skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is the one performing the experiment; if the sample size isn't big enough to be useful, that's a mark against their experimental method, not the feedback of the people on this forum. The claim that this is actually valuable in some way should be the one with the burden of proof, and it's unreasonable to argue that flaws in an experiment showing one result somehow imply that the opposite is more likely because of it.
This trial is but a showcase for the berg zucker.

Legal proceedings focused on "social networks" and "browser market shares" and app stores. These are ridiculous, superficial, and meaningless.

If there was really such a thing as a monopoly on social networking, you would have to kick people off the networks, not just stop the companies operating them. What would change if instagram had to become its own company again? The same people would own it. And that is why antitrust is a joke, it does not prevent the true monopoly of who controls what.
Serial execution makes the most sense from a database perspective because they work off a transaction log. Parallel execution may require separate transaction logs (basically durable queues) to accomplish sharding but that introduces a whole new set of issues because tables can only be mutated from a single transaction log. Code that needs to access multiple suddenly gets a lot more complex. There was actually a post on HN the other day about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661181
I would not be surprised if the rise of CG-NAT put another nail in the proverbial coffin of P2P video streaming and related sharing.
and the irony at the beginning of the demanding government letter:

"But an investment is not an entitlement."
The post is bordering close enough to “unhinged” that I’m not taking this woman’s word for it. There’s a story here, but we aren’t going to get the whole of it from her.

But given enough extrapolation, I think your explanation is probably close. To add further by reading between the lines, the handling of a political campaign account was probably loosey-goosey enough on the details (“no, you CANNOT spend it on…”) that something got triggered.
Can you explain your reasoning behind "they should be paying a lot more"? I kept hearing that they didn't pay their "fair share" when in fact it appears they pay double. It just seems like whatever they actually pay, measured in dollars or as a percentage, will always be widely regarded as not enough.
I'm open minded about religion. It can be whatever you want.
In my experience DND has a very thin edge where the good experience exists. Outside of that its quite variable.

I cant comment on Warhams but other RPG's I have played dont really care about encounter difficulty. And I am not even talking about narrative only stuff. But even savage worlds I can go and find 10 wild cards or 20 wild cards or come up with almost any Ace, and its just a matter of player approach as to whether the encounter is difficult or simply deadly. To really create a TPK situation you would need to design enemies specifically to do that.
TV series, absolutely; I've actually never heard the radio program. It aired on PBS in my area along with Monty Python, The Young Ones, and other shows from "across the pond."
That is genuinely sinister.
Sure, it was down 60%. But the real question is whether it outperformed Intel as a whole, and outperformed other internal investments Intel could make. I certainly wouldn't think that a 2015 dollar anywhere else within Intel is worth more than 40¢ today, given how they've been running.
> just another unrelated confirmation of Godwin's Law.

Yeah, I workshopped it with "Irish need not apply" but it just didn't hit the same.
Well the thesis was DC accelerators but the world went with ASSPs.
Based on your knowledge and experiences, do you think the benefits are worth the potential side-effects?

I fully understand that after a certain point of disease severity, the right choices tend to become more apparent. However, I have been offered such medications in the past, but I have always refused.

From what I understand, many of the serious side-effects are rare. However, once Pandora is out of the box, it's not always easy to get her back inside.
You should write Xinis and Thacker your frustration and tell them you object. The rest of us recognize he was under no obligation to meet your evidentiary standards, and that they clearly presented a contract is in place.
Because those packages are cheating us.
> I don't see how it's any different than optimizing for new CPU/GPU architectures

I mean that seems wild to say to me. Those architectures have documentation and aren't magic black boxes that we chuck inputs at and hope for the best: we do pretty much that with LLMs.

If that's how you optimise, I'm genuinely shocked.
> Running individual services that would have been RPMs?

Essentially this. Rather than adding anything on top of systemd (which is almost certainly running anyway) quadlets are a way of turning containers into systemd units, and directing systemd to run them

I think it is the lightest weight, but still convenient, way of running a container as a daemon, with all the pros and cons that implies
Fair enough.

For live streaming there is WebRTC. It is also a thing.
We are well past the point where in a future history class a student will raise their hand and ask 'Why didn't anyone stop them?' followed by 'Why were so many people members of that party?'
Or they got what they wanted from it and are selling off the rest, like when Google bought Motorola Wireless for the Patents then sold off the non-googly employees, culture, and brand for cheap.
Apparently, the FPGA industry wasn't large enough for two major players. Maintaining an extremely specialized developer ecosystem for a relatively small niche can't have been cheap. Almost zero cross-over too, since FPGA tooling is much too foreign to be repurposed for other architectures. I suspect this move will make it a bit harder for Intel to collect "developer mindshare" for their other hyped up stuff because no one likes having the rug pulled out from under them. Hope AMD can make a better job with Xilinx than what Intel could with Altera.
How does this compare to Vegas lines?
If they sell and incur capital gains. But they have so many better alternatives than you or me. And if they do incur capital gains they pay the same tax rate (or maybe 5 basis points higher, depending on your income) as you or me.
I’m one of those people, never looking back
The only way this will be possible is if there is widespread adoption of an Internet overlay network similar to Tailscale in its design. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it Tailscale is limited to Layer 3 so Multicast doesn't work (it depends on IGMP to function correctly).
brag is a pretty user-friendly parser generator for racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/brag/index.html
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> you still can't really rely on it for much

And yet, type annotations in Python are a tremendous improvement and they catch a lot of bugs before they ever appear. Even if I could rely on the type system for nothing it would still catch the bugs that it catches. In fact, there are places where I rely on the type system because I know it does a good job: pure functions on immutable data. And this leads to a secondary benefit: because the type checker is so good at finding errors in pure functions on immutable data, you end up pushing more of your code into those functions.
As 'unhinged' as the anti-trump articles posted here every day?
I largely agree with this article's assessment. As a machine the Jupiter Ace was simply too little, too late. Had it been more powerful, with more RAM and better graphics, it could have given the Speccy a run for its money, but rather it was already obsolete, being positioned as a competitor for the ZX81 when the ZX81 was already very dated and where it had little in the way of a cost advantage over the far superior Speccy. Running BASIC rather than Forth would not have saved the Jupiter Ace, and rather if the Jupiter Ace had had specs that compared with those of the Speccy it could have given it a run for its money.
I switched from 16x2 to SSD1306 because the latter runs on 3.3 V, and is thus more friendly to battery power.
Or someone who has chromeOS not in dev mode.

I use SimpleWebServer there since 6 years or something and it just works.
> Companies buy/merge competitors all the time that passes FTC legal review. E.g. Boeing acquired competitor McDonnell Douglas. Hewlett-Packard acquired Compaq Computer.

These are mergers that were allowed, but probably shouldn't have been because their industries were already quite consolidated by that point.

The ones that should be okay is when e.g. a company with 4% market share wants to buy a company with 0.5% market share. Companies merging when they each already have double digit percentages of the market is craziness.

> It's been leaked that the US Govt is encouraging competitors Intel and AMD to merge ... so the USA semiconductor industry can be stronger and thus, less dependent on Taiwan TSMC and stay ahead of China.

This sort of thinking is a demonstration of incompetence. AMD and Intel can both design competitive processors. AMD sold their fabs and now has the processors made by TSMC. Intel still makes them but their manufacturing process has fallen behind, to the point that they too have used TSMC to make some of their products. Saddling AMD with Intel's uncompetitive process would only put them both at a disadvantage against other competitors using TSMC.

The real problem here is that Intel was too vertically integrated and focused on producing only its own designs on its fabs, and then abandoned the low end of the market to sustain its margins. Which allowed TSMC to capture enough market share that the larger volume gave them enough capital to take the lead.

What the US needs is not mergers but the opposite -- its own TSMC as a competitive contract fab that can do the volumes needed to sustain a state of the art process.
You aren’t flame baiting but the dichotomy between either your a protester or you’re fearful and quiet isn’t good framing. The number of supporters who didn’t protest is probably sizable. Silent but supportive.
Thanks, that's interesting info. It seems to me that such tuning, while making Aider more useful, and making the benchmark useful in the specific context of deciding which model to use in Aider itself, reduces the value of the benchmark in evaluating overall model quality for use in other tools or contexts, as people use it for today. Models that get more tuning will outperform models that get less tuning, and existing models will have an advantage over new ones by virtue of already being tuned.
wut? Containers need an operating system.

systemd runs on a linux host, the rootless container runs on a linux host, controlled by `systemctl --user ...`.
Stooping: validating that embargoes/tariffs/whatever are valid.

I would hope that some group can show a moral path through this mess. Trump is often escalating techniques, and I'm guessing escalating them further is the next step when he's finally deposed.
Nobody is being paid by CAs. CAs and browser root programs are basically natural enemies.

Three big problems faced browsers that tried to roll out DANE:

1. DNSSEC adoption on high-traffic/"important" domains is stubbornly very low (this used to be harder to quantify, but there's the Tranco list now; you can just take the top N of it and loop `dig ds` over it to get a %).

2. Middleboxes hassle DNSSEC queries, not everywhere but enough that the browsers need a fallback for browsers on network paths that won't transact DNSSEC, and once you have that fallback you have to account for an adversary who simply downgrades you to the fallback; this is the "you had 10,000 CA certificates, now you have 10,001" problem --- it's also the core of the drama behind the DANE "stapling" fiasco.

3. Browsers were able to get the WebPKI transparency ecosystem deployed using market levers they had over CAs, but they don't have the same leverage over DNS TLD administrators, so there's no "DNS transparency" on the agenda, nor could one plausibly be deployed. Similarly, you can revoke certificates (including CA certs) in ways you can't revoke DNS domains.

It's kind of funny to look at short-duration certificates and ask "why didn't DANE save us from this", because a security engineer might look at this and think "thank God DANE failed an kept us from 30 more years of dangerous, error-prone manual key management".
Yes, because AMD is fabless, and Xilinx didn't suddenly have to figure out how to work around Intel's production problems.
MTA says tolls keeping 82k drivers a day out of Manhattan
systemd is the init process, the Linux kernel non-optionally runs the init process as root
Yes he was fleeing the gangs so they sent him to be locked up with the gang that wanted to kill him.
It's not a very good analogy because federally-funded research is a public investment, a public good like roads. The research is supported by the public (the government) and becomes available for anyone to use, learn from, and build off of. And in fact most successful U.S. business are built on the backs of technological innovation that was originally funded by the government, or at the very least, innovation from PhD's whose educations were largely federally funded. (Disclaimer: federally funded researcher)

You couldn't replace that with a private company "buying" research and expect the same societal benefits.
It’s a tongue in cheek reference to how audiophiles claim to hear differences in audio quality.
I was making no attempts at comparison. Don’t try to detail the conversation.
I think you're overestimating the dolphins here. Even humans have trouble not placing collective blame on groups of people they don't know well - it even has a name in social psychology, the "out-group homogeneity effect". Just think about opposing political groups or international relations.
I believe Popcorn Time worked this way, but I may be wrong. Never dug too deeply into it.
It has a long list of content partnerships. And by far the highest user base, which means lots of unique training data. If it can succeed in spamming the open Internet enough to crowd out competition through costs and bot filters, it'll have a pretty good data moat.
I'd say it doesn't exactly meet the minimum standard for a CVE, as it's more of a technique vs. an actual vulnerability in an application/library. If there was a repo that had a vulnerable component that was currently infected through the manner described, that specific instance would probably qualify as a CVE.

Since this is a technique / overarching issue, it leans more towards being a CWE. Maybe something like:

- CWE-506: Embedded Malicious Code or
- CWE-829: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere or
- CWE-1395: Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component

From Snyk's docs they also explain it: https://github.com/snyk/user-docs/blob/main/docs/manage-risk...

"In almost all cases, malicious packages are not assigned a CVE ID."
And Intel's acquisitions kill off promising startups. At least Altera is being sort of spun off instead of outright destroyed.
Are we having a discussion about the greatest language of all time? What’s your context here.
What's the argument exactly? What prevents competition from starting a new social network or a new messaging app?

Indeed there is a huge number of successful messaging apps (imessage, signal, telegram, wire, wechat, kakao) and social networks (tiktok, snapchat, linkedin, reddit)

I know we're supposed to hate on facebook but what exactly is anti competitive?
> You don't want your scheduled lunch to move from 12 to 1 because it's DST.

Yes, therefore you won't store lunch as `datetime` you will store it as `time` and on "render" you will make sure it is 12th hour for localized datetime. Look at RFC 5545. If you move from Japan to Romania, you'll again on render (with stored 12 as `time`) display lunch at 12th hour. The only thing one stores is daily occurrence and 12th hour, with careful interpretation what is a boundary of a day and what is 12th hour. `datetime` does not help, similar to how it does not help with DST issues for workshifts (which are again `time`).

> If my calendar goes 2 years in the future, these datetimes live for 2 years at least.

Why would you materialize recurring events, if you move from Vietnam to Spain, how will all those lunches become Spain lunches? Just recompute the whole future? Sounds like a mistake of storing long-lived objects that should have been replaced with computation with short-lived ones.

> It sounds like you're arguing that datetime libraries don't need to exist.

Steelman me. 2 individuals tried to expand to include you into discussion, you seem to go in the other direction every time.

I am not implying that. I'm implying that I don't understand the performance implications, given that I'd expect to work with efficient UTC most of the time, with only a constant amount of stuff going from datetime-with-tz to UTC. I cannot imagine a case where you'd abundantly store datetime-with-tz, it sounds like a mistake.

My own impression is that majority opinion is that going from datetime-with-tz to UTC and then doing comparisons, filtering, bucketing, aggregating is somehow flawed? If I need 24 hour buckets, I can do it through UTC, if I need "daily" buckets, I can still do it through UTC -- with short-lived datetime-with-tz to UTC computation, yet UI will still have to deal with 23/25 hour days, `datetime` does not solve that problem. I understand monthly buckets, still easy to do through UTC with short-lived conversion. (go from datetime-with-tz to UTC that's used to filter/group entries in db)
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Having been through a few acquisitions myself, I think there is a perverse incentive where buying and destroying any competition (real or imagined) leads to positive enough outcomes that it doesn't matter if the underlying asset is destroyed. Nobody would come out and say that, but when an acquisition is tossed aside there may not be enough repercussions to prevent it from happening again.
Been following their Discord for a while. It's pretty impressive looking. I was waiting until TR2 had a decent fan port. Now with the official remasters I don't have time to play them.

Still great to see fans taking the games in directions publishers won't, like with MP
But how is that a personal advantage? Who are you in competition with against yourself? Maybe I'm parsing competive advantage in a different context than you mean.
I'm just a casual observer, but I'm pretty sure one hard thing about FPGAs is preventing abuse. A customer could easily set up a ring oscillator that burns out all the LUTs. Another thing is FPGAs are about 10x slower than dedicated logic, so CPUs/GPUs beat them for a lot of applications. Plus, there's not a lot of logic designers in the first place. Software skills don't transfer over very well. For example, a multiplier is about the size of 8kb of RAM, so lookups and complex flow are way more expensive than just multiplying a value again (kinda like GPUs, except if you only had an L1 cache without main memory).
No but their earnings are mainly in their companies, and those can hire fleets of tax attorneys and accountants to crush their tax burden.

Once the money is in stocks, it doesn't get taxed unless you draw on it, but the billionaires can use strategies like buy, borrow, die (which last I checked only really works if you're north of ~ $300M) to avoid personal taxes.
I don't think the agenda is at all secret: it's a push to move the WebPKI to full automation, and to eliminate sites where administrators fetch certificate files and install them on servers. If you were an engineer and had to choose one over the other, you'd choose the former too: it's much more agile and it's less exposed to the large-scale distributed systems problem of revocation.
As dang said,

> what it proves is that users will flag unsubstantive flamewar posts on Hacker News, regardless of the topic or the commenter's position on the topic. This is a good thing!

I think it has to pass the moderators bar for acceptance: is this just antoher "MOT", or will it generate "curious" discussion. Combine that with the fact that the HN site gets a lot of these submissions and it's sort of a phenomenon that I like to call "no one goes there, it's too crowded!".
Not farfetched to think they’re maybe 6-8 quarters away from imploding. They need to survive.
Also what if they own multiple apps in the space? I don't get the anti competitiveness here. People can still create new apps and even say no to an acquisition once they become successful.
M&A churn is a way for management to monetize their power. Efficacy is a distant second concern.
Exactly! So what is anti competitive here?
Lenders would have to report loan origination for secured loans where some specific asset classes are acting as the collateral.
I built up an AI Agent using n8n and email doing exactly this. Works great and was surprised I'd not seen any other place kicking the idea around.

Probably my favorite use case is I can shoot it shopping receipts and it'll roughly parse them and dump the line item and cost into a spreadsheet before uploading it to paperless-ngx.
Not true. They do not address the question of whether there is an agreement or the terms of it because it is immaterial to the case before them.

Xinis and Thacker represent that an AP article referenced a memo that refers to an agreement.

This is immaterial to the case before them, it is not immaterial to the falsity of your comments.
I mean, maybe.

But these folks living on the smolweb can tend to over-estimate their importance/influence. I say this after spending a decent amount of time there, even building Gopher and Gemini (as in the protocol, not Google) clients of my own.

Some Gemini protocol enthusiasts actually think Google renamed Bard out of fear of being subverted by them, as a play to intentionally destroy any name recognition.

TBH, these folks are likely not even a blip on Big Tech's radar.

That scene from Endgame comes to mind:

"You took everything from me!"

"I don't even know who you are."
When you get to ~30-day duration certificates, everyone's automated, at which point you almost don't care what the duration is anymore.
A2A - "Agent to Agent", MCP - "Model Context Protocol", they're different things solving different problems.
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> It's trendy to hate Google,

Calling something "trendy" is a great way to try to dismiss it without actually providing any counterargument. The deep suspicion of anything Google does is extremely well justified IMHO.
>> what is unconstitutional about a wealth tax?

Article I, Section 9, Clause 4:

"No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken"

A wealth tax is generally considered to be a direct tax. If you wanted to enact one at the federal level, my understanding is that it would have to be done in proportion to the census. So, given that Mississippi is around 1% of the total US population, Mississippi would have to pay 1% of the wealth tax. Mississippi is the poorest US state, so that would be a very regressive tax.

An income tax is also considered to be a direct tax, that's why it took an amendment to the Constitution to enact one.

The Constitution applies to taxes at the federal level, not state. States could enact a wealth tax the same way they enact property taxes now (depending on their state Constitutions). The problem for them is that wealth is a bit more mobile than property.

And yes there are arguments about what a direct tax really meant in the language at the time the Constitution was written, there are arguments that the income tax should have been legal without an amendment. But that's not how it went down.
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