skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AirDrop has its issues too. Used to work in educaiton at a school with 100+ iPads within reception range. Quite common to have A-to-B drops work but not the reverse direction i.e. B-to-A. Solution was often to ask another student C and use their iPad as a proxy i.e. B-to-C-to-A to get something from B to A. Quite fustrating given it would be an issue one day and not the next and what device it appeared on was totally random too. The same device B would send/receive fine to other devices but just not to A, and A itself would send/receive file to others but just not to B! No rhyme or reason to it, and of course being Apple no way to properly debug it.
Is this all the math that is required? If I know how to do basic linalg is that about what I need to know to be able to understand how LLMs work? My goal right now is to build stuff on top of LLMs
Taylor Swift albums are not out of print and she owns her record label. I am talking about recordings that were never released commercially, or released by labels that are long gone. This is closer to the videogame emulation legality argument than it is Metallica v Napster.
You left out the moral turpitude of rock and roll, which could cause you to be not right with the divine and forfeit your soul.
> The main thing stopping Chrome from being the only web browser people cared about supporting was that Safari was the only thing that worked on iphones

It's IE6 all over again.. so gross, right? but that's real life for you.
Do we even know if these licenses are binding? AFAIK we have no ruling on whether model weights are even eligible for copyright. They're machine-produced derivatives of other work, so it's not a guarantee that copyright protects them.
If reading documentation and looking into implementation details doesn't help, I welcome you to measure ARC overhead and observe the numbers with your own eyes at least once, especially in multi-threaded scenario. Might also read one of the previously posted links still, surely something will work eventually.
Well then there is Emacs which is like an entire ripscrip BBS in your terminal if you configure it that way. If the Lisp you hand edit to actually make the plugin start up works you may want to also see what it’s doing apparently. Even though that happens sometimes Emacs is very good at what it does.
It has (lots of) non-standard models. Or, to put it another way, there are statements that can neither be proved or disproved. This extends to any theory containing "enough" arithmetic and certainly any containing Peano Arithmetic. So ZF set theory is also incomplete in that sense.

You can "solve" this in Second Order logic, because you have a more powerful induction axiom, but how exactly you define that logic is tricky. There's no proof system that defines it completely, so you have to do this via a semantics that relies on knowing which models are or are not OK.

I don't think it solves the problem that you can't define all the "truths" (as most logicians would put it) of Peano Arithmetic.
I have found myself doing the same.

1. I use my real name, which has a strong cooling effect on the kinds of stuff I write. I'm not going to get into a flame war or say career-ending things under my real name. I do this deliberately to force me to keep my responses as high quality as I can.

2. As I temper what I write based on today's norms and taboos, I also have to think about (guess) what might be taboo in 10, 20, 30 years. Assume HN will be searchable forever. People today have a habit of drudging up things that their opponents wrote decades ago, and measuring them against today's (more restrictive) yardstick. I've told jokes back in the 90s that were benign and funny then, but would get me fired today. Imagine people decades from now reading the innocent things I am writing today and how they will be offended by it!
Another day, another HN user speaks as if Windows is the end of the world and cannot imagine other people using Windows.

The reality is that even among developers, there are a ton of Windows users (for work or personal use). I don't know if there is an accurate number, but if we trust Stackoverflow survey, there are likely more people that use Windows than Mac for personal device. They are just not as loud and talking about this operating system is better than other options.
I’m into some pretty obscure keyboard layouts, you’ve probably never heard of them.
Creating a linkedIn account is also a great opportunity to reach out to previous colleagues and acquaintances, which allows you to ask if they know anyone who would be in the market for your skills.

"Hi <X>, I enjoyed working with you at <Y>, and am finally getting on linkedin, so let's connect."

And then if they actually respond to the message, tell them that you're looking for opportunities building XYZ or in a role doing ABC. It sounds like you've had a good career so far, and you probably have dozens or hundreds of people you've worked with over the years who may know somebody who would love to employ you.
Boom times for US green energy as federal cash flows in
Excatly right. They switched to USB-C only on certain classes of devices and even then only over a incredibly long period of time when they could have moved all of their devices over to USB-C fairly quickly given their vertical integration advantages. It's interesting how my non-Apple ecosystem has me using USB-C across all devices across multiple manufacturrs but my Apple friends have multiple cables/chargers/etc to accomodate Apple's approach of using different standards across their own product lines. Thankfully EU has made this a thing of the past but if it wasn't for EU there'd be no change or it would have happened years from now.
GitHub is irrelevant.

> spent over a decade with one company. However, by choice I have zero online presence. No LinkedIn

On the other hand, a good LinkedIn and resume is absolutely necessary.

