skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's simply not true. If it were, then carriers would never have bothered with the administrative overhead of locking phones in the first place. People do respond differently to economic incentives like whether their phone will turn into a brick or not -- that's Econ 101.

Well its not like they have to individually lock each phone they sell by hand and your phone does not turn into a brick if its locked to a carrier. Yes definitely the functionality is drastically reduced but there are also people/services that will unlock your phone for you that don't work for the carrier. Maybe if the phone actually was unable to be used at all if it was locked and you didn't pay the bill, that would be a valid argument.

I can't really agree with just because they do it, it must work argument, I have, and I'm sure you have too, worked for a lot of companies that had policies or practices that did not work.

I worked in customer service for Rogers, a large telecom in Canada before unlocking was mandated. There were lots of customers that did not pay their phone bill despite their phone being locked. If people don't have the money (whether it be their fault or not) they aren't going to pay their phone bill no matter what sort of incentive you give them.
I admit that I didn't read the entire article in depth, but I did my best to meaningfully skim-parse it.

Can someone briefly explain how or if adding data types to JSON - a standardized grammar - leaves something that still qualifies as JSON?

I have no problem with people creating supersets of JSON, but if my standard lib JSON parser can't read your "JSON" then wouldn't it be better to call it something like "CH-JSON"?

If I am wildly missing something, I'm happy to be schooled. The end result certainly sounds cool, even though I haven't needed ClickHouse yet.
Well ... consider my brain fucked
Good point - I’ll take a look at fireflies but forgot to mention copilot does a good job with taking meeting minutes, so that is another use case I’ve found helpful.
the us government cannot directly do anything about foreign markets.
I Tried Nonboarding and Survived
Voting is just passive a passive part of politics, but there is active part of politics, like political activism, and that is as important as voting.

People that are good at public relations and communications can directly do political activism, while people bad at that and good at something else can use money generated from what they are good at to hire or support someone to do political activism for them.

So forbidding money in political activism is just gatekeeping political activism to people good at public relations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/technology/meta-instagram...
The dream. Someone posted this, which is designed along these lines, here not long ago. https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo
> The author, however, fails to put forward any real criticism of government authorities who: - Have much greater scale - Are more opaque - Engage more aggressively to control and manage narratives - Are routinely shown to be subject to corporate captur

The author has chosen to write about, and I quote "How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance"

This does not include, and is not obligated to include, any other factors that might destabilize governance.

As for the claims of virtue re: tech companies, I think they are overbroad and overpositive. There are several examples of tech companies violating any of the virtues you mention, and going head to head with government regulation to the determent of us all. This is not to say tech companies lack virtue, just that they may not all be the paramount morality that you seem to describe.
Questions than can easially be read as an accusation.

We don't have enough information to answer them.
Oh, I briefly looked over Vite but haven't actually used it yet.
This is a good opportunity to seriously take a look at it.

Is the final HTML and JavaScript code generated clean and without unnecessary bloat? As always, minimizing the resources that a first-time visitor has to download is one of my main goals as well.
I am confused by this comment. You said "RAM" (contrast to "DRAM" in the article title) but I think you are talking about DRAM sticks? But those have not gone away (other than with some laptops where it's soldered on and not upgradable).

Going from 8MB to 32MB in the 90s is still comparable to going from 8GB to 32GB today.

One difference is just that the price isn't dropping at the same rate anymore [1], so it doesn't make as much sense to buy small and re-buy next year when bigger chips are cheaper (they won't be much cheaper).

Another is that DRAM speed is at the top of an S-curve [2], so there's not that same increase in speed year-over-year, though arguably the early 2000's were when speeds most dramatically increased.

[1] https://aiimpacts.org/trends-in-dram-price-per-gigabyte/

[2] http://blog.logicalincrements.com/2016/03/ultimate-guide-com...
While I am a GPL fan, I'm still disappointed this is not Apache licensed for the missed joke. (For the three of us who think that would be funny)
Canceling subscriptions is so difficult to do the the U.S. that a federal agency has announced new regulations designed to make it easy.
Yes because companies are totally unchecked and there's no regulation at all and because of this we have governance that brings us Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and bullshit wars and tampons in boys bathrooms and under lock and key at Walgreens. Good grief. This is not the kind of thing technical people or hackers want to read.
> this is an unavoidable part of having public spaces in society.

Maybe, maybe not. It is something new - within the last twenty years or so - to the concept of either "privacy" or "public space". Laws and norms and people's intuitions were formed in a different technological and informational context.

