skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s what they claim to be “dark patterns:”

* Prompts to install Chrome and make it your default browser. (Safari and Edge do the same; this is a tactic that’s been common since the browser wars between Netscape and IE.)

* The built-in password manager and synchronization using a Google account.

* Ads on Google Search for Chrome.

* Built-in DRM and the companies like Spotify that require it.

* Some Google services like Google Meet and Google Earth were implemented for Chrome first.

* Advertisers can place ads using AdWords on Google Search and this is first-party, rather than third-party advertising, which matters when third-party cookies are blocked.

* Google Ads provides Google with insight into the popularity of other websites. (As does running the most popular search engine, I will add.)

* Chrome’s long-delayed blocking of third-party cookies is finally happening, but first-party cookies are unaffected.

* Moving Google services from other domains to google.com subdomains means that they can share cookies without being affected by third-party cookie restrictions.

That’s quite a long list of competitive advantages! And there are more! It’s good to be a big tech company that most people use. They aren’t dark patterns, though? None of this seems surprising?

I still think Chrome blocking third-party cookies will be a good thing. I guess that’s the paradox, what’s better for privacy isn’t good for competition.
Which Opus settings did you use? Note that Opus recently got new ML features: https://opus-codec.org/demo/opus-1.5/
It's also incredibly easy to shoot yourself in the foot and rack up huge cloud bills - something we recently hit: https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/8756
So... those are two completely different things.
Someday, Earth Will Have a Final Total Solar Eclipse
I am a devoted FAF fan. I've been watching games online for about 10 years now. I've probably seen close to 1,000 at this point, but I've never once played it. I suck at RTS games and I don't have a Windows machine.

I probably know more about the game than some of the players but I have never even owned it ;-)
Google creates and implements its own privacy solution in its browser. Once released, other advertisers are behind and no longer have access to their tracking -> Google dominates the market because it delivers better ROI for advertisers because it knows how to track on Chrome because it built the privacy solution.
https://archive.is/OSlYR
I use Mac Safari exclusively except for a few sites (usually Google's products) that run terribly on it. There's nothing "iPad and iPhone" level about desktop Safari. It also happens to be much easier on the batteries than the Chrome resource hog.

> When the browser is user-friendly, Google makes money.

Nope, not at all. Google makes money when users view ads. As long as they have competition, they can't go hog wild with it but changes like those in manifest V3[1] show that ad blocking is their natural enemy - regardless of what users want.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-l...
or revolutions. tree of liberty refreshed with the blood of patriots, etc. etc.
> Trains have always had similar prices to flying.

They shouldn't though, it's absurd that they are that way in the US.
Sometimes building more is simply not feasible, in which case, you must destroy demand and have flavors of central planning (with housing prioritized for workers and existing residents, vs newcomers and tourists). The free market and fast moving capital is a paperclip maximizer, without controls and guardrails.

There is nothing wrong with destroying demand. Life isn't fair, and we can't all live where we want. If certain jurisdictions want to prioritize some flavor of affordable or stable housing for certain cohorts, that is their right.
When competitors point out the flaws and scandals in each other they're often correct.
The original was the Steel document/dossier. Most likely flow from it.

The Finn prosecution might be an exception.
That indicates that they are not rented out.

Perhaps more AirBnB's would be preferable to people just leaving housing empty? The overall solution is 'more housing', but perhaps a vacancy tax would create some incentives to not let it just sit there.
That is awesome, we need some more amazing scientists in the public eye to inspire the young. I know there are a lot of amazing scientists, but somehow need to get them on tiktok or something? Can you share the story?
Yeah, true. Amazing Work!
Until it's cheaper than flying, I don't see that it's going to get mass adoption. Because even if it did, the price would rise to equal or eclipse flying, like Amtraks DC to NYC corridor where a ticket can be more than the cost of airfare.
Same, same, and same, + currently working on one of the LHC detectors as a phd student -- but it can all be traced back to the lore of the golden age of particle physics and the discovery of Brout–Englert–Higgs boson in 2012.
So they make it worse for everyone else to support a minority of users?
Would it become so crowded that nobody goes there anymore?
The idea is that you know where your backup is (not like in the cloud). We haven't considered any legal yet. Thanks for this input.
Some of my professors during my physics BS worked with the LHC during the mad scramble to find the particle. I remember people saying tongue in cheek "The Higgs particle doesn't exist, but it's inside this energy range."
There would be tremendous pressure for any given town in the world to defect from that strategy and capture a lot of the high-end skiing visitors. That makes it virtually certain that one will and capture the disproportionate revenue and meals/lodging/services tax revenue as a reward.
Why is it bad when corporations do it, but not bad when individuals do it? Both ways means there is a young person from the community not being able to find a humble place to buy or rent.
It appears to me that Google is just matching what AWS Nitro did years ago.
Interesting: By that definition (which is very appealing, especially the "Irish" analogy), a Nigerian-born American would not count as "Black" but as "black"?
Write your code in C++, then make a python wrapper for it. Done.
You need the columnar store for both training data and batch inference data.
If you have a batch ML system that works with time series data, the feature store will help you create point in time correct training data snapshots from the mutable feature datab(no future data leakagae), as well as batch inference data.

For real-time ml systems, it give uou row oriented retrival latencies for features.

Most importantly, it helps modularize your ML system into feature pipelines training pipelines, and inference pipelines. No onolithic ML pipelines.
The sticking points for me are just the integration of Google services into Chrome itself.

I should be able to log into a website (say Google Docs) and have the browser be blissfully unaware of the semantics of being "logged in". It should do all the cookies and local storage necessary for this, but under no circumstances should this be part of the browser UI itself.

The side panel for "google search results" is worse in some ways, better in some. It's an optional feature, so that's better. But it does not allow you to disable the functionality. If people love it, sure, I don't mind Chrome adding support, but I should not have to have a non-removable "side panel" button in the main browser chrome.

The rest of the complaints here don't really bother me. Third-party cookie blocking by default would be great, but you can enable it now and I've been doing that for ages anyway, even though it sometimes breaks things.
Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans
Its a form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
A RAG system is better than a pure LLM for this usecase IMO.
If only we could build anything at all! Texas is going to grow to be the largest population state in the Union because every other one in contention decided they didn't want to build anything at all!
My phone app would work much better if Android would drop all of its security measures and just let my app access everything on the system. That would make the lives of the bunch of people who use my app much better.

It doesn't mean it's a good idea.
> Then they talk about Widevine DRM [...] I don't see how this has anything to do with the fact that Google owns Chrome?

1. Google brought DRM to the web. Before Widevine, DRMed video and audio had to rely on stuff like Adobe Flash (which was on its way out anyway). Google's large market share means they got to write the "standard" and provide the only implementation.

2. Safari can't play Spotify any more. Beers all round at the Google offices.
The money spent on that long distance alternate transport can be better spent enhancing existing short distance transport.

There is a finite pool of money that can be spent on infrastructure.

Investing on enhancing and integrating the Capitol Corridor, ACE, Caltrains, BART, Muni, and VTA into a unified system has a better RoI than a 400-500mi rail line that will most likely have a train leaving on an hourly cadence.

It's a similar story for Los Angeles and San Diego.

Flights cost around $100-200 for a round trip and take around 3 hours even factoring in security and commute to and from the airport. It would be the same length of time commuting from a railway station to the other, the railway would take 2 additional hours, and the price would be roughly comparable.
I see, that makes sense. Thanks.
>I think the one important question is how long china can compete in the race to the bottom.

Haha, China can compete in the manufacturing race to the bottom far longer than Western companies/nations can stay solvent in that race with all their unions, high wages, pensions, and worker's rights pushing their costs up.

To whit, all my mates still working in the EU automotive scene with transferable skills are trying to side hop into other industries since the wage prospects in automotive for the same jobs are getting grim now.

EU can't compete with the US on SW innovation and can't compete with China on HW cheapness and manufacturing at scale. It's being squeeze in a pincer movement at both ends and I fear we'll see more years of economic stagnation to come.
Specific to Particle physics and Peter Higgs, this book (https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/frank-close/elusive/978166...) by Frank Close is fantastic.
First open source model LLM beats GPT-4-0613 and GPT-4-0314
This 'institutional investors' thing is a symptom, not a cause:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/21-going-after-co...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/housing-cr...
The towns are outsmarting Airbnb? Or are hotels bullying small competitors?
Hot take: trains do not appeal to the American culture in the same way it does to other cultures.
I dunno. It rains a lot in Het Nederland (I remember the time I bought an umbrella in Amsterdam and had the wind turn it inside out immediately) but people bike everywhere.

I use to ride a mountain bike up and down the hill in Ithaca even when it was snowy, I felt more sure-footed on the bike than I felt on my own feet and that was after I blew my knees biking and took a year to heal enough to ride up the hill if I took a less-than-direct route.

I know they are wildly popular in Ithaca and lots of people are getting them despite our climate being less than ideal.
Hopsworks
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogism.
>Current Arc GPUs silicon is extremely unimpressive.

Compared to Nvidia and ATI, sorry I mean AMD Radeon Technologies Group, who've been at it for 30 years? Yeah, no shit they're unimpressive.

But how many other new GPU companies do you see entering the ring to challenge those two in an impressive way? <crickets chirping>
That's the flavor of it, but they didn't give us enough data to really think about. But the question stands generally for accelerators and offloads. For example would I go to a lot of trouble to exploit Intel DSA? Absolutely not, because my software mostly runs on AMD and ARM.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39980268.
Have you ever seen how big the US is?!? Rail systems work in Europe because densities are extremely high.

The closest city to the Bay Area is Sacramento which is 90mi/150km - which is the maximum distance that a commuter rail system can work between two metropolitan areas while still being cheaper than flying.

San Francisco to Los Angeles is 620-700km - so from Cologne to Prague.

Unlike that route, you'd need to be building through multiple mountain ranges in California AND there are very few cities in between to justify ridership.
column reordering is simple to fix with this migration script
https://david.rothlis.net/declarative-schema-migration-for-s...

if you are using Zig (and like to live on the bleeding edge), you can also just use my library which includes similar script and also a simple query builder
https://github.com/cztomsik/fridge?tab=readme-ov-file#migrat...
> Memory Boost for LLM Capacity Requirements: 128 gigabytes (GB) of HBMe2 memory capacity, 3.7 terabytes (TB) of memory bandwidth ...

I didn't know "terabytes (TB)" was a unit of memory bandwidth...
Lame claim to fame: Higgs was the PhD supervisor of one of my university professors. He told us that Higgs left a message on his desk before going hiking one weekend to the effect that he'd had a great idea and would tell them all about it when he got back.
I'd imagine a continuation... he is also the author of Zipline
(more?) hotel rooms need kitchenettes, or at least an option for rooms with them. That's something you typically get in an AirBNB and typically don't get in a hotel, and it makes a big difference if you're not planning to eat out for every meal.
Like parent said, the motivations might not be 100% pure, but I doubt it invalidates the whole paper.
US rules (until recently) required heavy dust stock if there was the possibility of the trains meeting, even if the don’t run at the same time.
Yeah, as long as you don’t want to change the network architecture.

Edit: and you trust that Andrei didn’t screw up anywhere while hand rolling all the gradient calculations.
i fixed a busted analog stick by opening it up and cleaning the sensor thanks to some youtube video.
You can host the bridges yourself:

https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager
How is there no comment on this article? The graphics analysis is really spot-on, and really makes sense now why NES games look the way they do.
Possibly unrelated, but I read a separate article this week on how France is leading the way on drone defense in other areas: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a60311450....

(Archived version: https://archive.is/xSz8x)
These are resident and homeowner associations that are working to pass these regulations.
On Amazon EC2, Nitro Enclaves do not share physical CPU cores with their parent instances. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/multiple-en... for details.

(Disclaimer: I work for AWS; any opinions expressed are my own.)
Cruise Robotaxis Are Back in Phoenix-But People Are Driving Them
and running their manor, in a day to day sense in many cases. the point was to maintain a military and agricultural base, and they had sizable obligations to their bosses, up to and including dying in battle.
I use iMessage, messenger/IG, WhatsApp, Snapchat and slack. Probably not much value for my specific use case.
I just partook in a finance class not too long ago and learned about the concept of an "efficient portfolio".

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_frontier

While reading this article, I saw those graphs and thought, "Where have I seen this before?"
Ask HN: Do you have a manager who will negotiate contracts for you?
I was wondering if such a thing exists outside of professional sports. Do tech people have managers who'll negotiate contracts for them to get them the best possible deal?

How do you find one? How much do they charge?
When was Hollywood not an amusement park? The 1923 Hollywood Land sign, advertising a housing tract feels like a sign that it was already an amusement park by then. I grew up in Orange County and had no desire to ever go to Hollywood; Disneyland was just as fake, and much closer. :P
Sure, ski towns have always been dependent on tourism. And the 5000 sq ft mountainside mansions have always been unaffordable for most people living there. But the difference is that there used to be affordable housing for the people who live and work there full time. Short-term rentals have massively changed the financial calculus.
The good news is that when we throw the tourists out, we get to keep the double glazing!

Unfortunately STRs have put lots of money into the pockets of the otherwise not very cash rich middle classes in Portugal, so it is hard to get them to vote to turn the money taps off, even if it means their children can no longer get rooms above their favorite downtown coffee shop while studying. Much easier to blame digital nomads / rich foreigners / poor immigrants, and vote for Chega.
Fixed costs until it needs to be maintained.
> Regardless, the internet might benefit from Chrome being an independent company of its own.

I'd love to hear why you think that is. It feels to me that the web benefits and has benefitted a ton from Google's investment in Chrome and newer standards. Chrome itself doesn't make any money and so I fear to me that splitting it out would leave it scrambling for a revenue source and that there would be far less investment in it then there currently is.

It feels like keeping the threat of antitrust action on Chrome is a more effective way of keeping them in line. I don't see much abuse from their dominant position (in the browser space, search is another question) so far, but making it clear that regulators are watching them closely is IMO the best way to ensure interests align.
If only we had a range of options for people to choose from, rather than assuming one solution will satisfy everyone.
Author here, happy to answer any questions!

TL;DR we're sharing an open-source encryption key recovery protocol that provides high security coupled with a user-friendly design, to make encryption further accessible to larger numbers of people. What we've built leverages programmable HSMs, distributed cryptography, and a user-friendly PIN-based recovery process to simplify key recovery without compromising security.
But that industry is soooo massive, and such a huge economic force, and is kind of built on the idea of Constructing Fantasy, so it _makes sense_ that the Hollywood neighborhood is like this.

I have no numbers to back this up, so feel how you will about this comment, but I’m sure the STR economy does not create much more than income for the single homeowner, and makes it _harder_ for these sudden AirBnB boom towns to build an economy beyond more than renting rooms.
can you elaborate? I was living under impression that what sqlite has, is exactly what covering index is...
This is just a lie. They funded and armed separatists in this area which predictably led to armed conflict. When the conflict they started shed blood they had pretense to intervene. There was NEVER a genocide against ethnic Russians just a fight they started.
>> Unrelated but I’ve taken a very hard stance personally on buying anything Chinese and have just accepted that it may mean being stuck with inferior technology.<<

LFP is mostly for cheaper, low-range EVs or stationary energy storage systems (ESS). The rest of the world already have access to high-energy/nickel lithium batteries, namely NCM/NCA, for mid/high EVs. LFP is like old spindle drive HDD (LFP) vs SSD (NCM/A).

That being said I'm not opposed to LFP -- it makes sense if you could get a cheap EV or ESS based on LFP.
There is only one truth. Russia started a war of aggression to seize territory.
Your observation is so obvious that it should make you wonder whether you're making an insightful and helpful criticism -- or just failing to comprehend that not all sentences are literal, and rhetorical flourishes are a thing. For god's sake, prose is not code.
I think some discussion is warranted - an unoccupied house still cost infrastructure dollars.

The tradeoff for those infrastructure investments is usually individual(s) who participates in some degree with their community and city.

An AirBNB takes up most of the same cost of infrastructure with the community footing the bill.
Confidential Computing is used when you want to protect data and processes against the platform. The platform owner has basically full control and visibility of what is happening around the Secure Enclave.
This is a good point. When we travelled in Europe last summer 2 out of our 4 hotels (one in France and one in Switzerland) had kitchens in them, and it made a huge difference for a 5-6 day stay..

I've only seen this on rare occasions in North America
This isn't limited to the US. For the trip distances we're talking about here European trains are often just as expensive as flying if not more so.
AI is transforming student selection in university
It’s equivalent to about thirteen football fields per arn if that helps.
> there must be a BALANCE, and not this recent trend of automating EVERYTHING, which takes the self-reliance thing to its logical extreme.

On one hand though, would self-reliance also imply that people were responsible for actively seeking out social interactions like you're describing? I'm sort of confused when it comes to describing where the locus of control is when we're talking about these things.
Pick a good IDE, set it to the most pedantic mode you can, and work on the code until there are no errors, no warnings, and only acceptable info notifications.

Have a good test suite with realistic scenarios. Add more to that all of the time.

Get outside feedback on whether you documentation and diagrams are readable and keep them up to date.

If you can do that, you can write mission critical code.
You don't get it. It's worth destroying these towns to get as much tourism money as possible, because with all that money, the rental owners can finally retire to a nice quiet ski town somewhere.
Can you name me one thing chrome does that can't be done in safari or firefox?
Saros (Astronomy)
This is interesting. GNU inherits a lot from ITS, DDT and Emacs openness, where they had no security at all and you could edit the files from the whole system and import processes locally and over the network.The security there was to behave like a lady/gentelman and help/get helped.
Also, crackers weren't interested as everyone could see everything users where doing at any moment. Data security? Restoring from tapes.

By setting up an open system on top of a permissions bound system (Unix) having limitations as an user looks really weird and with full of rough edges everywhere, with limited permissions even to mount a hard disk image.
Namespaces in Hurd (+ maybe guix) solve that by giving the user lots of freedom to install and share whatever it wants without breaking a system.
JSON is not a language, it's a data representation. Nix data is equivalent to JSON, except Nix also has a "path" datatype.
Very cool.

Is there an English translation?

Can I buy something like this in the US? Are there places I could legally park something like this in the US?
If only some of those options weren't wrecking communities and driving up housing costs for the locals!
the cool thing with sqlite is that you can compile your whole app into a single binary, so you don't need docker for example (or it's trivial to dockerize it afterwards if you really insist)
Is there an open protocol any device makers can use to support this?
Lots of tourists seem to be part of an exclusive club of people who visit this authentic small town by the sea-side.

It’s a contradiction, if you pander to it your town is inauthentic, if you don’t people complain that you don’t build enough.

Towns should build sacrificial fake downtowns and really pour on the Disneyland vibes just to get tourists to bugger off.