skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only use Firefox and it's great. I actually use Librewolf and it very rarely has issues with sites. What do you think is wrong with it?
nah the idea is that people who want to pay less will jump few hoops and get the cheaper deal

People who dont care will pay the higher price because they dont care.

They must be making enough money of the people who dont care, to make up for the loss of people who will pick other service
I wish I had been this smart.
They are getting a new CEO, not becoming a cooperative...
It’s not “old Western” against “new non-Western.”

Lots of “old Western” ideas are Islamic, and plenty of new ideas are very Western.

Barthes, Chompsky, T.S. Eliot and Foucault are as Western as you get.
In California chp has been dealing with a spat of road rage related shootings. Can’t get into one of those on the bus. These games don’t win arguments when you can cherry pick stories like this from both sides.
>> "At least Hyundai hasn't been faking emissions tests..."

Not to devil's advocate, but it's tough to prove a negative.
All we can say for sure is that they've not been caught yet.
Actually, Valve owns that space. They have 132 million active monthly users. For comparison, Xbox has 120 million. Seems like only a minor lead until you look at the revenue: Steam (Valve) brings in ~$8 billion in revenue whereas Xbox brings in ~$4 billion.

Microsoft's operating overhead with Xbox is also vastly greater than Steam. Supposedly they make ~$28 every time they sell an Xbox One. That's based on just the manufacturing/parts cost of the hardware and doesn't include the costs associated with developing the hardware itself where they don't just take off-the-shelf chips and throw in an existing OS (like the Steam Deck) but instead custom-engineer a processor/architecture and make their own custom operating system.
It’s probably not the whole story, but having tropical locales in which to film your marketing materials (which is often videos of yourself, these day, for most or all of the categories you mentioned) can be part of selling your image as a smashing success, which is very useful if your spiel is “pay me and I’ll teach you to be as successful as I am!”

Lower cost of living probably also helps if you’re not as successful as you’re letting on.
Gemini the crypto platform…?
I can't think of any important things Mozilla has created since pushing Brendan Eich out 9 years ago. That's almost a decade and billions in revenue they've burned through.

There's now almost no programmers on the board or in senior leadership positions. The interim CEO they picked is an MBA who ran a business line at AirBnB.

It seems like another case of MBAs taking over.
This would be useful for anyone who needs to run bleeding edge linux kernels. Most other hypervisors have poor support when you're pinned to testing distros (For security reasons). KVM and virt-manager are uh not exactly user friendly, so being able to use the KVM backend and always be compatible with the new kernels while having the UX and UI of vbox is actually a very huge deal. This is one of the main reasons I really really hope you all manage to upstream this.

I built and tried this, it worked great, so excellent work there. I found the processor CPU core counts being grayed out unpleasant, it's not clear to me how I am supposed to adjust my core and ram values now, maybe document this?
> Texas is absurdly large

I love your state and hope to be there for the 2024 Total Eclipse in April. (RV parking for a night, anyone, lol?)

But yeah, driving the great state of Texas takes some time, doesn't it? o_O

I was surprised when I started to scroll maps and trip plan .. and I'm saying this as a Canadian -- most of our 10 provinces and all of our 3 territories are bigger in area than Texas but a whole lot less populated. Looking forward to Texas splendour...
There are some really ingenious ways to make a self driving vehicle that won't collide with other vehicles. But they all end up just becoming a train/trolley.

Steering? Rails.

Anti-collision? Signals.

Fuel/Charging? Overhead power lines.
The 'future' likely doesn't have a browser in it at all.
If you find that people need to discuss so much that it takes too long and people aren't paying attention, those discussions need to go into another meeting.

Having a good product owner is important for coordinating meetings in general. Standups should be for tracking progress on tasks and nothing more. If someone is blocked they should briefly state why and follow up ASAP, but after the standup.
A princess doesn't have to explain herself.
Individuals are icebergs. 90% is under the waterline, out of sight.
I would say that your guess is probably not correct. Liter bikes are expensive, frivolous purchases yet tech people generally have a lot of disposable and at a younger age.

My first purchase as a grad was a sports car, followed a year later by a cbr1000. And I don’t mean first big purchase. I literally took my employment contract with wet ink to the bank for a loan.
Twitter has over 300 million users. A pub frequented by known Nazis has 5 or 6 orders of magnitude less users.
As someone who generally hates Apple, I actually enjoyed iTunes on Windows in the ~2007-2012 era when I had to use it to manage my iPod Touch (and second one a friend gave me, since I ran out of space on the first, spreading the MLPMusicArchive across both). Performed fine on my somewhat-potato laptops, had a nice interface and search function, got the job done syncing the iPods. I never got the big deal about iTunes in particular.
Seconding this. I was phone free for an entire year, only to get re-addicted a few months later.
I don't believe that her past actions need to be taken into consideration when wishing her the very best for the future.

