skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really is not enough. Now that they have been publicly embarrassed and the clause is common knowledge they really have to undo the mistake. If they didn't, they would look like a horrible employer and employees would start valuing their stock at $0, dropping their effective compensations by a ton and then people will leave. Given the situation, undoing the agreement is an act of basic self-preservation at this point.

The documents show this really was not a mistake and "I didn't know what the legal documents I signed meant, which specifically had a weird clause that standard agreements don't" isn't much of a defence either. The whole thing is just one more point in favor of how duplicitous the whole org is, there are many more.
> And any pretense that Epic is doing this for anyone other than, or in addition to, Epic went out the window during the Apple trial when Sweeney admitted on the stand that had Apple offered Epic, and only Epic, a sweetheart deal, he would’ve gladly taken it in a heartbeat.

I don't observe any pretense that Epic is doing any of this _for the greater good_. Epic is correct in that what they want to see change can benefit others.

Epic deserves all the money they make from digital purchases. They shouldn't have to share 30% of _every_ transaction with app stores just because the creators of those app stores force everyone to use them. It can be both. It's not wrong for Epic to support changes that also happen to benefit everyone while also prioritizing their own goals.
I decided to switch to Emacs reading this too. I was a fervent of the Vim church, but now I see the light.
Bill Gates has been a long-time fan of Sal Khan. In fact, I first learned about Sal Khan over a decade ago when online publications reported that Bill Gates was using Sal's videos to teach his kids.
> A little googling suggests the U.S. support for Ukraine is 1.5% of our federal budget, which is crazy high if you think about it.

Isn't it surprising how little this mountain of money achieves? It just slows down Russia at the unsustainable cost of Ukrainian lives.

Maybe US budget is so huge for other reasons than their military prowess? Maybe everything US does is just vastly overpriced for its value? Could American military be even more overpriced than American healtcare?
To be clear I'm saying he's an effective accelerationist not an effective altruist.
B-21 Raider continues flight test, production
Yeah you do have to wonder if this is destined for enshittification at some point. It does seem a bit to good to be true.
I have a wide monitor. I could have a Netflix movie playing in a side browser window when I want privacy. It'll be fun to mess with it.
> We're removing nondisparagement clauses from our standard departure paperwork

How would you interpret this part?

> and we're releasing former employees from existing nondisparagement obligations unless the nondisparagement provision was mutual.

This is interesting - was it mutual for most people?
Yeah, I always assume that I'm the one whose presence is at best a privilege. It takes a lot of effort to take my proper place and stand up for myself. I'll never forgive them for putting this curse inside of me. Now words got out of what they did to me and my sisters and they pretty much have to hide. They deserve everything bad happening to them.
>Maybe the answer here is to actually have a social safety net at the national level, instead of trying to shuffle people around in exactly the same way that hasn't accomplished anything useful since before the Dust Bowl.

This is not a realistic goal, and it would still result in homeless people gathering in cities.

>The motivation isn't 'economic sense', it's not dying when sleeping outside in a cold snap.

There is an entire southern half of the country where that won't happen.
Absolutely, Blender and Fusion 360 are powerful but definitely tough for beginners. It’s great to hear that tools like these can serve as a good entry point into more complex programs. Thanks for sharing your perspective!
Paying people >MPL doesn't work. The math just doesn't work.

You can't hire people and pay them less than their output.

If you tax Amazon more because they hire low skilled workers then the MPL of each low skill worker decrease. Does that increase or decrease the incentive to hire these people? what happens to the price of labor when demand drops?

If your options are pay a worker more than they produce or pay a similar amount in tax, aggregate wages will go down, not up.
"Them" refers to "important protections".

Epic's proposal forbids Google from doing as little as displaying any kind of warning that a side loaded app or store could be malicious.
I found “Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving” extremely revelatory. It was a great introduction to the concept for me.

Funnily enough, I picked up up thinking this stuff was nonsense. Then it hit me like a bag of bricks. It was very humbling.

Since then I’ve also found writing by James Hollis very useful. One which stood out for me was “Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men”. It’s quite insightful about how modern life can afflict men, and how men can learn, adapt, and overcome these challenges. It’s refreshingly well-rounded and takes seriously the idea that men can suffer just as women do, patriarchy or not (and even because of it), and offers tools to work towards making things right.

