skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just the first round of solid-state batteries. Toyota has a technology of their own. So does TDK. It's going to take a few years for this to settle out, but it's looking pretty good, with all the big players getting close to production.
Huge thank you for maintaining a list of literate programming books!
> It’s also a genuinely dangerous deal for OpenAI, and shows that while Sam Altman might be capable of swindling Silicon Valley startups, he doesn’t have what it takes to bend Apple to his will.

Sidebar; we are talking about the guy that needed government subpoenas to stop indiscriminately scanning people's eyeballs for a global alternative currency company. I understand the willingness to write Sam Altman off as a desperate sycophant that wanted to close this deal at any cost, but you also have to give consideration to the opposite. If OpenAI is willing to take a material loss on integrating this feature, they must expect some form of capital gain from the integration. Everyone knows Apple is famously cagey; making a sweetheart deal early-on makes it harder for competitors to break in later as alternatives.

So if we let Tim cook, along the current regressive path of service-izing everything that exists, I'm not sure if I'll be very hungry for more AI. My cynical side says that both OpenAI and Apple are eager to create integrations worth paying a monthly subscription for.
Sirius is easy these days, it’s a 2 minute phone call. They’ll offer a discount rate, decline it, canceled and refunded.

Gym memberships and newspaper subscriptions is what needs to get targeted next. They are aggressive and lots of gyms will only cancel in-person, even if you move away.
AMD basically did not have any money from 2010 until 2020. They were teetering near death. No money for r&d no money for new features in their gpus no money no money no money. There excavator architecture was extremely foolish trying to support multiple instruction dispatches with only 1 ALU and FPU per core!
This was corrected with Ryzen and the last 4 years they have been able to pay off their massive debts, especially with the 5000 series!

Going forward I expect we will see much more innovation from them because now they have some spare cash to spend on real innovations hopefully in hardware AND software! Note that Intel is much worse than AMD in software!
The analogy assumes you already know where the gold is.

Right now companies are spending a ton of money trying to find gold, and that costs capital. That's why they're slapping the word "AI" onto everything to see if it sticks. And re:

> a toolmaker can't be making more money then the companies using those tools to make money.

Every historical gold rush has had exactly that happen which is the point of the analogy. You have a bunch of broke pioneers, a few people that struck it rich on their stakes, and then a saloon owner that rakes in steady income from alcoholic prospectors.
Honest question, how does one perform a study on "non-treatment seeking participants"? Were these people who signed up and assumed they were part of a weight-loss study but were actually chosen due to drinking habits?
I wish Rust would standardize their ABI already. I started a project to call Rust from Common Lisp, but haven't got very far. It's a lot of work, and they can break compatibility at any time.

If they really want to replace C and C++ then they really need to support being called from third party languages.
why exclude family? that's the primary case is it not?
Sad to see the US fall further into nationalism and protectionism when it comes to better Chinese products rather than promoting competition in the US markets.
> heart attack risk

Not sure, but don't ECGs find cases of severe plaques or narrowed arteries? Or most cases of heart disease.

> aneurism risk

An angiography should find most cases, from some quick research. "The CTA sensitivity, specificity and accuracy was 80%, 43% and 73%, respectively. The CTA sensitivity for aneurysms < 3 mm and 3 mm – 5 mm in size was 30% and 81.5%, respectively (p = 0.024)." [1]

Agree on the rest though.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10244944/
Because humans have 0% error rate? Whether or not the error function can be reduced to zero, I anticipate that human meddling will soon present more of a wrench in the gears of machine cognition than a source of error correction. We see this already with the lobotomization of gpt models per "safety"/copyright concerns.
“It’s complicated”.
"Obvious" is a concept that only makes sense when there is significant shared context. When it is applied to the idea that is directly in dispute, it is about as compelling an argument as "because I said so"
Django can be run on ASGI. It works especially well with Granian. Django-Ninja if you want REST API's. I like it better than FastAPI, personally, and I think it's more appropriate if you're already on Django
"..notifies authorities automatically."

where i am there are penalties for ~ reporting untrue allegations to authorities.

so when someone ends up getting goatsed who gets the special attention ?
I would also like to know any economic type simulator recommendations.

My list would probably include: Capitalism and Capitalism 2. I also put a lot of time into Civ1, the original X-Com and Theme Hospital. Not really simulators, but they all had interesting economic models.
On the other hand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680380

Ignore the story, look at the comments. The commenters aren't stupid, they've enough brains to master English grammar, I'm sure they know how many Americans live paycheck-to-paycheque.

I don't understand the attitude. It must be some sort of apples-plus-oranges addition that's very different from mine. I just don't get it.
That's funny, I've always said the opposite: Once we name a thing, we never see it again...
Are you asking whether the "MIT/GNU Scheme" project is still viable?

