skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No technical reason, but I don't see iOS and Android settling on a standard framework for doing native applications and setting a specification for frameworks (localization, camera capture, audio playbacks, and other apis). The web is great, but only when you treat each page as a documents (interactive). Anytime you break out of this, you find yourself in a whole suit of problems as there is no easy way to fit both experiences in the same application (responsive design is not the solution).
> 1. Delete the app.

I encourage to consider delete the account before delete (uninstall) the app.
To clarify at least two companies circa 2003-2013 successfully proved Australian geothermal could generate power at the 1MW level via pilot plants .. and had no futher investment or interest to expand further.

Geodynamics writes off Cooper Basin geothermal assets https://reneweconomy.com.au/geodynamics-writes-cooper-basin-...

Petratherm Ltd: https://www.energymining.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/00...

(now doing other exploration: https://www.petratherm.com.au/projects-overview/)

To quote GeoScience Australia (2013):

These learnings have come at a high cost ... in excess of $0.5 billion

What's happened to geothermal? Simple in concept—complex in application : https://www.ga.gov.au/ausgeonews/ausgeonews201306/geothermal...
still 4.79 in california
You can’t just ignore the many thousands of work hours by experts that went into ios/android to make it usable on a battery-powered device. I will happily take a laptop first that manages to not die on standby in a couple of hours running linux, let’s not get carried away.

You can see the “state of the art” with pinephones though, but take a deep breath first.
>There is a MASSIVE sunk cost to get a modern browser off the ground compared to a static target.

You can incrementally improve the browser. Blink was not created from scratch.

>But when the company lets it stagnate for years because there’s no reason to invest

There are 2 big differences. The first is that what the web is and how platforms work is better understood. Google continues to invest in Chrome despite their dominance. The second is that chromium is open source. This means that if Google stops investing heavily in Chrome then others can still contribute and improve the browser.

>or decides to use it to push their advertising business to new heights, we are all screwed until a new competitor comes around.

If Google does something bad enough to make users stop using the browser that hurts them. Even taking that to be the case making a Chromium fork without that stuff would be possible given the demand for an alternative. You do not need a whole new browser engine just so you can make a policy change.

>What if no group/company can muster enough effort to dethrone a stagnate Chrome?

They can build off of Chromium instead. There is no need to start from some basic browser and put in a ton of resources to modernize it.

>If Firefox dies next year and Chrome stagnates five years from now we’ll be screwed.

If Chrome stagnates then competitor browsers will surpass them.
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I agree. But hindsight is a very cushy position to look back from. Making said decision at any given point in time during the development is harder. Should I add a simple support for functions because I need to express something the DSL doesn’t support or should I replace everything and replace it with a complete new solution and added complexity. I mean these decisions tend to become very clear a few month/years down the line.
The dangerous path of not doing a needed refactor early is that with added time, it can become more and more difficult to do the refactor at a later point. Could be because of sheer size, or because there are no test specs or because the feature is public facing.
Jetbrains IDEs have a cool feature that lets you assign different colors for the console tabs for each db. In my setup, the tab and toolbar for the production db are bright pink (could even change the background to pink but that’s a little too harsh)
360x240 and 360x480 are both real modes.

But it was 320x240 that had the square pixels.
Edge switched to Chromium under the hood and is no longer using its own engine. Got to be bittersweet for the engineers who worked so hard on it.
Mashaal's quote doesn't say anything about extermination.
Hamas' manifestos also claim the land (and so do many Jewish Israeli groups and, afaik, their manifestos) and rule of it. But where is there advocacy of extermination?

Could you point to where that very long survey supports your claim? I read and skimmed parts, and searched for some words, but didn't find it.
Yep, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/09/the-c... points out that 70% of the billed cost of antivenin is hospital markup. This isn't even part of expected profit... it's fully expected that this will be discounted for those that are insured. But you never really know what your insurer will pay and there are stories of people dying from refusing treatment, worried about their out of pocket cost.
All the more reason to use Safari or Firefox, since Chrome is doing something that I don't want any browser to have. (Whenever I install Chrome, I go through and turn off all of the stupid stuff that chrome should never have like web midi, webscsi, webble, etc.)
I'm not clear on what the "laundering" is supposed to be here. I feel like that screenshot doesn't give me any context for what the user is saying. Given that Codex is a code model, it seems unlikely it's directly related to artists.

