skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused as to why Baker is not running things while a permanent CEO is found.

Chambers is stepping in temporarily, and Fortune offers some details: "Chambers says she won’t be seeking a permanent CEO role because she plans to move back to Australia later this year for family reasons. 'I think this is an example of Mozilla doing the right role modelling in how to manage a succession,' says Chambers."

If it's only going to take a matter of months to find a new CEO, and Baker has been doing it since 2020, and before that from 05-08, what difference does it make if she keeps running things a few/several more months? Why have a third person running things temporarily?
I have noticed that the overton window on some topics has moved so much that you can't even discuss them properly anymore. Attempts to deescalate don't work anymore or even make you a target.
They do in some places, like SF. Though even SF has more road than some Europe or Middle East cities.
As an idea, media moratoriums immediately prior to elections seems
fairly sensible. AI and disinformation attacks are likely to be 'last
minute'. Maybe the entire phone and Internet system is going a bit
far. Also, obtaining broad consensus for just muting the main social
media channels doesn't seem that unreasonable. My thought is, unless
gunmen are showing up at polling stations, what exactly is so urgent
to discuss that people haven't already made up their minds about in 24
hours? Here's a few pro and anti standpoints [0..3].

[0] https://tech-ish.com/2024/01/12/2024-elections-internet-blac...

[1] https://www.axios.com/2020/09/25/majority-polled-back-a-soci...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-on-the-week-of-the-elect...

[3] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/election-disinfo/
Microsoft embraces its inner penguin as sudo sneaks into Windows 11
A single season of no maintenance in rural Alabama could easily allow the property to be full of Giant Hogweed[1] which seems to allow UV light to penetrate our skin a lot more easily, causing severe burns. Especially around a tower where birds roost and spread droppings for 100 feet around the area.

1. https://www.al.com/news/2018/07/giant_hogweed_plant_on_alaba...
I recently learned that my mother is subscribed to Google One. when I asked her why, she didn't even know what it was. IIRC she has like 1-2TB of cloud storage, but is only using like 10 gb of it.

I wonder how many of those 100 million subscribers are non-techy people who accidentally signed up?
Yeah that would be pretty odd, I suppose I was mistaken then.
I'm not sure what this comment is supposed to mean. There's a faulty premise or something. You might as well say "the greed of universal constants is so high and that's exactly why there are so many chlorine atoms in the ocean".

I'm minimally interested in reducing the level of human pain that exists in the world. I'm absolutely uninterested in reducing the level of non-human pain in the world unless there are practical benefits for that effort.

I don't even know what "suffering" means. Is "suffering" pain, just a synonym? If so, why say "suffering and pain"? Is it some sort of fallacy to try to add emotional weight to your statement? Is suffering distinct from pain? Can you measure suffering? Detect it with some instrument? Do you even have a definition for suffering?

"Suffering" is as mystical and meaningless as when the religious talk about souls. When people use that word, I suspect very strongly that they're incapable of consistently remaining rational.
I'd like to try this out with the free 2 months trial. Can anyone advice how safe it is to do so? What is the risk that something I do with Gemini causes Google to lock my entire Google account including calendar and photos? I mean, this happened to people who (gasp) signed up to Google+ under a pseudonym rather than their real name (oh, the horror, how dare they).
IIRC from greentheonly’s twitter, there’s evidence of a brief experiment to do early fusion of vision and radar in the perception model
Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's
yea, that is exactly my problem
It is good to be on guard. Extremism is bad for society, be it left or right leaning. But we shouldn't confuse things.

With progressiveness we are talking about progress in human and civil rights towards a more free society.

It does not mean you have to agree with all policies of them. Authoritarianism is a direct contradiction with progressiveness.
AI Content Is Short-Term Arbitrage
Facebook is also one of pioneers in making mass surveillance the norm. The promise of technology has been used to prey on society.
The public are not entitled to that video. Regulators and engineers, sure, but to release it to the armchair uninformed public because of their morbid curiosity does nothing to advance safety engineering.
Interesting framing!

