skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were a G7 leader, the state of global semiconductor production would make me very nervous.

ASML is a Dutch company and is essentially a monopoly now that they first commercialized EUV lithography. They can essentially decide what companies live and die.

TSMC is probably ASML's largest customer because it reportedly produces over half of the world's chips. It is a Taiwanese company (and Taiwan accounts for two-thirds of global chip production). There is Intel too but TSMC have been way more successful in commercial chip fabrication in recent years.

TSMC is of course in Taiwan, which is way more politically precarious than Western Europe. A major disruption to Taiwan's production could be absolutely devastating. This is probably why the US is pursuing domestic chip fabrication (eg in Ohio with the CHIPS Act).

But having two companies with this much potential market influence has to make a lot of people very nervous.
Part of the problem is that since they’re only available on the PS5 only exclusive games tend to get real work put into it, if at all.

I do like the way they feel and I think they add to immersion. But honestly I’m not sure you can really enable new kinds of play with any kind of rumble past a basic hot/cold system of how strong it’s running.

While the switch is capable of something more is it really used anywhere besides those two games? A big part of the problem is I’m not sure you can feel it very well unless the joycons are detached. If you keep them attached to the system or use a different controller than you seem to lose the benefit.
Actually they don’t have the money. Retail is notoriously a cutthroat, thin margin business.

Walmart is a public company, so you can just look at their profit margins. They’re sub-3%.

Amazons margins are only higher because of AWS.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/21/blaming-social-media-for...
That requires pressing <Esc> or whatever to leave insert mode first. I'll do it if I need to do some nontrivial motions first (because i_^O is just awkward outside of mappings), but otherwise no.
According to the blog post, this is all practical research that Meta is doing to improve their services. Maybe that is BS, but I kind of doubt that given that Meta is in fact one of the biggest providers of voice and video calls on low bandwidth devices.

What makes you think that they have somehow just been misleading themselves the whole time?
Thanks. This is early!

A few on HN have mentioned issues with the design but I have heard no specific feedback. Is it just some artistic thing “you know when you see it” or can it be put into words?

There is also award winning design vs. design that may be average/common but works as intended (gets sales, helps the user get things done etc.). I am more focused on the latter for now.

Any feedback is welcome. I have some ideas on how to improve it but want to see what others think.
Dissolve it and delete the data. Pass legislation to make similar ventures impossible going forward.
> You gonna need things like Pentium D launched in 2005, or AMD K10 launched in 2007.

finally, my moment to shine

https://i.imgur.com/WxmKuG8.jpeg
Mind sharing some reasons to switch? Been meaning to check out nix.
It's cost prohibitive, a small hybrid system costs $4000usd which exceeds the average annual income of many equatorial countries. But you are right that if somehow everyone could install this system (along with an AC and the construction of an airtight room) then wet bulb events would be manageable.
The standard Unix version of nohup does in fact redirect the output/error streams if they would otherwise go to a terminal. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695299/utilities/no... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohup
Is it even possible to measure and distinguish the output as being hallucinated or not? All LLM output is hallucinated, it's only by statistics or chance that some of the output reflects facts, and we're only able to make that assessment because we can compare the output to facts. The model can't make that assessment itself.

Going from 50% "accurate" to 90% "accurate" may actually be more insidious because it changes the utility from being a coin flip to trying to determine which 10% is inaccurate, or downplaying the existence of inaccuracies because at 90% it is "mostly correct".
I can already see this disparity forming between my two boys, 7 and 4. It's remarkable how different they are for kids brought up in identical conditions.
Yup - my correction is not very strong, I usually don’t wear glasses at all, and I was able to use Vision Pro without inserts just fine, but with inserts subjective sharpness is much better.
I don't know.

Mozilla's leadership has been bad for a while now, and while I currently use Forgejo for my personal stuff, what I saw of Forgejo's leadership in that issue makes me nervous about the parent organization as well.

Since they've deleted the criticism from the issue and removed it from the Internet Archive, I feel some level of obligation to get down my memory of that conversation before it fades, and here seems as good a place as any:

This person, crystal, applied to become an "enforcer" after previously having lost a lot of trust in the community. That bit you can still see, including the acknowledgement that this abuse of authority did occur. Someone posted saying basically that they still didn't trust crystal after whatever happened previously (they gave details of the story, but I don't remember them) and that they were opposed to their appointment to any position of authority, regardless of promises that they wouldn't do it again.

After a bit of back and forth, someone (I'm assuming Earl Warren) went in and edited all of this critic's comments with a note saying that the comments had been removed by the moderation team for "ad hominem attacks". That was disturbing to me at the time—the critic's criticisms were not non sequiturs, when someone is applying to be an "enforcer" their past abuse of authority is absolutely relevant!

