skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had about:profiles for many years, but that UI is not for the average user.

On macOS opening a new profile through that also opens the window in the background and may also mess up your Firefox icons in the dock, not to mention that you'll break your profiles if you make the mistake of opening a profile from a different FF version on your current FF (eg: stable profile on FF Developer can't be opened again by FF stable). We can use profiles, but it's not a good experience.

On Chromium (and Chrome, Brave, etc), there's an icon at the top right corner. You click it, then select the profile and that's it. Fast, simple, user friendly.

(Edit to add: I sometimes forget that the average HN user is different from the average computer user. They're used to click on things, not to type "firefox -P" :P )
Excel has an editor. Try hitting alt+f11. "Open in vscode" would be an excellent feature though.
Taking the carbon from the atmosphere will always be more expensive than from some carbon-rich rocks that form a huge fraction of the Earth's crust.

In fact, our most effective ways to take carbon out of the atmosphere today all involve a step of letting some mineral turn into one of this carbon-rich ones, and extracting it from there.
I bet you'd like Ullman's book Life in Code.

A passage early on that resonated with me is her report of a talk given by Whitfield Diffie:

> We were slaves to the mainframe! he said. Dumb terminals! That's all we had. We were powerless under the big machine's unyielding central control. Then we escaped to the personal computer, autonomous, powerful. Then networks. The PC was soon rendered to be nothing but a "thin client," just a browser with very little software residing on our personal machines, the code being on network servers, which are under the control of administrators. Now to the web, nothing but a thin, thin browser for us. All the intelligence out there, on the net, our machines having become dumb terminals again.
“The World Wide Web … is arguably roughly 40 years old.”

1993 was 30 years ago not 40. I see no valid argument that there was any WWW in the early 1980s.
Why empty? I gave specific examples of arguments that are considered acceptable within contemporary philosophy of mind, that are so nonsensical I don't think we should use them as a barrier for giving your own thoughts on consciousness. Meanwhile you are objecting to anyone commenting on these things without linking to any specific comments or mentioning lines of argument that you object to, nor naming any specific theories you believe should be engaged with. So my objection is much less empty than yours.

I've read quite intensely (for a layman, alright) into philosophy of mind over the years and I've come to believe there's not much to be gained from engaging with it, vs. presenting your ideas in a self-contained manner or with reference to neuroscience or AI theory.
I dont know about which years you talk about but at least in the early 2000s it was probably most common to let yourself be lead through Normal/Nightmare by others (e.g. clan members), which was a very nice part of companionship that helped foster engagement (and thus play count). But maybe you and me were just in different bubbles...
They are expensive because they don't externalize their environmental costs upon the rest of the world.
Doubt. I looked at this post and all the other top level posts in this thread and cant reasonably assume any of these reindeer games would be predictive of anything on the job.
Goodhart's Law says this will never work. That is the problem.

Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
Even installing Python seems to a hurdle for many employees. They need to get approval from IT, and it seems not to get done. They use Excel, and if they can use Python within Excel without installing anything extra, it will increase the user base of Python. After getting a taste of Python they may install Python locally and use it outside Excel. So I think this will be "good for Python". Certainly integration of VBA into Excel has been good for VBA.
A lot of people in finance are Excel heads and hate the web version. And they have a lot of money to throw around, surely Microsoft cares about them.

I really don't see them killing the desktop version.
I walked past the piano at John Wayne Airport (SNA) a few weeks ago and wished I had kept up with piano lessons as a kid.
OK. Literary writing.
There are plenty of examples of historical people who conquered and subjugated others because they believed that it would make them rich and powerful. Some were right, some were wrong. Some proclaimed various other motives (bringing peace, fostering democracy, civilizing the savages, defending the faith, protecting their honor, etc). Some may have even believed them. But there is no shortage of people who decide to kill and oppress others because they view it as a means to get ahead. Why we should assume Hitler or Putin, of all monsters, are some of the more delusional ones who actually believe their propaganda is beyond me.

As a complete side note, claiming that NATO is not a threat to Russia is also somewhat deluded, but that still doesn't justify anything about the war. What is clear is that invading another country is a morally evil act and that it has essentially never prevented more suffering than it has caused on balance, even in some of the most benevolent scenarios (like Kosovo).
Humans of AI Podcast #7

An amazing conversation with Shishir Patil the creator of the Gorilla LLM, a large language model specifically trained to use APIs!

Shishir is currently a 5th year PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley whose work broadly covers ML-Systems, LLMs, Edge-ML, and Sky computing.

Definitely give the episode a listen to hear Shishir's story.

