skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, well during the age of sail we had already achieved gunpowder, steel and iron working, and landing on small islands with navigation era tech it is quite easy to dominate or change a small ecosystem by cutting down trees, hunting excessively, introducing livestock and other invasive species, etc.

In the ice age the tools were bone and stone. And the lack of agriculture meant that human populations were kept small by available resources by default. The lack of transportation or even domestication of animals in the Americas at the time meant that all travel was on foot. To dominate species like the mastadon, giant ground sloth, cave bear, dire wolf, etc on two continents was just something humans weren't capable of at the time.

Hunting was still risky and labor intensive. Arrows didn't have metal heads. Range was limited. Traveling was risky, both from natural and tribal threats.

It just doesn't add up. The density of humans was probably lower in the Americas than in any other continent (save for Antarctica of course).
The depressing truth is I can't recommend anything. Firefox soft-forks can easily allow unrestricted use of web extensions, but I haven't kept up with which ones are popular and actively maintained so I can't recommend anything specific. If Mozilla ends up standing behind this decision I guess it'll be time to do some research.
The project I'm working on is about 13 years old (ruby on rails) with over 260 engineers and the product has a very robust event driven system that is at the core of a lot of important features.
Clinton got 95% of the donations made. That is not anywhere close to 95% of employees. She got $1.9M and there are close to 3 million federal employees.
Low-intensity exercise connected to decreased depression
I understand many of the things on the surface or conceptual level. But I can't transfer any of it into success. I think I'd rather be dumb and successful than "smart" (my managers' words) and shitty at my job.

Also, even the things I do have some understanding of rarely come up in my software job. So it's not like you need to know everything. Seems like it's better to know less as long as you know just the right things.
Overly Complex Architecture – QnABot on AWS
There can be all kinds of strange and possibly perverse incentives at work for the “original content producers”, too.

Forums like LinkedIn have had regular listings in recent times looking for programmers to help train new models for answering programming questions and generating code. However, the rates offered are nowhere near enough to compete with real programming jobs for skilled developers, at least not in the major Western economies.

One wonders what quality level these new models will actually be trained at. Given that these roles are kinda-sorta asking professional programmers to train themselves out of a job, one also wonders whether 100% of those who do contribute will be doing so in good faith. And as you point out yourself, there is also a risk that the “original” content is anything but.

Given the scale of the data involved here, and the sheer amount of skilled human input that would be required to refine that data set manually, it seems unlikely that a Mechanical Turk strategy alone will solve many fundamental problems here.
Rich kids can bring their own lights. /s
I think thats why states usually regulate the industry
Show HN: United – free, open membership software for collective organizations
I wonder if Nvidia would consider acquiring either Qualcomm or Mediatek. Both have very little competing against Nvidia. Gets Nvidia into the Smartphone and Wireless game. Which is crucial if they intend to bet big in ARM PC. Broadcom is way too big, Marvell is also another target but may be a little overlap in terms of product range and doesn't offer any consumer profile products.
Like gross amounts of lead.
A few degrees kills many, many people every year. I didn't say a few environmental degrees, I said a few degrees of regulated temperature. All it takes is a tiny little virus to make your immune system eat itself and kill you with your own heat. That's a very good example of a system that is highly reliant on the right environment to operate properly.
A guy i worked with called me over to try to help him figure out why his apple wireless mouse wasn’t working. I replace the batteries, restarted bluetooth, restarted the computer - i’d spent quite a bit of time working thru my mental checklist when the guy just started moving the mouse furiously, as if he expected that would re-animate it, and the cursor. It didn’t. But out of the corner of my eye i noticed the cursor moving on a screen two desks away, a desk whose occupant was out to lunch. I asked the inevitable question and the guy admitted that his mouse had stopped working, figured the batteries had run out (they had) and he was in a hurry so he grabbed somebody else’s mouse instead. To this day i don't know whether i’m more flabbergasted that he omitted to mention this when he first called me over, or that he thought the act of placing a mouse in front of his computer was all it took for the pair to communicate.
Photos of everyone clutching their phones now are going to look as cringe as those photos of people holding cigarettes in the 70s. “Why couldn’t grandma put it down for the picture?” Indeed.
Are people really saying they missed out on "personal growth" when they had kids?

Taking care of kids is not that hard or much of a sacrifice really. It would be super easy if things were even more communal. There's just really not that much great stuff that you are missing out on after like 35/40+. In truth most of the stuff geared to people in that age range is designed for people with kids. I think a lot of people would prefer to have more than 2 kids. The major issue is that SO much stuff is designed for the family of four. Yeah there's 3rd row seating, but it's annoying. Furniture that comes in 2 packs, theme parks, restaurant tables, vacation accommodations, etc. Because of modern life and the things we are accustomed to the logistical management burden of more than two children is very significant.
I mean dire wolves have just as many pups in a litter as ordinary wolves and go into heat just as often. Same can be said of giant bison, saber tooth cats, etc.

We actually don't know precisely when the extinctions occurred or how long it took for them to occur. All we know is where the gaps in the sparse data set that is the fossil record exist.

It could be that the extinctions actually made it easier for humans to expand and move into those areas after the fact, or that humans uniquely benefitted from the environmental or situational changes that were ongoing.

We know the Younger Dryas was an incredibly intense era of climate change, after the ice age receded it suddenly plunged back into glacial temps for a millenia or two. Very strange and stressful time for species of all types.
GeoGebra Calculator Suite
https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/I_Found_a_Digital_Camera...
https://theconversation.com/backyard-hens-eggs-contain-40-ti...

This claims it's not intolerable: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stop-freaking-out-...
> functions can be written to extend it.

Unless I'm mistaken (which I may well be), you can't do that at runtime, only at compile time.
I cut out social media about 10 months ago. News and that's about it. I tend to be alone still in rooms with other humans physically present. They're busy talking to others virtually. It's shocking how few people actually look up anymore.
This is absurd, no it won't, just as people clutching newspapers don't look cringe now.

https://i.redd.it/rgy54u9x37x71.jpg
Unless I am mistaken in my reading of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act#Legislativ...

suggests it went through the parliament in a now pretty normal way. They used a tripartite approach earlier in the negotiations, and people say this is a bit less amenable to scrutiny, but ultimately the parliamentary adoption happened.
I'm pretty sure you don't just get random erections unless you're engaged in activity that you find sexually stimulating.

...so yes, probably.
I've got to believe more regulation is coming after the Synapse implosion. For the unaware, this is generally how this process works with fintechs:

1. You have the underlying FDIC ensured partner banks. However, to be clear, FDIC insurance only covers if the bank fails. Synapse itself isn't covered by FDIC insurance.

2. Synapse operates as a middleman, where they provide "ledgering tech" (more on that below) and APIs that connect to the underlying partner bank. For example, say you're a startup that offers business services to sole proprietors and small businesses, and you want to be able to let your customers open a bank account. You connect with Synapse and a partner bank, so that you can use Synapse APIs from your website to open accounts for your customers.

3. The important point, though, is at the partner bank there is usually a single "FBO" (for benefit of) account on the bank's core banking system. So when end customer opens a new account, a new account isn't actually created in the partner bank's core banking system. Instead, Synapse keeps track of all the individual customers funds separately in their own ledger that they keep.

It appears here that there is a big discrepancy between what Synapse's ledgers say they owe end customers, and what is actually stored with the partner banks. And that's the part where I think regulation is coming. There are almost no checks right now to ensure that the ledgers of these "bank API middlemen" (and there are a bunch of them) actually reconcile with the underlying funds kept at these partner banks. And many of these fintechs tout "FDIC insurance", but again that only protects you if an underlying bank goes out of business, not if the uninsured middleman is doing bad math.

And, to be honest, I think regulation would be a great thing here. A lot of these "banking-as-a-service" middle men did provide a lot of tech value (e.g. easy to access APIs - think similary to what Stripe provided for card payments but for banking), but apparently played fast and loose with actually keeping track of customer funds correctly.
I found that nothing in the news was really actionable for me, so I cut it out
Regarding the camera, I recommend buying a dedicated camera if you can allocate the funds. I bought a Sony ZV-1 as a pocketable compliment to my DSLR, and it has ended up being the camera I use the most - even more than my phone.
NASA 'Earthrise' astronaut dies at 90 in plane crash
Well sure, if you are willing to violate a few laws you don't have to get insurance.
A lot of people are talking about the low asset limit, but a relatively new account type gets ignored by that limit. An ABLE account. It’s not perfect and asset limits are way too low, but this type of account greatly helps people with disabilities save/invest up to $100k without counting against the limit. It is restricted to specific uses, but it’s very broad and pretty much anything but alcohol and gambling can be spent on from it.

https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-able.html
I believe what you are describing is exactly the type of UX that the parent comment may have been calling for
Tiling is defined as "preparing and cultivating the land". Cultivation is defined as "breaking up the soil in preparation for sowing or planting". Aeration will absolutely break up the soil. That's kind of the whole reason for doing it. It is cultivation, and therefore associated with tiling.

Aeration is not by the same mechanical process as the tool known as a cultivator, if that's what you were thinking of, but that specific tool is not what tiling/cultivation refers to specifically.
It means React had a baby and this is it.
Yup, I was thinking about the Cedar Grove compost (Seattle area) which is post-consumer comparing and yard clippings. Then I've been reading about most "compostable" packaging being laden with PFAS and also getting clippings from the Ruston smelter zone. I'm not sure one can even get clean, safe soil spare hiking out to national forests and stealing some.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000169182....

> Using the same tasks and conditions as in Ward et al.'s (2017) second experiment, the present study found that the “brain drain” effect did not replicate: there was no difference between smartphone location conditions on performance on either the o-span task or the go/no-go task.

Fake study, move along
'Spy mania': Why is Russia accusing its own physicists of treason?
GOT EM!!
For those like me that hadn’t heard of the supertuck.

https://biketips.com/supertuck-cycling/
Enlighten us. What's that long list of questionable behaviours?
What are some of the libraries games use nowadays for game soundtracks?
Sure, one may, but should one?

I might sound like a stoic, but I am definitely not one. The reason is that I spent a lot of my life trying to pretend I was above my emotions, unperturbed by such forces in my higher realms of logic. This...uh, wasn't true. I was feeling as much as anybody, and my actions were being guided by my feelings as much as anybody. I just wasn't listening to my feelings or aware of how much they were dictating about my life.

Emotions are as essential a part of a person as cognition is. The Universe doesn't prescribe any particular things as good or bad, praiseworthy or evil, interesting or boring. In the world of pure logic, there is no difference between me deciding today to not drink any water and dying in a few days versus me living a long, full life of rich goodness to my fellow man.

The problem is not having emotions, but confusing them with beliefs. Emotions aren't there to tell us what's a good idea, they're there to tell us what's a fun one. Both are important. So we use our reason and our emotional regulation to make better decisions about how we may have the most fun (where "fun" here is standing in for whatever broader notion of personal utility you might choose). Even the literal Buddha was pretty clear on the idea that there's not much value in depriving oneself of one's human pleasures - only in not being controlled by those impulses.

And I would say that taking satisfaction in the positive traits you have is a pretty basic human pleasure.
Sub-compact cameras are still a thing. And by comparison use actual glass for their lenses, have real telephoto capabilities, and won’t distort your pictures with AI hallucinated nonsense
The Register's article already mentions this, but I want to say it again: as evidenced by the comments section, many HN readers have their own stories of frustrating user support and similar occurrences. If you do, please consider sending them in to The Register so they can keep publishing these stories for us. Thanks :)
Does this matter at all? What could be done with it? Has anything interesting happened because of this code being public?
Are there lower rates of dementia in places that have those things?
why do you think the tomatoes taste so sweet? /s
> Mozilla is starting to seriously have a long list of highly questionable if not directly user hostile behaviors.

Would you care to provide examples? I am a longtime user of Mozilla products unfamiliar with the topic and I am genuinely curious.

> What should we think of their VPN they try to promote so much

Mozilla does not have its own service but rather resells Mullvad, one of the most privacy focused services in existence. Is there more to this story that I am unaware of?
We are in dire need of strict overreaching regulations about what apps and notifications can and cannot do.
For example, it should be imposed by law that notifications can’t be used for advertising.
I NEED to have my airline app’s notifications on, but no, I don’t need to know once a day about the “incredible” Cancun weekend getaway deals.

In the same way, it’s clear and established that social media apps’ UX-features such as infinite scroll are devastating for our mental and somewhat physical health.
They leverage a fundamental brain pattern, just like nicotine in cigarettes creates addiction. We need mandatory splash screens with advice on all this when we open Instagram or TikTok. And we should impose legal limits on features like infinite scroll or pull to refresh.

I would like that Europe’s penchant for hyper regulation would lead the way in this field, instead of just pushing for more blatant favoritism towards shitty companies like Spotify just because they’re European.
https://nitter.poast.org/techdroider/status/1799336094913511...
That's true if we assume unlimited resources and equal awareness/perceived social value of the two applications. But I think the former doesn't hold, and the latter is greatly influenced by sites like HN, where I'm disappointed to consistently (if not exclusively) see breathless proposals for ways to design shinier hubcaps whenever some promising new technology appears.

Yes, they can and likely will both happen to some extent, but I think they aren't independent, so I feel justified in trying to nudge the public conversation back towards the issues that I think matter more.
Mobile phones and newspapers are very different.

I think he GP was making the comparison based on both phones and cigarettes being addictive. What's the comparison with newspapers that makes one productive of the other?
But if one has been confirmed as natural, then we’re back to

> One whistleblower dropping dead is curious timing

right?

I like some cold statistics too but in this case I wouldn’t say they support some machiavellic scenario.
Reducing variance in a random outcome still has value. For instance, you might have the money to cover an adverse outcome, but if you could guarantee you wouldn't need the money, then you could park it in an illiquid asset (e.g. some type of investment).
How fast things go badly is proportional to how well you can measure the bias, isn't it? If you need 2^200 hands to do so, good luck getting there.

And a CSPRNG has to be robust to sharing every single bit so far with your adversary.
I would guess the presence of a bottle of bourbon would also reduce available congnitive capacity in an alcoholic.
The ones that angered me were the surveillance and the inclusion of closed source DRM. Enough to get me to switch to LibreWolf.
They are likely talking about "cued speech".
Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico [video]
While I do not leave a phone behind and use it for many things (not social media) I still often carry my old trusty OMD EM-5 and sometimes feel sorry that I sold my Nikon D800
Don't forget the Mr. Robot malware.
Hello, brother from a different mother. I read this and, “someone is describing me.” I have my phone on silent mode for over 10+ years (I remember, because I wrote an article in 2014). Since the Phone 6+ (or so), I have made my iPhone as the Camera. However, of late, I have taken on a keen interest in getting back to an actual camera and I’m likely to start soon.

I’ve also kinda started a white lie when people start probing into why I don’t do most of phone calls - “I’ve a condition where I can’t do VOICE on the phone.” It is kinda of a lie but also not NOT a truth.
Isn't this an unintentional argument for static, client-side rendering?
That is not perfectly cycle-accurate, but it is accurate enough to run almost anything without issues.
Depending on where you are doing the shoplifting and how much is being lifted, you needn't pay and there aren't any further consequences.
You can do the same with Firefox. Simply use Beta, Dev Edition or Nightly. The first two are very stable. You just need to flip `xpinstall.signatures.required` to `false` in about:config.
Terrence Howard (actor in Ironman, Empire TV show, etc) believes he has discovered "a new math" where 1x1=2. I believe he has gained recent notoriety because he was on the Joe Rogan podcast, where he got a platform to say his beliefs to many people, but he has had these beliefs for many years.

As far as I can tell, his reasoning is literally that 2x2=4, so if you divide both sides by 2, you get 1x1=2.
They already do. Look at an old photo of the crowd at a music festival from the 1990s or earlier, and look at one from today.
Shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the lottery was mismanaged. Everything else about the Vietnam war was either mismanaged or was a lie, probably both.
Especially when it is slightly recessed in the case so you can’t get your fingers in to press the release.
Starting? Remember the time they silently installed an extension written for a TV network?

The project manager for it used to work in the advertising industry. When the ticket was filed in Bugzilla, she quickly set it to be private to try and hide it. Another mozilla employee put it back to public, and then the ticket was set such that not even employees could see it by Mozilla executive leadership.

How about them ramming Pocket down everyone's throats?

Or the 2022 "partnership" with Facebook over an advertising a "privacy preserving" advertising standard?

How about the CEO's astronomical pay increases while market share sank? How about the fact that they now have a billion dollars in assets, half of that in cash? And they slashed their software development budget a year or two ago? And paid someone ~350,000+ to write an "AI and racial justice" report?

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...

And then there's the partnership with an identity protection service (why the fuck is a browser company getting involved in that!?) whose CEO was running people-search network sites https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-aft...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing

> Is this a way for Mozilla to censor add-ons they don't like, enforce copyright, government demands, etc.?

> No, the purpose of this is to protect users from malicious add-ons. We have a set of guidelines (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/AMO/Policy/Revie...) for when it is appropriate to blocklist an add-on and have refused multiple times to block for other reasons.

Is Mozilla refusing to sign the add-on? Or just refusing to host it on addons.mozilla.org? There's a big difference. If the extension can still be signed, it's easy to install on production Firefox builds. If it can't be signed, then it can only be installed on Nightly or Developer builds with xpinstall.signatures.required disabled in about:config.
Mozilla has been problematic for a while now, both with personnel having some... strong political ideas, their governance, executive pay, product direction....

Ugh, I don't want to go back to a chromium based browser but I don't know how what other options I have at this point, short of dropping down to links/lynx/elinks ..
I plainly stated that in my original post:

> ... forcing people onto beta or developer builds to have proper control over their own software ...
Unfortunately this typically takes the form of an old man refusing to stop driving and then crashing his car, potentially harming others.
What? This doesn't even have client-side event handling, just string HTML templates.
Also Boudica
Let's get a dumbphone and use that one in a Carmackian hermit learning session.
How much does a car cost?
To me, it looks like a confused combination of database ORM and barebones Express alternative.
Zero chance, unfortunately. The cause of tinnitus is not with the OTOF gene.

The best case scenario is that this wouldn't do anything.
Oh I get!
At least bourbon increases the chances of someone breaking their phone
Assuming the bans are at Russia's request, what's the worst Russia could do if Mozilla refused to comply?

Russia could block mozilla.org (in which case 1000s of clones would likely emerge). Mozilla is a not for profit. Why not simply ignore such requests..
I think this profit-vs-non-profit thinking is reductionist. A non-profit insurer still has expenses. They have to pay their staff, rent offices, pay vendors, and so on. In fact, nothing stops them from spending more than a for-profit corporation would.

Anyway, the math doesn't change: the insured still pay more than they are getting back.