skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine the same reason most tech companies are started by people in their 40s-60s: because it takes that long to accumulate the experience, contact network, and wealth to start a company.
You can use the WebGPU backend on Tinygrad. It's working well for my test with a Nvidia 960 running inference (Unet 3D). I don't know how well WebGPU is supported on AMD GPUs.
can't you just go to about:profiles?
For anyone left reading, let this be a live demonstration of how it can be a waste of time to try to convince someone on the Internet their thinking is wrong.

I'm pretty sure Zetice hasn't changed their mind on anything. I haven't really changed my mind on anything.

I still think the things we linked to are valuable. For those of you who have filters that let the information through, I hope you find something useful. Read the paper Zetice linked to and see what questions you come up with. Or don't.
Of course large companies are always a bit schizophrenic with different departments moving in different directions, but I think fundamentally 1995-2000's Microsoft was trying to improve the web, and get people to use it. Just as Google does now they tried to blur the line between desktop and web, just that where Google is trying to move all desktop functionality to the web interface, Microsoft was trying to make all web functionality accessible in a desktop interface.

Explorer and Internet Explorer were deeply married, with the ability to set web pages as desktop background, the Explorer of Windows 98 having a "sidebar" that was an HTML page, the ubiquitous help format being compressed HTML pages with index and search, ActiveX giving webpages desktop-application-like powers, JScript being a powerful javascript-compatible automation language for Windows. Windows was full of web technologies in the dot-com era, many bringing web and desktop closer together. This stopped an reversed course in the early 2000s. You could now say that's classic embrace-extend-extinguish, but the collapse of the dot-com bubble explains explains the sudden lack of investment and increasing distance between desktop and web just as well.
It's also an excellent illustration of exponential effects, how just a few things over a threshold of thousands can make a disproportionately huge difference.

Those forks in the extra bag were probably worth hundreds of dollars each to the office in terms of time and productivity savings from all the effort saved from fork hoarding.
I am a huge fan of adblocking, and didn't see whatever ad you mentioned :P

I sometimes whitelist sites that I care about who also advertise responsibly. It's a very short whitelist.
You just need to understand assembly. Maybe there are books that can help, I'm not aware of any, but to get started I'd recommend taking a binary of any open source software (preferably a non-optimised build, or just your own hello world with some loops etc), run it in a debugger, and step through each assembly instruction at a time and figure out what it's doing, with the corresponding source code. Eventually you may be able to do this without needing the source code, which is the goal. I think this is about the same effort as learning a new language (spoken, not programming), i.e. it'll take months of being immersed in it to get good at it.

On the other hand, maybe your binary can be decompiled to source code (e.g. CFR can decompile java classes, I've used that a bit but haven't checked if that's useful for Android apps).
Show HN: Traceo is now open-source
yep. life will adapt, though it may not life that we recognize.

As ocean warms say so long to Salmon on the northwest coast. Whether they will survive further north or simply go extinct altogether who can say.

Departing along with the salmon will be things that us humans in the area enjoy, such as smoked salmon and salmon on the BBQ. In the grand scheme of things likely trivial, but enormous losses to our way of life, not to mention local economies.

Greater than that are the impacts on local First Nations of whose cultures the salmon historically played a incredible role, which resulted in an outsized impact of the fish on their art, story and culture. Will be devastating when the fish disappears.

The biggest unknown impacts will be on the greater forest ecology, as it has been noted that the bears eat the salmon and drag it into the woods, where it provides food for other animals and nourishes the forest in general. As the salmon disappear there could well be a cascade of disruption and extinction on animals and ecologies well beyond what we're aware of.

The salmon will go away and yes earth will "survive" and I'm sure some another fish (or maybe just jellyfish) will fill the void. But the disruptive impacts will be utterly enormous.
Should be genetically engineering plants to optimize carbon capture too.
Vivaldi's entire reason for being is "I literally cannot bring myself to just use firefox instead so I'll bend over backwards to try and remove objectionable things from chromium and still end up supporting chrome as the web default"
Hardcore tech: e.g. fusion energy, quantum computing, superconductors.

Softcore tech: e.g. websites, apps, deep learning.
"Stopping digging" is a coordination problem on the global scale, with no one to actually coordinate it or enforce penalties on defectors.

Injecting sulfur into the stratosphere is a simple enough problem that many governments, and a few individuals, could be doing it within a few years.

I agree that the first of those is preferable to the second; it's just that the first of those isn't going to happen.
> # Developers

> Sorry, there are no developers to subscribe to currently.

If you actually want adoption, more needs done than posting the thing you built and suggesting people use it. Building effective, self-sufficient marketplaces is tough. Benefit has to be seen on both sides from the get-go.
> Inaction is also a choice, and a terrible one.

