skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So according to you, Apple's copying an app then banning that developer's app off the Appstore is better than Microsoft's copying an app's features while still allowing it to be sold, because in Apple's documented case one developer lost "only" a year of revenue, while in your imaginary Microsoft example, a company we don't know of went bankrupt?

You're just a gift that keeps on giving. How do you come up with this reasoning?
Or just always have the superbowl on the Sunday before President's day. No new holiday required.
> cringe-comedy movie

Church Crashers
Here's the pg article I referred to:

https://paulgraham.com/road.html
Given the expansion of the regular season, the SB is now one week before Presidents day weekend. The NFL could potentially move the season one week back and now have the SB regularly land on the Sunday during presidents day weekend.
With aluminium you risk galvanic corrosion but yes I was contemplating using that technique to bond steel tubes and build a tall bike.
I find that I only have a couple, but I have a lot of system services in the menu bar. I currently have (apart from time/date): siri, control centre, the user switcher, wifi, battery, bluetooth, music, volume, spotlight, time machine and keyboard layout. Some of those show up by default, and some I had to turn on (bluetooth, keyboard layout). But that's all just default system stuff. I have only 3 custom apps, and the next one will go behind the notch by the look of it.
Be safe, everyone! There is a flash-epidemic every year in the US around this time that has us scratching our heads. Thankfully almost everyone survives it with no long-term effects, with hangover-like symptoms being the most severe of the common symptoms. Hopefully we can find the cause of this one day.
Notably, the DMA includes words like "fair" and "reasonable" for which there is no strict robot-like interpretation.

Apple's plans will be evaluated as such by regulators, and there are several provisions which are just plainly anti-competitive, especially the 50 cent per user per year fee just to run an app store. It's really hard to see that holding up.
This's the worse way I've seen to do a Big 5 personality test, I highly recommend this real assessment Understand Myself https://www.understandmyself.com/ the accuracy of it truly helped me to understand my own personality.
When I was a kid I would tell my parents I cleaned my room, then they’d look in the closet and see everything in a pile.
Yes. Do I want that? No.
Author here - this figure is insane but also a bit of an exaggeration. I calculated it by running 'cloc' on the source code directory, not excluding node_modules. Many modules in there are actually unused or only used at build time. The built output (from Nuxt) that is actually run is much more compact (though partly minified so line counts are not that interesting). Also, Nuxt specifically is a bit overkill here, but greatly improved my productivity developing this website (and was chosen because it aligns with our other web applications, so less 'innovation tokens' [1]).

[1] https://boringtechnology.club
And the ATF still makes them presumptively illegal, abusing the courts' deference to them.
This is a “sounds good, but devil is in the details” type situation, and the details typically don’t work out all that well because the initiative effectively assumes good intent from the ecosystem, when we have seen time and time again that there are enough hostile actors with enough creativity to spoil it.
They can: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/IOS_emulators

The issue is trying to make a business out of it.
But you’re not required to go on the App Store and discover apps like Netflix. Presumably you do that because the corporation built a nice App Store ecosystem where you want to do such a thing.
I just made the same comment. The expansion of the season now allows for that.
> Ultimately dealing with the DOL will hurt the employer financially

It looks like corporations make far more money stealing from workers than they'd ever lose in their dealings with the DOL. If enforcement were inevitable and fines high enough to actually hurt no company would ever dare steal from their employees, but because they do (and at such large scales) we know that they make more money from theft than they risk losing by stealing.
Plasma proteomic profiles predict future dementia in healthy adults
The analogue of someone using deep-fakes for fraud is for someone to purposefully hit a pedestrian with their car. Should Honda be held liable because someone tried to use their car as a weapon? The classical form of this argument is if a kitchen knife manufacturer should be held liable if someone used their knives for homicide.
Anecdotal, but I was at a Korean school in the States this past weekend and I have never seen a higher concentration of Teslas than I saw in the parking lot. And there were significantly more Teslas than Kia or Hyundais. So at least in this particular parking lot of this particular school, Koreans/Korean-Americans, seemed to really like Teslas.
Also my car prioritizes connecting to my phone even though my wife is usually the "DJ" on a drive. And disconnecting my phone after we've already started driving means my wife has to get my phone out of my pocket/lap and turn off Bluetooth since the car offers no simple way to do so other than outright unpairing my phone.
I have my own company, have my own products and also develop products for clients. Maybe this explains the difference. Obviously before any clients use my services we have some kind of interview / negotiations. Normally I am being asked what kind of stuff I have developed and how did I solve such and such problems. I do not remember ever being asked to pass any tests. I do know that if they ever do I will simply refuse. I have very good decades spanning portfolio along with references from my client companies. If potential client is not interested in checking my real work and would rather switch to some bullshit test we are better off without each other.
Warn HN: Most gTLDs have no price caps
I just went to renew a domain I owned, and found out that the registrar has bumped the price from $75/yr to $3,400/yr. Luckily I wasn't using the domain so I can just let it expire, but if my whole business and branding was built on that domain, that would be painful. Especially if it were just a hobby business that makes a few hundred a year it would basically kill the business.

