skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What specific "lies" did Mozilla engage in?

I was pitched on privacy. Whether I and others believe we were lied to are subjective judgements.

> you'll have a hard time charging back

No, I won’t and you likely wouldn’t either unless you’re constantly claiming chargebacks.

> They'll hear "donation", "I authorized this charge", and deny the chargeback

Six figures (and counting) already approved by Amex for a series of donations a friend made over a year ago!

> AFAIK chargebacks are basically adjudicated via arbitration by visa or an independent arbitrator

Depends on the card association. But usually, “the issuing bank makes the final decision on whether to accept the chargeback” [1].
The merchant has recourse per their merchant agreement. But the money comes out of their pockets first. And given it’s a donation, there is an almost zero chance that Mozilla will win.

[1] https://www.clearlypayments.com/blog/chargeback-statistics-i...
These kinds of tweets miss the point. It's not about returning to the office. It's about reducing labor costs. It's about having a thing that shows you are trying harder (the anime kind where it just makes you win for no reason) to show to your investors.

Nothing in private equity or public companies is done for the purpose of making the company better. It's for making the company look like it will do better in the future, so that a bigger fool will hold the bag.

Don't try to rationalize the irrational, that only serves to promote the myth that they are trying to do something we just don't understand.

It's called misdirection.
Does it support code blocks for Python, JS, HTML and CSS? Also my Markdown is auto-generated by a script of mine. Can I paste Markdown directly into y our platform?
`git log --graph` is just a really really bad GUI. Why not use a good GUI instead?

Although in fairness it's quite hard to find a good Git GUI because there are so many bad ones. The only good ones I've found all have some kind of flaw:

* GitX - the clearest design IMO, but it's one of those "gazillion forks" bits of software like TomatoUSB, and Mac only. Plus it has some annoying bugs.

* Git Extensions - I didn't even realise this was a Git GUI until relatively recently because it its terrible name. It's pretty decent, but Windows only.

* VSCode 'Git Graph' extension - my current favourite - it integrates into VSCode too which is much better than a standalone app, especially when using Remote SSH. However it is abandonware and although the source is available, the license doesn't let you republish it so it's not "open source" and nobody can take it over.

Disappointingly even these don't let you do things that a GUI obviously should let you do, like copy & pasting commits, dragging and dropping to rebase.

Like instead of `git rebase -i` and tedious text edits, why can't I just ctrl-select some commits, ctrl-C and ctrl-V?

But, they're still miles better than `git log --graph`.
And JS can also indirectly initiate requests for resource or page fetches, e.g. by creating image tags or popup windows. It can't see the results directly, but it can make some inferences.
Also, a hallucination for 'SELECT mising_field FROM borgus_tuble' is one thing, hallucinating that taking a dose of Cl Na O along with CH3 CO2 H will cure covid is another thing entirely
The thing is, tab complete using LLMs is really great. But I still read it, then press tab, then press enter, then type a few chars, then wait.

Sometimes I get 1 good line from that. Sometimes I get 30. Usually I get 10 bad lines and have to type a bit more to coax out 8 good ones.

It just looks faster but typing was NEVER the bottleneck for coding.

Where it really flies, though, is building tooling around a well known API. FML if I ever have to write AWS CDK or AWS API calls without an LLM again. You're looking at ages of reading through really bad docs to get it going.

For that, which is a 1% task of convenience for most jobs, I can use most LLM output verbatim. But that's like I said less than 1% of the job, and only then when the core software is done.
Their AI enabled sales and customer service will be amazing to deal with too.
The example code used added “other” as the last option, which was the source of the problems he described.

This doesn’t happen when you make the first value in the enum unknown/unspecified
Maybe QA as well
Yeah, but AI is trivially cheap, unlike excavators.

If a solopreneur can buy an excavator, the corporate developers will get them too.
Promoted by a Putin supporter. No rational government would do this, it is not being voted on because it is a waste of taxpayer money and a scam on the American population.

