skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Firefox needs to focus all their effort on making a good web browser first. If the browser is slow, has a clunky interface, or lags behind on features, then people won't use it.

People don't use one browser over another because of performance, full stop. Certainly not over 10% to 20% differences. Even years ago when Chrome did have an advantage, they would never have gained marketshare so quickly if they hadn't spammed Firefox users visiting google.com with Chrome ads.

Even features don't matter. People use Safari, Safari is severely lacking in "features". 99% of users aren't power users.
Yep, I know how it is. Many thanks for keeping this service up, regardless!
This seems irrelevant
People seem to believe me when I say I don't carry a phone, but they look at me like they're talking to a member of some 'uncontacted tribe'. I don't think it computes.

The good ones at least have a machine where you can pay cash. I found myself having to park in such an area recently, and did some recon the day before, just to make sure there were machines on site - and there were. What I found funny was that the lot was attended by a live human being, too, which made me wonder why the owner of the lot in question had opted for an automated system at all.

It bothers me that they insist on collecting license plate numbers. Why not just number the parking spots so they are classed as 'paid' or 'not paid' and dispense with the unnecessary surveillance?

Is it even illegal to use a fake plate in a situation like that? Certainly if you are driving, but what about parking?
imo you've just traded one set of centralized costs (developing tools, security practices that work for all and educating people) for a distributed set of costs with everyone managing their own clusters and duplicating all this work. You've just pushed the cost onto other teams - which can be a fine approach for reducing the central teams stress, but is net more costly to the business. EDIT: Im not saying its necessarily a bad choice, just much more expensive.
A blockchain might actually be a decent solution for this. Just make it so the tokens don't have value.
Isn't the USA being in the position it's in a counterpoint to your argument that:

'Turns out, amazingly, that at no point in history was killing people and breaking stuff the path to long, happy, comfortable and prosperous living.'

Surely it can be argued that the USA choosing to enter WW2 when it did and help secure victory for the allies placed the US government in an incredibly powerful position when reconfiguring the global economy (in its favor). The US dollar is still the world's reserve currency and post war generations have lived incredibly prosperously compared to their peers before the war (perhaps this is now reversing).
I swear my 75 year old mom doesn’t care about the limitations of SMS. White text on a bright green background is tough to read and straining on the eyes. Luckily it is only her own texts that are colored that way (even though she is on iPhone).

We switched to using FB messenger because it’s easier to use and read for everyone in our family.
It would have been easy for the parent poster to not be so incredibly vague. I suspect it's because they are discussing this point in bad faith, ready to move the goalposts when any evidence to the contrary was brought up like this.
The problem is that a single unlocked door led to the unavoidable termination of these animals.

There were no attempts to lure them back to the enclosure (to which they would likely have returned due to the low temperature), no other attempts at capture, and no other plan than termination.

When escape of the enclosure is a lethal threat, then the enclosure needs greater protections to prevent mandatory termination. There should be at least three levels of containment, using doors with mechanisms that the animals cannot manipulate.

Facilities that cannot meet these containment standards should be forced to surrender them to those who can.
No, google has an extension they use that is not part of the RCS standard.
Both great tools, but for different applications.

Brilliant is an education platform. Manim is an animation tool.

Manim animations could be used for education, but I do not believe Brilliant can be used to create custom animations.
I don't know enough about the Fediverse, but are those pluggable? I could see having a trusted third party for Identity management.
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I moved to a part of Chicago where parking is very expensive. I got rid of my car. I thought I'd need it far more than I did. The ~$500 a month I spent on the loan/insurance/gas/basic maintenance plus $200-300 for a spot (in addition to any other parking when you go places) is just an insane expense compared to the $2.25 train ride that gets me most places and $800/month covers plenty of $20 rideshares for areas not covered by public transit.
Would it materially impact your life to send me a video each time you use the restroom?

Probably not, but that doesn’t mean you’re comfortable with it being shared.
> What's the point?

Blocking ads in Android. That was my gateway into going back on all of my devices.
Why? Way less bloated, duly noted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space

https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
>We cannot fix it or replace it like a fungible good.

That rather depends on exactly what we're talking about. CO2 can be stripped from the atmosphere, for example. It's just somewhat expensive.

>E.g. the damage to communities from being in isolated residences in unwalkable communities where kids cannot freely play outside has no dollar amount.

