skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be building a straw man. None of your criticisms may be valid as they attempt to discredit Toyota for strategic decisions it didn't make, precisely because these decisions would not align with its operating philosophy which has allowed them to become one of the most valuable brands and emulated models in history.
Trade Offer:

You receive - ISA architectural license, some of the worst stock core designs ever created

I receive - Per-unit royalties, upfront licensing revenue, branding rights, creative control, stock options, unlimited vesting period, board member seats, compiler/SDK revenue, free word-of-mouth and developer lock-in.

What do you mean nobody wants to cooperate with those terms? We're SoftBank for crying out loud!
Your comment specifically called out their search product. If your argument is that they have a monopoly on ads, I don't believe that's true either.
I thought it was a legitimate proposal to the problem at hand, but respect and understand the decision. My apologies for taking the conversation potentially off topic.

https://paulgraham.com/founders.html

> Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.

While scoped to founders, I think it broadly applies to a subset of curious people who are wired to solve problems, imho.
Why do you wish that?

I can think of a few plausible reasons, but the only one that is really significant is "what epoch"? In the case of UNIX-based systems and systems that try to mimic that behaviour, that is well defined. But as you haven't said what your complaints are, it's hard to provide any counterpoint or justification for why things are as they are.

> time_date(1311, 11, 18)

That isn't defined in the epoch used by most computer systems, so all bets are off. Perhaps it'll return MAX_INT, MIN_INT, 0, something that's plausible but doesn't take into calendar reforms that have no bearing on the epoch being used, or perhaps it translates into a different epoch and calculates the exact number of seconds, or anything else. One could even argue that there are no valid epochs before GMT/UTC because it was all just local time before then.

But of course, you can argue either way whether -ve values should be supported. Exactly 24 hours before 1970-1-1 0:00:00 UTC could be reasonably expected to be -86400, on the other hand "since" strongly implies positive only.

Other people might have entirely different epochs for different reasons, again within the domain it's being used, that's fine as long as everyone agrees.

Or did you have some other objection?
Why are you talking about Australia fighting the US? Aren't the subs against China?
I use a keyboard shortcut to quickly switch between source and live preview mode.

I open sourced my css snippets repo, and the first CSS rule in this file in my minimal theme CSS snippets repo resets font sizes in source view so font sizes are the all the same:

https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe...
The submarines are useless to our (Australia’s) national interest. If we ever get them (and even then there’s serious questions about whether Australia would actually have command authority over them), they aren’t really geared to be super useful for defending our shores (taking advantage of our distance from potential enemies) - we’d need more, smaller subs for that. But they do have the extreme range and endurance that would be useful for, say, projecting force into the South China Sea, following the US into a conflict - and that is something the vast majority of Australians are dead against, but what our politicians (at least on the opposition side) have basically already pledged to do…
I'm genuinely curious - how could having children possibly be a way out of poverty? Unless you're making the assumption that they'll be in an economically better position than you and 'take care of you in your retirement', or similar? 2K per child per year isn't going to approach the cost of raising a child. Which seems to be closer to 20k per year - https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-raising-a-child

Cursory search seems to indicate that ACA is still quite expensive for low earners - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-is-....

I really don't know what you're suggesting here... We're discussing the possibility of attaining wealth by saving / investing on a median income, and you simply haven't supported the assertion that that's possible or likely with anything you've posted.

Income inequality is larger, and social mobility lower in the US than at most points in history, and this is largely true for Europe too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomic_mobility_in_the_....

As someone actually living on an income in this ball park, I can assure you that tax credits aren't money, they're just less tax debt. And that the concept of having kids on a low income would actually be terrifying.
Over the summer, my son had a baseball tournament in Detroit, and we were driving from Chicago. I have never driven an EV before, and I wanted to see what it was like before a lease is up on one of our cars, so I decided to rent one and try the long distance trip.

It was horrific. I had no idea you needed separate apps for nearly every station. Every station had broken stalls, or a single stall with a line, and what's the difference between AC and DC for charging, or charging stations ONLY for a single brand (Rivian, how tf is this legal?). The stations were in the middle of nowhere; I thought my son and I could at least stop and get some food while it charged, but we didn't find any of those. Just one at a truck stop outside of Kalamazoo, and another at the end of the runway at the airport outside of Ann Arbor (we got tired of the trickle charge at Kalamazoo and left after 30 minutes, and needed to recharge in Ann Arbor).

Downtown Detroit had a handful of charging stations, and I ended up spending 45 minutes at the GM building to charge to 85%. When returning the car in Chicago, it is nearly impossible to get to 100% charge at the place near my house because the stations seem to start trickling after 80%, so it took over 60 minutes to go from 20% to 95% with a "fast" charger, then a 20 minute drive to O'Hare got it below 90% again. And I now have 3 apps on my phone each with a "wallet" with money I will not be using any time in the near future.