I guess the + is like the + sign on a calculator ;)
Is the memory issue reported in go 1.21 version in linux OS resolved in go 1.22?

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64332
Thanks for the feedback - I agree that fine tuning a) has potential and b) is not easy :-)

> Also, I don’t get the comparison of rag vs finetuning in articles like this - why not do both

It's interesting you say this because we are very close to adding RAG support to Helix sessions and it will be "both at the same time" not an "either or" setup.
You can choose to do either or but we are interested in seeing if doing both at the same time yields better results than either or - watch this space!

disclaimer: I work on Helix
I think it still is. A discussion forum like this lacks a number of features we'd commonly associate with social media.
> Are you sure that what you're calling "shallow attacks" aren't just statements of truth that show someone to be an awful person?

I believe that is something that can only be said by Baker, or people who know her sufficiently well. I assume most of the commentors here who are criticising Baker do not fall in either of those categories.
> Gemini’s ability to hold context is purposefully limited for now. As Gemini continues to learn, its ability to hold context during longer conversations will improve."

This is ridiculous. Context is everything with LLMs. gpt-4-32k performs better than gpt-4 exactly because of this.
A lot of this has changed in recent VirtualBox versions. USB3 and Webcam support is now part of the OSE release.
An established order of quarter days is: annunciation, midsummer, michaelmas, and christmas.

and cross-quarter days are indeed candlemas, may day, lammas, and all hallows.
Source code here: https://github.com/cmoog/traderjoes
Didn't know that, thanks! Makes me like it more, for some reason.
No, no, no.

I don't have to prove your claim to be wrong. YOU have to prove your claim to be right.

You are making extraordinary claims that is at odd with everyday observable lives we live in.

If you claims someone was walking on water, its not my job to prove you wrong!
My answer was that it was obvious but I went down a rabbit hole of comparison pages and learned the current Air is higher end than the current iPad.
Can't tell if sarcasm. Long time user (and often evangelistic) of firefox and loathe the turns she took as ceo.
Show HN: Infinite stock ticker board on Vision Pro
To do safely, sure.
Yep this is the primary benefit of my apple watch, i no longer feel the need to incessantly check my phone for notifications. i just glance at my watch
I've been packing out my poo for decades. Sure, I started when camping in the snow, but when I learned how bad human crap is in the back country I decided to do it in the summer too (you already have to pack out the rest of your trash, including used TP).

Learning that people don't do this on a place like Everest says more about the human trash who climb it than it does about anything else.
this kinda stuff is often way more important than any code of course!
This line of thinking is useful for rejecting others who are pushing specific beliefs, but is demonstrably flawed for making conclusions about things that are intrinsically impossible to observe.
"Firefox to be free and open source. "

And die.

And spending >$6.000.000.000 to do it.

As a 30 years user, it's just so sad to see Firefox going down down down. No innovation, no progress since the introduction of tabs. At least the sell-customer-data-for-marketing-experiments phase is done. And at least it's not unusable slow like it was for some years, so the bare minimum works. And it somehow survived the XUL/extension debacle. But it's 2024 and I'm through my 10th vertical tab extension (Tab Center Reborn for now) since using FF. How is FF supposed to work with >20 tabs open? The only reason to use it for me is it's open source and not owned by M$ or Google. Would there be another open source browser with traction, I'd be gone in a second.
Shimshady: Linux Secure Boot CVE
Given how much the Discovery arm seems to be in control, Warner Bros Discovery may be "new media" in old media clothing.

Skydance is trying to buy National Amusements to take over Paramount and arguably be a similar new media in old media clothing if that deal goes through.

> Sony Pictures started in 1987, so that should qualify as old media too.

I know objective that's almost 40 years ago and probably does qualify for old, but that still seems too recent in Hollywood Empires. But Sony Pictures also has the advantage it bought truly old media Columbia/TriStar and didn't seem to kill them and kind of left them to continue to do their thing, so maybe Sony gets more of a pass too.

