skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original loaded pretty much instantly. Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything.

Also, the original didn't 
try to data collect
 ask to enter a name. For some odd reason, it took a while to get past this annoying dialog box on this web game.

On the original, the player would keep running whereas this new game is laborious in that you need to hold down keys to keep moving. The original keyboard layout is:

UIO = dig up dig
JKL = left down right
What do you use instead? Most other browsers, especially the big blue and yellow one, provide even less control. I am always annoyed that Firefox won't let me skip an invalid cert warning though, while Chrome always will by typing "thisisunsafe" into the error page.
Reminds me of the movie News of the World. The main character's job is going from town to town, reading newspapers aloud.
How often do you get SMS spam? There would be nothing wrong if Apple added a little "this person bought an iPhone" icon to certain conversations. You could use that to scrutinize unknown numbers if you want. You don't need to have a crippled chat experience just to make that distinction.

Also, you have to synchronously transfer GB when you watch the video anyway. How do you think iPhones play videos?
No - it came from the line of code that everyone liked to type into computers at the local shop:

10 PRINT "My mate is an idiot ";
20 GOTO 10

I suspect they were inspired from the same events.
My Thoughts on the Harvard Mess
Please check the requirements for each of the "national interest waivers" and tell me how many "unlimited foreigners" meet that requirement.
> I think the main benefit is community involvement in submitting bugs, contributing changes, writing docs, and being part of the project. Even if contributors do the main work, this long tail of user contribution is so important.

I wholly disagree. It depends on the project.

For the projects that want contributions, yes, FOSS is what you want.

For projects that don't want contributions, there's no loss in switching to SAMS.

I said as much in the post.

> I think it’s a distraction to try to force this into a good/bad dichotomy. I don’t hear anyone saying that “source available” is bad.

And yet there are comments on this very page saying that SAMS gives less freedom, therefore it's bad.
I don't use Firefox because I find the way Mozilla communicates to be creepy. I don't like that word but I'm not sure how else to describe it.
When was the last time you tried? I reached the same conclusion a few years back, but I've been back to FF on all my devices for about 6 months now and haven't looked back.
> People still forget Eclipse

thank god
I keep my household budget in a simple spreadsheet.

I don't track my daily spend at all. Instead, I have a personal account for daily/casual spending and use that. All other money goes into a different account. This way, the budget item is the amount of money I put into the "daily" card every payday.

But my daily/casual spend is really stable from day-to-day so it doesn't need tracking. I already know what it is. Others may have more volatility to track.
Big fan of code reuse. Small packages providing single unique functionality is the way to program modern systems. It has to be right if bright minds in NPM / Rust community follow this approach.
> I don't know what criteria is required to meet an E2EE (End to end encryption?) standard.

Only sender and receiver (the “ends”) can decrypt the data, ie have the keys. In this case both ends are “you”, and the passphrase is the authentication for new devices. For e2ee to hold, neither the passphrase nor the key can be shared with another party, for instance Mozilla.

> 1. If you lose your password and didn't setup a separate password recovery code (one time codes), then you're toast.

That sounds right, and is similar to password managers. Your data is encrypted as a vault with a key derived from the passphrase. The vault is opaque to anyone without the key. Though you still have to trust the software.
> Any slightly lengthy text will just bury you in a desert of letters.

Is this a bad thing?

Books are a "desert of letters", with little to break the text up outside of chapters, sections, and paragraphs. If you broaden the scope a bit, you can added illustrations and photos. People have been reading books for generations. While many books do break that mould, many books continue to follow that tradition.
Your comment made me realize that the gap between Amazon and eBay has been steadily shrinking for years now. And it’s not because eBay is getting better, that’s for sure.
Some smaller sites (for example local restaurants) will recommend chrome, but Firefox still works just fine for me.
Many churches in England took 100 years to build
ASCII art (in slightly different form) was around before the 1990s.

Starting in the mid-70s there were photo booths in malls where you could get a photo taken and it would be converted into a very crude image dithered in digits, then printed onto a T-shirt. (1)

When I was learning typing on a manual typewriter in the very early 80s, there were books with rows of instructions like 'type 30 X's, then 10 spaces, then 20 Xs' which would result in primitive ASCII-like art of cats, owls and the like. I don't know how old they were.

(1) https://petapixel.com/2012/07/20/atari-compugraph-foto-an-as...
I have a German-made coffee grinder that was between $200 - $300 retail (though I got it for significantly less on clearance. It grinds well, but within a short time of getting it the electronics burned out. I opened it up to find a bafflingly complex circuit board with relays, opto-isolators, transformer, microchips, fuses, timers, etc. etc. Mind you this board has only one function: to turn an AC motor on and off.

