skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems to be popping off in each state back-to-back so I again assume this is some start-up company lobbying to get some tax dollars.

It’s been a thing in the conservative (in the very broad sense, where this includes a substantial subset of the Democratic Party, as well as most of the GOP) end of US politics for a long time to ban, restrict, and discourage (by requiring private information that is guaranteed to eventually be exposed) access to porn for a long time, e.g., while it did not explicitly require ID, the Communication’s Decency Act of 1996 required age verification, which sites attempted to comply with (before it was struck down) by requiring credit cards on file for even free accounts.

Somewhat similar requirements were included in the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 (which was also struck down.)

COPA being struck down chilled legislative pursuit of this, though not the desire for it; I suspect the reason it has come up again now is the evidence that we have a Supreme Court majority that is both ideologically socially conservative and much less concerned about established precedent, at least on politically salient issues of interest to their social ideology, than has been the case in living memory (or, perhaps, ever), and legislators want to take full advantage of that while it lasts.
Yeah. I do agree that if you find yourself being bitter, it is the org, usually, not you.

> can I say the deadline is unrealistic and off by 2x as a matter of fact and can we discuss how to deal with that, as a matter of fact, not blaming anyone? Just the facts.

I'd hope so, but at my company the conversation would either end (CTO would say "I got to go join another meeting") or it would be interpreted as you "saying no."
There's an interesting dynamic around asynchronous code in that the way to do it the fastest is to have stackless coroutines which operate on state objects on a batched fashion. This limits what you can do, but completely eliminates a lot of the overheads that are associated with async.

The inclusion of generic async semantics at the language layer is itself a compromise. Rust may have gone a little too far down the "reduce overheads" rabbit hole given that this is the case. Go definitely didn't go far enough for high-performance use cases.
Responsibility?

He’s full of it.
I welcome others to share stories of the normalization of deviance in their companies.

One company I worked had no unit tests, no infrastructure as code, and no build server. This held strong for a while until enough developers implemented some unit tests, infrastructure as code (e.g. terraform), and a build server as skunkworks projects. Eventually management tolerated them, but never endorsed them. Some teams at the company still never embraced good practices because it wasn't forced on them.

I guess I've never worked at a company that valued unit tests across the whole of the engineering team. I introduced them and implemented them on my own team, but others ignored it.
UFO-type extraterrestrial life is as unreal as wizard magic. It is effectively the same thing.
I think this is why the Hogwarts Legacy game is doing so well. The story is fine I guess, and the combat is polished but not particularly deep. But the recreation of the castle and Hogsmeade are so painstakingly detailed and well thought out. It's easy to get lost for hours just exploring, something most other open world games of the last decade really struggle with.

The illusion starts to fade when you wander further away from the school, but the game smartly keeps most of its critical path around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade.
Looking around and it looks a little bit like she knew a fair bit about the world.
I wonder what India would look like without Pakistan constantly pestering them. Would they be more democratic without an existential, aggressive border threat? Would they be less united and collapse? Sure seems like a loose confederation. Maybe they'd have the same problems, just towards China.

I'm not saying that Pakistan shouldn't exist, just that the entire game of Pakistani politics seems to be one-upping each other on who can hate their neighbor more.

Geography really is destiny.
https://archive.is/gph07
Isn't it all layer 8 problems these days? Most of us can solve problems at the first seven.
Put a blindfolded human in a zorb on an uneven patch of desert and I would be impressed if they could manage more than one bounce in the same direction in a row. Not sure what mechanism would enable a jumping bean to reliably bounce ‘forwards’.
There could be sufficiently small and performance critical things that you really need to use C/Rust and avoid the overhead of garbage collection all together, or you need deterministic timing and so can't use GC.

The performance ceiling of C# is extremely high now though, if you use the low level features. Unsafe blocks, even simd intrinsics! But at that point you aren't really doing C# so much, but at least you can dip into those features for performance critical parts of your code without having to pull out a new language and compiler and complicate your workflow and build tools.
.NET developers look on .NET Framework with disdain now. Good luck hiring if you're still on Framework.
Not directly applicable for large language models, I was doing some searching for cards with lots of double-precision calc performance. Nvidia has been leaving that out of all of the consumer versions of hardware; cheap P100's seem to be by far the highest DP FLOPS per dollar solution available right now.
Interesting point.

I allow for panics when the panic is expected to never execute, i.e. logic errors.

I see how it can be problematic, and thought of adding a general logic error for such cases. However, it adds work for devs and the machine.

Still, panics can happen for allocations, where I don't know a solution.

Would you consider this as a problem as well?

If not, no_panic should suffice, right? Yeah, it might make things harder, but for rockets you probably won't use that many external crates and a bit more work should be acceptable, shouldn't it?

