skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can't stop thinking about the people not working as engineers - the sales guys, CS reps, building maintenance, the IT guys. Did they have 20% of their time dedicated to "personal projects", whatever that might be? Did they have free food? Are their titles attached to their person? Do they feel their employer value its employees above all else?

Famously the chef running the employee canteen was one of the early Google millionaires. (I doubt it's like that now, but the point of the post is it's not like that any more for the programmers either)
Or may not.
> sure, but you dont need to understand actual set theory

How would you know? You sound like you understand set theory. Ironically, a body needs a rather extensive grounding in the theory and practice of set theory to look at something and think "I don't need to use the tools of set theory here" with deserved confidence.

A lot of maths is about having a huge repertoire of tricks that you know won't help solve the problem at hand. Saves weeks of fruitless attempts. But I'll bet you didn't notice the things you know not to do. That does matter for interpreting these papers.
Telegram is quite good but I honestly don’t notice it being any better than discord. Telegram isn’t exactly light either. It frequently sits at about 400mb memory usage.
Sorry, my recollection of the sum of all failures was not correct.

PathChanged has a different problem: if you are watching a folder it would seem the name of the file is not passed from inotify(7) to the script launched by systemd. This one is outlined in great detail at https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/600686/9452 linked from https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/600642/9452 essentially saying "just give up".
> no human organisation can scale beyond a certain (quite early) point without becoming an immoral profit machine

I think a more general point is that when human organisations scale beyond a certain size, the organisations often become more focussed on self-sustainment (and preservation) than the original function they provided. Sometimes known as the iron law of bureaucracy, in commercial situations. For nation states, this entails preservation of the ruling classes, be they ostensibly profit focussed or not.
Are Google's, Meta's, Tencent's or Alibaba's AI workloads more environmentally friendly, or what am I missing from this point?

And AI's are destructive for the environment why? Is it more environmentally friendly to waste a lot more human time with less compute power doing mundane repetitive shit for hours that an AI/LLM can summarize or answer in seconds?

With that logic it's also more environmentally friendly to use an ox to plow the fields instead of a diesel John Deer.
They're both companies that help others monetize their content, Substack is still quite small and Patreon has stumbled a bit recently trying to justify it size and value:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/patreons-valuation-dropped-70...
Copyright Parody Exception Denied Due to Defendant's Discriminatory Use Use
Show HN: A Base64 Image Encoder
I'm sharing a tool to make small text encoded images that I use to build other apps.
It's moving from "paying the bills plus ..." to "paying the bills". Since the latter is _kinda_ important, it's difficult to let go when the "plus ..." part has left the building (and stopping that from happening is beyond the management level of most) - moreso, when there's no obvious place it went to that you could follow.
Notes on SwiftData
Netflix for quest feels like it is coded by a single programmer learning to program VR. It hasn't been updated in last 5 years[1]

[1]: https://www.meta.com/experiences/2184912004923042/
> Hm, are you sure? From the article:

> > Would render and execute all scripts on that page as if it was that user

If there is a valid user ID (or other user/session identifier) in the request URL or body, but not valid auth cookies, the system may respond with a page that references the same scripts as the user would get but with no data. In that case the scripts would run (perhaps requesting further resources, directly or by placing things that reference them into the DOM, which is how they know the scripts ran) as they would for the user but just render a “no data” message where the information would be.
Sometimes I see additional messages pop up next to loaders after certain times passed.
Personally if I load from multiple endpoints at the same time I usually add a ##% in the middle of my loading circle calculated based on total and ongoing requests.
His Famous answer for answering the AR/VR question was "Go and get a girl friend".
These discussions always remind me that I was born between two eras. I am too young to have lived through seeing how little resources computers had and how limited network communication was. But also too old to be in the era where people grow up with abundance of tech (personal phones, computers...etc).

So, I am still amazed by how people on the two sides spectrum grew up.
You must be shitting me.

This answer is so bad it has spawned a meme years ago.

https://programmerhumor.io/stackoverflow-memes/stackoverflow...
Everyone else's salary is going up at the same rate, more and more jobs are there, and it's de facto illegal to build any more housing anywhere nearby. Of course house prices are growing without limit.
The long-anticipated "mental gym" industry! Where people pay to exercise their atrophied mental muscles the same way they exercise their barely-needed physical muscles now.

With all the associated bullshit and snake oil and romanticizing of the "good old natty days" too, of course.

Big $$$ industry, at least until our brave future does away with voluntary reproduction altogether, being the reason people bother to exercise in the first place.
> To compete with Airbus (subsidized by the EU), Boeing turned from manufacturing their own airplanes (and using suppliers in America) to assembling planes in Washington and forcing procurement of their products internationally through contracted parts.

