skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also had the same thinking, when somehow my mother started watching Chinese TV shows. She first started with kdramas on Netflix, tried to watch a few Japense and didn't liked... then moved to Chinese dramas. And it seems, it's getting really popular here in Brazil. All anecdotical, but I know a few people that watch besides her.

Tencent has a streaming focused on international market called WeTV, there's also IQIYI. There's Viki too, that is from Rakuten - that is Japanese, but there's a ton of Chinese content there (which she also watches).

My nephew even learned a few words of mandarin (and Korean too) because she keep watching that all day.

Kdramas are really popular here, and don't think it's as popular as the US, my guess it's just the soap opera consumption Latin America was always huge, so it makes Asian dramas more palatable, as they are more soap opera style.

Now for music yeah, don't think Chinese music is that popular or will ever be compared to kpop.
Agree with comments below, am observing that the British (commonwealth etc) plug standard is a good common denominator (and a perfect calthrop. grin!).

Living in North America where the 110 V is standard...

the GBR plug/socket is a lovely standard, my brother-in-law gifted us a UK power bar for travel a few years ago, worked great. [[1]]. Since then, it's become common that wallwarts handle 100-240, so recently I just use physical adapters, and if need be wallwarts with multiple charging ports and/or feed-through mains sockets.

[[1]] use whatever physical adapter to power it -- we know that it's ok for 240 V. Then use whatever adapters to charge. I did have a bagful of physical adapters.
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And to ride on Jimbocho/international reference, they have the same in Manila, Philippines in Recto, which is a university area, tons of english university text books, around 100-200 pesos, "international editions."

Jimbocho has limited English text.

Now Hong Kong, Quarry Bay Street has a few but they're all on south island I see and accessible via the metro.
This is going to be a naive and stupid question perhaps... but here it goes.

What optimization are we chasing here that's worth all this effort and brain power that will be so amazing in 10 years?

I've been using real-time collaborative editing tools for the past decade and it's "good enough". We.. collaborate... and then we go about our day.. almost zero friction 99.9% of the time.

This just doesn't really feel like a real problem to me. A theoretically interesting problem, sure..
Similar to S3 express one zone
Completely unrelated to anything I'm just taking this as an opportunity to yell this into the void while nix is on topic:

I have a theory that a problem for Nix understanding and adoption out of all apparent proportion is its use of ; in a way that is just subtly, right in the uncanny valley, different from what ; means in any other language.

In the default autogenerated file everyone is given to start with, it immediately hits you with:

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ foo ];

How is that supposed to read as a single expression in a pure functional language?
I'm sure the absolute performance of the Telus II CPU is very good since it runs at 5.5Ghz and has 36MB of L2 cache per core. But I'm talking about price per dollar and this is where IBM mainframes fail miserably because IBM charges through the nose for them.

I would not be surprised if a IBM mainframe costs 10x of what a x86 or ARM server of equal performance does.
Broadcom is fabless…
> The deficit should count, but since Federal taxes haven't been increased to service it it doesn't, so there is that

Inflation is the result of the deficit, and it is the equivalent of a tax. This is why politicians work so hard to deny that inflation comes from the deficit.

Want more examples of burdensome regulation? Try Lina Kahn of the FTC with her frivolous (but very expensive) lawsuits. Regulation is why the California high speed rail failed to be built, and why Biden's big spending program to install car charging stations resulted in zero chargers being built. Nearly every aspect of a car is subject to regulation, which is why they pretty much all look the same (unlike the variety in earlier years). EV regulation have been resulted in massive costs for the auto industry.

As for oil and gas, Biden blocked the pipelines that would have saved a ton of money.

The only unregulated market in the US is the software industry. And look how spectacularly successful it has been!! Prices have been driven down to literally zero! I'm in the software business, and I do not need approvals, permits, licenses, or any regulations pertaining to the software I write and sell.

(Other than laws against fraud, theft, etc.)
Of course you don't need it, but if you're into docker images, docker or podman can be configured to use QEMU when running a container too.
US Republicans "stopped time" wrt responding to the POTUS emergency Tariff powers a full twenty nine days ago.

Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622) with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025.

~ https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio...

"Each day [..] shall not constitute a calendar day"

I commented on this shortly after it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358343 and once or twice since.

It's remarkable how little attention this has gotten.

