skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please quote the statement that I wrote that you think it's propaganda.

I'll do the same:

> Russia has gone backwards for a year now.

This is false, Russia went backwards, and then went forwards. Maybe you meant to say "has gone backwards with respect to where it was last year". That is true.
E-scooter (my own) rider from Prague: the cycling infrastructure here ranges from okay to pretty-nice-actually, and it's slowly getting better, so that's good, but there's a LOT of drunk tourists using the rental e-scooters in the [medieval, cramped] center.
no, but it's good to compare with similar firms and see what numbers they are reporting!
I used this just as a symbol. The problem is that expenses have the nasty habit to compound over time and get bigger and bigger. If you don't watch yourself, you'll end up doing things like buying an over-sized home, then a boat, an expensive german car, a very expensive private school for the kids, the family expectation of expensive trips now and then.

And when things get tight, all those "small-ticket" itens and their maintainance come back to bit you if you have insanely high mortage payments like lots of my colleagues.
Brave is not a Firefox though, it's just another Chromium.
Defining as acceptance criterion "must fit my style" is just not concrete enough..
McDonald’s Temporarily Shuts U.S. Offices as Chain Prepares for Layoff Notices
Does it matter what it costs Apple? The locksmith only takes ~5minutes to open a lock and yet...
Maybe for the same reason people believe in reciprocity with actual gifts and in other areas of human interaction?
More status is not a guarantee of happiness in the same way that more money isn’t.

It just helps you not have to worry about a lot of things that other people do have to worry about (like making rent, or surviving tomorrow’s bombardment).

Your biggest worries will become things that other people can only dream of worrying about, but they won’t be any less terrible for you.
Its a classic russian strategy for coping. They will state that they are choosing to loose and that they could win if they wanted. It's unclear what exactly this helps, other than making them seem incompetent and willing to let people die when it could have been avoided.
> ludacris estimates

Ludicrous :-)))
Looking forward to Bing chatbot being available on the search bar directly so I can be gaslighted and lied to without even opening the web browser.
>the only people buying M2 are those who waited

Those would be enough, if they did start to buy M2, and not settle for cheaper M1 or hold for now
I'm fortunate enough to be in another job now where we don't need iOS web support so we can tell customers that we won't fix it, in my past job where I had to it was very hard to keep up with the constant stream of broken safari releases, every one of them being broken in different ways.

I sympathize with those who still do and I'm looking forward to EU regulations to allow other rendering engines.
I see. How do you prevent them from submitting another bounty though? Should you warn them that next time you will not accept a PR? I mean, the wheel otherwise just turns one more time and you are back in the same seat.
I'm a blind person with missing eyes (one is medically classified as missing, the other as underdeveloped). This technology kinda terrifies me.
Eich is divisive, sure, but Brave is not a secure browser any more than Firefox is, with a lot of phoning home and crypto widget, that like them or not, are out of place in a browser you want to trust.

Ideally my browser and all the software I use do not connect and fetch data unless I tell them to. A browser should not be "bundled" with extra widgets for convenience.
Two issues with that equivalence: (1) you can't compare a 15kg bike going 20kph with a 2000kg SUV going 70kph, and (2) the city is ENTIRELY designed for cars, with everything else as an afterthought (e.g. where pedestrians can walk is entirely determined around cars and their throughways). Yes, scooters shouldn't mix with pedestrians and they also shouldn't mix with cars. We'll where the fuck should they go? Governments seem permanently unwilling to sacrifice even a single lane of car traffic for a proper bike path / scooter path.
It is more like, OEMs forgot that we don't need to buy a new computer every three years.

Doing just fine with computers from 2009 at home, work is another matter, but only because they are bound by project deliveries.
Ah, good call, thank you. Of course he would use png for browsers!
Some parts of "bad microsoft" I can sort of understand and attribute to pure business motives, like e.g. trying to push people to your specific cloud when they are using GitHub, or trying to push your own browser over Googles. Google obviously does the same thing.

