skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But surely... Gnome shouldn't be dropping X11 sessions until Slack do get their shit together? (And I'm not just talking about Slack obviously). I get it, people are lazy, but I don't like these gun-to-the-head upgrades because the users are the losers.

FWIW I tried to switch to Wayland 3 times in the last year before finally making it stick. I had to change a ton of silly little things, like:

- grepping through my .config and /etc for any mention of xclip and switching to wl-copy (vimrc, tmux.conf to name two)

- enabling webtrc on browsers so that screen sharing works in web apps (MS Teams still refuses to work)

I don't know if there's a good source of migration tips that covers all of these things in one place so you can search for the things that affect you. But on a work machine, switching across can result in random minor disruptions over a week, some of them in the middle of meetings. And if you're having "one of those weeks" you need to switch back to what works.

Even now on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, a bleeding edge rolling distro with excellent wayland + kde plasma support, I still run into the odd issue that makes me wanna switch back. Disappearing cursor is one. It's totally random, but if I click on a text input box on a browser, I get no text cursor. WTH.
Or residual connections. It is just addition.
Not quite - the question is posed with a historical context that has since changed. It is certainly the case that history lacks female authors, but that’s not so true today. Writing is one discipline where women have substantially levelled the playing field.

Other fields do still suffer a deficit of female participation, and the reasons for that are highly debated of course.

Notably for this site, there are vanishingly few female engineers compared to the male population.

My pop explanation is that engineers are produced in a pipeline that starts with games (particularly video games) which are stigmatized in the typical socialization that young girls are subject to.
Ah the multipolar dream: the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, the baltics, Armenia, the kurds, they all try to wake up from that nightmare. Turns out gradual improvement in enslavement is preferable to actual enslavement..
I think that’s subjective. I was pretty invigorated reading it. I’d love to complain about shit with this guy for hours.
I think much like with a basic Turing machine definition compute is possible on a variety of substrates that some kind of intelligence can be created with a whole class of implementations, transformers included. Indeed the video and image input of LLMs is one of the most exiting use cases.
> Is there any reason to use the non browser version?

Making it completely disappear to a tray icon.

> 1 less v8 instance running

I doubt. With process isolation, I guess every tab runs its on V8. Otherwise, oh boy.
> Do I describe myself as a leader? Yes, I do; because the evidence of my life shows that to describe myself as anything else would be silly.

Are you quoting Dwight Schute?
We actually have very clear examples from history of how to turn an enemy into a friend: the Marshall plan and the similar levels of aid that the USA poured into post-nazi Germany, post-fascist Italy, post-imperial Japan. That turned War-torn bitter enemies into some of the staunchest US allies today.

Given Israel's position of power, they can and should be doing this. However, Israeli politicians just don't want this. Netanyahu has publicly boasted numerous times that he has personally been actively fighting to prevent a two-state solution. A one-state solution is unthinkable to even the moderates in Israel (the Supreme Court has repeatedly iterated that the government MUST protect both the Jewish and the Democratic character of Israel, so integrating the populations of Gaza and the West Bank as full Israeli citizens like this would be unconstitutional, but integrating them as second class citizens would also be unconstitutional).

So what is Israel's solution? Destroying Hamas is a pipe dream - the famine, death, and destruction they are pereptrating in Gaza today will, inevitably, create a new wave of terrorism, whether it's called "Hamas" or something else, as it always has throughout all of history.

The only real solution is massive economic investments in Gaza and the West Bank, and relying on police-like peacekeeping to prevent attacks as much as possible. This is the obvious long-term solution, anything else will worsen, not improve, Israel's security.
> I suspect that the author would be fine with the company meeting if...

I can assure you that there is no leadership team competent enough that I would be "fine" with a mandatory four-hour all hands on Monday morning. Not even the bosses I have liked personally could make that worthwhile.
I've always wondered how to build SSH based applications. If anyone has any pointers I'd be extremely grateful.
[dupe]

More discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39600172
When was this? I use JAX+TPUs to train LLMs and haven't experienced many issues. IMO it was way easier to set up distributed training, sharding, etc compared to Pytorch+GPUs.
the same reason copyright shouldn't last 100 year? and the same reason patents dont last 100 years... wtf is wrong with this world?
> inherent monopolies

I've learned to be careful about this "natural monopoly" term because it turns out to be very debatable. Recently with fiber deployments is a good example...see London/UK experience.

