skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She gave herself 20-30 million dollars while the company tanked in every measurable way and devs got fired.

She's the reason we have Firefox and the modern web? What in the actual flippin bizarro dimension?

Besides being a member of the parasitic upper classes the leeches on all of our work while robbing to live on yachts and in mansions i don't see what she excelled at.

It's depressing how much this class of people is filled with nepotism, favours, family and an almost aristocratic talentlessness besides the random figureheads appointed PR.
Depends how they're done.

I try to push for people to actually stand up during a stand up, because that encourages the meeting to be short and to the point, not an hour of pointless waffle (and if it's an hour long meeting, waffle is probably an apt description).
"We'll Return, After This Message" is one of my all-time favorite short stories:
https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/sftriple/gpic.html
Reading this data from a program that writes to a file rather than disk is... of very low utility. It doesn't really tell you about how the filesystem performs. Not to mention that your numbers will very a lot depending on your h/w and the storage setup that hosts the file.
Yes, I'm stoked you brought this up, as I had previously googled and found some articles that recommend doing this in typescript. I haven't tried it out yet though, mainly because it seems like every article has a different approach to production-ready error handling in typescript and I don't know the best approach. Do you / does anyone have any suggestions for articles etc. on this?
It never was otherwise, WFH was the only thing that shifted little of these cards to the employees, you might didn’t get a high salary but you saved on commute/rent/etc., and yet, they fought tooth and nail to end it, job market in the US is a modern slavery, which should be obvious with a country that has no minimum days mandates for an annual vacation or getting fired to form a union.
I don't want to be so alarmist, but... haven't Brave kind of eaten Firefox lunch here?

Yes, Brave subtly pushes some crypto nonsense, but it also delivers on privacy, it focuses where it matters. (It also bundles IPFS and Tor in the base install, I believe.)

And you can say "oh it's still Chrome!" but - Chromium is FOSS, and to me, it shows that Brave focus on what matters (data privacy) and not on what doesn't (writing their own HTML, CSS, JS engine).

I don't agree with the opinion that browser needs to have its own rendering engine to be able to be focused on privacy. I think it's the opposite - using Chrome engine helps Brave to focus on what matters.

But it's just me. It's fun to build own browser engine, I get it, I just don't know if it's time and money well spent.
We already do, they're just much more primitive than our reality and very limited in the scope of what they simulate.

If we're in a simulation, it's possible the same is true. That our reality only is a simulation of some parts of the reality above ours, and at a lower fidelity.
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 3
exactly,

when Facebook actually did do this, Cambridge Analytica happened which is how they were forced to let 'higher order' (i.e. shady) players have the tweak-able ad-targetting marketplace they know and love
My BS detector is going off on this. It's such a monumental effort for what would quickly become pretty worthless scrap
I think the idea is rather silly. Look: we live one one little planet and right above us in the sky we can see that there are some 22 sextillion other planets, mostly empty gas giants. So if your question is “why are they simulating earth”, you’re way, way off base. What you need to explain is why someone is simulating 22 sextillion random gas giants. When you phrase it that way the question seems absurd.

On the other hand, if you think only the earth is real or only you are real and the rest is being faked, then you’re engaging in the most self indulgent solipsism imaginable. If there is a god, for them to place 22 sextillion worlds full of nothing right where we can plainly see them, but never reach them, is a pretty damn effective way to say “you’re not that fucking important.”
The site is called Hacker News, and its culture descends somewhat from the hacker culture of yore, in which aliases always featured prominently.

Even outside that culture, creative nicknames were the norm on the multitude of message boards like this one which were common before social media.

I suppose the custom persists because it is useful, and comfortable, and people like it.
It will be gone in less than 15 minutes if you're in NYC
Good comments. As much as I am personally engaged in small LLMs that I can run on my own computer, and integrate into software that I write for myself, I think the future of large scale adoption of AI belongs to Google, Microsoft, and Apple in western countries (and China is doing wonderful things in their markets).

The old Bard/Gemini integration with Gmail, Google Docs, etc. is pretty good. I signed up for a minute for Microsoft’s $20/month AI Office integrations, but cancelled and will try again in 2 months. I am an Apple customer and I expect spectacular things from Apple. I expect Apple, Google, Samsung, etc., to offer fantastic on device AI.

I would like to see a money saving Google bundling family plan. I find Apple’s super bundle family plan a pretty good deal.
They lost all that good will when they fired all the rust team.
That makes a lot of sense.