Yes, this is one of the more common alternative fact on what happened to Boeing. Going beyond the nonsensical take of the evil subsidized foreign company unfairly competing against the hardworking non-subsidized domestic aircraft builder, as various independent pundits have reported in the light of recent events, Boeing's woes are mostly self-inflicted, starting even before the infamous MD takeover.

But it's true that it is more flattering to paint yourself as the victim of unfair globalization as opposed to acknowledging that the ruthless search of short-term gains came at the cost of product quality and passengers lives.
There's point about the whole fire risk that has been missed so far: Denser settlements allow fire fighters to repsond and arriver faster and the chance for a neighbour to spot the fire in a house is much higher if there are more neighbours.
No they are just as bad.
I hope more studies are done for respiratory infections. Minor ones have been done with promising results https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9724797/.
I think he’s talking about the Index and their new Linux console
Isbell Duality (2022)
Zero, right now, as he’s not working with Facebook any more.
They just don’t let you upgrade from the free plan at all. Change was rather recent.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/07/05/spotify-subscribers-no-...
Are you sure it's has the page contents, or if it's just got the URLs that were called?

Either way it feels like malware on a client machine, but doesn't necessarily mean that the page contents are being read by the malware.

I guess if you had some javascript which only loaded if the chrome version was not the latest you could confirm -- the attempt to load the URL would not occur on GoodChrome, but it would on the "security" device. Therefore if the page contents was being shipped to BadDevice completely it would be loaded, but if it was just re-loading the URLs called by GoodChrome the URL wouldn't be called.
>I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets.

>>SAS Institute (well-known maker of statistical and other software) did, for many years, last I checked. Don't know if they still are that way. Update: Looks like they are:

No... SAS Institute actually wanted to go public earlier in 2020 and then 2024 but they've now pushed the timeline back again to 2025 because of market conditions:
https://www.google.com/search?q=SAS+Institute+ipo+2025

Instead of a "no growth" philosophy, the founders Goodknight and Sall have been trying to spread the narrative about SAS's "recent growth" after losing money in 2020 so potential investors will be receptive to an IPO. : https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sas-charts-path-to-...
Inhalers for respiratory illnesses could be used as well.
Then why single out Microsoft? And you haven't explained why are they bad.
You want your wind turbines as high as possible anyways. Higher up there are stronger and more consistent winds.
Then present a better option.

Let us assume that I live in a country that your grandfather fled. Now you want to move to that country but the government will not give you citizenship. Nor did your grandfather not your father not yourself receive citizenship of the new country you are in, and you were even born in that new country (like your father before you).

What options do you have other than infiltrating my country and killing me?
It’s just a bad comparison anyway, as a lawn blower is manifestly quieter than the engines on any jet.

And once you start adding distance differences, the comparisons are pointless.

A microwave five feet away is as loud as a jet 5 miles away or something.
Been a while since I've played with Processing, and I never got so far as to make anything this impressive. Urge to dabble again...
Line Shaft
I think the fact that apps are available for Meta's products show that (at the time) there was confidence into a potential growth category. And (currently) there is no confidence that Apple's product makes any commercial sense (in the near future). This is even emphasized by Apple clearly launching this in small quantities with excessive margins.
Might as well be a browser extension.

I remember setting up a Confluence server which was only used by me, but had public access (still password protected).

When checking the logs, I noticed an external IP trying to access pages which I had accessed previously, but they got redirected to the log-in page. The paths were very specific, some which I had bookmarked, so it was clear that there was an extension logging my browsing and some server or person then tried to access my pages.
It's no longer self-hostable.
If I was Apple's competitor, I would fund the development of watching porn on Vision Pro and market the hell out of it.
https://www.dappfort.com/coinbase-clone-script/
I would ban gas-powered gardening instruments altogether (except industrial scale ones). They are loud, stinky and have worse emissions than a 50 year old car.
Snapdragon X Elite vs. Intel Core Ultra 7 155H laptops
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Ask HN: Is HTML meta field a hell incarnated?
Why oh why we have so many meta data? Yeah I know, everybody can think of their own meta data, and start their own standards. Let's have a new standard to handle all these other standards.

Some articles have something like:

<meta property="article:publish_time" content="data"/>

Spotify has:

<meta name="music:release_date" content="data"/>

YouTube has:

<meta itemprop="datePublished" content="data"/>

There seems to be at least "some" attempts to clear this, but it's outdated:

https://github.com/kevinSuttle/html-meta-tags

Why no organization manages it, or maybe there is, but I have not heard about it?

Is meta is a nice bag for all 'custom' stuff? We can put there whatever we want?
> > In 2020, digitisation was purported to generate 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

> So the 4% figure is not the storage of only dark data, but the storage of ALL data.