With a polished LinkedIn and your YoE you would be getting pinged by recruiters constantly.

While most opportunities will suck, some good ones will come your way too.
Right. But you do have to trust the server, unless you factor out active attackers, who can corrupt the JS context and exfiltrate secrets. If you do that, though, you don't need the clientside cryptography anymore; you can use standard, non-cryptographic browser mechanisms to make the client a root of trust for the data, but run all the cryptography serverside. (Apps have been doing this for decades, for what it's worth). Obviously, you have to trust the server when you do this --- but only because of the threat of active attackers!
That is an interesting point! It makes sense to have a criteria that identify real users / long-term members.

I will look into that. Cheers
What "Eternal September" means to anyone is different.

What I assert based on data (simply map the comments in to the join date of their authors and make a distribution) is that most large threads with a lot of discussion on this site have a recency bias: newly joined users post a disproportionate amount on the website. At any given time, any given thread will be more heavily commented on by newer users. Given that observation, Eternal September is largely personal: do you still value the content on the site given that recent posters create more of it. For me the answer, as borne our in data, is no. I find from ~ 2016 a change in the types of discussions on the site and find that the newer the poster distribution skews from that time period onward the less interesting the discussion becomes to me. That's really all. I'm glad that you still find value in the site but that makes sense: you're a newer user. Of course this may be your second or even nth account in which case I'm obviously wrong, but what I can be certain about is myself and my own preferences, and even those change over time.
i started trying ARC and I am loving it.
How AI is useful for continuing education even as a 15+year programmer [video]
A bitter irony if the EU’s attempt at anti-monopoly regulation leads to a browser monopoly.
It’s no different than running EKS in Multi-AZ configuration, except for the cross-az egress fees…
See some development frameworks for local-first apps support both SQLite and PostgreSQL. The advantage of using PostgreSQL is that when you add a cloud option to your local-first app, the migration becomes much easier.
The author is running bleeding-edge Firefox and expecting stable-level performance. They'd probably also be disappointed in Chrome Canary.
I’ve never bothered with Chrome on Apple machines thanks to the iCloud Keychain. Surely there are other services that can create stickiness.
> When polls showed southern vietnamese were overwhelming for reunification with the north, we renegged on our promise and did not allow a vote. And hence the 2nd indochina war happened.

Which is why the south fielded close to a million man army and the north had to murder several hundred thousand south Vietnamese when they won the war? They just wanted to reunify peacefully so badly?
Reminds me of when Bing would slam the ‘end conversation’ button wherever you (or it) hit any hidden tripwires. You literally couldn’t ask it what topics to avoid, because that was one of them.
In EE this problem doesn't exist, it's 1k18.
I am p sure Valve couldn't care less about Apple. They care about Linux because they aren't at the whims of a corporate entity, which is even worse with Apple than with Microsoft.
> being able to deploy same codebase on web and desktop

Desktop UI and Web UI models are so different that in reality you cannot use the same codebase on 100% in both targets.

Web UI uses traditional Web's "endless tape" model where only width is known. This does not really work on desktop where width and height are finite. See this Sciter based app https://notes.sciter.com/ as an example.

> reusing the vast selection of libraries for web

If you do need this then you can use Sciter's WebView that is a <frame> backed by system browser:

https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/sciter-webview...
The numbers for Firefox just no longer justify any form of real testing or investment. There’s a subtle, but real, event horizon when a platform is no longer big enough to have any external buy in and then the collapse accelerates.

The old CEO spent years taking millions of dollars from Google that they pocketed personally with an outrageous pay package. Then Google called them up to testify in the anti-trust suit - which all smart Mozillans knew was the plan all along - keep Mozilla on a leash until needed to fight antitrust.

Once the CEO did their job for Google they quit, it was insane.

Such blatant greed and self interest ruined not only Firefox but the web with it. Baker is a true villain.
Safari shouldn't be protected, but rather Chrome/Google should be regulated.

Just as Apple and their iPhone/Safari/App Store monopoly are being regulated by governments worldwide.

These giants get to push every society and their citizens and businesses into funnels while wrapped in straight jackets. Once regulation starts to catch up, we'll see open computing, proper competition, untaxed airwaves, mobile and device rights, and healthy market shares again.
Ironically, the one bug the author is explicitly linking to wouldn't have happened to her if she had been using Firefox straight from Mozilla instead of the distro package. (and I'm saying this as the maintainer of the Debian package for Firefox, and yes, Debian had the problem too, but only in unstable. Guess why Debian prefers to stick to ESR?)
Reminds me of a simple app I made that whispers “here and now boys” like the Island through my AirPods.
You can build an analysis based on partial ordering. The Axios API gives you relative ranking of comments on a given level. Based on partial order you can build lattices and make assertions but that is really difficult and the juice probably isn't worth the squeeze.
Forgive my ignorance, but can’t we get compatibility AND privacy by having Firefox use Chromium? Are privacy issues built-in to the rendering engine or does compatibility require layers above rendering?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

> If the policy setting is set to Prompt for credentials, malware imitating the credential prompt might be able to gather the credentials from the user. However, the malware doesn't gain elevated privilege and the system has other protections that mitigate malware from taking control of the user interface even with a harvested password.

So just knowing the credentials is not enough, they have to be used in the right context (the secure desktop).
I think if you go check the n-gram (Markov chain) models which were trained by IBM and Google and others (eg. 'unreasonable effectiveness of data'), you'll find them remarkably chonky sample-wise. (This was possible because processing data for fitting n-grams was cheaper than training any neural net on them, so even in the '80s or '90s you could fit n-grams to billions of tokens.) But their scaling was much, much worse.

An example: https://gwern.net/doc/ai/scaling/2020-chrisdyer-aacl2020-mac... Imagine how far to the right you would have to draw out that n-gram curve before it reached the seq2seq RNN trained on a fixed dataset size - and where that RNN is considered garbage by current standards. (Note the x-axis is in "millions of tokens".)
Yes, this article is somewhere between misleading and FUD. He even states that FF on Ubuntu LTE worked fine, the only issues were with the nightly build - a distribution that few people use, and those that do should know better than to write hit pieces based on issues with it. Instead, he should have written a bug.
Concedes that there's extra network requests and then just completely handwaved it away.
> The 6502 only has 56 opcodes

In terms of bytes that the original CPU officially recognised as instructions, it was more like ~150 (working from old memories, I may be off by one or few there). Some of the other ~106 did something unofficially, and a number were valid instructions on later versions of the design.

That ~150 were grouped into 56 instructions, many with multiple addressing modes (so "load A immediate", "load A direct", "load A indexed", etc, were different opcodes but considered the same instruction).

Because register use was far from orthogonal (one accumulator, two index registers, and a flags register), instructions for them were considered different (LDA, LDX, & LDY, for load for instance) where in other instruction sets (for chips with multiple general purpose registers) they might be considered the same instruction affecting a different register, though considering them the same instruction didn't reduce the opcode count just the instruction group count.

(Apologies for failing to keep my inner pendant properly inner!)
There is an argument to be made that Firefox is what is stopping Google getting hit with anti-trust, by being a competitor on paper.

Unclear how much damage Google will do before getting slapped, WEI might have made it if Mozilla wasn't in the picture.
“Countries” do not want censorship. Corrupt bureaucrats in power do.
I think that might have been true when the DOM was the only game in town. With the introduction of WebGPU support coming to the platform a lot of those arguments begin to fall apart pretty quickly.
>I run Fedora on my personal laptop. This particular bug was on the latest version, and by running a bleeding-edge distribution I got cut.

Doesn't that mean bleeding edge Fedora, not Firefox?
>This particular bug was on the latest version, and by running a bleeding-edge distribution I got cut. I didn't have the same issue on my work laptop, running an LTS version of Ubuntu.

I use firefox every day without issue. The article is beyond ridiculous. The motivation here is beyond ridiculous. The author should be afraid for their credibility with this clickbait nonsense, not the free web.

What a pile of utter horseshit.
>Near-infrared penetrates very well. The same intensity is much safer

Glowing-hot steel produces enough IR that the workers that work with it have 7 times the rate of cataracts as the general population.
For my money, I think the way this works out is that the idea of global social media conglomerates also falls apart. I think instead of subsidiaries of mostly US companies, governments will prefer to have the social media platform and its officers entirely subject to their jurisdiction with no option of leaving, or have it directly operated by the state, or not have it at all.
They don't have problems with lts ubuntu, but with bleeding edge Fedora?

That sounds like a recipe for constant pain. Treat yourself and not do this!

FYI: I have no problems with popos with Firefox (w/ video calls)
Why 1.18k and not 1180?
GPT-2: Reddit [0]

GPT-3.5: ?

GPT-4: YouTube

GPT-5: ???

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CZPWmke6A&t=3645s
Chrome is far above what IE ever was. Just thinking about supporting old version of IE again makes me sweat and I'm glad those days are gone.
As a barely relevant point,

Using google, I can't find references to the quote (or John Carmack) by searching 'Little tiny steps using local information winds up leading to all the best answers'.

Other search engines seems to do a bit better on retrieving the Wiki article.

