MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2025-08-22 22:49:12+00:00
Oh I think the wealthiest will be the first with heads on pikes when it all comes tumbling down.

The wealthiest people aren’t descendants of Julius Caesar, the Medicis, the Hapsburgs, Rollo (who is an ancestor to every European monarch), the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans, etc.

Some of these are moderately wealthy now (eg the Rothchilds) but they don’t dominate the world’s wealth.

Part of this is that can be hard to maintain a lineage over time. Also, foolish fail sons will squander family wealth.

But some wealthy people just go the French Revolution way.

I don’t believe the Gateses, Musks, Bezoses, etc will survive the upheaval, violence and revolution they are making inevitable.
by jibal | 2025-08-22 22:49:35+00:00
This is correct, both about what happens and about what your P is not understanding. Your P's claim that "UTF-8 has no 8-bit restrictions" is nonsense. It's too bad that your GP wasn't clearer about what the problem is: not all byte strings are valid UTF-8. This is why people have had to invent hacks like WTF-8 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9611710)
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-22 22:49:40+00:00
I use Fastmail with my own domain. I am not sure of the logic that says paying $60/year for email is fine, but $8/year for a domain is a bridge too far.

Do that, it's a non-issue, though I do agree with you that it shouldn't be a thing (or at least have like a multiple year embargo on the address).
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-22 22:49:43+00:00
I do professional wedding photography as a side business.

Yes, please print your photos! I love it when my clients print their photos, and I print my favorites as well. There's still something magical about a real, physical photo vs. digital.

I have vast archives of digital photos and you know what? I barely look at them, but I have prints up all over my walls, in my wallet, etc and I enjoy them all the time.
by davidandgoli4th | 2025-08-22 22:50:04+00:00
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by dandersch | 2025-08-22 22:50:13+00:00
It can work on a vm, but for Valorant specifically it seems that detecting a vm triggers the anticheat and gets you banned. I believe this is the case for most anticheats except VAC. You can try to evade the detection, but then you just enter the same cat & mouse game as a cheater. Whether allowing/disallowing VMs actually cuts down on cheaters? I don't know.
by ddritzenhoff | 2025-08-22 22:50:30+00:00
Hi, I've got one.

Does your team have any concrete plans to reduce the TCP vs. QUIC diff with respect to goodput [1]? The linked paper claims seeing up to a 9.8% video bitrate reduction from HTTP/2 (TCP) to HTTP/3 (QUIC). Obviously, MoQ is based on a slightly different stack, so the results don't exactly generalize. I can imagine the problems are similar, though.

(I find this stuff fascinating, as I spent the last few months investigating the AF_XDP datapath for MsQuic as part of my master's thesis. I basically came to the conclusion that GSO/GRO is a better alternative and that QUIC desperately needs more hardware offloads :p)

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.09423
by trod1234 | 2025-08-22 22:50:30+00:00
Not good. Have you considered the second order effects of a breakdown of communications?

Marketing and Advertising is about communicating a product to someone that may be interested in purchasing it.

If Communications is jammed because AI slop has dominated the web, no marketing happens, no hiring happens, no purchases are made because no jobs. In short order (relatively speaking), you get deflationary collapse of all human organization.

Should that collapse, population levels will be forced to make a deep correction in ecological terms. The planet is in ecological overshoot. What happens when 2/3 of people can suddenly no longer feed themselves, and technology allows one person to destroy everyone on the planet. Quite bad.

Also, the money in surveillance capitalism is almost straight from the money-printer. It may be laundered a bit, but overall the reason old marketing/advertising failed is because it was outcompeted by money-printing, and when that fails (as it always does), you have a barren soil where nothing will grow. Corporate business today has a tendency to burn their house down with themselves in it to save a few pennies.
by maxdamantus | 2025-08-22 22:50:47+00:00
> This is, of course, exactly what Rust does: I am not aware of a single thing that &str allows you to do that you cannot do with &[u8], except things that do require you to assume it's valid UTF-8.

Doesn't this demonstrate my point? If you can do everything with &[u8], what's the point in validating UTF-8? It's just a less universal string type, and your program wastes CPU cycles doing unnecessary validation.
by zahlman | 2025-08-22 22:51:08+00:00
> or other vastly more meaningful metrics than "5", whose unit is so disastrous I can't put a name to it. It's not bytes, it's not UTF-16 code units, it's not anything meaningful, and that's the problem.

The unit is perfectly meaningful.

