skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like the same basic tech problem - how to balance uninformed user protections with advanced user capabilities.

The problem is browser extensions and the ability for bad actors to use malicious code to harm users. This is a real threat - how do you protect users from their own actions?

Putting aside the cynicism about Google's "true" motives and assuming the best intentions on their part... this still seems like an overly broad limitation without a good workaround.

Personally, I use as few extensions as possible, and I'm very particular about which ones. I'm sure most readers here are as well. So, for me (us?), this is a problem, especially if we also maintain extensions. But - what about my mom? She doesn't even know how to remove extensions, never mind review them for potential problems. We should not sacrifice the many (and encourage the bad actors) to ensure that the few have the access they want.

Why not put in settings that allow the user to allow extensions outside the bounds of MV3? Why not put a warning on the extension page that it "could be risky", or even hide those extensions entirely from the users who don't know to adjust their settings?
This is basically the plot of Dr Strangelove.

>the ambassador informs President Muffley that the Soviet Union created a doomsday machine as a nuclear deterrent; it consists of many buried bombs jacketed with "cobalt–thorium G", which are set to detonate automatically should any nuclear attack strike the country. The resulting nuclear fallout would then engulf the planet for 93 years, rendering the Earth's surface uninhabitable. The device cannot be deactivated, as it is programmed to explode if any such attempt is made.
Yes. My setup is like this:

Fiber ONT/Modem -> Access Point -> MoCA adapter 1 -> Coax Splitter

Coax Splitter -> MoCA adapter 2 -> Switch -> bunch of devices

Coax Splitter -> MoCA adapter 3 -> Switch -> Access Point + bunch of devices

Coax Splitter -> MoCA adapter 4 -> Access Point

the MoCA adapters actually report 3Gbps+ between each other, but my access points only have gigabit Ethernet so that's my bottleneck.

There are different standards of coaxial cable (RG-6, RG-59, etc). If you see low speeds with MoCA, it is probably a cable problem and not an adapter problem.
Robotics funding saw another dip in 2023
yeah, seems like the author came up with this formular to cope with the fact that others are making way more money off his software because they found a way to utilize their oss software to make profit. Author should do the same or not ask for money.

A more accurate and sane formular would be

money = time_spent_on_project * avg_salary
> Not everyone likes lisp, not everyone is willing to learn a new strange language for unknown benefits.

Im curious why someone would use emacs if they dislike lisp. To me its like writing SPAs without js
Charge a consulting fee to implement those new features? If a single user cannot afford it, then start a crowd funding campaign. If the crowd funding campaign fails, then say there wasn't enough interest. Let your users vote with their wallet.
Which is itself basically the plot of actual Cold War nuclear planning
Emacs is just a text editor. And that's okay.
Of course there isn't. Software is developed by people.

But consider that maybe it wasn't a sloppy design at all. For decades, the explicitly stated philosophy of the CPython development team was to prioritize simplicity of implementation over performance. I don't think anyone ever envisioned Python becoming the wild success that it is today.

That is, the GIL wasn't sloppy at all. It was perfectly reasonable and pragmatic decision that made sense given the tradeoffs of the time.
Heh. Well this thread got disappeared in a hurry.
Nobody said it was intended to use the same battery chemistry as other vehicles.
> What, exactly, do I "fucking deserve"?

It's just not a good idea to let Google hold the keys to anti-tracking tech.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38303956
I try to avoid a 3 hour session with a dealership con artist. Nothing good usually comes from it --- they are just trying to wear you down.

I make a fair, all inclusive offer (minus government fees which they have no control over). My standard is $1000 below MSRP. If they balk at that, I just walk away. They'll want your phone number so they can harass you later. I keep a spare phone with a minimal $3 a month plan (Ultra Mobile) just for these situations.

As I said above, they are few and far between but there are dealerships out there that will deal without these BS games. You may have to go out of state to find one.

