skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really but everyone does.

I mean what's the difference between a tourist with a laptop and a digital nomad? If you have no local clients, no local space and you officially reside elsewhere, it doesn't really matter.

Staying longer only makes sense if you grow economic roots too. You can't have a village with only digital nomads. Their taxes don't build bridges or create a community.
Hurrah! I thought that it wasn't coming on-line until January!
I'm pretty sure plenty of people have seen Batman without paying. Cartoons were just broadcast over the air - advertisers paid I guess. But also if your friend had a video or DVD, or you checked out a comic from the library, or many of dozens of similar situations. Similarly, comic cons are full of people drawing endless numbers of superheros they have no rights to. Hiring an AI is not buying back copyrighted works, it's buying trained experience and having it produce output for you, IE work for hire, like you might get out of a comic book artist. And it's on the hiring party. If there's no sin in a human artist being able to draw batman because they've seen or trained enough, why is it a sin for AI?
I guess the author loves PHP?
If the IP is valuable that would in the negotiation. Simply put, there would be a minimum Disney would require from Netflix for their content. Better yet, structure some type of Joint-Venture deal with Netflix if the Disney content is so valuable (I suspect it is not…)
LMDB is a strong counter-example to your argument. Based on its benchmarks, you're wrong. [1]

Yes immutable in-memory data structures are slower than their mutable counterpoints, but we're not talking about either of those here.

Databases are not in-memory data structures.

[1] http://www.lmdb.tech/bench/microbench/july/
Brave is really good and always surprising me with features while largely staying lean and out of my way.

They recently added a chatbot that runs locally they call Leo based on llama2. It's pretty impressive that you can perform LLM tasks on the current page without the use of any 3rd party service. And of course you can pay them for the souped up version. https://brave.com/leo-release/

Feels like I am alone in thinking the crypto features of Brave are cool. And not because I think that industry generally isn't full of slime. But micropayments for content has been a good, latent idea for a generation, and here they've simply built it as a default feature.

I still use FF and Brave equally because of my experience with the first browser wars and my mistrust of Chrome, having become the new IE.
AAA games will be limited by the ~12GB usable VRAM in consoles.
I didn't say it was better or worse, just that it wasn't exactly the same. I just pointed it out because it's something that tends to get dismissed when people discuss SK issues.
Non-English music recommendations for work?
Like most techies, I often like to have music on while I work. However, I find music with lyrics to be distracting, so I usually listen to instrumental music.

However, I recently realized that I could listen to music in languages other than English without distraction.

Does anybody have any recommendations for work-suitable non-English music?
The anti competitiveness is from the pricing in the face of competition.

W7900 margins are enormous. In a competitive market, AMD would massively undercut the 48GB RTX A6000 and the 24GB 4090, which Nvidia is price gouging even more. They absolutely can... But they don't.

Separately, its also (IMO) a bone headed business decision.
And after that's normalized, then Google will enhance your user experience by bringing "Android Webview security" to Chrome on android, you know, it makes you really secure, it's really to help you keep safe.

A few years down the road, a surprising amount of companies insist you can only use their product on those secure smartphone browsers because of it's enhanced security, so Google helps you out by adding a special "Android Secure Mode" to desktop Chrome.
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It's not completely patched. Stop assuming. I've always assumed that Apple or Google or Microsoft consider three factors for deprecated devices or software: 1. Severity of Issue, 2. Expected work required to fix issue, 3. Number of users involved

I think if something is a relatively easy fix and high severity that they will fix it. I don't think they view security updates as a tool to force people to buy new products. The low hanging fruit for large numbers of users gets fixed. The underlying software however, should not be trusted or viewed as secure.

Even though these applications are bundled with the operating system, they are probably separate code bases and if they believe the patch can be accomplished across the versions with minimal work like fixing the same line of code in the old version it probably goes out. If they have to do a major overhall of the old operating system and port the new browser version to the old software, it probably doesn't.
Someone yesterday mentioned this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-url-in-c...

As I understand it, that would allow you to add a bookmark for `ext+container:name=MyContainer&url=https://mozilla.org`, which would open mozilla.org in MyContainer.
>The stimulus was only necessary because of the lockdowns

The question of whether lockdowns were justified aside, pandemics aren't the only form of economic calamity that might occur. Financial crisis occur. Other supply shocks (eg. war in ukranie) exist as well.
Maybe not dying (yet) but it is technologically behind with a lot of things by now. This is annoying if you want to try out new web platform features. Sometimes, there isn't even a signal from Mozilla while Google marks a feature as stable.

Average people probably don't care about the latest features but Google pushes Chrome very aggressively, so they end up using it anyway.

