skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly every mainstream movie that comes out is some permutation of “this institution is corrupt, we have to tear it down!” Some of this lack of trust seems to be a cultural movement in itself, where people are bending over backwards, looking for _any_ problem so that can declare the entire thing to be a wash.
Alright then do tell me:

How exactly is it any different from "real Open Source" to you personally and 99% of developers ?
> available for downloading from Netscape's web site.

There were no hyperlinks?
(responding to the sister comment)

"Id stop mentioning RFK Jr he actually legitimately reduces the credibility of what you're trying to asert."

If it wasn't already clear, I support RFK Jr and hold his foreign policy in high regard. I also deeply respect his principled approach to telling American voters the truth. Uncomfortable truths are often unpopular at first, but being genuine is an important part of healing the divide. I hold those who are willing to speak uncomfortable truths in high regard and I suspect many others do as well.

"So why is this never mentioned in their victory article? they only never mention the way worse justification or absorbing Ukraine into Russia as part of it."

I can't speak for Russian leadership as I don't claim to know their motives or intent. Might it be possible, as is verifiably true in the case of the US funded bio-labs as well as the nuclear-capable Stinger missiles, that they did raise these issues, but our captured western media failed to report it? Have you read any Russian media accounts, or only what comes filtered through western media?

Notably, all Russian media was banned in the west at the start of this war. What we call Russian propaganda, they call news - and vice versa.

"A negotiated peace is possible and quite easy, Russia leaves all of Ukraine and retreats to its 1991 border and never comes back."

I notice that you didn't mention any concessions from either the Ukraine or NATO.

I don't see how Russia agreeing to the unilateral terms you outlined would satisfy their concerns over the potential of a NATO aligned state on their border so close to their capital. How do you see this negotiating strategy playing out? Why would Russia concede? Are they running out of ammunition? According to Biden, we certainly are or else we wouldn't be sending cluster munitions as a last resort.

"Here's the problem, Russia doesn't want peace they want to claim parts of Ukraine and conquer the country as whole."

It seems you believe you know their motivations better than I do. However, the best way to find out would be to call for a cease-fire and to get both sides back to the negotiating table so we can find a way forward via diplomacy instead of an endless unwinnable war.
If you already run ARM Linux VMs, it’s not much differences. The VMs host will run macOS instead of Linux but that’s not the end of the world.
Mostly it was a spectacle for outsiders. Otherwise how its possible to explain that Durov continue to doing business and operate in Russia after?

IMHO - it would not be possible for him to leave russia alive without getting some tradeoff with Russian intelligence
The good old days never existed? Of course they existed, as is evident by the better days that followed. You’re simply mismatching things and are affected by the toxic gaslighting and abusive psychopathic lies that have denied the reality and turned the abuser into abusers who say things like “the good old days that never existed”.

Everyone wanted to come to America precisely because the good old days existed and the rest of the world has what it has precisely because America’s good old days existed.

Whether you are doing it on purpose or not, you are spreading the spite and jealousy of abusive toxicity that gaslights America about its achievements, no different than a common abusive person says “I’m the only one that loves you”.

It is precisely because America and the Constitution was such an affront to the abusive psychopathic ruling class that hates having its powers to abuse being restrained for the first and only time in human history, that they’ve leverage every single force they can over centuries now, to dislodge America and the Constitution to set their absolute and tyrannical powers free again.

It will be too late, but when America and the Constitution finally falter, humanity will have to face the reality of what it was tricked into, unless that’s not even possible in the dystopian nightmare the ruling class has in store for humanity that makes 1984 seem like a quaint story.
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It's funny how massive the impact of "bundle a bunch of proprietary stuff into our open browser" was on the browser wars. Between H264, MP3, Flash and PDF, Firefox never had a chance.
The web is first and foremost a document platform.

The web is what we make it. If we want apps running in browsers (say, email clients) then that's what the web will become.
I don't see how this could cause any security issues. The language barely does anything.

> A server-side JavaScript script might pull data out of a relational database and format it in HTML on the fly.

They must be joking. Who runs a server in a browser?
I find it amusing that someone making $500k+ at Meta would consider themselves a pleb.
As someone who does a fair amount of WordPress dev, this type of "major announcement" forces me to hang my head in shame. I'm not familiar with Toolset, but ffs the rest of the world is arse deep in PHP 8.x and the WP "community's" big news is to make an unsupported version of PHP the minimum requirement? Did I die and end up in engineering hell? Certainly feels that way.