I noticed the motor is a brushed "universal" motor like you'd find in a vacuum cleaner; that is, old technology that can run on DC or AC and needs only two wires to run. This complex circuit board... wasn't even justified for being a motor controller, because there was nothing to control! I replaced the entire burnt out circuit board with a hefty 20A 120-240 VAC momentary switch from my parts bin.

Since then the grinder's been working perfectly for about 14 years. But if I hadn't been willing and able to do that repair I might have gone through 10 of them in the same time. Part of making a quality product is restraint: to NOT put something on it (like that circuit board) that is unnecessary.
I switched back to firefox last year and haven't looked back. I still use chrome on another laptop sometimes, the performance difference from my human perspective is literally zero.

These days, it's much more common for me to encounter a website that works in firefox but not chrome than the other way around. I actually switched for good when I had to use firefox to file my taxes, because the IRS free self-file site was hopelessly broken on chrome.
Wow i didn’t know that. So much thanks.
Yeah, I think this is the most reasonable approach. ED medication can have some nasty side effects and interactions, so a medical professional should be in the loop - but that professional could easily be a pharmacist who already has a copy of all the other Rx drugs the patient is taking.
Quoting the post:

> iOS 15.8 is still powering those devices, seemingly with official Apple support, with the latest update from October the 25th, which addressed some security vulnerabilities.

> In reality, however, Apple seems to only be addressing some security issues in its older supported devices.

The author is surprised, reasonably IMO, that if a device is getting security updates, you are still exposed to known vulnerabilities.

For a tech competent user this is worse than clearly being out of support in which case you would retire the device.
Most towns in this country outside of coastal cities that do have significant immigration are hollowed out. Look at St. Louis or countless other cities satellite imagery, and tell me its somehow prudent to have every other parcel abandoned and razed as if it were bombed during a war for lack of any population growth for a half century.
You missed "and useful arts" in both of your comments. That's a key addition that you keep ommitting.

It is not just for sciences.
Check out my userChrome changes if you're into vertical tabs and a minimal UI: https://github.com/bjesus/fireside
I'm not seeing it either. The only engineers I met who are 'under employed' either left the field intentionally, decided to go backpack Europe for 3 years after they graduated (some fields it definitely seems like if your not in the field for awhile the value of your degree vanishes), or they graduated and moved to a place where I live with a ChemE degree looking for ChemE jobs when we have maybe 2 companies in town that hire a small number of ChemEs. It is a highly desired location, so why pay an inexperience ungrad when you can score a ChemE moving into the area with a decades experience at a good price.

Another good one. We hired a person with a MechE degree with experience working at JPL into our customer support because they are so in love with the area because of easy access to winter activities (snow shoing, skiing, etc).
In American English, government and state (in the sense you mean it) are synonyms.

Other countries seem to think of the government as "the current ruling party coalition members holding ministerial positions", so it would be inappropriate to refer to say, the driver's license bureau as "the government", but in the US, you'd never limit the sense of government in that way - you'd say something like "the administration" if you wanted to refer to the federal head of state and department heads, but the current federal executive, the US Congress, your local driver's license bureau, your tax assessor, your state environmental agency are all "the government" in the US.
I was looking at this recently and still couldn’t make it work smoothly. The server itself is fine but I couldn’t get Firefox to pick up the new sync server url from about:config.

Possibly my fault and I need to poke at it a little more but in general I can start a docker container just fine so I feel like its maybe not quite there yet.
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2024
Five years later, the verdict is in: Big tech beats crypto
Look at all the other free, premium messaging apps: WhatsApp, messenger, even Snapchat can do video conferencing. It doesn't cost that much to run a chat app. The wealthiest company in the world can afford to open up their API
What are glasses with fogged edges? is it same as rimless/frameless eyeglasses?
> Letters from current or former employers documenting at least 10 years of full-time experience in your occupation

Thats if you are in the second row in the table above. i.e "Exceptional Ability".

You don't need it if you have masters or bachelors + 5.

> Meanwhile, they’re trying to maintain work authorization

There is no 'meanwhile' , they are not in eb green card queues without going though the h1 lottery first. In no case are you going though h1b lottery and in green card queue concurrently.
Directory of LLMs
I'm struggling to understand how somebody can be responsible for creating a service but not understand who the audience is for reading its documentation. Some of the questions may be reasonable (one would hope if documentation is a requirement there's at least a standard format, etc.) but "it feels like busy work" and "this will take too long" destroy the premise that this is about not having answers to reasonable questions.

