skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a small portion of Mozilla's money goes to the Foundation, something like 2%.

>I assume (which could totally be wrong) that "total expenses" minus "software development expenses" goes to the Mozilla Foundation or is otherwise not available

You're attempting to put under the under "otherwise not available" label things like legal and compliance, server, bandwidth, and infrastructure costs, all of which fall under the title of general operations in their audited statement. The marketing budget has gone up to 100 million but they are a global brand and I'm not sure that that's anything I'd consider out of the ordinary given their footprint.

I'm not sure I'm seeing anything like an aha moment where they're spending it on something I'd consider wasteful, or the cause and effect between that and some missed opportunity to invest more in development that would have driven changes to market share. (This was all supposed to be an argument about market share right?)

And at this point we're six or seven comments deep in a sub thread where people are attempting to backfill all of that data into arguments they committed to before having looked at it.

On some level, I hope that anyone reading this can appreciate that this whole exercise is ridiculous because what it's revealing is that no one really knows anything about most of these finances and are guessing and squinting and assuming and attempting to backfill arguments that they were perfectly comfortable making in the absence of this knowledge. And that, in and of itself is enough to prove my point that no one claiming that Mozilla's side bets compromised their company has any clue what they're talking about.
Yeah, this highly optimized passive solar design is one of those things that seems very obvious when energy is too expensive to waste on international transportation or excessive heating in a cold climate. Citrus production in 40 below zero.

By pursuing artificially inexpensive energy we are doubling down on a great number of wasteful practices that are largely avoidable.
Hi. I think the article was just showing the example that IaC tools use configuration languages instead of code. Yoke is not a terraform replacement, and does not mention terraform anywhere its documentation.

It does sit at the same level as helm & timoni. It just takes a code-based approach to managing your cluster (which in turn can manage your infra but that wasn't the larger point).
As much as I agree with the sentiment and desired outcome (better/longer lasting products), detecting and enforcing that seems horrendously difficult. A great example is the VW (and others) emissions scandal. They evaded detection for years despite bringing the product for inspection. In the case of this thermostat, you would have to prove it wasn’t a bug and instead malicious intent to send someone to jail. You’d need records of who said it needs to be this way.

We can’t send arbitrary people to jail for bad designs. I don’t think many people would be an engineer if you knew there was possible jail time if you shipped something with a bug.
Who doesn't want their Amazon packages delivered sooner? If I could get my packages today, instead of two days later, and there's just this humming noise outside because of it? Some people would prefer the package sooner.

NIMBYs are anti-progress because of impacts to their lives and their neighborhood. The power plant needs to exist, but arguably does it? What's wrong with the old one? Why do they need to build a new one? Halfway houses and low income housing doesn't need to exist any more than a warehouse does. This one happens to be owned by Amazon, but where you want the distribution center for goods to exist, and who do you want to have own it? That this Amazon warehouse makes more noise than other warehouses and they don't want it there is definition NIMBYism.
Once you feel like that isn't enough anymore, you can also start dividing each frame into a grid of N cells and distribute that :) As long as the rendering is deterministic, you'd just join the cells into a complete frame on the coordinator.
> No one takes the time to fully understand all the PRs they approve.

I was appalled when I was being effusively thanked for catching some bugs in PRs. “No one really reads these,” is what I was told. Then why the hell do we have a required review?!
> Saying "non-uniform distribution" doesn't actually purvey any insight or mathematical "truth" and reveals almost nothing about the actual distribution - other than stating that it's non-uniform (well, duh!).

I'm not sure if you're aware, but you're arguing my point. Without contextualizing the numbers, the headline tells us only that not everybody has the same amount of X.

> It shows just how grossly wealth is increasingly captured by a small amount of people.

The sloganeering and lack of explaining which numbers qualify as "gross" and which as acceptible and worth striving for under headlines like this is precisely what I'm criticizing.
Is it still gross inequality if the top 10% own 60% of wealth? 50%? 20%?
mcsrvr – A CLI Tool to Simplify Minecraft Server Management
MCSRVR – A CLI Tool to Simplify Minecraft Server Management

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Check out the project on GitHub!
What percentage of college students attend Ivies?
if the government had a sovereign wealth fund it could have bought all the failing companies and "divested" when the market recovered. instead of being massively in debt it could have probably come out on top. granted that incentivizes the government to cause market crashes but there no perfect system.
I use perforce for my personal projects. Helix P4V's various ways of visualising streams, diffs and revisions are so nice.
I agree with your concerns in general but starting a project like this with a bleeding edge language version does make sense - by the time the code is ready to be used those language versions will be old even esoteric systems will have a compiler that supports them.

