skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, trying to unpack the OP's multiple questions a little:

1. Preventing Firefox going out of business
-> as noted by others, Mozilla is actually doing decently well financially, and continues to dedicate a large part of its resources to Firefox
-> however given some of its revenue sources, maintaining a certain share of users is important to maintain that state of affairs

2. Driving more adoption of Firefox
-> Most users have pretty simple browsing needs, and a non-negligible share still don't know what a browser is (we all know a few I wager) while still using one daily,
-> Competing browsers have semi-exclusive or exclusive distribution channels for their products which help drive their adoption (Google.com, some Android flavours, ChromeOS / Mac and iOS / Windows, Bing, Outlook & Office)
-> Thus as with any product, driving adoption could be done by:
--A. offering a killer feature many (actual) people care enough about to download the browser for - for most people, this would need to be significant speed or friction reduction (Adblock, etc) which Firefox already does well but perhaps not significantly well enough
--B. get users early, i.e. partner with websites, apps and influencers that reach younger users to promote/recommend Firefox and its features, notably on the privacy and personalisation side (themes, meta filter, Adblock, password and history sync, etc) - think some viral Tiktoks on the benefits or simple product placement
--C. get a series of not-just-tech ambassadors to promote the browser along with the work of the Foundation, which may be done cheaply as they do have commendable initiatives
--D. Partner with like-minded organisations to recommend each other's solutions where possible, e.g. Automattic or such
-- etc etc

Firefox has been my daily driver on all devices for 20+ years. I personally feel it's never been as good as it is now: it's fast, the memory woes are gone, the sync works like a charm, password suggestion and management is seamless, the Android version is great (love the bottom navbar option).

Probably not perfect - what is - but I just wanted to share a more upbeat comment here, and perhaps one more geared towards the majority of users, who will be less technical and choose their browser's (or better said default to their browser's) for vary different reasons.
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CoT doesn't require it to be a few shot prompt though. That was in the original paper, as you point out, but even something as simple as a zero shot prompt followed by "let's think step by step" has significant improvement: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11916

Do you still consider a zero-shot-CoT to be hinting? (And I don't mean the [0] example you shared - biasing results by continuing to ask for refinements in incorrect answers but not correct answers is an area where a number of papers have already had issues, but is not part of what I'm discussing - I mean in single prompt/response cycles).

I agree that a consistently overlooked component of generators is their role as classifiers, though this currently seems to be overlooked more outside of research circles as all too common has become using GPT-4 to evaluate a study results in place of manual review (a bit disconcerting).

I'm not entirely sure how we ended up on diffusion and GANs - I'd meant transmission from transformer to transformer like Orca or the work that followed. Though it was an interesting read nonetheless and I appreciated your writing it.
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Thanks, that's really helpful. :)
Shall we get into the great vowel shift of 1450?
Now I wonder what a time lapse video of it would look like
Yes. I have taken to keeping my camera on (because people seem to expect that) but covering it up with a window in which I can put some "doodle" one of those youtube videos of somebody making something complex. This seems to keep some part of my brain occupied while the other part can engage in the meeting enough for it not to get boring.
> Using the apps inherently shares data with the company whose servers you're using.

That's not a problem. The problem is that these companies share it with others. That's what requires consent and Meta isn't asking for it and does it anyway.

Facebook can show as many ads it wants. It can even show as many ads as it wants without asking for user consent.
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What I do is of no consequence if that's all hiring managers do. These apps can become systemic.
How much did Blackwater do? Did they actually fight or just guard?
>Cancer is natural. Losing a leg to cancer would be "natural" too

I don't think that's natural at all. "Natural" would be simply dying from cancer in your leg, after it metastasizes to the rest of your body. Amputation isn't natural, nor is any other human medicine. All medicine is unnatural, and working against what would happen in nature. Just putting a bandage on a small cut to avoid infection is unnatural: to be natural, you should let it get infected and then die from it.
> If there is an overwhelming physical characteristic, that the vast majority of humans exhibit, it's not hurtful to acknowledge it as normal, and deviation from that norm, by definition, as abnormal.

In the exact sense and in the exact same proportions as we may say the following:

As the vast majority of atoms in the universe are either Hydrogen or Helium, it's not hurtful to acknowledge these as normal, and deviation from that norm, by definition, as abnormal.

Combining the actual science and your take on the nomenclature, it now follows that carbon, lead, gold, aluminium, lithium, the bulk of Tom Lehrer's The Elements in fact are all abnormal.

Of course that does sound pretty silly.
How is anyone supposed to know this etiquette rule that you claim? As far as I know people are free to link to whatever they like subject to the laws of relevant jurisdictions.

