skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, they're not offering ME a better deal.

Let's see:

- games aren't cheaper on the Epic store, in spite of the allegedly smaller cut the store is supposed to take

- they're Windows only (and here comes the China reference, they only know about Windows in there)

- their store still doesn't have a shopping cart (i may not be current on this)... reeks of incompetence? Can you trust them with your credit card info?

- they have bribed developers to give them exclusivity, preventing me to get the games on the store of my choice.

- btw the above means Steam but also GoG. You people calling out Steam for being a monopoly, how many titles have you bought on GoG?

- Epic's only meaningful contribution to gaming since Unreal II is... a free to play arena shooter? Is that even a game? I can't afford free to play games, sorry.

Do you really think that if the Epic Store somehow manages to "win", it will be better for us customers in any way?

It's sad that the only entity fighting Apple's monopoly is... another would be monopolist.
Is it really that expensive to keep a server running 24/7 vis a vis the development complexity of lambdas?

It depends on your work load. And your trust level in Amazon of course.
I always wondered how Rust at Mozilla was sustainable. Maintaining an ecosystem like that and bringing it into an already complex project like a browser is a huge undertaking that probably has eaten up significant amount of manhours.

At a Microsoft sized company I'd get it because they can basically blow billions on that sort of thing but I always wondered if it actually took time away from improving Firefox or other products.

I can't imagine that from a standpoint of time investment and technical improvement Rust ever made sense for Firefox to be honest.
> All of these services provide something physical. You can't buy Kindle Books, for example, on Amazon's app on iOS. This a bit disingenuous.

I don't see how it's disingenuous, the question was "are these purchases less safe". They said "No, and here are some examples".

Whether the item is physical or not, I don't see how it makes the transaction "less safe"?
Practically every review for the 3960X shows it's significantly faster at productivity applications than a 10980XE. Leaving six cores on the table is significant. If you have a primarily single-threaded task, then you should just go for a 10900K.
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Copying competitors directly goes against the idea that “competition is for losers” has. Instead this is Facebook entering a market where TikTok took the “competition is for losers” case - in that they had no competition when they were building it.

If Facebook makes a poorly copied TikTok, then through what mechanisms would TikTok “lose” to Facebook? That’s where anti-trust should look at with care to not lean against network effect, in my opinion.

I’d argue a big tech company has a right to copy, especially if the business is zero-margin/internet enabled. I say that because Amazon eats money to undercut competitors and that could be seen as anti-competitive behavior.

But if the copy beats the original, it should be because the product was better.

Other food for thought. In Slack vs Microsoft Teams, some argue that Slack is significantly better than Teams but discount that Teams has a full product line for organizations to take advantage of.

I would argue that is not anti-competitive.. instead it’s a good product offering. It’s not a lose-lose situation for Slack either. There are nice ways to improve their product offering without taking a similar weight to maintaining M$ Office/Excel and such.
Intel’s Xe-HPG GPU Unveiled: Built for Enthusiast Gamers, Built at 3rd-Party Fab
> In other words, for some reason, they cannot coexist.

I would be interested if you have some pointers. I've tried searching a bit but didn't hit anything.

Intuitively there is a lot of things that I want intrinsically to do, but I will do a calculation wether I'll have external motivations/rewards to do it and decide from there.

For instance I intrincically like programming. It still doesn't mean my intrinsic motivation to program disappeared because I get paid, nor that I won't be exploring thing that I am curious about and try to align external motivation to help me explore them.

> if you start charging parents (punishment) for coming late to pick up their kids from daycare, parents will become more late.

I know this case study, but as a parent I don't see this on a personal level. To put it on a different case, you get fined for parking on priority/handicaped places, but don't see rich people everywhere abusing priority parking. Some do, but most don't, so at least a majority of them don't see it as just an economic transaction. As usual, reality is more complicated.
Regardless of the obvious political quackery downvoting my original comment, this is what I was pointing out: we're not as self-prioritizing as we are convenience-prioritizing. Capitalism isn't the only solution, just like how any given criticism of the current implementation of capitalism isn't only indicative of a problem intrinsic to capitalism. The problem is we don't have effective checks and balances to over-conveniencing ourselves.

I believe that's the problem with capitalism as it is today. Whomever owns the means of production has literally zero constraints on maximizing their convenience. The expense ends up drastically inconveniencing, to the point of being a barrier to access, everyone who doesn't own the means of production.
I think it shows that Mozilla blew all their (quite significant) funding on quixotic adventures that had little to do with their core mission of an open internet where users controlled their experience.
I have had a similar experience when visiting as well.
When their other products sell, they would probably just use a chromium fork with FF branding and some tweaks to make it resemble FF to sell nostalgia like Ubuntu.
Apple, Ford, and Disney push back on Trump’s WeChat ban
AFAIK, the speed is >gigabit fast, but to achieve that speed you need to have super high frequencies and hence smaller range.

