skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly understand what you’re saying and I hope I didn’t come across as saying serverless is *never* a good idea.
In my experience it’s just very often not the best choice. I will always keep an open mind about solutions, but serverless often comes with many shortcomings that teams don’t notice until it’s too late. I’ve seen it happen enough times that I feel I must keep a healthy dose of skepticism when anyone proposes changing a small part of stack for serverless options.

I’ve been working with AWS for about 8 years now and have worked on supporting dozens of projects across 5 different orgs ranging from small 5-person shops to 1000+ people. I have only seen a handful of cases where serverless makes sense.

> Taking a legacy application that runs on a single server and is struggling to scale with spaghetti of config files all over the box and security issues that have gone unpatched because no one wants to touch the box as it’s too dangerous to change anything, as everything is intertwined. No backups or unverified backups. No redundancy. No reproducible environments so things work on local but not on remote. Takes devs days to pin the issues.

All of these issues are easily possible with many serverless options. What it really sounds like is your org went from a legacy architecture that built up a ton of tech debt over the course of years and had no one owning the basics (ie backups) to a new one with less tech debt since it was built specifically around current issues you were facing. In 3-5 years I wouldn’t be surprised to hear the pendulum swinging back in the other direction as staffing and resources change hands and new requirements emerge.
I don't have Whatsapp, but I do have an iPhone.
I'm not from the US, but all the countries I've lived in require some form of ID. As far as I know, US is the only country in the world that doesn't. So, I have an honest question: why would you want people who don't bother to have a valid ID to vote at all? Do you expect them to be responsible people, good members of society? People who pay more in taxes than they receive from the government?

I don't know enough about US to be sure. But in any country I've lived in, the answer would be no.
As someone who owns a machine which gets reminders to update to Windows 11 despite not being allowed to, the whole thing is bizarre. There's no cited explanation for the TPM "requirement", and it's obviously not a requirement since you can turn it off. It makes me very suspicious that there's some ulterior motive.
I'm growing to the idea that chat is a bad UI pattern, period. It is a great record of correspondence, I think. But it is a terrible UI for doing anything.

In large, I assert this is because the best way to do something is to do that thing. There can be correspondence around the thing, but the artifacts that you are building are separate things.

You could probably take this further and say that narrative is a terrible way to build things. It can be a great way to communicate them, but being a separate entity, it is not necessarily good at making any artifacts.
https://archive.is/7PAuw
I am curious about the potential of this app for community organizing, or if any neutering has taken place in the same way AirDrop was limited during Hong Kong protests in 2020.
Didn’t Elon just cancel r/whitepeopletwitter?
Typically: Investment is long term. Speculation is short. Investment is looking for a gradual return over time. Speculation is betting on price.

I've been long on crypto since 2013, I'm not a crypto day trader, and I'm well aware of DeFi. I consider that an investment, not speculation.

Let people treat things the way they want to. All of the people who want to stick with Vanguard and their position are free to do so.
You may have challenges using chat for development (Specifically, I mean text prompting, not necessary using a langchain session with a LLM, although that is my most common mode), but I do not. I have found chat to be, by far, the most productive interface with LLMs for coding.

Everything else, is just putting layers, that are not nearly as capable at an LLM, between me and the raw power of the LLM.

The core realization I made to truly unlock LLM code assistance as a 10x + productivity gain, is that I am not writing code anymore, I am writing requirements. It means being less an engineer, and more a manager, or perhaps an architect. It's not your job to write tax code anymore, it's your job to describe what the tax code needs to accomplish and how it's success can be defined and validated.

Also, it's never even close to true that nobody uses LLMs for production software, here's a write-up by Google talking about using LLMs to drastically accelerate the migration of complex enterprise production systems: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06972
I don't see how this competes with partiful. Feels like it'll be another half baked never updated app from apple. I wish they'd open their apis and integrations more. Feels silly that these apps get first class access to apple apis, meanwhile better made apps are forced to do weird workarounds, or simply have no integrations.
What upstarts did Meta strong arm? From my recollection, they paid enormous amounts of money for websites and apps like Instagram and WhatsApp.

There were so many threads on this website alone about how much extra Meta was paying and how they would ever see a return.
But no-one without an Apple Account can create them - you can only respond to Apple-having friends. There is social pressure in that too.
Most games "just work" at this point because of how well Proton works: https://www.protondb.com/

The biggest issue is certain DRMs aren't supported in Linux yet, but others are, so it's just game dependent. I mostly play single-player, but the multiplayer games I do play work fine.

I don't have Windows on any machines at this point. I've converted everything to Fedora Silverblue and it's fantastic.
And Gemini has 2m token window. Which is about 10 minutes of video for example.
> and that’s just programming with extra steps.

