skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not by any means a browser loyalist. Firefox is my daily driver, I regularly use Safari on my Mac (not to mention phone), and at work I normally use Chrome for certain tasks. I would guess that I use all three at least a little bit on most days. And I like to try out alternative browsers too.

In fact, just about the only browser I don't like to use is Edge. I used to use it quite a bit, too. But I stopped using it a while back, precisely because of shit like this.
Ban human drivers eventually. First ban the development of new self driving systems because it's too dangerous, and merge with any competitors. Make sure you're the only game in town.

With how they're developing self driving as AI heavy black boxes there isn't a more natural monopoly in the world.
That's an interesting claim, but have you got numbers to back it up, compared to bus networks which are also largely electric/hydrogen in most recent deployments?
There is no conspiracy theory needed; people are generally bigoted and biased, and the fact that the latest escalation was set off by a very brutal terrorist attack (or series thereof) by Hamas, a terrorist organization that doesn't really give off "freedom fighter" vibes, and which has a religious extremism component than titillates and scares people, only exacerbates the issue.

This is just the past few decades of Western coverage of this conflict on steroids, or exaggerated so much that the bias is becoming obvious to people who never paid much attention before.
AI Has a Hotness Problem
If you need to get paid you aren’t “working for yourself” or controlling the project. Whomever pays for your work decides most of the parameters. That’s called freelancing or consulting.

You don’t “become” a freelancer or independent developer. That’s not an identity. You find customers who will pay you to deliver solutions to business problems. If you have a good reputation and track record and relationships with your customers they may trust you to make decisions about the project direction, tools and languages, schedule, etc.

Building a freelance practice takes considerable time and effort. I have some articles about that based on my experience (over 15 years freelancing) on my site typicalprogrammer.com.
If you're picking Chrime over Edge for -trust- reasons, then I'm not sure what to say.

Both Microsoft and Google are both trust-worthy (I trust them not to phone home with my bank login details) and untrust-worthy (I expect them to gather as much information about me as possible) to equal degrees.

Both want to show me ads. Both want to track my behaviour. It's trivial to point to either and show multiple examples of egregious behaviour.

So yeah, if you're choosing Google over Microsoft for -trust- reasons then I have a page of ads for you.

The real reason I'm installing Chrome is simply because I use Chrome. It's a browser. My life is too short to waste time deciding which browser to use. They're all good enough. Of course I could switch to Edge. I just couldn't be bothered to.
See https://archive.ph/Sk2Bw
You are obviously correct in a general statistics sense.

But I’m not sure that density functions give off more light than heat about this impending tennis court moment.

In my city they have different tent camps for people who just got fired.
https://archive.ph/SiODh
"Fuck you, we're not paying": inside Unity's Runtime Fee fiasco
keeping your work pipe full take quite a bit of time. alot of jobs dont pan out, and when you think you've got steady work, it can suddenly disappear. also be prepared to deal with clients who really dont understand what they need and are just desperately hoping for someone to make their problems go away, but without empowering them. if they had control of their development, they wouldn't be hiring contractor. you've gotta try to make it work as best you can. because if you can, people will remember, and thats gonna help keep your pipe full later on.

unless you have a very niche skill that they really wouldn't normally hire a full time for. thats really the best ticket here, because those people are alot more respectful of your time, pay better, and are very clear about what they from you.

dont even try to get work on those job boards. i dont have any good suggestions on where to start getting jobs if you dont already have a network.

if you can keep all that going, its entirely possible to work part time, make good money, and have great control over your schedule and life choices. if you cant, then coming out of contractor into salary can be harder than transitioning between salaried jobs.
1) Since blocking social media for one's children is trivial, does it mean all the parents affected are guilty of neglect? Is there a reverse class action lawsuit? Oh wait, that's bad for election prospects, better go after evil big businesses.

2) There really needs to be a rule for frivolous shakedown lawsuits of the kind EU and now apparently US states practice, where monetary damages are paid either way - if the fake harms and violations pan out, to the state; if they don't pan our, by the states to the company with the same order of magnitude fine.
Fair, you're probably right in this case.
> This really depends on the game.

Absolutely, I get stellar battery life when playing Stardew Valley, for instance.
This is an important point. Humans have evolved a way to intuit the thoughts and behaviors of other drivers. It’s why people who are mentally ill are unsettling; it’s very hard to pick up on their intentions and course of action. That’s why in think the hurdle isn’t “better than the average human driver.” Because humans won’t trust a machine in the same way as another human, the level of safety for AVs may have to be much, much greater before the public as a whole trusts them with safety critical decisions.
Blue Dollar a.k.a. Dólar Blue is parallel dollar rate of USD in Argentina
I never trusted Microsoft once in my life, and I'm older than them, but I can't deny that they made many smart moves in the last years: proof is that they got a lot of good feelings among developers. They are starting to look bad again. I can't say that I'm happy about that but at least it confirms the soundness of my position.
If they're actually smart, they would've tried to cash in on the recent youtube adblocking issues, and invest in making edge able to block youtube ads properly.

