skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His observations are mostly on the mark, but I'm kinda dubious this is actually any better or worse than ever before. I'm not sure if there's an econometric measure of rents per GDP or whatever, but I kinda doubt it's sky high by a historical standard.

I don't have a full essay on the subject, but I have a gut feeling that the informalization of society has relieved a ton of useless costs on people. Spending money on cultural imperatives like going to church, wearing a tie to the office, wearing diamonds to look prosperous are no longer mandatory in much of the first world.
This is incorrect if you are talking about 3090 or 3090ti using nvlink.
> You realize the first databases were hierarchical, not relational, right?

Yes. Obviously, the first databases humanity ever made were also the worst databases humanity ever made. With the possible exception of mongodb.

The choices Linux made in 1980 made sense at the time. But 40 years is a long time! It is as you say - databases have improved a lot in that time. I don’t know if Linux built on top of a modern database would be better or worse. How could we know unless somebody tries it?
? This is provably false. FTC filed 6 months ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-law...

n.b. I've found a lot of comfort by conciously rolling away from any subject that leads me to do "They"-ing, i.e. name an enormously large group, then talk about them as a unit. The more I avoid it, the more I realize how prevalent it became and drives how a lot of us feel society shifted.
What do you mean? Google is so responsible with all of our user data. What could possibly go wrong entrusting them to be responsible with AI? /s
I think this would be incredibly dumb, because global bans are incredibly dumb.

If individual schools (or even individual counties etc) want to try a ban like that, they can experiment. I don't know whether it's a good idea or not.

But I do know that a global ban is beyond silly.
Thank you. I can see why there is a pushback for it and also why Google would want to make it a standard. It has a feel of systemd to it ( making things easy enough that if it does manage to become a standard, people will likely accept it en masse )
> RTX 4000 SFF

Max Power Consumption - 70W.

Huh?
I know this, by the way.

But it's a good thing that companies find this out because I'm not a good fit for a sterile work environment.

My original post was not asking why; it was refuting the article that said it was a good thing in its face.
I wonder howa change to MIT license should improve situation? Means with AGPL adoption was low because…?
I'm still coming up to speed on downvoting. The down arrows appeared for me suddenly a couple of weeks ago but not for every post.

At least for now I find them useful. I have read a lot of grayed posts to get a feeling for what's going on and usually see why. I've upvoted a few where I thought the author was on point.
Quite frankly, the W3C stopped having any say on the matter when the WHATWG supplanted the XHTML standard with the HTML5 committee.

They had enough weight at the time to say "The Web is XHTML2, you can make your own internet if you want " compared to what they can bargain for these days.

Maybe at the time it was a somewhat reasonable decision to abdicate their responsibility over to big internet companies, but that's what brought us to the current state where we're basically going back to original version of The Microsoft Network[1].

[1]http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/the-microsoft-network/
I don't want to be that guy but this sounds horrible. You shouldn't treat reading as a chore or as something you have to do in order to watch TV. I think it's better if you let them watch TV for 1-2 hours per day and that's it. Let them read if they want to, don't force them like that.
And Meta: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/recipients?id=D0000335..., https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/0...

And Intuit: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/intuit-inc/recipients?id=D0..., https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/1...

And Epic: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/epic-systems/recipients?id=..., https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/1...

etc. etc.
Amortized Time Complexity in Elixir
Even on Windows, you can do practically anything with a signed driver.

There's just no such thing as verifying a "secure environment" outside of extremely narrow, controlled scenarios.
I’d love to read a write up of someone buying a Lisp machine and then coding in it. It’s a fascinating historical what could have been, if they had survived to the present day.
l-theanine, it's amazing - I'm drawing when I drink coffee, so I started an experiment and drew the same cat a few times, much much softer with L-Theanine in the coffee. But the coffee tastes like old feed with the L-Theanine in there xD
Financial pressure won't work because you are not Google's customer. Google's customers are its advertisers.
I cannot overstate how difficult it is to do this solo. Being the only person in a friend group who does not have a phone results in pretty severe ostracization, especially for preteens and teens who do not yet have a strong sense of self. It means being left out of conversations, invitations, discussions, jokes, parties, homework questions, etc.

Having said that, you are early enough that you still have time to convince the other parents in their grade cohort to take a pledge like "Wait Until 8th" https://www.waituntil8th.org/ (In the US, 8th grade is 13-14 years old.) This provides a kind of "herd immunity" as long as you get enough families on board.

And if your school does not already have them in place you can advocate for anti-cell-phone policies which minimize classroom time as a potential vector.

Be forewarned that you may not be successful unless you are also willing to cut social ties with families who cave in and give their kids phones before then.
> My teacher would have ripped the gameboy out of my hand and confiscated it for the rest of the school year. Teachers do not that have that kind of freedom today.

