skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About half of the best AI researchers I know are Chinese. I've visited universities there, and the quality of education is very high. There are a few barriers:

1) Language. Much of the stuff (including e.g. variable names and comments in code) are Chinese.

2) Communication style. Even in English, things are just organized differently.

3) Culture and national differences. The issues you mentioned are real; academic publishing in China is even more problematic than in the US. (We have our own issues, which are at least as severe; just different. Every place has issues).

4) Looking in US-style sources in China, and vice-versa, isn't likely to lead to optimal outcomes.

Those and others means things are often lost in translation, but at the core, once you learn to bridge those, the quality of the better work there is very, very good.
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The rate of change is much more important than the absolute inflation number in terms of how it effects workers and the economy. It's the rate of change in the inflation number that causes pain, more than the absolute percentage.

There's nothing scientific about the Fed or other central banks targeting for 2% versus, say 5% or 10%. A finance minister in New Zealand suggested the 2% target in the 80's:
https://www.cfr.org/blog/history-and-future-federal-reserves.... Other central banks copied it and now it's set in stone.

What matters is that everyone has an agreed upon expectation for what inflation will be. This is because the economy is based on expectations. Things only get bad when inflation moves suddenly higher or lower and it catches everyone off guard. All their annual projections are wrong and they have to make adjustments.

So the absolute inflation number doesn't really matter, so long as it is steady and predictable. It is true though, that psychologically the higher number may have a negative effect on people.

The 70's and 80's did have big inflation numbers, but what really causes the pain is the fluctuations. And in hindsight it's clear that the actual inflation number wasn't the problem, it was that no one knew what next years inflation rate would be.

The point is: on an absolute basis, today's inflation rates are lower. But that's not what we should be paying so much attention to. It's the rate of change of inflation that matters.

Moving from 2% to 8%, is effectively a 4x adjustment in expectations. Whereas going from 10% to 20% is just a 2x adjustment.
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I'm not a lawyer but I doubt that. Onigiri + the stylized Onigiri vs. a tent for Basecamp is pretty different. There's many brands with very simple logos that are similar.
> But their sensor suite is very expensive.

Very true, but the cost trend for these sensors over the past 10 years has been very good and expected to continue.
I totally understand that, and we need to account for people with different desires and needs. I would go crazy in no time in an isolated setting, I really really crave having a lot of density and people around me. But despise driving to do anything unless it's purely recreational driving, which would be fun maybe once or twice a month.

I would love nothing more than to live in a walkable neighborhood, with very few cars, that lets kids roam free without fear of them getting killed by drivers. But that's really hard to come by anywhere in the US.
It's a horribly amateurish novel that is a decent intro to DevOps principles.
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What a difference a few years makes.

Top comment here : "Don’t do it at work."

Top comment a few years ago : "If you work at Google and you have participated in this protest: Thank you."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776276

The comments back then were very supportive of google employees protesting against china's censorship. While the top comments here seem to be against google employees protesting israeli war crimes.

Why? A bit of a head scratcher.
Presuming everyone does want to live in a dense area (I do not), building housing and infrastructure is expensive and at the end of the day it has to be profitable to build. We don't really have the framework to zone municipalities at the Federal level. So now you are talking about leaving it to the individual states... and I think you can see where that goes.

It's impossible to build if there are restriction on permitting and construction. Also, I would expect land cost to be a significant factor in high density area due to high demand.
You need more information on the "What makes Onigiri unique?" section because I don't see any features that aren't already in (or are better than) other invoicing solutions. Hone in on the pain point because saying you're indie is a nice-to-have, not a pressing desire for most I'd say.
You are right. that prompt worked just fine. People are underestimating how tricky it can be to craft a prompt that produces a specific image.

See output
https://copilot.microsoft.com/images/create/kneeling-jesus-h...
Ah. You have to put in your about box. To keep it fair wait for June as I’m out of the country and don’t want to shut off inquiries for a month because someone said they were interested.
Hmm, this opens the possibility to also commit these files as directory structures. I wonder how this would affect merges and conflicts.
No Android? Why is cross platform development still hard in 2024?
Wait, what US cities are you in that do not have public fountains in parks and whatnot?

I'm struggling to think of any parks or high pedestrian areas around me that don't have a public fountain, nor in any of the cities I've lived in. Like, yeah, you're not going to have a fountain out in the middle of a parking lot. But they, to my recollection, seem to be everywhere that people tend to be walking a lot.

