skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s some comments about those funny opcodes from a 2021 post on hacker news, that includes links to this site and other interesting sources

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27402655
> was compatible with all modern browsers, but more compatible with Chrome

Is Animal Farm not required reading in Orwell's home country? Or was that a misquote, or maybe just something from a random support worker? It's almost too on the nose for that statement to be written by someone familiar with that book.
It shouldn't even be legal to show non-liberal materials to students public schools. It's all propaganda, because reality is liberal.
Could a core common library that Chromium depends on update its license to block use in software that supports attestation, roughly?

If Google wants more control and closure of the web, they shouldn’t benefit as easily from its current openness.
> A legitimate question I have, why can’t these legacy machines running DOS just run a legacy version of OpenSSL?

Compatibility. OpenSSL is at its core a networking protocol library, and legacy versions of OpenSSL will not understand the only versions of the protocols accepted by modern systems.
I hope someone from the Pirate Party in the European Parliament brings this threat into discussion there as soon as possible to spread awareness.
Are Palantir or equivalent defense-associated companies in China going to be part of this?

The CEO of Palantir just published an open letter calling for a Manhattan Project for superintelligent AI weapons.
https://archive.is/KSOv4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36873875
Depends on location and peer group. They can find themselves pushed out and away because they have "no voice" to speak with others in their desired spaces.
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Western militaries have justice systems, including courts and prisons. I presume they also follow best practice in lots of domains, despite some legal exemptions. They also clearly have the aim to preserve society in a safe state.

Even if militaries are outside the remit of these new AI orgs, they could still be useful in the civilian world.
Compatibility is very important, but I don't think these days there are many people who — like in the days of old — would cling to a relationship no matter what.

Nowadays the much more predominant phenomenom is people who never ever get over the first hump, which every healthy relationship faces sooner or later. Instead of facing the conflict, having some painful (but ultimately very important) realizations and overcoming it together, they tend to chalk it down to just not being compatible and never hav to question themselves.

I know people who managed to have 10+ relationships like that, and I xan tell you that the issue wasn't "compatibility", the issue was they hid when the reality of a relationship confronted them with themselves.

The problem with that is, that unless you face it, you will never have an healthy relationship. You might have a long lasting one, if your partner is willing and able to swallow a lot, but it won't be healthy.

The only question is how to tell if one is incompatible for real, or it is a issue that can (and ahould!) be overcome.
I'm off caffeine after many years of daily consumption. Took a few weeks, but my energy level is now about the same as it was before I quit and I no longer feel tired without it. I do quite miss the taste and ritual of tea and coffee, though.
Wouldn't debts to China end up being enforced by the worldwide banking system ? It's one big inescapable machine.
Directly sending a message to the implementers doesn't preclude involving politicians in this too, and I absolutely agree that the latter should be involved.
MSIE was free, 28 years ago in late 1995, and while Netscape did take 5 years to follow suit, by 1998 Netscape was not in a healthy position because of the free competition.
Yes, I can sleep even with very high amounts but my sleep quality is horrific. Although sleeping through the night you wake up like you didn't sleep at all.
Juice boxes and donuts, absolutely. At least restrict it to adults only. Same as alcohol.
Are they hosted in the EU?
I use Virgin Bank and Firefox works OK for me.
I understand that perfectly, how do you think the theoretical Chrome business would make money?
> A ban with legal backing so schools can focus on education and not combating distraction.

Teaching how to combat distraction should maybe be a part of modern education.

But yeah you're quite right. Optimistically I'm hoping non-toy smartphones (like Light Phone, BoringPhone, WisePhone, etc) gain some market share.
Seems very unlikely he's not a millionaire, and even if your thesis is accurate it's still his political opinions deciding the account-closing.
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> What prevents me, as a rogue actor, from just adding all my mates to the database without them paying me anything? Would they get access to all other software from the developers who take part in this affair?

If you are not a trusted developer in the system then the API key prevents you.

If you are a trusted developer, then you can give away as many subscriptions for free as you like but you only have a limited number of subscriptions to sell so you will not make as much money that way.
Chromebooks are literally a browser that you pay for, and they are heavily embedded in the US education system.

