skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm there. I write Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Java, Bash, and Rust for work.

Rust is surprisingly good at many tasks I would otherwise pick "the proper" tool for. A web service, a quick frontend in wasm (leptos), a hackish commandline tool, or, indeed, that low-level/embedded thing that Rust was "meant" for.
It's been many years since you could build and maintain a new browser rendering engine without a lot of money. It's labor intensive enough that Microsoft decided it wasn't worth it.

Today, all the money for this comes from only two companies in the world: Apple and Google (since Mozilla's main source of income is its deal with Google, we have three widely used rendering engines, but the money really comes from two companies).

Now what's interesting about Ladybird is it's this big pile of BSD licensed code that looks like it would be a good start if you wanted to build a fourth engine.

Is there someone out there who has a lot of money and a reason they would want to spend it on developing another engine? I.e. they don't want their fate owned by Apple/Google or the existing engines are somehow inadequate for their needs? This is the really interesting question.
You forgot rule 24: Your password must include the URL of a x minute and y second long youtube video
4. sell all that user data for tons of $$$.

Not going to do that? Not until you got the first VC investor, and if you refuse then you get replaced with a CEO with more flexible morals.
DNS is typically a single round-trip for CNAME + A. And if you're using a resolver such as 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, it will route to a resolver close to you in most cases, and already have the results cached for any major site.
You make your own tech in part because current tech doesn't satisfy your needs. One huge weakness of the popular 3rd party engines is iteration times. The author alluded to such. When you get to a point where a few lines of code takes 5 minutes to compile so you can test a small tweak, you quickly lose your motivation.

So I get it. These engines are made to help medium-large scale studios create high profile games, collaborated on by dozens, hundreds over a few years. An single dev doesn't need all that tech but it's tech that bloats down their iteration cycles. Especially if your goals are a small 2D game.
It is kind of ironic that with so many Linux based stuff and two operating systems, the Mountain View gnomes have decided to support Windows and Mac first.

Kind of tells where they see business value to deploy first.
A lot of people still don't see how the operating system as a whole is open source, not having properly supported open source apps is not the best, but while we can make apps and/or update the aosp versions, we can't make an operating system...
I understand the sentiment as I recently had norovirus and got stuck waiting forever to get into a clinic.

That said, if you get into a car accident and are taken to the ER with serious injuries, you will not wait. You will be patched up with some of the best quality care in the world and leave without paying a dime.

Our system isn't perfect but I'd take it over any system where someone can be financially ruined due to an accident, or worse yet have to take shortcuts that jeapardize their health to try and avoid this.
> HN is not just one request, it is 7

For those curious, it's /, then css, js, then 2 svgs, 1 ico (favicon) and 1 1x1 gif. None over 10k over the wire (/ is ~40k before compression)
> there is just too much uncertainty, distress despite doing everything that is asked of us.

Try to treat this period as a period of opportunity rather than distress. Rather than being layed off now, you're being paid to make yourself more employable! Brush up on your job and interview skills, see who is hiring and what skills they are looking for, perhaps go for a few practice interviews.

BTW - you'll never do well in a job "doing everything that is asked of you" - you need to do better, to surpass expectations and show potential. Good luck
As Canada gets more young citizens without building, their home ownership has continued plummeting. [1]

Once there is a critical mass of single-issue pro-housing voters, we can expect to see a huge tsunami of pro-housing bills get passed for this politically lucrative issue.

As of now, old homeowners are the electoral majority. So, pro-housing politics is a losing strategy. But you can only sustain it so long in a nation with at ton of younger owned-home-started immigrants.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-home...
I much enjoyed his pursuit of a fundamental discrete physics program.

In the end the universe probably doesnt work this way but one the charms of the human mind is its ability to conjure up alternative plausible models.

