skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The existence of democracies, especially Taiwan, threatens Xi and the CCP's legitimacy.

Has nothing to do with democracy. Taiwan could be a monarchy or communist and nothing changes. It's about national territorial integrity.

> When the people of China compare their lives with those of other nations, they see democracies having something they want and cannot have.

Chinese people envy democracies like ukraine? Or russia? You think the chinese want to be like the philippines? Most of the world's poorest and underdeveloped countries are democracies. I highly doubt that's what the chinese aspire to.

> There has been an implicit agreement between the people & gov't, which allows the limitation of civil liberties in exchange for rapid progress in modernization and elimination of poverty. As that effort runs out of steam, and the economic system becomes stressed, the agreement begins to break down. One may also note how Jack Ma was reigned in as another thread of the agreement being changed unilaterally by the gov't.

Jack Ma? You watch too many silly youtube videos.
They do, but then they wouldn't be distributing on the App Store anymore. Nevermind the fact that a business shouldn't have to be a nonprofit to feasibly ship FOSS software.
This is great! Will try to give a try later
I think this is an outdated view. I run a dev shop which develops applications in . Net + Angular. We have always given devs freedom to buy whatever laptop they want and put whatever OS they want on it, as long as they can work with everyone else. 5 or 6 years ago, we had 1 person using Ubuntu, another person using Mac, and everyone else used windows. Right now, roughly 40% are on windows, 30% develop on Mac and 30% develop on Linux (Linux has recent grown at the expense of Mac actually).

Our production environment where all applications are run is based on Debian (though we test on Windows Server as well) in a kubernetes cluster, running in Azure.

C# is decent language for writing line of business application logic, and these days .Net is a completely cross platform, open source framework.

I remember using a bunch of C#/Mono applications (F Spot, Banshee, etc, they were all the rage once) on my Linux desktop over 20 years ago.
How single message broke all our monitoring and dashboards
It's quickly becoming worse than Reddit w/ regard to conspiracy nonsense that hits the first page within 5 minutes of being posted. Either HN loves conspiracy nonsense or it's being played by inauthentic actors.
Any way to get around 2FA on GitHub?
This is really annoying and it won't let me skip it anymore. Is there a way to get rid of it without enabling or logging out of my account?
Snarky response: that's more steps toward the long-held dream of the Google operations department: to be able to just issue all devs cheap commodity Chromebooks, because all the compute happens on a (scale-to-zero) Cloud Shell or Cloud Workstation resource.

Actual response:

• For dev-time iteration, you want local builds; for large software (e.g. Chrome), you make this work by making builds incremental. So it takes a few hours to build locally the first time you build, but then it's down to 30s to rebuild after a change.

• But for building releases, you can't rely on incremental builds; incremental builds (i.e. building on top of a cache from previous arbitrary builds) would be non-deterministic and give you non-reproducible builds, exactly what a release manager doesn't want. So releases, at least, are stuck needing to "build the world." You want to accelerate those — remote build infra is the way to go. Remote, distributed build infra, ideally (think: ccache on Flume.)

These remote/distributed builds do still cohere to the philosophy in the abstract, though — a remote build is not the same as a CI build, after all; the dev's own workstation is still acting as the planner and director of the build process.
Not entirely sure the AI scaling is more or less "correct" than the "interpolate the source data" method.

Both use priors, the former a large and complex one, the latter a simplistic one, but both "invent data based on assumptions".
sound slice is super cool!
> Are there easy sources for seeing what companies drive US equity market volume?

No. Flow data is quite expensive, and most providers will only provide bucketed data unless you contribute with your own flows.

OP obviously has no idea what he's talking about but hey, what wouldnt you do for some internet points.
The more I scrolled the more I thought it looked like REBOL.
Are they addictive? Then regulate them as addictive drugs.

Are they not addictive? Then it seems a stretch to compare them to cigarettes.
S Stick Textual Usages
Oh man I love the logic... The EU didn't want to change its standards related to not killing one's own journalists and so on so Putin had no choice but to start a war.

