skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swift can be just as fast as C or C++. The danger, in my experience, is that it's not always clear what the performance implications of the language's many convenient abstractions are. (A random example, I recently improved one code path by over an order of magnitude by replacing some serialisation that used Codable with hand-rolled code. Still 100% Swift, just paid a lot of attention to avoiding RTTI and allocations.)
The best is often to have one player who knows some of the conventions, and the rest know nothing, and all learn to play together.

Whist is basically no-bid bridge, which can be fun, too.
When I worked with Rdio the RIAA sued them because users would make playlists named "Now that's what I call music < X >" with the same songs as the CDs. All the songs were fully licensed to be streamed on the service. The RIAA won those lawsuits.

edit: they might have actually settled, but the RIAA got what they wanted with no concessions
FAA Aims to Boost Hiring of Air-Traffic Controllers and Update Its Technology
> Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“)

> calling this selling your soul is unironically bad faith trolling.

It's not. One of their biggest selling (!) points is that they are privacy focused so when they make these changes, it is extra alarming. It's not like, e.g. Google, saying the same thing (which would be equally shocking but for opposite reasons.
Bring back GPT-1. It really knew how to have a conversation.
Discovered today:

Cmd-click a window that is not currently focused; it'll register the click without making that window take the foreground
I’ll probably stick to open models at that point.
- Parent is still the top comment.

- 2 hours in, -3.

2 replies:

- [It's because] you're hysterical

- [It's because you sound] like a crypto bro

- [It's because] you make an equally unfounded claim

- [It's because] you didn't provide any proof

(Ed.: It is right in the link! I gave the #s! I can't ctrl-F...What else can I do here...AFAIK can't link images...whatever, here's imgur. https://imgur.com/a/mkDxe78)

- [It's because] you sound personally offended

(Ed.: Is "personally" is a shibboleth here, meaning expressing disappointment in people making things up is so triggering as invalidate the communication that it is made up?)
macOS can run any engine. iOS cannot.
You ran Neo4J with 512MB even thought it has always recommended 2GB at a minimum.

And MemGraph is nice but it's memory only where as Neo4J is designed for super large graphs that live on the filesystem. Not really that comparable.
My understanding is he uses AI summons/etc so he's not one of the git gud crowd who believes if you don't beat it straight you suck.
I'm reminded of this great comic

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html
I think the diversification of options for web browsers is increasingly important, because Google has made Chromium the de facto standard for the web and positioned themselves to be able to drive standards changes that Google wants, such as DRM.

And because building a browser can be so complex, even the major alternative browsers now are based on Chromium, which is controlled by a pool of Google developers. So Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, often referenced as alternatives to Google Chrome, are still to a significant degree Google Chrome under their respective hoods.

The only truly independent browser from a credible company with reasonable market share to stand in the way is Firefox by Mozilla. There's also Safari from Apple, but if you're concerned about Google, Apple is not necessarily a reassuring alternative.

Lady Bird seems like an ambitious and credible alternative intending to fully comply with modern web standards with a seemingly inspired and committed developer at the head of it. It can help maintain a diversity of web browsing options, which is increasingly important.
on my phone so I haven’t had a chance to really check this out but wanted to say thanks for sharing anyway!
This is the most realistic AI conversation I ever had. I legitimately felt I was just chatting with someone, getting to know them. The male was more convincing for me.
Vivaldi is probably the most ethical company making a for-profit browser now. But note that because it is a for-profit it tracks your installation, with an anonymous but unique id, and phones home every time you use the browser. There were complains about this in the forum, but Vivaldi said they had to do that to know how many unique users they have, to make browser deals with other companies. They refused to change that and instead suggested that interested parties could use an application firewall to block those connections from Vivaldi.
You can always trust Postgres to have another extension that opens up great new data modelling opportunities. This is great. Wonder how this stacks up to the CedarDB (Postgres-compatible) graph capabilities.
I'm not the one blaming consumers here.

Sorry to hear about your Grandmother but just because someone has an Iphone doesn't mean the scammers will give up. They'll just pick another attack vector.
New Outlook still doesn't support RSS/Atom feed...
Consider switching to an alternative front end, such as https://hckrnews.com/ . They offer different features, and some continue to show flagged submissions for some time.
> No, you wouldn't need to prove that the memory access is correct if you relied on hardware features. Or I should say, that proof will be mostly done by compiler and library writers who implement the low level stuff like array allocations. The net lines of code changed would definitely be less than a complete rewrite, and would not require rediscovery of specifications that normally has to happen in the course of a rewrite.

