skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Focus on learning and retaining the fundamentals. Repeatedly, when possible. Why just the fundamentals? So I can keep a good mental model of how the systems work, in my head.

- Take notes[1] and document the fundamentals (for review), trivia, detritus, step-by-step procedures, and problems+resolutions for issues I encountered. I try not to keep this in my head, anymore. I have too many complex systems to manage at work. The days where I could keep everything in my head are long gone.

- When I'm taking notes, I try to write them out conversationally as if I were explaining it to a technically-adept person for the first time. Why? Because I'm technically-adept and often when I refer back to something I did a year ago, I want to remember and get back on track as quickly as possible. This approach will also help when I eventually point an LLM at them.

- I'm a visual person, so screenshots and photos and videos and whatever other visual information, as much as possible.

1. https://obsidian.md with the Omnisearch plug-in.
"considered harmful" is considered harmful.

It's always an opinion, which is fine, but too many of them are half baked, in my opinion.
That’s why any reasonable regulation tries to address that by saying the provider basically can’t do that e.g in the example of behavioral advertising. Basically you can show the page with dumb ads to users who don’t consent but you can’t say “you need to let us show the ads which pay more because otherwise we can’t keep the lights on”.
How do people configure fast fuzzy navigation through directories? Like `proj lib util` for fast `cd`?
How about the V2.00 ROM in my 1987-dated ADA MP-1 guitar pre-amp.

It does what it's supposed to. Receives MIDI messages; changes programs; lets you edit and save; does the SysEx dumps and restores.
At the very least they face significant clawbacks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/sbfs-parents-sued-by-ftx-for...
There ought to be a space between a number and its unit. “500mSv/yr” --> “500 mSv/yr”. Neglecting this is a really bad habit.
I'm sure this varies by state, but where I live in MN home schooling parents have to register with the state and meet certain curriculum standards. Homeschooled students also have to take standardized tests and show certain standards of proficiency. The parents need to keep diligent records and be in regular communication with the school district. We have a lot of friends that homeschool (although we don't ourselves), and in general most homeschooled kids seem to be meeting or exceeding where their public- or private-schooled peers are at.
What we see in the education debate is a consistent lack of care for the kids who get ahead (why'd they get ahead of my kids?) and a consistent care for the kids being left behind, and that produces a trend to regulation and centralization that extinguishes anything good. The same forces that take children away from highly dedicated parents and put them into underfunded districts take advanced course tracks and the creativity of teachers away from them when they get there.
While I'm glad the data is trending in the right direction, isn't this what you'd expect to see from these metrics as people adopt faster hardware and better internet connectivity?

I know it's hard to control for those things while maintaining anonymity and doing aggregate analysis, but this would be a much stronger argument controlling for at least some level of available compute.

(I exclusively use Firefox on all the platforms)
His full quote: "I think definitely one of the tech industry’s worst mistakes in a long time was that everybody could go full remote forever, and startups didn’t need to be together in person and, you know, there was going to be no loss of creativity,"

To give him credit, he was saying something a bit more nuanced it just got chopped up by the headline.
Can't comment on the Bluetooth issue, since Apple devices have the least BT issues for me by far. But for screen recording there's the cmd+shift+5 shortcut (or the Screenshot App) to do the same thing without opening Quicktime player.
I’m curious what seasonal effects you hypothesize might be in play here. I don’t know enough about the browser performance space to understand what might change: do people really consume a different mix of web technologies through their browsers seasonally?

It looks to my naive eyes like the trajectories here are consistent and that the “signal” looks bigger than the variance. The measurements seen consistent with a bunch of smart engineers working to optimize for them during the time period they were measured.

At the same time you’re right: that big August improvement might well have something to do with Northern-hemisphere people switching to lighter vacation reading rather than just the Firefox 116 release happening to drop August 1. I’d share your interest in the longer timescale.
At this point I consider every link shortening service to be malicious. The "good" ones, at best, take down the URLs that are reported to them but they don't do anything to stop the same scammers from creating more. They don't even seem to bother searching for other active URLs pointing to the same malicious content.
Rochester Electronics (REI) does. They're in the product lifespan extension space and are licensed by the big guys (Intel, AMD, etc) to produce popular products after the OEM has moved on to newer stuff, usually to satisfy contract obligations (e.g. "Must provide 20 years of spare parts", often for military apps). They aren't cheap.

Innovasic used to, but I dunno what they're up to since Analog Devices picked them up. Similar biz plan to REI.

There's probably an embedded ASIC being sold someplace that incorporates an 8086/8088 somewhere deep down. You probably won't find '8086' mentioned in the datasheet, nor will you likely have heard of the company.

