skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Their stuff is full of bugs, confusing UI, poor quality.

Can you expand on what bugs and quality issues you ran into? UI is pretty subjective (I find it fine), but in the 7+ years I've been using Proton Mail, I've never encountered a bug or thought the quality was poor.

Was it in the other products (which I admittedly don't make much, if any, use of)? Or were they bugs in Mail?
PFAL has both a fully adiabatic and quasi-adiabatic configuration. (Essentially, the "reverse" half of a PFAL gate can just be tied to the outputs for quasi-adiabatic mode.) I've focused my own research on PFAL because it is (to my knowledge) one of the few fully adiabatic families, and of those, I found it easy to understand.

I'll have to check out 2LAL. I haven't heard of it before.

No, even with a fully adiabatic switched-capacitance driver I don't think those figures are possible. The maximum efficiency I believe is 1-1/n, n being the number of steps (and requiring n-1 capacitors). But the capacitors themselves must each be an order of magnitude larger than the adiabatic circuit itself. So it's a reasonable performance match for an adiabatic circuit running at "max" frequency, with e.g. 8 steps/7 capacitors, but 100x power reduction necessary to match a "slowed" adiabatic circuit would require 99 capacitors... which quickly becomes infeasible!
My Subaru also has radar. It’s noticed things ahead of my in whiteout conditions that my eyes couldn’t yet discern.
But if it did happen then I could be outraged about it! :p
Specific American workers (in tech and manufacturing) have been loosing specific jobs to people on work visas and offshoring for years.
For a motivated attacker its not that hard to add a few thousand raspberry pis to a residential internet network in most countries. Its really a quite practical attack when the stakes are governmental control.
I’ve seen quite a few. His pantorouter series is very good and I have a lot of respect for doing this sort of thing without CNC. His most recent series building a milling machine is asinine, but fun to watch.
I agree systemd's is easier to understand, and I'm a happy systemd user.

But some of Shepherd's strengths are in other examples, and it makes sense to evaluate the whole.

A few examples:

* if we want multiple similar services, I'd prefer writing a Guile function than using systemd templates.

* the above Shepherd guile code lives lexically alongside your wider Guix guile code. AST-aware syntax highlighting and refactoring tools would treat them the same. That's pretty neat and beats having two different languages. Guix calls this g-expressions.

This "one language for all your system" is pretty compelling, but Guix's feature set is a bit too far behind NixOS at the moment for me.
Bird flu has no borders. Buyer beware.
> Real estate is always the monkey wrench in the gears of capitalism because of high necessity yet limited supply.

This only happens when the government becomes captured by land owners to constrain the supply, since otherwise you can build up. But governments getting captured by land owners happens a lot.
There have been ups and downs for decades. I'm sorry it is happening to you, glad it isn't me this time (so far!). I've been there. Hang in, there are always jobs though sometimes you need to become a handyman or something to get any money for a year.
If you stay at the sane hotel brand often, the loyalty points make up the difference.

If Hilton isn’t running a special - and they are always running a special - if you have the Hilton Aspire credit card, you get 34 points per dollar worth usually around 20% in all. But often higher.

We will be staying at a hotel in Manuel Antonio n
Costa Rica next month that would cost $4700 for 400K points.
If any of these people would bother to read the law, they might see that it also applies to Xiaohongshu.

> RedNote's Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, translates to Little Red Book, but the app says it is not a reference to Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong's book of quotations with the same name.

uh huh
Governments everywhere are racing to attach them to weapons.
Less advanced things have been labeled a national security risk.

It's currently quasi-illegal in the US to open source tooling that can be used to rapidly label and train a CNN on satellite imagery. That's export controlled due to some recent-ish changes. The defense world thinks about national security in a much broader sense than the tech world.

See https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/01/06/2019-27...
> Firefox is guilty of every single thing Chrome is accused of

If you misrepresent what Chrome is "accused" of, sure. I have 0 attachment to Firefox as a permanent solution, but it's WAY better than Chrome on every issue, and the only thing Servo has over Firefox is it hasn't existed in a usable form long enough to push the same kind of updates.

If you disabled updating in Firefox today, you would have a more complete version of Servo that is just as private and secure. You may not like Mozilla as a company, but Firefox is the best tech option for open source web browsing and it's not even close. That's why browsers like Librewolf that just barely tweak Firefox are possible.

I have to address these issues, though, because your descriptions of them really bury the lede.

> It includes advertisements in the New Tab page without user consent

> It shared browsing history without user consent

> It enabled a new tracking protocol for advertisers without user consent

While the ad tracking is not great, everything you posted is opt-out. I know you take specific issue with being automatically included as "opt-in" on update, but you don't even have the option to opt-out of everything in Chrome.

> It blocked uBlock Lite from their store without notice

That was a mistake remedied very quickly. Contrast that with Chrome where Ublock is now broken. Raymond Hill is the person speaking in your link, and he still explicitly recommends Firefox in his releases.

> It's ~80% funded by Google

And? That Google has money to throw around (and most privacy zealots specifically won't fund anything) is not a mark against Firefox. There's nothing to indicate Firefox is controlled by Google, and you may be surprised to know a lot of these competitors fund each others OSS because some of the tech is critical infrastructure.

> Their main focus lately has been white-labelling dubious products

I have to ask, are you reading these links or getting them from a friend? This was also opt-out, and as soon as this information was discovered, Mozilla immediately dropped them. You make it sound like they knew about this and powered through. Should they drop their partnership with haveibeenpwned on the off-chance they might secretly own an ad company?

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.62.1b1
As someone who fixes basically everything until you can no longer tell it is a ship of thesis, I don't think complexity or safety features are the problem so much as not designing for or expecting someone to fix something in combination with extreme penny pinching in manufacture, so that there isn't enough material to anything for repairs to be done reasonably. If something breaks, the original material was at such a bare-minimum thickness and/or low quality alloy or plastic to start with that even the smallest defect in repair is a problem.

Its like trying to fix a single broken strand in a spider web, even with the tiniest thread you can find and the most delicate hands and tools, any manipulation of the web at all is likely to cause even more defects and any successful patch job will need to be way over-kill compared to what was originally broken. You can't just fix that one thread that broke, you gotta throw a large patch over the entire area and hope that the original spider thread designs that were undamaged will be able to hold up against your much stronger patch job.
Unless your ancestors crossed the Bering Strait ten thousand years ago, calling yourself "native born" doesn't mean a thing.
I don’t have sources to back it up, but am reasonably sure these factories consume even more energy than a datacenter, possibly in the GW range. Powering robots, welders, and all kinds of mechanical systems in addition to electronics is very power intensive.

As another data point, Apple has been doing 100% renewables for their DCs since 2014. A wind farm can definitely be built in months, and energy companies will always follow the money. Site selection will definitely take energy availability into account as well.
You can put whatever you want in WHOIS, including just replicating the information that was there previously. What if the WHOIS email is an email on the domain in question?

Maybe registrars could set a unique ID per registrant, and if a domain expires and is purchased by a different entity/account than the previous one the registrant GUID is refreshed. That could then be a signal that all previous reliance on the DNS of the domain name should be null and void
ffmpeg is so goated, I used it to merge video/audio from a mic on a camera I made ha

there was one time I didn't use pyaudio correctly so I was using this process where ffmpeg can stitch multiple audio files together into one passed in as an array cli argument, crazy
Computer networks do have packet life which I guess would be a fix for this, but don’t quote me I’m not a network engineer.
Percona and many others who benchmarked this properly would disagree with you. Percona found that ext4 and ZFS performed similarly when given identical hardware (with proper tuning of ZFS):

https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-zfs-performance-update/

In this older comparison where they did not initially tune ZFS properly for the database, they found XFS to perform better, only for ZFS to outperform it when tuning was done and a L2ARC was added:

https://www.percona.com/blog/about-zfs-performance/

This is roughly what others find when they take the time to do proper tuning and benchmarks. ZFS outscales both ext4 and XFS, since it is a multiple block device filesystem that supports tiered storage while ext4 and XFS are single block device filesystems (with the exception of supporting journals on external drives). They need other things to provide them with scaling to multiple block devices and there is no block device level substitute for supporting tiered storage at the filesystem level.

That said, ZFS has a killer feature that ext4 and XFS do not have, which is low cost replication. You can snapshot and send/recv without affecting system performance very much, so even in situations where ZFS is not at the top in every benchmark such as being on equal hardware, it still wins, since the performance penalty of database backups on ext4 and XFS is huge.
Yeah sure, there are physical limits, and doing things like mining, manufacturing, and logistics are really slow compared to just thinking. But that's just time and money. I don't see why it wouldn't happen. You build a machine to make machines. First you have 1, then 2, then 4, then 8, then 16 etc.

Then when the earth is used up, you look at space. Space travel is a lot easier because you don't need to keep a meat bag alive.
> never met a security engineer that was eager to do that

Of course not. We do the fun parts, and write tickets to make the dev team do the boring parts that we will later complain are not implemented to the quality standard we would have reached, had we done the work. That's the deal.
Buy some cheap records and let them have fun. Many turntables have a push button start, no need to aim anything.
I don't think this case is a meaningful test of speech codes.
The cards and culture-jammer stuff in general are tactics from a simpler time. Imagine if they released card decks for the DNC, NGOs, political staffers, the EU, etc. The world has changed. If someone put your face on a card, you would use what ever means of recourse was available as well.
> Commercial options to get to earth orbit have been booming

The pipeline is full. But SpaceX maintains an effective planetary hegemony on LEO.
It is absolutely not true that placing limits on your child will create lifelong resentment. This is an irrational fear on the parents’ part.
I said only just a couple of years ago, I didn’t say this was the first time this has ever happened.

The pre-2020 examples you give there are NOT going into systems without authorization and modifying them. They used other techniques to disrupt the botnets.
We choose an apple watch for this reason, that way we can still call them / locate them, they are part of their friends iMessage groups, but no social media apps are possible...
If you're going to blame anyone for that, blame CPUC. They're the ones who dictate what rates PG&E can set, what their yearly revenue should be, and what they're allowed to modernize. This often causes problems, such as in 2014 when CPUC vetoed PG&E's plan to improve gas leak detection.[1]

> We adopt TURN’s forecast reducing PG&E’s MWC FI forecast by $27.8 million composed of $14.1 million (based on a lower leak find rate) and 13.7 million (based on a five-year survey cycle). We base the adopted forecast on TURN’s combined (traditional and Picarro survey) leak find rate of 2.547% instead of PG&E’s find rate of 3.56% of services.

The language itself is quite dry, but in short: CPUC stopped PG&E from improving their gas leak detection systems. When gas lines inevitably leaked and caused fires, PG&E was blamed, not CPUC.

Like all utilities in California, PG&E's maximum profits are set by CPUC.[2] CPUC has been reducing these maximums over time. So if you're upset at PG&E's profits (which are around 10% of revenue), you should blame the people setting the profits, not the company that doesn't control what they can charge, what they can spend money on, or how much profit they can make.

PG&E is grossly mismanaged and incompetent, but that's because they're part of a system that combines the worst parts of capitalism with the worst parts of government. If PG&E wanted to charge less, they couldn't because CPUC sets the minimum as well as the maximum rates. If a large consumer of electricity wants to switch to a community utility provider or to an off-grid solution, CPUC mandates that the consumer pay the original utility provider for the privilege of not getting the utility anymore.[3] The incentive structure could not be more backwards.

1. See pages 80-84 of https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G000/M102/K...

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20241212161014/https://www.cpuc....

3. https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-ene...
Hate to break it to ya, but those large corporations are filled with the individual Windows users that campaigns target.
Following up on this: Apparently my knowledge is out-of-date.

WHOIS has been superceded by RDAP, and RDAP provides event data for registration and re-registration. So even better!

edit: it doesn't seem like registrars actually do re-registration, and many cctlds don't even use RDAP yet.
It can't be a coincidence this comes a day after the UK published an 'AI action plan'
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-opportunities-...
I spent a month in Germany a few years ago. The German government had put up some strong incentives to prompt the move to EV's. Germany has a large car manufacturing base, and those incentives meant every one of them had EV's.

Every German EV I saw was an ICE chassis retrofitted with batteries and an electric motor. For example they all had the hump intruding into the cabin space for the non-existent exhaust. Almost none had a frunk - it was needed for batteries or something. As a consequence the purpose built Tesla's were miles ahead. I had no idea why anybody bought these German EV's at time time, but it seemed like most Germans did.

If that's changed and Europeans making great EV's is what is driving down the sales of Tesla's then that is great news. But I live in Australia, and Tesla sales are having their edge taken off them here too. We don't make cars. There is one, and only country making a material dent in Tesla's EV sales. That is EV's from China. (Tesla's EV's sold here are also made in China, of course.) It's mostly because of price.

Despite the noise in the comments, I haven't met a single person who based their decision on Musk's personality. The things that tilt them towards other brands are price and a more conventional design (things like indicator stalks, displays in front of the driver, rain sensors that work). But these other brands are new, and meanwhile Tesla has very impressive service (BYD has suffered from widely publicised failures), an impressive charger network, and a track record. For now Tesla still dominates.

But the real story is China is made just about every EV sold here. The ICE's we import are made in a variety of places Japan, USA, Europe, and recently a few from China. But if this trend continues there will only be one country making the cars we import in 10 years time.
Yep if the host agreed to die, then the market is a success. We've discovered the most efficient outcome – sucking the customer dry until they die! Thank you to the free market for delivering us this efficient result.

Remember kids – thousands dying from lack of healthcare isn't a bug of the system, it's a feature. This has been determined as necessary, nay even beneficial, by market forces that can never be wrong.
I imagine a couple interviews with HSI agents would get someone to cough up a statement that they did not intend to fill the role. If I were a line manager, I would not rely on the company’s lawyers to protect me from prosecution.
Since human wants are unlimited, isn’t it by definition that they will have zero dollars left over if they actually tried to satisfy as much as they feasibly could?
I've created two AI LLM D&D-style games. The second one will soon be released as a D&D-style game with Visual Novel elements (AI-generated images_. Here's how I can address some common concerns from comments above:

Lack of Human and Social Interactions: This is a significant drawback when you look it as the social thing, however, they require scheduling. For me I wanted to venture beyond the typical fantasy/sci-fi settings and good bored of those D&D/warhammer world.

LLM Versatility: LLMs can take you on wild (now non-NSFW) adventures. I wanted to play a D&D-style game set in the Venetian Renaissance and GPT delivered with accurate locations, families, and artists. It can do the same with medieval settings from my country, ancient Rome, surrealist landscapes, and whatever your favorite books, movies, or games involve.

Customization: Want a game master who replies in poetry, slang, in style of you favourite author? No problem.

Context: This is a tough one, but there are two approaches:
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Summarization, and then summarization of the summary. I've used this approach in my previous startup and in this game.

Characters: I utilised the randomness of different character styles. You might meet smart/beautiful/evil/good characters with predefined styles, and the LLM quite effectively supports roleplay.

Cons:

Lack of Continuity: The biggest downside is the lack of continuity. Even if I generate a world and scenario, after a few rooms, it doesn't come together like a game would, where previous events feed into current ones, even when I provide again LLM with previous details. I kinda lack big picture design of story. I am working on that

I'm currently running a private beta and looking for co-founders (game/design/coding) in the EU, preferably Poland. Please email me at contact@sentimentscanner.com for more information for beta membership and so one.
This is really nice of you but if you want to serve the public it wouldn't hurt to think about how the service can be made self sufficient financially so that when you no longer wish to run it, or want to, it can be handed off to someone wants to do so, and without being a burden or needing more charity
Destringers' Field Guide
Presumably after 10 years of failing to collect on their invoices, Microsoft would have killed your O365 account, so there's one fewer SaaS account left to log into.
It does require a digital to analog converter, though.
This reminds me I need to publish my write up on how I've been converting digitized home video tapes into clips using scene detection, but in case anyone is googling for it, here's a gist I landed on that does a good job of it [0] but sometimes it's fooled by e.g. camera flashes or camera shake so I need to give it a start and end file and have ffmpeg concatenate them back together [1]

Weird thing is I got better performance without "-c:v h264_videotoolbox" on latest Mac update, maybe some performance regression in Sequoia? I don't know. The equivalent flag for my windows machine with Nvidia GPU is "-c:v h264_nvenc" . I wonder why ffmpeg doesn't just auto detect this? I get about 8x performance boost from this. Probably the one time I actually earned my salary at work was when we were about to pay out the nose for more cloud servers with GPU to process video when I noticed the version of ffmpeg that came installed on the machines was compiled without GPU acceleration !

[0] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nielsbom/c86c504fa5fd61ae...

[1] https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jazzyjackson/bf9282df0a40...
No, that's not accurate. The time delay doesn't converge to 0 just because payouts match incoming premiums. Here's why:

Think of it like a water tank:
- The tank contains 66B gallons (total liabilities)
- 30B gallons flow in annually (new premiums)
- 30B gallons flow out annually (claim payments)
- The tank stays at 66B gallons (stable liability pool)

Even though the annual inflow equals the outflow (30B), it would still take about 2.2 years to drain the entire tank (66B/30B = 2.2) if you stopped adding new water. This is the average time delay.

The matching of annual inflows and outflows just means the system is in steady state; it doesn't affect the average duration of how long money stays in the system. That duration is determined by:
- Total liability pool ($66B) divided by
- Annual payout rate ($30B)

Another way to think about it:
- Each premium dollar collected today is promised against future claims
- Those future claims are spread out over the next several years
- Even as old claims are paid, new premiums create new future obligations
- The ratio of total obligations to annual payments (66/30) determines the average delay

So while the annual cash flows may match, the time delay is a structural feature of how insurance obligations are spread out over time. The matching of annual inflows and outflows maintains the system's stability but doesn't eliminate the time delay inherent in the insurance model.

It is intrinsic to the nature of insurance that there is a time delay. Even if the insured were to suffer a loss on the same day that they paid their premium, there will still be a delay. Even the most efficient, benevolent insurance operation cannot process a claim, value a loss, and settle the claim within a day.
the issue is that there is an upper limit to how much heat can be removed from a system each cycle, so even if you have a way to disperse the removed heat in a useful way you still can't grow compute beyond a certain point. And because scaling is exponential even immersing the whole rack into liquid nitrogen would only buy a few years of computing growth post-Moore's law.
I used to think Zuckerberg was the worst person in the tech world. Musk has far exceeded him. I wouldn’t spend a cent on a product associated with him.