skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I actually tolerated it for a long time before switching. What made me switch was that Fedora became so horrendously slow that it took 15 minutes just to open a web browser. I even tried launching things with syscall tracing but the output just literally froze mid-line all the time while the system was writing to disk. Even though my RAM was mostly unused, it just kept freezing all the time.

This is a problem in ALL linuxes as far as I know. When Linux gets IO-bound, literally everything gets stuck and it's insane. My mouse cursor position doesn't depend on my hard disk. I have a dozen cores. I don't understand. I thought this kind of issue was solvable on a single core with just a round robin scheduler. How come things still get stuck?

It could be that the problem was that I installed every DE I could find to test them, but even after uninstalling a lot of things, the system never recovered its original speed.

I installed Linux Mint on the same hard disk and things run smoothly. In particular, I love how Cinnamon actually keeps the list of applications in memory instead of starting a search every type I open the start menu. The DE has its shortcomings but it's pretty decent otherwise so for now I'm happy with it.

P.S.: also when I tried to use git with apache, checking out overwrote my SELinux types and contexts, which meant I had to figure out AGAIN how do configure all this stuff just so I could access a wordpress site in localhost that was saved in my home folder. For a while I just gave up using branches in git. Now I just use Mint.
Yea agree. It's always something. Rays from the sun, a phone mast or something else. But what signals could be sent that are provable? Even if a ghost told you where to find the money. No one would believe you.
You remember right, they used to have their own rendering engine and lota of neat featurs like lightning-fast notes and and even email client.

Around 2013 this all disappeared - they switched to Chromium's engine, and dropping all of their special features. Opera 15 was super-generic chromium fork. This was when I've stopped using it.
> experts are often not who you want editing an article, because experts are often poorly positioned to know what the general public knows, and what consensus is from outside their area of expertise.

I would argue the opposite, since consensus from reputable sources is not the same as consensus of the general public, and unless it's a subject of study in multiple fields, the consensus in their field is their area of expertise.

Academic scholarship is generally preferred over lay sources, though there are caveats and individual instances of primary research are rarely considered indicative of consensus (usually review articles and other secondary sources are significantly preferred). However, if you do disagree with any information on Wikipedia, even if it's based on only your own primary research, I would strongly encourage you to at least tag the statements with a {{dubious}} or {{disputed inline}}[1] tag so that it can be discussed, or make an edit request[2] if you're not comfortable making the change yourself.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Disputed_inline
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_requests
Sounds like a good TPM, I must admit I haven't worked at a company that had a "scrum master" title and didn't realize the role had grown in scope.
> previewed “as early as December,” ... After that, Jarvis might be made available to early testers, so a launch does not seem imminent.

Google is trying to show they are not behind in the AI race by advertising something probably barely out of alpha testing. It just reinforce the idea that Gemini is still inferior to Claude and ChatGPT.

I tried Gemini once and then tried Claude. It was such a huge difference I can't imagine Google, who created the transformer architecture, can be so behind a tiny startup a fraction of their size.
Britannica still exists. You can find it at https://www.britannica.com/
What happens in France if I personally fund a bunch of billboards to advertise for a politician?

While, the campaigns do receive tons of a money there's also a lot of non-campaign expenditure in the way of things called PACs/Super-PACs which basically produce the same ads that you could see from a candidate minus the "and I'm X and I approve this message.".
Open source and open format/specification/protocol are quite different concerns, and in fact the problem here is with the latter, not the former:

The modern web stack is so complicated that any current browser engine has a significant moat.

In other words, the problem isn't that Chrome is not open source; the problem is the amount of work it takes to maintain or compete with it.
I agree that reality is complex, but I worry you are conflating the challenges of running an Amazon-scale business with running the smaller businesses that most of the entrepreneurs on HN will need to manage. I thought Roger offered a more practical approach in about 10% of the words that you took. I am sorry if I have offended you; I was trying to save the entrepreneurs on HN time.

As to Jack Stack's book, I think the genius of his approach is communicating simple decision rules to the folks on the front line instead of trying to establish a complex model at the executive level that can become more removed from day-to-day realities. In my experience, which involves working in a variety of roles in startups and multi-billion dollar businesses over the better part of five decades, simple rules updated based on your best judgment risk "extinction by instinct" but outperform the "analysis paralysis" that comes from trying to develop overly complex models.

Reasonable men may differ.
https://youtu.be/VUHFXnOn7mI?si=TdBZwL1qoHbaxQzT
See it though the lens of 2005 not 2024. Design standards where different, the reaction of users to banner ads or spam was not the same, SEO was still nascent industry, websites designed to game the engine was very small issue if it existed at all, every website looked like that at the point in time.

