skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both were always going to be kind of inevitable as soon as the technology would get there. Rather than debating how to stop this (which is mostly futile and requires all of us to be nice, which we just aren't), the more urgent debate is how to adapt to this being the reality.

Related to this is the notion of ubiquitous surveillance. Where basically anywhere you go, there is going to be active surveillance literally everywhere and AIs filtering and digging through that constantly. That's already the case in a lot of our public spaces in densely populated areas. But imagine that just being everywhere and virtually inescapable (barring Faraday cages, tin foil hats, etc.).

The most feasible way to limit the downsides of that kind of surveillance is a combination of legislation regulating this, and counter surveillance to ensure any would be illegal surveillance has a high chance of being observed and thus punished. You do this by making the technology widely available but regulating its use. People would still try to get around it but the price of getting caught abusing the tech would be jail. And with surveillance being inescapable, you'd never be certain nobody is watching you misbehaving. The beauty of mass, multilateral surveillance is that you wouldn't ever be sure nobody is not watching you abuse your privileges.

Of course, the reality of states adopting this and monopolizing this is already resulting in 1984 like scenarios in e.g. China, North Korea, and elsewhere.
Change a few words and this feels exactly like the security theatre of the modern login experience, 2FA, MFA, I'm sure they're working on the next insufferable "best practice" to try tie your phone to you even more. Good luck logging into some services if you dare keep your phone in another room for a change.

Flashback to the time I was getting approximately 50 Microsoft 2FA SMS's a day. The place I worked then had forced Chrome's homepage to be some crappy SharePoint page. Getting into that required logging into our Microsoft account, and the checkbox to remember our login for five days literally never worked.

So every time I opened a new tab in Chrome, I'd get a SMS. Truly, we are living in the future.
I wonder how much of the drop in scores had to due with the West's wholesale importation of barely literate third worlders for years. Countries like Japan, Korea, Latvia, and Hong Kong that do not import anyone saw rises in their scores.
As well as obvious bait like the attached, it's also reacting a lot to false positives, going into channels that don't even have a camera on or any green at all on the screen

https://twitter.com/_Yarts_/status/1731083331893391683?ref=t...
> Sarah Allen, Senior Director, MozFest
> Juan Barani, Senior Director, Gift Planning

Not to pick on these two people, but it's interesting that they have senior directors for a conference and gift planning.
What is wrong with you people
This seems much too extreme.
Audible for audiobooks is the most obvious there. That's an interesting point about podcasts, I naively assumed most people were familiar with them long before Spotify offered them. I have been using PocketCasts for many years but iTunes has also carried podcasts for a long time.
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Exactly. This is a company initiative to increase company profits. It's smart business, as long as it's not illegal or the fine is insufficiently high.
> Why in the holy hell as the world's governments taken such an interest in the sex lives of their citizens?

Or their morals? Or their property? Or their family matters? Best of the philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists had thought about that but failed to produce any comprehensible answer. It's a mystery completely out of the man's reach, apparently.

On a serious note: of course they're interested in that because that's one of the most basic and fundamental parts of human society and it has always been regulated, in one way or another, in all of the societies for millennia.
The Product Model at Spotify
Somehow, I don't think a single person enjoying the browser justifies 6 Million dollars a year in executive overhead alone.

That's what what success means in this context: Something that makes that expense worthwhile.
Web Developers shouldn't need to "support" particular browsers at all, that's what standards are for. Nobody should be "supporting" any non-standard functionality at all.
Erlang solved the problem by making a custom VM that abstracts the network away for the most part and is pretty opinionated about how you do that. Kubernetes is not that. I don't see how Erlang is relevant here. You can run Erlang applications on kuberntes, not the other way around.
In my experience it depends somewhat on the sites/web apps one uses (some are not well optimized for WebKit), but Safari definitely tends to be easier on the battery. It seems to try harder to get to an idle state and keep CPU usage down where Chrome and Firefox are happy to keep the CPU spun up, perhaps due to a “speed and bells and whistles at all costs” mentality in development (traditionally browsers have been marketed on speed and features rather than efficiency).
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See Cambridge, MA as an example.

