skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the story of the GP, and extending your analogy, this is more like if they walked into the house and found the safe and noted it was locked, so looked up the safe schematics online.

Not exactly legal.

But even stepping back, I suspect walking around and jiggling random peoples’ doorknobs to see if they’re unlocked is probably illegal.
World-first gene therapy for 2 blood disorders – sickle cell and thalassemia
Yes, completely. If there's no business contract in place, it's hard to expect compensation of any sort. It's all hinged on the other party's willingness to recognize the value in keeping the project alive. Very few do.
I think you and the GP both make good points.

It seems like what we're really missing here is solid data about the success rate for the author's approach.
It is, Firefox is tangibly slow for me on mac.

Rendering/JS performance seems reasonable nowadays, but the UI has weird skips and freezes fairly often.
Sounds like he is one of us then!
Sometimes it's that devs still like the project, but more often it's probably just the fame/exposure that they don't want to lose. If you have no compassion for a project and the demand is high, it's still your decision to invest your time for no money exchange. You can just ignore the demands, if you can accept that your project might eventually fold.

This is additionally supported by the point that only few maintainers will hand out commit rights to other devs. They rather complain about all the workload and demands than give up some of all of their control, so others with more passion or who are even paid can continue working on the project.

If you want to be paid for your code, then pick a license model that matches it, but it will mean that you won't rise to the top, as only a limited amount of people will use it.

I wrote some more thoughts on this, during the "Moq incident" earlier this year: https://duerrenberger.dev/blog/2023/09/23/foss-funding/
Firefox is implementing it for compatibility with Chrome extensions, but crucially it's not removing support for the old manifest format.
It is - but particulates are a massive health issue.
> The title is accurate and not editorialized in that context.

So long as you treat the Reddit thread as a primary source which in this case it's clearly not.
My experience is the opposite, Firefox feels quite lighter, Chrome tends to use more resources and feels bloated.
I hear this and it makes sense that a minority of users sucks up a lot of time, but what isn't clear to me is why maintainers don't ignore these people.

I've never maintained a popular open source project so maybe there's something about the situation I just don't understand. But it seems like:

> Thank you for your feature request, we will add it to the backlog. The core team doesn't work on unfunded feature requests because they use up a lot of time and resources. We are happy to review high quality PRs from anyone interested in implementing the feature. We also have a variety of sponsorship options, and a list of past contributors and maintainers available for contract work.

would be reasonable and polite?
Sure, the wake is thinner relative to the length, but that's not the relevant variable. The drag is still way higher for the same frontal area than for the same width body that's shaped like a prius. and thus power required is much higher.
Sometimes I feel the opposite. A condition might be described as affecting "only 1% of people" as if to say it's rare and I'm thinking that's so extremely common. I could walk into a highschool and there would be multiple people affected. Or maybe someone in my office has this right now.

Even 1 in 100,000 type conditions mean that multiple people in my city have it nevermind the region.
NO!

It was a brand new arc lamp.
This isn't the first case of domination of the internet by authoritarians, but it's not the last either. And as politics in the US constantly remind these days, authoritarianism can take root anywhere.

I could see this colliding with efforts to tie online activities to verified real people- the blue checks- in a really, really bad way.

It makes me think of alternatives like meshnets. Is radical decentralization the key to a free internet that survives the 21st century? Will we all be on the dark web soon by default, in order to express anything at all with relative anonymity?
I don't know anyone who doesn't think Starbucks is overpriced slop. In any European city you'll find local cafes with better quality and prices than what Starbucks sell.

They seem to only be present in the big metro areas that attract a lot of tourists, travelers and immigrants who are familiar with the Starbucks brand and go for that out of habbit and know quality, similar to how McDonald's is so popular.
Depends on where the word comes from I would say
Just look around forums and socials like Reddit. I see people bitching how OBS Studio doesn't work for them the exact way they want it while contributing nothing to the project almost daily.

This happens less where the FOSS choice is a drop in a sea of established proprietary packages (FreeCAD, KiCad, Godot) but way way more when they have already established themselves as the popular pick (OBS Studio, Blender) so they get flooded by less tech-savy, more casual users that don't really see the value of open source other than they don't pay for it.

"Normal" people have always had stuff given to them for "free" (either "you are the product" or built-in licenses like Windows) so they don't realize the goodwill and sacrifices that FOSS goes through.
I'm on Linux, and Firefox's performance is still behind Chromium. Mozilla only recently enabled hardware acceleration. There are benchmarks in which Firefox beats Chrome (https://arewefastyet.com/linux64/benchmarks/overview?numDays... has an overview) but in general Chrome is faster.

On Windows and macOS Firefox is a bit more competitive, but important benchmarks such as JetStream and Speedometer still have Firefox easily beat (note the inverted score axes).

That doesn't mean Firefox is slow per se, it just means Chromium (and WebKit) are faster.

On Android I use Firefox for its addon support, but the UI is notably more glitchy and buggy than Chrome's.
> Most complex, unique, value producing things have a path to monetization for the builder of the thing.

I don't think this is true. You need an extra condition 'that few people want to produce'.

There is lots of good free art. Why? Because lots of people want to be artists and make art. There is tons of good free writing. Why? Because lots of people want to write. There is masses of good free music. Why? Because many, many people enjoy making music.

There aren't people who collect garbage, clean toilets, dig holes in the ground, or work in oil refineries for free. But there are people publishing science, doing research, writing philosophy, producing erotic material, designing things, putting on theatre, producing textbooks and teaching people things, making clothes, thinking of jokes, answering questions, providing peer support to addicts, playing music, making games, making animations, all without monetary compensation. This is because the people doing these things want to do them.

This isn't a failure of our economic system. It's a great thing - it makes the products better, the producers happier (provided they have the economic freedom to spend time on these projects) and the consumers better off.

First of all, it's obvious that in the vast majority of cases, writing free software falls into the 'amateur art' category not the 'dirty, boring and necessary job' category. Many, many people enjoy the time spent on writing and maintaining software, are motivated to solve their and other people's problems, and take pride in doing so well. You might expect that only games, intellectual toys or fanciful projects would motivate people to work on them in their free time. The reality is that software projects which could be seen as dry and boring to non-technical people (OS kernel design, file transfer protocols, laptop power management support, database and webserver stability, document rendering) attract many very talented people to work on them.

Secondly, if we think that there's some deep inequality or instability in our society because (for example) critical Internet infrastructure depends on hobbyists and volunteers, doesn't it make more sense to try and improve the conditions for hobbyists and volunteers, and make it possible for there to be more of them? The alternative put forward seems to be to turn them into more of the people who both don't enjoy the time spent on what they do, nor produce the best product that they can.
Yeah, I've used that a lot. Yet another example of how AI engines can help you learn quicker.
Why is this not a thing?
Clothes hangers are designed to keep the structure of the clothing, if this design is used you might as well fold your shirts and use less storage space.

Seems obvious if you’ve had to wear a perfect military uniform you pressed.

Three years and no one mentioned this, is this real content or is this fake TV?
And some will never leave cloud.
For the relationship, you have to read most of the way through:

What I find most interesting is that the problem of generating noise in the time domain has been recast into shaping and denoising a spectrum in the frequency domain. It starts as white noise, and gets turned into a pre-designed picture. You do so by swapping pixels in the other domain. The state for this process is kept in the phase channel, which is not directly relevant to the problem, but drifts into alignment over time.

Hence I called it Stable Fiddusion. If you swap the two domains, you're turning noise into a picture by swapping frequency bands without changing their values. It would result in a complex-valued picture, whose magnitude is the target, and whose phase encodes the progress of the convergence process.

This is approximately what you get when you add a hidden layer to a diffusion model.
Probably a majority. There are some that have no kids, but birth rates are around 2 in the US, and 1.5 in europe. Some people have multiple kids, so we can't do math, but on average everyone has a kid anyway.
> If the user’s browser fails to download, parse, and run any JavaScript, nothing will display on screen.

> So before any JavaScript has been downloaded, parsed, and run, a desktop browser could display something like

If? Before? I’m sorry but that’s just not based in reality at all.

These examples are so hopelessly contrived. Their fallbacks are rough and often ugly, require a ton more testing and development, and are not what users want. If your JS is slow to load or often fails loading then that’s what you should focus on. Not some half-working BS.

Web _apps_ require JS. Pure and simple. Pretending that it’s worth the time to implement a fraction of your web app’s functionality for the case where JS doesn’t load is ludicrous. “Oh look you can use a title instead of a tooltip”, cool, now make some actually complicated work.

If I had unlimited budget and unlimited QA time I still would think this was a stupid idea. Dealing with all these “graceful” (press X to doubt) fallbacks means double the QA time: once to test the happy path that users demand and once to test the absurd path that <1% of your uses will see or want. Anti-JS/noscript people don’t make any sense to me. Might as well reject CSS or h1 tags while you are arbitrarily drawing the line somewhere.

Yes I know HN has a higher proportion of these people than the internet at large but it’s simply not worth the extra effort and testing. It’s like installing peddles in a car in case the engine goes out.
If we cultivate trees, then remove them from the earth and atomize them into the air, then plant more trees, they're a renewable resource but it's still causing climate change.
Agree, that's why I always sticked to FF even when Chrome had superior performance and/or functionality. Giving such leverage to a company that lives of pushing ads into your face is insanity.
The article asks for money at exactly the point where it was going to tell you what the problems were.

I have some suspicions.
yes, it's an ad hominem. people need to know who are you and what incentives behind them. if you're from a competing provider, other will need to take that into account.

also, if you want to peddle your stuff, make your own announcements or something.
I mean, I wouldn't use windows as the good example.
LED lights can look like anything. My son has LED lights in his room that can flash in all the colours of the rainbow. We have a couple of LED bulbs that do a very good approximation of those dim incandescent bulbs were you can clearly see the filaments.

Just shop around for better LED lights. There's a lot of variation out there.
Bom dia meu vizinho.

I understand that you disliked my comment. I live in Portugal, and I have lived in France and US as well. I’m sorry to say that people trashing stuff in nature is far worse here than these other countries. You don’t see people dumping fridges or old bathtubs in nature there. I see it in Algarve, Alentejo, outside Lisbon… that + the poop everywhere on the street, I’m sorry man but people don’t have the same standard for respecting nature and keeping the streets clean. Doesn’t mean anything about the people themselves, people are very nice and considerate to each other. I think that’s alright to recognize flaws though.

I mean, 13.2 vs 10.3 is quite a big difference - and that doesn’t address the fact that a lot of these old ‘95 trucks or weird scooter-truck things have pitch dark exhaust fumes and are driving around like nothing’s going on. I’m pretty sure you’d get pulled over by cops and forced to fix your car in France or US. It’s not legal in these countries to drive cars like that. Again, I get that people don’t have the money to get a newer car, I’m not blaming them. Just noting that while the electricity is clean, a lot of progress remains needed in other parts of the economy.
I really don't get it. People build open source projects because it gives them unlimited freedom to build what they want. Open source was never about money. If you care about that there's far easier ways to get paid (and disclaimer: they're usually boring AF.)

You don't have to try turn every project into a business... There's also a pretty big catch-22 here in that most of these projects are only widely useful precisely because they are free. With that came the users, the plugins, bug fixes, and features. Take that away and many projects will have never became popular and then you'll have solved the issue of not being paid for your work (because no users will exist to buy your software.)
Using the same logic, you could say coal is renewable depending on your time horizon, no?
A comment from 2010.
Technically coal is also a closed loop of carbon because the CO2 once came from the atmosphere.

Which brings us to the problem: The CO2 shouldn't be in the atmosphere right now: If you burn wood today and the CO2 gets removed again by new plants within the next 100 years, that's still a problem.
This is Fluent Reader.

Note the page only advertises downloads for Windows and Mac; however, on the releases page[1], an *.AppImage for Linux can be downloaded.

Testing it right, it does look nice. Maybe finally time to retire FeedBro which just has too many bugs to be called good software.

[1](https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader/releases)
It’s because they display—and behave—wildly differently in different browsers. This has been the story of tons of HTML5 “widgets”.

I know this isn’t quite a widget, but when something as simple as input type=“number” was introduced, I was excited because it could be used to call up the mobile keyboard for numeric input. (Say for a zip code, which is a common use case). But unfortunately, it can also be changed via your mouse’s scroll wheel, accidentally, so I’m stuck using input type=“tel” for everything. (Do you want to scroll to your zip code?)

The problem with these things is you can’t just push out improvements and fixes. Everything has to be backwards-compatible and I feel like they’re never nearly good enough at the beginning.
Yep, and if you ask them to they will throw a fit and claim you are taking away their rights.
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Hi, the maker here. I've been working on this "boss fight with gradual evolvement" concept since GPT-3. With the latest ChatGPT update it became MUCH more powerful. The chat remembers context, follows instructions, and so on.

Title: Show HN: Bringing Retro Gaming to ChatGPT with a Might & Magic-Inspired Text Adventure

I've been captivated by the idea of creating a text-based game within ChatGPT, turning it into a nightly hobby. Every evening, I dive into this textual realm, inputting commands and marveling at the unfolding adventure. This project has evolved into a nostalgic ode to the retro games of the '90s, particularly the Might & Magic series (IV-VII) that I enjoyed during my high school years on a local PC with friends.

This game, leveraging the latest ChatGPT updates, aims to resurrect the classic gaming experience, where you lead a group of characters through various locales, battling monsters along the way. I'm excited to demonstrate how ChatGPT's creativity can not only match but enhance my own. I hope you find it as engaging and fun as I do.

I welcome any questions or suggestions for improvement. Your feedback is invaluable as I continue to refine this interactive experience.

Latest changes and the process described here: https://x.com/stas_kulesh/status/1725278103847489642?s=20
Just close the issue section. Then you only have to review the PRs where CI is green.
It's a renewable resource but burning wood for energy causes much worse environmental issues than climate change.
ATX PSU must supply power for 16 ms after power off. It also supplies power good signal which can indicate that power is not available. So operating system has a chance to flush caches. Of course that's not few seconds, but should be enough for practical uses. I don't know whether popular operating systems implement this behaviour.

Some server disks might have a backup power source, but that's certainly not a consumer hardware.
I'm very intrigued by

> Julian Jaynes, who introduced the concept of bicameral mentality in his 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, proposed that humans only became conscious 3,000 years ago, and that this was not a biological evolution, but a learned behavior.

And how everyone managed to 'wake up' and make the change to being conscious.
I wrote "very low on carbon" precisely to not write "zero carbon", so I'm not so sure we really disagree here.

From the abstract:

> Results for the process-based, input-output, and hybrid methods range between 16.55–17.69, 18.82–35.15, and 24.61–32.74 gCO2e/kWh,

That's in the ballpark of what you can get from other sources [1]. And it's still:

* an order of magnitude lower than coal

* almost an order of magnitude lower than gas

* in the same order of magnitude as the other renewables (PV / Wind / hydro.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...
Trans women are not males who call themselves women, though.

If you insist they are , that's denial of trans existence and that's the road to genocide.

Trans women are not males who call themselves women, though.

If you insist they are , that's denial of trans existence and that's the road to genocide.

Apparently I was wrong on top surgeries. I will be more careful with phrasing then. However, sterilization (aka genital surgery) still is not a thing.
Do people donate more if they see that the app is developed by a lone-wolf developer rather than a team?
In my experience web components got a bad wrap because it was never really clear what exactly they are. Are they the shadow DOM? Custom elements? Yes! And no

I very rarely use the shadow DOM APIs but really lean heavily into custom elements for simple lifecycle hooks. Similar to the example in this article, its really easy to server render the HTML and have a bit of JS hook on in the client.

The main downside is that there's no support for delaying the component, the custom element will be created and connected immediately.
Do you happen to know if the lights everyone tells stories about -- both this news article, and other anecdotes -- are already LEDs, and still absurdly hot, because more light is better?
> but what isn't clear to me is why maintainers don't ignore these people.

One reason is that you're being told that that's an awful thing to do by basically every resource on "proper open-source" you can find.

Another is that these people are pretty good at starting shit storms trying to ruin your reputation if you don't comply with their unreasonable demands.

It's also worth nothing that some requests/issues/questions might be reasonable when viewed in isolation but not if there are hundreds of them.

Think for example stuff unrelated to the project but where you as a hacker could nonetheless help because you do know the answers/possess the skill.
For me at least, I find it hard to deal with that, because I know that I could in theory help that person. I just can't in practice because time and energy are both finite.

> We are happy to review high quality PRs

Are we though? There's a lot of work attached to reviewing even high-quality PRs.
Also, even if the PR is high quality, the maintainers will still be the ones maintaining that new feature so it's still significantly more work.
"unauthorized" is a weasel word because it implies that it should be necessary for the developer to ask David Attenborough for authorization to create a clone of his voice using AI.
Looks like the tone of my post above was misread.

I see photos being automatically OCRed by default now ... in Google Photos, in Microsoft SharePoint etc.

I am just imagining that in future a GPT Vision processing of all videos ever captured might become similarly prevalent (and cheap).

Which would open up a very easy attack vector / leakage of secrets ... like phone unlock pins and passwords.

I am in the same boat as the comment I replied to -- concerned about new risks that new tech might bring to the table.

My post was just "extrapolating" the risk to a larger scale -- not just one video clip being manually decoded, but all footage automatically spitting out secrets as simply as a Closed Caption / video transcript of today.
> At this point, is there still any good reasons to use Chrome?

I use Firefox for everything... except work.

At work we have Google Suite, Google Meet, etm and these do not work as well, as consistently, or with the same features in Firefox.

A specific example, if you have a 1080p webcam you can use this in Firefox and https://webcamtests.com/ will reveal that I have a 1920x1080 FHD webcam @ 50fps ... all good, but Google Meet will only allow 1080p webcams in Chrome.

That's a rich feature example, but even things like Docs behaves subtly differently and a little more rich and fluidly in Chrome.

What this means is that I segment my life by browser, Firefox is my personal life, and I treat Chrome as my work sandbox.
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