RIP
There's a joint talk by the two of them at the (IIRC) Royal Institution available on YouTube
https://archive.ph/PIywg
They are now pouring money into AI hype to build the ultimate support service which I bet will be shitty as hell too because of obvious "cost cutting" and detachement from reality.
Really depends on what you call those devs who makes a living off of asset store tools. It seems a but gatekeep-y to just call them "software developers".
Depends on where you're from then, but citizens poorer countries might have an easier time going to Canada.
> Now? [2] 'Elephants are in trouble and we're to blame.' 'These Native Americans were taken rom their families as children' 'Kosovo wants to decide its future - but will history hold it back?' 'This scientist analyzes African American's past to inform the present.' 'This ordinary woman hid Anne Frank.' And of course a super-sized serving of focus on typical concerns such as global warming. And I'm not cherry picking. These are literally the headline articles for just this month!? This is how you lose your readers. People don't want to be preached or lectured to about your values, or why they're the worst, most undeserving living 'things' on this planet.

I'm sorry, but if you manage to find offense in those topics and consider them too political and preachy, it's 100% a you problem. What exactly is political there more than an article about Chernobyl criticising the Soviet regime's incompetence and trying to lie was? Anne Frank is political and preachy? Or Kosovo's history and attempts at state building? Unless the article about African American's past says that everything wrong is the fault of XYZ living today, how is it preachy or lecturing? And honestly, you lost me at climate change. If you think that's a political topic, you're fundamentally misunderstanding the problem and are a massive part of it. Which is of course unfortunate because you consider it political preaching to try to educate you about it, and are thus immune to learning better.

The new times where in some countries any topic, including wide ones such as public health or the climate, are "political" and automatically partisan is extremely annoying.
With proprietary models:
https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard
I was thinking something similar, like this journalist is close friends with executives who want workers back
us-east-1 is the Silicon Valley of cloud regions. Overcrowded yet irresistible!
It’s almost like the Unix philosophy is bullshit at its extremes. System init is a fkin hard problem, you can’t just throw million small tools at it, the same way we don’t write web browsers by pipe-ing together curl and whatnot.
Very similar article a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018621
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15595
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I got a Garmin Fenix 5s when they first came out. I do some running, but I really got it because I was on a terrible on-call rota (daytime only) where I'd get 20+ alerts per day. The alert app was dreadful, took a screen unlock, swipe and wait just to see if it was one of the bogus alerts I needed to tune out. With the Garmin I could "ack" the alert with two button pushes. My phone stayed in my pocket.

It's years old by now but I still get well over a week of battery life, if I don't use GPS. It tracks my sleep, runs, walks and cycles automatically. It mirrors my notifications, including 2fa codes sent via email, sms or app. It finds my phone. It can keep my phone unlocked as long as it's nearby. It's waterproof at depths where I'll be dead. It has a stopwatch and a countdown timer (like any decent watch should). Everything is controlled with a few buttons (no touchscreen, so no accidental swipes or poor usability when wet).

I got the one with the sapphire lens, expensive as ffff at the time, but it's completely perfect after a few accidental scrapes on concrete.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who measures money by drinks. I say "cocktails" like "I bet 4 cocktails on the Browns" but sometimes it's beer too.

$20 around SF here is less than a couple cocktails.
> Why have there been thousands of overnight AI/GPT startups and products in the last few months and NOT a single simple intuitive "fine tuning wizard" app?

Vapourware GPT startup inc is valued at $2bn the afternoon after you form the company and buy your first macbook.

Actual usage of Ai, fine tuning etc. I can offer you $100,000 for 30% of your company if you can demonstrate a fully working product.
Tesla has been publishing quarterly accident stats for it’s cars using Autopilot and not using it since 2018 here:

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

It’s around 1 accident every 5 million miles while using Autopilot and 1 accident per 1.5 million miles when not. Keep in mind that Autopilot only works on highways so these numbers are not directly comparable - it’s a biased sample.

