skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Our leaders (at least in the US) haven't been real role models for probably centuries...

Even when I disagreed with some of what he did (and didn't do), I absolutely can't recall a single time that I didn't admire the manner in which Obama spoke and behaved.
Tunnel Books: The art and history of immersive 3D scenes
Is it actually gone? I thought they just put that warning.

I just re-enabled the one already installed on my devices.

Once it's legit gone gone though yeah I'm going to Firefox or use Edge for web dev stuff

Edit: I will say I am a hypocrite though I am trying to build a following by posting on YouTube... I don't control the ads on there, maybe you do when you are monetizable but yeah sucks I feel bad for the viewers. At the same time... I'll spend weeks/months on a project and no one cares so idk.
Firefox has some weird slowness with DNS that I have troubleshot to death. I still use it for almost everything, but sometimes I'll have an entire day of 30s page loading times.
By the way, I was curious about your pricing, I went to settings and clicked "Subscribe to Premium" but got a couple of js exceptions.

Content-Security-Policy: The page’s settings blocked a script (script-src-elem) at https://js.stripe.com/v3 from being executed because it violates the following directive: “script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://scripts.simpleanalyticscdn.com https://vercel.com https://*.vercel-scripts.xn--com-9o0a

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Failed to load Stripe.js 757-1b1ad3c8104d24e2.js:1:31844
dignity
My guess is that his supporters are so entrenched in their position that they won't care. Trump channelled their anger at how broken the American Dream has become, and they're probably OK getting personally singed if it means the whole thing burns down.

However, it will likely be a rude awakening on the other side for them, especially if they find that some of their entitlements were cut (just as they come to need them most), and meanwhile yet again the rich and powerful not only are fine but the gap continues to widen at an even faster rate.

Even then, I doubt his supporters will turn on him.

Remember, even Hitler had support from the average Germans after the end of the war (at least before the holocaust and other atrocities came to light to them). I'm not saying Trump is Hitler, just showing how you can lose everything and still not accept that your cherished leader wasn't such a smart or great guy...
Ask HN: late co-founder underperforming
We have this terrible situation where our late co-founder is underperforming badly. I mean way below any expectations. But of course in our contract we don't have anything about expectations or performance and we are in Europe(Spain). Things are not going well with him, this was way harder than expected for him. And he is willing to leave the company, but he wants his shares to vest before the cliff period. Otherwise he is happy to stay in the company.

And it just feels bad to give someone 5% of the company because he was with us for 8 months and sold to 0 customers.

Is the only way to bite the bullet and give him 5% or is there anything else we can do?
> As an ethical move, we’re only buying in Trump-voting counties from registered Republicans.

That's a strange kind of ethics, refusing to buy from Democrats who want to sell. It's like you're boycotting Democrats.
did migrating to bazel require specialized expertise or were teams able to pick it up quickly?
> Did you?

Yes.

> do you really understand the solution completely?

Yes; fully. I'd describe what I delegated to the AI as "busy work". I still spent time thinking through the overall design before asking the AI for output.

> But I only use AI on things I know I don't care about personally.

Roughly speaking, I'd put my personal projects in two different categories:

1. Things that try to solve some problem in my life

2. Projects for the sake of intellectual stimulation and learning

The primary goal of this scanner project was/is to de-clutter my apartment and get rid of paper. For something like this, I prioritize getting it done over intellectual pursuits. Another option I considered was just buying a newer scanner with built-in scan-to-SMB functionality.

Using AI allowed me to split the difference. I got it done quickly, but I still learned about some things along the way that are already forming into future unrelated project ideas.

> If I use too much AI on things I actually want to know, I feel my abilities deteriorating.

I think this likely comes down to how it's used. For this particular project, I came away knowing quite a bit more about everything involved, and the AI assistance was a learning multiplier.

But to be clear, I also fully took over the code after the initial few iterations of LLM output. My goal wasn't to make the LLM build everything for me, but to bootstrap things to a point I could easily build from.

