skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> India never courted the West. Pakistan did

India and the US did court each other til the mid-1960s. IIT Kharagpur was built by UIUC and IIT Kanpur by UC Berkeley, along with JK Galbraith's strong lobbying for Indians rule industrialization in "Economic Development" and "The New Industrial State".

After JFK and Nehru died, the relationship tanked. Indira Gandhi leaned pro-Socialist economically with the 1969-73 nationalization drive that impacted American businesses, and LBJ and Nixon both detested Indira at a personal level (though to be fair the feeling was mutual). India supported the North Vietnamese during the war [0] and also began military tech transfers with the USSR and France during that time period [1] due to their mutual "Non Aligned" policy.

There was an actual chance that India would have become a global factory, but the nationalization drive in the 70s and 80s [2] lead to American enterprises in India shifting to newly open China

[0] - https://academic.oup.com/book/32264/chapter-abstract/2684597...

[1] - https://academic.oup.com/book/10629/chapter-abstract/1586347...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/12/archives/reaction-is-mixe...
No his translation is only partial considering he is not a Punjabi. Pannun clearly says "Sikh panthalayo unni november ko baad Air India me safar ni karna. Jaanu khatra ho sagda hai". You can match the timeline in the video from 0:16 to 0:22.

Translates to: "Sikh people (panth) don't travel in Air India after 19th November. There will be a threat to your life (Jaanu = Life, khatra = Threat, ho sagda hai = possibility of a threat)"

Who will threaten Sikh lives in Air India after 19th November? It is literally reminder of Air India Flight 182 bombings.
2nd in the bug here. I actually have some blockcloned data, f.e. steam uses it for all proton installs, but no issues other than the go build.
I've never used fortran so I'm not sure what a character object or an internal write is, but in C would this be something like allocating a character array and sprintf-ing to it?
Furries in LV in the summer?! I'm not hardcore enough to be a furry hacker.
History is filled with many more plain ol’ heretics however, and we’re exceptionally bad at telling the difference in the meantime.

You, most importantly, are complete garbage at telling the difference between a crackpot and an innovator in a field you know nothing about.

Trying to drink unpasteurized knowledge will infect you a lot more quickly than it will enlighten you.
This is why I love working in open source and otherwise billing in a way where I get to walk away with code and build on it later.

At this point I've seen several distinct companies come and go around a singular codebase that has evolved and fragmented over time.
It's the default but are these orgs really getting significant funding from that kind of end-user hostile behavior? (And some drafts are available and sufficient but not in all fields)
Actually, consider that the commenter may have helped un-obfuscate this world a little bit by saying that it is in fact easy. To be honest the hardest part about the local LLM scene is the absurd amount of jargon introduced - everything looks a bit more complex than it is. It’s really is easy with llama.cpp, someone even wrote a tutorial here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/2948 .

But yes, TheBloke tends to have conversions up very quickly as well and has made a name for himself for doing this (+more)
I wonder if the model takes similar branches while in the same context? Then you can fault in parts of the model from disk as needed.
Canada is yet to still present the evidence too few people know the 1985 air India bombing was mostly affecting Canadian citizens and perpetrated by khalistani Sikh extremists
Trust is not a rational behavior, nor is it indicative of reliability of fact.
Read his latest posts, he's still working on Flutter, but now he doesn't have to answer to its boss, which seems like why he left based on a paragraph in this blog post.
I am sorry, I greatly respect and admire Nick Cave, but that letter sounded to me like the lament of a scribe decrying the invention of the printing press.

He's not wrong, something is lost and it has to do with what we call our "humanity", but the benefits greatly outweigh that loss.
For one, those entities operate in the US, and are subject to US law - it may not be great at times, but that's a start.

Worldcoin on the other hand went to the third world and went through Africa offering people almost a month's wages to give up their biometrics. That, to me, should merit a deeper dive into what they are doing and why.
Their binary sizes are also tiny. A full-fledged GUI app in a few hundred kB or less, that runs completely native code—truly a wonder.
The state government said no more drag queen story time so they hacked into a nuke lab?

Who cares about DQST? I agree it's wrong to ban it but a ban on DQST doesn't mean you hack a nuke lab. DQST is a minor, irrelevant issue blown out of proportion by the MSM and both parties.

I don't condone these hackers. If they leaked something important we could have massive problems. Terrorists, nation states, etc could take advantage of some hypothetical leak. And to steal such valuable information because DQST... I mean come on what a dumb hill to die on.
And potentially for distributing a model across several devices at inference time. You could devote a cluster of smaller/weaker machines to inference.
Because I agree with you?
I don't know where you got the impression I said you were wrong...
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121980&page=1

Many aides in the new administration assigned to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, discovered Monday that their computer keyboards were missing the "W" key — a critical problem given their boss' name is George W. Bush, and he is often referred to simply as "W," to distinguish him from his presidential dad.
> I watched a number of developers do that and it was about as much work to go from SVN to either Git or Mercurial, and if they learned the other DVCS it was always easier since they were mapping concepts rather than learning them for the first time.

We recently adopted a tool that uses Perforce as a backend. It's been interesting to try and describe centralized version control to younger engineers who have only used a dcvs like git.
Like a true hacker con, going outside is optional.
That's the exact experience I went through about a year ago trying to set up a bridged VM on a headless Ubuntu system. I mean right down to the sequence of nmcli, systemd, and Netplan, winding up with wiping it all away and just running Virtual Box on a way overpowered and mostly idle Win 10 system. Because I just wanted to run a VM connected to my local LAN.

Linux networking and DNS resolution, while working fine for the happy path, are a dumpster fire from a system management viewpoint. Especially if you want to do anything even mildly off-script. And I say this as a Linux user since before the kernel hit 1.0.

I don't know, maybe it's just a documentation problem. The accumulated junk of 50 years of obsolete documentation that you have to wade through to find out that the whiz-bang Linux distro you're using today is not the Linux which worked fine last year.

The exit off my lawn is in this direction.
Scraping is pretty dangerous if you're running a spam business, since there are a lot of honeypots out there, and you'll pretty rapidly find yourself blacklisted. Email spammers generally want verified email addresses.

Since it's far safer to buy email lists from some broker, you tend to get a lot more spam for signing up for things than posting your email publicly.
Lichess Development in 2 Minutes [video]
This is most covered conflict playing out in very constrained area again if most deaths are from air strikes or shelling to me it would be indication that collateral damage is more likely explanation if most deaths are from targeted small arms fire it would be indication that journalists are being targeted.
I wish Firefox mobile put tabs on the bottom of the screen so it's more accessible to switch back and forth. Also the two-column layout of tab viewer is a subpar experience IMO.

edit: Thanks to the replies, I figured 1) You can put the address bar at the bottom of screen 2) You can swipe on address bar to traverse through the tabs and 3) You can change the tab viewer layout to list view.

(Still, I wished there was an option to list tabs on the bottom like the way Chrome does in on Android.)
There must be a long german word describing the disillusionment of seeing the chosen one, in a golden age, succumb to poor leadership and become utterly banal.

It was my dream to go work at Google; after fighting the hiring system I was finally hired into Ads SRE and learned the infrastructure, parlaid that into a very nice role doing scientific computing using idle cycles, and even got to work with 3d printing and making and stuff (like Hixie, all thanks to Chris Dibona) as well as a number of state of the art machine learning systems. There really was an amazing feeling being surrounded by so many highly competent people (many of whom I see in this post's comments) who had similar vision to mine. But ultimately, so many things started to chip away at my enjoyment that I had to leave. Middle management was a big part of that.

Once you're on the outside, so many things that seem obvious (borg, beyondcorp, flume, google3, etc) aren't. It's almost like the future is here, it's not evenly distributed.
Maybe with women or RTO. WfH, it doesn't matter.

I was going to say: "wear a suit, don't be overweight, be symmetrical, and be tall." WfH: Have interesting background objects indicating you've traveled, are cool, are educated, and have artistic taste.

PS: Unemployed 6'5" MAANG SRE/PE here. Hire me! Hire me! ;@D
If You're Trying to Prevent an Asteroid Impact, the Challenges Are Staggering
For EA to tickle the same nerve that religion does seems like a feature, not a bug. Channel that urge into doing something meaningful, important and bigger than oneself.
A car that cheap will nickle and dime you until you've spend 5x its initial price. If you dont get lucky and it dies on you before your money was better spent by car mechanics.
Can you give some examples of who is saying that? I haven't heard that, but I also can't name any "far-right accelerationsist" people either so I'm guessing this is a niche I've completely missed
Shocking the things he has said and got away with
I still find valuable the idea of evaluating charities based on their effectiveness, but I guess you could rely on charity evaluators for that without taking on the entire conceptual burden of EA.
I still have that old image from when I was a kid; it’s still relevant, though it was initially against IE… https://frostland.fr/adopt-firefox.jpg

Ironically I’m using Safari (and I love it).
> deregulating the airline industry has led to higher costs

I guess I would need to read the book to see his argument, but on the surface this is quite the claim and challenged by the vast increase in flying and flying for quick weekend trips.

Sure, if you add up all the fees and assume that everyone is paying those fees costs may not have declined as much, but that is not the case. Basic economy is a very popular product.

He is right on why flying is miserable, but the trade off is that flying can be extremely cheap. I have purchased plane tickets for less than commuter train tickets.
The large majority of people are motivated by $$$ (or fame) and if they all tell me otherwise I know many of them are lying.
"Our motto is "Don't be evil"" is not an inference. It's a quote.
Ok, we'll move the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38379168, which has that article, and re-up it. Thanks!

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I've leaving the comments which were mostly reacting just to the title here.
Good thing nobody here is suggesting blind trust. The mistake being made here is thinking I’m suggesting LLMs are a good way to learn. What I am instead saying is that podcasts are not a good way to learn, and should be treated with the sane level of skepticism one holds for an LLM response.
Think of FORTRAN as of a GPU shader language, or something like numpy. It's heavily leaning towards massive vector processing, usually automatically parallelized, and the compiled code runs very fast. It gives you a lot of tools for doing numerical stuff straightforwardly and efficiently at the same time. It's not a very ergonomic general-purpose language, but in its area it shines.
Bay Area nonprofit Signal shows how bloated tech companies have become
Ok well yes you can 'prove intent' beyond reasonable doubt - I perhaps wrongly (given the context) took other commenter literally. You can't ever actually prove what a person intended, if they haven't claimed or claim otherwise themselves. But yes you can of course satisfy a judge or jury of peers that something was overwhelmingly likely their intent, and they are just lying about (or not admitting to) it.
There are too many replies for me to answer them all one at a time, so I will answer them here.

I was trying to be funny.

Of course infantry anti-armor weapons have their place.

Of course motorcycles can be effective means of transport.

I just found the mental image of the fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) a teenage kid would experience when he is given a motorcycle with an anti-tank weapon on it...I foud that funny.
Avoid paradoxes is likely the one thing even someone trying to change the past needs / wants to accomplish.

It'd be nice if some tiny pool of government resources (everywhere) were set aside in 'untraceable' ways that only someone from many years later could use, by which time any untapped resources would be rolled into a new investment area or returned to the general fund.

The non time traveler version would be completely off the books spy operations, so plausibly someone might rarely need that for non-time traveler reasons and thus hide any time travelers.
> ... Combines Leica Engineering with AI

So it makes photos showing people with six fingers per hand?
Every bit of innovation in the AI space today originated at Google. The company poured probably tens of billions into its Brain division, sponsored and made public every bit of research, and pretty much created the field of modern AI. So what was the outcome? When the employees realized they had struck gold they figured they'd rather go join startups or found their own companies instead, because regardless of the amount of success they achieved at Google they would never 1000x the share price or be the ones calling the shots.

This example is the perfect microcosm of the economics of innovation at large companies. Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon and the like have zero incentive to continue to be the companies they were 20 years ago. They don't need to take risks. They don't need to disrupt anything. They instead need leaders like Pichai who will keep the ship steady and keep the shareholders happy, and will keep investing in or purchasing smaller companies that are either a threat or an opportunity for growth, all while keeping their existing revenue streams flowing.

If as an employee you are nostalgic about the "culture" in the early days of such a company then you should realize that it is not coming back, just like the carefree days of your own childhood aren't coming back. Quit and join a smaller company instead.
The passage of data from python -> fotran -> python takes some time.

Right now, I am converting some numpy code to rust for exactly this sort of speed advantage. I barely know any rust, and don't know the first thing about writing optimized rust code, but I am already getting constant factor improvements.
But why isn't SDR then scaled from 0-200, then? That is, why isn't "fully bright SDR" mapped to "fully bright HDR"?
Besides the technical part, Fortran's community has evolved a lot as well since 5-10 years. See the community paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15110
"The state of Fortran" (not an author myself)
"but he looks like such a nice boy"
I'm currently subscribed to 3 vod platforms. What I've noticed is that pirated sites load faster, require no login, quality is either stable or blocks (it doesn't lower itself), subs in many languages and of course are full of ads, but a good adblocker can handle that.

Edit: Just looked around and I think it's more complex than that. I'm usually either on a laptop or a desktop, so I appreciate sites that focus on pc first, have low friction, are simple with no animations, and give me control (I'll tell you if I want to see a trailer or not).
I used to "share" an office with Hixie at Google. Hixie used to store his board game collection in the office we nominally "shared", but he himself very rarely visited. I liked that just fine (let's just say I'm not a fan of "open" shared office spaces). My fondest Google office memories were sharing an office with Hixie, and "Mr Big Printer" which the Google Open Source Team used to print posters. We made an office CD label for "Mr Big Printer".
So when Bezos says "your margin is my opportunity," he's talking to Google?

It's not just that Google can take risks because they have margins. It's more that they need to take risks to diversify their source of margins before they disappear to someone like Bezos.
The whole "throw everything in the trash and start over" thing is massively overstated. The iPhone announcement absolutely impacted things, not entirely all bad -- there was interest from OEMs before that, but it went through the roof after -- and it did mean we moved from the plan to ship a blackberry-style device first followed by a touchscreen device to skipping right to touch for initial launch, recognizing that the landscape had absolutely changed.

Initial work on the touchscreen based hardware started back in June 2006 (I remember meeting with HTC during a monsoon to kick off the project that became Dream/G1) and OS work to support larger displays, touch input, etc was underway before iPhone was announced.

Blackberry was not really the concern early on... Windows Mobile was. Folks (correctly as it turned out) believed mobile was going to be the next big platform area and there was concern (from Google, but also from OEMs, cellular carriers, etc) that Microsoft might end up entrenching themselves the way they did in PCs through the 90s, possibly including a more successful attempt to control the browser/web experience.
>Ironically I’m using Safari (and I love it).

on iDevices?
We were promised that on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
There Is A Scientific Fraud Epidemic
https://archive.is/qhvEI
That's a thorough explanation as an outside, but what do you suppose it feels like as an insider?
Does the author have a legitimate reason for having not uploaded anything? I don't see how they're different than any other name squatter, they wanted to reserve the name while not using it. Another person who goes by rbishop wanted to actually use name. From the latter rbishop's perspective, Russ was name squatting his username.

Doing a bit of snooping, this post was March 2014, his first interaction on Github was February 2015. So he still didn't do anything on Github for 11 months after the name change.
that seems like trivia
AutoZone does not and never has asked for social security numbers. They just use your phone number.
I did my PhD at Caltech and knew one of the grad students working on this project. I remember him telling me that Julia is a complete mess (don't recall why he disliked it). I would imagine it feels more "modern" than Fortran, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's better per se.
The bad behaviour is predicating the purchase on seeing the office.

Having an office doesn't make a company real, nor any more or less likely to execute on the project
So if it's a great idea, and Worldcoin is a US company, why did they not start in the US?

Why instead did they go to some of the least wealthy parts of Africa and ask people to give them their biometrics for sometimes as much as one month's salary? To seed their database? It doesn't really pass the smell test.
> proved Sam Altman is unfireable [without explaining why to its employees].
Of the four court members under 60, three are conservative.

Of the remaining five members, it takes only two conservatives to ensure that the court remains that way. Assuming that future nominations are equally distributed, there's about a 2/3 chance that at least two will be conservative.

And let's just say that I don't think it will be randomly distributed. The existing court composition has a thumb on the scale of future nominees. The party that nominates conservative judges has won only one election outright this century, but until recently only one opposing candidate had been able to win -- including once because the Supreme Court directly stepped in.

It's harder to calculate just what that means, but I think it's sufficient to affirm that the odds are very long against being able to generally reverse this court's direction before Halley's Comet returns.
Discussed 13 years later:

Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051116 - Nov 2016 (76 comments)
This is what I do. Get someone to explain something technical to another technical person (me) efficiently and deeply
> Much of these problems with Google today stem from a lack of visionary leadership from Sundar Pichai, and his clear lack of interest in maintaining the cultural norms of early Google.

I left 3 years ago for the same reason: I couldn't stand seeing Google continue to decline under Sundar's leadership.
A blow for the common man!
Careful what you wish for. If Sony can't profit from license fees for games on its console then there is no incentive to create the console in the first place.
How are you sure it did not happen? I am not suggesting India tried everything first, but neither party here has a proven track record of trustworthiness. If India wants to stop him by any means, the best strategy would be to not ask and be denied; it would be a shame if something happened to him later.
Worldcoin's future remains uncertain after Sam Altman fired from OpenAI
> US doesn’t want to run the world and control other countries?

Of course we want more influence. But we don't want to run things.

It's not because we're nice people or whatever. It's because we're a maritime and trade power while our competitors have historically been land powers. We want someone rich we can trade with who takes care of their own problems at home.

> Do you not understand these goals have been accomplished with only Russia and China pushing back?

A lot of the world is constantly pushing back against all kinds of hegemony. To add to your list, there is no love lost for America in Brazil, much of Africa, most of the Arab world nor in Central Asia.

> What US wants occurs

Have you seen how discordant our alliance talks are? They're multilateral and messy. The only reason Europe and America are in step with one another is because of Russia. The only reason the Quad exists is because of China.
http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
I use Kiwi Browser. It is an open source fork of Chrome for Android that allows installing any extension. This is better than Chrome, which allows no extensions, and Firefox, which will only offer 200 or so. It also has its own ad blocking built in. Open source ftw.
Really? It seems like a glowing appraisal. He seems to think that Sam is devestatingly effective at what he does.
Apart from one-of DIY board bring-up, rather than add yet another SBC to the market, buy something with Ryzen Embedded. The end.
In the 90s, people made a decision to increase the speed from 60mph to 65mph knowing it would kill people. Based on point one, many leaders are murderers, but we typically don't view our leaders as murderers.

My question is why is it bad if some "terrorist" does it if people we know do it, it isn't a bad thing.

Sounds like semantics are the real murderer here