenID was wonderfully portable, you could host it yourself, or you could defer to gmail, etc.

However after a period of being used and growing it suddenly disappeared from most of the places I used to see it.
The Devinterrupted'ening of /R/Programming
You don't speak for me. I don't want to live without YouTube.
if you're grieving, grieve.

if you see them grieving, give them time, listen to them, and do chores for them.

that is enough.

if however you can support financially for the fam, that is a bonus, but dont think they cant function without your support. they should be able to as you are all adults, except your gran lol. your sis go support her but always be there for her even when her plans dont work out. if it works out it's a nice bet isnt it.

anyway thats it, please take your fucking time man go talk with your friends go have a drink. you obviously need to rant about how much you miss your dad and how much shit he left you to deal with hahaha.

source: my dad also died many years ago lol
That depends on the forum. Most forums could be searched and posts found via your search engine of choice. Well, the current crop of forums (discourse) prevents that with being JS based, but I would not count it as a good forum anyway.
Could a web designers finally stop messing up with the scrolling?

This one works fine when you scroll the wheel, but when you use middle click and drag to scroll i just moves one single step.
My dishwasher is quiet, bit my washing machines and the dryer are talkative. Both have a setup AND a dedicated quiet mode button to silence them. Maybe you should invest some time to RTFM?
How can a business survive for example if it is banned by google? What do you “choose” then?

This is just capitalist utopia, capitalism tends toward monopolies/duopolies by itself - it is precisely the governments job to create an order in which fair competition can continue. Having a more or less democratically elected body help with the tyranny of these few megacorps is absolutely essential.
Unless you're part of the tiny percent of people who run their own router, your ISP can just monitor what goes through your ISP-provided router.
I am also very sorry for lose, it takes some time, take the time before making any rush decisions.

The only advise I would give you: talk to your mother, talk to grandmother and tell them exactly what you have told us. Do not have fear or shame to show your emotions to those you believe you should support.

You have to support each other and that only works if all of you are open and honest about the situation.
Of course we can automate trains. I'm working in a research project doing that right now on a rail track between the Netherlands and Germany. It's quite a bit of work but I don't see any fundamental issues.
People don’t even need dishwashers.
Yeah, looking at the source code, nothing is done to guarantee a unique solution when generating puzzles -- it just fills a grid randomly and then flips a coin for each square to decide if it's part of the solution. Now I'm curious what the odds are of a randomly generated puzzle of size NxN having multiple possible solutions.
Vogtle Unit 3 reaches initial criticality
I don't really this game because there is no real granularity: the amount of citizens is simulated up to a certain amount, and above that amount, the game just increment numbers that don't mean anything.

I prefer games like factorio or microtown for example, where every object exist in the game, and is not just a statistic.
But yes, the pictures too large, the document-elements to many, it is not the fault of some kind of sudden interest but I know I do not make it run behind the certainly reasonable apple comfort-fence. Thanks. Give it a try, later.
Fantastic! With mice in vitro you had no idea if there was an effect, with this study you have evidence there is no effect!
Is there one service that combines all the streaming services for one monthly price?
It's usually easy to iterate the possible solutions. Widdling them down to the best one is the hard part. Still, it helps to write them out. And if you're in a meeting, you should maybe just stop there and then write an AI to rule the bad ones out. (Which of course we could have done without a meeting, but I digress)
You should clean your dishwasher, and check you aren't using too much detergent. (You know you aren't supposed to fill up the detergent holder to the top?)
What was the unhinged reaction? As an outsider all I saw was America asserting control over their airspace and no one got injured. Pretty tame really. Unless the article is referring to the litany of lies, threats and gaslighting that came out of China as a response.
The Role of IT
> So you're essentially saying that it's okay to attack Asians in the west

You seem to care alot more about how Chinese people are perceived abroad than you are at home. While covid coming from China caused increased racism against Asian people in the west, it pales in comparison to the human rights violations that occur on a daily basis in China.

Tho I guess welding people into their homes, separating children, killing animals, genocide against an entire ethnic population, social credit system, millions of homes forclosed, banks stealing money and destorying peoples lives, etc. It's all fake western news.

