skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rocket equation applies to more than just chemical fuel.
The article quoted 1T for about a watt of input, which is ludicrously efficient. So the higher field means more thrust. Less input power means less power generation hardware mass and less cooling hardware mass, which will compound with the higher thrust for a very favorable specific impulse.
Very exciting, and I wish them well!
It's simple, really. Make it so the experts have 0 leverage. Maybe have "the workers" make all the decisions! ??? Profit? :-) They tried this in Soviet Union...
> Are you recommending to break the law or are you being sarcastic?

Does it have to be either of those?

They're just summarizing the lesson they see.
I think the "weaponization of complexity" claim can only be understood in relation to the "gimping browsers to protect the App Store" counter claim.

The situation is far more complex than three browser engines competing on a level playing field. "Showing up" is not even possible on iOS. And Firefox is funded by the maker of Chrome.

I think all of this rhetoric that browser vendors use against each other has to be seen against the backdrop of their respective business models.
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Way back IIRC Google Talk message threads would show up right in your inbox.
I'm sure this is tried (I've done it myself), but a hybrid approach would take best of both worlds; heavy rendering on a canvas, the rest as SVG/DOM elements.

Even this relation can be inverted: to speed up SVG interactions, I pre-render complex path and text elements at a sufficient resolution, which are shown during transitions/user interactions, but replaced with the SVG original elements once the render loop settles down again.
Yeah and coming from someone with so much experience and industry knowledge as dannybee i find that perspective very puzzling.

Just painting the situation as well google have influence because they work the hardest is just bizare. Having been in some standard / comity meetings. Everyone in those room work very hard... but someone hard work is not enough
> I am beyond thankful every day for apple keeping both desktop safari and ios running to prevent the internet being even more monoculture than in the IE6 days

Don't worry, EU regulators (and other countries soon I suppose) are doing their best to fix that "bug".
Kagi's Orion browser has a lifetime sponsor price of $150. That plus the Kagi subscription support its development.

It's currently macOS and iPad/iPhone only, but a Linux version is being worked on. I don't know their plans for a Windows version.
I wonder how often the "...as part of a move to AI" part of such announcements is 99% BS - trying to distract investors from the hard financial realities of lackluster sales and bloated expenses.
I think I read somewhere that scammers set up an email distribution list / alias / forwarding from one something.onmicrosoft.com account to dozens of victims, and then they trigger a (real!) paypal email with that one something.onmicrosoft.com address as the recipient. So the email has a valid DKIM signature from paypal, then microsoft forwards that email to all the victims, which will still pass DKIM while amplifying the attack (and maybe boosted by microsoft's SPF reputation as well) to hit as many people as possible. Apparently the paypal emails are real but dangerous as they will allow the attacker to somehow take over the victim's account if they log in, as the "middleman" onmicrosoft.com alias then becomes associated with the account which was the original "to"-email from paypal. Something like that, at least.
Elon Musk fans believe he can make Dogecoin the currency of Earth
I may have missed the part where the author reported these to github but they're not going to be removed it nobody actually reports them. What a lot of effort put in to seemingly give up at a crucial final step.
Seriously the Cadillac of card games. I love spades and euchre, finally got around to bridge and didn't want to go back.

My only complaint is the bidding systems and how difficult it is to learn even as a person who loves to play cards. Like, knowing how to play spades sorta gets you there. But the bidding system takes it a thousand steps further.
No, there was nothing unconstitutional about the process. The Ukrainian parliament correctly followed the procedure for holding snap elections.

Snap elections might be a novel idea for Americans who are used to presidents always serving the full term, but they are fairly common in rest of the world. Germany held snap elections just last Sunday, after the government lost its majority in parliament.
How does this matter? If it said "never" it cannot be changed by deleting it, because never means for eternity. Otherwise it wasn't a promise.
What part of my experience did you find different than your own? I said the day to day was mostly the same, minus the decrease in comp. I mostly was trying to articulate that the idea that IBM is going to 'super power' Hashicorp is not real, despite what IBM says.

A lot of what was communicated during the acquisition process was how IBM was going to super power Red Hat and help Red Hat grow into an even larger entity, and how Red Hat actually need IBM to survive.
Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Can you explain why you don't like `use` but you would like an `await` keyword?

As far as I can see, `use` is a superset of the `await` transformation that just happens to work in a lot more situations. It circumvents callback hell when you're working on the Javascript target [1] but also de-indents lots of other code like handling results [2].

