skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Yes it comes with awful stuff but you don't have to use it" is not an argument. There are plenty of alternatives without that awful stuff in the first place.
> I find it odd that the option-variants are not listed unless option is actively being held.

Most likely to keep menus reasonably short and usable, which is particularly important on the smaller Macbooks and on iPads in Sidecar mode which can easily turn long menus into scrolling messes.

Also, progressive disclosure. This way allows the options to exist without overwhelming less technical users.
I pay for Relay... I'm sure it's a mistake though bc it'll get ended sometime soon and I'll have to figure out how to transfer all my email aliases elsewhere...
> but it crashed even more often than Firefox (which is a feat unto itself)

Er, you maybe should check your RAM and GPU. I've run Firefox on a lot of different systems, with everything from vanilla profiles and no saved tabs to loads of extensions and literally thousands of tabs, and it basically never crashes. Well, the beta version can be a little less stable, but... beta version. Could just be that I'm lucky or you're unlucky, but I'd strongly suggest checking your hardware and maybe GPU drivers.
Crunchyroll was first launched as an anime pirating site, and even received venture capital funding while it still allowed uploads of unlicensed content to the site.
> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar action.

Kinda like command palette for every app, I like it. Would be even better if it preselected the matching option.

Unfortunately, this is broken in Firefox – they’ve bound ⌘ ? to their help page, and it opens then immediately closes the Help menu. You can rebind it to something else (e.g. ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ /) in System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts → Firefox, menu title: Get Help.

One other problem is, it doesn’t always find the command I’m looking for. E.g. when I typed “dev”, it didn’t show “Web Developer Tools” at first. I then checked Tools menu (it was there), then tried typing it in the Help menu again, and sure enough, it found it this time.
I think that's well within the realm of possibility :)
An essay on why visual programming is way too tainted by text... ironically, in 5000 words.

Good points made, but some missed: the visual cortex is easy to overload. Maybe its our whole desktop environment and window paradigm that needs an overhaul. Or maybe text isn't that bad.

But the point is made. I think the real problem is that the kind of people have have, up to now, been able to create software, have been stuck in a certain mindset. That seems to have changed, so, watch this space, I guess?

Maybe a hint for a new form is in the recursive nature of software: Code and data mimic CPU and RAM, instruction and parameter, and compute cluster and storage cluster... I made a very unconventional IDE that played with this, that made sense to me, in DOS. Maybe its time to revisit it...
OMG do you have a writeup on how you do that?
Generally it's economic to install broadband in urban areas, but not in many rural areas--so the rural areas need to be subsidized--and rural areas are the least likely to be woke and/or socialist.
The Limits of Mathematics – Gregory Chaitin [1994]
https://ia601800.us.archive.org/2/items/gregory-chaitin-the-...
I’m guessing Terms are designed to appeal to the most common denominator.

So - all communication must be the most incendiary? Or the most competitive ?

Which would explain much about side effects of outrage arms races?
We must have different definitions of steelman. I have always understood steelman to be the opposite of strawman. To argue with the strawman of their argument is arguing a weaker version of the argument than the one they're really making - i.e. "I assume because they didn't mention any other administrations, they must be some dumb idiot who only thinks this happened during the last administration", while arguing the steelman is arguing against the strongest version of the argument they're trying to make - i.e. "sure, that poster didn't mention other administrations, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt - if we asked them whether they'd support similar surveillance done by the Obama admin or Bush admin, I'd be willing to guess they'd say no, I bet they're just expressing frustration about the left's unwillingness to acknowledge the Biden admin's big tech collusion, even if their real qualm is with the surveillance itself, not the partisan coverage of it".

I personally detest covert surveillance and social influence operations being waged by taxpayer-funded organizations (regardless of whether public or private in nature) against their own citizenry, and I oppose this across the political aisle. I think it reeks of institutions that distrust and fear us more than they represent our collective interests, and that's an ugly mindset unbecoming of a government or enterprise that publicly paints itself as a champion of free and open democracy on the world stage, regardless of whether it's an intelligence agency or an international social media platform. But I also recognize that it's bipartisan, and that most people seem to care more about deploying force against the other side than they do about reducing the amount of force that is deployed against all of us.

