skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the anti-Americanism among artists only relates to not wanting to deal with hypocritical American policies on nudity and their tendency to impose their views on everyone.

They're very likely perfectly fine with Americans and foreigners in general seeing and sharing work without trying to change the culture of the site (which is fair and something more communities need to start expecting, there's an increasingly popular idea that various hobbies have been ruined by uninvested "tourists" that come into the community, force it to change to accomodate them, then leave after the original audience has been alienated).
A bunch of my photos from our local LAN (QGL in Brisbane, Australia) made it into this book, it was a blast going through them again.
Given how openly Tik tok censors topics the ccp doesn't like I find this argument to be unconvincing. There are times to take the higher road and there are times to fight fire with fire.

Tik tok is too influential and pervasive to leave in the hands of a potential enemy.
But hacker news readers aren't:[0] (29 points, yesterday, 24 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133235
VPNs frequently get banned in China. I bought two major VPN services (nordvpn and one other) and they did not work when I got there. Luckily I had a backup VPN I host on Linode. It would randomly stop working though...
As unhelpful as this answer might seem, I think the answer is damn the SUVs, full bike ahead. Nothing will change until there are cyclists on the roads, then it starts to snowball. I’ve seen it happening here in London (UK).
Amazingly similar, and has many of the ideas I want to go to. Damn VCs going to commodotize their compliment!
I note that they demonstrated the "tank turns" on a wet road. That seems like a good idea since on dry asphalt those tyres would be screeching as they're dragged sideways across the tarmac in those turns.
As a flag burner have you considered you've fallen for propaganda that seeks to divide the nation rather than fix it's problems?

There's literally nothing wrong with being happy to be an American despite it's flaws
See my comment above; administrative rules generally take a couple of years to work their way through the system before they can take effect.
>It was also clear that take homes, or work sample tests, are amongst the most valid signals for future on the job performance.

Absolutely not.
The model sizes are:

> 270M, 450M, 1.1B and 3B parameters

Which roughly translates to 3GB for the highest end one, depending on context length used.
I'm having trouble squaring that with data, since the trends go back to 2020 and 2022: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
The "among the richest countries on Earth" statement is frequently trotted out, but I think it's kind of misleading. Argentina was rich largely because it had lots of raw materials and agricultural products that, at the time, could be exported at high prices. That's great while it lasts, but it doesn't necessarily lead to a long-term sustainably rich country.
Why is the 3B model worse than the 450M model on MMLU and TruthfulQA?
Please oh please tell me what a squid-turd is!
No, it's not about that. It's about controlling the flow of information, which is totalitarianism 101. Every totalitarian government tries to do the same; it's just that China has perfected the toolkit and has the resources to implement it.
The UK has this and it's super-frustrating! (aka it works!). With those radar based grey box cameras you see in urban areas, you just have to make sure you were not speeding when going past them (they even put handy calibration marks on the road to help you notice them). But the average speed ones have overhead cameras that read your license plate every 5-8 miles so you have no choice really but to stick to the speed limit (I have no idea what the margin of error is). Driving from Inverness to Edinburgh (A9 I think), they are quite frequent.

I feel a little cheated really, in the US it's you vs the state trooper, they have to see you to ticket you. You can almost always get away with 10 over on the highway and on a familiar road you usually know where those crossovers that they hang out in and Waze is pretty good at reporting cops in near real-time. Even if you end up passing a waiting cop they won't stop you for 75 in a 65. I'm pretty sure you'd get a ticket every time for 10 over in the UK!
The US bans TikTok citing the same reasons China bans foreign social media, to avoid influence from foreign adversaries (people below says that China never official bans it, but China is inconsistent on that). It is only fair from a business perspective, but it also means that China's ideology wins over American in the end.

The China's own social media is full of posts ridiculing people like me who have believed in the American ideology, espoused the virtues of freedom of speech and rallied against the GFW. They call us naive and credulous. And I can't refute them.

When I was young, I was taught in China that China lost its superpower status after it chose to isolate itself from the rest of the world. And then it isolated itself. I was taught by the US the importance of freedom of speech. Then it ditched it. My education was a lie.
Seeing another DHJL glycine enthusiast here on HN was not on my bingo, but it is a pleasant surprise.

Readers might also be happy to know DHJL glycine is Halal, Kosher, and Reach certified, and more recently, FDA approved as well!
Ouch. When I was there last 20-some years ago, high-speed interest was just becoming a thing and internet cafes were everywhere. Getting access to the outside world then was also a pain.

For Westerners, could they get GFOC-excluded commercial PoP internet connections or wireless carriers?

Perhaps in the near future, China's middle- and upper-class will insist on specific changes in policy like unfettered internet access as a bargain for not demanding democracy. With all of the advances in economic mobility and details of life outside the GFOC, there will be more asks.
A Beginner's Guide to the ESP8266 (2017)
> The core technology and parent company/ownership is the same for both.

That's like saying Facebook and Instagram are not separate platforms.
All over the place if you actually care but I somewhat doubt that.
They do tell you. What's missing is compensation for waiting or making new arrangements last minute (which is not cheap) unless it's 3 hours delayed. So airlines will drag it out putting fake new flight time up by incrementing 10 minutes at a time, hoping you'll rebook because you don't want to wait out their 3 hours just to find out it's cancelled anyway.
I was taught that he climbed inside a large brick oven, which is what he literally says. Alone with his thoughts inside a quiet oven. I mean, it is the middle of winter and if other soldiers also wanted to stay warm, don't you think a heated room would be more crowded?
And he only needed to completely destroy the country's future to achieve it!
>their suspicion/hatred of their own country is astounding to see

Speaking as an American, our country was founded on the principles of being apprehensive of governments including our own. Being suspicious of our own government is a very American thing and should not be understood as surprising.

See our Declaration of Independence for further reading and context.
I think the point that ipsum2 is trying to make is that Copilot's chat service and its code completion service could be using different models, which is not uncommon for coding assistants.

Continue[0] for example can use up to 3 different models in a session: a large model such as GPT-4 Turbo for chat and code QA, a smaller low latency model such as StarCoder2-3B for code completion, and yet another model such as all-MiniLM-L6-v2 for generating embeddings.

[0] https://www.continue.dev/
I've been asked to develop python scripts for libreoffice and it was not fun.
Has anyone seen a working, clearly explained recipe for running this using the Python MLX library on macOS yet?
This is just risk compensation playing out. The better resources the environment has, the more we will eat until we kill ourselves.
What's the point of articles like this? I see them crop up all the time where someone from the future looks back on some distant past WAY out of context, and says things like "This was INSANE!" "Who would ever design something like this!?" "Look at how much smarter this other idea would have been!". It's not constructive or interesting.

The answer is universally this: whoever designed <thing> at the time couldn't even fathom <modern thing>, and didn't need to fathom <modern thing> while they were designing <thing>. What they did at the time made perfect sense for the constraints they were aware of.
I guess HN is just a more pretentious version of Reddit now? Share simple facts and people downvote/flag you for not being sufficiently outraged about the subject?
It actually will refuse to do it on dry pavement.
I found the interviewer comes across as incredibly pretentious. I can’t stand this style of writing, he is trying way too hard.
If you have PreCheck, they do take you to the PreCheck line. In some larger airports, there are separate Clear check-in locations for PreCheck and regular passengers with Clear, and at some (Atlanta, for instance), Clear PreCheck has it's own, dedicated security line.
Per-server option to disable HTTP/2 is huge. At the moment it is parasitic - once it is enabled for one domain it is enabled for all others sharing that IP/port combination
And THIRD. Real problems are really hard to solve. If they weren't, then everyone would solve them and you couldn't make any money on your solution. So while I'm midway working my way through a solution, everyone decides to stop by my desk and say, "Why don't you just do X? Problem solved!" Funny, X is the very first thing I thought of myself, but it's more complicated than that. So I keep working through my solution, casually nodding at the peanut gallery as it cycles by.
Yes, as the parent of a 14 year-old currently attending boarding school in Europe, the way that many airlines have in recent years increased their minimum age rules to fly unaccompanied creates huge problems and costs. We've had to become experts in code share logistics because, for example, Swiss Air will happily accept 13 and above but they code share flights with Lufthansa who requires 15. Whether your kid can board the flight depends on which airline's code is used for the flight number, and it's not always clear on the airline's own websites (much less other sites), despite being the same seat on the same plane.

The real mess happens when a flight is cancelled and the airline rebooks passengers already in-route. Last year our kid was on an Iceland Air route in a connecting city when they cancelled the next leg. Someone at their flight operations center "helpfully" rebooked the ticket to a British Air flight leaving that city an hour later, except BA has a 14 limit and denied boarding (kid was a few weeks shy of 14 at the time). In fact, the BA gate agents couldn't even understand how it was possible for a 13 year-old to be issued a ticket (because it was done in the back-end inter-airline system). So our kid ends up stranded in a distant connecting city. We ultimately had to buy a last-minute one-way ticket on a third airline to a different city for a connection on an airline that would board her. It took months of calls to eventually get a refund from Iceland Air for a multi-thousand dollar business class ticket, on a flight they cancelled. (note: For anyone concerned, our kid is a hyper-savvy frequent flyer who grew up flying international routes. Also, for international routes we always book her business class in an isolated seat that's in its own row right next to the crew galley.)

