skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally tend to think if Moz had focused on desktop browser development rather than thrashing around on mobile versions on restricted platforms where they’d always be second-class citizens, smartphone OS moonshots well after that was very likely to succeed, Pocket at a time OSes were introducing their own reading lists, etc. that they could have at least sustained the open web standards goal Firefox used to achieve.

Instead they freaked out about overall browser usage going to mobile, and threw shit against the wall trying to make some kind of mobile strategy stick no matter how late they were to the table. But I personally still use desktop universally at work, and sometimes browse that way at home too. Maybe Moz could have maintained significant market share in just that space and still be more relevant today.

To be fair, that was more Gary Kovacs and immediate successors as CEOs than Mitchell. But Mitchell had a lot of influence on direction even then, and could have decided to pivot back to core competencies once she did take the reins directly. Servo looked pretty promising to me. At least we got Rust’s success out of it. Maybe she could have leveraged that more.

Fabrice seems pretty convinced that embracing feature phones would have made the difference, and KaiOS shows that the FxOS platform certainly is more well-suited for that than for smartphones. She was involved in the decision-making around killing FxOS right as Mozilla started exploring pivoting to feature. Whether that would’ve helped drive Mozilla’s higher-level goals of browser synergy and making sure the web stayed open, I don’t know, but you’d at least still know their name as a thriving organization.

Or if data privacy is the way to go, maybe pivoting to that focus years ago would have been successful. I guess we’ll see how much potential it has, but I bet it would be even more if Mozilla and Firefox still commanded the respect they used to.

I just think Mozilla had way more routes to success than the routes they picked. Almost everything they tried either struck me as too late, too unlikely, or something nobody really wanted. That’s what I meant by questionable execution.
Right. People claim to be studying Yoga/Buddhism and treat "Meditation" as an "activity" to be done with goals/schedules. That is quite the wrong viewpoint.
To paraphrase the Bhagavad Gita; "practice motiveless action".
I actually love the responses and people I meet from the who is looking for work threads. I feel like I might still be fishing out there if it didn't offend the people I work with.

It could be similar to Tinder addiction. Looking for a date but not to marry. Some of it might just be measuring if they're still marketable.
It's a good thing the government just passed the CHIPS act to invest in domestic semiconductor production then
>I think by dehumanizing them, you sacrifice your own influence and humanity. They are humans, with empathy and other human emotions, and can be persuaded.

Sure, but these are humans with no stake in the company. They are not investing in Google because they believe in their mission nor do they even care if Google crashes in 5 years. They believe it's a way to quickly grow their portfolio, and will change as the market does.

This isn't to say they aren't human, just that they are at best more invested in other things or at worst are greedy and selfish.

>Act angry to put things out of reach and to intimidate people into backing down

I don't exactly feel better knowing it's just a facade towards the above spectrum.
Decade? Nothing substantial has gotten done since Gingrich took over the house in 95. It’s been scorched earth (on both side, mostly) since then.

This puts the courts in a difficult situation. The answer is often “congress needs to fix this”, but that can’t actually happen.
That's already a thing (in fact, it's guaranteed by the first amendment in the US). Congress can overrule the FCC any time they want.
I stopped writing anything in react the moment they introduced that ridiculous hooks API. Very clear they have no clue at all. There are plenty of other options that don't reach so hard to appeal to functional purist propeller-heads.
I'm not sure precisely why it works, but I can tell you for sure that my upstream devices cannot tell, and that it works in practice. I assume the splitter only tells the source about one of its downstream sinks (if at all), but not both. (maybe that makes it non-compliant and at risk of revocation - I'm not sure, but do know that it hasn't happened yet)
(Postgres committer and blog author here) Personally, I don't have any objection to hints. The resolution of any statistics is never going to be high enough to always be accurate enough for all cases. I think it would be good to give DBAs a better way to coax the planner into making or not making a certain decision. It would also be nice if the planner was a little more risk-averse. Currently, it's happy to do things like Nested Loop join because it thinks some complex WHERE clause will only match 1 row. Nested Loop works best for that, but if there are 2 rows, then generally, any other join type is better, especially so when the inner side of the join is expensive.
Maybe I'm crazy but GPT just does not seem compelling enough to command these kinds of insane moonshot capital expenditures. We're essentially betting on a breakthrough that might never come here.
You can't trivially move pieces with magnets, what about ones that are surrounded?

