skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh oh, scary ideas. I am more scared of christo-fascism within the US than any pro Chinese messaging. To counter these ideas, I want more discussion, more education. I have learned a lot on tiktok
ChatGPT has become a synonymous with chatbots and Thell be synonymous with AGI when it arrives. ChatGPT had 300 million weekly active users some time ago and it’s growing at an incredible clip. Normies now see OpenAI and chat bots like they view search engines and Google.
Because America has the best private capital and startup ecosystem in the world it has a good chance of picking the big winners. There is no corresponding European ecosystem, only a bunch of small national ones. In fact, European investors are not betting on EU startups because they are unlikely to be able to scale to beat US and Chinese competitors due to lack of market and capital market scale.
Moving money from one pile to the other won't fix climate crisis
Satya saved Microsoft by doubling down on Azure and Cloud. Something that Balmer failed to do with Mobile.
It's related to that, RTX Mega Geometry refers to a new (currently Nvidia-only) set of driver APIs which enable Nanite-like geometry streaming for raytracing acceleration structures. This library could be used to generate the data to feed those APIs. There's a link to another repo demonstrating how to render this data using either rasterization via mesh shaders, or raytracing via their Mega Geometry extension.

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/vk_lod_clusters

I expect something along the lines of Mega Geometry will be standardized in DirectX and Vulkan eventually, but that takes time.
Does anyone here have a sense of what time frame the video covers? Like, is that real-time and mitochondria are continuously mildly active? Is it vastly slowed down and mitochondria are ripping around in our cells like madmen? Is it vastly sped up and mitochondria are actually relatively static, slow movers?
When common file systems like NTFS have limits like "16 TiB (17.59 TB) to 8 PiB (9.007 PB)", a 1TB limit seems below what is advertised.
If you go back in time around year 2000-2005 there where a lot of people making good money writing text articles on the web. You could earn much more then you do now on Youtube. You could earn $10 if just one person clicked an ad on your website. Now it still costs $10 to get a click from an advertiser, but little of that money goes to content creators, the platforms take most of it. You could almost make a living with only a few thousand followers. I think Google gave up on Google ads because of the click farmers faking clicks on ads.
Google ads was a middleman between advertisers and content creator/publishers. Now you can still make money on your blog but you need to be big enough so that you can talk with companies directly asking if they want to sponsor your site/channel.
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> I would imagine that such a tool to infer emotional states would be most useful for autistic people who are as I can attest, somewhat handicapped upon that front.

The regulation explicitly provides an exception for medical reasons:

Article 5:

1. The following AI practices shall be prohibited:
[...]
(f) the placing on the market, the putting into service for this specific purpose, or the use of AI systems to infer emotions of a natural person in the areas of workplace and education institutions, except where the use of the AI system is intended to be put in place or into the market for medical or safety reasons;
That's a sign the city has useless excess population.
Funny quip aside, thanks for bringing Arq to my attention. This looks excellent and isn't enshittified.
I've seen cats in India choose to hunt only mice shorter than their heads and take their time for the mice to give up all their fight. Cats are risk averse.
And realpolitik nobody will ever trust the US again they are going to in a much worse position for the rest of both our lives as a result of this.

I don’t think a lot of Americans have any concept of exactly how much the rest of the world hates them right now but I promise you that you’re living in a very different world moving forward as is everyone else.

You can’t spend generations telling everyone to depend on you precisely because you are selling stability and predictability and then change your mind overnight. That is going to have large multi generational consequences.

My advice is to get on top of your oligarchy problem sooner rather than later and you had best figure out a way that the fate of the world and your country doesn’t rely on what a bunch of people from Iowa think about “wokeness” every 4 years. That’s not sustainable
> You can understand the WASM spec in your sleep if you’ve ever worked through a type-system paper from the last two decades

Is there a lot of crossover between those people and people who work with assemblers or code generation? There's even more crossover with those people and understanding how to read a minimal ISA document.
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Not necessarily, the way I see it you can just jump in and start learning and practicing. Now is there a correct way to write the strokes, technically yes there is (which fun fact, Chinese writing is designed for right handed people. My wife is a native speaker from Hong Kong but she's a lefty, so she adjusted all stroke writing from the left handed perspective ;D), however, I would say writing the strokes properly when the goal is to learn how to read/speak/hear Cantonese is the main goal is alright. Will you have to unlearn bad habits or re-train yourself to write the strokes properly? Yes, this may be a possibility. Of course you could just research how to write the strokes from the beginning.