Do you think you'll find yourself widening to more traditional integration and automation use cases? Such as syncing contacts between Monday and Hubspot?
> Why would they not just steal two or three cars,

Is this a real question? You're coming at this with the position that car theft is so easy because it's easy to get away with and has a high rate of return. That only works if you have the connections with chop shops or exporters to be able to get money for that car. You also have to have the skills/tools for being able to steal the car in the first place. To flip that, the people that do steal cars would probably have no clue on how to dismantle a steel structure, have the means to load/haul that steel, or know what recycling places will even buy from them without immediately reporting it to police.
I've played fortnite on an off since there were seasons. I have no idea what the storyline is, there are some cut scenes when there is a new season but it make no sense. Claiming there is a storyline is a stretch, I think it is just cover for changing up the map/gear to keep it fresh.
Uh yeah .. Michelle Baker, who is one of the founders of Mozilla, the writer of the MPL and who played a role (for a time as the volunteer general manager of the mozilla org, then later again as an employee) in everything from Mozillas rise to - unfortunately - now its decline by being part of the org had "insinuated" herself into Mozilla. You obviously lack the knowledge about Baker and Mozilla to have any business making statements on this topic.

(If you wanna tell me that Michelle Baker recognized before mozilla.org even existed that it will have a meteoric rise, that the person who would have been CEO instead of her took himself out of the race and that that would allow her to make millions as CEO of Mozilla, all I can say is: I doubt that she has a crystal ball that good.)
Nile, Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS
a run is a workflow run. The demo video i recorded for example would be 1 run.

This way of measuring things is kind of falling apart because people can nest automations and loop them to run many times on many values. One 'run' of a heavily nested automation could actually lead to hundreds of runs do to nesting.

My co-founder and I have debated this at length and the only way we see to solve this is to add a credit based system and stop caring about runs altogether. Each node would have a credit cost and each plan would have monthly credit alotment. If you can think of a better way we're very open to suggestions!
While both have been coined "social media", I think there's a huge difference between content aggregation/discussion sites, and content creation sites. I think, deep down, everyone knows HN and its ilk are not "social media". It's a merely discussion forum at most.
No. She isn't entitled any “best whishes” or respect whatsoever when she's been draining Mozilla's money straight to her own pocket “to cover the needs of her family”. Parasitic behavior deserves shaming, that's it.
I think most of these are a bit boring. Not terrible by any means, but I think I prefer Godly if you're looking for some inspiration: https://godly.website
I use org mode (and a custom tangler, because Emacs' tangler is slow and gets slower with every file you tangle) precisely for Knuth-style literate programming.

The only reason I didn't mention it here was that GP was talking about running one SRC block at a time, rather than building the entire project to export and run as an executable.
>All internet users are tracked, either by American and American-allied intelligence services or their own governments, all the time. If you're in the Western sphere of influence everything

Curious how you imply in both of these statements that this is a uniquely "western sphere" government activity.

I suppose that the governments of China, Russia and all the myriad states that aren't part of the western sphere are simply privacy and freedom-loving paragons of not being irresponsible with state power?
As a cyclist and a driver I feel this is a horrible mentality, and sharing it openly gives all your fellow cyclists a poor reputation.
> it might have made more sense to iteratively change the infrastructure instead

Except iteratively changing the infrastructure requires political capital along with actual capital in the form of tax dollars. Self-driving cars can be built outside of existing infrastructure and paid for entirely with private funding.

Changing infrastructure is a nice idea in theory, but the practicality of getting anything done in SF means that if you want progress, you should look to other options.
That doesn't really make sense for motorcycles, tbh. It barely makes sense for the cars, but they at least have significantly larger batteries.
MBP user at home for 6 years and switched at least 3 MBPs at work (switching companies and generations of MBPs).
iPhone user for 3 years.
My gf has been using iPhones and iPads since who knows when. A couple of friends who are Apple users. I have heard zero complaints about bricked device.

I routinely heard and experienced issues with Windows and Android, though.
That's basically what's happening this evening, although I will be putting out a post about the free couch in the alley - and if nobody gets it on time, Chicago's garbage trucks pretty much take _anything_.
This is cool! However maybe I'm just old and grumpy now, but this seems like something that would have been awesome 10 years ago. Now does anyone really care though?
You're right, and I should've realized that, but I just used the browser translation and must've misread deutsch for dutch.

Regardless, the translation is close enough to yours (albeit grammatically awkward).
Apparently they're modified jet-skis with cheap FPV navigation equipment.

