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In case your assumption here is that TFA is about Edge disabling adblockers: it's not. It's just removing ManifestV2 support. ManifestV3 is still supported. Despite what one might …

I haven't found that to be true at all. So I suppose there's a personal component to it and your observation doesn't apply universally? If so, though, that's possibly good news: it…

There was a time when Google SREs were inventing the profession from the ground up, and it was the stuff of legend.

This assumes a world where one parent can afford to not work and mind the kids full time instead. This also assumes a world where having a parent over their shoulder full time does…

Ah, you're right. Thanks for the correction. I read that other post too fast.

Well, damn. Jeff, Sanjay and Demis leaving all at once, it's hard not to read that as someone fucked up pretty bad.

Which is why, instead of "democracy", it's more useful to quantify democratic . One traditional measure of such is the degree to which political power can be gained through free el…

Man shoots himself in the foot then turns up limping, it's probably not that his shoes are too tight.

As well, I have a feeling that market dynamics have evolved a tad since 2008, from the influx of retail investors (redditors, if you will) who seem keen to "buy the dip" on general…

Can you elaborate on what felt revolutionary to you about Fable?

I suspect mainly because you don't and can't understand the world ; you understand whatever simplified model of the world is inside your head and by default it's real unobvious jus…

Charity / fundraisers, one-off under the table gigs for acquaintances, pooling scant resources with more roommates, skipping meals... It's been really bleak over there lately. The …

So many of my people in the US can't even make ends meet anymore that I opened a dedicated line of budget to provide help where I can. It's never been that bad before and it's nowh…

I don't think I would characterize this last era as one of global peace.

Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to c…

Whenever I see something in OCaml I assume it's Jane Street and that ends up correct a surprising amount of the time.

What's Stroustrup up to these days though?

> So, if I'm reading this correctly, Chat Control [2.0, implied] is bound to become law? Nope. This is bad, but not THAT bad. This is an extension of the existing Chat Control 1.0,…

A hundred thousand furries consuming unfathomable amounts of porn without shooting up anyone kind of cast doubt about that point.

I have a hunch that the Epstein class is getting increasingly upset about the kids encountering ideas about what ought to be done about the Epstein class, and mostly are keen to se…

Mainly I disliked the walrus operator because Python already has a keyword that means "capture the output of this clause into this variable": as. E.g., try: with open("file.txt") a…

Ok, I gave the 35B MoE weights a shot at Q6. It failed my go-to code reasoning benchmark (local models usually do), but delivered the most advanced output I've seen so far for my (…

A 9B model with the capability of the 35B SOTA from last February is too good to be true, and a wild claim to make IMO even if there's a newer 35B SOTA. I'll need to make time to t…

I'd have expected this to get more HN attention. Qwen 3.6 35B capability in a 9B model is a bonkers claim.