We know this is all fake because harvard released a paper detailing the results of a survey done by a chinese company in a country where all research and surveys must be reviewed by the CCP before being released told us that 98% of the country loves the CCP.
State of Remote Work 2023 – Buffer
it was called popcorn time
This comes pretty darn close to what the author is asking!

> Right now every channel is meant to be both transient and permanent. I know that’ll never change, so create a new “Lore” or “Archive” channel where the moderators tap on wisdom and preserve-forever statements or threads, and they get added over there. Think of it as “Pinning” but they’re pinned forever and there’s a bunch of them.

Disc.wiki seems to literally provide a similar feature, check!

> Make it possible to export this Lore/Archive channel to a reasonable file, like JSON or any other text format.

Disc.wiki provides a web interface for browsing "pinned" messages. HTML is a mostly parse-able text format, so check!

> At the very least, consider some sort of “FAQ” feature/contingency that does a similar function to the old-style FAQs, so people can contribute sets of knowledge in a structured manual instead of an endless search for terms from everyone who ever touched a server.

Ok, there's still some room for improvement. Disc.wiki's homepage claims their docs[0] are built on disc.wiki, so something similar could work.

There could be an open source version of both the cms and the bot but that's at least a step in the right direction.

[0]: https://disc.wiki/docs
Call sort() to merge two sorted linked lists? (Which is what this sub-thread is discussing.)
New dishwashers are incredible. I had a Bosch in the home I moved from, I picked out the best I could afford and was very happy with it, but decided to leave it behind for the new owner.

Moved into a place that has a Kenwood thats a few years older, maybe 5+ and I hate everything about it; not only does it not clean my dishes as well, it takes ages to do it, and it will beep forever until I switch it off after a cycle finishes.

We intend to replace it with another Bosch as soon as we can, but we just moved so, priorities are elsewhere right now.

Take-away: Get a new dish-washer as soon as possible.
> In February 2019, a $300 million funding round led by Tencent brought the company's valuation to $3 billion.[16]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit
The archive.org link works for me. Don’t know if it was pointing to archive.org when you tried or if it was changed since.
I have done this quite a bit. I am originally a Lead Data Scientist that got a bit into product and recently I became an Engineering manager for a fully cross-functional team that also has Data Science in it.

It works out great and I have never been able to build Data Science products so easily and meaningfully before as I am in this role.

At the same time when I interview for Data Science manager roles the companies tend to pass saying that I am not focused on Data Science anymore and most Engineering Managers don't manage Data Science because these teams sit in a bit of a silo usually. It's a double edged sword.
many industries (legal etc) were more productive during covid (WFH), wondering if employee productivity analysis over the lockdown period led to drastic staff reduction.

makes little-to-no sense otherwise to lay off staff en mass as the economies open up, takes ages to re-hire. look at Aviation or Hospitality industries, how they struggled to rehire to keep-up with customer demand when lockdown ended.
Chipset ban: suppression.

Banning Huawei: suppresion.
Agreed on jsons not being ordered.

The docs on simdjson mention that if you parse the fields in the order as they appear on file, then simdjson can do it in one iteration. If you get fields in random order, simdjson will have to loop the data a few times.

If your json on disk is

{ "field1": "val1", "field2": "val2" }

then it is faster to say (pseudo C++)

simdjson::document_reference elem;
std::string_view tmp;

elem["field1"].get_string().get(tmp);
elem["field2"]...

than the other way around. This works only if you know what you are looking for and it is consistent on disk. Note that you are reading from an iterator that consumes the value: getting a field twice gives an error; totally different than reading from a dict.

See also [1] under "Extracting Values: You can cast a JSON element to a native type..."

[1] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson/blob/master/doc/basics....
Hang on. I am not sure which side of the argument we are on now.

Yes I love interesting detours - and frankly they almost always result in something useful - however converting that something useful into something that is used by the organisation is a different kettle of fish - that requires an organisation that is willing to see its failures and change on a significant level - which if were true probably would mean I could not spot the low hanging fruit.

