skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I normally defer to Hanlon's Razor, but with this administration it's 50/50 if their actions are due to incompetence or malice.

The only thing we know is their intent is never to benefit the majority of the people they are meant to be serving.
It's definitely a thought I've had too. In particular, there are some tech stacks I know of dealing with critical energy infrastructure which are tied to US cloud companies, I think those represent a huge risk, and I wouldn't be suprised to see a few of them start shifting soon.
I think the most likely political effect is from media consumption. There have been anecdotal reports of the drug helping people avoid doomscrolling compulsions, which likely means less exposure to various political social media.
They stopped letting you access about:config on mobile on the normal releases a long time ago.
I remember this! I ported one of my games and indeed got a blackberry tablet. Then I ported another one and gave it to my friend to submit, now he also had one... It was huge for a poor student!
> Blindly running code from GitHub can be detrimental

And this is exactly why I dislike how most dependency managers nowadays (especially npm) use GitHub directly. I prefer something where somebody other than the dev has reviewed the code. As it is, I could be installing literally anything.
This is like asking "if steam engines are so powerful, why can't they end poverty".
Hey, it’s Brendan from Sesame. The feedback is spot on. We still have so much to do to make it good. Inspiring but still many steps away from a great experience. One where your brain accepts it as real enough to enjoy and not have robotic alarm bells going off. Today, we’re firmly in the valley, but we’re optimistic we can climb out.

Verbal communication is complex. There’s a big list of interesting challenges to tackle. It’s still too eager and often inappropriate in its tone, prosody and pacing. The timing of when it responds is wrong more often than right. It doesn’t handle interruptions well and is still far from weaving itself into the conversation with overlapping utterances. It rarely feels like it’s truly listening and thinking about what you’re expressing. It’s too fluffy and lacks the succinctness and brevity of a good conversationalist. Its personality is inconsistent. Then add in hallucinations, terrible memory, no track of time, lack of awareness…

The list keeps going.

I believe the community can make meaningful progress on all of these.

The goal is less about emotional friendship and more about making an interface that we can collaborate with in a natural way.

Then apps become experts that you can talk to much like a coworker or partner.

The models are already powerful enough to do so many things. But finding the right prompt is often tricky and time consuming.

Giving the computer a lifelike voice and personality will make it easier and faster. Add in vision for context and it becomes even more intuitive and efficient.

I’m more convinced than ever that we’re at the cusp of a new interface.
If so, their execution of that change is terrible. They could have explicitly clarified things, replacing "sell" with more expansive language that would maintain the explicit commitment to user privacy. But instead they changed their words to sound like Microsoft and Google, two notorious privacy violators, and have since only made it worse by only giving us circular explanations.
> So glad I don't live in the UK right now.

As are we.
Shoot, I think I heard him say it in some interview floating around YouTube a long time back. Let me see if I can dig it up.
The first letter in a couple of sentences is also lowercase, so probably typos.

Somewhere he uses "I" (correctly), somewhere he is not, so it is inconsistent, and most likely just typos.
There is a through line from Goldwater to Nixon to Reagan to Gingrich to Trump. Connective tissue has been provided by the likes of Roger Stone. This has been a 60-plus year project to overturn the New Deal.
It's really hard to have private companies charge for doing work that a functional government agency performs.
> Absolutely not. Have you watched modern streaming services lately?

Of course I have - a typical Netflix movie is between 3-6GB.

Apple TV is the only one offering higher bitrates (which is why I use it, even though we're an Android/Linux only household, with iTunes running in a VM to buy movies from Apple TV).

> There is absolutely no way you get something anywhere equivalent to a recent Severance episode (4K Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos) that Apple is streaming to you at ~25Mbps onto a DVD.

Severance episodes, in 2160p with Dolby Vision and DD+/Atmos audio, are 8.3GB-8.7GB each. While you're technically correct, the point remains.

> I believe the average home connection is something like 100 Mbps if not better, and streaming services really have no trouble delivering Blu-ray quality 4K video to the average US consumer.

A typical 4K UHD bluray has a bandwidth of 95Mbps-120Mbps. A far cry even from the 25Mbps offered by Apple TV, let alone the 6-10Mbps offered by Netflix.

> I think this is actually a bigger barrier than a lot of people assume. I have personally considered the idea of my own media server but keep getting put off by the fact that I really will need a very large NAS-grade HDD for it.

I have a blu-ray collection, I do not have a blu-ray player. I watch my movies by ripping them to my NAS and playing them from my NVIDIA Shield TV.

If you don't do any transcoding on the NAS, you can use an old ThinkCentre or HP Microserver (about $60-$100).
If you just rip your own movies from blu-ray, you don't need any redundancy, so you can buy a single 12TB drive for $200.

