skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's worth noting:

* Denuvo/Anticheat software tends to hog performance, introduce security issues. See also CrowdStrike, see also CAPCOM.SYS.

* Account creation is an issue because most gamers are buying their games through a storefront (Steam, Origin, Xbox, etc.) and at least for Steam/Xbox, these systems provide a clean 1:1 interface for account data. PC folks are a stodgy bunch and tend to not want to create multiple accounts unless there is a very good reason. They generally have come to expect crossplay between Steam/Xbox/etc. Steam has become the dominant force because it just gets the fuck out of your way, and if I want to give a friend a copy of a game, I can just Do that.

What really chafes folks about the PSN requirement is that PSN is the only account/storefront which isn't global, and moving can result in a ban. Sony has worked for nearly two decades to get things rolling and still, most people don't know about PSN outside of areas that focus on Playstation games; PSN focuses on the core demographics of Fortnite/CoD/Tekken players.

If I move from San Francisco to London, here's what it looks like to buy games on the various storefronts or use their account systems:

* Steam: update your billing info.

* Xbox: update your billing info to an address in an officially supported country.

* Origin: update your billing info.

* GOG: Update your billing info.

* PSN: Pick one: Find a billing address in the US that I can maintain with a bank (e.g. "moving" to a friend's house/relatives house) and make sure to only use that address, bank account, and carefully shovel money into that account when I want to buy games on PSN and maybe commit some tax fraud in the process, making sure to shovel my PSN account devices through a VPN that pops out in the US; Buy local gift cards to PSN in order to get games and pay a 10-15% premium to do so, doing the conversion in my head; Create a whole new PSN account for the UK, not logging into my US PSN account too often, and being careful to never buy games on the old PSN account using a UK billing option.

If I pick the first PSN option, there's a good risk I'll be banned under the TOS. The UK happens to be somewhere that PSN is supported, but in places where it isn't, I risk being banned; the list of places that you can't open a PSN account legitimately is pretty large [1] and has some really odd places (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lichtenstein, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia) that can't open or use a PSN account without risking a ban.

[1] https://insider-gaming.com/countries-that-dont-have-psn/
That number seems really low. At least 1-2% of all my purchases have fees associated with them, that's way more than $22. Small businesses, especially with lower priced items are hit with .50 + % fees too. It all adds up.
Some realtors do in fact list their commissions and fee structure:

Some examples from the market we are looking in.

1. Flat fixed fee and refunds extra: https://arrivva.com/

2. Minimum 1.25-1.5% but refunds 50% of any commission paid above: https://www.walawrealty.com/buy

Minimum for me to work with a company is transparent pricing. Even a range based on levels of service is cool. But, I am not going to waste time on a phone call with no clue as to fee structure.
Why now is the real question?

Hasn't this basically been the state of things since the late 1990s? What changed that they're going after them now?
Do you want to explain how it does work?
And what exactly that I said is wrong?

Here’s the Wikipedia article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use
Am I jaded? My first thought was AI generated fake, delicately handled forgery.
This says to me, "we are just like other realtors" and makes me less inclined to use your services.

Transparency is a killer feature for realtors that would set them apart from the masses. AI is a nice to have feature.

> We have the same pricing model - negotiable

Nobody wants to start off with an adversarial discussion with the person they are trying to hire to help them.

Also, I'll point out that on your front page, you say:

> We are more responsive (24/7), provide better service, and offer better prices.

But here you are saying you offer the same prices.
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I am going to observe that competition is good for consumers. However, using video playback for battery life / efficiency is sketchy as all modern chips have specialized hardware for video decoding. Interestingly Apple also uses video playback as a proxy for battery life... probably for the same make number go bigger reason.
> More than 60% of debit transactions in the U.S. run over Visa rails, helping it charge more than $7 billion annually in processing fees, according to the DOJ complaint.

60% seems pretty well short of monopoly. Also, if you factor in that cash is an option, and the significant inroads being made by options like Square and Venmo, Visa doesn't actually even have a majority in the market.

