skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you back up these accusations?
We need more engines not less.
Pigs are pretty smart, too.
Please no. Valve is doing fine on its own as a privately owned company.
> If you don’t install Apple Music or Apple TV, you can continue to use iTunes for all your media.
… so why would I install either of those? What’s actually changing if I only have iTunes installed?
And VLC plays for sure. I was just looking at videos captured by a (wild) game camera and the Microsoft Media Player could only play some of them, I was sure they would play with VLC and they were right.
I’d like to direct you to the current lineup and features of Apple iPads and the various pencil/pen options.
Not really. The USSR did not allow any members of the Imperial police to join the USSR secret service (it was initially called OGPU).

They also functioned quite differently, the Imperial security had never had a fraction of OGPU's power, so the methods were different. OGPU didn't care at all about planting evidence or manipulating witnesses, they could just torture people into signing confessions (called "the queen of all kinds of evidence" by the USSR chief prosecutor).

So any similarities are probably just a result of parallel evolution.
“What are the connections between this bullshit malaise and how humans are bullshitting with each other and bullshit?”

haha
Each node in our backend has a cost associated with it that we defined on a 0-100 scale. Our plan is to aggregate those at the end of a run to determine it's cost. Tying that cost to some actual metric like CPU usage could be a great idea though.

Runs are basically dynamically generated scripts. Our backend parses the automation definition from the DAG on the frontend, fetches the definitions of each node and stitches it all together to run in a sandbox env. It started off quite simple in the early days but it's become quite an monstrous system with dynamic variables, nesting, looping, credential access and error handling.
I hope people are less judgmental and more compassionate toward my and your errors. Shaming, IME and in my belief, is a toxic act in service of the attacker; it makes the situation worse, and even the attacker feels worse and is degraded (though they feel powerful).
Oh fuck. Well, in my defense, nobody is claiming I'll design fusion reactors and cure cancer by 2027
I can go for days without eating and not think about it too much - but as soon as I start eating, I become obsessed with food and cannot stop. So if I just eat dinner, there's not enough time left in the day to overeat.

That's why it works for me.
but an aircraft carrier can still project force at a distance

In terms of the levels of force being exchanged in a full-scale war, it's not that much force and it's not that much distance, relative to what a peer adversary like China can bring to a fight in their own backyard.

It's ~130 ship-launched guided missiles and ~75 fighter jets. They will not be operating at a stand-off distance relative to the reach of cruise and ballistic missiles launched from Chinese homeland. And the planes are not going to be able to take off and land if the carrier is executing evasive maneuvers because of missile attack.

If you were China, how would you tackle that? Is there any reason you wouldn't just send several waves of several hundred missiles their way?

Carrier strike groups are still useful. 130 missiles and 75 jets is plenty to dissaude most countries on earth. Just not the biggest ones, if they have committed to waging a full-scale war against you.

China would definitely not emerge unscathed. The CSG would be augmented with a lot of longer range stuff such as US fighters/bombers/missiles/subs launched from elsewhere. But I mean, I think the CSG gets effectively deleted in the first few hours of war. Hope I'm wrong.
It's cause the track has to shut down for a fire. Yes maybe they can figure out a way to get the burning EV bike off the track but if they can't get it out they probably still have to stay shut down for a while.

I used to go to lots of track days and have sat through both emergency medical shut-downs and fire & chemical spill shut-downs.

At least for motorcycles the way the race track works is you have a bunch of people who either pay for a track day or for race entries. Depending on how much they are willing to pay you either get 1 or 2 ambulances and EMT crews and you have a certain size fire crew and this has to be factored into the pricing.

If you have 1 EMT crew + ambulance and someone has an accident IME the track shuts down and no one can ride again until the ambulance returns from the hospital. While it's shut down all the customers are wasting money and considering whether they want to come back.

It's the same thing with a fire. But an ICE motorcycle doesn't take very long to put out and get off the track. If the EV takes even an hour to put the fire out and get it off the track it wrecks the schedule for the whole day as you have races or sessions that are shut down. IME an ICE fire was a 20 minute delay. That's one missed track day session or one race that has to be rescheduled (amateur races are short). A 1-hour EV fire would cancel 2+ races/sessions, and realistically do we actually think the EV fire is put out in 1 hour? ICE motorcycles go out on the track with barely any fuel at all, especially in races they go out with minimal fuel to save weight, so the fires go out quick.
Soviets replicated all sort of stuff, 8bit controllers, all the way up to i386.
someone PLEASE tell me how to make optimus prime
This is media (web) that we are social on (discussion). It’s these folks own definition of social media that needs fixing so they don’t feel isolated. I don’t use instagram not bc I’m weird but because it’s a shit experience.
Show HN: An infinite knowledge graph about any topic
Trying to make something that can be used to know what to learn about something next. Something that tells you "What you don't know about the things you know".
Straight from wikipedia:

Negative salary-achievements correlation controversy

In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008.[15] On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million (in 2021, her salary rose again to over $5 million,[16] and again to nearly $7 million in 2022[17]). In August of the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues, after previously laying off roughly 70 in January (prior to the pandemic). Baker blamed this on the COVID-19 pandemic, despite revenue rising to record highs in 2019, and market share shrinking.[18]

In other words, no she definitely is. She fired 250 devs while doubling her pay multiple times to live a luxurious life while lying about the cause. People have to feed their families, she doesn't need that much and this is not good community spirit.

