MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-23 02:21:27+00:00
If they're not individualized items, send US$800 worth everyday for the next week to an Amerifriend to warehouse there and re-ship domestic on-demand if you can.

That's basically what US companies were doing with Chinese stuff when those tariffs were announced but not in force yet (and maybe earlier if they got early wind about it).

Dunno what's going on with NAFTA/CUSMA/USMCA. Changes with the wind. Or maybe you'll qualify for duty-free under our supposed trade agreement if you pay some assessor mafia $9999 to confirm that your handmade good is Made in Canada.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-08-23 02:22:25+00:00
How in the world do they claim to have 0.24Wh per query? MIT estimates the LLama 3.1 405B model uses 1.86Wh.

GPT-4 is over a trillion parameters. Is there any reason to think they have 2.5x more parameters but somehow use 6x less energy?
by avalys | 2025-08-23 02:22:32+00:00
I’d like to see airlines charge for carryons and allow checked bags for free.

Carryons are by far the best experience for a passenger - your bag is there with you and you don’t have to arrive at the airport early, nor wait around at baggage claim. All business and frequent travelers would pay extra for this.

Meanwhile, carryons are worse for everyone else, and for the airline! They massively slow down the boarding and deboarding process while you wait for people to heft their massive suitcases up into the bins.

Fewer carryons means faster turnarounds which means more profit.

Thank you for listening to my talk.
by t0lo | 2025-08-23 02:22:39+00:00
You're right fellow snarky silly redditor this is just business as usual and the young and the old people freaking out! The polycrisis of climate, collapse of a hegemon and brain of the west, billions starving from climate collapse and the effect that will have on the psyche of our species are just silly little problems that wont fuck us forever. We're going to be living in a hell of sorts for like over a century. It really is those dang people overreacting isn't it?
by tasn | 2025-08-23 02:23:00+00:00
Email is used a single factor (either because of magic links or forgot password flows), so the impact is much larger than getting your snail mail sent to someone else.

Also, whoever takes your old residence is probably not malicious (they just want the house because they want a house), but whoever takes your email address is much more likely to be malicious (as the acquisition cost is low and it scales).
by DirkH | 2025-08-23 02:23:06+00:00
I've yet to meet anyone who thinks it a certainty in the community. Even my short-timeline friends who don't contribute to retirement savings and otherwise have clearly seen their mental health deteriorate over the stress still don't think it a certainty at all. Just something they reason as likely enough that it is reasonable to stress out over and change life plans over.

I don't think it was dumb of scientists during the nuclear arms race in the 50s to think there was a significant enough chance humans were going to go extinct soon (years, not decades) because of the developments they were seeing and as a result getting very anxious and doing things like stopping their retirement savings plans.

The fears from that era were 100% well-founded within the group or scientists who were most on the know about developments. Same goes for AI development.

Talking to people I have met who used to work at OpenAI as AI researchers and left because of AI safety concerns paints a very clear "these are reasonable-headed people with well-informed beliefs" when they say things like there is a small but significant chance we lose control by 2027. Because humans are ganna human and place shareholder value and beating China over safety.
by achierius | 2025-08-23 02:25:13+00:00
I do pay taxes, just like a motorist might. Where do you live that you think your car or your gas is taxed in a way that contributes to road upkeep? In the US gas taxes haven't been upped in decades, roadways are maintained out of the common coffers (incl. large federal incentives which come straight out of your income tax payments).
by roflyear | 2025-08-23 02:25:16+00:00
That is exactly what happens if they can enforce payments: "you don't get to be on our store if you're bypassing this"

But it isn't what is happening if they are staying on the platform's marketplaces and also bypassing payments. There is no "market" effect there.

Not saying I agree with the 30%, but third party app stores exist. That is the market avenue (and no one uses them).
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-08-23 02:25:31+00:00
Go check out how the Tesla board functions, who is on it, how they got there, and how they could be removed.

