skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at this tool, if I had to work in this environment the first thing I would do is figure out how to edit the files in Emacs. This looks extremely frustrating and painful and very much not compatible with how someone would need to use it to be productive. Imagine you have to jump between 3 functions for some reason, you have to go through this 4 level + deep hierarchy? Why? How does this help?

There are lots of ways of organizing the world hierarchically, that you CAN do that does not mean it's helpful to do it, more `organized` does not imply better.
the next level would have to be - who searched and what did they search for?
I read somewhere that Strugatskys were once asked whether Inhabited Island was a satire of the Soviet Union, to which they responded with something like “it was not supposed to be the Soviet Union or any country specifically, but because we lived there, that is what we inadvertently ended up writing about”
Reasonable, but it's literally the first point the article makes. Of the fraction of commenters that did actually read the article, I still would've expected at least a few to object.
> I think the lockdowns were not about "stopping spread" but actually a sort of test to see how populations respond to absurd orders in preparation for climate lockdowns in the next few years

That's quite an assertion about intent. Sources?

> People just accepted this "six-feet / two-meter social distancing"

They accepted it because they assume good faith until proven otherwise and because it's highly plausible that a virus that is spread primarily by airborne means can rendered less transmissible by putting distance between infected persons and uninfected persons.

> This collective trauma will be very difficult to recover from.

I'm sure some are more traumatized than others. I imagine among the most traumatized are those who experienced the death of family and friends due to Covid-19.

> which has never been demonstrated or proven

Since it would be an exceedingly difficult study to control for, let alone perform, personally I've just continue to accept the basic biological plausibility of simple interventions such as distancing and masking. It does raise the legitimate question about what level of evidence is required to make a given intervention. At the same time, one person's trauma is another person's minor inconvenience.

All of that said, Canada's decision to drop some of the cross-border rules seems due.
If Mozilla bundled uBO into Firefox, I imagine they would lose Google as a search partner overnight, and tens of millions of dollars in funding as a result.
Apple only forbids alternative rendering engines, one can still use own networking stack. This alone allows to differentiate a browser a lot especially regarding ad blocking.
Is the location of your state-registered vehicle vehicle on publicly owned roads personal information in your state? Despite the phrasing, I'm honestly curious.
This is a naive take on geopolitics. It’s par for the course of diplomacy and alliances.
> It’s not clear what they gain from allowing other engines

Apple gain nothing. That precisely why they don't do it. However, we all suffer from a web platform that gets held back by there being zero competition on iOS.
Can this be run without colab Pro? (High vram)
I think it's more like there are so many games at play as CEO in that position that anything but vague denial would be far more trouble than it's worth. Anything you say is going to attract a lot of criticism so the only thing you can say is the least damaging one.

In other words, most public statements are mostly nonsense engineered for response and have only a casual association with the truth.
I'd argue that the browser is trying to be the Operating System, and we're living in some strange intermediary time before the hellscape that is "Chrome becoming a kernel & OS" happens.

Good* plot for a sci-fi book, that.
Any account you have on any service online is not yours, and you can be denied access to it at anytime.
You're starting from the perspective that these restrictions are warranted.

High performance browsers never could have been written in the first place if PCs had these restrictions in the '90s through mid 2000s.

Who knows what "application of the future" will not be viable on iOS etc. because they're afraid of writable executable pages or any other undue restrictions.
But the angle is an adimensional unit (it's the ratio of two distances, one along the circumference and one along the radius) so 1 rad = 1. Therefore 1 degree is 0.0174... radians but it is also just 0.0174.
Amazon has enough cash on hand to just own this "mistake" and pay the raises. Just baffling that a multitrillion dollar company can get away with this. Just pay people their worth! I don't care if this makes Jeff's net worth drop by .0001%, he can go dry his tears with his hundreds of billions.
A story with further details desirable.
What Apple is doing is not anticompetitive because they own the platform. Microsoft was anticompetitive because they wound up dictating what OEMs could or could not do with the platform they built. Not the same situation.
Plenty of high performers also discover organizational structure or politics isn’t serving their upward trajectory well so change companies before waiting for their ever-approaching promo
Point 1 appears to be begging the question. Why shouldn't sufficiently-sophisticated symbol manipulation, producing results the same as "conscious understanding" (which seems to be the same as "semantics" as Searle was using it), be identical to "conscious understanding"?

