skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, I think that hope is officially dead. Although, Nvidia hardly cares about graphics right now so AMD might release a good gaming card even if it isn't "the best". Rising prices on the "best" will mean gamers never have them anyway.
They set it up so you can't afford to run it on any other cloud
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Most of big tech doesn't have much of a monopoly on the technology. They have a monopoly on network lock-in. If you split them up, they have no monopoly and competition can resume.
Entire transcript of the clip:

> We feel a tap on our shoulder and we look back, and who is it? It's the Republicans. And they say "Huh, excuse me, we'd like the keys back." And we have to tell them "I'm sorry, you can't have the keys back if you don't know how to drive". If you want you can ride with us but you have to ride in the back seat.

Further context: Oct. 22, 2010, in Las Vegas on behalf of Sen. Harry Reid's re-election campaign.

As a sibling comment notes: the Democrats had the majority at the time and were in charge of setting the agenda ("had the keys").

Further, Obama was willing to give the GOP a (figurative) ride if they wanted and were heading in the same direction.
Ok I love the thesis in the title but the framing’s kinda silly — comes off as dramatic libertarian stuff more than a sober analysis. This doesn’t help:

But even after this decision, the executive bears little resemblance to James’s system of power. In a second Trump term, we might reasonably expect chaos, paralysis, and destruction. But a carefully calibrated cosmos of power? Hardly.
...the sheaths are also made out of wood.

Discussion on the satellite (80 points, 11 hours ago, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051687
While I'm sympathetic to democratizing access to simple fabrication technology, I have serious misgivings about hobbyists getting involved.

There's the obvious stuff: you can't avoid HF, and it's nasty stuff. You can die. But that's not what I'm the most worried about; people can make smart decisions to reduce risk, and ultimately people can make their own decisions about their risk tolerance.

What I'm worried about is the SF6 for the RIE. Kg for kg, that stuff has a global warming potential of more than 24,000 TIMES the warming potential of CO2. If it's all broken down in the plasma chamber, or there's exhaust scrubbers involved like you'd have at an industrial fab, then it's no issue.

But hobbyists are going to be spilling and purging a bunch of unmodified SF6. It's kind of an ecological catastrophe. Some things are better not done at home.
It frustrates me that we keep wasting time debating what is a monopoly or letting dead end lawsuits play out in the courts over years. The big tech companies will easily avoid consequences under the current framework. We need a totally new set of laws to deal with big corporations.

Not only should they be split up, but we need retroactive fines for all of the anti-competitive things they have done. Additionally, I think we need different taxes based on the size of the company and we also need regulations to ban certain practices like rent seeking in app stores or bundling in the case of Microsoft or loss leading when you are a large company. Any business built on network effects should be forced to be interoperable once it is big enough.

Finally, we need to recognize that some businesses that are very large are basically as influential as government agencies and as critical as a utility service. These companies should not be operating like a random private entity but should be regulated. As an example, the largest social media companies should be treated like common carriers or utilities.
Cooter is a Black dialectal term for a turtle originating from the Mandinka language, and you can see a turtle on the logo of that product.
The answer to "fighting" technology is for government to adapt and properly integrate up-to-date technologies.

A software registry model could work for common decentralized protocols. You need decentralization technology to be able to compete with the Amazons and Googles.

The trick is, as with software package registries, you don't prescribe a certain package or protocol, you just ensure that there is a convenient way to install packages.

Part of it could literally be based on existing packages registries and decentralized systems like PyPi, IPFS, blockchains, etc. Take Amazon for example. Government would say that, for example, every product for sale has to be listed in some kind of decentralized index that is not effectively controlled by a small number of companies. Government doesn't need to prescribe which ones, let the market decide and have it keep evolving. But we can't let Amazon become a centralized database for everything.

Look into things like ActivityPub, Zora, Origin Protocol, IPFS, the new Freenet, blockchains in general.

You can still build business on top of protocols and get added value without locking into single company controlling transactions or databases.
The test case of a simple aggregation is a good example of an important data science skill knowing when and here to use a given tool, and that there is no one right answer for all cases. Although it's worth noting that DuckDB and polars are comparable performance-wise for aggregation (DuckDB slightly faster: https://duckdblabs.github.io/db-benchmark/ ).

