skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why does the marketing firm get off the hook here?

You may be surprised, but this is how this regulation is designed. Per GDPR it is the duty of controller to ensure compliance. Processor acts per instructions from controller. MarTech is not allowed to do anything outside of their contract with their users, but they are also not required to enforce consent collection, only to assist controllers with that when possible.

>The argument being presented here, that regular people should continue to be allowed to do Sloppy and Dangerous Thing

No, this is not the argument being presented here. Storing personal contacts or advertising is not "sloppy and dangerous thing" per se. The privacy risk is not that someone is processing your PII, but that this data may be used to harm you by processor or 3rd party. So the goal of regulation should not be to prevent processing, but to minimize such risks with minimal costs for society. If regulation focuses on just risk, but does not consider the costs, it must be fixed and solutions should be found that enable typical use cases.
> Then we're stepping stones away from Tesla / Apple getting nationalized. Then who knows.

Neither company can be "nationalized" because they're American companies. Apple contracts with Chinese suppliers to build their products. Chinese companies already owns the factories. Tesla has their own factories( or factory?) in China but if China "nationalizes" it, that just amounts to Chinese workers in the Chinese Tesla factory losing their jobs and of course Tesla no longer selling their cars in the Chinese market.

> most of the KFCs and Nikes and Apples can be replaced with domestic.

Why would they replace with domestic companies? Isn't that unfair for trade? Wouldn't European or Latin American companies enter the market with their products now or be better able to freely compete in the Chinese market? Or is there something missing here?

> US has ~300B trade deficit with PRC.

What's this number based on? I see a lot of figures floating out there, but similarly to your comment about the flip-side of US companies operating in China like Kentucky Fried Chicken not being accounted for here, you're not accounting for Chinese suppliers and manufacturers set up in other countries to bypass tariffs. Unfortunately it seems everyone (not throwing shade your way here) has their own number to fit their narrative and it's hard to get the full impact.

> TikTok US getting nationalized

Preferably it should be banned (the fewer social media companies and apps that exist the better), but it would be better if it was forced to be sold to a US company, which is a far more likely scenario then nationalization.
Navy Scientist Helped Develop GPS
The rules make it so every new tetris release is just a boring clone. TGM has to fight for innovation, really sad. When I made my four player variant, https://duo.itch.io/reaktor I made sure to follow NONE of the guideline rules, and it ended up being a breath of fresh air for a lot of people. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1fdzcsc/how_i_publ...
I can't access it because of CloudFlare limits. I didn't even know CloudFlare could be a bottleneck or effectively take your site as hostage until you pay.
Unless one of the parties involved cares more about "winning" than the actual value function.
> Just because the app is beautiful?

Yes, that's the only possibility right?

In case you wanted a serious answer and not just an internet reaction: our utility offered substantial rebates on Powerwalls specifically.
Thanks, that's probably a more sober and probable assessment. It could make sense for reducing potential Chinese leverage over US. I think if the point were to shore up defense-critical industries, though, then direct support for those industries would make more sense and be considerably less disruptive than these tariffs.
I like the idea of converting the executive branch to be just the cabinet and not the president or vice president.

National elections for a few of the most significant ones (e.g. secretary of state, attorney general). Maybe Congress appoints the rest.

When designing a system to be resistant to attack, it helps to split up roles. A "superadmin" type of role is a vulnerability. Similar idea here.
The US didn't get to be the worlds global superpower out of nowhere. You formed alliances in the west and have pushed your global economic agenda for what, seven decades, with Europe going along with it (along with many other countries), including fighting in wars the US pushed for. That is what you got in return for your military backing. The US also didn't get into the cold war because of Europe,.

MAGA won't sell that though, it needs a different narrative. And this is the narrative it feels like this little exchange is pushing too, though forgive me if I'm misinterpreting you.

MAGA is acting as though the world isn't buying trillions of dollars worth of its services every year, that it hasn't controlled the global economic policy for decades, enriching itself in the process. Nope, MAGA is now claiming victim status.
I would add that when you actually started to read and listen to what actual sociologists say and do ... it was nothing like what random math graduate mussing on HN thinks it is. The popular approach here of cherry picking two small studies and running wild with them was not all that much a thing.

Instead there was way more care about making conclusions, a lot of nuance and conditional statements (this study says so under those conditions and another one opposes sort of thing). But, what certain people here actually hate the most are results that are fairly consistent and were reproduced to death.
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/transports#mes...

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/client
Sounds like the issue was just co-location of search index + other transactional data in the same table. If you had a table acting as your search index only then would insert lag on that table matter? I could maybe see connections piling up, but with proper batching I bet it'd be fine.
> Isn't it always the pattern with Trump and conservatives in general? The most rational person is supposed to let them bully you without response. Again and again and it never works.