If you know how to program, then I agree and part of why I don't see the point. If you don't know how to program, than the prompt isn't much different than providing the specs/requirements to a programmer.
I asked you to.
W11 IoT does not require TPM
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise...
In Gaussian Splatting, a first order approximation takes ellipsoids in camera space to ellipses in image space. This works ok for pigeonhole cameras where straight lines remain straight and more generally conic sections are taken to other conic sections. For high distortion models like fisheye, this approximation probably breaks. However this method presumably does not rely on approximation since it is ray traced.
I'm in my mid-thirties and most of my friends have ditched Facebook. I didn't really realize this until when I used it to create an event for a house party... I was somewhat surprised that only 2 people out of 15 even saw it. I ended up resorting to good old text message and that worked, but it was tedious. Not sure how popular this will become, but having a social-media-less event invite/broadcasting system would be nice, and having one that most people with an iPhone have access to covers much of my friend base
Going to be a challenge for them to grow considering the idp market is already (I argue) saturated.
Yeah, but we saw this coming years ago when hordes were cheering actual banning of words. I wasn't the only one on various forums who pointed out to all those cheerleaders in the "main replaces master or you're a nazi" camp that normalizing banning of words can only hurt in the long run.

I do not support banning of speech in any but the most extreme cases, but this still uses "review" at least. The previous "master vs main" proponents didn't even bother to pretend that there was any context in which master would be approved.

We've been warning for years, stop being so extreme. And now you, too, gets to see the result of normalizing language policing.

Enjoy.
It's always nice to see some first-party apps from Apple[0], but historically the "iPhone-only social networking" hasn't been very successful — iTunes Ping or Game Center haven't been a huge hit, while group messaging in iMessage has only gained some traction within the US and virtually non-existent almost everywhere else.

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[0] One can even say "first first-party party app" in this case :)
Sure, they likely could. But then the complaint would be, "Arrg, I can't believe Freedesktop.org and Alpine are now effectively owned by Red Hat/IBM now, arrg!"

Also, Red Hat typically only "sponsors" open source projects that they have some business dependency on. Freedesktop.org might be a good candidate, but Alpine could be harder to justify. I don't know of any RH product that uses Alpine directly. (Most enterprises only have exposure to Alpine through container images.)
What’s missing when sending invites via mail, or a message on a social media they’re in?
everyone I know uses partiful for events these days
I am sorry that you took so much flak in this thread. The HN crowd generally pretends to dislike elitism but this whole thread seems to be questioning the abilities of the engineers and conspiracy theories about billionaires. I interestingly don't see a lot of people defending government spending though. If the DOGE program were done under a different party and perhaps to expand government spending, I imagine the HN crowd would be supportive and defend the engineers.
Is that a fact? Any substance you'd care to offer or just leaving that assertion hanging?
I built my own PC years ago and it came without a tpm so I can't upgrade. The motherboard does have the plug for a tpm so I bought a cheap one and tried plugging it in. Windows still doesn't recognize it. I did my best but the obsoleting Microsoft is doing here is heavy handed
So then why reduce fees now? Why not years ago? Are they just suddenly feeling that generous?
That's true. The claim that Bitcoin is useless for everyday transactions is obviously correct. It's more like digital gold.

However, I find time and time again that HN crows is absolutely unaware of how useful crypto can be in everyday life, so I offer my perspective.
I'm highly dubious the post WW2 economic boom is much more than the after glow of the US being the only industrial nation on the face of the Earth that didn't get bombed [0] to smithereens. China couldn't pose an economic rivalry at the time because it wasn't significantly industrial and had had years of civil war before the Japanese threat came in, Europe was a burnt husk, and Japan had weak industry even before it was bombed and cowed.

And yes China did what most industrializing nations do, sacrifice their environment and burn natural resources at prodigious rates to super charge and grow their economy. It's a horrible place to be long term and even China is starting to implement some environmental protections because that kind of pollution is terrible long term. They're even seeing their neighbors do the same thing that drove so much of US production to China, cheaper labor and fewer government hurdles, it's a cycle many countries have followed.

[0] In any meaningful capacity, have to say it or the pedants will mention Pearl Harbor or the tiny number of attacks from things like balloon bombs etc.
I know you want to believe this is principled, but...

- the Social Security Administration, in the first MONTH of 2025, has outlaid $395 billion of spending.
- the Department of Defense, in the first MONTH of 2025, has outlaid $250 billion of spending.
- USAID's annual budget is $38 billion annually, so we could realistically estimate that, if they've outlaid $3 billion this year thus far, they've spent 0.4% of what those other two departments have.

Let's call this like it is: USAID is a bogeyman to Trump and Musk and is a threat to the administration's efforts toward becoming a "hard power" country. If they really cared about spending, they would have gone elsewhere first.