For my part I would say that you shouldn't police other people and tell them what to do in public, or if you do it, soften it sightly.
This looks impressive. Maybe someone will know:

Would painting an inside of a old manual camera lens barrel with this cause issues? Like, dust, fungus, I don't know. Because there are a couple of vintage lenses that could use a bit more contrast.
Yes and this should be pointed out. However, it’s imo far from a simple selfish lobbying move. If behavioral advertising and tracking is not allowed by anyone, it will even the playing field as ads return to being context-centric, as it should. It’s too early to say if news papers will try to weasel out an exception for themselves in such a world, imo.

More generally, you can want a change for everyone even if you are not currently doing what you’re preaching. You can play a game according to the rules and want to change the rules at the same time. While I agree this is a lower level of belief you can still want it, and argue for it, in good faith. Deviating from laws and even industry norms can be disproportionately costly, relative to your competitors, especially if you’re already struggling, which is true for most of legacy media.

Also, journalists are typically not the owners of media companies, and they sometimes cover issues with conflicts of interest with their owners. That’s a healthy thing.
5 months is a long time, and he's "disappeared" in the sense that there has been no communication from him. It's not just a matter of not playing chess.
ChatGPT 4 seems to be better than it was when I was using it (mere months ago)!
Yeah I don't think there is much hope there so long as corporations are donors to political campaigns (Something that still looks weird when I type it, but presumably doesn't sound strange to a US person).
> Humans are bipedal.

And

> Humans are right-handed.

Not quite the same thing at all and hardly comparable due to pretty obvious reasons
Same for me, the Ryzen GPU is good enough to run recentish games at 1080p 30fps which is great, and avoids the bugginess of a discrete GPU setup.
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I think Grayjay is a great idea. Many creators have alternate accounts on platfroms like Odyssey (e.g. Hardware Unboxed and Veritasium), in those cases you can subscribe to the non-youtube platform. If enough people do this, it might help us move away from youtube. Of course the last step is also important for this to work (Pay the creators.)
I see six tweets in the thread, how many do you see?

If you also see six tweets, please reproduce the result following instructions in the tweets and share the recording of you doing so.

Graphics don't matter, let sprites be colored rectangles.
Most of this advice is this bad because it's entirely based on the idea that you interact with your database using an extremely dynamic language: clojure. Like most of Hickey's advice, it's terrible and founded in dogma.
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Hm isn't this problematic from a trademark pov?
I can echo the sentiment of "ghost town" in several WeWork locations from the outside, and many corporate spaces too.

I think the fundamental problem is they over-expanded too quickly and charge too much, leading to an oversupply of locations and a huge pile of leases in the debt column. They're glorified Regus and drank their own KoolAid that they were a unicorn rather than a business.
I keep going back to MacOS because it works fine, stays out of my way, and has the Unix stuff I work with.

I'm ready to pay a lot of money for an OS that neither annoys me nor demands work from me.

The apps themselves... yeah they're mostly the same.
The question is whether it is because it’s processed food by itself or missing micro/macro nutrients.
The whole adtech vs. hand-crafted ad systems is a big question for small site owners who can't be asked to sell their own ad space etc.

But Meta is in a very special position. They have enough user data to pinpoint ads without having to trade data with anyone. They are large enough that they can easily manage all their ad sales in-house.

They if anyone should be interested in really strict regulation. Because if everyone just has to use the data they have in house for good reason (Facebook does have my age, city, interests etc and I accept that!) then facebook has an extreme advantage in advertising.
I have the same issue with UBlock Origin since my phone is quite aggressive when killing apps. While it is indeed annoying, I don't think it's a bad design.

Maybe it's lacking a setting to toggle this (Suspend all network until lists are loaded doesn't control this behavior), but I wouldn't want to load pages full of ads on mobile simply because the app got killed.

The real issue for me is my phone killing applications when it has both battery and memory available.
Nawh, we need to repeal that protectionism. ;]
I can confirm that this is my impression as well. Also chatgpt somehow is much better picking the right words when automatically translating i18n files with individual words that only work in a context. Even 3.5turbo outperforms google or deepl for me.

However it definitely tends to make things up. I would be very cautious translating longer business texts if you can't correct them yourself.
I have been looking to play GTA2 for a long time - I have such good memories of it.

For any on mac who are looking - it is available for free from Porting Kit (which is a Wine-like platform). I am assuming they can install it for free since they're some sort of side project of GOG and I presume they have the original binary from when it was released for free

So presumably anyone else with a Win system could get it from GOG (actually looks like you can get it here - https://gta.com.ua/rockstargames-classics-free-download.phtm... )
You can mark individual files as No_COW in btrfs, and No_COW + preallocation is a requirement for swapfiles anyway due to how the swap subsystem works.
You can check shot scraper, cf. https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/en/stable/javascript.html#...
has anyone read the translation by james legge? that's the only copy i have but i haven't got around to reading it yet. would it be better to go with something else even if i have to pay for it?

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/laozi/tao-te-ching/james-l...
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Yes, if your (statistical) population is all the elements in the universe that would be the case. If your target population is all the metal deposits or all humans in the world you would come to different conclusions.
Yeah, they also insist that the earth is not flat.
Nope. The US gave China most favored nation status and free trade for 40 something years. Instead of pushing China away, the US locked arms with them and reintroduced them to the world economy on favorable terms. Then ignored decades of malfeasance by China. (Exchange rate fixing by Chinas central bank. Unfair trade practices moving production from the US to China. And now, propaganda on US soil.)

The crosshairs are up because China has made threats and become a threat to world peace.

Edit-If I could send one message to China it'd be this:

If you feel so threatened by the US and extension the West, then focus on fixing your own internal problems. “Just walk away.” Stop saber rallying towards war. You can already purchase all the resources you could ever need or want over the global markets. For example, you just built up enough residential housing and areas to house all of your citizens. The globe would surely continue that trade even today if you just worked along as an economic superpower. If you're confused what will make your citizens happy, ask them. The world isn’t to blame for it’s existence.
Correct. Fuels are a lossy intermediary. Electricity has the entropy advantage.

Brazil is insanely wasteful with their sugar/biofuel scheme. Japan will also be inefficient going to hydrogen.
I don't use LLMs in my workflow frequently. When I do I have a hard time making sense out of the very specific and long answers to my questions. Especially if I don't know the answer it is hard to figure out if the long answer of the model indicates the right direction or misses my point completely.

Maybe I'm not knowledgeable enough. But asking questions I already know the answer of has no real life use case other than testing the model. Which of course might be a valid use case for some.

Having a way to let the user specify his own level of knowledge might help to receive answers that are better tailored to the user asking the question.
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Add yet society find it acceptable to subsidize farming of food.
Not a lawyer, but if you show a streamed movie to an audience without having any rights, how would that be covered? Only by considering the stream provider?
PostmarketOS is pretty mainline, and comes with a nice Phosh interface, but smart battery support remains an issue on a lot devices
Thank you for asking the question.

I am curious to know how long have you even working in tech industry? If you are new, are you optimistic about the future in tech? If yes, how come?

I am getting a feel that we are all transitory generation that will go into postAGI world. Because AGI is already here, at least for programming, as long as they are not hitting the long tail.

Thus my question is, the industry doesn't care about human beings. They treat us as commodity (proved by layoffs). Eventually AI are going to do most of the things. If that is the case, how will people adjust to this?
Brave browser isn't necessarily blocking advertisements as much as it is blocking scripts that are naughty, and those naughty scripts are very popular in ads and ad networks.

And the Basic Attention Token concept is something I hope takes off since the current state of online advertising is pretty abysmal.
> So my question is: wouldn’t it also be possible to make a blockchain system that supports smart contracts that’s 100% free to use

Free to use == free to spam.

Several blockchains with zero (or even just very low) fees have been targetted by large persistent spam attacks, blowing up their size by hundreds of Gigabytes, and resulting in calls for spam control measures. That led them to either raise fees, or require some form of PoW.
Colours? Are you sure you can really see colours? The astrophotography stuff is "enhanced" to get colours.

I've been in the Namib desert in Namibia around the Orange river at night, although not during winter. There are loads of stars, but it's not colourful like the pictures and people will be underwhelmed if they have that expectation.

I took a group of people who had only lived in cities into the countryside to watch a meteor shower. It was fun seeing their minds blown when there were more than like 10 stars.

One thing I can't believe not everyone has seen is Andromeda. What's more is it doesn't even seem to be common knowledge that you can see it.

If you're in the southern hemisphere the coalsack nebula is cool although a bit scary.
I wonder what happened to the facebook's "It's free and always will be" lol
San Andreas in Unity, if anyone is interested. You can't do anything more than walk around, drive, and shoot though.

https://github.com/GTA-ASM/SanAndreasUnity
Is there any chance SQLite will sometime work stored under CIFS/SMB shares? I wanted to store all my container /config directories under NAS but can't with the ones using SQLite.
and Zombie Companies

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/31/zombie-firm-bankruptcies-ami...
> There's a team out there where the main drama isn't one right faction and one wrong faction, there are two factions fighting to the death over how best to use a spreadsheet as a database for a production application.

This is the authors ideal of hell? oh you sweet summer child.
> What a weird little “accident” that Chromium just moves forward and loads all the trackers, “oopsie”. I wonder which kind of promotion the engineer who made that “mistake” has been awarded.

This "bug" is in Safari/Webkit too, stop it with the conspiracy theory.
Another Firefox user here. v119, Linux. Works fine.
You can, but if you decide to stay away from messengers like WhatsApp, you miss out. Which is OK unless you have kids in school age.

Once a service gets so big, that you are practically forced to join, regulation seems like a very good idea
Tried that and failed. I know it's going to work in a few months from now, or maybe I didn't find the latest tool however to get to the same availability I would need to spend so much more on hardware than on chatGPT. Rented or bought, both is expensive.

If your use case needs 2-5 servers with a 16 or 70k model. Just to keep reaction time low it doesn't scale right now.
This is why we need to transition to a post-scarcity world and eliminate the need for finance and economy.

I'm not advocating for communism (as it doesn't work when money is involved), it merely allows certain people to accumulate power while everyone else works for free. Capitalism is better because it offers the opportunity to climb the ladder, but it still leaves poor people suffering. More people might find happiness under capitalism compared to communism.

Universal Basic Income (UBI) will not work, as it is still similar to printing money, and poor people might end up worse off in the long run due to UBI-powered inflation.

In any case, I do not know if we can achieve a post-scarcity world. Will it lead to corruption and accumulation of power, similar to communism? I do not know. However, we can at least try to educate people more so that we can aim for a post-scarcity future in the next generation.
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It's almost as if a site for tech has bias for tech commonly enjoyed by the readers of the said site.

I'm shocked, truly.
I've never seen anything like that in any Norwegian newspaper, and I would expect some of them to try if they thought they could get away with it. But I don't think they would at least not if the retoric coming out of Datatilsynet is anything to go by.

How German newspaper get away with that I have no idea. But you can't expect the Norwegian government to handle German language newspapers. If spiegel.de had a Norwegian presence though. Then it would be reasonable for Norway to have a look at it.
Building blocks of either heaven or hell.
Wework started spiralling in 2019, it was never going to stay afloat.
What sort of regulations are preventing a google competitor from starting up? "GDPR/CCPA" isn't very convincing because it was only a recent thing, but google has been around for decades.
... In countries with broken legal systems.
Nick Clegg compares AI clamour to 'moral panic' in 80s over video games
BRL-CAD is a 3D solid modeler while RattleCAD is parametric 2D CAD package. Aside form both products being in the MCAD space they're hardly comparable.
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>If I have a 17mm combination wrench, that will work exactly the same way indefinitely.

I had to transition my tools from imperial to metric in the early eighties.
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Is this legal in US? I'm pretty sure this would be classified as neglect in many/most European countries.
Wow, I made it to the compliments page! I feel like it's cheating a bit that I knew about the page before writing a comment.

I don't really have anything important to say, but I did find this interesting. I'm unused to this sort of indirect response. It feels slightly like a personal response, since he links to a page where my comment is one of a few added, and refers to "commenters". However, my criticism was close to the opposite of what he is replying to.

I criticized the author for writing a story where I felt they mostly acted like a cog in a dysfunctional system, but was sneering at everyone else doing the same. I suppose, though, that perhaps they believe that the best/only solution for being in a poorly-functioning company is to jump ship.

edit: To clarify, I do agree that most corporate systems are dysfunctional and I'm not an agile fan. I'm not defending these systems.
Isn't this just asking for an antitrust case? There is no way I implement this for my own site.
Of course publishers are going to keep these old IPs under lock and key, because they've now figured out they can slap new graphics on it every few years and re-sell it to us at full price.
I don't get this behaviour on Firefox in Android at all.
That's exactly right - I'm directly comparing the known universal population of humans with the known universal population of elements.

Humans are 98% Male or Female with a long tail of variations in chromosones.

Elements are 98% Hydrogen or Helium with a long tail of variations in the nucleus and electron shells.

The elements have atypical clusterings on planets, humans have atypical clusterings in various cities.

It appears to be a sound comparison.
Same experience here. When I build my current OpenAI project it was obvious that my main selling point would be being early in no way wouldn't there be hundreds of (even better) alternatives in a few months from then.

My competitors now have very polished interfaces, I didn't but I was early. Now the other tools obviously are more interesting and I am happy to move to the next fun thing :)