I feel like if people realized the benefits to having many companies compete for everything, then they would choose services that did not act like monopolies and to create barriers of entry.

The consumer ultimately dictates how companies should do business. The problem is a lot of the time they are choosing the price that is in front of them, and not considering the price in the future.

If consumers were smarter they could break monopolies without government intervention necessary.

Like if there were two companies building out some critical infra...if one promised they would do it in a way that others could compete easily, and consumers valued that, then they would win the contract.

> profit above all else a good objective for government services

This doesn't need to be the case.

People already work for government without profit incentive. It's personal prestige mostly I think.

Interesting to think about what would happen if we introduced duplication and competition within government departments. It seems extremely counter-intuitive because of duplication, but its how the entire capitalist sector deliver efficiencies. Same as how open source works. People compete for prestige.

Corporates sometimes do this too. Google might have multiple teams working on the same goal.

Interesting to think about what would happen if you hired two people to do one job and made them compete against each other on every task.
I don't think there is such a thing as general intelligence, there are only capabilities. What we call "general" intelligence is really just the set of capabilities that a human has, because we're self-centered.

If we had more intelligences around to compare with I think we'd find that some are "more intelligent" in that they have all of our capabilities, plus some. And that others are "less intelligent" in that we have all of the capabilities that they have, plus some. And then there would be the "differently intelligent" which have at least one capability that we don't and which lack at least one capability that we have.

Under this lens, I don't know if there's much utility in fine grained comparisons of intelligence re meters and millimeters. The space is discrete: subsets, not metrics.

I don't know if you could ever prove something like this (or maybe we just lack that capability). It seems more like an axiom-selecting notion than something to be argued. Anyhow, it's what my gut says.
It's just buggy and slow and I have to buy visual assist to make it usable.
That security point stood out to me as well. First of all, who intentionally writes code to contain SQL injection vulnerabilities anno 2024? Or knows about it and doesn't fix it? Is it really that weird that someone fixes it?
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I like the idea of "defining the edges of suitability." Just because you can use it, does not mean you should.

I lean towards fewer tools. Postgres is an awesome swiss army knife. In some cases, using it as a key-value store, a cache, or a messaging queue are fine. In other cases, they're not.

Examine how suitable this particular tool is for your particular use case and your particular requirements.

Maybe you have zero DevOps skills, a background in DB administration, and your cache backs an external API. Perhaps using postgres is the right solution.

Maybe you know enough about databases to be dangerous, but feel comfortable managing virtual clouds environments. Perhaps DynamoDB or a Redis instance is the way to go.

There is no one answer. However, often there is a good default answer.

P.S. The default answer changes over time. There's always the flavor-of-the-year. The technology landscape is also constantly shifting. My heuristic is to use lean towards the default answer that has been around the longest.
> This seems weird to me because they mainly just argue that abusing kids is bad

No, the study provides evidence that childhood abuse causes mental health problems in adulthood, which is much more specific than "bad".

> The critical discussion is how to reduce/prevent abuse

This is an entirely separate discussion.
It is a law that cannot be broken like perpetual motion or the creation of life.
You may also argue that the universe is a perpetual motion machine and you would be wrong.
Fair. The abundance isn't the problem the state of the mines for rare earth and other things is. A couple of options in Australia went to sleep when China cut prices and they haven't woken up afaik. Same with lithium options the price makes Western clean extraction much less profitable and we're not short of cheap lithium.

Snark is frowned upon here. Complaining I capitalised cyanide is pretty snarky but your substantive points stand.

Am I right in thinking your dislike of my shallow economic statements should not be read as believing you think pcb recycling has no downsides? Because you would be in a very small room if you said it's only good to send dead pc parts to Asia and Africa for teardown. Even the vendors now say they know this isn't all peachy.
The next generation of large models is to train several models with different specialties (small and large), and then have a front-end for task scheduling, which is then assigned to different sub models to obtain strong capabilities and professionalism while also controlling costs?
Because it would be an intelligence but not one we would recognize as human like GI.
If I was asked something like this, I'd refuse and withdraw my application.

That explains why Ubuntu is so full of bad ideas (such as snap) and reinventing the wheel (Unity, Mir).
The process of cooling down converts starches in rice, pasta, potatoes etc... to a more resistant forms that your body cannot process easily.
Yeah just decompression through `DecompressionStream` is exactly what I'd like.
I disagree with the notion that Chinese EV makers, including BYD, have always aimed to dominate EV exports. Their focus has primarily been on satisfying domestic demand rather than targeting overseas markets like Tesla or VW.

Given that they've only 1 year something ago emerged from COVID-related restrictions, a shift to an export-focused strategy would require substantial time and effort in research, planning, and marketing to become competitive internationally. While BYD, as one of the earliest players in the EV market and with existing facilities in Mexico and the U.S., may be a step ahead, I believe they're just at the initial stages of exploring overseas opportunities. The EV market competition is likely to intensify in the coming years, but it's still early days for Chinese EV makers in the global arena.
This looks interesting, but I wish the author have included some pictures from the inside.

There are some decent handheld emulators based on an old Rockchip design. If someone can make a more powerful model in this format I would happily buy 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JazW_Rf0Ko
I think the same way that landowners colluding to keep rents high and keeping units vacant in lieu of renting at a lower price would be considered an anti-trust violation, homeowners voting for exceedingly strict zoning laws for self-benefit should be considered an anti-trust violation.

Your ownership of a house should not entitle you to decide what other people do with their land to such an absurd degree that you can manipulate the market in the area where you live.
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Not only that, there are also big concerns when it comes to spying.

Huawei's net gear is alread being replaced with brands like Nokia and Ericsson. And car tech is becoming much more advanced so that it can also be used to spy on people.
Meta explains how WhatsApp's encrypted chats will work with third-party services
From nothing to ChatGPT opened to the public and billions students' lifes rely on that in the next month, isn't this the biggest step in the tech history?
Very nice project. Thanks for sharing it here. I saw you used beautifulsoup to scrape, but HN has a public API which works great and it doesn't need any token or auth.

I recently wrote a minimal wrapper for that:
https://github.com/mfiro/hnconnector
Now that the models are multimodal, you can do it with images (e.g. white text on a white background) too.
How do you middle-click?
This is a great idea! On a related note, I love how nalgeon [0] has interactive blog posts [1] on SQLite release notes using WASM magic

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nalgeon

[1] - https://antonz.org/sqlite-3-45/
> The USA helped South Korea become a free liberal democracy. Much better living standards than North Korea.

Ahah yes the "free" korea where you are "allowed" to work up to 21 hours per day.
Also I wonder what (or who?) keeps the north poor. Probably nothing to do with US sanctions, right guys?

> Yugoslavia broke up because of ethnic fighting, not an US invasion.
> Yes the USA is in favour of democracy, liberalism and free-trade.

And who supported ethnonationalists in Yugoslavia? Totally not uncle Sam again, it's not like he was known for providing fundings to right wing para military groups by selling cracks in America cities. Really a shining beacon of Freedom those USA, a city upon a hill.
This isn't what is happening though. Philosophers keep poking holes in AGI arguments, previously Strong AI, and techbros keep using a new term, each more ambiguous than the last. The hope, it seems, is to use this ambiguity to prevent pointed criticism that would prevent investment and adoption.
Wouldn't they be better off filling most positions locally even if quantity dips because long term those skills transfer rathering then hoping a migrant becomes a local? 40% is a high number required.
Dutch government scrambling to keep ASML in Netherlands
People are generally net tax contributors during working age (25-65) and net recipients at younger and older ages. Expats are typically in the country only during working age years. If they decide to settle longer term, they'll pay the same tax as anyone else (the tax benefits expire after 5 years). On average, probably even more so (they'll likely have lower unemployment risk than the median Dutch). So from a fairness point of view, I think a few years of tax benefits is perfectly justifiable.
I still don't understand, why does thermodynamics (or statistical mechanics or whatever) say you can't make an AGI?
Amazing references! Thank you!
Yeah, imagine spinning up 100 von Neumanns to attack a problem. They can all instantly share their thoughts & new skills, coordinate, choose new exploration directions, and spend decades developing new tools -- all within moments after pressing 'Enter'.

Even if our AI systems have only a minute fraction of von Neumann's intellect, we still have no idea what tomorrow will be like. I'm terrified and excited.
> we’ll accelerate not a slide into the singularity but a slide into inane banality

Half joking response: Have you looked at all the SEO garbage than any Google search produces these days? We are already in the great age of "inane banality".
Vision Pro is Micro OLED, not microLED
Bingo. Pure, unadulterated ego
Many certs are absolutely valued - look at the number of people who change careers with a cert from UC Berkeley Extension - and beyond that, 2U and Coursera, and others, were heavily investing in the degree space.

