skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why not just switch to a less hostile browser now instead of drawing it out for a few more months?
>But it is the percentage that matters? If I have 10B transistors and I add 1B to it, the speedup I can expect is 10%. If I have 1B transistors and add 1B to it, the speedup I can expect is 100%. Tremendous difference. Why would I ever care about the absolute number of transistors added?

Because it's the transistors that actually matter for performance.

If a unit of work (number of files compiled, number of triangles generated or whatever else) takes 1 billion transistors to complete in 1 second, you have gained the same amount of work per second by adding 10% to the latter as you gained by adding 100% to the former.

How much performance you need to feel a difference in a given workload is a separate point, and note that usually the workload changes with the hardware. Compiling the linux kernel in 2025 is a different workload than it was in 2005, for example, and running quake 3 is a different workload than cyberpunk 2077.

If you play a modern game, you don't notice a difference between a 10 year old GPU and a 12 year old GPU - even though one might be twice as fast, they might both be in the single digits of FPS wich feels equally useless.

So we gain more from the hardware than we used to, but since the software is doing more work we're not noticing it as much.
Is the context not clear for you from the information that the article applies to "DreamWorks Interactive, Someone's in the Kitchen, version 1.0" and other clues that it's a game?
Also speedrunners are really bad historians. Their documentation is usually loose google docs links, placed on a discord channel. IF that sounds like there's little to none versioning and little to none searchability - precisely.

I am reminded of the top Super Mario players all congregating for a run on GDQ, only for a complete random fan to come to them and ask "So... if you were all stuck trying to optimize this one pipelfor over half a decade... Why didn't any of you just do the Devil's Spell?"

To which the speedrunner's reaction is: "Wtf is the Devil's Spell".

It happened to be a trick that was documented nearly 2 decades prior.
I love open source as much as the next guy, but unless you consider mortgage or rent a subscription, then I don’t think that it’s really a primary issue for most people today.

That said, the subscriptions do keep growing. But, in fairness, most cloud services have ongoing cost to the business, so ongoing consumer costs make sense.
Not saying that the ultra-wealthy have the right to be tyrants, but "peasants" of today's age have a quality of life that is orders of magnitudes better than peasants in the feudal age. This simple truth seems to get lost so easily when talking about inequality in a vacuum.
Tell that to the people of deadliest catch and dirty jobs: we have robots now that can do everything we want to without needing to sleep or eat! Sadly, we're not using them because they don't exist yet...
I'd like to see us colonize Antártica with a self sufficient colony first. Seems like a much cheaper testbed.
Yep, that's a big part of why people aren't doing it. I guess with 2000€ income you can get a loan for 100K€ (certainly the case here), but it doesn't solve the problem of there being almost no work within a ~1hr drive in any direction.
Bullshit, after Ruzzia invaded Ukraine in 2014 you still have the ability to pretend Ukrainians did not really want to join EU and NATO and USA, Israel and Illuminaty caused the Ukrainians to protest their president that promised the West and then betrayed the people by going East.

Typical Zed propaganda where Eastern Europeans are all brainwashed to hate the good, kind Ruzzian empire. if you are USaians then go and fix your history and stop consuming MAGA and Zed propaganda.
That statement had nothing to do with taxes or inheritance (or any specific financial process in fact). It was simply a (admittedly rather reductive) mathematical statement, which remains true independently of the nature of the underlying good.

My point was that pointing out "Top x% own Top x+y% of good z" doesn't say anything meaningful without contextualizing why (if) this is a bad thing, and what x and y should be for a given z.
You're not thinking of it long term. In the short term you might be better off deciding when to update yourself, but in the long term you will be infinitely worse off because the reality of business practice is to delay updates until something catastrophic happens just to save a few bucks in the IT department. This approach merely means your system will run smoother over short time scales, while it becomes a complete clusterfuck over long time scales.
> Well OK, now you have a choice between: - include it anyway, [...] - don't include it, [...]

So guess that's why MP doesn't have a bignum. But MP's inability to store anything more than (u)int64 and float64 does make its data model technically different from JSON because JSON didn't properly specify that its number format should be round-trippable in those native types. Even worse, if you could assume that everything is at most float64 then you still have to write a considerable amount of subtle code to do the correct round-trip! [1] At this point your code would already contain some bignum stuffs anyway. So why not support bignums then?

[1] Correct floating point formatting and parsing is very difficult and needs a non-trivial amount of precomputed tables and sometimes bignum routines (depends on the exact algorithm)---for the record I'm the main author of Rust's floating point formatting routine. Also for this reason, most language-standard libraries already have a hidden support for size-limited bignums!

> My approach to that would be to let individual apps do that if they want (encode the size manually), because I don't think it's a common usage.

