skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on the metric, Google has 90% of the search engine market. Yes they have competition in a literal sense, but not in a meaningful sense.
I was going from December, as per my earlier comment. In any case, if we're engaging in good faith then of course even 8.8% after near to 40 years is not what people mean when they talk about the market being a stable investment. The comment that started our little thread said,

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It’s a shame, as ETFs, and hell, index funds if you must, outperform savings on a 3 year or even less horizon.

Yes, my portfolio dropped 7% this month. I’m still up 6% YTD and 13% in the last 12 months.

My horizon is well over 5 years. It would be an easy way to slow or even reduce my net worth if I were to put it all in a savings account.

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He's clearly still expecting reasonable returns on mid-range time frames, which is what people mean when suggesting the market always goes up - not an annualized 0.25%, let alone loss, for the next 40 years.
I also don’t know and thinking about this makes me claustrophobic because I enjoy programming.
Yes of course. Sometimes the compiler can tell. But the original question feels to me more like “Shouldn't the compiler deduce restrict for you?”
Brief Discussions

(21 points, 6 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41165255

(18 points, 4 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166437
Oh I agree. I merely meant that they were leveraging an existing monopoly to try to create another one via unfair practices.
I remember our CD drive struggling to even read brand new PC Gamer demo CDs back in the late 90s. Whereas commercial game discs worked fine.
if you want to beleive a wikipedia definition based on historical caselaw, instead of an actual judge's decision, then i guess sure, do whatever you want.

if you're asking how they're a monopoly, i answered you. if you want to debate whether the judge was right or wrong, maybe phrase your question less like a question.
Well, yeah, things can be related to many things, but throwing extern "C"s was one of the motivations as I recall for 'r'. r is about a compiler optimization where we elide the runtime terminate check if we can statically "prove" a function can never throw. To prove it statically we depend on things like extern "C" functions not throwing, even though users can (and do) totally write that code.
Discussion (710 points, 8 hours ago, 481 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240
There was a new hire who was told to make a small change in a piece of server software, found the repo, read the docs, made the change, ran it in testing, and pushed to prod. Cue the 'senior engineer' screaming bloody blue murder because he'd been directly monkeypatching the servers for 3 years with no vc and no backups.
Elon Musk's big plan to build an AI supercomputer
F-35 has exactly the level of stealth that the US is comfortable exporting (the RCS of a plane is something baked deeply into the design of the airframe it can't be really changed for an export variant). F-22 is the "I win" button that the USAF has in its back pocket if it ever starts to get truly pressured in a conflict.
I have yet to read any formal literature that 6 day work weeks lead to better anything. You get a short term (3-4 week) production boost that very quickly tapers off.

But business seem to be stuck with "butt in seat" age mentality, so they aren't responding rationally to this
I am so sorry to see this. The absolute last thing we need is yet another fossil guzzling vehicle. Please stop what you are doing immediately and go back to the drawing board and help save our planet by inventing a craft that uses solar power to charge batteries to fly. I am sure I will get down voted to hell for this. But tough shit. The planet is chocking and we simply do not need more people burning fossil fuel for fun and pleasure. Stop. Please. Stop and rethink this.
This was my rationale for switching over to vinyl around 2007. Its audio fidelity is worse but its failure state is more acceptable to me.
Both. Most religions consider gambling immoral because it leads to social harm. You need to favor personal freedoms and personal responsibility more to justify taxing gambling rather than banning it. Or acknowledging that prohibition may cause more social harm than not. But only more secular governments get to allow harmful vices for the greater good.
Yeah, less golden eggs, and more golden funnels (Chrome, Android).
If the ruling is that no one can pay to be the default search engine then… welp.
I'm not even this deferential towards my HOA which has actual yard rules. If they want to send the HOA police after me, feel free.
Gallium is liquid to 30C. The alloy Galistan used in this application is liquid to -19C. Unless you plan on storing your laptop outside on a bitterly cold winter day, letting your laptop drop to room temperature isn't a big concern.
Sounds like it would be easy to make a set of unsatisfiable constraints. How is that handled in Z3? Can you assign priorities to constraints or something?
It's an alloy that is liquid down to -19C.
Every device on my LAN that responds to Bonjour on `.local` uses link-local IPv6 without me having had to do any configuration or put any thought into it whatsoever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT - Oh, you’re talking about public IPv6… similarly, my router (a TP-Link Archer 1200) gets assigned a prefix by my ISP, which it then auto-assigns inside devices IPs from, again without any explicit configuration or intervention on my part. Super easy.
There were many types of music during the time of Beethoven, he himself embodied at least three distinct styles; Viennese classicism (early), heroic (middle), quartets, chamber and solo (late).

Maybe leave the empty inaccurate quips to other forums?
No, there are just 3 relevant standard implementations. There are numerous independent libraries that perform very similar but non-conformant functionality.

