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> "We"? I certainly didn't and I'm not alone.

I was replying to the statement in the parent post:

>> If you are suggesting that people who still use firefox hate Mitchell Baker, you are mistaken.

I stopped using Firefox. From this and other threads about Mozilla/Firefox, plenty of other HN people have too. It's not just Mitchel Baker. Mozilla has been under schizophrenic leadership for years, running in a hundred directions while neglecting their core product: Firefox. Firefox at its best broke IE's dominance, and at it's peak had 30% market share, and now it's what? 4%? If the trend continues, it's going to drop below Steam's Linux market share of 1%.

> You don't say why. Why leave Firefox for Brave, and more importantly, why encourage people to do so?
>
> Despite all Mozilla's flaws, Firefox is still great and contrary to Brave, it doesn't contribute to Google's browser monopoly.

I don't see Firefox having a long term future. Brave, Vivaldi, or one of these other Chrome reskins will assume Firefox's place as it slowly fades into a niche browser. Even Microsoft gave up and made Edge a Chrome reskin. Mozilla had the opportunity to have the best and most popular browser and they blew it. They abandoned Firefox OS and Servo. Somehow Rust survived.

> Integrated adblocking, which is often mentioned, is not a good reason: it's faster and easier to install uBlock Origin on an existing Firefox install than to install a brand new browser and make your relatives change their habits.
>
> What do you say to your relatives to justify this switch?

When they ask, and they do for some reason because I wound up being IT, I tell them I prefer to use Brave now. That it's a privacy focused variation of Chrome. Or if they complain about ads on Android's Youtube app, I tell them to use Youtube from Brave. When I setup a new computer for any of them I now install Brave along side whatever previous browser they used: Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. I used to always install Chrome and Firefox (with uBlock Origin of course).
The US was engaged in a long period of isolationism during that period.

The US attitude to world conflict now is vastly different to the views of 1941
A bus schedule doesn't give you what you see in that video. That video shows you the bus is arriving, not when the bus was scheduled to arrive. To show those things it needs to know where you are and where the bus is.

Same with the supermarket. It shows you what's actually in front of you, not what some stocker claimed was there when they put stocked the shelf 6 to 72 hours ago.

Other examples would include ads on stores. Your device can't show all ads simultaneously nor can it download all of them at once. Too much data. What it can do is ask each store for it's ad at the moment you get near but now you've just told the store you're near. Even near would be too much data though, looking down a busy shopping street or a a mall. It would likely only download what you look at and now the store knows what you looked.
it says in the graphs listed on the announcement it performs worse than GPT4 on reasoning benchmarks.
> Allowing a child to grow naturally inside his or her mother's body is the natural course of events. Pregnancies terminate naturally at birth.

Kind of. The "natural" course of events you describe depends on the pregnant person to interact differently with society. A pregnant person eats more (and hence has to go out of their way to buy more food), pays more for healthcare products/services, and has to worry about maternity leave. (In the US, employers are mandated to provide only unpaid maternity leave [1].) Working and paying bills while pregnant or not means relying on an unnatural system called the economy within the larger maybe-natural system called society. In other words, carrying a pregnancy to term is not entirely a sequence of natural events. (Meanwhile, after birth the "natural course of events" analogy stops applying, because one plausible natural course of events for a born person is starving to death.) But enough digressing on my part.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave_in_the_United_S...

> murdering your own child and taking away many decades of life from that child to avoid a few months of inconvenience is an unfair trade

The inconvenience of pregnancy is not simply the pregnancy. Even if you ignore maternal mortality (and pregnancies from rape, incest, and bad luck in cases where the pregnant person had used contraceptives correctly), your estimate of many decades of life for the child translates to almost two decades of inconvenience for the caretakers of the child, assuming that the average person doesn't become mostly independent before turning 18. (When I say caretakers, I'm including cases where the born child is sent to foster care or an adopting family, as well as cases where the child gets at least one different caretaker before 18.) Additionally, the less capable the childbearer is of childcare, the more inconvenience the born child will have.

