skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> x86 monopoly

Wintel was a duopoly which had some power: Intel x86 has less dominance now partly because Windows has less dominance.

There are some wonderful papers on how game theory and monopoly plays out between Windows and Intel; and there's a great paper with analysis of why AMD struggled against the economic forces and why Microsoft preferred to team up with a dominant CPU manufacturer.
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It's going to take years for orgs to adopt IPv6 and mTLS+JWT/OIDC.

Even longer for QUIC/H3.
Someone please make a player for these things for Vision Pro and/or Quest!
Whoops, thank you. Fixed now.
Dude is selling an LLM that looks at your git repo, too. You don't need 84 hours to pipe git diffs into ollama, so I gotta wonder where the other 83 hours a week are being spent.
I do not disagree, but the fact that this is the only leaderboard that can be implemented does not imply that one needs to be implemented in the first place.
Don't understand how this isn't the dominant perspective on this.

This title inflation of calling web programmers "engineers" is absurd.
I have a “dog” my wife adopted in Africa that looks almost exactly like an Ethiopian wolf. When I read about the temperament and behavior of wolves kept as pets, he checks every single box to a T. We love him, but he is far more intelligent and challenging than any dog I have ever known. He cannot be near anyone he does not know well, and negative discipline of any kind does not work at all on him, and would be dangerous to even attempt. We joke that he is a wolf, but sometimes I wonder if it is literally true.
Okay, well think very deeply about what you are saying about isolation; the topology of the hardware; and why NVIDIA does not allow P2P access even in vGPU settings except in specific circumstances that are not yours. I think if it were as easy to make the isolation promises you are making, NVIDIA would already do it. Malformed NVLink messages make GPUs fall off the bus even in trusted applications.
> And with good reason.

Not really. The number of deaths per Joule is orders of magnitude lower for nuclear than for eg coal; and that includes all the infamous nuclear disasters like the one in Chernobyl. But we still allow coal fired power plants.

We could drop the cost for nuclear power, by lowering the safety standards to the same as that for eg natural gas or photovoltaic.

> Would every NPP be required to obtain actual insurance to account for disasters, it would be among the most expensive ways to generate power.

I doubt it; but I am in favour of internalising externalities, like when coal plants emit pollutants, or for nuclear powers plants, like in your examples. Bonds and insurance are a way to make sure those rare risky externalities are also paid for.
Oil giants blocked a treaty to curb plastic pollution; countries will try again
I personally prefer to learn it from the front. I only teach the very first phase and tell the group to expect to wipe after the transition.

If there are key enemies to shoot or whatever I will send a screenshot into discord because the game has no good way to mark targets besides shooting them.

The main reason I like this method is because trying to do the whole fight in one go is just too much to infodump on someone. By the time they are ready for the phase 2 info, they will have enough confidence in the p1 strategy that you dont have to worry about pushing any knowledge out of their active memory.

I was also the raid leader for my WoW guild so the method does scale. You do need people who are able to learn from their mistakes though... Some just never figure out to move out of the fire.
not really a cliche. that is why starbucks does it. they can cover up taste of poor beans especially when adding milk. most prefer a dark roast because corporations want to make profits and made our tastebuds lazy by force drinking it everyday. just like food with sweeteners or msg. it just kills the purpose of food as a craft. nowadays its even more the opposite there is an hipster revival of dark roast or msg hyping culture as marketing tool to sell it. but lets be homest those things are cache-misère
What a great link. Thankyou.
There is still so much to learn from the microbiome. Working with contaminated sites, I have seen bacterial adaptations to the most l nastiest sites, almost always improving the toxicity of the soil. (There are rare exceptions.)
Reagan, Clinton, and Bush Jr are the 3 presidents that have obliterated the working class.

Unrestrained capitalism creates monopolies and those 3 presidents created an environment for monopolies to flourish.

Reagan started things off by deregulating businesses and rewarding big business for "efficiency". Which really just translated into big businesses buying out the competition and jacking up the prices.

Clinton continued a trend primarily by dismantling and privatizing the federal government. That lead to giant Quazi-government businesses that have little to no competition and ultimately bring the worst of all worlds. The rollout of the ACA marketplaces is a prime example of what that capture looks like, a sub sub sub sub sub contracted and ultimately outsourced project that was riddled with bugs costing millions to create when literally if the fed gov had a team of software devs employed (perhaps some of the devs from the DOD?) it would have cost far less and would have actually worked.

Bush then caused a crisis in funding by dishing out huge tax cuts. Those tax cuts (especially around capital gains) essentially encouraged the hording of wealth while simultaneously with Clinton's privatization of social programs caused a crisis in the federal budget. Couple that with 2 giant boondoggle wars where we effectively dumped trillions of dollars into defense companies to later abandon our purchases in the desert. Defense companies, I might add, that shouldn't exist as their only client is the US government. Why should we be funding 4 or 5 companies to build weapons for the US military? Why can't the US military build its own weapons? Why should we be purchasing wasted tanks with generals literally begging the US government to stop buying equipment? I would much rather that money go to something like UBI, food stamps, or SS/Medicare instead of being the most inefficient way to make jobs. Heck, we could dump that money into free public education and R&D to make sure we aren't falling behind technically without producing weapons that will sit unused.
From the actual bill:

63C Age-restricted social media platform
(1) For the purposes of this Act, age-restricted social media platform
means:
(a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:
(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service
is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more
end-users;
(ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with,
some or all of the other end-users;
(iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the
service;

I would say that HN is covered under that.