What annoys me the most, however, is that several things simply don't work in Firefox and the associated report is over a decade old, so with close to zero chances of ever getting addressed. Copying the content of a canvas element as an image to the clipboard is one of these things. In Chrome, this takes a right and a left click. Firefox didn't have such a basic feature last time I checked. There used to be a workaround, opening a blob URL in a new tab and then copy that, but this got broken later, I believe by a stricter security policy.

Firefox is essentially the browser equivalent of Fairphone. It's the most ethical option but it inconveniences you left, right, and center.
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Bitcoin is not Ethereum
Efficient in what way?

Yes, a delta record would be smaller. But now you have to fetch both the new and the old, plus do computation to figure out what you have. This is trading off space and time.

I'm going to go to a reasonably low level to explain this.

Databases have generally found that the right tradeoff between space and time is to always work in terms of pages of fixed size. Now all reads are memory aligned, of known size. All writes are as well. And inside the CPU, processing a page in the most straightforward and predictable way possible is very fast. In particular you want to avoid complex logic that introduces too many pipeline stalls.

If you're going to work with pages anyways, you want to find ways to fetch as few pages as possible. Only have this page point to that page where you really need to. And put as much as reasonable on each page. The name of the game is to fetch as few pages as you need, and get everything you need from a page when you fetch it. Because when you're getting a new page, often you have to wait for a disk read. That's slow. It used to be really slow, you needed to wait for the right part of the disk to rotate around. Those disks went at something like 7200 rpm, but that means 120 revolutions per second, which means you're waiting for anywhere from 0 to 8.333... milliseconds for the read. Now consider reading through a million record database...

That's where a BTree comes in. It is a tree structure built around a page layout. When a page gets too full, it is split and one record is promoted to the level above. When the top page gets too full, a new level is created at top. That keeps it perfectly balanced at all times. So you can get to any record in very few reads. And if you're walking the whole data structure, a single page generally has many records.
"Tomino also lamented that he had noticed a fundamental change in his own creation over time. In the case of Gundam, however, the creator says it’s been driven by audience taste rather than shifting production techniques."
While I'm not as happy as anyone that consumer cards are "stuck" at 24GB I have been pleased with all of the software work that has been done to make the most of these cards.

Quantization is the obvious one but you're also starting to see interesting approaches to further this (too many to list/name).

As is often said "necessity is the mother of invention".

Where this gets really interesting is when (hopefully not if) higher VRAM "consumer" cards become available we'll be able to do even more with the additional memory.

Artificial market segmentation still sucks but it has led to some great software work that will continue to reap benefits for years to come.
But… that can’t possibly scale does it? Like maybe you can live a very nice life not worrying about money and having good foods, but you’re not going to get to a place where you have much more than a house and a nest egg, right? The “rich” are just the old money folks with compounding wealth. Right?

In the states, ignoring California insanity, it feels like if you can land a $200k+ job you’ll have something that feels sort of rich by the end but just barely. And that’a going to be around a top 5th percentile income for most areas.
I was using it, though I _think_ it was causing intermittent hangs and crashes on my Win 11 machine. It's hard to be sure, because it was so hard to repro, and could've been due to something else just interacting with FF badly. But it seems like Brave doesn't have the problem.

Which is a shame, I'd like to use FF, and still do on other machines.
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That's completely irrelevant to what OP was saying.
It's a nice sentiment but Firefox' market share has dropped to 3%. It's going to take more than a blog post scolding readers about ethics to reverse that trend.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2017...
> Entreaties and ‘trying to make Fetch (firefox) happen’ won’t work, evidently.

Pop culture references aside, `fetch` was also a browser! Sort of. `fetch` was a CLI predecessor to `wget` and `curl`.
At the time BSD was mired in a lawsuit from AT&T, and Linux was working but it wasn't clear it would become the most widely adopted *nix. This was Linux kernel 1.x days.
> "Privacy
Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising"

This is BS. Firefox is funded entirely by Google's Ads. Even if you donate to Mozilla, those donations won't be invested in Firefox. At this point, all 3 major browser engines are funded by ads.

You may argue that Mozilla doesn't directly make money from advertising, but that's irrelevant because they'll never do anything to upset their cash cow. And Google can always kill Firefox by avoiding renewing their search deal, without much of a loss, as most Firefox users would switch to Google anyway, much like what users did when they tried switching to Yahoo as the default.

