skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But tariff free trade for goods benefits the EU more as the UK service sector is bigger than their goods sector. UK services companies (especially regulated services like finance, law, etc) are at a disadvantage to EU companies because the UK companies don't have equivalency (i.e. the either need extra checks (costs) to operate in the EU, or need to open a corporate office in the EU).

And, the UK recently decided to forgo their UKCA mark to replace the CE mark as it would cost UK businesses too much to support both.

And lastly the UK has yet to impose sanitary and phyto-sanitary rules on imports into the UK because it would cost consumers in the UK too much (UK food inflation is still higher than just about all EU countries even without the checks). But the EU does impose sanitary and phyto-sanitary checks on food imports to the EU from the UK. So, in net the EU benefits from this as well.

So in balance the UK doesn't benefit. And it's a huge deal.
When someone texts me an address, the only option is “Open in Maps” which is for Apple Maps, when I’d clearly prefer Google Maps.

When I click on an address in FB Messenger, I get the “open in google maps or Apple Maps” prompt, but choosing Google Maps just takes me to the Google Maps App Store page, even though I have the app installed and updated.

If there is a solution to this problem (where my attempts failed for some reason), I’d be all ears. :)
Yes, it's hard to explain to people just how much of a saving being in the EU makes on regulations. It outweighs having the odd regulation that you don't agree with. If the UK does move away from EU regulations then they'll have to duplicate a lot of effort.
If I ignore my disgust at having these delivered by the OS, they don't look much worse than Google's attempts to get me to use Chrome whenever I open their products in Firefox.

Just opening google.com reliably gives me a "Google recommends using Chrome" popup in the corner, and on some kind of timer you get the same popups in Google Drive and most of the other google products.

The browser wars are alive and well, just not in the way I want them to be.
Foundation Models Beyond the Cloud
Oh yes they do. Have you ever tried to assign the .mp4 extension to open with something other than QuickTime? It just doesn't work, and it hasn't worked for a looooong time.
Popups are never the solution
It's exactly ligatures. I presume the author avoided that term so you didn't confuse it with the ligatures that are included in Unicode.
Agreed - please start this company.
Well, you paid (one way or another) to license Windows, which allows you to use applications on it including web browsers.

They are deliberately interfering with your choice of using someone else's web browser, and they are doing so for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the functional considerations of their product.

In a normal world this would attract legal scrutiny given their history (and in the EU, does).

The Google behaviour you're talking about is using a typically free service as a marketing channel. That is to me not quite in the same category.

If there was evidence that Google was arbitrarily hobbling non-Chrome browsers when using Google's online products (and I am in no way saying there isn't!!) then _that_ would be comparable, I think?
Getting Started with Event-Driven Computation
That last 5% is killer, because it’s just enough to make rebooting into Windows a pain in the rear, and much of it is the type of software that refuses to run in VMs due to things like anticheat.
Depends on the area… for example in my area OSM has all the mountain paths that completely do not exist on google maps.
I still worry that the Wachowski's were right when they wrote that line in The Matrix about the peak of human civilisation.

I actually think its about connectedness. We're too overconnected for our own good, the connections are shallow and manipulative and that connectedness is exploited by the powerful to connect more of us further in ways. Downward spiral of dystopian future ensues...

For the controlling corporations instead of employee's you have exploitees and the rest of humanity are the exploited.

In fact just before I wrote this I felt bad about reading a different forums post of a stranger complaining they got a cream pie thrown in their face and then finding out later it showed up on Tik-Tok. I too have too many shallow meaningless connections which can be used against me... even if its empathy for a stranger affected by some dipshit wanting likes for their social media account. And all that's with some level of anonymity - I didn't even watch the video. Telemetry is way more evil and calculated and directable...
I don't want to spam here, my sibling comment is indirectly also an answer/explanation to your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321331
I like the story, because any info in it could be totally made up and I wouldn't know, and it would still sound like an interesting plot to me.

Ah, movies.
To frame this, I actually worked at Sony as a software engineer on the Playstation when Wipeout came out, so I have some firsthand insight into developing games around this time. When it comes to older games like this, there were a bunch of compromises that we had to make that introduced additionally complexity, that are entirely overlooked here. You're looking at this from the perspective of how a computer/processor works now, and what it is like to develop software without having to take into actual account the limitations of the hardware and processor itself, as a part of your code design.

For example, the Playstation 1 had a MIPS R3000 CPU, and a single instruction pipeline, so it's basically doing only doing 1 thing at a time. Multithreading doesn't exist. Our only parallel processing was that we could do all the game logic + all the math to transform all the triangles into screen space, and simultaneously the GPU would be drawing the last frame we drew. We had 4MB of memory total, so when we were were working on games then, we would have actual discussions about whether it was worth the overhead of including a malloc/free, or just hard-coding all your memory addresses because of the space you'd save. We would compile out our abstracted, "nice" versions of functions, count the instructions, and compare sizes to see where we could optimize the code to reduce the compiled output size. In return, we might be able to draw an extra triangle or two.

