skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a subtle error in your beliefs about the motivations of FB and Google. They are incentivized not to give users useful ads, but effective ones. The goal isn’t to improve your life. For example, something you buy because its marketed very well, but then never use, is a success for FB or Google and a loss for you. You should frame them less positively as a consequence. I also want to point out that it’s not skittishness; skittishness implies animalistic irrationality. People are right to be afraid of the control that a powerful actor can exert over them if it knows everything they do.
Do you know how much of the increase is due to climate change and how much is due to things like the fact that Florida has 75% of the nation's homeowner insurance lawsuits despite under 10% of claims?
> It looked like we had found a solution to our plastic consumption issue... but maybe not

If only there was a way to drink without using a straw
What's the future of the x86 market with Microsoft developing a version of Windows to run an ARM? That's what makes me think Intel is on the verge of losing the desktop/laptop market. They may still retain the server market, but as more businesses transition to cloud-based servers, the cloud providers are going to be interested in developing their own ARM-based SoCs to better manage their acquisition costs and decrease their power costs.

If Intel is planning on using their Fabs to make non-Intel devices, then I can see lots of growth in that area. Since TSMC is fumbling with their fab in Arizona, then perhaps Intel can pick up some of that business?
Looks like it's an "and" in silicon and an "or" at boot time?

>RP2350 includes a pair of open-hardware Hazard3 RISC-V cores which can be substituted at boot time for the Cortex-M33 cores. Our boot ROM can even auto-detect the architecture for which a second-stage binary has been built and reboot the chip into the appropriate mode

https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/s...
Why rounded corners? Why a bookmarks bar at the bottom instead of a proper taskbar? Can we please stop copying MacOS?

I bet it's going to do the "pop out when you hover the mouse near an edge" thing that MacOS does that I hate too.
I visit Germany more or less regularly. The deterioration in the overall experience with DB is very noticeable. Last time I was unfortunate enough to take an ICE, they started an informal poll with the passengers to decide whether to cancel a stop in Frankfurt. I was astonished. They eventually decided not to cancel it, seemingly after a lot of time deliberating or waiting for something, but most of us lost our connections thanks to the resulting delay. It was 4am +/-.

I wonder what's going on over there. I understand that there are complex organizational issues involved, but, besides this long-term rotting, there seems to be some more recent, abrupt diseases affecting them too.
Thiokol[1], who were later bought out by ATK who in turn were bought out by Northrop Grumman.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiokol
It's nice to unpack the assumptions behind this (and gp) comments. You know, honestly, why I won't work for twitter in 2024? Or Tesla, or SpaceX. Because I don't respect myself enough as an engineer. Even if we assume I had the skill (which, for Twitter, I probably do; for the other two, unlikely), I don't care enough about developing technology to devote my life to it, I want to check out after a regular work day and go hang out with my wife or climb or play board games. Better - more engaged, at least - engineers can go work for Twitter.
AI model comparison question: 9.9 and 9.11 which is greater
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I haven't done either. Which do you do?
Sample solution for Balkan MO 2023 seems .. questionable?

The problem involves players removing stones sequentially and asking which will win with perfect play: the listed answer definitely doesn’t list all possible types of strategies.

The answer it gives may be right; in fact I bet it is correct (the second player), but does the qwen team offer the solution as correct including the logic? And is the solution logic correct?
Discussion (54 points, 21 hours ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184174
Edge and Vivaldi had vertical tabs as native functionality before Arc even existed.

Firefox also had it via an extension.
I think GP is asking if there are any new ideas in it. I'm also curious if it is a fork of something or truly greenfield development?
Any of the non-Pico Pis could do that although the highest performance would be one of the new Raspberry Pi 5 8GBs. The Pico series are not suitable for desktop computing
At least microUSB always works, with Chinese USB-C boards they skimp on the CC pull-ups so the ports don't work with typeC to typeC cables.
I'd take a middle approach.

Is their an open source solution to your needs? Do you really just need 3 or 4 people ( pay them top of the market, find senior level folks) to slightly tweak it ?

Otherwise you might be looking at a very complicated and expensive development process just to get to V1. Software development for any thing complex takes a lot of time.

>On the other hand, while our current solution seems like a straightforward CRUD app, I fear the devil is in the details. Will we get stuck at 80% completion? We do a lot of data exchange via EDIFACT, for instance, with various government institutions all over Europe. This feels like a quagmire in which development can quickly stall.

Do you NEED an app. A simple internal website will be infinitely easier to build and maintain.

This is worth hiring a consultant to just talk about what options are available. Preferably someone you know personally, a lot of contractors will try to take you for a ride.

Do you have any programmers on staff right now ? You need someone on your side with a technical background.

Do you understand taking this in house will probably cost and take more time than you expect ?
I don't know. I used to say this but then you look at places where it's been done like Canada and the PNW and the results are pretty disappointing.

