skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just tested with Zen v1.0.0-a.26. User agent reports:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Exact match with Firefox v129.0.1:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0
His talks are great to watch, and the books on BSD design as well.
There are two R's in strawberry
A train. Pretty sure that's a reinvented train, yet again.
Skyfire lets AI agents spend your money
> You mean "tell me what it does". Beautiful is what a thing is. And what a thing does follows from what it is.

If they state in the readme that it's a web browser and I can compile it using GNU make then I'll believe them. If they say it's whizzy fast and easy to learn then I'll consider that's probably somewhat true. If I read "beautiful" and "paradigm-changing" and "redefines the browsing experience" then I imagine they're just trying to puff themselves up without having anything concrete to back it up.

It's true that things can be beautiful, and there are some universal (enough) beauty standards. The signal of being beautiful is not saying "look how beautiful I am" though. It's easy to claim something like that and hard to refute, so it's not a very good signal. The beauty should speak for itself, or at least be attested to be a third-party like with a quote from a review.
I am not the person you asked, but I have been on a similar path to improve my statistical literacy. For context, I am fairly good at math generally (used to be a math major in college decades ago; didn't do particularly well though I did graduate) but always managed to get myself extremely confused when it comes to statistics.

In terms of books: there are a few good ones aimed for the general public, such as The Signal and The Noise. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business is a good book of applying statistical thinking in a practical setting, though it wouldn't help you wrap your brain around things like the Monty Hall problem.

The one book that really made things click for me was this:

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E. T. Jaynes

This book is a bit more math-heavy, but I think anyone with a working background in a science or engineering field (including software engineering) should be able to get the important fundamental idea out of the book.

You don't need to completely comprehend all the details in math (I surely didn't); it is enough to have a high-level understanding of how the formulas are structured at the high level. But you do need enough math (for example, an intuitive understanding of logarithm) for the book to be useful.
I really like the UI! I use Firefox with Sidebery and the top tab bar hidden via userChrome.css, which is kind of a hassle. Zen supports that kind of layout out of the box.

I'm very happy to see a new modern browser not based on Chromium. Will definitely test drive it to see if it's worth switching to.
That comment has been living in my head rent free all week. The author of that post was good with imagery.
Same here... and funny enough the only thing that really looks wrong to me is they used "this" in only one of the two places they used "sessionProvider".

It's not a bug ("this" is implied, so it works just fine), but leaving it out hints to me that it was originally a third argument to "saveUser()", and either the original person writing this didn't have a solid API in mind or "saveUser()" was intended to also be static like "EmailUtil.sendEmail()" and it was switched around later on. Overall hints towards two conflicting styles in the same codebase and no good guidelines. Or maybe there are such guidelines (as hinted in the "solution"), and whoever updated this class only did it partway. This is the point where I'd poke around in the repo history to see why it's like this and whether anything should be changed further in either direction.
The Resident Evil 4 remaster is considered to be much better than the original by almost everybody.

Same with the Demon's Souls remaster.
What's the latest research show for a reasonable latency for something like this, anyone know?
If you are just trying to get a 2FA code, you can generate them. You could use something like https://github.com/rsc/2fa on your command line.
One can also look at Alaska over the past ~40 years to see that people are willing to work while getting UBI.
Ah, but the code already uses boolean instead of Boolean.
Nailed It
Can someone comment on what is the CPU/GPU usage while this is running? Does it also take up resources when the desktop is in the background or when another window is maximized?
Ok,that makes sense. My country (UK) uses a definition of poverty that's based on a % of median household income, which doesn't tell you anything about buying power.

If your income is below 60% of median, you're in poverty per the government's definition.
Well, the author can. You know this stuff actually works, right? It's not pie in the sky thinking.
Reminds me of my (far less exciting) story when I opened a php forum for a small community I was in charge with, way back, only to come the next day and find it full of botspam.

