skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to speculate. It’s in black and white: last time Trump wanted to spite Bezos, he canceled $10Bn in AWS contracts. This is profit driven, plain and simple.

> In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it lost a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft because Trump used “improper pressure ... to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.

Notably, most presidential candidates aren’t so petty and vindictive as to cancel contracts with political opponents for spite, but we’re talking about Trump here. It would be best if you woke up to this reality.
Does everyone believe that we need copyright to be the exact way that it is though?

I'm pretty sure that the reason that copyright laws are the way they are is because certain industries in the US lobby the government to strong arm other countries into adopting onerous copyright restrictions as part of free trade agreements.

Whatever you feel about the merits of intellectual property laws the idea that they're wrapped up as 'free trade' when they in fact make things that would otherwise be free cost money is downright Orwellian.

Maybe countries that don't really have a film or tv industry don't want to see copyright on those products and why would they? Why would they want to see their citizens paying American countries for something that would otherwise be free?
>... As for the word woke, again, there was a top-down, highly intentional (and obvious, tbh) mis/reinterpretation in order to disarm the word. Which in your case has clearly worked. "Woke" was one of the clearest examples of a word being twisted in record time.

Where, precisely, would I have to have been to observe a different usage? And what precisely do you think that usage entailed?
Low gain where there is destructive interference and high gain where there is constructive interference. That is the feature. Same amount of energy is radiated, it is just amplified in the high-gain main lobe.

A low gain direction is not the same as no signal though. With enough power you can overpower the main lobe signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain_(antenna)
There's no neutral human being.
Your indifference is your problem. Don't try to foist it on other people.
He knows something
I found this useful

The Problem with Ikigai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeX6kNbaF0w

The TLDR I got from is that first - that the diagram itself was made up by someone trying to write a business blog/book.

The second is that the goal is not to find one singular activity to cover the intersection of the Ikigai Venn diagram. Instead it can be better to have multiple different activities which ensure the union of the Ikigai Venn diagram is covered so you aren't myopically focused on one area of it.
It’s Amazons, Blue origin, AWS profits he’s fearful for, not WaPo.
I'm pretty sure the poster you're replying to was being sarcastic. ;)
The time of the people who maintain the free and open source software we rely on is not free. From the people I've talked to, maintainers of successful projects are overworked and underappreciated.

Mentorship from one of those people would be valuable, but arguing with them about the implementation of something you don't understand isn't how you get that mentorship.
Well, here is a story I heard (central Europe).

Parents did not want the baby, so they left it at the door step, date of birth was not known, so some was assigned and used in some legal documents. Later, original parents changed their minds, real date of birth became known.

(For sanity sake, I would just say choose one or flip a coin and be done with it, but at the same time I could imagine that some layer could take my sanity into account)
Why is everyone in this thread pushing the idea that Bezos is scared of Trump? It seems more plausible to me he is scared of the DoJ breaking up Amazon under Harris.
> Customers lost access to virtual machines and disks in the availability zone. The other two zones in the region were less affected, with Google reporting less than one percent of operations experiencing internal errors.

Contrary to the article's title, it looks like this was a zonal rather than regional outage.

GCP incident report (also linked in the article): https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/e3yQSE1ysCGjCVEn2q...
And probably because of this strategy, by the time their system is successfully deployed in several cities, the technology to make fully self driving has become much more accessible and they can relatively easily add that incrementally.
> CNBC has requested comment from Amazon.

According to the article, Jeff Bezos is presumably afraid that Trump would continue to punish Amazon. If that is the case, this seems like an entirely futile exercise.

Not that corporate PR responses are ever particularly illuminating. I read an article regarding information conveyed per syllable. English was near the top. Languages with less information per syllable like Spanish were spoken faster. In dead last place were PR statements from Fortune 500 companies.
Uhh, it's because information can be easily copied that the laws were put in place. If anyone can "steal" your work then it would be a deterrent to invention.

If I'm a business that can make money on the service contract I can sell the unit at a lower price. Now I'm forced to make the unit cost higher.
... Then why did I get so much pushback in this comment chain?
No one is safe from a nation state that is weaponized against you.

Just look at what happened in Saudi Arabia and the billionaires there.
It’s a reasonable stance to want copyright.

It’s an anti-consumer stance to force copyright to nearly 100 years and allow no format swapping under a hilariously broad set of normal transmission and format-swapping techniques.
C++ seems like a good middle ground. Supports more modern features than pure C, but is compiled and is faster than Python. Also it sounds like your professors support that, vs not supporting Python.
It depends on the game and especially studio. AAA western studios definitely sanitized themselves, but Japanese games feel pretty ageless (or dated, if you're cynical) in terms of its writing and characters.