Sure it does. Even deaths have reasonably well established values, legally speaking. And things like expected future medical costs or lost productivity are much more straightforward to assign a value.
I got there from google so I didn't know these were a thing-- thanks!
XMPP/Pidgin coming back!
I intended to highlight a consistent culture of hyper rationalism, such as shooting escaped animals and not allowing zookeepers in the cages.
> #2 Bitcoin has failed as a means of payment.

This one kind of side-steps the actual problem, which is that Bitcoin needs to be a means of payment (at L1) to be sustainable once the block reward is decimated in a few halving cycles. Satoshi called the paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. The “electronic cash system” part is not just a cool trick it can do, it’s a load-bearing part of the design -- if people aren’t using it as cash and driving up transaction costs, the security of the network falls apart regardless of how valuable the coins are.
I’m a fan of passkeys and bullish on continued UX improvements but completely agree with you. Even basic things like “when I’m on a website, show all my passkeys for it and where they’re stored (browser, 1password, macos keychain)” or “when I’m adding a passkey for a site, properly choose where it’s stored and know what other devices it will be synced to or accessible from” are hard or impossible or confusing. Improvements needed.

If I were maintaining an auth system right now, I’d make sure webauthn was supported as both a login and 2fa method, make sure i didnt require hardware-scoped keys, and leave them off by default. Advanced users can opt in and support themselves. 2fa defaults to the standard qr code. Logging in allows “send me a magic link” but defaults to email and password. No usernames. I feel like thats reasonable?
Roger wilco. Thanks, dang.
>How would it be bad for the web?

It results in users having a broken experience or sites being very conservative in what features they use.
Cleaning and preparing the dataset is a huge part of training. Like the OP mentioned, OpenAI likely have some high quality automation for doing this and that's what's given them a leg up above all other competitors. You can apply the same automation to clear out low quality AI content the same way you remove low quality human content. It's not about the source, just the quality matters.
> WHOIS is actually an... interesting protocol to make a parser for.

It's actually impossible. Responses are essentially free-form (if the server responds at all). I tried my hand at this; you can make an ad-hoc "parser" that works for 90% of addresses/domains (or you could, ten years ago when I tried). But the remainder are intractable.

Nowadays it's much worse; nearly everything is hidden behind privacy shields, which purport to protect PII. But WHOIS records aren't supposed to contain personal information; they're supposed to contain contact information for network operators.

This is ICANN's doing, I'm afraid. ICANN had a rule that networks should provide public WHOIS servers. They never enforced the rule, and now they've scrapped it.
Process culture can be nice in the ideal scenario where the processes can have huge parts automated or programmatically guard railed. However, when that isn’t the case, I agree the paperwork barriers can get dreadfully tedious and introduce their own opportunities for mistakes
I’m glad the white text on green is neutral and pleasing to your eyes.

I wish I could change just that one color in my iMessage app without messing up the rest of my iOS color scheme.
Hi, I immediately subscribed.

Is there any way to adjust the display name for my contacts to use nicknames instead of contact name?
Even taking privacy as a pure abstraction over things that people really care about at face value this conclusion bakes in a ton of assumptions. The assumption a perfect power balance can be attained, the assumption once attained it can be guaranteed to never falter, and the assumption what happens between now and when such a utopia is achieved is an irrelevant concern to the individual at risk now.
The color kind of does matter, it pains me to read white on light green.
Modern NPF is great. Now if we could just get our friends to stop recommending IVF…
A good source of inspiration are app marketplaces. Not the iPhone or Google play app stores but niche ones like the Shopify App Store, Grafana plugins, Atlassian apps, Visual Code Marketplace. Which Snowflake data sources are popular? Which Pagerduty plugins are popular?

This won’t necessarily give you a concrete idea but it will spark the creative juices and might give you a starting point
yeah, billing is pretty simple with a bit of investment on tagging. If it gets complicated there are third party tools to help. Much better than introducing significant complexity into your systems architecture just for the accounting team.
That too, I don't normally indulge in high-maintenance ;)
Well, I hope you get the chance to explore a bit before you make your decision on whether to stay. The British climate (at least) is hard to defend though.
That’s exactly what I argue: the CPython developers choose not to spend time on a JIT (quite possibly because they didn’t have the resources to build a good one)

PyPy shows Python could have had a JIT (https://www.pypy.org/)
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That counts, can you show an example of this data being used in that way? In literally any way at all, has this data actually been used for anything?
a more apt analogy is Moore's law
Thanks for sharing this, I found it helpful as an addition to my homebrew curriculum for learning how to fine-tune open source LLMs.
The iPhone 5s (released ten years ago) received an update earlier this year.
Goalposts keep being pushed:

* You don't have to care about privacy if you didn't do anything illegal.

