skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your entire application fits in one VM forever - fair enough.

A lot of applications can fit on a single machine. Single machines have gotten so big: 256+ cores, terrabytes of ram, huge amounts of fast storage, 100+Gbps NICs.

Yeah, you should have 2-4 for continuity, but that doesn't need orchestration.

You really don't need to start thinking about horizontal scaling unless you're getting close to filling a single big machine. Especially since the longer it takes for you to scale to big machines, the bigger the machines will be when you get there.

If your application is very latency sensitive, then maybe you need to run machines in more places, and maybe you want something to orchestrate that...
Coffee roastery in Finland launchs AI-generated blend; results were surprising
> Chew added that 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as the Carlyle Group, General Atlantic and Susquehanna International Group, while 20% of the firm is owned by Zhang and 20% owned by employees around the world.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/tech/tiktok-bytedance-china-o...
Maybe it first worked like that, but it's certainly no longer the case in newer versions. I've personally compromised a not-network-connected TV using only broadcast signals.

HTML+JS can be pushed via the "DSM-CC object carousel"
I am not sure.

In a lot of countries, access to healthcare is not dependent on the wealth of the recipient, or the goodwill of an insurance company.
These countries banned the app from phones of public officials it seems, that’s a far cry from a full ban.
Why would we allow a hostile foreign power with whom we may be at war in a few years to have total control over a major part of the information diet of millions of Americans? The Soviets wouldn't have been allowed to own NBC in the Cold War, and China shouldn't be allowed to own the modern-day equivalent.

The US won't own the company. Some non-Chinese private corporation will. The government won't be able to control the narrative on the app. If you disagree with that, just think about what would happen if Fox bought it: would a Democratic administration be able to have any influence whatsoever on the algorithm? No, of course not. It would be run by American citizens who are protected by the First Amendment.

(Also, I don't think it even has to be owned by an American company, just not a Chinese one.)
or how Democrats can lose an election with this one cool trick to alienate young voters!
At the end of the day I think you're right that Kant's notion of necessary conditions is probably flexible enough to accommodate the findings of general relativity.

The fact that the relation is one of an amendment or a reconciliation to new data is a point in favor of skepticism against his original assumptions, but not a defeater.

I would agree that we can credit intuitions as being more than mere assumptions, and I think you're right about The legitimacy of positing assumptions as long as they're posited in a spirit of openness and responsiveness to philosophical and scientific criticism. What do you know, a healthy and reasonable of reply on philosophy. To tie this to Daniel Dennett, I have found one of his most valuable contributions to be a notion of the principle of charity, which is to credit the person you correspond with with the most reasonable possible interpretation, and I think the best philosophical exchanges are carried out in that spirit, and so I think he would highlight yours as the response in this thread that best embodies that principle.
Super dense urban situations are not what we are talking about here.
* Work four-day weeks. It's a much better work/life balance.
It's also supported by simdjson [0] (which has a lot of language bindings [1]):

> Multithreaded processing of gigantic Newline-Delimited JSON (ndjson) and related formats at 3.5 GB/s

[0] https://simdjson.org/

[1] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson?tab=readme-ov-file#bind...
Whether or not one believes it to be either warranted or sound, this is a ultimately a national security concern not an economic one.

Many people see much hotter conflict with China on the horizon and TikTok in its current form presents a greater risk of letting an adversary manipulate messaging during that conflict than its major competitors do.

