skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox normal collection, automatic or triggered in about:memory, will reduce memory used by Firefox about the same as restarting firefox. The latter only SEEMS to reduce usage because it also unloads all tabs which are only reloaded when accessed. If you want to prove that to yourself compare a restart preserving tabs and manually trigger tab unloading in about:unloads

If you are dealing with normal amounts of memory usage and you have less than 16GB you may consider upgrading RAM considering this is as little as $40-60 at this point and well worth the look.

The check before closing multiple tabs didn't get turned off somehow the default changed in 2021 to default unchecked.

Lastly the behavior regarding closing the last window closing Firefox remains unchanged. It does in fact still work that way. If it didn't properly close I would suggest that is a bug or a second window on another workspace. If all you desire is to restart as opposed to actually closing firefox you can trigger a restart in about:profiles this has the benefit of working no matter how many windows you have open.
We've entered the Dunning–Kruger effect phase of the AI revolution.
Companies don't care if layoffs work. They are confident that when the time comes, they will replace the dismissed with other employees. Whether the new hires will be as efficient and skilled as their predecessors is, of course, a question mark. But they don't care. Please stop thinking of companies as emotional creatures. The only thing companies care about is money. Who cares people.
You can kill the pathogens through curing the compost, but that takes time, space, and equipment. In the meantime you'd be dealing with hazardous waste.
Yes I like it too.
You’ll like my other comments then. I have some spicy ideas.
I feel like this is similar the conversations we heard about Rust and Go 5-10 years ago.

late edit: 5-10 years ago people were complaining about these languages having issues binding databases, network protocols, etc.
Thanks, this is new since my kids were under 13.

I understand why parents let their children lie in order to avoid social exclusion. Kids can be very cliquey and being excluded hurts.

I counseled my children that it is immoral to misrepresent yourself to someone in order to get them to give you something they otherwise would not (or are prohibited by law from doing so). I still remember my (now 24 year old) daughter gleefully signing up for Facebook on the morning of her 13th birthday.
It can’t learn because it isn’t intelligent. It’s a markov chain.

There is no way for it to make any decision at all. The fundamental system design is that it guesses the word that is most likely to be next. That’s it. There’s no concepts behind whatever it outputs, it has no idea what it means.
Using HDMI output and avoiding the compression and storage codecs probably helps with heat.
How many hours you spent trying ChatGPT out? I spent at least high tens, maybe even hundreds. You're absolutely wrong. Yes, it hallucinates, yes its wrong about obscure topics - but calling having success with it luck is absolutely wrong. It's very consistently good. Especially about things like programming, physics, math - and now I'm using it as my teaching assistant for my pilot training, it's perfect (and I can very simply verify the answers are good with my FAA Pilot Handbook, don't worry).
Yeah and low-frequency too. Pick up metatrader sometime it's an interesting practical application of C++ skills if you're into that kind of thing [1]

[1] https://www.metaquotes.net/en/metatrader5/algorithmic-tradin...
ahh, I misunderstood what you meant. In that case can you explain to me why its meaningful that chatGPT can sometimes explain things for which there are tons of resources online to learn about them but that a lot of people aren't familiar with? I legitimately just don't understand why that is an interesting bar to clear, especially given that it can also unpredictably lie about some aspects of the thing its explaining.

It would perhaps be interesting if it were such a hard topic that only 1 in 1000 could be capable of understanding it, but I would hazard a guess that most people familiar with the prius who don't understand its drivetrain probably don't understand it because they don't care, not because its too complicated to understand.
Does your junior job requires ten years of experience ?
It's called a cortado OP
I think you're being a bit uncharitable and jaded here. For many, events like these are actually the catalyst that causes one to "grow up", which is what the author is conveying.
The law in most (all?) states that owners are generally not liable for damage or injury from a stolen car. https://www.mwl-law.com/owner-liability-for-damage-caused-by...
It is great to point out things that need improvement, but going so far as saying 'it isn't there yet', seems extreme.

If your use case requires these specific issues to be sorted, then it is great to know about them in advance. Nothing is perfect and every single app across every single framework is going to need to make trade offs.

If I needed text selection to be faster than what the built in component offers, I'd just develop my own component or spend some time debugging why the existing component is slow. Flutter itself doesn't prevent you from doing this.

If I needed multiple monitor support in my app, I'd probably not write it in Flutter because I looked at my app requirements in advance and realized that it doesn't support that.

The rest of the post seem to revolve around not having enough built-in ways of doing things. Again... you can't expect someone else to write your code for you and then call the whole framework lacking.
I think money is the big driver. Tapbots is a company that wants to make nice looking software which they sell for money.