It also just feels cooler to have a robot arm do it.
That's what I thought too; but all the upthread and peer commments keep asserting Apple is a (real, not just hypothetical/potential/future) player in the space.
Looks like they want to show they are “doing something”
Why not drop the browser entirely and get maximum security? Firefox without TMP is not worth using for me.
Probably. The question is less when he retires/quit and more about how he affected the company during his final days (and of course his legacy). Unity is a great anti-example of this: The former CEO IPO'd, made big money for Unity, and on the way out arguably burned the longterm status of the company while he fell with his golden parachute.

That's a lot of the problem. There's no teeth in it for modern day C-class execs. The only difference when they leave is whether they leave a billionaire or a hundred-million aire.
A complete look at how the Oct. 2 Cruise crash in San Francisco unfolded
Anyone claiming or believing anything can be forever is dumb
I played that game for a while, it gets old. Also the UX is not nearly as good as TMP when it comes to moving tabs around.
Hmmm...there is not much heroic about these people. The closest is maybe Elon Musk because he put his fortune on the line to found Tesla.
https://archive.ph/JoTBr
I never had a Spectrum, however I recognized the game being displayed in the screenshots. TIL that "Star Quake", that I played on a 286 w/ a Hercules card and a horrendous TSR CGA "emulator", was actually a Spectrum game first[1]. Maybe I should give the Spectrum a look.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starquake_(video_game)
Haystack is much better option and way alot flexible, scalable
Thanks for the interesting review.

> “what do you unify your thoughts based on?” would be a good icebreaker question on dates.
The advantage of this approach that we can run many simultaneous computations on the GPU/TPU. Instead of using maybe a dozen CPU threads, we can approximate the value of a few thousand positions at the same time.
JSX is a mediocre templating language that's missing a ton of features from more mature templating languages like Razor
They’ll need to either reverse engineer CUDA or incentivize reimplementation of everything out there to use ROCm/OpenCL and forgo all the work load optimization done for Nvidia GPUs. I think that’s a non trivial moat.
I ordered a contraband baofeng handset from the US and it made it thru customs without inspection or seizure
Is there anything shorter than `powershell.exe -executionpolicy unrestricted -file`?

powershell.exe -executionpolicy unrestricted -file ./setup_windows.ps1 -InstallPSWindowsUpdate -UpdateWindows -UpdateChocoPackages

setup_windows.ps1:
https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s...
This is basically it, and Chicago is the same: If you click on the image and zoom in, these diagonal streets are represented, their spokes are just so small you can't see them on the zoomed-out version on the page.
Llm's can also do some exploring based on combinatoric play of learned elements.
> In the scenario you presented, where you initially know the car is behind door 1, switching to door 2 still gives you a higher chance of winning the car.

That was funny.
I thought the whole "stick a transparent oled screen on the outside of glasses" was an idea that was proven not to work. Since that seems to be the display technology, I too am skeptical.
Picks up the pieces with the better part of a billion in free cash, after their labor expenses faffing around with the deal.
Personal Digital Security Guide
I've put together a detailed guide on Personal Digital Security for Apple users, titled "Risk Prevention - Not much in life is 100%", and I'm seeking feedback from the technical community here. This guide aims to provide a comprehensive approach to minimizing digital security risks with a focus on practical and effective strategies. It prioritizes the use of Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), emphasizing hardware keys, push-based, and TOTP/token-based methods over SMS due to its known vulnerabilities.