I think the answer to drug use is to make life worth being sober for rather than monkeying around with the law.
*constant
It looks like Gnome, with the same CSD philosophy, wich is a bad sign

This is what has ruined linux desktop to me
Am I too old? Because to me "dirty deeds" are malicious acts.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/example/english/dirty-de...

(Note that the singular normally refers to sex, though.)
Ooooh, that looks cool and the PCB seems simple (at least from this side). Congrats!

Do you have anything published?
great work Pierre.
Laptops are starting to transition to ARM processors. The process is only beginning to begin; it hasn't really gotten going yet.

I agree about mobile. I agree about servers being in danger over the long haul.

The x86 architecture has been the winner by default for decades. That is still mostly true, but it looks like it may no longer be true fairly soon.

If CPUs become commodity chips, Intel may not have the financial strength to continue to be both a chip design company and a fab company. It may split off the fab business. (This is speculation, not really a prediction.)
They said a year or two back they will refuse to take on new fixed-price contracts going forward. Apparently the only way they can be profitable is by scamming taxpayers.
NoScript doesn't turn off javascript. It allows you to selectively disable some scripts while whitelisting others. You can't use much of the modern web without JS but you can neuter the dozens of trackers and ad bloat some sites insist on running on your computer.
Sonos delays two new products as it races to fix buggy app
Monitoring Next.js Apps with OpenTelemetry
If you do bring it in house look for very senior folks, ideally ex-founders who’ve built a product from scratch. You want someone who can help figure out requirements, feasibility, and write code. Pragmatic engineers are always the best.

happy to chat about this if helpful, email is in my profile
James May bettered Gordon Ramsay in a practical cooking competition. The gearhead from TopGear baked the better fish pie. And on Ramsay's own cooking show no less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPmLwW1-PA
Accounting.
The cat was out of the bag, when browsers got tabs.
They are already tiny window managers, and may as well lean into it.
[Posted different version under a now flagged comment]

I would love a completely customizable desktop system.

Be able to select different window arrangers, docks, etc., for each workspace.

--

Thinking bigger, something useful would be persistent and named "worksets" of workspaces, that can be closed and reopened. One workset at a time, or multiple.

It would help to be able to view/edit/access the same docs and tools in multiple windows, across workspaces, with different sizes and placements. Think the same Word doc, open in different workspaces, with disparate sizes.

I would optimize worksets for every possible context: crafting areas, development projects, regular tasks, etc.

The result would be dozens of worksets, that let me return to useful contexts months or even years between visits. So the workset manager should allow for hierarchical organization.

And I would want worksets to sync across devices, along with my regular file and app syncing.

Yup. That's it. That is all I want!
> Open core in practical terms keeps many useful parts away of a product.

Well yeah of course. If nothing useful is held back, no one is likely to buy the paid version of the product. That's how freemium works.

If you're relying on an open source project, you should want it to have a sustainable business backing it, and that means there needs to be a reasonable balance between free and paid features. If a project isn't helping anyone make money, no one is likely to do all the thankless tasks required to keep it healthy and growing, and there's a good chance it will end up abandoned eventually.
I ran MATE for years because I thought the GNOME3 rug-pull redesign was a major step backward. MATE has not really evolved a ton since it was forked from GNOME 2, so I honestly don't see the similarity between Cosmic and MATE. If anything, Cosmic looks to me more like "GNOME 3, but behaves even _more_ like MacOS."

If you like real buttons and scollbars, KDE is very nice these days and is MUCH more stable than it used to be.
The Heltec Lora32 has integrated LiPo circuitry, but it might be overkill if you don’t need the RF side of things.
Cosmic has a huge opportunity to make a desktop toolkit that doesn't suck. With proper components that you need for modern applications. I tried reaching out to the team on LinkedIn, but I guess it just goes into the LinkedIn spam. If they can nail the component library on their rust framework, I believe Linux Desktop applications might finally take off. But so far it doesn't seem like I could catch their interested.
Floorp, a Firefox fork, has this feature.
Try Vivaldi, it has something like that
The problem isn't that margins should have a specific size but that the design as a whole should feel cohesive. It's the balance of padding, margin, font sizes, and text alignment that is all wrong. Not just one specific thing, but the whole thing. Nothing lines up vertically. There are too many and too few borders. Some invisible borders take up space and others don't.