It's "characters". (Pedantically, "code points" — https://www.unicode.org/glossary/#code_point — because values that haven't been assigned to characters may be stored. This is good for interop, because it allows you to receive data from a platform that implements a newer version of the Unicode standard, and decide what to do with the parts that your local terminal, font rendering engine, etc. don't recognize.)

Since UTF-32 allows storing every code point in a single code unit, you can also describe it that way, despite the fact that Python doesn't use a full 4 bytes per code point when it doesn't have to.

The only real problem is that "character" doesn't mean what you think it does, and hasn't since 1991.

I don't understand what you mean by "USV count".

> but what is a character?

It's what the Unicode standard says a character is. https://www.unicode.org/glossary/#character , definition 3. Python didn't come up with the concept; Unicode did.

> …but "5" or "7"? Where do those even come from?

From the way that the Unicode standard dictates that this text shall be represented. This is not Python's fault.

> Again: "character in the implementation" is a meaningless concept.

"Character" is completely meaningful, as demonstrated by the fact the Unicode Consortium defines it, and by the fact that huge amounts of software has been written based on that definition, and referring to it in documentation.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-22 22:51:11+00:00
I'd hesitate to say the left or right has a more or less complex system. Certainly now the college educated are more attracted to the Democrats than the Republicans but that was not the case in the 1960s and as late as the 1990s some right-wing Republicans of time had a lot of influence at my Uni, they are building this structure in the name of a very right-wing head of the board of trustees in the 1990s

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114860542662347802

Marxism is a complex system that appeals to systematizers, "anti-racism" is a little less smart and more pessimistic and has about as much appeal to noneducated minorities as Marxism has to the working class -- the rank and file's ideology is more like

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/112503020931163144

A lot of it is path dependent. I mean, Trump greased the skids for those mRNA vaccines and I remember my leftist friends saying in December 2020 that there must be something wrong about them being developed at "warp speed". Had he won it would have been leftists shunning vaccines and rightists shunning them for being stupid.

Every good paranoid believes the "pincer theory" that every social movement needs a wing that appeals to the elite (lacks manpower) and mass (lacks resources, vision, ...) to the smart and the stupid, etc.
by torginus | 2025-08-22 22:51:32+00:00
Yeah, this so weird coming from the US. The US government has a history of writing no-strings-attached blank cheques to people/companies just so avoid the stigma of government control in public companies.

I wonder how the markets will react, will stocks go up because people will assume Intel's going to be a government mandated champion or will they go down because of the negative connotations government control brings?
by callahad | 2025-08-22 22:51:38+00:00
My understanding from looking into this two years ago is that it's hit or miss for banks (depending on if they opt into device attestation stuff), no for NFC / Google Wallet, and yes for Uber / Lyft.

Apparently the common workaround for the Google Wallet stuff is to pair a GrapheneOS phone with a stock Android smartwatch.

Edit: Here's some additional information on banking apps: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Apparently the common recommendation these days is to use Curve Pay as a virtual card provider on GrapheneOS, which can then route to arbitrary underlying cards. And evidently Google Wallet does work for things that aren't payment cards (airline tickets, transit passes, etc.) on GrapheneOS.
by bawolff | 2025-08-22 22:51:53+00:00
The comment i was responding to was about download not upload.

Certainly though you can do multiple upload on a protocol level in http (resumable upload less so)

Afterall, S3 clients are all http under the hood, and that is basically the defacto standard now.

There certainly exists features in ftp not present in http, but they were rarely used/bad ideas (hello server to server transfer)
by rtkwe | 2025-08-22 22:51:56+00:00
Coal and gas extraction are huge businesses with loads of money to pour into financing their own protection. They were so successful the meme it created broke free and took it's own life. It combined with reflexive anti-regulation, anti-intellectualism, and anti-tax forces so it's outlived even the need for it from some of the original creators (Shell et al have invested into their own renewables arms because they are the future).
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-22 22:52:24+00:00
A movie with 100% on RT will never in practice get an average score of 6/10. This was the original point of contention. Nothing you've said so far has made this statement any less true, nor do you have any examples to refute it.

>It's much quicker and easier to just get an aggregated Metascore... I don't have any desire to read 12 movie review articles

So your argument against a broad-sample aggregator (RT) is to use a slightly-less-broad-sample aggregator (MC)? You complain about "every-person-with-a-substack" but you're still relying on an aggregation of dozens of critics you've never heard of. You're just drawing an arbitrary line in the sand and calling it "quality."

>"High score" is an arbitrary definition. For the purposes of the discussion... 74 doesn't cross the threshold of worth watching

You're confusing your personal, subjective viewing threshold with an objective measure of quality. A score is what it is. 75/100 is the top quartile. That is, by definition, a high score. Whether you have enough time in your life to watch every movie in the top quartile is completely irrelevant to the validity of the score itself.

Now this is more besides the point but i really do think that you're using a tool (Metacritic's average score) for a job it wasn't designed for: being the sole arbiter of what's worth your time. A film's "quality" is not a single, objective number. It depends on genre, intent, and audience.

Is a 95-rated historical epic 'better' than the 'best' horror film of the year that only managed an 82 on Metacritic? Your system says yes, which is absurd. They're trying to do different things.

Not to mention your method is overly biased towards one specific type of film: the prestige drama. If that's the only kind of film you like to watch then cool i guess, but if not then what you're currently doing is nonsensical.

>As yet another example "Bob Trevino likes it" is 94 RT vs 70 MC compared with "Past Lives" 95 RT vs MC 94: Which is more informative when selecting a movie? I can list more examples but I can't find any examples that demonstrate the reverse (i.e. that shows that you would be better off listening to RT over MC).

Even the most well received movies have a few mixed, negative or less positive than the consensus reviews. You could well be one of them. So the RT score tries to answers the question..."What are the odds i'll like this movie?"

This is a very useful information to have especially because i'm not a zombie picking movies to watch because of a single average score from an echo chamber of critics (which is bizarrely what you seem to be doing).

If the synopsis of Bob Trevino is more interesting to me, I would absolutely pick it over Past Lives especially if the latter seems more divisive.

They are complementary scores. Only when two movies seem to be the same type of film with the same type of distribution of scores will i favor the average score.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-08-22 22:52:47+00:00
I finally grok the Republican party. It's only socialism if it helps the poor. Government handouts to corporations and trade protectionism? Mainly helps the rich, so it's not socialism. Tax money spent on a special interest program? Again, if it mainly helps the rich (or their party's base), no problemo. They're the Kleptocracy Party.
by cj | 2025-08-22 22:52:53+00:00
I sort of always assumed OpenAI was constantly training the next new model.

I wonder what percent of compute goes towards training vs. inference. If it’s a meaningful percent, you could possibly dial down training to make room for high inference load (if both use the same hardware).

I also wouldn’t be surprised if they’re overspending and throwing money at it to maximize the user experience. They’re still a high growth company that doesn’t want anything to slow it down. They’re not in “optimize everything for profit margin” mode yet.
by usernomdeguerre | 2025-08-22 22:53:33+00:00
The clearer picture comes from Reuters[0], as usual:

>The government will purchase the 433.3 million shares with funding from the $5.7 billion in unpaid CHIPS Act grants and $3.2 billion awarded to Intel for the Secure Enclave program.

So the same playbook hes taken across the board: cast aspersions on leadership, withhold duly appropriated money in contravention to the law. Rinse repeat.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-intel-has-agreed...
by BeetleB | 2025-08-22 22:54:20+00:00
Someone showed me OSMAnd recently while we were hiking. I installed it as soon as I got home. Great for hiking.

Then last week I used it for navigation (on a phone with no SIM card).

Absolutely. Terrible.

Worst navigation app I've seen. Told me to make a turn at an intersection that did not allow turns. Then at another intersection, it told me to "Turn left", but the display clearly showed it going straight. I'm guessing that the straight road probably is angled 1 degree or something at the intersection and the app was viewing that as a turn.
by davidandgoli4th | 2025-08-22 22:54:36+00:00
Hey foxylad, I hear your frustration. Did you know everything you do on your phone and computer is through an app?

My name is Lukas Dickie and I'm the founder of Changefly. You can verify this by looking up our business registration with Washington State or contacting Troy Foster at Perkins Coie (https://perkinscoie.com/professionals/troy-foster). I have a long track record of working with governments and companies around the world.

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by quotemstr | 2025-08-22 22:55:42+00:00
Everyone is thinking about this problem the wrong way. Just use remote attestation.

Who needs opaque binary blob kernel modules or whatever for anti-cheat when you can bootstrap a secure boot and remote attestation setup? It's possible for a game server to verify cryptographically that someone is running stock firmware, stock bootloader, stock TCB userspace, a stock game executable, and that no debugger is attached. You don't need cat and mouse BS with executable obfuscation. You don't need inscrutable spyware. You don't need to prohibit VMs. All you need to do is configure your program not to be debuggable, prohibit network MITM (e.g. with certificate pinning), and then use remote attestation to make sure nobody has tampered with the system to make it ignore your anti debugging configuration.