Even that sounds like a misread. "Digitisation" can refer to the sum total of moving a product or service or process to be digitised; that would also include the compute cost as well as the storage.
I think that's the first time I've seen SMIL outside of an SVG spec
More about Tokyo new units here: https://rstudio-pubs-static.s3.amazonaws.com/361409_dcd56370...

Title = How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing

TL;DR: Since 1995 (yes, during the lost decade) they are building ~150k new "dwellings" per year. Wow.
"Sane" package managers is how you end up hiding the difference in complexity between installing a static Go executable, an Electron app, a C++ Gtk/Qt app, a Python app, etc.

Hiding the complexity is not necessarily bad, but that decision should be made consciously. Some complexity is inherent to the problem space, some is accidental - but even the latter must sometimes be tolerated. So again, how do we draw the line?
I have to limit my sodium intake due to heart failure.

Whoppers are the lowest sodium of any fast food burger that I like. I used to eat Whoppers regularly.

Now the BK restaurants in my area defraud me when I order a Whopper by making a BK King Burger to look and taste like a whopper. Thr BK King Burger has much more sodium than a Whopper.

When I specify that I want a Whopper and not a BK King Burger, they do 1 of 3 things:

1. Lie and tell me it's a Whopper.
2. Make fun of me, saying it tastes the same.
3. Admit they do not carry the things to make a real Whopper.

BK has serious problems with integrity.
these people already bought YouTube premium, there's no advertising from YouTube
What is the point you're making? MSFT don't care about the environment because they're choosing reducing storage energy usage over famine and war?
Trading off writing speed for legibility seems wrong to me. Writing fast is a skill that can be learned by regular practice. If you spend half the time to learn an illegible code like orthic on simply practicing your usual handwriting you'll end up writing quite a bit faster while increasing legibility. I would try that first.
Cloud storage is better than local storage for the average person.

* The average person does not do backups. No, he will not do backups. No! He seriously won't. Cloud storage solves this very real, very basic problem.

* The average person does not understand file systems. No, he will not understand file systems. No! He seriously won't. Cloud storage solves this problem by Abstraction(tm).

* The average person does not use much disk space; the biggest chunk is probably the photos on his phone. Combined with the previous, a 1TB HDD/SSD in a NAS at home is "WTF" and "WTF" for him.

Note, we aren't average people.
So you do great work and get a bonus, but then the marketing department botches it, or executives decide to price it in some inane way that consumers reject and now you owe your employer money? Dystopian.
Things were better when I was younger and still worked there

I don't know how much of it is a perspective thing but it's probably a decent amount.
Sounds like the sort of thing someone with money would say.
I use a me-powered rake for that purpose.
The opportunity is to launch on the Vision Pro developer/early adopter device and get your app ready for the mass market version.
Actual title is "Tragic Discovery: Liren Chen and Xuanyi Yu Found Dead in a Los Altos Apartment" and no causal link is made with layoffs whatsoever.
> I know engineers love to believe that everything would be fine if engineers ran everything. It just ain't so.

There are different meanings one could use for this, though. Look at a graph of MSFT and you can pinpoint where Ballmer (not engineer) handed off to Nadella (engineer).
Doesn't google explicitly forbid a WebView for oauth?

The point is to not have users entering their google credentials into third-party apps, and a WebView is still entering your credentials into a third-party app. The app has to open the google login page in a real browser, not a WebView.
Thanks. I know SOM and Smalltalk pretty well and have implemented several VMs myself (see https://github.com/rochus-keller/Som/ and https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk/). SOM was originally designed and implemented by Bak and Lund at Aarhus university. It's very well suited for performance experiments and shares with Smalltalk the relevant features. There is an implementation of the Are-we-fast-yet suite for both SOM and Smalltalk.
Memory was a real limitation, though. You can store an insane amount of stuff with 20GB already.
Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required
> By what metric?

On the user's side: Just pick any set of well-established best practices such as Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules or Nielsen & Molich's 10 Usability Heuristics, an then pick a typical 2024 electron app that has an equivalent from the 2003-2013 era and is written with a typical UI technology of the time (such as Windows Forms), and compare the two UIs with respect to those best practices. -- I'm pretty sure you will find usability blunders in today's software that you simply couldn't commit back then, even if you tried. -- Essential UI elements being hidden away (with no indication that such hiding is taking place) based on viewport size, leaving the user unable to perform their task is one thing that immediately comes to mind. Another example I happened to experience just yesterday: UI elements disappearing from underneath my mouse cursor when my mouse cursor starts to hover over them.

Also: Just look at the widget gallery in Windows Forms, providing intuitive metaphors for even quite subtle patterns of user interaction and check how many of those widgets you find implemented in modern web-based design languages and web component systems. ...usually you don't get much beyond input fields, buttons, and maybe tabbed-views if you're lucky. So today's software is relegated to using just those few things, where, 10 years ago, you had so many more widgets to pick and choose from to get it just right.