Musk has his cronies on the board, and the rules to replace someone on the board effectively require 80+% of the stock not owned by Elon to change.

The members of this board got huge stock grants from Musk and are utterly beholden to him.
by lugu | 2025-08-23 02:26:12+00:00
I think it would be shorter, they work with Samsung to evaluate their option. And if China did went after TSMC (Taiwan and us) plus Samsung, Nvidia can still switch supplier (Intel?). The risk (let's say one year revenu) isn't worth joining the fab business. They have seen what happened to Intel and AND. And they know China will have good fabs in not too long. Nvidia true competitor is apple, and they are in the same boat.
by ETH_start | 2025-08-23 02:26:37+00:00
Speed bumps are built on public roads, which are shared property.

A private transaction is incomparable to that. The government imposing itself on every private economic interaction, by making itself a gatekeeper from whom you need permission, is incredibly invasive and dangerous. The threat vector here is the government, or the people in it, harming the general populace through malice, and more commonly, incompetence in how they wield these powers of warrantless surveillance and financial exclusion.

Banks unilaterally closing people's accounts, or refusing to open an account for them, because those people fall into high-risk categories, is now very common.

On the bank side alone, the costs of this system are estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars a year. All those costs are ultimately passed down to the consumers in a way of higher banking fees. On the consumer side, not knowing if you can move your money or access it is a significant source of anxiety that also makes it harder to plan one's life.

That's the "ton of collateral damage".
by mindslight | 2025-08-23 02:28:13+00:00
"Conversation" ? Do you really feel there is any kind of conversation happening?

I don't think it's possible for the MSM to lose any more credibility at this point. The only credibility left is people giving a pass to their flavor of MSM for articles that confirm their biases - same dynamic as social media posts.

For the timeline, Trump has been rambling word salad well before it was an issue for Biden. The difference is that for republicans/fascists, mental incompetence is an endearing feature ("he sounds like the kind of person I could have a beer with"), and the democrats/conservatives application of used-to-be-societal-values is seen as a weakness whereby they're getting "triggered".

I don't think the whole story arc needed to be planned ahead of time strategically. Rather I think it comes from flooding the zone with shit that might stick, and then the chaos creates opportunities.
by rayiner | 2025-08-23 02:29:05+00:00
Unfortunately, this ship sailed quite some time ago. For example, after the 2008 financial crisis, the Senate rejected a proposed bailout of GM. But Bush approved it anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_2008%E2%80%9320...

> However, it had been argued that the Treasury lacked the statutory authority to direct TARP funds to the automakers, since TARP is limited to "financial institutions" under Section 102 of the TARP. It was also argued that providing TARP funds to automaker's financing operations, such as GMAC, runs counter to the intent of Congress for limiting TARP funds to true "financial institutions".[79] On December 19, 2008, President Bush used his executive authority to declare that TARP funds may be spent on any program he personally deems necessary to avert the financial crisis, and declared Section 102 to be nonbinding.

Also, “unitary executive” doesn’t mean overriding other branches. It just means that whatever powers the executive branch does or does not have are exercised by the President, just like the 535 members of Congress exercise all the powers of Congress, and the 9 Justices exercise all of the powers of the Supreme Court. It means that executive branch employees don’t have independent powers, just as House staffers and Supreme Court law clerks don’t have independent powers.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._70 (“Federalist No. 70 emphasizes the unitary structure of the executive. The strong executive must be unitary, Hamilton says, because ‘unity is conducive to energy...[d]ecision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch will generally characterize the proceedings of one man in a much more eminent degree than the proceedings of any greater number.’”).
by johncolanduoni | 2025-08-23 02:29:38+00:00
These are per-connection bottlenecks, largely due to implementation choices in the Linux network stack. Even with vanilla Linux networking, vertical scale can get the aggregate bandwidth as high as you want if you don’t need 10G per connection (which YouTube doesn’t), as long as you have enough CPU cores and NIC queues.

