skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the rate of economic progress stays close to constant, [...]

Not going to happen. So far in all economies, catchup growth has inevitably slowed down as they moved to the global technological frontier.

Taiwan was famously one of the Asian tigers. As you already noticed, her growth has slowed down a lot. PR China has seen enormous growth, but has also slowed down in the last ten years or so, and looks to slow down further.

At the moment, PR China as a whole is a lot poorer per capita than Taiwan. Though you can argue that for our purposes here, Taiwanese people would compare themselves to the coastal provinces of PR China.

(Of course, they would also look at Hong Kong as the obvious comparison for a (semi-) independent entity joining PR China. And just going by raw growth, officially joining China doesn't seem to have accelerated HK growth at all.)
About 10 years ago I went to an ophthalmologist. I had experienced a situation which I can only describe as a visual phenomenon traveling from one part of my visual field to beneath it. I was partially blind because of it. I can only think it was a very small stroke or something. They found nothing wrong with my eyes and in passing I mentioned these white things.

Combined with my inability to explain what I saw, the doctor was visibly annoyed and said I need a psychiatrist not an ophthalmologist.
Don’t tell me you trusted Zuck not to…
So true. Every grant application are literally submitted on the last day. Every grant report are written on or after the last day. Every conference paper are submitted on the last day. Every peer review are submitted on or after the deadline.
18 hours ago [1] (15 points, 2 comments), 11 days ago [0] (4 points, 1 comment)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40353210
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464254
that's not entirely true (reddit snark way) -- there's blood samples from the Korean war, that are un-tainted. I think that's like the only place though, on earth... not affected. The chemical companies who did this can't pay enough to make amends, and Criminal charges should be on the table for everyone who had any knowledge.
I was reminded of that when analysing the Skype (now Teams) protocol and found that one of the domains it uses was trouter.io.
If restrictions to trade are so great, why do nations inevitably try to blockade each others ports in a war? Shouldn't that just help the other guy's economy prosper?
The new params collection types is probably the biggest change, this will allow ergonomic but efficient methods to be written that can operate on variable length inputs. This is utilising the Span<T> type which works similarly to a Rust slice.
This is all true, but I think tends to cover up root-causes.

Over the last 5-10 years, tons of people got jobs on the strength of "k8s experience" which was more like "I was on the software-side of an application development that was deployed with kubernetes once" and then got hired based on that as if they had architecture and infrastructure experience/expertise, when they actually don't have either one.

So yeah, when you need 6-8 months of on-the-job training for your "experts" to get some expertise, that will set you back 6-8 months when it comes to productionizing your product (assuming the product itself is already finished!). It's not the sheer amount of work that's involved with microservices vs monoliths. It's the skill set, which is large enough that you can't get it overnight. Even setting aside the wider ecosystem and just counting the number core concepts at play, it's easier to pick up a new programming language than to learn kubernetes architecture/administration/operations.

Startups (or a company of any size that simply doesn't have the ability to evaluate candidates) will be better off if they won't saddle themselves with full-time people of questionable qualifications, working instead with some limited-engagement technical consultants and contractors in a tactical way. Contractors like this will have actually solved the problems involved multiple times and will probably have bootstrap-a-whole-org testing/deployment/monitoring code in their back pocket already.

To me it seems like all this is the predictable downside of the whole "full stack engineer" thing. A server-side language + html/css/javascript can probably fit into the average human brain, but even there it seems misguided. Once "full stack" is further twisted to mean SWE+Infrastructure+Platform+Cloud+Architecture and then you throw in a little "No-Ops" and "Low Code" optimism, then it's getting unrealistic, but naive management will imagine anyone can do anything and it's all very easy. It is easy, but not anyone can do it. Expertise is required, especially during design/bootstrap phases. As a company you don't have to buy that expertise forever with a FTE, but you also can't just assume you'll multipurpose some existing FTE for this stuff if they have less than adequate experience.
Meat is more necessary to livelihood than schmoozy business trips to Singapore or a shallow influencer's five-star trip to Tahiti.
They committed suicide; do not elide the fact that the primary reason for their harassment was that they identified as non-binary.

Edit: A child post has provided reasonable evidence that I'm mistaken about Near preferring singular-they pronouns; "he" is likely fine. Apologies for the mistake. I will leave the original body of the post as I still think it's worthwhile to remember why Near was targeted for such harassment.
It's funny, they make the connection between the screen aesthetics and old comic books yet they don't actually try a comic book or illustrated book on the device to experience any of the color. It feels like a wasted review if they're not going to engage with the distinct feature.
Story #x in the “I am so pissed with Apple” saga.
...thus have I heard.
It is on mobile.
Sounds brutal and about what I expected. I hope vets are included in the new regulation around non-competes.
The VSCode extension for Rust is quite good too, probably the best IDE like support for any language I've tried.