And to read more about #GorillaLLM, check out the project page!

https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu
There is also the classic story about returning war planes. You can try to make sense of the damage, the bullet holes, and try to create strategies around how to improve affected areas. The problem is that the damage you actually want to inspect and prevent is on the planes that did not make it back, the ones you do not have an abundance of data on.
Fraternities are not for everyone but I enjoyed my time in one. I am still close friends with at least 20 of my fraternity brothers. We have had several reunions in the past few years where I have seen over 50 of them.
It's funny how you guys are going around accusing everyone who disagrees with the study of being too addicted, while not actually responding to any of the numerous shortcomings of the study people have pointed out here.

Maybe you're the ones too set in your opinion to consider anyone else's?
Ask HN: Website for optimising FP arithmetic with precision loss bounds
Many moons ago I discovered a website where I could type in a floating point expression and it would generate alternatives with a graph of precision loss within the bounds you specify. Does anyone recall the name?
My daughter is 11 now and just getting into creating her first Minecraft mods. Life is wonderful!
I wasn’t going to get baited but the dissonance in your argument is such that I had to.

Just because some American cities are struggling, has no bearing on the state of Indian cities, the article absolutely was making a case to make things better in no way was it a political jibe. It is ridiculous to compare the state of US and Indian cities, I imagine you have not been here in the US.

Even your argument is wrong Economist is a UK publication why point out US cities, why not cities in UK and Europe?

I truly hope your mentality is in the minority because if this is how the young generation is thinking, things are headed for doom.

No politics is worth sacrificing objectivity. You are hurting the country more than helping, it is ok to call out political jibes but this wasn’t it.
That's good.

But also a bit misleading. Pumping heat into the atmosphere isn't really at the heart of climate change - adding insulation to the atmosphere is. It probably isn't great to pump heat into it either, but the mechanisms for radiative loss of that extra heat are (were) pretty good, and it would take a gigantic amount of heat (more than we've produced by burning fossil fuels) to shift the energy level in the atmosphere by much over longer time frames. However, effectively adding another blanket to the atmosphere is far more impactful. Last credible estimate I saw was the atmosphere now contains about an extra 8 peta-watts compared to pre-industrial times, and almost all of that comes from a reduction in "radiative forcing" (loss of heat to space, essentially) rather than additional heat generation.
Agreed. Investing with one of the huge investment firms such as BlackRock, Vanguard or State Street feels like investing in the erosion of democracy and the monopolization of the means of production.

The optimal strategy for them is to coerce all the companies that they invest in to only do business with each other in order to completely lock new competitors out of the market. This is very bad for consumers and society.
I suspect because it resembles the Firefox logo.
This feels like you're saying "SO is and should remain useless". SO is populated mostly by inexperienced developers because the community is hostile towards experienced developers, and part of that hostility is this XY-ing. I also don't find SO to be useful, but I wish it were.

> If they did, they should say so in the question.

You're operating on the assumption that the purpose of SO is for an asker to get an answer. The extremely strict duplicates policy suggests the opposite: the goals and motives of the original asker are essentially irrelevant, because only one similarly-phrased question is allowed ever. If their question doesn't get answered this time, it will never be allowed an answer.
They've got ham radio plates. Like most other states they look just like the standard plate except they have a ham radio callsign instead of something in the format of their normal sequence.

So I guess it will come down to what is the smallest subset of veterans that gets a special plate in every state?

Here in Washington there isn't actually a veterans plate. There are 6 military plates (army, marines, navy, air force, coast guard, and Washington national guard) and a gold star plate.

You also get a decal to indicate status (veteran, retired, active duty, reserves, disabled veteran, army guard, air guard, army retired (for Army National Guard retirees), air retired (like army retired but for Air National Guard), fallen hero (for family members of someone killed in action), family, and gold star.

I'd say a military plate plus the state issued decal that identifies you as a veteran would count as a veteran's plate.

If it is just "veteran" that gets a plate in every state that would be something like 16 million people, which is more than ham radio license holders (under a million).

It is starting to look like there might only be two groups that have plates in all states: veterans and ham radio license holders.
Exactly what job are you hiring this guy for?
"The ransomware threat landscape is seeing a concerning shift in attack techniques with the rampant abuse of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities in the past six months, which led to a 143% increase in victims from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023"

The question for any Internet connected computer user aught to be what zero-day attacks am I subjected to today? Or just run disconnected much of the time. But wait you might say where is the middle ground? Only the Sith speak in absolutes(which in of itself is an absolute, but...)

If you are not aware of the dangers of sharks and jellyfish while surfing the Internet you will never avoid them.
I think you have your rose-colored glasses on when looking at the past.

