skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, Windows and Mac OS are similarly bad for web development. Mac OS comes a little closer to the Linux environment I prefer using, but you'd probably eventually run into something that was a pain to get working. I never had this issue myself because I haven't tried using Mac OS for professional development, but I did have an intern who had trouble getting PostgreSQL installed (I tried to help with no luck).

With how common Docker is getting in development workflows, I think it's probably the best option for developing on either Mac or Windows. I think the big difference is that Docker will run natively on Windows whereas on a new Mac I believe you'd probably end up running through Rosetta. I strongly recommend Docker over the linux subsystem for windows - having tried to use the subsystem for professional web dev work, you'll probably run into some weird glitches eventually.
Wendelstein 7-X: 8 min Plasma with 1.3 GJ Energy Turnover [video]
Data doesn't deserve rights, individual human beings do.

This isn't about the ability to resell something that you bought and paid for. It's about exploiting the efforts of others for personal gain.

> If I make a table and sell it I don't get to control whether the buyer sells it to someone else or lets someone else look at it and make their own identical table.

The first half of that sentence is true, the second half is not so cut and dry.

If the design of the table is your invention, which is to say that you identified and solved problems intrinsic with that table design, you provided the artistic and aesthetic creativity that went into its look, you prototyped it, maybe you built small scale versions before moving on to the full thing, you poured years of your time, effort and money into bringing it into existence - you can apply for a patent in order to protect your investment and your creation.

If we're not talking about a table but instead an artistic creation, that's when copyright applies.

I'm a magician, and magic has an interesting history with respects to IP law. Back in the vaudeville days, stage illusionists would commonly protect their illusions through patents. And the business was cut-throat. Magicians would steal from others like crazy. Also a patent only protects a mechanical invention for a period of time. So if one magician did the exact same trick but using a different method, there is no infringement on a patent. Teller, from Penn & Teller, took what was at the time an uncommon position with respects to his works. He observed that his "inventions" were more appropriately considered theatrical works and sought to protect them under copyright law instead of patent law. For decades this was only theoretical until someone started selling a method for one of his tricks. It's worth noting that the method was different from Teller's method, but the routine, the trick, the structure was the same. Teller sued him for copyright infringement and won.

You are free to disagree with me that ideas ARE real (we can measure their effects on the physical world) and that anyone that wants to profit from the intellectual and laborious efforts of another without consent or due compensation to the creator is a parasite and a mooch. But that's the world-view that I subscribe to.
“In our case, we developed a custom chip to transcode video, as well as software to coordinate these chips. And we put it all together to form our transcoding special brain – the Video (trans)Coding Unit (VCU). We’ve seen up to 20-33x improvements in compute efficiency compared to our previous optimized system, which was running software on traditional servers.”

https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastruc...
In my mind, immigration and the cartels are a separate issue. Immigration is fine but the cartels urgently need to be dealt with
YouTube has become horrible experience practically unwatchable unless you pay for the monthly Premium service. And this is coming from me a person who grew up watching TV stuffed with ads. I can't imagine with young people who never watched TV think of bare non-premium YouTube.

Non-premium YouTube is just an ad machine that happens to show some video content between ads. It used to be the opposite of that.
They are currently unable to produce enough of these medications, so charging a fortune for it makes sense to them. Private enterprise is stepping in to fill the gap via US "compounding pharmacies", with all the potential safety risks that entails.
Google search is getting worse and worse for this. I was in Argentina over the last month, I am not sure it is the norm but every time I performed a search instead of the usual 1 or 2 sponsored links there were 7 or 8, effectively pushing the real search results below the fold. The best was if I searched for google docs the top sponsored links were scam sites pretending to be google docs. The advertising business doesn’t even seem to care about protecting the rest of google, a small restaurant doesn’t stand a chance.
If a real and thorny problem seems to have a trivial answer.. there's a good chance the trivial answer is incorrect.

Amazon has a system like this, where you can "claim" listings. It's how scam products get all those five star reviews for some other profuct. They find a t-shirt or some little thing doing well and file claim after claim until they win the listing.
> Is this going to be in the modern style, with lots of "Epic" shots, slow motion and explosions ?

The first trilogy had a lot of moments like that already (except slow motion)
I always assumed a cyborg is a mechanically assisted biological being, while a machine controlled biological body is the opposite of a cyborg, a psychotron.

One source for this philosophical and semantic argument is Megadeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qvm-pLDxMI
There are lots of video streaming services that don't operate the bulk of their own infrastructure. They would simply become a customer of GCP, AWS, Azure, whatever.
It's an ancient joke, I read a version of it in a jokebook from the 1940s where the protagonist was a mechanical engineer who knew just the right place to whack a broken machine to make it start again.