See also: Letters from an American https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson
For the same reason you should learn how to walk in a world that has utility scooters.
One more question I have is how are you handling the cluster architecture. I don't see that on the website. You mention on the pricing a cluster and replication but scaling horizontally is rather important and we definitely want to know how you're achieving scalability.
'The middle is disappearing': Why three Senate Democrats are heading for exit
If foreign investors like China dump our debt, prices will go down and yields will go up. As long as we increase our debt ceiling and don’t do anything intentionally crazy like try to renegotiate existing debt (which would be a technical default), we could always issue more treasuries at the higher rates with the caveat that more money will need to be spent servicing the debt, which requires even more debt be issued. A vicious cycle for sure.
Tooling: started developing in Replit including hosting, added Cursor later when it got a bit more complicated.

FE: React SPA with Tailwind; I don't think he was knowledgeable enough to pick a UI component library.

BE: Database is Supabase, auth is Firebase. He had a hard time getting the AI to work with Supabase auth so I suggested Firebase instead (Firebase auth is dead simple and lots of docs). This created another challenge which was using the claims from Firebase in Supabase for the row level security. Rest of the backend is running in Replit autoscale deployments. Stripe integration for payments and other integrations for common third party systems in this particular industry. All done via AI and handing it relevant documentation and code samples.

Replit's tooling is interesting because it can run the app and see the errors in the console. It can also take its own screenshots to see if it's getting it right. I watched some of his sessions and the LLM often makes mistakes. He'll try a few passes to get the LLM to fix the mistake, but if it doesn't work, he moves and will come back to it if it is non-breaking.

I talked to him a bit more and he said he thinks his "super power" is managing an offshore team in India for a few years so he's very used to managing features and code quality via written instructions. Where an engineer (like me) might just give up and take it into our own hands when things go wrong, he can just keep chatting with the AI and pointing it to docs and such.
> That attack requires continuously monitoring a given device or area though, right?

The "randomization" seems to be a pseudo-randomization: with the seed and the timestamp, you should be able to deduce the future "randomized" addresses.
please keep in mind that everybody is vulnerable to this mindset -- not just conservatives
1. There is little size difference between your choices and BS1363 plugs/sockets. They are large, I concede, but that is in pursuit of the many safety features of the plug.

2. Better have it than not. Plus, it makes for a single uniform plug design and specification that is straightforwardly adhered to.

3. IMO this is a good thing as it allows furniture to be set up considerably closer to the walls.

Funny you mention hotels, because I was in one in France not two weeks ago and it had the worst sockets I've ever seen. My phones took forever to charge, half the sockets didn't even seem to have power, and they all had this unintuitive setup where there was a spring loaded panel in the socket that needed to be twisted to get the plug in.

Now, I've seen some odd BS1363 setups, but never one this strange.
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Would this architecture work on x86 or ARM CPUs?

I'm surprised they didn't use HBM3 for CPU cache.
There are a lot of sleeper or new accounts in this discussion. I’m afraid there’s a bunch of astroturfing.

Oh, hackernews, how you’ve fallen :(
CUDAs are the secret ingredient in the AI scaling sauce.
> the state has $40b of wealth under its control to invest.

Defense spending is not an investment in the economy, neither are entitlements.

The returns on government investments that are legitimate investments, however, are quite a bit less than the returns on the investments of rich people. The reason is simple - people who get rich off of investments are very, very good at it. Government bureaucrats are not.

Government investments are socialism, which have an inglorious history of poor returns.

> The belief in the business genius really is overblown

4 out of 5 business ventures fail. The survivors tend to be pretty good at it. You'd be very hard pressed to find a dummy who grew a business to a billion dollars. The ones who have done it more than once are very, very rare. (Like Steve Jobs, who did it 3 times.) If you want to argue that Jobs, Gates, Musk, Bezos, etc., just fell into it, go right ahead!
This is not quite like the stereotypical case of that, as the legislature first said it wants something to happen one way, and then—later and with a different set of lawmakers, but still—the same institution effectively said that, on second thought, no, just in this case it wants it to work another way. Which seems like a simple case of the legislature changing its mind, something it should definitely be able to do as a matter of course?..

And I mean, both of the houses participated in the first part but only the lower house in the second (AFAICT), so maybe there’s something iffy about that for example. Then of course there are all the suggestions about how the statute these tariffs were ostensibly instituted under (the IEEPA) may not actually authorize tariffs; or that if it does authorize that, then it effectively amounts to the legislature delegating all of its power over tariffs to the executive, which does not entirely sound in tune with the Constitution.