On the developer's side: Was JavaScript ever actually designed to do the things it's being used for today? Is dependency hell, especially in the web ecosystem, worse today than it was 10 years ago?
Submitted title is misleading. Turns out, it's not "all but OAuth", it's "all but OAuth and app password".

If you can't switch to OAuth, you can simply create an app password and continue using that as your IMAP password as usual.
No its highly important that they will grab a pint after. If you've ever been part of a sports team you would know team morale is vitaly important to them and they socialise and party together ALL THE TIME. The military do it to. Anywhere where you need strong teams you need to have downtime with your team. Its WAY harder to do that remote. I've rarely made friendships with people 100% remote. It's not natural. And I never want to work somewhere where there aren't a decent amount of people that I would grab a pint with after work. And I'm like gay, nonbinary, and mixed race in like an predominantly straight male tech department. I love drinking with my colleagues it makes me feel like I'm not a robot and like I care about getting work done for them. Otherwise, I wouldn't give a single shit about making money for someone else.
For now. They've been threatening to remove App passwords for a long time.
I don't think the part of attacking big targets works in this context, I would care very little about Google and its culture, it's not my business and people who work there decide to stay there autonomously

The big target attacking is when those big targets abuse dominant positions to push other products, are anti-competitive, and unreliable, that is what affects the people who are critical.

For the other stuff, if big tech makes you happy, fires you or puts a teddy bear every morning on your desk, or the CEO comes to tickle you, who cares
> Nobody wants to li[v]e there.

It would be better to say that rents are lower in rural areas because there is either more supply or lower median salary.
Interesting AnimateDiff v3/v2 comparison with ComfyUI
You're simply confirming what I said, including the fact that the previous iterations suffer from the same defect and should be pulled from service.

And nobody is demanding that Boeing redesign the cockpit. This entire fiasco was to cover up an "upward-pitching tendency" under power, which ANY competent pilot could easily account for.
I have trouble imagining that the cost of interrupting your seeder or lifting your plough every quarter mile is really higher than the profit generated by the wind turbines.
Your argument is that office is not on Linux because the user base is too small and not worth the support burden.

The parents argument is that Linux's user base is smaller because critical applications like office are not available there.

These arguments are not mutually exclusive. Microsoft would rather keep it's dominate windows market share _and_ have less support burden.

On the other hand, Steam making Linux work well is a massive support burden for a smaller user base, but it prevented os vendor lock in for their platform.

Decisions to release or not release software is not so easily distilled to single metrics such as support burden.
My angle on AI safety these days is that we're using very very naive ways of thinking about the problem. I spent a bit of time on twitter recently discussing it with Yudkowsky and I've come to the conclusion he's way off base.

Problem one:
Utilitarianism is bullshit. Jeremy Bentham invented utilitarianism, designed the Panopticon model prison, and lives on as a dried out lich in a chair that they still wheel out for board meetings at University College London because he wanted to win a posthumous argument about whether he could have utility after he was dead.

You just can't build on a foundation that rotten.

Problem two:
Fake Buddhist-type suffering-minimisation thinking is sprayed all over the field -- even this story uses the term Bodhisattva -- but nobody involved in AI has any idea what "awakening" is and you can't be a Bodhisattva unless-and-until you're Awake. And Awake is pretty well understood in Buddhism and most cultures have their equivalent status. It doesn't generally mean what people think it means, but it means something.

A good model for thinking about traditional understandings of Awake is to think about traditional understandings of disease. "Bob has the symptoms of the red death and has a slim chance of survival" is probably pretty accurate. "The red death is caused by the evil eye" is probably not very accurate. The descriptions of the Awake state are probably pretty accurate. The understanding of what it is and what causes it are a lot more infused with medieval nonsense than anybody would like.

But reasoning from the Awake position is what Buddhist ethics are rooted in, not Jeremy bloody Bentham's desiccated corpse's utility.

Problem three:
Nobody's using Rta, Tao and Equity (in the English Common Law sense, not in any other sense) as potential approaches to AI safety. And they should be.

If we say to a machine "right please read everything ever written by legal scholars about English Common Law's concept of equity, including all the case law, and use this principle as a guide for your conduct" you will get something with nuance. If you say "treating others as you would want to be treated by them" we hit real problems because it's just not information-dense enough to work very well in the real world, and relies on introspection of a kind that is notoriously difficult for humans never mind machines being asked to imagine they are humans.

I think we are taking instructions that were intended for illiterate pre-medieval farmers and hoping to train intelligent machines on them. This seems unwise. Let's take the best models from high society and use them instead, if we have to use anything at all.