skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The quarterly earnings statements

That (Earnings Call 2023/Q2) says that “search and other” revenue rose to $42.63 billion, up slightly from last year.

Doesn't sound like a big growth story to me. Also it would be interesting to know what "other" means.

Where do you get the traffic numbers from?

> Please get out of your bubble.

Maybe you are in a bubble?
>- 2 bacon, egg and cheese biscuits for $2. Now one biscuit (normally) is $3.89 and they run 2 for $5 specials

But the chickens now live cage-free and (thanks to California) the pigs will now be able to turn around in their pens.
Revenue is not “funding”??? Where do you think business gets money from on an ongoing basis to survive?

One reason that for example that Pepsi was spun off from Yum brands was that Pepsi executives had a hard time selling into large franchises because companies didn’t want to send money to competitors.

> Apple’s hardware market share is huge when considering the wealth of customers.

“Words mean things” - “market share” has a definition.

> Apple makes most of its money by forbidding sharing access to its customers for software these days

Are you just making stuff up now? It’s really not hard to look at Apple’s financials to see that “most” of Apple’s revenue comes from hardware sells and not services - where App Store revenue is included.
I inherited two or three slide rules from my father. One of them is circular shaped. Once or twice he showed me how to do some basic calculations, and I've spent ten minutes here and there with various online tutorials, but I've never put the time in to actually understand it, so I always instantly forget how they work. Kind of a shame, but I hang on to them anyway. They're cool artifacts from the pre-computer world.

Hm, I wonder if it could be a handy way to do fractional computation while I'm doing woodworking? If so, that could be a good excuse to finally learn how to use one.

(Strangely, my work's proxy blocks this domain as "pornography." Interpret that as you will.)
Much of what is written on the page is over my head. Do they explain why they gave it an edgy name?
How leveraged is that daily trading, I wonder?
You're right. Healthcare is more cautious and more expensive. Housing is built to higher standards but with poorer quality materials, and uses more of the available lot area for covered square footage, but is still more expensive on a per square footage basis despite using poorer materials.

Neither are remarkably different in utility, but both have seen astronomical increases in cost.
Been a decade+ now, but I recall using it as an irssi client and ssh devbox fairly often before i lost lost ability to.
its not just Mastercard, most banks like Charles Schwab do too
ADO makes me yearn for Jira because of how slow and clunky it is.
Modern font rendering seems OK to me but I have given up on trying to figure out how to get a web browser to scroll without tearing
In my experience most developers are not connected to the development processes of their dependencies. Maybe they should be, I think there's an argument for it, but with so many dependencies there's only so much time and attention. I think any migration such as this should be done on the assumption that most people won't know it's happening.
Assembly is just a bit lazy, macro-expanded, and the computer's memory address a made up concept.

That's indeed an abstraction over the real computer, but it's a lot less things piled up on your virtual computer's model than C. Current assembly is about on the same level as C was when it was created. Current C is so high-level that it doesn't provide any functionality you can't get with a better, more modern language.

But yeah, I do agree that "low" and "high" level aren't useful names nowadays.
Adding this is so trivial. If it really, really bothers you that much:

func Get(mux, uri, handler) { mux.HandleFunc("GET " + uri, handler) }

Obviously skipped the types for brevity.
This is Nikola Tesla the engineer, not the corporation.
Some of the gizmos were useful in my opinion: Central locking, power windows, navigation (before our phones did it), power steering. Lots of engine efficiencies reduced fuel usage.
Bricklaying robots can now build tennis-court-sized walls in 4 hours
> sending signals from a terminal with ctrl-<d,c,z,…>

Ctrl+D doesn't send a signal. It just causes the process that's reading from the terminal to get EOF.
It might not be charged enough that they’d want to do it without external power depending on how long that particular box has been sitting on the shelf.
I find it difficult to believe that people would be shocked to discover that datapoints can be removed as a result of the spike identified as non-human-caused pollution.

We can’t regulate acts of nature, even if these acts are made worse by carbon emissions, as it’s useless to include data about these events as the EPA regulations are focused on voluntary emissions.

The real problem is that we rely on the blunt instrument of overall air quality to measure elective pollution in a shared atmosphere. This is far from my area of expertise so I don’t know how or if it’s possible to fix this measurement problem.
He's not bitter. He ends the post with:

The conference was great, I had a good time. It's a really good starting point for even better conferences going forward.

which definitely sounds positive to me. If anything, his reflection is a mild critique of things that could be improved, and is seeking to understand the community and how it sees itself.
Isn't it distant from how humans work? We can't really do parallel, can we? And programming is translating human instructions to computer instructions, and translation is harder between more distant languages.
It affected other parts of the US for a lot longer than that. On the upside, the sunsets this summer were absolutely stunning.
I think you misunderstand what I mean by originator: the actual creator of the work. There are no large or small originators because an originator can only be an individual.

