skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't say that any of the changes of the last fifteen years have really brought about a better or more usable internet. Ads are worse than ever, the browser still doesn't know whether it's for browsing documents or hosting interactive apps, we're still stuck with javascript and no real standard library, and there don't appear to be real efforts towards reigning in complexity. From my perspective the current mode of development failed a long time ago.
The core problem to me is that we're going through a successful coup.

I'm here for it if we're proposing redistributing the wealth of everyone with 9 figures or more.
Just want to add: plenty of Dems voters also don’t get what they voted for.
The best part is where the plant is still state property on paper, but operates at loss because it exports everything to a shell company in Austria who resells it at profit paid to the actual benefociary controller.

And if report on this, the president orders you to be behaded
> My understanding of diesel ignition is somewhat informed by WWII-era triple-expansion steamships, which burned bunker fuel, that requiring a lot of heating (utilising spent steam) just to get it flowing toward the boiler, then again getting toasted immediately before going into the burners. External combustion, obviously, but the challenge of getting a very nonvolatile fuel to burn left an impression. That engine room visit left an impression as well....

Yes, bunker fuel is very much non-volatile stuff. As an aside, they did eventually figure out that you could run slow-running big diesel engines on that stuff too. Perhaps you've seen pictures of such massive engines big as houses, if not e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30_jf-aA_U

These big diesels have some things in common with the old triple-expansion steam engines, e.g. they are directly connected to the propshaft (and thus they turn slowly, about 100 rpm max or thereabouts), and the engines themselves are reversible, so there's no need for any reduction gearing or gearboxes.

Similarly to steam ships, they need steam lines in the fuel tanks to heat the fuel so it can be pumped, and then further heated to 130C or thereabouts in order to be injected. So they need a small auxiliary steam boiler just for producing the steam to heat the fuel; modern ships often have an 'exhaust heat recovery boiler', which as the name implies utilizes the hot exhaust from the main engine to produce the steam, so that the auxiliary boiler isn't needed when the main engine is running.
I don't necessarily disagree, but unless they're literally ready to jump to anarcho-capitalism in the next four years I don't think they're trying to let the nuclear bombs go unattended. I think the specific examples you gave aren't your best examples to this point. If anything it's a counter-argument.
> These people must have never worked at a large corporation

Efficiency isn't the point, the point is funneling more money to themselves and their friends.
It's generally a myth that government employees are somehow receiving low total compensation and they could do better in the real economy.

Here's one government employees providing stats and experiences about what it is like to work for the government: https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-joy-of-government-employment
> Inertial confinement fusion could generate power right now if we had amazingly efficient lasers.

Here's a funny thing: inertial confinement could be used for fission too. With inertial confinement you essentially create a mini-thermonuclear bomb. A mini-fission bomb would work too, and I think the barrier to achieve that would be much lower.

One could say this is not a big deal. It actually is. Compressing a quantity of a few grams of plutonium to become critical can't be done with conventional explosives, but it can be done via inertial confinement. And that compression could be so high that the fission could be very nearly complete. In contrast, the current state of technology is that fusion by inertial confinement barely achieves ignition, but only a tiny fraction of the fusion fuel (the deuterium-tritium mix) actually burns.
> Any large organization of humans

Yes, well said. Also, when you are serious about trying to make it more efficient, you need to understand how things work and why and what incentives are in place and how that relates to what the stated purpose is, and a bunch of other things. You can't come in and make random cuts over the course of a few days and expect things to go well.
Having worked at large organisations and governments, they are literally the same. This is so obvious if you've ever had first hand experience of them. I think this is a great example of how a lot of people, even supposed "intellectuals" think with thought-terminating cliches and ideology, because the narrative of gov'ts being inefficient has been a talking point and narrative since Reagan whilst all the time any large corporation or organisation in general has the same type of inertia but somehow no one makes the broad generalisation about both of them.

It's even harder to reach a certain type of "thinker" or "skeptic" who sees such a dividing line between private orgs and governmental orgs because they already style themselves as being critical or intellectual.
If it's opt-in now that's an improvement. When I was using Brave around 2018ish it appeared as part of an update. Companies trying to 'redefine' advertising always make me suspicious - it's similar to what Mozilla has been trying to do over the last couple of years.
Why isn't everyone calling for the board of Mozilla to step down? They haven't had the best interests of there users in mind for a long time.
They could partner with Apple. As long as the courts don’t force Apple to allow Chromium on iOS, those shitty web sites will work on safari. Firefox tends to be ahead of safari in new features.

As an iOS user, I am happy that I cannot install alternative browsers. If I could, those shitty websites would force me to install Chrome. I currently have zero google branded apps on my phone. (Some third party apps that I need bundle google tracking crap…)

Edit: I guess I should add that I prefer Firefox to Safari, but I’ve watched devs try to only support Safari and Chrome. Once they do that, they almost always accidentally support Firefox too.
What happened with cockroach? :)
> Cuban is not dissimilar to Musk, just that he has much better PR.

Pretty sure they have the same PR. Remember when Musk was getting all those cameos and references in various media?

Elon's problem is he's terminally online so he couldn't just let his media manager run his twitter like a normal billionaire, and at this point I think he's on a trip.
Not sure why you took a downvote. I think it is plain to see that we are unlikely to have free and fair elections in 2028, possibly even the next cycle.
This is actually a pretty cool accidental mirror test.
Try searching for Town hall outrage. Here's one of the first that I saw. https://youtu.be/iGD4kcBrQjc?si=8m42qO-llaWXQpaC

We've seen a lot more corporate supplication to the admin this go around. Some are saying the moderation and media coverage is a little too sparse on criticism like we see in these town halls and protests.
No, all the numbers most anyone actually uses are computable, and it'd say something weird about determinism if they weren't. The word "need" was carrying some weight, as in necessary vs sufficient.
This is the category / degree fallacy. We don’t get to choose a world where billionaires have no special power. The choice is whether to accept some good from billionaires, or to reject what good they can do because of the harm they do.
Rendering a River. On the Danube Panorama Project by Michael Aschauer (2023)
The reddit post you link does not support your argument.

Your should read past the initial post to the comments where what your say is refuted.
Side note: the site has an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address as its AAAA record. Surprisingly this actually works. Unfortunately there's no way to contact them over email to let them know that it's wrong/useless.
Brave's entire business model is pretty explicitly about selling your data

So you're saying their Privacy Policy is a lie:

"Our company does not store any record of people’s browsing history."

https://brave.com/privacy/browser/
Worthless clickbait attempting to imply something nefarious and loosely associated to Elon, which seems to be the best way to get clicks these days . From article:

“I don’t see any evidence of wrongdoing or a conflict of interest,” said Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. “Meink was acting on behalf of the government at NRO, and he’ll be acting on behalf of the Department of the Air Force in his new position. In both roles, his interest is in getting the best value for the government.”
Happens in large corporations too.

Purchases of companies owned the CEO / brother. Mother hiring their children to high internal positions.
Great read. My first Linux distro was, I think, Slackware, around kernel version 2.2 - 2.4. I played with a _lot_ of distros; I think Sorcerer was the most esoteric. I settled on Gentoo, as one does, and spent more time compiling / breaking / fixing than I did using anything. I eventually valued stability over bleeding-edge, and have happily been using Debian ever since.
Hard agree, written Tailwind since the very inception. I love it for exactly this, the purging, JIT, arbitrary values, plus you can just write plain CSS any time you want. I have used Tailwind on big FAANG sites and boutique shops. Worked great for both, scales, and is very customizable.
that story still sticks in my brain to this day. The human brain is wild
I don’t think anyone who “likes” this solution thinks “it’s a great solution”

I reckon approximately 100% of those people would prefer 18F stay how it is
Lincoln started the war? Lincoln’s actions didn’t result in the eventual freeing of the slaves? Lincoln was unpopular in the South and so they wanted to take their ball and go home; the South started the war - the North ended it and has the graciousness not to take absolute vengeance on the remains. Lincoln was imperfect and could have done more so you think Trump would have done anything? Except make a “deal” swapping citizens for money?
Lynx is the only clear choice. It doesn't sell your data. It doesn't advertise other services like Pocket. It doesn't need an ad blocker. Its immune to JavaScript exploits.
Yup, those with capital are the only ones positioned during times of chaos to take advantage of the situation.
I've already switched to Vivaldi some time ago, no regrets.

https://vivaldi.com/desktop/

https://vivaldi.com/for-a-better-web/

https://vivaldi.com/we-respect-your-privacy/
Stanley Jordan creates music with Solar System [video]
Musician Stanley Jordan program solar system in APL and Python with visuals in Blender to make a musical calendar
One of the largest drivers of social issues is the magnitude of the wealth inequality that is present. Taxing the high end should help to address this. Also, I think there's a general sense that they can afford it.
> The sources note that these internal directives have mostly, if not entirely, been delivered verbally

No one wants a record because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is normally known as stealing from the government.
I should have added “cross-platform”. It’s not a viable alternative for most Firefox users.
Fair enough. But it’s clearly a trade-off.

Some may want extensions with unchecked, unrestricted permissions to be able to do all-the-things (tm).

Me on the other hand (and possibly others), with open-source projects often going haywire and crazy over time, feel more comfortable knowing that extensions cannot do more than I have permitted them.

