skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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US won't leave JP/SKR/PH irrespective of TW, where they have token presence, and not integral to US east asia security architecture. That's really the broader security consideration, PRC doesn't want US in her backyard, PRC wants her own Munroe, and historically that involves forcing hegemon out / demonstrating their presense cannot be sustained.

JP/SKR nuclearizing more complex topic, e.g. it's against US interest since it erodes US control, forces PRC to build up ABM which is net bad for US strategic posture etc and imo makes PRC more likely to start pressing against US presence in region to turn up temperature knowing JP/SKR has higher chance to reduce US partnership if they feel comfortable with own nukes. Dynamics complicated, but I will just say nuclear powers like RU, and NKR, and eventually IR can still have their existence degraded via conventional means without raising to nuclear, and both those countries being import dependent islands (SKR functionally) are much more suspectible to conventional disruptions.

>convert economy

PRC exports to gdp 20%, about half to west, it's not _as_ domestic driven as US, but on export:gdp spectrum it's one of the least export led major economies. Export led is like >50%, TW/HK is like 60% and HK is like 200%. Most growth comes from internal consumption, exports help in geoeconomics, but numbers also go up stupid amounts in war economy.

>Except for TW, no one would lose more economically than the PRC if there is war.

Really depends on scale/scope of war. Taking out 95% leading edge TW semi effect on western tech hard to quantify in $$$ and capability terms, but it's not minor. Get JP/SKR involved, PRC's largest export competitor (electronics/cars etc) / regional influencer (JP FDI), and all of a sudden 1trillion+ per year in regional spoils open up. Open up mainland strikes = openning CONUS for retaliation, and PRC pursuing conventional global strike. And US by virtue of being reigning hegemon with most, also has most to lose. A lot of US hegemonic structures depend on CONUS serenity, which ended/ending with advanced rocketry. Think of what happens when US/PRC start trading energy infra, data warehouses, aviation plants, who has more global footprint to lose. Who has more people/excess capacity to reconstitute faster? Who really has most to lose, and what can be gained. Even phyric victory has a relative victor, and not all wounds heal the same. I think that's what missing from strategic thinking about TW scenarios involving US+co. For PRC, TW is most emotionally/politically important piece of US containment architecture. But JP/SKR/PH more strategically important. As long as US contains with forward posture, PRC will try to break containment. And I don't think US leaving without a fight.
Journalists are often judged based on their public output. You get bylines on published articles, and you can use those to apply for jobs. There's not much emphasis on secrecy because the goal of a news outlet is to be read by as many people as possible.

Being unable to provide examples of your work is a career-killer if everyone else can point to stuff they wrote. Preserving your work isn't altruistic, it's required.

It's a very different environment compared to programming, because oftentimes the source code is valuable because it's a secret. Employees taking source code is dangerous because competitors can copy it; obviously that's bad for one's career.

The analogy doesn't work here because the cost/benefits of taking legal action are different.
It would seem plausible though that apps built with feature flags do not trigger these kinds of lines. Being able to roll out, or roll back features (even approved ones) for testing, bug fixing, etc, seems pretty essential, especially for larger apps.

It would be hard to wait for (up to?) weeks waiting for an app update to be approved.
> I ended up having to write my own basic protobuf parser (...)

Wouldn't it have been far more efficient to contribute back to protoc? Certainly posting a patch to a parser takes far fewer work than writing an alternative implementation of the same parser.
because the incentives OP describes are why you have this opaque, misaligned, user/developer-hostile ecosystem.
Tomato nostalgia as I relive my Croatian island childhood
> More than one box was awkward for a guy (or gal – we had lots
of women programmers) to carry around.

Good ol' days :-)
Is there a to that I can script, to use the cookies on my existing web browser (because I'm logged into some websites) and get the page content text? All while clicking away pop-up banners (newsletter, cookies, etc)?

I would script that to go over my local bookmarks file.
Accepting that humans generally do the right thing only after having exhausted the possible alternatives helps alleviate that suffering ;-)

History repeats.
But then again it has to:
Who ever listens?
When you conceive of Teenage Engineering first and foremost as a design firm that incidentally tends to release neat synthesizers, so much of what they do will make way more sense.
Titles really mean very little. The company I work at recently hired a DevOps specialist to help configure Docker services and assist with development. He was a decent developer but had no idea how to securely configure server side services. Still stuck with his mess two years later :)
This piece effectively concluded the opposite of that.
> If your friends take more effort to get them to do a pub tour these days maybe they just weren't as much into pub tours as you are

I got the strong impression that the author wasn't always as much of an extrovert as they believe. Tons of people go out all the time and it sounds like they need to get new friends after outgrowing the old ones.
If I had to guess the author's friends are likely getting married and having kids, going through a different phase in life, the author isn't, and is thinking this must be the universe conspiring against his way of life, instead of the usual "nothing is forever".

