skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently bought a mid-spec Macbook Pro for £3100 to replace the mid-spec 15" Macbook Pro I bought in 2017 for £2200, which replaced the mid-spec one I bought in 2013 for £1900.

Salaries in many jobs in the UK have barely increased in the past 15 years, and of those that have, many have not kept up with inflation. It's not the whole picture, but the UK (and it seems Europe generally) is increasingly poor by comparison to the US, and US products too have become increasingly unaffordable for many.
I still don't follow. You accept that content on Douyin is controlled, but not to the degree that's being reported? And that censorship is absolute, but the engineering of all content flows based on age doesn't exist ?
Looks like new features coming up in DirectX 12 updates will allow for more access to VRAM as well.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/dx12-optimization-cpu-gpu-...
It is very clear cut. All Eastern European countries support Ukraine. In Czechia (and I believe in Slovakia) there are some groups convinced that if their countries stop support Ukraine, somehow miraculously peace will manifest. Moreover, millions of Ukrainians fled the war - it's a miracle there weren't any mass backlashes or provocations yet given the number of people that relocated and lives on foreign soil. But Ukraine has enormous support in the whole East Europe because these folks know they're next in line - they can even hear such threats from Russian TV and some politicians.
The CCP is not fighting monopolies, it is fighting companies that it doesn't like. Taobao/Tmall will still be a monopoly on online retail and will be a full part of Alibaba without taking external investment.
> and often wind up "regulating" the very industries/companies they came from

the other way of seeing that is that if you want to regulate a domain you're going to want to have people who know the domain

> when politicians retire they often get cushy jobs, high paying jobs in the very companies they regulated or provided government contracts to

again, it makes sense for the company to buy the services (and the address book) of someone who knows everyone in the space.

of course all this creates a big incentive to cosy up to those companies, but it's not as black as you are suggesting
One tip when donating professional services is to provide an invoice for the work done with the balance indicated as comped. This is essential in making sure that the recipients understand the value of what they’re getting (so on your invoice you would bill your regular rate—if you don’t do hourly billing for work, a good rule of thumb is to take your annual income and drop off the last three zeros to get an hourly rate).

That said, as many people have indicated, working directly with non-profits on a volunteer basis for professional work rarely works out. Your bench time is probably best directed towards OSS projects.
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If you leave the box open, the original author is free to take your modification and put it into their box.
Indeed. My Commodore 64 nearly choked on its coffee just now. There was an entire 8-bit generation that followed this model.
Is there a median child mortality or literacy rate?

For net-worth, which I never mentioned, your own source shows increases over time of both median and average since 2016.

All the distressing situations you describe of course are real, but were they less common in the US in the past?

QoL has gone up tremendously over the last fifty years, especially if you look at it globally. Do we need something like UBI to avoid terrible poverty for everyone? Absolutely! As we slowly move towards a post-scarcity society, re-distribution of wealth becomes more and more critical. That said, I'd rather be bottom 30% of income today than top 70% 50 years ago. No money in the world could have bought you minimally-invasive surgery, modern anesthesia...

Nice summary of all the ways things have gotten better: https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/163837967499987353...
I don't care how we frame it so long as the framing is consistent. What really gets me itching to fire up the guillotine is when people flip flop between stealing and progress based on who's doing it and who it's happening to.
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He seems to have kickstarted his citation count by reviews. This is sadly extremely common; a surprising amount of researchers nowadays don't have an actual discovery/novel experiment in their first 10 highest cited papers...
He now still does those in reputable journals to relatively random, but en-vogue topics. Then he goes out and trades his name to less visible research (which is ok to do) to actual crap in 2nd to predatory tier journals in exchange for more citations (probably citing other works including him ;)).

