MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-08 17:29:17+00:00
> in this case it's Paramount saying "we'll up out government-blocks-the-sale fee from $2.xbn to $5bn" which is saying they have a lot of confidence the merger will go through

No.

Paramount has nothing to do with these numbers, which both come from the Plan of Merger among Netflix, Warner and others [1].

Paramount's bid constitutes an Acquisition Proposal under § 6.2(c). It is a "proposal, offer or indication of interest" from Paramount, a party who is not "Buyer and its Affiliates," which "is structured to result in such Person or group of Persons (or their stockholders), directly or indirectly, acquiring beneficial ownership of 20% or more of the Company’s consolidated total assets."

Given it "is publicly proposed" after the date of the Plan of Merger and "prior to the Company Stockholder Meeting," it is a Company Qualifying Transaction (8.3(D)(x)).

If 8.3(D)(y) is then satisfied (a condition I got bored jumping around to pin down–if thar be dragons, they be here) and Warner consummates the Company Qualifying Transaction or "enters into a definitive agreement providing for" it (8.3(a)(D)(z)(2), the Buyer can terminate the Plan of Merger under 8.1(b)(iii). That, in turn, triggers the Company Termination Fee of $2.8bn, which is separate from the Regulatory Termination Fee of $5.8bn Netflix would have to pay Warner if other shit happened.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000119312525...
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-08 17:29:29+00:00
> In the earliest days of getting people to pay for cable TV when OTA was free, the pitch was that you'd see fewer/no commercials.

No, it was quality of reception, especially for people who were farther from (or had inconvenient terrain between them and) broadcast stations; literally the only thing on early capable was exactly the normal broadcast feed from the covered stations, which naturally included all the normal ads.

Premium add-on channels that charged on top of cable, of which I think HBO was the first, had being ad free among their selling points, but that was never part of the basic cable deal.
by everfrustrated | 2025-12-08 17:29:41+00:00
Yes. They were burning the cash they raised from IPO as weren't profitable and no real path to profitability. Needed to find a buyer to take private as the other option - raise debt or print shares - wasn't going to happen as the share price had massively tanked and wasn't going to go up any time soon.

Hopefully mitchellh will write a book about Hashicorp some time. Would be fascinating to read the inside take.
by chubot | 2025-12-08 17:29:45+00:00
Uh weird that I got downvotes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His...

Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin and Chris White

Google acquired the company in July of [2005] for at least $50 million

It was ad-supported of course, but it's definitely not similar to IBM acquisitions
by yannyu | 2025-12-08 17:30:06+00:00
I agree entirely, and I think it's worthwhile to note that it may not even be the LLM that has that behavior. It's the entire deterministic machinery between the user and the LLM that creates that behavior, with the system prompt, personality prompt, RLHF, temperature, and the interface as a whole.

LLMs have an entire wrapper around them tuned to be as engaging as possible. Most people's experience of LLMs is a strongly social media and engagement economy influenced design.
by coldpie | 2025-12-08 17:30:11+00:00
Microsoft is a public company. That means their primary product is not products or services, it's their stock. Selling products & services can be an advertisement for their stock, but there are other methods of convincing people to buy their stock, too. Currently the stock market only wants stocks that have "AI" associated with them. It doesn't matter whether users like it or not, because having a viable business is not what the stock market is currently focused on. So, Microsoft is doing what they need to do to sell their primary product: shove AI into everything.
by gremlinunderway | 2025-12-08 17:30:18+00:00
People "don't care" because they do not understand the implications or the technology, not because they genuinely have no interest in privacy. Of course its easy to dupe people without technical literacy by characterizing it as some benign "targeted advertising" as if its a service being provided for you (when clearly it's not) rather than the actual answer which is "we want to follow your every movement and pattern of behaviour as if we had someone following you in an unmarked car and then sell that data to anyone willing to cough up the cash without any of your consent".

This narrative is incredibly toxic and honestly a very antisocial viewpoint of people as if they are all just stupid sheep who deserve to be exploited.

There's zero reason why its unfair for a person to both object to advertising because of the annoyance (because it is annoying) AND for a person to not want to be digitally surveilled endlessly without their consent.
by shetaye | 2025-12-08 17:30:34+00:00
There also exists cuda-gdb[1], a first-party GDB for NVIDIA's CUDA. I've found it to be pretty good. Since CUDA uses a threading model, it works well with the GDB thread ergonomics (though you can only single-step at the warp granularity IIRC by the nature of SM execution).

[1] https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-gdb/index.html
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-08 17:30:57+00:00
Microsoft's entire business model has been tying. Countless millions are forced to use Copilot because their IT department has contracts with Microsoft, and those same contracts are why they use Office, Teams, and so on. Their developers use Visual Studio, deploy to Azure, and run it all against SQL Server. Their email comes from Exchange.