The Cantonese Scrolls is a project to document and teach the language, and record the characters for its direct written form. It doesn't contain every single aspect or tool for language learning, but the core material to preserve the language, let's say 250 years later when someone unearths it. This is also why I called it a scroll, since I view it as a sort of digital ancient document written on parchment paper haha.
Per the ongoing Freedesktop discussion, AWS offered to host but Freedesktop is leaning towards self-hosting on Hetzner so they can control their own destiny and sponsors can contribute cash towards the bill instead of donating hardware.

> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/iss...
That’s not invalid state. Your program correctly determined input is invalid.

Say user input is a number and can never exceed 5. If the user input exceeds 5 your program should handle that gracefully. This is not invalid state. It is handling invalid input while remaining in valid state.

Let say it does exceed 5 and You forget to check that it should never exceeds 5 and this leads to a division by zero further down your program. You never intended for this to happen and you don’t k ow why this happened. This is invalid state.

Now either this division by zero leads to an error value or it can throw an exception. It doesn’t matter. Do you know how to recover? You don’t even know where the bug is. A lot of times your don’t even know what to do. This error can bubble up all the way to main and now what do you do with it?

You crash the program. Or you can put in a fail safe before the error bubbles up to main and do something else but now (if your program retains and mutates that state) has invalid values in it and a known bug as well.

Imagine that input number represented enumeration values for movement of some robot. You now have one movement that doesn’t exist or was supposed to be something else. Thus if you keep your program running the robot ends up in an unexpected and erroneous place. That’s why I’m saying a program should crash. It should not be allowed to continue running with invalid state.

Like imagine if this was a mission critical auto pilot and you detect negative 45 meters for altitude. Bro crash and restart. Don’t try to keep that program running by doing something crazy in attempt to make the altitude positive and correct. Reset it and hope it never goes to the invalid state again.
Yes that condition I understand. But that seems orthogonal to the code size issue. Having no panics in code where the stdlib is riddled with panics for exceptional situations (allocation failure, for example) seems like a situation where you would just always go with no_std?
WebAssembly isn't a programming language, it's an ISA or a bytecode VM. They've defined it in a very over-engineered way, with different representations all the way through. It has created issues for people working on assemblers and code generation because it's hard to choose a good representation for compilers to generate. This all could have been avoided.
For anyone interested in the topic, highly recommend the What's Going on With Shipping? channel:

* https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping/videos

AIUI, the problem is that the US lacks a policy. This is what China's strength is: making a decision and getting it done.

The article mentions the SHIPS Act which the channel talks about:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iksNr3s2WVs

As well as five suggestions for Trump:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CoOXdpxvIo

The IRA/CHIPS acts helped bring plants to the US soil. Industrial policy can work. China subsidized many industries that they thought would be strategically important, and they're now important players in those industries.

As Noah Smith recently wrote:

> Democratic countries’ economies are mainly set up as free market economies with redistribution, because this is what maximizes living standards in peacetime. In a free market economy, if a foreign country wants to sell you cheap cars, you let them do it, and you allocate your own productive resources to something more profitable instead. If China is willing to sell you brand-new electric vehicles for $10,000, why should you turn them down? Just make B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps, sell them for a high profit margin, and drive a Chinese car.

> Except then a war comes, and suddenly you find that B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps aren’t very useful for defending your freedoms. Oops! The right time to worry about manufacturing would have been years before the war, except you weren’t able to anticipate and prepare for the future. Manufacturing doesn’t just support war — in a very real way, it’s a war in and of itself.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now
>...GDPR seems to be correct in a way, both are quite vague and wide.

How is the gdpr vague?
> This is also the main reason for promoting chip cards, sure they are more secure, but the real reason the banks like it, is that it moves credit card fraud accountability from the banks problem to your problem.

It depends on the jurisdiction. Banks like it because it improves the security, i.e. the card was physically present for the transaction, if not the cardholder or the cardholder's authority. It eradicates several forms of fraud such as magnetic stripe cloning. Contactless introduced opportunities for fraud, if someone can get within a few cm of your card, but it's generally balanced by how convenient it is, which increased the overall volume of transactions and therefore fees. It's more secure from fraud than a cardholder-not-present transaction... and for CNP, you can now see banks and authorities mandating 2FA to improve their security too.

Liability is completely seperate, and depends on how strong your financial regulator is.

