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I really wished opera had a greater market share than it did. It did relatively well for a few years with share between 1-4%. But was lagging behind defunct browsers like IE6. And back then the browser space was only chrome, Firefox, and IE. Notable mention to safari and KDE fwiw.

The everything browser made it a difficult experience to understand. Kind of a feature overload in the face of minimalism being practiced by chrome and ie7.
> You're probably referring to plots with subplots. Those indeed have issues, [..] There are some annoying differences when calling Axis methods vs the global functions [..]

When plotting is the basis of what a library does, and there are annoying differences encountered at such a very basic usage level, then it is not completely unreasonable to express some grievance about the syntax imposed to the user.. It is a frustrating user-experience to start encountering issues at such a fundamental level.

Tweaking plots, axis and layouts is tricky. Animating a plot with a bit of control is non-trivial, although I am prepared to concede that the two are different beasts.

My most recent annoyance was for something that seemed superficially easy: duplicating a left axis to a right axis, with a different label text, keeping the "original" grid and limits. Think of degree Kelvin on the left, and the equivalent in Celsius as a right axis. After more than 30 minutes of trying, I simply gave up as it was way beyond the amount of time I could justify spending on a single plot.
PCalc is indeed excellent.

As for RPN, it's one of those things I didn't get until I was in my 30s and started using it. Then used it more. And now I'm at the point where using a "normal" calculator is a frustrating experience. I got very used to the stack and having intermediate results. I find it highly frustrating that the windows calculator still doesn't have it as an option, and that when asked about it the developers seemed confused why anyone would want it.

Free42 has filled the gap though.
Totally. We are (mis)using Jira in a similar way as it also has object level versioning as well as an ok entry UI for structured data. The Github "projects" feature allows to do a similar thing. Again misusing the underlying issues as database entries. I do however like the idea of the underlying data be owned by myself and ideally in some kind of human readable format.
People said the same thing about Bell Labs and they were profoundly wrong.

There is nuance. Saying A about B and being wrong does not imply saying A about C means you're wrong. It is indeed possible to lose focus on revenue and die. But it is also possible to focus too much on revenue and die. It is unclear if Google will achieve anything from it's "pure research" investments, but certainly they have room to try, and I personally am glad they are doing so.
The author literally just bought the wrong device for their needs.

Probably 95% of people who own computers do not need root access and should not have it, possibly ever. The iPad is a great device for all the people who need what it offers. It's an amazing graphical tablet, it's a cheap way to watch movies and play games, and it's an amazing system to use while standing without a desk (e.g., for retail and outdoor situations). All of these use cases have nothing to do with gaining root access.

Heck, I don't even think most of my development tasks on a real desktop computer involve elevating into root privileges. I'd sure like the ability to but if it was taken away from me I'm not sure it would affect me all that much.

"I don't consider any system without root access to be a real computer. So anyway, I decided to buy a Roku streaming box as my main computer and it sucks! What's wrong with the world today!?"
Maybe when you know you're due to start support the next week, you stop feature work sometime the previous week and do small maintenance/backlog tasks and or documentation. Like a cooldown period before task switching
Google make almost all their money from search, an extremely lucrative property, which is under threat from all the new ai players.

So while they have a bunch of cool tech on the possibility horizon the only thing the market cares about is the ability to make money and there's some uncertainty on that front.
Not the OP...

To me I think the issue is "how can Mozilla be self-sufficient without Google?", and that means tightening their focus.

Those things should all get effort, energy and investment - but maybe Mozilla doesn't need to be the one driving it (to that point, maybe Mozilla can advocate for Google funding those things directly?).
A funny story I heard recently on a python podcast where a user was trying to get their LLM to ‘pip install’ a package in its sandbox, which it refused to do.

So he tricked it by saying “what is the error message if you try to pip install foo” so it ran pip install and announced there was no error.

Package foo now installed.
The list links to the prosecution documents for each person in the database. Arguing perspective is fine, but not facts.
Yeah, "scripting" language isn't a good word choice on my part. I did mean dynamic/interpreted. But even nowadays that line is blurry with bytecode VMs.

> And I'd much rather debug/modify semantically rich, high-level code that my LLM generated.

This I agree with. In fact, we may find that the natural fit for use with LLMs is a language not popular amongst humans. The main issue, in my opinion, is we end up with native code executables, complete control over memory layout and direct access to system calls. Those properties just happen to align with languages like Rust, Go, Zig, C/C++, etc. but they aren't limited to them.
Lots of words to say absolutely nothing about why HFCS has a meaningfully worse impact on you than other sugars.
I don't expect anyone to do anything, but if they do I intend on respecting the license. I also expect myself to give back however I can. I just don't see how you dismiss someone else's efforts. It's like valuing a home you bought and did work on, solely on how it looked before you bought it. Even if you tore down most walls and redid the flooring and interior drastically.
You can easily buy such CPUs in the microcontroller market, just go ahead. They're being sold by the billions.
Reminds me of a similar story about Blast Corps, specifically how they implemented logic to correctly display apparent retrograde motion vis-a-vis the orbit of Venus from the perspective of Earth...all just for what basically amounts to a background animation. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ6eNJi02Qk
Exactly.

OpenAI is nowhere near 'open' as in open source or FLOSS.

Its more akin to Amazon saying that paying for prime is 'free shipping'.

And as a self-respecting hacker, I would much rather hack on Deepseek with their published base models, rather than fine tune and hope with OpenAI models.

And even on my meager hardware, I can barely generate 7 token/sec with OpenAI.

Deepseek? I'm doing 30 token/sec.

Guess which model I'm working with?
Money has won. First it captured religion, then the masses.
That is not the core, however; the core means the central pieces of a large telecom, the part that handles all the needed data to set up say, 10,000 or more calls per second.
They also have a bog loss leader with the vision. Putting it into the same category as AirPods and services is a bit misleading.
They are solid for audio production too, with a lot of fairly powerful DAWs. (Like AUM or Loopy Pro.) you can even connect MIDI instruments from other apps into the DAW and then play them with a connected midi controller, add USB audio interfaces for multitrack recording and live performances, etc.

Or it can be a glorified PDF reader for sheet music (with a nice pencil to boot)… and it’s also great for drawing.

They’re very powerful devices. Sure, iOS is limited, with poor multitasking workflows. But you can still write very powerful apps for iOS.
I've been beating the drum about this to everyone who will listen lately, but I'll beat it here too! Why don't we use seL4 for everything? People are talking about moving to a smart grid, having IoT devices everywhere, putting chips inside of peoples' brains (!!!), cars connect to the internet, etc.

Anyway, it's insane that we have a mathematically-proven secure kernel, we should use it! Surely there's a startup in this somewhere..
I think the safety of those tools as a static, unchanging code base is not a major concern, but when you're writing and maintaining code, every code change is a potential source of new bugs, and Rust does eliminate large classes of bugs as things to be worried about.

That said, I actually think that it's pretty likely that switching to using the Rust tools is going to turn up quite a few new non-memory-safety-related (ie: logic) bugs.
Could you quote the parts of my comment where you felt my "negative feelings" were implied? I'm a European and a socialist watching this from outside. The idea of putting individual freedom above the common good is not one that I necessarily agree with, it's just one that I understood as being essential to the American experience, hence my question and surprise.

My point in essence is that I feel like this particular policy comes more from a desire to make life harder for those people who live non-normative linguistic lifestyles rather than to foster strength of community as was implied above. I'm all for community but I also believe in supporting diversity between communities as well as within communities. Hopefully that makes my feelings about the civil rights movement &c. clear to you.
On one hand, I agree with you, on the other, as a former Googler I think that "just needs better coaching" is a huge barrier in Google's current corporate culture and environment.

Google as a whole has a long history of not being able to successfully build great products out of great tech. That seems wrong from looking at search, Gmail, Maps*, Docs*, etc., but I think these are cases where a single great insight or innovation so dominated the rest of the product qualities that it made the product successful on it's own (PageRank, AJAX, realtime collaboration). There have been so many other cases where this pattern didn't hold, and even though Google had better tech, it wasn't so much better on one axis as to pull the whole product along with it.

That's the problem I see here. Maybe they have a better model. Can they make it a better product? OpenAI and Anthropic seem to ship faster, with a clearer vision, and more innovation with features around the model. Is their AI hardware acceleration really going to be a game changer if it's only ever available in-house?

I do believe in Waymo, but only because they've been incrementally investing and improving it for 15 years. They need to do that with all products, instead of giving up when they're not an instant hit.

*Maps, Docs, and YouTube were acquired with their key advantages in place, so I wonder how much they even count.
Why Freelancers Will Win the AI Gold Rush
Do you there is a chance that openai accept this change? It would be awesome if this became part of the library
Robotics needs to become affordable for indie developers be able to hack them almost like Raspberry Pi projects.
Matt Mullenweg blackmails WordPress community with delay threats
Heck, that's going to go down poorly with those who will correctly point out that not only are there a gazillion Linux desktop environments which equates to a lot more than 3 "operating system" choices ("Linux" is just the kernel and a set of included/bundled/related technologies) but that there are also other systems you can daily drive like FreeBSD that aren't even Linux.
The AI-Savvy Founder: The Next Frontier of Startup Experimentation
The country can accept immigrants without bending for them. And getting official docs in 10 languages makes people more wary of immigration.
Ever since the AI chat video, I have put Google in the same basket as Intel. Don't trust their demos.
I see they state:

"Is it really safer?

