skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the sequence:

>> Why does the US still allow Chinese nationals to study at its universities and work at its companies? Seems like a big risk that cutting edge research and trade secrets will go to America’s main adversary. Industrial espionage by China has a long history, and China has more valuable things to steal from America than the other way.

> I have good news for you. DeepSeek openly bragged that none of its people have “overseas experience”. They are all local talents.

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> My original comment was merely citing what they think

Fair enough. So my comment is towards what they think? What is your position?

EDIT: Do you feel that DeepSeek open bragging about none of its people having "overseas experience" is simply to say they have not been overseas or that the technology originates in China? I'll admit I'm not down to the nuance of how studies overseas are viewed in China.
Are you OK with a person committing a violent crime in a foreign country, then returning home to a country that "protects" them against extradition? I never understand the pushback against extradition. You can extradite carefully. Also, "most of Europe", Canada, and Australia are highly functional democracies. If extradition is so bad, why haven't they outlawed it?

Also, most people overlook the fact that, "any French citizen who commits a crime according to the French law, even abroad, can be prosecuted in France." So that makes extradition moot in my view.

Quote source: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-reasoning-behind-Frances-law...
Why should control of 50% wealth equate to 50% of all consumption? Why not 70% of consumption or 40%? What is the reason that the two percentages are expected to be the same?
This was me. I’ve been on them for four years and actually gained fifty pounds

The drug keeps me from binge eating, which is huge, but if I take enough to actually lose weight then I have weekly bouts of food poisoning because the sugars in my gut start to ferment. An entire day sitting on the toilet while holding a bucket because it’s coming out both ends.
> why checked exceptions and business logic exceptions are bad

It didn't, and they aren't bad.
Yes: https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/14/autopsy-openai-whistl...

If it becomes a natsec concern, the government will simply ignore or redefine the laws. The current US government has already demonstrated that the rule of law is a mere suggestion.
Why would you assume either? Do you have access to brain scanning technology that would let you know what goes on in the minds of these men? If they think that the federal government is all waste, why wouldn't being cruel to them be more important than this idea about efficiency that idiots are absolutely eating up.
I didn’t mean any shade at MIT, or the MIT swapfest—I was just sharing a story. I also met some great people there, and bought some cool stuff, so I’d highly recommend people in the area to attend it at least once. Regarding trying to sort the camera thing, it’s long past now, and I don’t care. Maybe they really needed that money.
Are you kidding?

Guess why most those recently emerged Chinese high tech companies (DeepSeek, Game Science, Unitree etc) are all located in Hangzhou? Because property prices are insane in tier-1 Chinese cities like Shanghai which is just 200km away from Hangzhou. You know it is a huge ponzi scheme when even those well paid high tech engineers couldn't afford a modest apartment in those major cities.

$3m USD buys you a 3 bedroom apartment in Shanghai next to a noisy main road, you have unlimited free supply of all types of pollutions. PM2.5 pollution was about 100 yesterday, any self respecting medical professional would suggest you to wear a mask when going outdoors in such environment well known for causing lung cancer. By moving to Hangzhou, you ONLY need to pay $1.5-$2m for the same shit.

Oh, btw, prices above are after the 30% drop. Just imagine how stupid it was before the crash. Of course you can jump up and lecture me how affordable it is to just spend like $1m to secure a nice family apartment of 40square meters built 60 years ago with disgusting everything inside of it.
We need one of these in Austin!
True, now browsers are all about for-profit surveillance.
See also, by the same author: https://liw.fi/linux20
I think as between AL and BNP it’s idiosyncratic to the person. Our oldest family friends (BNP) became big Trump supporters during his first term, but that’s just a couple of data points. I think Yunus supporters are almost always Harris supporters, though. Either too young to know how this story will play out, or boomerlib who thinks this time will be different.
Where does tooling and platform support stand for Ada? Could one develop desktop, mobile, web apps, too using Ada? Thanks.
Red Note is Instagram for rich kids. If China managed to frame their upper class as ordinary, good for them. Propaganda win for their regime.

Not sure why we are making that mistake here.
Why does it have to slow down builds. If it's pure telemetry, it can be done in background right?
Always a great article, Lup.

Thank you. Having the option to run LLM on Nuttx is really interesting.
How would you track it?

But also there's the very real problem of wealth concentration. The economy works best with flowing income. It works worst when money is at rest. With a sales tax only you end up in a situation where wealth can be endlessly horded, which takes that velocity of money out of the market.

For example. Let's say there's 1000 monies and 100 people's. If bread costs 10 monies everyone gets fed if wealth is evenly distributed. However, as wealth concentrates into one person less people can afford to eat which has a knock on effect of potentially putting bakers out of business (ultimately raising the price of bread).

