skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a common misconception; like every movement of "revolutionary" modus, it likes to over-represent its supporter base & amplify the chosen ambassadors. So whenever some kind of concession, or endorsement is made—it's immediately read, and amplified as indicative of a greater support, and/or change.
Web needs to make money. Giving tools to advertisers while making sure user privacy is preserved is better than free reign of tracking we have before, no?

I myself do not like ads or tracking, but we need to be realistic and there needs a way to make web sustainable.

How to do that and making sure that monopolies like Google are in check is a valid concern though, but in these conversations is the only point I hear. Ironically Google does not even need these apis because it already has so much data on users, it is primarily for smaller companies.
The nonjudgmental term of art appears to be "adposition". It isn't clear to me why this was coined as "adposition" and not "apposition".

"Preposition" is already something of an unnatural word class. They have two main functions in English: to describe some kind of location ("Sam? He's with Natasha"), and to mark certain arguments to verbs ("The tools? Sam's playing with them").

It's just a coincidence that prepositions serve both of these purposes in English; in Mandarin, the same two purposes are served by completely separate word classes. Verb argument markers are preposed; location markers are postposed.
It uses multiple aggregation services, each of which get only partial data for each event, such that no individual service can track you, even if they wanted to. Initially the two aggregators are run by Mozilla and ISRG - your privacy is at risk only if you think both are malicious and actively sharing all the data between each other to track you.

As the number of aggregators increases this gets better - as long as you trust at least one aggregators involved then your individual data remains untrackable.

Also, in general if you think Mozilla is likely to _actively_ lie to you to steal your data and track you, you're probably using the wrong browser in the first place and the aggregation service makes little difference.
I think the headline is talking about you...:)
It recommends reformatting a hard drive after changing orientation. First I’ve heard that one.
Aside what the others say about Spice Wars being 4X, the closest we got to an actual modern Dune RTS was Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Death threats were being posted on HN? I hope they were swiftly removed if so.
The context you omitted explains what they meant by "largest known digit", but I guess you were trying to be funny?

> The largest known digit of Pi is 2, at position 202,112,290,000,000 (two hundred two trillion, one hundred twelve billion, two hundred ninety million).
SchemaFlow: Database schema management / migration tool for SQL-first workflows
Is Firefox's implementations of the Topics API as introduced in Chrome a couple of months back? Or is this something different?
I was thinking that they'd be forced to adopt this, as 3rd. party cookies goes away, but somehow I sense it's more likely that advertisers would adopt something like device fingerprinting instead.

The online shopping businesses really isn't interested in privacy, I don't even really blame the adtech industry for this one. The companies running the ads and retargetting campaigns want to know who clicked on what and when. Anything less will trigger a frantic search for ways to evade privacy improvements.
Could PPA be used for the needs of developers doing analytics for determining which features are actually being used? For web-apps or for local apps?

It seems it could be a more private way to implement such functionality, if applicable.
Assistants, like Copilot, substitute for junior devs, making it possible or more likely that a team will put off hiring. I have seen this silent killer in action.
To riff on the famous Upton Sinclair quote:

“It is difficult to get an engineer to see something, when his salary depends on his not seeing it.”
Bowerbirds: The bird kleptomaniac love architects
It's no longer there - site is unreachable. There's nothing saved on archive.org either.
Brain**** Interpreter in Rust
> Web needs to make money

I don’t think this is true. No one “needs” to make money. Museums don’t need to make money. OSS doesn’t need to make money.

The web has value without making money.

But even if it does make money, it doesn’t need to maximize profits at the expense of user privacy and joy.
May you live in "interesting" times.

I've had 3 jobs in the ~decade-long range. I was really ready to move on in each case. Partly I was ready for a change and partly the company had changed.
To be fair, Firefox has added a fair amount of tools to try to block all the other ones. Along with supporting Ublock et al.
These are really good!
According to their blog post, Let's Encrypt will run the aggregator service - which is even better.
Firefox is open source. I do pay for it as a tool.

Toolmakers also work out of desire to practice their craft. Many projects are written, not to “earn a living.”
Only if you need to trick a sentient AI into thinking it's part of the real world and not in a Russian doll cube of hypervisors.
I use a backup tool, Xopero, for automating by backups
My previous car came with one of those. It was utterly useless the one time I needed it. They're only good for tiny punctures. When someone left a piece of metal on the road which tore a gash in my tyre, no amount of anything could have patched it. I had to wait for someone to fetch me a spare tyre (luckily I wasn't that far from home)
Makes you wonder how much it would cost to "just" do Firefox. I'm sure it's not free and there is some overhead in terms of management, politics, work on standards, fundraising, legal, and perhaps a little marketing.

Still, what we need to raise collectively to have a modern browser, built on "not chrome" and with none of the services or other programs Mozilla is running?
Shorthand accelerates the creation of your most important digital content
Slightly tangential, but curious why you have a browse by language section? The language a tool is written in shouldn't matter much for using it.
You should pitch this for the next Chaos Computer Congress. They used to play "Hacker Jeopardy" with some self hosted solution. Yours looks much better.
I haven't used nushell (although I'm aware of it). I'm aware that the idea of piping statically-typed objects between proceses is not new (PowerShell has had this since 2006). But the problem is that this is confined to the shell, i.e. you can't do this kind of composition outside the shell.

My idea is that everything in the system should be able to use statically-typed channels, including syscalls and calling into system services. This opens up the possiblity of, for example, composing GUIs in a manner similar to writing a shell script.
How do OSS devs support themselves without money?
> Not sure I follow your reasoning. Prices are positive only, and non stationary. That is very much not the same for returns. Usually prices are log normal, leading to normal (log) returns.

Perhaps we should take it back to the beginning. What do you believe "random variable" means...?

> It is not said, but rather implied.

I see.
AI. A lot of the things that are "new" were just waiting on hardware advances and cost reductions.
Playing some of the games mentioned here doesn’t heat up my phone as much as reading this article for 2 minutes did
I'm trying to give honest feedback here: it's not that I can't understand your English, the structure of your comment is confusing. You seem to mix your main points with your arguments in a way where it's not clear which is which for instance.

And just to make it clear, I also think the economy is absurdly out of touch with reality, and we do seem to live in a plutocracy, but what can we do with "taxes are an invention"? I agree with many of the things you said, but it's honestly too abstract to be of any use.
I’ve got a 500 file, 100k sloc typescript project with instant feedback which makes me wonder: what is a large project?

Are most people somehow working on giant repos?
Wow this is such an entertaining read, hats off! I love how it kept switching me between “wait the westwood people did what?” and “wait you patched it with what?”?
What's the point of an alternative to Chrome if it replicates the same bad behaviors and follows the same incentives?
That person is (was) a product of our society, which is shaped by our media.
I have some ideas of varying quality. Others have been mentioned in the thread.

Really, though, it’s not like me or any of the commenters are being paid millions a year to fix these problems. If I were being paid $6,903,089 I feel like I might be well-equipped to fix them.
Show HN: I made advanced TypeScript fetch wrapper
> that’s obviously a conspiracy theory.

Well, while some of our fellow humans are far too quick to jump on concluding that everything and the rest comes from some conspiracy, it shouldn't void the existence of any conspiracy as an extreme opposite.

In that case, whether these actors do it or not is almost irrelevant: they have the means and incentives to do so. What safeguard civil society is putting in place to avoid it to happen is a far more interesting matter.
> Why would you define this variation that's associated with behavior "gender"?

People use imperfect analogies all the time. Also words can have multiple meanings, especially across different fields. No one is complaining that their electrical 'resistors' are confusing their understanding of non-violent resistance.

> Isn't the whole distinction between gender and sex is one is biological and the other societal?

In people. These are birds. See above about words having multiple meanings.

> If there is a hereditary biological indicator that determines this behavior, shouldn't it fall outside of the gender concept?

Why would it. A, applying the "gender concept" of humans to birds is silly. B, "hereditary biological indicators" and gender can overlap in humans too.

> it could be easily observed and discussed without the confusion

I don't see at all why it would be confusing, and no one else seems confused. The English language does this literally all the time.
There's a lot more going on behind those white throats than meets the eye
All AI should be opt-in, which includes both training and scanning. You should have to check a box that says "I would like to use AI features", and the accompanying text should be crystal clear what that means.

This should be mandatory, enforced, and come with strict fines for companies that do not comply.
It's kind of amazing when people talk about a tax failing as a bad thing. This leads me to believe that most people want taxes on wealth for punishment and no other reason.
Hey, thanks for the advices. I will fix them right away.
How would you like me to contact you to give you access to the boilerplate?
Consolas for code. It's the font that Sublime Text uses.
> I'd trust mozilla more than most

More than Google or Microsoft does not say much. And - judging by how hard it is to fully disable telemetry and call-home on, say, Mozilla Thunderbird:

https://superuser.com/q/1672309/122798

I wouldn't trust them very much.

(Yes, I know it's a different project and not the same team but Mozilla is still the parent entity etc. etc.)
Objective Tests for Aphantasia
True but Firefox is mainly written by people who want to earn a living.

Much FOSS is actually written by people who are being paid to do it,

How do you fund the producers of Firefox and the infrastructure needed to get it built and released. Currently the only way is that the sellers of the adverts you read give money to fund Firefox.

Now if you paid for Firefox then they don't need to get money from advertisers.

Similarly to get ad free webpages you need to pay the authors.
> However, I just cannot see asking Pence to delay certification as trying to end democracy

Trump didn't ask Pence to delay certification, he asked him to count the fake electors prepared by Republicans instead.

What is the end of democracy, if not the loser of an election staying in power by abusing loopholes? Had Trump stayed in power, democracy would have ended. Trump and the Republicans attempted many avenues to keep him in power.
And never once reaching parity with desktop UI frameworks. Not even close.
Better for whom? Even more of normal internet operations flowing through ISRG is concerning itself. Let's Encrypt alone already gives them more power than any private organization should have.
Show HN: ChatIndex.app – Better Search for Telegram
Hey HN,

I'm excited to introduce ChatIndex.app, a new service designed to help you find specific messages within Telegram public groups using keywords. Whether you're looking for job vacancies, apartment rental ads, or car sales, ChatIndex.app can streamline your search process.

Features:

- Keyword Search: Enter specific keywords to find relevant messages in various public Telegram groups.
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- Job Seekers: Quickly find job vacancies posted in numerous Telegram groups.
- Apartment Hunters: Search for apartment rental ads without sifting through countless irrelevant messages.
- Car Buyers: Look for car sales advertisements in various groups, all in one place.

I built this tool to address the difficulty I faced when trying to find specific types of messages in large Telegram groups. I hope it can save you time and effort as well.

Check it out and let me know what you think. Feedback and suggestions are highly appreciated!

https://chatindex.app?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=post&...

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
I lived in London and left after paying 50%+ income on taxes. I also had to get private healthcare because I couldn't wait weeks to see a doctor.

So no, it's not just US Republicans, please stop.
Why not treemaps rather than sunburst visualizations? E.g., https://windirstat.net/? The treemap visualization is more space filling.
Chrome+WebUSB should allow supporting Buzz! USB buzzers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz%21

https://github.com/bbeardsley/BuzzIO
I don't have to know the exact plans to disprove your claim that "they all forgot their guns that day". Some people brought guns, and some people specifically stashed guns close by.

I mean, why do you think guns were stashed close by? Just for fun? Do you do this as a hobby as well?
> What has that broccoli ever done to you?

A better argument for vegans is not that their food does not require the killing of other living beings, but that some of the living beings that are killed for food, e.g. plants, fungi or even bivalves, have a life in culture conditions that is indistinguishable from the life of their free-living relatives, until the moment when they are killed.

On the other hand, most of the vertebrates that are now grown in industrial conditions, or even most of the arthropods, spend their life in conditions that are indistinguishable from intentional torture.

When I was a child and I was eating chicken that were grown in true free-range conditions (at my grandparents), I did not see any problem with that. Those chicken had a happy life, spending all their days roaming and searching for food through a great land area covered with varied vegetation and inhabited by many insects and worms. The only difference from wild chicken was that they could supplement the food that they were gathering themselves with maize grains and that they had a shelter for the night where they were protected from predators.

On the other hand, today I do not feel right if I buy some chicken meat from a supermarket and I imagine that a chicken like those with which I had played as a child would have had to spend all its life in the equivalent of a prison, then be slaughtered to procure me just one day of food.

So I would prefer food that is obtained from living beings whose original lifestyle before domestication was much more appropriate for the requirements of intensive food production, like plants, fungi or even immobile animals, instead of coercing originally mobile animals to live like immobile plants, in order to reduce the production costs.
Maybe I'm reading something wrong but the discussion this HN posting is about sounds very much about trying to make a Linux subsystem and API in Rust, so that Rust's type system can enforce conformance to safety mechanisms via its abstraction.

That's fundamentally different and harder than a driver being written in rust that uses the Linux's subsystems C APIs.

I can see a lot of drivers taking on the complexity tax of being written in Rust easily. The complexity tax on writing a whole subsystem in Rust seems like an exponentially harder problem.
So you've been invested in NVDA for 15 years? Because that's how long AMD's been trying unsuccessfully to crack CUDA's secret (OpenCL was initially released in 2009 when it was already clear that nobody wanted to use AMD cards for HPC).

Or how about 5-10 years, when it was clear that everyone was using Nvidia for crypto-related purposes? Heck, even start-of-pandemic when high-end graphics cards were nigh impossible to buy without a 3x markup? (A cool 1500% ROI to date)

This is the sort of thing that's obvious to everyone in hindsight, but it's not always clear in the moment, nor is it clear when the stock has peaked (how many people sold in Nov 2021 as the GPU shortage was starting to ease?).

If you bought NVDA on Jan 1 2006 and held it for 10 years, then you'd have about +100% ROI, or about 7% per year. Not terrible (S&P 500 was closer to +50% ROI over that timeframe), but not amazing (compare this to GOOGL which had a +250% ROI, or AMZN which grew 10x over the same timeframe). Amazon was also an obvious winner in that timeframe due to AWS, right? What about Google / Alphabet? What was unique about its circumstances that warranted it growing twice as fast as Nvidia in that timeframe? Google Plus? Android (it didn't grow 10x like Apple did)? YouTube?

It wasn't clear then that NVDA would have been the winner that it is today, and it's similarly not clear today if NVDA has another 10x gains ahead of it, or if it's already peaked. Or, for that matter, what the next big tech winner will be. (I bet it already exists. It might even already be publicly traded.)

edit: also, if I had perfect predictive knowledge of the financial markets, I'd have put $1000 on BTC back in 2011 when it was about $2 a pop, and sold at any of the recent peaks for $3+ million. There is literally no technical justification for those returns other than market speculation.
Certainly the last 15 years in particular have been very good for a lot of people in tech even if they didn't hit a big jackpot in FAANG or wherever. I had a pretty ordinary tech industry job in that period and it set me up better than my whole prior career did.
> Before making Tabloid, I also created a ... boring and unpopular programming language, called Ink.

