skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statcounter's data is based off hits to a certain websites. Not unique hits but hits. It's really hard to see their data as worthwhile from my perspective.

This is already desktop stats, a market that isn't really growing. Then figure they're unlikely to be partnered with anyone like Facebook, Tiktok, or Discord, the sites that 90% of users spend most of their time on.

Think of the remaining internet they might have deals with, does that seem representative of users as a whole? Now add in that it's based on hits, with no reason to suspect they're effectively filtering out bots. I don't see the value of such data.
It's more than IRS, unfortunately. I'm sensing a profound shortage of skilled and unskilled labor in many sectors, while medical and IT are hungrily assimilating everyone...

I approached a major tax accountancy with a simple question. Nobody who's unlicensed will give tax advice: it's radioactive like medical advice, because bad tax advice is dangerous.

So I asked a professional a very simple question, and I got the wrong answer. A diametrically opposite, 100% wrong and COSTLY response, and 3 different pros gave the same answer insistently.

Not believing them, I asked to see it in writing, because the first lady on the phone, claiming she researched it prior, was unable to back it up with a doc or link.

When I demanded an answer from the guy in person, sitting in front of me in their storefront office, he exhibited his maximum competence as "imma google this for ya" and he flailed at a few commercial search engines, with no hope of showing me a clear answer.

I effortlessly found an IRS publication from IRS.GOV, which agreed with my other research and my father's opinion (a finance whiz) and I stormed out of the tax idiot's office, vowing never to approach another human there again.

Their software is fine and works. But if all their humans know is Google, why pay for the privilege of bad advice?
If we agree that there are levels of consciousness, then fundamentally we are in agreement. The disagreement is just what level of consciousness we call "being conscious".

G.I. Gurdjieff uses the terms "sleep", "sleeping consciousness" and "waking consciousness" respectively to refer to states where you sleep or are otherwise unconscious, where you may think you have been conscious but do not remember being conscious and where you remember being conscious.

There is a good reason why many traditions that investigate consciousness have seperate words for the two latter states.
same, but it does have a warning: "This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions."
They track website hits of their partners.
I've mostly used Mac for the past 15 ywars os so. I was in a situation where Windows wasn't really politically acceptable for work and Linux was still sort of a pain in the butt to get work done for someone who wasn't familiar. So I just bought a Mac for the first time. At this point, I'm not sure it matters but I'm not a gamer, ChromeOS is mostly oriented towards low-budget educational market, and I have no particular reason to run Linux.
Wow. Thank you for your thoughtful answer!
> “human creativity is the ability to create an infinite range of outputs from a finite range of inputs that nonetheless pertain to our motivations/context in some useful way”
Do you think this can be used as a metric? Like the more useful answer we can come up with, the more "creative" we are. The constraint of outputs and "some useful way" is such a good insight.
No, it does not. Firefox still fully supports those manifest v2 handles.
I agree. Considering the old fleet had a measly 150 mile range I would expect the vast majority to be replaced by EVs, not a begrudging 50%. "Rave reviews" was not the bar. Just having AC will get rave reviews from a postal worker.

Do we care about electrification or not? Because it really seems like we don't. A huge opportunity wasted by an EV hater, is what it sounds like to me.

And to people suggesting it would be difficult: of course it would! You know what else is difficult? Designing a never-before-seen ICE truck. It's all difficult!
I think it’s basically “HN is extremely hostile to iconoclastic ideas”
This type of criticism reads to me as a general hatred of what humanity actually is. Mr Beast exists because humans like to watch it. By blaming Mr Beast, you are putting the effect before the cause. There is no enlightened society that is only watching MIT linear algebra lectures for fun, it doesn't exist.
I don't know the exact answer but when I worked there while in college 20 years ago the package cars were never connected to chargers overnight, nor did they receive any other special attention. I would imagine that they use heavy duty batteries and just spend an enough time driving and idling that it all balances out during the workday.
Just going to comment once.

From my experience, where I live (relatively affluent state, with Lake Michigan shoreline), it's highly regional who knows how to swim and who doesn't. People who grew up far south - not so much. Poorer folks - not so much.

I always find it weird when people don't know how to swim (being where I am from, born when I was born, etc.), so I've definitely noticed there's certain segments of society who tend not to know. What I do know is lots of people don't know how to swim.

Now - unrelated to my original post. I know a lot about the local river systems in our major cities. I wouldn't swim in even the bodies of water that look and smell nice (most don't). Actually, the rivers which don't look and smell nice are sometimes safer than the ones that do.
I love that video. It somehow captures the whole linux community in that 2 minute window (of course it lacks many discussion around systemd, native package managers vs snap or flatpak, wine compatibility, etc)
> when I'm not typically using it. Of course, it means the machine has to be on during those times

This “simple heuristic” only works if you let your computer on while not using it (why would you do that? Except to accommodate for a broken update mechanism…)
What law is it that prevents UPS/FedEx from carrying spam?
Spinning the Night Self
that it's relatively self aware, in particular about energy consumption concerns, is mildly intriguing i think
This is a story about slowing growth in China (and fears about the same in America), not the adoption of EVs.
It's a very common experience. You not seeing it does not invalidate this reality.
People probably think of AI as being a neutral agent, which would give it more credibility in these kinds of conversations. The messed up thing is that they probably aren't neutral. I mean, imagine if a conspiracy theory somehow became a common chatbot response. The company deploying it would face backlash, and so they would have to bias the AI against producing those results. We would never know what kinds of biases exist in the chatbot.

Slightly less related: remember earlier this year when people were using Gemini to generate images and we saw it push political correctness?
But how do you know what's good, and what's bad without a diversity of experience under one's belt? You could be working at a cult, or the greatest company ever. What Mr Beast does works for Mr. Beast. Same for your employer.
Highly disagree. Those are not garbage channels.
> filtering out bots

For all but the most advanced of bots, the only such filtering comes from something as simple as a user-agent or other maybe some other header fingerprinting. What percentage of bots even bother to switch from the default of "python-requests/2.25.0" so that they might be detectable as Linux?
SambaNova Launches Free Cloud with Llama 405B
Do you see the message that it will soon be unavailable? It's installable for me, with the following warning:

>This extension may soon no longer be supported because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions.
That's a good question. I have lots of desktop templates on proxmox for spinning up VMs every now and then. I think maybe a month of usage might count as a legitimate user
What would the purpose of that be? Why so much effort to increase "market share" of something that is not for sale. The entire concept of "switching" is weird because you don't have to legally declare your operating system. You can choose to use all of them.
I recently switched to Elementary OS and for the first time I could imagine a world with sizeable market share.
That is such a good quote to remember. Thanks for your answer! It actually opened my understanding a lot. I searched your quote and found some other good ones.
> a more-robust strict subset of the formal HTML spec

I still think we’d be better off just using XHTML. There are some practical problems with XHTML5 (e.g. there’s no named entities support for some reason), but the syntax makes sense at least.
Why do you think this would happen? Brave incorporates ublock as part of their Rust based adblocking library https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
Brave has a native ad blocker built in, so it's unaffected by changes in the extension API.
Where in their blog post (which seemingly had complete examples of the model’s chain of thought) did they suggest they were using search or tree of thoughts?
Difference is that I don’t usually care if a static site gets DDoS’d - They’ll get bored eventually, and it’s not that important to have uptime. I do care about DDoS’ing my wallet.
I had a raccoon pooping under my deck. I installed a motion detecting sprinkler to keep it away. In just a few days, the raccoon figured out that it could safely go behind the sprinkler to do its business. Now my deck is completely enclosed to stop them getting underneath.
Pickup truck front end design has nothing to do with this. It’s entirely based on Tonka Truck design principles I.e. bigger and boxier and higher is more tough! Tough = good! It’s the same reason glove sizing at Home Depot starts at XL and goes up from there.

In reality pickup trucks are kind of a joke. For instance the 2023 Toyota Tacoma, often cited as being “good” cause it’s smaller, has worse gas mileage than an f-150 and has a max payload of 900lbs. You know what else has a max payload of 900lbs? A sedan.

Ford actually got rid of the heavy duty package from the f-150 (which increased the max payload to around 3,000lbs from about 1500) because they said people weren’t buying it…

You can’t fill the bed of an F-150 with sand, with plywood, with cement bags, with lots of building materials. You can easily overload it.
Multi-profile support has been in FF since I started using it (at least 5 years ago?). The profile picker isn't as pretty as the Chrome window you get but its definitely there.
We only need Steve Mould to explain what this "Diffusion"-crap actually means.
Yes, I see that message. It's been there for awhile I think.
“LSP server” doesn’t sound too bad!
The thing is that we are led to believe that cancer just strikes at random, and anecdotally we know of someone that never smoked to get lung cancer that spread everywhere to strike them dead.

Yet we also know it is not quite like that. If you smoke, drink, make sculptures out of asbestos dust, eat processed meats, shoot depleted uranium rounds down at the range and work with radium in a gun sight factory then you probably have stacked the odds.

Now imagine you have an identical twin, maybe not cojoined, but living with the exact same stacked odds. However, you eat a strict diet of highly processed foods and only play tiddlywinks for physical activity. Meanwhile, your twin rides eats a strict diet that is mostly whole food, plant based and gets a lot of physical activity due to a passion for dancing.

One of you is going to be likely to suffer a cardiovascular event before the other and that same person is going to run the risk of catching cancer first.

Now we all know that eating processed foods, maybe with the exception of processed meat, isn't going to 'give you cancer' and neither is playing tiddlywinks. Equally, a few extra antioxidants and a bit of fibre from eating a few more carrots isn't going to spare you from cancer, neither is dancing for that matter. Nonetheless, cardiovascular and gut health is important for reducing cancer risks.

I say this with anecdotal evidence provided by a car dependent relative that chose not to eat a fibre rich diet and now has cancers that I would not wish on anyone, with his digestive tract having to be trimmed from the far end due to cancer.

Because he took the medical route with meaty pies and moderate alcohol levels, his life might only be cut short by three years. However, by then, there will be two decades of extreme medical interventions and a smorgasbord of medications that have to be taken daily. Lifespan is not as important as healthspan and there is much we can do through diet and physical activity to maximise healthspan.

The trouble with my relative is that advice to go absolutely teetotal, stay off the processed meats and to eat fibre (as in vegetables) was not a message that was well received. This advice is in line with WHO recommendations but this can be simply ignored once lifestyle choices have been decided on.
No chance it comes from understanding the world, it is an unfortunate social effect where attacking is much easier than defending. It is particularly apparent in politics where it has to be at least an order of magnitude easier to attack an opposing candidate for their weaknesses rather than defend a friendly candidate for some minor flaw.

And there isn't anything wrong with profit maximisation; we use profits to make decisions about resource allocation. That matters a lot, small inefficiencies leading to waste magnified over the entire economy represent huge damage to the people scraping by on the margins.
Was this left by the person who solved it or the one who stole the prize? See below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549946
Humans can hallucinate but later determine that what they thought was occurring was not actually real. LLMs can't do that.
What you're saying sounds to me rather like what some people are tempted to do on encountering metaphysics: posing questions like "maybe everything is a dream and nothing we experience is real". Which is a logically valid sentence, I guess, but it really is meaningless. The reason we have words like "dreaming" and "awake" is that we have experienced both and know the difference. Ditto "hallucinations". It doesn't seem that there is any difference to LLMs between hallucinations and any other kind of experience. So, I feel like your line of reasoning is off-base somewhat.
> in areas where the charging capacity is impractical

Educate me: why would charging capacity be impractical anywhere? They would build and use their own chargers.

Are there places that have weak grid power?
Yeah, that's why you can't predict how long you'll wait for a random bit in an entropy extractor.
I’ll give it a try too, thanks.

Edit: set delay to one minure, working just fine!
I just got back from watching the movie Casa Bonita Mi Amor, about the South Park guys buying a beloved Denver restaurant and refurbishing it. Costs ballooned from an estimated $6 million to $30+ million because it had been owned by a company that deferred maintenance for 30 years. Not sure if the business types would see this as a cautionary tale or as validation for coasting, though. The company that ran it into the ground probably extracted a ridiculous amount of profit...
I guess you're too young to remember the videos of an AMD CPU (Athlon) getting hot enough to fry eggs the moment a heatsink is removed.

For years, AMD survived as a cheaper solution to Intel. They got competitive with Opteron (and invented x86-64), while Intel was trying to wring out the last drops out of Netburst.

Then Intel Core came out and Opteron got back to being a cheaper but slower solution.
It's true that having to push people to the breaking point is poison. However, there's the other, not poisonous side of the coin: Communication costs will kill your productivity, and communication degrades far faster than linearly as you add people.

So we don't want to break people, but adding one more person makes the company worse. So a very successful company is probably going to push people very hard, because otherwise communication costs eat it alive. I've been in way too many companies that got way worse over time, just because the headcount increases ruined productivity.
I always had all the codecs and Vaapi on Firefox worked fine, but could specifically never get Youtube on Chromium to use GPU decoding, that was the main problem you're reminding me.

In this past year, I've since moved to Windows after like 7 years of constantly messing and tweaking Linux to kinda sorta almost for some stretch of time get all the things to work after spending hours looking for the right configuration. Look at how long this thread is, for example[0]. Or here most saying it still doesn't work[1] and the flags constantly change. Before Linux I was about 6 yrs on Mac. I hadn't used Windows for so long, it actually felt weird to have so much hardware and software support for anything I ever need to use.

I'll take your word for it that Chromium sometimes uses hardware decoding now. But as you say, and they should put that slogan on a T-shirt: "Linux on Desktop: not officially supported and it has broken a lot over the past due to lack of support and quality of driver". I wouldn't really characterize that as "have no problem using". It feels nice to have a system that just works without all that hassle and tweaking so I can just get actual work done, or watch Youtube efficiently without brittle configuration, no window manager bugs etc.

[0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244031&p=40

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ey4n2k/heres_how_to...
The hippies wouldnt be licenced but if they could they cant provide a certified corporate party to be liable for damages.

Consensus isnt needed, just enough beurocracy to make development expensive.
The only reason that this opportunity exists to swoop in and forge a transaction is that the reward in question is a reward for fundamentally breaking a weak version of the cryptography underlying the BTC blockchain, the technqiue for which happens to have a second mathematical weakness.

No other transactions are subject to this weakness, and it's this puzzle which proves that.
as a philosophy, yes; but as the way Agile is structured at most companies, no.
I've thought about that myself, and came to the conclusion that in my case the answer will most likely be no. I can't say I'd be too disappointed though, being missed by a handful of friends and family would already signal a life well lived.

I will miss Dan's comments, and this community was better for his participation.
> Have you considered that the sour grapes attitude actually comes from an understanding of the world, and how everything has been turned only into profit maximization?

I would hope not, because that's not really a thing to be "considered", because it's not factual (as implied by the word "understanding"), but an opinion.

There's very little empirical evidence for the claim that "everything has been turned only into profit maximization". It's not something that's true or false - it's a worldview, an emotional outlook. One can imagine other worldviews like "the profit maximization is a direct result of the government not doing its job to break up monopolies" or "I disagree, very few of the companies I interact with are doing profit maximization in a way that significantly negatively impacts me". You can argue about which of those is "true" and find various factoids on the internet that "back them up", but ultimately they're just ways that you look at the world with little empirical basis.

As such, predicating all of your comments on them and pushing them at every turn is boring, and against the purpose of HN, which is intellectual curiosity. Reviewing the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) should pretty quickly tell you why this content isn't appropriate for HN:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

These "sour grapes" comments and cynicism-without-substance comments are very clearly not gratifying to one's intellectual curiosity, and almost always fall into the realm of generic tangents and internet tropes.

There's a place for activism, but it's not here.
Not that matters, but "what xxx" question really doesn't have the same vibe as "are we xxx yet" ones.
first off : terrible advertising.

second : how many times do mechanical-contact 18650s need to be attempted before it's settled universally that it's a bad idea for vehicles (like e-bikes that your advertisement mentions)?

I hated the VRUZEND design too and they at least had the insight to use 18650s with overlapped bus-bars for the sake of rigidity and continuity through deformation.

The design that you're using is, imo, most similar to the JAG35 pcb-over-terminal designs -- but as far as I know he doesn't bother trying to use PCBs over loose 18650s; only to interface with existing and pre-welded packs or packs with pre-welded stud interfaces, usually already fairly rigid prismatic packs [0]

PCBs aren't that rigid necessarily; it's easy to imagine conditions in which batteries might drop out of the network. Even with lots of bolts and thick PCBs -- uneven thermal expansion due to a poorly made cell, for example. The kind of conditions that would fry a lot of motor controllers under load should the voltage suddenly change somewhere.

No thanks. Let's stick with welding, it's now dirt-cheap to buy a battery welder and it's not nearly as irreversible as groups that sell things like this would make you believe.

[0]: https://jag35.com/products/fully-assembled-12v-4s2p-1200a-le...
Thanks. I need to stop posting quotes from Wikipedia as if they were reliable.
https://flatkill.org
WSL2 is literally a VM.
It doesn't make sense even then since the police are the last people to believe people are generally going to not make false accusations, and even if they did believe that, it wouldn't make sense to target the average when the cost of mistake is so high

The fire hypothetical is also incorrect (you can start with the people near a clear/easy exit and some visibly crazy/drunk shouting: people might look around, but unlikely to run around, then progress to more challenging situations), though I don't know a practical % of how many of "everyone" would act like it. People might indeed be forced out, but that's the result of a policy implemented by a few people, not the behavior of everyone, just like in the case of this idiotic SWAT policy
This sounds like a full-time job to me:)
I use UNIX systems since 1993, Linux since 1995, subscribed to Linux journal during its lifetime, do devops stuff, yet I gave up on the Linux Desktop other than Android and WebOS, which is debatable how Linux kernel matters in a managed OS userspace.

Windows in all private laptops, at work we also do macOS, with GNU/Linux on VMs when required.

There is always that one little thing that makes one spend a couple of weekends, last being a NUC whose EUFI couldn't get to read any distribution installed on the internal NVMe, only when used from external devices. Windows, no biggie, works both ways.
I see your point, but I think a collaborative feedback initiative could really help improve the Linux ecosystem. While each distro has its own identity, gathering insights on why users revert to Windows could highlight common pain points that many distros face. This isn’t about pushing for uniformity; it’s about sharing knowledge that could help each distro enhance its offerings. Plus, collaboration could attract more developers and showcase the strengths of Linux as a whole. Ultimately, it’s about making Linux more appealing and accessible, benefiting everyone in the community—whether they’re new users or seasoned veterans.
And catch another chromium 0day, good idea