skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safari is one of the primary reasons Internet Explorer died.

The iPhone became a huge hit and it ran Safari. Huge swaths of the internet had "requires Internet Explorer" plastered on every page. The iPhone immediately made that untenable, at least in mindshare even if marketshare was not quite there yet.

As someone who used Firefox at the time web page compatibility improved tremendously thanks to the iPhone and Safari.

I'll also remind people that Google decided they didn't want to play in the same sandbox as everyone else and forked WebKit to make Blink, then promptly went on a tear ripping out what they didn't like and adding their own proprietary extensions as fast as their engineers could think them up.

Google is also the one spamming everyone who goes to Google.com with prompts to switch to Chrome.
In a Porridge Box, an Ancient Treasure Mysteriously Arrives in Dublin
I agree for more specialized work, where precision and correctness is needed it has to be heavily guided currently by those who are specialized. I mean in that case it is good because you get fast access to rich information and computation capabilities. Its just as your making out it's not reliable to be run by people who aren't necessarily specialized and using it for that work. Information for quality assurance would be at risk under current models. I think it just needs to be made more bespoke or an additional branch then it would be fine, not something to just cut off and no plan however.
The Silicon Valley realignment leading tech titans to Trump
https://archive.ph/zEduZ
Show HN: I built a catalogue of the martech used by the top 2*10^6 websites
I launched previously here, the site keeps changing and I think this could be appealing to a branch of fellow HN users, so reposting it here. I am happy to answer any questions / comments
Everyone talks about the monopoly – don't forget the pressure to Do Good Deeds and to look like You're Bringing New Tech to avoid the general public's grumbling about, well, having to rent your phone from Ma Bell for $$$$$ and to live with their restrictions on what you could hook up to their lines. An expensive PR operation, but a good one for sure.

I prefer cynical explanations for why the C-suite would like to keep Bell Labs around, and other posters have also mentioned managing perceived profits, and avoiding anti-trust.
I doubt it but maybe you can tell me more about the wrongness.
The guys who work for the city are also just some guys as well.
No-one is special and the only thing keeping the world together is the kindness of strangers. So be more kind.
That’s the original margarine that was actually made from decent ingredients like beef tallow. No one knows this nor refers to that as margarine in the current age.

The margarine as we know it today was invented later, in the 20th century and was made from vegetable oils.

It was full of trans fats and was a major contributor to heart disease and obesity.
I am not sure why realtors haven't become obsolete in hot markets at least on the sellers side. 5% is a lot of money when your home is so valuable. Plus it's such a sellers market, where it seems like all the marketing you might have to do is put a listing with a couple terrible grainy photos on zillow and you will get 10 all cash offers by the end of the week. You don't even really need to bother with mls anymore which was the old artificial moat for the real estate profession. Buying side might be a different case, but at least as a seller I don't think you need to bother with taking nice photos, staging, marketing, hosting open houses, etc anymore. Times have changed.
https://archive.is/WDvHh
We need serverless 2.0 to make it a decent system.
And if you want to listen to my creation, here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/the-squeeze-972740152/crushed
I noticed the same friction while trying to integrate Answer Set Programming solvers into Python projects. The people who built the dominant ASP solver actually provide nice solutions though. Possible inspiration for Prolog tooling:

Clorm (Clingo ORM) [1] makes it easy to create facts after you define simple predicate Python classes. Here's an example project of mine which uses it to set up a scheduling problem (Python -> ASP) and to present the results (ASP -> Python).

https://github.com/raceconditionrunning/relay-scheduler

Clingo (the solver) exposes its internal AST implementation through Python bindings[2], so you can build up rules or other statements from typed components instead of strings. This simplifies the translation bits of implementing an ORM or whatever kind of wrapper a developer would prefer.

[1] https://github.com/potassco/clorm
[2] https://potassco.org/clingo/python-api/current/clingo/ast.ht...
Better, I have one right in front of me!
My excitement is now tempered a bit. I just tried one of the too-big invoices with the new model. After successfully getting a little farther than 4o could do, it just went into an endless loop of repeating the same line item until it ran out of output tokens. So…not really an improvement!
How is that not a form of subjective self awareness?
confused as to why I'm getting massively downvoted for asking a question. I didn't see any when I went to the apple website (maybe it's because i got forwarded to the canadian version)
Sure, but the setup really sucks for transitive jump hosts. It would be cool if SSH supported bang paths to access a remote host via various jump hosts, like `foo!bar!baz@quux` to access `baz@quux` by jumping through foo and then bar.
Could’ve said the same thing about margarine. It’s made from vegetable oil, which is made from vegetables after all. What could go wrong?
I have absolutely no use for it currently but I love the layout and design of this. Fantastic work!
Unfortunately Amazonian tribes have far more important things to worry about.
Hilarious how it's terror and/or think of the children nearly every time a privacy busting product or law is being pushed through or justified.

Attacks on Real Estate Agents: Be Prepared

Last month, the attack on a real estate agent in Encino, California, was brought to light as the incident was caught on camera. While we have all heard stories regarding the increase in attacks on agents, seeing it happen live on video made it very real for many and greatly impacted the agent community. No one wants to go to work afraid, not knowing who they will encounter each day.

Above is from Forewarn's blog https://www.forewarn.com/blog/attacks-on-real-estate-agents-...
When using serverless, you are paying more for the devops and other simplifications. Eventually the costs can outway the benefits, have seen this many times. Serverless has its place, but it is not going to usurp cloud computing norms.

I'd also say things like Neon "serverless postgres" is not really serverless. It is using serverless as the de jour marketing term for managed postgres SaaS. I can get the same thing from GCP (Cloud SQL) for much less
Shameless plug if you want to practice your hexidecimal math
https://matt-savvy.github.io/hex_math/
What happens to live music in this scenario?

How will new artists break into this market? Existing artists who are popular may be able to make these "models" as you call them, but how will new artists break into this market? How will they rise above the inevitable noise?

Actually, I see the opposite happening. I think we're going to witness the resurgence of the singer/songwriter and artists like Taylor Swift are already paving the way for that to happen. EDM might get off on what you're envisioning, but I don't think others are headed that way.
Funny that the equivalent of the American president isn’t elected by the people.

In some ways she has even more power! Imagine if Congress couldn’t draft laws. Crazy.
According to this it does support SIXEL
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1200903/Digital-Equipment-...
Exactly. The "myth" is true.

> Innovation takes more than having ideas and expecting others to immediately accept them.

This absolves the people who said, "Eh, he's just a nut" (as he was). Instead of calmly asking if he had something there, however badly he communicated it.

The idea is not responsible for the person who holds it.
And/or an easily targetable forehead :)
Presumably they wouldn't need to do a pixel-to-pixel mapping, but could account for the wavelengths of neighbouring pixels to produce a more faithful colour reproduction at an effectively lower resolution.
Where do you draw the line though? So many situations in life where you are in a room with someone you don't really know. Eventually you have to go on blind faith for better or worse, because there's no time to vet each and every person you encounter.
Having money is a sign of being able to extract wealth from the current economic system.
I know many productive people who never learnt that hard work doesn't equal good money.
It’s my understanding that transmission to humans has been observed but transmission between humans has not. If that changes we’re all going to want to take notice.
This is superb: https://course.fast.ai/
I looked in the GitHub issues and there's a closed issue for F-droid inclusion. The author states that F-droid "Doesn't meet their requirements" but doesn't elaborate. I wonder what F-droid is missing that they need so much?
Well, this thing I’m doing isn’t good enough for an audit or the like, but it’s good enough for sanity checking the budget and flagging things for further checking. And without the AI, you just wouldn’t do it at all, because it would take weeks to write a “parser” for these PDFs.

Actually, it doesn’t even need PDFs. It works just about as well if you just feed it PNGs of the pages. Crazy.
"Americans are being gouged by the fashion eyewear MONOPOLY" said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today...

With all the things going on in the country, overpricing frivolous designer eyewear seems pretty safe from attack. They're clearly doing just exactly this too as I sit here in my $250 worth of Ray Ban plastic as I type this.
It's fair to say innit that it connected the American breadbasket with world markets.

It also made Buffalo the largest inland port in America, at least until Chicago took the crown and Buffalo was largely relegated to transshipment. Buffalo still has quite a collection of grain elevators tho.
Does this mean we can aggressively volt mod, add/replace memory modules to our liking?
If it feels snappy, why would it matter if it’s a webview? Native apps are a means to an end, they’re not virtuous in themselves.
The key thing is time horizon.

Bell Labs invested in research that would bring payoff 20+ years in the future. That's in part because they were a quasi-monopoly. (Also because there was less pressure back then on execs to focus on short-term stock prices.)

It's also because Bell Labs ran a lot on government contracts and grants. The government CAN look 20+ years in the future. And it does.

You can see the same effect in pharma today. Pharma R&D develops drugs that will hit the clinic in the next 5-10 years at most. The true basic research of identifying targets and understanding cancer/Alzheimer's mechanisms to launch future drugs -- that's all funded by the government.
That is great news. I wonder what the odds are of something like this ever happening in the US. My guess is slim to none.
1. customer enters their address in form fields

2. those form field values are templated into a GET request to the Meta tracking pixel (or POST request to the /events endpoint, or ...)

3. profit

they've made it very easy https://developers.facebook.com/docs/meta-pixel/implementati...
"Why go to Mars? Because it's possible,"

I understand this sentiment applies to running marathon or climbing a mountain because you don't really have to sacrifice anything besides time and money, but saying you'd go on a hugely dangerous, probably one way trip, to Mars 'because it's there' is entirely different to me. If you do something adventurous on Earth your friends, family, etc don't really lose anything. If you go to Mars you're literally saying goodbye to them. The fact it's possible probably shouldn't be enough of a reason.
WHY NOT BOTH?
Framesets still work as far as I know, they're just no longer recommended for a few reasons. Browsers already try very hard to never ever break anything, at least not anything that's been commonly supported for years or has made it into a standard. The main places browsers have broken compatibility with old content are related to plugins like Flash and Silverlight, which were always controlled by a single vendor instead of being open standards.
A Cursed RDMA Bug (2022)
The paper on transformers come out in 2017. Less than a decade ago.
The explosion in time series forecasting packages in data science
anecdotally hearing they're pretty close to releasing the "AGI level 2" model. not sure if it'll be classed 4.5 or 5
Curious that there’s no talk about nogil. Or did I just miss it?
I think AI can make contrived records that sound like every other record. I don't think it can make true timeless and classic music.

On a completely different note, I think the premise of this idea sounds absolutely dystopian.
> ANPD set a daily fine of 50,000 reais in case of non-compliance

I'm sure that's not the reason they've stopped. That's like 10k Usd. Meta spend more than that in electricity alone
Because mental math is useless as well now that we have calculators..
Try logging in as a new account with less than 15K of karma and speak passionately about topics which mean something substantial. It's a different HN world view.
> Cats are about 2 feet that means six times there height would be about 12 feet. That would be a very terrifying cat.

Thanks for sharing! This is exactly the sort of smile I needed today.
Highlights from the Comments on Mentally Ill Homeless People
It was his dream sequence, we just lived in it.
FONNX, haven't gone out of my way to make it trivial[1], but, it's very good, battle tested on every single platform. (And yes runs locally)

[1] example app shows how to do everything, there's basic doc, but man the amount of nonsense you need to know to pull it all together is just too hard to document without a specific Q. Do feel free to file an issue
It gains Native Americans agency when they are able to determine how their culture is portrayed and represented, rather than be told that they have no choice but to have bear the representation that is foisted on them.

Self-determination doesn't show up as a bank sheet entry, but it's not meaningless.
I recall even the initial implementation being so geographically limited that it limited it chances of actually getting anywhere.
it could have been much worse, I have seen passwords leaked this way

("seen" meaning "I worked at a company where this happened and read the code with my own eyes" not just "I read it in the newspaper")
The original 2018 announcement they link to said:

> While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.

And

> After March 30, 2019, all links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.

[Emphasis in original, in bold!]

It is hard to read this as anything but saying the continued serving of redirects will _not_ eventually sunset, right? While most features will eventually sunset, all existing links are not most features, and will continue to redirect.

Clearly they changed their mind. I mean, it's not shocking, especially from Google.

It would be decent and transparent of them to admit it though. Yeah, we said that we were going to continue to redirect existing links, we changed our mind, sorry about that.
He was more before my time but he was huge. The number of votes on this really emphasizes something I learned long ago. Fame won’t save you from the black hole of death. People will forget you regardless.

I always think of the buildings with people’s names on them. Does anyone remember anything about those actual people? Nope. When you’re gone you’re gone. Mostly likely after a few generations there will be no mention or memory of you at all.
People don't want to live like their grandparents did in the 50s, so the market mostly doesn't offer it. So, instead of working much less and buying a 1950s-liike house, people prefer to work the same amount as their grandparents worked, and afford a fancy 2024 house.
> Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The move puts a dent in Facebook’s attempt to build out its AI products in Brazil, a market with more than 200 million people.

This is unfortunate, because a lack of data is the one thing preventing us from achieving AGI. It's important that we are all ready to hand over our data for the good of the human race. Concerns about "privacy" are secondary. History will look poorly on Brazilians for this.
Of course using a KB+LLM is probably not sufficient for AGI. But I see how the title implies that.

I’m more interested in, what do we know about knowledge representation and reasoning that can act as a substrate for the next generation systems.
All great questions. With these generative AI tools, the effort required for making quality music has dramatically decreased. The big challenge becomes how do you stand out in a very crowded market. To break out, I think you almost need to have other artists (or influencers) who have already made it validate your work and expose you to their audiences.
A mention of the Welland Canal, in Ontario, that provided a route around Niagara Falls.
> notable

Good one
And also said "We [Republicans] are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people"
FCC closes "final loopholes" that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high
I don’t see an issue with saying “X-ray photography machines, and deep-space radio telescopes, are (or at least contains-a, in the case of the telescope) cameras”. They just aren’t ordinary cameras of the sort that a typical person might take a picture with.

I think most of the reasoning you would want to do with a concept of “camera” that excludes X-ray machines and telescopes, but includes night-vision, could be handled with “portable camera”?

Hm, I guess you probably want to include security cameras though..

Ok. “Portable cameras or security cameras”.
I agree. No more "speaking punctuation". Just talk as normal and it comes out fully formed
Making a Flight Price Tracker with Google Flights and Make.com
I once sent a letter to the Polish embassy in New York City. I got the street number wrong. It came back many weeks later stamped as undeliverable because the address does not exist.

I remember reading or watching something ages ago about how the US postal service has a special office for deciphering non-standard addresses to ensure delivery. I think they were on a company retreat when my letter was passing through.
That's "custom character support", or properly DRCS - Dynamically Redefinable Character Sets, not full SIXEL graphics.

It's essentially a way to send custom "font" to terminal. You could push it to get certain level of graphics, but it's not the same as capability of sixel bitmap.
Frost on Mars
Actually considering how functional humans can be with a little lead, we are quite robust.

I wonder why lead causes brain problems. I think it’s because lead in the brain affects electrons and neurons. Maybe lead is magnetic?
> However, in this emerging industry of AI weapons, critics say a lot of bugs still need to be worked out.

The 21st century is shaping up to be pretty terrifying.
I think this is true today, but timeless and classic music comes from creativity. And creativity is a trial and error process of building on prior approaches and techniques. Randomly testing new approaches and techniques by blending and extending past approaches and techniques seems like something generative AI (with human prompting and targeted supplementation) would be particularly good at.
What are you using the cubes for?
A CDN delivering something like jQuery will not receive cookies nor query parameters and will return a very generous max-age, allowing the browser to reuse the resource for any number of pages or sites without contacting the CDN again.

The value of CDNs like this has diminished greatly with the advent of HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
America's Doublethink on Working Through the Heat
Make possession of PII highly risky so the value of collecting this data becomes negative. Then you don't have to come up with cat-and-mouse regulations trying to chase down the latest workaround of the law as companies won't want the liability that comes with possession of the data in the first place.
Very nice. My daughter made something similar from HTML/CSS when she was 8 or 9, no tools, frameworks, just a text editor. (This was 15-16 years ago.) I think it's good not to be afraid to dive into the "bare metal" approach for kids who then gain a good understanding of the fundamentals even if later they end up using higher-level frameworks.
Yes. But I'd like to take it one step further.

E.g. if I send a photo of an olympic podium where winners are pixelated and ask the AI to enhance, I'd like it to use other elements of the pixelated photo to recognize the olympic event and year, search some other database to find the winners and enhance the photo so that the people on the podium were those who actually stood on that podium.
No place is boring if you’re naturally inquisitive. How can a place you’ve never been to be boring?
Belarus shot down that hot air balloon some years ago, based on some lame excuse. Pretty sh#tty.
Nice. They pulled out of EU also. Scumbags who force you into consent and then make you beg to be taken out of it through hoops and loops deserve more severe punishment than just some media articles writing about it.

No single person will ever willingly consent to having their personal photos used to benefit a money grabbing company like Meta, or any company for that matter.
Hahaha! I only crammed some dense jargon into a sentence to give the air of expertise... it's a bit of a trick, finding a combination of math terms that doesn't refer to an actual field of study.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Newhart
They say the information they are dealing in is information that is exempted under CCPA:

> Importantly, FOREWARN’s products and services contain information that is collected, processed, sold, or disclosed subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), pursuant to the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (DPPA), and/or is considered publicly available information. Therefore, FOREWARN does not maintain processes for consumers to submit requests to FOREWARN under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or any other state privacy law that exempts or excludes information subject to the GLBA or DPPA, or publicly available information
does indeed seem rather unhinged
Dreamweaver was high end. Beginners used Frontpage
Seeing what is happening in the world, I agree with you.

While America does not have a perfect history and is not a perfect system, there is no other country in the world right now that i would rather have overwhelming military advantage over others.

Not China, not Russia, Not any other country.
OK, based on your link the answer to my question seems to be: it's not a tracking pixel, but the "Meta Pixel", which the documentation describes as "a snippet of JavaScript code".
It's like Ozymandias all over again
> I am not religious so church doesn't really feel like an option but I am starting to consider it.

Try UU out then: https://www.uua.org/find

You can read more about UU here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism

TLDR: Not some wackadoodle hippie thing (think more like Emerson), goes back to Calvinism, some presidents were Unitarian, lots of churches around the US, very very open minded people, be prepared for greybeards
Meta Reportedly Unhappy with How Much Money Its VR Division Burns
People consider Sparrows pests?
Comparing Clojure's tablecloth to dplyr, Pandas, and Polars
Groupurl – A URL cardinality reducing library