skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. That would be why the "Inflation Reduction Act" spends so much money?

> This guidebook provides an overview of the clean energy, climate mitigation and resilience, agriculture, and conservation-related investment programs in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act,

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Inflat...
What's also interesting is that my post was trending in the Ask section on hackernews and suddenly disappeared from there.
These days it's about finding the labor and the project time. All those extra runs of wire add up to a lot of expensive time. If you're doing a remodel it's also a lot of wall that doesn't need to get ripped up.
> And the finances of the foundation, good lord.

Please expound? Or a link is fine, too.
WhatsApp/Signal involve other people you want to communicate with having those apps, which is fairly unlikely in the US (at least outside of tech/international social groups). Only chat apps out here you can count on are facebook messenger, sms/rcs, groupme, or imessage. iMessage is probably the best of these.
I use Chrome for Google's sites (Gmail, Youtube, etc) and Firefox for everything else. On Chrome you can install Youtube as an "app". That makes it easy for me to keep YT up and running while using Firefox for general browsing. Definitely recommend trying this approach out!
> Signal is the same, [...], the only official clients are the CLI and the ones they release

Is there an officially supported CLI for Signal? Please tell me it's true, that would mean so much for small scale automation!
> And before someone says that "free market is always good and government is bad"

I've never really understood that dichotomy myself. The free market IS good, that is for sure. But it won't exist unless the gov't uses its power to create it. Companies have to be kept small enough that there will always be a bunch of choices. And that won't happen by itself.
I think these metrics are going to be jacked in a few years.

1) Firefox will be the only browser to support ad blocking

2) Internet Sites that are funded by ads will block Firefox

3) Firefox or a Firefox Extension will change the User Agent field to a corporate browser

4) All of these browser market share metrics are going to be incorrect.
It’s pretty much only North America that calls it “math”. All the rest of the English-speaking world calls it “maths”.
"if everybody is being spied on, nobody is being spied on"

???
The united states is designed to be driven. It was very intentional. In NYC, depending on where you live you don't need a car, but once you get to the outskirts of the boroughs (like outer queens, outer brooklyn, any of staten island that isn't right by the ferry, upper bronx) you basically drive or getting anywhere to anywhere can take hours. And NYC is the best in the country regarding not needing a car.

Many places "going to the corner store" is a 20 minute drive. I still remember going up to long island to visit a friend, and we wanted to eat. The absolutely closest place to get food was a 45 minute walk each direction.
What's their pricing like? They don't seem to display it on their website
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There is certainly a lot of speculation in Techempower benchmarks and top entries can utilize questionable techniques like simply writing a byte array literal to output stream instead of constructing a response, or (in the past) DB query coalescing to work around inherent limitations of the DB in case of Fortunes or DB quries.

And yet, the fastest Ruby entry is at 274th place while Rails is at 427th.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...
A lot of that has to do with the fact that you chose your friend group during public high school and he chose his during university, which itself already selects for the upper socioeconomic statuses.
You're asking government websites to run differently from 99.9% of commercial websites out there.

First of all, that's just not going to happen for all sorts of practical reasons.

But secondly, you're totally ignoring UX and design. "Specifying semantics, and let the rendering engine do what it will" might work for developers who are used to interacting with API's. It will not work for regular users.

Regular users need to understand which button is the primary action. They need to understand which part of the content is the main body, versus a sidebar versus a header. They want columns that are correctly sized for their content. They don't want to have to scroll horizontally. They want responsive design that works on mobile too. They want something that looks trustworthy and familiar.

Websites are apps now. Asking to go back from presentation to semantics is like asking people to use the command line instead of GUI's. It's not going to happen, nor should it, because it's not user-friendly.

The only people it's friendly to are a niche set of developers with certain ideological beliefs that most web technologies shouldn't be used.
There's something ingenious about coding with artificial restrictions that brings out your creativity and drive to come trough. I participate yearly in a Web game jam called js13k where you have to code a game under 13kb zipped. It drove me to learn better compressible code and generating audio and graphics. But in our case we can harness all the power of the modern Web platform. Coding for old systems probably is the same but on steroids.
Except, increasing the threads increases the memory usage proportionally. From what I have seen, the memory won't be released back and it keeps increasing until the process gets OOM'ed. At least this was the case with Ruby 3.0 and 3.2.
Reminds me of this quote attributed to a past Peruvian president and general, Benavides:

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
A sufficiently powerful corporation is worse than a government, because the current government at least pretends to play by the rules and in a lot of cases, does. The issue is the rules themselves, which were crafted by? Corps.