Forum didn't last too long after that.
Yeah I think GP is inadvertently admitting that they don't use indicators.
I do

I keep any projects/files I'm working on visible on my desk then tidy up as needed (I also have script to move files to a location based on extension, but it doesn't get executed until I checked anything that might cause problems being moved)
I would think any one of NIMBY incumbents, rent control, and (CA-specific, obv) Prop 13/19 would individually do a lot more to artificially pump up rent prices than rent setting software.
Workspace is mainly just managing Tabs. While Profiles are separating all settings, including addons, passwords, bookmarks, etc.
I had a similar comment so I'll just add-on here - jitter definitely is a huge issue. If an interface is _consistently_ slow you know to slow down, space out actions and wait for visual confirmations; if an interface is generally responsive, though, you can get into a "rhythm" of actions which, which can lead to chaos and confusion as you try to figure out both the new state of the system, and what actions you need to take to get back on track.
Multimodal RAG Using Mixpeek and Flux
Maybe try downloading android studio and setting up a phone in there. It will have access to the real Google play store.
Too soon. The PS4 is still an active platform with new games being released. This will get shut down right away.
I meant immediately after your reply. At the time I posted, your and acco_'s replies to layer8 both showed as "3 hours" ago. Now they both show as "13 hours ago". Really, I'm being generous in assuming they didn't reply before you.

Ed: ah, since the time I wrote this comment, your respective comments are now at 14 and 13 hours. Congrats on your <1hr lead.
> Static web servers have been a solved technical problem for going on 25 years.

That only shows your ignorance. By that logic, transportation has been a solved problem for millennia. We were moving from A to B for quite some time.

When your wife tells you "Hey, look what I cooked for dinner"? Do you tell her "I have seen this dish 30 years ago, why don't you develop new recipes instead?"

Find something better to do than belittling others side projects that they shared for fun.
> The hard part is getting people to do exhausting, boring, smelly mundane tasks that don't garner applause.

For example, further polishing this emulator implementation to be compatible with a larger range of titles and host system configurations.

At some point, it always becomes a job.
So is nonsense FUD.
this is amazing! i'm guessing you can probably get it to antialias without much more work

as the demo video shows, it's probably not something you want to have in between you and the ability to scroll a web page or close a tab. but i guess using harfbuzz now means we're buying into a turing-complete virtual machine running an arbitrary program in order to display a glyph. how seriously crippled are the harfbuzzless rendering paths? i'm assuming opting out of harfbuzz means opting out of arabic, devanagari and other indic scripts, etc.? is there a less out-of-control alternative that doesn't leave two billion people out in the cold?
Wikipedia says the international date line is “a cartographic convention, and is not defined by international law.”

The “line” wasn’t a convention at all in the 16th century so how did sailors experience loss of a day?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Date_Line#:~:t....
> especially when there're actual knowledgeable youtubers out there

Care to share them?
If this counts as the "semantic web", then <meta name="description"... should to.

In which case we have all been on it since the mid 90s.
In electrical engineering there is the concept of "bounce" where IO, i.e. switches sensors whatever, are in a state of close to change, they can bounce back and forth between on and off. When writing controls for them you have to debounce, that is wait for the signal to switch from off to on for say 10ms before you act on the transition.

When dealing with users, and slow processes (that you can't make faster for some reason), it is often necessary to "debounce" user input. Whether that is graying out a button, displaying a loading popup, or something else is entirely situation dependent. Whatever you choose, you should be preventing people from annoyance clicking their way into trouble.

The amount of software that doesn't seem to get that is rather surprising.
Show HN: Compare All Cities in Europe
I created an app to compare countries/cities within Europe. It helps people to find the best places to live, work and invest based on various data sources (quality of life, cost of living, safety, tax burden, government efficiency, ...).

The world has become a lot smaller through the internet /plane travel and this gives people the freedom to live, work and invest wherever they want under the motto: "Go where you're treated best".

This app enables that and allows anyone to compare cities like they would compare phones on a webshop. The main feature is the side-by-side comparison table.

I'm looking for some constructive feedback on the app. So if you have any thoughts/idea's: let me know here or on twitter (https://x.com/smn_nerd)!
The way it reads (to me), it’s about Cursor being good
Awesome work. Emulators are in many ways some of the coolest things one can build.
That is one of the coolest things I have seen in years!
Great work.
The concept of "executable weights" is also very interesting.
None of them should be using Slack to begin with. It is an enterprise product, meant for companies with an HR department and employment contracts. Slack customer support will themselves tell you that the product isn't meant for open groups (as evidenced by the lack of any moderation tools).
In that case, the website wants to make it look like a polished professional product, which is cringe at best and disingenuous at worst.
I don’t think Andrew had its own display system. At least by the early 90s, ATK ran on top of X.
EDR vendors don't seem to know shit about EDR, either. You could be one even if you don't know about EDR. It's all about how you make your customers see you. That's what the article is saying.
Do you have an alternative ? For some informative, yet entertaining tech youtuber focused on gaming ?
I shouldn't have mentioned NDAs there to relate to customer lists, it got left in that paragraph after I trimmed the comment down a lot. Taking customer data would be considered as a form of corporate espionage.

