skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Where did I say that planning _never_ works? Please read more carefully, lest you argue against strawmen.

I said that planning and forecasting is _hard_, and that _I_ can't tell you on the spot what counterfactually would have replaced TSMC. Many different options are possible. Or perhaps TSMC would have still happened, but in a different way.

> In fact the original East Asian success story was Meiji-era Japan, basically the only society outside of the West that managed to industrialize itself during the 19th century. And if one sits down to read a history book one quickly realizes that what the Meiji government did was highly top-down and planned with the explicit goal to catch up to the European colonial powers. It did not resemble classical laissez-faire economics.

If I have an ailment and go to a chiropractor to fix that ailment, and later my ailment goes away, that doesn't necessarily mean that the chiropractor helped. In fact, those guys are dangerous and more likely to make things worse.

For another Japanese example, see how eg Sony had to fight and dodge the much vaunted MITI more often than not, especially in the beginning. (Sorry, I'm not up to date on all the Meiji-era stuff. It's a fascinating period of history, though!)

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Just to be clear, central planning can 'work' up to a point; it doesn't necessarily lead to famine. Eg seen on its own East Germany was the most successful socialist economy ever. Out of the ashes of war torn quarter-country they rebuilt a reasonably high standard of living---the highest among all socialist countries, and pretty decent by global standards---all while paying enormous war reparations to the Soviet Union. (I was born in East Germany.)

Their system had many aspect of Soviet-style central planning. But over most of its life the regime wasn't nearly as totalitarian as Stalin's Soviet Union.

It's just that East Germany pales compared to more market oriented West Germany. (And West Germany pales compared to even more market oriented Switzerland.)
Microsoft Teams with Startup Anduril on Army Combat Goggle System
This isn't the case even in EU, much less in US where they often don't sign any employment contract.
Have you had his vision checked? It could be treatable. Don't just let it go.
You may agree with Musk or not, it is good that governments stop appeasing those that are so fed up and lazy that they romance restrictions on speech, because they read something the do not like on the net.
Awesome as Term is, NComm still wins in many ways on unexpanded 68k machines like plain A500.

It can keep up with decent speeds while not using much RAM.
The typical fresh car smell is almond wax added to the plastic. Coffe, Aloe or Avocado are also used.

Transparent silicon should be more inert than dyed silicon. I assume that they should be using food grade colorants in any case.
Mozilla-the-company really has no justification for its continued existence, but Mozilla-the-open-source-project is still rather neat. It's a shame the former completely captured the latter.
> If they want to complain, they need to direct their complains to their own regime

And get arrested and charged with "discrediting the armed forces", right. Must be nice to write all that from the comfort of your Western home.
Android is no different, even though Google used to say otherwise to push Android over J2ME.

https://engineering.fb.com/2016/07/13/android/the-mobile-dev...
the ratio of "playable" to "unplayable" vis a vis FPS or any other measure is around 10000000:1, and that grows even if you never upgrade the hardware. Lots of indie games run fine on old hardware - it's just not that demanding.

Sure a plurality of the 10mm will be shovelware or otherwise bad, but do we have to play FFXVII? COD MWII BOIII WW2?
A real, serious likelihood calculator
A Co-worker of mine recently died of cancer, before that there was a long period within which she clearly had a different deal then most of us, but generally it was not known that she had cancer. As I understood it she was not legally required to disclose the illness to her employer (Germany), nor was her employer legally allowed to ask.
Patent offices are cash machines. Their sole mission is to establish clear prior art and attribution and to prevent the same patent from being registered several times. That's all they do.
They couldn't care less about the content of the patent. There are dozens of patents on perpetual energy machines, devices for communicating with spirits, very simple algorithms that have been documented for decades, and so on.
Quality of care is shit. Doctors barely care about their patients. It’s all a racket. Most areas seem to have a local monopoly that takes over the local hospitals. Obamacare has done nothing to really change anything meaningfully.
Let me offer some feedback, since almost all of the comments here are negative. The latency is very good, almost too good since it seems to interrupt me often. So I think that's a great achievement for an open source model.

However, people here have been spoiled by incredibly good LLMs lately. And the responses that this model gives are nowhere need the high quality of SOTA models today in terms of content. It reminds me more of the 2019 LLMs we saw back in the day.

So I think you've done a "good enough" job on the audio side of things, and further focus should be entirely on the quality of the responses instead.
I am blind, it was degenerative so it sounds different than what your kid has.

I have a few pieces of advice. This is more about my own upbringing, so don't take any of it as an accusation towards you.

1) Don't hide things about their condition or prospects.
I grew up in a very loving home. However, my parents found out I was going blind when I was ~8, I didn't find out until I was 13. My mother wanted to protect me from 'being the blind kid'. But I was. Not knowing made everything so much harder and more confusing.