I'm skeptical of this action overall. I love competition as much as the next guy, but Visa, Mastercard, and Discover's primary value they provide is fraud detection and prevention. There are enormous economies of scale at play, and it's hard to believe that breaking up the big guys into dozens of independent, fly-by-wire cut-rate providers is in the public's best interests long term. That is, unless the federal government wants to come in and actually pursue small-time fraud.
I don’t think it is appropriate to dismiss concerns around privacy and authoritarianism as “ideology”.
Microsoft/IE (2001) [0]

Basically the reason we have a diversity of browsers these days and Microsoft doesn't own the internet.

But that was in their more rapacious Ballmer days...

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....
LibreMobileOS (LMODroid) – Rich Featured Privacy Focused Mobile OS Based on AOSP
There's a reason why Guinan is still the bartender on Enterprise D, even though a perfect drink can be instantly made with a replicator.

People like people. And people want to be sold on things by other people. You won't ever replace that. AI can help massively with paperwork involved. But at the end of the day there will always be a human holding people's hands through the home buying process because that's what they want.
Which is maybe part of the reason RAM needs to be so close to the CPU? Granted though most RAM access takes several CPU cycles.
100%. WP is GPL and they can use it how they like. And others are also allowed to call them out if they want to.
To clarify, I'm not saying that it's trivial or obvious, just that it's fundamental. Just like derivatives aren't trivial or obvious but everyone who has taken Intro to Calculus knows about them.

> "e.g. scientism"

Isn't this just an anti-science term adopted by religious people and postmodernists?
I’m sorry, I forgot the write up was where the genetic algo was shown:

https://www.decarpentier.nl/carpentopod

He does have animations of the process just not 3D.
Actually, Apple's M3 and even Qualcomm's X Elite are significantly ahead of the new Intel chip in raw performance and especially perf/watt.

Cinebench R24 ST[0]:

* M3: 12.7 points/watt, 141 score

* X Elite: 9.3 points/watt, 123 score

* Intel Ultra 7 258V (new): 5.36 points/watt, 120 score

* AMD HX 370: 3.74 points/watt, 116 score

* AMD 8845HS: 3.1 points/watt, 102 score

* Intel 155H: 3.1 points/watt, 102 score

Cinebench R24 MT[0]:

* M3: 28.3 points/watt, 598 score

* X Elite: 22.6 points/watt, 1033 score

* AMD HX 370: 19.7 points/watt, 1213 score

* Intel Ultra 7 258V (new): 17.7 points/watt, 602 score

* AMD 8845HS: 14.8 points/watt, 912 score

* Intel 155H: 14.5 points/watt, 752 score

PCMark did a battery life comparison using identical Dell XPS 13s[1]:

* X Elite: 1,168 minutes, performance of 204,333 in Procyon Office

* Intel Ultra 7 256V (new): 1,253 minutes, performance of 123,000 in Procyon Office

* Meteor Lake 155H: 956 minutes, performance of 129,000 in Procyon Office

Basically, Intel's new chip has 7% more battery life than X Elite but the X Elite is 66% faster while on battery. In other words, Intel's new chip throttles heavily to get that battery life.

>Of course they ignored things like node advantage, but who cares? ;)

Intel's new chip is using TSMC's N3B in the compute tile, same as M3 and better than X Elite's N4P.

>Where are all those people who for years (or since M1) were claiming that x86 is dead because ARM ISA (magically) offers significantly better energy-efficiency than x86 ISA.

I'm still here.

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[0]Data for M3, X Elite, AMD, Meteor Lake taken from the best scores available here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Zen-5-Strix-Point-CPU-anal...

[0]Data for Core Ultra 7 taken from here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-Zenbook-S-14-UX5406-lapto...

[1]https://youtu.be/QB1u4mjpBQI?si=0Wyf-sohY9ZytQYK&t=2648
What about just credit cards in general? Surely the visa and MasterCard duopoly needs to be dealt with.
Really? I'm not sure how many HNers there are at Visa/MC, the primary beneficiaries of the status quo. (Which are owned by major banks, who thus also get their take.)