If you have a positive case for why passive surveillance of everyone is harmless (or, indeed, beneficial) to society (as a whole, not only those who engage in it) then please make it. Assuming it must be harmless or good begs the question.
How do the new Type III superconductors affect this approach?

"Topological gauge theory of vortices in type-III superconductors" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.0... ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41803654#41803662
Having strict, but identical restrictions would already accomplish that.

Having strict, slightly differing restrictions doesn’t seem to add anything extra of value? It’s pure downsides.
This is just more pro-monopoly, too big to fail propaganda. If monopoly enforcement had prevented 50 years of defense company mergers, or if the courts had broken up Microsoft, this wouldn't be an issue.

Let them fail. A hundred competitive companies will rise from the ashes.
"Bought out by corporate interests" is a completely accurate assessment of the American electoral system. It's honestly quite alienating reading all of these completely delusional comments. Your vote is at the very least supposed to be proportionally significant to the general population. We don't even have that. We are bombarded with corporate propaganda every fucking day. A senator from Wyoming has just as much of a vote as California. This notion that we live in a democracy or anything close to that is asinine. The system is not tethered to the will of the people in any sense of the word. It's an oligarchy.
Samsung phones use both, in a very literal sense. Their flagship devices usually have both Snapdragon and Exynos variants for different regions, and their lower end devices are mostly Exynos across the board.

The S23 line was an exception in using Snapdragon worldwide, but then the S24 line switched back to using Snapdragon in NA and Exynos everywhere else, except for the S24 Ultra which is still Snapdragon everywhere.

Yes it's a confusing mess, and it's arguably misleading when the predominantly NA-based tech reviewers and influencers get the usually superior QCOM variant, and promote it to a global audience who may get a completely different SOC when they buy the "same" device.
Qualcomm pitched a Znew extension for RISC-V that basically removes compressed (16-bit) instructions and adds more ARM64-like stuff. It felt very much like trying to make an easier plan B for if/when they need/want to transition from ARM to RISC-V.

https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/332/0/cod...
They operate under the constraint of my ability to take my business elsewhere. This gives me 1000x more leverage over companies than my vote will ever have over the government. The worst customer service nightmare i have ever been through is nothing compared to the time the IRS incorrectly calculated that I owed them thousands more in taxes. My vote does not constrain them in the least.
You’re suggesting that Snapdragon processors would switch to RISC-V and that would be no big deal? Presumably Qualcomm is committed to numerous multi-year supplier agreements for the arm chipsets.
Samsung still uses qualcomm in US markets and exynos outside US even for their flagships.
Well nothing else we've tried has worked.
Interactive auth sounds attractive at first but it's really the wrong place for an answer once you look at all of the ways captive portals are used (i.e. more than just "check this agreement box"). You really need the power of the browser to display a custom form behind the solution or you end up with n+1 solutions instead of replacing captive portals.

Something like a DHCP option or NDP option ends up being a lot more natural: "Hey, here's your IP along with the information needed to access the network" is already a function of that layer. Some devices (e.g. macOS/iOS/iPadOS, Windows, Android) take a similar approach in the reverse by probing for a specific test url. That's also a bit hacky and unreliable (e.g. it can falsely trigger) but some minor standardization of it to e.g. a well known DNS name could be another good option.
This is even more short term thinking and a bit of ignorance. Where do you think all of the ‘stuff’ around you came from? Everything starts as raw materials, most of them organic.

And besides how selfish would it be to preserve nothing for the future generations.
That is a very interesting read. There cannot be that many places left on earth where you can find 3 billion-year-old rocks close to the surface that aren’t modified in some way by heat or pressure.
This was about 6 months ago I think. I’ll happily give it another shot.
I love this so much. I dug around a bit and figured out how it works - I have an explanation (with an illustrative diagram) here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/sudoku-in-python-packa...

Figuring out how it works is a great way to learn a bit more about how Python packaging works under the hood. I learned that .whl files contain a METADATA file listing dependency constraints as "Requires-Dist" rules.

I ran a speed comparison too. Using the uv pip resolver it took 0.24s - with the older pip-compile tool it took 17s.
I know next to nothing about physics, but isn't the "It just so happens" part of what you said potentially misleading? Isn't it that light is massless, so that directly implies that it would travel at the maximum speed?
NASA is a separate agency from space force. The former is directly under the President as an independent agency while the latter is under the DoD.
This affects their custom Nuvia derived cores. I'm sure Qualcomm will be able to keep using ARM designed cores to cover themselves while they ween off ARM in favor of RISC-V if they need to.
It's the producer of the software that has the property rights, not the user.