Where does your definition of steelman come from?
How does "choreographic programming" differ from the actor model?
The RIAA only cares about seeding, not leeching/DLing.
The Catholic Church persists because of followers of the religion, not Priests. That those followers have healthy fertility rates is the main reason it, and quite a number of other religions, are growing to rapidly growing - in spite of the perception many in the West would have about the global increase of secularism. In fact we're likely to become a far more religious species in the future thanks to secular individuals removing themselves from the gene pool with a disproportionately high frequency.

And replacement is not about genes, but about culture. Europe experimented with mass migration with peoples of very different cultures. The idea is that they would nonetheless be assimilated, integrated into the culture, and everybody would grow all the richer for it. It instead just led to the emergence of countries within countries, increasing violence, extreme social divides and extremism, and is arguably playing a significant role in the ongoing decline of Europe. Migration is, in general, a good thing - but if it ever goes beyond a rather small scale, you're just setting the stage for your own downfall. Migration was even one of the major causes of the fall of the Roman Empire!
Transparency about what DOGE does and how is important.

Name and photo of the workers involved in the work is not.

We all know these are some of the currently most hated people in America, and the risk of them being Luigified is very real.
Waiting for Road Rash
This takes the cake for worst product page I've seen in awhile! Am I this out of touch that I can't see what it even does?
all the big ones did it, Airbnb used to be spammers. lol.
360XSS: Mass Website Exploitation via Virtual Tour Framework for SEO Poisoning
Divvy+Stay is the magic combo for me: https://cordlessdog.com/stay/ (moves windows back to my external monitor when I plug it in)
> but on another feels like OpenAI really struggles to stay ahead of their competitors

on one hand. On the other hand, you can have 4o-mini and o3-mini back when you can pry them out of my cold dead hands. They're _fast_, they're _cheap_, and in 90% of cases where you're automating anything, they're all you need. Also they can handle significant volume.

I'm not sure that's going to save OpenAI, but their -mini models really are something special for the price/performance/accuracy.
Actually before WW2 many Americans were somewhat sympathetic to the Nazis; Hitler didn't seem so bad until he started invading other countries and stepped up his persecution of the Jews and Roma in 1938. Other recipients of that award were Charles Lindburgh and the chairman of IBM.
Ask HN: What's your take on candidates using AI assistants during interviews?
Probably not. When I was doing audio ingestion for the major labels 1999-2004 it was all from CD. Some CDs (*cough* Sony *cough*) had such fucked-up shit to try and stop ripping it was easier just to source the files from audiogalaxy.
> once they went legit I lost half of the content in my playlists and learned a valuable lesson about the superiority of files on disk and have not used Spotify since

I've had a similar experience where Spotify lost the license for some of the music I was listening the most at the time. That definitely broke the spell early on.
What's the difference? Aren't they both request-response protocols?
they want to track your ass, whatever it costs.
You underestimate how childish Trump is.
Why should rural areas be subsidised?

No one is making you chose to live there, plus you get cost of living savings from being there rather than in expensive urban real estate.

Also, Starlink isn’t all that much more expensive than fibre.
I think parsing a whole blueprint with monolithic models is really difficult, but the constrained object detection/semantic segmentation problems are significantly more tractable. You can chain those CV models with VLMs to do things like get scale right. I'm always interested in novel HCI paradigms like voice!
Agreed at every level.

I absolutely love LLMs. I see them as insanely useful, interactive, quirky, yet lossy modern search engines. But they’re fundamentally flawed, and I don’t see how an “agent” in the traditional sense of the world can actually be produced from them.

