skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just triggered a memory for me that I probably haven’t thought of in 15 years, but I recall circa 2003 sitting down with my Motorola bar phone and my electric guitar and programming it note by note (with the keypad!) to play a few seconds of Enter Sandman as my ringtone.
I disagree with the author's claim that Haugen's testimony had nothing new. I think it's more likely the author didn't "get it" or didn't want to get it. (This piece is so FB apologetic I had to check if the author once worked there.)

One of the concepts Haugen introduced to the layman conversation is the idea of human scale vs AI scale. When the author talks about Facebook doing things at scale, he uses scale unqualified which looks outdated post-Haugen's.

> Facebook’s entire value to both is as a matchmaker at scale.

Facebook's scale here is AI scale and the documents Haugen revealed show that Ai scale is NOT beneficial for one side of this "matchmake".

I also bristle when people describe Facebook as matchmakers because there's a difference between sharing a photo of you and your daughter and conveying intent for Facebook to 'matchmake' you with marketers targeting your children. At no point did any parent on Facebook tick a box that says "show me products and services that may benefit my child" and then hand over their child's demographic information.
The point is that the whole system was thought out and initiated before exec salaries spiralled. There is no visible correlation between exec compensation and this type of negotiation.
I’ve seen it called the clbuttic problem
Questions Raised About .NET Foundation
What the Facebook Outage Shows Us
ARM makes less money in a year than Intel does in most months, or something to that effect. It's just a different game, making vs. designing chips.
HK needs to tackle housing, Lam says
That's interesting. People were taking supplements for this last year, until studies came out saying it doesn't make an impact. Now it looks like another reversal.
After I supported an Indiegogo/Kickstarter campaign somehow my email has been sold on to other campaigns. I now get hundreds of emails a year promoting other campaigns. None of which Outlook can block since it’s from unique companies and all of which I have to manually unsubscribe from.

That kind of spam is insidious and it’s just the tip of the iceberg for what companies do with your data.
To filter email with .html or .htm attachement use :

filename:html
filename:htm
> For the most part poor working conditions are not the problem at big tech

...until you look for signs of burnout and ageism.
The readmes in each section are fantastic.

Also, I cannot believe how straight-forward bootstrapping is on a modern ARM chip compared to x64, where things become painful quickly thanks to decades worth of backwards compatibility. Enabling the A20 line[0] is my favourite example of the nonsense you have to deal with.

[0] https://wiki.osdev.org/A20_Line
False, you need more workers to implement green energy and figure out geo engineering.
How to Use Low-Dose Atropine to Slow Myopic Progression in Kids (2016)
Trouble Comes to Small Town
Same here! I had to "delete" my programs though (I think I was able to hide/archive it and restore it after the teacher had checked my empty program list... or did I write an emulator of an empty programs list? I can't remember).

I also wrote the first TI-BASIC tutorial in German on my first blog as a high-schooler.
It got pretty popular with it's target group (other high-schoolers who were bored in Math class), and 12 years later I got an email by an unknown person who had randomly stumbled upon my blog again and thanked me for writing it. That one email had been enough to make it all worth it by itself.

Edit: Here it is: https://archive.haukeluebbers.de/ti-basic-tutorial/
Probably the most famous example of this genre is James Ferraro's "Far Side Virtual", which can be listened to in its entirety here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd-uSm8ittU
Open Source in Everyday Life
Currently UK has a massive tax on specialised workforce - you can easily pay more than 50% tax. They changed IR35 so that risk averse companies only hire in scope of rules to avoid potential costly investigation. Current UK market is very hostile.
Or pressure from the EU
The same kind of data we had before the actual vote?
What's in a version number? (Or: Musings on backwards compatibility)
> While I’d been involved in this project as a founder and maintainer for many years [...] I failed to consider how the interaction would look through the lens of my current role.

That part could have been explained better, I think. It suggests it would have been a non-issue if not for being an Executive Director, it's just concerned with 'how it looks'. In that sense I can see why people would treat it as a non-apology.

> I created a PR in ReactiveUI’s Splat project and merged it with my ReactiveUI maintainer permission. I shouldn't have merged this PR without explicit sign-off from the other maintainers, because it's disrespectful and rude not to follow the project’s process.

This is an improvement, as it addresses the actual problem in the PR in question. It would have been good to start with this.

> Also, as the executive director for the .NET Foundation I should have been able to manage the conversation and the disagreement with the other maintainers a lot better.

But then it misses the mark again, here, as I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of the issue in the PR.

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I'm not involved in any of this so I don't know if the general response to this is overly harsh or not, particularly with calls like "resign and find a new ED in 24 hours". I don't rate it as a particularly amazing apology, but I also don't think it's intentionally a non-apology. If anything, it's a mismatch of perspective: the author sees a misuse of Executive Director Power and thinks that to be the problem, but the other people involved see a maintainer ignoring their Code of Conduct.

