skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big issue is that we can't go much further that way. That's why for instance China industries advance while we regress. Interoperability and diversity are keys to success, cutting them means cutting the branch we are sit on...

These days many developers do not even know how to deploy their apps behind some third party APIs, finding a sysadmin it extremely hard and most are just "homelab guys with a bit of experience", how can we build something with this holes under our own feet?

A stupid example: photovoltaic is now relatively popular and that's clear the sole reasonable usage we have so far is self-consumption, we also have LFP storage still high priced (respect of China) but at a price tag sufficient to buy some storage at home like a giant UPS for a home, that's actually 400V batteries, most common inverters recharge directly from their MPPTs, actually the very same batteries are in most BEV. Well NO DAMN SINGLE VENDOR offer DC-to-DC direct charge for cars, simply nobody have apparently thought of that. We even have a standard https://www.iso.org/standard/77845.html but nobody seems to have implemented it commercially. We have a significant set of IoT appliance, only very few offer at least an open standard protocol for integration and most of them offer only ModBUS as an open standard protocol, something from the '70s, nice for certain usage also today but way too limited for many other possible usage. MQTT is a complicated option, still valid, very few implement it. Two more easy open options exists (Kafka, Matter) but nobody seems to implement them. We have a gazillion of VoIP solution almost no one is really simple and ready to deploy for anyone. Mumble/MurMur are the easiest for voice, but they are just chat, no calling ability, GNU SIPWitch is a lightweight SIP alternative, but it's far from being comfy for SOHO usage and Astersik/Yate are simply too complex for most users, similarly the first voice + screen sharing was in 1968 "The Mother of All Demos" we still lack a broad comfy screen sharing + voice solution, we even lack an IPv6 global per host to ease anything.

Long story short we waste gazillion of resources to maintain immense pile of crap following the classic https://xkcd.com/2347/ creating fragile monsters and struggling to go past this sorry state.
The article very briefly talks about the issue at hand, before becoming an ad for the companies advertised at the very end?
It’s not very odd to mention the world’s most famous tech CEO when talking about tech CEOs.
The Gmail engineering team is perhaps 500 strong based on various estimates that try to exclude team members who work on Google Workspace more broadly. At Google’s median pay of $300K, the cost is very approximately $150M/yr to engineer the stuff that makes Gmail work. That’s before accounting for infrastructure specifically required for engineering efforts, such as training models.

Let’s speculate that migrating to a whole new email standard would eat up 10% of the team for a couple of years, giving time to build and adapt a software stack that can run at Google scale on the new standard. That’s a $30M spend.

While this figure is peanuts for Google, consider that during the span of time that engineers would be transitioning to “email 2.0,” the full Gmail team would continue to work on just maintaining “email 1.0” and adapting all the new standards that continue to make the existing system improve.

Why would anyone at Google want this disruption unless email 1.0 was so broken that it was hopeless?
In all likelihood, they are illegal, just that no one has challenged them yet. I can’t imagine a sane court backing up the idea that a person can be forbidden to talk about something (not national security related) for the rest of their lives.
Thought about the Mateview as well. How great it would be if only they chose 5k horizontal resolution instead of 4k. Pixel density would be perfect and it would be better than most 5k monitors for coding.
So these second mortgages which were “cancelled” or whatever left liens on people’s homes? And they didn’t fight to get the liens removed?
cljfx is worth a look too!

https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx
It's not the genetics or food, it's the culture.

ie. Japanese take their trash home from stadium and theaters.

Meanwhile in America we throw the trash out of the window of their car into the parking lot while parked 10 feet away from a dumpster.

I am sure somewhere in Japan there are obese people and those who throw their trash into the parking lot but they are the exception not the norm where it is reverse in America.

But if it takes a drug to help drive down obesity I have no problem with people taking it, but we've got to address the cost which is ridiculous and unacceptable.
A lot of suspicious facts in the article though.

> Letby’s defense team said that it had found at least two other incidents that seemed to meet the same criteria of suspiciousness as the twenty-four on the diagram. But they happened when Letby wasn’t on duty. Evans identified events that may have been left out, too. He told me that, after Letby’s first arrest, he was given another batch of medical records to review, and that he had notified the police of twenty-five more cases that he thought the police should investigate. He didn’t know if Letby was present for them, and they didn’t end up being on the diagram, either. If some of these twenty-seven cases had been represented, the row of X’s under Letby’s name might have been much less compelling. (The Cheshire police and the prosecution did not respond to a request for comment, citing the court order.)

Are you still sure after reading?
Sweden with surströmming.
Junk mail is a lot older than the Internet.
It might’ve been easier to hire that talent under the shiny OpenAI umbrella, but as I said, Microsoft could absorb the entire thing overnight if it wanted to. And pay them enough to make them stay.
I don't like < 120Hz on a phone screen, but I don't mind as much on a computer. I think touch interaction makes lower refresh rates unnatural. On a computer screen I am much more annoyed if the density is less than 200 PPI, since the fonts, etc. become jagged.