As for Europe, they also tend to be in a lot of high pedestrian areas, but really only in southern Europe (Italy, Spain, etc). In northern Europe it seems that everyone is just fine with being constantly dehydrated.
Car manufacturers should remove the feature of location being queried remotely - bam!
Do you consider non-US applicants?
> What alternative would you propose to merging? If the market re-stabilizes in a different position merging could be successful. If a revolution happens, it will probably not, but still better than doing nothing.

Copying. Copying the revolutionary competitor(s). Just don't have qualms. Start small to see that you can do it, then raise all the capital you need to go big.

I'm dead serious. When an innovator/disruptor comes along, if you the reigning champ does not out-innovate them quick, then the reigning champ will have to hand their crown to the newcomer. It's really hard for established players to out-innovate up-and-coming competitors because often the established player wants to milk their current customers, but to out-innovate the newbies requires lowering prices, which requires lowering costs, which requires lowering revenue (and earnings) in the short term in order to enable a brighter future. Reducing revenue and earnings on purpose is culturally really hard for established companies to do.

There are companies that have done this well at times. I'm thinking of Microsoft. It can be done.
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Kagi (paid privacy focused search engine) allows access to all of these for $25 a month.

Only downside I’ve found is it doesn’t save chat history for privacy reasons, but you can download them.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html
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The exceptional speech to text on the chatgpt iOS app is the main reason I use it. It’s so good. (I mean when you hit the microphone button in the bottom right, not the headphones / back and forth voice chat. Ie STT but no TTS.)

I’m assuming it uses whisper v3 plus gpt for post processing the whisper transcript.

I hope that with iOS 18 siri’s transcription is as good.

ChatGPT’s transcription is good enough that I can trust that even for a long 2 minute input, it’ll be 99-100% right. Whereas Siri I can’t trust that even for a single sentence.
I would think state level actors have enough tools to deal with this issue. If nothing else they could go the old fashioned way and just, you know, follow you.
hi reify did you use api to reply ?
Most people cannot even describe their projects in enough detail that an exceptional developer could build it. Now they are supposed to just do it all themselves because they wrote fizzbuzz in high school once? That seems very optimistic
Also the images with multiple Jesuses (Jesii?) washing their own feet.
Yes, synthetic should be more durable than natural rubber.

Once the petrochemical supply is exhausted, or what is left is extremely expensive to extract, they won't be able to afford new tires either. (Tires, and personal passenger vehicles, could be some of the least important of the "missing" consumption from the loss of petrochemicals.)
They built this with native iOS so I assume a native Android app is coming soon.
3/4, as in the fraction 3 out of 4, 75%, not 3-4
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Chat clients don't support "forking" discussions, interrupting output, etc.
Another idea: let me see what’s newest to streaming that has good reviews. And what’s about to come out.

I currently use the rotten tomatoes new to streaming page for this; but I wish it was better.
I don't really see how any of this (aside from the brief mention of commuting again) has any bearing on the question of whether it's better for the environment.
I'd rather have slightly unsafe self-driving cars than completely unsafe human-driven cars where the human is distracted by whatever's on their phone, kids screaming, accidents on the road, etc.
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> You do understand that sand is one of the most common things on earth (hence the glass is dirt-cheap).

If only it worked this way I could finally afford a 4090
> Violation of contract?

Lawsuits take time and money, and I think having a slightly higher-orbit LEO constellation under independent operational control could provide a fallback that many governments and commercial customers would be willing to pay good money for.

> Most of these competitors are likely using SpaceX launch capacity as well

That's a fair point, but there are ultimately alternatives, even if they might be non-competitive in terms of cost right now. It'd ultimately only be a backup, after all.

> Speech-conditioned funding is clearly afoul of the 1st amendment and related precedent

I was thinking primarily non-US government customers, so the first amendment has no bearing there. I'm pretty sure that the DOD has better ways to compel Elon to not shut off Starlink than e.g. the EU or an Asian government, so to them, that redundancy is probably less valuable.
> Self hosted option? I'm sure that would drive people to adopt the likely great tech behind this.

It's a pretty compelling product. At my org we have a ton of components that we'd need to "brickify" to make them available in the editor. It's hard to justify the integration and maintenance effort with a SaaS. And hard give up the core of publishing to a 3rd party.
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XRB is a templating system built loosely on top of XHTML markup
I'm not sure what the answer is, but despite how much everyone loves bashing "big corporate executives", I don't think it's a plus in our system that someone can be found liable for something completely contrary to scientific evidence.

The evidence that talc causes cancer is "limited at best" (I'll let people do their own searches and come to their own conclusions). But to me this seems similar to silicone breast implants, where billions were paid out and companies bankrupted despite the fact that there is essentially no scientific evidence that silicone breast implants cause cancer.
I use PotonVPN since a while and it works like a charm.

