skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they see themselves as a political advocacy org first and a browser developer second.

That would be an improvement. Being a browser developer does not factor in anything they focus on.
"Information can be copied and they should accept it" <- I was referring to this line. This basically means that OP thinks that any intellectual property should be free for everyone. This means that probably half of humanity (who are currently creating anything with IP) will have to be libertarians, and that can't happen unless all humanity are libertarians. And libertarian society is a dystopia. :)
Wow, it's a full hour presentation but time very well spent would be an understatement! This issue has been covered before, but only the rough outline compared to this talk.

Great job guys! We all need a lot more like you.
> Importantly, that was also the reason that Brendan Eich used Chromium as a base for Brave

This is factually incorrect, the worst kind of incorrect. Brave Browser was initially built on Graphene, which uses Gecko. They then switched to Electron because Graphene was too raw, and from there to Chromium. Also, Brave contributes basically nothing to Chromium, so why would you think they would contribute anything to Gecko?

https://brave.com/the-road-to-brave-one-dot-zero/
Well I was talking about the Victorian era (emergence of iron bridge building) and indeed quite a few make that list. "Engineering" in the sense it has today didn't exist back then. Brunel was truly revolutionary in this regard, though even how he thought of it would be far from what we today call engineering.

We see this in the evolution of many technologies, from boiler explosions (especially in trains) that are pretty much unknown today to jet air travel (likewise at a rather extraordinary state of safety) and many others besides (consider the implementation and impact of vaccination).
The SerenityOS/Ladybird project has been making very steady progress towards that goal

https://ladybird.dev/
It's easy if you add electrolysers to your imagination. :)

There are solar plants that deliver electricity for around 2 cents per kwh and the price is dropping.
Hydrogen can be generated from electricity at 80% efficiency, and gas can be converted back to electricity at 40% efficiency. This gives about 6-7 cents per kwh for solar even after conversion to a 24/365 stable baseload energy source.

This is cheaper than nuclear and works fine everywhere, even in northern europe.

(If you actually place the solar panels in northern europe as well - which you don't need to - most of the gas will be produced during summertime when the sun is up 18+ hours per day).
As long time Mozzilla user since the Navigator days, it is sad to see Firefox going down, while the CEO gets money for nothing.

When Firefox is no more, the legacy will be Thunderbird and Rust, not the Web browser, and despite how they won over PNaCL, it is Chrome that drives WebAssembly.
I've had so many issues with Amazon counterfeits lately. Most recently, it turned out that my Coravin cartridges were fake. I've returned to buying direct from the manufacturer for many branded consumables (such as fish oils).
I have also hosting my e-mail server for the last twenty years.

I do not intend to ever give up on this.

I had problems in the past, mainly with Microsoft, but they were not insurmountable.

The worst problems with delivery have been a few years ago, I had less problems recently.
Google doesn’t pretend it generated the image.
> If someone made a better product tomorrow it is easy to switch.

That is most certainly not the case for everybody. Sure you can just buy a new phone and move over your phone number, but you'll lose all of your purchases, your cloud storage (for many people all their family photos), interoperability with other (Apple) products, conversation history (iMessage), etc. If you never buy any apps and only use third parties for communication, then sure it's "easy" but most people are not in that boat.
app store code signing is no different than a mirror having a private ssl keys for the domain you are downloading from

or a closed source including a gpl3 Library in its packaging.

both have nothing with the license and are a common FUD argument by people who do not like the implied freedoms of the gpl when arguing for more permissively comercial licenses, so apologize if i wrongly mistook you for the more probable case.
> Remember when the US gov did that with a number? The SSN?

The problem is that the SSN is treated as a password when it should be treated as username.

Knowing first.last at gmail.com gives you nothing much, security-wise. Knowing I'm 123456789 at ssn.usps.com wouldn't be that much different, though given the limited search space, it would be an easy target for spammers. (Perhaps expanding from nine digits to something bigger (16+, see perhaps ISO/IEC 7812) would be useful, though there'd have to be a lot of work to update systems, even though they're not short of numbers.)
It seems like a bizarre gap between food and drugs that shouldn't exist. If it's meant to be eaten, the FDA should definitely be regulating it thoroughly.
Agree. I’ve git submoduled Firefox and other projects and have local AI help edit and build them.

Have made zero changes to FF itself, but overall have found local AI a huge help in managing it all.
Here's the recipe: set up your own email server. Tweak configuration until eventually a test email from yourself to yourself lands in the inbox, then call it a day. Never actually measure your deliverability. Never investigate why you sometimes don't get replies to emails where you were expecting to get a reply to. In fact, just close your eyes and stick fingers in your ears. Then go on HN and talk about how easy it is to do this thing which you, totally, for real, really did do, like, for reals for reals.
Even going by that ridiculously oversimplified calculation, and taking best-case numbers 0.75*$141 (10 years from first concrete poured to grid connection vs your 7.5 years average) is still barely competitive with worst-case Wind+Storage and more expensive than solar as Lazard estimates. And those are proven numbers from real projects not some pie in the sky guesstimates.
I threw in the towel after about 10 years but not because of deliverability problems. When I first started running an email server for myself and my friends and family, it was a great learning experience. And it kept being a good learning experience for a few years as I rolled out things like Bayesian spam filters and SPF.