Big margins and tons of whitespace is fashionable. Good design doesn't need to be fashionable, but it does need internal consistency. A Mac-style dock with big rounded corners needs some space to breathe. If you don't want to sacrifice that screen space then maybe it's better to go for a more angular design.
Certainly I do not mean to imply that Phase 1 and Phase 2 failures are cost-free. But it is challenging to measure. As seen elsewhere in this thread, Gilead essentially included the acquisition of another company who had a whole retinue of drugs and product lines as "R&D" for Truvada, I believe. That is creative accounting that would not pass an audit or SEC filing, which is why Gilead only counts it as an R&D cost in their press releases...
Florida’s Senate Bill 2-A, which went into effect on December 16, 2022, no longer allows assignment of benefits to contractors. In May 2022, Florida’s 25% Roof Replacement Rule was eliminated and replaced with Senate Bill 4-D. The law originally stated that if more than 25% of the roof was damaged, the entire roof would need to be replaced to meet code requirements. SB 4-D states that as long as the rest of the roof complies with Florida’s 2007 building code, it only needs to be repaired. For roofs 15 years or older, insurance companies must allow homeowners to obtain an inspection by an authorized inspector before mandating a roof replacement for policy issuance or renewal (but a policy can still be denied based on the condition of roof from that report).

If insurance pricing declined after legislative fixes, I believe that would be evidence these reforms were contributing factors. The fact that insurance premiums continue to rise (even at the state insurer of last resort) leads me to believe reforms are insufficient to contain insurance costs, and that climate change is the primary driver.
Absolutely. My reaction was to the idea that throngs of current customers who are happy enough with the deal to keep buying "should" not just stop buying but organize a boycott. Feels like a classic "those sheeple think they're happy but they aren't" take.
* Fzf + Man Tldr [video]
If you're using Arrow from duckdb, you're using C or C++ bindings. Hack the arrow lib, recompile (and adjust if necessary) whatever bindings/programs using your hacked arrow. If you're using multiple implementations of arrow that arent just bindings, you might have to hack it in more than one place.

You don't have to solve the entire world, you only need to hack what you actually use. If the issue with an optimized arrow impl is memory incompat in duckdb, recompile duckdb with your hacked arrow. This is where "overengineered" stuff like mono repos really shine. I've done exactly this type of thing at past jobs.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Unless you're willing to become a software development company, I would strongly strongly suggest NOT writing the software yourself.

1) Can you acquire this company?

2) Can you talk to other companies that do something similar and migrate to their platform? Or threaten the current company with them losing your business if they don't get their shit together?
Car break ins still depend on thievs that scale at some rate in the population. There’s finite time to break into a car.
Chess player suspended after allegedly poisoning rival
Another user pointed to this screenshot on reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1emmfvb/ive_just_f...
Edge has this, though I have no idea why you wouldn't just open a second window...
> Using this "cross-verified database," we find that music stars have one of the shortest lifespans of any profession, with an expectancy comparable to boxers, military figures, and race car drivers.

Although according to the chart directly below, the life expectancy is more comparable to chess players and poets. Probably isn't as fun a sentence to write though.
Luke (author of Hazard3) provided some context regarding including the Hazard3 cores alongside the M33's:

> I can't compare the sizes of the two cores. The final die size would likely have been exactly the same with the Hazard3 removed, as std cell logic is compressible, and there is some rounding on the die dimensions due to constraints on the pad ring design. I can say that we taped out at a very high std cell utilisation and we might have saved a few grey hairs during final layout and STA by deleting the RISC-V cores.

https://x.com/wren6991/status/1821582405188350417
Suffering is unavoidable, and loss accumulates. It is a comfort to know that it will someday end, one way or another.
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I do this all the time by just dragging a tab off so it's a second window (and hitting a key in my wm to make them side-by-side). The only problem is that the address bar turns so tiny it's impossible to read it among all the pointless icons that should've been in the overflow menu, I wish there were a way to make it prioritise showing the url instead of icons for "bookmark this page" and "certified by digicert" etc.
Can someone do a short summary or TL;DR for this?
Excellent. I tried to get at something similar in a comment I made earlier today but was immediately downvoted and thus had my account automatically rate limited. It seems questioning the materialist presuppositions many hold around concepts like life and death can be a sore spot for some on HN. Am I correct in thinking you're circling Christian theology, specifically the Orthodox Christian idea of Theosis?
( man + tldr ) * fzf
Seems omething big is coming. He must have known something in advance.
Nice to see this finally come up, but it's going to take a while until it catches up with Sidebery or even TST
> Low-power operation

Low power suspend? In a Pi Foundation product? Impossible.
Anecdotal only but I've had to buy very obscure Samsung replacement parts twice in recent years and definitely noticed how expensive it was.

