skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is next level! Thinking back to my language textbooks, this would be brutal for me on a mental level.

Do you think it could work as well with a short story or novella? Perhaps one of the books by Olly Richards? I find the dialogues in textbooks absolutely mind numbing most of the time and while easy books for learners aren't that interesting anyway, at least it's a full story and not people ordering lunch or a trip to the doctor for the 99th time!
I prefer cakes, but I also like steaks and vegetable salads. On some days, I go for a pho soup, or pasta, or fried rice with chicken.

It would be a shame to only have known cakes my entire life.
Less parts, smaller size, lower speeds and capped data for a higher upfront and monthly price?

I get that it’s convenient depending on your use case but it doesn’t look really that good of a deal versus the standard one. Unless I’m missing something?
As a prominent sporter of budgie smugglers myself, yes, I do in fact think that Australian identity involves a great deal of authoritarianism. Its how the country was built, after all.
I'm very happy that projects like this exist, and hope that they succeed in their mission.

With the current state of the web, filled with mostly spam content designed to generate ad revenue and to exploit the user, accessed from mainstream browsers produced by large corporations that are increasingly trying to do the same thing, web users are being squeezed from all sides. Using the web today is a hostile experience, and the only safe haven from all this nonsense is using community-supported alternative browsers, that are really stripped down versions of mainstream ones, and relying heavily on ad, cookie, JavaScript and other blockers, which may stop working at any point. This is a difficult task only tech savvy users can realistically do, while most other users have no choice.

A new, independent, browser alone will not solve this, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
> By the way, on my recent visit to Europe, there still was a total in francs "for information" on the receipt from a random grocery store in Paris.

As an european: that's a problem. Why? Inflation. People who still change regularly to the old currency only do so for some of their finances AND romanticise the past.
I think you just perfectly described how people engage in politics today.
The Pre-Scheme Restoration project is now underway
The Wild Music of Your Computer's RAM
> is it ethical to sell someone something they don't need

It would only be unethical to remove their agency over the decision, in my opinion.
To play devils advocate, Firefox breaks the monoculture, and arguably (Mobile) Safari too. If neither of these is big enough, will Ladybird be? I can’t imagine it getting bigger than them.
Which they have taken steps to mitigate. But in any case, the long-term benefits to astronomy of having cheap heavy launch capability (which SpaceX is funding through Starlink) will far outweigh the short-term costs of a few satellite streaks on images.
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I remember encountering this blog series of Chrome architecture articles[0] and telling myself I need to read through it (and, to date, still never have :)

Maybe it is of interest. (Just a heads up, it dates back to 2018.)

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part1
So it’s a fun project where people are learning a lot by working on it as a hobby project. But I shouldn’t expect it to threaten Firefox, let alone Chrome, any time soon, although that’s the dream. Is that a fair summary?
The question for a value proposition seems to be out of place to me.

It's not a business. Some people develop a browser for their own joy and now they decided to target Linux and use 3rd party libraries.
passing an allocator as an implicit parameter doesn't give up any control over allocation; with that mechanism you can still pass a different allocator when you want (and i assume odin allows that, though i haven't tried it)

but i disagree pretty comprehensively with your comment. i don't agree that systems programming is pain, i don't agree with your definition of systems programming as programming with tight low-level control, i don't agree that tight low-level control is pain, i don't agree that abstraction is a necessary or useful thing to give up either for systems programming or to get tight low-level control (though it certainly is expedient), i don't agree that garbage collection (including reference counting) is the only way to simplify memory management, and i don't agree that either systems programming or tight low-level control requires accident-prone languages (and i'm especially surprised to see that assertion coming from an apparent rustacean)

that is, i recognize that these tradeoffs are possible. i just disagree that they're necessary
Does unraid support ova ?
It will never reach critical mass.
I've started donating to EDRi[1] for this reason.

[1] https://edri.org/about-us/who-we-are/
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Not that guy, but for highly dynamic and interactive sites, it’s actually easier to manage state if you‘re working on the client side only.

Introducing SSR and data handling on the server side to an app can be much less productive if you don’t need the performance improvements that SSR brings.
I call bs on the second part. It's not unhealthy food that makes you gain weight, it's how much food you have.

On top of that, the healthiest foods are among the cheapest foods you can buy. Milk, oatmeal, potatoes, rice, macaroni, chicken are all cheap compared to most foods you can get. This stuff is available almost everywhere.

>but I don't think there's anything inherent to Americans that forces them to make bad choices.

It's partly cultural. But this isn't a uniquely American problem. It's just worse in the US. 72% of Americans are obese or overweight.

On top of that there was a recent study that found that BMR has decreased in the last ~30 years. Among men it was even up to 7%. That's a big enough difference to take someone from barely overweight to obese over a lifetime. But this is only a single study so far.
Just ban every "antivirus" software.
It was single tasking, but usually there was no need to close the editor to launch the compiler and test the program. IIRC, QBASIC compiled and ran the program on one of the F keys; even EDIT.COM had a subshell.
You don't need to worry about your data get kidnapped in lakehouses
In open source world, we have open data engine, such as Spark, trino and open lake format, such as Iceberg, Hudi. Now the only piece that get into concern of vendor lock-in is data catalog. Now we don't need to worry anymore as we have project gravitino (https://github.com/datastrato/gravitino) get open source and donating to ASF foundation. A vendor-neutual open catalog is all you need in building modern data architecture!
The most striking is that the current Sudan famine goes largely unnoticed because of the more well-covered crises in Gaza and Ukraine.
As someone with a background in philosophy: very few researchers seem to care about philosophy, unfortunately. (At least from the outside-looking-in: I don't actually work in the AI field, so perhaps all of the philosophically-inclined researchers simply don't talk much.) This has two major negative consequences:

1. Sloppy, unclear thinking. I see this constantly in discussions about AGI, superintelligence, etc. Unclear definitions, bad arguments, speculation of a future religion "worshipping" AIs, using sci-fi scenarios as somehow indicative of future progress of the field, on and on. It makes me long for the days of the early-mid 20th century, when scientists and technicians were both technical and philosophically-educated people.

2. The complete and utter lack of ethical knowledge, which in practice means AI companies adopt whatever flavor-of-the-day ideology is being touted as "ethical." Today, that seems to be DEI, although it seems to have peaked. Tomorrow, it'll be something else. The depth of "ethics of AI" or "AI safety" for most researchers seems to be entirely dependent on whatever society at large finds unpleasant.

I have been kicking around the idea of starting a blog/Substack about the philosophy of AI and technology, mostly because of this exact issue. My only hesitation is that I'm unclear of what the monetization model would be – and I already have enough work to do and bills to pay. If anyone would find this interesting, please let me know.
Why build another browser, from scratch, in C++?
So the main value is to the people who get pleasure from working on it? I don’t mean it in a pejorative way, I love the idea.
I keep forgetting that there are ads on the internet.
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The thing is, the dialogue has to be short to really stick to your brain!

Like, less than a minute.

Repetition is key, and if the text is too long, it’s not repeated enough.

To me, it’s not mind-numbing until I can “sing along” because I know it by heart. And then I move on to the next, slightly harder, text.

You don’t have to always listen to it actively, you can put it in while doing other work.

Some language self-learner books are better than others.
I was recently browsing their docs, and kept finding references to choosing a "browser chrome" (options including Qt and AppKit). Is this some new usage of the word "chrome" that I'm not familiar with, or does it use chrome libraries?
What about ULAs? That's what the ZX spectrum used. They're not quite FPGAs, and not quite ASICs.
no, i mean that many people will not move jobs due to recovering from burnout
If you adjust by factors like obesity, state and drug use US is quite close or more or less on the same level as Western European countries.

Even if you don’t do that there is a higher variance in life expectancy between different US states than inside the EU. e.g. California is about on par with the Netherlands, Germany, Britain while Mississippi and West Virginia are slightly below Bulgaria (of course mainly because of drugs..). IMHO that kinds of makes generalized comparisons semi-meaningless.
Information in the abstract, maybe. But it's entirely different to assume ownership of artwork other people produce, either for profit or personal expression. Maybe I would feel a little differently if all the AI art I see came from a place of earnest artistic expression, but everything is just some kind of scam or another. You aren't going to convince me that honest artists deserve to have their art stolen (often by name) and livelihoods destroyed so that crypto grifters can generate NFT assets a little easier and scummy companies can lay off their art departments. This is a tool that will be used to concentrate wealth and keep the little guy down, pure and simple.

And I'm definitely not swayed by the argument from this thread's OP of "I just want to steal everything I've ever seen and not have to do any hard work to create something myself".
Is it better than WinDev? It looks like a similar kind of product.
Native English-speaker here, moved to a German-speaking nation 20 years ago and have become a fluent German speaker as a result. Just want to add my 2c about that wall of sound ..

At the beginning I found it very difficult to parse German as I heard it on the street and in general life circumstances. It wasn't until I rigorously started looking up words I 'thought' I heard, with a dictionary, and gained about 100 of these, before I could accurately parse a spoken sentence.

I think its very important to use a dictionary when learning another language. It wasn't until I got a massive English/German dictionary that I felt I stood a chance.

Another thing that really helped was using sub-titles and watching TV, even if it was a show I wasn't interested in - it taught me so many words that I had heard, but not recognized.
There is value in going back in time to revisit old hardware. It helps you gain insight into technology today and who knows inspire someone to take a path that was missed back then. This may lead to original ideas.
Thank you folks for the correction!
That's the old usage of the word "chrome", as far as I know.
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A preview of Offline's mission and positioning
I just don't believe it's possible to reason without consciousness.

This is called an argument. It's what philosophers make.

Your attitude is a pretty typical one: "Philosophy is stupid, but this philosophical viewpoint that I have is special and somehow not bound to the things that apply to philosophy." It's a very common and predictable move from those that lack knowledge of the subject; the New Atheists and the philosophy of religion are a very prominent example.
Money buys some happiness. It buys freedom from financial worries. Which by itself is a large source of happiness. But there are many other forms of happiness.

Freedom from health worries is another major one. Mastering skills, achieving goals, creating things of interest. Peer recognition. Feeling connected to other people. And last but not least, in nature boy's words: to love and be loved in return. For all these, money has a limited role.
> Oftentimes, physicians are not paid by the hospital at all. They will form consulting groups and work for the consulting group which will have a contract with the hospital, or they'll do something C2C.

This is a red herring. The hospital still pays for a service (doctors or a group representing them) while being required to make charitable contributions to keep it's nonprofit status. These charitable contributions are very important for people in poorer and rural areas of the United States that for profit entities do not want to operate in (or would demand subsidies from the government to operate in).
Eugene Kapersky is big fan of going to bathhouses with Russian FSB officials. Also unlike many other Russian companies he refused to relocate offices out of Russia when full-scale war began.

Good riddance. EU should do the same.
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Please consider that many of us have been burned before. I've been in business for over 25 years now and I am still supporting several apps built with now forsaken technologies. That includes a web app built with Dart back when Google claimed that its Dart VM would be bundled into every browser.

Now, I like Flutter and I like Kotlin. Jetpack Compose is really nice. But if I am starting an app today and in a year or two, Google decides that developing two competing frameworks is too expensive, they'll discontinue one. If it is the one that I chose, I'll be sooooo bitter.

So yes, right now, they're pushing both and they claim not to have a preference but we need some reassurance that it'll stay that way.
It's a usage that predates and conceivably inspired Google-brand Chrome (and by contrast arguably Rust?), referring to the UI parts of the browser rather than, I think, rendering and javascript and stuff.
For desktop targets you still have to bundle the whole JVM as I understand.
Might be useful when you are not allowed to have a dish on your house due to the HOA or city council?
Surely you heard about surfels, sounds like a very similar approach.
The "chrome" of an app is the part surrounding the main windows, like toolbars and the such.

IIRC when Chrome appeared, the name was chosen because it was a browser without chrome (ie: it used to be just the rendering windows with the url bar on top), differently from other browsers at the time.
> Given their strategic advantage, you can bet the military will have prioritised steerable.

This is not something you can really prioritise. OTH radar designs are a trade-off between range, angular resolution, frequency, and mobility. For the longest-ranged systems with good angular resolution you can't steer them outside their set beam pattern, because their sheer size makes that kind of steering impossible. So if you want steerable radars you necessarily have to compromise on range, angular resolution, etc.

> I disagree with the general premise regarding global coverage. With the US military, capabilities, especially in surveillance, have historically been shown to be decades ahead of what the public thinks is possible.

Again, there are fundamental limits here. As much money as the US military has, it can't break the laws of physics. We also have a good sense of what types of assets it has and where they are, including satellites.

> Personally, if a post appeared tomorrow showing some HN had figured out how to trace the movements of any airliner, without using its adsb and relying instead on anything and everything else that's publicly available, from satellite imagery, to radio frequency data, to radar, even weather data (contrails are often detectable), it would seem cool, sure - but, not unbelievable.

Doing so over the vast open ocean would indeed be unbelievable. Even doing so for an individual over an ideal location would not be believable, as available resources don't make this possible at any real scale with the necessary granularity.

> The US military has trillions of dollars, the best talent in the world, and decades of dedicated effort in exactly this area, and a propensity to keep such advances secret for decades (as shown recently enough by the Trump photo).

See my point above. As for the Trump photo, by which I presume you're referring to the satellite image of the failed Iranian launch, the displayed resolution was within what experts had already presumed was within the capabilities of deployed US satellites given all available information. The photo didn't display surprising capabilities, it merely provided an official confirmation about what was already widely assumed.
The only context I see where Orban could be "liberal" is "siphoning of funds".
> As someone who has some large projects in C++ and co tribute to OSS C++ projects I find this isn't true.

Well, that goes contrary to my personal experience (professional dev in C++11 and up for a decade), and also to the data recently shared by Google[1] ("Rust teams are twice as productive as C++ teams"). Either your Rust is slower than average, or your C++ is faster than average. Perhaps both.

The reasons for being more productive are easy to understand. Build system and easiness to tap into the ecosystem are good reasons, but tend to diminish as the project matures. However, the comparative lack of boilerplate (compare specializing std to add a hash implementation in C++, and deriving it in Rust, rule of five, header maintenance and so on), proper sum types (let's don't talk about std::variant :(), exhaustive pattern matching, exhaustive destructuring and restructuring makes for much easier maintenance, so much that I think it tends to an order of magnitude more productivity as the project matures. On the ecosystem side, the easy access to an ecosystem wide serialization framework is also very useful. The absence of UB makes for simpler reviews.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1bpwmud/media_lars_be...
Gemini in general is terrible. Way too many mistakes. If you use it via the API it repeats itself constantly. At least it's the model that is the easiest to jailbreak and will happiliy give you a tutorial on how to make a bomb if you ask politely ;) Very ironic considering how Google emphasizes "safety".
As per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome:

>User interface chrome, the borders and widgets that frame the content part of a window
i am not a security expert but i got a counterpoint for the "workforce" argument for why chrome might have better security - firefox is better the same way macs or linux desktops are "more secure" than windows.

imo having a much smaller market share disincentivize exploiters for searching ways to attack browsers like firefox. this is the same argument used for the aforementioned os. it is very optimistic to assume that either sides are able to fix all vulnerabilities, as both have been shown to have 0-days recently.

on the other hand, just like in linux, you need to trust the developers publishing extensions as i don't find moderation quite as competent as google's (even though theirs is also very lacklusture overall).
Fortnite is not opensource, so the code is running through an emulator. Apparently, the quality of the emulators on Windows is severly lacking in comparison to what Apple has done.

As usual.
Unlike RN, Flutter is desktop worthy.
also you need https and some tweaks to your web server's cors parameters to permit wasm to multithread. godot is amazing tho
I'm pretty sure Orban and his scumbags just use pegasus to spy on anyone they like, I don't think this adds anything for them.

The chat scanning stuff isn't a realistic proposal either for its intended purpose or for spying, it's just grifting.
All research done using any amount of money from the US government should be open and easily accessible to every American (with exceptions for national security), but that doesn't mean we should get the products resulting from it without cost.

If the government funded research that resulted in a more eco-friendly car I wouldn't expect to see one delivered to my driveway or that the car with the fancy new tech (which might be a lot more involved in terms of costs) should be priced the same as the old tech.

Healthcare should just be made accessible and affordable to everyone. It looks like the best way to do that is with publicly funded health systems.
You don't know that. After all, Chrome comes from Webkit, which comes from Khtml, which comes from a huuuge one-person rewrite of basically a whole browser engine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#Re-write_and_improvement)
Most commercial books and newspapers are effectively 'source available', which is closer to closed source than open source.
https://archive.is/T48Iy
>Eugene Kapersky is a Russian state asset and literally refuses to use the word "war" in regards to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

To be fair, western third parties like Japan refer to the conflict as the "Invasion of Ukraine" (ウクライナ侵攻, ukuraina shinkou) and such.

Personally, I don't view this as a war because there was no formal declaration(s) of war to be seen anywhere before nor after the fact. War is an act of diplomacy, but what Russia has been doing is anything but.
So good. Some of my favorites:

> David Cowan’s college friend rented her garage to Sergey and Larry for their first year. In 1999 and 2000 she tried to introduce Cowan to “these two really smart Stanford students writing a search engine.” Students? A new search engine? In the most important moment ever for Bessemer’s anti-portfolio, Cowan asked her, “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?”

> Jeremy Levine spent a weekend at a corporate retreat in the summer of 2004 dodging persistent Harvard undergrad Eduardo Saverin’s rabid pitch. Finally, cornered in a lunch line, Jeremy delivered some sage advice, “Kid, haven’t you heard of Friendster? Move on. It’s over!”
I did not know that. Apparently they are both from PIE *sta-, "to stand". -stan is "place (where one stands)". State in the sense of condition, status, standing is "how one stands", and state in the sense of nation-state is an association via "state of the country", "state of the republic".
I'm worried that most, if not all, Riscv inplementations are coming from China.
Firefox always referred to its user interface as the chrome (hence userchrome.css) and Google engineers decided that it should be funny to name their browser that.
The scanning would then have to be added to the file upload functionality of the browser.
Neuralinked Gamers are superior to musclelinked
Definitely not false. Actually quite well covered by journalists and scholars.

As an example:
https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/2...
one party is a company trying to sell stuff. the other is a guy being proud of his work and lowkey bragging.

either ways this is a one-off instance. not meme worthy just yet.