Well, how are teachers supposed to enforce a ban on smartphones, then?
You do get something like 60 hours free a month with Codespaces (with lowest CPU/memory), which is fairly generous.

Also - we get that the difference between all these things can be confusing. Here's a post laying out the vision for vscode.dev and why it exists at all: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev
I bet you think that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, too.

There's no "hijacking" occurring except in your mind. Your preferred political tribe also engages in its share of conspiracy-adjacent skepticism.
I would hope whoever buys it donates it to the Smithsonian, but I would understand if they didn't
`mold -run ninja` works really well for me.
I think so. I don't know of any better.
The assumption it's a closed system that received no new content at runtime is a very functional programming-like assumption, but quite restrictive in most real long-lived systems.
> Why should the US break up an asset like Google?

I'm also European and I think almost pretty much 100% as you think on this, but to play devil's advocate, and how I think this should have worked in theory in a free-market economy, is that the US, by allowing companies like Google to do their nefarious and frankly evil things right now and in the near future is also, at the same time, not allowing future potential companies, more innovative than Google is now, to take Google's place.

But what happens is that the US is focusing on having a strong and national security-enhancing company (Google) on its side now and in the near future, versus having an even stronger and, potentially, even more national-security enhancing company (the one that would have taken Google's place had the free market been allowed to do its thing) in the medium to long future.

On the face of it this compromise of security now and in the near future vs security in the medium to long future looks like a decent bet, the problem is that evil colossuses like Google are actively getting rotten from the inside, and at some point in the medium to long future they'll fall almost in an instant, with no company to take their place. That will leave the US highly vulnerable at that point in the future.
Were the protest blackouts on Reddit successful?
House UFO hearing livestream [video]
I hate to be the pedant, but I think you meant preservatives. I kept imagining Mitt Romney in a tub with sliced apples and it was unnerving to say the least
Say what you will about Netlify, they have never driven to my house and stabbed me.
yeah.. definitely no mass female groping problems.. hell even guys are being groped nowadays from what ive been told
Oh, I know.

My post was not wondering why I wasn't getting hired; it was a refutation of the article saying that blogs were all good.

Sometimes you can stand out in a bad way (in other people's minds).

I'm okay with this because I'm not a good fit for sterile office work.
The smartphone is the greatest education tool in perhaps ever. All the world’s information available immediately on a handheld device. The stuff of magic. Taking this away from anyone, especially children who will benefit the most from this amazing resource, is tantamount to child abuse.
I don't care how much they update it. I will not use the new UI.
I went here in November 2001 right after it opened. It was my first time in NYC. I loved it, thought it was so cool. After that trip I decided I’d have to live in this city at some point. Moved here in 2005 and been in NYC ever since. Remote Lounge always reminds me of how magical and full of possibility the city felt (indeed still is!)
Every working person‘s job can be very difficult.

There are virtually no jobs in this country where you cannot be fired for being rude. Just being rude! I don’t mean violating someone’s rights, just being rude.

Every single retail job matches your description of moderating 4chan at times. Every single customer-facing service worker is required to have higher emotional intelligence than this cop in order to keep their job.

Police can do virtually anything to you without consequence.
Plenty of people are using copies of Word, Powerpoint, and Excel 2003 just fine, which received literally zero 'maintenance' for at least a decade or more depending on personal preferences.

For most software that can be sold in a box, without an attached cloud service, this approach works.

EDIT: Also some fraction would be using them on computers that literally haven't been upgraded or connected to the internet for a decade or more.
fwiw I found Vivaldi's overview a good primer on the situation.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environme...
> If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is already useless. This will give Google a clear choice: if they want to maintain the idea that the W3C matters, they should withdraw this implementation.

It's pretty generally accepted that the correct way to do web standardization is for proponents of some new thing to implement that thing and deploy it and then once it has been shown to actually work bring a spec to the the standards folks for standardization.

That usually works fairly well, although sometimes if that first pre-standard implementation does too well the original implementor may have trouble replacing theirs with something that follows whatever standard is eventually approved, because there are often significant changes made during the standardization process.

An example of that would be CSS grid layout. That was a Microsoft addition to IE 10, behind a vendor prefix of -ms-. Nearly everyone else liked it and it was standardized but with enough differences from Microsoft's original that you couldn't just remove the -ms- prefixes from your CSS and have it work great with the now standard CSS grid.

It was 4.5 years between the time Microsoft first deployed it in IE 10 and it appearing in other browsers by default (Chrome had it within a year of Microsoft, and Firefox had it about two years after that, but both as an experimental feature the user had the specifically enable). In that 4.5 years enough sites that only cared about IE were using the -ms- form that Microsoft ended up stuck with that on IE 10 and 11 instead of the standard.
We went in a circle. The article does this. The parent comment says “use sum types.” I said “most languages don’t have direct support” and now you’re repeating the article.
A possibly better analogy would be if a ride-share gave you a free ride to a concert and all of your friends have used that free ride without issue but then the ride-share company forced you out of the ride halfway to the concert without warning and said "should've read the fine print not our problem!" - now you're possibly in a bad neighborhood with a dead phone battery in a much worse place than you would've been if you never trusted the free service to begin with (and I would suggests it's not hard at all to imagine a scenario with more dire consequences in this situation)

If people are planning their near future based on what you've said you would likely be giving them, then at some point there is probably some inherited responsibility to at least give the user of that service a heads up so they can make other plans if possible.
"Improved error formatting in JavaScript and TypeScript" is a bug I filed with them over 4 years ago.

I had the genius idea that you should be able to read the error messages, especially when it was related to types. The previous output was almost unreadable.

They finally agreed to add it after someone built their own plugin to do the same thing in VSCode.

A bit frustrating that it took this long, but glad they did it. Over the years, I've tried every IDE on the planet (I have no religious notion of the best one), and this one remains my favorite simply because it works very well across a lot of languages and because they do listen to feedback in their issue tracker (eventually).
Yes, please just listen to teachers and make their jobs easier. I know passionate driven teachers who have walked away from teaching because of smartphones in the classroom. Its such a stupid exhausting never ending battle. Teaching is hard enough.
accelerators that you can apply too, YC + 4 more
Agreed.

As I say in the original comment
> process will ... eventually fail if the public cannot appoint people to be vigilant full time for them.

And I was exactly thinking of paid full time work.
Why don't we just skip to the part where google runs and owns everything and everyone, and we all have to give them 50% of our harvests.
I don't see anything significant from the FTC specifically regarding Google, but there is an ongoing DOJ lawsuit. Possibly they don't want to step on that? I admit I don't really understand the roles of the DOJ versus the FTC regarding anti-trust enforcement. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...
Yes, breaking up a company means divesting some business units. The new businesses would have their own BoD, leadership, shareholders, etc.

The US did this with Standard Oil in 1911, Bell/AT&T in 1983. And the same laws were used against Microsoft in 2001, though the company was able to avoid a break-up.

Breaking up Google might not be the best option. Perhaps more rigorous regulation by the government would be better, similar to Microsoft. But a break up should be an option.
This isn't true.They research the topics and reference articles written by staff writers (now disappointingly partially AI). Yes, they add humorous banter but I've found most of their content to be well researched, informative and entertaining.
Microsoft's Defender was, until recently, drastically slowing down Firefox on many configurations.
This is a very good question.

I preferred to bundle libtransmission to offer a plug'n play experience across all platforms.

Regarding all the criticism here, I believe PikaTorrent should primarily focus on new or average torrent users. Advanced users might either modify the settings file manually for now (though guessing the path is not ideal), or perhaps PikaTorrent should expose a textarea to edit transmission settings (though this approach might be risky for average users).

In the meantime, I plan to expose a lot more Transmission settings in the UI. Even for me, PikaTorrent is not mature enough to fulfill all my needs. However, with more features to come and potential feature requests from users on GitHub, it might become a suitable BitTorrent client for advanced users and server usages.
Yes, eliminating the temptation is the first thing to do.

How do you expect someone to stop binge eating if they have the kitchen full of prepackaged foods?
Knapheide truck service bodies only have ten keys. I suspect this model is a lot more common than you might hope.
make replaced by cmake, ouch.
how to I get my -march=native -flto perf improvements in there easily? Would need at least 20 lines...
Alma has a patch and needs testers! it's a link!
Around here 6y old kids take the bus.
The web is not dying, it is being killed. And the people that are killing it have names and addresses.

Shame on Rayan Kanso <rayankans@chromium.org>

Shame on Peter Pakkenberg <pbirk@chromium.org>

Shame on Dmitry Gozman <dgozman@chromium.org>

Shame on Richard Coles <torne@chromium.org>

Shame on Kinuko Yasuda <kinuko@chromium.org>

Shame on Rupert Ben Wiser:
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

Google needs to be broken up.
AWS Summit New York City 2023 Expo
I might need to tell my corporate IT department that our emails are going through Gmail.

Besides, I can’t remember the last time I actually sent a personal email to anyone besides forwarding something from another business.
I would start by not allowing voting on main topics; only allow on comments. And rank topics based on comment votes. Bad comments are going to be downvotes or, if bad quality, will just be removed.
One thing that I’ve heard before is if one person complains a politician knows there’s 9 more.
What does close mean? So close that they can walk there instead of using the subway?
These things are nice to have, but you don’t actually need them.