No one is entitled to the attention of others and the pandemic helped many of us to notice our time is finite and we should better spend it doing what we like and want. Be it being at home on a couch in slippers or otherwise.
Luckily, i didn't back that project back then.

Also, the comments on the Kickstarter page [0] make for an interesting, if sad, read.

Linked on [1] is where he comes out of the woods again, the following comments and his replies also shed some lights on what he feels he is owing the people, that pledged $185000 on Kickstarter....

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1945059142/elysian-shad...
[1] https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=182356#...
Funny, in my discussions with my friends we all intuitively agree that LLMs are great (I'd say stronger than me in most subjects including my profession of 18 year, programming) at system 1, but can't system 2 for th life of them (except for AlphaProof which came out last week and showed that a very simple, very expensive solution Just Works).
Maybe some people don't know, or have forgotten that Apple was dead set against an App Store, or third party apps when the iPhone came out. It only relented after it was jailbroken so many times. Apple's view was it would be a closed phone of apps how they said so.

Perhaps some of that mindset moved to the respective App Stores. User's don't have as much choice as people think.

The new App Stores being regulated in the EU are interesting for that reason.

Still reading about phones like WebOS on Palm that was maybe a year too late, could be a different world if we had a phone running JS as front end and for apps like it did.

Getting a walled garden up as quickly as possible was critically important.
How to understand/retain complex concepts better
Yes and that's a problem. Many modern plants aren't selected to grow in natural conditions. They're breed for properties like high yields, large fruit and often other characteristics are traded off to achieve that because the farmers can change the environment to deal with those problems with greenhouses, chemicals, fertilizers, irrigation etc.
He fell into the ultimate game developer bikeshedding trap of building not only his own engine, but his own programming language for some reason.

It's been over 8 years between releases, and all that time has been spent building a closed source programming language that allegedly speeds up game development.

Very few studios are capable of maintaining their own engine, none are capable of maintaining their own programming language. This is why, as an example, 343 imploded after one of their leads insisted on continuing with the 20 year old non-standard engine Slipspace. If they had their own programming language in addition to that, they never would've released anything.
Its written the way it'd be spoken, which seems fine for informal writing
Sure, but try hitting 8 without moving your hand from wasd
There's a few videos by Sabine/Anton and also now PBS about Microtubules and conciousness, it's starting to gain ground and If I were an AI company right now I'd be having cold sweat.

Video of reference (check especially the ending summary where they calculate more or less how much would be necessary just to replicate a human mind's way of achieving conciousness if microtubules in fact contribute towards it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa2Kpkksf3k
(openAI) Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40988076
Why the international experimental nuclear fusion reactor is in 'big trouble'
They have always been toy company for rich hipsters. If I have had the money I would have had a lot of their products next to my other music toys that I sometimes (seldom) play around with to soothe my creative yearnings, some midi interfaces and some guitars. Would I label my toying around "creative activity"? I don't know, I think you have to define that for me, you make it sound so pretentious.
> sometimes the disaster comes when you’re not ready.

Pretty sure that's the definition of "disaster".
Drum memory is a particular case of Delay line Memory and what goes around comes around, .. it's back baby*:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

https://www.rp-photonics.com/optical_delay_lines.html

( * For specific use cases )

There's probably an insane data throughput domain that requires autocorrelation filters that might benefit from an optic fibre bundle in which each fibre is slightly shorter than the previous one.
You would be very wrong on that last point.
To be fair I think they're delaying it primarily because any new memory increase would make it less likely that Chinese consumers buy the memory cut version of it which would inevitably be similar in performance to the generation they already have available, at least right now they have a good enough product over there that Chinese consumers can keep buying.

I personally (not in China) bought the 4080 Super and honestly regret the investment already, right now it's a pretty bad time to be spending money with the upcoming recession, especially for products not good enough to run your own competitively performing local LLMs on
He used LLM to conclude that
This, and most writing on introverts/extroverts, go out vs. stay home, office vs home office, etc. leaves me feeling unrepresented and oversimplified. I, and I really assume most people, see the good in both approaches. I am an introvert, in the sense that I need time alone to recharge, but I am also (like almost everyone, I assert) desperately in need of in person social contact. It's tiring, but so are work, and sex, and sports, all also things I need. Is it so hard, in so many areas, to write a n engaging article that people will read that says "hybrid is better than either extreme?". (In terms of clicks, I'm assuming "yes")
I have seen that some activities tire you out, while others do not.