The artist list looks to me like a list of names to try in a prompt - my guess is they were creating something like this: https://remidurant.com/artists/, a reference for how different styles and names affect the model's outputs. I don't think an artist's name being on the list implies that Midjourney was specifically trained to mimic that artist. At least that's not my reading of the little snippets we have here.

I feel like if you're going to be upset about Midjourney, you'd be upset about the training data. Not a compilation of names to try in prompts. That list of names doesn't change the model (assuming I've understood what it is, of course - and I could very well be wrong, given how little context we're given).
This is incorrect. The IRS only requires the filing of form 8300 if, and only if, you've received a transaction in excess of $10k _during the course of your trade or business_[1]. It does not apply to private citizens engaging in personal activities, such as trading digital currency.

This is also not a new thing; it's the same reporting you've always had to do when you engage in transactions outside of the banking system (e.g., in cash).

[1]: 26 USC §6050I, "Any person who: (1) is engaged in a trade or business, and (2) who, in the course of such trade or business, receives more than $10,000 in [cash, including digital assets]..."
> I don't think the machines that Dillo is targeting would benefit from adding support for it

People tend to overestimate the resources required to run JS and have a miscalibrated sense of how slow they can/should expect it to be.

Firefox 1.x and 2.0 worked on machines with substantially worse specs than many of the ones that people are mentioning here (think: sub-GHz PIIIs with 128–256 MB of RAM), and substantial parts of Firefox itself are written in JS.

I haven't checked, but I'd bet that 2024-era QuickJS is also faster than 2004-era SpiderMonkey at executing the same script.
> if Elon Musk

This isn't a fair comparison to most companies as Musk has made Tesla largely about him, can you think of many other companies where if the CEO left a 75 billion dollar stock drop would happen?
Its main objective was to maintain this internationally significant environment in as natural and wild a state as practicable, which meant the managed ruination of many of its unique buildings.

- classic :)
They're monetizing everything they can and playing on both sides of the fence. https://www.hcaptcha.com/labeling
The good ol’ “you hate capitalism but use an iPhone” response. It’s not a good one.
It’s a neat idea. I think I’d prefer the effect if it transitioned more gradually rather than quickly changing to “split mode”.

For the right kind of game I could definitely see this working. In fact you could make a whole game based around this kind of effect, with space being squashed and stretched in different areas etc.
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I was expecting the same game, but from paceman's pov. so you'd see a small line for the dot and a bigger line behind it for the ghost. After thinking about it, I think the game would function the exact same as the lined one, just a drastically different perspective.
Someone else posted that they lost 95% of their market share in the last 15 years, that is quite literally the opposite of unchecked growth.

Honestly, it seems like the problem is that the engineers let the business people in.
There are two types of DBs: ones that have been destroyed and repaired, and others that don’t know it yet.

Thankfully it was easily recoverable and the author came out on the other side with some valuable lessons and a bit more wisdom. An easy mistake to make if the process isn’t there to prevent it, at which point it becomes a systemic problem and not a personnel problem.
Nobody cares about being "extremely greedy" if the company succeeds. If the "extremely greedy" CEO negotiates hard on the company's behalf and gets price concessions from vendors and drives high profits, nobody is going to be lamenting about how it's not "respectable" when they're cashing their fat bonus checks.

On the other hand if the CEO leaves money on the table and doesn't negotiate hard because he's afraid randos on the Internet will call him "greedy" and subsequently profits fall and the company has to lay off thousands of people, nobody is going to pat him on the back and commend him on being "not greedy" and "respectable".
Consumer pressure (aka outrage, real or invented) is certainly a factor, but advertisers seem to be coming to the conclusion that X isn't worth the agita, independently of any given week's particular rumpus.

If I'm the CMO of <bigcorp>, I can either be watching 24x7 for a blowup that is going to consume all my people and news cycles about my company for a week, or I can just give up on X and move my spend to, say, YouTube or Tiktok. I only have so many cycles in the day, and X no longer even gives me decent information about my reach (eg they withdrew from the MRC audit that advertisers use to validate reach). Pulling back is an easy decision.

Like Elon said in his Dealbook interview last November, let's see where the chips fall.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38833703
Not to pick on your comment but could you share which Mediterranean diet relies heavily on turkey? Chicken for sure, fish for sure (not lake-grown farm salmon full of antibiotics). How about roasted pig and roasted lamb? In all Mediterranean countries I have visited, that’s the food I have seen people enjoy.
People have lived since millennia enjoying all the goods our Earth has to offer in moderation. The size of our planet has not changed. The population of most nations has not changed or has decreased. Then why the need to change our habits? Because the population of certain regions is growing out of control? That’s their problem to solve.
What is this supposed to demonstrate?