Swift is more of a concern no (only) because of the LLVM dependency but also because of the Apple dependency and no proven track record of being a good cross-platform foundation.
Thank you! That's exactly what they are. Even "higher" tech than I first anticipated.
The thing is, somehow we all got convinced that "progress" means "profitable stuff".

BigTech was not working on AR headsets because they wanted to improve our quality of life, but precisely because they want to make profit. They were aiming at "the next smartphone".

SpaceX is not trying to improve our quality of life; they want to make profit by commercialising space. "Saving the species by going to mars" is completely absurd. There is a lot of progress to be done to save the species, but SpaceX is rather a negative in that sense.

There is a lot of progress that can be done to improve our life (mostly to minimise the problems coming from climate change and the current mass extinction we're already observing). It's just that this progress doesn't make money.

I love progress. I hate profit hidden in fake progress claims.
Yeah well I don't agree that everything needs to be available to be delivered instantly. As much as it's useful, I don't like the "traditional" delivery driver industry either, just feels like going in the wrong direction to get more hours into your day doing something "productive".

> Automation drives prices down and makes all of our lives better.

As I said in other comment, this increases traffic (especially airtraffic which goes from 0 to non-zero) and it doesn't make my life better that my neighbors can order toothpaste via a drone, causing average noise levels to rise as said in the article.
> The article would be equally fact-free non-news ...

It may not be surprising but it's not fact-free or non-news. The pace at which Alibaba is developing its RISC-V designs is significant. Removing one dependency on western supply chains is material development even if the dependency on TSMC remains.
> Let me re-phrase that then to the main cause of Black over-representation in prison being bias. Because yes, one can always find some bias, but does it contribute to 1-10% of the outcome, or 80-90%?

I think the answer is "depends on how deep you look". Black Americans largely being the disadvantaged underclass stems from slavery and segregation (not genetic differences) for instance, with identity/culture being formed around those circumstances too.

> Although one could argue that the bias goes in the other direction - i.e. that Blacks are favored by the legal system, since, estimating based on fraction of homicide perpetrators (56%), they are under-represented in prison at 32%. Of course this is just that - an estimation, and it could be simply that they genuinely commit fewer other crimes.

1. As you hedged, it does indeed appear that it's higher for homicides than other crimes (and there are comparatively very few homicides). In 2023 the average for arrests across all crimes was 30%[0].

2. I'm not sure whether or not you're seeing the main point I'm trying to convey. The "proportional" prisoner count you take as the neutral unbiased point would mean that a Black person would be by default more suspected of being a criminal, more likely to be searched, more likely to falsely arrested, receive harsher sentences for the same crime, etc. - which is what many experience as bias. It's a bit of an unintuitive statistical fact about maximizing predictive accuracy.

> In your place I would choose a different example than college admissions, however, because, at least for the Ivy League, whites are the most under-represented group by a significant margin, despite doing comparatively well in tests:

The purpose of the hypothetical was to show how something like "asking for parent's income on admission form, then treating low-income as a negative factor" would be obviously unjust, and how instead even discriminating in the opposite direction (with the neutral point being uniform/blind, not proportional) could arguably be justifiable. College admissions seems a good example for this because it's where affirmative action has been practiced and hotly debated - I don't deny its existence.

[0]: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#
Doubtful. Public discourse online is often not about convincing interlocuters, but mostly about whoever is watching/reading.
Legal Dept: +10, Favorite

Marketing Dept: -10, Flag
Amazon does this to deliver toothpaste and batteries because people want toothpaste and batteries as soon as possible after they have placed an order. So if a new technology appears that enables faster deliveries then businesses will at least experiment with it.

It's as simple as that, no greedy capitalist conspiracy needed.
From Design doc to code: the Groundhog AI coding assistant (and new Cursor meta)
When did you learn to code? What access did you have to technology when you started? How much free time did you have? What kind of education did you have?

Are you really unique because you are one of only a few special people who can code because of some innate ability? Or is it that you have above average intelligence, have a rather uncommon but certainly not rare ability to think a certain way, and had an opportunity and interest which honed those talents to do something most people can't?

How would you feel if you never had access to a computer with a dev environment until you were an adult, and then someone told you not to bother learning how to code because you aren't special like they are?

The 'magic box' is a way to get past the wall that requires people to spend 3 hours trying to figure out what python environments are before they can even write a program that does anything useful.
That's very nice work, and many interesting concepts introduced in the post (for example, arenas, length bounded strings, the Cut struct).

One caveat though:

> If the OBJ source cannot fit in memory, then the model won’t fit in memory.

I don't think that this is true: a (single precision) float textual representation is typically equal or larger than its binary representation (4 bytes), the floating point used in the renderer given later in the post. The numbers given in the cube example are unlikely to occur in real world examples, where one would probably expect more than 2 digits of decimal precision. That being said, for double precision floats, it might be true in many scenarios, but I would not make that a cardinal rule anyway.

This corner cut fits within the objective of the post, which, imho, isn't to make the most efficient program, but provide a great foundation in C to build upon.
FCC Proposes Updates to Bidding Rules for AWS-3 Inventory Auction
I'm not sure errors are really understood that well.

I ask for 2+5, you give me 10. Is that an error?

But then it turns out the user for this program wanted + to be a multiply operator, so the result is "correct".

But then it turns out that another user in the same company wanted it to mean "divide".

It seems to me to be _very_ rare when we can say for sure software contains errors or is error-free, because even at the extreme level of the spec there are just no absolutes.

The generality of "correctness" achieved by a human programmer is caused by generality of intent - they are trying to make the software work as well as possible for its users in all cases.

An LLM has no such intent. It just wants to model language well.
No, Zelensky has not done "the same".

To have done "the same", he would have needed to force Russian citizens living in occupied Kursk to pick up guns and throw their lives away fighting other Russians. Which he didn't.

Russia did force people from occupied territories to fight in Ukraine.
Agreed. A great example would be the testing of old tvs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxQS58t39_U

They were often tested to ridiculously high standards with huge voltages applied across strenuous tests. And they cost accordingly.

It’s amazing how cheap things are these days. I think what frustrates people more is that the more expensive options don’t usually last long. Finding the more reliable option is fiendishly difficult and it may not exist.
There are tons of Chinese designs, and have been for at least 10 years. T-HEAD ones are most notable for how slow and buggy they are. StarFive (formerly SiFive China) and Sophgo (recently sanctioned by the US, using a variety of chip designs) are much more interesting. [Edit: & XiangShan]
"Undetected" in that context means "undetected until they're nearby". They're far from quiet.

They've deployed surprisingly long-range acoustic sensor nets, for tracking them by their noise:

- "Zvook’s detection ranges, though much shorter than radar, are nothing to sniff at. Drones, for example, can be detected up to 5km away. For cruise missiles, the range is about 7km. To pull this off, Zvook designed curved “acoustic mirrors” half a metre in diameter. These dishes concentrate sound waves on the microphones they cup. Most listening stations have two, for a coverage arc of about 200°. Processing takes place on an adjacent computer."

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/07/24/... (2024)

https://archive.is/sQcFO
You can fix some of this by having competent and independent inspection, which this seems to be. The rest - perhaps you can't litigate, but you can publicise, with details, and perhaps something a consumer rights watchdog or public body would pick up.
They aren't required to watch them, but the voters do all get screeners. They at least have the opportunity to watch it, regardless of whether they've seen it in the theater. They don't vote just for what they've heard of.

The Academy has a reputation for seeking "artistic merit" even at a cost of good entertainment. They're hoping to advance something that didn't do well at the box office. Sometimes that means giving awards to films that turn out to be dogs, but sometimes they manage to promote things that deserve attention.

A lot of Oscar-bait gets a small release at the end of the year, to qualify it for the Oscars. If it gets a nomination, they'll use that as part of a wider campaign later. That's why they send out screeners: they know that many members won't have had a chance to see it in the theater.
gotta believe you're playing devil's advocate and not in genuine belief that an amazon warehouse > low income housing
> Massive pipelined arrays of adders that can execute one 64-bit multiplication every cycle, with a 3 cycle latency.

How do these manage to achieve the 3 cycle latency? If it has to go through a pipeline of 8 (or 64?) adders in a row (I don't know if it's actually that many! but I assume more than 3), how do you still manage to get just a 3 cycle latency, assuming a single adder has a latency of 1?

Also, given the trickery needed for the radix-8 multiply, where you get lucky with most values from 1-7 except 3 and 5 which use this specialized circuit, how much such specialized circuits do you need for radix-256 multiply?
This is peak 90s. Skifree, toasters, "under construction" gifs on your Geocities homepage, and random fun plugins and add-ons that you would download from Tucows.

Maximalist and absurdist digital culture that is all but gone now.
It's hard to justify this over an M4 Pro 14" MBP unless you absolutely must have 100% compatibility with Windows or Linux.

