skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telemetry and spyware are not the same thing (irrespective of whatever Firefox is doing). There is a big difference between tracking to try to understand how users are using a software or getting information on bugs and crashes, and tracking with the aim of monetizing personal data.

I'm personally not crazy about telemetry implying information is uploaded to a software provider, but from experience I know that trying to create a software without getting in-use data is basically flying blind. You cannot expect users to tell you about problems or bugs they have, they will just stop using your software and you will never know why.
Bringing a VanMoof X3 or S3 Back to Life
Me being deluded into having a sense of privacy over Facebook doesn't magically create the need for a warrant.

Facebook is not private, neither is Twitter, especially not the profiles on Facebook.
Ah yes indeed, but I don't think it can be controlled if you're using a physical keyboard. For instance if I play using the keypad on my keyboard, 1 could be pianissimo and 9 fortissimo.
I wish the word "hack" wasn't in the url... Blocked by corporate proxy.
Are those STOP guys the same currently being indicted on RICO charges?
You should never put people in jail for using any controlled substance. That is mostly an american thing. For people using it, just fine them and be done with it. Go after the people producing, distributing and selling.
I don't believe that the DMA has (or even could have, given ratified international treaties) anything that nullifies intellectual property rights.

The gatekeepers are required to provide "fair" access, but that doesn't mean everything has to be free of charge.

As an example, I would fully expect that iOS devices will continue to require digital signatures to execute, regardless of installation method. And those digital signatures will only be available to those who pay for the $99/yr developer program and comply with those regulations.
China could do it in Tibet which seems to be similarly populated/trafficked, on top of thawing permafrost. It's only 414 miles as well whereas the Tibet one is 1215 miles.
> with a track record of basic competence.

You need to ask yourself how that track record is constituted ie what metrics decide basic competence. Hint: it's not anything that resembles an objective measure of ability or diligence or literally anything. Another hint: it's *extremely* common for PIs to pawn review duties off on grad students - I review papers for my advisor all the time and I have been since my first year.

> To reduce the incentives for nepotistic anti-scientific behaviour.

This is the thin veil that everyone hides behind to cover up the greater harm of inscrutability^1; everyone knows what everyone else is working on in any field. At this point in my career (I'm towards the end of my PhD) I could tell you which group wrote the paper (if it's in my area) just by reading the abstract.

And if you're thinking to yourself well what about new entrants into the field? There's no such thing - you do not learn XYZ hyper niche thing without being part of a long lineage of forebears doing XYZ thing. And if it does so somehow happen, like a student is doing something completely different from their advisor and so they're not trying to publish in familiar venues, well guess what they get face looooong odds getting their work accepted (ask me how I know :)

^1 Like come to think of it, recently I've been reading that the conservative judges on SCOTUS think proceedings should be closed. And you could make some sort of similar nepotism case about that, or some other conflict of interest type thing (in favor of closing the proceedings) but we all recognize that fundamental to a free and fair process is that it's open and auditable.
The OP could solve most of those problems by switching back to FreeBSD.
Automated Humanities!
About as likely as open source nuke design.
Excited to already see some great open source projects in this space (Langchain, Llamaindex, Axilla, etc) many of which we're exploring using for this project.

Just to be clear Retool Vectors is completely free (we're even taking on the LLM costs). We put the embeddings in a free postgres DB (and soon other open source vector DB providers) and give you the connection string so you can take it anywhere
Isn't the cost of the equipment and sophistication required to operate the biggest barrier to entry? How would open sourcing change that?
I suspect that if an investigation finds evidence that he did this after consultation with a foreign agent, rather than entirely of his own volition, then he may be in some real trouble here.
Strong statement. Counter example, rather famous one, was Deep Throat during Watergate, and there arw countless of others.

I rather the see the problem you mention with all the named ones, read pundits and people being interviewed on record...
I think that is unnecessarily hostile; I believe Lean 4 can become a very capable programming language for mundane tasks!
YMMV, but my Rust code ends up looking pretty much identical to my TypeScript code most of the time. And especially for code like this where there are no complex lifetimes.
> Mozilla ships Firefox with telemetry (aka spyware, given that it operates silently and automatically without consent) enabled by default.

So opt out of it. Calling it spyware is inflammatory, and disregards the reality of the world that we exist in.

> It's just marketing to make line go up and to the right while Mozilla staff can keep collecting paychecks for being "the good guys". There's a lot of money involved.

And makes you sound like a conspiricy theorist.

> They also ship closed source DRM in the browser which infringes on software freedoms.

If FF didn't have media support I would switch to chrome, immediately. This is speaking as someone who has dogmatically used Firefox for 15 years. Software, such as web browsers don't exist in a perfect world that I wish it did. Instead, we have DRM, we have telemetry. A userbase requires marketing, which requires money. I wish it didn't, but it does.
This seems very common tho
Show HN: Cape – Answering parenting questions based on science journals using AI
Hi HN!
Today we’re launching Cape - an iPhone app to answer your parenting questions based on research articles and reputable publications as an open beta (Testflight).

Here's why we built it:

We’re both parents (kids ages 1, 4, 6) and constantly inundated with parenting questions (general, situational). Typically we would search the web for answers, but found ourselves spending way too much time searching, and never really satisfied with the results (lack of trust, or personalized responses that we couldn't act upon). ChatGPT is slightly better, but the sources is still mostly unknown. What has worked was speaking with pedagogical experts in the neighborhood (when they are available).

This is our 1st attempt at providing pedagogical answers to parents while restricting the responses to scientific journals. We know we have a long way to go, but felt good enough to share for the moment with you all. Looking forward to your feedback!
This says smartparens can do it but I don't know how. But there's a snippet for hacking it out of ruby completion that works for me.

https://github.com/elixir-editors/emacs-elixir#pairing
Stained Glass Sundials
If you think its bad on the mainland...
The urge to scold seems pretty innate, and socially reinforced from an early age. Seems tied to the parental instinct, and maybe this is related to the demographics of its presentation.

Could we not engineer a substitute, or even a better scolding experience for these scolds, a safe outlet? One without the obvious detrimental impacts, or at least one that tends toward self-limiting. A lot of contemporary tech and even older stuff probably could be used to satisfy the scolding urge.
If we could scrap CTRL+W for closing the tab, it would save my anger on a couple of webgames.

You can't eliminate that anywhere.
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'Raw,' 'Natural' and 'White-Balanced' Views of Martian Terrain
It took me ages to finally find an authoritative reference page for what Martian landscape actually looks like to the human eye.
Thank you! I just fired up Librewolf and turned off Fingerprint Resisting and my online banking now loads my transaction history. This had been a big annoyance and why I hadn't completely switched. The recommendation I got 6 months ago was "just use Firefox for banking". Much appreciated!
There pretty much is

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid

Settings -> Firefox Data Collection and Use -> turn off telemetry.
Why you think it would be anarchistic society in the first place ?
It's way past due that the university system reevaluates their relationship with journals and the pressures to pump out papers.

Tying professors and researchers careers to the volume of papers they churn out is silly. The result is the antithesis of quality.

Public money is often driving most research but then the results are thrown into an antiquated pay-walled for-profit journal system.

The entire peer review system is rife with issues, from like low-level corruption (like the 'blind' reviewer asking for references in exchange for publishing) to no one even reading the paper.

When some major technology like ChatGPT comes along it's usually a good time to get back to basics while strengthening the foundation through modernization.
This is exactly the kind of thing that will never be open source. Any entity with the extremely high level of resources to fabricate chips at this node have zero incentive to open source anything, and no number of amateurs with 3D printers can change that.
Would MS-owned RedHat be worse than IBM-owned RedHat?
i love the hardware mouse buttons, especially left and middle click. makes it much easier to drag and drop + middle click is just nice for opening tabs
Honestly I think no single system of writing is powerful enough to handle all the different versions of algebra. Mathematics can be extremely concise but only by constantly omitting stuff or overriding the meaning of symbols.

There are some happy accidents like df/dx making sense as both a derivative and a division of 1-forms, but on the whole you can't pick a single notation and hope for it to work well in all situations, yet that seems to be what most algebra systems do out of necessity.

To fix this I reckon we'll need to standardize not the automated algebra part but rather get those systems to communicate using some standardized format. Which is nigh impossible because of the sheer variety of mathematical concepts, but one can hope.
Tracking is tracking, no matter what outcomes you derive from it.
Chess exploded in China though. They even have national state sponsored teams now
It doesn’t make sounds on my mobile Chrome either (iOS) but I’ve noticed other sites don’t either. I’m guessing there’s a setting somewhere that I denied once long ago and now it can’t play sounds :/ If anyone knows what that might be please let me know!
Now consider the SI units. Could those be some of the most common words between all languages?
Clicked on the link to see the post's year and quite surprised that 8 years ago was actually 2015 and not 2005 as my system 1 (Kahneman) memory imagined at first!!!
it's open source, you can simply look at the code (or, better, at the differences with firefox)
Shoreham was cancelled ostensibly due to evacuation fears, in reality the locals knew what sort of graft, corner-cutting and union crap was going on in the construction. Palast helped leak the test results of the backup generators (sorry if I said turbines). My point is that sort of shit is why Rickover thought civilian nuclear power was an oxymoron.
> Use a browser that is not made by an advertising company.

> In other words, just drop chrome. It has never been easier to do, with Edge and Safari readily available

Considering Windows 11 has ads in the operating system, how is Edge not made by an advertising company these days?
It's a quote from a famous book, crossing the chasm and it's a trivial exercise that you're refusing to engage with and mocking me in bad faith, violating HN rules.

The LHC example is so simple ChatGPT did it in a single go. Again, this is generative AI

"For particle physics researchers seeking to unravel the cosmos, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offers an unparalleled solution. Unlike conventional particle accelerators, the LHC achieves extraordinary collision energies, enabling experiments that mirror the early universe's conditions. This distinctive feature has led to groundbreaking discoveries, notably the Higgs boson. In contrast to other accelerators, the LHC's unmatched power and global scientific network establish it as the premier choice for unlocking the universe's deepest secrets, setting it apart in its capacity to explore uncharted frontiers in particle physics."

In fact, I asked it to do it for Lean and it could do it just fine.

In contrast, the main lean website starts like this:

The Lean (jargon) is a (jargon) developed principally by Leonardo de Moura.

There's this bizarre fetishism for making things inaccessible and then personally belittling and insulting people when they state the obvious.

The other inexplicable behavior is the tendency to give "answers" by pointing to giant manuals that don't answer the question.

This is endemic to ML. Someone asks what say "Vit-L" versus "Vit-H" means and the answer is usually a link to some ~40 page peer reviewed LaTeX that mentions the acronyms but doesn't define it either.

The strategy is to do anything but be transparent and direct.
> They may want to care about freedom - or have cared at some point in the past - but at the end of the day they're beholden to Google in order to survive

Which makes one wonder if the existence of a competitor is a good measure of whether a monopoly exists. If a company is funding its main competitor, is it really a competitor?

Google has a stranglehold on the browser market.
I don’t know the specifics of your contract, but I wanted to note that something similar bit a lot of Texas residents a few years ago:

https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-15-000-electricity-...

They were exposed to electricity spot prices and got bit hard when they spiked during a winter event that overloaded the grid.
"Commoditize" refers to a process in which a product is essentially deemed identical to the same class of offering presented by a rival company. Commoditized products allow consumers to make purchasing decisions based solely on the price-tags of the item in question."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/commoditize.asp
Personally, I do agree that enforcing a general policy (which they do have written in their terms) forbidding military use is a good thing, but that a single individual making discretionary decisions case by case is a bad thing.
The "S" in IoT stands for security. :-/
Using multiple operating systems to get my work done
Archive.today (or archive.is archive.fo whatever it's supposed to be) has had some messed up Cloudflare config since 2015 or earlier. It's not the default config the rest of Cloudflare websites have. It's not even purely "I am under attack mode" as it often failed in other ways than what a site in IAUAM would behave like.

> Windows UAC works just fine now.

What the hell how does it work, it just makes a vague popup for doing anything ever and the user has know way to know what he's being asked or whether it's normal. Almost no user will ever do anything other than click through it.
How to Create a Cordova Plugin from Scratch?
The article explains how to Create a Cordova Plugin from Scratch and how to integrate it into your app.
> I don't want to defund the police; I do want them to behave like they are part of the neighborhood and not its enforcers.

The only way this can be achieved is through defunding the police. Take away all of their military arsenal budget, cyber spy budget, money for pensions...

The good that money could do the communities it's currently actively harming is almost unfathomable.
AWS also increased their prices by a similar amount.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aws-and-azure-cloud...
> I do want them to behave like they are part of the neighborhood and not its enforcers.

People have been saying this for decades and decades. It doesn't work. How long does it have to not work before you accept that we need another strategy?
If we ignore the sanctions you'll be getting, open sourcing nuke design is much easier.
infrastructure includes a lot more than cloud in IBM
I thought node was supposed to be really good at streaming.

How could this be written in node to use streams more effectively (at whatever stage necessary, parsing, reading, etc ..) to limit memory usage?
We don't have any topos theory, that's right. But all the prerequisites are there. If you're interested in working on it I strongly suggest to ask on Zulip.
Their “soceitas x tape” is a great listen as well. Especially the unidentified tracks which are presumably unreleased songs of theirs.
It is so exhausting to have to write everything as

"As a user, I need the developers to have a fast build process so they can deliver features and bug fixes to me on time"

"As a user, I need the developers to have a fast build process so HR isn't driven crazy replacing burned out developers who churn"

"As a user, I need JDK 8 replaced with JDK 17 so IT's security process doesn't make the old JDK disappear from developer's desktops and from the server..."

I worked at one place where I got bitched out for filling out 95% of the tickets in the trouble ticket system, part of that was that I wrote super fine-grained tickets but the other one was that the product manager was AWOL and never actually wrote tickets.
Ph'nglui mwgl'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn?
The seven companies who use IBM's cloud are in for a shock.
> that's a big ask

If practical quantum does pan out, it will make this current AI situation look insignificant by comparison. It may also become extremely synergistic with the current AI movement. Quantum search will allow for us to seek out global minima across gigantic parameter sets.

> why do this desperate move in their cloud business?

Everyone is jacking up their prices. Microsoft would have to triple our cost before we'd think about tearing up our tech stack and moving again.
I don't think this is how the world works. I rather think of betting against
unknown future events as betting against unknown future events. You can't decide if it was a mistake based on the outcome, but only based on the available information when the decision was made.

Say he played a roulette, he was allowed to bet on black or red, both 50-50 chance, but the black paid more. He betted on black always, and got crazy rich. I'd say it was the right decision, even in the cases when red was the outcome. I don't even understand why would one think otherwise, and say that it was a mistake?
Ask HN: Product naming pronounciation/enunciation – how would you rate “Close”?
Sales, marketing, support, dev teams etc will all need to be talking about the product frequently

It is important to have a name that is both easily pronounced/enunciated

"Close" is the leading product name but want to get unbiased feedback before we proceed with it
Also there can be so much elitism, "old boys networks" and general arbitrariness under veneers of "scientific objectivity".
With Vertico in Doom Emacs (via the Helpful package), I find a lot of stuff like this by doing `SPC h f` and then "vertico" and a list of functions containing that string in the name pops up.

It looks like it's in Text > Database in the "Emacs Lisp" manual, not the "Emacs" manual.
> but its not illegal or unethical.

It's not only unethical and illegal, it is easily proven to be both. Law enforcement in the United States has, as its ultimate authority, a foundational legal document known as the Constitution. This document makes it very clear that it is illegal to search someone's (not even citizen, mind you, this applies to all humans) person, papers, or effects without a warrant.

The only reason to "scrape social media" is when you're doing it without a warrant. If you have a warrant, it becomes quite easy to request that data directly from Facebook.

> People seem to think social media is akin to private communications where it's more akin to the public square.

In any other argument, I would agree that it is a "public square". But the police specifically aren't permitted into this public square when acting as police officers. It is unethical and illegal.

> While you have a constitutional right to not be searched without consent/probably cause,

No, not even those things are sufficient. You have a right to not be searched without a properly issued search warrant.

> you do not have a constitutional right to spouting off in the public square without consequence.

In fact, you do actually have this right.

> Putting out an IG post of yourself with illegal guns

You cannot post on IG with "illegal guns". The only thing IG allows you to post are pixels in raster images. Photoshopping yourself holding the BFG-9000 isn't a crime, and it's not even "probable cause".
Reminder for everyone here who ever feels "Imposter Syndrome":

If you built an IoT Device, would you ever:

- Not consider changing the root username and password?

- Not consider shutting off the SSH server?

- Not consider writing the most delicate parts in a memory-safe language?

- Not consider enabling Secure Boot or tamper detection?

- Not consider building a system for easy and automatic security updates, perhaps with an opt-out for those interested?

Almost all of us here would consider the above. Yet most IoT manufacturers never thought of any of them. You're competent.
https://dimden.dev/

Dimden shows all mouse pointers on the web page, the page in general is absolute mint.
Maybe it is just me, but I found the quality of copilot suggestions so low , it is generally useable only on the most mundane and repetitive contexts. Why all the enthusiasm about it?
Thank you. I must admit, I have trouble making sense of it.

Just for comparison, in Typescript you can write:

function f(n:number){
if (n%3==0 && n%5==0) return "FizzBuzz"
if (n%3==0) return "Fizz"
if (n%5==0) return "Buzz"
return "";
}

The return type of this function will be inferred as "Fizz"|"Buzz"|"FizzBuzz"|"".

Then, I can write:

function *iFizzBuzz(steps:number){
for (let i=0; i<steps; i++){
const fb = f(i);
if (fb) yield fb;
}
}

const fizzBuzz100 = Array.from(iFizzBuzz(100));

The type of fizzBuzz100 will be inferred as ("Fizz"|"Buzz"|"FizzBuzz")[];
Japan had this figured out with Soba delivery that uses real dishes: https://youtu.be/z5jJ9LTlEp4
It's actually quite common in regular journalism/copywriting as well. If you've got a few big names on your resume, there's extremely high chance that whomever you send your work to for publishing simply isn't going to read it.

Of course, that isn't always the case and it certainly isn't the case when writing for some of the larger editorials, but it happens a lot. Once you establish a name for yourself, you can get away with a lot. For example, submit your first draft even though it can probably be improved upon if you let it sit.

But the person you're sending it to doesn't know that. They need the story, they know your resume, and they don't want to sit there and go through your submission examining every single word.
> Policy doesn't keep them in line.

This is correct. It's also the argument for ending qualified immunity and defunding the police.
Read Chip Wars [1]. The cost to stand up an advanced chip fab has reached tens of billions of dollars. It’s so capital intensive that even the US Department of Defense has exited the game.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_...