skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Manifest V2 extension in the Chrome Web Store that has a "featured" badge, and Google has been sending me emails that feel a bit coercive:

> To maintain your extension's Featured status, you will need to migrate it to Manifest V3 by June 3rd. [...] Extensions that do not complete this transition will see their Featured badge removed

> Manifest Version 3 extensions will be prioritized in the Chrome Web Store, including in search results and recommendations

> Beginning June of this year, we will begin to gradually disable extensions running Manifest V2 for Chrome users

> Thank you for your cooperation and participation in the Chrome extension ecosystem.

I am really dismayed that an advertising company has such a stranglehold on the web. They are not good custodians.
Your requirement of my definition not being anti-capitalist is tough because it is capitalist to endure some people are not free. Work conditions to for-profit prisons with a “war on drugs” building the prison pop are examples.

It is very telling that concern over freedom shows first in your reply as “yeah but capitalism.”
Qualcomm Is Cheating on Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks
must not have turned up in his google results
Nice. Home Assistant looks easy to integrate with ESPHome... Though I don't yet have either.
Like it or not Microsoft has built a reputation for itself as supporting devices for a very long time. A reputation Apple definitely doesn’t have. So, no, I don’t think the same level of stink is warranted because people know what they’re getting with the Apple ecosystem when they sign up.
In my experience, people would rather be employees paid in cash whose amount is agreed ahead of time than partners where they're paid depending on the company's profits.
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More discussion on the earnings post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136709
> Are the same people making a stink about Microsoft doing this also making a stink about Apple doing practically the same every time they release a new MacOS version?

Yes, some of them. Though of course there are people who make stink about Microsoft and not Apple because they don't use Apple products.

> How long should hardware be supported? Indefinitely?

Yes. Or at least approximately as long as Linux does. Especially since it's no longer the 80s/90s and we're not seeing anywhere near the kind of rapid and significant hardware improvements the PC industry saw back then [1]. Microsoft is an extremely successful company with 221,000 full time employees, they have the capacity to do this.

[1] Over the last couple decades, I've declined scheduled PC refreshes a couple times after checking the specs, because the "refreshed" PC was literally almost the same as my current one (like a small CPU bump and a bit more memory). For completely selfish reasons it made more sense to just keep the old one and maybe buy some more RAM than go through the trouble of migrating my stuff.
> The outside with the solution doesn't have to live with the result and likely doesn't comprehend the un-stated nuances of the situation.

Yes, that's the kind of thing I had in mind by saying that I thought that there were problems with the claim.
The insulting bit comes when people with an insufficient understanding of the problem come in and offer "solutions" that anyone could have dreamed up in 5 minutes, thereby implying that the new person either thinks the group with the problem is stupid for not coming up with such an obvious solution themselves.

It's often the grown-up equivalent of a child learning about a longstanding religious conflict and offering "why don't they just all be friends instead" as a solution.
The style is not very different than NeMo(nvidia)/fairseq(Facebook)/espent(oss) etc..
Chamber of Commerce Sues to Block FTC's Non-Compete Ban
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> And yes, while making CSS Grid more complex will make it harder to extend in the future, we believe there’s an advantage to having these two types of grid layouts intertwined. This way the CSS Working Group will always define all new additions for both modular and columnar grids. There won’t be something added to display: grid that will be left out of display: masonry, or vice versa. For example, many developers want CSS Grid Level 4 to provide a mechanism for styling grid areas and grid lines — perhaps a way to add a background color to a track, or create a rule line in a gap. It’d be great to ensure that will work for both modular and columnar grids from Day 1.

> By using subgrid, we can put the year and catalog number on the right of each card — and line up this data for one painting with the same data for the other paintings.

The downside is that all the parts of grid that might be useful in masonry would have to be duplicated in slightly different ways.

This together with the fact the the only two current implementations use display: grid

If it is possible to make them perfectly compatible then the main negative side
It is easier to help someone else organize their house than to organize your own.
It’s not only start ups, but also academia.

Weizmann institute of science is the envy of the world in terms of their research output, and widely used as a model for new research institutes to aspire to.
We can't, you're right I just took them for their word on it. Just like we can't know that this was actually intentional or done by a professional or state actor.
> “I began to suspect that I was either in a dream of my own construction or trapped in some kind of fake reality constructed by someone else,” he wrote in an essay in 2020. “Could I be in a coma or some afterlife limbo state?” ... “This isn’t real,” he thought to himself. “How do I wake up?”

Any Buddhist practitioner would tell you this is sort of what you're going for in your practice. Buddha literally means "one who has awakened". Many practices ask you to consider reality as a dream, like Lojong in some lineages of the Vajrayana tradition [1], and to look at the impermanence of all things -- especially what we call 'self' -- as part of the path towards awakening.

There's a reason why lots of the Buddhist lineages are set up to gradually introduce you to these things and wouldn't just throw you into the most esoteric parts of the practice right at the beginning. If you don't have the foundations for it I can imagine getting out of an intense psychedelic experience more confused than when you went in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojong
Well, it depends on the ML person. I work on industrial ML and DL systems every day and I'm the one who made that comment.
If you google "Unit 8200" that is pretty much the reason. The Israeli military pushes their super-smart kids together to be computer scientists and hackers for 2 years - this is essentially the NSA of Israel. Behind every Israeli tech company is a small cadre of unit 8200 grads.

When they finish, a huge network of Unit 8200 alumni who are already rich have a shared experience with these kids, and are ready to invest in any idea these kids have. They have a tight-knit group of incredibly smart colleagues as well, from their time in the military.
I always thought the biggest problem was that the major propositions can't be tested without either convenient access to a black hole (anyone got one?) or accelerators with multiple orders of magnitude more power than the LHC.

So it's not that it's untestable because it's bad theory work. It's untestable because we're bugs.

If (as I got nerd sniped about a while ago) the ninth planet in our solar system did turn out to be a primordial black hole, it would be reachable by probes and that would open up a lot of possibilities. All known black holes are far too distant to observe in great detail or reach.
Show HN: I made a journaling app focused on personal development
Grand Paris Express will be 200 km of new track to provide massive new connectivity to the Paris suburbs. Some extends existing lines, most is completely new lines adding connectivity between RER lines much further from central Paris to enable many trips to avoid the centre of the city. It's a combination of new tunnels and elevated guideway to be fully grade separated.

Closer to home I'd point to Montreal REM which will be 67 km of track in new elevated guideway when it's all done using automated trains. Phase 1 opened last summer. They did re-use an existing tunnel through downtown, but it needed extensive repairs and reconditioning as it hadn't been is use for nearly a century.

If you're interested in what systems around the world look like and what's been possible to build I'd highly recommend RMTransit. Canadian like me, so many videos are focused here, but he has tons of explainers on metro and train systems all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express

https://www.youtube.com/@RMTransit
Large companies will be forced to milk for extended support agreements if they can't upgrade to Windows 10.

Domestic and small business users will be left in the dark, but not before Microsoft extends support for one more year or two just at the cusp of the deadline so they can show they were generous in case they are met in the future with some class action because windows 10 users were targeted with malware due to the lack of security updates.
the long compile times are mostly because im instantiating every dense decomposition in the library in one translation unit, for several data types (f32, f64, f128, c32, c64, c128)
Me too. But coming back with 40 lb of groceries in hand is a chore. And if I can consolidate the list to a 24-hour schedule for one week period, that hammers it out majority of cases where emergency shopping is once in a blue moon.
CEO is not able to handle the pressure well! Maybe he needs some coaching as well.
What are the things he is good at? Maybe you can leverage those?

Plan an intervention with the CEO. Take him our to dinner or drinks. Talk to him. Find a peaceful situation, otherwise explain the situation to him.

// ysf
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139681
I moved to the Caribbean for 10 years. Then on to SF and later PDX. I also spent about 6 months in both NYC and Chicago in between SF and PDX. Living in the Caribbean introduced me to so many different cultures.

I ran a bar before I became a carpenter. My neighbors around my bar included people from India, Senegal, all over Europe, and Japan. I become close friends with a much older couple from Senegal and also an Indian family. They welcomed me into their homes and fed me and taught me about their music and food and such.

I likely would not have had those experiences if I remained on the mainland.
> Just as a counterpoint to your late-stage capitalism-esque viewpoint, wealthy are also shown to over index in conscientiousness in some studies.

I fail to see how this is a counter point. Sure, conscientiousness, and I would add work ethics certainly explain some inequality. But even if they explained most of it (exploiting people does require work, and I'd expect the more conscientious capitalists are better at it), they would still come far, far short of morally justifying the level of inequality we observe today.

No billionaire ever deserved to be that wealthy.

Now we can discuss incentives, and I can accept that a good system may need to allow some people to accumulate undeserved wealth. Still, I will note that the mere existence of billionaires is a threat to democracy. (Or a blocker: our representative governments aren't very democratic to begin with, and we have studies showing that when billionaires and the people disagree over a piece of legislation the billionaires win most of the time.)

My current opinion on this is that putting a hard cap on individual wealth is a good thing. Furthermore, I think this hard cap should be well under $1B, almost certainly below $100M.
It’s not enough for HN readers to move to Linux. We need to influence the casual computer users we know to also try it, or at least have them move to Apple to hit Microsoft’s bottom line and force them to change course.
I accidentally hit my Start/Stop button yesterday instead of Park when parking yesterday (very slow speed, buttons are close together). It was quite rough and through my parking break on.

Google tells me that "Keyless ignition-equipped cars moving at higher speeds will generally keep moving even if you accidentally press the push to start button. However, if you hold the push to start button down, you can turn off the engine even when the car's moving at moderate speeds"
Nixpkgs has a some pluggable BLAS/Lapack implementation infra. If this does offer a shim layer doing exactly that interace, it would be nice to see this packaged as a new alternative!
The New Tesla Model 3 Performance
I never really did much with PyPy, do people mostly use it in a deployed application setting? I ask because looking over at the PyPy Speed page...

https://speed.pypy.org/

Looks like Django is insanely faster under PyPy. Feels like a potential waste not to use PyPy on a deployed web app in most cases. I wonder how FastAPI scales with PyPy and other Python interpreters.
I was under the impresion that modern AI still runs mainly baremetal. Isn't pytorch parallel distribute not good enough?
> I’m suspecting high levels of education plus a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and risk-taking, but there might be more to the story..

I sincerely hope this is bait, because the answer is obvious.
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> Run:ai has developed an orchestration and virtualization software layer tailored to the unique needs of AI workloads running on GPUs and similar chipsets. Run:ai’s Kubernetes-based container platform for AI clouds efficiently pools and shares GPUs by automatically assigning the necessary amount of computing power – from fractions of GPUs, to multiple GPUs, to multiple nodes of GPUs.

Basically Nvidia coming out with managed AI services on DGX cloud
Canada has neither, though. My parents and their parents assimilated quickly from Eastern Europe, forgot their language, and then set up a system where they pulled up a ladder behind them for housing, opportunity and stability.

Boy does it feel great to be constantly shamed for being a white male as the source of our country's problems while not being rich enough to influence the political system like billionaire donors. Boy does it feel great that our industries and political system are completely captured, so they can shame us out of one side of their mouths while making sure their donors who are bought into the housing market (and they themselves, who are too) will never have to worry about their house of cards collapsing.
Note to self: build great stuff, advertise to ridiculous customers.
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Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged
Strawman. We're discussing an article about someone whose job (was) open source. I never said open source has "no benefit". I specifically linked it to the specific article we are specifically discussing and how the specifics ruled out similarities to altering your printer driver.
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Yeah and mainstream antidepressant/anti-anxiety drugs also cause these effects and these persist long term after quitting. I also know someone who goes from raving lunatic to functional on proper meds and right back to raving lunatic if she stops taking them. So not saying don't use, but use only if your problem is serious and can't be improved with lifestyle adjustments. In particular, don't use psychiatric meds to cover up problems of your relationship partner who is giving you stress and poor self esteem. Some women in particular love to think you are the one who needs to be fixed.
Show HN: I made an emotional support AI companion
Hey HN,

Remus here, solo dev building side projects after my 9 to 5.

I've always had this idea spinning in my mind for a truly conversational AI that is curious, asks questions, and is compassionate.
Something that understands and resonates with you can offer a safe space to talk about problems that may otherwise be harder to discuss with others.

In crafting Sayfli, my mission was clear: to complement, not substitute.

Sayfli isn't here to replace the irreplaceable: the warmth of human conversation and the invaluable exchanges with those we hold dear. Rather, it's here to be the first step on a path towards open, meaningful engagement with ourselves and, ultimately, with each other.

While Sayfli provides emotional support, it is not a replacement for professional therapy and is not designed to be used as such. It is meant to serve as a preliminary step towards self-awareness and can be used alongside professional counseling.
There are a ton of tricks you can do to share hbm/flops amongst GPUs in a cluster.
Sometimes you just want to leave some files out for the other person to find it.
There's "Startup Nation" by Senor and Singer with a thesis on this.

My personal opinion is huge talent density, a just-get-it-done attitude, strong network effects from military service and a small number of universities, and a lot of startup experience across the board - if you're an entrepreneur in Tel Aviv, it's relatively easy to find people who've done it before multiple times, and they'll give you good advice.
It's not though. The only people that can apply it are the supreme court and the only time they'll apply it is when precedence and the letter of the law goes against their own political ideologies. In short, it's lazy judicial activism.

