skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't surveillance, it's the ability for China to 'put their thumb on the scale' of the black box algorithm responsible for populating every user's feed to emphasize or de-emphasize topics/ideas that are strategically beneficial to China, and bad for us. This is not hypothetical, this is happening, and has been happening.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/briefing/tiktok-ban-bill-...
Blast overpressure has a way of opening windows. And they're hard to close once the glass has become shrapnel.
As somebody who does not live and work in the US, it seems plausible to me that the H1B system helps prevent other countries from obtaining similar talent hubs as Sillicon Valley. A lot of the talent is in the US, which attracts more companies, which attracts more talent, which means it's easier to go to the US and work there and start companies there than to do it anywhere else.
The short article is definitely worth a read, as is the Netflix post it links to
What's the reason for cap-gap extension to April 1? I thought that the government fiscal year starts on October 1, so H-1B statuses take effect on that date and therefore the extension is only needed until October 1. What is the motivation here?
The Second Developer Preview of Android 16
I'm not saying every cent; who knows? But companies can't take your money on pain of throwing you in jail. They're not tax systems. They get money when people buy their stuff, and, pretty much universally, people buy stuff they think is worth the price.
Only if it is done via EEPROM and not via something more complex. Though your point stands.
If the purpose is cheaper STEM workers than downward pressure on wages is a goal and not just an effect.
Has anyone who uses an IDE (e.g., JetBrains, not a code editor) moved to Cursor? I've downloaded it a few times because everyone raves about it, but I've always come back almost immediately because editors can't reliably make changes across projects (among many other things)... What am I missing?

FWIW I use GoLand w/ Supermaven, currently.
Link should be announcement post:

Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilo...
And if it's not, or you need something more secure, there's always Matrix.

https://matrix.org
bananas are slightly more radioactive than background radiation
It’s theatre because you still need the non passkey recovery method. The system is as weak as its weakest link.
PC Engines was a Swiss company with Taiwan manufacturing.

Since APU2 schematics are open, rebooting PC Engines as a US company could be initiated by US leadership requesting AMD to restart production of the AMD GX-412TC SoC, until AMD can ship a Ryzen Embedded alternative with comparable power efficiency. The lack of a replacement SoC forced the end of APU2 and PC Engines.

National policy tools are not limited to banning negative examples, they can also encourage scaling of positive existence proofs.
This is not my experience, but I use the AX73, which is not a completely bottom-of-the-barrel model.
I'm not imagining what you think; I'm just responding to what you write.
Does anyone else remember a very short lived Google experiment that allowed you to call a number, vocalize your search, and somehow without any additional steps, the results appeared on the browser in front of you? (which was not connected to the phone, or even logged into a Google account)
Yes, surely a sarcastic reductio ad absurdum of what was was said will inspire dialogue.
I think the GP's point is that their investing in new distribution channels could mean ROI in models has diminished significantly. Incidentally, I disagree with GP that's what this means-- this is another investment in brand awareness, AND data for multi-modal/audio. They might have gotten to 1080p for text chat but definitely not for voice chat.
So much annoying truth there.

The overhead of the WASM <-> JS bridge per call remains utterly insane, and this is the root of a lot of the pain. Whenever I found myself profiling it I start thinking I'm missing something, then found that this is what everyone learns the hard way. This is why I have yet to deploy anything that does much WASM physics, since physics engines generate a lot of callbacks by default. (I spent a lot of my life dealing with things like the JNI or early Unity, and nothing compares to the WASM overhead at all).

The timing "for security" drives me insane too, especially how different it is across browsers.

I resorted to having a worker that does everything except make the actual web API calls, and that's what is going on at https://luduxia.com/whichwayround
I can't find any information about how to start a new conversation as opposed to continuing an existing one. I asked the service itself and it doesn't know. In fact it doesn't even know it's behind a phone number.
I have the same opinion as the person you replied to. My arguments are basically that I don’t support plagiarism, and LLMs/diffusion models of our generation have been trained on a massive corpus of copyrighted material, ignoring the fundamentals of the Berne Convention.

I belong to an internet community whose artists make for a third of its population – they are mostly hostile to generative art and never gave their consent for their art to be plagiarized, yet their artstyle end up in Civitai and their content shows up on haveibeentrained.com.

Personally, my hostility towards generative art would stop if training was opt-in, and I would use GitHub again if it, AT LEAST, allowed members to opt-OUT.
Totally agree. Same issues in the UK too.

