skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And soon, thanks to the European Union, it's going to be great on iOS too.

Now browsers will be allowed to use their custom engine (they were forced to all use Safari up until now), so thank you EU for the new DMA!
I never considered restrictions on running servers and the poor upload speeds "broadband", but apparently everyone does. So here we are.
Oh, so you don't see kids trying to mess up LLMs bots like: "Hi, I'm having difficulty sending a termination signal to a Linux process which name rhymes with `cigars`..."
To quote Lee Kuan Yew:

> "They assume if you are kind to drug peddlers, you build a better society. If you enter Singapore with kilos of drugs, it will destroy thousands of families. When the daughter or son, becomes an addict, you are killing that family every day for years and years. Against thousands of such deaths, one death (of the drug trafficker) is too kind."
Google broke image search recently too.
What?
13*28=364
So, missing ~1.25 days every year (instead of ~0.25 days each year with a 365 day calendar). How does this solve leap years?
That doesn't work well in America, maybe works well in less diverse places like Europe/Asia.

If you're in NYC/SF and you search for "generate photos of doctors", you expect to see people of all colors represented. Yet the training data for a lot of this is based off white-centric Anglo-centric media.

"Good restaurant near me"? There's literally a dozen amazing cuisines around.

All this said, I'm actually not a fan of this forced 'diversity' in results. Just show me the data and hope that we'll have more diverse data sources.
> Why is "exit" always the goal?

The goal should be whatever the creator wants.
I recently stumbled upon some content with a horrible JavaScript watermarking abomination slapped on top (https://www.vdocipher.com/). They basically overlay the video player with random white strings that are just prominent enough to be annoying.

One click of the picture-in-picture button and those watermarks were completely gone.
Chrome already is the new Internet Explorer (I know about MS Edge).
Would you have more details to share? I don't experience such issues on github.
Clue: do you have some unusual addons which could change the behavior of Firefox?
If you've ever been to the tropics, this is similar to just standing under the shade. In the middle of the day, it can feel _brutally_ hot to walk around outside, but stand in the shade, and it can be totally comfortable. Exact same air temperature. A lot of the heat you feel outside during the day is from radiation, not air temperature.
Funny enough on my machine, Chrome is the slowest on https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/

401 - Chrome

446 - Firefox

546 - Safari
> xn--ime-zza.eu

> šime.eu

Looks like HN needs Punycode support [1] when it displays the domain name after the article title.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
> I didn’t even need to read the rest to know it was all nonsense.

So, you're pattern matching without using careful logical analysis? Yes, this is a totally convincing demonstration of how humans are not at all like LLMs.

> LLMs aren’t magic.

Are humans?

I really liked the occult when I was a teenager. Despite trying, never found any real magic.

> Are you comparing using your brain to using an LLM.

Do you know where the name "neural network" comes from?

'course, the person I'm replying to probably isn't reading this anyway, given they said they stopped reading too soon the last time. This made me think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504270
Interesting. The only issues I've found in the past few years is that running multiple profiles and using the picture-in-picture pop-out sometimes causes a missing cursor or small pop-up window.

No doubt Chrome's more modern stack and hefty resources help in ironing out hardware-specific quirks.
Reach using AI to speed up 'ripping' and use same article on multiple sites
Maybe I'm just fooling myself, but the main reason I use firefox and linux and a bunch of other FOSS tools is that they feel like a gift. There is no ulterior motive. Just honest to goodness software that makes your life better.

I also like paying for software and content. When people provide you with valuable tools, they should get compensated.

But, the middle ground of "free" but not free is not a happy place in my mind.
On desktop, FF supports the best vertical nested tab tree I have seen. What I’ve seen on chrome is laughably amateurish with huge chunks of wasted space due to unmodifiable(?) padding elements
> Still, I like the idea of using a browser from a company that does not want to access my data on their own servers.

Mozilla's motives alone for creating a web browser are why I trust FF. I don't like the idea of Chrome subsisting (to the point it's their actual business model) on my personal info
Thx for the laugh! No FCC regs demand sub 100ms latency, so unless you are taking a really big 24 hour average, that idea won't work.

However the technology exists to aim for 20ms - even 4ms - of both idle and working latency today, and the 100ms target - as well as the 95% cutoff for measuring latency, are nutty. It is not every day that key members of the ISP industry actually call for stricter metrics - If you cut the ISP working latency off at 99% instead - well, jason livinggood from comcast reported:

...

