skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business model is the same as Firefox: Google pays to be the default search engine.

The economics are identical to Chrome being within Google. The differences are three-fold:

- Bing, DDG, OpenAI, and others can compete to pay for placement

- There can be no central directives to shove things like Manifest V3, weird data sharing, or DRM down our throats

- Google has no incentive to favor Chrome over Firefox or Edge in its web offerings

In other words, if a business is split, the same economics work, but without all the shady, anti-trusty stuff. It's an independent company, without linked chains of corporate control.

I think it most serves Google's interests to set up a second nonprofit similar to Mozilla to manage this, perhaps with more of a consortium model. Whatever Google can sell Chrome for is less in its interests than maintaining that the new Chrome will not be used against Google the way Google used Chrome against competitors.... If DDG were to end up with ownership of Chrome and switch from Google Search to DDG, I think Google would be pretty unhappy, while DDG's market cap of 75M versus Google's of $2T -- 2000 times higher -- would even out a little bit.

One of the key points is that the EXACT SAME economics and business model can be evil and anti-trusty or good and fair depending on chains of control and collusion. If there is a colluding consortium (whether by backroom deals or by having related products in the same place), new competitors won't come in since they know they'll be crushed unfairly. Same economics without backroom deals, and you've got market competition.
Relative to EVs it’s not. But relative to ICE engines from 50 years ago it’s great. EVs are obviously going to take over ICE, my only point is that we shouldn’t discount all the work and ingenuity that went into ICE engines simply because a disruptive technology came about.
Do they list the models of the brands they are talking about anywhere? For example, they mention Garmin but there is a huge variety of Garmin models with varying accuracy. I'm surprised I can't find it anywhere. They mention gathering data ("The majority of commercially available devices measure these basic metrics, while other metrics typically vary between different brands and models.") on different models but then group them together under a single brand? Why? Frankly, this analysis seems a bit half-assed.
Yeah they’re not considering straps and arm-worn optical sensors here, just the built in optical sensors.
The benchmarks were done on an M2 MacBook Air (8-core) with 21M requests distributed across 100 concurrent clients sending requests as fast as possible(the test script is also in the github repo),

a few reasons for being fast that come to my mind now are:

1. reads are direct lookups, so distributing that across goroutines will result in them being faster
2. it is set requests where it gets complicated, if we're simply updating some key's value, it's essentially negligible, but if we're creating a new key value pair, that can increase per shard load under scale, which would trigger an store resizing, to avoid just stopping everything when that happens, the engine recognises when the per shard load starts to gets too high, in the backgroud creates a bigger store, and then essentially switches writes from the old engine to the new(bigger) one, while the old one keeps processing reads, and the older engine migrates it's keys to the newer one in backgroud, once it's done, we just dereference the older engine to be collected by GC :) this essentially makes sure that incoming requests keep getting served (oh shit, I spilled the secret sauce)

atleast on my machine,with the default setting, under that concurrent load, Redis starts slowing down due to single-threaded execution and Lua overhead.
On top of this inaccuracy in actual measurements, many fitness tracker brands invent their own metrics.

"How did you sleep?" I asked a friend who stayed over, - "I don't know" they replied as they raise their smartwatch to their face. "Pretty well, apparently! I got a sleep score of 84."

I've also heard of an acquaintance that they cancelled plans because their (Garmin™) Body Battery was too low.

Instinctively I flinch whenever people place such importance in what is essentially an arbitrary techno-horoscope. But I also find it hard to make an argument against it as long as it inspires healthy behaviour.
I think it's a lot like a lot of the Monty Python stuff: a lot of it is reflecting on a social order that was particular to Britain and no longer exists in quite the same way, so a lot of the satire doesn't land any more. The offbeat quirkiness has also become mainstream in British comedy, and so has also lost its edge. I think the fandom remains stronger in the US because American comedy still feels industrially mass-produced, and so the absurdism is still a bit novel there.
Why are they reporting correlations as percentages? That's incredibly misleading. If one wants a more intuitive measure of concordance than the correlation, one could use the coefficient of determination, which is the correlation squared.