On iOS and macOS, this is possible. On Android it’s a lot harder to make money at all, and on Windows the big money is in corporate software where feature spreadsheets trump UX every time.

Obviously there are some nice apps with nice UX on Windows and Android, but devs self sort in a way because it’s no secret that the best place to profit from good UX is iOS.
Furthermore, every time I create an API service, I get immediately banned (before I do anything) over and over until I truly prove that my bot is in good faith. They are super aggressive, and they actively enforce their rules (in the past, I've tried to make bots that reply to folks - that don't follow me - and the bot lasts like four hours).
I had read that somewhere else and this is as far as I got

https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1241219019681792010
>At the intersection between the right to bear arms, and the right to not be shot at school or the mosque or the gay nightclub, which right should win?

Don't blame the object for the bad person behind it.

My rights supersede your feelings. You know those places you list are almost ALWAYS gun free zones right? Why not change the law, so anyone can carry concealed?

Bad people will always be out there, will always be armed.

Guy in TX church took out a shooter, could have been alot worse.
I've been in a sales call with a German CF representative, and it just seemed to be a third party being excited about the features using the demo account half for their hobby and half for demonstrations with almost every feature set up and demoable. They even hosted their own toy AS on Cloudflare Magic Transit.

It was pretty novel and refreshing.
We're talking about a hypothetical situation where people have attempted to withdraw Tether and failed to do so. And the assertion was that no one would "spill the beans" about Tether's inability to redeem USDT because they'd risk harming their own investment. That would not happen because of what I outlined above. There will be at least one person willing to make a bet on this. It's in the DNA of people who trade. The appeal of exploiting information asymmetry is too great, at least for one of the participants. And all it takes is one person to reveal Tether's inability to pay.
This is a huge issue in the cloud computing space.

“Golden Images” are often used to try to counter exploits hidden in the binaries of cloud images used by containers, etc
Some car buying guides do advise getting insurance quotes before you buy. Theoretically, the risk should be reflected, so it should incentivize immobilizers.

But if few people actually do it, then it weakens the incentive a lot. Also, there are dozens of competing factors that weigh into a car-buying decision, so that dilutes the impact too.
> using a prepaid card I have from MercadoPago

Does the "prepaid card" offer any of the dispute options that a normal credit card offers.

If so, file a dispute with "prepaid card ... from MercadoPago".
> Imagine you had a dog...

Imagine that instead of a dog, it's an adult who makes their own choices and gets paid money, and who signed a contract where the terms of employment were spelled out very clearly..
Sure. But you’re not going to make up the difference just by increasing wages. Unemployment is at 3.4%—there’s not some huge glut of unemployed people waiting in the wings to clean offices at $20 an hour.
95% happy with DuckDuckGo. For the rest, I resort to Google.
The people behind

"Attention is all you need"

Are often cited
ChatGPT is optimized to seem to make sense, it’s like talking to a world class con artist you won’t notice it’s talking nonsense. Thus is subtly dangerous in ways that aren’t obvious in the beginning.

Sure it seems great at writing boilerplate code, unfortunately it’s really good and writing the kind of bugs that you don’t notice. This is maddening in a completely novel way, like working with an actively malicious autocomplete.
That makes sense as to why two liters go flat faster. The more you drink, the more space in the bottle. The more space, the more CO2 that would be allowed to escape the liquid.
Nice work, I put in my favourite podcast and did get some really good suggestions , granted there were some (a few) results that weren't very similar.

It feels like something that could be a part of a listening app.
Which industry are we talking about — gamedev? ;-)
I don’t think I agree with that. If he is scraping, all he can say is yes. The details of the scraper is proprietary and that’s his edge for sure.

If not and he found an unauthorized source of retrieving information, this reveals a serious security breach in iTunes API and it’s my valid concern as a paid customer.

120M is a huge number and it’s not even text. It’s media
Depending on twitter's pricing, this might not be worthwhile.

Scraping web pages is a last resort for when proper APIs are not available.
Proper profiles are there what they need is a proper profiles UI. Just a switcher button in the normal browser window like Chrome and they’d be all set.
As a long time FF user my opinion of it took quite a hit recently. I wanted to hack together a small personal extension, likely outside the scope of what Tampermonkey can do easily. I was really shocked by the mandatory signature enforcement. You need to get your extension signed by Mozilla with no way to disable it in the standard FF, the about:config setting does nothing (see [1]). Your temporary extension will also be deleted on browser restart. Sure, I can use the developer edition, but why? I am not a web developer. I get Mozilla's arguments about user security, but isn't an about:config tweak obscure enough? It already shows you plenty warning when you open it.