What gives, is google really becoming worse?
Now if only Claude had JSON mode.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240408130708if_/https://www.ny...
One side effect of the network switch was that you needed to buy switches. With the old way everyone could be on one wire. With the new way you needed one port per host.

Switches also allowed for centralized management.

Note that cable works on what essentially is token ring, at least conceptually; channel 0 (i believe, it's been a while) is the heartbeat.
TL;DR I have a weird uncommon Linux setup and FireFox breaks here. Let's make a clickbait title...

Using FF on a Mac/Windows with the current release works great and highly recommended to anyone.
To be clear, the issue did hit the release version of Firefox, but only when built with a specific flag that distros choose to opt into. It didn't affect the version you can download from Mozilla servers.

(PS: it's she, not he).
I'm not sure I completely understand the interplay, but I use Edge and it's great. It uses Chromium as a back-end, and I have a couple Chrome-only extensions installed, but that strikes me as different than having to use Chrome (i.e., with a Google account attached). I use a lot of Microsoft products at work and at home, and using Edge works seamlessly. For a guy who prefers to avoid Google wherever I can, I feel like it's a good solution to have common technical interoperability without having to actually use Google's product. Similarly, I use Kagi, which uses Google's search results (in addition to others) wthout having to actually use Google.
When the ad company controls the rendering engine they can make all kinds of hard to remove user-hostile things. And also use their weight to push standards around (which has already happened).

Diversity is key to the resilient web.
Same thing happened in 1999 after Taiwan’s big earthquake then: (but I think they had more widespread power cuts that time)

> Production cuts caused by the quake will support recent price gains for benchmark 64-megabit dynamic random-access memory chips, or DRAM, to US$20 from less than $5 six months ago and about $15 in recent weeks.

> Wafer prices were expected to rise about 10 percent with annual yearend price increases brought forward to October, raising the cost of most electronics products before Christmas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/sept99/eco...
No different than the millions of specialty myphp boards back in the day

Reality is that those fall into the same buckets as well - and each over optimized on some emergent characteristics of their userbase

I think the answer for me is: be done with debating altogether, especially on the internet

My tools are sharp enough and at this point I don’t need to go to anonymous internet arguments to refine my philosophy
"I know Mom told me not to play in the street but doggone it why do these cars keep honking at me. I fear for our civilization."
PG&E says there will be a 9-hour outage in my area
PG&E says there will be a 9-hour outage in my area, the food in my refrigerator is going to spoil during this time.

Any advice? Have any of you recovered the hundreds of dollars lost due to power company outages spoiling your fridge?
AFAIK figure-8 is only stable configuration. others config like euler, lagrange configuration is can be easily broke by small disturbances.

figure-8 trajectory is very hard to calculate for me. all I can do is to search for a initial status (positon, velocity & relative positions) and let the simulator run by itself.
To be fair, in many wealthier economies, people are having less and less kids. South Korea has been unable to revert this trend despite aggressive incentives.
TikTok's popularity among European politicians rises despite security fears
Not if they go after Google next.
> Japan is also somewhat difficult for foreigners to live in because of the language barrier, but Germany isn't that different here

In the case of Japan, you also have the insanely difficult writing system, probably the most difficult writing system in current usage. The German language might be difficult, but at least it uses an alphabet with a somewhat consistent spelling.
Fair. I was referring to the space a minimal installation takes.
I remember being the only person I knew who used Firefox in the early 2000s and when I mentioned "standards based css" and got eye rolls and blank stares. It sucked, and it seemed like nothing would get better. It was a death spiral, nobody thought it was worth it to bother testing in Firefox, so IE's share kept growing, etc.

It's crazy, but the web did recover from that horrible corner even though it didn't seem possible. There's no guarantee it will come back again, but it's possible if people keep pushing for it.
Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.
Also related:

>Brazil threatens to regulate social media after clash with Elon Musk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39963060

>Brazil judge opens inquiry into Musk for obstruction involving X

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39965454

>Brazil Supreme Court orders investigation of Elon Musk over fake news

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39967203
In the bug report a commenter says: "This doesn't affect our own [Mozilla's] builds."

I worked on Linux Chrome and over the course of doing so became pretty disillusioned about this problem in particular. In a very real sense, all a distribution does for software like this is apply patches that are not tested/supported by upstream. In other words, either the distro can ship upstream or it chooses to ship some less-tested variant.

In an ideal world upstream would be able to support all these configurations, but supporting Linux at all is already a tiny fraction of the total userbase and different Linux variants are fractions of that fraction; it's simply not realistic to expect the disproportionate effort required.
I updated https://crates.io/crates/dns-server to support case randomization.
Podcasts will be next