I see this rhetoric very often. "He had to", "obviously he had no other choice". These are all false premises. He could not kill his own journalists but he chose to, for his own advantage. He could choose cooperation instead of war, but he wanted to be remembered in history books as the guy who brought not only Belarus but also Ukraine to his empire. Well, he will be remembered, but not exactly the way he hoped to.
It looks a lot better than the old design.
I often dread when I see an employer using in-house systems for common tasks like project tracking and code review. I'm curious how does JS's internal tools stack up against systems out there, like Github or Jira.
Why Rust Isn't Killing C++
Your response to critical feedback is excellent btw. Nice job all around!
I don't think you understand what the word "premise" means. None of the examples you give are premises. Most of them aren't even complete sentences.

Yes, I know that a lot of people say that science has premises. They are simply mistaken.

> By "just", do you mean only?

Yes.

> If so, you have a burden of proof on your hands

What exactly is it that you think I need to prove?

> If these claims are True

You need to read this:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/three-myths-about-scient...

particularly Myth #3.
it depends on what you're needing suid for but the first thing id evaluate is if you can just grant a specific CAPAB instead.
This looks like an interesting tool to log data pipeline runs. Is it closer to an Airflow ETL dashboard or a MLFlow experiment manager? Who's supposed to manage it?
Units that don't exist, don't sell. This is true.

Advertise a brand of auto that isn't capable of spying or conspiring against you, has a full set of tactile controls, infotainment is special order - and that doesn't blind oncoming drivers.

Make the ads a parody of everyone else' driving experience.
But the point stands. That rate is not great compared to legal brothels and escorts in Amsterdam.

Someone living in NYC can fly there for $400. That same flight to Las Vegas is not much less money.

This is why industry-specific indexes don’t work. It can’t capture industry-specific changes to the offering and its surrounding alternatives.

E.h., clubs could be empty due to consolidation and lack of competition and abnormally high prices compared to the past.

E.g., the Big Mac index falls apart if McDonald’s changes its business model away from low cost food and more toward higher pricing and lower volume.

E.g., legal brothels in Nevada are becoming more rare as more shut down and the difficulty of starting a new one is high.

E.g., the stripper index could be inaccurate if more or fewer men are in happy sexually active relationships. You’d have control for that variable.

E.g., the stripper index could be irrelevant in Las Vegas as it transitions to being more of a family, sports, and conference destination rather than a bachelor’s playground.

E.g., the stripper index could become less relevant as more men trend away from being comfortable with the idea of strip clubs in the first place (just like how Hooters went from nearly a family restaurant to being super weird, and how Playboy used to be a respectable mainstream publication but is now much less so).
First edition of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus
I wouldn't get your hopes up. Depending on how the final bill is written, simply equipping the vehicle with an AM radio might be enough to satisfy the regulation, even if the reception is so poor as to make it almost unusable.
A video of someone scrolling through their website is a sleek looking demo?

smdh.
> It's not about owning assets, it's about being able to afford food, fuel, housing, medicine, and basic savings.

I'm sure you can appreciate that inflation hurts everyone, but that asset owners receive a benefit, or at least stand to gain some wealth, as an effect of inflation. This means inflation hurts the poor much more.

I don't agree that it is better to let inflation run rampant with lower rates in an attempt to help poor people. What would help is better regulation, de-"financialization" of the economy, higher progressive taxes, higher capital gains taxes, etc. You don't give up on inflation, you fight it while using the government to level the playing field.
Lawmakers grill UnitedHealth CEO on Change cyberattack
China got a big head start with dozens of companies. Americans keep telling themselves EVs are a fad, and within the past few years EVs have become political.

This isn’t going to end well for traditional car companies when EVs become cheaper than ICE vehicles. Fickle Americans will love the cheaper cars.
Narrator: they didn't.
Discussion [0] (60 points, 2 days ago, 22 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210672
Clearly Unicode needs to add this as a combining diacritic
From the linked video, I saw video panning with mouse movement and zoom-to-clicks ... I think Camtasia can do those? For sure on the zoom, less sure on the panning. Camtasia is commercial and cross-platform.