I went to Clermont, FL. It is the auto mall of the southeast. Within a 5 mile stretch of Hwy 50 is every car dealership you have ever heard of, all loaded with inventory. The BS is minimized by the simple fact that you can easily and literally just walk to the competition next door.
Want that promotion? Return to the office, says Amazon
> One study [1] in the US released in 2020 found almost 90% of people admitted to speeding, but I don’t think anyone would say that speeding is now approved by the authorities and consequence-free.

I would say jaywalking in NYC is a much better example because breaking the law doesn't kill others except in rare cases. Jaywalking is illegal. It's also not enforced for all intents and purposes. Every attempt to enforce it has led to such loud public outcry that it was stopped.
It's worse now, but shenanigans were afoot in the Jobs era. There was an internal memo for making third-party device support 'plausibly incompatible'. That tradition continues with many brands of non-Apple computer monitors using YPbPr rather than RGB when connected to Macs.
You may not be part of the problem.

However, there are entire industries that leverage open-source / free software, and put unreasonable, uncompensated demands on it.

At the end of the day though, I don't see the problem. As a maintainer of open-source, gratis, software, just don't do the work. It isn't like it is a job. If you don't do the work, they can't fire you.

Is that good for the community? Surely not, but who is asking whether the status quo is working for the developers? Nobody but them. So look out for yourself, and scratch your own itch, but don't treat open source as a job.
It's honestly impressive how few qualms people have with the link layer, considering all the kerfuffle that gets raised for the address layer (IPv6) and the transport layer (QUIC) and the application layer (HTTP2/3). It's nice to have at least one protocol that feels "finished" (in a good sense).
AI in 2024
There _is_ a <template> element[0] for this purpose, but so far it falls short on being able to inject parameters like that, and is essentially useless if you don't have Javascript.[1]

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/te...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...
True. But agents aren't incentivized to negotiate lower prices because payment on both sides is proportional to total price sold. So logically only sellers would benefit from this.
I can't believe you replied after 2 days.

And why are you on another rant about tools and support thereof.

I was pointing out that your hysterical language was not helping your point.

You're not doing yourself any favours here
Well, without bothering to get all epistemological about it, it's clear that LLMs doesn't know, say, the law in a way that a lawyer knows it, or physics in the way that a physicist knows it.

And that's enough to be a problem, given how people are trying to use LLMs. They're trying to use it like a human who "knows" (whatever that means). And whatever an LLM actually does, it doesn't do that.
Related: "hauntology"

Mark Fisher didn't create this word, but he wrote a lot in the 2000s about our inability to imagine a new future after the failure of our previous visions.

Using electronic music - a "future-looking" genre - as an example, he wrote (second paragraph explains it more generally):

"...Twenty-first-century electronic music had failed to progress beyond what had been recorded in the twentieth century: practically anything produced in the 2000s could have been recorded in the
1990s. Electronic music had succumbed to its own inertia and retrospection. It was also clear that this was more than a moment in a familiar pattern, in which, as one genre wanes, another emerges to take its place at the leading edge of innovation. There was no leading edge of innovation any more. In music, as elsewhere in culture, we were living, in Franco Berardi’s suggestive phrase, after the future.

...

What haunts the digital cul-de-sacs of the twenty-first century is not so much the past as all the lost futures that the twentieth century taught us to anticipate. The futures that have been lost were more than a matter of musical style. More broadly, and more troublingly, the disappearance of the future meant the deterioration of a whole mode of social imagination: the capacity to conceive of a world radically different from the one in which we currently live. It meant the acceptance of a situation in which culture would continue without really changing, and where politics was reduced to the administration of an already established (capitalist) system. In other words, we were in the "end of history" described by Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama’s thesis was the other side of Fredric Jameson’s claim that postmodernism — characterized by its inability to find forms adequate to the present, still less to anticipate wholly new futures — was the "cultural logic of late capitalism.""

