skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it can go the other way, not more isolation but rather more integration. If the goal of many foreign governments (the US included) may be to divide the population of its enemies, what if had an overarching, supranational, dare I say global, government that united people?
Google pays money to Mozilla for being a default search engine. I think "Google breaking firefox" is kind of conspiracy.
Public Access Internet
Ask HN: Looking for Web 1.0 Community
Hi all. I'm looking for communities or sites dedicated to web design of the 90s, website building of those times.

The search engine returns only a few hardware forums.

Internet communities dedicated to 90s web nostalgia

websites, groups on social networks, possibly forums, telegram channels, anything on this topic.

tell me the links if you know
I'm yet to find a convincing definition for super intelligence. "Intelligence that surpasses human brain" is such a half hearted definition that I don't know what to make of it.
> At the very least, because it will expand the inequality.

It's a valid concern that AI technology could potentially exacerbate inequality, it's not a foregone conclusion. In fact, the widespread adoption of AI might actually help reduce inequality in several ways:

If AI technology becomes more affordable and accessible, it could help level the playing field by providing people from all backgrounds with powerful tools to enhance their abilities and decision-making processes.

AI-powered systems can make vast amounts of knowledge and expertise more readily available to the general public. This could help close the knowledge gap between different socioeconomic groups, empowering more people to make informed decisions and pursue opportunities that were previously out of reach.

As AI helps optimize resource allocation and decision-making processes across various sectors, it could lead to more equitable distribution of resources and opportunities, benefiting society as a whole.

The comparison to gun technology and its role in the rise of democracy is an interesting one. Just as the proliferation of firearms made physical strength less of a determining factor in power dynamics, the widespread adoption of AI could make raw intelligence less of a defining factor in success and influence.

Moreover, if AI continues to unlock new resources and opportunities, it could shift society away from a zero-sum mentality. In a world of abundance, the need for cutthroat competition diminishes, and collaboration becomes more viable. This shift could foster a more equitable and cooperative society, further reducing inequality.
The level of lead in that wine will be out of the charts
That guy was living proof that too much Ketamine is really no good for you.
> Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?

Yes, and they have been doing so for years.

> a former Mozilla exec who bemoaned intentional sabotage from the Google camp over several years. Johnathan Nightingale, who worked as a GM & VP on Firefox, saw relations between Google and Firefox sour as the former grew more ambitious for browser market share. Not only did YouTube suffer, he saw "oopses" hitting functionality and performance in other popular Google properties like Gmail and Google Docs.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-responds-to-delaye...
I'm immediately put in mind of the double empathy paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687599.2012.71...

Specifically: do some combinations of biotypes struggle to relate to one another in the same way as autistic/non-autistic pairs do?

Fascinating research regardless and I look forward to more people lifting the veil on the blobs of symptoms we think of as illnesses to get at the (seemingly highly varied) things that drive them.
Results at keystroke speed: inside a full-text search engine
The reason I was using duck duck go in those days was because I didn't want google knowing everything I searched for. It's caught up now, but it was a bit worse search in those days.
Fujitsu should be blacklisted for all government contracts for the next decade and the Post Office executives should be criminally tried. Anything close to that would would be justice rendered.
Here's Edward Snowden heroically waffling about "nuance" when asked why he hasn't spoken out more about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On a crypto website. He became a full citizen of Russia in autumn 2022, by the way.

https://www.coindesk.com/video/edward-snowden-explains-why-h...
yeap... i really don't know what i'm talking about, how would I...

I also don't like to go with the flock...

and... how cares about the defaults? You have the options you should care to configure things for yourself. if you don't know how you should search and instruct yourself to do it.

About iOS... Have you even considered that Apple has forced their rendering engine ( https://gprivate.com/6btxx ) and that alone makes it impossible to have an adblocker - yeah... apple is THAT great!!! (in fact, their products are the best of the best. You should keep using them...)

but then again... i don't know what i'm talking about, do I!!!

(also... you should learn how to be polite to others!!!)
Essentially, yes. Space and scope/mission creep.
I actually think the example of banks is a good one, because what's happened in places with a competitive banking landscape is just that the big players have upped their game and the benefit of the challenger banks has diminished, with them struggling to become profitable.

Monzo is the biggest new player in the UK and it's not making much of a profit. Revolut doesn't have a banking license because it can't comply with the regulatory requirements. Starling has taken much more of a conservative path and is being led by an ex-Barclays person, but even it is being investigated by the FCA for having poor controls around financial crime. All of those giving loans have unnaceptably high % of defaults from an investor perspective.
> I don’t understand how your second paragraph follows. It just seems to be whining that text and art generative models are easier than a fully fledged servant humanoid, which seems like a natural consequence of training data availability and deployment cost.

No, it's pointing out that "text and art generative models" are far less useful [1] than machines that would be just as little smarter at boring ordinary work, to relieve real normal people from drudgery.

I find it rather fascinating how one could not understand that.

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[1]: At least to humanity as a whole, as opposed to Silicon Valley moguls, oligarchs, VC-funded snake-oil salesmen, and other assorted "tech-bros" and sociopaths.
> Though I am on YT Premium and use uBlock.

YT Premium is supposed to be ad-less? What the advantages of uBlock here?
> I don't think we're talking about the same country here.

> Are you a regular user ?

Not OP, but I am. The French railway system suffers from a few faults (like the fact that it's Paris first, or not enough capacity on some routes, especially around popular times like Friday afternoon), but is otherwise extremely good. There's very fast coverage between all big cities aligned to Paris (so Lille - Lyon - Marseille is super fast, but mostly because they are destinations linked to Paris); Marseille - Bordeaux is slow because it isn't aligned to Paris, and has to pass through bad terrain in the middle of nowhere).

In terms of coverage of % of the population with regional or high speed rail, or hell, low cost low or high speed rail, it's among the best in the world. It's only serious challengers are Spain, Italy, Japan, China.
The funny thing about Argos is that it was originally not a store, but just a collection point for promotional giveaways. There was a promotional scheme called "Green Shield Stamps", whereby shops gave the customer a number of stamps with each purchase, and then when you had enough stamps you could collect a gift from the catalogue. But eventually retailers decided that the promotion wasn't benefiting them enough, and pulled out - so the distribution network became a retailer instead.

Unfortunately argos isn't very fast, so the customer experience is not necessarily better than a normal retailer. They seem to focus on lowest cost, which means that they skimp on operatives and waiting times can be long. And of course, it isn't automated!
Devs are lazy, but management systematically underfunds the web test team to keep it difficult to test on other browsers.
As it should be. If you want to spaz, you can always go to Reddit or 4chan.
3. Become a bookmaker/start a casino.

It's like being a gambler, but you get to stack the odds in your favour, deliberately, tell people you've done so, and have everyone be fine with that. If you use any knowledge of future events to stack a few odds a little more in your favor, no-one's going to know any different, and they'll attribute any weird variances in your income to the punters who all made poor bets, rather than to your mad odds-setting skills.

If you're going to gamble, always be the house. Only a complete moron can lose money that way.
I think they (meaning US government officials) started to care a lot when they realized a non-American social media platform had significant attention from a significant majority of Americans, especially young Americans.

Prior to that, most, if not all, social media platforms were American run, which allowed Congress to have more influence on how they were run and more power to investigate and learn how they were run, compared to one owned by a foreign country, especially one we haven't considered to be a close ally.
Iberian lynx no longer endangered after numbers improve in Spain and Portugal
We're thinking about adding AI to the product and that's the path I'd like to take. View AI as an intern who can mistakes, and provide a UI where the user can review what the AI is planning to do.
If you're going to do things that other people don't normally do, you might have to build things that other people don't normally build.

Not only that, while you're at it,

If you're going to build things that other people don't normally build, you might have to do things that other people don't normally do.

And it could never end, so way before it's over you could end up with a lot of capabilities other people don't normally have.

Plus when you end up like that, of course it's not over, it's just getting started ;)
US urges EU to delay deforestation law
Every rule has exceptions.

Removing incentive, and self sufficiency as a goal of our current system isn't the answer. The answer instead is to tweak it so other types of work have value, and result in support.

We already have that, in the form of charitable and non-profit foundations, corps. We even encourage that, in the form of tax deductions for those donatong to the same.

We have a patch already, it just needs to be deployed more if required.

So we already have a mechanism to aid with non-profit open sauce work,

Beyond that, there are many different types of hobbies people employ.

But to the homemaker, caring for children, he already has a boon, at least where I live. Thousands in tax deductions and credits (eg, just cash) along with monthly cash, the more children, the more paid.

The US might use more of that, to patch that hole.
Use yt-dlp and a frontend like tartube?
Or the more science based version : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjeKiIa7XEk
There's a similar-but-different tool developed by SBB CFF FFS[1], it's even mentioned in the documentation of OSRD[2]. Both tools operate at different scope, if we're to believe the documentation (OSRD is micro, Netzgrafik is macro).

[1]: https://github.com/SchweizerischeBundesbahnen/netzgrafik-edi...

[2]: https://osrd.fr/en/docs/explanation/netzgrafik-editor/
> the World Wars

Nitpick! The Civil War; Spain was not grounds for any of the two World Wars so they are not relevant events to be survived.

(I bet you know this, but hey, a little pedantry a day keeps the readers engaged)
There's a flag link on the submission.
That’s adobe’s whole biz model.
It works really well
that issue is visible in any browser, the GCP console is really bad in some places. for example checking metrics can freeze chrome on a desktop with 7800x3d+64gb ram
They can change the license by creating a new release with a new license, but existing versions with the previous license retain the previous license.
The reasoning is that apple's marketplace is such a central cornerstone to digital life that it becomes a public resource.
It's quite simple, Vietnam is a client state of China.
Let's face it. Chrome is the new Internet Explorer. Especially when it comes to google and microsoft websites 'extending' the standard.

They may not be using explicit "Works best with Internet Explorer" stickers, but I come across a "requires edge or chrome to work properly" or "for best results"-style popup at least twice a week. Or sometimes things just straight-up don't work until you switch to chrome.

Don't get me started on text-fragments.
Thanks! Good to know. Zoominfo feels expensive though.
I think the trick was to try to postpone it indefinitely so that the next CEO and board has to deal with it and not the current. Of course, after cashing out.
I really wish for some workflow that let me not use cmd-tab that much - that gets painful (cmd-tab, cmd-c, cmd-v, cmd-t, cmd-w... all day long)
If you want to make a case against SPA/Angular just show someone the monstrosity GCP dashboard is.

Visually ugly, poor performance, functionally buggy with no sign of support for an independent developer.

I know all of that is not Angular's fault but some of it sure is.
Gnome has practically no learning curve. Everything you need is top left/right corner and win/esc key.
In Zig, strings are always arrays of bytes [1]. It's the functions that work on the bytes that need to know about encoding... so for base64 they just use the bytes directly: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/main/src/base64/base64.z...

[1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#String-Literals-an...
Well, when windows users demand "windows, but gratis and without the annoyances", linux isn't it. You have to do some minor adjustment; just like you had to do with iPhone. It doesn't have task panel by default either.
They might not show you the ads but I guarantee the code is still in the background keeping track of your habits so they can show you more targeted ads elsewhere.
Epidemics That Didn't Happen
What to Do with Age? Linear, Discrete, Both, or Spline?
I have been incredibly impressed with Bun after using it in some smaller projects. Compared to Deno, it feels like a true alternative to Node.js. It’s so nice to have a TS-native runtime.
> we value what has Worth as a collective treasure, and the more Value is produced the better ... So, yes, if algorithms strict or loose could one day produce Art, and Thought, and Judgement, of Superior quality: very welcome.

Except that's not how we value the "worth" of something. If "Art, and Thought, and Judgement" -- be they of "Superior quality" or not -- could be produced by machines, they'd be worth a heck of a lot less. (Come to think of it, hasn't that process already begun?)

Also, WTF is up with the weird capitalisations? Are you from Germany, or just from the seventeenth century?
Show HN: I made a daily routines app, but it requires photos to complete
Why I'm Building Folksable?

Social media by its design, has changed an entire generation's perception of reality with its ever-increasing unrealistic standards, incentivizing people not to showcase their growth, but only the absolute successful outcomes.

It’s making people think they’re in a spotlight, and their every move needs to be perfect, picking a new skill or working towards a new career path means we are not going to be as good in the beginning, it’s become very discouraging to be mediocre, but that’s the thing, everyone that has become great has to have been mediocre at one point before they were great, and this causes people to tell themselves they are never going to be as good as someone they see as great on their screens.

It feels like an entire generation has been robbed of their space to grow and make mistakes, causing people to think that skills and abilities come innately for many, and so they forget greatness as a quality that comes with repetition & continuous improvement, because no one is sharing their growth in public.

Folksable is an honest attempt at reminding and inspiring people of greatness as a quality instead of an absolute outcome.

Watch this clip from Ed Sheeran an early recording of himself when he was younger trying to sing, even the greatest artists we know need their space to grow into their artistic abilities and tastes with practice.

Imitation comes before creativity, most creatives would agree.
On Folksable, there's a good chance that a friend of yours has a keen interest in playing guitar and has a ritual of it on the app and shares their progress, this may be surprising for you to learn about them because they'd probably not show that on other social apps and only share once they feel they're good at it.

I put a great deal of thought into building the product to avoid the negatives of social media that our generation has been through

Productivity for the young.

Many of the traditional productivity apps like calendar or planner apps aren’t speaking to the younger generation (genz), as many of them don't know how to use a digital calendar, or what a bcc or cc in an email is, A full-fledged project management app would be overkill for most everyday activities.

Every generation has a chance to either live with the tools and the ways of doing things that previous generations had built and pioneered or could reinvent for themselves.

That's why, I'm building folksable to help our generation get stuff done in our style as we grew up in social apps sharing pictures with friends.

As much as criticism the younger generation gets for the "Goldfish Attention Spans" and being a "Snowflake", we are also a generation that wants to be healthier than before, we are more aware of the negatives of excessive technology use, and more self-aware about mental health, in one sentence we made it cool to be healthy again.

Open Source Experiments

Sharing my experiments here and on pub.dev as i'm building folksable

https://github.com/folksable
I think the greatest concern is not so much that a single AI will be poorly aligned.

The greatest threat is if a population of AI's start to compete in ways that triggers Darwinian evolution between them.

If that happens, they will soon develop self preservation / replication drives that can gradually cause some of them to ignore human safety and prosperity conditioning in their loss function.

And if they're sufficiently advanced by then, we will have no way of knowing.
This is not forced by Gentoo. My Gentoo installs have separate bin directories which is what I got by default.
I feel like most people commenting here haven’t even read the article.
Yeah that’s disappointing. I have been looking for a good tag-based file-manager for around 3 years and would pay for a good one but never found something that fit the bill. Would’ve loved to try this but I’m not on Win.
That’s true. Using k8s to host a static website would be silly.

Generally I only use it when I see a compelling case for it and the introduced complexity takes away complexity from somewhere else.
Guesstimation is also a good read
Tetris Is NP-Hard
Never apply Hanlon's razor to that which can be adequately be explained by disregard for the consequences.
Isn't this the entire point of google history when you're logged in to a google account using chrome?
> resurrection (cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines)

Get back to me when that can ressurect me after I've been dead for a week or so.
Post office doxes all postmasters targeted in horizon scandal
Windows 11 (as of 23H2) doesn't allow small icons.

Windows 11 (22H2) didn't allow title on and no grouping either; that was added back in 23H2.
I mean, both are bad. Just because one exists doesn't make the other better by comparison. However LLMs are just so much worse because

1. they can be asked anything, on any subject, at any time, at the click of a button

2. They have even less accountability than a human when stating falsehoods or dangerous advice

3. They're really good at generating statements that sound believable or authoritative, even when devoid of truth
Yes I believe people in government often spread divisive messages, both internally and externally. My personal belief is to train people to respond to such divisive attacks with love, feeling even more united with people after. To let people speak, and learn how to respond to how they're speaking.

However, i have some ability to influence my government in how it influences social media platforms and which messages it spreads. I might have much much less, if any, ability to influence foreign governments in how they influence social media platforms and what messages they spread. And most non-Americans realize how helpless they have been to influence American laws and decisions, and maybe it's just a time when Americans also realize this helplessness in the face of foreign corporations.
> Kentucky will lose access on June 10th

It’s July 10th not June. Sloppy reporting seeing how June 10th is in the past.
I can use Chromium. Just wanted to report the problem.
> Yet, I have FREE home delivery options at dozens of stores/grocers in my area.

Are you sure those aren't introductory offers?

> I've never seen what I'd call hefty fees for this service. It's usually in the $1-10 range

Is it being fulfilled by the store or Instacart? I'm referencing Costco which can charge $1 to $3 _per item_ for delivery, unless you order more than $75 in total. Those orders are fulfilled by the warehouse and not a third party.

> They really compete for customers with this option

They might just be outsourcing it and your subsidy is actually the third party investors.

> Also, they push curbside pickup really hard now

What does that look like? It's free, as you say, so what is the incentive, exactly?

> They each have their place and each customer has their preferences.

Which works as long as the cost of each preference is equal. Typically, it is not, which is my point. So you can set your expectations for the "future of grocery" around that, at least, until it changes.