skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when PRC is in compliance, just pushing the extremes of lawfare technicality

China’s claims were rejected by the UNCLOS tribunal.

> circling back to TW, yes, PRC wouldn't give a care about any international law when it comes to "reunification"

Every war of conquest is justified as reunification. America would be reunifying the Panama Canal with itself, and Greenland with the North American plate. Russia should have claim to all former Soviet territories, and arguably China, too, or at least its western territories.

> just so happens international law is on PRC side in TW scenarios

It’s not. But as you say, that is irrelevant. We have nuclear states and everyone else; it’s pretty clear what Taiwan must do if she doesn’t want foreign invaders on her shores.
He was angry. I mean, really angry.

He was also very big and intimidating. That didn't help.

Most of the anger came from prison, and from being screwed over, to be thrown in there.

That can make it difficult to get along with others, and those who don't play well with others, have trouble staying employed.

But it's also possible to transcend that kind of thing. I see it regularly. It just takes a lot of work. Painful, humbling, work.
The copilot feature is pretty handy.
I’ve lived in SF, Mountain View and also the east bay and I’ve worked at a billion dollar company that did indeed support some very left-wing causes.

Despite having grown up in a light blue state, the difference in politics was very noticeable when I got to SF/SV. This isn’t a value judgement, just my observation.
Accuracy is likely secondary. I expect that most applications are good with 1.5 digits (aka 95% accurate or so). You don't want to blow the entirety of this 5% allowable error on one micro-spec of one component, but I don't expect that most people especially need lots of accuracy here.

The issue is that any circuit with 1 to 5 amps of current is a serious amount of power, meaning power efficiency is likely one of the top priorities.

A 5-Amp circuit with a 0.01 Ohm sense resistor wastes 250mW on the resistor alone, likely more than the entirety of your microcontroller!! You can actually run an entire Linux capable microprocessor + Low-power DRAM off of that kind of power!!

Dropping down to 0.0001 Ohms uses 1/100th the power or 2.5mW. which is likely a more reasonable cost.
It kind of defeats the purpose of an onboarding platform if it’s more expensive than the one you think of moving away from.

IBM should see some entry-level products as loss leaders.
Politicians like votes more than money. If this is seen as the standard change of hands that happens once in a while in a good democracy then the charge will stay because $$$. However if this is seen as a rejection of the charges they will go away to prove your vote for the new people wasn't wasted. Seen is the key here - while surveys and such influence this, there is emotion there as well. Note too that it only needs a small vocal percentage in some cases to change perception.
I think the Snopes link indicates the grandparent's point well, if not in the way that was intended: words being subjective and imprecise, the fact checker has many degrees of freedom. If we allow fact checkers to censor content, they will use the linguistic degrees of freedom to censor selectively to the benefit of their political bias. (Your terrorist is my freedom fighter, your demonstrator is my rioter, your just cause is an imposition on my freedoms, etc.)

Snopes was careful to show degrees of freedom with this fact check, but most social media fact checkers will not be so careful. Social media fact checkers will have a tendency to censor in the direction of the currently-in-power political party, because that party is able to set regulatory policy on social media companies. So the only thing which will prevent censorship from blowing with the political winds is to not have centralized censorship.

Community notes (as implemented at Twitter) require agreement of multiple people who are not in agreement on issues to agree on Notes. I am cautiously optimistic that it may be possible to correct wrong speech with more speech in a nonpartisan manner.
> Imagine math if we'd question the basic axioms.