I could see using AI for category #2 projects in a more limited fashion, but likely more as a tutor/advisor.
Exactly. And the clear proof is the ridiculous dance around tariff policy. Tarrifs were a clear fait accompli, promised in the campaign and scheduled the moment the administration took office. Then the market tanked right as they were about to take effect. Then there was a delay! Then they were only going to apply to goods not covered by NAFTA^H^H^HUSMTC! Which is all goods, basically. So no tariffs. Except they're still on the books.

That's not a rationalist trade policy. At its most charitable, it's a failed attempted at brinksmanship. More likely it's just not understanding how markets work and in particular how that is reflected in the stock market (which, if not "rationalist" per se, is a lot more so than the administration). Incompetence either way.
Content Rating Violations in Android Applications: A Vision-Language Approach
custom filters / block lists
The outage doesn't fit the pattern of a bad deployment. X was down all over the world all at once. There was multiple outages and the site was browning out while it was up.

If a deployment caused it, they would roll back and not try again until they found the issue.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825

Elon states it's a massive cyberattack and he suspects a nation state is behind it. [paraphrasing]
no need to read it, no disagreement here.
I like black coffee
I'm saying that the article here calls that tech-genius label into question.
Most people (in the world) hadn't been on the internet in 2000 when the dot-com crash happened. Barely half the US population was even online at that point. We're probably nowhere near the peak of AI ability or usage, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been a lot of mal-investment or that things can't commodify.

Huge amounts internet growth still happened after the 2000 crash, but networking gear and fiber optic networking became a commodity play, meaning the ROI shifted. The companies that survived ended up piggybacking the over-investment on the cheap, including Amazon and Google.

Even going way back, the real productive growth of the American railroads didn't happen until after the panic of 1873 after overbuilding was rationalized.
BlueSky is still working great.
I particularly liked the tiling background, which may well have been created using Texture Garden https://texturegarden.com/ by Tim Tyler (of Repton fame, for the BBC Micro fans)
> SP500 is already down 10% in the last month

Not yet. Nasdaq is in correction, but the S&P is only down 8.6% from its 19 February high of 6,144 [1]. (5,529.)

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nasdaq-falls-back-into-cor...
Hopefully there's still a free and fair election in 4 years. That might be contingent on how well Democrats do in next year's election. We need Congress back.
what ll it take to convert 80% of the world wide web users from chrome to firefox. can we write a super duper complicated migrator of sorts that literally installs firefox on behalf of the user, migrates all their data, migrates all extensions from chrome to firefox, even suggests alternative extensions for the ones that are not available and market the hell out of this migrator across x, bluesky, reddit etc?, One click migration from chrome to firefox, 0 tinkering
I used Claude + aider to create a webhook forwarding service (receives webhooks, forwards them to multiple destinations, and handles retries, errors, etc). Included a web interface for creating new endpoints and monitoring errors, and made it fully dockerized and ready to be deployed into a kubernetes cluster.

Took me like 3 hours and a few dollars in api credits to build something that would have taken me multiple days on my own. Since it's just an internal tool for our dev environments that already does what we need, I don't care that much about maintainability (especially if it takes 3 hours to build from scratch). That said, the code is reasonably usable (there was one small thing it got stuck on at the end that I assisted with).
13% down for the day as of now.
Ariane was a nice thing to have in the recent past, something you keep around to not get completely dependent, but it was always clear commercial stuff would be cheaper.

Things have changed, it’s very unlikely anything of strategic importance will be given to us companies now, cost does not matter when it comes to defence anymore.
I view it as a symptom of the broader effort to villify the fourth estate and condition people to act(vote) on their emotions rather than a rational look at verifiable facts.
I wish I had your optimism. Too many Republicans lack a spine and likely think their best chance of survival is actually to do nothing.
The simple explanation is they want the tariffs, but get scared by the blowback, but can't just give up, because that would look even more dumb than it already does.
Understanding Memory Management, Part 3: C++ Smart Pointers
Chrome will now be sold to TotallyNotGoogle, we're saved.
I noticed a lot of Americans suddenly became experts on European politics overnight.
Yeah that's true. Software rendering at low resolution is not a good sight to look at.

