skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish Firefox were a better citizen on macOS. Its weird text treatment, basic stuff such ignoring snippets substitutions, text navigation conventions (Option + arrow, for instance), are deal breakers to me. I’d gladly use Firefox as main browser if all these little details worked as expected for any macOS app.

For now, I’m sticking to Safari, which is fine as well, and (not surprisingly) works like every app should word on macOS
The standard library or use-cases are not even comparable though, right?

If I wanted to make a HTTPS request in quickjs I'd probably need to pull in openssl, write a http parser, etc, etc.

I might be wrong, but comparing quickjs to node/deno seems like comparing a aquarium pump to an electric car. They both contain engines that are driven by electricity, but the similarities stop there. They are both good at what they do, but I would never replace one with the other.
The annexation of Crimea occurred immediately after the 2014 revolution.

The west made their move and Russia responded.
Because the world would benefit from more good, free software.
The logical error is that it's confusing a part with the whole.

Clearly a single neuron in your brain does not understand English. Yet no one disputes that you understand English.

The non-chinese-speaker is just a component of the ChineseRoom system, that it doesn't understand Chinese is no more remarkable than a single neuron of yours not understanding English. It doesn't say anything about the overall system understanding Chinese or not.

I think it appeals to people with a more superficial understanding of computing that under appreciates the fact that instructions on paper processed by a universal circuit (or by a human emulating one) are morally equivalent to hardwired logic (if slower). So they disregard the contribution of the room, and focus on the fact that the meat-bot inside doesn't understand Chinese so the room must not either.
No details about what specific study they are referring to. These attacks are possible for several years now.

2016 - "Don't Skype & Type! Acoustic Eavesdropping in Voice-Over-IP" - https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09359

2020 - "Behavioral Acoustic Emanations: Attack and Verification of PIN Entry Using Keypress Sounds" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7309150/

Maybe they mean this one...

2023 - "A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01074
The D5100 creates a new folder when it wraps.
With the exception of Linux, Firefox is not installed by default anywhere. You have Edge on Windows, which is based on Chromium, and Chrome pushing its installation when you visit any Google property. So no wonder Firefox has the market share that has.
“fist recognition” is at least as old as morse code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
Rudely stated yet true. I've used Firefox as my main browser for as long as it has existed (and Netscape before). It's very concerning to see it slip into irrelevance, putting more users every year under the control of big tech.
Nope, it could not be part of Meta's ToS, and consent is not hard to guarantee, when you have a specific moment of transaction.

And you can claim I've "lost", but you have no justification for it.
What do you use/ how do you 'clean' your mouth between varieties? Water, I'd guess....?
http://docopt.org/

Not quite what you asked for, but close: type example invocations to generate the CLI, and just pull the arguments from a dictionary at runtime.
The clumps in question are electrically bound, so WDT likely won’t do much to break them up.
There was a gnarly driver issue that wasn't limited to Firefox, but which Firefox could trigger pretty easily: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2193110

Ended up being a Qualcomm ath11k bug reportedly fixed in kernel 6.4: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217528
Yep, I've been wondering this too. It could be:

- America has a large unified market, it's easier to expand than in the EU.

- Immigration, smart and ambitious people move to America so their companies have access to better pool of talent. Better labor mobility compared to the EU also helps.

- Cultural differences related to entrepreneurship and work.

- Europeans who have historically moved to America have specific genetics and learned behavior, which is passed over generations. Maybe they're less risk-averse, more optimistic or have more energy and desire to do something. Basically, if you select a subpopulation which is willing to move to a different country hoping for a better life, this subpopulation will have distinct traits.

- Legislation, taxes?

Europe should first identify this as a problem and then try hard to understand and solve it.
Doom at 30
Great job. This is a relatively crowded area, particularly RAG style chat systems. It might be nice for SecureAI to call out what makes their product different from other open source players in the same space, specifically Khoj and Danswer, both of which allow you to chat with your documents, offer network authentication, and allow you to plug in your own LLM.

Danswer

https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer

Khoj

https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj
A few things about this jump out to me a little bit:

One, is it possible that the popular understanding of the word “myth” has changed? I tend to think of it as being applied exclusively to fictitious stories, but that’s not the only definition. Any story that’s associated with a person or group could be considered a “myth”, regardless of its truth.

The other big thing is that my generation (I’m ~40) was taught about the Holocaust as being either exclusively against the Jews, or at least mostly against the Jews. I have zero doubts that the ~6m Jewish people who were killed were in fact killed - but I also know that ~3m Soviet POWs were killed as well, and that they had similar extermination programs against homosexuals, dissenting intellectuals, and others for all kinds of political reasons. Those people seem to be rarely mentioned.
> It currently takes me 4-5 minutes from launch to page load.

