skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See Linus Tech Tips getting his YouTube accounts "hacked".
I live in Atlanta and Korean isn’t quite taco-level ubiquity but it’s darn close. Everyone I know under the age of 40 does an h-mart run somewhat regularly and kbbq is a goto group dinner spot.
It has started to happen in ASEAN - Chinese Pop Music has really taken off in Vietnam+Thailand (along with the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia+Indonesia+SG).

Chinese media will probably be increasingly exported over the next 20-30 years, and tbf - PRC right now is roughly at the same comparative level economically+social development wise with Taiwan+SK in the 1980s.

Both those countries soft power exports only really took off in the 90s and 2000s respectively, so it's reasonable to assume a similar media push happens in the late 2020s/early 2030s.

This has already started with Thailand (who's developmental indicators are comparable with SK in the late 1990s/early 2000s) and their media+music exports within ASEAN+SK+JP. For example, for higher education most middle class families in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos prefer sending their kids to study at Thai universities now if they can't afford Australia/SG/JP/SK.

And a similar impact has occurred with Turkiye's (similar developmental indicators to SK in the mid-late 2000s) media and soft power exports within the Balkans+Ukraine+Russia+Levant+Central Asia.

That said, I doubt the age+racial/cultural demographic on HN are the type that consume Asian media, so I'll probably be downvoted by China Hawks for the soft power statements and Wumaos for the 1980s statement.
Are they trying to out-chirp the cars?
This report of EEG activity in a dying patient contradicts that assertion about near death experiences and brain activity.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/researchers-scan-brai...

I know people have these experiences, the question is what do they mean. We know humans can hallucinate in various neurological states. It seems to me reasonable to suppose they are hallucinatory, unless we see evidence otherwise.
“The amount of raw materials in one long-range battery electric vehicle could instead be used to make 6 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles or 90 hybrid electric vehicles. For the same limited resources, instead of replacing one internal combustion engine vehicle, you can replace 90.”

So we’re only concerned with the ‘raw materials’ in the battery, and not the materials in the body, motor, and other parts? Not to mention the fuel of course.

The idea that the limiting factor on Toyota making more hybrid vehicles is the availability of battery metals seems suspect .. there will always be a supply imbalance in growing markets, but supply is rapidly increasing, and it will increase faster if Toyota builds more cars with batteries in them.
> I experience seeing a red Apple

What is the "I" that is "experiencing" seeing an apple? This all seems to just succumb to dualism again. We're not seeing our seeing. We're seeing.

> Let’s suppose seeing red is not a process on information, it’s something else. What? Some other kind of process? In order for my experience of seeing red to not be an a process on information, that data would need to be transformed into something that is not data and participate in this other activity. What is that?

If consciousness and the brain was only computational your argument would make sense, but many if not all neuroscientists would baulk at the claim that the brain is a computer or is fundamentally computational. It's far from deterministic and the "processing" is not as set in stone as a computer. There is no code or programming; there is no clear functional relationship like some neuro-lambda calculus. The "processing" of information (if that is how you want to describe neurological activity, most of which we barely understand) is not just more complex than computation --- it's weird and not straight forward at all. We can simplify it, and make some general guesses and theories, by adopting a simplified computational model, but it remains a model.
This dichotomy about difficulty is described in more detail in this long-winded but carefully thought out essay about a Celeste mod by Patricia Taxxon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX3w4hubVnQ
We know that almost all functions aren’t computable. What makes you think that life is restricted to that tiny minority of functions?
The important context is that these loans were given with the expectation that the recipient would eventually default. These loans are backed by resource rights, and would also giving China considerable leverage to demand the right to create ports / military bases, etc. Anybody paying attention has seen this coming miles away (example: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.04.014), but such loans are too tempting for borderline dysfunctional governments with short-sighted politicians to pass up.
The Song of The Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee https://amzn.to/3Wmqz4k
I'm actually pretty sure I get it more often than that.
That may have been true 10 years ago. Today, it just means the shop is using some popular booking SaaS to get exposure, as a good chunk of would-be customers don't even use web search engines anymore for this - they go to the usual booking site and type in "barbershop" or whatever, and pick from the list there.
Some concert venues are requiring axs.com mobile app to show the ticket QR code for entry and parking. I found out after I had purchased tickets.
Let me give you the classic theory that goes back to before Aristotle: consciousness is a property of the rational soul.
About 200, but no more than 30 are used often and maybe 5 are important.

I don't want to tell how I store them, but for these 5, I could even memorize them.
The practice itself is whatever, but the issue is that dividends are taxed differently than capital gains. At the end of the day the investor makes the same pre-tax income with either strategy, but they can face drastically lower tax burdens.

In other words, buybacks are a way of paying way less tax.
So let's just go with this and say we draw a line between short term + higher risk and long term + lower risk investors.

I still haven't seen the actual argument for what would make a difference when it comes to Dividends vs. Buybacks.
Anecdotally, I live in a large apartment building in car-centric Southern California, and individual cars driving into the parking garage outside my window don’t disturb me (I like to sleep with the windows open). It’s the larger work vehicles that are the problem. The engines in big trucks (moving vans, trash trucks, construction equipment) are not tuned how personal autos are, for a variety of reasons.
The article talks a lot about a similar Thai initiative.
Ah thanks for clearing it up. I didn't realise they had 3 different versions of the app.
It's also simpler technologically to have it switched by the vehicle's gear control, same as the lights. Additionally if it was manually controlled by the driver, some of them wouldn't bother activating it some portion of the time, and then that would have to be policed. Personally I'd probably go for that but it does present its own problems.
Yes, yes, all hail the combustion engine…
OK, but when a materialist says "it's just computation", that's not a theory either. It may be the first step of a theory, but it's only one step. Where's the rest of the theory?

Nobody has a real theory of consciousness, still less an experimentally-verifiable theory. So it seems a bit unfair to exclude anti- (or at least non-) materialists for not having a theory.

Now, you could argue that materialists are at least on the road to a theory, and the anti-materialists are not. On the other hand, if the anti-materialists are right, then the materialists are not on a road to any correct theory, ever. (Being further advanced down the wrong road is not a virtue, except to the degree that you learn more quickly that you need to turn around...)
Stem cell-derived organoid models: defying the Hayflick limit
Essentially, yes. A lot of SaaS companies provide their own syntax, workflows, or PL, that you as an end user don't use enough to be perhaps know the exact syntax offhand. Even something like AWS and their policy documents, for example. And don't forget something like AWS/Terraform.
Tax rates on some dividends is higher. It is absolutely a tax dodge.

It depends entirely on whether it is an ordinary or a qualified dividend. This is true in the US, other jurisdictions vary
The Hypercompetitive Mindset
On the contrary, stock buybacks depend on price discovery working! They wouldn't move the stock price if it didn't!
> Typically there is collaterial involved, in this case "owning" or operating the airports, railways, roads, or what have you.

If they refuse to hand over the collateral?
One huge problem with Quickbooks Desktop is that it's hugely expensive to integrate it with anything, be it cloud-based software, or another piece of on-premise software. This inevitably results in it becoming an "information silo", and necessitates stuff like dual data entry (i.e. entering the same information twice, first in QB and then in some other software).

In contrast, QB Online has a REST API.
Remember Forgotten Names
Rust is going to do well on toy examples. This is because in a naive implementation, for each thread, Rust statically allocates enough space for the largest possible stack the thread will need. On a toy example this will be quite small. In real code, some branches will have large futures that will bloat the size of every thread, even if the thread doesn't take the bloated branch. You can mitigate this issue by heap allocating large futures on cold paths, but this requires insight and tuning.

Some runtimes can handle this for you, but they come with other performance tradeoffs.
I wonder if GDPR, etc can require Google to hand you your data back even if you can’t access the account.
The very purpose of political and economic leverage is to make money, even if not from those you are leveraging. Otherwise, what’s the point?
> Compared to 36 month reserved pricing the break even point was 8 months if you bought the hardware and rented out some racks at a colo, and that includes the on hands support. Having the dedicated hardware also meant that researchers were willing to experiment more when we weren't doing a planned training job, as it wouldn't pull from our budget.

That’s having it both ways, of course. You can’t both recoup the hardware cost in 8 months and have “free” downtime.

Under this pricing you need at least 25%ish duty cycle to break even (in 3 years) so probably still favoring buying, but for some people that might not add up. Pricing also varies drastically between providers, so this may depend on choice there.
the online thing is one aspect, but even the desktop part is hostile. forced obsolescence when you think you are buying a "perpetual" license. disgusting.

i've not found any local solutions that i like, at a cost (perpetual license is a requirement) that i like. so i moved to xero. it's slow and annoying in lots of ways, but it's very usable. some things are less abstract than QB, ie the method of entry for those is closer to just doing a journal entry, i guess this is good or bad depending on the user.
You might want to give ava a spin:

https://github.com/avajs/ava/

It has a TAP reporter, but more importantly, as opposed to the more popular solutions, like Jest, the way it achieves parallelism is explained in the docs and won't change anytime soon, thus preventing wonky, hard to debug errors which occur when this part is abstracted away.
In my opinion, if consciousness turns out to be anti-material meaning after years and years we cannot replicate or find any model to explain it. Then we have to assume that it is contained outside of the "system" which could only mean that the world is built around consciousness and everything else is a dream or simulation.

However I don't actually believe this, just an idea. I think consciousness is probably much more simpler than we think, if you look at evolution it developed very quickly compared to other things.
https://youtu.be/RYN8F4D_lUo?t=271
These countries defaulting is precisely what China intended from the start. The loans are backed by mineral rights, and refusal to honor those agreements would give China all the excuse it needs to back coups, or even resort to military intervention (particularly if the RBIO falls apart, probably due to domestic political strife in America.)
Coruscant
> “The initial project was created inside Amdocs, while building a chat tool called "Amdocs Unified Communications”

This is true; I created it. With a team, including myself, who had been acquired into Amdocs and operated as an independent unit. As I already said.

> As an insider, what do you think was Amdocs’ reason for building a whole new chat protocol?

Our pitch to Amdocs was that RCS was not fit for purpose, and XMPP was building on top of outdated primitives which didn’t reflect the synced multi-device group-chat experience of comms app which were becoming standard at the time in 2014. To be clear: the idea of Matrix was our idea; Amdocs deserves significant credit for going along with it and funding it in the early days.

> Why would they pay big money for decentralization?

They didn’t pay big money - they funded a ~15 person team for a few years. They supported decentralisation because if you’re building something which could replace the phone network, it needs to be an open protocol which anyone can independently implement, run, and verify. Including conspiracy theorists on HN.

> Why wasn’t Slack or SIP+XMPP good enough?

Because Slack is an unencrypted proprietary centralised chat vendor, not a communication protocol.

SIP+XMPP was a horrifically flimsy approach, which duplicated functionality and risk of bugs, while limited by both protocols (eg lack of e2ee and group calling in SIP; lack of synced conversation history in XMPP at the time).
There is a graphic showing number of restaurants in selected countries and comparing to other cuisines. According to that there were only 2024 Chinese restaurants in 2009.

I find this very hard to believe. TripAdvisor lists 500+ in Sydney alone!
The superstructure is mostly metal so if left alone long enough they might get that for free.
>I certainly could pay any fine that would be assessed, because that fine would be assessed zero times.

You are so well damn so sure of that. Idiot.
drywall on floating rails not connected to the studs is very effective soundproofing
Lol. What does this have to do with Hubspot CRM?
Not necessarily - there are a lot of factors into house prices, and in Sydney some of the most trendy and pricey areas are on the flight path. It is only once the plane noise becomes so loud you can't talk (500-1000ft?) do I think it hits on the home values. A 3000ft high commercial jet every 4 minutes doesn't touch the house prices.
Plan 9 definitely wasn't built with the thought that the endgame was ever more powerful desktops doing most things locally. "Connected over a network to send and receive files" is only technically true, yeah it's all around the 9P protocol which is a filesystem protocol, but it's a world where everything is a file. A window on your screen is a file. A CPU is a file. And app is a directory with files in it. The Plan 9 vision is all the things you describe, but more seamless. Firing up a a surreally large cloud machine isn't starting a VM with its own separate OS and configuration, it's connecting to a cloud CPU and your tasks transparently running on it. Mostl applications running on a cluster of machines that expose an HTTP interface to your browser are instead applications running on a cluster of machines that expose a 9P interface to your OS. Your impression of "the endgame was having ever more powerful desktops who did most things locally" was the Unix trajectory, and steering away from that was the big departure of Plan 9 from Unix.
I thought double-pane windows would block city sounds out when I bought my condo.

nope.

now I wear noise cancelling headphones when I'm home
Their no fee cards are not their primary card base.
As a vertical provider, they simply charge merchants more, and use that money to look after their customers more so than other majors.
In general try to do a charge back with Amex vs other majors and watch what happens. Amex usually screws merchants more much than other payers, at least in APAC and EMEA. I don’t know American markets as much but I assume the model holds true.
I was nodding along until I remembered a recent student party in Germany, interrupted by the police, as the neighbors in the next house complained. The party was then transformed into a talking party. At least the neighbors were satisfied.
This is great! Thankfully enough Let's Play videos are out there to give me an idea how much I would hate this, at least alone. OTOH I could see this being a fun (and hopefully short) party game with friends in-between more "serious" games, just to laugh our asses off for a few minutes ;)

This also reminds me of QWOP[0] and Petris/Bastet/Bastard Tetris[1].

[0] https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

[1] https://libregamewiki.org/Bastet
Please provide link to webcam in your bathroom.

You and this view are the problem and are the reasons we’re losing this fight.
We're in the Midst of Trucking Bloodbath 2.0 – Freight Rejected Falls to (Cont)
Google is attempting to migrate my account to Passkeys, which doesn't work at all for me. Despite spending significant time trying to get it to work I cannot get a passkey that works on my iOS device, and without it it seems impossible.

And yet Google keeps trying to log me in using it.
https://youtu.be/yZLedcnFA94

Here is a video of Stepan Mitkin demoing Drakon at an Erlang conference from 2015.
> That "something" being referenced is a world model.

It doesn't need to be a whole understanding of the nearby world to build an image. Basically it's an event camera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_camera) and just needs to integrate recent visual "samples".

But if you do need to understand objects near you in detail (say, to move them), you don't do it just by looking. You investigate them by moving closer to them, picking them up, etc. If you need to "create a world model", then it's an activity rather something your senses just do.
We had a guy do that. Cost the company $300k (penalty) and they had to eat the cost of the rework (another $50k or so in labor, maybe more). He's not very popular right now as a result.
> Yeah, that is called cope.

No that is something anyone shorting needs to understand fully and deeply.

e.g. the dotcom bubble was clearly a bubble with most dotcoms absolute garbage investments. People looked at it and correctly saw it as such and decided to short. They were 100% correct and still lost big money because it took too long to be proven so.

Dotcoms as they were in 2000 were ridiculous investments that have gone badly south. You couldn't buy google, you could buy Looksmart, repeat that pattern for basically every company that ended up successful. Social media was not a thing. Internet advertising was an utter joke from every level of analysis (is it still? No clue). The thing was clear and obvious and did pan out as expected but man alive it took some time.
C++ 20 has async/await (but of course named co_async and co_await, because C++ isn't the sort of language where you're allowed nice things, the beatings will continue until morale improves)

However AIUI C++ 20 doesn't actually supply an executor out of the box, so you would need to choose what to do here as for Rust, where they picked both tokio and async-std and you can see they have different performance.

C does only have threads, but you could presumably pull off the same trick in C that Rust does, to get Linux to give you the bare minimum actual resident memory for your thread and you needn't care about the notional "real" size of the thread since we're 64-bit and address space is basically free.
I first asked it to reply in the style of Paul Graham - the idea being it would be like a good HN reply, but not obviously a bot. But sadly it did a terrible job of that - rambling on, So I got it to do a terse version, and still bad. So I then said "as a pirate" and this is what came out.
> They’ve all basically hit the brick wall of Google suggesting that at their scale, nothing can be done about such “edge” cases.

The thing is that at scale your “edge” cases are still millions of people. Companies love the benefits that come from scale, like having a billion people use their service, but they never seem to be capable of handling the other parts that come with it :(
It’s so common that I have to believe someone somewhere is selling it as a path to a job, probably in foreign countries.
Great for VR, horrible for AR, unfortunately: the trick that makes the optics thinner is bouncing the light a ton in the lens, dimming the display.

I am hopeful with recent increases in nits from OLED and luck from uleds / smol oled, we'll get "glass but 4x the size and more contrast" by 2025 from someone.

which has me pretty convinced AR is dead-ish
You will always need backups, regardless of where your primary storage is. These backups could be local or remote.

You have to decide how important your data is. You might divide it into a few categories and decide what you can or cannot afford to lose for each category. For example your password database and family holiday pics are often more important than nearly everything else! Then you decide how much money to throw at all this. It's all a big risk assessment thing.

If you will insist on cloud then please use two of them or one and a local backup system. For really important stuff you can buy a brand that you have heard of 128GB USB stick for about £13 (just checked on Amazon). That's bugger all cash! Buy 10 of them.

Please take responsibility for your data. Use cloudy stuff for convenience but do not lose sight of who really is responsible for it - you.
what about my comment makes you think that, friend?
The collateral is already handed over. It's mostly western firms operating the infrastructure which you can see is where the money is made.

Countries can and do nationalize this infrastructure kicking out the western firms, this typically makes the debtor angry which leads to the classic intelligence over throw ops we see.
That’s fine. Yes, you read my post, which consists of information, and formed a mental model of me and my opinions. That mental model is fundamentally informational.

You're conflating me and your model of me though. The model isn’t me, it doesn’t have thoughts or feelings because… and this us the crucial part… the model of me in your head doesn’t process information the way a conscious being does, whereas I do. Therefore I have experiences, whereas it does not.

Do you see where you misstepped?
Detection is important but by that point damage has already been done. Detection will just allow you to scope out the scale of the damage.

It’s also worth noting that we are talking about contractors laptops here. So they wouldn’t be subject to management by IT security teams. At best, they’re entirely disconnected from the IT systems that contractor is hired to work on. It at worse, they’re used as a BYOD. And the worst case is surprisingly often the norm.
I was very hopeful when I saw "AMD Support" listed on a few of those providers, but that appears to only refer only to AMD CPUs. It is, unfortunately, very difficult to find public cloud providers for AMD GPUs.
They give loans backed by resource rights to build up some infrastructure, roads and ports particularly, then wait for them to default. Now they have resource extraction rights as well as the infrastructure needed to extract those resources. Cash is less important than power, China means to reshape the international order because they're tired of being a second class player in global affairs.
South Korea is reaping the dividend of the demographic transition right now. They are where Japan was in the 1980s. They played their cards very well and were able to build up both hard and soft power during the growth years.
(price per inch)
See the other comments regarding resource rights.