skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, the numbers don't add up. It's an illusion - you can project this kind of growth for small companies, not for huge companies. Maybe if aliens come down to earth to buy some GPUs next year.
Same for Tesla - for those projections to be true, they would need to be making more cars than any other car maker, and soon. It's not even close to happening. I'm not saying that to diminish their achievements - which are truly unbelievable ! But their valuation reflects almost impossible things.

Fun fact for Tesla - Tesla is mostly buying batteries for their cars from other battery makers, not making them ! Tesla is very deceptive about what they do, and what they don't. Knowing that they are a just buying batteries and not making them, change your opinion about batteries making profit potential for Tesla ?
I wonder though whether people will upvote differently knowing that there's real money involved.
> If you want them to change a word you think is offensive, try to convince them to change it.

Yeah, let's ratchet it up and take the culture war into absolutely everything. It's a bad precedent. You've already seen the right now taking up the left's tactics and it's not the kind of place anyone wants to be in.

> This isn't about changing the history books.

That's has been happening too! Revise so that everything was bad and everything we are doing is good.

> what we now view as bigotry.

"We"? who is "we"? If someone doesn't like our culture and wants their own then they should invent it. They are interlopers that should stop trying to take our culture and changing it to suit their belief system. They need to create their own idols and gods if the existing ones don't suit their arbitrary, new standard.
Well the article paints a pretty clear hypothesis, if you read it -- dowries are rooted in the idea that in a particular kind of society (not the ones where a household is losing out on a woman's labor and hence needs a bride price), the woman who is married off into her husband's household is seen as a burden, an outsider, one more mouth to feed.

Therefore a dowry is both compensation, and a demonstration of value (i.e. take my daughter because she has a high dowry, and is thus more desirable to marry than other girls with less dowry).
Gruber claims that it has the exact same FOV as actual human vision, and no discernible pixels.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_visi...
I have the same problem. I would love to be able to toot from mastodon and post videos from PeerTube to the same account. Right now it is very segmented, even though most fediverse apps can process incoming posts of various formats (so you can follow PeerTube users from Mastodon no problem) but you can only post a limited set of content. They have mixed identity and applications.
And the reason we get these stories in this way is not because of anything related to wokeism, progressivism, DEI, or whatever buzzword you wanted use. It is because of risk averse capitalists. Disney knows a Black Little Mermaid is a safer investment than an original story with a Black protagonist so that is the version we get.
> If Cloudflare goes down, so does a significant portion of the web. Flask cannot have an outage like Cloudflare. All they can do is push a faulty update, but even then you can rollback or stay on the old version.

This is what was on the tip of my tongue. I'd argue you're missing the portion of control in this whole discussion, and how much process you can place in front of a component change.

If I have a flask dependency, I have a lot of control over this dependency. If flask screws up badly, I have many options: I can update. I can not update. I can downgrade. In fact, I could fork flask internally and fix it on my own and either be a good citizen and open up a PR, or I could be something else. I can test all of this in any number of environments before it hits a customer, and even more stages before it hits all customers.

With Cloudflare - or any number of Hosters as well, like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, I have very little control. If I use Cloudflare as a CDN and Cloudflare goes down, I might not have the capacities at my upstream server to handle the load from all my customers, so I am down as long as Cloudflare is down. I wouldn't have the footprint available necessary to replace AWS in our own private DCs, even if we pooled all spare capacities - and then I'd still have to find a way to exfil our data from a downed AWS. (Which, yes, we have, but it'll take long hours)

And no matter how much I test, if my hoster fucks up, I'm immediately fucked as well, no matter what processes I might have. The only process around this would be provider independence, which is really expensive and a lot of effort even if you just have a luke-warm standby.
Running on the hamster wheel is a choice people make. If you wanted to you could live in a LCOL city and work remotely. People want to live in HCOL cities and in bigger fancier houses than they need, they drive bigger fancier cars than they need to, they take fancier vacations than they need to. Obviously this isn't true for everyone but through the middle and upper middle class, it certainly is true.
on a desktop display i would expect some kind of limit on content width, plus centering. right now the content is left-aligned to about 15% of the full page width: https://non.io/#all
Teams takes all that data, plus all the conversations about it, including audio, IMs, web browsing, etc and creates reports tying it all together. Teams is the 'one ring to rule them all' that allows it to all be coordinated in context. It takes all of data that Microsoft can gather from other apps and weaponizes it into a competitive advantage against its own customers.

