skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Divvy is great, still working, yet development seems abandoned.
For a couple of years now I've been using [my area code] - 555 - [a unique 4-digit pin] for dealing with otherwise "walk-in" business that look at you like you have three heads if you decline to say a phone number out loud. In the US at least, the 555 block is defacto "fictional" and typically isn't assigned out, so it lets me create a valid looking number that won't accidentally ring some random real person if they try to call it.
Please don't lie like that here. There are other places on the internet for that.
Brave is the good one these days.
The path forward I see is improved safety features for popular C compilers and toolchains.

Ultimately it may be necessary to convince standards committees, but it seems like adding features and flags into mainline clang/llvm (and/or gcc, visual studio, ...) paves the road toward improved memory safety for C at large.

For example, if clang supported it out of the box, I could imagine OpenBSD (or macOS or other OSes that use clang) eventually compiling all (or nearly all) of its C code, including kernel, library, and userland code, in safe mode - and maybe even making it the default. In fact we already see certain safety flags and compiler/runtime features being adopted.
It's even a pattern in normal business. Crime families or individuals will acquire enough capital from crime to go (mostly) legit and then they transfer to running normal business. Short term high risk to get the seed money, then long term traditional business income and stability.
It's about imposing your view of the world on others. That's the problem here with the puritanians.
No (actual) investor sees used cars as assets.

An asset is something that produces income such as a bond, a piece of real estate that you rent out, or a company engaging in the market.
More like 18% higher because the fee is 15% on the first million per year.
Does it matter?

I am concerned about the periodic attacks on Spotify, while the elephant in the room, YouTube, escapes unfettered. Everything from artist royalties to hosting the Joe Rogan show.

And as it happens, Spotify isn't a FAANG or a US company, so isn't that convenient?
Your original comment opened with:

You are lying.

This is an ad hominem which assumes intent unknown to anyone other than the person to whom you replied.

Subsequently railing against comment rankings and enumerating curt summaries of other comments does not help either.
> On modal dialogs/sheets, press Command + the first letter of the button to press that button. ⌘. is the shortcut equivalent of the Escape key.

This was my favorite, but no longer works on Sequoia or whenever was the version that changed modal dialogs.
There are even third party renderer plugins for Unreal 1, like https://kentie.net/article/d3d10drv/
Imgur might be the worst image hosting site I’ve ever experienced. Any interaction with that page results in switching images and big ads and they hijack the back button. Absolutely terrible. How far they’ve fallen from when it first began.
Honestly she could have done better putting it in those terms rather than attacking it the way she did but you nailed it. It's really expensive to cover large and disparate geographic areas with that kind of thing. There's definitely examples of smaller companies emerging and wiring up their entire rural towns with fibre optic, although the one I'm most aware of kind of foundered when the town ended up selling it to the big phone company after they couldn't pay something like 18 million in debt which gives an idea of scale and challenges for getting lasers to homes in just one town [1]. And on the other hand I've lived in much smaller third world countries where you can get FTTH pretty much everywhere even in small towns, mostly doable because the area to cover is just super small.

[1] https://www.thealbertan.com/olds-news/town-of-olds-selling-i...
Because it is a complex world of contradictions.
My conspiracy theory is that gears are slowly turning to revamp the culture, redefine what’s acceptable/not acceptable and eventually suggest that if you won’t have kids you’re not accepted in the society. Basically a funky way to reverse the population decline, as the governments are realizing this problem won’t be fixed by free markets and etc.
I've been using Zen (https://github.com/zen-browser) for a while now, it's still in beta but is very cool.
I think the browser is a bit more organized (OP is referring to the OS), but I do hope they maintain the tinkering vibe, too.
if you still get a moore’s law halving every couple years, it becomes competitive in, uh, about thirteen years?
Actual text:

> You're using a suspiciously old browser

> You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions of Chrome). Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's a plague of high volume crawlers (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training) that use a variety of old browser user agents, especially Chrome user agents. To reduce the load on Wandering Thoughts I'm experimenting with (attempting to) block all of them, and you've run into this.

