skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a subset of companies use the exact same algorithm for price discovery, is there a form of price-fixing? This is the key question being argued.

No it's not. You're missing a critical bit here. The argument is that there's actual enforcement of the price the software suggests, and at that point it really seems completely irrelevant whether the enforced price was determined by an algorithm or a person:

"The software company actively "polices" landlords to ensure that they comply with the rent cost it generates, the lawsuit alleges. Failure to impose the RealPage rents could lead to landlords being expelled from the organization, according to the suit."
> I didn't think in 2023 I would read that programmers are shocked that relaxed atomics can be reordered.

At my current and prior jobs, I've had to do the "C++ cleanup" job while porting some x86_64 code to ARM. The TSO model from x86 is just something I think a lot of people have assumed and haven't been hurt by (again because it's TSO). Most of the work I had to do is basically using all the SA and sanitizers I could, staring hard at the code to convince myself there wasn't some secret data dependency on some relaxed atomic.

"It's just a simple flag, so I'll use a relaxed atomic, nbd", meanwhile the same person is assuming another structure they've "published" (e.g. to a shared queue) will be visible is alarming.
There is no source version of Chrome since it's closed source. I assumed GP meant chromium. A while back there was a chromium-bin for a short period, but it seems to have fallen out of maintenance and is now removed.
CMOV is very important for high-performance programming as it greatly simplifies the design of branchless code. There are workarounds, but they either involve conditional branches (you don't want these) or increase the critical path latency significantly (the simplest workaround is to materialise the carry flag using SBB, then use that as a mask).
Economists Ignored Inequality for Years. Now They Can't Stop Talking About It
no, it was a very different website.
This is not profound, it is only solipsism.

Things exist outside your experience. Things exist outside my experience. The only way to get to the perspective you describe is to discard or devalue the experience of everyone else.

If you encounter a large carnivore in the wild and it knocks you out, the animal doesn’t disappear.

To seriously hold that all of what you have known was created for your experience is an extreme exercise of narcissism that enables some fairly incredible behaviors. But it is not closer to truth.
I really don’t see the point of that calculation. It’s like saying that the wind turbine only captures 5% (number made up) of the energy of the wind going through it.
There are several that are into the GB/s of performance with various interfaces. Most are just trash for large documents and sit in the allocators far too long, but that's not required either
It was on this HN forum that I was first introduced to the remarkable
essay on the Californian Ideology[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology
Ill have to develop more thoughts but there is something amusing about having a whole section about protecting jobs, the having sections about importing more laborers for ai development.
The Death of Prompt Engineering: The Dawn of User-Driven AI Training
The issue is that, in typical Quebec (and Canadian) fashion, the entire thing has 0 vision or innovation to it. The shift to a more walkable city has been to imitate European cities as is, as if Montreal isn't different from say, Amsterdam or Copenhagen.

For most of the year, due to the cold and snow, the bike lanes are unused and are not convertible to anything else. Sure, some people still bike in the very cold months but that's an extreme minority that inherently includes mostly young, mostly fit cyclists. (Yes European cities also have winters, but they are usually way milder, even in northern cities like Stockholm)

Now, I'm still fully on board of having a walking/biking centric city when it makes sense, so convertible infrastructure would have been amazing. But instead we get half of the roads being unusable for anything during the colder months (look at St-Denis st. for example). Not even for bus transit. Which is to me ridiculous and is again, typical of Montreal's infrastructure projects.
Do you know the split between their search ads and the others?
Was that a performance limitation or a conscious design choice because of their "cloud" feature?
Unless a wild boar steals your bag while you're sunbathing, then the phones with cameras absolutely liven things up, though mainly for everyone else: https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/naked-german-man-chase...
Sure, and nearly every government can buy explosives.
Postal banking could be an option, but otherwise, the federal government seems to not want to deal with the customer service involved in running a banking operation.

It would probably be more reasonable to make some sort of tightly regulated basic bank account that banks would be required to offer in some situations.

Nobody would be happy, but hold all deposits for a long period, so that they fully clear. Possibly restrict the sources of funds; maybe a basic bank account can only accept payroll and government deposits, maybe a limit of N unique payers per unit time. Etc. Social security and state benefit programs have specialized accounts for people without other bank accounts, because it works better than sending checks in the mail, maybe one of those programs could be slightly more generalized.

