skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This program embodies the concept of finished software — a software you can use forever with no unneeded changes.

I think it's important for people to realize this is totally untrue. You can check the wikipedia for wordstar[1] and the first paragraph says, "...originally written for the CP/M-80 operating system, with later editions added for MS-DOS and other 16-bit PC OSes."

Software needs to have the ability to change because the devices we run it on keep changing - either because we make new ones or the old ones wear out. This is why open source is so critical - because there is no such thing as "software you can use forever," there's only "software you can use right now and modify to continue to use in the future."

That said I also appreciate software whose feature set is frozen - allowing it to quickly and easily be made available on many platforms and be immediately usable by anyone who encountered it before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
Regarding publishes to a message broker, the transactional outbox pattern (mentioned in TFA , and something that can be used on its own) provides similar capabilities if you don't want to fully buy into event sourcing.

https://microservices.io/patterns/data/transactional-outbox....
If you did, you still wouldn't own me. You'd just be in league to steal my house.
Nothing like a bit of good ole fashioned academic fraud to start off the day. That's fairly interesting, thanks.
That was a point, but your first point was that domains are secure sources of web identity. That's what I disagreed with. I do agree that if your civil courts are knowledgeable you at least have some defense, but domains are more rent and less property which makes them an insecure form of identity imo.
Bats Use the Same Brain Cells to Map Physical and Social Worlds
fake users?
wait until they find out my domain comes from Afghanistan (.af)
Ask HN: What good will come out of AI regulation?
There is a lot of talk about how there should be a panel of experts that will over see & regulate the AI industry.

GDPR was supposed to help "protect data" of users. But what really happened what that users got nagged with more dialogue boxes & pop-ups.

I suspect this call for regulation will make technology like AI have laws that limit the participation of of "little guys" in the sectors.

Technology a few decades may look like finance.

1. In finance only people with special permits are allowed to run a bank. — their may be permits for collecting & storing user data these will be as few as banks & close to the government via crony relationships as banks are today.

2. Just like how people with little money in finance are not allowed to use the Kelly Criterion on equities exchanges like Ameritrade due to "Pattern Day Trader Rules". People that don't have the necessary data that can fit ML models sufficiently to the governments mandated model accuracy will be banned for building & deploying such models in the wild.

3. Just like how in some countries financiers without CFA are not allowed to talk about Thier personal opinion in financial markets. People with "Chartered Artificial Intelligence Advisor" papers will not be allowed to have Thier opinion on certain ML techniques that may be used in the wild.

Regulation is seldom made for the benefit of the public. I don't know why AI custodians are begging for it (unless it's to be on the panel of experts of course)

I suspect the Industry of AI & technology in general is going to fall for the bug scam of regulatory capture as all previous industries have done [1]

But my question is, What good do you expect form AI regulation?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
have heard good things about hustle fund
Other people corrected about the Epic deal being only 2 games, but for some reason I always forget that and say 3 because is what I remember.

The 2 games with 505 are Control 2 and Project Condor (Control coop spin-off).

Tencent game is Project Vanguard, a live service game, hinted to be related to Control, and the Keystone AWE.
Indeed. "take steps to try to end" would have been more accurate.
I expect compute is a non-trivial amount of the cost, at least compared to salaries.

Unless of course you just get those 100 people to watch what people are typing and really quickly write their own suggestions.
Everything I've read says that you're right in theory, but in practice, rust rewrites tend to outperform.

At Mozilla's level, though, I wouldn't necessarily expect that to hold water. They should be able to write great code in either language.
Explaining that semi-obscure reference: Barry Lyndon is a Kubrick film that famously has shots lit by only candlelight. This was accomplished by using extremely ”fast” lenses created by NASA for (I believe) the Apollo missions.
> Doesn't really sound like it is going to break the bank,

"You did the math wrong. You cheated me. I'm getting a lawyer!"
You have to wonder how much of that transaction is saving face? The warlord doesn't have to deal with the messy business of trying to shoot down jets belonging to a well-funded army; the military doesn't have to deal with the difficult business of engaging a warlord with local connections and support. Both sides get to wink and imply that they each got the better end of a "business deal". It's Clausewitz in reverse -- commerce as a de-escalation of war by other means.
Since editing tools weren't mentioned, I suspect they must have used DaVinci Resolve or similar, instead of Final Cut Pro and Motion.
Well, the thought process is that cents from every .io registration go to a private equity firm.

And none of that money goes to the people who historically lived there and were displaced.

So... that's a pretty shitty thing to support (as someone registering a domain), when the alternative is simply "Pick a different TLD."

Tbh, ICANN/IANA should either (a) dissolve the TLD as-is, as there is no independent country it covers (and the UK already has one and doesn't want it) or (b) switch it to Chagossian ownership, so they financially benefit.

The current situation and ownership is indefensible.
I'm no CS student, but getting familiar with Lisp was useful for a deeper understanding of a bunch of stuff. I resisted looking into Lisp for a long time because of the HN hype.

I still don't use Lisp for any real world projects, but it was useful for helping me better understand concepts in other languages, particularly JavaScript and Python.

Learning SmallTalk was also helpful with regard to message passing.
Yes, sir! Thank you for the feedback. I will be adding new features in the future to help with that separation. I am really targeting the causal end-user on this app.

Here is the roadmap: https://share.dailytoo.com/?boardId=280d5e3362c46b5ee44ec043...
Here is some data BTW -

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/08/20/a-profi...

Young men, and old women tend to be single more.

Seems like past 30, very few men stay/are single. Women > 50 start getting single dramatically faster, though I've noticed it often really starts kicking off ~ 40. (Some of this due to men dying sooner than women, and a lot of it later, but if you don't think menopause has something to do with it - you've never had a partner with menopause).

But also notably, women are not often single - unlike young men - until they're really old. Weird eh? Even though there are more women than men in the population by a measurable %.

My observation is that if not stably paired, women have it pretty rough past 30, and end up dating older and older men or 'settling' for folks they never would have given the time of day when younger. Women are also more likely to do 'Mistress' type arrangements.

Men have it really rough when young, until they figure themselves out, and then most of them have it easier (the more money, fame, popularity, infamy, etc. the better) unless they're actively driving women away.

Most homosexual relationships I've seen often end up playing out this same dynamic, but with members of the same gender. The notable exception being 'twins' [https://inmagazine.ca/2021/01/doubling-down-on-boyfriend-twi...], which was always interesting to watch. It wasn't just men either.

Trans, same but with one partner trans (of course).
Oh, I forgot the poor are meant to suffer.

Global security meaning: Perhaps, if the rich found that the cost of supporting poor hospitals was high, they'd determine that they would prefer to invest in cybersecurity in poor hospitals. (Not likely, considering how few wealthy organizations care about cybersecurity in their own organizations.)
Maybe I should have written the question better, since I know you would still need lights.

But to me the important question is if it has any impact on the number of lights. If you still need all the same lights to use the iPhone that you would for a camera that is several thousand dollars. it is still really cool.
I think you and others have completely missed the point.

Apple was always going to use that equipment. It's needed for all decent video production work.

What they've shown is that you can skip the Red Camera and use an iPhone instead.
I applaud firefox devs, and wish they can keep on improving everything they want or can.
Are you using anything other than a Linux distro’s stable, extended-support release? Most of the complaints on HN about Firefox instability seem to be either Windows users, or Linux users upgrading to the latest and greatest, often outside of their distro’s packaging. Meanwhile, I have been running Debian stable’s Firefox for many years and simply have never encountered the bugginess that gets described on these HN threads.
We are discussing a court case that has the potential to shape future endeavours in the area.

