skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Natural monopolies aren’t bad, don’t last long and they fall when it’s leapfrogged, like Kodak when digital came. The USPS is an unnatural monopoly which stifles any carrier and serves mostly to distribute spam.

Anti monopoly laws are useless, x86-64 is a duopoly, and any monopoly laws aren’t able to stop Amazon and their vertical intergration, because the argument is that eBay and other sites exist. Network oligarchs collaborate to fix prices.
Ongoing related thread:

Gigablast Search Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421898 - Dec 2021 (10 comments)
One of the biggest data center at jakarta catches fire
> This seems benign compared to nuclear though, as mutual strikes don’t lead to mutual destruction.

Not necessarily. A core component of the nuclear deterrent is the satellites that detect launches from Russia/China/etc. If someone took a bunch of those out, the fingers on the nuclear button would be significantly twitchier than usual.
The required build arg and env var names are already listed in the Earthfile as `ARG` and `RUN --secret ...`. So I think specifying it in the commandline is redundant.
The EF only received 3.5 million ETH initially:

https://i.ibb.co/54sS0NY/FFi-K9m-CVg-AETZNA-format-png-name-...

It holds 350K ETH at this point, or 0.3% of the ETH supply:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xde0b295669a9fd93d5f28d9ec85e4...
Exactly, last i checked the important part of free market was producing products consumers enjoy and generating revenue, not corporate scheming and strong-arming competitors
> "Both China and Russia are regularly attacking U.S. satellites with non-kinetic means, including lasers, radio frequency jammers, and cyber attacks, he said."

So, having a satellite is just like having a server on the Internet.
Eh. Who are the biggest consumers of ARM's IP? Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm?

Apple could move to RISC-V (over another two decades), but even if they did, their move wouldn't actually benefit the RISC-V community (and moreover, they'd probably just do their own ISA; at ultra-vertically integrated gigacorporation scale, why not?)

Samsung & Qualcomm? What's the assertion, that Nvidia would let ARM's ISA languish so much they'd be forced to move? Hasn't Qualcomm already been doing that, just with the actual chips; and no one seems to care? Except the people who run iPhone vs Android benchmarks of course.
A merger is a contract :)

The problem is when some companies form a cartel of sort (with our without contracts) anyway. The same way Intel was not licensing x86, but since AMD already had it they were both incentivized to keep users on x86 and keep arm out.

(Of course the nvidia-arm acquisition is more about nvidia trying to build an army, oh pardon, portfolio. As Intel and AMD already have. They acquired Mellanox, plus they have GPUs and CUDA chips. Intel and Apple kind of have everything of course. AMD has Radeon, but AMD is probably still trying to catch up financially. There's also Qualcomm with their snapdragons and modems. And there are probably others, but the important thing is that snapdragons are arm based. And while selling high-end ML and gamer/miner cards is certainly not bad, but nvidia is probably trying to expand into a different market too, let's say high-volume but older semi tech.)
The compressed instruction encoding is very good and it is mandatory for any use of RISC-V in embedded computers.

With this extension, RISC-V can be competitive with ARM Cortex-M.

On the other hand, the compressed instruction encoding is useless for general-purpose computers intended as personal computers or as servers, because it limits the achievable performance to much lower levels than for ARMv8-A or Intel/AMD.
Looking at your other replies your argument seems to boil down to “reasearch needs all the money in the world, consolidation helps with money”, but don’t really address where you think that money will come from, and for what value delivered.

The main concern voiced here is that Nvidia-Arm could get away will less research while earning more money.

That’s basically what happened when Wintel was at peak and there was no viable alternative to Intel chips. They didn’t bring incredible innovation from the ungodly amount of money they gained; they just crushed all their other competitors through various means, got sued, and still made the field plateau for a decade or so before we saw real innovation.
It absolutely does. The FTC doesn’t bring lawsuits forward unless they have pretty good reason to believe they will succeed. I suspect they have been gathering evidence to make this case for a while now.
> if banks overestimate the actual value of the debts, they can end up in a situation where they are actually insolvent.

