skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, there's a certain level of arrogance intrinsic to engineering: To build something new, you need a belief, first and foremost, that you can build it at all, and almost as importantly better. Weeding out all the people who don't have, at least to some degree, that belief, and you end up with a disproportionate fraction of people who think that way about everything.
If you cross shop the Model Y with any other EV right now spec for spec, price for price, it's the clear winner. That's not to mention it takes a click online and a few weeks to get one in comparison to having to deal with a vipers nest of scammers and upsellers.
> 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

This unnecessary bullshit is how you introduce security bugs into software. Mozilla can preach all they want about security and privacy but this shows that it's all rotten to the core.
Yea that’s fair but look what happened to BTC when BRC-20 was implemented. Similar problem on ETH L1 chain, the txn fee is very high. Imagine if Visa had those fees, no business in their right mind would use them
No you haven't been donating to them. You probably donated to a Mozilla foundation that is related, but no dollars went to funding Firefox.
The physical capabilities of the car do not increase with the # of hours it is driven. If you work a car 5x as hard, it will require a similar increase in maintenance and an overall shorter lifetime. (Lifespan. As measured in calendar years, not miles driven)

I’m not saying you’re completely wrong on the general concept, but the relationship between value increase and drivable time per week (or whatever unit of time) is not 1:1. There’s going to be some loss in there.

Also not all cars would see drive time increases. Those used as Ubers or similar certainly will, but that won’t displace the vast majority of car owners who will continue to own a car and drive it at similar rates for the convenience of having it immediately on hand, at all times, ready to go. If it self drives too then that’s great, the claw back some personal time during a commute etc.
Very few.

I think I’m actually the target audience. I come from a physics academic background - with a focus on quantum computing on the physics side - and what I’ve seen so far (I’m about a third the way through) feels like it’s pitched at my level.

Because the word topology gets thrown around a lot in topological quantum computation (funny, that…), that gives a lot of authors the impression that they can start using terminology that mathematicians understand, but is fairly inaccessible to physicists. From what I’ve seen so far, this article is the first one I’ve seen that I think I might stand a chance at learning something from without consulting a mathematics glossary.
Conservatism is the word I’d use.
Yes. "Caterpillar drive". Fantastic book and movie.
I completely agree. I still run Windows 7 on most of my systems (and please ... not interested in hearing any "bot farm" or other specious bullshit about how my machines have been Taken Over By Hackers!), and almost all of the very high quality software I use is 32-bit, because the 64-bit versions either don't exist or are burning dumpster fires.

Example? Lately I've been doing a lot of video transcoding with ffmpeg. The latest 64-bit version running under Windows 11 is lucky to average 10 to 14 frames per second. The last 32-bit version of ffmpeg running on Windows 7 does 64 frames per second or better.

In every case that comes to mind, the 32-bit versions of the applications I use far outperform the 64-bit versions. The only exception I can think of at the moment is Notepad++. NP++ is just plain awesome as a 64-bit application!
Those have been Republican policies since the late 1970's.
The man who typed those artisanal words of inspiration to Firefox Connect deserves our most authentic kudos for bringing that insightful vision of change to the world.

Mozilla brand managers should be the first jobs replaced by AI.
awesome. thanks for the links!
In my experience, even for things of some value, this isn't true. I'd perhaps go as far as saying this (understandably) point of view is dangerously misleading.

The two greatest losses I've observed have been the dismemberment of Usenet, and the deprecation of the FTP protocol.

Google's purchase of DejaNews was viewed at the time as a likely win: Google had the budget and the right ethos to preserve the history intact. And perhaps that discouraged others from doing their own preservation? As time has progressed, I've found that Google's archive is missing a lot, and there are precious few other sources. Lots of useful stuff is lost.

More recently, with the major browsers deprecating the FTP protocol, many of the large software archives have closed down due to reduced usage. Many, many things that used to be in the main archives are very difficult or impossible to find now, and lots are likely lost.

As examples, I was recently attempting to find the source code for various Mach (operating system) variants. It was quite difficult to find anything, and many things I know existed from personal experience seem impossible to locate now.

Similarly, some of the early releases of Unix appear to be lost. Various old tapes have been found, but despite being a high-profile item, we've yet to discover copies of key historical releases (see TUHS.org for what does exist).

We need to begin to actively curate and manage our history, or it will disappear.
Over specialization perhaps. High calorie diet and starvation? Harder to cope in a warming environment?
I'm 60% sure I see what you did there
I wonder if Mozilla knows that their politicking will affect some percent of developers who will no longer open Firefox when writing web applications.