I desperately need a career pivot. This is more embarrassment than I can take. Again. Shame on me.
If someone manufactures a bog standard, dumb-as-a-rock, hasn't-changed-in-50-years light switch, can they affix a "Cyber Trust Mark" to it? It's like my plant-based ketchup and fat-free sparkling water, right?
Why’s that a worry?
> I fail to see what occurred in the late 80s

By the late 80s, the US gov't was finally acknowledging and trying to raise awareness about the AIDS crisis.

'89 probably had a brief sigh of relief as the Berlin wall came down and the Cold war was clearly drawing to an end.

On a positive note, the early 90s were the end of the USSR. But it also meant Bush the senior and the first war declared on former US puppet Saddam Hussein. It was the largest hot war the US had had since Vietnam and there were even rumors at the time of reinstituting the draft.

Those things affected my confidence in the government at the time. I assume that the numbers are at least partially attributed to them.
It has been updated frequently in the past: https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver

(scroll down for commit history)

edit: Has Nvidia been building a FreeBSD driver for the past 20 years, or did they initially port a *nix driver from a different OS to FreeBSD?
I believe a wrong decision can break, but the right decision rarely "make". A simply "adequate" decision followed by brilliant execution is what really "makes". In that sense, they should be compensating the people who execute the decisions more, not the ones who call the shot.

I also believe that a lot of the "importance" of a board member comes from their social network. "Let me call the CEO of AWS and figure out what we can do"- kind of thing.
I do not understand why someone would like to have ligatures in code.

And it looks like I am not alone:
https://practicaltypography.com/ligatures-in-programming-fon...
Every time a new monospace font reaches the HN home page, I lose ~3 hours of my day. Not complaining. (You get an upvote)
Who really needs ATMOS, wasn't that only marketing fluff?
"Lindworm derives from Old High German lint and orm"

But orm means snake, so it maybe didn't start out as a snake. Etymologically, worm and orm are obviously related, too.
The interesting thing here is that Matt and Trey have codified intentionality as a primary writing tool, and whatever this is, doesn't mention that once. That's a pretty major thing to overlook, like a blind spot or achilles' heel of the AI devs.

In fact, this is a blind spot of ALL AI that I've yet seen.

Matt and Trey approach writing scenes with the following intent: if a scene can be described as following up a previous scene with 'AND THEN', it fails.

If the following scene can be described as 'BUT' or 'THEREFORE', they write it and it goes in the show.

This is so simple, yet it's completely absent from what AI is doing, and seemed absent from the example script (I'd have liked a written version of their fake South Park script, as it was pretty insufferable). I'm not sure what beyond expanding context length will be needed, context length is merely a technical problem… but this is a significant failing in what we get out of AI.

This is where the sea of meaninglessness comes from. Good creators have a great deal of context and intentionality in their work, and for all that Matt and Trey are puerile and crass, they've got a clearly expressed agenda artistically (and philosophically).

There's also human creators who are very facile, but very prone to 'AND THEN': AI will have a much easier time replacing humans like this, than replacing Matt and Trey.
I don't see what's wrong with embedding a programming language in the browser. It's light weight, and rather simple.

As long as this stays in the browser, and is not also used server-side, I don't think there's much to worry about. Since it's designed to be Java like, I suspect most developers would opt to use server-side Java, and this in browser. This probably won't change.
Opposed to engineers who usually face consequences on bad decisions, these rich people rarely have any meaningful accountability. So tossing a coin is fine.
Give me an example of a large (10k+) company that uses a better approach and has better business metrics than FAANG. Otherwise you're talking hypotheticals while FAANG has continuing growth and 20+% profit margins.
I've tried ligatures in coding for a few months but eventually decided against them. The small parsing overhead isn't worth it just for beauty. The philosophy of form follows function wins again.
There was an "infinite Seinfeld" concept posted here a couple months ago. The dialog was awkward, but occasionally the jokes were funny. I can see it getting better if they removed all the "alignment" crap from the training model.
Yeah both worked without any manual intervention. Was positively surprised of how smooth it went.
Yes. The 'expiry' of a well is pretty much entirely proportional to how much energy you extract from it.

However, you can normally drill a new well a few hundred yards away and start afresh - so really it becomes a matter of how cheaply you can drill wells. And the US is a leader in well drilling, so I think could do it pretty cost competitively.
Deepmind is trying to combine "Alphazero" style algorithms with LLMs to build Gemini.
What is level 3 confidential computing?
We are in the third scenario: institutions are flawed like everything humans do and would need continuous criticism and fixing, but at the same time they are being targeted by partisan propaganda which target them not for their actual flaws (for which you need to understand how they operate) but make things up in a grotesque but effective way (Yes I'm talking about Fox News and a big part of the GOP since Trump, they're not the sole culprits of that, but definitely the worse because they are the most mainsteam).
Lots of languages have tools which reimplement package management specifically for their libraries, and this pattern has become fairly "normal", but the traditional norm is to access and provide libraries as system packages via the system's package manager. With that in mind, things like Cargo become less magical and more redundant with other tools like Make.
> Now, you're arguing that `sum(evaluate(impact) for each IC)` is absurdly bad.

No, I’m not. I’m arguing that it’s unwise to trust someone to do an evaluation who has a personal stake in the result of that evaluation.

Looking at how well a team works together to advance company goals is an important factor in any evaluation system, but using that as the only factor in a manager’s evaluation is as shortsighted as evaluating a software engineer solely on how many LOC they produced.

In practice, overall team performance should be a factor in IC evaluations as it’s reflective of various hard-to-quantify contributions of the team members. It should also be a somewhat larger factor in a manager’s evaluation, with the weight between IC and team performance shifting from mostly-IC at the bottom of the hierarchy to mostly-team at the C-suite level.
Reinventing cosmology: research puts age of universe at 26.7B years
I use Twitter for tech. I don't understand why people would use Mastodon for anything other than tribal political signalling purposes.

The UX of Mastodon is terrible compared to Twitter, in terms of global post search and discoverability of accounts.

And the arbitrary/political natural of fedi-blocking means I'm only seeing a subset of views on Mastodon.

I'm not saying Twitter is perfect, but I think the opposition to it seems contrived and coordinated.
> lol, please tell me you're not talking about the "Future Fund".

What other sovereign wealth fund is there?

It's not even capable of meeting future public servant pensions, this is unequivocal and openly talked about in the 2023 budget. The Future Fund is $70B short to simply break even on it's liabilities.

> given the Big 4 have been fleecing the government for a very long time, partly due to no interest in stopping them

Again, you are making the claim that the public service can do it cheaper? Do you have any evidence to back that up? I don't disagree that the Big 4 consulting firms are making out like bandits with taxpayers money but it's fair to ask whether the public service can do it for cheaper. Simply assuming that is the case comes across as very ideological rather than an evidence based opinion. Public servants have much higher wages and super costs than the hordes of young employees at consultancies, it doubtful they can produce more per hour to make up for the difference.
i was going to argue about statistics, but i think that's pointless. i am guessing that you or someone you know were deceived by their partner, which understandably reflects in how you think about it. you, or they, have my sympathy.

but please allow me to ask for one more clarification:

i would only call something deceit if it was the intention to marry someone in order to take advantage of them from the beginning. is that what you mean? or do you count a change much later as well?
Yeah, i agree that the ESP32 docs are good, and what you're going to be using most of the time while using these things.

That wasn't what i was talking about though -- if you have a look at the datasheet for this board ( https://docs.arduino.cc/static/4260b2f8de0b7abc50d3773839dee... ), there's plenty of board-specific info in there that's useful, and also plenty of stuff that's technically duplicated from the ESP32 documentation, but harder to find if you're a noob.

I can't get mad about the unnecessary layers, sorry. Using the ublox module is quite reasonable: it's smaller than any of the available modules from espressif (necessary for this form-factor), probably because they have licensed a fancy antenna design (the same one that rpi uses, i think). Using a module in general is a good idea, as it means you don't have to take on the cost and risk of doing the RF design yourself. If you buy a board using a 3rd-party module, there are probably going to be three vendors involved.

Another thing i didn't mention -- as far as i know this is the first ESP32 board you can actually buy in the same form factor as the arduino nano, which is handy if you want to switch an existing project over to ESP32.

In general I fail to understand why people are so salty about this. I see engineers using this kind of thing all the time, and they aren't stupid. It's perfectly fine to spend a bit more money to get something even marginally better.