But some of the worst things just seem to completely any motivation. Like putting terrible news links in the start menu. Some areas of microsoft also has great customer communication (Devtools, compilers) whereas the groups responsible for "making the windows UX terrible" seems very faceless. It's something hundreds of millions of people use every day, yet while yo can get blog posts explaining some minute detail of a developer tooll you never see a microsoft blog post saying "Here is how we plan to change the news links section of the Windows start menu". It seems like a completely faceless organization in that part, while the good parts of microsoft is very human.

Am I being conspiratorical here? Am I just following the wrong social accounts?
> Watching those two wring their hands over whether GPT is 'conscious' cemented my opinion that this is all just choreographed pantomime and a white tech-upper class quasi cult.

Lets just say that both of them are AI bros, and are hype men for O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com and Worldcoin and will do anything to push their new AI grift (Worldcoin) into the public via plain scaremongering nonsense such as GPT being 'conscious'.
I'm not sure © blocks, see Codeberg that is pretty close. Have you seen an example of an interface that is better?
You don’t need 32GB of RAM to run Windows…
Love what Framework is doing but agree with the article conclusion. For now, the best laptop to me would be a MacBook Air running Linux. Perfect hardware, unmatched processor, very high build quality.

Asahi progress is so impressive, that it will probably be daily driver ready by next year!
Except of the tens of millions that do every year, and get the Apple, Razer, Alienware, Lenovo and others high end laptops...

Which is precisely the market this batch was intended for, also
While brave may have some good privacy aspects, it is still based on chromium.
Yep I don’t believe the described enormous, modern tank fleet exists. T-14 exists and probably does work fine, it just doesn’t exist in sufficient numbers to matter.
Isn't World War 1 a counterexample? Lots of parties, but they aggregated into two competing coalitions.
They are not NP at all. A perfect maze (with one solution) as a connectivity graph is a tree. Finding the path through a tree can be done by DFS in linear O(N) time.
I share a VPN subscription with my father, I use it for torrenting so my ISP can't snoop on me, and he uses it to bypass geo blocking to watch UK shows (things like BritBox, Netflix, BBC etc.) in another country. Unfortunately, there is no way to legally pay for most of these services and watch them from abroad.

I tried to get us to use Mullvad, as it was perfect for me, but for him it was constant problems with the services he used, whereas the sketchier providers like NordVPN and ExpressVPN always worked without issues.
My current personal home laptop is a Chromebook with 4Gb Ram and a Core m3-8100Y. For daily browser usage I barely notice any performance difference with the work issued 16GB i7 laptop. So how about let people decide for themselves what they need instead of speaking for them?
Why do they even need M2 when they have M3 already?
Political and economic forces tend to be more important than sectarianism when the rubber meets the road.

France joined the 30 years war on the protestant side despite being the most catholic country in Europe at the time.
At the same time it might be better to buy it now as it might be 1800 next year, if it's corrected with inflation.
That works for a single function call.

You wouldn't be able to modify something that has not be rendered yet for instance.

Render itself is declarative perhaps, but that's the meta level.

Render is imperative in terms of rendering a declarative tree.
This is what can happen when you ridicule Macron in France:

"She currently stands accused of "insulting the president of the republic" and will stand trial on 20 June in Saint Omer, the prosecutor said. She risks a prison sentence and a fine of €15,000 if convicted at the trial." - [0]

Looks like they are learning from the best.

[0] - https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/03/30/heres-the-story-...
Mullvad has been around for quite a long time, and regularly releases third-party security audits. Is there anything they've done that comes off as a red flag to you?

> Perhaps I’m just really distrustful and cynical.

That's fine, but you should have a good reason for it
I just don't get it. I genuinely don't see most of this. Yes, the solitaire etc issue is there, and the account sign-in, but my Windows 11 start menu is clear, uncluttered, and ad-free - Windows just keeps out of my way.

I don't know if it is something to do with using my own retail Windows 11 license (which was a free upgrade from Windows 10, which was free from Windows 8, which was free from a purchase of Windows 7), but whenever I see these stories I genuinely do believe them but I just don't have the same negative experience.

(And to be clear I'm also a Linux and MacOS user so not a naïve defender of MS.)
The vast majority aren't govt funded, the £5bn gigabit scheme is just getting going. Some may be in the future.

Economics aren't actually that different for villages (very rural single dwellings are though of course). Most villages of say 1k ppl already have fibre going to them (for VDSL cabinets), so they can buy the backhaul from Openreach.

Then it's a case of adding the actual fibre which they can use existing telegraph poles for.

There isn't really a huge difference in economics between urban suburbs and villages.

London is actually not as cheap as you'd think, because a lot of properties are apartments and that requires expensive wayleave agreements to be negotiated with the freeholder. This has significantly increased the cost, as many freeholders don't care and don't respond or want a lot of money for the permission, meaning you have to dig up the street regardless and miss a lot of properties and hope they can be added later.

Plus the cost and complexity of closing roads/streets is much higher in London than other areas.
Ford already made the decision for you. If you need an AM radio, bring your own. They are about $10 on Amazon. Most people don’t need it. As a bonus, you can take an AM radio with you as opposed to leaving it in your car, so when you have to run away and hide under some bridge to escape a tornado you could have the radio with you.
> I'm happy to accept the scooter menace if it means fewer cars on the road. And given how much of a nightmare traffic is in Paris, I'm surprised that Parisians don't seem to agree. But then I guess thes ones who voted against this probably feel entitled to their preferred mode of transport over all others ... ?

I'd imagine because they are not sharing space with cars but with pedestrians and cyclists.

And this has nothing to do with entitlement, just plainly sense of danger. Those things can go at bicycle speeds with none of the breaking or manoeuvrer capability of one.

The companies operating them were also essentially loitering, putting them wherever they wanted. At least here in Poland it was finally regulated and placed some limits on them (max speed, no zooming around on pedestrian routes etc.) but I can absolutely see why pedestrians or cyclists hated them.

> I'm happy to accept the scooter menace if it means fewer cars on the road. And given how much of a nightmare traffic is in Paris, I'm surprised that Parisians don't seem to agree. But then I guess thes ones who voted against this probably feel entitled to their preferred mode of transport over all others ... ?

It would be interesting experiment to open congested routes for 2 wheel vehicles only(let's say anything between classic scooter and bicycle), but frankly all of them is a misery to drive in proper winter so I'm kinda not surprised by people staying with their cars.
A base Macbook Air with 16GB of memory and 512GB of storage costs the same as the monthly salary of my country's prime minister :D
>This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.

That's BS. I ran Win 11 on a 8GB tablet PC just fine (although I wouldn't recommend it, get 16 instead).

I get it, we all hate windows, but can we please stick to reality and stop spreading FUD on HN?
The presence of a creator does not change anything. Who created the creator?
> This literally isn't Windows where 32GB of RAM is the new minimum.

wut. I have a 16GB Windows machine and it's fine.
That is because the png are not optimized, using lossless PNG compression (OxiPNG + AdvPNG) I get the Lossy LZ4I down to 696819 bytes.
That's all nuclear incidents ever, not just US/USSR. US/USSR count from that page is more like 10 incidents across 40 years. Some of them occuring within days of others, they're that fine-grained.

I wouldn't call that a "routine" matter.
> if Russia is advancing 100 meters (300 feet) a day eventually it will reach the Western point of Ukraine unless something changes

Something is changing every day as Russia's annual defence budget's worth of modern arms and training are deployed by Kyiv [1][2].

[1] https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_Russia
So you manage to catch a 180kph drone with a fish net. Impressive.

Congratulations now you've traded a soldier with better reflexes than most professional baseball players for a $500 drone.
Grind that axe in another thread.