It has been an incredibly lucrative strategy. We all herald some CEO's prowess in growing revenue when they've been doing the same playbook for decades now, and have been running on the inertia of Windows dominance on the desktop. Every new entrant is pushed out through countless incredibly lazy IT departments that just adopt whatever Microsoft shits out.

It's actually surprising that the one and only area where this really failed was as they tried to lever tying to the mobile market. A couple of missteps along the way are the only reason every office drone isn't rocking their Lumia ExchangeLive! CoDevice.
by nvader | 2025-12-08 17:31:06+00:00
Specific workflows that I use in jj vs git:

1. Stacked PRs. I like to be kind to my reviewers by asking them to review small, logically-contained pull requests. This means I often stack up chains of PRs, where C depends on B depends on A, and A is being reviewed. If I receive feedback on A, jj enables me to incorporate that change within A, and flows those changes down into my dependent branches. I can then merge and close out A, whole continuing to work on B and C. Achieving this in raw git is labour intensive and error prone.

2. Easily fix up commits. I like to work with atomic commits, and sometimes I realize that I've made a typo in a comment, or a small error, or missed a test case. Jj makes it really trivial to timewalk back to the commit in question, fix it and resume where I left off.

3. Decompose a big PR into multiple PRs. This is the flip side of point 1: I can take my own big PR and rearrange and partition the commits into A, B and C so that they can easily be reviewed.

In general, jj seems to encourage and reward you for being disciplined with your commits by enabling you to be more flexible in how you stage, review and ship your code.

On the flip side, if you're the kind of person who is used to typing `git commit --all --message "xxx"` you might not get as much value from jj until that changes.
by louisss | 2025-12-08 17:31:39+00:00
I built a small CRM called Azuori because I couldn’t find something simple enough for my own workflow. Every tool I tried felt too heavy, too complex, or too optimized for teams I’m not part of. So I built the minimal version of what I needed , clean pipelines, quick reminders, and a dashboard that helps instead of overwhelms.

It's now in a working state and I’d love feedback from people here, especially around UX decisions, missing essentials, or anything that feels confusing or unnecessary.
by lproven | 2025-12-08 17:32:09+00:00
> Only if you ignore most of reality, sure.

No, not really.

Hypervisor VM: emulates a virtual computer with virtual, emulated hardware, but a simulated version of the same CPU as the host, allowing 1 OS to run under another.

E.g. Xen, VMware, KVM, bhyve

Bytecode VM: emulates a partial virtual environment, with an emulated CPU and some form of conversion or translation from virtual environment to the underlying real API and real OS, allowing programs to execute on radically different OSes on different CPUs.

E.g. JVM, MoarVM, Parrot VM, Dis in Inferno

Emulator VM: emulates a virtual computer with virtual, emulated hardware, including a virtual CPU.

E.g. MESS, RetroVM, ZesaruX

Container: emulates an OS from userland down, but shares the same OS kernel across instances.

E.g. Docker, LXC, LXD, Incus, FreeBSD jails, Solaris Zones
by monerozcash | 2025-12-08 17:32:27+00:00
Don't have questions, but your blog is very cool.

A bit over a decade ago I used to spend a lot of time hacking North Korean web infrastructure, I mostly found that they tended to have firewalling around almost all boxes exposed to the global internet and usually had pretty impressive reaction times if you tried to access the country intranet through a compromised web server.

I've always wondered how successful NSA and the likes have been at infiltrating DPRK networks, as it would inherently be fairly easy to detect any sketchy traffic from the outside. I wonder if the recent NYT story essentially confirms that difficulty.

Regarding the NSA and DPRK, there's this document from 2007 least https://www.eff.org/files/2015/02/03/20150117-spiegel-fifth_...

I guess I have a question after all: I'm not exactly clear on how NK treats end-user devices. Do you know if the endpoints used by NK based remote workers have internet and intranet access at the same time? If they do, such an endpoint could offer an easy and stealthy channel to access the intranet.
by gremlinunderway | 2025-12-08 17:32:31+00:00
It's because acompany promise is useless without actual enforced regulation which is harsh enough to actually add trust in such a contractual agreement being honoured.