I always knew in the back of my mind that there were no price caps after the .org controversy, but it slapped me in the face today and I wanted to remind everyone else.
I don't.

Software developers and researchers should not be liable for distributing information or code, even if it's used for something illegal, as long as they aren't explicitly promoting the illegal activity and don't have any involvement with it outside of creating the software.

Not only is that consistent with previous decisions, such as those regarding copyright (i.e. torrents are fine, but making a client to torrent movies specifically isn't), but also any other decision would be a violation of the social contract with regard to open-source development.
I don't see how it could ever be not possible. Maybe not always convenient, but impossible? How?
I think it works better as is. Just 16 million people collectively deciding that are too hung over to go to work. It's a like a mini-strike by the core alcohol consumers. What is their one demand? This day off. Do they get it? Yes.
> I'm not super keen on Thread/Matter seeing how one of its goal seems to be allowing your devices access to the internet which is the exact opposite of what I want.

Happily, that's not a goal and definitely not a requirement. Thread/Matter work great without internet access unless you use them via a platform which does (e.g. Alexa).
> MBIC

No need to start flinging poo.

> Social-capitalist economies (the “social democracies” and adjacent) tend to do better job at this particular thing.

Can you point to a social capitalist country that does a demonstrably better job as a direct result of being a social-capitalist/social democratic/democratic socialist policies? From a cursory search, the US shares in wage theft being a problem with the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden (granted to a lesser extent for the last two), and I have no doubt a slew of others as well.
Effectiveness of 3D printed purposely induced porosity on 5.56
Why do you think that this would make ICs miserable?
> If you invent something fantastic, say a way for a self driving car to perfectly sense its surroundings

That sounds like a highly constructed example, and even if we take it for bare value, makes a lot of assumptions, for example that whatever you invent is patentable.

The way you phrase it also makes it sound like patents are all about individual contributions, when in reality the era of lone genius inventors is long over (if they ever existed). In the US, it's practice for your funding institution to keep all the rights to your inventions, so if you invented the perfect sense for self driving, it's highly likely that a company like Ford already has the patent, because they quite literally own your intellectual output.

Imo, I feel the same way like OP, there needs to be a use it or loose it doctrine, just like there is with trademarks. Overall the legislation around intellectual property and copyright feels to be in favor of big corps at the moment and should be heavily castrated.
I'm actually sick right now and had to come into the office because it would look too suspicious to take the day off!
Author here, I guess I could have chosen a better title. This article is about diving into complexity that seems insurmountable at first, with an engineer's mindset.
I was in an interview process for a job where the next step sounded like something like that, and I went ahead and withdrew before I got to it.
I found this message extremely humbling and important: https://www.pretotyping.org/
There is an apocryphal story from the Greek War of Independence in 1821 - when it was won, messengers were sent out to the various Aegean islands to tell them that Greece had won its independence from the Ottomans. On one small island, the response of the villagers was "well, that's nice, but why are you telling us? we aren't Greek, we're Romans (Ῥωμαῖοι Rhomaioi)"
It's much more insidious than you let on. It's plain lying about the cost of the service (food in this case) so they get you in the door, then bait-and-switch you when you get the bill.

Just a hunch, but I'm guessing you live in Seattle. I've been noticing the same thing all over, and honestly it should be highly illegal.
> leans into corners

Modern trains do that too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Passenger_Train eventually led to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avelia_Liberty, which is being deployed for Acela in the US.
> Imagine the tens of thousands of dollars saved if you had a 15 minute technical conversation and the other engineer is like, yeah this person's worth bringing onboard.

When I was interviewing for both junior and senior positions, my typical tack was to look through their resume and look for something interesting that I have some kind of background knowledge of. Or, alternatively, just ask them "what's the coolest project you've worked on?" From there I'd just let it be a pretty organic conversation where I'd just keep asking for more details until we've either gotten to the bottom of the tech implementation or have gotten to the point where they can say "I don't know, someone else worked on that".

So far I haven't been disappointed with any of the outcomes from that process; there was one where my conclusion was "no hire" and then down the road they were hired anyway... and it turned out pretty much how I figured it would. Good surface technical knowledge with a super scattered implementation.
Feeding a Hungry Mouse Using Chromedp and Golang
The Author's entire section "What is a Covered Model Here?" kind of sums up one of the main issues with the bill, even if they say themselves how clear the bill is.

'''
(1) The artificial intelligence model was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations in 2024, or a model that could reasonably be expected to have similar performance on benchmarks commonly used to quantify the performance of state-of-the-art foundation models, as determined by industry best practices and relevant standard setting organizations.

(2) The artificial intelligence model has capability below the relevant threshold on a specific benchmark but is of otherwise similar general capability.
'''

They then go on to say:

>Under this definition, if no one was actively gaming benchmarks, at most three existing models would plausibly qualify for this definition: GPT-4, Gemini Ultra and Claude. I am not even sure about Claude.

Well how did they draw this conclusion? They decided that other models that do well are simply gaming benchmarks, and therefore can ignore the provision?

>Um, no, because the open model weights models do not remotely reach the performance level of OpenAI?

To me the author is simply incredibly biased and not well versed in other models. Is chatgpt4 better? Yes. Is Mistral8 comparable? I'd easily say yes. Using it just once would lead most to a similar conclusion, it's only after throwing word problems and tricks where you can really see the differences.

And these kind of laws open to interpretation are always an issue because a responsible company has to err on the side of caution. If your model is often helpful, but only 80% as often as chatgpt, is that comparable? If someone released a new benchmark tomorrow, and your model actually beats out chatgpt, does your model all of a sudden apply?
Are you technical enough to validate their work and to maintain it when they leave? If not then spend the money hiring a technical co-founder.
For real though. This was my biggest frustration when I was an SE.

Want people in a large organization to ignore your ideas? Speak them out loud.

Want them to follow them as dogma? Write a blog post under a pseudonym.
This bill also basically bans AI in trading.
That's an interesting concept: There's the theory, that I tend to believe, that any successful complex system was born as a simple system, then evolved by iteration, etc. (it's from a 1970s systems theorist, iirc). Trying to birth a complex system directly is almost inevitably a mess.

But does it apply to legislating? One drawback might be that political will and attention is fleeting; and interests become vested in a current state, blocking change; and it's now or not for another generation or so.
I guess every recent not-xbox never mattered.
[[even if americans dont believe it]]- form of gaslighting.
The media and certain political interests in the US have an interest in making everyone afraid of crime. The former needs it for ratings (if it bleeds it leads) and the latter to scare you into voting for them.

There are a handful of cities having property crime epidemics due to bad local policies, but crime overall continues to fall.
It's an equally ridiculous proposal to someone's fascist take that I shouldn't be allowed to have political rights because I don't want children.
Sounds kind of hard to use on mobile, which is indisputably a popular set of platforms.

No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Big (resizable) UI elements with poke-ability are fine. Auto-saving can be great depending on the application. Let’s just ditch the false simplicity and flatness.
> rather than the spirit

Tim Cook met personally with EU regulators before their changes were introduced.

I doubt they would knowingly introduce something that would result in a punitive fine.
It is growing in Canada. I guess they outsource ;)
That image also didn’t correctly load for me (just a slice at the top), also checking on multiple browsers.
This. And in summertime I go tend to the tomato plants in my greenhouse, so I refer to it as my pomodoro technique.
Why? What benefit and cost is there to moving?

I don't think there is any benefit, and there is massive cost to moving for any company, especially one that is built on a highly specialized labor force that doesn't want to move. At least, that's my best reading of this article's interpretation of the law's impact.
Well, in the New Orleans area at least, plenty of people were getting Monday off anyway because of Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras.
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Imho the thing that killed stadia was the pricing model. Buying games but not owning them outright* is a recipe for failure, especially for a company known for killing off services (and I say that as a xoogler with very mixed feelings). Stadia should have just had a monthly subscription fee.

*Yes, with DRM, copy protection, online only, etc, it's debatable whether anyone owns any game. But conventional game ownership or even steam style is still _more_ ownership than the stadia case.
>It's not being an evil monopoly merely to have built the most desirable thing.

Yes it is. Look at Visa and MasterCard. Even if there was no anti competitive practices (which I don't know), we wouldn't want them to take 6% of every retail transaction. So the EU set a limit, I think 0.5%.

