skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had literally this exact same scenario happen but with Podcast Addict. It's still my favorite podcast app by far but the auto re-sorting threw me off for a while until I got used to it.
I wish users would think more like this and asked to be paid for data collection :)
> Mozilla is an ad-tech company too now.

I'm sorry, this seems egregious. I agree that it should've been off by default but I challenge anyone to read how the implementation works (not just the blog post and the FUD responses to it) before calling it a giveaway to the ad industry: https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/tree/main/ppa-experime...

FF is currently a key tool in the fight to avoid a Google-top-to-bottom future, and before we start the meme that it's gone to shit we should be really really sure that's actually true.
The various players in the ICE and oil industries had a common practice of buying out battery technology developers or their patents to keep advancement off the market. Lithium ion batteries were first developed in the 1970s, and could have come to market much earlier if not for those practices.
Postgress may be solid, but not a distributed system and the OP is about distributed systems.
There are scripts to make Excel files from Python w/o having a copy of Excel.
Many systems have been built directly on top of SMS, for very low-bandwidth messaging.
Are you at all familiar with "Telegram Dude"? A fugitive of the Russian Government, an expat whose Facebook-like social network VKontakte was seized by the Russian Government, before he fled Russia and started an encrypted messaging app in response?

I'm no expert on his current activities, but this isn't a situation without Known Context.
Infiltred North Korean psyop to push people to Red Star OS. 2025 will be the year of Linux on the desktop thanks to the Great Leader.
> "Fear my importance! I'm changing the name of this product!"

Well, the person who wrote the tech blogpost that was linked here is :

>Hilary Braun

>I'm a Senior Product Manager for Windows 365, focused on providing a great experience for people using Windows in the cloud with the Windows App.

So, Bingo! It's indeed most likely a case of needing to feel important. After all, you're the manager of something absolutely nobody cares about, as long as it works as intended. The RDP features of Windows are the kind of thing you only notice if they do not work properly, if they work fine, they're just another tool in the box, no more exciting to look at or talk about than hammers and screwdrivers. I would even suggest watching paint dry is more entertaining than having to listen to a manager talk about their brand rebranding of the computer equivalent of a screwdriver.
> We basically postponed the r&d of one for 60 years and funded the other with infinite petro dollars.

The R & D would have started much further away from a usable product. Maybe we would have got electric cars earlier, but not as early as the 60s or 70s.

> Yeah, now, after 60 years of designing every single aspect of our modern lives around gas and gas cars, how surprising indeed

Maybe in the US, but not in much of the world. I never owned a car when I lived in London, nor for most of the time I lived in Manchester. Lots of other cities are around the world are better in terms of managing without a car at all.

The need for petrol cars is greatest for people who do long trips. The need for a car depends on distances, what people need to transport (goods, kids...). and the availability of public transport.

Cities are much nicer with fewer cars and when easier to walk around.
> Phoronix could get a lot better if it stopped clickbaiting

I've been reading Phoronix for years and I don't recall seeing clickbait. Most of the time the titles are just quotes from the sourced article he links to.

Even skimming https://www.phoronix.com/news I see no clickbait?

Was it something they did in the past? Or is the clickbait specific to benchmarks, which I have no ability to interpret?
postgres can be a distributed system though? It supports sharding and various replication schemes.
Space Mining Startup Confirms First Private Mission to an Asteroid
Arabic is more than just a language; it connects more than 400 million people across 20+ countries, from the vibrant streets of Cairo to the historic corners of Baghdad. With a variety of dialects like Egyptian, Levantine, Maghrebi, and Gulf, each area brings its own flavor to the language. Arcee Meraj aims to bridge gaps and opens up new opportunities, showing the world the incredible potential of language-specific large language models. This release isn't just about technology —it's about embracing every culture and making sure no one's left behind in the digital age.

Arcee Meraj is the Arabic-enhanced version of Arcee Nova, which itself was a groundbreaking general-purpose model that approached the performance level of GPT-4 as of May 2023. By further fine-tuning Arcee Nova specifically for Arabic nuances, Arcee Meraj offers unprecedented capabilities in understanding and generating Arabic text at an enterprise level.

More details at https://blog.arcee.ai/arcee-meraj-maarj/
but how do you explain AnandTech lasting so so long if the business model didn't work?

I remember reading AnandTech >20 years ago. I think it failed now because they slowed down on releasing content. Over the last 2 years they've hardly published anything. They didn't even cover the latest iPhones (and when they did, it was months after release when no one cared anymore).
Parent is referring to Agnost's own concept of Containers, which are a different concept and further overloading the term. I agree with their take that this is confusing. Your Agnost Container is an abstraction over several K8S abstractions over actual containers.
https://agnost.dev/guides/containers/
I buy into some of the hype. but only for majority use cases, not for edge case specialisation.