To me, it seems inconvenient as a replacement for 4G. However it is also being used for other applications; like self-driving cars[1].

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/news/5g-could-make-self-driving-cars-sm...
So, just the tunnel, with nothing else, at small diameters, is $10m per mile. Whereas it's possible to build high speed rail, including the stations, fully furnished, for 15-20 million dollars per mile. Does not compare favourably, at all.
For them the intrinsic motivation is to play video games all day, or talk to their friends, or smoke weed. There is no intrinsic motivation for most children to learn all the subjects taught in school.

This is a false dichotomy that gets reinforced everywhere to the detriment of all students. There is no reason those things should be mutually exclusive, but we make it so by the power of our collective expectations.

Lots of people are discouraged and pushed away from their areas of interest because they aren't seen as fitting a stereotype or mold. Some people never even get a chance to discover that they have academic interests, and are effectively placed on a "remedial" track from the time they enter the school system because of their background. The messaging is that they cannot succeed without external motivation, which sets them up for failure.

On the other side of the coin, it also contributes to the unhealthy pressures advanced students face. Building rigid assumptions into the education system about how students spend their leisure time is part of what kills diversity.
Ask HN: How do you have the zero/non event alerts?
Thinking about system monitoring and metrics. I find it more and more challenging to get alerts on systems when something doesn't happen. I call it the zero alert. I've seen this on a lot of reporting systems we use ranging from Uptime Alerts that didn't get fired, to Emails from a cron that just never ran, or most recently DataDog on a AWS lambda function that just didn't run on object creation. Generally, we have lots of alerts for errors and exceptions but when an underlying system just isn't running there doesn't seem to be evident alerts to cover what I call the "zero alert" scenario.

How do you get alerted for things like
-no click events on XYZ
-no search results
-Lambda or serverless function didn't run
-Email didn't get triggered or cron didn't run
-Overnight reports didn't execute
-XYZ document didn't get downloaded

It seems there are reports for everything on the opposite side. Tons of click events, a bunch of lambdas got invoked or ran too long, report is in my inbox, top 10 document downloads. Curious how other people handle these sorts of things in a wide variety of systems and scenarios.
> That said, Derek calling it a scam doesn't mean it's not a scam.

Agreed, but neither does it make it a scam. Any input he has on the subject is compromised and basically meaningless as evidence one way or the other. So we really should avoid citing him.
They claim they will do all this for you if they are (allegedly) proxying malicious content. Source: their abuse form [1], selecting "Phishing & Malware". Did you have bad experiences with this? Might be worth sharing.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form
Unless I missed something, it says it can auto generate code, but I don't see anything regarding Swagger/OpenAPI
> They often do care about build systems more than the maintainers, as they're the ones who have to make it work for everyone.

Every interaction I've had with packagers has been them trying to make the build system work for their single distro. None of them have ever tried to help make it work for "everyone" running linux, much less spend any time thinking about the other two platforms that have 90% of the actual users.

IME they also tend to be much more focused on making the build system work on their distro than making the actual software work. Not surprising given that that's what they know, but they tend to be perfectly happy to make changes which cause functional problems to get things to build.
err it's been publicly admitted by Tether in documentation submitted to the NY courts hearing their case against the NYAG that they're not 1:1 backed.

From https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/holders-are-not-at-risk...

"Hoegner admits that Tether is operating under a roughly 74 percent reserve"
> and it's dying because the Internet is simply moving on away from it.
> love to go back to Firefox if they would get real with the times

Ffox is super up to date with latest and next-gen web technologies... what do you even mean by "get with the times"?
By the time you subtract all the sub-prime performance from their vulnerabilities, this isn't actually true on properly patched operating systems. They took a sub-prime loan on validation, sacrificing security in the process, and the result is chips marketed and sold as something they are not. There really should be government-level lawsuit and restructuring at intel right now.
Then it was a negotiation tactic. Mozilla showed that they don't desperately need the money because they are willing to cut all expenses. Thus, Google can't play the 'take whatever we offer or you will be bankrupt in 2021'-card. Firing the developers should have led to a better deal and they can now silently rehire them back.
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Again, there are always some bad actors. I agree this statement sounds a lot closer to support than measured opposition.
Requiring companies to use Apple Pay elsewhere as a condition of being in the app store is literally a textbook case of antitrust.
Ahh interesting. What kinds of features are showing up every month? Often people just like the concept of free features, but I'm curious if they're actually real value adds.
One thing in common with Apple, Ford, and Disney is they all do business with China.
Possibly. The leading open source browser is currently Chromium though and its components are already extremely popular in the developer world. Node.js uses the V8 component. Electron, CEF, NWJS, and others use almost the whole thing for embeddable applications. Firefox even uses a lot of the open source components from Google like Skia. Many different companies and independent teams maintain customized versions of Chromium that are anything from settings customizations to large modifications.