Otherwise, the rentier corporations would extract a lot of wealth from the economy, instead of the productive class (like manufacturing, services, farming, etc).
Just to pick out some examples, rust-analyzer is 28M against clangd which is only 291K; ripgrep is 4.7M against GNU grep which is only 211K (binaries have already been strip-ed in both cases).
> a total white boys club, the most homogeneous conference I've ever been to.

Sorry you feel that way.

Personally, diversity of people's thought interests me more than diversity of their superficial birth characteristics.

I recall meeting great people and talking about all manner of things when I last attended FOSDEM.

Maybe next time try interacting more - learning about people's character and experience - rather than judging those people on their skin colour at first glance?
>Yes, if the Civic had a feature that made it easier to hit you, or lacked a reasonable feature that would have prevented it from hitting you.

Ah but some cars today have automatic breaking, so can I sue the manufacturer for not including one? Maybe Toyota's would have seen the pedestrian, is it reasonable to assume Honda's should have as well? Since this is a safety issue, why did Honda allow the car to even start without an up to date pedestrian detection system?

Does this help you see the issue?
Yet very few companies incorporate in California.

Also, LA put in a tax regime where all the studios left the city for neighbors like Burbank and Culver City.
Having an ARCHITECTURE.md file at all is extremely promising, but theirs seems pretty polished too!
Meaningful national value in a holiday for election day imo
He must have been somewhere else. Saw and spoke to plenty of non-CIS-males in and around K (where the big cantine is with coffee). A majority looked white/male of course but that is a function of the industry and demographics of Western Europe.

It's by far the most diverse conference I've been to.. but I've only been the Microsoft events and CES where the most diverse you got was being a white CIS dude wearing jeans instead of a suit.
On the one hand, no price caps allows the market to find the right price for every domain. But that means treating domains like rental homes without rent control.

I contend that domains should be treated more like property taxes -- a fee you pay to maintain records and basic services, but not something subject to market forces. Almost everywhere has some sort of cap on the growth of property taxes (although none as restrictive as Prop 13 in California).

The idea of course is that if your property taxes took a huge jump you can't just up and move. Domain names are similar -- a lot of companies and even hobbyists have their entire branding and SEO tied up in their domain name.

Allowing their prices to 50x in one year shouldn't be allowed.
I probably can't comment on that, but what I can comment on is this:

H100's are hard to get. Nearly impossible. CoreWeave and others have scooped them all up for the foreseeable future. So, if you are looking at only price as the factor, then it becomes somewhat irrelevant, if you can't even buy them [0]. I don't really understand the focus on price because of this fact.

Even if you do manage to score yourself some H100's. You also need to factor in the networking between nodes. IB (Infiniband) made by Mellanox, is owned by NVIDIA. Lead times on that equipment are 50+ weeks. Again, price becomes irrelevant if you can't even network your boxes together.

As someone building a business around MI300x (and future products), I don't care that much about price [!]. We know going in that this is a super capital intensive business and have secured the backing to support that. It is one of those things where "if you have to ask, you can't afford it."

We buy cards by the chassis, it is one price. I actually don't know the exact prices of the cards (but I can infer it). It is a lot about who you know and what you're doing. You buy more chassis, you get better pricing. Azure is probably paying half of what I'm paying [1]. But I'd also say that from what I've seen so far, their chassis aren't nearly as nice as mine. I have dual 9754's, 2x bonded 400G, 3TB ram, and 122TB nvme... plus the 8x MI300x. These are top of the top. They have Intel and I don't know what else inside.

[!] Before you harp on me, of course I care about price... but at the end of the day, it isn't what I'm focused on today as much as just being focused on investing all of the capex/opex that I can get my hands on, into building a sustainable business that provides as much value as possible to our customers.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-shortage-of-nvidias-a...

[1] https://www.techradar.com/pro/instincts-are-massively-cheape...
> From my sibling comment on this law, this bill would have guaranteed the right to an abortion because the way they define contraceptive includes abortion

Nonsense. The two terms are clearly defined in the bill and neither of them are defined as any acts, drugs, or devices that would take place or be utilized after conception (i.e., pregnancy).

(1)

Contraception

The term contraception means an action taken to prevent pregnancy, including the use of contraceptives or fertility-awareness based methods, and sterilization procedures.

(2)

Contraceptive

The term "contraceptive" means any drug, device, or biological product intended for use in the prevention of pregnancy, whether specifically intended to prevent pregnancy or for other health needs, that is legally marketed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, such as oral contraceptives, long-acting reversible contraceptives, emergency contraceptives, internal and external condoms, injectables, vaginal barrier methods, transdermal patches, and vaginal rings, or other contraceptives.
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