Something is definitely not working right on your end. I'm on Debian and it takes seconds to restore 4 Firefox windows with 60 or 70 tabs.
De Icaza suggests that the GC hasn't improved sufficiently even in the modern .NET era, and maybe that's true in certain cases. But in practice, dozens of big-budget 3D games have been made with Unity, using a janky old Mono runtime that performs far worse than .NET 8.

Swift is a really interesting language, and Apple does distribute official toolchain binaries for Linux and Windows. But yeah it's still a bit of an awkward choice if you're not using Xcode, hopefully that improves.
I guess it kinda depends where you live. In some bigger cities especially, many "normal" restaurants these days will have a vegan version of what they make for omnivores, whether that's pizza or crepes or dumplings or ramen or a rice bowl or pastries or ethnic or whatever.

But a vegan burger place? Man, that's like next-level boring lol. Exactly what you said, hard to differentiate. There are vegan fast food places like Native Foods and Veggie Grill, but even they have way more options than burgers.
I don't see the article as written in good faith. There is a tiny bit of justified criticism, but the rest is just stereotypes and politics.

Cybertruck is extremely heavy and therefore inefficient. It has a boxy look that may be esthetically unpleasing for many people. But having a HEPA filter is not something to make fun of, driving in polluted cities or behind an old smoky car is nothing to make fun of. The rest of the article is worse.
Along these lines, Gary Marcus said that "you can't build a ladder to the moon" [1]. In other words, neural nets do well on simple things, but general intelligence is such a high bar that neural nets (and statistical methods in general) can never reach it, without the addition of the sort of secret sauce that allows humans to really make sense of the world.

I used to be sympathetic to this viewpoint. But these days I'm more and more willing to believe that we can actually build a ladder to the moon.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/common-sense-comes-closer-to-...
[sigh/]

At some point, it almost seems like the hiring processes for CEOs, Presidents, etc. of major organizations should include an actual, physical third rail. With those who just can't manage to keep their itchy fingers away from it not being hired.
Well laid out, thank you! I think that if you allow for Hamas to be represented as two sectors, terrorist and governing, then most people I know would agree with your point 1, and disagree on whether point 2 is true or not - mostly driven by whether they believe 3 and 4 are already shown to be true. (I do know a smaller group who thinks 3 and 4 are true but not 2, and they are probably the set that I find most disturbing).

Note: 'killing children indiscriminately' usually means 'not taking adequate precautions to avoid killing children' - which means that children as collateral damage is part of the problem. On the extremes I believe it's easy to agree on this: nuking Hiroshima hit some military targets but also killed unconscionable numbers of children and civilians as collateral damage.

To continue: What counts as evidence? Do these stories from Amnesty International of bombed civilian residential buildings with no warnings to the inhabitants fit your section 3? Or do they not meet the bar of being systematic, because it's possible they are e.g. hitting the wrong target, or being targeted based on incorrect information?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/damning-evide...
this is chapter and verse rationalization -- since the Green Revolution of fertilizer inputs, food shortage is not really a thing for the parts of the world I know about. What is also a thing is highly processed food with colorful packaging, and specialty foods with more commercial profits, and aggregation by Big Agriculture.

Do you really live in Ethiopia or South-central India? or there are other (unstated) motivations
I'm not trying to be subtle at all, I'm trying to tell you explicitly that "freedom of speech" has to do with the government and has nothing to do with you getting banned from websites or people blocking you. From your own link it doesn't cover being able to print whatever you want in college newspaper.

People not wanting to hear what you have to say, broadcast what you say or host what you say has nothing to do with freedom of speech.
It's a bitter joke.
That’s not why it’s seen as suspicious, though. Shoplifters use large bags to conceal their stolen merchandise.

I drive a Jeep, and therefore don’t have a secure place to keep valuables. I’ve been followed in stores many times because of that, even though I make sure that it’s zipped up and worn over both shoulders in an attempt to reduce suspicion.
It's not a per-site issue. It doesn't reproduce on other browsers such as Epiphany, Chromium/Chrome, etc.
I wonder if they make the analog sticks on VR controllers too. Many have similar issues.
> I don't consider it backward compatibility in a strict sense.

Just in the sense that 100% of the people who use the phrase "backward compatibility" mean.
Need more episodes of this series
Yeah that's interesting. I didn't think handling mouse clicks was possible. Wonder how it's done.
I applaud this but its taken so long for disabled gamers to be considered.

If only the billionaires at the top of gaming companies had disabled children it would be different.
Engelbart was the head of SRI's Augmentation Research Center. My understanding is that after the ARC was sold off in the mid 70s, the new corporate owner tried to commercialize the work, stopped funding new research, and most of the researchers left. Disclaimer: I know very little about this story.
I have the Aten CS1944DP, a dual screen, 4K60 DisplayPort KVM with the ability to drive 4 computers. I use two 27” 1440p144 monitors.