So the question is not "is there going to be public interest to keep an industrial grade browser afloat" it's "is there enough developer interest to keep Firefox afloat when the thing that ate its lunch is open source".

And of course there are various levels of "afloat". Some forks of XUL Firefox are kept "afloat" as in they still compile but have no modern security model or major feature development.

The big thing though is open source developers never lost the opportunity to help FF achieve webrender or e10s or Quantum or add HDR support. Mozilla doesn't have to die before people can decide there is interest in keeping the browser afloat but it has slowly been dying for years. The only major feature I can think of that landed via community contribution was accelerated video decoding on Linux. Maybe that will change if Mozilla does go away but it's not a good sign it will lead to a truly "afloat" version.
Tongue knows how everything you look at will feel
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The ideal for me would be that a single company doesn't, but instead there's a proper foundation with a lot of members.
Is open source a loss leader for Apple, really? Or is it something they mostly get for free, but have to contribute a little back to shape it how they want?

The point I read from GP, at least, was that open source is cheap for these big corps because they get a ton of benefit for it, but non-profit (either orgs or individuals) are bearing the brunt of the cost.
Depends on who I meet with. But mostly it's about financials, sales, planning, legal issues and team building (usually talking about personal stuff and building rapport as a group). Sometimes it's about product and programming.
Baby steps are still steps. The good has to start somewhere.
That article doesn't mention what the terms of the deal are. Mozilla has lost marketshare since the last time the deal was made, it's possible that the funding was cut as well.
Not only that, but your micro-architecture-specific hand-tuning probably isn't good for tomorrow's micro-architecture, and definitely not for a new architecture. You still need craft kernels in cases like BLAS, but you really want to reduce them, e.g. BLIS in the case of BLAS.
Google's differential privacy library
Apple ain’t gonna like this!
Safari doesn't spy on you and is a pretty good browser. There's no way that a closed source browser owned by a Chinese company is least bad. That's easily the least trustworthy option.
The cases I'm referring to are involuntary waiting. The long seed->Series A times are because the companies are not at a stage where investors would fund the company again; the waits are not something the founders are doing voluntarily.
Fandango does not provide physical goods. You can buy movies (not just tickets) on Fandango.
No it isn't expensive to keep a server running 24/7.

It's expensive to keep that server maintained.
I feel we need to move beyond the "serverless" nomenclature. Although, what would be better? Remote Lambdas ?
Walmart is specifically famous for having some of the most onerous terms amongst all large retailers. Anecdotally, Walmart has asked for net 270 terms from a supplier I am accquainted with.
I don't understand why they don't just create a patreon/github sponsors/bitcoin donations for core ff/rust/mdn teams salaries and call it a day. I'm sure they'll get more than enough contributions to make it viable.
There are advantages to this, but do note that earlier core i* chips had earlier versions of QuickSync that work, it just wasn't as good as new versions (5th gen and newer).

Plex can use nVidia cards for hardware acceleration for encoding.

These features do require an active Plex Pass.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002178853-using-hardware...
I agree.

Ultimately I think it's just another leaky abstraction like so many other things we do. Wonderful when it works as intended and less so when it goes wrong.

I also think that the more layers of software and management you add in makes it more complicated to troubleshoot, you simply get a lot more to learn in order to understand things.

One of my life philosophies is "It's always more complicated", meaning when you think you understand something you've barely just started scratching the surface of the complexity of it.

I can understand the pull of the container and lambda style workflows, you gain feature velocity which is ultimately what gains you the business. On the flip side, I also suspect that it builds technical debt faster.
> Even if you were right it doesn't matter. Coming to the comments to split semantics while obviously missing the point of the entire article is adding incredible noise.

I didn't 'come to the comments to split semantics', nor did I say anything at all about the rest of the article. I simply replied to an already existing discussion about the meaning of a phrase.

Describing that one short post as "incredible noise" is frankly beyond absurd, particularly when you have no problem making noisy, unnecessary complaints in two separate posts here.

> I don't agree that you're right. You state there's only one interpretation. I could just as easily interpret it as "Why didn't we see the NSA coming for our network?" or "Given all of these NSA attacks, how did no one detect them entering the network?".