But eventually it got stable enough and did its job well enough that I stopped messing with it to learn things. And then it became a job instead of a hobby: friends texting me because my ISP was having an outage and they couldn't read their email, rolling out critical security patches ASAP, coping with the occasional DOS attack, and so on.

At some point, I realized that I'd started to resent running it. It was eating little bits of my time for no additional benefit to me.

I also, as one does with age, started thinking about what happens if I die or become incapacitated: my friends and family all lose their email service the next time there's an outage that requires manual recovery.

So I moved it to a commercial email service and have zero regrets about the move. I make sure I've always prepaid for at least 6 months of service so that if something happens to both me and my wife, my friends and family will at least have half a year to make other arrangements.
Law is a fundamentally hard problem at scale, especially with a federated system that has bug fixed 725 years (post-Magna Carta) of edge cases.

If you think the second system effect is bad on a 20 year old system, try doing it for centuries of evolutionary system that started with 2-3 million users and has been forked.
It’s literally in the contract such a distinction is at OpenAIs discretion
It's hard to take you seriously when your argument boils down to "I know design, you do not". Not a good look.
I saw the same line and LOLed so hard.
Classic UNIX program architecture in distributed systems, apparently some knowledge lacking here.

Long are the days using pizza boxes for development it seems.
> If you forget about the LLM aspect, and simply build a product out of (legally) scraped NYT articles, is that fair use?

That's not a good question.

If I look out of my window and see my neighbor go to the shop, that's fine. If I use cameras and track everybody I see on the street and put them in a database, then that's problematic and illegal in many places.

Logic does not necessarily apply when scaling is involved.
If a random streams length is odd, they'll never be the exact same.
Luckily MS is now on the board so they’ll have a say in when AGI is declared
Really?

1. Is that why they give special virtually uncapped visa classes to Australia, Singapore, Canada and Chile while everyone else has to deal with h1B?

2. Do you think there are country based limits when admitting people through the southern border or granting refugee status?
Go onto LinkedIn, search for Apple Global Security staff and you’ll get an answer. The head of and much of the staff are ex-USIC people. Now perform those searches over time and do a little OSINT and observe a revolving door where they are not so ex-.
In a previous thread (these "Mozilla is dead" threads appear perennially) someone pointed out that Firefox's apparent marketshare drop is potentially indistinguishable from their deployment of privacy-improving features, including stubbing out Google Analytics when "Enhanced Tracking Protection" is enabled.

I'm a Firefox user, so I have a vested interest in Mozilla's long term health and financial viability. But "marketshare nosedives" appears to be primarily an editorialization to fit the post's larger narrative.
A person using Vim or Emacs has had best in class integration with the unix environment, modal editing, and remote development. Today, both editors have integration with VCS via fugitive or magit, fuzzy finding, LSPs, tree sitter, and code generation tools using LLMs. These tools have not stagnated, they've continued to evolve and stay best in class in many areas. So the "one tool is better than the other" argument doesn't really sway me. My point still stands that the community and open architecture are more important than any one editing feature.

> Equally, I can say purists or idealogists are so concerned with theoretical changes and breakages, and so afraid of the possibility of something changing that they miss out on game changing improvements to tooling.

Blindly following the crowd is also dangerous. Making choices based on principle is what allows good things like open source communities and solutions not swayed by corporations to exist, even though they might require more up front investment.
Neat. Also, now (unfortunately) cameras can be hidden even more effectively.
>why was it a goal, I have bo idea

Because an ongoing antitrust suit against Google search could mean the revenue they get from Firefox is no longer an option.
This is a really high quality comment you've written here, thank you for posting your perspective.

For those of us who don't know about testing, can you explain COA/GMP and how robust the testing process is?

The reason I ask I'm a little concerned about Amazon's incentives not being aligned with consumers priority for high quality and safe product and is letting suppliers choose which product(s) to submit for testing rather than doing periodic random testing which I fear is too much to hope/ask for...
I follow a similar approach but maybe more extreme : whenever possible, I use "YESTERDAY'S TECHNOLOGY TOMORROW"

It's nicely presented on http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000606.h...

> I want yesterday's technology tomorrow. I want old things that have stood the test of time and are designed to last so that I will still be able to use them tomorrow. I don't want tomorrow's untested and bug-ridden ideas for fancy new junk made available today because although they're not ready for prime time the company has to hustle them out because it's been six months since the last big new product announcement. Call me old-fashioned, but I want stuff that works.

