skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m also going to suggest a do not do: Do not make cost savings a public-facing core value. Racing to the bottom usually erodes the value prop while simultaneously opening the door for low-quality competitors.

I would suggest (and caveat: I’m not a marketer, just someone who has seen a lot of brands come and go) either of these directions:

1. Be clear about the cost savings when talking about the specific features. Example: Add a new heading to kagi/features/bangs.html that says “Bangs are Free” and talks about how bangs do not count towards your searches

2. Remove it from being part of your public values altogether. Lean in to the value prop of having a cost and let users self-discover what’s free. If it’s the right choice, highlight it privately: make it a line item on the monthly invoice with something that describes why they are free or put it in onboarding material.
I think you can tell a lot from the companies themselves.

It seems extremely likely that the goal is to create a RISC-V ecosystem, which ranges from design, to chips, to endproducts in automotive.

To rival ARM you need an actual competitive industrial product.

- You need to define use-cases "what chips does a car need?", specific technical requirements "what communication, what instruction sets, what speed, etc.?"

- Figure out how produce chips at scale

- Create suitable development environments, libraries and integration into other buisiness tools

-Use that tooling to create an embedded product

ARM has all of that in their ecosystem, RISC-V does not.
None of the companies listed can do all of that on their own. If they want to compete with ARM they need to compete with the entire ARM ecosystem and it seems that is their goal.
not very far-fetched. back in the beginning your local bell was where you went to get wide-area link level service. and it was a huge pain. extremely costly, months long installations, abysmal service.

somewhat later, these same people were responsible for nonsense like ATM. they were going to prop up their own internet - with hookers, and circuits, and per-cell QOS based charging. and they were gonna do it right. and it was gonna be great.

would they have leveraged their monopoly on the underlying circuits to try to dominate layer 3? almost certainly.
It was a question, similar to the exact tort posted.

Please don't post self-righteous dismissive comments here.
Please don’t be too harsh on the researchers here. It’s frighteningly common for university press teams to butcher attempts at explanation in these press releases, which sometimes go out without the researchers seeing the headline and subheading.

You can see how an explanation of using a 4-dimensional parameter space with a “synthetic dimension” to model this thing could get misconstrued by a press team.
> Diablo IV

You must have missed the 2.2 score that it currently has after being review bombed due to recent development decisions.

On a personal level, I will say that they got the campaign right, but the rest of the game is incomplete. This game should have been released as a public beta — it’s currently not close to being a complete experience, imho.
That may be so, but for every game like this there are a dozen that aren't. I just happened to not be interested in any of the above mentioned games. Still, I think the trend of releasing completed games is slowly becoming in favor again. I don't think Nintendo really strayed very far from this so props to them.
> If someone cares enough about the work to build on it, they will replicate it anyway.

Does it really deserve to be called work if it doesn't include the a full, working set of instructions that if followed to a T allow it to be replicated? To me that's more like pollution, making it someone else's problem. I certainly don't see how "we did this, just trust us" can even be considered science, and that's not because I don't understand the scientific method, that's because I don't make a living with it, and have no incentive to not rock the boat.
> From this I found out that I have a fairly rare generic condition which makes me highly predisposed to liver disease and NAFLD. Certainly not the end of the world, but it pissed me off a bit because the disease could have progressed had I taken their advice and simply ignored it.

I was diagnosed after a blood test (in the US) but they just put me on a statin (high cholesterol medication) that fixed only what the blood test showed and did not treat the problem. Now I’m having to, with 10 fewer years than when learned it, drastically adjust my life and diet to ensure I won’t develop additional complications.

Why are we so hilariously bad at treating chronic problems?

Btw through generic genealogy, I’ve managed to pinpoint which branch of my family that this comes from and they’re all from Yorkshire. Given how rare it is, there is a nonzero chance we are cousins of some sort if you have semi-recent ancestral origins there.
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Oh, I thought somebody repeated the experiment. I remember this was a classic article.
It's really not. There's different ways one can do this, but it's not hard down to lock down outbound traffic.

On a more general note, tangential to the article and specifically regarding blocking DoH and friends, it's pretty trivial to do this with a DNS backed firewall. I do this for my IoT vlan:

- default deny all outbound

- set dnsmasq to populate an ipset/nftset with DNS responses

- have a firewall rule that hole punches for traffic destined for any ip in the set

- now it's just DNS filtering like usual

This means any successful outbound connection must be prefixed with a successful DNS query that is resolved by the local Dnsmasq instance. Any query that hits an unblocked DNS endpoint does not populate the set used for whitelisting, and is dead in the water - making DoH, DoT, DoQUIC, and such unviable.