I know that long-distance isn't necessarily a selling point for EV, but that was only part of it. Every step of the way it was like companies took the worst parts of the internet and app culture and enshitified refeuling/charging. The car itself was pretty nice (Hyandai Ioniq 5), and I enjoyed driving it. But I felt like it was a CONSTANT stress worrying about where we will charge when needed, because of all of the issues; I felt like I had to thinking about finding a charging station when I got under 20% because who knows how long I will have to search for a good station.

I can't commit to an EV until they are more prevalent and I can just pull up and use a credit card without an app. Say what you will about Shell or BP, but at least I don't need to worry about them leaking my data in some hack because they have a shitty app or something. We'll definitely be buying a hybrid, probably plug-in, and I'll look at EVs again in 10 years or something.
Apple vs. the "Free Market"
Destroying commercial art culture really might not be a bad thing. The overwhelming majority of visual artists, writers and musicians don’t make money from their art, and would continue doing it even if the big corporate parasites went bankrupt.
Yes, and it's not just mass, it's also hood height.
https://ssti.us/2024/01/29/vehicle-hoods-are-now-four-inches...
In this context, "selling" can't just mean "exchanging for money", it has to mean something like "exchanging for a valuable consideration." The valuable consideration that you provide in exchange for using Google is your attention on their ads, and your behavioral and personal data that can be sold.

And I would say that Google can fairly be called a unique product in the market. They are the default search engine on almost all browsers and operating systems, their mobile phone operating system owns 70% of the global market share, and most of these devices give Google's search engine preferential treatment, their name is synonymous with searching on the web, their market share is over 90%, they have more data on their users than probably any other company and can provide more personalized search results than anyone else, their web index is clearly more complete than e.g. Bing's (if you do a domain-restricted search, Google often finds twice as many results as Bing).

It's true that alternatives to Google exist, but Google's overwhelming market dominance makes it imo difficult to argue that they aren't a monopoly in practice.
“Large SUVs and pickup trucks are, unsurprisingly, more likely than smaller cars to injure or kill pedestrians due to their greater weight and taller front ends.”

https://towardsdatascience.com/suvs-are-killing-people-de6ce....
What this means is that we also need antitrust action against Microsoft (particularly since the first one was thwarted by the election of a very pro-big-business administration, that stopped the implementation of fairly sweeping remedies).

It's not exactly a hot take nowadays that all the Big Tech companies are probably overdue for serious antitrust action.
Svelte 5 signals fix its glitchy and inconsistent reactivity
I wrote this blog post about how Svelte 5 (currently a release candidate) uses signals to fix two problems with its former reactivity system that was introduced 5 years ago.

If you were unaware, signals are being adopted by almost every major frontend framework except React. From the TC39 proposal[1] to add them to the JS language - "Angular, Bubble, Ember, FAST, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Starbeam, Svelte, Vue, Wiz". Adding signals to JS would enable standardized developer tooling around them among other benefits, the proposal describes more.

Signals also enable Svelte 5's fine-grained reactivity, which again puts it among the performance benchmark leaders, and the signals DX with runes[2] is simply fantastic in my experience.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals

[2] https://svelte.dev/blog/runes

There's also a video if you'd prefer to watch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcnimZTNOCA
You do know that they pushed it left and right as 'dropbox' share everything platform targeting pirate groups with referral money right?

He was not early or anything he was literally pushing pirated movies and TV shows
Good point. Now I think about it Google is actively contributing to that with their Reddit deal which has them blocking all scrapers besides Googlebot, even known legit search engine crawlers like Bingbot.
Not just the Chicken Tax but Obama era (revived under Biden) fuel efficiency standards that are ridiculous for vehicles under a certain weight. Those regs are more to blame than the Chicken Tax these days (and I'm NO fan of the Chicken Tax).
If your of the opinion that Google should not be broken up at all, ever, then your point is valid.
this guy has a shitty dentist
China is a concern for Australia whether the US is in the picture or not. Australia's interests are highly aligned with those of the US. The increased engagement from the US is being welcomed by most Australians, but the issue is really around the implementation.

AUKUS is one of these huge deals with the results coming many years after huge investments creating great uncertainty. That makes it easy to attack politically.

EDIT: What's missed by the original commenter is that Australia was already investing in submarines from France. If delivered, there would be similar outcomes. The project had just as much uncertainty around it and was off-track when AUKUS was announced.
Strong pre-shared keys will continue to remain secure, even against a quantum computer.

Wireguard, for example, provides the ability to add a pre-shared key for endpoints, which it mixes in during key exchange. Wireguard sessions collected under such a configuration should remain safe when attacked by a future quantum computer, assuming that the shared keys remain secret.

Pre-shared keys are just inconvenient to handle safely.
Writing an simple assembler is trivial. Even macro assemblers are very easy.

However, it's also boring.

Nevertheless the contents of the book cover all the techniques required to write an assembler, if you'd really like to
iVerify Discovers Android Vulnerability Impacting Millions of Devices
I think diplomacy itself can help gear a country to defend itself by creating powerful allies who will come in a time of need.

At the same time, I do not think there is any justification for war or harming others non-defensively.

The amount of money and human power we piss away with wars and conflict is so sad. Humans are the most advanced and capable complex adaptive systems in the world. Why waste such a precious resource?
Tech firm apologises for hostess lampshade outfits
It wasn't a crime against the crown last time?
I'm flumuxed that Google is the first tech company to be ruled a monopoly. I would put them fourth on the tech monopoly list, behind Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, in that order.

I don't think there would be much benefit to society by breaking up google. Whereas I do think there would be great benefit to breaking up Apple or MS.
Earlier this days I launched https://www.findredflags.today/ .
Today I announce the launch of is iOS app!
Get a second opinion anytime, anywhere. Download now on the Apple Store!
https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/red-flags-detector-texting/id6...
You can adapt and fit in to the establishment, and I wouldn't suggest any moral problem with it. We definitely need stability - the raising of children requires it, trappings like clubs and societies and clean streets are great, but I think the spirit of mavericks like Kim is much more 'right' about something that institutions will always miss.

I can't celebrate this at all, and I am never sympathising with legal thuggery. It is just naked power exerting itself and it will always be ugly.
Well, for the sake of argument, assume everything you say is true. I think it's not true but let's roll with it.

Still, the USA attempted to extradite a foreign national for an act that is only a crime in the US but nowhere else, that occurred on foreign soil. Further, the charges were retaliation for activity that is legally protected in the USA but annoyed powerful people.

Aren't you at all concerned by that egregious overreach? It's un-American if you're an American patriot and alarming if you're not.
The concern is if you are developing for the web, how much time do you need to spend appeasing Google to show up in search results and be discoverable.

When I was at Amazon the majority of direct product traffic did not come internal search, it came from Google. In some areas they were competitors, Amazon was beholden to Google as the starting point for most customer’s browsing experience.
I've watched a few review videos on the Maverick and while it does seem like the closest replacement for my (now totaled) Ford Ranger, I still wish it was a plugin/range extended drive train. It's nice not having to stop at a gas station except for when I'm on road trips 2-3 times a year.
It doesn’t support terminal hyperlinks, which are produced by many tools nowadays (rg, fd, ls, delta).
Air-independent fuel cell and battery powered submarines are not at all a replacement for nuclear submarines, nor even really competing with them. No matter how good the tech becomes, diesel-electric subs running fuel cell AIPs will always have shorter range, less submerged time, and lower speeds than nuclear-powered submarines. Each time they surface, even to periscope level, the chances of detection go up massively.

That's why diesel-electric submarines are best suited for coastal defence, especially of small countries, whereas larger countries with huge areas of territory to protect benefit from having nuclear submarines.

Whether it's the right decision for Australia to get these subs under AUKUS is a fair debate, but it's not at all accurate to claim that they're using 'old' technology that is being superseded by AIP.
Zeekr: China EV firm claims fastest-charging battery
> But I'll never defend a human trafficker either

Wait, where did that come from? Did Kim Dotcom facilitate human trafficking?
https://Sunaan.com revolutionizes the way you order thobes by simplifying the custom fitting process. Unlike traditional methods that require detailed measurements, Sunaan uses standard retail sizes (XS to SL) combined with your height to ensure a perfect fit. Our range includes predefined styles, beautifully embroidered options, and the ability to create custom thobes for a unique touch. Each garment is crafted by skilled tailors in Bangladesh, ensuring high quality and attention to detail. Visit Sunaan.com to explore our offerings and experience the ease of ordering a perfectly fitted thobe online.
The political class, yes, welcome the engagement. But not most Australians!
And several times the noise and pollution.
Interesting.

I have a completely different take. HN doesn't allow the poster of a URL to say why they posted it, so the only option is to do so in a comment. It seemed obvious to me that giving a quote is the most un-biased way of commenting on an article.

The second point is that the comment also included a non-paywalled link, which was most definitely of value. I've been on HN for a long time, and there are plenty of times where a comment's only content is that same type of link, and it doesn't get flagged. And this comment provided it first.

So, in this situation, we have a comment with a link that bypasses a paywall (which is normal and seen as beneficial), paired with a quote of the factual tldr of the article, which seemes to me as the _perfect_ way to start a discussion, and yet the comment itself is flagged.

