skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did Chinese government ever acknowledge it's internet censorship?

Yes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall

> While banning TikTok is not fair to me, saying Google isn't banned in China is lying.

No. You are lying or you are dense. Google operated in china til 2010 or so. It tried to foment a color revolution in china like google did throughout north africa, middle east, ukraine, etc. So china instituted more stringent laws to reign in google. Google chose to leave china because the laws would prevent them from spying and destabilizing china.

So you could call it "banned" if you like, but it isn't "banning" in the same sense as tiktok being banned.
OK, who had "the whole UFO/UAP thing was a grift on Congress and the media by a UFO cult in the Pentagon and the dude who ran Skywalker Ranch, and that's why no one noticed all the Chinese spy balloons" in the office pool?
> When we pass 2°, chances are, we’ll accelerate toward 3-5 and beyond.

Yeah, buckle up, because it looks like there's not a lot of dampening forces; only bad surprises ahead. I think the methane in permafrost is going to be very problematic.
AI platform allegedly bans journalist over fake Trump arrest images
Nuclear has the smallest land area per megawatt of any energy source. Those numbers are easily available to anyone that looks. IEEE has published information on the grid’s inability to meet the demand of EVs. Your proposal exacerbates the situation. As with most proposals to combat “climate change”, they are based on political agendas and wishful thinking.
A few years ago the NYT editorial board argued that inflation was going to be transitory because "it's not the 1970s." It was a smug, dismissive, and ultimately incorrect argument. Appealing to the past doesn't mean much because we don't live there.

This argument about automation is no different. We don't know what is going to happen because of AI. We don't even know where AI is going to go as a product/feature/whatever. It could totally make obsolete an entire class of lower-earning white collar workers whose main contribution is writing things. On the other hand, it could fizzle out and we could be comparing Bing Chat to Clippy a few years from now and laughing at all the investors who wasted their money on the next big thing after crypto.

Pointing to times in the past when people feared automation, and showing how those fears did not pan out, is not a good argument. Everything in history is contingent, everything could have gone a different way if a few people made different decisions at a few key times, and fear of automation may have motivated some of those people to make the decisions that prevented automation from destroying all the jobs.

To put it another way: If you play Russian Roulette with a six-shot revolver and you survive five rounds, should you be more or less likely to believe that you will survive the sixth round? People who look to the past and say "bad thing that was predicted did not happen then so it won't happen now" are guilty of thinking that if they survived five rounds then they will definitely survive the next one.
You probably underestimate the marketing, sales, and support aspects. Also, there are no doubt a ton of spam/scam jobs being posted constantly. I'm not saying it adds up to 15K, just more than you or I would think...
I, too, just buy Ikea and used turn-of-the-(20th)-century furniture (I'd prefer mid-century, but so would everyone else, so it's too expensive).

The stuff at other major chain furniture stores, or sold at Wal-Mart or Target (or Big Lots, as in the article), is indeed so low-quality that it's basically just a scam. Usually ugly as sin for no good reason, too.
I did not get into the real details yet, but mesa radv pulls that horrible glslang due to some shaders related to acceleration structures.

Personnaly, I am a dev, then I patch to compile out all that (and all the tracers at the same time) since ray tracing has currently a ridiculous ratio benefits/technical costs.

This defeats the very purpose of vulkan spirv: getting rid of those horrible high level shader compilers from the driver stack and keep them contained at the application level.

It seems beyond clumsy, but as I said, I need to get into the details of "why" those shaders in the first place, and then why they are not written directly in RDNA assembly or SPIR-V assembly (that would require an "assembler" coded in simple and plain C).
Cool tech, but i feel that for all even remotely modern connection types placeholders like this are obsolete and do nothing but slow down showing the real thing.
Government can/does provide aid to those with disabilities that prevent them from being able to attain and keep regular employment.

In the U.S. I believe it's through Social Security.

So as more jobs are automated and the base level of ability required to get hired goes up so does the need to expand who qualifies for social programs.

Productivity will be increasing with automation so it's a matter of distributing resources more efficiently and fairly than it is about making sure there is labor for everyone to get a job.
True. I think intel at the time got spooked by 3rd party MB mfgs (acer, asus, etc) who were integrating video in their mobos but intel wasn’t and they didn’t want to lose market share or maybe they wanted people to at least have a passable basic VGA without needing an add on card.

But for whatever business reason they felt mission accomplished and dropped it. Then over the years they’ve bought others for differing business reasons.

But the common thread is they never stuck to it and never dedicated resources to make it flourish and succeed on its own merit.
I skipped the ads in the (very excellent) podcast I listened to today. I used the forward button.