The guide covers various aspects of digital security, including the importance of securing mobile and financial accounts against SIM-swap scams, the use of unique, long, random passphrases, and the implementation of hardware security tokens. It also discusses enabling Apple's Stolen Device Protection and end-to-end encryption as critical steps towards safeguarding one's digital footprint.

I'm particularly interested in the community's take on these recommendations, any potential areas for improvement, or alternative strategies that might not have been considered. Your insights, critiques, and personal experiences would be invaluable in refining the guide to better serve those looking to enhance their digital security.
Does the same issue affect IPv6? Its pretty common to use multiple addresses with IPv6, so I guess it not much a problem.

Also was the first 2 paragraphs of the "In summary" written by ChatGPT?
> For a product name to be successful, it should appeal to a wide range of people.

Honestly, Google is called "Google". ChatGPT is called "ChatGPT". Maybe it'll be a joke, maybe people won't think about what they're calling it after 30 seconds.

This conversation is taking itself a bit too seriously for what's drifting into Pepsi logo gravitational pull territory, though.

> But I would point out that my comment, which is critical of the name change, is the very first comment in the entire thread.

Sure. Everyone has an opinion on what color the bike shed should be, too.
I admit I haven’t climbed Everest but an important principle of the backcountry (or elsewhere in nature) is “Leave no Trace”.

But Everest sounds like an urban environment.
“Back”=“black”
Then the process repeats -- someone sues over the FCC's interpretation of the new rule. What next?
Yeah, pretty much. I think Meta was more or less on record saying this back in the early 2010's. I think by the late 2010's they stopped doing this because they are well established in the market now.
Take lots of videos. At least 10 minutes per day of your baby.
For everything else, just trust your instinct.
Put career second. Baby first. You will have plenty of time later to make it up.
I still have my old slide rule (aluminum) and my Dad's (wood). I love the things, but had no idea somebody had built a web site and a company around them. After the zombie apocalypse, there will be no batteries and calculators won't work. But we'll be able to rebuild society with slide rules. If we can find any.

RIP.
I suspect you'd find relatively little of the world interested in such. There's no guarantee of anything. Sigmoid curves [1] are a thing that we've seen in just about every single neural network based system. And there seems to be a reasonable argument that that's what we're once again seeing here.

But even more importantly, it seems like the ultimate goal could be reasonably expected to drive large scale unemployment, with no clear replacement for such. Necessity is the mother of invention, but in this sort of scenario you're expecting kings of industry and politicians to put aside their greed and self interest for the sake of social good. The odds there are going to be overwhelmingly in favor of dystopia, which we substantially collectively sacrificed to achieve?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
sudo make me a sandwich!
Underwater drone swarm maker bids to reshape maritime surveillance missions
eh I think he just wants to go vertical, as his current moat is unstable.
The pace of progress here is pretty amazing. I loved how easy it is to get llamafile up and running, but I missed feature complete chat interfaces, so I built one based off it: https://recurse.chat/.

I still need GPT-4 for some tasks, but in daily usage it's replaced much of ChatGPT usage, especially since I can import all of my ChatGPT chat history. Also curious to learn about what people want to do with local AI.
> I just don't think it's tenable to have a regulation that says "If you're a company that sells digital goods with copy protection, you must always keep those goods available for download in perpetuity"

Why not ? Companies can remove that copy protection at any point and stop being subjected to that regulation.