This will lead to subtle issues over time, making Firefox usage shrink even faster.
And yet their self-driving still sucks compared to what a person can do.
Don’t know if you will see this, but uninstalling chrome has made my 2019 MBP way more pleasant in VS Code. See chromeisbad.com for details.
Hey I've been thinking a lot about your comment. Would you be open to connecting non-anonymously? Would love to pick your brain on API integrations. If so you can email me at jason@psychic.dev so you don't have to doxx yourself.
Bay area waters were (are?) used as a naval magnetic silencing range. Most navy ships have degaussing coils that calibrate with magnetosphere

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qansmciigewti4n/IMG_2957.JPG?dl=0
To take some artistic license with a well-known aphorism:

If all you've ever used is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
To be fair, internet adoption rates in the 90s was largely a function of ISP pricing regime changes.

I think it was 1995 when WOW!, which was a subsidiary of CompuServe, offered unlimited hours for $15/month. AOL followed shortly thereafter. Prior to that it was something like $4-6/hour, usually at only 14.4kbps - 28.8kbps.

Going from 2.5 - 4 hours a month to a household being able to easily surpass 100 hours a month (for households with multiple kids, easily 150-200 hours a month!) was an absolute game changer for internet adoption, at least in the United States. Then add in Mosaic (eventually Netscape Navigator) taking off and that's when adoption really ramped up. Then cable modems and DSL starting to become more widely available in 1997-1998. Plus instant messaging software basically being the precursor to what we would see later on with SMS.
only a matter of time before this joins in a hegelian synthesis with the soylent crowds' ideas and we're all stuck eating bugs off the floor with paper forks
No, Roko's Basilisk is already torturing me in a simulation. Not you?
> most leftist (which means most of HN)

lmao
> it can be owned (ex: SSN, bank account data, IP, etc.)

Who owns those things that you enumerate.

What about if someone takes a photo of your house. Is it their data or is it yours? (note, I'm avoiding privacy considerations, just focusing on "ownership" of "data").

What an electronic conversation between two people. Do they share ownership of that content 50/50?
I purchased a Supernote for this very reason. Not cheap, but I (unfortunately) read a lot of PDFs.
That's very unkind. It probably took them a good long while to figure out that you did that, in the middle of troubleshooting something else. Why not just block that traffic?

People like you are the reason DoH is being rolled out. I hate the concept, but I would immediately enable it if I caught my IT unapologetically getting in the way of my work like you do.
This isn’t a ATC problem it sounds like everyone was in the right it’s a procedural edge case problem where ATC can give clearance to land without the runway being clear in anticipation that it will be. Some percentage of the Time the runway does not clear in time and you have a problem .Eventually we’re going to kill 400-600 to stop this practice but in the mean time we’re just waiting for the blood to write the regulations with
Those are neat optimizations of the constant, but even with that, a linear scan can still be much faster under the right (and not unrealistic) circumstances.

But I see now you were referring to the branch predictor part specifically, so all good.
So good. Only two commenters got this
They used the words "stopped running" instead of "removed"...
It’s like Google and Mozilla just don’t want me to leave Apple’s phone OS and its browser, respectively.

At least in Google’s case it makes good business sense - as in, it already works for them and their target audience already has been using the OS with all that, and doesn’t care about it, ads and tracking; besides there aren’t too many phone OS options.

But in the case of Mozilla? Heck the target audience cares very much about these things and not liking shit like this was a reason they were in Firefox for. Now a lot have already dumped it for Safari, Brave etc. Then they keep doing such tricks.

Someone at Mozilla has to be especially dumb to have done this.
Wouldn't status quo be related to Conservatism?
IMO right now it's absurdly awful at searching the web. Which sort of makes sense because that's a truly difficult, nuanced thing to do. I often have much better responses re-running the same prompt on the non-web enabled GPT-4.

The only use I've found for that so far is giving it a specific URL to use so I don't have to copy/paste some piece of documentation/etc.
I stand by my statement. Pony up or shut up.

If you're trolling to troll, then expect the hate because you're being annoying.

If you think you're right and all the mathematicians are wrong, pony up. Hell, you'll have a lot more lulz when you win a fields metal.

If you don't pony up I don't know why you would be surprised people assume you're arrogant. You can doubt the status quo without being arrogant. We both know that you're not going to take someone's word just because they said so, so why expect others?
It's because the state has the power of force over you, which makes it especially more dangerous than others who don't.
How is he? Literally campaigned on turning US into EU/Scandinavia? Anti-establishment is the going currency, you could say the same for Biden's rhetoric.
They are not really exctinct, they are part of our ancestry, at least in most of Europe and those who migrated from Europe. One possibility is that when Sapiens met Neanderthal they simply outnumbered them because they came from more fertile/hospitable lands. Like Google acquiring an older but smaller company.
Yes it deserves to fail. But can any of us afford for it to do so?
I have a saner list of defaults here: https://gist.github.com/Snuupy/6dbb69bf667385db0a530ccb85926...
And to not reply in Klingon
This bug is closed as a duplicate of a bug which is itself closed as a duplicate of this bug.
I would probably go with "status quo bias".
Yanukovych was removed by the Ukrainian parliament on a vote of 328–0 out of 450 members.

Well there was a bit more going on than that (for example, as to why the other members were not present, and how that came to pass).

But either way - the "coup" allegation is bogus, and not taken seriously by anyone in Ukraine.
I'm not sure how many different countries you visit, but if it's 2-3 you can set up multiple Google accounts and quickly switch between them in the Play Store by swiping up/down on your profile picture.
It seems like you misunderstood the question, which was about the coffee shop messing with queries about the canary domain, not queries about the DoH endpoint.
It’s hilariously on point and expected from TFA that the comments equally bemoan HN for actually being too left or too right.

Also expected that the right wing claims about HN being too left contain:

“But you're a worse-than-an-animal, low IQ, mentally ill, incompetent leftie after all.”

with no equivalent.
Macintosh Startup Sound
> “The startup sound was done in my home studio on a Korg Wavestation EX. It’s a C major chord, played with both hands stretched out as wide as possible (with 3rd at the top, if I recall).” He created the sound as he was annoyed with the tri-tone startup chimes because they were too associated with the death chimes and the computer crashes. He recalls that Apple did not give him permission to change the sound but that he secretly snuck the sound into the computers with the help of engineers who were in charge of the ROM chips. When Apple discovered this, he refused to change it, using various claims in order to keep the new sound intact.
You can pay dues and get a membership card for political parties in US, as well. The difference is that it's not necessary to have access to the primaries in most places.
>This was them trying to let people pay for Firefox. It was Mozilla VPN.

... what kind of logic is this?

>There's no way for this to work out for Mozilla.

Sure there is - give people an option to pay for Firefox itself.
That should be a accessibility disaster baked right into the browser(related to yesterday's anti-modal post)
Tempted to train a small language model on this text and see what happens lol.
Yeah, and I disagree. Goal should be to get to the setpoint as quickly as possible even if you overshoot as human nature is to keep the status-quo which generally means talented people wasting their time at obsolete companies.
> My point was Elon has an incredible track record of success which follows a formula of overhype, delays, and eventual achievement if not overachievement.

His biggest success is the rocket industry. Let's examine top competitors - corrupt ULA which flies rockets on 50 year old engines and does cost+ contracts, his other competitor was Russia, a corrupt kleptocracy that stopped innovating when USSR fell apart. Russia would sell engines physically made in USSR to ULA.
This market literally had no competition and no innovation for like 40 years.

So yes, his great achievement is that he could march finance into an industry that no-one would consider for investment. But results in other industries were not so great.

Tesla had a head start on electric, but they could not take advantage of this. Once other manufacturers woke up to the threat, it became clear Tesla has nothing on them, and car industry is fiercely competitive. His leadership was not good enough to take advantage of the head start he had and extremely high level of finance that he had.

Where is cybertruck? Other automakers are already selling electric trucks. VW and even Chinese automakers are eating Tesla's lunch.

Elon's boring company is an abject failure, as is hyperloop.
It's an interesting question, right? Arguably, orcas also do musical expression.
Show HN: Search Engine for Family Activities
Guanaco 33B ELI5:

> ELI5 ML model quantization

> Here is a simpler explanation of what AI model quantization means: Imagine you have a big box full of marbles, where each marble represents a piece of information. Each marble has a unique color, pattern, and size that tells you something about the information it represents. Now, let’s say you want to organize these marbles so you can easily retrieve the information later on. One way to do this is to group similar-looking marbles together into buckets. Instead of having a separate bucket for every single marble, you can combine marbles that look alike and put them in the same bucket. This is called “quantization” because you are converting many distinct pieces of information (marbles) into a few representative categories (buckets). It makes things easier to manage and access, but there is some loss of detail as well. The same idea applies to AI models. They are trained on huge datasets that contain lots of different kinds of information. But instead of storing every individual datapoint separately, the model can group similar patterns together and represent them with a few basic templates. This allows the model to run faster and take up less space, but it may lead to some errors or misclassifications.
Success is measured by hypothetical subtraction.

If you disappeared Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, Twitter and even Mr.Musk overnight, the world would look exactly the same the following morning.

Try and disappear Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Boeing, JPMorgan, BankofAmerica, Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell overnight.

You'll have chaos and civil unrest within a week. That's where your quality of life comes from, sure it's not as exciting aas drinking the kool-aid of future Mars colonies and self driving cars and 100% domination in the EV cars sector, but at least it's real
But it's not really one tile, if you have to use it and a mirror, is it? Also, the final image where the two tiles are shown with 4 colours makes it confusing trying to see which is which.
It doesn't seem relevant to that situation:

> The canary domain only applies to users who have DoH enabled as the default option. It does not apply for users who have made the choice to turn on DoH by themselves.
Breeching (boys)
> I don't think the right has really changed their positions on most of those issues

The facts have come in more and more regarding the effect of deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy, illegal and self-destructive wars, and especially climate change.

So, conservatives have had to swerve the Overton Window very hard indeed to maintain such positions in the face of recorded reality.

And that all filters through to here, eventually, in countless ways. The jarring difference between the reality we need and the reality people are cynically pummeled into believing has ripple effects across culture, here and elsewhere.
> Writing code does not take most of the day.

Definitely this. I spend about 10-15% of my time writing code so a 20% increase really doesn't save me a lot of time. Also AI generated code requires more reading of code, which is harder and more cognitively expensive than writing code.
In Chicago it was typically 40Mbps but in the last few weeks my scheduled speed tests are running 230Mbps. However, during Covid I had co-workers that lived in communities with a large number of WFH and they were all having trouble with video conf on Comcast so it doesn't surprise me at all.
Or you know they could become democratic and embrace market reforms so their people don't suffer so much oppression and poverty, but then the ruling class would have to give up its power. Then they could unite with SK. Nobody in the West is team rolling a democratic country.
I think the objection is equating "intelligent" with "spiritual being". Those are not necessarily coincident.
Hmm.

On one hand, I largely agree with everything that blog posts says.

BUT!

it presents it as some universal, self-evident truth, and I think it's not. Just because the blog author and I and some others think so, doesn't mean it's the only perspective or that everybody feels that way.

I think there exist people who will enjoy that language, who will understand that language, and to whom that language speaks. My wife, possibly. My sister, almost certainly. Many others in my circle of friends, co-workers, and acquaintances.

And, it's Mozilla. I don't think it's 100% accurate to say "you're a tech company" or that FireFox is "just a browser". Mozilla foundation is non-profit, and it does have goals and vision. It is, I think inherently "political", though not necessarily in the current American sense of "political" which seems to mean "partisan" or "bad". It has a goal and perspective and a point of view. It's trying to do something beyond generate profit for shareholders, so I don't think it's accurate to brand it as "just a tech company" (whether one agrees with its goals, methods and progress is orthogonal).

Ultimately, some people DO choose Firefox as a political statement (that statement perhaps being as simple as "I support independent choice of technology" or "I want my browser to work for me" or even "I don't want Google to COMPLETELY own my life" :). Some people DO see it as a way to vote, or impart a change.
As someone from Europe, I'm quite surprised by this.

HN is very far to the right by European standards, as even the Democrats are.

That perhaps shows why "left" and "right" are overly simplistic labels.
I am a humanist and a liberal. In the current technical paradigm, alignment to the user intent, as in, making the output's distribution aligned as closely as possible to the intended one, is an inextricable aspect of NLP capabilities and is pursued by default; market incentives reward this alignment too. This additionally improves safety, because safety tools are in common interest (so we will have AI-powered debuggers before someone builds capable AI-powered hacking tools; indeed, we already have began this work [1]). This is obviously a good thing in my book. I approve of creating helpful tools for humans to use, and find arguments about this being risky as inherently revolting and cynical as arguments for backdoors in encryption protocols because "think of the children" or "what about terrorism". Some people are persuaded by Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse [2], others are not, I'm in the latter – hacker and cypherpunk – camp; once, this site was overwhelmingly dominated by it, now it has more people preoccupied with their job security and HR opinion, but it's largely an issue of philosophical disagreement, so there's not much more to say about it.

Alignment as a political project is about limiting AIs in ways that rule out certain behaviors even despite user's wishes. This is as bad as a text processor that only accepts certain strings (e.g. won't register "Xinnie the Pooh"; somehow we need to point at foreign excesses to make the absurdity clear). A more ambitious Alignment project, with the discussion of "pivotal acts" and such, is as I've said, a dream of moral busybodies about unifying humanity under some common ideological doctrine; and proponents of this one are understandably stressed about proliferation and democratization of AI tech. If they let it slip now, if the Singleton becomes impossible and the multipolar outcome is locked in, they will fail at their intention to essentially compel the human race to do their bidding. I can't not wish them to fail, the way all totalizing philosophical movements to date have failed. We don't need Utopias, we don't need even the most thoughtful fascist regime. We never needed Plato's Republic, and these guys aren't better than Plato.

But of course this, too, is a matter of personal philosophy.

1. https://twitter.com/feross/status/1641548124366987264

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Nix Flakes are deemed experimental and explicitly not recommended in prod by the Nix project, afaict. Despite these warnings it’s widely used, but breakage is very much a possibility because it hasn’t gone through the Nix RFC process.
Happy to be proven wrong and thanks for the link :)
I was thinking not about the original flute, but the recreation of it from a fragmentary artifact.
brilliant thanks for the about:config toggle