You know why every single other country in the world doesn't do this? Because they are ruled by consensus, not individual greed.
Yeah I reeeaaally want to see benchmarks! Single node duckdb is absolutely insane (as in fast) performance wise, especially compared to something like Spark. There's been a lot of speed focussed work in the project and I don't know of any faster data processing (I'm not counting traditional SQL since a lot of the speed benefits there come from indexing etc and essentially doing additional work ahead of time).

I guess it comes down to how well written the distributed workflows are, there's a lot to get wrong, but in theory it should be able to achieve very impressive numbers.

My reasoning behind this is Dask, which uses Pandas under the hood being capable of better benchmarks than Spark, I think this is partly some good optimisations, but also simply that pandas is faster than spark's row based model. Duckdb is on some benchmarks more than 10x faster than pandas, you can see where this is going. . .
Maybe your municipality does. My city water is from a river. It is withdrawn, treated, used, treated as sewage, and then dumped back in the river. Even water used for irrigation eventually ends up there.
There are alternatives: make it expensive to own a house/apartment unless you physically live in it.
It would benefit ordinary people, therefore it is unlikely to be implemented for long if ever.
CSS has way more features today than 15 years ago but is easier to master in my opinion.

Back then, CSS implementations had a lot more quirks and you had to keep all of this in your head. Just because one combination of CSS properties in Firefox worked one way did not mean it worked even similarly in Internet Explorer.
cherry picking has a negative connotation in its most common usage.
General programming languages theory question, is one supposed to iterate over enum entries or is that considered an antipattern? I have found myself needing to do that a few times and it always felt a bit dirty.
Hyper-Systemizing
I've had this issue in Aider with Claude 3.7
I finally watched a Louis Rossmann video because he covered a topic I know a lot about.

I was surprised by how much he got wrong. He was mixing rumors, speculations, and facts as if they were all the same. He ignored some documentation the company released to counter the news stories, which he couldn’t have missed if he did any research at all.

By the end it felt like I had watched someone repeat the most uncharitable and speculative takes on the subject that had been collected from social media, all while ignoring any actual research.

It was weird to have it all presented in his faux fair and balanced demeanor, as if he was doing the company a favor by presenting both sides.

I don’t know if he’s always been this way or if this is a recent audience capture thing where he panders to people who want to be angry about things.
Mine’s a waterpik. I think I looked up a YouTube video (not brand or model specific) for how to identify and remove the flow limiter. It wasn’t hard at all.
The search bar is only weird on the home page, which I don't imagine is visited very much. I bet most people jump to a books page from a browser or phone search.
This is lighting your hard earned tax dollars on fire - and everyone on this forum knows who is benefiting from it. The only surprise is the presidents personal shitcoin isn't included in the basket.
Productivity is difficult to measure. I suspect many managers just don't know how to do it, or are not very confident about the results. In-person interactions in an office give managers additional information (such as height). For many, it makes management tasks easier to carry out and generally less stressful (but not necessarily with objectively improved results, I assume).
Almost all specialties do various technical procedures that only them really know how to do. The extreme is psychoanalytic psychiatry, which are the only ones really doing nothing with their hands (yes, interventional psychiatry is a thing...). Now, you could argue that 'yes, but most of the times it's done by techs/nurses'. Well, no. When things go south, and in all places where there is noone else to do the stuff (of which there are many) docs are on their own.

Regarding surgery, I expect it to be one of the easiest procedures to automate, actually (still quite hard, obviously). Because surgery is the only case where there's always advanced imaging available beforehand, and the environment is relatively fixed (OR).
I think it comes from Trump being a con man? The last thing he wants to be is the chump being taken advantage of. That's the other side of the table.
Haha yes fully agreed :D The gains I mention above are on top of those gains.
Is there an RSS feed for this newsletter? The RSS link at the bottom of the site leads to the same thing as the News button on the top, which was last updated in Oct 24 and doesn't have these updates included.
I don't necessarily buy the arguments around real estate investment, but I think it's important to note that the office is a construct from before the popularity of the internet. A lot of the current crop of exec started their jobs before remote work was viable, so their mental model of how work is done might require an office because that's how they used to work.

