skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is all on the US gov for creating regulations which they later realized were crappy.

The US gov created some rules which basically set some limit on the max bi-directional bandwidth of the chip, the max number of operations per second (4800 TOPS), and in the latest regulation they added another rule around “performance density”.

So basically they said something like: if you make a chip that has (in my arbitrary units) less than 100 TOPS, 500 bandwidth, and 200 performance density, then it’s OK to go to China.

So Nvidia made a chip that has 99 TOPS, 499 bandwidth, and 199 performance, which of course would be legal to export. And now the government is saying, well, we don’t like that. Which doesn’t make a lot of sense to me given they previously said they were OK with chips not hitting those limits being exported.

I don’t think you can blame Nvidia for taking the government at face value, assuming the government picked what they consider to be good values for their “chip banning equation” and then making chips that apply to the new rule.

This just seems to me like the US gov doesn’t know what they want exactly and thus keeps changing their regulation, none of which is a surprise to me. The whole thing reeks of incompetence.
Worst case, the US government declares Nvidia a threat to national security, arrest its executives, and nationalize the whole company.
I think the father implied that "they don't play by the rules" = they will try to hack/steal secrets instead of completing their own race to the betterment of technology.

There was a hack on 23andme.. if I was China/Russia, and it would be me hacking 23andme then I would have a wealth of information about children out of wedlock (blackmail), sick people (bribing), etc.
I feel like anyone who claims chatgpt is helping them work is just telling on themselves as trying to do things out of their depth and producing output they don't understand well enough to vet.
There's following the letter of the law, then there's following the spirit of the law. This is when being a robot isn't helpful.
The sole job of people who get other people's money to do a job can't define what they want, and are being praised for bypassing the written rules they're meant to write. I think this isn't really acceptable.
While that's true those things are added in by the vendors rather than Android itself, is my understanding.
We about to see who has been swimming naked...
Isn't it Canada? So cold among cons, no?
Then why celebrate the people who can't write rules? Their incompetence is at best causing a lot of wasted effort.
The "intent of lawmakers" is based on what the law actually says, and when that is not clear because of ambiguous drafting (crucial point) then it is interpreted based on what the legislator must have meant in context.

Here if the law says "don't sell A to China" then you don't sell A to China but obviously you're free to sell B or C if you want to, you can't claim that the "spirit" and what was actually meant was not to sell anything at all...
Well, US sanctions against China led China to develop their domestic semiconductor industry. SMIC can now fab 7 and 5 nm chips. In a decade, they will probably be on par with TSM.

Banning AI chips exports will have the same effect.

Long term US will lose money from sales while China will use their newly developed industries to earn more.

This move is only to win some votes at the next elections.
Same, I grew up in Chitwan- home of the Tharus. It's sad how little we know about the indigenous cultures around us. Homogeneity accelerated by modernity is oftentimes lamentable.
> This is just a hit piece which tries to frame scraping whole internet as-is as fair-use

google already did that, 20 years ago
They've likely spent the last 4 years recording voice artists for everything. I doubt they're going to embed a local LLM into the game in the last year that has unpredictable results and replace all of that. On top of actually having the overhead needed to process it on current gen consoles.

I can see it happening in a future game in some way maybe.
To learn Distributed Systems as a Software Engineer, do you recommend beginning with TLA+ or Maelstrom+Jepsen?
A virtual file system? How usable are those? I want something that can store slightly different data (modifies data on the fly), and one, that I can use as a tagged file system (generates folder structure on the fly). Is that viable with FUSE/NFS? Do programs play nice with them (no caching, no recursive lookahead and such)?

Is it hard to write one? Which language did you used?
If I were every other tech company I would be pooping my pants. So if the US gov plays this with Nvidia, what does stop them to do the same for the information in X, FB, YT, and any other trove of information? Unless (as we now know from the Twitterfiles) the US gov already has their hands on the information of all the aforementioned.
React actually has a little-known "same element reference" optimization. If your component returns the exact same JSX element reference in the same spot in consecutive renders, React will bail out of rendering that subtree, regardless of whether or not the child component is wrapped in `React.memo()`. This allows the parent component to control the behavior. So yes, `useMemo` would be how you do that:

- https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...
"Luckily we are now offering a genome monitoring service. For only $79.99 per month you can be sure that you're alerted any time someone tries to access your genetic record!" - 23andMe
It does feel at this point that any company collecting data will be hacked, it's only a matter of "when" and no "if"...
Indeed. 500 years is about 16 generations, so any ancestor of that age may have 65536 or even more descendents. You'd need to locate them and ask them all permission. How does it work, is it majority vote? Unanimous vote?