> And there is also Lionsgate.

Lionsgate was formed in 1997.

Maybe you are thinking about MGM (and its famous Lion logo), which Amazon has been trying not to kill since it acquired that ancient studio brand, but also is very much appearing to be Amazon still being Amazon just wearing that brand (which was on life support or already a zombie when purchased) like a skin at this point?
* Alternate different people at random to run the standup

* Control people who talk for too long or go into detail that's not worthwhile

* If you have a board, run through each ticket in progress/in review for a casual update, record it as a note

* Have an icebreaker (1 minute) before or after, ie "fun fact of the day" or something and randomly choose people to do it

* Ends with a section on anything else to add, if anyone is blocked, whatever, and have people break out into their own meetings if necessary

* If it spills over 15 minutes then continue to trim down on the update complexity
Ivory Coast's economic success is a tale of triumph
Ugh what next, farm chimpanzees for their meat?
Thanks for the reply! That makes a lot of sense given where it is right now. Hopefully it will flesh out over time, but I'll definitely be giving it a look!
having an in group bias is pretty universal among social animals. do you really expect people to value another species over their own?
That's odd about the core count. I only get that behavior if my host system only has 1 CPU to begin with (tested in qemu/KVM with nesting). Could you comment on your host system parameters a bit?
Personally, I've had a wild ride:

2019 - 50% raise

2021 - 30% raise

2022 - layoff and eventual 67% pay cut

2023/2024 - applications everywhere, and "success" is getting a company to communicate a rejection.
I personally use Kagi, but "google" is really just short-hand for searching a specific resource (like, say, docs.python.org).

I suppose if you're googling an open-ended error with little context it's probably rougher now, but I don't see how you could possibly prepare for answering questions about arbitrary errors with no context via flashcards.
I just tried out Gemini advanced to see if it was a viable replacement for ChatGPT. In general I've been trying to lessen my dependence on Google, so I was already on the fence about using this.

It seemed fine for most of the coding problems I threw at it. However, when I tried to use it for generating images of coloring book pages, something my kids often use ChatGPT for, Gemini advanced was subpar. I'm going to cancel my trial.

I'm hoping for a future where good LLMs can all run locally. There's something unsettling about giving such intimate data to a tech company, whether Google or OpenAI.
I would assume the vast majority of Mitchell Baker haters are FF users (or rust enthusiasts?). Why else would someone hate her?
Octopus tentacles are semiautonomous
Looking for a drag and drop web app to fill in forms
Any suggestions?

Looking for a drag and drop web app to fill in forms. Kind of like a simple creation for an app.

Need for ipad, an way to fill in forms but with drag and drop presets for different settings that fill in several lines of a form.
When I used to windsurf, it was pretty obvious how important the little toe is for balance, it drives where to push. I can't tell you why, but it was the toe that gave back the most feedback and told me how to push with my feet
You probably also won't get that via learning a language via flashcards, either. That seems like an inherently different problem to solve than "memorizing a language".
I'm a man and I appreciate you saying this but it's not really a sexist meme in my experience. The vast vast majority of men i've ever spoken to about this have an aversion to therapy. I actually think any pro-therapy people wanting to reach more men would benefit a lot from rebranding it from therapy
I am suggesting that and I'm basing that on every Mozilla does x thread I've read for the last 2-3 years.

If it wasn't for the hatred, I would probably not even know this person's name.
Interestingly, though, FireFox OS was forked to become KaiOS which can now be found on just about every feature phone on the market that I've seen.
I never said anything like that. I’m opposing the idea that you should not look into that bowl because “not all M&Ms are poisoned”.

I am strongly opposed to surveillance in general and happy that they unearthed this as a violation, but at some point people will inevitably fall into buckets when an investigation is happening. There is nothing new about this.

