skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most recent data loss incident was when I was trying to use the New York DMV website to upgrade to a RealID driver's license at the same time that I was changing my address. Validation error on one page became unrecoverable (fixing the problem didn't fix it) and going back started me at ground zero.

I then tried the same flow on Chrome (including the validation error) and couldn't get it to repro; things just worked. Totally possible that the actual failure was unrelated to the browser -- I never tried to establish a consistent reproduction on Firefox.

The other one was using SAP Concur for an expense report in a corporate environment. This is a horrible experience regardless of browser, but I ended up closing out Firefox and finishing the report in Chrome because things kept giving me strange errors.
That is true, but the rapid change in the tech industry makes "skills" mean something different than it would in, say, woodworking.

Once you learn woodwoorking, you're going to be good at it (until you lose strength, flexibility in your fingers, etc).

In our industry, to 'stay at the same place,' you continually have to learn new technologies, new concepts, etc.
Russian (and presumably Belarusian) nuclear doctrine is: strike when home territory is substantially threatened/invaded. There's no way that NATO wouldn't give warning of its intent and risk a nuclear exchange.

My guess is what would likely happen is NATO would yell loudly, look like it was ineffective and couldn't decide what to do, but in reality suddenly "Ukraine" would suddenly sink some expensive big ships in the Black Sea or take down a strategic bomber or two, using advanced US/European weaponry, and NATO would shrug and say "Huh. Neat. Wasn't us tho"
Emotional intelligence is needed as much in tech if not more than IQ.
Fun nostalgia but weird post? Detailing a "quest" to find an "original" GIF? Like, how do we know what sizes were around at the time? Finding the largest "original" version of a graphic and that's it?

The small sizes are what was around at the time, leave it at that. And obviously there's a billion copies of it and the 80x25 banners and what not everywhere. Nostalgia abounds!
No, it's a zero sum game. HFT firms fight to be the first to pick up a penny, but they can't force anyone to drop more pennies. They don't cause prices to go up more than they would have otherwise, or extract more value from the poor and middle class.
I'm not saying that either of you are right or wrong, but cars are one of the main (if not the main) contributors to noise pollution in cities.
I know. It's not a threat, just posturing. Russia entering any new war right now will just lose both. And Belarus is trying very hard not to forced to actually fight.
> And most of that will not be used 95% of the time.

That's OK. Because the alternative is not having one of those spaces to begin with, or having to change a space to fit the needs (i.e. friction).

Specifically, how often would your parents have you over if they had a 2br apartment and had to change the function of the second bedroom (or living room) every time?

And honestly, they may be OK with it. But they also may not - they rationalized the additional cost of a 4br house in the first place.

> 4 persons cars

That space might not be used all the time, but again the friction of having to rent a different car when you do need the space would be pretty significant. Not to mention a 4 seat car is effectively required (assuming suburban or rural US) once you have even one child.
So well said and so true:

"When we let corporations decide who is allowed to speak, they act with a mixture of carelessness and self-interest, becoming off-the-books deputies of authoritarian regimes and corrupt, powerful elites.

Alas, we made the wrong tradeoff with Trusted Computing. For the past twenty years, Trusted Computing has been creeping into our devices, albeit in somewhat denatured form. "

"As I wrote last week, giving manufacturers the power to decide how your computer is configured, overriding your own choices, is a bad tradeoff - the worst tradeoff, a greased slide into terminal enshittification"
> On contentious issues, a few hundred persistent constituents will convince even Senators in large states.

If there aren't already that on each side of an issue, its not actually that contentious. In reality, it takes large numbers of people coordinating action or a small number of people who each are financially involved orders of magnitude beyond the maximum legal direct donation (either as fundraisers marshalling donations for others, or as well-known contributors to party committees and SuperPACs as well as candidate committees, or whatever) to sway most members of either House of Congress from where they would otherwise be. (Being an existing org that is known to either bring a lot of voters or act as a proxy for a lot of big donors, or better both, also helps.)
Isn't Yoav overall Chrome Lead?
It also doesn't support AV1 or AVIF.

