skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla has gotten more than $13 billion in government contracts in the past five years. There's no reason to think this rate will decrease. At least not in the next 4 years
What is going to happen to Firefox users? The DRM supported by FF is easily broken. Will YouTube drop support for Firefox?
Use Brave browser - both on phones and laptops. The ad-free experience will change your perspective on what internet looks like. You won't miss Google.
Ok, I don't fully agree, but it's beside the point ... that makes all government money spent on SpaceX worthless (because it cannot replace money that has to be spent)

Think of it like buying a car ... after you've already signed the contract to buy a new car. The contract signing means that all money spent on cars afterwards is money wasted, because you will have to complete the contract regardless. Likewise, buying a rocket from SpaceX does not let the government avoid spending on SLS.
They "work", but not well.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
> My bigger issue was with the claim that you can't build an application bigger than arbitrary size X without an ORM, which is empirically untrue.

I never said that. I said that it's harder to do and there's no reason not to use an ORM to make it easier.
I couldn’t think of an agency that has delivered a better ROI than NASA.
The "person one" vs "person two" bias seems trivially solvable by running each pair evaluation twice with each possible labelling and the averaging the scores.

Although of course that behavior may be a signal that the model is sort of guessing randomly rather than actually producing a signal.
In my country in the EU we don't have Amazon, but there does not seem to be a need for it since almost every small and big goods seller has a e-store. The rest we buy from foreign stores with a slight increase in delivery cost.
Instagram clowning, I dunno, but random house chores sounds hard for immigration to distinguish from a live-in maid/domestic service. Exchanging chores for room and board is an exchange of work for value, so yeah, that's a job; unless there's an exception.

The article is a little bit unclear, but it sounds like she wanted to cross into Canada and do the same thing, but Canada instructed her to return to the US and reapply in the proper category, and then the US presumably asked more questions and determined that her stay in the US was likely on the wrong visa too.

But I don't understand why the US wouldn't send her home to the UK? How many days of detention does it take to equal a flight home? Also seems weird that Canada wouldn't let her in, or offer to send her home, given Canada and UK have the same King.
> Let me guess, they published a bunch of papers, did a bunch of experiments like "lets do X but gui" "what if you didn't have to learn syntax" and then nobody ever did anything with any of the work because it was a total dead end.

This response is very confusing to me, and it seems you have a very different understanding of what STEPS did than I do.

In my understanding, the key idea of STEPS was that you can make systems software orders of magnitude simpler by thinking in terms of domain-specific languages, i.e., rather than write a layout engine in C, first write a DSL for writing layout engines and then write the engine in that DSL. See also, the "200LoC TCP/IP stack" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=846028

You seem to think they're advocating a Scratch-like block programming environment, but I'm not sure that's accurate. Can you point to where in their work you're finding this focus?

I too believe STEPS was basically a doomed project, but I don't think it's for the reason you've said (moreso just the extreme amount of backwards compatibility users expect from modern systems).

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> You don't make leaps from paying grad students to play around with "how can we make programming better", you get it from all of a sudden an AI can just generate code.

I think this is a more compelling point, but it doesn't seem to explain things like the rise of Git as "a way to make programming (source control) better," and it's not clear how to determine when something counts as an "all of a sudden" sort of technology. They would probably say their OMeta DSL-creation language was this sort of "all of a sudden" technological advance that lets you do things in orders of magnitude less code than before.
I think the point is that we accept that making something cheaper or easier tends to increase its usage on the margin. The reverse effect is an extraordinary claim that should be met with skepticism. Individual success stories shouldn't be enough to persuade you.
> most heavily subsidized automaker

The federal government literally purchased all of GM & Chrysler in 2009.
I’m not a lawyer so I can’t contest the legality of op’s actions, but I’m curious whether this state of affairs is one that you like personally?
whether this is a positive thing is left as an exercise to the reader :)
It wouldn't have been a bait and switch then.
We've been moving away from K8S to ECS...it just works without all the complexity.
The crime has been years in the making, this is just burning the body.
Because you still need to save it, back it up, and share it with others who will likely want to do the same
Risk parity got obliterated a few years ago. Risk limits were breached multiple times over on these strategies.

Thinking that you are taking a safe option is a lie you tell yourself when you want to take the lazy option: just copying what you read in some book. It isn't safe, risk-party isn't diversification, you are still gambling.

Btw, this was predictable too...the idea that bonds/equities wouldn't be correlated was clearly historically contingent based on the very recent past. It was very clear that massive financial stimulus significantly increased the risk of equities/bonds correlation going to one, it was a topic considered throughout the 2010s when people were trying to sell these funds and trying to devise ways to generate negative correlation. The problem was that lots of people were moving a lot of product based on this correlation continuing.
Ah of course! It's improving the branch target predictor. Makes sense, thanks!
Not to mention that the owner is a neo-Nazi supporter.
And what's wrong with any of that?
I work in the space and routinely access material that predates the Berne Convention. There are indeed traditions that archives and libraries follow going back centuries.

This is entirely separate from US copyright law and if we were actually conversing I'd imagine we'd discover that we share a lot of views there.

> You don't get to destroy them just because you've got a temporary lease on it.

And that's where we disagree. For starters, nothing has gotten destroyed here. Yet. The problem as I see it is that some weird-ass white guy annointed himself keeper of the material. And now he's started behaving erratically and unlawfully, and putting everything at risk. Seems to be a lot of that going around lately.

Insiders at the Archive have gone as far as to say Brewster's sabotaging things since there's no plan for funding or running the thing after he passes. Getting sued over and over (and losing) is awful. And imagine how the employees feel -- scanning moldy books for 20 years and then your boss makes one weird decision and now nobody can see your work.
Frankly, I wouldn't dare to overstay my tourist visa in the US either 10 or 20 years ago. The articles notes "four month", a standard US tourist visa for an ESTA country (e.g. the UK) would grant 90 days upon arrival; any travel within Canada counts too. Canada, however, grants 180 days, helping explain why Canada may not have seen an issue. Whenever travelling elsewhere for more than 1 month, check _everything_; including your travel insurance, most only last 60 days.
FLAC's nice because it's future-proof, you can encode it into whatever you need with no loss. 350-400MB for an album hardly seems worth worrying about in a world where if you want a top-quality film rip you're looking at 40-80GB—and you can fit hundreds of such albums on a chip the size of a 1-year-old's pinkie nail that cost tens of dollars, let alone an actual spinning rust hard drive.

I was all about high-quality MP3 in like the early '00s, but now? FLAC's fine, music's not going to be the reason I run out of disk space.
It's a spectrum rather than binary categorization.

It's pretty easy to see that certain people are bully-like and certain people are definitely not bully-like.
> As to those claiming that these individuals won't regret what they have done: That may be true. But why does it happen with developers? Because it happens a lot.

Because Developers make games, and record execs make money. I'm sure there are a handful out there who actually give a shit about the art they make their money off of, but having worked with many of these people for many years, I assure you the vast majority are exactly as soulless as is depicted in virtually every movie or TV show that involves one, because the creatives behind those depictions have to deal with those soul-sucking vampires all the time, and they hate them. And the feeling there is very mutual, which is why every executive is creaming themselves at the prospect of being able to get rid of creatives and replace them with "AI."

> Neither I nor Seubert made this claim out of some pseudo-religious self-reassurance that "One day, they'll all get theirs!" but as a simple observation that these actions are ill-advised. I don't know how you could read it any other way without being intentionally obtuse.

Because, as is outlined by the commenter, the notion of "they'll regret this" is presupposing multiple bad assumptions, namely that record executives give the faintest shit about music beyond it's ability to make number go up.

Oh no, Capital Records has a bad reputation. It will still stream. Album sales will be unaffected because consumer revolt has always been worthless as a tactic. What are they regretting?
My YouTube ad-blocking experience with uOL looks like a black/muted screen for 30s until the real video starts playing. No "Skip" button appears. I disabled the extension for YouTube so I can at least skip the video after 5s. Is it better for everyone else?
0) Don't buy from companies that treat me like a criminal.

1) Manufacture's suggested update schedule.
All of which is fantastic, until you can't trust Apple because they are under a secret obligation to disable that feature. Non-programmable hardware gating the I/O lines or power isn't hackable in the same way.
And often a highly exploitative one, especially for immigrants.
Aaaand now I've gone and dropped £35 on an SDR dongle.
Yes, I used to always use a work profile and a home profile in Firefox. Over time I simply made more containers and stopped using profiles altogether. But the option is still there.
It shouldn't. I've not had the braincells yet to fully internalize the entire article, but it seems like we go wrong about here:

> The AWS Load Balancer keeps sending new requests to the target for several seconds after the application is sent the termination signal!

And then concluded a wait is required…? Yes, traffic might not cease immediately, but you drain the connections to the load balancer, and then exit. A decent HTTP framework should be doing this by default on SIGTERM.

> I yelled into the void about this once and I was told that this was inevitable because it's an eventually consistent distributed system.

Yeah, I wouldn't agree with that either. A terminating pod is inherently "not ready", that not-ready state should cause the load balancer to remove it from rotation. Similarly, the pod itself can drain its connections to the load balancer. That could take time; there's always going to be some point at which you'd have to give up on a slowloris request.
I subscribed to SlingTV a little over a year ago and it did not support Firefox, even with all the DRM enabled. Although that's a problem I blame on SlingTV, not Firefox. It was a known issue which they refused to address. I've since ended my subscription with them.

IIRC, there was also a time when Netflix did not support its highest streaming quality on Firefox. I'm not sure if that's still the case since I also ended my Netflix subscription.

Otherwise I cannot think of any major site which is not supported on Firefox. Outside my employer's fragile intranet, I can't think of any sites which do not support Firefox.
So it's impossible for a company to make a mistake and rectify it? If they settle on the same approach as their major competitor, it's bait and switch?
It also depends on the weather where you live. Unless you don't mind clothes that smell funny.

In Japan they don't commonly use dryers and mostly hang dry everything (except maybe Okinawa where I guess it's too tropical). But their bathrooms as set up to operate as a big dryer. You dry both your clothes and the bathroom itself.
You don’t want people to come in for 6 months, work below minimum wage and then take all that cash abroad without paying taxes. That would be a bigger drain on the economy than the supposed waste of govt resources.
Last time I went to one of those, they managed to overfill my oil by two full quarts and it was leaking oil while parked in my garage. I’m hesitant to go back. The auto shop I prefer, that has employees I trust, mostly does “real repairs” and is booked out months in advance. There are tire places around here that offer oil change services as well. They are typically booked out a week or so. I mostly change my own oil as a result and only have the shops do it when I have other work lined up as well.
Cool I’ll try it out. Thanks
I have it installed on Arc and it still works, I guess that's expected but it will degrade soon? I love Arc but I'd better not see an ad or that will be reason to jump ship. I pay for quite a few web services I like (eg, Youtube) but I'd drop a bollock if I saw a display ad on the open web.
> helping explain why Canada may not have seen an issue

The article seems to indicate that Canada did have an issue:

> Canadian authorities told her to go back to the US and fill in new paperwork before returning to cross into Canada.

It seems that she was detained after re-entering the US upon being refused entry into Canada.
FWIW, I got a combo washer dryer, specifically this one https://youtu.be/x44YAiVCbAY (not my video), because I don't have a dryer vent.

While it was a pretty big upfront cost, the combo does have the advantage of entirely reimagining how one does laundry! Specifically because it both washes and dries you can just run it overnight and in the morning you take out dry clothes. So no more laundry days; every night is a potential laundry night. Not only is it energy efficient, it also runs on my ultra-low overnight time of day rates, because that is simply the most convenient time of day to run it anyways.

I think the above video review covers basically everything. I do agree the clothes do not come out super dry, and sometimes I do run it a little longer, or let things air out a bit. Clothes are usually fine and sheets are slightly less fine. Also there is no lint trap, so I have to keep wiping out the lint.

Overall I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages with not having to babysit the washing machine ensure wet clothes are transferred to the dryer in a timely fashion.
I have the same lawyer. I don’t know if it’s true, but they said this:

> Want a workaround? Rip it on Linux. The DMCA applies to software made for circumvention, so some folks argue that Linux tools like libaacs just “don’t implement” the DRM, so they’re not technically circumventing—it’s a stretch, but that’s how VLC and others justify it.

I actually do run Linux everywhere, I don’t even own a Mac or Windows PC anymore. So maybe I would be covered, if I provided my own certificate file extracted from a blu-ray player or something.
If she is on a "four-month backpacking trip around North America" and tried to return to the US, she has exceeded the 90-day limit allowed by the Visa Waiver Program (which counts days both in the US and "adjacent territories") and is now an illegal overstayer. The unpaid labor stuff and getting refused entry to Canada is icing on the cake.

For the record, I'm no fan of ICE/CBP, but it looks like they're just enforcing the law here.
interleaving a bunch of people's comments and then asking the LLM to sort them out and rank them…seems like a poor method. The whole premise seems silly, actually. I don't think there's any lesson to draw here other than that you need to understand the problem domain in order to get good results from an LLM.
You can take different approaches on different things. A browser is probably the most exposed piece of software in your system, so maybe be aggressive with updates on that, but a printer is unlikely to be exposed to untrusted inputs so I would question whether there's any point updating it ever unless you have a specific issue you're trying to fix.
I have moved to Firefox since the announcements that Chrome won't allow must have extensions such as uBlock. That Firefox allows extensions both on desktop and mobile is great.

But there are some things that I miss from Chrome, especially for web development. In Chrome it is possible to adjust the CSS of grid and flex containers within the developer window, which can be helpful. Firefox and Firefox Developer Edition don't have this. Firefox also seems to sometimes have problems with reloading a page when it is changed during development, whereas in Chrome this always was instant.
Then there are some small feature and UI differences, like the reading-mode on Firefox is nice, but the UI of Chrome feels just a bit nicer.
Spyware doing malware things. I guess it is unexpected in this case, but in hindsight just confirming its malware character.
What did you have nothing but TBills, TIPS? Not quite sure what you have where you could just sell them. But, ya, bit silly as your money is still in USD. Nothing is happening to US bonds or there are bigger problems and all your investments are at risk.
Great, I'll continue my "lack of a clue" and keep hiring the best engineers in the world.
Then why do companies try to move so fast if if doesn't matter? Seems like your opinion runs counter to the observed behavior of the entire software industry.

If speed of execution matters, then the language and tools you use for something also matters.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean by this, but there is token probability available in some providers:

https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/using_logprobs
I guess I'm making a wider claim about the effectiveness of funding 'directed innovation'.

Very often innovations can happen if you fund accomplishing some previously unaccomplished task. Building a nuclear bomb, sending a man to the moon, decoding the genome. The innovations come about because you have smart people trying to solve something nobody has ever tried to solve before, and to do that they slightly revolutionize things.

I'm not aware of a single case where the goal was defined in terms of innovation itself, as in "find a better way to program" and anything useful or even slightly innovative resulted. They are by definition doing something that lots of people are trying to do all the time. It's just very unlikely that you are creating conditions which are novel enough to produce even a slightly new idea or approach.

Generally what you get is a survey of how things are currently done, and some bad ideas about how you could tweak the current state of affairs a little. But if there was a way to just patch up what we already know how to do then it's very likely someone already tried it, really it's likely 1000 people already tried it.
3) Completely disconnect my printer from the web and live with this small discomfort. HP burned me too many times.
In defense of video games, in a lot of cases technology has churned so much that it's prohibitive to maintain older games, and in general besides the 16 bit aesthetic people are so put off by the look of older games they tend not to get as engaged.

AI will improve this situation on the graphics side, perhaps with some sort of game container that emulates older environments well (Proton, anyone?) we'll see more re-releases.
It blocks less ads, it's not surprising that it's faster.
"Their own" in the same way as people of India were English.
That's a special case, which can be solved by buying YouTube premium. For general ad-blocking, the DNS filters work great.
I'm curious. If you had some that you would categorize as only bullying people that bullied others, would this fit with a justice perception? How does this account for someone "repenting," as it were, of bullying?

Put differently, I think the objection is that "bully" is not an immutable facet of someone. For many, it often isn't even a choice moreso a by product of the general environment they find themselves in. Obviously malicious actors are defined by their intent to bully. But sometimes people will feel bullied from someone's intent to maintain a preexisting order? How does that get categorized?
I think you mean annotations. Labels and annotations are different things. And btw. Annotations can be validated and can be typed. With validation webhooks.
or mastodon. or threads. or <anme your platform here>... I hate that the short-text social media world got so fragmented. Twitter was the one place i could go to say hi to my neighbors, complain to a company and get recompense, grow my hobbies with friends, ask almost any restaurant "are you open on $holiday?" and just watch the whole world breathe.
Apple also serves ads and trackers on the web, not just in-app or on the App Store. Here are the relevant built-in uBlock Origin filter rules:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AuBlockOrigin%2FuAssets+ap...

Thus they also clearly have an incentive to sabotage uBO. It may be a much smaller piece of their revenue than at Google, but it is a huge proportion of their revenue growth. Don't believe Apple's marketing about their caring for privacy, belied by their actions.
Good point, the website looks like it's 25+ years old so who knows what is running under the hood to keep it going.
I've had very similar experiences.

How quickly and easily people are willing to give up first class sources is quite frightening
Does anyone know yet, if this was really a cyberattack? And if so, how the hackers were able to pull this off? Was it a DDOS-Attack?
Oh my gosh, the flashbacks this triggered. It was the audio that did it. Amazing.
I have a 288TB storage array, so I basically have infinite storage. I never compress anything unless it is lossless lol.
I on the other hand, found no such correlation. The primary bully did not do it to get approval of the crowds but because he was a psychopath.
> Real interest rates in Japan were zero or negative for pretty much all of that same 35-year period, so bonds wouldn't have helped you either.

The main thing that bonds would have helped with was in the 1980s: by regularly rebalancing to (say) 80/20 you would have taken profits off the table regularly. Further taking that (e.g.) 80% equities and putting and putting some in ex-JP/in-US would have further helped.

Even for US investors the data/research suggests some international exposure leads to better results:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FXuMs6YRCY

Further, it looks like even in the US it hasn't been "the US market" that has done well, but rather tech specifically:

> Looking at this data, there are two distinct periods of extended U.S. outperformance—the late 1990s and today. And what do these two periods have in common? The rise of U.S. technology stocks. Bespoke Investment Group recently created this chart illustrating this phenomenon:

> Now that the U.S. technology sector makes up over 30% of the S&P 500 (as it did back in 2000), this begs the question: Is U.S. outperformance just a technological fad?

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/do-you-need-to-own-internationa...

So, slightly contra Buffett, you're not entirely "betting on the US" but rather "betting on US tech".
repealing them would require violating international treaties

Yeeeeah, about that...