skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No their asset includes the last mile

As I'm sure you are aware the term least mile has always included everthing up to and including termination at the exchange. The only thing that's changed is the name of the exchange. It's now called a POI.

Yes there are fewer of them. It did reduce costs and engineering complexity. There is no consensus whether it effected competitiveness, but given the NBN has been in operation for a decade now and there are many, many ISP's, most small, any detrimental effect must be near negligible. It's time you put that tired old debate behind you.

> The NBN is literally welfare for Telstra Optus, AAPT and Vocus

Telstra earnings dropped off a cliff when the copper became worthless. If that's welfare I'd hate to see what some real competition would do to them. The other three never had fingers in the consumer last mile pie. They bought it off Telstra before, now the buy off the NBN. They buy at the same price as every other ISP. Where is this welfare you speak of?

> Net Neutrality in Australia has more to do with the big 4 peering agreement.

I'm not sure you know what net neutrality means.

> State based private/public co funding would have gotten you the same result faster and cheaper.

Wow. Such confidence. Admit it, you don't have a clue what that would cost. Also admit not one state offered to do it. I think you hallucinating random possibilities.

> It was Turnbull who slightly corrected the NBN funding model to make it halfway profitable

I have a lot of time for Turnbull. His rear guard actions managed to derail Abbotts attempt to kill the NBN. God knows what we would have done if our internet didn't support video during COVID. However, it did involve buying $800 million for the Optus HFC network that was so degraded it was written off. His FttN is being ripped out long before it's anticipated EOL, and replaced at great expense. That's because it costs a small to run air-conditioned nodes a few hundred metres from every house, and the performance topped out at a 1/10 of what the NBN is offering now. So sadly the compromises made to save the NBN are now having to be rectified at great expense. And knowing all this, you are saving it saved us money! Delusional.

> Rural australia ...

I wasn't referring to rural Australia. According to google the average population density of urban Australian is an order of magnitude lower than the USA. Cable runs are consequently much longer. Compared to the effort the USA would need to put in, replacing them was indeed a huge undertaking.

> Honestly I have never seen anyone as confidently wrong on the internet before.

Having reviewed the outright falsehoods you told above, I'm guessing I'm dealing with quite the bullshitter. And I guess, true to form, you will carry on.
Starlark does not expose sources of randomness like date.now()
The data centres will almost certainly stay in New Jersey with the rest of the US equity trading infrastructure.
No, it's not. My statement is exactly as well-sourced as yours.
> Either way, Hungary and US are certainly different enough so even similar things could work out differently in the end.

This mindset is one of the reasons why the US are sliding into authoritarianism and repeating mistakes that were made by many other countries in the last century or so. No, the US are not exceptional and there is nothing unique about American people that makes them intrinsically democratic. You should in fact get yourself familiar with Orban’s Hungary because your future is likely to be quite similar. Also, Mussolini and Putin.
Isn't that all of modern AI?
If cloud options are ok, Gemini has been getting a good rep lately, as it’s good at OCR and cheaper than the rest.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
$80k in GitHub Bounties for Open-Source AI Wearables
I think one saving grace is that the US federal government doesn't administer elections. Sure, there are things they can do to interfere, but elections are run by the states, and that means 50 different electoral systems to subvert and tilt.
You missed the risk that by following the law, the Trump administration could and likely would put sanctions on Apple for opposing free speech. It’s a huge business risk to oppose Trump just to follow the law, maybe an existential risk.
He literally says in the post he reached out to Linus directly and to this day haven’t gotten a response. He also himself was (trying to) upstream patches for years, usually ending up similarly getting stonewalled
From the wasi.dev[0] front page:

> WASI can be implemented by both core Wasm modules and applications built according to the Component Model, a specification for Wasm applications that are interoperable and composable. You can learn more about components in the Bytecode Alliance's WebAssembly Component Model documentation[1].

[0]: https://wasi.dev/
[1]: https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/
This is normal. Each user flag downranks the post until it accumulates enough of them to be "flagged".
That mostly KDE's fault, in my experience. For some reason it has always had great trouble getting there with Wayland whereas others got there a bit faster.

For me, it still isn't quite there for some hardware combinations.
Durable Objects solves so many problems for realtime & persistence. The biggest problem is they're vendor locked, so we can't use them if we want to keep all of our infrastructure on AWS.

So we built out a library that lets you run Durable Object-like backends on any cloud: https://github.com/rivet-gg/actor-core
So you want to run untrusted code?
It's interesting to reflect on what you're saying: you'd pay someone who forces you to, but not otherwise. So if someone built a house for you you'd only pay them if they threatened to come and burn it down, or they kept some way to remotely lock you out of it?
> extreme black and white view of things

You mean, like, the poster you're responding to? That's their M.O.
I don't think even smart folks here realize how much of a boost is some good income cash when you are starting your life from poor background. But one has to save it and not burn on 'better' lifestyle with trying to match peers or impress women (clue - if they don't like who you really are, no shiny expensive thing will ever make it work long term and you will just attract very wrong crowd).