For my cases with polars and function piping, certain aspects of that workflow are hard to represent in SQL, and additionally it's easier for iteration/testing on a given aggregation to add/remove a given function pipe, and to relate to existing tables (e.g. filter a table to only IDs present in a different table, which is more algorithmically efficient than a join-then-filter). To do the ETL I tend to do for my data science workin pandas/polars in SQL/DuckDB, it would require chains of CTEs or other shenanigans, which eliminates similicity and efficincy.
Did you link a card with Pay-as-you-go? It seems like OCI puts free tier users in a low-priority queue, so that people have resorted to using auto-clicker scripts for weeks to even provision an instance.

That repo looks cool, if I really wanted to learn Kubernetes. My usage right now is for running inference on CPU RAMs because I refuse to upgrade my 980-ti, so I'm not sure it would work for me
Yeah competition improved the beer landscape. But that was accomplished not by smashing big beer.

I think we can do a lot better without a heavy hand.
Anyone can use open source, including large companies… so open source doesn’t fight against them.

_also_ much of what is needed for core infrastructure is hardware, which will pretty much always end up being centralized as it’s expensive to lay fiber optic lines.

Also, Llama is not open source. You can’t open source model weights, they’re just freeware. And it has a commercial restriction in its usage license…

IMO the fix for this is actually more government. Internet infrastructure should be a utility, ideally with an optional state run infrastructure, so that anyone can have internet access.
MTR does none of the things you claim it does, which is directly addressed in the article.

It certainly claims to, and displays figures as if it could, but it cannot.

Even pinging the router IPs directly does not tell you your latency or packet loss to the router, for the reasons explained in the article.

mtr is built on false pretenses.
They specifically stated a lack of documented concern by the engineers. First thing you learn as a contractor is CYA.
Like how?

Beer is different than tech. Not everyone has instant access to the vast majority of beer in their pocket.
Interesting. Tell me more. The stock looks wild. Time to go short?
I want AI to use just the right word when it’s writing for me. If it’s going to nerf itself to not choose the perfect word so it can be watermarked, then why would I use that product? I’ll go somewhere else. And if it does use just the right word, then how is that different from a great human writer?
Governments can block acquisitions and mergers for various reasons. Why this didnt happen in this case I dont know. Maybe they didnt understand the impact maybe regulators got paid off.
Ah gotcha! Do you have a use case where you'd look to remodel/transform the data between warehouses?
Tangentially related: How can we steer technology towards empowering individuals instead of exploiting them?

Thirty years ago, I was optimistic that personal devices and software were a kind of capital, like power-tools, which was spreading out to allow people to better themselves and their lives... But nowadays it feels more like nets being cast by some (decidedly un-biblical) fishers of men, where it's all about ensnaring customers and holding their data and social-webs hostage, sometimes even fostering gambling addictions.

So while I do want to see some (near-)monopolies disrupted, it won't be a panacea: We'll still have important systemic problems to face, such as the terrible DMCA, clickwrap contracts of adhesion, issues around "right to repair", and how advertising/spyware as a revenue stream slowly corrupts everything it touches.
There are a lot of countries that don't have extradition treaties with the US.
This fails in a lot of different ways, not the least of which is anycast. The most common way is probably dns-based geographic steering.

Can you tell me where 8.8.8.8 is?
that's called "plausible deniability"
Thanks. Are these the same as Apple refurbished (as in completely reskinned with a new genuine battery)?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan
Maybe a fat sales tax (20%? 33%? 100%?) at final point of sale for consumer devices containing at least one Universal machine which executes stored code (it's not an ASIC), where the device owner (principally the one "purchasing" the device to "own" in a normal sense in the year 1800) cannot change the code due to some additional artifical means of preventing it (mainly by cryptographic signature check with a public key which can't be changed). A 100% tax would mean double price on your Xbox, your smart TV, your Apple devices, your medical devices like CPAP, your microwaves, your automobiles, etc. Why? Because we need to make open hardware (and by extension open software) a standard cultural principle in The West, and we need to make closed source prohibitively expensive. Because it is a back-door way to intentionally construct ways of extracting maximum cashflow from customers rather than make it maximally cheap for them (printer mfg is notorious here). Because abandoned vulnerable unpatchable hardware is a national security concern and you are a supreme asshole for telling the poor to throw out their 15 year old otherwise perfectly working TV because you[r employer] want to churn them for more money faster. Also profits from "services" should be hit with fat taxes after write-offs but before dividends and buybacks while going easy on manufacturing, so we become materially rich again rather than gaslit into buying vapors with our real efforts!