We have a friend who's kid goes to a boarding school in the U.S. (but on the opposite coast). All the major U.S airlines now have 15 or 16 age limits. For spring break a few weeks ago, they had no choice but for one parent to fly across the country and back, both ways, just to "accompany" their kid past the gate boarding agents. Because almost all U.S airlines are now unaccompanied kid hostile, our kid can't even connect internationally from our local airport. Instead we have to drive her three hours to an airport that international airlines fly direct from.
I wonder to what degree drug related heart failure has affected the numbers.
They won't divest. The option for divestment just makes the US look less bad. They didn't ban the app. They chose to leave
I feel like I'm seeing an effect where some people don't want to say the word "AI" because they don't want to look like a normie, so they stick to "LLM" which sounds smarter and more technically adept. Then they complain because the LLM lacks a knowledge graph or self reflection. It's no surprise that a language model models language, not facts, especially not trivia facts which can't be deduced from anything.

If you want something to have a worldly knowledge graph and the ability to answer "I'm not sure", you'll have to ask for an AI, not an LLM.
Why do people use CRUD database wrappers instead of using databases directly?
They could operate there if they submitted themselves to Chinese government censorship (aka "local laws"). Google pulled out because it refused to. Facebook really wanted to (Zuck even made a trip there to talk to Chinese officials) but ultimately decided (correctly) that doing so would greatly hurt it in the US/Europe. Same for Twitter (pre-Elon).
Thankfully I've moved away from Windows completely. Unfortunately I still need to use it at work and using it for development is a pain compared to Linux.

Today's Linux is not the same clunky mess it was 15 or even 10 years ago. If you don't run any strange hardware or don't require Windows-only applications (that Wine/Proton don't handle) then the experience is great.
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, for all intents and purposes, it is a duck.
You should be able to describe the sound differences if the music is that distinct.
>No, you made out poorly. Wouldn't you prefer to have been paid more?

If you don't volunteer, you're much more likely to stay on the flight and not be paid anything.
No. They are not. In fact, paid or unpaid, take-home assignments are unethical. They are built on the power imbalance between the employer and the job candidate.

The test is easy: the person who is giving the assignment would themselves be annoyed, inconvenienced, and feel pressurized if they got given a similar assignment when looking for a job themselves. You know "do onto others..."
The AI Lie
Earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40142667
you just described 99% of anime avatar twitter
The placebo is effect is nearly the strongest, and completely opaque as to its operation.
Looks like they’re making progress on that since the Eclipse Foundation took over AsciiDoc. There are now Golang and Haskell processors

https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse-wg/asciidoc-wg/asciidoc.o...
Oh - perhaps? I feel sure I ran into one I couldn't see recently but would need to check.

A lot of discord servers require you to send a message or add a reaction to indicate agreement with their rules before you can even see the list of actual channels. I wonder if reactions are also blocked?
Maybe something like the old tweetdeck where you could chose different feeds, or maybe a way to browse original inputs (if it's something you really care about), most popular links and so on. I am just so over the scrolling timeline look of social media.

One thing I had thought of implementing (but never got around to) was a UI that would look at a social feed and instead of displaying a vertical list of posts, would use a 2d canvas and let you size posts by engagement/poster reach. So if lots of people were retweeting something, you wouldn't see 30 copies of the same post but one large version with a lot of nodes around it representing the people you follow and their 2-cents comments.
That’s similar to eminent domain, a right granted to the government in the constitution.
Highly recommend reading “When McKinsey Comes to Town” for a close look at decade after decade of malfeasance.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634029/when-mckinse...
Same, most of the time, although I don't use Digital Ocean much after a client of mine issued a charge back having forgotten what "Digital Ocean" was (even though I explained it several times). before talking to me, they locked my admin panel so I was completely unable to fix a production issue. Then when I discovered what had happened they took several business days to "unlock" my admin panel. I suffered a pretty big reputation hit with my clients and was put in a position I NEVER want to be in again: "sorry normally it would take me 5 minutes to get the site back up, but it's gonna be <unknown> number of days until DO decides to unlock my account, long after I gave an updated credit card and paid the balance. I use Linode now, and hopefully Akamai won't mess that up.
This is a really poor argument. You are equating banning one social media app with the GFW, which is obviously a huge hyperbole which has nothing to do with reality. The Great Firewall operates by checking transmission control protocol (TCP) packets for keywords or sensitive words. That is a violation of freedom of thought at the infrastructure level. As an American, you are still free to visit Chinese hosted websites and drink whatever propaganda you want. You just can't use TikTok to find it anymore.

Plus, freedom of speech is about protecting American Citizens from being censored by American Government. Banning an ungovernable, foreign owned business does not stop you from freely expressing yourself on the internet.

Your education was not a lie, but you should still get a refund on your failed education. You clearly did not learn to think critically.
Razor1991 is the GOAT crew
There isn't any good reason why regular people who fly even once every couple of years shouldn't get PreCheck. It's $85/5-years (a mere 17/yr) and is an almost semi-civilized travel experience.
I mean India was the richest country on earth for most of human civilization. What’s your point?
Ruby might be faster than you think
My experience was that if you successfully help people they will come back with new problems. Hell, they wont come back until they have new problems for you.

Helping people is hard, I found a much easier approach. You have to make it worse for them: You won't solve your problem because it isn't in your nature. I'm convinced you will never find a new partner or a new job, you wont be able to pay your bills, you will be out on the street soon! If they are old I go with: If only you paid more attention in school.

Then they run out the door in rage and go do all of the things they should have done years ago. Ill pay for stuff if money gets in their way but ill remind them it is pointless, I might as well set fire to the money.

Sometimes they come back to pay me and to tell me what an asshole I am. Sometimes they come back with new problems for me to make fun of and to tell me what an asshole I am but then I at least know they need help since there is nothing convenient about my "help".
I recently discovered everynoise.com, it can make a playlist of a genre for you, it has a lot of black*

Edit: spelling
I mean, they have to stay backwards compatible with Javascript. That kind of limits your options.
Baidu, the local Internet giant, has its own encyclopedia.

You'd be surprised how different some countries are in their Internet usage. Russians don't really use Facebook, and Google faced an uphill battle to be accepted there. Czechs apparently prefer homegrown map services (such as Seznam) to Google Maps.
'before processing'
It’s also worth noting that pornography is illegal in Islamic countries, and even illegal in avowedly atheist countries like China (guess what else the firewall blocks).
This would be a more charitable argument if Discover was in the habit of promoting proprietary software for sale. Perhaps that's true on OpenSUSE specifically? On KDE Plasma on my system, the search lens only seems to suggest things in the local repositories, which are all free software. It's also trivially easy to configure which lenses are enabled, and as a bonus has a local file search that actually works (and quickly at that)
*Case in point
The other replies are interpreting this as the algorithm failing, but I have interpreted these sorts of things as intentional design choices, wherein they want the recommender to keep trying to diversify your interests so it's harder for you to just quit the service and move to another one which might not have the same variety (or where you'd have to try to "teach" the recommender again). They've determined that the potential benefit is much better than somewhat annoying you.

This interpretation of their behavior is why I've stuck to buying my music (fortunately that's still common for the genres I'm into).
Do we know what these young heart failure patients look like in the typical case? Are they obese? Stressed? A mix?
> I wonder: Are there any Western apps which Chinese citizens would lose social credit or are officially prohibited from using?

That's not how it works. The apps are not officially banned, they are just unavailable or don't work. If they're not on the China iOS store (separate than US) then you can't install them, and if you went abroad and managed to install them, they just can't connect to the IG or whatever servers once you're back in China. Same for Android.
…because… this is how we’ll get a free internet again.

X to doubt. You can do this now but it's limited to people with technical skills, and once you have figured out torrent trackers or TOR or whatever it is you're interested in, there isn't that much incentive to radically improve the tooling to make it more consumer friendly. If nothing else having it require some work insulates you from Eternal September. The less work it is, the easier it is for cops and politicians to whip up a moral panic about.
> China and Russia only differ in the choice of their tooling, approach and starting positions

This is deeply, deeply wrong - China and Russia are natural opponents, they are two autocracies that deeply distrust each other and do not understand each other’s culture. They will never be like USA and UK.

The alignment between then, is because they both face pressure from USA. It’s not natural and is a huge failure of US foreign policy.

Russia emulates Europe, it produces weapons using German machines, and bottles vodka on Italian production lines. Buying Chinese equipment gets local governors in trouble. They are happy selling natural resources and have no real desire to compete with US in iPhone production or car market. The main friction is around territory. They are kinda like brexiteers - they don’t really have their own vision of the future outside of a narrow. Specific issue.

China is totally different, they have a vision that is very different - it is not ‘be like the west but better’ - it’s be their own thing. they are getting off oil and plan to compete in high-tech industries. That’s not to say they are better, but the plan is totally different
First rule of getting downvoted - don't talk about getting downvoted
He probably wouldn't have been paid anything, someone else would have been chosen at random to be bumped off. This way the burden shifts to whoever it's least inconvenient for.
This is how a shell works. It works by creating processes.

On Unix, you create a process with fork() and execve(). Execve takes a list of arguments, already parsed and tokenized. A shell is free to interpret the command line however it likes to build this, but at the syscall level it is completely unambiguous what the parsed array looks like.

On Windows, you call CreateProcess. This takes the command line as an unparsed string. It is the child process's responsibility to chop it up into argv. This is the source of ambiguity that I'm talking about.