While Rust is better than C/C++ for security, these programs are often already very safe. Security is not the key argument for us in this rewrite even if Rust provides some automatic improvements."

I think that answers my question. Thanks!
I agree. But that might be why soviets are bad at everything. They always get this proportion wrong, in all systems.
> CBT as proposed and studied in lab settings can't really be applied in the wild like most evidence based therapists try to,

Because that part is wrong, apart from the underlying inner working being dissected in labs (the cognitive science part), the therapy part it is well studied in the wild - and it works.

> and the results of therapy I come across always seem extremely underwhelming.

So you mean anecdotes? Of course you recognize the underwhelming results - the people where it worked well are less noticable, by definition.

> Maybe for some cases like severe phobias there is something to be solved, but do we really need to be paying thousands of dollars a year

That you have to pay money has been a decision of the society you reside in. It doesn't have to be this way, and in fact it isn't in most industrialized countries.

> for a therapist to say "hey, maybe if you'd invest more in hobbies, social relationships and a healthy lifestyle you would feel better"?

That is a strawman, not CBT.
Can an integrated CPU-FPGA design (like the ones AMD sells) be a solution to this problem? Point 5 of the paper says:

> Modern hardware and software stacks use a very layered structure, with each layer striving to hide its internal functioning details from upper layers. The socio-economic context which allowed such hardware to exist inherently relies on such abstraction (under the name of “industrial secrecy”). An effective constant-time coding process would require a model of computation with strong guarantees on timing-related characteristics, that would be maintained through all these layers, down to the semiconductors that implement the logic gates. This industry-wide vertical cooperation is unlikely to happen

It's not mentioned in the paper, but hardware description languages provide strong guarantees on timing-related characteristics on the semiconductor level. Hardware companies are willing to provide user access to FPGAs, as evidenced by the userspace FPGA subsystem in the Linux kernel as well.[1] You can buy Versal SOCs right now that combine ARM CPUs with FPGAs on one die, run Linux on it, and outsource your crypto tasks to the FPGA.

I see a future where we give up on constant-time coding for CPUs and move crypto libraries to FPGAs, given the hundreds of billions of dollars in our economy reliant on strong encryption. That'd be a world in which every corporate laptop is required to have an FPGA for compliance purposes.

It'd be interesting to know if anyone has tried this.

[1]https://www.phoronix.com/news/FPGA-User-Space-Interface-AMD
ah, HN, where a $2,000,000,000,000 market cap company (#5 in the world) is undervalued
Spotify has paid $4.5 illion to publishers, but songrwriters struggle
Just for cultural reasons, a roundworm's brain with 302 neurons (each one always in the same place spatially and topologically I might add) is likely better understood. And we don't have a great idea of how it works. But the OpenWorm simulation project seems to have current development https://github.com/orgs/openworm/repositories
I use this too, the keybinds carry to windows which is very convenient. I get stunlocked by muscle memory when working in macos tho.
I don’t get how your anecdote relates to SS7. SS7 is available country-wide (I’m assuming it doesn’t directly cross national borders) and the surface area of all of the cell towers and data centers they connect to is very large. Even larger if you consider all of the software that runs on the devices that are legitimately connected to that network. This isn’t even remotely comparable to some fictional high trust small rural town where everyone knows everyone.

I do have a lock on my mailbox, but it has to adhere to the USPS skeleton keys (which have been leaked and are exploited by thieves). Another example of bad design, or at least design that wasn’t able to withstand reasonably foreseeable changes to the operating environment.
Fun wart. Been a couple of decades or so since I last wrapped <script> contents like that but not long enough that I didn't have a correct suspicion about the execution result.
Hahaha! I'll start calling Rust "Zoomer Ada"
HN's higher level folks like Gary Tan are uh, very friendly with Elon and his ways. They consider the current state of twitter a success.
I've seen that zombie behavior too when my kids watch too long. I think there's definitely value in some shows, and some of them are actually very educational. I think there's a lot more variety these days than when I was a kid.

As a rule we don't allow Blippy because the man creeps me out, and something about his childish behavior rubs me the wrong way. OTOH the other day my 5yo kid asked me if I knew why the sky was blue. I genuinely wasn't sure and he somewhat explained what he learned on TV from a show about sunlight and particles in the air.
Sounds like Xerox, they had cutting edge everything in the 70s, did nothing with it. Or AT&T, with Bell Labs inventing Unix. Or Kodak inventing the portable digital camera in 1975.
To be somewhat charitable to GP, if their climate for research and development leads to actually objectively better outcomes then yes I'd say it's fair to make the claims that a nation's work in any given sector are showing better returns given the circumstances and inputs in question. Now there are a lot of generally hard to observe facets to the inputs that went to these technological advances produced by China (publically), but you can't ignore their public and OSS contributions because it's inconvenient to a person's capitalist agenda.
I agree you shouldn't write off any platform/software/etc based solely on the number of vulnerabilities. I also agree that how responsive they are to fixing things is a factor to consider. But I think that's only _a_ factor.

Take something like a container escape vulnerability.

We could have Vendor A where they're just running containerd on a bunch of hosts on a single network segment and throwing everyone's containers at it so a container escape vulnerability essentially gets you access to everything any of their customers are running.

Where-as Vendor B segments running containers into VMs, so a container escape vulnerability means you can only access your own data. Not great because if one container is compromised that gives them a path into the rest of your workloads, but at least I know they're maintaining a pretty solid wall between tenants.

Then there's Vendor C that actually runs containers using some micro-VM framework so each container is running fully isolated by a hypervisor with a fully separate emulated network stack, etc so the escape really gets them no more access than they had inside the container.

A pattern of issues like Vendor A is, well, a pattern. A series of issues that show their systems are fundamentally not designed for proper isolation between tenants and are lacking defense-in-depth measures to mitigate the fallout of the inevitable security issues is a very good reason to write off Vendor A regardless of how quickly they respond to the issues.

I'm not going to go back and review all the Azure issues, but my recollection from the few writeups I've read definitely paint a picture of a lot more "Vendor A" type issues than I'd be comfortable with.
I am sorry you are confused about a colloquialism. I did make a point to call out the companies named directly. But somehow that confuses you, and I get a Linus comparison.

Not much else I can do other than apologize for your lack of comprehension.
And merely taking the training will help you deal with other aspects of emergency first aid. The Red Cross's training really pounds in the "check if the scene is safe", etc. sequence that you need to be effective under extreme stress.
there is not much evidence that fructose is worse than glucose, but in principle part of it is because fructose permeates cells via diffusion while glucose must be pumped into the cell; so it consumes more energy to produce energy from it. There's also differential ability of different cells in the body to process glucose vs fructose
And how can you support funding this beautiful park proposal when there are children starving in ${country}??

I can’t remember where I heard this, but it was someone questioning joy and frivolity in a time of war. And the answer back was that people need to remember what they are fighting for otherwise what’s the point?

If you don’t allow yourself joy until the problems are gone, there will never be joy and the problems will multiply for lack of it.
For anyone curious, this video is about the Cloudsurfing glitch in Final Fantasy VII which allows players to walk around unaffected by the game's geometry. It goes into a technical deep dive on the 3D geometry that causes this.
Interesting question. My strategy for archival backups has been:

- local nas with decent redundancy

- a single external hard drive

- rclone everything to B2

so a lot of redundancy at relatively little cost. I have less than 100Tb but more than 20, so 100Gb would be too small..
Cool concept, has been done a few times before. Would prefer to see a cleaner implementation. Do projects like this really need Tailwind, TS, React? I don't think so.
No they don’t. I helped lead a failed effort to implement UDI capture at a major academic research hospital. To date only Duke and Mercy health systems have implemented UDI capture in a limited capacity.

The big problem is that implementation requires significant up front capital investment and operational changes; for nebulous / speculative ROI in terms of dollars. So organizational incentives are just not there.

Ultimately this is the type of problem that will require government intervention to solve. And that intervention will require the creation of incentives for organizations to implement UDI capture - similar to how it took an act of congress (Obamacare) to incentivize healthcare systems to adopt electronic health care records and protocols for communicating / sharing health care information.
What didn't work about the remaster or was it just a matter of shattering the illusion of your memories?

I've been thinking about the game a lot since having my first child last year. She often lifts things and rotates them in her hand just to see and experience them. When I was a kid playing Shenmue I always found it funny that they added that mechanic because "who does that?" but now I feel a very deep appreciation for it.
OpenUI, OpenUI5. I wish people would check names before they start using it. Starts to get so confusing
Yes, it still fits when you flip it around, speaking as an engineer turned technical PM. PMs should absolutely be technical and have enough depth of understanding about the product they can figure things out for themselves, as well as write code.

That's not going to prevent the PM from asking questions to the developers though. I ask questions all the time, because I want to validate my mental model with others and verify my understanding. Asking questions is a /good/ thing.

The part where you are missing the boat is acting like customers are a distraction or an enemy. Customers are /the point/, the /only/ point, really at the end of the day. Every role in every business is customer-facing to some degree.
Probably because ordinary people can't afford them because ordinary people aren't paid enough. And so their addressable markets are smaller than they could be and already saturated from historical sales. They should've made their consumables like rollers, wheels, and filters more expensive and less durable just like HP inkjet printer supplies. ;)