If they did, i bet their usage statistics would grow in some substantial amount. Obviously, this could open a can of worms, since they'd then be open to being sued by google...
Please just stick to the intended use of the site. Any fixed agenda is tedious, and you've been prosecuting one on HN for many years.

It should go without saying, but I suppose I'll add that this has nothing to do with agreeing or disagreeing with you, only with what HN is for (and what it is not for).
See here's the thing. I believe that you believe this :). But be honest. How open and truthful would your response be if a question was close to home. (I am guilty of this too as an interviewer). For example, what was the most political thing you had engaged in that resulted in surprises (a polite way of saying been thrown under the bus) or a game of thrones for someone you were close to (in the org). Id be very surprised if you actually did not invoke leadership principles somewhere.

Or if somebody asked you about getting to the next level id be very surprised if the answer was diverting from the script and did not mention (or read out) the different role specific rubriks?
It's the byproduct of recycling piss back into Fosters.
That dovetails nicely with their proposal to make it illegal to offer websites to adults that are browsing without a google-issued cryptographic identity.

I wish I was making the above up.
I think your understanding of the common vs. uncommon cases here is out of whack. The common case is that parents who have done nothing wrong lose their children for days or weeks (at best) before things are resolved in their favor.

And then there's of course the (less-common, but happens often enough to be troubling) situation where parents lose their children and never get them back, even though they're innocent of causing any harm.

Note that I'm talking about the broader effect of Child Protective Services when they investigate any kind of reported abuse, not just CSAM possession/distribution.
Is that real? I've heard it widely repeated but the NHTSA definitions very strongly suggest that this loophole doesn't actually exist:

> https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/ffdd/sgo-2021-01/SGO-2021-01_Da...

The Reporting Entity’s report of the highest-
level driving automation system engaged at
any time during the period 30 seconds
immediately prior to the commencement of
the crash through the conclusion of the
crash. Possible values: ADAS, ADS,
“Unknown, see Narrative.”
The origins of MS-DOS Windows, Windows NT and successors, SQL Server, all start from some form of deceit and trickery.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0x

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Server_Enterprise

And now, GitHub (your code as a dataset), and Microsoft Pluton (your computer as a prison).

We should however give them some credit for being one of the few companies that does something serious about accessibility.
I just use Firefox and maintain a single policies.json [1] to disable features I don't like (Pocket, telemetry, etc) across all of the computers that I use. Mozilla has pretty good documentation [2] available, mostly aimed at Enterprise admins, but it works for me.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...

2. https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/
Edit: understood now. :)
Can you elucidate the very, very good reasons (at a high level) or link to somewhere that you feel is authoritative that does?

(I agree that if you don’t say ‘security update’ you may get fewer updates.)
With a limited understanding of truth and know, yes.
> They think the Tweet is indication that he supports Hamas enough to aid or promote them secretly. “If this guy is this outspoken publicly for his support of Hamas, what must he be doing to support them behind closed doors? Does he donate to them? Organize for them?”

If they think that then why just him and not the thousands of other people tweeting similar things?

The thought process is evidently "oh, it's that bloody git again, have we got anything we can pin him for this time?"; if you don't see that it's you who's being naive. (I'm agnostic about whether it's specifically about Scottish independence, the Assange case, or something else; one way or another he's a thorn in the side of the powerful, and that's why the book is being thrown at him)
Elon Musk: Threat or Menace Part 3
Sometimes Bluetooth hangs on Windows11 so it's on par
"Hand the kid an iPad and ignore them for 4 hours" also started around 2012.
Those news should be carefully regulated. After working for 2 years in the field as an engineering manager directly responsible in getting good numbers, none of the claims of the time were genuine, but were just framed in a way that provided the best outlook. I wonder if it’s still the case.
That's because you can self-undiagnose just as easy. People think feelings are disorders.
The decade after 2012 was an enormously wealthy bull market.
I know it's hard to believe sometimes, but I don't think "get keelhauled by the FTC again" is part of their 5-year business plan.
The vast majority are well over $50k.
Full citizenship? https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/21/middleeast/arab-israeli-citiz...
I am in the same boat. I have 12+ years of experience. I tired to launch a startup and it failed miserably.

I am considering Amazon IQ. If you are into AWS and can get the professional level certificates, you can use Amazon IQ platform to freelance. I have used Amazon IQ to hire before and I had good results. Your really need multiple pro level certificates to compete though.

