skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it differently. I couldn't care less about Pocket integration and Mr.Robot easter egg, but Mozilla became hostile toward power users and open web idealists.

They killed Weave (aka Sync 1.0; which was somewhat weird but simple enough to comprehend, reimplement and self-host), replacing it with an NIH-reeking over-engineered abomination that's the very antithesis of standard, open or public. Most people just ignored it as "that's Mozilla own infrastructure, they don't have to make it open, design it well, think of others, or anything else". I could not.

They tried to push a fundamentally flawed Persona/BrowserID standard that continued the trend to remove users from their "own" identities while claiming it's a pro-user pro-privacy move. I can see the logic, but I'm of firm opinion that it would've done more harm than good. I'm glad the project died without gaining any traction and WebAuthn (which has its issues, but where users are the source of their identities) took over. That's what BrowserID should've been, but Mozilla just went with the flow and refused or failed to fight for identity ownership.

It's things like those what made me regret using Firefox (but again, everything else is worse), not some home page sponsored links. That's where they stopped to differ from the rest for me. Mozilla used to be a beacon of doing things right even if it was challenging, fighting for a better web. And they became just another software company, that put their glorious past on all the ads (how they're so pro-everything good) while failing to live up to those high standards.

They had an user agent, but they butchered it and made it just a browser.
It can be this. The device is both a wifi client, does L2 magic for the ethernet port (you can't put a switch behind it) and it can rebroadcast wifi signals, because to do so you don't have to be a client to rebroadcast, but you have to half your airtime, so you're halfing your speed.
Looking forward to the inevitable Nile Red & Applied Science videos
Or when big tech banded together to change the pistol emoji to some scifi zapper.
Which means they aren't applying any sort of primacy to the information.

If three segments of the internet think the same piece of information is relevant, that should affect the score of all 3 copies, not just the largest segment.
I have an original IBM AT Model F which I used on a Mac with a AT->PS/2->USB pigtail in the mid aughts. I sometimes think back to what an insufferable ass I must have been to have exposed my co-workers to that interminable cacophony of self-important keyboard clacking.
They literally already store the whole conversation...
It's a strawman because they aren't comparable to AI detection tests. A screening coming back as possible cancer will lead to follow up tests to confirm, or rule out. An AI detection test coming back as positive can't be refuted or further tested with any level of accuracy. It's a completely unverifiable test with a low accuracy.
So I guess I have two opinions on this, maybe they balance out.

Opinion 1, adults should have options/facilities available to them to enable their functioning in modern society which supports administering ADHD treatment (medication) if they so desire. After all, every living thing dies alone.

Opinion 2, children (in the US, and teenagers in particular) are over-diagnosed with ADHD and various other disorders which is a direct consequence on the obsession with academic achievement.

Bottom line, if everyone needs to be on medication in order to be productive in a society then it's the society that has the disorder not the individuals.
Also anyone that wants to use an ad blocker or have some privacy.
Depends on the situation. Creating tables is a space/CPU tradeoff. Views can be managed the same way as the rest of your data pipeline.

CREATE TEMPORARY VIEW and CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE are both valid SQL.

> CTEs should be the first thing you reach for when trying to clarify the intent of the way you’re chopping up your data.

Sure but they aren't a silver bullet. Hence the "or" in my comment.

I use Redshift a lot and temporary tables are useful there for defining the sort and distribution keys when those are not favorable to the current query. Think joining several demographic tables into a single customer dimension, distributing it on the customer key then filtering the product_id distributed sales and re-distributing it on customer before joining. You can't do that with a CTE.

Views are handy when you have ugly CASE statements or other derived logic and need a convenience column that does something like string concatenation. I have a whole repository of them I deploy on top of the default system views for simplifying admin tasks.

If you are struggling to keep your SQL clean it's because you are doing too much at once. Take a step back and re-evaluate your data model. If your physical model is bad then no number of CTEs will save you.
A well written document should focus the reader. When everything is a hyperlink and a "thought map" then you'll just end up being distracted and either not reading the original doc, or clicking on nothing and ignoring the deluge of hyperlinks. The demos in this article are heavily obstructed by all the visual noise.