Corps are entirely different. They push harder and harder and harder for PROFITS and will inevitably cross lines. When crossing those lines not only has no meaningful penalty, but actually turns a profit, after the fines are subtracted, they will not only continue to do it, but push even harder. After all, there's no real consequences, so why worry?
After Microsoft giving up on their rendering engine and joining the Chromium train I think the internet is in a perilous place. We're down to Blink, Gecko, and WebKit. Apple's monopoly on iOS browsers (soon to be undone) is unfortunately one of the last things keeping us from recreating the dark ages of IE's near monopoly on the market. I'd recommend at least supporting a non-Blink based browser like:

* Lunascape (actually has all 3 major engines built in. Great for web dev)
* Pale Moon - uses Goanna, a fork of Gecko
* Waterfox - focused on speed and privacy and compatible with Firefox addons

See also: Floorp, IceCat, and SeaMonkey
> A sufficiently powerful corporation is indistinguishable from a government.

Only if the government is a dictatorship. A sufficiently powerful corporation will never look like a functional democracy.
Notice on the graph that the drop pretty much starts around 2012. Quite interesting, and it definitely probably needs to be investigated more. They also mention the correlation between lower scores and higher leisure phone use.
Hard disagree. Toxic itself is a term used precisely because it's nebulous enough.

Note it's not "obscene", or "insulting" or "offensive". "Toxic" here serves as a synonym to "bad", which meaning is entirely subjective.

This comment of mine might be considered toxic, your comment might too, there is no way to argue otherwise since it entirely depends on the beholder.
You can’t get an EV at the same price as a ICE Honda CR-V, so that’s not an apples to apples comparison.
How do you implement a compiler in 6 lines of code, let alone 6 lines of BF code?
> local public schools decided to keep everyone at the same math level

That was a thing when I went to public school in the late 80s-90s. Easier for schools to manage assembly line thinkers. This is 100% intentional government policy. The kids who don’t fit in the system are “troublemakers”.

My family is full of PhDs and tutored me. Teachers tried telling my parents otherwise but the fam laughed in their face and pulled the “free speech” card.

Look at the ages of politicians, the material comfort they have, then question with a straight face why our society is ossified and half asleep.
Not just the War on Inflation, even the "Inflation Reduction Act".
Partners in the awarded hydrogen hubs for example are expected to contribute an 88% cost share. For the 12% they may receive from the DoE (re-imbursable, of course) they are not only expected to meet their milestones but also to do work force development, community education plus stringent administration. For a startup without resources not worth the effort.
This is not a subscription to use the browser. You can always build it from source and use for free, as designed.

This is a commitment to support the development, because the development should be oingoing. Not Netflix-style, but Patreon-style.

(Also see how JetBrains handles "subscriptions" to their closed-source software. Once you've paid, the version is forever yours. Updates are bought with some additional sums if desired.)
That's part of it, but it's not the entirety of it. Which, as a former secondary teacher and now university teacher, I would agree with. They found, for instance, that higher leisure phone use correlated with lower scores.

I also noticed that scores generally seemed to peak in 2012, right as smartphones started becoming super accessible for everyone and right around the time Instagram started to take off too.
> then Firefox broke forms and needs to fix it. Not your bug.

Not in the real world. In the real world, you've delivered a site that doesn't work and contractually, you can be sued or not paid for not fulfilling your contract.
I use Firefox as a daily driver and it just works.
Homes are entirely different as primary residences generally aren't taxed upon sale. Also, their value is regularly updated and taxed at the new value in most jurisdictions.

Generally, though, if you're using the value of something, it should be realized (and thus taxable) at that point.
my parents made sure we got good English as foreign language skills because they knew it’s crucial. I guess maths would have been more useful longterm
I agree that you are not obligated to pay, as in you don't deserve to have debt for consuming things you value. I think it may be a rationalization to argue that you shouldn't try to. Although maybe there is a difference of opinion on separating an obligation from an ought to.

Justifying why it's okay to feel entitled to the content for free (due to lots of available free content) even though it provides a personal value to you is what oversteps in the wrong direction to me, if that's part of your take.

I should probably clarify that merely grabbing or holding your attention is not what I mean by providing value. I mean it saves you time, it gives you conversation topics, it helps you grow, its something you look forward to consuming, it isnt just taking attention you didnt know what to do with, etc. In kther words, there's something specific to the content that resonates with you.

Its possible you just don't value this content all that much, even if you do appreciate it and find it interesting - which is okay.

Value is very subjective and personal, there's no way to codify what I'm saying here.

