skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I realized I had never seen this sort of thing on the web before.

Search for: "looking glass bgp" and you'll find some[1]. One of the first CGI programs I wrote nearly three decades ago (ugh...) was a Perl script that wrapped traceroute and streamed the results via server push[2]. Everything old is new again. :-)

That said, your site has a very nice presentation.

BTW, ipv4 TTL is dejure seconds even though it's defacto hop count since no router takes more than a second and the minimum decrement is 1 (except middleboxes which wish to remain hidden won't decrement at all). Also, Linux/Unix traceroute by default use UDP to a high numbered (and usually closed) port for probe packets instead since UDP historically is less likely to be dropped/filtered than ICMP.

Aside: asking how traceroute works is one of my interview questions, most people don't know (if they do the question is no good) and many are unable to figure it out from first principles no matter how many questions I answer about TCP/IP. I still think being able to figure it out is a reasonable problem solving question.

1. e.g. https://www.bgplookingglass.com/

2. https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch06_06.html
It's not just concise and clear to me. It's that people tend to "pop" from the background too much, and it reveals the artificial lighting to my brain. Everything looks "over-lit". You know, like a soap opera.
But after that, IIRC Mozilla Suite was big, clunky and stagnating. And Phoenix, I mean, Firebird, I mean, Firefox was a lean spin-off.
IBM and Meta launch AI Alliance in collaboration with founding members
1. ICMP seemed a lot faster / more reliable, but you're right that UDP does sometimes bring out better results. Something I want to do is make it use a hybrid approach — sending both ICMP and UDP packets and using the best of both.

2. Wayy ahead of you, check for HTML comments :))
What would you put on the universal college exit exam? Or do you mean you want one for each degree?
I can do it for $20B and a pony
This project just sent me unsolicited DM spam on a Slack for a tangentially related project. I strongly encourage avoiding this project as they are using spam and harassment to promote their project. From the sounds of another comment on this thread, the community this project harassed me in is not the only community they have done this in this morning.
Try interacting with them via the button on your steering wheel.
My grandfather tried it once and said "that tastes like Daisy May's piss"
See parent. The default in FF is to shim the GA script
Thanks! I was having this issue as well.
I think you're putting very little weight into the ability of government organizations like the NTSB or equivalent to determine root cause of a crash.
Just think of the situation with aircraft crashes. They have to deal with something that smeared into the ground at 400 miles an hour. And they're often still able to root cause with a high degree of confidence.
I have a feeling train crashes are trivial in comparison to root cause (with rare exception).

You either require (and train) your NTSB to be able to independently diagnose accidents (in which case they would be able to tell who fudged the records about the fake brake overhaul) or you rely on the manufacturer for the diagnosis. Which to me is a concerning conflict of interest, since they will invariably want to shift the blame to the operator of the vehicle. I'm sure they could in the most honest case, point to excursions outside of recommended operating conditions during the life of the train and say "see? Your operator has been consistently taking this turn ed 10 mph faster than recommended by the manufacturer. Warranty void".. worst case they fudge the records and you have no competent independent examiner to dispute that.
They are spending a great deal of time, getting this one thing just right.

Most of us, in the IT world, aren't doing that. We're trying to get through this task quickly, and accurately, before moving on to the next one, so for us, we don't need this level of prep/consideration/review.

I'm with you. It's not my style either, after 30+ years in IT. lol
I segregated myself from crime. I segregated my family to keep them safe.

I don’t care if someone is poor, I care that at 2am my neighbor is beating his girlfriend and she’s screaming and I have to go out there to stop it. I care that the neighbor kid is shooting a gun into the air yelling “MOTHER FUCKER” as a car screeches away, when my daughter is playing in the front yard, and the cops say “it was just a .22” and nothing is done. Whelp, I guess a .22 won’t kill my kid, nothing to worry about!

So I moved to the most expensive house I could afford (and honestly couldn’t afford it then, can now after some raises).

To be fair, my current neighbor beats his wife too, but at least he keeps quiet about it and didn’t make a whole scene when he got arrested. The lady down the way sells weed but like, she’s not getting into fist fights with the people she’s dealing to. People know how to behave in a nicer neighborhood, or at least keep their business their business.

It also has nothing to do with race as this neighborhood is more diverse than where I moved from (old neighborhood was basically only black people and white people vs professional immigrants of every stripe from every continent in the new neighborhood).
Update that Mr. Egal responded and forwarded my message to the team responsible for robocall enforcement. It would be a great start if the FCC changed their reporting flow to also notify the originating carrier.
Nick Bostrom proposed the "Vulnerable World Hypothesis" which (amongst other things) says that a technology as powerful and accessible as AI requires mass surveillance to stop bad actors using it as a weapon.

https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

It's disturbing, but also hard (for me) to refute.
Of all the types of software where you should be ok paying a subscription, browsers are the ones where should be most ok with it. Browsers, more than anything else, need constant updates because they're by far the biggest and juiciest attack surface for hackers, and also web devs will just stop supporting you if you're not on top of the treadmill of browser standard updates.