There are so many different types of "knowledge you obtained", there's no one size fits all answer. If it's generic training, no issue. If it's learning an industry standard practice, no issue. If it's years of solving problems, and having an intuition about solving a new, unrelated problem, no issue. If it's taking a list of customers and contact details, that's commercially sensitive data and a big issue. If you were personal friends with say 5 of the 20 customers, and could show you regularly met outside of a work context then you could arguably show that you hadn't stolen commercial data, you'd just contacted old friends. You might be opening yourself up to undeclared conflict of interest problems though. If through your work you knew of a secret process that was better than the rest of the industry and provided a competitive advantage, and then the new employer you left with also started that technique, that's a big issue and you'd have a real job to prove you weren't stealing secrets. If some technique had already been made public, e.g. by a patent, and your experience allowed someone to replicate the method in the patent, then you'd probably be OK, but then opening up the new employer to a patent infringement case. If it's a non-patented process improvement to a well known process, then probably fine. If you were a high level manager for e.g. Intel and moved to an unrelated tech company, no issue. If you moved to another chip manufacturer, it'd be very hard to prove that you didn't ever make any decisions based on the commercially sensitive information you learned at the previous company.

Maybe your new employer might want you to take gardening leave in many cases to protect them from liability of claims for corporate espionage. Alternatively, it might be prudent for the employee to make sure he works on projects at the new company that don't relate to their old work.

But essentially, it all boils down to how what the commercially sensitive material is and much damage might be caused by that being given to a competitor. This is where it's back to NDA territory. If you know any company information that's not public knowledge, then there isn't a term limit for when you're allowed to talk about it. Obviously, the longer it's been, the less relevant it's going to be commercially sensitive, and so the less likely you'd be sued for divulging trade secrets, but it totally depends on what that situation is. I also don't think the situation would be wildly different compared to the US. I'm pretty sure Coca Cola would sue someone who knew the recipe for Coke and decided to leak it, and they'd probably win regardless of when they left the company, because maintaining that secret is still critical to their ongoing business.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Economic activity should be enjoyed by the commons. For example LNG being exported UNDER international value and Aussies buying it at international prices is idiotic.
It's still hopefully useful dialogue on a common subject. I would be grateful to get this much feedback. And the discussion helps boost the visibility of this project on HN. Pick apart my work all you like, I'm happy to see it continue to hover on page 1. Please continue.
> Wikipedia itself is only a little over two decades old

The world wide web (but not the internet) is only 3 decades old!
What? Why does that matter? Even Nintendo knows it has to leave ryuujinx alone. And switch is even a current platform.
Ask HN: What advice would you give a tester who wants to become a coder?
I've been hit up a few times by testers from previous jobs, asking for advice about how to get into coding. They don't usually have a coding background, but they're young and smart and I think they could do well. They're usually interested in being front end developers.

Since they're already full-time professionals, I've generally pointed them towards Udemy. I like how their classes are structured - usually bite size portions so you can do a few a day.

However, I worry that they may need some extra push to get them going. I was wondering if there was something else I could say to help them along?
AutoLatex: LLM-powered text/image to LaTeX with live rendering Chrome extension
AutoLatex is a browser extension that simplifies LaTeX equation generation for researchers and students. It uses LLMs to convert natural language and images into markdown and LaTeX, with instant rendering so you can edit on the spot.

In short, you can do the following

text/image to equations in markdown+latex

live rendering of markdown+latex

drag and drop screenshot

just a simple chat mode

customizable models and default prompts
Clarification: he is not interviewing to be hired for a job
The coherent way to think about this is in terms of the common good. In fact, the private good is for the sake of the common good: by being able to have private goods, we are better able to flourish (e.g., by removing conflict over common use). But because the common good is superior to private good, it is not the case that there is an absolute right to the private good. This doesn't mean principles of justice can be violated. On the contrary, it allows for them to be more perfectly realized. If you own a warehouse full of food in the middle of a famine, then it isn't theft for the hungry to take it, because you have a moral obligation to supply the starving with that food.

The trouble with the liberal notion of property rights is that it has things exactly backwards. It posits private property as primary, and the common good as a perhaps regrettable, but necessary concession of the private good. But it is the common good that is prior and justifies the private good.