I guess this is for the market to decide. If V2 provides enough value for enough users, it will stick around.
Showed her this thread and she was pleased.
This would look very cool on a video wall.
Absolutely, thank you for mentioning that, too.
Vivaldi does quite a bit of upstream development (for their team size), and it is as close to the original Opera as you're going to get. It is proprietary, though (but their history w.r.t to treating their users right is better than everybody else, except maybe Apple).
Where are you sourcing book metadata?

If this site takes off, you'll need a moderation strategy. Goodreads has been plagued by extortionary negative reviews.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/17/1219599404/goodreads-review-b...
Sure, but that isn't going to change in the USA unless the political system changes, so it will be more of a democratic system like in many western countries where billionaires have little to no influence. I see that as unlikely to ever happen there. Funding for candidates has been crazy in the past few decades.
So we had the chance to get more of these rare materials but trump blew it up?
Hudson River Trading has built a $8B global powerhouse
Eep, thanks! Fixed it.
Opera did that for a while, but in a different era. I'd pay for Firefox today though, just to keep someone fighting Google's vision of the Internet (ugh) alive. :/
NIH Website Down
NIH Website Down. Is this temporary?
It is very curious to me that people think of technology in such magic way.
For those drones work you need hundreds of people to operate that, monitor, maintain, make repairs stock the warehouse with spare parts etc. Look at military, how many people they need to operate all that complex machinery.
'How about AI controlling those drones' sure but then you just move maintaince of all of it to slightly different place. Probably even sabotage of AI datacenter would be much easier than autonoums or remote drones operated by hundreds of people.
well, it looks like Elon's teenage boys fired the wrong people :)
Reality: someone incompetent will underbid and get the contract, then spend years flailing, failing and overrunning their budget.
Vivaldi is still chromium based.
I think 18F going private is a terrible idea. The US government should directly employ the people that are responsible for building and owning its core infrastructure.
I was referring to the oligarchs that are running the current US administration. They want to defund the government, make it shitty, and then say the only option to make it better is privatize.
So another name for it is Longtermism (successor of effective altruism)!?
This would be exactly what the Republicans want and what they
have had wanted for decades.

Shrink the government and privatize as much as possible.

Turning 18F.gov¹ into 18FU.com, a company with the
business model of selling their services back to the
government in the future.

Seems like a risky venture.

The government could come knocking on Monday, a week later,
a month later, a year later, or never.
I hope Cuban is planning on funding them out of pocket for
at least until it happens or at least for two years.

Of course, 81FU can start providing its services to the
private sector and hope to succeed that way.
I am sure a lot of companies would want to buy their
services to support them.

¹ I don't know if they used that domain.
I just wanted a quick way to go from
in the government into a company
This post says very little and you can look up almost all public salaries.
> Oh yeah, and I’m a government employee of the state of Virginia

I mean this thread is on the federal government not state governments so your link isn't really relevant.

Federal government employees cannot make more than the VP ($235,100). So if you know a role that pays more than that it pays less in the federal government. (There is some hand wavey-ness around locale pay and stuff but we're not talking 2x).
The thing you see as waste from outside might be the most efficient system possible given the consequences and tons of time it had for evolving.

These systems contain huge icebergs of knowledge gained, refined and organized over time. Rooting them like weeds which grow in three days flat is a huge mistake.
Efficiency is not resilient. Supply chains were efficient before Covid and look what happened. Efficiency is a non-goal for government. I’m surprised that DOGE engineers (who presumably have deployed a load balancer or two) don’t understand this.
I don't mind a goodreads alternative, but regarding the UI from 2005, I am not sure I care. It works and people are used to it. I am not a supporter of "let's try build a new interface using shiny new technology" for the sake of new.
PEPFAR started in 2003 under Bush and has saved millions of lives. Of course Trump is dismantling it now but I think it's inarguably the best thing Bush did as president.
Yes, this exactly. Reflexive "ugh govt" is a result of decades of Reagan-ite propaganda. Govt is just people, and people are flawed and have competing incentives. I've worked in massive companies that have incredibly dumb inefficiencies.
The way you combat the creep of bureaucratic miasma is by regularly turning a critical eye inward.

At least private organizations perform regular layoffs. At least private organizations are accountable to shareholders.

The government is accountable to citizens and citizens voted for this. Yes, it’s disruptive. That’s the point.
The government is bloated but rather than attacking the bloat (DoD budget that never shrank after ending two wars, subsidies for profitable businesses) they're going after the regulatory infrastructure that protects Americans from corporate greed.
I’m pretty sure Firefox doesn’t use chromium?

Also I don’t see any problem selling a VPN. I want one anyway and it’s a nice way to support Firefox.

