skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy crud, HN has been weird lately :) So I learned today that suggesting Facebook should encrypt its messenger app is actually just me embracing a fantasy about the nature of safety and risk.

I don't know I feel like you're probably 3 messages away from telling me that I should remove my smoke alarms from my house because house fires are uncommon and then calling me deluded because I wear a helmet when I go biking. I didn't realize that me taking 30 seconds to install Signal and then using it to chat with my friends was a futile rebellion against the natural order ;)

Okay apologies, I really don't mean to be snarky. But you've taken this conversation in a very strange direction that I don't think is representative of what anyone who rejects the "I have nothing hide" narrative actually believes. I would just point out once again, I am less pseudonymous than you are right now. I'm using my real name, I have more contact information listed on my profile. Very obviously I am willing to publish information about myself. So the context of this conversation really just does not align with this view you've gotten that the people disagreeing with you are just privacy absolutists who think any privacy risk at all is too large to take.

If you're saying that someone is rejecting all risk and refusing to accept a privacy system with any downside, and at the same time you notice that they're actively and deliberately publishing their real name and email address, then that should give you pause and it should make you step back and think, "maybe I don't understand what their argument is." Maybe when that person points out that risks exist they're saying something more than "any risk is too much risk".
We took it to the dealership, and they found the rim was cracked when the new tire was leaking air. None of the other tires have been losing air, so I assume the other rims are fine.

However to your bigger point, that the wheels are poorly engineered for their use, tracks. This is the first rim I've ever had crack, and I've even had some nasty accidents. This is however our first set of EVs (I have a Kia EV6), and I really feel like VW made a lot of compromises. (The UI/UX is the worst I've ever experienced in a car)
Why is this being upvoted? All journals are predatory journals including Nature. To make YOUR work, open access, for example, you have to pay Nature. And does Nature already pay reviewers for their work? They didn’t for a long time.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to run an academic journal and academia feeds him for a lifetime.
It is a philosophy I've lived by for decades. Although I'm not happy with the politics of my workplace, I absolutely love the job I do and it makes life a lot better. Going into work, doing what I love, and they pay me to do it? I wouldn't have it any other way.

I remember the days of having to work jobs I hated... I went in, did what I had to do, often biting my tongue, or just feeling miserable, all for a measely paycheck that had me breaking my back for the job.

I prefer doing a job I love to do and getting paid for it, so if you don't want to fall for it, you got to do what works for you. What works for me is loving what I do, doing what I love, and feeling as if I'm not even struggling to work in order to get my paycheck.
Hard pass. Monocultures are bad.
that book is banned in prisons.

which means SBF won't be able to read it
Not shipping WebReplay in firefox (instead it's a startup called replay.io),

Killing the servo project.

Running metaverse projects instead.

Yes, mozilla could do better.
AFAIK XFS has been part of FreeBSD for a long time. I remember around 2008 at least.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xfs&sektion=5&apro...
That was a pleasant read, thank you for the comment. I've felt something similar about management, but not quite clear enough to put in to words.

Maybe I'm late in my comment but, I have two questions if you do not mind.

If you have a manager that is not quite like that, but probably somewhere in their mind would agree to that stance, how could one push that person to that direction? I have my manager (and a friend) in mind, gives good autonomy and let everyone work in the way they feel is optimal. But it also most often lead to aimless or fuzzy goal setting, a lot of ambiguity. My guess is that the thing lacking is the inquisitive nature; like you mentioned you do, he does not check in on people how they feel, what's blocking them, what's suboptimal for them. He simply check in for an update on progress and set meeting to update what he's up to.

Is there any good material or pointer that could make someone manage more like that?

I also informally manage one person due language barrier and the question also applies to me.
Using 'halt' or 'reboot' won't run all the scripts needed to shut down cleanly, the correct command to use is 'shutdown -r now'.
How about incompetence instead of stupidity, would that apply to many billion dollar companies?
> Less is more...

You hit the nail right on the money. Every time I accidentally open Edge through the Windows search, it never ceases to shut up about itself. There is fanfare, there are notifications for details I don't care about, popups showing me all the features that are standard in any web browser.

You know what would make me use your browser Microsoft? Getting the hell out of my way. I do not care that it's Edge, I don't care that it's new, I don't care that it has 7 ways to input and take pictures and who knows what else. Just show me the search result.

Contrast this to how Safari behaves when it pops up to show you something. It just gives you the web page. That's it.
> All the bug and security fixes that HashiCorp is writing can’t just be cherry-picked into these forks (I think?), so what exactly are they supposed to do?

Indeed, any fork will need to implement their own bug fixes.