Another thing to consider: Google’s load balancers are all bespoke SDN and they almost certainly speak HTTP1/2 between the load balancers and the application servers. So Linux network stack constraints are probably not relevant for the YouTube frontend serving HTTP3 at all.
by autoexec | 2025-08-23 02:29:40+00:00
If only those games weren't infested with micro/macro transactions to manipulate players out of their money in the first place. Mobile gaming is a cesspool of ads, gambling, greed, data collection, and bullshit all of which has been slowly spreading like a cancer to gaming on every other platform for decades. I'm not happy about Apple and Google demanding a cut of the action either, screw them too, but making these tactics even more profitable for shitty mobile game devs isn't going to benefit players.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-08-23 02:30:18+00:00
It makes types very predictable though: a var int is always a valid int no matter what, where or how. How would you design the type system and semantics around initialization and declarations without defaults? Just allow uninitialized values like in C? That’s basically default values with extra steps and bonus security holes. An expansion of the type system to account for PossiblyUndefined<t>? That feels like a significant complication, but maybe someone made it work…
by kurikuri | 2025-08-23 02:30:36+00:00
> I do know, however, that if you take private data from your employer and leak it (or sell it) you’re not going to be on the right side of the law. I have a hard time buying this article’s point that it was just “violating company policy”

If I were to copy the files on my work device and distribute them, I would be in violation of NDAs which could be pursued as civil offenses. If I didn’t have those NDAs, my employer could try and pursue something in court, along with firing me, but it wouldn’t be a straightforward suit.

None of these are (or at least, should be) criminal situations.
by brettgriffin | 2025-08-23 02:32:03+00:00
It is, and this is what they will have to do. A lot of left hand turns in NYC - even in the outer skirts of the four major boroughs - cannot be made until the light has turned red, requiring a "New York/Pittsburgh Left".

They will have to route the car around in a manner that allows it turn from the right in that intersection.
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-23 02:32:11+00:00
off-topic: As a Canadian, I set up an XM Radio, so I now hear a lot more US ads than I usually do (their music stations are ad-free, but the news channel feeds sub the commercials).

Does everyone in USA need a loan in 24h, has IRS problems and is looking to sell (not buy, but sell) their life insurance policy? It's better than Kars4Kids, but I thought people paying for radio might be in a better financial position?
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-23 02:32:36+00:00
If you’re delivering audio and video separately the blocking is irrelevant for needing to solve synchronization. That’s why some amount of buffering (a few frames of video at least) on the receiver is needed to hide the jitter between packets / make sure you have the video. You can go super low latency with no buffering but then you need to drop out video / audio when issues occur and those will be visible as glitches - depends on how good your network is.
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-23 02:34:45+00:00
For sake of argument, why shouldn’t you?

What if an airline wanted to charge by the pound? Or by the cubic metre? “Identify how you please! We just move matter. If the matter requires oxygen, water, or 2.5 pretzel sticks, we will gladly sell that too! Looking for extra savings this summer? Try our new sweat lounge! Your precious bodily fluids are fungible, so sweat them out now and reconstitute when you arrive!”

For what it’s worth, I’m very very strongly in support of socializing things like this and would prefer to live in a community that is of the leave a penny, take a penny mindset.
by bb88 | 2025-08-23 02:34:50+00:00
A company might discover that the most profitable thing is to destroy the social fabric to make money. We call this "engagement". In practice, it's the most controversial opinions that generate clicks. The social media company realizes the controversial opinions generate the most clicks. Generating discord in the populace creates more click -- and therefore more profit.

If you work social media company, often you're going to make a literal shit ton of coin. Often, it's enough make you think twice before voicing opinions about the corporate gravy train.
by kemayo | 2025-08-23 02:35:21+00:00
It's certainly not "full of", though I'm sure it's there. I never see it, but then I don't follow people who post it.

