skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dollar Still Has Its Mojo. X, Not So Much
This is good guess unfortunately. However, there are second order effects as we've seen with X that will drive people to Firefox so this could end up being a good thing.
The establishment of the Charleston police department directly traces roots into slave patrols. The department was formed from city guard, who were used to round up spaces and put down slave revolts.
`short c = a * b` can be both well-defined and a serious bug if (a * b) is greater than `sizeof(short)`. Whether it _is_ a bug depends on what you're doing.

Swift has units as part of the standard library. In the sense that matters here, Rust and C++ could also have units. It requires a level of expressiveness in the type system that most modern languages do have, if you put it to use.
That's assuming independence. I'm not ruling out sabotage but the world is often not fully independent. A storm or an anchor both may affect multiple cables if they're in generally the same area which would definitely make the probability far more likely than those stated. (edit typo)
Right but Norcross gives an argument against that. You either have to think that slightly reducing pain and making it 1000 times as prevalent doesn't always make a worse state of affairs or deny that worse than is transitive.
> Most of my PhD's effort has been devoted to beating the SOTA in this. Problem's importance nowadays is owed to deep learning's memory wall.

lol i similarly spent 1 year of my phd trying to finagle this same thing for the same exact reason. got as far as proving that when it's parameterized (like in the case of DNNs with algebraically coupled layers) it's FPT (finite parameter tractable) which is like duh but also as soon as i found that i gave up (not much more to be done <shrug>).
I can think of other ways to break up Google that don't involve selling Chrome. I'm not sure I understand how selling Chrome would weaken Google.
So... This is like ollama + https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui ? Or given the bits about this installing ollama, wrapper over ollama that includes a GUI?
Life happened, and I realized I would not be in town over holiday! Thanks for the offer though. I can't wait to get it and write some code for it!
Don't think anyone is buying that reframing as heroic saviour of open source after the tantrums

The two parties should just get it over with in court and report back when done
IANAL, but if you want to successfully sue someone, you have to show the court that you have suffered damages because of that someone.

If you got the flooring you paid for and it is of the promised quality, you don't have a legitimate complaint.

If the authorities were to seize your flooring because it's made of illegal wood, or fine you because of that situation, then you would have damages.
And did not mean to imply exclusively. Plenty of police departments don't have roots in slave patrols.
Exactly. Everybody thinks they're the consumer, but often times consumers are other companies.
Mostly, just a little more evidence that the switch from X to Bluesky is going pretty mainstream.
I'm supporting gleenn who beat me by seconds to much the same observation.

Clusters are a thing.
Yeah, but if Google were forced to divest Chrome then parts of its proprietary code would have to be open-sourced and integrated into Chromium to minimize disruption to users. Alternatively, Google would have to make its services more interoperable.
Except every company you listed is a technology company. It's technologists doing technology. Katzenberg proves the point.

Amazon, Netflix, Quibi (a disaster run by a non-technologist), AirBnB, Google, Facebook. These are websites and apps.

I don't think Griffin is particularly illustrative of anything except it's nice to ask your grammy for $100K when you're a teenager.

Feel free to listen to a NotebookLM podcast of a PG post, but if you think any AI is going to create an original thought that catches fire like the MCU, Call Her Daddy, Succession, cumtown, Hamilton, Rogan, Inside Out, Serial, or Wicked, maybe it's you that should stay out of the conversation when it comes to creativity.
Sure but if we're not sure then the possible infliction of huge amounts of horrendous suffering on trillions of them is quite serious. If there's even a 5% chance that shrimp feel pain as intensely as humans, the SWP is an excellent bet.
"Numbers go into the numbers vector" is unusual - typically JS engines use either NaN-boxing or inline small integers (e.g. v8 SMI). I suppose this means that a simple `this.count += 1` will always allocate.

Have you considered using NaN-boxing? Also, are the type-specific vectors compacted by the GC, or do they maintain a free list?
I would agree as an outsider (German/European). I am more worried about other things: globally, about the US role on climate change (and the related global trend) and a foreseeable irreversible supreme court majority for the next 30 years or so, that will make so much harder for Americans to 'learn' if this was all just a mistake. I'd wish that I wouldn't even have to care as someone not living in the US.
Google as Microsoft did years ago will stall until a new administration is in office and reach a settlement for what is effectively a slap on the wrist.
I agree with you, I think you're describing the same sort of person I was thinking of in the second paragraph of this post: https://joshduff.com/2022-02-07-eschatology-of-software.html
Isn't firefox mostly making its money from Google? They'll be struggling too if Google gets out of the browser business and no longer feels the pressure to sustain them
I live in Vietnam where the entire population drives small motorbikes or scooters. There's no defining feature except for having a cutaway to place your feet in a scooter. Even the engine placement is less of a clear thing now that many of them are electric.

