skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> content creators I consume deserve income from my visit, as long as my privacy is preserved

I doubt that most people in these discussions wouldn't agree with that point. The problem lies in the details. Advertisers don't take anything less that complete personalized targeting. We are not in the 2000s era of buying ad space on related websites/forums anymore. The problem is there are misalignment between targeted ads and privacy. And I didn't find all the proposal for anonymity successful, it is always possible to de-anonmize the data.
Mozilla has been working with Meta on this.

"For the last few months we have been working with a team from Meta (formerly Facebook) on a new proposal that aims to enable conversion measurement – or attribution – for advertising called Interoperable Private Attribution, or IPA." https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attri...
One can also search for “minutes ago” etc.
I think you need to go past this common thinking to "just focus on consistency/habits/discipline". You need to get clear about how/why you decide in the present moment. I assume this takes varying amount of time/effort for different people.

I think one needs to unravel our inner state and psychology ... we cannot simply turn on and off. But then, once we understand our inner state/psychology it makes it easier to turn on/off.
You realize that KFC chicken is just the same chicken you buy at the supermarket?

It's an urban legend that KFC somehow raises its own chicken that is somehow different, whether genetically, chemically, or speed of growth.

I mean, if you prefer the taste of pork over chicken then great.

But the idea there's anything uniquely bad about the chicken supplied to KFC is just factually untrue.

Also, since you really like Italian food, you might be surprised to find that Parmesan cheese is chock-full of MSG. Which is a major reason why it's used so much in Italian cuisine to impart flavor. MSG isn't bad -- it's umami, just like NaCl is salt.
You're attacking two strawmen:

1. The average user doesn't have to pay for the browser in a donation model, you just need enough users to feel passionately enough about it to fund it sufficiently to develop it.

2. No one is arguing that Mozilla should replace their revenue from Google overnight with donations. We're just asking that Mozilla give us the option to pay for Firefox already.

Another user (trying to demonstrate to me that donations would never be enough [0]) figured that if we assume a similar rate of donations as Thunderbird gets then Firefox would bring in $70m/year just in donations.

That is a heck of a lot of money. That funds 140 developers even at inflated Bay Area salaries, 280 developers if you're willing to branch out of the Bay and offer closer to $200k/year on average as a base salary (still an insanely high average rate in most of the country and the world). Even if you took a full 50% for general/administrative and overhead, that sum would still pay for 70 bay-area or 140 rest-of-the-world developers.

If Mozilla really does need more developers than that for Firefox specifically, then fine, they can keep accepting money from Google—no one is saying they should only be funded by donations. But that they don't even make it an option is frankly bizarre.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40901664
Who built the automated lab that allows it to create a deadly pathogen before someone presses reboot?

I see almost no chance that an AGI starts redirecting resources like energy and compute without someone who has an economic stake in what the AI does noticing and taking action to correct the behavior so they can maintain their investment.
The dinosaur to birds comparison isn't a particularly good one. Birds are cladistally dinosaurs, that is, the common ancestor of all birds was a dinosaur. In that sense, there are no birds that are not also dinosaurs.

That's not true with modern humans and neanderthals. A tiny amount of their dna remains in some human populations, but neanderthals are not the common ancestor of all humans. We are all descended from early homo sapiens and the tiny amount of neanderthal dna that persists is totally swamped by the homo sapiens dna.
The reality is that right now, most people need to work full-time-plus just to get by.

My wife and I have a bunch of kids. We are also the only ones who will be meaningfully sorting out care for our parents. I am fortunate to be able to provide enough support to make it work. I also don’t feel confident that when we’re also responsible for caring for all four of our parents, there’s going to be enough of our time and energy to manage it along with my work, especially if there are more little ones or medical issues at that time. It’s important to be realistic.

And again, I’m an outlier. Most people have fewer resources to devote to it.
A practical use for Apple Vision Pro? Soldiers on a breaching team each with headsets, each seeing a real time overlay of X-ray walls and the locations of the people behind them, as tracked by the drones. I hate that I can visualize this so clearly.
You mean like Shinola?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinola

https://www.shinola.com/

It does seem to be a shame to throw away hard-built branding, especially when much larger brands get bought and sold every day. It seems like a win to restore an old vintage brand (vintage in HN terms might be anything from the previous batch!)
Voluntarily? As in they could just stop working and they'd be fine?
Looks like the install script is incomplete and fails to check for and install all prerequisites.
The DoE report on California is skewed by rural areas that suffer outages due to wildfires and winter storms. There have been no extended outages that effect large cities on the scale of Houston.
The fact they didn't loudly announce this 'feature' has seriously undermined their trustworthiness, for me at least.

What's the expression; 'So much depends on reputation. Guard it with your life'. Mozilla seem to be just throwing it away.
RodinHD: High-Fidelity 3D Avatar Generation with Diffusion Models
[I'm not in the target demographic]

+ Congratulations on lauching!

