skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588599808587345921 from this post sure seems like the advertisers aren't really worried about being named.

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1588668007244759041 sounds like Elon was caught flatfooted, and his continued behavior is just another in a series of unforced errors.

Probably doesn't help that the guy is taking advice from Jason and David Sacks (classic "oh you're mad at me? That means I'm right" personalities). The best thing Musk could do right now is find someone who does not have a twitter account (or doesn't care) and talk to them. Yet another case study for "don't just work with people because you are friends".
It's not extortion because Elon's fan army is an irrelevant niche in the market for anything not sold by Tesla.
On the flipside this is also why Intel is more profitable per chip in the long run - they own their own fabs, the cut AMD pays to TSMC to make their chips (cost, profit, and research/overhead) stays with intel. And intel is somehow still making chips with near performance parity to AMD several nodes behind on 10nm+++ - when intel catches up they will again kick AMD on multiple levels.

Intel is in a good place. The question people should be asking is why its so close at all if AMD is several nodes ahead. why is 5nm and 6nm TSMC only competitive with intel and not crushing it? Their performance per watt at high load (and not at idle) is AMDs biggest differentiator. When intel goes to smaller nodes they'll gain more thermal headroom to pack more and faster cores than AMD.

The current modern tech youtubers are asking many of the wrong questions. I watched gamersnexus crowing about AMD efficiency in the highest tier chips and asked "people buying race cars care about speed more than efficiency - why are you downplaying intel's ultrafast chips on 10nm+++ vs amd's smaller and more efficient nodes, and talking about their fuel mileage for a market segment differentiated by performance?"

Theres a lot of nonsense going around.
What I had in mind when thinking about mechanical voting machines would have been punched cards and 19th century style machines for sorting and counting.
It doesn't take that powerful of a server to serve static websites. And some data is held in open data stores, such as Filecoin or Arweave. Some data is held on-chain, as ENS does, for example.
Maybe he can convince Tesla to buy some ad spots. The deal would have great synergy, since Tesla's share price is also on the line.
Alternatively it could be an argumentum ad absurdum against the concept of shareholder primacy.
Maybe we should boycott any advertisers on any surveillance capitalist platform. I'm only half kidding...I think.

I do recall having a bit of fun when I used to have a Twitter account (maybe a year ago) by consistently clicking 'not interested' (or whatever the label was in the UI) for every ad in my feed. After a few weeks, the system began to show me some fairly unusual and occasionally bizarre ads.

Edit: Actually, come to think of it, I wasn't just clicking 'not interested' but instead blocking the advertisers' accounts entirely. I remember thinking that it was kind of hilarious that doing so was even possible.
>>> The problem always is “Intel fabs are so deeply integrated with Intel circuit design that it’s hard for more general customers to use their process.”

Why would this be a problem ?
So the message is "if you advertise with us, we will try to sink you if you ever decide to stop". I'm sure companies will be rushing to sign up.
Can you expand on what a brand safety conference is? Sounds interesting.
Nothing is free. Whatever we got for free from Web2 came with a surveillance, censorship and ad-based regime attached to it.
>The complaint alleges that the Meta directors failed to consider that shareholders with diversified portfolios may be subject to net losses from Meta’s pursuit of a business model that maximizes advertising revenue without regard to the harms it inflicts on the rest of their portfolios.

This is one of the craziest stances/lawsuits I’ve ever read. Boglehead thought has taken over so much that the shareholders are referring to a nebulous diversified portfolio as something that somehow must be protected by law. That’s too far out there.
When that first Body Count album came out, it was like a nuke going off across the country and huge wake up call for anybody who didn't know what was going on routinely in South Central and surrounding areas with the LAPD and the black community.

Weirder still was when Rodney King happened you had a whole bunch of suburban white parents who were shocked at what happened. I remember myself and all my friends were like, "Welcome to the party, Ice T, NWA and other groups have been talking about this for years!" We already knew about police brutality as teenagers well before our parents did. It was an odd juxtaposition.
"Distinguishing the Complaint From Models Based on Either Stakeholder or Enterprise Value

It is important to note two things that the complaint does not claim. First, it does not claim that stakeholders (e.g., users of its platforms or citizens of destabilized countries) are owed fiduciary duties, or that harm to these stakeholders in and of itself constitutes a fiduciary breach.

Secondly, the complaint does not allege that this conduct was bad for Meta’s own finances.

Instead, the complaint alleges that the conduct revealed by Haugen threatens the global economy, and consequently the portfolios of the Company’s diversified shareholders. The complaint explains:

Meta is the largest social media network company in the world, with 3.5 billion users—43% of humanity. Its business decisions inevitably create financial impact well beyond its own cash flows and enterprise value and have significant impacts on the global economy. While defendants have a duty to operate the Company as a business for the financial benefit of its stockholders, those stockholders are often diversified investors with portfolio interests beyond Meta’s own financial success.