That said, this is only about debit fees, which are much less {lucrative,exploitative} than credit card fees.
> Is anyone here even old enough to remember the AT&T case in 1982?

You mean the one that divested Ma Bell, broke their tyrannical control over what could be plugged into the telephone network, and made today's Internet possible? Yeah, I remember that one.

Are you sure you do? It's a real weird choice if you want to argue that antitrust enforcement doesn't work, but go off, I guess.
Blue Sky supposedly has 5.5 million active users.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

By your own numbers it averages 2.7 MB/s. This is manageable with a good cable internet connection or a small vps. This is a small number for 5.5 million active users.

What happens if it expands to 10 times its current active users? Who knows, maybe only the 354 million people around the world with access to gigabit broadband can run a full server at home and the rest of the people and companies that want to run full servers will have to rent a vps.

https://www.telecompetitor.com/gigabit-availability-report-1...

The point here is that this is not a practical problem. How many of these servers do you really need?
There's some possible confusion because of the Copilot problem where everything in the product stack is called Gemini.

The Gemini API (or Generative Language API) as documented on https://ai.google.dev uses https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms for its terms. Paid usage, or usage from a UK/CH/EEA geolocated IP address will not be used for training.

Then there's Google Cloud's Vertex AI Generative AI offering, which has https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/data-g.... Data is not used for training, and you can opt out of the 24 hour prompt cache to effectively be zero retention.

And then there's all the different consumer facing Gemini things. The chatbot at https://gemini.google.com/ (and the Gemini app) uses data for training by default: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961l, unless you pay for Gemini Enterprise as part of Gemini for Workspace.

Gemini in Chrome DevTools uses data for training (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/understan...).

Enterprise features like Gemini for Workspace (generative AI features in the office suite), Gemini for Google Cloud (generative AI features in GCP), Gemini Code Assist, Gemini in BigQuery/SecOps/etc do not use data for training.
I found this[2] but I wouldn't know the first thing about how to integrate it, stand it up, serve it, and consume it with leaflet. I'll admit, the world of OSM is quite a labyrinth.

[2] https://github.com/cyclemap/openmaptiles-cycle
Realtors still spend the majority of their time working on marketing themselves as opposed to servicing clients. "Referrals" is disingenuous because realtors spend so much time reminding clients of themselves - would this referral have occurred without that?
Portrayal is artistic depiction. It’s plainly fiction. Paintings are the canonical portrait.

Replication seeks to blur the line between fiction and non-fiction. We treat photos taken without permission differently from paintings because of that closeness to reality.

Granted, part of the relevant debate is where is the line between these endeavours. But we clearly recognise it, even if it’s increasingly a social construct. (Note the severely emotional reaction some in this thread are having to your proposal. Likeness is a deeply personal element that realistic non-fictional depiction, versus artistic overtly fictional depiction, triggers.)
That is what they did, their actual current advertising includes: "The most trusted WordPress platform", "The Most Trusted WordPress Tech Company", "[WordPress's] #1 managed provider", "WP Engine is the #1 platform for WordPress". They also have service plans on offer explicitly branded by them Core WordPress, Essential WordPress and Enterprise WordPress.
Meanwhile, right now over on Reddit there are WordPress Core developers posting about this anonymously for fear of retaliation from Matt.

He has... a bit of reputation.
> That works out to ~$22 per American per year. Not sure what Visa's operating costs for their network are, and I'm no big fan of them (or any other credit card company) but that's far cheaper than I would have expected

You’re assuming quite a few things - the most significant are that the cost is borne equally among Americans. Instead, many Americans use credit card networks instead of debit cards, and those who use debit cards may have no option to avoid the fees.
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I think of it this way: does a business have an option not to do business with Visa? Realistically no. They have all the market power that a monopoly has.
I'm curious how this new chip actually compares in power consumption to the apple cpus. Certainly at the time, when I went from an x86 macbook to an M1, the ability to really work all day on fairly compute intensive stuff, e.g. on an airplane or park bench with no AC was revolutionary.
To expand on that, as a point of comparison, a single neuron can have thousands of synaptic connections. So we're still a few orders of magnitude out from modeling NNs that have a degree of connectivity similar to the brain, even though the synapse counts are comparable.
Economy, quickness, simplicity, effectiveness, comfort.

Let's say you have a smart-card as a digital ID, you need a new one because the one you have is expiring. With classic model you go to a certain office in a certain timeframe to do that. In a digital world you order the new one from you desktop, being identified enough, you can than take a photo directly from your cam, then via mail you get the new one, you confirm you have it in hand with the card itself and you get a new pin. Done. The same if you lost an ID. There is no need to force smartphones crapplications and alike to be digital.

Then you have your health infos in the health system of your country, any doctor with your ID and their own could access all your relevant records.

At a supermarket you can prove your identity simply passing the card on a reader, the sole data share is "you can buy alcohol or not".

To open an account with a bank, you just authenticate yourself to a public system that gives the banks the relevant data they legally need and nothing more, you know they could ask for something else but all requests are optional.

You purchase a home? You can sign the contract from remote with your ID. You can retrieve the relevant docs at any time from the relevant public administration as a PADES signed pdf/a and so on.

All these things simplify life and reduce time and cost spent in doing anything.

Of course yes, the same passage could be used to act against you in a dictatorship and so on, but the bar is simple: knowing the tech means imposing furor populi a good one, so for instance smart cards and not smartphone craplications, for instance IDs, not "digital wallets" and so on. Try to keep the old system means leaving few interested party pushing their own favorite solution against all others interests. As have always happened...
Realtors do in fact list their fees. More and more of them are, especially after the August 2024 changes
I mean, any laptop could have 7 days worth of battery life with a big enough battery
I have, though admittedly not deeply enough. Agreed about the discoverability though, I never could quite find what I'm looking for (and perhaps I don't know exactly what I'm looking for)
Forget financial transactions. You cannot book a temple visit online without giving aadhaar details of all devotees.

That's how ridiculously it is used when it is supposed to be used only in activities related to "consolidated fund of India".
My understanding is that ACPI handling code is more complex than any OS pre-1990...
Yes that's what Redfin does actually. And I'm sure a bunch of others.
Minimum wage and UBI aren’t the same thing so you can’t extrapolate the results of one into the other.
They expect people to simply ignore the license.

And most people will.

And they won't set their lawyers on any contributors.

And the world will go on.
There's still basic filters even if you take all the ones that you can turn off from the UI all off. It's still not capable of summarizing some YA novels I tried to feed it because of those filters.
Am I interpreting this correctly- the M3 still uses only roughly half the power of this new Intel cpu discussed here?
Realtor is a trademarked term for members of the National Association of Realtors. You essentially can't use the term Realtor to describe anything you're doing unless you're a member. They do actively enforce this with lawyers. Google: "realtor vs real estate agent"
But it can often do so more efficiently than just carrying one container at a time when they're empty - see this company that's solving the "return container" problem by folding up to 4 containers into the space of one for the return trip.

https://4foldcontainers.com/proposition/
Marxist critic Frederic Jameson believed reading was the path to revolution
https://archive.md/d1xte
Article title: Multi-factor authentication to access CRA sign-in services

(Including SMS, TOTP, and Passcode grid)
Curious if you'd share the language you used in this contention.
The math is that if the buyer Realtor convinces their buyer to bid a higher $, then they increase the probability that the buyer will get their bid accepted quickly.

My own realtor convinced me to bid a price that the seller accepted in 30 minutes for my home - immediately == high.
> Not sure what Visa's operating costs for their network are, and I'm no big fan of them (or any other credit card company) but that's far cheaper than I would have expected given the convenience provided by almost never needing cash or checks.

Of the $32.653 billon in revenue Visa pulled in last year, 2.3% was network and processing opex, while 53% was pure bottom line profit[1].

Furthermore, squaring 17.9% tax provision line item: if your household had simple married-filing-jointly tax return with an AGI greater than ~$139.5k, you paid more in 2023 taxes than Visa...and that assumes you live in a state without income taxes.

