skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually low by my anecdotal experience of Gen Z. Various things skew my sample.

I suspect most of them will end up in heterosexual relationships, and identifying as mostly their assigned gender. But they're getting a chance to make these as choices, rather than enforced heterosexuality.

They'll probably still identify as "at least a little bi" and "less than 100% male/female", but it's going to look conventional from the outside. They may well be in "ethically non-monogamous" relationships where they get to express parts of themselves that they don't usually do.

They resent having an identity forced on them. As we all did; we just didn't realize how pervasive that force is. I am manifestly certain that I'd have decided that I was a straight cis-man, but when I grew up it would never have occurred to me to ask.

I wouldn't say that my set of Gen Z friends is doing great. The world is pretty stressful for them. But they're responding to it with a pretty healthy understanding of gender and sexuality, so they've got that going for them.
Historic low so far.
> we just shouldn’t do it.

I think what Accelerationism gets right is that capitalism is just doing it - autonomizing itself - and that our agency is very limited, especially given the arms race dynamics and the rise of decentralized blockchain infrastructure.

As Nick Land puts it, in his characteristically detached style, in A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism:

"As blockchains, drone logistics, nanotechnology, quantum computing, computational genomics, and virtual reality flood in, drenched in ever-higher densities of artificial intelligence, accelerationism won't be going anywhere, unless ever deeper into itself. To be rushed by the phenomenon, to the point of terminal institutional paralysis, is the phenomenon. Naturally — which is to say completely inevitably — the human species will define this ultimate terrestrial event as a problem. To see it is already to say: We have to do something. To which accelerationism can only respond: You're finally saying that now? Perhaps we ought to get started? In its colder variants, which are those that win out, it tends to laugh." [0]

[0] https://retrochronic.com/#a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-...
> To them, it's a gamble the same as the as the lottery or sports betting. They know it has a negative expected value but they do it anyways because they find it fun.

Sports betting and lottery, while like gambling is legal in many states, is regulated.

Also, memecoins are unlike casino gambling, where there is a tiny chance of an outsider winning. That's where some of the "entertainment" in gambling comes from. In the case of sports betting there are also factors of chance outside the game that the game depends on. Again the adrenaline of betting on the unknown.

With memecoins, unless you are an insider, there is precisely 0 chance of winning. They are pure pump and dump schemes preying on the ignorant, or if the buyer is aware of how they work, they are no different from a bribery mechanism.
We should appreciate their honesty.
In other words, most people are sheep easily lead astray by sociopaths.
Waterfox got bought by an advertisement company System1. You should looka at Zen Browser or Librewolf instead.
On Windows Nvidia has better drivers. On Linux, AMD is far ahead.
An Interactive Guide to Database Sharding
Memecoin = something that looks like a cryptocurrency when squinting but fails the Howey test
4. No, it is not good. "Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932754
"The Browser Company" does not want to be seen as a dumb pipe. You are not downloading a mere browser, but a "platform" for "experiencing the web as never before".
I chuckled, nice job on the name

That said, I think a playbook in HCL would be worlds better than the absolutely staggering amount of nonsense needed to quote Jinja2 out of yaml

I would also accept them just moving to the GitHub Actions style of ${{ or ${% which would for sure be less disruptive, and (AIUI) could be even opt-in by just promoting the `#jinja2:variable_start_string:'${{', variable_end_string:'}}'` up into playbook files, not just in .j2 files

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/11/collections/ansible/buil...
Librewolf is available on Microsoft Store officially tho
Watching this guy's devlogs was extremely informative:

https://www.youtube.com/@randyprime
Idk, it is pretty good a generating synthetic data and recognizing the different logic branches to exercise. Not perfect, but very helpful.
Prediction: UK tech stock will outperform Lloyds shares over the next 5 years
I made my (wall-mounted) desk with two stair treads:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/EVERMARK-Stair-Parts-48-in-x-11-...

One tread for the top. Another tread cut a bit shorter and used as a keyboard tray. I've been using it for 5 years and am happy with it. But it's only suitable for computer use, not for dealing with physical paperwork or handwriting.
There are many efficiency metrics. For instance, how much energy went into constructing and deploying the bomb vs. how much destruction it caused. I think large nuclear bombs would look quite ok on this metric.
What I miss is when they had these T&Ts native to the OS. Like way back in the 90's...
Don't forget MSN Messenger was discontinued/merged into Skype. So they fucked it not once, but twice. Literally handed over their dominant position in instant messaging for nothing.
I can say my family never once paid for AOL or cared about its basket of features. But we did pay for NetZero for a long time until broadband become more affordable in our area.
My issue with upstream options is that it prevents ads from coming through but their "place" on the page is still preserved so you still need uBlock to remove the elements.
I wouldn't hung up on the feedback too much. I also think minecraft has no clear goal and feels aimless and yet it's one of the most popular games in the world. If the game is fun for you, there will be a niche with the same taste for sure.
Related:

Boris Spassky has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197956
> There is no threat towards Canadian sovereignty obviously. The Riviera in Gaza would be a lot better than the current situation in which its biggest industry is exporting rockets into Israel.

Like there is no threat to Medicaid? Here’s the authoritarianism: Trump is clearly setting us up for a major constitutional crisis by way of his lying bullshit. Go see the way he talked to the governor of maine and tell me you dont hear the threats? You might not be a Nazi, but you’re sure damn close.
I was given an account when it was in beta. the breadth and quality was amazing. I would listen to Merzbow box set, obscure country, every album I could think of. I studied so many eras that I'd missed or never knew about.

When it went public most of my playlists got emptied.
You may want to double check your math before you retire.
The more hours you work, the higher the morale.

> “A number of folks work less than 60 hours and a small number put in the bare minimum to get by,” he wrote. “This last group is not only unproductive but also can be highly demoralizing to everyone else.”
They don’t want records around that expose crimes when discovery happens, and they want that so much that they shave a percent or two off the company’s productivity to get it.
DOJ – Jeffrey Epstein's files [pdf]
It's not a moral victory, it is a pragmatic one.

If it was 98% chrome and 2% firefox that's basically 100% chrome.

Instead safari on ios (and to a lesser extent desktop) means the web isn't 100% chrome (or chrome skins like brave)
That sounds very much like Ladybird's mission.

Truly independent

No code from other browsers. We're building a new engine, based on web standards.

Singular focus

We are focused on one thing: the web browser.

No monetization

No "default search deals", crypto tokens, or other forms of user monetization, ever.

https://ladybird.org/
I like that this can be done with only an esp32/esp8266 and some way of blocking radio waves. Very cost effective. (<5 dollars)

Hopefully it becomes popular enough that premade self-contained binaries for upload using esptool emerge, like those used for browser based playstation exploits.
Gamedev City [0] is a new community and could be a good place for feedback and finding resources in general. As for sharing demos and collecting feedback I personally think itch.io [1] is pretty good.

As far as game improvement is concerned it's important to get in a growth mindset and keep focusing on improving the game, which it sounds like you're already doing.

Finally if you haven't already I would recommend creating a discord or some kind of forum for you game (itch.io has free hosting for them) just so you can collect feedback from people who are interested and invested in it.

[0] https://gamedev.city/

[1] https://itch.io/
Spotlight has ALWAYS been terrible...
Oh, wow, the SpaceX team inside the FAA actually pushed to have the contract, already awarded to Verizon, canceled and given instead to Starlink.

No attempt whatever there to avoid the obvious conflict of interest.
the airplane market is juicy, but "just wait" for the US Postal Service privatizations.. that will be real money
The new administration just cut 400 jobs at the FAA [1], and now Musk will directly pocket the "savings" to "work" on some bullshit useless tech. When Musk talks "waste and bloat", he means public money that doesn't end up in his pocket.

As a result, air traffic is noticeably more dangerous, and many lost their livelihoods in these increasingly uncertain times, just to make the wealthiest man on Earth a bit more wealthy. The "Fell for it Again Award" goes to...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/faa-firings-trump-doge-safety-air...
This is such great news. I had to communicate with clients and in some European countries Skype is expected. It's used for group instant messaging and it is awful compared to Slack/Teams. These users absolutely refuse to move off it so glad to hear they will have no choice. Skype sucked 10 years ago. With the vast array of better options available it sucks immeasurably more now.
Link to original artist: <https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts>

(Including a partial update: <https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts-update>)
> Bookkeeping using plain text files sounds both interesting and challenging.

It has quite a bit of a following; I personally would never switch back to some more "complete" application. I believe all the most popular implementations are listed here: https://plaintextaccounting.org/
MSRP doesn't mean anything right now, it's just a made up number at this point. Let's see the real sticker prices once the cards hit the scalpers cough-cough I mean shelves.
its not been tested yet, so they probably have no idea.

They for sure expect better than the ones currently in use/testing (e.g. the nstar ion thruster)
Ah, I see - thank you for the context! If you don't mind one more question - do you have to leave a substantial amount of cash in the Steam account in case of very late refunds? Or does Steam just send you an invoice or something?
Is it fair to still call LLMs stochastic parrots now that they are enriched with reasoning? Seems to me that the simple procedure of large-scale sampling + filtering makes it immediately plausible to get something better than the training distribution out of the LLM. In that sense the parrot metaphor seems suddenly wrong.

I don’t feel like this binary shift is adequately accounted for among the LLM cynics.
I've got used to the google lens thing. If you click the address bar then the lens icon and then highlight part of the page it visually analyses it, ocr's text, searches for the text, optionally translates it etc. I use it all the time because people will post text in image form.
Skype is the epitome of technical debt. Millions of lines of code for a service that isn't technically difficult to provide anymore. When I was at Microsoft, I was told working on Skype was about as popular as being sent to a gulag.