+ My first thought was that all the spaces on the landing page were about four orders of magnitude further from me than they said they were, but I allowed location access and the distance became more reasonable...though it was still IP based so I'm not sure if I got the closest ones.

+ My deeper question is, what makes this better than connecting with other people using the coworking space at the coworking space?

+ Are there other ways of connecting people who use the same coworking space and are they better for users, coworking space operators, or your goals (for example if your goal is a business)?

Good luck.
Huh, odd that profit seeking behavior doesn’t maximize the public well being in the case of natural monopolies.
Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
What side or main projects are you guys working on this week. Share your startup stories.
Thanks, I just updated to 128, and found the setting under Settings -> Security -> Website Advertising Preferences. I wish I could be surprised that this was opt-out by default, but when you know how Mozilla is funded it all clicks.
I believe it. It looks more than doable from that ifixit.

I've replaced the switches in a Logitech G305, and it wasn't too bad.

The mouse itself was fairly straight forward to get into. Move the pads, undo the screws, a little time probing around with a spudger.

Borrowed the switches out of a Raspberry Pi mouse I had in a spare parts bin. Opted to replace the feet at the same time.

Some minutes soldering later and reassembly, worked as well as it always had.
It's free if you spend it on a durable asset that is as or more valuable than the cash was, which can often be true of infrastructure. Your balance sheet goes up not down after the spend then.
Hills make a huge difference impeding winds across the land, storm water drains much faster. Has a hurricane ever hit San Francisco? It’s not a real comparison, typhoons in the area, to a direct hurricane.

It’s also extremely expensive to mitigate, maybe it should be done, but the GP was hand waving it all away. Commenter even “disagreed from experience” and then cited a totally different experience.
I don't think bankruptcy is the norm, since most startups don't fail with outstanding debt.
The drone in TFA's cover photo looks like a hunter seeker from the latest Dune movies.

There's more specs here: https://fpv.bg/article?eid=15

It costs $200,000...
I'm well aware of the convoluted corporate structure and that convoluted structure is one of my primary criticisms of Mozilla.
And people used to complain that ML is a buzzword, it's not really "learning" anything, and this is nothing more than mere image processing.
The main crux of parametric polymorphism and type inference is just implementing Algorithm W. Just find a toy implementation online and poke at it.

For me, when I learned it myself, I simply took the toy implementation at https://github.com/wh5a/Algorithm-W-Step-By-Step/blob/master... realized that it was written in an extremely outdated style, modernized it, cleaned up, and ended up with https://gist.github.com/kccqzy/fa8a8ae12a198b41c6339e8a5c459... Then I proceeded to change various things to "break" the algorithm and see how they are broken.
Theres gitter.im and the various "Matrix" clients but honestly it's horrible, it's the Linux desktop of chat.
> fund a serious browser-as-public-good initiative
> A: 0.0001%? Too small to compute?

Interesting thought experiment.

I think, the question can pretty much be answered with "whatever is necessary to fund a company, their personnel and keep them afloat and honest".

Not sure when and why Mozilla has deviated from that path/mantra. Did they get greedy? Corporate bloat?
> Do you have the magic solution that makes them resilient to natural disasters short of burying every single power line underground? Which is not only impractical but insanely expensive.

"Do you have any suggestions other than what would actually work??"
My bad slapd is the openldap daemon.
GP did say "active mission". I'm sure Google had "Do no evil" on their site for maybe 4 years after they in fact started being evil.
Source? The grid was far more reliable where I've lived with underground than overhead lines. Kind of hard to believe. Sounds like that would only happen if your city cheaped out on the conduit material.
What about just an old fashioned forum? Discourse (not Discord) is still around and is great for threading.
Thank you; for all its long-windedness, I've had to explain things about this a lot of times to people who have no frame of reference, similar to having to explain to people who have never experienced a disconnect between intent to do something and doing it that no, it's not simply a matter of actually not wanting to do it, it's that I sit here frustrated, having decided I will do this, and still not doing it, for no evident reason.

Since that's completely outside their experience, they often conclude you're lying, not "people work differently".
Hm, I guess the "libre" is French, but "live", "light", and most importantly "lich" are all German.

If we look for relatives of "libre", they include "leed"(song) and the first half of Leopold (adding "bold") and Luther (adding "army"). The common meaning is "people".
Mozilla is up in a bunch of shit at this point. They have a half a BILLION dollar nut to raise annually, and money from Google covers the whole thing. It's ridiculous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances
Are you asking for shits and giggles or are you looking at doing a business here?
vandalism as a service
Whistleblowers accuse OpenAI of 'illegally restrictive' NDAs
Shinola appears to have been around for over 80 years, and the IP wasn’t used for decades
>I guess it's yet another thing where the root problem is the design of our communities.

Well, I like living in the country and that means working in the city would be a 1 hour+ commute--whether by train or car.

Funnily enough, I actually lived almost next door to where I worked for about ten years near a suburban office park but people I knew would either perform scary manoeuvres to pick me up on the way into the office or I'd want my car to run a lunchtime errand or go somewhere after work so I didn't walk even though it was only 5-10 minutes.
Not a week, but just earlier this year there was a storm in the SF Bay Area where there were many people without power for 3-5 days. Most of the damage was due to last mile transmission failures from debris. And I'm sure that had the storm been in the hurricane strengths, the damage would have been even worse.

Portland too had that major cold snap where power was out due to last mile transmission problems. I know at least one city in the metro area that sped up their plans to bury their power transmission because during that storm large parts of that city were without power for days.
I’ve also ported the lox vm to Zig and had a great time working through it.

Since the project is designed in C, you can mostly write the exact same code in zig, with minimal modifications. If you want to use zig features, they’re easy to integrate, but Nystrom obviously won’t be giving you any hints.

But the language offers a lot of useful features (slices, optionals, error types) and makes some C paradigms syntactic realities (tagged enums, explicit pointer casts). Even more so, the standard library comes with very useful stuff (an ArrayList, a handful of different allocators, heck I replaced the trie of keywords with a StaticStringMap).

it’s a fun project, I would definitely recommend it!
Tiger was 10.4
If you read the example very narrowly as "get the user to download a bare DLL to their browser downloads folder and then have the smart card app execute the init logic in that DLL", then yes, that would face a variety of further challenges -- although not insurmountable ones.

But I didn't read it that way anyway. Because it was an illustration and not central to the article, I read it generously as "as one example: given a pre-installed malicious dll, this particular extension could trigger its execution" which was sufficient to demonstrate that it presents a real and immediate opportunity for making arbitrarily bad things happen.
I think "vibes" is a new weasel word that subtly absolves the author from any responsibility to connect cause and effect. There's a whole lot more to writing than announcing what "vibes" you get.
They have been Goog's pet for a long time. Only thing staving off antitrust.
They should've lost to the fraudulent Netherlands, Spain looks like the Spain that haunts my dreams. I'd be willing to try a ring I guess
I don't think it's really possible to predict what will become of Texas. One could imagine such a big, resource-rich state finding ways to work collectively for the better of all, though obviously that's naive to the point of nearly being a joke. Still there is a lot going for it in some sense. Politicians may not care about the people, but their beloved businesses also need infrastructure, so at least there's that.

I've lived in Texas my entire life and there are aspects of it that I love, but I do have vague plans to move north once my remaining ties to the state dissolve.
>Morally speaking, content creators I consume deserve income from my visit, as long as my privacy is preserved.

sad for the content creators (I do actievely try to donate and subscribe to quality content when apt), but I simply don't tryst my privacy being preserved any longer. So opt out of this setting and keep Adblock extension on. The well has long been poisoned for me.

But I'm also in the minority and it seems there's still enough adrev going that I'm barely an atom in the market.
Mozilla chose to structure themselves in a way that was confusing and has led to their interminable distractions and side projects.

They apparently were under the impression early on that Mozilla Corporation would somehow actually make money from Firefox which would then fund the Mozilla Foundation's other projects. I doubt that they anticipated that nearly all of the money coming into Firefox would come from their primary competition and they'd wish they could allocate funds in the other direction, but here we are.

If you know so much more than the rest of us: Is there some important reason why they haven't fixed their structure already? The for-profit supposedly reinvests all its profits into the non-profit, so I'm unclear what purpose the distinction is serving at this juncture.
The Fastest Object Ever Made by Humans, and It's Not Slowing Down
HBO was quite old at that point when the original programming started. I remember when it started and in its real growth period it would send a monthly viewers guide of their rotating catalog with show times.

Original programming more or less started much later after they were well established and seeking marginal growth.
Interesting that you talk about Effexor. Effexor was the one drug that “worked” for me.

But over time, my thinking and behavior became more and more erratic. I became highly unstable, doing bizarre and unsafe things I never would have considered prior to Effexor. So I needed to come off. Ok, then I had to endure a month of brain shivers, where moving my head made the world stutter like there was a strobe light. After getting through that, I developed dystonia, which lasted for the next fifteen years.

This is why I said that the statement needed clarification. Everyone that had them work for them thinks “they work”. Bullshit. They worked _for you_.
Another poster pointed out that the cost of moving lines underground is really only a one time fee of about $5 per person per month for about 10 years. This does not seem too expensive for a permanent increase in reliability. One thing I will miss about living in Manhattan is the power never ever went out, at least not due to the distribution grid.

And, it's a minor, minor thing, but as a bonus, having lines out of sight is very nice.
> and by the time you've figured it out, the business has moved on and has new and incompatible requirements. so your software is late, doesn't meet the requirements and doesn't even work.

There's a reason we don't have them anymore.
This likely varies by country in Europe and even what part of the country (rural vs urban). For example, a survey done in Germany found the following distribution of how often people went to a restaurant:

Once a month: 44%

A few times a month: 34%

Once a week: 13%

Several times a week: 7%

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1085317/dining-out-habit...
Overclocked mini PC powered by AMD may well be the fastest in its category
No I do not. I was not aware of the vast ghettoes. But some kind of middle class has to exist as the article headline talks about air conditioning - in Germany air conditioning is not common even in the upper middle class - this may be different in the US - idk.
>You mean insane; every sane discussion place looks more like subreddit (or, often enough, is a subreddit).

No I meant sane. Tree style is insane. You can have different topics or categories but all topics should be linear.

>1 on 1 is a feature, as it's never truly 1 on 1 - anyone can jump in instead of just listening to the conversation.

They could, but rareley do. On Reddit this requires clicking many links.
What do you expect thangalin to do with this understanding?
This is a classic example, frequently paired with a bunch of pseudoscience and smart sounding nonsense. Even if it weren’t personally offensive to me as an MS patient (diagnosed in 2001, when I in my late teens, and not for nothing—a soccer player and vegetarian in otherwise very good physical shape) this kind of speculative alternative health stuff muddies the water so that when looking for legitimate, bonafide information for autoimmune disorders and treatments, one has to sift through vast torrents of frequently difficult to distinguish bullshit. They go out of their way to appear legit, spend tons of money to push dis-/misinformation, and/or poison the well of mainstream science and research.

I’m not suggesting that’s what’s happening in all of these comments, but I’ve seen a lot already that absolutely is. It’s really disappointing to see, but I’ve learned HN comments are great…until the topic of discussion departs from the usual tech-specific ideas, then it’s Dunning, Kruger, et al.
> That’s a big claim, but it’s presented without evidence. Do you have any examples?

What do you mean? Her entire persona and relevance revolves around being anti-crypto. Of course she's heavily biased; this isn't even a remotely controversial claim.

> That would be a good way to support the allegation of cherry-picking.

The real story here is how much power individuals have over our political landscape. George Soros, for example, has injected more than $125M into the midterm race in 2022[1]. To be clear, this is not a partisan issue; the Kochs raised over $70M last year[2]. If you want to be critical of super PACs, crypto spending is literally a drop in the bucket and completely missing the forest for the trees. There is a story here, but crypto ain't it.

The more boring reality is that (like every nascent industry) crypto is going through some growing pains, so it makes sense a16z/Coinbase/etc. need to heavily lobby DC for favorable SEC rulings & legislation. This is, quite literally, business as usual.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2022/01/31/georg...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/us/politics/koch-network-...
This is an amazing writeup, thank you. looking forward to going through it in more detail.
This looks like it would solve a problem for me, thanks for sharing! Candidly, I'm a bit turned off by the name, the framing as a "toy", and honestly the ergonomics of the website (compared to similar systems like https://gridfinity.xyz/ or https://gridbeam.xyz/), but the underlying system seems like what I'm looking for.

I've been prototyping some models with a 3D printer, and have unfortunately been building my own sort of "construction set" so that I can minimize my print times and only reprint the parts that have changed. This means that I can mostly print flat pieces, which take an hour rather than 12 hours, but trying to invent a modularity system takes time (and iterations), which detracts from iterating on the thing I'm actually working on.

For anyone having trouble navigating the website, I'd recommend starting at https://www.stemfie.org/parts?view=category&id=14, or maybe skimming https://thangs.com/designer/Stemfie3D/sort/downloads if you just want to see the most commonly used pieces.
Discord's UX feels quite bad. It's overwhelming and readability is bad.
That'd be my biggest complain when it comes to "complexity".
What browser has a subscription user base that could support Mozilla?
My statement is most certainly factual. Don't assert what you don't know.
The Unix Programming Environment tutorial for building hoc doesn’t even come close to what Nystrom gets into in Crafting Interpreters. Hoc is a very fun little language, but as Nystrom describes several times in the book…parsing just isn’t the interesting part of the game.
Right, or they force you to order lettuce and tomato to peel off or no sandwich for you.
Sure. Make metadata out-of-band rather than in-band, so that the ungovernable mess of Unix-standard plain ol' text streams is replaced by structured data.

So, well then: allowing programs to consume and emit JSON - is this progress ?
This is what financialization is for -- allowing homeowners to get "free" panels in exchange for paying back out of the savings over the years. Leasing panels is not uncommon.

If these kinds of services don't exist in enough quantity, government subsidy could help.
Might wan tto check, the LinkedIn link goes to 404.