skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still do not understand.

I ran and worked with MS-DOS in production use for years. I am that old. I have deployed hundreds of DOS machines and I was an expert in DOS memory management.

I installed lots of apps from floppies as well.

No, usually installation floppies were _not_ bootable, in my extensive experience. If they were, I can't see how or why that would affect the app so long as the app wasn't tied to one specific version of DOS.

At the time when DOS ruled business PC computing, there were not very many alternative versions. Even DR-DOS came along quite late. Aside from DR's own multitasking TASKMGR.EXE I don't think I ever saw anything else that was specific to DR-DOS. GEM and ViewMax ran fine on MS-DOS.

There was no practical difference between IBM's PC DOS and MS-DOS except for BASICA. Only when MS dicontinued MS-DOS did IBM PC DOS start to diverge, dropping BASIC for Rexx, dropping EDIT.EXE for IBM E, and so on.

I cannot work out what you could mean.

Perhaps specific examples would help.
Yep, someone suggested it; I might add it.

ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43192484
The SEC was respectably independent until a few days ago. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu...
I’m a big fan of the show. People who only use Facebook, I don’t expect them to dress their speech based on anonymity. People who actually fear a surveillance state, same deal. So how shall we depict the minority (on HN and IRC, etc) who expect anonymity as a feature?
Hopefully, finally on par with nvidia with hardware BVH for raytracing and not those horrible GLSL shaders (or at least published and provided optimized GPU machine code or similar).
I had to interact with a windows software which allows you to collect data with a digital form. We used it to digitize paper based survey by mapping free form question to a choices list.

The best oart was that it was entirely keyboard driven. If you can touch type, you can just read the paper and type away. The job was mind numbing, but the software itself was great.
This will depend on whether you have the function key row set to act as function keys or as special keys (based on the icons printed on them).
Yeah, the strategic direction of flutter feels like the famous "embrace, extend, extinguish" approach. All the big companies prefer walled gardens.
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4.5, its most advanced AI language model to date, marking a significant milestone in AI development. This release is particularly noteworthy as it may represent the final iteration of its kind before a strategic shift towards reasoning-focused models.
Wow, they still render to canvas? That's terrible. Just looked at this website: https://payamzahedi.com/toastification/

Feels janky just when scrolling. This is supposed to be the future?

Last time I used a flutter app they didn't even update the url for different screens.
I agree with everything you said but at the back of my mind is the knowledge that the previous Flash ecosystem was capable of an experience we still don’t see today, despite its many downsides.

I don’t want public facing web sites to use stuff like this, or Flutter. But some intranet internal tool… eh, fine.
Somewhere we are going to get the novel about the quiet hero team anonymously keeping Google voice going all these decades.

contorting to keep it off management's radar, explain away any foibles, redirecting minor funds to get maintenance and tech debt paid off just enough to work another year, someone's going to write that tech story some time.

Even if it's fictional it will be a good read.
What a win! Next, we should make progress on crypto is a security (A self fulfilling prophecy).
I'm pretty sure that's how most, if not all, instant messaging services worked 20 years ago... Was a feature, not a bug. The whole idea of sending an instant message. If you wanted to send a non-instant message, you'd send an email instead.
In the second handpicked example they give, GPT-4.5 says that "The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet" by the French painter Claude Lorrain is renowned for its luminous depiction of fire. That is a hallucination.

There is no fire at all in the painting, only some smoke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trojan_Women_Set_Fire_to_t...
Seán, how do you feel about the sign "No Irish Need Apply"? Would you be happy working for a company where the boss pays campaigners who want to discriminate against you?

If not, you can perhaps see why people didn't want Eich's bigotry around their project.
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See also this nicely made BBC documentary about making one of the RB211 derivatives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho7j8OLV1fk
I use Porkbun all the time with no issues. Probably an extension you’re using.
Your comment reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joli_OS.
No, actually, they don't say that. They very clearly say that they don't (and don't believe most people will) consider what they are doing "selling your data", but that it may legally considered selling your data in some countries.

For example, Firefox runs ads using your language and city/country (on the default new tab page) - but no other data. I think the vast majority people would fine with the privacy implications of that, but this may be legally considered selling your data.
Wrong, Flash was in the process of doing exactly that.

https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/

Before asm2js was even an idea, Unreal compiled to Flash via CrossBridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzyCTt5KLKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZS7B1pLWg

To this day, with exception of maybe PlayCanvas, there are hardly any tools that can match the same developer experience for WebGL, almost 15 years later.
Also, remember the commands pbcopy and pbpaste which along with pipes allow one to do a myriad of tasks.
No, I'm not. I'm interpreting it precisely as written using the rules of the English language. Lawyers get paid good money to word them very precisely.
The Vivaldi browser takes donations FYI. https://login.vivaldi.net/profile/donations
They don't want to make cards good for AI, at the price gamers will pay, thus annoying the gamers and cutting into their AI chip sales.

nVidia created the AI chip market on the backs off gamers, but that doesn't mean that trend will continue forever. The demand is there, so they can extract greater profits and margins on AI chips.
If only they had some kind of partnership with one of the big AI companies they might be able to leverage it to make their products, sorry, services better.

