skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US "sanctions on Chinese" are limited to US federal agencies not being allowed to use Chinese drones.

China now confidently banning Skydio entirely and also blocking them from getting batteries probably means that China has concluded that it is impossible for the US to make batteries on their own. People will bring up the recent lithium discoveries in the US but has completely forgotten the amount propaganda that has been pushed against "open pit mining" targeting both the left and the right (Joe Rogan, RFK jr.)

https://dronelife.com/2024/09/10/house-passes-countering-ccp...
> I guess some people do want it given that Rewind AI somehow exists.

That doesn't imply anyone wants it. This is triply true for consumer products that are forced on consumers.
> how can it be implemented in a way that has truly separate instantiations of generics at runtime, when calls cross assembly boundaries

There are no assembly boundaries under NativeAOT :)

Even with JIT compilation - the main concern, and what requires special handling, are collectible assemblies. In either case it just JITs the implementation. The cost comes from the lookup - you have to look up a virtual member implementation and then specific generic instantiation of it, which is what makes it more expensive. NativeAOT has the definitive knowledge of all generic instantiations that exist, since it must compile all code and the final binary does not have JIT.
> After Claude Desktop’s release, I think it’s reasonable to presume a lot of people want this functionality.

Release of a product does not imply any demand, especially for people outside the industry. People inside the industry should be considered insane until proven otherwise.
Different poisons have different accumulation characteristics. The relevant part here is that perfluorocarbons are fairly persistent in your body. Your body needs a few hours or a day to process the vodka, but the PFAS in your blood takes months/years to leave your body.
In many countries, the Army remained and still remains the main tool used to tame civil unrest. Until the mid 70s, in Switzerland, a very typical western "liberal democracy", the Army will still mobilized during times of chaos.

Also keep in mind international news channels were present during the riots and reported far less casualties than US-based propaganda newspapers.

If you wonder why the US and its subordinates would lie about this, please remember the western world had lost most of its colonies, and very likely saw it as an opportunity to try to take back what it felt was its property. Thus the need to exaggerate those historical "facts" in order to justify sanctions and military interventions, or even the suspension of the Constitution of the PRC.

But for example, both Switzerland and the US also went through very bloody times of social upheaval, and yet, those events are long forgotten from public memory.

Maybe revisionism happens mostly on another side of the world after all...?
Until Microsoft gives users a legally binding "And we'll never quietly turn it on with a Windows Update" promise I don't trust them, given the way disabled features repeatedly get reenabled by updates in Windows 10 and 11 already
Hardly a dumpster fire, moving to Linux from Windows is by far the best thing I’ve done for my work and sanity using a computer. For macOS users might be less of a reason, but aside from video editing workflow, has been a smooth process, and highly recommended for devs to give it another go.
I've never seen straps on sale at roller coasters. Missed opportunity?
$80M Bet Wyoming Can Unlock Secret Getting More Oil from "Tight Rocks"
Absolutely. And a lot of spam. A few months ago there was a little flame war between a few people. Company posted an ad and someone replied "this is spam, and you don't respond, just keep posting the same ad", and the company replied "no, I own the company and hand write this job ad every month to fit our future needs" which was patently a lie (exact same headcount, exact same three positions, every month for the last eight months, and usually a byte-accurate copy of each posting), and several similar.

Not to mention it's "discouraged" to call employers out on poor behavior. I know of at least three companies who post pretty steadily who ghosted at final rounds or in one case, "We intend to present a written offer" (though in "fairness", they did eventually inform me that they'd decided to freeze hiring, well, nearly three months later).
Their security track record does not really help. I will never trust them again after they refused to tell their customer about a workaround because they wanted that juicy DoD contract (https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-gold...).

Why would I trust that company with my data?
https://www.sec.gov/submit-tip-or-complaint/tips-complaints-...
There are no numbers on YouTube costs (which would be astronomical), and IMO it's unlikely YouTube is profitable on its own.
Yeah this seems to be more in the interest of Microsoft who can use the gathered data to understand the user's interests better.

Of course this information will only be used to improve your experience by us and our 872 selected partners.
What exactly keeps people on Windows if they feel like theyre in such a relationship with their operating system?
Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year
Nobody relies on that in China
The fact that people actually ask this question, shows how people in the west (assuming you are from there) only see China through mainstream media. No offense to you in particular.

In China, if you walk around the street in any city, you can see many American brands such as McDonalds, KFC, Starbucks, Microsoft, Apple. American logos are proudly displayed. If you walk into a cafe, you will more often than not, hear American music. Chinese cinemas will show Hollywood movies. They have statues of Kobe Bryant and when the NBA plays there, they get hundreds of thousands of fans. This is all in 2024, by the way.

