skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never forget having to SSH into Bejing servers because nobody on that side could fix a problem... (working at a Chinese heavy company for a bit)...

I walked away realizing they are still copying the tech (IP theft, etc), but don't understand it nearly as well. The main thing that changed was the time-gaps, and by bypassing safety and other regs/norms, they just get to market first, but with a subpar product, usually with major issues.

I'm not nearly as afraid of this version of the future having experienced that, but of course, that was from a limited perspective.

That said, the sheer amount of $ being pumped into infrastructure of all types in China is a sight to behold, and also woke me up to how much our own government and big business entrenchment is suppressing American ingenuity.
I clicked through to this article about the chairman of the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee:

https://revealnews.org/article/trumps-air-pollution-adviser-...

Making a career out of making the case for air pollution. I hope the money is worth it. This guy should have to live and raise his kids next to a coal plant.
target date funds exist only to keep brokers in business
The same people that are pushing for increased pollution broadly support banning abortions, cutting down Usaid, and want to ban vaccines.

The evidence points to saving lives is not a priority, or they're just clueless.
"I set a plate on a table, and glass next to it. I set a marble on the plate. Then I pick up the marble, drop it in the glass. Then I turn the glass upside down and set it on the plate. Then, I pick up the glass and put it in the microwave. Where is the marble?"

the author claims that visual reasoning will help the model solve this problem, noting that gpt-4o got the question right after making a mistake in the beginning of the response. i asked gpt-4o, claude 3.7, and gemini 2.5 pro experimental, who all answered 100% correctly.

the author also demonstrates trying to do "visual reasoning" with gpt-4o, notes that the model got it wrong, then handwaves it away by saying the model wasn't trained for visual reasoning.

"visual reasoning" is a tweet-worthy thought that the author completely fails to justify
We should get a better change root yes, and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH gets autoupdated with respect to the new root. A few flags here and there to set permissions of the child process and we're off too the races.

Oh wow, wow. That all sounded so intensely complex, incomprehensible. What we are going to need to do is build a program to handle all that, highly formalized. Let's make it so formalized it's one of those things like taxes or AWS where people can just make a living from understanding the beast. It can be like systemd meets multics meets java. have it's own various complicated commands, complicated file formats, and so on. The chroot() is only historically understood by everyone, so let's steal a page from the java playbook and just rename everything with our own terminology. The product will be so outstanding, wow, I call it "Shocker"
That's some pretty aggressive editorializing in the title. The linked page doesn't once use "faster", "VIPS" or "PIL".

The page does link to benchmarks [0] but Photon isn't the clear victor. It's slower on the PNG benchmark but faster on the JPG benchmark. There are no benchmarks for PIL.

It's an interesting project but the differentiating factor is more portability and security than speed. WASM means that this can be run in a nice sandbox where its ability to harm the system is drastically reduced.

[0]: https://github.com/silvia-odwyer/photon/wiki/Benchmarks
And it processes stuff locally on your device!
For the most part degrees from roughly comparable schools in the same subject are fungible. However, graduating cheaters who should have flunked out of school their freshman year is a one-way ticket to having a reputation that your degree is worthless. You're now comparable to a lower tier of schools and suddenly Y's degree is worth a lot more than yours. The best way (not to only way) to combat this is to actively cull the bottom of your classes. Most schools already do this by kicking out people with low enough GPAs, academic probation, etc. My undergrad would expel you if you had a GPA below 1.8 after your first semester, and you were on academic probation if your GPA was > 1.8 and <=2.5.

This assumes, of course, an institution is actively trying to raise the academic bar of its student population. Most schools are emphatically not trying to do this and are focused more on just increasing enrollment, getting more tax dollars, and hiring more administrators.
i haven't read much about this, but i think that the point is that land taxes should incentivize people to make their land work ad produce an income. the problem is that this only works if you have lots of land that can be meaningfully exploited. if the tax is applied equally to every one then small landowners will suffer because you can't make a profit from a house and a garden that you live in yourself.
Maybe it's because you're not really asking a question but making an insulting statement intended to ellict exactly this reaction. Even if this sort of "question" was genuine it's predicated on a huge set of assumptions and systems interactions that makes it worthless as a question, but great as a campaign gotcha!

Also, fishing is most definitely not a "sport".
Odd how you refer to vaporwave as elevator music. The original artists of the genre very lovingly remixed classic city pop from the 80s and 90s, and overlayed their own music on top.

I think you might be referring to "Muzak", a particular brand of background music that would sell to businesses to play in stores and elevators.
I don't get why the EU can't be just a big common market with free competition, open borders. Why do we even need lots of institutions, bureaucracy, directives on top of directives and quotas for farming and fishing?
This is a great example of why I think dental medicine should not be separate from the rest of modern medical practice. It's all connected.
- Create Angular app (success)

- Add SSR (fail)

- Give the correct command to add SSR (success)

- Add i18n (fail)

- Retries like 6 times, completely messes angular.json file up to no recovery, project doesn't even build

Outputs: It seems I am running circles, I cannot help you with that.

Wow, AI will really replace developers soon. /s
Great read on how ILM made the shots. As a crew member on the USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716), we took many of the cast and crew out to sea for 24 hours before they made the movie to get a feel for what sub-life was like before they made the movie. All the cast and crew were great, and I think it made the movie better.

Actor Scott Glenn, who plays the Captain of Dallas, modeled his character after our Captain, Tom Fargo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjO_VrESNo

It is a great movie!
> Would I kill a cow? No, but I'm happy to eat a burger.

You have to eat. If a burger is the best choice in front of you, it is reasonable to make that choice. Likewise, if a certain party is the best choice in front of you during an election, it is equally reasonable to choose it. Such decisions always require making tradeoffs.

However, the original comment seems to imply that it is not only a case of voting for a party, but also carrying out activism for that party. This is akin to you eating a burger while protesting with PETA proclaiming the evils of killing cattle. That may be still cognitive dissonance, but to a very different degree.
I don't think it's cognitive dissonance if you recognize the issue. Also, you can both enjoy a good burger and be disgusted at the idea of killing a cow yourself. As you said, it's simply an hypocrisy (of which I am guilty too). From Wikipedia [1], (emphasis mine):

> In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
If you are doing remote learning and using AI to cheat your way through school you have obliterated any chance of fair competition. Cheaters can hide at home feeding homework and exams into AI, get a diploma that certifies all the cheating, then they go on to do the same at work where they feed work problems into an AI. Get paid to copy paste.

But I have a feeling that if it's that easy to cheat through life then its just as easy to eliminate that job being performed by a human and negate the need to worry about cheating. So I have a feeling it will work for only a very short amount of time.

Another feeling I have is mandatory in-person exams involving a locked down terminal presenting the user with a problem to solve. Might be a whole service industry waiting to be born - verify the human on the other end is real and competent. Of course, anything is corruptible. Weird future of rapidly diminishing trust.
I just use Obsidian's copilot sidebar plugin with a prompt that is essentially:

"Review {activeNote} and point out misspellings or structural errors.
Please ensure to highlight any grammatical issues and carefully examine the text for clarity and coherence.
Additionally, check for punctuation errors, repeated use of words and ensure proper sentence structure.
Do not mention double dashes (--) since they are post-processed into em dashes.
Check any inline HTML for accessibility attributes."

Zero generation, zero automated edit, pure review and manual tweaking. If you want to keep your own voice, that's the only thing you need.
The question you're actually asking is:

When will China start innovating instead of copying?
The point of the fish doorbell is educating people about what lives in the water. There would be much less resource-intensive ways of "solving" the problem, if that was the goal.
Appreciate the clarification. It may not have literally been ported over, but it certainly felt like it was culturally imported. Anytime I used one of these devices it made me wince feeling like having a little messy desktop os in a piece of consumer electronics seeming more complex and fragile than it ought to be.
Good use but I do hope you don't hear back from the IRS if it hallucinated.
Just a side note, but what happened to "hypocrisy"?

It used to mean having behavior that contradicts your stated beliefs.

Now it seems to mean an apparent contradiction between behavior and belief if you ignore real distinctions.

I don't like because it weakens the word and loses an important concept -- we don't have a good way to express real hypocrisy vs. fallaciously construed hypocrisy.
Yes, it's partial parity, and is server only. It's also not easy to migrate; the upgrade-assistant tool typically just gives up.

The client libraries only came separately, and much later[1] , and in typical "Fuck your migration path" fashion, doesn't have any .NET standard support.

[1]: ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/wcf-client-60-has-been... )
NativePHP for Desktop is finally here (in GA)
India's population pyramid is about where China's was in 2000. Their bulge of working age people is just barely hitting the workforce, so it's way too early to say what the outcome will be by 2045 when they've ridden the wave the way China did.
That seems silly. I spend time and money to get better at guitar even though there are countless pro (and amateur) musicians who can do it better than me.
It didn’t come across as provocative to me. It would be a snowflake reaction to get indignant at such a small amount of “provocative” language.

The essence of the question is why do people who love the outdoors vote for politicians who want to repeal laws to protect the outdoors?

I presume that a reasonable person can easily answer this question and defend their position. I can think of several reasonable explanations and I’m opposed to hunting and am in favor of strong environmental regulations.
Google Pixel 9a review: All the phone you need
I'm not sure that observations match this hypothesis, actually. But this

> the stronger male person

raises an interesting point (ignoring the "male" part) -- there isn't any real consensus on what attributes indicate "strength" (for instance, there are a lot of people who consider Trump strong, and a lot of people who equally consider him weak).

So the hypothesis could be true, but not terribly enlightening.
> "Our new study shows that this supply may only be sufficient to sustain a very small population of microbes weighing a total of only a few kilograms at most – equivalent to the mass of a small dog," Affholder said. "Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan's entire vast ocean."

Assuming for a moment that some life does exist in the subsurface ocean, I imagine it would be most likely that you would then expect to find very, very rare, but highly concentrated pockets of life?

Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados. I feel absurd just writing that.
Sometime circa 1998 there was a group looking for new technical hires for startups they invested in. They posted somewhere, perhaps /., that they were accepting résumés via SMTP on a non-standard port, as a filter mechanism.

I never heard back, although I ended up working for one of their companies the next year anyway.
Can I ask what the price increase of the storage expansion has to to with CPI? Isn't it to do more with supply and demand, like real estate?
Maybe if you're principally opposed to killing cows for meat, yet still eat burgers, but not if you simply could not be bothered to actually kill the cow.
> One argument which I find profoundly stupid is the "well it doesn't matter what we do, look at China".

1. Implement a mechanism domestically to reduce pollution. [1][2]

2. Then implement a "carbon/pollution tariff" on any imports[3] so that foreigners are hit the same way domestics folks are (perhaps with allowances for developing companies that are too poor for advanced pollution control).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economists%27_Statement_on_Car...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.–Canada_Air_Quality_Agreem...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Me...
If the billionaires were genuinely concerned about a complete collapse of the USA financial system in 10 years, they wouldn't have bet on a president with a track record of expanding debt to pump the stock market in the first place, and it would be hard to imagine anything less likely to stave off a crash than launching a trade war or threatening to annex your neighburs. Frankly the only only credible cause of the US economy completely collapsing within a decade is called Donald.

Getting a short term interest rate cut makes very little difference to the robustness of the US economy in a decade's time, and even if it did, there are many ways of getting a short term interest rate cut that don't involve massive economic disruption and permanently sabotaging US trading relationships (most obviously, the president nominates the chair of the Fed...). You could see what the likes of Ackman and Elon actually thought about the tariffs from them breaking ranks to moan about them.

The billionaires who backed Trump like standard right wing stuff like tax cuts, deregulation and/or racism, or figured he was going to win anyway so they might as well get credit for being seen as his ally. Some of them might actually be well informed enough to place shorts (and hey, the ones who own trading shops rather than manufacturing and services companies might be able to win more than they lose in equity value that way) but that's a completely separate issue from the idea that chaos now could have positive effects in a decade's time, which only one billionaire in the world is dumb enough to believe...
What does “fourth most liberal university” even mean? They teach communism extra hard over capitalism?
I mean, I don't understand how you could care about the environment and vote for Trump.

He's actively unwinding decades of environmental policy and protections, destaffing and defunding national parks, and opening up logging 100MM acres which will be gone in no time at all.

He's the kind of guy that says "we are going to have the cleanest air and water" and then literally does the opposite policy wise.
The Force That Drives Korea
Demystifying Development: Does It Pencil?
Fishing for non-commercial/sustenance purposes is quite literally referred to as "sport fishing." Perhaps you should save the condescending tone for topics you're more familiar with.
If you think harming animals unnecessarily is wrong, but still eat meat, then yes thats cognitive dissonance. The meat industry is the single most prolific source of animal abuse in the world. Factory farms are basically auschwitz for animals. Buying meat and then getting upset at someone who kicked their dog etc. is a pretty clear cut example of dissonance because you are saying that animal abuse is wrong, but your actions indicate you have no problem with it.
Note how HN admins artificially de-ranked this topic. Come on guys, stop being puppets driven by venture capital, that's dishonest and boring.
I agree that you should learn the fundamentals before taking shortcuts. I just don't view it as the universities' job to repeatedly remind their students of this, that's elementary/high school style. In universitiy, just give them hard problems requiring fundamental knowledge and cross-checking capabilities but don't restrict their tools.
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It's not just that people care about many things at once, but they have different assumptions about how much real-world output will result from a particular political input.

