skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who spent time researching the Ma Bells breakup and being knee deep in the local telecom deregulation, I see a lot of the same proposals when discussing the breaking up of Google and Facebook.

This is the short story of what happened in the local telecom deregulation, which I'm pretty sure will happen if you were to break up Google. Consider this took place over the course of 20+ years, but I see the same things happening.

After the Ma Bells breakup, there was a huge push to deregulate the regional carriers to increase local market competition. This was put in place in the late 90's here in Minnesota. Suddenly anybody could start a local telecom, lease lines from Qwest Communications (now CenturyLink), resell them and then compete with them in the local market.

This spawned hundreds of companies that were living on razor thin margins. Many were able to exist up to the 2000 initial dot com bust. Many went out of business during the recession. Those who survived? Many of those merged with each other, or were bought by larger regional carriers who wanted to get into the Minneapolis market.

This is what I see happening. You break Google up into smaller companies and within a decade, they will have all merged back together in some form, under different names, or they'll be bought by other companies seeking an advantage by using their technology. Its the same thing I saw happen in telecom. They tried to increase competition by deregulating the market and all it did was create a short-term gold rush and long-term crash.

The problem will be the same with Google. Qwest at the time owned the infrastructure and hardware. Nobody had the financial resources to build out an entirely new network to compete with them so they took the path of least resistance. Which lead to a myriad of other problems. Billing, installation, nefarious things Qwest would do to hamper competitors from switching their lines, etc.

You can break up Google, but over a few decades, we'll look back and understand it wasn't worth it.
I worked with a number of organizations which built public web apps. Nobody really asked about support for mobile browsers before the iPhone - some people checked that, say, an order form was technically functional but the assumption was that if it was slow or hard to read that was more to be expected than something they were going to pay to improve.
Props for sticking to your guns but also fuck you.
But Unicode code points aren't supposed to represent semantics, they're supposed to represent... well, "abstract characters" that are either glyphs or get combined into glyphs, which can have multiple (ambiguous) semantic meanings.

That's why there aren't two different period characters to represent the end of a sentence vs. a decimal point, or two different em dashes where one represents a pause while the other comes at the end of dialog to indicate the sentence was interrupted (literally the opposite of a pause, it's being cut off).

So since the apostrophe and the right single quote are visually identical, Unicode stays consistent in recommending that they be the same character. The name Unicode gives to a character is intended to represent one of its semantic meanings, not all of them.

(Unicode does have plenty of visually identical characters, but they generally belong to totally different languages, like the English "o" and the Greek omicron "ο".)
Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward
There is no evidence for "biological inclination" towards certain languages. Take a Spanish kid and raise them on Chinese, and they'll speak it natively just fine, and vice versa.

However, natural languages evolve naturally, which means that they don't just suddenly randomly change, and that change is very gradual. So things tend to get stuck in historically-motivated local maximums that can be very different for different languages because of their different histories.

There are some plausible theories around biologically motivated language features, but this tends to be about the environment - e.g. some sounds seem to be more common in languages spoken in high-altitude areas.
There are purists that complain. Importantly, we don’t let them edit the dictionaries.
I feel like Effect is today's Ramda. So cool but it's going to be regretted by you and people coming after you in few years.
Me and my team reverted to more stupid code and we are happier.
But the King is basically German. ~
0. The book you linked to is a joke.

1. You can’t take things language related from France at face value - they probably have a bias. They have a strong cultural pride and protection over their language. They also have a strong history of political agendas pushing their language as the “international” language. I say this as a non-French speaker of the French language, and I mean no disrespect to the French people. It’s just a cultural element formed over hundreds of years of government policy.

2. The origins of English is not French, but there are many words in English derived from French. But today they’re English words, with a French history. There are many more words that are not French in origin, so it’s quite disingenuous to call English an “incorrect” or “mispronounced” French. Why is it not an “evolved” or “improved” French? (See point 1).

3. English is conjugated, it’s just different than French. “I am, you are, he is”. “I look, you look, he looks”. Or more obviously “I jump, I jumped, I am jumping”. Most of the French-origin words are also probably not verbs but nouns. That said, I have no data to back that up.
There are more jobs, but also a lot more weird stuff is thrown in. Overall, the industry treats it like hiring a single bad engineer will singlehandedly and inevitably sink your entire company.

And the "boring" jobs copy their recruiting practices from the FAANG companies. So you have a 5 round interview that could ghost you any time.

The current problem is that huge numbers of companies are in a hiring freeze, but still posting jobs on job boards, so you have to submit countless resumes to get a human to contact you.

So yes, there are a lot more jobs available, but every step seems designed to discourage and frustrate job seekers.
The nonprofit will hold stock in the BPC. I think the effect of this is that the nonprofit board, which is independent of Altman, will be restricted from selling their shares. However the nonprofit will eventually convert from a public charity to a private foundation and will be required to give away a percentage of their assets every year. I'm not sure how that will work with a BPC.
https://archive.ph/Yjzha
Such a nice, simple landing page. I could immediately understand and appreciate what this app does by first looking at the picture where the flow is defined, then seeing the flow executed on video.

It's like the old Apple commercial: "There is no step three."

Congratulations on the launch!
Market monopolies make it possible.
Growing up in a hyper-connected, unlimited Internet age
Unless you have a wild use-case that hasn't been tackled by what's out there, why on earth would rolling your own be a good idea? Building a proper, secure, and performant API gateway is NOT a few dozen lines of code.

There are some super robust (and fast) Go API gateways that take care of all the things you didn't think about when trying to roll your own.
Surprising take.

Their sound and ethos is undeniably pop punk.

They played Gilman St, a punk mecca in Berkeley. See some of their shows in the 90s and 00s. If you don't think that's punk, I don't know what to tell you.

They didn't do much fast skate punk type stuff like NOFX and No Use did, but punk is a super wide genre anyway; to me, it's about what you are, not how you play (see also: second wave ska a la Reel Big Fish and No Doubt, or country cow-punk, like Hank Williams III)

They leaned harder on the "pop" aspect of pop punk (American Idiot is widely considered one of the first punk operas ever made and is one of the best-selling rock albums ever) and experimented with their sound over the years (check out their stuff from the 2010s) but they never lost their edge, IMO (They dropped Saviors this year; incredible album.)

Regardless, they inspired a zillion punk bands of all kinds. Hell, FOD, one of my favorite pop punk bands from The Netherlands, was inspired by FOD, which is on this record!
Looks like it was originally submitted to HN back in May, prior to the public availability of notebooklm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40293141
why would they do that when they can take over the gov’t and steal everyone else’s stuff? (see Russia, Venezula, China, and many others)

Notably, the biggest thefts seem to happen when they can convince people that the gov’t is doing it for ‘the good of the people’, and they’re ‘going after the rich people’, and then they can pocket it when no one is looking.
We'd be a lot better off if HOA covenants against ham antennas went away. (Milton target)
This, in a huge way. Especially given all the code that already exists.
I used kong on premise is there a use case for it when aws and the likes offer API gateway solutions?
That still doesn't prove that Kay worked there because of the financial incentives. I don't think that 20% is nearly enough for most top talent to bail to an otherwise less attractive company if they deeply care about what they're working on so long as they aren't wildly underpaid. There needs to be a combination of incentives to drive movement.
> Interoperability is great,

Yup, and that's what people want. So what is the integrated service you are saying exists that can be a drop in replacement for the way so many organizations use Google's integrated services?
You can find examples of game engines going back into the 80s. It's not a particularly new concept.
that is certainly a possibility
As I recall, Kickstarter was a very early Public Benefit Corporation. If nothing else, it probably gives a card to activist employees who think the corporation is hurting the public in some particular way.
This.

For example, in the Mariana Islands, there are two independent othography committees that have been low-key duking it out over an indigenous language with less than 50k native speakers; see these brief highlights[1; p. 11 onward] from a recognized scholar of the language for a small sampling.

In the CNMI, the language is routinely spoken (i.e. English is a second language in most households) and the CNMI's othography committee has taken a conservative approach, focusing on simple written rules that capture sound as spoken, and biasing its orthography towards serving as an optimal language preservation mechanism...which makes objective sense given its target population is overwhelmingly fluent.

In Guam, however, the spoken language was nearing generational extinction largely driven by American colonial influence not dissimilar to the going concern of native Hawaiians. Ironically, Guam's better funded orthography committee has taken a much more liberal approach in establishing new written rules and spellings (e.g. CHamoru is the official spelling of the language/people written into law as of 2017; yes, the letter CH is now entirely capitalized in a proper noun; previously Chamoru, as opposed to the prevailing and historically consistent Chamorro in the CNMI).

There's also been a recent resurgence of language adoption by the native youth cohort on Guam largely motivated by grassroots sociopolitical identity movement. This hipster generation has taken it upon themselves to replace an ever growing number of established words adopted during colonial rule hundreds of years ago with all but forgotten words of the ancient tongue...which I suppose is fair game as language evolution goes, but it's gotten to a point of irony where these changes are throwing off the elder native-speaking generation responsible for passing on the language to their progeny, e.g. family (English) --> familia (Spanish adopted) --> manggåfa (antiquated is the new hip). In contrast, no such shift in zeitgeist is happening in the CNMI.

[1] https://people.ucsc.edu/~schung/orthog_differences.pdf#page=...
No one is denying alternatives exist, people are denying alternatives exist that are anywhere near as good.
These Brain guys giving MSCHF vibes (i.e. https://deadstartuptoys.com/)
Dell's sudden 5-day RTO order leaves parents scrambling to find childcare
GCC and clang (and maybe others) have 'statement expressions': https://godbolt.org/z/sqYnbh4Ej
I do think it's a better page, but I wouldn't change the link if I were in charge. On the other hand, I think everyone is grateful that you're in charge of HN and not me. Especially not me. So I think you should use your judgment.
My living standard is a function of my personal wealth/income and the health of the society and the functions the government provides.

Elon Musks income (realised when he takes out personal loans against his equity), taxed at marginally higher rates trending to 100% above say $1 billion, would deliver more money to the government for schools, hospitals, transport, science, mental health etc,
That would benefit everyone and not really change Mr Musk's purchasing patterns or standard of living due to the way "propensity to consume" works at extreme wealth levels. Significant personal luxury, mansions, jets, art, yachts, etc can be had for under $1 billion per year in realised income.

So while it is true my personal wealth is not lessened by Mr Musk's success, my possible living standard and that of my countrymen is below what is possible by not effectively taxing him and deploying that money into government functions.

Not to mention the way he and other high net worth individuals use their wealth to influence elections and lobby government legislation and policy...
The Bofors RBS 56 BILL (1988), FGM-148 Javelin and similar missile systems exploited weak top armor long enough ago to result in changes to modern tank designs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-attack

The KF51 Panther revealed 2022 should represent the current state of the art. comprising a hard-kill element of extending the coverage of the ADS to the roof of the vehicle for protection against ATGMs and unguided anti-tank rockets launched from higher elevations, as well as a soft-kill element for protection against threats such as loitering munitions.[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_KF51

Obviously getting 100% accurate information on current tank armor isn’t realistic but at minimum these drones aren’t breaking new ground.
FWIW while comma vs period for decimal fractions is a point of significant variability globally, the use of comma to group digits is fairly uncommon, whereas period is universally understood as a decimal separator even in countries where comma is normally used for that purpose (thanks to calculators and computers). And, on the other hand, space-separated groups are self-explanatory for those used to comma for that purpose. So using spaces for grouping + period for fractions is indeed the way to go to maximum readability worldwide.
That’s undoubtedly a Zelda Fitzgerald quote (her husband plagiarized her shamelessly).

As a consequence of the Rule of Three, you are allowed to have rules that have one exception without having to rethink the law. All X are Y except for Z.

I sometimes call this the Rule of Two. Because it deserves more eyeballs than just being a subtext of another rule.
This prize isn't for inventing computers. It's for some fundamental ANN ideas.
Show HN: Dust – Actors for Java 21 – Part 2
Dust now has a collection of libraries for doing fun stuff - LLM / Embeddings interfaces, RSS Feeds, Web site crawling, SearXNG interface.
For some definition of 'understanding'.
Have you tried KrakenD? https://www.krakend.io/ - plugins are written in Go
> Any literal composed entirely of M, D, C, L, X, V and I characters that does not follow this format will raise a syntax error, because explicit is better than implicit.

Good as a reminder that rules like “explicit is better than implicit” should not be followed all the way to the most absurd possible conclusions.
Can't wait to see the contortions Altman pulls to retain a Zuckerberg-tier grip on the company, they'll put Cirque do Soleil to shame.
> The obvious fix is to not step up basis on death.

And that's how it's done in many parts of the world, works perfectly fine. There's really no reason to step up basis except to provide that loophole, which is probably exactly the reason it's done.
You get exactly what it says. For example, if you put $99 down and win the draw, you can get an actual Teddy Ruxpin that sings Chump. Or for $79 you can win a Big Mouth Billie Bass that sings Basket Case. If you click through to the previews, there are videos.
we're using the kong gateway controller on aws eks, it's pretty neat. I prefer to manage it via argocd/gitops over terraform.
>actually remove syntactic sugar and force more characters for the same functionality. I fail to see how this is even being considered.

Python is not APL. Getting at the functionality in fewer characters is not a design goal - it's just a usually consequence of the actual design goal.

This is being considered because "Explicit is better than implicit." and because it helps avoid a common class of error (e.g. `except: continue` prevents aborting a loop with Ctrl-C, which is often not intentional).

Or as the PEP puts it:

> While this syntax can be convenient for a “catch all” handler, it often leads to poor coding practices:
>
> 1. It can mask important errors that should be propagated.
> 2. It makes debugging more difficult by catching and potentially hiding unexpected exceptions.
> 3. It goes against the Python principle of explicit over implicit.

Python isn't any other language, either. It certainly isn't taking design guidance from JavaScript (which runs in an environment where the page is expected to show something coherent, and not a loud screaming error, no matter how absurd the input data and/or code).

As for how much code it would break, you made me curious:

~/Desktop/dev$ find . -name "*.py" | wc -l
49433
~/Desktop/dev$ grep --include='*.py' -rnw . -e 'except.*:' | wc -l
109801
~/Desktop/dev$ grep --include='*.py' -rnw . -e 'except:' | wc -l
5692
~/Desktop/dev$ grep --include='*.py' -rnw . -e 'except[ \t]*:' | wc -l # just to make sure
5692

But drilling down further, over 2/3 of those bare excepts are in local copies of Python itself (i.e., multiple versions of the standard library) that I built from source. Probably all the rest are in dependencies. I don't write code like that myself if I'm even remotely paying attention. (Of course, that only tells me how many occurrences there were, not how many files have them. But the first two results imply an average of about 2 `except`s per file, so.)
So, the big takeaways for me from this discussion about distributed databases are:

- Efficiency is key, and there are ways to leverage existing knowledge (like from game development) to make data processing faster.
- Cost reduction doesn’t mean sacrificing performance, and in fact, Oxla seems to be proving that it’s possible to be both fast and affordable.
- Trust and security are crucial, especially in big industries like energy or cybersecurity where any failure can be catastrophic.
I fully understand that advertising enables many businesses.

