skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust's design is designed to be more in the mentality of if it compiles that it is good enough, leaving less for runtime issues to occur unexpected, dictated by type and memory safety. So, it requires more type info (unless you use unidiomatic unsafe code) and talking with borrow checker. But, once you internalize its type system and borrow checker, it pays off if you care about compiler driven development (instead of dealing with errors in runtime).
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it!

The frontend is built with Svelte (still on version 4) and SvelteKit. The project does not use any pre-existing package for publishing. The CSS is completely custom. The font is a custom build of Iosevka [0], which uses a diamond-shaped "0" to emphasize the centrality of zero in Land's work (e.g. Zero-Centric History [1]).

The project itself came about after a close friend sent me a picture of a Land book he had found at a library. I had read Land years ago - he was one of the reasons I got into coding - and it just struck me that I had never built anything related to his work. I was always fascinated by his capitalism = AI thesis, so I just dove back into his work and started building.

[0] https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

[1] https://retrochronic.com/#zero-centric-history
The Rust Programming Language does a great job imho. It got me up to speed by reading it before bed for a month. I’d never written C/C++ before, just a lot of Python. It starts out really simply by explaining the type system and the borrow checker. Take it from there and do a couple of side projects, I’d say.
Executives at pretty much every organization offer the same sensible reason. Working in an office together greatly reduces the cost of collaboration, which is valuable in its own right as well as leading to more inventiveness and better mentorship.

The problem is that, as you can see a bit upthread, a lot of ICs don't notice or don't care about the collaborative aspects of their job. To someone who feels that writing out lots of code is their real job, that sensible reason sounds like a weird deflection, since "reduces the cost of collaboration" means by definition that I'm getting interrupted or distracted when I could be heads-down programming.
> I'm basically funding software for everyone else when I subscribe to Kagi

You’re paying for a product. The search product.

Like, I don’t run Linux. That doesn’t mean every product I pay for that supports Linux is somehow unaccountable to me as a customer.

> not really accountability to the users when a bunch of them are funding software for the rest of them to use

You can pay for Orion. Obviously if you don’t have a Mac, don’t do that.
Yeah the premise of the article is totally wrong.
If you're fine only being able to browse existing and past websites, sure. Don't forget to donate to the Internet Archive or make your own local copies, though, or that'll become infeasible relatively quickly too.
> a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox.

This is super bog-standard nothing-special stuff.
Forking the Firefox code base is easy, at first. Forking the Mozilla Foundation to keep browser development going long-term is hard.
If you are a fan for other reasons than the complaining it might be a problem for you if all his content, over time, has turned into complaining.

Personally, I have never seen anything other than complaining from him, so I'm not sure why you would be a fan and also have a problem with the amount of complaining (which afaik has always been close to 100% of the content).
You become used reading this. Typing it is such a pain; I mean real pain like muscle pains.

I developed some muscles I didn't know I had.
In this order:

1. The Rust Book (Free) - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

2. Rust by Example (Free) - https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/

3. Rust Atomics and Locks - https://marabos.nl/atomics/

4. Rust in Action - https://www.rustinaction.com/

5. Rust for Rustaceans - https://rust-for-rustaceans.com/

Also Jon Gjengset's channel is immensely valuable: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonGjengset
>The more you distance and dilute from the original share, the less relation there is to the original investor. Eventually, there is simply no relation to the two. Similar to how buying a used copy of Frankenstein today has no benefit to Mary Shelley or her estate.

No, because capital markets are far more liquid than the market for copies of Frankenstein. Every dollar that gets "invested" goes into the global pool of capital stock, some of which is used for new investments like factories or whatever. Spending a dollar on existing shares makes them ever more expensive, and therefore a poorer investment than new investments. That causes more money to be funneled into new investments. There isn't a surfeit of piled into existing shares, because the existence of such a surfeit would imply there's money for someone (institutional investors, hedge funds) to sell their existing shares to fund new investments.

>https://www.npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-s1-5103935/grocery-prices-...

The original claim was "Collusion and speculation is a big factor in a lot of the inflation.". Your article says:

>Gross profit margins of big-name stores and brands stayed mostly steady

and

>"Even though profit margins for grocery stores have gone up," he wrote in a July report, "the increase appears to be only a small contributor to the rise in food prices relative to the increase in their operating costs."

But grocery stores' margins are single digits, so at best this explains a few percent (note, not the same as percentage points) of inflation. Hardly "a big factor".
Your way of looking at things is fundamentally broken. You will never understand society or other people if your analysis is that we could transform society with technology but we choose not to because... some people are just evil and don't want to.