Think about that for a hot minute while recalibrating expectations.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1403161/000140316123...
Sure, why not. It's a good approach for innovation.
> without the clutter and clunky graphics

Wasnt one of the fun things with that player putting random skins on it? Or am I thinking of a different one?
> interpret real estate data with AI

What does this actually mean though?
I think records will be much more useful if https://openjdk.org/jeps/468 gets out of preview.
He is throwing things around like: "it's tragedy of the commons", "they are evil capitalists" etc. etc. In another words he wants to "hijack" their market share as they supposedly "hijacked" WordPress' brand, logo or whatever.
> is like asking which syntax (letters) is faster - syntax of Rust, Java or C++?

This is actually a bad example because C style decls are provably, objectively, bad. They make parsing harder and once the types are non-trivial, they are absurdly hard to read and write. The case in point being non-trivial function pointers in C. The syntax for declaring a function pointer of a type that returns a function pointer is hidious.

Meanwhile here is how you define a function in that returns a function that returns a string in a modern language (Typescript):

type NumberToStringFunction = (num: number) => () => string;

Compare that to C

typedef char* (*(*NumberToStringFunction)(int))(void);

> And same as with CPUs - everything is up to the implementation

It is very easy to add CPU features that place a hard limit on performance. That is why Arm64 dropped all the conditional stuff! (Any instruction that limits the potential branch prediction is going to severely impact potential CPU performance.) History is littered with failed CPU architectures that just couldn't scale up, Intel's famous folly being Itanium.

That said, x86 is mature and it dropped some of its less pleasant aspects with x64.

Also IMHO drivers matter more for laptops than the CPU does. A bad driver keeping the GPU on w/o need or just not being able to enter the lower sleep states in general, will kill battery faster than anything else.
My favorite riff on this: at a previous job we worked on a 12GHz SERDES, which meant each inch of the cable had a different data bit on it
Don't both Square and Venmo still have to interface with the Visa / MC / Discover / Amex networks? And therefore pay some fees?
What can you make with that?
This is simple and configurable with Codegen - see the results on `renovate` here: https://www.codegen.sh/codemod/4553/public/diff

Most transformations like this are not possible with pure static analysis and require some domain knowledge (or repo-specific knowledge) in order to pull off correctly. This is because some code gets "used" in ways that are not apparent i the code.

Enjoy!
I recall BeOS had is_computer_on_fire()

double is_computer_on_fire();

Returns the temperature of the motherboard if the computer is currently on fire. Smoldering doesn't count. If the computer isn't on fire, the function returns some other value.

( https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheKernelKit_Sys...)
Even free/subscription BBSs often involved pretty expensive per-minute phone charges. Intrastate in the US could actually cost more than interstate. Phone calls were expensive historically. Maybe more than $1/minute except for very local in today's currency.

Compuserve also had different rates depending on the baud rate you connected at.

Having a computer and getting online was a pretty expensive hobby in the 80s and early 90s.
The Future of Cookies [video]
Redfin only charges 1% if you both buy and sell with them within a window of time (365 days if I recall from our Redfin broker). I've used them exactly once on both the buy side and sell side, and I was not impressed. I would not use them again, even with the 1% vs a more traditional 5% broker fee.
To do what? Also how did you get started in that?
Where is the video decoder unit located though?
You must not remember when most of the good text editors were paid (SlickEdit, KomodoEdit, etc). To this day, there are still editors that are worth their dollars: SourceInsight, SlickEdit.

Additionally, a lot of Good software on macOS is paid -- There's much more of a culture of paying your fucking developers on MacOS, whereas Windows is shoveled full of "It's free take it" apps that are under the hood paid for through data collection.
One reason I see hardly mentioned is change of tech stacks.

Most modern developers do web development with a highly abstracted stack (including yours truly).

So nobody is much familiar with C / Perl / OS level APIs. Closest they get is adhoc shell scripting in form of devops tools.

Since people are so much abstracted from the stack, they don't feel much need to contribute to it or improve it to scratch their own itch.

That's why new stuff like CNCF gets many contributions, old ones like Debian don't.