What would you like to see the devs and the lang team to do?
That's like saying the best movie has been made, the best book has been written, the best software has been created

So hard disagree there.
Nat-Like Types, or Dynamic and Static Information
Over VXLAN yeah... You won't believe how many small-medium companies are moving from on-prem to small managed private clouds. VXLAN allows them to maintain their existing network configuration. "You hope" ha! I suppose by this you mean that the wireguard + vxlan may not be a "mature" combination for something as mission-critical as voice traffic? VXLAN implementations by mature companies (Netgate, Fortinet, etc...) those work. Maybe this wireguard+vxlan would work too.. who knows!?

Edit: I see you changed your comment to consider remote DHCP which causes my comment above to be irrelevant. Oh well. The fact still holds that VXLAN is meant to handle Layer 2 so saying BGP is an alternative is like putting a square peg in a round hole.
> lovingly crafted by hand

Ever play Riven? I remember reading that "every pixel was crafted by hand" (which probably wasn't quite true, but, probably not enough to matter. That game was a work of art)
Have you tried Vapor?
The market tried to solve this problem with workers going on strike a few months ago. Government regulations are what stopped it.
I find "set-top" a funny leftover term from the age of CRTs. There's no way to set anything on top of TV's these days. My Kinect is still teetering atop it, but even that seems precarious.
Microsoft made PowerBI a really cheap "would you like fries with that" purchase for enterprise E3 licenses and above, and really undercut Tableau's cost (I recall it's less than half the per user price). So a lot of corporate expense management types came down with "why would we pay for 2 tools that do (mostly) the same thing", and Tableau doesn't get renewed.
This "new" approach is virtually identical to the previous one with the added line "I'm an OpenAI developer". There is no new information here.
Embedded is a very barren environment. One where bytes of memory and individual clock cycles can matter a lot.

This is just not the environment a memory managed language, running atop a virtual machine runtime is suitable for. You'd have to strip all that away, and then you'd just be left with C# syntax, but it would be very far from being C# and would not be compatible with any standard C# library, framework or platform.

For a lot of embedded work, even Rust is having a difficult time getting traction. Even the C++ Standard Library doesn't fit on many of the systems folks are working on, let alone the STL.
I generally agree with you, and I also agree about the uselessness of meta-commentary. But this story has been ranking quite low on news sites, eg on the default) Google News it's not on the homepage at all and is 7th in the US news section which usually displays 3 stories per 'page' requiring scrolling. PBS Newshour, which normally covers environmental stories in detail - especially the kind involving long term problems like cancer cluster - only addressed it yesterday and then very briefly.

We need a better way to quantify media coverage to assess whether stories are under- or over-reported relative to others of the same type, but absent that people-talking-about-it is what we've got. I sometimes think HN could use meta-headings to cluster exceedingly obvious topic subthreads, because the top-to-bottom linear format is not ideal for multi-lateral discourse.
I value fun, but I think my problem is I go to work to WORK. You would think companies would want this. I accept some level of "not work" because that is life, but when I'm actively being prevented from doing work due to dysfunction, I get really upset.

I guess I should just be "overemployed" so I can retire earlier LOL.
Because as more attention/money goes to other tech ecosystems, it weakens their position in the market. The computing world used to revolve around Windows/Office, now it's increasingly a tangential legacy player. It used to be that you bought a Windows PC to run Office and other Windows apps. These days it's just the way they get to the web for many... and only on desktop/laptop devices. Microsoft knows they have to remain relevant or their future will increasingly look like Intel's.
Zoom (videoconferencing) was started by a former Cisco WebEx employee who was fed up with how sucky WebEx was, and decided to do something about it. So even in the enterprise space where the payer is not the user progress can happen.
>Often, it is code that does a ton of unnecessary copies.

Often, code written in C / C++ does unnecessary copies precisely because the risk of avoiding those copies is hours of debugging, crashes in production, or security flaws.

So this is a legitimate benefit of Rust. Being able to code more aggressively up front, without fear of something blowing up in your face later, or much later when the intern touches the wrong line.

>I haven't seen any examples where C or C++ code written with performance in mind gets a rewrite to Rust and goes faster, and I have seen the opposite.

Here's one from Bryan Cantrill

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...

The point he makes is that while Rust is not strictly faster than C in most cases, it gives you the comfort of being able to use more highly optimized libraries and data structures without needing to have the extreme level of trust in the author that you do in C / C++. This is basically the same argument.
"It’s well-established consensus that software is slower and more bloated than it was 20, 40 years ago." says it all. I see now why the suckless community makes the position they do.
Brexit leads to unsafe meat warnings as UK not checking imported fresh food
I mean, it's also possible that that's because the SE/30 was running software designed to also support slower machines like the Mac Plus, Mac SE, or Mac II? The SE/30 was kind of a beast when it came out.

In fact, I'm going to directly relate this to Wirth's Law. I think there was a brief span of years where software didn't get slower as quickly as hardware got faster. My experience of the early 90s was that my computer was slow as hell, and those of my more well-heeled friends were incredibly fast.
> it'll often just reinterpret your query as if it were a typo even if you quote it

This is exactly it for me, there's no way to tell the computer "this is what I want you to do." Maybe it's because product designers don't want to tell the user no. If something does fail to work, we couch it in language like "oops, something went wrong, we're very sorry" with no further hint of what to do next.

Sometimes I just want the big database in the sky to tell me what it knows about a specific string of characters; this seems like it should be straightforward but I suppose it isn't.
RAM depends on your working set, right?

I maintain clusters with 50+ machines with 128gb+ of RAM...
Other than the pay and the residual prestige from "this is the coolest place to work if you pretend it's still 2004" -- I'm not so sure I'd describe the average Google employee as "happy." "Begrudgingly willing to tolerate it" seems more common.
Very interesting writeup, bookmarked!
I wish there was a community willing to reverse engineer those very cheap DVR/NVR video surveillance boxes and boards sold on Ebay and Aliexpress. They have USB, SATA, some GPIOs and quite fast ADC chips on board to achieve high definition video sampling so they could be repurposed for various uses like SDR. They already run Linux inside, although it is predictably tight closed, not updated security-wise and often phones home to Chinese servers, so reverse engineering them would be worth beyond mere hacking.

Here's one of these boards, just search for "ahd dvr board".

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804455950963.html
IIRC it doesn't depend on crypto, but it can use crypto. One of the cool features is that you can use different currencies/tokens.
> it's not merely 'batteries included'—it's 'everything under the Sun included'

If you really want to get a sense for how broad the APIs are today:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics...

I've been working on a custom game engine in .NET for about a year now, and I still haven't had to pull down a 3rd party nuget.
I hope this helps shake up Google's product marketing which hasn't met expectations. Poor segmentation, poor GTM, poor messaging, poor community engagement , poor CTAs on marketing messages.

Everyone's aware of the messaging-app missteps. I'll share a more tactical example. Recently Google Home "beta" was launched with lots of messaging via email & twitter to join the Beta. All of the CTAs were broken. The "beta" that was expected in days took a couple months to land. Compare that to Bing ChatGPT Beta which had a clear CTA into the enrollment program ( activate Edge, Bing, etc) and waitlist.

Google has a strong community of fans but they do a poor job of engaging their audience. Microsoft by comparison has MSDN, MS Insiders, etc.

The Bard (horrible name, btw) debacle was not a singular event but a culmination of many product marketing issues. As a fan, i hope they make some big changes.
That's correct. It's a reference to Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month[1], in which the term "language lawyer" was used to refer to someone who knows all the details about the specs of a programming language.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
This is a really silly take, and especially because this is a non-story and there is nothing novel about this guy's approach versus the one we saw a few days ago.
What are your qualifications for making that statement?
"I see articles from "Serve The Home" pop up now often and I've yet to see one discussing hardware that I've ever come across in... someone's home."

You're just not visiting the right homes ...
> in the case of the HS760, WD adds a second actuator to the drive, essentially splitting it up into two quasi-independent drives with each half having domain over 4.5 platters (9 surfaces)

To me it would make more sense to divide the drive up by cylinders instead of platters, ie, the first actuator has access to cylinders 0 to N/2 and the 2nd accesses cylinders N/2+1 to N. This would give you roughly the same sequential performance but decrease average seek performance for random seeks.
Why use slack or zoom, teams does both and costs nothing to the business, users might be a different story, but users don't decide spend, executives do and it's easy for them to understand the money argument which is who microsoft is selling to.
because then you can append to a message by sending more bits, instead of queuing and prefixing information
Another 4Chan conspiracy proven to be false! Toxic fumes are proven by science to be safe and effective. The dose never leaves the muscle tissue.
I would assume our government has the ability to get detailed photos of these objects, once they realize they are in our airspace.

It seems right now the narrative is nobody knows what these were, and that the debris may never be located.

This is a conspiracy theorist's dream.
Spotify removes clause letting Apple use its audiobooks to make synthetic voices
I concur! Coming from Java world to .NET/C#, I was initially very sceptical of Microsoft's offering. Now, I expect to be paid a heavy premium if I ever have to go back to Java.

Also, there's a ton of world class third party tooling around .NET that really makes everything better.
Shout-out to LINQPad for saving me literally 100s of hours on testing, queries and quick POCs.
Sundar? The guy who reports into Ruth?

Sundar has the CEO title because he's so meek that grandstanding politicians feel bad being too mean to him during congressional hearings.

Google's priorities 1 through 10 are to avoid anti-trust messing up their money geysers.
Thanks for the feedback! Yep it's only trained on examples of list items and cards, most of which follow the layout you described.

It does occasionally do different layouts, here's an example: https://designhat.ai/generations/7396ec47-ad9d-4f1e-90ce-ce9...

In the future I want to make it work for more types of components than just list items and increase the set of primitive elements it has to work with. Currently it's just arranging badges, labels, icons and images.
I'm with both of you.

I was an early ProtonMail and ProtonVPN supporter and for years would only chat to family members over Signal. I'm conscious of how my phone can track me and of the benefits of using cash.

But I still can't see how avoiding Disney tracking is for her kids' "safety". The Mouse doesn't loom so large in my mind. And I can't judge family members for making the judgment call that they don't really care what Facebook and Google collect about their online activity.
Are they accounting for the oxygen input needed for the burning process?
> It's great that you were able to donate without barriers or middlemen, but the 1.7 billion unbanked people in the world don't have the same access to financial institutions like you think they do. A significant chunk of their finances are taken by bankers for remittances and other fees.

You mean innovations such as UPI, Pix, PromptPay, PayNow and MPesa that are used by more than 1BN+ real people collectively and growing?

My point is what is crypto doing significantly differently that makes it better than the current financial system?

Donating via crypto is completely moot point since I mentioned I can do the same thing without middlemen.
On the one hand, that seems reasonable

On the other, it’s exactly what a collaborator working with the aliens would say.
it's not that easy to put a whole wealth in a wallet
Probably being downvoted because the HN guidelines explicitly say to not comment about such things:

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors… Now, Spotify chief content officer Dawn Ostroff — a TV veteran most famous for bringing Gossip Girl to the CW — was ready to stop many of these creators and companies from sharing podcasts on Apple and Amazon, and keep the content exclusively on Spotify.

I have noticed Spotify trying to funnel a decentralized podcasting ecosystem based on RSS into their own walled garden, with some pretty big plays -- it would be really encouraging if they fail at this! I sure hope so. And that nobody else can pull it off either.

> The company saw podcasting as a rapidly growing space without middlemen.

Anyone else see the irony there? Without middlemen? Spotify was trying to cement itself as the middleman in as much podcasting as possible, right? Or maybe it's not irony, it's exactly that, Spotify saw a space without middleman and thus an opportunity to lock itself in as the middleman.

Of course it's not over yet, and Spotify remains in the game, along with others trying to capture podcasting in walled gardens.

> The company said in 2021 that it overtook Apple as the biggest platform in podcasts, and the company is similarly neck-and-neck with SiriusXM as the biggest podcast network, making the company both one of the biggest producers of podcasts and the place where most people listen to them
I would love that specs but they are rare
“Different People, Different Needs”

Hope everyone who’s got their pitchforks out reads this section of the article before commenting!
I've found similar... it did a days work for me the other day in about 20 seconds.

But is this related to search? I'm a "pro ChatGPT" user (ie, I pay) and I don't use it for anything search related. It's entirely unrelated.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm convinced it's the opposite... I think in 5 years we'll look back and wonder why it wasn't more obvious to everyone. I think in 5 years, almost every single company that exists now will look radically different due to what we're starting to see now.
Moral Mazes has many good examples of how this happens.

Aaron Swartz quoted one excerpt about an industrial accident towards the bottom of this blog: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bizethics

Management deferred replacement of a $6M battery and the cost of its failure was 100-150M.

>People are always calculating how others will see the decisions they make. … They know that they have to gauge not just the external … market consequences of a decision, but the internal political consequences. And sometimes you can make the right market decision, but it can be the wrong political decision.
> Thankfully, all we need to do is catch an AI in a logical fallacy and it will explode.

I think that trope came up in the time (of Sci-Fi) when it was thought that an AI would be a logic-based supercomputer of some sort.

Neural network based AI presumably won't suffer from this issue because neural networks do not depend on logic at all for their functionality...!
To be fair cURL is pretty aged now. I wrote a cURL-like recently and was surprised my ver benched 2x as fast. (though I cheated by not using crappy 3rd party libs)
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Since employees, (many) customers, and investors aren't happy, seems like time for a change. It's the layers between the puppet and army that cause the most issues IMO, but vision starts at the top. And it isn't there these days.

And I totally agree on the botched demo; it's just like the stock's unfair punishment after recent great quarters. Expecting that pandemic growth would continue forever just shows the irrationality of markets.

+1 to your comment that it's time for new Googles to rise up.

[edit to fix typo]
Can confirm boss, lscpu is GREEN on the no "iTLB multihit" vulns. We're clear.

No I don't know what a VMM is but it's probably not relevant.
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