skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shein is a plague and Congress is complicit in allowing them to succeed. What happened to being hard on China? Why is it that the U.S. allows Chinese companies to succeed here, but China doesn't allow companies from here to succeed there?

They skirt around paying import duties and tariffs that equal to around 34% of the value of the goods. The U.S. should be getting more money from them. "Ecommerce companies are exempt from paying tariffs on products with a retail value less than $800, if they are shipped directly to individual customers" (https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/sustainability/shein-...)

Also, if their IPO prospectus does not include that a change in trade law can affect their business model as a risk, Shein is a fraud.
Advanced != good. It takes some genius to realize that.
This is a huge component of the answer. No one wants to hear it because of what implies for their agency, but demographics is destiny.
Maybe, but our lifestyles are not sustainable.
> Just cut university administrative and construction overhead. Both of those areas have bloated massively, fueled by lots of easy student loan money.

Hence the solution is cutting off the student loan money spigot. Everything else will automatically fall into place.
Thank you :) liam+hn@steelsky.co.nz
They've done it for several years now, and the fake women have always pulled out of the conference at the last minute, so I think we already know how far they would have gone.

There's another post about how the organizer has run a woman coder Instagram influencer sockpuppet/catfish for many years, too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38439794
Possibly one of the best games out there, imo. I love Starsector to bits.
You probably have access to better social services and vacation time etc that partially bridge the gap.
You need lots of memory. 16G will easily run 7B quantized models.

Not the cheapest by far, but I recently bought a 32G internal memory M2 Pro Mac mini. I can run about four 7B models concurrently. I was able to run a 30B quantized model without page faults, but I killed most user land processes.

Also not what you are asking for, but I pay Google $10/month for Colab Pro and I can usually get an A100 whenever I request one. Between Colab and my 32G M2 box, I am very satisfied. Before I found good quantized models to run, I would rent a VPS by the hour from Lambda Labs, and that was a great experience, but I don’t need to do that now.

EDIT: on the M2 Pro, I get 25 to 30 tokens per second.

EDIT #2: I wrote a short blog yesterday on the best resources I have found so far for running on my Mac https://marklwatson.substack.com/p/running-open-llm-models-o...
> The only problem with these ancient and durable HP Lasterjets - I used to use a 4L - is that they were slow.

That's not completely true.

Those printers sucked so much power you could brown out your local substation.

And the amount of ozone they kicked off could be smelled in a cube farm--I don't want to think what they would do to you in a home office.
Well it's a bit disingenuous to say it's all the same. I think the issue for people I've spoken to at least seems to push more on the forced and or child labour.

You're right they are a financial success story. 66 Billion evaluation is extraordinary to me and just highlights how much demand there is.
The project is amazing. It was just a joke with perhaps a bit of resentment, because the Performas were never quite as nice as the Quadras, but they were cheaper and that's what my family acquired back then. So there's a part of me that dislike seeing it as a mere testing ground for the Quadra.
yep, it was after 10 :)
I like a game that respects my battery and my TDP goals.
> It's not clear to me anyway that sum times are a "slam dunk" type of feature.

They certainly are for me. I use them constantly in my two main languages - typescript and rust. Expressing similar ideas in go using iota and go's interfaces is far more awkward, inefficient and error prone.
It's a mixed bag really, whatever you do with them has to be memorable for them. My wife is super into travel, our kids (teenagers) have been travelling internationally every year of their life from birth, sometimes multiple times a year.

What do they remember? Almost nothing before they were 10 years old. A core memory here or there, but they can't even recall entire trips from then. But I've always just considered it as part of their development. Maybe they don't have actual memories, but who can say how else it developed their brains?
That's why you should include the size of the decompressor (AKA using a self-extracting archive). That's what the Hutter Prize does, for example http://prize.hutter1.net

The encodings in this article are self-extracting archives; although they don't use a bloated, arbitrary format like e.g. x86_64 Linux ELF executables. Instead they use Binary Lambda Calculus, which has a variety of interpreters (the smallest being 206 bits, written in BLC itself)
its even worse than it sounds:

"Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful"

- this is idiotic.

Just because performance of phones improved 1000x does not mean I can buy a functioning phone for $ 0.1.

Just because 5G is 100x faster than 2g, does not mean my mobile phone bill is now $0.1. And they turned off 2G.

our inflation calculation is fucked.
> Lots of us were able to cut costs in housing. And many of us were able to cut costs in healthcare through preventative care. Tuition is entirely optional.

I've done all 3 of these things to great degree of success. I've always lived 1-2 hrs away from jobs, exercise like a dog, and skipped college.
"Deliver the mail" is hardly that far "outside the status quo".
>Longevity scientists are mostly just experts in the field of getting duped by pension fraudsters who say what they want to hear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone#Scientific_reception

You've cited the debunking of a demographer to try to debunk the work of cardiologists. Okay?

>Parts of the field are in worryingly deep denial about the number and magnitude of confounding variables a moderate level of skeptical empiricism suggests could be present in their foundational research. As, again, in the specific case that user is worried you're glossing over: The lipid hypothesis was probably developed from studies with diets also high in processed foods, simple carbohydrates, added sugar, salt, and vegetable oils, and low in organ meats and heavy-metal-free fish. Don't we all agree these things as a staple in a diet will probably negative health outcomes on their own? How can the field be confident enough to publicly assert a model on that? Have they put the rice-fruit-and-legume diet through as rigorous a comparison to the chicken-veg-and-liver diet as they did to the McDonald's special diet?

Once again, I, and probably the vast majority of people on HN, aren't properly educated to have a comprehensive view of the medical literature on the matter and properly digest it all. I'm not going to participate in a debate on the merits of guidelines published and signed by thousands of medical and scientific experts from around the world, to even try and assume I could do so with a couple of hours here and there when they're looking into these issues for 8 hours a day for years on end would be arrogant on my part.

>It'd be nice to develop a culture of a straight answer of "Yes, and here's the confirming metaanalysis [1]" on this question in place of this "mind-your-seniors" browbeating. Isn't that what science is supposed to be about?

If you want to challenge someone who might be able to give you an informed answer, your best bet is to talk to an actual expert on the matter. You can find some people in the articles below.

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/1/111/5556353
https://onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-282X(21)00165-3/fulltext
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073510971...
I have a PR fixing that: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/pull/15209

Just needs another maintainer's stamp.
HN eats that lunch
On the other hand, he kept running it mostly successfully for years despite having been banned from some sites. Why put in more effort? I imagine after a while you start to be overconfident, too.
Oh wow, I completely missed that, thanks!
The lawsuit doesn't allege that Media Matters lied. Twitter/X (effectively) admit that the report was accurate, but that Media Matters followed users that post objectionable content and saw ads by companies that probably don't want to be associated with nazis et al, and reported on that factual outcome.
> her small violent waves at just the right moment may cause large, violent waves in you.

In my (admittedly limited) experience, this isn't really how it works, at least with little ones. They start having these really big feelings, don't know what to do or how to handle them, and they _need_ an adult present to help them regulate. Walking away can help them learn how to self-regulate, but the better play (again, IMO only) is to first teach them the skills on _how_ to regulate (deep breathing, butterfly hugs, distraction, etc). Walking away is a tool, just like any other, but it's a big tool for bigger kids IMO.

Now of course this only goes so far, and if the parent starts getting to the point where it feels like they're going to explode, of _course_ leaving the room is the correct thing to do. Get up, say something like "I need to leave the room to calm my body down. I will come back in a little bit. I love you." and then follow through. Go scream into a pillow, punch the bed, deep breathe, whatever. The come back and try again, with the expectation that they won't have calmed down and may have accelerated. IME this isn't super successful at one but by the time they hit three or so they have enough awareness to understand what you're telling them.

Also, to clarify, I'm not talking about infants. Infants can be absolutely infuriatingly frustrating, especially when you're operating on very little or no sleep. Putting them down in a safe space and walking away for five minutes so you can primal scream in the garage is 100% better than the alternatives.
I don't see that as them being intentionally misleading inasmuch as they're trying to promote their NEV trademark.

It's more a fault of the media failing to report this accurately, especially being that in their press release linked above, they have broken out how many hybrids and how many EV's they've sold.
I think the problem is that he's quite correct, but the article is missing the second half of itself, where Cory explains the specifics of the so-called actual debate. I would like to see that spelled out in a much longer article instead of a rant. Oh, and the whole 'Evil begins when you treat people like things' is one of the basic rules of Deontology, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It's probably one of the first things I would teach the AGI.
I don't know if "genius" is the word. It doesn't seem that creative, it's just nasty.
Not just cancelled, but calls it a lynching too.
Hey there. I'm pretty sure you're being facetious in your post. I just wanted to say, I'm really sorry. Missing out on family to "get" to save on insurance must be pretty bitter.

I don't really know why I'm replying. I'm sure it's no consolation to you. Just... it really hit me and I feel for you. I'm sorry.
Especially if you consider the Chinese-owned Volvo brand as Chinese. The new EX30 looks like it will sell gangbusters.
Give me a fast fashion brand and I'll show you how they do forced labour and trick you into thinking they are better off.
Curly braces are reflected in the AST, parens are not.
There's a few "valid" reasons why homes get more expensive over time that you cannot attribute to malice or greed.

Population growth whilst land does not grow, homes being more advanced, and the 1950s not being a very reasonable comparison. The single breadwinner rich middle class was a blip in history, a temporary post-WW2 effect.

But still if you account for all of that, something is surely off. And as so many countries face this problem, I'm quite sure that you can't solve it with the simple stroke of a pen.

I don't think it's useful to say "a house is for living". Most home owners do use their house to live in, the value appreciation is a side effect of a market that fails to address supply.

Heavy government intervention into private rent markets and project construction so far tend to have the opposite effect. Landlords and development companies simply pull out.

One often suggested approach is to build lots of very high rise apartment towers. Even then I'd expect a price decrease of say 30% only, for a type of living most will not be very fond of. It's a big cultural change. You'll still pay quite a lot, for something that sucks.

My less practical idea is about geographic distribution. Western Europe as an example, some parts incredibly dense. Where we think the "solution" is to endlessly make them even more dense. Whilst Eastern Europe is 80% empty.

I know, there's reasons for it, but when you think about it this way, you'll understand why there's no solution to our current problem. Because we're not solving a problem, we're increasing the size of the problem. I would advocate for fresh thinking in redistributing population pressure.
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I don't share your pessimism, and that's mostly because I've followed a lot more of the research into why US infrastructure costs are unreasonably high. To put it simply, excessive costs tends to come from a combination of overdesign (in particular the need to add lots of goodies to buy off stakeholders who can otherwise arrest the project), extra overhead in design costs, extra overhead in the way contracts are let, and incompetent management of contractors. But this is the sort of project that doesn't have the design stages to let that scope creep come in--it is pretty much "order off-the-shelf part number 42341 instead of 23421, then do routine maintenance tasks to replace old parts with new ones".
Why not interview someone willing to go on the record that will speculate the IPO value? There are plenty of articles where they interview professional investors with knowledge about such matters who go on the record.
Religious nutbags from olden times weren't all that nuts to ban usury!!!
Thanks for your input. Do you have any more detailed instructions for the ctime + checksum method?

Would a zfs snapshot be sufficient?
Current home ownership rate is 66%[0]. 1990 was 64.2% Some more rates from [1]:

2000 │ 1990 │ 1980 │ 1970 │ 1960 │ 1950 │ 1940 │ 1930 │ 1920 │ 1910 │ 1900
66.2% │ 64.2% │ 64.4% │ 62.9% │ 61.9% │ 55.0% │ 43.6% │ 47.8% │ 45.6% │ 45.9% │ 46.5%

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

[1] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/tables/ti...
When LLMs are trained on text, are the words annotated to indicate the semantic meaning, or is the LLM training process expected to disambiguate the possibly hundreds of semantic meanings of an individual common word such as "run"?
What’s wrong with Al Bundy’s life?
Both are words that didn't rile people up twenty (or two hundred) years ago, I guess :P
Use Reactions, Presenter Overlay, and other effects when videoconferencing on M
Clothing companies are allowed to succeed in China. Brands like Nike sell t-shirts for 10x what they are sold at here in the US. While China doesn't let US firms compete on the internet, they do compete in clothing just fine.
Is there any reason for Google to treat this app differently than any other browser? The only difference I can think of is that this is run on televisions.
I have a PR fixing that specific issue: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/pull/15209

Just needs another maintainer's stamp.
https://x.com/odrotbohm/status/1729231722498425092?s=20
I bought a Brother printer with a scanner at the top. No drivers, just works with the scanning software that's on macOS with zero zetup.

They've made the best scanner by refusing to innovate in that area as well.
Sorry I wasn't clear, I was think just the electronics at $1 per key. The action for the keyboard would cost more than that. In my alternate life I find a broken/disused KX-88 and rebuild its keyboard :-)
The author has also implemented Binary Combinatory Logic. I also find combinators more "natural" than lambda calculus (although the latter is certainly more useful day-to-day!); however, I still find lambda calculus a reasonable foundation since the Binary Lambda Calculus self-interpreter is shorter than the Binary Combinatory Logic self-interpreter (e.g. see the author's page at http://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html )
Was Galois killed by a group in a field? And who was the ringleader?

Just said in fun, as wordplay. See below.

A pity he was killed. Who knows what other mathematical discoveries he might have made.

I studied group theory in school.It included groups, rings and fields. I liked the subject. It was fairly easy, and fun. Properties of addition of integers like commutativity and associativity descend from group theory, because integers form a group, IIRC. My math is rusty, so correct me, anyone.
There are no signs that intelligent people are not procreating. More affluent countries are not procreating, but that does not correlate with intelligence.
That’s what I noticed! An Amtrak train in the middle of nowhere Montana is going 49MPH…
I don't personally shop at Hot Topic, however, being largely furless, clothing is essential for the perpetuation of the species in many climate regions. Cancer hasn't been able to stop us anywhere.
I loved Pop Sci growing up, but in hindsight I felt like the content was already on the decline by the early 2000s. That, or it was never that great and I was just getting more aware as I got older.

I remember that most of the things I read about never even came close to reality, and that was pretty disappointing. It seemed like they were more interested in writing speculative sci-fi than reporting on the current state of scientific research. It just wasn't interesting. The only thing that really caught my attention was coverage of the X Prize and Spaceship One. That stuff was cool because it existed in real life, it wasn't just a bunch of artist renderings about what the year 2030 might look like.

Can't speak for Popular Mechanics. I probably should have been reading that all along.
The Volvo EX30 is right now only manufactured in China, and is built on a Chinese car platform (Gheely SEA). It is a Chinese car. I also think that this is likely to sell incredibly well in Europe.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Experience_Archite...
“Assume a spherical cow.”
Yeah when I was a contractor in 1996 Mountain View $200 was table stakes for someone with non trivial technical skills.
>Or more likely…probably will not come to the correct conclusion. Every past “accepted” or “settled” scientific consensus now known to be wrong once had its merits tested from the most qualified to not only read through all of the literature, but actually properly understand it, debate it people?

So what? You're quickly approaching "Science is a liar sometimes" territory. Has scientific consensus been wrong in the past? Yes. So what?

>We see now that experts are frequently wrong and affected by politics and money.

Define "frequently," because I sure as shit haven't seen them be wrong more often than not, and I REALLY haven't seen them be wrong more often than commentators on the internet.
So 3 milliseconds is about how long it takes sound to travel 1 meter.

So it's like the difference between how far a pianist sits from the strings in an upright vs a grand piano. Or the guitar player taking a couple of steps away from their amp. Or the difference between a drummer hitting the snare or their crash cymbal.

One of my local theatres says the stage is 19m wide, so an orchestra playing there is probably 50 ms apart for onmstruments playing on opposite sides of the stage.

Hell, you've got most of a millisecond of "lag" between your left and right ears for sounds coming from the side.
There's merit to both perspectives.

I mean, yes, its important to recognize where your limits are so that when you feel you are approaching them, you take the moment to walk away.

But as written, I understood this to be "if I haven't yet approached my limit, maybe being calm near her can actually help her". This syncs with a lot of what I've read and been taught by e.g. my kids' preschool teachers: kids need reassurance that their negative emotions are valid, and that its ok to express negative emotions. Consistently walking away from a child in the midst of expressing negative emotions past some threshold of intensity just teaches the kid that people who feel that strongly about anything should be isolated.

To paraphrase your own closing statement, I've read too many stories of neglected and abandoned children that would have been prevented by not "just" walking away.
DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support
If you're not going to read it, at least don't comment.
The new search is still so useless that I just maintain a full local clone of our org's code. Someone was requesting perms to run a script to search across the org today -- it would've taken 10+ minutes to run while respecting undocumented secondary rate limits (which there's no way to check via headers, by the way). I rewrote it to use ripgrep locally, and it's down to 20 seconds.
> If it was widespread, but highly configurable, that increases friction when switching projects

This is clearly not true. Far and away the single most contentious JS style issue is ASI, and prettier has a config option for it and nobody bats an eye. Ditto for the prototypical style issues of indent size and tabs/spaces.

The value of prettier is enforcing a consistent style within a repo, and config options don't affect that. To the contrary, config options are part of why prettier is so popular - if they'd never added ASI then a lot of projects would never have adopted it.
> I've never had one crack and fail on me.

Well, I can't argue with that.
> I don't really get doing layoffs as soon as the acquisition finishes.

It is pretty standard procedure. Buyer usually absorbs leadership first, then they gut sales, then marketing after that. Leadership is kicked out or leaves after a while.

They are treated like redundancies, even if they aren't so.

I feel for the VMWare folks. I may have my issues with their pricing, but their products have historically been quite solid, while Broadcom strategy is, well, just "buy and spread".
Passengers and freight have different constraints and so don't mix well on rail. We should build separate rail for each. Make them compatible rail but that is for emergencies you can mix not normal operations. (2am maintenance windows count as a good reason to mix)

Don't be fooled by population density, the western states and Alaska have a lot of nothing and bring the density down. You can find overlays of France and the Midwest that have similar populations. Overall there are lots of potentially great rail routes east of the Mississippi, and along the west coast. (But of course only if you invest in local transit, otherwise everyone may as well drive as they will need their car when they get there.
as an archivist 3-2-2-1 is better. The second 2 indicates that the two backups should be on two different brands of media in case of a catastrophic design flaw.
And I will never know pain like having my tail stood on.