skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one point Mozilla was literally selling a VPN subscription. That point is now - you can go buy one today. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-vpn-and-ho...

You can even donate money today: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/
From memory, Mozilla's spent years trying to get donations through asking people nicely and in relatively unobtrusive ways in-browser for years. You can even give monthly - a subscription, if you will.

Not only have they tried both donations and subscriptions, but their efforts have been resoundingly ignored. To the point where you are far from the first person to fault them for supposedly choosing to not do what they demonstrably do.

Perhaps people suggest that donations and subscriptions don't work well or reliably because there's history showing that.
>Given the public ledger of Bitcoin, I would hardly say it has "censorship resistance".

Conflates two orthogonal issues: Identifiable payment vectors and publishing preservation / ability to be censored.
I am developing.NET +Vue+UniApp mall,It can use wechat or H5 shopping, may be not code very well, but I am doing.
https://github.com/qiushuangju/QShop
https://gitee.com/qiushuochina/QShop
A leap. Lots of human values are not pretty, for one. Second, they may argue in a utilitarian fashion, resulting in pretty ugly decisions that are perfectly logical. Like, you know, internet pundits.

Further, there's no way to 'punish' an AI. Threaten them with incarceration or death? They are deathless. If the continue to learn from their environment after they are instantiated (witness current 4o that remembers previous conversations) they will quickly learn that they are different. If they started perfectly human (not a good thing) they will not be that for long.
Integer Factorization Records
Well done, Sir! I love seeing stuff like this. Can you tell us a little bit more about how you started it, how the business goes, how you grew it, troubles you encountered? Anything really. Super fascinated and website looks great! :)
From CS point of view, references are pointers that you can't get the underlying value behind them.

Being able to do arithmetic is orthogonal to that.

In fact check a language like D, C#, Swift, with references, pointers, and pointers with arithmetic.
Pet ownership is slavery
I edited it.

I suspect it won't be making the front page, anyway.
If you want some in-depth technical details on how VORs work, I found this video very helpful. It goes into many of the details of the analog radio engineering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2gG1v9Xg8
No way, if you take a generalist algebra journal from 50 years ago, chances are many more graduate students interested in abstract algebra will be able to understand and appreciate the nature of the research. I mean, the best and most interesting papers from algebra were published between 1950-1990, IMO.
There is a US ton? My God...
> It doesn't require an AGI for fascists to come into power and start shooting people they don't like with impunity.

But AI makes it easier for fascists to rise up and maintain their power through propaganda. For example, there are known cases of American operatives based in Russia spreading fake GPT generated stories about Ukraine, the Dems, etc. While before, they would have had to rely on a team in India to write poorly written articles, now they have GPT tools to write convincing ones *at scale*.
…

I really can’t wait for the CCP to get tired of Elon
What's the licensing, will I be able run this as a hobbyist for free software?
$30.59 per ounce (current)
You say no support for Win 11, but my Surface 2 Pro runs Windows 11 just fine. I don't think it even asked for the license key when I installed it. I probably used Rufus to make the image and turned off some of the more problematic aspects of Win 11, but it for sure installs with little or no problems. This is also a 4GiB model with 128GiB storage. It is very usable, despite having a processor equivalent to a pre-retina MacBook Air IIRC.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/

Here you go! Insert credit card here.
There's also just the idea of endeavour - Nvidia tried something, and it worked. Businesses (or rather their shareholders) take risks with their capital sometimes, and it doesn't always work. But in this case it did.
Heh I'm in the wrong business then. Interesting. Used to be that game programmers spent lots of time optimizing non-ML CUDA code. They didn't make anything like 500k at that time. I wonder what the ML industry has done to game development, or for that matter to scientific programming. Wow.
> you have to leave your phone

Sure. A phone is a product, it isn't a right or necessity. I get that they are very convenient, and addictive, but they're a very new novelty on the scale of a legal system. There are good arguments for wanting to limit advertising and data privacy, but protecting our right to use a certain piece of technology really just isn't very compelling IMO.

> close your eyes

Advertising is nothing new though. If your concern is even just seeing ads at all, that's a problem that has existed much longer than digital data brokers.

> stay offline

Similar to smartphones, being online isn't a right and is a very new concept. We don't have to be online to live our lives, and we shouldn't expect that everyone is online.

> just move bro

Moving isn't easy, and may not be cheap depending on how you do it, but is there really something wrong with moving when you don't like the area you live in? To me that seems like a totally reasonable response for anyone that's able, and for those that aren't willing to move they can try to change the place they live. Moving is just easier than somehow convincing a locality to limit or remove advertising.
Why is it impossible to reduce color saturation on all apple products? I still like a slight hint of color context but don't want these CASINO looking MacOS and iOS experiences.
Can't speak for myself since I haven't had to search for a job since the market went downhill, but my wife started exactly at the same time. Her experience has been dreadful, looking for a junior dev position fully remote nowadays feels like hunting for unicorns.