If a company or different individual hires someone to create work for them, the work would transfer from the originator to the company or individual, thus putting it on the faster track automatically.
Thank you for the link. Having seen it, I'm surprised he didn't lose his job before now. This is a great lesson in "know your audience".

I'm dislike political cartoons, but IMO one of the key factors is to make the message blindingly obvious. If there's a more nuanced point, it would probably take more than one cartoon panel to convey.

All of the examples on that page have a lot of details that are ambiguous and difficult to parse. All of them depict the "other side" as extremely ugly (even inhuman, in the case of the Patel/Johnson cartoon) in a way that's viscerally uncomfortable for me.

Understanding his last cartoon the way he intended it requires knowledge of a different political cartoon from 57 years ago, made for an audience on the other side of the planet. The 57-year-old cartoon is itself impossible to parse correctly, unless someone is very familiar with American politics from that era. How many people in the entire world that aren't political cartoonists themselves understood that reference when first viewing the cartoon?

For the vanishingly tiny minority that were willing to look up what "after David Levine" meant, how likely would they be to find the original? If they managed to do so, how likely would they be to understand it correctly, and then apply that understanding back to the cartoon that got Bell fired?
Real-Time Analytics in Postgres: Why It's Hard (and How to Solve It)
Would be great to support more GPU, Metal is the only graphics we support atm with CPU as a fallback
Of course this works. We replaced many (most?) human interactions with digital ones via messaging apps, video chats, social media interactions, forums, online video games, etc.

I have some friends I've made online I've never met in real life. It's people with whom I have a great affinity and it would have been impossible to meet IRL because they're so spread around the world.

It probably could be argued this virtualization of human relationships started way before the internet with television shows.
I'm curious to hear others' answers to this question as well. I've been looking into building my own OpenBSD based home router and so far thinking a Protectli Vault [1] would fit the bill.

1. https://protectli.com
Interesting. Now that the mux can match methods, I wonder what happens when you match a route but not a method. Do you get a 404, or a 405?

Apparently, a 405 with a properly-populated Allow header.

https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/master:src/net/http/ser...

I know people don't love the stringly-typed interface, but rather than typo the HTTP method name, I suspect I'm more likely to simply type the wrong thing in correctly anyways. So I'd be fine with having static analysis warn about bad syntax personally.

For what it's worth, though, in my opinion, you probably shouldn't use the default serve mux if you already have advanced needs; there are plenty of options out there that are more suitable to different use cases, and if you're already doing dynamic route generation, it may wind up being less effort to just write your own router rather than try to munge whatever data structures you have into an existing router's.
It seems like a very bizarre design choice, especially by an official language team, to use prefix strings instead of an enum.

For example:

(Http.GET, "/path")

Rather than the current:

("GET /path")

Odd.
I don’t remember hearing about that. Neat.
I can't because it's much more expensive than my company can afford.
As far as I remember, it's the Gzilt _government_ negotiating in the formation of the Culture, though, not a breakaway group as implied in the above.
There is nothing natural about current levels of wildfire.

That said, global warming isn't the top cause of the problem, either. A century of fire suppression is.
Being a somewhat C/C# inspired bracket syntax, Powershell's syntax is easily better than bash's schizophrenic usage of brackets and semi-colons. Somehow it seems that the people who measure their self worth and identity based on their proclivity for typing in a terminal are also the ones who bitch the most about how long cmdlet names are. I didn't realize Linux users were so allergic to typing (not to mentions aliases and auto-complete)
If it panics, you discover it instantly and can fix. If it didn’t panic, you could unknowingly deploy and rely on behavior you did not know about until it is an issue.
Avoiding scaling the stateful part is also a path to hammer-nail syndrome - you start using less and less of the database system because you keep pulling things out since that's the only place you've established the ability to add CPU capacity and with that come a host of new and old issues.
Premium is $24/m here!

Maybe I am dumb, but it does seem that if they offered a dirt cheap "just no ads" plan for like 2-5$/m they could probably get a higher conversion rate, maybe the actual 10x they'd "need" to match the current price.

I think a lot of people watch youtube as a "second screen" thing like people historically left the TV on for some kind of connection, or when going to sleep, etc. That kind of content is probably not worth 24/m to most, but 2$?
Incredible! I am sure its amazing to use. That said, I doubt it could, say, answer questions from an LSAT exam and get them right though. That would just be way too unbelievable to me.
Sexual arousal is part of the procreation mechanism, and thus I (not a psychologist) will classify it as instinct. I can think of many different feelings as instinct. When I see my gf crying, I don't 'think' to hug her, I instinctively hug her. When your friend walks two steps ahead of you and falls down, you don't stop to think and feel, you instinctively grab them.
EOL as in "no longer sold" or "cannot install new openbsd releases on them"?
Because static scheduling is terrible for non-DSP and non-HPC loads like the typical server or desktop application where the control and data flow is very input dependent. Until recently DSP and HPC were a tiny fraction of the market so architectures capable of dynamic scheduling dominated even those markets as they had more investment.

