skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's much easier to get companies to move your way if you threaten them with broad investigations into their activities.

It's also much easier to enforce antitrust by initiating antitrust legislation.

Currently, the strategy of broad investigations is yielding to multiple focused pieces of legislation spearheaded by David Cicilline (link in GP).
> Like, why lock my car and house doors when insurance will pay for it?

Because you'll have a really hard time with a claim if there's no sign of forced entry, since many insurance policies are void in this situation?
The biggest problem in this game is the networking. It seems to have the same sort of networking issues Age of Empires did before the HD revamp, except worse. Once you hit a 100+ units for each player, the gameplay slows down dramatically. If the multiplayer desyncs, the game is over and there's no way to continue. The unit pathfinding is pretty janky as well.

I've played it, we liked it, but the multiplayer issues made it a non-starter for us. And while other changes have been made, it doesn't seem like any real networking optimizations have been made in years. The only recent change that might help is them adding a global population max in addition to a per player one, so you can keep the lag from getting too bad but add more units per player as other people get eliminated. But it's not enough.
> You have to understand that the core argument here is that Stallman is unfit to lead an organization that is supposed to be welcoming to all kinds of people

Who is "fit to lead" by this standard? The FLOSS community also includes many people who align themselves with various sorts of social traditionalism and are quite skeptical of any fringe notion of social "progress". The kind of FSF board or leadership that promoters of this open letter might perhaps demand would be wholly contrary to such people's lived experience. There is no solution that can satisfy everyone, other than increased toleration of differing views.
Let's hope all those backed up ships aren't stuck as long as these chaps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
> Second of all, algorithms aren't patentable.

Algorithms absolutely are patentable because they are computing "machines." It's mathematical equations that aren't patentable, because they're closer to laws of nature.
Consider the things beyond this one planet. Surely we're simply at an interregnum between two great ages of exploration.
Your experiences match mine. There are multiple replies to your post that try to reframe the problems you highlight as a class struggle or dismiss them altogether, as if blasting music in public places should be an acceptable norm. I want to highlight that I agree with you. Investing in public spaces makes no sense when the intended use is going to be disrupted by default.
Some of these foundries explicitly do not compete on cutting edge node-sizes. Global Foundries, for instance, have said they will focus on specialty circuitry, but will not try to compete on things like <10nm node sizes. I think it is fair to say they are not really competitors as their business is sufficiently different.
Salvage of sunken car carrier Tricolor (2014) [video]
AMP is an annoying modal that takes over your screen.
Google have now said they'll allow any web page in the carousel if it's fast. Which means companies have the same incentives to invest in performance, with the added benefit that the faster experience is on their main web site, not the AMP sidecar.

From a pure performance perspective AMP had one secret weapon: Google could safetly prerender content before the user clicked on it. This was offset by the fact that AMP made lots of other page speed optimisations impossible.
Yes, I fucking hate it.
Every time I search for something on mobile and the result is something from reddit I only get to see only a part of the first post and some of the comments, to read more I have to click "read more".
Why would this ever be helpful to anyone? What purpose does it serve other than waste the users time and make him do more clicks?

Also - has anyone ever been happy to land on an AMP page, and think, "wow, this is really useful, I'm glad I'm on this weird page, instead of the original one" ?
Robinhood Is Said to Have Filed Confidentially for U.S. IPO
Yes but he brings up a good point. They are more likely to talk about a 3 sigma result that challenges the standard model than one that doesn’t yield anything special. So given you know a 3 sigma result is being discussed, the probability that it’s a false result at higher sigma is more than 1/1000.
If that was their goal they could just have banned javascript. Much easier and faster.

Would also improve the web dramatically.
> Having worked for a few companies that wanted to implement AMP, including one which was a media firm, they both wanted AMP for the SEO benefits. The "carousel" was like where they wanted to be, and they didn't give a flying shit about improving page performance;

And that's exactly why I can't hate AMP. Publishers don't give a fuck about performance, and user experience in general as long as they get clicks that can be monetized. They don't want to keep users for their quality content, they want to game search engine results and trap users when they get in.