But you see how this starts to look like something you’d want to consult an actual expert on constitutional law about, not dismiss out of hand or listen to random opinions on the Internet on. It’s not immediately clear what even a perfect court would decide here.
Some key text from the article:

At the behest of its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH will not only block new funding for the university, but also stop paying investigators working on all existing NIH projects. Although these researchers will not be ordered to stop work, they will need prior approval from NIH to draw from existing disbursements, according to an NIH source.
I think cherry-picking is inherent to the craft. As a pejorative it probably means the chosen arrangement of facts is poorly constructed.
This could actually speed up some of my scientific computing (in some cases, data localization/delocalization is an important part of overall instance run-time). I will be interested to try it.
It’s part of the first island chain, of course it’s a national security threat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain
> Second concern is people trying to hack it in case the LLM took shortcuts on security.

This… warrants some self reflection.
A lot of hosting providers do this. Some will even allow their use if you ask too
“I encourage you to not assume that every Asian worker is a slave."

That’s a hell of a dodge. The problem isn’t that these workers are mistreated, it’s that you’re a racist.
I tried Circe.

It said Circe --Daughter--> Helios. So I thought oh it's supposed to be "Circe is Helios' daughter" but then it had Circe --Brother--> Aeetes and Circe --Mentor-->Hermes.
What support do you need?
> Struggling to find a definition, but seemingly zonal just means there's a massive instance per cluster.

There are a number of zones in a region. Region usually means city. Zone can mean data center. Rarely just means some sort of isolation (separate power / network).
Entropy conservation.
We basically agree then: as China takes up higher value activities, they won't need those activities from the US anymore. Also, France is the cutting edge designer of nuclear power plants these days.

> Why did the software revolution happen in the same place we were building the microchips?

Hardware people becoming software people was extremely common back then, and still is today (EEs can make more coding than using their degree directly). Now we have the opposite problem (we don't have enough hardware people because software sucked all the oxygen out of the room) and China has less of it (although increasingly...they are repeating history as well). If anything, this just backs up my point in how higher value activities de-emphasize manufacturing (even super high end manufacturing as in semiconductors).

You can replace perceived value with actual value if you don't agree with the value judgement calls that were made, which is entirely reasonable.
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Then the storm troopers would just look to see if you had that app
You can only raise prices so much before people look for alternatives to what you’re selling or do without. What we’re going to see with tariffs isn’t just price increases. We’re going to see some price increases, some reduction in selection, some stores closing, and some layoffs.
next level vendor lock in
He admires Putin because as a Narcissist he doesn't understand why there should be any limits on his power.
Hasn't that point already been reached given the US could not sustain itself in any reasonable way without Chinese labor and knowledge?

There seem to be a lot of companies in the S&P500 that would dry out without access to Chinese workers and goods. Just take cloud providers. Where is their gear sourced from? Is there any realistic chance to provide that from within the US? Given the current state that would become necessary but seems highly unlikely to be achievable.
On individual level it’s about balancing short term pleasure with needed sacrifice for long term goals that bring greater satisfaction, in particular goals based on contributions to your community of interest (family, friends, humanity, etc).
Did the pioneers 200 years ago have the skills and knowledge to survive as a serf 400 years ago? Or as a mid-level financial analyst today?

Or is pioneering 200 years ago an in-demand skillset that we should be picking up?
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Agree! I wish Americans would travel more and escape their media bubble. China is incredible. I was in Chonqing and then Shenzhen recently, and live in Beijing. Truly it's very divorced from what western people have grown to expect.
"Age of inference", "age of Gemini", bleh. Google's doing some amazing work but I hate how they communicate - vague, self-serving, low signal-to-noise slop.

It's like they take some interesting wood carving of communication, then sand it down to a featureless nub.
AI is really good at coming up with solutions to already solved problems. Which if you look at the Unity store, is something in incredibly high demand.

This frees you up to work on the crunchy unsolved problems.
I don't fault them for this at all. AI isn't possible without the full infra stack, which clearly includes storage (and compute, and networking, and data pipelining, and and and...). There's an entire ecosystem of ISVs that only do one of these things, very well (Pure Storage, for example, or Lamba or Coreweave, or Confluent (Kafka + Flink with LLM integration). While it might be more precisely accurate to state "AI enabling" tech, I'll give them a pass.
This is like saying income tax is a tariff because it stops people from buying more imported product.
The (relatively) uninformed US population is 100% an intentional domestic outcome of US geopolitics.
It's amazing.

I've wanted a small prompt-manager chrome extension for a while.

Was procrastinating.

Was able to build one for myself with Firebase studio in 30 mins.

Here's my PromptPal - built in just 30m (disable ad-blocker to avoid issues - there's some interference for some reason):

https://9000-idx-studio-1744253706406.cluster-fkltigo73ncaix...

No frustration whatsoever

Their prototyper is awesome

And code mode also great

I was able to push to github as well with no problems. And the tool generates nice commits for every single change one makes.
Vietnam does not pay $68/month. Where did you get your made up numbers?

Source: brother works in a Nike factory in Vietnam; am acquaintances with the manager of an Adidas factory in Vietnam; and know that the legal minimum wage in Vietnam -- which is definitely enforced on foreign factories -- is far above $68/month.

My brother at the Nike factory makes almost 10x that assembling women's shoes.

Someone working part time at a convience store makes 3-4x your claimed number.
Hmm ... so the worked conclusions of professional economists are less interesting than the opinion of a random stranger on the internet?
That’s an actually impressive level of spin. Flashback to when shipping companies were slapping blockchain on international container shipments.
I also recommend watching this talk if you have not seen it already.

Mike Monteiro: Fuck you, pay me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
Alan Turing's 'Delilah' papers saved for the nation
because businesses have overheads? and customers have brand preferences that stop (or limit the success of) Footlocker just selling generic models without Nike's involvement?
See e.g. Youtube Shorts and Instagram Reels
Here's an example, and this is a very critically acclaimed safety video. And, yes, I like it as a video, I just don't like it as a way to demonstrate safety.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al51WZcN2_U

It takes over 30 seconds before any visual instruction starts.

The business class shoulder harness isn't shown at all and is instead a tiny icon with a moving background shot taking up most of the screen.

The overhead bin animation is not taking place inside a real plane, is barely an outline of a part of a plane, and has most of the image being of a historic building in the background.

The instructions are then interrupted by dancing on the beach for about 10 seconds.

The next instructions has a set of dancers and a very colorful Kathakali dancer taking up most of the screen while the electronic devices are a tiny icon.

No smoking is again a small icon on the side of the screen with the foreground being a much more interesting and compelling visual.

Another 10 seconds of dancing...the video is interrupted constantly and made unnecessarily long.

Emergency exit doors shown as an outline again in a colorful historic building with a dancer moving around as the focal point.

Then the exit aisles are shown not in a plane but as part of an old building.

Oxygen masks aren't shown connected to the plane so it's hard to say where they're coming from.

More dance interruptions with no instructions.

The life vest is probably the first thing that's just as clear as seeing the in-person demonstration.

Then the last 30 seconds is all timewasters.

Again, great video, but it's a brand and tourism advertisement and not a safety video.
Also, he was concerned about getting re-elected again.

And possibly being prosecuted for crimes, but Republican appointees on the Supreme Court kinda took care of that.
They've also been shipping people off to a prison in El Salvador without due process and, according to them, no way to bring them back if they send the wrong person.

Avoiding travel to the US right now is a perfectly reasonable decision.
This makes a good argument against centralized production and knowledge. It would economically be much more reasonable if any good could be produced anywhere at any time. Smaller production facilities for localized sourcing. Would IMHO also be much more in line with a free market. Everyone would be free to source goods in any country or location of their choice. Coupled with open knowledge this could be a truly free market.

But will never happen because currently free market means one business is free to dominate and control a market.
Not true. VAT does way less economic damage. Tariffs introduce massive distortions in the market.
How do you imagine a "better chroot" would differ from a Docker container? Seems to me like that's exactly what Docker is.
Yes but they are settled in dollars, and all the countries of the world are in fact holding dollar reserves.
Isn't this what the press secretary said today?
Agreed. If anything it's an icon of overengineering. The main advantage imo is that you dont need to worry about a kid sticking a fork into the wall socket. I grew up with it so i never really thought it strange that the plugs are 2 or 3 times bigger then necessary. It's an event every time you connect to the National Grid as the plug slots into the wall with a satisfying clunk, so there's that i guess.
the answers to that question are hugely variable and depend on the objective and defining waste. if one values learning intrinsically, like most of us here probably do, it is pretty hard to come up with a waste of time, even taking the rare break from learning.

But it seems self-evident where constraints like markets or material conditions might demarcate usefulness and waste.

Even the learners who are as happy to hear about linguistics as they are material science I presume do some opportunity cost analysis as they learn. Personally speaking, I rarely, if ever, feel like I'm wasting time per se but I always recognize and am conscious of the other things I could be doing to better maximize alternative objectives. That omnipresent consciousness may just be anxiety though I guess...
It’s just kind of silly to say “we have a tipping culture” in the same argument as “we just illegally deported a guy to El Salvador”
You think there will be zero policy changes in China over the next 125 years?
OP will be talking about gross profit not net, and also totally ignoring the substantial overhead investments in brand marketing, customer service, stores, etc, that luxury goods brands have to make.