For FSD they have been publishing a “Cumulative miles driven with FSD Beta” chart in their quarterly “Shareholder Deck” since Q2 2022.

https://ir.tesla.com/#quarterly-disclosure

As of 4/19/23 it’s over 150 million miles. This is of limited value without accident counts.

However during their 2023 Investor Day Presentation they gave the accident rate for FSD as 1 per 3.2 million miles. It’s on page 92 of the pdf that can be downloaded here:

https://ir.tesla.com/#other-documents-events
Why do you trust a random person in the internet spreading bs?
If your goal is long battery life with health tracking, there are lots of Garmin watches that would fit that bill.
It has been fascinating (in a morbid way) watching the sudden decline of Antarctica. Mostly in comparison to the Arctic which has shown a long and steady decline over decades.

It is possible we have triggered feed back loops on both poles. Once we get to the Blue Ocean event in Arctic (less than 1 million square KM), it is possible we will not reverse this in the life time of any current civilization simply due to the albedo change.
It's exists but it's not super huge and it's quite cliquey. Google "techtoria".
It wasn’t.

Software developers are not allowed to leave Ukraine.
It's a lazy, patronising, post-hoc justification, as is the idea that only programmers care about laggy user interfaces. Many people spend their entire working lives in front of a computer screen and programmers by no means represent the pinnacle of human cognition.
>Sunnyvale

https://www.retro-gaming.it/videogiochi_img/movie_wargames/w...
The housing crisis peaked under Trudeau, who is currently backed by the NDP. That leaves the Conservatives as the remaining choice for Canadians.
Kagi raises $670k
Yes, and then I iterate on it until it is clear and simple enough for weaker models to actually follow consistently.
This is one Go's blind spots. It's there, it's solvable most effectively at the language level, it's ignored.
As someone who hired a bunch of recent grads in Canada, you couldn’t be more wrong in your assessment or in your conclusion, but, this is the internet so :shrugs:
While pi and e must persist as two distinct concepts, they may be substituted by a constant pair that is much more useful for practical purposes is 2*pi and ln 2 ("natural" logarithm of two).

When using this alternative pair of constants (which are the ratios between two pairs of units, cycle vs. radian and octave vs. neper), there is no longer any need for pi or e.
I really enjoyed the tenor of this post. It's great to see cordial acknowledgement of the contributors efforts, and with such glowing language :)
Reality: they only have 1 agent.

There has been a major shift to using chat bots and knowledge bases to reduce the demand on human agents. This allows companies to reduce staffing costs considerably. Less staff, less management.

Unfortunately, there seems to be minimal investment in analysing the user experience over time. Few companies update their bot when there are known issues impacting their service (like they would for phone IVRs).
>game engines don't create games that look the same

sure they do. Like anything else in software, what defaults you set will drive the course for a lot of user behavior. You make a downvote button and users will start to use it to say "I disagree" or "I don't like this comment", even if you remind them everytime that the downvote button is not a disagree button.

Of course you can dig deep and change every default, but few studios in the grand scheme of things will bother if the default is good enough.

This is especially so with 3D games. 2D games has less of this problem, as you tend to rely more on the assets for art direction than fancy lighting or in-engine geometry creation and the default lightings for 2D stuff is simply your basic shaders with sprite textures.

I agree with you in spirit, but reality tends to show otherwise.
It's simplistic because "voting wrong" assumes that voters can vote right and ignores problems such as limited party systems (see the US, where a lot of people feel their only choice is between "bad" and "worse"), lobbying, limited information, media influence... Not to mention that even if you "vote right", other people might "vote wrong" and thus your efforts are void.

It also assumes that everything can be realistically changed by "voting", as if legislation wasn't a slow process that's error prone and subject to manipulation, and also sometimes limited. See climate change, for example. Shell knew about climate change in the 70s and kept that information hidden. How could someone in the 70s could have realistically voted against that?

And finally, it assumes that people can vote in the countries that are doing "the bad things". I don't live in the US so I had no way to vote against the US pulling out from the Paris agreement, even when that decision will affect me. Someone in a sweatshop can't vote in western countries to force companies to stop using forced labor overseas.

So yeah, dismissing the influence of the ultra-wealthy in how the world is run and what future is going to be left for us because "you could have voted right" is incredibly simplistic.

> They may influence who runs and donate money but even that is a matter of laws that were loosened or can be passed to fix them (e.g.:citizens vs united)

So wait, citizens can be blamed for "voting wrong" but billionaires can't be blamed for influencing who runs and with how much money? Specially when those politicians supported by billionaires will definitely stop by all means necessary those laws that would take away some of their power? That doesn't seem fair.
Weird, Firefox on my 7a seems to handle it qute fine.
Maybe you get rogue waves in it too
> Brock? Guelph? UVic? UPEI? MUN? Lethbridge? USask?

A lot of those are likely mediocre, but probably ok(I have never encountered a grad from those programs admittedly), but many aren't even coming from undergrad CS programs but from the diploma mill colleges like Seneca and Sheridan that hire fake professors or from one year masters in CS programs. Don't get me started on the career colleges, one of which offered me an instructional job in my third year of university.
> Programmers have plenty of comfortable fallback options if they don't make it to FAANG.

FAANG is pretty much US focus, although they happen to have a couple of sites outside.

So by definition programmers have to work elsewhere anyway.

Also not every culture sees programming as a worthy job, rather as kind of low level stuff that one has to endure for the real job, being a manager.

Naturally one can say since this is about Hollywood, outside US doesn't matter, even though the cinema working conditions is pretty much the same everywhere.
The much bigger thing making life difficult for Custom ROM fans is the "device fingerprint" nonsense making your device condemned to fail SafetyNet. Hope you never want to run a banking app.
You are setting a very high bar here. What do you consider "high quality news source"? And what do you read / consume? And what do you think it should cost? I guarantee that you will not be paying enough for what you demand.

A lot of articles on the internet today aren't worth the free click I'm giving them now.

And yet, you continue to click them.

the same way we can listen to just about any song on youtube without paying spotify a dime

You do pay: You are the product because adverts are shown.
This exists. It's called Blendle. But it's not available in the U.S., only Europe.
I rent a gigabit server and have a gigabit connection at home; the client is
a shield tv that running android. Videos are h264 and audio is either AC3 or occasionally flac. In other words, all pretty bog standard stuff that doesn't even need transcoding except for bitrate, but my connection is fast enough to not need that. It's not a bandwidth, latency, or HW specs issue. The streams work fine when they work, even with blu ray remuxes at 20+GB per movie. There are just too many annoyances and it's mostly a software issue on the plex side. A lot of times, plex will just show a spinning wheel, not resume, and take really long to seek. I do run plex behind nginx, so it is still possible that there is some config issue, but I doubt it.
Can we stop these fking stupid takes? It’s like in every wayland and systemd thread..
Sadly nowadays sites will send javascript which contains a request to fetch more javascript which contains a request to fetch more javascript which renders an html element which... wait for it... requests more javascript. This sounds like it's an exaggeration but no.

At least on newer browsers we're no longer universally loading a javascript interpreter written in javascript (though sometimes we still are!)
For moving around town i just walk, maybe sometimes I use my 20yr old bike. My car is used only to travel from my town to nearest city, because it takes 3x more time to go with bus->train->taxi to where I need to go and is a little more expensive. Then it sits idle 5 days. It's more like 1.2tons and is not that guzzling, 7L/100km. Diesel or hybrid would be guzzling even less, but they break more and/or are more expensive. I'm not a eco freak, I do what I can, but some people really do need to own some transport. In Poland, if I see someone with a big pickup, it typically means he actually DO uses it to pick up various things otherwise it would be too inconvenient to own such a big car.
And housing. And homelessness.

I love it here too, but as someone young(ish) with a stable job and who got into a home outside the downtown core before the latest boom.. it's a lot easier to look past Victoria's faults.

