skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well they tried that decades ago with California City out in the Mohave Desert. It didn't work.

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/california-city-planne...
https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html

> How will manifest v2 extensions work with Orion after manifest v3 roll out in Chrome?

> Same as before! Orion has its own implementation of the entire web extensions API and different "manifests" are just numbers. We support web extensions APIs regardless of how Google decided to call them or change them. Manifest change impacts mostly Chromium clones, and Orion will support both "manifest v2" and manifest v3" extensions in the future.

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> Will Orion for iOS also support web extensions?

> Yes, we have preliminary support for some web extensions on iOS.

> Wait, are you sure? No browser on iOS can use Chrome/Firefox extensions!

> Orion makes it possible! We ported hundreds of web extension APIs to run on top of WebKit, which also runs on iOS.

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See also https://help.kagi.com/orion/privacy-and-security/ad-tracking...
One reason is because OWA is really slow on not-great hardware...
No?!
>I was a bit surprised to see that the browser gives information of where the window is in the window manager as I would have guessed that to be privileged information and a potential security issue, but what do I know.

My browser doesn't do that. Well it always reports. [0,0]
I drew a cat laying on its back and got back a head with a donut-shaped tail on top.

It looks like this model only knows how to draw specifically kittens in very specific positions?
I use Safari for Reddit because of the SinkIt extension:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...
The government has been explicit about their intent here. They are holding off on building more even though hdb rents and hdb flat resale prices are skyrocketting because they don't want to lead to a drop in prices or may be even a cooling in the rate. As in...they want to keep current flat owners happy.

The argument re hdb is probably still valid but it had more currency 10 or 20 years ago. Today, sg looks more and more like the rest of the developed world cities that refuse to build enough housing to meet demand. It's probably even more frustrating in that if there is any government that could do it if they wanted to, it would be the sg govt.
the internet’s content is a reflection of humanity. nobody upset at fire or other tools in and of themselves.
At some point after the light waves hit your retina, did one or more of the atoms in your body not obey the exact same physical laws as the atoms outside your body?
He uses GOTO quite liberally!
It isn't a great sign when a tool as ubiquitous for computer vision isn't getting to its relatively meager $500K goal.

I've chipped in - not for the future V5 - but to recognize that OpenCV is a tool that I've been using for years for various small personal projects.
My favourite thing is how they’re doing it all over again with VoNR (5G)!

Why was voice a mandatory feature for 3G but everything since has been such a mess?
You are free to use alternate Android app stores, like Samsung's or F-Droid, or to sideload any app downloaded from any website.
> if it is the wish of the people of SF to go slow on development, is that really unreasonable?

Perhaps not. But other Californians shouldn't be subsidizing it.

Maybe the compromise is that a city can halt builder's remedies indefinitely. But that revokes their claim to state funds. (About $900mm a year, or 15% of San Francisco's regular revenues [1].)

[1] https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/FY22-23%20and%20F...
Replace the domain name with nitter.net to view content anonymously
DNS from ISPs used to do this too, right?
It isn't really 'the internet' but it _is_ 'the internet' that many people interact with unless they put in effort to find niche spaces.

Any mainstream social media site is basically a trap designed to suck you into doomscrolling hell and a sense of permanent outrage and unease, and that goes for literally all of them.

The big YT creators are the political outrage ones - that's easy to miss if you mostly follow creator channels which have relatively tiny audiences. 'I left youtube playing videos about gaming and three hours later my entire feed is hitler enthusiasts' is a commonly expressed sentiment. That 'the algorithm' sucks people into extremism isn't widely argued, discord is well known as 'groomercord' for the same reason...

Even in the 'good old days' of usenet the fun clubby newsgroups where people would share their stories without being snarked at - because they were amongst friends - were massively outnumbered by the bottomless pits of snark and bitterness such as found on the average 'tech' group.

The greenspun forums were nice, but they were nice because, like here, some tireless mentor stepped in to call out those who got too snarky and carried away.

I really think it's something that just doesn't scale well.
Well I recently learned that Goldeneye was ported to the Xbox Live Arcade but then never released, and a few years ago the ported program leaked. It's widescreen and higher resolution than the original, but otherwise the same I believe. I am still dreaming of the day I can get the Xenia emulator properly running that game on linux, which so far has been problematic for me.
One reason is good extension support, for example for fast keyboard navigation and mail moving in TB...

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/nosta...
It seems like a good idea in theory but even if Chrome/Firefox/Safari decided to adopt it we'd probably have to wait 20 years before it "just works".
Discussed at the time:

Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21169945 - Oct 2019 (30 comments)
In IM, there's a balance between total privacy and widespread use. Apps like Signal offer high privacy but have fewer users, while popular ones like WhatsApp are less secure. Telegram lies somewhere in between, offering a level of privacy that most users find comfortable. It's widely used and there haven't been significant incidents of legal issues arising from its messages. Ultimately, it boils down to whom you trust and which app has more of your contacts.
I don't think so. There's simply too much traffic on the shinkansen lines to be able to mix slower and/or freight trains on the same lines. On the Tokaido line between Tokyo and Osaka, trains run every 7 minutes (IIRC); you can't have a freight train sharing a track with a bullet train service that has trains that close together.
That was actually Sony. In the USA the marketing was focused on the PlayStation as the cutting-edge 3D successor to old-hat 2D games, so SCEA did not license the development of sprite-based games for PlayStation, which means we missed out on some great sprite games that never got localized.

There were exceptions, of course; big-name publishers could publish sprite games for tentpole franchises, so we still got Street Fighter, SotN, Mega Man 8, etc. Rules only apply when the rulemaker can afford to enforce them. That's still true today, as we found out when it came out that Google waived the app store fees for Spotify.
I guess this is only Amtrak?

Because it doesn't seem to show the active passenger light rail systems in several cities and metro areas.
San Francisco only has three times the density of LA because "Los Angeles" includes a bunch of uninhabited mountains. If you use a more detailed measurement, the densities are similar.

Anyway, fair is fair. San Francisco has to densify because the law is making all the cities around them densify too. This is a compromise because nobody wants to be the center of growth but everyone understands that the state is worse off with no growth. This is where the dream of local control is shattered on the rocks of game theory. And while I'm not familiar with the details of this particular kerfuffle, the story in San Francisco for at least a decade has been that politicians say they are in favor of growth, but they also want the developers to fix the homeless problem, save the whales and make your hair grow back, so nothing gets done.
I think your point still stands but I think Goldeneye is obviously an example of a great third party exclusive. Controls dont hold up well but that’s irrelevant.
Telemetry would allow them to make their product better for more people and know where to invest to benefit their users more. In this case proitability is proxy for how much value people get from the proxy. The thought that something is bad because it is profitable is misguided.
You can change your prompt (top right corner) to draw other things
My Ego Is My Enemy. Your Ego Is Your Enemy
The tower of abstractions we’ve built is indeed the stuff of nightmare fuel - we are just starting to see the results of what we’ve wrought! The articles example is great, another good one is all of the spectre and meltdown CPU arch bugs - these chips now how so many layered components working together, so complex that potential issues are hard to test or weird machines can be built were people least expect.
That is as valuable a comment as humans are incredibly fragile as we need to drink water every day.

But fails to mention that we have a self healing immune system along with the background processing that makes sure we drink water every fay.
A fun new feature is that Python 3.12 now includes a command line switch to call SQLite directly: `python -m sqlite3`

https://docs.python.org/dev/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3-cli
Because most people are too technically illiterate to use an app store that isn't pre-installed.
You are right, but LaTeX has the advantage of having a much bigger user base and documentation, so I'll still with it until Typst has some clear advantages (like accessibility).
Exclusives drives sales. I like the Xbox more than the playstation but in the PS4/5 era the playstation got the games i want to play so that's what I got.
There was a $10m prize announced yesterday for creating AI that can solve math at the Olympiad level. We still do not have a cure for most cancers, and there is little profit motive to do so, and this is in part an economics problem. Heck we cannot even guarantee that babies born today will be healthy, and this is partly rooted in economics and social science. So is the problem of mysterious pandemics, potentially bio engineered, and the class war it has ignited.

The world is far from perfect, and the list of hard open problems is huge.
There needs to be a balance. It's obvious that SF has ceased to be a functional city and is now operating the world's biggest scheme to make already-millionare homeowners more wealthy. If you're not a SF resident then you might think "who cares, people voted for this", but people can be fooled into voting against their own best interests, especially when the local access-based journalism is carrying water for the corrupt politicians. At some point a higher authority, not touched by the corruption, needs to step in and remove the incentives, which is exactly what the state of CA is targeting.
> what this nomenclature gymnastics buys you?

???

Are you writing off all abstract mathematics as nomenclature gymnastics, or is there something about this connection that you think makes it particularly useless?
Indeed it's not in the least bit rewarding. I like to pose this hypothetical to developers who seem annoyed by designers who can't do design with developer workflows. For funsies, I've styled it as a choose your own adventure story.

Imagine encountering a genuinely useful open source software project run by designers that spaghetti coded it in some node-based "nocode" monstrosity. As a competent developer, you know that you could move it to another more capable node-based system that would make it easier for them to use, maintain, and expand upon.

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a) Start asking questions to get a sense of how things worked and where they could be simplified conceptually. GO TO SCENARIO 1.

b) Fully implement a brand new architecture and submit it in a pull request. GO TO SCENARIO 3.

c) Come up with a complete refactoring proposal that shows them how your changes would affect the project in the end and make people's lives easier, and post it in an issue so you can collaborate with the existing folks. GO TO SCENARIO 2.

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SCENARIO 1: Unfortunately, that triggers the maintainers' defensiveness about their technical decisions because they're not confident in them. Then the people who have developed workflows around the shittiness get even more defensive. The real problem is that they don't have the technical depth to see how it would work in the end. Say that and good luck getting any responses for anything ever. THE END.

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SCENARIO 2: Damnit. GO TO SCENARIO 1.

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SCENARIO 3: Despite the significant amount of effort you expended, your work just sits and collects dust. You ask why, and someone who isn't the primary maintainer responds saying something about their deciding it was too much work to generating new icon sizes. You offer to automate the process. GO TO SCENARIO 1.
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Even then, having worked extensively on both sides of this dichotomy, I can assure everyone involved that the disdain some developers have for designers is astonishing, and the reverse generally isn't true. Of course there are exceptions.

Fundamentally, designers and developers have the same goal with different concerns, approaches, and areas of expertise. It's pretty ridiculous that we haven't figured this out yet.
Fun fact 0: Much of VMware's practical success was born out of its sales and consulting arm that was born out of the subsuming of an East Coast consulting company. (A long time ago, I found a deep link to an IT shop redirect mentioned somewhere on early documentation or in a support article.)

Fun fact 1: Between VMware and Citrix, there was an unspoken gentleman's agreement that piracy in the service of the industry and functional interoperability was OK. Licensing became nag-based because of the pushback from customers who experienced hard licensing restrictions interfering with critical business operations.

Fun fact 2: One of VMware's office moves was blocks away around Palo Alto. Legend has it, some servers were kept running by migrating to/from standalone UPSes and datacenter PDUs one PSU at a time.

Fun fact 3: VMware Workstation was usable and interesting in 2000.

Fun fact 4: VMware's early story is almost as desperate as Dropbox's and Cisco's. All 3 could make interesting Netflix docudramas.

Fun fact 5: VMware's ~2015 microkitchens were better than Facebooks. Breadracks of jars of tasty snacks from wall to wall.

Fun fact 6: Most of VMware Workstation and Fusion yearly major versions skew to UI/UX and theme changes rather than functionality improvements because of incredibly lean, under-resourced teams.

Disclaimer: Once upon a time (c. 2004), {{big name university}} paid me to go to in-person training and pass the VCP exam. LOL.
Thanks, not having an iOS device or Mac I didn't check that far into their site. I'm not willing to invest into that ecosystem until Apple allows some freedom.
I’d have to think that a network that shuts down their 2G network probably allows roaming devices to make calls over VoLTE. All those carriers that don’t allow roaming devices to make VoLTE calls probably have an active 2G network.
This has been happening to me as well for the last few weeks. I’d say since around the time Sonoma was released, although I’ve continued running Ventura the entire time. There was an update to Ventura at the time Sonoma was released, which I’ve considered as a possible cause.

I experience the same spinning wheel that rarely if ever resolves on its own, but I’ve noticed that if I click outside of the Chrome window to change focus to another app, and then immediately click back into a Chrome window, the spinning wheel is immediately resolved.
N64 primarily shined with four player gameplay. Third parties that focused on that tended to do well. However, besides Goldeneye, Banjo-Kazooie, Blast Corps, Super Smash Bros (made by HAL Labs), Mario Party (made by Hudson Soft), Diddy Kong Racing (Rare), MLB feat Ken Griffey Jr, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, WCW vs NWO: World Tour, Wipeout 64, Excitebike 64 (Left Field), and NBA Courtside.

Not a ton of stand outs, admittedly. In the first two years of N64's existence, there were only a few dozen titles even released on the console.
Never got into bookmarks, seemed slower to have to grab a mouse and dig around to find the bookmark I was looking for, vs ctrl-t then the first few letters.
OWA is fine for quick emails, usually, but I like old fashioned stuff like being able to view my message headers. Also, I use Firefox instead of Chrome so I don't get the PWA benefits.

It's gonna suck when Microsoft finally kills connectivity or login support for the Teams for Linux Electron app lol
VPSes use Xen and such, not VMware because of $. VMware was born out of the need to increase utilization of expensive enterprise servers by putting many virtual machine guests on fewer physical hosts.
Hey, I'm one of the creators of Translation Party, thanks for the shout out, I really like this. My co-creator had the idea to limit the number of words for the generated image description so that more change could happen between iterations. Not sure if that's possible. Anyway, this is really fun, thank you!
Another reason it may feel a little bit slow is because the client is completing an invisible CAPTCHA challenge to curb bots/abuse (we may be able to improve this experience for authenticated users eventually)
I'm using Semantic Kernel (https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel) and it's really nice. Makes building more complex workflows really simple without sacrificing control.

A bunch of examples (https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/blob/main/dotne...) for how to handle just about anything you need to do with OAI with a lot less boilerplate.
> It isn't really 'the internet' but it _is_ 'the internet' that many people interact with unless they put in effort to find niche spaces.

Indeed, that was also my point. Learn to use something else than a smartphone and get away from mainstream social media. Go find ebooks or read history from a digital archive. Do open source. Write a blog. Or whatever.
Writing programs in lambda calculus is definitely more enjoyable than in eg SKI calculus.

I think if you express your lambda calculus bindings in terms of De Bruijn indices, it might seem less arbitrary, too.
Ideally yes but the old code search may also require costly infra, like building specialized indexes of the codebase (eg an elasticsearch index).

Since those are "fixed costs" per repo rather than per search, they'd now be much more expensive per search if they were only used by logged-out users.

Pure outside speculation of course.
I believe that any restrictions added on top of copyright, for a normal media sale, are themselves immoral.

And I believe that sometimes copyright goes too far, and that breaking it in those cases is not immoral.

So I definitely don't agree with your first postulation, and I might not agree with the second one depending on how that's interpreted.

In particular, a rule that would stop me from watching a movie with friends should never be enforced or enforceable. So a flat-out "no sharing" is not a moral rule. And a rule that stops me from sharing the movie contents when copyright has lapsed is also immoral. I feel like the average person would solidly agree with me on those two statements.

And then on top of that, I suggest a situation where it would make sense for copyright to lapse without being immoral to the creators. And while under the current legal system it doesn't lapse, that's a legal truth that doesn't dictate the morality of acting like it lapsed.
Don't these laws get written precisely because someone did whatever they wanted with their land?

Could you dump toxic waste there if you want? Could you store tons of ammonium nitrate on it? Could you farm chickens? Hold nightly raves?
xmpp.js
Yep, I use vimwiki where it's all monospace, and two spaces between sentences is a massive readability benefit there. I also type it when making comments here because these input boxes are also monospace, even though the extra space isn't displayed after posting.
Information/overview was a bit thin at the posted link.

This video goes into some more details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqALCrVuiY
The curious thing about what you say is that until a few months into the Ukraine war, it was far from commonly accepted knowledge. I can't count how many analysis articles and opinion pieces from before this war spoke frequently of Russia's possible ability to attack the Nato Alliance heavily.

Some people, remembering the strong WWI and WWII lessons that economics eventually always decides victory, looked at the Russian economy compared to the combined economies of the NATO alliance countries and quickly saw that a Russian invasion of anything bigger than a small nearby country (think Georgia; not even Ukraine fits the bill as small enough) would be an eventual disaster for Russia itself, but its projected image of new fighting might under Putin's supposed military modernization held just enough media sway to make this easily forgettable.
Reformatting in precommit is destructive.
Structure and patterns are great. I've love to see some structural classification of tools based on the nature of tools, not the quantum mechanical patterns of electron orbitals of atoms. :)
Blast Corps was such a unique and innovative game.
Job Opening in Chicago for Clojure/ClojureScript/Ruby on Rails Developers
My knowledge of SQLite features kind of got frozen in time when I stopped doing python work as frequently as I used to a few years ago. I recall lamenting that I couldn't use their fancy new features because I was more or less constrained to whatever version Python bundled for its default. Can I now trust modern python installations to have native-json enabled sqlite built in?
Another very similar project: https://github.com/flowtyone/flowty-realtime-lcm-canvas
California is over 100 million acres, mostly not houses. Fixating on a small peninsula is part of the problem. Building in the middle of the desert worked for Las Vegas, Phoenix, etc.. Los Angeles wasn't a desert, but they made it work in a pretty dry area.
We are building dstack.ai, an open-source tool that helps run anything on vast.ai and TensorDock. Happy to hear your feedback.
Smash Bros was HAL Labs, not Mario 64. That being said, HAL Labs worked closely with Nintendo on the title, and Nintendo owns a significant stake in the company.
> like WhatsApp are less secure

WhatsApp uses end to end encryption by default. In fact, it uses the library that Signal developed. It is much more secure than Telegram, unless proved otherwise (which would need some backdoor in the application code to change its behavior).
This seems like a mildly snarky response, but really - some lawyer signed this, knowing they were submitting a DMCA for showing a website in a browser. It should be dealt with extremely harshly.
Evolution was always rock solid for me, but these days so is Thunderbird. I'll have to give it a go sometime, thanks for the suggestion :)
I’m convinced that anyone that points to sg as an example of but an anecdote about itself knows nothing about anything basically.

Singapora is amazing to visit but you would never catch me living there. It truly is Disney-like. Between the slave class that comes out at 22:30 and the fact that the country doesn’t exist without China shipping future landfill material around the world it’s just its own thing.

I look forward to going back, but it’s not a place that works anywhere except right there and for it’s reasons.
Addressing the Liability Gap in AI Accidents [pdf]
Could you use non-breaking space instead?