Cable management is a bit of mess, but it’s fantastic to be able to switch between personal, work, client and something else computers with the flick of a button (or keyboard shortcut).

I’ve not heard or seen any 8K KVM.
From what I can tell, Deno doesn't allow you to compile JS code into a native library, which was my primary use case. Also, QuickJS is much easier for me personally to grok, and to integrate into my existing build system, so it was a no-brainer.

The only time I'd prefer another runtime is if I had really high performance expectations, but if that was the case, I'd probably write a new implementation of the JS library in a performance focused language versus try to shoehorn JS into doing something it wasn't designed to do
I feel like people who play down the significance of AI are lacking a critical piece of understanding about how scalability changes things.

Even if it was only as smart as a dog, if you can duplicate it without limit in silicon, that is a highly transformative tech because electricity is cheaper than food. You can solve more problems per unit of currency. Maybe it would be constrained to certain simple problems but still, the AI would completely dominate that problem space and push humans out of it
It's not immediately clear to me from the article, but this is the city of New Brunswick, NJ, USA, domain makes more sense now. It's not New Brunswick a Canadian province which I first thought of.
But many people did believe that. From the article,

> I personally remember very heated arguments on the MIT campus between Chomsky followers and computer scientists working on statistical models in the early 2000’s. The arguments came up in computer science faculty hiring meetings. The Chomskians claimed that because of the need for universal grammar there would never be anything useful that came out of statistical approaches to language. ChatGPT has proved them wrong. (And yes, I personally shouted angrily at Chomskians in some of those hiring meetings.)
To be fair, that was an easy prediction.
That can't be cheap. How are they making that work, from a financial perspective, when Twitch couldn't?
I used to approach problems bottom-up, and I often prefer it when I'm working on my own because I do feel I have a much deeper understanding of the system as a whole that way. But on larger teams, and especially teams with junior developers or communication boundaries, I find a top-down approach to be much easier to get everyone on board with.
> a fact I bet you hoped I'd miss.

Don't do stuff like this. Communication via text between strangers over philosophical topics is hard enough without it. Assume good faith.

This argument has only ever been about one thing: you made a claim that there's an easy way to show that all piracy is unethical regardless of the details, and I said that was wrong. That's it. However, when somewhere along the way you get the idea that I'm also arguing that piracy is always ethical, it's not sneaky or underhanded of me to point out that I'm not. It's not impossible to imagine a world in which that would cast some of the things I've said in a new light; "your reason for believing X is wrong" is materially and non-trivially different from "X is wrong."

> My presumption here is you'd rather now talk about the argument instead of continue with the argument because you realize I'm correct, and piracy is immoral in the general case.

Wrong on both counts, but it looks like you found a new thread full of people who agree with me and still want to discuss it, so no great loss I'd imagine.
Another fun one is: https://neatnik.net/calendar/

From the site:

> If you print this page, you’ll get a nifty calendar that displays all of the year’s dates on a single page. It will automatically fit on a single sheet of paper of any size. For best results, adjust your print settings to landscape orientation and disable the header and footer.
I don't know why, but archive.is is not loading for me
The Good Characters Chinese Character of the Year 2023 Is 生 (Shēng)
The Good Characters Chinese Character of the Year 2023 is 生 (shēng), symbolizing birth and growth, and distinctly echoing the emergence and impact of generative (生成式, shēng chéng shì) AI, a defining technological advancement of the year.
this just reminded me that

true != [] //true

despite

Boolean([]) === true //true

and

if ([]) console.log("1") // logs 1

and at the same time reference equality when not coercing!?

[] == [] //false

thank god implicit coercion with the weak equality operator is forbidden in all commin linter configurations
It seems like it’s not going to look broken? Unlike, say, the difference between black & white and color TV, or an animated image that doesn’t animate, it will be a subtle difference that most users won’t notice or care about. Some designers may be annoyed, but it doesn’t seem like that big a deal.
Fantastic, Mount Wario is the greatest!
My biggest annoyances in Firefox are stuff like Pocket, VPN, Colorways etc.

Also I don’t have specifics but get the sense the security sandboxing is not in the same league as chrome.
what's an example of something argued successfully/unsuccessfully in your definition?
That's a very limited solution though and it's super incomplete . Last I tried, the user needed to install python first and you can't bundle it. And it's not a myth, it's something I have experienced myself. Pyinstaller falls apart the moment you try to pull packages that are what make python useful in the first place for tons of people (numpy, pytorch, etc).
I have a pretty high quality blu-ray, it's not just on legacy media.

