skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly write java, and I rarely even look at the byte code, let alone the output of C2. I guess AGI took my job.
BAHAHAAHAHAHAH. Do you get bitcoins for watching the porn ads?
Wikimedia does not raise $200 million per year.
Thanks! Since someone else had posted that link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300414, I've re-upped that one and moved most of the comments thither.
Sort of, but it won't be framed that way. It will just be "we achieved our objectives and we're moving on"
Honest question: who are the potential realistic buyers of Chrome? OS vendors already have their own browsers and Chrome doesn't directly make much (any?) money.
I've never killed anyone, should I get your gratitude for it?
Canada imposed tariffs on China last year [1]. Is that incompetence as well?

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/08/can...
It's potentially worse, as it points to a distrust of the system, not individual companies or industries. Presumably we'll bottom out, but unless there's a dramatic change in those policies, prices will reflect the "new normal", not the previous status quo.
X outage: Hacker group claims it took down former Twitter platform
> [...] buying low now would be nice.

Just to be clear, the point of the linked article is that you cannot know that now is the LOW and not the new high.
You have to take the CEO's philosophy into account when choosing technology tools unfortunately.

I personally dmd Eich on Twitter during 2019-2021 ish. He's opposed to censorship, tracking, government lockdowns during COVID, and authoritarianism.

That is exactly who you want running your browser and search company if you wish to use an open Internet. It's anti chat control, anti governments choosing which apps it's citizens can install, it's free speech for all, including "hate speech". Open and free wild West Internet culture.
Is that fasciscm a typo or intentional?

Pretty pathetic either way.
That's weird. I was assured that the adults are in charge now.
Factorio Learning Environment
interns can generally also tell me "tbh i have no damn idea", while AI just talks out it's virtual ass, and I can't read from it's voice or behavior that maybe it's not sure.

interns can also be clever and think outside the box. this is mostly not good, but sometimes they will surprise you in a good way. the AI by definition can only copy what someone else has done.
(Most comments here were posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317269 and then moved hither.)
Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
LORAN was mostly long range over sea, on the ground we had NDB, DME, VOR, etc all ultimately linking into "airways" for higher altitude operations where earth might be not visible due to cloud cover for example
Really? Fire the Rust Servo team and double the CEO's salary in the same year? Almost the same money.
> they've been all blockchain when that was in fashion

They've never been “all blockchain”, what are you talking about?
I have 54 tabs open right now. The Sideberry extension lets you view them in the left sidebar. They're nested so that collapsing a root tab will also collapse all child tabs. There are also super tabs (Sideberry calls them "Tabs panels") so you can switch between entire groups of tabs.
I agree with the position that most people are not coming from "elite" schools, as someone who hires in the midwest. I still much prefer someone with a four year school (and, as the other poster mentioned, internships) to a bootcamp. I have had one bootcamp graduate of five total that was at a useful starting skill level, compared to probably 90% (don't have a count for this one) "base useful" skill out of college.
>If you think improving privacy is a joke, go look at how easily extensions can steal your browsing history and steal your passwords. uBlock Origin is the good one, but for every good one there are malicious ad blockers that do far worse things.

Except removing support for webRequestBlocking in manifest v3 doesn't really improve security. Nearly every extension require the "access your data for all sites" permission. The infamous Honey extension works just fine with manifest v3, for instance.
Right, and that's why ad and spying funded products should be illegal. They don't just distort but destroy markets. It's an extremely unfair business practice.

That people claim it's impossible for a browser to survive without Google's funding demonstrates how broken the market is by ad money: of course people would pay for something like a web browser if it were illegal to make money by selling your users. The web is obviously valuable to people.
And ublock origin lite works just fine for me
C++ has a maybe type. It's called std::optional.
It's does not!
RVV support is only on the DSP (I asked them), and I'm personally not sure even that is true, as the EsWin EIC7700X DSP has a cadance XTensa chip.
"After the 25% YoY of the last 2 years, the bubble has to burst this year", I thought to myself in Jan. It looks like keeping some cash in the wings waiting was the right move. I think we'll see a nastier crash still though
Let's wait how long it takes for Trump's crypto / meme coin to get a spike and this DOJ thing to go away. After all, all is transactional with Trump.
> So many users do this that people conclude Chrome has an unfair advantage

Because Chrome is the default on android phones and the easiest way to sync saved passwords between your android and your desktop/laptop is to use chrome in both places

Chrome having such a huge market share on mobile does add pressure for users to adopt it on Desktops and Laptops too
Can someone recommend an alternative to Youtube for discovering lofi/synthwave songs?
I believe it continues to get faster and better from here. We haven’t even scratched the surface of deployed capabilities yet. Sure it might not be a path to AGI, but it could still replace many people in many roles. It may not be a specific company’s silicon that wins, but generative AI is just getting started. Yes, Claude 3.7 and ChatGPT 4.5 are not as groundbreaking as previous iterations, but there are so many untouched areas ripe for investment.
Literally the first thing anyone who recommends Brave says is to avoid the stupid crypto thing, myself included. Look Firefox doesn't exactly come up smelling like a rose here, when you recommend Firefox you have to tell them to turn off the ads in the new tab page, ads in the URL bar (https://imgur.com/a/EXtzhg4), and Pocket, in Brave the crypto thing is opt-in.
These aren’t red flags for stock market crashes just red flags for humanity. The status quo can have all these flags raised and still have rising stock prices rise.
It's used to steer people away from Brave because it's the lowest hanging fruit. Individuals can hide their true political motivations for trashing the browser.
Monero gains a little privacy by sacrificing scalability.
Grin is designed for simplicity, scalability, and fairness, not privacy at all costs. In such a design, the optional CoinSwap protocol for untraceability is a scalability preserving feature.

Ensuring the correct recipient and purpose of payment is not only robustness, but also added privacy since payjoins obscure the direction of payment, something Monero lacks.

With only 4 effective decoys, Monero's privacy is deficient, while Zcash shielded txs enjoy far superior privacy, independent of all the transparent txs.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317950
But there really isn't any difference; they started off in exactly the same place. SpaceX' having its captive client (Starlink) isn't some external factor that favored them and disfavored Arianespace: it's a business choice SpaceX made—a choice with enormous risks* of failure—which Arianespace did not. Arianespace took no risks, tried nothing, achieved nothing. That's the difference.

*(People seem to have completely forgotten how incredibly unpopular the LEO megaconstellation idea was when Musk started working on it, mid-2010's. No one understood the point of it; pretty much everyone was skeptical that it could even find enough business customers to break even).
I think Google should just be split up into baby Google's that each have to cooperate with each other. Like we did with Bell. Also we should do the same thing to Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. In fact I think we should do it again to AT&T and also Comcast. This should probably be done every so often as maintenance.
That's a BIG difference though, and makes the claim about security more believable, especially since it isn't a sole restriction. There are also a number of ad blockers available for Safari, although personally I'll stick with Firefox either way.

Google is an ad company restriction use of the primary ad-blocker on its browser, it's blatant.
What We've Learned from 150 Years of Stock Market Crashes
This is coming from an Apple antagonist, but don't the Apple OSs have adblocking at a system level (implying Safari)? This does vindicate Apple (but doesn't help in the other legitimate scenarios that this API is needed, which I have been told do exist).
I said I don't agree with them wasting that much money on the CEO, maybe I wasn't clear (perhaps it's due to English not being my first language).
One speculation is that it will not deflate, because government has many T of debt -> need to service it -> need to print more money for that -> inflation and market gain.
I've been personally enjoying Ghostery extension for the past year, block all ads, youtube, any HTML5 player, banners, popups – really clean and tidy browsing experience.

It didn't even catch any hype regarding this manifest support issue uBlock origin has, and it keeps silently working good without any interruptions, I wonder why is that?
these people do exist, 404media reported on them. We're talking a small small group here. Not enough to keep a car company afloat.
Yes after he and his friends sell their positions. Edit: I think I meant secure..
"We're excited to mark the next stage of tech autonomy because it means that we are giving ourselves more freedom to build the future of green tech that we want."

If truly want "tech autonomy" why not share the index as a public resource, giving everyone "freedom to build".
Adults are just children with more money.
At the platform level, you have to have a security model, and sometimes it will conflict with functionality. I’m sure there’s a lot of potentially interesting browser extensions you could build with the ability to read and write arbitrary files, but Chrome has decided (much less controversially) that the sandbox is key to their security model and extensions can’t ask to escape it.

If manifest V3 ad blockers were nonfunctional to the point of being broken, I’d be more concerned, but in my experience they’re perfectly OK.
I have seen engineers defend that position here and on Github, so unless you assume they're lying, I would take them at their word.

Of course not all of them do, Google is a big company.
S&P 500 is barely down (~9% as of this post) after returning 23% and 24% respectively in 2023 and 2024. I wouldn't call it ugly, as someone who lived through recession.
>>35% government hiring in the last 3 years.

Keynsian economics 101. “The government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up." except in this case it's government non jobs rather than asking people to do manual labour.
You're right. They only raise $180 million a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...

Still feels like it aught to be enough to make a browser.
> the adults are in charge now.

The adulterers maybe.

