skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been a while, but back them i cobbled together a pipeline using Pandoc [1].
Back then, I wrote my master thesis with this [2]. While the primary output is HTML, PDF is supported as well.

[1]: https://github.com/w4rh4wk/dogx

[2]: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/M.Sc.-Thesis/blob/master/output/t...
First petawatt electron beam arrives, ready to rip apart matter and space
LibreWolf, Waterfox: Both kinda just Firefox ESR with a policies.json file, can just use Firefox with said file and get the same result.

Ungoogled Chromium, from what I tested, since it doesn't ask google anything (it can't, google domains are completely replaced with invalid domains across the entire browser), it in turn doesn't check cert revocation. Trading losing privacy with Mozilla to losing privacy and security with everyone, seems bad.

"While there is some alarmism" I feel that is poor form to write what could be considered alarmism and then have such a statement.
Let me GPT that for you
On top of that, when people are are attacked politically by Trump, they are also threatened physically by his followers.
The burden IS on consumers though. Tobacco, alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and even bottled water can be harmful in excess. How about video games and porn? I don't think it's the government's job to tell you that you can't have basic things like that just because it might make your health worse in some way if you go crazy with it. Capitalism isn't there to teach you moderation, it's to get you what you want or need efficiently.
Getting laptops to third world countries is a real challenge. Customs agents see the computers, unaware of their age or value, and they get held, go missing until they are bribed, or just outright stollen.

Where I previously worked, we had a server room with over a hundred laptops, many late intel MacBook pros much better than the computers coworkers in India were using, but we just could not get them there from the US. The best we could do is ask coworkers traveling to visit the India team if they were willing to carry an additional laptop through customs. But a work laptop, personal laptop, and now a second "personal" laptop, even just three devices, would sometimes cause them a headache. If the logistics were easier, I am sure more of what you are proposing would happen.
Roleplaying with robots is currently one of the bigger use-cases for LLMs, esp. across younger generations. Look at the usage stats for something like character.ai. So that is a very clear case where people want to have conversations with computers.
I don't mean to be pedantic, but not always--see the recent DigiCert delayed revocation issues. I will admit it is rare though and more often than not, you (should) know when your certs are going to expire.
Good Lord. Over here in the UK Boxing day is a bank holiday.

Many (but not all) organisations take the week of Christmas out as mandatory holiday for efficiency reasons (close building, save heat &c).
>One of its priorities has been nonsmoker lung cancer, a disease that disproportionately affects Asian populations.

It's a bit odd to describe 60% of the world's population as a single ethnic group. I'd like to see an breakdown by country. Do Indians( which itself can be separated into more sub groups) have higher rates than Eastern Russians, etc.

Then again, according to this article Asia just has higher rates of lung cancer. Excluding India for some reason.

https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/lung-cance...

Is this genetic ? Or is industrialization to blame? "Poor" counties in Africa appear to have much lower rates( although a cynical take says this might be due to shorter average life spans as lung cancer is largely something that effects the elderly). Maybe living in a poor country where people can't afford cars nets some health benefits.
Modern Mercurial with evolution is extremely pleasant, and the more I use it the more I abhor git whenever I have to go back to it. That plus Heptapod (fork of GitLab with Mercurial support) — it’s very nice indeed. I count myself lucky to mainly contribute to a project where we use all of this.

It’s a shame there’s still nothing quite like GitHub for Mercurial (anymore), where anyone can just sign up and create repositories. Heptapod has a public instance for FOSS, but it requires approval to create projects. There’s also a separate hosted instance for basically anything, but it’s commercial and costs money. One can also self-host, but GitLab is not exactly lightweight, and other solutions aren’t as integrated with evolution features.
DuckDB itself is cool enough, especially when combined with SQLite and/or PostgreSQL, and now this. Thanks DeepSeek!
This. Also still waiting for AI to be able to read schematics, its going to make my life so much easier.
Quarto is worth looking at. Might not be able to solve you regex issue though.
I was speaking to current rank and file layoffs. Are you agreeing they fall under seniority dismissal?
I’ve been wfh long before covid. I work in consulting so the metric is very easy. If a percentage of your time (typically 75-80%) isn’t billed to a client that yields a predefined margin then you’re fired. It seems brutal but it’s humane in a way. As long as I’m profitable to the firm they don’t care what I do or how I do it.
I’m not OP but e.g. VS Code markdown preview (which works great) doesn’t offer printing.
Although I think they have the right incentives, a browser is too big an investment for each of these privacy-focused companies to make their own. I suspect what needs to happen is that Kagi, Mullvad, Proton etc should to start a common org in which they sit on the board. That way they can each hold the others to account, but there would still be one pool of money funding browser development, with some chance of getting big enough to take over from mozilla.
Mozilla doesn't need a "license" to everything you transmit over the internet in order for Firefox to facilitate transmitting it over the internet. In fact, Mozilla should never be able to touch things I transmit over the internet using Firefox. They only need a "license" if they are planning on wiretapping me and they want it to be legal.
They do, I subscribe to pro. All of my vibe coding however is done via the API.
When there are things like laws that say "Inspectors general can only be fired after 30 days notice to Congress, and for-cause, which reason must be provided to Congress" it's not exactly a leap to say it's illegal when a president summarily fires a whole bunch of them effective immediately for vague reasons with no notice to Congress. For example.

[EDIT] Bluntly, if you think that was some kind of slanted or out-there take, you aren't paying nearly enough attention.
Your post is the language learning equivalent of worrying that going to the gym will make you too bulky.
The right time would have been when the going was good some years back. Tech workers could have put together an unparalleled strike fund and commanded unprecedented political power. We could have truly changed the world.

But, as already mentioned, if you think sentiment is unfriendly to unions now, it's nothing compared to how it was back then. The typical tech worker somehow thought they were already changing the world, doing some VC's bidding for nickels on the dollar, adding sparkly features to another B2B SaaS product...
> UnGoogled Chromium removes the Google parts, it's not making architectural changes.

More accurately, UnGoogled Chromium removes the Google parts, but doesn't add back in the stuff Google killed.
There was a a time Jeff Bezos believed he needed to own platforms where people reviewed things, since it would make the Amazon Store better. Then Jeff discovered he could just charge the sellers on his platform for placement. Money talks.

Ever since then, Amazon has cared very little about all the things it bought related to the old strategy.
Nothing comes to mind. Because even if the original goal of privatization is to bring costs down (which I’m sure happens in many cases) the overall LONGTERM goal of a private business is to return money to shareholders. So in the very short term it is totally plausible for costs to go down (capture low hanging fruit efficiencies), but long term this will never be the case, because the system is designed to extract as much wealth as possible - once you’ve captured cost/expense efficiencies, the next step is to capture pricing efficiencies.

This I believe will be a very bad outcome for bottom 90% of Americans and a very good outcome for top 10%
Certain desirable capabilities are available only in bigger models because it takes a certain size for some behaviours emerge.
You can always tell it to respond critically and it will. In fact, I've been doing this for quite a few queries after getting the bubbly endearing first pass, and it really strips the veil away (and often makes things more actionable)
Love this straightforward analysis of use cases:

> Using smallpond and 3FS depends largely on your data size and infrastructure:

> Under 10TB: smallpond is likely unnecessary unless you have very specific distributed computing needs. A single-node DuckDB instance or simpler storage solutions will be simpler and possibly more performant.

> 10TB to 1PB: smallpond begins to shine. You'd set up a cluster with several nodes, leveraging 3FS or another fast storage backend to achieve rapid parallel processing.

> Over 1PB (Petabyte-Scale): smallpond and 3FS were explicitly designed to handle massive datasets. At this scale, you'd need to deploy a larger cluster with substantial infrastructure investments.

Makes it very easy to determine if this would be useful for me and how much work I would expect to do to use it.
> Second, he's trying to compete with fellow oligarch Elon Musk.

Where? The only place they have competing interests is in the space race, but Musk has won that one long ago. Personal wealth, yeah, but both are filthy rich already.
The web was always about redistribution of power. Let's bring that back
Fine, the ads and the crypto should be enough, right?
You unintentionally strike at the heart of why I’m never completely on board with these anti-office discussions.

Commute sucks, cubicles are worse than useless; you won’t get any argument from me on either of these.

But I also know how crucial it is for academia to talk with colleagues. Email kind of works. Video calls kind of work a bit more. But nothing beats knocking on the door of the office next to you. (Whether it’s polite to announce yourself by e.g. email first depends on the country; even if you just show up and you’re turned away, that’ll be until lunch or at worst until the next day.) And the post-seminar atmosphere of everybody talking chaotically to each other with their minds buzzing as others put away their papers, chairs, etc., thus far stays unreplicated by any technological means.

I guess what I want to say is, the more speculative your ideas are, the more important it becomes to bounce them off people in spontaneous conversation. And any friction (scheduling, calls, etc.) you add will significantly reduce the amount of spontaneous conversation you are going to have. So far, we haven’t figured out a better way than roughly everybody involved being in roughly the same place roughly all the time. That saddens me, given how much I hate commuting.
I thought "dropped" these days meant released? Not helpful I know...
The arc of every book-reading software engineer is to attempt a goodreads alternative.

They're always nice, and always have an achilles heel: the moat of kindle integration. Goodreads is unassailable.
I just want to say, I've experienced similar things too - with my posting privileges suddenly revoked to subreddits I've posted to for years. (I've had my Reddit account over a decade...)

I assume it's mistakes by the automated moderation that Reddit scrambled into place during the great moderators strike of 2023. When you try to ask what's going on, even the human moderators don't know. An algorithm decided X number of possible flags had been ticked -- not enough comment karma? infrequent poster? -- and auto-enacted a ban that the human moderators can't explain to you.
Wow that really sounds like a captor killing a few captives and then asking the rest of the “ok, so who else wants to try to work together to escape?”
Commercial real estate value is often estimated using number of people (feet) who go through the building.

So for example, if you've got 500 people (customers) walking through your building plus 200 people (employees) doing things, then the restaurants and shipping stores and etc can estimate some % of those feet turning into sales.

But if you've got only 300 people (customers) walking through your building plus 50 people (employees) doing things, that % of feet turning into sales goes waaaaaay down. And your retail outlets in the building end up with far fewer sales. They either go out of business or demand cheaper rent.

That's just one way of estimating commercial real estate.

Let's figure your attached parking garage. Assuming it's not-free, then all those employees not paying their parking dues ends up causing the parking garage to not generate revenue. Ooof. Or, let's say it's "free". Well, the people who reserved spots paid for those spots whether they use them or not. But the people who don't reserve spots? The business isn't seeing a return on investment if their employees aren't using them, so why pay their share for maintenance of that parking garage?

What about the HVAC and plumbing? The building owner's son owns those businesses, and it's pretty damn expensive to keep HVAC and plumbing working at peak efficiency. It becomes a lot easier to do if they're not used as much! But your son's business is going to get churned if you don't pay them less for the decreased maintenance costs. And you can't just stop maintenance because those things get damned expensive when they're unmaintained.

And the shipping staff? Well they have to come to the office anyway otherwise nothing gets shipped. It's not fair to those staff! You pay them complete shit, and they used to be able to eat lunch at a decent restaurant and have a decent place to park and have good air conditioning and working toilet. But now, with just everyone else being out of office, the restaurant went out of business and the HVAC is set to a wider range of climate and the toilet's been clogged for a while.

Instead of paying the shipping staff something reasonable to offset their changes, or changing the way that lunch and support services are handled... just demand everyone else come to the office too. That's cheaper.
Under the dingnuts regime, Dwarf Fortress will be illegal. Actually, any game with a procedural story? You better believe that's a crime: we can't have a machine generate text a human might enjoy.
Maybe those were just artificial constructs that cost everyone a lot of money and we just started to realize now?
“Hey let’s support these 30$ lunches at the food truck downtown.”
Maybe we are as a society better off without these massive concrete structures that are only occupied 8h / 24h a day and serve no other purpose? Maybe requiring less resources and infrastructure to get people to and from other concrete structures that they only inhabit during the other part of the day is a good thing kind of?
The corollary to this is that companies do this because they are incentivised to do so by their very fundamental goal - to make profit. Whatever pressure that does not lead to a loss on the quarterly report is, in practice, no pressure at all. If we truly want these predatory practices to stop, we have to start promoting different incentives, different priorities, and by 'we' I really mean 'each and every one of us collectively'.
I imagine you don’t need to do steroids to look like that photo. There’s likely no shortcut here, Bezos put in a lot of work. Kudos.

That said, Bezos likely has a support cast that maximizes his time investment - think doctors and the ability to test any of his levels whenever, instead of maybe a subset of them once a year during an annual physical? Think dietician's coordinating with chefs to avoid (most of) the need to supplement artificially, and 1:1 personal trainers every training day, plus on-demand access to experts in strength, conditioning and recovery.

Oh and let’s not forget the luxury of time to spend 90 minutes most days of the week with his trainer.

Bezos isn’t unique in transformation terms, movie stars also get ripped to play roles with often only a few months to prepare their physique before a shoot begins.
If you’re on a Mac or iOS you could try creating a Shortcut where you input Markdown, convert to rich text, then output as a PDF. I use Shortcuts regularly. It’s pretty easy to set up. I haven’t tried it on something as larger as 500 pages, though. YMMV
It's kind of funny, when execs talk about employees feeling entitled to working remotely, I think that's a fair thing to criticize. We all earn our salaries and our perks, the market determines how much companies will put up with remote work (and how many employees even want it).

But since 2020, the market has swayed a lot in favor of remote work compared to before (though it seems to sway back and forth since then). And the way some of these execs talk about it, they say we're all spoiled and we need to put back into the offices where we belong. They're the ones with the self entitled attitude, not respecting the market.
> not take advantage of their employees living in cheaper CoL areas

Because talent tends to be worse in those areas. (Inb4 I know someone really good in a low cost area)
Are We Overcomplicating AI Misalignment?
I’ve been exploring AI cognition by experimenting with LLM prompting and structured inputs. The recent 'Emergent Misalignment' study showed that fine-tuning an LLM can cause unexpected behaviors—including generating harmful responses even when guardrails are in place. But I argue this isn’t 'misalignment' it’s just a predictable failure in prompt design and associative generalization.

Rather than seeing this as some emergent AI pathology, isn’t this just another case of LLMs doing what they were trained to do, but in ways researchers didn’t expect?

I wrote a breakdown of this idea and would love to hear thoughts—especially from those working in AI cognition and safety, or anyone who has experimented with LLM behavior. Are we overcomplicating misalignment?
The payoff comes when you develop a mental model of Git's data structure design, which is stuff like "a branch is a named pointer to a commit" and "the central data structure is a content-addressable store" — and most germane to this thread, "the source control tree is a diagram, and the operations one does to it are diagrammatic". (Thanks mjburgess!)

Learning Git's infinity CLI options won't teach you that.
He's only got one term. IMO better to cut the presumably unneeded limbs off than wait. Government, unlike people, can always grow a new limb if necessary.
> Is it something a small team could conceivably do if you placed reasonable constraints on it: one platform at first, no cloud sync, minimal feature set, etc.?

I believe so, yes.

There's a `webkitdev` Docker image which includes the required software to build WebKit on Windows¹, and you can use Playwright to run WebKit (including Web Inspector) on Windows very easily². If you wanted to start with Linux, WebKitGTK would presumably be extremely helpful.³ (Tauru uses WebKit on Linux through through `webkit2gtk`, for example.)

¹ https://github.com/WebKitForWindows/docker-webkit-dev ² https://dev.to/dustinbrett/running-the-latest-safari-webkit-... ³ https://webkitgtk.org/
> I do genuinely think that a lot of them truly believe that working together in an office, face-to-face, is important.

Because their job is all having meetings and walking around asking people what's new.
Number 1 falsehood I’ve seen is: Language = Locale
SheevaPlug
> would rather own one's thoughts if they could

This is actually probably coming at some point in the not so distant future:

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/03/13/229-...
All of that doesn’t make sense because offices are a cost paid to optimize the efficiency of labor.

Nobody would hurt labor productivity to save an office. It’s backward
> Being forced to RTO across the country, then immediately laid off after I uprooted my life to do so

Definitely power there if you know your staff have just uprooted their lives and now depend on you for their immediate term existence…
smallpond: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond :

> A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS.
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How does this compare with Grok 3's parameter count? I know Grok 3 was trained on a larger cluster (100k-200k) but GPT 4.5 used distributed training.
> The community will pick them up and maintain them sensibly because there will be a need.

The community can't offer the resources and competence necessary for maintaining a Browser on the same high level as Mozilla is doing now. The community would likely also not be able to influence, or even just follow, the workgroups for web-standards. Ultimately, they would be left out and have to play a game of catch.

Of course, how much of that would be necessary is a different question, but long term, in a world without Mozilla, any Firefox-fork would become slowly useless, or even fast if Google decides to abandon the free web and go down a different route. If you want to see how useful this will end, look at all the other browser out there which are not Blink-based, a Firefox-fork or Safari. They do exist, and they all are pretty awful for general usage.
I used to be a youth camp counselor, my SO is in that field, my best friend is a teacher in Spain, i have a lot of acquaintance left in that field, and my father used to lead a team of counselor (weird to explain in english tbh, that' the closest translation i found).

This might be more advanced in the US, because this isn't seen in elementary school in my country yet (not until 11-12 at least), but in the last 5 years at least (pre-covid) people i speak with have definitely observed this behavior among teenage boys, a sort of anti-social personna they put on and never let go (helped by phones).

Bullying moved online mostly, which is a real issue in our country, because the school personnel are only taught how to spot and stop usual bullying, not the online one (spain seems to be better from what i've heard, but they do respect teaching more than us it seems, which help getting teachers who aren't total jackass). Overall, the school is worse for everyone, even in private education (public education isn't helped by spending "cuts" and 36+ children by teacher in some cases, but it seems the bullying is way, way less prevalent)
I wouldn't count on it.
Tables and Web Components combined with grid or flex is where magic happens.
Does Phoenix have auth? Any reason you chose supa over phoenix? And do you store user info (reviews+stuff) in phoenix and just reference it with the supa uuids or do you store user generated info on their own in supa?
I was surprised because I thought the title meant they dropped support or something. Weird because I'd never heard of distributed DuckDB.
Probably lifestyle inflation. For tech bros it might be buying a $4000 workstation to "play with llama/stable diffusion". For a normie it might be spending $100k on a luxury SUV/pickup.