skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, we hung out more...if we had people to hang out with and got along.

I was from the rural edges of a metro area in the 90s. My main interests at 6 years old were programming, astronomy (particularly star classification systems), video games, and child development. There were no people like me around; the internet made me more social (and more socially adept) than I otherwise would have been. My parents are socially stunted because they spent 40+ years of their lives being unable to be themselves with anyone other than their spouse, siblings, my dad's parents and their children because they were routinely mocked.

We need to be careful not to be blinded by nostalgia glasses. There were some benefits to the old way of doing things, but there were substantial drawbacks as well, particularly for those who were out of step with their local community.
Software also uses a lot more RAM than it did 10 years ago.

10 years ago I lived easily inside 8GB with all native apps.

Nowadays I have 16GB and I’m constantly running into swap. That’s without running any demanding workloads. Granted the swap is a lot faster with modern SSDs, but it’s not good for the drive.

Apple thinks that anyone who needs more than 16GB of RAM is a professional color grader or audio producer or something. But I just want to run Discord.
Subreddits are still pretty valuable, but agreed that the front page is hell.

Its teenage angst, nihilism, and dangerous witch hunts. Like a kind of lord of the flies, but with “adults” in the mix.
There are no UN sanctions against Russia.

The countries that invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, etc. decided to sanction Russia, but it's their own thing.
This is probably not far off. I regularly do software development on my Samsung phone using Samsung Dex plugged to a monitor. Sometimes even without a monitor, just a wireless keyboard and mouse.
In this vein, ChatGPT is a nice way to start thinking about any topic; ask it about its opinion on anything and it will give you the most run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road text that is possible, standing for nothing. If you find yourself agreeing with ChatGPT it may be time to reconsider your own thinking!
but the "URALS crude" oil price is already below the cap (49 vs 60[0]) isn't it?
So, yeah of course Japan won the chance to buy it at a higher price.

[0] https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/67
McDonald’s temporarily shuts US offices ahead of layoffs
ChatGPT for Summaries
I don't think it's unreasonable to assume the vast majority of people would prefer to not have trash in the ocean, all else equal. Trump conservatives are often stronger environmentalists than NYC liberals if that's what you're getting at. The garbage patch itself is a non-partisan issue. It's the methods and tradeoffs of getting rid of it that are partisan.
I live in a place in the US where a couple of the public utility companies are rolling out highspeed internet through their utility lines. Not exactly sure if it just means they're laying-down/hanging-up fiber as they go through the process of servicing existing lines, or if there's a way they actually transmit through the lines themselves, or combination of both.

Whatever these two companies are doing it, i haven't bothered looking into it since we already have 4-5 options and we're already happy; TDS (fiber), Comcast (fiber), T-mobile 5G, Wow (?), can't remember the last.

Who would have thought they could all flourish even when you give customers options? /s

https://www.kub.org/fiber-shopping/

https://www.lcub.com/broadband-home-landing-page/
No? They've expressed zero interest in resolving the disagreement via force, and parts of Ukraine are currently held by Russia in a similar fashion.
Funny thing because the author experiences also mirror mine while setting up a computer for kids. I've got two: regular HP laptop with ad-ridden Windows and Raspberry 4 (the one that is all-in-one keyboard).

I can't stand Windows with their ugly dark patterns. Kids actually prefer Raspberry since Minetest works there just fine (although I'd be happy to have a little bit more powerful machine for that).

And I'm thinking on rather getting a more powerful Linux machine (Khadas Edge2?) than de-cluttering Windows (which is a sisyphean task by itself).
Never thought about it like that, but i concur. (addendum) Thank you for the inspiration. Reminds me of Einstein: "When i could stand in a train that travels at the speed of light and look in a mirror, what do i see?"
This wouldn’t have helped the author, though, since their issues were contingent on what fixes were included in the actual releases.
Brave is an advertising company just like Google.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3292619/the-brave-brow...

> Brave scrubs sites of ads and ad tracking, then replaces those ads with its own advertisements, which are not individually targeted but instead aimed at an anonymous aggregate of the browser's user base.

Sounds an awful lot like Google's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts, no?

btw I don't know anything about Brandon Eich, but I still would never use a crypto browser
ByteDance’s revenue surged more than 30% to surpass $80B in 2022
This is great news! When can we expect Finland to gain western missile defense systems?
Bridging the Gap – The Reconciliation of Intelligence and Culture [pdf]
"I think you could do a better job of trying to empathise with people who are not like yourself and who do not conform to the norms of your social class."

This statement is extremely ironic. You are scolding someone about not empathizing more. Do you see it?
That seems to be its history, so yes. Although reason seems mostly to expand, you probably meant with any pretext.
It's not perfect (since its funding is mostly Google) but Firefox is my current browser of choice. It notably has very good support for blocking tracking and unwanted stuff thanks to uBlock Origin, which works best on Firefox according to its main developer [0]. And while it is funded with Google's money (which is a huge caveat), I still hope this changes in the future. Firefox could be funded differently. [By the way] maybe Mullvad browser is an interesting choice for this exact reason?

Other (independent) initiatives like NetSurf [1] and Ladybird [2] are on my radar. NetSurf has been around for a while; Ladybird seems impressive, achieving some great progress and result with little resources. I should actually try Ladybird more seriously when I get the chance, and maybe contribute if I find the time :-)

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

[1] https://www.netsurf-browser.org/

[2] https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...
For this reason they do encourage you to anonymously pay with cash.
Checking with https://www.amiunique.org/ resulted in a unique fingerprint for me. The "Canvas" and "Media devices" attributes are unique on their own. I had not expected this.
Yep, still on an 8 year old laptop with no signs of slowing down.
> UFC champion and superstar Conor McGregor lauded news of the pending deal Sunday evening. “Incredible. What a powerhouse!” he said in one tweet, following up with another tweet displaying an image of him brandishing UFC and WWE championship belts.

I would not be happy about this if I was a UFC fighter/WWE wrestler, since less competition will mean less compensation. Where's the anti-trust busters when you need them?
I assume you are asking about how to change a component that a template is referencing. A component template's node that is stored in the State looks like so:
{
type: "ComponentTemplate",
component: { type: "Identifier", name: "Button" }
}

So to change "Button" to another component would basically mean changing the component.name property to a different component. I didn't add the UI to do this in the demo, but you could try this on the demo by clicking on the "Edit code" button and changing the template tag.

I would like to hear more why you think this is a bad way. Just to clarify, Reka is NOT a page builder by itself. It's a state management system to build a page builder (or any no-code editor), so it's up to the consumer to build easy-to-use UI abstractions on top of Reka. For example, to achieve the example above where the user can change components - we could easily build a button that simply mutates the underlying state.
Which nuclear powers are at war with one another?
It's not limited to Safari. I used to work on a macOS desktop application, and we used to beg our customers to put off upgrading to new macOS versions to buy time to sort out all the undocumented behavior changes.
Ok, but that doesn't actually help when you run into WebKit bugs.
I don't accept that dichotomy despite I see value in the argument. Since the invention of nuclear bombs, how many countries without nuclear weapons have lost their sovereignty of those surrounding Russia?

Btw if it's either NATO or nuclear bombs, why didn't Finland get nuclear bombs in the last 60 years?
In case you hadn't noticed, this is hackernews and not /r9k/
EY banned by German audit watchdog over Wirecard work
https://archive.is/HIV4w
> People want low prices, and care about little else

Yeah I mean look at the iPhone, this was key to the success of that product.

Oh wait no, its the opposite and testament that enough people don't just want the cheapest no matter what that a whole extra ecosystem from silicon to apps exists just to satisfy the pent up demand of it.
Doing business with russia is directly sponsoring terrorism.

Why should Japan care about it? For obvious reasons.
Maybe there's a business there.