If something is important enough, the author will discuss it directly in the document. Hyperlinks can provide context when the reader may not have the context assumed of the intended audience, or they're a poor man's bibliographic citation (because the links always break eventually), but otherwise it's a signal that it's _not_ important.
> In January 2023, we completed an assessment of the useful lives of our servers and network equipment and
adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from four years to six years and the estimated useful life of certain
network equipment from five years to six years. This change in accounting estimate was effective beginning in fiscal
year 2023, and the effect was a reduction in depreciation expense of $966 million and $2.0 billion and an increase
in net income of $752 million and $1.5 billion

Interesting accounting magic
Apple.. Umm, how does this get us lock in again? No statement from MS is much more interesting.
How do you play with inflation numbers around the world? 7% YoY does not seem an increase. US official inflation rate is 8% and inflation is calculated based on a basket that is different from inflation based on specific industries.
It's been about 6 months since the Google CEO blogged about how they needed to lay of 12,000 people to brace for the "difficult economic cycle". Meanwhile revenue is up 7% YoY.

https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/january-update...
They're certainly a dominating player in the phone market.
Beautifully put. I couldn't have said it better myself.
Oh come on, stop with the hyperbole. Two of those things are nothing even close to the others.
“I don't know why this enrages folks so much.” Googler re Chrome anti-feature
I concur. My experience with VR dropped off as soon as my partner moved in. It was my digital tether to another world and it just doesn't feel right to do if you not alone, since for me (exclusively playing VRChat), you're socializing with a bunch of people in an open room and it just doesn't feel right with others around.
DEC made excellent equipment and excellent software to go with it. Their FORTRAN compiler was the gold standard. But IBM and Sun were too much competition in the transition to personal workstations and UNIX. It just didn’t fit their business model of enterprise computing via mainframes and accessories.

I still believe that VMS was the superior operating system. And their support was outstanding.
> calling all sorts of things compilers that are thin wrappers over the OpenAI API

Well compilation and transpilation are kind or related, and translation is kind of an ambigous version of transpilation, and LLMs are kind of a more nondeterministic superset of natural language translation (processing), which really makes calling it a compiler a huge stretch, I agree.

This all makes me wonder, could it be possible for an LLM to spit out the bits, or even assembly, for a hello world program written in another programming language. That'd kind of make it a really bad compiler.
LLM-generated spam is trivial to automate inside of a normal browser. The level of restriction that Google is discussing will not have an impact on the ability to mass-post GPT results to Reddit.

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It's worth considering that the examples that come up over and over again when people try to defend this proposal are a strong reason to believe that Google is lying or being naive when it says that the proposal won't eventually impact extensions or the ability to inspect 3rd-party code.

Because OS-level restrictions that ignore extensions and runtime modifications to websites and scriptable browsers won't help with any of these problems. And if advocates are willing to so quickly say today, "there's LLM spam, so sure, lock down the OS", they are also going to say in the future, "there's still LLM spam, the problem is worse than ever, lock down the extensions."

If you believe that blocking bots justifies attacking user agency, there's no reason to stop at blocking users from rooting their phones. The actual impactful attacks on user agency for blocking bots would be to block website inspection and website modification.
Testing voice recognition models in preps of the initial HomePod is one example, but quite a few software services built for unreleased hardware would do this.
Why wouldn't it allow a service to do exactly that?
The number of people the collapse would affect is a whole lot closer to “the total human population” than “1 person”.
You might want to take a look at the papers i've linked here that go into this kind of research

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868552
This does not seem relevant when you're already on a video call. The prohibition on requesting photographs is to prevent otherwise unknown information about their race/gender/etc.
16Gb is minimum to run 7B model with float16 weights; out of the box, with no further efforts.
They're not, but it's the summer right now, so they're home.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-desi... seems like the relevant docs?
> It's mentions a potential collapse as early as 2025

"DOOM ITS THE END OF THE WORLD!" is a tale as old as time... revelations has been screaming the end is near for thousands of years now.

It's "accurate to say" that prophets and prophecies are notoriously wrong which is why signs that the ice caps will be gone by 2000 have been removed from state parks.

hint: they aren't gone.
The original question was what “far right” refers to in the article. My assumption is that the Signal employees mentioned had roughly the same thing in mind as the Wikipedia article. You may not like the term “far right” (after all, both “far left” and “far right” are usually used pejoratively), but there is little doubt as to what it means in this context.
> Not a single game is custom made for VR except HL:A

False, there are plenty of VR only games available on Steam. There's an entire category called "VR Only".
I myself contributed to those ad earnings by watching 4 ads in a 10 min video.
I’m deliberating on how much RAM to get on my new MBP. Is 32gb going to stand me in good stead?
> They should have put in the two weeks at least.

And work through two additional weeks without the strength to even brush their teeth? Doesn't seem realistic to me.
> Where is electricity that cheap?

It's even cheaper in my part of my state: 0.029/KWh
Is that true? Doesn’t this just effectively translate into sql to be executed on the db as usual if you’re running on an rdbms?

Looking at the examples and the sql generated in the playground you’re just going to have the query planner doing its thing to decide how to execute eventually anyway.
> I don't see any rational argument for a Model M in 2023. There are so many options in keyboards that are more modern, quiet, well built, compact and yet feel nicer to type on.