The same thing is true with free software: I prefer to use the terminal. In the terminal, I prefer to run bash and vim, not zsh and neovim.

When I write code, I've found C (and perl!) to be preferable, because "You can freeze it for a year and then pick it back up right where you left off."

There are rare exceptions, when what's new is so much better than the previous solution (ex: Wayland) that it makes sense to move.

However, that should be rare, and you should be very sure. If you think you made the wrong choice, you can always move back to your previous choice: after playing with ZFS for a few years, I'm moving some volumes back to NTFS.

Someone mentions how the author choice (python2) is getting harder to install. Cold blooded software works best when done with multiplatform standards, so I'd suggest the author does the bare minimum amount of fixes necessary to run with https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/python and call it a day.

With self-contained APEs and the eventual emulator when say 20 years from now we move to Risc V, you don't have to bother about dependencies, updates or other form of breakage: compile once in a APE form (statically linked for Windows/Linux/BSD/MacOS) it will run forever by piggybacking on the popularity of the once-popular platform.

Wine lets you run Windows 95 binaries about 30 years layer: I'd bet than Wine + the Windows part of the APE will keep running long after the kernel break the ABI.
A bearded person who wears the mask religiously. Would you call that a believer or something else?
> The SU7 will have autonomous driving capabilities, too, thanks to its Xiaomi Pilot platform powered by up to two NVIDIA Drive Orin processors

Interestingly, NVIDIA is making good moves in all the areas related to AI.
Given the context of IP reputation, I'm certain they mean that zero spam has been sent from that IP, not that zero spam has been received.

Preventing spam from being sent from your IP is achievable.
I have a feeling we're gonna loose the EV race same how we lost the software race and then the mobile race. Our auto industry could be the next Nokia.

Sure, I'm confident the lobbied EU leaders will put speedbumps in place for the Chinese Auto makers in the EU market, but that will do more harm than good as the local brands won't be under enough pressure to innovate, knowing the governments have their back regardless.
I've not been on any spam list in 10 years or more and only once in around 24 years (or more) of hosting my own email, and I do use my email accounts. That one time was 100% my goof, made a simple mistake, fixed it, was barely a hiccup.
He's talking about citing and quoting NYTimes articles, not republishing them verbatim. That said, it's very different if you're a publication that sometimes cites reporting from other publications vs. a website exclusively dedicated to indexing and summarizing NYTimes articles.
I can confirm OP's struggles with my own personal experience. I threw in the towel in 2019: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/dont-send-email-from-your-own-ser...
I almost certainly don’t care whether you believe me.
I guess it depends if the government recognizes the marriage date that is declared, or the date that they process it (if the marriage was not in front of an official).

Divorce date can be pretty random, since it's rarely done live by a judge/official.
Again: learn UNIX distributed computing architecture.

Not going to waste more my time explaining this.
> geophagia

Animals are eating the world
There's much more to this than you cite. There's Betriebsrat and Sozialplan etc. I'm not at all saying any of this is bad, but it does play an important role when companies make decisions about where to put their engineering centers.
In a language with tail-call optimization, it won't.
I empathize with the author's viewpoint - maybe it's just my personal experience of running email for large corporations and ISPs but there's a reason why these systems have ended up with zero tolerance policies for spam sources.

It's just not worth the overhead in people and hardware to try to be surgical in your approach - you don't win anything. It's the closest thing to working at the DMV for tech.

Notes, cc:Mail, Groupwise, Exchange, Sendmail, Exim, qmail, postfix, etc... I have no interest in running my own email ever again.
I think we basically agree. It seems to me that a lot of the confusion stems from the connotation of “training" on copyrighted materials, and if that connotation is commercial or not.

A individual reading and learning from a book on woodworking isnt commercial use. However, if a business includes the same book as part of literal corporate training program, that would be commercial use.
It is a good question with a simple answer: no.
Why can't an LLM have an opinion, nay, a personality?
Besides lots more pictures, carnewschina [1] also reports:

> According to Xiaomi, the SU7 is a pretty aerodynamic car with a drag coefficient of only 0.195 Cd, the lowest among production vehicles.

No doubt this was helped by hiring James Qiu who had previously worked on Mercedes-Benz's Vision EQXX design, a concept car with a record setting 0.17 Cd.