It only takes 1-2 pages of HLSL to implement efficient matrix multiplication. It’s not rocket science, the area is well researched and there’re many good articles on how to implement these BLAS routines efficiently.

Moreover, manually written compute shaders enable stuff missing from these off-the-shelf higher level libraries.

It’s easy to merge multiple compute operations into a single shader. When possible, this sometimes saves gigabytes of memory bandwidth (and therefore time) these high-level libraries spend writing/reading temporary tensors.

It’s possible to re-shape immutable or rarely changing tensors into better memory layouts. Example for CPU compute https://stackoverflow.com/a/75567894/126995 the idea is equally good on GPUs.

It’s possible to use custom data formats, and they don’t require any hardware support. Upcasting BF16 to FP32 is 1 shader instruction (left shift), downcasting FP32 to BF16 only takes a few of them (for proper rounding), no hardware support necessary. Can pack quantized or sparse tensors into a single ByteAddressBuffer, again nothing special is required from hardware. Can implement custom compression formats for these tensors.
Especially interesting given yesterday’s superconductor paper release
My problem with IntelliJ (which I used to love), is that with each release it becomes slower and slower, while adding a bunch of features that, following the law of diminishing marginal utility, by now have negligible utility.

The time it takes to start a Java program in a Maven project is excruciating. And for unit tests or small utilities that's something I need to do countless times a day. While some random code analysis feature really is maybe helpful once a year. I actually reverted back from the last release because it got so bad.

Am I the only one with this problem? Has anybody found a solution for it?
Show HN: I generated the #1 Trivia book on Amazon with ChatGPT (free download)
Chevy Bolt EV is returning to market, months after GM scrapped it
I think you might have this flipped (not that it's any better). If someone pays you more, they assume you're more valuable and to some extent assume you're a better person.
I know it's not exactly what you mean, but this is why I dislike HTTP2 and 3 (both also heavily pushed by Google but also others). While open, they are the opposite of "welcoming and friendly".
Isn’t that the opposite of privacy?
https://archive.ph/UKKQ8
I like this but popular polls performed produce SurveyMaster as a better name.

Which it isn't.

So it has some flaws.

But great idea.
Which executive orders, federal appointments, and other executive branch actions, would you attribute to Eric Schmidt?
depends on the kid. you may get lucky and have a kid that loves to listen to rules and conform to parental expectations.

or your kid might turn out like me. you don't think there are ways a clever 11, 12, 13 year old can get a phone, and hide it from you?
For me best thing I ever did for my blood pressure was quitting caffeine. Completely normalized after I dropped it.
People are going to learn the hard way that The Market they've been worshipping is a false idol. Don't get me wrong - I advocate for a regulated market economy, but the key point is "regulated." We have 200-300 years of experience now showing the kinds of problems vaunted market is unable to solve.
That's why we should isolate Chromium from Google.
Chromium should be lead by third-party like W3C.
Oh, yes, I'd better post it to Gab.

Let's just say that there was an external reason why I lost motivation that I could tell a potential employer, and they would understand. I won't repeat it on HN though.

In reality, I know why I'm not getting a job. I'll not a good fit for sterile office work. And that's okay for both me and companies; their are right to avoid hiring me.
White pasta has one of the best insulin indexes of common foods. They're complex, not simple. Common misconception.
The school system and public institutions need to protect them and give them back this power.
Hi, Selenium & Appium creator here. I've always been on the test automation side of things. The fact that these tools were also useful for scraping was an interesting coincidence to me. These days I make physical robots that are the "real world" equivalent of Selenium or Appium with a stylus that actually taps the screen and presses buttons. To websites and apps, taps and clicks are real, not emulated. Primary use is still test automation, especially when it also involves a real-world component like a credit card transaction with a credit card reader. The number of people contacting me who are interested in getting a physical robot as a way to circumvent software bot detection is increasing. Yes, scrapers will find a way.
Like any technology, there are both positive and negative aspects of it. The positive take would probably be that this technology is already widely used by iOS and Android apps. People use Apple's AppAttest to e.g. ensure that high scores submitted for a game are from a legitimate copy of the game and not just someone calling the SubmitHighScore API.

But it's absolutely fair to argue that the web operates on a different set of expectations than the Play Store/App Store, and I think the concerns that this will create a second-class citizen status for browsers are totally valid. There's a huge difference in character between "in order to prevent piracy and ensure ad revenue we are only releasing our app on the Play Store" and "we are only releasing our web app for Chrome".