skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The saddest part is that he's still in power.
firefox is an extremely hard product to recommend to friends/family

it's becoming more and more user hostile with every upgrade

pocket everywhere, telemetry, vpn ads, disney ads, amazon ads etc

(and despite the constant UI changes it still feels like something out of 1997)
I'm 2.3% Neanderthal.

We're not extinct. We merged.
A MEMS accelerometer is pennies. If it is critical then add redundancy and don't accept single fault tolerance. If it is optional or the signal can be estimated from other sources with acceptable error then fail gracefully. This is honestly simple stuff. Accepting less from manufacturers is a bad deal.
“Hackers stole passwords of Worldcoin Orb operators”[1] that’s just a bad idea

1 https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/12/hackers-stole-passwords-of...
That's tautological and irrelevant. Yes, humans are most dangerous to every other life form on the planet. That's why humans rule the Earth, and not some other life form. But in terms we care about - humans being a danger to humans - we have some handle on it.

The worry with superintelligent AI is that it'll dethrone us, and automatically make it the most dangerous thing on the planet. In particular, more dangerous to us than we already are to each other.
I suspect that if elections had the HN commentariat as the voters, it would result in landslide wins for most Democratic politicians. I don't think this has shifted much in the last decade.

That itself doesn't dispute your point, as I can sympathize with the idea that Democrats aren't particularly left-wing. But I'd also caution against using that as the yardstick, since most people do think of Democrats as "the Left" and it can result in confusion.

Broadly speaking, I'd say HN comments more or less center around the Democratic mainstream, but with a very high level of variance in political viewpoints compared to the general population. You get everything from unreconstructed Stalinists to Mencius Moldbug acolytes here.
Another aspect, is theres no telling how much that 2.3% matters. Not all strands of DNA have the same effect on how someone turns out
Yes, I have created several Google accounts without having to give real PII (Google requires a first name, last name, and a birthday)
No, the other way round: People who support Firefox fight the dominance of the Chromium engine. If anything, one engine dominating is bad for the Web. (There is also Safari, but for Apple OSes only.)
VPNs will be illegal in the US soon
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077449
Yes, thanks. Fixed.
Self-replying to add: This wasn’t a particularly frequent occurrence.
This was them trying to let people pay for Firefox. It was Mozilla VPN.

Everyone gets angry and has an opinion of how this sucks. There's no way for this to work out for Mozilla. Nothing they do will work or make everyone happy.

Google won.
There are dozens of smaller browsers that don't abuse their users. When Firefox loses the mind share it no longer deserves they will finally get enough money to hire a full-time developer.
> Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first

This phrase is approaching a Betteridge's law level tell for who’s at the wheel - nobody needs to insist they’re putting people first unless it’s really obvious they’re not.

“My corporate doublespeak has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my corporate doublespeak.”
Same as FireFox normal.
I'm not so sure about that. From my Finnish perspective, the invasion of Ukraine is much like a repetition of the 90s. The cold war was a very stable period for Europe. When the old order collapsed, wars started in the former Yugoslavia and Caucasus and raged on for years.

The 90s was also the decade of American hegemony. The hegemony started breaking down in the aftermath of 9/11, when the US decided that they care more about revenge than soft power.
Yes. If I had some other mail client as good as TB but with calendars working, I'd probably switch. But others are worse. So, for me it's definitely the features, I couldn't care less about logos and other fancy stuff.
So if I set up an aggregator that includes only positive stories about Democrats and only negative stories about Republicans, would you say it's odd to rate that?
Yup this was my first thought as well -- they're creating sidekiq-for-java. Lots of enterprise money to be scooped up, I'd assume they have a potential to make even more (especially if they're at it as long as sidekiq has been).

That said, tech like Temporal and other workflow managers do exist now... But maybe most people won't choose them because jobrunr is just an `mvn install` away.
Looks like the Tesla Superchargers are about to get even more crowded than they already are..
If Firefox was bad for Google then would Google be paying them 500m a year?
I'd have to disagree on government regulation being bad.

Sure some things aren't done well, as you say hobbyists can suffer, but without regulation at scale the majority of the population suffers.

If it's not regulated, every big company will abuse whatever they can (people or otherwise) to get ahead.
privacy.resistFingerprinting is something I had to set to false in my user.js, but I had my own user.js with my own privacy settings anyway. The rest of the settings it provides are very good for a default though.
That's an interesting observation, but I think it depends on time period you look at.

A few years ago, the discussion certainly seemed more Left-ish than now, especially around BLM/trans/women-in-tech issues.

HN of 5+ years ago was a mix of libertarianism/pro-business on the economic side but I'd say center-left socially - ie generally supportive of social support programs

Now, I think both econ and social have both moved towards the center. The libertarianism is still there, but is more "pure" in that it's far more skeptical of business ethics. There still seems to be a decent contingent of hardcore socialists and communists, too. Politically, I think the "woke" stuff is being seen through a more critical lens (or at least, people are more comfortable expressing that criticism) than a few years ago.
Mama mia, good post
For the record I drove a 2001 E46 M3 for years. My follow-on was an Infinity G37-S.

I am very familiar with what sporty handling means.
> It's based on the Chromium engine

Google has enough control over the internet as is, thank you.

I'd really wish there were other gecko browsers now. Epiphany was good but they switched to Webkit.

Edit: Just learned of LibreWolf. Might be looking into migrating over.
> In fact some of biggest emphasis in election season is on independents or undecided voters.

Exactly. You can look it up on 538 or wherever you like, but all the polls say roughly the same thing: There's more unaffiliated voters than there is voters for either party. Something like 40-45% unaffiliated, with ~25% identifying as Republican and ~30% identifying as Democrat.
I have wanted to use a tape drive for years, for storing backups. Partly because tapes are cheap and numerous, partly for the aesthetic, honestly. LTO-5 is indeed quite cheap now, you've inspired me to give it a go.
Probably, discard one variant.
Show HN: Tweets Sentiment Analysis with LLM
Interesting. When I used Iceweasel it was different enough to break sites.
I did but it couldn't find my Church's address when I gave it a test run. It still had our old address, even though we moved to a new building in 2017. Not sure how it gets information, but I didn't feel that I could trust it if it was giving six year old information
Whereas if you are using AI, not just for low-level stuff (like spelling, grammar, and diction and the occasional fact-check) but rather to write your whole friggen' paper ... and hence, in effect, never learning to really write or compose or research anything on your own ... you're making a far greater, categorical mistake.
we need alternatives that are not based on chromium.
You don't need the "and" in there.
Thanks! We also open for appointment, in case you can't make our regular hours (Tues and Sat 10-4)! Just let us know and you can come in whenever!
The 'click on the middle of the bear's nose' hCaptchas were an improvement, but they only seemed to happen for a week or so, now we're back to the AI garbage pile.
https://www.apkmirror.com/dmca-copyright-infringement-notifi...
I am not sure that shows a level of obvious departure from realpolitik that the person claimed.

> Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik

The quote even says realpolitik was a major influence.
You could argue they do this in order to keep antitrust from looking at chrome too closely.
I can't help but feel like this is Tesla surrendering their biggest moat (their Supercharger network, and the exclusivity of it) for questionable gain (worse immediate experience for their customers, unsure if additional revenue will outweigh the costs).

But I can't NOT see it as a huge win for accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy (Tesla's core mission). Brave, bold, and good for the planet. Better for the consumer, who now has two manufacturers' worth of cars to choose from.
Climate change, healthcare, education, deregulation, tax cuts, the military budget and accountability, manufacturing, immigration, criminal justice, the justice system, whistleblowers, etc.

There are entire states now insisting that child rape victims carry their rapist's baby to term, threatening any doctor that may assist even in other states. That's insane, and it's what "the right" have been systematically working toward for decades.

The planet is on track for immolation; irreversible and catastrophic global warming, but the Overton Window doesn't allow protestors to throw paint on the perspex screen over famous artwork.

