skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Faster what? Runtime performance or startup performance? I bet QuickJS would be the fastest to startup from 0 (no JIT = no warmup)
Another fun experience: X-plane + VATSIM. Decent quality flight sim plus community of real-time simulated air traffic controllers.
Highly recommend this podcast
Then what exactly is the CEO responsible for? Is there a single thing Mozilla does that is relevant anymore?
"Philosophy and Animal Life" is a collection of essays from the recent hard-hitters in English speaking philosophy
Once you remove corporate personhood from corporations, there's nothing left. They can't sue, enter into contracts, be sued, or own things, making them unable to serve their intended purpose.

Ah, but you'll say, the law should recognize a distinction between humans and corporations! It does. Corporate personhood is nothing more than a way of talking about the rights, privileges, and obligations, which corporations share with humans. When push comes to shove, the fiction is dispensed with, this is called "piercing the corporate veil"[0], terminology which shows that this is understood to be reasoning by analogy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
I always find it frustrating to read HN comments expressing hatred towards mobile and whitespace-rich designs.

These designs exist based on user research, as most people find them pleasant and intuitive. I don't understand what's wrong with these design patterns.
Spot-on. That treadmill keeps moving faster and faster and eventually everyone falls off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj02_UeUnGQ is also good
Show HN: Open-source coding assistant with terminal access
Sweep is an AI coding assistant that reads your files and runs code in your terminal. It takes a list of files and instructions, and performs edits using GPT4. For example, you can tell Sweep to reference a.tsx to localize b.tsx.

We previously worked on Sweep as a bot that generated pull requests from GitHub issues. We learned that AI needs validation (like formatters and unit tests) to code properly. We tried setting up a code sandbox for each user but this didn't work well. We’re now relying on the prebuilt dev environment on their machine to avoid having to install dependencies.

LLM based pipelines are also error-prone. Our previous project was a pipeline that turns the issue into relevant files as context, relevant files to a generated plan of files to change, and then the generated plan to a series of code changes. It’s frustrating when one/all of these steps fail and you’re forced to start over. You can now intervene at each step, making the entire process more reliable.

Sweep is open source (licensed under AGPL) and runs entirely on your laptop. The only remote calls will be to OpenAI. We'd love to help you perform software chores like version upgrades, where you describe a set of changes to have Sweep apply over multiple files. You can install Sweep here with a one-line command: https://docs.sweep.dev/assistant. We'd love to hear any feedback you have!
What does a (local) government alert have to do with marketing calls?
The Rich have to write and vote on the bill that will raise their taxes.
I've used these lines several times without a first-class ticket and I've never had my boarding group checked. Nobody cares. It's all the same security.

If you get "caught" just play confused.
A good tactic I use is as stated + if you see a number you don't recognize is to answer and then put yourself on mute and wait. Typically robocalls just hang up after a few seconds of silence.
> But in reality it's both Pakistan and India

If you want to stay up at night - India, Pakistan, and China basically had a Cuban Missle Crisis level event in 2019-2020.

India and Pakistan almost went to war in 2019 after the Pulwama attack [0] and then India and China were a trigger away from starting a war over the Galwan river [1].

[0] - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/25/india-pakistan-came...

[1] - https://theprint.in/defence/nearing-breaking-point-gen-narav...
In my country 98% of all workers are under union contracts - this has always just been a fact of my working life and I never knew how different it could be in other places until rather recently.

The lack of unionization and mandatory PTO in the US is the most foreign concept imaginable.
I don't think I've ever read "I'd love to donate, but if only Mitchell Baker weren't making such a mess of it"; I've only read "I'd love to donate, but Mozilla won't let me donate to the browser" and similar, which AFAIK is still true.
I for sure hope they thought about the risk of that infrastructure being damaged. There better be backup heating sources at least for hospitals.
Like this?
https://gotit.pub/
It's more efficient for society as a whole. Public transit simply moves more people using less space and less energy, causing fewer deaths, while also being more equitable to boot.

And your comment noted, it's a godsend for the mind. I've moved to a country with public transit and haven't commuted by car in the last 5 years. Daily driving was destroying me.
They can, but in my case that still doesn't get them in my inbox since those messages go elsewhere.
+1 it has always confused me too - security, while imperfect, does make a difference
They've been pushing for an alternative driver model (EGLStreams vs GBM) and only recently capitulated.
You also have to by physically near them.

> The universe isn't naturally shaped in a way that makes interrupting difficult, and never has been.

Yes it is... physical space is shaped to keep most people from being able to interrupt you. Being able to call anyone around the world changed that.
It's too close a match for it not to be

> The story concerns [...] an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire.
The criminals are running the government. If you or I did anything like the congress critters we’d be jailed (just look at insider trading).
Sure. I asked the question based on my past experiences, I don't have a project that I am actively working on at the moment, but I have a few ideas that I am in the planning stage and waiting for the right moment.

At this point I organize my ideas according to my own skills and technical development load. I have pure R&D projects that require technically intensive development. I have a few other ideas in the field of financial technologies (the company I currently work for also works in this field, so I have experience and ideas in fintech) that I am still in the planning stage.

In addition to these, I have a software studio in 50/50 partnership with a close software developer friend of mine, where we develop in-house mobile apps. Occasionally we take outsourced work from different companies. We don't have an established strategy here for now, but this is something to think about.

By the way, you can find my e-mail address in my profile. Can you send me an email to stay in touch? I would love to exchange ideas
Thank you for spending the time to look at this. I really appreciate. You are right. I think I need to change the wording I don't really mean crowdsource. I just mean to share with your friends / followers to invite to participate. It's just a fun one off thing. I am just wondering if there is some viral DNA in this
But saying "it's a website" implies that you need internet connectivity to use it. That's not necessarily a requirement for PWAs.
Yeah, it's amazing.

If I say buy an Apple iPhone and its very likely they turn up with an iPhone maybe not the one I told them but a new Apple iPhone.

But if I say Samsung Android, they are just as likely to buy some weird no-name Android because it was a color they wanted or size or something the salesman pushed on them cause "Android is Android right?"
just rule robo calls illegal.

this is a baseless distinction.

if there's not a human on the other side, it's illegal. easy to prove, record a call, ask some dumb questions and all is simple.

this is a pointless line.
I haven't tested asking it explicitly to search, but it does incorporate answers that are very recent and unlikely to be in it's training dataset
There is independent oversight through the tax courts but your typical person off the street can't afford to defend themselves from the united states government.

You have an idealistic assumption that people who are targeted for audits or fines are all guilty of tax fraud. This isn't true. Sometimes is just a matter of them losing supporting documentation.
Yeah, and my app got rejected because it links to other webpage...
Having the sudo command open an entirely separate terminal as an admin user is absolutely ridiculous and completely on brand for Microsoft.

Along with the UAC dialog, I can't think of a worse way for sudo to behave.

What's wrong with entering your password for sudo? How is UAC more secure than a password?
Related isn't it just the absolute worst when you find a song you love by an artist you've never listened to, and subsequently going to all the rest of their discography, liking absolutely none of it and it turns out the song you loved was just kind of a one-off thing from them?

Not saying every musician has the obligation to chase my personal tastes of course but it never fails to get a sigh out of me, haha.
The purpose of this hurricane rating scale is to "provide some indication of the potential damage and flooding a hurricane will cause upon landfall." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale
Brand erosion takes time, so "force awakens" was seen by nearly every star wars fan, giving it a try. But if they were disappointed they were less likely to see it's sequel "the last jedi" which numbers show that I believe. If trust was further shaken by the quality of "the last jedi" then the numbers for it's sequel "the rise of skywalker" would reflect that. If trust was further shaken by the TV offerings like "Mandelorian" or "Book of Boba Fett" or "obi-wan kenobi" show, then those would also progressively have less and less viewership and less and less subscribers to streaming services like Disney+.

A business can do something that makes a ton of money and still tarnishes their brand and their relationship with their fans. So those fans thinking its a flop, even if it was a financial success isn't quite wrong.
https://archive.ph/t1Dcn
As I wrote, TSA-Precheck is a pretty big win if you travel almost any amount at all. I'm usually through in 5-10 minutes though I don't count of it Global Entry is more variable but it costs very little more if you travel internationally.

I'll generally worry less about loyalty programs beyond a bare minimum going forward as I travel less. But Pre-check/GE seem like a win for even semi-regular travelers.
I don't get their marketing pitch. The idea seems to be to brand water as if it were an energy drink or alcoholic beverage. I'd have thought that the appeal of the irony would wear thin very quickly.
We have a spending problem, not an income problem. Taking more of people’s money isn’t going to solve the core problem that our spending needs serious cuts. You think your political opponents are bad faith actors because you’ve never actually listened to their core beliefs and only know about them through a lense painted by their opposition who favor bigger government.

Conservatives want the government cut down significantly, not to find creative ways to get more money.
It might be true that devices could connect across the US-Canadian border, but most borders are dead spots.

I suspect that, when territory was being scammed, stolen, claimed, fought over, whatever... borders tend to develop in those places where there isn't a big population. And those borders have tended to remain empty. There will be exceptions, but not enough to matter.