And of course, now that I find that they have now memory-holed that discussion entirely I'm even more perturbed. That's not the behavior of an organization that deserves any of our trust, and I don't know how much of the bad behavior that I saw there applies to Codeberg as a whole.
Article Title: The Hidden Life of Joshua Wright, Google's Secret Weapon H1: The Hidden Life of Google’s Secret Weapon. Not sure why you changed it?

(20 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609542
#2 by weight, not number 2 by value.
Vercel cancels the open source sponsorship for github1s
Are there people doing direct research on the readings? What kind of new understanding of the universe are we getting from the data?

That isn't meant to throw shade. It's an inspiration of human engineering.
That's gotta be the weirdest part of this whole story.

RZA should of pulled out his old SP1200 and made something that sounded like 36 Chambers.

I imagine it's more of a novelty thing at this point.

Although I'd love for the industry to have experiments like this. Something like a decade of exclusivity.

Anything aside from competing to get Spotify pennies.
A 1% error rate honestly seems unacceptably high if you're in the habit of reading a large volume of papers, each of which has a large volume of citations. To quote TFA, "Science involves many different error-reduction practices that take time. It's part of the job." At the end of the day, it comes down to whether you think there's value in being correct, or if you're content merely seeming correct.
The availability of US treasuries is also a big appeal of the dollar. There really aren’t many places where you can safely park a few billion or even a few ten billion in USD equivalent. The US government is basically a debtor of last resort.
From the original post, it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onrX5ZURtek

Since the post was written, FFXIV has fully switched to a lottery system[1], so at least one doesn't have to click a placard for hours, but land is still scarce on certain worlds.

[1] https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsg... under "Lottery System" - all worlds currently use this method
> The settlement would collectively give the members a 23 percent stake in Clearview AI, [...]

That's not fixing the problem. That's embracing it, and also giving a greenlight to all the other prospective AI data abusers watching the case.

If you want to fix it, rip this company apart. Investors (who should've known what was happening) get zero. Data gets clawed back. Etc.

Why would plaintiffs settle with an attaboy for the abusers like this?

> The plaintiffs’ lawyers would also be paid from the eventual sale or cash-out; they said they would ask for no more than 39 percent of the amount received by the class. (Thirty-nine percent of $52 million would be about $20 million.)

Are big class action suits like this ever done in the public interest?

Like, as pro bono work by lawyers who are already wealthy, and their only goal is to do what's good for society?
No, that's not an accurate paraphrasing.

I want to be crystal clear about this:

* Sars-cov-2 is a new virus to us and research into is ongoing.

* It demonstratably has short and long term health effects, and some of those lead to death or disability (see TFA). Repeat infections cause further damage.

* It is an easy virus to catch.

With those factors I believe in erring on the side of caution, and am alarmed at the way the a serious public health problem has become politicised and polarised.
If you believe the figures from totalitarian dictatorships but think that EU figures are faked I really can't help you :)
I could understand if the reasoning to go with GitHub vs GitLab was more about number of developers on platform, but it is hard to accept the reasoning.

You’re chastising GitLab for becoming a platform and chasing enterprise users… The alternative is Microsoft, and supporting a monopoly power.

It seems to me like choosing GitLab would foster a more equal ecosystem of forge choices, kind of like me supporting Mozilla encourages a more equal ecosystem of browsers.

GitLab is still open source and GitHub has never been.
I attempted to file a CCPA request for my data with the company. I never got a response. So I'm not really surprised they got sued
I like the option where the officers pay it back stamping license plates in the penitentiary.
The approach to these vectorized parsers is generally to find some part of the parsing task that doesn't have a dependency chain through every dang byte, like a naively written parser would, then do that first, then do some harder stuff after. I'm pretty used to it now so I lack perspective on whether this is weird, but in general finding long dependency chains and getting rid of them or replacing them with several shorter dependency chains will make software a lot faster.
https://archive.ph/jONHb
Are we? I’m arguing that lua would have been a better choice than python.

Any traditional programming language that you put in excel is going to be a feature mostly for power users, and I think they could pick up lua just as easy as python
Thanks to insurance and other financial assistance, these devices may well be available to people with such specific use cases.
I just want ACT! back before Symantec ruined it :p
Should the apocryphal status of a single item in his list change your (or anyone else's) opinions and associations of the horrors of the Holocaust?
Working Principle of Photovoltaic Inverter
Nothing like that direct. I've lived in Seattle and Philadelphia before this. The rest of my history is easily discoverable online if you're really interested. Basically, my wife and I really like our house and the region where we live.
Here's the direct links to the digital maps:

https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/medieval-london-...

https://www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays/tudor-map-1520

You have to click the checkbox "Use this overlay" to view them.
There are version control tools that are git compatible, like Sapling from Meta.

