skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely. The architecture is transparent but the latent representations within and the operations performed by LLMs are not.

It's a subject of active research the extent LLM "reasoning" really is reasoning similar to humans, or something of a strictly weaker class entirely.

Personally I'm of the opinion human reasoning is really just "pattern matching", but we're also still waiting for the cognitive scientists to give us an answer on that one.
That’s good to know! I might try that out one day.
The DOJ is after monopoly in search space (and how Google is using chrome position to strengthen the search monopoly) not the browser space itself (Which is another monopoly but to less extend). People don't look into one product and DOJ are not naive to fall into this trap.
Found to be is doing far too much work given the DOJ lawsuit that it has a monopoly (2546 points, 8 months ago, 2623 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
There would be few incentives to try and pull off something like that if nobody had any faith in the product every becoming extremely profitable though.
How else are web devs supposed to write kernel modules?
> Their primary income isn't from advertising, at least

Surely they wouldn't auto-default Chrome to Bing and try to become an ad company.

It's not like they're selling ads in the Start menu or anything...
I'm not actually asking questions about the EPA here, this is more an exploration of what you think.

> They have a mandate to monitor and set standards for water systems.

So we've found a point of disagreement, because that is pretty much my definition of management. IMO, to a reasonable approximation, management is the process of monitoring a situation and setting standards that people must meet.

What do you think management involves, and what would separate the work of, say, senior management from what the EPA is doing? If the power to monitor and set standards isn't the heart of management, what is?
Perplexity adds shopping features as search competition tightens
I agree. Matrix 3 introduces logic-breaking solutions that contradict the entire premise of that universe, and so the whole is lesser for it.

> Resolving at any cost is way worse than leaving something hanging.

Also agree. Matrix, Lost, Game of Thrones (TV), How I Met Your Mother, they all lost "replayability" because you might care about the characters and the beginning of their journey, but if you know it's all moot or unsatisfactory there's not so many incentives to revisit it. I think GoT really made TV aware of how important it is to a series to have a good, consistent ending.

Game of Thrones' (the book series) fans have a theory about the "Mereenese Knot", a plot that became so convoluted that GRR Martin possibly just don't know how to advance the story in a consistent way, and it's stuck.
Discussion (73 points, 9 hours ago, 280 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42172565
I'm not totally sure what you mean. I don't think that S3 Express One Zone offers any additional atomic semantics in the file system world.
Benchmarking ParadeDB and Postgres Ts_vector
They are for less than and greater than in mathematics!? They are good in markup for a number of reasons including that they stand out.
Employers generally prefer hiring internally first, then through word of mouth (referrals). Career coaches and people with experience job hunting will tell you to leverage everyone you know to get in front of the hiring manager. A good professional network counts for a lot more than keywords on a CV. By network I mean people you actually know or have worked with, not the fake network cultivated on LinkedIn.

A more targeted approach as described in books like What Color Is Your Parachute? and Who's Hiring Who? will let you actively target a job, rather than passively sending in hundreds of applications/CVs like everyone else.
"Who would possibly buy Chrome?"

This is illustrates the extent and magnitude of the problem to fix the internet. That regulators failed to give enough oversight of the internet and to regulate its monopolistic players several decades ago when these problems first became obvious has meant that they are now almost insurmountable.

Ideally, Google would be forced to divest itself of Chrome and that Chrome would become an open source project a la Linux. Clearly, that's very unlikely to happen.

For those who'd argue that Chrome would have no funding to further develop I'd respond by saying that it already works well as a browser and from observation that Google is channeling most of Chrome's development funds into anti-features that are hostile to users.

