skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just guessing based on the authors’ names and their affiliation with Alibaba Group, but I think this research was published by exclusively Chinese citizens.

In my experience, it’s difficult to operate a small, personal website from within China because of their regulations in regards to non-government websites. Because of this, you will often find that Chinese citizens will use approved (or at least unrestricted) services like GitHub pages.

Having worked closely with many businesses based in China due to my hobbies, I have noted that services like Google Docs and Drive are favored for this reason.

I would guess there are ways to host content like this more easily on platforms that are only accessible within China or are not navigable without the user understanding Chinese language.

I would also guess that this is part of the reason why services that target customers in China tend to become “super apps” that combine several services that non-Chinese users would expect to find on disparate sites. For example, services may combine a social media style newsfeed/interaction API, banking, email, shopping, and food delivery into a single platform.
Not if you had a hard drive. I can't find a decent video on YouTube showing how long booting from a hard drive took. Does anyone know of one? Otherwise I might have to get a pile of junk out of my loft and record a video myself. From memory, I'd say my A1200 with IDE disk took about 10 seconds to boot - from power on to sitting idle in the Workbench GUI.

An early Archimedes booted directly into the GUI from ROM and was even faster.
So what does "noon" even mean? Why is it significant?
I don't see how that solves the problem.

When you travel (or call) somewhere new, instead of consulting a timezone map to set your watch or know if it's safe to call someone, you'll consult a guide to local "time equivalents" and set your expectations based on that. "Let's see, it's 08:00UTC now and my time guide says locals at that location usually each lunch around 17:00UTC, so if I call Bob there now, it's the middle of the night for him"
And almost all of them are too sour (imo), probably from the antioxidant.
> If I fullscreen a video, my browser minimizes

Man I have this, I have a very popular phone model, how can this not be fixed in years.
> How Huawei surprised the US with a cutting-edge chip made in China

As far as i understood, the chip was not made by Huawei.
And Jeff Duntemann's outstanding "Complete Turbo Pascal".
I realize that the article wants to deify her, but I think we need to be honest that a big part of the job is implementing the kind of censorship that was never supposed to be part of the Internet.
Perhaps one of those minds wrote this article, and is thus a counterexample to the assertion that such are gone?
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I think that not having enough x86 hardware is the least of authors' worries ...
Look up water use of chocolate if you want to make yourself sad.
Determining that fraction would require the search engine to run a series of A/B tests with varying preview lengths, and keep detailed records of test results. That seems like an unreasonable burden.
You're missing the point.

With prior knowledge of the test, even something that verifiably lacks the cognitive capability to legitimately pass the test (e.g. FizzBuzz level stuff) can pass by cheating.
Any idea of the minimum amount needed to bribe an open source developer to add nefarious code which will be used in a trusted program?

Is there legal liability for making that change, even when the license says NO WARRANTY including for FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT? It's not even like the developer even delivers the software to anyone else.

Or is it only social standing? If so, I think $2 million would be enough to retire on.

It would seem that this attack vector is relevant for supply chain management. How is it currently evaluated and managed?

Also, at 8:27 (https://youtu.be/6H-V-0oQvCA?t=507), "Supply chain security has to be an industry-wide effort."

Would an unpaid FOSS developer, perhaps doing this as a retirement hobby, really be considered a part of industry? (For example, a statistician who continues to develop and distribute some very useful analysis software developed over her career, simply because she is interested in the approach.)

If so, what if they refuse to follow the demands of for-profit corporations demanding a SBOM and reproducible builds? If not, what should companies should they depend on that FOSS software?
If the training data for this is completely published, we'll have a huge head-start in terms of building a deterministic LLM once someone figures out how to do that.
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This is already highly, highly relevant for 2d animation.

Many complex moves (especially dancing) are filmed in video first, then the movement is traced over by hand. This is called Rotoscoping.

This is basically auto-rotoscoping, and I expect it to see commercial usage within popular high budget projects within 2 years. Previously, even the highest budget anime couldn't really afford 2d dance scenes due to the insane drawings required.
> In Rome, unlike, say, Sparta, there were no schools; teaching was all done in the home,

I'm not sure that's true. Also when people think about Sparta they usually only consider about the upper class elite since almost the entire population of the region were second class freemen with limited civil rights or slaves/serf. In any case the Spartan Agoge (which again was only accessible to a small proportion of the population) wasn't necessarily similar to what we understand a 'school'.

As far as we know Roman 'educational system' was similar to that which existed in normal Greek cities (so not Sparta). Upper classes hired private tutors/bough slaves, however there were public (privately funded) schools called 'Ludus' accessible to a significant proportion of the the population.