And it's also fair to argue that you are paying for most of these things with your time and attention, although with your specific example an improvement was theorized that would give you the same value while saving you time, and that translated to paying the creator less. Something about the specifics there didn't seem right
You have two phones with the same number? I didn't know that was possible.
So that means instead of investing money into making the browser better and clawing back some market share, Mozilla Corporation is sending money up to the owning Mozilla Foundation, in the form of profits, to spend on non-browser initiatives.
I wager because of Google. They have have positioned themselves to see the majority of e-mails and can't allow E2EE.
So, not Google.
When TOSes forbid interoperability, breaking them is just.
So approximately a SQL standard (aggregation "tree-climb") combined with a non-standard (LIMIT) which prevents an error yield an unexpected behavior.
He wasnt even the only Julius Caesar elected as Consul in that decade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Julius_Caesar_(consul_6...
Canadian students' math scores continue steep slide
You say it's obvious, but it apparently wasn't obvious to the developers of Oracle DB, one of the most used databases.

I think the most unexpected thing is that the query engine looks into the inner queries to decide whether to return all rows of the outer table or some aggregation of them. If there had been a group by clause, it would have been much clearer that an aggregation must be happening.

Edit: also, the "obvious" logic actually changes completely if you look at the related query, SELECT (SELECT sum(a+x) FROM xx LIMIT 1) FROM aa;

This returns 63, 66, 69. Similarly, sum(1) will return 3, 3, 3.

So, we could very well expect that sum (a) would work like that - it would treat each value of `a` as a constant that it aggregates over all rows of xx, so it would return 3, 6, 9 (the limit is anyway ignored if you are aggregating).
Arguably, software companies tend to release more that I would class as "malware" than the pirates do nowadays.
Only, if you can provide a proof for the train not being a printer or that it cant be used as such. /s
> This applies to goods rather than labor to a much higher degree. Permanently owning the labour of 10 people working 16 hours per days is worth a lot more today than 10 slaves back then.

Yes, but that's also because of the productivity increase linked to the cheap energy and phosphate supply brought by fossil fuels.

If cheap energy stop being available and human labour become again the main driver of economic output, you can bet that slavery will soon come back in fashion...
Thank you, this looks great (and quite academic, which seems difficult to come by). You likely know about him, but Wouter Hanegraaff, who holds an academic chair about western esotericism could be interesting to you.
> I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows what a web browser is and what an ad-blocker extension does nowadays

Most of the users do not use ad-blocker and most of the users uses whatever browser come with their mobile device or Windows install.
This is amazing -- I've been a happy Beeper user for everything except iMessage and Signal until now, and this mostly kept me from using iMessage much at all. Congratulations to the team, and wow -- that high school kid hopefully has a long and impressive career ahead of him.
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> That’s like saying a biologist studying an endangered species isn’t doing science because the animal could disappear tomorrow. The permanence of a subject has no bearing on whether it is science or not.
The idea that science has to happen in a lab is of course absurd as well.

The main point here is that anyone can likely start studing those endangered species and try to reproduce the results while in GPT4 it is not possible at all.
The lab point is related to fact that we are talking about the software here.
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I wish they had been working on an endowment like Wikipedia, that would be a better model in terms of the importance of an independent, open source browser. Maybe Wiki and take them under their wing.
Piracy is immoral because you agreed to the laws, not because they are moral. The expectation of compliance is part of the social contract (you would understand this if you read what I wrote about me describing how disagreement with laws is acceptable). This is compatible with the idea that laws are not inherently moral, though it's a common mistake to make to confuse morality with legality. That's not what is happening here.

The reason this conversation won't progress is that you're more or less ignoring all of ethics and philosophical thought as it's been laid out in the past 500 years, instead substituting your own opinion, as if that were even approaching equality. Of course we won't get anywhere if you can't address the obvious relationship piracy has with the concept of "Free riders", for example.
We're getting there already. I taught for years in a poorer, rural district in a southern State. It was quite bad about many couldn't perform outside a very basic level in those skills.
It's important here to differentiate between the big cities and the next tier. The big, dense cities (SF, NYC, Boston, London, Tokyo, etc) have accumulated wealth and privilege within the city and lower income folks are on the perimeter. In second tier cities, it's more common for suburban sprawl to have led to "white flight" and wealth accumulation outside city centers... but those cities frequently don't have near the economic draw in their downtowns anyway so it doesn't matter.
Exactly this -- it's about testing and ensuring something works.

And no matter how "standardized" things get, there are always going to be implementation differences (whether due to mistakes or underspecified specs or partial implementation) and also just straight-up bugs between browsers.
Hehe.

Seriously, though, with smart lights you probably do actually want to consider what happens when the power goes down, or more precisely when the power comes back on.