No need to imagine, it's enough to look into non-Euclidean geometry (obtained by excluding Euclid's fifth axiom), non-standard models of geometry, or reverse mathematics (studying which axioms are necessary for a specific theorem to be provable).
No, that's just a well-curated list. I am thinking along the lines of https://diskprices.com/ where you have all the characteristics/features mapped and can filter down using a faceted search (e.g. implemented using datasette) by what you need. For example, I know that if I need iOS Reminders integration, IFTTT has support for that but not n8n/make/zapier. And I think Make does not support Github integration with webhooks, only API calls. If you have a set of things in mind you'd like to integrate, picking the tool that supports a full combo OOB is a pain in the spreadsheet.
Source for your 10% number?
I don’t know about cheaper - this is already on top of the $2.75 per-ride NY State congestion fee.
So now, if you take an Uber ride in NYC that’s even just a few blocks or few minutes long, it will be $2.75+$1.5 = $4.25 of just congestion fees for every ride.
All of which are small groups that rely on a ton of interpersonal trust. Large groups that lack interpersonal trust (like nations) tend to fail under communism.
They're not actually making a google search if they use that search field. Microsoft is just presenting another Bing search field when people search "google" and showing that at the top of the page instead of the link they are ostensibly looking for.
They were innovative.
I don’t know for other eu countries, but it seems that in France, there were only unsuccessful copycat of end user service. I’m probably a bit harsh, it’s because I m under impression that the gap between us (eu vs us) is widening. 10 years ago, there was open source, there was ovh, there was hope. With the cloud, we have surrender a lot of power to massive us company.
You can upgrade to a newer release of DGX OS.
Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap
> especially when it comes to programming

there is this sentiment on internet, but in my personal experience, GPT4 hallucinate APIs and usage examples way less, and after trying to get Claude working, I switched to GPT as the first step in my coding workflow.
As you say, it has gotten a lot easier, and nyc is the easiest out of the systems I've used recently. You tap your phone, any credit card or a card you get with cash (replacement for metrocard), and the gate opens while they take your money. 12 taps and you're not charged anymore for the week.
> I refuse to accept that empathy is a weakness.

It is not. But also, empathy is not the same thing as kindness.

Empathy, as you mentioned, is the ability to put oneself in someone else's shoes. To imagine what is like to be other.

Fraudsters, cheaters, psycopaths. All of these are great empaths. They understand others in a deep level. But they're not kind, they are ruthless.

> I feel like part of what defines us as a species is learning how to understand people who do not deserve us to understand them.

Here you are talking about kindness. I think similarly.

I also believe this is correlated with creativity and collaboration skills. To me, there is something about the inner act of kind understanding that seems to be a _prerequisite_ for advanced communication. Totally out of my ass, I'm no psychologist.

> I would hope that if I were caught for something stupid when I was 17 someone else would have extended me the same benefit of the doubt

Not only you understood that, but you were able to communicate something to the kid that is remarkably uncommunicable. The kind act is also a kind message, you _meant it_ as a message somehow. Not all empaths want or can do that.
Reading through the submission, it looks like hardly anyone replied or upvoted, the replies seemed like constructive criticism, you acknowledged that you used AI, and you used "we" throughout replies to the feedback. Even in the absence of the article for context, what you are saying now doesn't seem like a fair assessment on behalf of the community, at least from the comment section's side. I will acknowledge there are lowlife trolls who lurk HN, but also flagging an article that is largely created by AI seems reasonable.
Makes me wonder how far can we go with simple but high quality light maps.

It a practical way to bring global illumination to the masses without real time ray tracing
Faulty iron in another room fried my LaserJet. UPS isn't just for loss of power, it should also protect from power spikes. Btw. printer was connected to a (cheap) surge protector strip which didn't help. On positive side nothing else was fried and laser was fixed for 40 euros.
At least to me whitespace does convey meaning and order of functions or variable renaming definitely conveys a semantic change.
Works on Safari / Mac
Long context windows are a problem. I gave Qwen 2.5 70b a ~115k context and it took ~20min for the answer to finish.
The upside of MoE models vs 70b+ models is that they have much more world knowledge.
They say that but the engine seems to require an OpenGL 4 GPU while the graphics look like something that could be done on a Voodoo card.
2D Camera localization with latent spaces
If I land on a Google page I search for Bing now. Colipot is included with Office and I'm signed in. Copilot is far more useful than Google search. I would use Bard (Gemini) but I don't have a work login for Google properties. Microsoft wins.
> I realize how marvellous it is to not have to worry about OKRs, performance reviews and all that malarkey

Where are these malarkey-free companies? I've worked at several small companies and they all had all kinds of malarkey.
And, at least in the EU, we get LLM responses (via MS Copilot) on Bing, but no "AI Overview" on Google. Though seeing how poorly Google AI Overview on search works, I'd rather not have that offered to me.
I feel that both perspectives can be correct here before we introduce a race component.