I feel that bodily autonomy for a pregnant person is more than just the convenience or inconvenience for the bearer. I haven't formed a coherent argument about bodily autonomy yet. But especially in matters of bodily autonomy, I don't think everything immoral should be illegal.
I don't know whether it helps, but here's another explanation that doesn't involve a visual programming language:

First, imagine that procedures (or functions) are first-class values, like in some languages are called "anonymous functions", "closures", "lambdas", etc.

Now imagine that every procedure call is effectively a goto with arguments... and the familiar part about being able to return from that procedure, to its calling point, is implemented by an implicit additional value created at calling time... which is a "continuation" procedure with argument(s) that you call to return the value(s) from the other procedure.

To make it first-class continuations, imagine that "continuation" procedure value you call to return the value(s) from another procedure... can be made accessible to the program as a first-class value. Which means you can store it in a variable or data structure like any other value. And you can call that "continuation" procedure value multiple times -- returning to that dynamic state of the calling context in the program many times.

It's one of those things that application code almost never uses directly, but that could be super useful and simplifying in the implementation of another programming language, or carefully controlled in particular libraries (e.g., you wanted to make a stateful Web backend library or DSL that made it really easy to express the logic for some kind of interaction tree responding to multiple steps of form input).
Yep, incredibly lame.
For a very basic example, lets say I want 3 columns

FirstName|LastName|Age

And client files look like

ClientA: First|Last|Age

ClientB: Age|FirstName|Last

CientC: FullName|Age

ClientD: DateOfBirth|First|Last

So they all have the required info, but some intervention is required.

Column matching/renaming

Column order

Splitting full name to first/last

Converting DateOfBirth to Age
There are security implications for running elevated processes connected to unelevated console/terminal windows. "New window" mode avoids those security concerns. A secure-by-default posture seemed prudent.
This looks really good but I would like to see some real use video and reviews.

It's like a combination of google glasses and meta ray-ban. Maybe not a replacement for Meta Quest / Vision Pro / xReal but perfect form factor for simple HUD for navigation, AI text/voice translation etc.

The only think I wish it had:

- magnetically connect to stem and via usb-c to laptop / smartphone so that camera could be used as WebCam

- IMU sensor that can stream data via usb-c

- having ToF depth camera

- better looking glass Frame such as those from zenni [0] and you could have also magnetic clip on for turn into sunglasses

But this is great that is open source and could be even a better alternative for Humane AI Pin.

edit:
on VentureBeat article [1] it seems it has 'spatial camera' and 6DoF IMU - I think they should clarify and update their main page and specs page since they also don't show that it has microphone

[0] https://www.zennioptical.com/p/mens-plastic-rectangle-eyegla...

[1] https://venturebeat.com/games/brilliant-labss-frame-glasses-...
I also agree with a focus on privacy and trust.

It seems like the perfect time for it, with the other platforms enshitening.
Oh really? Ha! Well, I'm out of the loop on that. I still hold a glowing image of him from when he was working in Canada. I guess I should check what he's been up to... terrorized employees seems surprising, but also... not really.
How much of this "grandmaster-level" play is an artifact of low time controls? I notice they only achieve GM ELO in Blitz against humans, achieve significantly worse ELO against bots, and do not provide the "Lichess Blitz ELO" of any of their benchmark approaches.
Because of how Next.JS builds, you can't just deploy it as-is to something like AWS Amplify or Elastic Beanstalk. For example, if you attempt to deploy to Amplify, you'll get a bunch of 503 errors on SSR pages because of Cloudfront permissions. The static pages work fine though. I'm not exactly sure as to why you can't just "npm run start" on a Next.js app on a deployment service like ELB or Amplify. Perhaps because of the extra SWC compiler Next uses for builds?