Ideally I'd have both (5k 27" 144Hz or 6k 32" 144Hz), but such a screen from a reputable brand seems to be a unicorn. Then I prefer higher PPI over higher refresh rate.
> "It was the easiest thing I've ever applied for," McDonough said. "I just filled out paperwork and submitted it and I was approved."

It really is scary how easy it is to sign your life away. A lot of people aren't able to fully understand the risk they are taking on

> "Regulation Z, which is part of the Truth in Lending Act," Kelly said. "It requires that monthly statements be sent if there is interest assessed on a mortgage."

> In many cases, she says, that just never happened. The homeowners never received any kind of communication about these loans for years. And debt collectors piled on massive amounts of interest and late fees retroactively.

There should be a cap on how much interest a loan can accrue. Maybe 1.5x or 2x the amount of the loan.
Yeah, why does it even matter if you can control a page? Let’s just make it a fucking canvas, power users and those who care about web experience can go to hell.
Currently ILGPU already supports arm64 linux if you have a cuda or opencl device, so supporting apple silicon is not out of the question. It has been floated that we would support Metal via Vulkan support and MoltenVK but not much work has been done on that front.

Currently SIMD support for a fast CPU accelerator is the main focus for the next big accelerator type.
Well, one problem is what does ‘caring for humanity’ even mean, concretely?

One could argue it would mean pampering it.

One could also argue it could be a Skynet—analog doing the equivalent of a God Emperor like Golden Path to ensure humanity is never going to be dumb enough to allow an AGI the power to do that again.

Assuming humanity survives the second one, it has a lot higher chance of actually benefiting humanity long term too.
You called me annoying because I don't read sci-fi. Now I stand accused of reading the wrong the wrong sci-fi? Whatever.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
This is why I get my internet from A&A, my wiring is pretty much this.
>but the expectations of many people working in the field is it will arrive in what qualifies as ‘near future’.

they think this because it serves their interests of attracting an enormous amount of attention and money to an industry that they seek to make millions of dollars personally from.

My money is well on environmental/ climate collapse wiping out most of humanity in the next 50-100 years, hundreds of years before anything like an AGI possibly could.
Very cool work!

I had to solve a similar problem years ago, during the transition from fixed function to shaders, when shaders weren't as fast or powerful as today. We started out with an ubershader approximating the DX9/OpenGL 1.2 fixed functions, but that was too slow.

People in those days thought of rendering state being stored in a tree, like the transform hierarchy, and you ended up having unpredictable state at the leaf nodes, sometimes leading to a very high permutation of possible states. At the time, I decomposed all possible pipeline state into atomic pieces, eg, one light, fog function, texenv, etc. These were all annotated with inputs and outputs, and based on the state graph traversal, we'd generate a minimal shader for each particular material automatically, while giving old tools the semblance of being able to compose fixed function states. As for you, doing this on-demand resulted in stuttering, but a single game only has so many possible states - from what I've seen, it's on the order of a few hundred to a few thousand. Once all shaders are generated, you can cache the generated shaders and compile them all at startup time.

I wonder if something like this would work for emulating a Gamecube. You can definitely compute a signature for a game executable, and as you encounter new shaders, you can associate them with the game. Over time, you'll discover all the possible state, and if it's cached, you can compile all the cached shaders at startup.

Anyhow, fun stuff. I used to love work like this. I've implemented 3DFx's Glide API on top of DX ages ago to play Voodoo games on my Nvidia cards, and contributed some code to an N64 emulator named UltraHLE.
I have 19 stamps that I bought in 2019 and can’t find any opportunity to use.
Confused here, is your argument here that OpenAI is not responsible for any innovation when it comes to LLM tech today? I’m curious about why you so strongly want to believe that?

Nobody knew that scaling transformer architecture would lead to the emergent intelligence we see today. Among other things, OpenAI did R&D for years on that. Also the only situation where this could true is if Google knew that LLMs could lead to this intelligence and decided to not make it happen, (along with every other tech company now that is furiously trying to catch up to OpenAI), which is absurd.
Why is this supposed to be a mystery? Every country wants a trade surplus.

China exported US$3.38T in 2023, but also imported US$2.55T.

In fact, their exports are only a little above the US's, which exported about US$3.053T in 2023.
Global warming and heat extremes to enhance inflationary pressures
> It combines a streaming financial data platform with a general accounting ledger, allowing startups to have real-time visibility into their financial health.

What is "a streaming financial data platform"? How does it work, what does it do?
Hey, this is really cool and helpful.

