skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may have heard G. Michael Hopf's famous quote: Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

I think we may be advancing to another step in that cycle with software development. Strong, principled software companies created good times in the late 2000s and 2010s, now good times have created software company leaders who are less principled, and the hard times are beginning. And eventually, after the hard times have gone on for long enough, principled leaders will hopefully emerge and create good times again.

That being said:

- I really admire the thinking and moral aptitude that resulted in the Oxide Principles page[0]. Oxide and 37signals[1] are two examples of very principled companies that are keeping good times rolling in their respective fields, and both of them do a ton to support open source software.

- And, there is nothing like ad revenue to accelerate corruption of good principles in software companies that handle user data -- to the extent that I wonder if it's in the same moral category as government officials accepting bribes.

[0] https://oxide.computer/principles

[1] https://37signals.com/
Yeah, I use everything else MS at work, why wouldn't I?
Not true, just some cheap internet meme for people too lazy to bother understanding economics and different principles US and European societies and markets work on.

And the claim of parent that income from sales would go to EU, which is not true, it went to Nokia owners who aren't in any meaning 'EU'. Its like saying any sale of any US private company to some foreign one goes to trump and his government.

Your post is typical lazy propagation of trivially verifiable made up claims, not sure even by whom or for what purpose, but this forum has higher standards
I was posting questions from the last week, so not in o3 training data.
Every Pod Eviction in Kubernetes
Enough with the smalltalk.
The headline currently shown here "SEC Declares Memecoins Are Not Subject to Oversight" is wrong, which is throwing discussions off here.

The actual decision is that memecoins are not "Securities", and therefor not subject to regulations that apply to Securities. This makes a lot of sense.

If you pick up a cool rock off the ground, and just sell it to someone, it's not a security. If people are buying and selling wheat, it doesn't make wheat a security.

As skybrian said, the US test for a security is the Howely test.

* It is an investment of money
* There is an expectation of profits from the investment
* The investment of money is in a common enterprise
* Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third-party

Memecoins don't fit it at all.
The US government put itself up for sale. Musk bought it. Now he's reaping the rewards of his investment.
I mean, people are obviously free to choose to associate with who they wish. But let's be clear: if a person decides to cut someone off merely because their beliefs are different, then they're the one "prioritizing their beliefs above their marriage, friendships, and relationships with their parents", not the other way around.
If you don't want this to happen, then a company would need to:

1. Have the capital to build and maintain a browser
2. By selling copies of that browser
3. In sufficient funds to keep the business going and make the owners a profit.

Let's say you can do it with a small team -- if you're forking something like firefox, and pay for the salary of 21 people -- full time, 8 developers, a PM, a manager, Customer support (3 people), 3 sales folks, and 3 testers, and one owner.

If the average salary is $175,000, and the fully loaded cost of each employee (including office space, equipment, benefits) is $250,000, then just to break even -- and not even account for inflation or costs rising -- and not even accounting for capital expenditures, the product would have to sell 105,000 copies at $50 a pop.

If you sold it for $30 a year, that's now 175,000 copies, every year. Realistically, to account for taxes and the fact that Developer salaries are no longer expensible (thanks Trump!), you'd have to sell around twice that number of copies, so around 350,000 copies of this browser, a year. Every year. Just to break even.

When's the last time 350,000 people said, "I want to buy a web browser?". When's the last time 350,000 people bought a web browser?

We've made our own bed in this one, the second folks saw that Internet Explorer was free; and that killed the original Mozilla browser -- that -- by the way -- I happily paid for.

If you want an internet where you're not the product, then that's an internet where the business models have to change, and the customer desire to pay for the software they use has to go up.

And that still -- still -- does not alleviate the problem of capital needing to get started, which is only exacerbated by the Section 174 changes in the TCJA of 2017.
Anyone can fork. However you need to keep your fork updated as firefox does new releases which means repeating that work often. Either that you are need to support all the security fixes yourself.
I've not seen it do that personally and I've been using Brave for a number of years now. Not saying that it hasn't happened either.
I am not surprised, ROCm focuses on CDNA. Was RDNA in ROCm ever officially supported?
Explore Chrome extensions – TikTok style
There are no principles here people. They were bribed and are delivering.
If you enjoy FF, check out Zen browser, it’s gathering attention
I feel like it was GPT-5 which was eventually renamed to keep up with expectations.
…and also ignores the key combination that works for most other apps…
for example - app that downloaded entered urls, something even simpler than a browser, hit with copyright takedown in 2023: https://torrentfreak.com/google-bans-downloader-app-tv-outfi...
You should talk to people in person for feedback and have a conversation about it. Anonymous posts in messageboards are not an effective way to get feedback.
Blackboard bold R with a superscript 3? That's just space, like regular space that we inhabit. The 3 is the dimensions, the R is the real numbers, and this distinguishes it from other wacky kinds of space that mathematicians like to try things out in.