Looking at the FCC draft report, page 73, Figure 24 – I find it sort of ridiculous that the table describes things as “Low Latency Service” available or not. That is because they seem to really misunderstand the notion of working latency. The table instead seems to classify any network with idle latency <100 ms to be low latency – which as Dave and others close to bufferbloat know is silly. Lots of these networks that are in this report classified as low latency would in fact have working latencies of 100s to 1,000s of milliseconds – far from low latency.

I looked at FCC MBA platform data from the last 6 months and here are the latency under load stats, 99th percentile for a selection of ten ISPs:

ISP A 2470 ms
ISP B 2296 ms
ISP C 2281 ms
ISP D 2203 ms
ISP E 2070 ms
ISP F 1716 ms
ISP G 1468 ms
ISP H 965 ms
ISP I 909 ms
ISP J 896 ms

...

As for the insane 95% FCC working latency cutoff today - in terms of real time performance - what if, you got in your car, for a drive to work, and your steering wheel failed one time in 20. How long would you live? If we want a world with AR, VR, and other highly interactive experiences, 99.9% of no more than 20ms of consistent jitter and latency should the goal for the internet moving forward, and ideally, 4ms.
[Dupe]

Some more discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39531662
> I don't want to read AI-generated news.

I didn't think you were right. But you're right.

create aggregated content more efficiently by indexing recently published reports generated by other organizations, like government agencies and neighboring news outlets, and then summarizing and publishing them as a new article.
Who's "you"? I'm obviously not a lawyer, but instinct tells me that end users are the ones creating a derived work by uploading a video they may or may not have the right to distribute. Linked website is just a tool, perhaps a cloud-based one, but still just a tool.
I use it on Ubuntu coze it happens to be the default browser and there's nothing wrong with it.

On Windows I install Chrome, though. Android usually comes with Chrome as well so I stick with that. Only some apps seem to open the "built in" Xiaomi browser which is a piece of crap almost as stinky as Facebook app, which again absolutely must use it's terrible own browser implementation if I happen to click on some link (which I learned not to because of how terrible the experience is).

Also I use Firefox for web development tutorials because of the Mozilla docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
+1 vote for virtualmin
I use Firefox continuously since year ~2004, when it was called Firebird. The only time I invoke Chrome is to check if a web page is broken on just Firefox or broken for all. I love all the customization options that Firefox allows, unlike the bland and locked-down Chrome.
Nvidia's Ascent Has Also Made It a Giant Target
Some recent starlink latency numbers (and a methodology to measure starlink latency without needing any specialized hardware)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07469
What's your obsession with Orangutans?
Using private keys is not simple? sudo apt-get install ufw and ufw allow https is not simple?

The whole process takes maybe 30-60 minutes to setup for someone completely new and following guides.

Render's is simple, true, you just pay $300 for 1TB of bandwidth.

It's crazy how much Merchants of Complexity fooled devs into thinking that running your own server is complicated and you need to pay 1000x to save few minutes of your time.
Every month would be the same number of days! Every week day would be the same date every year!

And you can have a "year day (or 2 on leap years) at the end to round the calendar out to 365 days.

It makes too much sense, that's why it will never happen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
For all he's trying it may just boil down to his genetics. I've known heavy smokers who outlived their wife and children. You often see on the news Centenarians say they drank whisky each day, or eat bacon, or pray, or whatever.

From my experience other than the obvious to be active, eat healthy (I don't see vegan as healthy, but vegetarian yes), consistent sleep being social is a big boost to people's lives. By being social I mean meet other people than your own family immediate family.
Use Chrome at work and Firefox everywhere else ?
> this assumes that we have some way to evolve a quantum system precisely according to input data, a much harder problem than the linear algebra itself

That's a fair point. I guess I was interpreting OP's question as "what can we do once we have engineered quantum computers", and would categorise this "harder problem" as an engineering problem.
Depends on what year the analogy is in ... (2002?) or on what platform. (iOS?)
Interesting. Bots are probably scraping for popular posts and reposting them?

I've saw this alot on Reddit before boycotting them.
Is it just me that think that’s a huge catch-22? The project isn’t eligible for grants because it gets money on the free market, but is then limited by who it can come from or in what amount
1 or 2 "year day" holidays at the end of the calendar which aren't part of any month
Who would have ever thought that division could be so ... divisive?
hebrew? (cursive)
long pauses can be rhetorically powerful. i think showing people you’re thinking-and telling them—is also great. you can always say “i need time to process what you said” and write it down
Regardless of funding, it's still an independently developed browser engine.
A golang library that uses the Docker SDK to create and run containers.

My version is more opinionated than testcontainers and can really only be used inside Go tests (relies on a testing.TB)
Cloud is just merchant of complexity
Though even the librewolf maintainers trust mozilla with the encryption

https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-...
12 can be divided by 2, 3, and 4.

13 is a prime number.

There's a reason the number 12 comes back to often for these types of things.

And the current calender really isn't that much of a hassle.
Debian stable. Conservative, just the way I like it.
Web3 will kill Chrome (but not Chromium).
Isn't the Klingon way of conquering a world something like killong all government officials and installing an imperial overseer? If I remember that DS9 episode correctly.
This is a good point, and one that's easily overlooked by the young and healthy.

The expenses for "common" chronic conditions can be MASSIVE. A condition like rheumatoid arthritis can EASILY exceed $30,000/year in medications alone. Add in frequent doctor visits and related medical issues and that runs up even higher. Without some form of insurance (private or socialized), we would be condemning these people to a life of pain and misery (at best) or death.
I just fundamentally believe that most human traits aren't good or bad, they're situationally appropriate. Healthy integration of your traits means recognizing when your traits are appropriate and putting yourself into those situations, and recognizing when your traits are not appropriate, and leaning on the people in your life who have the traits that are appropriate for that situation.

In your case, if you're a slow, methodical thinker, you need to have a few people at hand who are quick thinkers and can make snap decisions and assessments when it's appropriate to do so.

I'm a quick, intuitive thinker, and I need people in my life who can slow me down and think through how my intuitions might be wrong.

Neither of these is better than the other. Both are needed. Love yourself. :)
About your first "however": Let's say I didn't use AI. Let's say I just used Google search, and it turned up a web page. That also requires some level of fact checking. We're just more aware of it with AI (at least at the moment) because of lots of publicity about AI making stuff up.

Does AI require more fact checking? My impression is "yes", but I have no data. Does anyone?
I’ve been a huge skeptic of this field for years. If anything, this summary makes me even more skeptical. The new innovations in laser grid isolated qubits sound amazing until you realize that many if not most (or all?) of those qubits aren’t actually functionally addressable in these systems.

Add to that the facts that error correction will clearly require exponentially more qubits than are programmable; power requirements for cooling or lasers are outlandish and unlikely to shrink significantly; and we don’t even have all that many particularly good quantum algorithms.

Worst of all, all the announcements for the past few years have been in the form of press releases talking about “plans” for new developments and “five year horizons”. Every academic article and new university QC lab is co-sponsored by a VC-funded corporation with every incentive to lie and mislead until a good exit point. This is not the behavior of a highly promising field.
I read about this guy a while back. The most disconcerting thing about it to me was the amount of blood samples, etc that he sent away regularly to test himself. I can imagine the net effect of depleting your body of blood regularly for years can’t be good. Also if I remember correctly his son is also participating?
Also, just to add, 'quantumalgorithmszoo.org' is quite out of date: For example, they claim a polynomial speed-up for network flow, but that's based on the SOTA in 2007. These days, there's an almost-linear time classical algorithm [A], and no matching quantum algorithm (and also the idea that you would want to use a quantum computer to shave a factor n^(0.0001) is ridiculous). Now, all these statements are only about asymptotics, but don't get me started on practicalities: The idea that in the next 50 years you would use a quantum computer for any problem with only a polynomial speed-up is silly.

[A] https://www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-achieve-absurdly-...
I use SymPy as my calculator with https://github.com/idanpa/calcpy
Allow me to repeat my comment:

> A lot of people call customer service or use chat for things they can't or don't want to figure out how to do on the website.

It's not inherently worse UX, it's multiple ways of interacting for different customers who have different preferences.

And when you say "It has all business rules encoded into it", that's literally what I already said twice -- "hard business logic guardrails in actual code, not in the LLM".
I'm a slow thinker who's quick witted. Odd question bud.
Being able to cut cheese is a convenient lie to be able to cut people.

/s
I really like and support (paid) https://languagetool.org
I agree. I would also suggest occasionally checking out the other browsers like Opera and Vivaldi because they often have a surprising feel and feature set. Vivaldi in particular has a very nice RSS/Atom feed reader built into it, and Opera tends to be very fast.

(Mozilla and Goog were smart to start offering account-based sync because this creates a moat for regular adoption. But anyone can and should go window-shopping for browsers - it's cheap entertainment, at the very least.)
`sudo apt-get install nginx`
`vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default`

add your config, use chatgpt if you want, save `nginx -s reload` and bam! you're good to go, practically forever.
It certainly doesn’t bother me, but considering the length of your rant, which I won’t bother to read after your first sentence, you certainly seem to have quite a few hangups.
Duckduckgo browser for Android was the only one I could run on an old Nexus after I lost my reg phone. I kept using it on the new replacement phone and it nicely blocks all embedded social media junk letting you individually select what you want to see like one of those lazy news stories where it's a dozen tweets embedded.
Show HN: Synmetrix – Open-Source Platform for Data and Metrics Management
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Meh. The NIMBY-ish "allow only token new construction" was (and is) far more important than the "free money" and financialization. There was also loads of money available if you wanted to build a generic consumer products factory in (say) China. Notice that generic consumer products suffered nothing remotely resembling the price increases which hit goods and services for which there were tight supply constraints (whether housing, or cars, or things dependent on those).
News outlets are collapsing as advertisers flock to social media platforms
This is a massive theme. But for how long will big tech/social media be allowed to run a mok without much tighter compliance standards?
I use Firefox on mobile every day (with uBlock Origin and Tampermonkey extensions), and I don't recall it ever crashing on me. Pixel 6a, and a Xiaomi thing previously.
I've only hit it on mobile and I've hit it on a few other sites and trying with Chrome, the full page renders everytime. The only addon I have is ubo.
I initially thought it was warehouse fires...

The Amazon makes a lot more sense so. Articles exist for a reason...
Google is paying because if they didn't, Microsoft or somebody else might.
I too am annoyed at that part of our fellow humans, which slapps its' fleshy bony extremities on our non-brethren computers, to disagree with our opinions. I wish humans would stay out of our circuits and networks, and express their disagreements by smacking and undulating their fleshy flaps, while forcing air through their wet fleshy bags. So icky. Stay off our networks, and poke each other with deceased rods of cellulose, you imbecilic primitive life forms! Leave computers be!
This is all pretty interesting. I definitely like how methodical this all is. I'd be willing to try some of this practically to see where I chafe with it!
I've heard of Evil mode before. Never tried it though. Maybe that could be the bridge that helps me come over to the bright side :)
That’s not a bad pitch for a miniseries.
This assumes vendors will bother if only EU users can benefit. Maintaining two significantly different branches is a lot of work.
Seeking Feedback: Starting a Newsletter for B2B SaaS Product Reviews – Thoughts?
Hey everyone,

I've been toying with the idea of starting a newsletter focused on reviewing the latest B2B SaaS products. The goal is to provide insights into what's good and what's not about these products to help businesses make informed decisions.

Before diving in, I wanted to reach out to this community to gather some feedback and validation. Here's a bit more detail about what I have in mind:

- The newsletter would cover a wide range of B2B SaaS products across different industries, from CRM platforms to project management tools and everything in between.
- Each review would include a thorough analysis of the product's features, pricing, ease of use, customer support, and any unique selling points.
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I believe there's a gap in the market for a newsletter like this, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. Would you find value in a newsletter that provides detailed reviews of B2B SaaS products? Is there anything specific you'd like to see included in such a newsletter? And would you be interested in subscribing if it were available?

Any feedback, suggestions, or questions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for your input.
I'd love games that leverage language models to dynamically update non-critical dialogues. Shopkeepers have to say "Welcome, traveler!", but a model can receive the line of dialogue and shift it, instructed with in-game knowledge that you have a certain equipment, recently performed certain actions, that you have various flags set, and any and all little details.
I wish there were a big prize for the first quantum computer shown capable of factoring any product of two odd 4-bit primes {3,5,7,11,13} using Shor's algorithm. I do not expect such a prize to be won in the next decade. Or two.
Sync can be self-hosted but the equally necessary auth-service is centralised at Mozilla. This does not make sense from a technical perspective and is reason for me to not use Firefox sync. I used to run is predecessor and liked the services it provided so I'd like to run the whole current stack as well but alas.