skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the vast majority of the products are just rebrands from Alibaba. As a matter of fact, there's an entire economy centered around finding products on Alibaba to resell on Amazon.
In my family it's already happening. I am one of three siblings all of us late 20s early 30s, grew up middle class in SoCal. My brother went to college in Germany because it was more affordable than attending a 4 year university in our home state. He's been in Germany now for eight years. He graduated, got a job, got married. He and his wife are never coming back. His POV is that the things he needs to live (healthcare, shelter) and the things he needs to work and have a family life (childcare, mat/pat leave, safe and timely transit to jobs, more job security) are affordable/attainable whereas those things are expensive and increasingly out of reach in the USA. He jokes that our TVs and material goods are cheaper, but you can't live in a TV.

My sister and I have both weighed moving to Europe. The cut in paper salary vs. cost of living seems to be heavily in Europe's favor once you have 2-3 kids. When we get to that point, we may make the move too.

We have an advantage that my sister and I received Italian citizenship through a great grandmother in 2020, and my brother received his Italian citizenship this year so moving and staying in Europe long-term will be simpler in that respect for us.
No it wouldn't, until it provides the same polyglot support and graphical tooling as CUDA.

At least Intel is trying with oneAPI into that direction.
Formal Methods can't fix everything and that's okay
I guess now it's safe for me to install Ventura.
Seems to me this would be susceptible to the cobra effect:

> where people and/or the government can donate money to buy carbon from people...

No matter what you do with the carbon afterwards, this scheme means you first have to buy it and the other party can sell it. I think being able to sell carbon would create exactly the opposite incentive from what is needed - suddenly it becomes profitable to produce carbon and a profit risk to reduce emissions.
This version of the Luddites is the one I was taught in my history classes—in both HS and college my teachers were careful to emphasize that the colloquial usage and the actual movement are only loosely related, and we discussed how the Luddites weren't rejecting technology per se so much as they were acting out of desperation to preserve their way of life.

This is certainly something worth learning from today, and a new book bringing this interpretation to more people is worthwhile, but it's not a novel take on the movement, just an attempt to reclaim the colloquial phrase.
In Poland VAT fraud used to be absolutely huge a bit under a decade ago. After the government established really strict tracking of invoices and they started going after the VAT gangs the budget revenues literally doubled in the span of few years. I have mixed feelings about VAT here. We have one of the highest rates in Europe on most goods(23%), but running a VAT registered company I do get the VAT on purchases back. However, in the UK, where I used to have my VAT business before I could keep 60% of the VAT my customers paid me with no expenses! This scheme had different percentages for different kinds of businesses. In my case it was 13% of the net value could be kept if I remember correctly. It sure was sweet to bill a customer £10k, get £12k paid and only send £700 of VAT to the tax man without having any expenses! (the income tax is another story and it is actually way better in Poland than in UK, but that is beside the point).

So despite having run VAT registered businesses for over a decade in two EU countries I'm confused what is it that Japanese government is doing now and why. If anyone can explain it comparing it to VAT/sales tax in other countries that would be great
The important thing to note about federal sentencing guidelines is that they are, like the Pirate Cose, more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.

Departures in both directions are permitted, so particularly sui generis cases, like Trump, might end up anywhere in the range permitted by law independent of the guidelines, without a lot of clear indication of where.
Context on my question: I run one of the that works on this connector at IG - email me rbw at fb.com I’d be happy to connect and filter this feedback.
> There is no way those non-physical thoughts are changing the physical processes; they happen after the fact. We have the illusion of being in the driver seat but really we are just along for the ride.

How can you conclude this with any certainty?
> Who thinks they’re a good idea?

I'm sure there are many people paid to spend a lot of time in meeting rooms, talking about UX and how users need the latest trend of single-page website with blackjack and hookers.

> Docs should be docs, not full blown apps

I actually started reading RFCs a few years ago and found that they are pretty easy to follow. And of course man pages are even more approachable. One just needs to get used to the fact that it is text-only, instead of a full sensory experience like modern websites.
Filmmakers Distribute Fake Movie Leak to Tease Pirates
> full disclosure: I work for YosysHQ

let me take this opportunity to ask a question about something that makes absolutely zero sense to me: why did yosys insist on sticking with tcl over some more modern/well-known/familiar scripting language? yes everyone has their favorite tcl scripts for vivado or intel or whatever but none of them are transferrable to yosys irrespective of that fact that yosys supports tcl.

further more, why is yosys itself basically scripting of ABC and nextpnr and etc using cpp instead of again using just some reasonable scripting language to connect the pieces?