For example, this article is about air pollution. Trump rolled back a number of Obama-era air pollution rules in 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/04/trump-em.... But there was no corresponding increase in air pollution in the subsequent six years: https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=c2....

So your friends simply don't believe that rolling back particular environmental regulations will meaningfully reduce the quality of the environment. It's similar to how liberals downplay how much reshoring of industry will result from the Trump administration's tariffs.
Won't the AI just replace the workers outright if they can do all that ?
There are four lig...beeps!
And then I write a blog post about it.
But maybe I find something more novel.
(And I have, but maybe I can actually use it for the task above)
EV's, Drones, Nuclear power.

Once again optimizing on technologies invented in the west.
It could be a little smaller, but compared to the USA plug and socket it's pure perfection.

USA plugs have prongs that are so thin they bend. The prongs act as a hinge that lets the plug pivot away from the wall to expose the live prongs! And most USA sockets don't have ground on top to block anything resting over those exposed live prongs.
Beyond 60V it gets dangerous... i'm ok with staying at 60V or below.
It's definitely possible. nixos-anywhere [0] implements this in a neat package for NixOS specifically. I am relatively certain you could use the same script to boot into a different distribution, though the installation part itself would obviously need to be adapted.

[0] https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
I learned fast enough it was my 4th language. I have passed the C1 level exam (advanced, I would have struggled in my mother tongue), responses below you are correct though, you can learn as you arrive. This is IMO the best of all worlds, as it brings in talent and encourages integration.
I find it frustrating when somebody replies as if they've only read one sentence in a paragraph.

I also said, "I like animals and I eat meat." I thought that was pretty clear, but if you'd like me to beat the point to death, the cognitive dissonance is between my fondness for animals, cows included, who I would never personally hurt and don't want to see killed, and my fondness for a good cheeseburger.

Could I come up with some contrived rationalization which somehow includes both? Sure, I have in the past, and many meat-eaters do. But ultimately I saw through my own bullshit here. Cows aren't essentially different than horses or dogs, but I eat cow while I'd be horrified to eat horse or dog. This doesn't make any logical or moral sense; it's just what I grew up with and am used to. When I think about it, I experience cognitive dissonance. For some that dissonance resolves into becoming vegetarians; for others they just refuse to think about it, or become dickish anti-vegetarians. I'm only different in that I have worked to get more comfortable with that sort of dissonance, as it's important to me to see things as clearly as I can.
No worries, I'm sure it'll never improve. /s
When video games spill into the physical world
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838337
I love Clancy's books too and hate that they ruined his legacy by slapping his name on a whole bunch of books he didn't write at the end there.
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claims harassment
I cannot kill a cow, but I’m happy there are people who can.

I also cannot build trains or houses, but I am an ardent supporter of a rain-proof roof.
Nissan Leaf Hacked for Remote Spying, Physical Takeover
Fusion hasn't been invented yet.

If following the pattern it will also be invented in the West and optimized in China.
Author of this paper here. Cool to see this show up on HN. Little story about this paper: Danyel and I did this while I was on an internship at Microsoft Research. The algorithm was too simple to get it published at a conference, but the technique has been adopted in a few places now, including other papers. We did some follow-up work to more efficiently compute the density and also support interactive filtering. See https://www.domoritz.de/papers/2021-KDBox-VIS.pdf.
Minor correction in the article: The Oric-1 did ship with 16K RAM initially, but was widely available not long after in the 48K (really, 64K) configuration, and users could easily upgrade their 16K Oric-1's to the beefier RAM, and also conversions to Atmos-level Orics' were available widely as well.

The Oric-1, however, did far better than the Jupiter Ace on the market - which isn't to say it was successful, just that it didn't quite flop as hard as the Ace did. The Jupiter Ace definitely has its quirky appeal, meanwhile, as a FORTH Machine - but it should be noted that the Oric-1/Atmos machines get far, far better software written for them, even today .. and some of the new stuff is just great.
Operations of Sensor Giant Sensata Disrupted by Ransomware Attack
Trump delaying the tariffs was only common sense after Trump delayed the tariffs. Before Trump delayed the tariffs, common sense was that Trump would not delay the tariffs.

Again, you're just taking pure luck and rebranding it as common sense, using survivor bias.

If you still insist you had a crystal ball, then I ask you: Did you predict the 125% non-delayed tariffs on China, or did you think he would delay all the tariffs? Are you still predicting the 125% tariffs on China will be delayed?
When It Comes to Tariffs, China Is Different