Apologies if that wasn't actually a serious question; Poe's Law, yaknow?
>This has the same vibe as "mount a speaker to play fake engine sounds on a near-silent EV, because that's what people who grew up with muscle cars expect to hear".

To be fair, a significant chunk of normal cars have this too.

>Who's to say a linear acceleration can't be an "emotional drive"?

Sometimes, you want to turn corners too (electric cars have a disadvantage in this area because they're a lot heavier) but in a typical city you don't really have to do that very much so the straight-pull power gets you 90% of the sports car experience.

Not that that's inherently a bad thing- Mustangs are the only car Ford still sells for a good reason (and the base Tesla wouldn't sell if it had economy-car horsepower)- but if you want a car like that capable of turning corners with that speed then you need to spend a little (or a lot) more.
i too would love to listen to a Mexican Spanish version
All good points, but I'm interested in any examples of a rightward shift. What are we talking about here, specifically?
This rule doesn't hold in general though... eg. "putting the customer first" is code for treating employees as interchangeable cogs without any voice. But it does mean that they are actually putting the customer ahead of employees.
I'm not sure what I trust less from Musk: software that controls cars or software that controls brains?
reposted, since they are trying to silence and confuse:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835182
Are we talking about law or culture? They have moved in different directions on different issues.

What would be an example of something people on the left advocate for that was acceptable some years ago but isn't now? According to whom?
Chevy Volt v1
FWIW they have revised the Model Y suspension for 2023. Reports say it is more comfortable without affecting handling. Some owners have reportedly ordered the parts from the 2023 vintage and had them installed on prior year models - but I haven't verified that so YMMV.

If reports continue to be positive that it doesn't negatively affect handling I may give it a try (depending on the cost). Of course another great Tesla feature is mobile service... I'm curious if they'd be able to do a suspension swap. They can already do tire replacement and rotate/balance. You schedule it in the app and they show up at your house to do the work. It is extremely convenient.
From the article, "While the nine justices agreed that the Sacketts should prevail, they divided 5-to-4 as to how far to go in limiting the EPA's authority."
The reason people are upset isn't because you can't disable it. The frustration comes from the fact you need to be able to trust your web browser. And mistakes like this, mistakes that are so egregious, and demonstrate such bad judgement, that it makes it harder to trust something that you need to be able to trust.
https://archive.is/hAI7Y
My point was Elon has an incredible track record of success which follows a formula of overhype, delays, and eventual achievement if not overachievement.

You seem to have a more personal vendetta against him, I’m just looking at his insane success and envying hype/ management style
Yeah they were weird to see until I turned them off immediately. I don't like the direction they've taken Pocket in with so much focus on "editorial" content. Instapaper's better at getting out of the way (even if it feels neglected).
> Funnily enough, the EU guy who is leading this and doubling down, is Romanian.

What is the relevance of your personal (and poorly informed) opinions about Romanians? It’s a needlessly low blow and it’s tiring to hear the same myths perpetuated by people who have zero context on Romanian culture and life. If you do not associate Romania with honesty, morality, and innovation, then it’s because you have been misinformed.

> Anyone including businesses, are free to use their money how they see fit by paying for a service that runs in a another country.

I don’t think that has ever been true in any legal jurisdiction. Every country has restrictions on trade and payments that can be made when acquiring services domestically or abroad.
Calling wheat, corn, and sugar vegetables is a disingenuous stretch
Paperclip Maximizer was a conceptual mistake - not because it's wrong, but because people get hung up on the "paperclip" bit. Bostrom and the disciples of Yudkowsky should've picked a different thought experiment to promote. Something palatable to the general population, that seems to have problems with idea of generic types.

The example of Paperclip Maximizer was meant to be read as:

template<typename Paperclip>
class Maximizer<Paperclip> { ... };

It should be clear now that the Paperclip part stands for anything someone might want more of, and thus intentionally or accidentally set it as the target for a powerful optimizer.

Powerful optimizers aren't science fiction. Life is one, for example.
This happened to me a couple hours ago. The page it displayed over was chat gpt. I thought, well I guess mozilla has to make money somehow!
People pay for Firefox by using it. They make money from Google being the default search engine. They were previously getting paid to have yahoo be the default. Bing wants them to switch to them.

The VPN pop-up isn't an effort to provide funding for a dying browser. This is greed, pure and simple.
> I'd also be curious what effect this has on aging. Like if a mouse with a normal 12-18 month lifespan is kept in this state for 6 months, will that extend its life by 30-50% or will it still die around the same time? I'm not sure how I'd feel about hibernating for long periods if I knew I was never going to get that time back.

Imagine how riveting that would be, in human terms, to go in stasis and come out, possibly in good times, possibly in bad times, but half your normal lifespan has passed.. Imagine going to sleep in post-war 1946 to wake up attached to a machine 6 months before y2k.
> so is that one a racket?

Probably somewhat, but if you read the essay, you wouldn't come away with the impression that the author's disillusionment is targeted in any way at a country like Switzerland.

His thesis seems to be that elites profit off casualties, and are happy to foment more wars as a result.
It’s not funny if you have to explain it - said someone once about a joke that had to be explained
US will react the same way they did to cuba ..

the bigger problem is that Russia is a backwards country with caveman ideology modeled on the strong Mongolian empire who wants to oppress everybody around them because they have narcissistic tendencies
Is there a category for Rust, Deno, and CRDT bias? (Just kidding, of course)
Helical-scan VHS tapes could hit over 2MB per inch, which is crazy dense. The feed mechanism is a lot more mechanically rough on the tape though.
you are mistaken:

https://beta.gobuilds.org/2a.pages.dev/googleplay
Can someone recommend how to disable the firefox update popup on osx latest ? I have already disabled the updates checking background service.

(disclaimer: i agree to security issues and stuff due to not updating, i manage my firwalls and adblocks to prevent getting hacked, and take full responsibility in case i get hacked, thank you).
> That is a real legal concern in US jurisdictions. I'm fairly certain there's some on-the-record case law too.

There have been a few attempts to substantiate this, but as far as I know there's no solid evidence that it's ever actually happened, let alone happened regularly enough to represent a serious risk. It's reminiscent of a lot of "stupid lawsuit" urban legends (some of which resemble real cases, but omit or change key facts).
Groundhog Day 2023
Whenever I read or hear “opinionated” I always get reminded of the saying: “opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and all of them stink”.
Wikipedia says that vi was first released in 1976.
Who is going to fact check fact checkers?
I feel like some of the eat the rich-type rhetoric you see on reddit would be much less acceptable a decade ago.

Edit: i misread your comment as the opposite of what it said and am confused. I am not claiming that i believe left-wing views that used to be acceptable are not anymore. I am claiming i see people say all the time that the right end of the overton window has expanded out so that right wing views that used to be unacceptable are acceptable now (which i agree with, but i think the same could be said for the left, maybe not to the same extent).
Google paid Firefox for search before Chrome even existed.
Pedantic: depending on what "involvement" means.

Eisenhower continued and increased support for the French till 1954. Then backed Diem, blocked the 1956 elections, and sent in more "advisers", however .. :)

An OSS Dear Team provided training, medical and logistical assistance to Hồ Chí Minh and the Việt Minh in 1945. An OSS doctor is reported to have treated Ho Chi Minh for malaria and dysentery. [0] Then Truman provided troop transport, money and materiel for France to re-conqueror Indochina (Democrat).

Archimedes Patti, from the OSS wrote a book [1] about the experience.

War is multi-party, forget tech stocks, I gotta invest in Lockheed Martin.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_Deer_Team
[1] "Why Vietnam?: Prelude to America's Albatross
Against Singular 'Ye' (2013)
Mozilla VPN is not Firefox. It's an unrelated service.