I think everyone here knows they'd never do that!
Show HN: Emoji to Scale
Visualize emojis to scale. The chicken is not bigger than the car anymore!
> maybe this has improved?

Yes, you can recover a Cloudformation stack from any status nowadays. Ex: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloud...
Everybody is preparing to attack everybody first strike or otherwise. The militaries jobs are to plan out attacks and contingencies.

I don’t think the average American is having this drilled into them as you suggest, but there are certainly military planners in the USA whose job it is to think about such things.

China works the same way.
I'm sure the reverse happens too.
> I can assure you that these attacks are occurring right now.

I can assure you we're doing the same thing, though.
Probably not. But the foreigners entry requirements were that you had to be vaccinated or governmentally special. Otherwise you'll be rejected.

https://www.einreiseanmeldung.de/#/2

https://www.germany.info/us-en/coronavirus/2317268
Extreme food prices slam inflation-ridden Turkey and Sri Lanka
The door seals in most microwave ovens consist of tuned slots (eg half-wave stubs) to prevent the RF escaping. These are ineffective at frequencies other than 2.4Ghz.

The reason for the tuned slots is that it's basically impossible to make a conventional metal joint which will seal sufficiently well.
I use dbt to build small dremio data warehouse. dbt is using software engineering ideas to build data, it is quite awesome. I can use github to version control it, can did some unit test (data quality check mainly).

Another thing is its macro systems. Although Macros are not a good programming language. But it makes integrate new DBMS much easier, because most 3rd party plugins are mainly written in Macros. So, Macros is good too if it is provided by other people (not need to be written by myself :) )
An audience of 538.
Same, I do a lot of my work on a 13 inch macbook air ;p

Some tasks I like to be able to have more monitors, but that's becoming less and less.
The unvaccinated doctors can tend to the unvaccinated individuals. May be form their own hospitals.
They can't do whatever they want. They can do more than you'd want them to be able to do, but they can't just take billions of dollars and put them in their own pockets. Company bribes makes every American politician a multi millionaire, sure, but if they could do what they wanted they would be multi billionaires like the rulers of Russia and China.
We have a PR for the ls feature up:

https://github.com/earthly/earthly/pull/1472
If you are expected to be on call you should calculate that as part as your hourly salary. You can quickly be a person that is working below minimum wage.
What's a snappy .net app ? The few ones I know definitely feel slower than e.g. Qt apps
that's hot garbage, you don't like JS and TS that's fine, but the only 2 types of people who think TS is worse than JS are: 1. Veteran JS devs who don't want to learn, which I don't think you are. 2. People who've never had to work on a crappy language (JS) at large scale in which development tools are blind folded in providing static analysis.

> Nothing makes me lol more than?.a?.conditional? null check in a ‘type safe’ language. Just stop it, use C#

And get null pointer exception? No one forces you to be stringent on typescript, use a nullable type if you want, but saying TS is crap because it's actually better than C# at static analysis?
>Edit: you know Qualcomm has already said that's exactly what they're going to do right?

