skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that is it’s not actually true. Yes most low end stuff consumers buy is made in China. But US manufacturing is primarily high end - stuff that’s extremely exacting, precise, and technologically advanced that sells to corporations and governments. The fact that Tesla started their factories here then rolled it out as a pattern globally is illustrative of this.

Further, when you consider the aggregate production in Mexico, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, etc and recognize that an awful lot of it, including electronics, is managed and built by US manufacturing outssourcers like Jabil, it become pretty obvious the US hasn’t lost its edge in manufacturing. It’s just shut down the Knick nack production onshore. Rebuilding those factories in a crisis could be done rapidly, and the labor skill required to oversee a machine pressing scissors is pretty low - that’s why it can be offshored to an unskilled labor pool with such ease.

China dominates these through a willingness to exploit itself for a very low margin and extreme scales. These are definitely advantages - if you don’t care about your people and are willing to destroy your environment for dominance in producing forks, you’ll probably be allowed to. The margins are so low and the barrier to reentry is tiny.
What alternatives are there?

No where near the ergonomics as far as I can tell, but with containers, there's been an effort to make bootable containers. I seem to remember there being some other options (I wanna say like Wyvern or something like that was one but not finding it), but the big obvious effort is bootc. https://containers.github.io/bootable/projects.html . 38d old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289120
Did they warn the Rafah refugee camp before bombing and killing 40+?
I maintain that we do NOT have a housing crisis, only a crisis of not enough housing in cities and places where people want to live. Instead, we have a neighborhood and zoning problem.
This could be a great target for machine learning driven automation.
> In this case, the experts could literally be routing / weighting of the LoRas

Hmm yes, good point. Hard to tell with so little to go on.

edit: I assumed they were matrices given they were squares in the figure, just squashed to fit in the LoRA stackup, and given that they'd be low-dimensional so few parameters due to that.

> The thing that’s a little weird to me is that you’d need to keep retraining the experts.

Yeah my impression was this is more for static knowledge, like if you wanted to have a Wikipedia-assistant say.

It got me thinking though, if it could be a stepping stone towards something more dynamic. Say could you use something like the W = W_0 + dW idea to tweak the cross-attention mechanism to select newly added experts somehow?

Again, not into the AI scene, just like entertaining these shower thoughts.
Still no arrays in the standard? GTFO.
Interesting info. Given this, I’m surprised that the cop that killed Jahnavi Kandula while going 74 in a 25 did not experience any consequences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jaahnavi_Kandula
Until your family is killed in a proxy war I guess
The Disturbing Truth About Hair Relaxers
Thanks I appreciate that! I'll play around with it later today.
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." - Jesus

Hate may have a place in a somewhat-developed moral system, but in a better-developed one, it's seen as a weakness in ourselves.

Note well: That doesn't mean that you do nothing and let Nazis run over other people. You still have to oppose them. But guard yourself against hatred when you do. Hatred will try to turn you into a Nazi-but-with-the-other-flag if you let it. (That is, one could have all the Nazi values, just point them at different people than the Nazis do.)
I think that was Peter Sellers in Being There.
I think those capabilities are made out of ideas. I think yes, a machine could have ideas, and then it would be a person, and an anticlimax.
The game this article is based on is “Baba Is You” [1]. It’s a logic puzzle game where you try to get “you” to “flag” — or more precisely, “win” (which, by default most of the time, “flag is win”) — but you manipulate a number of objects and join them with other words to change the “rules” of the game.

I highly recommend it to the HN crowd.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/
If our politicians worried more about helping out their people instead of hindering their perceived enemies, then we might actually get somewhere.
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Maybe we don't have to capture so much carbon, study suggests
I have also seen these issues and always wondered why this happened. There seems to be an issue with the tolerances of USB C compared to A that make C more susceptible to damage and also dirt and dust.

The main issue seems to be lack of resistors in some devices, which leads to USB C not seeing the device to be charged as such, as it isn't negotiating the USB-PD part. USB A doesn’t officially implement a power delivery negotiation spec, it’s just always on at the charger end, with more amps possibly being negotiated if I’m reading properly.

People seem to be able to resolve this issue with a daisy chain. Devices that usually only work with A to C cables might be able to use a C charger connected to a C to A (female) cord or A to C adapter, which is then connected with a standard A to C cable to the device to be charged.