https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/07/18/camb...
Interesting that only 1 out of 17 people in the senior management group is a technologist, and she's a senior director. No VPE, no CTO. Says a lot about the organization's priorities.
No no, you will always need to bring the right models or APIs that can do that. SuperDuperDB is just the framework that allows to integrate them with your database seamlessly and easily.
Unfortunately, many spam callers don't even use number lists, but just iterate through. phoneNumber++ ad infinitum. With parallelised robocallers that only involve a human when a connection is established, it's cheap and effective.
This comment chain is getting circular. We can't use this as an example for itself by assuming that it is true.
What protects the privacy of queries to this service themselves?
F*** you, I'm eating!
I had to ctrl+f to navigate enough to find it but they mention that their method for identifying toxic comments is under the methods and materials section. Its just some kind of trained ML model. In that section they link to a page (Id share it directly but it clearly has some annoying "heres your temporary access key" query parameters that would probably cause the link to break super fast) that gives examples of how it ranks different kinds of comments, and I think that list of examples is enough to trust that it does at least well enough at classifying to draw at least light conclusions from.
Based on this reverse engineered client here: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
This is genuinely awesome. The crossstreet based search is a perfect approach in NYC. Reminds me of how I used to use Google’s sms service to get directions from about 2004-2010.
Last I looked Safari isn't Chrome.

Also, anybody can use the Gecko web rendering engine, yet project after project after project has picked the WebKit or Blink rendering engines.

And no, I haven't "shot myself in the foot" - when I replaced Firefox I found two great browsers: Brave and Vivaldi.

The better question is why you continue to support a compromised organization?
That's what game consoles usually attempt to be.
I am also a happy Firefox user, but that doesn't preclude me from seeing that Mozilla is a failing steward of Firefox.
CEO salaries aren’t, and never have been, relative to the rank and file salaries.

The question is how much you need to be to get a competent executive relative to the open market.

You can argue whether they’re getting what they’re paying for but this doesn’t seem to be out of line relative to the leaders of other, similarly sized organizations. Also a non profit has to have higher salaries as there’s not a lot of room to offload that to bonuses or equity.
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Hi everyone,

I have been looking for a position in Europe for a while and although I trust my skills, experience, and education, I couldn't find one.

Would like to ask if you have any advice or have an open position in your company.

I am living in Germany, and currently writing my thesis. I am nervous that I won't find a full-time opportunity until I finish my Master's in Management and Technology.
There are a LOT of people putting quotes around "toxic" in this thread and a lot of people claiming to not know what a toxic comment is at all.

Really hard not to assume bad faith here.
These are all senior staff and up. Not one of these is staff level.
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Product Management in the internal platform teams
There is quite a recent trend to introduce internal Platform, Dev Tools, or Data Platform teams. I would like to learn more about different approaches of organising Product management there: collecting requirements, ideation, communications. How engineers can be more involved in product design, rituals, etc. I can hardly find any information beyond very superficial. Can you suggest any sources? Thanks!
I'd rather have proper Firefox on iOS than Safari on Linux.
I found about "Lying for Money" on your website a few months ago when you posted your CPU thing. Thanks that was totally worth a read. I recommend you "When Mckinsey comes to town" (the book) in a similar vein, that was entertaining in human mischief as well.
Cool! I was nervous it was gonna show my Tor circuit o_o

Unfortunately so many nodes ignore traceroute packets that it basically said my exit node connected to Linode and then Linode connected to your computer. I have the same experience with forward traceroutes, my router replies, my server replies, and if I'm lucky, one node in my ISP's network. The rest is locked up tight.
I can imagine that the CEO, or maybe a few other top officers, may say: "This is me who is bringing in all the search deals, which means all the money. Come on and try to oust me."

Mozilla is an open-source project. When an open-source project somehow loses its way, it's often forked by a new team of contributors who have a better idea. This happened several times: Open Office / Libre Office, MySQL / MariaDB, X86 / X11.org, hell, even GCC / egcs in the 1990s.

But this likely cannot happen to Mozilla, which is basically kept afloat by Google handing it some money for keeping it as a default search engine, about $400M a year currently [1]. There is little chance that an alternative "Better Mozilla" organization would collect as much, or at least half as much, to support a fork. It would e.g. take 33M users who agree to pay $5/mo for a Mozilla "support subscription" to collect $400M a year.

Maybe a web browser can be maintained for less than 400M, but likely not much less. The modern web is fiendishly complex, and you need both a desktop version (three platforms) and a mobile version.

[1]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-go...
That's worse than using plain JS.
Yes, don't listen to what people actually say, listen instead to what we tell you they really meant. It's for your own good. You're not capable of avoiding the seductive lies these deceivers spew. They might infect you with Doubt.
This took a few reads to parse. There are two kinds of batteries: (1) a low-density LFP that has a great lifetime, (2) a simulated manganese using Nickel manganese cobalt that has a poor lifetime but great density. The former cycles frequently for short trips, and the latter recharges it during the long ones.
Now here in the UK they are using people's passport photos for facial recognition, at least to stop shoplifting. It won't be long before this is expanded to other things due to feature creep.
Some of us have this already w/ our cell phones.

I know that's not what you mean, but in a way it may have preconditioned society.
I don't really get what you're on about. I switched from Chrome to Firefox a couple months ago and... it's great. I don't notice any differences in performance (if anything, snappier) and the only thing that's "missing" that I had in Chrome is that Chrome had all my credit-card and password data associated with my Google account, which, well, that's not something I want Firefox to have.

TLDR: Firefox is a good web browser. It's not failing in the market because it's not a good browser. It's failing because consumers don't seem to actually care one way or the other.
Why would they need a permission to watch something that you are publicly streaming?
I meant "small" as in "can live on a 3*4GB RAM cluster"

About integration, I do not understand what you say
You have a provider and a consumer, each of them build (and pay) their own parts
That's amazing. If I was going to pull a stunt like this, I'd like to think I'd find some way of trying to make it look like a bug.

Must be very satisfying to find something like this.

I guess this is going to provide plenty of billable hours for lawyers at this point...
They do have a fixed release window, don't they?
So the amount of versions per year is not really meaningful.

Laying off the Servo team is one example I remember, that didn't look like Mozilla cares about Firefox.
Personally I keep on using Firefox and can't really complain about the browser itself, even though it's noticeable that incompatibilities increased over the years as the market share decreased.

I also agree, that it's the correct approach for Mozilla to search for different revenue streams. They just haven't been succesful with that for years, which together with the fact, that market share is declining drastically, paints a bleak future for Mozilla.

A lot of people care about Mozilla's declared goal of an "open internet" (for which a browser monoculture is the greatest risk). That's why you hear so many complains.
I'm not sure GP is accurate, even without that. The privileged descending to the lower quarters to hobnob with the masses is as old as civilization, and of course the working lower class generally have to go where everyone else is to serve them. If segregation is increasing, there are plenty of mechanisms to point to, also: anti-poor urban design protocol (including law enforcement-related), low/no-contact resource delivery, WFH, the increased cost of transportation and housing, etc.

It's not actually a surprise that society is bifurcating, is it? Not after the anaphasing of school demographics, voter behavior, and so on.
It also performs better if you tell it to take its time to answer a question. ChatGPT obviously wont halt for 2 minutes thinking about the question, but it still performs better.

Some problems require more than a couple of minutes, money makes people more inclined to resolve the problem as accurate as possible.

Calling ChatGPT capitalist is a bold claim.
I'd be in for a check to Radio shack signed by Woz.
I can't believe that we fell for this crap again.

That's one of the side effects of aging engineers out of the industry so quickly. We've lost so many of the engineers who just lived through a crippling browser monoculture not much more than ten years ago.
The unfortunately fatalist question to ask is... how long until Apple shuts it down?
Living off-grid is how I'm dealing with the whole situation nowadays.
While I have no idea about any of the aspects of Mitchell Baker's salary, I don't see this questioning of corporate CEO's. A generous reading might be that this is the salary required to avoid losing the CEO to some random VC selling useless widgets.
I think another aspect of this is mass criminal law enforcement enabled by AI.

Many of our criminal laws are written with the implicit assumption that it takes resources to investigate and prosecute a crime, and that this will limit the effective scope of the law. Prosecutorial discretion.

Putting aside for the moment the (very serious) injustice that comes with the inequitable use of prosecutorial discretion, let's imagine a world without this discretion. Perhaps it's contrived, but one could imagine AI making it at least possible. Even by the book as it's currently written, is it a better world?

Suddenly, an AI monitoring public activity can trigger an AI investigator to draft a warrant to be signed by an AI judge to approve the warrant and draft an opinion. One could argue that due process is had, and a record is available to the public showing that there was in fact probable cause for further investigation or even arrest.

Maybe a ticket just pops out of the wall like in Demolition Man, but listing in writing clearly articulated probable cause and well-presented evidence.

Investigating and prosecuting silly examples suddenly becomes possible. A CCTV camera catches someone finding a $20 bill on the street, and finds that they didn't report it on their tax return. The myriad of ways one can violate the CFAA. A passing mention of music piracy on a subway train can become an investigation and prosecution. Dilated pupils and a staggering gait could support a drug investigation. Heck, jaywalking tickets given out as though by speed camera. Who cares if the juice wasn't worth the squeeze when it's a cheap AI doing the squeezing.

Is this a better world, or have we just all subjected ourselves to a life hyper-analyzed by a motivated prosecutor.

