skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much for sponsoring me! :)

As I wrote in the announcement, I've already been working primarily on Ladybird for ~2 years already, so you have indeed been sponsoring Ladybird development by sponsoring me.

SerenityOS doesn't have a GitHub Sponsors itself, but it does use Polar to allow anyone to directly sponsor work on specific issues. See https://polar.sh/SerenityOS

And don't worry, there won't be some VC investment or big company buyout.
I'm curious about this too.

Feels like you need a specific structure in place to avoid constant context switching. Also I'm guessing it depends on the level of interaction you already have with your user base, e.g. dev tools know their customers already well, but other industries less so.
Its always fun to see these retro hacks. Imagine if we could transport some of this stuff back in time to the 80's, how the hackers of that era would respond to all the wonderful things current retro- nerds are achieving ..

In the Oric Atmos (another awesome 8-bit retro machine - [1] ) world, we discovered all kinds of new techniques for using the machines weird and quirky graphics architecture [2] - and someone even realized that the mostly-unused tape stop/start lines on the DIN connector can be repurposed as scan-line signal generators, meaning we can 'race the beam' to get faster/better graphics performance. This requires a simple cable be made - of course, only a few of us have done it - but every time I think about this particular hack I really wonder how things could have been if the Oric Atmos had this level of hacking back in 1983, before the viability window closed and the machine became obscure, it seems, in history.

The other thing that is happening in this scene is that dedicated hackers are putting resources into reproducing the hardware, and even creating 'next generation' versions - its pretty obvious in the case of the ZX Spectrum Next (which is just awesome, I love mine), and of course C64 world, but its also happening with the Oric Atmos as well, albeit with a smaller magnitude of effort involved.

Truly seems we could be on the cusp of an "anachronistic computing" movement taking hold .. I could definitely see myself moving basic social networking functionality off the mainstream platforms, and using a ZX Spectrum Next or Oric Atmos++ for basic things like email, calendar scheduling, messaging, etc. It will be so fun to have access to those mainstream communications systems, on a non-mainstream platform, some day ..

[1] - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric_Atmos

[2] - https://oric.org/
Ah interesting I see, I guess the webkit vendor prefix explains why I'm not seeing this on Firefox
In a gold rush go to those who make the shovels. I can't control demand, so supply it is

I follow trends. Web hosting, cloud, now AI. It started out as, 'I want a discount for the things I can't afford'. I had an interest then found the work.

That's as close to doxing myself as I'm willing to get. Sorry for the riddles. I may reach out when things calm down personally. Work is about all I have that's right, right now.

These AI people all want their own clouds. The clouds want to be AI. What's old is new again.

This dynamic is where I exist. Point at one the companies that makes things, you're probably in the right direction. There's maybe a dozen worth attention

Following Linux and company into new areas. It's that simple; building blocks get reused

I realized this immediately and have been consistent about it over my career. That's at least part of the compensation. We aren't gluing Lego bricks, y'know
Define ‘doomed’. As far as I can tell, SerenityOS did everything (and much more) than Andreas ever hoped it would.

It was never meant to be a ‘mass-market’ general purpose OS, but could still turn into one (or be the basis that one is built from) if the right maintainers steer it that way. But even if it doesn’t I’m glad that it existed, and that it spawned Ladybird is pretty crazy and awesome.
GrapheneOS introduces 'duress' password for erasing all data
> the only way I could get it working reliably was with a subprocess

Totally agree.

I've worked in the past on a multi-camera computer vision system in which I used video4linux to capture images from USB cameras which would sometimes misbehave and block on an ioctl() forever. Not even SIGALRM helped.

The only mechanism that could be properly interrupt this situation was a Process, via SIGKILL, which caused OS to clean up all the resources afterwards. Eventually, we connected the cameras to a USB-controlled relay that mechanically replugged the cameras after a certain number of timeouts (ioctl freezes) were exceeded one after another.
Yep! On the 2nd level, once I had the key, I kinda knew where I had to go?

Even though the level isn't exactly the same as the one in Quake.
> What does this mean for small children, that lack the language and ability to understand abstract notions such as structure required for narratives?

It means nothing to them. I think they don't care about such trivialities as a meaning of life, they just live it and are happy splashing in a puddle of water (I still remember how happy I was in one pretty big puddle, there was a lot of splashing!).

> What does this mean for mystics, who claim that the most important points in life are beyond narration? How about psychedelic experiences, which in a similar way escape from the constraints of storytelling?

That's about searching of other narratives when your chosen one isn't working for you.

> In a society where the absolute majority of storytelling happens in advertising, doesn't it carry risks to hinge your personality and belief on this practice?

Yeah. When you chose a specific meaning of life, you risk it being not aligned with your inner expectations, even worse when you chose a meaning pushed down from people who don't care for your wellbeing. Like with any metaphor of life (life is a game | life is a series of transactions | life is a story | life is life [nah nah, nah, nah nah] ).

From article:

> More bluntly: it’s certainly not true that all of us are naturally Narrative; not as I understand the notion. Some people are naturally non-Narrative. Some, like myself, are profoundly anti-Narrative. We conform to the eight platitudes, but we don’t in any way conceive of our lives as having the form of a story.
I agree with the parent comment that the article was quite good and useful, although I do have a nit to pick with the section on unification of the electric and magnetic fields. I think needs to look at an additional scenario.

That section looks at three scenarios:

1. An electrically neutral straight wire with an electron current and a test charge near the wire moving in parallel to it at the same velocity as the electrons in the electron current, observed from an observer stationary with respect to the positive charges in the wire analyzed without taking into account relativity.

The analysis shows that there is no electrostatic force on the test charge because the wire is electrically neutral, but there is a magnetic force because the test charge is moving in the magnetic field caused by the electron current.

(Nit within a nit: the drawing for this shows the positive and negative charges in the wire separated with the positive charges quite a bit closer to the test charge. That would result in an electric field from the wire that would attract the test charge. Maybe insert a short note saying that the positive and negative charges in the wire are actually mixed together so that their electric fields cancel outside the wire?)

2. Same as #1 except the observer is stationary with respect to the test charge.

The observer now sees no electron current in the wire, but does see a current from the positive charges. But the magnetic field from that positive current should not exert a force on the test charge because magnetic fields only affect moving charges and the test charge is not moving in the observer's frame.

3. The Lorentz contraction is introduced, and #2 is re-analyzed taking that into account. That Lorentz contraction applied to the positive current manifests to the observer as an increased density of positive charges. There wire now appears to the observer to no longer be electrically neutral. It has a net positive charge and the resulting electric fields attracts the electron to the wire.

What's missing is circling back and looking at scenario #1 again but including the Lorentz contraction. In scenario #1 the observer sees the negative charges moving, so should see increased negative charge density due to the Lorentz contraction, and the wire should appear to them to have a net negative charge, which would try to repel the test charge.

#1 with Lorentz included then is a fight between the magnetic attraction and the electrostatic repulsion.

Assuming objective reality and so requiring the test charge to actually feel the same force no matter who is observing we can infer that if the electrostatic force toward the wire in #3 is F then the magnetic force toward the wire in #1 must be 2F, which when opposed by the -F electrostatic force from the Lorentz contraction of the negative charges in the wire gives a net force toward the wire of F.
> But it's a bit disappointing to see that it's still pretty much a one-man project.

I don't know much about this project and I have never used it. But in my experience as a developer and user of software I couldn't disagree more.

The longer something can stay a one-person project, the better! Nothing kills creativity, innovation, and velocity faster than having to make every decision by committee.

Big communities are great when a project is in its maturity and mostly needs tending and slow evolution. They mitigate the risk of a single developer getting bored and walking away, or turning into a murderous wacko, or attempting to monetize the project to death. Not naming any names.

But when something is being built from scratch? Give me a single developer with a fat internet connection, alone in a cabin in the woods with a shed out back full of Red Bull :)
Link (HN strips it),

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress
I think you missed the part of the strategy where losing 75% of customers is actually part of the plan.
Not in my country, here it's the reverse.

Even though, it's far easier to change peoples opinion in one country than in 28.
> Please provide a source.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2021/09/23/new-...

> Youre also ignoring the fact that even with a lower rate (which you haven’t proven), they may still pay more overall which benefits society.

Yes. I'm ignoring it because it's not relevant. Think about it. Suppose for the sake of argument 400 people took 99% of the output of the nation (~$23 trillion in 2023), and since we're supposing, let's be generous to your argument and suppose those 400 pay a higher tax rate of say 40%. That's ~$9 trillion in taxes or roughly double what the IRS actually collected. Sounds pretty good, right! Except...that leaves the remaining 300 million with a per capita income of less than $1000 per year. Would you prefer this supposed situation in which the richest 400 pay even more in total taxes (and tax rate) than they actually do in reality?

> So you’re prefer if your fellow citizen was left unemployed, rather than you being outbid on an apartment? It sounds like you’d prefer to keep poor people down rather than have to spend more time finding housing. Isn’t that selfish?

Wrongo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

"left unemployed" is not the only alternative. There are others. "Employed but with an income the same as mine" is one. Given the choice between my fellow citizens taking home so much more than I do such that I can't afford to live in my city, and my fellow citizens taking home the same as I do such that I can afford to live in my city, I would choose the latter. Would you choose the former?

> Why would you refuse to give your thoughts?

Why did you stop beating your wife? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question

I haven't refused to give my thoughts on your scenario. I chose not to elaborate on your scenario. I did "give my thoughts", however.

No, but if a person suffers because they can't afford a new cancer drug and regards that as "bad", I'm not going to tell them they're wrong to make that judgement. Are you?

Do you that first word "No" there? That's me giving my thoughts on the "yes/no" question you'd asked. The rest is me asking for your thoughts on a different scenario, which as far as I'm aware you've not given. Would you say you "refuse" to give your thoughts on this question?
100% I'm aware of Tim Cook's achievements in SCM (although not in detail). I'd simply argue that if Apple were only succeeding at SCM, they would today be a very well run $500B company, instead of defining high-end technology in multiple fields and vying for most valuable company on the planet.
Voting with my feet?
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Not where I live. Where I live it's the pro-EU people that are generally for this and is actually the people behind chat control (Sweden, Socialdemokraterna).

They are a horrible, horrible party that desires power over all else.
when people talk about "algorithms" today is like taking about specialist in the 70s: they know they are doing something illegal/immoral but they won't stop and nobody can stop them. they just need a way to spin public perception.

in this case they wanted to keep on but putting out press release on how "they are leading the detection of the bad thing everyone knows they are doing"

just like bakman-fried mom is stanford board of ethics. lol.
100% agree.

JUST_DO_IT (add value, fast) <-----------------------------------> WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS (enterprise arch etc etc)

The BIG problem is the total misconception that:

> JUST_DO_IT = bad engineering

> WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS = good engineering

In reality, the quality of execution is independent of the development approach - you can make a complete mess of either approach, however, the WHAT_THE_BOOK_SAYS approach WILL cost you a LOT more time and money to discover your team has messed up it and WILL cost a lot more time and money to fix.

My experience is that, just as your product evolves & grows, your engineering strategy should evolve and grow. There's a good reason why fortune 500 companies will have enormous IT teams, using enterprise cloud technology... and there's a good reason why successful tech start-ups do the exact opposite.... but hopefully, the startup will become a fortune 500 company.
You can throw labels around as much as you like. My opinion is still my opinion. Call me stupid, anti-*, dumb, whatever you like. Sticks and stones you know. This way of labeling people with a different opinion is another thing I consider very very dangerous. But apparently, if it is done by left leaning people, it is always a good thing tm.
For me, it's not just social media but also Hacker News.

I often open Hacker News, scan the titles, and open all interesting threads in separate tabs for later reading (I opened this thread the same way). Each thread usually contains insightful discussions and useful references on topics I enjoy, like music, programming, and recently, LLMs. Unlike Reddit, I often read the original articles instead of just shit-posting on clickbait titles.

Most of the discussions and articles are information-dense, requiring a significant amount of time and mental effort to read through them all (and close all the tabs). It's not uncommon for these dozens of open tabs to drain my willpower just by being there all day long.

I feel like I'm driven by FOMO rather than sheer curiosity.
Maybe some information diet helps?
I took a sample test as well and I believe I did well enough on some sections that I could have barely passed those sections with no background.

A key item which jumped out at me right away is that in addition to the logic, the possible answers would include things which the scenario didn't address. Like, a wrong answer might make an assumption that you couldn't arrive to via the scenario. More tricky were the answers which made assumptions which you knew to be correct (based on a real event,) but still wasn't addressed in the scenario. If you combined these two elements (getting the logic right, and eliminating assumptions which you couldn't make from the scenario) then you could do well on those.

The sections I wouldn't have passed were those which required specific law knowledge. So, some sections were general, while others required knowledge of something like real estate law. I don't remember if these questions were otherwise similar to the ones I could pass.

An LLM is taking this test as essentially an open book.
what the

I don't want to seem unduly cruel, but I strongly suggest examining whatever mislearnings led you to this point and get out and meet some people
Overlay[1] is another related technique that is today completely obsolete.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming)
You can use DecompressionStream instead of pako.js for all modern browsers. FetchCrunch [1] uses it to generate self-extracting HTML files, which were not portable at that time but now fully portable across browsers.

[1] https://github.com/subzey/fetchcrunch
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Talking to people one at a time is the simplest thing that might work and anything that avoids that is pretend work. Other people's problems aren't abstract, they are real. They aren't in a book, you have to find them one at a time. Good luck.
Just hanging out with three people is normal behaviour; sometimes the three of you are just having the craic and that's fine. That's being social. No one is being hurt.

Hosts that have a notion of how people "should" behave and then try to force everyone into this are just the worst.
“just putting the facts out there” while stating a truism devoid of context is not a constructive contribution.

You make no comments on the impact of this choice beyond the nominal cost savings. Or does your lack of comment signal your perspective?

What even is your point?
> resented and hated by others because her output is mid yet lucrative and popular

I mean, you could say that of the output of _most_ commercially successful authors, but few of them get hate campaigns.
There are no hard and fast rules, only conventions that are context dependent.

Buttons normally only respond to the “on click” event. This lets you move off the button if you change your mind mid-click.

Window focus could be (I haven’t tested) an “on down” event because you might want to see what’s behind it while doing something else before you release the button (like drag it around). But focus used to be “on hover”, where just moving your mouse over a window brought it to the foreground. “On up” wouldn’t make sense because if you wanted to do something like move the window around, you couldn’t as you’ve now released the mouse.

It all depends on what you’re trying to do and the OS. Each OS has a design language that “tries” to bring some consistency to event handling. But ultimately, it’s up to the application to handle many things.
Not sure about the universe, but sounds like a terrible thing for a consumer.
Book signings aren’t actually _mandatory_; there are successful authors who don’t do them.

And then of course there is Margaret Atwood’s robot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LongPen
I'm not arguing the two are equivalent, just saying that the description of Tim Cook is needlessly diminishing.
My roommate back in the day did this for some FPS games. He had a little crosshair made of string taped to the middle of his monitor.
Flexbox is simpler and covers most use cases. No need to go grid unless there is a special need.
Killing the ability for users to easily create GUI based programs certainly counts as platform sabotage in my book.

There was no Windows yet on PC, and Microsoft Basic for Mac gave you almost no ability to create programs that took advantage of the Mac UI. You were limited to creating text based programs on a system that was all about having acess to a graphical user interface.

It's pretty easy to see why Microsoft didn't want Basic programmers on the Mac to be able to do more advanced things than Basic programmers could do on DOS based computers.
Why? The EU is inherently anti-democratic IMO. Most people have no idea what is going on, what laws are being discussed and so on. Why should the EU have power over stuff like this to begin with? It's stupid.
What language is this? It looks like some sort of Java/JVM.
KHTML+KJS released in 1998, via WebKit from 2001, in 2008 it gained the Chrome name, but the code has more than 20 years of legacy.
If the online hate doesn't translate into physical violence and security threats - than, at least for me, the answer is a simple 'yes'. I would be surprised to find out if it isn't the case for but a statistically small sample of the population.
Yes, I was confused while reading the article. Cool story nonetheless
Yes, and then explained precisely the harms being caused to them personally - all based on distance driven. Please just admit the thing you really don't like is the culture associated with large trucks. No one "needs" anything, least of all any kind of vehicle.
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The release contains a total of 606 changesets, including approximately 750 package updates, 67 issues fixed, 80 packages or features added, 21 removed and about 9 other improvements. More details can be found on the release page

Oh, and one more thing: while at it we also updated the sophisticated, professional and Open Source FlightGear simulator to the last version (and fixed it to build), too. ;-)
I agree with you. I like to flip the question and ask the opposite, what would make life meaningless? When you ponder that question, you come to realize it's a very personal and subjective thing. For some people, religion weighs very heavily and would find life meaningless if there is no God. Others may find life meaningless if there were no others, without friends, family, loved ones, all alone. For me personally, life would be meaningless without happiness or joy, positive experiences, if life were nothing but suffering, what would be the point of living?

The meaning of life is very much whatever we make of it.
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