It gets even more interesting googling bit further and becomes a brilliant example of either "money corrupts people" or "i'm romanticising my upperclass upbringing", because she apparently went from patos filled stories about her dad paying just above minimum wage (lol) to firing 250 devs while she ran with the money:

"[about her parents] So I would call them progressive. I would call them really focused on -- well, so for example, he would never pay minimum wage. They ran a small business. It was pretty--
Weber: Doing what?
Baker: -- hand to mouth. A pewter factory, making wine goblets and gift items out of pewter. Not so easy to do in the Bay Area, which is expensive. And so he would hire someone at minimum wage. But he had a period of time -- it was six weeks, or two months, or three months, or whatever it was-- after a probationary period, and then he refused. He felt he needed to pay a living wage."

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
I used to tell myself the same, but after years of doing it you slowly build up a set of rules and intuition in your head. Practice, practice, practice.
Seems similar to Datasette: https://datasette.io https://github.com/simonw/datasette/
Good info. But isn't `-1` implicit when the output is a pipe?
The phrase “everything you needed to be entertained” is indicative of the biggest problem that I see with Apple today: a focus on consumerism and passive consumption. Twenty years ago, iTunes’ emphasis was on collecting, experiencing, and enjoying an art form. It’s a very subtle difference, but it speaks to the attitude that Apple projects today. When was the last time the intersection with the humanities was mentioned, versus how sleek and desirable the technology is?
Being "pro-data-privacy" as a browser vendor seems like an inherently contradiction in terms. It's like apple feigning interest in protecting consumers when they run their own ad network.
> multiple layers of thick highly reflective surfaces

this protects from lasers, but also makes it glaringly obvious to EW and radar systems.
The Case for Open Source AI
Yeah that about covers it. I wonder if there's a term for metaphors that make something simple seem more complex.
Tech Giants Turned Ukraine into an AI War Lab
Visible in Cloudflare Radar as well
https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/17554355308738889...
I believe the original post was satire
Having an independent engine is not necessarily about privacy, it's about... Well, independence. If Google gets away with Blink being the only viable engine, they can push any bullshit they want (e.g. WEI) and we'll have to live with it. A Chromium-only future is one where "the web" is just another name for Google's walled garden.
Expecting the very obvious trash social media sites (all of them) are hawking to be good is the online equivalent of expecting the pills they sell in shady gas stations that also sell ninja throwing stars to turn you into a tiger in bed.

It will be very interesting to watch how this unfolds.
Mozilla should handover Firefox to a separate entity and continue with their wishy washy projects. Only thing they are doing right now is ruining Firefox. I'll surely donate to such an entity if they solely focus on Firefox.
I am defined as a logical processor in an assessment somewhere. Your activism towards me hasn’t been working since launched by a disinformation actor precisely December 2019. Would be great if someone can tell me where the forum is.

Interesting info about root cause, culture and errors though. Also I might care.
Absurd, how? Can you be more specific and plain about what you believe is wrong, without the oratory rhetoric? You’ve presented a list of evidence in support of some point you have in mind, but we need you to plainly state your beliefs — not just your arguments in support of them — if you’d like us to consider your views.
Balmer worked at Microsoft for 20 years before becoming CEO. And even then I'd say he cared about MS more than she cares about Firefox.
I’m sorry I’m sounding condescending. I was trying to be funny. The point is that there are so many problems that it is even a problem to list them. Those problems are so evident to me that I didn’t thought people might not understand it.

1. Linkedin is a platform promoting a closed-garden vision of the web while Firefox is seen a the last stand against that closed vision.

2. Linkedin is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft has been the biggest opponent to Mozilla and still is, even if it may be topped by Google in that place.

3. Linkedin is known for its terrible security practices regarding personal datas. It is also a big seller of private data. Which goes against "promoting privacy".

This tells a lot from a symbolic perspective. But it is not only symbolic:

4. You need a Linkedin account to view the link. Meaning that the very first step of the news CEO is requiring users to have an account on a rival platform which harvest their data if they want to know who she is.

5. It means that the new CEO find her Linkedin account more important that any personal website, if any, which is philosophically the opposite of Mozilla self-proclaimed mission.