> probably comparable to India a millennium earlier (inferred from the prevalence of public proclamations (e.g. Ashoka steele),

Why do you think that was the case? Also didn't Ashoka live in the 3rd century BC (so contemporary to the Hellenistic age)?

> monumental writing aimed more at fellow elite.

I'm not sure that was generally the case in Ancient Rome or most Greek cities. Many of the public inscriptions were clearly aimed at the general population.
I took it to be a satirical mishmash of end-user complaints and generalized bitching and moaning, pulled largely from a mailing list archive. Regarding the question of whether it was intended as satire, I'd observe that the copy I read so many years ago had a Unix barf bag pasted inside the back cover and I'm pretty sure the front cover featured the guy from Edvard Munch's The Scream.

If it represents an accurate view of something, it represents the fact that Unix at the time had some really eminent end users who found the operating system to be a major pain in the ass. I mean, you can say "those guys should have loved it, they just didn't know what they were talking about," but I don't see the point of it. I guess what I'm saying is that nothing about the book demands to be taken too seriously, and if you see someone doing that, you aren't exactly obligated to also take it seriously (or take them seriously).
> I also think if we stopped expecting all LLMs to have an immediate answer, it would be relatively easy to shim some kind of "conscience" to direct the output in different ways.

If the shim was just another AI, then how do you align that AI? Who watches the watchers? But if it was a deterministic algorithm it would probably fail for the same reasons that algorithmic AI never went anywhere.
As I was reading this I was thinking to myself "I wonder if it is grammarly related" because I experienced a bug some time ago that presented itself in a similar way. It was impossible to reproduce but affecting lots of people internally within certain departments. Eventually we figured out the thing they had in common was that they had the Grammarly extension installed.

The other key thing was that the bug only appeared on our staging preview urls, not on the live website. It turned out it was because of a bad regex in the grammarly extension that caused the page to hang if the domain name was more than about 100 characters. Our staging domains were pretty long, I think they contained a few subdomains and had a job number or something in there.

This one is more crazy though if it is really caused by the desktop app - that's pretty scary!
yes. why would you want the three people doing those three specialized full-time roles to be nontechnical?

it seems to me that, given a nontechnical person who's good at one or more of those roles, they'd obviously be even better at it if they also understood the technology. ignorance and incompetence are weaknesses, not strengths

as for having some money, the context of this discussion is startups with angel or vc funding, which is plenty for focus groups and some user tests
> The article implies that Gusto's employees can whatever browser they want.

For users of their security-sensitive internal software?

> And, honestly, telling your employees to run a browser that only techies have heard of sounds like a really dumb idea.

Sounds like they're using this for internal tools, as a kind of thin-client layer. They could recommend or mandate a particular browser, and people would just use it. ("Click this icon, and a window opens with our internal tool. It's pretty much the same as any other browser, as far as you care.")
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The author's worldview is definitely bigoted to some degree, but this doesn't match the kinds of thing I've seen from American or British Nazi-wannabies. (Or TESCREAL adherents, my next closest match.) Perhaps it's a flavour of neoreactionary I'm not familiar with?
A lot of rendering will go through the video card if available, like the jvm does this as an optimization.
I'm sure that the lower regulatory environment in Texas was much more of a factor. Musk has complained for a long time about California's regulations.
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Yes, this. I've been in many startups but only once as a founder. I was the technical one, the only one with deep expertise in the core business area of the startup.

Well, my title was founder. All the other founders were on the board, I was not. All the other founders controlled budget, I did not. So really, despite the words on the offer letter I was just an employee. The founder title granted me the right to work 90 hour weeks with no help and no support and no budget to hire help.

At least didn't waste too many years on that one.

Learn from me. Spend some of your money up front and hire a lawyer with tons of experience in startups to guide you through contract negotiations and if the company balks at your (lawyer-assisted) terms that's your giant red flag to run very far away.
You can't go wrong if you pick up anything from Andy Tanenbaum.
this is a good option but i still use rg.el for the occasion that i want to search several projects at once or a subfolder within a project, where i would otherwise use ‘rgrep’
> "people could die"?

These are just tweets. Like a few short sentences. The world is a big place. I'm sure someone has died once because of some event connected to a tweet, but it can't happen very often. Right? Or am I just naive?
>Food would follow the same typology. Expect prison / hospital / army level food rather than Michelin 3 stars restaurant quality

You get voted down because your implication is that current systems are expensive because people are supposedly too stupid to make cheap food on a budget for a large audience.

Have you ever even stepped foot in a soup kitchen? Have you looked in a shelter? I don't know how you expect to house people cheaper than "50 cots in an open warehouse".
> The "link" tax is a tax on mega American tech companies, and was written to target literally only two companies on the planet.

And you consider that a good thing? Laws that target companies by name? Your argument is that the ends justify the means. But in this case the ends is one set of large companies (some with large American ownership) lobbying the government to force other large companies to pay them for nothing. It's a gross abuse of power. Utterly unnecessary and entirely the Canadian way. This is the kind of thing that keeps the oligarchy alive in Canada.

> Again, my greatest hope is that Meta sticks with it. No news on FB, Threads, Instagram or elsewhere. A total embargo. That'll show em!

In this we absolutely agree. I also wish Google didn't cave. Of course, they didn't really cave though, they just did a side deal so this law wouldn't apply to them. This whole thing is just stupid and wrong.

> Facebook basically became the "go to" back when they absolutely did scrape news, similar to Google.

If any of these companies violated copyright then by all means let the media companies sue them.
> Really?? I am very surprised to hear that, I never thought there could be any other way but having schools in a structured and developed society like theirs.

Schools as we think of them today are a pretty recent invention. Even the Academies and Gymnasium of Athens were generally for adults. There was an exception in Sparta, where education was part of the facist indoctrination, similar to the system in the DDR or USSR. Then again, Sparta was super weird even by Greek standards (which was a society whose closest modern analog might be Da'esh (AKA ISIS). The hard part of reading ancient Greek for me was not the grammar but the sheer bizarreness of their structural assumptions, which are rarely visible in translation.

> > OTOH the roman soldiers typically could read

> Not to disbelieve but can you back that up? I thought the bulk of the Roman military was from pretty low down in society and literacy is usually low to negligible there

That's the point: it's a confounding point to my assumption of low levels of literacy among the plebians.

You can do your own web search on this topic, but you might want to start with this paper: https://www.academia.edu/37000249/Soldiers_and_Documents_Ins...

From its abstract: "The Roman army as an institution and the Roman soldier as an individual could not have functioned without the written word. A few newly published finds from Primis / Qasr Ibrim in Lower Nubia as well as a number of other documents discussed in this paper illustrate the extent to which administrative paperwork and the soldiers’ (semi-)private correspondence contributed to the army’s functioning and governed the soldiers’ everyday lives already in the first decades of the new imperial army. Other evidence shows how the formal and symbolic qualities of imperial and official texts, and administrative documents served Roman soldiers from all types of units in their private documents and monuments as a means to demonstrate military identity"
> Earlier I would have argued that sufficiently advanced AI could prevent itself from being shut off via Things You Didn't Expect

There's a good argument along these lines that I keep reposting when someone asks if we can't just shut the AI off. "All you gotta do is push a button, sir?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld-AKg9-xpM&t=30s
This may be one of the cooler things i've ever seen
I guess I just assumed the extension was installed too, and communicating with the desktop app. But now I see the post doesn't mention the extension. If it was triggered even without the presence of the extension then that's quite strange, and even more suspicious - is that gif triggering a call to a localhost endpoint? Is the grammarly desktop app interacting with browser elements without using the extension? (IIRC the grammarly app uses some accessibility privileges to inject into textareas across all apps)

Grammarly is honestly insane, I can't believe corporations allow it to run on employee machines.
> The problem many people have with these modern things is that they think of art as something one can "parse" into a specific intended meaning.

No, I think that is a prejudice of people who think they are better at appreciating art than others.

Normal people like abstract art, experimental music, and other stuff that is different and open for interpretation – as long as it's good.

But they don't like subpar productions made by talentless people, just because these people have gone through all the superficial rites of becoming "artists" and have a community of group-narcissists to feed on.
How do these people live with themselves? What did they think before doing this? Do they think at all?
I'm not sure this is quite on the mark. What makes the Gaza conflict more prominent to the US than what's happening in Africa? To some extent the US was less involved in Africa. Once it left the slave trade, its main involvement until the Cold War was with Liberia. But since the Cold War, the US has had varying levels of involvement in the continent. During the Cold War the US did some pretty nasty things in Angola. The US pledged aid to Ethiopia as a way to keep it from falling into the pocket of the Soviets. The US was involved with the South African government in both propping up apartheid during the Cold War and decades later trying to speed its dismantlement.