This is a highly subjective take. Just taking myself as an example, an original Model M feels far nicer to type on to me personally than any of the other modern mechanical keyboards that people often recommend.

There are absolutely rational arguments for a Model M. Just as there are rational arguments for other keyboards too. You just have to try to look at it more objectively and try to match to people's own unique personal preferences.
Matomo is open source. They have a comparison with Google Analytics:
https://matomo.org/matomo-vs-google-analytics-comparison/
>I agree that the "family" metaphor breaks down around termination

It breaks down the second you actually compare your family to your company. I think that basically every single person would do many, many things for members of his family that he wouldn't do for the members of his company.
Custom query language rings to me of overfitting. "It could work just great on the global language, but wouldn't that 5% be so much better?"
As someone who has used Arc for just over a year now, I have a love/hate relationship with it.

There are some features like the ability to "peek" into a webpage or Little Arc which is really handy for SSO popups without changing full focus to the browser that makes other browsers feel like a step down.

That said, and maybe this will change post-1.0, there were a lot of basic bugs that popped up over time like tabs disappearing from the sidebar, tabs "syncing" into the void because the browser blindly copied state from another browser, tabs that can't be closed and so on.

Generally these are fixed and don't happen all at once but when they do, it rubs up against the new features being touted to make you feel insane. "Boosts are great but I just want the browser to stop interfering so I can do some work"

Anyway, it's a bit like stockholm syndrome sometimes. I love it and anything else is a downgrade but it also keeps hurting me but nowhere near enough to outweigh the benefits.

As far as support goes, it feels bit like they're a victim of success. Almost every ticket used to get a response but now I rarely hear anything which makes the canned "We value your feedback" feel hollow. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Support has changed. It's just a somewhat unavoidable outcome when you start as part of a niche and the userbase rapidly grows, making replying to everything untenable.

In all, I'm glad there is a new entrant. Would a new engine be nice? Sure but differentiating a browser and building a full rendering engine at the same time is a bit of a tall order off the bat.

Perhaps if they had a cash generating machine already like Google did. It'll be interesting to see if that changes in future (I assume it won't be who knows) and they're doing a lot of interesting work porting Swift to Windows (their strategy for porting Arc)

I'm still a daily user since things have been solid for the last little while but I do wonder how things might degrade (enshittify) given a future need to return VC investment. You can learn a bit about their monetisation thinking here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eVda3zFLlhc

Lastly, I'll plug their YouTube channel which is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBrowserCompany

Particularly the videofile series which talks a lot about their internal workings, metrics and so on. There are times that I've had bad bugs or a new feature was ill received and then the next videofile confirms they've seen that reaction in bulk too
Please don't blow the lead smoke over to your neighbors house though
Since SO is often used in a professional capacity, that problem could have easily been fixed by dev tools providing a formal way to link to SO traffic for topics that are relevant to the team.

It's just been a while since anyone has started trying to integrate tools with each other, outside of the established players.
GCP is an interesting one -- I helped a company go through some of the hoops for GCP and AWS and the former was... difficult. It felt like someone tried to copy AWS, didn't fix all the links or think the whole thing through, and just sort of put it out there. I remember we were locked out of our account for like a month for some reason and there was a lot of handoff between different reps, for churn or for some business process reason I wasn't aware of, but it was a pretty jarring experience that made us not want to invest a lot of time there
How can anyone on HN ignore it when there are a dozen climate emergency articles on the front page every day? Fatigue is setting in.
Awesome, I love it when my questions are trivial to answer.

But I'm not sure how a company such as OpenAI would connect iris data to colon cancer cases. How would they even access iris data? let alone connect iris data to personal identity? I don't see a way of doing that within the Worldcoin framework.

> Your biometric data is first processed locally on the Orb and then permanently deleted. The only data that remains is your IrisCode. This IrisCode is a set of numbers generated by the Orb and is not linked to your wallet or any of your personal information. As a result, it really tells us — and everyone else — nothing about you. All it does is stop you from being able to sign up again.
Looks like they weren’t really needed to add to that revenue.
Psychiatrists/psychologists have a lengthy history of being wildly incorrect or openly fraudulent about a lot of things, and in not-so-distant history. Don't expect them to have this all figured out.

Boredom is a good example of a bad call. That sounds like how he internalizes it, but it's definitely not true for everyone. It signals lack of anything challenging. A starving man is seldom bored. Same with:

> Hatred—a call to accept something about myself I don’t like.

This one's just dumb. This is the logic behind "I hate gays, ergo I must be one." Glad we figured that out. Now explain "I hate blacks, Asians and Italians."