In general his work is a great stepping stone from understanding CPTSD to then finding more nuanced models of the internal mechanisms, how to understand and articulate them, then ultimately grow beyond them. Some may find the Jungian psychology overwhelming or off-putting (I did initially), but there is real substance there.
Surprised Gemini Flash isn't included
I certainly don’t want Ticketmaster to be a monopoly. Why should consumers be forced to buy tickets from them?
BLUE_CHANNEL: THALASIN [video]
My interpretation is that the idea is that third-party app stores could, for example, support updating an app installed by another app store.
Really depends on what you mean by "actual choking". In at least one study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9333342/), 46% of women who've been choked reported struggling to breathe.
This analysis sounds very "smart" but in my opinion, contains little of substantial value.

Just make something a lot of people want, but can't currently get. That's the recipe.
Yup - “SIBR Mills”
The Federal government has very complex and specific rules for buying things. It’s a big, important market but hard to crack. Thus the most successful players tend to be really good at selling to the government… regardless of whether they’re really good at what the government needs.

The government knows this and thus tries to create programs that streamline the process while retaining sufficient controls to steward tax payer funds effectively. SIBR is one such program. They’re useful, but not immune to exploitation by sales specialists.
This is an accurate description of what my large R1 research university did after Covid to maintain enrollment. It’s a heavily tuition driven place without the tens of billions of endowment dollars an Ivy has.

They “opened the floodgates” to students to maintain enrollment, in the words of a colleague. People who would have been denied without a second thought pre-COVID were admitted. The acceptance rate went from 40%-50% to 80%+. (Numbers are approximate.)

Accepting these students required adding two levels (at least!) of remedial math below what used to be the absolute last resort, “should you really be in college?” remedial math class we had pre covid. These new classes basically taught middle school level material or lower.

Nearly all of the students taking those classes don’t belong in college bc they are totally unqualified to do college level work. It’s irresponsible to admit them, charge them $200,000, then graduate them as heavily indebted but basically high school educated adults. They have no skills.

I can’t make up for their failure to learn math in (as this author correctly says) 5th - 12th grade.

I make this comment to note that the situation hasn’t changed.

Also: to the extent that anyone is looking for villains on student debt (overall the “crisis” is overblown but there absolutely are students who get screwed), blame the universities which admit unqualified students and also the high schools and middle schools which utterly failed them.

Also blame our failure to pay math teachers more than PE teachers. There are a lot of villains. The system is horrible.
The better question is: why only one leading zero.
Steam provides lots of very valuable data for free, online, without restriction, to anyone who bothers to check about its millions of users. Pray tell, whom was harmed?
For all practical matters it is xterm that has become the standard.

Like with web browsers, it is irrelevant what the standard states. The only thing that matters is that it displays correctly with the most popular / authoritative browser.
>They say "any and all third party app stores." Does that include app stores the user hasn't installed

I don't see how it would even be feasible to share this data with non-installed stores, not to mention it being completely ridiculous.
Needle in a haystack when you’ve opened and closed several hundred tabs and you’re trying to find some random fact you ran across a week or two ago.
The number that matters in a meaningful way is the % of the people in need who can reasonably access the promised amounts.

That figure excludes the millions of people who meet the guidelines discussed here but are serially denied by state agencies, across months and years. It also excludes millions more who are awarded aid (and categorized as such) but whose benefits total a few tens of dollars.

Florida can represent most of those numbers all by itself, as my earlier posts can attest. Most people here in the 0-30k bracket will be denied SNAP or any other aid.

Me and my own kids lived in and out of hunger for a decade; we were unceasingly denied SNAP by CPS. But mine were a few hungry kids among millions and millions, it makes our family story unremarkable.

FL is far from an outlier.

There massive swaths of the US containing millions of people that are unable to access food aid - no matter the need. Implications otherwise do not represent truth.
I know nothing about Zig, but this is pretty interesting and looks well designed. Linus was recently very mad when someone suggested a new semantics for overflow:

——
I'm still entirely unconvinced.

The thing is, wrap-around is not only well-defined, it's common, and
EXPECTED.

Example:

static inline u32 __hash_32_generic(u32 val)
{
return val * GOLDEN_RATIO_32;
}

and dammit, I absolutely DO NOT THINK we should annotate this as some
kind of "special multiply".
—-

Full thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi5YPwWA8f5RAf_Hi8iL0NhGJ...
Don't forget Samsung's fabs in South Korea.

Wikipedia maintains a list of semiconductor fabs worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat....
Right you are, shadow government
The Python Calendar Module: Create Calendars with Python
not a typo. it's the fiscal year 2025.

https://www.xero.com/us/glossary/fiscal-year/
I just switched from hyprland (due to those toxicity articles) back to KDE, and was pleasantly surprised at how much better these scrollable WMs are. I use Karousel[1] which is actually implemented as a KWin script, amazingly.