I have tried Upwork, but it's been a not so good experience. I have my work history on the platform, but it doesn't seem to matter. I've worked at some top tier companies (one of the trillion dollar market cap SF big tech companies). I think Upwork requires building a portfolio tailored to the type of projects you would like to work on.
China is 4x the population of the US.

According to the OECD data, the US ranks #1 in mean PPP household disposable income at $62,300. China doesn't even crack the top 35.

For PPP Median dispoable income, US ranks #2 at $46,600 (barely below #1 luxembourg), China ranks 42 at $4,900. So in median terms an American somehow has 9.5X more disposable income than vs a Chinese person.

Source; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...

I don't really see the GDP PPP per capita as relevant, it's based on so many assumptions. The average American has way, way more money to burn when they travel for example vs the average Chinese person.

The US dollar is the world's reserve currency. There's 0 chance of China taking over the US in this role (population may shrink by half by 2060), I don't see the party that values control over all else ever allowing a free floating currency, and the concept of a bric currency is a joke, like expecting China and India to put aside their differences and make a common currency with an independent central bank... yeah right.
A rare miss. pg doesn’t completely fuck up almost ever, I think that essay is tied with calling Altman a successful first-time founder for “even pg blows it sometimes”.
Work a regular high-paying software job, save, invest, reach FI, then do software all day.
>But that (or removing the antenna at all) is going to just leave you with exactly the problem you already have—it can’t make a connection, so it will continue retrying (and probably at its highest power setting) forever and drain your battery.

The majority of the power being drawn occurs because the system mistakenly believes the band is still usable and assumes that it probably just located somewhere with poor reception. This causes the system to ask the radio to bump up its radio power and when that doesn't work, wait x amount of time and then try again. However by stripping the cellular antenna, we make it impossible for the system from executing that behavior.

Sure it'd periodically wake up and inevitably fail to initiate a scan but that consume vastly less power. (to the point that it'd likely be a non-issue)
If you live in an environment with inclement weather and awkward roads, everybody can't just choose to not drive there, but wayno can.

It's a question of their dataset not being comparable, not their individual driving decisions being better on a day to day basis
I get your point. But the approach to the situation differs I think. A human driver would creep into the intersection to get a better view and then go if clear. The Waymo proceeded with far more confidence. Just better vision. It starting tracking vehicles earlier than a human would (this is shown in a simplified way on the display inside - but I wasn't watching in this case). As it pulled into the intersection, it's front camera and/or lidar has a much better angle than a human driver so can make a go/no-go assessment earlier and without hesitation.
Out of curiosity I went to open Edge and try to trigger the poll, instead I found the most shocking avenue of product placement I've ever seen. [1]

Yep, Microsoft pushed an update that adds a (completely useless) launch app button to Windows Search results, and that button is being used to promote Edge.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/XXi7t45.png
Call me cynical, but this feels like a way for tech companies to absolve themselves of responsibility.

“Your Honor, the pedestrian would have never been struck if the driver had set the system in its most conservative mode as we suggest on page 1,047 of Terms and Conditions.” /s
We know for sure it never meant “rebrand your sysadmins as devops/platform team and be done” that’s just how middle management tend to interpret things. They did the same with agile = scrum
To be clear: the consequence is that, the next time around, nobody will lend to us if we need it (which is why we would have to start balancing the budget)?
The Boring Company is now worth $7B
I worked at Meta for 7 years, focusing on Youth Engagement for a number of those years. We had incredible sociology research on what is good and healthy for kids online. We were not allowed to build any of it because the Director and VP class only rewarded "number go up" and punished any other activity. I quit the Youth group in frustration because they just wouldn't let me build or even code.
The restaurant model has such incredibly high turnover and failure rate.

We think we want things to go back to the way they were, but really we just want to be young again.

To be more constructive, would be cool to tie in some connection to the present. For example, ad model for the new restaurant that is there now.
What's so pitiful is they aren't asking because they want a vibrant, diverse browsing ecosystem. They're asking because they're on the outside looking in to a platform-defining position of market dominance.

This roughly translates to "we know damn well why you're downloading Chrome, and we'd really rather Google or Apple be left wondering why you're downloading Edge, but we have no idea how to get there"
I'm more curious to hear from Typescript developers who stand by using the global scope for dependency injection. I see that pattern a lot in Typescript code.

I suspect it is because Typescript doesn't properly support prototype function assignment, which makes scoped injection painfully ugly.
This is only true if the EU is not fucked by the gulf stream shutting down.

That was considered a remote possibility a mere decade ago, but nowadays some scientists consider it more likely than not.
Because orchestration also applies to ETL pipelines. Stating the context would have reduced confusion. A better subtitle might be "Declarative CI/CD pipeline orchestrator".
It’s extremely hard to engineer a product, sell a product, support a product, and administer a business all on your own. It really only works if you can escape a few of those hats through luck, unusual cleverness, or the right partner.