With GPUs of course things have changed and in fact GPUs relied more on static scheduling, but even there as they expand to more varied loads, they are acquiring more dynamism.
You can use fastmail instead of gmail. Kagi instead of Google search, Apple Maps or OSM instead of Google maps. Firefox instead of chrome. PiHole to block Google trackers. Disallow the Google indexer in your website’s robots.txt.

If you don’t like Google, don’t use their products. Yes, they are hard to avoid. However, in the case of YouTube, it can be avoided by not using it. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
For the end user, yes. What would be the alternative?
I would say using on-prem products and never updating them because of penny pinching is much bigger business risk.
Headline is kind of misleading -- it will offset climate change's effects _on snow_ because it's more reflective. It won't effect climate change in general.
You can control what goes into cache if you want to. The effort to make an open source bios do this in order to have working memory before the DRAM controllers are initialized.[0]

0. https://www.coreboot.org/data/yhlu/cache_as_ram_lb_09142006....
Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy) has over $3B in Bitcoin
Your post implies there is something obviously better.

Genuine question.

What would that be? I'm always on the lookout for better tools.
Wouldn't that just move the "magic" down to the kernel or the MMU which has to do the realloc and memmov hidden from the programmer instead of the programmer being able to chose when and how to do it?
Youtube Premium is a joke, it's priced at probably 50 times the revenue that Google gets for the average user.

I'm even wondering if they feel like it's a real option internally and not just a small gimmick to capture the most paying customers.
Are those transistor analog? It seems that AI would be fine with an analog weight evaluation and a lot of energy is wasted doing numerical calculations.
Every employee has a certain amount of overhead per employee whether that is 1:1s, hr, benefits, forms, etc and your cost to employer is beyond salary which they are incentivized to minimize.

This is overly simple:

Let's make the incorrect assumption all hours are equal.

- 40 hours making $4000, at $100/hr, with $1000 overhead, for a total cost of $5000, or 125/hr.

- 32 hours making $3200, at 100/hr, with $1000 overhead is a total cost of $4200, 131/hr

So let's ballpark and say you need 10% increase in productivity to make the cost of an equally efficient worker working 80% time. I'm not sure I've worked at a company that can estimate individual performance with that margin.
cxx is what msvc prefers hence why they picked icxx for their module types.

mm is convention for ObjC++ files, which is a required dialect if you need to use most the platform libs on Apple platforms.

Being the standard extensions for the two most major platforms, I wouldn’t call them rare at all.

And which further reinforces my point. They could have mandated an extension BUT it would have been going against convention which makes it decidedly not easy. There’s not one singular team in charge and there’s lots of friction in such a seemingly minor change.

I’d argue too that even with modules there’s very minimal benefit to a standard extension. Any such benefit would have had even greater benefit for the rest of the language.
Summary

BLOODALCHEMY is a backdoor shellcode containing only original code(no statically linked libraries).
This code appears to be crafted by experienced malware developers.

The backdoor contains modular capabilities based on its configuration. These capabilities include
multiple persistence, C2, and execution mechanisms.

While unconfirmed, the presence of so few effective commands indicates that the malware may be a
subfeature of a larger intrusion set or malware package, still in development, or an extremely focused
piece of malware for a specific tactical usage.

Omitted from summary: In Microsoft Windows

Omitted from entirety of article: Which versions of Windows. Maybe some readers care. I do not! :)

Omitted from entirety of article: Why it has such a silly name. I would cut them some slack if it exploited a lib named BLDLCM.DLL or something like that, but it seems the name is just more silliness for the sake of silliness?
One can move complexity back and forth between compiler, runtime and processor implementation to some extent. VLIW works really well in some niches. It's harder to program than single instructions that execute in sequence, either by hand or by compiler, but it simplifies the scheduling for the hardware. Works better if the bundled instructions have similar latency.

The key design puzzle at present seems to be that memory access takes many more cycles than arithmetic. Bundling a few cycles of arithmetic with a few hundred cycles of memory load is kind of pointless. So VLIW works well if you know memory access is going to be fast, which roughly means knowing it'll hit in L1 cache or equivalent. I think that's part of why it suits DSP style systems.

Exposed pipelines are an interesting quirk of some of these systems. One instruction in a VLIW bundle writes to a register and subsequent instructions that read from that same register will see the previous value for N subsequent cycles, after which the write becomes visible. They're really confusing to program by hand but compilers can deal with that sort of scheduling.
The genre of Hard Science fiction means that the author has enough background knowledge that the physics of the plot and world building is reasonably sound
In part, I don’t think this is people naively pursuing the moon shot. Rather the incentives and pressures are there to go for the cultural shift. Your investors are pushing you to do it, you can have a lifestyle business that makes you a comfortable millionaire or become a billionaire.

People push for the billonaire option because it’s plausible if they have a revenue machine growing 2x every year and investors behind them. It’s likely their one shot at it.
There was never a time in the US where IE wasn’t bundled with Windows after the anti-trust trial.

Chrome took over because it was heavily advertised on what was already the most heavily trafficked site and it was bundled with other downloads.

WebKit “took off” because Apple by then had the resources to port over another open source project and it came with iPhones. It’s still a relatively non contender on the desktop.
You would need to select a font that supports FreeType instead of ClearType. Here's a good thread on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31528605

Anecdotally, I use PopOS as my daily driver and the fonts and DE are beautiful. I prefer it to the Mac workstation I use for work. When I flip my KVM I'm often reminded of the contrast. I use open source ligature enabled FreeType fonts and they are all exceedingly sharp.

http://freetype.org/
I wonder that about the dollar.
According to a bivol.bg (reliable investigative news), the bitcoins were sold at a private auction with the help of Deloitte and the (real) FBI in December 2017, bringing 6 billion BGN (~3 billion EUR). Apparently at a cabinet meeting the money was earmarked for procuring new fighter aircraft (the current ones are obsolete and very poorly maintained).

There was an acquisition of F-16s in 2022 for $1.3 billion, which still leaves 1.5 billion EUR from the seized money.

https://bivol.bg/bg-bitcoin-deal.html
No wonder LLMs ate their lunch. If questions about contents of the manual are the only ones allowed, you are literally better off just asking Bing Chat.
> That paragraph is introduced with "As one commentator has said", making it only a single opinion.

I don't think so: that quote wouldn't make it into the article if it didn't typify a common opinion.

> Consider Phlebas, The Hydrogen Sonata and Excession show competition on the same level as the Minds, the Excession even beyond their level.

I've only read two of those, but in both the competition is wholly with external actors. Within the Culture itself, the Minds are of one mind about how to act.

> And any entity being "too good" is a strange notion, if you consider those entities being many, many orders of magnitude more intelligent than us humans. Why would "truths" about humans apply to Minds? It is like a bacterium trying to extrapolate the true character of humans.

The Culture is a fantasy, and like most fantasies, it needs some hand-waving "magic" to hold its world up. That's what the Culture Minds are.
> They regularly modify the list of items in the cart, meaning the data isn't reliable over time.

It may not be reliable over time, but it is reliable over shorter time periods. If the basket is not changed for a few years, then the month-by-month changes in CPI are generally judged as reliable, or as reliable as what is out there. It is when you try to look over a 10, 20, 30 year period where you begin to run into trouble.
So what's the deal with apparel? How come it's actually decreased?
The gp used poor terminology. Inflation doesn't impact wealth nearly so much as income. The idle rich draw their income from capital gains on investments in the things that are becoming more expensive and are largely non negotiable. People must spend wages on shelter food energy and probably transport. They will pull back on things they enjoy but cannot afford now. The wealthy will continue to purchase what they want when they want. That is why selling high end luxury goods is a much more stable option than selling thebthings that are luxuries for those who get their income from wages.
Doing a quick search I came up with these articles [1] & [2]. Don't know about there accuracy but set a ground to more research.

[1] https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/bitcoin-l...

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/04/27/bitcoins-estimat...
I have been practicing Tsundoku since before I could read well.
> Look at what happen to the MS antitrust trial.

Google ... Google happened. MS dominated computing then, and they would have dominated the web if they could've forced everyone to stay on IE and use their search capabilities. The antitrust trial prevented that and probably can be credited with allowing the modern web explosion. Even if you argue the explosion would've happened, it certainly would've happened slower and undoubtedly poorer, if you were around during the MS era, you would know what I mean.
Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%
After 10% back in May, another round is coming through at 28% today.
Thank you so much! Nice to have closure haha.
I've seen it used before commercial security/networking appliances got "good" (generally pre-2010ish), but I think its use has diminished. I was a huge OpenBSD user back then as the networking (routing/firewalling/etc) was so simple AND powerful. I stopped when screenOS and later Juniper matured to the point where updates were just uploading firmware and hardware upgrades were just dumping the old configs in.

I knew it was deployed at a few non-tech oriented fortune 500 companies (eg not banks or tech firms) as last as 2016, but I've been out of that market since.
He also had Masayoshi Son giving him billions and telling him to build it bigger and crazier. And Adam Neumann managed to walk away with dynastic wealth, so... I wouldn't call him unwise.
Gotcha. I usually use nginx anyway, so no worries there.
Hmm, true for virtual memory, didn't think of that, but CPU caches are inside the processor, can even the kernel control it at all?