Reading, slowly but steadily, tires me. I might then need to doze off for a few minutes to resume.

Certain other activities, on the other hand, keeps me awake, like mindless browsing, programming (especially at the beginning of a project), OS installation, and even (please do not laugh at this) filing taxes.

Why is it so? (This question in my mind has been long unanswered, so any inputs or suggestions are welcome).
It’s hard to be disciplined about a black box though. That’s one reason why we’re all speeding off at a thousand miles per hour on transformers - the architecture works, why try other things?
Rhombus: Macro-extensible language with conventional syntax built on Racket
> good faith or bad faith, doesn't matter; as long as we have the faith that can get skeptics to rewrite their firmware without actual violence

I prefer my faiths justified, but if you lack that constraint, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning, and so the Age of Aquarius ought to be rolling around within your ~250 year timeframe?
I think it's honestly a good thing for hardcore introverts to stay home when they want to hibernate. Socialising with someone when they clearly don't want to be there is exhausting for me, let alone them, and nobody wins.

At the same time, as someone who straddles the line between introversion and extraversion, it does feel like there's a higher activation energy for me now. I want to go out and do things, but it often seems to require more planning and more mental effort. I'm not happy with this change in myself, but there doesn't seem to be a quick way to fix it other than just putting more deliberate effort into being social and less into all the other stuff.

I think the author is projecting her own feelings onto introverts in this piece. I feel the same way as she presumably does. Lockdown changed me in ways I don't like, albeit minor ones, and it's something of a struggle to manually keep doing the social things my old self did automatically.
Yes! This is exactly the point.
It is undefined, so given that, it could do what the other branch does, so you can safely remove that branch.

you get it, but a lot of other people don't understand just how undefined, undefined code is.
This reminds me of my first internship. The company I worked at backed everything up on CD:s. I was tasked with writing a new service for their intranet, indexing the content of all CD:s, so staff members could lookup which CD contained a certain file.

I wrote a little program to scan the CD:s as I inserted them into my computer, indexing the data into a database I had created, and then labelling the CD.

It wasn’t exactly exciting work but I still miss those days sometimes, everything was new and unexplored.
Delays? We just took delivery of 128 MI300x GPUs about a month after paying for them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_MI300/comments/1dishr2/comment/...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_MI300/comments/1eir05k/hot_aisl...
being able to double the household income is a privilege you have. what makes you think anybody could do it but is chosing to live with half the income instead ?
> If it would the majority of optimizations compilers do today would not be standard conform.

They aren't.
compare http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf
I did a short stint for a startup in Korea whose top investor wanted us to get around Apple and Google's 30% cut. After explaining the ToS and how the exemptions didn't apply to us, she set up a meeting with developers from another company she invested in. Those devs, with great smiles on their faces, proceeded to show a remote config that toggled which payment flow a user went through, depending on whether the app version was currently pending review
Honestly, anyone who says they’ll be creating an engine and sharing it for general use, is someone who’ll likely never make a game themselves.

It’s definitely possible, but incredibly difficult to make something generic out Of the gate.

Unfortunately, it’s all too common among indie dev projects seeking backing, because it sounds like a cooler idea and people seem to like the purity of the idea.
Where was this clown a quarter of a decade ago?

Everyone voted for the mess we're in, deal with it.
> Isn't this unreasonable? Here we are, 52, years down the road with C et al. and suddenly it's expected that compiler developers must consider any change in the light of timing attacks?

We already went through a similar case to this: when the C++11 multithreaded memory model was introduced, compiler authors were henceforth forced to consider all future optimizations in light of multithreading. Which actually forced them to go back and suppress some optimizations that otherwise appeared reasonable.

This isn't to say the idea is good (or bad), but just that "compiler development will grind to a halt" is not a convincing against it.
I doubt that advertisers require a bogus consent flow implementation.

More likely their legal checkbox is that GDPR rights are properly protected, such as via a consent flow, if needed. That normally requires an assessment of the rights impacted, the data collected, and the required consents, and an implementation of the flow itself to cover that.

This assessment has to be done by the app or website displaying the advertising. And also by the advertiser. As you can probably guess, writing such an assessment is knowledge work and costs time. People quickly noticed that if they just skip this and put in a consent flow, bogus or not, no one will care... So money saved?

Probably the market was right, most companies will save money that way. Which is both unfortunate but also logical.

However, it's also a huge legal liability if your app or website operates in certain sensitive domains. Such as healthcare and politics, and possibly social media.

Because it may turn out the product didn't have the right to collect any data. And that sensitive data was collected (could be inferred). And that the advertiser should have known this, because of a bogus implementation consent flow.