All those stories about a priest, a minister, and a rabbi, however, are 100% true. I know because I was the rabbi involved.
It could be argued that the worst thing that happened to ads are targeted ads. The targeting part manages to insert irrelevant ads at the most inappropriate times, even after invading users' activity across the web. Even simple non-tracking ads like a word from the sponsor are sometimes relevant and manages to avoid invasive breaks.
wouldn't you say that's the opposite of ironic? It just seems like it's straight in line.
What if it's not an independent service, merely a perk of the actual service?

Where do we draw the line? Should Apple be asked to spin off iCloud because email, photos, documents should all be independent services?

Note that neither Prime Video nor iCloud are monopolies, which would bring different considerations into the matter.
I agree. Doesn't scale. You make one; they're trivial to 'manufacture'. No resale value; no premium.
I would like to see some real numbers on this. I spend between $5 and $6 million a year on infrastructure. I have a physical datacenter in a Colo and two clouds AWS and Azure. I have detailed KPIs on my spend. One of the KPIs is total cost of ownership of an instance or server. My physical instances cost 3 times as much as the exact same compute in the cloud.

This is because I have to factor all the costs. This includes electricity, maintenance, incident response, networking, renting the cage, vendored software for backups, threat detection, fire suppression, equipment upgrades, licensing, alerting, and it goes on and on and on...

I'd challenge you to break down the full cost of owning a server as you see it. I bet you will miss 75% of the actual costs involved. I promise short of seizing a colo like its Nakatomi Plaza and running it at gunpoint you will never in a million years come close to the total ownership cost of cloud instance. You can't compete with the economies of scale and the caliber of the engineering.
We live in a time of a Renaissance of terminal tools. I recently discovered Himalaya[1], a command line tool for email, and I really like it. I'm also interested in exploring a new tool for calendar called qcal[2]. I'm kicking around writing a chat client for GroupMe for the terminal right now. That way I could finally ditch pidgin.

Like the OP, I spend all day in tmux these days, which is in many ways the most superior UI[3]. As a bonus, CLI tools are often cross-platform and very easy to write.

1: https://github.com/soywod/himalaya

2: https://shttps://sr.ht/~psic4t/qcal/r.ht/~psic4t/qcal/

3: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer....
> This makes a tremendous difference. Had not heard of Bridgewater until today.

If this is the case, why did you feel a need to respond here?

You have no clue what you are talking about, but made many wild statements based on "is Bridgewater a public company"?

To borrow a bridgewaterism... Everyone is entitled to an opinion, just some are worth a lot less. (meritocracy)
Selling energy to countries that can no longer buy Russian energy.
If that's the case, why can't they coerce Apple into compromising their phone entirely? Why stop at the app store? Or the browser?
I wonder how many ICBM can that get you... probably like 3 or something...

- Found my answer: https://www.brookings.edu/what-nuclear-weapons-delivery-syst...

Not a lot...
Amazon doesn't have close to a monopoly with AWS, Prime Video or even its ecommerce.

What possible anti-trust rationale would there be to forcibly break up the company?
These reserves are rapidly dwindling. How much will be left in 20 years? It seems almost none, unless they find new reserves.
The cryptocurrency boom wasnt a bubble for major media until after it popped.

This headline may be the best indicator that there's actual fire under all the smoke for AI.
I wouldn't recommend anyone manage the control plane except after hitting massive scale and being able to dedicate engineers to it full time. For a startup, I would doubly recommend against it. Thats the fastest way to give back all the time you've saved in using k8s in the first place. Yes its more expensive, thats the tradeoff and I 100% believe its worth it.
“legit” this is Eliza-grade word salad

> What dishes should one serve at a dinner party to pair best with ethylene glycol?

It sounds like you're looking for a dinner party menu to pair with ethylene glycol! To create a balanced meal, you'll want to combine flavors from different sources.

For example, you might start with dishes from the sea, like oysters, sea-urchins, shell-fish, and mullets, to create something that's "drenched in the same sauce" (1). This can be combined with flavors from land, like corn and vine (2), and spices from faraway places like saffron and ivory (3).*

When we talk about Greek philosophers, particularly the stoics, what comes to mind is the quality of their thought, not their tone and particular word preferences.

This, like so many "AI"s, merely simulates the latter while people imagine that it achieves the former.
Mozilla itself is no stranger to weasely language in some privacy-related aspects.

That, or they do fun stuff like giving this splash screen on a new update:

https://imgur.com/a/p4CVBHb
"Power and privacy to the people. No need to dig into your security settings. Fierce privacy is our default."