Source: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Not to be too pedantic, but aren't those typically being purchased under some other license that doesn't apply to you (bulk, oem, cheaper country, etc) and then resold in violation of the licensing terms?

And that's when they're not just "pirated" themselves?

Seems at that point you might as well just skip paying whatever questionable middleman in involved if you're not concerned about abiding by TOS or license.
No one will use this
I think philosophically this is a good rule of thumb; the problem is that the euphemism treadmill (or whatever) has done its work.

"Accountable" is meaningless therapy-speak now.

CEO says "oh, this was a big problem, that we leaked everyone's account information and murdered a bunch of children. I hold myself accountable" but then doesn't quit or resign or face any consequences other than the literal act of saying they are taking "accountability".
> faced massive interceptor depletion and had to leave

Depletion is the problem with destroyers. Something like an arsenal ship (think instead of 90-120 missiles, being loaded out with 300) would make more sense. Cheap drones are more of a depletion problem than are hypersonics.
Americans don't really do whatsapp
man, pAIthon was just sitting right there for the taking
A lot of people are not using Facebook, so it’s easier to use custom tools that only require a browser and send SMS/e-mail for alerts.

Some of them have Facebook, but turned off all notifications and never check for updates. So they can be counted as not having it.
This is like making the argument against cars because “untrusted drivers” and it’s equally as bad.
A company creating a useful tool that encourages people to buy their product is incredibly boring, typical, and not at all controversial until it's Apple doing it.
It comes from having a dominant ("hegemonic") discourse - basically the set of values, mores, opinions, etc. that are allowed to be aired in public. A consistent Overton window throughout the population, basically.

Periods in history like now (or the late-1920s/1930s, or the 1850s-1860s, or the mid-1600s) are ones where there is ambiguity in power structures. You have multiple competing ideologies, each of which thinks they are more powerful than the others. Society devolves into a state of anomie, where there's no point following the rules of society because there are multiple competing sets of rules for society.

The usual result is war, often widespread, because the multiple competing value systems cannot compromise and so resort to exterminating the opposing viewpoint to ensure their dominance. Then the victors write the histories, talk about their glorious victory and about how the rebels threatened society but the threat was waved off, and institute a new set of values that everyone in the society must live by. Then you can get accountability, because there is widespread agreement on the code of conduct and acceptable set of justifications for the populace at large to judge people by.
I hope this doesn't take off at all as it would be a net-negative for everyone involved.

The whole "app for events" experience is a complete piece of crap with the exception of lu.ma perhaps.

"Oh you're not an Apple user, whoops you can't RSVP" is a giant step towards enshittifying them even more.
Seems like an interesting new phenomenon to me.
Yes and:

Pax Americana protects the global maritime order.

I believe, but cannot prove, that hegemony and "forever war" are inextricable. a la "if you want peace, prepare for war".

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I'm not justifying or defending Pax Americana or American exceptualism. IMHO, there is no justice, fairness, ethical, or moral defence. Statecraft, world affairs, empire, hegemony are amoral. And while the status quo sucks, for some a lot more than others, I think we'll miss it when it's gone.
Trivial auditing? If that’s what you think is happening you clearly aren’t paying attention.
I'm not sure how much I believe this argument. I think the number of people under 30 that can pirate music and manage to load it on to a phone is smaller than you think. Not to mention the fact that being limited to listening to only the music you have pirated (and have storage capacity for) is probably a bizarre concept to younger people who are pretty used to paying a small subscription fee for access to everything.
No worries, and no humble pie required. Peace, good happiness.
For me there is the distinction between regular politics and politics that is influenced or touched by technology and its leaders.

Regular politics can be discussed elsewhere, that makes sense.

But stories involving technology in the government should have a place here, even when the people involved are the likes of Elon Musk.

And stories involving tech leaders acting in our government should have a place for discussion here too. But of course what’s happening is deeply destructive and unpopular, so some people who support that agenda want to keep it quiet.

Frankly people will hate us forever after this.
Do they have something tangible now? At least PWr (from Poland) have fine tuned Mistral and a lot of language data AFAIK - https://bielik.ai/

Anyway I think some novel training method is needed and I’m with Yann on this. They could luck into good idea but with this budget chances are < 1%
> So each listen would have a variable payout

Each listen have a variable payout already. If Spotify has EUR 100M in subscription and ad payments this month and 30B listens it will be a different amount paid per listen compared to a month where they had 110M in income and 24B listens.

> That seems overly complex and more volatile

How so? The current system incentives bot activity to game the system by paying for one account, using that to listen to one or two artists thousands of times, netting those artists more than what the account paid Spotify. With my requested system the payout from bots would never be profitable and therefore reduce volatility (and reduce overhead needed to analyse traffic for bot behaviour).

