skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose more accurate to characterize not all are successful as preventing/reversing brain drain to maintain/grow competitiveness.

PRC emulating 2000s challenges JP/TW recognized is expected. Difference is in execution/available playbook, PRC has growing R&D budget and commercial opportunties to brain drain from likes of JP/TW now, and that's mostly side effect of scale and PRC dumping resources into relevant sectors to compete for top talent. Not as much as US, but enough to entice. It's also failure of others to retain, JP is starting to terminate 10 year academic positions from 2010s designed for job security and they're not being recycled into JP corporate, so they leave for greener pastures abroad, including to PRC. TW... just has tertiary over capacity and not enough domestic opportunities, they also go abroad also including to PRC. SKR... annecdotally it seems like many stay abroad because there's not much opportunities other than being chaebol wage slave. VS last few years, more and more PRC talent/students abroad either see writing on the wall for their future prospects in west due to geopolitics but also know there's _real_ money to be made in PRC strategic sectors. 1000 talent / China Initative crackdown may have accelerated process but it's also increasingly obvious there's a lot of money and prestige to be had, and I think latter undervalued for those who feel stuck due to corporate/geopolitical bamboo ceiling.

TBH PRC also has tertiary overproduction but there isn't capacity to meaningfully brain drain amount of talent PRC is producing abroad. And it looks like some don't even want PRC talent to risk that due to muh IP. Simulatenously, PRC has enough resources/opportunities at top to reverse brain drain some of the few (relative to population) high end talent that went abroad. 0.01% of PRC are overseas, vs 1% of JP vs 3% of TW & SKR. I think that's a a large power strategy, and specifically a large population power strategy, make so much talent that there's always ample talent, and invest more in absolute terms to retain and even drain from others who can't afford to. Regional powers don't get this playbook.

Last years report on brain drain from top 10/100/1000 indian institutions was staggering, but IMO they'll have the same advantages as PRC once domestic opportunities pickup. Israel's pretty successful for various reasons. Turkey I'm not too familiar with other than they're defense industry is growing.
I don't mean to kill the joke further but I think Hitler was already a dead man walking before Hitler killed Hitler, so I think his enemies (Allied Forces plus Russians) deserve most of the credit.
Both sides claim the other did not live up to their end of the deal, and i think both have a point to a certain extent. However it does not exactly give strong evidence of peace deals actually leading to peace.
This looks very cool!

I have just a couple of wishes on top of this:

- I wish the file format were JSON-based instead of YAML-based. Then you could import .flyde files with standard `{type: 'json'}` import attributes and not need fetch or a webpack loader.

- I wish the editor were distributed as web components so taht they could be easily embedded into any framework.
Turns out to be a surprisingly hard question to answer; so I'm going with such people will exist but I'm not sure how many there are. But regardless, that is a list of things that are either mainly to be enjoyed by people who are well off or (ironically and opposite) part of a program of enabling cheap labourers to migrate large distances.

And I'm not against either of those things, both are good. But it is funny how one comment is complaining about doing things that are good for business and the wealthy, then the next comment was celebrating the same.
Complete ignorance of who military members are, how they are screened and recruited, and how they think is sadly the rule in the civilian world, not the exception.

In addition to having to pass a medical records screen, most US servicemembers come from the middle three socioeconomic quintiles of the population. It is literally a middle-class institution. Yet the trope lives on of the supposedly stupid military member who only joined because they had no options.
I'm pretty unclear as to the specifics. Rapidus is wafer processing and packaging; I get that. Is LSTC trying to create a fab directly, a fabless entity more or less directly developing chips, or just trying to be more like China's Big Fund, ie. a central point for disbursement of .gov money targeting domestic semiconductor R&D for other entities to consume as long as they march to the common drum?
I often listen to Pocket TTS on the train or when I can't access my device to skip or do much other than play/pause, and oh my god this gets me everytime haha. I am actually thinking of DIY'ing my own web-scraper thing to do a better job at it because especially for scientific articles, it's really rough when it gets to any LaTeX. And then I'm sitting there listening to some very automated sounding voice read off cryptic numbers and greek letters and code and math notation like some kind of Soviet number station (which is kinda cool at first, but gets annoying haha).

