skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy, I could write a book in response to this...

> a section on their site explaining how they are able to undercut everyone in the business and still keep going

This is great feedback that I'm putting on our todo list. We should absolutely have this.

We'll never put pricing out there that we can't handle with our economics, or at least have a clear path to supporting. All of our volume pricing is available publicly, so you should never be bait-and-switched if you're understanding concepts like credits. This is in contrast to some of our competitors that regularly surprise users with new pricing when they hit scale. I hate that so much.

Under the hood we use just-in-time encoding and other advanced optimizations that do give us an edge. Not to mention economies of scale. Writeup to come.

But a challenge comes in customer perception. Some of our customers understand encoding and it's cost, plus the benefits it brings like adaptive streaming and handling user-generated uploads. Many devs are new to video and expect it to cost the same as uploading an MP4 to S3. Some point to our competitors with no encoding costs, and some even point to Youtube as a reason why it should be cheaper. In the past Mux has been labeled as "the expensive option" because we charged for encoding, so we've been working on new pricing shape (some launched already, some to come) that allows you to come in at levels using less encoding that we can support economically, then elect higher levels of encoding costs/values when you understand if they're worth it to you.

We also think video should be more places than it is today, but video is inherently expensive in comparison to many other costs related to building an app, so we see it as our job to keep pushing costs down and shaping pricing so video is accessible to more use cases.
As libertarian as my proclivities tend to be I cannot disagree with this move.
Agreed.

But For C++ template combinatorics are going to dominate any slow down due to function length.
The neoliberal program initiated in the 1970s is to blame, and the conditions for that program were set by the gross expenditures of the Vietnam War, whose origins date back to Truman's decision to support French recolonization of Indochina after WWII.

The fundamental goal of neoliberalism is to place all capital in private hands and eliminate any governmental control over capital - and that means eliminating the middle class and creating a two-tiered society of serfs and aristocrats, as existed in 19th century Russia, Britain and Germany.

The methodology is roughly threefold - (1) destroy domestic unions by exporting all well-paid unionized manufacturing jobs in the USA to sweatshop zones in offshore client states, and (2) import as much cheap labor as possible to fill jobs that cannot be exported (construction, services, agribusiness etc), ideally undocumented so that any unionization efforts can be resisted by deporting union leaders and organizers at will. This ensures starvation wages for the serf class. (3) Establish large homeless and prison populations as a constant threat to the serf class - no matter how bad your situation is, it could be worse!
France has a mechanism to try to stop this: the Académie Française [1] that publishes the official French dictionary. Rather than simply recording language as its used, they do actively try to steer it. They're most well known for trying to suppress anglicisms, e.g. in the early 2000s they pushed 'courriel' instead of 'email'. That one did not work out - email is much more common, and finally entered the dictionary in 2009 (to this day labelled 'anglicism' and discouraged over 'mél').

FWIW the German equivalent is much less prescriptive, it only weighs in on grammar / punctuation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise
At work I have used zod, myzod, joi though I have settled on class-validator as it ties in with nestjs really well.
And the origin of that plural form comes from Latin.
Well I'd be careful, that's a classic example of untrusted user data.
What might deep mind have looked like today if it were given the same resources in an academic or national lab setting and no ultimate profit motive?
Don’t worry, there’ll be a transition period for people to migrate to other domains.
If you spend enough time among the right communities, you'll find tons of people speaking that way or any other way. Especially among the uneducated demographics. The very same ones that created this new rule in the original article (hence the name "idiot's" apostrophe). Now should we listen to them or not? I see highly conflicting statements here.
Yes, the title is completely misleading.

What the article seems to suggest is what economists have always known. People react to incentives (and so do animals). Ranchers do not have blind hate for cats but rather care more about their cattle than the cats. By making few changes that are profitable for them cats can co-exist. But that does not make them allies.

Cats are not helping the ranchers in any ways.
Ukrainian propaganda instead frequently dehumanizes the Russian population.

Sources, please. Otherwise you'll need to retract.
Just curious, why would symlinks not work here? That's traditionally how this sort of thing was done, even on Linux.

Is it a chroot issue? Interestingly, OpenBSD services seem to be moving away from chroot now that it has unveil. (Not that that would help you here and now.)
How is it exactly that Discord was banned for political reasons?
There are basically political reasons for this. Wade-Giles is associated with Taiwan, and is in fact mostly used when referring to Taiwanese subjects, I've always seen Kaohsiung for the city, never Gāoxióng.

The Mainlanders would find it very insulting to not use Pinyin when referring to subjects in the PRC, so understandably, American journalism goes along with that.

For what it's worth I think both systems have different disadvantages, in that neither does a good job of reflecting the actual pronunciation of Guoyu. Excuse me, Putonghua. Doing so with the English character set isn't actually possible.
Additional wealth has diminishing marginal returns, obviously.
OSX Monterey continued to receive security updates until the release of Sequoia last month, which means a 10 year old mac mini would have continued to receive patches.

Devices compatible with Monterey (mostly 2015 models, oldest is 2013 mac pro trashcan) https://support.apple.com/en-us/103260
> I’d like to think that our tax system was designed to be fair

It is. But everyone has a different definition of "fair."
Google engineer's time was not worth Google reader. If you think it was a useful product you could have created it yourself for profit.
> the video encode and decode blocks were on an entirely different piece of silicon from the GPU.

As far as I understand this is not true. It's a different engine within the graphics device, and it shares the execution units.
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Corporate life is just really boring and this kind of nonsense is understood as fun by people engaging in it.
Not just money, that's liquidating all of their assets at current market prices.
Do they let you type in your password yet? Last time I looked at it you had to click an onscreen keyboard.
Sans access to the worlds top supercomputer infra.
Posts like this will get you banned on HN. Regardless of which group you have a problem with, please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FSD - Full Self Driving
Nvidia and MediaTek Collaborate on 3nm AI PC CPU
Yea, really Youtube and browser bloat is the problem. one more reason to pirate.
Nothing like what you described exists in Canada.

You are presumably referring to the OQLF (a provincial institution, not a “Canadian” one) which enforces French as the dominant public language in Quebec. Given that Quebec, despite being surrounded by the Anglosphere, hasn’t ended up like Louisiana or Ireland where French or Irish as the primary native language is a distant memory, suggests that their efforts are successful.
I'm not sure this is the right way to look at it. I can't find stats right now, but I recall reading top players making frame-perfect moves in games like Smash Bros. Melee and Rocket League.
These are just generic anti-tax arguments. Yes, if you pay your taxes you will have less money. And maybe you would have used some of that money to do good things. Oh well.

I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting you shouldn't be allowed to borrow against assets. That isn't even the problem. The problem is that you can go your whole life without paying taxes on gains of those assets, then pass them on to your heirs who can sell them and also never have to pay those taxes. It's like a big gift from the IRS: your assets that were previously encumbered by unpaid capital gains taxes instantly become more valuable upon your death.

Your heirs should have the same cost basis as you did. And so if they sell they have pay the taxes that you never did.
> The fundamental goal of neoliberalism is to place all capital in private hands and eliminate any governmental control over capital

Okay

> and that means eliminating the middle class and creating a two-tiered society of serfs and aristocrats, as existed in 19th century Russia, Britain and Germany.

No, that simply does not follow.
How would you feel about Google if they used things like Linux and never contributed anything to open source? As the most profitable entity in the WordPress space, WPE has a duty to give something back. What Matt is asking for isn't unreasonable.
Liskov's Gun: The Parallel Evolution of React and Web Components
I can guess it without reading the post now. Thanks!
Come on... that's so unfair. There is a reason such individuals chose to work at Google and not Apple or Amazon for example and were able to "individually" come up with such work without being pestered by their management to do other stuff.
There was no shortage of other deep-pocketed suitors trying to buy DeepMind too during the Google acquisition back in 2014 - I think DeepMind would have likely found a reasonable home regardless.
i would choose different words, but hell yes! all the years "open" source
Both ChatGpt 4.o and Claude failed to answer

“…At what dimension would the red ball extend outside the box?”

If anyone has o1-preview it’d be interesting to hear how well it does on this.
No, it didn't help, but FTX should not have ever been in a position where a bank run forced them into bankruptcy and froze customer assets.

They're not a lender, they're just an exchange. Regardless of taking on debt to manage settlement, the fact that people did not own the assets in their FTC accounts is insane.
"I couldn't care less about the shock value. I just want to look at the distribution and do nothing with that information even though there is something incredibly shocking here."
Nice one. This confirms my long held suspicion that German contains a lot of badly spelled Englisch words. Or maybe, it's the other way around?
Let me just grab my time machine and go back 40 years
What Happened to Duracell Powercheck?
What does a linear scale not tell you about the object of the graph? I'm not sure what further insights you could glean from a logarithmic scale.
Porcelain fountains!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oofdn0MFDSQ
Two Workflow Tips
> Is English just badly pronounced French?

Oh totally, my American accent sounds just like, "quand je vais au barbecue le quatre juillet, je vais manger un hot dog avec ketchup."

> But it would be better than having 1,000s of badly pronounced French words in the language.

They're loanwords that changed over time, they're not "badly" pronounced at all. French is filled with many loanwords as well that are pronounced nothing like their language of origin
Yes, this was updated sometime recently (in the past few years).
captcha will be hard to replace or improve on as the most pointless and agrivating thing
ever invented
the only way I ever go through with it is if I am getting something material,money say,that is locked behind a craptcha event
> "I personally do not believe AGI is possible under current or near-future technology"

Calculators do arithmetic faster and more reliably than human brains, and do so using many fewer transistors than we have neurons. Wheels and tarmac are simpler, more efficient and faster at forwards motion than jointed human legs. Boston Dynamics' robots can cross rough terrain with legs, without needing bones and flesh and nerves and blood and skin and hair and toes with toenails.

What if language, reasoning, logic, intelligence is similar - if it could be done on simpler hardware by not doing it in the same way the human brain does it, if we knew how?

I don't suppose this can be answered either way until someone builds an AGI or understands how the brain works, but is there a strong reason you think this reasoning doesn't/cannot apply to thinking, other than "the brain is the only thing we know of which does this"?
Looking around on Twitter and repos in the OSS community, it appears that Zod is now almost always favored over yup, despite an almost identical API. Curious to hear what people think if they've worked with both. We went with Yup early on at my company, and now that's what we use for consistency in our codebase. I haven't personally found it to be lacking, but some of the logic around nulls and undefined always lead me back to the docs.
I think the diagram on a linear scale makes the stark point that to Elon Musk, there is not really a difference between someone worth $499 and someone worth $499M, even though to me there is a massive difference between those people.
Here's the scoop: Wimbledon's rolling with the times, folks! Starting in 2025, they're replacing those sharp-eyed line judges with AI, because if there's one thing we trust more than humans, it's robots to decide if a serve's in or out. Guess technology's not just for selfies anymore, eh?
Even among the highly educated, it's shocking how resistant some of them are to written communication.

I used to wonder if there was something wrong with my email, then I considered maybe they were likely busy, indifferent, or lazy, and now I wonder if they are just barely functionally literate so that drafting a response induces a significant mental burden.
Yeah, it looks bad, but only if you pretend that the ideas these visionaries pioneered were worthless. To take a single example, it might seem obscene that Bezos' net worth would take 32 million years of continuous work for the average Amazon warehouse worker to accrue, but without him who would have come up with the idea of using a computer to buy things on the internet?
We changed the URL from https://twitter.com/USTechWorkers/status/1843744799607898260 to what looks like the article it points to.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Well, it's much easier to understand the difference when one and another are using different alphabets.
Google has acquired a lot of ad competitors, but I can't remember any general-purpose search engines. It seemed more like they died out naturally over a long period. I welcome new information if that's not right.
yep.

Typescript is build-time validation, but in the end TS is "just JS"

Zod provides runtime validation (and also works well with TS)
> Why should anyone need an account from a private business to buy bonds,

That wasn't asserted. It's a more efficient route. Just as Door Dash is faster than having food mailed via USPS.

> why do you think that people deserve to be punished for buying directly from the government

This was not a claim either, but I'll be gracious. The government never makes inefficiency an explicit goal. The consequence is the incidental effect of a massive bureaucracy. This is common knowledge.

> and why do you think this is common knowledge?

Need to come down to the DMV or Social Security office? Gonna be a few hours in many localities. If you're lucky enough to use the website, maybe a few minutes. Scale this up to the Federal Level and less frequently exercised services.

From secondhand experience (my wife): Getting a first name change and have no fingerprints? It'll be months of exchanges before the FBI nixes the application.
Well, the article leaves open the possibility that it was Musk paying the gift tax now to avoid paying an even larger estate tax later.
No, according to economic theory, the law of diminishing marginal utility generally does not apply to money. Please cite a source that says having more AUM somehow decreases potential yield. Sounds retarded. People say stuff that needs evidence then say obviously like its a source.
You trust native Windows security? I’m hoping it’s not, but what if a hospital’s decision looks like a choice between ransomware and a root system like crowd strike?
Try buying a .com domain these days and let me know how that goes.
> Nvidia GPUs

You would need an actual GPU, though. Massively increasing cost, power usage etc. without providing any real value in return for many use cases and AFAIK HW transcoding with Plex doesn't even work properly with with AMDs iGPUs?

The N100 can transcode 4k streams at ~20w while costing barely more than a Raspberry Pi.
async/await uses threads underneath. And sometimes even that paradigm is not sufficient.
Probably you were suffering from CPU throttle, trying with thinkfan and throotled projects should match or exceed your (non GPU) related problem
Eh, I wouldn't agree with that. In Germany, we had multiple top-down orthographic reforms in the past (e.g. Rechtschreibreform 1996, had many many significant, brand-new changes to make spelling and speaking more consistent) which were pretty forced, i.e. was not organic at all. I'm not saying it was bad, I like the current state of the German language - but it was not organic or democratic. Germanys equivalent to The Daily Mail even had an entire campaign against it with stickers and all.

And there is no true way to "vote with your feet" if you get punished for violating the official orthography.

Not to mention other sources of non-organic language change, like e.g. suppressing dia- or sociolects, but I also don't want to delve (hehe) too far. :P
Adding an implicit raise to the end of a bare-except would quietly break things, and is non-trivial to detect. Say you have a naive base-except:

def loop():
try:
check_service()
except:
logging.exception("Error while checking service.")
time.sleep(60)

Really you shouldn't be using a base-except here. You should at the bare minimum catch `Exception`. Adding an implicit `raise` at the end will break this function without so much as a warning. Instead of calling the function every minute, the loop is broken with an unexpected exception that was deliberately suppressed (and logged).

A more common scenario for myself is write a lot of my scripts in the style:

def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
# Parse args, setup logging, etc.

try:
run_script(args)
except:
log.exception("Script failed.")
return 1

return 0

if __name__ == '__main__':
sys.exit(main(sys.argv))

An implicit raise would obnoxiously break them when my bare-except is intentional, and effectively cause the error to be printed twice to the terminal. Now I'm not wholly opposed to forcing `except BaseException:` instead of `except:`, but an implicit raise would cause all sorts of subtle bugs.
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Sure... "bankrupt-adjacent company with vaguely hard-coded cloud dependencies inconveniences their customers" is a story we've seen many times in the past already, and will continue to see uncountable times in the future, mostly because most people reading stories like these are employed by startups doing the exact same thing.

So, the issue becomes "how to fix this"? This very same site tells me that EU-style hardcore regulation "makes it impossible to run a business", so, I'm open to suggestions, other than "Open Source Everything and Rewrite it in Rust"?
> Yet would be entirely baffled at the concept of a British panto.

Monty Python, and in particular Terry Gilliam's animation style, were both heavily panto influenced.

It was also a nerd rite-of-passage to watch Eraserhead which was directed by David Lynch, who then got to direct the Elephant Man.

The panto scene at the end of Elephant Man is one of the few scenes in a movie that wrecks me every time I watch it. Unfortunately it gets scrubbed every time someone posts it online.
That is absolutely correct, and that’s why I have always, in my free time, written engines and frameworks.

I envy the creator of Stardew Valley; he programmed, designed, wrote, and composed the entire game by himself over his 5 years of development.
Is it hostile if the call is coming in from the house?
You should try the Vuzix Blade then.

https://www.vuzix.com/products/vuzix-blade-2-smart-glasses
Why would you even bother running at a game at 120Hz if the user's response to what's being drawn is effectively 24-30 FPS?
Maybe that's fine for Microsoft/Github. Where are the bootstrapped startups supposed to go?
> that severely damages America's ability to generate wealth?

Why would it damage that ability? The assets those billionaires own aren't going away. The skills of the people working at those businesses aren't going away.
It occurs to me that if you charted a distribution of political power (pick your metric for that…) it’d look about the same.

A few thousand state and federal officials, rich businessmen with influence, lobbyists, union leaders, …

At the far right you’d have governors of large states, Supreme Court justices, Congressional committee chairs, the President.

Nobody seems to get too worked up over this, it’s the system we’ve chosen. But as a group the folks on the far right of that distribution exercise and have exercised way more critical leverage over the state of my life—during Covid, say—than Larry Ellison and the Walmart heirs.
Definitely.

Let's say I had all the same holdings as Musk or Bezos, just in much much lower amounts, proportionate to the difference of our net worth.

Use Amazon stock as an example. If Bezos indicates a desire to liquidate his Amazon holdings he has to file paperwork with SEC, and the very act of him selling his stock would impact the price downward. People wondering if he knows something would also start selling their shares, and just the sheer volume would take hours or even days to unload.

If I wanted to divest my proportion of AMZN I would click a few buttons in an online portal. 10 seconds later, my stock would be sold off at the then-current price, and I'd have a cash balance in my account. In the typical hourly trading volume of AMZN my transaction wouldn't even stand out.

Even if my entire net worth, and the net worth of all my closest friends was in AMZN, we could sell it for market price and the transactions would be settled in a few seconds. Nobody would even notice.
(Just to be sorta pedantic) I don't think it's the version 1.x that promotes backward compatibility, but editions.

In 2016, you could call your function `fn async(...) { ... }` without any issues, and you can still compile this code with the modern version of rustc. If you want to use the async features of Rust, you need to change your edition to at least 2018, which brings breaking changes in the language.

And you can have a project that mixes those editions, and cargo will correctly use the edition asked for each crate.

(So, I guess the ideal world would to first look at the package management in Python, and *then* try to introduce breaking changes. And I'm withholding how much I'm angry at the PSF for postponing having a decent package manager for 20 years and investing in removing the GIL and adding JIT.)