They're acting like a bunch of kids smashing up the toys so nobody else can play.
Wage growth for lower income percentiles has actually been quite good in recent years IIRC.
That's the premise yeah, but it makes sense to buy more on red days
Do no evil!
So actually even Firefox depends on V8...
I agree to the principle in general, but non-reproduceble execution environment with free-for-all internet access is unimaginable time sink.

Business tends to topple on unreliable promises or annoying customers through the bad tech and I’ve seen a few that are gone because of it.

Unicorns won’t fall on such problems but semi-good Average Joe’s product might. No one is going to hear about it even if such products make bulk of software in global code volume.

Containers (on low technical level) are simple, performant and scale well.
This is why I run Firefox and will continue to do so. Google Chrome sucks I only have to to test stuff.
Then they wouldn't be throwing money into open firepits on trash like a VPN service or how to comply with Google's advertising decisions.

Then they would let people contribute money to the browser (instead of to Mozilla Foundation which goes to enabling aforementioned trash fires) and to the salary of a multi-million dollar CEO after laying off developer staff and hiring more C-suite assistants.

Mozilla is a bad organization in every sense, a bad steward of Firefox, and the best thing that could happen is they do have their funding cut, they go out of business forever, and Firefox finds a good home chosen by the community.
just cutting government spending would automatically put the US into recession, deficit spending is the only thing that has kept things going. Huge amount of job growth is either direct government hiring or indirect through businesses hiring off revenue from government contracts
Tesla is way better positioned than Toyota in likely upcoming EV world, so capitalization is result of future expectations.
How did he mess up? His goal is to screw up the real economy and sell $Melania coins.
He actually sort of has? In a way.

When he failed to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act on "day 1", he goes on the stage a month later and says "Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated" [1]. I found this immensely funny, because pretty much every human other than Donald Trump knew that healthcare policy was really complicated, and many people tried telling him this.

I'm hoping he goes on stage soon enough and says "no one knew how volatile tariffs could make the economy" or something. Though "volatile" might be too big of a word for him.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/321318-trump-nobody-kn...
It does. I just don't install any extension that requires access to my data on all sites.
It becomes a bubble when suddenly people who paid a fortune for mortgages at sky high prices aren't able to pay them anymore. Or demand falls.

The market is currently tight but on both supply and demand. No one with a 2% mortgage wants to move. No one wants to buy at 6% interest.
Most software engineers work at companies with names the average person wouldn't recognize. Like, some random B2B company in Ohio that manages corporate gift cards, with 100 total employees. Multiply that by a million. These companies may come up on Glassdoor, but there won't be enough posts to get any kind of consistent pattern on how they run their interviews.
YC-backed HYBRD co-founders on how coding with AI was transformational [video]
Can we go back to buying software? This free software subsidized by big ad money has fucked the whole market up.
I use different extensions for blocking individual elements on pages, like sticky headers or other custom divs. They're still working fine, e.g.:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/click-to-remove-ele...
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
It's the Biden sell-off. /s
The stock market is, put crudely, a 'vibe check' on investor sentiments more than it is any indication of economic trouble per se, so your take is more reasonable than you let on.
The trump admin got this ball rolling way back in 2017.
> Just to be clear, the point of the linked article is that you cannot know that now is the LOW and not the new high.

And even if you did know ahead of time when the dip would occur, this article show it's still generally best to DCA instead of sitting in cash:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
I am not sure I agree that we lack major economic indicators flashing red.

For instance, GDPNow from the Atlanta Fed looks quite bad at the moment: https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow

I also have been looking at deliquency rates on industrial equipment leases lately, and they seem to be trending sharply upward: https://www.fitchratings.com/structured-finance/abs/equipmen...

Major retailers are also managing expectations for the next quarters. It seems like they're bracing for soft aggregate demand.
Same here. Tends to be pretty inconsistent. DNS-over-HTTP(s) definitely disabled. 30s is a lot more than I've experienced, but there are times where it clearly struggles to look things up.
so stocks are less related to individual company performance than they should be?
There was a massive time period between the failwhale era and the acquisition. Like 15 years or a bit under?
Nice! You might also want to check out Orama - which is also an open-source hybrid vector/full text search engine for any js runtime.
Not using a seat belt doesn't cause car crashes. But giving enough time they may happen, and when they do, they could be far more severe, even lethal, because you didn't had the seat belt in the first place.
I mean in theory you could maybe argue that free trade economically makes the the country as a whole better off, but it could still be worse off strategically (EG by not being able to produce weapons or the necessary components to defend itself).

