skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The U6 figures are where all the people this person thinks aren’t being counted are counted. Because the media only reports on U3 doesn’t mean the Bureau of Labor Statistics isn’t counting these people.

I mean if they think U6 is inaccurate where are all the people over the age of 18, who aren’t in school, who aren’t retired, who aren’t disabled and not looking for work, who have a part time job and don’t want a full time one, who haven’t been working and looking for a job in the past few years?

Are we to believe that there are millions of people who are in that group and fall through the cracks of the BLS figures, which adjusting to be more accurate after more data comes in is supposed to be them hiding something?
I’ve never had a bad acid trip, but genuinely have zero desire to do it again in my life. I’m just not interested in it anymore. I never really was. I can’t say I’ve ever enjoyed doing acid, or any other psychedelic. I say this to establish that I’m not some kind of psychedelics fanboy or anything.

…all because I need to say that there are few people that have tried to justify their stupid decisions more than Evans.

The general population grossly misrepresenting and simplifying snippets of “””science””” from psychology today dot com is absolutely nothing new.

I’ve got no doubt that anyone that involved in any of the referenced psychedelic research would in very strong terms dissuade Evans from his subsequent interactions with psychedelics. Much less, going from acid to something more extreme.

He then seemingly proceeded to devote himself to some sort of predetermined-conclusion weird activism-laden academic pursuit, based on the false narrative that the ‘new’ man is lying to us about the dangers of psychedelics. When, in reality, I doubt that anyone worth a damn would’ve condoned his actions.
What do you mean? China has banned all US social media. On the simple grounds of reciprocity (which afaik is a generally accepted foreign policy strategy) this ban seems justified.
The Digital Markets Act (DMA), presumably: the law that forced Apple to allow installing apps from third party sources (though I doubt their current solution is compliant).

Large vendors (gatekeepers) are not allowed to give themselves benefits that their competitors don't have. A third party alternative must have the ability to compete with the gatekeepers, which means Google isn't allows to treat Google Maps specially, Apple isn't allowed to treat Safari specially, and so on.

They can still comply with these laws if they have a quick and accessible method of getting your app store listed in the exemption list (which would quickly run into edge cases from apps like Aurora and the abusive shitstains that install stalkerware), especially if they show their willingness by pre-populating the list with common Play Store alternatives. They could also just disable the feature in EU phones (the way Apple chose to comply with the law) so they don't break the law. Or they could leave the list unpopulated inside the EU, making the OS harder to use for EU users but not exempting themselves as a middle finger to the EU lawmakers (the way Apple tends to comply with these laws).
Because Meta and Google are weaponized by a dictatorship?

How can people really be so blind to the enormous threat posed by allowing hostile dictatorships unfettered access to our eyeballs and devices within our own borders.
CEO tweeting insults towards his biggest customers in environmental conscience libs might not help either.
Why would specifically zionists want to ban TikTok?
Efficient CSV Parsing: On the Complexity of Simple Things [video]
Read the article. There's an explicit white-list for being exempt from this new restriction and only "trusted installers" will be on it. Clearly the Play Store will be exempt, but we have no idea what will be put on the white list according to what criteria. As pointed out in the article's conclusion.
I don’t get the idea that Apple dropped the ball on AI. They were fairly early with adding neural engine hardware to their chips and have been using ML extensively on-device for a long time now

They haven’t put an LLM assistant out there. But they don’t make their own search engine either so I don’t think “online LLM assistant” is something they’ll ever put much effort into unless it’s part of a bigger effort to launch their own AI-based search engine as well.

As for generative AI I don’t think the quality is up to a level that would be reasonable for Apple.

The only area where i would expect Apple to keep up is the kind of Copilot integration Microsoft is working on. And we know Apple is working on on-device AI assistant, and probably have for a long time. It’ll be launched when they can get good quality results on-device. Something nobody else has achieved anyway, so we can’t say that they’re behind anyone yet.
Someone set fire to a pylon and took the factory (and the important bit: local residents) out for a week or so. Apparently the motivation was protesting against deforestation and using groundwater in an area with drought problems already.
The cybertruck was their latest in "big promises and falling short in delivering". the price cuts clearly don't make up for it and Elon is losing more and more interest.
Have battery costs reached an asymptote? I was expecting them to continue dropping, until EVs were clearly cheaper than gas/hybrids.
Developer Thriving: 4 sociocognitive factors that create resilient productivity
>Tiktok probably will move out of US market then

When the Trump administration came close to forcing a divestment/shutdown on TikTok in 2020,^1 Americans were 10% of TikTok's user base but 50% of revenue. Of the top 50 most-followed accounts <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_a...>, 21 of 50 are American.

