skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also casually dropped that he talked to people at firms with "high amount of coding", who told him that by the end of this or next year "most code will not be written by humans".

Yeah, okay. I work each day with Copilot etc and the practical value is there, but there are so many steps missing for this statement to be true, that I highly doubt it.

My case is, wouldn't we already see the tools that are at least getting close to this goal? I can't believe that (or AGI in fact) to be a big bang release. It looks more like baby steps for now.
I've been daily driving Firefox for several years. Everything I use on a daily basis works fine on FF, but every now and then you come across some random site that doesn't load or loads poorly.
I've been telling my IRL non-technical friends to use Brave. By far the easiest migration path, literally is Chrome, but with with a good built-in ad blocker and uBlock Origin. I've long since understood that any browser that I would use should be treated as an anti-recommendation for normal folks. I can already see the "but the crypto thing" and yeah, I don't love it but it's so out of the way that I don't even know how to turn it on in Brave if I wanted. Getting people weened off of Google Chrome (tm) is better than trying, and failing, to get them on the "ideal" browser.

Edit: Instead of downvoting actually try convincing a normal person to switch to Firefox and see how well it goes. I've been recommending it for 10+ years and they're all still on Chrome. But in two days I have 4 new Brave users.
To migrate, the average user will need to see the problem first. Most people wouldn't care enough about it even if they magically could press a button and migrate.

In the attention economy the browser and the mobile OS (and soon your LLM/Perplexity agent) are the most important points to control the aggregate user data. So it's a lost battle.

For a sub 0.01% of the nerds there would be alternatives for the non-DRM content, but this wouldn't change the big picture.

It's like the junk food business. Yes it's bad for people, but it's so addictive...
Wasn't joking.

> But if you are not, are you against democracy in undeveloped or developing countries, then?

Not more than I am against it in developed countries.

> Do you think apartheid was right to not give black people votes because they weren't "developed" enough?

No, I think that was racist. You can not determine enlightenment by skin colour.

> Do you think British colonialism was right because the "savages" weren't capable of ruling themselves well?

No I think that was an invasion.

I was referring to people being able to know what is going on and what effects the acts politicians propose might have on them and others and being able to know if the person they vote for is trustworthy.
I see glacial DNS resolution regularly when hitting the AWS authorization page with DoH disabled on my company's VPN. Resolves instantly in Chrome.
..which did more to boost the economy than the New Deal.
> definancialize the economy

Not sure what does it mean in the context of the economy in general.
It isn’t. But is the US spending $200B on Russia? In fact Europe is propping up Russia more by purchasing oil and gas from them.
> Windows? If anything when it comes to "technical things" macOS is what gets copied.

macOS is what was copied. A long time ago.
I regularly have 200+ tabs open in FF, no idea what the parent is talking about.

Right now I'm at 181 and it's still buttery smooth.
Porting the curl command-line tool and library with Goa
Mozilla diversifies by increasing the CEO's salary for nothing.

Wiki:
In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, Baker's salary was more than $3 million. In 2021, her salary rose again to more than $5 million, and again to nearly $7 million in 2022.

The new CEO brings computing for AI money bleed that almost no one wants.
I think job hopping happens for the same reasons layoffs do: short-term thinking on management's part. I've been an engineering manager for 8 years now and have observed that a) giving an external candidate a $10-15K bump during negotiations is fairly easy while b) giving that same bump to an existing employee is practically impossible. Engineers learn that moving every 2-4 years is the way to keep their salary growing, while the same companies that claim to not be able to pay them more happily dish out even more money to hire their replacements.
I can expand a little bit, but based on your question, I suspect you may know everything I'm going to type.

In cloud environments, it's pretty common that your cloud provider has specific implementations of Kubernetes objects, either by creating custom resources that you can make use of, or just building opinionated default instances of things like storage classes, load balancers, etc.

It's pretty easy to not think about the implementation details of, say, an object-storage-backed PVC until you need to do it in a K8s instance that doesn't already have your desired storage class. Then you've got to figure out how to map your simple-but-custom $thing from provider-managed to platform-managed. If you're moving into Rancher, for instance, it's relatively batteries-included, but there are definitely considerations you need to make for things like how machines are built from disk storage perspective and where longhorn drives are mapped, for instance.

It's like that for a ton of stuff, and a whole lot of the Kubernetes/OutsideInfra interface is like that. Networking, storage, maybe even certificate management, those all need considerations if you're migrating from cloud to on-prem.
In China there are. But of course the hardware and supplier integration is much easier for them than for American competitors.
Seems like it. Page loads occasionally succeed.
Maybe in your example, but I long ago gave up on having stack traces with any meaningful async Python code. Is it the frameworks' fault? Presumably. But the end result is the same for me. Which is a shame, because Python stack traces are really good, when they work.
Abandoned Chrome years ago. Am using Firefox and never looked back. Same with other Google products: Replaced Gmail with Fastmail, Google Docs with Office365 (yeah, I know, Microsoft).
You live in an extremely atypical place that doesn't generalize at all to the rest of the US. I've never lived in or visited an American city where I couldn't get something basic like an oil change or haircut with no notice. If one place is busy, go a half mile to the next place and they will probably have time for you. Is this post just a humble brag about how you live in Manhattan or some other expensive outlier location?
I think this is where a lot of textbooks come from.
I use BigQuery studio often in Firefox and haven’t noticed anything being worse than Chrome. What problems do you see?
Would you be able to share the name(s) of said professor(s)? I’m asking for a scientist I know who is researching figures and their impacts on publication. They’d be very interested in this!
Exactly. Thank you for your time, I will and won't be here all week!
Nice joke, but on a serious note I can totally see Elon being told this, or hallucinating this, but I'm not particularly convinced that this actually happened. Waiting for third party cybersec firms.

Also I just saw a screenshot that indicated Twitter is still fronted by Cloudflare (I honestly thought that was a temporary measure to bypass the Brazil ban [1]), and now I believe this even less [0].

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/chrisvannini.com/post/3ljzzcb2wdc2j

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41582046
Also true. But it’s a charitable way of putting a fundamentally broken contract on the open web since it was invented: you are in control of your browser. If you want reading mode, large text, anti-fingerprinting, disable autoplaying video, heck even banning popups, the browser is your tool and does what you tell it to. If Google or any other company comes between you and your browser then one part of the open web is discarded. I think extensions are gonna get nerfed even more in the future, for whatever reason large commercial interests have.
What goes around...

We had mainframes and dumb terminals where the work was done in a remote data centre you connected to

Then we had the personal computer revolution where the work was done on the box you owned and controlled on your desk

Then we moved to the cloud where work is done in a remote data centre you connect to
I am looking at the numbers.

And what the numbers show is that a 10% drop happens on average every 1.2 years and is not something that needs Congress to get involved in every time it happens.

If you can't tolerate 10% drops on a regularly occurring basis, the answer is not to beg Congress for help, it is to invest in something safer with lower returns.
Curiously, it is still working in Chrome on my laptop (running Linux Mint) right now.
https://archive.ph/Me736
Firefox works great with dozens of open tabs. The only thing Chrome has going for it is tab groups. Firefox has Tab Style Tree, which is a decent substitute.
It's because most of the time people see mostly powerless people trying to do their jobs and messing up. They don't have as much of a frame of reference for how powerful people act, especially because there is so much mystification in the media (literally owned by the said powerful people). The rule you apply to your friends and co-workers isn't suitable for the maniacal supervillians running society. Of course, those guys also fuck up in bizzare and stupid ways too, so people will point that out and be like look, they're just bad at their evil jobs!
I hadn’t followed news about him much and I thought he was more “conventional GOP”
At the point in time the Walt Disney Company patented the multiplane camera, Walt had long since stopped getting his hands dirty with drawing or technology.

Wikipedia's page on the multiplane camera is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplane_camera

The first incarnation: Lottie Reininger/Carl Koch, 1926. Lottie's "Adventures of Prince Achmed" from the same year is the oldest known surviving animated feature, and can be watched in its entirety on Wikipedia.

Other people fooled around with the idea but there's nothing wiki-notable.

1933: while estranged from Disney (it's a long saga), Walt's former star animator and Mickey co-creator Ub Iwerks built a more advanced one.

1934: the ever-inventive Fleischer studios (inventors of the process of 'rotoscoping', where animators trace over live action) took a very different approach to the problem of creating a sense of depth in animation and built their bugfuck insane Stereoptical Camera, which put miniature sets on a turntable, with a place to put animation cels (which, tangentially, were invented back in 1914 at Bray Studios).

1937: Disney's studio put together a seven-layer multiplane camera for Snow White. Walt's name went on the patent.

(When I was a kid dreaming of being in the animation industry in the seventies, Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic was the canonical history of the entire medium, if you're curious about the minutae of long-vanished studios. It's a lot easier to actually see any old piece of animation that you're curious about than it was back then.)
Many cruise missiles use terrain contour mapping. In principle at least it seems like it should work for airplanes too.
So exactly like twitter.
Yes, if you assume coffee costs half as much as previously stated, it does almost halve the cost.
I started the conversation off on the wrong foot. Commenting with “ad hominem” shuts down open discussion.

I hope we can have a nice talk in future conversations.
This is how Internet Explorer (via Windows), Chrome (via Google Search and YouTube) and Safari (via iOS) gained significant market share. Through another platform or service that they owned, that they could use to promote their browser.

But large Web properties do not gain anything by promoting Firefox. Many are ad-supported, so getting rid of uBlock Origin is a good thing for them. Only having to test on Google Chrome (and maybe Safari) is cheaper for them. There has to be something in it for them to promote Firefox or an alternative browser.
It would have been rational for Europe to spend money on SpaceX. Ariane 6 is 50% pricier per launch. It is not just late to the party but wildly uncompetitive. I don’t think anyone was demanding that Europe “give their money to Elon”, but it would be a rational thing to expect European launches to use the lowest cost provider.
It isn't a curious dance.

The story that the parent is referring to, so far, hasn't actually been attributed to anyone in the govt. A US-based consortium is trying to get it reopened, the FT weren't able to say who this person met with, one of the people thought to be involved (a German) denied meeting with anyone, and there is no actual evidence of anyone in the government saying they are working on this...it is just a story that aligned with something that the journalist thinks the US govt is doing...but was unable to produce any evidence of this.

What is possible is for NS2 to come into ownership of the US who will be able to cut it off when they choose. One of the issues with NS2, as Trump said before the war but the EU literally laughed at him for saying, was that it would make an invasion of Ukraine possible.

In reality, Russia was still paying Ukraine transit fees until earlier this year. So NS2 didn't actually make a difference because Ukraine kept transiting Russian gas through the war. It made a difference before the war because Russia thought Ukraine would cut them off, Germany didn't listen and Putin gambled based on this that Germany would keep NS2 open.

The time to do something was BEFORE the invasion...obviously.
If all you've used it for is autocompleting code, you're doing yourself a disservice. In 1925, there were already cars and airplanes and telephones, even if they were still very new. There have been great leaps and advances in medicine and genetic engineering like CRISPR and mRNA vaccines. Computers and the Internet are the two really huge things from the past 100. The industrial revolution predates 1925. Where a man could make one widget before, with a machine, he could make a thousand of them. So there's a multiplicative effect from that machine. Where you needed 10 humans you could now use one. AI is still developing, but promise of it is even greater because we can, in the hoped for future, copy paste the human who does the work. It's a ludicrous idea, and the societal impact would be immense, and we're not there yet, but given that there were already telephones in 1925, an optimists view of what we're on the cusp of really is revolutionary.

That, of course, is the optimist's view. If you cynically see LLMs as a dead end that won't ever get that far even with Moore's law, then any day now we're going to come to our senses and give up on the whole thing, but looking at how we've come to our senses about crypto and Bitcoin is now worth $0, all I can say is that I'm along for the ride.
They get little pushback from ~95% of their voters. However, the last 5% of their voters are center/center-right voters, and it's those voters that flipped the election from Biden/Harris to Trump and are presumably willing to flip back.
Their engineers genuinely believe that shit too, which is just absurd bullshit.
"They didn't immediately abuse their market power!"

Great. Very few companies do. What difference does it make?

We don't give bankrobbers credit for all the days they could've robbed a bank but didn't.
And Webb was sent on space with Ariane because it is a safe rocket.
Thins new one still very safe so far. Maybe one of the private space companies in Europe will play with more unsafe stuff, move fast and break things soon.
It is a good ad blocker!
I basically did the same upgrade to the Abit BP6, dual Celerons and BeOS. That combo was probably the snappiest system I will ever use.
Elon's strong legacy is imo masking a mental decline. People are excusing behavior on his part because of what he's built in the past but imo its not so simple.

Differentiating between 5d chess and delusional behavior is not easy. I'm personally inclined to think its the latter, but there's admittedly room for debate.

The reason I think this is because it is failure mode that is not uncommon in highly driven, egocentric geniuses. Especially one individual who has stated on record that they are taking ketamine, a powerful dissociative drug.
Well hopefully Google will pay the price for their greed soon enough.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-...
The timing though.
I don't understand how you took the time to test that, but didn't take the time to RTFA:

> We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.
Of the general populous, there are more people who didn't vote for the current administration than people who did.
On the flip side, the effect of “we already know how to do it this way, have good practices and tooling and educational materials for it” is often underweighted when considering the merits of a novel system. The more established something is, the better a competitor needs to be to make the switch worth it. This is not necessarily a bad thing.

There is of course a balance to be struck - keeping an open mind about new ways of doing things is important. However, in tech communities, I think there is often not enough thought given to the value of stability, despite warts.
Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr0616
Fortunately, at least so far, uBlock Origin Lite works perfectly fine on Chrome.

I know people have made a lot of arguments as to why it might not be as good in theory, or why things might change in the future. But so far, ever since I was forced to switch, I have seen exactly zero difference. Lists are updated often enough that I haven't seen anything get through. Adblocking works on YouTube. If anything, pages seem to load even a little faster. I've had no complaints.
Actually I have a problem is both. Chrome/Chromium is Google's product and it's theirs to do with what they please, but if they do user-hostile things with it, that's enough to criticise them for me, even if they're honest about it.