The value of the brand is so strong, I am surprised they never launched a "2.0" version built from scratch and without all the vestigial tails.
The difference here is we know the definition of sorting algorithms, but we don't have a working definition for "consciousness". The argument is, if we use materialist definitions, then lots of unexpected things fit the definition.
Nvidia enjoys $130B annual earnings despite gaming segment 'supply constraints'
The Software Engineer Spectrum: Speed vs. Accuracy
>unofficial President

That sure is a funny way to refer to a president who was elected by both the popular vote and the Electoral College. I'm no fan of Trump, but it sounds like a form of derangement syndrome to believe that he wasn't democratically elected.
Mozilla acts like a corporation and not a non-profit. There is no humility or grace in their communication.
On one hand I agree, on the other hand, their claim that they are too small to support a large community of developers is not wrong.

Also, they claim "zero telemetry", so I don't really know what's going on, I know it's not leaving my computer.

I find that currently even if it's far from perfection, Orion is the lesser evil in the browser scenario.
No; it’s because then, the internet would go from 80% Chromium, to 95% Chromium.

Allowing alternative browser engines does not mean Firefox gets a footing. It means Chromium gets a footing even on iOS, and we start seeing Electron apps on iOS, with every app bundling their own Chromium renderer.

If Apple were forced to allow 3rd party engines on iOS, they might as well shut down WebKit. All hail Blink, the universal engine.
The Bewildering Irony Behind the Trump-Musk Partnership
All these extremely important decisions...
I never used Chrome much. I think I jumped from IE5 to Firefox. IE6 only for testing web apps.

Frankly nearly everything has been working well in Firefox for a long time. The only two sources of problems are:

1) Long tail experimental sites that use or want to demonstrate some new technology. I find most of them on the home page of HN.

2) Myself and the security/privacy plugins I use. They break some web pages, especially ecommerce and payment workflows. I either go hunting for the correct combination of permissions in uMatrix (I would become crazy soon if I used uBlock Origin for that) or I use that very site in Chrome and the close it. Major ecommerce sites don't have any problem. The long tail ones are weirder in their choice of third parties. However that's an issue that any browser would have, it's not because of Firefox.
You're missing a critical part.

Eich's donation was well-known. The lists are public. Lots of Mozilla folks were aware and unimpressed, but they tolerated it because Eich (CTO) was a respected member of the corp with a long history of technical excellence. As well as no workplace hostility etc.

Then Eich was to be promoted to CEO, which is a nontechnical job that involves being the public face of the corporation and speaking on behalf of all employees.

A substantial portion of Mozilla employees felt that this new expanded role would not be appropriate for Eich or anyone who had expressed hostility to a marginalized group, that Eich did not represent the values of Mozilla, and that they did not want to promote him or to be led by him.

So they created an internal stir which gathered a lot of internal support, bled into public forums, and led Eich to back out of the CEO role. He probably could have gone back to CTO, but he decided to resign from the organization instead.
Librewolf portable [0] is available via the PortableApps.com launcher, which is great for keeping it from scattering files everywhere or for carrying it on a USB drive for Win32/Wine users. Waterfox Classic used to be available, but that stopped a long time ago, and the new Waterfox was never available, to my knowledge. Additionally, the portable version of Librewolf, while lagging slightly as most portable editions do, is updated fairly frequently.

This is why I ended up choosing Librewolf - I prefer to have more control over where files are stored on the Windows platform. I also took the extra step of creating the TempForPortableApps [1] folder as well.

[0] https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/librewolf-portable

[1] https://portableapps.com/support/platform#advanced
The more unique your habits, the easier to fingerprint. That said, with those habits, you may be a less attractive audience.
What does "free antenna" mean here?
Banana republic shit.

Not much more to say, really. There's blatant conflict of interest going on, but I guess we're way past that. Four next years is going to be a non-stop firehose of grift, good thing they won't even bother to hide it.
It is finally happening, AI strapped to formal solvers doing maths "beyond" us.
Agreed on both counts (I made the same points in other comments :))
It was a p2p phone and video call app that Microsoft purchased when mobile phones started to take off. Phones cannot participate in a p2p network the same way a desktop can, so it had to be re-architected to use central servers, and they never got it to work the same after that.
Going forward I think we can assume that conflict of interest doesn't exist anymore. No DEI but they'll replace it with nepotism and full on corruption.
I just checked out your prior submission. The title didn’t really sell what the game is, it just lists some technical features you like. Then opening the link takes you to a page with a play button, and clicking it takes you an account creation window asking for my first and last name and email. At that point I backed out because there’s no way I’m signing up for something I don’t know and can’t try.