* If you do care about it, you can just choose not to share your information.

* If you don't share but your data is still leaked, it didn't affect your life anyway.

The point is an average person is incapable of having boundaries with these corporations who have all their data and benefit from it, and we have no way of predicting how all this data about us will affect us.
Instant messages on the Mac were the same green for a decade before that.
>, it's that possible crimes will be flagged by AI systems for humans to then review.

Eh, this is problematic for a number of reasons that need addressed when adding any component that can increase the workload for said humans. This will cause people to take shortcuts that commonly lead to groups that are less able to represent and defend themselves legally taking the brunt of the prosecutions.
With a large model? How many parameters?

See my other comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38536178
Once your schema changes take more than a few minutes, yes. There's a lot of toil and burden if you need to take down your application every time you need a schema change. Announcements, coordination with internal teams and customers and then coordinating with other engineers.

We aren't talking about zero downtime here, but continual, recurring downtime due to schema changes. Once you have beyond a few million rows in a normal RDBMS, schema changes can take minutes to hours depending on the type. Do this a few times per month and you now have 'lots' of downtime and you are blocking other engineering work from happening. It eventually becomes so much of a hassle that engineers don't want to do schema changes, blocking feature work. The more seamless and painless you can make them, the better.
I'm always surprised to read claims that Firefox is the same or better than Chrome.

I switched to Firefox recently and many sites don't quite work: for example the pull request popup menu on GitHub appears off screen so can't be clicked on; the "new post" panel in Discourse is obstructed by the keyboard; FastMail alert box buttons don't work, and many other such annoyances.

It can be used as a main browser but it does have problems. I wouldn't bother with it if it wasn't for the manifest v3 situation
Thanks for writing up. Rather than zeroing out the loss for the prompt, did you also try using weighted loss with Axolotl? At one point, Microsoft's GPT 3 docs suggested this was beneficial when the responses are short (like you have with "Cut in.") Domain adaptation over subreddits/forums before finetuning may help as well.
"create a mechanical god that will rule the planet" -- on what basis people call this 'optimism'?!
WTO Trade Flows, WHO Health Indicators, USDA Export Sales Data on Snowflake
Cybersyn made these public domain datasets easier to work with by releasing them on Snowflake Marketplace in a consistent, intuitive form.

Docs on this dataset: https://docs.cybersyn.com/public-domain/economic-and-financi...

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Yeah, I didn't mean 'a philosophical ideal of Capitalism'. Apologies for my imprecise question. I meant Western Capitalism which of course is a form of corporatism.
Interestingly our company was already looking at moving from Twilio to Zoom and they recommended that in their email.
I wonder how much money Apple would make by releasing an Android app that for $1 a month, would allow Android users the ability to have a "blue bubble" or whatever.
1. AI Industry 2. Financial performance 3. Competitive landscape 4. Your goals 5. Verdict: Is Nvidia stock overvalued? Is NVDA a bubble?
Is your employer local to Italy?
Not sure how likely is that considering that Beeper is an actual/company startup which seems to have received funding from YC?

However, considering that I'd except they'd know better than to just outright take a binary from MacOS and use it in their app (assuming that's actually the case..).
No at least from my point of view. I’m a team lead now. If my higher ups said okay your team needs to be half by next quarter I would prefer I had generalists capable of many things than a handful of very specialized folks.
Laws limiting collection of data to solve privacy is akin to halting the production of fossil fuels to solve climate change: naive and ignorant of basic economic forces.
I've always found the idea of collecting a bunch of dead ends and tying them together to be beautiful.
Sounds like an interesting experiment, though probably impossible to set up.
Cool, thanks for the correction.
Part of the calculus behind shooting them appears to have been the likelihood that they would have suffered a worse death from the cold if they didn't return to the building, and with the light failing, the opportunity to spare them that death was passing.
In practice, federation works _great_ when the apps all have the same basic structure, and gets pretty rough otherwise.

Mastodon instances basically _work great_ with each other, and with Friendica and Calckey too, since they have the same Twitter-like structure. Lemmy and Kbin - and all instances thereof - can chat with each other without issue too, since they have the communities + threads structure in common.

But trying to get Mastodon and Lemmy to talk to each other is 1. surprisingly possible, and 2. kind of annoying, since they speak the same protocol but have different structures of communication. And never mind other ActivityPub applications like BookWyrm or WriteFreely or PeerTube.
Not an expert, but have wondered the same thing. From what I've read, it comes down to optimism and extrapolation from current trends. Both of these have problems of course, but what else can you do? My working hypothesis is that we'll reach a practical limit on the quality of what we can get from the current class of models, and to extend beyond that would require a new approach, rather than just more data and more horsepower. The new breakthrough would have to be as significant as the last, but would be more likely to happen in a short time span because there is so much more activity in AI research now than even 5 years ago. Again, I'm a dummy about this stuff, not claiming more than that.
If you own a delivery service or even thinking about owning one you know sane choice is the alternative even it is more expensive per hour for you.
From most of the London airports you can get to central London in about an hour. Add another two hours to be early at the airport. Travel time to the airport (Schiphol) for me is 15 minutes, so totale 4h 15m.

But wait! The train also requires you to be there an hour early (Eurostar actually recommends to be there 90 minutes early), and travel time to Amsterdam is 35 minutes, so the train journey now stands at 6h 35m.

What aspect of the train makes it far more pleasant? Because I don't think I agree with that, not on this particular trip.
None of your three examples are of the government using technology against its citizens.
So somebody actually implemented authentication by drinking a can. That used to be a joke.
Are all those overall market share numbers aggregated over device types? In the 2000s most internet users were sitting in front of a desktop PC, while nowadays most web surfers are doing it from the palm of their hand. Of course, in that case people primarily choose their platform‘s native browser i.e. either Chrome or Safari. The latter is even forced onto its users (not that it is a really bad browser). So the decline of Firefox’s market share really tells us a story of the rise of the mobile web.
What problem have you actually solved by doing that, because you're still receiving ads and being manipulated through your continued use of those platforms.
unbounded possibilities! imagine, and hear me out, asking the box: 'how do I build a box that can answer fairly complicated questions', and getting the output in an automatized way all the way from atoms, ready to be plugged into the power grid.
Ways to think about machine learning (2018)
Perhaps we shouldn't be collecting and retaining such large datasets that these issues become such a pressing problem?
Subscribed! I'm guessing that nothing needs to be done to let my friends know? It just works?
That's terrible what happened. It was hard to read about the 3 year old Torsten getting shot...

> Two separate legal investigations into the park over their conduct are ongoing, one for the alleged crime of neglecting human safety in allowing the chimpanzees to escape, and another for violation of Sweden’s Animal Welfare Act in killing the four apes.

That's a bit of a catch-22 situation. Had they instead gone to file the animal welfare act euthanasia paperwork, they could be even more liable for neglecting human safety. If they called the hunters, and killed the animals, presumably so they don't harm humans, now they are breaking the animal safety law.

> “The animal keeper that forgot that door has had a very, very tough time,” Wilke told me. The public reaction has also not been kind. “When we read people say that we’re the ones who should be shot, that we’re monsters and savages, it’s horrible,” said Beldt.

I guess we are just as fickle and go from playful to violent, just like the chimpanzees they are describing in the article. Random strangers are quite happy to have the zoo keepers shot over this.
Qubes OS guy here. Will probably stick to the hypervisor OS/virtualized components desktop computer model. Sure there's a performance hit, but honestly I haven't felt this comfortable and secure that my data at rest WILL STAY AT REST and not sprout wings to flutter away with...
Keep all other files in iCloud for big money. Genius
They've been trying that and it just pushes people away. I stopped using Firefox when Mozilla tried to score social brownie points. And the numbers seem to collaborate with shrinking and shrinking marketshare, especially after these campaigns. Since on the flip side of what you said, why would people swap from Firefox to chrome, Chrome doesn't bring anything shiny.
I am confused on why I need to sign up for an account to try it on my machine?
This is a great argument.

I particularly agree with your point regarding English - my German accent sounds jarring to probably most native English speakers, but it should still be understood. To add to your argument, I have sometimes tried to turn on subtitles for Youtube videos in some accent of English that I haven't had much contact with (such as Nigerian English), but the auto-generated closed captions turned out to be even more useless than my own comprehension.

However, one should keep in mind that Mozilla's main goal here is accessibility, with the implication that they mean accessibility for blind and deaf people in particular - as opposed to accessibility for stunted multilinguals like us. For these purposes, being able to transcribe mainly mainstream uses of the language is fine, and so is being able to generate speech in a hodge-podge averaged dialect. I highly doubt most blind people care about whether their TTS engine speaks The Queen's English or not, as long as it is clear and understandable.