All European people have a unique male ancestor 300 generations away. If you locate remains of that age, do you have to ask nobody or everybody? (Depending on whether it's the male ancestor of all of us, or some other male whose last descendent died long ago?)
Was self-hosting email for maybe 20 years myself - but I'd say I only really understood enough to make it work. Been using https://mailinabox.email/ for the last 5 years or so and I'm pretty happy with that - works better than what I was doing myself using mostly the same underlying tools.
Saying all work is "reducing entropy" is about as useful as saying all writing is just ordering letters or all maths is about counting.

Anyone who can't see the difference between preparing a nice meal for oneself and flipping burgers has no business dissecting the sociology of work.
We already have AI that has a broader scope of knowledge, is faster, and is cheaper than any human ever. It also never gets bored.

That is super human AI. No human can match our current LLMs.

If we would get our act together and publish what we know, we could have AIs that beat the best people in every field.

It is the hiding of knowledge that will destroy western civilization. I should start learning Chinese.
I'll admit this sounded cool when I first heard about it; but it's actually a lot harder to program if you want to be able to recover from sudden power outages (which would be the main reason for having persistence in the first place).
> What does it have to do with the “innovators dilemma”?

Beachhead. You’re opening a beachhead for a competitor to start small with ample margins.
Crisps though!

> Should space-time be shown to be quantum, the loser will give to each of the
winners, one ITEM* of their choice. If the alternative hypothesis is deemed to be
correct, the losers will each give 5,000 ITEMS to the winner.

> * ITEM is defined to be a object of the winner’s choice, worth no more than 20 British
pence on January 21st, 2021. Examples include some crisps, a bazinga ball, a small
amount of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, or wine
I'd argue that this is the only way the Confederacy could have won. Otherwise, they would have just been ground down in any long-term attritional fight.

It was a real possibility: Abraham Lincoln was worried sick about this. He knew the Union didn't stand a chance against a fully focused Royal Navy.
Companies (theoretically) play by the rules. If those rules allow shenanigans, expect shenanigans. A government figure saying things like this is probably for the best, as it means they know not to waste time looking for loopholes… but even then, you can't expect companies to know what to take seriously in advance, given how much noise and fury signifying nothing normally comes out of talking heads.

Reminds me a bit of the UK banning all psychoactive substances when they got tired of playing whack-a-mole with what the press called "designer drugs", that hadn't technically been banned but which acted exactly the same as things which had been.
10 Years of Avalonia
They weren't saying the problem was trivial. They were saying that if you massively reduce the problem to its most trivial form, then its trivial form is doable.
This is late stage EEE, or the fabled final 4th E: Exploit.
Intel and AMD also do support unified memory for their integrated graphics. It’s been a while since you needed a statically cordoned-off area of main memory (“shared memory”) for the iGPU to work.

Consoles have been using unified memory since the 8th gen (PS4/XB1/Switch, kinda sorta even WiiU).

And NVidia has CUDA unified-memory slide decks going back at least 5 years.
What really interests me is "Are ToS changes absolutely binding?"

I am also not a lawyer. But I think there are two types of changes to ToS.

One is purely administrative. For example, they might change the methods available to reach for support. For example, they might say that you are no longer able to send a Fax to get support help. Or that their domain name changed.

Second is something that changes the service that you are receiving. For example, when you have bought their product they said "we are offering free support for all owners or our doodad". But then one day they decide that support is now paid option for all existing customers.

So the question is: can ToS changes that changes the service/product that you have already paid for binding without your consent? If they decide to introduce extra protection from class action, requirement for arbitrage, etc. is this just administrative or is it actually changing the service you are receiving by restricting your rights?
In the US, yes, these kinds of contracts are unfortunately upheld under current laws and court rulings that are valid nationwide. Of course there are limits and exceptions, but those boundaries have been broadened in recent decades to allow these kinds of terms anywhere in the US, even for consumer contracts.
I never got blacklisted using the same domain and server for more that 4 years now.
What was your provider? Sometimes you get an ip address that is blacklisted already...
I use Hetzner or Privex
RCE as a service?
I don't get the distinction. Linux has to run on the hardware, no?
You could read the first part of any of the three links I provided to answer that.
Wait, is Windows Even Worse outside of the EU?
Seems quite stupid (as is expected from Govts.).

Reminds me of the Crypto ban that the USGOV was trying to impose in the 90s.
Utter idiots running things as always.
> Please don't just rant about it, but explain, or link to an explanation, the difference so others can see if there's actually a substantial difference.