Of course, the other issue is that it conflates the incident with the pull request with a whole bunch of organizational politics, which does feel like a bit of a sucker punch. Perhaps they should have been discussed separately, e.g. with an apology on the PR relating to what happened there, and then... all that other stuff.
A real treat was listening to this on the Yamaha softsynth software that came with my IBM Aptiva.
Thank god we saved those fisherman's jobs eh.

Something feels very rotten about British society today.
You can get a prenup. If you do "raise someone else's kids" though and they like you you will have people in old age to help you and visit. Otherwise it's the nursing home staff.
huh, I never really used Brave, thought it was focused on privacy.

Oh well, guess there's nothing to do but write your own browser.
I think you’re right about making that decision, but the sarcastic description of the situation in the article comes across as condescending.
Bitcoin's 21M coin cap is not guaranteed
I imagine they might haul Zuckerberg before the committee and spend a few hours asking him variations on "Why are you retaliating against Haugen?"
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aborted latest flight attempt because of anomaly
"Ingenuity helicopter decides not to fly"
https://youtu.be/G3t32SzznBk
Forking is an option only insofar as the forking team is actually capable of leading development. Purely reactive forks, like most of the ones we see in the Chromium world, are not sustainable in the long run. Is there a team, out there, who could fork FF and take it into a new direction? Maybe. But that has happened only once in the history of Mozilla, and it was paid for by Mozilla itself, because it's a huge task.
Happy developers are engaged and make fewer errors.
Really? That is quite odd.

Users receive crypto if they join the brave rewards system. The rewards are directly related to Brave's revenue from their ad network - the notification ads. Advertisers put money for a known reason and a quantifiable investment. It's all opt-in. Users don't need to put any of their own money to be able to withdraw the rewards they receive. It's as much the opposite of a scheme as it can be.

What would you take to get you to take another look at it, to see it for yourself?
All exotic things we can do in AWK https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Web_server#AWK
> In case you are referring to pre-rendered frames, this only affects the amount of additional latency (not actual or total latency).

Yes, that. Should have been more careful with my words - i.e. I meant latency of 1 frame due to the render ahead queue.
It was turned on by default for me. I had to uncheck the settings.
Invariably this is true, but I think had a payment model been adopted when Firefox itself was gaining traction, they wouldn't need to stray from that winning product model - privacy focused, user control, advertisement free, web standard honoring.

As it stands now, they are obviously wanting to monetise their product but for whatever reason don't want to open up to the option of a retail/consumer grade price. Probably it is because they'll make more from feeding ad companies.
Why Nagelsmann Makes Use of the NFL, DEL, and Basketball?
I wonder how many languages that got significant traction did not follow the pattern of being successful in a niche, then riding on the coattails of that niche booming.
Microsoft is definitely the anomaly.

Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Google, Valve, Epic etc all take their cut.
The questioner seems to be saying when the foreground focus on the application they are working on is placed on another application such that their application is now in the background they do not see their application continue to perform as well as they expect it to. Maybe the place to look in the official documentation is indexed under process, process priority control, idle, wait, run, etc.
I get that the top has always been C/C++, Java and Python in some order, but I'm so surprised to see Assembly that high up (even before Rust).
Saying that - I just received an email from Apple reminding me that two of my subscriptions are coming up in a month and letting me know i could cancel them before that - so there are big benefits to having someone in your corner, in the middle.
> there really isn't an alternative to Facebook for sharing pictures and videos

I seem to manage; I use email and a website. These technologies have been working fine since around 1996.

The only "social media" account I've ever had is this one; and I'm pretty new here.

Consider teaching your rels to use straightforward technology that's been around for forty years (maybe since before they were born).

There's nothing special about Faceache; it's just a website with a messaging service (and an "app"). The only thing going for it is people who continue to use it, because they have "friends" who want to live in a Faceache bubble.

Look, that's cool; if you and your friends and rels think it's a good service, then you don't need any "alternative". I'm not going to beat you up for relying on Faceache.

But your ongoing use of Faceache, which you explain in terms of network effects ("but my grandparents that are on facebook") makes you part of the problem you yourself are complaining about.
I am unfamiliar with cases where the US prevented CNN (or others) from discussing Guantanamo.

I am familiar with the extreme lengths China would go through to prevent discussion on topics it hates though (e.g. if HN was based in China both of our comments would have been deleted immediately)
Not really.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Unit...
Happiness over Profit
Ask HN: Since when can I completely “live” in a browser?
I am using Linux for a while now again (after ~10 years of macOS) and I barely need more than a terminal and a browser. All applications I might need (like drawing, spreadsheets, chats, writing etc.) I can find as a browser application.

It feels weird to "run Linux", when all I need Linux for is the CLI and the rest is basically a VM disguised as a browser running all my applications.

Am I the only one who feels like that?
There is an SDL2 binding (https://github.com/Ryzee119/lvgl-sdl) which makes LVGL also useful for desktop/tablet apps. Great stuff. Might even be a good (lean, libre) alternative to existing GUI frameworks like GTK or Qt.
Regarding print-on-demand publishing, an author might very well think,
"when the publisher has my book, the customers, and their money, what
does it need me for?". I don't have a solution. I wonder if any
blockchain geniuses could figure something out. Short of that, how
about providing authors an itemized list of all purchases and a clause
in the contract triggering a penalty if the author can prove someone
made a purchase that wasn't listed?
I think we are talking about different things. I'm talking about what the GPU is doing to render a scene once the CPU has handed it off to the GPU, not what the engine is doing to produce the scene.

This pipeline: https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Rendering_Pipeline_Overv...
This one sounds like it will be good for users, but I really don't like how Apple gets to regulate such a large part of the Internet. Why do governments devolve so much power to them?
Fasten, widen and simplify communication space.
Entertain communicants for free.
Boost individuality and ego of communicants or tweak according to demand.
Sell the inflated souls to the highest bidder.
Twitter is such a horrible way to convey information with all these small snippets of text and no sensible way to get more context.

All I understood is that he "refuse[s] to do it with her and also without her" which is just confusing.
> Afterwards follow up with PROLOG and Brainfuck, please.

I think one of these languages is being insulted. Not sure which...
Almost a dystopian, kafkaesque view of the world
A 50% conversion drop? I wonder what method they have to show ads faster
Where is a tiny violin when you need it?
Is there a fork of Firefox that doesn't have this? I don't want to be too presumptuous, but perhaps without Pocket as well?
Their whole business model is predicated on effectively replacing ad networks with Brave's own system; I don't know about you, but I find that abhorrent from the perspective of site owners. If it became dominant, you'd just be creating a new monopoly.
The 10X rule of thumb holds in many areas where you have to overcome existing sunk cost, large market inertia, or a network effect.

I’d say it also holds for operating systems, network protocols, core tooling, etc.

The thing improved 10X might vary though, and for any niche there may be more than one thing that can be improved. Linux for instance displaced Windows NT by being both cheaper (technically free) and radically more flexible.
This is interesting.

Commenting mostly to save, but also, I (rank amateur, not to be taken seriously) spent some time looking at radiocarbon dating and was alarmed at the inconstancy of, and sensitivity to, calibration curves in the analysis. My intuition was that this had to do with the linear calibration problem, but this paper has taken a wholly different approach. I look forward to spending more time with the paper and playing with the R library.

Thanks for sharing!
'Evolved Apes' NFT Creator Evil Ape Disappears with $2.7M
Over a mere $60mil, no less. Literally nothing in the grand scheme of Facebook’s profits.
NSO ended Pegasus contract with UAE over Dubai leader's hacking
By the authors definition, fiat currency, art and gold are pretty much Ponzis. With fiat I guess you don't expect good profits but when you sell any that comes from new money buying it off you. The 'operators' in each of these - artists, governments, gold miners take a chunk of the money.

The type of scheme operated my Mr Ponzi was characterised by fraud and the money going to Mr Ponzi and so was different.
It seems like it would be impossible to have a true double blind study with something like hyperbaric oxygen. Once the chamber reaches pressure, it is very obvious to the patient.
Closer to 90%: https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.asp...
I've never heard that one, but it might be a regional variant. I always heard the other one.
As a side note, this should be a single page or, at least, an epub.

Scattering the text across many little articles discourages a comprehensive reading.
Thanks for the information, I will try to figure it out for more. Keep sharing such informative post.

https://www.myaarpmedicare.dev/
I also wouldn’t want to make a huge $multi-billion commitment to a country still shaking out its new trade, labor, and regulatory environment.

If Brexit becomes a permanent state of crisis, the UK will cease to attract inward investment.

On the other hand, if what we are currently seeing is just the teething pains of the new order combined with the post-pandemic-supply-chain-reboot, then I expect the UK will return to being a known quantity and more or less business as usual.
Because it's a cherry picked example that ignores a lot of factors.

I could easily make the statement "Microsoft gets a cut of everything purchased on Xbox, why shouldn't Apple?"

To which I suspect your response would be waving your hands around something that is ill defied (General Purpose Computing), and then trying to define it to fit your narrative.
This doesn't seem _that_ strange. In online advertising, there are the concepts of pacing (to ensure the ad campaign delivers somewhat evenly over the lifespan - not because there's any evidence that it improves performance, but because the advertiser would feel miffed if you spent all the budget in the first day of their month long campaign), and frequency capping (attempting not to show the same ad to the same person too many times - clearer benefits to performance here).

