MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m000 | 2025-11-22 22:07:50+00:00
The problem with AI integrations in Firefox is not in whether they could be disabled or not.

Given that Mozilla Foundation isn't swimming in cash, "investing" in AI (a well known money sink) makes very little sense and will definitely undermine the development of their core product (the freaking browser).

Also, the timing of their Nov. 13 announcement is pretty bad. There is already chatter that AI may be a bubble bigger than the dotcom bubble. For a company that doesn't have deep pockets, it would be prudent to take the back seat on this.
by dalyons | 2025-11-22 22:08:29+00:00
france cant do it any more either. Flamanville was 12 years late and [1] 400% over budget. EPR2 is already delayed and over budget and they havent even started building yet!

UK cant do it either, see hinkley point c [2]

[1] https://www.nucnet.org/news/long-delayed-nuclear-plant-conne... [2] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/edf-announces-hi...
by ivan_gammel | 2025-11-22 22:09:00+00:00
Well, that‘s not related to this specific conversation, but industrialization in socialist states did that in a number of cases. Soviet Union between 1950s and 1970s has seen significant growth and by various accounts achieved up to 5x improvement in purchase power compared to Russian Empire at its peak, in 1913 (how much goods could a worker buy for their salary, not including welfare, which was obviously superior in SU). I‘m not saying socialism is good, the price paid for that was terrible. And anyway my argument wasn’t that there were better societies, just that America of 1800s was ugly place to live even for many white Europeans (and let’s not forget that 60% of the time in that century there existed slavery). People went there not because it was great (and not everyone went there, many German settlers chose opposite direction, moving to Wild East, helping colonial expansion of Russian empire). It was just marginally better than certain places in Europe with its wars and famines.
by jimmar | 2025-11-22 22:09:34+00:00
Markdown is the minimum viable product. It’s easy to learn and still readable if not rendered in an alternate format. It’s great.

For making PDFs, I’ve recently moved from AsciiDoc to Typst. I couldn’t find a good way to get AsciiDoc to make accessible PDFs, and I found myself struggling to control the output. Typst solves all of AsciiDoc’s problems for me.

But in the end, no markup language will make you write better. It’s kind of like saying that ballpoint pens are limiting your writing, so you should switch to mechanical pencils.
by loeg | 2025-11-22 22:09:35+00:00
When I replied to this thread[0], with this comment[1], both the comment I was replying to and my comment were talking about trijets in the abstract, not MD-11s in particular, and the current year, or perhaps as early as the 1990s, but definitely not as early as the 1960s.

Several comments, including yours, seem to have misconstrued that to mean I think the MD-11 in particular could be retrofitted into a twinjet. That's, uh, wildly mistaken, and not something I've ever claimed. I just think trijets in general are a design dead-end. Again, that doesn't mean it didn't make sense in 1960s when the DC-10 was being designed.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996656

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996787
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-22 22:10:09+00:00
> soon the west has to copy chinas tech

Thorium MSRs don't make sense for the Americas, Europe or Australia. We have plenty of uranium.

Nuclear is receiving solid research backing in both America and China. (India is playing too. Austrlia is having an identity crisis.) Our different geologies mean there will probably be one solution for China, India and North Africa, on one hand, and the rest of the world, on the other hand.
by GaryBluto | 2025-11-22 22:10:13+00:00
> If you don't want to release the Epstein files, then yeah, you're bad.

You can be against the Epstein files being released for numerous reasons that don't require supporting child abuse.

Here's an example:

"The files are likely inaccurate or manipulated and likely to be used for character assassination. I see numerous people on the left and right wings of the political spectrum accusing the other side of manipulating them."

That does not in any way support child abuse.

> If you're 'both side'-ing fucking pedophilia, take a step back and ask yourself - what the fuck are we doing here?

I'm unsure what you mean. This is a very emotional statement with little actual substance. If you're claiming that only Republicans participated in Epstein's child abuse ring, that doesn't seem to be true at all.