It's also pretty clear that any economic benefits that there were, didn't benefit all of society equally,
The whole point of this post is that the things AI isn't good at and has never been good at will be the limit to otherwise-exponential growth.
new vectors of monetization:

- ecom (amazon?)

- AI (openai?)
Depends on which of his various manipulators are most effective.
Yeah exactly! OldUnreal guys did a lot of work for this classic game. I believe they even have access to the source code.
> Why not a) finish the dissertation as soon as humanly possible, and b) now that you're bona fide, publish a separate paper disputing the famous paper which your dissertation didn't rely on?

The last thing you want to do before pointing out that the emperor has no clothes is get a job at the palace.
What's frustrating to me is how predictable all this is if you analyze the world with a materialist understanding.

To boil it down, the most dominant philosophy, whether peole know it or not, is idealism. In idealism, people, nations, corporations, etc have some inherent quality beyond their physical make up. It's almost spiritual in that way. Even the concept of a soul is an idealist position. It's largely a circular argument that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

So, the USA on the world stage is the good guy because we are the good guys, regardless of our actions or the consequences thereof. So an awful lot of effort is spent to label certain actors as "good" or "bad" to suit some objective. Superhero movies and a perfect example of idealism and it's no coincidence that they've had a renaissance since 9/11.

Materialism is simply the view that the physical world is all there is. The consequence of this is that we affect the material world and it affects us. There are no inherent qualities like being "good" or "bad". Instead, those are simply labels you apply to the actions of an entity.

My point here is that for years Google pushed this good guy narrative (ie "don't be evil") but any materialist understands that Google is a corporation so ultimately will act like any other corporation.

Google makes money selling ads. Ad blockers affect Google's bottom line. The relentless pursuit of increasing profits means fighting ad blockers was always an inevitability. Nobody should be surprised by that.

Now some will point to Google's control of Chrome as an antitrust issue and it probably is but that misses the point. A corporation that solely owns Chrome will ultimately act in a user-hostile way too because that's what corporations do.

The only long-term successful model for something like Chrome is to be something like the Wikimedia Foundation. The profit motive will always ultimately destroy it otherwise. If you can even find a business model for a browser, which I have serious doubts about.

A materialist knows all this because of how the workers relate to the means of production. A collective (which Wikimedia Foundation is, basically) is where the workers own the means of production. A corporation introduces capital owners whose interests are in direct opposition to that of the users.
I do the same but no containers just freezing (not updating) the package (on Arch by ingoring texlive-installer for example)
Feel like splitting ad sales from search is the one meaningful structural change they could insist upon that would actually make a difference to Google's monopoly position. Anything like this is really more window-dressing than anything.
Agreed, this seemed inevitable. And as a bull, I don't even think we're close to the bottom for the year
Which business units should be broken up?
British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue
this is nothing like crypto
The point is to change the incentives to favor building things in the U.S. rather than increasing profits by building things overseas.

Consider what high tariffs would do, for example, to Apple. Since Steve Jobs died, Tim Cook has focused on increasing profits by building a hyper-optimized Chinese supply chain. That doesn’t help American workers, and I’d argue in the long run it hurts innovation. But imagine if Apple had to be an exorbitant tariff for every foreign-made iPhone. Had such a policy been in place 20 years ago, we may have dramatically changed the direction the cell phone industry went in the country.
Because Ghostery belongs to an analytics company that sells your data so they are working round the clock to keep it running
Why not use an agnostic one like LastPass or one of the others?
The US is losing innovation talent, guest laborers, export markets, and allies. The federal workforce contributes to the economy, and many federal programs have strongly net positive economic impact.

We have threatened to militarily invade 3-4 countries in the last month and publicly betrayed Ukraine. We have instigated trade wars with 3, including our contiguous neighbors who have been remarkably stable friendly for a century. No country will depend on our technology if it can be removed on the whim of a single person who has demonstrated a willingness to abuse this power. Same for our defense industry. Same for military and economic alliances. Countries won't want to import our goods if the regulatory framework ensuring their quality and safety is dismantled.

I agree with you that today is more a move based on perception than a change in current fundamentals, but I also believe this the beginning of a re-rating of the US as a superpower and it has a very, very long way to run,

edit: I'm not going to vouch for the dead reply. But they jokingly say "if you need an f 35 you'll buy it" as though they missed the news this weekend https://eutoday.net/germany-concerned-over-f-35-kill-switch/. The economic impact of that program is projected to be close to $100B per year on its own beyond the value of airspace superiority. There are already signs of purchasers reconsidering.
Manchilds are, by definition, adults.
Surprising to see that happen just as Google is entering an antitrust breakup.
I'm sorry, but did you just dismiss discrimination against racial minorities... Because they are minorities?