I recently arrived in Germany and movie/cinema aggregation is a huge issue and a hassle tbh, so I'll be using this frequently.

A suggestion, if I may, is to add language of the movie if possbile? It'd be great if there's any way to fetch that info and display it directly on your website instead of visiting every multiplex website to check it.

Either way, thank you for this!
Cause China sees the war as inevitable. With all this overcapacity, the industrial production can be converted in militar output. Simply as that.
Have you read Division 3 of the Archives Act 1983? Something along these lines is fairly widespread, although of course the Sir Humphreys of the world have had some success in limiting the damage done to their interests.

https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A02796/latest/text
Yup, I know that, but I encourage people to not be afraid of republishing little bits of code for educational or archival purposes. They should know they do have fair use to lean on if they do end up in the incredibly unlikely situation of ending up in court.. unless of course they're painting a very large target on their backs and making quite a bit of money from the IP of a large corporation!
> is the only kind which poses a true existential threat

You don't accept the possibility that a non-improving tool of an AI system that is fixed at the level of "just got a PhD in everything" by reading all the research papers on arxiv, might possibly be advanced enough for a Jim Jones type figure to design and create a humanity-ending plague because they believe in bringing about the end times?
That could very well be the case, OpenAI took quite a few opaque decision/changes not too long ago.
If you actually read the article, what we send back is just IOUs or funny money. It's irrelevant what we send back actually, because the goal could be deindustrialization of other countries. The actual goods created are just the side effect of industrial production in order to keep their industries running until they need to swap them to military production.
Unoptimized native application, probably written in a yolo let’s ship it faster way, is slower than rewrite that learned from mistakes of previous application. What makes you surprised?
I'd like to add a seventh theory to Noah's six: Chinese capital owners over-invest in certain manufacturing sectors because many other options are unavailable or politically risky. Solar manufacturing, which China led globally as early as 2012 (and saw tariff fights with the West starting around then) was attractive to Chinese capital because it was domestic, export oriented, non-ideological, and not already crowded with or formally claimed by state owned enterprises.

A lot of investment options that are attractive among wealthy Westerners aren't available in China because:

1: Overseas investment is restricted for Chinese citizens.

2: The state already owns large enterprises in many sectors of the economy (mining, electrical infrastructure, nuclear power, transportation...) and it's not clear that it is possible (in terms of competition or what's allowed politically) for a private enterprise to dominate in those sectors.

3: Even in sectors where the state isn't well established, private enterprises may face rules that stymie growth (e.g. the widely remarked differences between TikTok and its closest domestic Chinese equivalent, Douyin, which are driven by Chinese content restrictions.)

Ambitious wealthy Chinese are left with fewer attractive investment options. They "over-invest" in manufacturing goods for export, despite modest returns, because it's the least-worst option.
The section from the OP I'm referring to is:

Contact us to opt out. If you want to exclude your Customer Data from Slack global models, you can opt out. To opt out, please have your Org or Workspace Owners or Primary Owner contact our Customer Experience team at feedback@slack.com with your Workspace/Org URL and the subject line “Slack Global model opt-out request.” We will process your request and respond once the opt out has been completed.

That includes a period before inside the quotes which would suggest a period inside the subject line.
The fact is — everyone should be paid more; we need a society where wealth is merely captured by but a relative few individuals.

In a sense, however, the way Googlers are paid is not quite right; Google itself is a microcosm for income disparity with respect to ICs versus executives; and Google outside of itself is a microcosm for wealth capture disparity among firms in the country — it almost certainly holds an unfair monopoly at this point.
Which timezone's night? Aren't these globally available services?
Railroads...

Railroads can now outsource train control.
Wabtec's "Wabtec Cloud Positive Train Control Communication Solution" - "A complete turnkey hosted office solution for I-ETMS-based Positive Train Control (PTC) systems"[1] (Wabtec used to be Westinghouse Air Brake.)

Wabtec has had break-ins, but claims they only involved employee info, not control systems.[2]

[1] https://www.wabteccorp.com/digital-intelligence/signaling-an...

[2] https://industrialcyber.co/ransomware/wabtec-suffers-data-br...
It’s really quite amazing to login a linux shell on an orangecrab FPGA running a RISV-V softcore, built using an open source toolchain. That was impossible not so long ago! At best you’d have something like Xilinx PetaLinux and all their proprietary junk.
TIL, thanks for the informative reply.
> Microsoft is the de facto controlling shareholder in OpenAI

No, they are not even a shareholder.

