skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Designing Robo-vehicles and the infra to support them requires "real" engineering, not SV style fail-fast "engineering". The task should be left to the government, along the lines of the Eisenhower Interstate Highway System.
I absolutely would if the money went to development of Firefox and not to the different activism projects. But that isn't an option.
Yep, this happened completely at random and I'm pretty sure the browser focused itself.
Every time I open Firefox it presents me with some message instead of content I want. Usually in the form of a new tab. Sometimes, it's a pop-under new window (I think this is some weird interaction with its restoration of previous sessions). Every now and then, it's one of those plus some call-out bubble message or a pop-up window.

Safari practically never does that shit, which is one of the reasons I prefer it on platforms where it's available. IDK why modern Firefox is so damn eager to interrupt me. Just open a window with my last session or my default tab and shut up. I don't care if you just updated. I don't care if you're weirdly-enthusiastic about introducing me to a feature that hasn't been novel in a browser in at least a couple decades (color themes—LOL, that was just embarrassing). I certainly don't want an actual advertisement. And for god's sake, no, I still don't care about Pocket, and I never will.

For less-technical users, this stuff isn't just annoying, it can disrupt their entire browsing session. "Wait... where's my email? Is it gone? Is this the right program?" Firefox (and other teams that do crap like this, in their products) should knock it off. It is not OK.
I actually have Mozilla VPN but still got the ad. Granted, the VPN wasn't active at the time, but now I feel less about paying for it.
Mozilla deserves to fail. This is absolutely unacceptable, it makes me irrationally angry. I've been using Firefox since 2004, I'm tired of these tactics. We're now playing whack a mole with their settings with things like advertising on the new tab page, user studies (which seems to randomly get re-enabled on updates), and now I need to add an opt out for this specific advertisement in my about:config? How many future advertisements am I going to need to opt out of on an individual basis as they come up? It's akin to what Microsoft is doing with their many toggles required to change the default browser settings.

Even if there were a setting to opt out of everything it would be unacceptable. Might as well use Chromium if they are going to pull this shit. I'm just done with this, Mozilla deserves to fail.
Hello, Godzilla
The paper is available at

https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/1/236
> There's no reason why I/O space addresses (for example), machine registers, etc. can't have types or bounds.

Machine registers are usually typed, i.e. there are floating-point registers with specialized instructions and integer registers with their own instructions.
Oops, I replied to the wrong comment.
Also notation software:

Musescore 2002

Sibelius 1993

Encore 1984

Finale 1988
As JRRM wrote, "any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all."

Any browser who constantly reminds you how private and user-empowering it is, is probably neither.

Add to that a vaguely liberal-sounding rethoric that could be right out of Ron Desantis' worst "woke lib" stereotypes - without even actually being liberal.

Like, not that I'd see the browser an appropriate location for that, but if they actually wanted to commit to a liberal political view, I'd at least have expected "diverse voices" somewhere. But I have no clue what "independent voices" is supposed to mean.
cash is legal tender recognized by the country you are in. There should be no rationale to refuse it.
Honestly, I thought it was a pretty strong statement. They basically said "we screwed up."
The way your reply is phrased, I'm not sure if you're talking specifically about HN's Overton window, or the more general political climate.

On the general political climate, I don't think the right has really changed their positions on most of those issues, except a bit for the military budget recently where some on the left and right have almost flipped. Edit: and I should mention that younger Republicans have shown more concern about climate change.

On HN's political lean, I can see an argument why it might have started out more left, given its silicon valley heritage which then may have grown to reflect the more general population as its popularity grew. Having perused here for 12 years, I recall always seeing a diversity of opinions on all of those topics though, including the ones you list. Then again, my memory ain't what it used to be.
Some software has PDF reflow, like koreader.
Zircon affair
CNN is at least not behind a paywall? (for at least)
> Why would corporations finance interstellar travel anyway? There's no profit in that.

Resources? Should we find planets with lots of them but a surrounding environment that is hostile to human life, there would be enough demand for mining and automated manufacturing with cargo ships going back and forth. The industry would likely love being permitted to pollute those planets at will since there would be no biosphere that could be harmed.
And is bought by people that think the company is valuable enough to give the stock said value. You can argue that those people are wrong, sure, but I don't get what point you're trying to make. He isn't taking money away from someone else or being given "underserved" rewards, when the people that are keeping the value of what he receives believes it to be of such value.
If you knew about it ahead of time they would have changed it. The point is to show you advertising that you don't want to see.
> This is greed, pure and simple.