> Sometimes people, and this includes republicans, are just pieces of shit. Sometimes someone is OBVIOUSLY wrong, and someone is OBVIOUSLY right. You are allowed to diverge from the fucking hivemind and say 'you know what, this republican sucks'.

Nobody is objectively a piece of shit, nor is an opinion objectively wrong. Opposing the release of the Epstein files is not objectively or obviously wrong. What "hivemind" are you talking about? A large number of Americans hate Trump.

> Trump sucks man. He's a legitimately bad person and a stain on humanity. There is no alternative perspective to that. If you try to argue one, that's suspicious!

What do you mean, "there is no alternative perspective to that."? Are you saying that people arguing that Trump is not a stain on humanity don't hold a perspective on that matter?

This is a very angry, very Redditesque comment that is more emotional than it is logical.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-22 22:10:21+00:00
It's not really a world no. It generates only a small square by the looks of it. And a world built out of squares will be annoying.

Still, it's a first effort. I do think AI can really help with world creation, which I think is one of the biggest barriers to the metaverse. When you see how much time and money it costs to create a small island world called GTA..
by stopbulying | 2025-11-22 22:11:03+00:00
> The Senate has unanimously agreed to pass the House-backed bill forcing the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files as soon as it’s received from the chamber. Majority leader [...] said that would happen tomorrow.

> Next steps: The Senate will not have to take any further action, and the bill will be sent to President Donald Trump, who has said he’d sign the legislation, a stark reversal in his position.
by MengerSponge | 2025-11-22 22:11:08+00:00
Animal research is regulated, but not by a public jury. "We don't advertise what we do with animals in the basement" is because extremists have attempted to murder animal researchers in recent memory[1]. In the US we have a review process similar to an IRB for animal research: IACUC.

I'm dismissive of and admittedly rather condescending to people who equate their ignorance to experts' knowledge. But that's the whole point: expertise isn't a hereditary title. It comes from study, and I support anyone's effort to gain it!

For what it's worth: if you've sat on an IRB you're not Joe Public. You may not be a scientist, but you're an expert in another field. You also know that, so I don't get what you're arguing.

[1]: https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/eco-violence-rec...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-22 22:11:20+00:00
> This type of progress shows China is capable of moving from an economy that’s build on labor arbitrage or copying others to genuine innovation

China has been genuinely innovating in manufacturing techniques for decades. If anything, that ingenunuity peaked when Xi began his term, and has been degrading as his dictatorial tendencies needlessly hamstrung Chinese industry.
by EasyMark | 2025-11-22 22:11:39+00:00
For something like this as a first pass, for sure, but if it can be shown to be "realistic" then I have no problem with the Feds enacting it. I especially feel that we need a single-payer option for health insurance. We're the only major "wealthy" nation with a completely regressive health care policy that punishes people for being poor to the point we just let them die if the $ aren't flowing
by samtheprogram | 2025-11-22 22:12:20+00:00
There's no point unless a critical mass of people use these tools. You will be the only one on your IP address using this configuration of masked fingerprinting, which is itself a fingerprint.

That's also why it's indeed useful when using Tor, because you're not identified by your base IP.

Unless we make this part of the culture, you have basically 0 recourse to browser fingerprinting except using Tor. Which can itself still be a useful fingerprint depending on the context.

EDIT: I'll add that using these tools outside of normal browsing use can be useful for obfuscating who's doing specific browsing, but it should be emphasized that using fingerprinting masking in isolation all the time is nearly as useful as not using them at all.
by shmeeed | 2025-11-22 22:12:39+00:00
Too many people either never saw or forgot about the morgue trucks. Or the footage that showed flocks of vultures circling over south american cities from afar. Desperate people coughing and dying in their own cars in hospitals' driveways. Body bags littering the floors of hospitals in third world countries.

All of that happened, but it went right over a lot of people's heads, and nobody talks about it anymore because it became such a sore and divisive topic and we're all glad it's over.

I remember well the video showing a whole column of military trucks transporting bodies out of the city of Bergamo, Italy, on March 19th, 2020. I took a screenshot because the magnitude of what this meant gave me shivers. It was one of those moments when the world seemed to stop for a minute and was changed forever like on 9/11, to me at least.

Ever since, I can't find much common ground for discussion with people claiming it was just a flu. You either acknowledge the difference or you don't.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-11-22 22:13:09+00:00
You have not looked into all examples. Trusted flaggers have been used to suppress people they personally disagree with.

Just recently the wrong comment caused another home invasion by the police that drew wide criticism

> https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article68fa5facc014c...

The Article I linked about the Bundeswehr was about a students satire against the military.

And in the 60 Minute interview the prosecutors literally admit that they use illegal searches of your home as a punishment.
by programjames | 2025-11-22 22:13:14+00:00
Yeah, I routinely took classes with students 3–8 years older than me before going to college. "Age peers" are an illusion. However:

1. I mostly only cared about school w.r.t learning. For most kids, school is primarily a place to socialize.

2. If it took you two years to achieve the same level as what took someone else ten years (going with the 2nd vs. 10th grade example from a few comments up), I don't think you're going to get an appropriate pacing by just moving into the same class as them...
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-22 22:14:24+00:00
Sorry, I didn't multiply by two; it would have been $70. I checked the nutrition facts on the menu, it was a mix of meal deals and had nearly the same calorie counts that I was aiming for. Still less than half the cost of groceries (minus all the food I already had).

But if we're talking about the balance of macronutrients, I'd love to hear how you manage to beat the cost of fast food with legumes/nuts/yogurt and don't have a huge percentage of your calories from fat. 40g of protein from almonds is nearly a thousand calories and 90g of fat. 40g of protein from black beans is five Chipotle bowl orders worth of beans or four cups of fava beans. 35g of protein from nonfat Greek yogurt is nearly 3/4 of a pound of yogurt. If you can't stand to eat nearly a pound of nonfat yogurt in one sitting like most of the population, you'll only get 30g of protein from a 32oz tub and spend as much as a McDonald's sandwich (and get the same amount of fat).
by tzs | 2025-11-22 22:14:28+00:00
> An example - how long has Matter existed? Yet, it hasn't had a profile for smart plugs with energy monitoring (eg the 12$ IKEA one). Such a basic use case...

That was added with version 1.3 of Matter, released in the middle of this year. You just need to wait for your smart home ecosystem to support it and for IKEA to release a firmware update.

As far as ecosystems go, Home Assistant (HA) fully supports it, as does Samsung SmartThings. Google has a public beta, from what I've read. Amazon and Apple are in the on the way stage.

As far as device goes, all my energy monitoring smart plugs are Tp-link Tapo, and they have been quick to update firmware. I'm using several Tp-Link Tapo P110M Matter smart plugs [1] and a Tapo P316M Matter smart power strip [2] with HA.

The P316M, purchased in the middle of October, came with firmware that supported Matter 1.3 out of the box. I simply added it to HA using the "Add device" button on the HA screen and it worked.

The P110Ms, purchased at the start of this month, came with older firmware so they did not show energy use out of the box in HA. A quick trip to the Tapo app to add them to it during which it checks for and installs the latest firmware, brought them up to the latest firmware. After that the energy monitoring information showed up in HA.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKG52WQ4

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5LNYTR7
by tempest_ | 2025-11-22 22:14:39+00:00
I mean maybe it needs to be said again but

> Given that Mozilla Foundation isn't swimming in cash, "investing" in AI (a well known money sink) makes very little sense and will definitely undermine the development of their core product (the freaking browser).

The browser doesn't make any money (the Google search bar money would not be replaced by another entity if they stopped). That is why Microsoft abandoned theirs and why Safari is turning in to IE. Every one of these threads lambasting Mozilla for the "side projects" doesnt seem to have an answer for how does mozilla make money.

Often it will be people complaining they can't "donate directly to browser development" not realizing that it will be peanuts compared to the google money. Most people in the market wont pay for a web browser.
by retrac | 2025-11-22 22:14:45+00:00
> The CPU (the Motorola 68000) initiates all communication in the case of the Macintosh

Minor nitpick but the video controller has direct access to RAM and when the visible part of the display is being drawn by the video controller, it does cycle-stealing DMA that preempts the CPU.

You can read in depth about it from Steve Chamberlain, the designer of an FPGA low level clone of the Mac Plus here: [0]

By the way but this why the compact Macs have CPU performance of about a 6 MHz 68000 when clocked at almost 8 MHz. About half the time the display is being redrawn. And about half the memory bandwidth is used up at those times.

Bit of a tangent but the Apple II used a similar approach for its video system. As the article notes, the 68K has a prefetch queue. So it's always reading ahead which is what you get from reading an open bus. But the 6502 is a simple CPU without that fancy prefetch queue, so if you read a non-extant address on the Apple II you get what the video system just read and drew in the previous half-cycle. It's possible to sync up the CPU with the video system this way; something otherwise impossible on the Apple II. [1]

[0] https://www.bigmessowires.com/2011/08/25/68000-interleaved-m...

[1] http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/megademo/vapor_lock.html
by neoCrimeLabs | 2025-11-22 22:14:49+00:00
> Markdown Lacks the Structure You Need

I feel like this article makes a lot of valid observations, but then wraps them with a false dilemma.

If it had tried to convince the reader of understanding what formatting needs are required before choosing a format, I would have entirely agreed with it.

Instead I'm left feeling mildly offended, and disagree with it.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-22 22:15:00+00:00
> If I'm writing developer documentation I'm not writing it for a machine. And if the aim here is to expose it to a LLM, then the LLM needs to get smarter about semantics, not force us back to formats that are more technically complex to write and maintain

AsciiDoc is much better than Markdown for docs intended for humans that are more than short, README type of documents. Any advantage it has for documents intended for LLMs is a side effect of that.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-11-22 22:15:04+00:00
That is the case in many countries and as far as I know many states in US (for non-violent crime). Doesn’t result in a lot of people trying it because most people understand if the police knows who you are it won’t help to drive away and the people who are dumb/high/psychotic to not understand this they will do it regardless of wether the cops chase or not.
by undeveloper | 2025-11-22 22:15:50+00:00
Therapy is effective, but not always. sometimes, especially with children, there is no root cause in life to the depression beyond "genetics". Additional, therapy may simply be useless and unproductive without medication being used concurrently.

There's also simply death. I didn't feel like mentioning it, but I think its worth pointing out that without treatment, death is a very real possibility.
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-22 22:15:55+00:00
I have mixed feelings about Typescript, I hate reading code with heavy TS annotations because JS formatters are designed to keep line widths short, so you end up with a confusing mess of line breaks. Pure JS is also just more readable.

Also you can so easily go overboard with TS and design all sorts of crazy types and abstractions based on those types that become a net negative in your codebase.

However it does feel really damn nice to have it catch errors and give you great autocomplete and refactoring tooling.
by Nition | 2025-11-22 22:16:00+00:00
Chlorofluorocarbons, microplastics, UX dark patterns, mass surveillance, planned obsolescence, fossil fuels, TikTok, ultra-processed food, antibiotic overuse in livestock, nuclear weapons.

It's a defensible claim I think. Things that people want are not always good for humanity as a whole, therefore things can be useful and also not good for humanity as a whole.
by EasyMark | 2025-11-22 22:16:14+00:00
Exactly. I was raised by two working parents who were very involved in my life, and I wasn't a "latchkey" kid by any means. While the "traditional" spouse at home does work out pretty well if the single wage earner can do well, to be sure. That doesn't mean other situations can't prosper. It's not a magically set up that is the solution for everyone.
by espeed | 2025-11-22 22:16:42+00:00
Someone needs to convince Firefox rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779) to develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but they could have the only browser that does this.
by pdpi | 2025-11-22 22:16:49+00:00
My understanding is that reactors will use that plutonium just fine, so the energy you get from a fresh fuel rod is almost exclusively from uranium fission but, as time goes on, an increasingly large share is from plutonium fission.

In principle, using Thorium would give you the energy from Thorium fission, then Uranium fission, then plutonium fission, which is pretty cool. However, I suspect you might hit an issue here where such a low conversion rate would make the reactor go sub-critical.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 22:16:54+00:00
> And the second is that taxes create a perverse incentive for the government. You absolutely do not want the government to have even more of a financial incentive to sustain and create more of the companies of that size. What you want is to have fewer of them.

That's not really a convincing argument. The government is the body for setting up the economic rules, it is not bound by it. The government doesn't have revenue or profit. Money is created by the government, it doesn't have a value yet. The direct financing of actions through taxes is not done for the government, but a way for the government to project the costs of the governmental action into the economy. Sure, there are a lot of idiots now-a-days, that think a state should work like a business and make profits, but they are misled.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-11-22 22:17:01+00:00
That picture did not suggest someone is part of the SS but that someone in the Bundeswher might have contacts to SS People. To argue that this should even go in front of a judge is insanity.

Every carnival float in Düsseldorf every year would have to be evaluated by a judge than. Just a RANDOM example: https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/motivwaegen-von-jacques-till...

Freedom of speech includes satire. To ignore that is the exact chilling effect I mentioned.
by angaroshi | 2025-11-22 22:17:24+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I want to clarify: HA and SSO aren't implemented yet, and I haven't finalized the pricing model. The "enterprise pricing" mention was exploratory—I'm still figuring out sustainable revenue options. My goal is to keep everything open source if possible, including HA and SSO when they're built. I'm a solo dev trying to balance sustainability with accessibility for SMBs. If you have ideas on how to achieve this, I'd genuinely appreciate an email. I'll make mistakes along the way, but I'm committed to listening and improving.
by npteljes | 2025-11-22 22:17:49+00:00
Create text in higher resolution, rasterize it, warp it would be my process, if I needed to curve the characters themselves too. In case I didn't, because the shape is not that small compared to the text, simply wrapping around the shape works. Usually there's a tool to create a path, and then text can go along that path, as if the path were its baseline.
by pandaman | 2025-11-22 22:18:10+00:00
Since the US had been deindustrialized, most of the working class is now in service sector and does not produce much. Thus service labor is discounted and the construction labor is at premium. Basically, if it costs 1000 man-days of labor to build a house all in (materials, tooling, labor itself) it will have to cost 1000*k man-hours of waiting tables, where k is the discount coefficient between doing a skilled back-breaking labor and taking orders from the tables to the kitchen. At some values of k there is just not enough working days in the lifetime.
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-11-22 22:18:53+00:00
While I don't dispute the biological aspects of life with ADHD, I also cannot escape the reality of bullshit timelines.

My essence knows, without a shadow of a doubt, that time is cyclical. And just because some person or org says, randomly today, that something NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED by next Thursday or the world ends, doesn't actually change the nature of time.

There have been countless things in life where, as a civilization, we simply allow for trivial shit like this to have actual, life altering consequences. I think we're dumb.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-22 22:19:23+00:00
It still baffles me that people compare cooking to playing an instrument. It really is not that difficult to cook, depending on what it is. Do people know how to make schnitzel (breadcrumbed meat)? Make fries? Make rice? Make boiled potatoes? Or are those things difficult as well? Making a stew out of legumes is not that difficult either. Boil your legumes, then mix eggs, flour, and paprika together, put it in oil, heat it up for a few seconds, then pour everything into the water you are boiling your legumes in. Put some herbs to your liking. That is literally it. Healthy, delicious stew of any legumes.