Does the US labor market need to import more labor?

Absolutely. For our economy to grow we need more as we are not breeding fast enough. Without immigrants we face falling into a lost generation like Japan.

Do tech/consultancies exploit the H1-b program to bring in cheap labor?

Absolutely. While relatively well paid, H1-b workers can be acquired for as little as $60k per year (not including legal fees). While there is a "prevailing wage" clause, every large shop knows how to classify interns correctly to get past this. I personally know of shops that now have such a high percentage of Indian H1-b holders than English is no longer the working language. The case now exists East Asian talent is needed as none of the tech leads speak fluent English. Product managers are needed who are polyglots with the ability to translate.

With respect to a racial component, I don't really see it. From a MAGA perspective, many seem to be anti-immigrant plain and simple without regard to race. Even Musk gets called out for being "that guy from South Africa". What I do see though is Tech-Barons being the champions of East Asian talent at least, though some like Musk are otherwise fairly anti-immigrant.

While I have used the term "anti-immigrant" here, I feel that others might have used "pro-American". Feel free to swap them if that aligns with your world view.
Recently, I described Toslink in an internet conversation...the other person expected it to be like USB. It is pretty amazing how old this technology is and how little anyone complains about it.

There just aren't Toslink horror stories floating around the popular internet (SPDIF is another WTF-a-75Ω-RCA-cable? story). Toslink is a technology that just works (and the normal limit is a generous 10m)
From the Cheerios box in my cupboard: 140 calories per serving, 1g added sugar per serving. 1g carb = 4 calories. 4 / 140 = 3%.

I would not be at all surprised if some flavor of Cheerios is 24% added sugar, but regular Cheerios are not so bad in the sugar department.
Mr. Beast Saying Increasingly Large Amounts of Money
Concept Encoding and Decoding Mechanism for In-Context Learning in Transformers
It is quite striking and bizarre the first time you’re in an extended conversation, and hear it over and over.

Surprised someone was called out though as all the social cues around should be enough to sense no ill intent.
I can't even imagine how much prison would fuck me up.

Between potential sexual abuse, being around a lot of violent people, the general disregard Americans have for prisoners and convicted felons and their well-being, and the "doing what you have to to survive" mentality that seems to scar incarcerated people, it would be hard for it not to change you as a person.

I really hate how the US handles prisons, and I really hate the "lock them up and throw away the key" mentality we have here. I hope it's obvious, that's not something I agree with.
WePlayDOS: Play DOS Games in Browser – Now Open Source
Hi HN!

I’m thrilled to share WePlayDOS, a project I built to bring the magic of classic DOS games to modern browsers. With the power of the js-dos emulator, anyone can relive their favorite retro games without needing downloads or complicated setups.

Features:

1. Host Anywhere: Self-host the project on any platform you like or deploy it easily using services like Vercel.
2. Customizable: Add your own DOS game ROMs to personalize the experience.

Contributions Welcome: If you have ideas for features or improvements, feel free to submit a PR or suggest them!

How to Get Started?
1. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/muditjuneja/weplaydos.games
2. Follow the setup instructions in readme to run locally.
3. Add your own game ROMs to the /roms folder and start playing!

Live Version:
If you’d rather just jump in and play, check out the live version at weplaydos.games. It’s ready to go!

Why Open Source?
This project started as a way for me to relive the games I loved growing up. By open-sourcing it, I hope to connect with others who share the same passion for retro gaming and who want to help make it even better.

Support:
If you like the project, consider buying me a coffee on Ko-fi. Every bit helps me maintain and improve the project.
There's a viable place to do a case study:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40669239
Can we just skip to disappearing into the forest as a monk? The rest of it seems a bit unnecessary.
> From the consumer perspective, it seems that MSFT has provided scheduler changes fairly rapidly

Now they have some competition. This is relatively new, and Satya Nadella reshaped the company because of that.
Initially it reeked of IE by association. But then internet communities realized it was better than google for porn. So now its OK in some circles at least.
Fred Wilson – Framework at the Refinery
Interleaving CQO and SHLX results in ~1.33 throughput with the anomaly, ~2.0 without. This ratio is more or less constant whether it's 1:1 or 2:2 or 4:4 or 8:8 (with 1:1 it's slightly lower at ~1.28).

This may or may not be consistent with one CQO uop being executed once a cycle as expected, and one SHLX uop taking a a spot (stalling for one cycle?) for 2 cycles, resulting in a runtime of (x/2 * 1 + x/2 * 2)/2 ~ x/1.33 cycles.
Cheaper options like the Steam Deck are definitely a boon to the industry. Especially the idea of "good enough" gaming at lower resolutions on smaller screens.

Personally, I just don't like that its attached to steam. Which is why I can be hesitant to suggest consoles as well now that they have soft killed their physical game options. Unless you go out of your way to get the add-on drive for PS5, etc

Its been nice to see backwards compatibility coming back in modern consoles to some extent with Xbox especially if you have a Series-X with the disc drive.

I killed my steam account with 300+ games just because I didn't see a future where steam would actually let me own the games. Repurchased everything I could on GoG and gave up on games locked to Windows/Mac AppStores, Epic, and Steam. So I'm not exactly fond of hardware attached to that platform, but that doesn't stop someone from just loading it up with games from a service like GoG and running them thru steam or Heroic Launcher.

2024 took some massive leaps forward with getting a proton-like experience without steam and that gives me a lot of hope for future progress on Linux gaming.
Reminds me of:

Priest: “You have been found guilty by the elders of the town of uttering the name of our lord as so as a BLASPHEMER you are to be stoned to death.”

[…]

Priest: “BLASPHEMY! He said it again!”

Old man: “I don’t think it ought to be blasphemy. I just said ‘Jehova’”

Priest: “You said it again! You’re only making it worse!”

Old man: “Making it worse!? How can I make it worse!? Jehova, Jehova, Jenova!”

https://youtu.be/SYkbqzWVHZI
It doesn't work if you're logged in.
I don't know of any such service, but I'm curious what the value is for you? IMO picking the parts is a lot harder than putting them together.
From the Methodology section:

>First, for the main source of data, I chose all Mr. Beast videos with uploaded (ie. non-auto-generated) transcripts—a total of 229 out of 837 published videos on his flagship channel. This gave me a source of processable ground truth about where money was mentioned and also limited the videos to those published the last 6 years, which make up the majority of his meteoric rise. Then, I downloaded the videos in 360p and scraped their transcripts for every occurrence of a dollar amount, logging each mention with its sum, video, and context in a database that I would build on top of as I nailed down the exact timing. I used those contextual timestamps to make rough clips that I fed into the open source AI tool Whisper to (a) get a more precise measurement of where “X dollars” was actually said and (b) standardize and double check that my first scrape had gotten the amount correct. Finally, as many of the clips were still off by a few annoying and noticeable fractions of a second in any direction, I made a script that allowed me to go through each entry individually, trim or extend the clip on either end, and modify the amount one last time if my first 2 methods had failed. After all 2800+ were processed—a task that took weeks—I made a final set of clips out of higher quality versions of the videos and used Premiere to make the film’s final dizzying supercut you see before you.