Here is how Yahoo still very much juggernaut in 2005 looked https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/yahoo-2005 for context.
It's fun to solve problems. How do I optimize this sub-factory? - That's the same fun as "how do I optimize this function" but instead of a green light from my test runner one gets a colorful display of a working factory with a visible result. The fact that I reduced memory usage of that function by 10% I don't see in that way. And probably both both are equal in benefit to humanity's progress (zero)
Plenty of hackers with substantial social media presences but they live in pockets that don't cross over into mainline social media too much.
i know Vivaldi is also just wrapper, but it feels more like the old Opera.
The cat is same for me. If it could pick the nightly dead rodent so I don't have to explain murder to the kids every day that would be great.

But ultimately what machine/device could show something? I appreciate not one reading could do this and it would have to be repeatable.
Its rendering engine, leadership, and ownership got swapped out completely: The Ship of Theseus as a browser.
Most of that doesn't deserve to be called an improvement. That message encryption is one of the worst designs I've ever seen. The algorithm isn't open enough that anybody can see if what it's doing matches the code.

And instead of censoring "secretly" in partnership with the US government they do so in partnership with the Indian government as well as individual Republican politicians.
Agreed, and I know Opera is Chinese-owned, but Opera's web site still lists their headquarters as Norway. Doesn't this still make them a Norwegian company, with some safeguards against abuse? Not sure if any EU laws might also come into play.
Doesn’t it do that because chrome still has the corresponding api? How exactly will chrome deny chrome-based browsers of ad blocking (aka ending mv2 support in marketing speech)? The same applies to opera either way.
Internet rule 23

When one disses the site, the one must mention better site.
> I need to write some arcane function signature language for every DOM manipulating function

You really don't know that you can create WebAssembly in other languages?!? I used WAT to keep the example short, but that's clearly lost on you.

> I'll give another 4 years and see if they fixed this.

In that time, there are lot of things you could be learning. Embracing ignorance and belligerence isn't like to serve you well in the long term.
The article feels like it's grasping at tenuous historical straws trying to explain a mental health crisis in SF that's only really gotten out of hand in the past 5-10 years.

The anti-puritan strain isn't necessarily Scots-Irish, either. It's common in anyone who's had to suffer under puritanism.
Musk is reposting actual neonazi accounts
> I'm confused, Google deprioritized their site in search results, and then several years later launched their own shopping comparison tool.

The first iteration of comparison shopping on Google, then called Froogle, had launched several years prior to their site.

> Created by Craig Nevill-Manning and launched in December 2002, Froogle was different from most other price comparison services in that it used Google's web crawler to index product data from the websites of vendors instead of using paid submissions.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Shopping
The period after they invented antibiotics but before they invented HIV was a local maximum in sexual expression.
PaleMoon browser has a canvas.poisondata config setting (also available in the Preferences GUI) which prevents such fingerprinting. However, note that these things are not used in isolation - browser fingerprinting is done by collecting various other data too, and when collated together, these can provide enough uniqueness to identify (or categorise) your browser into some specific group. We are fighting a losing battle for privacy.
Currently use Safari and there's no protection against canvas fingerprinting :(

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting
This.

I can watch North by Northwest with my pre-teen kids and not really be worried too much about the obvious sex inbetween the scenes. It still distracting, but whatever.
This study is so spot on i had to go back to the top to see if it was written by people from our own company. (It wasnt). Mind blown.
Worst comes to worst they can use the Firefox engine

I wish that was the outcome. I could finally try firefox with a ui that fits my workflow.
> No, literally nobody has ever wanted to be directed to "foundem", which is a scam.

Could you defend the statement that "foundem" is a scam? If it really was then that adds important context to the ruling, but I'll need something more concrete than hyperbole.
Can you use a software solution like Pushbullet? https://www.pushbullet.com/

You install it on a real Android phone and then it's supposed to let you send and receive SMS from another device, acting as a proxy of sorts.

Personally, I use messages.google.com to answer texts from my computer, but I think you can only pair it to one device at a time. Maybe host that alongside an Android phone at home, and then stream that window to other browsers...? Super janky, I know.

Or you might be able to reverse engineer their UI or API calls and use something like Playwright to control the web interface and write your own external-facing API for it... what a lot of work, though
> but nobody calls this ethnic cleansing.

Perhaps a point you might make to someone who used the term?

Were Germans forcibly removed from Ramstein?
How does that argue against people still having rights.

Corporate death penalty exists, it is called bankruptcy. It is called criminal liability and people are put in jail.

You just seem to disagree with how harsh (or not) the penalties are. However, that doesn't say anything about taking away rights.
Linux definitely exists in a weird limbo. While it can be secured to an extreme degree, most people aren't using Linux that way on personal devices. Especially on a desktop. ChromeOS is quite secure since it is so locked down, but imagine getting the average Linux user to like it.