The easier road to having a lot of agency in your work is through consulting/contracting as you’ve already started. The more expertise your develop and the more reputation you earn, the more confidence you can bring to your recommendations and the more freedom your clients will give you. Once it starts churning, you make plenty of money and have lots agency and rarely need to look hard for work.

But that takes time. The most valuable advice, besides patience, is to be discerning about what clients you accept and retain. It can be tempting to take any client during a dry spell or to become enamored by a client with cool ideas, but some prospective clients will devour your soul and others will have financial trouble that leaves you with large unpaid invoices and little recourse. You can learn to spot this ahead of time and you want to develop that skill. Too extreme a bad client, or too many bad clients, will burn you out worse than any bad manager at bigcorp. So stay watchful and don’t be afraid to fire bad clients once you see things looking dicey.

Good luck!
I'm confused by the cities. Most of the restaurants under San Jose weren't in San Jose. And many of those were in San Francisco. But there's a San Francisco section.
I use firefox anyway.
The first half of this advice seems like possibly-unnecessary semantic pedantism.
If a Model 3 LR is 75kwh, and this is roughly 3x the range, and that takes roughly 20 minutes to go 10-80% at a supercharger then can anyone tell me what kind of hardware would be required to charge a 225kwh battery in the same time? Is it remotely feasible to build at least 100,000 of those chargers all over the world?
Sounds like each one would need a gigantic capacitor or flywheel on site.
> now how do you handle updating all those in realtime is what amazed me, they even have bullets go through locations

Probably just as other distributed systems implement replication: you have a leader to broadcast instruction and other followers applied the instruction to their local copy of the state.

However, there'll always be delay/stale data between the leader and followers. So, to improve performance, you can allow the followers to perform speculative decision based on their own calculation, but these local decisions will be overwritten / rollback by instructions received from the leader.
The UI and rendering layer? Yes there was. It may not have been a full rewrite but they ditched the XUL ecosystem also.

Do you think the complaints posted in this thread aren’t because code was rewritten?
Note that the question from MS is about "trying another browser" rather than "trying Chrome".

The article itself is about the poll happening when a user tries to download Chrome, but the poll wording and behaviour seem like it may also be happening for other browsers too.
Do you seriously think asking the manager what critical feedback they've given and how often would work?

They could also claim, rightfully, that it would not be appropriate to answer, then deflect to some other talking point.

Also, asking a person what they're really like is not the best way to determine what that are actually like. If it worked that way, murder mysteries would be really, really dull.
With LLMs that doesn't have to be true anymore.
I don't have any control over that, but I can prevent myself from being upset about minor things.
My sister is on the short side. She went to the counter to buy some of this stuff and the pharmacist refused to believe her ID that said she was (substantially) older than 18. Granted, it was a California issued ID and the pharmacy was in Illinois, but still, what the hell?
I’d like to see AVs compared to the average good driver. I’d bet it’s a lot closer in that case.
Slowly over the course of the last 48 years. There was no pivotal moment. Probably the key thing was the realisation that even with the very good wage i'm on, I was unlikely to be able to save enough deposit money to buy a house in my city without at least one of my parents passing away. And then the realisation that there are people that work far harder than me, earn far less, and understanding that they are in an even more fucked situation.
Animation doesn't have to imply huge. The animations on this page could be done with a few kilobytes of GL shader.
Being rich means stealing from the poor. It has to be like that alll around the world.
> I know everybody is in love with Microsoft these days because of Open AI

The cognitive dissonance this provoked in me is astounding. The only people I've seen praising anything AI-related at the same kinds of people who were boosting cryptocurrency and NFTs. Are there really thoughtful, mature people who think that Open AI is in any way positive?

EDIT: The most pro-Microsoft opinions I've seen have mostly been related to VS Code. Personally I don't get it - it's basically functionality-equivalent to IntelliJ, with maybe _slightly_ nicer visuals - but, sure, it works well enough, I guess!
A lot of companies are getting very rich building boring technology (e.g. $2.6 billion per subway mile).
Cheap meth can't compete with free shop lifted ingredients in homemade meth.
The economy didn't tank because they started raising interest rates, because the economy didn't tank.
No amount of definitions will change your mind. Either you think downloading an mp3 is wrong or you don't. I think it's wrong but I do it anyway, that's intellectual honesty.
Isn't it far easier to claim you're babysitting/housesitting/house cleaning/car detailing? It's not like those activities (or any other types of services, for that matter) leaves any physical evidence? If anything doing "car rentals" is going to leave more evidence, given how much of a privacy nightmare they are (they basically have an always on cell modem).