The last release is from January 2023. Seems fine enough for learning.

https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/
Yeah, I assumed that, but down regulating isn't well captured in that metaphor.
How do you feel about gasoline?
Ok, so it's more than just "pretty basic Photoshop filters" like OP suggested.
Fair enough. I've never paid full price for any Corel product. They're frequently on Humble Bundle where you get a bunch of them on the order of like $30 total. It looks like right now there's even a sale going on: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/corel-productivity-cre...

My CorelDraw license is for 2020, so not super up to date, but I've generally liked it. I've not tried the Essentials package.
Why pound Web services of Google or CloudFlare for DNS lookups, instead of using the DNS protocol?

Were DNS servers balking at the continuous 100 simultaneous requests to resolve much of the Internet?
This is fascinating. If you're interested in African communities in South America, you might also like to read about San Basilio de Palenque. A community of escaped slaves that managed to fight off the Spanish so effectively the king gave up and granted the city freedom. Many people there speak the only Spanish-based creole language in South America

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Basilio_de_Palenque

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkOlzCoNstM
Hm, if he graduated early perhaps I can't use him as a positive example to stop me from killing myself. I guess I need to read his early-years biography.
Seeing the types of things this helps with, I wonder if there is any effect on impulse control issues for people with ADHD in general. Would love to see some studies done on this.
If you need to put "owning" in quotation marks it isn't owning.
> Anyone trying to make a new mainstream language is completely insane, unless they're backed by a huge corporation. There are only two exceptions in the last 25 years that come close: Scala and Kotlin.

And Clojure! (also a JVM language)
I have 3 DJI drones. Not a single failure on either.
A bar that the book industry always seemed happy with. The romantic view of "traditional publishing" contains a value chain that starts with a publisher selecting the best drafts sent to them, spending lots of time in a back and forth between editor and author to polish that draft, and ends with a bookseller who is an avid reader and can give personalized recommendations to every shopper.

Of course in today's reality we have largely anonymous book stores, "bestseller" lists that are systematically manipulated, and publishers that lower their standards in the face of competition from self-publishing (both with cheaper book printing and online publishing). But providing books that are worth your time still seems to be one of the large selling-points of publishers.
> It is intractable for you to confirm every fact you believe

A 'fact' that is not confirmed is an opinion. A 'opinion' sincerely held to be true without data is called faith.

I do think humans are quite bad at recognizing that most of what they think they know is opinion, and/or the 'facts' are often based on personal experience (which is by definition a cherry-picked data set), and thus is also an opinion too.

I think as well that those that practice science extensively are more practiced to really identify what is fact vs unsupported opinion. Without that practice, it's a lot easier IMO to then think a person knows a lot more facts than they really do. Which is to say, humans generally know very little, and it's not terribly comfortable to acknowledge and feel that way.

Which, leads us to the ultimate reality. Most of what a lay person has to say would be opinion, it's not really worth much - and it's even worse when data no longer matters.
But not all of us make a living off of Photoshop.

I'm a programmer. I periodically need to make a tiny tweak in a file that's been created by a real artist, or I want to edit a photo I took, or whatever.

It's insane to spend $1500, or even $500 (the CorelDraw buy-it-outright price) for hobby and occasional-use software like that.

And yeah, I use other things like Affinity Photo, which is Good Enough for many of my purposes, but it's just annoying to not be able to use the same software as my artists--unless they flatten the image before giving it to me, it's a crap-shoot whether I can import it in anything but the exact version of PhotoShop they were using.

It feels like extortion: I have to pay the artist to make the tiniest changes because I can't edit the original file, or I have to pay Adobe an outrageous sum to do it myself. Lose-lose.
Then you can give us some proof/citation on "They had many options for evading DRM" please?

Every time I've borrowed a book on there, it's used Adobe DRM just like when I buy an ebook.
Historically? Vendor them because if you're doing this you likely already have a centralized "scripts" repo.
That's called bullshit.
Just going to add a small bit of extra context to this from the eyes of the intelligence community because that doesn’t seem to ever get a look at on Hacker News where for many years there has been a more or less unquestionable assumption that he is some kind of hero.

But from their point of view, it’s really in no way obvious that this wasn’t an operation from the very start.

The FBIs chief spy catcher was actually working as a liaison officer in Moscow when this happened and he talks about it in some detail here in this interview (will update with timestamps later if I can find it) https://www.youtube.com/live/0NSGOJs150w but in his experience this is actually EXACTLY what he would expect an operation like that to look like and there has never been any clear evidence in the years since that would put a meaningful dent in that theory.

The other point I wanted to make was that because people tend to have no real idea beyond movies as to how intelligence agencies actually function in real life they have no context for where he fit into the bigger picture.