^1 And boy, do Democrats who shouted Orange Man Bad back then now wish they had supported the move
Yes, the open software war has been lost fairly comprehensively and many programs that are routinely installed on computers are dreadful spyware, but instead of being random ill-advised junk from some forum, they're 389MB of analytics masquerading as productivity software from the very biggest corporate names in software.

Who know what all that evil junk is doing with its execute bit and filesystem and network access. (https://xkcd.com/1200/)

And if you think the situation is bad with Teams and Dropbox and other "Western-style" software, it's way worse elsewhere in the world.
That's an oversimplification. In most cases, discovery happened because a researcher was there to process the "random" evidence or source of inspiration.
The other countries you mentioned doesn't have anything like the great firewall of China. Google etc failed in China because the content you have left once you removed all the sites China bans didn't have many useful hits, that isn't the case in the other countries you talked about. In order to compete at all they would need to redo their algorithm and service from the ground up to fit the Chinese internet because they ban so much that you can't reuse what you did for the rest.

For example, the only countries that bans the entirety of Wikipedia is China and Myanmar, and China has done that much longer. The scale and severity of Chinas censorship is on a whole different level from any other country. Russia censors a few wikipedia pages, China just bans the entire thing, those two are nowhere close and one is much harder to deal with. The other countries that banned wikipedia did so for only a limited period of time or just a small subset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia
In parts of North America you have to deal with street hockey, so I imagine dealing with street cricket looks basically the same.
Well, at least in Italy (where I was born) and France it's not allowed to have civil accommodations without openable windows. In Italy at all, in France you are allowed for non-living areas (bathroom and kitchens essentially) as long as another form of ventilation is present.

Limits I know are 1/8 of the flat surface you can march on must be openable windows, 1 complete air change per hour (you have a 50m³ room, you must change at least 50m³ of air per hour. There are some tolerance for historic buildings down to 1/12 of the flat surface, below that the accommodation can't be used to live in.

While for offices there is only an natural illumination requirement, and a ventilation NOT necessarily bound to openable windows. I do not know for the rest of the EU.
In the benchmark you have linked, you clearly see that the performance of the CPU only implementation and the NPU implementation are identical.

https://github.com/amd/RyzenAI-SW/blob/main/example/transfor...

What this should tell you is that "15 TOPs" is an irrelevant number in this benchmark. There are exactly two FLOPs per parameter. Loading the parameters takes more time than processing them.

There are people with less than 8GB of VRAM and they can't load these models into their GPU and end up with the exact same performance as on CPU. The 12tflops of the 3060 Ti 8GB are "no good" for LLMs, because the bottleneck for token generation is memory bandwidth.

My Ryzen 2700 gets 7 tokens per second at 50 GFLOPs. What does this tell you? The NPU can saturate the memory bandwidth of the system.

Now here is the gotcha: Have you tried inputting very large prompts? Because that is where the speedup is going to be extremely noticeable. Instead of waiting minutes on a 2000 token prompt, it will be just as fast as on GPUs, because the initial prompt processing is compute bound.

Also, before calling something subpar, you're going to have to tell me how you are going to put larger models like Goliath 70b or 120b models on your GPU.
That's originally westley.c from IOCCC 1988. As that site says:

> Unless otherwise indicated, the code comes from the International Obfuscated C code contest.
it seems rather mild, even.

A lot of companies wanting to operate in china must have a pretty large ownership by chinese parties. While chinese owned companies have no such obligations in the US.
Highly recommend reading Everest Inc.
There is "pause app" on my stock Android 12 as well, although I have no clue how well it works. I use https://f-droid.org/en/packages/superfreeze.tool.android/.
Doesn't this "freezing concept" effectively kill the idea of background services?
I wonder if it's being used internally? Just looked back on the blog post and they actually say "Although most of the development for VR will still be internal, we hope to share more as soon as we can. We also anticipate that improvements to React Native for VR will surface in open source." Makes me wonder if possibly they are using it to create some app themselves, would be interesting to decompile some APKs and see.

https://reactnative.dev/blog/2021/08/26/many-platform-vision
Suggesttion: Have a button where people can "zero" their phone orientation.

Looks good!
Commercial rail operations will try to maximise revenue, doing airline style pricing. Very visible in the UK where last minute or peak time train tickets are crazy expensive. (All their train lines are commercial)

Compared to trains being run as a semi government provided utility, like the Netherlands, where pricing is flat based only on route. Makes the train a more relevant alternative, which helps with road congestion. But tax money is used to build railways and stations, the tickets only pay for operating the train itself.
Right, expert systems are GOF AI. What isn't?
I feel your vibe as I also distrust authority, but no, it's not "nothing" to do with kids and crime — calls for an end to crypto are foolish and misguided, crypto tech is too simple to inhibit and blocking access to it creates opportunities for criminals to do crimes, any competent criminal group can roll their own crypto from open source projects… but there's a lot of non-competent criminal groups out there too, just like there are plenty of non-competent legally operating corporations.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Well, organised criminals for one, that way they know what they can get away with.