There's motorbikes with scooter like controls, there's scooters with motorbike like controls.
Many small automatic motorbikes feel basically identical to driving a scooter except that your sitting position is very slightly different.
In theory, yes, but in practice...

I’ve interviewed with several companies that asked me this specific question [1], including Facebook, ByteDance, LinkedIn, and a particular team at Apple (not my current team). The interviewers, perhaps somewhat optimistically [2], expected a fully working solution. They gave me about 40 minutes—more than the 15 minutes mentioned in the original comment—but I definitely needed the first 10-15 minutes just to get a brute-force solution running. The rest of the time was spent refining the approach and addressing 1-2 additional requirements to pass a set of visible tests.

It was challenging, but not in a traditional engineering sense. It felt more like an ACM competition [3].

Fortunately, programming skills aren’t the only thing companies assess these days. With over a decade of work experience, behavioral (experience-based) interviews now play a larger role in the final hiring decision. That said, depending on who conducts the technical portion of the interview, you could still be rejected if your code doesn’t work.

[1] https://leetcode.com/problems/the-skyline-problem/descriptio...

[2] Them, being so young (<10 YoE), consider LeetCode a panacea

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_programming
As much as I try to "de-google" myself and try to avoid being trapped in the Google eco system, I'd definitely choose it over MS Office. I am stuck in the MS Office eco system at work. Some of their products are starting to improve in MS Office, but you can still tell it's a lot of hacks ontop of old systems. Especially when it comes to the whole teams/onedrive/sharepoint side of things.

One of my biggest gripes right now is that we heavily rely on Microsoft Teams. A lot of our work laptops still are stuck on 8gb of ram. I find Microsoft Teams can easily suck back a full gig or more or ram, especially when in a video call. From my understanding, Teams is running essentially like an Electron app (except using an Edge browser packaged).

I have no problem with web based apps, but man, some optimization is called for.
that looks interesting. we spent a lot of money on FSxL and might save a lot with Weka. Unfortunately, our data access pattern is very random and will likely not benefit from caching unless we cache the entire dataset (100TB)
Bud Light has a 9.7% market share.

Chrome has a 67% market share. You also missed the entire point of defaults being important.
It can be a serious bug if it overflows and you didn't intend it to happen or you expected overflow behavior to do something different. But that's also true of `int c = a*b`, and yet that's not a compiler error.

int/short should be thought of as storage size optimizations for memory. They're very bad ways to specify the correct range of values for a variable.

(Ada has explicitly ranged integers though!)
Updated, thanks. But the hilarity is timeless.
20 years of Firefox: How a community project changed the web
But thinking that extreme suffering is bad doesn't require thinking that wireheading for tons of pleasure is good.
Any examples? I'm in the same boat as you, and while I agree with the premise, I don't recall anything as egregious as the examples from the article:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/denial-of-evoluti...

https://archive.is/H8hJw

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-term-jedi...

https://archive.is/oMzz7
Police forces have roots in protecting capital, for example warehouse guards or for another slave patrols.

They still exist for that purpose in the US.

They do not exist to protect people. They are a tool of the state and capital.

The years post slavery still were used to enforce Jim Crow laws, segregation, and violence against minorities. They still used dogs to attack peaceful protestors. SWAT teams are a continuation of an ethos of being warriors, willing to do violence at the behest of the government and capital at the expense of the people.
Certainly they are disruptors in this space.
Even better rundown:

https://raphlinus.github.io/text/2020/10/26/text-layout.html
Bitcoin is proof of work. Ethereum isn't.

If money isn't proof of work then what is it?
This will not end well.

If someone with millions or billions of dollars doesn’t have an official API after operating for years, that’s because they don’t want to have one. You may receive a Cease and Desist letter, or they might block your IPs, or just scramble their markup in ways that are hard to figure out. Whatever their approach, they likely have more money and manpower to throw at stopping you than you have to evade them, especially if you’re doing this to multiple large and powerful companies.
I think the transformers can be leveraged in a similar way for robotics. Prior art probably exists in self-driving or humanoids.
My mom lived in Guddu for few years growing up in 70s (and other family in Daharki) so I often wonder what work had been done since then.
But only to a point, correct? Otherwise we end up in the current dialogue where flat earthers, moon landing deniers, and a large percentage of religious believers feel more platformed than ever. It's far too easy for the uninformed to challenge science simply because it challenges their non-scientific beliefs.
I have the exact opposite experience of this person. My 12th gen framework had been great. I've replaced the keyboard after spilling water on it, the hinges, and they even replaced my power adapter because the right angle USB was flaky. Repairs have been a breeze... I had ThinkPads for over 20 years, probably 7 of them. Their era is over, sorry but the last good ThinkPad was the 220. Fwiw, I tried to buy a ThinkPad before my framework, their site said it was available in two weeks. Three months later, after no reply, my order was canceled due to some US law that automatically triggers if you cannot deliver in a reasonable time frame. Got the framework in three days. Wish I got the AMD one, but whatever I can upgrade later.
Households introduce a lot of variables, especially marriage. In some studies it has been shown you seek higher income opportunities than you might individually.[0] This would be my assumption, at least.

[0] - https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/married-wage-gap/
Is this sarcasm? Because Windows 11 has a ton of ads and more ads/telemetry are getting added with every update.
Ah, yes, you're right! Please do:

# ...
Q(your_column) :- example_db.YourTable(your_column:);

You can query multiple columns of course. Feel free to start threads in Discussions of the repo with whatever questions you have!
there are a bunch of papers on DSA from the OR people

http://adambuchsbaum.com/papers/dsa-stoc03.pdf

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-27798-9_...

https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~pdinda/ics-s05/doc/dsa.pd...

there are also some from ML people trying to allocate memory optimally for DNNs:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01989

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10001

https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03288

they all boil down to a couple of greedy heuristics. the most recent "cool" paper was from a group at google

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3567955.3567961

basic idea is to use both ILP and heurstics. i asked them to open source but no dice :(
The and was not meant to be exclusive. It should maybe be read as or. It's not meant to imply all police forces were slave patrols. Plenty evolved to protect other capital interests.
Backblaze B2

https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/
> The essence of science is to distrust authority and received wisdom

The essence of science is the use of scientific method which have specific meaning and way of doing things. It relies on evidence based knowledge not on any distrust. It does not have to do with authority but you would question if your tools you are using is good (calibrated and not interfering with measurements in an unaccounted way ..etc) or if your methodology is flawed.
If CNAME cloaking takes off in a big way, then yes at that point I agree I could see people moving to Firefox. But for now that's not happening.

Also, if that actually led significant numbers of people to leave Chrome, isn't that where we'd see "Manifest V3.1" or whatever that allows matching against CNAMEs?

Chrome is pretty central to Google's strategy. If we assume that people who want to block ads will (by switching to Firefox when necessary), then it's in Google's interests for Chrome to support ad blocking. If they're not going to get ad revenue anyways, they'd still rather it be happening on Chrome.

Also see a recent comment by a member of the Chrome team on why Manifest V3 was for performance reasons, not to cripple adblocking (I don't know if it's true, but it seems worth considering): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815861
TIL Venmo uses GraphQL.

It's interesting to note, too, that the current Venmo website posts to https://account.venmo.com/api/eligibility to get a token and then separately to https://account.venmo.com/api/payments to perform the actual payment. Those endpoints and shapes are different than what's in the script, which posts to https://api.venmo.com/v1/payments (https://github.com/Integuru-AI/Venmo-Unofficial-API/blob/a28...). I wonder if the v1 API is an older one used for some other service (the mobile app, maybe?).

Thanks for sharing, OP.
> Which one would you like to use to board and/or force the ship to depart against Russian cable cutting ships?

High seas (which is what that list applies to) is not the EEZ. I don't think anybody could legally argue thar a country wouldn't have the right to board (or fire at, if it didn't comply) a foreign ship from it's coast 24 nautical miles if it suspected it was doing something illegal. Whether that right extends to the entire EEZ isn't exactly clear.

However there are no "high seas" areas in the Baltic so all of the listed items are irrelevant.
Alberta to end the right to sue in crashes
>amusing how much you lose your mind over like absolute economic trivialities... If you had even the slightest clue about what you're pretending to know about

i didn't lose my mind, all of you have. i just "pointed out"

in terms of "the slightest clue about what you're pretending to know about", i was raised from the crib as a good liberal and socialist, i understand the perspective intimately, then I studied economics at MIT and realized I didn't need to change my morals/sensibilities at all, the free market achieves what socialism is trying to achieve, and then I studied more economics in grad school at MIT... please, tell me your background, and like you suggest, no "pretending to know about"...
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20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft' (35 points, 9 days ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42095454

As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory (40 points, 8 days ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102540

Mozilla's Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter? (42 points, 5 days ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42133033
The same company that was in the news recently for screwing up a livestream of a boxing match.
Or masking kids when it's actively harmful to them?
> why would I grant a random news or social media site access to my MiniDisc player, Arduino board, Bluetooth thermometer/hygrometer etc. when it asks for it?

Part of the problem is that a vast number of users neither understand nor care about these prompts. They just click to make them go away.

There’s a few long discussions on the unsuitability of these specifications in the Mozilla standards positions repo:

Web Bluetooth: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95

Web USB: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100

Web MIDI: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/58

Web Serial: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336

Here’s some Hacker News discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063
Worth it. That's sacred ritual time right there.
I'd also be a bit worried about using something like this in production, especially if it's packaged as a npm lib. Even if the original maintainer has good intentions, it'd be all too easy for some malicious actor to offer them a million dollars to introduce a trojan/credential MITM scraper to later versions.
With those rulings come conditions. Corporations under a judgement under monopoly practices can't do anything they want wily-nily. AT&T, for example, was forbidden from selling computers in 1956.

https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/how_antitrust...
Software developers using Macbooks doesn't mean Apple solved the ML problem. The past 10 years of MacOS removing features has somewhat proved that software developers will keep using Macs even when the featureset regresses. Like how Apple used to support OpenCL as a CUDA alternative, but gave up on it altogether to focus on simpler, mobile-friendly GPU designs.

The Pytorch MPS patches are a fun appeasement for developers, but they didn't unthrone Nvidia's demand. They didn't beat Nvidia on performance per watt, they didn't match their price, their scale or CUDA's featureset, and they don't even provide basic server drivers. It's got nothing to do with what brand you prefer and everything to do with what makes actual sense in a datacenter. Apple can't take on Nvidia clusters without copying Nvidia's current architecture - Apple Silicon's current architecture is too inefficient to be a serious replacement to Nvidia clusters.

If Apple wanted to have a shot at entering the cluster game, that window of opportunity closed when Apple Silicon converged on simplified GPU designs. The 2w NPUs and compute shaders aren't going to make Nvidia scared, let alone compete with AMD's market share.
In my experience, racism, homophobia, transphobia, slurs, misogyny, and general bigotry almost exclusively resonates from conservatives. So naturally when those opinions get filtered out that almost only affects conservatives.

There's nothing wrong with having conservative ideas and attitudes. But are you able to express them without bigotry? Are you able to be pro-life without calling women sluts and whores, for instance?

The answer for some conservatives is no, including our president elect. Nobody is required or even expected to tolerate that, and in fact tolerating it only spreads intolerance.
Was it? Or are they just being investigated over it?
I'd argue calling non-standard chrome/firefox/opera features "standards" is misleading.
Power usage cost isn't the money but the capacity and cooling.
Anyone who unironically says “Trust the science” automatically tells me that they are probably not an informed person.

I trust that most research is done in good faith and at least some of it is useful. Saying 'Trust the science' might as well be saying 'Trust in God'
Besides, Firefox has its own problems.

The craziest is its permissive same origin policy compared to Chrome/Safari, like how `window.top.location.href = 'https://example.com';` works from inside a cross origin iframe to redirect the parent.
Not to gatekeep it, but having played all HL games on PC and Alyx on VR, I don't see this PC conversion being a meaningful experience.

It's mainly because of the restrictions of different mediums, for example Alyx has much less enemy density, very narrow corridor-based levels made for limited movement of real human bodies and environments, a lot more emphasis on interactivity with the world and objects that would lose their meaning if replaced with "press F to $WHATEVER" buttons. It might be pretty mediocre as a flat-screen game.

I guess it may still be worth it if you desperately need something Half Life and want to see the story, though for that I'd rather watch it on YouTube, or just rent a VR headset for a month.
"We" won't respond because "we" just elected a Russian asset and he is going to install more in his cabinet.
Which AAA games are Unity? Maybe my understanding of the term is more subjective than it actually is, but Wikipedia's chosen examples - Pokémon Go, Monument Valley, Call of Duty: Mobile, Beat Saber and Cuphead - are either very badly downplaying its use or showing that AAA means something very different than I think.
The whole point of swatting is to cause massive over-reaction by the police endangering victim's life. If it would just cause a regular visit by a cop nobody would do it - what would be the point of it, waste 5 minutes of person's time? The whole premise relies on the massive militarized response.
Imagine if Google isn't allowed to pay Chrome Inc for traffic acquisition so Chrome changes the default search engine to Bing and now Bing is a monopoly because 90% of browsers default to Bing.
The funniest part was when she claimed the posts "do not reflect my beliefs". Her allies seem to know that isn't true. On BS there are plenty of congratulations for her willingness to say what so many others are thinking, etc.

1: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5193258/scientific-amer...
> switching back to a rarely used and much more inefficient manual process is extremely disruptive, and even itself raises the risk of catastrophic mistakes.

Catastrophe is most likely to strike when you try to fix a small mistake: pushing a hot-fix that takes down the server; burning yourself trying to take overdone cookies from the oven; offending someone you are trying to apologize to.
Would kegels reverse any damage?
I want everyone to travel. It might take a while, but travel is one of the most effective ways to teach people how to have respect for others and behave better. How else will they ever learn?

Tourists might be annoying but scolds, killjoys, and condescending elitists are far worse.
All people, not just white, go nuts about varying “isms.”
> designed by Bjarke Ingels

Well, designed by his company which is called BIG.

I always find it weird that people name-drop famous architects as if one person could design a city or even a single large skyscraper. That doesn't happen with other industries.