Obviously, hole punch exceptions as needed (E.g. For direct connects to static ip addresses).
Mavericks are well known transposons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polinton), and as other transposons suspected since long ago to jump between species: things like fragments of DNA in specie A very similar to specie B embedded in a transposon sequence, while specie A and B diverged long ago. The novelty of this paper is the authors actually found the transposons jumping and carrying info between species.
"You do not have access to www.rd.com.
The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site."

WTH?
In order to have a credible opinion about things you should be familiar with the things.
I have no control on my accointances using gmail, nor than I control the fact that key services only make their website chrome-only and their mobile app available only on the Google play store.
Why is this an insult? You are
assuming that the problem with your team is WFH and not yourself.

There are hundreds of managers with remote teams that don't need to propose hybrid work as a solution for collaboration problems. Instead of looking at yourself for the solution, you're choosing to send your poor team to the office.

BTW, my highly remote teams are very productive. While some like the office, we never had to resort to mandatory attendance/hybrid to improve our communication.
Looking at the paper, their "10 to 20%" figure is based off of three studies, one for call center employees, one for Indian data-entry workers, and one for Indian IT professionals. The one closest to most of HN's audience is the IT professionals case, and even in that one they note "measured performance among these workers remained constant while remote." In addition, they only mention how "productivity" is being assessed for the call center case (call volumes), not the other two.

Personally, I wouldn't really call this "hard data." It's also interesting that the same authors previously found the opposite effect -- https://wfhresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Barrero-A...
Mozilla will have to find another revenue source and cut budgets to focus on the browser and maybe not all the other things they are doing.
Would pair nicely with Magic Loops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958731
But you can have them for free so it doesn't count
>I don't see how this could ever work, and non-scientists seem to often dramatically underestimate the amount of work it would be to replicate every published paper.

I think it would be fine to half the productivity of these fields, if it means that you can reasonably expect papers to be accurate.
Just worn out from use, or do you have a Das keyboard, the kind with blank keycaps?

I knew a developer who had one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Keyboard
Maybe doing an experiment twice, even with a cost that is double, makes more sense so that we don't all throw away our coffee when coffee is bad, or throw away our gluten when gluten is bad, etc... (those are trivial examples) basically the cost to perform the science in many cases is so minuscule in scale to how it could affect society.
If you don’t know the terminology you probably don’t know that pollution is EPA’s jurisdiction, not FERC’s.
your last part is a false dilemma, because there are methods that do not required a system of credentials and also do not require populism

Your first part is more challenging because what you find is the people with true expertise in their field are often far to busy and/or have no interest in validating other experts so the people doing the validation at best are on the lowest end of the spectrum of "experts" which naturally causes the spectrum to expand.

Further you will find in many many many fields the method of obtain a credential is has no connection to another expert vouching for you, it is matter of simply passing some kind of standardized test, and completing a required amount of training

For example one that has been in the recent news is Airline Pilots where you have to have a fix number of flight hours to be a commercial pilots, many pilots get those hours by fly pipe or other utility line check operations which is done a clear day, fixed altitude, fixed path and with limited deviation. So the value of those hours would be far less than the same person flying in varied conditions, in varied locations, etc.
> it's not that you need any server capacity for that

They had Twitch integration since the beginning and judging by some accounts they weren't prepared for how much that would be in demand on full release. Each user can see streamer's full inventory and journal, vote on dialogue options when asked, etc. Surely Steam isn't handling that.
> The problem was that which of those two roles you played was assigned at birth, and if you didn’t want the homemaker role, well too bad, you can’t have a bank account and most employers won’t hire you. That didn’t change in the US until the 1960s.

The point is that this didn't change into a choice. It changed into everyone being assigned the role of a laborer at birth - instead of reality where anyone can get a job, we have a reality where everyone has to get a job.

Want to be a homemaker? Well, too bad, that's generally not an available role anymore - unless you find someone with above-average income (or accumulated wealth) to fund your stay-at-home work. Man or woman, gay or straight, your only role is now to make money on the market. All the usual homemaker responsibilities? Why, those are all services now, which you can pay for out of your salary.
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These are emulated `r1000` devices, not pass-through
Because it's used mostly for commands, so each device used very few ports. 128 bytes is already a pretty large size for the I/O port area of a PCI device, and a lot of them fit in 64k.
Massive fan of electric vehicles, but…

This will be the enshittification of the car, planned obsolescence, data harvesting, stranded assets with security flaws, lobbying governments to prevent owners from modding and repairing vehicles.

A 1989 toyota camry can still function as a perfectly useable car. I can’t think of any heavily computerised products that have the same sort of staying power, though it’s not a very fair comparison.