Edit: we also have in there "the coefficients of the multipole expansion can be written as functions of the distance to the origin, r", so it sounds like r in italics is the origin - but that's usually (0, 0, 0), so maybe it's a distance to it. Anyway r in bold is probably a vector, vectors are usually in bold. And you're quite right about Xanadu, I wonder if there's some way to overhaul Wikipedia to put a key to notation in the sidebar of all pages with equations in.
I wasn't bartering on anything? I'm trying to learn your viewpoint, but nothing is at trade here.

And I could easily say that Eminem is not a predominantly country artist because his work is predominantly not country in styling. Just as I can say a cardigan is not a t-shirt. Despite the existence of cardigan shaped t-shirts. Can he also do country music? Of course. Am I going for a David Allan Coe "perfect country western song" in this? Of course not.

You seem to think only things we can mechanically judge would be fair categories. Falling back to math, even. This is why you accept medium as a distinguishing thing. If you were to argue that some points are easier to mechanically distinguish than others, I'd fully agree with you. Just as I'd agree that spelling is more of a social contract than an objective fact. I'd still argue that "wat" is an objective misspelling of "what" in the popular memes. An artistically objective misspelling, but still a misspelling.

Amusingly, I think appealing back to math would be largely where I would go here. Leaving aside that LLMs can almost certainly pick up on differences between prose structure and poem structure; my argument would be that most categorizations are predominantly nearest neighbor calls. Very multidimensional, but also fairly discernable. And sure, some items would be on the outskirts of a cluster, sometimes even between clusters. I'd still say the clusters exist and have major commonalities.

To that end, I think we are at a point I can agree to disagree. I would be with you that some things are largely by agreement of the audience. You lose me when you assert it is at the deign of the artist. (And please note that I'm comfortable with disagreeing here... I'm not trying to persuade you.)
Ah, nice. Thanks for the clarification! Really looking forward to the future of this system. :)
I have their "best traditional" entry, the Edge 2024. I really like it.

It's the karate chop flashlight that keeps me on Moto for my Android.

One thing not mentioned is that this phone has a desktop mode they call "Ready For". I can plug it into my monitor via USB-C and you get a full ChromeOS looking desktop. I have a USB-C monitor with Mouse/Keyboard plugged in and that all worked. I also tried it on a regular TV with a USB-C -> HDMI cable and a XBox controller paired to the phone.
It _seems_ like the question was

Q> Can you explain why the sledge hammer approach, removing funding for things wholesale and causing large amounts of destruction (both economic and health) is reasonable?

And your answer was

A> It looks like there is a problem with the current system, and changing something would be beneficial.

And, while I agree that the sentiment ("changing something would be beneficial") is fair... as an answer it falls squarely into "We should do something, this is something, so we should do this", which is categorically ridiculous. The way to approach these types of issues, where changing things can (and does) have real, significant impact on lots of people, is to come up with a plan and discuss what the impacts/tradeoffs are. It is _not_ to just do the first thing that comes to mind and then ignore the people who's lives your destroying.
"We don't really know what this is good for, but spent a lot of money and time making it and are under intense pressure to announce new things right now. If you can figure something out, we need you to help us."

Damn this never worked for me as a startup founder lol. Need that Altman "rizz" or what have you.
Dominant individuals are more confident in their decisions but not more accurate
Tactical vagueness.
And depending on where you live, 40k might be barely scraping by now, and certainly not enough another 20 or 40 years down the road when you get to the point where you need daily care and medical services.
Dropbox actually took action on shared files if piracy was reported. Megaupload made systems that faked they took action.
Why does the Apple's store/online-store interface suck so much?
Let's say you're in a hurry, or just want to leverage an online store discount. You catch a ride to the Apple store and order online en route. You get to the store and they say "oh, I have no idea when your order will be ready. It has to be processed, and we want this to be great for you. Just give us some time and when you get that next email, then you can have the product that is literally in your hand right now and you've paid for." I mean, surely there's a reason, what is it? Is the online store division in some internal knife fight with the retail store division?
Used Divvy for years, but switched to Moom last year and I’m very happy with it. One feature I particularly like is being able to set up “chains” of window positions to a single shortcut, so you can trigger it multiple times and it will cycle through different positions. I do miss the little grid layout window a bit, but Moom works a lot better for me overall.
This is a lot of words to miss a basic point. In those examples, the contract was sent out for bids, won by Starlink, then signed. In this case it was given to another vendor through the same process, then that contract is being cancelled and awarded (without, as far as I know, any further bidding process) to the person making decisions in the US government.