The reality is that remote work meant a massive drop in productivity. It sucks if you are one of the few that is equally or more productive at home than at work. If you are, then you are few and far between. Most people working from home do sweet FA. Everyone knows this and everyone talked about it constantly for all of the WFH period right until they were asked to work from the office again.

>The psychopathy of the executives lies in their desire to make this structure persist. RTO mandates are an irrational attempt to brute-force rollback the tiny bit of power they gave up to the masses during covid. CEOs are evil. They are evil because they perpetuate a system of labor that increases inequality and puts most people under unnecessary duress because of an artificially imposed scarcity.

You are either insane or you have completely swallowed some source of propaganda. Evil? Artificial scarcity? System of labour? Do you even hear yourself? Take a step back from the computer, stop listening to podcasts and just think for yourself. Or if this is you thinking for yourself, find someone else to do your thinking for you, because you're not good at it.
Yes, it's been a struggle to ship newer version. It looks like they are preparing a new release based on gecko 123 (https://github.com/kaiostech/gecko-b2g/blob/gonk/config/mile...).
They could do it with supervision today but to have the thought and solely act on it? That would take way too long for it to even be a concern.
He's praising them for people with clear metabolic syndrome, and I'm reading between the lines as someone with prior knowledge. As a simple example, while it's probably good to inhibit gluconeogenesis in people with elevated A1c, doing so in a healthy person could lead to hypoglycemia.

I don't have a list of exact timestamps, but there are multiple places where he discusses the impacts of the GLP-1 agonists (of various generations) on insulin signaling, glucose transport etc., and the conversation is generally complex, nuanced, and wide-ranging. We don't understand everything these drugs are doing, but they're clearly banging around a complicated metabolic/hormonal system with a big, blunt hammer.
Your perception is that water is wasted elsewhere, therefore you feel less inclined to avoid wasting water yourself?
Wrong, what it's missing from passkey is phishing resistance. And you can use passkeys with at least a few independent commercial password managers if you are not happy giving your passkeys to Google & Apple (I work for one such password manager)
Bezos has directed the WaPo opinion team to focus on the true enemy of the people - bathroom fixtures.
> and just trying to run the company effectively and efficiently

The issue is, during covid, many companies thrived, the sales skyrocketed and everyone was happier than ever. Now, they backpedal and say that we need to go back butts in chairs for reasons, but there is zero mention of the previous prosperity and why can't we just keep doing the same.

It's a lie, simple as that.
Thanks for the detailed comment!

1. Friends reviews on book is actually not that hard at all. We will implement it right after we get the friends and follow system working.

2. This one will take a decent number of users and ratings. We need a lot of data before we can make recommendations using ML.

3. Noted.

4. We will add that in the next few weeks. Filtering TBR seems to be a common request.
Fang companies have colluded together before to surpress the labor market, litigation about this goes back to 2010 or so.

Since that’s always an option.. yeah clearly keeping talent in high col places is a part of the cudgel that employers want to use against employees. It’s similar to healthcare being connected to employment really. If the labor market was actually free from ultimately coercive tactics like this then the world would look very different.
You will enjoy cool retro term! https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Just do what 95% of people did before: one picks up and one drops off.
In principle you’ll still be able to use all of the features that existed before this flag but you’ll need to compile the code if targeting Node.js. I do think that this new flag is going to draw people away and we’ll probably see a bunch of tsconfig presets and boilerplate projects setting it to true.

If you’re using a bundler then your’re not to going benefit from it in the medium term. It’s possible this will unlock faster build times with them in the future.
visceral videos, in which ASMR creators play with squishy slime, role-play braiding the viewer’s hair, whisper loving affirmations or paint the camera lens with spit, all aimed at stimulating these “tingles”.

The author clearly smuggled the spit part in. As this is internet, there are all sorts of videos out there, but explicit presentation of saliva is very far from mainstream. You’d have to explicitly search for these videos to find one.
IANAL but at least in some EU countries you can't give away all rights preemptively for usecases not yet known at the time. So a blanket giveaway doesn't necessarily include AI training (it is a different question if the people performing that act actually care).
And result is stupid. It is pretty much impossible to discover something new on Netflix. It puts you into a quick box and no matter how much I try to find a comedy, I can't because it decided the same crime shows are my thing.

Netflix recommendation system just does not work. It does not allow me to find movies I can like, it allows me to see the same thing I seen once before.