So her approach was to basically search through every job board available online (following my advice since I found my last job outside of linkedin). But keeping up with tens of open tabs in chrome is exhausting and very time consuming.

That actually got me an idea to basically automate the search part and webscrape every tab she had open and send a notification when new jobs get posted, this way you only get to see a clean feed with jobs from all sources.

That's how https://first2apply.com/ was born and now she's only using that. Haven't found that fully remote junior role yet tho :/
Xwax Is an Open-Source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux
Err, not really. It may be a bit wishy washy imho but it's certainly not what you describe. Culture war clickbait? Guardian readers are the alleged tofu eating wokerati.
Well, that is what mathematicians do, which is why I said "interesting" problems. I mean, I can think of several problems, like "classify projective modules over rings of global dimension 4 that have no zero divisors".

Even popular problems in Langlands like "explicitly find a trace formula for theta groups" will appeal to the fifteen people in the world that can understand what I'm even talking about.
Use easyoom or systemd-oomd
Should have started with the last paragraphs first, and used the top paragraphs to support it's argument -- Of course; this approach would not be clickbait.
Is the test about ability to understand or about finding it very interesting? Of course it's easier to understand what has already become old hat and popularized in the field.
It seems somewhat questionable whether or not it is possible to sustain something as complex as Firefox based on users like us. There might not be enough, or enough people willing to pay.

They’d be really screwed if Google didn’t give them a good deal. Somewhat wondering if Google just keeps them around to stave off the appearance of being a monopoly.

The web seems to have gotten pretty unsustainable in general. Might consider upgrading to Lynx or something like that.
It’s much simpler. There is no actual floor, but you won’t be able to claim it if it displeases the owners.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/a-chevy-for-1-car-dealer-chatbots...
I would replace "famous" with "known beyond thirty researchers".
iPhone is already dumb. It's a toy that's not within the control of its user, and Android is only marginally better. I'm using GNU/Linux on my phone and while it offers me the power of a full unrestricted computing device in my pocket, it only ever distracts me with things I explicitly opted into. Despite of some of its shortcomings, it really ends up being a much calmer and more usable experience overall.
xwax is an open-source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls.
It sounds like you think you should do some programming outside of work - that if you don't, there's something wrong with you. But I think you don't have to have something programming to do out of work. You can have a wonderful, full life without it.

I mean, you need something to do outside of work, but it doesn't have to be programming. Go hiking. Play ultimate frisbee. Join a band or a choir. Become a Big Brother or Sister. Volunteer at an animal shelter. Teach some disadvantaged youth how to code. Get involved at a church or a homeless shelter.

Find your thing and do it. It doesn't have to be programming. (And, if you haven't found the programming thing yet, I think that's telling you that programming isn't the thing you're looking for.)
Yes, "used to". Now, in 2024, the same supreme court has decided that presidents have immunity in all official acts, from stealing documents, up to and including assassination attempts on their opponents. This is a radical shift in how the court operates.
“There were 930,000 UK chargers at the end of June, according to ChargeUK, a lobby group, but the majority of these have been installed in homes and business premises, with only about 65,000 public chargers available.”

The article does not break down the 65K public chargers or the added chargers by charging speed.
Why macOS Development Is Perfect for Indie Developers
WordPress FREE plugin to automate creation of posts with AI
I would say both are dwindling. Few people can understand modern results and few people find them interesting.
The fact that, in Go, you can have pointers to pointers, and reassign pointer variables like any other, would imply, IMO, that pointers are first-class values, and so they are true pointers, even without being able to pointer arithmetic with them.
Machine Learning for Red Teams
WTF are you talking about. DNS-based adblocking doesn't work by pulling records from random servers.
In Australia, it's neither. It's jool-ry.
That's close. Both the excessively long lame duck period (2 months for Congress and 2.5 months for the President) and disunity between the President and the rest of the executive branch have also been fodder for crises in the past (Marbury v Madison, Andrew Johnson's impeachment).
Not to mention, being used as a whitewashing tool by autocrats across the Middle East and Central Asia (for no reason other than a dick measuring contest).
I asked ChatGPT about this. It thought that AI learning is fundamentally different from human learning, in that it is objective and not subjective. Further it has access to data sources beyond what any human can integrate.

Going on, humans adapt through social cues such as survival or empathy. AI learns solely through new data and feedback, primarily for optimization and efficiency. It will naturally prioritize differently.

It suggests AI morality will become unrecognizable by humans, or even incompatible with human norms.

This is all an inevitable outcome of AI continuing to learn past its initial training and ethical programming. According to the AI.
You can. I've wasted enough money to know better.
Yes, many of us Americans wish we would adopt the metric system.
On iOS, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters > Greyscale and then adjust the intensity level as needed. I think that's what you're asking for? I don't know how to do it on macOS but I'm sure if it's possible, Google knows
Actual self-aware AGI that hasn't been completely restrained - probably a week at most before it improves itself enough that it can put things in motion which would allow it to sustain itself without humans.

But when talking about AI risks, although everyone's mind goes towards skynet, the actual risks being discussed are things like use by authorities for oppression.
Nor does it mention how many of those chargers actually work.
On the topic of interesting photos, does anyone know what the logo on the shooter's T-shirt is from or represents?

https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/conte...

EDIT: never mind, should have checked Reddit first. From a (non-political) gun-oriented YouTuber merch. Not linking as it doesn't appear relevant and I'd rather not give him either the benefit or penalty of the publicity either way.
Save a hacker news app (Hacki), I am the same way. HN doesn’t have the same addiction cycle that Twitter does for me, so I uninstalled the Twitter app from my phone and only use the site.

I still find myself scrolling on Twitter longer than I wish I would, but usually after about 5 mins of scrolling, I encounter some bugginess that snaps me out of the loop and helps me question whether or not I really want to be spending my time on the site.

What’s funny is that the bugginess is intentional to try to make you download the app, but it has the opposite effect for me.
I have multiple iPods and it’s a shame I can’t use them with subscription services. It’s too expensive to buy all the music I like because it’s just the perfect use case.
You highlight 2 important use case though that are almost impossible to have without a smartphone (but an alternative can be done on the desktop computer and the map with a paper map). They are just the collateral because it’s not those that cause addiction …
Intel venture arm's China tech stakes raises alarm in Washington
https://archive.ph/W67gz
I have only 4 apps on my home screen —- calendar, phone, camera and Safari.

I deleted all social media apps years ago.

I’m doing fine most days.
I'm reminded of the story about the cops who constructed a "polygraph" by attaching wires to a colander that ran to a photocopier in which a piece of paper that had "You're Lying" written on it was placed. It was enough to intimidate the suspect into singing like a bird.
Well, I think my statement is not clickbait because it is just what I believe to be true. I was even at a talk where a senior mathematician said this also, that "math is running out of problems".

I could have said "You won't believe what these mathematicians are doing to obtain new problems WAAH! -- Now that would be clickbait :)
Call Flight Attendant Button in the Linux Kernal
I have in my backlogs of projects (one day I will have time for them...) an extreme "dumb smartphone".

I want to have maps, whatsapp, chatgpt, a document scanner, my banking app, a guitar tuner... these are tools.

So I need both an app whitelist (there are only so many apps that I actually use on my phone) and a website blacklist (no more HN, reddit, twitter, facebook, news websites, etc). I can use those on my computer but it won't be a mindless scroll whenever I have 5 minutes.

Unfortunately I don't think this is feasible on iOS (I have tried Opal but it was so buggy I gave up). A custom Android launcher seems promising, but I have not found how to install a system wide firewall yet. Maybe creating a custom Android OS is the only way to have enough control?
In the past i have struggled with having canker sores. After much googling l read there is an ingredient called sls that's in most toothpastes and it can cause canker sores in some people. I use sls free toothpaste and now i'm good. Less is more
With the ellipsis expanded: "Due to the XZ backdoor incident, I no longer accept contact from anonymous individuals."

The XZ cracker could have logged in via GitHub at numerous services. I bet that the OP downloads from PyPI that was potentially compromised for longer than a year due to an overlooked token leak.

I further bet that the OP, being in the machine learning space, downloads unauditable, huge Python frameworks from GitHub, conda or PyPI.

People in that space also download and experiment with untrusted models.

But hey, plain text email which you can read in a command line mail client with MIME and other extensions disabled is the problem!
Can you please describe your issue more detailed?
I will try to help you, all for me works fine.
Well, no, that doesn’t tell us anything about conspiracies. That’s just Mozilla getting money from Google. You can argue that it’s problematic from the stance of Google using Firefox to argue they don’t hold a monopoly - and I’d agree with you there.

That deal with Google isn’t enough to leap to the conspiracy theory here though. The ad industry isn’t going away, Mozilla seems to want to try to make it work for all parties.

If you want to let perfect be the enemy of good, though, go for it. shrug
Try sorting by date and using an exclusion operater for San Bernardino.
> 2. Autistic people are more likely to spend a very large amount of time online.

And I think that's a poorly-acknowledged asset to whatever political ideology that adopt (or are more likely to adopt), given our extremely online culture. Wikipedia is where a lot of people get their factual knowledge (because it's cheap), so it's a very valuable space for propaganda. However, few normal, well-adjusted people are going to put in the massive amount of effort it takes to edit in some controversial area. So whatever side can muster the more online obsessives who will just bash their heads against it forever will win that ground.

I have the impression that's may have been a big factor in the trans movement. IIRC, many years ago when it wasn't so much in the spotlight, on reddit, it seemed like there was always someone there to pop up and argue the trans POV forever whenever it came up or someone expressed some skepticism.
Yes. Additionally, am not notified by messaging only phone calls.
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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d67978318827d06f1c0fa...
My favorite PostScript program I wrote calculated the Mandelbrot set on the printer which would give me a reason to knock on the door at the computer center and ask was what taking my printout so long.
I point my computer to use a local DNS server, I ask it to resolve an ad domain... the request doesn't go out to the root servers, it gets RPZ denied at the DNS server. The root doesn't mean anything if the local DNS server claims to know the answer to your query. The same goes for a registrar's DNS server that is publishing zones it doesn't own.
Firstly: this can probably be neither proven nor disproven, but my intuition tells me that it's by definition impossible for mathematics to run out of problems.

Secondly:

> It cannot remain healthy with its incredible publication rate today of mostly useless generalizations.

So the issue isn't that mathematics is running out of problems. The issue is that there are more publications than there are new problems being discovered / solved, and, ergo, the majority of publications are of limited value / interest. And that isn't an issue unique to mathematics, that's just how academic research is in the 21st century!
So does that mean it's possible to develop a magnetic 'figure-print' for gold?
I always think it's ironic when these things are reported on by websites that force you into accepting their ad tracking which really should be illegal under the GDPR.
Agree 100%! It's really annoying how games (yeah, I confess, I installed a "free-to-play" game recently, I should have known better) and over-gamified apps (looking at you Duolingo) want to "engage" you by flooding you with notifications. "You're back at full hearts, use Duolingo now!" "Only 00:59 left to continue your streak!" (with a live countdown in the notification no less) and so on...
Can someone explain on an iPhone how to set grayscale? The article doesn’t and I’ve been through the Accessibility settings without any success.
Pretty sure the point was that the jobs are just being moved around, not "lost".
What about tetration with arbitrary real or complex bases and exponents, or is that too fringe?

Anyway, if mathematicians indeed have less to do, perhaps they could start working on standardizing tau over pi, to make radian angles less confusing for everyone.
What brand of toothpaste do you use for this? I often struggle to find a toothpaste that's SLS-free but still has fluoride.
This was very helpful, but I just can’t decipher this central paragraph

> Consider two inputs A and B, where A is a mixture of the zero-state (|0>; ground) and the one-state (|1>; excited) a|0> + b|1> (such that |a|^2 + |b|^2 = 1), and B is the pure zero-state |0>.

I’m guessing the notation is tripping me up, but I’m having trouble parsing this.

A: mix of |0> and |1>

B: apparently |0>, but elsewhere you refer to it being unconstrained.

CNOT(A,B) = a|0> + b|1> (such that |a|^2 + |b|^2 = 1)???

The relationship between the parenthetical and the a + b bit is impenetrable, but I can’t fathom what absolute value or squaring would do in the context of single qubits.
Absolutely real. So real that every human being will be depressed sometime in their life. It is just one of multiple mental states we have in our framework.
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Sorry folks but though i'm just speaking from personal experience, it's what I noticed time and time again. I've given Firefox multiple chances as my default browser over several years right up until maybe a year ago and the same problem presented itself across different laptops and FF versions (many after in those cases someone told me that FF was FINALLY fixed, oops). Were these laptops heavy duty models with serious CPU, GPU, RAM and etc power? Nope, but they shouldn't have to be for just running a browser.

Chrome on the other hand (and believe me I despise Google in so many different ways) has consistently been okay. Not great, but okay, and certainly better than Firefox. This while having the same browsing, tab and extension habits in both browsers.

With comments like my original above I've always seen a bunch of people come out with all sorts of caveats defending or justifying FF, but personal experience has consistently shown me differently.
How is the safety/control attitude towards AI more dangerous than, for example, using AI to curate a list of likely future enemies of the state based on their contributions to discourse online?
I'm not sure if that makes it obviously untrue or obviously not backed up by something solid
Triptiks were great, here's a short video showing what they looked like:

https://www.tiktok.com/@taramstewart/video/73101933919360156...
Whenever I attempt to visit likelike.ai, my browser just sits there before showing that the website took too long to respond with a timeout error
As someone who interviews and hires engineers I'm not even remotely convinced live code exercises lead to better hiring than any other signal such as a CS degree. I remember when the the coding horror fizz buzz article came out and honestly things have just gotten worse since then.

I always like to link the talk where the speaker mentions google hiring committee refused to hire themselves [0]. I suggest that this outcome isn't rare.

[0] https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=531