Fairly easy to look up and I just did ,
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5078676/what-is-the-diff...
but I agree , comments like this come across as smug and unhelpful. A few short lines explaining and a link would have been much helpful and greatly improves the quality of discussion on this site.
Did you use a turnkey solution like Mailinabox or Ireadmail?
FWIW, the Z80 has a 4-bit ALU, despite registers and databus being 8 bits wide:

https://www.righto.com/2013/09/the-z-80-has-4-bit-alu-heres-...
Slightly off-topic, but I have worked with another tool by the author (Jepsen), which is also written in Clojure and in fact a Clojure library. I'm fairly proficient with functional programming in general, but had never touched Clojure before. My experience working with Jepsen was quite frustrating simply because of the fact that it's a Clojure library. Clojure is dynamically typed and it happened fairly frequently that I had to dig into Jepsen's source code simply because some type errors were only caught very deep in the call stack. Jepsen itself is a really great tool and I'm a very big fan of it's creator (Kyle Kingsbury), but the fact that you can only use it through Clojure is kind of sad. I guess it gets better with more clojure experience, but a dynamically typed functional programming language is kind of too much of design flaw for me to want to invest more time in the language.
Can't reply to mytailorisrich so I will write it here..

I am binge watching Last Week Tonight, and around s2e20(?) there is a Supreme Court ruling that interpreted something about medical care that if read literally (it has the word "state") would mean "each State individually" which would allow each state to slap it down, OR by the wider meaning of the word 'state' aka the central Government. So there are authorities in the US that very much interpret laws to capture the meaning.
In Rust you have to annotate all lifetimes, when refactoring them, do it again all the way up and down the call stack.

Since it does not have exceptions, same for propagating Result type up and down. Both go viral. The compiler is strict.

Of course you have to think about lifetimes in C++ but it is more flexible.

That said, Rust pattern matching and traits are nice.

Rust is stricter and the learning curve is steeper overall IMHO.

I really think a borrow checker is not the way to go for safety. Hylo language model is what I would choose first above everything else.
I tried the black frame insertion mode on mine, but I can see the strobing, so it is extremely uncomfortable to look at.
If you write, “In fact the only cities I’ve been to where I felt like I needed to really have my guard up and head on a swivel were US cities”, I wonder if you have ever been to, say, Argentina (Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario), South Africa (Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town), Peru (Lima), or Kenya (Nairobi). There it is one’s local contacts who encourage one to be vigilant and plan routes across the city carefully. The US has wacky urban safety issues, but it is just one member of a whole set of countries with urban safety issues.
Linux doesn't "have" to run on the hardware. The vendors put in all the work to make the hardware work for Windows (not Microsoft); the Linux community often has to do all the work themselves (usually starting by reverse engineering hardware, due to uncooperative vendors).
The linked article says it's not a problem with all implementations. This would suggest device manufacturers can defend against it, but some have chosen not to. Given the choice of a laptop where this risk is mitigated and one where it isn't, all other things being equal, I'd choose the one with protections in place.
I'm not a big BASIC fan, so I've done my stuff in C, since it was a Motorola 68k on the TI-Voyage 200. I don't remember exactly how (it's 15+ year ago), but you could mark your app as a "system app" which was not removed during a factory reset.

Add a cryptic name, blank screen on start with a short timeout to return to menu when a key combination is not pressed and nobody will ever notice.
what is a harder drug than heroin?
I’d have to disagree with you on the stretch of road near Frankfurt HBF.

Sure, it’s a tad dicey in comparison to other streets in Frankfurt but it’s in no way comparable to what I’ve experienced in SF.

From my experience (I visit multiple times a year as my dad lives there) the homeless people and drug addicts in Frankfurt largely keep to themselves and just sit outside the subway together, albeit taking drugs.
Unless they're filled with meat, and then they're pelmeni.
I'd love to chat w/you about this re: cyber. I am at a software vendor in the incident response space. It's always good to know other folks in the industry and collaborate on ways to help improve what I'll rephrase as "the human element" in the broader cyber space.

Should I DM you from info on your site?

PS: your website is so great. Love it.
Cat parasite linked to mental illness, schizophrenia
this has some faulty reasoning involved as well.

There are the following conditions:

1. individual determines correctly the crime is not survivable and does cover up that fails and you have both crime and cover up.

2. individual determines correctly the crime is not survivable and does cover up with succeeds in covering up crime sufficiently but then the individual gets damage from cover up, since there is a strong suspicion the cover up was of crime the cover up punishment is nearly as bad as crime.

... variations of above until

X1. individual determines incorrectly the crime is not survivable when it was, and does cover up and suffers more from cover up than they would from crime.

These things are of course also hampered by what one hopes for - if you think you will be damaged by crime but not as much by cover up if cover up fails you may still attempt cover up because successful cover up means no damage.
There are a TON of AI generated videos on YouTube nowadays. I'm surprised that this guy is surprised. Two seconds into the video which he uses as an example, you hear one of the most popular AI narration voices around.

It's stopped bothering me now, because some of them are actually interesting. I've recently spent far too long watching AI generated history videos. ElevenLabs narration plus heaps of grainy public domain video clips stitched together to roughly meet the narrative.