This is slightly unrelated to the point I was trying to make, but I don't think us commentors are entitled to make passes at her character or doubt her motives. Perhaps from your position it seems like an objective fact that Baker was engaging in morally dubious acts (I personally don't think so) but that still doesn't give you (or any of us!) a right to judge her. We do not know her personally so I don't think we have any right to shame her at all. That's just my opinion, I know its controversial, feel free to argue.

Argue is the wrond word there, it makes it seem like I'm silently judging you from a higher pedestal (though I suppose this entire comment gives off that impression) but if you have any questions feel free to ask me. Again this makes it seem like I'm in a position of superiority, I don't know of a better way to phrase it.
It's pretty amusing and it is not the first time I've seen this. Random example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38387168

It's a little scary that it can be so hard to evaluate the correctness of these LLMs even when we are paying close attention and looking for mistakes. Or maybe the scary part is that we can become biased when we want to believe.
Lots of tech companies are laying off people, and generally not all layoffs are wrong. How do you distinguish whether Mozilla's layoffs, etc, are wrong?

I agree about the pay.
anything larger than 7.62mm (.30, like 30-06 or 308, or maybe 12ga slugs) is comparatively uncommon -- even in the US. clearly this is disappointing, as the founding fathers intended for us to own 12 pounder cannons. "tally ho lads!", etc.

and when it comes to mortars, arty, etc, they don't fire that many rounds in training and exercises. even during the Iraqi-led pushbacks against ISIS, where US Marine artillery fired a ton of rounds in support, there was little over-all impact on supply. before that, counter insurgency work generally doesn't use much artillery -- though lord knows they tried to until around mid-to-late 2004.

by comparison, estimates are as high as 20k-50k shells per day in Ukraine.
Oh, lol, you're right. Seems like I'm dumber than both AIs. GPT-4 mixed up `h` and `f`, so it also got it wrong, so this is a draw and both AIs (and, apparently, myself) are terrible at reasoning. Guess we're not curing cancer with computers anytime soon :')
Oh my god, Google her.

I also disagree with her salary while layoffs were happening, however recent raises don't negate the fact that she also built Mozilla from the start.

She's not a member of the parasitic upper class. She was laid off from Netscape 20+ years ago, and just never stopped. She kept volunteering for free, and eventually lead the charge to spin it off into its own entity.

You can dislike where Firefox is headed, or be upset about Firefox layoffs (I was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135032).

But to act like Mitchell lives in a mansion while leaching off people?? She started from nothing and worked hard on the same mission for 20+ years.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16024.pdf

Yes, their POC uses SDR
As someone without an Xbox, nor friends that play Xbox, Xbox's naming is terrible and confusing. It used to not bother me when I followed Xbox news and was "in the know", but now it's irritating.

Xbox -> Xbox 360 -> Xbox One -> Xbox Series (?). I still don't know whether S or X is the "good one". Compare it to Playstation: PS1 -> PS2 -> PS3 -> PS4 -> PS5. The upgraded line is "PS $number Pro".

Someone can tell me they have a PS5 Pro, and I know what they mean. They could tell me they want a PS6 and I know what they mean, even if the PS6 hasn't even been announced yet.

Someone tells me they have an Xbox One X and my eyes glaze over. Prior to now, that means nothing to me. I don't know when the Xbox One came out, I don't know if it's their newest line, I don't know if X is the Pro or if it's the budget. The S and X may not even indicate pro and budget, but I think they do.

At least Nintendo's names are kind of cute. It's still silly, but at least Wii or Switch is kind of endearing. Xbox Series X sounds like they let an edgy teenager name it; having X on both ends reminds me of the days of xX420ShadowRanger69Xx usernames. Also doesn't make a clean acronym; XSX is both hard to say and makes me think more of SXSW than Xbox.
While there is an effort to make this so, it does not yet appear to be law: https://www.calbike.org/bicycle-safety-stop-faqs/
Show HN: AutoRAG – AutoML tool for RAG. Find an optimal RAG pipeline
- Discovering the most effective RAG pipeline for your specific data and use case can be daunting. It requires experimenting with various RAG modules and configurations, which are both time-consuming and complex.

- AutoRAG addresses this challenge by automatically evaluating different combinations of RAG modules and their parameters. You don't need to write implementation code yourself; everything is set up through a single YAML file.

- Our aim is to save you the hassle of continuously adapting to new RAG modules and configurations. Instead, you can focus on developing robust data for your RAG-based products.

- In our test using the Eli5 dataset, AutoRAG improved retrieval performance by 11% and generation performance by up to 22%.

Although AutoRAG is in its early stages, we are releasing it as open-source software, hoping it will be valuable to those involved in RAG pipeline development. We welcome any feedback, feature requests, bug reports, and more.