There appears to be roughly the same code structure, ported to every language, while for some languages, arbitrary optimizations are introduced (such as using `array` instead of `list` in Python).

But nobody working in Python uses matrix multiplication code written in Python. They use NumPy, which is a de facto standard library for people working in the relevant fields. It's as much part of "Python" as list comprehensions.

Without taking such real-world conventions into account, such comparisons say essentially nothing about the languages involved (and their all-important ecosystems).
If Substack really wants to be the Nazi bar [1], then that is their prerogative. But if some of their writers don't wish to be patrons of the Nazi bar, then it is their prerogative to urge Substack's leadership to change their minds.

[1] The bartender: "You didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them... You have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down." https://werd.io/2023/leaving-the-nazi-bar
Samsung phones have a useful feature called App Timers, allowing you to set maximum time you can use an app per day. It really helped me.
Here is an article that systematically discusses how vector retrieval and BM25 affects the search quality, in another word, what kind of systems are the past, now and future:

https://thenewstack.io/the-transformative-fusion-of-probabil...
> I've talked to people who are from Nigeria/Ghana or have visited there and they pointed out issues with his narrative. But most people who read Matt's blog have never been to these places, so they take everything as 100% accurate.

It's interesting that people read a blog by a someone who visited for 10 days, instead of someone who has lived there their entire lives or otherwise has far more experience.

The author even starts by disclaiming interest in calling them by their name or good knowledge of their language (French), showing that he doesn't seem to consider the impression that gives to readers.

(Note – The Ivory Coast is so French in culture and temperament that it insists on officially being called “Côte d’Ivoire.” But I don’t know how to make that accent on my keyboard and I don’t feel like copy-and-pasting the name over-and-over, so I’m just going to call it the “Ivory Coast.”)
> It is obvious that c[i], b[k] and a[i][k] can be moved out of the inner loop to reduce the frequency of matrix access. [...] However, most other languages cannot optimize this nested loop. If we manually move a[i][k] to the loop above it, we can often improve their performance.

This is only true when three matrices are independent of each other, and also why C has a `restrict` qualifier that enables this assumption. The benchmark itself has no such assumption because all three variables are defined as `double **`, and it can be verified by assembly outputs. Clang's excellent performance in matmul is probably much more due to autovectorization.
> people don't like paying money for things.

This is probably not true, or why would people so often enjoy spending money?

I think people do like (and now expect, thanks to decades of the "spyware" business model) getting free things. Combined with low levels of tech literacy and extremely low levels of trust in fair pricing of goods & services, and a typical person isn't likely to think there's any price that they ever should pay for software.
Can this be measured using optical flow of satellite images?

Optical flow can easily measure displacements far smaller than 1 pixel over a large area.
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I think this app biases towards searching online, which is very different than what ChatGPT does. Similarly it can’t do data analysis or equivalent Dall-e image generation. But yeah it can go a long way?
Generative AI
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I may take a look at it again.

I tried it a few years ago as a free alternative to 010editor and it was a bit unstable. But I see it is under active development, so maybe the issues have been fixed.
But then the game still keeps going right? You just go to level 0, then 1, 2 etc again. So you can keep on going, and you can still go game over. So then you still lose, not beating the game. But if you manage to progress the game so far that the developers didn't take that behavior into account or just couldn't with the hardware they had. So then the game becomes unable to make the player game over. So essentially that is then the end of the game, when it crashes. And then you finished it. That is the philosophy behind this.

You can still get a higher high score before crashing it and have other achievements. But as far as beating the game by not going game over I think that goal has been reached.
I love the very-specific niche ads of the DC metro area. The #1 morning radio station in DC is WTOP and their ads are for attack helicopter programs instead of used Subarus. As in, "the Lockheed Grumman Supa-Attak 123XYZ is the proven program for warfighters in the C4ISR space <insert another 30 seconds of insider mumbo jumbo>". Certainly makes a change from car dealers and mattress stores.
I wish I had come to that conclusion a week ago, but I'm in too deep now. It's for a little side project, and it seems like the majority of people I want to show it to have iPhones.
Creator here. I had forgotten all about the bank collapse/contagion week until I put this together. I remember a lot of discussion around if the actions were necessary, or if it amounted to a bailout. By one measure, it's a great thing that SVB seems like a distant memory and not an ongoing concern.