I remember back in 1997, when Quake 2 was just out, I sit in a net bar (where you pay to use a computer) and played an hour of Quake 2 in software rendering. The game was interesting, but I felt a bit sick, half due to the resolution, half due to the almost infinite brownish colour. A girl behind me murmured, "This is not as half fun as Duke Nukem", and yeah I completely agreed with her.

I think I still agree with her somewhat. Quake 2 is a great game, but Duke3d is a fun one.
Read the reasoning after clicking in the stats or swipe to next page and click on the donuts. For in-house legal teams not for mobile users. Read the statements and reasoning. Tell me if the reasoning is wrong. One of the top 100 lawyers in US looked at it and told us he likes how it balances the intent of the law and no gripes with reasoning. Not using a reasoning model unde the hood. We built one for legal. It means that gen AI is useful and LLMs can be made to reason with inference time scaling. It’s not rocket science but also not easy. What hype? We think gen AI is actually under hyped.
The largest web properties pushing Firefox to users, or perhaps social media campaigns. It's an outreach effort, the technical details are already solved. Make the Google/Chrome brand toxic.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/how-to-switch-f...
Part of what the DOJ is seeking against Google would severely impact Mozilla financially however, as they want to ban them from paying to be the default search engine.
Or look somewhere else.

I'm not sure i want to stick money in a country that could implode every four years.
It’s absolutely amazing what these things can produce with simple prompts. I do think it deserves recognition as a top 5 innovation of the last 100 years. We can call it really good autocomplete but it really is incredible.

That doesn’t mean I agree all jobs are going away, AGI is here, or all these other guesses people are making about the future.
Kind of already happening with Asian/Chinese chip companies and will happen to European defence
Why those 3 countries in particular? Wouldn’t this work anywhere (provided it’s not in a war zone or a volcano zone etc)?
Times needs to get less interesting.
It will be the third major winter - there was one around 1974-1980 as well as 1987-2000.

I don't believe the previous 'summers' entailed quite the scale of [mal]investment that has occurred this time, so the impending winter will be correspondingly savage.
Basis is an offline codec.

Spark allows you to encode textures that are generated at runtime. This enables the use of texture compression in cases that were not possible before, for example:

- UGC Textures allow users to customize their avatars or modify them based on gameplay.
- Virtual Texturing makes it possible to composite terrain layers and apply decals.
- Procedural textures can be much more compact and respond to environment changes dynamically.

Spark can also be used in combination with traditional offline codecs optimized transmission and storage. AVIF and JXL are great options for this, but need to be decompressed in memory, thus their use is very expensive at runtime. Spark allows you to transcode from these formats into GPU optimized representations.
The source code is available for Chrome. Suppose one downloads the source code, and then re-enables the Manifest v2? A bit of work, particularly when you have to do other things that probably allow it to co-exist with Manifest v3, and Manifest v4 when it comes. And prevent updates from taking it all out again. While working on it, flip the compiler's command-line switch that allows the executable to run on Windows 7.

How long after the announced Windows 10 end of life will it be before all the software companies say 'Windows 11 is the minimum' like was seen with Windows 7?
Ecosia isn't an stock based company (AG), it's a GmbH.
I really wish that somebody told me this when I was in High School. In HS, DEs were just solving integrals with a simple step away around as far as the student is concerned. I learned about them much more deeply when in college, and later independently.

As you know this now- if you come across a young person studying DEs, feel free to share this line with him/her.

Thanks for reading the article and sharing your opinion.
Apologies if this is elementary, but have you tried turning off DoH?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https#w_off
It's a norm to drive 160km/h in Poland. Pretty much everywhere on the A/S roads: https://ssc.siskom.waw.pl/.
> Musk's political antics are affecting his businesses.