"We only sell the shovels, we don't use them, we don't think we have any holes needing dug."
NVIDIA offers one new consumer card with over 16gb.
Do they want this though? R/cryptocurrency is not happy, and if you want crypto legitimacy; wasn’t part of the complaint of the crypto industry that the SEC was too slow to make rules?
Oh, maybe the lack of recovery partition is my real problem, because I definitely deleted mine. The installer isn't really clear why it's failing, it just does its thing for a bit and then reboots into Windows 10 and says it didn't work, no explanation.
agreed, intuitively, referential transparency + strong types 'feels' like it should be the best ai programming language.

and exhaustive pattern matching + result types should help as well pushing issues out of runtime.
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Why do we always have to blame the people who want to make things better? Why can’t we blame Eich for it based on his political activism trying to hurt his employees and users? Or the church for teaching Eich that their sexual hangups are more important than being good to people?
Yes the rules have changed, seems the idea is to get big fast increasing revenue without regard to profits, and eventually have a great IPO, then one of the following:

1. hope you can sucker someone into buying the company

2. keep the VC $ flowing and continue growing, then loop to # 1

3. worse case, need to start making a profit and hope you can survive until # 1. If #1 does not happen, pray(?).

During this time, the founders are pulling in a great salary.
Is modern Radeon support on Linux still great? I've heard that NV Geforce on Linux was kinda bad since ever, but it has massively improved over the past 3-4 years. Is Radeon still the way to go for Linux?

EDIT: My usecase is a Linux gaming PC. I was fortunate enough to score an RX 6800 during the pandemic, but moved from Windows 10 to Linux a month ago. Everything seems solid, but I'm looking to upgrade the whole PC soon-ish. (Still running a Ryzen 1800X, but Ryzen 9000 looks tempting.)
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A comment I saved recently offers an explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43147910

I don't agree with it but I understand it.
To be clear, `Dispose()` (aka `using`) is not the same as GC. It just cleans up unmanaged resources (connections, file handles, etc.) and marks the managed entity available for GC.
We had this 20 years ago.

It was a rich, interactive, streaming vector file format with a gorgeous and tiny code execution engine. It was an incredible time of creative exploration with many thousands of people figuring out how to make beautiful and ugly and funny and sad things and share them with each other.

Steve took this from us 18 years ago because it clearly threatened his ability to enclose the entire application ecosystem, control who can and can't publish, and charge a 30% tax against every dollar spent on the internet.

Please note: Many of the very same people who shit all over Flash as some proprietary, ethical violation, happily tap away on their iOS devices, sending billions of dollars to Tim.

Of course I'm not talking about you, it's those other people over there.
No one can pass silly purity tests. There are people who unironically believe that if you believe in money you are a bad person and are oppressing them.

Just like it would be silly for someone to blame you for being on this website founded by someone who has some questionable views, if you go looking. Or, for using this very much American website, an America that's becoming increasingly hostile. Is your participation here an implicit agreement with the current administration?

Perhaps not before, but now that you've read this comment one could argue your continued participation makes you complicit.

You show me someone's views and associations and I can make them a devil.
I'm actually happy about that. It specifically targets gamers who want to play video games.
Wait, Mozilla is banning the use of their Firefox browser for porn? That's going to hurt adoption.

What's with the mixup of their browser and services policies?

[1] Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, and you agree that you will not use Firefox to infringe anyone’s rights or violate any applicable laws or regulations.

[2] You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to:

* Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality or violence,

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/#you...
[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/
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When a famous media personality was assassinated the police managed to catch the killers within hours. Turns out they really DO track every car on the highway- it wasn't just bragging.

Every rich country is a surveillance state.
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Indeed, it's the worst case of uncanny valley syndrome!
Some time ago i was asked to help installing a mode for Plants vs. Zombies - a PVZ Fusion mode.

When searching for it I found multiple, some had download from github repos. None was looking trustworthy enough, so I didnt download any. But I hesitated a little.

From how they looked, I think now that was the kind of malware the author describes.
Woke is ruining everything!
The flight plan that brought UK airspace to its knees – incident.io
Whats the best casual (non Tor) browser these days? Brave? Opera?
It's easy when SATA drives are stacked to unplug the ones you want.