If the decisions that maximize the Company’s long-term cash flows also imperil the rule of law or public health, the portfolios of its diversified stockholders are likely to be financially harmed by those decisions.""
It’s hard for me to blame developers for their misaligned mental models since, as you yourself point out, the relationship between your mental model of the hardware’s behavior and what it actually does is complex and not really obvious. Mitigations etc means that the hardware you bought might totally change its behavior in the future. If all you can rely on is time measurements, it doesn’t explain that the software you wrote last year is now eg 40% slower due to bug mitigations. I think it’s easier to expect developers to put in the effort once they’re empowered with powerful tools to explain how the software gets mapped onto the hardware.

I think tools that result in greater transparency at lower levels will probably emerge, something like a compiler-generated dynamic analysis + pre-flight checklist hybrid. But since it’s so low-level, it might actually affect results, which may be a problem. I think intel vtune seems interesting in that regard.
Bomba (Cryptography)
Women are totally fine with marrying and having kids with him even after that. So Elon should just keep going.
> Are you saying that if it had no electronics and operated solely by a human turning a crank on a bunch of gears, springs and levers, people would see it as more reliable and trustworthy?

Potentially, yes. Especially if you used off-the-shelf machines that IBM built in 1920.

In any case, that's just a distraction. Just use humans.
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Yeah, but ... sand is dirt cheap, and will always be far cheaper than batteries. Also batteries cost grows linearly with capacity, whereas the main cost of this is probably the insulation and containment, but that cost is proportional to surface area, not volume. So the bigger you go, the cheaper it gets.

Then there is the source of energy. Yes, PV is one source, but it is only 20% efficient. Evacuated solar tubes collect heat energy at around 60% efficiency, and last about a long as PV panels.

And I think you may not realise how most of our electricity is used. Most of it goes into heating and cooling. (I speak from experience here. I have a house battery. Turn off the hot water, ovens, stoves, dryers, air conditioners and the remainder of our electricity use could be handled by a 2.5kW battery. How do I know. Well we lost electricity, and our 5kWh battery easily handled all what was left, including refrigeration. I estimate it would take a 15kWh to handle everything.) Yes, the COP of absorption refrigeration is poor, but the 60% vs 20% makes up for it.

Finally, I suspect you haven't twigged to just how much energy this can store. Sand melts at 1700°C, so they could take it to 1200°C without hitting too many limits. At 1200°C, 1 cubic metre of sand holds 451 kWh. In comparison, right now a battery holding that much would cost AUD$300,000.
AMD’s Zen 4 Part 1: Front End and Execution Engine
Oh that’s lovely. Does it also support note blocks (like are used to render that page)? And are there implementations in other languages?
Well, Arrow's theorem only applies to deterministic procedures.
It's not really an interactive product that people can 'try out' or 'play with'. It's an information repository. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not really in the Show HN spirit. I admit it's a borderline call.
Perhaps we've exhausted this topic. I view it as mildly positive and very weak journalism, not balanced. Your view is more drastic.

A balanced article would have found some parents who all said, "Hell, no, I'm not buying that for him. He'll lose it inside of a month." There are probably a lot of such parents.

As for "singing praises of that product" -- I think that is totally legitimate. It IS a product that does a lot of stuff and some people might like it for that. Do you expect them to invent some faults with it?

I'd also expect a real journalist to get some numbers on their sales, not just find one user who likes it.

(On the other hand, Walt Mossberg would have tried it for a week and given it a grade, idk what.)
I know AWS ECS/ECR/EC2/ALBs etc well but jack about k8s. Is it kind of the same thing?
Errmm? He says “we are making progress in slowing the rate of price increases”.

(making progress in (slowing the (rate of price increases)))

3 ————————— 2 ————— 1 ———————————

The question is what you think “progress” is doing in that sentence. Slowing the rate => 2nd deriv is decreasing but progress, to me, implies that third deriv is what is being pointed at. 2nd deriv would be “we are slowing” to me.

I’m not sure what inflation number you’re looking at, but CPI for Oct/Nov/Dec of 2021 was: 6.2%, 6.8%, 7%
The Instinct is what I replaced my Pebble with, too. I agree that it's a good stand-in for the Pebble (especially with the battery life) and I also use it to do things the Pebble could never have done (it is my bike computer, and I use it for navigation when out in the middle of the wilderness).

I still miss the Pebble, though.

I particularly miss being able to write custom apps.
Either is fine by me
Unfortunately, no organizational structure exists which guarantees optimal outcomes. Everything depends on the actual individuals who occupy the roles.

Such structures should ultimately be up to the shareholders.
> Expecting someone to contribute day1 is bad mentality, proof of bad management. Bad CTOs and Tech Leads can't understand that they hold knowledge of years building the code estate (while often skipping documenting it), which is difficult for newcomers to accuire.