A single revenue source is incredibly risky and they're foolish if they aim to rely on search sponsorship revenue alone.

Since when is it greedy to want to raise capital for the expensive thing you're building? I think it's lazy to waste momentum and let it peter out into nothingness. At least this is an attempt to stand on their own legs.

Why does Mozilla draw this ire when literally every entity out there is hustling against the gradient of entropy? We single out Mozilla to lambaste.

The thing I'm angry about is that Mozilla isn't trying hard enough, and that when they do try, they're not playing smart. They're making bets that I perceive to be foolish - "ethical AI", "VR/metaverse", etc. These are not good synergies or paths to profitability. They're wasting their limited resources on things outside of their scope, that do not matter to their core mission, and that won't turn a profit.

As I see it, the web may not even have another 15 years left if AI takes over question answering, content generation, etc. Maybe it's foolish to even try to prop up Mozilla at this point. The world has moved on and left them in the dust.

Mozilla is simply an antitrust defense strategy for tech giants. Not a good place to be in as the gravity starts to move away from websites.
You should focus on being comfortable and confident. Whatever dressing makes you feel that way.
You're right, in most cases, it's possible.

It's generally considered to be a bad idea though, and in the case mentioned above, local policy forbade it.
I don't see much of a left-right slant, but that doesn't mean Hacker News is bias-free. There are other types of biases!

The Silicon Valley ex-FAANG startup slant is very obvious to me, as a foreigner working in an ordinary big enterprise setting.

Examples of this slant:

Microsoft is evil and Azure is just a myth.

All servers are Linux by definition.

Developer time costs infinity moneys, servers are free.

Etc...
Isn't this the plot for Hunt for Red October?
Every nix package has to be signed in order for it to be installed via binary cache.
I never said there isn't precedent for the government seeing some limits on what companies can do. It's important to note, though, that this is a constitutional amendment rather than a law and had a much higher requirement to pass.

This precedent would also be equating the civil rights protections within American borders with the rights of non-US citizens to use a company's payment service in a foreign territory. Not sure that is be comfortable comparing those two issues.
Why? Chromium works well and is easy to extend. It also comes with many security features, includes the latest and greatest standards, has good performance, and is actively maintained.

It lets you focus on creating the best browser possible instead of wasting time working on the parts of the browser engine which aren't relevant to your product.
I’m skeptical. This reminds me of Theranos, because it’s (to me) an incredible claim, yet “a company and its executives wouldn’t lie”- though this is a fallacy that predates even Enron ~20 years ago.

On one hand, clearly “AI” is in vogue right now. It seems like everyone is trying to hitch a ride on the ChatGPT train. On the other hand, historically, these are bubbles. People eventually realize the space isn’t that large, and the magic is gone. Like with NoSQL DBs or “big data”, or even just the internet in 2000.
That's true, and it's important.

Still, it seems very likely those Neanderthals 60k years ago were playing music for all the same reasons we do, even making efforts to understand the principles enough to make clever instruments.

Maybe the Neanderthals even knew about such ratios. It's discoverable by playing with string, or even plants.
Comcast gig is 1gb/s downstream. I don't know what the upstream rate is and they avoid mentioning it, but based on my experience with them I could see 4 video calls being enough to choke it. It's hard to really appreciate the symmetric data rate until you really start using some decent upstream traffic, then it becomes a day and night kind of difference.
Obviously I'm biased, but I think it's well worth it, though you do have to be OK with films are are more about atmosphere than plot.
> These days, how much performance-critical software is even being built in 32-bit?

I think the better question is how much performance critical software built in 32 bit is still relied on, and may potentially outlive hardware with 32 bit support
Yes, exactly. We've called them banana spiders while knowing there are totally different spiders elsewhere in the world that are actually real banana spiders. We've called them orb weavers. I guess Joro is the new name now.
FWIW, despite having a strong favorable opinion about gun rights, given Americas clear lack of responsibility in using their gun rights for good, I think it's hard to argue against gun regulation.

I am pro gun rights but not anti regulation.

I think liberals fail to acknowledge that sometimes you can't get out of "might makes right" resolution for disputes, which results in situations of denial around gun rights.

So regulation is seen as a weakening of gun rights because the people most in favor of regulating guns fail to also make arguments in favor of guns or discount the pro-gun argument entirely.
Re the larger world Overton Window shifting right: 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?
We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right?
It is using OpenStreetMap data, which is fully open. Can be edited by anyone at https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Organic Maps updates map data about once a month.