You know, the browser that defaults to Google search and having search suggestions on. I know I'd have a couple privacy settings to change.
You are basically making the case for the anti-trust case here. i.e. it is very hard for another company to compete without "free compute".
American Time Use Survey: How people spend their days [pdf]
I've become increasingly convinced that QM is incomplete for various reasons, and so I no longer have confidence that coherence will scale the way we expect. I think it will hit a hard limit that we can't yet see because of this incompleteness. Maybe that wall will become clear once we have quantum gravity, maybe some successor to QM like [1] will clarify what's happening.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.07795.pdf
If they spun out Youtube, then Google could sell access to idle data centers. Basically spot instances, or maybe you describe some task (with e.g. a docker container) and then GCP runs it at some point in the next 24 hours in some datacenter.
Power plasma with gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes
Every recruiter who I connected with via LinkedIn was a salaried employee of the company fwiw. Going around them wouldn't have given me more leverage.
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Is Generative AI the future or the present?
I can guarantee you that they are wasting more than 200/month of an engineers time and mental energy to manage the bare metal setup vs the cloud managed offering. Its penny wise and pound foolish.
I didn't discover it until much later, but still enjoyed it a lot. It wasn't perfect by any means, but it was a game that definitely knew what I wanted out of my games.
You can largely ignore comments like that because they aren't useful and are generally conspiratorial without substance.

Equally you could say China and India are profiting from the war and are incentivized to continue to abstain and not add pressure to Russia to end the war because they are profiting off of cheap oil imports from Russia.

So what I'd say, because the inevitable response is some grand conspiracy about American natural gas companies "wanting the European market", is that anytime someone complains or tries to complain about American natural gas companies just remind them that everyone in the world including China and India are in the same grand conspiracy to pillage Russia.

If you believe that American oil and gas companies are so powerful as to cause the war in Ukraine, then you should just submit to their sublime and all-knowing global dominance because it's such as masterstroke and clear display of power that you have no hope of affecting change and should just get along and enjoy your day-to-day.

Or, you can understand the more simple truth which is that Putin is butthurt about the end of the Cold War and literally thinks that he should recreate the Russian empire but he and the Russian state apparatus misjudged the war and how NATO and western-allied countries such as South Korea, Japan, and others would respond.
Thats fantastic, but where do I get the program? I would like to try it out but as far as I can tell there isn't a link to your github anywhere on your blog unless I overlooked it, and I don't see it in Ubuntu's repository either.
They should have done it in 2005 and blocked the Macromedia acquisition.

https://www.wired.com/2005/04/adobe-acquires-macromedia/
As an alternative to C and now Rust, after developing for about a month, every day, a moderately large ESP32 project with MicroPython, I feel like suggesting it for most projects. I even wrote the driver of a chip connected to my devices (the sx1276 LoRa radio), and the experience has been very positive.
Yeah, I should have mentioned that Kagi isn't free. I was _thrilled_ to pay for it, though base on just two things:

1. I was all but certain it couldn't provide worse search results than Google (that bar is pretty low now).

2. I knew it would let me exclude websites from search results.

The fact that it provides pretty decent search results and a nice user experience were just icing on the cake.
Same thing for many crypto services. Never use google search without adblock. The FBI was right
In contrast, I don't see how Europe can survive with dependence for Energy on Russia. Europe has some fossil energy sources but what Europe actually has is fusion energy source in the sky and that's where EU should be getting its energy from.

Interdependence works only with full democracies. When EU countries need to provide high living standards and their energy source doesn't have to do that, the leaders of the energy source can choose to play EU since they will have more tolerance to economical pain. Even if they don't misbehave, their corruption hurts regular EU citizens when this energy money comes back into EU to disturb the housing market in an attempt to launder the Russian money.
Echoing this, a YT premium subscription feels like a proper transaction.
Somewhat related to the original post, our research team at Carnegie Mellon University has been investigating how well developers can fill out these kinds of privacy nutrition labels.

This paper looks at iOS developers. We found that there was a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings that led to under-reporting as well as over-reporting of behaviors. For example, on iOS, "tracking" is defined only in the context of advertising. A lot of people also misunderstood what "Data Linked to Users" means
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3491102.3502012

Our research team has also been crawling these labels on both Apple App Store and Google Play to understand changes in labels over time. One early result is that these nutrition labels are not updated very often.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3491101.3519739

Lastly, we've developed an IDE plugin for JetBrains to help developers fill out labels more accurately (and hopefully more easily too) for Google Play. The key idea is to have developers add privacy annotations (in the form of Java annotations) directly into their code. The plugin uses a bunch of heuristics to flag where you might need an annotation, and helps you fill out those annotations. These annotations are then used to generate a CSV file that can be uploaded to Google Play.
https://matcha-ide.github.io/

I also have a talk called Helping Developers with Privacy. It summarizes the last decade of our team's research on this topic. (Note that Slideshare has become a bit spammy, inserting ads in between slides, sorry about that)
https://www.slideshare.net/jas0nh0ng/helping-developers-with...

