skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Monopolies require strong states to exist.

How so? When competition can merely be purchased, why wouldn't the larger company do so? Or if the competitor doesn't want to sell, the larger company can undercut them until they're forced to sell or exit the market. No government required for either tactic, and there are plenty of examples of both occurring in US history. For example, Standard Oil, which was formed when about 40 smaller companies joined forces.

Another place where monopolies take root with no state input is when there's a large barrier to entry, such as with railroads. The cost (and justifying the cost to investors) is too much for most companies to even break ground, let alone complete. For example, Bell System, which owned the copper in the ground and the equipment producer Western Electric.

Now then, of course a state can and do also raise the cost of entry for new competitors - but then we're going to be talking about a regulated market.
aws and other hyperscalers will keep growing, no doubt. Public cloud adoption is at around 20%. So the new companies that migrate into the cloud will keep the growth going. That doesn't deny the fact that some might be repatriating though. Especially ones that couldn't get the benefits out of the cloud.
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lol. exactly the same as happened with off shoring in the late 90s. do people not learn?

first they hire telemarketing grunts. then HR gets complacent and normalize not doing any work. then they start using the same techniques for IT workers since for HR they're just more expensive telemarketing.
> Hillel says, "This isn't decomposable into two binary ops because you can't assign the range to a value and then step the value later." Well, maybe not (I don't know Elixir), but it seems clear enough what r//2 should do if r is the name of a range value: it should produce a new range stepping either by 2 or by twice the previous step.

This is exactly how `1 to 10 by 2` works in scala.
And they pronounce 'Magdalen' as 'maudlin' because that's briefly how people pronounced it hundreds of years ago.
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Gambling is a regulated industry. Kalshi is licensed in the US, Polymarket isn't (but US consumers routinely use VPNs to evade their block). So the fact that they're clearly marketing to US consumers seems to be fraudulent evasion of oversight.
It’s the same old MBA cycle we had with onshoring / offshoring. Everyone wants to build their resume so they have to change things.

In this cycle a new MBA comes in wants to make an impact so does a cloud transition. Then they move on and the next guy comes in, wants to make an impact so moves things back in house. Repeat until some new fad comes along.
I hate being "mean" but I'll admit sometimes my frustrations get the better of me.

I am interested in efforts to connect the act of programming with the large issues of human existence. However, I tend to also be critical these approaches also have the danger of creating shallow, surface comparisons that don't actually provide much value.

In this case, I feel "high modernism" as a concept loses most of it's content if one removes all particular historical strands that made it. Applied in the abstract, it becomes "central control bad, M'kay".

The interesting thing is you describe a lot of programming programs reasonably but it seems obvious to me that the answer to them is ... centralization and control. The problem of many systems is that software gives the impression that everyone's needs can be accommodated simultaneously and so results in actually contradictory requirements - especially when there isn't central control of the requirements. I'm sure that could be spun as too much central control too but that spin just seems unnatural.
I accidentally visited this from a browser with no adblocker and outbrain clickbait has become comically weird. I was shown what appears to be AI generated video clips of a bear walking through a children's hospital ward, presented as a story about something that happened in my area (Ireland has no bears). I refreshed and was shown the same story but this time it was a wolf. This was side by side with the usual midjourney images as dating site profiles, and weird fabricated medical stuff. They really have gone off the deep end.
For me personally, I placed a bet for my non-favored candidate so that either my person wins, or I win some amount of money. I'm using it kind of like insurance or hedging. Unfortunately if enough people use it this way, it probably no longer works as a predictor
You're thinking strictly about core performance per watt. Intel has been offering a number of accelerators and other features that make perf/watt look at lot better when you can take advantage of them.

AMD is still going to win a lot of the time, but Intel is better than it seems.
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Getting lost and found in the Bob Dylan archives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42042379 - Nov 2024 (4 comments)
Location: Cambridge, MA and open to Boston

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Willing to relocate: No unless NYC

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Email: At top of resume linked above

Strong math skills and fundamental CS, quick learner.
Despite the risk implied by the existence of this water quality mapping, Minneapolis and Saint Paul have some of the highest metropolitan tap water quality in the nation. The concern about lead pipes is local to the individual property, so it’s wise to test (and understand the age of your infrastructure) but the Brita would be a cost without a benefit in my case. The water is clean, and I’ve personally assured that through lab testing.
A rough equivalent to "return to last power state" for libvirt virtual machines
They had a huge miss in 2016 and it didn't seem to have a significant long term effect.
The results might be “wild”, but the dolphins weren’t.