Allow a bank to refuse to service an otherwise qualifying basic banking customer only if the bank goes through a court process and/or is accompanied by actual criminal charges filed.
I forgot how powerful the i960 was - and how this demonstrated that despite that - that compatibility was king.
Ok that's pretty surprising. I didn't know it was still this bad
I wish that there was a performant and useful front end to GDB for Linux. There isn't, so I'm stuck using GDB manually. Maybe CLion is good?
No. Atheist.
Similar situation. I ended up paying a few bucks for an extension/guest access pass at the local university. I just started auditing lectures in any and all departments, 20+ hrs/week for a few semesters. Eventually I found myself getting really interested in one subject, took all the classes available, and that's what I decided to do for career 2.0
TLDR. The article claims Britain’s energy needs can be met by renewables. Almost half of estimated renewable output, 1557 of 2896 TWH, will come from floating offshore wind farms.
PSA for sellers, use a "fixed rate" service that will be your realtor in name only and put your property on MLS
The new WGA contract has fairly strong prohibitions against publishers wielding AI as a tool to devalue writers. They can't insist on writers using ChatGPT and they can't demand a lower rate for "AI-assisted" writing. Individual writers can still prompt ChatGPT but they don't have to use it.

Meanwhile, the lawsuit against Midjourney for training on copyrighted work is going... not that great[0]. The judge is paring down a lot of the arguments in the lawsuit.

The actual idea behind using copyright to stop AI is that if we give copyright owners of trained-on works the ability to veto that training, then we can just "stop AI". The problem is that most artists don't actually get to own their work. Publishers own the work, it's the first thing you have to bargain away in order to work with a publisher. So they're going to look at their vast dragon's horde of work, most of which isn't particularly profitable to them, and license it out to OpenAI, Stability, MidJourney, or whoever at pennies on the dollar because at their scale that becomes a pretty big deal.

To the publishers salivating over generative AI, this cost is not a big deal, because they already spend shittons on writers. So if your goal is to stop worker replacement, just adding a cost to that replacement isn't a good idea. Actually making it illegal or prohibited to actually replace workers with AI is the way to go.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-pares-down-ar...
I could be wrong, but my layman interpretation is that it depends whether you pay before or after receiving goods or services.

If you pay before (ex. grocery store), they can refuse to accept certain payment methods.

If you pay after (ex. restaurant), you've already eaten the food and now you owe a debt.
"Pretty deadly" in the "2 good breaths and you're unconscious in it till you die" sense.
Coming out with better chips at lower prices. I know how obvious that sounds but it's true.

The difficulty is they need to make nearly decade-long bets that are the size of small countries economies due to the complexity of manufacturing and Intel's made a few bad ones recently.

I don't know who to listen to on what chip design will be a market win in 2030 either. AI applications are extremely resource intensive so that will be driving things for a while but how to solve that in an affordable chip created by a reliable efficient manufacturing process is beyond me. This stuff is phenomenally hard.

I'd say the winner is something like an NVIDIA graphics pipeline that is separated into a pile called "graphics" and "ai" and then has the graphics part gutted for a cheaper AI pipeline which can use system memory as opposed to preciously expensive graphics memory and then gets integrated into their next gen CPUs taking Nvidia out of the loop and dealing a blow to AMD at the same time. They'd mop the floors with something like that especially if you could just drop it into pytorch and have it work automagically. They could probably then just turn around and license it to ARM.

AMD and Nvidia wouldn't work together to mount a unified defense because of ATI and this would allow Intel to weasel their way back into the Apple money stream.

But I'm just some unemployed dude typing this on a 4 year old android. Don't listen to me.
Yeah, it can be nasty. Ammonia is a very common refrigerant for ice rinks here in Canada. Operators die every so often across the country due to undetected leaks.

Ammonia seems like a grid scale storage solution, not something we can distribute across people’s homes. Home storage we should start focused on thermal batteries since it’s highly proven technology that needs almost zero maintenance.
What an underdeveloped perspective. You would constrain humanity to the biology that birthed it. By your reasoning we ought to crawl back into our mothers because that is where we are meant to be.
>Silicon Valley, ever so optimistic about the perfectibility of mankind

Is this sarcasm?

Coz from what I can see Silicon Valley is primarily concerned with (in order of importance) 1. $$$, 2. $$$$ and 3. $$$$$
My wife and I always marvel at how much shit other parents carry. I don’t get it at all. Why make things harder than they need to be?

We rarely used a stroller except when our kids were quite young and we were gonna do a lot of walking. Like at the zoo or something. Then, we’d use a cheap little light stroller, not one of those giant monster cargo ones most people have. On-body carriers were better in other cases. And when they could walk, we made them walk, frequently, to get them used to it, carrying less and less over time.

