skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, the real "anglophones" are against everybody else, specifically Eastern Europe. So they got out of the EU thinking that would solve their problem.
Oh wow, didn't know that was possible. Thanks for sharing.
The solution is obvious: move back to invite-only message boards and webrings. Only real-world humans are allowed to enter the playground. Maybe we could even resurrect the PGP key signing Web of Trust?
Fine Tuning the Erlang Virtual Machine
I almost fail to see what harm could come from nationalizing YouTube at this point.
The title needs 2024. The article is almost a year old.
if i were microsoft i'd be mad that he called it "minecraft 2", even though that won't be the final name. also notch is so annoying i think people would probably side with them saying "look you can make a new game but if you advertise it as basically minecraft 2 we want some of our zillions back"
I should have emphasized the words "nontrivial ways" in my previous response to you. I didn't mean to emphasize compression and definitely not memorization, just the ability to also learn algorithms that can be evaluated by the parallel decoder-transformer language (RASP-L). Other people had mentioned memorization or clustering/near neighbor algorithms as the main ways that decoder transformers works, and I pointed out a paper that cannot be explained in that particular way no matter how much one would try. That particular paper is not unique, and nobody has shown that decoder transformers can memorize their training sets, because they typically cannot, just because it is a numbers/compression game that is not in their favor and because typical training sets have strong correlations or hidden algorithmic structures that allow for better ways of learning. In the particular example, the training set was random data on different random functions and totally unrelated to the validation / test sets, so compressing the training set would be close to useless anyways and the only way for the decoder transformer to learn was to figure out an algorithm that optimally approximates the function evaluations.
So happy to read this comment. I really wanted that to come through!
Eh, it's patronage. Can't really be that mad at people giving money to folks they find entertaining where the content is given away freely even to people who don't pay.

There's so many sketchy business models, hard to be mad at one that's completely devoid of coercion and people enthusiastically participate in
> Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas

Here in Houston, law enforcement is pretty strict on homeless people causing problems. Maybe that's the reason?
Epoch is still around, pretty sure it's still 24/7 too (the original location, that is).

Flightpath is even older (it was in the flight path of the old airport), though not 24 hour.
In BC, at least, it felt like the most culturally integrated immigrant group were the Chinese.
Of course. Pretty hard to deny it when transformers learmed to produce useful human language not by figuring out how it relates to some Tarskian "true reality" but by looking at a lot of text and figuring out its internal use, exactly as Girard (and implicitly Kant) predicted it would happen.

Girard even noted that we'd know progress was happening as soon as early models started making certain specific kinds of mistakes children also tend to make, such as the answer to "which is heavier, 5kg of bricks or 5kg of feathers".

So yes, Kant, Girard and you got this right early on, but the mainstream has caught up since then.

Of course, semantics still works well as a technical tool in formal logic, though it has no link to its philosophical counterpart (not that this prevents B-grade philosophers from abusing the unfortunately chosen terminology to equivocate them).
Agree, but that is a problem created by locals, not immigrants. Why do they blame immigrants?
It's not surprising: everyone is using the same manufacturing equipment now, due to free markets and trade. So it's only about numbers of workers.
Org-roam is not "DB-based". All the data remains in the plain text, org-mode format. Org-roam simply adds an indexing layer which sits in sqlite.
The US can't even make cell phones any more.

What would it take to get that capability back?
Maybe I'm old school, but I won't "buy" (rent?) subscriptions for software. I expect to own it outright, at to receive at least security updates for a reasonable time period.
> The US is the world’s sole military superpower. It spends more on its military than the ten next highest spending countries combined.

Dubious claim. Military power is not measured in “spending”. Manufacturing is in fact a basis for modern military power, as it was the basis for US military power in WW2. The fact that China can produce 10k+ precisely controlled drone swarms in massive quantities and produces more hypersonic missiles and ships casts doubt on this claim.

Says the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/weapons...
Moving it to Mexico, Vietnam, and India.

Mexico is ideal since you can ship partially assembled goods via truck or rail to and from Texas. It's easy to manage logistics and partnerships due to the close proximity.

The future of the US is Mexico.

Vietnam and India can absorb SEA manufacturing.
Wouldn’t it be meta commentary if we’re discussing the nature of the comments, regardless of who made them?

If not, what type of commentary would it be?
“Wide and deep” is key here. Chinese manufacturing is hungry and way more competitive than in the US. Physical manufacturing in the US is geared toward the largest companies and the defense-industrial complex. If your products have any complexity to them (starting with electronics), a small company has little chance of getting access to good factories and pricing.
> The apk signature done by fdroidserver seems totally superfluous. Android is already going to verify the certificate if you try to update an app, and presumably whatever upload mechanism is already authenticated some other way (eg. api token or username/password), so it's unclear what the signature validation adds, aside from maybe preventing installation failures.

If you try to update the app. Anyone installing the app from scratch will still be vulnerable. Effectively, both cases are Trust On First Use, but AllowedAPKSigningKeys moves the First Use boundary from "the first time you install the app" to "the first time F-Droid saw the app". Izzy wrote a blog post about it a while ago.[0]

> and presumably whatever upload mechanism is already authenticated some other way (eg. api token or username/password)

IzzyOnDroid (and, I believe, F-Droid) don't have their own upload UI or authentication, they poll the upstream repo periodically.

[0]: https://f-droid.org/2023/09/03/reproducible-builds-signing-k...
BBEdit has been sold via payed upgrades since forever and Bare Bones seems to be doing fine. As a user, I like this model best. I will only ever buy a subscription if I absolutely have to.
You might be surprised to learn that manufacturing is larger industry in the US than our tech industry, or that our domestic oil industry is even larger. America produces more oil than any other country.

America was the world's factory for over a century. This dominance only ended around 2010, when China took the lead. It was our advantage to lose, and it was the result of deliberate political action. We offshored manufacturing, and treated China as a good faith trading partner, waiting decades for a cooperative international trade diplomacy that has not materialized to this day. All the while Beijing did everything in its power to enrich the Chinese worker, no matter the cost to outsiders. The results speak for themselves.
> Zettelkasten is an interesting thing, but more as a curiosity

Zettelkasten is just an idea, and a great one. I don't know what you think it is, but all these apps - Obsidian, Roamresearch, Logseq, Org-roam - are based on that idea.
Microsoft to Spend $80B on AI Data Centers This Year
So is tiktok. And sugar. And video games. And a thousand other things people are exposed to. I'm all for regulation of harmful and addictive substances and its exposure to children/adolescents, but porno is pretty low on the list of "things fucking up kids that need to be regulated"
In BC specifically, in fact. What is Richmond, BC today was a Japanese community originally rather than Chinese as it is today.
It won't take long for China to catch up. And in a hot war, they're the ones who can rapidly rebuild.

Lots of reports say that Chinese military spending has exceeded our own if you account for their cheaper cost of labor and material goods.

China also recently (just days ago) flew two new sixth gen fighters. The US has yet to demonstrate one.

The tactical move for the West to counter is to move as much manufacturing as possible to other countries (Vietnam, India, Mexico) and hope that can put a dent in China's manufacturing flywheel. The Chinese consumer economy isn't robust enough to absorb all of the goods they manufacture (at least not yet), and without buyers the system would need to be scaled back.

Even if China was 100% a friend, you wouldn't want one country with this much outsized control over manufacturing. In the future this will be better distributed.
Yes, but almost all the features that make Org-roam stand out vs org-mode are via that DB :-)
The oxidation of the Rust Belt continues apace.
For anyone considering: I applied, didn’t get an offer, but had a fantastic experience. Authentic people, with the right mix of ambition and work-life balance. They respected the time required for me to engage in their hiring interviewing process, which was refreshing.
That seems like a pretty biased source, how about these actual cases at the top of google search? We are just getting started perhaps 10 years into this, now imagine this after another 100 years? And of course maybe they can technically be "recycled" now but it's not actually happening in a significant way yet.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/sweetwater-wind-t...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

For now we have to be realistic, but hopeful that some better use than landfills can be found and be viable.
- “To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.”
During the months I’ve spent writing this book, I can assure you that this joke gets funnier the more you hear it.

I love to read books like this rather than the AI generated slush that seems to be so abundant today. This author has done a great job here. Although I have to say, it is sad that I feel like I have to ‘audit’ everything to see if it’s written by a robot before I invest too much time in it /:
The US can make cellphones, its just not efficient for the US to make cellphones because the US’s comparative advantage is elsewhere.

What it would take for the US to make cellphones is direct subsidy to the (inefficient, and for that reason likely therefore doomed by the market without artificial support, since there is robust competition) US firms doing so.

Of course, not only would this cost the amount of the subsidy, but the amount of the lost opportunities in places where the US has comparative advantages foregone to provide the subsidy.

The question then is why would you want to do this?
Love the openness and candor of this post!
only for now
I think this is the article you're refering to [1]. The most frustrating manager I've had felt like they were just a layer of indirection to the rest of the business. Every meeting I was in with them was basically a readout of another meeting. No new insights or synthesis of new information.

I have also had managers who are great at linking the wider strategic goals of the organisation to their team's work. They were rare and worth their weight in gold.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42506984
hey man, relax. i keep reading a comment from someone making an innocuous statement that isn't intended to imply anything about you, then reading a loooooong post from you explaining how you're DEFINITELY TOTALLY NOT AT ALL the thing you're imagining they're implying. take it from me, I'm really highstrung and defensive, you gotta make some time to breath over the next couple weeks.
Looks like it's "Flutter, sqlite, nextjs" https://ansh.life/projects/pimosa
Why would a colonizing civilization have to choose between these options? If it experiences relentless growth, it would occupy everything. If it has grown to occupy some locations around a large number of stars, that's enormous growth from its initial system. Why would this growth stop? Instead, I'd expect it to fully exploit all the resources in all the systems reached. The solar system would look very different from what it looks like. There would be no asteroid belt; there would be a space colony belt.
> I expect to own it outright

Unless you are the legal creator or buy the copyright, you never own software outright, you license it from the owner (or its public domain and has no owner.)
Show HN: AstralPic, a service that aims to make rural video on demand
A service where people can find someone near within range with a drone that can film remote areas and send them to the user. These areas must be either public or have the owners permission before gathering footage. What do you guys think?
Stay on the Bus
In a similar vein, I always found it interesting (although frightening) that rabies cause hydrophobia. The theory is that drinking water can wash away the virus from your saliva, inhibiting its ability to spread through bites.

It makes sense that a virus passed through saliva would evolve like this, but I just find it particularly unsettling when a pathogen can effect higher-level behaviors like drinking water (or jumping into water for mantises).
If this was any other language than JS I would agree but my personal experience with JS is the opposite.

In my experience almost everything in the JS world is already async. User interactions are async, requests are async, almost all NodeJS APIs are async. To me having to add more async in JS is a tiny barrier compared to what I'm facing in other languages that feel more synchronous to me.

Since there is already so much async I also feel like debugging, profiling and error handling are all pleasantly solved problems in JS.

Offloading to workers is also async so while there are many valid benefits to be gained, avoiding async does not seem like one of them to me.
Is this Greenspun's tenth rule but for the BEAM? Is everything a distributed system?

(Trick question! A computer has for a long time been a distributed system, we just don't like to worry about that usually.)
What on earth did I just read? Is this ai slop that I just read? None of this is correct or true.
You can literally pay YouTube to avoid ads, watching the mental gymnastics folks on here do to complain about YouTube Premium is my favorite pastime.
> (I am just referring to the history of both RPC and Taiwan claiming to be the historical China successor).

Semantics, but the ROC (Republic of China) claims Taiwan, along with the mainland and Outer Mongolia. It isn’t the case that Taiwan claims the ROC (although if the in power DPP decided not to be the ROC anymore, the PRC would probably invade since declaring independence from the ROC would be the same as refuting one China).

When the ROC/KMT retook Taiwan in 1946, they weren’t exactly seen as liberators. And when the KMT and a bunch of rich mainlanders relocated there in 1949, there were protests, genocide, and so on.
Wow! That ui looks so similar to perplexity's.
Use https://hackersearch.net/ for RAG and copy-paste the response in any LLM. I wish reddit had semantic search as well. For X I can use Grok.
> the changes ripple through the program creating confusing errors sometimes where the compiler is trying to knit things together.

F# is derived from OCaml, and they both support interface files–in the case of F#, with the .fsi extension–which is designed to solve exactly this problem. After settling on the surface area of your module, you nail it down by writing an interface file with the exact types you want to enforce. The compiler then uses this to check the usage of the module by its consumers, and provides much more accurate type errors.

It works really well.
Pi doesn't contain a lot of information since it can be computed with a reasonably small program. For numbers with high information content you want other examples like Chaitin's constant.
1.) The article is from January 2024.

2.) Some of the data that it's based on is up to 2023. And some are up to 2020

3.) There has been massive movement of manufacturing out of China between 2020 and 2024. I won't provide the references here, as there are too many to mention, from Japanese/Taiwanese/South Korean/European/American companies. They are easily chatgpted/googled. Also the reason why Shenzhen and Guangzhou has suffered deeper drop of real estate price and employment.

4.) In 2024, Mexico was the biggest exporter to US. United States was the biggest exporter to Europe. US was the largest export destination of Japan.

5.) Trump's 60%-100% tariff on China will accelerate the exodus of manufacturing
Do you expect to receive a free car every new model year after buying one outright?
FireDucks
Solar + battery not just solar
…Have you ever even been to Quebec? If you go anywhere outside of Montreal, you’re lucky if anyone even speaks english. It’s all heavily French.
Why WFH [Work From Home] when you can WFH [WaFfle House]?
It catered to the specific niche of screencasts and thus needed a lot of custom software written that doesn't already exist in Zoom/Teams. After development costs there's marketing/CAC costs to be considered. For those that don't "get it" upon seeing the product, you need to spend money on salespeople to convince them they do. After those expenses, their AWS bill surely wasn't cheap.

Finally though, you hope not to raise too many times, so that $200 million needs to last years. Let's say they planned for a round 10 years. that's 20 million a year. say half on developers, that's 10-40 software developers all-in (meaning after HR and health care for them and everything). 10-40 people isn't all that many, though clearly enough to build the product.

Since the author of the blog post walked away with $60 million, it's possible they could have developed the product for less, but it's hard to argue with the results he got. Spending less money would have been penny-wise, pound foolish.
The two things that get worse over time are labor costs and net metering arrangements.

Labor costs either track or exceed inflation, and net metering arrangements get less lucrative as the grid becomes more solar heavy, like what happened in California last year.

But relying on net metering for ROI is a pre-2024 thing. Batteries are getting so cheap.
FFmpeg is mostly LGPL and has very clear and helpful instructions about how to incorporate and distribute it in compliance.
Port capacity and equipment scale, willingness to engage in toxic processing, etc carry far more weight, IMHO.

China has a lock on various electronic production streams by having a lock on most of the rare earth processing and dealing with the low level radioactive waste by products.

One billion tonnes of raw iron ore per year flows from my state of Western Australia to China for steel production - the machinery, diggers, haul paks, massive trains, et al make that happen in a state with a population of only ~2.3 million or so with few of those in mining. 16x peak US iron ore production for steel with a workforce smaller than the US's at it's peak.

China didn't just fall into peak manufacturing capacity by a happy accident of many workers, they (for better or worse) made long term plans and stuck at them - including the reduction in population growth known as the one child policy.

Current Chinese pharma production is a truly bespoke behemoth - it has a massive capacity that can easily make small to order amounts, and again that's due to factors such as education and well automated pipelines.
But DOGE is basically “make government more efficient”, so they are interchangeable.

Trying to give an analogy like “i don’t like football” and “we should kill all football players” for my statement is pretty disingenuous and a massive strawman itself.
Your comment makes no sense.

Every mirrorless body has a center marking for the middle of the sensor, so the camera can be mounted exactly centered on a tripod. It's actually important for photos to be exactly on axis if you want to do panoramas or stitching.

The only reason the body is not exactly symmetrical is engineering and ergonomics. Many point and shoots of the past in fact had the lens exactly in the center.

And "chirality of the optical path" is not anything related to this, in fact the term is not usable in this context at all.
All of the statements are fact, they are not meaningless.

> the EU is stagnating

True. Verifiable. Compare the value of the EU vs the US's or China's tech industry over time. The US's is now worth 20x the EU's.

A region's technological prowess lagging behind or even declining vs its peers is the very definition of stagnation.

> and definitely losing on the global stage.

The EU has a declining share of global GDP is increasingly becoming a less valuable market as companies opt to simply not deploy new products to the region.

> It has totally suffocated itself with regulation

Also correct. You can talk to essentially any EU small businessman - or even any of the (very few) AI companies in the EU. Mistral - the EU's most promising AI company - has been practically killed by the EU AI Act.

This isn't a hot take, nor is it overly general; the EU's regulatory industrial complex is a well-recognized problem.

> and is fading into irrelevancy with every passing day; soon, it won't be much more than a tourist spot for everyone else.

With the EU economy declining, and its share of global economic activity declining, and the EU preemptively locking itself out of a AI market worth trillions - one of the only major areas the EU remains strong is tourism.

> And they've gaslit themselves into thinking everything is fine, but no sane country would look at it as a model worth emulating.

References the common discourse from EU regulators where they pat themselves on the back for passing terrible regulation - e.g. passing the AI act and severely disadvantaging one of their best companies. Indeed, no one would want to emulate this.

These are just examples. Generalized statements are used because tens of examples can be provided for each example. It is more succinct to communicate the generalized example, with an understanding that anyone keeping up to date with events in this space (EU regulation, progress, technology) will understand what is being referred to.
> All the while Beijing did everything in its power to enrich the Chinese worker, no matter the cost to outsiders. The results speak for themselves.

In fairness, during this period, the US did everything it could to suppress the wages and benefits of its own manufacturing workers.

Recall that the first rounds of manufacturing outsourcing were to US states with non-existent labor protections, mostly in the South.
it is slightly more nuanced, if you do static linking it is considered derivative work and does requires you to open it. Since the app is based on ffmpeg which is GPL(core is LGPL) i am curious to know how it is getting used.
Unfortunately, you got put in the control group.
I may be too far into the BEAM, but it's definitely the case that a modern computer is a distributed system at so many levels.
The irony is in a world war China would likely take over the manufacturing plants the west built in places like Thailand and Vietnam to assist
China in the war effort. Further bolstering their war time production.
Wait, which country is the most decaf-drinking per capita?