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UPDATE — A good reason to use Firefox is if it's simply better for you. For me, Firefox is better than Chromium-based alternatives because:

+ History sync is full and actually works;
+ DNS-Over-HTTPS works in parallel to corporate DNS (fallback to system);
+ Tree-style-tabs;
+ Bookmarks management;
+ Reader view (Android & desktop);
+ Great Ctrl+Tab;
+ Non-admin upgrades;
+ uBlock Origin;
+ Total Cookie Protection;
+ Android: multiple search engines;
+ Android: Open in app;
+ Android: Dark Reader, uBlock Origin, Cookie AutoDelete, other extensions;

It also has some issues:

- poor battery life on macOS, and I fear that Chromium currently has an edge there, even if both are worse than Safari;
- problems when scrolling on Android, poor performance for certain websites (e.g., Mastodon, Twitter);
- incompatibility with certain apps (e.g., Microsoft Teams), but in fairness, they've been investing in compatibility, see their recent work on Google Meetup;

Firefox on Android has many issues, and the people denying it aren't doing it any favors. For me, the add-ons more than make up for it, it's my main browser, but I'm still uncomfortable recommending it to family.

I hope Firefox continues to evolve and differentiate itself from Chrome because ideology isn't a good enough reason to prefer it over alternatives, not when Chromium is a thriving open-source project with multiple large companies contributing to it.
Question regarding the Mac version: Is it more battery-consuming because its core on Mac is still Intel-machine-code-based and not ARM-based?
I've been there, it is super interesting!
Yes you are right, a lot of that 2-3% goes to the government, and only the remaining part goes to elites in the financial system. It's still higher though than the 0% it'd be with gold-based money (or a Fed that helicopter-dropped money directly into people's bank accounts).
I didn't read the above to mean "Knowingly trying to claim at attack that did not happen". I read it as "We aren't sure there's someone there, but please just shoot anyway we need to be aggressive", and political officials portrayed that as "Attack" without proof.

These are congruent accounts with different interpretations, and I tend to believe public speakers are opportunistic spin doctors, not world-shaping conspirators.

As for "never trust a 3 letter agency", that's quite an extreme viewpoint. CDC? EPA? FBI? CIA? NSA? All of them do good, even if their findings can be spun ( or are even directed to be spun ).
Are you serious? TLDR: They feel pretty different to me. SW has nowhere to go and is trying to go nowhere. Marvel continues doing its thing, within the level of competence they've always demonstrated.

I find that SW has declined to a level previously unimaginable, they are effectively stuck doing live action versions of children's animated TV shows. The mild incompetence of Clone Wars is now a distant memory, the lowest level of quality in a SW fiction project ever has been breached multiple times now by shows such as Boba Fett. The whole universe has no guiding function, expect to retcon as much as possible on top of previously very popular characters.

Marvel has ALWAYS been a milquetoast production company, with some big hits like Iron Man, Avengers films, etc. But most of their production has always been "ok", and having watched The Marvels recently, I felt like they're just going back to their Phase 1 days, where some films were good, many not really (Thor 2, Avengers 2, Iron Man 2).

BUT Marvel has a guideline for where they want to take their content, even if they just recently lost a major actor (only his own fault).

So yeah I do think there's a difference. Marvel is ok, has always been ok, with some moments of brilliance.

Star Wars was a bit all over the place but it definitely had new ideas, every single movie introduced something interesting, be it a location/planet, a character or spaceship. It didn't constantly flirt with the same recycled material ad nauseam, because its creative direction was set, even if sometimes the audience did not like the result.

Current Star Wars creative direction is nil outside of "let's find some other popular side character to wrap a show around, maybe?". There is no story line that makes any sense for the SW being produced, it's just a grab bag of "this worked I guess".
Not to backseat parent or anything, but I would never let my kids watch Anime unsupervised. Disney is fine, and they aren't going to sexualize minors like anime often does.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Anytime you write/modify on an SSD you're writing on a new page. So you might as well leverage this behavior to your advantage. It has several benefits when it comes to implementing transactions.
Ah yes, and when I write a new language all os vendors should be forced to integrate it, or I should be blocked from inventing a new language. None of this installing code that others wrote. If I want to write a language my only option should be writing an os from the kernel up.
It happens here too, either willingly or not. At some point the city just isn't suitable either because of cost, infrastructure (especially for raising kids) or general unpleasantness.

But for most immigrants it's really hard to feel at home in a small town halfway around the world.
There is zero chance any country is going to allow a bunch of foreigners in and say "you are formally exempt from our laws".
Tab management in Vivaldi is excellent, it's the main reason I can't switch
This is very good insight, thank you
For anyone who doesn't know, the URLs for the boards OP posted are:

sushigirl.us
lainchan.org
22chan.org

I personally highly recommend sushichan as well.
You can still build new homes on that land once it's dry. It's not contaminated with radioactivity. Imagine one of the old French reactors "going nuclear" right in the middle of dense populated Europe.