Getting up to speed quickly in that sort of situation can be difficult, but it's not impossible. However it's a skill that requires development just like any other. If you've never done it before you will likely struggle the first few times, but get better over time. I don't agree this is _just_ bad management... but rather a mixture of that and just misaligned expectations and background. It could certainly have been handled better, but saying that expecting a quick ramp up is proof of bad management is a bit too far in my mind.
I think what they are really trying to do here is come up with a legal theory that internalizes what economists call "externalities." One economic actor, in doing what is in its individual best interest, creates negative effects that may be much, much larger than the positive effects.

We're not talking about Coke taking market share from Pepsi, which is analogy I saw elsewhere. A better analogy would be Company A that doubles its own profit by, say, destroying the public shared water source 5 other companies rely on, with total profits 10x the extra profits for Company A. So the overall portfolio effect of the actions is very negative.

For many years, economists have just sort of accepted that externalities are a thing, and are bad, and there is not much you can do about them. By definition, you can't hold companies accountable for these costs. If you could, they would not be externalities. This suit is trying a new legal theory to change that.

IANAL
Is she imitating using a modern phone in “Sunlight in a Cafeteria”. Looks like it!
He's replying to a GOP operative. I figured that once Elon sold Teslas to all the green Democrats he could, he'd flip hard right so he could sell to Republicans.
OSes do already provide this ability: mmap.
It's really simple

Unlike at Musk's corporations, big corp mgt is all about managing uncertainty

Execs work to ensure success on big bets (new products/directions/++) by mitigating uncertainties & risks

Yet since buying Twitter, Elon Musk has done almost nothing but maximize uncertainty.

Of course they're stepping back

He may resolve much uncertainty about how things will go over time, and many will come back

But making excuses like "it's activist groups that are making them pull out" makes him look ineffective and whiny, and would he accept such an excuse from any exec reporting to him? They guy/gal would be out the door in a New York second.

And this? Threatening advertisers? Yeah, that'll convince 'em. With that one 30sec post, he's probably just convinced a half dozen to never return — if anything goes wrong with the relationship, he'll turn on them in a microsecond.

Looks like massive flailing.
Unfortunate.
It's not 2016 anymore. This just isn't true.
Typical Apple move, they hate documentation.
"ensure authorization" and "raise privileges" and "call exec" are all behind plugin-based architectures to allow for people to set up various ways to do things. The simple example: why do you only need to type in the password once per session/30 minutes calling sudo in most environments? How can people set things up with a hardware key? How do you make just some commands work and not others?

That being said I don't think sudo's code is complicated? It's big because it has all of these plugins supporting various mechanisms, but each file is pretty straightforward, and the control flow is really not that hard (after you get that it's plugins).
>Convince me that's not extortion.

hard sell, considering you clearly don't know the meaning of the word.
Reads as exceedingly reasonable as written. If the network is congested, someone has to pay in a slower connection. It makes sense to place that burden on the heaviest users.
Can we address this by only allowing people to review if the purchase is verified?
For an awesome parody of RATM's corporate, bowdlerized brand of rebellion, you can't go past Ben Folds "Rockin' the Suburbs".
> Linked lists are great. But they have the problem that, almost always, whatever problem you're trying to solve would be better done with a regular resizable vector.

One important exemption is when you want your datastructure to be persistent.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure

But for many applications there are also better persistant data structures than linked lists around.
Yeah, so an inability to sell because they are levered up and using accrual accounting isn’t really a lack of liquidity in the market. It’s a seller liquidity problem, not a buyer liquidity problem. which is a weird type of liquidity problem.
I like the staging idea, but curiously I haven't seen any papers investigating this.

Obviously, there is an overhead cost of the staging itself, which
hits the use case for small data, and there is the question "From what data size onwards to use what algorithm?".

For example, I just had a look at sort in Clang's STL implementation, which seems to set a boundary at N=1000. Since the number is a multiple of 10, it looks like it might be arbitrarily picked, in any case there is no paper references in the comments to back it up.

Are people aware of formal studies that explore whether it is worth the trouble to inspect data structure and then to dispatch to different algorithms based on the findings?
They have tens of thousands of chairs in Apple Park alone. Even if every chair went for $50, Apple could net hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's plenty of small businesses that would kill to net hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Skiff Drive and Skiff Mail [0] and their use of ENS [1] and other naming systems is interesting. Endaoment is also another useful web3 project. [2]

[0] https://skiff.com/

[1] https://ens.domains/

[2] https://endaoment.org/
Zack: "...we’re dealing with this huge, monstrous pop culture that has a tendency to suck everything that is culturally resistant to it into it in order to pacify it and make it non-threatening."