A cynical part of me thinks Safari supported JPEG-XL for pure tribal warfare, as its the "anti" AVIF. That would be so petty...
> I'm new to the codebase and I just want to know how it (the codebase) works.

You should want to know _why_ it works that way too if you want to do any meaningful work with it. Context matters. I’ve seen many cases where the way something works seems dumb, only to learn later they had already tried the “smart” way but ran into some obscure problem which the “dumb” way solves.
Oh I just did some web development work for them a little over a year ago, where I added collaborative editing. It's an AI-powered note-taking app, with several integrations like Notion and (I believe) Google Docs. I haven't worked with them in a while so they may have changed their model, but once you give them permission they ingest all of that data and weave it into your own notes.
This is probably it; the very first thing support can ask is "try it with 1.1.1.1 and see if it works" - if it does, it's a DNS issue.

Also, by running their own DNS they can ensure that some percentage of the Internet does NOT cache results beyond what they want (to some extent) - much of what Cloudflare does is DNS trickery to route to the appropriate CDN.
"Interesting trivia about your route..."

Such as ads for businesses? I'm not really interested in a chatty car.
> your organisation is so inefficient

Very few organizations are able to stay efficient on the long run as they scale. This is a simple matter of processes being stacked on top of processes and inter-departement frictions. That complexity is inherent to having regulations and laws that you need to comply with that become hard requirements.

For a more concrete example think of HIPAA compliance, during an audit you can have everything on-prem and hope that your IT department actually understand the security and privacy boundaries or have everything in AWS and be compliant because they conform to the standard by default.

> syphon off any profitability

For most of those businesses software is not the profitable bit, it's a cost center like most other things that serve to support operations. In that context, migrating your code to AWS/GCP/Azure means very little cost inflation.
> "Press 1 to pay $0.10 and connect the call" is an elaborate game?

[...]

> It doesn't happen to anyone who regularly calls you because you've exempted them

Yes, this sounds like an elaborate game and putting unnecessary burden on me.
Or NileRed. The guy isolated fucking bromine in a barely ventilated and cramped with clutter garage when he started, and now he's running his own legit laboratory together with (IIRC) his brother and a friend who's running the camera.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfIZqXaR0g
> Nobody in their right mind would pay 800 Euro or more to live in a damp basement

Depending on where you are, 800 Euro (or the local equivalent) would be a great deal for a basement at this point. In Canada for example.
I read 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late', thoroughly enjoyed it, and would recommend.

I can't speak to the others.
> for personal branding. I don't even care if people follow it or find it interesting.

That seems like a contradiction.
I'll make a hash of this, sorry... Please amend, correct as needed:

Graeber was an anthropologist. He recognizes that having a purpose is good for humans.

Among the examples he gives are people joining the military. Versus say becoming a corporate wage slave. For many, it's one of the few tracks available which offers "helping people", "serving my country", and other purposeful motivations. And the positive of having a purpose can outweigh all the negatives of serving (low pay, relocation, risks).

Another facet Graeber covers is the "service economy", including "knowledge workers". He challenges the idea that people need results oriented work to feel job satisfaction.

Alternately, Graeber suggests using the category "care work". All the things people and society needs to function well. Nurses, cops, soldiers, councilors, running a soup kitchen, volunteer work, etc.

Sadly, our current economic model devalues "service work". The focus on profits and productivity and efficiency is anathema to the work of people caring for other people.

Just to note the issue, I believe (but cannot prove) "productive work", where labor is part of making something, is orthogonal to "care work", and should be considered separately. Or at least be included thesis which is larger than a drive-by HN comment.