All of the components involved in this trust chain can be open source. There's no spyware involved. No rootkit. No obfuscation. Everything is transparent and above board.

The only downside (besides implementation complexity) is that the remote attestation scheme is incompatible with running custom builds of the components remotely attested. But so what? Doing so isn't a requirement of open source. You can still run custom builds too -- just not at the same time you play your game.

Seems like a fair compromise to me
by WalterBright | 2025-08-22 22:55:49+00:00
Nadella changed the focus and direction of Microsoft. The company increased in value 10x. Maybe "anyone could have done that", in hindsight. Heck, if I went back in time with a detailed copy of Apple's history, I could have done what Jobs did.

But without that guide, I would have destroyed Apple. I'm just not that good.
by epistasis | 2025-08-22 22:56:13+00:00
Take for example two basic proposals: Harris's housing proposals, which were widely misreported inserting right-wing misinformation and assumptions about them to denigrate the proposals.

Compare that to Trump's tariff proposals, which most media just assumed he'd not be so stupid as to actually implement, and never reported on critique of them. I've talked to so many center-right people that thought "oh I didn't know this would happen. Oh well I guess it's going to be ok because it's Republicans in charge."

The media covers for Trump's weakness and Trump gives them so many things to critique that never even get discussed. Very serious things. Meanwhile the media has to make up things about Democrats in order to criticize them. It's all hugely biased.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-22 22:56:46+00:00
> This problem fundamentally undermines the appeal of PC gaming in a significant way, imo.

Yes, game publishers are trying to turn PCs into a gaming console, which IMO will always be a futile effort, and is quite frankly annoying. I don't game on PC to have a locked down console-like experience.

Just embrace the PC for what it is and stop trying to turn it into a trusted execution platform with spyware and rootkits.

Look at BF6 - for all the secure boot and TPM required anti-cheat they stuffed it with, there were cheaters day 1, so why abuse your users when it's clearly ineffective anyway.
by davidandgoli4th | 2025-08-22 22:56:53+00:00
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by zahlman | 2025-08-22 22:57:30+00:00
> I simply pointed out a mistaken claim and your comment is about something quite different.

My comment explains that you have misunderstood what the claim is. "Byte code format" was nonsensical (Unicode is not interpreted by a VM), but the point that comment was trying to make (as I understood it) is that not all subsequences of a valid sequence of (assigned) code points are valid.

> Also that's not what "character" means in the Unicode framework--some code points correspond to characters and some don't.

My definition does not contradict that. A code point is an integer in the Unicode code space which may correspond to a character. When it does, "character" trivially means the thing that the code point corresponds to, i.e., represents, as I said.
by tines | 2025-08-22 22:57:55+00:00
> Marketing and Advertising is about communicating a product to someone that may be interested in purchasing it.

This is only what advertising is about for the advertisers.

For the other side of the coin, namely, the platforms that sell users to the advertisers, advertising is about capturing as much attention as possible in order to sell it. That means addiction, scams, sensationalism, lying, and preying on fear, greed, lust, and all the baser motives of a human being.
by davidandgoli4th | 2025-08-22 22:58:31+00:00
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by mappu | 2025-08-22 22:58:35+00:00
Kostya did a lot of the RV60/RMHD reverse engineering work for NihAV back in 2018! His blog also talks about the GPL violations from Real.

The old RV40 had some small advantages over H264. At low bitrates, RV40 always seemed to blur instead of block, so it got used a lot for anime content. CPU-only decoding was also more lightweight than even the most optimized H264 decoder (CoreAVC with the inloop deblocking disabled to save even more CPU).
by pryce | 2025-08-22 22:59:05+00:00
That's very cute quip but I notice that it places the blame on 'trade with China' for an alarming problem that is in fact entirely the doing of US voters expressing their values (or the lack of them) in fair elections.

A more interesting question is whether that voterbase's idea of what they were voting for does or doesn't line up with what they got.
by int_19h | 2025-08-22 22:59:51+00:00
The wealthiest live in gated communities with private security, and are the ones who can scramble to their private jets when SHTF. The ones whose heads mostly end up on the spikes are the richest proles (i.e. "top middle class") - those who have enough money that it is obvious they're each, yet not enough to buy actual security or to be truly isolated from the rest of society if they so wish.