One was a proprietary cable for a tv and another was a specific-length ignition wire for a stove top pilot light. Both times I was able to find a no-name brand replacement part on amazon but reviews were mixed and there was no guarantee of fitment. And it wasn't that much of a discount compared to Samsung's direct parts store which was quite pricey. I paid over $60 for that pilot light wire.
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Is it possible to summarize what this is/was? I know I could RTFM but it's 336 pages, and the wiki didn't seem to shed any light on this for me.
It's better to analyze this in terms of the incentive of the particular project managers at Boeing making this decision, since Boeing itself isn't a person making decisions. They might rationally conclude that it might go well and get them promoted but if it goes badly the worst they're looking at is early retirement.
From what I've read, it's also possible to run one ARM core and one RISC-V core concurrently.
Why stop at social science? I say we make a questionnaire, give it to the GPT over a broad range of sampling temperatures, and collect the resulting score:temperature data. From that dataset, we can take people's temperatures over the phone with a short panel of questions!

(this is parody)
Yeah, widescreen monitors lend themselves nicely to a split pane view and I wish more applications used it.
It will be the year of the Linux Desktop when I recommend it to my parents.

I don't actually think that is ever happening, and I'm totally fine with it.
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A lot of negative takes here.

My understanding is that the point of developing cosmic is to enable distros and users to address UI issues in the first place, since GNOME is too limiting.
I would agree with this. For example, how would you represent causal attention in the standard equation?
I have helped a company do something like this in the past. My advice is go for it, but understand that there's going to be some landmines.

The biggest benefit is that you likely have a stronger understanding of your needs than any third-party, and if there are other businesses in your niche, it provides you a pathway to build a revenue stream selling your custom solution to your competitors to capture part of their revenue. If you think about it from the perspective of value capture, it means even if you lose a deal on the front end to a competitor, you are capturing a percentage of it on the backend because it gets your competitors reliant on your platform. To do that though without running afoul of antitrust, you should try to set it up so in-house development of the platform operates relatively independently of the larger business (the legal term is "chinese wall").

As an outcome, you can actually generate a new revenue stream that's profitable while correctly serving the needs of your business.
A built in mac-like dock, completely different styling on components, no weird bottom window bar, no windows-like application menu, customized theme engine, built in window tiling. Just a few little differences.
It should really be crime count by number of people out and about a day, but you will never have that number without some orwellian citizen surveillance program.
wish I had access to this data long time ago then I wouldn't have wasted so much time trying to be a startup or get into YC!!!

YC mythos is crumbling before me...

Failure : (92.95%)

Small Success : (3.94%)

Medium Success: (2.39%)

Large Success : (0.28%)

Unicorn : (0.44%)

and the ROI distribution doesn't look good either (but I understand those home runs will pay for the losses)

-100% (Total Loss): (80.9%)

-99% to -50% : (2.4%)

-49% to 0% : (1.4%)

1% to 100% : (2.6%)

101% to 500% : (5.7%)

501% to 1000% : (2.8%)

1001% to 5000% : (3.8%)

5001%+ : (0.4%)
And it also as vertical tabs!
Just checked out Arc. Very innovative design. I guess it's inspired by mobile browsers.
That was the previous model.
Every time I've looked at rqlite, it just falls short features-wise in what I would want to do with it. A single raft group does not scale horizontally, so to me rqlite is a toy rather than a tool worth using (because someone might mistake the toy as production grade software).
They say in the post that it will be released towards the end of the year.
https://x.com/chhillee/status/1821253769147118004?s=46

Perhaps this tweet thread would be better.
The best part of British food is that we're incredibly good at adopting all of the worlds cuisines' as our own. I remember being at the Belgian GP and literally you could have chips with various shaped sausage and one pizza place hiding at the back. At the British GP you could eat some variant (admittedly, probably not the best variant) of pretty much every cuisine you could imagine.

Even in our supermarkets if you want to make a Paella or Peri Peri chicken you'll find all of the ingredients you need. If you go to a Spain it's really hard to find Peri Peri and if you go to France you'll struggle to find ingredients for a Paella.
People with disabilities, or elderly people, need straws.

https://cdrnys.org/blog/disability-dialogue/grasping-at-stra...
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Looks like we won't have nesting in Firefox's implementation which made it kinda pointless to me.
> Our business operates in a specific niche and there are no other providers who cater specifically to our industry.

I'd love to be the provider on this.
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What Happened to Fear of Missing Out?
Unpopular opinion: Tab management in browsers originally addressed the shortcomings of OS window management (see Windows XP and IE6, and the original Google Chrome tiling capability replicated into Windows 10/11 OS window management.
PFAs should be illegal in all food applications by now. The danger of PFAs isn't really new at this point. I'm sure if we really try hard we'd find hundreds of viable alternatives (e.g. wax? noodle straws? bamboo?), they just wouldn't have the same margin.
Ten hours and counting! That's made a lovely mess of my day. Fell back to the Mistral API for some things, but it's (a) much slower, (b) not as good. Reminder to self: have fail-over in place already, rather than having to whip it up on the fly.
I was going to write the same thing. I checked the first three problems and all solutions are partial at best. Now, don't get me wrong, this is still impressive. But putting the problems there with the implication that qwen solves them correctly when it doesn't does not really inspire trust