If I own a piece of land, I can charge people to visit it, but I don't give up my property rights to do so. We don't see that as an "erosion" of property rights but rather the opposite.
I would say the statement was "Well, at least vote". And in local elections, that does make a difference.

In general, I think far too much attention is paid to single election cycles at the federal level. And I'm not sure why. The state you live in has significantly more effect on your experience with government, outlay of benefits, taxes, education and environmental policies than who holds the presidential office, for essentially all issues that matter.

In the rare case that a federal change affects you (likely a court decision, thanks to lame duck congress), states routinely step in, as we've seen recently.

The one exception to everything is that if you want _other_ states to live like _your_ state, then yeah - you better try to get the federal government aligned with your virtues. But why any sane person would want that is beyond me.
Qualcomm pitched Znew quite a while ago. It mostly ditched 16-bit instructions and added a bunch of instructions that were basically ripped straight from ARM64.

The idea was obviously an attempt at making it as easy as possible to replace ARM with RISC-V without having to rework much of the core.

https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/332/0/cod...
I understood. Perhaps my mental connection was somewhat flimsy though. I was trying to make a tongue-in-cheek joke about how whenever I work on a database that has tables with overloaded responsibilities (poor normalization) instead of proper foreign keys they often also coincidentally have poor, plural names. Whenever I encounter such a thing, I think about the story of how it became that way. Usually part of the story includes a developer looking for a place to stick some logic and deciding an arbitrary place seems good enough because it’s a bit vague.
It’s not a big hurdle so long as they hire Jim Keller to rapidly improve yet another architecture. (Only half-joking.)
Ask HN: What elements of a startup should founders consider outsourcing
I had a conversation with someone toying with a platform idea. They were wondering which parts of the technical development could be outsourced - made me wonder the same thing. They were interested in a cost effective path to an MVP (little technical background).

How might experienced founders or professionals approach outsourcing for a startup?
>Qualcomm moves to RISC-V and ARM loses even harder in the long-term.

I think long term is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. How long until:

1. Qualcomm develops a chip that competitive in performance to ARM

2. The entire software world is ready to recompile everything for RISC-V

Unless you are Apple I see such a transition taking a decade easily.
Native Option/Result types + algebraic data types would solve quite a few complaints I have about Go
Aviation contributes 2.5% of the global CO2 emissions per year.

The decisions Mark makes are more consequential than his private jet usage.
Is that a generalisation about the readership or to content here, or a bitter observation of lack of concern by the readership? There are multiple interpretations possible here.
This isn't some accident, it is the stated aim, and result of systematic academic capture by Austro-libertarian economists and right wing libertarians.
1. After he was insulted by the rescue person. Besides, have you ever insulted someone? I when I was young a common insult was to call someone "gay". It doesn't mean anyone thought they were gay, it was just an insult. The worker sued Musk over it, and lost, because it was just an insult, and didn't rise to defamation.

2. Firing people is not about them doing nothing to the owner. It is about getting rid of employees who were not core contributors in a company that was losing a lot of money fast. They were all well paid, there's no need to feel sorry for them. If they're competent, they'll have no trouble getting hired elsewhere. Besides, every person I personally knew who were fired thought they were treated unfairly. Even the ones who were embezzling, padding expense accounts, and showing up for work drunk (I'm not suggesting that the Twitter workers were that, just illustrating how everyone thinks they are unfairly treated).

3. He said / she said is not evidence. If it was, he would have been prosecuted. Wealthy people are usually counseled to avoid situations where they could be falsely accused. Did you know Tim Walz is also accused? No evidence there, either.

4. Maybe it was a political issue. A lot of people don't like his politics, and so may think it justified to go after him.

5. Nobody has proved that US elections are secure. In Washington State, the elections department as official policy does not verify that registered voters are citizens. A secure system would welcome audits, not prevent them.

6. Full self driving is a spectrum, not an obvious yes/no line. Human drivers have car accidents all the time. Everyone in my family has been involved in a car accident in one form or another. My grandmother was killed in one, I nearly was killed in another.