For example, if Bob at ABC Company is working on an MS Word doc, yes, Microsoft can steal that data. But it's worse when Teams is on a corporate network, because maybe Bob has a Teams meeting, pulls up the Word doc, discusses it with coworkers Sarah and Bill, and now Teams tracks the doc, the conversation, who was in the conversation and what the conversation was about. It tracks the email conversation that follows. All of this is proprietary information. Teams has handed Microsoft the internal working projects, context, thoughts and strategy of ABC Company.
>To code, for example, you need to hook a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

I have a hunch that coding as we know it is going to look very different in ~5-10 years.
I’m a lawyer, not a dev. It’s a different world.
For me, having to produce my journals was a reminder that holding on to my notes means that I might need to give a deposition or testify about them. Engaging with the court system in any way is just not something I care to do if I can avoid it. So I re-examined the value proposition of keeping written notes.

If I was working in an environment where (for example) producing patentable inventions was part of the job, I would keep and retain solid lab notebooks in case they are needed to defend my employer's IP, and would write them every day with that purpose in mind. Likewise in a job where we have to follow ISO-style engineering processes in a regulated environment such as medical device software. That's not at all the same as keeping a journal of development for my own improvement... that's consciously creating an artifact so it can be produced on demand.

If I just keep my garbage notes in garbage files that I delete, I can use them while they are relevant and sweep up after, just as if they were post-it notes.
/r/amitheasshole staying public is funny too
This strip had a profound effect on my life after I read it for the first time. To this day it still means a lot to me. Thank you for sharing your story and to your brother for sharing his art.

https://xkcd.com/154/
safety is a bigger issue - in many places it seems these services are operated by the mafia, and passengers can get shook down. This is not a problem in HK i hasten to say, but when I publicly endorse these 'little buses' I get lectured by other people who have had different local experiences!
The mysterious founder accused of fooling JPMorgan to the tune of $175M
I like the images to be at or above quality 94, d1.0 or smaller in jpeg xl. Some other user cares less. Some user thinks that quality 75 is as they came from the camera and it cannot be helped.
Depends on how you define "understanding" I guess, but it certainly seems to me like GPT-4 "understands" the concept of weight well enough to not be tripped up by this particular logic puzzle.

You can argue it's just an imitation of "understanding" and not the "real thing", but how good does an imitation have to be before it's functionally identical to the real thing?

You can argue different cherry-picked examples seem to demonstrate a lack of understanding, but does that mean it doesn't possess understanding in general or just that it doesn't understand those particular topics?

I agree GPT-4 is not a human-like AGI, and that the people expecting it to behave as one or expecting a future version right around the corner that does are likely in for disappointment. But at the same time, LLMs are capable of writing coherent, never-before-seen code from natural language instructions, solving basic never-before-seen natural language logic puzzles, and playing half-decent chess moves from never-before-seen positions[1], all in a single model that was never specifically trained to do any of those things. To say those tasks don't require at least some level of intelligence or "understanding" seems far fetched to me.

[1]: https://dkb.blog/p/chatgpts-chess-elo-is-1400
It's marginally faster than Envoy and lighter on features. I personally would stick with Envoy
Of course, only after having established evidence against the individual which speaks to the actual reason they were fired; they wouldn't want employment regulators to get the impression that the termination of employment was in retaliation to these valid complaints.

More seriously, if one wants to make a stink about this sort of policy, this is what they need to worry about. I don't want to tell someone they're wrong for choosing not to worry about this and, in OP's case, accept the inconvenience of using a landline for 2FA.
It's an option as a tiny USB adapter you plug in, versus being built-in to the laptop.
Might as well ask this here, but any thoughts on how ReScript / ReasonML compare to Elm, PureScript, or ClojureScript? If someone were looking for a fp language that compiled to JS, how would they think about the pros and cons of the available options?

Last discussion I could find was from 2018 [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17910069
The post doesn't say "There were three units". That's a quote you made up. The post says "the original CSS specification included 3 relative units". That is factually true. The original CSS spec lists only em, ex, and px as supported relative units, which are distinct from the five absolute units you accused them of leaving out.[0] Accusing someone of lying while lying about what they said is a bad look.

The author also has a footnote mentioning that there are actually 36 relative length units in CSS now, so it's actually a 12-fold increase in relative unit types.

Lastly, I don't think the author is even complaining about the number of units. He obviously has reservations about it, but the main point is to illustrate the growing complexity of CSS over time.

> These raw numbers tell an underlying story; websites now appear in a number of different shapes, sizes and dimensions, and CSS needs to account for that.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1/#length-units
> For the past week I've been trying to explain to people how certain I am that doing work in headsets will become mainstream

This gets at my main question about this: does it feel to you like it will be great for "doing work", which generally happens at discrete places, or something which will apply to life generally, which is the kind of (some would say dystopian) ideal of "augmented reality"?

Or put another way, I felt a huge increase in immersion and interest going from the original Oculus's three degrees of freedom to the "room scale" six degrees of freedom in Quest.

I know this is "spatial computing" and you can put monitors in fixed positions in the environment, but is "desk scale" where you can kind of look around and pivot your head, or "room scale" where you can get up and move around the room, or "life scale" where you can leave the room entirely to check on the screens you left in the kitchen before coming back to sit down in front of the ones in your office?
Asking for a copy of the signed documents for my corporate bank account was how I discovered that my bank’s internal processes were using one revision, and the forms they ask you to download and fill out ahead of time were a different revision, despite being the same (uniquely numerically identified) form.

They accepted my copy verbatim and scanned it right into their DMS, despite the fact that my revision was older than the internal revision it was tagged under. They scanned the -whole- document though, so the language on the signed copy is crystal clear.

The banker’s remark: “that’s unusual, no one ever asks for a copy of them signed.”

Edit: my initial draft was a grammatical mess up top
Not to mention, there's a lot of things that you can mount inside a bubblewrap sandbox that will lead to a trivial sandbox escape. The X11 socket, the DBus socket...
There is a joke about how Seinfeld would have no conflict if everyone had phones.

Everything mentioned makes life harder, waste more time, and cause confusion.

Since having kids/hitting my 30s, I've been uninterested in social media(on my phone). I'm so bad about checking my phone, I might wake up in the morning and see I've had a missed text message from 7:30pm.

Regarding the OPs mental state... uninstall those apps?
No, unfortunately.

The issues is that mixins applied via a pre-processor don't need to take into account the complexities of the cascade. Designing a mixin system that works as part of the cascade is hard, and so no one has yet proposed a system that everyone is happy with.

This is the same reason we can't use var() within media queries to define breakpoints. Custom properties are part of the cascade and so are attached to a dom element, media queries have no dom element attached to them. (The proposed custom environment variables with env() will solve this one)
Inside Task Manager with the Original Author [video]
There have been lots of complaints about a well-funded advertising campaign from Hobby Lobby called "He Gets Us". App users are getting DMs from the advertiser and are unable to block the adverts or user. Other advertisers are blockable, which stops those ads.
The fundamental problem with CSS is that it conflates element content styling, layout directives, and compositing configuration into an unholy mess.

One way out is to rethink each of these separate problems individually. Element styling is typically about configuring attributes, while layout is more closely related with programming (even if it’s a non-Turing complete environment like constraints). There’s no reason why the same language should try to do both.
Later in life of these social media websites governed by a profit oriented company, the new metric becomes engagement (Ka-ching! $$). It does not matter to them, how the UX suffers ... until it starts to matter. But by then it might be too late.
The average redditor would not care if they replaced a bunch of mods with people sympathetic to the cause of management (paid off).

I would consider it highly improbable that this has not happened before - e.g. r politics
Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects
I've been a daily reddit user for about 16 years, and according to my account's page, have had it registered for 15. Back then, HN was pretty much in the same conversation as reddit when people were doing the whole 'Digg Migration' thing.

At the time (and partly due to my own childishness at the time) , HN seemed beyond me. I had nothing to add, as discussions were being held about technical topics beyond my level of comprehension, or about region-specific business information for a region I wasn't in (I'm not in America), and businesses I wouldn't be in a position to use.

Reddit on the other hand, was a little more mainstream - still quite techy, but there was also room for disccussion of entertainment topics, rather than technical ones. Reddit was the glossy magazine to HN's super serious broadsheet newspaper, and at the time, as a low-20-something working at a McDonalds, it was more my speed. I'm fairly certain I created my reddit account because I saw someone being wrong on the internet, and had to fix it. That, and it was a little after subreddits became a thing, so by logging in, you could hide topics you didn't care about.

All of this is obviously anecdotal, and whether or not this anecdote represents anyone else, I don't know. I've been back on HN as my main reddit replacement for about a week, now. It's still quite intimidating to me - linked articles are still often above my level, the comments section is still obviously filled with experts talking about the things they know about, and I'm still kind of an idiot with nothing much to add. The difference is that I mind less now. Sure, it's not 'reddit', with all the numerous topics and content firehose that comes with that, but it feels like a single, fairly dedicated sci-tech 'subreddit', with strong moderation, and a classic attitude to commenting where it's still about adding something, rather than having the funniest one-liner.