Buying one copy is certainly better than 0. But I doubt rights holders would be satisfied with that.
Happy to see the top comment on a Mozilla/Firefox article not being somebody grinding their axe with Mozilla (and I say that as somebody definitely having a few) :)
Do you see the "Continue reading" grey text? It's clickable and lets you get past the sign-in wall. You don't have type your email, subscribe, or log in.

I usually close out of any sites that bring up such an attention-stealing popup out of principle, but I've found enough insightful content on Medium that I'm willing to ignore this dark pattern.
This isn't on Medium; it's on Substack. There's a "please sign up" nag dialog with a "Continue Reading" link. There's no wall.
I'm a PM and am always interested to understand how I can get better at my craft and support my team better. I grabbed the comments of this thread and ran it through claude.ai to do some sentiment analysis and identify the key themes of the negative and neutral posts. Here is the response;

----------------------------------------------------

Based on sentiment analysis of the comments:

37% have overall positive sentiment towards product managers
28% have overall negative sentiment
35% are neutral

Here are some suggestions for product managers to improve their craft based on the negative/neutral comments:

- Go beyond surface-level feature requests and dig into the root problems customers are facing. Observe real customer workflows and pain points. Identify the jobs-to-be-done and where the product is failing users.

- Collaborate closely with designers and engineers early in the process. Avoid tossing requirements over the wall. Co-design potential solutions and conduct design sprints together.

- Develop enough technical literacy to understand architectural constraints, make feasible suggestions, and earn engineers' respect. Take coding courses, read engineering blogs, attend tech talks.

- Focus on high-level goals and strategy rather than tactical execution. Don't micromanage - empower teams to determine solutions.

- Avoid reactive mode and spending all time in meetings. Block off strategic thinking time and deep work.

- Learn enough about data and analytics to identify leading indicators and qualitative insights. Don't just fixate on vanity metrics.

- Interview users, customers and frontline employees to build empathy and an outside-in perspective. Immerse yourself in the customer experience.

- Prioritize ruthlessly. Challenge teams to focus on true differentiators versus commodity features. Relentlessly cut scope.

- Focus on business impact and outcomes over outputs. Tie roadmap to company OKRs and strategy.

- Simplify and streamline processes that don't clearly add value. Remove unnecessary bureaucracy but maintain just enough process.

- Build relationships and credibility with engineering managers and team leads. Avoid throwing weight around.

- Develop storytelling and communication skills to paint a compelling vision and explain rationale.

The key is focusing obsessively on customers, leaning into strategy over execution, and enabling teams versus controlling them. PMs create the most value through vision, prioritization and strategic clarity.
Meta in Myanmar – Full Series
It's not like he was able to do fan fiction without long-winded diatribes, either.
I suspect if this coalition of nations actually criminalized paying ransoms, that would go a long way towards closing up all those loopholes. Perhaps that is what needs to happen next.
Given the harm that Google inflicts on forum sites in general, I’m very interested to see what this reveals about Reddit’s remaining userbase once the outsized impact of SEO is removed. Anyone who’s left as a recurring user after the uprising is aready stocky, and doesn’t need Google to drive them to Reddit, so it’ll be a useful Petri dish scenario.
p100 would include those where the uplink is so slow that the page takes minutes to render completely. Those users are useful to see, but the browser is much less of a bottleneck for them, and the data should be broken out into a separate bin.
It's been discussed here before. The reality is that a) most fast-food chains have already automated as much as they can before b) the robots that can do the rest of the work are complicated, are single points of failure, they're single-tasked, and need more maintenance and food-safety cleaning than a human.

If a human fails or doesn't show up for work, it can be quickly replaced. Not so for the robot.
“Firefox got faster for real users…” why include “real”? Are there fake users? Just strange phrasing.
Comparing Open-Source LLMs for NL-to-SQL
GitHub adds GPUs for Actions (private beta)
right-wingers including, it is claimed, Putin.
Seems like a good move, especially with WeChat
Facing 110 years in prison, Sam Bankman-Fried "can't recall" what he did at FTX
I started using Firefox as a main driver a year ago due to me interfacing with Linux distros a lot more often. It's the browser that is usually always installed from the get and offers the best experience after logging into my Firefox account.