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Highest recommendation for

"The Utopia of Rules" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Utopia_of_Rules

Developing his Bullship Jobs thesis, Graeber tries to take on bureaucracy. Many critics get stuck on his prior criticisms of neoliberal economics. They're missing the point. Bureaucracy is (apparently?) a trait of modernism and (apparently?) central to all systems of government and economics.

I would LOVE continued exploration of the territory scouted by Graeber, Scott's Seeing Like a State, the Ehrenreich's professional middle class (PMC), and I'm sure many others. (Sorry, I still haven't read much about Marxism and its critics.)

It's so sad that Graeber passed.

There's a huge chasm where a leftist criticism of bureaucracy should be. Like the failed promise of the administrative state. Like how "the system" is dehumanizing when it should empower. Like if we understood it better, maybe we can minimize capitalism's dark pull on the state (panopticon, taylorism of all things, cost disease, accelerating credentialism). Etc, ad nauseum.

The closest (adjacent) work that I'm aware of is now being driven by the Inflation Reduction Act. Stuff like permitting reform, better governance, scaling up the administrative state (necessary to roll out renewables at the scale required). All the PvP stuff where opposing concerns and incentives are in tension.

Administrative capacity is one of David Roberts' obsessions. His Volts podcast has terrific episodes tackling this and related concerns. https://volts.wtf

Please share anything you might think is relevant. TIA.
Wild animals tend to have a lot larger brains compared to their domestic counterparts. And of course there's a huge die-off, pruning, of our own connections when we're toddlers.

On the other hand, you lose a lot of iron when you make a steel sword. Taming, focusing something loses a lot of potential, I guess.
Thanks! That's great information. We had to make our own, but it's good to see that there are decent off the shelf systems. I agree that contact resistance on these tiny samples has got to be a huge issue (can they use mercury?). However, what I've seen suggests that even the low frequency AC measurements are more complex due to capacitive coupling effects. However, narrow bandwidth lock=in should improve noise... the equipment still just claims 10u Ohm.
When Path was shut down, a shared album became the default social network for my family. I now have one for different friend groups. It's not spectacular, but it works and privacy is the key feature.
Yes you could, but the point is that HFTs don't create any new problems that need solving. They don't make anything worse.

> and it would save them billions per year.

This is not true.
21: As Not Miserable as You Can Be with Dave Copeland – Rooftop Ruby Podcast
> Same with the "one-seat" in your car.

They have those: motorcycles and bicycles. Not family compatible though.
Sure, and the XMLHttpResponse idea led to everything we have today. But lots of other things didn't work. document.all wasn't any better than Netscape's document.tags but they kept at it until they finally got around to supporting standards. They had major long-term bugs in how margins were figured. The layout model struggled if you used absolute positioning between two elements that were not positioned. Those are just the scars I still have, there were plenty more.
What are you referring to when you say cure for cancer?
I created a GOTO mecanism in rxjs once (typescript) but I felt doing the wrong thing
> the probability of somehow being ground breaking and world impactful is ridiculously small.

See I have the opposite take. There are so many damn facets of modern life/society, and new avenues/facets/domains coming out every year, that it is actually pretty easy to find some niche where something hasn't been done yet that is world-shattering for some specific community or niche.

World-shattering for everyone is pretty overrated.
Kind of sounds like EA Sports Madden.
Distributed Tracing with Platformatic and Open Telemetry
> We know that most people don't hold that view because that's what polling reveals, even in the countries where law and policy have been changed in favour of that view.

You have made this statement twice now, but that is not proof itself. Can you share the polls you are referencing?

> To further explain my linguistic point though, it's really down to an ambiguity as to whether "trans woman" and "trans man" are meant as compound nouns (in the open form, as the closed form, e.g. "transwoman", doesn't have this ambiguity) or noun phrases.

> As compound nouns, these have the sense of a man or woman who wishes to be the opposite. That is, a "trans woman" is a man who desires to be a woman, and a "trans man" is a woman who wants to be a man. They may even end up believing themselves to be so, based on that desire.