From TFA:
”While these dolphins aren't wild…”
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The strike cost boeing $50,000,000 per day * 53 days / 33,000 workers = $80,300 per worker. Over the four years the new contract gives workers $12,000 bonus + $75,608*(13%+ 9%+ 9%+ 7%) = $45,000 plus other benefits. So Boeing just burned nearly twice as much money as they ended up paying to workers!

Also holy shit the workers earn for boeing their entire salary in 53 days of work.
without the grumpy sysadmin they jump out more.
It's wonderful that these maps exist. It's also great that residents can take the initiative to get their dwellings tap water tested. It'd be even better if the local government did random sample testing of residential tap water. Since this is a local thing, it is a change that can be done through local government.
Well, its a Jesuit university. Jesuits are commonly thought to be liberal, controversial and fairly accommodating of other religious doctrine.

I like this joke and think it exemplifies this a lot. A Franciscan, a Dominican, and a Jesuit are doing archaeological research in the Holy Land and discover an unopened tomb from the early first century. After excavating it, they go inside and find a cross with a skeleton nailed to it and a sign above that reads "Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews".

Immediately the Franciscan says, "The Resurrection never happened! My whole life has been for nothing!" and runs out distraught. The Dominican says, "The Gospels are full of lies! My whole life has been for nothing!" and runs out distraught. The Jesuit looks at the skeleton and says, "Well what do you know, I guess He really did exist!"
I've never worked in a data center that did cooling and power correctly. Everyone thinks they're doing it right, and then street power gets cut - there's significant impact, ops teams scramble to contain, and finally there's the finger-pointing.
The analogy falls apart somewhat when the vendor is prohibited from selling their product to others and the buyer provides their healthcare. Employment relationships are different than other kinds of business relationships and the law recognizes that.
And if you are the type that does well with band-aid code strung together with duct tape and bailing wire and even bubble gum, then don't get upset when your company gets bought and the entire code base gets rewritten into something that teams can manage
Wait, the ones who are getting a great deal on labor costs are the ones complaining about the source of that great deal?

I'm not so sure..
RFC 9669: BPF Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
They killed StrongARM because they believed the x86 Atom design could compete. Turns out that it couldn't and most of the phones with it weren't that great.

Intel should be focused on an x86+RISC-V hybrid chip design where they can control an upcoming ecosystem while also offering a migration path for businesses that will pay the bills for decades to come.
The HN FAQ[0] is indeed always a worthwhile read.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Which also failed which proved that the founder is a bad bet and that if the US government chooses to invest again, it should steer clear of that dude.
Not technically ternary because the number of arguments is variable, but definitely an interesting case.

`a.b(c)` is actually a bit of a degenerate case because `b` must be an identifier, it cannot be an arbitrary expression, which seems to disqualify it as a true operator. But actually `a.b` is just syntactic sugar for `a["b"]` and you can view []() as an operator, so you can write nonsense like:

[function(){return this[1]}, 42][0]()

{foo(a){return this.x*a; }, bar(a){return this.y*a;}, x: 1, y:2} [ Math.random() < 0.5 ? 'foo' : 'bar' ] (100 + 20 + 3)
This is partially the result of cloud providers and partially business leadership. They, for whatever reason, insufficiently educated their clients on migration requirements. Lift & shift from on-premises to cloud only work for emergency. The shifted resources must be converted to cloud stack, or the cost will be multiples of on-prem costs. Business leadership was (is?) ignoring IT teams screaming of the problem with lift & shift.

Now, businesses shifting back to on-prem because they are still uneducated on how to make cloud useful. They will just shift all non-core activities to XaaS vendors, reducing their own cloud managed solutions.

Source: dealing with multiple non-software, tech firms that are doing just that, shifting own things back to on-prem, non-core resources to XaaS.
Time to define what it means to be NOT cloud-native, in a positive way.
At least one person has figured out how to beat roulette [0]. I’d follow his lead

[0] https://archive.ph/Hc0Kh
I disagree. How does someone else have an obligation to my freedom of speech?
Super confused here because the distinction seems completely clear to me? Relatively few plants, when mature, will start growing clones up from their roots, but it's a known growth pattern. They're called suckers, and I've never heard them referred to as distinct individuals.

But most plants can be cloned by taking a cutting and giving it continuous water + air and letting it start growing a new root system. I've never heard anybody suggest the cutting is not a new, distinct plant.
And this is why the world has turned against tech...