As ever, at FANGMA-whatever scale/use cases, yeah I’d agree with you. But the majority of cases are not FANGMA-whatever scale/use cases.

Basically, it’s good enough for most people. Plus it takes away a bunch of complexity for them.

> If the application has sustained query load

Analytical queries in majority cases are not causing sustained load.

It’s a few dashboards a handful of managers/teams check a couple of times through the day.

Or a few people crunching some ad hoc queries (and hopefully writing the intermediate results somewhere so they don’t have to keep making the same query — I.e. no sustained load problem).

> real-time data ingestion requirements

Most of the time a nightly batch job is good enough. Most Businesses still work on day by day or week by week, and that’s at the high frequency end of things.

> slow innovation speed

Most people don’t want bleeding edge innovative change. They want stability.

Data engineers have enough problems with teams changing source database fields without telling us. We don’t need the tool we’re storing the data with to constantly break too.
Do you have an example? I have a hard time believing this since any scientific data will have uncertainty that should make it completely random as to what sign your zero is supposed to be. Similarly with Inf, if any intermediate result gives an Inf, you've lost all precision, and the final result is probably going to be NaN anyway.
Just so that we are all on the same page, that is illegal and unethical

A customer might have demands which are opposing; that doesn't mean you should hack your customers with backdoors.
These backdoors can also be used by others.

Although its neat trick that doesn't mean it's ethical or legal nor desirable.

Think of this what if each application/service you use would create backdoors to your servers/devices.
While you're right that the Internet contains a lot of wonder and exploration, the vast majority of people (and kids) will not interact much with that part of the Internet, if at all. Additionally, social media platforms have collapsed what would have been standalone, somewhat magical experiences into their own uniform platforms. I've heard someone say that kids today tend to think in terms of "apps" and not "websites", because rather than having everything scattered across a lot of small, independently maintained, websites, there are instead a few web apps that contain 99% of what you want to get at.

That means that if you really want to "surf" the web these days you have to dig deep and avoid getting sucked into a social media platform. And when you do dig deep there's not that much out there, because the people who would be maintaining their own web page now just have a facebook page for their business and a twitter account for their personal posts.
You're assuming that the interests of the state are aligned with the interests of the people which is a false premise. The state is a parasitic organism and those in power will always seek their own interests and those of their allies. What liberal democracy achieved is to somewhat bind the interests of the rulers to those of the majority of the population. But this is history as soon as the state starts to control the Internet because today technology enables effective and cheap mass surveillance and censorship like done on China. In the current path all democracies will slowly evolve to illiberal democracies which are effectively authoritarian in all but name.

In Brazil the ruling party (and also the "opposition") are enamored with the Chinese model and as such Musk influence is much preferable and is a balance force in the current political system. If X is blocked in Brazil it will join the select roll of Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan.
(Direct fuel injection) Gas powered cars now are emitting more particulates , which arguably are worse for people than the smog of the 60s because they penetrate deep into the lungs and can even enter the bloodstream (I am paraphrasing) .

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32109813/

IMHO gasoline Particulate filters (GPF) for gas vehicles should be mandatory the way they are for diesels (DPF).
Flash may have been a resource hog in the single-core CPU age, but we have computers today that are much faster, yet Google Chrome is the botleneck, using up gigabytes upon gigabytes of RAM to render a few tabs worth of text and images.

The modern "replacement" for Flash, things like WebGL and three.js are also pretty slow on modern machines. Speed isn't hamstrung by the tool, it's hamstrung by the people that made something with said tool.
Probably the notion of a 10x engineer doesn't carry well across some cultures. In some, it's considered that it takes a village to build a hero.

Japan has a strong craftsmanship culture, so I'd expect them to have engineers that do really well too. But from what I hear from friends who worked there, they work late hours, sleep late, wake late, come in late, and it's pretty much the effectiveness of a 9-5 culture.
Thanks for some context. Guess I will spend the weekend on the internet reading up on this
> I'm saying the choice exists. The choices we make are the problem.

Well then feel free to choose differently for yourself.

Your original statement was this: "People, and particularly advertisers, wanted a curated environment."

You referencing what people "want" is directly refuted by the idea that they should be able to choose whatever their preferences are.

And your opinion on other people's choices doesn't really matter here.
> The engineer is a human being first and an engineer second. He will respond to creativity and cleverness just like everyone else.” Unfortunately, there is much evidence to the contrary.

