skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the often quoted IP stealing from GB, there are also more recent examples.

At the end of WWII, not only the Soviet Union has moved piece by piece many industrial factories from Germany to Russia, but also USA and GB have "stolen" massive amounts of IP from the occupied Germany.

One of the most notorious cases in how the American industry of making magnetic tape recorders (e.g. Ampex) and of making magnetic tapes for them has been founded based on the samples brought back from Germany.

The case of the liquid-fueled rockets directly connected to this Apollo story needs no further mention.

Whenever they could get away with it, no country has refrained from copying foreign better technology.

While there in no doubt that China must have done this frequently in the past, in recent years there are little chances for them to benefit from this, because now in many domains their products are much more innovative than anything made in USA, and also in research publications they have many that are also more innovative.

I do not believe that sabotaging the Chinese companies that were on the brink to take most of the market share from US companies like Qualcomm and Micron has been the right strategy for counteracting the Chinese threat.

This is just a temporary setback for them and there is the risk that they could emerge from it stronger, no longer fearing any US blackmail.

This should have been either saved for a more critical moment, when it could have a greater effect, or the so-called "sanctions" should have been real sanctions, and not just anti-competitive measures, i.e. they should have been tied to some political demands made to China, e.g. to recognize Taiwan as an independent country, or to give up their claims to extend their maritime borders.
i will definitely be there when they sell out the old stock and release a cheaper variant under 400.
Twitter/X has been unbanning people, so if that’s your scene, you’re in luck.
but theres 1000s of doctors and dentists that we don't know the names of.

they might be aware of Dr Joe Bloggs in 6939, just because he carved his name in some rock, that doesn't imply they will have a deep knowledge of our famous scientists.
I have tinkered on cars both with and without torx.
Torx sucks, its also not uncommon for dimensions to differ on included torx tools so when you use a size 3 on another products "torx 3" it will strip away.
Well, my point is that hazard pointers are not really that exotic either :D.
I've been using computers for 25+ years and no RSI, should we start a support group?
Thought Leader is so passé on LinkedIn. You have to be a Visionary these days!
"Basic LTO" is also functionally analogous to a "unity build", i.e., smushing together each source file into a single compilation unit. There are some caveats, but it's a valuable technique.
sorry, the history of communism in China directly supported by intelectuals. the first member of CCP is famous writer.
It's not a problem for the future, it's where we are at now until sufficiently advanced technology (or sufficiently peaceful international relations) intervenes.
> It's true that the Palestinian leadership has been reckless and stupid again and again, but it doesn't justify imperialism over their land. We don't have empires any more and Israel isn't entitled to one.

You might want to take a closer look at the propaganda. I believe it’s “white imperialism” or “US imperialism.” Israel isn’t the empire.
The Ruby on Rails Documentary – Read the Origin Story
> Who were Maoist sympathisers in the US and western europe? Not factory workers and peasants.

Very few Western elites were pro-Mao. And general support for communism definitely had a class bias. (Any populism does, for very sympathetic and not-stupid reasons.)
Much like NATO.
almost as if programming is a genuine craft but management is easier to bullshit at than it is to do properly
YJIT enabled by default, Active Model improvements and much more
>we’re better at archiving stuff deliberately now.

Are we? You can't beat pyramids and Rosetta stones for long term endurance AND easy access.

Surely not with any digital media we have now, and if there's something like "Fall of Rome" collapse and loss of techniques and high end manufacturing because of some global war, climate change, comet, or something like that in the 4000 years until then, we might not even be able to read the stuff that did survive.
There are even checkboxes on the page to simultaneously disable ligatures and enable texture healing. They're just controlling whether various subfeatures of font-feature-settings are off/on.

I have a bunch of font-feature-settings subfeatures turned off explicitly in my userChrome.css, so it took me a little while to realize that that was what was messing with this site. I couldn't figure out what texture healing was supposed to do because toggling it wasn't helping, but it was because of my userChrome.
That it's probably physiological. If you are doing something special, great. Spread the word.
It's a thorough study, it's better than pulling something out of your arse.
Hi Peter,

Do you think for Founders, the US EB-5 Green Card Visa can be a good option? (If cost is not a problem)

A recent update:
The Visa availability figures for fiscal year 2024 have just been released, and the news couldn’t be better for EB-5 investors – particularly those hailing from China and India. Rather than the typical 10,000 annual EB-5 Visa quota, the allocation for 2024 has surged to 22,233 EB-5 Visas.

More info:
https://www.eb5united.com/updates/2023/11/additional-eb-5-vi...
> How can we make code be portable (e.g node.js like) between embedded and other platforms if they differ so much?