In the early days of Minecraft it was a free dev build that ran in the browser and had no accounts, as new take on a game called Infiniminer
> Not much consolation to the world's super rich who will lose tons of money once the LLM industry (let us remember that AI is not LLM) falls.

They knew the deal:

“it would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI Global, LLC in the spirit of a donation” and “it may be difficult to know what role money will play in a post-[artificial general intelligence] world.”
I've started using Viber, but it's full of ads and more expensive
There have always been cycles of hype and correction.

I don't see AI going any differently. Some companies will figure out where and how models should be utilized, they'll see some benefit. (IMO, the answer will be smaller local models tailored to specific domains)

Others will go bust. Same as it always was.
While I don’t like the way it is handled, I’m going to be a contrarian here and say this could be a good thing. Previously, the contract was awarded to Verizon at the same price. I have more faith in SpaceX’s ability to deliver than Verizon and if starlink antennas are on every plane, aircraft internet will likely be better overall as a side effect.

Please convince me why this view is incorrect, I am open to listen.
Earlier source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43188401
I don't make any moral judgement unless I have Skin In The Game. In this particular case, you can follow me by joining the Communick Collective and pledging $20/month. Is that ok?

[0] : https://blog.communick.com/communick-collective-a-zero-commi...
>RFP or not, these contracts are spoken for long before anything is put on paper.

Can you please provide some examples of this occurring?
If you are in control of the domain of your email address, enable SPF and DKIM for that domain, together with strict policies that mail servers should reject spoofed mails claiming to come from that domain. If your own mail server supports validating SPF and DKIM, you would no longer receive such forged mails, nor anyone else behind a mail server supporting SPF and DKIM.

If you aren't in control... just ignore it like any other spam mail.
Vercel API Major Outage
I like that Orion (safari based, Mac only) shows different icons in the dock. All chrome profiles show up as a single icon. I haven't checked Firefox, I've got away with just installing separate types (default, ESR, nightly).
It's actually legal for FAA to fire it's employees.
Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
lol, you guys in the US are so screwed

why did you vote for these corrupt clowns?

it seems like US govt always either 180s from the previous president, or morphs into it's last enemy, in one way or another.

Osama, Obama

Russian Oligarchy, American Oligarchy

I almost expect a Putinesque invasion of a 'threatening' nation, maybe Cuba, or somewhere around the south-east-asian sea (the so-called south-china sea), or maybe rotten Denmark if they won't give up Greenland.
this has never been the case for me, and evidently for the vast majority of others as well.
Great. Really not looking forward to helping my grandmother migrate, and possibly a bunch of her friends.
I'm genuinely curious on what defense of this move folks can offer? Seems like one of the more blatantly corrupt moves I've seen in a long time.
Thanks I forgot about NetSurf. After Microsoft abandoning Blink and Opera abandoning Presto to use Chromium, the internet needs these alternatives more than ether

Is Palemoon the most popular Goanna-based browser?
I always find it interesting to see the people that show up in comments that are the authorities on the matter being quoted and am reminded that hn has a very diverse readership.

One of the things that this also reminds me of is the impression that "learn to code" meant "everyone should be a software developer" when your experiences demonstrate a "learn to code" was part of "becoming a better legal professional".

Do you have other examples of how learning to code improved your abilities as a legal professional?
"...interact with online content" is pretty much all encompassing.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052
One thing I heard it it doesn't have the custom block element feature which would be a shame as I like the thing.
My 6900 XT has had pretty good support in everything I've tried.
If you get (i)pxe running, you can chain to https://netboot.xyz/ which lets you boot lots of open source stuff.

It's a bit of a mixed bag, because pxe environments have a way of not always being useful. On bios boot, there's tools from isolinux to memory load disk images and hook the bios calls... but if your OS of choice doesn't use bios calls for storage, it needs a driver that can find the disk image in memory.

For uefi boot, there's not a good way to do this, supposedly some uefi environments can load disk images from the network, but afaik, it's not something you can do from ipxe. Instead, for UEFI, the netboot.xyz folks have some other approaches; typically fetching the kernel and initrd separately or otherwise repackaging things rather than using official ISO images.

And I've run into lots of cases where while pxe seems to work, maybe the keyboard doesn't work in pxe, or something else doesn't get properly initialized and you end up having a better time if you give up and boot from USB.
> $800k should pay for a flight planning/replanning website made by one dev in a few months, and half an on-call rotation to man a helpline.

I realize I'm piling on, but do you really believe that ATC comms just tracks flight plans? Or are you just trolling?
Agreed. I spent a year going down the wrong path before finding this resource, but it saved me from going four more years down the wrong path.
It will be upheld as prime example that a whole market can self-hypnotize and ruin the society its based upon out of existence against all future pundits of this very economic system.
Not to mention Starlink is further cemented as critical infrastructure and less liable to be sanctioned by future administrations.