Just because they don't sell floppies in a box like it's 1994 doesn't mean these aren't businesses.
>users can find the software somewhere else

and what happens when you release a new version? someone will have to be the first to pay, and most people who want to immediately upgrade will also pay the day it's released instead of waiting for some sketchy dude to upload the executable somewhere else
I think the professions of policing and teaching has gotten so bad that good people are no longer becoming police and teachers. It is only the worst in society getting hired for these professions because no one else will. Perhaps the same could be said for politicians.
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I feel it's the opposite. The incentive is to lock you in and provide as little value as possible for as much money as possible. Get you hooked, take your data hostage, and then jack up the price as much as possible while delivering little to no additional functionality. Bugs? who cares. Broken functionality? No big deal. You are locked in baby!
If I understand this proposal correctly, this is exactly to prevent such things. Yes, of course, it’s to prevent people from using ad block. But a nice side-effect is to block crawlers, or frameworks like selenium as well, so they can „serve ads only to real people“. Of course, people will always find a way to crawl. We already have bot farms that are just remote controlled smartphones lined up somewhere. But it makes it harder for everyone who isn’t Google to compete with Google.
How much of that involves the tech industry? Are you seriously claiming that Silicon Valley and Donald Trump were besties while the Democrats and tech hate each other?
This one?

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821402773/michael-pollan-on-t...
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Running Android 13 on Pixel 4a with Iceraven 2.7.0 (fork of Firefox 115.2.0). While on vacation in past few weeks, my experience of HN changed such that it no longer wraps at the edge of my screen, and to read I have to scroll left and right, back and forth. It is as if the browser is force-loading the desktop site (but it is not, because when I request that, something different comes up). Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, and apologies for my HTML/CSS/whatever ignorance...
>There were problems in the free market in the 1900's with employees being slaves, corporations were hiring Pinkertons and killing people. It was actual war. So Unions were the outcome.

Pinkertons were brought in when unions set up picket lines, and then beat up or killed any worker who crossed it. Unions call replacement workers "scabs" to dehumanize them, so that they can rationalize brutalizing them.

It was always a racket, and dominated by Communists and organized crime from the very beginning.
>desktop Linux

>viable Windows alternative

Coffee just shot across my desk reading this. You are too deep in a bubble to realize that to 99.7% of people desktop Linux is an "obscure hobby OS", on the off chance they even know what it is.
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I'm finding this rather weak sauce shilling.

You're welcome to dwell in the weeds of specific cases. There are others (e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2023/04/26/tesla-... )

I note that you switch from "not proven yet" to "zero" which is not honest. Like a Tesla, you need to pick a lane.

Fundamentally, "just a beta" is not as far along as an approved shipping product. The shipping product is harder to fake, and we cannot rule out deception here.
Correction:

The chart I'm talking about has multiple names, but is not a simple pie chart. Thanks to funcDropShadow for pointing this out. The names: sunburst chart, multilevel pie chart, and radial treemap.

https://www.anychart.com/chartopedia/chart-type/sunburst-cha...
TBF YouTube has gotten better (see sibling comment), but Google Meet is really what matters here for me. There's also offline mode in Google Docs, which I use regularly because I'm not guaranteed a good-enough connection wherever I go.

Firefox does some things better (like PiP video playback on most websites, like YouTube!) but others are so poorly done (like Profiles) compared to Chrome that it overall makes Chrome my first choice browser.
please do so, I would like to build it totally local and when I realize that outsourcing the build to the EAS cloud saves more time and money I will switch later, that sounds like a nice way to get more people use Expo.
I'm surprised to see so many people in this thread saying "write a strongly worded letter!" (or something along those lines), and so few saying we need to build a better browser without this crap in it, which has been the traditionally successful answer to attempts to privatize the Web.
> I didnt end up taking that job.

That's probably for the best. If a company's using their junior devs to run the interviews, it probably also has a number of other pitfalls, hidden during the interview process...
That sounds entirely unhelpful. They can just close the issue tracker + people will obviously just move on. This sounds like the Reddit 'blackout' that did nothing and is already forgotten.

What we really need is for the collective browser vendors to refuse to implement this and, if Chrome pushes forward, to bring Google to court over it. Nothing short of legal intervention is going to help here.
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I'm sorry, but it's definitely a non-story, and all this talk about "betrayal" and "trust" is sophistry.

It's a non-story because you had to opt-in to Firefox's "experiments" feature to get the extension pushed to you. Opting in to the experiments feature is *literally* granting permission for Mozilla to change the behavior of your Firefox browser remotely in between official releases. So, Mozilla had your permission to change your browser. I simply will not shed a tear for anyone who felt betrayed by something they signed up for.

And, by the way, I was also "affected" by the Mr. Robot thing because I also opted in to the experiments feature.

Furthermore, the extension did nothing harmful. It didn't even collect any data as far as I know. You know why Mozilla pushed an extension that didn't even collect any data instead of one that does? Because they were acting in a trustworthy way!

Sure, it was a faux pax. Mozilla thought they could be cute the same way a lot of old school FLOSSy, hackery, software would include amusing Easter eggs and jokes. It was inappropriate and didn't land well for a variety of reasons, but there was no reason to lose trust in Mozilla at the time, and there's *certainly* no reason to even bring it up today, years later, when just about every other tech company and computer product is trying their damnedest to spy on you, sell your data, prevent you from having root control of your devices, and squeeze subscription money out of you.

Again, Chrome starts tracking you the instant you launch it for the first time. Microsoft tracks you when you log in to Windows and occasionally re-enables tracking features that you've disabled. Mozilla pushed a silly "fun" extension to users who opted in that didn't collect any data nor make Mozilla any money.

This discussion is nonsense. If you truly don't trust Mozilla after the harmless Mr. Robot extension was pushed to you after you chose to allow them to modify your browser remotely, then go ahead and stop using Firefox- I don't care. But please stop spreading FUD.
It can be both. Anything not officially defined in the spec is an illegal opcode.

Intel had a couple of opcodes that were clearly supposed to have been functional, but didn’t make any sense to use—I believe one such opcode popped the code segment register, which would have effectively served as a “jump to random memory” instruction as it would run the next instruction per the IP register but in a totally different part of memory, so it didn’t make any sense to document it as there was no use for it. And they had at least one other instruction introduced as a copyright trap, which they obviously wouldn’t document. And there were a few more that were undocumented but were aliases of other instructions due to the way the 8086 handled bit masking.
Wake me up with they actually do something instead of making announcements of looking into the possibility of perhaps one day sending a strongly worded letter asking their tech buddies to calm down a little bit, if they're so inclined. Until then, this is campaign fodder and nothing else.
Would any of the usual enthusiastic Google employees ("Googler here...") chime in and defend this please?
I very occasionally run into these, and keep Chrome as a backup browser. I suspect it's as often to do with adblocking though - I have no content blockers on Chrome.

Firefox performs way better and is a more pleasant experience. (This is a fair comparison because my ad-laden Chrome experience is internet as Google intends!)
I'm of the opinion that Google is no longer "Organizing the world's information" but "Stealing the world's information". Their last keynote proved that with all of the AI products. Regardless of this proposal (which is awful) they are a data vampire using all your info for themselves without permission or compensation.
They did not omit it for fear of peer scrutiny, they omitted it because we live in a society where even experts at the top of their field can face brutal repercussions for having the wrong opinion. The lead author felt the lab leak was the most probable explanation, but said exactly the opposite because of politics.

And this is something you very much should care about, because it's directly impacting and harming the quality of science that we produce, to say nothing of completely distorting social discussion. It's like science in the e.g. Mideast where any discovery or statement that may, in any possible way, run into conflict with religious values would largely be self censored away. It's this exact problem that caused the Mideast to go from the academic capital of the world, to a wasteland of such.
It was a letter by Franz Pfanner from 1873. Sadly, after a short search, I could only find a version of it in Croatian[1]. Google translate seams to do an ok job on it.

[1] https://www.jergovic.com/ajfelov-most/pater-franz-pfaner-o-v...
How is PrivacyPass related to iOS?
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That will cause a non-zero number of companies to simply delete their accounts and abandon the platform. They'll emphasize other platforms like IG, Tiktok, and Threads.

By removing their gold verification checkmark, it will reduce X's value over the long run because customers will no longer automatically think that their favorite companies have an official Twitter account. Trust from advertisers and users will also be eroded in the long term because it will be easier to spoof official accounts.

Basically, this seems like a "OMG we need cash now or Elon has to sell more Tesla shares" move more so than a smart one.
Just one hacker developed this OS, ya know!
I didn’t even for a moment think you were praising them, it’s just so easy for people to forget the percentage breakdowns behind the PR pieces these companies put out. I’m sure I’ve done it myself too often enough.

Corporations aren’t inherently an evil concept… the rubicon was corporate personhood. The idea that corporations have equivalent rights to people unless we legislate that they don’t… that’s the mind poison… the rot that has slowly eaten into society and for more than a hundred years has been backing up capitalism and corporatism and all the greed and corruption with the subtle backstop of thought terminating cliches like “people have rights and corporations are people so they have rights” and normal people don’t want to learn a mountain of history to unpack the lies and bullshit…

And companies have the money to hire the best PR… so they have done a pretty good job convincing everyone on the sorts of subjects that are in the corporations best interests… sadly.
Sure, compute shaders might work, but don’t you need rocBLAS, rocSPARSE, MIOpen, etc? Are people reinventing those in compute shaders in another package?
Yes, Pud, I'm aware of Lucee. I still have CF running in one legacy app but it's been sunset and not being updated. 100% on customers not caring. They don't. Ever. The stack wars are purely for our own benefit. We trump our own trumpet or however that saying goes...

Now,

I have to diverge here, and say that I'm a fan since F-Company days (which was ColdFusion wasn't it?), and a customer of DistroKid (well, my own kid took over the subscription and I need to get another one now).
Going against HN's usual anti-smartphone thing, I think this is incredibly dumb. Luckily no one really cares much about what UNESCO calls for.

Outright bans on smartphones in schools are no different from the video game, TV screen time, "kids will only play games on computers" and other related superstitions that were in vogue back in the early 2000s. All they did was make parents feel validated (without having to put in the work to understand their child) and make life difficult for most kids while building resentment.

As with most things, the decision of smartphone access for kids should come down to having parents actually understand their child, his/her needs and ability to handle the associated responsibility.

Especially as a teenager, pursuing my interests in computers was nothing but constant arguing with my parents because they were constantly being supported by outsiders (who had never seen what I was doing) on their anti-computer superstitions of the time (due to which they wholesale refused to understand that I wasn't gaming the vast majority of the time).
In the US, teachers are underpaid for what they do (47-69K across the whole US, COL varies greatly), pay for many supplies out of their own pocket, and do not receive salary during the vacation months, so they often take summer jobs. When not teaching classes, they are also expected to use their "free" time creating classroom plans, grading papers, coaching homework, and appeasing parents in every way.
I agree that's a convincing position, but I'm not convinced that it's supported by the evidence.
So much for bicycles for the mind I guess :(
My understanding is that Ben gets his paycheque from Google.
Similar feature is already in production Safari, alas: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-att...
You didn't read far enough. My campaign has been terminated and will stay terminated.

I lost the motivation to continue.
My company recently ran a survey of UK-based Creatives on the topic of their working preferences (n=250, July 2023) - so I compared our data to responses provided by Roundtable.ai

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YtvcLkC-xaTw3q6LOxCq...

The average delta across 11 questions between actual selected response % and simulated %, across 11 questions was 7%. Seems like a good start - it would make it useful for certain low-impact, high-speed business decisions.
I grew up in a rural area and I was running off into the woods behind my house with my siblings at like age 4 or 5, no supervision required. The idea that a kid can't play in the woods by themselves is weird to me. Parents are definitely getting to helicoptering, I saw a group of 18 year olds decide they wanted to get pizza while at someone's house, and then decide to all call their parents to ask if it were okay (not ask for money, just ask if it were okay). I was flabbergasted.

The relationship parents have with kids is way too much and people need to tone it down. Banning cell phones is a good first step.
A criticism I have, of the stock HN site, is that once an article is read, it is difficult to find new additions made in the comments. I may also miss articles as they are ranked.

It may be that I'm lazy or haven't fallen in how things should be consumed here.

Give me a chronological list of submissions where I can highlight the ones I'd like to keep an eye on. I can then come back and have the new comments highlighted.
Here's an example how far along we already are. You can imagine the next steps, right? https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...
I’ve come to the same conclusion. I began to build a very simple app about a month ago and as a Web Dev figured React Native would be the best tool. Having completed about 60% of the app, I’m going to trash the whole thing and restart with Swift/Kotlin. I’ve encountered too many “quirks” that end up burning a huge amount of time for what should be an inconsequential component.
How will you choose which output is the one with the AND result? You'd need some logic to pick which output was the right one, I assume. Then you've got the same problem again.
For more than 25 years, a technology used for critical data and voice radio communications around the world has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent anyone from closely scrutinizing its security properties for vulnerabilities. But now it’s finally getting a public airing thanks to a small group of researchers in the Netherlands who got their hands on its viscera and found serious flaws, including a deliberate backdoor.
Well we can build something too but first we need to get rid of these people.
This is exactly how we fought the war on drugs! I'm sure it will go great!
Most probably the answer to this question is yes. Quant hedge funds like Renaissance technology claim they are making their money by exploiting the mistakes of these technical analysis people.

https://youtu.be/Q2u0dKRA1cA?t=1216

"Never send a human to do a machines job!" (Agent Smith)
Majorly oppose this proposal for a bunch of reasons.

Also, fun fact: phone confiscation (except during midterms/finals) is a punishable offense at my university.
For me it's the miracle on ice but I grew up in hockey obsessed New England. I'd also throw Tiger winning his first Masters up there.

The more accurate answer is probably something akin to Jackie Robinson but that was before my time.
> constantly and relentlessly shame and even harass all those involved in helping create it

If this ever helped, we wouldn't have absolutely unethical products created. Turns out people's morals have a price tag, that Google and others are willing to pay their employees.
The latter. The instructions aren't disabled in the MOS 6502, but their function is unplanned and hence undocumented which is a better term.