I mean, the supposed processability is already a poorly defined metric as I wrote earlier. I too suppose that it would be entirely up to the application's (or possibly library's educated) request
I'm happy with 1Blocker in Safari
It's called a "shadow government" in European (?) parlance[0], though not to be confused with the term "deep state". That is, the opposition basically prepares a shadow government to signal to the public that, despite not being power, they have the qualified personnel ready to go on day 1 if they come back to power. The down side for MAGA when firing all these workers in all these agencies is that it gives the opposition the opportunity to organize a "department in waiting" for every agency that is gutted by gathering the most-qualified of the fired employees.

But just another billionaire doing this instead of an organized opposition is not ideal, to say the least. ex 18F workers should get someone they trust more in the mix.

[0] https://www.yourdictionary.com/shadow-government
I wouldn't sum up the challenges if i would be completely dismissive , i think the potential is there, especially when it comes to in situ fertilizer nitrogenfixing and electro moisture harvesting (the breakthroughs there are insane, from peltier 50ml to condensator 500 ml recently). This is not a attack on the idea, just a lets strengthen this to solve alot of problems .
For me it alternates between mind-numbing and mind-blowing the models of political violence people hold.

It's one of the refreshing things about the crazy rightoids of late, how they emphasize how their larp revolution will cash out and retire enemies of the state.

But here on HN we get ESL-Occupy Wallstreet jeremiads that'd make Sorel blush.
Browser vendors are somewhat responsible for this confusion by pretending to have a version of their browser for iOS. If they were honest with their app names instead of lying for marketing points then the blame would go to Apple where it belongs.
"haircut" LMAO. Is this a reference to something or just snark?
The IBM 650: An appreciation from the field (1986) [pdf]
https://gist.github.com/iamtomek/5d4a30c1a6765d695950c777e38...

Disclaimer: I wrote zero lines of this, it was made purely with Claude 3.7 (via Kagi assistant) with around 10 additional revisions in one conversation. I pasted the emojis in the prompt, but that's basically it.

I never coded anything meaningful in html and js.

Edit: it silly that in a place where so much discussion is about AI, when I paste a working AI generated code what I first get is downvotes. I guess you like hating AI more than hamsters.
Given they don't have such a high percentage of total wealth and an even lower percentage of real estate, it seems this is largely due to financial education.

I know a lot of working class people with significant savings (more than I have) but they tend to just put it in a savings account at a bank or perhaps invest in a property to let out.

Many people see the stock market as a casino even though you have far less risk in index funds than you do by renting out property.
The solution on linux should be to install system-wide "policy" extensions - they support webRequestBlocking. Possibly via system package manager.
Depends on who does the removing. It could go a lot of different ways, but even if it's someone from his own government who is hostile to the west, they're still likely to use it as an excuse to end the war.
Update: I just gave up and uninstalled skypeforlinux-bin. I’m fed up with it. After taking a few minutes to log in (if the window isn’t visible, it doesn’t progress much through logging out and in and all), it looked like everything was fine, but didn’t show contact presence status or display incoming calls, which is something I’ve seen happen once or twice, but those times it sorted itself out after a few minutes, whereas this time it hadn’t after ten minutes, and I’m just done with it. I only used it once a week anyway. Not sure if this is actual Linux client breakage, or bugs in the web tech part of the stack, or some combination.

So for the last while until my family switches to something else, I’ll stick with Skype for Android, which is… not completely broken. But all their stuff is falling apart. In the last few months, Skype for Android stopped receiving calls unless the app is open (or perhaps been opened recently, not sure). Maybe Android background app killing is partly to blame, but nothing else that acts like a dialler has trouble.

Everyone keeps on changing their software and making it worse. :-(
> The optimal distribution is left as an open question for future research.

What makes you think the optimal distribution is "more uniform" rather than less?
I'm not taking sides in this question, simply pointing out that the headline is rather meaningless without context
> How about evolution rather than 'eggs in one basket' revolution?

That's the premise of social democrat parties, and the UK Fabian society (named after Roman general Fabius "the delayer") & Labour party!

Revolutions only happen when peaceful change is thwarted.

Of course, America is the least fertile ground for a left revolution. It's in the middle of a right-populist one.
"like growing tomatoes in your backyard"

Have you tried it?

Those tomatoes taste like real tomatoes, unlike those things, you can usually buy in a supermarket.

And nuclear as the only sane choice is just your personal opinion, not a fact.

What is the worst outcome, with too many solar panels vs too many nuclear reactors?

Only in your nuclear Utopia all those reactors will be maintained to the highest standards. In reality humans cut corners, are still lazy, don't give shit and who cares, "it will be allright". Until it isn't when multiplied with lots of reactors and time.
Hmm, that's interesting. What are the major pain points? As you can probably guess, I don't have access to TSMC's or GF's PDKs.
> It's taken me a lot to not very bitter about this -- and I'm clearly still a little bitter -- but I also know that we will likely be in a position to offer some of this support to our kids in 20+ years.