It's anti-textualist, anti-originalist, anti-legal theory. It's a rule that the Supreme court has to invoke to achieve their objectives because they have no other avenue. The law was clear, the intent clear, and what congress desired was clear. Major questions should be solved by congress passing a revision to the law. The supreme court invoking it robs congress of their power because "we know better".

The reason it's such a bad rule is no lower court or litigant can really invoke it. It is only something the supreme court can use because it's undefined what qualifies as a "major question". Boiled down, it's "we don't like the law congress passed but we can't come up with a constitutional, textual, or historic reason why that law or it's application is invalid".

They would not use "major questions" if there were any other legal reasoning to go to.
Google has a useful "Where to watch" feature in their results for a lot of TV shows.
Does PyPy still release 2.7 because RPython is still based on it?

I was recently trying to play with RPython for the first time, and having to remember all the python 2 vs python 3 differences felt strange, and very retro.
The ramifications of dependencies and the trivial and hidden costs of modifying (refactoring) these are why is "easy" for one and "hard" for the other one.
Crap headline (in the WaPo article). No, the bird flu virus has NOT been found in grocery milk. The first sentence of the article is closer: "Viral fragments of bird flu [...]". Even more correct would probably be "Fragments of bird flu virus DNA [...]". Pasteurization still works. What the article is actually talking about is interesting as it suggests more dairy cows are infected with bird flu than previously thought.
I have a copy of his paper at U of W titled "A Code Synthesis filter for basic block optimization" 72-3-01. The code behind the paper was written in XPL.
Because when you try to solve people’s problems, you imagine this simplified rule set, but in reality the rules you don’t see is what makes it difficult for the actual bearer.

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try, but make sure you are not insulting someone’s intelligence by over simplifying the problem. This means you need to really get to understand their issue before chirping.
Can't believe I haven't heard this usage of the phrase "yak shaving" before, I only know it from the classic Ren and Stimpy christmas album that I had when I was a kid :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060

I realise now that I've spent most of my career just shaving yaks.
It has created a how complex layer under the simplicity to better compete with databases. It’s a great environment but they seem to cater to experts more than people need to Crete a database for their own use.

It is great deployment platform for offices based on FileMaker/database workflows.
You already have to do gymnastics to get it to install without a Microsoft account. It's not hard to see they're posturing for going online-only
Israel is also small enough that almost everyone is 1-2 degrees away from a top tier vc
It is hard to know where to draw the line. I'm sure they used some telemetry to decide which machines were too much work.

The only shocker on my machines is my first gen Ryzen build. I guess 8c/16t and 32GB RAM isn't enough to run Windows anymore?
I have a pet project I have been meaning to work on:

1. Lookup the local transport API to see bus arrival timings for the stop near my home

2. Display the timings for three main buses so that can either be a bigger display or three smaller displays, one for each bus. Don't have to be high res but relatively larger and bright e.g. a 7 segment display (3 segments for bus number and 4 for showing arrival time in mins) - basically family members should be able to view it from a distance a glance.

3. I should be able to update this over wifi (or via a some low-powered device like arduino/raspberry pi etc. connected to it). If it can run via AA batteries, even better.

I know how to do the first but no idea about the second - I have never even soldered anything in my life. Would be great if more knowledgeable folks can provide some pointers.
To be truly pedantic: there is no single international standard[1] of "high speed" rail, but in general, new lines up to 155mph, or upgraded lines up to 125mph, are usually considered "high speed".

In the United States, "higher-speed" rail has been the term used for trains up to 125mph.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#Definitions [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-speed_rail
They claim several times to be “truly open” but I don’t see anything about open sourcing the training code. The inference code isn’t that interesting. What we need is total transparency on how the model weights are produced, since otherwise it’s hard to trust the biases of a model. The only actually truly open model is AI2’s OLMo as far as I know - and even they don’t get totally transparent about how they produced their training data set, which includes curation and filtering by “safety and ethics” people:

https://blog.allenai.org/hello-olmo-a-truly-open-llm-43f7e73...

But until training data sets and source code are released under an OSI license, Snowflake should stop with the open washing.
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Even if I get the GOG version? Just curious, I see that it's only like 3 bucks right now. I've never used GOG though, I thought their schtick was that the games are optimized for modern compatibility?
> they go extinct in a market shaped by regular capitalist rules

Source? Because unless America, much less Wyoming [1], are not “shaped by regular capitalist rules,” this statement is false.

[1] https://www.wyomingrea.org/about/coop-map/
Wait... is that law still in place? Do they still mandate all their trucks to advertise invest.com?

Making a mistake is one thing... mistakes happen all the time.

But then not fixing it for 10 years - that's something else.
about 2 months i wager
Why can't they (we) though? :(