[1] https://github.com/gleam-lang/javascript
[2] https://erikarow.land/notes/using-use-gleam
It doesn't allow for different extensions though. I need to use a full profile in order to use separate bitwarden accounts, for example.
it certainly means they can successfully detect it, which makes it all the more abhorrent that they don't moderate it very well (or at all)
It’s somewhat more nuanced than that; a classic sampling problem.

When Instagram knows nothing about user X, it trends to shocking content that user X may not want. Which is bad.

But the reason it does so is that the shocking content has higher engagement, in average, among users A - W. It is not right to blame user X, and it is very likely that users D, H, and M are dismayed at the shock content but can’t help slowing down when they scroll past it.

So we can blame Meta to some degree, and users A - W (except D, H, and M) to some degree, and users D, H, and M to some degree.

But if the total ad revenue from users A-W was lower when shock content was featured, user X would not be presented with it.

Of course, Meta could just be decent. But so could the other users. The fact that neither are true is an emergent property of sociopathic corporations and an unfortunate side of human nature.
Great question! We explored local LLMs (including llamafile-type solutions) in our early development, but found that the reasoning capabilities and consistency weren't quite there yet for our specific needs.

That's why we currently optimize for cloud AI models while implementing intelligent plan caching to significantly reduce API costs. This approach gives you the best of both worlds: high-quality execution plans with minimal API costs, plus much faster performance for similar actions.

You might find our documentation on plan caching interesting - it explains how we maximize efficiency: https://github.com/orra-dev/orra/blob/main/docs/plan-caching...

We're always evaluating new LLM options though, so I'd be curious to hear about your specific use case.
I'll have to disagree here.

Leaking resources in Rust is pretty trivial: create an Rc cycle with internal mutability. By contrast, in languages with a GC, cycles will be properly collected.

And there is nothing preventing GC languages from tying their non-memory resources to the lifetime of a value like Rust. See Python files, which are closed when the file handle is collected (ie. when all variables holding it go out of scope), and if that's not explicit enough, there's the "with" keyword to explicitly introduce a scope at the end of which the file is closed.
The ISO 10303 family of standards [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
Yep I realized about that many time ago, they are literally scammers
Also, when did the Standard Breakfast Equivalent for torus become a bagel instead of the established donut :-)
There are two things here. The company has an algorithm that tried to find out what makes users click/scroll onwards/return soon.

And then there is what users like.

The company chooses to act as though the two are equal. That's not given. Nobody forces Insta to assume that.
That's something I was thinking a lot about back when I was working on Servo. Wasm + a protocol to talk to WebRender (expose display lists [0] to the wasm runtime). Some sort of "mini web", a minimal runtime that would do just enough that most web APIs could be re-implemented and shipped from the webpage directly. The DOM, the CSS parser, the layout engine, … could just be shipped as wasm modules.

Kind of defeat the purpose of view-source, but nowadays, it's a lost battle already.

And I didn't think too much about sandboxing, accessibility, network or whatnot. Just a fun idea…

[0]: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/c4bd5b47d8f5cd684334...
Is there any possibility of getting pre-built binaries? If these can be released as nightlies or at least from time to time it will really help with the adoption.
At the same time they suspended my GitHub account which I had for more than a decade, maintained multiple big open source projects, and contributed in hundreds. Didn't even bother to provide any reason or reply to any of my requests. Worst experience of any IT service I had. I would never recommend using GitHub to anyone, and started donations to Codeberg and Forgejo.
I want to answer your question, but i don’t know what “negative-emotion-producing-material” means, nor how to look up definitions.

Could you type out an explanation by hand for me?
Who cares what that clown twits??
This is what I do as well. Note that nearly every MacOS app shows a file or folder icon in its title bar if you hover the mouse over it – this icon can be dragged into a terminal to open the current file or folder there. Also useful if I e.g. want to grep something in a currently open text file in the terminal, or something like that.

(There is a system setting to always show this in the title bar without hovering, which was the old default behavior before Big Sur if I recall correctly. I’m a bit annoyed that it’s now hidden away by default.)
People who remain fans of Musk given current events aren't prone to critical thinking, so this tracks.
What's the point of encryption?
It's to protect data for some time, not forever.

All encryption can (and will) be broken.

I was there when Md5 became obsolete and was replaced with Sha-1 ( made by the nsa) which is now also obsolete.

I was there when all 8 letters password on windows could be cracked in minutes.
And discovered that windows kept a copy of the hash locally, unless your password was +15chars.

Don't blindly trust end to end encryption.
With the latest W11 you get even more :\

When you install it to a system with other partitions or drives that are accessible, it silently autoencrypts them all using Bitlocker which is now on by default.

It's not too bad unencrypting your C: volume afterward with a few clicks, but if you don't have a Microsoft Account then you won't have a readily available key (to type in) or easy decryption option for the other volumes. It can be a lot easier to reformat and recover those non-C: volumes from backup than bother to decrypt, you've got to virtually overwrite the entire drives anyway :(

Simply installing the latest Windows is definitely more likely to be the direct cause for loss of more gigabytes than most malware I've seen.

It didn't used to be this way.
Which users most heavily weight algorithms for viral effects? The guy who looks at dogs and bikes, or the teen user who doesn’t know their arse from their elbow?
Right? Not a fan of Meta, but the flip side of this is “how dare those censorious corporate overlords limit what I can post to my account”
They make more money and 99% of users don't care enough to switch.
Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents
nobody has a clear answer, it's a complex problem. i personally don't either.

people in power need to run many, many experiments in parallel, and propagate what works. it's already too late so they should start yesterday...

pick a few hundred ideas, hire some good statisticians. run experiments for 2-3-4 years, then spread the good stuff and test a new batch of ideas.

i don't think that will happen though. so we got to prepare for the crash as best as we can.

the economy being not so good is certainly a part of the problem, but if we're going to over-focus on that we are pretty much doomed.
Zoom was popular with at home schoolkids. Because to use Teams you had to have a Microsoft acccount first. Zoom was a link, a meeting ID, and password. Sometimes just a link.
I had this experience where Facebook.com started to spam me more and more car accident videos. Probably since I hovered over them to block the sender.

I would guess that there could be a similar effect here. And I guess my eyes looks longer on a car getting stuck on a rail road crossing than something that is not inheritly dangerous, too.
IIRC HashiCorp's first product was Vagrant, which was written in Ruby to wrap the CLI args of VMware and other VM hosts.
Thanks for the support! Haystack is definitely interesting. I'm following a bunch of companies in this space, like Haystack, Greptile, Territory.dev, IcePanel, Spectral, Codeviz.ai, eraser.io.
ChatGPT has been coasting on name recognition since 4.
> Yes, it's just a downstream fork of chromium. It can run any extension that runs on the equivalent upstream build of chromium.

Therefore, no, it cannot run uBlock Origin, or soon will be unable to run it.
this is why instagram is so fun. a lot of people have their friend group chats in imessage, wechat, fb msg etc... but the best group chats i've ever belonged to are on insta and the unhinged meme feed is glorious.
They treat them as collectibles with ”limited or no use.“ That makes sense, but isn’t quite supporting the crypto-world’s preferred narrative.

> Although individual meme coins may have unique features, meme coins typically share certain characteristics. Meme coins typically are purchased for entertainment, social interaction, and cultural purposes, and their value is driven primarily by market demand and speculation. In this regard, meme coins are akin to collectibles. Meme coins also typically have limited or no use or functionality.

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/staff-state...
First column on Sci-hub:

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380010110
Was it even possible to make a legal Spotify? I don't recall that any of the music labels were actually renting out MP3s.
If you're using org-mode and thinking about customizing it a bit more, and/or would like it to serve you in a way that is a bit more aligned with GTD, this reference from Bernt Hansen is without peer and just an incredible contribution: https://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
》This situation reveals a recurring issue in how Mozilla communicates with its user base

Mozilla is very clear at its communication! They even got new leadership and rebranded recently! Their updated Privacy Policy is also very clear! Maybe they had not implement everything yet, but they are heading in clear direction. And real hammer will come in a few months, if they lose deal with Google!

At this point Mozilla is a toxic organization when it comes to privacy, something like Google with Chrome. Dismissing it as a "communication issue" is not sufficient! Waterfox needs clear separation from Mozilla!
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Home, business, workshop.
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The screenshot feature is easily accessible in Firefox using the right-click context menu on any webpage
Someone needs to write a book on the how and why Mozilla became whatever the hell it is now, and why they would drop the ball so hard on Firefox while jumping from one unsustainable idea nobody wants to another. Why is there no adult in the room to say no to the nonsense and direct resources towards the one thing people actually do want?
Just don't allow direct downloads or clones. It will solve a lot, although not many.
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It's sort of weird that by that argument Chrome is ok, because Google owns both the search engine and the browser.
What did you mean stop blaming the users?

You mean that the firms are incentivized to show outrage inducing content to gain attention?

If so, that’s also NOT the problem with firms. You, me, and everyone with a phone is in some form of information and attention war. Or over farming situation.

- There is a competitive process for attention
- What is crazy today is boring tomorrow, as people get desensitized
- all content competes with all other content, for the little working memory that people have.

Personally I describe it as a gearing ratio issue. We have one small gear which is everyone’s short term attention.