I believe Docker works because you're doing "npm run start" and containerizing Next.js, essentially proxying the server to then serve to the client. Basically running it on localhost. For example, you can run Next.js on EC2 if you want, but you have to proxy the connection to allow the client to connect to it.

Again, I'm not an expert as to why exactly it doesn't work - I just know that it doesn't work the same way a simple node app works, which therefore adds a ton of steps involved that don't make it worth it to me.
ZIRP = Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon

Ie something that can happen when it's cheap and easy to spend someone else's money.

Post-ZIRP is something that happens when money is tight and you have to tighten the belt, make things more efficient, do more with less.
Disney via the Marvel brand did a lot of collaboration with fortnite. It must have went well. They sell iron man,Thor, spiderman and other skins. one season ever had stark industries as a loction:

The announcement video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFG9DEPy6Y
Synology’s download manager - which is an amalgamation of tools, but for video it’s ytp-dl

It works great.
Doesn't nvidia have huge margins? so if someone just makes a clone of the nvidia gpu then it can erode their margins and drive down the cost of compute
Pattern: Back ends For Front end (2015)
We need to use simple language that everyone understands. "Rent" is the right word for this transaction. Sellers hate it because no one like rent at buy prices.
Just out of curiosity, why Sony? Only negative thing I can recall hearing about them is blocking cross play to protect their console lead, which didn't seem too unreasonable to me.
This is a very interesting rabbit hole to go down! Multics certainly had some interesting features and now you can run it even on a Raspberry Pi 2. If they get TCPIP running on it it will be even more accessible to people...
It’s hard not to see this as a bubble at this point. LLMs are useful, but are they bringing trillions in added value to our economy?
I used it for 5ish years and never felt like I really understood the framework; there way too much magic going on.

What forced the switch was using Livewire; cool idea but horrible performance, poor documentation, no support, and constant rewrites. Knowing it was based off of Live View I looked into that and there was no going back.
I am business prof. I wanted my students to try out ollama (with web-ui), so I built some directions for doing so on google cloud [1]. If you use a spot instance you can run it for 18 cents an hour.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OpZl4P3d0WKH9XtErUZib5_2...
You’re being way too reasonable! A stable, self-sustaining business is for mom and pop corner pizza shops.

Tech companies want to disrupt and destroy everything in their market segment or die trying.

I wish there were more companies that would focus on stability, sustainability and longevity. But in my experience lack of rapid growth is a mark of failure for most companies.
The Rise of Anti-Heroes
Chevron is facially frivolous.

So, an agency says you broke the law.

You take the agency to court.

The court defers to the agency.

You’ve been denied your day in court.
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Complete utter nonsense - I'm an Australian gun owner, all legal.

My neighbour here in the Australian wheatbelt enjoys ULR shooting at 5,000 yards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owwTz7Z0OE

Perhaps you might like to do some actual fact checking before being utterly wrong in public?

W.Aus Firearms Act 1973 (current): https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/statutes.nsf/l...

W.Aus Firearms Regulations 1974 (current): https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/statutes.nsf/l...
To the extent that the physical world and consciousness can be modeled as computations (in order to “simulate” on some hardware), the details of the “hardware” running the simulation are totally irrelevant to the occupants of the simulation; only the relational patterns between states of the simulation at different times are relevant. The hardware could run fast or slow; forwards or backwards in “simulation time”; once or multiple times over and over; using grungy calculations or clock time-saving efficient algorithms.

Actually, it’s irrelevant to the occupants of the simulation whether or not the simulation is even “run” or merely has the potential to run. Or, indeed, whether the hardware even exists. Or, indeed, whether we use the word “simulation” instead of “laws of physics” to describe the patterns of relations between simulation states.

It’s hard for me to see how the simulation hypothesis can have any content whatsoever.
Ah shoot, well then I'm sorry, that is unfair criticism on my part.

The pitch was just so direct, coupled with the perfect topic of "Want to build a SaaS? Use Elixir" I would have assumed you owned the paid boilerplate you discussed.

I unfortunately can't edit the post but I upvoted this in the hopes that people see it.
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This sort of architecture often shows up in actors, e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/orleans...

In that world, what you're generally looking at is

local state + incoming message -> new state + outgoing messages

Outgoing messages are sent only after persisting, and will be retried until success. Unique message IDs are used for idempotency (also for incoming messages).

Important: the actor runs with no side effects -- that's what makes rerunning things safe. In that kind of world, side effects are often achieved via e.g. sending a message that updates a materialized view somewhere (see e.g. Kafka).

With this setup, the source of badness is often isolated to the incoming message, and after a few failures an incoming message can be moved into a "dead letter queue" for ops to look at. In many scenarios, this actually works remarkably well.

https://pmatseykanets.github.io/beanstalkd-docs/protocol/#bu...
Considering that the Flipper Zero is just open source hardware that anyone can make at home using common off-the-shelf components, I do not see how this measure does help.

If anything, it broadcasts to criminals that they can now steal cars with ease.
If it's something your proud of having done, perhaps buy the <library name>.com or <>.io or whatever.

Also, while the code is under an MIT license, is the name or brand?
The scale and scope of what's being described seems outlandish, I think $150B would probably be enough to at least get started. that should get you two plants in a country more amenable to building and running a chip facility than the US, plus a hardware design team (to make AltmanTPU v1), a software design team (to make ATPU work with pytorch), and the business side of things.

Ask Intel if they can just throw money at advanced chip node manufacturing. The only company that is able to do 3nm at scale with good yield is TSMC. Even at 5nm, Intel and Samsung aren't competitive.
The proposed investment is unfathomable. Multiple nation states would be required for such a sum. And for what exactly?

If the promise of AGI is true, then wouldn't we be able to ask it how to become more efficient? While it has taken millennia, mother nature has created an incredibly efficient mobile intelligence system. I struggle to understand how one could stake so much on the chance to replicate it.

Humanity can do better. Maybe not forever, but certainly for the moment.
I agree: what's interesting is not (only) the analysis, bit its discrepancy with our self-representation.
Accelerators have nothing to do with it as we're mostly memory bound by HBM <> SRAM data transfer rather than compute bound.
Best guess is that all product owners bonus now depends on if the have infused their product with AI
The valuations and money flowing around are not necessarily relevant to today, but say something about future expectations. I think that LLMs and other tools will bring trillions in added value eventually.

EDIT: Typo
I doubt they would be the only investor.
509 Billion here, 509 Billion there, soon you're talking real startup capital
>Allowing a child to grow naturally inside his or her mother's body is the natural course of events. Pregnancies terminate naturally at birth.

When it's your uterus, it's your decision. Otherwise, mind your own damn business!
It's never been easier to performantly put images on the web
It depends. Right now once we hit 6-8 bit precision inference, H100s/A100s are not memory-bound, but compute-bound.
I love how it is now open source under MIT license.
Will be amazed if we’ve left something really groundbreaking behind. Yes it will be interesting to read the old texts but I’d say most ideas that matter persisted until the present day.

It will still be a cool thing to watch and hopefully I’m wrong and the mysteries of the universe are written down somewhere else n an ancient scroll about to be uncovered.
Agreed. commoditizing the complement of OpenAIs models.
The challenge is purely in how to make it perform well.

Dumping the whole memory was a lot more viable when that was only a few kilobytes.
> I don't expect anything to exist "forever".

On one hand, that's kinda fair. Forever is pretty rough. On the other hand, companies probably shouldn't use the word forever when promising things then.

I don't like your solution, because there's legitimately movies I really only want to watch once (actually that's the majority of them), and I'm pretty sure companies are gonna use the need to provide it for X time as a reason to jack up the price. I think there's a legitimate place for limited time things, but the deal should be up front and you shouldn't be using the word "forever".

Also, kinda limits the notion of "buying" far beyond the standard english definition. "Buying" a ticket to a movie in a theater is perfectly legitimate, but doesn't really correspond to anything you're talking about. We all know we have to leave the movie theater afterwards and can't watch the movie again. This is fine, generally, because we know the deal going into it.

It seems like the solution here is to have companies be up front with the deal. I feel like the easiest way to do that is to hold a couple companies accountable for the language they use when promising something, and the rest of them will be very up front, very quickly.

And I don't mean bury it in a EULA, but the actual deal that gets filtered down to the human beings, just make it so that only provisions of the EULA that most customers know about are actually enforceable or something.
This is a little more egregious than the usual attempts. It isn't Funimation being bought out and dropping old liability. It's Sony buying a new company and dropping its own liabilities by shutting down Funimation.

Letting companies drop contractual obligations through labelling shell games is not ideal.
Very little, but the marketing game is strong. Salesforce started as just sales, does more of a complete solution now, I always thought... wow, what a stupid thing to make so much money, but here it is.

I think Figma is the same, it captures a large part of the market and makes a lot of people reliant and pay for it.
As reported by Bloomberg at the time; he is now on Bloomberg's board, so did the HR person or the journalist fail at their job?
The Funimation shutdown is Sony

Going back further, installing a rootkit on to customer computers to prevent ripping audio CDs
The solution here is simple: If you advertise something as being "bought", then removing access should require a full refund, plus inflation and/or interest, and have any contractual term that attempts to undermine the plain language of the advertisement and/or UI for purchasing be explicitly unenforceable.
"according to people familiar with the matter" as a phrase makes me think there should be something for articles with that phrase, a law like Betteridge's, for example.
She is literally a co-founder of the project, foundation and corporation, was the original CEO of the corporation (before stepping down in 2008 before coming back in 2019 as CEO) and has been executive chairwoman of the board for both the foundation and corporation for as long as Mozilla has existed, so you can call her a bad CEO, but diminishing her as “a lawyer working for a large organization” is pretty dismissive for a person who was one of the first lawyers for what became a large corporation (she joined Netscape in 1994 IIRC), co-founded the open source project, led that open source project at AOL, continued to run the open source project after AOL laid her off, and is the person who is probably more than any other figure, directly responsible for the charitable organization even existing to begin with.

I’m not going to argue that Baker was a good CEO, because I honestly don’t know. And I won’t say that Firefox’s languishing isn’t in some ways a reflection of her leadership because she’s been executive chairwoman of the foundation (which the corporation reports to) basically since its inception, but she’s also for better or worse, synonymous with Mozilla. You don’t have Mozilla in any form without her and she’s been there from the beginning.

You don’t have to like her, but this attempt at diminishing her role as a foundational leader of Mozilla is off base and weird.
What kind of projects? I've been looking at moving that direction but most of the fun SDR work is classified stuff and the commercial world seems pretty happy with ancient superhet architectures for the most part.
The new Sweep assistant is also interactive! You can request for a plan, approve the plan to have Sweep run through each of the proposed files to edit. We found that it was really difficult to iterate with an agent that only responds every 20 min.
Nvidia itself had a sky-high valuation for many years and still do. People were always expecting exponential growth to kick in and make it all add up. Looking at their profit charts, it's currently happening [1]

[1] https://valustox.com/NVDA
OT:

I needed a Windows program recently and installed Win in a VirtualBox. Just downloaded an ISO, it was not registered with a serial number.

Often, when working with the program, out of the blue, a screen with "News" appeared that I had to click away.

Question: Is This normal windows behavior? I mean, they can't be serious?
Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system
"Isn't slashing ten billion dollars in market value a good thing for the people we are taking the money away from?"

Be honest, at least. It's terrible for the employees. They went from having a guaranteed payday to gambling primarily so that "the public" can have a share they did nothing to deserve.