It's entirely possible that the question of "labor productivity" has nothing to do with why exec wants us all back in the bullpen, where they can gleefully stare at us from inside their offices.
Uh, pediatricians do a lot with their hands. I don't think my kids (or future grandkids) will be seeing an AI/robot doctor.
Sounds good; if all these pro-AI folks could get it to complete the insurance paperwork that'd be swell. Actually, come to think of it, do that for the paperwork from both sides, doctor and patient, and eliminate and entire class of leaches upon humanity

I'm going to laugh if DOGE eliminates the IRS, but also might be thankful
Or abc.wordpress.com

Also a lot of university departments and divisions in large enough corporations need to be treated like separate entities.
I've worked on many products which had hoped to incorporate it, but ultimately didn't.

It does work well for applications like you highlight which require very very low power levels for very intermittent use. Things like a desk calculator or a IR remote. As soon as you need any kind of "real" power for anything other than intermittent use it becomes a problem. You can only beam so much power without cooking everything in between, usually that amount of power is less than we need.
If 1 person can use an excavator/AI, then a 100 person crew can use 100 excavators/AIs. Capabilities have increased for everyone, not just for 1 man operations.
That's going to be a little skewed because the initial years was primarily scientists fleeing to Europe, Australia, Canada. The last few years has been heavily China.
They do not use data as a decision making tool. They use data as post-hoc justification for decisions already made.
Zig is not yet stable enough to base a long-term project around, unless something's changed very recently.

If you really only want a better C/C++, use C++ and amp up your use of safer types (or consider D).
Worked with the folks at Zetier previously. They’re bright. Go work with them if you want to do some cool VR stuff.
She's a Foot Soldier in America's Losing War with Chronic Disease
Great. So a team of 100 with LLMs is still faster than a team of 100 without even if they spend the same amount of time on synchronization? Or did I miss something here?
Yes, I have 2 (nuget and git). But I obviously have many more text based configuration files than those. They just happen to have a name with a dot.
How A bee sting saved my life (2015)
My opinion is to do my best but not to overthink it. If I need to throw a plastic bottle away and there isn’t recycling available putting it in the trash isn’t going to alter history. That doesn’t mean when recycling is available I don’t prioritize it.
Europe is a pretty big place with a lot of disparate governments. Abstracting it to merely "Europe" is ignoring how the world operates. Many European governments have been actively expanding and enshrining rights of individuals.

Secondly, none of your points are pertinent to the day-to-day of anyone in academic research/science. Perhaps only to the irrationally paranoid.
I don't know what's going on with HN right now, there usually is a lot more reading comprehension and level headed conversation, even on controversial topics.
> I worry less about 2.63 % of the marketshare using some aggregate browsing data

Mozilla's not using that data. They're selling it. They wouldn't be in this kind of hot water if they were keeping the data to themselves.
> If somebody wants to have a YouTube channel where they just complain, why is that a problem?

Because the complaining isn’t as fair and balanced as he presents it. He likes the stir the pot and he spreads misinformation along the way.

It’s a problem because he has a wide audience of people who adopt the anger that he puts out and accept it as ground truth. It’s a smaller scale version of people who get their opinions from people like Joe Rogan, who fill their time with misinformed rants.
What I'd really be interested in is something larger than an anecdote: Do trans women dominate cis women in the sports they compete in? It would take a larger study, as a one-off doesn't really mean much.