A tip comes in about someone who frequents church X organizing a terrorist attack. Do you do a background check on church goers, look for suspicious activity, or sit back and twiddle your thumbs because this is “unfair targeting”?

Several attacks have actually happened in NL over the past decades, and recently scary connections with extremist groups found. It’s not hypothetical.
> Blink being the only viable engine

Don't forget Apple devices, which use a different engine. Until very recently (or very soon?), iPhones could not use Blink, afaik.
Yes. The "popular vote" is about as meaningful in the context as picking a President on the basis of how many 3 point shots the candidates can make in a game of 1-on-1 basketball.

People who go off on the "popular vote" are generally those who are unwilling to accept that they have lost the election. In other words, sour grapes.

Oh, they might argue that they'd be in favor of using the "popular vote" even if that worked against them, but you know what? I don't believe them.

If it worked against them, they'd be arguing for a "return to the original system as conceived by the Founders" or some such.
We are finding that fine tuning is very good at setting the style and tone of responses. A potential use case we are thinking about is what if your star sales person leaves the company? Could you fine tune an LLM on their conversations with customers and then do inference where it would write text in the style of your star sales person.

We are also adding function calling so the model would know to reach out to an external API to fetch some data before generating a response.

disclaimer: I work on Helix
There also is C--. C-- is a reduced kind of C to make implementation of compilers and interpreters for it easier. It is overall meant as a simple generation target for compilers.
Thanks. I wonder how you plan to replicate stuff, considering how heavily it relies on WAL (I haven't found the answer in the code, but I'm not very familiar with rust).

How large part of the plan you route to the datalake tables? Just scans or some more complex part? Can you point me to the part of the code doing that? I'm intrigued.
Mitchell baker was making 6.2 million dollars a year at Mozilla in 2023.

Source: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_a...
Sure, Apple aligned itself in a way that ultimately added to its and its partners’ bottom lines. But somehow, the company’s attitude felt aspirational to me in a way that it does not today.
This is spot on stuff.
What Is Wayland on Linux, and How Is It Different from X? (2023)
I listen to CDs in the car. I have been considering getting a cheap mp3 player.
Nuclear fusion: European joint experiment achieves energy record
> identifying people like GGP's mother and excluding them from requirement for self-driving is prohibitively expensive (and icky in all kinds of ways)

Not sure I follow the thinking here. We already have ability tests in driver's license exams.
I've had Chrome, Safari, and Firefox open pretty much all day every day for the past decade+ and find them to be overwhelmingly alike. What is Firefox missing?
I've followed your advice, 'Google it.'

"According to the company's filings, Mitchell Baker's compensation went from $5,591,406 in 2021 [PDF] to $6,903,089 in 2022."
Did not continue to dig further.

Mozilla tanked a lot, even Thunderbird is doing better recently.
So definitely part of the 'parasitic upper class.
First API to Detect and Monetize Password Sharing
Hi fellow hackers,

Excited to share our API for account-sharing detection and monetization. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Tell me. Better yet, can anyone show me? Charlie's Angels (2000)
> Baker got a bad rap among tech nerds for whom Mozilla === Firefox for trying to find literally any new market outside Firefox.

Maybe I am a tech nerd, but for me Mozilla is Firefox. We have thousands of privacy-oriented companies and organizations, but there is only one independent browser. I am fine with Mozilla finding some other ways to make cash, but it they have a mission, that's the browser. So if I see money being spent (vs money being earned) on something that is not Firefox, I am sad. Now, they are free to do as they want, if they want to drop Firefox, that's their right, but that would make one less good thing in this world.
> (...) aircraft carriers are going to immediately become obsoleted by antiship missiles (...)

I think aircraft carriers are already obsolete, not due to antiship missiles but due to small, quiet diesel subs.

Pretty much any NATO navy operating these has stories from NATO exercises where their small, unimpressive sub managed to score hits on a carrier.