The Framework @ $2,100 vs $2,000 M4 Pro 14":

* Significantly slower CPU, GPU, NPU

* Significantly less efficient, with way worse battery life

* Performance declines by as much as 50% as soon as you unplug it

* Way worse screen, with only 60hz

* Fewer ports

* Worse keyboard and trackpad

* Thicker

* $100 more expensive

* Way less resale value

* You can say repairability but Macs are tanks and last significantly longer than the average Windows PC and often get a second life after resale

* You do get 8GB more RAM (but much slower), and 512GB more storage I guess.

Personally, when people say Windows laptops offer more value. I look around and I always find that comparable quality Windows laptops are just as expensive or even more expensive than Macs.
> The Busy Beaver game is finite in space, but infinite in time.

Sorry, I have a hard time understanding this. Are we talking about the same thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver

The Busy Beaver deals with two kinds of programs: those that can use infinite amounts of time and space, and those that only use finite amounts of time (and thus also only finite amounts of space).

As far as I can tell, there's no place in the Busy Beaver ever, where space is finite but time is infinite.

And in any case, if your space is finite, you don't need infinite time: you 'trivially' can detect that you are reaching a tape state that you have reached before and abort. The busy beaver is harder than that.
Good for Ladybird, but I don't think they can support all the complexities of the Web with only 7 develops (but perhaps with enough volunteers they could - 7 is enough to do the hard thankless work while volunteers do the more interesting bits). Between all the weird layout rules, required speed to be useful, and security (last only because with out the other two you automatically have perfect security since with no users holes cannot be exploited).

Still I wish them luck.
> And they say California is anti-business. (which it is.)

If you break up the US states as countries, California is the world's 4th largest economy.

source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/16/california-remains-the-wor...
are you missing a /s here, doctor pangloss?
We're literally on the verge of collapsing because of climate change and mass extinction, and that is if WW3 doesn't come first.

Robots are not solving any of those problems.

Also the Jetson's seem to live in a world without any nature left, I don't see how that is desirable.
This doesn’t make sense, considering more than half of the population are shareholders (at least in the US).

By definition, if a large enough group wields the majority of political power then they will always have “primacy”.

It’s like complaining about rivers flowing downhill instead of uphill.
OSS Server for building unified API (Customer facing Integrations)
Hey HN!

I’m excited to introduce Mappy, an intelligent unified API generator that simplifies building customer-facing native integrations. Instead of maintaining multiple API connections (CRM, HRMS, etc.), Mappy provides a unified API interface with AI-powered mapping and transformation.

Why build this? Native integrations (For SaaS applications) are painful—every platform has a different API structure, auth flow, and quirks. Mappy abstracts that complexity into a single, API generator for handling data mapping using jsonata.

There are no true open-source Unified API integration tools (All are huge platforms that cost a ton), and other OSS products are not truly opensource (ESL or AGPL and most of the features are only available on enterprise editions)

Start configuring the YAML files to build your unified API and webhooks.

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PS: OSS Merge.dev alternative
Moreover, the vast majority of the callbacks to cyberpunk-- both aspirational and critical-- somehow miss that the entire aesthetic was a response to Reaganomics! Moreover, and somewhat ironically, Reagan was the last US president that used the Heritage Foundation's publications as his policy template.

I wonder what great aesthetic and fiction we'll get from Trumpism?
Hhhh what a video :D
In hindside it's sad they didn't rickroll me.
Generally most of the Linux's have rough edges on the desktop experience. I am using Debian 13 (Current Testing) and while it is pretty decent these days there are lots of annoyances. I still dual boot for gaming and at work I use Windows.
> no greedy capitalist conspiracy needed

No, because capitalism itself IS the greedy conspiracy.
Generally NIMBYs consider whatever they're opposing to be a real nuisance. If they don't find it a real nuisance, they don't bother. You're describing a caricature, not an actual group of people.
While I don’t doubt the behavior, I have a hard time believing that a product manager would let an expensive part like a battery get added to the BOM if it’s only purpose was to fail after ten years. Which suggests it performs some sort of function, which means this could be a bug rather than a malicious act. We will likely never know but I’m always willing to assign stupidity rather than malice
That's a fun one! And the reality is that there almost certainly *is* information out there, it's just a function of us figuring out how to pull the signal out of the noise. (No pun intended :P)
Pretty sure an amazon drone could crash on your doorstep with your ordered toothpaste before you manage to stop it, yes.

Not sure that this is what you want :).