Then the final question is: What's the damage? Why is this is a 'huge' liability?

Answer: At this stage you're looking at class actions in the US, or 'snipperschade' claims (mass 'little-damage' renumeration) in the EU.

Art. 82 of the GDPR provides for the possibility of compensation, including for immaterial damage. Successfully claiming damage under that article lacks a large corpus of case-law. It is 'in development'. Largely because the requirements of evidence are difficult to meet in most cases. Especially those not involving sensitive categories of data.

In the event of a mass art. 82 claim for sensitive data, one may expect both the advertiser as well as the product displaying advertising to be targeted. And lawyers would be incentivized to pursue this via a mass 'class' action. Which magnifies the claim to a portion of the affected EU population (500 million) and an amount of monetary compensation.

So let's say 2,500,000 * 30 euro's = 75,000,000. So a fairly small portion of people (0,5%) and a small amount of remuneration. Amounts to 75 million in damages. Lawyers take home a percentage of that.

In essence this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. But probably not to you, and not to this app.
you can buy a soaker hose with a timer its like twenty bucks
Efficency in models and specialized hardware just for the computation will likely level things out.

Compute Power per watt might be different using say something on a large scale Apple Silicon, compared to the cards.
Tbh, the phrasing of this comment sounds suspiciously like AI
Is there an open source robot repository somewhere a-la github?
Underrated. It almost looks like self-flagellation.
I don't think the extent to which people feel comfortable socialising stays constant. I'm naturally introverted, and with a few exceptions I find being in other people's company exhausting - however I'm not a complete loner, and do enjoy it in smallish doses. It's as if I have a "level of fitness" socially. In my head, I consider that "forcing" myself to go to social events maintains this fitness.

Now think of the pandemic lockdown. It could have caused introverts to have lost their social fitness entirely.
Which current situation are we referring to here? In Venezuela, if every vote were tied to a specific identified person, their government could still ignore that and doctor the result. The only thing that changes is that now there is a list of opposition voters in the hands of a hostile government. If the goal is to allow individuals to audit their vote and ensure that the government counted it correctly, it is possible to do that without compromising anonymity. If the goal is to release a public list of every person who voted and who they voted for... I think you're insane and drastically underestimate the capacity for voter coercion and political violence.
That could also be a positive outcome for China.
Worth noting that it’s not quite equivalent due to allowing for a malformed message that includes foo = value and hasFoo = false, opening the door to varied client interpretation.
How would you define the end of the pandemic?
Most significant mining ventures are registered on the Canadian Toronto resources exchange - the TSX - it's the single largest (non energy) global resource market by a long shot.

Canadian, British, Australian, Russian, South African, etc. companies can be found there.

TMC is arguably Australian .. and it's CEO | founder is worth a look just for the "totally not an evil mastermind" vibes given off:

Described as ‘Australia’s Elon Musk’, University of Southern Queensland Business graduate Gerard Barron has finalised the business collaboration of his career, that has the potential to revolutionise the renewable energy space.

~ https://www.unisq.edu.au/study/why-unisq/unisq-stories/testi...

Heavy greenwashing on a chap associated with more than a few questionable snake oil like operations.

Not many fans either:

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/68431/a-lette...
> Very hard to find a good game these days.

2023 was arguably the best year for gaming since it became completely mainstream with Baldurs Gate 3, Zelda (tears of the kingdom), spider man 2, cyberpunk dlc and more.

You're probably just too active on streaming/YouTube game review sites if you honestly think that.
Haha, that is funny. Thanks for the alert :)
He's confused, he thinks he should be always winning because he's better.

And sometimes he does, for example he can talk himself into a promotion while I silently do all the work.

But I always win in the end, because he needs me more than I need him.
Rethinking the Software Development Life Cycle
The point is to pick a candidate from a big bunch, even if it's just through narrow trivia that tests recall and speed of thinking. So what if computers can solve leetcode problems? The companies that use leetcode never cared to switch to anything else.
Ask HN: What are your favorite subreddits?
I love going through some subreddits and finding quite a few good things, I like reading those posts, it's quite fun sometimes.

Do you have any good recommendations, something fun/interesting/thought-provoking....
IBM Audible Random Timer
I'd like to see a farming robot using the new SAM model from meta.
Thank you, it's rare to find good papers anymore ... this, perhaps, was delayed 6 days in publishing out of pure spite no doubt
> I'm not seeing what the contradiction is. The US made a bet that Huawei couldn't survive without foreign help

That looks like a strawman, especially the "foreign" part.

Sanctions often boil down to the goal of incurring costs. Huawei went from a money making to a money losing machine. China may very well cover the bill in this case, but that money will be missed elsewhere.
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