With a dumb light controlled by a dumb switch when power comes on the light goes back to the state it was in when power failed (unless you have flipped the switch while the power was out).

With smart bulbs some of them come at full brightness when power comes back (and white if they are color bulbs), regardless of what on/off, brightness, or color state that were in when power failed.

This can be irritating.

Some brands let you set the default power on action, ideally letting you chose between off, on in whatever state they were in before lower was lost, or on in a specific state you specify.
I don't think "the previous owners were charging less than what the market could bear" has any bearing on my previous statements
The AI Chip company is the first dip, where is the second? He doesn't have a financial stake in OpenAI.
I'm just preparing to fully move over to Firefox.
but now explain this in "Legaleeze" to Apple, to Nintendo, etc....
This is surprisingly accommodating for mobile. That does make one non-accommodation a little more annoying though: since the render area fills the screen, and since it handles touch events to update the rendering, it prevents swipe-to-navigate-back. Might be a nice, er, touch to ignore touch events originating on the viewport edges
They also don't ban and lie about anti-tracking extensions like AdNausium (a data poisoning adblocker[0]). Chrome banned it from their store. As well as other extensions like Bypass Paywalls Clean. Ultimately the Firefox addon ecosystem is simply freer

[0] https://adnauseam.io/
Yes. Related to the difference between “available” and “easily accessible” - a lot of information about e.g. politicians may be freely available, but it usually doesn’t make a difference unless a journalist makes it easily accessible.
The "add a frame to a video" use-cases are probably the least exciting here, the image annotation capabilities seem to me the bigger deal.
It kinda is a for profit organization.

Basically all revenue is made through the Mozilla Corporation.
Streamers are explicitly broadcasting themselves, though. They are the camera following themselves around.
An obvious alternative explanation would be that pages on controversial topics both attract toxic comments and are more difficult to edit. I am not sure whether this paper controlled for this.
B2B team at OpenAI? :-)
The world is definitely not on their side
Still puts him ahead of Herodotus. When Aristophanes takes the time to write a whole play to mock you, you done goofed.
In this case the lower offer was 22mln PLN, whereas the manufacturer's offer was 25mln.
Happy Beeper customer and original poster here to tell you: Beeper Cloud is already out there and works really well! It's also free, though you'll have to get through the waitlist somehow. It doesn't perfectly replace every app just yet but it covers the most important functionality extremely well. And it's available on mobile as well as desktop devices.
That the absence of people with particular attributes in a group is evidence of discrimination is a least charitable view that forms the axiom of policies that discriminate on lines like race or gender.
I'm using Beeper on my Mac and iPad, specifically to chat with friends who are on arcane chat platforms such as Instagram.

I'm quite happy with how the service works, and wrote a review a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745270
Isn’t she chief lizard wrangler at both?
Not to mention that eating undercooked meat is a bigger infection risk than living with a pet cat, especially an indoor-only cat.
PDF link, for those who don't like videos: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity23-oz.pdf

If you were wondering about how they bypass browser permission dialogs, they don't:

> the user needs to navigate to the malicious site and grant read/write access for
browser-based ransomware to be effective

Moreover, the browser's permission dialogs are pretty restrictive already - user can't choose things like "entire disk" or "entire My Documents", just a subfolder of those. So the paper focuses on things like encrypting Dropbox folder, which means user has to specifically select the folder, then grant access to that to the suspicious webapp.

IMHO this is not something that I would be worried about, I don't think this will ever reach the scale of native ransomware. And I am certain that incorporating machine-learning based classifier into browser, which has "only" 1% chance of falsely blocking the app, is a horrible idea.
I think this is more about manual labour but I'll take the opposite side when it comes to white collar work that working more hours can be better early on in your career.

When I was just out of school and in my early 20s I worked as much as I could, I probably did close to 12 hours days in my 20s.

I think I probably averaged an all nighter a month for a few years and worked at least one day on weekends and I loved every minute of it.

I said yes to almost all the work I could get. My bosses loved me and I got raises/promotions faster than anyone else. I was able to compress 10 years of experience into about half that time. It really set me up for my career later on in life and I learned so much in that time.

I did the learn a language a year thing and that helped me get a job as a compiler writer.

And I was able to leverage that into becoming a quant as I put in the hours to relearn all the math I'd forgotten from school.

And I was able to leverage that to get into a pretty darn successful hedge fund where I said no to them a few times before they convinced me to join.

I'm now in my 40s with a family and I work far less but I still think it was the right move at the time. It really set me up for a life of success and I was able to see the effects of outworking everyone else pay off.

I didn't seem to miss out on a social life and I had no burn out or resentment to speak of from those days.