The wall seems to be close. And the bubble is starting to leak air.
From a glance it looks fairly standard for a fixed-function GPU of the day. These GPUs were primitive by modern standards; they didn't even have hardware T&L, meaning everything essentially had to be converted from 3D to 2D on the CPU†. The weirdest part is per-polygon mipmapping, which is not normal. (I didn't even know anyone even did this; it's clearly going to look terrible in many common cases, such as large textured floors. That being said, I can understand why they'd do this if they were in a rush; calculating screen space derivatives in both X and Y, as required for per-pixel mipmapping, is really annoying with a scanline algorithm, which they were probably using as Pineda rasterization hadn't caught on yet.)

†I know that normalized device coordinates are still 3D, so "converting 3D to 2D" is technically wrong, but it conveys the right intuition.
I'd just be horrified by the quality of some code. It included some of my best code, and some of my worst code. Some of it was written after three days straight with no sleep for those times when Eidos wanted to come for a personal demo.
Safari with [0]AdGuard works very well as well. Been using it for around 4 years now without any issues.

[0] https://github.com/adguardteam
I really like Skype and have a ton of important contacts on it.

Everyone is pissed, in our circles at least.

I dislike Teams for ad hoc comms.

We will have to pick something..

Not looking forward to that.

SKYPE suddenly HAS TO HAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER.

Getting Microsoft accounts has to be why.

Nope. We will pick something else.
I still somewhat miss the old Edge(trident-based). IME it worked perfectly on low power netbooks.
Thank you.

Personal projects fill the void when $DAYJOB is lacking.
If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, *why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license*?
There’s no need for good will.

If I have to break into the difference between disingenuous, malign, and wrong, I’m going to waste time and calories on a rhetorical approach aimed at wasting time and calories.
>I don't know of any that prevent resources being destroyed if they are removed from the tf file (what the parent was talking about).

Azure Locks (which you can also manage with Terraform), Open Policy Agent, Sentinel rules, etc. will prevent a destroy even if you remove the definition from your Terraform codebase. Again, if you're not operationally mature enough, the problem isn't the tool, it's you.
We don't really have plans on using user-data to train our models, since it's too much of a chicken-and-egg problem. Carbon estimating is something we had some clients talk about -- it uses the same material quantity estimation we're already doing, and is something we're really interested in (my heart is in impact-driven work). Would love the connections!
Lot of noise today over Firefox claiming license to use anything you transmit with it ...
my personal understanding (anyone feel free to correct me here) of MCP is that it is basically a standardized interface for tool use. So, if you as an API provider (e.g. stripe) want agents to connect to your API, you can offer an MCP server that serves as a middleman between you and the agent.
What we fundamentally do is serve also as a middleman, but not (primarily, yet) for agents, but for normal (non-AI) applications that would otherwise need to use the REST/SOAP/whatever API with a bunch of integration code. Also, MCP does not do any data transformation, that would be on the agent to do.
As others mentioned “everyone” has done variations of havac-and-racks-in-teu for the past 25 years. Heres Amazons version circa 2010, https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amazon-sheds-ligh... You find them in old satellite photos of places like us-west-2. You still need site prep to support the weight, you still need power, external CRAC/H and/or water supply, and access & repairability sucks.
I propose moronism.
The green screens tend to be much quicker and more responsive than the web frontends that are developed to replace them.

I've seen a lot of failed projects for data entry apps because the experienced workers tend to prefer the terminals over the web apps. Usually the requirement for the new frontend is driven by management rather than the workers.

Which is understandable to me as a programmer. If it's a task that I'm familiar with, I can often work much more quickly in a terminal than I can with a GUI. The assumption that this is different for non-programmers or that they are all scared of TUIs is often a mistaken assumption. The green screens also tend to have fantastic tab navigation and other keyboard navigation functionality that I almost never see in web apps (I'm not sure why as I'm not a front end developer, but maybe somebody else could explain that).

I'll defend green screens all day long. Lots of people like them and I like them.

Everything else you listed I would agree with you about being terrible and mostly hated though.
> a lot of servers and clients (including javascript in browsers) don't support this

To say nothing about the many http proxies in between.
I have been seeing lots of seppostani ISP people railing against BEAD.

But like, if I had to choose between a keynesianish narrow targeting of government funds to reward local ISP's, and the Australian style big government telco monopoly it would be no contest.

I think BEAD opponents need to think strategically. If they get rid of BEAD, and fail to meet broadband demand, what will the next democrat government do? Assuming there is one.
Well, RIVA 128 didn't even have multitexturing, so not much of that is going to be applicable. I don't think that Voodoo era chips even used Pineda rasterization as that article details; they did fancy scanline rasterization.
>The ensuring unhinged magic is unparalleled.

Oops: ensuing*
Came here to recommend aerospace. It’s been amazing. My whole desktop is like a tmux session now.

It’s very much changed how I work/use my computer. More than Rectangle did, more than LLMs have.

(I still adore hookshot/rectangle though :)
VividHubs.ai ai kongfu video generator() is a platform that utilizes advanced AI technology to create romantic and personalized videos, such as AI-generated kissing scenes, using just two photos. It allows users to elevate their memories by transforming static images into dynamic, emotionally engaging videos.
Yeah, that's a legit challenge that it would be great if there was a better built-in solution for (I'm fairly sure you can protect against it with policy as code via Sentinel or OPA, but now you're having to maintain a list of protected resources too).

That said the failure mode is also a bit more than "a badly reviewed PR". It's:

* reviewing and approving a PR that is removing a resource
* approving a run that explicitly states how many resources are going to be destroyed, and lists them
* (or having your runs auto approve)

I've long theorised the actual problem here is that in 99% of cases everything is fine, and so people develop a form of review fatigue and muscle memory for approving things without actually reviewing them critically.
> - Over 50% hallucinated values in complex financial tables

> - Completely fabricated numbers in several instances

Why are these different bullet points? Which one is correct number of wrong values?
Brave still works with ublock origin but every month or so they pull a windows and some new Brave feature I don’t want gets turned on or featured in some way.

I wonder how long they’ll maintain manifest v2 compatibility. Once they throw in the towel, Firefox will truly be the last stand.
Yeah, I think the fact its "mind" so to speak was more fragmented and unpredictable was almost a boon for that purpose.
Does it? Do you have a source for that? It’s certainly not money we’ll ever see go back into our pockets.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43195469
For sub-billion graph queries, we have been doing in-memory via GFQL that runs graph queries & analytics on top of pandas (columnar CPU dataframes) and cudf (columnar GPU dataframes). Sub-billion is typically small enough that single node is fine. We began dev after years of being annoyed at having no good simple OSS in-process solution for small graphs like these. Avoiding jumping architectural hoops around dealing with multiple systems of record infra is nice, as can often just do in the compute tier.

Once big graphs get involved, scalable systems, and especially those that seperate storage from compute & price accordingly, get much more interesting. We work with our partners like databricks, Google spanner, AWS Neptune, etc, who have different sweet spots that really depend on workload and context, they're all pretty different. OLTP vs OLAP, etc.
If this cannot eliminate hallucinations or at least reduce them to be statistically unlikely to be happen, and I assume it has more params than GPT4's trillion parameters, that means the scaling law is dead isn't it?
> I use LLMs everyday to proofread and edit my emails.

This right here. I used to spend tons of time making sure my emails were perfect. Is it professional enough, am I being too terse, etc…
IIRC Fish Lake Township in the US with 900 residents was wired up before BEAD.

And WISPs can be good too, its just a matter of cowboy lottery.
You obviously never used wordpress, lol
It's awful, in your opinion. Clearly plenty of people enjoy it, and it provides a simple means of monetization that's far more on the up-and-up than the typical alternative of - 'spy on users, profile them endlessly, secretly monetize them.'

I also am unaware of any reasonable alternatives with similar functionality and compatibility. Single click access/tweaking of a native ad blocker, auto-https, script blocker/toggler, anti finger-printing, and much more is just awesome. And for better or for worse the Web is built to target Chrome and so Chromium based remains desirable, even if it is clearly becoming more onerous to decrappify it over time. It may eventually prove unsustainable, but we're not especially close to that point yet and at that point a fork would probably still be more desirable than a new root.
Why leave terraform? You don’t feel OpenTofu will carry the torch well enough?
Law degress are expensive
Yeah, we get it, they're watching.
Other similar pieces in the last week:

Your boss is watching

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/24/1111664/worker-m...

Bosses Don’t Need a ‘What Did You Do’ Email. They’re Already Tracking You.

https://www.wsj.com/business/doge-elon-musk-email-corporate-......
RIP grooveshark. Best of its kind, better than Spotify IMO. Just never managed to negotiate the licensing.
>grifter grifts
diggity
I’ve assumed that it’s partly because the company has done a lot of HFT, which is very focused on performance. But I’m not an expert in either.
It's amazing how much they dropped the ball during Covid. They already had everyone and everything in place! But the app is a buggy mess, far worse than Teams, and they just refused to do anything about it.

I guess MS-internal politics? They had their own Teams and that was the preferred product?
"X isn't just Y - it's Z. [Waffle]. By doing X, you can YY. Remember, ZZ. [Final superfluous sentence]"

God I hate reading what crapgpt writes.
I've recently switched from Amethyst to Aerospace and am really liking it
the way I see it is that an llm esis* a markov chain. the only difference is a very long context, and a lossily compressed state transition "table".
This cowboy attitude doesn’t fly in regulated industries. Where VMware and co reign supreme
It is like a Hydra - chop off one head and two or more emerges.

We have a similar problem with drug gangs in our city - leaders get killed and arrests are made but the trade continues - they are better at succession planning than most businesses.
Maybe we can criticize two things at once. Who isn't criticizing YouTube?
Oh no! Anyway...
Signal seems fine as a replacement?
Would you like to be the recipient of good will, or is there no need?
Show HN: Bluesky has no built-in analytics so I created them
Hey HN, my name is Danilo Fiumi and I'm building small startups, pretty much weekly.

While creating a startup nowadays can be very simple, creating an audience turns out to be extremely complex.

Sometimes the problem isn’t even the quality of your content. But for sure the lack of consistency weighs a lot.

So, few weeks ago I was messing around on Bluesky and I was really frustrated that it didn't have built-in analytics to track my growth. I had to equip myself.

So, I built something simple, designed to scratch my own itch and keep myself consistent along the way. I hope it can help some of you as well!

Would love to hear your feedback.
Model UN

ie - Strawman is to argue an easy to refute point they're not making. Whether that point is stronger or weaker is irrelevant. The key is you came prepared to refute the point. Steelman is to argue the point they're making.

But we're getting into irrelevant semantics at this point. Neither the poster's point, nor mine centered on the definitions we have of steelman or strawman.

My material point was on the tendency of people to embed what amount to using quasi-religious scripture quotations in discussions of completely non-religious problem areas. To the point of making it difficult for any, uh, "non-believers", out there to make any progress towards improvements.

Or, put another way, being the problem.
It mostly happened afterwards but it was not driven by IBM.
But it's fine because now they have a lot of money and _checks notes_ contribute to the economy or something.
So they clicked ‘try tonight’ in the dialog asking ‘Updates Available - Do you want to restart to install now or try tonight?’. And then macOS did just that. I don’t quite see how that isn’t user-initiated.

Why would they have ‘Download new updates when available’ enabled when they were not planning on installing these updates? I assume that having that enabled causes that dialog to appear in the first place.
Firefox is the lesser of the evils. I hate what Mozilla is doing, but I also don't want to cede control of the web to Google. Vote with your feet. I'm hopeful for Ladybirds future.
Why hire people in the first place if you aren't profitable? Seems pretty irresponsible to me. Or have the rules changed?
but it's the truth. where is the lie?
Belief State Transformer