skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently a freelancer (Fractional CTO) at 4 different companies. Having browser profiles made my life bearable again. Each profile has the Google/MS/Slack/Teams tabs for that company and I switch 5 times per day.
> It seems the mainstream view is grounded in anxiety and dislike for tech.

No, you're barking up the wrong tree here. I love tech, I work in the industry and intend to continue to do so. I hate AI art because it's just bad. It's awful. AI produces images that don't make physical sense, have a weird glossy "digital art" sheen and most of all have zero artistic merit. I only want to see art (and read text) produced by human beings.
Yes. I use container tabs—a separate one for each "big tech" company.
Lol, pretty sure you can. See Afghanistan withdrawal, Iraq, Vietnam etc etc
I found container tabs to be useless for my use case:

I want to have two YouTube accounts running simultaneously - one for entertainment and another for coding/AI/science. That way the YT recommendations in both accounts diverge to the different use cases. Using two Firefox profiles was the only way to do this.

I would be very disappointment to see Firefox profiles deprecated.

Minor nitpick - the poll options should say 'yes I use profiles' not 'yes I do'. Same with the no option. Be clear to avoid confusion.
These are all options. They might not suit you, but some might.

i.e. my parents are retired they could live with me, just like grandma lived with them. I've spent tons of time with grandma...
I don't care. I swore to myself that if the time comes my skills will no longer be needed, I'd gracefully ride into the sunset and do some other thing.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/...

They proposed including review hijacking. There's probably a reason why they didn't include it. Or maybe they think the rules they included already cover it.
I'm not very qualified to speak on the subject, but Svelte had (last I checked) the feature of not having a VDOM, meaning I was able to use generic JS libraries with it that did not require a implementation that was Svelte-only, as is the case with many such React and Vue libraries.

Personally, I like to stay as close to web standards as possible, instead of tying myself to specific implementations of specific addons for specific frameworks.
Trash, mostly.
I did a couple of practice runs before the video and got a bit faster, but there's a limit to how fast I can write down a page of 0's and 1's :-)
Yeah, I could have sworn we had a revolution to stop old men in Europe from telling us what we can and can't do.
"It made sense for IBM to build agentic tools like these, argues Ruchir Puri, chief scientist at IBM Research, not just for its own developers, but for all the enterprise developers IBM strives to assist."

What a weird sentence. Mx. Puri does not argue anything, this is just an unfounded claim. So far it just looks like snake oil that is to be sold to other companies.

This would actually be a good business strategy: Sell software that diminishes productivity to your competition and watch them disintegrate.
Surely it has a WSGI client not a server.
There are some people (such as the SWEBOK team) who would claim that software engineering shouldn't concern itself much with considerations like my list above. Quoting its chapter 16:

> Software engineers must understand and internalize the differences between their role and
that of a computer programmer. A typical programmer converts a given algorithm into a set
of computer instructions, compiles the code,
creates links with relevant libraries, binds†,
loads the program into the desired system,
executes the program, and generates output.

> On the other hand, a software engineer studies the requirements, architects and designs major system blocks, and identifies optimal algorithms, communication mechanisms, performance criteria, test and acceptance plans, maintenance methodologies, engineering processes and methods appropriate to the applications and so on.

The division of labor proposed here has in fact been tried; it was commonplace 50 or 60 years ago.‡ It turns out that to do a good job at the second of these roles, you need to be good at the stuff I described above; you can't delegate it to a "typical programmer" who just implements the algorithms she's given. To do either of these roles well, you need to be doing the other one too. So the companies that used that division of labor have been driven out of most markets.

More generally, I question the SWEBOK's attempt to make software engineering so different from other engineering professions, by focusing on project-management knowledge to the virtual exclusion of software knowledge; the comparison is in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918011.

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† "Binds" is an obsolete synonym for "links with relevant libraries", but the authors of the SWEBOK were too incompetent to know this. Some nincompoop on the committee apparently also replaced the correct "links with relevant libraries" with the typographical error "creates links with relevant libraries".

‡ As a minor point, in the form described, it implies that there are no end users, only programmers, which was true at the time.
Maybe I’m not stating it clearly: I want to work on a team that’s in the office full time, which I don’t currently have. I’d take a pay cut to get it! If you know of anyone doing this, please let me know. Not hybrid. 5 days in office, for everyone.
They probably get way more reviews with the prompt, and positive ones, than without it, despite how some morally indignant outlier HN commenters would react.
Hah, I’m currently trying that tactic to get us on Bookstack for our SOPs. Never thought about doing it with Laravel. Could work!
would you say that... rent seeking... is bad?
> What the degree signals to the employer is that the prospective employee will comply with their corporate process.