I know where I want to end up, but not how to get there from here: The Culture (Iain M Banks) is a surveillance anarchy where everyone is able to watch anyone at any time, and yet nobody really cares what you do.
> So OSS developers must be able to accept very harsh critism or even insults but always be kind to users who offer nothing in return?

I absolutely didn't say that, please don't twist my words. Not only did I not answer about the OSS dev response, but I also didn't make a moral judgement of what must be done, both of which you are attributing to me.

They can answer with insults for all I care, but that's a lose-lose situation. The way the OSS is set up today is that you WILL get shit, so you should be able to weather it without it affecting you.
Thanks for your response!

Do you feel comfortable to use two apps (Obsidian and Notion) simultaneously?
How do you choose which content goes where?

5) Did you tried tagging? If yes, why it does not work for you?
While poorly phrased, I think the concern is legit. As somebody who wants full control over my system, I don't want most of the applications I use on a day to day basis to have that same full control over my system. I'm a separate entity from the programs I use and the people who make the programs I use. The world is so much more complex than it used to be. I'd rather applications be limited in what they can access on my system by default, and a way to change it based on my needs. I don't want the programs to decide on their own what they're entitled to anymore. There's been a fundamental breach of trust by too many actors too many times.
It does, but you can do it on a per-application basis.
That seems to be the case - big win for the lobbyist of meta and Google.
I'm a Playdate owner, I definitely use it, and one of the games I've made for it was a GOTY 2023. So, there were go.
Multiple engineers are working on adding it back: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed...
There are existing similar-ish products, for doing things like engraving drinking glasses, lasering barcodes onto cylindrical products, customising travel coffee mugs and things like that. For cheap marking lasers this is called a 'laser engraving roller' and for big CNC mills it'll be called something like a '4th axis' or '5th axis'.

This is a super neat and cool project, but someone who knows a bit about CNC control - as the author surely does - will have sources of inspiration to draw upon, and won't have to solve every problem from scratch.
Good stuff! I hope Americans start again to invest on cutting edge projects. In the last 30 or so years, all the really big projects happened in the Middle East and East Asia. You visit China, Singapore or Dubai and if feels like you step into the future.
It's an exponential decay in pricing. The marketing promise was a faster linear decay but that was unrealistic and was used to bolster investment capital. This affected confidence heavily.

Examples here at EO 2023.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/01/record-low-ev-battery-p...
If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't have intervened in the first place.

Conversely, if TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, American would not have to fear a hostile government silently gathering data on American users, or a company repeatedly shown to be lying about using its app to do so.
that's probably not what this is aimed at. especially as most people have SSDs and loads[1] of ram

[1] compared to the days of filemaker
You cannot do that with the current tools. I'd even argue that Microsoft's corporate goals are a bit at odds with the community best interests, e.g. adding friction to Github or to join/add to a project would decrease Github use, which is likely a KPI internally.
They're starting to lose the thread though.

People use Windows at home and at school and then employers use the same thing because they don't want to retrain people. But the home versions of Windows are becoming so malevolent that they're losing market share. Meanwhile all the things that used to require Windows are becoming web pages and phone apps. You go to a university and it's full of Macbooks and if you see a PC in the CS department there's a good chance it has Linux on it. These are the people who will be choosing what to buy in a few years.

But who cares about the clients anymore, right? They're making money from cloud services. Except their hook is getting people to use Active Directory and Microsoft accounts, which are the things for managing Windows client devices.

It's going to be a while before anybody convinces the accountants to stop using Excel, but for large swathes of employees Windows is no longer relevant, and if you don't need Windows then why do you need Azure instead of AWS or any of the others?
Echelon and Five Eyes would like a word. American data in European hands is a threat to Americans. European data in American hands is a direct threat to Europeans. We still kill people over metadata.

And be careful mentioning authoritarianism as if the West hasn't been creeping in that direction for a while. Trump was a clown but also a warning to the rest of the world that American stability and "Pax Americana" could no longer be depended upon long term.
Most apps don't need these restrictions. It's a bit annoying if you're installing some kind of third party accessibility service, but I can't remember when I last installed an app that needed notification access.

These permissions are rarely needed and often abused by stalkerware to do things like read messages and screen contents.

If they keep the override button in the settings, I honestly don't mind the change, as long as Google Play and vendor app stores aren't exempted. If you're going to make things difficult for developers, make them difficult for your own developers as well.

I'm sure the DMA will affect this feature for EU models, or Google will be subjected to a chunky fine and forced to change it the moment the first signs of abuse pop up.
This person made a quine in Piet: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2009/10/piet-quine.html?m=1. The image there is broken, but there's a copy here: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/23255/103045.
Legitimately insane. The byline asks the right question, but what is actually going on here? I assume some part of the government has to have green lit advertising on their government page, how does that happen?
Did literally no one from the government look at their own pages?
Lets see how the stock reacts to this.
IBM is nearing an acquisition of HashiCorp
Humane: Thank You and What's Next
New Performance Model 3 is only 45k with tax credit in US, crazy
The current favourite presidential candidate is someone who is claiming election fraud despite having no proof because he lost.
Don't apps just refuse to work now a days if ADB is activated? It has been a few years since I tried it. But I remember my bank app refusing to working with the developer options(forgot what this is exactly) turned on. Also if I remember right, some apps do not work on rooted phones. Or are we talking about different things?
Yes, a few days ago the Wall St Journal ran this article:

"Elon Musk Lost Democrats on Tesla When He Needed Them Most"

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-turned-democrat...
If there are people reading this and are excited to try out ESPHome: try it out without writing a single line of configuration by installing some of our ready-made projects: https://esphome.io/projects/

It allows you to turn a cheap microcontroller into a voice assistant, bluetooth proxy or media player directly from your browser.
Luxury prices but compared to the finish of the competition are they really luxury vehicles?
ByteDance can avoid ban by selling it. Why wouldn't they sell it?
Neat! As an alternative, `home manager (nix)` has an abstraction for defining shell alias[^1] regardless of which shell you use. The main requirement is that home manager also manages your shell for you.
[^1]: https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.xhtml#o...
People and companies in the U.S. (and parts of the U.S. government) have frequently said that it's bad of the Chinese government to prevent U.S. companies from having Chinese users, and to prevent people in Chinese from choosing to see material from U.S. companies and users. We've said that this wasn't a legitimate thing for Chinese law to do, on account of human rights law, free speech principles, and also trade treaties. We've tried hard to help people in China circumvent technical restrictions on accessing foreign content and services, and often claimed that was appropriate as a matter of upholding Chinese people's autonomy.

(I say "we" here because I've personally done those things.)
Removing stalks and replacing them with turn signal controls to the same side of the steering wheel and arranging them in a reversed order did not help (many people think “Left” first, then only “Right” due to Western reading convention)
Is it true that at Oz parties you all are "dancing on the ceiling"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8nRmYj3GTQ&t=4000s

(meanwhile, on the other side of the iron curtain, Александра Овенова gets flowers from someone who thinks she's "first in dance"? https://gorod-812.ru/content/uploads/2020/05/20210307_204836... )

EDIT: found the original video (set on Maritius?) for Chikadee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTCMMhfKF0
(in the school scene at ~0:50, the desks are in pairs or triples, as they are in my adoptive country, instead of single, as in the opening scene of "one more time": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4 . How are school desks typically arranged in Oz?)
>I wish there was an option to hide every commercial news or entertainment outlet completely.

There's alway plugins or you can subscribe to Kagi, although I don't think there's any blocklist preconfigured for "all commercial news websites"
> until EVs were clearly cheaper than gas/hybrids.

That's never going to happen, I'm not that good at physics but there must be some deep thermodynamically principle involved or similar to that. Something on the lines of what Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen [1] war writing about.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Georgescu-Roegen
Lol the US is no one's ally.
Yes, don't charge $40 if you are targeting large companies. For me as a project manager at Big Co, $40 and $400 is exactly the same, if I'm willing to pay one I'm willing to pay the other. What I care about is how friction free the process of paying you that money is.

Also I would rather pay one company $1000/month than 5 companies $100/month for the same service. To be crass about it, it isn't my money, but it is my time.
9% drop in revenue leading to a 54% drop in income, this suggests the main factor for the income reduction is an increase in costs/loss moreso than the drop in revenue.
This article is very surprising to me, people actually use and want this software? I always avoid using car infotainment because they suck and just link my phone via bluetooth because it isn't the worst possible thing.
's/NDA ban/NCA ban/', perhaps?
The Culture's not an anarchy, it's just a standard "liberal" (not exact on definitions) surveillance state. A lot of what's shown is 2003 Iraq war style preventative policing, but that's obvious selection effects to make the books interesting, and happens mostly away from central regions.
There's no such thing as a loss of section 230 protections due to editorial bias.

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...

(Sorry if the title of that article seems hostile, since I assume you were asking a genuine question, so you're not actually "wrong" in any sense!)
> Luxury vehicles with limited market

Models 3/Y are literally one of the cheapest EVs available in EU/US?

> Hertz dumping them due to ROI problems

Hertz frankly had a pretty terrible strategy going in. Buying a ton of cars without any infrastructure for them (Hertz locations without chargers).
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