Also note that Fox has not won all of her fights, which indicates that trans women are not as dominant as the one fight you mentioned would suggest.
I've been saving Markdown transcripts of my more involved AI chats, and I was unhappy with how any tool rendered to PDF. In either Cursor or Windsurf, I had Claude 3.5 Sonnet code a Ruby script for me that converts Markdown to Typst, a LaTeX alternative that looks a lot like Markdown. Typst offers beautiful formatting control for the output PDFs.
Brazilians hail strength of democracy as Bolsonaro is called to account
We ain't even solved garbage collection yet, and you think "back end systems" are going to abstracted away in the next few years?
Completely anecdotal I realize, but my experience so far has been that people who aren't in some way involved with AI/tech in general are mostly indifferent, with a vocal portion that is actively against it. Not a single one of my non-tech friends care beyond using ChatGPT to be lazy writing emails or whatever. If it all went away tomorrow I doubt any of them would care in the slightest either.

I have however been getting some friends asking me how to disable all the AI crap in Windows and Google. It could very well just be my specific circle, but I think people are slowly starting to push back against all the AI enshittification to the great chagrin of all the VCs hyping it up
I would one million percent rather type (and read)

foo(bar()?)?

over something like

if a, err := bar() {
return nil, err
}

if b, err := foo() {
return nil, err
}

But also even better is just

let a = bar()?;
let b = foo()?;
> I have a very long regular expression (email validation of course)

On a tangentially related note, I guarantee you that your regex is wrong. There is only one way to validate an email address:

Send an email to it and have them respond. Otherwise you will block some valid users.

Now of course you can make a regex that gets most email addresses, and if you're ok with that, then that's fine. But if you don't want to accidentally exclude someone, then sending email is the only way to validate it.
Except the tech to do that is not there, and we're quite far from it. It's one thing to have a robot write text, it's a whole other thing to have a robot perform at human level in medical procedures. Not happening tomorrow.
>"Just saying no" to drugs in 2025 is like refusing to use computers and the Internet.

Nah not really. You need computers and the internet to engage with the modern world but not doing drugs is fine. I mean they can be interesting but also have well documented downsides.

A possible real world example - I'm guessing here is Elon. The pre drugged up one of a decade ago building rockets and cars I thought was cool. The current Elon doing nazi salutes and cruelly firing people looks to me like someone who's done too many drugs. You can ask yourself which you'd rather be.
(unrelated to ESP32)

You can often get some sample timing resolution from a sampled signal by interpolating the result of a complex correlation. You start by searching the correlation output for the loudest hypotenuse lag, then take he worked tangent of the quadrature information of that lag to estimate the sub-sample event time
"Slipped" by non legalese versed users reading "scary" looking legal boilerplate and totally misunderstanding it.
Related:

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Donald Trump Names XRP, Sol, ADA, BTC and ETH as Part of U.S. Crypto Reserve
Yep, what you don't personally believe in is considered by you to be "not rational", got it.
Mozilla doesn’t need a license from me so that their program they give me and run myself can do something. Exactly because the program isn’t Mozilla.
It wasn't a mistake at the time.
But you see, you were trying to convince them of entirely the wrong thing. In fact you ended up providing solid reasons to reinforce their belief in RTO.

Leadership wants attrition. They want people to quit and if they don’t have to make you redundant and pay you out, fantastic. You just gave them good data points to indicate that a portion of people are likely to do just that.

If you upend your whole life and move to a hub then that means you need this job very badly. Guess when you’re getting promoted next? Not soon.
I think they meant that the digging crew would also use excavators.
I think that the autonomous drone warfare is more of a near-term milestone than the goal. The goal itself seems to be AGI and the advances in the basic research and engineering that it brings.
It's just not even good security policy, and in some cases will do irreparable harm. These are incredibly smart and valuable people who are leaving and no longer under your sphere of influence, and where their work will now massively benefit your perceived adversary, eg China wouldn't have a nuclear program today if it weren't for the 50s episode.

It's cutting off your nose, face, and brain just to get a little bit of fun discrimination in.
What to Do with a High IQ?
Wow this is even more obnoxious than the already insufferable LMGTFY.
Imagine a very fat king standing before his starving populace, explaining why there would be even less food this winter as he munched on a turkey leg.

