skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making the Internet the Web Again
Before it was called the internet[1], it was called the web, the World Wide Web. That name wasn’t just a label; it was a bold proclamation of intent. Unlike the desktop platforms that came before it, this new platform wasn’t isolated software. It was connections. The web let users explore and discover content made by many producers. Discovery was the core experience. The interconnected nature of the platform was so central, it became its very name.

But over time, we stopped “browsing the web” and started “using the internet.” In that shift, we lost something fundamental.

The transitions that drove to this change made sense at first. Who can “crawl the web” better than a human? A computer. So we built search engines: Yahoo, AltaVista, Google. What can discover appealing content more efficiently than clicking links and opening tab after tab? A recommendation algorithm. So we built feeds: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.

But these sites, once tools for exploration, grew dependent on ad revenue, twisting their incentives toward a single goal: maximizing the time you spend looking at ads. What started as a better way to explore the vast content of the web became a system for keeping your eyes locked on a small subset of its content—ads.

Where does that leave those of us who want to explore? Who crave ideas that challenge our assumptions? Personally, I find myself stuck on the same few sites, longing for the original promise of the web while recognizing that version of it is dead.

But I also find myself wondering: Can we bring it back? Not to destroy the ad-driven aggregators (a lot of people seem to like them), but to build something for the rest of us. Something that makes exploring the internet feel more like surfing than doomscrolling.

If this resonates with you, let’s talk. I’ve started to ideate and build prototypes toward this goal and would love to collaborate with fellow explorers. What tools would help you explore the web more? What tools would improve the quality of your time exploring? Drop a comment below. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

[1] Okay, yes, before it was the web, it was the internet. And yes, the internet and the web are not the same thing. All valid points, but not the point. I’m talking about how the average person thinks about going online. First, it was "the web." Then, over time, the webbiness of the web, was lost.
I think your experience may be different than others. A lot of people are skeptical of, or can't afford, medical interventions in chronic issues and serious illness. You had anti-vaxxers posting stuff like how the shot was going to make you sterile, or even kill you disproportionately to the virus itself. Your research sounds higher-quality than what most folks even bothered with, and that makes room for the mockery you pointed out.
> They can't be more clear than this. Acceptable Use Policy also applies to Firefox.

Indeed, and the AUP only covers Mozilla's services. In other words, you cannot use Firefox to upload porn to Mozilla's services. You can upload porn to OnlyFans or PornHub, as they are not one of Mozilla's services (yet anyway).
It is really strange. My best guess: carbon monoxide poisoning?

Great actor. I particularly remember Crimson Tide, No Way Out, The Royal Tenenbaums, and of course Superman.

It's also kind of strange that basically the entire cast of Superman is gone now.
Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition
Well, I'm in the US. In my view, what makes it the US is not particular ethnicities, it's particular ideals. The US isn't "X% white, Y% black, Z% hispanic, W% oriental"; it's the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. If you hold to those ideals, you belong, no matter what your ethnicity or skin color or language of origin.

(Yeah, I know, the US fails to live up to the ideals as well as it should. I'm painfully aware. Still, the attempt produces a culture that is different from not making that attempt, and I like the result.)
FreeBSD in Q4 Saw More Work for AMD Systems, Framework Laptops and PinePhone Pro
You can not lose your key, if you drop it first
The battery packs are Tesla Megapacks, as was celebrated when the facility opened in 2022

https://investor.pgecorp.com/news-events/press-releases/pres...

If politics played a role, it's the convenient omission of this in the linked article while the owner/operator company was named.

[edit]: Nope, I'm wrong per reply below. There is a 2022 Tesla array at Moss Landing, but apparently the one that caught fire was an older 2020 array with LG batteries. Read the article below instead, the chemistry and designs for large battery arrays changed a lot in those years, and looks like we're seeing "safety standards are written in blood" play out live here.
Faster than previous C++? Only if there were actual performance bugs that they fixed while doing the port.
Attributing State-Sponsored Hacktivist Groups with Stylometry and Topic Modeling
TL;DR: Hacktivism has evolved. What was once dominated by defacements and DDoS by independent actors is now a tool for nation-states running coordinated cyber and influence ops. These groups use multiple personas, blending cyber attacks with propaganda while maintaining plausible deniability.
Our research applies machine learning-based Topic Modeling and Stylometry to thousands of messages from hacktivist groups, uncovering links between seemingly independent entities, and identifying thematic overlaps and linguistic fingerprints. The results expose how intelligence agencies operate multiple fronts, shift narratives in response to geopolitical events, and exploit the perception of grassroots activism.
This mentality is generally frowned upon in the US. Aside from Native Americans, nobody has any more inherent right to live here than another; everyone either immigrated here or descends from someone who did. Thinking otherwise is seen as backwards at best. There's a Ronald Reagan quote I'm quite fond of that encapsulates the perspective:

> America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.' But then he added, 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.'

Who's to say which mentality is better, but, don't be surprised if you get a lot of pushback from people from the US when you talk about maintaining ethnic purity as it has only negative connotations here.
You really shouldn't create games like this. Don't you know I have work to do?!
the only vcs it supports is git
> the delay of details “suggests an attempt to evade Congressional oversight, public scrutiny, and accountability, fueling concerns that the Administration is moving to undermine public lane protections and sell our natural resources to the highest bidder in secret.”
Certainly not 90%! Many American men are religious, and those that aren't are often feminists. The fraction of American men who are in neither set couldn't be more than 20-30%.
Everyone is entitled to opinions of course, but this is a rather weird one given how Rust's toolchain is the thing most people like most about it.
not a fusion founder myself - but would love to chat/validate a green maritime concept

email is in my profile, or leave email here
This is very much personal opinion but if you can blast through all of a games content within 2 hours of purchase it wasn't finished / big enough to justify a financial transaction in the first place.
what stands out of me is a sense of place the hotel represented that isn't present anywhere today. if you were at the hotel when something occurred, the hotel was a part of america and by being there, you were there, a small part of the story. the starkness in the story to me is that the culture today lacks belonging. no matter how many followers you have, you will never belong anywhere the way this Irving character had become a fixture. he was a part of the story.

maybe I'm just nostalgic, but there's an essential dynamic in the story that isn't present in the culture now.

the hotel was a place with durable meaning that cohered in the culture over a long period of time. I couldn't name one place now that isn't just a theme park to its former meaning, full of toursts taking selfies, people who themselves know they don't belong somewhere. the thrill of taking photos of themselves or their food is the same as they might get from shoplifting a lip balm. maybe what's changed in the culture is the people lack belonging and go from place to place like this stealing bits of meaning without their lives becoming any richer, or particularly less poor.

the physical places themselves didn't change, but I think the identity of people who use places to tresspass and share with their imaginary followers somewhere else has hollowed out the presence and meaning of these places, and that is what has made characters with romantic and interesting lives like this Irving guy something from the past. maybe people just don't act like they belong anymore.
Because there's been significant neoliberal policy capture which has reduced worker wealth and security.

Meanwhile anti-immigration narratives are being heavily propagandised by mainstream and social media as a wedge issue.

It's very hard to compare like for like with taxation. For example health care costs in the US are effectively privatised taxation. So are the wildly inflated utility prices that the UK has developed.

Newspaper articles debate proposed tax changes worth a couple of hundred pounds a year, while electricity costs have gone up by thousands.
Oh man YES.
Thank you.

Luckily for me my current manager didn't have a code test. I received a timed coding test for another position within the same org but a different manager and bombed the hell out of it.
Can I help you with this?
And at the sizes CFS is building, we're already maxing out the structural strength of the reactors. We can't go much smaller with tokamaks, even if the superconductors get even better.
> These questions apply to any review or recommendation

Sure but even on HN people seem to treat them as some kind of omniscient Gods or oracle of truth. It's like we all lowered our defences and stopped being critical because the new circus monkey does cool tricks.

At the end of the day they're blackboxes built on stolen data by for profit private organizations, all the red flags are here
It wasn't the freedom to discriminate. I think that's the point. You can't compel custom work, any more than a Neo Nazi can compel a Jewish baker to bake a custom swastika cake.
As a zsh user, I've been meaning to give fish a try. I keep adding plugins to zsh to make it act like fish (like command autocomplete) that I might as well try and/or switch to it.
They weren't?

My view is certainly skewed since we had a 386SX, but there were tens of thousands of BBS's running back then. Online services exploded in the early 90's, shareware games like Doom and Wolfenstein sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In 1992, Gateway 2000 surpassed Dell by selling over a billion dollars in PC's.
In a bit more nuanced view, the pre-war (WW1) and inter-war (WW1 to WW2) both liberal and conservative parties didn't really care about either social or nationalist stuff and because of that got nearly wiped out by nationalist and socialist parties. To survive, they had to heavily borrow from both. Which they duly did after WW2 in the spectre of Hitler and Stalin.

In an even more nuanced view, Hitler was also supported by many rich people and high taxes and nationalisations served to cut their power. And in most countries, the means of propaganda was also nationalized and/or heavily regulated. So it was about much more than just the poor masses.
Yes.

The article is really about conceptual framing — how clinging to outdated or vague definitions prevents progress in understanding biological and cognitive processes.

People keep forcing everything into the vague, overloaded concept of "intelligence" instead of just using the right terms for the phenomena they’re studying. If we simply describe behaviors in terms of adaptation, computation, or decision-making, the whole debate evaporates

https://chatgpt.com/share/67c07325-3140-8007-8177-c56a89b257...
They aren't, but in late 19th and early 20th century Europe, Conservative politicians adopted and co-opted the welfare model because of risks of insurrection.

Furthermore, the Catholic Church and Christian parties in Europe always supported a welfare driven model that was also hesitant about capitalism.

"Right" in Europe has historically included "business/capital oriented", "traditionalist", and "nationalist" parties/factions that historically didn't see eye-to-eye with each other.
See https://medium.com/@MStrehovsky/building-a-self-contained-ga...

(someone got very mad on Reddit when I posted this as proof that you can build C# applications without a GC)
If you've exhausted possible causes, you might want to consider nuking your gut flora and getting a stool transplant from a healthy donor
Because they're providing an executable which interacts with additional services, and they're based in the US where lawsuits is the default way to settle disagreements.

For example, the point about them getting "royalty-free, unrestricted access to your inputs" is almost certainly to protect against frivolous lawsuits along the lines of "I typed something in the Search Bar and Mozilla copied it and that violated my copyright and so I want $1 billion".

Again, you're free to make your own fork, in which case you're not bound by these terms.
My house, not too far from Three Mile Island, was built between its commissioning and the incident with reactor 2. As a result, its builders installed the most insane heating system known to man: resistive heating in the ceiling. Crank it all you want, your feet will still be cold. It’s a system that could only possibly be acceptable if electricity doesn’t cost anything.
There are a couple of comments here dismissing firing 10% of the workforce as not all that impactful, but they're missing some important context.

Despite the common "wisdom" that the federal government is universally bloated, there's little evidence to suggest the forest service has an excessive number of employees given the size of their job. For context they're less than half the size of Facebook, and my non-expert hot take is that managing all that federal land sounds like the more complicated and labor intensive job. If they were running pretty lean already, firing 10% of the workforce could potentially result in job functions with no one to do them, and that goes downhill pretty fast.

The firings were also exclusively focused on firing new employees, regardless of role or performance, simply because they were easy to fire. That makes the forest service (and every other federal agency) as unattractive employer, which will make it much harder to recruit new employees as people naturally retire or leave. That 10% reduction is going to snowball into a larger number over time, even if more people don't get fired, which I suspect they will.

Less important but worth noting is that while the stated goal is to "drain the DC deep state swamp" or whatever, what that apparently really translates into is firing forest service employees, who are spread out all over the country and not what most people think of when it comes to "the deep state". In the name of fighting the bureaucratic boogeyman, they're hurting people like this.
It doesn’t. Asking for confidence doesn’t prompt it to make multiple passes, and there’s no real concept of “passes” when you’re talking about non-reasoning models. The model takes in text and image tokens and spits out the text tokens that logically follow them. You can try asking it to think step by step, or you can use a reasoning model that essentially bakes that behavior into the training data, but I haven’t found that to be very useful for OCR tasks. If the encoded version of your image doesn’t resolve to text in the model’s latent space, it never will, no matter how much the model “reasons” (spits out intermediate text tokens) before giving a final answer.
Correction: One of the thousands and thousands of people ... who predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
> Memory safety is already a solved problem in regulated industries. It's not a hard problem as such.

It's not hard, no, but it is expensive, because those regulations have a battery of tests run by a thirdy party that you will pay money to each time you want to recertify.

I've worked in two regulated industries; the recertification is the expensive part, not the memory errors.
At this point, I’d just switch to Gemini protocol instead.
> Does this mean these Terms of Use apply only to precompiled binaries downloaded from Mozilla, and not to copies built from source code by linux distributions?

I think it applies if the browser is "Firefox" in name and branding. So the Debian rebuilds count for example.

So recompile and remove the Firefox branding and the ToU should definitely no longer cover you.
I am speaking about facts not political spin.

- Hunter Biden's laptop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...

Tell me what is wrong above.

- COVID origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_SARS-CoV-2

If you have any scientific facts to share with the world, please update the page above.

- Biden's mental state regarding dementia etc

"Donald Trump, Joe Biden and dementia: Why not to diagnose from a distance" - https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/donald-trump-joe-biden-de...

- Whether sex is the same as gender

I don't think any fact checker is looking to grade on these. And it looks like you are on purpose choosing areas that are above your pay grade. What is next? When life starts? ;-)
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OTOH, I first read the article when it ran in 1993.
different tastes.
Crossing paths, will it happen?
Ishhhh RTFM
I agree those shallow analysis are pointless. We can observe that the far right is also rising in the US, which isn’t too hot on vacation days or a social safety net!

I guess I’d just say that people don’t like when everything is shitty and you keep telling them it’s great, and when that happens they turn to the person who says “everything is shitty and I’ll make it great again” even though they won’t - because what have you got to lose, really?
Awesome! FYI, I see some folks referencing data from our old dashboard (sorry I hadn't updated the link). Here is data from the new dashboard (https://microsoft.github.io/netperf/dist/), for download tests:

Windows TCP/TLS: 21.6 Gbps,
Linux TCP/TLS: 19.7 Gbps,
Windows QUIC (kernel): 14.3 Gbps,
Windows QUIC (user): 12.8 Gbps,
Linux QUIC: 7.33 Gbps,
Windows QUIC (xdp): 6.86 Gbps

I would also like to add that work on these tests are very much still a work in progress, and we likely can get some/all of these numbers higher with tuning.
> It's always been portrayed as "Europe so enlightened" and "guilletine goes brr"

There is a deeply sad irony in watching someone mock the left for historically inaccurate takes while simultaneously falling hook, line, and sinker for a very historically incorrect alt-right talking point about Hitler.

I don’t think you realize that you have become the very thing you mock, just on the other side of the political spectrum: Someone who accepts edgy, historically inaccurate propaganda as ground truth as long as it reinforces what you want to believe.
Probably this:

> Every single key on a grand piano keyboard is weighted differently. This is because the strings for each note are slightly thinner and shorter in the treble register, becoming thicker and longer towards the bass register. As a result, there is greater resistance when playing low notes than when playing high notes. In other words, a heavier touch is required in the left hand and a lighter touch in the right hand. To emulate this in a digital piano, the keys are often individually weighted, with the lower keys heavier than the higher ones — something that’s called graded weighting.

https://hub.yamaha.com/pianos/p-digital/a-quick-guide-to-wei...
It is obvious to anyone who has tried FSD 13 that Tesla's best days are ahead
My only annoyance with fish is when I copy bash one liners and forget, and get errors or issues. Otherwise, fish is fantastic.
Tesseract doesn’t use an LLM. LLMs don’t know how confident they are; Tesseract’s model does.
The truskers really don't like this article. Expect it flagged. :-/
A flu vaccine cannot "cause the flu". It can mimic an immune response similar to the flu, but this response is much weaker than what occurs during an actual infection, where a live pathogen is actively spreading and causing harm. The flu vaccine contains an inactivated ('dead') virus or a component of the virus, meaning it cannot replicate or cause illness in the way a live virus does.
Deeper horror:

> I got closer to the goal when I realized an interesting quirk: .NET supports environment variables prefixed by either DOTNET_ or COMPlus_, whereas NativeAOT only supports DOTNET_. So if we set COMPlus_GCName=ManagedDotnetGC.dll, only the .NET runtime will pick it up, and the NativeAOT runtime will ignore it.
Why Are Jujutsu's ID Prefixes So Short?
Surely. But popes are called by their first name, and almost always a first name they choose, so there won't actually be a Pope Pizzaballa.
That's quantum computing news for you. The entire industry is designed to part VCs from their money through making promises on future applications of the most opaque technology to date.
An internet where bots outnumber humans
On my Macbook M1 Pro:

- fish 4.0.0 / Rust: (cargo build): 16 seconds

- fish 4.0.0 / Rust: (cargo build --release): 37 seconds

- fish 3.7.1 / C++: cmake ..: 10 seconds + make -j8: 13 seconds = 23 seconds

So yeah, C++ was slightly faster in release mode, but slower in non-release. I'd say this is yet another win for Rust, frankly.
The —-vcs flag to cargo new supports git, hg, pijul, and fossil.

It’s true that dependencies from a repository only supports git right now.

Part of the issue there is just like, the VCS integration wasn’t don’t in a principled way (it happens!) and so it’s not simple.
See here for more: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12102
Can't a creative lawyer almost always find a loophole in any contract? I don't think anyone's going to sue you if you sell a 60€/mo SaaS, esp. if you just hand the customer back their money. Obviously, if you're selling million-dollar medical hardware, your risk profile might be different.
In a sense why should anyone care about this article? It's a shell, why is rewriting it in Rust noteworthy?
That's one of the great boons of localization. The webapp knows you're in France, so it tries to do the right thing, while giving you a US English UI. I experience the same thing, but got used to it somehow.

Another good example is how "İ" is popping up everywhere, even in English, because of misconfigured locale settings and how changing case is affected by it. We (Turks) are responsible for that, sorry (We have ı,i,I,İ =D ).
Agreed. I would rather be forced to explicitly cover all match cases than accidentally run into problems that are hard to debug.
I never quite bought that "it takes a village" rhetoric.

But, at least, if you don't have a village and so it's all on you, that's a lot more work...
A dual vector is just a linear-algebraic concept, no need for GA.
That is your interpretation. It may not be Mozilla's or a Judge's interpretation.
No need to imagine!
My EE education keeps coming back.
https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/resources/p...

Data included in their training by default. You’ll need to opt-out.