skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been following Mozilla for what I can gather has been 20 years. Maybe more. It’s been a company chasing ideals. Guess what? The market really doesn’t care all that much. If 1-3% market share is all that mattered, then they could prop their feet up and coast.

This company is dead in the water. This new guy is a pacifier until the inevitable.
Gimme something with '20's safety and fuel economy, and '90's features otherwise. Or, even better, an electric car without the computer screen on the inside.

I remember 90's cars safety and gas mileage, and I emphatically don't want that.
You know what would help? Data! Your car analogy is backed by decades of that being available from a slew of organizations.

Computers are harder to get that for, especially when you have to correct for things like whether different classes of buyer have notably different habits.
Yeah, I meant more the general principle. I can absolutely believe that in the details, EVs are on par or maybe even surpass ICE's complexity.

But "electric motor turns axle" is, at its surface level, and much more boring principle than "controlled concurrent explosions timed in the right way actuate pistons which actuate shaft which turns axle". And by default at least an electric motor has a much more linear power curve than an ICE one, so purely at surface level transmissions tend to follow a simpler principle as well.

It's why I mentioned old phone networks and CRTs as well.
Scylladb is luckily much faster. We can rebuild a ~5TB node in a matter of hours.
Aside: the press release is a bit more specific than all ECAD software, the language it uses is "Electronic Computer-Aided Design (ECAD) software specially designed for the development of integrated circuits with Gate-All-Around Field-Effect Transistor (GAAFET) structure".[1]

I'm not all that clued up on the latest in chip manufacturing, but GAAFET seems like a fairly cutting edge thing used only in high-end modern chips, and I wouldn't be surprised if many ECAD softare packages are unaffected (but again, this is not my field, so could be 100% wrong there, which I am sure people will point out).

[1]: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/about-bis/newsro...
oh man, I'm also typing on my T440p now, and yes, it's still running strong and healthy without much to complain.
Rents really are higher though.
I use FF and I don’t care about privacy, telemetry, or Lunux. I care about performance, ad blocking, and website compatibility.
I agree, but they will get there. They just looked more polished, but that's all at the moment.
We seem to have some things in common. I'm also a software engineer with a creative hobby: wildlife photography.

In that space, there's already a kind of abundance problem. It's saturated. So even in the case of a "hit piece", the appreciation lasts about a few hours. A bunch of likes and some shallow comments. That's it.

If I were to base my meaning on that, I'd say it has no meaning. That's why I find meaning in my deep love for my subjects, as well as the process of photography itself. I decouple external validation from my intrinsic motivation. Few photographers do this, they crave the attention, which is why they're restless and miserable. They would surely feel even worse in an AI world where current saturation levels will do a 1000x.

The above you can probably apply to lots of other creative endeavors. For example, creative writing on a blog. You already can't get noticed today, imagine the avalanche of AI writing making this problem exponentially worse.

So we will have little shared meaning, at best personal meaning, but only for the strongly intrinsically motivated, the rest may stop altogether. On top of that, the new "creators" will also experience little meaning. You can generate the most beautiful piece of AI art, but can't seriously claim: I made that.
UX down, consumer-friendliness up, power user-friendliness down, consumer-friendly automated customization up.
Thank you for writing this article and especially skipping the unneeded proofs that a programmer usually has to step over to apply quaternions.
Consumer electronics in the thousands of dollars I would definitely want insurance for.
I think it is a combination of 1: massive money supply expansion - that mostly benefits the already rich: asset owning classes and banks/institutions that get first dibs on cheap money, and 2: globalization/technology - reducing the value of your typical worker though outsourcing, efficiency, culture, etc. 3: The rich entrenching their power, making it more difficult for everyone else who isn't. Not so much a conspiracy, more of some kind of feedback loop we need to break.
A qualitatively better hypothesis would be "Everybody knows Mensans are insecure". I never met any Mensans or Prometheusians at Stanford that I knew of or cared to ask about, and this included IITians with MD + CS PhD's. The ones I ran into outside of academia were heavily leaning on the neuroticism side of Big 5. This may not be a completely fair assessment as a generalization, but it seems like an approximation of a fair amount.
The internet might have been a mistake, socially, educationally, politically. I tend to the upsides outweigh, but you have to be very mindful of the downsides.
True. California or Arizona (no salt on the roads, low humidity) are the unicorn places for cars without holes.
i think he meant are they releasing a form like openAI in the interim release? someone's a bit aggro
That would invalidate - partially, at least - those accountability-waiver and acceptance and acknowledgement that there could be defects clauses you will find in the terms and conditions of nearly all modern software.