I'm more excited for JetBrains Fleet than another standalone IDE at this point.
Computer programmers from Taiwan go to the PRC to earn more money. Heck, programmers from Japan and ROK find they can get more money in China as well with the right specialty. It is just one small segment of their economy, but the money China is willing to spend on tech is no joke, and dwarfs its neighbors in terms of salaries.
They also helped preserve Stephen Hawking's voice. Their emulator included an extremely accurate emulator for one of the DSP chips used in his voice machine. Th code was used when Hawking's original voice machine was failing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21026000
It makes them see red.
what do you mean.
As far as I'm aware, he went by he/him/they/them and accepted all of them.
If you're able to find a feature, is it possible to selectively replace it to optimize it?

Kind of like replacing a portion of unoptimized compiler code with hand written assembly?
When groups like this refer to "public safety and societal risks", what do you think they're referring to? Do you feel that those concerns are valid?
Yes, I was thinking about the software world really. I work for a small SaaS vendor so we have the skills to develop and host our offering. We are indeed toying with AI (because who isn't?) to see about adding features, but one of our requirements would be that it is self-hosted as well because we work in medical IT. I believe that's one place where strong privacy laws and at least the idea that patients own their data (doctors don't seem to be super onboard on that) can put some guardrails on what companies can do.
Some of the rare-ish side effects we've seen are genuinely concerning (gastroparesis is not fun!), but I didn't realize until recently that we actually have a lot of data about those side effects because GLP-1 agonists have on the market for a few decades now. And the safety profile is pretty good overall.

Granted, the specific formulations we're seeing spike in popularity are newer, and they've only recently been approved for weight loss rather than things like diabetes, but it's not a totally newfangled technology.

For comparison, some of the older-gen GLP-1 agonists have been around about as long as Humira has, and significantly longer than a lot of the drugs you see advertised on TV/video ads nowadays.
Subtitled version here https://x.com/TranslateMom/status/1793230643104485487
I’ve been using the pre-release version for a bit because I am a big fan of PyCharm. I found it very good besides the profiling interface. The “jump to source” option never works for some reason. Overall, though, provides a great experience.
that's pretty much the universal Japanese learning experience (except for people who know Chinese)
Linux Mint for the minimum fuss. You can go with XFCE for maximum snapiness. Almost every guide for Ubuntu will work with it, but without the latter's junk.

I work with Debian and i3wm, but that's because I'm familiar with both and my software needs are minimal. Debian is pretty stable, but barebones. Everything you install will work, but you may as well go with Linux Mint Debian Edition if your endgoal is similar.

Fedora and OpenSuse are other candidates for well supported distros, without doing all the work like with Arch Linux.
how is that any different? you're still allowing arbitrary code to run.

Unless you are saying that those who type into the terminal will first |echo the script into a file, verify it, then run?
Weren't non-competes just banned by the FTC? Could make a fine mess of this.
But this falls apart immediately, in much the same way as the rest of it.

If someone tells me I'm incapable of driving because I had a glass of wine with dinner, I'm likely to laugh at them and disregard everything they say after that, because I now perceive them as someone who understands neither drinking nor driving.

It doesn't take a PhD to understand that people react differently to alcohol (etc, etc). Most people I know figured that out before they were 18 and had a pretty robust understanding by their early 20's.

The right level of discussion, IMHO, is not paternalistic, absolutist condescension, but one that promotes self-awareness and enables people to appraise individual risk in specific situations. (Be careful: if you assess wrong, you die or go to jail!)

I'd also disagree that the people who excuse their behavior like this are seizing upon nuances of academic discourse, but rather rejecting an insultingly-simplistic slogan held up as some kind of absolute truth.

It reminds me of a line from this thing my dad had framed, to the effect of "Be wary of giving advice: the fool won't heed it and the wise don't need it." Somewhere in the middle are reasonably-intelligent, non-sociopathic adults who need to understand the limits/risks/benefits so they can make informed decisions.