Rentierism is out of control, the ISM services sector needs to run sub-50 while manufacturing hits 70 for a couple years to fix this societal imbalance!
What comes across from the article to me is the class barrier more than the gender one - basically it's a posh person finding out what the "real world" looks like.

Shop talk and banter are fairly universal. Any difference is going to be a target. Thin bloke who doesn't look strong enough? Ginger hair? Tall guy, short guy? Weird tattoo, etc. Definitely the one black guy or the one white guy is going to get shit. But is it malicious? Almost certainly not.

The other thing, which in my experience is relatively common worldwide, is that working class communities are more accepting of male-female dynamics. In academia and in highbrow society the tendency is to basically sanitise every social interaction. When you're in an environment where that isn't happening then you can't suddenly ignore it any more.
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Answering a few points here:

1. This is not an ad, or at least it was not intended to be one. We feel like this is a microsite which like most blogs has a little "this is who we are" ending. Same concept as the Cloudflare blog which we all appreciate and love. We noticed vendors in the security space talk about the BA attack but often share misinformation about what happened. Information is scattered among various channels and old news publications but since the court documents were released no one did a proper recap. We care so we managed to buy the domain, which was not hard, but indicates that we are not just a salesy brand we are genuinely deep in client-side security and feel its important to talk about the attacks that happened otherwise companies do not take action and consumers become victims.

2. Yes, this domain name is still flagged on some DNS filter providers. Threat feeds are an outdated concept that create a false sense of security and pollute the web if not kept up to date. Especially in the case of client-side attacks they are grossly ineffective as vendors consume the threat-feeds but don't actively monitor the dataflow or served code meaning targeted attacks fly under the radar. The BAways domain has not been used in an attack for over 5 years. You've all been very helpful in flagging the DNS you use and we'll reach out to those vendors to correct the flagging of the domain. There is no malicious action on this domain anymore, it purely serves as a reminder to educate on the risks of unmonitored client-side executions.

3. To finish: Client-side security is important. When I speak to security engineers, they get it. It's a vital part of the supply-chain and it is overlooked. However, executives are often not aware of the issue and feel it is negligible. This is partly because the world has stopped covering client-side attacks for some reason and put them under umbrella terms like "data leaks". Malicious pop-ups are blocked by most browsers, but those pop-ups often originate from malicious JS. Stealthy attacks are easy to pull off so imagine a small percentage of pop-up's that were blocked stealing user credentials. Between the Polyfill attack, the data leak of Kaiser Permanente and many other attacks over 500K websites were impacted in 2024, millions in fines, millions of user credentials, sensitive information and credit cards leaked. The aim of this blogpost is to get people to talk and understand that posture management means monitoring the entire posture, not just NPM, not just a simple vulnerability scan, not just the server side and internal networking but active monitoring of all bases.

I hope this context helps and thanks for your engagement.
Oracle is really weird.

Their cloud offerings at hobbyist level is vastly superior to any of the big clouds. Just objectively better.

Yet they keep nuking hobbyist accounts with little rhyme or reason as to who gets hit. So nobody builds anything remotely serious on it.

Congrats Oracle, you've managed to get the worst of both world: Incur the cost of free tier while ensuring future high value customers don't trust it.
Would this OS have any chance of getting certified as a genuine Unix today?
Bugger!

Thanks, that's a handy website.
Agreed, the mailing list is the place to lurk.
I’m glad someone is here to argue on behalf of the cooter snot company.
I can't really estimate the difficulty, but are you sure about that? There's dozens of Chromium forks, would it be that hard to maintain one with a fraction of the development capacity that goes into developing an entire browser with its own rendering engine etc?
They seemingly spent the last 20 years actively figuring out ways not to make money. It's a terrible shame. They coast on the memories of yesteryear - a shell of their former selves.
They are all just functions. There is really no distinction between an operator and a function in programming languages. And by using currying you could even do with just unary operators.
Are turtles also known for their snot, in which tips are frequently dipped?
Edit: Does maxmautner.com not have prefers-color-scheme detection?
that also kinda failed to reach their goals unfortunately.
I suppose a summer highlight is the outdoor roast sausages and roast burgers too.

Rest of the year we can only really roast stir-frys, roti, and crème brûlée.
That's already true in Australia, sadly.
I appreciate this, especially for Richard Steenbergen's traceroute presentation which I need to dig into. There's a 2020 version of the presentation if anyone is interested, since the Scribd/Slideshare version in the article is from 2014-ish.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RUI5kHzEQ

slides: https://storage.googleapis.com/site-media-prod/meetings/NANO...

Edit: yes, I fully agree that traceroute is flawed, it's only ever going to give you an incomplete or even misleading piece of the picture and you shouldn't take what you see as gospel. That said, it has its uses especially for networks that you control and to let you know where to maybe start digging - which is all that any tool does.
The managemant behind firefox does not care about web browsers. They carre about their vision of social justice and the browser is just a tool to get funds for that.
> The sentiment of "you're on your own, go talk to a wall and figure yourself out" is about par for the course regarding society's collective attitude towards mental health.

From my experience, if your default is to see everyone as untrustworthy, they'll reciprocate. If you see them all as trustworthy and open up to them, they'll reciprocate. Sure there might be a miscellaneous asshole who burns you once in a while, but it feels a lot better to just deal with them as they arise instead of putting up a permanent wall
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You might be able to trade social capital for attention latency by posting to the nanog list.
No, what's that?
Why haven't some EU and/or Latin American countries funded a Web browser in a meaningful way, in an effort to be less under the thumb of US tech companies?

They could fork Firefox or Chromium, poach some current developers, hire some more, and assert a strong presence on standards.
You have to link a card if you don’t want to have a bot that spams looking for open instances. I tried without linking a card but it’s basically impossible without automation to secure an instance, and they can arbitrarily just nuke your instance at any time if they feel like you are being “abusive” or even just idling the machines and not using resources, plenty of complaints about that. Adding a card removes all of those concerns and you can instantly provision the resources and never worry about anything being arbitrarily shut down.

I have only had one 1 cent charge since I got it because I provisioned some volume storage before I realized that it would incur costs.

If you just use the repo I linked and otherwise never touch resources or auto provision anything on the infra side you’ll never be charged.

I would highly recommend this use case for learning kube, but also it’s kind of limiting because several things you might want to use with kube will also incur additional costs. You can avoid the costs if you simply just don’t do anything that triggers a cost event, but people who are not familiar with how kube can provision infra resources under the hood might footgun themselves and wire into a cloud load balancer instead of using MetalLB for instance.

Probably inference is not really a good use case here, the compute they give is considered extremely good in terms of free, but still kind of anemic for inference use cases.
Use AGPL. The Big Tech companies have policies to avoid that with and not touch the code with a 20 foot pole. So most of your competitors using the code will be small like yourself.

And frankly, there is a lot to be said for collaboration instead of competition. The mindset in the US has been one of rugged capitalism and competition. But this is often less efficient when it comes to building platforms, as Big Tech has.

Model weights are open sourced. You may not know how they were trained, but you can run them locally for many purposes - people have built businesses around LLaMa, Stable Diffusion, Bloom etc. Imagine if they couldn’t?

Llama was open sourced partly because Mark Z was always an open source guy. Before he made Facebook, he open sourced Synapse rather than selling it to Microsoft for $1M. After he made Facebook, he wanted to make an open, decentralized, permissionless file-sharing system called “Wirehog”.

The reason he didn’t do it, is that he went to Silicon Valley and met Sean Parker, who introduced him to “the old boys club” of VCs there.

I was there at the first TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC when Parker proudly told everyone that “they has put a bullet in that thing”:

https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/26/wirehog/

Parker knew very well what happens when another IP-fueled oligopoly, the Big Music Industry (MPAA, RIAA) goes after you for open file sharing. He learned the lesson well and started Plaxo, got VC funding.

Parker introduced Zuck to Peter Thiel, whose motto even back then was “competition is for losers, build a monopoly”. The “Paypal Mafia” including Thiel and Musk had gone on to build lots of Big Companies.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-fo...

Mentors like that turned Zuck from an open source bro into a corporate golden boy who ruthlessly buys up the competition (WhatsApp, Instagram, tried to buy Snapchat etc) and takes advantage of user privacy to monetize any way they can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

He has recently rehabilitated his image, and largely because of open sourcing Llama and being “the open alternative to ‘OpenAI’”

The mindset of Silicon Valley VCs is part of the larger cycle of “capturing value” inside large companies, their capital is there to “remove friction”, get critical mass and go public in an IPO. Then the shareholders continue to demand the company extracts rents from the ecosystem.

Last year we even learned more than half of the VCs and their startups ALL BANKED AT THE SAME BANK! To me this is a great symbol of just how centralized the whole old boys club is. And the same Peter Thiel started a run on that bank.