skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Creating a database of artists by city, to localize styles off of. Seems totally fine honestly..
> She is truly an anchor around Mozilla's neck

perhaps it's because this is what google wants mozilla to be - a lame duck that cannot compete against chrome.
> Web apps were slower, had issues dealing with the various browsers and saw less use.

Apps like Facebook are constantly preloading data in the background to fill your feed immediately on app launch. 99pct of web apps would not have that need fortunately.

And let's be real, FB went with native apps because they could quietly hide app permissions that a web browser would warn you about with a big scary dialog window. That would be catastrophic for the world's biggest targeted advertising company. They ran a full page ad when Apple started requiring app tracking disclosures on iOS.
It is a new year, maybe you should try to be happy and calm this year.
I think you definitely made the right decision.
As a user and a developer I hate native apps with a passion, so I for one can’t wait for the browser supremacy to take off.
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The script took, at most, 5 hours to write (inclduing the time for this poster to play the game, understand the game, reverse engineer the game, and implement a bot). What type of "ML solution" to the same problem would take less than 5 hours?
Ozempic is the semaglutide injectable dosage for diabetes, while Wegovy is a higher dosage for weight maintenance. There is a great deal of hate and discrimination surrounding obesity that it is somehow or always entirely voluntary or lesser than diabetes. Medicare and Medicaid do not cover Wegovy, even if weight gain is caused as a side-effect of another medication. Wegovy costs $1502.51 USD/month where I live, if you can get it. Medicare could save a great deal of money if they negotiated for prices to be the same as what people in other countries are paying and medication supplemental coverage formularies also covered preventative medications.

There will be pill form for Wegovy to match Rybelsus, or it may be collapsed into that single brand name differing only in dosage. The issue is the US profits on semaglutide are excessive. It, along with metformin, are the two most important medications to increase public health and reduce disease in relatively healthy populations. Perhaps the Defense Production Act could be enacted to manufacture generics of the most expensive and most QALY-positive medications.
>Mozilla is a shambling corpse that will continue to shuffle forward until it is no longer favorable for Google to buy search placement.

That’s the reason firefox will never improve.
https://fqa.9front.org/fqa4.html#4.3
I would have liked them to double down on that mobile OS they were working on a few years ago.
> but if the alternates are not better and not worth integrating with a browser

This is the problem. There is a MASSIVE sunk cost to get a modern browser off the ground compared to a static target.

Even if you could do it, Chrome is going to keep moving forward. And they have enough power to change things in incompatible ways that everyone will follow because they have the vast majority of the market.

Microsoft made a new modern browser engine. They gave it up because it was too hard to compete with Chrome.

When Apple is forced to let people replace Safari, I fear we’re going to get into an IE6 situation.

It doesn’t matter how good Chrome is, IE6 was great too. But when the company lets it stagnate for years because there’s no reason to invest, or decides to use it to push their advertising business to new heights, we are all screwed until a new competitor comes around.

Firefox only exists because it was built from the Netscape code base. And ‘a modern browser’ was a WAY easier target 20 years ago. What if no group/company can muster enough effort to dethrone a stagnate Chrome?

The web is in trouble. Even tagging along in 3rd place, Firefox is a good browser that could step up in such a situation. But only if development continues. If Firefox dies next year and Chrome stagnates five years from now we’ll be screwed.
To be fair, she did a great job for who's actually paying (Google)
Although I generally think most CEOs are overpaid, remember: they are legally accountable for the behavior of the organization. For example, David Drummond, who was Chief Legal Officer at Google (until it turned out he was impregnating people who reported to him) was convicted in a lawsuit in Italy, sentenced to prison, and there was a warrant for his arrest if he entered. This was over a video on a part of google that David had no real oversight on, where Google removed a video within only minutes of the issue being reported.

I figure legal responsibility is about $1-2M in pay right there.

The CEO also plays a critical role (with the CFO) in finalizing the earnings reports, with severe penalties for mistakes. They make strategic decisions that many employees aren't even aware of, that can have $billion+ repercussions for the company.

Taken all together, it's not completely surprising that a CEO of a trillion dollar company makes $10M/year (or receives stock of that value).

No, it's not truly meritocratic. I keep coming back to a lesson I was taught as a kid: life's not fair, but you can use your brain to make it a little less unfair.
I thought HD blinds had a lifetime warranty. Did they not cover it?
There are circumstances where colloquialisms are appropriate, like using "y'all" instead of "you all".

There are circumstances where colloquialisms are inappropriate, like a caucasian person repeating a racial slur in a song that was originally sung by a person of color.

Equating literal genocide with immigration policy preferences, however despicable they may be, leans heavily towards the latter.

I have ancestors who were victims of systematic genocide at the hands of Nazis. Let me know when the Republicans start gassing people and throwing them in ovens, I'll be the first one to call them Nazis and exercise force to defend the innocent.

Until that happens, respectfully, please stop doing the antisemitic equivalent of shouting the N word in public and insisting that it's okay to do so on the basis that you're only citing other people's words.

It's hurtful, but more importantly than that, as Anthony-G pointed out, it's dangerous. It's like crying wolf, only, instead of the threat being a wolf, it's an entire industrialized society engaged in organized genocide.
> I don't like how the person who responded was very friendly and actually looked at the issue. It seemed like he was being taken advantage of.

Well, if he was an asshole to everyone and assumed ill intent each time, then he'd get no bug bounties at all. Nor friends.
The temptation of populist pandering is always there, but the whole point of representative democracy is (supposedly) that politicians can resist it and do the right thing regardless.
> They need people to associate them with being the good stewards

nobody cares about good web stewardship.

Actual people care about performance, ease of use, integration, and capability. And chrome is already good enough now-a-days, which means it takes a huge improvement to firefox for people to switch (not to mention an advertising drive when those improvements come about).

There's a reason why Dvorak keyboard isn't more popular than qwerty, even tho Dvorak is slightly better.
More Americans can now get insulin for $35
Thank you for proving why I added that comment about how Safari would not be acceptable to many people.
I think the warping was just an example of something that can only be done with ray tracing. It could just be a straight line or whatever.
So how is doing all of this “free” stuff going to increase revenue?
Do Not Build SaaS
Anecdotal, Dominos has a website I can order food from and it’s insanely good experience to use it in basically all aspects I can think of.
I love ordering food from them just because the experience is so good. The food is a different story, but man their UX is something everyone else could learn from.
> "It's like when the fuckcars crowd tells everyone they should just bike to work even though there's plenty of people that have deal with mobility issues, children, winter, not being in their 20s and etc. etc."

But those are reasons to be against car-centric design[1], and in favour of public transport - the disabled, children, the elderly, those with slowed reaction times, the poor - can't actually drive, or safely drive, or legally drive, or afford to own, cars. If cars are the only option for transport then life can only be good for the healthy mostly-able-bodied car driver[2].

> "One size doesn't fit all."

In all too many places, the only size available is 'car'; that you rally against bikes - and implicitly in defense of the status quo - while reminding people that "one size doesn't fit all" is dischordant. Can we have two, three, four sizes then? Walking, bussing, biking, tramming, driving?

> "is a thing someone else can't live without."

It's not an accident that you can't live without your car. Los Angeles had the largest electric tram network on the planet, and car companies used shell companies to buy them up and scrap them. Car companies spend a lot on advertising and propaganda to sell the idea of car ownership as a kind of American Freedom, and various zoning laws came to mandate car parks around businesses - pushing everything too far away to walk. It's not all conspiracy, but it's certainly not an inevitable "the way things must be". Arguing that 'fuckcars' people shouldn't want bikes, because some people can't live without cars, is reinforcing exactly the kinds of things they are angry about. That having to have a car to live, is an unquestioned default.

[1] not cars necessarily, but urban planning, laws, town and city layout, spending priorities, traffic priorities, where all the levers have been pushed fully over to cars.

[2] and being stuck in traffic on an ugly stroad which costs vast amounts of taxes to maintain and is dangerous to drivers and pedestrians, with car fumes, is not a particularly good life for those people either.
Sieve is simpler than LRU
Being open source doesn't mean you have to accept contributions from other people.
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> If your purpose is to make yourself millions without producing anything beneficial to the world...it's genius.

they produce benefit to those that paid - namely in this case, google.
I was going through something similar so I installed a plugin [1] that redirects all reddit links to old.reddit.com and started using RSS feeds on Inoreader [2] to follow the subreddits I like.

This helps me avoid mindless browsing on reddit.

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I think we might be talking past each other. My argument is simple. If a development gets us closer to the Four Essential Freedoms of Free Software, it's good. If it gets us further, it's bad.

I believe your counter-argument is "okay, but NC licenses don't really violate Freedom 0, because you are free to run it as long as you pay the author"? Or like, "Freedom 0 is dumb anyway", which then breaks the premises and we can't really discuss much after that.

Therefore, I will only reply to the former. My counter would be "maybe, but in that case you need compulsory licensing, as it currently is, the original author can refuse to let you exercise your Freedom 0 no matter how much money you offer, and therefore it is violated".
I agree with that aspect of it, the democratization of individual artist's styles is okay and probably good for art. I think it's more the stuff said like:

> all you have to do is just use those scraped datasets and then conveniently forget what you used to train the model. Boom legal problems solved forever

showing that they plan to do this without any intention of attributing or fairly reimbursing the artists who's 'styles' (IP) they are localizing (and profiting off)
> provide a donations bucket that gives a guarantee that they'll be earmarked exclusively for Firefox development

I've head that there are tax problems with that. So maybe there needs to be a paid "Firefox Pro" or whatever?
Vizio settles for $3M after saying 60 Hz TVs had 120 Hz "effective refresh rate"
Mountain rescue also has the impossibility to land. Here some HD footage from national geographic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk9QKRM_8Jo

Notice the cut audio track. Giving these people the legal ability to give pain meds cant happen early enough. Mont Blanc helicopter rescue services also make some great documentaries every few years.

The situation is even worse for a lot of snake bite victims, as you cant get lifted out of the rain forest.
All of the „benefits“ you listed are why I hate native apps with a passion and avoid installing them whenever possible.
I don’t want your mindshare, notifications, spam and all the other bullshit no thanks
Unworkable.
Relevancy neutrality is unworkable.
Think his idea through.
Justice Thomas is not an independent thinker. Justice Scalia was an independent thinker, justice Thomas is malleable by the conservative Zeitgeist. Please take his ideas with a grain of salt.
> a great deal of what's keeping us back from being absolutely great as "humanity" has to do with those parasites and their negative influence.

that's called the human condition. You would've done the exact same, when put in the same situation in all likelihood.

People are inherently greedy, and selfish. There's no changing it, as this is an evolutionary advantage. Those altruists would've died out, since they would've given way to those who are greedier (otherwise, how are they altruists?).
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only if nobody saves a copy of the unedited film

a more serious risk is not having any way to save it or distribute it reliably; works that are too similar to copyright-restricted works tend to disappear into the memory hole on youtube and similar platforms, with no due process and no appeal. for now you can still get hard disks that don't automatically scan their contents against a youtube-style blacklist, and which can retain their contents for more than a few months when turned off because they aren't SSDs, but neither of those is likely to remain practical forever
It's best to think of git as a suite of primitives for building a VCS, not a VCS itself. For larger teams, you should pretty much expect to have a dedicated integrator (or integration team) with git scripts for creating branches, PRs, etc.
This is a really interesting possibility. A crippled competitor is ideal--keeps Chrome ahead, but still have a multi platform competitor to point at when the DoJ comes knocking.
For all the valid criticism of the Wikipedia Foundation, their combined salaries of all "officers, directors,
trustees, and key employees" (aka board and C suite) was $4.2 million in 2021

Page 12 of https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/14/Wikim...
Thanks, raphlinus as in Raph Levien! I was just reading your bytesink document [1] from around 1997 and checking the history of gzilla, the precursor of Dillo.

[1]: https://sources.debian.org/src/gzilla/0.1.5-3/bytesink.doc/

PS: Maybe you could give us a hand contacting Jorge :-)
I think we're probably coming into this from very different contexts which don't make for a conducive discussion online.

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I find Hey There Delilah particularly hilarious: https://jukebox.davi.gq/jukebox_go.html?id=4RCWB3V8V0dignt99...
which version of pgvector are you using for these benchmarks?
It still exists actually in the form of KaiOS. Used on a lot of feature phones now.

Other projects like the VR browser are also still alive under the name Wolvic.
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Is BLE a PWA requirement? I think they explained their position pretty well here, regardless of whether I agree:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#iss...
What the above lacks is a finance model of how to make it work with real numbers.
Wow this is super awesome. I love how well documented the README.md is. Excellent job!
All of it is distributed under MIT license.
LK99: Possible Meissner effect near room temperature
"Our experiment suggests at room temperature the Meissner effect is possibly present in this material." which is very likely related to superconductivity.
I really appreciate this! I enjoyed reading it for sure and totally agree!