Yeah. I read about that recent sinking, momentarily cheered for Ukraine, and then thought about the larger implications and was like... man the USN is screwed, huh?
What are the frequencies here ? Can it all be done with SDR ?
Au contraire: you asked "... what is year-zero in 'CE' terms?"

Answer: "There is no year 0."
100k between 4-5 people, is a lot of money for a lot of people. Especially metal stealing ones
"Being in love with the tech doesn't make someone a good CEO."

I never said that this was a sufficient condition. I said it was a necessary condition.

We have spent decades trusting tech-illiterate CEO’s because "they knew the business and knowing the tech was useless".

See the result for yourself in every single company.
CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator
rebranding to Gemini was the right move IMHO and should've been done before the Bard branding. What do you want instead? "Google Assistant with Bard on Gemini Ultra 2" ? I'd prefer the "Google Gemini" branding better
> What’s the desire underneath the desire to check your phone?

This seems like a big question that gets elided in discussions of social media addiction. My understanding of "classic" addictions (ex. substances) is that there's typically some initial romantic experience or period where a person kind of falls in love with this ideological version of the object of addiction ("chasing that first high", but with a wider definition of "first high" than simply the first time they took the drug). Maybe they spend a beautiful month in Paris drinking wine all day long and that forms the bedrock of the later addiction, as they try and recreate th e magic of that experience ad nauseum. I've never really tried to reconcile phone addiction with this pattern though, but if we are going to call it a true addiction we should probably attempt to square these things up. Identifying the underlying desire, rather than just modeling the phone addict as someone simply pressing a dopamine button, seems like a more productive approach to developing a healthier relationship to technology. Like in my case, my worst scrolling behaviors occur when I'm avoiding something that I find overwhelmingly stressful. When I'm enjoying the outside world I rarely reach for me phone, it's only when I'm uncomfortable or anxious that I open Reddit or Insta (or when I'm waiting for my brain to finish waking up). Maybe targeting this anxious-avoidance would help me end the behavior, rather than trying to behaviorally hack my way off the phone.
> however Mitchell is a huge reason (if not THE reason) why we have Firefox today – and, even if you don't currently use Firefox, a huge reason why we have the web we have today.

IMHO, this is far too stretched. Give me a single project or initiative she pushed successfully that became a part of "the web we have today".
This is especially fascinating to me because I have such a K7 chip right next to me! I never had one in their heyday but built a K7 rig last year to test AGP 8x cards. It's a pretty impressive chip and my fastest retro CPU. Paired with a fast AGP card, it handles HL2 and Doom 3 pretty well.

These were the last 32-bit chips from AMD before they introduced AMD64 to the world with the Athlon64. They would eventually gain dual-channel DDR memory with KT880 chipset, the last mainstream 32-bit AMD consumer chipset in 2004. [0]

[0] https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/mainboard/724-via-kt880-chips...
Ransomware Payments Hit a Record $1.1B in 2023
Yes, but it’s extremely unstable. You’ll never copy all photos in one go.
> iTunes on PC has always been so much worse than iTunes on Mac.

Like Flutter, its unfixable jankiness comes from not using native controls. Anyone using iTunes for Windows is really using a bit of pre-X Mac OS in the form of Carbon/QTML. This is surely one of the reasons that Apple is gradually giving iTunes for Windows that Viking funeral you're asking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_2.x
Anyone familiar with the syntax / jargon should be able to answer this specific problem in ~5 seconds of thinking, though. And I mean it, even a 10yo kid should...
Rereading "Atlas Shrugged"
Sorry, my bad. Thanks for correcting, I've edited my comment.
AI summary isn't even available on my Pixel 8 Pro. I have little hope of using Gemini in Q1.
How is that even possible? Was it located somewhere that limited their ability to bring in water?

I just can't imagine a small scooter being that difficult to contain. Usually reignition is the big risk here rather than containment.
I can assure you, the amount of people who daily forks of ff is even smaller than the amount of people who hate Mitchell Baker.
> 'PFAS bad' is about as sophisticated a viewpoint as 'nuclear bad'.