2) Don't rely too much on technology. Stick and dog are the best tools blind people have. Everything else, in my opinion, is a flash in the pan and won't have long term support. Not made by blind people and with minimal consulting for them. Like what a sighted person thinks a blind person needs after closing their eyes and walking around their house for a few minutes. (Screen readers are useful, I'm not talking about those.)

For a piece of tech I was excited for and is now dystopian: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

3) Foster independence. The world is not made for us. It's also full of high speed metal deathtraps. The easiest thing to do is stay inside where I know where everything is. Even walking to the grocery store is a deeply uncomfortable endeavor. But I need to do it. I need to be able to live with that discomfort and not let it dissuade me from living the most human life I can.

The blind cane is very valuable. It took me too long to accept blindness as an identity, get over the shame, and start using it. I lost a lot of time to that.

Blindness sucks in every conceivable way. It affects every part of ones life. But I had a good childhood and I have a good life. All things considered, I'm extremely lucky for the circumstances of my birth because of the family I was born into. You can't take away the blindness but you can still give them a wonderful life.
how does this compare to other backup tools?
Many people like to decide for themselves and then trash the product/company when it doesn't work - especially in the Apple ecosystem where they sort of guarantee the user experience will be good. While I also like to decide for myself, I understand why Apple would decide for themselves they don't want to risk that.
The city of Berlin wouldn't care. The housing website would probably start with lawyers.
Yeah, I've always found the "meme" of the 1% kind of amusing.

The 95th percentile US taxpayer earns as much as the 99th percentile Brit. Huge, huge difference.
As for the server-oriented aspect, what's the alternative? There's only two ways I see to run a social media service like this: centralized and decentralized.

The mainstream ones are centralized, of course: FB, Xitter, etc. You just connect to their web server and do everything there. Any centralized alternative would have be a well-financed corporation able to set up a huge IT infrastructure to accomplish the same task. But the whole idea of Mastodon is to not be a big, for-profit corporation, and to be in the hands of the users instead, which I don't think is possible with a centralized service.

So the only alternative is a decentralized service. But this means you have to have multiple servers, leading to the whole "federated" approach, so users can run their own servers and control things themselves, or use accounts on servers of their choice. This of course leads to all the consequences you named, and more: servers going down, servers defederating other servers, etc.

But again, what's the alternative? If the requirement is "not run by a single big for-profit company", I don't see one. If you think that having a decentralized service actually be competitive with a centralized one like Xitter simply isn't feasible, that's fair.

My prior complaint still stands though: if you want users to have freedom (of which server to put their account on, etc.), then why would you not have a way of migrating their account/data to another server, and force them to lose everything if their server disappears?
For me this looks like a solution for a problem that really isn't there.

Anyone that cares about compiling C code should be skilled enough to actually use the right tools in first place.
Speech is inherently easier to represent as a sequence of tokens than a high-resolution image.

Best speech to text is already NN transformer based anyway, so in theory it's only better to use a combined model
This is one of the shittiest pieces of behaviour by an employer I've ever read about. Just awful.

Whilst this will make the square root of no difference, I don't want to support Mozilla with this sort of behaviour going on, so what do I do for a web browser now? I switched back to Firefox as my main browser some years ago because, well, Google and privacy concerns related to them. What now? Brave is dicey. Opera? SeaMonkey (which I think may nowadays be independent of Mozilla)?

The thing is I do a lot of web development so I need a browser that offers an at least decent developer experience on macOS.
That's just not true. You don't know what you're talking about.

I encourage you to skim through the sanctions. I promise you that you will find plenty of exemptions telling you not to block every Iranian citizen from communicating, not to block them access to information, not to block them from free-to-use services, not to prevent them from traveling etc etc.

If you just cut the whole country off the internet, how do you expect them to organise towards overthrowing the government? Via carrier pigeons?
Agreed, buying used is very often a waste of time
Wait what? No employment contract?? Can you unpack this a little bit?
Digital signatures and how to avoid them
some of you are really good at this LI game... /j
I once read that some people who are blind from an early age, as they get older, start to click their tongue, but often those around them (parents, siblings, etc.) will discourage them. Thing is, that clicking can actually be used to develop a type of vision that operates similarly to echo location in cetaceans (whales, dolphins, etc.) – it comes about because the child realizes that if they make a sharp sound, they can begin to orient themselves with the reflections of the sound waves. After all, vision is in the brain; the eyes are just the sensors. Point being, if your son starts making clicking sounds with his tongue, you likely won't want to discourage that. And on the flip, teaching him to click may provide a means of developing his vision in an alternative way.