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...

You are quite shortsighted if you can't see the possible outcomes of such a far-reaching and anti-democratic law.
I did not know, thanks for the info. But that is one country among many that constitute the EU.
Where are you looking for coffee? Lots of "good roasters" (i.e. ones that have managed to sustain a market for their single origin offerings) will have Kenyan coffees. Of course if you don't live in a major with retail locations then you'll have to purchase online.
I'm growing panellum stipticus on some wood and rice right now. The glow is very faint but quite satisfying to perceive. I hope to make a nice nightlight out of it
The article even makes it sound like the law is still on the books, just not being enforced. Pretty sure enforcing the laws is the responsibility of the executive branch, isn't it? So it's not like any big combined majority action would be necessary, just an executive who said, "We enforce this now."

I'd like to think the article left out some important context that I'm now missing, because it'd sure be a weird thing to complain about from a partisan perspective if it could have been solved with the stroke of a pen.
All the browsers on my machine report my resolution as 1080p despite using 4k. I assume this is because I run at 200% scaling (I believe this is relatively common among anyone using a 4k resolution)

If the above-linked website uses data reported by the browser, I wonder how this scenario might be taken into consideration (or even if such a thing is possible)
> If only a democrat majority had been elected at any point in the last 40 years that could have fixed this.

I think that thinking of it this way shifts the blame unduly; it's not like Republicans as well as Democrats don't bear the blame for continuing harmful policies, just because those policies were instituted by Republicans. As to Democrats, the first Democratic administration that was elected after Reagan did so by running away from many traditional Democratic priorities, and both other Democratic administrations had to deal with a recalcitrant Congress for at least a substantial portion of their time in office.

Even if they hadn't, though, I think that the general fact is that it's much easier to create problems quickly than to fix them quickly, so that the idea that any administration, even a 2-term one with a hypothetical cooperative Congress, could undo such changes (as opposed to just starting to undo them) isn't plausible—or, if it could be done, then it would surely be as all-consuming of political capital as the ACA was, at the expense of pursuing any of that administration's other priorities—and being able to pursue a longer-term solution would require electoral patience with political promises that weren't accompanied by immediate delivery.
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why are so many array programming alternatives to numpy/scipy popping up recently? Is there a fundamental flaw or showstopper in numpy?
People typically refer to the data brokerage economy that sprung up thanks to social media. As well as being experimented on (A/B tests) for dubious reasons.
Murderbot doesn't have a gender. It certainly is not male.

I wonder what Martha Wells thinks about this casting choice...
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Cooperation is also selfish, even if we don't normally think of it that way. We're working together with others to accomplish something we couldn't alone, but either the result is something we personally desire, or we expect compensation for our help.
I think it boils down specifically to the social media pivot towards algorithmically curated feeds designed to prioritize engagement above all else. Platforms that did not make this change in the '10s still feel much healthier than dumps like Facebook and Xitter.

One of the big selling points of Bluesky right now is that it does not do this and that is why it feels so much like 2010-era Twitter.
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Democrats have not had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate since before Reagan, and they're constantly up against the asymmetry that breaking things is a lot easier than building them. The side that wants government not to work has a huge structural advantage in any argument (even apart from their structural electoral advantages thanks to letting empty fields carry as much weight as cities) since they "win" by default.

It only takes a few years or even months of Republican rule to install judges that will deem any regulations unconstitutional, to allow time-bounded authorizations to lapse, to fire large numbers of public servants who keep the administrative state running, or simply to use the bully pulpit to tarnish the reputation of federal bureaucracy so that individuals will refuse to interact with them. Building those institutions as credible, competent forces takes somewhere between years and lifetimes.
Democrats are too busy trying to convince the american public that they are actually republicans for some weird reason.
Yea! I don't mean it to be dismissive at all. It's part of what I love about them. There's good character and world building, but a lot of the book is just well-crafted puzzle boxes of "how do you get out of this", where at the end, it's just that the characters are competent and skilled, but the exact _how_ is fun.
I agree. I don't see him having achieved anything particularly noteworthy over his tenure.

I'm not sure where Intel needs to go from here - ultimately lots of problems are solved if they can just design a solid CPU (or GPU) and make enough of them to meet demand. Their problems recently are just down to them being incapable of doing so. If their fab node pans out that's another critical factor.

Intel still has tons of potential. They're by no means uncompetitive with AMD, really. The fabs are a millstone right now, the entire reason they as cheap as they are until they can start printing money with them. It does feel like they don't have any magic, though, no big moonshots or cool projects left since they basically killed all of them :(.
Consumers vote with their wallets that they prefer the big box stores. Reagan removed bargaining restrictions on big box stores, which lowered prices.

Bad or good for consumers?

Does it matter if you need to drive 8 or 11 miles (non-desert vs. desert) to buy boxed cereals and processed food?

CostCo rides the same dynamic, at scale. CostCo deserts?

Want to fix it, HN-style? Create a startup! But more regulation? Ffs.
That goes for any business/employer for what it's worth.
> Imagine creating a game by describing scenes, like the ones in the article, with a good morphing technology between scenes, so that the transitions between them are like auto-generated scenes which are just as playable.

Why do you think this game would be good? I'm not a game maker but the visual layer is not the reason people like or enjoy a game (ex: nintendo). There are teams of professionals making games today that range from awful to great. I get that there are indie games made by a single person that will benefit from generated graphics, but asset creation seems to be a really small part of it.
> But the purpose of the Tech Tracker is not to assess the current state of play but to improve global understanding of countries’ strategic intent and potential future science and technology capability.

So it's bogus. The point of this is not "how good are they today?" but "how good does our think tank think they will be in the future?" which is far more biased than it sounds. Given that this is issuing from Austrailia, who, with all due respect, has a huge investment in convincing America to get off it's ass concerning Indo-Pacific security, I'd take this with a grain of salt.
Or get a piercing.
How do you allow a driver using that exactly?
That was late 80's and early 90's
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how do you calculate share prices? curious
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=17m28s
Many or nearly all policy votes happen along party these days. Has any party been able to overcome the Senate filibuster? There was a brief period in 2009 after the inauguration of Al Franken until Senator Kennedy’s death in August of that year. Not a lot of time to change policies, and every new act of Congress brings in both good, bad, and unintended side effects.
Very little in the intervening years has improved bipartisan cooperation.
Isn't this a roundabout way of saying that, absent government coercion, consumer preference tends to be towards buying cheaper groceries at a big consolidated store a drive away, than a more expensive nearby store?

Isn't the real boogieman here rules (zoning, parking requirements, etc) and subsidies (oil industry) than mean we all live in diffuse single-use residential communities and have to have cars to get to work/school/shop, whether we really want them or not?
Is there a source you would recommend for further elaboration and exploration of this model?
I guess that's enshittification for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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You’re being super disingenuous if you’re comparing it between 8 and 11 miles.
Here's an example of that - https://thehustle.co/the-man-feeding-a-remote-alaska-town-wi...
> The title is part of the problem, because it reveals the culture, slapping cool titles without upping oneself to what those titles actually mean.

The irony is there are actual disciplines in software that are worthy of being called "engineering"--how the hell does an engine ECU work with the level of precision that it does? ABS systems? Hell, how about most electronic control systems on an airplane?

These are some of the most impressive feats in software development, and I've heard near 0 about any of them.

Yet the "industry" is hyper-focused on mashing together "containerized" monstrosities to put strings in databases, or to find a new way to add a chatbot to something that doesn't need it.
It’s because the best tamales come out of the back trunk of a car, or a cooler behind the counter of your local Mexican bakery. It’d be a tragedy to lose those flavors.
All I'm saying is that there were people who would have called it naive to be optimistic about such things- and that they were ultimately correct even though they didn't have the numbers or a proper movement.
Your mileage may vary.

BTW, is 10,000 hours not considered pseudoscience?
> Murderbot frequently blends into the crowd as a dude though, that's a recurring theme in the series.

Murderbot blends as a human. Can you remember a specific passage where it's a dude? It could be your brain playing tricks on you.

I'm a man and I'm guilty of assuming a male gender for characters where the text says "a guard", "a doctor", "a soldier", etc. When I was told some readers thought Murderbot was female, I re-read several passages and nowhere does Martha Wells state its gender either way (even by stating Murderbot passes for a man or woman).
Granitic rocks on Mars!
Here is what I told my kids - (although not a geologist, but decades working in prospecting, exploration and mapping):
The white rock is absolutely amazing!
Look at all the others. They are glassy, vuggy - volcanic looking with air pockets and slidy shiny sides.
The white one has black crystal like growths - pyroxene crystals (?) -as suggested in the NASA linked paragraph; found in a white mass. It looks like granite.(Silica based?) Which is a deep under 'earth' slow growth rock - as opposed to the volcanic looking ones which are faster cooling surface rocks.
Like the granite of New Hampshire, deep, old rocks exposed to the surface by millions of years of erosion. (Or the uplifting of deep rocks, on the west coast)
How did it get there? If it was on earth, you could say glacial transfer and deposition. And why is it broken? Freshly exposed inside with sharp edges?
There is a massive difference between "capable of generating music, sounds, and speech using text and audio inputs it’s never been trained on" and "sounds never heard before." This is simultaneously nonsense and obvious truth. Create a new color you've never seen before.
> the game has no good way to mark targets besides shooting them.

It's such a shame the mobile version is getting pings before desktop
What do you mean by "on" rice? On the living plant? Or you mean it's growing in a jar of rice?

A bioluminescent wood nightlight sounds amazing, surely someone sells them
This is reminiscent of Uncle Ruckus’ visit to White Heaven in The Boondocks
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