[1] https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel
While we're talking spiders, here's a book recommendation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel) (it's a fantastic novel, if you have any interest at all don't spoil it for yourself)
It's weird, but I get where it's coming from at least. You have a "smart" device, they don't have a public api (because), they have an app, but using the app requires google play services.

It's not a choice between "google app store" and "3rd party app store", it's a choice between "have a phone that can access my devices, my bank, my credit card, etc" and "have a phone that can do nothing except browse the internet and make calls".
It feels like the S3 Team has managed to avoid chasing the marginal user with features. A great example of restraint. It does beg the question of whether the system could be improved in other areas like optimizations to reduce price.
I concur. If you are -asking- this question, then VC startup isn't for you.

If you are asking this question, then bootstrapping really isn't for you.

That's OK. There are these 3 very different employment models for a reason. They appeal to different people. Neither is better than the others.

While the original question is about immediate financial reward, that's only one part of the equation. Other parts include risk, control, secureness, impact, potential etc.

Ultimately the path for you depends on your personal value to each attribute. For the best possible returns, at lowest risk, go be an employee. For most control, good potential, mid-risk, bootstrap. For high risk, massive potential (but most likely implosion) go VC.
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One two-region bucket would be cheaper than two one-region buckets. I’ve done analyses of similar systems and calculated the costs necessary.

You pay for durability and availability in the form of disk overhead, CPU, and network. Each encoding scheme has some expected cost. If your overhead for one-region is $X per gigabyte, then generally speaking, the overhead for two-region is going to be less than $2X—each region is more durable + available because of the copy stored in the other region.
If China tries Taiwan, all hell will erupt. "From above so below," as it were. Best for China (and Taiwan) if China relaxes a bit.

Seriously. Chill with this cold war posturing. The toys are too dangerous, with too little visibility or oversight.
I am still absolutely baffled that Intel won't YOLO with a 32GB A770.
It's striking that this is only used on the lander to keep it warm until the rover deploys. Seems overkill if the lander is only used briefly.
I think it's because Epic doesn't want to be a "second" app store. They want users to be able to completely throw away the Play store, use the Epic store and still get every app that has one of those "Get it on Google Play" badges which to users just means "works on Android."
MSFT went sideways for like a decade too. Who knows... Intel is doing something the others aren't with building its own fabs. Which arguably carries a lot of risk but it could pay off.
> The cloud AI tools all burn hideous amounts of money, all ran at a loss.

Press X to doubt.

I highly doubt if ChatGPT API is losing money. Yes, I've read claims saying so. No, I haven't seen a credible one. And it's getting cheaper and cheaper, currently even faster than Moore's law (gpt-4o is 6x cheaper than gpt-4).
In my 1 year of experience with Azure 3 years ago I saw this same story play out across every product line. Layers 1-3 look amazing then layers 4-6 are total head scratcher deal breakers. Very frustrating.
I find sleeping on a plane more comfortable with a seat belt on actually. I hook my thumbs into it and it gives me more support for my hands and arms.

Might not be great for my thumbs in that kind of situation though...
I'm fine with that. All protection laws and subsidies for meat and dairy should disappear. They are huge in the US.
It's super american-centric too. For a "decentralized" platform that basically covers 2 small areas of the world is not a good sign. I feel like Bluesky had done nothing to address discoverability and sharing issues. Most engagement is centralized with 1% of shitposters.

From listening to a podcast with the founder it seems that's their goal too as they want to integrate bluesky with e-commerce which obviously doesn't work well globally.
Have you ever scrolled back in your shell window or looked at your browser history?

Heck, every once in awhile I dig into Google Maps to see where I was on a certain day. (You do know that Android phones track where you've been and you can look it up, right?)
That's why I clarified using "generally popular". I mean more like "keeping with today's mores", which is admittedly a moving target in the long term.
Mentioned this in another comment, but there are pretty good implementations of tiling window managers as kwin scripts inside kwin. I've been using Karousel and it's been great, coming straight from Hyprland.

I use a plasma widget called "Command Output" to replicate most of what I needed from waybar, and set up Breeze to not have title bars, and added a plugin to get rounded window corners, and I don't miss hyprland at all anymore.
Most stuff not easy to describe in a few blurbs, imho.

Here’s an article (gift link, so no paywall) that describes the whole situation:

https://wapo.st/4dNEf0z

Good interview with Jon Stewart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDTiWaYfcM

Simple examples are:

- Kroger and Albertson’s (grocery stores)

- Illumina and Grail (cancer detection)

- Amazon for dark patterns regarding signing up for prime, and for privacy violations with Alexa and Ring

- Lost challenge to Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard (good to look into, not sure about the specific case)

- FTC released a framework for anti-trust that should be a regulatory win.
How would any nation stop it? And why would you want a nation to have so much control over speech that they could stop all deceptive content?