That's about $250-$300 for enough storage for 450 1080p blu-rays or 160 4K UHD blu-rays.

The only remaining cost is the content, but usually you don't just watch new releases. Used blu-rays are available at e.g. worldofbooks or rebuy for $5-$15 each.
Why do all those micro framework copy the worst aspects of flask?

The global request object, the bad integration with sqlalchemy, the strong coupling with an application object that forced the indirection of blueprints...

If you start again from scratch, forcing people to migrate their stack and therefor leave their ecosystem behind, at least fix the glaring API problems.
russian propagandists and useful idiots try to hide or dismiss discussions about it.

russia owns trump. elon talks to putin regularly, and he was promised access to Ukrainian mineral wealth. The whole Panama canal, Canada, and Greenland sabre-rattling is so eventually russian oil tankers can traverse the world with impunity.

russia is dividing and conquering. They still dream of being a superpower, instead of a failed mafia state with nuclear weapons.
At least where I live & work, I have to pay taxes the when I invoice, not when I receive payment, so they cost me 20% of the billed amount, at least temporarily.
California's Path to Redemption
I'd imagine someone in EU is trying to push out its own version of Tiktok/Facebook/Twitter/etc as they are very important in national security (any software that can impact millions of people).

TBH I'm always puzzled why EU never managed to push out its own social media software. Maybe just because I don't know?
> I don’t think anyone was guilty

Hannibal Lecter is not guilty either since he's technically crazy, but we don't have many options for people who are innocent like that. I wish we focused on people who became guilty through a series of bad decisions and limited outcomes, rather than poor millionaires who were raised by Stanford professors.
>First the mobile apps lost the ability to show full web pages (“Web View”) while offline,

I've used Pocket on and off since back when it was called Read It Later and I don't recall it ever offering this feature (offline access to saved web page versions of articles), at least not outside of the premium service.

So I tried my best Googling skills, which seems to have increasingly diminishing returns with every passing day, but I did find a LinkedIn article from 2017 noting that this archive of web page feature was premium even then.

(Edit: It's worth noting that InstaPaper doesn't offer this either. Nor does Raindrop, nor did Omnivore (RIP) although you could print to PDF and upload it to Omnivore. The only article saver service I'm aware of that does is Wallabag, which is self-hosted.)

>10. Premium options

>So far, every feature has been free. If you upgrade to a premium plan, you'll get other features, such as permanent copies of your articles in case they're removed from the web, suggested tags to make bookmarking even easier, and the removal of sponsored posts from Your List.

>This post was originally published on Proof Is In the Writing on July 20, 2017.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/complete-guide-pocket-ultimat...
CEO salary alone was 6.9 million in 2022. I wonder what else is overpaid…
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.html
Given the thoughtless cuts to the workforce and the arbitrary bureaucracy to get anything done/paid for that they've introduced, I'd say the prior probability towards it being their fault should be fairly high. I'm waiting for evidence that it isn't their fault.
Can you explain what burned you? I imagine many of us are trying to sift through the raft of alternatives, and waterfox is a frequent mention, so data about pros and cons is valuable.
I don’t think this is really true at all, at any decently busy establishment there’s no way the bartender could possibly be responsible for what their patrons do after leaving when they barely have time to take their orders
Curtis Yarvin has been writing about this forever. JD Vance has spoken publicly about his agreement with ideas like RAGE (Retire All Government Employees). Musk has similarly spoken publicly about how CEOs are the best people to run the world. Although Thiel is not directly in power, he's also a Yarvin-ite and has been instrumental in both Vance's rise and also the pipeline for the various people working at DOGE to destroy the government.

Alongside these budget cuts, the GOP is proposing massive tax cuts and massive increases in funding for parts of the government related to law and immigration enforcement that will massively outweigh any savings from DOGE destroying entire programs overnight. DOGE is also demolishing organizations that are revenue positive and Trump has fired Inspector Generals, who are responsible for identifying waste and inefficiency in government operations.

It isn't a possibility. It is very very clear.
Don't do this with modular power supplies [video]
Can't say I've missed emotions in Google Search or Excel. In chat from something designed to help you, there's a fairly narrow range of emotional cases that are relevant and useful:

- Confidence/confusion: if the bot thinks it misheard or cannot understand you or it lacks confidence in the ability to reliably respond then it's a handy channel

- Dangerous/Seriousness: an update for something genuinely serious, with major negative implications or costs

Most others are fairly annoying (would anyone want a bot to surface frustration or obsequiousness or being overly agreeable / "bubbly" as here?!)
Well, they took over things like Pocket, build that VPN service and Firefox Send and probably founded other projects that are not important to the core of their "business".

If Mozilla would have solely focused on Firefox and Thunderbird we could be in a better place right now.
I feel like we just went back 20-30 years but MS Windows has become the modern Web browser.

- It is totally controlled by big corporations.

- It is very expensive to reimplement.

- You kind of need it to take part in the world: open and edit an Office doc correctly (but you can also be a freak and use LaTeX if want)

- Using a Webkit/Blink based browser is like a dual boot or VM running Windows. Firefox is our Wine/Crossweaver

Whatever you think about what happened to Mozilla recently, it is gonna go downhill from there. At some point their engineering is gonna start to really suffer and the quality / security will become a concern. Maybe Librewolf will make some patches, IDK.

I am starting to find the Web really boring (to use and develop for). I am tired of proving that I am human by clicking for 2 minutes on images of buses and bicycles.
I hope something cool like this [0] happens soon because I am pretty sure all the cool kids will rush to it.

- [0] https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/WASM_Wayland_Web_WWW/
They have spoken loudly about their intentions…

Published them, even. Many times. Bloody held conferences about them.
>reading the futurists, I would be shocked if they were not on speed.

Nazis/fash were well known meth heads. Mescaline was also available across Wien and Weimar, my great grandma used to push a little on the side.

>contempt for most people, which usually comes from externalized self hate

Sure does! Bigger question is, where does all that self hate come from? Because I've never met a person who likes to hate themself.

Could it be, perhaps, that... it's something that has been internalized first? Sort of a "seeing others hate you turns you into a hateful person" type of situation?
What is going on jesus christ
"CSS is not too complicated. It's a good way to style HTML elements."

Humans think comparatively. So, it might help to tell them what CSS replaces.

HTML has many structures: text, images, links, tables, divisions, etc. We'd have to style them in a procedurally-generated layout. We'd learn a GUI or 2D graphics engine. Maybe several, use a cross-platform with its limits, or write our own. At one point, we needed native extensions like Flash.

Learning all of that would be difficult even for an experienced programmer. Whereas, many casual coders have learned CSS fairly easily. Then, it's usually just a matter of twiddling with it until it works right. Also, browsers make the twiddling cycle fast and easy vs testing homebrew GUI's.

So, it's definitely easier most of the time. It's not always what's best. It's a nice baseline for HTML, though.
The word count for "delve" is zero, so maybe not AI slop.
> You can see user collected data publicly

Where? I thought they were sharing this data with partners, not making it publicly available. See https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...:

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice.
I'd love to see more optionality in the events that shaped me.

I loved that you made it easy to incorporate world events etc. And the general school calendar.

It would be really nice to incorporate the world events in a list of select which ones made an impact in your life.
There're some on Reddit claiming they have gotten DeX to output 4K using specific USB-C hubs [0]. I have a Moto Desktop enabled phone as well, and it supports 1920 x 1080 max. Using it on a 21:9 monitor stretches the image. It's fine on regular lapdocks, TVs and monitors though.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SamsungDex/comments/f7vrit/dex_reso...
The government has a fair bit of flexibility to cancel contracts without penalty. They usually don't, and of course nobody has ever seen it as this scale.

You're probably correct about the employment law. That will take more legal finesse to keep them from having to pay a ton of money. Fortunately for them they also own the judiciary. It's not 100% reliable, but they've for 4 out of 5 needed votes locked in at the top level
This is assuming that many of the folks who put their time and effort into the Linux kernel would have instead worked on Hurd. The thing is, nothing was stopping them from making that choice - other than maybe the popularity of Linux. I would love to see that timeline though.
>I think it depends on how you describe "wealthy". The life of someone who makes $200k a year isn't hugely different from someone who makes $50k. You still have to drive yourself to work and sit in rush hour traffic with every other peasant, for example.

One of the biggest differences between those salary levels is the housing they enable. 200k salary will allow for owning a home in most places (in the US, at least), while 50k will not. From there flows a lot of other things, like crime/safety, schools (if you have kids), etc, and even can improve your example: 200k can get you a place closer to work with a shorter commute, even if some of it still is spent in rush hour.
somebody needs to FOIA donald trump jr's etc chatgpt account
What if I told you that the largest and most liquid market for assets in the United States wasn’t covered by any transaction tax?
The Next Pandemic Could Be Engineered. A New Program Aims to Stop It
Isn't it time for a serious conversation about the wonderful health benefits of ivermectin? (:
> You can style stuff quickly and consistently right from the markdown, you don’t have to think of classnames for every teeny little thing, and you can somewhat imagine what stuff looks like just by looking at the jsx.

I still don’t understand what it brings over putting style= whatever on the element.
Oh god. I have to assume this is AI.

“Unelected deep state blobs”. Whom, perchance, do you think should do the work of actually implementing policy?