Sales tax only explicitly favors wealth concentration. The more money you have the more you can defer and invest to accumulate more wealth. If you don't have enough money then it's impossible to ever start accumulating.
I did. When I went to China and left the major cities all I saw was rows of high rises next to train stations with nothing around them.

Funny, that's never on YouTube.
The whole report is interesting, but this part sticks out:

> The most recent crop market outlook from the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M University reveals that many farms in each of their four commodity types (feed grains, cotton, rice and wheat) are not expected to have a positive cash flow over the next five years and there is no crop rotation that yields a positive return.

https://southernagtoday.org/2025/01/30/why-the-current-econo...

> In the 42 years that AFPC has been projecting farm financial performance, the most recent crop outlook for the representative farms is the worst in terms of the number of farms in each of the four commodity types (feed grains, cotton, rice and wheat) that are not currently expected to have a positive cash flow over the next 5 years. What makes this so troublesome is there is not a crop that producers can switch to from their current crops that would generate a positive return. In other downturns, we would see producers that can grow several types of crops taking market signals and moving to more profitable crops. Part of developing representative farms is collecting all of the cost information for the farms. This makes it possible to develop cost of production data for each of the crops being produced on the 64 representative crop farms. The bottom line is very few of the representative farms appear to have profitable crops on them at prices that are projected by FAPRI for the 2025/26 marketing year – which is very troublesome. While the economic and natural disaster assistance provided in the recent American Relief Act of 2025 will help in the near term, the need for a significant enhancement to the farm safety net over the next 5 years is imperative… and the sooner the better.
It's a pricing to service ratio problem.

Unfortunately, the corporations that own the copyright thinks the price is zero for piracy, when it in actual fact, isn't "truly" zero. The fact of the matter is, these copyright owning entities want to extract the maximum amount of profit, rather than provide the lowest price, maximum service for the least cost.

I'm glad there's piracy as a floor to how bad streaming can get.
Do you count Hongkong as part of Mainland China? Most surveys do not. (The line is certainly more blury than 5 years ago.)

I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_diaspora

Hong Kong 300,000 Zhang and DeGolyer, 2011
China 19,990 Chinese Census 2010
> Even today, I wonder if I should go through the trouble of being diagnosed and getting on medication

Maybe talk to people diagnosed with ADHD as adults? Of my acquaintances like that, they mention an immediate improvement. The benefits were very obvious to them.

It is almost as if we should test for ADHD by just testing amphetamines in questionable situations and just seeing if people respond well?

Likely very questionable advice, but if you are a risk-taking type then maybe score something and just test it on yourself? Try to be scientific of course. And try to understand the risks (which you need to understand even if you were diagnosed by the medical system).
Yes, and then someone in China successfully extracted a key and built a "HDCP stripper" that double negatives the italic. They appeared to have taken the keys from few of something expensive enough so that it politically can't be revoked.

Capturing HDMI also used to be costly, China solved that too few years ago. Compressed 2K capture dongles are $9 apiece.

I wouldn't describe those as "tiny" barriers, though, it just wasn't up to faceless Chinese silicon gurus circa 2010.
Could say the same about Vietnam, or Thailand, or anywhere in SE Asia.
Sorry a bit late here, but both Tirzepatide and Semaglutide are off the shortage list, and the promise to not seek legal action that is currently allowing some compounders to operate freely will likely end sometime soon.

Literally, the only reason any compounder today (that is brave enough) can produce Tirzepatide or Semaglutide is because the FDA has promised to not pursue legal action for a short period to enable people to find other solutions.

Prices are about to go back up/a bunch of options are about to leave the market. See: Novo Nordisk's share price/related news.
Woops, last link is wrong:

https://glp1.guide/content/patent-expirations-for-glp1-recep...
Just assume that the money will be spent and put a $X*tax-rate refundable credit on the tax return.
What more evidence do you need than a WaPo article talking about federal workers that declared they would resist Trump’s policies?

A single article is evidence enough for you. And some people think you are a brilliant lawyer.
Indeed.

India which was at that was relatively in a good economic state, should've been a industrial super-power. Except, the "benign" British scuttled not only industrialization, but India's own traditional education and social systems.
Sure. I didn’t make my point clear.
100x expense doesn’t mean 100x utility. There are a lot of “consultants” in HCOL cities grifting from high earners.