I am not in the mood for serious documentary evey day of course, it takes more concentration. But when I am in mood for one, I should be able to find it.
I guess I've never read far enough into a 10,000 word Substack essay to judge
The book isn’t free, its contents are published online by the author. Yes, nitpicking. But (1) I like a well formatted epub and (2) the author/publisher still hold copyright.
Being wasteful is generally bad, but changing consumer behaviour is mostly a distraction from industrial resource use. I can't believe we still waste so much time and effort on "recycling" plastic water bottles when there are so many things that would be orders of magnitude more useful, if only we were willing and able to upset large companies.
https://letmegptthatforyou.com/a/PAZ26
> We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example.

Like - what basic functionality? Does not sound like "browsing" is that functionality and I am not interested in any other functionality. I do not want you (Mozilla organization) to use any of that information.

Moreover, what if I do not have the right to sublicense the content I enter to FF? Am I legally not allowed to use Firefox?
Do not worry about world-ending neglect towards the staff responsible for the maintenance and security of our nuclear arsenal, their intent was only for a smaller government!
I think Pandoc and Calibre could work for you.

I've worked on PAIP, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, and I might be able to help you a bit. It's around 1k pages long. I used Pandoc to generate an epub file, and then Calibre to turn that into a PDF file. I just tried using Pandoc to generate the PDF file directly, and it/LaTeX choked on some Unicode characters.

For internal ebook links, there's a Lua script. You'll have to keep anchors unique across the book for this:

* good: "chapter1#section1_1" and "chapter2#section2_1"

* bad: a "chapter1#section1" and a "chapter2#section1"

WIP: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/pull/195

For line wrapping of code, there's CSS. I first used it over on "Writing an Operating System in 1,000 Lines"; here's the PR: https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines/pull/...
What Does Netanyahu Want?
Why is Netanyahu seeking a limbo on Gaza's ceasefire and choosing to corner Hamas into accepting new terms of a ceasefire as opposed to those already agreed on?
There is institutional prejudice against "Solopreneurs". The notion is that if you are doing the business alone, then it must be something wrong with you. Like, why didn't you attract any co-founders? Why you don't have a team behind you that supports you etc. etc.
Basically they want to shoehorn outdated economic models onto emerging businesses and they way they operate.
This is fuelled by the rich, who inherited their wealth and have no talents on their own, just want to get shares in "cool" things and appear in circle jerk magazines how they spotted this little company and took them to the next level etc.
As solopreneur you are unlikely to get any grants and other government support too. There is always one question that shuts the conversation down: "What if you get hit by a bus?"
It's been about 15 years since I've used Firefox as my main browser but I'm not sure what their value proposition is at this point. They're not faster than the best browsers, and if they're not going to be better on things like privacy I don't see where they are going to position themselves. I mostly use brave now and some chrome when the occasional site doesn't work in brave.
Relationship may be secondary in a large SaaS company (you may see new key account once a year or two), but 6 figures mean paying by invoice, custom discounts and there will be inevitably some KYC process. CEO or CCO can do it and in boutique business they do it, but you probably cannot have lots of customers AND such deals at the same time.
The author of nouveau is working for NVIDIA now. And redhat is writing their nova driver to the mainstream. I really wish this would mean using NVIDIA is going to be a breeze in the near future.

Until that I'll buy AMD.
most corporate healthcare plans for techworkers at 18F level will be top notch
> Not a single absentee father I've ever met has accused their baby mommas of sexual assault

When did anyone say anything about sexual assault? Sexual assault isn't the only way to violate an individual's agency in matters of parenthood. But since you brought it up, there have also been cases where a male victim was raped and still had to pay child support.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermesmann_v._Seyer

> If you don't want kids, you have a responsibility to not have unprotected sex. Take some damn accountability for your actions and accept the consequences.

There's more to birth than just unprotected sex. If you're suggesting that sex necessarily implies parental responsibility, that's on you to prove. The law already recognizes that sex is not an agreement to parenthood for women. However, the law is incoherent and inconsistent when it comes to men, a number of whom may not even be the biological fathers of the children they're "responsible" for.
Have you considered outright donating to Apple instead? Seems like a more direct way to put your money and support behind Kagi's upstream rendering engine developers.

And seriously, threatening chargebacks, which can and often do cost the recipient money beyond just the loss of an original payment/donation, against a nonprofit over an (all things considered) minor change in direction is pretty despicable.

I could get behind it if this was actual non-profit fraud, but none of these points of criticisms against Mozilla seem new. You knew what you were donating to.
I rarely need to convert markdown documents, but sometimes I need to produce a report for a client or a non-technical internal reader.
Show HN: An AI agent that proactively pushes you to follow habit routines
i saw that note taking apps and to-do lists don't do jack, we often forget about it. the solution is proactiveness and accountability. that is what bloom does, its an ai habit companion that knows you, plans for you, nudges you and tracks your habit routines to help you achieve your habit plans
That makes perfect sense in the early model of internet where everything was just links and documents. You can make an HTML form with action attribute pointing to a different domain. That's a feature, not a bug and isn't a security vulnerability in itself. Common use for this is to make "search this site in google" widgets.

Then you can make the form make post requests by changing a method. Nothing wrong with this either -- the browser will navigate there and serve the page to user, not to the origin server.

What makes it problematic is the combination of cookies from the destination domain and programmatic input or hidden field from the origin domain. But the only problem it can cause is the side-effects that POST request causes on the back end, as it again doesn't let the origin page to read the result (i.e. content doesn't cross the domain boundary).

Now in the world on JS applications that make requests on behalf of the user without any input and backend servers acting on POST requests as user input, the previously ignored side-effects are the main use and are a much bigger problem.
Why do something "to make a difference" if it's literally incapable of making a difference (even with every single person doing it).
I think many programming languages could benefit if we had an easy way to have both custom symbols and a convenient way to input them without extra friction. Take APL for example, once you know the language it's incredibly expressive, but the overhead to typing it is so strong that many use custom keyboards/caps.
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> How come is it in demand?

It's a curly-brace language with some solid decisions (e.g. default immutability) that produces static binaries and without a need for a virtual machine, while making some guarantees that eliminate a swathe of possible bug types at compile time.

As others note, the symbol soup is something you learn to read fluently and isn't worth getting hung up on.

Basically it occupies something of a sweet spot in the power/useability/safety space and got a decent PR shove by coming out of Mozilla back when they were the cool kids. I like it a lot. YMMV.
Almost as pointless as "Yes, accept all cookies" for our european friends.
This “nonexclusive worldwide license for the purpose of doing what you asked us to do” thing has bitten so many companies over the years, I can’t believe anyone would obliviously put it in there at this point.

I understand your IP attorney thinks you need this license to operate, but the users will definitely freak out unless you express extremely clearly what the restrictions are, and probably write a blog post explaining what it’s there for. In the current climate it will be read with the worst possible interpretation.
Are all of those 90 million liters used, as in "lost", or is a large percentage of it captured/re-used?
Waterfox, which some prefer over LibreWolf, seems to have an Android app. Haven't tried either of these alternatives on any platform though.
It's frankly ridiculous that people thousands of miles away in Washington have any say over what goes on in our bathrooms (modulo basic safety strictures.)

My current apartment came with a showerhead that (I assume) was compliant with the Obama/Biden rules. It dribbled water until, sopping wet and desperate, I grabbed a pair of pliers and bashed out the flow limiter. My water bill didn't even budge.
This is crazy how fast you can build things today. But you need to understand what AI is spitting out and make decisions what to include, what to reject and how to ask it to create things. Ironically, this is almost like you would talk to your employees to make things for you.
Lack of LSP support looks really bad in the article proposed solution :/.

But const enum seems to have several pitfalls. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/enums.html
Some with nary but the common smartphone. Choose wisely!
Keeps him out of prison.
Slipped once cannot be trusted anymore.
We seem to have forgotten the point of having a functional economy, which is to provide people a means to exist. Bots writing code to interact with other bots, ad infinitum. Where will the revenue come from? Broke, jobless consumers?
Seeing posts like these, I often feel alone preferring enums to string unions.

There are certain situations where refactoring a string in a union will not work but refactoring an enum will. I don't want to type strings when, semantically, what I want is a discrete type. I don't even care that they become strings in JS, because I'm using them for the semantic and type benefits, not the benefits that come with the string prototype.
Yeeeeah, he says that "they're quite safe", but it's in the context of a wider conversation focused on people with metabolic syndrome. I wouldn't be eager to extrapolate from that comment to "let's put this in the water supply" (exaggerating for the sake of argument).
What is this constant push in software development to dumb everything down to the lowest common denominator?

I don't see it in other fields, at all.
Finally, a good use for those pesky surveys that no one answers, I'm pretty sure the goal from the start was to generate cover for whatever policies they feel like enforcing.