"Fake" a local internet company in order to provoke Telcos into rolling out fibre.

It seems to work well enough for fake "grassroots" movements.

You would need something like a political party to hire them.
Why, does she give orders to the Russian military?
Cannot recommend this enough, but also encourage folks to set up something they’ll use because you’ll be invested in making it better. At https://hec.works/tapehendge I host all the Phish tapes I can find for my personal listening. I host around ~half a terabyte of Phish music and it costs me $10 a month, so a small price to pay to really engage with my favorite band!
Ah yeah, the famous Netherlands outback’s. Nearly 20km away from the nearest city.
As someone who uses an Android tablet heavily, I really liked the Metro UI for Windows 8, where you swipe from the edges of the screen to perform various OS actions. Unfortunately Windows for tablets never worked out, and Metro got abandoned with Windows 10/11. I don't know about iPadOS, but Android is not anywhere near the usability of the Windows 8 GUI, years later. At least Google copied the permission system where you don't have to grant everything during installation.

It seems Window 8 was Microsoft's last attempt to really accomplish something with their OS. (Unfortunately users hated it, they didn't want tablets.) So I would say Windows died for me already with Windows 10.
Yes, exactly. Doesn’t stop the calls.
Not sure that is relevant as I thought every major party in Finland agrees with joining NATO?
Its the social democrats that has supported the Kurds and their various organizations.

https://www.socialdemokraterna.se/nyheter/nyheter/2021-11-24...

Swedish.
Better to use Activity Monitor, as simple as that might be.
> Aren’t Safari releases held back until a TP is free of critical issues?

No. Safari releases ship in lockstep with iOS releases.
We call that "suckless configuration" where I'm from.
Anyone who's been paying attention I believe would agree that our foreign policy around Ukraine has come at a huge cost not only to us financially and economically, but also to our foreign relations. Under this conflict our relations with China, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia -- these are important partners -- have degraded. Having watched that unfold, this isn't a surprise to me.
How can it be fraudulent if they aren't selling anything? Fraud requires damages.
People do release software as open source for the "street cred" (perhaps unsurprisingly given the school of thought that you don't deserve a developer job if you can't show off a GitHub repo). A lot of people also create something and figure "why not?" They may just not be interested in doing any serious community development and maintenance. There are even significant open source projects that are pretty much a closed development process.
"Epiphany Technology Preview" is a WebKit build available for Linux which has been very helpful for testing Safari quirks without having macOS available.

https://webkit.org/downloads/
Indeed. Regulation isn't a magical well-intentioned, well-executed, well-self-policed endeavour. It's incredibly varied, and has few genuine incentives to improve on any of those axes.
I'm not sure why this point isn't rammed home at every opportunity. Reciprocity is a cornerstone of many trade agreements and tariffs/protectionism are a common answer to foreign government favoritism of domestic companies (e.g. CCP protecting its own).
This is an exceptionally smart outlook; and reflects my own experience - if something is wrong in my code in Safari it is usually wrong elsewhere.

There's an important and cool concept here about using the weakest link sometimes.

Similar example: as an app developer, I intentionally use a phone several, several generations behind so I can see what the actual response time and general UX feeling is on the devices frankly a lot of users are going to have.

If my app runs well on my iPhone 8, it's obviously going to scream on a 12.
This is the most bizarre thing that I will never understand about the US. Everything is about protecting the children from imagined harm, even if the "protection" is causing much more harm, but beating kids is totally fine. CPS may take away your kids if you let them play outside, but not if you beat them.
Honestly the direction of this website in recent years seems to be highly paid wage slaves bitching about not being highly paid enough. It has merely followed the direction of the industry. 15+ years ago the industry was smaller, pay was lower and you still had to be kind of a nerd or an iconoclast or something to get into it. Now it's filled with people who have no love for the tech and frequently even no knowledge of it, just showing up for the buck. So many people on HN now seem like people who would never start a business.
Them's anti-competitive practices for ya'
Mindlessly belligerent, yes.

"Any reason" is a bit of a stretch — I doubt Putin has a dice with country names on it — but given how dumb it was to invade Ukraine, it's not unreasonable to assume he's dumb enough to try Japan.
The Thirty Years’ War resulted in the creation of the modern Westphalian nation-state, I’d say that’s pretty political.
nah, it ranges from non-existent (for most of the city roads/streets) to okay, most of the roads dont have bike lane at all since all available place where they could be is taken by parking spots

also there is no point for (e)scooters in Prague considering trams, buses and subway operating everywhere for less than a 0.5USD per day for unlimited travel, which is why pretty much no locals use them, they are also pretty much impossible to use in extended city center with cobble stones
I use a custom Firefox config that tweaks and disables lots of features, based on this template: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js .

Fun fact: this makes you extremely easy to identify, because it gives your browser a very unique fingerprint. If JS is enabled, that is, which you can disable by default, but JS is simply a requirement for many websites to function.

I wonder how they approached this problem this for the Mullvad Browser.
I think if you're just looking to buy the best laptop on paper, the Framework laptops aren't even going to be in the conversation. It's just inevitable that in order to fulfill their sustainability and repairability goals they simply had to compromise certain aspects of the design.

That being said, I've had my Framework 13 for just over a year now and it's a fantastic computer, none of the compromises affect me much, although I could believe that they could affect other peoples' workflows. For reference I'd previously used a 16-inch 2018 MacBook Pro for work and it was an absolute piece of shit compared to the Framework (I now have the 2022 M1 Max 16 inch MacBook Pro for work and it's in a league of its own tbh).
> I think we’re now way past that now with LLMs now quickly taking on the role of a general reasoning engine.

No we're not, and no they are not.

An LLM doesn't reason, period. It mimics reasoning ability by stochastically chosing a sequence of tokens. Alot of the time these make sense. At other times, they don't make any sense. I recently asked an LLM:

"Mike leaves the elevator at the 2nd floor. Jenny leaves at the 9th floor. Who left the elevator first?"

It answered correctly that Mike leaves first. Then I asked:

"If the elevator started at the 10th floor, who would have left first?"

And the answer was that Mike still leaves first, because he leaves at the 2nd floor, and that's the first floor the elevator reaches. Another time I asked an LLM how many footballs fit in a coffe-mug, and the conversation reached a point where the AI tried to convince me, that coffe-mugs are only slightly smaller than the trunk of a car.

Yes, they can also produce the correct answers to both these questions, but the fact that they can also spew such complete illogical nonsense shows that they are not "reasoning" about things. They complete sequences, that's it, period, that's literally the only thing a language model can do.

Their apparent emergent abilities look like reasoning, in the same way as Jen from "The IT crowd" can sound like shes speaking Italian, when in fact she has no idea what she is even saying.
Yep, and jpg is pretty much the bar you have to beat for any lossy compression. It's fast and low power by today's standards, with excellent quality for the compression ratio it achieves. As someone said back in the day, it was alien technology from the future - or something like that.
This is so far down the list of issues related to IE 6… If it’s the worst aspect of mobile Safari, then there’s not much to complain about.
You can write a library/tool that does exactly that, and the JVM offers an API precisely for that purpose. The reason such a tool isn't offered out of the box is that it trades off performance. For example, the JIT can optimise a variable or even an entire object away. When you want to inspect them at runtime, this would trigger a "deoptimization", where the representation would go back to the original bytecode from the optimised machine code. Observability that doesn't trigger deoptimization is, therefore, encouraged, but everything is available.
The UN has condemned the invasion. It did not however sanction Russia. All sanctions are imposed by individual countries and blocks.

Russia holds veto power. I guess it'll be pretty hard for UN to ignore it.
I am totally against GitHub using public code, but not permissible licence. I too to want to move out of it.
They you'd lose me as a user. For me as a user Firefox is a terrible browser, it doesn't integrate well with the OS (e.g. no iCloud Keychain) and feels clunky but most importantly: I don't trust Mozilla. In the past they have on multiple occasions shown poor judgment [1][2][3] where they obviously prioritise making money over the interests of their users.

For me, Safari is het only browser I truly trust, because Apple makes money from selling me stuff, instead from selling me.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22715179/firefox-suggest-...
[3] https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/05/21/providi...
Then what was the point of your example?

What does Japan gain from the idea that one country cannot take another country's territory by force, if it is in fact Russia that is in control of these islands?

If anything, Japan would like them back eventually. All attempts at diplomacy have failed, so force would be the only other option.
That combined with the best speakers you will ever hear in a laptop, keyboard and touchpad you know will be at least decent (ye olde butterfly notwithstanding), the steep price tag kind of sort of starts to partially make a bit more sense.

The price is still stupid, but a potential customer not needing to give a crap about his new computer might just make the steep price worth it.
Isn't flight autopilot an easier problem than ground vehicle autopilot?
Dig, if you will, the picture

Of calls written down in ink.
> The reason is that playing outside is not normalised enough at the moment.

If you read this comment without context is sounds completely insane.

Kids playing outside has been the <<norm>> for hundreds of thousands of years.
This is really insulting to developers and shows a lack of understanding of the job. As has been discussed many times elsewhere, the hard parts of coding are architecture and debugging of complex systems. This is far from just writing a single prompt and "spitting out code" and not something that LLMs can do at the moment.

I'm all in favor of using AI tools to help developers and organizations simplify their work and reduce costs, but dismissing the entire careers of people in one of the most economically significant industries on the planet as nothing more than a parlor trick is really beyond the pale.
I haven't made any claim, I've reported two factoids and backed them with solid references to allow readers to verify and pursue that angle for themselves.

FWiW I was part of a mineral and energy intelligence group started decades ago that was sold onto S&P a decade ago ( mineral arm at [1] ) and the protocol there was to report solid factoids backed by solid references and where applicable create GIS links.

That was the product many paid good money to subscribe to, not our opinions or claims.

[1] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...
See: Iran
Sometime after Borland died as a real company, but before the corpse stopped shambling about, I had a buddy working there. They did a death march push to get the next version of Delphi out the door, 3 months and more of that poor person being at their desk 12-20hr a day. Then they fired the bulk of the team days after they shipped, the week before Christmas.

Antics like that helped speed their demise.
There are a number of up-and-coming Rust-based frameworks in this niche:

- https://github.com/iced-rs/iced (probably the most usable today)

- https://github.com/vizia/vizia

- https://github.com/marc2332/freya

- https://github.com/linebender/xilem (currently very incomplete but exciting because it's from a team with a strong track record)

What is also exciting to me is that the Rust GUI ecosystem is in many cases building itself up with modular libraries. So while we have umpteen competing frameworks they are to a large degree all building and collaborating on the same foundations. For example, we have:

- https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit (cross-platform window creation)

- https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu (abstraction on top of vulkan/metal/dx12)

- https://github.com/linebender/vello (a canvas like imperative drawing API on top of wgpu)

- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy (UI layout algorithms)

- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text (text rendering and editing)

- https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit (cross-platform accessibility APIs)

In many cases there a see https://blessed.rs/crates#section-graphics-subsection-gui for a more complete list of frameworks and foundational libraries)
Valve shows a drop in Linux gamers for march, but the numbers are questionable
I thought there were nightly (or at least daily) builds? At least it looks that way in the WebKit archive where the three latest builds right now are:

262503@main
April 3, 2023 at 01:23 PM GMT+2
262502@main
April 3, 2023 at 10:51 AM GMT+2
262501@main
April 3, 2023 at 10:17 AM GMT+2

https://webkit.org/build-archives/#mac-ventura-x86_64%20arm6...
Bad argument is bad argument, doesn't matter who says it.