Generally possible everywhere, also done in the none-Google/Meta/... world of ML. Just look here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding - just a random collection of crap.
Revisiting the 1993 'Super Mario Bros.' Movie
I'm not a car person and not super informed about what's going on in the EV world so maybe I'm missing something obvious asking this question but... aren't most of the legacy car companies making EVs very clearly dunking on Tesla? I've been in a few recently including an Ioniq 5, Mercedes EQS, some Lexus EV. They were all really, really nice in different ways. The Mercedes was incredibly quiet (especially compared to friends' Teslas). All had great interiors and were stylish in their own ways (your taste may be different). So what gives with Tesla? Is it the supercharger network? Price?
Just revisited the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, which has always held a special place in my heart. I've written a review to practice my writing, discussing its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its status as a cult classic. Any constructive feedback is welcomed!
Bending the knee to a brutal ethnic cleansing regime is never a positive, regardless of the size of the entity capitulating.
The problem I see with this is people assume that web platforms are platforms like the windows API where Microsoft doesn't like breaking things.

It's more like Xcode, where every point release breaks something. You need to design your software and your development pipeline to handle that.

Even Google isn't great in this but their continuous release schedule makes it less likely to break things in the wild because they get constant pushback.
Yes and no. I’m selling the product that is used to build these kind of workflow experiences, as well as list based ones. But selling a horizontal product is hard, therefore we’re marketing some
specific use-cases first. Visitor management is along the top use-cases our paying customers use Questmate for.
DuckDB is not backed by Arrow, but by something similar enough that it can be zero copy to Arrow in many cases https://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.html
NASA Names Astronauts for Artemis Moon Mission
Ask HN: What does a great API product need to have?
What does a great API product meant to you? Any remarkable experiences (or shout-outs) while developing using an API?
No, you're missing the very distinction I'm trying to highlight.

When I read and remember some text, possibly also learning from it, I'm not making a copy and I'm not creating a derivative work. The state of my brain is outside of copyright. Only at the point where I create a new representation based on what I have read I may be violating someone's copyrights.

But is it the same for an AI? Is the act of reading, remembering and learning (i.e. adjusting model weights) not in itself tantamount to creating a derivative work?
China's government has been cracking down on its tech industry for some time now, and this has created uncertainty for investors. However, recent moves by the government, such as the approval of new video game titles and the easing of regulations for foreign investors, have been seen as positive signals for the industry.

It's important to note that the Chinese government is not monolithic, and different factions within it may have different goals and priorities. The recent actions that have been perceived as positive by investors may reflect a shift in priorities or strategy by certain government officials or agencies.
No, Hyundai is more upmarket than Kia. Well, maybe upmarket isn't the right term; Kia is marketed towards younger and hipper people, and Hyundai the stodgier. Compare the design of the Telluride to the Palisade or the K5 to the Sonata.
A proton port would be amazing. I look at the incredible M chips but have no workload for them without games. I suppose I could run some ML models locally, but that’s hardly a requirement.
I just counter it by telling such parents that over managing a child is in itself child abuse and that I refuse to partake in it.
Is this the same thing as concierge medicine? I’m interested but it seems quite expensive. 80$ a month seems much lower than normal.
That’s fair, you’re totally right. But, this is exposing why the drug addict analogy isn’t a great analogy relative to use of AI. I went along with it to find common ground, but I don’t believe the existence of drug addicts are evidence that we lack any choice when it comes to building, deploying, or using AI, like @Herval_freire implied. Do you? I think we do have the freedom to exercise caution, or regulate the use of certain dangerous machines, if we want.
> an invisible National Park

That is a great line. Did you coin it?
Personally, I think it's doing language, but I don't consider language general intelligence in humans. It's one particularly useful trick of dividing things into discrete symbols and pushing around the abstract discrete symbols. It's a co-processor in human reasoning; to make an analogy with computers, it's such a great trick that it's implemented in hardware, but it's not the general reasoning ability itself.

It exhibits the weaknesses of that mode of thought in humans; over-confidence, generating nonsense, etc. People have thoughts, make gestures that indicate they had the correct thought, pass it off for lexing and transmission to language bits of the brain, then process can go off the rails, and they say something different than what they think, and we know they hd the right thought by the gesture they made. We also don't know what we'll say until we say it; I can believe it quite likely that we're also kind of building nearly one word at a time with a statistical model.