That's a strategic threat. Fair and constructive debate can be had as to whether banning it aligns with free speech ideology, whether a conflict is really coming, whether TikTok is really a vector for adversarial manipulation, etc -- but when you don't engage with the apparent and rather straightforward rationale for a ban, you just inject chaos into the discussion and complicate the work of those who might make legitimate arguments against it.
A "Free Market" is a sham concept. Noam Chomsky laid this out very clearly.
I wonder why airports don’t have actual signal lights or the equivalent. Train tracks have them, and there are fairly strict interlocks to prevent multiple conflicting uses of the same track segment at the same time.
Why you should not apply to YC
Other countries don't institutionalize the two-party system by law. Because it would be insane and antidemocratic to create a complicated network of laws that would have to be eliminated state by state in order to ordain that an entire country must be ruled by two intimately-linked private clubs in turn.
I flagged this comment.
I think the message is: "The government only wants your personal data harvested by American companies so they can monitor that data"
This isn't directly related to Wax as a language, but I quite like the formatting used for S expressions on this page. It's much more pleasant than the typical train-of-closed-paren I normally see lisps formatted with, at least to my C-formatting-accustomed eyes.
A fairly interesting topic that I think remains important to this day. Some notes:

* The article misses out on HDBSCAN [1], which is a relatively new technique, and quite effective.

* With the arrival of embeddings, esp. sentence embeddings, now you've a very powerful additional lever to produce results closer to what you want for text. Changing the embeddings can often lead to drastically improved results (as an example, see [2] where the authors observe that clustering with embeddings can often replace topic models).

* Clustering is (or can be, depending on the context) an ill-defined problem (see [3]), with some hard-to-specify degrees of freedom, e.g., text representation, distance metric, the loss or accuracy metric being optimized. For a specific use-case, it helps to pay attention to these, and these are typically buried in the algorithm and not available as levers. An appropriate embedding can sometimes compensate for some of these settings which might be misaligned to your problem.

* There is also some interesting work on accommodating user feedback into clustering (as an example see [4]). While this area has been around for a while (see [5], an early work by Andrew Ng), it isn't big, which is a pity since I'd have been interested to see this continuum where you start with unsupervised groupings, i.e., clustering, and then go all the way to supervised precised groupings, i.e., classifications, based on minimal user interactions. Although I suppose some of metric learning can repurposed for this use-case.

At my work we deal with a lot of text data, and hier. clustering as a first step enables us to make sense of the topics, topic spread, volumes etc.

Refs:

[1] https://hdbscan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

[2] Is Neural Topic Modelling Better than Clustering? An Empirical Study on Clustering with Contextual Embeddings for Topics, https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.285/

[3] Clustering: Science or Art?, http://proceedings.mlr.press/v27/luxburg12a/luxburg12a.pdf

[4] Clustering with Same-Cluster Queries, https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2016/file/9597353e41e69...

[5] Distance Metric Learning with Application to Clustering with Side-Information, https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2002/hash/c3e4035af2a1c...
>Sony had some nifty name which is eluding me

Jog Dial
Literally every philosophical stance compatible with atheism, no? Maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying.
*and anti American
> against Tesla's Supervised FSD Level 2 system

...those same Mercedes cars that have Level 3 also have a much more "powerful" and flexible Level 2 system built in, but this requires to keep a hand on the wheel and pay attention to the road (mentioned towards the end of this video, at around 6:15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLz95Gw7g8c)
This should be required viewing for anyone even thinking of giving an electronic device to a child.
Ah, so just like when the U.S. didn’t like the Soviets pointing out they were an apartheid state during the Civil Rights era. Truly a winning strategy!
A nicer problem to have.
How strange to find so very many people working in soulless drudgery in this world where no one is forced to do anything.
Whelp, there goes TikTok (unless the first amendment challenges succeed, which there is precedent for (thanks, Montana)), as China has already clearly indicated they are unwilling to sell their 20% share.