The scary part is that he doesn't care. Money is no longer his motive.
> It does appear that the primary selling point for the M3 Ultra-equipped Mac Studio will be the massive 80-core GPU and up to 512 GB of unified memory shared by the CPU and the GPU, which should come in handy for running massive LLMs locally and other niche workloads.
My problem with extensions is it's another development team to trust and monitor. I need to know if the extension has been sold, taken over by a new lead, etc.
Arthur Hayes, the founder of Bitmex, argues that Trump tries to manufacture recession to get lower interest rates (for his real estate empire)

https://cryptohayes.medium.com/kiss-of-death-916ae30fedc5
The next logical step is to notice that the eye also processes the optical signal heavily, and the visual cortex,... etc. Any kind of perception, of making sense is a transformation.

To perceive something "truthfully" is just to be aware of the kind of processing involved, and the kind of information altered or lost in the process.
Okay, but:

yt-dlp -f315 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ'

[download] 100% of 1.27GiB in 00:00:52 at 24.85MiB/s

Works fine with the version I had installed, 2025.02.19.

I don't know if this perhaps affects web browsers playing on non-HDCP displays.
"It's the deep state sabotoging them!" the kool aid drinkers will clamor.
> If the economy is in bad shape in May

Would note that we’re still only seeing leading indicators and forecasts crash. Even real GDP can be dismissed as a calculation. Job losses, on the other hand, will be obvious corpses. Unfortunately, those might take until the fall to pile up.
Consider also that some people just like it.
Opening FF with my existing 3 windows and 100 open tabs would be all it took :-)
Could you expand a bit on the point of K8S being a blocker to moving to on-prem?

Naively, I would think it be neutral, since I would assume that if a customer gets k8s running on-prem, then apps designed for running in k8s should have a straightforward migration path?
When were the Americans “demanding” that Europe ‘give up’? The criticisms of Ariane 6 are mostly based around the expendable architecture and high launch costs. The Wikipedia article covers the program’s programs fairly well.
Definitely. A good grinder is essential, otherwise you can't even get repeatable results.

I have the Baratza Virtuoso and it has been rock-solid for years. I've never even cleaned it...
Isn't there a lite version of ublock origin that works with manifest v3?
Or he's misestimating his potential wins because he's on tons of drugs and they're giving him delusions of grandeur.
somewhat related https://architect.run/

> Seamless Migrations with Zero Downtime

(I don't work for them but they are friends ;))
Making simple, small improvements feel revolutionary is good marketing.
Stocks won’t fall as far as the economy, so when people start selling off everything not nailed down just for tomorrow’s food, the wealthy can swoop in and buy it all up for pennies on the dollar.

It’s the whole game plan, after all. Land, especially: generally speaking no-one is really making any more land all that fast, and when it comes down to your family starving or selling off your land for food, the land goes pretty f**king cheap and pretty damn fast.

By this method, the Parasite Class will end up owning all the land and everything in it, and the entire Working Class will become the modern version of tenement farmers or those living in company towns - slaves, essentially.
That is true, a social network doing it is not the same as an individual doing it.

But social networks are businesses too, right. They're beholden to advertisers, just like network TV. So what they allow is constrained by what advertisers will accept. And lastly, the network is beholden to its own users. If the users don't like being surrounded by Nazis, they'll leave.

Compare Twitter when it was bought to it now. On any metric it's much worse. Lower revenue, 10x lower valuation. It's a cesspit, but at least no right winger is censored right! That's something.
I discovered recently that a Raspberry Pi 5 would be faster than both my sister's and parents' PCs. Just a shame that all cheap ARM boards need proprietary kernels.
I've been running firefox on my laptop for the last year, with Chrome on my desktop, as a way to head-to-head them. For folks contemplating the switch, it hasn't been bad at all. Some better, some worse, but overall I rarely notice major differences except for a very small handful of sites that won't work with FF.