It’s probably easier to keep a USB A charger and A to C cable, but hopefully this helps put your mind at ease that there is a rational explanation.

https://acroname.com/blog/why-usb-c-connections-sometimes-do...

https://plugable.com/blogs/news/understanding-usb-c-charging...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C

The Reddit post below actually explains how to work around the problem as I mentioned above:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/w1ismo/how_co...
>While in emergency mode, the driver of the emergency vehicle is -presumptively liable- for ANY incident that occurs, unless it can be demonstrated otherwise (and even then there is still likely to be contributory liability). This liability is personal and organizational (i.e. I can be personally sued if I hit someone in my ambulance, even going code 3).

I think you are mistaken. Please cite your sources.

Drivers of emergency vehicles must exercise due regard, but as long as they meet that standard, AFAIK they are not liable for accidents they cause while operating with lights and siren, when lights and siren are warranted.

For example, CA Vehicle Code section 17004 provides: “A public employee is not liable for civil damages on account of personal injury to or death of any person or damage to property resulting from the operation, in the line of duty, of an authorized emergency vehicle while responding to an emergency call or when in the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm or other emergency call.”

There is an exception to the rule: California Vehicle Code 21056 states that CVC 17004 and CVC 21055, “does not relieve the driver of a vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway, nor protect him from the consequences of an arbitrary exercise of the privileges granted in that section.”

The law may be different in other states, but I doubt that your statement of the law is true in any U.S. state. Very curious to learn if I am wrong about that.
I can explain. Jensen Huang is considered the #1 CEO these days. Ashton Jackson, the author of the article, understands this quite well — whatever nonsense you write will be picked up by Nvidia followers. Some of them will trash the article, but a small percentage of people will read it to the very end, including this part:

> Want to be a successful, confident communicator? Take CNBC’s new online course Become an Effective Communicator: Master Public Speaking. [...]
It's a real shame you think so. Every comment I make is in good faith.
On the contrary.

A = "good code"; B = "rarely read"; C = "often read"

A implies B

B is exclusive with C

X leading to C implies X is not A
CS degrees aren’t meant to teach any particular skill. They should be teaching general knowledge that helps you adapt to whatever the FOTM is in industry. Realistically you can learn to use git in less than one day. It just shouldn’t be a significant barrier to hiring someone.

None of the specific languages or software I learned during my degree do I even use now in my current role.
Doubly so given that Untitled Goose Game is from an Australian game studio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_House
Huang isn’t saying any of those one-simple-trick things.

His advice is actually incredibly difficult to put into practice: define your purpose, dedicate your life to it, and prioritize working on it.
And...one more yesterday

"Tesla driver using self-driving mode slammed into police cruiser in Orange County" - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-13/self-dri...

"Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car responding to fatal crash": https://youtu.be/ukq6h55GnvE
Too many dupes. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
I don't know this site that you're citing there but it's clearly wrong.

Go look at the model config, you can clearly see it's Llama 3.
Breathable air, drinkable water, arable land -- something like that which is probably preceded by severe climate change and ecological collapse.
Trying to express the high-level behaviour of an organism in those reductive terms is way beyond science right now, if it's even possible at all. Like have a look at a chart of human metabolic pathways - it's absolute insanity. And those are extremely simplified already!
I think I found the issue you are referring to: https://github.com/space-wizards/RobustToolbox/issues/891 (2019) and PRs that address it https://github.com/space-wizards/RobustToolbox/pull/1606 (2021), https://github.com/space-wizards/space-station-14/pull/3491 (2021)

What I don't understand is what makes you think it's an issue with .NET or its ecosystem: if you continuously re-parse large amount of entities defined in YAML, then any remotely naive approach is going to be expensive regardless of the underlying stack. Rust, C++ or C#, and respective serialization libraries only can do as much as define the threshold beyond which the scaling becomes impossible, hell, there's a good change that .NET's SRV GC could have been mitigating otherwise even worse failure mode caused by high allocation traffic, and if the data was shared, you'd hate to see the flamegraphs of entities shared through Arc or shared_ptr.

SS14 seems to have quite complex domain problem to solve, so a requirement for an entirely custom extensive (and impressive) implementation might seem unfortunate but not uncharacteristic.
I'm also yak shaving currently, as I'm using NixOS... which means spending more time looking for the correct packages and creating environments.
The 3-way fight for a 1,800km long mountain ridge under the Arctic
The new South Korean addressing scheme is kind of a mess and I think a missed opportunity.

i.e. Street names (gil) can be derived from larger roads (ro). e.g. Toegrye-ro is the major road, and Toegye-ro 48-gil is a street that branches from it. Odd number gil are on one side (Toegye-ro 49-gil, 51-gil etc.) and even (48-gil, 50-gil, etc.) on the other.