This is how we have a free-market to begin with. You need enforcement and structures in place so people will actually trust any of this crap. Instead, we have the nutjob early 90's cyber libertarians thinking this will all be magically fixed with just magical freedom and the invisible hand fixing everything.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-12-08 17:32:37+00:00
It's at a point where I just flag it. FWIW, the callouts are against the guidelines:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

Just pretend "this is AI slop" is also in the list. Don't complain about that; complain about the information being wrong or something else insightful. Discuss the conclusions that were included in the article. Assume (also per the guidelines) that the author reviewed the article before posting; they are signing off on its validity and therefore any callouts, AI-related or otherwise, should be calling that validity into question rather than simply saying that a particular tool was used for getting the words on the page.
by pranitha_m | 2025-12-08 17:32:52+00:00
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by anticorporate | 2025-12-08 17:32:53+00:00
Honestly, I wonder how some of these publishers stay in business at all. I haven't written a book, but I've been a technical reviewer for friends who have been published with some of the larger technical publishers. Nobody was making money from the process. I do wonder if maybe they're just taking on too many titles and reaching saturation. Do we really need "The guide to making X on Y with Z" for every potential iteration?
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-08 17:33:01+00:00
BRK-B doesn't seem much different than SP500 on 10, 15, and 20 year returns. BRK-B's 5 year return is 2% per year more than SP500.

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/?ticker=BRK-B

If my goal is to not sell for a decade or more, I'm not sure what BRK offers over SP500, except more risk.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-12-08 17:33:03+00:00
While I'm not clear on how it scales to more broader problems, it's nice to see a somewhat novel idea in programming languages vs the same rehash of algol derived languages.

I do think I've seen something similar. A language mainly driven off of pattern matching, but I don't recall where. Does anyone know of prior art? Or is this completely novel?
by marojejian | 2025-12-08 17:33:15+00:00
Not a new tale, but the article has a decent amount of data.

doesn't seem paywalled, but just in case: https://archive.is/BwtDz (scroll down).

if this crunch really does materialize, I wonder what parts of the ecosystem (in the US) will benefit.

Power seems to be one big structural advantage china has here. No way we will learn build on their scale.
by Goofy_Coyote | 2025-12-08 17:33:31+00:00
My two problems with access through libraries is lack of app access, and that every time I login, all my progress is gone (not reset to cover - gone gone), and I have to find the resource again, open it and go to the page/time I was at. Also can’t create my own playlist or favorites.

At least my library acts like that.
by tfsh | 2025-12-08 17:33:41+00:00
+1 to a Kobo, they cheaper and better than Kindles, with full Calibre support (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre - OSS which has been in development for ~20 years!).

The way you install additional software is literally just moving files into folders whilst its plugged into your computer. I'm sure it could handle Tailscale.
by wtallis | 2025-12-08 17:33:45+00:00
Well, there are pitfalls, and it's easy for an "anonymization" scheme to leak more detail than it would seem at first glance. But I agree that motive plays a big role. If your purpose in sharing data is to make money off it, then you'll be trying to share as much data as possible, and will try to convince yourself that your anonymization is "good enough".

If you're sharing data for a specific purpose, then it's much easier to limit the data sharing to suit that purpose: omit irrelevant data, aggregate where possible, and anonymize individual data points only when you actually need to share that level of detail.
by stopbulying | 2025-12-08 17:33:45+00:00
> Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery, according to a regulatory filing

> Affinity Partners was not mentioned in Paramount's press release on Monday morning about its $108 billion bid, nor were participating sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar.

> [...]

> WBD could be the second major takeover Kushner has been involved in this year, having previously played a key role in the take-private agreement for gaming giant Electronic Arts.

Oh!

electronic arts takeover https://www.google.com/search?q=electronic+arts+takeover& :

> Electronic Arts (EA) is being acquired in a $55 billion leveraged buyout by a consortium of investors, primarily Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), along with Silver Lake and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners. The deal, announced in September 2025, is structured to make the company private. While the consortium initially kept the ownership breakdown private, a recent filing indicates the PIF will hold a dominant 93.4% stake, with Silver Lake and Affinity Partners holding smaller percentages.

Why have you sold EA/Maxis/NFL Madden/PGA Tour (US) to immune for 9/11 SA?

Did they give you billions of dollars for free?

WBD (US) should not be sold to SA or to Paramount (Ellison, Kushner, SA,)
by jcalvinowens | 2025-12-08 17:34:05+00:00
I'd guess that if you ask people about a broad right to privacy, they will mostly express support for it. You could ask:

"Would you pay extra for a guarantee your personal data is kept private?"

vs

"Would you pay extra for a guarantee your data isn't sold for marketing purposes?"

...and I would guess the first would have a higher "yes" rate, although still low. But I also expect a chunk of people would ask you to define "private" before answering the first question...

One might argue "private" implies more than can truly be promised, for example no US company can promise to ignore subpoenas and actually follow through.

I'd say it mirrors for patriotism: "do you support $OUR_COUNTRY" will get more "yes" responses than almost any more specific question about support for anything tangible. Precisely because it's sort of meaningless and unobjectionable... (well except in the US, where I'm sure it's correlated with whether or not one's favored party is in power)
by burnte | 2025-12-08 17:34:11+00:00
They bought Dragon a few years ago, and 2 years ago they debuted the Dragon Ambient Experience, then renamed to Dragon Copilot. We had dozens of doctors try it, after a handful of months most had quit, it was a bad product. We switched to a competitor at literally 1/6th the price, and we don't even have to offer it, the doctors tell each other about it and they ask for it.