It looks like a derailment and OPs argument still stands, imho. The only thing is that you can add results of radiation throughout generations, where people develop mutations and/or die early. None of those cases are in the handy graphic from above, which only counts immediate deaths.
If battery life is all you care about, I'd argue you are not "core market" for FF. You're core-market for OS vendors, who will always be able to give you a better battery life by leveraging all the tips and (typically undocumented) tricks that a cross-platform project cannot touch.
Yeah but they use it mostly to represent Bitcoin Cash. The history is irrelevant; bcash doesn't stand on its own legs and the misnomer is used to trick people. It's dishonest.
Healthcare will continue to be a huge target in 2024 - things like HIPAA don't go far enough to protect individuals that entrust their information to these organizations. Until these industries prioritize security we'll continue to see growth in attacks, unfortunately.
Being a massive country really is a civilisation cheat code.

Russia is the same - massive material resources already known, plus greater chance of future discoveries simply because of the greater coverage. India, Brazil, Australia, Canada - all these countries are almost guaranteed to have material abundance.

US I think have got to be the most overpowered, especially since the annexation of Hawaii extends the territory way out into the Pacific.
Above comment said it was not scarce, not that it wasn't valuable.
Nah, too many things break or are weird. I don't care if its because Google is a bad company and hates Firefox, I have no bone in this fight, I just want to browse the web without issues.
I use librewolf，a Firefox fork, because of the things that corporate Mozilla keeps doing: from pocket to selling vpns and sponsored stories, they do enough user hostile things it ends up being a better experience on librewolf.

On android I'm using iceraven.
Monitoring social media for sentiment and automatically replying seem useful for sure, but the examples given of AI bots writing ostensibly personal recommendations under the guise of regular accounts without disclosing that they're paid ads look super shady. Couldn't that be considered false advertising or some other kind of deceptive trade practice? I reckon the current FTC would be quite hostile to that.
And take what you've discovered back to your home country. This is why migration is economic warfare on the origin countries.
Oh what a frustratingly low effort reply to my high effort comment. Come on, if you want to make the claim that the internet changed _everything_ you can back it up with some examples - especially when the claim was not "nothing changed" but "things don't feel as different" - so the examples should not be "someone far away does something differently" or "some behind the scenes organisation was more efficient", but things everyday us (HN readers) feel in day to day life.

No telephone to telephone is a HUGE change. Telephone call to digital PBX over fibre to packet switched VoIP to WhatsApp feels like no change at all.
Not responding to every resume received isn’t ghosting by the article’s definition. But going through an interview process including a take home assignment and getting no response is.
nothing compared to msmpeng.exe, which spins several cores constantly 24/7

(microsoft's anti-virus)
> Firefox out of the box indeed does not cause broken websites.

There are definitely websites that don't work with Firefox out of the box. Just one example that annoys me is https://mtgarena-support.wizards.com. "Firefox users: Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection may interfere with Sign In. Temporarily disable it in Firefox Privacy Settings to load the sign in screen."
> I do believe that for some use cases, like a person who unfortunately only works with Java or Android,

Your bias is showing through :)

If people had less bias and actually looked at what an IDE can and does offer, they wouldn't be dismissive with "oh, if we just add these 12 plugins and an integration, then for this on particular language we may have a full IDE" (in actuality, a subset of a subset of all features an IDE offers).

> With one plugin (Ale) which takes one line of config, you get an actual IDE that can auto-detect LSPs which offers refactoring, code actions, etc. that is the exact same you would get in an IDE.

Looking at the "huge" list of features that Ale lists consisting of 6 very basic things, I again see that people who use vim have never ever in their life used a proper IDE.

> and so having an editor that works without indexing is a huge plus.

This I can actually agree with :) Indexing is often such a pain
I really enjoyed learning to sew on my Boy Scout Merit Badges with a sewing machine. I do think my parents helped sew the Cub Scout patches.
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Rite Aid's allegedly unfair use of facial recognition technology
The alternative of "economy goes bad -> people try to save money -> supply dries up -> economy goes even worse", as we saw in the great depression isn't great either.
So apparently it would be possible to use mostly binary installations but compile some libraries, interpreters and cpu hogging apps with -march=native - and that wouldn't cause any problems with ABI or anything?

Would it be hard to set up a build server on another machine? What if that other machine was running Arch or some other system?

I remember when running Gentoo ~20 years ago, it was quite often that package compilation failed and I had to go fix some package settings or something, don't even remember well except how disappointing it was seeing a failed compilation again after waiting a long time - is this still common occurrence?

edit: at least the build server doesn't look too bad and the running other arch could be solved with a WM / container.. Feeling really like wanting to give it a try, still remember the good times I had with Gentoo way back (even with the compilation problems)
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Will in 2024 Firefox finally start supporting desktop installation for PWA apps? I'm not going back to Electron crap for it.
I don’t think “xenophobic” is the correct word. They’re not afraid or contemptuous of individual foreigners. (Unlike say the French, or Middle Easterners.) At least in Tokyo, they seem to like tourists. But they have a strong sense of having their country, with its distinct ethnic and cultural identity, while other people have their countries.