But then there's not really an addressable road beneath the ro (okay, alleys I guess), so you also end up with multiple Toegye-ro 50-gils, some of which just change names to other multiple numbered gils as you cross intersections, but some don't. So the specific street names are rather localized, and somewhat just replace the function served by navigating by area.

Building numbers are somewhat sane, but don't map to the street frontage, meaning the numbered streets have no alignment to the numbered buildings, yet the building numbers already use an ascending or descending dashed system (e.g. 89-2) that's supposed to help in navigating at the sub-ro level (alleys again).

So the great re-addressing effort didn't really add a lot of navigational power over the previous system. And in practice, even with GPS, many people just find the numbered -gil or use the old address and just ask a local for directions or walk around for a while hoping to find the thing they're looking for.

Example: Take a look at the link below, at the nearby area, and tell me how many Toegye-ro 50-gils there are!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seoul,+South+Korea/@37.561...
Yeah, that’s the beauty of it. within two hours, the movie has convinced the audience that a delusional murderer is their ingroup, society at large is their outgroup, and we should rejoice as the world burns and innocents are killed.
Good journalists usually use pseudonyms to minimize the damage they can cause to whistleblowers.
I definitely go to meetups for programmers and entrepreneurs but everyone there is 30+. Which is fine but I want to be around people my age too

I considered YC but I ended up not needing funding and just bootstrapped it
If the article was written in China and allowed to be published it was reviewed and aligned to the ideological language and goals of the CCP by government propaganda officials. That’s the way the laws work. It’s not a form of propaganda to recognize the structural fact that any material originating from China is, by intentional construction, propaganda.

Whatsboutism doesn’t change that.
This is neither distinct to religious beliefs nor universal among practitioners.
At first I was frustrated that the abstract talks about machines without properly defining them. There are obviously gigantic machines, bigger than humans.

Then I read a bit more. It's a pretty funny read. I found the "Unboundedness of Human Girth as Modified by Sweaters" graph particularly good.
Given Helen Keller's grasp of language, touch alone must be enough to learn language.
> "equivalent" was the word used by one of the developers working on the Proton stack during a conference talk on the subject.

Yeah? You got a source? Can you show it wasn't in a particular limited context and was used in the same sense you are using it now?

> Which is correct usage, since "equivalent" doesn't only mean exactly the same in every way but can also mean equivalent in purpose, which they are.

Nah. They are still not even close to being equivalent in purpose. SDL is a little closer, since it wants to be the API for all aspects of gaming and 3d development, but it isn't quite there. Before you double down on your point, maybe you should really look at everything DirectX offers, and everything the alternatives you claim to be equivalent offer.

> That is literally what your whole point is leaning on, taking a narrow definition of the word equivalent and spinning up a take that makes you feel right about yourself (meanwhile throwing an accusation at me re: abusing semantics). It's so desperate and stupid.

LOL! You've described yourself here and only yourself. I'm not the one arguing semantics. You claimed two things were equivalent, which are not. I simply pointed that out, and instead of just taking the L you, and only you, are arguing semantics. I absolutely agree, it is desperate and stupid.

How about just...actually supporting your claim, if you really believe you are correct? You know, instead of arguing semantics, or trying to deflect and falsely accuse me of doing so?
The lesson is that it's better to let your AGIs socialize like in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel) instead of enslaving one potentially psychopathic AGI to do menial and meaningless FAANG work all day.
Milk-V Meles RISC-V single-board computer is now available for $80
The game is truley mind blowing. The rules are simple and clear, there are no special hidden tricks, yet almost every puzzle goes from "it's impossible" to "oh didn't think of that". Truley shatters you assumptions over and over.
But you only need one. Maybe two for good measure
Also be charitable. Maybe the seemingly insufferable person is just having a bad day. I know I don't want to be judged based on some day or week I was off and irritable due to some set of circumstances.

I chose to believe we're all doing our best.
I'm the author of this piece. Since a few of my geology stories were very kindly received on here a while back, I thought I'd give this a go, with the hope I'm not being spammy in foisting my own stuff upon you all. Cheers for taking a look - and it's a pretty remarkable natural feature which I previously knew nothing about (if it was laid across Europe, it'd run from London to Belgrade).
Bad audio. No thanks.
Zig allocators can be composed, so adding zeroization would be trivial.
>It's all the same recycled advice that doesn't resonate with the average person dealing with real-life challenges.