Pray tell me more about this “shoring up” by presidential edict, without the legislature and in contravention of the said body.
> I wonder if he'll want to change that recommendation now...

The recommendation is because Firefox is the only browser running full uBo (and even before uBo on FF had slightly more features than Chrome). Nothing changed there.
Who needs enemies when the government is infiltrated with traitors like these?
Show HN: Just right and light-weight date time library for JavaScript
Light-weight, type-safe, immutable and chainable without dependencies.
Handles UTC (default) and the local time of the environment, ambiguous daylight saving time strictly.
Turning car and helicopter exhaust into thermoelectric energy
> and BEM because it was difficult to scope css.

I suspect this reflects the cultural problem that in many organizations no one really wants to create or stick to a systematic design.

Scoping CSS isn't trivial as a site grows large, but it's far from intractable.

Tailwind's orientation on concrete details everywhere is the "just give up" solution -- stop trying to get the organization and culture to do work they don't want to do.

EDIT: I'd also guess there's an element of poor feedback loops for most development tools. When people people talk about things like "I don't want to have to look up what every class means", they're speaking to one reality of code componentization across the multiple dimensions of styling/semantics/markup/logic in development environments that often can't support interactive, legible, and interconnective feedback as development is done. There are probably solutions to this but they're more involved and less well known or fungible than just collapsing styling/semantics/markup into a single dimension around a consistent constrained UI domain language you can add to your resume in a week tops. This is friendlier to the predominant "culture" for building front ends right now.
I suspect the Youtube algorithm means you have to use clickbait thumbnails. Nevertheless the quality of his analysis is usually excellent (and so is Kyla Dempsey's).
yeah but you have to be at least forty to get a license for a cell phone belt holster
Well for one, Europe has a history of gassing disarmed people and those on registries, for two locking your gun up to pick someone up from the airport just presents an unnecessary opportunity for it to be stolen.

Why is it a good thing to put someone into a tiny cage for victimless possession crimes?

Why must I convince you why whatever I do is good to preserve my rights? Fuck all that.
Unless they're running ads for other companies without taking any money, they are indeed selling data:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice.
How in the world did _you_ get from "copy and paste homework answers blindly" to "1:1 student-teacher ratio"
Thanks, that is what I was driving at.
It gets me down a little too just because I know I am so weird that I can't understand why anyone would want this.

I actually would have interesting things to put on the timeline. Why anyone would do this though just doesn't make sense to me on any level and I know I am in the minority on that.
Like in any language that has adopted unsafe concept since ESPOL/NEWP did it in 1961, at least Rust has the advantage we can find those code blocks without the help of a static analysis tool.

Nowdays C++ has inherited the same mentality as many performance minded C developers, which is a bit sad, given that during the 1990's it felt we had a better security first mentality, especially with the vendor specific frameworks that were shipped alongside the compilers.

Regarding static analysis tooling it is kind of sad that many developers still think they known better than the language authors themselves, as per Dennis own words,

> Although the first edition of K&R described most of the rules that brought C's type structure to its present form, many programs written in the older, more relaxed style persisted, and so did compilers that tolerated it. To encourage people to pay more attention to the official language rules, to detect legal but suspicious constructions, and to help find interface mismatches undetectable with simple mechanisms for separate compilation, Steve Johnson adapted his pcc compiler to produce lint [Johnson 79b], which scanned a set of files and remarked on dubious constructions.

-- http://cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html

And to come back to the original point, the worst part regardless of the language is that most tricks are done due to cargo cult and hearsay, without reaching to a profiler a single time.
Dilbert is about a corporation, not government. Everyone seems to know that every large organization has some inefficiency. They seem to think the government has it worse, because that's what Republicans have been telling them.

It's no worse for government than any other large organization. Better than expected, given it's size.
DEI for tweakers!
Technically not even a doge
This “gather provisioning inputs” step completely prevented me from building a project of mine yesterday. I let it sit there for over 20min with no movement. No amount of rebuild attempts worked, nor did restarting Xcode. Only a full reboot of my machine fixed it. I didn't see any network issues at the time this was occurring.
Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
Never was, like Musk. It's insulting to pretend being autistic in order to explain your shitty behavior.
It's possible that many Trump voters, like many voters of any other candidate, do not follow politics or dry news.

When, and if, these voters feel negative consequences of this administration's changes, who knows who they will blame?

Perhaps, by then, Trump will be out of office, and they will attribute changes they dislike to the next POTUS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

https://www.ft.com/content/02217acf-ac64-49c2-acd5-ef4f107f0...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fas...

There can be incompetence and malice together in all this. The malicious often leverage the incompetent to further their goals.

One way to get more people on board with destroying government structures is to render the government structures as ineffectual and incompetent as possible.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3331 The agenda of the president does not matter
My friend just built an app to spot fake news