skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might listen to the podcasts. They are good and they are well researched. Listen: I met Kissinger a few times and spent a few decades of my life working with foriegn policy wonks. He was a monster beyond compare.

And I'll just add this in. When I was 24 I got a job at the New York Times working on the tech team that would launch nytimes.com. The "web editor" was one Bernard Gwertzman. Look him up. He was the foreign desk editor of the paper of record for decades. He made his name reporting on the Vietnam war. Would you like to know who his best friend was in 1996 when I met him? Henry Kissinger. He had lunch with him every wednesday at the Harvard Club. Having read Manufacturing Consent more than once I was flabbergasted. If Chomsky had known this... Anyway, he and I were the first ones to show up for a meeting one time and I asked him how he and Henry K had met. He leaned over and said (with a literal wink) "while I was reporting on Vietnam, but don't tell anyone!"... said the man who among many other things 1. reported that we were not bombing Cambodia, 2. Supported Pinochet and 3. didn't report on the East Timor genocide. All policies that were 100% Kissinger.

Rest in piss. Both of them.
Musk tells advertisers: "Go. Fuck. Yourself."
Rest in piss.
Vavilovian Mimicry
My last two vehicles have been trucks:

- 1991 Ford Ranger 2WD

- 2016 Toyota Tacoma TRD OR (4WD + extra features)

The Tacoma is Toyota's smallest North American truck and is dramatically larger than the Ranger. The Ranger suited my needs perfectly except that it wasn't 4WD and would frequently get stuck in Canadian winter. I couldn't even buy good snow tires for it anymore because the rims were too small.

If there were a recently built 4WD truck available in the North American market that was the size of the 91 Ranger, I would have bought it in a heartbeat. It does not exist.
> You can hike rates to curb the inflation only if it doesn't bankrupt everything and everyone.

They will inevitably inflate away much of the debt. But, that hurts dollar savers more than debtors.

Some cash rich companies today are earning more on their deposits than they're paying on their bonds from a couple years ago.
How do I have to understand the fact that Ilya is not on the board anymore AND why did the statement not include Ilya in the “Leadership group” that’s called out?
Well not quite, the board doesn’t have a couple of unqualified independent directors any longer.
I think the intention was clear? To have the US back down. China wants to be the dominant power in Asia. It despises the US alliance (Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia) that projects force along the entire Pacific Rim. However, much of China's growth is dependent on trade with the US and its allies. So it's in a bit of a pickle.

Xi thought China could win the political battle without losing the economic one. He assumed the alliance would split apart, and the US would be forced to back down. At that point China would be free to project it's power across most of Asia without interference from the West. Whether that's taking back Taiwan, or at least the entirety of the nine-dash line islands. The US or any other foreign vessel couldn't transit the South China sea without the OK from China.

He tried to pick off the members of the alliance one by one (the trade battle with Australia is a great example), but failed. Eventually the US and other nations said "enough is enough" and instituted sanctions on China. In addition private companies decided the political uncertainty was too high a risk. Combine that with the demographic bomb the country is facing, the debt-bomb from Chinese real estate and Xi realized he lost his gamble. The Chinese economy couldn't survive long enough under sanctions for China to win the political battle.

But to be honest, he burned too many bridges. The Chinese economy is struggling. The embargo on technology is going to hurt China way more than it hurts the West. He came to San Francisco in hopes of repairing enough of the relationship as to not entirely sink the Chinese economy.
I don’t think having a breadth of knowledge in frontend, backend, and cloud infra is too much to ask.

Think of how much is asked from other white collar professions such as law and medicine.
The best current scholarship is that there was no such thing as a "Q", and that what is in Luke and Matthew but not in Mark, the author of Luke just cribbed directly from Matthew.

"Q", like "oral traditions", Docetism, and Gnosticism, turns out to be a fever dream of "biblical scholars" working before sound textual analysis had been invented.
His career at OpenAI is nerfed at best. Trust is broken beyond repair.
Thank you. Makes me very happy that it works for you too. Cheers.
I mean, basically no-one can compete with OpenAI right now.

They have a monopoly. They can start copying any business that relies on them tomorrow.

And it’s not easy to build a better model. Do that’s not an option.

So you basically use them to deliver a tangential product woth the risk of them copying you, or refuse to play in AI.

You can’t innovate with OpenAI tech without risking that they’ll just copy you

It’s the amazon playbook: become the store and copy the best selling products.

I love gpt-4, just hate the direction of openAI. Sam knows he can take over the world with OpenAI, so he’s just doing it.
My first guess would've been that JSON encode/decode wouldn't be memory bandwith-bound because it involves so many operations on single bytes at a time, most of which would be in the cache after the page has been brought in initially. Of course maybe much of that is done with SIMD these days?

Anyway, I have near-zero experience in this area so I'm mostly just posting this hoping for someone to explain why I'm wrong.
They can keep working, just more effectively
I've read that book

It's well articulated, in the same sense that lebensraum can be well-articulated. If you don't believe in the rule of law, but do believe in might makes right, it's entirely coherent.

It also puts you on a similar moral ground, and value to civilized society that being, say, a mob boss, or some other violent, dangerous psychopath does.
To automatically send vulnerability reports from Kubernetes using the trivy-operator, we developed a small operator that does the sending automatically: https://github.com/telekom-mms/trivy-dojo-report-operator
Indeed, which is to say, it is possible the rational view here is the man who facilitated the rise of the Khmer Rouge by testing an entire country as collateral damage is, well, a bastard.
No, I haven't. When I create transcriptions I use musescore.
On a practical side of things, how did he manage to make it to 100? Did he maintain a nutrition plan, was he physically active?

Fun fact: Henry Kissinger was elected an international member of Russian Academy of Sciences in 2016.
What font filetype should I be using on Windows? TTF? WOFF? WOFF2? OTF?
Where do you work? Not many people run into fp accuracy issues.
One country has a 22% youth unemployment rate, before stopped reporting. Another country has a 8% youth unemployment rate.

One country has the primary investment sector being real estate, where their top 2 companies are bankrupt. Another country has the primary investment sector being stock market, where their tech top company is worth 30 of the other country's top tech companies.

Easy to figure out which one was begging for money
It means the board was out of alignment with their employees and their decision was unusually unpopular.

If the board had communicated better (no 2 or different reasons) or had hard evidence (the claim was deceptive behavior) - it would have been different.

I expect everyone who reads HN accepts that execution is 70% of the battle.

It’s very unsurprising for employees to have made the choices they did, given the handling of the situation.
All making the same embarrassing mistakes, in either case, would have been quite the miracle.

It is a small lie from among an enormously larger corpus.
Some people are seeing this as Elon standing up and winning against the 'woke' crowd. Others see this as yet another nail for the Twitter coffin.

It is amazing how far apart "this side" and "that side" have become these days.

He visited Israel to prove he isn't anti-Semitic, but was called out by them when they said his site has increased anti-Semitism over the year of its existence. I can't imagine that'll change anything in his world view.
https://archive.ph/P370q
Not only would we not recommend our war criminals to the ICC, we have on the books the authorization to be able to invade the Hague in case any US person was being held or tried. Hague Invasion Act / ASPA is wild.
I think it's wild that with all the 700+ employees involved, there haven't been more details leaked.
None of this comment really makes much sense. Toyota was right all along?

Toyota has been saying that hydrogen is the future which is just ridiculous considering how inefficient and dangerous it is.

Also there is no bottleneck in batteries, in fact battery prices are dropping rapidly and more capacity is coming online.

An EV, not hybrid, is on track to be the best selling car in the world this year.

Most of the problem is that legacy automakers were caught flat footed by the take off in electric vehicle sales and cobbled together a lot of poorly made vehicles or ones that were incompatible with Supercharger locations.

Other than Tesla and BYD there aren't many companies doing electric cars well.

Electric cars are still exploding in market share and that isn't going to change. It's going to grow
It would be a very poor AGI if it didn't create a company that does AGI ASICs in the first few days. Minutes?
That last sentence is a massive step beyond common knowledge, if it's true... and I don't think it is, what can doctors do?
I understand. I would like to train smaller proof-of-concept models on my laptop, which could build upon large pre-trained models though. Thanks.
> Amiga 2000 and 1200: no battery right? (unless you've got an expansion card)

The 1200 won't have a battery on the board, but the 2000 likely will. The number 1 killer for A2000 motherboards is that bloody Varta battery.

If you've opened your A2000 and you've had a look around and couldn't see anything, it /might/ be OK, but snip that battery out ASAP (they're soldered on the board).
It is for me. I don't see it taking my job (yet), but I have no doubt it will help with productivity. Just like Google helped with productivity for my job.
As if they couldn't easily get a job almost anywhere?

Also don't they all have equity in OpenAI?

Seems like a pretty shallow take.
Not a Niro PHEV, but they have had... a couple of serious motor issues:

- https://www.kiaenginesettlement.com

- https://www.kiaengineclasssettlement.com

Edit: A friend of mine just got a free engine swap for her... 2012-ish Optima. It threw a CEL on the highway, had the appropriate trouble code, and bam, new engine from the dealership when she told them the code.
There’s also some upcoming stuff by stalwart labs that will probably be very good.
While the world’s resources are finite I think it is excessively pessimistic to suggest we’re consuming anywhere near all that is available to us.

It’s possible to call out externalized costs (eg greenhouse emissions, many plastics) and be optimistic about our ability, as a species, to produce more.
Interestingly, the Behind the Bastards episodes on him point out that his relationships with women may have been one of the only non-bastard things about him. He was seen as “safe” compared to other men of the time!
I had these two dual-18-core xeon web servers with seemingly identical hardware and software setup but one was doing 1100 req/s and the other 500-600.

After some digging, I've realized that one had 8x8GB ram modules and the slower one had 2x32GB.

I did some benchmarking then and found that it really depends on the workload. The www app was 50% slower. Memcache 400% slower. Blender 5% slower. File compression 20%. Most single-threaded tasks no difference.

The takeaway was that workloads want some bandwidth per core, and shoving more cores into servers doesn't increase performance once you hit memory bandwidth limits.
How to easily pay a single employee in another country
Hi,

Total newbie on this. What is the easiest way to pay an employee living out of US, but having a USD account in their country, given I am based in US? I want to do it properly as if the employee is getting paid by the company on a payroll, generating a paystub. Checked out Deel, but seems like too much effort for just a single employee (not looking to increase at the moment).

Will the answer change for a contractor in same situation?
The post I was responding to asked:

> “If he was a "war criminal" as many here claim, why wasn't he ever prosecuted or convicted?”

Which, I guess I just meant, prosecuted by whom? He was the US government at the highest levels and there is no international body with jurisdiction. It doesn’t seem like nobody being able to press charges means a man is innocent.
There are no Talmudic manuscripts that predate the NT. There is a reasonable inference that much of what is in them does, but there is no guessing which bits those are.
There are other dormitories on campus. One size doesn't fit all, but you've got to work on the margin.
Is that not exactly the problem where amazon takes profits from AWS & uses them to agressivly drive other retailers out of the online shopping business?
13 years past how long a contributor to the obituary lived. The contributor may have started work on the obituary even earlier and probably did, as Kissinger was 87 and it probably would have made sense to pre-write the obituary sooner.
I'm at $500/month for my side hustle Chrome extension SnipCSS: https://www.snipcss.com

I should do marketing, but instead I'm building another product - an AI (ChatGPT wrapper) to help automate marketing.

"If I force myself to do something I hate while having a full-time job, I'll just burn out" is what I say to myself. We'll see if procrastinating essential business tasks works out for me in the long run, lol.
Compare Tesla with Volvo: no wonder the Swedes are messing with Musk.
testing how a DAW handles 300 identical low-CPU consumptive tracks is not at all appropriate for a music CPU workload assessment. No one except Charlie Clauser or Hollywood cinema post production uses projects with 300+ tracks -- it is a really idiosyncratic test that exposes the optimization liabilities of the DAW vs the CPU.