It would still need a minimum period to let the user download their contents, but the rule feels straightforward to me.
I definitely believe it. I'm more worried about the scenario like that Marvel/Disney director who got fired because people found some off color tweet he made 10 years prior. Determined people can accomplish a lot, but removing some of the low hanging fruit would be nice.
Hardware was much simpler and less complex then than now. I wonder how or if that's changed by going from hundreds or thousands of transistors to billions.
If "rr dorit" and "rr xukla" work in isolation, then "rr dorit..xukla" with double dots should also work. Which step fails?
Oregon pioneered a drug policy. Now it's reconsidering
Indeed, hints are super-useful (essential!) for applying quick fixes when something unexpected suddenly happens in the optimizer's magic. Or you just want to instruct/nudge the optimizer towards doing the right thing, if you know the shape of your data and optimizer can't see it or doesn't act on it correctly for some reason. The downside is that people who don't really know what exactly they want to achieve, will start applying incomplete sets of hints in random locations, based on Internet searches. And sometimes you'd even get lucky, that single index hint makes the problem go away - for a while!

And few people tend to remove hints after DB version upgrades, where the optimizer magic (or your table stats) have improved. Now you're limiting optimizer's choices. That's been a problem (by now) for decades in the Oracle world with lots of legacy SQL code full of random hints where some of them aren't even valid anymore, but others still are - and limit optimizer's choices.

At least Oracle folks had enough at some point and introduced an "optimizer_ignore_hints" parameter [1], so all legacy hints that were added 20 years ago just get ignored - and the modern optimizer does a much better job getting things right.

I do regularly use hints in SQL tuning and troubleshooting experiments, just to verify and prove that a better plan is theoretically and physically possible - and if yes, then go from there. When the (deliberately placed) hints make the query faster, the next step is to check the hinted, faster plan's optimizer cost estimate and drill down from there: Why did optimizer think that the other plan was cheaper or why did the optimizer think that the faster plan was more expensive. Then you end up with measuring row-count misestimates, etc...

But yes, plenty of people (including myself) have made legacy Oracle apps run much more efficiently and faster just by globally telling the DB to stop paying attention to all the old random hints lingering on and gathering object stats using the modern settings & defaults (doesn't always work though).

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...
Great tip! I'm going to play with that idea
The fact that they switched from Yahoo after the Yahoo sale to Verizon was announced, and got Yahoo to keep paying them was a great move.

I talked to one of the corporate lawyers that worked that deal, and told him it was a genius move.
We absolutely owe it to ourselves to continue calling it what it is: twitter. X is a letter, not the name of a website.
Is he raising for OpenAI or for another venture? If he is using deep knowledge from OpenAI to raise money for another venture, this sounds wrong.
This is cool, but with the apparently random ordering it's just about impossible to find anything. Add sort buttons? A description of why this ordering is used?
And if they want to stop maintaining it, let them have the option of releasing it into the public domain and sending a digital copy to the library of congress or something.
This is not hard to understand. LLM can solve never before seen logic puzzles. This specific one proves that it HAD encountered this before, proving it was not doing anything emergent, but just basic remembering. Worse, it's not even reading the prompt correctly.
Right? I really struggle with corporate announcements because they water down the message until it's incomprehensible.
Yea, I imagine this is hacker news idolizing themselves a bit, i.e. "we are very smart and this is useful discussion." Unfortunately we don't have the GDPR here in the US, with a right to deletion like in the EU, and I don't expect we'll get those features without some privacy laws.
What has been a functional revolution with the Apple Vision Pro has been the combination of a super high-res OLED display (higher than anyone has seen before in a head mounted device), plus super-low latency tracking and processing. You open a window and no matter what you do with your head or eyes, it's just absolutely locked into place -- until you actively do something to make it move.

No one else comes close.

I want to see another level of revolutionary processing beyond that. And I don't think there's another company in the world that can do that today, or likely to be able to do that in five years. Maybe ten years. Perhaps. I hope.
No, the argument against it is the suicide rate and the lack of sex and dating and the fact that, all things considered, judging people on one gargantuan, life-determining test has no intrinsic value compared to the myriad other ways to assess knowledge and skills.
I have not. It looks like it just does some things Alfred was already doing 10 years earlier, and some ChatGPT. Seems like everything has ChatGPT integration these days. I don't think it's compelling enough for me to try tho personally, but I only skimmed the home page. The $8/mo subscription model turned me off a bit.
Well, if it is solving CAPTCHA better and faster than humans, that is a useful signal. Maybe they monitor how often an IP address figures something out and if it gets too many right they +1 a suspicion counter. I dunno. Implementing the CAPTCHA solving bot also takes time and expertise; it'd filter out some low-ability spammers.
They have done the job they were asked to do.

Prior courts said that they were going to use Chevron deference when interpreting the laws that congress passed, since it keeps them simpler, and allows the executive branch to apply common sense (while retaining safeguards in case agencies overstep their bounds).

The current court has repeatedly decided to arbitrarily reinterpret settled portions of the law by overturning existing rulings. Getting rid of chevron deference would be a continuation of that, though on a scale that probably exceeds the fraction of the US legal code the court has actually read.

The current courts' actions are unprecedented in the US. The Supreme Court is not supposed to overturn prior Supreme Court rulings, except in exceptional circumstances. They even went so far as to mostly overturn the 4th amendment when they eliminated the right to privacy as part of the Roe v. Wade ruling.

At this point they're looking more like an unchecked legislative branch than a judicial body. This is the reason they are wildly unpopular. They understand this, and they've explicitly said they don't plan to follow the wishes of the electorate. On top of that they've done a lot to undermine US election integrity with recent rulings.

However, given ongoing demographic shifts, there's a good chance they'll have to cope with a unified executive and legislative branch. At that point, expect court packing or impeachments. The only other path I see is some sort of apartheid-style setup designed to ignore the votes of anyone that's urban, educated, female, minority, or not elderly.
The ones, who should care to avoid US backdoors, built their own CPU's instead. And then came RISC-V
Most of the major Maya sites (e.g. Palenque, chich'en itza) have fairly well supported astronomical alignments, usually with the sun around equinoxes and solstices. It's usually at the level of individual buildings though, as the roads are rarely very straight except near the major ceremonial complexes.
Ok, he had a profound impact on me also.
More importantly, I would like to know the cause of death because I can't believe he died
so young. He was nearly obsessed with health, the hacker's diet, exercises, and lately paleo diet.

What the hell happened??? Anybody??
I don't think this is transparent oled screen (though it looks like in their reners) - idea seems similar to xReal that they are mirroring oled panel - in xReal it works well just their mirror beamers to bulky to use for daily use since too much distracting. Brilliant seems using some more advanced optics for light guiding.
1) That's my line.
2) OP's comment is what I come here for.
Wow he really jumped into the deep end of the pool, and is about to find out how hard hardware is, let alone custom chips! Apple didn’t even attempt it until the not so distant past and it was still seen as incredibly risky for them. And they weren’t innovating a whole new ASIC and nascent industry at the same time.

He’s got guts, but does he really have enough relevant experience in hardware (the hardest parts of it too) to think this will be successful? Where is all the confidence coming from?
Easier to ban the Flipper than admit to the public that ports in Quebec are run by the mafia which is what makes this entire issue with auto theft possible.
We will find out soon enough - GPT5 should be out later this year.
Walter was also a fixture in a small but active community of devotees of old-school HP and Tektronix test equipment, and I think he was active in 80s-era HP computer user groups as well. His storefront is still maintained by his wife: https://www.sphere.bc.ca/ .

Not to be missed is the 'classic' version of the site they maintained for years: https://www.sphere.bc.ca/oldsite/index.html
They could direct list publicly, no need to raise capital
While vertical integration is a great boon for a company, it's hard to pull off. Being an expert in industry X doesn't mean you'll do great in industry Y, even if they are complementary.

Training and designing LLMs doesn't mean you understand the semiconductors business.
This worked for us until we owned a house. Now, we get calls from random numbers multiple times a week, and if we don't answer, the house falls down or something.
I use this tool to visualize my queries: https://explain.dalibo.com/ (there's also https://www.pgexplain.dev/, last time the output was less nice, but now both look the same)