The problem isn't the nation. It's the cheap availability of software that produces lies at enormous, convincing scale. No one says "don't blame the tool" when talking about bombs. AI is a social bomb.
Social contagion affects girls and women much more than boys and men.

> It doesn't take therapy or a bunch of trauma ideology to know that hurting people is wrong.

If that simple explanation is true, why do the abused so frequently become the abusers? And why do they struggle to stop before therapy?
Of course it should be footed by the taxpayer, ie you and me. If you don't want to pay the tax, then you hire these wokers for more than Amazon pays them.

Why is Amazon the bad guy here? If these workers are productive at $30/hr why hasn't someone hired them already?

I'm the one that should be taxed. I'm not sure I could make them productive in my business for $10/hr, or even $1.
Wait they promised to not adopt the cancerous function coloring approach in wasm. Please tell me they didn't follow the dark path of JS
> Epic is fighting so they can fuck you in place of google.

I'm under no illusion that Epic is doing this for any other reason than profit but that is structurally impossible. Google owns the OS, in my personal case makes the phone I use and runs about half of the essential services on it. The worst thing Epic can make me do is not to play Fortnite.

Anything that annoys Google and makes Epic happy is, given that dynamic, likely competition and market enhancing.
I have always heard this pronunciation in American English when referring to the vice.
Open-source platform for building AI agents that can collaborate & use tools
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They don't. It's stored on your computer. Go read the article.

(It's not like MS downloads everything on your hard drive.)
Agree. Or, put another way, "How is this fun?"
I think your perspective might be...tainted. I kid, I kid. But typically it's spelled "perineum" just fyi. I'd be interested in seeing a non-crank source for your assertion. Everything I've read suggests that it'll likely be inflation-neutral or slightly reduce inflation over the next 10 years. Even if spending on it gets up to a trillion dollars over a ten year span, you're still talking about one tenth of what gets spent on defense contractors and the military every year.
If we were forced to use only selected, most popular languages to communicate and ban all others, everyone would have to speak Mandarin, Spanish, and English. And the world would never know the Quran, the Bible, Arabian Nights, the Epic of Gilgamesh, War and Peace, the Ramayana, or the Divine Comedy.

There are some good examples of applications that are specifically written in Clojure and would be quite difficult to replicate in other PLs - Roam Research and Logseq, XTDB and Datomic, Nextjournal and Precursor.

> And the worst reason of all to make a language is anything aesthetic

Interestingly, people avoid learning Lisp, because it doesn't look "sexy enough" the first time they see it.
I think GP means to buy nvidia products. Not to buy the company.
How to find hidden cameras in an Airbnb, according to a security expert
Tensor Memory Bypass Cache?
It seems to me that there is a good speedup possible if the GPU and HBM had
a 'cache bypass'. That is, there are likely a large number of frequent matrix
multiplies that could be computed by hardware lookup rather than an actual
multiply. Such a pre-multiply cache would free up more of the actual multiply
hardware, substituting the cache response for the result.

This 'memoizing' trick is widely used in compute-intensive situations but I'm
unaware of any GPU/HBM hardware to support this.

Given that the multiplies are now computing 4 or 8 bit results this seems like
a reasonable number of matrix multiplies could be cached.
Yemen's Houthis can range Mediterranean ships, Pentagon says
You are comparing miles to number of taxis, and some vague frequency of accidents vs an inexact statistic. I appreciate you trying, but I believe accident statistics are normally based on "per million vehicle miles traveled". If you're trying to make a statistic, you should probably use that basis.
> The debuggabilty of those classes is kinda nasty tho.

It’s not too bad as long as you have the gdb pretty-printers installed, and explicitly instantiate each of the member functions for each of the template specializations that you use, and link against a debug libstdc++ with bounds checking enabled, and… okay fair point.
I don't even know whether "a company's value proposition" in text actually represents its value proposition.
I think someone at MS hit their head on the toilet...
> The Houthis also hit at least one Israeli-linked commercial vessel in the Indian Ocean, some 300 miles east of the coast of Africa, in late April, and have claimed to have staged several other attacks on ships there.

On May 3, Houthi spokesperson Yahia Saree warned the campaign would soon target vessels sailing to Israel from the Mediterranean, while vowing to expand attacks in the Indian Ocean.

"There's really no precedent for the use of anti-ship ballistic missiles, the way they are doing it," the senior US defense official said, adding, "It's a kind of maritime terrorism that the entire world has an interest in seeing brought to a close."