Someone paid a fortune to put ads on busses to force me to see them. If I look away, am I somehow stealing from them?
its better because they don't just ghost you after the first few messages
Speaking for myself: yes. The only multiplayer FPS I ever truly enjoyed was L4D, and only because it's cooperative (I did enjoy Versus mode, but coop is where it shined for me).

The problem is that many military shooters don't (or didn't) have singleplayer, or what they did have was a simple demo for the MP mode. That sucks. I enjoyed the first iterations of the CoD and Modern Warfare titles because they were all about the singleplayer campaign, full of plot twists. I got tired eventually and no longer play any CoD or MW games, but that's a different issue.

If you had very specific periods of time you were interested in, it was even worse. There was a time when there was absolutely no singleplayer 'Nam FPS, only Battlefield: Vietnam, which a- sucked, and b- was multiplayer.
That is more of a software (ecosystem) thing. Nvidias CUDA and OptiX are well beyond anything AMD has to offer. In Cycles case, I believe that on Nvidia it is taking good advantage of RT cores while on AMD they are completely unused which has predictable effect on performance. Even ignoring the RT cores I suspect the Nvidia code path is likely far more optimized than AMD one

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIP-RT-Blender-3.5-Plans
A little surprised to see Boston increasing rent activity, but I think Boston has been slowly losing its footing on the tech ladder in favor of Biotech (take a look around Kendall Sq). Can't really WFH in Biotech if you need lab space.

Probably started when DEC was consumed by Compaq ... even YC moved out (maybe it's the weather).
Joel Spolsky: In a world where developers get a lot of help from Copilot, etc.
Yea!

WebRTC supports TCP candidates, so webrtc-rs can do the same. If that unblocks you happy to implement. Getting people with interested use cases involved in the project helps a lot.
Bademail.io – a GPT based phishing detection thing
Some ChatGPT users were able to see the titles of other users’ – Sam Altman
I came to the same conclusion. The article explains why small-scale U.S. furniture businesses must court designers, and the customers who employ them. It explains essentially what we all know: You can't build furniture at-scale with U.S. wages. I'd be curious to know how a robotic factory for mass-producing furniture would be able to compete with overseas salaries.
Bazel rules_xcodeproj donated to the Mobile Native Foundation
You call an API -> it returns some json with content and links to images -> you start doing a new request to load those images -> only when partially loaded (aka on request 2) you will see the progressive images starting to form.

With this: You call an API -> it returns some json with content and links to images and a few bytes for the previews -> you immediately show these while firing off requests to get the full version.

So I'm thinking quicker to first draw of the blurry version? And works for more formats as well.
> Everything is a trade off of course, if you’re looking to keep data size to a minimum then blurhash or thumbhash are the way to go

Isn’t that optimizing for load speed at the expense of data size?

I mean the data size increase is probably trivial, but it’s the full image size + placeholder size and a fast load vs. full image size and a slower load.
Me: how are you today?

ChatLLaMa: I'm doing great! How are you?

Me: I woke up a little late for the gym. I went to the gym for leg day and felt quite weak. I still had a good workout overall. Then, I went home, showered, and got some work done. Finally, I drove to the office while listening to a podcast

ChatLLaMa: I woke up a little late for the gym. I went to the gym for leg day and felt quite weak. I still had a good workout overall. Then, I went home, showered, and got some work done. Finally, I drove to the office while listening to a podcast.

???
Another problem is, that minimum required IQ number keeps rising too.

A healthy society needs to have means to support people of all intelligence levels, we need the equivalent of jobs for ditch diggers, and those jobs need to be respected lines of work for people.

Work has more value than just money, and whether people like it or not, it gives value and meaning to peoples lives. The value we assign (and pay) for work shouldnt just be governed by the economic value it generates, it needs to be enough to meet basic needs, to engender respect.

The basic point I'll make here, using ditch digging is - have you dug a ditch? I have, its hard work, and mine was just a small one in my back yard.
It was 3 years ago, I went to see a doctor and it was not that bad.

Now that I read you, I guess I might not have been bitten by a false widow.

But in your case, it seems it was because of the infection, not the venom.
I've started building multi-arch images so mac users can avoid the qemu/rosetta virtualization. It can be a pain because the base images you build on often have subtle differences
you know: politicians in trouble needs an 'arm of mass distraction', and in Uganda this is it: in the meanwhile the 'usual suspects' will rob more.