I want some kind of local document host that I can run a summarization or filtering script over to extract the portions that are legible to TTS, pipe it into something nice like ElevenLabs (if I was rich) or whatever, and then host a OGG for me to listen to on the go...
excluding... antibiotics, electricity, refrigeration, the combustion engine, the digital computer...

like even restricted to the domain of strictly computation, I'd say it barely scratches the surface... like even if we ignore computer engineering ("the transistor," "silicon microprocessors", etc.)... foundational tech like "compilers" are more significant.

even restricted to modern applications, GPS is more useful and life-changing.

so, no. It's not the biggest step in tech history.
I think it has a more significant impact on the Baltics which have been an Achilles heel of NATO.
This was basically my experience on the Google bus. Probably it’s only feasible when you have well-behaved riders (even the toilet was clean) and you don’t cheap out on capacity.
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I stand with Israel;)
"This is the second notice that your car warranty has expired" but more threatening
EU is technically a military alliance (article 42). Just not as strong as NATO.
Sweden joining ends the problematic area of the Suwalki gap as a pinch point between Kaliningrad and Belarus.

It also means NATO controls the Baltic Sea completely.
Indeed. Also in the US, whether or not something is fair use involves a four factor test[1] and two of the factors are the amount and substantiality of what's taken and the effect on any market. In this case, the amount is "everything" and the effect on the market is potentially very large for authors/publishers.

[1] https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
>unironically derives his understanding of the world from his consumption of Hollywood slop

Granted, a widespread problem, but, in my experience, nowhere as bad as in contemporary Germany. Why is that?
Yup, weight is important for sure, and it is quite nonlinear. That could mean that most consumer vehicles don't vary that greatly compared with 18-wheelers. Since those mostly use diesel, perhaps this could be roughly addressed by changing the tax on diesel fuel. But that would end up being terrible for the relatively small number of folks with diesel small cars (we once had a TDI Golf!).
You cannot address the American obesity epidemic without mentioning corn syrup subsidies!
Ask HN: Favorite Random Markup Language
Recently, I've been pretty interested in markup languages for hyper-specific tasks. Things like, CookLang[0], Traindown[1], and Fountain[2].

I was wondering what other kinds of similar projects people have seen?

[0]: https://cooklang.org (for recipes)

[1]: https://traindown.com (for workout logging)

[2]: https://fountain.io (for screenwriting)
TikTok users bombard Congressional offices over bill that could ban app
I attempted to do this [1] and explored topic of why VPL are not a mainstream too, but postponed project for maturation of VR/AR ecosystem as I see them usable only in VR now. This year actually I think to return to work on it.

[1] Rethinking Visual Programming with Go - https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/
> What practical difference would joining NATO make in the short term though?

Depends on the terms.

If, say, Article 5 excluded defined territories whose control was actively contested at the time or which were occupied by Russia with an explicit time limit, and applied fully to the rest of the country (including places Russia likes to lob missiles but cannot yet effectively contest for control of), that would pretty substantially change the Russian calculus of the war.

And especially if it also came with the kind of forward deployment (to the covered part of Ukraine) of NATO troops made to other eastern-flank countries, it would free up Ukrainian forces to deal with the contested and currently-occupied areas.
... but these studies aren't on "shutting down car access" and converting to _only_ bike and pedestrian access. Adding a bike lane still allows cars, just not on that narrow strip of pavement. Frankly, it's not even eroding "car supremacy" in that in urban streets with bike lanes, cars will still take up the majority of the street.

I think we need to start talking about how dedicated bike lanes can benefit _drivers_:

- more people getting around by bike (b/c it feels safe) means fewer cars in front of you

- absence of dedicated / protected bike lanes pushes bikes (and ebikes, scooters) etc into the main part of traffic, which can slow down traffic overall, and makes driving more stressful (b/c drivers have to watch for these). Creating bike infrastructure gives them a safe place to go that isn't directly in front of your car.

- more people arriving to a destination by bike/scooter/whatever means less competition in that area for the street parking that does exist
He he, my response to the sorts of people that use the "I bet you're fun at parties" jibe is usually "we go to different parties".
Sorry, I was going by the forbes article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/04/11/chine...

They are pretty arbitrary about it, I wouldn't be surprised if they were explicitly excluding tier 1s. Visas are back up:

https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-still-largest-group-of-for...

But we are still down from peak:

> The 2022-2023 school year, with 289,526 Chinese students, is the lowest number since the 2013-2014 academic year when 274,439 Chinese students attended U.S. colleges and universities. The highest enrollment number for Chinese students was 372,532 in 2019-2020.
> The Pile is old news, check out more recent datasets like;
https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2

— https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile/readme.txt
> The only examples I believe are the furniture and appliance stores. Bikers probably don’t pick up and shop for those items as much as car drivers. But of course I have no data.

Even though I own a mini van and will happily load it with large purchases, I'm more likely to get a piece of furniture or a large appliance delivered.