Yeah, I disagree with that.
Hardly. EV sales are slowing down. All the people willing to put up with EVs have bought; the market is saturated. Demand for ICE isn't going anywhere.
The idea of a hybrid light truck (Tacoma) interested me. When I looked into it, the hybrid mileage was only 23mpg, compared to 20 for the regular model. What’s the point of that?
> We see this argument anytime a cloud migration comes up and it’s a severe simplification.

Here's a less simplified example: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010
Expanding upon this, in a PHEV the battery is relatively small and inexpensive compared to an EV. In the event it does fail it's a financial inconvenience and not effectively totaling the vehicle.
This is why Hindu traditions in India have a "parampara" which means disciplic succession or tradition of teaching from guru (teacher) down to disciple. Writing only started with palm leaf manuscripts, before that everything was passed by word of mouth which is why Indic scholars say its hard to date things by written word as things were not written, just spoken and handed down. This is not the same as Chinese whispers, the oral tradition was very important and had to be word for word.
Easings.net: A Developer's Go-To Cheat Sheet for Easing Functions
The bigger problem is that by conglomerating all of these businesses that are operating in different industries, Google has cut out competition from companies that would provide those services.

Why does Google search use Google adwords? Is it because adwords has given them the better terms than their competition or because they have no choice by virtue of being the same company?
Thanks for your insight into that market!
Is that truly what people who oppose the war believe? Or is that an easy strawman for you to dismiss the anti-war crowd in the eyes of those who dont know the history of this conflict?
I just feel like this analogy is quite fitting.
I have no love for Google but, in light of the Google Graveyard, I am at a loss to see how to cut it up in a way where almost anything can remain profitable on its own.

Imagine chopping Search and Ads out to be their own things.

GoogAds turns into just another advertising company. Perhaps viable but uninteresting. GoogSearch, well, almost nobody wants to pay for search, so they seek some kind of way to get money, and the start up with the integrated ads, soon to result in what we have now. I used to run various Google Search Appliances, but they bailed out of that market.

Peel off GMail? More than zero people want to pay for email, so you might see something like a clunky Fastmail with a free tier and a pay tier. The free tier means ads again and you're evolving to a Yahoo model. Ummm, nobody really wanted that.

How about hardware? I dunno, are Pixels a loss leader for Google? I'll bow to someone else's insight on this, and I'm not really hip to the phone scene: are there a lot of "smartphones, we only make smartphones" companies?

Google Docs and various officeware might stand on its own as a distant second to Microsoft. I know some people pay for that.

Google Books, maaaaaaaaaaybe. It might stand on its own but here we just see people having to pay for what was once free.

I just don't see anything interesting or stimulating coming out of carving up Google. Almost everything they did (it has been a while since I was "into" them) seemed focused on making things that were almost byproducts, wherein their real utility was feeding the search <-> advertising cycle.
Of the three AI tools the author talked about, two of them (OpenAI and Sumo) are facing lawsuits for copyright stuff[1]. That by no means invalidates what he's done, but more speaks to the interesting times we live in. These tools both saved him time and improved his product. I hope we find a way to have our AI cake and still feed our originators of content.

[1] https://variety.com/vip/content-owner-lawsuits-against-ai-co...
> If the result exceeds the maximum value that can be stored in a Duration, the maximum duration will be returned.
The book is a very hands on tutorial whereas Wirths is basic literature for the general case.

While they teach similar content, they have a different approach.

There are literally thousands of compiler design books out there, I don't really see anything particularly comparable between this book and Wirth's
it had to happen at some point, I guess; there's always been a finite amount of earth, and a historically expanding population

as the meme goes: born too late to swim freely on this planet, born too early to swim freely on other planets
What did the government have to do with this? Sounds like he ran out of appeals through the court system, which is independent of the government of the day.
Does anyone prefer the syntax view when in read-only mode?

I don't think I'd ever prefer seeing raw markdown over rendered documents when browsing GitHub repositories for example.
I agree that process can be used as punishment. But I don't see any evidence that Dotcom has been uniquely or unfaithfully subjected to processes, or that his treatment is unusual given the charges he's facing.

Remember: he's not being charged just for copyright infringement. If he was, then freezing his assets would be unusual. He's being charged with money laundering and racketeering, two crimes that involve illegal flows of money.
To bring up more things in the broader context, were there not several "grooming gangs" that were active in Britain recently and the police were reluctant to investigate/prosecute them as it might appear racist?
It's that Google can do things like force manifest V3 on users so that ad blockers are rendered useless, allowing Google to push ads onto those users. I.e. use their dominance in one area (web browsers) to benefit another area (ads).