I think the likeliest future is that one or more of these catch on and Git is still around in the future but is not used directly by most people.

https://sapling-scm.com/docs/introduction/getting-started/

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-so...
I'm not entirely sure how this makes much sense if one can't generate any revenue from land and lots are limited to a single tenant - which seems to be the norm.

If the land can't really be used any more efficiently, outside of repossessing unused plots owned by absentee players, then all this does is ensure the wealthiest players are the only ones who can afford the most in-demand lots (assuming the valuation varies).

And if the whole goal is simply to repossess undeveloped/unused lots, there are simpler ways of going about it.
We built our spreadsheet (https://rowzero.io) from the ground up to integrate natively with Python. Bolting it on like Microsoft did, or as an add in like xlwings, just feels second class. To make it first class, we had to solve three hard problems:

1. Sandboxing and dependencies. Python is extremely unsafe to share, so you need to sandbox execution. There's also the environment/package management problem (does the user you're sharing your workbook with have the same version of pandas as you?). We run workbooks in the cloud to solve both of these.

2. The type system. You need a way to natively interop between Excel's type system and Python's much richer type system. The problem with Excel is there are only two types - numbers and strings. Even dates are just numbers in Excel. Python has rich types like pandas Dataframes, lists, and dictionaries, which Excel can't represent natively. We solved this in a similar way to how Typescript evolved Javascript. We support the Excel formula language and all of its types and also added support for lists, dictionaries, structs, and dataframes.

3. Performance. Our goal was to build a spreadsheet 1000x faster than Excel. Early on we used Python as our formula language but were constantly fighting the GIL and slow interpreter performance. Instead we implemented the spreadsheet engine in Rust as a columnar engine and seamlessly marshal Python types to the spreadsheet type system and back.

It's the hardest systems problem our team's ever worked on. Previously we wrote the S3 file system, so it's not like this was our first rodeo. There's just a ton of details you need to get right to make it feel seamless.

You can try it free here: https://rowzero.io/new?feature=code
Yeah wtf is this headline?

I don’t want a stake. I want this company to not exist.
No, I don't think it would be a problem, which is why I'm asking the question. Human eye has a 13ms latency according to google and yet it doesn't stop Olympic athletes from existing. I don't see what making the latency 18ms instead of 13ms changes if everybody has the same.
Since it was announced, my assumption has been that microsoft is putting python in excel like this to make using python to manipulate spreadsheets less common since that'd eat a lot of their moat around their program. If it were common enough, it wouldn't matter too much what spreadsheet program you were using.
Show HN: A high-performance word matcher
not sure if the average excel business user would benefit much from this. as a tech guy working with excel power users, sure i would enjoy not needing a special language.
Both TSMC and ASML are just the tip of an iceberg. Each has thousands of supplier companies spread across many countries. Many of these supplier companies are peerless themselves in their respective areas.

It's a lot less concentrated on those two countries than it seems, but at the same time things are even more fragile than your post would imply.
> the system described in the post is mostly about taking away

I agree.

The hard part is, as usual, on the details. How do you take away stuff so that you still end up with an usable general purpose OS? That's definitely not easy, specially if you want to make it in a proper way, without hacking things up.

For example, suppose you make the decision to use the Linux kernel, which is a good one - you get driver support, networking, filesystems, and all the good stuff and general primitives for a common OS of today.. Given that what one wants is to remove stuff, in order to make that secure (which is requirement) you'd need to isolate and block everything because on Linux everything is accessible to a process by default, and the common primitives for control are very basic - you'd have to do a _lot_ of work in userspace to block it. It would contaminate your userspace architecture with details and stuff. And then you'd probably end up needing something to make the userspace parts able to communicate with each other, like Binder on Androids case (see my other comment in this thread).
These observations while good are probably old news (about a decade old) by now.

The US has viewed tech as strategic and a realm of competition with China since at least the late Obama admin (so 2015 or so).

Semicon as a key strategic goal for China is regularly mentioned in their 5 year plans in an extremely public way.

The US has leaned heavily on ASML to go along with export restrictions against China, along with a wide array of restrictions for e.g. leading edge GPUs and even CPUs. These restrictions have ramped up recently but they’ve been in place for years now.

Not only does this situation make policymakers nervous but they’ve been taking action. It's funny that the public has finally started noticing.
OP's comment has nothing to do with what he "wants" for his kids.
What would this even look like in software?

I always wonder if software is different than physical construction, or if software is just less mature of a discipline.

In software, we can’t estimate projects accurately and consistently. We have to build a few to throw away just to get a better (yet still incomplete) picture of the problem we’re trying to solve.