7. Don't know about that.

8. So the board fired him in as vicious and demeaning way possible?

9. Oh, the monster! Jeez. You're talking to the wrong guy, I give my IP away for free.

10. The Boring Company is profitable and now valued conservatively at $7 billion and optimistically at about $125 billion. TIME magazine hates him - I wouldn't take what they wrote seriously. Nor do I believe that Musk is responsible for the total failure of California's high speed rail.

On the other hand, the people who invested in his companies have done very well. Every Tesla owner I know loves their car. Starlink has been crucial in helping the Helena disaster victims. He's making science fiction real.
lol. If any website ever did that to me it would be the last time I ever went to it. Not a big concern for me.
I wrote a kaleidoscope simulator. You know, a virtual tray filled with hundreds of little plastic beads of various shapes and colors that tumble around when you press the keys, with the camera displayed on a grid of triangles. I wrote it in Rust using Bevy, which was great, but it wouldn't work in WASM for some reason (simpler projects did just fine) and getting it running in the browser was the goal so I uh dropped the project.
Not just telecom, they are just super aggressive in general as a bully with weapons pile. I remember they tried to threaten Opus codec with patents just becasue, when IETF proposed it for Internet standard. Luckily that failed, but it shows their nasty approach very clearly. So now they are getting the taste of their own medicine.
Crypto in modems, and mp3s
react-lang-selecta: https://github.com/MarcAbonce/react-lang-selecta

A language selector component that shows random (but still accurate) flags for each given language.

So if you give it, for example: English, Portuguese and Chinese it might render the flags of South Sudan, Macau, and Macau.

I always noticed how websites sometimes pick arbitrary flags in their language dropdowns even when they're not even trying to represent those specific regions. Wikipedia even has an article describing this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_icons_for_languages

So I thought about making a React component lib just to make fun of that idea. It's not that creative nor good but I had fun writing it.
The ludlites needed to learn new jobs. I know many old people who are unwilling to try anything new. I try to not be one, but sometimes I've already seen that in some different form - I'm not sure if I'm right to be cynical about new things or not.
The question is more of will your customers agree to go along with this major architectural shift that sets you back on price-performance-power curves by at least five years and moves you out of the mainstream of board support packages, drivers, and everything else software-wise for phones.

Also we should not pretend that ARM is just going to sit there waiting for RISC-V to catch up.
I have a personal policy of sharing my prompts as openly as possible. I've shared hundreds at this point - for a bunch of recent examples see https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/ and https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/
I agree "The price of ownership is greater than the price of licensing, as it comes with additional rights and privileges than licensing." That's why it was more expensive to purchase a product with ownership rights.

The reason I say people are ok with it is because the companies who didn't switch to a licensing model and kept their old prices either are no longer around or had to switch to a licensing model in order to stay competitive. If people were ok paying higher prices for the benefit of ownership then that's what we would see in the market today.
I think you're battering round evidence to fit your own square hole. Batteries are coming on stream, and do not need to be TwH scale to provide incremental improvement and I don't personally think the outages are sheeted home to the rise of solar and wind alone. It's complicated.
Your semantics above is quite compatible with mine, although I hedged my statement with “a few” which could also mean up to a little over 5, like 6. Also I said “automatable”, not necessarily automated due to legal, political, reputational, or other reasons.

I’m curious to understand your reasoning. What would be some key roadblocks? Hallucinations and reliability issues in most domains will likely be solvable with agentic systems in a few years.
> people/companies do this because of the fear that their activity may fall under sanctions, even though it highly likely does not.

People/companies do this because lawyers tell them that there is a risk that the activity may violate sanctions. And yes the lawyers are probably overly conservative, but that's because there often isn't a way to know for sure whether something is actually a violation until you end up in the courtroom.
Aren't you describing https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/outline?

> Outline is a line outside of the element's border. Unlike other areas of the box, outlines don't take up space, so they don't affect the layout of the document in any way.

If you s/border/outline in the dev console on the image you get what you want.
A solution to this is to book your flight first, then the hotel, as all airlines (that I'm aware of) allow for a full refund within 24 hrs.
Usually standard reference materials are just regular materials that have been measured really precisely and carefully. So you’re paying for the certificate of analysis and the tracking of lot numbers and such for wherever the material was sourced
Room temp chirality switching and detection in a helimagnetic MnAu2 thin film
> 2. I am fairly sure a competitive RISC-V CPU is not days or weeks but years away.

And chasing a moving target fueled by the largest technology companies on the planet.
A bit like the new Gemini Pro 1.5-002 release.