skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So some company figured out that their business has negative externalities and then they tried their best that nobody else figures this out and does anything against it so that the profits keep rolling in? Morally bad, sure, unexpected, no. So what is even the point of this? Do we want to say that it would have been the job of Exxon to minimize climate change? As an excuse for government inaction because Exxon tricked them? Do we just want to put a number on how morally bad Exxon is? I am seriously confused what the point of this is.

NOTE: I read the following post [1] which has a duplicate link to this post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34366666
Designers need to get off their high horses and thinking they can do better than the perfect visual metaphor tabs have been taking advantage of for YEARS. The tab is connected to the browser chrome = it's the active tab. It's so simple and intuitive. But Apple and Mozilla both have made attempts to reinvent this and every time it's in obviously worse ways. Thankfully Apple, in a rare display of acknowledging their mistake, backtracked on their horrible tab redesign shortly after shipping it. Well, it's still there in the Safari settings but the default is the old design that actually makes sense.

A good article about why the redesigned Safari tabs are bad:

https://daringfireball.net/2021/10/the_tragedy_of_safari_15_...
Thanks buddy! I will look into that. My first thought is that this would be reflecting the sky, but if I can angle it toward the water somehow, it would work nicely. Do not want to crush a mirror in the water and damage the ecosystem, so will have to be careful.
Big Induction are all part of agenda. The induction hobs are needed to charge up the 5g mind control chips.
A 116kb WASM of Blink that lets you run x86_64 Linux binaries in the browser
Comprehensive Rust
Even with disabled telemetry, there should be ways to get some data. Update-calls for the browser and add-ons should give some valid hints.
Not to pile on too much, but I feel very similarly. It seems like about 80% of the way through the first book (beginning with the Panama Canal attack), Liu gave up on trying to write characters and started trying to compensate with bigger (and admittedly very cool) sci-fi set pieces. Overall, the first book had a good set of strong characters (Ye Wenjie, Wang Miao, Da Shi) and was still good enough to be one of my favorites.

The second book still had some good character writing (mostly in Zhang Beihai, although Luo Ji had a okay arc), but I felt like the plot really meandered to the point where I almost put the book down before the reveal of the Dark Forest concept, which was interesting and novel enough to compel me to finish.

The final book has the whole kitchen sink of cool sci-fi conceits thrown at it, but there are even fewer memorable characters, and the plot time-jumps so many times that it feels like the antithesis of “show, don’t tell”.

What’s sad is that the core storytelling skill of Liu is clearly there (for example, with the fairy-tale allegories), but it’s so buried under the drive to introduce a new technology every chapter that it’s hard to appreciate the final book as a good novel.
Shipping Early as Self-Sabotage
There are solutions that let you use curves like in an audio program to define inflection and pitch, speed of speaking, etc. Some of the competitors of this post's service do that.
> Maybe I'm weird in a way but I never saw the appeal of social media besides casually keeping in touch with friends.

Why do write like that's not a major part of human emotional health?
> We all know now about global warming but there are hundreds of coal stations being built right now.

There are still people denying it, they are literally funded by companies like Exxon, and this is one of the biggest impediments to stopping climate change.

So, yeah, if Exxon had just announced their results 50 years ago rather than spending tons of money denying them it would have made a huge difference.
Looks like somebody is _really_ running a campaign against gas. It's fine if you like induction, like it's fine if you like Apple products. Just leave me alone about it, will you?
By FF users who go to google if they type or misstype something in the address bar.
Looks interesting, I might take a deeper look into using this.

One thing to note, on my mobile browser (Firefox Nightly) the site is a bit broken. The page has the wrong width so periods etc are off screen and for the code example blocks I can't scroll them to see the whole line.
It completely replaced Perl for me
You shouldn't even need to run an "app".

A phone is no different from a laptop, except that it is smaller and the mouse/keyboard are part of the screen. On my phone, I should be able to:

* Open an IDE and write some code.

* Compile my code (depending on the language).

* Run my code.

The whole concept of "app stores" is absurd. In 10 years, will we be denied sudo rights on our laptops? Will we need to pay a 30% cut to Apple for every program that we install, plus $99/yr if we want the privilege of building code for our own device?
How do COWs (Containers on Windows) work?
I don't know the numbers, but the premise here is not (a) that gas is bad or that (b) cooking releases particulate, but rather that gas stoves are actually constantly leaking very small amounts of particulate that in aggregate can cause harm along the same lines of other sources of PM2.5 pollution.
paper: http://tom7.org/abc/paper.pdf
> Why isn't Toyota or Subaru included on the list of Luxury vendors? The ride experience as a passenger is similar.

Because the "luxury" segment is hard to define. The BMW 3 series has a similar problem. The entry level versions have synthetic materials that are a lower grade than some upper trims of Honda Accord or Nissan Altima.