Well that's not what your link says
This is interesting, but I wasn't able to really exercise the demo. The first time I uploaded an image it appeared to take me to a results page but there were no matches. The subsequent two images I tested (both non-nude but racy, because I care about image classification for user-generated-content moderation) did not appear to take me to a results page at all. I'm using Firefox if it matters.
We are in the worst timeline. At first I didn't had too much anger again the people willing to take part in the phase III trial, they were mostly just a SNS annoyance with their virtue signaling. Their choice, my choice. Now they're writing literal hateful messages all over the internet about people like me who made an informed choice but moreover fully supports authoritarian measures that are taken just to fuck with people. A government role is supposedly to help people, not to ruin their lives. Not to mention the huge toll on social relations and mental health of the population. It's since a long time since the covid question is not a health issue anymore, it's an excuse. The most infuriating things is how dumb the arguments of those people are, because if their vaccine were working they would be protected anyway and won't have to fear anything (also remember when 70% vaccinated was supposed to grant herd immunity? This have been memoryholed hard as well). It makes no fucking sense to push it to people under 30 who have like a chance over 300,000 to die from covid.
This is what I don’t understand. If this thing was really, truly the emergency people keep saying it is… we’d find a way to staff all this stuff. We’d pull people from retirement, turn foot doctors into Covid doctors, let nursing students do stuff… relax the licensing so it works. Then we’d dump truckloads of money on them, give them teslas each Christmas… whatever. Society would figure it out.
I'd like for something like 10-20 years after the creator's death -- but even then, that gets complicated because if the owner is a corporation, then that work will probably never enter the public domain.
> You can't have people who are not vaccinated working at a hospital.

Except for all of 2020.

and this?

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/flu-vaccine-requir...
> The systems that Russia and China are known to be developing or have already fielded include destructive and non-destructive types that are deployed from Earth, such as ground-based jammers, lasers, or interceptors, as well as small "killer satellites" positioned in orbit. A killer satellite able to maneuver close to its target could use various means to try to disable, damage, or even destroy it, such as jammers, directed energy weapons, robotic arms, chemical sprays, and small projectiles. It could even deliberately smash into the other satellite in a kinetic attack.

Seeing a lot of could.

> In another prime example of the secrecy issue, when asked, Thompson could not confirm or deny whether any American satellites had actually been damaged in a Russian or Chinese attack. Beyond that, he told Rogin that even if such a thing had occurred, that very fact would be classified.

Ok. Can we go back to the UFO discourse now? Or maybe Havana syndrome? At least those are somewhat imaginative. Please come-up with something more interesting like Russia/China training space dolphins or something.
We've banned that account for trolling, but breaking the site this guidelines egregiously is definitely not cool and will get an account banned as well. Fortunately it doesn't look like you have a history of doing that, but please don't do it again!

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
There is only one main problem for linux and it is the catch 22 that most software is still mostly written for windows. I'm not talking about the generic off-the-shelf software like office/paint/browsers which have pretty good alternatives, but the 25+ years of legacy win32 stuff which still runs most businesses and factories. Lets face it nobody wants to re-write that program that Bill wrote in 2001 in Delphi or VB that interfaces to the stamping machine.

I'm a Delphi Developer who moved to NZ in 2005 and several programs are still live and running in UK factories. A tribute to the Win32 sub-system rather than my programming I assure you :-)
There are degrees of control/alignment. It's not anywhere as absolute as you imply.
That seems awfully esoteric to me. Compare and contrast with Intel taking Altera off the map and AMD taking Xilinx off the map. At the time, FPGAs were erroneously seen as a credible competitor to GPUs in artificial intelligence. They absolutely smash GPUs at extreme low latency, but it was a poor technological take to assume that meant they could beat them where GPUs were strong but that didn't stop lots of money being thrown at the attempt.

Which is to say it seems odd that the FTC would get its hackles up over a case as nichey as you describe. it would seem the elephant in the room is Nvidia's dominance of AI. There's nothing stopping AMD or Intel developing equivalent SoCs. In fact one of the cases you mentioned comes from Xilinx ergo AMD.

So I have to think this has to be something as basic as slinging mud at their dominance of AI. Something as simple as trying to exclude competing browsers from your operating system's desktop. Something as understandable as trying to exclude third parties from collecting money on your mobile platform. And since both other cases are larger more general instances of dominance, it's curious they aren't being investigated as well. Well not really, there's probably a lot of grift here.

But if we're going to worry about a single party having dominance of AI then we have to start asking questions about Google and Facebook controlling the major interfaces to AI. Sure, they are open source, you can fork them if you like. But they get to control all the pull requests into the master branch. That lets them control how well any one platform runs their framework. That seems a bit anti-competitive as well when at least one of the parties has their own AI hardware.
They compete more than ever. Google, Amazon, FB, Apple are all developing AI, CPU and GPU chips that compete directly with Nvidia using ARM

You know why? Because working with Nvidia has become such a pain in the ass. That it's better just to do it yourself.