When I first saw that twitter.com stories drop off like that, I thought it might be because of links going to nitter or similar, but that didn't seem to be the case. No telling what the Twitter diaspora will result in.

One of the other interesting domain dropoffs happened between 2019 and 2020 (not shown on that view) when nytimes.com seems to have received some type of penalty.
Excellent write up. This would make a good article for HN :)
Looking further into your website, I find the content you write about extremely compelling and well written. The subtle insights about revisions here are great:

https://www.robinsloan.com/moonbound/mortal-after-all/
Your link seems to go to the article itself. What function did you try to use?

Did you try to reference this paragraph?

>Up until then, sugar planters from rich British islands such as the Colony of Jamaica and Barbados were able to buy rotten and pocket boroughs, and they were able to form a body of resistance to moves to abolish slavery itself. This West India Lobby, which later evolved into the West India Committee, purchased enough seats to be able to resist the overtures of abolitionists. However, the Reform Act 1832 swept away their rotten borough seats, clearing the way for a majority of members of the House of Commons to push through a law to abolish slavery itself throughout the British Empire.[21]
fwiw `handbook.flexpa.com` seems down
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If you are correct then DEI companies will be more profitable than those without because that's how capitalism works. Whatever makes the most money is the market winner. If being woke is more profitable then most companies will be woke.
This is why orientation should always be reported as a unit quaternion (or if you strongly care about using only 3 vs. 4 numbers, using "modified Rodrigues parameters", the stereographic projection of a unit quaternion).
Why don't grocery stores stock pawpaw fruit?
Last I checked you need ag tech to eat /s

Joking aside, it’s true that some folks have lives that require 350k liquid comp. If that’s you, staying at a cushy role in FAANG might be the right call. But for tons of brilliant people that’s not the case.
The US and Canada discontinued silver coins at about the same time (mid-1960s). The US went for a copper-nickel alloy sandwich and Canada went for pure nickel (which I believe is now nickel-plated steel).
Creator here. I'd love to know the number of accounts created, but that is not in the official data and I couldn't figure out anywhere to get it. It should be possible to get this data by crawling profile pages, but there's no comprehensive list or way to find them. AFAIK there is also no exposed incrementing user id that might hint at how many users were created between two dates.
Which President are you saying is less likely to fight China? The one that started the trade war or the one that publicly announced the US would defend Taiwan and has been actively changing defensive posture to the Pacific and developing new weapons and capabilities aimed at that theater?

I don’t see a big policy difference between the two and I definitely don’t see how Biden has been weak (gp). It would be easy for Trump to sell a war with China to his voters.
Wow, this is so stunning. Thanks a lot Rodrigo, and obviously to the dillo team, Jorge Arellano Cid, etc.!!

For others on Macs (I'm on an M1 under macOS 12.7), here's what worked for me:

- start by following the mac installation instructions here [0], specifically `brew install` the suggested packages + openssl (I used version 3)

- follow the "from git" installation instructions here [1] BUT, before running `./configure`, run these export commands [2] to make sure that the openssl files are found

- `make`, then `sudo make install` (like in the good old days). then run `dillo`.

- it just... works. and it's blazing fast. it's a 1.6mb binary, it supports ssl... it's brilliant. google search sorta works (with broken css). signing in to google is impossible without javascript..? yeah wow. a whole world to explore. THANKS!

[0] https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/master/doc/insta...

[1] https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/master/doc/insta...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/77749836
Many (most?) non-Firefox endeavors of the Mozilla Foundation have been half-hearted flops for which they deserve chiding. I struggle to name any non-Firefox Mozilla project that has been successful and which they've continued to support.
I may in fact have been like "damn I should make this even better and put it in a blog post" so thank you for validating that that is in fact a good idea!
There’s a stack of Blink-only Google specifications that people are pushing as “standard” that are anything but. Both Apple and Mozilla reject them on privacy or security grounds, then get criticised as being “behind” (or in Apple’s case, “deliberately holding back the web”). No, a specification created and implemented unilaterally by Google is not a standard.
Doesn’t include Prolog which has decent constraint solver answers for n-queens and sudoku, which are pretty fast but I don’t know how they would compare in benchmarks:

https://www.metalevel.at/queens/

https://www.metalevel.at/sudoku/
I’m Chilean and this is the first time I’ve heard of him. Thanks for the link!