Because the first thought (at least, the highest rated post right now) it that it would have been "fun" to hurt millions of people to teach the company they were doing business with a lesson.
Serious businesses are not doing this.
> Is the purchase of each additional car going to increase the tax paid?

Yes, tax liability = total spending during the year plugged into the power law tax formula.

>Are exotic cars taxed more?

Depends how much the taxpayer spends in a year. There is no tax rate for each specific item. The tax rate is for a total level of spending, which eliminates all loopholes.

> You keep stating to use a power law formula but you're critically omitting what the inputs are to determine your tax rate.

The input is total spend in a year. Just like right now, the input is income in a year.

> And now you've also admitted that assets determine your sales tax

No, I did not. The formula to calculate sales tax liability only requires inputting total spending. Land value taxes are a separate thing. We currently have land value taxes, except they are flat rate and too low because property taxes inefficiently tax improvements on the land more than the land itself.

> That's why the income tax is effective - it's taxation at the moment the money changes hands / you've realized a gain.

Sales tax can also be at the moment the money changes hands. It currently is. Even with the complication of a power law tax formula, I can’t see why the government can’t email you a monthly invoice.
What if those machines are on another continent?
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Trouble in paradise? understanding Mastodon Admin's experiences
Something that typically works for me is hard exercise. Would gladly sleep over 9 hours now.
> this doesn't seem too bad on the surface

The NYT's latest offer is shit compared to what the employees are asking.
The current Republican nominee ran his entire campaign on hating immigrants and has been known to hire illegal immigrants. They don't actually want to crackdown on it they just want to campaign on it.
>redwoods are hexaploid, which doesn't interfere with their reproduction

Six is divisible by two though.
You could also look into shamelessly "taking inspiration" from async-lock.
Where would you go when you would live there (as a programmer interested in ai)? Just asking for a friend.
What makes Boise a more readily available target for China?
Intel did an amazing job at holding on to what they had. From Enterprise Sales connection which AMD had very little from 2017 to 2020. And then bundling other items, essentially discount without lowering price, and finally some heavy discount.

On the other hand AMD has been very conservative with their EPYC sales and forecast.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! It should probably be highlighted tho that there were absolutely waves of relative interest (~1790-1840 and ~1890-1910, at least), and it was outlawed almost everywhere by the mid 1800s, which obviously means it primarily fell to the rich and well-connected. Ditto in Britain — they had bets, but;

Bets about the outcome of events in war, over the death of political leaders, over court cases, or between voters over election results were illegal on these grounds. In the Victorian and Edwardian periods, the British government increasingly attempted to limit gambling, especially among the working classes.

So I’d argue it’s more like “a persistent scourge threatening democracy” than “a treasured ideal of free speech”. But I’m biased against all forms of gambling, so might have skimmed it unfairly. Worth a read, for sure!
Would you link the study you are referring to?
I wonder how far the license investigation exception goes - are you still protected if it turns out no licenses were violated? Are you allowed to publish your methodology and findings?
I see that, yes. But they will still create legislation against those means.
> I disagree that it's a distinction without a difference.

I meant that, to me as a potential donor, it's a distinction without a difference. That my information gets passed on to other entities is what stops me from donating to anybody. I made that mistake once and it took years to (mostly) stop the ensuing assault. I'll never make that mistake again.

Sure, to those people who live and breath this stuff, there is a difference. I'm just not one of those people. The "insiders" in this space should also understand that there are a lot of people who would otherwise donate, but don't because of this problem, and they should figure a way to solve it if they want more money. An organization like ActBlue could be the solution if they wanted to.

This isn't even a political thing -- the same problem occurs with almost all charitable giving. But at least when I make a charitable donation, I can tell them to keep me anonymous and they do (unless they're one of the huge charity businesses). They want me to donate again in the future, after all.

Disclaimer: I'm only namechecking ActBlue because they're the subject at hand. I do not intend to imply that I agree or disagree with their political slant.
Shouldn't businesses abide by contracts, even verbal ones? If you were hired in office, went remote and then RTO now I understand your viewpoint. But if the company hired you for a remote role that's part of the contract, and RTO is breach of contract.
Luckily they are spinning off the FPGA business to be Altera again
Are generic web server workloads going to use these features? I would assume the bulk of e.g. EC2 spent its time doing boring non-accelerated “stuff”.
They should upload the footage to YouTube because Why Not?
My hunch is something like NAFTA -> USMCA would happen with CHIPS. Repeal and replace with basically the same to make it look like a GOP win.
happy to add examples to future iterations of this dataset if you want to send examples!
> what prevents the NYT from offshoring these jobs if they can be done from home?

Cheaper and submissive labor doesn't result in high-quality products.
> I finally came to the conclusion that I would not put anything on a performance review writeup for a coworker that could ever be used against them

I decided decades ago that I would never throw a fellow programmer "under the bus", no matter what. I've stuck by this for 30 years ago, although sometimes it's been _very hard_ to stick with (especially when they had thrown _me_ under the bus).
Every prediction market has a resolution date. Stock market does not. In that sense the prediction market "predicts" an external event on a particular date and this is the big difference.
Stocks may rise of fall based on the perception of the market. A bet would get resolved based not on the perception of the people, but on the event itself. (or on the UMA dispute vote, but mostly the system is working).

That's why it doesn't matter how skewed/wrong a particular bet is (like Trump chances). If your think that the market is wrong, you get a better return on your money. And the resolution date + smart contract creates the possibility to earn if you are correct.
Agree, other than that I wouldn't use "2-arity". Maybe "2-ary", but that's just "binary" written confusingly. It works for "n-ary".

I'd rather say that a binary operator _has_ an arity of 2 or talk about the arity _of_ an operator.
Not remotely. Wow.
You have a right to seek whatever you want, but seek only.
> It's more like active stock trading.

That is also random chance gambling.
Interesting tactic. This would be like Apple raising the price of the Mac Mini, because the new M4 Pro is faster than M2 Ultra in the Studio [0].

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/31/m4-pro-chip-benchmark-r...
> I am curious why it is so important to NYT workers in particular that they would strike over it - is there something particularly bad about the location?

You're aware that NYC is an extremely expensive place to live, right?
> The CHIPS act is a huge Biden policy win

I'm a huge fan of the CHIPS Act, but most Americans have not heard of it [0].

That lack of noteriety is what protects it.

Doesn't hurt that most deal flow is in purple districts, so most shit-slingers tend to be far removed and shut up pretty quickly after a quick rebuke from Party Chairs about how close the election is.

[0] - https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000018f-3fe4-dc61-adff-7fe53...
Legislation is frequently proposed to do just this: require all employers to use E-Verify to ensure they don't hire illegal workers. The same people who are constantly firing up voters about immigration are opposed to this. The political issue is valuable to them, as is cheap, cowed, disposable labor. And they know if they succeeded in shipping their workers back over the border there would be economic and political mayhem.

I expect endless demagoguery about immigration and performative cruelty, but nothing that will challenge the bottom line.

Here's a recent bit of commentary on E-Verify: https://jabberwocking.com/the-long-sad-story-of-e-verify/
Nah, the hobby strat is to buy a chunk o' circuit board and learn BGA soldering. "Chip Recovery," they call it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235469964291

Best start believin' in the crazy cyberpunk stories. You're in one!
Yes, promissory estoppel is a thing.
Discussion (65 points, 7 hours ago, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051687
Sure, here you go - https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killing-swift
The root cause of many (internal) business-evils is idle HR departments. Without a tight reign kept on them to minimise their reach they will proceed to reach their tendrils into a thousand cracks and “implement” a thousand pointless endeavours that results in some of stuff talked about in this thread.

It starts with pointless little surveys and SaaS products for 1:1’s. Left unchecked it results in stack ranking employees and other awful things.
We went to cloud because 1) we only need 3 infra guys to run our entire platform and 2) we can trivially scale up or down as needed. The first saves us hundreds of thousands in skilled labor and the second lets us take on new customers with thousands of agents in a matter of days without having to provision in advance.
Recently, i've come to realize one real use of those clouds was to provide a good US-EU network connection. If you want to provide both continent users with correct bandwidth to your service, you have no choice but to have them connect to a datacenter on their own continent. Public data transit across the atlantic is simply miserable.

Then, because they probably have private atlantic cables, you can replicate at good reliable speed.
It mentions ranges, but not slices?

Note that the "conditional/selection operator" is normally thought of as a logical operator, but variants exist that operate bitwise `r = (if_false & ~condmask) | (if_true & condmask)` or on a vector. Additionally, there maybe a special versions that operate at compile-time instead of runtime.

Modular exponentiation is commonly implemented as ternary for major performance improvements, even though technically it can be done as composition of two binaries.

Modular congruence `3 === 1 (mod 2)` is common in math.

Many arithmetic and bitwise operations take a third argument for the carry bit. Rotates are notable for actually performing a different operation in that case.

There are various SIMD operations.

There's also SSA.