First, do no harm.
Too optimistic? Most people in America today seem to be claiming to be hapless victims.
Yes, it's still my default browser -- work and home. I put up with it because I browse far more on my phone than on my computer.
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Technically nothing is preventing you from maintaining your own reverse-engineered 1Password backend. You're even legally allowed to do so under US law. You just don't want to invest the time and effort. And neither does 1Password for the price you pay. Maybe it would be nice for them to offer a pricing tier where they make it easy for your to BYOB, but it doesn't seem to be a priority of theirs anymore and you can always switch to one of those open source apps that stores things locally if that's really a deal breaker.
Wait, are you suggesting current climate related deaths are a good indicator of what the climate will be doing in 30 years from now?
As someone that isn't up-to-date on WEI, can someone provide a TLDR of what it does and why it's bad?
Fundamentally everything comes down to that people don’t want to change. Any solution pushed is a solution that does not require change.

electric cars are still cars
recycling means you don’t change consumption at all
carbon capture means you continue to emit.

Humans don’t seem capable of change
> - aliens exist - they have recovered technology - they have recovered bodies - there's a shadow government of people approving access to information on a higher level than the government - money is being directly taken out of other projects and/or services to fund UAP projects

OK.

> - there is an active disinformation program in the government directly regarding UAPs

Would that active disinformation program include having people go testify to Congress, in front of cameras, and tell them what's in my first quoted section?

More generally, any time someone says "there is a disinformation campaign saying X", there is a greater than zero chance that, yes, there is a disinformation campaign, and that person making that claim is (knowingly or not) part of that campaign.
Retiring small business owners – could worker co-ops be a solution?
Fine then because they owe me money
This is one of the potential paths (look up BECCS/bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration). Basically, grow something that grows very quickly (I think switchgrass is usually discussed), burn it for energy, and put something to capture carbon from the flue gas in the exhaust pipe, then sequester it.

But it has tradeoffs. It costs money, and compared to eg direct air capture, it uses land that would’ve otherwise gone to growing food or something else, so a not-insignificant opportunity cost.

And we’re not even doing carbon capture on coal plant flue gas, because there’s just no incentive.

If we rolled out serious carbon taxes, this would become more feasible in addition to putting capture on existing plants.

If you’re interested, I highly recommend the AirMiners course, it gives a good overview/survey of the literature. The tldr is that we’re going to need a cocktail of all sorts of these technologies to hit anywhere near our targets, in addition to getting to net zero. We need to be pushing for a carbon tax politically, hard, to make this economically viable to do at scale. People need to become single-issue voters on this, and let politicians know that they are.

Good primer on carbon tax with dividend and border adjustment: https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/
Aligning everyone in a big corporation is like herding cats - you've got workers worried about their day-to-day, managers trying to balance their carrier plus top and bottom, and executives planning for the long haul. Lots of potential for clashes and dropped balls there.

The fix? Clear, strategic chatter top to bottom; giving employees a real stake in decision-making; building up leadership skills in your managers; aligning performance incentives with company goals; and creating a team culture that's all about working together and being transparent. Easier said than done...
Apple’s strict on App Store rules but gives WeChat a free pass (2020)
Stadium Arcadium was a victim of this until the LP corrected the levels and is now considered the definitive version of the album.

I'm not sure if the high-res audio version on Apple Music has corrected this sin of the original CDs.
Not in my country. Our police apparently prevented such shops.
I'm pretty sure that this (and a little bit more) is already present in KDE and it's called Activities. It's not very popular, possibly because it's not "marketed" enough IMO.
Vocal harmonies for one
> By all accounts, Starliner is behind is every possible way with much greater funding than SpaceX.

That's only true if you assume SpaceX strictly allocated budgets per program and that no revenue from their other missions have gone to the crewed flight programs.

I'm not saying Spaceliner is a success, or that there are arguments to be made about each company's approach (you could argue that while Boeing's approach seems relatively glacial, Boeing also has far fewer smoking craters and damaged barges than SpaceX).

None of that removes the fairly evident bias that Ars can be counted on to spin anything SpaceX in a positive manner (a la ignoring years of delays to talk of SpaceX saving the day for NASA, while a refusal to commit to a launch date following a just discovered issue for Boeing immediately implies more years of delays).
The original comment calls the people fabricating data "rats" and "cheaters", I'm not sure how you would construe that to be excusing them. The comment is describing that if a system is made to be so difficult you have to cheat to get past it, only cheaters will get past it.
If you value your safety, ignore every word this person has written. Their way of thinking leaves them extremely vulnerable.

