skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Wikipedia article is at best a shallow introduction to a subject that wouldn’t fill out one chapter in a cheap paperback; and at worst a fact-hoarder’s opiate, an indiscriminate mass of motivated opinion and decontextualized facts that really only serve as edutainment.

I used to think the internet democratized information, and then I learned about books. Article-readers don’t know what they miss out on; in its current form, the internet primarily serves to make people feel informed. I find that far more insidious than censorship.
> In 2022, the Chinese regime put almost 400 million people under some sort of COVID-19 lockdown, a feat that is unimaginable in any other country.

India did the same. But, India being India, implementation and enforcement were quite haphazard and chaotic compared to China.

Still, China is not quite as unique as the author thinks: India too has massive competition for civil service jobs, heavy emphasis on rote learning and passing incredibly difficult exams, and an increasingly authoritarian leader.
I sit in an IKEA Längfjäll https://www.ikea.com/at/en/p/langfjaell-conference-chair-gun... have been for a few years and I’m really happy with it. I feel like my back ache has improved since starting to use it, it’s affordable and sufficiently stylish. I don’t like wheels although they can be installed.
I was hoping that that point comes through. There’s no font or symbol for sarcasm unfortunately except perhaps /s.

But in general war is about destruction and death. There is no scenario where one side gets away clean. There’s going to be training accidents, friendly fire, cook offs, equipment failure, and so on at a minimum.

People sometimes think that this stuff is like the movies where the heroes are perfectly good and walk away unscathed.

(Meanwhile the amount of casual property damage from even a single superhero fight ought to land both participants in jail at a minimum, even if they don’t accidentally kill some bystanders without even realising it.)
I sweat enough that it makes the faux leathers pretty gross. This is an bigger issue for my home chairs as I don't bother to put a shirt on before hopping on the internet.

In an office, while the chair at my desk probably stays there forever, there's no guarantee. Inadvertently swapping chairs happens all the time. The microbiological reality is probably the same, but my intuition is more comfortable with the idea that my successor might endure a mesh chair than a cushion sodden by my years of perspiration.
>A softcore is a CPU to run on an FPGA.

Technically it's a core that's supplied as RTL (code). There's nothing stopping you using it in custom silicon instead of on an FPGA. Whereas a "hard IP" core is already compiled down to a specific technology and can only be used there. It's possible for a hard macro to be for an FPGA, but it would be for a specific product line. A "hard macro" for custom silicon would be specific to a particular fab process.
Yeasts are pretty sensitive to pH levels
The situation at Twitter isn't as bad as the media hype would suggest
In the article’s body, one paragraph is present twice, the second time paraphrased. Was that because of some AI tool? Or perhaps wrong Ctrl+V during editing? Interesting in any case.

> “It is a rather unusual fact that an intellectual property case ends up in criminal proceedings ,” the businessman’s lawyer, María Muiño González, told El Pais. The defense has spent three years “analyzing the ins and outs of the brand” and maintains that the accused “never wanted to appear to have a real Ferrari.” “The emblems were crude and you could see that they were simple stickers,” she explains, “and I wasn’t going to sell it either; “He had it in his possession for only 12 days until it was seized.”

> “It’s quite unusual for an intellectual property case to escalate into criminal proceedings,” noted the businessman’s lawyer, María Muiño González, told El Pais. The defense team invested three years in closely examining the brand and firmly asserted that the accused never had any intention of making the vehicle resemble a genuine Ferrari. “The emblems were crude, and you could clearly see that they were basic stickers,” she said. “Furthermore, there were no plans to sell it; he had it in his possession for only 12 days before it was seized.”
That's a side effect of technologies that metaphorically open a Pandora's box of possibilities. The explosion of RAM sizes, for example, led to developers abandoning memory efficiency in their projects to pursue quick rollouts.
> I hear OpenAI is hacking around this with DALL-E 3 by having the prompt preprocessor (GPT-4 expanding your prompt) inject stuff like "diverse people" many times in the expanded prompt, to bias things the other way.