How do you know how long something is going to take if you don't know the format, etc.? Calling something "busy work" is sort of signal that this isn't "I need help getting started" it's "I'm trying to weasel out of this."
I thought that this would look for unique words rather than just cycle through all words. You should have a default ignore word list that includes things like el, en, de, etc etc.
> This is what perhaps Mr. Murthy is trying to allude, and he also mentions how the government has to improve too

> This is not about IT, or Infosys or "WITCH" companies, it is about building a nation.

So everybody has to "improve", except Mr. Murthy.

When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail. /s
Well one reason could be this software proverb: Good programers are lazy programers.
About 15 years too late. Wonder what they'd find if they tested the protein, creatine, etc on Amazon.
CSS is amazing. Can't run text over text with just tables. (When I read it, the left menu hadn't loaded properly, all the menu items were shown as large text attached to top of the viewport, and the articlw text was rendered underneath; reader mode worked though)
If you install uBlock Origin all sites will load faster :)

And next year you'll only be able to do that in Firefox.
The Making of NHL 94 – 30th Anniversary Documentary (gamedev nostalgia) [video]
Maggi noodles are ubiquitous in India. Two generations of Indian kids have grown up eating them and the ads aggressively targeted kids. In my generation, most Indian origin adults still love it and consider it an occasional indulgence, knowing how unhealthy they are.

Even the recent finding that Maggi noddles have egregious levels of lead [1] has not dented their popularity one bit.

1. https://recipes.timesofindia.com/us/articles/features/maggi-...
Patent examiners are rated on office ACTIONS. Grants and denies both count as actions, although denials often take more effort (and complaints from the potential patentee).
For me, a fatal flaw with Firefox is that canvas getImageData doesn’t work like any other browser. Instead of returning the pixel values for the image loaded into the canvas, it gives the pixel values after they’ve been modified by the current screen/OS color profile. Other browsers seem to maintain the actual pixel values even if the OS later modifies the visual output of the application.

This means that any user trying to do any data work with my GIS software will regularly get wrong outputs if they use Firefox.
Most people don't even know how to install an OS.

I wouldn't expect the typical person to be able to do it.
Degree and work history are already a significant part of evaluation on L1/L2 and H1B visas.

IIRC 3 years of work experience are considered equivalent to 1 year of college education, which allows those who didn't get a degree but have extensive experience to also have an avenue for obtaining a Visa.
> the important software that's closed but has the important customer, the important customer gets the access when they ask for it.

End users are rarely that important customer, so for end users, there is a difference.

> So in practice, the difference isn't that huge.

Except that with SAMS, you still can share. I said as much. And you can actually get the source if you're not a VIP.

That matters because sometimes, even with FOSS, end users do not get the source if the source is not copyleft enough.
And I imagine a lot of nutritionists on teams kind of know what’s going on, but are disincentivized from looking too closely at it unless it could really hurt somebody. Or rather, it could hurt somebody enough for someone to notice immediately or impact their performance in the short term. This is obviously armchair speculation, but I’ve seen it in other industries, time and time again. Everyone kind of knows, but nobody wants to be the squeaky wheel that gets the star player - or major piece of equipment - out of commission.
I get your point, but ... updates on tuples are definitely a "thing" in a relational system... and the set of connections and their attributes and state can be modeled in relations quite easily... Not sure I see a conflict.
> It’s easier to calculate how much you want to save and save it upfront then the rest of the money can be spent.

Indeed! Decades ago, I adopted the "pay yourself first" principle. That is, I take 10% of every dollar that comes into my hands and stash it away into an account that never otherwise gets touched. That's my core savings and I pretend it never existed. The remaining 90% is my entire income as far as I'm concerned, and that's where budgeting (including savings) happens.
How about: “Has had a job for 3 consecutive years paying $250k or more per year and has paid federal income taxes proving it.”

I know plenty of people in this boat from India who wait 15 years to get a GC because of our idiotic process.
Google is very careful to license all the content that shows up in that interface. They even pay Wikipedia, despite legally not needing to at all.
Or China.

But yea. That is what probably happened.
The main bit of STEP that I designed is how to model properties that depend on other property values, it doesn't get much use in CAD systems right now but there does seem some interest in getting it better used in the future.

Another area of current work is in adding UUIDs to a model so that after doing a round trip from STEP into a proprietary CAD system and back to STEP you can work out which bits of the model are new and which not. This could be useful for parts libraries as well.
Exactly right. Its clever way of deflecting blame that whole community should share by piling on this particular person.
> Midjourney is just a tool

I’ve seen this framing and don’t agree with it.