They also have some other really good tools they support such as firefox relay which is basically a proxy email address for your main email so you can post your an address on the airwaves w/o compromising your main email.

Pocket for saving articles you read on the internet.

Mozilla Thunderbird?
> it's great to know that money laundering is a solved problem

We don’t sanction money launderers generally. And no, terrorism finance isn’t a solved problem either. Hence why I said one would need to keep company with that category of people were such a measure enacted. But again, your K&R retiree cum schoolteacher was describing a political constraint. Not a functional one.
> "have you reported a bug so that there's any hope whatsoever of someone fixing it?"

The average user probably wouldn't wanna bother with the process of reporting (and I sure don't either):

1. find the place to report it (so googling "report bug Firefox", going to a Mozilla help page that goes to Bugzilla)

2. make an account

2.1 enter an email

2.2 verify the email

2.3 come up with a password that fits the requirements

3. read the bug writing guidelines

4. actually reporting the bug

4.1 selecting Firefox

4.2 describing the bug

4.3 find out if its already reported or not

4.4 selecting version, writing a summary, steps to reproduce, actual results, expected results.

4.5 potentially needing to provide additional information that might not be easy for a user to get (e.g. stack trace, output of about:memory, profiling)

versus just... not using Firefox, it's just not easy enough in my opinion, I know on crashes, you get a popup where you can just write a short summary and it'll automatically send some of the information to Mozilla though.
Debian uses Firefox ESR. It's rare for Linux distros to use ESR (Ubuntu and derivatives notably don't, I don't think flatpak does either).
I must be a virtual user or something.

I have Firefox installed for testing WASM targets, and everything seems slower than usual.

If you open 20+ tabs, the UI seems to be laggy. At some point, I had to kill a tab, the whole browser froze for a while.
Any executive action on this would be via sanctions, I presume.
Follow 5 fun steps like

> Click on the link to activate your account.

or

> follow the provided instructions to transfer funds

You guys really know how to party
Yeah, but it wasn't like there were pre-existing inhabitants in the Americas at that time. /HEAVIEST-S-POSSIBLE
Haha. I can tell you're obviously not Chinese, and has no understanding of Chinese culture at all.
I like seeing Mozilla actually improving Firefox instead of just shuffling UI components around. I've been a longtime user, and am happy to support the underdog here to try and keep some balance of power on the web. Having Mozilla focus more on their tech, and less on politics is a good thing. Regardless, Firefox is a good piece of software and I have no major qualms with it.
btrfs does not have the fast-disk cache feature I think, and definitely not the built-in encryption.
According to the article, "The slant is believed to be due to ground subsidence during the 14th century", although this doesn't answer the question of why so many in Italy?
No it couldn't be accomplished with anything other than iPhone 15 Pro.

It is the only one to support ProRes with the Log profile.

Without it it's not possible to do decent video color grading.
And Alaska from Russia.
Because it's a wall, and you're not an artist.
The real ruling is that as long as you're not doing obvious scams and scandals with tax avoidance, the IRS doesn't really care.

So if you're getting "the equivalent" of $1k a year untaxed, the IRS yawns.

If you figure out how to run your entire salary through airline points, the IRS wakes up.

(The laws are complicated to decipher, but they basically come down to the above. The tax courts will look at things like "is this available to everyone, how much was it, etc, etc".)
A lot of laptops don’t even have fans, and as a Firefox user who has owned ultrabooks for the last several years, I can’t say that this choice of browser has had any noticeable detrimental impact; I still get the many hours of battery life that ultrabooks are known for. I suspect that the devs, faced with limited resources and the need to prioritize, would consider this a matter for the hardware and OS to deal with.
> I took that one in good faith

I tried to, but found it hard given that OP also challenged people to provide "concrete reasons" to upgrade, and said things like "there is absolutely no reason". Everything OP says indicates to me that they actually meant this as evidence for their generalisation.