The instruction and datacache were tiny, and loaded based on address, so sometimes we would add code or instructions that didn't do anything just to make a loop not cross a cache boundary.

So we were working on under strict time pressure, with unknown hardware and badly translated japanese print manuals (and sometimes not even translated), in small teams without any real ability to communicate with anyone else in the industry about it (since we are all under NDA).

I'm not saying that we didn't write bad code, we did write plenty of it, but a number of the decisions on HOW to write the code itself that we were considering then aren't even visible to people reading the code now and making judgements on it. I knew I was writing spaghetti code some of the time, because I didn't have the memory budget to load it as data. Is there a cleaner way to do their UX and in a data-driven fashion? Sure. But for me to get that data, I would have to write a function to load a/multiple blocks of data from a 1x CD that a super low transfer rate, and an appallingly long seek times. Making a data-driven UI is possible, but not practical when someone hits the start button, they want the menu to come up immediately.

In many cases, we knew that we were writing bad code, but didn't have the capacity to write anything better. It literally didn't fit our budget for memory or CPU. Then you have to make decisions about where you CAN afford an abstraction, and those decisions can be quite painful.

I haven't violently disagreed with anyone in any of these threads, but did want to offer a bit of my first hand perspective on things that are often overlooked.
Yes, it took my breath away so I needed some Oxygene
Nobody is suggesting that clones are "magically grown up." I'm not sure where that comment is coming from...

What utility does cloning any anime give you if you can't have a replica with the same age, skills, and experience?
As soon as sam altman hears about this he will make a proposal about replacing scam humans with ai. Which in itself is better than trafficking humans i suppose.
And what happens when there's only one ISP in your area and they don't like that you post to hackernews and choose not to do business with you?
They have to keep it vague for plausible deniability during potential lawsuits.
Even if you see it as China enslaving its own citizens under false pretences of criminality, that's still quite different from private entities in one country luring people from another country under the false pretences of high-paying jobs and then enslaving them.
If you write it in the policy "To make a claim, you must upload a 1 minute video via our app or website, together with photos of all receipts you want us to reimburse", then you are totally within your rights to deny all claims where the customer can't/won't follow your process.
As disgusting as Apple’s ads to sell sell Apple Fitness + all over the OS or Google’s pops on Firefox all over their products to install Chrome.

All big companies do it.
Yea or Google's prompt to choose a web browser on their IOS apps when I click a link in their Gmail app for instance.
"Even" the US isn't much of a moral barometer for prisoner treatment. The US uses prison labor because the US is one of the worst countries for prisoner (mis)treatment, certainly the worst in the west.

> There's a big difference between prisoners (who at least in theory are locked up as punishment for committing a crime) and people who've been trafficked into slavery[...] What's happening in SEA is kidnappping innocent people

Lots of people in prison are innocent, especially in the US. Prisoners are no less deserving of rights and fair treatment than victims of trafficking. Likewise, I'm sure many trafficking victims are guilty of committing crimes (as are most people).
True, but in this case I suspect that since the UK isn't n the EEA then MS Windows won't honour the user browser settings in the UK (even if the UK voluntarily follows some EEA / EU laws).
“No… please… stop…”

Willy Wonka quote is appropriate here.
Thos is a bit like saying Monzo bank should cater to customers in uo don't have mobile phones. They have a target market, and there are plenty of people who want a well thought through tech-led experience.
I Tracked an NYC Subway Rider's Movements with an MTA ‘Feature’
The ideologies themselves have been banned. You can call those parties whatever you want - you will still have to talk to the alphabet boys.
It seems like you're equivocating language-level concepts like syntax, semantics, grammar, etc. with program-level concepts like types, functions, names, etc. But these are two categorically different things.
For those not familiar with us laws regarding money transmission licenses, they aren’t that hard to get in most states but the problem is that you have to get a license for every state you operate in- for an online business that’s 50 licenses. And there are capital requirements for each individual license, effective locking out web startups below a certain amount of capital. It’s part of why financial innovation in the us started with blockchains (which as protocols cannot comply) rather than tradfi like PayPal.
Thanks for your thoughts here - fortunately I've been working on some relatively involved novel development for my friend's startup. Worst case I can just continue contracting and use this to gap fill my resume for a year or so.

I feel ashamed not due to the drop in my salary, but more so because I feel like I'm no longer improving my career. Feels like I'm moving backwards and its embarrassing I'm making less than I did right out of college at Amazon.
What kind of advantage barrel processors give a regular programmer (especially things that can't be done efficiently with CPU/GPU)?
The web isn't made open by forcing people to run specific client software. It's a bit like arguing that Explorer was the only thing keeping Netscape in line. With Apple shipping private attestation in their browsers and dragging their feet on open standards, it's hard to consider them a friend of the weak.
My understanding is that neither Null nor KF never hosted any content which wasn’t protected by the first amendment.

One has to remember Americans have a unique perspective on speech which isn’t shared around the world. “Sue them so they shut up” works here in Canada, it doesn’t necessarily work in the States.
* Count the number of things you can do with a huge truck but cannot do with an MPV or van
* Count the number of people who do the things listed above
* Count the sales of huge trucks and of sensible MPV's/vans
* Note the discrepancy
Many great points/ideas here and on Discord, thanks HN!

For those reading this thread later, feel free to reach out with any feedback or questions marc at langfuse dot com
Just tried changing the default to VLC for all .mp4 files, works without a hitch
Laptops were always upgradable, I'm interested more in upgradable phones, since tech stack is quite different due to Qualcomm
Didn't knew fp3+ exists, thanks
IINA opens .mp4 files as the default fine for me
Opens fine in IINA.app on my end.
Why are people surprised when a company operates in its’ own best interest? Why should we expect anything else? Insurance companies are just about moving dollars around and hedging risk. Being perturbed about this is like being mad about your dog barking at the mailman.

If someone said I’m going to start free climbing the tallest buildings in the world - but I need insurance - the company will tell you to get lost because the risk outweighs the reward. This is what insurance companies are doing all over the place (fl/ca) because those environments are truly becoming uninsurable.

But then people are shocked and awed when the situation happens with them. Why? An insurance company is not a charity it’s just a profit engine. Don’t get mad at the dog for barking at the mail man :)
>The only thing I find somewhat frustrating about this is that lab leak is nearly impossible to disprove.

I don't think that's really true and I think that statement comes from ignorance of the volume of work done in epidemiology and public health. Lots of natural spillover events have been pretty well figured out in the past through contact tracing and finding animal reservoirs with plausible proximity to index patients and stuff like that. When that much evidence piles up, it'd be pretty unscientific to conclude a lab-leak occurred.

In this case though, a lab-leak remains a fairly plausible possibility. Natural spillover does too! We don't (and we may never) really have definitive evidence either way, but there are good reasons to suspect both.
that's not for me. something else?
Sure. But the vast majority of claims are for $300 to fix a dent in a car.

It just doesn't make sense to spend more than 10 minutes on them.
There is nothing to sue over since there is no law that says a business cannot reduce expenses for the purpose of reducing expenses.
RE: this is the future, what is the reasoning behind the sudden (post COVID it seems) squeezing of profit from everywhere? Seems like every business is pushing profit over employees or customers. Price gauging, layoffs, all of it without any reason besides "more profit". Why the sudden influx of greed?
Gay people just want to live their lives.

Fascist genocidal maniacs want to kill everyone that disagrees with them, including the gays.

Neat slippery slope you’ve crafted, but it doesn’t logically follow.

You also can’t walk in to a crowded space and yell “FIRE”, I guess that means the gubment is coming for your houses heating?
No. Spike proteins are like keys into our cells.
Windows 11 popups and "reminders" are absolutely out of control. I miss the times of Bill Gates, honestly, when Windows UX was not this horrible and someone actually cared.
Andre Agassi noticed that Boris Becker's tongue gave away the direction in which he intended to serve [1].

"I started to realize he had this weird tick with his tongue," Agassi said. "I'm not kidding. He would go into his rocking motion, his same routine, and just as he was about to toss the ball, he would stick his tongue out. And it would either be right in the middle of his lip, or it'd be to the left corner of his lip.

[1] https://www.insider.com/andre-agassi-beat-boris-becker-watch...
Remember back when Nadella took over Microsoft. HN was all over it like the second coming of Jesus. I complained that it doesn't change the organisation and this is just marketing. I was completely right. I remember being downvoted over and over again suggesting this is the end game of the takeover and the push that was promoted.

Microsoft wants to be a subscription company and will try and funnel you down any route to keep that revenue. Shareholders and management are driving this because the platform was the product and the product is worth absolutely fuck all at the end of the day. Ergo now it's a subscription delivery mechanism for Office, OneDrive and Edge etc which are all data gathering mechanisms themselves.
I don't think that's right. switching a gpu is as easy as opening the case, replacing the gpu and installing drivers. if you switch OS you will have to find replacements and alternatives for all the software you're using to manage and run those machines, probably retrain people with that new software, migrate stuff, redo all the config in your new software etc.