Turning back in the general direction of reality, I'm aware that arguing "if we enforced all of our laws, it would be chaos" is more an indictment of our criminal justice system than it is of AI. I think that AI gives us a lens to imagine a world where we actually do that, however. And maybe thinking about it will help us build a better system.
> When an open-source project somehow loses its way, it's often forked by a new team of contributors who have a better idea

Perhaps ironically, this was also the genesis of Firefox
I'd say they are expert buyers & users, because all you see are cars and logos of western companies like Siemens, ABB and so on, implementing them.
File handle refcounting would be nice to avoid spamming Git with commits, indeed.
> Don’t take my word for it

Don't worry, I have some knowledge of Japanese and Chinese (traditional) and first hand experience of the phenomenon. If you can visualize the character you can write it, and I maintain that this is not as different as people makes it than visualizing the writing form of a word for a language written with a morphophonemic script (English, French, Korean without hanja, Thai, etc.)
Okay, now keep them raised if you were also performing worse on every metric each year.
As someone that got burned with the whole WinRT stuff, and eventually returned to distributed computing, I would say they still care, but only on the products that give them money.

Windows nowadays doesn't give them money, at least not enough to really care, Azure, XBox, Office do.

I wouldn't be surprised if WSL2, with enough work, eventually grows up to be Xenix 2.0.
Hmm. Maybe I should try uBlock. I usually don't like adblockers -- both on principle, because I believe in paying for what I consume, and because they tend to subtly break a website and cause hours of headaches at least once a year -- but I don't like feeding the beast either. I'll look into this.
My problem with fediverse is that is not that well connected. There are some mastodon instances, but I am not sure if you are a user on one instance you have access to other instance.

I am not sure if we have fediverse, or if we have isolated siloses.

I am asking if that is the case.
Regretful Accelerationism
Sorry, I'm confused here! Who died before finishing what?
Where's the profit margin in that
This is true at most tech companies though - the CEO making a multiple of a typical dev salary. The large increases year over year, however, while Firefox loses market share, is a bigger red flag IMHO.
Usually this is the case, however we are also seeing a lot of Monopoly pricing and Cartels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_price

Big examples of this include meat packers, hospitals, internet providers, energy companies, and home rentals. Many providers are utilizing technology like YieldStar to create virtualized cartels to engage in price fixing.
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For example these: https://timholy.github.io/Revise.jl/stable/limitations/#Limi...
to be fair, sounds like the place you worked at misconfigured something, rather than M$.
"Last time this failed, Bob was the only one who could fix it."

"Bob resigned a few months ago."

"See if he is willing to do some consulting. We'll pay whatever rate he demands."

I still occasionally have past employers call about things years after I left, and if I'd have been immoral enough to pull something like this, those systems could have been full of time bombs.
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As a happy Firefox user, I want Firefox to make me happy tomorrow as well, not just today.
I agree, but that's in no way, shape or form, an utopia.

It's better than before, sure. But an utopia? Not even close.
I think it's fair to argue than using modern value for goods that you can produce more efficiently thanks to the availability of cheap energy and phosphate is not really fair.

750 sheeps or 1200 gallons of olive oil were certainly worth a fortune at the time, and owning that much would probably have made you a very weathly person when owning 300K USD today does not.
Also stylometric analysis of your writing can be used to identify you.
They are _not_ doctors in terms of evidence-based medicine, just policemen without a token. The problem is obviously not about incorrect diagnosis, I can lie to any doctor about any symptoms and just go home with zero obstructions from feds.
The Fn key is superfluous.

Four modifiers, Shift, Ctrl, Meta and Alt are enough. Use Alt and Shift to produce more letters like Alt-Y on my keyboard to make « (opening guillemets). If a keyboard has about 48 keys to produce letters or digits, and if you use Shift, Alt and Shift-Alt you can generate 192 different letters or digits, and that's enough.

I reserve Meta for handling the window manager (for me it's sway). Sometimes I use Shift-Meta or Ctrl-Meta or Alt-Meta with the cursor keys. This is simple. Meta is not for applications, it is for the window manager.

Then there are the F1 to F12 keys. I can toggle the brightness keys, either I press F8 to make the display brighter or Fn-F8. I would prefer to use Meta-F8 instead. That's doable, so perhaps I am going to edit my .config/sway/config file to ignore the Fn-Fx keys.

But to toggle the keyboard backlight, I have to press Fn-Space bar, because it is hardcoded in the hardware keyboard controller. Whatever.
> In the not-so-distant technofedualist future you'll have [...]

I guarantee that I won't. That, at least, is a nightmare that I can choose to avoid. I don't think I can avoid the other dystopian things AI is promising to bring, but I can at least avoid that one.
> 1000km

621 miles
More like highly criminal behaviour like fraud and extortion.