Also maybe a stretch to call them an ad company. They are now recently in the ad business having acquired an ad company. But that’s like calling Microsoft an ad company.
Only if they don’t find a suitable scapegoat in time. I still hear people blaming Biden.
Does the spelling of the word "ageing" look strange to anyone else? I looked it up and it appears to be acceptable, but why not "pageing", "cageing" etc?
> 60 year olds do do not perform like 20-30 year olds unless they have some extraordinary secondary characteristics that make up for it.

Wow. Well, that, right there, is the root of the evil of age discrimination.

This exclusionary thinking is no different from such horrible things as "blacks can't perform as well as whites" or "the disabled can't do what the fully abled can", etc. It is wrong and disgusting.

And, if we are talking about knowledge work, this view is very wrong, even dumb.

I'll give you an example based on the experience of a friend of mine. A TEAM of roughly thirty 25~ish year olds failed to deliver a product for two years. Graduates from top universities. No fucking experience. Seeking help, the company hired my friend (around 55 at the time). The project was a track within a couple of months and finally delivered a year later.

The "kids" had fucked things up beyond recognition. Wasted months running experiments and reinventing every single wheel. Nearly everything was done wrong due to lack of experience and knowledge. For example, the EE's where copying circuits from data sheets, without really understanding what the circuits did or how they worked. The folks with Masters in Mechanical engineering did not understand design topologies under load, which led to repeated failures costing $500K per "experiment". The EE's designed circuits with hundreds of components, when a properly designed circuit could do the job with less than a hundred. Software developers wrote code that performed so badly they had to start from scratch (typical for the Python generation). One of the ME's spent two years trying to design a button panel. Etc.

So yeah, you are right, 60 year olds don't perform like 20 to 30 year olds.
This is rough: There are many types of popular software that aren't that big of a deal to re-implement. You could look at examples of popular software and think "This blows, I'll re-invent it". With care, dedication, and careful management, you could do it. This doesn't mean people will switch from the popular established software, but you could do it.

Web browsers are not one of these. Way too complicated, largely due to the complicated and changing DOM and JS specs.
I have also always respected Land's intellectual honesty. I think the closest primary source to your point about the cybernetic OODA loop and competition is Land's text Against Orthogonality:

"Any intelligence using itself to improve itself will out-compete one that directs itself towards any other goals whatsoever. This means that Intelligence Optimization, alone, attains cybernetic consistency, or closure, and that it will necessarily be strongly selected for in any competitive environment." [0]

[0] https://retrochronic.com/#against-orthogonality
Trump was not elected by a majority of voters. He received 49.7% of the popular vote.
I believe the GNOME Web Browser (previously known as Epiphany) is built from the WebKit source.
Sufficient active disregard for consequences is equivalent to actively seeking said consequences.

If someone consistently drives extremely recklessly, refuses to service their brakes, allows their tires to become completely tread worn, removes their mirrors, etc. etc.

What could one reasonably infer about their desire to get into a car crash?

Would loud and repeated claims of a desire to drive safely convince you? Moreover, would you consider such claims to be in good faith, especially if said reckless behavior continues?

Besides, the GOP has said time and time again: let’s make the government so small we can drown it in the bathtub.

What private sector entity would find it profitable, or even be able to, control the bird flu or manage the nuclear arsenal.

Much less, do you want there to be a profit motive in those places?
The consequences of tobacco are so well known and so negative that they are legally mandated to be graphically depicted on every cigarette packet around here, and the main reason they are not banned is the observed impossibility that undid Prohibition in the USA.

So, sure, we don't know the long term risks of semaglutide ("just" 30 years or so) — but I say let people try it if they want, we let them use things we explicitly know to be dangerous, so why should we stand in the way of something that only might be eventually?
There was some drama with regarding to Tox a couple of years ago. I do not remember the specifics.

Is there a security whitepaper for it?
Attempts at optimizing efficiency can themselves be wasteful.
> Having worked at large organisations and governments, they are literally the same.

What do you make of all the people arguing that governments and corporations are not the same, and that what works in one won’t work in the other? This feels like the opposite of that argument.
Pardon the noise, I found the answer within the product description:

* Disable disk cache and clear temporary files on close.
I am curious too
Probably exactly what will happen. “Oh, with the dramatic reduction in vaccinations the American people would have been so much healthier, but the Deep State sprayed measles from chemtrails just to make us look bad”
Yes, html has lots of semantic elements.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Semantics#...
How do you add a book to the database?

The book I'm currently reading does not appear when searching.
I’m not about the root cause. I’m on a GLP-1 and while doing a premortem on my medication I saw that this, vomiting, and burps were common.