[1] https://carnewschina.com/2023/12/28/xiaomi-officially-unveil...
As I said, I have worked at several FAANG companies where people had to wait for editor integrations because the source repos were so big you couldn't work locally. Having a tool that works everywhere no matter what has been incredibly valuable to my career. I also wouldn't say working for one of these companies that pays very well and handles a large portion of the world's traffic is obscure.
I’ve had people look at me like I’m crazy when I say that the A.I. that will be a threat to humanity will be of Chinese origin. It’s this exact “succeed, at any cost” mentality that cements my belief.
Unlimited attachment size and storage. Ability to verify and document all steps of email delivery.
I self host my own email using mailinabox. Its working like a charm for my personal use case.
If anyone is interested in setting this up by themselves, here is the opentofu (formally terraform) code I am using: https://github.com/JonasTaulien/opentofu-mailinabox
The easiest choice today is to use either GitHub Pages or Netlify to host your website. You can literally just drag and drop files on their Admin web page and have something immediatelly published online.

If you want to run code instead of just keep a static website, then you may need to get a cheap server from a multitude of companies that offer that (Linode, Digital Ocean, AWS etc) but I find that you can almost always get away with static sites which require next to no work and will stay up as long as those companies are still functioning (or don't shut down the free plan).
If you can keep the local variables down, a simple ulimit -s 60000000 should be able to get that stack limit nice and big!

You may need to call setrlimit with an appropriate RLIMIT_STACK, but I think the FFI compatibility should be able to pull that off, right?
If you host things on a cheap VPS you also have to pay attention how much traffic you are allowed to consume and excess will add up to your bill. Some bad bot or enemy can certainly give a nice surprise at the end of the month if you don't pay attention to alerts on your account
>You can’t assume that every supplement ER visit was because of off-label ingredients

I already acknowledged this in the previous post.

However, if you look at the rates of tainted supplements it probably isn’t a leap to assume a fair number can be attributed to unlisted ingredients. Some studies show contamination rates of nearly 60%. Again, I think the mitigation should be proportional to the risk. We might be about to debate what the acceptable threshold is (and I think most would agree it’s lower than the current data suggests) but I don’t think accuracy in labels is too big of an ask.
Yes, I agree. In fact I'm also Spanish and the solution felt as obvious as it would be in Spain. The reason I suggested the (US) passport analogy was to make it as relatable as possible to the American audience of HN :-)
Your test won't handle air resistance, which is a big part of why US EPA and Chinese range estimates tend to be so different
> I think it is an important and insightful distinction, if you are curious to engage.

Can you clarify which thing is important/insightful? I want to make sure I’m understanding your comment.

I should also clarify that I do think AI is a tool. And I do think that the questions raised about other tools are interesting to ask relative to AI.

My main issue is with the “just a” framing, which usually comes with a strong implication that this tool status means AI should be treated no differently than a paintbrush.

> Another interesting question is what commercial use of midjourney looks like if you cant trust it to produce content unencumbered by copyright?

This is one of the key things that establishes a new category of concerns that is not present in other common tools. e.g. if I use a paintbrush to make counterfeit artwork, it is clear that the act of creating the specific output was deliberate (it would be hard to argue that I didn’t know what I was doing over 40 hours of detailed painting). I can’t be sure what will or won’t come of a generative image model.
A lot of decisions made by the governments of China, Russia, and others make a lot more sense when considering they perceive humans as a renewable natural resource.
Yup, it was about the same size but maybe still better than Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Red from what I remember? At least I've finished reading it.
Why? A human being isn’t infinitely scalable; they’re just different. It’s the same thing as going to a movie theatre to watch a movie vs. recording it with a camera.
The only reason Google funds them is so they can use Firefox to counter antitrust accusations.
"But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server."

I will never understand people who see it as an all or nothing proposition. You can perfectly self-host while using an outgoing SMTP provider. This would solve all the problems the OP is having while still preserving the main benefit of self-hosting, meaning: managing your own MX records, you own IMAP server, so that government authorities don't have a single organization they can target to get access to your emails. Heck, if you are paranoid you can even have multiple outgoing SMTP providers and round-robin between them.

Edit: the author does mention not wanting to pay for an outgoing SMTP provider, but there are many free option: for example Gmail lets you use their SMTP server as long as you authenticate with a (free) Google account. That's possible with Yahoo, or many other providers.
While I don't feel as if I have enough knowledge to make a comment specifically about how the Mozilla Foundation is run, I do feel as if Firefox's uncertain future resulting from poor adoption is something that should be given priority given that the web browser market is roughly Firefox vs everything else.

I use both Ungoogled Chromium and Firefox on my main workstation, which runs Fedora Asahi Linux exclusively on Apple Silicon (I never boot into macOS), and should add that on aarch64, my overall experience with every Firefox build has been stellar. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about Ungoogled Chromium.
I enjoyed Schild's Ladder and Permutation City immensely
I hope Mozilla leadership realises that Firefox is the only thing lending their company any credibility with their subscription products. Without Firefox, Mozilla VPN and any of their supposed "AI" products are just another also-ran in a saturated commodity market. That "subscription and advertising" line item on their balance sheet relies on Firefox, it doesn't replace it.

Firefox's nosediving market share should represent a catastrophic, company-endangering situation. It's depressing that they don't seem to understand that.