Imagine if the people building your house had to build half of it and then start over. Maybe twice.

That never happens in physical construction. Maybe something has to be redone because someone made a mistake, but almost never due to not understanding the problem. So what’s different about software?
Coincidences happen, but it sure is a mighty convenient one in this case.
I'm not chastising them: they're making the move that is most rational given their publicly-traded status. That's their prerogative.

What you're probably picking up on is that I do miss the old GitLab. My emotions there aren't anger or frustration, it's more nostalgia and a faint sense of sadness. They were the good guys, and while they're still open core the open source spirit that they once had seems to have faded.

> It seems to me like choosing GitLab would foster a more equal ecosystem of forge choices, kind of like me supporting Mozilla encourages a more equal ecosystem of browsers.

This is actually a very good comparison. I'm writing this from Firefox, which I use on principle to avoid supporting Google, but I also deeply distrust Mozilla and have a long list of things I wish they would do differently. They're not good, they're just better than Google.

I also use a local Forgejo instance for my personal projects, even though I trust Forgejo's governance even less than Mozilla's. I only use them because I trust them better than I do Microsoft, GitLab, or Gitea.

I didn't write the above to try to dissuade anyone from choosing a FOSS software forge, merely to acknowledge that there is no obvious good choice that any given FOSS project should choose. All three of the forges that can claim to compete with GitHub have pretty substantial red flags for their long-term viability, and I can sympathize with any project deciding that they'd rather go with the simplest option.
At this point, you have to be colossally stupid to work for a startup. Assume options are worth $0, demand market salaries, and close-to-market benefits.
I've had at least half a dozen landlords in my life. None were this bad, even the bad ones.
Hubris, Revenge and a Breakup Brought Down Big Tech's Proudest Ally
Package installation and personal config in a single declarative language, reproducible with a single command, and shareable across platforms. But that's just scratching the surface of Nix's capabilities.
The areas are just there to advance into once you have base tech. They will fill up eventually, but there's no exponentials in current AI.

That doesn't mean new tech isn't around the corner, but we're basically maxed out now, unless nvidia figures out the way to cheap 1tb 256k-core gpus or something like that.
I think what it meant is that, in the social networks today, you have to behave “consistently” all the time. If you wrote something today and then say the opposite tomorrow, people online would probably attack you for being untrustworthy or something like that, and refuse to accept your points. But in reality, nobody can be consistent all the time. We’re all different from minute to minute, and it’s perfectly natural to change your opinions however often you want.
> Russia clearly stated they have no problem with Finland joining NATO.

Nah, before Finland (and Sweden) joined they issued multiple threats.
IIRC PowerPC was IBMs core melded to Motorolas bus design, so that Apple could easily integrate it into their existing board designs (and make upgrade cards)
On Mac with a pdf I just select say a chapter and let it read. Footnotes can be a problem. I usually use iOS now and I wrote PDF before but realize I use .epub files mostly. You can set up iOS to read entire pages. I use the local iOS Books app and have it so a two-finger swipe from the top of a page starts reading. It will usually turn pages by itself but can be a bit janky. I choose a good quality voice and have spent ten or twenty minutes rigging it up in Settings.

It's all far from perfect.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-hubris-revenge...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nTnr9

Parts 1 and 2:

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/google-lawyer-secret-weapon-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-hidden-life-of...

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/joshua-wright-student-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/for-years-an-esteemed-law-...
Each ps3 was cheaper than the per-CPU cost of what you'd get from IBM. I'm sure you'd make it up in power usage pretty quick though.
Yes, I really wish the law made it so that anyone under at least 16 (but ideally 18) is banned from using a smartphone. There’s no reason parents should have to be the “bad guy” in millions of homes across the US, we should just be able to say it’s against the law.
I didn’t have high hopes for RISC-V outside of the cheap low-power chip space but watching ARM try to destroy Qualcomms new fast chips makes me believe we may see a big ARM/RISC-V showdown in the future, the instruction set wars aren’t over yet
Well git was a tool built for bazaar style development. If you’re a closed group of trusted developers, I think fossil is a better solution. Fossil comes with issue tracker, forum, chat and perfect offline support for all of them, and is much much simpler to use than git. Git in general is just very confusing for new users.

Then there is also darcs as an alternative to git that has an innovative approach to patches that has advantages.

Personally I think we have GitHub monoculture in part because git on its own is insufficient. People in general don’t like the email flow (though personally I love it).
not reproduce it, but 'wget -m --page-requisites --convert-links <url>' did a good job for me. never mind
I always have brew available because I inevitably run into issues with Nix packages (primarily managed by home-manager) on a pretty regular basis. Feels like I would be going in the opposite direction by wrapping them in Nix.