The build and paint quality of Accord are likely better in many cases and the car feels very solid.

But there are other reasons to rank a BMW 3 series as luxury when an Accord doesn't get the same classification.

Similar principles apply.
We have a term for "outright lying about a product to improve sales"; it's "fraud".
My wild guess is that good part of this derives from many developers not needeing Linux desktop anymore and living happy on their company Windows machine + WSL 2.
Show HN: PIM Programming in Spiral: Upmem Demo
Here is a demo of a backend for a Process-In-Memory chip. It is a demonstration of Spiral's ability for heterogeneous programming. I want to do more backends for different kinds of devices, and posting this on HN to gauge the interest in this kind of work. While x86 devices have a ton of good languages, new and niche hardware is likely to have poor language support and tooling, so I am hoping to fill that gap with Spiral. Whether you are a company that has some new kind of hardware or a user of it and you are fatigued of programming it in C, that is what I aim to alleviate. Going from a low level language like C to a high level one like Spiral would significantly boost your productivity.

The backend I am demoing here is for UPMEM, but now that I have it as a template, I could easily make similar backends for other kinds of devices assuming I have access to at least a simulator.
It's funny how I hear this canned nonsense on any post regarding Elon.
The idea that the COVID era is "easier" with social media is a fantasy.
This sounds suspiciously like a University assignment.

Back in the USENET days, our tutors used to say that we were allowed to post questions to alt.programming.whatever - but we had to show that we'd put some thought into the question and explain where we got stuck.

Think of it like StackOverflow - if you post "how do I do X" you won't get great responses.

But if you write "I'm trying to do X. Using software Y fails with error Z. Googling the error suggests I need ... but I already have that installed. What should I do next?" you'll get better responses.

So, what ways have you tried to store a poker hand? What problems have you encountered?
Yeah really, that's why the smart thing to do is to attack the other side first haha.

Also the anti gas stove thing feels like the most blatantly astroturfed indoctrination project in quite a while.
Hopefully. There are other low level tasks (device drivers) that you might not care, but need C++'s ability to get close to the hardware for, but in general C++ is for when you need both abstractions and the ability to control performance. (Rust, C, ada, and other such languages also play in this space as well, which is best is not something I can comment on)
It's a very narrow window, isn't it? A civilization even 500 years ahead of us might be mind bogglingly advanced.

If you were to travel to the 1600s and tell people that we have generative AI, spaceships, and smartphones, their brains wouldn't be able to comprehend it.
Another real world example, and actually quite relevant to the use case of the original article. Tint and naga are both shader compilers, primarily used for compiling WGSL into SPIR-V, MSL, and HLSL so shaders can be used portably. Tint is in C++ and takes 113.6s for a clean compile on M1 Max. Naga, in Rust, is 17s. That includes serde and a bunch of the usual community crates (quote, syn, thiserror, petgraph).

Admittedly Tint is more mature and sophisticated, but both serve the function I need them for.
When I dropped social media, I did lose a few friends. I stopped being invited to certain things. I don’t have as much to talk about with some people. Still worth it though. My brain rots so fast on socials.
Myeh, they're clearly AI-generated but that's not my complaint here - the absolute inconsistency in style and ultimate lack of 'overall style' or visual grammar's what bugs here. It may as well be a poorly-considered selection of clip art, from multiple disparate sources as used to be a problem back in the 90s.

It'll take a while for people to get used to considering graphic generation as more than mere visual placeholders, I suppose. Early days.
Ah cool thanks, you also read my mind and answered the question I meant to ask - whether it was a physical ad or just a digital one :D That's mad, you'd think Chrome is so ubiquitous, and Google ads themselves so popular, that they wouldn't need to shell out money on this kind of IRL ads.
As someone working on singing synthesis, I know how hard it is to get that last 10% quality that makes a human listener instantly recognise if the voice is real or generated.

These are really impressive results! For anyone interested, my team’s singing work: https://youtu.be/LPy20zSWhZA)
I switched back because of some issue with profile management I don't remember anymore and because I wanted to use WebAuthn with Touch ID. The bug is 4 years old and doesn't appear to be moving. Once it's done I expect it'll take a few more to get support for passkeys.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536482
Big electron no doubt. There is a cabal behind everything these days.
Actually Fenix being blocked would get me to use Twitter less. The official app is so annoying.
They are seriously joking.
Also: people buy a new computer, check out the browser shipping with it and find it acceptable.

I would guess many users whose niece/nephew/grandma installed Firefox for them on their old computer won’t even know they switched products.
" This is where the corruption coming from Google money shows through."

Never thought of that, perhaps showering Mozilla with money had two goals, getting search users and corrupting Firefox for Chrome to take over.
I think he showed he doesn't really care about Taiwan that much. It was an off-hand remark, not a seriously stated position.
Yes. This doesn't mean gas stoves are banned (existing ones are not outlawed). In fact its not about stoves at all. It means some countries are doing at least something to address climate change.

Eventually we all need to move away from gas, this is about that. Not banning gas stoves overnight, but gradually banning all fossil fuels, which you can't do if everybody is still cooking on gas. You need to gradually reduce your dependency on it.
Right! I simply abandoned Facebook. Changed my password, deleted my cookies, stopped going there. If I need to, I can look up the password and login. For example, I needed to participate in the event page for the local burn. Then I deleted my cookies again.
Text message, phone call, physically spending time together... Was this a serious question?
Climatic and environmental aspects of Mongol withdrawal from Hungary (2016)
That rule of thumb doesn’t really contradict anything I’ve said, and a rule of thumb is not to be relied upon anyways. If we want to consider the rule of thumb, just extend the sentence. If the pause would be there, then it would also be there even if the sentence were longer. “System76 AMD-Only Laptop Returns to Market”. I certainly wouldn’t pause between “laptop” and “returns”. But again, a rule of thumb is a general guideline, and it will be wrong in many cases.

The real, specific rules that are listed after also don’t contradict anything I’ve said, as far as I can see. Can you please point to the specific rule on that page that says a comma would be useful here?

A comma does not fix this title.

I’m not claiming to be the single best person in the world at English grammar, but I have tried my best to learn a thing or two about it over the years. I have also tried to clearly explain the relevant grammar to the best of my ability. I have apparently failed to explain it well enough, so I’m done here, since trying more won’t make a difference for such an irrelevant diversion from the main topic.
The thing is they went further than not using it and they torched their accounts.

It's like when you bump into someone you know who you used to call on the phone and they ask you for your number. It's a little jarring knowing they consciously took actions to sever ties. This alone basically ensures that any preexisting bonds will most likely not ever be the same.

I deleted my accounts and felt similarly. There was a positive aspect to it but sometimes I try to find photos from certain period in my life but realise they were on a deleted account. Or I understand something someone once said to me and I want to reach out and tell them that I finally understood what they meant but I have no means of contacting them.

Its so easy to see the bad that social media has caused but if you have lived pre-internet you know the feeling of mistakenly loosing people forever. Maybe the risk of that enriched the experiences at the time though. It's so long ago now it's hard to remember.
This appears to give by far the best results that I have seen. Can you link to a speech sample that you think is similar in quality to the article?
Looks interesting. Is there a macOS ready build avaialble somewhere?
Who is pushing to ban gas stoves?

First it was adding catalytic converters in cars, then regulating tobacco, banning asbestos, removing contaminants from drinking water. It never stops.

This is nothing more than one more rung in a decades long campaign of using the democratic process to hold companies accountable for pollutants and slowly improve the health and well-being of millions of Americans. Sure, air is cleaner and these interventions have all been amazingly effective, but qui bono?

Who are these people? What do they have to gain from all these laws?

I'm worried my grandchildren are going to have to grow up in a healthy, well regulated world where when they buy products in stores they don't have to worry about how it will impact their health or the health of their community.

Being American means slowly killing yourself and your neighbors for the greater GDP. I don't want us to lose that.
At least Rockwell's look like authentic families and communities, rather than the Frankenstein amalgamations of forced diversity. Also, bad photoshops are less artistic than even the collages they've replaced.
I use FF on my phone, always have.
Big meat can’t quit antibiotics
They can count the number of downloads and the number of requests to the update servers. Or they can just not count the people that disable telemetry.
Bankrate.com has also been using AI.https://twitter.com/tonythill/status/1612860930085294080

This will be interesting to see over time how Google responds which it looks like they somewhat have regarding Bankrate: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-content-guidelines-ba...
This has to be a troll
OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium
> Why would I use Firefox when it is worse than Chrome in every way? To avoid Google? Google funds Mozilla, Firefox would be dead without Google money.

Yep. I switched to chrome on mobile when Firefox gave me issues while developing for it. Just buggy and unintuitive behavior like cancelling drag events or not handling PWAs well.

I still use it on desktop though. I've never had issues with it there and the style changes don't bug me.

I also use it on mobile for YouTube, but it pisses me off that it won't play in the background anymore when it used to.
I used to use FB until 2015 when divisive news was pushed hard to increase interaction metrics. I wish we could go back in time to prevent news article sharing unless by DM.
> Renewable energies are very annoying to grid operators. Their energy production is unreliable,

I don't know if the people involved find it annoying though I doubt it. But the second assertion is flat out untrue.

It is not unreliable, it is reliable but intermittent. Wind power availability can be fairly well forecast.
It's more than justified if the Mozilla CEO's mission is to lose users and market share. They are doing an incredible job, and deserve every last cent.
Is Twitter actually considered a gatekeeper by the DMA?
DC Comics Hershey Bars Feature Classic and Legacy Heroes
>if they cook with gas, then they heat with gas

Not true, at least not by definition. I heat with oil and cook with gas. My gas stove is fed by an outdoor propane tank that's filled once a year. When I was house hunting there were plenty of houses with gas ranges but I didn't see a single one with gas heat, that's really uncommon here.
Since when is there pollution inside homes from gas stoves? How have all of the millions of gas stove users been cooking multiple meals with them on a daily basis and nobody noticed this supposed pollution?
> no print support

Um, somewhat tangential, but I built a statically generated CV in html, presuming that I could effortlessly print that to a PDF using a browser. Not so. Web page printing is extremely broken in every browser, and I tried them all. And, every browser had different defects. Chromium seemed to have the least horrible print functionality, but it was still really really broken. It's probably ok if you want to have a copy of some article content where presentation doesn't matter, but if it's something that you want to have a specific layout or design, tough luck.
I really do not see the issue. The difference between a non-profit and for-profit owned by a non-profit is basically nil in my country (Sweden). Nothing prevents non-profits from paying their managers ridiculous salaries. You do not need to create a for profit company to enrich yourself.

The board and managers of Mozilla Foundation being unethical does not have anything to do with the existence of Mozilla Corporation or not, that is just minor administrative details and they could be just as unethical either way.
Suggestions
I need a cheap cloud based solution to manage documents (data currently is in excel and on google drive) and a small workflow.

Users : Max 2-3.

We are a non profit volunteer group and we dont take donations so need something cheap.
> and cell phones more.

sounds like they got that covered!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34367662

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34367690
Exxon is hardly 'some company' but I actually don't really understand what your confusion is. This just shows that oil companies knew climate change was real, being caused by their actions, and was serious, decades ago, and so is yet another nail in the coffin of climate denial. It is not a necessary one since the same science was also done outside of oil companies, but it shows how messed up the profit motive is when it comes to protecting future civilisation from the worst of climate change.
> not written by a White heterosexual male

Completely unnecessary. Please don’t bring racism/sexism into your opinions of media.
Using much more powerful computer, much faster internet connection and a 64-bit OS (but older) the same content still "works" on Firefox too.

But I also observed that in some occasions when some videos are to be changed (one played, then another to appear) even in that different setup Firefox becomes completely non responsive.

The issues started abruptly to appear, so I'm quite sure it's some update with some (I hope) unintended consequences.
Might be because it's not theirs. They are just resellers with a bit branding and some integration, at the moment.
The president is pushing this
Indeed, they might say they're not influenced by Google, or even believe it themselves, but when your job security relies on not addressing user needs, you won't.
I don't understand the desire to delete them. It seems to stem from the misconception that this triggers the service to delete everything in their ad targeting profiles. They don't delete everything they know about you just because you delete your account, though, as they maintain those dossiers even about people who don't have accounts.
Worth noting, the sentence at the end of the article:

> All images generated with Midjourney.

Amazing.
Can you elaborate how you find gas more convenient that an induction stove?

I've worked in a kitchen with gas and I found it awful. It was harder to clean, you had to be really careful to not burn yourself when you had to do a quick wipedown. Making sure not only that you turned it off, but that anyone else there wasn't forgetful either.

Induction like I have at home now is so convenient. I have no worries. It responds super quick to temp changes, it automatically detects if I have something on the stove or not, so no fear of wasting power. You can't burn yourself. The surface is flat and super easy to keep clean.
I often wonder if it's the writing that's bad or the translation.

I really get the impression lots of the sentences and paragraphs are stilted translations which don't succeed, either because of the translator of the inability of english to express the nuance of what the artist meant. To be clear, I think the latter limitation goes both ways, indeed any time you are translating between languages.
What's the holy trinity?
> That's one of the beautiful things about share-based compensation (from a shareholder angle).

The problem with shares is that they have become (or maybe have always been) a purely speculative asset. They rarely reflect the reality, and are always expected to just rise rise rise in price. Even if literally nothing changes, the company remains stable and profitable, the shares will take a dive because continuous unlimited growth is always expected.
A microwave and pressure cooker only future is the definition of dystopia.
And every step further removed the customer gets the less incentive there is to actually reduce consumption, particularly at the most expensive times of day. Subsidising that period when it’s only going to get monumentally more expensive to supply relative to the rest of the day seems kind of wrong.
Same. And I love Android Firefox. Would be horrible not to have Firefox extensions on my phone (or the syncing).
Interesting. I didn't like The Expanse at all- I thought it read like it had been written from the offset with the intention of it being a Netflix show. It lost me early on, when a character beat up a load of enemies with her jiu jitsu.
The apps disappeared from users’ authorized apps lists and are showing as suspended in developers’ accounts. That can’t plausibly be explained by API being down, although it could be by e.g. a trigger-happy banbot.