In the mean time, we have a larger gear which is the content cycle. This gear is spinning faster and faster as the velocity of content generation increases.

Anyone who takes a stand to slow down or make their content less attractive, will get out-competed by more competitive content.

Any moderation of this process breaks the lay definition of free speech.

So you have a runaway effect where the content must get more outrageous.

This isn’t the fault of anyone, but a fundamental problem when free speech meets faster and faster content creation tools.

We’re at the point where GenAI slop will simply out compete everything, and grow everywhere like a weed.

I’m telling people I know that you have to give up on facts, the signal to noise ratio of the future is going to be hopelessly poor.

Instead, you will have to make do with whatever content you are looking at, and focus on the techniques which you use to interact with the content or people.

Its hard to blame a singular firm for this, when anyone who takes a stand will be crushed by the wheel of competition and free-speech.
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Thorium is regularly 3 months behind on updates

Iridium brings me to a 404 when I try to download it for MacOS

Sadly, neither seem like good options.
"passively scrolling" is still sending a stream of user actions and choices.
But you're right, I trained myself to swipe past animal cruelty and ragebait on FB as fast as possible and still get it recommended. Maybe in some indirect way making me feel bad still increases my engagement.
Or we could do one for unit tests, every time a test fails it should say "Unit lost", "Unit lost"....."Unit lost"

If a build or deployment fails "A-bomb launch detected"
I really like gleam, the vibes are 'right' for me in that its got a strong type system and a functional style. Coming from scala land, that feels natural.

I think the author hit on a core challenge gleam will have to face, outside of dx. its main niche would be highly scalable type safe server apps, pretty similar to what scala is/was originally imagined as.

Its very hard to occupy that niche when by definition the projects you look to take on are large enough for languages to be heavily scrutinized. Your CTO wont really care if you choose rust, node, or go for some internal tooling. They will absolutely care about what is being used for core distributed services, and that just makes adoption hard.
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Is the partial support only on iOS? Because iOS is a rather special case. Personally I don't count iOS versions of browsers as even being the same software.
My stupidly simple TODO "system"
So woke is about identify politics then?
I'm going to be honest, but this is a really weird way for Microsoft to announce Edge is EOL and they can't afford to even hire two or three more developers to perma-fork Chrome and bring the rest of the Chromium community under one roof, away from Google (who is an extremely bad steward of the project).

Shame that Microsoft just chose to no longer have a real browser. Oh well, long live MSIE I guess.
Ah I thought you were referring to EXO the service, not Exchange Server. Yes, Exchange Server has been a full ISO deployment for many years, now.
macOS apps are also sandboxed but that wasn't deemed safe enough when discussing iOS apps.
Nah, people with woke are just the winners right now, and you can’t stand it.
It's in the File menu of the Finder, towards the bottom.
I went and loaded up the flutter web demo on my iPhone 15 Pro https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/material_3_demo/

In addition to the pitfalls mentioned like being unable to select text, every interaction including scrolling is noticeably laggy and dropping frames.
I find this statement to be technically correct, but practically untrue. Having worked in large terraform deployments using TFE, it's very easy for a resource to get deleted by mistake.

Terraform's provider model is fundamentally broken. You cannot spin up a k8s server and then subsequently use the k8s modules to configure the server in the same workspace. You need a different workspace to import the outputs. The net result was we had like 5 workspaces which really should have been one or two.

A seemingly inconsequential change in one of the predecessor workspaces could absolutely wreck the later resources in the latter workspaces.

It's very easy in such a scenario to trigger a delete and replace, and for larger changes, you have to inspect the plan very, very carefully. The other pain point was I found most of my colleagues going "IDK, this is what worked in non-prod" whilst plans were actively destroying and recreating things, as long as the plan looked like it would execute and create whatever little thing they were working on, the downstream consequences didn't matter (I realize this is not a shortcoming of the tool itself).
By SEC, or in law in the US because DOGE?

Can QBT Qualified Blind Trusts own memecoins, or is that still a conflict of interest? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201808
"Growing support is easing collaboration via org files."

The same month this article was written (4/22) I tried to make the case for org as an interchange format for productivity tools [1] and pointed to most of the same tools supporting org. (Disclosure, my browser extension, BrainTool[2] is listed in the article). I still love the idea of a local-first, plain text model for sharing personal data across productivity apps, but three years on its not clear to me that the momentum has been maintained. Are folks still building new things on top of org?

[1] https://braintool.org/2022/04/29/Tools4Thought-should-use-Or...

[2] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/braintool-go-beyond...
I generally interpret "doomscrolling" as "compulsive scrolling", e.g. whem someone is bored and just keeps going through one of the infinitly scrolling social media feeds.