These days there are numerous synthesizeable models you can cram into an FPGA. And there's still bins full of NOS chips around.
I really appreciate this comment. LOL
Hello fellow Alamedan! AMP is great — very grateful for a little abstraction between us an PG&E, despite it being all the same at the end of the day...
Where is that true? France has very strong workers rights, and its GDP growth, for example, is significantly worse than that of the US.
I think a lot use separate apps. I had a gimbal that I used to use with an old iPhone with buttons to move the gimbal and direct the phone, but also with buttons to start/stop recording, and do other things without touching the phone itself. This gimbal was in the $300-$500 range.
Security/minor updates don't prompt for this AFAIK
Central Ohio [1]. I didn't realize it was so cheap.

1. https://www.betterbuyenergy.com/ - Zip 43215
it can not be the ultimate negation though because it does not provide for a way to allow specific sites and the meaning of what to not track is not defined anyway. (see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/what-does-track-do-not...)

I would love for a codified way to specify this in the browser but that also makes way for the inevitable exclusions.
for example taken to the extreme, compliance with the DNT means that you can not use any site that even requires a login.
Sure, they didn't have to pay with money, past a certain point they didn't even use money, but they paid with (much) shorter lives. Money is just the cost of self-determination.

But if you just want to get somewhere on top of a mountain with no light pollution, you don't have to spend very much money, unless you happen to live in an area of the world with no mountains.
There are many bad public schools - but it seems a bit hyperbolic to say the average public school is "horrible".
Here is the code <https://github.com/eugene-khyst/postgresql-event-sourcing/bl...>
The general concept of luxury beliefs is very interesting, but it feels the author gives it an ideological spin:

1. The author claims that when luxury beliefs 'trickle down' to the working class, they are damaging, which is supposedly not the case for luxury goods. Still, in some not-so-privileged parts of society, signaling status with luxury goods consumes the larger parts of people's budget. Think of someone living in a cheap apartment while driving a (leased) luxury car. This is certainly more damaging than believing the police should be de-funded (which does not have any consequence whatsoever on the micro-level, stupid as it may be).

2. The author claims that advocating a disciplined work ethic while attributing one's own success to luck is inconsistent (and hence bigoted). Still, it _is_ true that success is mostly luck, due to opportunities we cannot control. This does not mean that one should not work hard. It's not that affluent people say: "I am rich because of luck, so you should not even try." The realistic take is that success is mostly due to luck but hard work is one of the few ways to control success _to at least some extent_. Also, in many societies hard work is seen as a virtue in itself, not matter whether it pays off or not. So I would claim that "hard work pays off" is a luxury belief for people who are already super privileged, have strong networks, et cetera. When you are born into the elite, you can afford claiming that marrying into the elite is inferior to working your way up...
It's an attention to detail to make the discs more kid-friendly, probably. Just like how Nintendo made their carts taste bad[1] so that kids don't try to eat them, while other vendors just left the plastic as is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30076389 - Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
My gut tells me the Macbook Air sales have been cannibalizing Macbook pro sales.

For the M1 and M2 generations, the airs released in the fall and the pros a few months later in the spring. The airs have gotten so good that many people that would have gotten the more expensive (and more lucrative) pros got airs instead.
Yeah, right after I hit post it occurred to me that assorted media codecs (pictures, video, audio) were probably the next largest attack surface that lynx would also necessarily be immune to :)
The same discussion about cost/value comes up every single time.

Often, people will search for a random part that fulfills the same function, sort by cheapest, and then let their indignation run wild, completely ignoring the difference in form factor, other properties, or even quality.

That said, it’s no secret that Apple adds a healthy margin and an “inconvenience” tax.

In Apple’s ideal world, all people would purchase a handful of mass-produced configurations. This saves them in manufacturing costs, assembly costs, and logistical costs.

Apple also spent an ungodly amount on engineering to “make more with less”.

In the long run, this saves them money on lower-capacity components, especially at the quality and with the ancillary properties they're purchased.
This is why spec for spec their iPhones and Macs look underpowered compared to competitors while performing the same if not better.

So, from their perspective, it’s “fair” to upcharge the “spec peepers” and professionals who really need it. The latter is generally less price-sensitive.
If I were an employer hiring for a remote CA position I would just do accounting -- we were going to hire you for $150k, but now it will be $146.3k with an expected $3.7k of expense reimbursements.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38078065.
> demilitarize - remove all military forces from (an area)

Militarization of police refers to this trend where police has started to buy hardware that was previously of military use only[1], so it's not completely absurd to talk about the opposite motion as “demilitarization”.

> defund - prevent (a group or organization) from continuing to receive funds

Or just (significantly) reduce how much funds they get.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
Slack and email are self-documenting to some extent. A call is one, done, and gone forever.
I can subjectively confirm that Firefox feels snappier recently and deeply appreciate and enjoy all improvements.

But I have some itching concerns about that methodology with heavy anonymisation and stuff there:

Couldn't it be that the web itself got faster, and folks have better hardware?

I mean, yes, generally these sloppy script kiddies with bloated frameworks produce less and less effective code … but I can imagine, that when some heavily visited page deploys a new better optimized and leaner version (I assume such things happen in reality, don't they?), there is no way to tell it apart from telemetry data telling that everything got slightly faster on average. Or with people getting better hardware, or with OS and driver updates, etc.
Calling the colony self governing to gloss over that this was no legitimate democratic government with actual independence selling it and allowing the expulsion is wildly misleading.

Hence e.g an ICJ decision declaring it illegal in recent years, and a UN resolution declaring it illegal within weeks when it happened in 1965

The "self governing" colony was no more a legitimately truly independent government than the Apartheid bantustans.
So no new startups? That ultimately hurts wages and offsets any cost savings from employers paying for your home internet which you’d already be paying for anyways
Programmable nanocomposites of nanocrystals and hydrogels for soft robotics
With ZFS, if a redundant member of a pool goes offline for a time but is then returned, only the updated blocks are written to bring it up to date, and this happens automatically.

Unfortunately, btrfs is not that smart, and you must trigger a rebalance event to rewrite every block in the filesystem to return to full redundancy.

This rebalance behavior is a deal-killer for many uses.
I think a short commute is ok. It gives people time to clear their minds and is a liminal space which allows a transition to occur. They can catch up on a short episode or read a book. The fact that our society optimizes filling every single second is a personal issue and also a societal issue but it it definitely not the right way.
Employers are going to reduce headcount to a minimum regardless. And these millions of dollars of expenses aren't 'additional'. They are already been paid for by the employees. Employees shouldn't have to subsidize the business.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max costs more than 1400€. You can get a nice "real" video camera for that money!
Now, the iPhone has the advantage of being always available (without all the pro gear that Apple used). But in the case of a production like this, that's not relevant.

My guess is that most upcoming filmmakers on a budget will continue to other options such as Blackmagic cameras.
Fair enough, but that's a 1999-grade dongle.
Mystery of the Martian Core Solved
Even if they do something locale-specific, Microsoft has a knack for fucking specifically dates up. For me Windows keeps falling back to using the backwards US way even though I keep correcting it to use the international way. I think this is because I prefer the US keyboard layout (I've no need for a GBP sign above the three, hash is much more useful), something causes that to leak out.

Also even if they have that nailed, it's still no guarantee. I'm not an Xbox owner but presumably you have a profile with a region (for payments/billing, tax etc) and a selected language. I'd be willing to bet a lot of Brits, Canadians or Aussies have selected "English (US)" language without really thinking through.

We'll see, but I think there will be quite a few confused people in a couple of weeks time regardless.
I've mentioned before that my wife was going through stuff her mom sent her from the attic when they sold her childhood house and she found an SNES from 1991 and a bunch of old games, and they still work. She's been playing Legend of Zelda pretty regularly for years now on that thing. There's no reason it can't work at least until the material physically degrades to the point of being unfixable (which is not forever, but longer than most software otherwise lasts). Even if something about the regulatory environment changes, nobody is going to issue a recall on a 30+ year-old gaming console forcing you to turn it in.
There is no “cookie law” and no mandate that banners are used etc. Regulation should try to avoid languages in specific technology as much as possible - and the GDPR does.
I hate being this person, but this title might make more sense if it was "Walk, a Terminal File Manager." I clicked through thinking it'd be something like a walkthrough of terminal file management.
Sure but then you need to manually do the back and forward whenever you hit a new bottleneck. At some point the intelligence might need to figure out better power sources and deliver to feed bigger clusters of compute. Those clusters need to physically be deployed somewhere in the real world also, etc.
> Given the timespan of about 50 minutes, causality and the speed of light would require they were no more than 6 AU apart.

Well, not if it was pre-planned...

(The radiation theory does seem a lot more plausible, tho.)
You mean only displaying and discussing the 95th percentile in a blog post?

There's no reason to assume that what is brought up in a blog post is going to match what engineers are looking at. In this case, I'm a developer at Mozilla, and I would say that I agree that it's worthwhile to look at the 99th percentile as well. And the median (50th percentile). And other platforms. And segregate it by website, but we don't collect that, or by country, but although I think we might be collecting that we avoid correlating too many things before discarding the non-aggregate data. There are too many German users to worry about identifying one by knowing they're German, but there's aren't that many German users with >100 tabs running on Windows 7 on slower hardware, etc.

I wouldn't want to pile up any more data than necessary in a blog post, though. The point would get buried. Man Bites Dog Whose Litter Mate Once Skipped A Veterinary Visit Because Owner Was Out Of Town At A Wedding Between Two People Whose Names Start With D

(Yes, we do consider many different percentiles when making decisions. We kind of have to come up with arguments for what matters, given a change we made or are contemplating. Some things improve the 50th and regress the 95th, for example, and that's a useful clue. Telemetry tracks half a dozen different percentiles.)
School is parents + school. I would say about 60% parenting and 40% school. If you don’t push your kid academically nothing is going to happen.

Peer groups matter. In “good” schools you’re optimizing the peer group. A good/bad school rating has little to do with teacher capability.
If You Want to Build, You Have to Believe
Do things that don't scale!
I think that the defense (and SBF) must have concluded that they were looking at 40 years before he took the stand, and if it ends in him getting 80 does that really make a difference? Maybe, just maybe, he could have swung it - but it looks like he hasn't.
That's pretty cool. Is it still in use? And what affect did it have on the students. Did they learn well with it?
Typically bandsaws are used to process cows anyways, so it makes even less sense.
Sounds wonderful, but they've been claiming speed increases for years, causing me to go and check if they're true, and being deeply disappointed. I don't use powerful laptops with fancy hardware for my browsing, but how stupid can a browser be if it only works well even with heavy use if your hardware is great? Not everyone has that luxury even if they'd like a bit of privacy features.

As much as I detest and avoid all things Google in so many ways, Chrome remains preferable because at least it can deliver 50+ open tabs on a completely ordinary laptop without completely freezing everything to shit.

You've had so many years to get this basic thing right Mozilla, yet you keep failing, and for a company that claims to track less than the others, then what the fuck is your browser doing to keep being so goddam slow?
I stand corrected, but this is strange. Empirically I know that at least most of the time, tools are just phoning out to `unar`, because if I run into problems it becomes immediately obvious. I wonder if libarchive is/was just not good enough to handle most of the things.
Well, a professional cinema camera and a set of lens can easily pass 100K and you'll still need the 50-100k of equipment.
Personally, I prefer to use the internet as it is and not build up and maintain my own parallell infrastructure.
In the ever-evolving software development landscape, having the right backend tech stack for your project is pivotal. Your choice can significantly impact the project’s delivery, performance, scalability, security, and success.
Be careful so that your state doesn’t turn into…California
I'm not even convinced intelligence generally correlates with bullshit detection.
I’m not sure what your objection is here. As you point out, they have photos that very prominently feature professional lighting and tripod equipment. They even explain in a caption that they customized it for the iPhone.

How is that misleading that all they used was “the phone in your pocket”?
That information is literally the headline of the piece and the meat of the article.

Perhaps you want the full transcript.
I know a lot of these options exist, but I have a few unbreakable requirements.

1) not building it myself. I need off the shelf. I am lousy with a soldering iron.

2) it must have a dedicated F row. I do not care about layers and supposedly saved movement distance. I must always be able to mash F5 without any chording. Give me an F row + layers. The keys need to physically be there, my desk has plenty of “vertical” space to hold it.
It would also include users who happened to close their laptop lids and suspend for an hour, right during pageload.
"Test-optional" and "test-blind" are vastly different. If I can get a leg up on the competition by taking the test, then it's basically required even if it's technically optional.
Simple endpoints that have extremely low-volume traffic. If I have a project that has low usage and requires basic endpoints to handle server-side logic, lambdas are by far the cheapest way to do it and fully performant.

I use Cloudflare Workers on hobby projects to provide server side work for things that have low volume, because the price is so low per user.

It's true that Lambdas will become pricier with consistent high volume usage, but for extremely variable usage or low usage, lambdas are a great option.
I can't be alone in just assuming that everyone with a few millions to spare is training LLMs to help with their problem right now.
I really wish people would talk about space stuff in a post about space stuff and not medium or substance stuff.
I don't know if it's the fault of Firefox or Cloudflare WARP but I've been getting a lot of "PR_END_OF_FILE" errors (something like that) when browsing.
Don't they also show a trick, show the method, then do the trick again in such a way that they must have been using another method?

Or am I thinking of someone else?
The point is what the footage looks like. It’s about the camera output.

An iPhone + good lighting + microphone will give you fantastic footage.

You don’t need the drone or lift. If you’re not trying to do those effects they don’t matter. The iPhone can give you great results if you own one, you don’t need to buy a fancy camera, you can spend your budget elsewhere if you’re getting started.
> Isn't escaping from those officials the whole point? Either because they're failing at their job or doing things that are disagreeable to some subset of the population?

It sounds ideal.

But we might want at least some oversight and regulation to, for example, make sure kids aren't being homeschooled on how to build rockets and kill some group of people.
I should have said "paid members" instead of "supporters" to be more precise. He's currently at 432 members, but of those only 283 are paid members.

Either way, $5 is probably both the median and the mode for the payment distribution, whether you include non-paying members or not.