Hatred--real, actual hatred, not the pithy SJW definition--is borne from fear, ignorance, or grief. It is not a signal of introspection.
It's worth knowing more details than the headline here:

1. Professor Joy Alonzo, who's an expert in Opiod harm-reduction gave a talk where according to all accounts, she mildly critiqued the Lt. Governor and state's preferences for punitive approaches for drug control and that they are considered Federal non-reporters on Opioid stats since they don't collect the data required.

2. Dawn Buckingham, the TX Land Commissioner has a daughter who was in the audience of the talk. (presumably) The daughter texts her mom, telling her that the lecture disparaged the Lt. Gov.

3. Buckingham immediately texts the Lt. Governor that Alonzo had critiqued him - the Lt. Gov then called the Chancellor of Texas A&M where Professor Alonzo is employed.

4. Chancellor texts, literal hours after the lecture was finished, that "Joy Alonzo has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation re firing her. shud [sic] be finished by end of week."

Absolutely clear cut violation of the 1st amendment. If they had any shame, everyone involved would resign.
Ask HN: Anyone Having Issues in STL?
Three separate relatives going east and west were having issues with delayed flights and multiple redirects. Anyone else?
Why do so many cities have punitive homeless policies?
octox is also different in that the kernel, userland, mkfs, and build system are all implemented in Rust, and I think it is also different at the type level, for example, octox using mpmc for Pipe, and using OnceLock and LazyLock for static variable initialization.
You can be a public employee without being a direct report to the Governor.
Interesting accounting magic indeed. It seems like tricks like this make it remarkably easy to game stock price. Are there any controls on this?
Netflix was unlikely to ever be able to forever remain an aggregator of content from other distribution shops. They would've gotten squeezed to death from all sides.

So now they have tons of content and tons of viewership (and tons of profits the last several years) but they've changed from being "the biggest streaming hub for all your favorites" to "one of many producers and distributors." They might on the whole have more good stuff you'd like - but they have a lot less mindshare for that stuff than when it was stuff that had already done theater and TV rounds.

(What's really interesting to me is that the music industry evolved differently, with almost no exclusives, so you have many competing streaming services (but all that seem to be VERY squeezed profit-wise) all with the same content. My best guess is it's because people want to be able to flow music together in custom playlists, spanning a bunch of artists, vs binging a single series or such?)
Because web developers might not be incentivized to implement multiple different attestation protocols?
> not in for a discussion

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Breaking Through VSCode Env Restrictions with Devbox and Nix
That's not really an insightful statement given that free speech in the context that it is being discussed is literally referencing ONLY government interference on the dissemination of speech. It's like saying that the biggest threat to becoming wet is water.
If budget isn't an issue, get an Index. I personally prefer the Vive hands and lighthouses from 2016 and the Index headset from 2021, but if you're starting from scratch, you might as well just get the Index and go from there.

A full Vive set would also be fine for starting, but's aging (7 years old now), and you may appreciate the fidelity the Index has.
I've worked in unclassified roles (not faculty). Academia likes to talk a good game about freedom but their annual appointments make it clear the money you get is at the governor's discretion. It's probably a mistake to exercise that discretion, but it's a mistake faculty are powerless to stop: "If you come at the king, you best not miss."
You want to go into these conversations in good faith, but when they're so transparently not being had in good faith, it's tough to do so.

I'm trying to figure out how to balance assuming the best and treating every comment as if it's an individual argument, while also not being completely naive to the fact that a nontrivial number of the people making these arguments are very often blatantly pro-DRM and are asking me to just pretend that they're not. It's definitely not everyone, but...
That’s an incredibly aggressive intentional misinterpretation of what I said.

In the last 3 years we had government officials directing, in very strong language, various tech companies on what was and was not allowed on their platforms. While many people might argue that tech platforms are not public squares and should be free to censor however they like, everyone should have a problem with politicians directing tech companies on what can be said on their platforms.

As an addendum, I’m always curious to hear what that camp has to say about net neutrality after arguing so vigorously against its core principles.

IMHO if you want to operate as a mass market platform and are pursuing a winner takes all business strategy you should be regulated as a common carrier (Uber, Facebook, Comcast, Google, Microsoft, cloudflare, etc).
I did this unintentionally in college once by switching the keyboard layout to Dvorak, which for some reason persisted across logins. I came back later that day to the same lab and the station I had been using was marked "Out of Order". Huh, that's weird. Sat down at the station next to it. Next day both of them were marked "Out of Order". Oh, huh. Is there something weird with the keyboard? I might know what happened...
Treemaps are awesome
Is it possible for such local install to retain conversation history so if for example you're working on a project and use it as your assistance across many days that you can continue conversations and for the model to keep track of what you and it already know?