No city is perfect I suppose.
Yes. Collecting data because it's required to process an order / provide a service would be legal.

You are then responsible for protecting that data too which is why you would prefer not to collect it if possible.
> Preview images of what? Images usually should be routed through a CDN which caches them directly in the user's country. It's extremely cheap and easy to set up. Nothing compared to running an application in multiple datacenters.

I don't think most service cache data that isn't normally used in that region. In my experience I noticed that Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook feel sluggish when you are viewing Japanese content from Singapore compared to viewing the same content in Japan, etc.
Memories by Paul Abrahams:

https://paulabrahams.substack.com/p/memories-of-ed-fredkin

In a comment, I mentioned the Three Scientists and Their Gods profile (which someone else in the comments has also mentioned) and also that Fredkin was apparently the ultimate origin of a very widespread anecdote about overfitting in machine learning:

https://gwern.net/tank
I see so many complaints here about adverts. How much extra would you pay to read news without any adverts? I guarantee that it isn't enough to offset lost revenue from adverts. This is the primary reason why online news has so many adverts.
I looked on the internet and some are making that argument that it's true. For example "In the Hebrew original, "the fruit פְּרִי " of "the tree עֵץ of the knowledge דַּעַת of good טוֹב and evil רָע " can mean the offspring of a family group of living creatures who are so self-aware that they covet life (good) and fear death (evil), i.e., the progeny of a den of animals (sentient beings), like piglets or cubs or eggs."
For physical science, I think people could use ISO 10303 [1] to represent their experimental process and results.

A facility like CERN could have an accurate model of the equipment available, you just add the description of your experiment and the results to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
I don't see any display of the function, only absolute. Where does it show them?

Not only display, it would be nice to be able to choose chords by function instead of absolute, too.
By buying github, they got the ability to suck down all the code on it, at scale. If I understand correctly, it was then used for AI training - so perhaps more like open source being co-opted than supported.
Meh, there's a big gap in your problem/solution - driving in rain.
So cool!
Can it run on Windows NT 3.51?
Would doing so solve some of the memory limitations?
You’re mistaken, why do you speak with confidence when you don’t know what you’re talking about ?
All quite true, server renders pages are the quickest route to first render, in-line your CSS for that first page and it's even quicker. All best practices for sites that fit those categories, content and e-commerce for example.

But not all sites and apps can do that, and almost certainly not for all functionality and pages. Bloat isn't just about tooling, it's organisational too. Lots of teams all working within one product.

Modern ES modules can actually be worse if not bundled on on the server or by a build system. The browser doesn't know what to request until it starts parsing the previous response, that dependency tree can be large. That literally is accumulating latency. However with progressive improvement it's not much of an issue, but again not everyone can do that.

On top of that anyone still on HTTP 1.2 will only be doing ~5 requests to the same domain in parallel.

Point is, latency does accumulate, but it doesn't have to with well designed code structure, "modern" (rediscovered 90s) techniques, and modern browser features like preload and preconnect.
I guess anything is an opportunity to mention one's favourite project.

Don't get me wrong: I like mobile Linux distros (played with PostmarketOS), but I think it is completely off topic.

All this article says is that Google will stop supporting 2 apps. Open source apps maintained by others will replace them, for sure.
That's why I wrote that they are clean, I keep that in mind, but thanks for noticing.
Canada is a huge country. It would be better to mention specific cities with issues. There are many cities in Canada without housing issues.
Looks like you're right, there was a recommendation to increase it but I don't see anything about it taking effect.
The characters {|}[\] can be interpreted as letters, these are frequently used as "national replacement characters" especially in the Nordic countries

-- Character set known as Ö-ÄSCII. May those days never return.
They're also supported by Gadgetbridge.
Did a Typescript port. Thanks for creating this! Very useful.
https://github.com/ongteckwu/typeid-ts
Since when did CSS control window size?