I coul imagine manufacturers are suss on electrics because they don’t wear out like ice vehicles do, imagine a consumer decides to just replace their battery, brake pads and shock absorbers every 5 years instead of buying a whole new car.
His incentives are active to various degrees between 2023 and 2032 mostly. So… yes, goals set for 2030 are exactly the timeframe his work addresses. It is what he is doing now.
I was also slightly disappointed not to find a discussion of <code smells>, but the post is interesting, and we can still discuss code smells here.

The post author (Michal Necasek) states, about the WIN87EM.DLL code:

> It bears all the hallmarks of code that was written, rewritten, rewritten again, hacked, tweaked, modified, and eventually beaten into submission even if the author(s) had no real idea why it finally worked.

From what I gather, here are those hallmarks:

- Looping a no-op action, presumably to slow things down.

- Unnecessarily performing actions multiple times. This happens for three things: (a) writing a zero to an I/O port to clear something; (b) executing an instruction to clear exceptions; and (c) repeating the aforementioned no-op loop at different points.

- Saving a status in a separate location, only to reinstate it to its original location after clearing things out.

- Communicating procedure state (an EOI, “end of interrupt”) to one entity (the master interrupt controller) but not another (the controller’s slave). Furthermore, this “end” signal was sent near the beginning of the procedure. (This final point is my own observation and not explicitly called out by the author. Perhaps it’s common and not “smelly” for interrupt handlers to do this up front.)

I’ve tried to reframe the technical terms as actions and signals in a way that could be recognizable to devs of higher-level systems. My familiarity with OS-level systems is minimal so my interpretations could be a little wrong.

But despite my lack of knowledge, and with the author’s help, it does seem clear that there were serious timing and state related bugs here. And as a dev at other levels of the stack, I can relate: it’s very hard to reason about async global state! And this code’s responsibility was handling math errors, not timing errors. It is - or, perhaps, should be - the responsibility of the OS to orchestrate these things appropriately so that math libraries can focus on math stuff.

So my takeaways, for “code smells of desperation”, would be:

- There are violations of module responsibility.

- There are modifications of process timing with no discernible reason.

- There are modifications of status/environment/state with no discernible reason.

- And finally, other experts (in this case, the post author) can’t make sense of the code.
Meta blocking news links in Canada
Wars vs. wars of conquest. The invasion of Iraq was so damaging to America precisely because it blurred that delineation.
Takeaway: even executives with a highly technical background will often make lazy incorrect decisions that can potentially sabotage months of effort by the company. Vinke's decision to under-prepare for scaling issues has put the team in the position of needing to possibly do heroic work at the last second to prevent the online part from falling over and creating very bad experiences for users.
Tbf in my case this was NHS so no money to be made by referrals afaik. It mostly seems to be a lack of up-to date knowledge paired with a reluctance to take the initiative and research the latest information for a specific case. As a substitute they refer you up the chain where the same problem also exists.
The scope of content used for AI training seems (to me) like it only includes video and audio data.

The list you reproduced above sounds like it's just metadata, like IP addresses, authentication logs, click tracking, etc.
No one becomes a dentist because they're keen to pull shards of chalk-soft teeth from senior's mouths or enjoy dealing with the scent of rot from infection. It's a career for the money and it's rather easy to find dentists which are optimising for that.

In medicine you treat the patient, not the picture. If your teeth seem fine, they probably are fine.

You will always hear a lot of differing opinions about this from health care professionals and there are of course exceptions, but exceptions are exceptions. You must keep in mind that HCPs are people that see a disproportionate number of very unwell people and they are not immune to bias.

Because of this bias, a common phrase in medicine is if you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras. It's a way of saying that most symptoms you see will be from ordinary ailments. I can think of too many cases where patients went through needless testing and anxiety only to eventually discover that it was all for nothing.
> My point is that it doesn't matter if it's a profit or a small loss, because people think companies were simply given billions of dollars of free money.

You stated "The US government made a profit". You claimed that, in direct contradiction to what you quoted. Now you're shifting goalposts.
Technical analysis only works if everyone is doing it.
Supergiant is pretty close? Bastion, Transistor, Pyre and Hades have all been pretty big hits in different genres and styles. They're consistently high production value in terms of art/soundtrack/writing, but the gameplay varies a good bit. About the same release cadence as Bethesda in my memory while being a smaller studio.
Why are you building a strawman? No one said anything about "playing every game that ever comes out" in order to have am opinion, just that it's useful to have some knowledge of a topic before forming said opinion lest they be dismissed as yours seem to be currently.
With all the various systems making use of Postgres's parser, is there a reason that the Postgres team haven't "seen the writing on the wall" about the demand for their parser, and so extracted their parser into a standalone library?