Both of these will limit the rate at which an ad spends money. If it doesn't get shown for a long period of time, both of these factors get reduced, and the ad can get selected more aggressively, particularly if you are a higher bidder than the ads that would have got chosen in your absence.
I'm pretty sure that Mozilla isn't getting into the search/ad business. I assume that's what you mean when you say "search capabilities".

While it would be good news if they were, insofar as creating more competition for the incumbents (let's be honest, the incumbent, google), at this point only regulators can do anything about the state of search/ad industry.

If this is actually the case Mozilla is yet again being used as one of Google's pawns.

"See, there are other browsers and search/ad companies flourishing despite our market position!"
You think kyrsten sinema or Joe Manchin care about hacker news comments?
>No. They instead take your money, buy coal, and burn it. Nothing is left.

Yes, miners “take your money” but only a portion of every transaction as a service fee for processing your transaction. This is a payment for a service, the value of which is predicated on a service immediately provided rather than a promise for future value.

Also “nothing is left” is also a false statement as most of the bitcoin/money processed by miner’s isn’t going to them.

Also, every time a miner processes a block of transactions they receive newly minted bitcoin from something called a Coinbase transaction. This transaction will not keep getting doled out since the protocol enforces that there can only be 21 milllion bitcoin minted, but it provides extra incentive for the money poured in for the time being.

In other words, money is not “burned” it’s being exchanged into a different commodity. If this commodity fails to hold value over the long run then sure there’s nothing left in terms of value but I’d say the same risks exist and have been realized by government issued currencies. Look at countries like Venezuela for example.

I have a lot more reasons on why it’s improbable Bitcoin will ever plunge to 0 in value but in the spirit of clearing up some misconceptions I’ll leave that for another comment.
> Getting started on a malbolge implementation, check back in approximately 1000 years.

This could be an appropriate software challenge for the Long Now Foundation [0], when they have finished that clock.

[0] https://longnow.org/clock/
As about every month, just reading the table is enough to notice how bad this rating is.

For example, if we believe this data, the popularity of “Classic Visual Basic” went from 0,77% a month ago to 1,83% now (more than a doubling), and both C and R lost over a third of their popularity in a month’s time.

Fortran is the real winner, almost tripling in popularity in a month. At that rate, it will be top of the list in December.
If you accept this argument, the next logical step is figuring out what features are being used and how. Standard method is just guessing, but there's:

1. What rustc does with crater (linked from article), where you can actually test real code. On a smaller scale, the author of the article points out cryptography package for Python, which runs tests of its most popular upstream dependencies. This latter is probably feasible for many libraries.

2. Analytics, though this requires work to make it private and anonymous, and for libraries maybe requires system-level infrastructure. (Again, this was suggested by Alex.)

3. Beta testing, surveys, and other forms of user feedback.
Yes, I'm not really thinking about doing freelancing hands on work. The only possibility would be to help them come up with a high level solution, as I had built a very similar product in the past.
That's literally what investment is.

A first definition of gambling, is games of pure chance.

The second definition is taking a risk in hope of a future reward.

No investment has ever been made that was not a gamble. Sure, some are better than others, and the mechanism for providing wealth differs, but they are all gambles in either the first or second sense.

Crypto speculation is not a first-example gamble, it is not pure chance what happens, there is not an explicit randomness component. The market may be hard or impossible to understand, it may be undeterministic (I don't claim to know either way), but so is all other markets, every other stock.. Sure, it is probably more risky to speculate crypto than EUR, it may be more risky to buy bitcoin than Microsoft stock, but in the end, you're doing the same thing, you're making some more or less informed gamble that the market do whatever you need it to do.
I prefer they'd spend it on their browser engineers and whichever arm legislatively opposes existing browser monopolies.
Do you have any experience if this actually improves things on Windows (not ChromeOS)?

AFAIK DWM is the main culprit here (1-2 frames) and `desynchronized` does not circumvent it (but avoids at best 1 frame of canvas vs DOM synchronization).
Any system which involves money and is not immediately obviously simple to understand is almost always created in order to steal people’s money.
The value of a bitcoin will always be one bitcoin, just like the value of a dollar will always be one dollar. But you mentioned purchasing power, which can certainly change for both dollars and bitcoins. The "value" of a financial asset, of any practical importance, is its value relative to the value of other things.
> It’s not up to the individual tech worker to do so

Correct! The handbook puts all focus on the individual and "forgets" to recommend collective action. I wonder why.
Sorry, should have been more careful with my words. I was talking about latency due to DirectX's render ahead queue. Not total latency.