Things like AMP seems to be the only way to make publishers care. Seen the other way, Google have seen the mess, and took advantage of it and made AMP, which both addresses the problem and get them a comfortable position. If sites were fast the problem wouldn't be there in the first place, and Google would have had to find something else for their monopoly.

And sure, what you said in your PS is true. Unfortunately, that's not how things are. I don't know why, greed maybe? But if it is the case, it is the stupid kind of greed, because now, publishers are struggling and Google is making shittons of money.
The central bank cannot actually stem the tide in a loss of market confidence, central bank actions all depend on people retaining confidence in the currency to begin with.

If a central bank wants to buy government bonds from all the sellers and government treasury, it is always purchasing by diluting the currency. Once the market gets tired of bagholding the currency then the central bank has outlived its utility and the government cannot sell any more bonds because all the sellers evaporated.
You're very welcome. I hope you have a good time and find work that's equally compelling and challenging!

My favourite talks to watch are from Jayson E. Street. 100% code free social engineering, but so funny. People are always the weakest link.
Since ZGC is in OpenJDK it should already be available in Zulu as well

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/tree/master/src/hotspot/share...
With the CubeSats revolution there aren't a lot of unknown unknowns. The risks are clear, and the benefits far outstrip them. Again, as mentioned above, Kessler Syndrome is of little threat in the low earth orbit which CubeSats operate in.

I don't really understand the argument that coming to rely on CubeSats puts us at risk because they could be damaged by a solar flare. And therefore we shouldn't reap the benefits of this new technology? That line of thinking is like rejecting the advancement of electricity because we will be worse-off in the event of a power outage. Sure, black-out incidents occur, and sometimes (like the recent Texas outage) people are ill-prepared. But how is choosing not to pursue electricity because of black-out risk the better alternative? Surely benefiting from the technology in the far more common scenario of normal operation is better than not having it at all.
> Not sure where the protocol would fit though

A thousand twitchy heads just popped up, eyes narrowed then widened... a new protocol you say?!
You can consider it indefinitely alpha at this point, unless dev adoption gets traction, especially engine/graphics specialists.

That said, as a huge RTS and ancient history fan I can definitely say its mechanics/art/units make it stand out from other games - and have had lots of fun playing it continually for years.
A little feedback: this blog post was very hard to read. The <code> blocks being an inverted color really strained my eyes and coupled with the line height and various font sizes used of the site, really made it hard to keep my place while reading. I'd suggest making the <code> blocks have a light gray background. Keeping the <pre> tags the darker color is fine.
My mortgage does not need to be re-financed in 25 years, since it’s designed to be paid off by then. Since that’s been my main interaction with debt to date, I assumed that’s how it always works. I’m starting to suspect from the comments here that was a bad assumption
> But then Google abused their position

Absolute market dominance corrupts absolutely. Even, and in spite of, efforts to the contrary from within the company.
If Elon can sell his own tweet NFTs better than anybody else can, that's a pretty good argument that they are gonna be a novelty and not some new form of art exchange.

Because what are the buyers of the Elon-tweet NFTs gonna do when they decide they want something else for their 'value'? They are gonna try and sell the Elon-tweet NFT and find out that they lack legitimacy!
Even better, just go straight to the slimmed down experience, regardless of where the visitor is coming from.
H2C Smuggling in the Wild
They had already done that, perhaps for years. I don't know why it didn't work - perhaps there was a slowness oligopoly, where everyone was slow and no one was strongly incentivized to speed up.
Xe is officially pronounced as the letters X E.

I suspect large companies have too many branding people with too little to do.
You can get a 4C one for $329 w/o memory and disks - not cheap but I was merely trying to point out that x86 can do low power with great performance now a days.
Well, Zathura is available on macOS from brew, so...

https://github.com/zegervdv/homebrew-zathura
Yeah, I mean, you look it up? lol someone even linked it elsewhere.