As an open source project that level of funding would be no longer necessary and its future development could progress at a slower pace.
Justice Department says it may ask judge to force Google to sell Chrome
The website is out of date, last release was actually in may (like smtp4dev) https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/releases/tag/v0.10.0
That doesn't go away with not Google. It's the result of having a browser with such big market share.
This is the strangest decision I've ever seen. Chrome isn't the default anywhere except Pixel branded devices (most or all of the Android OEMs have their own browsers) and you need to actually seek out and download Chrome from Google.com. So how will Google selling Chrome lead to less traffic towards Google? It seems the DOJ has cause and effect completely backwards.

IF Google is a monopoly that abuses search and ads, IMO it would make much more sense to split it like this:
- Google Search
- Ads
- Consumer facing everything, so Chrome, Android, Pixel devices, Nest, etc... all together
- YouTube

This kind of split would prevent Google dominating search, abusing their dominance of ads while also enabling their device division to become a proper competitor to Apple and Samsung.

Simply splitting off Chrome is weird, kills Chrome for absolutely no reason, does nothing to help consumers and most importantly doesn't prevent Google from dominated search and ads which is the whole point of the suit in the first place...

It's also strange that the DOJ is letting Apple, MS and Meta off the hook when those businesses clearly engage in anti-competitive practices.
At one time I believed Russia was responsible for sabotaging Nordstream. That was presented as the 'probable' and even 'obvious' conclusion. I no longer believe that.
L4D was a genuinely good, groundbreaking game for its time. I didn't think it was possible to have so much fun with a multi-player FPS (CounterStrike and its ilk did nothing for me).

I'm sure there are more impressive MP games nowadays, but back then it felt revolutionary.
Chrome data may be feeding Search Results based on how long people stay at different pages and where they go. Thus removing Chrome may remove a substantial data advantage for search.
They had these alleged resources for almost two decades now. Did they manage to force Apple? Or do they give them two digit billions dollars for Google to be the default search engine on safari?
It looks awfully similar to nano graphrag, but I fail to see any credits to it.
> I’m pretty confident most would agree that country A conquered country B if country B was nothing but fire and rubble.

I think we can all agree that if that is the case, you’ve in fact conquered nothing.

Edit: Since we say opposite things, maybe we wouldn’t agree.
You don't HAVE to login unless you want to share your passwords, history, bookmarks etc. between your devices. Simpler = not having those features (which most users seemingly find useful).
How likely will Trump DOJ drop this? Consumers have choice, albeit just a handful of credible options. Nobody is forced to use Chrome (unlike MSFT pushing IE back in the day)
Discussion on the front page (211 points, 1 hour ago, 233 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177767
Google makes money from ads by having control of Chrome. I don't see how that would continue if it's spun out. I'm not aware of any ads in Chrome itself (but I've been using FF for years, so what do I know). And Chrome controlling the default search engine is exactly why they want it spun out from Google, so if the result was simply that it makes money by defaulting to a different search engine, that would be an absurd, pointless result.
Maybe this[1] is the demo you were thinking of? It's what came to mind when reading this chain at least.

[1] https://x.com/wesbos/status/1727730566143803522
Wikipedia:

> In June 2023, Google's security team reported that 60% of the exploits submitted to their bug bounty program in 2022 were exploits of the Linux kernel's io_uring vulnerabilities. As a result, io_uring was disabled for apps in Android, and disabled entirely in ChromeOS as well as Google servers.[11] Docker also consequently disabled io_uring from their default seccomp profile.[12]

Root privilege CVE from earlier this year (2024):
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0582
IBM Research's AIU family of chips
I don't use Firefox currently but I did for a couple years recently. For a while Teams was blocked and/or broken in Firefox due to calling features Firefox didn't have at the time.

A few sites would silently break, e.g. restaurant online order pages, but work in Chrome. Never really looked into why, it was just annoying and intermittent (might work one month but not the next).

YouTube occasionally had some issues. For a while it was on an old version of Polymer that used Shadow DOM V0 (experimental) instead of V1.