I just asked GPT-4 for images of an Indian man, and it created four separate prompts to pass to Dall-E.

1. Photo of an Indian man wearing traditional attire, standing against a scenic backdrop with a serene expression.
2. Oil painting of an Indian man in a kurta, playing a sitar under a banyan tree.
3. Illustration of an Indian man in modern clothing, holding a cup of chai while reading a newspaper in a bustling city.
4. Watercolor painting of an Indian man practicing yoga in a tranquil setting near a river.

When asking for "Show me photos of diverse Indian men" the prompts become:

1. Photo of three Indian men from different regions, each wearing distinct traditional attire, standing side by side in a vibrant market setting. (The resulting image literally looks like triplets in different attire)
2. Photo of a group of Indian men from various descents, engaging in a conversation at a local tea stall.
3. Photo of young and elderly Indian men, representing diverse backgrounds, enjoying a game of chess in a park.
4. Photo of Indian men of diverse ages and regions participating in a traditional dance ceremony. (This one was funny. It was a bunch of Indian men sitting with their legs crossed with one Indian man in a cross legged position floating above all the rest)
We had the CGI Massachusetts state exchange business, which led to [additional exchange work](https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/02/25/mana...) in the lead-up. There were many last- minute changes and very little load testing, but I was instrumental in getting core VMware infrastructure onto HPE equipment instead of Supermicro. The firm was a private cloud and infrastructure services group, [LogicWorks](https://www.logicworks.com).
I sit half-standing at a really tall desk on a stool I made out of a big sheave, a 3" steel pipe, and a piece of rough-cut 3/8" plate. so I get to stand up and work and sit down and work without a big fuss. it tilts forward and back just because of the way the casters sit under the sheave. it sounds really uncomfortable, but anything else makes me feel all cramped up.
It's going to be an interesting conundrum for Apple, with their drive to keep everything on phone.

Both the computing requirements and the data requirement on modern AI make it a challenging fit. So it will be a curiosity about how Apple tries to balance a feature set that they can power on the phone, net take advantage of the modern AI capabilities.

Or, just bail, and funnel it to the net.
> How does that work? Let’s say a stream is running with a 5s latency with the streamer and a bunch of viewers, all located in the US on fast connections. Now someone from rural Australia connects to the stream on a slow connection.

It works exactly as for non-p2p streaming, as the playback synchronization is independent from the p2p part and entirely managed by the video player through its buffer management system. Basically you get the “latest block” from the stream's manifest (that always comes from the CDN) and then the player is playing a few blocks behind and keeping its buffer full.

> What does the latency look like after that? 15-20s for everyone?

Yes, but that's already the case for most live streaming website you can find unless they specifically aim for low-latency (which comes with a QoS drawback since smaller buffer means buffering is more likely for the end user if the connection isn't flawless, so going to low-latency is a trade-off) and it was the case on Twitch itself before 2019.

> It also doesn’t solve all of the interactivity issues. If a streamer is directly chatting with their viewers, a 15s latency is huge! It effectively makes normal back-and-forth conversations impossible and therefore leads to disengagement.

It's less convenient, but at the same time Twitch has worked like that for almost a decade so it's not a complete showstopper. And again, 15s isn't the minimum you can reach, it's going below 5s that's not necessarily feasible (also, when I left my former employer, 5s was the limit but people were working on that so maybe they managed to reach 3s as they were trying to).

> Highly engaged viewers are simply way more valuable as an audience, so their experience is given top priority. This is why best-effort low latency without synchronization makes sense.