I hope it is is clearer and you understand that, yes, it is a big deal. CEO position is mostly symbolic. The very first move and the fact that nobody at Mozilla even realized that it could send a bad signal is enough indication that nobody there even understand the original mission anymore. Nobody there cares about privacy. Nobody there cares about the independence of the Web.
I think you perfectly summed it up. Mozilla depends on google largesse, which limits its perimeter of freedom.

Imagine if Firefox included perfect ad blocking + antitracking (ex: reporting a standard canvas size, having multi account container on) out of the box. Add an AI API so that users who have very basic questions wouldn't need to interact with a search engine. I don't think it would fare well with google.

Google money has unfortunately created the perfect innovation trap: it removed the incentives that Firefox could have had, to create a product that users would want that could have a positive feedback loop on what users want.

Instead, Firefox is what google want: an hedge against antitrust.

I don't think the previous CEO could do anything to find out a new market when isolated like this from market signals (like donations which are the equivalent of sales: a signal that what you are providing is what users want)

I think Google is also stuck in a local optimum trap: it can't innovate out of ads and tracking. Its own technology had to be taken by OpenAI as an outsider, with Microsoft money, to deliver a product.

> Edge has proven is an embarrassingly public way that being a better browser under the hood doesn't get you more users.

Edge is yet another proof that Google technology was sound, but is better managed by outside companies.

The network effect from google created the eye of Sauron, with little else to show on. It acts as an incentives to anyone who cares about privacy or products not being killed.

I think it's a tragedy because Google has been strongly incentivized to cut off the seeds it saw, to put more money and labor on its core offering, if only avoid the risk of cannibalizing its core business.

ABC/alphabet was about edging that risk, trying to diversify by recognizing business is inherently risky, but you have to make wild bets to get alpha.

Unfortunately, it may have been too little too late: 10 years later, I don't think Google has the money or the manpower to try to do that at a scale that matters.

Even if it did, its bad reputation for culling out products doesn't inspire trust: personally, I'd rather run llama.cpp than make any bet that Gemini will still be operating in a few years, and for free software I'd trust Microsoft over Google.

It's a tragedy, because it has had ripple effects on Firefox, taking similar wrong decisions to cut really innovative technologies (Rust) before they could grow.
Much cleaner versions is:

Atheism is lack of beliefe in deity due to lack of evidence of any such/any deity.

This pushes the burden of proof onto believers.
They do use Stockfish for playing thought …

“To prevent some of these situations, we check whether the predicted scores for all top five moves lie above a win percentage of 99% and double-check this condition with Stockfish, and if so, use Stockfish’s top move (out of these) to have consistency in strategy across time-steps.”
What he means is that as a CEO of a corporation that is supposed to defend things like openness, privacy, power to the users etc., it's ironic that the only tool to see her profile is from a Microsoft-owned company, which is quite the opposite of most of Mozilla's core values (well, mostly regarding privacy).
If trends continue (of course no guarantee they will) it looks like Brave might surpass Firefox's market share in the next few years
Rust, for example. How many organizations the size of Mozilla create two revolutionary products in unrelated fields?
And you can say "oh it's still Chrome!" but - Chromium is FOSS, and to me, it shows that Brave focus on what matters (data privacy) and not on what doesn't (writing their own HTML, CSS, JS engine)

but avoiding a browser monoculture does matter. having all browsers built on chromium is a serious problem given the way google treats chrome. see the latest decisions regarding extension support and adblocking all of which will end up in chromium. do you think brave will have the resources to fork chromium to avoid those changes?
> Twenty years ago, iTunes’ emphasis was on collecting, experiencing, and enjoying an art form.

This was (and is) also a blatant form of consumerism. I honestly don't see any difference in the negative effects on this outside of going through apple rather than my local FYE.
> It's fun to build own browser engine, I get it, I just don't know if it's time and money well spent.

It's not about fun, it's about denying Google the right to exercise complete control over the way that the web evolves. Having independent browser engines with substantial market share is the only path to a web that isn't just an extension of Google, and we shouldn't be relying on Apple alone to bear that weight.

That said, the success of this strategy for containing Google depends on having market share, which Mozilla's recent strategies have completely failed to do, but that has less to do with their independence than it does with Mozilla's focusing on just about anything other than Firefox.
clickable link: https://blogkit.dev
Ask HN: Where does Facebook save Account Logins and how to delete it all?
Okay this is obnoxious, scary and infuriating:

New iPhone. On a trip. Never used Facebook, but I had to to interact with the pages of some local shops. I create an account with a random name.

Blocked within an hour. FB wants me to upload a video of myself. No luck Zuck.

I guessed it was because of the discrepancy between my phone number and the location and shrugged and deleted the FB app.