And I still have all of my uBlock origin happiness. :)
THANK

GOD
I wonder how much time not experiencing advertising on the internet saves?

Whenever someone says how fast Chrome is I think about this.
The adblock I use[0] (based on uBlock) hasn't been available on the Chrome store nearly since day 1.

[0] https://adnauseam.io/
The source code is available for Chromium, not Chrome. You can always maintain a fork, but it's a lot of work, and it's not a great solution to the problem of "world's largest surveillance company makes world's most popular browser".
I have a similar situation, though for more personal, first-world problems. I used custom rules for things like YT shorts, Jira's giant bar for emoji-responses in comments, etc. I'm not sure there's a good substitute on Chrome because Google's primary intent was to destroy the efficacy of this tooling.
Have you not been paying attention? The president is above the law according to the current Supreme Court, and Congress is stuffed full of sycophants that will never impeach him.
Please point to the prescriptive statement.
As of today S&P has given up all gains since the election, and then some.
It was the pre-roll youtube ad that made me realise ublock was dead :-(
That’s not some secret plan, that’s how policymakers historically address inflation: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/7/13/23188455/inflat...

> Higher interest rates generally reduce inflation by reducing spending, which in turn slows the economy and can lead to mass unemployment.

> One of the people who denounced Volcker’s moves was then-Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who declared after Volcker announced his new effort in October 1979, “Attempting to control inflation or protect the dollar by throwing legions of people out of work and shutting down shifts in our factories and mines is a hopeless policy.“

The question is if the recession can be structured to disproportionately hit financialized and knowledge industries while sparing manufacturing.
I mean, not to say that you might not have some explanatory power here, but the market is complex and difficult to untangle, and at least some analysts are predicting recession which will certainly have effects on Reddit even if it's not directly affected by tariffs. We can all cherry-pick individual stocks.
A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer Implementation
Well written idiomatic C is certainly not valid C++.
I am not sure why people need to believe that no-one can disagree with their closely-held political views.

The market is overvalued, it has been overvalued for a long time. It is not possible for this to continue forever, the market going down is not a sign that the world is ending. When the market went up under Trump, the same media said it had nothing to do with him...this isn't a real point of view, it is emotional, ex-post rationalisation to justify political views.

Just generally, you can't complain about the government spending $1m on a packet of nails AND complain when those subsidies are removed.

Equally, Biden had the same goals as Trump with some of his actions but he did it through massive corporate subsidies...again, do you think corporate subsidies are preferable? Is it possible or wise for the US to grow productively through growth in low-skill labour and reduction in wages? Again, probably not.

Either way, these are things people can disagree about. The ex-post reasoning is hilarious, a few years ago it was wall-to-wall doom on here, now nobody can think that Biden did anything wrong, lol. I wonder if some people are just unable to recollect what they believed in the past?
only gets updated when published and doesn't support custom rules or element picking :(
What do you use? I moved mine to Bluehost and it's been a very expensive nightmare. There is no mystery around the death of forums.
It should be clear now that the GOP has nearly total and absolute control over the MAGA base, meaning they will take whatever spin they’ve been given by the party.

In other words, the GOP can do whatever it wants or nothing at all and it will get little pushback from their voters. That’s a pretty powerful position to be in as a party.
I’m opposed to any advertising on the web. Not because of ideology. It just makes the web worse especially on mobile.

Despite the outcry of manifest v3, if I understand it correctly it’s a standardize version of how Apple implements content blocking on the web, similar functionality works well in Safari.
I'm just hoping for AI coding to get competent enough in next few years to throw in deprecated chrome extensions code and get it converted to firefox.
Ughhh, I added the CSP at the last moment. Thank you for reporting this, will fix in a bit.
AI is just a tool. Its not going to replace human coder anytime soon.
After the Great Suspender debacle, I feel the same. I try to limit plugins/extensions to as many minimal use cases as possible.