What does it mean for something to be “just a tool”? I think most people are trying to indicate that the tool itself is not of consequence, and that the issue is all with users who misuse it.

But by reducing generative AI to a low resolution category like “tool”, the way this tool works - arguably the subject of consequence - gets obscured.

It seems to me like these are “just tools” the way a highly sophisticated manufacturing facility capable of producing products is “just a tool”.

We’re not talking about paint brushes and screw drivers here.
It is surprisingly common even on desktop monitors, though not high-end ones.

The panel is something that will often get changed over time in given laptop model without any visible change in the model number etc. and there have been cases of early versions (including review models, of course) having better panels and later revisions having 6-bit ones. I'd be really irritated if it happened in a high-end model but I'd not be surprised to discover there are examples where it has.
Not that it would solve this, but how hard would it be for ChatGpt or other problems to cite the sources used in a response. Is that difficult to capture and tag to 'knowledge' within a LLM?
It could be a best of both worlds type situation if LLMs cited sources and linked to the source itself.
Isn't that what happened with Google News's home page? I seem to recall that when Google took it away in some markets, at the behest of the news orgs, they quickly reversed course as their traffic plummeted.
My first pro web development gig was at an agency that only did pharma. All pharma websites need to have the FDA's black box warning above the fold. So in some cases the fold is a regulatory concern, not one of vanity for designers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxed_warning
Io’s response reveals how modern art is about starting intellectual conversations, the more esoteric the topic the stronger the class signal you convey in said conversation.
To each their own. One person's tedious or distracting is just what other people need to succeed.

(Source: I cannot stand watching videos when something can be conveyed via text. Nevertheless, that seems to be the way of the world these days. And I know folks who won't read anything if it could be a video instead. So it goes.)
The regulator is to blame if certification is so expensive that old tech is left around to kill people.
E=Mc² Comes Alive: Simulating Matter Creation from Laser Light
what I dont understand about java is why doesn't it just take what it needs? If I commanded eclipse to open, that's it. Open an editor, maybe 2-3 recent files, and let me move the cursor around. If IntelliJ isn't ready yet, so be it, but dont slow my UX down because it's running a bunch of services I didn't ask for. If I hit the IntelliJ autocomplete then fine, I'll wait if it's not ready, but until then, the editor frames should be just as snappy as notepad. Java doesn't put the user first!
I need hearing aids. I even want hearing aids. After finally getting to see an audiologist I looked at the $5000US price offered by the in-house shop and could not stomach it (in part because they were not covered by my insurance). This was back in February of this year, so OTC hearing aids were officially a thing, and I'd hoped against hope that the prices would reflect that. After surveying the OTC hearing aid landscape for the past 10/11 months I may just go ahead and get them, because I've not found any good sources of information on them. Just lots and lots of marketing copy.
Contrary to popular belief, most homeless people have cellphones.
100k honestly isn’t that much, and PhDs can be sort of meaningless depending on the field.

Make it 250k for 3 consecutive years and forget about school.
And you fall for fake statistics.
is it a good idea to use password managers built into web browsers? (vs using a password manager from some third party? bw/1p)
I didn't say personal, I said between national email addresses, which might include your government services and institutions
Flutter ignores most of the OS-provided functionality and packs half an OS worth of libraries into an app. That includes an entire UI framework and a bytecode VM with its own runtime library. "Flutter" and "small" can not be used in the same sentence.
Weird, I'm using Firefox across 6 different devices, different OSes (Android, MacOS, various Linux distros) and different versions (current or LTS) and it just works.
Copyright law does not care about the means of copying, just that you created something with substantial similarity to something you had access to. Whether or not the copy is in the form of a pixel array, blobs of random data being XORd to produce a full copy of music, or rows in a key/value attention matrix, doesn't matter.

Furthermore, there's Google research on extracting training set data from models. More specifically, Google found out that if you ask GPT to repeat the same word over and over again, forever, it eventually starts printing fully memorized training set data[0]. So it is memorizing stuff, even if it's not regurgitating it.

[0] When told of this, OpenAI's response was to block conversations with large amounts of repeated words in them.
So basically you only have open engineering positions in the same few markets that every other tech company does and then you complain when you can't find enough engineers. Engineering talent doesn't only exist on the coasts, despite startup tech culture pretending it does.
The good thing about Amazon is that they've made it increasingly easy to stop buying from them. Finding the things you need is increasingly difficult and even if you find it, most of it seems like obvious scams. Amazon went from a bookstore to the "everything store" and back to being just a book store, because those are the only items you can reasonably find and trust to not be scams.

It must be rather difficult to be in the US where Amazon is so dominant, because I given up and just rely on local webshops.