But Snowden was never some super spy or anything like that, he has zero operational experience or context he was just a Microsoft SharePoint administrator who had a security clearance.

He demonstrated numerous times since then that he actually had no meaningful context as to what he was actually leaking for into the wider operational picture or what kinds of controls were in place around its usage. He made a unilateral decision to take as much classified information as he could possibly get his hands on and then leak it with no regards to the consequences that came with it.

There are legitimate reasons to be upset with certain actions of the US intel community I am not here to do some wholesale defence on their behalf but this image he has built for himself as some heroic whistleblower is built on incredibly flimsy evidence. There is a reason why he has essentially zero defenders inside the intelligence community and I would put it to you that it’s not simply because “they are all evil”.
Exclusion Criteria:

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- Current engagement in alcohol treatments, or currently engaged in intentional efforts to quit alcohol use

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~ https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05520775
The thing about EVs that I don't get with this argument is US auto has been bailed out, subsidized, protected and otherwise coddled for it's entire life. If that doesn't grant it an unfair advantage what will?

The reality is that US protectionism has instead created a market where they didn't need to compete. Where they could build ever bigger cars with only Califonia even attempting to try nudge them in the direction of the rest of the world.

China showing up and eating their lunch isn't because of subsidies, it's due to gross negligence on the behalf of legacy auto.

Has everyone already forgotten the endless hit pieces on Tesla? The almost weekly espousing that "EVs will never work?". I haven't.

This was entirely self-inflicted and just like the first round of protectionism that was designed to ward off Japanese auto industry it will probably end the same way.
If GIMP is a replacement for you, you're not Adobe's target customer.
Maybe I'm misreading somehow but you seem to be saying the exact same thing as the person you replied to, without reversing anything?
Actually, we didn't. It failed and collapsed. What makes you think it was bailed out?

To add detail: SVB was a subsidiary of SVB Financial Group, a holding company that owned the bank as well as some other things. SVB still exists, but is no longer a subsidiary of that holding company. It was completely taken over by the FDIC so they could make depositors whole. The former owners lost their biggest business, had to liquidate the rest of their businesses, and filed for bankruptcy a week later. They did not get bailed out.

The thing is, they were not exactly behaving badly. Their big mistake was over-investing in "safe" long-term government bonds. These assets are traditionally considered very low-risk, but rapidly rising interest rates made them lose book value, and some stakeholders got a bit jittery. Then SVB's leadership held a disastrous conference call where they basically said "everything will be fine, as long as there is no bank run", which pretty much instantly kicked off a bank run on ~80% of all their deposits. Even the best-managed banks could not withstand that kind of bank run. SVB basically got unlucky. They were not horribly mismanaged like everybody seems to assume.
Isn’t the whole reason the lawsuit started because the Internet Archive went above an own-to-loan ratio of 1? This blog post completely leaves this detail out and makes it seem they were always only doing 1 physical copy to 1 digital copy which is not true.
Yea it's just some dude's rant. At least that's how it immediately comes off.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111423
Exactly. Backlash rightly ensued, and Apple backed off.
In my opinion, they understood it perfectly and reacted as they could, even by sending emails to their representatives to try and stop the ban on TikTok.
HN users are understanding it as well: it's just a move by the US govt to try and keep an extremely valid, but not US-controlled, product out of people's hands. It seems to me that the only ones who don't understand the ban are those trying to justify it as anything other than what it is.
Somewhat reminds me of netflix's policy on sharing accounts. The CEO used to straight up say they don't care, and it's not really feasible to enforce account-sharing rules. Fast forward to today, and they "figured out" how to enforce it.
if it was easy to design gear microsoft would already be doing it. NVIDIA is where they are because they are currently the best at designing that kind of gear. AMD has been chasing them for many years. I don't know that MSFT or Meta will suddenly be competitive.
Not a failure at all, but Stanford Masters isn't nearly as selective as MIT undergrad or Stanford undergrad.

He also graduated at the age of ~29. Not sure if it was a full-time MS or a part-time program paid for by his employer.
And they'll happily make up those references as well
That's what the "base" models are, pure token prediction on huge corpuses. I use them a fair amount, it does require some experimentation to find input formats that work but the base models are way smarter and don't have any refusals. Honestly it is a bit weird, everyone complains about rhlf etc. but the non-instruct models are right there if you look for them. I've been in a few Discord chats and it seems people are just spoiled, they use bad formats for the prompts and give up when it doesn’t work the first time like with instruct.
Feels to me after reading the article they earnestly try to do their best to offer privacy enhancing alternatives and push back often. What percent of these requests do Meta, Google or Microsoft fight? Ratios like that matter

Proton is extremely transparent and said:

If you are breaking Swiss law, ProtonMail can be legally compelled to log your IP address as part of a Swiss criminal investigation. This obligation however does not extend to ProtonVPN (see VPN privacy policy here). Additional details can be found in our transparency report.
so usa congress admits chinese drones are better ?

but maybe (or now)

usa senate must admit that they can keep up with china in drone manufacturing speed !?

this is in adition to tiktok, but then I wonder how much of what amazon sales is made in china
They absolutely deserve it. A number of these companies have started abusing their customers in illegal ways by forcing them to accept new terms and conditions before they can even login to cancel subscriptions or access things they have already paid for.