I certainly see less random pornographically-tinged content showing up in my day-to-day usage than I did when I was on twitter. The default view being literally only stuff I've explicitly followed does rather change that experience.
by presentation | 2025-08-23 02:36:50+00:00
Traffic rules do require some discretion though - if eg you don’t allow crossing a double yellow line but a car is broken down blocking the lane, does that mean that the road is now effectively unusable until that car is towed? Lots of examples.

But I’m with you on more enforcement. I’m totally fine with automated traffic cameras and it was working great when I was in China - suddenly seemingly overnight everyone stopped speeding on the highways when I was in Shanghai, as your chances of getting a ticket were super high.
by super256 | 2025-08-23 02:36:52+00:00
I think you underestimate how much energy in your food is.

1 kcal = 4200 joules

1 Watthours = 3600 joules

The Taco Bell double decker has 310 kcal = 1.3M joules

1.3M joules = 0.35 kWh

If each AI prompt takes 0.3 Wh, you could do ca. 1200 prompts per double decker. Which is a lot.
by hattmall | 2025-08-23 02:37:24+00:00
Maybe we need to limit them a bit more, but there's an evolutionary factor or purpose or something at play. I remember a psychology lecture where they talked about it and how in hunter and gather societies most people would be content for a while when they found a good gathering area, they would hang out and gather the food and eat. But they had certain people that didn't want to stay they just wanted to move on to find the next better gathering area and would practically be forced to eat and carry enough food before they could keep searching. Those people were important too, and I feel that's the psychology of billionaires today. There is never enough they don't even actually care about the bounty it's just the idea of getting more and more.

I also remember an experiment found that something like 8% of people swerve over to purposely hit turtles on the shoulder of the road. I would be much more interested in identifying and containing those people.
by echelon | 2025-08-23 02:37:55+00:00
The DOJ/FTC need to end app stores on phones.

Two companies can't own all of computing.

Smartphones are the internet for most people, and two companies have installed comprehensive paywalls and distribution gateways.

It's unnatural how large and complete their monopolies are.

Call your legislator and demand web installs without scare walls and hidden developer flags. With no phony restrictions on app type, technology choice, JIT/runtimes, or UI adherence.

We need complete freedom on mobile.
by roughly | 2025-08-23 02:37:59+00:00
Something that occurred to me a while back that I can’t stop seeing is that Americans fundamentally do not expect laws to actually be enforced and will get angry if they are, even when they voted for those laws. It’s something baked deeply enough into American society that we don’t consciously notice it, but no American actually expects to actually have to follow the laws they’re voting for.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-23 02:39:27+00:00
> False. The exact opposite of bad.

I don't mind stable base systems, I don't mind slow and well tested updates, I actively like holding stable ABIs, but if you haven't updated anything in 4 years, then you are missing bug and security fixes. Not everything needs to be Arch, but this opposite extreme is also bad.

> The “system” should provide the barest minimum of libraries. Programs should ship as many of their dependencies as is technically feasible.

And then application developers fail to update their vendored dependencies, and thereby leave their users exposed to vulnerabilities. (This isn't hypothetical, it's a thing that has happened.) No, thank you.

>Oh what’s that? Are crying about security updates? Yeah well unfortunately you shipped everything in a Docker container so you need to rebuild and redeploy all of your hierarchical images anyways.

So... are you arguing that we do need to ship everything vendored in so that it can't be updated, or that we need to actually break out packages to be managed independently (like every major Linux distribution does)? Because you appear to have advocated for vendoring everything, and then immediately turned around to criticize the situation where things get vendored in.
by silicon5 | 2025-08-23 02:39:30+00:00
They're right to point out that laws like this are primarily motivated by government control of speech. On a recent Times article about the UK's Online Safety Act:

> Luckily, we don’t have to imagine the scene because the High Court judgment details the last government’s reaction when it discovered this potentially rather large flaw. First, we are told, the relevant secretary of state (Michelle Donelan) expressed “concern” that the legislation might whack sites such as Amazon instead of Pornhub. In response, officials explained that the regulation in question was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but was about regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”, a phrase that rather gives away the political thinking behind the act. They suggested asking Ofcom to think again and the minister agreed.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/online-s...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-23 02:39:41+00:00
“…demonstrators returned Wednesday to again take over a portion of the plaza at Microsoft’s East Campus. They poured red paint on a company sign to symbolize blood, and blocked a bridge…

…

…the 20 people arrested in the Wednesday protest included one current employee, and three former employees…

…

Almost all of those arrested [Wednesday], including some carrying fake company ID cards…”

This is counterproductive. Acting like an idiot in public and disrupting peoples’ work doesn’t gain sympathy. (At best it gains awareness. But that isn’t the problem Palestinians face.)
by silicon5 | 2025-08-23 02:40:23+00:00
They're right to point out that laws like this are primarily motivated by government control of speech. On a recent Times article about the UK's Online Safety Act:

> Luckily, we don’t have to imagine the scene because the High Court judgment details the last government’s reaction when it discovered this potentially rather large flaw. First, we are told, the relevant secretary of state (Michelle Donelan) expressed “concern” that the legislation might whack sites such as Amazon instead of Pornhub. In response, officials explained that the regulation in question was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but was about regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”, a phrase that rather gives away the political thinking behind the act. They suggested asking Ofcom to think again and the minister agreed.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/online-s...
by lisbbb | 2025-08-23 02:41:16+00:00
I have only used Kotlin on the JVM. You're saying there's a way to avoid the JVM and build binaries with it? Gotta go look that up. The problem with Kotlin is not the language but finding jobs using it can be spotty. "Kotlin specialist" isn't really a thing at all. You can find more Golang and Python jobs than Kotlin.
by skybrian | 2025-08-23 02:41:20+00:00
There's an important hint in the blog post:

> This decision applies only to the Bluesky app, which is one service built on the AT Protocol [...] We remain committed to building a protocol that enables openness and choice.

If someone else builds another app as a workaround, they aren't going to stop them. (Bluesky isn't decentralized enough in practice yet, but someday...)
by hattmall | 2025-08-23 02:42:11+00:00
I will admit I haven't tried this, so I don't know if there's some encryption that would be problematic but there are definitely HDMI video capture devices that are very reasonably priced and would let you record content. BUt most all content is online so it seems there would be very little demand for the feature you are talking about. I can just go to my friends house and log in to whatever app and watch the same stuff I can at my house, or use something like a Chromecast.
by hluska | 2025-08-23 02:43:29+00:00
> in a move that was later declared illegal

To be fair, a lower court ruled it “illegal exaction” but awarded $0 in damages as the illegal exaction prevented bankruptcy which would have zeroed out the investment anyways. Then the Federal Court of Appeals tossed that ruling as the plaintiffs did not have standing to pursue action.

There is no current ruling that the acquisition was illegal.
by Enginerrrd | 2025-08-23 02:44:06+00:00
I actually think this is one area where AI and statistics applied to player behavior are actually the right answer, similar to how they catch chess cheaters.

I've seen videos where cheats are particularly easy to detect if you are also cheating. I.e. when you have all the information, you can start to see players reacting to other players before they should be able to detect them. So it should be possible to build a repertoire of cheating examples and clean examples using high level players to catch a fair amount of cheating behavior. And while I understand that there are ways to mitigate this and its an arms race, the less obvious the cheats are, the less effective they are, almost by definition.

If someone is consistently reacting outside the range of normal human reaction times, they're cheating. If they randomize it enough to be within human range, well, mission accomplished, kind of.

If they're reacting to other players in impossible ways by avoiding them or aiming toward them before they can be seen with unusual precision or frequency, they're cheating.

A lot of complex game dynamics can be simplified to 2D vectors and it shouldn't be that computationally intensive to process.