> If this is in error and you're using a current version of your browser of choice, you can contact me at my current place at the university (you should be able to work out the email address from that). If possible, please let me know what browser you're using and so on, ideally with its exactl User-Agent string.
Chris Siebenmann, 2025-02-17
GitHub uses this shortcut, too. (e.g. Option-click to collapse/expand all PR comments.)
Good pattern matching. Bloom is a predecessor project to the OP's PhD thesis work :-) This area takes time and many good ideas to mature, but as the post hints, progress is being made.
I've been using the Amethyst window manager for ~10 years. It's open-source and generally works well, though it occasionally requires a restart (the app, not the OS)
This is not a terraform problem. This is your problem. Theoretically, you should be able to recreate the resource back with only a downtime or some services affected. You should centralize/separate state and have stronger protections for it.
So we can't look at the presidents track record because it's different this time TM
Microsoft is killing Skype
Years before '93-'96 when I worked at Kaleida [1], a joint venture of Apple and IBM, alongside Taligent [2] their AIM Alliance [3] sister company, I laughed at the old joke:

Q: What do you get when you cross Apple and IBM?

A: IBM.

But then the joke was on me when I finally worked for a company owned by Apple and IBM at the same time, and experienced it first hand!

I gave Lou Gerstner a DreamScape [4] demo involving an animated disembodied spinning bouncing eyeball, who commented "That's a bit too right-brained for me." I replied "Oh no, I should have used the other eyeball!"

Later when Sun was shopping itself around, there were rumors that IBM might buy it, so the joke would still apply to them, but it would have been a more dignified death than Oracle ending up lawnmowering [5] Sun, sigh.

Now that Apple's 15 times bigger than IBM, I bet the joke still applies, giving Apple a great reason NOT to merge with IBM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleida_Labs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NytloOy7WM&t=323s

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
Burn Spotify to the ground.
What I find hilarious is that a 20-50% hallucination rate suggests this is still a program that tells lies and potentially causes people to die.
How can you determine that it CPU bound from the attached charts?
This is very humbling.

OpenAI et. al kind of have also been very deep down the systems rabbit hole (eg. Triton), but I can't think of anyone else (outside of Google/Facebook) who pay this amount to attention to things.

Great work; hope Deepseek does even more awesome things going forward.
In case there was any confusion, the referenced link shows 4.5 claiming to be “ChatGPT 4.0 Turbo”. I have tried multiple times and various approaches. This model is aware of 4.5 via search, but insists that it is 4 or 4 turbo. Something doesn’t add up. This cannot be part of the response to R1, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7. Satya’s decision to limit capex seems prescient.
China is https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/12/15/chinas-satellite-megapro...
Tiny script analyizes Google Cloud Storage and applies changes to save $
Paul Cormier was a very different type of CEO than Jim Whitehurst for sure. But that's not an IBM thing, he was with Red Hat for 20 years previously.

I agree with you FWIW. The company also basically doubled in size from 2019 to 2023. It's very hard to grow like that and experience zero changes. And COVID happened shortly after so that also throws a wrench into the comparisons.

The point is, it's hard to point to any particular decisions or changes I disliked and say "IBM did that"
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Oldest play in the Microsoft book.

I sincerely think Microsoft can't be trusted.
> I don't think he's purely about attention, but he craves a particular kind of attention. The kind that the gifted schoolboy gets when they put their hand up in class to a tricky question posed to the class.

This is a pretty interesting interview with a journalist who appears to have spent a fair bit of time with Musk: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas.... It made this relevant observation:

> Which I felt was a little dramatic. And I thought: Wow, this is a man in his 40s who thinks that he’s the center of the universe. So it always has that element of drama.

> I think he’s greatly informed by video games. Someone described him to me as Ready Player One, and everybody else is an N.P.C. — a nonplayer character. He always has to be the hero or the person who matters the most. Sometimes he does, and sometimes he has engineered it — getting the founder role when he’s not actually the founder or rewriting history or using public relations to make himself the founder.