EDIT: it occurs to me that "legacy media" means "not available through streaming/rental services/stores", my bad.
Large Language Models for Mathematicians
> Finance me harder, Quatar(der)

—Hamas, probably
> Amazon advertise same or next day shipping

What's more is if you filter for "arrives tomorrow" you'll get a bunch of results, but there's no guarantee they will arrive tomorrow - you have to double and triple check at every step of the order flow.
No well-meaning, impressive sounding "law" has been more misguided than Postel's law:

"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."

Terrible advice. Far better is:

"Rigidly define what you do and rigidly define what you accept from others."
My 2FA OTPs are synced by 1Password which I can access from any of my devices; you can set up something similar with FOSS if you want full control. Authenticating to 1Password requires both a master password and a secret key; they have a feature called "Emergency Kit" for creating offline backups of the key (https://support.1password.com/emergency-kit/)
Genetic differences don't account for all differences between people. For a long time the Balkans were a borderlands between empires, and that often tends to introduce differences in culture, religion, and identity.
Humans are easily convinced (fooled) by clever use of language. Politics, tests, interviews, everything.

There has always been a difference between actual understanding and just great presentation.

LLMs are so far ahead in their use of language that given a complete lack of understanding they are more capable than humans to fool the listener. But there's nothing substantially new, some people have mastered that skill, too.
XFS is all but unmaintained, which may be a good reason to be cautious. Very stable code, but the world may change out from under it.
Pete Beard provides a biography of Wanda Gág, the author of Millions of Cats, in part 25 of his video series "Unsung Heroes of Illustration" [1], with many examples of her work.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQEO_OSyciQ
The last thing I want is any application preventing my computer from sleeping when I specifically told it to do so, even automatically.
Otherwise known as "Chomsky being excessively dismissive at recent breakthroughs in AI and language"

Now, in some ways this is understandable, Chomsky is interested in language in humans and how we learn with sparse data.

But in terms of machine learning and understanding, the machines don't have the same power limitations the human body does. If a machine needs more horsepower it doesn't need to have a million years of evolution to get to that state. If by applying a gigawatt of power I can process all written human works in a reasonable time and I can do that in a shorter amount of time then learning how humans do it with sparse data, then it's well worth the effort.
I am truly impressed and grateful by the immense work done by Fabrice in this and other projects. He stood out with few other greats.
Python getting a lot of love on HN recently.

>Feels good man
Don't you need to restart Firefox for it to update? Did you not update since June?
Looks like a bunch of people who don’t have any information speculating about something which they have no prior experience with (new body construction style) and reporter’s reporting it as some how news worthy to get a sensational article.

Every Tesla made to date has been safer than the last and they are all rated as safer than any other car you can buy. There is no reason to believe they would abandon that world class safety goal with this product. I would be surprised if at minimum this didn’t turn out to be the highest rated vehicle in its class for safety when the official crash tests are published.
An amazing recovery, there's even an Air Crash Investigations episode about it:

https://imdb.com/title/tt3234896/
Also, you can go to History > Restore last open tabs
> Example of humbling work - opening up p-traps under sinks and having some of the smelly, dirty water splash on you.

This cannot be understated. You can tell if a person has never cleaned a toilet in their life- you can hear it in their voice.
Is there a good ML tool for renaming PDFs? There are some tools out there but they assume a journal format.
I mean even Gary Marcus is now an AI doomer who went from mocking these models to saying they need to be banned or research slowed for safety reasons. Why's he so scared of a ladder?

A lot of people having to eat crow due to how quickly things changed in just a few years
I was wondering what the Irvings gang was up to lately
Or the corollary viewpoint, that if ChatGPT can do this as the previous poster says, then it is a type of AGI.
I completely agree with you.
It’s shifting but we cannot consider it as already shifted.
Some comments are going into this direction of the whole debate behind us and laws not applying anymore. Our feeling about it has changed but my country can still sue me if I make a copy without respecting the terms of the seller.
Maybe tomorrow a global business model will emerge and the whole notion of possession will kind of disappear because everything will be a subscription.
Or maybe we will pay a flat fee to whatever organization and use anything as much as we want and copies will be worthless because they won’t be sold individually anymore
FWIW Obama’s administration instituted a diversity program for ATC that gave points to people that did poorly in school and haven’t had a job recently and penalized people with pilots licenses or military ATC experience and other qualifications. The ATC was considered “too white”.

In essence they worked backwards to figure out how to hit their arbitrary diversity targets without considering the lives of everyone that flies. Yes, they put your life at risk to fulfill an anti-racism agenda. This is criminal.
My main peave using FF on macOS is full-screening it is a terrible experience - unlike Safari, etc, moving the mouse to the top of the screen causes all the chrome (tabs, URL bar, etc) to shift down (and reveal some useless gap). That's not normal behavior, and should have been fixed 5 years ago.

Also, once you use Safari tab groups + tab preview its hard to go back to FF.
Yep, me too. I hope there will be a retitle to New Brunswick, NJ.