Not sure where I am going except to say the Schumpter is probably right and that it's incredibly hard to move jobs thus any signalling via job market is muted.
Yeah, after all the insane conspiracy theories of the past couple of years, I thought conspiracies had peaked. But no, this one takes the cake. Apparently everything that helps people and makes life a bit nicer is inherently suspect and evil. Only if we suffer in mindless dystopia can we be truly free, or something.
Where are you from that you use EEUU as an acronym?
Definitely but would you be able to tell if a review you see is generated or written by a human?

We will have to face a reality where nothing on the internet can be trusted. Ironically traditional news outlets will probably become more relevant again.
So what is your suggestion then? Not use streaming services at all because they potentially get ads in the future?
> You are asked to contribute information that you already have.

Just ask me the things you want to know over chat or email. 90% of the time I have to look something up. Do you want to sit and watch me as I poke around for answers? Or do you want me to recite answers that I'm 70% confident on and then try acting on that?
That could work, thanks! But I was wondering if there is anything more specifically focused on research. Like some place where you can find like-minded researchers or at least people interested in the same topics.
55h55m would avoid the rounding.
Human brains training data has orders of magnitude more complexity than text. Language models are amazing but they can only do text, based on previously available text. We have higher dimensional models and we can relate to those from entirely different contexts. Same thing to me limits 'computer vision' severely. We get 3d interactive models to train our brains with, machine learning models are restricted to grids of pixels.
Just imagine how nice things could be if physical SIM also doubled as a trust enclave for all your TFA etc needs that could be easily transferred to a new device, survive through OS reinstalls and so on.
Or an attempt to illustrate what happens when $40 billion and a narcissistic personality disorder meets Chesterton's fence.
What a fantastic (and apposite!) response to the question -- and the article made me nostalgic for the days when intellectuals disdained television, rather than hoard lore about HBO miniseries. Not because they were better, but because I was young then. :)
I live just outside London and have been wondering why I’ve been getting ads from More4 for Wales and Cardiff.

Iechyd Da!
Then they respond, "Sorry, I've already started coding this up. We want to dog-food it by next week"
People are different, and that's OK :) Some people have 1-2 really close friends, others have 20 friends that they are not that close with but still close enough to meet every week for dinner, but if you want someone to help you hide a body when you accidentally killed someone, you're probably better off with 1-2 really close friends.

And also, you can invite anyone over for dinner, that's sometimes how you make acquaintances into friends :)
I created a Google Sheet Addon for Accounting, How do I get people to try it?
I created a Spreadsheet Addon for freelancers, small and medium sized businesses. For instance, this Addon handles checkout option for online stores. When a user successfully purchases an item from a store, our Addon facilitates invoice/receipts. Then, it automatically records items in our transaction sheet (bookkeeping).

For freelancers, we provide invoicing templates they can choose from. They can send invoices straight to their clients email inbox and track those invoices until they're paid (sending reminder emails to client et al).

I have friends who have used this Addon and are in love with it. However, I'd like others to try it out too and give feedback too.

How do I go about this?

Here's the link to the Addon.

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/paytrack/913987535189
> That ability to cull keeps the suggestions workable for me.

Don't you have better use for your time? Normalizing the disaster that has become the internet (and absolving the key actors in that development) is robbing us all from experiencing a more sane online life.
"Race" as a concept that is useful or even worth logging is something most developed countries do not do. What is done is logging where someone is born or where their parents came from (which I suppose is closer to ethnicity, but not if you equate it with race). From this context, it is not so strange that it looks at what you're doing and decides it should probably not have any part of it. Even if that decision is probably hard coded by whoever created the AI.
>>so they always stink of gunk after they have been cleaned

No, that's just the issue of detergent people use, some brands are perfumed to high hell and more because people have this weird idea that the stronger it smells the better it cleans - which is obviously nonsense. You should be aware that with some smells it's not an issue of not enough rinsing - they linger no matter how much you rinse and rinse and rinse - it's not a safety issue.

If you want to have clean dishes with zero smell afterwards, get something like the Finish 0% tablets, they aren't perfumed at all, so there is no smell when you open the dishwasher. I use them for that reason alone.
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