Added benefit is that I think Camtasia is relatively easy to pickup compared to other tools I've tried to use.
> "Google” is now a common verb meaning “look it up on the internet”

In the meantime ChatGPT is already a household name and is synonymous with querying a service to get it to generate answers.
Praise the lord, now I can leave my house without fear of being abducted.
Do you have any doubts that unionizing will greatly accelerate this natural process?

The race to big wage can be honestly won with only one method: the company should extract more value from your work than it costs them to pay you, and more than it would extract from a cheaper replacement. If it is so, firing you hurts the company more than paying you a lot, and no sensible business will ever get rid of such an employee.
I'm creating a hobby operating system in Nim (early stages). After an initial attempt[0] I decided to start over[1] and document my journey in building it[2]. The focus for me is on learning low-level systems programming and enjoying the journey, rather than building something production ready.

[0] https://github.com/khaledh/axiom

[1] https://github.com/khaledh/fusion

[2] https://0xc0ffee.netlify.app/osdev/01-intro.html
Sure it's effective if you're looking at the reduction rate of existing number alone. But reverse the problem and the very big effort of warning about dangerous-to-lethal stuff still doesn't stop 11% of people from doing so. That's quite bad, when you think about going from zero (you can't willy-nilly use untested medicine) to 11% of the society.
There are, and have never been any issues distributing LGPL applications on iOS. You might be confusing it with AGPL?
In a practical sense, how you define big O depends on what you consider to be the inputs to the function. If the runtime doesn't change depending on the size of the inputs that you care about, it's O(1).

Like, you might have a function with 2 inputs, N and M, and the run time is like O(m2^n), but n is fixed at a low number every time you'll run it in practice, so it's really just O(m) for your purposes.
Show HN: SpRAG – Open-source RAG implementation for challenging real-world tasks
Hey HN, I’m Zach from Superpowered AI (YC S22). We’ve been working in the RAG space for a little over a year now, and we’ve recently decided to open-source all of our core retrieval tech.

spRAG is a retrieval system that’s designed to handle complex real-world queries over dense text, like legal documents and financial reports. As far as we know, it produces the most accurate and reliable results of any RAG system for these kinds of tasks. For example, on FinanceBench, which is an especially challenging open-book financial question answering benchmark, spRAG gets 83% of questions correct, compared to 19% for the vanilla RAG baseline (which uses Chroma + OpenAI Ada embeddings + LangChain).

You can find more info about how it works and how to use it in the project’s README. We’re also very open to contributions. We especially need contributions around integrations (i.e. adding support for more vector DBs, embedding models, etc.) and around evaluation.
Would you mind giving some additional recommendations? I found the music in this link captivating. I would love to hear more of these original sounds.
Install an adblocker, stop the heat death?
Yes, it's all simply a matter of styling.

You can leverage some of our existing design systems like Material/Fluent and customize them: https://platform.uno/docs/articles/external/uno.themes/doc/t...

Or you can start from scratch and define your own styles.

By default, they will be pixel-perfect and look the same on all platforms.
> it accounted for 10.4 per cent of all North American equity trading in 2023

Which means they're rapidly coming to a position which will easily allow them to game the system (what used to be known as "cornering the market").

I even wonder if their system has already learned cornering by itself via stochastic gradient descent.
It is a useful feature for very specific environments; nothing to do with decentralised web.

Your comment is like saying that firewalls are disgusting because they can be used to lockdown machines.
> Science as an insistution has all those hallmarks: worship, authority and rituals. I'm not trying to make a case for religion here, but wanted to point out the shallowness of the whole write-up.

He's talking about science as a set of ideals, not human institutions that try to do science.

There's a real difference between the scientific mindset and the religious mindset in whether fundamental questioning is considered virtuous. This difference matters.
Buzzers and batteries count as electronics, imo. The experiment, as per title, is a version _without_
> We are currently adding support for LinkedIn, Tik Tok, Hacker News, and other social networks.