Short of science fiction devices, I dunno wormholes or split-particle pairs or whatever, I don't think this is viable.
Multics and AS400：DPS8M on IBM PASE for I (OS/400)
I feel the same way about all the new-ish toll roads in Southern California. It feels like the government's answer to traffic congestion is to sell a solution to those who can afford it and ignore the fact that it worsens the problem for those who can't.
There are plenty of possible alternative explanations for the stratosphere cooling. First, we'd need data about which wavelengths of light heat the stratosphere and measurements about the solar output in those wavelengths. We'd also need to know how much warming is done by heat reflected by the Earth itself, such as glaciers, cloud cover, whatever.

Since CO2 is the highest today, we should see the most dramatic effects occurring in that graft now, rather than before.

Of course, this is all if you actually believe the climate data, which I don't. Governments and climate scientists have been caught routinely modifying the raw data to fit their models.
Related:

How to seriously read a scientific paper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24986727 - Nov 2020 (90 comments)
I did. Maybe you should too. Although the dictionary is not actually a legal authority.
It's hard to imagine why are people expecting something tangible from someone making millions per year while laying people off.
No they don’t. I’ve often put my kids on intercity (really interstate) buses to go visit their grandparents. I’ve never had to show ID and they don’t have ID.
atomic transactions by Nancy Lynch et al.
Reproducible LLM Experimentation with DVC
I don’t know where you took Econ 101 but mine definitely covered how things like subsidies and protectionism perversely impact market forces. You’re just blaming economists for bad policies at this point.
Attention Is a Muscle
Welcome to Elon Musk at Tesla.
I'm really amused that the least painful way to develop for Windows on Windows is to just use Linux.
Hard as in "undesirable" isn't the same as in "the skills to do it are rare", though.
I always recommend his short story "Report On An Unidentified Space Station":

https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/roauss.htm
good.

wealth transfer is obscene.
Steam and Discord are both X11 apps, so switching to a Wayland session may not help much as they will still use X via XWayland. There may be a way to force Discord to use Wayland as its an Electron app.

In general I've found KDE does a great job dealing with fractional scaling with XWayland apps, GNOME not so much. I'm using Fedora's KDE spin.
You mentioned "professional web developers", not "professional UI designers".

That's the point.
Quick Google search tells me 28 people lost their lives due to traffic in Seattle in 2023.
runas doesn’t pass current directory, or environment (at least the last time I used runas on Windows 10). I vaguely recall that runas has a kinda low limit on command line length, too ( I’m possibly misremembering that one).
Hi, this is the author. I've been coming back to this project off and on over the past few years but I often think of these articles as mostly something I'm writing for myself, so I'm really happy to see that some other people might be getting something out of them! I'd definitely love to hear if anyone knows anything I got wrong or can think of a way any particular explanation might be made better.

I should also take this chance to mention that I work as a private tutor and I have openings for students! Much more info here: https://nicf.net/tutoring/
It doesn't get the actual optimal Q values computed from Stockfish (presumably this takes infinite compute to calculate), in fact it gets computed estimates from polling Stockfish for only 50ms.

So you're estimating from data a function which is itself not necessarily optimal. Moreover, the point is more like how far can we get using a really generic transformer architecture that is not tuned to domain-specific details of our problem, which Stockfish is.
> one of those two countries has a no-first-use nuclear doctrine

They're thinking about doing away with it in India due to the China factor (though politicians will always say it's because of Pakistan) [0][1].

It's kind of scary tbh. China expands it's arsenal to compete with the US. India gets scared and starts expanding it's arsenal in turn. Pakistan gets scared and they start expanding their arsenal as well. And this has caused all 3 countries to enter an arms race that is not going to slowdown anytime soon.

It's already having a destabilizing effect in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Afghanistan, Eastern Africa, etc

[0] - https://www.orfonline.org/research/nuclear-rethink-a-change-...

[1] - https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-s-no-first-use-nuc...
the grid is a fixed cost, which is needed unless we are willing go without power every night and winter. Once it is in place, it costs the same if it is sitting idle or being used.

There are absolutely no savings from an unreliable local power source.
Apple never comments on that, but somehow magically every single time a scam app makes the news media, the app disappears from the App Store.
I think it indicates a care and deeper appreciation for the person in a way that anything else wouldn't.

"$NAME was $COMPANY's first intern, and went on to stay with $COMPANY for eighteen years. We thank $NAME for $GENDEREDPOSSESSIVE years of service." would feel soulless, as if she didn't know the person at all. It's the sort of obituary a VP at Apple might get; named, but essentially anonymous. A form letter, without any actual sense of appreciation or understanding.

I don't particularly like Mitchell's handling of Mozilla, but this obituary is one I'd like to have for myself. It's written in a manner that politely disagrees with the subject while acknowledging perceived harms, in a way that's not dissimilar to his own views on how ideas should be addressed while not falling into the trap of modern pluralism (the acceptance of all beliefs as equally valid) which he personally thought to be harmful.[1]

It's a remarkable obituary for what seems like an intensely bright human who was openly disagreeable.

[1] https://gerv.net/writings/three-forms-of-diversity/
More updates and discussion ended up over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304946
I wonder if different prices are served to different prospective customers.
Google managing to use their search monopoly to win a browser monopoly isn't a reason to let Apple continue its own anticompetitive practices as some kind of crazy check-and-balance: it is a reason to ALSO break apart Google.
> I have never heard this terminology, I have only heard Schrodinger's picture vs. Heisenberg's picture.

I wrote the QM article a very long time ago at this point, and I actually can't reconstruct at the moment why I used those two names! I've also heard Schrodinger and Heisenberg much more frequently. Might be worth an edit.
Well, I was trying to figure out which category he fit into: sealioning, trolling, intensionally obtuse, emotionless pedant, naive internet sleuth, lazy internet sleuth, and even "completely serious fact-finder with no agenda". I think your "comedy" falls under "trolling" but I'd also be prepared for him being a completely serious fact-finder who truly believes that people are just lying. I've kind of lost interest because he's not contributing anything to the discussion.
The technologists that read HN have created a surveillance panopticon that will make it very easy for the state to go after unpaid taxes – particularly those who can't afford the army of accountants, laywers, and lobbyists required to hide their income, offshore their businesses, or otherwise avoid paying their fair share.

SV techbros will happily sell your data to whichever tyrant is paying, including the federal government.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/surveillance-sale

https://epic.org/issues/consumer-privacy/data-brokers/

https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/how-your-online-data-...

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-relea...
unsolicited. If the business has a contract with Google, Google can update the contact to say that they're allowed to.
Lonely, but not always alone
When I hear "bard", I think of this guy from the Asterix comics first: https://asterix.com/en/portfolio/cacofonix/ - who is notorious for getting on everyone's nerves with his constant singing.

> We are not talking here about the rain he brings on each time exercises his vocal cords, but rather about the prevailing atmosphere in the village: when it is time to party, when wild boar are roasting on the spit, you can be sure to find Cacofonix tied hand and feet with a gag in his mouth.
I think this is an extremely uncharitable interpretation of the reality lived by Strauss and his contemporaries. I guess there's an argument to be made that the West's hawkishness isn't de facto moral (though there's a lot of work to be done here, considering the alternative, i.e., China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and so on, are hardly bastions of moral virtue).

I mention the "reality lived" as Strauss was a German Jew that had to flee Germany after Hitler took power. In fact, the most scathing critique of Strauss[1] (Altman's 600-page tome) is fairly universally regarded as being quite weak in its arguments (though, to be fair, incredible in its scholarship and research).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/German-Stranger-Strauss-National-Soci...
FirefoxOS was a moon shot. The sort of project a profit making company burns a few 10s of million on in the hope it somehow works out.

Mozilla should have been focusing on the one thing anyone cared about, the browser. Rust and Servo were the correct risks to take. But I know, hindsight is 20/20.
They could have done a deal with Microsoft, even for a fraction of the amount and been just fine. Google's ad business model is a cash fire hose. If they actually backed off development because of Google's money, then it's corruption and particularly egregious because it involves a non-profit and a monopoly.

For the record, I'm fine with Firefox the way it is now. I use Lynx more than I use Chrome.
I'm not surprised -- I thought Bard was terrible branding. It's all associations with Shakespeare and poetry and medieval England, and as much as I might personally enjoy those, it's extremely backwards-looking, with archaic connotations. Also it sounds close to "beard" -- hairy stuff.

Gemini sounds like the space program -- futuristic, a leap for mankind. It's got all the right emotional associations. It's a constellation, it's out in space, it's made of stars. Plus it contains "gem" which feels fancy, valuable, refined.

I'm not saying Gemini is the best name I've ever heard or even close to it, but it feels 100% appropriate, in a way that Bard does not.
Research from the US takes a look at the links between time spent alone and loneliness, finding high levels of loneliness in those that spend over 75% of their time with others.
Sure, but I don't think it's even at VEI 4 yet.

This site seems to be saying that VEI 4 is the max it could reach, if I'm understanding it right: https://gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=1000080&episodeid=7&ev...
It's still crazy but more reasonable to shut it down for exams than elections