Air pollution: down since the 1990s. [1][2][3]

Water pollution: down since the 1990s. [4][5]

Noise/light pollution: definitely up since the 1990s, agreed there.

Cancer: US deaths are way down since the 1990s, though it's cheating a bit since that was the top of the smoking-related spike in lung cancer. Still, other cancer deaths are way down since then too. [6][7] (Edit: worldwide this looks worse and things have increased lately, see: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-people-with-can...)

Heart disease: can't find long term stats on this quickly, but cardiovascular mortality is way down. [8]

Obesity, addiction, and suicide: certainly up.

"Much worse environmental impact," I think the decline in air and water pollution makes this debatable.

Climate change is a bit of a weird one, because it's definitely getting worse, but at the same time, the worst-case scenarios (greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated into the indefinite future) is becoming less likely. [9] So the derivative is bad, but the second derivative is good.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-air-poll...

[2] https://www.slowboring.com/p/wildfires-have-partially-revers...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-air-poll...

[4] https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-good-news-on-americas-clean...

[5] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/water-and-sanitation?ta...

[6] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates-in-the...

[7] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-death-rates?tab=ch...

[8] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5268076/

[9] https://www.slowboring.com/p/people-need-to-hear-the-good-ne...
The title should be changed to "Feds ask company to prove they are not lying again about CCP ties."
There's https://pyscript.net/ -- or do you mean for scripting the browser's behaviour rather than replacing JS in website code?
Parking minimum requirements are usually handled at the local level.

Parking minimum recomendations were somewhat standardized by the Institute of Transportation Engineers,(ITE). So whenever city councils around the country decide to prioritize car usage over walking and public transit, and obligated to guarantee people a place to store a car, they often turn to the ITE's guides.

That said, the ITE's parking minimums guides are themselves kind of arbitrary. And the guides absolutely assume that practically everyone is traveling by car, and maybe (!!) that's not a great assumption to build on.

A YouTube channel called Climate Town created a fun and well-researched video recently on the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8
Yeah it doesn't really land well as a joke because it's the very first thing. Joking hot takes at least need a bit of warm up so readers know what's going on, whereas this just opens with a no-context dis at women where it's not even clear what the joking read is supposed to be talking about. What hard work? What's happening?
I agree. Feet on the ground social workers go unnoticed and are agents of real help where is is needed. I should have said among high profile figures Musk is unique in his honest effort to save humanity.
I was so excited about Python in Excel, until it said "run in the cloud." There just doesn't seem to be any reason for this except to tie you into their cloud service. It feels so much like protecting me from unsafe printer ink.

I'm generally a fan of MS Office products and try to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Please help me think of a plausibly good reason for requiring Python to run in the cloud, that is not just about lock-in.
The guberment is not exempt from acts of congress.
You can own the car if you want to. Mercedes-Benz is about to start selling level 3 autonomous vehicles to consumers.

https://media.mbusa.com/releases/release-1d2a8750850333f086a...
IBM trains its LLM to read, rewrite COBOL apps
Let's say you've got a logging system that sometimes drops lines. And this sometimes makes debugging things hard, because you can't say whether that log line is missing because the code didn't run, or because the log line was lost.

Impact on end users? Nothing measurable. Impact on developers? Frustrating and slows them down, but by how much? It's impossible to say. How often does it happen? Well, difficult to count what isn't there. Would fixing the issue lead to a measurable increase in stories completed per week, or lines of code written, or employee retention? Probably not, as those are very noisy measures.

Nonetheless, that is not a fault I would tolerate or ignore.
Would make better argument if not for absurdly low life expectancies the majority of these people head.
So... that's OK then..?
Did you ever try `cal 9 1752`
I actually have an old Korg nanoKontrol, but when I tested it with Python I had issues. I think it always stopped working after a couple of hours.
I think KPIs are (one of) the issue(s) .. They will always fail because of Goodhart's Law .. Measurements are fine, but good luck finding any leadership that won't turn them into targets
What's a gsoc?
I'm of the opinion that anyone in government or regulatory agencies should be forbidden from conducting any business at all while in office. Put it all into a blind trust.

It should be a crime to be a regulator while doing business with the entities one is regulating. As I said, just my opinion.
I’ve noticed this as well. I have a reasonable an entry level 5.1 system, but it’s basically useless to use.

Most center dialogue gets sent to the left and right speakers, essentially defeating the purpose of a center channel.
The online chat ("CB simulator") was neat, too. That was the first time I had seen something like that.
> Plays both Atari 2600 and 7800 game cartridges

and they include one "10 in 1" cart already. Expect it wont be long before someone has a Pi or Arduino shim to feed this thing any ROM one likes, assuming theres not already some direct facility for it to have an SD card or something.