In an effort to be accessible it’s often lands as hard to read cause so much is assumed.

You nailed the point though, so communication happened if maybe more circuitous than optimal
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Only slightly related: can anyone speak to the syntax of headlines like this where the 'author' of statement is appended to the end? e.g. Statment: author. It seems to go against what seems to me more natural and common, which is 'author: statement', or even 'statement - author'. Just curious is all.
I just started working on an IntelliJ plugin to add support for Mako templates which was officially dropped in PyCharm 2021.3. Most IntelliJ languages appear to use BNF (or PEG?) for parsing and flex for lexing, so this will be interesting.
Well I use Firefox but I hate their harebrained monetisation schemes. And anyone with any idea of business knows they'll never pull in the money they need. Whatever the answer is, this isn't it.
Yeah, and he showcases a lot of people with an aggressive and negative attitude toward notation. Did you still not actually watch the video?
Are there penalties for ceos that knowingly issue false statements? Lots of execs lie these days.
That'd work just as well for me. I just want a way to give Mozilla a clear signal that I pay them for Firefox, not for Pocket or a VPN or for whatever the flavor of the month is for the nonprofit. As is, there is no way for me to send them that signal, and I'm not prepared to endorse any of the non-Firefox projects Mozilla's put out.
The scene is very Sewol children told to stay so they dont move while boat sinks https://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/16/world/asia/south-korea-si...
Maybe you should consider not doing that.

There are so many things you can use LLMs for. Training an LLM is a possible project, but why? Why don't you do a project where you show how to use an LLM to get interesting results.

Here's a proposal. Do you know the TclTutor? It's a fantastic interactive tutorial for the programming language Tcl:

http://www.msen.com/~clif/TclTutor.html

Why don't you do a project where you have an LLM create a similar tutorials for a different language, let's say python. And then "templetize" that, so you can quickly create language tutorial for many other languages.

Not to mention, if you do such a project, you can publish it on github, and then your resume becomes immensly stronger.
My Steam Deck arrived in the summmer of 2022 after years of not having a PC but occasionally dual-booting an Intel Mac for games, and doing the whole Steam Sale thing of filling my boots with games that would barely get played.

Well. That pile of games is getting eaten through and more are being added as I and the family are loving the Steam Deck, despite having a Switch with dozens of games.

I’m currently 90 hours into my new favourite game, Witcher 3, having racked up similar on Forza Horizon, with Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, Skyrim, and a load more, await.

Valve have done an amazing job. The store UI still sucks balls, but who cares when I can replay HL2 in my hands.
Lumping WebKit (Safari) and Blink (Chrome/Edge/...) together stopped being meaningful quite a long time ago.
How does Neovim do release numbering?
I'm a CTF addict. Fun to see a chan where anyone can make their own CTF. I'll try playing later tonight.

I hope people give this a chance - CTFs are a blast and it's neat to see someone made one where you have to use Hacker News.

Any other CTF players on HN? Itd be rad to play CTFs with another HNer
> the democratization of individual artist's styles is okay and probably good for art.

Is it? "The democratization of individual artist's styles" sure sounds like "automated ripping off" to me.
Switching from chrome to Firefox isn't the same as switching from qwerty to Dvorak.
this is why free software and peer-to-peer network architecture is important. centralized network services and proprietary software inherently make users vulnerable to such abuses, and the companies that engage in them will be more profitable than their competitors who don't
IMO it goes head to head with the anazon/google cloud OCR services. It’s works superbly.
It's because most Python is really C with a thin wrapper. Which is why it's so darn fast.
Mozilla shut down the Rust team to focus on Firefox.
> Opposing Zionism or what Israel is doing will get you doxxed, expelled, and blacklisted.

Can you provide three examples in which no other infraction, violation, or crime was committed except for opposing Zionism?
Anyone who cares about flexibility or quality? Those blobs can't be audited for bugs, can't get new features from the community, present a pain point for refactors, and I would expect impede porting to new architectures (though the existence of the ARM port makes me less sure of that point).
Does anyone know what stops the remaining fuel from igniting? Seems pretty amazing everyone got off, I’m looking forward to reading the full report of what happened!
You aren’t really able to implement them in real life anyway - just like any other form of DRM.
If the device can show/play it you can capture it.
Firefox was not the only competition back then. Opera was also around with its own engine, and it was very popular in Europe. But, yeah, this is when HTML and associated standards were a lot simpler.