skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not a term, it’s a phrase. It means “open source advocates who are being honest about their advocacy”, in case you really need such a degree of clarification.

I’ve met honest open source advocates before and, once again, they would be unlikely to refute the fact that “open source” was invented in explicit contrast to “free software” to achieve corporate palatability.

The comment you are responding to was literally responding to a comment which validated this exact sentiment.

As to providing evidence, those of us who were there at the time don’t need any and those of you who weren’t ought to seek some. It’s not my job to link to the nearly infinite number of conversations where this obvious dynamic played out.
Which things in this article are actually specific statements from intel as opposed to assertions from some rando at the verge?

like the assertion that intel won’t warranty the processors isn’t actually anything intel has said, as far as I can see. And it contradicts more direct statements to partners that they will.
:-)

Let us support the fellow human who seems to be just at the first of the five stages of grief: denial.
By this time next year it's not unreasonable to think Google DeepMind will know "all the math".
Because the EU values their citizens privacy tech may leave. Personally I could live with that if that is the result of my privacy being protected.
I haven't heard that perspective before, can you elaborate?
Well, the most confusing part of linux is definitely the audio stack. Thanks for the writeup.
Technically this works in Scheme, but not in Lisp.

In Common Lisp one would need to write

(funcall (if (< 1 0) (function +) (function *)) 42 100)
I see what you're doing is submitting shapes over the wire. That's a bit different than what a pixel art application has to do, unless we were doing like color fill and stuff, which it doesn't support. Every pixel you draw it shows your name next to the square, too, so it's not like "draw a shape and submit" kinda thing.

regarding storage of the log, compression is a thing :)
???

Um, sabotaging any city's water tunnels would make the city uninhabitable for years.

Most frightening experience I ever had as engineer in my life:

I was intern. At a place in a midwestern city where a city's water infrastructure can be monitored. Long story short, I heard "PING". Then three more "PING"s. Then another "PING". Then 2 more. Even as an idiot intern, I knew what the implications were with respect to tensioned concrete. I was thinking in my head, "8 feet diameter. 96 inches." But I couldn't remember the PSI because I probably had already soiled myself. Thankfully there was a grey beard there who coolly looked over at me and said, "Probably want to start shutting that down son."

2 things I learned. Calm is contagious. And our infrastructure is way more frail than should be the case.
The most interesting one is https://store.steampowered.com/app/774541/Species_Artificial... but that doesn't actually do abiogenesis, it starts with a "primordial" species.

There are older games (don't have my steam account on my work computer) that have much simpler starting states but they are abandoned or just not worth the price.

"I wrote a program to evolve life" is a super popular toy programming challenge as well, and you can find good and bad examples on youtube.
Normally I wouldn't upvote a reply like this, but here in the US I got this one instead:

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I had to disable Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection in order to proceed. This is the first time since that feature was rolled out that I've had to remember where they put that disable switch.

EDIT: This isn't just a generic error handler, there's a specific piece of code that detects if their analytics provider loaded or not and shows that message if it didn't load. More details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41082004
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Stop looking for a nextjs programmer and look for a JS/fullstack one. Nextjs is a tiktok framework
Not everybody uses social networks; not all radicals plan assassinations.
> I though it was clever, and I was a bit enamored when I first heard it (having come from a C# background). Now, I think implicit interfaces are simply, obviously right.

What, no. No, implicit interfaces are not right. They are a footgun. That you provide some interface needs to be declared. I dislike unnecessary ceremony as much as anyone, but this is necessary ceremony.
If you learn AVX2 programming via highload, my impression is that NEON is quite similar. The main difference is the lack of movemask. You can read these[0] articles[1] about what to do instead.

For SVE, prior to very recent versions of SVE, there was no tblq (pshufb equivalent) so I didn't have much hope for using it for general-purpose programming, though of course it would be fine for stuff like TFA.

[0]: https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/infrastructu...

[1]: https://www.corsix.org/content/whirlwind-tour-aarch64-vector...
Remember the only reason Intel and AMD can sell these chips is because they have complex licenses that allow each other’s “IP”.

I am positive these companies will NOT (at least not both of them) give mainland China based companies a blank check to their IP.

They can do that after they return all our sweet, sweet free government money Intel got in the U.S. for so many decades.
> no innovation

So all innovation requires you to capture user's data for profit via advertisement or data brokerage?
Boeing asks suppliers for decade-long titanium paper trail; forgery check widens
And the "I'm out" camp which I'm part of now
The appropriateness of each approach is very much a function of what is being modeled and the corresponding consequences for error.
> Sometimes you get used to it and you know it's them again.

You are using the colloquial versions of "know", and "is".
Could articles like this bemoaning Europe's state of regulation be opinion pieces?

What if what Europe does is a good idea for the people but just inconvenient for companies?

Europe is one of the power houses of the world but with low self-esteem I am afraid. In the long term what matters is the people's quality of life and diversity.

Take China or the US: if a lot of people don't have purchasing power and leisure who are then buying stuff for themselves as end users?
I've used both in some papers and report two results (why not?). The golden rule in my mind is to fully describe your process and assumptions, then let the reader decide.
or y'know make it _opt in_ instead of making basically hiding it so if you don't know, you're just gonna be part of the experiment
Reminds me of a similar story where 5 military men were on ground zero underneath an aerial nuclear detonation to prove its safety.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/07/16/156851175/f...
Why PHP? Just HTML, CSS and a bit of JS if needed
SpaceX's Falcon 9 cleared to return to space, FAA says
The core issue with the DMA is that there is no kind of pre-vetting or assurances available. This is combined with a very wide set of interpretations from a vague set of texts. We've already seen the DMA being waged against a scenario which Margrethe Vestager¹ herself had originally stated would be an ideal outcome of the DMA.²

When 10% of global revenue is on the line it makes adequate sense to tread carefully with EU releases until there is some legal precedent. (And 20% if the EU finds that compliance isn't being met.)

Margrethe Vestager has stated that withholding features is proof of anti-competitive behaviour. Such a statement would be hilarious if it wasn't so obviously preordained, and patently tone-deaf from the consequences of her own statements.

So what's the end game for the EU? In theory this should allow local and small competitors to fill the void since they're not beholden to the DMA. My expectation is that it'll just be the EU perpetually several steps behind the rest of the world and some types of tech involvement only available via US-based purchases/import basis.

¹ Margrethe Vestager: "I would like to have a Facebook in which I pay a fee each month, but I would have no tracking and advertising and the full benefits of privacy." https://www.euractiv.com/section/competition/interview/vesta...

² Facebook and Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ ad model violates the DMA, says the EU https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/1/24189796/eu-meta-dma-viola...
Not sure why this is being downvoted, as it’s mentioned peripherally in the article. I think it’s primary used as an extreme example of a model where the inner mechanism is entirely inscrutable.
Zappa in New York… it is truly amazing to me how exceptionally skilled his ensemble his. Without exaggeration, that’s one of the most skilled ensembles I’ve ever heard, and I’m not just talking rock music.
while we use it a lot apple is not our tech market.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-arrests-russian-born-...

Russia
Yes that was the convention, for all plays, and in film today it's decidedly not (not to mention, films.. aren't plays, and that in itself is a deviation).

I didn't express any preference for any particular aesthetic. Everyone has them, but it's neither here nor there.
> Could articles like this bemoaning Europe's state of regulation be opinion pieces?

I agree with the broader idea that a lot of this stuff is PR from vested interests, but this case it's not really secret, since the news outlet categorizes it as:

> Argument - An expert's point of view on a current event.
Whenever something changes on the screen while reading Reader Mode gets activated immediately and without remorse.
You don't like ANY of it? Not even Apostrophe / Overnite Sensation?!
Uh, normal ecosystems are rarely what humans would call balanced for long. There are regular die offs, population booms and busts, plagues, etc, all the time in untouched ecosystems. (Hell, just look at ‘red tides’).

Some human impacts make things worse, some make things better - depending on the criteria used.

For instance, draining swamps is a classic human behavior that dramatically decreases disease vectors. It also removes habitat for a large swath of animals, including alligators.

Overall a good thing, or a bad thing?

It’s rare that things like frequency of car or truck traffic has much bearing itself, though making roads definitely can.
Are you just counting on others being too exhausted to bring yet another moot argument to its predetermined conclusion?

I'll finish it to save everyone some time:

A: how much of gdp is facilitated through the search abilities of meta and google, though?

B: It doesn't matter.

A: Why not?

B: There will be someone else who is willing to play by the local rules fulfilling the same function in their place, just like in many countries around the world already.
Buses and trucks break down all the time in Manhattan bridges and tunnels.
They can use any cookies required for providing services without having to ask users at all.

They do need to ask for cookies meant to siphon off people's data for all other purposes.
My old office was decorated with a picture of an art installation which was a house painted entirely white, even the palm trees. Someplace east LA. But in front there was a bus with a huge Marvel whatever advert pasted on the side passing by.
What? Maybe in a very specific context where you are modeling joint distributions of people and traits, but that’s barely a critique of the method itself.
Yeah, can't exactly try this at work as is.
Hmm. America can't even do anything about 100k deaths from Chinese fentanyl. Thanks to bigcorps China and Russia are more powerful and there is anything anybody could do.
This is, of course, nonsense.

The Paris bid was submitted in 2015, and remained the only one in 2017 (a few cities pulled out in 2016-2017, the last one in February 2017), getting officially ratified in September 2017.

Macron was elected in May 2017, two years after the Parisian bid was submitted, and months after it remained the only one.
Remember that ASCII is short for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange".

base64 was proposed in 1987 to work with ASCII, EBCDIC, and other character encodings.
I use arch linux and have never had an issue with pairing bluetooth with anything. In fact, imho, it works much smoother than Windows because I keybind bluetoothctl to connect to any bluetooth headphones, speakers, keyboard or whatever automatically using their bluetooth device IDs. To do this you must first pair them (I use the blueman-manager gui) and then get their bluetooth device ids and keybind the bluetoothctl command. All of this is easy to do by asking ChatGPT. Hope this helps.
Of course. The best approach for a particular problem depends on your best judgment.

I guess that means I'm in the pragmatist school in this article's nomenclature (I'm a big fan of Gelman and all the other stats folks there), but what one thinks is pragmatic is also subjective.
In San Francisco it's common to not own a car, since parking is expensive and often not available and insurance is high also. At one point in the mid-90s I vaguely remember the ticket for parking illegally was less than the average parking space, until the city realized it. But SF is very small, so public transit/Uber/etc gives you many options to get around. Where I live now, if you have no car you go nowhere.
No but between Apple and Google they are the foundation of mobility.

And if they are not going to bring AI SDKs to the EU because of the regulatory risk then an entire class of potential startups will never exist.
They are probably paying the city revenue.
Yes, the case would be stronger with specific examples. However, I did not find it alienating, as examples of these 6 myths readily come to mind. We see people appeal to expertise all the time, rather than using their expertise to explain. There are lots of examples of people trying to "solve" economics problems rather than, as Thomas Sowell puts it, realizing that there are no solutions but only trade-offs.
Puzzmo Typeshift is a similar game: https://www.puzzmo.com/play/typeshift/
In other words - classic regulatory capture.
Why the Democrats Lost Tech and How to Win It Back
How do I know whether this link is safe or not?
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It's worth it for me, for what it's worth. I have a pile of server applications that I can seamlessly upgrade and rollback and not worry about clashing dependency versions on my root OS.

IMO, using containers on a server is a bit like using Flatpak for your desktop apps. You can have a stable, well-configured base and still run the cutting edge stuff pre-packaged in a convenient way.
I guess you could say it technically is a conspiracy. But it's a well documented and publicised one.

https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-s...

> And what if I told you that the free market is the most powerful cultural force in the US, and TV/film studios produce content in ways they think will make the most money?

These DEI products fail all the time. The most recent Star Wars series is a great example. These failures are also well documented in every TV show/movie where the critics score and the audience score are miles apart on rotten tomatoes.
if you need butter you don't go to the market? i'm confused, how do you live? you only consume when something show up on your instagram feed?!
I don't agree with the exaggeration in the parent comment, but your one counter-example pivoted their workforce expansion to the US after openly criticizing Sweden's business environment. They took issue with the shortage of employee housing due to over-regulated planning restrictions, unfavorable taxation of stock options, and a lack of programming and development education. Those issues (less so education) are applicable throughout the majority of the EU.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/spotify-founders-blast-swedens-...
Atari to bring retro games onchain with Base
It's far more innocuous is what I meant. It causes little harm to most.
Yes but there are cases where the accused may not even be a citizen. Also Switzerland still has a provision with other countries for allowing Swiss citizens to be tried in Switzerland for crimes committed abroad.
This statement is correct only on a very basic, fundamental sense, but it disregards the research practice. Let's say you're a mathematician who studies analysis or algebra. Sure, technically there is no fundamental reason for constructive logic and classical logic to "compete", you can simply choose whichever one is useful for the problem you're solving, in fact {constructive + lem + choice axioms} will be equivalent to classical math, so why not just study constructive math since it's higher level of abstraction and you can always add those axioms "later" when you have a particular application.

In reality, on a human level, it doesn't work like that because, when you have disagreements on the very foundations of your field, although both camps can agree that their results do follow, the fact that their results (and thus terminology) are incompatible makes it too difficult to research both at the same time. This basically means, practically speaking, you need to be familiar with both, but definitely specialize in one. Which creates hubs of different sorts of math/stats/cs departments etc.

If you're, for example, working on constructive analysis, you'll have to spend tremendous amount of energy on understanding contemporary techniques like localization etc just to work around a basic logical axiom, which is likely irrelevant to a lot of applications. Really, this is like trying to understand the mathematical properties of binary arithmetic (Z/2Z) but day-to-day studying group theory in general. Well, sure Z/2Z is a group, but really you're simply interested in a single, tiny, finite abelian group, but now you need to do a whole bunch of work on non-abelian groups, infinite groups, non-cyclic groups etc just to ignore all those facts.
I don't get this article.

Title is "Europe Is in Danger of Regulating Its Tech Market Out of Existence".

But then the subtitle says "Poorly designed laws are forcing *global firms* to leave." (emphasis mine)

Then you see a picture of an Apple Vision Pro. I've only skimmed through the article and there are 11 mentions of Apple and 12 mentions of Meta, then some mentions of X and such. These aren't even "global" firms, they are all American ones.

If anything, it sounds like they may be regulating away US products from the European market, and that's a big "maybe", which is different from what I understood from the title they chose.
I’m living in Europe, I'm deeply disappointed by the current situation. The problems run much deeper than just regulations; they extend far beyond politics.

1. VCs outright avoid investing in deep tech, with only rare exceptions.

2. Founders overwhelmingly choose to build small, sustainable companies, steering clear of big tech.

3. Employees consistently prefer consulting jobs and value vacation days over equity.

4. The bureaucracy startups face when incorporating or raising funds is staggering (Germany, I'm looking at you).

While this may seem beneficial from a social perspective, it creates the worst possible environment for tech startups. I have immense respect for the few European startups that manage to survive and thrive despite these obstacles.
ETA: You said "used to" and I didn't acknowledge that. This is targeted at that kind of interview, not you directly.

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Had some "lucky" candidate stumbled upon an optimization you had never seen before, would you recognize it? If so, would you be honest and let them keep their discovery? After all, this isn't work for hire ...

Moving on. Did these interviews reflect the day-to-day work these software engineers would be performing if they were accepted? I guarantee your business isn't going to recoup millions of dollars because someone, in their day-to-day, hit on an optimation of an existing algorithm. Nor is it likely they'll be discovering wonderful new money-saving algorithms for your business.

If you're a pure research lab, employing PhD candidates and PhDs, maybe this kind of interview does indicate the required skills.
You're right. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered in order to get a more accurate picture of the situation.

If we're only looking at dividends and the profit generation of the company stays roughly the same from year to year then its in the worker's interest to reduce the number of workers so that the same profits are shared among fewer individuals; increasing the per share value of those dividends.

A buyout of exiting workers doesn't actually reduce the value of the company as you're either decreasing the number of outstanding shares or redistributing those shares to the remaining workers. You're just trading one asset (cash) for another (shares).
I use Void Linux, and find it reasonably simple :) (the reason I like the distro essentially)

Nothing against complex things, if that's your thing though. (usually complex things are made to be 'easier'/more convenient to operate too, for some definition of easier)
It appears they edited their comment after I commented. Before, it was boilerplate ChatGPT style.
> Otherwise businesses have no ability to plan for the future and investment stops.

And then there is a 'chat control' every year pushed relentlessly.
Thus no, not at all. EU doesn't value citizens privacy.
That water tip might be a good idea if you live in a desert climate, but in a lot of places it's only going to make your guitar go warped or moldy. Ideal humidity for acoustic guitars is usually stated as 50% relative humidity. It's not so important for electric but you still want to avoid extremes.
Why the pharmacies? I noticed the same thing visiting Vegas, half the shops on the strip are pharmacies
I think the habit arises from people assuming ham was also short for something like AM and FM is, or in computers, since PC was an initialism, Mac should get the same treatment too.
Related Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company (75 points, 42 days ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40676634
Completed is a strong word. Mine wouldn’t let me out. I had to wait for it to stop at a light and bail. I’m pretty sure they should mark that a zero. MARK IT A ZERO DONNIE THIS ISNT NAM, THERE ARE RULES.
As I understood the essay, Grothendieck's argument is precisely that the exaggerated form is what many believe. So I'm not sure a steelman would make sense here, given that his point is to argue against a specific set of widespread beliefs.
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Are you under the impression that people in the US don't have purchasing power?

Also, Europe is a power house right now, but won't be a generation from now if trends continue. All forms of power are built on economic power or are a means to get economic power.
Was starting a product business a mistake? – Simone Giertz [video]
if you really want to get them riled, spell it H.A.M.
I am interesting in trying this, but I find your entire sign up process/schtick incredibly obnoxious. I would literally rather pay to try this than refer this to anyone (esp since I haven't tried it); I hate the assumption that anyone looking at your landing page has a Twitter account; and I find it opaque.
"Shouldn't that work against me?"
Why do some people lose more weight through exercise than others?
Do you think it was deliberate or just a general reaction to an uncaught exception somewhere in the ad part of the app?
Exactly. Consider the guys with absolutely the most reason to want to hide a radio station: the military. They're not worrying about the FCC, they're worrying about antiradiation missiles. Do they have a way of hiding a transmitter? Only by things designed to make it look like noise and that requires the receiver to know how to recognize the signal in the noise.

If they can't hide it, you can't, either.