Youths in Berlin are NOT riding 2-ton cars. The minimum age for unrestricted licenses in Germany is 18.
International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
I just wrote that Russia has lot of tanks so it has reserves to replace lost ones; I didn't write that using them all at once can give any advantage.
Apple: 500 nits display, whole working day battery, fans almost never on, much higher resale value. Might be worth it for some people.
Spotify Downplays HomePod Support, but Promises to Add AirPlay 2 yet Again
Japan Breaks with U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap
I'd argue some of them have been, those looking for a more user friendly experience or see it as a premium model/status symbol. I write this as someone who bought a new macbook for their partner a month ago, which was a painful experience for someone with average european income.
Apparently has not been a problem for shareholders.
Supporting iOS and macOS in webdev is an absolute nightmare and a big reason why I left that space and am not planning to go back until something fundamentally changes.

It's clear that they're still trying to undermine the web where possible, without it seeming too obvious or getting them into hot water re: the recent monopolization debate.
kottke.org is a 25 year old blog which links to interesting stuff on the internet. You’re criticising it for something it does not do.
Luxury brands usually do better than people expect during a recession, surprising to see. Apple product prices are far too high for the struggles of the working poor or proletariat to notice. Apple's always been a 1%-er aspirational purchase and that income sector is doing fine.

The problem I've seen WRT apple is techie type people see specs and salivate over the numbers, but the subjective experience of this years products is no different than the old products for the general public. Not even styling for conspicuous consumption sales. My wife's friendd with this anesthesiologist's wife, and her response to the new products fits the above; aside from numbers she doesn't understand or care about, there's nothing exciting about the latest model year, so she's not buying.
The 13 inch starts with 8.
For a Dell you can buy that RAM from anywhere.
Of course, which is why you shouldn't depend on a single VPN (or just VPNs in general) if you have stuff to hide.

Opsec is an art, and there are no turnkey solutions to ultimate privacy and security. You gotta put in the effort yourself.

It's just a matter of reducing your surface area: I know for certain my government tracks my unencrypted DNS requests, and I have a static IP, so I'd rather turn Mullvad on if I'm feeling like opening an adult site. They might log my DNS, but it's a little harder for them to correlate my requests than if I were to use my home network. Not impossible, but since I am not at odds with the law, GCHQ is probably not spending billions tracking my every movement across networks.

If you need to send nuclear bomb plans to an enemy government, I hope you have a better plan than trusting the promises of any VPN network.
By the time iPhone 26 comes out there will be a cell tower or two out there.
As mentioned on another thread, my home computers are from around 2009, and one from 2014.
I think I misrepresented the point there a little. It's not the fundamental question per se but something he asks every one of his guests, and comes off alil 3am teenage philosopher.

I don't mean to bash him too much though, I think it's hard interviewing experts in areas they have spent their whole lives in and not to feel less informed in comparison.
> US economic dominance is about to go into hyperdrive

Our biggest export is dollars. We accept ship loads of consumer goods and in exchange send the ships back empty. What a deal.
I imagine you must feel the same way, but 20x stronger, about cars, right? Everything you said is even worse, only we've become accustomed to it and treat it as natural (one knocked over scooter? outrageous. 4 lanes of traffic and 2 of parking? par on course).
Thanks! Now I’m curious what some examples would look like.

This makes me think about a better plugin model where capabilities are selectable.
> Where there is proper infrastructure this works relatively okay.

Thanks. Best joke i have heard in the last year.
> Sure there are, as proven by distributed networking stacks not written in C.

this has nothing to do with the C language, but the structure of information. If the datatype contains a length, it has to be serialized anyway. There is no way of fixing this.
Competition doesn't work, ISPs only care about high-profit dense areas. I bet that they are happy about services like Starlink because regulators are less likely to force them to provide service in remote areas because an alternative exists.
> compensating those people should be the norm. Where is the payments side of github for example? [..] if you want a bug/feature addressed you could name a price or the dev can set the price on it?

