skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a German I use browsers in English

I think we are a pretty small minority. Even Germans that are very fluent in English tend to use everything in German. And for that matter, though my sample size is far smaller there, so seem other countries. The few French Canadians I know all have their software in French.

I’m the only one of my friends I know who has everything set to English, some of them even watch German dubbed shows and movies. And that’s despite most of them being fluent in English.
You could do it as an extension, but otherwise no
VSCode "IDE" not Visual Studio
> Is Walmart now beholden to me?

They owe you a box of crackers. Once you've departed with it, they're no longer beholden to you.
'Cerebras Systems is an eight-year-old Sunnyvale, Calif.-based semiconductor company that has long been known for making the world’s biggest computer chips. These babies aren’t only enormous, not quite the size of a first-base bag, they are super powerful, which makes them perfect for training and leveraging generative AI models.

On Wednesday, Cerebras unveiled its third-generation processor, known as the Wafer Scale Engine 3, or the WSE-3. It is the company’s most powerful chip yet. The specifications are startling.

The WSE-3 has 4 trillion transistors, which gives it 50 times the computing power of the Nvidia H100 graphics processor, at 80 billion transistors. The chip is 46,255 square millimeters, or about 72 square inches. The H100, by contrast, is a little over 1 square inch.

The WSE-3 has 125 petaflops of AI computing power, vs. 4 petaflops for the Nvidia H100. The WSE-3 is 57 times larger, and it has 52 times as many cores as the H100.'
Of course it is, this is the worst market for tech jobs in the past 20 years.
Just depends. I think when I owned Slack for example shareholders got somewhere around a 50% premium on acquisition.
How to turn your Neighborhood into a Village [video]
Not sure what you are trying to say. No need for ethics in AI?
In italy we had 3000.it

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331143129/http://www.kliman...

SPOILER: I didn’t become a webdesigner
I disagree completely.

I think the problem with Linux desktop can be perfectly illustrated by how you create a shortcut.

On Windows, you right click the desktop, click new -> shortcut. A window appears with a paragraph explaining what you're doing and a single field to select the filepath. There's a button that reads "next." You click it to go to the second window, in which another paragraph tells you to pick a name for the shortcut. There's only one field, here, too. The next button became a finish button. This whole process just to fill 2 fields: filepath and name.

On Linux, you right click on the desktop, click "create launcher," and this appears https://i.stack.imgur.com/kFhFO.png
When it comes to Dall-E and Sora, I think the answer is that you still need someone to create the narrative, a good story teller.

In terms of stuff like AutoDev, that's a product person, right?

I think at least for now, we will still need human "customer development."
Consultants Are Paid to Fix Businesses. Why Can't They Fix Their Own?
Remnant of a time when the Internet was new and geeks would buy all kind of fun domains with odd TLDs.
Holy inferiority complex batman!

You can aspire higher and just use one of these LLMs to be a "first author" in a published peer reviewed paper.
100% this. I paid the increasingly common "privacy and control premium" for a Valve Index (which I'm very happy with) to avoid the entanglements of borrowing a headset from Meta for a large, up front, non-refundable fee.
And all that pressure was for naught because it's still available right on the clearweb :'(
they'll get a $20k bonus

then in 5 years time they'll rendered permanently unemployable by their own creation

the definitions of both "short sighted" and "digging your own grave" in the dictionary should have a picture of this guy: https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1671213996735594503

he's finally realised how it's going to end up going: https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1758204137286599030

shame he wasn't smart enough to realise that at the beginning
I love the write-up! Everything is there, and it is a fascinating read even to a layperson (to braille tech). Thanks for sharing.
Wow, this was a captivating read.
> Jericho marches are an idea taken from the Old Testament

Perhaps ignoring the part where the Israelites murdered every man, woman and child in the city. These folks never got past Sunday school.
Back when I worked on Citus I saw enough capability for this, & this seemed like the right way to settle demand for hints

Glad to see it executed
Imho, the license change didn't cause this. It was an attempt to make money. At that point they were already in trouble.
> "They do have a funding problem, but the answer is not to take it out of the pockets of authors and destroy the rights of creators and pass unconstitutional legislation,” said Shelley Husband, senior vice president of government affairs at the Association of American Publishers

I'm guessing Husband's solution is to raise taxes to pay themselves for more expensive books.

The AAP is also suing Internet Archive, incidentally.
Clearly anthropology is not a good way to get the whole picture used for decisions. Here is the article: https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material/releas...

Any person really interested of the cost for the society would have tried to calculate the ecological "opportunity cost" and used counterfactual scenarios try to figure figure out if the cost of computation and the cloud actually decrease ecological burden.
Ask HN: How can we leverage UX design to make Open Source Software more LOVABLE?
Simplicity wins hearts. LOVABLE software is never overcomplicated. How can we leverage UX design to make Open Source Software more LOVABLE?

The idea for the OpenDxD project, ‘The GitHub of Open Source UX Design’, was inspired by an insightful interview with Máirín Duffy, conducted by Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz (https://community.penpot.app/t/design-and-code-in-the-first-...). We plan to carry out the UX research for the OpenDxD project in public and would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions. We are enthusiastic about making Open Source Software more LOVABLE. Let's co-create OpenDxD together!

Reference

Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271470

UX Is Kubernetes’Biggest Short-Term Challenge
https://thenewstack.io/ux-is-kubernetes-biggest-short-term-c...

Defining a Different Kubernetes User Interface for the Next Decade
https://thenewstack.io/defining-a-different-kubernetes-user-...

Design + Open Source: Lessons from a year of contributing to the Kubernetes project
https://medium.com/design-ibm/design-open-source-lessons-fro...
>I don’t recommend dying on this hill

No, I'm just amused by the absurdity of it. I could just imagine a bunch of professors coming up with the term in a room who either forgot their history or just decided to mess with everyone. I can't imagine all the labels that didn't make the cut.

Anyway, I prefer to call people Sir and Ma'am; universal and respectful.
Yes, we have implemented a decent chunk of the SVG specification, although lots of things are still missing (animations is a big one) :)
Interesting, since Google ( as far as I know) doesn't share any of it's data it has to other parties in the private sector either.

Suggesting Google has a bad reputation with sharing data to private companies isn't going to be enough. I'd like to see some proof to back that up...
The players are already there. Those who want VR porn have been able to view it on AVP since days after release.
Thanks, that's interesting. It allows one to stick to "regular Linux filesystems", which is probably a good thing.
You're entirely right. I was mostly just picking nits at op saying the funding wasn't direct. But it's functionally both direct and exclusive in that if Google pulls out, even if e.g Bing comes in with a bid it'll likely be drastically less, and Mozilla would be stuck restructuring pretty substantially in order to survive.
Similarly, I’d like the movie credit Second Assistant to the Second Second Assistant Director.
I remember one around the year 2000 that gave you yourname.com for free but it would host your site in a frameset with a bottom frame serving banner ads. IIRC it was called NameZero, but I don't think it lasted long.
That's weird. I thought you would have to have FKs to be a RDBMS, otherwise there isn't much R-MS in it.
I can't wait for an official government arbiter (or better yet a "partner" not bound by the constitution or FOIA disclosure laws) deciding what is and what is not foreign manipulated media. Hopefully they get this going before the election before Americans start electing the wrong candidates.

Rest assured it's for our safety. Those pesky Russians are always trying to destroy us!
Sam Bankman-Fried Floated 'Coming Out' on Tucker Carlson After FTX Collapse
Some people care more about progress than something that occurs to every industry at some point. Some people also realize that as technology changes, so does the job of using technology.
Ronin.rb – Stop wasting your time on annoying CTF challenges
When the Pilgrims landed in North America, universities were already printing books in Mexico City.
"It's a Silent Fire": Decaying Digital Movie and TV Shows Are a Hollywood Crisis
Full paper here[1], and here's[2] the earlier paper about the model itself.

They overloaded the CCC acronym, which has also been used for Penrose's Conformal cyclic cosmology[3], though can't say which is more speculative.

I'm also reminded of Von Neumann's elephant[4], given that they vary the constants it doesn't seem that surprising I suppose that they can get a fit. Freeman Dyson learned this the hard way[5].

This is just one test, the article mentions a few others that they'll need to pass to be a serious contender. Will be interesting to see how it goes.

[1]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1bc6

[2]: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/524/3/3385/7221343?lo...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV41QEKiMlM
It means that it is malicious to replace the title with what would have been the subheading because it looks like a clickbait title. Subheadings do not mean that anything can be changed into a title if it is a subheading. The fact is that this thread is now occupied by a discussion of bike yards that has nothing to do with technology.
Free advice for anyone going in for the demo: be comfortable in VR, read up on how the AVP works ahead of time, and tell the Apple person that. I got to see/experience a lot more during my demo than a friend did because I was always jumping ahead and pushing the pace.
Indeed. Nowadays I’d be suspicious of accepting a 1990s era $20 as the amount of legitimate ones in circulation is very small.
The Internet Archive is participating in the legal process to get to a conclusion that ebooks are the same as physical books, otherwise the concept of libraries is over (except for those who can pirate and the data stores that exist across the internet, Anna’s Archive, Zlib/libgen, etc).
There is a delusion that everything is always "creative destruction" because in the past it often was. This ends up with people thinking that this will just get rid of the LCD developers, but "real" developers will always be needed and have jobs. In reality, it could quickly get to a point where the only developers left are maintaining code that has replaced developers and everyone else just has to go find a non-tech job.
So you are trying to learn what the document says by making wild conjectures and hope that someone who has read it explains why you are wrong.
> but don’t forget a homeowner killing a home invader is technically considered homicide