Edit: Here's a Pubmed article on a study where blind and sighted people were trained to echolocate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8171922/
To be clear that's been true in the United States for the better part of two decades.
The way I read it, it's just because the 4S came later, hence being the last phone of that form factor.
Kicking myself for not signing up for another excellent Matt Webb project.
Reminds me it’s about time I ditch my .pe script in my 3270 font and turn it into Python. There’s a number of things I can do to improve it that are just too unwieldy with FontForge’s built-in language (mostly for the lack of good docs).
> The Likelihood Calculator is an open-source project, and we welcome contributions!

Where is the source?
> Misaligning only some pads while others are perfectly aligned isn’t possible

It's possible when your pcb-making process is on the odge of what designer wanted. Some pads on some boards may be not perfectly aligned in such cases. Or the board was heated not enough or in too short time and not all balls melted properly. Or it cracked under stresses because designer put too much vias in one place near the chip.

> It’s an all-or-nothing situation—either everything aligns, or nothing does.

In theory, practice and theory agrees. In practice, it sometimes does not.
It's not just LLMs. Older phones also have the 'remove object' feature on the Photos app disabled, and they also won't receive the OpenAI integration either.

Locally running LLM is one thing. An iPhone 14 is perfectly capable of removing an object and talking to ChatGPT. Yet these are disabled on 14 and earlier phones.
Yea seems like an inflection moment when it happens. Curious who's working on this problem.
if anything, Israel seems overly concerned with prisoner recovery, given the current situation in gaza and the Lebanon war
Regarding the EU thing: maybe I've just had an odd experience, but I've always signed employment contracts. Even when I was a student I had a contract from the company I worked at (it was a separate contract, not the usual student contract that I had to get also).
Israel did not start this war with Hezbollah. It is not incumbent on Israel to begin diplomatic talks. Israel is at war.

As the attacker, it is incumbent upon Hezbollah to signal diplomacy.

By the same token, it is incumbent on Russia to signal that they would like to engage diplomatically, not Ukraine. It is entirely clear that Ukraine is willing to engage diplomatically, if and only if Russia retreats and surrenders, as they were the aggressor.

Anyway, I think we’ve both said our piece here, and I understand your position.
one of many posts on LinkedIn.
Sure. But they’re not giving the user a choice in the matter. Also, it’s transcoded on the device as it’s backing up, which is the last thing I want to spend battery power on. My NAS is on and plugged into the wall 24/7 for a reason
And why was it "an unachievable pipe dream"? As I remember it, the Democrats had control of both houses of Congress, as well as the White House, for about 2 years. They could have passed anything they wanted.
https://github.com/troykelly/investment-likelihood
The general slowness extends to simple things like x-rays and blood tests too. This is not just US but whole of the west seems to have the exact same attitude.

Most of Asia has same day or next day medical tests. In India you can order something like UberEats where in a technician comes home collects your blood samples and the results are emailed within the next 24 hours or so.

Medicine seems to be commoditzed in the east, easily accessible and cheap. West treats it like voodoo magic or rocket science that only a chosen few are capable of partaking in. There is always a long queue to get to your local voodoo practitioner.
Do you want to advance your society and make life more convenient for the people or do you want to live in constant fear and create unnecessary complexities for the people? We put a lot of effort in creating secure systems, we audit them constantly, and we get a plethora of cyber attacks from Russians on a constant basis, but they haven't gotten through yet.

We believe in living the best life we can, through the means of making life as convenient as we can, and we're very happy our government thinks the same. I've lived abroad many times, in many countries, and every single time was miserable because of the unnecessary complexity every basic thing involved. I very much doubt that complexity was for security reasons, more like the incompetence of the government bureaucrats to create a cohesive system that interoperates with all the different parts.
Yeah! Some reference info about this amazing approach:

Human click-based echolocation: Effects of blindness and age, and real-life implications in a 10-week training program
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8171922/

Human echolocation lets blind man 'see' (CNN video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHYCs8xtzUI

Human echolocation - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
Wholeheartedly agree. Latency is good, nice tech (Rust! Running at the edge on a consumer grade laptop!). I guess a natural question is: are there options to transplant a “better llm” into moshi without degrading the experience.
Dunno about Pokemon fans. But when I saw a Steam ad for a survival game with cute chimpanzee shooting guns I had to get it. And then the gameplay loop was nice so I spent too much time playing it.
I tried that argument here recently when I talked about civil asset forfeiture and a bunch of people said I was horribly ignorant about civics and that the US is apparently not one country.
Remember - this is over-engineering at its finest. Not code at its finest.
> disk sector-size

At least in the case of NVMe disks, changing the LBA format does not seem to increase performance, and more importantly, in some cases could degrade the random read-write speed for just increasing sequential a little (bad thing, random read-write it is more important that sequential for a SO).