My 2 cent is that no big 'traffic' will end up in tribunals: what I am really scared now are mobs: the idiots have no idea of what this can trigger

(I am in Kampala now, and to be honest a bit scared to take the street tomorrow: a little misunderstanding and you may end up beaten up pretty bad)

Worth mentioning that in Uganda there some brand new built so called "oil roads" (roads here are pretty bad, but these 'oil road' are super highways): so good you so not easily see in rich countries, with people living in huts on the side with no waters (apart from the oil traffic, the other relevant traffic are people walking with 15 liters water jerrycans on the head: the Oil is extracted (sit down before listening) in a national park (!!), and is extracted by French Total, taken to Tanzania for refinery (almost the other side of the country)... ah, and the road (perfect, btw) built by Cina....
and let's not talk about education (public schools are irrelevant and so bad that anybody, even the very poors, invest on private schools education: which, bwt, are at every corner! the majority run by religious groups that, as we all know, have zero interest to promote public schools)

The Uganda'scontext is really absurd for any even superficial eye: there is enough to make anybody scream for the idiocy, so a perfect "let's talk about something else" was more then necessary!
Absolutely! I don't know of any company offering bundles in which every product is consider the best in its class, and even bundles that start with credible claims seem to quickly fall behind in quality.
Presumably the model for sufficiently wealthy countries would be to effectively tax the corporations either based in those countries or that wanted to sell to people in those countries. You then redistribute a subset of that as UBI or some other form of payment for either the subset affected by unemployability or to everyone.
It's big because I want it now!
> Something often touted in the psychometrics literature is that the number of jobs for folks with IQ under 85 are quite rare in the US where once they were common. That's ~15% of the population who are close to un-employable.

Although I was completely unaware of this literature, I have spent the last few years essentially making the same point with regard to automation: you don't need a super-duper ASI to cause severe employment problems, all you need is something with an IQ of 85 that costs at most minimum wage to run (modulo robotics keeping up and being part of that price), and then 16% of the population are permanently and irreversibly no longer economically employable.
https://merrysky.net/ comes pretty close!
central bank digital currencies are the biggest crypto scam ever
It's a good question, and something I was kinda wondering too. I see now it's technically written as:

> Day 58°↑ • Night 48°↓

Maybe the arrows are used to indicate the high and low?
I always think, in their minds they are outraged about the implication of m->f transgender using the f changing room, but now as a direct consequence of their law they are going to get f->m transgender using the f changing room.

Or perhaps that is secretly the point
Apex Legends might be just what you are looking for — basically zero gore, extremely tactical gameplay with incredible team dynamics on good days.
It would be hilarious if it was archived on S3
Who is this super-layman that can sit down in front of ChatGPT5, ask it to produce a highly technical document and then immediately implement it's recommendations?

The man is going to ask it for explanations for days, throw something together that kinda works and hire an expert 'consultant' that should have been an employee, when it inevitably breaks or requirements change.

Who would bet the legal success of their company on the 'truthiness' of ChatGPT?

The skilled knowledge workers just got upgraded to a better set of tools and the layman is as equally clueless as ever. C++ didn't get easier to read, we just got a robot teacher.
I don't understand why a lot of people go through the sort of run-around described in many of these articles. If you order furniture and it doesn't show up on time, you give them a hard deadline of a week or so to get it to you or give you a refund. If they don't cooperate, you charge it back on your credit card. If you order furniture and it shows up damaged/missing pieces/broken/etc., you call them once and tell them to make it right. If they don't immediately give an acceptable response, you tell them that they'll make it right or you'll charge it back. If they don't make it right, you charge it back.

The only thing you have to keep in mind is the 60 day limit that most CCs have on chargebacks. Since furniture sometimes takes a while to be delivered, you just need to be sure to initiate the chargeback on day 59 if there are any issues remaining. You can always withdraw it, but as soon as that clock runs out, your leverage is gone (you can still go to court, but the threat of a chargeback is a better one because it's so easy for you to do any costs nothing).
I think we're going to see a few more large step improvements in training efficiency.

I think that hardware reliability might sneak back into the picture as the odd bit error may prove to be far more disruptive to these optimized training algorithms.
Thanks. That went over my head.
> Except labour costs are NOT the main driver of recent inflation

Wages drive spending and aggregate demand.

We know that tax cuts for the rich don't do it, if you want to juice aggregate demand give everyone a $500 tax rebate.

If everyone is employed and their wages are climbing they go out and buy things.

> indirectly drive down demand to the point where corporations can no longer justify their profiteering.

If you cut those wages that means that means that less is getting bought which means that corporations start to look at warehouses full of flat panel TVs or whatever that aren't moving fast enough, and they start to price them lower in order to move them. The corporation that sticks to their pricing model becomes the one left holding the bag with all the inventory that isn't moving.

Dunno why you'd describe that as only "indirectly" affecting prices since that is directly addressing the supply and demand curve that sets the prices of the goods. The company will always try to take any profits it can.
The real hero is the LLaMA leaker, lol.

And this seems like an existential "issue." All it takes is one hack or one mischievous employee on one node to leak the arch and weights of a big deployed model. That isnt the case with most other services Big Tech has a grip on.
1. If the thing that's going to be loaded isn't a JPEG, but rather a PNG, or WebP, or SVG, or MP4...

2. These are usually delivered embedded in the HTML response, and so can be rendered all at once on first reflow. Meanwhile, if you have a webpage that has an image gallery with 100 images, even if they're all progressive JPEGs, your browser isn't going to start concurrently downloading them all at once. Only a few of them will start rendering, with the rest showing the empty placeholder box until the first N are done and enough connection slots are freed up to get to the later ones.
You’re right, sorry. Reserve Primary was the only fund whose NAV was below the Treasury’s qualifying threshold, so it did not participate in the guarantee program. I had the mistaken recollection that Reserve Primary’s NAV had returned above the $0.995 level by the 19th, but that was not the case.

(In fact, the SEC ended up suing Reserve Primary’s managers for making misleading statements after breaking the buck that they would restore a $1 NAV, which they did not do. Reserve Primary’s investors had an eventual recovery as of 2011 of 99.06% of par value.)

Of the funds that participated in the Treasury’s guarantee program, none were liquidated likely because the program succeeded in stemming the run on the money-market sector. As I’m sure you know, the whole point of the Treasury’s guarantee was to give money-market investors confidence that their money was safe so that they would not redeem their shares and the funds would not need to liquidate assets for payouts.

It worked, and I think it’s clear that the Treasury’s backstop, by ending the run, prevented fire-sales that likely would have led to the liquidation of further funds in the absence of government intervention. That was the point I was making in my original comment: despite the lack of a formal equivalent of deposit insurance for money-market funds, the government did step in to backstop investor’s money in the sector during the only episode in which there was a need for it.

Edit: Whoops, also noticed that in my original comment above, I twice mis-wrote money-market account. Everything we’ve been discussing relates to money-market funds (more formally, money-market mutual funds), not money-market accounts. The latter term is another name for savings accounts at a bank, which of course are FDIC-insured. (The two are related in that the cash put into both gets invested in short-term, low-risk government and commercial bonds, the markets for which are collectively called “money markets”.)
> 85% of phone users choose Android.

Indeed, seems they are not "happy" to buy Apple.

> There is an alternative

I mentioned this twice, it is also notoriously inadequate and user-hostile as well. Do you have anything to add to the discussion?
It is basic human nature to want to work for the benefit of your own family, and to expect that if you work harder, you will be rewarded proportionally.

Marxism flies in the face of this premise.
What I find more of an issue cognitively is that they entice to discern their contents, but of course they are too blurry to really see anything and trigger the subliminal feeling that you forgot to put your glasses on. So they attract your attention while typically not providing much useful information yet. A non-distracting neutral placeholder is generally preferable, IMO. Even more preferable would be for images to load instantly, as many websites somehow manage to do.
Announcement of the award: https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2023

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259428
You haven't tested how powerful copilot is, have you?
Based on my own productivity, and how strong the tools seem to be, then I presume current increase in the value is still too very low. These tools would eventually reduce workforce costs by 90% at the very least in my view. To me it seems like most people don't truly understand how things are going to change now.
New, Simpler Fees on Upwork
Species are going extinct every day.

Already there’s been a 75% decline in insects, over the past 30 years.

When all the pollinators die out, how much longer will humans survive?
Property tax and inheritance tax can both be thought of as wealth tax, and are quite common. More general wealth taxes. Many European countries currently have or used to have more general wealth taxes. Lots of Americans support a general wealth tax. See Bernie Sanders.
I'm fascinated about communities who play the same game for decades and don't want any changes to "the meta".

Is CS truly so good that any change which forces someone to re-learn the ropes is unwelcome? Do they want to keep playing the same game for another decade?
Well yeah, obviously modified chips can be a vulnerability… the real challenge is in translating this kind of “image” based analysis to techniques that can potentially be used in non destructive ways to verify the integrity of a device that you can still use after verification. Such as developing mechanisms to do this kind of analysis using high resolution/detail X-ray techniques.
Same could’ve been said for Rails…
I don't think you can do better than make pytest-benchmark a dependency
But he used it as justification to "give Rolling Stone a little bit of slack on this one.".

It's interesting how criticizing trash publications like the rolling stone with facts and truth gets your comment flagged. Makes one wonder...
I skimmed the article but could tell what platform this demo was for. C64?
When is this stuff making it into games! This would be amazing on the quest.
For offline/local TTS, Coqui TTS [0] is quite good. It's essentially a continuation of Mozilla's TTS engine that Mozilla stopped working on ~2 years ago (and IIRC it's largely the same team that worked on Mozilla TTS).

[0] https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS