skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> despite being terrible at virtually everything it tries to do

Oh, MSFT ain't even "terrible" compared to some other players. Try Salesforce. Or ADP. Or even Atlassian. I can't believe we're actually paying money to use them and OMG, the software... I feel like when going to conferences, I'd be like that guy from the cigarettes ad in Idiocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzUcoZdfCOY ... "You work there? Fuck you!" :)
A lot of commenters here are reacting only to the narrative, and not the Research pieces linked at the top.

There is some very careful thinking there, and I encourage people to engage with the arguments there rather than the stylized narrative derived from it.
It looks like you're being purposefully ridiculous. There is an obvious difference between the two; cost of reproduction. For something with a cost of reproduction near zero (book, music, art, etc), IP restrictions matter. For something like a restaurant, factory, etc; the cost of reproduction is high.
I have used simulators to develop hard-to-make-correct distributed code.

It helped me find all kinds of subtle non-intuitive bugs that would have gone unnoticed had I only used hand coded automatic tests.

Highly recommended.
I can call something "purple" and then give a specific explanation I mean "computer" by it, but I just shouldn't be using purple like that in the first place. The word "moderate" is too entrenched, gives people an immediate instinctive, emotional reaction based on the established meaning of the word. This is not the word to repurpose here.
ACPI is a monster. 1,100 page spec: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_Spec_6_5...

There’s a ton of different tables you have to parse and as I recall there’s a whole bytecode you need to be able to execute.
It’s not hypocrisy to remove the cancer from my phone, tumors like Google Services exist to be removed. I use an Adblock, I download all the videos I like to personal storage after watching them on YouTube via a shared Indivious frontend me and my friends use (meaning Google takes the data hit twice), and I always fill up my GDrives. This way I can slowly do my part in removing evil from this world.

There is absolutely evil in doing business, unless you view things such as slavery as A-OK. And trust me, I fucking hate subscriptions and view those who fall to forcing them onto their users as less than scum. They are just as evil as Google or Apple are.
Is that what is happening in reality?

It seems that all of the big players in the industry are perfectly fine with disallowing output that infringes on copyright.
Fact-Checking Lottie Comparisons in Rive vs. Lottie
I happened to come across the following page recently: https://rive.app/blog/rive-as-a-lottie-alternative
I found it interesting that Rive officially compared itself to Lottie based on fairly recent information. However, I was quite surprised by the many vague or inaccurate statements made about Lottie. As a developer familiar with Lottie, I'd like to offer a different perspective on a few key points.

1. Responsiveness

The claim that Lottie "regenerate animations" to scale for different screen sizes is puzzling. In most GUI environments, responsiveness is handled by standard layout and scrolling systems. Since Lottie animations are vector-based, they naturally scale according to their aspect ratio within the assigned layout. There is no need to regenerate the animation—rendering scalable vector graphics in real time is already built into the design.

2. Dynamic Data Integration

It’s inaccurate to describe Lottie as strictly static. Event Lottie supports scripting and allows runtime updates of animation properties, enabling dynamic behavior driven by external data or user interaction.

3. Blurs and Shadows

Lottie fully supports vector-based effects such as Gaussian blur and drop shadows. These are rendered as scalable vector effects— How this specifically increases file size. Doesn't make sense.

4. Masking

Lottie has multiple types of masking, including at least four distinct modes. One of the most powerful is the Matte feature, which goes well beyond basic alpha masking and allows for advanced compositing techniques.

5. File Size and Rendering

Relying solely on a binary format for production use can be limiting in terms of flexibility. Lottie's text-based JSON format is easily readable, editable, and compressible during the build or packaging process. It allows for streamlined workflows where designers and developers can collaborate effectively before optionally converting to a binary format for optimization.

6. GPU-Accelerated Rendering

GPU acceleration is available in many Lottie runtimes, moreover, Lottie's lightweight and flexible architecture enables it to run on a wide range of devices, including low-power IoT hardware. This level of adaptability is a key strength, not a weakness.

7. Asset Management

Whether to embed assets or link to them externally is entirely up to the developer. Lottie offers flexibility in this regard—it is not restricted to embedded assets only.

8. Platform Support

Lottie already supports a broad range of platforms. There are 3rd-party user plugins integrated into major engines like Unity and even Godot has upcoming support for Lottie integration officially. Even Lottie is is capable on on MCU-based chipsets, IoT, or RTOS devices.

IMHO, Publishing incorrect or false information as if it were true on an official company page is something that should be approached with caution.
https://archive.ph/WIAoq
So far as I can tell, the idea behind extending copyright two generations after the author's death was so that they could leave the rights to their children and grandchildren, and this would keep old or terminally ill authors motivated.
great illusions of our time, like there's not data to back it up?
I really don't like Microsoft products (notable exceptions include: F# and Age of Empires). But they are really good at getting companies to spend large amounts of money on their products. Slack is strictly better than Teams, however a company that already has Windows, Outlook, and Office really needs a good reason to spend $20/user (or whatever it is) for Slack over Teams. Azure I don't think is as good as AWS or GCP, however for a lot of business its we are already on Azure with Office 365 so why not?
It sure seems like the use of GenAI in these scenarios is a detriment rather than a useful tool if, in the end, the operator must interrogate it to a fine enough level of detail that she is satisfied. In the author's Scenario 1:

> You upload a protest photo into a tool like Gemini and ask, “Where was this taken?”

> It spits out a convincing response: “Paris, near Place de la République.” ...

> But a trained eye would notice the signage is Belgian. The license plates are off.

> The architecture doesn’t match. You trusted the AI and missed the location by a country.

Okay. So let's say we proceed with the recommendation in the article and interrogate the GenAI tool. "You said the photo was taken in Paris near Place de la République. What clues did you use to decide this?" Say the AI replies, "The signage in the photo appears to be in French. The license plates are of European origin, and the surrounding architecture matches images captured around Place de la République."

How do I know any better? Well, I should probably crosscheck the signage with translation tools. Ah, it's French but some words are Dutch. Okay, so it could be somewhere else in Paris. Let's look into the license plate patterns...

At what point is it just better to do the whole thing yourself? Happy to be proven wrong here, but this same issue comes up time and time again with GenAI involved in discovery/research tasks.

EDIT: Maybe walk through the manual crosschecks hand-in-hand? "I see some of the signage is in Dutch, such as the road marking in the center left of the image. Are you sure this image is near Place de la République?" I have yet to see this play out in an interactive session. Maybe there's a recorded one out there...
Multiple backdoors spread through fake AI, business tools
Cool Bill. But do you have what it takes to fix the onedrive shared folder bug that has been open for more than a year?
Coreboot 25.03 Released with Support for 22 More Motherboards
I saw that, but I'm still not sure how this fits in:

> The enemy has been trying to spin it as "AI bots DDoSing" but one wonders how much of that was their own doing...

I'm reading that as `enemy == fingerprinters`, `that == AI bots DDoSing`, and `their own == webmasters, hosting providers, and CDNs (i.e., the fingerprinters)`, which sounds pretty straightforwardly like the fingerprinters are responsible for the DDoSing they're receiving.

That interpretation doesn't seem to match the rest of the post though. Do you happen to have a better one?
Distribution of copyrighted material is prohibited. Reading, watching, listening, etc, it is not.

A copyright holders tort is with the infringing distributor, not the end user.
Universities have endorsed leftist ideas. Not cowered .
The page design is distracting and making it hard to browse through. Pressing Page down/up key does not work! Such a design is not UX friendly.

I tried to view on a Windows 10 machine that's connected to a physical keyboard. In the scrolling on the mouse feels so laggy - you gotta wait for the animation to play before you can read.

I spent hardly a minute to read the top and then jumped back here to make this comment, which I never ever did before.
Yes it is regressive taxation. It can't be judged in isolation without considering how that revenue will be spent. If that revenue went into massive public works and social programs the stimulus could increase consumer spending which in combinations with tariffs might possibly benefit US business and jobs (gut feeling, not an economist) though perhaps the overall economy might still suffer. Clearly that isn't the plan though.

If it funds tax cuts for the extremely wealthy then potentially its going to be a colossal shit show.

Meanwhile countries are raising barriers against US exports and those losses will need to be made up with increased domestic demand. It is a very brave experiment.
Rothko Chapel
Signalgate: Pentagon watchdog probes Defense SEC Hegseth
agree it's an ad

but if they sent the AI through all that ancient code and that's all they found it's not a good advertisement
It smells like a psyop, to be honest. Doesn't take much to get the ball rolling. Just more temporarily embarrassed millionaires sticking up for billionaires and corporations, buying their propaganda hook line and sinker, and propagating it themselves for free. Copyright is a joke, DMCA is a disgusting, selectively applied tool of the elite.
> How do restaurants work, then? You can’t copyright a recipe.

They barely work. Recipes are trade secrets, and the cooks who use them are either paid very well, given NDAs or given only part of the most guarded recipes
Sorry, I'm very confused here. What's your point? Yes, at least one gave me problems, but specifically more than one gave me problems. Both graphics driver options did, and other unrelated drivers did as well.
IMO although it was complex, the human brain could still manage the complexity back then. Reading Woz's autobiography, it feels he knew what every logic gate on the original Apple computer did.

The PDP-10 probably worked at "human speed" too...
They already stood for that and voted for him again, where have you been?
> Commissioned work is owned by the commissioner unless otherwise agreed upon by contract.

I think the LLM example is closer to the LLM and its creator being like a vendor selling pictures of Indiana Jones on the street corner than hiring someone and performing work for hire. Yes, if it was a human artist commissioned to create an art piece, then yeah, the commissioner owns it.
Is there like a book or podcast on Intel’s downfall? As a 90s kid it seems unthinkable to me Intel would be dethroned so swiftly.
They could try hiring some conservative professors.

https://www.nas.org/academic-questions/31/2/homogenous_the_p...
Awesome.

Can you do a write up on that beautiful rendering? my lord.
I think for me it’s less about the games themselves and more about not wanting to support a platform that embraces the concept at all.
The BSDs are not in competition with Linux so there's really no concept of being "left behind"
You're framing this in an odd way if you want neutral responses. Is withdrawing federal funding an attack? The government has always used the power of the purse as a lever to influence many institutions, including universities, and it often uses this mechanism to exert influence for ideological purposes. The most famous example is withholding funding for roads until states mandated a drinking age of 21. It's how the federal-state power asymmetry works. The disturbing thing is that Congress isn't really the one exerting it in this case, not that it's being used at all.
So you're saying >50% of the USA population are objectively shit people? If you're a member of the other 50%, you aren't automatically shit but you still could be?

Seems bleak dude. Also, consider that conservative media has indoctrinated people to think like you do...except in the opposite direction. i.e. if you voted for Kamala or Biden, you're the enemy.
I can't wait for the day when attr has this implemented. It would eliminate the need for so many inline styles
Interesting the way you framed this. Especially the part about liberals doing the beatings and threatening more of them.

One party had a message and large portion of it's voter base focused on messages and policies that can only be described as hateful and harmful. Now that it seems like that harm is transpiring and surprise surprise just as the "we don't give two shits about you" liberals warned that harm is at best indiscriminate and at worst going to impact those spiteful voters the most.

Trump is doing exactly what he said he'd do, tariff all the things, these people proudly and loudly voted for the (self-inflicted) punishment you're describing.
Not all code needs to be written at a high level of quality. A good deal of code just needs to work. Shell scripts, one-offs, linter rules, etc.
Congratulations on the v1 launch! I’ve been tinkering with hatchet for almost a year, deployed it in production about 6 months ago.

The open source support and QuickStart are excellent. The engineering work put into the system is very noticeable!
> I don’t know…the actual inspirations for Indiana Jones, like Allan Quatermain from H. Rider Haggard's novels, "King Solomon's Mines", and the real life Roy Chapman Andrews, who led expeditions to Mongolia and China in the 1920s and wore a fedora.

The actual inspiration for Indy was protagonist Harry Steele from the movie The Secret of the Incas (1954). Filmed on location in Cusco and Machu Picchu, before they became popular tourist destinations, the movie also had scenes and elements that made it into Raiders of the Lost Ark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Incas

The movie's available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TS7Fabyolw

A lot more info: http://www.theraider.net/information/influences/secret_of_in...

(And listen out for the astonishing voice of Yma Sumac!)
That's Dave PLUMMER's channel. Dave CUTLER is the guest in that video.
How can I search for which monkey has written the word blurst? /s
In modern times, we have taken the everything breaks all the time, make redundancy and failover cheap/free approach.

VMS(and the hardware it runs on) takes the opposite approach. Keep everything alive forever, even with hardware failures.

So the VMS machines of the day had dual redundant everything, including interconnected memory across machines and SCSI interconnects and everything you could think of was redundant.

VMS clusters could be configured in a hot/hot standby situation, where 2 identical cabinets full of redundant hardware could failover during an instruction and keep going. You can't do that with the modern approach. The documentation was an entire wall of office bookcase almost clear full of books. There was a lot of documentation.

These days, nothing is redundant inside the box level usually, we instead duplicate the boxes and make them cheap sheep, a dime a dozen.

Which approach is better? That's a great question. I'm not aware of any academic exercises on the topic.

All that said, most people don't need decade long uptimes. Even the big clouds don't bother with trying to get to decade long uptimes, as they regularly have outages.
As a fellow 90s kid... I feel the same. I remember when Sony Ericson launched their first camera phone and how we used to go through PC upgrades like crazy. My dad would go to the bookstore to buy magazines with new linux distros included for free. Now I have laptop thats 4 years old and Im not excited to buy my next (heck I dont even need to buy my next... I can run LLama.cpp just fine on my current).

I do think the barrier to entry in tech has significantly increased. There was a wave of internet companies like Uber, (and their global equivalents) that benefited massively from providing local internet services. In the 2000s and 2010s the tech companies benefited massively from global poverty alleviation efforts to get users in remote regions on line. The push to get people online meant that millions of people in poor countries had access to social media and ads but not basic needs like toilets. As the tech companies saturated the emerging markets, covid began to hit. The stark inequalities began to be rubbed in. The big tech companies also dont really have any real material asset to fight over anymore. Their markets have been largely captured. As a big tech firm the game is now to maintain your lead. The industry is now run by MBAs, not hackers anymore.
I don’t know that Universities cower before leftist ideology. They are leftist, and are the generators of leftist ideology. It’s more like the wallow in it than cower before it.
The blog post documents a relatively long engagement process with the web standards process. Starting with publishing an explainer (pretty common for the browser engines), directly talking with the other browser engines and web developers at the W3C TPAC conference, making concrete proposals to the relevant web standards githubs, taking feedback, etc.

Can you elaborate on the carelessness here? What should've been more careful?
I don't think you intended to be that specific, but the developers don't make any decisions at the level of "releasing a server component" thats an upper management/production leader decision.
Even if this were true, it's not quite the end of the story is it? The hype itself creates lots of compute and to some extent the power needed to feed that compute, even if approximately zero of the hype pans out. So an interesting question becomes.. what happens with all the excess? Sure it probably gets gobbled up in crypto ponzi schemes, but I guess we can try to be optimistic. IDK, maybe we get to solve cancer and climate change anyway, not with fancy new AGI, but merely with some new ability to cheaply crunch numbers for boring old school ODEs.
That is not the point I was making.

But also literally nobody is voting for that.
> “He launched Cybertruck into the teeth of the hardest segment to crack.”

I don't know who his market is outside of Tesla Bro's. Did he think the guy driving an F150 or Ram 1500 would buy this? I haven't seen a single construction guy working out of one of these. Why would a trade use it? They don't off road well, and they are big and clumsy for the inner city.

What a waste of time and resources. could have made a 25k commuter car and possibly sold millions. Too late for that now. China will drive him out of business without Gov protection...
> Is it really necessary to highlight the heading at all?

You should be able to take a given UX and ask yourself if it can be improved.

A table of contents that tells you where you are on the page is useful.

Here's an implementation: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/components/modal/

On desktop, the table of contents on the right shows you which header you're on.
Your comment makes it sound like a browser being fingerprintable is a desired property by browser developers. It's just something that happens on its own from different people doing things differently. I don't see this as being about rebelliousness. Software being fingerprintable erodes privacy and software diversity.
I recently made the leap from product management to coding, with a lot of help from GPT-4 (it basically taught me how to code). I’ve been obsessed with LLM workflows and kept running into the same pain: constant context resets, tool-switching, and token limits that kill flow mid-task.

So I built Slate — an AI-powered workspace that supports long-context reasoning (up to 1M tokens), persistent memory, and lets you work with multiple models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc.) in a Notion-like interface.

It’s still early, but live. If anyone here experiments with long-context LLM use cases or AI tooling, I’d love your feedback — and I’m currently giving away credits to try the Gemini models because I’ve got $300 worth that expire in 48 hours. No catch, just want it used and tested.

First time building and launching something on my own — excited but also a bit overwhelmed. Appreciate any thoughts!
> when was the last time your restaurant told you what was in, and how to make, your favourite dish

Today? All the time? I just went into a new local joint today, talked to the owner about adding some vegetarian meals, and we hashed out some ideas in terms of both ingredients and preparation.

As a pescetarian and cook myself, I frequently ask establishments detailed questions about ingredients and preparation
I don't see a parallel here. Neither company is being investigated for anti-trust.
Since there is no service worker required, if ITP removes the service worker, declarative web push continues to work.
I believe this is explicitly called out.
Hey! That's a new sci-fi idea I think. Citizen, nurture your doughy cuckoo-clone, or there will be measures. I don't think this has been done.

I guess it's a bit Handmaid's Tale.
Yeah. The studio ghibli thing is brazen, in-your-face theft. Especially when considering all the threats of legal action we once endured just to watch a DVD. But when it’s theft on a grand scale by wealthy people, well that’s ok then. /s

We truly are in the second age of the robber barons.
For his goals at the time, but not really in the long run. Open development ecosystems like Rust are way better thriving than any closed ones.
> You make bad faith arguments. When someone wants to talk about "capitalism" v. "communism" they typically want to discuss the idea of capitalism and the idea of communism as political enterprises.

This is not quite accurate. Most of the advocates of communism want to contrast the historical instances of capitalism (with all of its visible faults) with the idea of communism (with all of its ideological perfection).

This is exemplified in this particular thread (although present everywhere) by freejazz's statement "So how is the Amazon-economy a more moral choice than communism?"

"Amazon-economy" is capitalism as a real system/historical instances. "Communism" is the idea of communism.

So, the claim that people usually want to discuss the idea of capitalism is false, because they almost invariably argue based off of real-world drawbacks of capitalism. It's not bad faith to then compare those to real-world drawbacks of historical+contemporary instances of communism.

If someone really wants to discuss the idea of communism, they have to elide any mention of specific instances of capitalism (while still taking human factors into account for all theories proposed).