skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The files are mostly the same. It goes against OpenBSD ethos not to constantly review and improve the entire codebase.
How very web 1.9
“That nobody had opened those filing cabinets for 50 years was because they were idiots and didn’t understand the archive’s value."

But who is it valuable to? Ultimately a great deal of this is purely interesting to the increasing small number of people who are personally or professionally invested in Orwell. The value here is that the archive could generate a couple of conference keynotes for professors, a new foreword in a reprint, or, at a stretch, a new biography.

There is a very small chance that enough new material, or changes to material, could merit a brand new publication, but ultimately the existing published works stand by themselves and the rest amounts to high brow gossip.
CEOs too.
systems evolve. systemd is nearly fifteen years old and is not hard to use, and it is better than the myriad systems it replaced. that's why it won

this is very much not the same thing especially since you can still find non systemd distros but really, systemd is neither a new nor abrupt nor unilateral change

Linux is not "doing the same thing" except inasmuch that everything that doesn't die changes over time
I worked with a lot of schools in my last company and unfortunately I don't think extensive research is the best road either. While I totally understand your position, this excuse is also used for only allowing pen and paper for math in highschool by teachers.

It takes a crazy amount of time to extensively research and prove things in education for a few reasons:

There is opposition to doing the research because teachers/parents don't want their students to be the first.

It's really hard to make random control groups because schools want to put kids in classrooms by their process, not the whims of the researchers.

It's expensive and mostly controlled by the big granters (ex. Gates Foundation).

Results are often looked at via testing measures (which if you look at assessments, sometimes they were proven by having 400 white kids in an affluent school use, aka not representative).

And so, we have a bit of an issue.

Almost no one teaches math via a spreadsheet even though most adults do. It isn't researched on the implications.

Data science as a class to qualify for credit to get into college is greatly contentious because it isn't proven. Even though it is clearly important to our current era.

In addition, teachers are human and so they don't necessarily teach with the 100% best proven methodologies day in and day out.

So I think it's important to realize that education is human. It's flawed and messy and isn't aligned to the best methods already. Sometimes you get lucky with a teacher that works for you and sometimes not.
>7nm and smaller

Ugh. The process naming which has nothing to do with size anymore still confuses people.
> Most posts of such format I have seen are "we did this and got this", not "we tried this, it failed because of this, then we figured out something else might work and it worked after these modifications".

That doesn't resemble anything remotely related to teaching how to think. You're just logging your trial and error process, which is exactly what each and every single developer goes through on a daily basis.

What exactly do you think other developers do?
If you're hopping between these products instead of learning and understanding how inference works under the hood, and familiarizing yourself with the leading open source projects (i.e. llama.cpp), you are doing yourself a great disservice.
I dont even want to imagine how that codebase looks. The delphi code I‘ve come into contact with (not a delphi dev myself but worked close to them) tended to be quite bad by modern standards. The reason why was generally similar: not very experienced devs in the 90s needed to something with a UI off the ground.
I edited it endlessly lol, not sure how much makes sense to be fair. I actually deleted this post and sent it again, realizing I was making the same mistake.

The 'self own' depends on the idea that one is selecting against their interests due to distaste for a given CEO.

First, who are they to say this? Something not objectively the best must be evaluated to find where it lands. Merits aren't universal, this falls to the individual. You did well to get to this point in your post.

Second, let's pause for a minute and think of how contrived this is. Outside of social media, how often does this happen? I get the feeling this is a distinctly Elon+Tesla problem. However, we can't completely separate the man from the companies.

The "boots theory" talks about how it costs more to be poor, many cheap boots instead of a more expensive pair. This tries to explain some counter-intuitive decisions people have to make.

In this light, maybe people rank their opinions over dubious features in an overpriced appliance.

Knowing it's a loose attempt, I'll try to say something equally silly: anyone wearing a belt clearly can't buy pants or is trying too hard to impress.
> Canada. It isn't possible to distinguish landlines from cell phones by looking at the number.

Atlantic Canada is small enough that there was a single area code for Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia up until a few years ago.

Cellphones in the region tend to have their own CO code (first three digits of the phone number), so you can usually infer if it’s a number you can text or not.

This is also the case for different regions of NS and PEI, so seeing a 902 number where the CO number is different from what you’re used to makes it seem “exotic”. This was also handy back in the day to know whether it was long distance or not.

This is slowly eroding as numbers get ported out, and landlines get disconnected.
Maybe the equivalence was lost: in 1990s, a computer in your pocket would bring about visions of a tower PC and maybe a backpack strap, and then you could only walk as far as the power cord.

When VR/AR makes it, it won't be strapping what I imagine you are thinking to your face. I imagine glasses or maybe people will even entertain a visor or shield
Everything crap about the modern web is a result of commercialization, so I'm skeptical that doubling down on commercialization is going to do anything but dig this hole even deeper.
Why would you consider the text spammy? No links or requests were included. So just delete seems fine to me.
Interesting that the website was largely generated using AI and only slightly tweaked.
Promised, no. Thinly veiled threats, definitely, from Putin and other Russian leadership.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_risk_during_the_Russia...

Same mistake Obama made in Syria: red lines that aren't actual red lines just make you look a bit feckless when they're crossed without consequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lines_in_the_Russo-Ukraini...
History. It should be a part of our historical and cultural record, not the private playthings for the wealthy.

Whenever something like this comes up, I'm appalled at how little people seem to give a shit about preserving things for the future. In the end, it's all we have to pass down through the ages.
That’s what modern web development is like as long as you’re not using something like Next/React with a massive build process.
You're right! It hasn't been updated in a month, but maybe that's where the updates will be coming.

It's typically updated every couple days to once a week.

https://x.com/Magnolia1234B/status/1823073077867287028
Where the ribbon fails most for me is when you narrow the window width and various options are made basically inaccessible.
Because we are all disabled in that our lives are too short to sit through all that pointless theatrical animation.
I would recommend using the VoiceOver / TalkBack feature on your phone instead. It's a lot more intuitive. With VoiceOver learning to use the rotor gives you the experience that fully blind people are likely to use.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111796
Sure, thanks! It might help someone. After all, there are new refugees from Windows every day now.
having moved from owned and operated to aws, even products that went live without proper redundancy (literary one rh6 box in a data center) had less outages than our fully redundant aws deploys, which all have been far from advertised uptime all thanks to their outages.

but i don't know what the"article" talks about as i won't click xitter links
I agree. But to continue the point - even if I wanted to spend 40 gross hours of billable time at $200/hr for a single installation of a server OS, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the right OS for the goal I'm trying to accomplish, no matter how bad or excellent the configuration experience happens to be.

Conversations about the utility, costs, and feature sets of Windows vs. Linux. vs. macOS tend to ignore the reality that business conditions often dictate that you must use one or the other for a given use case. Sometimes you do have the option, and if you've already got an appreciable investment in one, then you tend to select for that one almost by default.
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> we have to ask ourselves when is Typescript done, instead of being an intellectual exercise for the sake of it.

You’re doing yourself an extreme disservice if this is all you perceive TypeScript as. It’s brought some semblance of order out of the Wild West that is JavaScript, which, like it or not, powers the vast majority of the modern web. Not only that, it’s also introduced a whole bunch of developers to different ideas about what a type system is capable of.
Ah, you beat me to it. Looks like a closed source hotglue clone/saas/inspiration. They shouldn't have used that similar name if they're not related to the original project.

Anyway, it's sad Hotglue hasn't seen development in the last years, some friends use it for their personal sites...
> We really don't want open war between the Western powers and Russia.

True. But unfortunately Putin loves playing on that fact to keep us frozen and hesistant to send aid.

Ukraine’s recent advance into Kursk shows you how little his supposed red lines actually exist.

And to the often held claim that NATO is a threat to Russia and is to blame for making Russia move into Ukraine, Russia’s actions in Ukraine betray this little myth. They’re depleting the stocks of expensive tactical ballistic missiles as well as very expensive high end surface-to-air missiles by hucking them at even tiniest targets in Ukraine.

This isn’t what you would do if you were actually worried about needing to confront aggressive, well funded western neighbors later.

In one of those ironies that seem to populate modern life, the now public ineptitude of the Russian military in Ukraine has in fact given some western military leaders an inkling that directly taking on the Russians is a viable option.

Good times…
It’s always interesting to know other people’s method of separation. Im the complete opposite, but for the same reasons.

Windows is a toy for me, its not a tool I’d ever willing use for productivity or business, that’s left to OSX, Linux etc.

It just helps to not cross the streams, which when your job is computing and your hobbies involve computing helps, or at least I feel it does. I can’t use a nix os without it feeling like my day job.

Ironically when I worked in PC repair, it was the other way around, I couldn’t bare to look at windows when I got home.
Insurance doesn’t really make that decision. Doctors do. it they decide to not pay after the procedure, the doctor / hospital can fight it out with the insurer.

In practice government monopolies ration care much more.
Being a clone of Hotglue doesn't help either.
I find that https://github.com/casey/just is a great answer to a lot of problems in this thread.
I have a justfile in all my projects now and I'm very happy.
I'm going to try out the new travel mode on a transatlantic flight tomorrow - mildly excited by the possibility of escaping the claustrophobic confines of 11 hours in an airplane.
It’s a fairly major problem that people look to Google as a center of management and technical excellence while it is not and hasn’t been since 2007 or so.

The last person I respected there was Matt Cutts for his combination of public relations and “make the freaking training set at all costs” mentality that separates the people who make working ML models from the rest. Google doesn’t give that to the world, no it gives us Kubernetes and OKRs to kill startups which could be potential competitors. (Sorry when product-market-fit is job #1, #2, #3 and #4 you can’t waste 30 seconds on a system which will twist all your productive people into knots while giving narcissists free reign to determine how they and others are perceived by the organization.)
"resource hog" is a thing. Eclipse is java as well.
(a Philippine one-person corporation owner here)

My experience with tax optimization is that, after the first year, the auditor included suboptimal tax settings as an audit finding and also provided concrete recommendations on how to implement the change. So, really, don't think about it, you will get the advice anyway.
One of the few places these kinds of jobs still exist is within the universities, in various labs or research cores. Pay is often lower, but quality of life and work often way higher, with much more freedom under responsibility.
In Europe the Dacia Spring is available for under €20k on the road, and it is a proper car similar to others in the compact range - not a toy like the Citroen Ami (that thing doesn't even have heating). However it's really the only car like that available in Europe, and Dacia isn't exactly known for it's reliability (sorry Romania).

Plus at that price point they are not competing with other compacts - which aren't that popular anyway - but with a 2-4 year old used car. One of my collegues just bought a 4 year old Toyota Avensis for the same price. Which one do you think will last longer?
I don't care how rich he is, he's wrong. Companies need people at the boundaries of context to clue people in, especially at the rate companies like Google lay people off.
I was specifically talking about where I work with that criticism about KPI and sales. I have no idea what might be driving Microsoft's design philosophy.

You might be into something though.
> Those were escalations not red lines, and Putin has not threatened a nuclear response to anything Ukraine has done (or even anything it could feasibly do).

Putin threatened nukes if Sweden and Finland joined NATO, but I'm sure that's just a meme as well.
The “problem” is that html is largely free-form as schemas go, so undifferentiated div soup is perfectly valid. Being able to easily define a document schema kind of died out with xhtml, and no one uses html5’s official xml encoding.

Basically it’s up to the content generator to produce semantically nice html, whether that’s a fancy editor or a widget toolkit. When I use PrimeVue for example, the generated DOM is chock full of ARIA attributes.
Did the author of this article ever look at the output of AI coding systems? Did they try anything more complicated than a simple coding exercise?

If you choose an AI as your tech co-founder, then you deserve what you get.
> the rise (read as: shoving-down-our-throats) of AI/machine learning will hurt the collective ability to code

You sound like Socrates lamenting that the invention of writing is hurting people's collective ability to think, since their brains no longer need to hold many things simultaneously.
Yeah, it's more like "strapping space heaters to their faces".
Are Ukraine's rather successful incursion into Russian territory and successful strikes against oil refineries and airfields deep inside Russian territory escalations or red lines?

I can never tell which is which with Russian apologists
The landing page looks really nice!

How does one create web pages like this without using a tool like the above? Would animating html elements with javascript be sufficient?
> Fortunately, Safari can display video files in <img> or CSS images, which makes all animated image formats unnecessary.

Do you mean to say "even Safari"? Because there are quite a few people using other browsers.
The builtin help in Borland IDE's was supreme. I used to everyday choose a random help page, read it, copy the example and modify it until I understood what it did. That's probably the best programming tutor I ever had and how I learned programming by myself in my teens without Internet.
I have been a daily logseq user for at least a couple years now, and I have not had a problem with my data being lost. I have heard of people having this issue with Synching - which I am also using - but I haven't had issues.

I like how the data storage is markdown files. I love the block centered outlier approach and use block references extensively.

I've developed some extensions too. The documentation is severely lacking here, but there are enough extensions on the (currently free and oss) marketplace that can be useful examples.

The query language is really freaking weird to me. It's clojure, datascript/datom. Not intuitive at all, but I've got several custom queries working as part of my workflow.

Overall Logseq is good software and I'd recommend it. Certainly take backups - I have from the start because of experiences like the above - but I haven't needed them yet.
The author's bit about "IterateGPT" reminds me of this "AI in a loop" post from last year: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern

prompt = """
You run in a loop of Thought, Action, PAUSE, Observation.
At the end of the loop you output an Answer
Use Thought to describe your thoughts about the question you have been asked.
Use Action to run one of the actions available to you - then return PAUSE.
Observation will be the result of running those actions.
..."""

Seems like a really powerful technique to have LLMs act on their own feedback.
Show HN: Firebuilder: A complete Firefox customization tool
Hi HN! I've been working lately on unifying firefox configuration. Many people work on creating custom `userChrome.css` files and modules, browser user scripts, etc, but it's hard to actually use these a lot of the time. It usually involves cloning a repo, finding a folder and lots of copy paste.

My tool (firebuilder) has an interactive CLI to select what to apply, (e.g. firefox hardening, custom CSS, etc) then creates a brand new profile folder for you. You can also seamlessly port from an existing profile folder to preserve all of your history, bookmarks, extensions, etc.

For those more interested in using it programmatically everything is compiled from a config.json file which contains all the config necessary to build the said firefox profile. It currently supports:
- userChrome tweaks
- user.js (usually hardening related tweaks)
- fx-autoconfig scripts
- extending existing profiles. You can copy custom files or presets like history, bookmarks, extensions, etc

Also its defaults (if you just have a blank config.json) do the following:
- Apply hardening that removes telemetry, sponsors, some mozilla features
- Keeps the browser very usable, doesn't remove unnecessary features or make things break
- Adds vibrancy for macOS

Firebuilder also supports whatever firefox tool you've been currently working on. It can install custom features from any git based repo, including downloading from releases, and keeping resources as well (so even if your theme sets custom icons you're still good!). Additionally if whatever you've created for firefox has about:config based settings these can be defined in the repo's json file as well.

The codebase is mainly JavaScript, and is then compiled and run with Bun. I've intentionally tried to make it easy to add new features via PR and easy to extend via configuration. See the examples folder for lots of examples.

Feel free to give any feedback, ask questions, etc, and drop a star if you like the project!
Yeah, about those layoffs. There is heavy coverage of Intel’s plans to lay off 14k a year. People fresh out of college might be impressed but if you’ve been around you’d know they lay off 10k people every few years like clockwork.

It’s enough that it’s the last place I’d want to start a job at because I could get laid off just as soon as I start.
In the olden days, if your cell number had a different area code from the place you were physically in, you'd get long-distance charges when calling a local number, but not when calling a number matching your area code.

In modern times however, the area code is largely irrelevant. You get assigned a number with the area code of the place you first opened your account, and then you can just keep that number forever if you want. I've had the same number for almost 20 years and I've had four different providers in that time. Porting a number between carriers has been a standardized process for a very long time.
If the alternative is full on war (see Ukraine/Russia), I'd say it's an amazing win.
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But how much of the monetary value generation derives from small nodes?

Surely the vast majority of fab income derives from these small nodes, just based on the sheer pricing disparity between complex semiconductors and everything else.
To be fair, Palantir started building this commercial ontology stuff in the early 2010s and the product now seems to really gain traction in certain business areas, like energy and manufacturing.

I think the ontology becomes especially valuable when using LLMs, because you can traverse the entities of your business without knowing anything about the infrastructure behind it. You essentially have an object API into your business for the LLM to use.
I didn’t take those roles as glue people. I took it as people who were technically adept but facilitators.
Incidentally, my Windows installations never self destruct, and I have used the product on several versions in the last 25+ years (since W95). My Linux installations however have, for example by standard updates.
To be honest and judging by the amount and quality of emails I receive weekly from people claiming to have a discovery or sharing this last unification theory, this is a safe assumption. The problem that peer-review solve it not to waste your valuable little time seeing if this is following reasonable scientific methods or not. It does not tell you that this wrong or correct.

I ready about 30 papers weekly (below average) and I spend 2 days out of my week reading them. This without having to read anything, it would be a much worse situation where I have to read too many just to find that many of them are just written by cranks.

Someone can say we can can pay for people to have some sort of verified aggregate feed of articles. Yes that is possible and congratulations, you just reinvented peer-review system.
Is it possible that the information you need is available locally via interactive help functionality, but the attention harvesting complex that is the modern web has tricked you into habitually reaching for a browser when calling the help function or reading the code would do?

Asked because it's gotten me a few times.
right, but you can also bring a modern system to its knees with a high enough load. the new systems suck by default. keyboard response time is much higher than ever because of the accumulation of abstraction strata.
> That's an opinion not a fact backed by any data.

It's a well-demonstrated fact that, for the overwhelmingly large majority of people (mainly those without eidetic memory), copying someone else's answers, rather than coming up with them by applying one's own problem-solving skills, hurts one's ability to advance their own related knowledge/skills. There's a _reason_ we're taught not to cheat in school.