This needs to be ended through legislation, but also needs to be retroactive, with fines and jail time for the senior most executives. Adobe is not the only problem company. Blizzard and Roku and TP Link and Sonos are all recent examples.
> usurped by a greedy business man (Ray Kroc) from its original founders

It's a weird aside, but maybe worth noting that Ray Croc was probably not just greedy. Ray Kroc was probably also racist against the Irish. A tell-tale sign is using a clown as the company mascot. The US strain of clowns were heavily influenced by "pale white face" racism jokes about Irish immigrants [0] from some of the same minstrel shows notorious for "black face" and "yellow face" and "red face". Ray Kroc was from a generation that would have easily been aware of that and would have been "entertained" by it. Ray Kroc's behavior to the actual McDonald's founders is rather easier to explain assuming it included quite a bit of Old Fashioned Racism than assuming just pure greed. Sometimes it is useful to remind ourselves that past isn't as clean as corporate memos want to paper over it.

[0] Notably, among other things: red hair, big feet, freckles, red drunken noses, loutish drunken behavior. Even the "clown car joke" is the exact same "joke" as "Mexican pickup truck" transposed across a couple of decades and about a different working class immigrant population. (Racists seem pretty lazy in how they reuse old material.) So yeah, if you ever wondered why clowns don't seem all that funny in the modern era, congratulations you probably aren't a racist. Also, now that this past horror is in your head I'm sorry for ruining Disney's Dumbo which uses all the worst of clown stereotypes and "jokes" all in the same place and eats up a lot of runtime with it, if you weren't already concerned about the "black face" crows in the movie or thought you could dismiss them as not central characters or contributing that much to the runtime.
As a life-long Mac user, I’ll have to ask. Why is it a “bad idea” to wake your computer by pressing one of the biggest keys on the keyboard?
When you make the industries best software and pretty much have a monopoly on the market, the only place left to go is adding markup to your product.
> Internet? Wait until the moment your "promo" cost ends and your bill goes from $80 to $150, threaten to quit, oh wow magically you can have $80 again and a free mobile phone line.

Careful though. Companies are catching on to the "threaten to cancel" trick. Last time I tried this with Comcast, the support rep put me on hold, and then instead of sending me over to the "retention" specialist, just canceled my service and asked if I needed anything else. Oops..
Amazon makes Trainium and Inferentia, and have far more of them available than NVIDIA GPUs. But the software doesn't work as well, so they aren't popular. NVIDIA has a huge software advantage that few people realize.
UniFFI: A multi-language bindings generator for Rust
The study[1] mentioned in the guardian does not contain the phrase "epigenetic memory", and only contains the word memory twice, and both uses are of the conventional definition. The author in the guardian is misrepresenting the science.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923835/
> it combines some "greater good" principles with the ability to build products and run businesses in a modern competitive market

There's also the PBC (Public Benefit Corporation), which in addition to profit / shareholder value explicitly defines positive impact on society as a goal, and exists since 2010 in some states, while in others only since 2022 [1]. But as far as I understand there are no legal requirements or audits that ensure those goals are followed.

Kagi (the search engine, popular in the HN community and I'm a happy customer myself) is one example of a PBC [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

[2] https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi#4
Making Serverless Orchestration 25x Faster
Maybe I never got to the part of an economics education that covers exceptions having stopped at intro econ, but don't trade wars almost always lead to bad times?
Appointing women to posts, and the alleged sexual harassment seem like completely separate issues. What is your point?
Will this drug ever stop giving? What does it do next? Stop dementia? Fix short-sightedness?
There’s no reason for the US to allow any business with a nation that not only has named the US as an enemy state multiple times, but also regularly breaks international law against friendly countries, for example, in the south China sea. The US and European Union should formally sanction China.
Except - they have. All Artillery Shell Plants in all NATO countries combined (minus Hungary, because f* Orban) are unable to produce enough shells just for the War in Ukraine.
The US has completely gutted their manufacturing base, and currently won't be able to compete in a peer conflict on a ling term basis.
Not enough shell and ammo production, not enough logistical capability, not enough ships, not enough dock capacity...
God forbid we call product by its name (earbuds and smart watch) and not its marketing name
And yet this is exactly how families talk about their cousins in hushed tones, as bad and immoral as it is.