They charge you 10x for a gpu that's a little better than their consumer GPU but won't sell you the consumer GPU because they want you to pay 10x.

Now they will definitely do the same with ARM licensing.
We do love getting all this input. Finding a way to make most use-cases ergonomic while still being reproducible is very important to us.

Thumbs-ups on tickets and comments help us prioritize features.

We already have a PR up for the `earthly ls` feature.

https://github.com/earthly/earthly/pull/1472
"Natural monopolies aren’t bad, don’t last long and they fall when it’s leapfrogged"

Natural monopolies are things like electric power grid and water supply and train and roads, they last forever precisely because they are natural and they were never leapfrogged in history. 'Natural" part stands for nessesary inveatment in infrastructure being redundant and causing zero-sum game.

Kodak wasn't much of a monopoly and certainly wasn't a natural one

Read up on how antitrust actually works, your assesment of USPS is equally inaccurate
Vaccines cannot save us if this is the case. A variant evolving immune evasion in another species before jumping back to humans can't be stopped.
This is an aside but: what made you switch away from hardware engineering? And what are you doing nowadays?
I agree that this stuff is getting out of hand.

The most important part of all that code is the part in the prisma calls, which would handle all the caching and request logic.

The rest is literally just making sure you name your stuff correctly and render it.

If you want actual type safety for your large client-side app, use rust/wasm. If your client side app is small, why do any of this?
True, unvaccinated people are being hospitalized at a higher rate and for a longer duration.

However, we are not talking about "the unvaccinated", rather about "a tiny unfortunate fraction of unvaccinated people". There are 4,690 covid patients in ICU beds and 25M unvaccinated people. Assuming all covid ICU patients are unvaccinated, the covid ICU incidence rate within the unvaccinated population is 0.02%.

For an analogy, we could reason that because the prison population skews 90/10 male/female, all males should either undergo a vasectomy, or pay a recurring 10k euro fine. I hope this is obviously unethical.
Paint.NET is probably the best example of a good, fast widely used .NET app.
I can never be sure that Google and Bing (including DDG) are actually searching for what I tell them to, even after putting all my keywords in quotes, using intext:"keyword", or using "verbatim" mode. I strongly suspect Google is substituting synonyms and "near synonyms" with irrelevant garbage to maximize Adsense yield.

DDG and Bing are worse, as they ignore the quotes altogether rather than just most of the time. Yandex has a vastly smaller index and ignores quotes a lot of the time as well.
Sunlight, Vitamin D, turning off the TV
OP needs to cite sources, can't find anything corroborating their hazy claims. Only know one arrest, plus two suspects mentioned in the posted article:

- 36 y/o (possibly homeless) Kathleen Panek arrested for 2 church burnings

- Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, Kehewin, AB. "An under-aged individual was arrested and charged with arson following the incident."

- Central Heights Church, Abbotsford, BC. "A suspect described as 30-40 years old, male, dark-skinned and wearing a bright yellow rain jacket with a grey baseball hat is being sought by authorities."

Canadian churches were already being burned at a higher rate in recent years relating to sex abuse scandals, so there may be concurrent overlapping motives.
Love the quality of the service. Idk why it’s so hard to address these problems considering how much they charge in fees
>Somehow reminds me of when the SEC decided that Nvidia was the next Enron...

There was significant insider trading occurring due to an internal email about the Xbox deal. 10 employees and 15 people total.

"The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued 15 people, including the 10 suspended nVidia employees, accusing them of insider trading in shares of the graphics chipmaker based on advance information that it would win a lucrative contract from Microsoft Corp." [1]

In a separate incident, nVidia wanted to show better quarterly results and tried to pressure their supplier to reduce costs, with the promise of paying more in the future. Their supplier wanted it in writing. The CFO knew they could not have such an explicit agreement in writing, as it would not allow them to write down the cost savings for the quarter, so they directed an employee to author two separate agreements to obfuscate their mutual nature.

"We can not sign this or have this in print. Will wipe out the credit in Q1. Need to arrange this separately and trust us to abide by it." [2]

Seems kind of in the purview of the SEC to look into these kinds of things.

1. https://money.cnn.com/2001/11/20/technology/nvidia/

2. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/34-48480.htm
So there really are more instructions in RAM, right?

And then they get combined in the CPU, right?

Won't those instructions need to be fetched / occupy cache?
That, and other operations requiring three input registers -- therefore a LOT of encoding space -- has been postponed to a possible future extension.

Full GREV and my lovely GORC have also gotten lost, though the encodings for the specific REV and ORC instructions that are included are upwardly compatible with the proposed general versions.
xkcd #927 irl.
> The main thing wrong with the standard one in my opinion is that it gives too much prominence to floating point code, having been developed to optimise for SPEC including SPECFP (no, not the Linux kernel or Dhrystone ... I have no idea where you got that from).

The RISC-V Compressed Spec v1.9 documented the benchmarks which were used for the optimization. RV32 was optimized with Dhrystone, Coremark, and SPEC-2006. RV64GC was optimized using SPEC-2006 and the Linux kernel.
Probably because it was a generic ideological comment, pointing further in the direction of generic ideological flamewar, which is tedious and repetitive and something we're trying to avoid here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? You broke more than one of them here—I'm sure unintentionally.
Every non-tech item in their list is evergreen. Artists impoverished and rich getting richer and not new things.
I have a pretty close to my ideal desktop setup with very comfortable chair, custom desk etc. But after all that work to build it I cannot force myself to sit there for any time after work since I already sit there 8+ hours everyday. This is one tiny thing I miss about office work, coming home and feeling refreshed when sitting at my home office.
Japan didn't "let people get on with it and they will work out". The immigration policy is one of the strictest in the world. We've had numerous "lock downs", which weren't legally enforceable, but when the government makes a request of businesses and people, the compliance rate is very high, and though it's not enforceable, the government will publicly shame companies, and companies take their reputations extremely seriously.

People's willingness to comply with lockdowns over time has waned, because the government's response to covid has been pretty incompetent. The thing that has finally started turning things around is the high rate of vaccination.
It's good looking. But I need a grid control because my users want everything on one screen. (joking, not-joking)
Please don't post generic ideological comments or flamebait to HN. It leads to generic ideological flamewar, which is tedious and repetitive and something we're trying to avoid here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A mindmapper (e.g. XMind) could be (ab)used for that.
Yes, microwave ovens use a tuned slot to seal the door. It's basically a half-wave stub.
Didi will delist from the New York Stock Exchange
You can also avoid this by being fully-updated, as this was patched back in August: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...
OT: does anyone else remember the free Winnie-the-Pooh ebook that Apple gave away for free when they first released their ebook software and store for iPad?

At some point that disappeared from my library, and does not show up in my purchase history either. Did Apple pull it for some reason?
Have you seen the statistics on American gun ownership, particularly handgun ownership? And what fraction of Americans have a concealed carry permit? And how many people carry a gun on their person when they are out getting a sandwich?

Yes, it’s real.
Wouldn’t it be easier to use a simpler mathematical formula? First renewal is fee^2. Second is fee^3, etc. Balance the fee and the term, but eventually you’ll hit a point where the renewal fee is a trillion dollars. If Disney wants to pay off the national debt to keep copyright on “Steamboat Willy” I’m not going to complain.

That avoids the income reporting aspect and allows people to make straightforward time-based predictions on when something enters the public domain.
>I can still tell when my coworkers are falling behind and check if they need help

I mean there're only so many ways to effectively bullshit in standup, for one