That line killed me.
It's an interesting perspective on human relationships
To make Braille a bit more approachable for sighted persons, I created a little web app that lets you write unicode Braille using your keyboard like an old-school mechanical typewriter. This should also highlight the potential and advantages of unicode Braille. In pre-unicode times, braille characters were stored in text files by mapping each dot combination to an ASCII character. For correctly displaying and printing a Braille file, we had to know its ASCII encoding and the locale-dependent mapping between chars and Braille patterns. Storing Braille data as unicode resolves this ambiguity and makes them robust and portable.
Perhaps it is possible to restructure things so that people find voluntary cultural associations and some alternative to traditional marriage like you are talking about. However, my focus is on how things are not on how things might be in some future which probably won't arrive until long after I'm dead.

You seem to be missing my point about autonomy. Certainly your average peasant was in a much worse economic situation than most modern people and has less human rights. However, they likely also had less moment to moment micromanaging. As long as you deliver your quota at the end of the season, your feudal lord probably isn't dictating your daily work.

Human beings are not purely logical creatures. While from an objective standpoint people are certainly better off today, it's possible that the things that we've given up are more important for subjective emotional/psychological wellbeing.
> Web needs to make money.

Commercial use of the internet was banned until 1991, it worked perfectly fine until then.
Maximising profits and being sustainable are 2 different things. Museums do not need to make money because they are funded externally.
It is like saying artists do not need to make money. You seem to go to the very extremes.
The old top tax rates are constantly echo'd around and not relevant towards any conversation.

The only thing that matters is what the effective rate was. They could create a 100% tax bracket but if nobody paid it, it's just words in a book.
They've been pulling in half a billion dollars per year for 15 years. They should have budgeted to invest part of that money to build a development trust fund.
I really enjoyed "The Sleep Solution" by Chris Winter

It's less catastrophizing about bad sleep than Why We Sleep, has a good sense of humor, lots of great information about Insomnia and other problems. Unlike "Why We Sleep", Dr. Winter is a practicing sleep doctor so has perhaps more practical perspective.

https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Solution-Why-Your-Broken/dp/039...
Attempted Assassination of Theodore Roosevelt
In 1912, former president Theodore Roosevelt was shot in Milwaukee while giving a campaign speech, only a few blocks away from where the RNC is holding their convention starting today.
We also need a robots.txt extension for publicly accessable file exclusion from AI training datasets. iirc there's a nascent ai.txt but not sure if anyone follows it (yet)
>In this light I don't think it's a bad thing that people are given a glimpse of scientific understanding through pop-literature

It is when you're doing "Huberman Math" https://x.com/bcrypt/status/1788406218937229780

This isn't a "glimpse into science", it's mostly the techbro version of Oprah trying to sell people vitamin supplements.
And for an amusing example of this see:

https://www.piday.org/find-birthday-in-pi/
> every piece of conceivable information is in there

Wouldn't the encoded information have to have a finite length? For example, pi doesn't contain e, does it?
How is the next generation of non-OSS developers being mentored? Can that work for OSS developers?

Culture, craft and meme reproduction is work that must be staffed, same as parenting for species replenishment.
Given that undefined behaviour just means "undefined by the standard", do you get usefully closer to being able to identify a safe subset with the (MISRA/alternative, specific compiler, specific architecture) triple?
> if we prefer to outright shut down online advertising, or give it the tools it needs to be less bad.

Internet advertising worked fine before user tracking, it was just based on the contents of the webpage.

Before that it existed in newspapers and magazines for over a decade, without advertisers insisting the publisher spy on each of their readers.
Given how wildly profitable they are, we should be passing laws that they must produce X % of their power needs from renewable sources, where X approaches 100%. This would be a jobs program that would also help the planet. Win win.

Investors would make slightly less money in the short term, but our grandchildren will be able to live. I think that is a good trade off.
> It is baffling why Firefox ships with this on by default.

Not really. The reason is that Mozilla wants to make money by selling your data/preferences. Probably so that the incompetent CEO can get even more obscene "compensation". They just bought a spyware adtech company.