I probably won't comment much. I definitely won't have much to post, but I'm enjoying myself here. It's not replacing reddit, HN is very much it's own thing, but it's one I can vibe with. Is HN better? Sure. The quality is consistently high, the moderation is consistently strong, the comments are (fairly) consistently insightful. It's just for a very specific niche. Now someone just needs to make a 'Gamer News', and 'Cinephile News' and 'Knitter's News' and 'Dog Owner's News' and 'Fly-fisher's News' and...
Hopefully no identifying info in the URL!
Yes, I've seen the [dupe] flag. However you may understand the confusion caused as the article Dang has posted is not 'related', it is the same article, i.e. a dupe. So perhaps the question now arises as to why it was posted 'without' [dupe], yes?
It would imply the girl is negative-value property, if property at all.

Cultures are different and what the norms associated with even apparently identical practices (dowries in Britain vs dowries in India) could be entirely unrelated.
The only issue I see is that people don't want something else entirely, they want their web pages. CSS/HTML features are deprecated but browsers continue to support them forever and make their engines more complex because... people won't adapt (for good and bad reasons).

What you're proposing is basically telling someone willing to build a better web browser to compete with Chrome that they should actually build, say, a music player instead and change the game completely. Even a less extreme example: a browser with a completely different UI still would need to support HTML/CSS and have a super complex engine so we're back to square one. I don't see how that makes sense.

We need more energy and money to be spent into moving this distributed codebase to use newer features so engines can drop support for old stuff and be less complex. Who's going to drop features from their browser only to see people say "use browser X, that one still works with all your existing pages" and then lose their userbase.

If this was easy as ever, as you say, people would have done it already. In reality, it's a multi-billion dollar problem and the incentives don't align.
You don't recognize that the comment that you are replying to is a sarcastic extension of the argument?
Our company was knocked offline by a DDOS attack. It continued all day unabated until we signed up for a free cloudflare account. That was easy.

Flash forward about 8 years and I find myself using cloudflare to stave off the immense suffering of Azure/AWS by using R2 and Pages. As soon as more people find out how easy Cloudflare is and how much it can lube a product deployment, I expect a lot more of the internet to end up there by choice.

Cloudflare deployed my app better/easier than Microsoft was able to deploy it to Azure (Microsoft owns GitHub and Azure and still didn't have their shit ironed out...Cloudflare just works).

I had to tweak them both but Azure took hours and cloudflare was a quick, cleanly documented change.

I wish they offered a service to host my nodejs APIs.
It’s not just marketing, News media hate Google and Facebook for controlling their top-of-funnel and generally outcompeting them in the eyeball market. They will never allow good coverage of them.

There’s also the general media trend of punching up / publishing surprising content so it gets clicks. Google especially had the reputation for being “good” for so long that any kind of expose or criticism rings as juicy and surprising. Microsoft had the reputation for being “bad” for so long that they are expected to be bad; it’s them being “good” that is surprising and gets clicks.
The copyright holders of Shakespeare don't put the First Folio edition of Romeo and Juliet out of print when Baz Luhrmann releases Romeo + Juliet.

When works go out of print they become rare and hard to find. There are only 200 or so original prints of the First Folio in existence; Shakespeare is kept alive by subsequent reprintings. When publishers "update" old works for modern sensibilities, it's with an eye toward replacing the old version with the new; they simply refuse to publish the old version. If it's a print book it'll still be there, but become slowly harder and harder to obtain until it's nearly impossible, and most people don't even remember it anyway[0]. If it's an e-book, it's as good as gone; anyone who still has it has committed a felony to preserve it. Long copyright terms help enormously with this.

Some books don't even get replaced. The word "nerd" is thought to have originated from the Dr. Seuss book If I Ran the Zoo; Seuss's publisher has decided the book is too racist to continue to be in print, so it too has gone on to book afterlife.

[0] The black pygmy Oompa-Loompas were almost a "Mandela effect" thing for me; my school library had a 1960s edition of the book. Only when I read about the changes later in life was I like "Oh, so that's why the Oompa-Loompas are different."
This is insightful and really beautifully written. Thank you.
Four years of work and I instantly nope out when you can't keep my scroll position when I click Back. Don't mess up the basics.
This really feels like one of those situations where they hired a CEO to just parrot / run interference for whatever the owner wants, so they can put distance between themselves and the decisions they make.

In some ways, I kind of feel bad for her, but in others, I am grabbing the popcorn, since there is no friggin way that she didn't know what she was getting herself into. I would bet she either quits within 6 months or get fired in 9-12 months, since their ad business is probably unsalvageable for anything that requires brand safety.
> Apologies autocorrect substituted Moor for Lane.
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> But I believe you knew that but pedantry stopped you from just suggesting it.

I was wondering about it, but thought it wouldn't really make sense, given that Tom was the instrumental developer starting far before "V9/V10 land". If anything that time was marked by Tom having a bit less of an outsize role (by virtue of more others contributing, not because he wasn't doing important work anymore).