skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read that mission as definitely including a browser.

What could possibly be more important at "ensur[ing] the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all" than keeping competition and choice in browsers, which forces web technology openness and standards?

We've already seen Google's web integrity moves coming, and we can no doubt expect more of that as they continue to dominate. A world with only Chromium-based browsers is one where Google can implement anything they fancy. To me the importance of that overshadows anything else Mozilla can do (that I can think of at least).
Why do you say that? Commercial vs noncommercial use is a primary factor in the “purpose” prong of the fair use balancing test and a significant one in the “market effects” prong.

That a use is noncommercial is often a deciding factor in the success of a fair use defense. GP is overstating it though, since it’s still one of many factors.
Thank you. Thats correct. Membership is OPTIONAL. Users are welcome to buy bags and rolls a la carte.

And Membership is more peace of mind with all-you-can-clean like unlimited bags and rolls, extended warranty, and accidental damage coverage.
As long as you use something better, that isnt chrome.

Chrome blatant spyware that scans your whole pc ever since google had the bright idea of sneaking an "antivirus" into chrome and enabling it by default. Firefox is better that chrome, but there's lots better than firefox.
You describe the current system, just that country of origin is a factor in the "scoring system."
It's almost as if a competing browser co is paying majority of their salaries and lobbying the CEO to kill the only remaining competition by slowly stopping all development.
I think it is an important and insightful distinction, if you are curious to engage.

There are several implications of being a tool that can be explored, if one is
interested. A printer manufacturer isnt liable if I use it to print and sell copies of Harry Potter, or some other copyrighted material. Just because I own the printer, doesnt mean I own unrestricted rights to anything that comes out of it.

Another interesting question is what commercial use of midjourney looks like if you cant trust it to produce content unencumbered by copyright? do you have to run everything it produces through a similarity engine? what are the appropriate thresholds that have been established for similarity?

The Orange Prince supreme court case was a fascinating exploration of the topic [1]. The SC case is quite an approachable read or listen and even humorous at times. [2]

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol_Foundation_for_the...

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/21-869
We have subsidized your defense for decades now which is a big reason how entitlements like socialized healthcare was able to work in the EU despite not having the long term birthrates to cover it. It’s a much bigger gift than cheaply produced goods. Also every time there’s a mess in Europe, we have to clean it up without getting paid unlike the CCP with their low cost goods. The cost in blood and taxes would be much easier to swallow for Americans if there was at least some gratitude from the Western Europeans.
I can speak to neural networks and graphs generally, if not this specific paper. Neural networks can do reasoning, but their internal representation of information is illegible. Graphs let us represent information legibly.
awful comparison
how does it show it? what is meant by life? are rules necessary or just transitions? what enables rules at all?
Lidar Point Cloud Rendering
Saw an article on Reuters about LIDAR and wanted to see what the state of the tech actually was.

Found out they've actually got some really neat looking rendering technologies. This example being a cartoonized, cell-shaded equivalent of LIDAR point cloud scan. There's a bunch of other examples, just did not want to make an ad for a certain company. The examples of cars driving around with waves of LIDAR are actually rather beautiful.
Egan has a somewhat smaller-scale and more personal exploration of a similar concept, in a short story called "The Hundred Light-Year Diary".
Unlike with oil, we are not speaking of billions upon billions tons of product. Just a few million tons. It's easily possible to build up stocks of multi-year supply of lithium when it's cheap - storage won't be prohibitively expensive - so those price swings will probably be mitigated (and taken advantage of) by speculators, who buy low and sell high, to everyone's benefit.

My belief is that lithium, polysilicon, and other main renewable energy supplies will never be like oil - matters of life and death and/or origins of the very genesis and existence of whole nations. They will be more like uranium fuel for reactors - something that is still finite and has to be kept in mind, but never a stumbling point or a bottleneck.
Hypergolics in your backyard is no joke.
Humanoid robots in space: the next frontier
I think the issue was playing the same artist or album back-to-back. So they made ‘smart shuffle’ in 2005.
(https://www.wired.com/story/requiem-for-the-ipod-shuffle/)

A shuffle already implies shuffling like a deck of cards, so you wouldn’t get duplicates unless you had two of the same card, and I that’s how it was described in the manual.
I loved QBasic. That integrated help system also came with extensive sample code for each function, including some full programs. Copying and modifying those was a huge boost to learning how to program.

(The article does mention QBasic, though.)
if only the FDA cared about vitamins this much
I've been critical of Mozilla for a long time, and Mitchell has not been a good leader for the last ~10 years or so.

Having said that, Mitchell was instrumental to several very important things, not all of them in the distant past. She also went years taking annual salary lower than she probably should have been taking. It frankly wouldn't be unreasonable to grant her lifetime emeritus status that comes with a no-strings-attached $1–2 million annual salary to sit on her hands and do nothing. (I do think that $7 million per year is pretty gross, though, especially given the current "state of Mozilla".)