Maybe, but how many times more valuable? Has the per user value increase by a factor 20 since 2019? If no, maybe having reduced the bandwidth cost would have made more sense that trying to improve engagement.
The article suggests that a 12 ky old oral tradition might be the oldest.

tombh’s comment is that there could be an oral tradition almost an order of magnitude older, or more. I think it’s relevant.
The watch doesn't necessarily detect cycles directly. Cycles can influence things a fitness watch traditionally tracks. There was no option for input in the OS.
A former friend of mine dumped his remaining savings into a niche crypto coin. Dude also doesn’t have a 401k. It’s wild how blind and into the crypto propaganda he’s dug himself. The dude’s future is fucked.
Kind of always suspected it and kept using them out of laziness (they can be popped in the dishwasher and it deals with them). Will definitely trash them now.
There’s over 1.8 million crypto tokens. You can find one for any concept that’s been thought up.
Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago
That's not how it works in Norway. A lot of stations are so far from the closest neighbour that they have a quasi-monopoly in their area, and "so far" is a surprisingly low number, according to the hearsay I've heard.

The hearsay also says that they close when they need expensive maintenance, not before.
Usually there's a liquidity pool which acts like a self-service market maker (see Uniswap for details on how it works).

Unless everyone pulls their stake from the liquidity pool (it's the same "pull" in rugpull), there is always a counterparty to any sell/buy position.
The are not even top 100 in the world. They are OKish.
> “Our study assumes that the average person makes 500 cuts per day on a board, or over the course of a year, 128,000 cuts. Given those numbers, the cumulative microplastics exposure ranges from 7.4 to 50.7 grams per year.”

500 sounds like a lot for the "average person". Not sure if that's realistic. Maybe for some people...

I wonder where this assumption came from. It's key to the study's conclusions but there's no mention of that.
I'm using a HN userscript in Violentmonkey mainly for increasing the font size and making flagged comments less hard to read.

There is a Show HN about it, which is how I got to know it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34037462

I wish it was just a set of ublock Origin filters though.
I sold all of the MRIN I was holding at $25 thanks to Reddit, and that's a fully regulated market.
This appears to be a better link, and it references back to this article: https://fortune.com/2023/10/18/openai-arrakis-failure-micros...
"Industry-proven" isn't the endorsement that you think it is - I've used engines that have shipped games that have made hundreds of millions of dollars, and you couldn't pay me enough to use them again.

Just because a game ships doesn't mean that the underlying tech is good or pleasant to work with - I would say the majority of games are shipped not via good code but via sheer force of will.
'A Neolithic feat of engineering': Orkney dig reveals ruins of tomb
I'm not sure if you're intentionally trying to miss the point - the scam is that people who knew that demand for the asset was about to crater - because they were about to crater it, by shutting it down, extracted their investment knowing that others would not be able to.
The internet also contains countless legit websites & services and offers many ways to use it productively.

I think if blockchain projects offered a comparable value, people would have better ways to defend it than assuring everyone it's definitely not all a scam.
All my snoos gone.
I personally know of 3 first generation immigrant families who all made well less than $60K a year and with good grades, all 5 kids from them went to Ivy League schools with full scholarships.
Good to know the reason and target market. I saw the YouTube video and was not sure how this could be useful but now I understand.

Good luck!
- The IDF often lies when the truth makes them look bad, as in the case of the murder of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh: first they claimed she was shot by Palestinians, then that she was caught in crossfire, until it finally emerged that she had been killed by an Israeli sniper

- The IDF often attacks hospitals

- The IDF warned people to evacuate the hospital repeatedly in the days leading up to the attack

- IDF affiliates initially claimed credit for the attack

- The IDF posted video “proving” it was a failed rocket launch, then removed the video without acknowledging it when people pointed out that the timestamps didn’t line up

- The IDF released an inculpatory recording of Hamas that has since been widely discredited

- To the extent that they are able to investigate, many independent organizations have not found evidence supporting the IDF’s claims

- The US is resisting calls to allow independent investigations

- The IDF has targeted other hospitals since the air strike
> The average human stool weighs less than 200 g.

Guess I'm not average. But TBH, I've never weighed my poop, only occasionally estimated.

I always figured if I took a healthy dump before heading out to run, that's be a pound less crap I had to haul around. ;)
People with CarPlay are mostly just listening to AM/FM radio
I did not read it in detail, but it really sounds something like 'We already trained AI on copyrighted content, also humans find inspiration and creativity like AI on copyrighted content, so copyrights do not apply to AI training sets'.

So from this point of view, basically an LLM is the same thing as a human brain ? And copyrights are for what then ?
I wonder if there is a license prohibiting explicitly the content to be used in a training set.
A concrete answer on this would be too far into the spoiler zone. In my personal opinion the overall tone is very faithful to the original, and I think a broad range of players should be able to enjoy it.
that future is already here. I'm imagining being beholden to a low/no code platform (lockin and infinite price increases) because that's all you know.
I've got one of these cheapo kneeling chairs in my home office: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274436164319

I told myself that if it was okay I'd get a better, more expensive one, but never did.
Depends on situation and conditions. In this UX case, assuming that information is ready, a team of 10 UX experts with similar expertise and have been working together for some time will reach the good decision.

A team consist of CEOs, managers, devs, UX, marketing/sales & finance won't get the same level of decision assuming the information is ready. However they'll be useful for information / idea gathering / brainstorming when the information is not ready, for a single person / team to make decision.

My past experience sums up to this:

* Team of similar expertise & knowledge: good & fast on decision making, lack on seeking knowledge in other part of expertise

* Team with variety of expertise & knowledge: will make slow & bad decisions more than good or fast one, in exchange of decent chance of knowledge sharing for each expertise

Of course the quality of each member, how can they work as a team, whether they have hidden personal agenda / hating each other plays part in the quality and speed of decision making too
It’s intentional, to distinguish between known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
Oh that’s interesting and a good point
Same. I buy them used and my entire family (kids included) has them for their desk.

They’re incredibly comfortable and long-wearing. The gas cylinders are replaceable when needed (cheap and straightforward albeit a lot of force is needed to break the old cylinder free from the base).

If you want to save money, find one with a flat cylinder. Many people assume they’re not repairable.
iPhone 13 mini owner here. I love this phone. I've used large phones in the past, was a happy iPhone 7 Plus owner, and owned and used the 5.8-inch iPhones X and 11 Pro, but I'm just so much happier with a smaller phone that I can more easily hold. Part of this is due to my smaller hands, and a large part is the reduction in weight. I don't even care if I drain the battery scrolling TikTok, because the battery is so small I can fast charge back to 80% in no time.

It's weird. I spent my teenage years and early twenties as a yearly/bi-yearly iPhone upgrader, but it turns out that form factor, more so than display, cameras, or gimmicks is what wins me over today.

I proclaim in my everyday life that the phone that will replace my blue iPhone 1 mini will -- as of right now -- be a used/refurbished green iPhone 13 mini. :)
So are we really losing knowledge or just specializing ever more down the fractal?
Google said:

> And in our new Tensor G3 chip, every major subsystem has been upgraded, paving the way for on-device generative AI.

This is definitely weasel-worded, but note that this does not actually have to mean that all the generative AI stuff can be done on Tensor G3. They could (credibly, but, again, weasel-y) claim that the stuff they've done on G3 is prep work that is "paving the way" for a future chip to be able to do it all.

But either way, I'm not terribly surprised? Generative AI on a mobile SoC (even with special-purpose hardware) still sounds like a bit of a stretch at this point, no? At least, doing it on-device with acceptable performance and power consumption seems a little unlikely?
I've been using bamboo cutting boards for years now. They're cheap (Ikea has them for like 10 bucks), durable, easy to maintain (it's not end grain, no need to oil them or whatever, and you can wash them properly in water, they won't split).

One cool thing about wooden cutting boards is that they are somewhat self-healing. Wood swells with water so small incisions can close by themselves.
Maglev test ride offers a glimmer of train travel at 500 kph
Sorry but do you have an example of a company that got hacked and driven to bankruptcy by lawsuits?

Most of what people see in open are companies that get hacked, share price dips for a month or two if it is software company, if it is non software company share price does not even dip.

Okta went down quite a lot since 2022 but still far away from bankrupt and latest "hack" did not move it that much really.

Where in my opinion (as a tech person) they should be out of business already even after slightest "hack".

Microsoft Azure latest hack did not really affect their stock...
Which makes it more strange that it has no competitors that are technically better as a platform.

Even Mastodon bungles and messes up very simple things like uploading a PNG image, and it's not trying to match even 80% of reddit's functionality.
OLE 1 and Gadgets both appeared in 1990; Marais references the 1989 InterViews (Linton, Vlissides, Calder) publication in his 1990 report. See also https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.1996.10474712.
I stand a lot
The question is what "just like it" means.

My point was that we can't send more "just like" the Voyager trips. But we can send other things on trips that resemble it in some way.
My initial reaction was completely opposite to yours:
- Oh this is going to burn google's money, especially if the phone becomes popular.

Unless you want to charge a subscription for a feature it really isn't smart for Apple to try something like this.
I agree, but this is also what makes it difficult to do a placebo trial, as stated in the article.

They still need to find a method of creating a state where the subject doesn't know if they are getting ketamine or not.
Standing desk, can highly recommend. I worked at Google for some time, and most offices had a Lifespan TR1200-DT5 or similar, which I made regular use of.

When I started working remote, I picked one up on Craigslist. I have a random no-name drafting chair for when I'm done walking for the day, but it's intentionally not-great to encourage more walking.
Thanks a lot! I’ll give it a try.
Completely agree, the article reads more like someone who thinks they are doing research rather than development. There's no esoteric perfect form for software that needs to be discovered, there's a set of patterns and structures that can be learned before the project starts.

Analogies are often unhelpful because people argue about the analogies instead of the actual problem at hand. If you can't communicate why these things are hard, and why 'do it faster' won't always get results, you need to get better at dev management.
Most of the human population could be described as a "pointless CO2 emitter".
> Analysis suggests at least three Reddit moderators dumped thousands of dollars worth of Moons just minutes before the actual announcement

Sounds like they had...insider information?
Yet Keju directly influenced civil service examinations in the West: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination#In_the_We...

The thing about socio-political systems is that their innovativeness doesn't last forever. Keju was innovative in the pre-industrial age because it provided a path to social mobility for those not born into hereditary nobility. Meanwhile European monarchs in the Early Modern era relied on nobility, landed gentry, and the clergy in administering their realms, none of which had academic competency as a requirement to entry.

Of course, by the 19th century this has fallen dreafully behind as Keju curriculums were never updated to fit an evolving world. Confucian Classics were no better than the Bible or the Quran at guiding the development of elecrical generators, excavating coal, synthesizing chemicals, or smelting steel. At some point in the future, our current model of measuring academic competency will be seen as rigid and obsolete too.

Standardized examinations aren't unique to China. The cut-throatness is a byproduct of China's large population base combined with limited possibilities of upward mobility due to its status as a developing economy not aligned with the most advanced economic bloc on the planet.

>Keju was so precocious that it pre-empted and displaced an emergent society. Meritocracy empowered the Chinese state at a time when society was still at an embryonic stage. Massive resources and administrative manpower were poured into Keju such that it completely eclipsed all other channels of upward mobility that could have emerged.

What pre-empted and displaced an emergent society was the creation and re-creation of unified imperial dynasties where emeperors were despots who were occasionally enlightened at best. Wealthy merchants existed in every Chinese Dynasty and "Ten Great Merchant Guilds" dominated the economic landscape of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The upper bound of society was not limited by Keju, but by China's position as an unchallenged hegemon in its sphere of influence until the industrial revolution.
There's the Light Phone if you can live with e-ink. Don't know how capable the music player is though.