Nadella has done a lot of listening through is CEO reign but it looks like MS is back in a "don't listen to customers, tell them what they'll get" phase.
by Oleksa_dr | 2025-12-08 17:34:41+00:00
Power Query + Power Pivot + M. I don't use formulas in cells. The sheets are just a canvas for Pivot Tables, final tables, and charts connected to the data from Power Query and Pivot.

I deal with hundreds of API integrations involving various JSON, CSV, TSV, and XML files with mixed validity. My workflow: Notepad++ for a visual check -> Prototype everything in Excel. I give users a "visual", connect it to real data, and only then migrate the final logic to BI dashboards or databases.

Nothing else delivers results this fast. SQL, BI tools, and Python are too slow because they generally need "clean" data. Cleaning and validation take too much time there. In Excel, it's mostly just a few clicks.

PS: I spent 2 years (2022-2023) using LibreOffice Calc. I didn't touch Excel once, thinking I needed to break the habit. In the end, I did break the habit, but it was replaced by a pile of scripts and utilities because Calc couldn't do what I needed (or do it fast enough). The experience reminds me of testing Krita for 2 years (2018-2020) — I eventually returned to Adobe Photoshop (but that's another story).

PS2: About (Query + Pivot + BI). This allows you to process millions of rows (bypassing grid limitations). It also allows you to compress everything into an OLAP cube, taking up little space and working quickly with data.
by pengaru | 2025-12-08 17:34:49+00:00
The flood videos of towns, cars, and people being violently washed away are way scarier IMO.

Urayasu looks built on the water and all I see in the linked video is a threshold condition where the water is just barely peeking up through the ground below. People are still walking around, cars driving. There are far more chaotic and destructive scenes on youtube from that tsunami.
by repelsteeltje | 2025-12-08 17:35:40+00:00
Okay, fair enough.

So it's mostly about the absence of abstraction, in the C example? C++ would offer the same convenience (with std::mutex and std::array globals), but in C it's more of a hassle. Gotcha.

One more question because I'm curious - where would you anticipate C would be able to squeeze out more performance in above example?
by advisedwang | 2025-12-08 17:36:16+00:00
Article says:

> It uses LiveRamp's clean room technology, which lets companies aggregate their data in a privacy-safe environment, without sharing or seeing each other's raw or personally identifiable customer information.

> A hotel brand could use Uber Intelligence to help identify which restaurants or entertainment venues it might want to partner with for its loyalty program, for example.

Not much details on that "Clean room" but it sounds like the third parties get an environment where they can join their data to ubers and then run aggregate queries, but not actually see individual customer records. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
by calmbonsai | 2025-12-08 17:36:32+00:00
FWIW, in 2015 I happened to be in Omaha and I made a point to try and at least "see" it. It's just in a regular neighborhood. I parked up the street and, trying not to be too intrusive, I just walked by it.

The only unusual element I saw were some ropes deliberately blocking off the driveway. From a prior news article, I was aware he employed a PSD, but I didn't see any obvious security presence on the property--likely they're very deliberately low-key.
by markus_zhang | 2025-12-08 17:36:46+00:00
I have figured that I’m going to get exactly one CS hobby that is not work, and 0 CS hobby if I can find a job that fits the hobby.

Then I figured there are less than ten books that I need to read, and probably less if I can get such a job because it is always a lot better to learn on the job.

So I agree with the author that such subscription is not very useful, and a paper book + a paper notepad are way better than reading books on a tablet.
by theahura | 2025-12-08 17:36:54+00:00
First, you're being unnecessarily acerbic. It doesn't help your case, and it's just kinda weird!

Second, the original post was obviously about the placement of the buttons on the space jam website.

Third, I spend at least half the blog post responding to the exact complaint you have. If you do not have more to add beyond pointing out that the 'hack' exists, you aren't adding to the conversation.

Fourth, the blog post and the repo has a version that does not include the screenshot and actually tiles the gif.

I'm still convinced you haven't actually read the blog post because you have shown zero indication that you are engaging with the material. In which case, why even bother commenting?
by elpakal | 2025-12-08 17:37:07+00:00
Not just about the products imho. I do some consulting for law firms who typically use the MSFT stack, and I was excited about the private ChatGPT services in Azure, because from my (admittedly limited) sample of law firms, nobody likes using Copilot and LLMs need to be private/secure. The amount of outdated and poor quality documentation for Azure services is amazing given how nascent these services are.