My complaint is that the C++ standards committee should, when possible, release code and not a specification. They shouldn't release a std::map spec that 3 different vendors implement. The committee should write and release a single std::map implementation. It's just vanilla C++ after all.

My proposal does not prohibit Abseil, Folly, etc from releasing their own version of map which may, and likely will, choose different constraints and trade-offs.

Rust's standard library is not a spec, it's just code. There are many, many, many crates the implement the same APIs with different implementations and behavior. Sometimes those crates even get promoted and become the standard implementation. This is, imho, a far superior approach than the C++ specification approach.
There is no one to blame but the leadership at Mozilla for the position they are in. They had a decade+ to try to create additional revenue streams but botched every attempt.
No Salt
Ok I can think of a thousand things that could go wrong, but ultimately, this is some real damn innovation. Well done! Can’t wait to see how this evolves.
Chrome, Android and the Play Store being separated companies would be great.
This forum is providing me a rare opportunity to speak to someone of your caliber:

To someone not surrounded by the same aerospace/defence/pentagon welfare state people that you are surrounded by, you come across as very genuine, caring, and hard-working but completely missing the point. Your statements in this thread indicate that you think there maaaaay be an environmental issue but you don’t care because it could never affect you personally. You demonstrate no sense of urgency, which is what the people questioning you are looking for, because that’s what the science shows.
They didn't have to, several of the lines matched existing fragments.

Also, the classical corpus is so small that humans still beat the computers for authorship analysis.
Show HN: Decide your next read from any booklist basis your Goodreads history
Hello all! I am a fintech product manager inspired by this community to build things.

The motivation to build this came while going through NYT's List 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I wanted to see which one I could pick as my next read. I realised that I couldn't get through the descriptions of the 100 books, then go through the process of searching Goodreads ratings for each, read people's comments, evaluate and so on. Could there be something faster which would give me an idea of which books I would like?

So I built a MVP personalized book recommender which takes all your Goodreads reading history (thanks to Goodreads export option), creates a model (neural network) and then gives predicted ratings for any new book i.e. a prediction of how much would you rate it from 1 to 5 stars on Goodreads. This is especially useful if you are trying to decide which books to read from a long list of books. The model will give predicted ratings against each book and you can then choose if you would like to read something which has a high predicted rating or push yourselves towards trying something new.

Since this builds a neural network-based predictive model right on the fly, it takes time to build if your reading history is long. I am trying to see how I can improve on that.

I have just added 2 list of books against which you can get predicted scores - Obama's recommendations and Pulitzer list of books. Would love to hear from you if you want me to add another set of books. A feature in the works is extracting all books from a webpage against which you can get predicted book ratings. For ex: On book discussion pages on Hackernews, there are many books mentioned by community members. This model can help you decide which one to read next in a few moments!

How it works?
I am fetching book descriptions basis the title and author of book from Google Books API and then embedding the same using GPT-4. Then building a neural network with embeddings of each books descriptions and the ratings I have given in my reading history. I have used Pytorch to build the same.

Would love to hear suggestions, comments, ideas, critiques!

You can choose to reach out to me at: shubham13596@gmail.com or https://www.linkedin.com/in/shubham-gupta-50267a90/

Thanks!
2. That's usually what execs with high visibilty say before they leave.
> Mozilla is effectively being subsidized by Google for the sake of an illusion of browser competitions. If the remedy enforces "a reasonable level of bid" for these kinds of auctions, Mozilla may go bankrupt within 5 years. I hope the court won't include Mozilla in scope since it doesn't really make a dent on the market dominance.

Maybe the death of Mozilla, the family of corporate entities, could breathe new life into Firefox, the open source browser. They haven't exactly been great stewards for the last few years. I'm not exactly sure how those vast amounts of money from Google have translated into much tangible progress for the browser.
A bit of an older story, but apparently Beethoven was also plagued by copycats throughout his career, from Steibelt to Gelinek. It got so bad that Gelinek would drop by unannounced and actually eavesdrop on Beethoven while he was composing, then hurry home to create themes based on the motifs he heard. It got to the point where Beethoven actually had to physically flee from his home.

Tangentially related (since Steibelt was a bit of a plagiarist himself) but the piano duel between him and Beethoven must have been a sight to behold.

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/piano-duel-wit...
British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians [video]
Andy liked cheesy effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjTrtCAnFsw
Unoffical finviz API server to fetch screener, support Elite Login
I still run up a new Pit character once or twice a year. Great fun, that.
> impossible to change or improve functionality for

You have to think inside the box!

What if, say, instead of lastname "SMITH" we used "SMITH,FEE: 5.65"
As a layman, I have a question about the mass market appeal aspect (or as you call it, making it sexy). Is there any hope that your vessel wouldn’t require earmuffs and a comm system? Or is that only possible after a million bucks of exotic materials?
The textile industry. Dockworkers. Migrant workers (see Cesar Chavez). Youtube content moderators. The list goes on.
No, That would be against the law - only tools made before the ban are allowed.

Also PG&E is a company, not a person. It doesn't scale for them to have a chain saw smuggling operation.
Krokodile was a common catch-all slang word for drugs of unknown origin when I was a teenager.
I'm not sure that's an accurate interpretation. They are cheap, and thus more popular, so repair shops will see more of them in comparison to more expensive brands.
*Non-nullable types by default
That sounds like typical New Hampshire to me! "Freedom". The highways have extra signs for minimum speed limits, for goodness' sake.
I've had a lot of earwigs preying on the eggs in the milkweed patch that I have.
So ban them in suburbia.

Why do rural folks have to become outlaws to do day to day things just because they're unlikely to get caught?

Anyway, my comment was about future forest fires from the impossibility to do maintenance.
> I argued then that if instead noexcept violations were undefined, we could ignore all this, and instead just treat it as the pure optimization it was being marketed as (ie, help prove a region can't throw, so we can elide entire try/catch blocks etc).

Do you know if the reasoning for originally switching noexcept violations from UB to calling std::terminate was documented anywhere? The corresponding meeting minutes [0] describes the vote to change the behavior but not the reason(s). There's this bit, though:

> [Adamczyk] added that there was strong consensus that this approach did not add call overhead in quality exception handling implementations, and did not restrict optimization unnecessarily.

Did that view not pan out since that meeting?

[0]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2010/n30...
Guy who makes $200,000 a year is aghast that some people actually work at McDonald's
An independent Chrome App Store would easily achieve profitability. There are more than 3 billion chrome users.
> I have a really hard time trusting my instincts or judgements on when to use them and where

Its easy, do you want to find something but you forgot the name and have a hard time with Google? Ask an LLM, they will likely find the name you need to find it on Google. This goes for both things you have forgotten and new concepts that you never knew the name for but you think there exists something.

The other main use case is translations between languages, LLMs are by far the best translators today.

For other things LLM doesn't really help, except help turn out crap you have to spend so much time checking that it doesn't really make you more productive unless your job is to create crap.

Or that isn't fair, if you need to write a letter with some emotions that you have a hard time with due to your fleshy nature not wanting to fake emotions, you can ask the computer to fake those emotions for you. Computers are great at faking emotions now. Think corporate emails etc where you have to use a tone that doesn't at all match your state etc.
YOLO models trained on DocLayNet, support document analytic intelligency
I think supabase leans quite heavily into this, although I haven’t used it myself.

Row level security has been wonderful for multi tenancy in my experience though. I would highly recommend it.
This is so creative and super useful!
> the vast majority of GA accidents could be completely avoided with slightly better avionics.

Reading accident reports or the annual summary McSpadden Report (previously called the Nall Report), I get a different view: if pilots would keep fuel in the airplane and flowing to the engine(s), not fly into weather beyond the capability of the airplane and crew, and divert or not takeoff at the onset of signs that an aircraft is not airworthy, would reduce serious accidents by half or more. Better avionics has relatively little to do with that (other than the proper use of a fuel totalizer or better).

Complacency kills more pilots than weak avionics.
and they even completely fail at this easier task
I believe that's how rustc works on all platforms. rustc's soundness story depends on each call stack having one guard page, and ensuring that each time a frame is created every page gets poked at least once.
Did he really use lowercase? The status-seeking, high status lowercase mixed with the "outside looking in" account of working class people written for the benefit of other rich high status people, Jesus.
Python Time Complexity
I think battery electric planes will make this less of an issues, once they arrive. The motors are quieter, vibrate less, don’t generate smelly fumes, and there are more mounting options. The eVTOLs from Joby are supposedly very quiet in operation.
> They already have search engines for App Store

if their Internet search engine was as good as their App Store search engine then we would need to wait half a minute to get oranges if we search for tomatoes
Slumming it, basically. You can leave whenever you want, the people around you are stuck there.
Both Intel (Gaudi 3) and Tenstorrent (Wormhole) have built NIC's into the GPUs. I think that we are going to see more of that in the future, but the only problem with this is that your failure cases become more extreme. NIC dies, I swap a NIC... GPUNIC dies... I swap both.

128 NICs/GPUs is the largest single non-blocking 400G switch size today using a broadcom t5 chip [0]. If you want to go larger than that, you have to go with 6x switches in a spine/leaf configuration, which greatly increases the costs.

We're (Hot Aisle) in the process of deploying a cluster of 128 MI300x right now with this configuration using a Dell Z9864F switch [1]. https://hotaisle.xyz/networking/ and https://hotaisle.xyz/compute/

[0] https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/swit...

[1] https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/networ...
Show HN: Apache Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on iceberg
Apache Amoro (incubating) is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats. Working with compute engines including Flink, Spark, and Trino, Amoro brings pluggable and self-managed features for Lakehouse to provide out-of-the-box data warehouse experience, and helps data platforms or products easily build infra-decoupled, stream-and-batch-fused and lake-native architecture.
If true I guess one way to address that is to tax vacant rental units so there's a penalty for leaving them vacant. That seems to me to be hard to administer though.
> Google and Apple are companies with market caps in the trillions, and at their scale the default has a price in billions

This is HN's regular reminder that market cap measures the value of the company in the eyes of investors, not its revenue or profit.

Apple had gross revenue of $365 billion and Google $257 billion in 2021, the year in which Google paid Apple $26 billion.

That means that in that year Google paid Apple a solid 10% of their revenue and Google's payment accounted for 7% of Apple's gross revenue. To put that in perspective: that puts this deal on the same scale of importance as a car payment or utilities are for the average US household.
Very strange statement to make given a large mobile phone operating system (Android) has Chrome as the default browser. Also the default in some Linux distros such as the Raspberry Pi OS. And many PC builders bundle Chrome with their usual crapware. Other posters have also pointed out Google's own Chromebooks use Chrome by default as well. Quite a significant base especially among people who don't have the money to buy into the Apple ecosystem.
Mozilla wants users to take a survey on browser features
Not “strange,” in my opinion. Back in The Day, we called what people insist are “test harnesses,” “unit tests.”

But these days, the term “unit test” has morphed into a particular configuration.
Interesting app. Going to give it a spin. I like the 10 use model demo. FYI, for a moment, I thought it was a sub only app and was upset. Glad you have a fixed price option. Is lifetime in air quotes or will it really be lifetime?
Most GA aircraft used for travel have autopilots. Even most flight school aircraft used for IFR training have them, at least in my experience in the northeast.
Minimal traffic? An ATPL pilot here. Fly into any major airport and you'll see that it can be REALLY BUSY. The system is based around separation down to about 1 minute. Major airfields are all traffic limited (hence "slots").

1 minute might seem like a lot when you're walking or driving, but when coming in at 200mph in something that weights hundreds of tons ... I want that guy 1 minute ahead of me off the runway ;)

And that's considering that existing traffic is of similar speed and ability. Adding slow, small, low-performance aircraft to the mix makes things very interesting ;( Then add low-experience pilots who have to stop and think about procedures, actions, radio calls ...

permission to back their car out of their driveway - It might be different if those cars cost $100M-$300M. A tiny bingle is very expensive.
It always makes me a bit sad though

So much is still lost and we rely on such tiny fragments or worse hearsay by other authors rehashing their ideas
Public transit exists in the US. I take a train to work.

But the problem you're not understanding is that we're not Europe. We don't all live in cities within a couple of miles of our workplaces. Even me, I've got a sixty mile commute, I'm fortunate that there is a commuter train -- but I still have to drive five miles to get to the station. There's no other way, it's not even safe to walk if I felt like walking five miles. I can't live where I work, it would triple my mortgage.

I can't go anywhere else on a train. I can't go to the grocery store on a train, there aren't any.

The US is big. It's just the way it is, and it's not going to change.
I think because he wants to "return to hands-on technical work", but that was difficult at OpenAI. As I understand, he is now managing alignment research at OpenAI. He is clarifying he can continue to do that, but he would like to do alignment research rather than managing one.
You can set soft and hard constraints. Soft constraints can be broken if the system is unsatisfiable otherwise.

For instance, by default, this config sets a soft constraint that two people must be at the desk, and a hard constraint that no more than two people and at least one person must be at the desk. Likewise, there is a soft constraint that desk time must be contiguous, and a hard constraint that desk time must be at least so long to prevent continual splitting.
Japan stocks rebound sharply after worst rout in history
Honestly, I'm surprised to see anyone talk explicitly about Apple internal works. Is that public knowledge?
The UI looks really nice and is easy to use. Well done!
Try to find parts for an ASUS or an MSI gaming laptop; the real killer is you have to search using both model numbers to be accurate. Multiple graphics card configurations per model makes it even harder. Sometimes, AliExpress is the only way and the motherboard still costs $525+.
Got a 2021 G14. Running Fedora Kinoite, everything works except fingerprint reader. Super stable, KDE Wayland on AMD iGPU and running Steam games using the Nvidia dGPU. Battery life not great - it's a gaming laptop! But fans are quiet. It's a great portable workstation, especially with 40G RAM. And it was _cheap_.
I see. So you do need one of these libraries if you want to do things The Nix Way with secrets