Having said that, $7 million for a CEO who isn't earning it really isn't Mozilla's biggest problem, and it's not even its biggest financial problem. If you really want to be critical of its spending, consider this:

The annual budget for marketing and branding every year falls between $30 and $60 million. Per year. This is Mozilla. Empirically, it may as well not even have a marketing department.

When Chrome really started eating into Firefox marketshare 10+ years ago, one of the things that Mozilla folks used to complain about (a lot) is that Chrome's effective* marketing budget was higher* than Mozilla's total budget—browser development and other software eng. included. The perverse thing is that the same is true of Mozilla: you could take its annual marketing budget, pour it into a different org that works on a different browser, and what you could get out of it is an independent browser development company. What's more is that you could without too much difficulty get that company not only to profitable status in pretty short order (given that kind of budget), but get it to usage share that matches Firefox's own (given how low that is). This would take something like 3, 4, 5 years max, provided you have competent leadership.

That's the sort of profligate spending and a lot of other poor decisionmaking at Mozilla that really needs to be addressed if Mozilla is going to turn around. (I have given up hope that this is ever going to happen. I expect it not to.) People hardly talk about this aspect of the business, however—instead focusing on how much Mitchell is getting paid, which, to reiterate, is not in any sense the biggest problem that Mozilla is facing.

-- former Mozillian
It's literally how our meat bag brains work pretty much.

Anything like word association games are basically the same exercise, but with humans and hell, I bet I could play a word association game with an LLM, too.
I don’t trust them with privacy. But I don’t trust FAANG with that either.

But I do freak out about loosing my domain name where my email is hosted, or access to an iCloud / gmail account that a lot of services are anchored about.

Two months ago LinkedIn did not like me changing my 2FA client, and locked me out for a month. I have over 5.000 contacts and was chasing a few leads to change jobs. I can tell you is cold outside. Nobody provides support. I had to leverage a friend who knew someone at LinkedIn to sort it out. I hear being locked out of Google, MS and Meta is also bad.

I have an .ac account for life that is my “last resort” recovery, but having a government provided email for secure recovery purposes would feel reassuring.
Unfortunately, nothing non-Chromium based.
As a software engineer, I'm debugging my 1:1 meetings
The very simplicity of 1:1 meetings, which initially appeared to be an advantage, ironically became the reason for their downfall in my experience.
But it works for google search. I can find all of these images quite easily.
Dried fish 6 ways! Decadence
Everything coming out of them recently, including the mailshots I see and even the onboarding copy, seems to indicate they see themselves as a political advocacy org first and a browser developer second.
The price is not cheap
a giant freshwater fish arrived, known locally as paiche or Arapaima gigas, to give it its scientific name.
Joining the nuance parade - Google expanded their entry points to Search years ago via Maps and the URL bar.

Do I use Google traditional Google Search (google.com) to find things? Rarely. Do I use Google Maps to find bars / restaurants / order food? All the time.

I guess the nuance is what we're trying to find. LLM's swallowed the listicle - I don't need google.com to find an autogenerated list of "best restaurants in London". But if I'm in London at at lunch, and I need a coffee nearby, it's still useful.
As for the password vault, I suggest you switch to Bitwarden. But for browsers? There isn't really much of a choice, it's either Firefox or Chromium-based.
I don't think anybody has claimed that OpenAI is causing NYT subscriptions to go up. NYT has even expressly made the claim they're losing potential revenue.

> [1] On the most important factor, possible economic damage to the copyright owner, [Judge] Chin wrote that "Google Books enhances the sales of books to the benefit of copyright holders."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
Thank you. Cleaning head is 2 inches tall and extends up to 3 inches below furniture. It cleans all the visible dirt and goes underneath anything that’s taller than ~14”.

It’s designed to clean visible dirt thoroughly.

Frankly, if primary use case is cleaning underneath furniture than disc robots are great already.
Importantly, that was also the reason that Brendan Eich used Chromium as a base for Brave, rather than Firefox. Had that even not occurred, we might be in a position where more than one organization had a business interest is Firefox, which would be a complete game changer.
Tangent, but I find it illustrative that ChatGPT’s answer is strictly true but doesn’t actually answer the question.
> You also lose the killer feature of Vim, which is being able to work over an SSH connection on any sort of device, even those that don't have a GUI.

In the last decade, I can count on one hand the number of times I have SSH'ed into a machine to do actual editing - and in every situation, nano would have been totally fine. Crippling my workflow so I can handle the most obscure scenarios that we've moved past for the most part, is not a good decision
Doesn’t that just mean “every browser syncs great between different versions of itself”? It just so happens that Safari is not available on as many operating systems as Firefox and Chrome. “Breaks” doesn’t seem like the right characterisation.
>Not affiliated with Mozilla in any way, but their mission isn't to create a browser. It's to "ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all." (1)

Yes .. and that is the core problem. Their relevance (and income) only comes from Firefox and its market share. But for some reason, they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge this. The income they generated from Firefox, should have been re-invested in Firefox. They should have been organized as an engineering company at the forefront of web technologies.

>Given that Firefox has kinda lost the browser war it seems obvious that they should be focusing efforts on other things that further that mission besides dumping money into a browser a tiny slice of people want to use.

That is their strategy. Right now, Firefox is still the only thing that gives them any sort of relevance.
Meanwhile, outside the world of PCs and DOS... https://youtu.be/uknEhXyZgsg?si=nx7IEAC9RZDwEeWY&t=3251
Firefox will continue to survive for a long time, at least Mozilla has the money to do so for many many years. I would not panic, also because there is no other viable alternative to Chrome or Chrome/Webkit based browsers other than Firefox that I know of.

And Firefox is actually a very good browser and better than Chrome in some aspects.
It's an extremely wild claim that demands some sort of supporting evidence.

But it's pretty standard sort of fare for lesswrong. Despite the air it tries to put on, lesswrong is essentially just an opinion site.
I like maintaining a work/clean profile and a personal one. It is very annoying to mix histories when something like screensharing happens are you do not want to advertise what sort of messageboards or forums you post on.
Tamarin-C
That doesn't change the difference between effective and toxic doses, it changes the potential scale of off-by-one user error. If 20 milligrams is delivered in 1 tablet, then 3 tablets is the toxic dose. If 20 milligrams is delivered in 5 tablets, then 15 is the toxic dose. A single daily tablet is far superior to multiple daily tablets in terms of patient adherence and hence disease management.

Can you name specific examples where the number of pills/capsules/tablets has been increased to improve drug safety? Increased pill counts historically reduces patient adherence, which worses disease management. This is just the first example I found which measured it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31298592/ This review explicitly states it in the abstract even: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30561486/
I have used Firefox sync in my new Mac M3 and it flawlessly synced everything from my older mac, my Android phone, my Linux workhorse, and Windows machine. Really love firefox.
As it happens, and although China requires (or used to require?) a joint-venture to produce in the country, Volkswagen used to pretty much own the Chinese car market.
It's possible the nutritionists are also duped. They know that giving their athletes X mg of Y gives them better performance. They don't know that their particular X supplement is really just sugar pills and meth.
Is it still compression if I read Tolkien and reference similar or exact concepts when writing my own works?

Having a magical ring in my book after I've read lord of the rings, is that copyright?
No absolutely not...

That would be the worst thing for the web. Blink is objectively bad in the first place, and we need more than just chromiumum skins in the market.

I wish they would finish and move to Servo.

I wish Brave or some of the other Chromium Skins would become Firefox based.

Everyone consolidating down to Blink and Chromium is about the worst thing that could happen to anyone that desires an open Web
I was getting uncomfortable with how I was tied into google chrome so I started storing my passwords in keepass.
>What you described is entirely fair use, actually.

Based upon what? You think other publishers use NYTimes articles for free without license?
>As long as you use something better, that isnt chrome.

This is why it is critical to have a meaningful alternative. Developers and end-users are pragmatic - all things being equal they will choose privacy and openness, but not at the expense of performance and capabilities.

This is why it is so perplexing seeing Mozilla just focus on everything except for the one thing that gives them relevance and is actually important.
haha, no
Safari is fine (if you have a Mac), it’s great on battery life and I actually use it for web dev.

If you’re happy with Firefox I’d say just keep using it.
Innocent until proven guilty only applies to individual people, not corporate entities.
It is an interesting question.

How much cocaine goes via Amazon?

Or ephedrine, or ecstasy... Etc
Are we having an Apple vs Nokia moment in the car industry, powered by the shift to EV?

In Europe it feels a bit that way.
> She also went years taking annual salary lower than she probably should have been taking. It frankly wouldn't be unreasonable to grant her lifetime emeritus status that comes with a no-strings-attached $1–2 million annual salary to sit on her hands and do nothing.

Sorry, what? She was underpaid for a few years, so should get a couple mil forever now? Can you at least list out the "several important things?"
Previous (recent) discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799548

Commendable breadth in your vision ! but might I suggest going more... atomic? As someone who leans towards outlining, your "tasks" type caught my attention. Ideally, I wish each block could behave like an object in a similar fashion. While transforming blocks into objects is possible, it somewhat defeats the purpose of an outliner's "bird's eye view."

I also doubt the feasibility of centralizing all your personal knowledge in one app; there's a corollary to this. I consistently find myself in need of a "merge feature." The larger the database becomes, the more crucial this feature is.
You just refuse to get it, don't you? We way more experience eunning everything from gas turbines to ship engines than we have running civilian nuclear powered ships, I hope I don't have to explain how many non-nuclear powered ahip we have, do I?

We also have more experience using biogas to be burned in combustion engines and turbines of any sort, as we do creating said biogas.

We also way more experience in creating sythetic fuels, and using electrolysis to create hydrogen out of sea water (green hydrogen).

Those are all solved problems, and thisbis not my opinion, as opossed to you, but facts confirmed by the very industries involved in ship building and shipping.

Really pointless to discuss with ignorant tech illiterates like you.
If they're trying to get rid of Firefox, then can I support whatever spin-off organization is just Firefox?
Worth noting they haven't actually released anything yet.
What are the practical advantages to owning your own email server and not using something like proton? Maybe I’m just not a heavy user of email but I’m struggling to find use cases that aren’t mostly ideological.
This kind of event is highly irresponsible, and let's be clear their space program decided for it to fall in or around where the video was taken. Utterly reckless.
Sort of a strange question on a Valetudo thread, but have you used Valetudo on a lidar-enabled robot? You can easily clean specific rooms, and I've never seen a lidar robot get lost, and very rarely stuck (usually something like managing to close a bathroom door behind itself).

But anyway: I do think it's worth tripling down on your "average busy person with a cluttered house" pitch. 3D mapping is a huge distraction, although I get that it's unique and your team is proud of it. You're selling the features it enables!

If your site's first content was a time lapse video of Matic navigating a living room covered in toys and charging cords that would tangle most robots, though...
So you've changed IDE once in 22 years? That doesn't change the argument in any meaningful way.
> The demo is showing recording a web-browser
He said it's not recording but taking a screenshot every 2 seconds and I assume it's not just for a browser but all text on the desktop.

> I also don't understand the chatGPT component
You give it context from the "recording" and it answers questions you give it with that context info.
I think the situation is simple. They are rendering one service that their users value, and it is making Firefox.

They should ask (not require) payment for that service. Yes, what they should do is basically to run a Patreon subscription, clearly marked "For the continued development of Firefox".

At a very accessible level of $3 / mo on average, and merely 5M subscribers over the world, they'd have $15M monthly, or $180M a year.

See how Wikimedia Foundation is basically flush with cash, without getting handouts from its competition (haha), zero ads, and asking users to spare $2.75 here and there.
I don't strictly disagree with that as a concept, as diversifying themselves from being Firefox and Firefox alone is a sound business strategy. Unfortunately, while they have come up with some neat ideas (I was a fan of Firefox Send) they still haven't found a business strategy and have let Firefox's market share slide in the meanwhile, and many of those neat concepts have withered away as well.
Static analyzer IKOS 3.2 Released
Because anyone that is familiar with fair use knows that the purpose prong and the commerciality aspect of it is not one of the more important prongs of the fair use analysis, whereas transformation is. Transformation adjusts what is a purpose that falls under fair use. Did you read Warhol??
May I ask what you did at Mozilla? i.e. were you an engineer on Firefox?
I always get Greg Egan, Greg Bear and Gregory Benford confused.
In many cases is the expectation of the service being free…

If someone told you that checking the weather app is .50 usd per query, you probably would try to find a different alternative, as you expect it to be free.
I was responding to 80% of parts in 80% of cars and in that context is certainly a minority.
Isn't Canada full of foreign PhDs driving taxis because they qualify for permanent residence on points but then can't get jobs because employers want "Canadian work experience"?

Canada also has a major housing crisis due to not building enough housing for population growth (which is entirely immigration, Canada's population would shrink without it).

Doesn't seem their system works very well in practice. At least the U.S. employer based green card system mostly guarantees that employment green card recipients already have jobs.
The first Maersk Methanol powered cargo ship just rolled off the production line:

https://www.marinelink.com/news/maersks-first-teu-methanolfu...

And all the ships they've ordered since 2021 can run on methanol:

https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2023/12/07/maersk-to-de...
GNC (and likely other online supplement stores) have an online presence and likely has some QA for the products they sell. Amazon just insists on having 1,000,000+ listings for supplements rather than a more curated list. Perhaps some categories shouldn't have endless list of products.
Ha! Memories from twelve years ago... First live distro I tried. Already well polished at the time
Champagne isn’t a transformative technology, and least not anymore.
It doesn't, the coordinates are always reported 0-32767 and the computer does the heavy lifting of mapping it to the physical screen geometry. This also takes care of the problem with different resolutions.
5.0 from this month is showing on the front page of their website.