Wealth inequality has been increasing for decades, if the trend continues and nobody does anything the wealth gap could easily become so large that you might not be able to provide any meaningful support to your kids, and even if you manage to, your children won't stand a chance to provide it to theirs in 40+ years.

Many of our current rights are only there thanks to bitter people.
An aspect of solarpunk is that individuals and small communities can opt into this mindset and change their habits. E.g.: having your own power source, growing your own vegetables, etc. It's not only sustainable, but quite resilient; there's not as much dependency of a larger scale network.

Switching to solar requires a nation-wide initiative (or something close to that scale).

> The lifestyle of living in a detached house (or even a row house) is not available to everyone, on account of there not being enough resources to go around.

This is true, but you don't need a detached house. A row of houses can also have solar on top. A building with a couple of floors and a few apartments can have a shared roof and garden.

Sure, none of this works in a large metropolitan city, but living in a metropolis is kind of the antithesis of solarpunk.
What a fantastic source of information, especially the different design patterns
https://i-love-ruby.gitlab.io/book.html#_design_patterns
> Numbers mean nothing when the guys who own the guns are not on your side.

Not saying it will turn out differently, but there are more guns circulating in the US than there are people. Nearly everyone has or can easily get access to a gun. US culture is also quite a bit different, celebrating violence, don't tread on me, etc...

Again, it might not make a difference, but I'm not sure those other situations are comparable.

Something else to note is that military officers swear an oath the constitution, not POTUS (like enlisted do). Asking someone to order or to shoot fellow Americans, particularly if unarmed, would definitely be a test. If something like that did happen, we would be entering a second civil war.
> If you know CSS, you also know the style framework. If you understand JavaScript, TypeScript is not a big problem for you. And that makes you a Senior or Principal.

Mastery of the languages/frameworks you're working in does not make some a Senior or Principal.

While deep expertise in a language is important, true senior and principal engineers combine this mastery with many other skills.

They demonstrate strong architectural knowledge, guide and mentor others, and champion best practices.

They communicate effectively with colleagues and partners of various levels and roles.

They take ownership of complex initiatives end to end, balancing near-term needs with long-term goals.

Their value lies in how they combine technical excellence with leadership, problem-solving, and the ability to align technology decisions to broader business objectives.
outside of the U.S., Apple is not really a thing

I think Apple is still very much a thing in the EU and the Anglosphere. What platform are you on?
This isn't the problem though. The problem is they have completely pivoted in this other direction and are working on a new browser. It will only be a matter of time before they abandon Arc and then you won't get the security fixes, blink updates etc. It's also not currently OSS so it's not possible to fork it and continue elsewhere.
PAC as implemented is stronger than shadow stacks, as it aims to provide CFI for more cases and not just function returns. Overwriting function pointers gives code execution under shadow stacks (which only protect return addresses) but is much more difficult to do so when the pointers are signed. Mobile platforms are very memory sensitive (one of the major reasons that MTE hasn't rolled out, for example) but I don't really see them wanting to adopt shadow stacks.

I can't really speak to your comments as you haven't posted many of them. I'm not here to prove you wrong but just to share my views on these mitigations. I'm not an expert by any means but I do get to think about these for work so I can usually do at least a quick once-over to try to figure out how effective they might be.
To me, even 5-star system is broken by design, with a pressure to rate everything 4 and 5, especially if these are known to be classic books.

I rarely give 1 or 2 - in vast majority of cases it means I stop reading them, out of respect for my time.

What is nice, but underused (since most platforms want us to be excited, because of sales and adverts) is some kind of slider with mean at 0, for expected quality.

Even better, tags to choose from "awesome", "insightful", "well-researched", "funny", "cringe", "inaccurate" etc. I mean, there are tags, but I mean ones explicitly displayed next to rating.
Have a look at my other comment. I just noticed it has an issue that parachute doesn't redeploy properly when you scroll down->up->down, but it works nicely aside of that.
> How very Marxist. How have those Marxist governments fared in the past?

One lasted about 70 years, turned a country from "agrarian" to "beat the USA to Earth orbit, put landers on the moon and Venus first, roughly equal nuclear capabilities".

The other big one went from "agrarian" to "makes most of your smartphones, e-readers, etc."

But more than that, if your standard for "marxist" is "Laborer coordination and workforce strikes", then the UK, France, and Germany are currently also Marxist. The UK and France brings the number of permanent UN security council members who are "Marxist" to 3 (not 4, because Russia doesn't have those things today), and those plus Germany are the economic backbone of western Europe.

Also India. They've got two different Communist parties, the split being because one wanted to be more Marxist than the other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_(Marx... vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India — but by the standard you use here, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress is also "Marxist", which will probably annoy all three parties for different reasons. Anyway, they also went from "agrarian" (when they kicked my parents' and grandparents' generations out) to "nuclear powered, industrialised, have a space program".
If only Firefox would properly support PWAs. I know that there are workarounds like installing the PWAs in Chrome and setting up an extension that redirects links clicked in a PWA to be opened in Firefox, but it is a hassle.
Can you please say more. Curious to learn more about this
What makes democracy fairer than absolute monarchy? You can't bet on the benevolence of the one (or few) for the prosperity of a society.
> They aren’t even aware wealth inequality is the problem.

"Wealth inequality" in the sense that there are several billion people and the net worth of each and every one of them is not exactly the same? That can't be it.

"Wealth inequality is increasing over time" seems like it could be a bad thing, but if that's the problem then what's the cause? Let's consider how that happens:

When you buy something for $100, part of that money goes to labor (the employees who made or distributed it etc.) and part goes to capital (the investors who own the company). Employees generally spend all of their income, so that's not an issue. As it turns out, so do most investors, by population count, because most businesses are small businesses. The owner of the local salon might be getting a dividend from the place but she's using that to buy groceries.

Then there's Larry Ellison. Screw that guy, am I right? Somehow that asshole has more money than it would take to buy the entirety of Boeing with enough left over to buy General Motors and Halliburton put together. And he's not spending it fast enough to make the number go down instead of up.

But wait, how did that happen? He definitely didn't end up with $200B by investing $100 in the Dow and letting it compound for 50 years.

His company did, however, get billions of dollars in government contracts and in general makes its money by selling copyright licenses to its 50 year old database software. In fact, if you look at the list of companies minting all of these billionaires, they're almost all tech companies, relying on a government-granted copyright monopoly that originally expired after 14 years.

And if you look at the ones that aren't tech, they're drug companies (another government-granted monopoly and an industry that has thoroughly captured the regulators) and finance companies (possibly the only industry with more regulatory capture than medicine).

From this we can notice a trend. You get billionaires when the laws impair competition in their industry and the industry consolidates into megacorps. So that's the cause. That's what you need to prevent.
Historically soldiers have been just as happy to be paid in land as they were in cash.

Owning people is the easiest way to become wealthy. Owning land is the second-easiest.
Well you seem to have edited it out of your comment so I'm not entirely buying your case that it was an example of effective communication.
It's like communism, but it's not communism, at least it's not the ultimate form of communism. IMHO, the key difference is that in communist theory, the workers own the means of production through a worker-class-ruled society, not as individuals, and it's still within the framework of a market-oriented economic system.

why don't work?

first, when equity dispersion is accompanied by the dispersion of decision-making power, it can lead to excessively high decision-making costs, reduced efficiency, and lack of competitiveness. However, when equity is dispersed but decision-making power is concentrated (i.e., a dual-class share structure), the interested parties with decision-making power tend to skew the benefits towards themselves.

it's not compatitalbe with the market-oriented economic system.

second, "Altruistic collectivization" is entropy-increasing.

For example, if a company does what you said, when a crisis occurs, it's hard for it to survive. Its products may fail to be sold, and the company may go bankrupt. Other companies can also go bankrupt, but their failure is part of the capitalist system. When they fail, the system as a whole doesn't necessarily fail. But when a "communist-style" company fails, it dies, and it won't come back easily.

More importantly, this is a world dominated by capitalism. It's not just an ideology of companies, it's an ideology of states. For example, when the IMF/WHO comes to a country that is suffering from a global capitalist economic crisis, the IMF will kindly offer its help, but with some conditions, such as requiring you to also accept its help in reforming your economic system.

Although there are still some similar commercial entities that are "owned" collectively, most of them are stagnant. They can survive, but they cannot expand.
The static power might also depend on whether the FPGA is an SRAM type or a floating-gate type, I'd think. Does Lattice have any parts fabbed in relatively new processes?
"10k years of heavy mining to replace solar panels will poison this world"

Have you heard of this new concept called recycling?

Also, solar panels are mostly made of Si, which is basically pure sand.
Melt it, reforge it. Done.

I believe Uranium mining is somewhat dirtier.
Don't most Brave users have all the crypto functionality turned off or opted out?
I haven't read the examples you mentioned, do they point toward the source of the instability being extreme inequality, or the lower (economic) classes being unable to survive in dignified conditions? (read: can we tolerate great inequality if it comes with increased standards of living for everyone?)
Cloudflare is the network. You have no control over whether other sites use it.
The website, usually.
There are a few crazy buildings of this style in Amsterdam.

E.g.: https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/mvrdv-bre...

Not entirely sure how sustainable they are compared to building shorter houses spread horizontally, but the truth is that this country doesn't have any more space to keep doing that.
i saw somebody mention they are going to do something about that soon, but I don't remember where i saw it.