Yuck
Entirely wrong result.
That was the theory of Milman Parry, who made visits to Yugoslavia and other areas of Eastern Europe where oral poetry was still widely practiced, and noted similarities between the form of the existing traditions and that of Homer.

I haven't studied it seriously since college, but among evidence to support this theory is the idea that many of the titles used to describe the heroes may have been formulaic mnemonic aids that the singer/poet could keep in their back pocket and pull out during improvisation to fit the required meter.
This one frustrates me a lot. Not getting a proper trace of the lib code that generated an error makes debugging what _exactly_ is going on much more of a PITA. Sure, I can annotate errors in _my_ code all day long, but getting a full trace is a pain.
> Is cross-joining a CTE to itself realistic?

Yes! Technically you have to say `WITH RECURSIVE ...` first, but yes, it's a very common thing to do to, for example, compute the transitive closure of nested groups. Just remember to use `UNION` not `UNION ALL`! (Otherwise you will get an infinite loop if there's a circular group.)

WITH RECURSIVE closure AS (
// Seed the closure
SELECT parent AS parent, child AS child
FROM groups
// Repeat the right side of the UNION
// until no new rows are added
UNION
// Recursively join the closure to the
// groups
SELECT g.parent, c.child
FROM groups g
JOIN closure c ON g.child = c.parent
);
Similar things happened to journalists and activist short sellers reporting on irregularities at Wirecard before it all blew up. (The German authorities reacted swiftly to the reports by... banning short sales of Wirecard shares and investigating the journalists for market manipulation.)

Occasionally, reality apparently is as crass as some classic corporate conspiracy thrillers suggest.
> Nvidia may be the giant yet if you look at what most gamers actually run on, they run on Apple APUs, Snapdragon APUs, and AMD APUs.

They really don't? You're trying quite hard to conflate casual gaming with console and PC markets, but they obviously have very little overlap. Games that release for Nvidia and AMD systems almost never turn around and port themselves to Apple or Snapdragon platforms. I'd imagine the people calling themselves gamers aren't referring to their Candy Crush streak on iPhone.

> something like a Max processor is much more powerful than required to run the average game coming out.

...well, yeah. And then the laptop 4080 is some 2 times faster than that: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks
That's true, but its also true that some connections might be reasonably said to be key for sensory information to find its way into working memory so I wouldn't dismiss the title.
this is awesome! how would you contrast this with https://github.com/antfu-collective/ni?
While I agree, this bill doesn't appear to put any pressure on automakers to reduce RFI.
FDA Finally Moves to Scrutinize Specialized Health Screenings
Why would you want to bypass 2FA? Yes, it makes logins slightly more annoying, but the security benefits far outweigh the annoyance of typing in a six-digit code when you log into a new device.

As far as I know there is no way to bypass 2FA on GitHub (with the possible exception of deleting all your repositories, but I don't know if they'd let you turn it off at that point).
due to the angles, it would be like running in a circle on earth. It is mostly a question of what the equivalent earth track diameter is. It can be quite painful and damaging to run in small circles.
McDonald's, possibly the most successful chain of them all, doesn't seem to think owning real estate is a distraction.
The comments in some of the news posts covering the auction popping up are curious / amusing. Lots of supercomputer hate - "let's use a few PCs," etc.

ex: https://wccftech.com/iconic-5-34-pflops-cheyenne-supercomput...
Nvidia's ChatRTX receives update – better photo search, AI speech recognition
An AI that makes the internet even worse than it is! Congrats to the team.
>The average game developed is not developed to run on a separate CPU and GPU monster beast - they're designed to run on a phone APU

I love how performant mobile games are on desktop/laptop hardware assuming good ports, Star Rail and Princess Connect! Re:Dive for some examples.