Nothing quite like congress ignoring their 170 million plus constituents (aka a majority of citizens) and 30k+ businesses, eh? Though, I can’t pretend that this is the first time.
Ah; it looks like my impressions are /somewhat/ out of date: https://www.ppic.org/publication/whats-behind-californias-re...
Although I’d say trying infer things from numbers during the pandemic is going to, uh, run into some pretty serious confounding factors. Still, looks like the trend was happening /before/ that, so.
Only if it does nothing. In fact Google is one of the major players in LLM field. The winner is hard to predict, chip makers likely ;) Everybody jumped on bandwagon, Amazon is jumping...
Joke or not, this could be a pretty ergonomic way to read long form content. Currently I rebind my mouse side buttons to page up/down which serves much the same purpose, since scrolling endlessly on a mouse doesn't feel great for your hands.
am I the only one in the comment section that thinks this sounds great for commuting in heavy traffic at low speeds, which is the absolute most miserable type of driving?

ya sound of an alarm when we get through the traffic and I can actually drive, fine with me, I'll play on my phone
Your theory here is that YC just has a weird soft spot for the University of Oklahoma?

It's a program you apply to get into. That's what strivers do: apply to get into things. Of course there are lots of college strivers there.
Yes, great post and really interesting work! Thank you, I really appreciate the sharing culture at Cloudflare.
Hahaha, this won't survive even intermediate scrutiny of the First Amendment. Tiktok really lucked out that Congress is not smart enough to pass the bill Cantwell had in mind.
Basically, nothing.

The problem is voltage. USB needs 5V, CPUs/GPUs need 0.8V-1.4V (you feed them 12V, but that gets down-converted), plenty of other chips need 3.3V. You can't wire a home for 5V or even 12V DC because the losses would be unacceptably high.

This means a full-home DC grid would need to run more like 100V-200V DC, so you need DC-DC conversion at every point of use. And efficiency-wise AC->DC or DC->DC don't differ much. They're both around 95% in ideal scenarios, or more like 80% in real-world use. It really isn't worth the effort.
Fundraising is about focus. If you are in a fundraising mode and applying to YC, great. Would learn a lot, and I think it makes sense to do that. When fundraising, many rejections are great. When not fundraising and a VC reaches out, it's distracting. How is the case different here? PG himself says so [1]

When you are building and selling a product, shifting your focus to fundraising in the middle (and not committing to it) is stupidity and would leave you to neither be able to build/sell well or fundraise well. It's a mindset shift, and one of PG's essays talk about that too.

Problem is not with rejection. Rejection from the customers is what motivates people. I am not motivated by "wanting to show others they are wrong", but by solving a problem, creating value, and impacting people. What you wrote is a weak justification for the time you spent on application - that could have spent on building product or a sales pitch.

Again, my point is not rejection but distraction. It's about focus. When you are in the middle of building, it's unhelpful to just fill out an application for "what if". Don't do it. Most entrepreneurs know when they are fundable.

[1]: https://paulgraham.com/fr.html
Crypto mining is unique in that the absolute consumption provides no benefit at all. The "work" consists purely in demonstrably having spent a certain amount of value, and the energy is purely an unit of accounting. So if you could manage to make this unit more expensive for EVERY miner, the accounting system would work as before, the safety properties of the system would be unchanged, and less energy would be used.

I can think of no other use of energy where this situation holds.
That’s a fair point. However, I did a quick search and it seems that untreated, the average prognosis for someone with HIV is 8-10 years.

With the right motivation, a lot could be accomplished in that time.
I paid for Tasker years ago but never got around to trying it. This might be the impetus I needed.
X vows to 'robustly challenge' Australia order to remove stabbing posts
How many young people that care enough about TikTok to hate politicians for this law are actually voting? Half of them are under 18. Most of the other half have never showed up to vote in their lives.
Housing is in a recession: Top real estate CEO says
I _would_ like Android to have a more finely grained security model.

> E.G. for files/folders...
* Official not hobbled FS application, 'opens' files
* Same Directory (read only) allowed access
* Same Directory (write also) allowed access
* Path & subpath RO
* Path & subpath RW
* Full ('SD card' only?) RO
* Full ('SD card' only?) RW

For VLC, depending on if I want it to encode files or not, whitelisting specific paths to look for files is what I'd want.