And the article is about recommending against its use.
I agree with you. A type amounts to the sum of operations that are valid on an object conforming to that type.

A file object is a very basic, general type, that allows open, read bytes, write bytes, close, maybe seek, maybe some ops are restricted (read-only, write-only) etc.

I don’t think it is generally appreciated how far it gets you to have a unifying simple interface. You can always add a complex one, you know?
Publishers absolutely want to take people to their main site, not the AMP facsimile. If Google actually do what they say here, this will kill AMP.
> The notion of an "ideal" childhood being lost depends on how you define the ideal. (edit : There was no pressure to have a girlfriend or boyfriend at that age. No "jocks" bullying studious "nerds". The "nerds" were the "cool" kids all through in fact. )

Immediately thought of that relevant Silicon Valley scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKz0M6SmQ8c
Scammers: "You have to enable developer mode to see our new bank website because it's in development"
> letting tech companies privatize and eat away at the open nature of the internet, so now we have to live in tech giant fiefdoms where they can determine the very form and content of everything displayed on the web because they're the ones who control every access point and standard.

Wooow slow down buddy. Nothing like that is hapening. I can still hook up my computer to the internet and start serving websites right away. Google can't do anything about that. Neither can Facebook, or any GAFAM.

However Google did change your behavior is entirely on you. You can live without them just fine. Until that is changed I can't see any need for regulation.
I'm not shocked HN is filled with gender critical people, I just didn't expect them to be so convinced of their own narrative.
And who, pray tell, serves all those annoying ads and makes those ad-heavy sites rank high in searches, thus controlling the nudges that push people onto AMP? Are you seeing the problem yet?
A lot of people miss the fact that Plan 9 was a real distributed operating system. It's not just UNIX with a couple features ("ooh everything is a file" "ooh UTF8"). You can effortlessly execute any program across multiple hosts on a network. You can use any resource of any host on the network, including files, processes, graphics, networks, disks. It all just works like magic, using a single message-oriented protocol.

If Linux worked like this today, you would not need Kubernetes. You could run systemd on a single host and it would just schedule services across all the hosts on the network. Namespaces would already be independent and distributed, so containers would only be used for their esoteric features (network address translation, chroot environment, image layers). Configurations, files, secrets, etc would just be regular files that any process in any container on any host could access using regular permissions models. About 50 layers of abstraction BS would disappear.

I think because nobody's actually seen how it can work, they can't imagine it being this simple.
having the laity meditate at all is, AFAIK, a pretty modern development
It’s simply very difficult to regulate the internet, laws are an extremely blunt tool and while I agree that more could have been done, I’m also convinced that regulation would have stifled innovation.

The AMP mess is not the death knell of the open internet, perhaps the sick idea of a rotting company
I actually stumbled upon[1] a data source for you! Seems there is some activity in the "Rewrite it in Rust" domain, and there is a collection of it being suggested in a lot of places: https://github.com/ansuz/RIIR

- [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26561093
Why Not Rewrite It in Rust?
I’ve been playing the new Civilization 6 Pirates multiplayer mode. It’s exactly as it sounds —- travel the seas building an armada, burying treasure, and pillaging costal cities.

It’s much faster paced than a traditional Civ game, and only takes a bit over an hour to finish. 10/10 would recommend
3.5 kids per adult then.

So for just 3.5 kids, you'd need to pay 100% of a salary plus all the extras of running a business. (insurance, legal, finance, advertising, sewage, electricity, food, toys, etc.)

Given the overhead, you'd expect daycare for 2 kids to consume the working parent's entire pay. For a low-paid parent, just 1 kid might consume the entire pay.