I imagine that Postgres itself would then consume the parser library as a — possibly regularly-snapshot-vendored — static library dependency; while other applications and wrapper libraries would be free to consume it as a dynamic shared library; and it could be freely independently distro-packaged; and so forth. In other words, it would become a de-facto "libxml for SQL" — the kind of venerable C lib that you expect everything else to just be a wrapper around.

Is it just that doing this would involve making functions with internal linkage into functions with external linkage, and thereby preventing some WPO opportunities when compiling Postgres itself?
It /could/ be that.

But I think that's an overly charitable interpretation based on the evidence.

If the source code turns up with detailed comments about why it's like it is. Fine. In the absence of that, I'm not buying it.
If you want to follow the details of offshore wind projects, you can consult the the map published by 4C offshore [0] which is used as a reference by everyone in the industry.

[0]: https://map.4coffshore.com/offshorewind/
> From what I've been told, the east and south coast cities are the most modern in the world. It's hard to imagine - decline.

I've been to Shanghai a couple of times, to Hong Kong once... also nearby Singapore... and I can confirm: it looks very much like a futuristic place compared to your average European or American city, though slightly dystopian due to all the surveillance/single-party.

But I think the reason for that is simple: almost all infrastructure you see around has been built in the last few decades, so it's all really modern... you go to London and it's the total opposite... the London Underground is like 150 years old!! It's not gonna look very modern no matter how much you improve it.

But of course, without a thriving economy you wouldn't build such colossal projects like China has been doing... anyway, if we start seeing all this beautiful, modern infrastructure starting to crumble, or places where infrastructure still hasn't been modernized not getting any improvement, then I think we can start to talk about decline - but China seems to be very, very far from that right now.
I lived in Argentina for a few years. There are plenty of problems with their public healthcare system that pretty much mirror any country with a troubled economy, but one day a work colleague recommended I visit the Favoloro Institute. I’ve never seen such an impressive healthcare organization in my life.

They time their appointments ever 2 minutes so you’re expected to arrive early. Once you start, they wiz you around to about a dozen tests including getting hooked up to electrodes while running on a treadmill. After less than an hour you see a doctor who goes through everything for about 15 very detailed and thoughtful minutes.

The entire thing is FREE! Completely publicly funded.

I don’t know much about healthcare but this type of thing always struck me as a missing apparatus of healthcare in the US. Although apparently Favoloro (who invented some kind of bypass surgery) founded the Institute after being inspired by the Cleveland Clinic.

Would love to hear other people’s thoughts on this because I tell that story all the time!
Chatgpt tells you to live, laugh, and love.
Because absolutely everyone employed there. Or at least those having any power were incapable of coming up with alternative solution for adding friends... As 4 numbers was too hard to remember. And only possible way was to use exact name...

Not to generate link or email or something...
People have this "folk" definition of monopoly saying that a monopoly is 100% total market domination. Maybe because this is the win condition for the board game Monopoly? I think this idea is a serious impediment to addressing anti-competitive behavior in America.
>>expensive products with the property that they usually work well, but sometimes become flaky. Think a washing machine.

that is a different problem, consumerism killed that. There used to be several media companies that focused on long term durability of "durable goods" like washing machines and such

But today most people buy new appliances not when they fail but when they need to upgrade to the latest technology, or because new government regulations makes them unfeasible to use / service, or because the Calendar function on their smart fridge does not work with google cloud anymore (true story), etc...
I believe the NHS is seriously under-funded, the Tory government is responsible, and healthcare is suffering as a result.

However, I do want to provide an anecdote to illustrate that private healthcare is not perfect. I had some persistent pain in my foot. Realized I wouldn't get anywhere with the NHS so I went private. The person I saw had an excellent manner. They suggested some fairly gnarly surgery. Said I should think about it and in the meantime they gave me an anti-inflammatory injection. My problem cleared up in about two weeks. What was wrong: I have really really wide feet (seriously; they are wider than the widest setting on the foot measuring device they use at shoe shops.) I didn't know this. I was wearing Chuck Taylors, which are very narrow, and they were pinching my feet. I didn't wear my Chucks over the two weeks and I figured out what was wrong in that time. What I learned: everyone has a toolbox they want to reach into. In this case I was seen by a surgeon so they of course turned to surgery as solution. Always be your own advocate, to the best of your ability, in healthcare. (I thought the surgeon might have said something about the width of my feet given they spent so much time looking at feet.)
They're at near 800k users now! Here's for a million concurrent players!
A single data point is useless without another to compare it to.