skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I give up. Delete my account please dang. This site isn't good for my mental health.

While I cannot speak to your conclusion, I can humbly suggest to not put any credence in what some rando says on the Internet. Including myself. :-)

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank
with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory
nor defeat.[0]

0 - https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/theodore_roosevelt_103499
The python from Windows Store is not good, it redirects some path writes and will make the debugging experience of tools using python dreadful. Always install from the win32 installer from the website.
Putin has some hopes.
Natu has an amazing commercial game called Goodboy Galaxy [0]. In addition to the Game Boy Advance version, they've also ported it to Windows and Linux with Xatu [1] (which is also written in Nim).

0 - https://goodboygalaxy.com/

1 - https://git.sr.ht/~exelotl/xatu
Their ball is already rolling. They put a pair of high temperature gas cooled pebble bed reactors into operation a little more than a year ago. They're actively exploring every avenue of nuclear power without restraint, including thorium and fast breeders. It hasn't yet occurred to the Chinese that the prosperity afforded by abundant energy is a problem they're supposed to be solving.
Realistically passwords can also be forced from your head using 'enhanced interrogation techniques'.
The hash space is atoms-in-the-universe range; this is a collision in a much, much smaller subset of that space
We got monthly subscriptions for editor color schemes now??
"Are you only realizing who they are now?"

TL;DR: It was stupid on its face but its an intractable problem too - no sane person is going to address it - maybe its worth a shot?

Fair question and a well thought out ask - I suppose given the gravity of the current US fiscal situation I was ready to entertain an unconventional solution if for no other reason than it might draw real attention to the issue. Given the absolutely wild spending of the past 4 years (and before too of course) I was ready to consider things I'd never have given a second look before. Its the classic Hail Mary shot in basketball. Its not a good shot and at no other point in the game would it be a shot worth taking but you got the ball and theres 1 second on the clock - use it or lose it.

Given their limited and unofficial scope, my idea at least, was that they couldn't do any real damage. Congress alone spends the money and that isn't going to change. Some high profile people shining some sunlight on government spending abuses should only be a good thing. If they happen to do a good job then great, and if they're whacko they're not directly in charge of anything and theres still plenty of backstop keeping them from getting too far.

Now here we are 21 days from a new administration AND THEY'RE ALREADY OFF IN THE WEEDS! They were only tenuously entertained as reasonable in the first place and now here they are pretending they have some standing in the greater, national, policy conversation. To be clear they do not.

I never had any delusion that Elon was suddenly going to start saying rational, measured and accurate things. VR is just a guy trying to buy his way into the game and in my opinion not to be taken too seriously anyhow as a sidekick. BUT if you want to cut costs, make the seemingly impossible thing happen, change how the government actually provides services and spends money to do it - there are worse guys out there than Elon to make it happen. $2T in cuts was insane for sure and it was dumb to even say, not to mention it speaks poorly that someone even thought it was worth saying but such is typical out of him.

Warts and all - if there was one person who could make an improvement it was Elon Musk - and if not well at least we tried. He's in a sandbox for the most part and has no more authority than the administration allows. Even if Trump is seduced/enamored by the pair of them theres still a government in place.

At this very early point, before the war even starts in earnest, Im already looking at the rollback plan and cancelling the DOGE release.

EDIT: If nothing else DOGE was to be a patsy organization - we NEED SPENDING CUTS and nobody wants their sacred cow slaughtered. Its not going to be a popular job. It was my thinking that a "separate agency" might provide some cover in the form of Someone To Blame, thus making the conversation about cutting spending possible at all.
I guarantee you he's not that concerned about trans people, abortion or immigration. They are great ways to sow division though.
I live in the Netherlands and I’d say we mostly have a system 3, there is little problematic homelessness, housing is often available to those not wanting to live on the street, shelters ban anyone intoxicated. Drug rehabilitation is available to the homelessness (including free alternative drug prescriptions). Public intoxication is policed. If I see someone living in a tent it’s exceptional enough to point it out to a friend.
The problem is some (broken and wrong but in the wild) tooling relies on substrings like that
The US could probably use a few engineers, but on the other hand I think the CCP could use a few finance people.
Wasn’t it a couple years ago the intelligence community was arguing for backdoor mandates, and now the FBI recommends Signal for safe chats? Such a farce. Hopefully the new admin goes through their emails and text messages over the last 4 years. Privacy for me, not for thee, I suppose…
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

No doubt there are valid concerns but the value of comments formed by internet clichés and dismissive tropes is... lower than what we want here. When it comes with a tone of entitled aggressiveness, that's even worse—that's enough to drive away the people who spend their lives working on a subject, and that would be the worst possible outcome for HN.
"then why not look it up?"

Why do people write literature reviews? You write about what you think is significant.
"Impossible" quantum teleportation achieved on normal internet cables
Thanks, I didn't know someone was to be credited for what is probably, the most common theme around.

I've ran many IDEs and text editors, I don't think any of them doesn't have a monokai named theme, exact match or not.

That said I find it difficult to derive a wage from a theme this popular and this widespread already. Or even for a theme alone. That said, I'm sure you'll find some customers.

I couldn't find at first glance what "pro" features were worth my hard earned money? Was it because the IDE shell itself would follow the theme?
I wish Google Sheets supported a REST API for their new tables feature so you could interact with them more like a database and less like a 2D array
For a long time I was far too scared of being excluded from technological society to install this on my only phone, as much as I'd love to. It sickens me that banking apps, and others, depend on proprietary operating systems.

What I do instead is have a separate device that I customize to my liking with Lineage, than an iPhone that I keep normal; I have the phone that I actually like to use, then a "normie phone" that's identical to everyone else's so I don't get arbitrarily excluded from things.
I will bet anything at all, on any odds ratio you name, that humans will go extinct. It's simply a question of when, and how.

(Of course I'm cheating - the bet stays open until I win. On the other hand I will struggle to collect my winnings)
> What's their actual product differentiation from Chrome these days?

Not being the progenitor and linchpin of surveillance capitalism.
I wouldn't be surprised if my math was wrong but I can't quite follow yours. ts_zip(171 MB you say)+llm-enwik9(135MB) = 306MB is still larger than xz(0.3MB)+xz-enwik9(213MB) = 213MB.
Hackers Could Turn Your Smart Pet Feeder into an All-You-Can-Eat Buffet
If whole milk, chicken, beef etc aren’t on the list then their definition of healthy is nonsense.

For some reason people seem obsessed with overcomplicating their diets. You don’t need to subsist on a diet of rabbit food to be healthy, you just don’t want to be constantly having deep fried crap, donuts, Doritos, etc, and definitely not 3000 cal a day unless you’re an athlete or heavy manual worker.

It baffles me that we’ve had to invent a whole term “ultra processed” to describe things that a generation or two would just be called junk food.
I guess I'm really not this extension's target audience, because somehow Mozilla managed to make me uninstall it in just a few minutes.

First, they have forced telemetry. Okay, it's an early release, it's very basic information, they want to understand how they're doing - I don't like it, but I can understand it. Sets a wrong vibe, though - I had to check if it was from Microsoft and not Mozilla. ;-)

Then, I figured there is no option to use locally-hosted LLMs, which can be something as minimal as simply allowing to configure custom API URL. Somehow, less and less things about Firefox are tinkerer-friendly than they used to be.

That made me wonder if Mozilla used OpenAI-like API, or if they invented their own unique thing for some reason. So I went to look and according to the extension page, it's proprietary ("All Rights Reserved") and I'm too lazy to bother deminifying code from the xpi or remembering how to debug extensions.

Finally, '00s have called and said they wanted their weird floating round thingy UI back, and so I had to return it to the store. (I'm kidding, I don't really mind the visual style. The real issue with that thingy was how it floats on the page. Like, why on Earth it isn't normal right-click menu option that doesn't obstruct the view until it's needed? Or a menu on that toolbar button? It's not even a paperclip to be worth it.)

And then I realized I somehow missed the big "AI you can trust" header, which should've already been a huge red flag.
Now for the real reason, voters dont want to.
I doubt this will ever happen.

The minute Mozilla starts being relevant in search, Google will cut their billions USD/year sponsorship, killing Mozilla in the process.

The incentives are not there.
It kind of boggles my mind too. Imagine all these new subscriptions possibilities today, and we're still driving around with a free google maps.

Aside, imagine if they decided to charge for Google Maps today, the shear loss of income for every physical location would be incredible.
Zen Browser is based in the newest Firefox version and does have vertical tabs
I got back from China earlier this month. I was never required to install any sort of app.
Coming next, a monthly subscription to enable darkmode...
Copenhagen's suburbanization was not accidental. They specifically built infrastructure and public transit to support suburbs with a strong connection to the city center. Their success with homelessness probably has more to do with high taxes and a lot of welfare support systems than anything else.
linux userspace is pure garbage
I think the key value of Google sheets link is that you can do rest of your aggregation/data fixes on Google sheets. And data is in your control

I made an app for a meetup/reunion, but 10 user limit meant everyone had to given a shared password

Like you, I would happily pay for many many services about 10/month - right where streaming subscriptions are. But none of these companies seem to understand that part…
Right, but you can see how they do it. The problems they are trading are likely not hard for them.

Whatever you use, in your personal toolbox changes the results of the tradeoffs.
Even on the linked page, Mozilla is arguably being evasive about the fact that they're sending the data out the Internet at all.

We don't know whether this is another time that Mozilla execs have sold out users, or shipped something half-baked and vulnerable.

I'm not saying they're leaking the data (by agreement, or negligence), but Mozilla has mediocre credibility in recent years, and there's nothing on this page that improves that reputation.

Regarding Google, for a long time, their thinking seemed to be "We're Google, so of course anything we do is privacy-respecting", not as guidance, but to justify whatever they wanted to do. Also, every time Google gets caught with their hand in the private information cookie jar, it just mints a new industry standard practice.
That announcement was painful to read. I had AI summarize it.
Show HN: YouTube Sort by Likes
Built this web app to find the best quality videos on a YouTube channel. Find it particularly useful for podcasts, long video channels, and finding music sets!

YouTube API has really low quotas that seem to be a pain to increase, any way to make this work without using the youtube api would be greatly appreciated!

Open sourced here: https://github.com/timf34/YouTubeSortByLikes
When he says "Surveys today show a majority of Israelis wanting a ceasefire-for-hostages deal" he is right. But Netanyahu isn't likely to allow it to happen unless forced by an outside party.

When one is close to a hostage deal Netanyahu does something to torpedo it, like this recent statement of his:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-alarming...

So there probably won't be a hostage deal.
Exactly what are the specs of this $100 laptop? Am I then going to carry around 7 laptops so I can get 14 hours of battery life? Am I going to run a cluster of them when I need to do something worthwhile with them?

What exactly do you do “daily” with a $100 laptop?

From your past comments, I’m assuming you are developer, are you really using a $100 computer?
Do you have a link you can share that demonstrates the details of this approach?
It doesn't take much to read between the lines on those two statements. Feds have access to Signal if they want it, but are using it as filter paper against most attacks against the public etc.
But imagine if Mozilla would have done this before, like capturing the market now proton has
> There is no possible way to detect that visually.

Well, let's not go that far. Security personnel definitely detect people carrying weapons by gait and the way their clothing hangs. Certainly computers could help do the same.

Can it ever be reliable enough? Ehh, I doubt it.
I suspect this has more to do with Germany's economy rather than your CV. You didn't have issues finding gigs before. You are not alone on this. My suggestion is to consider starting your own business creating and selling something you make. Based on my own observations, if you really can't land a job in these circumstances, there is a good chance that you can't possibly land a job. I stopped wasting my time applying for jobs and using this time to create something.
Mine doesn’t reboot unless I reboot it.
Hmm...that's familiar. Blue cover iirc.
You could more or less achieve this, by using a Google Apps Script that exposes the sheet. I found spreadapi to be good enough for basic use.

https://github.com/ziolko/spreadapi
The "feds" do not have access to Signal, except by CNE attacks against individual phones. Signal's security does not rely on you trusting the Signal organization.
> The minute Mozilla starts being relevant in search, Google will cut their billions USD/year sponsorship, killing Mozilla in the process.
The incentives are not there.

Google needs mozilla more than anyone. It would be a big win for the web if google stopped financing mozilla and had to deal with the consequences.
Laughably, CommonCrawl shows that the authors robots.txt were configured to allow all, the entire time.

https://pastebin.com/VSHMTThJ
It wasn't a game before. It was just a page of pizza.
mozilla.exe has crashed
Dupe (32 points, 4 days ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521637
Mozilla has one job: make the standards compliant browser and work with the relevant groups to foster those standards.

Everything else is a waste of time and money and energy.
The one they're using is under the Apache 2 license.

Mistral has released Codestral under a new license, but that's not the one used here. https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ai-non-production-license-mn...
> However it would be foolish to think that any more infrastructure would be built under the USA’s colonial rule than Denmark’s.

As I've noted elsewhere, you're conflating actual honest colonialism (Denmark's) with a hypothetical free choice to join the United States.

By what logic are the people of Iceland free to decide whether or not to join the European Union, but the people of Greenland are not free to decide whether to join the United States?

> And I’m of the opinion that the biggest help Iceland can offer, is cooperate in cultural events and institutions, such as sport competitions (especially football and handball), theater (a collaboration between the two national theaters would be lovely), music (there artists from each country should be constantly performing in the other), etc.

Sounds beautiful. I'm a big fan of this idea. I'd include the inhabitants of the Arctic regions of Canada and the US too.
> Why does Mozilla always spin their wheels releasing random side projects?

Because some project manager had "AI" on his performance goals this year.

Firefox is buggy as hell - which is incomprehensible given its age, but older brother Netscape had the same problem 20-ish years ago. The Netscape 4.x days were absolute hell and you could go hardly a day without the browser crashing.

Despite this, it's packed with nonsense no one asked for like Pocket. Which is a coincidence because "AI assistant for Firefox" is the dictionary definition for redundant things no one asked for, with better alternatives preexisting.

At this point Firefox needs to die and something new and manageable - with energetic developers - needs to take its place. Maybe Microsoft could open source the original Edge engine? The one before they bent over for the long dick of Google Chrome.
I use Notion databases for this. They're essentially spreadsheets with customizable table, list, kanban views, and each row gets its own wiki-style page in addition to the structured data. So it's nice for lists of books or movies or games, where you have some metadata but you also might want to take notes on it when you read/watch/play. It works pretty well for this purpose, but I also could probably make Obsidian or Logseq work and it would have a better privacy story, give me more control over the shape of the data, and not cost $48 a year (though I don't really mind paying).

https://www.notion.com/help/intro-to-databases

I have been looking for a way to switch from Notion since they rolled out AI features without an opt-out (besides emailing them). I don't even dislike LLMs, I just want to know what I'm sending them and when.
Given the broader Mozilla foundation's political biases, will these assistants be censored or heavily curated? I am reminded of when Mozilla chose to ban Dissenter, a free speech plugin powered by Gab, from its store. I've never used it but I found it distasteful that a company working on a basic utility program decided to become political. I don't understand why they cannot just focus on the basics and get those right. Still waiting for proper vertical tabs.
My current setup on a personal project is docker compose with Postgres and pgadmin container.

I would never think of mocking a database in 2024/2025, just spin one up.

Also keep your lynch pin invariants in the database and not in your code.
It's ok for someone to believe that, but I don't believe that. Unfortunately there is no practical way to verify it either.
> Sometimes, the compiler would get too smart for its own good, and recognize that a function that I wrote just copies memory. It would helpfully replace the function body with memcpy to save space.

I would generally expect this optimization to only be done for programs executing in userspace, not os / kernel style programs like this is. I would have expected the equivalent of -nostdlib to handle this automatically. I wonder if the author's build could be tweaked to tell llvm (which zig is based on) not to perform this or other "default to stdlib implementation" style optimizations
Right. I had the privilege and pleasure of watching and guiding people with and without a previous background in programming to learn a Lisp dialect. Some beginners, for various reasons, would pick Clojure or Emacs, or in one case, even both at the same time. Interestingly, they had no problem approaching new concepts. Meanwhile, programmers with previous experience in other programming languages sometimes struggled, became confused, and irritated. I think this makes sense - when you don't know any programming, you approach it without prejudice, there is nothing "weird" about things; you don't get confused about Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2, dynamic and lexical scope, naming, types, etc.; you have no reasons to dislike or hate things - when something works you get excited. And it's not too difficult to find some joy with Emacs these days - you only need to find a starter kit like Doom, open a scratch buffer write an expression and eval it. Once someone is guided through the initial steps, they'd write their first Lisp function or an expression, get to see it working - of course they get very enthusiastic.
God damnit, all I want is one nook of the Internet where AI isn't being foisted on me.
The solution for Canada and the EU is simple but politically anathema: cut taxes

A 2018 study shows tax increases significantly reduce innovation. A 1% increase in the top marginal income tax rate leads to a 2% reduction in patents and inventors, while a similar increase in corporate taxes causes even larger declines.

The study is quite rigorous too:

https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/tax-cuts-and-innovation?r...
Related. This is the bookmark I use to summarize websites using ChatGPT:

javascript:window.open('https://chatgpt.com/?q=summarize this page in 100 words: '+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href),'_blank');

Basically it opens a new tab on chatgpt.com with the prompt: "summarize this page in 100 words: URL"

Tested on Firefox and Chrome.

Some websites block ChatGPT and can't be summarized this way.

Works in incognito/anonymous mode and doesn't require a ChatGPT account.

You can probably use another AI service with this idea.
I wish they would copy this one https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api and include a few options for small self-hosted LLMs using WebGPU or some built-in accelerated AI for Firefox.
I find any time I've put lineage on a device, the support lifetime is lower than I expect.

In a perfect world, you would be able to bring your old device forward to multiple new major android releases beyond the support lifetime of the manufacturer, like you can with a Linux distro on a PC. But I guess android doesn't work that way, even with third parties willing to make new builds.
Pipelining did also play a role. The Quake inner rasterization loop has a decent amount of non-division math in it as well that leverages the Pentium's ability to execute FP add/multiplies at 1/cycle. The K6 and 6x86 FPUs were considerably slower -- 2 and 4 cyclesnon-pipelined (http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/cpuwar.html).

Additionally, the FXCH instructions required to optimally schedule FPU instructions on the Pentium hurt 486/K6/6x86 performance even more since they cost additional cycles. Hard for the 6x86 to keep up when it takes 7 cycles to execute an FADD+FXCH pair vs. 1 for the Pentium.
It was very good, I learned a lot. Actually more high-quality info than I can absorb in one sitting, but I bookmarked it to come back to.

I'd love to see an updated version. The article talks about how out-of-order execution has a high power overhead and produces relatively small performance gains, but the M-series chips from Apple have deep OOO and low power consumption; I'm curious to learn what they did differently.