Big difference is definitely that separation of realism. Literature is from a specific experience, TV shows try to reflect experiences. Games about a fat italian plumber throwing mushooms at go-karts doesn't really reflect any society in the last century.
This is why we need to repeal and replace the First Amendment with an amendment that guarantees freedom of expression within the bounds of civilized discourse (e.g., open Nazism=crime) and severely punishes government officials who use their power to stifle such expression. The First Amendment, as written, protects speech that oughtn't be protected, and fails to protect speech that ought to be protected, hence the current situation with the Washington Post being cowed into withdrawing their endorsement by the threat of a vindictive Trump.

Countries with no First Amendment, where hate speech is in fact criminalized, routinely score higher on international free-speech indices than the USA because in the USA the government, especially the Republican Party, has the means and the will to intimidate the press into silence or capitulation.
Can we first test this with basic sysadmin work in a simple shell?

Can't wait to replace "apt get install" by "gpt get install" and then have it solve all the dependency errors by itself.
I've been a customer there for years, too. Any suggested alternatives?
> The retransmit-in-retransmit behavior is precisely the issue.

But you're concerned about an issue I do not have. In practice retransmits are rare between my endpoints, and if they did occur poor performance is acceptable for some period of time. I just need it to me fast most of the time. To reiterate: I do not care about what happens in non-optimal conditions.

> it looks like I've just accidentally described phantun (and maybe other solutions): https://github.com/dndx/phantun

I'll definitely look into that. They specifically mention being more performant than udp2raw, so that's nice.
It should also come with a reckoning on their role in the recent history that led to this change and it should be clearly communicated.

And the standard to/not publish should be clearly laid out and justified in their own words.
In practice that's never been a problem for me. Work is delivered in functional units and segmented "sections" of code are basically useless on their own for the purpose of debugging.
It's one of the first things that people typically discover when meditating.
I mean the integer overflow is the least of your problems. If you try to create a 64000*64000 texture most drivers are going to bark at you anyways in the best case.
It does not generate power to provide thrust; it generates power - using the airstream as the aircraft moves through the air - for the avionics and/or hydraulics.
That's not really trivially compatible with the transformer scheme used to pick tokens and generate results.

Transformers are generative AI, not classifiers. They throw out a lot of statistics in the service of forward progress and completing the generative task. This project is a rudimentary attempt to regenerate those stats
He knows that one of the key pillars of fascism is the strengthening of corporate power.

Billionaires are not your friends.
All the more reason to endorse his opponent!
On average, "water".
Excellent point, bakugo. Let's test this.

First, let's see what proportion of their contributions - measured in total dollars - are from individuals who donated under $200.

For Trump, that figure is 29.65 (https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/donald-tr...)

For Harris, it's 44.08 (https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/kamala-ha...)

Hmm. That's odd. Maybe we could see how much many they get from sources categorized as 'Labor' - unions and the like are unlikely to be economically elite. (Navigate to the 'Industry' tab for both.) Trump, $208,000. That's a fair bit.

Harris, $31,000,000.

But wait! It's possible the economic elite is funneling the money through big contributions, like PACs. So let's look at big contributions and who funded them the most (for Trump, the percent of money coming from big donors is 68.44; for Harris, it's 55.76)

The largest contributor to Trump's campaign is Timothy Mellon, at $125,000,000. The largest contributor to the Harris campaign, which was not an individual, donated under $60,000,000. (Go to 'Contributors')

There were 501,229 Trump donors and 2,224,602 Harris donors. So Trump supporters donated an average of $1,956 and Harris about $620 (counting all donations, from both outside and inside sources; check 'Demographics' and the 'Total Raised' row in Summary, I used the 'Combined' figure, for both).

Conclusion: The data supports the opposite of your claim -- Republicans appear to be the party of economic elites, while Democrats pull from a larger base that donates smaller contributions
Similar to the enigma of how a court case in India blocks sci-hub from adding new papers for other countries?
California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Middle School Math (2023)
That's a good point. I'm a little hesitant about it being so easy for us to just switch to a different fuel (without a lot of deep reflection and cultural change), and ending up with a different set of unforeseen (or foreseen but ignored) catastrophic consequences.
You may be interested to know that I made an earlier comment about the ZX Calculus in the thread.
It's a bizarre game in many regards, so it makes sense. I don't think McDonald's has even referenced its old mascots in the last 15 years before this Grimace Birthday thing.