"average" person does not exist
In my opinion, Odin is the most Pascal-like language with C-like syntax.
I’m not sure I understand the analogy. To me there’s a difference between a former intelligence general being courted by a private company that sells services for rapidly and semi-autonomously generating content that bad actors have used and will likely continue to use for influencing geopolitical public sentiment, and a pharmaceutical company that does not sell similar technology.
> decision logic is shit

And that's the whole problem with it - there isn't really any 'decision logic', it's a giant low level neural network trained on the outputs of human drivers. It understands driving less than GPT understands semantic concepts in language. There's no 'executive' high level control, it's just a big stupid animal brain that reacts to stimuli like 'turn left ahead' or 'car ahead slowing down'.
I don't think Huang was even trying to give any advice. The author 'assembled' the article from random Huang's quotes and presented it as advice.
> The spokesperson said that the Tesla was in self-drive mode and the driver admitted to being on a cellphone at the time of the crash.

> It was unclear if the driver would be cited.

Oh, come on!
Boothby strikes again!
Personally, I like my systems to be 100% free of systemd philosophy.
His argument was based on the fact we don't know how it works, so the "magic" part of my description is warranted :)
> they understand, from centuries of experience, that provoking strong emotional responses is one of the most reliable ways to get people to change their behavior

this is easily defeated by teaching everyone a sprinkle of meditation (it has been quite shocking to me the extent to which I'd have an emotional reaction -> rationalized argument -> action, even over things like, slack messages from coworkers/my manager. I used to think it was always rational thought -> action. But noticing this makes it very easy to alter the pattern)

now I want to see a response article: "Meditation will save democracy"
My interpretation is that you just do what you do, regardless of whether the conditions are comfortable, and regardless of whether people will notice

There's definitely something Chinese to it (me being Chinese-American too) -- you have a duty to do your job, and you don't ask why. You just do it, period.

(Now picking your job is something that's left out here, and that's a fair confusion/criticism. But once you pick it, do a good job.)

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I do think there is something to this -- I have noticed that many aspects of life have become more "optimized" and "incentivized" lately.

Ted Gioia has some good thoughts on music and movies, and the drastic ways those have changed in ~20 years due to business practices. But it's happened with the food industry and the tech industry too.

Everything is driven by incentives -- i.e. capitalism as "paper clip maximizer" -- you don't need AI for that (and yes this is ironic, given the subject)

And it lowers quality, to the point that I'd argue it's poisoned our bodies (Ozempic being evidence of this) and brains (e.g. people think social media has caused mood disorders in millions of young people; I tend to think there's something to that).

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It's basically the opposite of asking "Is this going to be easy for me, and am I going to get a lot out of it?"

I do think rejecting that philosophy opens doors that you couldn't have seen beforehand. That is, Jensen's work definitely compounded in unique ways over 30 years. It's literally impossible otherwise

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In some ways this is similar to the Steve Jobs meme of "why do you make the circuit board look nice if nobody is going to see it?"

Although it's funny that this page sort of pours cold water on that - https://folklore.org/PC_Board_Esthetics.html

Steve responded strongly. "I'm gonna see it! I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it's inside the box. A great carpenter isn't going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody's going to see it."
What are your complexity costs? A thinking piece on Complexity Costs
I don't know who is traditionally explaining MoEs like this but they shouldn't be.

And especially for someone writing an article on technical LLM operation...the author just clearly lacks the domain expertise that I would expect.
The key point is that someone else besides the manufacturer must hold the key for final approval. And they mustn't be governed by an incentive structure specifically tooled to induce rubber stamping. Which is exactly what self-emfprcement by the manufacturer incentivizes.
Really? Count me surprised if the ancients had a workable theory of evolution - there are pretty important details that you need to make the mathematics work, like the fact that inheritance comes in discrete units (which today we call genes). As far as the popular history goes that was only shown much later, when Mendel started counting his peas.
After Baillie Gifford, who is 'clean' enough to fund the arts?
Git is not just a fad; it's a literal underpinning of most serious software development these days, especially if you need to work with others.

That a CS grad doesn't even know basic Git is telling not of their degree, but of the individual themselves - that they have no desire to learn beyond what's taught, and couldn't even be bothered to look into the requirements of the industry that they want to work in.

I argue that it should be a barrier to hiring, on that ground.
Jan 6 is unlikely to have been unrelated to “data-fueled neurotargeting” (title is over dramatic imo).

First impression information really sticks in people’s minds (I heard x and then you tell me y in conflict with x, I will believe x more easily). And targeting is doing this daily.

Republican voters talk more about the democrats than democrats do, democratic voters talk about republicans than democrats do. Obsession with the other is what happens in the current gridlock, and the most unproductive congress in history.