By embedded here we are talking about running bare metal on single core microcontrollers with kilobytes of memory and megabytes of storage which are more interested in driving or reading gpio/adc pins than serving a rest api or rendering a webpage

To answer your question, you can't because the difference in code comes from huge differences in the use case and requirements. And trying to force using the same runtime for anything from webservers with dozens of processors and hundreds of gigabytes of ram to the kind of device that barely draws any power at all is going to make no one happy

I only have a passing knowledge of embedded programming but it already seems to me that being able to effectively use this kind of abstractions in this domain is already halfway through a miracle, and probably only possible because the rust team decided to decouple the async model from a specific runtime
I dont know about you but i am doing stelar on these: “in detail it’s full of bugs and clunky, overpromised and inflated numbers, boring and dull.”
There is a Rainbow Toolbox, https://github.com/BrokeStudio/RainbowToolBox, which might be useful.

See more info here, https://github.com/BrokeStudio/RainbowToolBox#rainbow-tool-b...
>Thus it would not be Elon who was indicated as the intelligent producer

Good point, bad example.

Musk is hardly just "financing and management." In contrast with ~all other CEOs, Musk actually spends most of his time (and IMO contributes most of his value) on engineering, despite the ongoing propaganda to the contrary.
I just tried it on my work project, 100 MB of sources. It's insanely fast !
Plus, there is more to a society and economy than SV style start-ups.
From the variety of intonations based on context, I doubt it’s speech synthesis.
> You can't make RAM upgradeable and have unified memory architecture

Silicon Graphics did it in the 90s, x86 laptops do something similar but it's not true UMA AFAIU mostly due to software / graphics API limitations.

> that makes Apple Silicon good.

Good interplay between CPU and GPU, the major advantage of UMA, does nothing for raw CPU performance. What I find attractive about Apple silicon is that it has very high performance, high efficiency CPU cores. Nothing to do with UMA.

Soldered RAM can be somewhat higher speed and lower energy than replaceable, I think that's the main real advantage. Still, I wouldn't want it.
Also see his essay titled Why Socialism: https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

Last discussed a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37407331
I think this can be easily read in two ways.

On HN, the option to read it as an Ayn Rand style attack on the poor is likely to have more salience.

But I think, given the preceding paragraphs about having lots of goods that are poorly distributed, and having technology that "could" improve human lives, he meant it as "humanity in general are pretty shitty to each other, but there's a few people trying to do better, which is both smart and morally correct, and he hopes they win out".

This is in the context of 1939 when Adolph Hitler had wide appeal.
modern problems require modern solutions
if the benchmark means replicating the experience of taking technical interviews by most people, then this is a spot on approach and serves the potential user right.
What facts?
My first game (a chess roguelike) sold 4.5k copies in the first month
If it's good for reading, it's especially good for Github itself, which is a largely read-only interface for code.
Hmm, interesting. I have the opposite with my 12. We must have quite different use patterns.
It is a legal and cost thing. Said student is directly employed, the contractors have an employment contract with the agency. And those agencies are used to reduce costs, hence no sponsored, free or discounted food.
have you actually tried that? afaik they don't get you the perfect home row mods due to some limitations re. how they implement the tap vs hold logic

https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad/issues/228
The summary seems to be that we need more robots in our factories. That seems reasonable to me though I do wonder if some of the comparisons to Europe are misleading given that the US is in a very different place demographically.
On tuesday .NET 8 will be released which has this aswell.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...
Show HN: Cursed Ads for YouTube (Chrome Extension)
A Chrome extension that visually degrades & mutes ads on YouTube until it's allowed to skip to the video.
I have no idea what all of this means, but would like to share a GPT-4 discussion that might illuminate your request.

https://chat.openai.com/share/6a76cdcc-a303-4717-885c-519951...
Should be possible to do that entirely in Postscript. Hmm, maybe I've got a project for this weekend now.
Thing is, for regular office use, the M1 Air is perfectly fine, there's very little you gain if you go with the M3 Pro instead of the M1.

Funnily enough, I'm typing this from a 3 year old Thinkpad that I use for work, which has in all likelyhood a slower CPU than even the M1, but it's perfectly usable for dev work, because it has 64GB of RAM.
Many of us still use our graphics chips for graphics, where FP32 is king.
In most Western countries, people aren't dying of hunger. I'd say it's taken significant progress.

Of course there's a sizeable chunk of people who want to live plush upper middle class lives without contributing a drop of sweat into the economy.
Reading this post in the lens of other articles it seems like google is well into the enshittification phase internally, although this is a limited experience. Was this the average experience 10 years ago?
No, they shouldn't, that is the definition of exploitative, offering someone a lower pay because they are desperate enough to accept it. It's a race to the bottom and something needs to stop it.

That shouldn't happen, you need some morality in this amoral system so it can be less exploitative, one way to set some moral guidance is to have a minimum threshold of what people should be paid for a job given that others are already offered that for a similar skillset. Willing to work for less in exchange of other benefits (like moving to a different society) only creates cascading issues for the others who aren't in that desperate position, eroding the labour market.

If people were willing to be slaves, should we allow them?
Sure, some might have been stupid to support communism. (as some are still today)

What happened to them afterwards?

That should be a cautionary tale.
Doctors and PTs never helped my wrist, forearm, and arm pain but finding a really good personal trainer and going to the gym 3+ times a week for several months is what finally did it

The doctors just prescribed the PT and the PTs had me doing basic stretches that ChatGPT would done a better job with
Looks great and very useful!
Gitlab expands its AI lineup with Duo Chat
I recommend "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" by the brilliant Ted Chiang, a short story featuring a related social situation. People in the story use a recorder with highly advanced search and indexing capabilities so it becomes possible to instantly access a video of anywhere you've been, or of any conversation you've had.
just one word: Linux
You're talking about the ones who've made it to tenure, either by genuine academic merit or old-boys-networks (or both). But given the lack of permanent positions in Academia, one could make the case that a large portion of Academia genuinely do excel on merit alone (albeit in the short time window where they have to face the reality that they will never make tenure, and will have to find an industry job). Complacency and politics occurs at the professor-level, but that's rarely where the science is done.
CSS nesting won't require an ampersand (&) character
CSS nesting won't require ampersand. The work is in progress
https://tomaszs2.medium.com/css-nesting-without-ampersand-is...
You can download the knowledge files (RAG) from the new GPTs
I think that when read in its full context, it's really just to contrast with the other group, which is the masses to explain why "production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganized so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything".

If I were to rephrase it, I would say society works democratically, but unfortunately the masses are much dumber than the real contributors to our society, but because their votes count the same as anyone else, the choices of the masses win elections and make bad choices. This is why there is such food and shelter insecurity.
Or a better ability to rationalise some impossible position. That being said I can't help thinking that there is a certain callousness, that the ideal is so great that it's worth breaking a few eggs, a lot of eggs if necessary. That certainly was the mentality of those who perpetrated the crimes. Lenin, Stalin and Mao were certainly thugs, but I think they were first and foremost true communist ideologists. I think western intellectuels deliberately ignored the crimes in the name of ideology.
> You have made a bold statement

Not me, sorry :-)
Huh? Overstaying a visa in the US isn't a crime AFAIK, but they can still detain you and deport you if you're caught. "Not a crime" just means they won't sentence you to prison for an offense, just like many other offenses are not crimes, but instead are torts or violations (like parking tickets): those things are still enforced, and you will (or may) suffer some punishment for them. When you said that Argentina doesn't enforce its law, I took you at your word, that it literally doesn't enforce the law at all.

The US immigration authorities do occasionally do raids on employers that are known to employ lots of illegal immigrants (which can be people who simply walked over the border, or people who overstayed a visa). It's not unenforced. For people in higher socioeconomic strata that blend into the population better, it's not that well enforced probably because it's just hard to find them, and local law enforcement doesn't deal with it.
You know that paying with cash is effectively an automatic ~3% tip over paying by credit card, right? You are getting a cut of the service fee they charge the restaurant.

I do not trust a company bribing me with my own money.
The 12 was the least crappy.
This type of comment might be a reason why people hate when their posts end up on HN. Keep in mind everything isn't written for HN audience or to optimize skim-reading time. In a personal post like this I feel like it's perfectly ok to not include a summary and to start with your backstory to give perspective.
Yes, "rare" in this context doesn't mean the materials are rare geographically, but rather that they occur in very low concentrations which requires processing large volumes of ore. This is environmentally very destructive so in recent decades the world has been happy to let places like China do it.
i get that for achieving higher memory speeds, you need to often solder instead of making it available as a slot.

but most people would like to upgrade, and if it is going to most likely work on the slower speed of the second stick, it defeats the performance point altogether.

just poor design in this case.
It was a communicational attempt based on a overly simple model dividing the set of the "swamped, idle, understriving" long Paretian tail and the "active, daring, inquisitive" "fewer" - without taking into account the actual real-world complexity (e.g. of relative continuity in more dimensions between the sets).

In those paragraphs, within context, it just meant "some have achieved much for the benefit of the population, but the population as an aggregate does not show the same spirit and ability".

To define the sets of the "well natured" vs "larvatic", the suggestive discriminator of being "benefactors to the whole" was picked.

So,

> It's a mixed bag... much like the rest of society

Yes, the point was that some strive and achieve some progressive "status", "being", "nature", and many do not: it is a wish that such good condition will be largely shared in a future society.

It is a wish that Paretian distribution is transformed into a widespread distribution of desirable «intelligence and character», as a condition for «pr[ide] and justified superiority».
You upload a knowledge file explicitly so GPT can share that knowledge with users. Then call this a leak? People are stupid.
I think it's more that there's a sizeable chunk of people who want to live the same lives that their parents lived for the equal sweat cost, and are seeing a large disparity in what they're putting in compared to what is coming out
I would rewrite the sentence as:

"Intelligence & character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the individuals."

During the lifetime of Einstein, successful and educated mimicked the values of upper classes, even if they just pretended. After the WWII the middle class values took over. Today even upper class pretends to be middle class. Try to appear busy and productive. The "character" and intelligence have little to do with each another.
Because stupid thing called work safety was invented. I had a chance to look at the machines used at Chinese factories. Wow, you couldn’t put them anywhere in US or Europe. Manufacturing is risky, experiments making it safer end up being it less efficient. The question is simple: better +3% more output from worker and 20% chance to loose a limb or -5% less output from worker with totally safe gear.
If a person screws up that bad do you thing they'd still be allowed to keep driving without having to jump through some hoops? Now multiply it by a software shortcoming that effects an entire fleet.
Basically everything I've read and heard about Google makes it extremely dystopian.

I work at a fairly large tech company, and I've very happy that my experience has been nothing like the one the author described. Things move relatively quickly, people care and are earnest, managers are empathetic and actually good, etc.

Not all sunshine and rainbows of course, but it's pretty damn good compared to what I hear about other companies.
A narcissist is easy and quick to upset about everything.
I don't think it's up for interpretation, the criteria is in the actual quote "who produce some thing valuable for the community". It could be any profession: researchers, managers, financiers, teachers, manual laborers. If they produce value for the society. And the same professions can be free loaders or even worse, suck value from society.

The quote, as I interpret it, is about Price's law. Not about professions, social or economical classes.
I came to this exact realization yesterday, as I was making a portfolio site to a friend. I obviously decided to make as simple as possible: MPA, no JS, content written directly in HTML, it would be done in a day or two. Ok, but as I’m 50% done I realize how the gallery viewing experience was terrible, could be improved with a little JavaScript. But hey, now my development setup must change, I don’t want to write imperative code, I know this is hard to maintain. Since now I’m coding, I want industrial-grade tools. And just like that I was back at framework driven development.

So, it’s not that static sites aren’t simple anymore, it’s that we are developing applications and not simple webpages. If you really want simple static sites you must also accept all of the limitations.
> does it mean that in 1543 near Zurich this right was still being upheld

I don't know.

I am just saying:

(1) there are rennaissance and early modern authors who want to make us believe this was common and usual and happening widely during the 'dark ages' (likely from a mixture of anti-medieval sentiment and pornographic fantasy, but I am speculating).

(2) there are 20th Century and contemporary authors, who want to make us believe this was just a renaissance invention with no basis in fact whatsoever.

(3) given the available sources (like some religious texts, like the 1543 document I linked, like a very few other sources) and what we know about power dynamics and the 'justice system' (lol) in the European Middle Ages (there were very few limits on what a lord could do to local peasants without repercussions), probably neither is true.

(4) It likely happened, and it likely happened not just thrice over 1000 years. But it also wasn't something happening everywhere and all the time, and as a codified law. It wasn't "part of the package" of being a lord, with everyone just shrugging, saying "that's the way things are and ought to be".

(5) the idea of a culturally-homogeneous medieval Europe is laughable, before printing and modern-ish communication networks, customs were very likely more varied than they were in early modern times. The only (exaggeration!) trans-european force were the Catholic (which back then had a meaning of 'universal') church, and gold coins being accepted everywhere. So, except a few ways of trading goods and a standardized-ish Latin mass there were very few things true for all of the european Middle Ages.

(6) lords surely raped the peasant girls on their lands, and usually without any negative effect on the lord. That is the right way of putting it: rape. Even if there was (there very likely wasn't) such a 'law of the first night', it would still have been the same: rape.

These are my points, and they seem well supported by our current historical knowledge. For anything more specific, ask not just a historian, but a historian specializing in sexual relations in pre-modern Europe. I am not.
Also, when you experience an earthquake at the top of a tall building that oscillates and it sounds like it is going to fall apart, this is far more scarier than experiencing a stronger earthquake, but outside, on flat ground.

I have experienced big earthquakes in the former circumstances, and the sensation was confusing, until the earthquakes stopped you were not sure whether your building level is still firmly attached to its base, or it has started to travel independently towards an unavoidable fall.
It seems like the American economy is only "growing" because Americans are constantly reselling houses to each other for ever-increasing prices, rather than producing any actual useful stuff.
I doubt anybody is really physically going to construction site more than needed by some obscure standard and checking anything.