This isn't some deep or complicated point. Surely you cannot write that many coherent sentences and fail to understand the issue here, right? I can only assume you are arguing in bad faith.
You can say the same thing about Snapchat. My kid had this on their phone last year. I check the phone from time (12 yo) to time to make sure there is no weird stuff or message in there. I open Snapchat and saw the "recommend feed" with very "strange" thumbnails. I deleted the app and told them not to install again. I put the restrictions to their apple account to explicitly forbid apps for 4 year+. Somehow Snapchat is for 10+. Am I crazy?
They’re using the FS for caching the KV caches of past requests.
It’s why they’re able to charge so little on prompt cache hit.
AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data
I've been using Pathfinder for years (https://cocoatech.io/)
For fractions of pennies
>He also claimed...

You'll forgive a significantly large body of people for not being willing to trust a man who has "also claimed" a ton of things that have turned out to not be true.
The Uncertainty Principle in Software Development
I dabbled with Plain Org a while back when I was considering switching from iA Writer to Org. It can use iCloud to sync. Have you tried that, and if so, what was your experience like?

I’d really like to use Org but that same limitation kept me from it. If I could at least view Org docs on the run, and do minor editing to jot quick notes, I think I could make the leap.
Seems to feature a lot of AdGuard filter lists. Does this blocker differ materially from AdGuard?
I think you're misapplying "irony". The comment you're responding to doesn't argue for some kind of wishy-washy moral equivalence: they're explicitly advocating for the superiority of their preferred values. Nothing you've offered is an effective rebuttal to their assertion that having 50% "good people" is preferable to 0% "good people" (in the interest of unity).
Have you actually released this or passed Apple's review process? Soliciting external donations for higher level support gets into a grey area about Apple getting their cut from the apps it distributes. If you haven't registered as a non-profit you are also not doing yourself favors.

I would be extremely upset if I donated and then you never made it to the store/got removed from the store because you didn't consider or do due diligence on this process.
Not everything in the world is about political party your circle disagrees with. Given trends I'm sure Firefox will do something stupid like you're afraid of in short order. But this isnt that, so until then you should save your manufactured culture war fear mongering.

sigh, I feel bad for you... and us Californian techys... this us vs them toxicity is so demoralizing
That’s interesting, do you know of any cases that were decided on that basis? It seems downright ridiculous but then the legal system is pretty dumb, so…
Maybe demand is that great?
if I had to guess from personal experience, Destiny 2 is in this exact situation.

someone even patched out the checks and got it running and was still caught and banned permanently [1]

it's a shame too because it ran on stadia for years before Google killed it and that ran Linux as it's main system. so there's clearly the ability. just a desire to prevent it at all levels

[1] https://www.protondb.com/app/1085660#leulnGaiUV
I'm going to be nice to the net code and say that it has issues because of its age, but multicore CPUs don't cause any issues as far as I know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS0UL9QC2c4
Damn is that how they got their name? Does Tencent just mean "Ten Percent?"
Dillo is only sporadically developed. They even lost control of the dillo.org domain a long time ago, which pretty much spells amateur hour.

Ladybird would be a better choice, but it's not even fully baked yet. Coming sometime in 2026, supposedly.

I'd recommend the Brave browser for people concerned about recent bad news from Mozilla.
A meme coin is a subset of crypto currency stripped down to remove everything but belief or lulz.

There is no "utility" (the coin is not used to run some crypto system).

It's not attached to something that earns profits.

It's not even expected to retain value.

It's essentially a global apples to apples game. Those who are best at recognizing ahead of time what everyone else will find funny, get more money. In theory.
It would be easy enough for you to validate. Just start with the “comments” tab and keep up for one day.
I like projects like this since Safari is probably the biggest competitor to Chrome, but historically Apple hasn't been kind to these sorts of extensions. I hope they're able to find a way to make it work, because Safari is well-integrated into the iOS ecosystem.
They aren't hiding the fact that they forked, so it's not dishonest. Nobody really expects a fork to never merge again from upstream. The point of it is increased privacy as opposed to improving the browser fundamentally anyway. I don't give a fuck if they do or don't say "we still merge from upstream btw" (and they did hard fork at some point, so I highly doubt they even try to keep up). This isn't a mere rebranding of Firefox to steal credit.
I think the disconnect here is that some people want their data races (a) not to result in memory safety violations; some people want them to also (b) not result in nonsensical control flow or code producing results that look impossible, and some people want (c) data races to simply not occur.

You seem to like (a), Linus Torvalds seems to like (b), and Rust targets (c).
Kubernetes is not like the others in that list because it remains a declaration of intended state. There are for sure no "if", "loop", or even variables in the .yaml files. You may be thinking of the damn near infinite templating languages that generate said yaml, or even Kustomize that is JSONPatch-as-a-Service. GHA is not like the others because it is an imperative scripting language in yaml, not a "configuration language"
I've never understood this "every program on my device should look like the same company designed it" mentality.

Nothing against using the pre-built ui components provided by the OS, but looking down on a developer that decides to use something else? Just weird to me. A checkbox is a checkbox, it really doesn't matter whether App A's checkboxes look identical to App B.

Now, if App A's checkboxes look different than App A's other checkboxes, then I'll complain.
How much has Google spent on Chrome.

Big numbers without context are not useful outside of taking advantage of people who don't think critically.
Consumer Bureau Drops Lawsuit Against Capital One
If you read the article, it's clear it's dropping a bunch of law suits against companies deceiving / defrauding consumers. Basically, it's the end of the CFPB, and a sad day for consumers.
That's generally correct, but the issue is more about what kinds of powers are being exercised. Congress can create government-owned corporations, like Amtrak. Those corporations can function independently, insofar as they are not exercising executive powers.

The core function of the Fed isn't an executive power. It's not enforcing the law, or interacting with foreign countries. It's a bank that lends to other banks, and influences the market through that economic function. That's not an executive power and doesn't need to be subject to executive control.

The Fed also performs some executive functions (promulgating and enforcing various regulations). I'd argue those must be under executive control. But that doesn't address the Fed's core interest-rate-setting function.
Skype announces it will close in May
How could Spotify align with artists?
From Wikipedia regarding the Trump meme coin:

> A disclaimer said that the coin was "not intended to be, or the subject of" an investment opportunity or a security and was "not political and has nothing to do with" any political campaign, political office or government agency.[6] The terms of the offering prohibit coin buyers from joining any class-action lawsuits against the project and assert indemnity against any claims.[8] Trump promoted the coin on the night of its ICO while a "Crypto Ball" was underway.[9]

> After its launch, its price soared by over 300% overnight.[10] Within two days, it became the 19th most valuable form of cryptocurrency in the world, with a total trading value of nearly $13 billion, and a total of $29 billion worth of trades based on a $64 value of each of the 200 million tokens issued by the afternoon of January 19th. The New York Times reported that Trump affiliates controlled an additional 800 million tokens that, hypothetically, could be worth over $56 billion, potentially making Trump one of the richest people in the world at an estimated net worth of $63.8 billion.[11] On January 19, 2025, Trump's wife Melania launched her own meme coin, $Melania.

So the promoter of the meme coin, Trump, could not reasonably expect a profit? And because of this, he can make billions overnight on cryptocurrency without being subject to SEC regulations?

Anybody who wants to bypass SEC regulations just needs to base their cryptocurrency on a meme and claim no expectations of profits...

Edit: I'm wrong about the expectation of profits part. It's assumed that the purchaser should have no expectations of profits.

So the promoter essentially just need to claim the cryptocurrency is a joke to not be subject to SEC regulations.
Don't forget IceCat!
Doesnt really matter if the scammers are in bum fuck egypt (literally)
People always think big mega corps are the most egregious offenders of skirting the law and doing nefarious things to avoid prosecution.

bruh...

Having been in industry for over a decade now, the opposite is true. Big mega corp has a huge legal team and is always looking to stop any law breaking. They don't need to break the law and doing so will only incur huge fines and huge negative public outcray. They pay compliance people to walk around and breath down managers necks.

Small corps on the other hand...it's basically a free for all of "do whatever it takes to get this over the line and keep it alive, and if it fails just walk away and let the public deal with it".
I use KDE plasma and experience no microstutter with a Nvidia graphics card. Is there an open gnome issue for your issue on gnome?
Is the parser available for review?
Thats so unfortunate, it can cause breathing and asthma issues
"no useful purpose" then you havent done your research
yes, they identified spammy repos. you'd also need to identify which repos belong to which spammer groups, it's not just one person doing this (as mentioned in the article) -> they don't use the same malware. saying "sent to some discord server" is like saying "playing games on my nintendo". the malware is also obfuscated (as mentioned in the article) which makes identifying the home server harder with static analysis.

why don't we just send bad people to jail?
Pretty efficient in their mass to destruction ratio, it's only inefficient if you compare it to how much energy the fissile/fusible material could be worth in a nuclear reactor.
> For long-running programs, the allocator will run out of virtual address space and then you need something to resolve that -- either you do some form of garbage collection or you compromise on safety and just start reusing memory

Or you destroy the current process after you marshall the data that should survive into a newly forked process. Side benefit: this means you get live upgrade support for free, because what is a live upgrade but migrating state to a new process with updated code?