You will be worse off if you think like they do.
Most websites have them, just browse in incognito and either override your user-agent to something funky or connect through a known VPN.
Musk doesn’t pay because he can get away with it. It’s a power play by him
The point is it's not an excuse, but it's not surprising that given that pressure those who fabricate data have an edge in the system compared to those who don't. (i.e. if you create an environment where the only way to succeed is to be fraudulent then of course it's going to be populated by frauds)
TWENTY minutes? O_o
what kinda software/binary was that if you don't mind me asking?
It's not about bots creating fake ad impressions by accident. It's people writing bots whose purpose is to fake ad impressions and clicks. They'll then run it on their own website that's running ads, with the goal of being paid by the ad network for this fake traffic.
WHATWG (meaning, the browser vendors) are the de facto actual decision-makers of web standards. They tolerate the W3C existing because it's less hassle than causing a big fuss by getting rid of it, but make no mistake: the W3C is a powerless figurehead organization.
And you’re still carrying the trauma with you
If you STILL use chrome after this, you were never willing to give an alternative even a little bit of a chance anyway. Surely not supporting this and the power it gives Google over the web is worth a "slower" (I've never experienced that) browser or one with a stupid pocket logo in the corner that you NEVER HAVE TO INTERACT WITH EVER
One of the purposes of ISS, and other space programs (Apollo-Soyuz for example) was showcasing how nations can work together, and bringing hope for peace during the cold war. May sound naive, but that's the reason why nobody should be jettisoned off the space station - even if there are embargoes on the ground.
Schön got away with it for years.

One of my favorite video essays is a long exploration of that case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64
The Southwest region is certainly geographically isolated; however California is doing its best to fight that with connections such as with the PNW, but those are long distance and California is still susceptible to power outages from a few weak links .
If you want a browser engine it's either one of the KHTML descendants or Firefox. The problem is, both are ridiculously complex, only one family has the backing of three multi-billion dollar giants, and the other infamously suffers from "progressive disease" aka complete unwillingness to move fast and instead preferring to engineer the "perfect" solution.

That even Microsoft couldn't manage to keep up with progress only shows how utterly impossible it would be to kickstart a browser engine.

(The fact that Mozilla as an organization is embedded in constant infighting and utter incompetence doesn't help either)
> Software Design Intent document

Sounds like a good way to nip the creative aspect in the bud.

Sure, if a client comes to a software vendor with a clear plan, draw up good specs, requirements etc. before doing any design (or coding). Or code a quick 'n dirty proof of concept solely to hash out what exactly those requirements are. Same with existing codebase if you want to add feature X and scope of that is well defined.

But I suspect quite a few applications / projects / websites / tech startups / software libraries have started life with a "hey, that's neat. Let's take X, glue onto Y, tinker & play with it, see what we can do with that".

Small / cheap 1st iterations don't involve much wasted effort anyway. Worst case = 0 useful code but you have learned something.

When utility has shown & you get a sense of where you want it to go, then bring in the design aids for a proper v1.x, 2.x etc.
I remember the discussions on Slashdot many years ago about the "analog hole"; you can have all the DRM you want, but people can still point a camera at the screen and record a non-encumbered copy that way. This is definitely the case with automating web activities; you take a trusted computer, point a camera at it, and have your bot synthesize keypresses and mouse movements. There is absolutely no way for a website at the other end of the Internet to know that a human is using the computer. (I see this as the "end game" for FPS cheating. I don't think anyone is doing it yet, but it's bound to happen.)

I'm guessing the reason we want attestation is so that Chrome can drop ad blockers and websites can drop non-Chrome browsers. But there is no reason why you can't do the thing where you point a video camera at a monitor, have AI black out the ads, and then view the edited video feed instead of the real one.

The only use for attestation I see is for work-from-home corporate Intranets. Sure, make sure that OS is up to date before you're willing to send High-Value Intellectual Property to the laptop. That... already works and doesn't involve web standards. (At my current job, I'm in the hilarious position where all of our source code is open-source and anyone on Earth can edit it, but I have to use a trusted computer to do things like anti-discrimination training. It's like opsec backwards. But, the attestation works fine, no new tech needed.)
Given that starliner is still not operational and the situation in Russia the description seems pretty on point to me?
I don’t know. Overlapping windows may look messy, but I know where they are and their size is right for me. Not for you, for me.

If windows are moving all the time on their own as I open new ones, maybe it looks gorgeous on demos and screenshots, but I don’t think it’s going to be ergonomic to actually work with. And my work is not about posting screenshots to r/unixporn.
The problem with this fairly complex solution is that the easier path by far is simpler window arrangements, multiple monitors, and many workspaces. Once you have more windows than fit on a workspace its easier just to have more workspaces and 1-3 windows is what basically universally fits on most monitors.

If you organize more things in the same space you probably need indivdual apps that themselves have tabs like browsers, editors, IDEs rather than more windows.

Personally I use https://github.com/chmln/i3-auto-layout to make slightly better layouts automatically be automatically alternating between v and h splits and find this fits my needs 95% of the time.