It'd be nice if some of the other issues could be elaborated upon. Like that weird Android TV API version issue.
This shouldn’t be controversial to pass. TikTok has (allegedly) shared US customer data overseas. And they’re effectively controlled by an adversarial state. And that state doesn’t reciprocate by letting US companies freely operate social media services there. So ban it. I don’t even think the divestment option matters - how can we trust that it actually results in a separation from China or that these privacy violating practices stop?
Should be doesn't help. This is what actually happens.
It's time we stopped pretending markets are the best way to solve any societal problem. The Chinese sure as hell don't care about letting Meta/Twitter/Google etc. operating in their country; why should we let them have a cyber beach head in ours?

Turnabout is fair play and free markets are not necessarily safe markets.
This is true for any stock. The difference between speculation and investment is what drives that belief in future worth of the assest.
My journey into personal computer software development in 1983
Note that “9” is pronounced “niner” on the radio.
I am not American, but I am American in the Southern Hemisphere and I do that.
For final exams, we use to mark across all sections of a course (so for 101 type courses, this can be hundreds to 1000s of papers).

Get all the profs and TA's together, break in to groups taking one problem or set of problems. Then you random sample (each group takes a stack) to get a feel for the 'typical' errors, once that's done - you are a machine going through the stacks.

Every once in a while (not that often) you run into a novel error or approach, and the group discusses.
So nice to see OSM still continuing to care about maps after Google abandoned their last remaining pretensions to cartography in favor of the almighty advertising dollar.
Back when Classic Mac OS was just Mac OS, MPW and A/UX had Commando which was exactly that.

example: https://norden.social/@chucker/110481404731662825

That could be done with Linux (wayland/x) but on MPW the shell/terminal/commando were all integrated which isn't the case for Linux or OS X today.
>a hostile foreign power with whom we may be at war in a few years

I'm flagging this because while I agree China is a hostile power, it's detrimental to stoke the flames of war like this.
A lot of words for not bringing much new content to the discussion.
I think the most interesting application of LLMs in Finance are

(1) synthetic data models for data cleansing,
(2) journal management,
(3) anomaly tracking,
(4) critiquing investments

All of this should be done by professionals and nothing is "retail" ready.
Feels like both in the US and Europe, these "moderate" "liberal" "democrats" have lost all respect for our supposed freedoms.
Makes me wonder whether all that posturing about the supposed moral superiority of the western world had any solid foundations or not.
Pretty much, and that's considering unions in Europe are a lot weaker than in the US. A lot of union busting goes in in Austria even if unions are legal. Austrian Antron Paar is notorious for firing everyone who voices about starting a union.

So I have no idea why grandparent and other commenters on HN, would assume VW would be "silently happy" to see more unions, when I'm pretty sure they're not that happy about already having one in Germany but they have to tolerate it because it's the law there, but deep down they'd rather not have any at all as that's how businesses role.
had to upvote this
One of the two states you mention still exists.
IIRC, MarkMonitor charged about $100/year for a basic .com, more if you wanted registry lock and they had a minimum spend in the neighborhood of $10,000/year. Circa 2013, when NetworkSolutions had a phishing incident and I realized my boss was still using NetworkSolutions in 2013...
This was going to pass regardless of the outcry. The unnecessary drama of stalling until after midnight is all theater.

We need a significant change in leadership for all those that voted this in.

If I recall correctly, this bill also includes an expansion of surveillance performed by federal law enforcement agencies and NSA.
I know this is subjective, but I dislike most of the contemporary map design. Google Map is atrocious, the recent update to the color scheme is even worse. OpenStreetMap is at least information dense, and seems to have somewhat improved, but still doesn't look good to my eyes. Fuzzy text, ugly color palette (even if better than Google Maps). The one I kinda like is mapy.cz which I tend to use for hiking: https://de.mapy.cz/turisticka?x=13.1100771&y=47.1737326&z=16
If we changed our policy of exams from discriminative to evaluative, grading bias would be a trivial issue but here we are since we just NEED ways to fit everyone into numbers that we can easily use.
The survey was very interesting... #1 aspirational career in China being astronaut and the US being influencer.