So, in this case, does a company like Elsevier serve the common good?
You got a detailed response from me in the last thread about how your facts are merely "facts" and you continue to repeat these "facts". Not sure how one could infer anything here other then bad faith on your part.
Those are actually good questions.

Engineering grid and PV installations acknowledge that the generation may be lost, so you are having contingency plan by means of transferring or picking the load. You're going to lose power for short time if you didn't do this properly.

Actually due to the nature of PV generation, no sun no generation, it is reckless to just rely on PV. If sun is shining that is great, there'll be generation. However, daily peak consumption coincides with less day light. So during planning the target is the extreme cases (statistically estimating demand), in other words you do load flow studies for extreme cases. This helps to see your capacity limits.

In parallel to this you should consider electric grid as a layered system. PV generation at house is the lowest level, so less impact. So when it is lost, or neighborhood or town lose PV generation it will impact nearby station, which is couple MW if not kW. So when you lose PV generation and you planned your system for extreme case, higher level of generation or substation will take control of it.

Losing GW solar does not mean you're losing that amount power in small geographical region. You have to divide that into so many small parts. Also, PV generation at GW level is too high for small region.

Hope this explanation helps. It is because how power flows, governed by rules of physics. Bottom line, if hacker wants to affect a grid they should target higher level of grid, PV panels on the rooftops will not help their cause, they are end of line.
Ask HN: Good B2C Founder Communities
Heya, I'm looking for communities for builders in the B2C space, thanks! <3
lol

My case is a reference to a real-life, literal sitaution that I was involved with. The "opinions" expressed as why I would or would not do certain things had PLENTY of A/B testing and research done on them. Not only internally, within my company, but externally out on the open internet. Nothing I said conflicts with extremely common understandings of these UX patterns. And, far more importantly, our internal testing and research backed all of our findings up.

So when someone says "here's a better way to do your UX", they are specifically saying that they have some insight that beats out all of the research and testing I have seen on it. In which case, I am MORE THAN HAPPY to see any of it. I love to learn that certain patterns don't work the way I thought they did! Sometimes it just means they've gone out of style and we need to update with a trend. I'm very interested in making UX the most reasonable I can for the most users. So if I'm doing something wrong, I'd love to see data to support that!

What is less interesting to me is someone saying that their opinion is better without any evidence of that claim. But, hey, I'm open to new ideas: please explain to me what concrete actions I should take based on the reply I got? I should go research it because ne said it, even though it's a very common thing that is said in these discussions and I've never seen it supported? Do you chase down every single lead without asking for the minimum amount of effort to be put in by the propositioner? If this person was earnest about helping me achieve a better UX, rather than just stating their opinion out loud, why is it difficult to follow up with practical data?
With SQL there are commonly several options available, and tradeoffs might not be obvious until it's tested against a real data set. Sometimes even an EXPLAIN that looks good still has some drawback in production, though in my experience it's very rare.

I like that though, I have a preference for REPL style development and fleshing things out interactively. Enough so that I build Java like that, hacking things out directly in tests.
The FTC's noncompete agreements ban has been struck down
This is a meme that's passed around on the left-leaning internet but anyone who has spent any significant amount of time with Republican voters knows it's nonsense. There are a whole ton of laws that Republicans want implemented. I'm not sure if they don't count as laws because left-leaning meme-makers strongly disagree with them or because they truly don't realize that Republicans have opinions besides "big government bad".

To wit:

* Immigration law

* Laws regarding who you can and can't marry

* Laws preventing access to a number of health procedures

* Laws regarding what types of substances you can put into yourself

* Laws forcing big platforms to not censor speech

* Laws enshrining churches as protected institutions

And on and on and on and on. If you listen to these memes you'd get the impression that Republican voters are overwhelmingly libertarian, which couldn't be further from the truth.

You may well disagree with many of the laws that they want (I do), but it's a bit rich to claim that they don't want any laws when the Democratic Party is basically running on a platform of "stop Project 2025".
The only solution is to have a second LLM with a fixed prompt to double check the response of the first LLM.

No matter how smart your first LLM is, it will never be safe if the prompt comes from the user. Even if you put a human in there, they can be bribed or tricked.
I have much better luck with PB Blaster. I can't count how many rusty old nuts and bolts I sprayed with WD-40 only to have to follow it up with PB Blaster to get the job done.