Is PFAS denialism going to be as bad as climate change denialism is today, or tobacco disease denialism used to be? I'm tired of all these people refusing to acknowledge widespread scientific consensus. (Assuming you're not a 3M or DuPont astroturfer, of course.)
The operators of a computer simulation are not deities in the sense that most atheists would say they could prove didn't exist.
I wonder if it would be possible to use DXVK here for windows guests to play those unruly games. That is have a pass through direct x driver in windows that sends all the commands to dxvk which either sends the image back to the vm or renders directly on the screen.
Damn. Even more censored than GPT. My gf is a model and I use GPT all the time to write the alt text descriptions of her photos, but it balks regularly on things like lingerie photos. Same crap with Gemini:

"Sorry I can't help with that image. Try uploading another image or describing the image you tried to upload and I can help you that way."
Also what happened to the economy minister was not a cool thing to do.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpCjLxICKg
The world has changed in odd ways. Ten or twenty years ago, this would seem like very ambitious drug addicts. Today, there’s a real chance that this will turn out to be a prank for Internet cred. And as strange or unlikely as that sounds, a guy recently made the news for intentionally crashing a plane for internet cred. I sure never would have imagined that.

We live in interesting times and that’s not always a good thing.
Ok, but then again what do we earn from normalising the talking points of the other side ? You're adding shit to the shit pile, but it brings nothing to the table for "your" side
AGI implies there are no cognitive tasks that some humans can perform, yet that this AI can not perform. Otherwise, what is the point?
Somewhere in the middle between the serious recap and the short joke remains this incredible video essay trying to explain the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwEwxKkCGJE
> Yeah a terrorist attack like the Maine in 1898 (or twin towers in 2001) can turn Americans into hawks.

Not just that. Also gullible and manipulable. Putting tremendous power in the hands of those who would abuse it.
I thought that name for Caml was a backronym. I thought it was for "Cambridge ML".
Standing up is not enough for some managers to cut it short. I recommend standing on one leg, or keeping your arms raised.
I have astigmatism and dark mode is hard to read.

Black text on white background all day.
True. My point being that all of mega tech corps are like hive intelligences. They are all optimizing for shareholder value. At that scale, the individuals don't really matter.

If you make your Job your identity, you're in for a big surprise. The truth is that most of us are replaceable. We are not special snowflakes in the eyes of Mega Tech Corps.
They have JDAMs, and their opposition doesn't have AA... or tanks. Less need for 155mm
The bigger issue is that I don't have a means to transport it. If I can find someone to pay me to come get it, it's a win-win. But every day the price drops. And if it's not gone by this afternoon, it's going to the alley with a "buy-nothing" post. Pretty sure it'll be gone within an hour after that.
Good points.

I will comment though: Passive skepticism is important too. At this stage, the bigger problem is treating one study outcome as if it were fact. Dismissing established, well-replicated science is, of course, a problem as well, but at least from what I've seen, the much bigger problem is that you have one correlational study. Popular media runs with it. People make products based on it. The underlying science is nonsense.

The good news is that it's also possible to solve. There is constant progress in science, of course, but if we ignore all science from the past 20 years, we're still left with pretty good science (at least for the level of policy-making and personal decision-making). Simply ignoring anything recent solves the hype problem. And for all the anti-vaxxers and flat earthers, those are still minorities since recognizing established science is actually not especially hard.
Not necessarily. I firmly think we need a non-Chrome based alternative, and through actual use, think that current Firefox ain’t it.
We will see which kind of data privacy they pivot to this time.

- The one that puts the data subject in the focus and protects the end user

- The one that aims to cut out Google and tries to hand out pieces of the cake to other companies.

I hope not the second kind again. We've already been there with Mozilla's investments into Cliqz GmbH and Hubert Burda's empire.
Having taken training in the past for professional coaching (not this life coaching nonsense), it is made very clear that you are NOT anything close to a licensed therapist and you can get in Very Big Trouble doing something close to practicing without a license. The proper response is to cut that line of questioning off and tell the person to hire a therapist.

Generally coaching is intended to be forward-looking with an intent to solve a specific problem or question, specifically so as not to encroach on what a therapist does helping someone unpack their baggage from the past.
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The anecdata here suggests that Gemini Ultra is marginally to moderately worse than GPT-4 at some prompts despite launching roughly a year later with an entrenched player to compare against. It also seemingly is more censored.

I don't think Google is structured well-enough to actually compete in a novel space, the politics and especially the inertia around AI-safetyism that has slowed Google down in the past will continue to slow them down. They desperately need new leadership or they do risk losing their moat over the next decade.
Everyone loves a stupid criminal, so it would make sense it would be a local scrapyard. If they were "smart", they would split it up across multiple scrapyards so that it was much less obvious. The fun thing would be to find a new tower that suddenly appeared in another location that happens to look just like this missing one.
I would also reply to emails when earning 30 million dollars. It's not THAT hard.