skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an interesting approach would be to explore what a store does. A few ways to look at it is to explore what brick and mortar stores do, what they offer both consumers and producers, and to explore why app stores that aren’t monopolies exist. Eg. Gaming.
High dimensionality allows gradient descent to make progress independently in each dimension. When you get stuck in one dimension, you make progress in another dimension until you can progress in the previously blocked dimension. Also, even if you do get stuck in X dimensions, you are unlikely to significantly reduce that X by finding a better starting point and if there is redundancy, then it doesn't matter that you have the local minima in one dimension but not the other dimension. The end result is that the quality differences between the local minima end up as insignificant. They are sufficiently good compared to the global minima.
> We spend a third of our lives at work [1].

But this isn't a particularly new thing, and definitely not new to Gen-Z - many of whom are too young to work white-collar jobs anyway.
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>Firefox engineering is in a pretty good spot

It is strange that a moron surrounded by morons taking Firefox solely in non-good directions could accomplish that.
More responsibility. CEOs will be responsible for decisions that could make or break the company. Regular employees generally don't have to worry that something they do might cause the entire company to go out of business and lose everyone's jobs. If the company screws up and causes a scandal of some sort, the rank and file employees are not going to be called to testify before Congress about what went wrong and have the entire media shitting on them for weeks afterwards.

The board of directors is willing to pay more for someone who will first, hopefully avoid such screw-ups and second, be able to deal with them if they happen.
I’m not sure if the NES can, but by the 16-bit era the console can modify what’s being output between scan lines. Obviously that’s only beneficial if the action affects what is below the current scanline, but the way images were drawn allows for techniques that aren’t possible when the entire frame is buffered at a fixed refresh rate.

There is also a lot more to latency than just refresh rate. Retro RGB, My Life in Gaming, Digital Foundry and more have volumes on digital signal latency, and it is not as simple as getting a high refresh rate monitor or television. The TV itself can add latency. If going through a receiver, it can add latency. Need to scale a signal from 720p or 1080p to 4K? Maybe you’ll add latency, maybe you won’t. If the display doesn’t have a fast scaler, external devices can be used which will reduce the total latency, even though they may add some of their own (10-33ms).
Honestly I don't care what Google, I mean Mozilla, does with their money. I gave up on caring about Firefox a long time ago.
This is interesting. We've been seeing a pretty split desire where some companies would prefer ParadeDB installed as an extension in their existing database, while others would prefer ParadeDB as a separate search node (for independent scaling, recovery, performance, etc.)

We expect production-scale ParadeDB to be used as a separate search node getting logical replication from your primary Postgres. This would give you easy-to-maintain and scale services while benefiting from isolation of services (so your search can't take down your primary database, etc.)

We would be open to what you describe and happy to work it out. But we are currently thinking of prioritizing separate hosting of ParadeDB. It's early, though, and still unconfirmed what customers will prefer :)
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doesn't seem so. I think the key is probably here

>perturbed by a seemingly random pattern

ie. it doesn't really seem like a random pattern. It looks more like a match pattern taken from the mid-layers of a visual NN, the pattern of edges and vertexes which "lights up" more frequently when a cat image is presented to the NN. That would explain why an NN (even another one as they all converge on processing edges and vertexes) would mistake that image of vase for cat - in the altered image of vase those "cat" pattern edges and vertexes are present, just at the attenuated 2 levels amplitude, and the first layers of NN (usually converged to Gabors and Gaussian pulling like in the biological visuals cortex) would still detect those edges and will send it to the mid layers where it will "light up" similar "cat" patterns (it would be very illustrative if the authors provided the mixed-in image subjected to edge detection - that should clearly show a mix of original vase image edges and the added "cat" pattern ones). That also explains why people would point to such an image as more cat-like - the first layers and even the first-mid layers in our visual cortex are very similar to what the first and the mid layers of a well-trained NN converge to, and those our layers would similarly detect and "light up" to those mixed-in cat pattern edges and vertexes - we are just better at signal/noise, ie. clearly recognizing the vase and thus suppressing the "noise" of those cat patterns triggered in our visual cortex, so we wouldn't misclassify the image as a cat, yet we do feel something cat-like. Would be interesting to give that test to the people under hallucinogens, i.e. when the visual cortex mid-layers signals are subjected to much less frontal processing and the "noise" rises to the level of "signal".
I think it's hard to jump straight to "do it right" as step 1, because it's often not actually clear what "right" means until you actually have running code. Editing is easier than writing. Few essays, books, or software projects can skip having at least a first draft.

There are two problems that tend to keep much software in what is essentially the "draft" stage, though. One, articulated by many on this thread, is that business incentives really push to "if it's working well enough, it's working well enough." And as some have noted, that's not necessarily a problem! We're, most of us, writing software for pay here, not for fun or personal expression. But! As engineers, we have more insight into if it's really working "well enough" (assuming that we, as engineers, have also taken the time to make sure we understand the product we're building). Things like performance, security, and maintainability are part of making sure it's "good enough," but our non-technical partners and stakeholders can't necessarily see this, and part of our role is to help them see this so that they are making truly informed decisions on if it really is "good enough."

Second, and I feel bad saying this, there's often a dearth of widespread technical ability to actually take code from "ok" to "good." I don't mean this in an elitist way of saying some programmers are just better than others -- I do truly believe that with proper support and mentoring almost anyone who wants to become a better programmer can (see my user name). But I think that as an industry, we actually do a poor job helping our colleagues advance and deepen their skill. The ratio of skilled programmers to new is too small, and of skilled programmers with ability and inclination to level up their junior colleagues even smaller.

That's a decision by business leaders, who by and large have decided that junior-heavy, cheaper dev teams are "good enough."
I like the site, but it could use a few pictures. I am trying to figure out what my missing part is called, but the mini blinds section is just a series of paragraphs.
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For younger readers - Mozilla is the company in charge of a web browser called Firefox, which was widely used from around 2004-2014.
You’re really complaining about something that was fixed over a decade ago?

What next, complaining about 8.3 character filenames on Windows 3.1?
Maybe such a line could indicate distance mapped in a color scale (e.g. viridis)
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Why would you immediately show an error message instead of some kind of background retry?

Or at the very least the message should tell the operator to retry.
Timhortons up in Canada also has solid website that looks parity with the app.
> Why do Realtors earn 2.5% of a house they sell? Because sellers are nervous it'll cost them more not to pay.

That's debatable.

Where I live realtors are seen as slimy as used car salesmen. It's an open secret that realtors will steer their clients away from low commission or independently listed properties.
OP here, I play CTFs occasionally. Mostly HackTheBox and 13chan (as you can probably tell lol).

Feel free to email me and we can link up for some CTF time, I'm always looking for hack friends.
Does Google have any say on who is at the helm of Mozilla? A genuine question, not a rhetorical one.
Mozilla itself is a Phoenix (and I miss that) that arose from ashes so maybe!
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I don’t use Chrome. I use Safari. It is and has always been my choice since it was released.

But I still think it’s better if Firefox exists.

——

My experience has been kind of odd compared to most. I switched to the Mac before Chrome or Safari came out. When Safari arrived it was vastly faster than anything else at the time. So it became my browser.

People on Windows or Linux couldn’t use Safari (I tried the Windows version, let’s not talk about that, ouch). So when Chrome came out, and they left IE/FF, they got the same giant performance jump that I liked so much but associated it with a different product. I’m sure I would’ve done the same thing if I was still on Windows.

Firefox eventually got way better, becoming what it is today. But almost everyone had already moved to Chrome.

I’m left with this sort of weird view of the world. When I did try Chrome it wasn’t noticeably faster than Safari because it was using the same rendering engine at the time, but it had a really different UI design that I didn’t like.

So a huge amount of people really love Chrome because of their experiences, and I hate it for the same reason. All because of the order I ended up using browsers in.
Most companies aren't connected to a nonprofit, so don't need to publish their financial information in such detail.
How can you say you're a champion of the free web in the same breath as lamenting not being able to wrest away users control over their own devices?!
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I wonder (or maybe just hope) that this might swing back if consumers develop a preference for those businesses that intentionally avoid these and other dark patterns.
Realtors is a bad example.
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People hate ads but they hate paying for content even more. There are startups that offer a pay per article integration for publishers but it never really caught on. Monthly subscriptions to one publisher work decently but people are tired of that too.

Ad revenue adds so much juice to the profit margins, just look at Netflix/amazon prime/etc. None of them could resist the ad tier.

I think about this a lot because I dislike the ad tech industry and would like to leave it (even though I currently work in it) but I honestly don’t know what the solution is besides ads.
If the problem is just Apple, then why do modt companies make iOS apps, Android apps and web apps instead of telling Android users to just use the web apps?

It came out in the Epic trial that 90% of App Store revenue came from in app purchases of play to win games. Those apps aren’t going to the web because it’s much easier to convince whales to buy coins and loot boxes using in app purchase than put a credit card on a website.
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>Figure 5. England and Wales suicide rates (Ages 15-64),

graph in question

edit: Sorry wrong title, see below from defrost its

> Figure 2. U.S. Adolescent and Adult Suicide Rates (Ages 10-59), 1981-2021

Thanks for the correction!
We should be making much more low end housing, absolutely. That said, even the cheapest housing costs the time of tradesmen and substantial materials costs, not to mention land. It will always be a substantial chunk of minimum wage earners' income because minimum wage is too low and/or out of whack with real costs.
Thanks for sharing this! I had no clue about it.
The problem with being driven by fear/failure is that it's not a destination, it's all the anti-destinations. Destinations are then selected, tried, rejected, repeat. If there's no vision and conviction in the chosen direction and commitment to it, you will lose out to competitors that are actually driven by passion to it, rather than merely heading there to avoid their negative motivator.

My experience with something similar was getting hired at a tech company that was doing well. Their image appeared like a succeeding startup, but they were making bank, and with that their top priority was not upsetting the cash cow. It took over a year while I was there to release updates to the webapp more than a few times per month. This is why innovation happens elsewhere.
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You’re right. I always forget Opera. I’m an American and it’s basically never been a factor here so it just never enters my mind.
I’m way closer to paying for Kagi than I am to paying for Firefox. Sure “apples to oranges” and all that, but if Kagi slapped a coat of paint on a shitty electron app, gave me bookmarks, profiles (for dev testing a la containers in Firefox), and asked me to cough up $10-$15 / month for it? Done. Paid. Maybe even a tip on top.

What the hell does Firefox bring to the table? Sure they’re open source and “competition” to Google but come on… surely we can all see those aren’t features, they aren’t products, they’re bullet points.
Anglosphere (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand)

That’s too arbitrary of a grouping for me to care about these results.
"Failure" here means they didn't manage to join the oligopoly themselves, and went bust instead, as network effects are a zero-sum game.

By that metric, every flavour of Linux has also failed. Yet Linux is also heavily used and actively developed, serving an important purpose where Windows/Mac were not suitable. It helps that computer/server hardware and components are modular and not as tied to a particular OS as phones are.
$500M per year isn't enough to develop and market a browser?
Agreed; it's more like turning caps lock into ctrl; not zero friction, but pretty close and much nicer.
And yet companies still prefer to create an Android app…
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English speaking anglosphere.
This is literally something from 10+ years ago.
What are the two companies that control the market?
The author proposes the following theory to explain the rate increases:

"Since the early 2010s, stable in-person communities and relationships have rapidly disintegrated, as transient networks of low-investment relationships took their place."

This is a well worded way of saying the deep networks as opposed to shallow ones are the most vital for mental health it would seem.
That’s five eyes, a common grouping even outside of intelligence.

Many businesses use it because it accounts for a dominant share of revenue & profits.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I don't understand this oft-regurgitated opinion that Mozilla needs to "focus all their resources on browser development." Mozilla does focus a large portion of their resources on browser development. Firefox is fast enough and has an interface that's largely similar to its main competitors. It works pretty well. This is a browser we're talking about. What special features do you think Mozilla could build that'll magically allow Firefox to claw back huge chunks of market share? And why do you think that Mozilla isn't building those features due to lack of focus - surely they build browser features and do other things simultaneously? In my opinion, building a killer non-browser thing might be one of the only ways to save Firefox - after all, the history of browsers shows us that successful ones typically piggyback off of successful non-browser things (Windows, Google, iPhone, etc.)
I figured the set up back then involved a high amount of self-reporting.
Maybe not enough effort has gone into something as basic as ordering food online. Or rather it's such a simple problem that too many fragmented subpar options exists compared to web spreadsheets.
Chrome and Edge use the Blink rendering engine (except on iOS). Safari uses WebKit. Firefox uses Gecko.

(Edge used to use its own engine, EdgeHTML, but switched to Blink and EdgeHTML is no longer developed. EdgeHTML was derived from the Trident/MSHTML engine, which is also no longer developed.)

Blink and WebKit can both trace their history to khtml, but that was a very long time ago.

Chrome used to use WebKit (before Edge existed). Blink was forked from WebKit and they diverged about 10 years ago. They are now considered distinct rendering engines with different behaviours.

So the big three rendering engines today are: Blink, WebKit and Gecko.

All browsers in wide use today use one of those three.

On iOS, all browsers use WebKit due to OS policy restrictions. Chrome and Firefox use WebKit on iOS. This works, and different browsers continue to have their own respective featureson top.

It is widely thought that if Apple loses the power to limit the rendering engine on iOS due to changes in law, so many web devs will drop testing with WebKit browsers that they will pressure users to install Chrome on iOS instead: "Best viewed in Chrome. Some site features may not work using other browsers...". The same way many web devs already dropped testing on Firefox/Gecko. Those site features may become critical, such as abitiy to sign in or view some kinds of data. Apps will ship with parts of Chrome/Blink directly in the app, saving users the decision.

This is what people mean when they say Apple's rendering engine policy on iOS may be all that's preventing most of the web shifting to Chrome/Blink-only dominance, that you won't be able to avoid if you need essential services online.
I was in a similar situation not too long ago and found that describing the part to ChatGPT worked. I did have to course correct it a couple of times, but eventually it got me the answer I was looking for.
Damn these are 8 paragraphs pretty much repeating the same thing 8 times with slight variations.
Don't worry. SZ is perfecting the art of zero information datasheets.
I made an HTML5 Offline app years ago, and with much effort got it to do some impressive things, in a cross-platform and update-able way. But it was especially difficult on Safari, and seemed like Apple had intentionally regressed on some standards, for whatever reason. Android seemed to support the standards better. Desktop browsers worked well, but we were mainly interested in a particular tablet, and secondarily in other handhelds.

I later made a tricky iOS-specific app for a different purpose with SwiftUI, and it was successful after much effort, but the whole Apple App Store process and distribution was so much headache. The problems were Apple's heavy-handed authoritarianism, the slow iteration with reviews, and surprisingly inconsistent quality/correctness of the developer account site and TestFlight.

I'm not a huge fan of Web technologies lately, but at least they can mean being relatively free of the app store tyrants. And maybe there's a way to hold the device platform vendors accountable for supporting open standards properly. It might have to be with legislation or government purchasing pressure (since we techies collectively have dropped the ball on that accountability, such as with adoption and professionalism).
The author's rationale:

Countries with higher levels of individualism (where young people are less rooted in binding communities) appear to have been more affected compared to less individualistic nations (which is why I began my posts by examining the Anglosphere and Nordic nations)
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