I can attest it allowed me to do literal jumps way above what my peers and rest could do setting up much better life path. Pure numbers don't do this justice, not sure how to explain it properly.

Now it may not be your goal in life and thats fine, this comes from a guy who spent 6 months on unpaid backpacking all over India and Nepal well into his career work days, but be sure you are really fine with these decisions long, I mean LONG term. And we don't know who we will be in 2 decades.

Also a good quick start could easily mean retiring much earlier if one has a bit of luck and can control expenses growth (and they will grow regardless of your life path). One can focus on academia then.
I've worked with this guy and can recommend him: https://www.icbreakout.com/pages/services

For me the best way to judge a freelancer is to look at previous projects, but that only works because I'm experienced designing electronics, so I know what to look for. If you end up looking into any other potential contractors, I don't mind helping you evaluate their portfolios.
Hardly anything non-obvious or controversial in there, how boring ;)

This one though:

> The true open source way: accept everything that comes

I never heard this said about open source development, or experienced this in open source projects myself.

PS: My pet theory is that big teams create big code bases in short time and under bureaucratic code-design rules which leave little room for personal initiative. E.g. also known as 'enterprise software development'.
Thursday morning football
There are people in the GOP already talking about a constitutional amendment to allow Trump to serve a third term, so your first point is already happening.

The problem is in getting 2/3 of the state legislatures to ratify it. I don't see how that could reasonably happen.

Many other countries have constitutions that can be changed directly by their central/federal government. We don't have that. It's a lot harder to amend the US constitution.
What do you mean by this?

Marcus Aurelius wrote extensive personal reflections in his "Meditations". Seneca wrote detailed letters to friends and family discussing philosophy, life, and death. Epictetus discussed death extensively in his Discourses, but sure, they were philosophical teachings rather than personal goodbyes.

They focus on acceptance and equanimity rather than formal farewells.

That said, "control what you can and forget the rest" is indeed stoicism, albeit simplified.
Optical illusions are a good indicator of this. I would say it compresses alot.

Video codecs are good optical illusions too.
Strongly agreed. The reality of doing a PhD is that you serve the interests of your advisor while living like a pauper. Hardly surprising people are finally realising that it’s usually not worth it. Just part of the needless proliferation of education.
King Marches
You could probably pay for someone to fix the few rendering/incompatible issues with those old binary formats as a patch. Any paid solution would likely have similar issues, so paying for the functionally you want/need directly is likely the only alternative to just using Word directly, and you could give back to the community in a big way if that's something you value. It might cost as little as $200 or so.

The problem is I think so few people care about those old binary formats these days, so there probably isn't much demand to improve compatibility for the edge cases you are encountering.
This is a very abused fact. When you are comparing the incomes, you are competing in your region, not globally and then your income goes from top 0.1% to top 10%. And then you realize that you won't be able to buy that house or that you don't have as much flexibility to change your employer. If you want to feel like top 0.1%, then you probably have to move to some forgotten place in Africa (most large cities do not count due to income inequality and corruption) but then your standard of living with your top 0.1% income is even worse. Statistics is too easy to abuse without critical thinking.
What NAT are you using that doesn’t have a firewall? I haven’t personally used one of those since the ‘90s.
A problem is that a Go produced WASM binary is really large. TinyGo overcomes this, but compiles too slow and you need to be really careful which libs to import (reflect). To overcome both, you need a lot of patience.

If you want to tryout Go WASM on Cloudflare workers you need to buy a subscription due to the size of the binary. Last time I tried you could run hello-world, but anything more substantial exceeded the size threshold.

Such a pity…
There is an easy trick to prevent this from happening::
for every library update that
you have decided to use, pick the newest, most cutting edge feature and integrate it so deep the project maintainers will have to rewrite half the code for it to function in any version below the current...(and thats why you can't have nice things in old linuxes without recompiling it manually)
These metrics are irrelevant for business. If it means something for predicting Musk involvement in government it's this: there will be some meaningless metrics by which it will be declared a success.
this is why china doesn't have more than ≈ 10 billionaires and stopped jack ma from controlling more than he already does through media/financial ventures
I am torn about DEI. It's sort of the equivalent for "quote rosa" in Italy.

On one hand, if I need to hire let's say an engineer, and if all the available engineers have specific homogeneous social characteristics, I still want the best engineer possible for the role. And it's up to the policymakers to understand why there is such low heterogeneity, and to address that, not me.