I'm convinced that's not an organic natural phenomenon, but rather a feature of the corporate-state partnership between movie and music producers, the corporations and shareholders that largely control them, and the bureaucrats and politicians who don't like to be criticized by popular artists. It's pretty clear that new acts with such political messages no longer get record deals; that's why rap and hip-hop turned into a celebration of ostentatious consumption in the USA - although acts similar to Rage Against the Machine are more common in Europe, they're mostly industrial/metal acts, such as, for example, Arch Enemy, The World is Yours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk2-bgwA0Ro
> Everyone on HN needs to take a week to actually look into crypto projects.

Most of us have looked at this space extensively over the last decade plus. Can you offer pointers to the things you think are delivering real benefits to anyone whose primary goal isn't finding buyers for random hashes?

I add that last qualifier because literally every time this question comes up the only things people seem to come up with which aren't outright scams are projects which only make sense if you've already decided that everything you work with should be on a blockchain and you need to deal with the ensuing problems. I'm looking for things where someone who works at a normal non-crypto business — say a coffee shop or a company which makes toasters — could go to their boss and say “If we spend money setting up X we'd save $Y over what we're doing now or gain $Z from new sales”. The closest people come are things like supply chain verification, which is certainly useful but nobody can explain why that idea only works if you pay the extra blockchain overhead relative to just using basic digital signatures from the human you're already trusting to do a particular task.

Also as a starting premise, remember that most of us are quite familiar with things which aren't great now. The idea of getting rid of PayPal or not having people login using Facebook/Google sounds great to a lot of us, but that needs to be predicated on system which would actually get normal people to switch by being cheaper, safer, etc. Appeals to ideological purity don't tend to get traction when the “Login with Facebook” button is right there.
If you want the convenience of the cloud but the security of owning your own data there's anything that uses WireGuard. The only tricky thing is selectively exposing via a proxy for things like sharing. Traefik has done wonders in that category though.
So thoughtless bashing is fine, as long as no attempt at humor is made?
It's bad to amplify election disinformation. Its pensiveness enhances its efficacy and it doesn't need to be particularly widespread to be impactful. Georgia was decided by under 12000 votes in the 2020 presidential election.
At the very least, it maps a lot more closely than does the market value of a single stock.
Coming from the world of SVN I gotta say: git does a really good job of doing the right pieces well.

I don't know what will replace git. However I know they'll have a mountain to climb on to create something better.
Eh whatever I'm sure they'll fix this and it wasn't malicious like a lot of people seem to be thinking.

I am one of the original Odyssey card holders and they sent me an a750 and I've been having a whole lot of fun testing that card and my CPU happens to be an AMD CPU, the 5900x.

A lot of the things that you're seeing is just them not having the resources internally to be testing all of these iterations of configurations. I mean their drivers say that my motherboard doesn't support resizable bar when I clearly have it enabled in the bios Windows reports it as enabled gpu-z reports it as enabled... But I don't see this as a malicious thing it's just a blind spot problem. I'll make them aware of it and I'm pretty sure it'll be fixed.

If you want a competitor to AMD and Nvidia please buy these cards and test weird shit that's on the fringes. Don't worry about the modern stuff don't worry about DirectX 12 or Vulkan stuff. Just make sure to have dgvoodoo2, dxvk, nglide and whatever other wrappers. I've been finding that for old stuff that uses like directx 8 DirectX 9 that I have to jump through about the same amount of hoops on my 2070 super in 2080 TI to get these older games working on modern windows. So the compatibility problems aren't all that bad but the ones that are bad are annoying that they don't work.

Also don't pay attention to benchmarks or reviews from even a couple weeks ago because right now my a750 without an overclock is beating pretty much every benchmark that I originally read just from a week ago from both the a770 and the a750. Improvements in Windows 11 insider along with having a strong CPU along with beta driver updates... AMD fine wine is going to be immediately superseded by this. Intel also has a leg up on tensorflow and other Nvidia specific compute path things to make those eventually work a whole lot easier with just a plug-and-play kind of thing. AMD has been doing this competition thing for how long and they don't even have a fucking chance with that.
Threats are unlikely to make advertisers want to advertise on Twitter.
It probably depends how that "calling for" works.

A fair few historical examples of "nobody do business with X" have involved improper levels of coercion.
Sometimes a good abstraction should leak. I hated Subversion and Perforce because both seemed like mystery boxes; I could use them but I never felt like I understood them. With git I've never had that feeling, if anything it's the opposite. Git is easier to understand than it is to use; the data model is simple enough to figure out in a few minutes, but learning the nuances of the various commands and flags takes a lot longer.

Leaky abstraction is not git's problem. Git's problem is shit like "checkout -b". Why does git-checkout have a flag to do what git-branch is for? Convenience of course, but this kind of shortcut makes git harder to learn initially.
For those who love Rage Against the Machine and can't seem to find modern revolution music, give Idles a try. It's a bit more on the punk side but equally angry and inspired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idles