That said, I think there's lots of reason to be skeptical of alleged data in general, regardless of whether it suggests a "for" or "against" position on adding bike lanes. I read the article and it often repeated "better streets = good for business", which makes total sense but it also made me realize something:

If better streets = good for business, then a corollary is that bad streets = bad for business. And I've never seen a bike lane added to a bad street without also making general improvements to that street. It stands to reason, therefore, that bike lane vs no bike lane is a hard topic to study while controlling for all other variables. Are we sure that the bike lane itself improved business or could the overall improvements to the area in general be the most significant cause?

And obviously the more important claim is that there is no evidence that bike lanes hurt business. I'm not arguing that I think they do (I have no idea and I'm certainly open to the possibility that bike lanes are good for business), but it seems to me that there are similar methodological challenges when it comes to studying this, since streets that have bike lanes might be in better overall condition than streets without if only because bike lanes in most North American cities are a relatively recent addition and so streets with bike lanes have benefited from maintenance more recently. Local politicians might also be under more pressure to fund and direct the maintenance of streets with bike lanes (maybe those streets have heavier traffic, maybe there are campaign promises to add bike lanes etc.)
In hindsight we know that was wrong. However I'll fully admit that if he has assassinated Putin I would have called him out on it even though we now wish he had.
The thing here is that the potential "crime" they were trying to prevent is opening an App Store in the EU, which EU literally forced Apple to allow. So if this was the reasoning, then Apple is the one breaking the law here.
I have a friend who got a CPAP and was happily sleeping with it on the first day, 5 minutes in. I'm very envious, but... I've already tried several different masks, went to the supplier to have them adjust that stuff to fit me etc.

At the end of the day, we are all different, and the threshold for what physical sensations a person can tolerate is highly variable. Everyone understands that about pain (I hope!), but this goes just as much for all these other things that are not necessarily painful as such, but are still physical.
The hosting looks cool but not efficient. Would you consider support batch inference for a more scalable solution?
Sigh. Nowhere did I say that HN users are smarter, that people are stupid and should be lied to.
> Russia has a few dozen SU-34s that can fly

And Ukraine is about to receive their F-16s
I keep getting downvoted for this, but this is all just the after effect of the breakup of Hewlett Packard.
NATO invoked Article 5 after 9/11, BTW.
Einstein Problem
OneDrive on Mac writing over 1TB per day on SSD
This is what we have to deal with. People believing that when our enemies are arming themselves, it is somehow problematic to respond? This attitude is fading in Europe (thankfully) but I still see this far too often.
So even on 5G you vpn back to your pihole? What’s the latency like?
I think the big difference here is that the Qattara Sea would be a major engineering project involving specialized skills and machinery.

The Great Green Wall is more open in that anyone can contribute to its construction. All you need is a shovel and some seeds.
Yea, but I run that output over a second local AI that removes the ads :D
I've experienced nice commute trips on busses in multiple US cities.

Maybe places you've lived haven't had nice transit or you didn't live in a good place to take advantage of it, but I promise it's out there. It's just hugely underfunded and struggling because of all the concessions we've made to private vehicle ownership.
The Rafale is cheaper than the F35, by a wide margin.
probably not "developers," probably "data scientists"

Executives at UnitedHealth Group told workers to mine old medical records for more illnesses, to identify diagnoses of serious diseases that might have never existed, inflating bills paid by the federal government's Medicare Advantage program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedHealth_Group
Would it return Rust code though?
We have been told that C++ is dangerous
the problem with AI generated content is that this starts extending into areas that didn't really have much of a reason to lie in the first place.

as a general example, there wasn't much propaganda value in lying about food, so for the most part we can trust those descriptions to be true, particularly in guides intended to be written as cookbooks. in 2024, we have legion accounts making fake recipes for the sole purpose of getting clicks for ad dollars.
I raised a concern about the inclusion of books3 in the Pile back in 2020, and this is what the head of Eleuther (Stella Biderman) told me:

"So here’s the big picture. There are three sets of datasets:
1. Data exists out there in the world. It has been collected into datasets and posted online. I’ll call this raw data.
2. We take that data, clean it, and process it for language modeling. I’ll call this per-set data.
3. We combine those per-set data into one massive dataset, the Pile. This is heavily processed, including weighing the components.

We created 2 and 3 and put them online. We put 2 online so that people can reweigh and remix the data if they wish, but we expect most people to just download 3 and use it out of the box. Access to 3 will be provided in several forms, including HuggingFace and from our website.

2 and 3 are not copyright violations, even if the data is copyrighted, because they fall under fair use (at least in the US).

The Pile contains code that turns 1 into 2 and code that turns 2 into 3.