I have a 1st grader and one day she said she wants to be youtuber when she grows up. She learned this from her peers.

Prior to this answer, she wanted to be a doctor.

I asked her what happened to being a doctor, and she says, she can be both (thank goodness, probably the best answer I can wish for).
No reason, other than the price (likely around $100B, more than twice the price Elon paid for Twitter, or roughly the market cap of Starbucks)
Most of the opposition I hear to a TikTok ban/divestment boils down to:

1. If TikTok is a problem, so are the other social media platforms

2. The Chinese government can just buy data from a data broker if the ban goes through

3. Such a ban is purely made of xenophobia

4. There’s no evidence that TikTok is being used to influence its users

5. Such a ban runs afoul of the 1st amendment

To this, I say:

1. I agree that the other platforms are a problem and we need comprehensive privacy legislation to address that. Could action against TikTok be better framed as a first step focused on low hanging fruit?

2. I think too many people focus on data gathering in the abstract without considering the richness of data that is only available in 1st party form, i.e. granular data about the kinds of content and ideas that users are interested in and susceptible to. This may exist in some forms from data brokers, but 1st party access enables something much more powerful.

3. I do think some people are primarily concerned because of xenophobia, but this has little bearing on the potentially real underlying issues.

4. TikTok directly asking users to contact their lawmakers was an overt act that shows the platform is capable of spurring on political action by its users. A CCP-controlled platform that can successfully get people to call their congresspeople should make us pause.

5. I am not a lawyer, but this seems like a scenario where commerce is regulated, not speech. I think there is a lot of confusion about what constitutes a true first amendment issue, and in the absence of TikTok, there are a myriad of ways to continue expressing freely.

This is a hard issue to discuss outside of a community like HN because almost all discussions are made up of whataboutism or hardline opinions aligned to 1-5. I truly don’t know what the right answer is, but I do think TikTok should worry us. I think other platforms should worry us too. We already know how harmful Facebook has been to the political process, and arguably social media is still in its infancy compared to whatever is yet to come.
Since that's so wordy, I'll provide a summary:

Governments that are banning Tiktok:

- Taliban in Afghanistan

- Congress in USA

Governments that ban federal employees and military from installing third party apps on secure devices:

- Pretty much all of them
I have been not developing for app stores, how does exactly this work? Why does Google want the private signing keys? Why it is not some certificate or something?
China bans sites & apps from the West that violate their laws - the ad tracking, monitoring, censorship & influencer/fake news we have here... the funding schemes and market monopolizing that companies like Facebook do in the West is just not legal there. Can you blame them for not wanting it?

Companies that don't violate Chinese laws and approach China with realistic deals are allowed to operate there - you can play WoW in China because unlike Facebook it's not involved in censorship, severe privacy violations etc. and Blizzard actually worked with China (NetEase) to bring their product to market there instead of crying and trying to stoke WW3 in the news like our social media companies are doing. Just because Facebook and Google can do whatever they want unchecked in America and its vassal the EU, doesn't mean other countries have to allow it.

The West just wants to counter-block Chinese apps like TikTok in retaliation for them upholding their own rule of law.
As a regulator, you don't penalize the employee; you penalize the company as though it were a wilful violation.
I think it is a wonderful product because it can be a great accessibility tool. I use it for speech recognition, cleaning up my writing(speech mis-recognition errors) and programming.
I've been an HN reader/viewer for 10+ years, but never left a comment until now: this is awesome and exactly what I was needing for a current project. Didn't have the bandwidth to build on my own.

Awesome work - planning to try it out soon.
If BMW and Volvo offer better benefits than UAW, why would the employees there unionize?

(i don't know that they do offer better benefits, but you look like you asserted everyone would unionize...whereas the employer with adequate and preferable benefits could itself be the union, functionally)
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