This will probably go away once mobile hardware gets so powerful there's no requirement for devs to be efficient with their resource usage, as has happened with desktop/laptop software, but god damnit I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
M&M Mars here in the US has been buying up the independent veterinary practices and turning them into corporate run businesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Inc.#Mars_Petcare
An Evaluation of RAG Retrieval Chunking Methods
So what's the move from here? Back to consumer reports?
That would be technically more "accurate", but it doesn't yield more useful information and ends up being harder to read.
Don't believe the inners, it's clearly protomolecule:

https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Protomolecule
This seems like another Hotdog/Not Hotdog business model.
I think it's also pretty much impossible to avoid this.

As soon as something has enough trustworthiness and user base for product recommendations. It has value to the advertisers and they will "mine* out that value until it's exhausted.
If the PE firm is charging more than a vet operating alone would, then why wouldn't a vet operating alone just undercut the PE firm's veterinary practice?

There must be some barrier to entry in the market that prevents that, and that's what I would target. Because the PE firm isn't the root cause. After all, if you can't just enter a market and charge whatever you want as a standalone vet, what makes a PE firm different?
> But I honestly just don't get the link to ovarian cancer.

What does that mean and what does it signify? Do you know enough about cancer, microbiology, the female reproductive system, etc. that you would 'get' it and that you trust your intuition?

I don't 'get' much of advanced mathematics, but that doesn't at all invalidate it in my mind, or represent evidence to others.

Is your post more than, 'I kinda wish I didn't know the facts here' - a human reaction to bad news.
Show HN: Local GLaDOS
I built GLaDOS's brain, with a low-latency chat interface. Sub 600ms voice-to-voice response, running on Llama-3 70B.
Thanks for the pointer, these look awesome (not cheap, but well designed to not be too frustrating for kids).

Trying to figure out if it can handle proper full res camera input, looks like the optical sensor is a bit limited. Maybe these ports don't have enough bandwidth, tho. EDIT: Looks like the Exp level has the "AI Vision Sensor"
And it's worth every penny to Google. Apple users (in the US anyway) have more disposable income and advertisers will pay for those eyeballs.
> Most people would see this as wasteful NIH

Because it is. What is the point of reinventing these wheels when gazillions of man hours have already been invested on open source tools that can do it better and cheaper?
This is close to your post yesterday [0] (139 points, 34 comments)... although it does go into more detail

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40224864
If you're ever in the Baltimore or Washington DC area, take 295 to the National Cryptographic Museum.

They have several beautiful super computers and one has a very pretty "WOPR" display of blinking lights. A docent told me:

"The lights don't mean anything. After some NSA employees saw War Games in the theater, they wanted blinking lights on their super computers, too."
My go-to for any kind of very fast image upscaling is the SuperXBR algorithm. It's fast, a pixel shader implementation runs at over 60FPS on Skylake IGP.

SuperXBR is in the family of Edge-Directed interpolation algorithms, so diagonal or curved lines will properly maintain their shape when upscaled, and not produce "staircase" artifacts that you see with other classical interpolation. It does not improve the sharpness though, images will still look blurry after being upscaled, just like when you perform bilinear upscaling.

But if you are doing any kind of non-realtime image upscaling today, you'd want to use the modern AI algorithms, such as Waifu2x or ESRGAN.
Think this story is getting flagged but …

what I don’t understand is that Russia has a $2 trillion GDP.

The US and the EU total around $40 trillion. In theory, with a little effort, don’t the much larger GDPs far outproduce the smaller in military investment?
Have you tried out a tangled-tree visualization? [1] I've found it to be super useful when visualizing these sorts of relationships in a compact way, and it naturally sorts the data topologically.

[1] https://observablehq.com/@nitaku/tangled-tree-visualization-...
They only limited devices for free accounts.
That is quite good and comparable to IB(investment banker) salaries. Meaning a few years ago $200k by 22, and incrementing $100k a year with $1M by age 30, and $10M by age 40 or so. The starting salaries out of college are now about $350k. My question is I wonder if the upward salary trajectory is similar to that IB track, this is assuming the employee has a somewhat upward career trajectory; does Jane street cap out folks at a certain level?
Back in the day you would read something on the internet and wonder if it was a cat that was typing it, or a human. Now people feel offended it might be an AI typing it directed by a cat or a human