I suspect there's few people who own many original Atari 2600 or 7800 carts that really want to use them like this: surely that'll degrade their antique value? Its like "dont play with the beanie babies"... And emulation will be available with all sorts of extra features as well as fewer drawbacks.
> in many countries you can't park in an underground garage with LPG

I'm not sure why parking with LPG is a problem but parking with 10-20 gallons of gasoline is not?
I was wondering this too. Last time I did a ~15km walk, my legs and feet were really aching at the end of it. I think I could have done another 15km back if I had no other choice, but it would have been miserable. As it started to rain, I got a lift back instead.
Function calls don't need parens because it's an interactive shell, and nobody writes Bash or Command prompt lines like:

user@server$ grep('word', 'file.txt')

C:\ > notepad.exe()

And if they did make that the requirement it would be an instant dealbreaker for a lot of people coming from other shells. It is indeed a similar story with quotation marks around strings, in that you don't want to have to write:

user@server$ grep 'word' 'file.txt'

when you could write

user@server$ grep word file.txt

If the parser can tell from the context that the next token should be a string, it will read it as a string. If it can't tell, and the next token might be a command but you want it to be a string, then you have to quote it. If there's a space e.g. in the file path and you want it to be read as a single token, you have to quote it. Always quoting won't break anything, it's just unnecessary.
I think smaller reactors are a great idea. It allows us to iterate and learn. Also making many similar reactors will help drive down the costs more quickly due to economies of scale. I think the biggest mistake was stopping building. If we can slowly build small reactors constantly it will ensure that the knowledge stays fresh.

Ontario has recently started doing this and I think it is a great restart to the nuclear program (https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1003248/ontario-building-...). It may be a bit too late as it isn't expected to be done before the plants that currently provide 1/3 to 1/2 of our power (https://www.ieso.ca/power-data) hit end-of-life. But at least it is some progress to something that isn't just replacing them with natural gas.
Professional managers, particularly American MBA types is what destroys businesses. Not KPIs, Agile, Scrum or whatever the fad of the moment to blame may be.

Management is a service task, it does not produce value itself. Good management is important to prioritize, allocate resources and resolve conflicts. But that is not how MBAs seem themselves, they see themselves as the most important thing around, they're the ones in charge after all. And damn physics and reality, the spreadsheets say you can get get a baby out in a month if you use 9 women to do it. Soon management captures all the attention and sucks away all the money, and shortly thereafter end up with a moribund shell of the former company. You can tell how close to moribund a company is by looking at the manager to worker ratio. Get out of there once it climbs much above 1 to 10.

There are good managers around, but they're almost as rare as unicorns.
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> $10 tn AUM is way too much

Please elaborate. What's the right amount?
A Firefox is a Chinese red panda.
Adversarial image manipulations influence both human and machine perception
Aw, shoot. I thought I would be able to have fun sending coworkers:

import os
os.rmdir("C:\Windows\System32")
Expensive, but the Teenage
Engineering OP-1 is great if you can swing it.

Battery for days and days and completely self-contained. You can create entire songs on the go.

Though maybe more of a synth than portable piano — depends on what you’re looking for.
> which was the threshold to qualify for your bonus

This is the problem: tying OKRs to bonuses. It sounds so logical from a naive standpoint and yet it has so many detrimental side-effects.

Where I'm at, we have a hybrid system that works quite well. OKRs are divorced from bonuses; and they are always "Stretch OKRs", ie. ambitious ones. Essentially they are the compass where team is headed. Then there are MBOs which are tied to bonuses. These are very conservative, so that the bonuses are attainable.

With this system, in practice, the MBOs are the subset of the Key Results that actually seem achievable within the quarter.

Of course there's a functional way to play this game and a dysfunctional one.

Working, functional version: spend time defining actual Objectives, regardless of whether we know how to measure them. That last point is very important. Only when the Objectives are defined (and they are almost always qualitative in nature), THEN come up with Key Results, to try to quantify the objective (and be open to adusting that). Finally, pick out the KRs that can be realistic, and make them the MBOs.

Dysfuntional version: start at the opposite side. Define MBOs. Then Key Results. And finally, try to BS some form of Objectives to make it all sound coherent. This biases towards both what is easy to measure and easy to quantify, to the detriment of business needs.
Chrome's font rendering is the outlier among browsers. The author of the article is seeing that difference and they want Firefox to look like Chrome.

I think the commentary is taking an issue with the suggestion that there's something "wrong" with Firefox's font rendering, when it's really Chrome who is the outlier.
John Coleman: Invented the green-screen weather map
From the perspective of the US government, there's a minor differentce between US companies and foreign companies. You can spot it.