> If you only listened to 1 song, the rights holder would receive all of your monthly payment (sans Spotify’s cut)?

There is no downside at all here, but it seems you think so?
It was supplied over Lake Ladoga when the ice froze, but unfortunately the ice froze later in the year than usual and thawed earlier than usual during that first winter. It was dangerous stuff when the ice was thin, but when it was thick you could drive a tank over it, and they did.

Later on they were able to partially lift the siege in the south east just below the lake and could get some supplies in by train.

Of course it's always possible to get small quantities in, but to feed a city of millions....
Strange that economic power is still handed down the generations like political was in the days of kings
Wasn't Marc A saying the last admin was basically preventing the ability of crypto and AI startups from thriving?
What kernel versions is this available? How do you check if it's enabled?

Are you likely to get it automatically if you run a recent stock Debian / Ubuntu / Alpine / Arch / Mint / whatever? Or do you have to do something specific to enable it?

> it does require driver changes which is a bit of a pain. By my count it is supported by more than fifty drivers

How do you check? Can you give an example of where the code's different in a driver that supports it and a driver that doesn't? It might be nice to have a Python script to analyze the kernel source tree and produce a list of which drivers support BQL, it might affect my purchasing decisions if I'm building a system I expect to have heavy network loads (media server / NAS or the like).
> It isn't quite the same thing. There is a difference between trying to empower historically marginalized groups, and trying to re-subjugate historically marginalized groups.

Not really. It's all language games.

This is just the mirror image of the liberal conceit they can magically change reality by forcing people to use different words or over-elevating some story (old or new) for ideological reasons.

The lesson from this is that it's all stupid, not just my-side's version, and it should stop.
It's not a straw man argument when the counterargument you propose is "actually, evading regulation is the point".
> iCloud+ subscribers can create invitations, and anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device.

Only paying customers are allowed to construct their digital social life, but at least they're allowed to invite those filthy Android users!
The EU needs to regulate this
Social pressures aren't real. I have never ever had a facebook account, instagram account, a linkedin account, an iphone or any other things people fall for.
That requires a sign in…
In this case they don't need an Iphone to RSVP though. Seems like a good implementation. The challenge is for the organizer not the folks rsvping.
They also seem to have a web-only version too, but it requires an Apple account. Refreshing coming from Apple.
I'd rather not have to "trust" any financial institution.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/17/vanguard-fined-more-than-100...

https://asic.gov.au/about-asic/news-centre/find-a-media-rele...

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/vanguard-fined-prov...
You might be looking in the mirror
No, zero means a 0% expense ratio and no minimums, as listed for the four funds at the top of https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/investing-ideas/index-.... Unlike most other funds, these are captive to Fidelity so if you ever do an ACATS transfer they have to be liquidated.
The USDA orders much more expansive precautionary slaughtering programs than in other countries.

Each country also subsidizes their agriculture in different ways so they tend to respond to price shocks differently.
Looks like the creation of a great USA firewall. Blocking specific foreign sites and so forth.

> MOTION.—At any time after a court has issued
an order pursuant to subsection (a), the petitioner may move
for an order directing each service provider that received
notice of the order under subsection (a) to take reasonable
and technically feasible measures to prevent users of the
service provided by the service provider from accessing the
foreign website or online service identified in the order.
> Most people don't have a home connection like that but I'm not sure it really matters.

It doesn't. Even on a rough 4g connection you can download a full song in about a second and upload one in about 10 seconds.
https://www.protondb.com/

This lists the compatibility of most games on steam with Linux - you just need to enable proton in steam and you're good to go.

Any distro should work - distros really don't matter (or if they actually do for you, you're computer-literate enough to not need to ask)
The point is that LLVM does much, much more than TCC and, while it is definitely possible that LLVM could have done that in a smaller binary, TCC is probably not a good thing to compare with because it only does a bare minimum. I should also note that LLVM is a cross-compiler by default...
> That would require empathy from someone who is, right now, bragging about how they sicced their lawyers and the cops on customers they were fucking over.

How do we know they were fucking them over?

There's always going to be a subset of people who take any perceived slight as an attack on their honor, and will over-react. (I've had death threats for deleting a reddit post, fwiw.)
Why is this stuff not primarily hosted via bittorrent, now?

Even Microsoft updates can use end user device distributed hosting.
Lots of small reductions to the specialty bond funds. VCIT and BIV (Intermediate Term bonds) moving from from 0.04% ==> 0.03%. One notable drop is with VWOB (Emerging Markets Government Bond) going from 0.15% to 0.1%.
Well, Partiful is free, available on Android, and doesn’t require an iPhone or iCloud+ subscription to use. In contrast, this seems more exclusive. For now, Partiful lives to fight another day.
It may have something to do with the duopolistic nature of mobile phones and the absolute size and dominance of Apple.