It's not easy when M.2 requires removing a heatsink to press the PCI-e unlock to extract the 2 ton GPU to access the primary M.2 slot underneath to use your screwdriver on the screw the size of a PopRock clinging on trying to not shake because it's holding onto the screwdriver with the magnetic force equivalent of a fridge magnet.

Swapping the actual nvme drive out is easy. But then getting that screw back in is even worse than removing it. Sometimes you get lucky and the motherboard is improving the hotswapping capability with the newest yearly reimplementation of a screw with a string on it so if your screwdriver has trouble holding a fridge magnet against the gravity of the earth then the string keeps the screw from phase warping. My favorite has been the rubber peg designs but we're 10 years out from combining the peg with the string tech.

That's when reading the manual to figure out the port numbers to disable in the BIOS makes sense. It just seems like missed opportunity they didn't make M.2 external facing.
The 1995 source code was effectively released when they open-sourced the Remastered collection 5 years ago. The remastered collection was simply a wrapper to make them Windows-compatible via DLLs (basically).

https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection/...
Makes sense; I need to think about which would be better.
Relevant discussion: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about...
But is still subject to a significant degree of oversight
Given there’s no fiscal incentive to, I’m (pleasantly) surprised whenever it does happen.
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These are gaming cards. If you think AMD is lacking here with just 16GB I can only assume you never bought NVIDIA gaming cards in the last 10 years.
Will we start to see a type of "SLA" from AI model providers? If I rent a server, I can pay for more 9s, but can I pay for a guarantee of accuracy from the models?
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Mark Zuckerberg will never be happy, after all the horrors his businesses have helped perpetuate, the kinds of lifestyle his brands perpetuate, the folks he has helped put into power.

The look on his face at the inauguration is a testament to how awful he feels every minute of every day. Few people in history have caused as much misery to so many people.

We ALL reap what we sow, for good or ill, so I suggest doing things that make other people happy, and never cause them misery or grief.

Look at the face of Lebron James when he surprised the kids at his personally-funded school in Akron, OH. His smile demonstrates the joy that is possible when one spends their money on others' happiness.

"There's still time to change the road you're on." --Stairway to Heaven

Happiness requires making money in an ethical way, and then spending it ethically after having earned it.
> If the attention economy is a race to the bottom, then the most popular content should be stuff that doesn't quite break the public decency rules.

I'm not sure I follow if that's indeed what gets people's attention and engagement, good or bad.
As always, wait year or two so drivers catch up.
It's 2024. If you still buy Trump coin in hope of profits, you almost deserve it...
Nothing is forever, but if you get a contract that prohibits their data play (collection, derivation, sale, all of it...) for a year or whatever, you're good for that long. That'd be enough for me.
I am cautiously optimistic for ladybird. But itll take quite a bit longer to become viable, sadly.
I don't know if you read everything that I laid out, but none of the above had anything to do with holding the good actors to hire standards. Thinking that a 990 form is secret evidence of a conspiracy because the nonprofit spent like $10,000 on a consultant here and there is at a fundamental level a form of information illiteracy. It's not like a principled attempt to hold them to a higher standard.

And my contention is that it's things like those that increasingly are what people mean when they say "everything" bad Mozilla is doing. It's more like a tulip craze than a well thought out argument.
Lots of companies have political silliness going on inside them but are still able to produce good products. For example - the CCP stuff at Bytedance, the Cheobol stuff at Samsung and the various stuff at Google.
We crossed $2M ARR with a Bootstrapped Team of 5
Additionally, there are Roslyn analysers that will complain when we forget about using.
Sorry if I may have sounded judgemental and good luck with your self-improvement trip. Orthodox Christianity can be helpful with tackling self-moderation issues. Just make sure you don't pay much attention to any extreme guilt-tripping moralisms you may hear along the way. (I am of Orthodox Christian background myself, and I have heard my fair share of them.)
That's still 2.5 watts per square meter in direct sun, 0.5 watts per square meter as a round-the-clock average. More than enough to keep your cellphone charged with a square meter. A section of a farm is 2.6 million square meters.

The bigger question is not what its efficiency is, which is to say, how much sunlight it needs per watt, but what its material consumption is—how much bismuth it needs per watt. Sunlight is abundant; bismuth isn't.

But presumably it can be improved.
not always, just when their attempts to improve things backfire out of incompetence

or like they say "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"
That, or some variant of that, has been there for ages.

2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20181223004526/http://www.mozill...

Wording was slightly different earlier than that, e.g. 2015:

"Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that:

[...]

Is inappropriate such as obscene or pornographic materials, graphic depictions of sexuality or violence, or images that exploit or harm children"

https://web.archive.org/web/20150331013034/https://www.mozil...
Man, Waterfox huh. I used to use that, but knowing it's owned by a marketing company and seeing development kind of lack behind Librewolf, there didn't seem to be much reason to use it anymore. However, being able to open a new private or tor tab in the same window as a normal tab is pretty nice.
> I feel you. Regulatory bodies have definitely fallen short in many cases, and we've seen concerning proposals from governments that threaten digital privacy and freedom. "Who watches the watchmen" seems incredibly apt nowadays.

Many regulatory bodies seem to constantly fall short of what they are supposed to do and then demand more money and powers to continue to fail at what they are supposed to do.

At what point would you accept that they maybe not fit for purpose and other solutions should be considered?

It maybe better to put resources into educating people on how to protect themselves from privacy breaches or minimise the impact.

The only thing I've ever seen from the ICO is a letter saying that if I have customer data I have to pay them a fee or pay a fine. Then I have to go through the inconvenience of telling them I don't have any, so I don't have to pay this fee.
Amazing game, thanks for sharing.
> unable to select text

Because of this alone I would not use.
Yeah, it's probably two full days of collecting and recycling aluminum.
(Not trying to belittle the homeless, I only mention this because it is how the homeless people in my old neighborhood would earn a little bit of cash. They don't deserve all the scorn they endure and I help them out every chance I get.)
Cryptocurrency is an object, it can't have any intent.
Depends, C# and .NET in general have support for manual memory management, it is a matter how it was allocated in first place.

People keep forgetting CLR was designed to accommodate C++ as well, and during the years some of those capabilities have been exposed to other languages in more easier ways than reaching out to C++/CLI.
"You may not use any of Mozilla’s services to[...]Upload, download, transmit, display, or grant access to content that includes graphic depictions of sexuality“
Librewolf or Ungoogled Chromium with uBlock.
We are all choosing sides, each and every day, between compassionate concern for our fellow human beings, and callous disregard for others' happiness.

Choose well, everyone. The karma you reap is always exactly what you deserve, for good or ill.

And the pleasure of having power over others is not a good replacement for peace of mind, joy, and happiness.
Completely agree, on both counts. Users often ask me how they can edit their BrainTool.org file outside the extension. There's no way I can in good conscience point the average knowledge worker toward installing an emacs distro!

FWIW I use orgajs (https://github.com/orgapp/orgajs). Its well-supported and gives me a pretty complete AST. Highly recommend if you're working in JS.
This may be news, but most objects are made by people, who are quite capable of having intent.
Honestly with Elixir starting to implement gradual typing and having an mature ecosystem and amazing backend framework, it is probably the better horse to bet on for bigger projects on the OTP.

Not to say say that Gleam doesn't had has it's place, it is a very interesting language, just that Elixir is already a good and battle-proven language.
The difference is in the material that you end up consuming.

It's not necessarily an intentional act: it might be that...

- the algorithms are pushing you depressing/apocalyptic content, because it increases engagement
- you intentionally followed people because of their technical or political insights... And these people (often because of world events), end up propagating depressing/apocalyptical news (this doesn't imply any ill intent on their part... It might be genocide, or it might be something milder as layoff, but if you're often writing about technical topics, mentioning layoffs in IT shouldn't be too surprising for anyone)

PS: also of course from the name itself (doomscrolling), there's the acknowledgement that this is an activity that doesn't make you feel better. Which means that the non-intentionality interpretation should be considered more important. In fact, complaining about doomscrolling, can be seen either as criticism of modern media algorithms, or as criticism of the state of the world
It's always a difficult situation. Employees want leaders that represent their values and are halfway competent at being data-driven. I don't know much about his political views or whether internally there was anything other than the Prop 8 stuff going around. However some of his later comments regarding COVID suggest biases in basic interpretation of data.
> When (not in your lifetime obviously) Waterfox is broken, what canaries do you have deployed that we can archive now, like Mozilla's tell here?

This is so melodramatic. It’s a set of patch files applied to the Firefox source tree. If an evil maintainer hatches a maniacal plan to collect user statistics and deletes the patch that removes telemetry or whatever, you can just `git revert`.
Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread
Their reveal video[0] from an hour ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfFPI8LJrc
Skype for Business, which was really just a rebranding of Microsoft Lync, destroyed the Skype brand.

But it also indirectly damaged both variations.

Skype for Business became less of a “business” software like Lync was. So unlike Lync, which was fairly spartan but information dense, Skype for Business added a ton of white space, colors, icons, etc making it less efficient and less serious than Lync.

At the same time, Skype itself became purely consumer and went way down that route, focusing more on Temu like animation gimmicks than actually being a communication tool for friends and families.
996 work culture?