A note though, since some years now using a VPN is not really the panacea for streaming country restricted movies, as more and more the deciding factor is the originating country of your credit card.
That’s interesting, I found Opus to be underwhelming compared to GPT4. Hallucinations occurred as often, if not slightly more, and overall I found Opus to be not as “creative” when writing revisions. That and the rate limit resetting at midnight as compared to GPT4 being something like an hour or two made me return to old faithful.

Maybe I should give it another try.
I get what you are saying, but have you tried Clickup? For a glorified todo app, it manages to be so slow that Figma feels like a breeze.

I also happen to use Linux + Firefox and so I have to agree that it is definitely not a joy to use Figma, even for small projects.
See also:

https://www.hellobonsai.com/

Which I have used on and off as a freelancer; if Onigiri is even 60% of the way there in feature parity, I’ll switch today. Bonsai has always been far to expensive for my tastes.
That's super interesting! and I believe it. I hope it doesn't get replaced with a smug nationalism. I just generally saw a lot of curiosity about the way people do things in other nations. Maybe this was in part due to an inferiority complex, but I thought it was a very healthy amount of humility and willingness to learn from others (which is completely absent in the US)
Not all processes are reversible, and not all problems are fixable. When there are solutions, that doesn't mean the ROI is there.
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You are making so many assumptions in this reply that it's impossible to take seriously. The last line of yours applies much more to you than any of the commenters in this thread.
The Goal is also told in narrative form. It’s from the perspective of a plant manager whose company is spiraling down the drain and his plant has been given 3 months to improve their numbers by an exec.

When we first meet the exec he’s poking the hornet’s nest to get a rush order done, and he pisses off a machine tech who quits in a huff, accidentally breaking the one machine they need the most in the process.

Which is way too close to home for some of us. The guy bitching the loudest about the problems is usually the source of at least a third of your problems.
Minor feedback: please disable audible auto-play.
If you try a prompt as suggested in one of the other comments, you will get the image. No censorship, but prompts can be hard to craft to get what you want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217685
This is a really clever way to build self-learning!

I'm not sure how we move into RL-type LLM enhancement (like what Andrej Karpathy talks about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3b-JASoPi0&t=1521s )

But this seems like a reasonable first step.
I actually feel dumber for reading the phrase "quiet hiring". It's training. Employers offering employees training.

Such an innovation!
I was just replying to this general statement.

>>everyone wants near good jobs

>How dare they want a better life? /s

>You can always build up or denser but NIMBY's don't allow that so here we are.
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FWIW, I hope that WFH starts to revitalize all these dying small towns that exist on 90% of our landmass. They were nice back in the day.
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This was posted a few months ago: it's a less structured solution, but it's super simple, free and code is available: https://invoicedragon.com/
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It was actually inspired by Perl as much as Bash if you read one of the asides in the O'Reilly book written by one of PS's developers lol.
Yeah I edited my comment to reflect the US-focus (given that is what GP was discussing as well).

This matters for the US because of the strong free speech protections here. Most EU countries & most Asian countries do not have similar strength of protections.
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Did they scramble the coordinates for national security?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_d...
Is it the job market forcing people to network or Linkedin is a viable alternative to X?
I would say the latter is the only ethical case of building virtual girlfriends. If I built one for someone else, I would feel genuinely sorry for that person.
The intrusive ads made me leave immediately.
> the U.S.'s international treaty obligations to criminalize cannabis

Is that a thing?
The remarkable thing is how effective bullying is at moderating idiots. Astroturfing state actors aside, the site maintains a high level of on topic civility.

There's something inherently wrong with ordering posts by vote count, both because a confident/deceptive idiot can spread his lies like a virus and because it's too easy to game.
Some, not all. In this case were you ever subjected to the promotion of any of these tools?
Yes and since no one can accurately predict that, its valuation is based more on speculation, rather than what could be extrapolated from the numbers alone.

Which is probably a bit counterintuitive for most people. At least for me it was.
The problem with this line of thinking is it gives automatic carte blanche to anyone pointing out problems to implement "solutions" to those problems with little interrogation of whether those solutions are actually better.

SUID, like any system, is flawed. Most of those flaws are balanced trade-offs; if you're addressing one you need to be aware of the severity of any counter-problems you're inevitably introducing.

Lennart is well known for criticising existing systems while simultaneously ignoring & dismissing criticism of the proposed solutions - you need to be able to weigh up both sides in a balanced way. Lennart demonstrably isn't.