A Better test would be to set up an intensive real world 20 track project, assess utilization and overhead, and then find a real-world way to increment that stress upward to the breaking point.

Most computer music forum wonks use some kind of test based on softsynths or reverbs or a combination and stack them high on a smaller number of tracks.

I mean... 300 tracks? You're basically testing the DAW's thread management at that point, not the CPU as it would be used.
Oh yeah sure, I thought you were suggesting that as a reason to restrict the practice, not as an interesting hypothetical. Admittedly I did not read super carefully, sorry.

The inverse is also interesting. Let’s say a group of people think the country is going in the wrong direction, but they don’t have the power to oppose it directly. They leave the country, and then absentee vote as extremists of the side they disagree with in order to trigger a backlash. Art of War!
"Asset-backed securities" doesn't sound like corporate equity to me.
Thats interesting; do they put the light somewhere that it isn't a nuisance to look at when you're inside the car?
>Extremely cool and Justine Tunney / jart does incredible portability work [0],

[x] Doubt.

That user was caught stealing code and banned from llama.cpp by its creator (your [2] citation) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35411909

Maybe the same thing is happening here. Plagiarism of code.
Alien worlds have been 'waltzing' in perfect rhythm for 4B years
> These are basically tech demos at this point.

I disagree with this conclusion. Crude as it is, Copilot _does_ make me faster in practice, even though I have to proofread its output. I think this also agrees with your second statement, that progress will come in small but useful improvements. If you treat Copilot like improved auto-completion, then it is very useful today.

Actually, while using syntax trees as the underlying model is a very interesting approach, there is still a lot of low-hanging fruit to make Copilot much more useful than it is today, just in terms of performance (waiting 1-2 seconds to see if there is a completion, and if it makes sense, interrupts my typing flow) as well as low-level features (e.g. mark and insert part of a suggestion, instead of inserting the whole and then removing the wrong parts).
Wait until the economy sneezes. Tax receipts fall, interest expense is only going up as more debt rolls over to higher Treasury rates.
National's geographic Kissinger also does a good job highlighting his "achievements".
I spent a year and half a million dollars with two ex-Mina engineers from Google and we simply lack the funds and information superiority to compete with OpenAI on any level. And VCs are running scared to go against the big players because they simply
Dont have the funds. It’s really grim out there. But I guess I’m just a whiner according to this dude.

The reality is that anything that works is quickly snatched up by bigger players and you have no moat if you can’t work on your own model. And with Microsoft owning the near years worth of cards to do inference on it’s gonna be hard to even try to do that.

So you are left being the equivalent of an Uber driver for OpenAI slowly making negative value while pretending to get short term gains — and being scale capped by costs.
12v is such a common top-rail voltage for electronics of all kinds, I think its a bit more that than "car makers are too greedy to manufacture 400v headlights."
I won't be signing up since there's no product here, right now. But I will say a few things:

- $0 plan limits to 100 bookmarks: at 100 bookmarks, your browser is good-enough. raindrop.io offers unlimited bookmarks for free. what they do with the Pro plan is offer value-add such as retaining a copy of your page, annotations, searching for duplicate and broken links, backups of your bookmarks, etc. I have no compelling reason to choose this over a competing service such as raindrop.

- Privacy policy is a bit strange. Give it a read.

- Finaly, what's the point of having a waitlist?
Didn't finish the Red Rock cases study, am I done?
Well that option is hidden because of the very real problems it causes in "normal" syncthing use, as explained on the page.

I'm saying that you can disregard the warning in the case of a backup system (as opposed to the normal use which is full sync between two devices that both modify files).
I cannot see the road safely at night anymore, so I avoid driving at night entirely.

Complete failure of government to regulate and enforce headlight position and brightness.

Since I don’t drive an 8ft tall truck with permanent high beams, I eventually got forced off the road.
Due to import nuances, they do all sorts of shenanigans in TH for cars. The one you have gotten may have very little to do with Mercedes.
"some info" is an interesting phrase. The text of the Bible is "some info". The source code to Windows is "some info". The codes to arm United States nuclear missiles is "some info".

Every "some info" has some level of classification. In this case, the "some info" is information about ongoing diplomatic negotiations. I think it's safe to assume that such information is at least Confidential (as defined under US Executive Order 12356 or 13292).

And with that, I point you to https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2011/12/life-lessons-from-the-...: Maybe comment threads and trolls didn't exist during the time of the Vietnam War, but its message still applies.
Bush is probably a contender.
I mean, the Paris peace accords happened after the Nixon campaign convinced the south Vietnamese to walk out of earlier talks and crash the Johnson campaign. So it seems weird to praise those people for getting almost the same result after killing lots of anmerican and lots more Vietnamese, not to mention the noncombatants in laos and Cambodia Kissinger directed the bombing of. And after all that it was barely a different deal.
Not much longer when interest rate payments are well on their way to $1T per year ($659 billion as of October), the bulk of the budget (66%) is non-discretionary and unfunded liabilities are $211T.
Maybe. Maybe the alternatives available at the time were believed to result in something 10x worse than the Khmer Rouge. Would he still be a bastard then? Or someone who had to make a hard choice among terrible options?

I don't know, for the record. I'm just pointing out that it doesn't sound like a reasoned consideration of the evidence taking into account the historical context. It sounds like someone who thought "I bet Henry Kissinger was a bastard", then found a book that says "Henry Kissinger was a bastard!" and then made a podcast saying "See? I knew it!"
Those places exist, but they are the exception rather than the rule in 2023. I'm not offering a full-throated apology of Kissinger (or, by extension, Nixon) just pointing out that a lot of the people jumping out to proclaim what a terrible human he is a few hours after his death was announced might consider that they would be demonstrably worse off if the forces Kissinger worked to keep at bay had prevailed.
Macprovich, Macprovich, Macprovich! https://youtu.be/c2fVfIejbfM?feature=shared&t=230
Removing babel configuration will definitely cause some issues. Depending on your position on the ambiguous situation around TypeScript dependencies, so will *.ts.
See https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-86-billion-s...

What if lots of employees stood to make "fuck you" money from that sale, and with Sam's departure, that money was in danger of evaporating?
I'm not sure how to interpret this, other than as an elaborately snarky way of saying "Why don't you google the answer yourself, you lazy bum?"
Part of this is that Nixon resigned in disgrace and Kissinger kept being an active part of American politics, so his influence was seen as something to fight against. Not that he was somehow more culpable than Nixon, but he was certainly more relevant than Nixon.
Check out temporal.io. It has support for schedules as well.
I tried 1/sqrt(9x-6) from .7 to 1e308, and got as one alternative

sqrt(-.16666…)

It did correctly mark this as 0% accurate, but I’m kinda curious as to where it came from.

It does have a 1.1x speedup apparently. None of the other (more accurate) options provide a speedup. Maybe there aren’t any value options that provide a speedup, but the tool allows increasingly reduced accuracy (down to zero) until it finds a speedup?
That's terribly untrue (or relates to particular market). Mercedes of 80-20x were one of most reliable on market, but unfortunately quality tumbled sharply.

I have driven lots of them in 90s-20s and thought it were the best cars. And it were.
Sure I just mean, “how come nobody prosecuted him for it” doesn’t really prove innocence here.
Renault is so bad, it's unsurprising it even couldn't make to the list
No need for a media narrative here. One just has to take a look at what he shouts about on his precious town square and it's plain as day to see.
Jews from the Middle East, too, are often seen as Westerners of a sort, because European colonialism treated e.g. Algerian and Iraqi Jews as intermediate between Europeans and other local populations. They were accorded privileges and often merged into European society. Look at the Sassoon family of Iraq as one striking 19th-century case.

I suppose it is similar to how educated Ismaili Muslims are viewed as Western-adjacent, because their hereditary spiritual leaders the Aga Khans have been resident in Europe, and intermixed with the European aristocracy, for a very long time now.