But there have been businesses based on lead pipes for drinking water plumbing, asbestos for residential insulation, and so on. You could make an argument that these technologies enabled many businesses as well. That doesn’t mean we should allow lead pipes for drinking water or to use asbestos in residential homes.
It could be very high on the scale. Like punks, bankers often don't ask for permission.
This guest post reminds me of what slatestarcodex was like until a few years ago, before he moved to substack. A long winded, confusing, seemingly goalless introduction, but entertaining and filled with personal anecdotes, culminating in some grand theory that is deeply twisted and far fetched and perfectly reasonable and obvious at the same time.

I'm off to the archives, see you in a few days.
There's also the subtitle on the article:

> ChatGPT maker considers largely untested company model to protect chief executive Sam Altman from outside interference

Or maybe the motivation is some other technical maneuver.

Or maybe the motivation is PR/optics.

Is there anyone who trusts OpenAI to be honest about their intentions, at this point?
I mean I thought that at first, then thought no way because that's just a one off product but yeah, that's incredible.

If anything the prices are far too low.
For Meteor Lake, Intel provided slides to the press that clearly labeled media blocks on the SoC tile, not the GPU tile. The hardware encode and decode also definitely does not use the shader execution units.
HTMX is an idea that I never understood. HTML over the wire sounds like the most egregious idea I could have ever thought of. If you want a sub par SPA experience just build an SPA with PHP ;), and if you want a real SPA that doesnt have 600 ms of latency when I click a button that for some god forsaken reason calls an api endpoint, use React or Vue or Svelte like we always have. Is it perfect? Trust me, as someone who is trying to build something that delivers an actual SPA experience with SSR without Node.js, it's not, but a real SPA is miles better than streaming HTML over the wire.
This:

> imagine no market volatility - everything is constant (e.g you've bought bounds)

is where everything breaks down.

Yes, if you keep all your money under your mattress, which is what's actually modeled here (bonds bear interest!) then as long as you don't run out, the unspent amount doesn't matter.

But that would be absolutely bonkers and no one would do it. Instead, you invest in interest-bearing assets. The current inflation-adjusted risk-free rate of return is 1.76%. So if you have a net worth of $2M, you could invest it in bonds and spend $35k a year forever and still pass on the entire principle when you die, essentially guaranteed. If you have a net worth of $500k, on the other hand, you could invest it in bonds and spend $8,800 a year forever.

Of course this would still be crazy - you can get higher yield by taking some risk (and notably, having a higher net worth will allow you to take more risks and get more reward without the risk of running out of money) - but even in the "just buy bonds" scenario, you're much better off with $2M than $500k.
Same in Iowa. I grew up talking about going to Penny's (as in JC Penny) or Sernett's or Gibson's (local department stores).
Troubleshoot HTTPS with Curl and OpenSSL
Midwesterner here.

My family always used "Penny's" to refer to JC Penny. They also continued to refer to Macy's as Dayton's for years after they had changed their name because the locations were all the same, just the name had changed.

Its funny because I too always felt saying "Penny's" was a regional thing, but more of Midwestern thing.
This will also end up breaking up the Ads to Nobel Prize pipeline.

I do wish they had some sort of GSoC style programs to do what Alpha Go Fold Zero did for the world.
Benchmark for measuring how well AI agents perform at ML engineering
Emphasis on _advertising in its current form_, I think it's a valuable means to be able to a). monetize something and b). to spread awareness. But I agree with GP that as a society we're allowing companies to grossly over-engineer our lives around ads.
Everyone already said that about punk. We know it’s not Bach, but it’s not meant to be. It’s punk music - it’s not meant to be impressive musically.
Literally the comment I am replying to is about making it so no one can pass on property to their kids.
Facebook immediately comes to mind. Does google even have an ad-free version? Youtube nominally does (though that doesn't stop channels from running their own).