I know executives have different rules and laws that govern them. But I can remember a time when they would’ve had the decency, shame or whatever else to attempt to obscure this. That HR VP could have come into the office for one day, the day that he was explaining his RTO mandate to the entire company.

That he didn’t feel embarrassed about delivering this mandate while very visibly defying it himself is beyond differentiated treatment, it is open disdain for the (upper) working class.
There are problems and there are problems.
Nope. I completely disagree.

Unless you are using tools and rigorous methods you are just playing around. Just because most games are all broken in easily predictable ways doesn't mean every new game creates a hacker.

It's more correct to say "speedrunners show that almost all game developers are bad at software engineering".

sometimes good at creating fun games, but quick to say "you are holding it wrong" when you breath on the thing and it blows up.
Are we basically trying to build cold blooded animals? Sit in the sun, absorb heat, now they can move.
No question, but just in general appreciation for the wonderful content you put out there that we get to enjoy!
servo was never a fully featured web browser and was never proposed to be iirc. It was proposed as experimental from the start. The most we got at the time was browser.html
"Un coke s'il vous plaît" is not a proper French sentence. It does not sound right. It will be obvious it's a language difference and people will easily guess coca cola. In fact French people will most likely quip back "Un coca vous voulez dire ?".

Fun aside, coca cola/cola is male. Cocaïne is female. A rail (of coke) is male.
Have you seen how big excavators are physically? There are functional limits to certain tools. I can see how software could become a hot mess if AI tools aren’t calibrated or the human element makes a mess of combining disparate parts.
Still a GPT with Chat though.
I prefer ("if a, err := bar() {"), the same things you said applies here, too. I write a lot of Go and I can glance through it quickly, there is no cognitive overhead for me.

Edit: actually, it was someone else who said this: "Human brain has a funny way of learning how to turn off the noise and focus on what really matters.".
I used NVIDIA on sway/hyprland on Wayland on NixOS with a variety of driver versions last year and still had awful flickering that made it basically unusable. After much consternation, I fixed it by buying an AMD card, and it's worked smoothly since.
When I see this it makes me want to run for ReasonML/ReScript/Elm/PureScript.

Sum types (without payloads on the instances they are effectively enums) should not require a evening filling ceremonial dance event to define.

https://reasonml.github.io/

https://rescript-lang.org/

https://elm-lang.org/

https://www.purescript.org/

(any I forgot?)

It's nice that TS is a strict super set of JS... But that's about the only reason TS is nice. Apart from that the "being a strict super set" hampers TS is a million and one ways.

To me JS is too broken to fix with a strict super set.
Yeah, but the 100 person digging crew is going to get 100 excavators.
America is a secular nation. We don't "believe" in anything, we pay our taxes to be represented in democracy.

Blatant scams like this cannot be democratically approved. It is not a populist policy in the slightest.
Warren Buffett calls Trump's tariffs a tax on goods
Well, the US "took their losses" but made the US Dollar the reserve currency. If they toss this away, they'll not "lose trade action" but they'll pay more to finance their debt.
I've designed a lot of hardware in the Oil and Gas, HVAC and pump spaces. If anyone wants to design and build hardware in this space my contact info is in my bio.

There is real opportunity here.
It's strategic in the sense of payback to the cryptobros who helped get him elected. Also, his VP is a cryptobro.

Does it make sense from any other rational perspective? Of course not. It's totally about payback.
Don't laugh too quickly, because what you describe is already happening: models are used to design processes allowing insurance corps to deny claims optimally, while on the other side models write your claims. If I were you, I wouldn't be laughing. If you are laughing, then you don't see where this is going to take us.
It really amazes me how much this has become an issue and how few people question why or how. The number of trans athletes we're talking about, nationwide, is no higher than in the dozens. The idea that when asked about a presidential election someone would cite trans issues as a priority staggers me. A true testament to the power of conservative media.