> multi-electrostatic placer

um why? dreamplace exists? https://github.com/limbo018/DREAMPlace
If there were other app stores besides Apple's for iDevices, Google would require you to download the Play Store to access Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps. Once there's an alternative major app store where Apple's strict privacy rules don't apply, why should companies with a more relaxed privacy stance stay on Apple's store? Your Bank, Facebook, Adobe, and Amazon will likely move to the store with the lowest standards.
Amazon has its own enormous scale, it doesn't need Apple's complicity.
I've seen this firsthand. If the relationship isn't well managed, all resources go to niche big-customer use-cases, and the product stagnates.
Is the licensing requirement actually in the bill? I've seen a confusion around the distinction between foundational and high-risk models - they're not the same.

(on a larger point of the AI Act leaving much to be desired, I agree)
Same--Tailwind is granular enough that nearly anything that can be done in CSS, can be done with Tailwind (with the caveat that Tailwind encourages you to use standard dimensional increments, which is usually a good idea anyway).

IMO, Tailwind is a coping strategy for people who have accepted that CSS is bad technology. The Cascade seemed like a good idea at the time, and made for some cool demos back in the "CSS Zen Garden" days, but in practice it is miserable to work with; it's even less suitable now that most websites are assembled from self-contained components. But it's what we have, and at least Tailwind makes it fast to build and modify things.
It's absolutely mindboggling to me that AMD is still struggling so badly on this.

There is an absolutely enormous market for AMD GPUs for this, but they seem to be completely stuck on how to build a developer ecosystem.

Why aren't AMD throwing as many developers as possible submitting PRs for the open source LLM effort adding ROCm support, for example?

It would give AMD real world insights to the problems with their drivers and SDKs as well, which are incredibly numerous.

People would be willing to overlook a huge amount of jank for cheap(er) cards with large VRAM configurations. I don't think they when need to be particularly fast, just have the VRAM needed, which I'm sure AMD could put specialist cards together for.
Yes it does, this isn't Ada83 we are talking about.

Well Rust also has unsafe, better not use it.
the site has been previously known to be the work of Edward Hasbrouck (https://icannwiki.org/Edward_Hasbrouck)

His name still seems to be on the author byline in this post.
Was nice to occasionally look at a podcast episode, listen to a few and see if I want to subscribe. But I think we will subscribe.
It's because we're not that big or small in terms of height and mass. That's why fleas are right in the middle.
Just merged #9054.

Sorry for that we had to revert #8789, but we are looking forward to seeing that PR submitted again with an alternative abstraction interface.
Managed Databases with Sqlc Vet
I don’t know, I haven’t done frontend in years. But I suspect this is an insanely common request, since the preamble on this [1] page addresses it head on:

> Often the biggest challenge when working with a framework is figuring out what you’re supposed to do when there’s something you need that the framework doesn’t handle for you.

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/adding-custom-styles#using-css-...
The purpose is to serve the public, full stop (including consumers, employees, shareholders, other citizens). The mechanism is the free market, not capitalism, and the free market requires free competition.

Capitalism is one tool in the free market toolbox, and it works very well in many ways. One way this tool doesn't work well is that it leads to monopolies, which stifle competition, which hurts the people listed above.
That sounds terrible to me. I want to be home every night. Not living at work for 3 days straight. What do you do, bring all your hobbies and shit with you, or do you just go to the hotel and keep working all night until bed?

I might do something like that if I got Fridays off or something like that. Otherwise, I want to get as far away from work as possible during my free time.
Maybe it's a bug in the Edge implementation then? Because it works fine in Chrome.
Good ol' Windows Vista
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
IANAL but it looks like the TSA partially self-owned here.

As the court document [0] points out, there exists a “law enforcement proviso,” which waives sovereign immunity for torts such as assault and battery committed by “investigative or law enforcement officers of the United States Government.” In other words, government cops can be sued for assault and battery. TSA said "our people aren't cops, so they can't be sued." The court said "Aha! You gave them badges! So they're cops!" (I'm oversimplifying -- the badges were just one piece of evidence the court cited).

Back in 2008, the TSA made a big deal about giving their people badges so they would be more respected by the public [1]. The court document even points this out and provides the [now dead] link to the press release. There was a bit of PR blowback then because most members of the public didn't think TSA screeners deserved badges. But the TSA insisted that they did, so now they have badges.

So that means they can be sued. Oops.

[0] https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/06/26/2...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170429182331/https://www.tsa.g...
The point of the law isn't to fine Apple. The point is to ban their tax collection entirely, relieving society of this pointless money drain. Most people currently don't have a choice to not pay an extra fee to Apple - we'll see how many will once it's optional?

Once the device has been sold to you (for a profit, even!), Apple has no business interfering in relationships between you and a separate business trying to sell you additional software for it, much less to collect a tax on entirely unrelated things like streaming video subscriptions.
My wife is also T1, diagnosed a couple years back with a week in ICU. She pulled through and now has a CGM and pump.

What really surprised me was her blood sugar rockets up when she has video meetings with a certain difficult colleague. While other chilled colleagues have no such effect.

That made me wonder if interacting with difficult people causes more physiological changes than I realised.
Sue them in small claims court. It's perfect for this, you just bring in your documentation and write up a timeline for the judge.
I hope they figure out in their twenties what they've missed and try to fix it. Could see a renaissance in hobby clubs.
> They straight up copied products in their store an then listed theirs higher in search results. There was a famous instance of a bag. You can't be more monopolistic than that.

Almost every major grocery store and convenience store chain does this. These are the store’s generic brands, they are specifically designed to be copies of the name brand, and they are positioned more favorably on the shelves. (They often say “compare to [name brand]”.) In general, this is highly beneficial to competition and the consumer.

If you want to make an argument that Amazon’s high market share makes this strategy damaging when it would otherwise be good, then sure go ahead and do that. But the argument needs to be specific and quantitative.
> The headline says "rejects claim of impunity"

And its accurate.

> There is no such thing as a "claim of impunity",

Yes, there is; every word in that phrase is used in the usual English sense. The fact that its not a legal term of art doesn't change that those English words accurately describe what occurred.
Apache 2.0 licensed (from a cursory glance at the first few repos).
It's really awesome that all our plastic will one day rot.

But we have lots of pipes and cables underground that will need to be replaced - with what I wonder.
The first iterations of tailwind were really interesting. I took a lot of design system concepts from it.

There are two problems with tailwind; 1) https://twitter.com/dillonchanis/status/1706473840367247482/... and B) the tailwind fan boys.

Every project of any decent size needs utility classes. No reason not to use tailwind for those. But every time I head that naming things is hard, I can't take that person seriously. You're not naming a baby. and if you change your mind on .pricing__card__header, just use your editors refactoring tools to rename it.
You are definitely correct, but there is a popular perception that Luddites are just reactionarily "opposing progress" because it hurts their own personal interests.
Related discussions on this and Apple's deep history of hating right to repair:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37615238
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614279
This design note could be of interest: https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/eg-drafts/...
Yes, based on my experience with the device I can extrapolate how that software could work. What experience did you base your assertions on? Nothing at all? Right.
Please don't set off hellish flamewars on HN. It's not as if the effects of casually dabbling with atrocity are hard to predict.

We've had to warn you about this kind of thing before. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, presumably it's about as hard to detect things on ever larger scales as it is on ever smaller scales, so we'd expect to always be approximately in the middle.
Yeah, that's a big if. In theory there's nothing preventing good compilation to Vulkan compute shaders, in practice people just aren't doing it, as CUDA actually works today.

I also agree that Vulkan is more promising than OpenCL. With recent extensions, it has real pointers (buffer device address), cooperative matrix multiplication (also known as tensor cores or WMMA), scalar types other than 32 bits, proper barrier (including device-scoped, needed for single pass scan), and other important features.
> ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content

Companies which sell user data. Apple, Google, Microsoft etc.
It's not just elasticity. The main weight on your prices is your competitors' prices.
When they're that high up in the company, they don't really even know what the worker bees even do from day to day. They're just names with a dollar value next to each in a spreadsheet. Totally interchangeable and fungible.
enterprise deals will ask for biz continuity doc.
In 1980s in a communist country my dad was a truck driver. His (state-owned) company built a whole apartment building for their employees. This is where I lived for first few years of my life.
> I've shipped two commercial products based on it which still works perfectly today on all 3 desktop platforms from all GPU vendors... what's not to love?

In my experience, if commercial products involved any sort of hand-optimized, proprietary OpenCL, one would be shocked by the lack of documentation and zero consistency across AMD's GPUs. Intel has SPIRV and Nvidia has PTX and this works pretty well. But some AMD cards support SPIR or SPIRV, and some don't and this support matrix keeps changing over time without a single source of truth.

Throw in random segfaults inside AMD's OpenCL implementation and you have a fun day debugging!

Dockerizing OpenCL on AMD is another nightmare I don't want to get into. Intel is literally installing the compute runtime and mapping `/dev/dri` inside the container. On paper, AMD has the same process but in reality I had to run `LD_DEBUG=binding` so many times just to figure out why AMD runtime breaks inside docker.

There may be great upsides to AMD's hardware in other domains though
This is a hotel that is cheaper than other hotels around, and allows someone to live in a city hours away, and just commute to the expensive city for the 3 in-office days.
Is it really though? As an end user, I don't actively buy things from massive coffee distributors, just as I do not use unity to develop things. If the cafe, in this example, carries other beans- I'd have no reason not to buy those instead.

The boycotting happens by proxy. This isn't a hard concept to understand.

I.e. I have no real way to boycott Nestle, but if enough people stop buying their products, the stores will carry fewer of them. Yea, the stores (or devs, or cafes) will get hurt in the short term, but only if they're insistent on not listening to their users/the market.
That feels so gross it would nice if arguing that is contempt and earns the governments lawyer a month in a holding cell.
The people in positions of power are going to treat their fellow humans as poorly as they can get away with. That's how they got their positions of power.
Books are written for one of two reasons: to make a point, or to make money.

If you write to make money, and people can't identify with your characters, other things being equal, you're going to sell fewer copies.

If you write to make a point, and people can't identify with your characters, other things being equal, you're going to attract fewer readers to whom you can make your point.

Why? In both cases, because people don't like reading stuff where the characters do random things for incomprehensible reasons. That's not an interesting book. You might as well write a book about squares in a video game that move according to the output of a random number generator.

That's not to say that surprising things can't happen. They have to, or again, the book isn't interesting. But the characters have to be recognizably human to us, or it quits being a book about human characters.
Own favorite way to understand matrix multiplication: For any positive integer n, and any n x n matrix A of real and/or complex numbers, there are n x n matrices U and H so that

A = UH

Each of U and H consists of real and/or complex numbers and all real numbers if A consists of all real numbers.

Here U is unitary which means that for any n x 1 vector (real and/or complex) x, Ux is the same as x except is rotated and/or reflected and the lengths

|x| = |Ux|

that is, U does not change lengths or distances and, thus, is a rigid motion (rotation, reflection).

For H, for x in a sphere S, the set of all Hx is just an
ellipsoid.

So, A = UH where U is a rigid motion, rotation, reflection, and H converts a sphere to an ellipsoid. The H is said to be Hermitian (there was a mathematician Hermite). Right, an ellipsoid has mutually perpendicular axes, and those are the eigenvectors of H.

My favorite result in linear algebra, and with a fairly short and simple proof.
Skepticism is of course healthy... but the frequency illusion thing may not be applicable here.

For the "frequency illusion" to be a valid here, someone somewhere is independently rediscovering the meme, and posting it for friends/strangers/whatever, right?

Where are they coming up with it though? It's not from primary/original researcher. They are seeing or hearing other references to it in their social lives. Even if that happens offline (which I certainly hope still happens), then the person they received the meme from almost certainly got it from one of the sources you yourself noticed earlier.

Now, because of the way the transmission worked, you missed several links in the chain. But you're still seeing the outline of the chain, even if you're missing alot of detail.

Superstitious people think that seeing something everywhere means it popped up because of some supernatural forces or whatever. But I think it pops up because these memes are flowing back and forth between brains, and if you're located in one part of the social graph, you'll continue to see it flowering in proximity to you for hours, weeks, or months.
I'm not observing a situation of people massively losing their jobs or losing money. If you do, feel free to share your experience. So far, the AI technology has been a nice toy/support for the people.
After us Democrats? I didn’t realize that Bloomberg were Democrats but I did realize that deceptive capitalization is a big problem on HN.
History is written by whoever signs the check, and the popular perception of the Luddites reflects that.
I know it's a non-serious play on the piracy/theft meme, but in seriousness, "stealing" is probably not the right word for private information leakage.
Making hugely contentious claims and then stating that it's "settled science" is not a convincing tactic. Again, you are using the anti-science tactic of saying "this one thing kind of said this, and that's what I've selected as my position, ergo it is The Truth". Science doesn't remotely work like that. Claiming you are on the side of "scientific consensus" is so cosmically wrong you're either lying, or staggeringly ill-informed.

There were HCQ and Ivermectin fanatics who were sure it was "settled science" because they read only what they wanted to see, and only accepted results they wanted to be true.

"f you don't eat at that point, your body reacts by slowing down your metabolism, conserving more calories than you saved from avoiding sugar and also discouraging you from exercising."

Ah, the "what's even the point?" tactic, which is the fallback of lazy dieters everywhere. Their metabolism "slowed" and magically the conservation of energy no longer applies.
Robot crypto attack on RSA is back as Marvin arrives
> They can also literally kill your company. VCs have a very specific strategy: they give some money to 1000 companies knowing that 990 of them will return 0% in the hopes that of the remaining ten, 9 of them return %X000 and one returns %X0000.

+1 to this.

There are definitely different models for VCs, but in general, the big "brand name" VCs are in the unicorn business. This tweet [1] does a succinct job of explaining why.

The result of this is that as a founder, if you own 49% of your company and big-VC investors own 51% of your company and someone comes along offering to buy your company for $100m, your investors are likely to turn it down. For you, that would likely be a life-changing amount of money. For a big-name VC, it doesn't move the needle. In most cases, they'd rather roll the dice and end up with $0 then get their share of a $100m exit.

[1] https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1670021902612549632?ref_s...
It looks like the screener was certified as acting under the scope of their duties pursuant to the Westfall act, and thus the TSA was substituted as the defendant.