It's actually pretty simple for this to work out for Mozilla. Remove the ad system.
Alternatively, the real problem is that they are in the entertainment business more than the news business. On a good day, news is boring. Instead, on cable networks, everything is a panic. Cable news has ended up on the extreme end of sensationalism.
Between "hugging face" and "oobabooga", I already gave up on the field's ability to come up with sensible names for things.
How do people here like to read pdfs? It doesn't work on my ebook reader and I never actually read anything long-form on a computer screen, even when I think I will. Someone below mentioned using a service to print and bind into a book. Anyone have a better workflow for this kind of thing?
> But I'd also caution against using that as the yardstick, since most people do think of Democrats as "the Left" and it can result in confusion.

The problem with reducing things to the colloquial US scale is it lets idiots dominate and control discussion and shits out people outside the status-quo.

Say I’m a radical right winger who’s not a republican or a radical leftist who is not a democrat, and I want to engage in a discussion.

There’s always some dumbass who will associate/accuse you of something you don’t actually believe because you’re [left/right] and therefore you must support Democrat policy X or Republican policy Y. Of course then you backtrack and try to refute them and it just becomes a pointless back and forth completely off topic.

Combine that with the general political illiteracy on this site and the fact that garbage seems not to get flagged if it’s within the zeitgeist of the thread’s current browsers and you get the political flamewars that aren’t supposed to happen here yet so commonly do.
Have you tried it recently? I believe they require a phone number now.
You should make this a real HN poll.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
FSD is a very small component of Tesla' current stock price. Some dumbasses are certainly buying Tesla because they think FSD is right around the corner, but dumbasses tend to not have a lot of money.

For any Tesla price estimate, you've got to pick a number, how many million vehicles the company will ship in say 2025.

Then pick an Average Selling Price, profit margin, and P/E multiple.

Divide by 3 billion to get the price per share of your estimate.

Considering Tesla is on track to deliver 1.8M vehicles this year and the delivery growth trajectory it's been on, 4M is a good target goal for 2025, $45k ASP, 10% profit margin, 30 P/E . . . from that I get $180, so today's price is fair as a base case for 2025.

$400 was a nice top in 2022 and I think we'll see it before 2025 as Tesla Energy starts contributing to the bottom line, each $1B of profit from energy is worth $10 on the share price (30 P/E, 3B shares).

If you think $180 for Tesla is way too high you have to account for that in the model...either 2025 deliveries will be a lot less than 4 million, or 10% profit margin will come way down, or P/E will come way down below 30 (it's currently 51).

https://www.reddit.com/r/teslainvestorsclub/comments/13obftu...
Are you referring to insurance on a Tesla car sold by third parties, or the insurance that Tesla sells for their cars in some but not all states in the US?
> If you need money, allow people to pay for just Firefox.

I think many people overestimate how many people would pay for Firefox.
Todd Rundgren feels left out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(band)
I thought New Horizons was already switched from Kuiper Belt science to some other task.
Is there a corollary fallacy for people who wait seemingly forever to reach the perfect and then give up and and call it done?

The Duke Nukem Forever fallacy, maybe?
I'm curious what the distribution is with relation to how it is being used.
> since they can send their kid to school without worrying about it being shot :)

Propaganda and brainwashing is probably a worse risk than that.
That's been my experience since I first saw the word applied to programming languages, and I mentally replied 'ok, but your opinion is objectively wrong!'
I ironically got the same popup while sitting on the HackerNews homepage.

The top article on the homepage was this one, visible through the dark-ish tint behind the ad.

Lol.
I like that typically political leaning topics get moderated away. HN is for technical/startup/hacker leaning news.
What a buried lede!

> the strategy confirms what has long been obvious and, at times, openly acknowledged, by both Moscow and Minsk.

The Union State is not a secret conspiracy, it is openly recognized by both countries.

How is this any different than a country, say Ukraine, joining European Union & NATO under substantial political pressure?
> aside from a few hold-out BSDs and BSD-derived systems

One wonders if perhaps these systems weren't on to something.