Ideally they should do this "clean room" and not even look at the BSL'd code, to help defend against any accusations of copyright infringement.
I agree with you to some degree, but it needs to be said that _good_ code is very expressive. It should reveal the developer's intent clearly. "Doing a thing" is fine for amateurs or a quick script, but for large enterprise application development, it doesn't go nearly far enough. Good names, good function arrangement, plus everything else we should be studying needs to be applied well. If done well, it certainly should not take a half hour presentation to present a dozen lines of code. That tells me that the code is too complicated, too dense, too many levels of abstraction together, too much I have to keep in mind to understand some main idea. Very dense code is, more often than not, bad code.

I don't think reading codebases is an exercise worth doing often, but all the same good code should read like well written prose. It's difficult to appreciate that if an individual hasn't poked through a number of codebases of varying quality.
Faster on one benchmark, but they don't have a consistent history of performance wins. The bigger issue is that nobody is embedding Gecko. Every Electron app is another developer targeting Chrome. Applications that embed a webview? Chrome. Any new web browser that wants to deliver a new experience (like Arc, or even Brave) is built atop Chromium.

The problem is that "not pushing hostile web standards" and "more flexible ad blocking" clearly isn't stopping the insane bleeding of the userbase. These are people actively migrating away from Firefox in droves.
Thanks. Seems like my comment's getting downvoted which I hope is just people not familiar with KRS-One.

Edit: Never mind, it's gone positive now.
That's what I said too. Older people vote more than 16 year olds.
You should. But remember that the Commedia is of the kind that requires an intensive, prolonged, long-term approach.
Man, do I have good news for you! You don't have to wait, we're already tracking temperature vs solar activity:

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/189/graphic-tempe...
> Unfortunately their pricing is per socket

Heh, at first I parsed that as IPC socket.

Now I'm amusing myself thinking about which companies would try to charge for that.
This is great advice. AA meetings are also very beneficial for the support.
The hypothesis has a lot going for it, but I think it's missing a level. I don't think it explains the degree to which right-wing politics has become optimized for ignoring real threats and inventing fake ones.

I don't think that's necessarily inherent to right-wing-ism. Left wing politics has also had similar problems, and still does (say, organic food, or the way vaccine denial used to be a left-wing position), but it doesn't seem to dominate the position. Its bugaboos are "merely wrong"; they don't elevate to a movement-wide denial of well-understood sciences or a TV news network devoted solely to falsehoods about their opponents.

Perhaps that's just a way of redefining the terms of discussion: America's issue right now isn't really about right-versus-left at all, but about something else that happens to organize loosely along those lines. Perhaps rightism lends itself better to that, but I'd say that's inconclusive. Certainly left-wing-style thinking was the cause of a great amount of authoritarian violence in 20th century "socialist" countries. And we're left to argue whether that really is left-wing, or whether it's all just no-true-Scotsman.
IANAL, but I don't think small claims court against PayPal would be end in a judgment against them. Though they might just cave and give you the money to avoid dealing with it.
Same study discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057135

(50 points/3 days ago/51 comments)
React is ridiculously hard to “self learn”. Not because React is necessarily confusing, but because React docs are extremely confusing and the transition from class components to function hook based components means you can search for a problem and find answers only for class components, whereas the function component solution is buried deep if it even exists.

And we know it’s confusing because the React docs themselves reflect the confusion. A great example is useEffect, where the original docs quite clearly state that useEffect can be used to handle side effects, whereas the new docs say it’s used to “sync” components (and I don’t remember if it explicitly says not to use it for side effects, but that’s the common understanding people have now).
I like FF's UI better than Chrome's, but the small differences can be overcome quickly once you start using it. There is much more at stake than a few pixels here and a button there: do you want Google to control "the internet"?
Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth (2000) [pdf]
> Selfishly I hope Apple continues using its iron grip on iOS to prevent anything other than Safari's engine there.

It's so weird these days seeing people literally cheering for the success of a proprietary product on a completely closed platform over an open source engine. Firefox, sure. I can get behind that even if my professional life technically argues against it. I see the draw there and won't argue about benefits.

But Safari? Seriously? Even discounting the existence of Firefox, the "monoculture" argument falls down in the face of products like Edge and Opera (and countless others -- Linux distros ship Chromium, Teslas all have a build installed, etc...), which are *successful forks* of Chromium. If Google goes evil and turns into a bad steward, we know already that Microsoft et. al. won't be impacted and can continue to ship their unadulterated products. Because that's what they're doing today.

Really? Safari?
Evaluate LLMs Rigorously
Funny, I use Mull on my Android, which is basically Firefox on Android but even more heavily restricted. Have for at least a year. Didn't know people considered it unpleasant.
The journalist as censor, hitman, and snitch
Even stone tablets have to be periodically refreshed.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2034&ver...
Maybe he's just not old enough to remember trying to get Madonna or Michael Jackson tickets. Camping out at record stores for days to be first at the Ticketmaster booth. Or at the venue itself.

I wasn't old enough to go but I remember seeing the pictures on the news.
Skoda and Volkswagen have tried to FOOL the world with a SHAM exit from Russia
I chose to self-host for a variety of reasons. One, I had been using gpt-3.5-turbo for a hobby project and had an abysmal accessibility experience -- I received repeated 429s with serial requests far more sparse than the limits, at most frequent, 10 times less often than the recommended threshold. When I adjusted further the 429s kept returning. It reached a point where even llama.cpp models (on 20 cores) were definitely more performant. I received absolutely no response from customer support despite being an actual paying customer. I imagine OpenAI affiliates here will downvote this, but I found OpenAI's API accessibility to be one of the most terrible I have ever used.
> I had friends who went to the first show, and I think she played 45 songs — it was 3+ hours ... She’s sold out 6 straight shows here in Los Angeles

I'm surprised it is physically possible to sing for 3 hours, 6 nights in a row.
Windows Storage Spaces. IIRC, a Tiered Storage Space means that evicted-to-tape files that get OpenFile'd, get copied in full back to the hot disk before the OpenFile completes, such that any IO then proceeds from the hot disk, not from tape.
For a generation of students, the iMac was a gateway to the future
>SSDs have quite predictable durability, mostly because the unit that fails is less than 1GB, so the law of large numbers kicks in.

You're forgetting the controller, which has no qualms with dying 100% unexpectedly. I don't know why consumer SSDs have such poor quality controllers that they can randomly die, something that HDDs seemingly haven't struggled with in decades.
I don't really like this boxing analogy (because browsers don't directly interact with each other and browsers aren't a sport, etc), but I'll go with it anyway. When there are only two boxers and nobody apparently cares about the amateur, gloves that fit the amateur stop being made. All boxing gloves produced only fit the pro. But I guess "the pro put in all the work to get to where they're at." Again this analogy doesn't make much sense to begin with, but I think I've made my point about websites being designed exclusively for chrome. I have had websites tell me that my browser is unsupported and promptly refuse to let me use the site until I fake my user agent and then it works perfectly fine.
I wish they took the French and German (and elsewhere approach) where they use some of the revenue to identify the driver and fine them + penalize their license.

If you just send the ticket to whomever is the easiest to target (regardless of guilt), then it’s more about revenue than safety.
That's just direct democracy.
Firefox tracks their performance across many different benchmarks. Here is the performance vs Chrome over the past year on many different ones. It is encouraging to see steady improvements being made on a substantial number of them over time.

https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=3...
We have decades of hard evidence that only a certain type of immigrant is successful and increases overall productivity. You want to ignore the wealth of data because "America was bad in the past".

Simple game theory: we have two choices - A. focus immigration on high skill or B. focus immigration on low skill. If by some possibility you're right, and all people are blank slates and genetics is fake, then either choice is correct. If I am correct (suggested by ~50 years of hard data), then choice A is a huge boon to the country, while choice B bankrupts the country.

It is astonishing that you are pushing for choice B with this knowledge. Like I said before, the worst thing for those left-of-center is thinking that there may be some inherent differences in different populations. It's the worst thought that could enter their mind. They live their entire lives trying to prove to people that they don't think this. This (plus knowing that you have enough money to shield yourself if the ideas that you advocate end up being destructive), allows you to virtue signal without a care.
Slightly off-topic: has PayPal become unusable in the browser for anyone else? When using Firefox, no VPN, no ad blocking, I get some nondescript error that bounces me from the login screen. My IP must be on some list, but it is really annoying.
Then you are one Google account compromise away from disaster: https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/warning-dont-let-google-manag...

Google password manager is not end to end encrypted.

LastPass, Bitwarden, and Firefox too, are end to end encrypted with the user chosen password at least. If your password is strong enough, it should be safe.

Apple also uses end to end encryption, although there you might also be vulnerable via a hack of your iCloud account, not sure.

1Password is the most secure option: here, in addition to your password being encrypted with your master password, it's also encrypted via a secret key that is pre-generated. So a leaked encrypted 1Password backup won't be brute-forceable.
can you tap into your oven/stove 220v source? unless you're boiling water non-stop while trying to bake the thanksgiving turkey at the same time, there shouldn't be an issue
New cylinders can get a little pricey but used bottles can be found dime-a-dozen on Craigslist/FB Marketplace/etc. Just need to know how to properly inspect a tank. Gas supply stores can get really particular about BYOBottle because of the safety/liability component, but they'll typically treat a no-fill tank as the deposit for a new tank in much the same way consumer propane tank exchange works.

Boost is likely the way to go for OP. I first saw them in Walmart in 2012 as a freshman at a military college. They made the surprise cadre workouts and X mile rucks suck so much less that I'd buy them all up when we were on liberty to sell out of my supply box. Really clever bit of kit, and the mint scent was a nice touch.
No, the payee on the front of the check is me. The endorsement field contains the following, handwritten:

<thief's signature>

MOBILE DEPOSIT ONLY

PAY TO THE ORDER OF

<thief's name>
CannonBall: The Enhanced OutRun Engine
Some years ago it was common that some sites did not work or was slow in FF. I can't remember that I've had that problem for years. Good work by the FF team regardless of these benchmarks.
I was just talking about this idea related to technology in general making it hard for people to break in at the entry level. Even something as simple as construction: Before mechanization, you needed a bunch of "ditch diggers" to do the manual labor. And after being on the site for a while, you'd start to pick up things and then can move up to more skilled labor while 1) getting paid to do the low skilled labor and 2) learning on the job while still providing value.

As tech takes away the low skill jobs, the skill level for "entry level" becomes higher and there's no way to learn on the job, you need to pay for education to level up enough to get started.

LLMs are just the current example of this, but it's been happening for years.

Not saying it's good or bad, but it is interesting that "working your way up" gets harder over time because it's harder to get that entry level low skill work.
Yakety Sax by Boots Randolph
IBM Z/OS supports it. You'd try to open a file and it would pop up a "retrieving" message and you'd know you could go and get a cup of coffee while you waited for your file.

(That's obviously at the OS layer rather than the filesystem layer. But the application didn't know where the file was until it asked for it.)
Oh come on, that's not the same at all. Horses didn't go extinct after the automobile either -- they still exist in quaint or niche cases, especially as a hobby for rich people. That doesn't mean their role in society came back along with all the supporting infrastructure. Are you looking to start a saddle making or carriage business?
> but if you don't buy that, then you won't buy LISA's observations, either.

Because science is about "buying" it?
I never understood the "Disney's differentiator are their theme park".

We didn't have a theme park in all of Europe until the '90s, but the whole continent grew up with Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck.
> Generally, it is worse as a desktop system than more even obscure OpenBSD.

This is just untrue.
Right. As I said upthread:

> Maybe RHEL is not perfect, but one of the biggest advantages of paying for RHEL is that your voice matters as a customer. Red Hat takes its customer relationships seriously (unlike a lot of other companies out there), and product development is centered around customer feedback.

If RHEL customers want this stuff, then RHEL will ship it and support it. If customers don't demonstrate any interest, this is what happens. When it comes to supporting a product, there's always a tug-of-war to solve the needs of the product's users. Things are prioritized based on what the customer base tells product management what they need and want, with input from engineering on what can be done.
It's kind of ridiculous that you can get 2TB of SSD storage now for $60 (even if it's not the fastest)

https://www.newegg.com/intel-2tb-670p-series/p/N82E168201674...

For the majority of consumer use cases even 1/4 of that is pretty generous, and Apple just bumped up the MacBook Air from 128GB to 256GB.

Even our fancy pants enterprise storage arrays have a 30:1 or 40:1 ratio of HDD to SSD (cache). But of course, those prices aren't coming down anytime soon!
You are confusing the old Edge that had an engine forked from IE and that MS exclusively maintained, with the new Edge that is a fork of Chromium. Maybe that the old Edge was not of stellar quality was simply because the age of the codebase of its engine.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I believe when it all became known about what Afrika Bambaataa had been up to the whole foundations of hip hop as a credible art form fell away, and it has been in decline ever since. Maybe the offshoots are more commercially popular than ever but that serious audience seems to have given up on the core product.
I used to get a lot of emails from Omics a few years ago. Pure cold-calls advertising conferences where I could present my world-leading research in areas where I had done no work. The fever has thankfully subsided.

Nature Group is not without criticism here, either. Still one of the crown-jewels of research publications. I used to subscribe to Nature but dropped it due to their limited archive, the proliferation of their specialty journals (separate subscription required), and the high amount of sponsored content.

Still subscribe to Science Magazine which makes its full archive available and doesn't have as many spinoffs.
Right? “Desktop Linux” is macOS. It’s a working Unix but with all the desktop software I need. I develop software that runs on Linux but I’ve tried that on a Linux desktop and what a pain the ass.