Obviously that isn't viable. I know a handyman in Massachusetts who had at least 11 kids. It's perfectly legal for his wife to care for 11 kids.
Shouldn’t there just be around 1 in 1000 experiments the state reach 3 sigma for a result which then turn out to be noise?

I guess that only applies if there are no mistakes or biases at all?
A Structural Battery and Its Multifunctional Performance
I know how this started and my idea does not change the roots of the movement. Software will be free for individuals.
The problem is that big corporations essentially stole the movement and spun it to get free labour.
You can also give free labour to another individual - for example you can mow your elderly neighbour's lawn, but in my country giving free labour to a corporation is illegal.
Please don't mix the two things. One is noble the other is exploitative!
I think "everything is a file" also means: everything is addressable by a file path. Per-process namespaces are part of what makes this possible.

In a way it's similar to HTTP REST, which is also organized by file paths, except instead of the HTTP verbs GET, POST etc. you get open, read, write as your verbs.

A side channel is then just a directory entry.
You're misunderstanding the argument. Elon can create the NFT due to his legitimacy, but subsequent trading of those NFTs doesn't require legitimacy because ownership is tracked on the blockchain.
I mean, at least make this opt-in if you want the Amp experience. Forcing this on users should be a crime.
There isn't one. Piku does not concern itself with back-end stores, only apps (it was designed to run on ARM hardware, without containers and with minimal packages).
The paper "Declines in Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 2008-2011" [1] by Lawrence B Finer and Mia R Zolna is linked by the CDC on their page about Unintended Pregnancy, and is a notable source of data on unintended pregnancies. This paper clearly states how they determined whether a pregnancy was intended:

"Pregnancy intention was defined according to a respondent's answers to a series of retrospective survey questions about her desire to become pregnant right before each pregnancy occurred. If she reported that she did not want to become pregnant at the time the pregnancy occurred, but wanted to become pregnant in the future, the pregnancy was categorized as mistimed. If a respondent reported that she did not want to become pregnant then or at any time in the future, the pregnancy was categorized as unwanted. We classified a pregnancy as unintended if it was either mistimed or unwanted; an intended pregnancy was one that was desired at the time it occurred or sooner."

When others cite statistics from this paper, this definition of "unintended" is nearly impossible to de-tangle from poverty: a reasonable respondent may very well indicate that their pregnancy was mistimed because of well-founded concerns, such as that they were not in a financially secure environment at the time. The paper treats such a response as an "unintended" pregnancy.

Careful reading of the paper reveals that there is evidence that poverty (at the time of surveying and/or at the time of pregnancy) causes respondents to retroactively rate their pregnancies as "unintended". This is a far less radical result than one may glean from casual discussion of such statistics.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa1506575
Lowe's website is among fastest performing e-commerce websites
“Either downsizing has already taken place” - direct quote from the article. And they are comparing the reduction between August last year and today.

I would conclude this means companies planning to downsize already have done. The companies who were not really planning to are still not going to do it.

This also matches my personal experience and that of my friends and professional network.
Phoronix did a reasonable comparison of an Rpi4 to a Celeron G5900 and it does a pretty good job of showing why a Pi isn't a great (even low end) general purpose option. Not disputing it's usefulness in other spaces...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Raspberr...
speaking as CEO for Element, we're doing okay actually. In fact we could be profitable right now, but instead we chose to hire more folks to focus on improving Element's UX and make sure we can be a FOSS alternative to Slack/Teams/Discord which if anything is a step up on UX (just as GitLab more than punches its weight against GitHub).
This is a discussing trend used all over the world to get around labor laws.

In Switzerland we have this issue with a large delivery company DPD not properly paying overtime and tracking hours. They push all blame away to the sub-contractors but those drive branded delivery trucks and are required to use the scanners of the main company. Tracking hours is required by law but you can not claim unpaid work if your hours have not been tracked. The big union here is now getting the workers to track their own hours and I'm expecting a nasty court fight coming up.

https://www.srf.ch/article/19516535
Startup idea #42123: Tactical Sombreros
It's interesting both of you had different answers. I realize that the streams interface was a Sys V thing but would the Unix's "everything is a file" generally be option (2) in the OPs comment then? I feel like I've heard the phrase so much and just always assumed it was (2.)
You're wrong.