In case I wasn't clear before ... your response to me is preaching to the choir.
Sure, but who's in the picture to provide the quality of feedback that allows for that kind of realistic self-appraisal to develop?

I've had candidates I knew 15 minutes into the session I would sell a panel on "no hire" for, still say I was the best interview they've ever done in their life. This is not so much because I'm actually good at it, but going by the substantive content of that and much other feedback I've received especially in the last four years, I earn these rave reviews instead mainly because:

- I'm not afraid to admit where a candidate knows more than I do, and

- when someone seems so nervous it may be confounding their performance, I gently remind them that I've been through this before, it's hard on everyone and I don't hold that against people, and it's okay if they need to take a deep breath and recenter.

It's systemic, and it isn't even about being able to derive a reliable signal from the interaction. The problem is way more fundamental, in the same sense that you don't fix "Lord of the Flies" by reminding everyone regularly to be polite and not swear.

I mean, as I've just discussed, I can't even trust the good feedback I get from candidates, because any signal on actual improvements I could make is totally swamped by the noise of people practically ready to lick a hand in exchange for not being treated like something you'd scrape off a boot heel.

Which is also not something I hold against anyone on an individual level. The system that so consistently produces such outcomes is another matter. I used to think it was shameful people so rarely bother to represent their company in a good light, in the one formal occasion when most engineers ever actually do so. But in retrospect, I think I was the one who was wrong: the median level of representation in this area is more or less exactly accurate to what is deserved.
I think one of the massive hurdles, maybe, to overcome when trying to achieve AGI, is how do you solve the issue of doing things without being prompted, you know curiosity and such.

Let's say we have a humanoid robot standing in a room that has a window open, at what point would the AI powering the robot decide that it's time to close the window?

That's probably one of the reasons why, I don't really see LLMs as much more than just algorithms that give us different responses just because we keep changing the seed...
Large casinos are very expensive to build and operate. Even if they have favorable gross margins (the house edge), its pretty easy to lose money net of expenses.
The naming of these chips (GPUs, CPUs) is kinda badass: Ironwood, Blackwell, ThreadRipper, Epyc, etc.
To put it simple:

A2A is for communication between the agents.
MCP is how agent communicate with its tools.

Important aspect of A2A, is that it has a notion of tasks, task rediness, and etc. E.g. you can give it a task and expect completely in few days, and get notified via webhook or polling it.

For the end users for sure A2A will cause a big confusing, and can replace a lot of current MCP usage.
All the cars pictured are double stack container cars. If they're empty or full of potato chips it really shouldn't surprise anyone that they blew over and took the cars with them in high wind conditions. Yeah the cars themselves are heavy but they're not that heavy and two containers is a big sail and the upper one has a fairly large lever arm over the car.

Loaded trains don't just "blow over" in anything short of biblical conditions. When there is heavy weather rail operators have been known to park loaded trains on top of various bits of infrastructure for additional security.

Edit: Freight trains, passenger trains are basically tin cans full of air.
You are such a funny guy, I don't know how to prove it for a moment. I think I can prove it through my own knowledge. I don't need any so-called reward to explain the facts. I am a backend programmer, currently working on a large model project, using GraphRAG and DeepSeek to build a recommendation engine for Internet links. I am also interested in functional programming, such as lisp haskell minikanren. The salary of programmers in China is relatively high.
> Source? I'd really like to know how and when slow caches can happen.

I don't have a source I can link to or share. But cache outliers are a real thing. If you aggregate Resource Timing results, you'll find some surprising outliers in that dataset where transferSize=0 (aka cached load on Chrome). You'll have users with a slow/contended disk where as they might have a fast link, but you'll also have the reverse where you'll have users with a fast cache and a slow network link (high latency, low bandwidth or both).

There's no universal answer here and I feel like the above poster tries to oversimplify a complex problem into one-size-fits-all answers. You'll have different users making up your distribution and you'll have to decide how you weight optimizations. This could very much depend on your product, the expectations and if your user are power users running a complex SaaS frontend, or a news site supporting a range of mobile devices.

A few years ago I traced and notice that Chrome has a pseudo O(n^2) behavior when pulling a bunch of sequential resources from its cache. I reported it but I'm not sure if it got fixed.
Damn. I missed it. I wanted to play older CS 1.3 and it was not working on latest macOS. I tried Wine but I must have bungled up the setup.