I think it's just that the Middle East has more wealth than Africa and that regional powers like Qatar and Israel can afford to cover news in the area with more speed and fidelity, which means that outlets like Al Jazeera can provoke other news outlets to react with their own takes. Africa just doesn't have as much money and just can't afford to diplomatically exist on a larger scale the way the Middle East can. Though I think this article does raise a huge risk that China can swoop in and count Africa easily given how little awareness the average Western voter has of African politics.
I am genuinely relieved at this outcome. Congratulations, it sounds like a lovely life!
You mean because they're cloned from cuttings rather than grown from seeds? Like apples?
"Rounding errors" like these always favour the larger players. It's a form of slowly extracting money that should have gone to smaller artists and instead gets funnelled into the pockets of major label artists who arguably don't need it, at the expense of smaller artists and especially niche genres that don't have the same mass appeal as pop music. That's a group that's severely lacking representation in the discussions around how to pay fairly.

Another way they're screwing smaller artists is next year they'll be requiring each song to have 1k streams _per year_ before qualifying for monetization. They estimate that'll steal another ~$40M/year from smaller artists to help line the pockets of majors. It's actually sickening to watch from the sidelines.
It did a pretty poor job of it though, since it made no attempt to separate distro software from third-party software (unless you count "shove everything 3rd-party in /opt and bundle all dependencies").
> Honestly I would prefer to go even further - UTC for the entire planet, no offsets.

The use of "tomorrow" and "yesterday" will be confusing in parts of the world where at 24/00 o'clock it isn't night. Convincing people will be difficult.

But for just the the EU it would work nicely.
My mistake. Tell your VC friends you know an ultra genius on an internet forum that can solve any problem with AI and $80B. The money is the important part because without the money I can't buy the required number of GPUs for my AGI architecture. It requires building a special kind of panopticon and that is why there is such a high monetary cost to construct the panoptic computronium cathedral™. To achieve AGI will require creating an entirely new religion because enough people need to be convinced about the value of letting computers do all the thinking for managing society so there is a large marketing component as well and marketing is notoriously expensive.
For ML questioning the data seems okay
Steer by wire sounds like a disastrous idea to me, especially in a car made with attention to detail of Tesla.

I'm not even sure where to start. It's less reliable, surely it must be (at least without significant investment into QA and redundancy). A physical wheel physically connected to bits turning the wheels, well, the power steering can do, but you can still turn the thing.

Then, it's all software driven. And it can't be air-gapped, because surely the various driver assistance programs need to turn the wheel. But so if the crappy OTA-updated software crashes, I can't steer? Or steering reverts, or who knows what.

Finally, I'm not holding my breath on a new membership option including "you can steer your car again".

I'm no Luddite, I'm keen for what technology can do for us, but some places I don't want it.
how do you react when people lie about your opinions in order to cause others to think badly of you?
IIRC that was a later development after the 3rd century C.E., well after the eruption of Vesuvius
Just curious, but in what sense is it niche?
I didn't know about that one.

I think there's an episode of Cavett where he actually goes a round with a real boxer (pulling punches, of course).
Or, you know, you could do both.
curb weight?
Depends on where you are in the world. In SE Asia, we get some wacky varieties that greatly vary in size, shape, and flavor. I bought a few at a local market in Indonesia that were border-line zucchini like in shape and had a very watery flavor.
I didn't say anything mystical.

> Most people (including Buddhists) think that their internal monologue comprises their thoughts

And they don't think this, in fact they think the opposite.

You seem to be offended I used the expression "from nowhere" instead of "from your unconscious" or something.
Other than some Logo experience, I first learned "real programming" using Turbo Pascal. I was in sixth grade and went to a programming summer-camp-of-sorts, held on the grounds of the Techno-da science museum (today called the Mada-Tek). At break time, one of the other kids got a copy of "Ironman Super Off Road" [1], and we would play or watch others try to beat the computer. And at break time there were bread rolls with some filling I think, and every other day or so it was this chocolate-flavored spread.

Man, that was so much fun!... I haven't thought about those times in years; thanks for the trip down memory lane :-)

[1] - https://www.mobygames.com/game/4444/ivan-ironman-stewarts-su...
Just write the sitcom already ;)

I find the situation to be in equal parts discombobulating and fascinating
Just imagine when this merges with 3D modeling and VR.

The VR pr0n, the video games with dynamic AI characters. Dead actors and historical figures resurrected into movies and education.

I'm not so scared about my future nursing home now.
Easy to misread as 7 deg below zero
Who owns corporations? Who makes deals on behalf of corporations? Who makes the works that are pirated?

People. People. People. Corporations are made up of people, owned by people, and creators of works are people. And those people have rights, just like you.

And no, you can't really opt out of the social contract other than by opting out of society. This is a feature, however, not a bug, and participation in society without adherence to the social contract is called "Free riding."

Intellectual property pirates fall into the category of "free riders" or people who benefit from the social contract but do not adhere to it.
What's the alternative? I haven't found anything that's easier to deploy and manage than GitHub Pages.