> He understands the hero’s journey kind of thing rather well. Also the stakes have to be very high, and if it doesn’t work, we’re doomed. He tends to overstate problems. Most companies have problems, but: Everything is a disaster here, and I’m here to fix it. Or: Everything sucks, and everybody previously is criminal or evil or “pedophiles.” A word he likes to use a lot.

> In one tweet, he called Yoel Roth, who was head of trust and safety at Twitter, “evil.” And said that I was “filled with seething hate” — which is really dramatic and ridiculous. I’m not seething with hate.
Kindness Is Achievement: The Surprising Value of GPT-4.5
While GPT-4.5 may not be immediately applicable for most business use cases due to cost constraints, it represents a crucial direction for AI development - one that prioritizes understanding humans rather than just processing information. This focus on emotional intelligence may prove essential for AI safety, security, and leadership as these systems become more integrated into our society.
If true this will be another “we lost the browser war” “we underestimated mobile” story, and they will realize it only 10 years from now.
I think this comment is a bit hyperbolic - it's really not so bad. Sure, we need to be mindful about accessibility in our rollout of useful technology. But I think the advantages that technologies, including the ones you listed above, bring into our lives far significantly outweigh whatever you are complaining about.

To your points specifically, I mostly see that you are complaining about technology you were previously used to (RFID cards, parking payment systems, public transit, school management systems, etc.) being replaced by more advanced technology (QR codes, 2FA, etc.). So, I don't see the problem as decoupling technology from lives but as enabling a smoother transition to more reliable and advanced technology.

The article makes other points about addiction, etc., and this is a problem that is not innate to technology but to human behavior that is exploited (knowingly or unknowingly) by profit-driven companies. Targeting the technology itself in this situation, again, is being lazy in my opinion.
Grok Predicts Winner of 1976 Steelers vs. 1985 Bears
1976 Steelers vs. 1985 Bears: Key Matchups

Offensive Line vs. Defensive Line

The 1985 Bears’ defensive line was fearsome, featuring:

Richard Dent: Super Bowl XX MVP, 17.5 sacks, with edge speed.

Dan Hampton: Versatile tackle, powerful and quick.

Steve McMichael: Relentless interior disruptor.

This trio led the NFL with 64 sacks. The 1976 Steelers’ offensive line, anchored by future Hall of Famer Mike Webster, allowed 25 sacks in 14 games. Dent’s speed could challenge the

Steelers’ protection and run-blocking.

Edge: Bears’ D-line

Quarterback Matchup

Terry Bradshaw (Steelers): 1,177 yards, 10 TDs, 13 INTs in 10 starts, 52.5% completion. Turnover-prone.

Jim McMahon (Bears): 1,683 yards, 15 TDs, 11 INTs. Efficient, supported by a strong O-line and defense.

The Bears’ blitz-heavy “46 defense” would pressure Bradshaw, while McMahon faced less duress, leveraging his team’s strengths.

Edge: Bears

Running Backs

Franco Harris (Steelers): 1,128 yards, 14 TDs, 4.6 YPC. Powerful and finessed Hall of Famer.

Walter Payton (Bears): 1,390 yards, 13 TDs, 4.4 YPC, 49 receptions. Elusive and versatile, aided by Jimbo Covert’s O-line.

Steelers’ D (Joe Greene, L.C. Greenwood) allowed 3.9 YPC; Bears’ D gave up 3.5 YPC, 82.4 YPG. Payton’s pass-catching tips it.

Edge: Bears

Wide Receivers vs. Secondary

Steelers’ Hall of Fame duo:

Lynn Swann: 28 catches, 516 yards, 3 TDs, clutch.

John Stallworth: 19 catches, 306 yards, 4 TDs, deep threat.

Bears’ “46 defense” secondary:

Gary Fencik: 6 INTs, hard-hitting safety.

Mike Singletary: Coverage linebacker.

Led NFL with 34 INTs, 54 takeaways. Could limit Swann and Stallworth, especially with Bradshaw pressured.

Edge: Bears

Linebackers

Steelers: Jack Lambert and Jack Ham, held foes to 13.9 PPG. Legendary duo.

Bears: Mike Singletary, Otis Wilson, Wilber Marshall, allowed 12.4 PPG. Aggressive swarmers.

Both elite at run-stopping and havoc; Bears’ scheme slightly more chaotic, Steelers equally effective.

Edge: Draw

Special Teams

Bears: Kevin Butler (31/37 FGs), Willie Gault (33 YPR on kick returns). Dynamic.

Steelers: Roy Gerela (12/19 FGs), weaker returns. Steady but less impactful.

Bears’ explosiveness could sway a close game.

Edge: Bears

Verdict

The 1985 Bears edge out the 1976 Steelers. Their all-time great defense—pressuring Bradshaw with 64 sacks and forcing 54 takeaways—would contain Harris and disrupt the O-line. Payton’s versatility and McMahon’s game management sustain drives, while the secondary neutralizes Swann and Stallworth. The Steelers’ D, with Lambert and Greene, keeps it tight, but the Bears’ pressure and turnovers prevail.

Projected Score: Bears 17, Steelers 13
> patient's own stem cells

> immunosuppression would not be required

I don't think that's how Type I Diabetes works. People get Type I Diabetes because their immune system attacked their own insulin producing cells in the first place. It's an autoimmune disease. So if you replenish those cells, they'll just get attacked again.
And factually inaccurate. Musk in no way founded or co-founded PayPal. The trademarks were registered, the MVP was running, when the company building it merged with Musk's failing online banking plan.

He was then made CEO by virtue of being the biggest shareholder. For four months.

Four months later, the Board fired him in his absence on the morning he left for his honeymoon.

How badly do you have to fuck up to not be asked to resign but fired, and fired two days after your wedding, leaving for your honeymoon? Well, Musk tried by insisting the Java app that was up and running was trashcanned and PayPal was rewritten in Classic ASP, because Musk understood that and not Java - that'll do it, apparently.
How I convinced my k8s team to go AWS serverless
Does anyone know of a good solution to manage menubar on Mac? Have M2 Pro with a notch which hides many of many items and it's so difficult to access them unless I quit a few of them.
Wonder what hardware they are using and what the actual iops numbers are
Urgh Mozilla needs to focus on being a good web browser, Id even pay, but you cant
I would be more willing to accept that state of affairs if StarLink had better competition.
So far, they give up when they hear that it is not an android. I'll take it.
This is unnecessary nitpicking. You can easily derive a logical contradiction of your choice by assuming that a system that can be formally modeled can prove something that cannot be proven within a formal system. If a specific theorem doesn't prove that, a simple corollary will.

If you want to escape the limits of computability, you have to assume that the physical Church–Turing thesis is false. That the reality allows mechanisms that cannot be modeled formally or simulated on any currently plausible computer.
It seems like not so much a conspiracy theory as something totally transparent and out in the open. There's a huge political push to birth as many babies as possible. Major political parties have it as part of their platform. Their spokespeople talk derisively of "childless cat ladies" and how you're not a real contributor to society unless you produce babies.

The "Birth" lobby is a stool composed of several legs:

1. Attack abortion

2. Attack contraception

3. Attack porn

4. Attack education

5. Attack "women in the workforce"

All of these things are seen as contributing to declining birth rates, so they're opposed by Big Birth. You can see the same politicians tend to go after these things in lock step.
The government colluded with Facebook and Twitter during the Biden administration

There's people that think this only happened during the Biden Administration?

Not Obama? Not Trump? Not Bush? Just Biden?

The gullibility of Americans in aggregate is stunning at times. If you're one of those still out preaching the quasi-religions of "left" or "right", you're honestly a large part of the problem at this point. And you're probably too submerged in the holy waters of your quasi-religion's divine scriptures to even begin to understand why.
Because their trolls are very light hearted and everyone overexaggerates the pain they feel from it because they are on the other side of politics (for now). Like answering an e-mail that asked what you did this week turned into many folks doing hours long interviews about how they were wasting time answering the e-mail. comical, they could have spent 5 minutes replying and spend hours complaining instead.
I lived with Alfred for many-many years, but Raycast seems much better this days. Simpler yet richer and constantly developed, many plugins, it's simple to do your own and... it has window manager
I spent the majority of my career as an embedded dev. There are ... different ... challenges, and I'm not so sure that I would want to go back to it.

It pays poorly, the tooling more often than not sucks (more than once I've had to do some sort of stub for an out-of-date gcc), observability is non-existent unless you're looking at a device on your desk, in which case your observability tool is an oscilloscope (or bus pirate type of device, if you're lucky in having the lower layers completely free of bugs).

The datasheets/application notes are almost always incomplete, with errata (in a different document) telling you "Yeah, that application note is wrong, don't do that".

The required math background can be strict as well: R/F, analog ... basically anything interesting you want to do requires a solid grounding in undergrad maths.

I went independent about 2 years ago. You know what pays better and has less work? Line of business applications. I've delivered maybe two handfuls of LoB applications but only one embedded system, and my experience with doing that as a contractor is that I won't take an embedded contract anymore unless it's a client I've already done work for, or if the client is willing to pay 75% upfront, and they agree to a special hourly rate that takes into account my need for maintaining all my own equipment.
I use 4o mostly in German, so YMMV. However, I find a simple prompt controls the tone very well. "This should be informal and friendly", or "this should be formal and business-like".
When Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
I had multiple videos popping up in my feed of people dying in various accidents yesterday. Honestly people deserve more of an explanation than “oopsie”. That type of stuff is traumatizing.
Opinions can’t be lies, and from what the internet tries to sneak into my feeds, this resonates pretty well (I mostly get it from the gamers perspective). Ignoring this or calling it a lie creates a tension that no amount of actual good will can overcome.
Many (but not all, it's worth noting) people who work for the government live in an apartheid society inside their own heads, where they and everyone else who works for government is the superior tier of their imaginary hierarchy, and everyone else is thought of as "lesser than", with fewer rights, a different (more strict) set of rules, on the inferior tier of their imaginary hierarchy.

Next time you're observing this, try to imagine the outrage if the government official were a white South African government official talking to a black South African citizen. There's the same level of condescending animosity and supremacist ideology at play, just along a completely different axis - employer rather than skin color.
For those of us that missed the memo — what is happening with Firefox at a macro level, aside from that commit message you linked?
I tend to agree with you, but I’d hope that given how badly this has been received, Mozilla finds some better writers to put some better thought into the contents of their ToS and issue some corrections in the near future.
Yes! You can also induce islet cells from the patient's own stem cells:

https://stemcellres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1328...
Try going to gitlab.com with librewolf, you'll see a white page with no content. Librewolf is blocked off from half the internet that uses cloudflare, so it's kind of a useless browser.

Every browser that's not a majority browser will be associated with these kind of blocking risk. I can't risk access to my financially important accounts, nobody can. So to me this is not a feasible alternative.

The only way to build a browser is to act like one of the others, and to behave like one of the others. Can't use brave, given their history, but farbling approach is the most sustainable solution in my opinion.

My remaining hope is that ladybird will actively deny implementing web standards that can be used for fingerprinting.

Something as simple as overflow:hidden is used on every website to force people to get tracked by having to activate JS, and things like this should be something a web browser should protect its users from.

We need a CSS engine that denies setting these kinds of things, because JS fingerprint prevention isn't enough if every website breaks because of it.

If you want a headstart, I tried forking webkit and do exactly this. Project is unmaintained because couldn't work fulltime on it without funding. Maybe somebody else picks it up? [1]

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit