skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... makes one wonder whether they also check how often the GenAI mimics the western media disinformation on entire plethora of topics (including now well busted narratives from Israel, UK, to UAE based professional "PR" firms (*double-speak)). Is it also possible that all news are these days just disinformation? Statistical data on the military and security budgets permanently growing every year into their media presence/narrative controls, as well as abysmal public perception o US 35% news trust-worthiness should not be ignored in such analysis.

The principal point being, one cannot correct just one side of the distribution, it creates bias (just think of the Google AI diffusion model disaster). So many fundamental questions are presented by these articles, which are utterly left alone, ignored or assumed into our own biases as given truths. I posit that this approach will not makes us any good in the long run, and will come to bite us in the fragile areas (looking at you Germany & France in the most recent elections).
> Plenty of buildings are designed with hidden back-of-the-building areas and access routes for maintenance humans. I assume pretty soon they'll have the same for robots too. Then we'll really hit the Star Trek "time to climb through a duct to save the day/stuck robot" type situations.

For some reason, it appears to be a major priority for people to drill tiny holes and channels all through their house so their cables can run through them, out of sight. This is a huge hassle as far as installation goes, but it makes up for it by also being a huge hassle as far as maintenance goes.

What's the problem supposed to be with running cables through clips on the wall? That you'll know they're there? That you can easily access them?
Apple does a good job staying up to date with UNIX standards, it is the devs that live in GNU land that get surprised.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
Well I'm glad they didn't and we got a few more years of physical media and the property rights inherent therein.
This:

> The parents can just be the admins of their children's devices and tell those devices to capture and report communications before they're encrypted.

requires more technical skill than:

> Who said anything about a technical problem? Being an “admin on their phone” just means knowing their PIN code and passwords and grabbing their phone whenever you want. No technical know-how required.

I don't even know how to get them to "capture and report communications before they're encrypted" (generically over all apps and websites), and I've been writing iPhone apps since iOS 4 and the first retina iPod touch.
For instance Cascadeur has some AI features for posing and rigging.

https://cascadeur.com/blog/general/ai-in-animation
They hide in the field and are too afraid of running from a track or and farmers can’t see them.
It's how regimes work. Every move they make is calculated and orchestrated, usually related to the others.

EU cracking down on the Googles and Apples for this and that is just a show to say, "look, we are the good guys, looking out for the European consumer from being taken advantage of by these overseas corporations".

It distracts from the ploys to erode privacy. Plus when fines are involved, it's a convenient cash grab also.

When you read about such and such FAANG co. being fined so many billions, that's just the EU (or whatever other regime) making up nonsense to write themselves a checque.

I'm not mad in the moment at all, but rather cool as a cucumber; this is my enduring world view.
On "The OSI Deprogrammer"
They broke dracut roughly a month ago...

A week before that, they upgraded python without bumping all the python packages (kicad comes to mind, edit: ansible deps are frequently broken).

In March, profile 23 wants you to remove your CHOST, which sounds like a good way to break systems, thankfully you can ignore them and keep it set.

Back in February they broke something tied to wine/mono/dotnet without testing it.

Back in January they pretty much made split usr users require an initramfs (I was already using one but I digress).

I'm sure there were some more recent ones, but they like to remove the "news" messages quite frequently and I'm too lazy to dig through git logs.
> Child grooming on the internet is a huge problem, and I suspect (again, happy to see evidence against it) it's better to allow scanning of children's communications

Assuming the scan always happen by a well-intentioned actor, and that no data is ever leaked, and that the children consent to the scanning... lots of assumptions here.

ANY human communication has the right to be private.

Imagine a proposal to install microphones on kids to record anything they say just in case. It would be outrageous, right? We focus on electronic communications just because if we want, we can break their privacy.
Look at the issue from other way: if you want this feature, you have a virtually every other OS to choose from. Those, who specifically do not want this feature, do not have such a luxury. They can choose this environment.
Another non-technical consideration is market-share. Firefox's share is low so exploiting a zero day on Chrome is much more profitable than on Firefox.
Can you elaborate? I am curious. In my line of work, the 80/20 rule is often throw about, that being "to do 80% of the work, you only need 20% of the knowledge." I thought the other reply was talking about the same diminutive axiom, but now I am not sure.
There are many ways we don't give children the same rights as adults. They might want confidential communication, but I'm not sure they should have it.

Why are you so sure that it is better and more versatile to educate them and their parents? We've been educating children, and parents, basically forever (and I've done a lot of educating of children myself). While they are young and still learning, I really believe they do need a mixture of freedom and guard-rails, to ensure they can't do themselves too much harm while still developing.
I've just accepted that these broad terms are really products of their time, and use of them just means people want to communicate at a higher level above the details. (Whether that's because they don't know the details, or because the details aren't important for the context.) It's a bit better than "magic" but not that different; the only real concern I have is vague terms making it into laws or regulations. I agree on linear regression, and I remember being excited by things like random forests in the ML sphere that no one seems to talk about anymore. I think under current standards of vagueness, even basic things like a color bucket-fill operation in a paint program count as "AI techniques". In the vein of slap a gear on it and call it steampunk, slap a search step on it and call it AI, or slap a past-data storage step on it and call it learning.
I feel like you are just asserting things because it feels right. I don't have children myself but I have a gaggle of nieces and nephews and I just can't bring myself to be convinced that they can be trained to thwart the plans of an adult. Add to that all the cases I've heard about, no parent said they didn't try to train their child not to talk to strangers. The predators are using tools designed by billion dollar companies and very refined grooming tactics. It will take some evidence before I'm convinced children can combat all that with training from over worked and underpayed parents.
I find that I never know what to write about myself in these. I had to make one for work also a few years ago for similar reasons to you. But when I would read it I could see it represented a part of me, but it's hard to say "talk to me like this" because it depends on what the subject is and who the person is. I found it was interesting to do as a team building exercise because we all did them together and read them to each other as teams but I never found myself or others getting back to it. And at some point I would've preferred if the document disappeared because years later some new joiners would read it and think something I wrote in 15mins in a workshop 6 years ago still represented who I was at the present time.
Whats so special about Centos 7? Just migrate to Almalinux and elevate up to 9 [1]. The only big difference that comes to mind is openssl3.

[1] https://wiki.almalinux.org/elevate/ELevating-CentOS7-to-Alma...
I have a strong sense that modern use of this word is nearly all wiktionary's sense 5: "to move, heavily or clumsily". Wheels don't enter into it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trundle#Verb
Meetup and social media in general are difficult to compete with due to their moat.

Yes, the features of meetup aren't crazy to implement, a way to create, list and see events. But will people use a different site when meetup is good enough.

Even then, meetup itself is only good for large cities. So they haven't solved the discoverability problem.

Facebook groups, and others do exist, but generally are a very poor experience for public events. Cannot deny they have users though and that's what matters the most.

If I post a tech event and no techie will see the event then what's the point? Getting a critical mass of users is not easy, perhaps start with a specific region or group. Japan has doorkeeper for japanese tech events, very popular and since its limited to the tech crowd (for now) it's a good host - > attendees cycle.

One thing would be nice is to hide events or types of events. If I'm not interested in night club events, why is it always showing. Or if there's a bad event Ive attended, thus don't want to see any more, I want to hide it from view.
Let's not talk about privacy (because there is no point in talking about it: Firefox is eons more private than Chrome - or any of it's based browsers - can ever be)

About security: Chrome has a biggest workforce, yes. but let's think about this a bit...

First, let's not forget that chrome is also a bigger target.

let's imagine this:
Consider that 90% of the users worldwide use chromium-based browsers, and you are an hacker who wants to steal peoples data or access their computers.

Would you bother targeting 10% of the users. Or would you just go after those 90%???

now add another detail into that thinking:

people who use Firefox are mostly techies, people who know about computers, gnu/linux users, developers, more security-conscientious users, people who actually know and care about the tech that goes bellow, people that knows what's happening in the IT world, and people that simple don't go with the flock without studding it's path first... now... would you really bother targeting those when you have 90% of people - where probably 85% don't know anything about computers or just don't give a #$%& about it???

Would you go easy bait, or would you try to outsmart those who might be at the same level you are???

(sure, there is always exceptions!!!)

but then again... maybe that's just me...
who's going to be their monopoly buffer if FF goes away?
I haven't noticed any problems with Youtube on Firefox, but I also have some privacy toggles enabled that lie about my user agent.
"With God as my witness, you grotesque simpleton, if you don't personally write machine learning systems and you open your mouth about AI one more time, I am going to mail you a brick .."

I really dislike articles that have rage against (x) and try to appear smart and with authority to tell you that everyone else is stupid and they know better but deep down they are just anti-everthing because contrarianism is the target here and not AI or anything that any article like this talks about. The idea is to just say "no, it's not like that".
I've had similar experiences. Switching to Safari seems to help when this happen. I don't expect they'll be doing this on purpose.

It could be that the encoded video block required by Firefox and not used that much, as such the cache hit rates are bad requiring trips back to an overloaded origin server.
I have found, rather amusingly, that Firefox for Android runs YouTube better than the official Android app. The official app randomly closes itself for no reason during long videos, while the web version in Firefox stays up forever (even in the background!)
Malice, incompetence...

Every team has a mountain of bugs screaming for their attention and a director losing their mind over AI.

And no one gets promoted for fixing bugs anymore.
Things I learned using React on Roblox
Arguably, those would have made it infeasible for their general business model.

I think the digital pricing on those only works for the same reasons that Epic's "give away free games to get people to pay attention to our platform" 'works' - some of the games become not profitable on their own but simply having them has network effects b/c then it improves the perception that "anything you want can be found on here", and since you have finite space on the cart at a time, and nobody can sell you one with more, you don't have such a risk of people making verbatim identical replicas of a cart with every game possible preloaded at a cost well below the service's pricing for such.

In the modern storage/bandwidth era, I believe a large collection of many SNES ROMs on archive.org is around half a GB total, compressed, so even assuming they were getting 20:1 compression or only had 10% of the games or something, ~10GB is absolutely trivial to land on flash these days, so if Nintendo directly tried to offer something like this now, absent much more invasive copy protection than the SNES ever had, the business model would be broken.

(I suspect this is a large part of why their model with the Switch is a subscription service to "yes" with additional subscriptions for higher demand/cost ratio things - they probably have some data from the 3DS and Wii/Wii U that shows people had a couple of favorites they would absolutely buy on "Virtual Console", but the long tail of things don't get people buying much, whereas with such a subscription service, they probably make more consistent amounts of money, and they don't have to worry about that pesky "people can play it forever" problem...)

e: I should also mention that Nintendo Power wasn't unique in this value proposition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel was a cute service, for example. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview was also a pretty direct predecessor.
yeah, the image that immediately popped in my mind was a dusted green bottle :)
In addition to ben_w's point, your proposal requires parent to understand every app that could possibly be used to communicate with others, how they can be used, how chats can be hidden, to audit all of the above on a regular basis, and still won't catch fairly basic things like a kid who deleted their messages as soon as they're read.
That's vinegar, not wine.
> "regret" at leisure would make more sense

That wouldn't work at all; "regret" doesn't have an intransitive use. You have to be regretting something.
>and all those thousands of full-time employees working on Linux would have created value for the shareholders of their employers, not value for the Linux users (like they currently do now)

But aren't the biggest Linux users companies? They use Linux for their data centers, for the mobile phones they sell.
It is hardly the primary reason for anyone to choose OS or environment. Most people are starting and getting used to other interfaces. Sometimes people are using multiple OSes at the same time. For all those people consistency matters, either for smoother learning curve or for productivity. Thus either Gnome remains a niche solution for a very small group of people or it expands market share by adopting UX patterns from mainstream.
A Survey of LLMs for Financial Applications: Progress, Prospects and Challenges
I use all the time with Fedora Linux. No such problems, including a new experimental ui available for premium users.

Now the experience with other Google services, plus Firefox mobile is terrible. I log into Gmail from time to time, it's awful. No, I don't want to use the app, I have other reasons and procedures.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
(stupidity is the wrong term here, lazyness is more apt).

Firefox is a the one different browser with an entirely different pedigree. Assumptions made about _all– other browser will not necessarily hold true for Firefox.
I'd say it is more that if you pick any real line item that taxes are spent on (topics like welfare, warfare, debt and medicine) you start hitting highly political topics where there is usually a good argument that the taxation and spending is making things worse on net.

So people have to pick trivial examples to try and brush aside that all the realistic ones are actually up for debate.
ElevenLabs Voiceover Studio [video]
This came up on my YouTube feed today and I was impressed. I have no connection to ElevenLabs.
Slightly related, but a bit off-topic, too :-)

If you are interesting in planning agriculture, with or without drones, you can help us by filling out our survey:

https://survey.permaplant.net/
I’ve definitely noticed issues with YouTube on Firefox where a video will start buffering for ages, but I’ve chalked that up to YouTube and uBlock Origin breaking each other. Quite often it’s been a better experience to just use mpv (yt-dlp) instead of the website. Haven’t tried it on Chrome though.
From a compliance perspective, TPM/signed bootloaders might be a "solution" against illegal Linux distributions.
Sure, I was over simplifying it. China will already have a good idea where the carrier roughly is - the previous position.

And they will also have their own satellites.
I use Firefox for most things at home, including a lot of browsing YouTube. I don't have the issues you're describing. Though I am on YT Premium and use uBlock.
> Every team has a mountain of bugs screaming for their attention and a director losing their mind over AI.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
it's not according to expert consensus (top labs, top scientists)
Australian dream.
> Every one I've spot checked right now has been correct, and I might write another checker to scan the results just in case.

If you already have the answers to verify the LLM output against why not just use those to begin with?
I have yet to see a machine that would survive a single day in a mouse's natural habitat. And I doubt I'll see one in my lifetime.

Mediocre, or even excellent, Python and rap lyrics in Latin are easy stuff, just like chess and arithmetic. Humans just are really bad at them.
It worries me seeing this publicised - all it takes is one unhappy farmer to hear a ninth hand version of this down the pub, and to decide that this is why his crop is failing, that it’s Spanish/French immigrant insects, and that he needs to go up there and spray them all, for the wellbeing of his country and nature.

I mean, see sycamore gap. See all of it, all the time.
Vertical farming is complete bullshit for most plants. I don't know why people keep talking about it.

Plant growth is (for most plants) limited by available energy, which comes in the form of sunlight. Sunlight is extremely bright compared to artificial light sources and extremely cheap, i.e. free. Replacing it makes no economic sense in most situations.

If we talk about producing a lot of calories to feed the starving, even most reservations go out of the window, because staple crops are staples because they are very efficient at turning sunlight into chemical energy and they need all the sunlight they can get.
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
That's why everyone should read books written by experts, instead of articles.
In term of time to patch 0-day, Firefox is very quick to fix them (usually hours committed, days to publish). Chrome is quick too, so it's not a competitive advantage.

Most of cyber-criminals however, will target Chrome because it's way more used.

In term of control the password manager of firefox don't need you to have an account. That is very important because, you want to use a password manager on the web and to be able to actually trust it. Google can close you account without previous notice.
Why you doubt that? Before drones there were no issues about birds at least. I hope Vietnam will not have same future since they are not Turkey.
thanks but no thanks, I really like vanilla gnome UI. I understand some people will keep complaining, but probably those are the same people who never even put a bit of effort to try and understand the concept of the new gnome desktop. Still, choice is good, and its great we can have this extensions.
No, all window of an application are not positioned on the same layer.

But when you tab into an application, all of its windows are brought to the front.

If you want to bring one specific window to the front you are supposed to use Exposé, but some power users don’t like this because it uses the mouse instead of the keyboard.
FYI, I've been keeping a list here: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers
Trillion dollar companies shouldn't exist in the first place. At that point, they are entities way too powerful to be in private, undemocratic hands.
When I see people getting hyped up about AI, I just roll my eyes and move on. But now, quite a few people in the anti-AI camp are getting more hyped up than its promoters, jumping at the throats of anyone who dares mention the term. The recent harassment campaign from Mastodon folks toward the iTerm2 dev was a particularly disturbing one.

I personally would stay far far away from either of these two camps.
The one infamous comment you mean? Because otherwise people in that thread thought it was pretty cool! I see this often mentioned here but it really just seemed like one comment in a whole thread.
This looks to me as the idiocy of the pronouns, on steroids.

They both are based on the wrong assumption that people have to ask your opinion before contacting you, while communication has always been based on shared standards.

Normality exists. It's not something to tend to, but it exists and must be recognized and respected, and everybody is expected to do their share in conforming to normality.
In Southeast Asia? The US military probably didn't even hear about it until after it was missing for a bit.
Jeez, I love not working for a big company.
Message queues are often chosen as a communication protocol in microservice-based architectures. Microservices were a fad and people have sobered up. People have learned when microservices deliver a benefit, and when they are unnecessary. In many cases, they are unnecessary.

Queues are still very useful for queueing up asynchronous work. Most SaaS apps I've worked with use one. However, there is a difference to what kind of queue you need to queue a few thousand tasks per day, vs using the queue as the backbone of all of your inter-service communications. For the first use case, using a DB table or Redis as a queue backend is often enough.
Is true free will possible?
In terms of neuroscience, biology and chemistry.
Some modern-day teams will do a simplified team building exercise where they determine what "colour" people are, idk which one it is exactly, might be Hartman Personality Profile
> The only way to help...

Sounds like you're unfamiliar with the "working poor" in modern America. If your income is low, and rent/food/transportation/health care are expensive, then "pay zero incomes taxes" will not magically balance your books.

(Not saying that this measure would balance them either. Nor that it's optimal tax policy/public policy. Nor that doing anything that's anywhere near "optimal" is even possible, in modern-day America):
Dell, Super Micro providing server racks for xAI's supercomputer
For average user both are secure enough and privacy is more important concern.

I don't think 0-day will be wasted on targeting random nobody.

To be more secure, only way is to reduce surface area. Someone like journalist should disable JS/cookies, all plugins and extensions and preferably browse through a locked down VM. Don't know if there is any minimal browser that has actively removed features.