Plus, we really want to be one of the solutions that RAG developers share their own pipeline each other. Please feel free to share your works with others using AutoRAG.

Thank you:)
To my experience (and if only the filename is needed) the "-1" option helps saving some time too.
Be aware that output from ls without options differ, if redirected.

time (real user sys) in seconds with 1e6 files in a xfs filesystem. Directory used 27 MB space.

ls -l > /dev/null : 49.12 23.90 13.47
ls -lU > /dev/null : 46.62 33.11 8.01
ls > /dev/null : 6.36 1.97 3.63
ls -1 > /dev/null : 2.49 1.83 0.36
ls -1U > /dev/null : 0.31 0.18 0.08
(find) : 0.77 0.49 0.19

and for 1e6 files in an ext4 filesystem. Directory used 23 MB space.
(but as i had no ext4 fs with one million free inodes on a loop device)

ls -l > /dev/null : 51.39 34.02 11.39
ls -lU > /dev/null : 47.39 30.72 11.09
ls > /dev/null : 4.83 3.56 0.65
ls -1 > /dev/null : 4.46 3.45 0.50
ls -1U > /dev/null : 0.51 0.18 0.26
(find) : 1.29 0.76 0.36
Most people don't fear hard work, they fear being beholden to other people. Ain't nobody hiring a contractor under the terms of "Yeah, go ahead and build me a house however you like, whenever you feel like it. I don't care about what you do."
They do say that. Maybe the legal liability is on the driver, but that doesn't mean much. All behaviors together from everyone involved is what leads to accidents. If the cyclist feels that the law is all the protection they need to avoid being hit and enter an intersection without looking, or worse, assuming that someone will stop for them, then obviously the premise of their safety was flawed and they made a decision that lead to their death or injury. The accident happens no matter who gets the blame.
For what it's worth, my 'translation' would be, "The strong aversion to less colorful designs seems childish, and may go hand in hand with designs that treat the user as inept. I don't like being treated as inept or incapable."

Seems both more likely and more charitable.
one more reason to buy an oversized truck -- "gotta haul my ammunition!"
> (...) it's getting harder and harder for the rest of us to maintain our $4,000/round artillery habits.

The $4,000/round figure sparked my curiosity, and after checking it looks like the actual unit price is below $2,000.

There are some beefy pricetags being floated around, buy they are calculated indirectly by dividing the total cost of a ammo supply contract by the number of artillery rounds ordered. From the article, I wouldn't be surprised if those contracts also covered investments required to ramp up production, which is also covered by this article.
ERRATA: I just noticed GPT-4 mixed up `h` and `f`, so it also got it wrong. This is a draw. Both AIs (and, apparently, myself) are terrible at reasoning. Guess we're not curing cancer with computers anytime soon :')
I use it for local backups of iOS devices, not for music.
They could consider dropping Gecko in favor of Blink, which would save a lot of engineering resources that could be used to implement features instead of web compatibility, and would effectively guarantee that Firefox will be always strictly better than Chrome (since it would be Chrome minus the Google antifeatures plus the Mozilla features).
Car-T cells melt tumours in mice – using a trick from cancer cells
PTP is part of the backbone of something like TrueTime. Meta uses their PTP infrastructure for a lot of the same basic fundamentals, including consistent read replicas, like Spanner does. PTP is a protocol for synchronizing the wall clock time of a set of computers under very tight error bounds, so that all of the servers have a very consistent and tight "view" of what time it is.

Now, independently of replica strategies, it's important to understand TrueTime is an API, to be clear, as you noted. It lets you represent some continuous interval of time based on the system clock error. You can then use this API to do things like ask "Did timestamp A occur before B?" And you can get an API equivalent to TrueTime on your own random Linux machine, using the Clock-Bound tools from AWS, combined with the chrony NTP daemon: https://github.com/aws/clock-bound

The API and all that is pretty basic, actually. Rather, the secret behind TrueTime and the like is just a huge amount of reliability engineering to ensure that the upper bound target (7ms IIRC from the Spanner paper) is actually maintained reliably and accurately, at global scale. That reliability means engineers can build on it with specific guarantees. You can slap chrony, ClockBound-D, and a PTP card into your rack and program away. But it's a matter of engineering guarantees more than like, theoretical computer science. Theoretically speaking, TrueTime can only help you definitively establish that some event A has actually "happened before" B in a distributed system. That's extremely powerful but it needs muscle backing it up to be true and useful in practice.