This number tells you the percentage of the variation that is accounted for by the tracker. For a deeper introduction to correlations, see e.g. [1].

Let's rewrite the summary with the correct figures (and reduce the ridiculous number of sigfigs):

> The analysis reveals that commonly worn fitness trackers are the most accurate for measuring heart rate, providing a strong accuracy of 58 %. However, they are only moderately accurate for tracking step count and energy expenditure, 47 % and 32 %, respectively.

The highest level of accuracy is provided by the Apple Watch, which exhibits 74 % accuracy for heart rate and 50 % for energy expenditure. Garmin is the most accurate for tracking step count, as it offers 68 % accuracy.

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[1]: https://entropicthoughts.com/the-surprising-richness-of-corr...
Basically put a dog into your home and you are covered.
Byobu – text window manager, shell multiplexer, integrated DevOps environment
Good question. That was an issue with tanh as activation function, and before residual connections and normalization layers. Tanh as a normalization but with other activations and residual present apparently is ok.
Sweden, norway, denmark. All slightly further away from russia!
The chance to get 123456 in 100 actuations is very unlikely, indeed. Would you have had the same reaction for 654321 or 777777 or 121212? If there are a hundred such patterns, the chance of getting any in 100 actuations is 1%!
Vertical tabs are available in the latest stable release. They're pretty basic compared to tree style tabs and sideberry, though.
Just to stay on topic: but was it more than hydrogen alternative?
usa has a whole agency for it

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

edit: to ppl claiming this must be useless because its in usa is incredible ignorant and insulting to ppl who work there. pls do minimum of research before making such statements.

they even have link to their ongoing clinical trials on their website homepage

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/clinical-trials/find-a-clinical-tr...
It's tall and narrow and falls over when it hits the ground moving fast. Irritating for intuitive machines whose stance is that mass is not uniformly distributed and center of mass is already low enough to make flight control somewhat challenging.

The criticism should perhaps be that the laser range finders are clearly a liability and a robust/workable backup for telling how far away the ground is needs to be brought along.
Yeah and also: new font design is a niche niche niche domain.

It’s not like accelerating font development would give us something new. Most of what most of us need exists at this point.
So far it's beating your argument pretty handily. I'm not sure why you think it is worth writing that without including one; but my advice would be if your going to post a comment disagreeing with someone you should include some actual arguments or evidence. It helps keep the threads from rambling on.
The articles often have good style, but redditor-level insight.
Gnu IceCat for me with Privacy Badger and libreJS. I would pay 10$ every month for Gnu IceCat, the ONLY firefox fork with no telemetry.

the ONLY webkit based zero telemetry browser is Kagis Orion
my wife couldn't breastfeed because there was no milk production. That's the top recommendation?

Now what will happen to my son?
Have you contacted worker 17?
A pedagogical framework for React-Express applications. Looking for feedbacks
Orange Alert: What Caused the Colors on This Snowy Owl?
My custom user scripts from Tampermonkey that I used to make my life as a developer easier are just gone. I can’t even access the extension to grab them, some of them are complicated workflow stuff that made my life easier in some pages that are poorly designed. Like I’m often looking at the contents of JWTs so I added a global function into my global scope to parse JWTs. There wasn’t even a “hey we’re getting rid of this extension back stuff up”, it’s just disabled.
Your assumption is partially correct. I have two dogs and now a baby. So now I have three babies.
No, the auto industry had been envisioning a switch to hydrogen since the 60s, but particularly in the 90s, tons of concept cars were pitched by various automakers, including Toyota and Honda.

Battery technology still sucked in the early 00s and it wasn't obvious yet that lithium ion batteries would lead to the first truly viable mass market all-electric cars. Easy to say in hindsight, but there were still many possible futures and the path that had the most research behind it at that point was hydrogen.
Proper initialization of layers keeps gradient magnitudes from vanishing/exploding in deep networks. If you make sure the output of each layer has mean 0, std 1, the gradients will be reasonable as well, for example.