Of course lying about why makes it worse, but I don't think it would've been that much more okay if Google was honest and said "users' ability to install highly effective ad blockers hurts our bottom line so we're removing them".
It's faster and safer and blocks pretty much everything.
> KDE goes to Redmond for its ideas.

? Since 20 years ago KDE was more advanced than Microsoft.
FYI developer edition has a ton of additional data collection that I don't believe can be disabled, if that matters to you.
Still the same engine as Chrome, so it doesn't do anything against the monoculture of Chromium. Firefox works just as well, admittedly they'd have to install an extension instead of ad blocking being there by default.
When a correction happens, everyone with short-term funds pulls them out. Doesn't matter if the issue has a direct connection to the stock or "makes sense" at all.
> Where I can watch videos/read books, and fully feel like I understand everything. However, when hand touches keyboard I realize I didn't really retain any of it.

Always type everything down from a tutorial when you follow it. Don't even copy and paste, literally type it down. And make small adjustments here and there, according your personal taste and experience.
> I would be somewhat nervous that undergrads may tear the place apart. [...] I have witnessed firsthand how destructive undergrads can be to the places they live.

I've known a few "student housing" landlords, at a (supposedly) highly prestigious university. These things need to be sold, like mobile homes. When the student leaves the university, they are free to resell it. Or pay to have the remains of it hauled off to the dump.

Though as the article more-or-less points out, the real issue is finding the vast acreage you'd need to actually set up a meaningful number of these things. Which gets into issues of zoning, infrastructure, and NIMBY's - just like any other at-scale housing construction in America.
It must be sickening to be in that position where you have to bow to the bullies.
I was using Firefox exclusively for years, but when I sold my Macbook and bought a Thinkpad and installed Linux on it, I grew pretty annoyed by Firefox.

Specifically, I couldn't view my 360 videos or photos on Google Images or Immich at anywhere near acceptable performance. The videos, recorded at 30fps, would get maybe 5fps. This was weird, because I have a fairly beefy laptop, it should be able to handle these videos just fine (especially since my iPhone handled it just fine).

After a bit of debugging, it appears that there's a bug in how it's writing for the shader cache, and as such there was no hardware acceleration. I found a bug filed about my issue [1], and I didn't really feel like trying to fix it, because I didn't want to mess with Mesa drivers. I just installed Chromium and that's what I'm using right now, and it worked with my 360 videos and photos absolutely fine.

I want Firefox to succeed, but that really left a bad taste in my mouth; it's not like it's weird to want my browser to be hardware accelerated.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1921742 Looks like it might be fixed now, or at least they figured out it was an issue with Mesa
The position is always, Google's position is so strong they can do whatever they want even if it isn't beneficial to users, this confirms that. I'm not sure the "they could have abused this sooner" defense is a good one.
> you can't jiggle the film around to keep it in the same place.

Contax had an AF solution (Contax AX) that actually moved the entire film plane to focus. I suppose that the same thing could be done in other axises, but I also suppose that there is a reason that only one manufacturer tried it.
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
I don't agree with Mozilla paying that huge CEO salary, but…

Do you know Firefox's handy new offline translation feature? That's AI a well. And Firefox is the only browser that doesn't leak your web page when translating it.

There are plenty of other uses for AI, such as describing images without alt-text for the blind, or summarization. I, for one, want AI in my browser, you can't really say that “nobody wants it”, when many people clearly do.
After 10+ years as a primary browser, I've been 100% off of Chrome for about 1.5 years now as part of a broader effort to de-Google my life, and things have been going well.

It's interesting to notice how much my internal feelings have shifted over the years. There have been a few rare occasions where I had to use a Chromium-based browser, and I felt the same "ick" I used to feel when forced to use Internet Explorer for some reason.

Come to the Firefox (and variant) side. The water is warm.
Vavr 0.10.6 Released
Internet Archive does not delete anything. Sometimes they leave the "item" (URL) up and block downloads. Recently they have started "darking" things en masse, which removes them from search results.

A sane solution would be to leave the items up, block download of the full file, and make excerpts available. They do this for many items where you cannot download the mp3 yet the spectrogram (jpg image) remains available.

Archive.org is at a crossroads and the people who manage it have made some very curious decisions lately.
I'm weary of this as well, but without traffic, its a problem I'll deal with later.

For now, I don't host much, and if the time comes, I'll add that google (or is it aws) service that scans inapprop things.
I use it all the time on multiple platforms and it is a DOG on anything but Chrome/Chromium. We have 30+ datasets each with many tables/views/functions etc tho so that could be part of the issue.

Same thing will happen in the billing portal or really any experience but I notice it the most in BQ.