If it is being monitored and continuously optimised, then the consumer should be safe to expect the moon and have options for recourse if the condition or functioning of the software does not reflect what the reasoning for gathering all this telemetry implies, and what the possession of the data would allow for.

In summary: we do this so we can do that, but then not actually delivering on it don't fly
Median after tax income per capita in the U.S. is really high as well, almost at the top.
This chart is complete garbage though, it's graphing inflation adjusted income against inflation... If you want a comparison it's possible to draw a valid conclusion from you need to compare non-inflation adjusted income.

If I'm being charitable, they made a mistake in their analysis, if I'm uncharitable they didn't care about the methodology and went in looking for a way to write a provocative conclusion like "86% less purchasing power". Obviously a lot of energy was spent here drawing up the pretty infographics, probably should have spent more energy getting the basic statistics correct first?
- Green/Sustainable trend is overrated and doomed.

- Corporate ESG sucks.

- HR departments have been hijacked by social justice people, mostly women. Subjectivism has taken over objectivism.

- Society/Technology has been deteriorating, not accelerating. Despite of what people say about progress in last 50 years.

- Anti-capitalism is going to lead to demise of USA and largely the west while APAC has been embracing what worked in the west, i.e. Hypercapitalism that's pulling people out of poverty.

- Hard work and pushing yourself to the limit mentally should be encouraged.
I suspect my phone is dynamically acquiring stupid auto-correct words through internet-harvested trash data. For example, it prefers to capitalize Target even though I am never talking about the dang store.
You think a minority of professionals are going to the office full-time ?

Because in Australia at least that is not what is happening at all.

Occupancy levels in the CBDs of our major cities are still well below pre-COVID averages.
I'm sure there is something here but I cant connect the dots.

There was a root shell left open, some muscle guy, and an allusion to a bomb with a concussion that authorities dont need a warrant.

If you cant connect the dots, welcome to the club.
Mailchimp/Mandrill have specially bad customer support and business user experience. At one point they closed the account of a company I was working at without any previous notice and without any recourse. They just sent a blanket email "Your account has been suspended". They left us scrambling for an alternative (we had both transactional and marketing email). We happily migrated to SES for transactional email and SendGrid for marketing.

I no longer recommend or use Mailchimp.
Apple sets Sept 5 deadline for employees to return to office
Yes, this requires a source. I've never heard anything like it, especially considering all I hear from Google about AI.
> Telemetry is useful for improving the product

Great, make it opt-in then. People have various legitimate reasons to decide for themselves whether they want to enable it or not. Keep in mind that under the GDPR it must be absolutely opt-in and the current implementation is in breach.

> people like pocket

Just like people like uBlock Origin (and I'd argue a lot more people like uBO than Pocket) and yet it isn't embedded in the browser for some reason (despite being permissively licensed and actually doing something to protect privacy).
Honestly, glasses there sound like they're only double what they are here which as far as comparing US healthcare costs normally go is practically reasonable. Usually I'm hearing about the same thing costing 10x or more.
Yeah I agree. I honestly love central Oregon. Grants Pass in particular is wonderful. And then down in that Medford Ashland Rogue River Valley area too. US 199 from Grant's Pass to Crescent City CA is possibly the most gorgeous drive in the US IMHO. And Crescent City CA has the redwoods all over, and you can continue to Eureka, which is also nice, and fairly cheap compared to the rest of california. It smells like green and wet there, but not in a bad way. Very little snow. Central oregon literally looks like the shire with the rolling hills and mountains. I'd buy there.
This. I use Firefox primarily for uBlock Origin not being gimped by Google's push for Web Extensions Manifest V3.
I haven't been in an office since before 2018. Really don't think I ever want to go back.
Any reports of screen cracks on the M2??
Not really. VPN is just a solution of a problem. Most problems have more than one solution.
I would say that is a symptom, not a root cause
The free market sell off mania needs to end, real soon. We need big government far more than we are prepared to appreciate.
Well I think it’s partly true and partly not- which is dangerous because it muddies the water and makes people less likely to believe what they read in the future.
Sorry for nitpicking, but 48 is not a boomer. She is a Gen X.
Boomers are the folks born after WWII and before the oil crisis.
The word is "tenet", not "tenant".
The Inner Osborne Effect (2021)
Same but worse with Verizon's FiOS: No ipv6 at all.
Most UX is bunk.
Buy Apple Care!!!! It's a no-brainer!!! (as in you must have no brain to think it makes any sense to be okay with this)
Do IoT devices not have a USB port to allow for updating of the firmware?
Strong agreement - I really think ads’ strength cost them multiple markets just because nobody was really worried about not being profitable. I’ve heard mixed things about working at AWS but everyone I know who’s worked there was keenly aware of whether customers liked what they worked on.
Who knows if it’s true but apple has publicly stated they lose money on repairs.

https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-21-apple-repair-costs.html
Volume does not replace skill, in programming.
It doesn't have to work. It just has to show enough signups in the short term so they can have a rationale for going public.

This is subprime entrepreneurship. No profits, no problem.
they don't know how to adequately judge which ones are worth more

yeah we buy 500$ (150$ in my case) laptops over apple products precisely because we can judge which ones are worth more
90s cars of that size aren't any better. But even today, that MPG is common in the US because the fuel efficiency gains in engines get negated by 2/3 of people driving SUVs.
I've been using Mozilla browsers since NetScape Navigator.

I'll probably have to stop soon. Firefox is just too buggy and incomplete.

The attitude of the developers on Bugzilla is just horrendous. Users take their time to submit detailed reports, with repro steps, explanations, references, and screenshots of how other browsers behave.

These tickets will sit in the queue for decades, sometimes with thousands or even tens of thousands of "me too!" and "is this fixed yet?" comments.

The only response you will see from anyone at Mozilla is internal paper-pushing. Assigning of categories, merging bugs, assigning to a team, or whatever. Almost never will you see an actual developer fix the issue.

Currently, Firefox the only major browser that:

- Doesn't consistently support colour management.

- Doesn't support HDR on sites like YouTube.

- Doesn't pick up the operating system PKI trust store.

- Doesn't play nice with Enterprise deployment and configuration management.

... etc ...

The core team has lost its way and is too busy playing with stupid pet projects with no business value.

The CPO should really start knocking some heads together and start asking tough questions like:

- Why are there open bug tickets old enough to drink and have little bugs of their own?

- Why is Firefox unable to correctly view content on the #1 video site in the world?

Etc...

Fix the basics!
Free speech is overrated, and very misunderstood.
> That's an ergonomic deficiency.

Do you build software on your desktop machine and ship it? Do you not build in a chroot (or container, how the cool kids call them nowadays) to make sure the build is actually using what you think it should be using?

You have to build in a chroot or similar in any case. Just use the CORRECT one.

> On Windows, you specify the target version of the platform when building, and you get a binary that is guaranteed to load on that platform.

Except if you need a c++ redistributable… then you must ship the redistributable .exe setup inside your setup because windows. Let's not pretend shipping software on windows is easier.

Anyway all of this only applies to proprietary software. For free sotware the distribution figures it all out, does automatic rebuilds if needed and so on.

Really, just stick to free software, it's much easier.
Tup – an instrumenting file-based build system
> If time is infinite, anything that can happen eventually will happen

This doesn't come close to being true. That just isn't how infinite quantities work. You can have an infinite sequence of numbers that doesn't include 3 at any point.
Are there still cars in the USA without "smart"/connected features?
And the link to that study is what? Because the domain may have expired, data may have been pulled, company may have gone bust, DNS may be wrong, they may have been hacked and started serving malicious content. I could go on for about 30 minutes as to what might have happened to it.
Signal on my Android phone makes an encrypted backup every day, this includes photos and I can copy the file off my phone if I desire (plus I point the backups to my microsd card which should still be good if the phone dies).
> Well it sounds like your ASUS needs a damn good kicking!

Why? This is exactly how I want it to work: pass through only the ports (or all the ports) I want/need for the service in question.
> don’t care about privacy

> performance, ad blocking

Blocking privacy-invasive garbage and ads (aka spam) will often improve performance.

So you'd still indirectly benefit from a user-focused, privacy friendly browser even if you don't explicitly care about privacy.
Fighting a proxy war with Russia is better than fighting a hot war with either Russia or China. But, the people doing the proxy fighting are really unhappy being used this way.
Healthcare in the US is hilarious. I got a bill when Border Patrol forcefully took me to the hospital to "search" me, despite not consenting to the search and them having no warrant or court order at the time care was rendered.

That's right, you can be billed in the US if you never consented to have care, refused to even go to the hospital, no psych hold was in place, never had any emergency at all, and some healthcare workers touched you against your will without a court order nor being under arrest. I complaint to the state nursing board and they said this is all good and dandy.

Name one other country where you can bill care to someone who refused it while being psychologically stable and being alert and oriented to deny consent, and no court authorized the treatment.
This is a rather long video but worth a watch as it goes into the reason for Burry's sudden sell off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZrTe4KQBYM

To summarize Burry and the author of the video explain that because the fed is not pivoting or loosening policy: the recent 50% retracement in the S&P500 is not likely to last and may crash even lower as similar events occurred in 1929, the dot com boom, and the housing panic. Without knowing the bottom of the market with certainty, and without a reason for the bottoming, it might not be over. Steep retracements are kind of a warning I think if the fed and government are not throwing all shes got at the problem of rich people losing a lot of money. The bear market should continue as long as inflation is rising, taxes are increasing, and corporate earnings continue to go lower.

For the first time since the 1980s the Fed is willing to sacrifice the economy over the value of the currency. It is in their charter to do that. It is not in their charter to inflate assets.
TVs became cheaper because now companies have recurring revenue by selling ads.

Same with other stuff, it got "cheaper" because the sellers found alternative monetization channels, which often are more anti-consumer.
Landlines, which were not cheap going by UK prices compared to operating a mobile today.

Don't have figures but then couldn't afford one when I grew up in the 70's.

Then colour TV's.

Much technology has got cheaper.

Now real-estate and travel costs (well apart from plan flights I'd say) have got more expensive.

But when rent and travel is a big chunk of life, and you measure things from owning a home. Well, those do skew things.

Then you also have aspects of population growth, post-war, kinda fewer people, that soon grow to hit that real-estate boom.

Also interest rates, was mentality of saving for things in 70s and shifted towards low interest rates and buy now, pay later. This also changed the landscape and again made those on the property ladder grow and push the access to that property ladder higher and higher.

But rental and travel, those really are the skew factors at play.

Need to compare quality of life really to get a bigger picture of everything, as that has increased in more aspects than people appreciate.

Heck I grew up with no central heating, single pain windows which had ice on the inside in winter and an outdoor toilet. This was in the uk in the 70s. Today, that would be called homeless. So much improved, so can't distract from that difference either.
Even a small nuclear war threatens food security
Telemetry has been proven time and time again to be useless for adding improvements _users actually want_. If you want feedback, ask for it, don't secretly observe your users from a distance.
Other ways to say this:
Baby boomers have 86% less purchasing power than the greatest generation had in their seventies.
Gen-X have 86% less purchasing power than the silent generation had in their fifties.
I do the same thing with my email and have actually gotten a few spam mails as a result. I have of course contact said companies and told them about it. None of them seems to be blatant selling of data, though.

However, I am receiving a _bunch_ of spam email to "first.lastname@mydomain.xz". I do have one default inbox everything goes into, if it does not match a filter.
Anyone have recommendations for a small, passively cooled router with 2x2.5 gbe or better? Ideally with some extra ram for a service or two. Maybe the RK3588.
If anything, if that was actually true, it'd be a colossal indictment of prior generations of administrators and leaders demolishing the quality of education for those who followed. So for GP's sake, I hope they're actually wrong about math skills being weaker among the current gen.
America's rule by Gerontocracy is no better than anyone else's and the electoral college system is a giant shell-game to hide the reality behind "democracy" as practically experienced by most people in the US
IMO getting good customer service requires social engineering, whether it’s the Apple store or the cable company. Personally I’ve always been able to talk a Genius into replacing the device, even with a new one versus a returb; at no cost. Sucks that it’s a gamble who ends up assisting you, but my odds have been good.
Which is heavily paid for by taxpayer-funded research, so Americans are paying for it on both sides.
It seems that the biggest issue then is that the storage primitives that are available (ephemeral local storage and persistent remote storage) make it hard to have high performance and highly resilient stateful systems.
Privacy is exactly why I switched from Chrome to Firefox. I've never run into a site compatibility issue with it. Never had a mobile battery drain issue, my ryzen laptop still gets 7-8 hours of life on battery with wifi and browsing.
Yep! Innovative billing practices, and innovative marketing!

Actual R&D is a distant second. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
That's why your parent poster specified "low milage."
All code is protected as speech https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1559224417674137600
Get back to me when you can vaporise a city with a AI generated image.
Universities don't need trigger warnings.
If you haven't, please read the classic "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You" [1] by the always fantastic Steve Yegge (who used to work at Google). As he so succinctly put it, the email follows the standard Google GCP template:

Dear RECIPIENT,

Fuck yooooouuuuuuuu. Fuck you, fuck you, Fuck You. Drop whatever you are doing because it’s not important. What is important is OUR time. It’s costing us time and money to support our shit, and we’re tired of it, so we’re not going to support it anymore. So drop your fucking plans and go start digging through our shitty documentation, begging for scraps on forums, and oh by the way, our new shit is COMPLETELY different from the old shit, because well, we fucked that design up pretty bad, heh, but hey, that’s YOUR problem, not our problem.

We remain committed as always to ensuring everything you write will be unusable within 1 year.

Please go fuck yourself,

Google Cloud Platform

[1] https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...
This one's a whopper. The annual salary in the first graph is adjusted for inflation, while the CPI is not adjusted for inflation. Rather the CPI is how inflation is calculated.

Wildly misleading.
Yes, or go with their hosting, and the password manager design allows you to encrypt your data so even they can't get access to it.

Obviously this is quite the honeypot, so people will be trying to attack it in the general case. Browser bugs, JS bugs in extensions and such like are a risk.

If you want to be more paranoid (not a bad thing) you might need to do away with a password manager in the browser, and use an independent program like KeePass. More paranoid and you would run that program on it's own separate physical device.

There is a balance between security issues trusting someone else, and security issues rolling your own and screwing it up though.

For example is KeePass with password only less/more secure than LastPass with encryption key and password.
Scientists should stay in their lanes.
Apple care can deny accidental coverage. Maybe, applecare+ can cover with $99 for screen or $299 for other accidents