They're not bad. IMHO.
>Any bets on how long until Chinese chips are the cutting edge on the planet?

Right now SMIC can produce 5 nm and 7 nm chips. That means about 5 years difference. I guess they can catch up in a decade if they invest enough resources, and will.

Having a domestic chip industry will be a huge win for China. Not only the chips will be much cheaper for them but they can export a ton while undercutting the competition. They will try to eat TSM, Samsung, Intel, AMD pies.
"I was totally surprised by this, because it means that a (mostly) fully-functioning bot capable of playing arbitrary games of Magic: The Gathering has a small enough footprint to run locally on your machine"

I dont get that. Maybe I am missing something.

Lets say, the MTG AI was so intensive to run that it would be unreasonable to run on the customer's machine - then I wouldn't run it on the server either, since it would be quite expensive (and bot games in card games are usually not pay per play).

Also, servers are not magic - most of them run on the same x86 CPUs as the local machine, with a lower clockspeed than their desktop counter parts (but higher than (most) notebooks). Therefore, the only way to archive a lower Bot turn timer compared to running locally would be to use significantly more cores than the customer (usually 4-8, hence 8-16 allocated cores per player?!). Sounds like a nightmare, especially during peak concurrent player hours/days!

If the CPU Player does not support multi-core, running locally should be faster in any case.
I would suggest one of the big main trunks of the different distro flavors: debian, arch, or openSUSE (NOT mint, it's Linux with guide rails, but you've taken away most of the power user focus and still have most of the footguns)

Debian is stable, but slow, I think of it as "vanilla linux". Most software everywhere is available as dpkg packages, either through apt or through download, and the packages in the repositories are well maintained.

Arch is a rolling updates -based distro with a user repository, so you get even more packages, and you never have to do a separate major distro version update.
Arch might require some setting up, but if you can follow a checklist, the installation should be rather easy (although, idk maybe there has been more work done on installation wizards lately)

Alternatively, Arch is nice in that most of the derivatives are compatible with the main line, so here you could opt for e.g. Manjaro or Arcolinux, these give you nice preconfigurations for desktop environments etc., which you would have to setup yourself with vanilla arch.

openSUSE is an opinionated and fully featured distro with a lot of really nice features. It's stable, the distro is backed up by an enterprise version (SUSE linux), and gets some of its stability and featureset from the money, requirements, and attention of an enterprise customer base
Currently a Xiaomi owner with stock firmware (waiting for LineageOS to catch up), and whilst I don't get any advertising[0], I know that the phone seems to be pretty chatty with IP addresses in China at times, as my firewall picks them off (when the phone is on wifi).

There are Xiaomi apps that I'm unable to uninstall (without root as I currently am, which I find mildly annoying.

[0]: I run a Pihole on my home network, but still don't get advertising when I'm on the unprotected mobile network
The scumbags received what they deserve. Just don't be a 23andme's used.
States are parasocial, not social. It might feel like state officials are your friends, the president is like a father, and your representative is like a respected community leader you’ve known your whole life. But those relationships aren’t based in natural social human behavior; they require a media ecosystem. Arguments that humans are social and therefore statist doesn’t hold water.

Public markets cannot exist without regulation, for complex reasons you can read about elsewhere. Private markets can exist without the state and do; whether it’s drug markets or decentralized crypto trading apps. The distinction is important to understand for people working in blockchain especially; people have tried to import ideas from corporate governance with general failure. The most successful daos measured by impact are molochdaos, which are designed to be controlled by a small number of private actors. Publicly owned daos such as dash and makerdao have consistently run into issues related to governance, such as decision capture by private organizations, low voter turnout, poor returns to capital, and more. Even now in the case of MakerDao the main driving force is a single developer, Rune, while the dao mostly acts as a discussion platform for his ideas. His endgame plan even will result in the dao governance from having minimal control over the core protocol. Understanding the difference between public and private would have prevented a lot of mistakes.
You're assuming that the USG is run by competent people rather than a bunch of petulant basket-weaving (okay, okay, polsci) majors.
Update on Wikimedia's Financial Health
Bring Thunderbird to iOS and Android
I kinda see installing a root certificate like disabling SIP in macOS - I get why it's needed in some cases, but it's a deal-breaker for me.

That makes deep ad blocking, local web caching, and automated history logging (with paths) impossible, for better or worse.
The problem is not raw American power, it is continuous gross mismanagement. That's what a lot of Americans are so fundamentally irritated about.
If you’re a Vim user, fugitive by tpope is a great tool
100%

These guys are just doing what the ad guys are doing but it’s for fraud.

The fraud is only half of it.
Yes, Mailinabox works surprisingly well, not to mention that it takes care even of requesting and deploying SSL Certificates.