When you download Maroon 5 from a website, you are creating a dataset corresponding to 2. That can be copyright violation depending on what you do with it, but our use is not a copyright violation."
With this fantastic suggestion, I am proud to bestow you the honorary title of Certified Armchair Expert. To accept, you need only to recite the creed of the order: "It's all so simple!"
Yes agreed, and transformative use itself also has limitations. You don't have carte blanche to use something just because you think it's transformative, for example the Lynn Goldsmith vs Andy Warhol Foundation case over the "Orange Prince" work. https://copyrightalliance.org/warhol-decision-reins-transfor...
i think this was likely a reference to another contemporary conflict
I always wanted to love ProGraph - I played with it back in the pre-OSX Mac days. But I found it's very hard to "read" ProGraph code, which it would seem is the thing that visual languages are supposed to enable. It could be that my brain had already been shaped into text based programming for too long to adapt.

That said, I did create a visual toy language demo a few years back for the fun of it. It's kinda like a visual Lisp, or maybe upside-down ProGraph: https://github.com/mypalmike/skastic
CoffeeScript has quite a lot of code generation features, while TypeScript largely just removes code in order to transpile to JavaScript. The only exception I can think of is enums, and I suspect they wouldn't have put those in if they had it all to do over again.
Apart from the dedicated domain, is there any other GitHub-specific functionality? Or is this basically “just” a GitHub-themed landing page to an otherwise generic link shortening service?
This means they use Spiking Neural Networks. It’s a software algorithm that most likely doesn’t work as well as regular NNs.
This might be fine if Apple allowed creating alternate App Stores and developing apps for that store to be done without a developer account. However, the alternate App Store is a right granted to Epic by an EU regulation, so Apple can't just block them from doing it because they didn't follow the ToS for APPLE's App Store.
Creator of Keila here.

We have a Zapier integration which allows you to automatically create campaigns from an RSS feed. It's currently in private beta, let me know if you want to give it a try!
As far as I'm concerned, reactive state management is a solved problem. Use SQLite for everything, or Postgres if you outgrow it. Does it require a bunch of glue code? Depends on the language, but let's say it does. This orthogonal persistence layer of Cell's is guaranteed not to do a fifteenth of what SQLite does, so either you lose out on it, or you're back to square one with the glue code.
Also not mentioned, inkjet prints are water soluble.

If you have to print anything that might come into contact with even very small drops of water, inkjet will be a disaster for you.

Laser prints are heat fixed and not water soluble...
It is expensive to make a modern fighter. However you want some competition just to keep everyone honest.
> ANY desire to join NATO

Sweden has been using Nato standards and running occasional exercises with Nato for a while now. They didn’t want to be officially part of it because of their unique perspective on War and Peace (see Olof Palme, sending Blue helmets in Cyprus), but there wasn’t a lack of desire to join. I’d compare it to Switzerland and the EU: the de-facto alliance is obviously beneficial, but principles have kept things separated on paper.

Finland, that’s more complicated: unlike Baltic countries and the Kaliningrad exclave, they were not in the Soviet Union. That meant a lot of pressure to remain neutral, translated until last year into “Finlandization”: a refusal to take either side. That pressure ended with the Fall of the Berlin Wall, but Finland (like Sweden) saw no reason to change their official neutral position.

When Russia started to mess with Estonia, the need to ally with Nato, in particular on cyber-defense questions, became a lot more present for everyone nearby. I suspect that Finland wanted to be ready, adopt Nato standards, training, methods, etc., and pick the right moment to join officially. Like the Baltic trio, the Russian presence looms high in the East, and I’d be surprised if there were not regular overtures and unofficial promises of support. The USA and Canada care a lot about the Arctic, and it’s not hard to count the allies there.

So, I don’t think it was a major shift—like Italy changing sides at the end of WW2. It’s more a gradual rapprochement, matching Putin’s increasingly concerning policies, that hit a very good reason to accelerate. The process has been mostly political and official. Neither Sweden nor Finland had to change guns, tactics, or radio signals.
"For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000-year cycle caused by the precession of Earth's axis (about 26,000 years) as it rotates around the Sun, which changes the location of the North African monsoon."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara#:~:text=For%20several%2....
There are places in Finland where half the kids cycle to school, even in the winter.

Here is a great video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
WCAG compliance is a choice, I guess.
Rivian surprise announces the R3 hatchback
There are a bunch of little things that would just work on my Android but do not work on iPhone. I already mentioned the web - every browser is just a safari skin. So I can't use my favourite firefox plugins. The YouTube app is not as polished. It won't connect to by cars bluetooth every time and the bluetooth menu takes a lot more taps to access. Siri is really bad it'll often misfire or do the wrong thing. The camera has a shutter sound which is impossible to disable unless I use live photos which take up more space.

The android back button is genius. A stack of views that you pop with a button that is always in the same easy to reach spot. With iPhone sometimes the back link is top left, sometimes top right so I cannot use my muscle memory for navigation.