AWS has publicly advertised that EC2 has access to their 'AWS Time Sync' service, which is a globally consistent clock synchronization service designed to provide the backbone needed for services like TrueTime, and is freely available. Assuming you are willing to trust the EC2 network and AWS engineers, you can slap chrony and ClockBound-D on your AWS instances and get a TrueTime-like API with very tight global error tolerance, which would allow you to do consistent read replicas like Spanner, among other tricks
You should also check if the coverage depends on who does the stealing. Like, if your house is stolen into the spirit world like in Poltergeist. Clearly, this wasn't an act of God.
Mitchell Baker wasn't CEO while Rust was growing up, and within six months of taking up the position again she'd laid off Mozilla's Rust team. It's totally fair that she gets exactly zero credit for Rust's success.
Design studios also tend to be a lot smaller and their reputation is more transparent than tech companies. If I was applying for a job to be a designer at IBM, I'd be more wary, but you're also much less likely to be doing the really deep-digging conceptual stuff in those roles. But when it comes to the really deep conceptual work, the chance of joining a low-productivity team or even just not jibing with them is too great. That stuff is like the equivalent of troubleshooting skills in dev. The "getting to know you" conversation would be like giving a developer some leetcode questions without actually seeing if they're good at solving problems. Like I said though, it's easier when you're talking about a business with like 15 people that you probably at least have a friend of a friend that's worked there. I guess it boils down to having the benefit of community. Also, these jobs tend not to be as sticky as dev jobs and people move between them a lot, so it's easy for you to slide on to the next place.

I also have to say that the shittiest, most toxic and manipulative job I've ever had didn't have a particularly robust hiring practice. It was my first white collar tech job so I was already used to shitty manipulative employers in lower-level support jobs and didn't catch it. They were perfectly content to figure out how to exploit people after they were hired.
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iTunes makes the crapplets that other companies (including Microsoft) look great.
I understand why people want to write in python, but I don't understand why anyone wants to use software written in python if it might be sensitive to latency, performance or interactivity.
Exactly. Which is the rationale for asking about past trauma in an interview. If the interviewee locks up in a traumatic flashback then they're clearly not prepared to do the job.

Again: I'm not defending the practice. It's a really gross metric, and a really gross (in the other sense) method. I just haven't seen this thread demonstrate much understanding of what's actually going on.

You're 100% correct about crisis intervention training. I had a few sessions - of dubious worth - while I was a teacher. I worked in a group home for troubled kids for a bit, and that one included learning physical restraints - which I did end up needing. My best mentor, however, was a grizzled old waitress who took a drag on a Camel (cigarette), shrugged, and said "you just gotta let them have their say". She was a wizard at de-escalation.
Show HN: GPT grader for your startup's bookkeeping
Is your accountant actually doing a good job with your books? It’s kinda impossible to know.

But LLM context windows are now large enough that you can feed your entire balance sheet and P&L into the LLM and ask it to point out things that might be errors (or that could be optimized). With the right prompting, it produces results that are… surprisingly good.

So I hacked together a little tool around it, combining some LLM checks with some deterministic checks of a few things that are usually signs of a problem in QuickBooks. I’m pretty happy with it.

My main critique so far is that some of the LLM output feels a little bit like a horoscope: specific enough to feel tailored, but vague enough to be true for anyone. In my testing, it always seems to want you to be more profitable (which, in its defense, is probably a nearly-universally-true statement about businesses.)

On the backend it’s Python and Flask, and it uses a mix of Claude (Anthropic) and OpenAI for different parts of the prompt.

I’ve always been shocked at how manual the job of doing the books is, and I’m very bullish on stuff like this to both (a) improve quality, and (b) actually make the job more enjoyable.

I incidentally happen to be a founder of an accounting firm, but this was a nights-and-weekends hackathon-style project made by me and a person on our marketing team--don’t tell the engineers :)

Trying this out (perhaps obviously) requires a QuickBooks Online account. If you don’t have one, you can watch a short screen recording of it working here: https://youtu.be/Xvqnzr82XVc

Very interested in your feedback. I'll be checking this all day to answer any questions.
This would be a great plot element in a post-apocalypse film. Mad Max meets The Coal Miner's Daughter.
This seems like a case of comparing apples and oranges. Human language processing is largely based on sounds and requires extensive immersion to even be able to differentiate sounds, syllables, words, tone, etc. That is—you need a lot of training to even figure out what to look up (ignoring the tech-assisted technology that is still extremely rough in my experience).

There's no parallel to programming languages even in the slightest. Especially once you recognize patterns across syntaxes, the immediate value of understanding any one programming language plummets to near zero. Exceptions might be:

- SQL, just a singularly useful syntax to internalize. Probably also goes for datalog if you use that.

- Bash

Actually, that's all I can think of.
I currently run Plex on my home media server, a long with Plexamp for streaming to my mobile device. Works like a charm.
Anecdote from my old job:

Management issued a directive that there should be "no failed sprints". Teams started either putting 1-3 small tickets on the sprint, or filling the sprint with tickets which have already been technically completed (during the previous sprint, naturally). Any difficult or complex tickets were simply not placed on a sprint until they were figured out.