>90% of data science is data cleaning, and I have kept this overview pretty high-level in the interest of making it accessible to a wide audience. A much longer and more technical dive into the steps needed to go from a raw YouTube archive to this video—including everything from token suppression, the comparative benefits of transcription libraries, counterintuitive ways to standardize and parse numbers in natural language, and debugging audio desyncs in clip concatenations - may appear in the future on my website.
Fewer cars "in the system" but same (or possibly more) cars on the road actively moving. Take a look at some of the dwell times for ride hail vehicles in NYC. Can easily approach 20-35%.

Plus the apps are kicking drivers out at various quiet periods of the day in order to avoid paying them minimum wage. So true empty time is higher.

Again I'm not arguing for better treatment for personal vehicles. I'm arguing all the fees are too low, and the ride hail fee egregiously so.
I think the issue is that that doesn’t really prepare you to vote on national or often even statewide issues.
Push to Gain Control of Greenland, Panama and Rename Gulf of Mexico Ratchets Up
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-wont-rule-out-usin...
> For example, some cultures prescribe brusqueness, and direct communication, while other cultures want us to always "beat around the bush," before coming to the point. Think New York City, versus Richmond, Virginia.

Askers vs. Guessers - a fun spectrum to think about, once you realize it exists: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/askers-...
You can just scroll past it you know
https://archive.ph/xIiKa
Maybe one day it will stop using classic paths then...

fortunately I don't have to deal with it anymore ;3
Agree that service in NYC these days is worse than it was about 15–20 years ago. At the time I didnt know that the MTA was the center of a political power play between city and state, depending on whimsical politicians in two centers to cooperate to get anything done. The main improvement in the last 20 years have been the time tables and the linkage to maps on the phone, which at least make the pain predictable at most times, even if not always explainable. I hope service can improve soon and more trains thrown at peak times. The current situation is borderline dangerous at crowded stations during my commute peak hours and if more people yet use the subways without improved service things will turns worse yet.
This is only funny because no one takes bing seriously.
Honestly I feel like Bing has been the better search engine for 6 - 8 years at this point.
Aah, yes, the USB-A side always provides power, no negotiation needed for that aspect. There is still supposed to be some level of negotiation before drawing that much current (often just checking resistance, similar to the USB-C "dumb" mode), but obviously the device skipped that also.
Does anyone here use Hazumi for HN? I’m looking for new features to add and would love your feedback.

https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/hazumi-for-hacker-news/id16702...
GP was asking about how fact checking is better than community notes, but you're saying that Meta's community notes will be worse than fact checking, which may be but which is not responsive to GP's question.
We had a family friend who is in her late 50s stay for a couple of days over Christmas, all she drunk was Diet Coke. Even going to bed at night she took a bottle of Diet Coke with her. The thought of waking up through the night for a swig of Coke grosses me out a bit. And yes, she is the absolute picture of health...
I selfishly park in the back because I hate circling the lot looking for a spot. It may/nor be more time efficient on average, but I do not have to deal with that frustration just to save a few steps.
> 1g added sugar per serving

That is still a good amount of sugar given it’s every day and setting your morning baseline. If taken with e.g. a refined juice or sweetened coffee, that’s probably setting one up for sugar cravings in a few hours.
Uniqueness is not a requirement =) I still think you are over-generalising from experience in the software world. Science is about sense-making, finding parsimonious ontologies to describe the world. Software is about building reliable automation for various purposes.

They have orthogonal goals; why would you believe that automated testing would work the same way in both domains? I just don't see it.

Maybe you can elaborate on what you mean by automated testing of scientific hypotheses? I get the feeling we are talking past each other because we're both repeating the same points. Maybe we should focus on the 25% of excuses you've agreed are valid!
If everyone’s slices get enlarged in proportion, the naive assumption, then it works as expected. If some people are clever enough to direct the enlargement towards their slices, then it doesn’t.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"

Isaac Asimov - Hitting the high notes even after 30 years from the pulpit.

Mark doing what Mark needs to do to keep that Meta stock elevated.