> Microsoft is entitled to up to 49 percent of the for-profit arm of OpenAI's profits, according to reports. But that's not the same as 49% ownership. That investment does not result in Microsoft owning part of OpenAI
Email is amazing and underappreciated. The federated social network that everyone keeps trying to invent has been there all along. If more people controlled their own email address, it would be nearly perfect.
Japan OKs hunting whales as whale meat vending machines grow more popular
"""Fin whales are some of the largest whales in the ocean. These massive whales were among the most popular targets for whalers up until the last century, when fin whales were listed as an endangered species. However, Japan has shared plans to start hunting these vulnerable whales again as a key way to keep its whale meat vending machines stocked.

Five years ago, Japan ramped up its commercial whaling operations, even going so far as to open vending machines across the country that offer the delicate meat of the massive mammals as a meal for consumers. Now, though, the country is taking things a step further by opening up commercial whaling to fin whales.

There is, obviously, a lot of concern here from conservationists, who argue that the decisions to increase these whaling quotas, and even make it open season on endangered and vulnerable species like the fin whale is extremely irresponsible and only increases the risk that these species will go extinct (via Discover Wildlife)"""
I think every open source projects that has ever aimed to have >10 employees has taken that same route at some point: GitLab, Matomo, WordPress, Redis, MySQL, nginx, HAProxy... all incredibly useful for in most use cases completely free, but if you try to really rely on them (on a large enough scale), you will hit that paywall at some point and feel forced to pay up.

If the goal is to have <10 employees working on an open source project, then I think it's a completely different story, offering just cloud hosting with no extra features is within the realm of possibility. Keep in mind that while one sysadmin is not cheap, a company relying on multiple cloud-hosted open source tools will at some point find that one sysadmin very cheap in comparison. He'll even have time to do some other things as well. That might be a completely viable route for some "simple" open source project (Plausible and SeaTable immediately come to mind), but some open source projects are just aiming to be complex enough to need more than 10 people.

In summary, I personally believe everyone should be pragmatic enough to be fine with the "open core" model. Otherwise, there's no chance in hell we'd have so many cool, open sourced (to an extent), self-hosted tools at our disposal.
The Wright Brothers are infamous for failing to industrialize their invention -- something that notoriously requires investors and hype. Perhaps they wouldn't have squandered their lead if they had been a bit more public with their hopes and dreams.
Try to get that bounty enforced in the courts! All it'll take is one loophole to what would surely be a few vague poorly drafted laws and the floodgates open again.
Ah yes, the “our brains are somehow inherently special” coalition. Hand-waving the capabilities of LLM as dumb math while not having a single clue about the math that underlies our own brains’ functionality.

I don’t know if you’re conflating capability with consciousness but frankly it doesn’t matter if the thing knows it’s alive if it still makes everyone obsolete.
In the many years at work I got so used to jetbrains ides, that I also now buy a license yearly for personal use. Datagrip is probably my favorite database explorer.
>On the positive side, ubershaders do solve the problem, and modern GPU drivers do a much better job at accepting ubershaders than they did 9 years ago. Though that's primarily because (as far as I'm aware) examples of Dolphin's ubershader have made their way into every single shader compiler test suite.

How'd that come to be? Just interesting code for test suites or did you guys advocate for it to be included?
> Each message can contain a hash signed by the private key for the domain that wrote it.

Me being able to prove that I wrote something is good. Other people being able to prove that I wrote something… it's good under many circumstances, but not in general.
I don't think so. A few years ago I had some severe allergic reaction to some food stuff and I was on prednisone for half a year. The initial daily doses were huge (about 100 mg). I don't remember I had any severe colds, or any colds at all. I'm not 100% sure, but at least if I had any cold, it was not bad enough to stay in my memory. Certainly not to send me to the hospital.

The funny thing about colds is that you don't die from them, you die from the immune response. That's why the first effective countermeasure to Covid-19 was dexomethasone, an immunosuppressant. Even before Covid-19 became a pandemic, and it was just a thing in Italy, I read about some asthma inhaler as being helpful, and asthma inhalers are just immunosuppressants.

In principle if you give someone absolutely massive doses, then maybe a cold just kills them. But, based on my sample of 1, you would need lots of pills to do that. The highest prednisone dose is 20 mg. Five pills will not make you more vulnerable to a cold. How do you make someone take ten pills without them knowing? And do that for a few days in a row? And there's no guarantee that 10 pills daily will do the job.
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It seems odd that accounting would even need AI. At the core it is fairly basic math.
Fully agree with the last part. If you are a Mac user, just get an Apple Studio Display. It's Retina, the integration with macOS is top-notch, and the speakers are pretty good. Initially the camera was not great (as pointed out by early reviews), but subsequent firmware updates have made it much better. Oh and it actually gets regular firmware updates and fixes -- it runs on Apple Silicon and uses a stripped-down iOS.
>an edict about expiration dates

is exactly what Division 3 of the Archives Act 1983 (Australia) and section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958 (UK) provide for, so this is hardly as unworkable an idea as you make it out to be.
So not a musical instrument - human organs.