I don't see how the hardware features make this part any easier than a Rust-style borrow checker or avoid requiring the same rediscovery of specifications. Checking at runtime has some advantages (it means that if there are codepaths that are never actually run, you can skip getting those correct - although it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between a codepath that's never run and a codepath that's rarely run), but for every memory access that does happen, your compiler/runtime/hardware is answering the same question either way - "why is this memory access legitimate?" - and that's going to require the same amount of logic (and potentially involve arbitrarily complex aspects of the rest of the code) to answer in either setting.
C does have formally defined semantics as given by the standard but chose to leave some open-ended to give compiler writers more freedom in the form of a) Unspecified behaviour b) Implementation defined behaviour and c) Undefined behaviour.
They should directly buy Firefox and let Mozilla perish
By "everyone else" you mean literal socialists and communists trying to pretend that they are still on the map and haven't been far outside of the Overton window for at least half a century. Seriously that rhetorical whine is as obvious as unironic use of "Bourgeois" and "Proletarian" framing.
Love that this is straight to the point.

My tips:

- Use Alfred. Game changer. It's an immediate improvement on spotlight search, you can run commands with three keystrokes (rather than opening a terminal, just command + space, then > <cmd>), it gives clipboard history and fast append (lets you press command + c twice fast to append to clipboard, and opt + command + c to search clipboard history), and lets you make 'workflows' to make frequent tasks extremely streamlined (I use one to open LLM prompts in five LLMs, so I press command + space 'llm <prompt>' and 5 browser tabs open with the same prompt in grok, claude, chatgpt, perplexity, and (local) deepseek.

- Itsycal: an 'install and forget' calendar for your menu bar (it also uses vim keybindings to move around the calendar which is a fun yet practical easter egg)

- There's still no good window manager for macOS. Rectangle is as close as it gets, but it's not good IMO because it only works on non full size windows. (the solution is just get ninja-like with three finger swipe, and endure using the mouse/trackpad more than you'd prefer)

- Vivid for double the screen brightness
They're disagreeable across the board.
US Attorney General Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files
More context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560768
Horizontal scaling is also a huge cost savings. If you can run your application with a tiny VM most of the time and scale it up when things get hot, then you save money. If you know your service is used during business hours you can provision extra capacity during business hours and release that capacity during off hours.
Read.cv Is Winding Down
Curious you left out Frontier Math’s statement that they provided 300 questions plus answers, and another holdback set of 50 questions without answers, to allay this concern. [0]

We can assume they’re lying too but at some point “everyone’s bad because they’re lying, which we know because they’re bad” gets a little tired.

0. https://epoch.ai/blog/openai-and-frontiermath
I like uBar a lot with Raycast or Alfred, but Spotlight works well enough too.
Your question is already asked and answered on the Ladybird.org website [0]?

[0]: https://ladybird.org/

> Why build a new browser in C++ when safer and more modern languages are available?

> Ladybird started as a component of the SerenityOS hobby project, which only allows C++. The choice of language was not so much a technical decision, but more one of personal convenience. Andreas was most comfortable with C++ when creating SerenityOS, and now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain.

> However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect.

> We have evaluated a number of alternatives, and will begin incremental adoption of Swift as a successor language, once Swift version 6 is released. (More background.)
Firefox changed it's privacy policy; can use all your input royalty-free
This is true, but how would pollution work for a benchmark designed to test hallucinations?
The basis of copyright in the US is that being able to sue and win is an enforcement power.

That’s the core thing the government is giving copyright holders, and what the public is protected from when something enters the public domain.
Okay, but like, Will Japan be more Japanese when the last fully Japanese person dies, or will it be more Japanese if people move and live there and melt into the culture.

Yes, there will necessarily be parts of your culture that get lost (in Japan's case it will be the part where they don't like immigrants), but not as much as if you fold people into the culture and teach them about it.

And yes, change is scary, but sometimes it's good for us. Sometimes change makes us more resilient as a species. Also, Japanese culture isn't going to disappear just because they allow immigrants in. In the same way that other cultures haven't disappeared just because they allow immigrants in.

American culture used to be so exciting because you can experience any kind of culture in the world just by meeting your neighbors. I miss meeting new people and experiencing their local cultures through them.
OP should really save their money. Cursor has a pretty generous free trail and is far from the holy grail.