I'm actually saddened that people don't recognize in themselves that this thing occurring in themselves is not real thought or intelligence even without something like GPT4 around.

The main reason I don't think it's AGI is because I don't think it's GI in humans, but I think it's doing something pretty similar to one thing we do.
That both doesn’t answer my question nor is it actually true.

In fact, splits almost always happen when it’s actually a monopoly not some vague hand-wavy goal-shifting “monopolistic behaviors”.
> Thinking of this makes me realize me how little I’ve experienced communal activities since then. It has the same feeling of a family sitting together making Christmas cookies, or a group of artists sitting together sketching. People complain about the difficulty of making friends in your thirties, and I wonder how much of that is simply because we don’t afford ourselves the time for such communal activities. We aren’t regularly around groups of people with the sort of free time that precipitates these moments of idle bonding.

Isn't this what lunch is for? (I know not all organizations have a culture of "taking lunch")
Maybe 40 to 80 tech executives
This headline should have read: 2% of Japanese self-report living as recluses

And there is no link to the actual report, which I can't seem to find anywhere. I wanted to know if they had some definition or threshold of reclusiveness that was needed to be considered 'hikikomori', or if they just asked people if they self-identified as hikikomori with no definition.

In any public opinion survey, a response that is only 2% is nothing, it is outside of the margin of error.
News, traffic, sports.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Unknown Pleasures Plot: Recreating an iconic cover and your favorite 80s t-shirt - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470243 - May 2022 (1 comment)

The Story of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15165634 - Sept 2017 (38 comments)

The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071628 - Feb 2016 (1 comment)

Pop Culture Pulsar: Origin Story of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068921 - Feb 2015 (6 comments)

The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728124 - May 2013 (41 comments)

HTML Canvas recreation of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4790929 - Nov 2012 (2 comments)
There haven't really been more double mouse games, have there? Sounds like it could have potential, if people got used to it.
Considering many (most?) talk radio stations broadcast on both AM and FM, I think many (most?) instances of your hyperbolic self will be fine.
Constructible Stylesheets was released despite objections from both Safari and Firefox when it had both badly designed API and an easily reproduced race condition.

Literally "Note that .adoptedStyleSheets is used on about ~.8% of page loads in Chrome now. Backwards-incompatible changes are definitely an issue here." https://github.com/WICG/construct-stylesheets/issues/45#issu...

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WebMIDI allows enumeration of devices without asking the user for permission: https://twitter.com/denschub/status/1582730988118867968 (note this is a part of a whole bunch of hardware APIs that Chrome just shipped, no consensus needed)

Well, what do you know https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-api-owners-...

"this is a case where we're going from no permission prompt to a permission prompt, I think a PSA and developer communication is a good idea. Other chromium-based browsers may want to know as well, via these channels."

Thankfully, there will be a change. At some point.

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These are two I know of, that's why I said "sometimes". As Chrome releases 400 new APIs each year, it's impossible to track them all.
Yeah, that's one of the many tradeoffs in developing a web app. It has not changed since the Netscape days.
Why were there free service scooters? Was it a public service or something?
Apple's phone amrket share is 20%, one point above Samsung. They're no way near a monopoly
I think you missed their point - calculators don't exist in accountancy firms to 'encourage accountants not to think', they exist because they dramatically speed up accountancy and make accountants more productive.

Sure you can open an accountancy business and refuse to use calculators, but that's just working with a strange self-imposed limit rather than using technology to best support your business.
People do want to do them. That's why they do them.

They simply don't ask for more money than the AI would require yet. Once there's a sufficient margin in it, not exactly at the cut-off but perhaps at 150-200%, they're gone.
New money in does not want to execute this plan, and last money in wins. Given the debt vs. cash scenario, I don't have enough cash to execute he 60-90 day burn wind down plan. But from a logical perspective I completely agree with you and really should have pushed for this approach a year ago. We cut down our burn by nearly 50% last year, but turns out really should have cut it by 80-90% to not have to be in this spot.
> People want the goodwill and potential free labor that comes from being open source

Lots of open source people go with an open source license not for free labor or goodwill, but because they think it's the right thing to do.
Made in Taiwan.
> (i.e. That the ruling entity needs to have the support of the majority of demos)

There is nothing undemocratic about federalist republics. Or parliamentary democracies that require coalitions to rule. They are simply different kinds of democracy.
Yes, he did.