Curious as to your rationale for the security architecture of macOS being inferior. Is it because of the way the security features are implemented that you lean that way? macOS has its warts, but it also has plenty of security features I'm not aware of Windows/NT having.
We could, as a society, ban the use of gas powered leaf blowers.
Motorboating feels like a strawman version of op-amp oscillation. It occurs because the tinkerers are using single supply circuits, without adequate bypassing to ensure that their virtual ground network has very low resistance. Thus the current dumped to ground by any circuit generates a voltage which appears to it and all the other circuits (ground loop). Another ingredient in motorboating is that there are multiple amplification circuits cascaded together which are coupled using capacitors (due to the single supply operation, again, which tends to discourage DC coupling). The ground loop creates a feedback path across multiple amplifiers, and the coupling capacitors create the phase shift.
If you followed the study’s advice, you’d miss the massive popularity of hate watching.
I wouldn't be surprised if Opera's built-in ad blocking were internally implemented as a web extension.

In any case, we'll see once Chrome drops Manifest V2; until then, promises of ongoing support are very cheap.
Social media popularity is pretty much an anti-signal nowadays. The more popular the closer to the average.
> Tobias Lütke, co-founder and CEO of the ecommerce platform Shopify, lets his staff expense their copies of Factorio. “It’s just bound to be good for Shopify if people play Factorio for a little while,” he told the Invest Like The Best podcast. “Because part of Shopify is building warehouses and fulfilling products for our customers. We are building global supply chains, and Factorio makes a game out of that kind of thinking.”

I wonder if they'll pay for their employees' copies of Wilmot's Warehouse, too.

http://wilmotswarehouse.com
I'd hazard a guess that the answer is yes, but we'll see. The thing about Opera (and MS with Edge) is that they've already bitten the give-up bullet once by moving to a Chromium-base in the first place, rather than continue with their own separate browsers, so it seems likely to me that if the challenge of maintaining a significant difference is too great they'll bite the bullet again.

Somewhat related, I read this about OpenBSD today: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/19404.1697568901@cvs.openbsd...

"Robert Nagy in our group maintains
1280 patches to make chrome work on OpenBSD. Google ignores them and will not
upstream them. Some of these changes are security related, and they ignore
them. Other changes are to cope with security work we've done on our own,
for example: JIT changes from Stephen@google for mandatory IBT which google
hasn't upstreamed yet, impacts due to PROT_EXEC-only mappings, etc."

As far as I can tell, most of these patches (https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/chromium...) are just checks for whether the code is on openbsd or not. Still, even in 2019 (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/b5...) the author made the expected complaint trying to upstream them about how "it is getting really hard to follow all the code moving and new features". Keeping v2 compatibility will predictably get harder and harder over time.
That'd be enough for a large cup of coffee, maybe even a bagel.
Essentially yes.

There's ambient occlusion that computes light intensity with high spatial resolution, but completely handwaves the direction the light is coming from. OTOH there are environment maps that are rendered from a single location, so they have no spatial resolution, but have precise light intensity for every angle. Cascade Radiance observes that these two techniques are two extremes of spatial vs angular resolution trade-off, and it's possible to render any spatial vs angular trade-off in between.

Getting information about light from all angles at all points would cost (all sample points × all angles), but Radiance Cascades computes and combines (very few sample points × all angles) + (some sample points × some angles) + (all sample points × very few angles), which works out to be much cheaper, and is still sufficient to render shadows accurately if the light sources are not too small.
I actually tested Claude Sonnet to see how it would fare at writing a test suite for a background worker. My previous experience was with some version of GPT via Copilot, and it was... not good.

I was, however, extremely impressed with Claude this time around. Not only did it do a great job off the bat, but it taught me some techniques and tricks available in the language/framework (Ruby, Rspec) which I wasn't familiar with.

I'm certain that it helped having a decent prompt, asking it to consider all the potential user paths and edge cases, and also having a very good understanding of the code myself. Still, this was the first time for me I could honestly say that an LLM actually saved me time as a developer.
It can be driven at 60hz. It's not nearly that fast in practice, and when you push it you wind up with ghosting. You can see Doom happening here: https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image/releases
Apple once disabled canvas for their devices for this reason and broke all my apps, haha.

80% of my projects use canvas
Movies/series/TV are/is shown/streamed/aired & watched worldwide.

I presume the study was done in the US.

Go figure.
Well for us this could be internal job boards. When companies have 10k+ engineers our internal job boards are huge with people switching teams all the time.
Here's the link to the 2024 study:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/633f0603fdaa7311ba384...

Here's the 2023 study:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/633f0603fdaa7311ba384...
In a stratified society like India, a good many of those 1.45 billion people have limited agency.
I'm old and I think the same thing.
Will your store be sold off in the Kroger/Albertsons merger?
You don't even have to look per se. The YouTube aglo provides me a lot of interesting content that isn't especially high quality or production value. I do take an effort to ignore click bait as much as possible and click "don't recommend channel" for things like MKBHD and LTT, because those crowd out original content if you let them.
Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S.
Is this something that Mozilla is focusing on at all? That would seem like an important step towards actually protecting the heterogeneity of the web (or what's left of it).
This makes no sense to me. Doing productive things means 40 to 100 hour commitments with the possibility of your work being worthless at the end, because you didn't have enough time for that 40th or 100th hour, because you need to do a lot of upfront work, because you need specific hardware, because someone else did it better, because the maintainer rejected your pull request, because what you want to do actually takes 1000 hours.

Now that is what I call tedious!

Meanwhile open ended pvp multiplayer games can drain hundreds of hours with no feeling of accomplishment. Those are the games that make me feel I should be doing something more productive.
Further to your point the Scots and Irish aren't even Anglo-Saxon. You could make the argument for calling them Anglo-Celtic now but not so much at the time of the settlement of the US.
I flip between ChatGPT4o, Claude, Gemini (and its offsets NotebookLM and AIStudio). They all have their niches for example Claude projects (+ 3rd party claudesync) is useful for generating code for an Xcode project, or AIStudio can handle more file formats including video. Then there's different context sizing, Gemini being the biggest I'm aware of.

I'm really unimpressed by the velocity of feature development from these AI orgs, I don't expect them to have complete feature parity any time soon if at all.

As always pick the right tool for the job. There is almost never a 1-size fits all best selection.
Jira is AWFUL.
Does owning the search engine and thus being able to hide your competitors actually make you superior?

Is this actually what the consumer wants, or merely what the consumer gets?

If they were a scam and a competitor, what does that make Google?
Gemini is #3 on the leaderboard; seems like it can't be that bad.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/chatbot-arena-leade...
There are still patriarchal abstinence-only programs in a considerable part of the US; so that can be affecting attitudes some. But also; with increased awareness of queer and asexual personalities and relationships, and emphasis on consent in general; that can be overall influencing attitudes as well.
What is Google doing?

Gemini is terrible. It's way worse than even GPT 3. Never mind 3.5 or Claude. It's basically useless. Even the simplest things like trivial code transformations don't work. Gemini goes rogue all the time and starts to do things it shouldn't.

I get the feeling that in desperation people at Google are hacking the metrics to make their model look good. While in reality it's just junk.

No model, and I've tried a lot of them, has such a massive gap between good benchmark performance and horrible real world performance.
The focal "point" extends indefinitely, there's no need to slow down once you get there.
Fascinating. Thanks for digging that up.

Let's say we have 95% confidence for a range between 162-170cm through the entire Iron Age, continuing through the Classical period. I believe that could still plausibly make for a substantial enough difference in hand breadth -- plausibly >1cm -- such that grips that seem unusually small today would have seemed merely snug back then. It's also possible that certain relic swords were designed to fit users who were under the mean height of their era. (Even, in some cases where grips were smaller than 7cm in length, adolescents.)
If you've been consistently redeeming free games from Epic you might already have it. It was free on 2020-08-06[1].

[1] https://josephmate.github.io/EpicFreeGamesList/
We got rid of scrum masters. They were useless. We just run it all ourselves now. Ditched the entire scrum process, and just have a task kanban board now run by all engineers. This works SO MUCH BETTER. Our daily "scrum" meetings dropped from 1-2 hours per day to 10-15 min.
Daily Cyber
People who will suffer economically under sanctions or in this case from exclusion but who if the war isn't stopped may suffer explosive dismemberment or see their kids come home in a box.
When I first discovered OPAMPs I my teen years while self learning the electronics I was astonished by the beauty and power of an abstract opamp: the mythical component with infinite differential voltage gain, zero common mode gain, infinite input impedance and zero output resistance.
This marvelous device can only exist, without destroying the world by its infinite output power, by staying in equilibrium defined by negative feedback. /s

You have to appreciate the reason it was invented in Bell Labs: analog computers, which primary applications at that time were in military applications for computing artillery solutions.

Now, as a professional EE, I still think fondly of them, even though I know well about their real life limitations.
My advice is to try to stay first at ideal OPAMP abstraction level to appreciate the mathematical usefulness of that abstract construct.
This is almost entirely how professionals use them.

I can only lament the educational system, which invariably makes the students miss the forrest for the trees by not presenting well the power of ideal opamp