Shit work under i3 is already very small but if you wanted to reduce it further I think you could probably go a long way with a very simple feature.

Add a save button that saves current layout to a list like so

Browser, calculator

Browser, pdf reader

terminal terminal terminal

ide terminal terminal

Then have a restore function that simply walks the list finds the entry that matches the kind and number of window and shoves existing windows into that layout. You can at creation time use something like i3-save-tree, edit the json, yada yada but its all fairly manual and I think for the use case it would be relatively simpler. The few non standard all match for me a simple pattern eg there really isn't 2 different ways I want IDE terminal terminal
Just want to actually dream a lot lately to be honest. Find myself wasting a up to at least lunchtime on a Saturday if I get the type of sleep that gives consecutive dreams.
Is building a product that uses OpenAI considered hardcore? I think he'd have to be building his own LLM from scratch for it to be considered hardcore.
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Diving deep into Laravel Core and explaining it's internal components and how it works behind the scenes.
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> Remember when Apple killed Flash? I heard it was because they wanted people to use their app store more instead of us playing games in the browser, so they could make more money.

Even without the incentive of “moar profit$” they never entertained Flash because fundamentally, it sucked. When it landed in Android, it was a bloated mess that sucked the battery dry and was slow as molasses. On every platform it existed on, it was a usability and security nightmare. No, Apple “killed” Flash by making a sane decision not to allow it in their fledgling platform because Flash outright sucked, informed largely by the abhorrent performance on all platforms.

> And Microsoft installing IE and setting it as the default browser?

SMH. There was never an issue with Microsoft providing IE as a default initially - that came later with the EU. The biggest issue was that if an OEM (a Dell or an HP) struck a deal with Netscape to provide that as default, Microsoft threatened to remove the OEMs license to distribute Windows. In the late ‘90s and early ‘00s that would have been the death knell of an OEM. And that is the anti-trust part. They abused the position as the number 1 desktop os ( by a significant margin) to take control of the then nascent browser market.
Yes, they've had 3 so far and have at least 4 more planned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon_2#Crew_Dragon_fl...
Philip Rosedale on AI, VisionPro and making a Metaverse that matters [video]
Don't know why you get this impression from my comment. I lived in Israel and still love Israel but what is going on there is a concern to me. I want it thrive and be a jewish home for many generation to come and not to have a repeat of 2000 years ago scenario.
I am embarrassed to admit that I agree with this strategy. It's a real Trolley Problem, and our own children are currently in the path of the speeding trolley.
Because nobody will hire an >50yo in tech. Yes, there are exeptions for managerial roles (not tech, just tech adjacent at best) or extremely rare competences (live in memory AS/400 debugging anyone?).

Tech is the most agist sector, well, ok, maybe behind olympic sports or lingerie modelling.
It looks quite similiar to Grafana, but it seems that it is a combination of features from sentry and grafana?
Would this end up breaking curl, or any other tool that accesses https?
He has a legitimate point. Instead of doing it the exact same moment maybe they have a random 60s counter before fetching. Spread out the 4000+ requests over a minute. To addd another minute if the server numbers rise every 10k?
I don’t think this quote is a fair interpretation of what I was saying. I don’t think the poor should fix it. I think they should force the hands of the wealthy to fix it. The wealthy aren’t and won’t do it on their own because they aren’t impacted the same way or to the same extent.
There are some ways ranging from mellow to outright cuntish. These can be applied to websites or social media profiles (depending on the method):

- Display a small text or a link to raise awareness about WEI

- Display a "Works best with Firefox, a browser which respects you and your privacy" banner in a similar way to the chrome nagging popups.

- Display a fullscreen modal (just like the SOPA/PIPA ones) with a detailed write-up of the problem

- Subtly degrade the website's experience on chromium (just check window.chrome)

- Outright block chromium, and explain why.
I can see it being useful to have a feature which could validate if another user on a website is a human. e.g: on reddit or twitter, the user you're talking to has a little checkmark (not the blue checkmark) next to their name if they've been WEI validated. Rather than refusing to let a user use the platform, just letting other users know that the person you're talking to isn't a bot
But anti-trust stalled Microsoft's efforts at a critical time and allowed Firefox and Safari (like Gecko) to restore a standards-based web from an IE-based web. It's not a cure all but it worked. IE had 95% marketshare in 2002 and Firefox took a third of that from them in a few years thanks to anti-trust and the consent decree it forced on MS.
Are you suggesting you can predict the future 30 years from now?
Good question — I left in 2002 and the bar smoking ban took full effect in 2003, so I don't really know the answer.
>I realize this sounds like a cop out, and that getting people to use such a thing in sufficient numbers would be extremely difficult.

In the last few days browsing Fediverse platforms I prefer the smaller communities for that old internet spirit anyway.