While this is true, I’ll take the engineer who studied diligently with an aim to learn the material over the one who was just in it for the credential. I don’t agree with your implication that you will learn the fundamentals equally well on the job. It certainly happens, but from what I’ve seen it’s usually people who never had the opportunity to learn in school who are aware of their gaps and seek to fill them in. The nonchalant attitude towards theory tends to persist in the workplace.
Firefox history is shared among all container tabs. While some of my usage is automatically governed, not all is, hence why I moved to profiles for certain needs for separation
McDonald's switched from frozen to fresh meat for the Quarter Pounders about 6 years ago. Maybe it's more surprising that they went this long without a processing problem. It's spread across multiple states so this isn't one employee making trouble.
There's a huge huge gap between "coaxing what you want out of it" and "trusting it to perform flawlessly". Everybody on the planet would use #2, but #1 is just for enthusiasts.

AI is squarely #1. You can't trust it with your credit card to order groceries, or to budget and plan and book your vacation. People aren't picking up on AI because it isn't good enough yet to trust - you still have the burden of responsibility for the task.
Not just that demographic, every demographic. There was a Planet Money podcast episode just the other day called The Subscription Trap. The podcast host and the founders of this tool, all seemingly young, tech enabled people all had hundreds (if not thousands) in unknown subscriptions. It's a problem top to bottom.
For those interested to learn a bit more about the “unhackable” operating system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_(operating_system)

https://www.ghs.com/products/safety_critical/integrity_178_t...
Is the Roma reputation not based in reality? Like significantly moreso than other group stereotypes.

I have run into more than a few Europeans who wouldn’t so much as entertain a single racist thought, against Africans or East Asians or Indians etc.

But when it comes to the Roma, they suddenly turn extremely racist! But they don’t seem to consider it racism.

Some interesting cognitive dissonance going on. But I always chalked it up to the Roma thing being basically true and readily observable across Europe.
Ironically children who are frequently tranq'd will never learn how to behave publicly.
I am sure its nice YC Company
This is really the only answer. Be water my friend.
Open Transportation Tycoon is entry level loads of fun.

https://www.openttd.org/

Ur Quan Masters is a nice adventure game full of challenges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ur-Quan_Masters
we will, of our own accord without nagging.
They have though. This has been a 2 year process.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/...

They probably came to different conclusions as you. And I'm sure they have reasons why they left some of that stuff on the original list out. Because they spent 2 years looking at this rather than going with their "obvious first impression questions".

You'll also note from those links that they have already been pursuing some companies over this stuff. So they're probably aware of what they're up against.
I'm giving the new Sonnet a chance, although for my use as a writing companion so far, Opus has been king among all the models I've tried.

However, I've been using Opus as a writing companion for several months, especially when you have writer's block and ask it for alternative phrases, it was super creative. But in recent weeks I was noticing a degradation in quality. My impression is that the model was degrading. Could this be technically possible? Might it be some kind of programmed obsolescence to hype new models?
iOS and macOS go further and separate their (native) apps almost entirely, including temporary files. That way, if you download "Super Free VPN Pro!!", it at least doesn't get access to, say, photos, temporary data or not.
I had a postgres database where the main index (160gb) was larger than the entire equivalent clickhouse database (60gb). And between the partitioning and the natural keys, the primary key index in clickhouse was about 20k per partition * ~ 1k partitions.

Now, it wasn't a good schema to start with, and there was about a factor of 3 or 4 size that could be pulled out, but clickhouse was a factor of 20 better for on disk size for what we were doing.
Is it still clunky to switch between profiles in Firefox? I remember the ux being so much worse than in Chrome the last time I tried it.
"McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers are making people sick, with most illnesses in Colorado and Nebraska."

Trump was in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, 5 states away.
Not with node.js. Not with ".ai" in the URL. Not with "Join the waitlist". Why does the logo alt text say "Build it For Me" but the logo says BuidItForMe"? Why are the Terms of Service and License so generic? Where is the code? Why does the contact form not list who is behind the project? Why does it only list two cities with no other information?

In short, who built this? Why should anyone trust this?
For Kagi users, I recommend putting books.google.com as a pinned domain. This way, you'll many times be presented with some of the best sources for any search query. Then it's a matter of finding the ePub file of that book. To read on MacOS, FBReader is a high quality app.
Reminds me of fixing all the half-baked vendor's work my company pays good money for.

Let the AI write all the code and programmers will do the fixes.
But those people don’t have to be evil all the time.

Society holds well if someone steals a candy from the shop.

Those people can become shitty and despicable for that one person they envy and can be great for their friends and family all the other time.
I use profiles on desktop, but also use multiple browsers, and multiple versions of browsers, especially on mobile, for different purposes:

- Firefox Focus as default browser when clicking links from native apps to always open it with an empty cookie jar

- Brave Android as default manual browser, and for watching videos (audio only) with screen turned off - the only browser to support it, behind a pref

- Opera Android when I need to zoom & have text to reflow (it's the only browser which supports this, behind a pref)

- Separate browser only for social media, to not mix history with default browser.

I used to use Firefox profiles long time ago on desktop, but as it required command line flag, and was not first-class UI supported, I started instead using Firefox Stable / Dev / Nightly.
It's just a young audience. They've always been very impressionable. When the iPad came out Reddit was all about "This is it? More like MaxiPad, amirite?! Lol what a marketing idiot" and "it's just 4 iPhones taped together lol" etc. etc.

Online commenters are frequently not very different from an army of LLMs talking to each other. They get stuck on a few points and keep repeating them.

You can pay attention to them if you like, but take a quick stop on /r/relationshipadvice or /r/amitheasshole and you'll find out what the audience actually is. And then you can ask yourself: does these people's opinion matter to me? Do I want to be like them?
This is an insightful comment and I thank you for sharing it but, after having looked at the brief you linked

> a jealous amicus brief that the Authors’ Guild settlement would not grant him access to publishing orphan works too

that's not a fair overview of the amicus brief, there are good points there about the process of notifying orphan works rights holders and about the risk of a monopolistic position. I do agree with you on this part though

> the existence of one orphan works clearinghouse would have encouraged Congress to grant more libraries access instead of doing nothing

Edit: I also agree with you that the way the IA subsequently created its e-library was not ideal.
I wanted to find the actual change performed by these agents so I watched the embedded video. I can not believe what I saw.

The video shows a private fork of a pubic repository. The bug is real, but it was resolved in February 2023 and doesn’t seem like the solution was automated [1]

The bug has a stack trace attached with a big arrow pointing to line 223 of a backend_compat.py file. A quick grasp on this stack trace and you already know what happened and why, and how to fix this, but…

not for the agent. It seems to analyze the repository in multiple steps and tries to locate the class. Why did they even release this video?

[1] https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit/issues/9562
I would like to just use Safari, as its URL-based defaulting to profiles is extremely similar to Arc’a ATC feature.

However, I don’t want my “Work” profile accessible from my phone at all, so now I use Orion for work and Safari for everything else. REALLY wish there was a way to segregate profiles based on device or have it be an option in iCloud.
what is the impact to desktop programs ui if it's just being manipulated by AI?
Classic Hacker News to complain about the market abusing the public's trust but when someone suggests a government make a change that benefits their own constituents over other countries it's down voted.
'We'd also like to thank Intel for helping with AVX-512 optimizations for aws-lc-rs recently. This was an important part of achieving our performance goals.'

Testing on an intel processor, with frequency scaling disabled, which will adversely affect non AVX-512 more than AVX-512 stuff due to the limited boost available when using this. I'm pretty sure this is a not totally fair comparison, and tuning the box to give your solution an advantage rather than tuning it for each solution to give optimal performance would be more realistic.

However, i'm not knocking it, sounds like a great achievement, and it'll spur the other solutions on to improve their implementations which is a win all round.
My comment is literally 3 questions and 0 assertions/accusations.
The existing Container Tabs extension gets you most of the way there. There's a little button (near the address bar? not at my desk so I can't check) to "always open this site in this container". I just use the default containers that it comes with (plus the Facebook- and Google-specific container extensions) and assign certain sites to automatically open in a specific container.
the technologies you mentioned helped spread very useful information, not worthless images devoid of meaning, artistic expression and thought

also, even in absence of copyright, the unprecedented scale of art theft that these technologies necessitate would be morally questionable
I rather think what booking.com is really trying to do is to get money from car rental and flight ticket companies for embedding links to their sales.

I mean, it's meant to bring benefit to them, not to the user.
Ehh. Nushell error handling is poorly built and buggy as hell. I wanted to use it, I really believed in the sales pitch, but it's just utterly unreliable and I have zero faith left in them ever actually fixing it.

- error handling is neglected in the basic design: <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10633>, <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10856>, <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8615>, <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6617>

- control-C interrupts its internals with obviously-wrong error: <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8828>, is midhandled in other ways <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8206>

- something is horribly wrong with the basic design of command-line arguments: <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9939>, <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9766>

- they're getting the fundamentals of globs on command lines wrong: if you pass string literals to an external command, they're still processed for globs.
this means `ls ""` (internal) and `^ls ""` (external) behave differently: <https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9558>
This has been iOS's (and macOS's, for native apps) model for a long time, yeah. "Multiuser" computers are not common anymore, but computers with a bunch of apps/code that you put different levels of trust in (especially on a level on what you want a given app to have access to), now are.

It's very different from 20-30 years ago.
I wonder if OpenAI will fast follow; usually they're the ones to throw down the gauntlet. That being said, you can play around with OpenAI with a similar architecture of vision + agent + exec + loop using Donobu, though it is constrained to web browsers.
I wish the contradiction you spotted was clear on their Wikipedia page. It demonstrates how far back IA's management troubles go, and how their clean image was maybe just an image.

For me, I became concerned when they fibbed about why the Internet Archive Credit Union was liquidated. IA alleged it was shut down due to onerous regulations, but the government said IA actually never lived up to their goal of allowing local, low-income folk to sign-up for their service. https://ncua.gov/newsroom/press-release/2016/internet-archiv...
I am fairly certain there is more knowledge/content available to anyone in this century than last century or any century before it. But perhaps I have misread your comment.
That won't even be a real job. How exactly will there be this complex intelligence that can solve all these real world problems, but can't handle some ambiguity in some inputs it is provided? Wouldn't the ultra smart AI just ask clarifying questions so that literally anyone can "prompt engineer"?
How receptors work in the brain: ELI5
So it turns out that there's no theoretical reason that gradient boosting will always outperform RF (which would violate the "no free lunch" theorem). But it does usually seem to be the case in practice, even with small and noisy data.

I would hazard a guess that with better tuning, XGBoost would still have won. (The paper notes that the authors chose a suboptimal set of hyperparameters out of fear of overfitting - maybe the same logic justifies choosing a suboptimal model type...)
Hopefully that some other thing puts bread on your table.
not only AI, we have one 'guru' who sounds like he is reading copilot on remote audio only meetings.
Why should a foreign marketplace get the same benefit of the doubt as a domestic market? Especially if those foreign markets belong to countries that are hostile to mine?
There used to be a time when retired US politicians with decades of service were still respected in retirement. Granted, this was before Gingrich's hyperpoliticizing of every bit of minutiae in America.

Then Fred Thompson, not satisfied with his $250K an hour lobbying gig or his acting career, decided he also needed to start hawking reverse mortgages to the elderly, and that was a wrap. Before people were willing to look past the lobbying... stopped being a thing after ole Fred was caught on TV and radio right next to the gold bouillon sellers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtbJbi6Sswg

TL;DW: "It's better to walk than to run in the rain."
I use firefox profiles, separate for a) personal use b) work and c) personal use with different network settings (as I need more than one VPN connected simultaneously, I launch this profile from Distrobox) to connect to geofenced / ISP blocked services.

I use different color schemes to visually distinguish them.

The only problem is that opening link from other apps do not automagically select right profile, so I have to manually copypaste it. Otherwise, it all works awesomely.
This can be solved on all browsers by using foxyproxy or Proxy SwitchyOmega.
Now private companies are deciding of their own extrajudicial laws.
Even better imagine people don’t have to be mean/awful all the time. They can be shitty for a coworker and then be great for friends and family or be great for people at other job.

There are really evil people that might be shit all the time but society is rather good at spotting them.
There might be some natural selection there. Some were attracted to experiment and explore (some had shitty family) and left for better pastures.
Truberbrook (http://trueberbrook.com/) is a recent diorama game example.
Texas for example, threw tons of tax breaks to companies to get people to move to the state. One of the reasons Apple has a Austin campus, for example.

The lack of payroll tax (and income tax), is in theory made up for by the increased number of people and businesses in the state. This leads to more people buying houses and cars (property tax), or buying things in general (sales tax). And more bodies in turn create more demand for goods and services, driving the economy more.

Now, when the bodies are leaving, the state and municipality are taking a hit -- their big tax cuts aren't being hedged by personal spending because all of the persons left.

That also crushes other demand: no one is using gyms near their office, or getting gas to/from work, or grabbing coffee and lunch at places nearby. Fewer sales there, so even less tax, and eventually less people working there and potentially going out of business.

So consequently a lot of cities and states straight up said: get them back locally or we cut your tax breaks, and executives shrugged their shoulders and said "so be it".
Mgmt at every company is asked - what are you doing to be agentic ?

so, they organize hackathons where devs build a hypothetical agentic framework nobody will dare use. So, mgmt can claim, look here what i have done to be agentic.

you should ask: would you dogfood your agent, and the answer is no way. these are meant purely for marketing purposes, as they dont meet an end user need.
So what? Do you keep secrets in your domain names?
The US is actually permissive relative to other countries. In most countries if you disclose your invention before filing you lose the right to patent it.
Hopefully someone with more first-hand knowledge can chime in but I understand "fresh meat" in this context to be "dried like jerky until it's re-wetted at the restaurant". It's not exactly surprising to see they have few processing incidents. Makes me wonder what went wrong and how it relates to the food handling. Notably, they are also choosing not to serve slivered onions.