I had a baby proofer try to charge me 4 grand for a handful of outlets and corner pads.
Right to bear arms? How about Finland or Switzerland? It is pretty easy to own guns in both places.
I do a lot of hardware hacking, where I'm writing C for the hardware, and Python for my testing. Probably half of my syntax errors are typing C into the Python editor, or Python into the C editor.
Practically speaking, when the majority of people who decided to vote voted for the person applying these policies, what mitigations are left? The courts are themselves slow and ultimately roll up to allies of the despot.

People say that the midterms are crucial, but the midterms are only likely to be won if Democrats truly unify and apply winning strategies. Sadly the only winning strategies now seem to involve telling stories, not necessarily the truth.

And all of that essentially admits that the next two years are forfeit anyway.
This shouldn't be down voted.

Trump has more support now than he did in his first term. His support is durable and lasting.

It's difficult to imagine what might cause his supporters to change their options of him. If the election were held again, today, he would still win.
I've been learning C# and dotnet core for the past couple of months and it's been a great experience.

I love C# and wish I could write all my web stuff with it. Unfortunately, Blazor WASM is so far behind pretty much all JS front end frameworks in terms of performance, bloat, and memory usage.

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...
Some people experience major side effects. Neither my wife (semaglutide) nor I (tirzepatide) have had any negative effects apart from minor upper GI disturbances when moving up to a higher dose. These dissipate within a week or so.

That said, these are definitely serious drugs and I wouldn't be taking one if my quality and length of life weren't threatened by metabolic syndrome, and if I hadn't been trying for decades to solve the problem without medication.
The 40% of Americans who are obese don't work at Google.
Being able to afford healthy food is definitely 100x better.
> The true power of math comes from the correspondence between those symbolic transformations and observation from the real world.

Not at all, think it through further. Obviously it's true that mathematics is more practically useful in cases where its symbolically-proved claims have some kind of relation to real-world observations, but if that relationship were a requirement, math would be useless - you could prove a theory on paper symbolically, but you wouldn't know whether the thing you proved was "really true" until you found a way to check whether the result is also true in the real world. And if you found it was true of apples, it might still not be true for electrons, etc etc.

Rather, math's power stems from the fact that it emphatically does not expect or require the symbols to have any connection to real world observations. If you prove something on paper, it's proved and that's that. If the thing you proved also happens to be useful for describing apples or electrons, that's great - and the fact that this often happens is why the whole "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" is a thing. But if there's no relation to the real world, that doesn't in any way affect the truth of the symbolically proved claim, or its usefulness or interest to mathematicians.
I am not an American. So that's one off your combo.

I was also not silent or defensive of the specific action of arresting her. I thought that was a mistake by Canada and said so at the time. I still think so. I'm not denying anything?

I still stand by what I said though about the rogue actor here being China. That is a big picture statement. It means that even if the actions of the US or Canada were wrong, they were within what we consider the rule of law. China's retaliatory actions were not. I'll take the rule of law over a dictatorship any day with all its problems.
It may that there were so many distros of Python by the time that venv (and virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper) were written.

"PEP 3147 – PYC Repository Directories"
https://peps.python.org/pep-3147/ :

> Linux distributions such as Ubuntu [4] and Debian [5] provide more than one Python version at the same time to their users. For example, Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala users can install Python 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1, with Python 2.6 being the default. [...]

> Because these distributions cannot share pyc files, elaborate mechanisms have been developed to put the resulting pyc files in non-shared locations while the source code is still shared. Examples include the symlink-based Debian regimes python-support [8] and python-central [9]. These approaches make for much more complicated, fragile, inscrutable, and fragmented policies for delivering Python applications to a wide range of users. Arguably more users get Python from their operating system vendor than from upstream tarballs. Thus, solving this pyc sharing problem for CPython is a high priority for such vendors.

> This PEP proposes a solution to this problem.

> Proposal: Python’s import machinery is extended to write and search for byte code cache files in a single directory inside every Python package directory. This directory will be called __pycache__.

Should the package management tool also install multiple versions of the interpreter? conda, mamba, pixi, and uv do. Neither tox nor nox nor pytest care where the python install came from.
Translated several website pages of a few businesses of mine to every countries language of the world with AI and pyquery.
Those never went away, they're just called multiplane overlay (MPO) now and are better integrated into the system. The Windows 10/11 DWM automatically migrates swap chains in and out of independently flipped overlays to save power, and can recomposite them when screen capture is requested.
It'll get increasingly difficult for open models to keep up with proprietary frontier models as the costs involved increase. Yes, there will always be older open models available, but at some point, they just won't be as competitively useful.

Your code assistant that can output a file's worth of code will pale in comparison to systems that can create entire projects in seconds. If it costs billions to reproduce the latter, who's going to do it and give it away for free?