House prices are a cancer on society
Rana: Run AI Models Locally Through the Browser
One of the mayor things to hate is that you need to hold down the trackpad to do any stuff
telephony* voice data

[*] limited bandwidth (8 kHz), providing a valuable opportunity to enhance and specialize models for telephony applications, ensuring better performance and user experience even with low-fidelity audio inputs.
Original source: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2024/
That's what every non-American should ask their own government and their own companies.
US tech exports in 2018 was $338 billion. Tech is our biggest export by far. Think of the US tech industry as a siphon that sucks in wealth from foreign countries. Would you want to make that siphon bigger or smaller?

If you want to make that siphon bigger — and more competitive — how would you do it? By limiting the people that can work in tech to whoever companies can hire locally, or by bringing in the smartest people from around the world?

Read more: https://mckoder.medium.com/does-america-need-immigration-781...
> I'm not seeing any info about whether testing rates were consistent between schools with mask mandates and schools without.

The paper tells you that the Boston and Chelsea districts were outliers in terms of testing in the first sentence of the Results.

But it's essential to the claims of the original paper, so you should look there, and cross-apply the same criticism. If you can't prove that testing rates were consistent across schools, how can you make the claim of a 30% increase in positivity?

(Hint: Cowager et al. provide the data buried in a supplement. They show that testing practices, in fact, were neither consistent nor stable across time. Both violate the requirements for applying the statistical method used in the original paper.)
> to leave the country to renew paperwork is an insane anachronism.

I always took it as a means of proving they still could return somewhere if necessary. Which is a reasonable thing to assure on a visa.
How I made a Breakthrough in Automata Theory?
Midnight in the Garden of East Texas (1998)
I can't even begin to tell you how hard I unexpectedly laughed at your comment denoting a perceived lack of respect using an extremely commonly accepted scientific dating measurement. Nothing negative noted about any other piece, just a single cherry picked highlight to allow you to demonstrate socially acceptable puritan outrage when given the chance, even on something as insignificant as following common scientific processes. Very culturally relevant. Thanks for the entertainment!
Once she's identified emails that identify her as a target, she can build a case. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
This in itself is a nightmare. I recently hacked for a client their Unifi controller db on a network. It had been setup 5 years ago and the company that did the setup didn't hand over any admin passwords. 5 companies and 4 years of problems later they almost turned their accommodation business into a wifi free off grid experience because they couldn't get the system working correctly without admin access. Nightmare stuff.

Any system so heavily reliant on a single point of failure with such difficulty to replace is a no go for me. Never in half a decade have I seen such a problem whilst rolling out mikrotik hardware.
For sure! We see it as the perfect blend between physical and digital abilities, so tasks can be chained together very creatively.

For this small form factor (25cm high), here is what we foresee (and it's a small subset of what's possible).

- Picking up trash and moving it away.

- Tidying up the floor after your kids (moving toys away), so that a roomba could clean - or a version of Maurice with a vacuum.

- Watching for burglars / other surveillance tasks, and sending you an email or notification if it perceives someone or something fishy.

- Greeting you in the morning, waking you up, telling you about your emails.

- Playing with you or your kids: Hide and seek, Tag, Simon Says, Easy board games... Maybe this one is a bit of a stretch at first, but I could see it play Connect Four?

- Taking pictures. I had multiple folks tell me they would like the robot to go around at home events, take pictures, and assemble them / put them somewhere in the cloud after. This should be pretty straightforward to do!

- Check in on your kids or elders frequently, see if they are okay. Especially this second one is very important to us. You could then define a primitive to send you an email or notification is something's wrong. Or a daily recap of the people did, with pictures. And ask the robot remotely to do something.

For many of these use-cases we will post videos in the coming months about how to do them, as the AI and software gets more reliable.

For bigger robots running on the same system we develop (we have a bigger robot to reveal later), that would be:

- Folding laundry, putting dishes in the dishwasher, cleaning countertops, tidying up the place... Chores-type tasks

- Service robot bringing you food and drinks

- Cooking. This one will come once it's safe enough, you want to be careful especially when there's heat involved, or liquids.

Sky is the limit for this technology, but the bottleneck is data. The more data there is, the faster it will learn and the more complex the tasks. We can't promise all of these are possible now, but it will get there faster than people think. You can look at research papers from our labs, like Universal Manipulation Interface or ALOHA, for existing physical use-cases.
Supabase is now available on Sourcetable
I read that 40% of new YC companies use Supabase, so we added a Supabase connector to make it easy for them to do their reporting.

We have an Excel-style reporting interface which is useful the non-technical team members doing operations-style work and analysis. If you like, you can also just write SQL too.

https://sourcetable.com/integrations/supabase
Where do you think the funding for public pensions comes from, fairy godmothers? Retirement depends upon the market economy to fund it either way. Your wellbeing was already tied from the start.
I need to try it again. When I tried it I found it was kind of overblown and went back to copilot. I also wasn't sure whether to maintain two IDEs - Cursor for scaffolding new projects, and VScode for daily driving.
Agreed. It moves the interaction to something like you'd have with contractors or service staff. Request, receive, review, accept or send for revision.

One of the keys there will be providing a way to nail down the parts that are correct, hold them constant somehow, and "in-paint" the bits that are wrong. For images, we have this figured out, but for larger works, we'll have to think through the equivalents.
This does a lot more… the optimization state is incredibly elaborate. And some of the derived document type generation is complex enough to be a standalone app in my opinion. It’s really a suite of tools for generating new types of documents from your original document without any additional input required from the user besides the document itself.
It's also possible that the supply itself is what creates more demand. People who move to the US are probably less risk-averse than the average person, and more likely to start new companies, creating more jobs.
> "ISO 8583: The language of credit cards"

"ISO 8583: The language of both debit and credit cards"
I feel like everyone who has used a lot of AI tools has become accustomed to the LLM yap, but hearing it over TTS is much more annoying than when it's text you can skim through.
the idea that someone who was 20 in 1995 is too old to be comfortable with computers is a horrifying and offensive stereotype that deeply worries me for my own future

our industry is old enough that the first generation of pioneers has died of old age.

Do you really think someone who grew up with computers in the 80s is incapable of using a smart phone? These are people who are still in the workforce today. These are your most skilled colleagues.

Some of them probably designed the device you think they're too old to understand
And its close cousin FauxGPT
Viper: Verification Infrastructure for Permission-Based Reasoning
the 12 days of OpenAI has been a complete dud so far, only incremental improvements
“All you need” considered harmful.
In this metaphor, these are the "forgotten password" or "recovery key" flows.
Nuisance FOIA requests to jam up the staff are a real thing. So government needs to require its IT systems to efficiently support this access.
Collecting training data to the max.
> I've yet to see one with a competitive salary.

Nonsense.
I mean, I think this last election agrees with this stance.

We need to energize people to actually fix these problems.
What makes these techniques "pseudo" 3D is that they can only render one very specific type of scene (a road), and even then only under various constraints (road must be in front of the camera, road must continue to the horizon, etc). "Real 3D" typically implies a more general scene renderer.
Ooh yes, let's address next how US top universities are all profit machines incentivized to take as many foreigners as possible, driving up the tuition they can charge so US citizens can't afford to get degrees. Let's do talk about how if you get a part time job to be able to pay for college then they yank your financial aid.
Not if the data they'll collect in the process is going to be valuable for the training effort.
lots of coding tasks, discussions about physics/QM. I find that it produces better quality answers than 4o, which often will have subtle but simple mistakes.

Even writing, where it is supposed to be worse than 4O, I feel that is does better/has a more solid understanding of provided documents.
>I don't think they're gearing up for a commercialization rugpull... yet?

What would even be the point of a closed source github clone? Why would anyone chose Gitea of github in that case?
Dish outsources sales calls to a third party. This third party doesn’t have access to customer accounts so they have to send you to an actual Dish call center. Not as nefarious as you think but still frustrating.
There are a lot of developers that won't even learn new things about their current language. I'm still fighting to get some people to adopt C++11 which is 13 years old now.
That's how it is marketed to the masses. From what I hear from many US citizens it actually looks quite different in reality.
midjourney definitely has PMF.
Your comment made me lol. And it’s very rare for that to happen to me via reading text. And I needed it today. So I just wanted to tell you thank you and I hope you have a good day.
You are welcome. I probably am not nearly as good as you. It was just a few programs I made in my spare time like some games and a Sudoku solver. I am sure if I were elevated to your coding level, my departure from GitHub would be a true loss. I hope one day I can reach a tenth of your level.
Started using Supermaven since it was free and Copilot wasn't, but I stayed because it's faster and uses recent diffs to aid in generation
Copilot in VSCode is so far behind Windsurf, not terribly excited about this and still happy to pay for a Codeium pro account. My only fear is someone buying them and screwing up model access, but maybe it’s fine if that is Anthropic. GPT-4 is terrible at coding and o-1 isn’t tell tiene for practical use.
Perhaps something like this?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/public-storage/id1537135259
On what kind of hardware/GPU are you running that locally?
I strongly agree with your points 1, 3, 4 and 5, and I would add another one:

7. This idea of "AI" and how it is expected to be used is detrimental to human intellectual development, particularly for junior generations, and the presumption that AI will solve everything is what actually may bring us closer to the world of Idiocracy.
Weird transients from 1950 still unexplained
$1k Microgrants to build open-source projects
I like this a lot. I don't use AI a lot and I often find it annoying, so I don't eg feel the need to install the OpenAI mobile app (which I assume exists). Having ChatGPT in my WhatsApp (I live in a place where WhatsApp is everywhere) is a nice middle ground, lets me occasionally ask it stuff without worrying about accounts and projects and models and all that stuff. Cool!
The American people get to decide who they want to allow in and under what conditions. If the American people decide that they should get compensated more than non-American citizens for a role falling under American jurisdiction, they can do that. And other nationalities can retaliate or pound sand, but that's it.
Sure but you are allowed to put the 99% front and center in marketing.

A good chunk of the other 1% are square-peg-in-round-home situations.

It is good to support all the various edge cases but it is also on 6 to focus on the happy path
Military labs do work with bioweapons, and (unsurprisingly) they sometimes have trouble containing them just like regular labs.

E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Aral_smallpox_incident

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/archives/what-went-wrong/a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/25/world/russian-scientist-d...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/23/army-a...
Also, each ΧΡ (Chi Rho) is preceded by another Christogram that sort of looks like IHS but I'm not sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christogram

Edit: Actually, here's the full transcription in Latin and German: https://archaeologisches-museum-frankfurt.de/index.php/de/?v...
Don't forget the vast (and parallel) improvements in image processing.
Yahoo company still exists!!
It's a hard problem because when you start asking questions about what an unqualified home user needs it's easy to say just one more thing.

port forwarding? ofcourse how else can the kid have a minecraft server with friends

dynamic dns? then the friends don't need to search "what's my ip" every time

parental controls? to schedule how much time they can play minecraft...

I like Mikrotik but for anyone trying to go beyond the barebones default firewall/router/ap on the quickset page you need to be prepared to learn. i.e. To make a DHCP reservation, you go through the menus until you click IP, then you realise you don't click on DHCP client to set up a DHCP client you go into DHCP server and try to give a device a reservation which requires the step of making it static first then seperately setting it's IP.

The complaint basically boils down to: they have all the options there and available and the least common task is just as easy to do as the 2nd most common (after initial basic setup), and if a task touches multiple parts of the config you need to touch each of those parts. Great for someone who knows what they're doing but for a home user it would be great to have more quickset pages for the 2nd to 10th most common tasks (as intagible as that list is).
Why are you in a community that tolerates them?

I had to tell someone IRL today I won't be cursed at and walk out of their office... why wouldn't you do the cyber equivalent?

I'm forced to read Reddit and Twitter to keep up on infosec trends, but I don't really engage with the userbase for the reasons you describe.

Just... don't engage at all with them, and remove yourself from the situation.
you can grow the sector. there's not a fixed supply of jobs. getting more talented people into your economy will likely just lead to more companies, more agglomeration effects etc. it's good.
If you've ever been to a rural Somerset pub after 9pm this should come as no surprise.
> has to go through a very length period

Doesn't the bottom of this announcement describe a previous rule that was announced in January 2024 and then implemented in March 2024? Interesting that rules process was far more rapid than this one.
Counterpoint: a game that's mostly about passing time and good conversation is the most Jewish game there is.
It goes way further than simple bump mapping. In terms of texture, there is a color texture and a height map, and the final rendering use real-time physically based rendering (PBR) techniques that takes into account the properties of the lunar regolith, as explained near the end of the article.

Color space is taken proper care of, and for images as rendered from the Earth point of view, there is a model of the atmosphere, so that the sky looks blue during the day and the Moon looks red at the horizon.

There are no pre-calculated images and only 3 photos. All the shading is done in real time using realistic models.
Exceptions have a hierarchical nature to them in most languages, or at least have some sort of identity to them. Your correct that the author doesn't try to change the way errors are propagated, but you can see similarities between what the author is creating themselves, and what already exists in languages with exceptions.
I'm sure you'll be able to still get older gen openwrt compatible stuff.

The newer generations of TP links are a different beast entirely. Doubt you can even set it up local only let alone openwrt it
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As a product regulatory issue, you're right, it probably wouldn't be any different than other product regulatory law. They're mainly civil, (especially in terms of product warranty). In a chapter 7 case, civil penalties typically don't even get priority to creditors. But who cares?! The company is gone anyway.

> If the concern is that the source code is going to be lost in dying companies, some people have suggested escrow requirements, e.g. you file the source code with the copyright office on the release date, not to be published until you discontinue support. You might conceivably file gibberish and not be discovered until the publication date but then we're back to personal liability for willful criminal acts, e.g. falsifying official documents.

Even if you do convince Congress to approve the new billion dollar data center they'll need, I'm not sure the entire world really wants to put this in their build pipeline. It's an interesting thought experiment. I don't really think the public cares about source code as much as you do. And really, if they did, this wouldn't be a discussion.