A few days later, I installed FB again. My previous account was visible as soon as I open the app. Wth? Same in the FB Messenger and Instagram.

I deleted them all. Cleared the browsing cache and everything from iOS settings. Reinstalled FB. The saved login is still there.

And since Google Search sucks now too and doesn’t care about the exact phrase, it just shows me results for how to remove saved logins from WITHIN the FB app itself.

No. I want to know WHERE Facebook stores that information so I can delete it WITHOUT using the FB app. And WHY does Apple even allow this kind of crap despite being so gung ho about privacy??
I wonder if its easier to grow octopus flesh vs meat. Meat has the issue of all the blood vessels and stuff, but my off the head take seems that octopus might avoid that sort of issue?
The FCC says robocalls that use AI-generated voices are illegal
If the name is available, someone will take it, and I can think of no better steward of it than Simon
In case you were wondering how they make money...this is from Investopedia:

"
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla releases its annual financial statements each November for the previous year. The company’s latest revenue numbers are from 2020 when the browser brought in nearly $497 million, 88.8% of which came from royalties.

These royalties refer to the percentage of advertising revenue Mozilla receives whenever someone uses the built-in search engine that the Firefox browser provides.

In addition to search royalties, Mozilla earns money from donations and from sponsored new tab tiles, which can be disabled."
I don't, because it was on my corp email.

I remember the gist being that we were trying to compete against the two biggest companies on the planet, and (outside of some concerns about security) nobody seemed to really be complaining about the two options. If our goal was to bet the company (financially) on it, it made no sense to try to undercut Android... at the time Android was open source and ran on dirt cheap phones.

I remember a big part of it being "nobody wants a phone that doesn't have Angry Birds on it". I wasn't specifically worried about that one game (although it was insanely popular at the time), but rather all the apps – Uber, Facebook, etc. We had no ability to make parternships of that level happen. Especially since some of those companies (like Facebook) were trying to build their OWN phones at the time.

I just didn't think there was a market for a phone with no apps, that was positioning itself as the "cheaper" version of an already cheap (and ubiquitous) competitor. And I wouldn't have cared, if it wasn't for the fact that we had to move the entire company towards building this – which we did for a few years.
That would be reasonable if the United States (note plural) were one entity.

It isn't.

The system is designed to prevent populous states from running roughshod over the smaller ones (and no, it didn't have anything to do with "slavery"... Virginia, a slave state, was also by far the most populous state. Under your proposed alternative system, it's likely that a) slaves would be counted fully[1] and b) the 1808 cutoff for importation of slaves would have been rescinded, or never enacted in the first place.

Under such a system, we likely would have had 4 or 5 civil wars by now, rather than just one.

[1] This point is also often misunderstood. It was the slave states who wanted the slaves counted fully, as that would have given them more representation in Congress. The free states didn't want the slaves counted at all. Phrasing it as "counting them as 3/5 of a person", as you often see, is simply ignorant. "So... you wanted them counted as a "full person"? You do understand that makes you pro-slavery, right?"
Pitchforks for RDSEED
F.O.M.O.

fear of missing out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomo
Lua: Portuguese for "moon", it was developed in Brazil as a successor to SOL (Simple Object Language) which also means "sun" in Portuguese.
Interesting. We have a few of those in the US, but get this, they have stop signs too!
VirtualBox, as absurd as it is, needs a proprietary, licensed "extension pack" for basic things like today standard USB2/3 drivers, encryption and webcam. I don't care about backends as long VirtualBox frontend has "Oracle" slapped on it. So, kudos! for perpetuating Virtualbox' existence!
Because I enjoy eating the flesh of slaughtered animals. Whenever I do so I feel nothing but absolute pleasure of the taste of cooked flesh. I feel zero guilt. And so does the majority of the human race.

If I were to do the same to a human that would be a big problem.

Why is it like this? I don't know but that's just the way it is. Don't try to rationalize it, it's not supposed to be rational. Our evolutionary quirks and moral instincts are the product of biological evolution not rational thought.

It's not rational, but it is self evident, to everyone. Including you. Your appeal is more of a request to ask for the rationality behind it and hoping that when people see how irrational it is they will side with you.

People aren't rational. There beliefs are based off of instinctual desires and they construct scaffolds of rational logic around their preconceived beliefs.

For example: how do you justify the slaughter and killing of all the plants that cows rip through without a second thought? Are plants less important then animals? It's mind blowing how many plants are literally executed every time those cows chew.

This what I do is a service to justice. I eat the flesh of slaughtered cows to punish plant killers. I balance the scales of justice every time I devour a steak.

This same logic justifies cannibalism of all vegetarians too but I'm unwilling to eat vegans. You'll have to get back to me on that. It takes time to fully rationalize all my instinctual behaviors.