I recently (in the last month) gave it a shot. I would say once in the maybe 30 or 40 times I used it did it save me any time. The one time it did I had each line filled in with pseudo code describing exactly what it should do… I just didn’t want to look up the APIs

I am glad it is saving you time but it’s far from a given. For some people and some projects, intern level work is unacceptable. For some people, managing is a waste of time.

You’re basically introducing the mythical man month on steroids as soon as you start using these
I personally read it as a 'wants slaves back' insult/accusation.
Neo4J is mature not dated which is why it's so popular.

And couldn't disagree more that graph is a feature. You really want something optimised for it (query language / storage approach) as the data structure is so different in every way from a relational or document store.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem places a limit on what you can prove within a formal system. Neither humans nor LLMs are a formal system, so it says nothing about them.

Someone's going to think that, since you can formally model computer programs (and thus formally model how an LLMs runs), that means that Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem applies to computer programs and to LLMs. But that's irrelevant; being model-able doesn't make something a formal system!

"Formal system" has a very technical meaning: it has a set of consistent axioms, and the ability to enumerate formal proofs using those axioms. For example, Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory is a formal system [1]. It has nine formal axioms, which you can see listed in its Wikipedia article. Utterly different kind of thing than humans or LLMs. Comparing an LLM to ZFC is like comparing a particular watermelon to the number 4.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...
I really don’t think this is generally true. Assuming you’re single with no children, there’s effectively no cash assistance available where I live. You might be able to get public housing and food welfare (SNAP), but you would have effectively zero income. You could live on savings for a while, but that’s obviously not “the dole”
So, this vulnerability requires root access to a device…
That means I can make my own laptop broadcast lost beacons and I’ll have free anti-theft tracking of my device!?
They were thinking about writing the browser in a more memory-safe language, and it looks like they are leaning toward Swift rather than Rust. https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031
The paragraph I'm referring to in that diff does not appear to be replaced directly by anything, it just got removed. They did, however, add that non-answer paragraph separately, apparently hours ago.

Reading between the lines, it's pretty obvious. They're making steps in a certain direction. Enshittification doesn't usually happen entirely overnight, but you don't have to extrapolate a whole lot to see the blatantly obvious eventuality this is all pointing to. This is well beyond typical levels of brazen for a first step.

Realistically, Google removing "Don't be evil" also didn't really mean anything directly, either... but that doesn't mean it doesn't tell you anything.
> Hold the Option key while expanding an outline view to recursively expand all children.

I use this pretty frequently and it’s always a drag to find when an app doesn’t implement it. It feels so silly to be forced to manually open/close numerous items when most other apps I use can expand/collapse them all in one go.
I think forks, such as Librewolf or Waterfox, will live for a while even if (and that’s a big if IMO) Mozilla comes down. Consider donating to them (and to Ladybird).
So long and thanks for all the fish!

This is the first time I've heard of the Prototype Fund https://prototypefund.de/. Seems to still be active. There is also the Sovereign Tech Fund. Nice to see the German government investing in open source. I have been donating to Thunderbird for a year or so to support the K-9 mail effort and hope it continues.
Did the RIAA win or Rdio settle?

The RIAA doesn't seem to have a very good track record in cases that go to court, but the whole 'we're gonna sue you for eleventy billion dollars and destroy your life with our thousands of lawyers, but give us $20 right now and we'll call it even' seems to be quite effective.
I think the term monetisation is being used in a broad, VC/corporate investment/selling services etc sense. Donations or paying for the browser also takes care of money.
At least they've disclosed their intent to impose editorial bias on the opinion section. It doesn't say "Fair and Balanced."

From "Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks" (2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28951646 :

> "Blind Trust" > "Use by US government officials to avoid conflicts of interest" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_trust :

>> The US federal government recognizes the "qualified blind trust" (QBT), as defined by the Ethics in Government Act and related regulations.[1] In order for a blind trust to be a QBT, the trustee must not be affiliated with, associated with, related to, or subject to the control or influence of the government official.

>> Because the assets initially placed in the QBT are known to the government official (who is both creator and beneficiary of the trust), these assets continue to pose a potential conflict of interest until they have been sold (or reduced to a value less than $1,000). New assets purchased by the trustee will not be disclosed to the government official, so they will not pose a conflict.

> https://www.oge.gov/

The Ethics in Government Act which created OGE was passed by Congress in 1978 in response to Watergate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_in_Government_Act
I got to know this project through the one year old post. I was quite buggy and can’t even render github.com back then. The improvement is huge.
That's covered, but it's even easier:

Press ~ to open a Go To File dialog prefilled with the home directory. Press / to open it prefilled with the root directory.
Wow I did not know the Spotify dudes came from torrent tech
Imagine two greeting cards. One says “I’m so sorry for your loss”, and the other says “Everyone dies, they weren’t special”.