Yes, the relative price difference is huge, but $20 makes no difference in a lot of situations.
Just gave it a try and it seems really really good! I found that for the subjects I was writing about it was best used in notebook mode generating about 2 tokens at a time so I can supervise and tune its output manually, but I imagine it'd be better at things it was actually trained on. And it was really easy to get it to generate long, detailed descriptions (even though it still obviously shows the fundamental lack of understanding intrinsic to all LLMs).
Do you think that's an important or useful distinction in this context?
Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App
Thanks for mentioning Element X. I do like the Matrix protocol, but their former ios app was very buggy.
As I understand it, this guy didn't even bother to address what this would do to the cosmic microwave background or to cosmological nucleosynthesis. The only story here is how slovenly peer review of papers has become.
> If it wasn't already clear, I support RFK Jr and hold his foreign policy in high regard. I also deeply respect his principled approach to telling American voters the truth. Uncomfortable truths are often unpopular at first, but being genuine is an important part of healing the divide. I hold those who are willing to speak uncomfortable truths in high regard and I suspect many others do as well.

You can go ahead and support a raving lunatic if you want but it doesn't stop him being a raving lunatic and a non credible source.

He doesn't speak uncomfortable truths he is an idiot.

> I can't speak for Russian leadership as I don't claim to know their motives or intent. Might it be possible, as is verifiably true in the case of the US funded bio-labs as well as the nuclear-capable Stinger missiles, that they did raise these issues, but our captured western media failed to report it? Have you read any Russian media accounts, or only what comes filtered through western media?

I can't tell if you're purposely saying stuff that literally makes no sense or if you are trying to use it as a propaganda tactic.

What in christ is a nuclear stinger missile?.

> Have you read any Russian media accounts, or only what comes filtered through western media?

Have you read anything that isn't just straight Russian propaganda?.

> Notably, all Russian media was banned in the west at the start of this war. What we call Russian propaganda, they call news - and vice versa.

What we call propaganda is literally Russian propaganda never forget these "news" outlets are the same places that gave you following real headlines

"Why Russia won't invade Ukraine"

"Ukrainian black magic battalions"

"Ukrainian super soldier"

> I notice that you didn't mention any concessions from either the Ukraine or NATO. I don't see how Russia agreeing to the unilateral terms you outlined would satisfy their concerns over the potential of a NATO aligned state on their border so close to their capital. How do you see this negotiating strategy playing out? Why would Russia concede? Are they running out of ammunition? According to Biden, we certainly are or else we wouldn't be sending cluster munitions as a last resort.

Maybe they would negotiate stop things exploding in Russia and Crimea so often?, to stop losing soldiers?.

> It seems you believe you know their motivations better than I do. However, the best way to find out would be to call for a cease-fire and to get both sides back to the negotiating table so we can find a way forward via diplomacy instead of an endless unwinnable war.

Russia benefits from a cease-fire allowing them to rearm.

Russia has already agreed multiple times to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine and to withdraw their troops back to their own border, they never did.

The only negotiations that should take place are when Russia is back in Russia.

Why should Ukraine cede anything? they are slowing winning the war.

Why do you reply in a way that makes it impossible to follow the conversation thread?.
Wow! Had no idea mastodon.social/online are non-profit. So all these days I was avoiding mastodon.social/online because people have been telling me that they are too big to fail and anything that is too big to fail can make hostile decisions to its users anytime. But I feel better about them knowing they are non-profit.
"Alongside unsupported claims that the US and other governments are developing such weapons."

Although not widely reported in the media, I would stop short at arguing these claims of ethnically targeted bio-weapons are unsupported. See my comment further down where I provide multiple sources to back the claims of US funded bioweapons labs that Russia brought to the UN in 2022 - and which the US denied at the time - only to sheepishly admit to earlier this year, that the US was funding 46 Bio (weapons) labs in the Ukraine, many along Russia's border.

Again, the first casualty of war is the truth - applies to both sides.

Tell me you understand that the US government - the one that lied to America and the world to justify their invasion of Iraq not once but twice (Iraq1: killing babies in incubators, Iraq2: Weapons of Mass Destruction), might not be telling the whole truth to justify this war either.

The technology for DNA targeted bio-weapons is widely known to be in the wild. Our own intelligence community has already highlighted the risks to Americans [0] I would say it is rather naive to think that neither we nor our adversaries would be developing them just in case the other side does.

Also, we now know that despite the Obama-era ban on bio-weapons research, Anthony Fauci was secretly funding gain-of-function research on COVID viruses with the covert knowledge of the US military up until, checks notes, YESTERDAY. [1]

Just because you didn't hear about it on CNN, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

"You fell for it."

Who fell for what, now?

[0] https://www.foxnews.com/us/intelligence-committee-members-wa...

[1] https://www.outkick.com/wuhan-lab-defunded-after-failing-to-...