If you need help in editing - feel free to ask on https://community.openstreetmap.org/

(and bits of other sources like elevation data coming from elsewhere, but is primarily powered by OpenStreetMap data)
On Wednesday, Zuckerberg told workers who had been laid off in a private call that while he appreciated their valuable contributions to the company their roles were no longer critical in the company’s streamlined future.
“We’re shifting the composition of the company and pushing it to become scrappier,” he said, according to a recording of the call listened to by The Post.
> Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first, as such we quickly stopped running the ad experience, and are reviewing internally.

That says to me that Firefox is aware the ad experience did not put people first, and that Firefox broke their commitment. They are discussing internally how this was allowed to happen.
Agreed. The reason I stop reading tech sites is they always seem to devolve into evangelist articles about climate change.
I have. Every time it updates it opens a new tab to spam about their VPN (or whatever the flavour of the month is).
Note that the FLAN-T5 variant in 10th place is 3B parameters large, there is another FLAN-T5 variant that has 11B parameters that should perform better (and the fact that a 3B model is able to compete with Alpaca-13B is impressive by itself).
Democratic Inputs to AI: What do we mean by a “democratic process”?
Real-time Analytics at Airbnb
Plus it would require the audience to grapple the idea that people lose some of their capabilities as they age, which might be too uncomfortable. And it seems like it might be a bad idea for the main actor’s career, might get typecast into “aging action star.”
I'm guessing that was because Debian refused/wasn't able to sue the Firefox branding and they extended that to the user agent. So a ton of sites just saw Iceweasel as the UA and broke because it was unexpected.
Sounds interesting. Curious if there is a tutorial for this.
> A single revenue source is incredibly risky and they're foolish if they aim to rely on just search sponsorship revenue.

As I pointed out, they have other avenues for revenue. If Google decided to not renew their contract there's other search engines they can turn to.

Additionally, there's nothing wrong with Mozilla securing other revenue sources. There is something wrong with how they're advertising it to their users.

> Why does Mozilla draw this ire when literally every entity out there is hustling against the gradient of entropy

This ire does exist for every company that pulls this nonsense. What are you on about? Why should Mozilla be exempt?

> As I see it, the web may not even have another 15 years left if AI takes over...

This is a Nostradamus level of nonsense. It doesn't belong in this conversation. Regardless of what AI does or doesn't do, trying to project 15 years out into the future to dismiss today's bad behaviours is ridiculous.
You can download browsers on Linux based on the same engine as Safari. https://webkit.org/downloads/
> I think many people overestimate how many people would pay for Firefox.

I certainly would never pay them if they keep doing that kind of shit
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/

> Over 937,000 people have died in the post-9/11 wars due to direct war violence, and several times as many due to the reverberating effects of war

> An estimated 3.6-3.7 million people have died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.6 million and counting.
Yes! There's a public git repo here:
https://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git
"Public" in the sense that anyone can just push to the "mob" branch. You don't even need an account.

Such anarchy has obvious security implications but has worked remarkably well in practice. There's a mailing list too.
I've been donating to them every year for the past 5+ years. Given them every benefit of the doubt... Even defended them. Then this popup came up on all my machines this morning, so no more.

Now to find another browser... Maybe some Firefox fork or something? Like WTF every other browser is Chromium... Man this sucks, I'm about ready to quit the internet.
/e/OS hasn't updated their browser/system webview in 5+ months, see my version tracker here: https://divestos.org/misc/ch-dates.txt
This is exciting! This is the inverse of my rule of thumb:

An app is past its peak once a stories feature has been added. After that point, it has become overly bloated and will shift towards no longer be worth using.

Over time, I have watched stories be added to multiple apps that make no sense such as Uber Eats. Whenever an app has added a stories feature unnecessarily, I have uninstalled the app because it has lost focus and no longer delivers a quality experience for me. I wonder if this means that YouTube will now increase in quality. We shall have to wait and see!
Model 3 is available new for less than the average US vehicle price https://fortune.com/2023/02/21/tesla-model-3-sells-5000-less...
Questionable gain? If they can be the dominant provider of fast charging for a hundred years regardless of their car sales, that's quite the gain. They also get to build out their capacity with subsidies they would have otherwise missed out on. They are easily 10x more capital efficient than the next fast charging competitor, so this is a very well thought out move.
> Google won.

Because Mozilla and its execs were asleep at the wheel while Google started to eat its share. This is what you get when you stop competing.
Ubuntu Touch doesn't even have encryption: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/178
https://archive.is/TOGAy
Good question. I'm not familiar with what fields might be be collected on the PyPi backend. But the email address field alone could be enough, if you set up a wildcard DNS and made your account email something@[uuid].mydomain.com, and looked for any http traffic to that subdomain.
One of the related tickets [1] seems to give some hints on the root cause - which in a way almost makes it worse IMO.

Basically, what they wanted to do was to build a background process that detects when you're away from the PC and then pops up the message, so it's the first thing you see what you get back.

Unfortunately (or maybe not) the detection logic had a bug, which caused the message to pop up right away sometimes, spoiling the whole thing.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1835175
When this kind of things happened, I'm sure it's an honest mistake and someone has learned a very good lesson.
Walter Isaacson's Upcoming Book on Elon Musk
I wonder how many have paid for access to GPT-4. GPT-4 was a total game changer for me.
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Fairphone 3 is currently shipping an end-of-life Linux kernel and Fairphone 4 kernel goes EOL before Fairphone claims support for.
> Firefox must be an opinionated user agent that keeps folks safe, informed and effective while browsing the Web. In order to have an opinion, Firefox must have a voice.

It’s ironic (and extremely sad) how they say that but staunchly refuse to add ad-blocking to iOS Firefox. And the code is already right there, in Firefox Focus.

I’ve pushed everyone in my circle to Brave and told them to disable / ignore the crypto bits.

Safety first, and unfortunately Mozilla does not care about iOS users their safety.
> Firefox is committed to creating an online experience that puts people first, as such we quickly stopped running the ad experience, and are reviewing internally.

Should read as:

> Oops, we got caught again doing stuff that our core users don't like. Let us remove this until we find a better way to make you angry
The problem is when third-party (to OpenAI, and I include Microsoft here, for the purposes if this comment) companies try to build on top of this product - they will not be able to launch products on top of it in the EU either (unless they do a weird user-initiated transfer of data to the US, process it, and return the result.

Even then, the EU has been experimenting with trying to claim sovereignty over income from outside the EU for non-EU-based multi-nationals, so they could concert ivably target this "workaround". It remains to be seen whether the USA will attempt to persuade them to remember how Westphalian sovereignty works, or I'd the US government decides to match them and start targeting foreign companies' foreign turnover in applying remedies.
I don't have personal experience of working with the WHO, but what you describe reminds me strongly of health academia. Lots of very clever people, all with minimal/zero awareness of how to make data available in a computer-friendly way.

I suspect the data is available as a bunch of CSV files because that's exactly the raw data that has been produced. By hand. Then emailed to someone to dump onto a WordPress site, probably.

It makes me wince. But hey -- the data is online, the funder is probably happy, some overworked and underpaid staff muddled through the way they've done for a decade or more. Why change?
semi absurd is kinda why DARPA exists!
Why would I want to buy a VPN if I just wanted to buy Firefox ?
The McDonald’s coffee lawsuit is often cited as an example, but most people don’t know the details - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Rest...
No? What are you talking about. Just like basic cruise control, you don't have to "turn it off". It just doesn't work until you don't enable.
I literally have never heard of any US-based bank that has a smartphone app that doesn't let you deposit a check.
Yeah I’m surprised more forks don’t have this issue. Maybe they’re too small for Mozilla to care.
Point is that you first sign off the effing self-driving car, then you get your effing money.

That is what we used to do in America, since the days of JD Rockefeller, Henry Ford...but also Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. I mean I used Windows before Gates became richest man in the world and so did hundreds of millions of people.

Musk got to #1 by selling go karts to a handful of rich people and promises of future selfdriving and total domination of the EV sector when EVs are not even sure to be the winner tech in the decarbonization of cars

The vast majority of Americans have never even set foot in a Tesla.

You seem to condone the poker game that Wall St. has become, I don't agree with that because entrepreneurship shouldn't be about bluffing and then offloading your hand to a bigger fool. We do that in Vegas, like men where at least you have to look in the eyes the dude you are screwing over.
> Covid is not medical intervention.

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

> I personaly know more people injured by vaccine than covid.

Because the vaccines reduced the impact of COVID.

Why do we need the Army? I personally know of several cases of armed personnel causing fights and getting in trouble, but my country has never been invaded in a war!

Why do we need the Police? I've been fined by Police often, but I've never been robbed!

Etc...

COVID made me realise just how bad the average person's critical thinking skills really are.

Exponential growth vs linear responses especially something even otherwise intelligent people are just unable to wrap their heads around. In 2023 I still had a friend -- a mathematician -- arguing that increasing hospital bed capacity two-fold would have "solved" COVID without vaccines, disregarding that exponential curves can overwhelm any such measure.