But working machines vs thinking machines is still a different ball game.

I won't give details of why I believe the way I do (I might someday; I have a blog post draft), but I'm extremely confident that thinking machines will never surpass humans.
First electric car with a not-smart dashboard has my money.
There are but they do not compare to a mac. The point of choice for me is to be able to buy an integrated experience.
I can run x86_64 docker images just fine, fine enough to reproduce errors I see in prod at least.

I'm using Colima along with Rosetta for Linux.
Someone Added ChatGPT to a Furby
A handful of JSON video tutorials (from Redis experts)
I see no indication OP is indeed talking about Germany. Could be, although Austrian politicians were most recently speaking of waiting out the war.
Anyways I find it very funny they are talking such a combative stance from the comfort of their home in western EU.
Trivialities that antitrust regulations already cover. It would not be the first time a company has been broken up.
Never heard of this, that's quite shocking. Do you have any source?
I think they just have to mention Tesla otherwise nobody will care.
I used to comment similar things 10y ago, today I couldn't be happier and consider my life precious. I hope you manage to find your own purpose and meaning that will make you feel alive as well. In any case, wish you all the best, good luck in whatever you decide and do.
This is what I often hear on Russian TV. Their narrative is that the war was started bu Ukraine and NATO and Russia is just defending itself. It would be just ridiculous, the problem is I know some people who actually believe it.
>I remember when PC was to die soon and to be replaced by smartphones

Hmm, That's kinda happening slowly I think, but probably more by tablets. Probably most people here on HN have a laptop/desktop at home, but I wonder how many households see it as a necessity anymore.
>1) That is a horribly denigrative view of human creativity, one that simply does not reflect reality.

No it's not. It's a realistic view. Do not discount a view just because it's not inline with positivity. Only the realism of the view should be considered. And unfortunately it does reflect reality.

There's a huge amount of data supporting my viewpoint. Most of the content right now on the internet in books and in movies are generic human generated content. The very existence of this content is indisputable evidence for this.

Also you can't discount the trajectory of AI technology. The progress of the last decade is indicative of progress for the next decade. It the trend continues, logically, the only outcome is that the AI surpasses us.

>2) I kind of don't care: creativity always was and always will be about humans wanting to create something, the satisfaction and excitement of writing down a fanfic you've been thinking about for the last 3 weeks, the emotion of bringing your thoughts to life. Even with endless AI-generated content, I will never stop using my imagination (regardless of whether there will or won't be a market for it, and regardless of whether it may be worse than, say, dostoevskij's works), and the same holds true for every other creative individual on this planet, and I feel sorry for the people that never felt the feeling of creative excitement, and would rather waste years of their life consuming soulless content.

Good for you. It's good to exercise your creative brain and be excited about it. My comment isn't about this at all. It's simply about how your and other peoples content could become indistinguishable and inferior to AI. You can be creative all you want, it doesn't mean other people will care or want to consume the creative products you produce.
It shouldn't be surprising that we see a proliferation of negative articles on LLMs in the media.

Much of the reporting is self-serving, with reporters trying to protect their livelihood. Among others, LLMs outright replace journalists, especially those reporting on science and technology. Why pay a human money to understand and report on something when ChatGPT can generate a digest for pennies on the dollar?

I find LLMs fascinating, and do not perceive them as an existential threat on par with nuclear warheads. Rather I see it as a liberating mechanism. Llama.cpp lets me run a Googlesque search on my local hardware, no connectivity required. That's incredibly exciting!
Yes but they would get more revenue from it too.
I remember Syberia 2 (from GOG) refused to work properly on Windows (no matter what compatibility settings or nvidia tweaks I tried) until I got an obscure dx3d patch from some dark corner of the Web.
The Missing Semester of CS