skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China is taking every venture-funded AI startup and shitting on them. Almost all of them.

Tencent's Hunyuan 3D - Tripo, etc.

Tencent's Hunyuan Video - Sora, Runway, Pika, etc.

ByteDance's Trae - Cursor, etc.

DeepSeek R1 - GPT, etc.

Unitree - Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, etc.

And a ton of this stuff is completely open source. All of the Tencent stuff is. This destroys the moat of so many companies that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars training and building their tech. It's just out there for free for anyone to build with.

And has anyone been checking the volume of Chinese AI research papers? Almost every impactful paper I've read in the last month has mostly Chinese names. And a lot of those papers come with code. Usually permissively licensed.

China is absolutely killing at the AI game. They've fast followed (or in many cases led) into a position of strength.

I wouldn't want to be RunwayML, Pika, Luma, or Tripo right now. Any "foundation model" company with a single use case is getting cloned and commoditized.

edit: Please don't downvote me because you don't like the message. I'm actually fine with you shooting the messenger, but this is absolutely worth talking about. It's pretty surreal to watch this all start to unfold over the last quarter or so. I want to read what others think about it.
What LLM provider(s) is it talking to?
I expect he's only looking for plaudits and fans here, in the long term it's actually a partial competitor to his own pet-platform.
Kidnapping of Ledger co-founder sparks major investigation in France
I've used grpc at multiple companies and teams within these companies, all of them 100-500ish engineering team size, and never had these dependency and tool chain issues. It was smooth sailing with grpc.
Remember what happened to Trump after his first term. He's extremely invested in making sure that he won't be raided/arrested/etc again at the end of this term.

The power structures that tried that the first time won't be here in 4 years...his personal freedom depends on it.
I'm in agreement with tptacek and P.McKenzie and feel it's something more generally true; perfection is the enemy of throughput.

Whether it's mine processing, agriculture, bank lending, { insert domain } there are always a number of drags on profit ( fraud, equipment wear and tear, petty theft, holes in fences ) and generally always a threshold past which the cost of pursuit of perfection exceeds the decreasing marginal benefit.
When the bailout is for business the money always comes, but suggest even a fraction of that amount of money go towards regular people and all of a sudden there's hand wringing and talk of moral hazards.

> it would embolden universities to ask even higher tuition.

Then cap the amount you give out loans. Many of them are back by one level of the government or another.

> A second problem is that not all students get the benefit, some already paid off their debts or a large part of it. It would be unfair to them.

This is a very flimsy argument. Shall we get rid of the polio vaccine since it's unfair to those who already contracted it that our efforts with the vaccine don't benefit them?
Why would they fabricate such evidence?
Page 284 of Project 2025:

"The incestuous relationship between the NIH, CDC, and vaccine makers—with all of the conflict of interest it entails—cannot be allowed to continue, and the revolving door between them must be locked. As Severino writes, “Funding for scientific research should not be controlled by a small group of highly paid andunaccountable insiders at the NIH, many of whom stay in power for decades. The NIH monopoly on directing research should be broken.” What’s more, NIH has long “been at the forefront in pushing junk gender science.” The next HHS secretary should immediately put an end to the department’s foray into woke transgender activism."

This event is entirely extraordinary and politicized. Nothing will be better "in a week". The actions being taken were telegraphed well ahead of time and were widely known to be part of a strategy to destroy the NIH and replace it with some kind of propaganda arm.
> $47.4 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

$47.4B is a significant amount of money. I don't know whether their expenditures are appropriate. I don't see that in the article either. Unless someone does know that can comment, the $47.4B is unaccounted for in coloquial dialog, is it not?

> The hiring freeze is governmentwide

> pause on communications and travel ... Such pauses are not unprecedented when a new administration comes in.

Hmm, seem like the author is fomenting malice by using ‘devastating’ in the title. Perhaps building a character judgement that might not actually be there, helping to draw anger and hate from people already opposed to the new administration?

> NIH travel chief Glenda Conroy sent an email to senior agency officials early today notifying them of an “immediate and indefinite” suspension of all travel throughout HHS with few exceptions, such as currently traveling employees returning home. Researchers who planned to present their work at meetings must cancel their trips, as must NIH officials promoting agency programs off site or visiting distant branches of the agency. “Future travel requests for any reason are not authorized and should not be approved,” the memo said.

I guess someone needs to ask the question, how exactly is the NIH going to prevent people from "going home"? Does that mean simply that they will not be paying for their travel? Or for that matter, researchers who want to present their work must do it at their own cost or from approved unpaid time off?

I feel like someone is forgetting how hard the MAJORITY of US citizens have it. Inflation has hit non-wealthy people the most. They don't have jobs where they get paid travel or paid time off. While I don't mean to inject some form of class into the discussion, I do wonder what exactly are the things to be fearful of in this scenario. I'm just not seeing a worrying concern here given reality. Unless, there's a more rampant amount of fragility in the well paid health community? I'm sorry. I just don't get it.
I mean if Biden actually was making corrupt deals trading influence/access for money then he absolutely should be investigated and prosecuted for it. And there's already hard proof that Hunter was selling access to his father, and that the foreigners he was selling said access to believed he could actually provide it.

If we didn't have the DOJ and other institutions protecting Biden for the last several years it would be pretty easy to find out if he actually did sell influence (vs. Hunter deceiving the people he was making deals with) with just a couple of warrants and subpeonas.
I would by ioniq6 in a heartbeat and was recommending it, I think it is an awesome car. just think a lot more people will choose 3 over it just because of the brand and not on the merits
Tele-attendance basically does not work for science conferences, as 99% of the value is from ad hoc in person discussions. When I attend science conferences I attend few if any of the talks, and instead network to form collaborations for future projects.
What a wonderful mess! CST ≠ CST
I think we as a society forget once the previous generation is gone.
That sounds more like a critique of the "senior" developer who didn't know grpc isn't compatible with browsers before adopting it than grpc itself.
36% of eligible voters - 90 million people - likely had a similar attitude. The margin of victory was 2.3m votes. What's that phrase? Something about how no single raindrop thinking they're responsible for the flood.
I’d like to follow up to see how it handles heat or excessive heat if any
> Yes, I thought it was an interesting blend of past and present.

Surprise: OP time traveled.
Bidirectional streaming is generally a bad idea for anything you’re going to want to run “at scale” for what it’s worth.
Yup. And just for some context regarding guns at the time; during the years Silk Road was active it was perfectly legal for me (in the state of Virginia) to buy a gun from another citizen cash in hand without ever showing an ID, filling out a BoS, or any paperwork whatsoever.
Ireland.
Elon Musk found that if you throw billions at getting our low propensity rural voters you can sway the election by enough percents.
"just business as usual". i guess after you work hard to normalize these interventions on the thrid world, it becomes second nature here too.
Notably, this is only guaranteed by law to work as of 2020 - see Kari's Law: https://www.911.gov/issues/legislation-and-policy/kari-s-law... It is, unfortunately, one of those rules that's written in blood.

Before that, on some systems you'd have to dial 9 to get outside, and then "911" again, so "9911".
unless you want to be locked into a cursed ecosystem where you spend all your time reimplementing libraries that have existed for decades in rest land, fighting code generators that produce hideous classes that will randomly break compatibility, and debugging random edge-casey things in your hosting stack bc nobody truly supports h2, steer clear of grpc

'rest' isn't anything (complementary)