For me, Ikiru and Dersu Uzala are the best, but the usual ones mentioned are great too. Some I didn't see mentioned on this page yet that I also really like: One Wonderful Sunday (1947), Red Beard (1965), Dodesukaden (Clickety-Clack, 1970). First one I saw was The Hidden Fortress (1958), remade in the west as Star Wars – and Yoda, it seems to me, is Dersu Uzala.

I think his movies seem so good because everything about them is good. Screenplay, camera angles, editing, actors, music..etc.
DNS over TLS Lets Google Serve You More Ads
"Google just blocked my site as deceptive" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26326528
Why? If I'm a company with a fab, it behooves me to keep this supply constrained market going as long as possible.

Fabless semi companies have been beating up the semi companies with fabs for years. Everybody wanted rid of the capital costs of carrying a fab because it was soooo much more profitable. And the fabless companies didn't want to carry any inventory.

If I'm a fabbed company, I'm going to charge you through the nose right now. I'm going to bank back as much as I can, because once this blows over, you fabless jerks are going to go back to beating me up.

"Fabless" companies personally chap my hide because they don't do any innovation--they just follow the herd. If you are "fabless", you can't really do any innovation on the semiconductors side. All you can do is churn out the same gravel that everybody else churns out because you are all constrained by the same fab rules and design kits.
Is TLS 1.3 is not rolled out to Windows 10? It rolled out to insider builds during last autumn but did it arrive already to the masses
[0]: https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

[1]: https://www.eff.org/issues/street-level-surveillance
No, I'm mocking the whole idea, I understand the difference between origination and selling.

I do legitimately think that novelty is a big factor, and buying an Elon-tweet NFT from some random guy is gonna have way less novelty value than buying it from Elon.
Pfizer didn't develop the vaccine, BioNTech did, in the EU, with funding from Germany. The EU has allowed BioNTech to export 40 million doses so far.
If you keep your CA secure, no reason that you can't set the expiration of the root cert to something like 10 years.
For anyone interested there're a few such tools that are modern alternatives to traditional Unix utilities. Interestingly all written in Rust.

grep -> ripgrep (command `rg`)
find -> fd
sed -> sd
diff -> delta
ls -> exa && lsd
cat -> bat
wc -> cw
du -> dust
ps -> procs
top -> ytop (**edit** archived; author recommends `bottom`)

They all offer their own modern take but I'll say the first two, which are the only ones I'm using, are the most interesting. Both ripgrep and fd offer easier usage. The ripgrep is also an ack replacement and fd can also replace parallel (even has compatible syntax). The amazing part is that both are an order of magnitude faster their counterparts. The ripgrep dev has extended analysis for how this is achieved on their blog[0].

[0]: https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
I believe they just don't want it to be talked about on their platform. They're not trying for general censorship. In fact, the person's name is already listed in newspapers.
When you are in a browser. API calls are not evergreen as Browsers are.
Were all 11 kids under the age of 3?

FYI, it takes differing amounts of attention and work to care for children at different ages.

I don’t know if you have ever cared for a baby, but I have with a ratio of 2 kids under 3 years old and 1 adult (myself), and I don’t even know how people at daycare do it with a 4 to 1 ratio.
This is underwhelming. By the time they manage to get 7nm fab it will already be obsolete.
Why not something more ambitious or admit they cannot compete with Apple and AMD any longer and focus on chipsets or other peripherals?
They could free x86 specification and let other companies with more energy pick a fight with ARM, no?
I find women to be too shallow.

But I don't feel anger towards women or feel upset about it, rather I devote my life to the things I enjoy doing.
Anybody interested in fighting corruption in the EU hit me up.