On the other, how else can we guarantee that a minority still has equal representation and opportunities?
Is tee.exe supposed to be the normal tee unix tool?
I use the basic garmin chest strap. It transmits continuously and supports things like HRV, which I suspect is a secondary high data rate mode.
Ok, thank you for the additional explanations, it does make more sense now.

I do not think we are unique but I believe we "human like intelligences" are a very unlikely product of as many tiny random adaptations as to make the number of rocky planets in the observable universe look like a small number.

This is how I look at it: the Earth is an ecosystem with millions of species that's been evolving together for billions of years, adapting to each others changes as much as to the change in climate etc. The combinatoric is huge, but some environmental pressure make that process invent over and over similar solutions to the same class of issues. Some traits are totally random and I believe will exist only once in the whole history of the universe, and some traits are heavily constrained by environment/chemistry and are invented over and over by evolution, on Earth and elsewhere. Is intelligence of the former or later class of traits?

Some organ to predict the future is certainly part of the heavily constrained invention. But I can't convince myself that a human like intelligence able to escape Earth, both in imagination and in practice, is anything more than a fluke. I just don't see how to logically connect super-intelligence with how evolution works.

On a higher level, your idea also evokes a whole set of similar ideas that are all based on multiplying tiny chances of high intelligence with sextillions of planets, such as "life is a simulation" or "matrix like brain in a jar". My intuition tells me that we can't extrapolate that far without the unknown dominating everything.
could you list a few of the problems you predict?
It's not.

This is almost certainly Windows performing certificate validation.

The "evidence" was just copy pasted from VirusTotal. In fact he forgot to copy from below the cut, which would have shown it also called out to www.microsoft.com - depending who you ask, definitely a malicious address!

VirusTotal just notes all network traffic during the time the binary executed in the sandbox. It doesn't mean it emanated from the binary.
Do please share your conclusions with the rest of us?
I still don't understand, isn't this an office suite? Why does it matter what's in the logs? Fwiw I don't even know whether my MS Office has logs.
I don't agree with the analysis. The cost of the perceived problem is just not there. And the cost of fixing it is dis-proportionally high.

Banks are a good example. I don't think they are losing much money with their software experience. There are of course some under performers that are losing customers. But it's mostly to other banks that are delivering a good enough experience. Overall, they aren't losing any business here. If anything, they probably spend too much on their software teams. The results are mediocre and it's taking them too long.

Corporate websites (also mentioned in the article) is another thing that just doesn't matter that much. They are good enough mostly. It's fine.

Measuring frames per second is a thing for web developers that suffer from OCD. It's not a real world metric that matters at all.

Now a point that might be a bit painful to hear for the author. These slides are a bit ugly, unsophisticated, and bland. And it looks like a hand crafted thing and I assume that the author is very proud of the skill level and craft involved. I'm sure the FPS metrics are awesome. But if you are looking to wow your audience with arguments, it helps if you can back that up with a slide deck that re-enforces that argument. Browsers can do better than that 1997 unstyled power point look.

And that points maybe to a thing in our industry where the people complaining the loudest are doing the least to solve their issues. Open source is fine. If you don't like it, make it better. That's how it works. Being an innocent bystander is a choice, not a necessity. If you believe the web is so bloated, make it better. And if these slides are the best you can do on that front, then you'll probably struggle to convince a lot of people.
That's fantastic, I wish simple things could be permitted that fast here. It takes weeks for simple stuff to get approved here.
> From the discussion here, it seems that HN turns out to be a very money-centric place. Somewhat surprising.

It has always been heavy on Silicon Valley (legal) hustler types? Even more earlier. Concerning startups most seems disillusioned about the prospects nowadays.
> I think their point was a military incursion is just as likely in Panama as Canada Greenland and Gaza. Can you honestly picture boots on the ground in any one of these?

Military is irrelevant here. You don't need boots on the ground to throw a country into chaos. Did Russia and China send soldiers on American soil to make the US as unstable as it is right now (...leading to people's desires to seek a more stable country)?

The concern was regarding stability, healthcare, etc. which means economic and political stability. How stable do you think Panama would be in (say) an economic war with the US that is focused on controlling their canal? What if the US decides to covertly influence their government (or worse)?

But to answer your question directly anyway: for Canada he specifically said "economic force", not military. For Gaza, he said Israel would handle the military aspect and hand it over. For Greenland, the military is already there, but also it's not like they would meet any resistance via combat there. For Panama... it seems unlikely but it's also hard to put anything past him. Not because of his word, but because his actions are just so unpredictable.
They're not even old enough to order a beer.
Not going to lie, I was hoping for something more insightful there.
I used StarOffice 3.something to 5.someotherthing (I think...) on Debian back then. It had a kind of DE built in and I recall that I mostly used that on top of XFce3.
There are lots of different approaches to ear training. A very useful starting point is an app like EarMaster or Perfect Ear, which offer a Duolingo-like gamified course in ear training.