If I went out solo with a young kid, I usually could fit everything I needed for 3-4 hours away in my pockets, easily. We had the usual giant diaper bag with the first kid but rarely used it, and I think we got rid of it before having more kids and didn’t replace it. There was just no need.

IDK what all these parents are carrying around in their cargo-strollers and 20 gallon diaper bags. Kids can travel really light if you’re only gonna be out during the day.
It is still problematic for the same reasons, they just don't have to handle fixing the supply as well.

That said, it would be naive to assume this conversation is disconnected from lobbying against housing supply programs and zoning that keeps supply of homes low as well.
Depends on the clones. Some things they straight up copied, some things they 'reverse engineered' and produced a functional not exact copy. For example, they couldn't straight copy something that they didn't have the process to fabricate.

We sometimes forget/ignore the fact the Soviets had very, very good engineers even if the system they were embedded in limited their achievement.

For amusement: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
You have sources for the fact that there isn't enough people? My interviewing experience suggests otherwise. They would be relaxing requirements like in office only and pay would go up. They're just as picky as any other company.
Fair enough, I must remember to wake up properly and think before I type. I suppose it was the lack of a preposition that threw me. The jibe about the quality of their journalism was gratuitous nonsense and which I regret and apologise for.
I vaguely remember this guy:

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/employers-gold-silver-pay...
O'Callaghan et al. successfully retained the baby - MacKay's method - while discarding the bathwater - his 2008 data.

There is nothing in principle to prevent scale-up of floating wind, but there is an awful lot of scaling to do. Who really knows?

This report probably could use an update ten years hence, but they have done a good job with what is known and can reasonably be predicted.
So, there was an issue when you added devices to a network and had the Assign to me flag enabled. That's fixed now!

Thank you kind strangers for hitting that bug :)
You're not wrong, but I'd argue there's some gulf between using personal data to show people banner ads for overpriced sneakers and using personal data to help law enforcement throw people in jail. You could certainly do the former but draw the line at the latter.

With the former it's less about the outcome—seeing obnoxious Nike ads on the internet—and more about the principle of not wanting your data to be collected, even if nothing nefarious ever comes of it. With the latter you're seeing that worst case scenario come to life.
Perhaps it was God’s plan altogether.
Staying overseas, I also got my account locked last month when I invoiced a consulting client. Seemingly out of nowhere because the previous 22 invoices cleared without an issue. But I am properly set up for this. We initiated a refund, and then I invoiced them through another EU business I set up just for this type of scenario. Then I issued a B2B invoice to my business in Europe, from my LLC in Asia; which then paid it out to me as a salary. Fees are steep, but tax is low; so that balances out.
This is a follow-up to an earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744101 - October 2023 (85 comments)

The original event was canceled by the conference organizers, so the panel have decided to hold their talk online instead.
FPGA programming is like another level below assembly programming.

In high-level languages you got functions, variables and scopes while in assembly you need to build them yourself using more primitive units, i.e. instructions and registers.

In assembly you got many helpful instructions and easy memory access while in FPGAs and ASICs you have... nothing. Only wires and boolean logic.

It allows you to build some things extremely efficiently, e.g.: Press button 1 and 2 to activate LED 1. No clocks, no memory accesses, no I/O polling or interrupts, just a direct connection from some inputs to others with some logic in between.

Although there are many modern tools, libraries and IP blocks to make FPGA programming easier or even possible with languages like Scala or C++, it usually takes way more time to build anything compared to doing it with the help of a CPU.
> telling a bank they need to keep dealing with customers that cost them tons of money and are actively trying to defraud them (and other customers) seems awfully harsh.

So, the legal system? The only reason regulated banks should be able to deplatform someone is if they also have a legally actionable case, and they do legally action it, and the person is found guilty.
The recent extra-national GPU sales bans were put in place with the explicit goal of US AI supremacy.
Saudi princes are some of the largest buyers of PII. I even worked* for a company that would sell data to the US government, and then sell the Saudis the data on what data the US government was using. I have no idea what they are doing with all of it, but they certainly keep a lot of companies profitable.

* I left shortly after the company pivoted into being a PII broker.
I know a few coffee shops that were robbed so they stopped accepting cash. That was a much safer option for employees. But your point is still valid, there just isn't a better alternative right now, sadly.
Well, actually, I think this is increasingly being highlighted as a problem.

For example a few years ago in Australia it was a big issue that the supermarket duopoly was intentially making their brands of milk too cheap. There was a kind of spiral where expensive brands weren't selling well, so farmers had to sign restrictive contracts with the big supermarkets, but the rates were too low to be profitable or even viable.

The conflict of interest sort of "broke" the free market for milk. I'm not sure if retailers should be forced to be "brokers or producers but not both" but I am sure that if they were purely "brokers" then we wouldn't have experienced this particular problem. (The fact that the supermaket business is so centralised is another related issue).
What do you mean by service? ISPs?
Archive.org has a collection of really old (Apple II / Commodore / etc era) games that now work in-browser. For instance, here's Number Munchers:

https://archive.org/details/Number_Munchers_v1.2_1986_MECC
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> The government is the prime culprit when it comes to financially de-platforming people, if you want more secure access to banking, the solution is lighter regulation of banks, not more.

Banks are creatures of government, they're never going to be private competitive businesses. The solution is to recognise this and subject them to the same oversight that government is: FOIA, the equal protection clause, all of that good stuff.
While I subscribe to the Monday week start, that’s a really interesting fact that I never would have expected
how long do you think the Domain Name system will last?

Seriously,, people act as though the web has alwas been and always will be. I'd be disappointed if we didn't come up with something else by 2038.
Yes, yes we do. As long as fossil fuels are still in use, we need non-CO2-producing energy sources online.

Once the last oil and natural gas plants are offline, we can start discussing energy strategies in California without nuclear.

Greenhouse gas emissions reductions are unambiguously the highest priority right now.
BTC or BCH?
Regulators fined Chase and other big banks for "weak controls". One way to show that these big banks have "strong controls" is to change parameters for these algorithms. Many legitimate transactions fall under structuring, layering, smurfing, laundering. After all, any goal of money laundering is to make their transactions appear "legitimate". Now almost all transactions (except for big businesses and people with few bills and pay stubs) come under scrutiny.

Strong controls = more false positives, more account closures, more SAR reports. That's what regulators want, and politicians don't want to rein on these regulators either by amending laws or by reducing "too much discretion" given to regulators. Of course, those affected by debanking (ordinary citizens and small businesses) don't have that kind of lobbying power to bring any such changes.

Big businesses instead can own small banks in fly over states, and run their transactions through those banks. Maybe, it is time to bank with local credit unions, as the latter allow mobile deposits. Once FedNow takes hold across credit unions, better switch to credit unions.

Another lesson: every one should have at least three checking accounts (one or two big banks; one or two credit unions).
Why would banking be optional even if every single business accepted cash?

Where are you supposed to hold your cash, under a mattress?
Advice for startup founders
Excuse me, Congress. I need to have a word with you.

Your oath of office said “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
Source: https://oaths.us/senate-oath-of-office/

I noticed that you just voted on a bunch of unconstitutional laws, which makes you guilty of perjury.

Note: It does not matter which memeber of Congress you address, or when. This applies to all of them, all the time.
If argue that there isnt that much of a gulf. It's a bit further down a slippery slope.

I'd also argue that ideals in Silicon Valley are, cultrually, fully subordinated to money anyway so... it's probably a moot point how much of a gulf there is.
In the context of Audacity, telemetry already would have been useful: A previous version removed the cut/copy/paste buttons, thinking that people normally used ctrl+x/c/v. However, in practice this turned out to only be half-true: while cutting in the context of cut-and-paste may have been used with shortcuts, a fairly significant number of Audacity users actually used "the scissors" to cut (as in: delete) content and came to the forum to complain because their core workflow was broken.

This sort of situation is bad for everyone: People get their workflow broken, devs need to do work to remove and later reinstate a feature, and privacy-minded people who want to complain need to share name and email to sign up on a forum for an account. In addition, it is hard to gauge what significance the forum posts have: If 100 people are complaining, are they a vocal minority of the millions of users Audacity has, or are they representative of most people?

This is especially true considering Audacity is the sort of casual "useful toolbox USB stick" program for many people - they're not going to closely follow development and updates or participate in polls or surveys, simply because it's not a part of their life they care about that much. This situation is different for something like Blender in which the tool tends to be a major part of your hobby or job if you use it at all. Although, saying that: This is a hypothesis based on my perception which cannot be verified as neither Blender nor Audacity track this data.

With telemetry (which for Audacity would have been a "do you want telemetry yes/no"-type dialog on first launch) the question "does anyone actually use the cut/copy/paste buttons?" would have been answered with "actually, yes", things would have been done differently, nobody's workflows would have been broken, and privacy-minded folks would not have needed to put emails on a forum which may or may not get hacked in the future.

In some sense, even people who disable telemetry benefit from telemetry being an option - assuming that their needs are in aggregate otherwise similar to the average user.