But 20 years+ ago? This would have been a dime a dozen licensed game.
He knows Trump will hold it against him, and his probability of becoming president is nonzero.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect that this phenomenon of news media endorsing political candidates is almost entirely unique to the US. Please prove me wrong.
I’m really curious to see if this VC wet dream will materialise or if reality will prevail. Currently I’m pretty sure that the only people who are still enthusiastic about the AI bullshit are the ones with some form of vested interest, so they’re trying to fabricate the demand.
From the removed article:

At the time of the suit's filing, the Wikipedia article about ANI said the news agency had "been accused of having served as a propaganda tool for the incumbent central government, distributing materials from a vast network of fake news websites, and misreporting events on multiple occasions". The filing accused Wikipedia of publishing "false and defamatory content with the malicious intent of tarnishing the news agency's reputation, and aimed to discredit its goodwill".

The filing argued that Wikipedia "is a platform used as public utility and as such cannot behave as a private sector". It also complained that Wikipedia had "closed" the article about ANI for editing except by Wikipedia's "own editors", citing this as evidence of defamation with malicious intent and evidence that WMF was using its "officials" to "actively participate" in controlling content. ANI asked for ₹2 crore (approximately US$240,000) in damages and an injunction against Wikipedia "making, publishing, or circulating allegedly false, misleading, and defamatory content against ANI".

The case was filed in July 2024 before Justice Navin Chawla in the Delhi High Court as ANI Media Pvt. Ltd. v Wikimedia Foundation Inc & Ors. ANI argued that Wikipedia is a significant social media "intermediary" within the definition of Information Technology Act, 2000, and must therefore comply with the requirements of the Act, including taking down any content that the government or its agencies deem violative, or be personally liable for content published under its platform. Chawla issued a summons to WMF, called the lawsuit "a pure case of defamation" and set a hearing date of 20 August. On 20 August 2024, Chawla ordered WMF to disclose identifying details of three editors (also defendants in the lawsuit) who had worked on the Wikipedia article about ANI to allow ANI to pursue legal action against them as individuals. Chawla ordered WMF to provide the information within two weeks.

On 5 September, ANI asked the court to find WMF in contempt when the identifying details were not released within the time frame. Chawla issued a contempt of court order and threatened to order the government of India to block Wikipedia in the country, saying "We will not take it any more. If you don't like India, please don't work in India...We will close your business transactions here." In response, Wikimedia emphasized that the information in the article was supported by multiple reliable secondary sources. Chawla ordered that an "authorised representative" of WMF appear in person at the next hearing, which was scheduled for 25 October 2024.

On 14 October, Delhi High Court justices Manmohan and Tushar Rao Gedela objected to the creation of an English Wikipedia article about the defamation case, saying the article "disclos[ed] something about a sub-judice matter" and "will have to be taken down", and scheduled review for 16 October. On 16 October, the court stated that "Accordingly, in the interim, this Court directs that the pages on Wikipedia pertaining to the single judge as well as discussion of the observations of division bench be taken down or deleted within 36 hours".
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
You didn't read the article. The board had written an endorsement of Harris. But it was killed at the demand of Bezos.
Farm subsidies exist as an alternative to the granary system. Countries without decent crop subsidies have historically and still to this day suffer with famine. Countries with decent crop subsidies never feel crop failures bad enough for people to even consider the idea that food could run short.
I believe the contracts POS companies sign with VISA, MasterCard, and many others require the certify their hardware.

So I do not expect to see hardware agnostic POS providers.

I would love to be proven wrong.
No, gigel82 is right. Transparency logging provides discoverability. That does not mean the transparency logged software is auditable in practice. As gigel82 correctly points out, the build hash is not sufficient, nor is the source hash sufficient. The remote attestation quote contains measurements of the boot chain, i.e. hashes of compiled artifacts. Those hashes need to be linked to source hashes by reproducible builds.
No one has put forth a good argument about why I don't need copyright.
And assuming all your consumers are not sloppy is impractical.

We sanitise input all the time. This is not particularly unique. There isn't a great loss in this restriction of company names.
I wonder if they considered or looked at using JGit? https://github.com/eclipse-jgit/jgit

It provides client and server API. The latter is used by Gerrit for its server. https://www.gerritcodereview.com

Not sure what the Java to WASM story is if that is a requirement for what they need.
If you own a paper money isn't the point. Just like in a hospital or a law firm or even a bank. You do the right thing because society trusts you and making money comes from that. Do the wrong thing, and your business will vanish.
> and to your question there, one example is to look at Japan. They give candidates an allotted minimum amount of time on TV for free. A candidate gets platformed purely by running.

I would be willing to try it in one of our laboratories-of-democracy, but my expectation is that a lot of people would run just for the free opportunity to self-promote. "Hi my name is Ron Popeil and I'm running for city council. I firmly believe that every homeowner deserves, nay, needs a Ronco food dehydrator!"
Indeed. I'm planning to spend the next year looking for a country to emigrate to that hasn't completely lost its mind. How can I stay politically invested in a democratic society that vociferously supports a burgeoning dictator? These are not my people anymore.
The purpose of a primary is to help the party pick a nominee that has a better chance of winning the general, which is, in turn, the purpose of a political party. The mechanism of binding primaries was set up by party leaders after some bad choices (especially in the 1968 Democratic Convention). This time, the prospective candidates decided that a blitz primary wouldn't serve its purpose. If the voters punish them for this decision, then it will have proved a bad one, but it's neither unprecedented nor undemocratic.
> Isn’t desire one of the most complex, beautiful emotions?

Perhaps, but it's also the source of suffering.
how would one define "good game" in this case?
I don't think that the Indian court has legitimacy to block the article to be displayed worldwide. It has no jurisdicition for the citizens of all other countries and also no jurisdiction against content that is not hosted in India.

But I guess that it was maybe more convenient for the wikimedia foundation to do it like that instead of doing geofencing that they might not have?
The year of the music licensing wars
I’ve had that POS SELinux block me from logging directly into the console with root (nothing wrong with the pwd). Thank VMware for snapshots. I hate SELinux.
But the job requires it.
As for people who seem to love it so much, they probably don’t have to deal with it all the time.
It's mostly relevant to the media class that still clings to the self-perception of soft power to sway culture/politics.
The hedonic treadmill comes for everyone. Even the billionaires want more.
That doesn't test things in a useful way, and relies on having an official dataset lie. Good ingestion code should ignore those, and then you're not even testing the frontend of those systems.
I would say Zuck went as far right as reasonably possible, and his timing was good. Kind of cowardly, but also impressive foresight on his part.
> I love gaming, and I destress by playing games, but it's not worth the now much higher opportunity cost to play the newer (usually worse) stuff.

This appears to be the reason with all the recent remakes of “not so old” games. People like us are much more likely to pay to relive our past joys in 4K resolution.

However a part of me often wonders if video games have got to the point where every viable idea has been attempted and it’s only downhill from here. When I was a teen, I definitely did NOT envision myself still playing Age of Empires 2 PvP with strangers online but scene is still here.
How can they be low? Here it's nearly 3 euros for a thimble of ice cream lol
It's certainly possible, though if he truly felt pressured that way, he could do a lot more than waiting until 11 days before an election to simply withhold an endorsement.
These are opinion editors. They're expected to have opinions.
yes. its always been done and therefore is good! …?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International covers the lawsuit as well.

"In July 2024, ANI filed a lawsuit against Wikimedia Foundation in the Delhi High Court — claiming to have been defamed in its article on Wikipedia — and sought ₹2 crore (US$240,000) in damages.[16][17][18] On 5 September, the Court threatened to hold Wikimedia guilty of contempt for failing to disclose information about the editors who had made changes to the article and warned that Wikipedia might be blocked in India upon further non-compliance. The judge on the case stated "If you don't like India, please don't work in India... We will ask government to block your site".[19][20] In response, Wikimedia emphasized that the information in the article was supported by multiple reliable secondary sources.[21] Justice Manmohan said "I think nothing can be worse for a news agency than to be called a puppet of an intelligence agency, stooge of the government. If that is true, the credibility goes."[22]"

I suppose that this might not be the most objective article on Wikipedia. I don't have context for these statements. The way that Wikipedia quotes the judge makes it sound like he's threatening to order the Indian government to block Wikipedia because Wikipedia says that ANI is government propaganda. Is that really what's going on? If so it seems extremely ironic, to the point of tacitly admitting ANI's links to the Indian government. I know hacker news has many Indian readers; can they provide some context or an alternative perspective?
> Mentorship from one of those people would be valuable, but arguing with them about the implementation of something you don't understand isn't how you get that mentorship.

Actually that's exactly how you can provoke them into explaining themselves. Too many experienced people sit in their ivory towers and basically appeal to their authority, "I wrote a kernel therefore I know everything, <insert profanity here>". There's a reason why Cunningham's Law exist, "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."
So many times HN posters have extolled how Bezos hasn't interfered with the WaPo and those of us who expressed concern about his purchase were chicken littles. It has never been true and it's plain as day now. He bought it for the same reason Musk bought Twitter. To have control over a media outlet he values.
I like how the answers include both "they've done the math and it's worth it" and "they're idiots who don't know what they're doing". I don't think anybody cares what's really going on, as long as they can say McDonald's is bad.
Good reason not to subscribe to the WP.
My concern is that the US is simply too large and influential on the rest of the world. It’ll be bad here but it won’t be much better anywhere else.
It is one thing to be neutral when one candidate wants more military spending and a lower top income tax bracket and the other is in favor of higher taxes on top and more social spending.

But in this case one candidate literally tried to subvert the last election. Even ignoring all his other issues, that one is enough to say we shouldn't vote for him.