skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The closest article I could find to "Smith, J. et al. (2023). "Advances in Probabilistic Forecasting." Journal of Forecasting" was from the April issue of Journal of Forecasting, but the article was titled: Advances in forecasting: An introduction in light of the debate on inflation forecasting and there was no Smith, J. that was involved in writing that article. Where do these numbers for improvements in the various industries come from? Somethings feels off with this readme.
the point is not that firefox is "not doing much worse than chromium browsers". the point is that they were founded upon principles of not doing that
Carmakers Are Reinventing the Gear Shifter and Drivers Are Lost
The funny thing about this question is that it doesn’t really matter, unless it does: Sugar harms your health in a whole host of well documented ways, but a little of it, infrequently, is fine. Aspartame has always been under a cloud of doubt, but is probably also just fine in small amounts.

So really, you only need to be thinking about this if you’re having either of them as a regular part of your diet. And if that’s the case, well, this is the part where you really should listen to all those people who recommend that you acquire a taste for water.
This was a compliment from your kid and the way they should see you. The addiction is real. The fact I can walk into any private/public establishment and see the majority of people doing an endless scroll is actually really sad. There is a time and place of course, but 100% of any perceived downtime isn't it IMO.
They were always going for regulatory capture. I think deepseek shook them but I don't think we should rewrite the history as them being virtuous only until 2024.
I think Cursor etc are great for rapid prototyping and cut down the dev cycle from months to days without the need for PMs , the scaling is where the expertise would come in... whether this methodology would work on a complex codebase is debatable, but for startups looking to go from 0 to 1, this is a boon
Linear Algebra in MLIR
According to canon law, a Catholic church must be desacralized (or deconsecrated) in order to be licitly used for other, though not just any, purposes[0].

[0] https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/when-a-church-is-de...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Careless-People-story-where-used/dp...
It still does, just tested it.
Having bought a house a couple times and having a 800+ credit score each time it doesn't sound like extra steps at all. I also had to provide all that information and more to get a mortgage
I don't think that zero-day is really an argument, given that the vast majority of users are on Chromium. If there is a zero-day on Chromium, most people have it.

> At the end of the day, the engine of the major browser engines is open-source anyway.

Open source is not enough. The question is: who controls it? AOSP is open source, Chromium is open source. But Google controls both. It means that Google can push for what is good for Google... even if it is bad for the user. E.g. preventing users from blocking ads. Not that it does not have to be with evil purposes (though Google has been shown to be evil enough already): it's enough for Google not to care about something for it to impact Chromium/AOSP.

That's the whole point of competition: you want the users to have choice, so that it pushes the companies towards building a better product. Monopolies never serve the users.

Now you say: "ok but it's open source, so if you're not happy you can fork away!" -> which precisely brings us to two browsers, like now with Chromium and Firefox.
> LMDB has MDB_PANIC, documented as "Update of meta page failed or environment had fatal error".

Yes. That doesn't mean there was anything bad in the program logic. It most likely means your storage device had a fatal I/O error. It means there's something physically wrong with your system. Not that there was any bug in any code.
It does break many sites. Especially if you disable WebGL. You do get used to it but that's a tall task for most users.

It has been complained/asked about to have the ability to enable webgl on whitelisted sites but the devs have a fetish with all or nothing privacy.

Unfortunately if I'm using a site that, say, distributes 3D models then I'm likely going to need it enabled, privacy aside.

The time zone thing causes confusion with office 365, as well. It displays when meetings are in your time zone which did catch me off guard once.
Just pointing out the idiocy of the current situation. VW was actually founded by the Nazis and even the name is not neutral, so if "activists" want to use the label "Nazi car" then surely that is as close as it gets...

This is not serious stuff, indeed.
Stress position in German sentences (2021)
I've found seltzer makes me sleepy or fatigued for some reason. Everyone I tell this to looks at me like I'm nuts but I swear it's real. I think it has something to do with the brain's expectation of calories and the subsequent lack.
> destroy the wages of programmers is coming from the top down

True, we're only cost to them. They can't wait to get rid of us, and we're building the tools for them to do so.
The lesson again and again is to simply eat whole foods.

...cue the onslaught of wise-guy comments claiming sliced carrots aren't whole foods.
> I thought gmail doesn't disclose sender's IP address? Or I was wrong? This is not good for privacy.

This is not necessarily a Gmail thing, but just how SMTP works. It's not as bad as you'd think though.

SMTP services log the IP address and/or hostname of the remote host, and the address used by the host to identity itself (known as the HELO address). This is the address of the remote SMTP service (known as the MTA), which isn't typically the IP address of the users computer where the email client runs on (known as the MUA).

Under normal circumstances your email client (MUA) connects to your email service provider (MTA), which then sends the email to the MTA of the recipient. So the IP of your MTA (email hosting service), not your MUA (your computer) is exposed.

For example: if you send an email to a Gmail inbox using MS365, the receiver (the Gmail user) would see only the IP-address from Microsoft's outbound SMTP services.

So unless you run your own SMTP service at home, or attempt to directly connect with the receiving MTA using SMTP, your IP address won't be exposed.
Probably mediocre. Even absent being a source of full-time income accounting for the fact that there's going to be a lot of unpaid/dead time, I personally won't take a job for less than $1K for a day+-ish unless it's really interesting or I'm doing a favor for someone I know.

(One of the issues with short-term fractional work as an income source is that you can end up only being paid for a fairly small percentage of your total time. If the rate is good, that may be fine as a part-time job. But in my prior industry analyst stint, we actually had quite good day rates but we spent most of our time keeping up with industry happenings and writing free stuff.)
>On top of that, there is no ISA or reference CPU that isn't US-based.

ARM HQ is in Cambridge & owned by Japan (Softbank group)
In a roundabout way, I wonder does this one fit what you're after:

https://bogart.openmathbooks.org/ctgd/ctgd.html

And more directly, a quick browse showed up a book called:

"Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists" which looks like it addresses your issue directly.
I agree with your concerns but don't feel like we're at that tipping point to be honest, relative to the value of credit being generally easy to get for the legitimately creditworthy.

> Already the US credit score makes people obsessed about credit, and getting credit cards and loans to improve/game their credit scores with their future mortgage in mind

I've encountered very, very few people doing this to an inappropriate degree (obviously yes you should consistently demonstrate creditworthiness, that's not gaming though). Anecdotally, the people I see doing this are actually seriously not creditworthy. A whole lot of "you bought 3 cars and fucked your score, here's how to dig your way out." But like... the evidence actually shows you can't be trusted with credit!

I don't disagree with any of your big picture concerns about the system and the possible edge cases or distortions of priorities. I just haven't seen evidence those are huge problems relative to the value of the system.
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That video...it's amazing that someone would put up with it. I would seriously be demanding a refund.
I always considered drinking a lot of sparkling water an antipattern. I think this is connected with microbiome or people who I knew and who abused the sparkling water. I'm refraining myself from such activities because of the same reason (gas) but I also am sick (SIBO or another inflammation, have to hit diet hard)
Being 10x as productive then has more to do with your position than your skills.

The Roman emperor could make or break entire regions by vaguely wagging a few fingers. If and when he made a good decision - which could often easily be attributed to good luck - he could be, and was, heralded as the best thing since sliced bread because he saved millions. Such power surely must be divine. I don't think so.

Not saying Linus or Guido aren't competent engineers. I'm just saying that I don't think they are the sliced bread many make them out to be. They are good. Lots of people are good, but not many people get to be the first to create Python.

And, to be frank, Python - and its ecosystem - and me are through the honeymoon phase. Let's just say the chemistry has worn off and I'm not quite so sure Guido is the net positive we think he is. Maybe Python replaced some other upcoming far superior language. We can't know. (I suspect it did.)

In general I don't think individual/personality worship is a net positive on any axis.
Recursions are super useful for dealing with certain data types, notably nested grammar parsing. Sure, it has gotcha, but that can be extremely readable.

I don't think we should ban recursions altogether, but remember that there exist associated risks, and consider them.
Oh shi- why I am not surprised to see Daiz on HN.

The irony is that in older official releases in the VHS era we'd get that sort of effort towards localization, but the purists really hated it.

I had a prototype setup worked out for video that actually did convert ASS -> video stream that you could overlay on top a number of years back, but never took that anywhere.
a good rule of thumb is to not make significant changes based on single studies - especially on mice, ESPECIALLY in regards to controversial subjects. Robust science is not built on single studies.
HashChain: Fast factor-based sublinear exact-match string search algorithm
Tesla is in a very peculiar position as an automaker, P/E ratio (price of the stock compared to earnings) is extremely optimist regarding the potential, with self-driving, robots and overall market dominance.

But all of that is not real, it is, at best speculative, and the cars themselves are not great, especially when compared to other EVs.

The huge valuation of Tesla will crumble dramatically as soon as investors stop believing the promises. And having poor/declining or even stagnating sales is very likely to trigger some close scrutiny and doubts.
You can’t get an OSS team to fix vulns in a meaningful amount of time, let alone research them. Waterfox/Palemoon stay months behind the official branch and are always vulnerable.
Weren't egg prices meant to go down on day one?
Butterfly population in US shrinking by 22% over last 20 years, study shows
This is reasonably obviously GPT-generated self-promotion with fake references. Downvote hard
Tesla is outrageously overpriced as an auto manufacturer.

Most other manufacturers currently have a P/E ratio around 10. Tesla is around 120. Yes, you read that right --- about 12X higher than the competition.

To justify it's current valuation, Tesla would have to capture a majority of the global market and become the world's most popular car brand. It currently has around 12% of the global market.

In my opinion, what Tesla has to offer just isn't that good and is being rapidly surpassed.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/13/mercedes-cla-ev-finally-here-...
> for example the Google workspace suite (docs, sheets etc) comes pre-bundled with Chrome

This is not true
> What's your ideal scenario?

On premise k8s cloud where you can deploy many instances of the exact same services you have in prod. Let's say a E2E test takes 5s to run, your deployment takes 2mn and you want to stay under the 5mn line for running your test suite: deploy an instance of all your services and their databases per batch of 30 tests.

I can understand this not really being possible at an Amazon scale. But for most businesses? A good beefy server should be enough.
My antivirus blocked loading the site, identifying a trojan payload, using Russian text. That's as far as I went.
I appreciate the overall point of the article, but have a gripe. The author (and others) gets it wrong on the original meaning of 10x. A 10x engineer isn't someone who is 10x as productive as their peers, they are 10x as productive as their worst performing peer. The original study the author links to compares the difference of work between the fastest code and the slowest code. The fast debugger and the slow debugger.

When we talk about 10X, it should be about comparing it to the least productive team member - the 1X. There is always going to be a 1X person on the team. That's not bad if the team average is 1.5-2X, but if the average and discrepancy gets large enough, you're going to have the 10-100X team member who gets a lot done.

Also, not all work is equal. The 10X engineer who is only 10X in programming may be a 1X in collaboration or documentation. That's not a good dynamic, either. Again, appreciate the point of the article, "build great teams", but we need the 10X person in each task to do that. If the build pipeline is slow and costing us money, I need the best people on the team to go figure that out. And, I need our worst engineer who is still learning to be involved so that they can grow their skills. Become a 1.1x, 1.2x, etc.

Hat tip to these articles on 10x engineer studies:
https://jasoncrawford.org/10x-engineers
https://www.construx.com/blog/productivity-variations-among-...
If there was a group/vendor you could trust to develop such a universal engine to rule them all, that could work out. But, alas, no big tech company could ever be trusted with such a task (they would try to push their agenda, e.g. by preventing ad blockers).
It definitely uses connection IPs as some heuristic.

I exclusively used Facebook for family (years ago before deleting it) and received recommendations of otherwise socially-unconnected roommates who habitually accessed FB through house wifi.
Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was minus 280° F
I hate that crypto ever had this big money swell associated with it. If we could divorce the technical protocols from the scams and shilling people associate with it, it actually has some interesting uses that barely anyone is willing to talk about it a non-shill or non-disgust way.
> The ash needs to go somewhere and the standard practice with a lot of coal plants has been to just dump it outside, try to contain it with some infrastructure, and not worry too much about it.

More precisely: The standard EPA recommended practice would have been to dump the dried fly ash in a lined landfill (to prevent poisoning groundwater). This is also what whas done in the cleanup.

Allowing the disaster to occur was a clear case of insufficient regulations combined with the sort of cost-saving sloppiness that is to be expected from private companies.

Those regulations were amended and risks at other potential disaster sites were mitigated (which cost billions), finishing in 2022.

I'd like to note here that muntzing government regulations in a style that Musk advocates for ("you can always reinstate some regulations later if you run into problems") is not only irresponsible, but also impractical; it takes decades to implement regulatory changes and switching is very expensive.
Maybe nurses come over by Uber.
Coding is one thing that all these LLM companies crazy optimized for and yet its only marginally useful.

Dario Amodai calming yesterday that 90% of coding will be done by AI in next 3-6 months. These ppl need to be held accountable for this scam that they are brazenly and openly perpetrating. Seriously, why is no one saying anything, whats goin on. I feel disgusted by these ppl .

Dario Amodai deserves Elizabeth Holmes treatment for this fraud.
That’s not what health-oriented people mean when they say “low sugar” - that’s part of the marketing trick of these drink manufacturers. Low sugar means water, unsweetened tea, coffee without sugar, etc. Simply replacing sugar with toxic chemicals and calling it low sugar is insanity.
Fizzy water
My project is a complicated mix of account abstraction, telegram mini apps and about five obscure cryptocurrency SDKs integrated throughout the app. Yes, Cursor frequently hallucinates but it’s pretty easy to steer it. @Docs solves it.

Another piece of magic sauce: waste the context. Spend the tokens as if you’re partying last time in your life. Throw anything remotely relevant at it.

I haven’t yet found piece of context that made it perform worse. Most of the time the opposite happens - it finds stuff that I haven’t noticed in the big chunks of data I threw at it (error logs, documentation, stack traces)

I remember when I was just learning programming I had a mental block around nested for-loops. I couldn’t trace more than 1000 operations in my head, so I thought that computer wouldn’t be able to as well. To my surprise a computer can easily handle a million operations in a split second.

With AI is a similar feeling, I feel constrained by the amount of my own “RAM”, but once I let go, it almost always surprises me.
That’s what makes it a good abstraction.
And yet we've been dissatisfied with and flavoring our water for longer than we have recorded history.
Sometimes I'm glad that artificial sweeteners taste incredibly bitter to me
I think I got an account in late 2007 or 2008, so perhaps it was different in 2006 or early 2007. But I do remember in 2009, Ashton Kutcher was in the news for having a million followers on Twitter, so the time where it was not for celebrity gossip was certainly brief.

I also generally prefer not to be notified by things on my phone if I can avoid it, computer use is more deliberate.

>You likely personally knew all the people you were tweeting with.

But I certainly knew all the people I was friends with on Facebook, they were people I first met in person, and it had their names.

I think fundamentally, I dislike the asymmetric nature of "following" people on Twitter (or Instagram or whatever). On Facebook you are friends or you are not. Obviously you can hide/mute people or whatever but the fundamental interaction is mutual.
Which political viewpoints do you think that AI models currently favor?
Working on something similar but in reverse (Python to JavaScript). A few tips:

- If the scripts are primarily by the same author, it's likely they copy-pasted a lot of their functions throughout their scripts. Do something like a "Find All" in the repository holding the scripts for the function name. Regex will help a lot in this, and help you see if a function ever has variations on number of arguments, slight name changes or misspells, etc.

- Refine an AI prompt as you convert scripts over and over.

- AI (ChatGPT, Copilot, etc.) is going to be the best automation you can get for this, because often times conversions don't match up one-to-one in a language. Especially if your scripts use npm, you might not find one-to-one matches in PyPI. AI refactors will also force you to examine the conversions.

- Understand what tech debt could be introduced in a one-to-one conversion. There may be some language workarounds that make a lot more sense to introduce over exact conversions of workaround functions for the language. I've had to work with several legacy Python scripts that called functions that can be better written in your target language. For example, one of our functions was conditionally_get_keys(level1, level2, level3) to kind of recursively get a nested value. This didn't need to be a function when I rewrote it in JS, rather I just wrote the variable as something like `city = user.location?.city`. No need to one-to-one convert a function that can be better written with a JS language feature. You'll probably encounter this when you can more succinctly write list manipulations with slicing (e.g. `steppedList = fooList[::2]` instead of converting a function necessary in JS to do the same thing).

Sorry if you have a time-crunch with converting things, but I would recommend a more hands-on conversion strategy, leveraging AI to do the basic conversion and then manually testing, debugging the solutions.
Why would I take any chance risking my wife's illustrious career on an internet forum? A career that supports maintenance and taxes on our historic mansion, multiple yearly vacations, our children's private school tuition, and our multiple monthly expensive restaurant meals? You surely must be joking!
Didn't know, are they individuals working independently with some 'services' to provide targets/money laundering or are they part of organized crime or payroll? I am curious in the support structures they are embedded in.
Stating that 'Meta will suffer “immediate and irreparable loss”' from the promotion of this book is almost certain to trigger the Streisand effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
don't they plan to cut defense spending? Where's the gold, competing with Lockheed?
Big corporations on the w3c board, and their control of the largest platforms, have contributed to the enshitification of the web by making web standards move just as fast as Windows APIs or Office formats. Making it much harder for open source volunteer driven projects to keep up.

I compare an open source project trying to make a browser to an open source project trying to keep up with MS Office formats or Windows graphics APIs. It requires a lot of resources.

And there is no global resolution to this as long as certain nations allow rampant unchecked capitalism and innovation under the sole supervision of the profit driven corporations themselves. Because they will forever keep inventing new standards that they launch on their platforms and become ubiquitous to end users.
Perhaps more an indictment of failed regulators who have allowed these mega corporations to entrench a single browser engine, steer web standards, and consolidate so many of the social destinations on the web.