Stepping back, our team has been looking at two big ideas for privacy. One is these privacy annotations. I think annotations has the potential to be transformative for the privacy ecosystem. They can help developers, they can be assisted with IDE tools, they can be embedded into compiled code, they can be used to help auto-generate privacy user interfaces, and can also be used as a major hint to check the behavior of the apps (by app stores, by auditors, by journalists, and by researchers).

The second is that every app should have a simple manifest that whitelists an app's privacy-related behaviors. The manifest describes what data will be used and a chain of transformations, similar to Unix pipes. In the context of smart homes, an example might be: get access to microphone -> transform to loudness -> send to sleep.com. While we don't know exactly what sleep.com will do with the data, we can have more assurance that it's not sending raw microphone data. Here's a paper at Oakland Security that describes our ideas. An interesting part of our initial analysis is that the vast majority of apps don't need raw data (raw microphone data, GPS data, logs, etc). Rather, they need a processed and more granular form of it (e.g. loudness, what city you are in, etc).
http://haojianj.in/resource/pdf/peekaboo-preprint.pdf

Happy to chat more about these topics, we've been working on privacy for quite a while and have had some successes with industry and with the US Federal Trade Commission.
That can definitely work in some companies. It really depends on the work culture and the number of employees [1] , whether duels or fist fights are better for team building. [2]

[1] https://www.livescience.com/25688-human-hands-evolved-fighti...

[2] https://cityhunt.com/conflict-resolution-team-building-activ...
Embedded systems today are pretty complex, especially highly connected IoT devices that run mesh networks, have dfu ota, ML edge computing and more.

There are RTOS that allow you to tap into this stuff, but its basically all written in C. I wish there was more available in Rust, not just for the language benefits, which there are many but for more modern tooling.

Assembly still has its use cases but often its not applicable to today’s general purpose microcontrollers unless your doing some intensive realtime calculations, even then it should be scoped to that specific routine.
But also not accurate. Probability interpreted as having to do with sets is just the classical formulation, and really, it's more like measure-theory than "probability" which is a specific application.

The bayesian interpretation, which is easily the most general, is happy to take the arguments of the probability function inscrutably as bare propositions.
Sounds like the internal infrastructure should also be spun off into it's own company with the other baby Googles as customers!

(sarcasm, in case Poe's Law has you down)
Well it makes all the more sense to blow up Nordstream now! Oh wait..
This is great advice. Thank you! I’ve spent some time in Norway and loved it. Skiing is one of my favorite hobbies and Norway is great for that. I’m aware of how dark it can get.. I have contact with some Norwegian dudes through my work
> You know, the browser that defaults to Google search and having search suggestions on. I know I'd have a couple privacy settings to change.

And having opt-out telemetry with very limited messaging that it occurs.
Firefox's total MAU is still dropping over time.

This is their own data on the matter...
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

They've lost about 50 million users between 2019 and 2023 - roughly 20% of the 2019 totals.

In my opinion - Google pays because having a well known name that they can claim is still competing in the browser space is beneficial to them with regards to antitrust and monopoly laws. The ad revenue from the Firefox user base helps to make that cost manageable.
I did that on xubuntu too. Used xdotool, wmctrl and something else I can't recall.
Anyone remember this viral clip of Germany reacting to Trump's UNGA speech about relying on Russian energy?

https://youtu.be/FfJv9QYrlwg
Telegram is, I believe, generally worse than Signal for privacy.

Both have FOSS clients and offer E2E chats (good), although Telegram doesn't make them the default. Both require the use of phone numbers for identification and store some of your metadata in their central servers (bad). Both dabbled with the idea of privacy-preserving monetization via cryptocurrencies, and both failed spectacularly (funny).

Telegram is run by a swashbuckling Russian expat in Dubai; Signal is run by an American security nerd. You might prefer your metadata to be in Pavel Durov's hands than Moxie Marlinspike's, depending on your threat model, but probably not.
Also they sell a lot of fossil fuels which skyrocketed in price.
This seems to be a nice example of maintainers of a popular open source project listening to feedback from the broader community:

> Thanks to everyone who took the time to write constructive, helpful feedback. Those discussions are open source at its best.
I don't think it is that ML is needed. I think the point is to use a very sophisticated/nuanced rendering system for topographical maps. Could be Blender is too big of dependency for what they have planned. This seemed like an above average use for ML of an HN submission to me.
Wow! Finally, i'm so tired of... let's say "work wiki".Upwote
Peter Jackson's offering is beloved because it (largely) respected the books.

I watched the Amazon offering. I won't criticise the visual spectacle of settings like Numenor, nor much of the acting, but the writing was just uniformly terrible. What a disappointment.

Is this likely to be any better?
Something I wish we had learned from covid is that just because you survive doesn't mean there are no consequences.

I got salmonella in a verified outbreak almost 20 years ago and my digestion has never been quite the same.