This is not objective truth, it is your subjective opinion.

> As noun phrases, these apply the adjective "trans" as if a subset of the group the noun is describing. So a "trans woman" is understood as a woman who is male, and a "trans man" as man who is female. But this only works if you also believe that "woman" and "man" are "gender identity" categories that one can identify into, rather than based on the material biological reality of being, respectively, female or male.

Yes, it only works if you use the words as they are used by others.

> Introducing "cis" removes that ambiguity, implying noun phrases rather than compound nouns, and thus implies acceptance of the "gender identity" belief. When people object to the terms "cis woman" and "cis man", they are expressing a rejection of this belief system.

Can you now circle back to the original topic - "cis" being defined as a slur? Because if the reason for Musk to define it as such is a rejection of the "belief system" of trans people, it seems pretty obvious that it's transphobic.
Thanks a lot for this link! And for making web tolerable with uBlock!
You have. Doesn’t matter what it’s meant for—the result is what’s important. And having to deactivate sip is a big trade off to improve privacy.

If it were privacy-first and read only, that would be another thing entirely. Defaults matter.
> ...which would require an enormous and infeasibly large amount of batteries

False, but you can’t substantiate your argument by simply saying the words you need to back it up with something such as actual calculations etc.

> Their rate of recharge is limited

That’s completely irrelevant here. Rainfall is so concentrated in short periods that they often have months of water in reserve and can decide when exactly to release it over that kind of timeframe. 95% of the time there is less water flowing out of a dam than flowing into it. That’s why we build dams.
Putin couldn't even force his army to stop 500 people going on Moscow. Had to negotiate, losing face in his own empire. But he will surely have enough influence to force the same army to commit nuclear suicide on his dying whim :)

It's just a threat to make west slightly less likely to help Ukraine for real. If people stopped falling for it 10 years earlier we wouldn't have been in this predicament, millions of people and billions of USD would be saved. All that was needed was to accept Ukraine into NATO or do serious response to 2008 and 2014 russian invasions.
https://tatsu-lab.github.io/alpaca_eval/
Sorry, could you tell me what "STOP-A" means?
Probably 70% that and 30% cowboys who think security and policy rules are for people who make mistakes.
It's making a jab at "minimum effort" employees who manage to coast for years or decades. Note the "hundreds of lines of code".

There are many fantastic engineers who work on otherwise boring, rotten codebases. No shame in that.
Yes, my bad...humidity decreases some in the hottest part of the day. So the 80% humidity is overnight while the high 90's temperature is during the day.

As you said, still not walkable :).
I've been playing a lot with Llama 2 13B recently, and it's really not bad at all. With oobabooga[1] you get a proper UI for it and even get an OpenAI-compatible API, so you just change the endpoint in your OpenAI library and it all works. I've been using that to test changes to my bots.

As another poster mentioned though, it's nowhere near the level of GPT-4. It's close enough to GPT 3.5 though, you should try it out!

[1]: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
Besides DDG, I find myself using phind.com if you haven't seen that yet.
The * characters got stripped from your message and interpreted as italics markers. What you probably wanted to write:

2.25 * 0.36 = 0.81 = 0.9 * 0.9.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/ maybe?
I thought this was hilarious, too. And I'm so sending it to my Italian friends.
> The grocery store doesn't have to have every customer walk to it

Depends how much space you’re dedicating to car parking. Once the grocery store has a giant parking lot it’s swallowed up a lot of land that could have been housing.

The more the store depends on car traffic the bigger the parking lot. The bigger the parking lot the less housing it’ll have in proximity, the longer everyone will have to walk. A successful walkable neighborhood has to balance allocated space with thought.
Well, if nothing else, it certainly solves that problem.
This comment touches on something I've noticed in our community over the last few years that is greatly accelarating. It's not without reason either as the corporate belt-tightening brought on by covid and high interest rates has led to corps making decisions that aren't in the users' interests. But swinging the pendulum all the way to the side of "only community stuff, no corporate" is not a good solution. It makes a whole lot more sense to just judge the project and the commercial entity by its merits: is it actually doing harm to the project? if they're being good stewards, I see no reason not to support (and even praise) them for their open source work.
Vviicuna
This is technically true but practically irrelevant. A Spamhaus listing is the Internet equivalent of a sanctions designation and the process to get removed is equally as Kafkaesque as OFAC's. Not to mention the fact that addresses in the [DROP list](https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txt) effectively can't even connect to the broader Internet because every important tier1/tier2 uses these lists and drops all their packets.
I disagree. I think they simply are idiots for the most part. Perhaps just naive because they have been told many lies. They truly see this as justice. In a way they are their own kind of low information voters, equally mislead and equally prejudiced as their supposed political adversaries.
I'm sure that Chrome's rendering is buggy as hell, but people design websites to work with the bugs; so they design them to work with Chrome, and in Firefox they look wrong unless they make the effort to work with both browsers.

I'm not a web developer; when I have to do web development I use Chrome because that's what we target and anything else is an afterthought (or is work taken on by more specialized frontend developers).

I tried ungoogled-chromium, but on upgrades it would frequently crash or fail to start so I gave up.

Brave maybe is worth a try; the cryptocurrency tie-in was enough to make me reluctant even to give it a try. I want my user agent to be as agnostic as humanly possible with regards to presenting data from web pages -- that's why I hate the auto-login feature and the "view search results" feature; I want my browser to render content and do only the minimum possible work in reacting to that content.
My take, given the optics of the change:

Canonical is likely looking to bolster LXD integration within Ubuntu and drop support for other distros.

Which... is fair, in my opinion. They've done most of the maintenance and work, they are allowed to prioritize their use-cases.

But it also means there likely does need to be a fork available to make sure that wide distro support happens, and LXD doesn't become a snap store special for Ubuntu.

In the best case - They'll both cooperate nicely and canonical can focus on primary LXD development like they were, while other folks can pick up the tab for non-ubuntu packaging/testing/support.
I think what we have here is a misunderstanding of the concept of "very angry". Perhaps you haven't felt such a strong anger or cannot imagine being so angry that you could imagine murdering somebody.

Of course, it could be as you allude and I have a tendency that most (a lot? :)) of people don't and that you indeed should stay away from me. Nevertheless, I should add that in my 5 decades of life I've felt this only 1-2 times (the other is so long ago that I'm not sure) and neither of those times led to me acting on it. Why didn't I act on it? A combination of reasons: I knew it would have been ethically wrong; I didn't think I could do it without getting caught and I didn't want to face the consequences of being caught.
I've been a big advocate for LXD. Running multiple servers at work where I set up containers that I gave collegues access to and such.
I find that the "VM's but not" approach quite nice.

I've since moved away completely, just before the recent moves by Canonicle.
Most of if not all of my reasons to move away from LXD relate to Snap or other sides of Canonicle leadership.
"Economists correctly predicted 13 of the last 10 recessions".
What cloud? The $5 VPS with a basic linux on it? Or AWS with so many services that you will never be able to get out of without discarding all previous work?

It's also pretty sad that all the speed advances in the past 10 years have been squandered on ... running javascript.
"What I'm hearing is, there's a vacuum in the market for giraffe re-cabling services."
> I'm not saying that either of you are right or wrong, but cars are one of the main (if not the main) contributors to noise pollution in cities.

If that's true, I think the right way to think about it is transportation is the contributor to noise pollution, not cars specifically. We're not getting rid of transportation. If you somehow got rid of cars, bus, train, and truck traffic would have to increase to compensate.
I think the app currently is under heavy load, so it is unstable and give 5xx.

When it has worked, it was amazing. I am ready to pay for it.
Safari already supports AVIF.
Baki the Grappler.
I mean I’ve literally had people like this fight adding in a version control system.