Are there CS 1.3 folks out there who still play this game (and on an Apple silicon Mac)? (I am not really a gamer; that's the only game I ever played and still like to play it from time to time; didn't like CS:Source/GO at all).
Yeah that made me chuckle, too. The original was indeed inference-only.
Ironic that the article pops up a banner "Follow @index@simone.org via your Fediverse account (like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Flipboard, Wordpress, Writefreely, Threads, or BlueSky.)" ie advertising themselves.
I still think the cleanest rotation system was when we mapped tetromino states to hardware interrupts. You’d get instant kicks, but if the stack got too high you’d risk a race condition that hard-locked the framebuffer. Not elegant, but very motivating for clean stacking.
What is the optimal strategy in that case?
One problem for that is that most 32bit games use x87. x87 optionally supports 80 bit floats so Rosetta runs software emulation for x87 math code. That's extremely slow to the point of making even some ancient games unplayable. For example the FMod audio library, which was extremely widespread, uses x87.

Linux x86 emulators work around this by offering an optional reduced precision mode that turns those into either 64 bit or even 32 bit floats. Some even do it by default.

Microsoft also does that with their Prism x86 emulator. They can be somewhat confident in doing that as Microsofts compiler stack has defaulted to configuring the x87 hardware to use 64 bit floats.

Apple should really add that as an option to Rosetta but I doubt that's gonna happen simply because it only impacts 32 bit code.
Thank you. I was losing my marbles trying to decode what the secret sauce was here.
Right. Why build another MCP server for Postgres?

There's a lot of value in just getting a database connection. But the LLMs hit limits pretty quickly when it comes to index tuning, etc.

Classical algorithms still have their place.
Political satire usually is propaganda.
Doug is the OG of search. His book "Relevant Search" is great. Glad to see that he is teaching again.
>Why compare fp8 performance in ironwood to architectures which don't support fp8 in hardware?

Because end users want to use fp8. Why should architectural differences matter when the speed is what matters at the end of the day?
>Without improvements there, there’s close to zero chance that anyone besides a few companies will use TPU. It’s barely viable if the trend continues.

I wonder whether Google sees this as a problem. In a way it just means more AI compute capacity for Google.
It is a LOT different to be working multiple jobs at different times of the day. This is not what this is. This is trying to get away with working 2 or more jobs at the same time and making up excuses about why you can't make an on camera meeting. Also in the case of CEOs it is known they are doing that. If someone said yeah I have another job I will be working the same hours as your job that is totally fair. But they don't say that. They say their pipes froze, doctor's appointment, etc. It is also fair that the worker can do what they would like in their time including working another job. I have also had people who honestly said they were wrapping up their consulting gig and would need some time periodically to take off and that was fine too.
>Medina and Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller pointed to a large chart during a news conference, saying nearly every category of crime has come down since the beginning of the year because of the work already being done by the police force.

If true ... is this just a publicity stunt?
In my tests of using AI to write most of my code, just writing the code yourself(with Copilot) and doing manual rounds with Claude is much faster and easier to maintain.
The arch linux install has a little wrapper around chroot, used to configure the installed system without booting it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Chroot
From the article:

> A confused public is less likely to support studies in areas it does not understand.

What a great point to remember
Then we are out of any rationality, ending with both parties losing. In that case I'd guess that a player trying to win against every single other at the same time will be the ultimate loser.
OK. I appreciate the reply. I meant no disrespect by my question.
It's interesting to me how it's no big deal for China to stop selling all these products, implying that they don't send much to the US or they aren't exposed that much to trade pressure, but simultaneously Americans are supposed to somehow experience a devastating cost increase.

But if the amount of products China sells to the US aren't a big deal/don't amount to much, or whatever, Americans won't see much in the way of large price increases either.

The more likely scenario is Americans are going to see higher prices, but China is going to be very much feeling the effects of these tariffs.

We've already seen this manifest in the creation and subsidization of companies like Temu which are making the cheapest products possible without regard to environmental factors or product quality (i.e. your t-shirt disintegrates after you wash it once) to keep the manufacturing lights on and keep Chinese people employed.
This looks so intriguing. How is it at keeping on top of stuff like email and text? Any lag with a bluetooth keyboard?
Yup.
(Source: was at brain at the time.)

Also holy cow that was 10 years ago already? Dang.

Amusing bit: The first TPU design was based on fully connected networks; the advent of CNNs forced some design rethinking, and then the advent of RNNs (and then transformers) did it yet again.

So maybe it's reasonable to say that this is the first TPU designed for inference in the world where you have both a matrix multiply unit and an embedding processor.

(Also, the first gen was purely a co-processor, whereas the later generations included their own network fabric, a trait shared by this most recent one. So it's not totally crazy to think of the first one as a very different beast.)
I wasn't aware AsciiDoc could be used to generate man docs. I'm not a huge fan of AsciiDoc's syntax, but I can see that being preferable to other options.
I can identify a lion without being able to chase down and kill a gazelle on the hoof
Canada has etransfer/interact which works well.

>How much do you trust your government with your money?