On top of that I don't think there's a lot of overhead associated with using different gpus models simultaneously, allowing you to incrementally migrate your servers to a new gpu.
It's a race to the top of the safety spectrum in which my 8 year old son on his bicycle can only participate as a guaranteed loser.
I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway"

Nope, not malware. Just Windows.

https://i.imgur.com/xVstzqc.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/15u6gx8/windows_...
The other day I tried to install Chrome on a new laptop. (Insert joke about what Edge is good for.)
However, Edge wasn't letting me actually download the Chrome installer. When I clicked the download button on the Chrome website, instead of any indication of its progress or completion, Edge instead displayed a pop-up that kept reassuring me that Edge was just as good.

So it turns out, Edge isn't even good enough to fulfill its meme.
And to follow up on this thread because a similarity occurred to me in another reply, we do use samovar-type things (electric tea urns) in other contexts (ad hoc and mobile catering), but that is about brewing the tea itself within the vessel and it requires both a different kind of tea and a noticeably different kind of scale (simultaneous volume). You do sometimes see those in company canteens though.
Unfortunate name. Anyone familiar with the ways PUMA was misapplied in the past might reflexively read that as "Peeeuuw!ma".
Thank god Valve exists for their work getting Steam games to work on Linux. A lot of the captive Windows audience is gamers. With another option, people don't have to put up with Microsoft's OS terrorism.
Related to this problem is the interesting tradeoff between fairness and harm minimization. The idea of fairness is that no individual should have a higher probability of a guilty verdict or punishment than any other individual due to factors that are outside of their control. But there is an inherent conflict between fairness and our ability to reduce harm that results from crime.

For example, consider two hypothetical but identical individuals: one born into a low-income neighborhood and one born into a high-income neighborhood. If you develop a model to predict what we currently categorize as "crime" (the definition of which is its own separate issue), you will find that the income of a neighborhood is inversely correlated with the density of crime. If this is the only factor in your predictive model, then you will more effectively reduce crime by directing attention toward the low-income neighborhood. But now there is an inherent unfairness, because the additional scrutiny toward the low-income neighborhood means that individual 1 is more likely to be caught for a crime than individual 2, despite both individuals having an equal likelihood of committing a crime. This also creates a self-reinforcing situation where having more statistics on the low-income subset of the population now allows you to improve your predictive model even further by using additional variables that are only relevant to that subset of the population, meanwhile neglecting other variables that would be relevant to predicting crime in high-income neighborhoods. Repeat this process a few times and soon you have a massive amount of unfairness in society.

It's probably impossible to eliminate all unfairness while still maintaining any sort of ability to control crime, but what is the appropriate threshold for this tradeoff?
How long until pop-ups appear on Ubuntu that say "Ditch Chrome, use Firefox (snap version)"
The issues with the ice cream machines at McDonald's go far beyond anyone's desire for profit and has become a cultural meme that anyone who has desired a frozen dairy products from McDonald's in the past decade can relate to.
That's because of sugar. Watch the Sugar: The Bitter Truth video on youtube.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite social network (and why)?
I'd like to concentrate on one social network where I can share my thoughts and blog posts. But I can't really decide which one to choose. There are obvious ones like Xwitter, Instagram, and Mastodon, special ones like Pinterest, Substack, and LinkedIn, but I even consider sites like Reddit, Tumblr, and HN as social media... So my question would be: What’s your favorite social network (and why)? And if you had to choose one: Which would you choose?
Sony did/does this just fine with a water proof jack and a seal around it. Complete non-issue.
Yes, there are differences. But there are also some pretty worrisome similarities. And the numbers in the US are far higher than those mentioned in TFA, especially when taken over the decades that this has been happening.
If you want to get more abstract with it: waterfall is in two dimensions. The process of starting something and working toward completion can be represented as a waterfall (in 2D) but always and by definition must be represented as a line (in 1D) between two points: start and finish.

If you project from 1D to 2D, that linearity will always be there (for completed projects, at least). That extra dimension will introduce additional flavour, and waterfall seems to be a very frequent one.
AFAICT you're describing exactly what I mean when I say a fully synchronous system.
When I first started using HN, I expected posters here to view China through the lens of history and understanding. For example, I expected people here to see through the propaganda that politicians and the mass media spout. I expected people to see issues as grey, and not black and white, good vs evil. I was wrong.

The reason why I had originally thought so is because most engineers like history and are reasonably educated.
Many in this thread have remarked on there being two version of "lab leak", 1) that it was manipulated in a lab, then escaped, or 2) that it was a natural virus that escaped from the lab.

The evidence is that it is a natural virus, so 1) is excluded by scientific data. As to 2), the problem is that there is no evidence that SARS-CoV2 was ever at the Wuhan Lab before the pandemic, and also that the first people to become infected were also not at the lab. There is however evidence that the market was the origin of the pandemic.

So, there's no evidence for either version of "lab leak", and evidence against them. It's as simple as that.