It's not feasible at all to call a browser "done" and leave it alone, so if you want one that's independent from adtech, a subscription is kind of your only option.
Did you mean Chrome/Safari or Blink/Webkit duopoly? Firefox is like 2% of users on the web.
Fitting, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_CPU didn't really happen.
Companies are probing the boundaries of what is and isn’t acceptable for AI. Sports illustrated recently used AI generated avatars to publish AI written articles as if they were written by real people. They didn’t announce it they just did it and got caught. ESPN took a TNT video from several years ago and used AI to fabricate key details and appear as if it was under the ESPN brand. They didn’t announce it they just did it and got caught.

While this particular usage is less about a specific AI act and yes buying increased access on social media (where most users naively assume fair access) isnt new - I personally and fucking terrified of where we’ll be at just a year from now.

[1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/economy/sports-illustrated-...

[2]: https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2023/10/28/e...
Leaving nonpaying users on old versions on browsers with security issues and who will no longer support the latest web standards will be bad for the web.
This answers the question, How can I define corporate level malicious protectionism?
And yet it's one of the crowning achievements of the entire Internet, and a contender for one of the most important written works of the last century. This is always the challenge trying to dismiss Wikipedia: something they're doing is working, not just well, but well on a level that is virtually unprecedented.
Wonder what to use for MongoDb. "Mongo" is a nasty slur for a person with Downs syndrome in Norwegian
Poe's Law[0] applies.

Unfortunately, nowadays, unless you're among a group of people who already know your general opinions on things, it's nearly impossible to state an absurd position on some issue that a nontrivial number of people would actually, unironically, advocate for, until you get into the absolutely batshit stuff like "we should literally sacrifice poor people to the devil, then eat their flesh, to keep the rest of us from getting poor."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
And then breaks again just in time to catch Christmas travelers by surprise.
This may explain why people working in tech are young - those that work long enough in the industry probably die before reaching old age. Without a family life, and on their way to an open plan office.
A freedom that I desire more greatly is a durable liberation from having to see any more Cory Doctorow articles. Remember 20 years ago when this guy was telling everyone that Microsoft was going to use the TPM to prevent you from installing Linux? Did that happen?
> But to toggle the keyboard backlight, I have to press Fn-Space bar, because it is hardcoded in the hardware keyboard controller. Whatever.

bindsym $mod+Shift+m exec ~/bin/power_backlight_keyboard.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

sys_keyboard_path=/sys/class/leds/tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness
if [ -f $sys_keyboard_path ]; then
current=$(<$sys_keyboard_path)
if [ "$current" -eq 0 ]; then
new=1
else
new=0
fi
sudo tee ${sys_keyboard_path} <<< ${new} >/dev/null
fi
Because a lot of smart people are spending a lot of time, money, and effort on this. It's as simple as that. We could go into all sorts of details, like how increase in GPU capabilities will improve training capabilities, both in size and speed, or how GPU(/TPU) capabilities will improve, or how better techniques will make training on the same data set result in better models, or where other improvements will make better use of existing models or make them better or where we're seeing additions to training data sets and how that will improve models using existing techniques. But it really all boils down to a lot of smart people, some with a lot of money, that are personally invested (with time and money) in making them better.

That doesn't mean there isn't possibly a plateau somewhere but it's somewhere way off in the distance.
Not all breaking changes require consumers to make changes. For example, in react-router v6, the useSearchParams hook returns a setter which lacks referential stability (for no good reason). There is an open PR to fix this, but the maintainers haven't addressed it. My theory is that it would technically be a breaking change since it would cause fewer rerenders. Theoretically an app might rely on this, but in practice that would be an extremely brittle and unusual behavior to rely on, and the vast majority of users would prefer the reduced rerenders. Under pragmatic versioning they could bump v6.x, and note that the change should be tested but likely doesn't require any code changes. With SemVer they'd be forced to bump to 7.0.0, but this is not a marketable change for a major release.
The subjective experience of different programming languages
I'm waiting until .shit is available. Maybe I'll be able to afford a place there.
It took me several tries to find it but the Projectivy launcher ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.pro... ) is a great replacement for the Android/Google TV launcher like it used to be, with no "suggestions" -- just your content.

But definitely use the "override current launcher" setting. The description implies this is a "only if you're having problems" option, but I find it makes a variety of subtle things work the way they should.
I doubt this. Maintaining and developing a competitive browser is serious work, and needs skilled professionals working on it full time, as well as getting stuck in to the web standards process. That requires a level of funding that most community projects only dream of. I can't see any incentive for industry to put money behind it in the way that they do with Linux.