This isn't new. Around two decades ago, the US felt the need to ask Sweden to loan them their HSMS Gotland to learn how to do something about them.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/think-us-navy-aircraf...
I carry no other electronics. I just deal with it.
I have been looking for an excuse to use RR, a problem that would have been solved much easier if I had it. I haven't yet found one.

Does anyone here have experience with it? Maybe know the sort of problems RR excels at helping find?

EDIT: And is there some way to still use a better visual overlay a-la Visual Studio or QTCreator?
often wiping it by accident, RIP my favorite playlist :(
Great question. That's something we struggle with. Originally that was the goal, to automate anything and everything. However, the more we build for our users the more we realize we have to pick a lane and focus on it because we only have finite working hours in a day. Complex automations are our strong suit, simple workflows like that don't do a ton to separate us from Zapier although I know we could build it quite easily.

Since day 1 our approach has been to build exclusively based on what our users ask for however that user profile has changed with our pricing. Since our prices have recently been set kind of high, the types of users making requests are more aimed at business use cases and scaled builds rather than streamlining of work. We see requests for use cases like that less often as a result.
Will her compensation change? Hmm
My Home Assistant set up keeps trying to connect to my neighbour's toothbrush via Bluetooth.
It's part of the online 'game' to jump in on ridicule? You see it all the time, even on HN.
The Programming Language With No Pronouncable Acronym. Abreviated as INTERCAL, for obvious reasons.
Stop Writing Dead Programs (Strange Loop 2022)
If you want the same memory bandwidth and latency in your windows laptop, you would similarly need to have soldered LPDDR5 memory and pay the premium for it
Still waiting for a Mozilla-branded email domain/provider. They've already got their Mozilla-branded partnerships with the VPN and now the data scrubber. Not sure why they're sleeping on email. That seems like an obvious thing that I would pay for.
Octopus flesh has the issue of containing the majority of the octopus’ neurons [0]. Life is weird.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc...
Microsoft is rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot product to employees
When I tinkered with UML I think it was prior to cgroups (2007) [0] so
my guess is that escaping the UML instance was easier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups
x closes my tab on both FF and Chrome

EDIT: never mind, it was due to my Vimium extension
It would, immigration in all forms directly affects labor supply, which affects wages. There’s a reason that basically every single CEO is pro-immigration.
Gravity batteries are so appealing, until you calculate the cost per kWh. Any weight that you have to manufacture is already too expensive and you want manufactured weights since you want your weights to be as dense as possible and not just made out of compressed dirt.
A lot of Priuses in my neighborhood lost their catalytic converters a few winters ago. Mostly this happened at night, so there was more time than for whoever hit your friend's car..
I mean, they aren’t farmed for meat but monkey farms do exist: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/28/monkey...
Honestly, it sort of is.

Someone who'd got it wrong would have opened the door for the kind of IP clawback we're seeing with the cloud tech startups wanting to pull people into their companion SaaS products.
I look back on the views I held 3 years ago, the things I said and/or did back then, and I cringe immensely. I do not want anything I write to be irreversibly linked to my real name, especially on a website that doesn't allow one to delete comments or even their own profile without an email to a moderator [1].

[1]: Not throwing shade at dang here, but I do not want any content I write to be permanent in nature especially when that permanence is at the whims and wishes of another human (I think that phrase was slightly awkward, please tell me if you found it awkward too).
? no it wasn't. it was taking a beautiful, timeless, intrinsically valuable thing (music) and building a business around it.

the idea was that if iTunes is the best way to tag, collect, burn, and listen to music, people would naturally adopt it and then go spend money in the store.

this lies in contrast to modern apps' desire to provide an endless library of content within the app or paid service. drives up engagement but pretty soon the point is less "best in class for music lovers" and more "how do we keep them here forever spending money"
Brave’s usage curve is still going up and the MAU is approaching 70 million. Firefox has another 115 million monthly active users. By Chrome’s numbers either is barely used.

https://bravebat.info/brave_browser_active_users