Why wouldn't this be the case?
Not the same people at all.
You don’t become a billionaire if your natural state is to feel satisfied with what you have… and you don’t start being satisfied with what you have just because you’re a billionaire. Whatever drive/neurosis got them to where they are just gets redirected to other worries, like apocalypse scenarios.
Typst Version 0.11.0
“This all inclusive resort has a tyrannical grip on all the poor visitors who spent $10k to travel and stay at an all-inclusive resort!”
It means that the permission (capability) to do something is encapsulated into an unforgeable bearer instrument that can be stored, passed around and so on. An open file handle (descriptor on UNIX) is a capability, because if you have it you can use it to read and maybe write to the file, and because you can send it to another process, at which point that process also has the capability to read and write that file.

Capabilities are one of those concepts that's a bit like FP or RISC. It sounds elegant but in the real world experience is mixed, so it's rare for a system to rely on it purely. Most real security systems today are built on semi-static permissions granted to domains defined by some third party identity system. Capabilities do get used, but mostly in the sandbox context and mostly as a detail.

So I think Dan is not quite correct that mobile platforms use capabilities. Users assign permissions to specific apps semi-statically there. The lowest levels of the OS may use a small set of capabilities as part of the implementation, but granted permissions are not generally easy to send around to other apps.
A nontrivial amount of macOS software, even from large, well-known vendors, has some step during the installation process where it puts up its own dialog asking for your password (and, I strongly suspect, shells out to "sudo" when it gets it).

The line between the things you have to do to use your stuff to get things done, and the things you shouldn't do if you don't want to get scammed or hacked, has gotten blurrier and blurrier. Troy Hunt has written a few "indistinguishable from phishing" articles (e.g. https://www.troyhunt.com/when-bank-communication-is-indistin..., https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-ge...) and I see more and more of this kind of thing all the time.
Great, now how do I sleep inside a mouse?
Eclectic Light is such a special and fascinating site. A true rabbit hole.
That would be great. Moderation is likely the toughest part. However, it’s easier when the community is below a certain size. I hope you succeed, as a website like this would be useful for many people.
But Pluto being demoted is/was a great injustice and a big mistake.

It was thought that we would find a huge number of dwarf planets shortly which would make list of planets untenable.

However, in the years following, we really haven’t expanded the list significantly.

It probably would have just been better to have added these “dwarf” planets to the list of planets rather than come up with a convoluted reasoning about clearing their environments, which isn’t even technically true for Earth.
TinyGo.
China also makes a good BBEG.
I have seen organization solve that via database activity monitoring. At adaptive (https://adaptive.live) we solve this problem along with database access and other related problem statements.
Why would I use a Browser for a "persistent" notes?

"Persistent" until I delete browser cache?

Why would I type my notes into a website somebody hosts? People really fail to understand what apps are for these days. They are 1001 minimalistic writing apps. And all kinds of Note apps. The is Gnote for Linux that may not look as nice, but you can actually link notes with each other, and they are in fact truly persistent and stored on your PC not in some stupid browser cache.
Yeah, I keep seeing suggestions like this and I just don't get it. Like the only way people can fathom something being available is if it's for sale.
We really need shorter copyright terms more than anything else.
Insights about fascia
Going with Mac or Windows is like hiring McKinsey: even though they suck, no one will get mad at you for picking the same choice everyone else picks. It's the devil you know, and there are mainstream norms and resources to deal with it. Desktop Linux failures are more salient because you're sticking your neck out for using desktop Linux.
After Thursday's flight, Starship is the most revolutionary rocket ever built
There’s a Jobs story about that one.

The MacBook team had this whole presentation planned for him, a usual dog and pony show about better specs and batteries and whatnot. Instead he just put an iPhone and a MacBook on the table, “woke” them both up, and said “why can’t this (the MacBook) do that (the iPhone)?” End of meeting.
I recommend https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-hide-youtube... to cut out all the bullshit on YT. I am still addicted, but I actually search for things now or just watch stuff from channels I am actually subbed to and if they suck or bore me I unsub, I not get lured into some bullshit.
Very nice! Simple and clean.

Is it open source? I don’t see any links on mobile. This is the type of thing that people may prefer to self host.
Isn’t it obvious that Russia and China have been waging an information war against the U.S.? Isn’t it in the national and societal interests to prevent a foreign power from sowing dissent amongst the citizens of the country?

It’s been estimated that around 50% of the comments on the internet are bots. It’s cheap and easy to target people with messaging that influences their behavior. It’s worthwhile to try to prevent this.
Franco Berardi has the best handle on the current phenomena IMO. "The Soul at Work", "Futurability", "And: Phenomenology of the End"... all fantastic.
Builds with Metal support on my Mac M2
Good insight. My comment was based on the headline that says "...Competing with ChatGPT".
This type of optimization isn't something you typically study as an academic. Everyone I know that does this kind of work (these jobs definitely exist) was self-taught by experimenting in their own time because they had a passion for performance optimization. It is a rewarding specialization in that there is a quasi-objective measure of incremental progress.

Much of this optimization work requires specific knowledge of the details of the operating environment (e.g. Linux) and silicon microarchitecture (e.g. AVX-512), which can be poorly documented. You have to be comfortable doing experiments and digging into system arcana to surface properties of the system that you can't trivially google. While algorithm selection is important, doing that well is table stakes and part of the role is knowing when and why an "optimal" algorithm is worse than e.g. selectively applied brute-force.

Computational efficiency and throughput is worth a lot of money at scale but most of it is designed and implemented at the scale of a single machine. Every software engineer owns the tools required to become proficient at this. It is genuinely a rare skill even among systems programmers and is a good way to separate yourself from the crowd.
I think they view design, especially of new products, as an intensely iterative process to identify and solve every problem they can find. And let that process lead them to a new very cohesive product definition.

That takes a very wide set of skills, to follow the series of discovered problems to be solved wherever they lead.

Other companies look at what parts are available, define a product from that, design have different teams build the different parts, each maximizing specs and reducing cost.

For the vast majority of already well defined products, the second path is the right one.

So that path is very familiar to every level of management at every corporation, and doing something completely different from the ground up isn’t easy or natural in that context.

For Apple, the other holistic discovery path is their mission.

Even “big” differences like being super vertical are a second level strategy for Apple, in service of being able to more easily follow problems to product definitions.

But even for Apple, that path is very risky. They have had a few half baked lemons in products that didn’t get as much discovery and attention as they needed.
To prove some kind of superiority over all programmers?

I think that would fit idiot savant logic very well.
Which is which, btw?
sell the problem and the solution, good business
> touchid sometimes fail due to grubby fingers. Can't malware spoof a "can't read fingerprint, please enter password" dialog?

That would require the malware to be able to determine the timing of when your finger pressed the TouchID sensor, which I suspect is not accessible above the OS layer.

TouchID is a great solution for this. However, the root issue remains: social engineering the user to allow admin privileges when not necessary… there are still too many cases of requesting elevated privileges. Maybe signed software with entitlements can sufficiently solve that? But I’ve seen way too many users who “trust” email attachments or phishing emails…
Neat idea. That solves everything.

Oh, one quick thing. I'm sure it's nothing, but I'm a bit slow.

How do you get new experts if no one gets to do the junior work that gives them the experience to become an expert?
Who is going to create all this content once it's going to be put up on this pirate library that billions of people use for free? I've written a couple free books but you don't need a pirate library to access them. They're on my website.

But if I were thinking of writing a book partially to make money and I knew it was just going to be given away and there was no reason for anyone to buy it, I wouldn't bother. Especially given most books have cost in addition to the author's time associated with them. Few authors are going to make a living off lectures and book readings. And most readers aren't going to buy physical books when they can get an e-book for free.
More philosophically, the query planner is a finely-tuned piece of engineering. If your mental model disagrees with it ("Why isn't it using the index I want?") then it's highly likely your mental model is wrong.

Your data model might contain obvious mistakes. Statistics can be out of date too, if e.g. a table was bulk loaded and never analyzed. `ANALYZE tablename` done. Sometimes removing unused indexes can improve things. TLDR; it's always something that you need to tune in your own database. When in doubt, the query planner is right and you are wrong. Good engineering means having the intellectual curiosity to exhaust these possibility before resorting to hints.

Hints are an extreme measure. You're basically saying that you know better than the query planner, for now until eternity, and you choose to optimize by hand. That may be the case but it requires detailed knowledge of your table and access patterns. The vast majority of misbehaving query plans just need updated statistics or a better index.
Throw in some basic statistics too? Many of the graphs cookers throw into their Instagram posts are from real studies but have been manipulated to push misinformation.
I got in the habit of disabling it because it caused the entire system to lock up for several seconds. This was probably the correct behavior in those situations but still super annoying as a user. Maybe not a problem on higher end machines.
It’s not odd behavior. Tesla misadvertises many features esp Autopilot.
That's usually done with IP geolocation, which can be done without a user consent popup.

If you don't see [1] then the site hasn't used the browser's location API.

[1] https://assets-prod.sumo.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/media/u...
5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20622712