In theory the mainboard will select the appropriate format for the NVMe disk.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/setting-4k-sector...
Outstanding. That's just lovely.
I get that some people spend their lives on their phones, but myself, with desktop, laptop and big hands, I don't want to carry half a tablet in my pocket to text people and play music. I adore my 12 Mini. I just wish it felt as thin as the 8
You don’t force regulatory compliance with a tariff, you force regulatory compliance with import bans. Enforcement is a whole separate issue.

“If you doesn’t follow rule X, you can’t import the cheap IP camera into America”
I see this and I feel I must ask: why would you EVER engineer ANY application under the idiotic assumption that none of your users will ever want to remove the data that they had stored in it?!
Absolutely baffling.
Of course, if a business is that short-sighted and careless, it will struggle to implement GDPR.
I uh… USians don’t do those. When they do, it tends to be a one-sided kind of thing to protect the company’s interests—NDAs, codes of conduct, accept our policies today and whatever we change them to in the future, that sort of thing.

Most places, work happens at the whim of the employer (and, for what little it’s worth, the whim of the employee): employment is “at-will,” states are “right-to-work,” and so on.

Don’t know about others, but I’ve never once in my life signed a contract to work in the US.
I can only speak to the UK where I have always been given a employment contract but it appears that something similar is a requirement in the EU

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/employ...

>When you hire staff, you should provide them with a written contract or an equivalent written statement confirming their working conditions

The fact it can be a statement rather than a contract may have an impact on the companies ability to change it at any given time without agreement from the employee, but I'm not an EU employment lawyer
The unique package is my top feature for go1.23. I've been experimenting with it in rclone.

People often want to have millions of S3 objects in memory and reducing the memory used would be very desirable.

I interned all the strings used - there are a lot of duplicates like Content Type and it reduced the memory usage by about 30% which is great.

I wonder how much difference this little fix mentioned in the article for go1.23.2 will make? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/69370

The article also mentions strings.Clone which has been around for a while. Using that is very easy and it stops big strings being pinned into memory. I had a problem with this in the S3 backend where some string was pinning the entire XML response from the server which strings.Clone fixed.
> The game seems like a collage of stolen bits rather than a nice blend of games (which is in what the gaming industry excels).

But it is fun to play. And that's all we ask from games.
There already exist ways to proxy those requests in ways that avoid exposing anything about the visitors to Google.
It's in the grey area wrt Google's own ToS, but then, it's that or GDPR.
For a company so focused on the “Diversity and Inclusion” trope [1] this seems highly hypocritical of Mozilla. I would really like it for them to spell it out what DEI means for them, because, it’s clear it’s not about being inclusive with people like Steve Teixeira.

I hope Steve wins the case in the courts and receives a hefty compensation that includes Mozilla paying for all his medical expenses and several years of wages.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/careers/
Hah! Looks like we found the same article. Interesting other links too!
In theory yes. But having accurate & complete information in the hands of nurses and doctors saves lives on a daily basis as well.
dicts ordering keys in insertion order isn't an implementation detail anymore and hasn't been for years.
Relative to... unintelligent discussions?

I also don't care if people leave because HN isn't 'entertaining' enough. I don't come here for that, and I don't expect the community members that make this place what it is to either.
Joe Lieberman sabotaged the public option.
It's maybe reasonable to change the defaults, but I think you should also be mindful of running any random cli program in your codebase, the top of the Github readme does indicate that the --check mode runs it without deleting files.
> The general slowness extends to simple things like x-rays and blood tests too. This is not just US but whole of the west seems to have the exact same attitude.

In Switzerland I get an MRI within 48 hours if my doctor orders it.

Mind you, healthcare is also very expensive comparatively but the quality is very high and coverage is extensive.
Voice messages are very popular
Any news network that cites Radio Free Asia uncritically shouldn't be taken seriously, which is where the news come from.

Next month there will be news how North Koreans are eating their own children with comically large spoons and y'all are gonna fall for it.
This is true and it's one of the problems I have with code generators and these days, AI generated code.
Here is the best way to opt-out of LinkedIn crap, both of the company and of its users: https://www.wikihow.com/Delete-a-LinkedIn-Account
Learning to understand the world around you via clicking isn't a natural or easy thing to do. I can't do it personally but have looked into it. For me the benefits didn't seem worth the time investment (plus I was older when I looked into it.)

Learning to click to understand what is around you is, IMO, a viable thing to look into for your kid and decide if you want to undertake that training. Daniel Kish is the name of the guy most famous for it and would be a decent place to start looking.

An amusing anecdote and a bit of blind throwing shade a blind: https://youtu.be/u-7w3m7fhl4?t=326
As this guy argues, that this is also price fixing by algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFk8V7mU0Wo .

(Got the link from a comment on another recent HN post, IIRC.)