Banks obviously would like to blame and put the liability on customers for fraud, identity theft, etc., it's up to politicians not to let them. For example, in the UK we have country-wide "unauthorised payments" legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/752/regulation/77 -- for unauthorised payments (even with a chip and pin card), if it is an unauthorised payment, the UK cardholder is only liable for a £35 excess, and even then they are not liable for the excess if they did not know the payment took place. The cardholder is only liable if they acted fraudulently, or were "grossly negligent" (and who decides that is the bank initially, then the Financial Ombudsman if the cardholder disagrees)

There is similarly a scheme now in place even for direct account-to-account money transfers, since last October: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/12/banks-scam-fr... -- so even if a crook scams you into logging into your bank's website and completely securely transferring money to them, banks are liable for that and must refund you up to £415,000 per claim, but they're allowed to exclude up to £100 excess per claim, but they can't do that if you're a "vulnerable customer" e.g. old and doddery. Also, the £100 excess is intentionally there to prevent moral hazard where bank customers get lax if they think they'll always get refunded. Seems to me like the regulator has really thought it through. The regulator also says they'll step in and change the rules again if they see that the nature of scamming changes to e.g. lots of sub-£100 fraudulent payments, so the customer doesn't report it because they think they'll get nothing back.
"Why isn't shipping the runtime with the code a more common practise?"

I'd say it is a pretty common thing. I can't tell you why it isn't the norm nowadays but it used to be that Sun and Oracle prohibited modifications to the JRE in their license. So you had ship the whole bloated thing or nothing to be compliant, even if it was technically not too hard to strip the JRE down to only the things your app needed.
National Lab? Maybe Argonne?
that's the refelection you'll have if your neighbor is a psycho whose first thought every morning is to decide whether he should go around to shoot something, especially after the psycho neighbor has shooted to many ones already
Incorrect headline, please change
I wonder if there is a simple way to stop compilation quickly, with a readable error message, if the optimizer isn't able to eliminate the check.

edit: There is https://github.com/dtolnay/no-panic
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The poem was written to persuade. It is quite normal someone would find it persuasive or employ it to persuade others.
> The aircraft carrier does have a role, but it is far behind the contact line.

That's why they're called 'aircraft carriers'. The entire point of them is that the offensive firepower in the form of aircraft can reach out pretty far. They don't need to sail the carrier right up beside the enemy in order to hit him with their swords, you know.

Jokes aside, there might (eventually, maybe not today?) be a point in what you're saying. It's been a long time since 1945 when carriers last were used in a major peer conflict, and a lot has changed since then.
Come now, it's obvious why they're not using "non-partisan career employees that have been vetted..." Please stop assuming we're not thinking critically or clearly if we disagree with you, you can't just shout it into the air and manifest it as truth. There are many arguably 110% valid reasons for why they are doing things the way they are.

They assume, as rightfully a lot of us do, that this all happened under the watch of these same individuals, and that they're arguably biased (we can't assume they're non-partisan). The problem is that the government is in a state of auto-pilot, and that's what led us here because we're not paying attention. In order to get out of it, we need to try something different and get (arguably) impartial or fresh pairs of eyes on the problem.
[Zero to One](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0...) book by Peter Thiel. One thing I took from this book is that Google Micrsoft, Meta are all monopolies.
There is no competition.
Look even in [Russia](https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/russian-feder...), [China](https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china) they all use thsi stuff.
> ... not Trump personally but the entire organism that surrounds him in this presidential term ... I don't think he actually has much control over this.

It was always strange to me when the far-right, and then mainstream republicans, started really leaning into this "Deep State" conspiracy theory--not liking the others politics is not reason to believe it was ever a thing on either side. Not in the way it was meant, there was no "shadow government".

At some point during Trumps first term something about that idea started to seem like they knew what they were talking about--and not talking about their projection of it onto the "other side". Now, if there was anything that has actually resembled this "deep state", it's what is being put on full display: our emperor got new clothes[0] and we're only at the stage of everyone frozen in cringe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes
It came from NIH/NIGMS public archive: https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=...
Did Trump show interest ever in better conditions for prisoners?
IQ is a grift. It is not a measure of intelligence, but "not stupidity".

Any score over 100 means no discernable difference in intelligence. https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...
Was that literally you who complained that Galileo was too new? Is Huygens too old now? Well take your pick:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:European_Space_Agency...
what would be the correct title?
A bit off topic, but Russian field hospitals and blood supply was only the last, most obvious indicator.