I don't know that it is, but Searle doesn't know that it isn't. I would think it was the question we were trying to prove.

The question of whether the brain does symbol manipulation or not seems irrelevant. We know it doesn't have the same mechanism as either expert systems or neural networks. That seems trivial and not worth thinking about.
https://archive.ph/C9hoa
A really interesting and nice architecture which was difficult to program for (maybe outdone only by the notorious CELL architecture of the PS3). The PS2 Linux Kit was brilliant and was what got me into Linux in the first place.[1]

Nowadays consoles are designed to be similar to PCs and easy to develop for, but I feel like we've lost a little something when we went from mostly custom developed chips and archs to commodity PCs with some custom subsystems.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2
Thanks, I'll look them up. I have read Jack Kerouac, On the Road, great book. [Flashback 20:57 Sep 25, Jack Kerouac, (this means I just remembered the memory for the first time since the lobotomy 13 years ago, specific distinct sensation that happens the very first time I follow a pointer to that memory). Yeah that's me. Let me say here my words are poetry really, in prose format. Prosetry.

So for an explanation, the same thing happened to me that happened to August Rodin.

Too literal. His statues were too literal so he made sculptures to the point he was accused of literally putting molds against the subject's skin to shape it, which is easy. Nobody really buys this story. Everybody--even at Stanford, which has Rodin statues everywhere, in the places of most honor, largest collection of Rodin statues outside Paris, talk about Rodin a lot but--disbelieves the story.

Let me vindicate him now. I had too literally perfect an American English, and that meant everybody assumed I understood how the system worked, when I also assumed I understood how the system worked--different system. So in Chile it's like an egg, there's a shell, as long as the shell hasn't been cracked they respect you, honor contracts, you're set. Chile would have given me a trial in my lynching no matter what. Literally no matter what. In fact I was counting on a trial no matter how kangaroo--kangaroo court would have still been court, plenty good for me, in Chile the courts aren't kangaroo so much as intensely Kafkaesque, but with loopholes for literally one in a million to be spared. I in fact did that, 200000 Chilean students finished high school 2007, I got the best college results by Hacker News standards and in hindsight also. Counted on being the Harvard black of Chile, one slot for the country, got it. Nobody can believe it. Dude no American no matter how racist bigoted like WASP dude Mayflower nothing sees me as anything other than American. That is not where the discrimination is coming from.

That was a problem, I couldn't communicate to the administration my copious copious copious evidence or talk to witnesses, nothing. Well it was a lynching, might as well have been speaking Chinese.
I'm genuinely curious of the details of how the 1.5v vCore measurement was obtained. CPU-Z and software measurements in general don't have the greatest reputation of being accurate, especially with just-released generations of CPUs. Conventional wisdom has been with newer manufacturing processes, less voltage is required (and tolerated), and 1.5v vCore sounds truly insane in 2022 for a "4nm" chip. For reference, I haven't heard of 1.5v being a safe "24/7" voltage since the days of 90nm-130nm+ CPUs circa 2005-2006. IIRC casual overclockers in the forums weren't really comfortable with 1.5v even with 65nm Core 2, and this was back when it was common to e.g., safely overclock your 2.4 GHz Core 2 Quad to 3.4 GHz.
> What's the problem?

If you're not asking rhetorically, that's one of the primary subjects of this report.
are rooms like this still legally usable since the patriot act expiration?
> The only people that complain about it are some web devs and companies that would love to get their grubby data collecting hands on your device's battery and gyroscope data.

Why would allowing more browser engines have even the slightest impact on that? Those are APIs available to all native apps they have literally nothing to do with underlying browser engines.
Unless your previous company went out of business I'm not sure they've made an incorrect decision. They're able to get the work they need done at a lower price.

Sure they don't keep the highest performers but if they're not doing "rocket science" you don't need a rocket scientist.
How Americans Spend Their Money, by Generation
The vast majority of what makes a browser is the HTML/CSS rendering and JavaScript interpreter. Everything else is pretty much just glue to make it all work.
I use the default as well (android) and turn off all of the fancy AI mumbo jumbo. I also (rarely) use an old one called "Hackers Keyboard" (seems to now be discontinued in the store but it gives me access still to download it). Not sure if it is available at all for iOS but it gives you basically a full keyboard which can be useful for doing terminal stuff
This makes a lot of sense when you are expecting to take derivatives, integrals, or use complex numbers.

In cases outside of that, radians lose their advantage over turns.
I complain about it as a user, and I take my money to android (reluctantly) as a result. I would love to run apple hardware for my phone, but their over the top control over the whole closed wall ecosystem is why I don't.
I don't have a deep understanding of the implementation, but it gets you a 30% performance boost in Playstation 3 emulation.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ps3-emulator-avx-512-30-pe...
I cross the border quite frequently, and they've never asked for it, but since my NEXUS + Canadian PR + ArriveCan are all linked, I assumed they had it already. The CBSA agent once told me as much.
Early PS3's also featured PS2 hardware, hence also PS1 chips.
This is a problem of misaligned incentives, not just in GitHub, but pretty much every CI provider out there.

In fact, the incentives are diametrically opposed in that almost every one of them makes more money when our builds take longer to run, regardless of the reason. So they are financially disincentivized to build anything that could make them faster, or even make it easier to limit the duration, as is the case here. When it does happen, it's a rare triumph of some combination of people with genuinely good intentions, customer demand, and competitive pressure, over the demand for financial returns that every company has to eventually come to terms with, and not sustainable over the super long term.

The ones that let us host our own runners at least offer us an escape hatch where we can opt out of the diametrically opposed incentive structure and back into a still-not-aligned but neutral one, but then we give up much of the benefits of CI as a SaaS and have to spend engineering hours building and maintaining our own build infrastructure at a significant cost.

Let's not forget that traditional CI in itself is already a commodity where providers sell us dumb CI minutes that we have to spend our own eng hours engineering deployment and testing solutions on top of, and eventually have to sink entire full-time engineering teams' worth of hours into fighting against the natural tendency for these systems to get slower as we add more code and people.

I believe the solution is deployment & testing platforms tailored to specific technologies, meticulously engineered to be so ridiculously fast that they can reasonably be offered as an all-you-can-eat plan for a fixed monthly price per seat, instead of the industry standard usage-based pricing of traditional CI providers. This aligns incentives much better in that slow builds hurt the provider's bottom line as much as they hurt customers' engineering productivity, and on the flip side it financially incentivizes constant investments into making the system even faster from the provider side since faster builds means they can serve more customers on the same hardware and pocket the difference as profit.

Shameless plug: I've been building one of these platforms at https://reflame.app. Reflame can deploy client-rendered React web apps in milliseconds, fast enough to make deploying to the internet feel like local dev.
Good point! Image based programming systems should be mountable as a filesystem to alleviate some of these concerns IMO.
Google, an advertising company, pays for the vast majority of Firefox development in exchange for being the default search engine. Bundling an ad blocker with Firefox seems like a pretty bad idea in this situation.
Depends on the trajectory of stock price.
Not super surprising? Like this is pretty obviously the kind of thing that sets off fraud detection, and probably 99 times out of 100 that fraud signal is real, which means it's not routed into customer service, but rather anti-fraud, which is not very friendly.

There are few things fraud-ier than gift cards. It sucks! There's nothing morally wrong with using them! But anything outside the absolute most normal usage of a gift card is likely to stick you in a user cluster that is overwhelmingly fraudulent.
I get it, but it's still sad.

Lots of places reject my Google Voice number, just because it's VoIP. I've had that number for ten years and the account it is under is protected by a popular security key.

But that Prepaid SIM I have for a month and might ditch any time, no problem, everyone takes that.
agreed, i'm just a fan of their innovation. would be cool if we could decentralize their tech. somehow use their data and code to standup my own ddos detection system without having to proxy through them
I think it's about most corporate hiring and comp practices being tuned to weak labor markets where workers don't have many options and there's not strong competition for workers. Doesn't work well in stretches when tech is red-hot, which tends to be at least half the time, over a long time-line, at least so far.
There’s definitely some similarities (both are generic-ish ways to get data out of an API). As mentioned in another comment, we’re still deciding whether to adopt an existing protocol or roll our own for those API connections. We’ve done the latter so far but it’s a work in progress.
From their position of power they don't need anymore to prevent users from installing other browsers; it's enough for them to continuously pester the user with annoying requests to make their own the default one until the user surrenders. For 99.999% of users, a browser that doesn't load by default and a browser that is not installed are essentially the same thing.
The Portland Business Alliance, which may not be an entirely unbiased source, put the dollar figure at 10s of millions for Portland, not billions.
That's really not the only thing going on. Yes, it allows you to take advantage of periodicity. But many common function approximations work best (i.e. not requiring any transform of the argument) over the interval [-1, 1].
Maybe you're really good at working with uncertainty?

This article focuses on the number of new things overwhelming our working memory, but I'd argue another big problem is the difficulty of leveraging abstractions even if you don't understand them.

In this exercise, both myself and the article get sidetracked in understanding the basis of all the abstractions as well, rather than just letting the abstractions be, with all of their uncertainty. But if I were better at the latter, I could see this approach working.
Look at where Firefox gets its funding and you’ll see why they might be reluctant to ship ad blocking on their flagship product.

Firefox does have Firefox Focus on mobile with built in ad blocking/tracker blocking. I use it all the time yet I’m still not sure whether it allows “acceptable” ads due to general ad blindness, though I know it doesn’t block everything (which could just be due to lack of community reports for that ad type, or something).
What's the discord for?
You would probably love late 1980s high end touring bikes then - they are basically the best of the best of steel
I’d be happy to work 1-2 days a week in an office I can reach within an hour. I’ve been fully remote since 2009.
Chrome is holding on to a 67% market share on desktops[0] despite not being pre-installed on either of the two most popular desktop operating systems.

I see the polls, I understand the concern, but Mozilla probably should focus on why the 46% of people who do know how to replace their default browser almost universally choose to replace it with Chrome, rather than Firefox.

0. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...
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Ebay and Uber are more.

Lots of banks reject VoIP too.
I’ve got 20,000 devices in the field. All SIM. Can’t change providers as it would be cost prohibitive as I’d need to visit all locations.

With eSIM I can just push a new configuration.
Funny! :D the said alien should then talk with Lithuanian because every month name more or less is describes what is happening during that month
>> As a corporation, I might not want to use it in conjunction with my code, but that's the point.

I've worked for several large corporations and were in the throes of a major project. Using an Open Source tool would've cut a lot of our dev times by many hours. Three out of three times, all three team leads and managers said "no" to using open source. We had to build several large components from scratch, which did lead to extended development timelines, a ton of working late at night and several "crunch" weekends.

Their rationale? They didn't want to have to maintain a piece of software that was open source. The resounding opinion was it was "dangerous" and not safe - because someone could check in a malicious piece of code and that could end up in our very large, enterprise application when we needed to update it. Nobody wanted to be on the hook if that ever happened.

In the end, it seemed like it was more about upper management types playing CYA instead of trying to put out a solid product.
That's the point. Except with some attempts back in the mid 90s, Apple hasn't licensed their software and have instead done a vertical integration of their products and are selling a product.

Tangent to this is that Safari isn't the dominant market browser in any space.

* Mobile worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldwide
* Desktop worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide
* Mobile US https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/united-states-of-america
* Desktop US https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

One can't say that Apple's bundling of Safari within iOS is letting them abuse their market dominant position to force other companies to install software that they don't want to.
Of course nobody with a court order on your doorstep is going to take your word for anything. If the object of the order is to find some data, anything and everything that looks vaguely digital will be taken (consequentially, every physical nook and cranny will be searched for errant micro-SD cards). Stuff is handled on a per-item basis. An item is either returned (after months to years), or not.

If you end up in a situation like that - which does not mean you did anything wrong at all - your best bet at getting your personal data and items back is by 1.) having them physically separate 2.) not encrypting anything or immediately providing passwords / access so items can be cleared.

Effects and results may vary. Consult your local lawyer for more information.
> Crucially, people raise concerns about privacy and security, but they similarly fail to act on these concerns.

People who throw rocks shouldn't live in glass houses.

Mobile client ads on the home screen, heavily pushed VPN service, forced integration with networked bookmark services, "experiments" that don't check for privacy issues, default search using Google, and a long history of being reactive, not proactive, when it comes to privacy issues - these are just a handful of the problems that Firefox is currently mishandling.

Firefox is in many ways better than Chrome, Safari, and Edge, but it's not exactly a shining paragon of privacy and ethics either. I'd personally prefer that you clean up your house first, please.
Usually the replacement is at market rate, ie. the amount OP got at the new place.
Sure, but at some point interpretation tells you just as much about the interpreter as about the person saying something, and I'm not responsible for the former.