Looking at the mentioned LibreWolf, the changes reminded me of my time using ungoogled Chromium. I left that path, because it seemed like an uphill battle to keep up with upstream changes in the long term. Also you potentially risk using a somewhat outdated browser until all changes are ported to the new version. I was also not a fan of giving Chromium browsers additional market share.

For me switching to FF was primarily about using a browser supporting user choice and privacy, not for its UX or anything else. However Mozilla is losing my trust in this regard. Opt-out telemetry/tracking/whatever you want to call it and user experiments as well as reducing user choice with forced signatures by a central party, this sounds counter to why I switched in the first place. I hate that I have to go into settings after installing it to disable "features", it is not Windows...

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firef... (I am also a bit surprised I had to strip an utm key from this URL...)
Also crazy non competes. Like 2 years.
It looks like owners can add an immobilizer. The article quotes a State Farm document saying the vehicles become eligible if a "sales associate has verified the presence of a passive engine immobilizer."

This article indicates the cost of a retrofit including labor is about $250: https://getjerry.com/questions/how-do-you-install-an-immobil...
I don't care. The cat was probably put down painlessly at a vet. I don't see the issue at all. Let's not do these cancelling attempts.
Can anyone explain this better than the article does?

And, if the Milky Way is "too big", well, Andromeda is bigger. Or is Andromeda not part of the Wall?
Good point about Wikipedia. In just a few years the image people had of Wikipedia changed from an untrustworthy joke (The Office had a joke about Michael Scott trusting Wikipedia) to one of the first places people went to get information.

Before that, there was a lot of concern about blogs when they were the hot new thing. Here’s a New York Times article[1] from that period discussing the blogging controversy:

> There are two obvious differences between bloggers and the traditional press: unlike bloggers, professional journalists have a) editors and b) the need to maintain a professional reputation so that sources will continue to talk to them. I've been a journalist for more than a decade, and on two occasions I asked acquaintances whether I could print information that they had told me in social situations. Both times, they made clear that if I published they would never speak to me again. Without a reputation for trustworthiness, neither friendship nor journalism can be sustained over time.

The concerns weren’t incorrect - Wikipedia or Blogs are often unreliable. But the concerns overlooked how useful these things could be despite their problems.

As an aside, it's interesting to see comments here bring up the potential unreliability of ChatGPT - and then say that people should go read Wikipedia instead.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/magazine/your-blog-or-min...
Last time I benchmarked, Firefox was using way more RAM than Chrome.
Microsoft Edge has been using most less RAM so I went ahead with it.
> Want to create something, offer it for free, and know that nobody will modify your code and start selling it? GPL.

You can modify somebody's GPLed code and start selling it. The only restriction is that you must offer to share your source code with your customers and give them all of the same rights you have under GPL.

There is also a loophole that lets you sell modified GPLed code without sharing the source or giving them your GPL rights: run it on a server. AGPL closes this loophole which is why it is unpopular with large tech companies.

Any license that prohibits selling modified versions of somebody else's code would, if it became popular or was adopted by a popular project, be denounced by both FSF and OSI for violating the principles of the FOSS movement because the right to sell other people's FOSS software is considered an important user freedom. Writing such a license involves making fairly trivial changes to MIT or BSD but does make it impossible to combine any code licensed under it with GPLed code.
Yup.

What's the point of all that money if you have no time to spend it and the stress will send you to an early grave?
Cool. What’s the market like for a new BIM system? With almost zero knowledge it seems like something that would be hard to get the first few sales for, against the incumbents.
Writing new C++ code with all the modern approaches and tooling doesn't sound so bad.

Troubleshooting a big legacy C++ codebase is probably something that Dante would have included in his Inferno as a punishment for pride and hubris.
The only comp structure that would get me doing that job would be a market rate base and points on the algo earnings.
My favorites were probably "Grave of the Fireflies" (warning: it's heavy and devastating), "Pom Poko" (very funny), "From Up on Poppy Hill", "Arrietty" to name a few. The fantasy-centered films are good, but my personal taste tends to lean towards the slice-of-life/coming-of-age films so that's why those were some of my favorites.

The only truly "bad" movie of the bunch is their latest from 2020: "Earwig and the Witch". It's computer generated instead of hand-drawn but it looks like a computer generated film from the early '90s. Just ugly and uninspired. And the story was not good. It had promise but did absolutely nothing with it. Very disappointing film. Thankfully, it looks like their next release (summer 2023) will be back to the hand-drawn style.
> COVID caused Putin to isolate and become paranoid, but it's still Putin's fault

I don't see anyone still claiming this besides neocon warhawks, and they don't really have a source besides other neocon warhawks.
So frustrating to see people complain that it provides wrong information. With this logic it can never know anything. It is not made for querying. It's made to complete the text you provide it, with some minor modifications to help it answer questions. It does know the most common patterns of characters in the internet which implicitly contain knowledge.
> Once you have massive data in AWS there is no efficient and affordable solution to move that data back out; you are locked in forever subject to whatever future terms Amazon may chose to impose.

You can have your shit packed into a snowball and shipped to you.
Agave (YC W22) is hiring a founding dev (SF)
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Well, 20.8% of goal potash production comes from Russia and another 18% from Belarus. It's a key ingredients in making fertilizer. There is your single cause.

Source: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural-resources/minerals-minin...
ChatGPT/GPT fails a lot when you probe its knowledge, but I find it works really well when you give it an explanation of the whole domain of the problem, then something to do with it.

For example can give examples of some programming language, or an API, and natural language explaining what you want to do with it (or code in another language), and it will translate this with remarkable accuracy, 0 shot. We've never had anything that's even close to this capability.
I understand that, but that is an extremely banal observation if you think about it, because the fact that there is this incredible emergent behavior from a simple starting system is the heart of the mystery here.

One of the things that everyone is sort of skipping over is the "sufficient training" part. There is no bootstrap reinforcement learning possible for AGI. You can't alphago this sucker and have it play simulations against itself because the whole idea of generality is that there isn't a simple rule framework in which you could run such a simulation. So training any kind of AGI is a really hard problem.
This is incredibly dumb.

> The downsized companies, however, were outperformed consistently by the nondownsized ones during the initial two years following the downsizing.

Can you think of any confounding factors in this analysis? How do you control for important factors like, say: whether the board is in enough financial trouble to downsize?
A lot of unions directly block solving disputes, choosing instead to deny all disputes. I know one union that was perfectly happy letting government workers make sox figures while "working" from home, while they produced objectively zero work over a period of months. These were the type of workers that would keep government equipment after retiring, quitting, or rarely being fired, requiring the government to send officers to collect. Any movement towards trying to get the workers to do literally anything or simply rating them low was met with vehement pushback. Like a union representative storming into you're office and yelling.

In this case, the union was a giant ball of mud whose only existence was to hold the government hostage.

As much as I dislike Thune power corporations can hold, unions are not a fix all and can become the same overlords.
It's been a long time since I set it up, but I believe each cloud sync task will sync one directory. So I've got two tasks: one that syncs /mnt/main/media/Photos in PUSH/COPY mode, and one that syncs /mnt/main/Documents in PUSH/SYNC mode.

You should be able to accomplish the same, but you may need to either re-organize your stuff or set up multiple tasks.

edit: for clarification, "/mnt/main/media" contains various other subdirectories of Linux ISOs etc., which is why I push /mnt/main/media/Photos specifically.
there is a famine in madagascar right now because the government imposed price ceilings on rice, flour, sugar, cooking oil, gas and cement last april

http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=662033449&Coun...

predictably this resulted in widespread food shortages

by contrast, all other poor countries are not experiencing famines right now
qualcomm.com

This website is about a product or company that wants you to enable JavaScript in order to use their services and get access to the app they provide. JavaScript is a type of computer language that helps websites work better. By enabling it, you will be able to use the product or company's services and get the most out of their app.

Not quite there...
Salary at an HFT doesnt tell an accurate story. I'd be shocked to learn any quality c++ dev at an HFT pulled down less than 500k last year, and I'd expect most to be well above that.
>> The world is a hugely better place with our 8 billion people than it was when there were 50 million people kind of like living in caves and whatever.

There is a theory that hunter-gatherers were much more happier compared to us because they were more in tune with the natural environment, had fewer sources of stress, and were more connected to their community than modern humans.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/5510187...

From the article.

> Today people [in Western societies] go to mindfulness classes, yoga classes and clubs dancing, just so for a moment they can live in the present. The Bushmen live that way all the time!
I pay for https://kagi.com - it's absolutely perfect.

Edit: I should explain why - a) you search for something, you find that thing. This should be table stakes for a search engine, but it's just not true of any of the others any more. b) No ads, no tracking. c) The lenses are excellent, mine defaults to the programming one a lot and the results are consistently great. d) You can up/down rank or block specific sites! Bye bye w3schools and pinterest! e) Did I mention that if you search for something you actually find it?
ChatGPT Conveniently “At Capacity” After Unveiling Paid Plan