Fortunately. Now I understand why marketing people sometimes feel looked down upon their profession...
Windows Defender I'm willing to overlook; it defends Windows which is at least slightly explanatory. Windows App gives no hint about its purpose at all. If I wanted to connect to another Windows machine and saw a Windows App entry in the start menu, I probably wouldn't think to try it.
Sure but that amount is not monotonically increasing.. We figure out new ways to make the same thing with less energy or new things that require less energy to make relative to their value.

I did the rough math [0] and we get 10x as much GDP out of each kg oil equivalent used as we did in the 1970s when the article bemoans us falling off the HA curve. That was one of my core problems with their point, the amount of energy used is not directly tied to the economic value of the output.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtkwe#41391812
Indeed, though the stuff the judge here is trying to deal with — regardless of any considerations of if they're doing the right thing, just the problem itself — is in part related to making Brazil safer to live in than it was itself previously.

One could reasonably also argue that the drop-off of advertising to X is itself a sign of lack of trust in Musk's decision making process, his rules, and his reliability.

(And he bought Twitter while claiming Twitter's rules were unfair; as you say, no common agreement).
fzf-git.sh: bash and zsh key bindings for Git objects, powered by fzf
Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability?
Obviously things are changing pretty fast and a huge chunk of inquiries that would have been answered with search results are just LLM answers now. If you want people to find your product/service in 2024 how do you get your self out there?
No. Why would you say something that you know is obviously false?

Everyone knows the New Deal administrative state existed. I'd really appreciate it if leftist extremists would stop trying to convince us it didn't.
Would you care to expand on what was originally Herodotus’ observation then?
Yes, and yet those systems still work and deliver real value all day every day. If every company Rollbar I've ever seen is the measure good software can have millions of faults and still work for users.
Discoverability is better for content creators on video platforms then text.

If I wrote an article, what are even my options to share it?

Video you, have YouTube, insti, tiktok etc to get discovered on and people can even find it.
> All advertising is, is telling people you exist.

If that is all advertising was, I don't believe this conversation would be happening. People (ITT) dislike advertising because of the other parts (tracking, subtle manipulation, etc). There's a side to it that has obvious benefit: Knowing you reach your target market with truthful and engaging content is something ad targeting, seo, etc, enable. The problem is they also enable deceit, manipulation, spam, etc. When I see the impact that has on people I know, I start to wonder if maybe it is worth throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Can confirm, English teacher friends report that reading ability is dropping with each year and is now so bad they’re concerned about the survival of literate society, period. “Advanced” kids struggle with books that were considered normal for their age in the 80s or 90s. Compound sentences are exactly part of the problem these teachers have highlighted—the kids can’t keep enough context in their heads to track what’s going on through multiple clauses, even the simple sort that were common in writing for kids within the last 50 years.
> alarm fatigue[1], banner blindness[2], and inattentional blindness[3].

These things are precisely what I was thinking about, though from the opposite end. I.e. One can't on hand argue it's reasonable to sue until the browser provides even more warning overload about how to every word in the interface should be legally interpreted to insure nobody can ever come to any other conclusion about what it might mean and then on the other hand say the current lightweight presentation of such information on this feature is too much information overload to be helpful. If it were something like a 100 page EULA or something I could see how Chromium was acting with malicious intent to make people not understand but we're talking about 3 short sentences and 6 couple word bullet points.

> The flavor text for Incognito Mode pops up every single time an Incognito window is opened and it is practically inconsequential, thus it is worthless information.

This misses the point made, almost to the point of malice. The expectation isn't that the user will read the message on the 87th launch and come to an epiphany from the added value of displaying it every time - it's that, regardless of when a particular person first opened incognito on that computer to see what happens, that message will always appear for them regardless if it has been displayed before. I.e. the value for each individual is in the first time launch, but the product guarantees every individual is always getting a first time launch, even on a shared profile.

> It is the fault of the Chrome(ium) designers for presenting information in a way people will ignore

I suppose this is where it leaves the initial discussion about this being an issue of tech literacy and enters the realm of pure opinion on what one should be able to blame others for. I could similarly argue it's the bank's/credit card companies' fault that the number in my account kept going up every time I spent money, as it wasn't my responsibility to notice the number sign in front, the overdraft messages were information fatigue, etc. Since that's a matter of opinion it's neither "right" nor "wrong"... but the judge would probably have a solid laugh if I tried to sued for compensation about it.

When filing a lawsuit the question isn't the UX question "is there any way one of billions of users could misinterpret this" (which is still usually fine to leave n>0 anyways) it's "does this party hold a reasonable amount of responsibility for the damages claimed" not just "can anyone have ever misinterpreted the meaning".
You spend time in a region where the propagation of gravity is instantaneous? Cool.
a lot of people do things they don't want to do, all to avoid “dying alone”

I wonder how many of those 4,000 were also those people
> random as to what sign your zero is supposed to be

The purpose of negative zero is to preserve the sign of underflow, so you can e.g. get the branch cuts right when you are implementing some complex function. Cf. https://grouper.ieee.org/groups/msc/ANSI_IEEE-Std-754-2019/b...

Functions with singularities are ubiquitous in physics and many other branches of science, https://dlmf.nist.gov
Because to self host it, you'd need to ensure you're PCI compliant. That works for established companies I guess, but not so much when starting out.

Payment provider lock-in in a scary thing, when they can cancel your account at moment's notice.
Maybe it's better to give a compliment when the receiver already believes it.

With an engineer, you can be almost sure that they think themselves to be smart.
Either Jazzy is lying or they were way way less efficient than I gave them credit for originally. Both are totally possible.

The only other option is that they have some tooling the rest of us don't
This sounds like graduate school.
Holy shit, it wasn’t?
There's one thing about Bolsonaro that can't be denied: he made people proud to be brazilian again. After decades of subversive worker's party nonsense, it was a breath of fresh air. What you call fear and despair is happiness and hope for many if not most.

But in general I don't disagree with you. Bolsonaro is a moron and it's pretty sad that he was the brazilian right's most viable candidate. His mandate had good points but was also full of completely unnecessary controversy. He was obssessed with saying insulting and outrageous things for the sake of it. He actually could have won if he had simply kept his mouth shut.

> spend the entire time in power questioning the election system without actually improving it

He's not at fault for that. He tried. He's always advocated for the paper trail. Our congress tried too, multiple times. The supreme court wouldn't let them improve the system. They declared the paper trail unconstitutional.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423

Had the paper trail system been implemented, there would have been zero reasons to question or doubt the election results.

But we just can't have nice things. The judge-king declared that the machines are INQUESTIONABLE!! And started censoring and fining anyone who questioned anything. It's just pathetic. The judge and his obstruction is a major reason why things got to the point they did. He didn't just obstruct progress, he doubled down on his nonsense and started getting arbitrary with the punishments, fines and censorship. It's all "fake news" to him.

I am completely opposed ideologically to the current system but I don't think they're the real problem. The problem is these judges.

Have you ever heard the saying? "Doctors think they're gods, judges know it". Brazil will not be fixed until those words are gone.

> We might even see investigations against de Moraes, just as we have seen against Moro. We have precedence for this.

I hope so. We agree on this.
This reminds me of how shocked I was when memes using image macros started becoming a thing around 2008 or so. I still remembered the bad old days of dial up and waiting tens of seconds for images to load and thought it was so horridly inefficient to convey a message that way.

Now we have HD videos pushing the same (and arguably worse) content taking tens if not hundreds of MBs and conveying the same information that is much harder to parse than a text file could do in a few kilobytes.

I feel like I am having my old man yells at cloud moment here, but its a hugely inferior medium.
It also ensures Amazon can’t add any secret sauce to the code they offer - everything must remain open.
I wouldn't mind as much if I could then use the best/latest models that trained on my data for free. As it is, there is nothing in it for me.

If they just use my content to then tell users without needing to come to my site, and get ad revenue from that - no thank you. Not what AI is doing now, but looking at SEO I don't see where else this could be heading...
I'm waiting for it to become more convenient, but no joke this is what I've been doing. When I find interesting videos about software development, I'll often use Whisper to create a transcript and then upload it to Claude to summarise, then I can ask it questions about the content as well as explore related topics and ask it for further reading.
> Netflix at one point felt like the end of piracy, because it was becoming the portal to all great video content. Then everyone wanted a slice of the pie and started their own platform.

In other words, we got competition. If Netflix remained the sole streaming platform of significance it would be lumped in with the monopoly talk that clouds Google, Amazon, Apple and the other trillion dollar corporations.

If anything this is a good thing, competition happened before Netflix could dominate completely.
If someone is new to programming, I would recommend using the operating system they're already familiar with.

Switching from Windows to OS X felt like stumbling around a pitch-black room full of shin-height coffee tables & spilled legos, and now that I've been a Mac user for over a decade, using a Windows machine feels the same way.

There's no reason to inflict that sort of pain on someone who's already going to be learning a difficult new skill.
Unless you build dotnet apps or apps specifically for Windows I won't use Windows for a laptop mainly due to its poor power management reasons.
IMO the python JIT support won't help very much. Python currently is ~50x slower than "fast" languages, so even if the JIT provides a 3x speedup, pure python will still be too slow for anything that needs performance. Sure it will help on the margins, but a JIT can't magically make python fast.
It’s part of model export/serialization, it is documented here:

https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/export/export.html#supp...

Edit: I think you need to look here as well, the Exported objects do in fact serialize a function and support shape polymorphism:

https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/export/shape_poly.html#...