I have very few complaints about Firefox as software. I only wish more people would use it. (That includes you, dear reader!) It is actually great, and if you've ever complained about AMP, WEI or anything like that, using a non-Google derived browser is one of the few things you can actually do to reduce Google's power here.

Firefox are up against the power of OS defaults and dirty tricks in an age where most people don't really know what a web browser is. But if you have any awareness or concern about the health of the open web, you are absolutely educated enough to use Firefox. Of course there will be the odd minor workflow thing to get used to. But Firefox is great. All you really need is the motivation to choose something other than the default.
No, I'm referring to bundling machines into clusters across physical lines, with bare metal deployments.
OK, I think someone's manager _told_ them to add this to the codebase. After the manager's boss told _them_ to make it so. And then it maybe got code reviewed, sure, and the code reviewer confirmed that it was bug-free and did what was intended. It is doing what the manufacturer wanted it to do.

I'm wondering if you read the same posts at the top, or if maybe HN has switched the link since you read it and commented? Or if you just reached different conclusions!

My conclusion was that it doesn't appear there is any reason to think this was a "rogue" employee. What motivation would they have to do this? The motivation belonged to the train company that made the trains and owned the the software, the company did it on purpose to try and make other repair facilities look bad and make their train repair facilities look like a better value.

I'm surprised that you seem to be considering that, maybe, like a programmer just put this in there without being told to. For fun? Just out of their own individual motivation to secretly help the company's profits?
> I'm all for right to repair for most things, however commercial public transport isn't one of them unless there's some vetting/accreditation process.

That is where you literally have a contract written up, stating this. In some cases that contract is ratified by the parliament (making it effectively the law)
interest on a 100 dollar deposit?
Accessibility is an important part of the browser :)
They do have a business around e-signatures related to the prevalence of pdf for electronic documents. If you go to Adobe.com it is one of their top level menu items "PDF and E-signatures" for instance so seems relatively important to them.
On the one hand, it seems reasonable to let Apple phase in new rules, as they bring new phones to market. On the other hand, the article mentions that Apple's sales in India are less weighted toward new phones, and more toward the older models. That means that older, potentially grandfathered phones could sell well for years.
I think there is a certain danger associated. I was a watcher of a few Wikipedia lemmas on esoteric topics and it was quite hard to keep these articles grounded in reality, I believe some actors on there were Astro turfing to sell more scams energy devices, and part of their strategy was to have a fitting, non-critical Wikipedia article to the esoterica they sell.

I don’t contribute to Wikipedia anymore for the obvious reasons. Now there is one person less making sure that the article on Orgon Energy something states that it’s not a concept accepted by science.

My point is the more articles the less likely is it that a community can maintain the information and reach a certain consensus on what would be a neutral view when phrasing the article.
How exciting! interest.ing is available.
I did the numbers already using a small LLM and it said the real number is $80B and no ponies.
> In relation to specific diseases, the ILO indicates that 32.4% of deaths at work are due to circulatory problems...

In the US military I was fortunate to be part of a team training for some specific events similar to long distance orienteering set apart from my normal run a 4m - 10k a morning routine in a paratrooper battalion. During this training my resting heart rate dropped from 38 BPM to 25 BPM as our workouts kept our heart rates elevated in that sweet spot for 10+ hours a day. I felt as though I had limitless energy and slept so deeply.

I think for some occupations and risk factors, more work of specific types is actually a giant plus.

We have too many people dying of issues relating to our sedentary lifestyles and cushy office jobs.
> Healthcare industry as we know it today did not exist back then

Not true - it always existed (with different costs and treatments of course) and it was rather developed and affordable in the '50s and beginning of '60s before government intervention started in the earnest.

> Not really or only in a very superficial way and extremely basic way

Why and how? Feel free to expand and provide some examples.

> this is almost entirely an American problem

Not true. Health care and education are quite expensive in all developed countries, including where they are paid from our tax money then offered to us "for free".

> extensive regulation has kept costs relatively low and accessibility at very high levels.

How does that even work? I never heard of a regulation able to lower prices. Price controls only create shortages. Swiss private healthcare is quite expensive, but the competition on their (relatively) free market is keeping the costs from exploding even more.
I can't be alone in my view that open source won. Just not the original Mozilla open source browser. Instead the re-invented one spear headed by Google - Chrome. Chrome is like the 2.0 of everything the IE6 team and Mozilla team learned the hard way. It was built by many of the original founding members of those teams. It's not a bad thing when Microsoft now uses the open source Blink rendering engine. It's not a bad thing that Apple uses the open source Webkit engine. My feeling is "we won". The web is so much better today thanks in part to the amazing teams that came together sponsored by Google to build Chrome. Time marches forward and there are plenty of interesting problems to overcome for the web as a platform. I just think we can move on from M$ bad, Mozilla good... Mozilla showed us we could have a better browser and helped break the web free from the shackles of Microsoft. There's new problems to solve new fights to win just this one, is IMO, over.
Good luck testifying that they specifically adjusted a private internal protocol to block an App vs improve/iterate on the existing protocol.
From the link:

>>On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

So I bet it's something like:

Baker: "If you don't pay me market rates for comparable work, I'll leave and go mess up a different organization."

Google: "No, wait, stop, we'll get you the money!"

Considering all the unforced errors on Mozilla's part, I'm only half joking there (i.e. that Google is influencing the decision, via their search placement deals, to keep Firefox bad).
Yes, they are. You already don't get OS updates.
to developers of sandstorm, can you guys add newly popular apps such as baserow.io
Gecko being a mess for embedded use pre-dates the Eich affair and Baker's payday.

As for Mozilla being compromised - maybe, but it's still less compromised than advertisement companies, crypto companies, tax evaders, and their likes.
Naturally, someone already registered "fuck.ing"
Or the Mtn. Dew renaming campaign back in the 00s where 4chan stuffed the ballot boxes with a rather offensive name
Haha if there's one role I steer clear then it's anything OPs/admin related - no shortage of ass clenching situations where your job/product/the entire company might not be there tomorrow.
I'd argue that if we want to support individual growth and creativity, freedom-to should have higher priority than freedom-from, which consciously or not has seems to be the traditional default in the US perhaps due to its culture of supporting innovation and its break-away past. I believe some refer to these as positive and negative freedoms, respectfully.
I think the way to fix this is to make sure manufacturers follow certain standards so that the products can be serviced by anyone who holds certificates in those standards.

This is mostly to break the liability/insurance barrier.
I'm not complaining about pulldown effect. I'm complaining that the interpolation makes people look like they "pop" from the background to my eye, and it emphasizes the lighting, making everything look "over-lit" to my eye, which I associate with soap operas, because soap operas (especially Latin American soap operas, for some reason) really emphasize lighting the actors' faces.
Sounds like at that point we have bad actors using it as a weapon.
That objection makes no sense. The fact that Puma is idle most of the time reflects a disadvantage. The event loop makes much better usage of a single thread, and that shows in the benchmark.

It's like saying comparing Node to Rhino, or Vertx vs Spring Boot is unfair. Better performance per thread / core is the whole point.

You will not achieve the same level of performance with threads except in low-volume benchmarks, and _especially_ in any kind of cloud environment where you usually only have a single core and a shared kernel.
Was the scaremonger wrong, or simply effective in effecting change?

Another contemporary issue: the Y2K scare.
AssemblyAI (YC S17) raises $50M Series C to build superhuman Speech AI models
A lot of money is right! First word I tried is priced in the thousands!

> trash.ing

> Your domain is available!

> Premium name

> 1,625.00 USD
YouTuber pilot regrets intentionally crashing plane, gets 6 months in prison
In aerospace it definitely does happen. For example, NASA, as a customer, has the right to independently review flight software implemented by contractors.
If this argument hinges on summarization, then I have to ask - what is the blasted hallucination rate ?

I tried exactly this. Watched 4 talks from a seminar, got them transcribed, and used ChatGPT to summarize this.

Did 3 perfectly fine, and for the 4th it changed the speaker from mild mannered professor into VC investing superstar, with enough successes under his belt to not care.

How do you verify your summary is correct? If your false positive rate is 25% - 33%, thats a LOT of rework. 1 out of 3.
I have no clue what you are trying to argue? If anything, you are proving that France could export even more nuclear or be completely self-reliant if it wasn't forced by obtuses EU regulation to temper their electrical industry strength.

And the comparison with the US proves exactly that it is ALL political. The US can run their reactor full tilt all the time because they only compete with themselves, it's just a different type of electrical generation business, and since nuclear is cheap once it is built, it is better to run it all the time and adjust the rest.

France does not have this luxury and is forced to participate and agree to bad deals for the EU electrical grid as a whole. Because the grid has to be balanced, technically and commercially, those are the parameters and those are what is used by regulators to favor different political factions...
France could very well run its nuclear reactor to full capacity and export a shit ton of very cheap electricity, killing many competitors in the process but making decent amount of money that could be used for even more/better nuclear. This is EXACTLY what Germany complained about in the late 90s and this is why they have been putting a lot of regulation to favor their environmental bullshit even though nobody asks them to pay for all the coal they burn.

So, I don't understand how that could be an argument against nuclear, if anything, once you get the ball rolling energy is so cheap, others accuse you of cheating, just like Germany did.