The explanation for their failure is more complex than "certs are worthless."

Obviously 2U overpaid for edX, but that's just one example. And why didn't edX do better?
This isn't about proving that you are human, it is about being able to map your iris to the identity on government-issued documents.

In essence: good luck trying to exit/enter a country/location with access to the iris database that already mapped your identity after KYC for your bank account.

You are now living inside "Minority Report": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPDYh9EpbmA
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My rule is “If you’re complaining you better be quitting”. I have followed it so far. Granted it can take a few months to sort things out.
Red was a revolution when it came out in 2007, offering 4K for under $20K! When I heard the announcement of its development I wondered how a guy who made sunglasses was going to pull it off.
Really? I think they’re terrorists AND stupid.
Why else would they use funds from charity to build tunnels? Why else wouldn’t they build a local economy instead of investing in the daily rain of rockets on their neighbours? Why else would they launch a horrific attack against civilians at a “love and peace” festival next to the Gaza Strip in a country that’s a military powerhouse?

Other than complete delusion, it’s because they’re stupid… OR they don’t care about the well-being of their citizens and value the death of their opponents more than the live of their own
Not even the best competitor to pagerduty released in the last 72 hours. Absolutely luke warm, I doubt if they even have the big name customers they say they do. Any engineering team worth their weight realises that its not a drop-in solution to PD and barely solves any hard problems.
"I didn't forget my homework I just.. did it orally"
> Nobody would pay for the fire department

But they essentially do via their taxes. Implying people understand they need to fund it.

If we imagine a very transparent flow of information regarding fires...people would readily see the need for it. Like how we buy insurance.

All roads could be toll roads. We have technology to track exact usage of roads. Why should cyclists pay for the entire road?

If someone doesn't pay for the roads and gets a delivery, then they delivery company passes on the cost of the road.

If we have very transparent availability of pricing then this becomes possible.

> Are companies that don't pay for the EPA allowed to pollute to their heart's content?

If people don't want pollution...they shouldn't buy from companies that pollute.

If people don't want pollution they should ban it from their private property.

With modern tech we can see the entire supply chain of these companies, so consumers can make choices.
I disagree, I think the king is indeed naked and not only does he have the balls telling everyone about it, he does it with style.

Ironically, he could make a great VP of "cut the horse shit"
It might be part of a disinformation campaign- a mostly correct document that includes some intentional inaccuracies or falsehoods.
Do you think they have a written tissue protocol?
I wonder if they will relax scrutiny of use of CinemaDNG, or honestly if Nikon produced CDNG that would be cool.
I don't disagree with you. I think being energy dependent is a main goal of China's.

But in the grand scheme of things, the Chinese just want to secure their future and finances, just like anyone else.
Yes the top 6% all got perfect scores. This happened to me on one of the optional SAT math exams, I was ironically confused for a bit.
There's only one thing that could end this relationship, and that's an outright ban of TikTok in the US.

And no, not some kind of awkward "US shell company buys it" arrangement like we saw proposed during the Trump admin, but a complete and total ban, akin to what all international tech companies face in China. It seems to me that if Facebook (or heck, even non-US apps like LINE) are unable to operate in China, then TikTok shouldn't be able to operate in the US either.
Very cool! I resonate with those values!

It also allows standard tools and front-ends to work with any back-end. We could have CDNs that can cache and sync dynamic HTML for a set of users without touching the server.
I see you agree with the author’s premise

However, one of the few people who he admires in the post most definitely describes themselves as a leader.

The post would be less funny with the appropriate disclaimers (‘of course not all people who see themselves as a leader are like this’) so I think we can safely assume that he trusting in the intelligence of his readership to figure this out.
> sure, maybe for english speakers an english based transliteration might be better. but i'd argue that makes it worse for everyone else.

Certainly not worse than Kunrei-shiki. Hepburn might not be a great match to non-English languages, but it'S still a better one.

If you disagree, show me one language whose speakers would naturally pronounce "Sinzyuku" correctly.
There is something similar https://github.com/alexpovel/ancv/
"Spying". The default word people here use to justify we shouldn't let China compete at the highest value chain.
> A couple of options in Australia went to sleep when China cut prices and they haven't woken up afaik.

It'd be more accurate to describe what happened was a number of resource producers went all in on an anticipated surge in lithium demand for EV and home batteries globally that was much smaller than predicted.
They’re not free, and never were. Tech bros just telling you, that you pay more, if you don’t pay in cash.
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