Meanwhile, in America, everything Chinese will inevitably get the "China bad" treatment. Chinese companies doing business in America have to hide the fact that they're Chinese. Google "Is company..." and often the top autocomplete results includes something like "Is x company Chinese?".

The level of propaganda is not nearly the same on both sides.

Go to China and see for yourself. I just came back from Shenzhen. Absolutely stunning modern city that feels like it's 5 years ahead of anywhere I've been to. It's extremely safe for foreigners. Ridiculously safe actually. By my estimation, 80% of the cars on the road are EVs. Super clean air, cleaner than most American cities nowadays. You never hear about this stuff in western mainstream media.
Redditor Claims to Have Discovered VSCode Uploading Project Files
He describes in his setup in both the post and in a follow-up reply in the comments that's easier to read here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1gepias/comment/lun...

He claims that the telemetry settings flip back on all the time in another reply.
There are 4.3 weeks per month, so you are off by a factor of 4.3

i.e. you get a little over 1 hour of 1:1 coach time per month for the 15 minute weekly sessions.

[edit] I originally wrote 4.3 weeks per year which is wrong.
> The refresh jacked up the price, because, well, they can.

Publicly traded company gonna behave like a publicly traded company.
>non-controlled substances

Could you elaborate? The ones I know of are St. John's Wort(though that's more for depressive symptoms) and Phenylpiracetam.
> Linked clones aren't used in ESXi

Huh? What do you mean? They absolutely are. I've made extensive use of them in ESXi/vsphere clusters in situations where I'm spinning up and down many temporary VMs.
Don't misunderstand. I am not making an assertion that GenAI tools for development are useless.

I am just pointing out that the thread parent started his logical climb at a step one that is incorrect: 'Most programming is trivial'.

Given that they got it wrong on step one, how good do you thing step ten is?
How big is your site? Crawl budget is likely only relevant for huge sites, not personal blogs.
I don’t use Siri because of the transcripts myself. I want to, but I don’t.

I think you’ve skipped over the knowledgeC.db part. Know what that is and how it works?
Yeah... I tested positive for Babesia, and took the pills to treat it (the same ones are used to treat malaria). And it went fine and now I test negative.

But as I went online to see what other people's experiences were, I found a number of people who were like "I've decided to self-treat this infectious (and potentially deadly) infection with 11 herbs and spices." I can see how people get driven to do that, but it's still tragic.
If an entity takes measures to ensure that its service becomes the de-facto default in an area, that entity gives up its entitlement to dictate the terms of use of that service. We need something like this in our systems of ethics, or we permit Freedom Monsters (ref: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259). Note that this isn't the only solution, but I expect other solutions to have the same shape.

If Google didn't promote YouTube so heavily, permitted channels to migrate to other services (like how they permit Blogger blogs to migrate to other websites), bundled a generic streaming video player with Android (e.g. VLC) instead of the YouTube app… then maybe I'd be more sympathetic to the position of content blocker opponents. To convince me to pay for YouTube, you have to offer me something other than "we've locked a capability of your computer away, but you can get it back if you pay us!".
> 62% companies posted them specifically to make their employees feel replaceable

wow, HR and management really have a lot of contempt for their staff.

i deleted my ln in 2022. i have a deep mistrust of all web platforms. i know what i do on the UI and what happens in the code are not the same.
I have a slight suspicion that the overlap between people upset about Recall and people excited for Apple Intelligence is very small. As for why the gap, let's be honest. Nobody has more loyalty to a giant corporation than many people do to Apple. You may speculate exactly why that is, but the reputation doesn't lie.
Personally? Inertia. I hate switching tools/systems unless absolutely necessary. If I were a frog you could absolutely boil me.
I was fortunate enough to have done my undergrad in a department where only the faculty who wanted to teach did so.
I swear if all the ai chat apps started as fat apps and then Claude just released the first port to the web, I would be reading this exact same comment on hacker news except complaining that there was nothing wrong with the fat app.
Of course, if you analyze things logically you'll conclude that the dispute is merely economic, because the US was buying everything from China until a few months ago.
I agree, and I would also add that the great thing about sketchy hand-drawing is that it keeps people focused in discussions, making it clearer what they should be judging.

As soon as you have something that looks remotely like the real thing, people will get distracted. Why is this yellow not our brand yellow? What is this font? Those two boxes don't align! etc. While those details do matter, they are not important in the early iterations of a design.
Looks totally fine in mobile safari.
Shouldn't it be finished faster now that AI is doing all the coding? Just imagine the delay if they didn't have Copilot as a productivity booster.
You missed the mark entirely. But it does reveal how you latch on to an idea about someone and don’t let it go, completely letting it cloud your judgement and arguments. You are not engaging with the conversation at hand, you’re attacking a straw man you have constructed in your head.

Of course self-driving cars aren’t a nonsense idea. The execution and continued missed promises suck, but that doesn’t affect the idea. Claiming “humans are geniuses without equal” would be pretty dumb too, and is again something you’re making up. And something doesn’t have to be “all snake oil” to deserve specific criticism.

The world has nuance, learn to see it. It’s not all black and white and I’m not your enemy.
From the article's opening sentence, it's clear that they are being sanctioned for doing business with Taiwan's Fire Agency, and not for any military reasons.

A few weeks ago, China announced sanctions on Skydio for selling drones to Taiwan, where our only customer today is the National Fire Agency.
I’m skeptical of the pricing, but I could see it having value for working professionals or students who are at risk of failing out and don’t have good support on campus.

I personally have ADHD, and I’m medicated. The medication makes it possible to focus on tasks, not guaranteed. I still have to engage cognitive skills and essentially implement a system similar to this, just without a coach. Specifically: break down tasks, use a Pomodoro timer, walk and make tea between focus sessions, put the phone away, use environmental cues like specific work music, etc.

Sleep and exercise are also incredibly important for success with ADHD, and the stimulant medications can interfere with both, so I could see coaching being useful there as well, not sure if the service offers help there.
(2023)

probably up to ~1700 days about now since COVID isn't over.
I find it impossible to take seriously anyone who uses terms like 'woke' and 'The Great Awokening' unironically.
Just like "No" has been replaced with "Remind me later," dropping bad ideas entirely has been replaced with delaying them. Way to go, Microsoft!
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Well I think the person quoted is suggesting you work on your network now, presumably before you are looking for a job. But I could see an argument that even going to meetups and just talking to people while you're actively looking is more likely to be successful than emailing resumes. That is to say, even the act of building a network from the ground up could be highly effective.
Sorry, this recommendation will probably disappoint, it's from Walmart. It's a Vankyo Performance V700W. I can't necessarily recommend it.

I have a problem with over-shopping for things, such as spending too much of my life researching and frustrated before either never buying, buying above budget, or just impulse buying making the research time wasted. So, if I can instead work with something I can drive to Walmart and spend $300-400 on, I am happy.

It's been fine but it's nothing special. Does the job and the picture is pretty clear when focused properly. It's bright enough and has good color and picture quality for my purposes. It's 100" on my wall across the room from my couch so we use it a lot for gaming and watching videos. For programming stuff it works but can't optimize for space in the IDE by bumping font size down like I would with high DPI monitors.

I'm also on my second one as the first was left on constantly and started to develop dark spots. They were kind of fun to watch as they'd start really bright and then fade but obviously only in hindsight because it made the screen hard to see. The last time I bought it, the price was dropped I think it was <$200. I have had it for about a year and turn it off when I'm not using it and it's holding up a lot better!
Real-Time Updates at Scale with Sanity's Live Content API
Hi! I work at Sanity and wanted to share a blog post I co-wrote about our new Live Content API. We’ve tackled the challenge of delivering real-time content updates directly from our CDN, allowing it to scale without the usual caching headaches. We’ve also created a simple Next.js abstraction to make it easy™ to implement. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Humans learn skills like basic mathematics by reasoning about their environment and building internal models of problems they’re trying to solve. LLMs do not reason and they cannot model their environment.
The "sanctions" on DJI are limited to US federal agencies being banned from buying DJI drones.

China's move however will be a killing blow to Skydio because China has most likely correctly calculated that US/Western anti-mining sentiments makes it impossible to manufacture batteries.

https://dronelife.com/2024/09/10/house-passes-countering-ccp...
Seems like he's describing homeostasis and hormesis.

The body has a homeostatic balance physically and psychologically. Pushing yourself out that balance (the comfort zone) induces and adaptation (growth). When you push yourself into the edge, as he defines it, you enter the hormetic zone, the area of the dose response where there is benefit (be it from physical or psychological stressors or medicines). Going too far causes unbeneficial and possibly irreparable damage.
I tried generating the same test with all 5 models in Qodo Gen.

o1 is very slow - like, you can go get a coffee while it generates a single test (if it doesn’t time out in middle).

o1-mini thought worked really well. It generated a good test and wasn’t noticeably slower than the other models.

My feeling is that o1-mini will end up being more useful for coding than o1, except for maybe some specific instances where you need very deep analysis
So, this is the problem. We are doing a Kabuki dance where there is an illusion of good faith and meritocracy, when really, it's just a brutalist labor order book between employers and employees, unless you have a network (which takes years to build and might still prove useless if you can't refer someone into your org because blah blah hiring pipeline that is really just garbage anyway). For example, someone at the VP level at Slack recently posted on LinkedIn for a job req that all candidates have to go through the formal process to avoid unfairness (no informal resume reviews or interviews would be had).

If you offer up a job req, there should be punitive consequences if it is not legitimate. You are incurring cost and harm on job seekers spending time engaging with said post, at no cost to the employer. This is to be solved for, just as pay transparency is slowly being solved for with regulation and statute. If you have policy suggestions, I'm interested, as someone who engages with policymakers.
Steve Jobs once said something about working back from the desired user experience to the technology. What Microsoft is doing here is the complete opposite. They’re making the technology fit the user experience.
I just found it funny that the author uses such a specific measure for an object that typically looks nothing like a credit card. I think the only credit-card sized magnet I've ever seen might have been an elastic magnetized floppy piece of plastic that was rather weak (I think it was used to fix paper on sheet metal). How about "even a small magnet can pull up things and overcome the gravity caused by a whole planet's worth of mass"?

BTW the comparison to the strong and weak nuclear forces is sort of strange too because not only do they only matter on nuclear scales, they also behave strangely not to an inverse-square law; Don Lincol of Fermilab explained that in a Feb 2024 video[1], from the description: "Popular science explanations [...] claim that some of the forces are stronger than others. What they don’t tell you is that all of those claims are only valid for distances comparable to the radius of a proton. For different size scales, the order of the strength of the forces can be wildly different."
But doesn't this fully lock you into using OpenAI's offerings? If you store the finetuning dataset yourself, you are free to use it on whatever model/provider/self hosting. And I'm finding it fairly straightforward to switch between providers at will. Plus it's nice to do additional programmatic validation on LLM outputs before using them for finetuning (e.g. standardizing country names, calculations).

Am I missing something?
In my household it's MS Office. My partner very much enjoys the UX of KDE, but can't switch because she's highly reliant on features in MS Office that I cannot find transliterated well enough to work on Linux. Otherwise, there is no place for Windows in my house.
I'm not sure you're appreciating the massive scale of YouTube. Billions of videos (from music videos to a random person's 10 hour hiking video nobody cares about), stored all around the world, and ready to be delivered quickly to anyone. Oh and apps for any platform imaginable. This is not cheap.
As Porter explained in 1980 there are three ways to compete successfully:

1. On price; race to the bottom or do free with ads

2. Differentiation

3. Focus - targeting a specific market segment

Some things don't change. Land grabbers tend to head down route 1.
You mean with DJI? It's not remotely symmetrical. The US does not prohibit DJI from buying US parts to use in their drones. The US do not prohibit US citizens from buying DJI drones. Only the US Dept of Defense is prohibited from buying DJI equipment.

The US does this because DJI is considered a Chinese Military Company [1] (nb that DJI disputes this and asked to be removed from the list). China is sanctioning Skydio because they sold some drones to Taiwan.

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/31/2003384819/-1/-1/0/126...
People in the US can recognize that the fighting is caused by economic reasons, and surely the average American citizen and the average Chinese citizen don't hold animosity towards each other on a personal level.

I think manufacturing jobs moving to China hurt the middle class in the US, and that's caused a disdain for China (and US politicians who push for things like that). But otherwise, I don't think the China rhetoric is too out of touch with reality. It would be very interesting to talk to someone in China and directly compare perspectives.
I am old enough to remember when we needed to switch to plastic bags over paper to "save the trees"
the enshitification will continue regardless, because stock prices need to go up and they will eventually run out of runway.

in theory, winning the AI race gives them more runway, but we've hit the limit of LLMs and there is a lot of hope that some magical Gen-AI daddy will come in and fix everything. even if they get there, will it be profitable compared to competitors? and for how long?
The empirical results like OP’s paper, in which chain of thought reduces quality?
Indeed, and I'm not sure that China will arrest you when you're travelling in a foreign country, for trading with Taiwan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_case_of_Meng_Wanzh...
Silicon Valley's Andreessen, Horowitz Give Millions to Trump
Same in a regular desktop browser with NoScript. I know we're supposed to focus on the content and not the delivery, but it's always wild to me when JS is required to display some text.
Another reason to avoid The Atlantic.
If you just care about finding any solution, you can consider a multi-step approach such as Thistlethwaithe's algorithm.

If insead you want to find the shortest possible solution for any giveb configuration, that indeed is much harder! The best optimal solvers at the moment use very large pruning tables to help the brute-force search.

A nice exercise could be solving a 2x2x2 cube. That one is much more manageable.

This page is great is you want to learn more: https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/compcube.htm
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the (slight) backlash you get is from your original statement that that is what makes it the “best OS”, when in reality it arguably rather indicates some problems.