Hearing simultaneous notes is really just a matter of decomposition. Can you sing the first three notes of Kumbaya or Ob-la-di Ob-la-da? If you can, then you already know the three notes of a major chord - root, major third and perfect fifth. If I were to play you a C major triad on the piano (C E G) then you'd easily be able to pick out those individual notes. Most people already have that kind of intuitive sense of pitch, they just need to learn how to name things to systematise that intuition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhDIm_2qS5s
It's not that he threatens things he can't go through with. It's that he presents himself as unhinged and capable of any sort of messed up thing. So when he says he's going to send troops to Panama to retake the canal, he probably doesn't expect he'd ever actually do it. But Panama's government can't be sure, so when Trump asks for something perhaps a bit more "reasonable" than returning the canal to US control, Panama will look at that as better than risking a military incursion, and capitulate.

This has already happened with lower-stakes stuff, like the tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods that Trump never even put into effect once he announced them but immediately got concessions from Canada and Mexico. Whether or not those concessions are actually useful or will materialize is another matter, but that's almost irrelevant: Trump knows he can push them around now, and pretty easily at that.
This is awesome. Something to keep in mind[0]:

> Remember that all the webassembly work in Go has been designed and implemented by volunteers, not the Go team, so timelines are dependent on availability of volunteers.

[0]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65333#issuecomment-22336...
I'll try to find an SVG-based QR code library.
I forced a refresh of the VirusTotal results. It is only being flagged by a single engine: MaxSecure, an Indian anti-virus vendor that has gone out of business.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/950eea4e17fa3a7e89fa2c55...
>1) You're still overgeneralizing

Do you think the OP is not doing this as a pastime? There is nothing in their statement to indicate anything but.

>2) If $100 was actually trivial for a business then Apple wouldn't demand it.

I'm not sure how you can make that leap.
It can also be solved by a captcha-solving farm, as can recaptcha, what is your point?
A lot of the research on constraint solvers is to solve that problem. CSP is more approachable than boolean SAT or SMT but it's all the same sort of thing - feed it a lot of constraints and some notion of when a solution is better than another one and then leave it running for a while.
at least it will no longer be regulated by the CEO’s wife

they horse traded her to the SBA this time
> They have not.

> Russia captured some 22% of Ukraine

> Ukrainian counteroffensives in 2022 reduced this to 17-18%

Percentage of territory in terms of a war is not a good indicator of progress, especially taking into account the objective and the context here, if the Russians would capture Kharkiv that wouldn't be a big territorial gain, but it would be game over for Ukraine.

The Russians have captured Avdiivka(which was probably the most important victory), Vuhledar, Chasiv Yar, Toretsk, Niu-York, Kurakhove and many others, they have also rolled back all of the small gains made by the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive. Just remember that before it took like around 11 months to capture just Bakhmut and now I can't even count how many comparable victories they are having.

> militarily super-duper-important landfills, as you put it

I did mean actual waste heap, it might be funny to us, but for military purposes a waste heap can be important because it gives elevation same way as worthless fields on hills.

> For a country with an aging society and already one of the lowest birth rates in the world, this is pure suicide.

The Russians probably think that allowing Ukraine to become a NATO military power is even worse, if you look at it from that perspective it makes a bit more sense.

> They will literally run out of young men before reaching Kyiv.

Progress and casualties is not linear.

> The most cynical people in Washington must be real pleased with the way the war is going.

They were, until it started affecting them as well and when they realised what it's like to fight an opponent that has a military industry and all the natural resources it can ever need.

It was also an embarrassment for NATO.

> Russia is losing people and permanently crippling itself, while the US population has grown by almost 100 million in the last 30 years.

The US can grow 200 million this year if it wants to, that's not a good indicator of progress. Russia has also gained people from the territories it has annexed so far.

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For easy consumption I highly recommend the Military Summary Channel[1], they make daily videos and cite all their sources, you don't have to agree with their interpretation, you can check their sources instead. History Legends[2] is also good if you don't want the level of detail you can get from the Military Summary Channel.

For a different interpretation of what is the Russian perspective I highly recommend looking at John Mearsheimer, you can check out talks he gave before the war even started and see how well it holds up today[3].

Reason I believe my sources are better than the mainstream media, is because they managed to stay consistent all these years, whereas the mainstream media fumbled and flip-flopped on things that were easily verifiable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
[2] https://www.youtube.com/@historylegends
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
The current push is to outlaw that across the country.

Just happened in Missouri I believe.
Does it guard against blind people?
And don’t even get me started on A leading to B
Old feature flag? Or UXO?