A good list is here https://webcompat.com/issues?page=1&per_page=100&state=open&... keep in mind some of these are "is extremely slow in Firefox". Sometimes that's just that Firefox didn't have the same set of optimizations (not necessarily even fewer optimizations, just not ones built against) and other times that's deeper seated like the Shaw DOM V0 example where the fallback for the page was to use some older.
There seems at times a bit of a knee jerk assumption that articles must be written by AI (as opposed to AI-assisted), especially when they concern AI.

I don't think that's the case here, or if it was, it's good enough not to matter in terms of readability.
At the time, each episode brought out amazing new gameplay mechanics and we were all buying them as soon as we saved up enough money. I don't think the episode format changed anything other then making it okay to send out a shorter game then a full flagship.
If I understand your comment correctly, we're taking a stable but not that relevant metric, because the real players of the market are too secretive, fast and far ahead to allow for simple comparisons.

From a distance, it kinda sounds like listening to kids brag about their allowance while the adults don't want to talk about their salary, and try to draw wider conclusions from there.
IBM? Amazon (that sounds worse)
Why would it be a bad idea?
Not really. If Chrome is forked they kill third party cookies and search ads remain king.

Only search has high propensity to buy right there from the interaction. Third party and even meta don't have that.
I asked that same question here a while back.

One of the answers was (paraphrased), "because we're constantly recruiting for that title, but maybe not the same team." I'm not sure if that was a good or bad sign. Growth? Or constant turnover? Really makes you wonder.

I manage a highly stable tier 2 software team embedded in enterprise, and only recruit maybe once every ~2 years, if that. Hard to relate to what is going on these days.
>The reason is that everybody has a different workflow, different aesthetic preferences, different ways of doing things

>The worst one is the single UIs for Windows and Macs. There are some ways to customize them but not as heavily as it is possible with Linux.

You're right, and I forgot to touch on this before. Just look at Windows for instance: it's not a monolithic thing, because it's changed over time. Lots of Windows users criticize the new(er) versions, and say that Win7 was the peak of the Windows UI. Lots of people absolutely hated the new "Metro* UI in Win8. So clearly there's no agreement there either, so how could there possibly be broad agreement in Linux?
I do respectfully interpret {pg,tlb,rtm} as preferring to become genius hunters that fail well to remaining grad students that succeed badly..

(Thanks for reminding me of the cases of Niedermeyer and Takesaki, more appropriate to remember as them grad students rather than geniuses?)

Albeit the more apt metaproblem would be the one of enabling these “grad students” to hunt “genius projects” in teams. not sure if YC itself was meant to be this kind of genius project— i cant tell if that project proved its salt by seducing the {OGs} with a barrage of noble, monastic yet fecund suffering… perhaps not, since they kinda moved on to comfortable spiessig lives (as have their successors, mostly)

::::

vM (good or bad faith?) sidestepped the “Rao Normalization” issue by citing only nonSTEM “geniuses”, YC embraced 2 rounds of “Rao Normalization”: “finding our ikigai by hiring G/GS to find what pple want”
> It’s best practices, but what’s best is not universal, it’s best for who, best for when, best for under what circumstances.

I’m pretty sure building an organization on a free for all principle is anathema to the idea of an organization.
Maybe this will lead to Chromium finally getting proper vertical tabs which Google clearly otherwise block due to it eating up horizontal real estate that would otherwise be used for ads.
That seems to work for Mozilla. It would be nice to see other revenue models, but that exists and having the most used browser as a search client should pay at least as good as whatever deal Mozilla and Apple get.
Pite Srototyping?
The ShowHN from a few days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146509
I did indeed misread, however my graph still proves that buying power, a far more important metric than the useless real income, is down across the board. And these mysteries “studies” don’t particularly help anything. Objectively speaking money went further in 2019 than it has in 2024, and anyone with real world experience can tell you that.
Everyone else's ad revenue. The UK computing regulator is the main player here.
Judge and venue shopping makes it pretty easy though. What circuit hasn't been captured by the federalist society? Even the 9th is getting conservative.
They are planning on this:

> Parliament calls for an EU crackdown on Russia’s ’shadow fleet’

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20241111IP...
> and Mozilla

So the market/consumers decided (due to whatever reasons) that they don't want to use Mozilla's browser. Lets reward them for that failure by giving them control over someone else's browser?
Right. DoJ sued Google and a judge agreed. That's a big difference.
Isn't something fundamentally broken with either the kernel or the adoption process if that's true? It seems like you should be able to do fast async I/O without the kind of privilege escalation vulnerabilities that are still happening.
Any "choice" suffers from the same user exploit you responded to. The attack surface remains.

Plus, vulnerability often follows complexity. Whether it's human written validation logic being attacked for 6 months in a lab somewhere in Israel or the overly complex UX exposed to some soccer Mom in Minneapolis.

Save money. Save headaches. K.I.S.S.
Right, I was confused by this comment. I actually don't think it's that hard to switch, tools to import your stuff across browsers have existed for a long time. It might be that Firefox isn't particularly polished on this front but I don't think it's outside the realm of achievable and I don't think the difficulty of switching is by any means a deal breaker.
For years people have complained "ugh Google is selling your data, how awful" and here is the government seeking to mandate that Google sell your data! There's no way that this is the right remedy.
You should ask where to buy used GPUs, not "compute."
Tesla's top battery supplier says Elon doesn't know how to make battery cells
> For example, did you know that "Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy"?

Yes, because I read Inherit the Wind in middle school.
And from a day or two ago:

"Navy undersea cable showdown on Britain's doorstep: Warship forces Russian spy ship out of the Irish Sea after it was spotted over critical subsea cables - miles from UK coast" -- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14090489/russian-sp...
I’m not sure folklore and handwaving is worse than relying on some sort of bible some mysterious organisation wrote as your source of truth.
may as well just discontinue it then and let Chromium take its place
I have a feeling that if BYD was a Taiwanese company it’d be fine, could there be a concern with the Xi government’s bellicosity?
Safari hasn't actually been particular far behind implementing industry standards. As far as I can tell, it's more that people seem to believe that Google dictates industry standards and base everything on when Chrome supports it as opposed to when it actually gets standardized.

SSE's

W3C draft standard in 2012. Supported in Safari in 2010.

web sockets

This one is true. IETF standard 2011. Supported fully in Safari 2013.

IndexedDB API

W3C recommended standard in 2015. Supported in Safari in 2014.

animations

If we're talking the Web Animations API, it hasn't been standardized yet (W3C working draft) and level 2 isn't even that far.

relative color syntax

Not standardized yet. It's currently a W3C working draft.

container queries

Not standardized yet. It's currently a W3C working draft.

a bunch of <video> stuff

Need specifics.

flexbox

W3C candidate recommendation 2018. Supported in Safari 2013.
Ask yourself, when was the last time a nation officially declared war?

It doesn't happen anymore for legal reasons.

NATO will 100% not be the first to declare war despite even very serious provocations. Maybe they'll take a leaf out of Russia or Israel's book and declare a 'special' or 'limited' operation though...
Thanks for sharing this! It sounds very interesting. We experimented with a similar tree setup some time ago and it was giving good results. We eventually decided to move towards graphs as a general case of trees. I think the notion of using embeddings similarity for "walking" the graph is key, and we're actively integrating it in FastGraphRAG too by weighting the edges by the query. It's very nice to see so many solutions landing on similar designs!
> Ideally, Google would be forced to divest itself of Chrome and that Chrome would become an open source project a la Linux. Clearly, that's very unlikely to happen.

Chrome's upstream (Chromium) is already open source. If Google is forbidden from sponsoring Chromium's development, and that of its proprietary downstream distribution (Chrome) who's going to fund Chromium's development? Even if forced to divest, Google will always have an outsized sway on any open source browser due to the engineer-hours they can spend on contributions. If they are blocked from even that, then the whole exercise would be anti-consumer IMO.
FOSS can always be forked and progressed from there; see MariaDB.

I think most times when a project from a big company goes closed, the features added afterwards usually only benefit other big companies anyways.

Right now I prefer to be happy they ever bothered at all (to make open source things), rather than prematurely discount it entirely.

Maybe you weren't implying that it should be discounted entirely, but I bet a lot of people were thinking that.
Visual novels are the genre where the writers reign supreme, yes, but that's very explicitly not the games that GP was listing. Skyrim, Fallout, Witcher and Elden Ring are very much not writing-driven experiences.
Your points are well taken. I only bought the Ram because I had to for personal reasons. It's the first new car/truck I've ever owned and I will drive it till it's worn out. I've always bought used/low mileage vehicles to avoid depreciation and the headache of the warranty period.

Car makers make a lot of money based on our egos to one up-our neighbors. Car salesmen are trained to create a competitive atmosphere at the dealership by exposing our vanity and it works!
Trust in institutions is at an all time low. The last thing we need is for these institutions to veer away from their goals to push a political agenda. Good riddance to her.
I recently experienced a significant privacy issue with Experian, which I believe highlights serious concerns with their security practices. Despite my account being protected with a password and SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA), I received an alert about a fraudulent Home Depot credit card application in my name. Shortly after, I was notified that my Experian credit file had been unfrozen without my authorization.

Experian's reliance on SMS 2FA for account security is deeply troubling, especially given the well-known vulnerabilities of SMS, including SIM-swapping attacks. Even with SMS 2FA, an unauthorized party was able to gain access to my account, which raises major privacy concerns. What's more, I’ve been unable to get a clear, non-automated response from Experian to report the breach or learn how it happened.

As a software engineer, I’m especially frustrated by the lack of better security options—such as app-based 2FA or hardware tokens—available to consumers. Experian, like other credit bureaus, makes money from handling sensitive personal information, yet they fail to provide robust security or an effective means to report breaches.

I’ve shared my experience in more detail on Reddit [link here], and I’m curious if others have encountered similar issues or have advice on how to handle situations like this. It seems like a larger conversation around how we protect sensitive consumer data is urgently needed.
Presumably Google, Bing etc. would still be bidding to be the default search engine?

Google is paying Apple $20 billion per year just for that so financing 1000 engineers (which is probably excessive, a few hundred + contributions from other companies using Chromium might be enough) shouldn't be too hard.
Hmhm, just like “AWS is recommending serverless, so we should serverless everything!”

Never mind that AWS recommends what is good for AWS, not us.
BYD just nabbed another "world's first" milestone as record sales run heats up
From what I have gathered, I assume average age of registered vehicles. I would also assume that collector cars would "pollute" the statistics, unless they are filtered out -- the details of the research are not stated.

https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera...
It's a bit uncanny though, something about the AI in that video just makes it seem really off. Like it's personality feels like it changes every single sentence, but there's something else to it that I can't quite put my finger on that makes it just seem like a bit of a brick wall.
Pure EVs also waste tons of energy, because they lug around a huge battery that you barely use for most trips.

The battery pack in a Model Y weighs 1700 lbs and provides 330 miles of range. A RAV4 Prime (PHEV) has a 14.5 gallon gas tank, which provides 500 miles of range from 90 lbs of gas - in addition to the smaller 300 lb battery pack providing 42 miles range. The additional weight of the drivetrain components offsets the savings from not lugging around a huge battery. Overall, the vehicles end up with similar weight, but the RAV4 has much longer range. By default, the RAV4 prime runs on EV mode until the battery runs down. With both vehicles, you’re taking an efficiency hit on the average drive for having the option of taking longer trips.

Of course, both vehicles are a big environmental win over old ICE cars, because they will move you more miles per carbon emitted. Which one works better for you depends on your use-case. If you want to lower the environmental impact if you commute even more, ride a bicycle or something.
So basically invite the DOJ to immediately take it away again?
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder