skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building in public is not a single, defined activity. Nor people doing it has the same motivation for it.

Some share numbers, some don’t. Some share everything, some goes with outlines. Some… you get the idea.

I do it because it’s boring to build alone, month after month, year after year. I’ve joined the community 2 years ago and couldn’t be happier.
Yeah, I feel like a copycat when I do this.
Agreed. What "Papercuts" is on the negative side, "Juice"^1 (recently discussed here on HN) is to the positive.

1. https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice
I think it's a weird quirk of HN - we're encouraged to downvote, but I believe you can kill a comment if it gets just a few downvotes initially, which I think is overkill?

Anyway: big corps disable Chrome sync; most people will use Edge in enterprise because it integrates seamlessly into M365 and supports multiple work profiles (e.g. privileged accounts, service accounts, etc.)

Shared mailboxes are built into Active Directory; most enterprises have automated ways to create those -- usually the big concern is managing removing members when they're not supposed to be members anymore, hence the centralized management. There are also M365 groups you can create yourself, but that's just a distribution list. And generally, Teams is the way to go for any kind of collaboration work now - shared mailboxes seem to be a bit of a relic, usually meant for external interfaces that require an email address.
I've been doing some writing about my process for SIMD optimizing Perlin noise in my voxel engine. Feedback welcome :)
Part of what drives that is that Ableton is designed to be used in-performance, so even minor instability isn't acceptable at all
That may be true, but it doesn’t unkill the victims.
Surely the profit motive in selling medicines or equipment to doctors is decoupled from the profit motive of doctors, hospitals, and other providers, currently governed by the insurance industry? Countries with public healthcare still have health industries for the former.
Having read some of his lectures, and his autobiography, he was anything but anti-curiosity in him or in others. Watch that through the lens of someone who valued nothing more than asking questions and it might come across differently.
I came here to say this but for a different reason.

Have a mature enough development process and pipeline that production deployments are repeatable and predictable at any time.

Bake testing into the procedure.
Make? Jesus Christ people are still using that? It's like people don't realize that other languages have been created in the last 20 years
Android already won, Google all but gave up on improving ChromeOS https://9to5google.com/2024/07/12/chromeos-lacros-ending/
Yes, I think his research focuses on a more recent period, and one of the main points of the book is to refute theories about why Neanderthals became extinct, so the 250kya period wouldn't be directly relevant to that.

It's interesting that according to https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-and-neanderth... "This group of humans died out".
Exactly, it's the opportunity cost.

When I was a young adult and especially a teenager, I spent a lot of time making things out of pure desire to because I didn't have to think too much about my financial situation (present and future). That unfortunately gave way with age, and now ~15 years later whenever I engage with these activities there's a voice in the back of my head nagging, asking how doing those things instead of something that could potentially bring a financial return might negatively impact ability to achieve short term goals, tide over periods of economic uncertainty, have enough money for retirement, etc.

It's probably not the right way to think since personal projects that might seem unprofitable on their face can bring benefits in unexpected ways, but it's a problem nonetheless.
Here's the thing: never mind getting to bed, that will happen when you are tired enough.

How about sleeping through the night? A different function with different math.

My model is caffeine is well-known for having a half-life, from three to six hours depending. That means a geometric fall in effective caffeine in your system after you go to sleep (you don't continue ingesting caffeine in your sleep do you? Sleep-brewing?)

What is the function for 'tired enough'? That is, how does 'sleepiness' decline over the sleep period? Because, when the functions cross (sleepiness drops below the caffeine line) then Awake! That's often about 3AM for me.

If the sleepiness function is a different time-constant, or is more nearly linear (as I suspect, as long as you get enough cobbled-together hours of sleep you are functional which sounds like a simple unweighted sum) then inevitably sleepiness will fall faster (cross the caffeine-left-in-system curve).

At that point you can get up, knock around doing whatever, getting sleepier again. Once caffeine drops below your remaining sleepiness you can get a few more winks.

And wake up shortly after, another hour or half-hour, whatever. Repeat the rest of the night in ever-shorter cycles as your curves both approach the x-axis.

Anyway it describes my sleep behavior nearly perfectly.
Germany seems to only support the auto industry.
OK, let's assume that the Mozilla engineering team is 500 people. I could not find reliable numbers, but this looks like the right ballpark. Let's assume that an engineer, on average, costs $250k/year; the cost for employer is much higher than just the salary. This is already $125M. There are also people other than engineers needed to run an org. Build infra also costs something. Let's assume that Firefox could keep being developed, as the sole product, for $200M / year.

Then let's assume that a Firefox user would be willing to pay, on average, $5 / mo, or $60 / year, to support the project. More in richer countries, less in less well-off. This would mean that about 3.4 million of paying users would suffice.

Worldwide, Firefox has 362 million users [1]. Only 1% of users would have to pay an equivalent of a hamburger a month to sustain Firefox. If 5% paid, it would be a price of a cup of plain coffee per month.

Now we need just one teeny tiny thing: somebody capable of organizing this.

[1]: https://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/stats/firefox-statistics...
This comment reads so American.
You've got it backwards. If a FOSS dev needs money, he should stop
being FOSS. Don't throw your jacket on a puddle and expect the girl to
put out.
~$200M Marketing Firefox

~$200M Developing Firefox

~$15M Executive salaries

~$1M Woke stuff

Lunduke is digging in the wrong place.
"If you make it they will come" has been shown to be false time and time again. Just because your product is useful doesn't mean anybody knows about it or that they recognize the value it has. Lots of things we take for necessity today were once seen as a pointless waste of time. You still need to spend a significant amount of time marketing to get other people to want your product.

But posting about all the money you are making is just silly unless you want a pat on the back. If you really are making bank and you want to get someone to buy you out, then start talking directly to the big players in your market. Then again, you won't have to, because they won't want to talk to you until you are a real threat to their business, at which point they'll be coming to you. Bragging to your early adopter community about your success just keeps them hyped for a bit.
You can get Storage Box from Hetzner for like €10. It’s a simple Samba/WebDAV/SFTP network drive and works fine. Nothing fancy, just storage.
maybe someone needs an AI that generates smug self-congratulatory word salad
No it is not. Ozone is not good for breathing.
Only colos are cold, though. Private hyperscalers keep theirs nice and hot.
> you don't have Command-Tab

Yes, you do. There's a pretty extensive set of keyboard shortcuts, actually.
is gcide available? debian only offers web1913 as part of gcide
Working in the ML space myself I try to tell my peers to think deep about their work and the consequences. Not just for ethics, but because it helps you do better.

So far I get a lot of pushback and statements like "it's just linear algebra" and "quality doesn't matter, it's quantity. Just scale. That's the bitter lesson". The former tells me they know very little linear algebra and the latter tells me they know very little about probability distribution and the concept of coverage... I routinely see papers get awards and tens of thousands of citations when they're making errors I would expect undergrads in my classes to do better at... I think a big reason I'm frustrated is that supposedly we share the same goals -- building AGI -- but I'm told I'm stopping them from doing so while they reject my papers and theirs gets accepted... (Fwiw I'm happy to accept scale papers. There should be a wide range of ideas explored. But I'm upset that we're on a railroad and any deviation from that is considered heresy)
Stopping development of user-hostile features could reduce the cost somewhat.

Snark aside, it's crazy how it's basically become impossible to build and maintain a browser unless you're a megacorp or a billionaire.
It could be used for all sorts of things:

You could use it to indicate the fit between employees and companies;
You could use it to detect lies and exaggerations in CVs;
You could use it to estimate when employees are likely to be considering seeking new opportunities.

There's significant potential for business relevant applications.
Well, not a general purpose one, but...

knowing LI doesn't have any NSFW content, is full of marketing content (both corporate marketing and self boasting individuals), tends to prefer positive signals (all projects succeed, etc.), is mostly done in English, and so on...

... There is clearly a market for text generation in this language bubble. Think of all the internal and external communication in your $BigCorp. That has immediate use not only in marketing, but also HR, recruitment, company policing, etc. Your next company town hall can be prepared and led (!) by this thing.
Which implies that elsewhere...

There are some consumer protections that I really do wish we imported into the U.S., especially food safety and chemical usage. Too much regulatory capture for that, though.
Ages ago, the Digital Equipment VAX had a hardware hack where a null pointer (value is 0) would return a 0 when de-referenced. Which is the null character, the end of a string. So most of the time operations moving characters would terminate correctly. Obviously not portable to other computers.

In the IEEE 754 floating point definition, there are specific values for errors: mathematically undefined, division by zero, overflow, underflow, and inexact. These MUST be implemented in hardware to meet the specification.
For just storage try Hetzner’s Storage Box. It’s very simple and does exactly one job.
If you make, say, a webcomic, a big publisher is not allowed to collect and print your comic, or republish it on their ad-riddled website, unless they get your permission and offer whatever compensation you demand. They also can't copy your characters exactly and publish new stories about them, even if all the art and writing is original.

This is a good thing, even though your comic is nothing but a bunch of JPGs--digital patterns--that can be copied infinitely without depriving anyone.

Voice-reproduction rights can get complicated in the AI age, and I don't claim to have the objective moral truth. But there are very good reasons to give legal protection to the creators of digital patterns, as a general principle.
Assuming it's implemented properly, that is. The whole reason Jailbreaks exist is due to bugs in Apple's implementations.
OR any number of non-racist forces at work e.g. the internet, movies and social norms changing everywhere.
Entirely tangential, but I've been feeling serious nostalgia recently for a couple of small computers I've owned, specifically the tiny 2012 MBA, and the first-edition Asus eee. In both cases, they felt very solid, while also being very light. Does anyone have recommendations for more recent ones that are Linux based, and that I could get a small amount of work done on in an emergency? I worry the market has been completely taken over by Chromebooks that seem to be made out of cardboard
> Musk/X is for free speech, but also for following the local laws.

I find it very hard to entertain the idea that there are people out there in this day and age who still believe that the likes of Elon Musk supports free speech, even remotely.

He has a track record of arbitrarily banning users from Twitter for asking him inconvenient answers, and he supported authoritarian governments banning opposition parties from national elections with bullshit excuses like either all posts or some posts would be "throttled" (aka censored) in countries like Turkey, and given the choice he prefered to censor some posts/users instead of all posts/users.

But when a country with a leftist government asked Twitter to appoint a legal representative to process lawful requests regarding people planning a right-wing coup, Elon Musk went to the extreme of even pulling all corporate presence from the country to avoid complying.

Who still believes this is a free speech issue?
LinkedIn is the bottom of the barrel of the labour pool. Wonder why even train the data with any of them.
The Wikipedia page [1] links to an annual report from 2022 [2] where it is stated (page 6) that the expenses for 2022 for "Software development" were about 220 Million Dollars [X], though I guess that the entry includes software other than just Firefox and there is no breakdown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

[2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202...

[X] Plus 58 Million Dollars for "Branding and marketing" and 108 Million Dollars for "General and administrative" ... ouch !
Mozilla slowly retreating from open federated protocols. They dropped off IRC a few years back, now off fediverse. When can we expect them to close the matrix server and start using Slack corporation?
Everything old is new again!

They are so excited to just have reinvented last decade desktop envs that were working well before fullscreen apps were imposed to us.
So which other actual alternative should we use for Android development besides Java and webapps.
I'm usually a Linux user but I'm on macos right now. Is that just a python metapackage that installs all the things you need? Thanks for the response.
https://hylang.org/hy/doc/v1.0.0/repl

>A convenient way to use this class to interactively debug code is to insert the following in the code you want to debug:

(.run (hy.REPL :locals {#\* (globals) #\* (locals)}))

>Or in Python:

import hy; hy.REPL(locals = {\*globals(), \*locals()}).run()

>Note that as with `code.interact()`, changes to local variables inside the REPL are not propagated back to the original scope.
The SaaS Podcast by Omer Khan has some solid technical interviews including lots on growth and matketing with solo devs and small teams who are actually serious and not just grifting and wrapping apis with no-code solutions.

The World Of DaaS by Auren Hoffman has some decent episodes. These tend to be interviews with more established entrepreneurs but lots of bootstrapping/ early growth stories from devs/teams when they were much smaller.
Consider owncloud as well
It's wild there are plenty of AR headset's arriving such as Visor, that can't just plug into your phone and spawn a full desktop. Instead they want you to plug into a Windows or Apple laptop, or battery kit.

Android fully understands the idea of running multiple apps, at different resolutions, simultaneously and yet, no product in this space due to I assume restrictive APIs.
When doing an EE undergrad, the ranking I saw was:

ChemE > EE > MechE > Civil.

I guess there could be a bias, maybe MechE’s would swap their spots and ours. But I don’t think it is a totally universal thing. The fact that ChemE was some impossibly difficult magical alchemy stuff that nobody outside of their program could understand was universally agreed upon though.

I mean, it’s all goofy inter-field teasing and anybody who takes it too seriously is a dummy anyway.
This is something that has come up many times for our company over the last 20 years. You can't sell the bean counters on quality of life. You need to show lower costs, higher quality results, or faster time to market - that's what gets you in the door.

The thing that keeps you in the door and makes usage grow is the quality of life. Especially in the business world, most software is terrible. If people like using your software, they will tell others about it and they will be more accepting when things inevitably go wrong. The ease of use of our software and the immediate service we provide when customers ask for help are time and again the things they say keep them using our tools. With good support, even a frustrated bug report can turn into a happy experience.
> we need just one teeny tiny thing: somebody capable of organizing this

That and an efficient way of making those payments. Can we please get an online payment method that's as simple as cash already?
Isn’t this almost certainly a bug? I’m pretty sure the MacOS developers don’t really want to add a .s extension to files.
This guy has no conception how government works. The Olympics is a
sports franchise like any other, selling a brand name for advertising
dollars.
Of course this then later leads to: "Linkedin AI has non-European bias"

I'm of two minds.
Not bricked if it can be fixed.
Back in the days (very early 2000s), Amsterdam got WLAN network called Wireless Oost. This gave people in Amsterdam Oost wireless internet access throughout the neighborhood, without needing cable internet from A2000 (later merged with Chello, who merged with UPC, who merged with Ziggo, all the time owned by a certain company known as Liberty Global (you might have heard of them)). It also served as a (W)LAN. Back then, the local computer club ASCII (comprised of political activists and such, predecessor of the hackerspaces) had a cargo bike called Bakscii (derived from Dutch world of cargo bike (bakfiets) and ASCII). This provided WLAN access at demonstrations and such. It was a neat project which Internet Archive likely still holds.

I was never directly involved with said project, btw, but I knew all of the people who were. Nowadays, I live near Amsterdam and will get 1 gbit symmetric fiber internet soon (most of NL already has access to it). I use a Wireguard tunnel to connect via any network (LTE/NG/WLAN) via my home network which runs Pi-Hole. My point being, security has improved, but there is a constant: wireless internet usage can be triangulated, eavesdropped, and clients can be tracked. It is something we need to live with. Every time I leave my smartphone at home even for something as small as picking up my kids at school or sports I feel good. However I can easily be tracked by all the doorbell cameras in the street.

We are done with subversion on the internet. It is over, a done deal. I've given up many years ago, and eventually I also embraced the thought of such. If you want some private time together go to some cave in Turkey or whatever.
I may be misunderstanding, but wouldn't you see this effect any time you did a k fold cross validation?
No, but the ability to probabilistically detect it could be used to build useful filtering and prioritisation functions.
Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great [video]
My dream project is a non-profit smart-contract based insurance system: with double blind analysis of claims by doctors who have nothing to win from approving/rejecting a specific claim, a system were there is no asshole middleman insurance racket company.

I know this tech is disliked in HN, but I am positive that it is possible build something like that, due to the "trustlessness" capabilities.
Study Reveals How Covid-19 Infection Can Cause or Worsen Diabetes
Yeah that they are confident enough in their chain of trust to allow this says a lot I think
The majority of the OpenAI board members are tech entrepreneurs/tech execs.

Theranos' weren't majority of biotech.
I'm aware that it's just about the roof, I guess we mean different things by enclose.
In the Save File As dialog of most Windows apps, you can enclose the filename in double-quotes to force it to not add an extension. I wonder if that will help with the issue in macOS?
Locked iPhone owned by law enforcement target will accept remote firmware push from trusted device?
Because the magnitude of demand similar to yours is so low, that I doubt many manufacturers can exist profitably in that space, hence Toshiba and others exiting the market.
Good actors do it mostly for money and fame, bad actors do it mostly for money. Both actors do it for open source and closed source software.

Isn't it a good thing that anyone can effectively use tools to check for potential vulnerabilities?

This is just speculation, but I think open source projects may mature faster in terms of security because the low-hanging fruit is maybe found faster than in closed source projects?

Another interesting case I think about a lot is the classic AOSP vs. iOS. Apple tried to sue Corellium for making it easier to research iOS. Then Apple started the Apple Security Research Device program to make it easier for researchers to do iOS research. These two things seem to me to be a kind of involuntary open-sourcing of iOS. Why did Apple see Corellium as a threat and why did they provide researchers with these special devices?
Didn't Qualcomm try to buy out Intel recently?
When I had Dex I could run Ubuntu on it. I just used Firefox.
I am not a fan of Java, but going from Java to C is not an improvement.
If I had my way every person that downvotes this kind of comment without replying would just be banned.

There's no replies becuase it's utter cargoculted ignorant bullshit.
This seems to be the bare mininum to run that python-mode automagically.

(setq auto-mode-alist ; trigger python mode automatically
(cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq interpreter-mode-alist
(cons '("python" . python-mode)
interpreter-mode-alist))
(autoload 'python-mode "python-mode" "Python editing mode." t)
There may not have been any. Individual app-store reviewers can block you any time they feel like it, the guy checking your appeal is the same, and none of them have any real pressure to behave unless you have money and corporate power behind you.
They primarily went on strike to address access-to-care issues, not to increase pay. Maybe they are paid a lot less too, but I’m not sure what that had to do with the strike.

FWIW, Kaiser isn’t cheap for employers or individuals but it offers a no BS system for claims and great care.
Hm. Super true, but at the same time, it would annoy a lot of people, and there would be a social pressure to unlock WhatsApp.

That's not the case with X. Isn't like X (or previously Twitter) ever had the amount of users that WhatsApp have in Brazil.

If I recall, X have 20 million monthly active users, and yet it was the 4 or 5 country where X had most users.

But for Brazil size, this is very ridiculous, WhatsApp have 170 million users in Brazil.

This just shows how Twitter/X is small compared to other networks. It was always a small social network with relevant people.
750 people is a total number. Number of people involved into developing Firefox is way less.

$200 millions are the aggregated expenses of ALL software 'development' efforts of Mozilla Corporation like VPN, Relay, Pocket, mozilla.social, etc. And there are a lot of interesting expenses which are billed as development. According to Lunduke (1) who dived into the details a bit, there are many very questionnable expenses which are not related to Firefox development.

So the questions is still very open, how much does Firefox development actually costs? Developing Thunderbird costed around $2 millions in 2021 (2).

1 - https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
2 - https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...