Well I'm in Canada, I would trust the govt and the banks with my money before I trust anyone else (yes yes, trucker protest bullshit still didn't shake my confidence)

Which is ultimately the problem. The govt and well regulated banks are the only ones you should be able to trust, but in many case you can't trust governments or their ability to regulate things.
Yeah but then after they're asleep, you're brain fried and doomscrolling anyway :')
I’m not using this citation as a counterpoint to your comment and I realize this is a degenerate case. But it has happened in office…

https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-chi...

And as much as I hate to admit it, remote work has so many downsides for most companies, I see why many of them are in on RTO and hybrid.

Luckily in 2020 I pivoted to cloud consulting + app dev where it doesn’t make sense to be in the office since you will either be working with clients remotely or flying into their offices.

And even then AWS forced their ProServe consultants and SAs (full time employees) to be in an office when not on the client’s sites after I had already left. As does GCP.
You said: "notice that it’s not compared to competitors"

The article says: "When scaled to 9,216 chips per pod for a total of 42.5 Exaflops, Ironwood supports more than 24x the compute power of the world’s largest supercomputer – El Capitan – which offers just 1.7 Exaflops per pod."

It is literally compared to a competitor.
That's sloppy programming. You are promoted.
To be fair there are so many stupid and malicious things being done by every part of the administration it is hard to give them all the attention they deserve. Today, Elon's awful actions barely merit a mention compared to destroying the US economy and 80 years of international goodwill.
With qemu-user and binfmt you can even chroot into foreign CPU architectures, which is a handy thing to have when you mount your phone's eMMC to fix a hacking session gone wrong.

Though these days you may want to look into things like systemd-nspawn instead of plain chroot.
The narrative I heard yesterday is that bond prices are falling because corporations are selling treasuries to raise cash (to deal with expected increases in prices and/or an economic slowdown, presumably).

When bond prices fall, interest earned on them rises.
Surprised they're only taxing goods...

Why not tax services (banking, insurance, etc)?

Why not tax IP (pay a tax of ¥30 for every viewing of a US film)

Why not tax foreign business? McDonald's China has to pay an extra 10% tax on revenue compared to a non-US company.
I got 14.4 kW REC Pure Alphas (36 panels) for $46k installed in Texas.
> The "federal government is inherently evil" is a principle that doesn't magically go away when small-government people get in to power.

In my experience it’s exactly this. The principle vanishes quickly, because none of those “small government” people were really so. The primary small government faction in the US is conservatives. They’ve been, for a few decades now, VERY large government. Bordering on fascist.

They just lie, because it’s easy and none of their constituents care. You have better odds of hell freezing over than conservative constituencies holding their representatives accountable. When you’re in that situation, you’d be stupid not to lie.

To expand on this, shrinking the bureaucracy isn’t shrinking the government. Because, if you had read the agenda in project 2025, you’d know that the intention is to then concentrate those powers in the president.

That’s not smaller gov, that’s bigger. You’re creating a monarch.
One time when I was very young, I was given some paper to draw on. It looked and felt like normal paper, but when you drew on it with a marker, it would swell up under the marker line creating a raised area. Putting a piece in water revealed that it was some sort of ultra compressed sponge, like a thin version of those compacted kitchen sponges you can get.

I realized later that it must have been some sort of "paper for the blind" so that you could draw on it or maybe print on it with an inkjet and be able to feel the surface even if you couldn't see it. Maybe it was just a sponge, but it didn't seem any thicker than normal paper. It's been 20+ years and I've never encountered anything like it since.
I don't think Markdown is the right language to solve these problems. As you've noted, it's not standardised at all, and you'd have to pick an interpreter that everyone could agree on (and that means C).

Markdown also doesn't do semantic references. It does do plain links, you can give them a title; or you can use a default title, so perhaps you could infer the semantics from the context, maybe like:

Use the flag [-R][] to recursively apply to all files and subdirectories.

Please refer to [chmod(2)][] for the details.

But that feels like overloading one kind of syntax with so many different meanings. Take HTML as a counterexample, it has <link rel="...">, which fits neatly into the rest of the language.

Why do these semantics matter? Well, you can obviously render roff into HTML and browse the man pages online; also, someone ought to write a simple and smart pager that can follow these references (Emacs doesn't count as simple).

Anything that aims to replace roff should preserve its most important features, have a proper formal spec, and be easy to write a parser for - in super plain dumb C/flex/yacc.
A compiler for the Micron programming language – the Oberon with the power of C
Right now it seems to be pretty disorderly, not sure about illegal but aren't a lot of things Trump did seem to zero challenge from Congress? I could be wrong definitely.
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Make things painful enough that one of the players decides to change their strategy (e.g, by changing who has been delegated decision-making authority. Hopefully.)
Traditional bot detection techniques are not enough and what you can do about it