Github does have monetization. It has "sponsors", and you can create a "sponsor" level that is basically "I will consult with you and prioritize bugs you choose".

It's totally normal for a developer who wants to monetize a popular open source project to offer consulting or "pay for me to work on your bug". That's already there.

... However, I would like to provide an alternative view. I am personally very happy that monetary compensation is not the norm in free software. I find joy in coding, but I find far more joy in coding when there's no money involved. When I am able to work as much or as little as I want, without feeling any form of financial obligation to others (which inescapably comes from being paid), I am happier.

If the norm was to pay or be paid in free software, I would not find joy in it. I would likely not participate.

By analogy, let's say that me and some friends get together to eat food, and each bring a meal. You might say "oh, that is a waste, the person who made a meatloaf could have sold that for money. Everyone at this meal should be paying each other for their cooking, and the person who cooked the most ends up making some money". Do you not see how that would ruin the feeling of cooking for your friends and enjoying time together?

To me, the free software community has a similar thing. Because the norm is assuming people are just trying to build stuff, not make money, it makes it a far more pleasant activity.

> And people rationalizing the all devouring machine, hell, it is just bonkers.

To me, the truly bonkers thing is people letting capitalism eat them. "You have to have your grindset, optimize your time to make money", it seems bonkers to me. People trying to rationalize their existence not by finding communities and trying to help others, but by trying to make their wealth as large as possible, often at the expense of happiness.
The Framework laptop is particularly good if you have a family member who is clumsy or accident-prone because replacing the input cover (keyboard plus touchpad etc.) is dead simple. Replacing the screen is only slightly more complicated. You can replace the keyboard in isolation if you want or need to but that involves a lot more screws and is more fiddly so if you can afford the extra price for the whole input cover it may be worth saving the trouble.

He has had it for about 6 months now and he absolutely loves it. I'm about to replace the hinges with the stiffer variants.

No regrets whatsoever.
Which is equally dumb for a Pro as 8GB for a non-pro at this price.
Speaking of which, anyone have / seen an updated list of which FF to change and how? I presume the last one I bookmarked is dated.

Dear Santa...please stop making a safe & private internet so gosh darn friction-y :(
We've had like a decade of chatter about "the opioid epidemic" and all sorts of drama about punishing the people responsible for that...

How long before we start talking about the amphetamine epidemic and looking to assign blame for it to anyone but the people who was eating the pills?
I preordered Starlink in March of 2021, as soon as my first rural isp reneged on 50 megabits and sold me 5. 2 years later in western Virginia I still have no eta for my order and cannot contact anyone about it. I have 12 megabits from that same local ISP and it’s enough to do my job so I cancelled Starlink. I can’t imagine what customer service will be like if I am on preorder for two years and they refuse to give any update other than kicking the can down the road every time the estimated delivery date gets close. When I canceled my estimate was “early 2024”.
How to Keep Humans in the Loop
Not only Alles Erdreich, but even all mythos, are Austria untertan?
Estimate how many people using your website might be disabled
BuildZoom (YC W13) is hiring a Principal Engineer
I have painful memories of my second-semester undergraduate "data structures and algorithms" class. Lots of difficult C++ programming projects; constant seg faults.

I didn't have any conceptual difficulties with pointers or pointer arithmetic. Rather, my difficulties were with the unforgivingness of the language: you had to be very anal-retentive and cautious, and I found it to be a slog. And when something went wrong -- which it inevitably and repeatedly did -- the error message would give you no context, no clue as to how to proceed. Just a bare "Segmentation fault".

There is value in this to be sure, but I didn't find it easy, nor did I enjoy it.

> Math education is getting dumbed down and the abstractions are increasing.

I am a math professor, and I find these statements contradictory. High-level math is largely about being able to understand and manipulate abstractions. Indeed, a lot of these abstractions are upstream of computation: understand the theory, and you can predict in advance how your computations will turn out.