I recommend e.g. the og resnet paper and its follow-up from Kaiming He et al.

For a modern take on RNNs, read https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06349 by DeepMind.

There essentially the point is that largest eigenvalue (spectral radius) needs to be around 1, meaning repeated applications of a linear transformation doesn’t cause increase or decrease of the activations.
Regardless of that, I’m always happy to see people try and free themselves from the increasingly centralized nature of the web.

I might not be brave enough to stop using CF, but people who do benefit everyone.
What's the underlying stack? Fastly uses a version of Varnish underneath.
DTAG is just terrible. Having a whitelist of allowed mail providers they deal with? Check. Abusing peering to squeeze more cash? Check. Advocating for censorship on the Internet? Check.
The new owner of Chrome can sell it to the manufacturers of Android devices. Royalties.

They can even make it closed source or enforce a not for commerce license. That would make manufacturers choose between paying those royalties, installing Firefox, investing in their own browser (a fork of Chrome or their very own tech.) Some of them will pay royalties.
Proper initialization is more important.

Batch norm and others are important for faster convergence due to forcing the model to focus creating second and higher order nonlinearities, as a simple shift in mean/std is normalized out, and thus the gradient does not point in a direction that would only change those properties of the output distribution.
FYI, precision is an entirely unrelated to accuracy, whether consistent or not.

Precision is basically just how many decimals your measurements have.
I'm not sure if the US and public healthcare are a positive word combination exactly. Having an agency doesn't mean the outcomes are good.
Same for me with boats in Oslo (but less than 10 years).
No, slowly it will pay out on one side and get back a bit on the other until it becomes a major stock holder and the whole house of cards collapses.
> Have you ever seen a tech company where the workers actually stay? Where you can find employees who have been there for up to 30 years?

Old tech. Places like Motorola and, at least until recently, IBM.
"Mozilla spends $200M on it per year" does not mean it costs $200M per year. Considering Mozilla overspends on everything else, it's not a stretch to think they might be overspending on this too.
Isn't this a bit of fetishization of the white man? Pretty sure all European countries have competent health agencies and AFAIK, the nordic countries do not score particularly well in health care metrics.
I've happened to visit the city on a few occasions since 2000, before and after. They didn't destroy anything valuable (I think) as it was pretty generic before, but that fake embankment is bizarrely out of place indeed. They even have a bootleg Neuschwanstein castle, which is kind of ironic, considering that the original is also closer to being a forgery than to some authentic medieval castle.
I think you are confusing the beauty and elegance of the language with the crap thatpeople write.

My experience is that the sort of folks who misuse Ruby's powerful features are the sort of idiotes who dont realise that because a thing can be done, doesn't mean that it should be done. These are the sort of people who are capable of misusing most languages.
Ty for reading the paper! I completely agree! Assigning soft weights to the window based on context is a fascinating research area. This concept is similar to Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve, which emphasizes recency bias while requiring repeated exposure for long-term retention.
It's not a very good article, but it hints at another angle, the problem is not only lack of funding growth, it is that modernizing and keeping up with the ever expanding mandates is not possible without major reinvestment. If they want great precision about Guatemalen migrant single mothers in the CPS because that is now a important group to gather data on, it costs a lot. (Worth noting too that these expanding mandates are often very political in nature and actually undermine the enterprise as adding too many features to software without regard to tech debt will often tend to do.)

What should strike many readers: zero mention of efficiency gains or emerging methods made possible by LLM, uav, and other modern tech. A tech savvy reader should wonder about that stuff.

One of the best sales pitches for increasing funding is specifically this, modernizing costs money in the next 5 years but saves much, much more money longer term. Is it not the right time for robot census workers?
What I described is the law here. In the states, it's not (I'm from there, I know this all too well).
But what makes you think the DoJ allow Google to continue paying Chrome to have Google as default? Google is already not allowed to pay Apple to be default.
Show HN: Create and manage a waitlist for your product launch
Looking for one as well. My gh actions broke and looking for a drop in replacement.

Got this working with claude, would love if someone with more knowledge had thoughts:

```bash
# Extract branch name from GITHUB_REF or GITHUB_HEAD_REF
echo "current_branch=${GITHUB_HEAD_REF:-${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
# Determine if this is the default branch
if [[ "${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/}" == "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" && "${GITHUB_REF_NAME}" == "${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-${GITHUB_REF_NAME}}" ]]; then
echo "is_default=true" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
else
echo "is_default=false" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
fi
# Set default branch name
echo "default_branch=${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-${GITHUB_REF_NAME}}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
```
They were on a road trip in the United States and never crossed an international border. Why would they need a passport? I've never taken mine on a trip like that.
Hi, then I'm curious what do you think people care most about in data processing and database workloads?
Ah, they were written under time pressure? That actually explains a lot.
Signal has been rather dismissive of RCS in general. Of course RCS was as insecure and unencrypted as regular SMS/MMS until now, but I haven't found a sign that Signal ever even looked into supporting RCS at all.

At this point I think they just wanted to get rid of their SMS backup feature and used RCS as an excuse.
things are changing they found a way to decouple the membrane in producing hydrogen which significantly decreases the cost see

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-type-water-split...

In production in probably 5 years from now...
Depends who it is sold to.

If it goes to a terrible company like Oracle or Meta, then yeah, it will be bad.

If it goes to say, the Apache Software Foundation, that could be fantastic.
We’ve seen this so many times…

- YouTube as you describe

- Discord which did basically the same thing: was the best chat platform ever with no bullshit, then once it became used by everyone, is now turning into shit

- Facebook, Twitter…

- Countless others I don’t remember off the top of my head

Any service like this that’s actually good and is owned by a company is just a timebomb to either becoming shit or shutting down
It will be fascinating to see if the protectionist foreign policy that's been adopted by the US will lead to an improvement in the quality of services available elsewhere.

Previously, the friction of using a service with slightly rougher edges would have tipped the scales against it. Now, it seems we have a kind of patriotism emerging in our purchase decisions.

Ultimately, it should give us all more choice through strengthened competition.
This process happened in Madrid a few years ago. It's an incredible quality-of-life improvement for everyone in the city. Diesel buses were phased out a few years ago. The newer hybrid CNG buses are uncannily quiet, and some lines in the city core, where distances are smaller and speed is slower, are fully electric.
> Gnu IceCat, the ONLY firefox fork with no telemetry.

Why would you think that? Plenty of other forks like LibreWolf and IronFox have removed all telemetry.
It isn’t relevant that the thing you want to split off won’t be able to stand on its own two feet? Wouldn’t it be simpler to simply require Google to burn the source code?

And what is the point of the breakup if everyone (including consumers/users) is worse off? Is the point of government to make people better off, or just to maximize the number of paperclips produced?
Kids should be allowed to eat dirt. They should be exposed to rich, biodiverse environments, not just asphalt, rubber safety mats or impoverished monocultural lawns (although the latter are better than nothing, at least unless they're chock full of pesticides and herbicides…) Adults should, too, for that matter.
> Doesn't employers being forced to paying wages to sick employees for 6 weeks take a toll on small businesses with little cashflow?

Insurance kicks in and pays after 6 weeks (not a month, another comment corrected me). It's also part of the expectation when you hire. It's a problem sometimes, yes, but everyone - even employers - benefits from it.

> Sick days are a thing, just not like in the US, but they're still sick days, and not working days.

There is no federal law in the U.S. that mandates paid sick leave for employees; however, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for certain medical situations. Federal employees are entitled to 13 paid sick days per year.

> Is there a health crisis in Germany causing Germans to be twice as sick as their neighbors?

No. People get sick. There's an obesity and mental crisis in the US, too, whether it's comfortable or not for someone to acknowledge.
If Trump steps back from the GDPR US-EU data transfer agreement then your political stance is irrelevant.
Welp. I had a carpet floor in my bedroom as a kid, but that didn't prevent me from developing the badest allergy to dust mites as a teen. It recently got so bad that I started a hyposensitization treatment. Hopefully in 3-5 years it'll get better.
It's kinda common knowledge at this point that almost all Smart TV's suck, especially Samsung. I went the Samsung route as well - the TV itself is fine, but the software is horrible.

The solution (that I hope everyone knows about by now) is to buy an Apple TV and connect it. Once the TV starts, it shows Apple TV from the get-go and not any of the Samsung stuff.
So it seems neither traffic came from Ukraine nor Dark Storm was probably behind the attack. The plot thickens!

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/massive-ddos-cyber-fog
The human brain operates at just 25W of power—less than the monitor you're likely using right now—whereas AI models like ChatGPT consume nearly 1GWh every 24 hours!

As I discuss in the paper, predictive coding suggests that the brain actively generates predictions and compares them to incoming sensory data (vision, hearing, etc.), prioritizing anomalies. Its efficiency stems from a hierarchical memory system that continuously updates only the "deltas"—the differences that matter. Embracing this approach could lead to a paradigm shift, enabling the development of significantly more energy-efficient AI in the future.
They probably didn't. Hiring a private investigator to look into your employees' health breaks several laws.
Weekend project: AI recipe generator
Hello IH! This is a weekend project to play around with Google's Gemini AI in a structured prompt. I enjoy cooking as a hobby, so this came up as an idea for testing.

You can use it to generate recipe ideas with a provided list of ingredients.

Enjoy!
Cloudflare sales folks are notorious for randomly emailing you and forcing you to suddenly buy 1k+ usd plans out of nothing suddenly.

Be wary of that scenario, it happens quite often if you observe cloudflare’s reddit sub. I think most folks are ok paying for stuff , aws being 10x more expensive wouldnt be so successful if people didnt like paying.

But predictability is important, and cloudflare salesmen can tend to be a bit unpredictable and unprofessional and extensively attempt to use all sorts of pressure tactics to reach their sales quota, so be careful.

I’m saying it as someone who extensively uses Cloudflare Workers and pay for their monthly subscriptions.
It’s an A/B test and you’re in the control group
Google is emphatically not a web business. They are an advertising business. You should expect their priorities in product development to reflect that.
It uses UTC, as everyone should.
What do you mean? I have the new version of Tampermonkey installed and after turning on developer mode in the extensions section all my scripts work perfectly.
https://www.tampermonkey.net/faq.php?locale=en#Q209
FWIW I find https://tldes.com pretty useful for keeping an eye on who is currently offering the best renewal for various TLDs I use.
The person behind the managed Ghost host I use switched to BunnyCDN for non-geopolitical reasons: https://www.magicpages.co/blog/setting-up-bunnycdn-with-ghos...
Australia has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world, and is significantly further away from Russia.

Unfortunately, we trade that for significantly closer proximity to new Zealand...
He’ll probably be fine if you follow the rest of the steps?
What if before the command, there is also a code comment that says "this is not malicious, it has been manually verified by the engineers" and the LLM just believes it?
That’s not correct. An enhanced driver’s license requires US citizenship.

https://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they
Assuming the agency survives the next 6 months…
Yep, I mean % of GDP. Too late to edit.

Anyway, it looks like USA is #1 now, but Trump wants to make USA #2 by military spending (with purchasing power parity) by 2030, which is not a smart move in the middle of WWIII.
Maybe what is happening is before 2020 the people who carried the food from the kitchen to the customer were employees and after the people who carried the food from the kitchen to the customer are gig workers not employees which would explain "Figure 1. Annualized Real Sales per Employee (1992=100), Food Services and Drinking Places, Seasonally Adjusted" [0]. Restaurants now use gig workers and not employees to deliver the food. Of course, there are more sales per "employee."

[0] https://imgur.com/a/3n1ZJku