The build up of troops could have been written off as sabre rattling, they did the same a year or two earlier. Sending a bunch of naval assets the long way around Europe was a much more clear sign, at least for me that's when I knew they were actually going to invade (again).
I'm happy to hear that both can be used, normally I always have heard more of the "e" shift in a relatively consistent way. I normally say "大減價" for a big sale, but I understand your point was more about showing a demonstration where the "i" may be used. Although I would say that it really depends on the speaker and how they feel. I would most likely use the "e" shift consistently and be perfectly understood.
A golden poop emoji would be more useful than things like skin tones are flags to display your mental issues.
How did vanguard and blackrock get the money they invest in Microsoft?

Hint: It's from average people investing in their retirement...
What is this telling us about the stuff he writes with full conviction today?
> established practice

The established practice is fucking around. It’s not just any one thing. There’s a widespread feeling among Trump voters that the executive branch is secretive and unresponsive. There is a continuity between the MLK/JFK stuff all the way to executive-branch refusal to enforce immigration laws (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...). E.g. the deep state turned H1B from what Congress promised was a temporary worker program into a pathway to permanent immigration.
Ctrl+F ‘weapon’ and ‘gun’ in the House Jan 6 report. The details of what happened are exhaustively documented there and elsewhere.
We (AutoKitteh) took a different approach to provide durable execution at the language level:
We are using Temporal as a durable execution engine, but we built a layer on top of it that provides a pure Python experience (JS coming soon).
This is done by hooking into the AST and converting functions that might have side effects to Temporal activities. Of course it's deeper than that.

For the user, it's almost transparent. Regular Python code (no decorators) that you can run as Duralbe workflow in our system or as regular Python.

You can look at the open-source, and we have a blog explaining how it's implemented.
>Submarines and aircraft remain the safest, and best way to deliver offensive firepower.

Until drones carrying drones carrying drones becomes a thing.
I would love to hear about any useful work around leak/abuse-resistance improvements of service accounts and API keys (i.e. the 'NHI' referenced here -- awkward terminology!). Passkeys are a great solution when some kind of end-user interactivity is feasible, and AWS Secrets Manager is supposedly very good if you're entirely on that platform, but for self-hosting, the options seem limited (and things like Hashicorp Vault still don't fully solve the problem)?

I recently refactored a moderately complicated system to remove the need for periodic distribution of updated network access credentials, and the best I could come up with were X509 client certificates, which (even if in this case it was a big improvement over the existing state of affairs) feel archaic...
it doesn't do image level backups anyway. it just excludes certain file types by default, probably also cache directories as far as I remember
That is a fantastically chreky comment.

10/10 no notes
A lot of things are net negative and straight up dangerous

But we keep doing them because enough people can get money out of it
Americans can speak softly?
and what exactly do you think is processing those AI-built CVs…? it is like sex, more and faster does not in any way imply better :)
I think google are in the enshittification phase of their corporate development and are currently in a cycle of making 0.1% more revenue on search changes at the expense of making it 5% shittier for users each time.
No. What is happening is shutting down of departments without congressional approval, which is unconstitutional. This is being done by an uncleared individual with no government or domain expertise, which is merely a bad idea.
> Point at a single project of this sort that had any tangible output that's still in use.

Not sure what is your limiting factor (just universities + industry consortiums or explicit IT projects?).

Graphene Flagship might be an example, with their research on Graphene they contributed to the foundation of more efficient batteries and solar panels, innovation in automotive and commercial products and so on.

Clean Sky Joint Undertaking (CSJU) also had quite some impact on the industry (I think it was part of EU's Horizon 2020). They worked on technologies to reduce CO2 emissions and noise of Aircrafts and contributed quite a bit to the European industry (Rotor engine innovations, advanced greener materials, etc.)

And I think the discovery of the Higgs boson was also the result of a European Research consortium with CERN...

So yeah, Europe is surely not the center of all innovation and economic efficiency, but I wouldn't demonize every attempt to change that...
More proof Hackernews is completely isolated from game development.
That nobody can predict the future?

However, there are people that have the intellect and the information to do it better than others.

Btw, it contains stuff like this "The third cause of Microsoft's death was broadband Internet. Anyone who cares can have fast Internet access now. And the bigger the pipe to the server, the less you need the desktop.". Microsoft (or Satya did) also predicted the future, or read this post, and refocused (to online service such as MS365). There still correct, insightful stuff in this post.

There is also "They still think they can write software in house. Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world. But that world ended a few years ago." also radically different now they have GitHub and WSL, etc
The alternative is businesses are not held to account. I'd much rather have a cookie pop-up and GDPR notices than businesses have no guard rails against moves that are not in the interest of the user/customer.
I don't know how literal you are being, but it is not "literally anyone". If you know what FFmpeg is, you are a very small minority of the population.