To the original point, I think we'd have seen much better results and much less collateral/residual damage if we were in the habit of "ELI18" and not "ELI5".
Yeah my bad, fixed it.
In one of those random connections, I met my wife through ICQ.
I will never forget my 5 digit ICQ number and how cool it made me feel in the early 2000s
That’s a good point that i never thought to ask about, how tight teeth fit might have influenced the advice i heard.
You should be able to get a basic consultation with a lawyer, often for free, or a small sum ($20-50). It sounds like you're being jerked around a lot and they're trying to steamroller you into compliance. Keep refusing their attempts until they send you a check or credit to your bank account and keep everything they send you and you send them. The more evidence you have that they were not engaging in good faith, the better your case will be if it has to go to court.

If you're lucky though, a nasty letter from a lawyer will often make these business give in as they finally understand that you're serious about litigation. I've had to do such a thing when a commercial property company tried to charge me for damages that already existed, but I had pictures from when I moved in to show they were not caused by me, so it would have cost them more to take me to court than to ignore it and get a new lessee in.

Best of luck!
Microsoft is the company that is most obviously pursuing computers as a service. (perpetual OS rental, at least.)
That's not my understanding, but I'm happy to admit a mistake and amend my post if you have a source.
But how bad is that amount for me really?
I haven't had a respiratory illness since N95s were a little more normalized. I don't wear one when I'm walking around, but I keep them handy for flights and public transit.

It's fucking great, I haven't had so much as a runny nose in nearly half a decade.
Considering sanctions, Ukrainians are probably the largest Spotify consumers of Russian content right now, and obviously will listen to Ukrainian content too. So their engine probably goes "oh you like Russian stuff, so chances are you're Ukrainian, here's some Ukrainian stuff for you".
Dumb devices can have smarts; they just need to be incapable of shenanigans. Maybe a monitor can be reprogrammed to capture screen shots, but without storage or a network connection, that isn't useful.
While the engine response is not accurate all the time, the engine returns a confidence score. We have never encountered cases where a deployment with necessary training data indicates a .9 confidence score on an incorrectly generated SQL.
This would be an excellent target for poisoning.
Should probably link to the official announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2024/05/21/rustrover-is-rele....

Notably, there's a "free for non-commercial use" license that grants access to the entire RustRover IDE.

There's also controversy because JetBrains removed JavaScript/TypeScript support from RustRover right before this release, admittedly because they want to keep these features gated behind a paid subscription in IntelliJ. That wouldn't normally be an issue, except the IntelliJ Rust plugin is deprecated and doesn't have the support that RustRover does; so there's currently no single IDE that fully supports Rust + web projects, even though JetBrains could easily make one, and even though people would be willing to pay for it. The end of the blog mentions "IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate will include support for the Rust plugin for free" so hopefully they are addressing this; if they re-package Rust support into into IntelliJ but only as a paid plugin I think that would make most people happy.
Without knowing much about this person, just reading the post, I find this incredibly sad.

It just seems completely wrong way. Who cares if you excel at something? What about things you love? I love some things that I am terrible at. And I am good at some things because I love them.

And as for our brains, OMG! There are things we people can do that are so amazing. Just astounding. If you can speak any language, even if not Japanese, you learned it. And not from a book. You just 'got' it.

It is just a tragedy, because there is so much.
This is useful but I hope not-OCRing PDFs does not become the norm because of it. My local city council doesn't ocr their minutes, but they do OCR "archived minutes" (3+ years old). So if you want to do a search for some specific topic they may have discussed more recently, you're shit outta luck. The Firefox thing seems useful, this other thing just annoys me and this seems like the appropriate outlet to complain about it.
This is going to be such a benefit to law enforcement. Being able to just scan the history of the machine to see if a suspect had a illegal file and then deleted it, or what they were doing before they wiped their browser history is going to cause a ton more successful court cases.

That said, it makes going to random websites from comment chains or user submitted stories much more dangerous. If they lead to illegal content, it's now stored ready to be used against you if law enforcement ever wants to take a close look at you.
Way in which TAMs usually actually fix things:

- Single customer complains loudly
- TAM searches for other customers with similar concerns
- Once total ARR is sufficient...
- It gets added to dev's roadmap
That requires so much trust in the people in power. People who have demonstrated repeatedly throughout history that they don't deserve blanket trust. It's like suggesting lynch mobs never got it wrong.
In China, DJI's agricultural drones have basically become standard equipment on large farms. Actually, these devices are quite cheap, although buying them requires a big chunk of money, maybe even a loan. But calling them cheap is just because with a bit of simple math, farmers immediately see it as a good deal.

China might not have as much large-scale agricultural machinery, just like Africa doesn't have as many landline networks, but that doesn't stop everyone from using mobile phones, right?

Plus, there's not much redundant regulation in the countryside, no need to submit plans, and most rural areas don't care about approvals. They just want to grow more crops. It's not about fearing hard work, worrying about toxic pesticides, or not being able to endure the sun and wind; they simply want to make the barren land produce more food.

In fact, many farms only have a second-hand van worth a few hundred dollars. Some even use tricycles to transport these expensive devices. Many farmers don't understand English and operate based on memory of the icons, and that's enough. They buy lots and lots of batteries, working from dawn till dusk. After finishing their own work, they help neighbors with spraying at a low price, just to quickly recover the costs.

Many people think that tractors combined with large machinery are efficient, but actually, it depends on the situation. Fragmented small plots contracted to households are used for planting high-yield rice to maximize production. For example

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV11juVe9Ewo/?share_source=co...

And, as soon as one farm in a village benefits from this, a competitive buying frenzy quickly forms in the surrounding areas :)
I would rather have a phone that lasts 1 year though, I don't want to pay extra for one that lasts 5 years. Why should it be illegal to build phones for people like me who upgrade more frequently than every 5 years (and most Americans, median is 2.5 years)?
> I don't know how you can say any intention here is "clear"

You are suggesting that it is coincidence that they contacted SJ to provide her voice, they hired a voice actor that sounds like her, they contacted SJ again prior to launch, and then they chose that specific voice from their library of voices and tweeted the name of the movie that SJs voice is in as a part of the promo?

I haven't suggested what they have done is illegal, given that the fictional company that created the AI "her" is unlikely to be suing them, but it is CLEARLY what their intent was.
At first I thought this article might have been related to this. But it seems they are different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena
After reading the whole article I feel the author misses the point (intentionally or not). LLMs are not truth machines. The article feels like a long winded rant about how Gemini is supposed to perform perfectly as a source of knowledge.

There is an enormous amount of utility in LLMs for scaffolding code, making recommendations for services, rephrasing marketing, or coming up with ideas.

A hammer isn't a good can opener, but it is still a useful tool. Likewise, stop using LLMs as a replacement for everything (ignoring the marketing hype) and you will likely be less cynical.
Chinese cheap labor set a Japanese automation back by a couple of decades. Coming into the 90s, Japan was pushing more and more automation as a way to deal with their declining workforce, then China fully opened up in the late 90s and that was history.

For the longest time Chinese made Toyotas were of much lower quality than Japanese ones, simply due to precision robots being used in Japan for work that was being done manually in Chinese factories. Now that China made is also hitting a demographic cliff, one thinks that maybe again automation will take hold…or maybe Africa and India will develop next.
Automated Scoring of Math Self-Explanation Quality Using LLM-Generated Datasets
> Everything else I try and excel at goes absolutely nowhere.

I heard a story from an old runner who said, “Once I was running along the side of the road and somebody in a passing car leaned out and asked, ‘What are you training for?’ As they zoomed by, I yelled back, ‘THIS!’”

My point is that the trying is the getting somewhere.
Floaters should usually be dark, not bright white.
I think the pattern and intensity of visual snow is supposed to be different than this.
What I am saying is that, in the larger context, 300 million people, using drugs to control weight is the wrong approach. This does not lead to a healthier population at all.

The effects of our poisonous food system go way beyond the mere storage of energy as fat. The horrific nutritional profile seen out there today en masse, has consequences that do not evaporate simply by losing weight with a drug.

Speaking in terms of just the US --because I cannot be critical of food elsewhere-- what we want is a healthy population that consumes less drugs, has much lower incidences of all of the diseases caused by poisonous food, has less need for life-long interventionist medical care, etc.

Our population is sick. The problem is shit food (first), too much of it (second) and lack of exercise (third). Taking a pill for life will never change that. Not even close.

It isn't a solution. What's next, 300 million people taking a pill for life?

This is the kind of thing that bugs me about big government. The FDA is worthless. They are not protecting people where protection is needed. Watch the videos I posted. I'd be interested in what you might have to say.
Rant: I have all my shitify notifications turned off in the app. But, I still get those obnoxious "concert near you" banner that pushes the display down (changing all the button locations that I have memorized) and doesn't disapeered ubtil you click the tiny x.

It drives me bonkers.

I pay for family and am considering moving everyone to deezer out of spite
So fucking sad.
5 digits? early 2000s? Does not compute...
SIGHUP and SIGINT have no CPU-level equivalent.
What does covered mean here? Who is covered?
Prior art is Napoleon Hill's maxim of "Doing More Than Paid For".
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