Does one of these have a higher EQ, despite both being ink and paper and definitely not sentient?

Now, imagine they were produced by two different AIs. Does one AI demonstrate higher EQ?

The trick is in seeing that “EQ of a text response” is not the same thing as “EQ of a sentient being”
What are some good apps you side loaded?
Need native windows version, not WSL
It is, but people/corporations aren’t.
I also lack any inside info, but that seems like the kind of thing they’d clear up pretty easily if it were that innocuous. And if you were going to slip something unpopular into a foss project policy, wouldn’t you want the public updates to be vague enough to not technically be lying about anything while also being plausibly innocuous?
> you are not allowed to make any money selling it.

Why not? I don't see it in the additional terms, so if you mean the GPL part then https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html
It's in the link.

I don't know what else to say.

Here, imgur: https://imgur.com/a/mkDxe78. Can't get easier.

> equally unfounded attacks

No, because I have a source and didn't make up things someone else said.

> a straight up "you are lying".

Right, because they are. There are hallucination stats right in the post he mocks for not prvoiding stats.

> That's nice but considering the price increase,

I can't believe how quickly you acknowledge it is in the post after calling the idea it was in the post "equally unfounded". You are looking at the stats. They were lying.

> "That's nice but considering the price increase,"

That's nice and a good argument! That's not what I replied to. I replied to they didn't provide any stats.
Other good windows management options are Hammerspoon and BetterTouchTool:

https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/MiroWindowsManager.html

https://folivora.ai/
It’s interesting hearing you say this. I come from Windows and thought it was just me.

I started using an app called Sidebar:

https://sidebarapp.net/

I find it superior to the dock. The applications on the task bar are persistent and only those active on the current desktop are shown. It handles multiple monitors too.

It has a few quirks I haven’t sorted out yet, but the overall experience is much closer to Windows 11.

Pro Tip: I use it conjunction with the dock by putting the dock on the side and shrinking the dock down to its smallest size and increasing the magnification effect.
To be clear on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/ they changed this
>>It seems like every company on the web is buying and selling my data. You’re probably no different. Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you, and we don’t buy data about you.

to this:
>>It seems like every company on the web is buying and selling my data. You’re probably no different. Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).

Of course, saying "(in the way that most people think about “selling data“)" makes the guarantee completely meaningless. The rest of the paragraph is just marketing puffery. Its meaningless bromides about how much they value your privacy. Notice they only say they put "lots of work" into stripping identifying information provided to commercial partners (which is just another way of saying selling). Again, this is meaningless. They went from a very strong guarantee to no guarantee at all. Any company that sells your data that makes any effort at all to strip identifying information can make this claim regardless of whether personally identifying information can be recovered with a modicum of effort.
Would that then mean that the historical practice of red-lining is a “woke” practice, since it injected race and identity preferences into a program?
RHEL 10 beta has some interesting stuff in it. Running the OS itself as a container caught my eye.
Show HN:GoBroker- A Unified Messaging Broker Lib for Go(RabbitMQ,Redis,AmazonMQ)
They have enough cash in the bank to fund development, so...
Beyond All Reason sorta isn't released yet, but I'm liking that a lot as an old C&C2/AoE1 fan
This is nonsense. Does curl need a license to send HTTP requests for me?
I dont think the pressure from payment processors is because of puritanism, but rather payments in this space tend to come with a much higher % of fraud and chargebacks and they've decided it's not worth the risk.
Good - we already have an overload of scrum/agile driven planning sucking the life out of the joy of programming in our corporate lives.

Let him enjoy making a great browser.
Oh haha well now I feel dumb. Of course it is! The high pitched sounds are similar to the Batman Beyond intro. I can hear the djenty riffs better now though. Sick video!
Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox users
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> Well this project is now more important than ever since Firefox basically sold its soul [1].

I'm still not convinced that Firefox is The Actual Devil for potentially appearing to perform .000001% of the bad behavior that is fully-baked into popular Chromium browsers.

But for the sake of argument, lets say that .0000001% > 99.99999%. What is the browser I can install+configure right now, that will perform what Firefox does every day. For ex:

natively support containers,
provide fully uncrippled element control,
provide reader mode when *I* want it,
locally save and sync windows,
provide granular redirection control,
and the other functions that are mostly unique to Firefox ecosystem

?
Fish 4.0.0