> The alternative interpretation, that they believed there was no objective difference in capability between Intel and Apple Silicon laptops, was so absurd I couldn't imagine anybody expressing it or believing it.

I agree it's a head scratcher… and yet here it is, before our very eyes, time and time again. I even recapitulated the argument in more reasonable terms ("I think what you meant to say is…"), but they seem resolute in their belief that there are no reasons to upgrade from a "late 2010s" MacBook to a new one.

> I just didn't like the assertion that anybody still using an Intel Mac was equivalent to somebody riding the Tour de France in a Huffy.

Heh, yeah that gave me pause too. I actually think that the example of the F1 mechanic slices the other way entirely: I can't imagine an F1 mechanic not taking an interest in the latest marginally improved wrench, given the narrow margins by which they succeed or fail in competition against other teams, and other mechanics.

You are right that many Intel machines are still highly capable. One could buy an Intel Mac Pro until earlier this year, for example.

But the trigger for Mr/Mrs/Mx "No difference between Intel Macs and the M-series" was another commenter benignly asking someone why they hadn't upgraded ("Any reason for not upgrading?") from a 2015 Intel MacBook Pro.

I said this elsewhere, but it seems like a fair question to ask someone on a computer/programming forum, particularly when the machine in question is close to EOL and has been blown away by a new technology. Don't get me wrong, if this was someone using a 2006 Core Duo in 2012, I'd think it was much of muchness, but the M-series does change things somewhat.
This post is by the same person as this one which is on the HN front page as of now:

https://josem.co/the-beauty-of-finished-software/
There is an amusing juxtaposition between satisfying PC and satisfying current AI sandbox escapes.

That’s all. An interesting idea, developed in under 5k words.

You know: SF.
It depends on the PE firm and the company, but the median PE acquisition outperforms its peer group even after the PE firm has exited. Of course there are plenty of cases where that hasn't happened and plenty of cases of mismanagement by PE firms but at least statistically they aren't the norm.
It's amazing how quickly people get acclimated to what are basically miraculous technological advancements.

So much of what people have been doing matter of factly on iphones daily for years was just pure science fiction when I was a kid.
Inflating what, sorry? Unless you have someone who's been kidnapped you're hardly in the market.
Investigate it, sure. Invest just as many resources into it though? I'm not saying the risk is completely zero, it's just an irrelevant and tiny quantity compared the actual problems this stuff is already causing. Rogue waves sinking massive shipping vessels in the middle of the ocean is a non-zero risk for example, but the probability is so low that it's not really a consideration for most shipping companies. Do you guys know how ai is going to become self aware? Or are we assuming that throwing enough compute at the problem will somehow lead to the singularity just because? That is, frankly, magical thinking and not really worth thinking about when compared to the absolutely massive abuses of the companies building these things.
Yes the lights are very important. Lighting is more than just about “how much light there is”.

Important considerations include where the light is coming from, how diffuse it is, and its color.

Lights (or flashes for photography) get used even outdoors. Amateur outdoor headshots usually give the subject racoon eyes since the eyes are sunken in versus the eyebrows. Pros will get light on the face to get rid of that.
Any time you pay taxes you're funding a criminal because all states commit crimes of various degrees, so... shrug
> Apple Silicon was great because Apple had invested huge amounts of resources for a decade on smartphone processors first, not because they had some kind of geniuses on the project.

Given that they were confident enough to leave and start their own company, I'm not sure this is true. Indeed I wouldn't discount the value of high talent density.

> I’ll be skeptical of the hype until I see a real product.

They have shown real hardware demos [1] to reviewers already, and the numbers look solid. Obviously there are no comparisons vs M3 yet, but it seems promising.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21112/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-e...