skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(semi-sarcastic post ensues:)

Folks.. come on.. some of us have invested in Google stock (ok.. it's not much, but it is what it is). And for the Google stock to go up people have to use Android without a firewall, Chrome browser in all their devices, Gmail, and so on.. so they be tracked, their data to be harvested and sold x10000 so that the ad machine makes billions and the stock price goes up.

I decided to STOP pestering my friends on switching to Signal, Firefox, etc. and instead I just bought stocks of Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc.. Since people don't want to protect their own privacy and the one of their children, and I cannot help them.. well then I can help myself.

I will 'forever' use FF and suggest it ONCE to friends and family, and then move on with my life (on the 'consulting friends & family on privacy focused solutions).

EDIT: Unfortunately I am not joking on the above.. it made me throw up a bit in my mouth the first time I sat down and bought Google and Meta stock (I was a mutual funds guy until then). I use "dollar cost averaging" so I buy a little, but very often (monthly). I got tired of debating with people on why THEIR privacy is CRITICAL for them and their children. Insurance companies will screw them in the future, Pedophiles are monitoring their instagram, Google (and everyone they sell the data to) knowing where they keep and spend their money, Google knowing who they email and what/when/why/etc. It is insane what type and how much data 'we' are freely giving away, only to bite us in the a$$. For me the cost-benefit of convenience vs what-will-come is very much against us.
"As a language model I don't think this is the tone you should take in a letter to your printer manufacturer. Instead of the long string of expletives, here is a suggested letter of praise for your printers reliability, and an order for more toner instead:

..."
Had a Brother printer once ... never again. I will just say "Cleaning". 'nough said.
I switched to FF from Chrome about a month ago, I'm very happy, no issues.
I guess I'm only using Reddit on a desktop/laptop. No way I'm using Reddit's official app since the rest died out.
> If it is possible that to make a simulation which matches our experience, then it is likely possible to make an unbounded number of such simulations.

Why? This seems to me to be the weakness in the argument.

Of all the universes in which it is possible for a technological species to evolve and create a simulation of our universe, what’s the probably of said simulations having a given incentive or conducive cost/benefit ratio for said species?

Theoretically this could range from “can only do one once before our budget runs out and we move on” to your “unbounded” claim. But with what distribution?

This question seems fundamental and so reduces the initial question to a more complex one than what you pose: is it possible and if so how plausible?

Unless I’m missing something, leaping over this factor, as seems to be the mainstream approach, indicates to me that some techno-utopic-transcendentalism bias is at play.
Three of those are from the same team. Don’t forget “7 Billion Humans” from the same team, either.
I think you are imagining a tautologically good incubator.

I have been disappointed watching government initiatives in New Zealand over the years. They ostensibly are there to help businesses. However they usually are wasteful and ineffective. Government departments have no insight about what factors help small businesses. Even business oriented investors (e.g. VC) often fail to understand how to drive growth, so how can we expect policy wonks to do better than that? Governments fail badly from what I have personally experienced in an incubator (government/private mix), and I can't
think of a government initiative that has helped. I have certainly experienced many negative effects of government interference. So many poor regulations that damage small businesses. Few good changes that help.

I presume there are successful government initiatives but I haven't seen any in 30 years.
thanks, my supabase instance was too small.
Unfortunately, Firefox isn't quite keeping up.

One issue is that for me at least, Firefox crashes too often, and when it does, the entire browser goes away, not just the tab. That's annoying.

Another issue is that something seems to be lacking performance-wise. I messed around a bit with Invoke AI, and the canvas is painfully slow even on modern, high end hardware. I thought it was just the code sucked. Nope, it's silky smooth in Chromium.
You could argue all the building blocks are forms of curve fits, but that isn't a terribly useful statement even if true. If you can fit a curve to the desired behavior of any function, or composition of functions (which is a function) then you can solve any problem you can express the desired behavior of. Including the expressing of desired behavior for some other class if problems. Saying it is just curve fitting is like saying something is just math. The entirety of reality is just math.
Funny, I use Firefox and think Chrome looks a bit uglier. A lot is simply what you're used to. Don't let your initial aesthetic reaction dictate your browser choice. It's really not ugly; just a tiny bit different.
Tech giant Cisco built special device to help block cyberattacks on power grid
sorry, I am very bad at this, I basically copypasted some terminal commands from some tutorial (I think it was https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/raspberry-pi-print-serve...) and also spent a lot of time fixing some of the settings (there had to be something done about spooling service) to finally make it work for my windows PC, as mac and iphone started working immediately. But even if a complete noob like me with some lame google-fu skills could do it, I think anyone can.
KeenWrite looks very nice :-) How does it compare to LyX?
I'm happy with my Lynx/w3m browsers.
I think in case of Slashdot and Digg et all there were places users went on to. In case of Reddit, while decline might true, there is no such “destination” or a path to migrate to. The users are either coming back or have never gone anywhere in the first place, because that “place” isn’t there.

I have seen next to no engagement change in subreddits where the mods didn’t make it very difficult or impossible to engage (i.e either stayed neutral, or made notional changes and few posts). In fact growth as if been seen at normal rates, as if nothing happened.
My problem with Firefox is that a new Firefox windows can only be launched from the same environment (or only from a child process?) from which the first window has been started. Even the same user who started FF cannot launch a new window from a new shell. That constantly interferes with my workflow.

Example: Say firefox has been started from the Destop already and now I want to start a new Firefox window from a root terminal:

su desktopuser firefox

It does not work. It gives me "Firefox is already running, but is not responding.".
You're not prompting it right then.
But where are brother printers though? TFA basically just say “they are what tech people recommend for printers”, and while becoming a favorite amongst tech people isn’t a bad goal, I’m not sure it’s a great yard stick for business success.
If your failure mode is "Google loses my data", putting it in the secure safe is best. It's not likely Google will have data loss on the same day your house burns down.

What emergency could affect both you and Google, but not lead to the kind of apocalyptic situation where you'd prefer an extra first aid kit, food or ammunition to a hard drive in your go bag? Perhaps if you're on the US West Coast, a huge earthquake is a legitimate worry here.
The curse of the default tells us that this will never be a problem. Do you honestly believe that 99% of the Android Firefox users spend time to change the settings on the browser? (change to DDG, block all 3rd party cookies, etc.)

I did a quick search on DDG but no meaningful results came up with search engine for firefox on android. Gut feeling tells me 'minimal'. People do like their google remembering stuff. Convenience is the enemy of security (privacy in this case).
Can you say more? Is this text-to-speech or speech-to-text?
Firefox can't handle lots of tabs?! What are you talking about?

I completely lost track of how many tabs I have open. I lost track of how many windows I have open, and each window has way too many tabs. It must be hundreds. I have a serious problem.

But Firefox doesn't. Firefox keeps churning along nicely as if my current tab is the only one I've got. Firefox enables tab hoarders like me a lot better than Chrome ever did.
I won't use Firefox due to the way Mozilla is wasting its money and mismanaging its projects.
Mr. Jeff versus 20T Dollars
Probably referring to firefox on android. There way they rewrote it, and put an alpha version in the hands of end users was pathetic.

It was a long time before it even had extensions again, it was horribly unstable, it lacked functionality, and it still does.

You really couldn't work harder at torpedoing a product, than do what Mozilla did with Firefox on Android. I've often wondered if Google offered the team in charge a hire away, and massive pay raises to do this, because what else would allow for such incompetence?

Something is horribly broken at Mozilla.
Good questions. My target audience would be people who may be technical, but not in electronics. But they’ve seen what microcontrollers can do and have an idea for a piece of hardware and want to scratch that itch.

So it would be a guide to get you from zero to having a working PCB. Enough basic electronics to get something working and enough background information that a motivated reader would be able to do their own research.
Wasn't this the one deliberately chocked by a narrow memory bus to prevent decent non-gaming workload performance?
you should be able to get a not much used Brother color laser from eBay for less than 150 bucks...
Completely agree: it's one of the best purchases I've made.

Printers were a product category that were expensive for what they offered and were always kind of finicky. I can still remember never knowing if my printer was going to work when I needed it to or not.

Since I purchased a Brother printer all of those concerns went away. It works well, requires minimal set up, is reliable, and represents great value for money over a period of years.

I'm on my second printer from them in the last 10 years and wouldn't even consider a competitor unless there's a serious decline in their quality.

Edit:

Since I saw someone ask below my model is MFC-9340CDW
Science is littered with zombie studies; referenced but retracted studies
I always suggest (not affiliated in any way - just been using their HOSTS for sooooo many years) the "https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/" for my HOSTS file.
Here in Sweden, there's the same feel about the OKI printers.

I've had a lot of clients with office and I do remote support, always recommended OKI because they just work.

This is all that's needed from a printer:

- 1 day delivery to the door (yes, from OKI).

- Register and get 1 free large black cartridge.

- Print mono-tone or single color, don't need all of them.

- Windows and MacOS installs drivers OOB, no need to download or install anything.

- It connects to WIFI, everyone can connect and print.

- Only 1 e-mail from OKI in a year! (From registration)
That was a very nice read!
So you'd rather watch ads? Seems like a weird take.
Watching videos serves a diferent role than interactive b/c you get to take in audio and visual together, which _can_ support a higher bandwidth learning(depending on quality of the video). Also, for unfamiliar subjects, it’s useful to be exposed to the concepts and constructs first so you can build a mental scaffoliding that supports the details. Speech seems to be a better medium for that.

Interactive, like other info sources that present info linearly and in high detail are much less efficient, but allow you to learn the ‘doing’ aspect that a video would not.

But I am curious about what you’ve made. How has the reception for this type of info product been so far?
Yes, much like Framework has completely upended the laptop industry.

/s
Postgres: Opinionated Rules-of-Thumb and Gotchas
Postgres is a big and powerful tool that can be used in many ways, but for your typical backend storing state, I've learned to narrow down how I use it a bit:

1. Every table's primary key should be a single `bigserial id` col unless you have strong reasons and benchmarks showing otherwise. ("They have UUIDs" isn't a good enough reason; simply store those in a separate col.)

2. To represent a point in time, you almost always want `timestamptz`, not `timestamp`. Counterintuitively, the latter is timezone-dependent on some clusters.

3. The default transaction mode is not fully isolated (the "I" in "ACID"), but the fully I mode is often too slow to be useful, so learn to use the default mode safely. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/transaction-iso.html

4. If a cloud service offers high availability with asynchronous standby masters (like Heroku pro tiers), beware that a failover event can lose some of the most recently committed writes.

5. If you're designing your schema well, you don't need or want an ORM. Query builders can help, but question if yours really is helping.

6. Start with 3NF, then selectively de-normalize only for performance reasons.
6a. Even stricter option is an "append-only" aka "timeseries" schema, which I'd recommend trying. Can't remember the last time I didn't use one.

7. If you happen to be testing on a Mac, https://postgresapp.com/ is easier than the MacPorts or Homebrew packages.
They're just copying Apple?

https://discussions.apple.com/welcome
Yeah. But you didn’t build a plane without knowing physics right?

Nobody deploys a textbook algorithm because everyone knows textbooks algorithms and there are no advantages. So, no, there is real value in learning the fundamentals, dear founder.
If you create a new profile for the different user, you can start a second session:

firefox -new-instance -P "Another Profile"
Can’t you use -P for that kind of case?
> Talk with your employer about your concerns. It's easiest if you write down your words anyway, but doing so is required by OSHA: if you aren't satisfied by the solution that your employer offers then you can take the same words to OSHA.

You do not owe courtesy to employer that's putting your life at risk. Its their job to know the law. Tell them nothing, give them no reason to supect you spoke to OSHA, and go straight to reporting.

The reality for most people, is that there will be retaliation and the law will not help them feed their family.
I need a printer to print. Ideally at acceptable prices (I know, ink cartrigaes are like razor blades and that won't change ever). Plus points if it can be connected to a network (which is a given today). I don't have to print when not at home (why would I fax something to myself when I am not at home?).

Ideally, as I print photos mainly, I get more then 4 colors and decent color management.

Added bonus for scanning (with or without document feeder).

Not much else there. Pay-per-page subscriptions are ok, by the way, price wise for home office use.

Then it comes down to innovation in the fields of color management, ink mixing and print heads and paper handling. And inks, of course.

Anything else is just pointless, and nothing I would call innovation.
Rclone can backup Google Drive, including Docs (as .docx) and Sheets (as .xlsx). I think it's a better file transfer tool for any cloud provider too...

https://rclone.org/
Same here, I much prefer the Firefox UI. Chrome feels somehow dated to me.
Wow, we've come back full circle if we're backing up our cloud data to a local SSD :-)
It looks like civitai but for LLMs
I rely on a shopping list like my grandma. Another scenario where not innovating is the way to go.
Google Docs, Sheet are down returning DNS error.

Google Drive seems to be working. But clicking on any files in the drive returns DNS error.
I have very recently begun to see this bug; A workaround is that if you start a new Firefox from a shell on your desktop, then running “firefox” from a shell, even a different shell window, will work fine. I haven’t been able to find out why.
I don't have (nor want) multiple users.

I just want to open a new window for my one user.
YMMV. Firefox hasn’t crashed in years for me.
It’s the original project that the original developer gave to somebody else, but then decided to continue working on the project anyway under the „Origin“ moniker.

At some point ublock was sold and to quote Wikipedia:
„since February 2019, uBlock began allowing users to participate in "Acceptable Ads",[21][22] a program run by Adblock Plus that allows some ads which are deemed "acceptable", and for which the larger publishers pay a fee.“
I agree that the caregivers are not exclusive should be quite obvious, and yes having a lot of caregivers at different times would give the child a lot of rolemodels to choose from. The part I take issue with is:

> Ratios of caregivers to children were greater than five-to-one in the observed hunter-gatherer groups, whereas in UK nurseries each adult is responsible for numerous children. In fact, regulations on adult-to-child ratios in early years settings have recently decreased for two-year-olds to one caregiver for five children—the opposite of what the researchers observed in the Mbendjele communities.

That is nonsensical. There is at best a very weak correlation between the adult-to-child ratios in nurseries and how many overall caregivers a child has and the ratio of children to one adult in a nursery is certainly not "the opposite" of the ratio of 5 "non-exclusive" adults to one child in the Mbendjele communities.

In fact it's quite conceivable that even in the Mbendjele communities for parts of the day 10 children might only be looked after by 2 adults, the same ratio as UK nurseries.
I think this type of comment ought to have a bit talking about *why* you would reach for it.
That does sound useful. I'd need a camera on each level with the amount I pack onto each shelf.
interesting. I can't remember a time where a browser crashed on me during the last 15 years or so. and I do heavy dev work with them, and also browse with tens of open tabs multiple hours pretty much every day.
I'm amazed that there is still no legislation to control this. E.g. consumers should have the option to choose between a cheap printer with vendor ink lock-in, or a more expensive one but with free choice of ink.

It seems like something that the EU could make itself useful with, for instance.
I fundamentally disagree with that post. The idea of Idiocracy was clear, but it made an additional statement with what it decided to portray as "stupid". Two things can be true at the same time.
I think you're over generalising your bad experience on desktop. I've used Firefox since it was called Phoenix on numerous Windows and Linux machines and I don't recall ever having those problems.

Mobile Firefox I completely agree. That was a complete mess after they rewrote it. Crashes, UI bugs, you name it. I tried, but eventually couldn't take it any more and switched to Opera for Android which works nicely enough for me. The only thing mobile Firefox had in common with the desktop is the product name, they aren't the same software at all. Very disappointing.
I would, if Mozilla focused on features users want :)
Custom Events in the Blocky World: Using JFR in Minecraft
I'm the author, ask me things.
I couldn't help but smile (smirk?) while reading this, because while I (foolishly) thought I was mentally prepared for fatherhood - there was still a lot of this sort of attitude in me and I suffered the consequences.

Poor guy didn't yet discover that he's not mowing a lawn - he's raising a future adult and that is likely to be way more impactful long term than all the things he thinks are important now.

I mean:

> I’m a problem-solver. I have no issue taking responsibility, figuring out solutions, acting bravely, and being a leader.

Funny how that's exactly the skillset necessary to be a good parent and children are the ultimate test in this field.
Yes, the author considers his life came to a full stop when in fact it is only starting now. He's just not a spaceship yet.

Kids literally take your life (you gave it to them), but they are giving back much more in return. And afaiac, I'm much more efficient and productive at what I was doing before having kids because now my time has a value. I'm not going to spend time on shitty meetings or doing overtime work on a shitty project.

If anything, kids force you to become a better self. Nothing can do that better.
To be an Android Firefox user, you already went to the trouble of installing an alternative browser on Android. The motivations to switch browsers might as well be the same as those which will push you to switch search engines.

I would totally expect a reasonable number of Android Firefox users, of all apps, to change at least the search engine.

(I'm with you on the general case)
> Japan/Tokyo is not a good example, or not equivalent, as they have a shrinking population.

It's a good example because Tokyo was still growing for a very long time and yet fairly had reasonable rents despite an enormous metro area population that's significantly larger than any Western city.
Our Brains Can't 'Rewire' Themselves, Neuroscientists Say
Edge is based on Chromium. You're better off with Firefox.
I think you might be missing their concern.

The concern is that google basically funds firefox, and can choose to revoke that funding at the most inconvenient time for mozilla, risking bankruptcy. Companies ebb and flow on cash flow, and a unexpected drop at the exact wrong moment can cripple even the most well funded ones.

Or just threaten to do so to exert pressure.
> Firefox has always been the most versatile and secure way to browse the web.

Currently, a Chrome full-chain is notably harder than a Firefox full-chain, with the former being at "state actor ITW" level, and the latter being at "your friends started a never-heard of consultancy and they decided to do the classical trick - pwning Firefox at Pwn2Own" level.
> The Turing test is determined

What does the Turing Test determine anyway? According to the paper, it is supposed to measure a machines intelligence, or rather more prosaically, answer the question "Can machines think?"

But that isn't what the test measures.

It measures how well a machine can trick a human into believing it is a person. So instead of measuring how well the machine does, the test instead measures how well the human does. That is the greatest flaw of the Turing Test, and the little "answer with silence" thought experiment is showcasing exactly that flaw.

"Can a machine trick a human" and "Can a machine think" are 2 very different questions. Humans can, and have shown to, be tricked by ELIZA and even simpler chatterbots, engines that don't even use any kind of ML, just large bodies of prewritten text and a number of static rules.

> by % of people who believe they are taking to a person.

And what does that denote? Say I get 2 groups of people. One is tricked by ELIZA 80% of the time, the other is tricked by ELIZA 40% of the time. Does that show that ELIZA passed or failed? Neither. It shows that the outcome of the test depends as much, or even more, on the ability of the interrogator than it does on the quality of the machines responses.

Imagine a litmus test (a chemical test to roughly determine the acidity of a solution), where the test result depends on who performs it, as much or even more than it does on the quality of the Litmus-Paper. No lab would use that test for obvious reasons.
I have a Brother DCP L2530DW: black and white laster, wi-fi, with scanner. Works perfectly for my use case (scanning invoices, printing tickets and mail), no need for a specific app be it on Android, Windows or Linux.

I'm only using the Brother Windows app for scanning purposes, as the OCR works well for my needs.

It's been 2.5 years, no issues whatsoever, just needed one toner change after a while.