There's a possible solution here in the form of distributed training, but that's still tentative and will always be at a lag to the centralised training the big players can do.
The rest of the world is just 30 years behind the Us.

The Netherlands today are fatter than Missisipi was in 1985.
I dislike the name "vibe coding". I would call it "AI programming" or "programming with natural language and an AI agent" or anything other than "vibe" anything.

I'm not giving it vibes, I'm giving it specifications.

So much of our culture and society seems to be aimed at appealing to 12 year olds.
To me, the big three of "social safety net" is education, medical care, and retirement pension. For normies, I doubt any of those are better than other highly developed democracies.
There is no such deal on the table. The meeting was for a minerals deal. All the other stuff was press questions about the future of the relationship.
This is a natalist group submarine piece (scroll to the bottom).
The Impressive Legacy of High-Performance Computing in Minnesota
That is most depressing news to hear
Sure, in some aspects I was lucky, but that didn't invalidate the things that frustrated me.

There was a post a few weeks ago that kind of encompassed the feeling pretty well, worth a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43089150
As someone who works a lot with sound I notice a ton of artifacts most people don't recognize. Often those artifacts are harder to hear on cheap speakers but become far more obvious with a good setup. But they also add up and while untrained ears can't hear specific examples, they do result in an overall worse experience which is especially frustrating for high end users when they paid a lot for nice speakers and it's just revealing the grunge that was always there.

That's all to say - I also could not find all the things they are talking about, probably a combination of not being trained, not working a lot with video codecs, and not having the best monitors - but I get the authors frustration, and I'm glad there's people who care about these things! But yeah, I hunted for that color shift and just not seeing it...
In the era of x264, we ( the user or the enthusiast communities ) and x264 developers deeply cared about preserving the original content as much as possible, even the noise and artefacts.

That was in the 00s. It is not the encoder's job to remove or filter out all the details. Background or not. There are some caveat to that but that was comparatively speaking at the time, say RMVB from Real Media or WMV.

Worth remembering it wasn't really the internet era back then. People encode so they could fit more things into CD and DVDs. At least that was how it started.

Somewhere along the line Internet, or mobile internet aka iPhone happened. Now everyone watches on a small screen. With all details washed out, people just want to consume. None of the details mattered. What we would only used to do in AVISyth Filter are now done automatically with Encoder. The 10 min Youtube video doesn't care about any of that. And then the 3 min, now the attention span is basically 30s TikTok or Instagram Reels. Worst of all a lot of these attention to details are also gone when doing Netflix or other long from of movie streaming. VMAF 90 is good enough, lets try to minimise the bit rate as much as possible.

We need higher / best quality at minimal bitrate, instead of having bare minimum / good enough quality at lowest possible bitrate. The two are very different.

While the march of internet / tech giant on video codec means someday we may lose out. Somewhat fortunately we still have a small group of old people in the movie production, broadcast industry, and private torrents release group still cares about these.

Hopefully, someday, especially the west, could move back to celebrate greatness rather than mediocre.
This is what gets me.

Homer Simpson was meant to be a fat idiot barely hanging on.

In the 40 years since the first episode he's gone to being average weight and fitness.

Economically he's now wildly successful for being able to own a house on a single income with three kids. There are people making over $800,000 today who can't afford that.
Where I live now you can 3d print an unregistered and unserialized pistol then stuff it under your shirt (loaded) and walk into the unsecured part of a public airport without breaking the law, all with zero paperwork or licenses or checks. Can I do that in Switzerland?
This is a very one-sided take, you should ask people on the street of any Russian city

LOL. I'll get right on that, after I ask the North Koreans for their opinion.
Strictly, sevearal things.
First, plurality. Second, they voted for Congress, as well. Where are they? Third, they trust in the entire system, even if their trust has been manipulated by some agents. That is why we are supposed to have checks and balances.
Do you think Canada shares any blame? And do you think she is guilty of her crimes (trading with Iran)?
> This interesting and complex situation has earned this species the nickname “the bird with four sexes.” But to be clear, White-throated Sparrows do not have four different types of gonads. As in other birds, each individual typically has either two testes that produce sperm or a single ovary that produces eggs. Nevertheless, as recent research has shown, this species has much to teach us about the nature of sex variability—the way in which sex-related behaviors are influenced by genes, the complex structure of sex-associated chromosomes and the evolution of sexual reproduction itself. Importantly, this species challenges the practice of flattening nature’s wondrous diversity into two categories, male and female.

In one paragraph we see truth twisted into activism - no, it does not challenge the "practice of flattening nature’s wondrous diversity into two categories".

Sex is binary, traits are bimodal. The songbirds confirm this, not challenge it.