I didn't say there's only one interpretation, I said there's only one meaning, with the point being that if a phrase is used that has one specific meaning then obviously some people are going to assume that is what is meant by it and comment accordingly.

Being right/accurate does matter, precisely to avoid incredible noise like this.

Thank you for replying and explaining.
> Epic is literally buying the companies behind long established games, removing game support for alternative OSes, and eventually only allowing access from "the epic store".

What are the examples where that happened?

They rarely buy game companies. With Psyonix they are making Rocket League free to play and won't be able to download it on Steam, but will still be on a bunch of platforms.
I agree in principle. But...

> Phishing sites can be / are often served by compromised hosts, so you might as well end up doxing a box who is not run by the bad guy, causing all sorts of mayem for the legitimate owners / admins (in addition to they be compromised).

Well, they are already compromised. If they were lucky, it was just an automated system that scanned for vulnerabilities and only dropped the phishing webserver – for now. It could be used as a jump box to compromise further systems in the host's network. Who knows what else may be running in the box. If it is being used for 'legitimate purposes', whatever purpose it is, it is at a large risk.

The fact that it is still compromised indicates that it is not actively/properly monitored.

Taking it out will draw much more attention to the system from their owners. If I had a compromised system that I didn't know about and it was taken out, I'd be thankful it wasn't left running for longer.

It's not the 'correct' thing to do, but I'm not convinced that putting the system out of comission is more harmful than leaving it running doing who knows what.
Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, has died
I miss OVH's old control panel. It was so nerdy and to-the-point, unlike their newer modern interface that heats up my CPU with boatloads of javascript, and adopts the 'flat' design pattern that has now permeated every site in existence.
I don’t see how that follows.
> It just works and runs. It doesn't make the same mistake twice, it doesn't need an expert to be used.

Except when you misconfigure something on friday night and it does the same mistake 100 times per hour until someone notices it.
Don't Poke the Bear
Think twice before calling out your competitors.
Am not sure the party membership works the way you seem to imply. Just because someone is a member of the CCP doesn't mean they'll steal tech, spy for China or even agree with the CCP on many issues for that matter. I'd guess it's more like getting some sort of a certificate that makes you more prestigious?
I think funding of ambitious open-source projects such as PyPy will continue to be a problem as long as these projects use pushover (a.k.a. permissive) licenses such as the MIT license. It's time for these developers to take a stand for what is fair, by relicensing to a copyleft license such as Parity [1] and selling proprietary licenses to companies that can and should pay.

[1]: https://paritylicense.com/ (not affiliated, I just think it's a good and fair license)
> They're both walled garden monopolists.

Is "monopolist" now just used to mean "big"?
1 VM and managed database service. Couple mins to deploy. I’ve drank the serverless koolaide before.

I find it makes sense more for my uses cases to use it as a tool if I need to extend a monolithic app, not as a standard to create an app.
> The only way this would apply would be through shared overhead, which given that we are talking about different product lines often tends to be minimal.

this is very much not minimal in the CPU business though. intel's entire line of (consumer) desktop parts is different bins of the same chip. they wouldn't be able to offer an i3 for $120 if they weren't also selling i9s for $500. and they probably couldn't sell consumer parts for <$1000 at all if they couldn't sell xeon parts with the same architecture for thousands of dollars.
I use firefox dev tools, but since like, 99% of the app users are on chrome, we optimize for chrome. I've never like that but that's been the reality.

Better than my last job at least which for some reason people were using ie11 and even worse to access our app.
For both docker and k8s, that command is 'exec into already running container', not 'spin up a new container'.
Dead People Should Stop Tweeting (2015)
> Does this mean Epic will start allowing users of the Epic Games Store on PC to directly pay game developers and bypass the EGS cut?

Are you asking whether Epic will start "allowing" people to buy PC games via direct purchase or steam or twitch or GOG the way they've been doing for decades?
It doesn't state the amount. Google can renew the deal and still pay 50% less.
Ibis Project is also similar: https://ibis-project.org/
Apple, Microsoft, and Google:

* Forbid alternative browser engines on their platform.

* Bundle their browser in a leading operating system.

* Use their massive Web properties to drive downloads of their own browser.
If they drop from 2 bidders to 1 it becomes a lot less valuable.
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As somebody who worked in the university field for a while I can tell you one thing: bureaucrats will cut anything before even considering cutting bureaucracy. Just like that managers will cut anything before they will cut in the management department (unless it is a political move to gain more power).
As much as I hate to promote my ex-boss' products, I'll make an exception here. Yetitext (https://www.yetitext.com) may be what you're looking for. I knew the coworker who developed the whole service for close to a decade, so it's one of the better services the company offers. The support team is fantastic which is what really makes Yetitex stand out, very few companies invest in support these days.