I don't know if I completely buy it or if it was Mark's (and other's) inability to cope with their ideals for the future not panning out. But it is interesting to think about, and I do see glimpses of it in most art forms. I don't know enough history to know how common this repetition of, and nostalgia for, the past is though. Perhaps a flurry of imaginings of a "new future" was the anomaly.
Your web site said “[CLAPPING HANDS SIGN] 3 claps”. Since I didn’t know what that meant, I clicked on it. It changed to say “[CLAPPING HANDS SIGN] 4 claps”. Now I feel like the person in that old joke about someone standing by a well or a cliff, repeating a number out loud.
Excellent user experience using a Logitech MX Master 3S with Mos and ScrollReverser.

https://mos.caldis.me/

https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
Last line is good:

"Remember, all online content purchases are really just rentals."
The original implementation: https://thegeez.net/2023/03/01/pinball_scittle.html

Squint website: https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint
It's been a while since I've followed Python closely but last I heard Python-the-language is de facto defined as "whatever CPython does". Has Python since grown a proper language specification?
>it can be ascribed to the fact that running a profitable cafe is hard.

Seems like a lot of countries have figured it out. Just how you put it below that some old cafes serve as gathering centers instead of profit centers. Yes, if you're a business owner looking to maximize profit, then a cafe selling cheap coffee is not a good way to make a lot of money, and post '89 Romania is all about money and less about community.
I think you overestimate the power of a nuclear weapon, or even dozens of them. It would take hundreds of targeted strikes to disable a nuclear-armed adversary. Having fewer nuclear weapons only means your major cities, military bases, and industrial assets will be leveled while the majority of your adversary's capabilities remain intact.
All the more reason to wonder. What's going to be special-cased to become atomic and thread-safe, and what won't be?

A surprising amount of the CPython stdlib is just pure Python code.
Genuine question, not trying to be snarky: isn't JS a great way to address most of those concerns that you list?

Deno and WebRender have good integration with workers, webrender offers the option of providing better GUI integration (although it's not clear exactly how it will be leveraged), jumping to Javascript gets rid of dynamic scoping, and (in my experience, although mileage may very much vary) tends to handle IO-blocking better.

The project's performance justifications it lists are:

> Async I/O from Deno, WebWorkers, and WebAsm, gives you the tools to make Emacs a smoother and faster experience without having to install additional tools to launch as background processes or worry about shared library versions.

I don't disagree necessarily, in some ways adding another language instead of fixing the one that's still going to be the dominant way most integration is handled is a very, for lack of a better word, temporary fix. If Lisp isn't good enough for an editor, then we'd all jump ship to VSCode or whatever. There is something hacky about saying, "we're not leveraging this language well, let's just add another."

But even saying that, I do still (at least at first glance and without looking into it harder) see the appeal.

Even dropping the JS entirely, WASM workers seem like a non-terrible way to get better worker support and to get rid of the IO-blocking-UI problem (which I agree is a problem, and might be one of my biggest criticisms of Emacs). Am I missing something?
Every dark corner... of your yard. I can read outdoors by some people's lighting that's well over 1/4 mile away on an otherwise dark night.

Get a cold blast kerosene lantern (Dietz Blizzard is my go-to lantern these days), run some kerosene substitute in it, and you'll have a clean burning lamp that doesn't put out nearly the particulates of a candle with any slight air movement.
I haven't run Ethernet, but if I do the drops will be very near the coaxial cables because they're an easy reference.
A Pro with 8GB RAM?
Exploring the New Apple Pro's Memory Dilemma and Marketing Tactics
I remember getting a gross image on here a few weeks ago but I can't remember what was gross about it
The conclsion.
How many actually want(ed) a 'steady career'? I've had nothing that could be confused with one, which is fine (start-ups, consulting, etc).
"I'm right" doesn't have to imply "everyone else is wrong"
Relying on implementation behavior, even if it’s very visible and hasn’t changed for a few decades, is morally wrong and reprehensible. Only the letter of the standard has any bearing on correct reality.
Yep, Proxmox seems a lot more stable
> It feels like this kind of censorship is simply the default in legal departments and it's not worth the risk to try to do something more in line with common sense.

It's a mix of that, and public perception/image. The banking system generally shies away from supporting sex-related anything, so it is an existential risk for any company to dabble in that space.

American society is also weirdly puritanical. Nobody wants the public outrage cannon of "your product is harmful to women" pointed at them.
Second on a NICE sizable monitor -- and high pixel density too. I have a Dell and one USB-C cable does the trick. No dock needed, it has enough USB-A (webcam, keyboard).
Open Source is a development process. It is not a business model.
How did time begin, and how will it end?
Same here, it makes me super relaxed and tired feeling
> Super clear on who you are. Why are you worth paying attention to?

Ah, there's my problem. I am definitely not worth paying attention to.
Well, they're concerned with Gettier problems etc too.

But yeah the problem what you mean by "knowing." For example, I am perfectly happy to say that a LLM "knows" words just like I "know" words, or that it "knows about" very popular topics in a loose sense.

But that's a very different sense of "knows" from the kind of specific propositional knowledge we're usually interested in when using a LLM as a search engine, fact checker or source of information!
An interesting byproduct of this "massive jobs program" is that it leaves in its wake the most powerful military force in history that can project power over the entire globe, 24/7. In fact the decades-old byproducts of this jobs program can be shipped across the planet and stand their own against the most cutting edge weapon systems that the US's "near-peer" adversaries are capable of fielding just 60 miles from their own border.

Crazy jobs program!
> There's no actual handicraft involved to set one environment apart from another

one of the reasons I don't like modern animation is the lack of effort in the actual animating. South Park looks like it was drawn by 5-year-olds who traced the outline of a salt shaker for the characters. Inb4 "it's supposed to be that way, it's all computer assisted and has been for 20 years", yes I know that. The point is there's no art involved in it. 80's and 90's stuff was hand drawn (AFAIK) and often outsourced to animators in Japan, and yeah it's primitive, but its literally handicraft. The only scarcity of shows like southpark is people with squeaky annoying voices. Even the writing is so repetitive and predictable. It was novel and funny in the 90's-early 2000's, but "kid saying adult thing in exuberant voice" is tired and old. Simpsons were doing it in 1989 ffs.
didn't ISPs take massive subsidies to build out that less-profitable infrastructure? seems fair that they, you know, build it.
> Before the pedants arrive, yes I am aware there are some night trains in Japan, but they constitute 0.0000001% of Japanese train services, and are mostly a fun-tourism thing.

Sorry, it's actually 0.000001%.

- A. Pedant
Lay some sheets of plywood down in the attic. Then you'll be able to move around easily. Up there you have direct access to the walls of your rooms so you can drill a hole and drop ethernet cable down behind the wall.
We don't need a 4000 lb vehicle to move a ~200 lb person.

In order of efficiency:

(1) Walk

(2) Unicycle, roller skate, scooter (no battery, very little material)

(2) Bike

(3) Electric bike (and all forms of newfangled electric: escooters, segways)

(4) Electric motorbike or scooter

(5) Mass transit (can be public/private) transportation: Electric trains

(6) Mass transit (can be public/private) transportation: Electric buses

(7) Zipline

(8) Carpools on BEV

(9) Carpools on PHEV

(10) BEV

We can stop buying gas cars. Pollution kills 10 million EVERY year[1]. For context, the cumulative COVID deaths over 3 years are ~6.5 million. And fossil fuels are subsidized (Trillions of dollars per year). For 2022, this is $7 trillion[2]. Why are we subsidizing fuels that are proven to cause all kinds of diseases (nearly everything except STIs).

[1] Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...

[2] Why Are Governments Still Subsidizing Fossil Fuels? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...

[3] https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel...
Ironically, it would have been shut down almost immediately (never started?) if NATO didn’t have that threat.
The issue is that verification costs 10K, no matter if you use a pre-certified radio or not.
The fact that the US Navy can safely run a large number of reactors not only at sea but with tiny crews under water is mindblowing.

It's not like they can source spare parts from down the road, or call in experts as needed.
I know yours is a small comment in a huge sea, but how would the comments know what the blind wanted to see?
If I could describe what i can see now it would be a long list left to right. Do i include the sunlight reflecting off an industrial chimney? Is the chimney important?
I do enjoy hallucinogenics which, to me, remove the very filters that keep us sane.
As much as I love the problem, filtration will always be the problem, unless the environment is extremely controlled (like an art gallery), but even then...how to describe the Mona Lisa. Let alone its frame.
I use it _after_ doing complex googling to get an answer, and it is almost universally wrong, or misses the point completely.
Look at that chart. "40% by 2025 (from 2022)". That's pretty impressive.
>Clearly, they aren't as likely to generate "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" as "It's important to feed your dog".

There is a setting right there called temperature, no?
We live in a simulation, Earth have no real shape, it is tailored for the observer.
Ikea has them for pretty cheap, though they are made to fit inside their closets.
Seeking Freelancer, remote: yes, technologies: Node.js, Javascript, Typescript, AWS, Architecture

Hello all,

we are looking for a backend developer for our project. We are a startup that wants to build a POD software. Right now, we are hiring as a freelance job full time. However, we really want a long term partnership, if we see that we can work together well. More information about the project we can discuss later on.

What we need:
- a backend developer that can manage his/ her time well
- dedicated and loyal developer
- best is someone who stands behind our idea and brand

What we can give:
- a good working environment in a small team
- total freedom on time management
- most important for us is that everyone feels good. In case of an emergency or anything else your health and family goes first
- long term partnership with higher pay in the long run

Right now, since we are a startup we will be able to pay 40€ per hour. However, we intend to increase the hourly rate when we see that we can work together in a longterm partnership.
Yes to the large desk! I have a dining table with the leaves taken out. I can't believe how tiny home desks are. No one would tolerate a 28" depth at work -- why do we just accept this in the home?
ChatGPT 3.5 is free, but GPT4 is not. I can see a lot of people using something as good or better than GPT4 that is supported by ads and no monthly fee.
> Encourage people to move to ensure that their home meets their current needs. E.g. retired couple, children have left, so their current house is oversized.

I'd wager that no-one has been put off moving house because of the legal procedure or over-stressed about it.

Now, the actual moving day is stressful but that's the way it is...
There was no "trying to prevent a transmissible illness" once the CDC's Provincetown study made it clear in late July 2021 that the vaccines didn't prevent transmission. After that point, it was purely enforcing a purity ritual and loyalty test on people, and was even couched in those terms: "we're not accepting the refusal of this undertested therapeutic from those anti-social anti-vaxxers!"
Zooming works well on my Android, with Opera.
I really like the idea, but it only makes sense if you custom build your hanger on the wall, that is, there is no commercially available (afaik) hanger that would make this useful. But this may be an opportunity for a second product and sell it with the coat hangers, and people would spend more on furniture than a coat hanger.
A good friend doesn't have phone number for reasons that important to her.

She's not "cut off", but it requires a conscious effort to contact her. So while I may be keeping a group of people up to date or inviting folks for a bbq, open house, etc casually, I need to specifically invite her via some other channel.

Sometimes I forget. Feelings are hurt. I'm a single parent with a demanding job. Low friction rules the roost for me, and our group of friends all sort of support each other with these types of things and do alot of ad-hoc stuff.
By making enough right now
Except it is wrong. It’s not “except Americans”, it’s “except Germans” and "except Japanese" and hundreds of millions of others. It’s not about the exact number because the whole premise is that it’s too high.

"Almost No One is Poor in the United States–Except Lazy People"
You're assuming bad code is code that throws errors.

SQL injection is bad code that "works". Most security issues come from bad code that just "works". I can't believe I have to say this, on HN of all places, but you have to actually know what you are doing when writing code. Some of you scare the fucking shit out of me.