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CEO of Mozilla earns $3m/year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30665913

If the Mozilla foundation creates a donation button with the condition that the money goes solely to browser development (no CEO salary or political activism) I will donate.
Very short article, still concerning, but I'd love more info.
So legacy baggage from the get go. This is what I'm lamenting, it's objectively a syntax soup.
Defence tech is (sort of) overhyped
> beyond the ad-hominem

Note that the "ad-hominem" pertains to only those who care about extinction risk, not AI developers in general.

> which have nothing to do with scaling

Except they are. There's no fundamental change in architecture, it's all transformers. OpenAI's "multi-modal" capabilities are not a redesign of their AI, it's systems bolted together.

Bolting a text-to-image generator & image-to-text describer to an LLM doesn't approach "General Intelligence", it's a system of three specific capabilities.

You could consider that new system "more general" than a lone LLM, but it only approaches General Intelligence in the same way that the series "1+1+1+1+..." approaches infinity. Is each individual step "closer to infinity"? Sure. Is it a useful way to achieve infinity? No, because you'll be stuck adding new steps forever the same as a conventional computer software.

> And it's very blatantly not the case that the entire field is 'only really trying to make them bigger'.

There are some, not many but I'll grant you some, researchers working on actually generalizing these systems.

Their funding is a rounding error to AI spending, their work isn't going to hit production for years. It's not an extinction risk.
Companies know this but they don't care because there are rarely any consequences that cannot easily be mitigated with cheap PR tactics. Even now you are responding to a PR statement that is trying to reframe the issue as users simply not understanding what Mozilla is doing when in reality Mozilla knows full well that this goes agains the explicit wishes of a large part of their userbase but have chosen to enable this anyway. This isn't a communitcation issue. This is a fundamental "who does Mozilla serve" issue.
Very short article, still concerning, but damn I'd like more info.
I don't think the difference is that great. More like Paint.net.
See also: "democracy", that sets root guidelines for everything. Funny how it manages to almost entirely evade human curiosity (besides telling stories to each other) despite it being more important than almost everything.
It doesn't have to pay for the entire Mozilla organization, it just has to bring in more money than the random other stuff they've tried. That's not a very high bar to cross.
Learning implies a future where you don't keep doing the same thing.
Iron reserves on the moon / asteroid / space are only going to become valuable once there is a reason to mine, smelt and forge in space, outside of Earth's gravity well. So if we can ever get say giant space ships and space stations built in space, sure. But unfortunately, that looks unlikely this century.
Most of these businesses in the district are tiny, family-owned businesses, so there's a huge amount of implicit trust there.

But also, these tiny stones really aren't worth much. What you're asking is like Home Depot making sure to account for every single nut & bolt so none are stolen or lost. It would cost far more in time & labor then what you'd get back in return.
Because yield is implemented as a callback, there is no compiler magic to automatically stop the iteration when the caller side uses break or continue, so this condition cannot really be avoided.

Also there are many cases where you might need to have some special logic after the last iteration, so simply killing the underlying function is not an option.
> We had the car in winter, perhaps didn’t help.

Yeah, especially if it wasn't the higher end model with a heat pump. Winter is definitely the biggest challenge for EV range at the moment (if you live in a place where heating is necessary for any significant part of the year a heat pump is pretty much a requirement).
[dupe]

More discussion among others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966312

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40954535
>> Taliaferro Clark said, "The rather low intelligence of the Negro population, depressed economic conditions, and the common promiscuous sex relations not only contribute to the spread of syphilis but the prevailing indifference with regards to treatment."...

This is a fairly sickening mindset. I hope I am never not sickened by it.
I’ve been all in on surface since the sp3. They had me at 3:2.
And no personalized algorithm designed to generate anger/engagement, hurrah.
> studs are typically (US) 16" apart,

if they are not in the typical 16" and your not near a corner, try 18" and 24". I'm in a house from an infamous builder in the early days of the cookie cutter developer cutting every possible corner and then finding new ones to cut, they are definitely not on 16". In fact, I doubt there was a tape measure used at any time during the build, and most things just seem to be placed by "that looks about right" measuring system.

Electrical boxes and light switches are the only ones to have faith in. Other types of boxes (like cable or phone) could have been added after the fact and just be attached to the dry wall if there's even a box.
>Outside of work (which is going fine), I just don't have anything programming related to do.

I don't know of any other field where people so regularly aim to be doing more work outside of work. Why is it a problem to have hobbies unrelated to work?
Someone's gotta get the word out, I'm seriously sick of all these ridiculous LARPers trying to magic Rust into existence

Rust is a joke, it's a complete waste of time and effort to try and use it. It's the EU cookie law of native code - well-intentioned nonsense that doesn't work at all in reality
Ouch.

Maybe 2025 will finally be the year of Windows on the desktop!
The term is insufficiently specified; there is "Gross Profit Margin" which considers only COGS, so works roughly as you suggest.

There is also "Operating Profit Margin," which would include current R&D costs, which (assuming they are non-declining over time) would account for development costs.

If the company took on debt to develop the drugs, then "Net Profit Margin" would also include the cost of servicing that debt.
This seems both cool, and a good exercise, but is it useful? Does it have a UX like a fisher/price toy that you can verify/change your settings on the fly?

Booting is the process of going from mini-me mode/single user/recovery mode to flying.

I have been running Unix along side a Microsoft product since Xenix/dos. ( Looks like 40 years...) How much have we advanced?

I also have been using Linux since the swedish version came out ( first release ) and GNU 0.1.

My apologies about calling Xenix, Unix, It is a has-been wanna-be me-too square-excrament from shortly after release until it's languishing demise.

Microsoft does not release products, they empty their cat
boxes onto customers. ( The most recent example is both co-pilot And 22H2. )

If you look at how F1 cars have evolved, and pencils as well as pocket calculators - how close are we to the usable ideal?

Why isn't the bootloader a static kernel mode? It used to be. Someone recently suggested it should be, and I agreed.
I dont believe that, and have no reason to believe that at this point.
Any browser that makes me monitor their changes for privacy destruction is basically just chrome with more steps.
Careful, you'll summon a lot of cats...
Heading? Anyone who uses cloud services is already there.
Fast, high quality, platform-independent hashing algorithm
Thanks for the recommendation! Here is another video that shows some features of the gaussian splatting viewer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJGSa_wnZS8&lc=Ugw6r2VCynG5W...
The path to autonomous AI agents and Web 4.0 through agent-computer interfaces
One of the maintainers has a video demo on his twitter claiming iOS, android and Linux. Some of the code is not released and I wish they were advertising that properly.
What's a good example of a convincing article written by a GPT tool?
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40959851
The Sad State of C Strings (2021)
We have spent most of the last 50 years under an antitrust enforcement regime that considers vertical integration to be harmless, so #1 might be simple, but it's definitely not easy.
Isn’t the Secure Enclave another separate flash chip?
Really though, it's more a sort of diligence bonus on top of the regular earnings he makes from his teeth manufacturing business. Looked at that way, it's pretty impressive quickly obtain an otherwise lost 10-15K per decade as opposed to just losing money on carpet removal once a decade. And all of it for, what? a few hours of work?
I broke part of my hand last October after slipping and falling.

At the request of my new insurer, I went to my local urgent care. The rep for my insurer swore up and down that they had an X-ray machine and could diagnose my problem quickly, as well as immediately after refer me to a local hand specialist at the local University's hospital. After my experience, I realized that nothing the rep said was true.

The nurse practitioner at the urgent care facility said nothing was wrong with my hand (despite it being black & blue, and having all the hallmarks of a broken hand). He refused to refer me to a specialist or for an X-ray unless I took an HIV/AIDS test. He started asking me several questions about my sexuality and relationship status - I am not sexually active (sadly) nor am I in the demographic with a higher likelihood of coming into contact with the HIV virus, so I told him as much and declined the test. I was there because I broke my fucking hand. He kept insisting that I needed to take the tests. I walked out of the facility pissed off and without any progress on my hand. Several hours wasted. The guy's assistant called me the next day pleading me to come in for tests, and I reiterated that all I wanted was to get an X-ray like I was promised by my insurer, and to see someone who knew what they were talking about.*

If your tire pops, your mechanic shouldn't say "nothing wrong with your tires, it's your exhaust you need to worry about" while he's wearing a shirt with an exhaust maker's logo on it.

I clicked on the link you posted. I entered the nurse practitioner's name, and surprise surprise, he's gotten over $3k in the last year from ViiV Healthcare, a company specializing in the research and development of HIV/AIDS testing equipment and drug development. Not an exorbitant amount of money at all, but the dude is ethically compromised.

That needs to be straight up illegal with serious repercussions - for both those who offer the kickback, and those who accept it.

*FWIW, I spoke with a physical therapist not too long later, a guy who specializes in sports injuries (particularly from basketball as he's a former pro hooper himself), and within about 10 seconds of examining the area of injury said "yeah, you broke your hand. I see this frequently. Do this every day with your hand, and come see me in 2 months if nothing works".
What's Going on with Google Voice?
According to a couple reddit posts [0], Google Voice has stopped working for some users. It's not clear if this is due to deliberate suspension or to some other service issue.

Does anyone here have any insight?

[0]
https://old.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/1e00o5p/suspended_without_warning/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/1e1fxba/gv_account_still_suspended/
Speaking as a math amateur, I find good problems are entirely subjective. If math isn't scratching some itch, go play in another science or do some engineering for awhile and it will come back.
Wow, I've seen stud finders unable to find studs. You must live in an alternate dimension than the one I do.
Taming the Hacker News Firehose: AI-Powered Tech News for the Time-Starved
That’s the exact point of the article..?
How does using uBlock Origin affect this?
This is like describing electricity as "makes lights turn on, motors turn, and heating elements hot."
I don't think it does? It's the difference between absolute monarchy and democracy - take an extreme example, and I'm going to use the UK because I live here and to depersonalise it a bit, like parliament declaring a genocide of all Londoners, because we need to empower the home counties and kickstart growth in the North, or something.

That's obviously bonkers, it's an official act, but it's extremely illegal, we won't even have to wait for the public to throw them out at general election for them to be arrested.

Just because you make the laws doesn't mean you're not governed by them yourself, at least outside of absolute power like our Kings & Queens of yesteryear or modern day dictators.

It was a very surprising decision to me, as an outsider, that an elected leader in a developed country should be above the law while in office.
> Otherwise, just pull the damn plug on the system

This solution is silly. AGI would easily spread out of the initial vessel.
While I also disagree with the post, my take on it was it is more a critique of the increasing hyperspecialization of mathematical problems. Of course the number of mathematical problems is endless, but I also feel that they are becoming more and more inaccessible.

In my current university (and others) undergraduate math students do not even have to write a thesis anymore because of the number of people who came at the end without any new results to show. Instead, to obtain their degree they are tasked with things like rewriting existing papers into chapters for lecture notes (what the author suggests). For graduate students theses are still a thing but the situation is not much better. Talking to my peers I got the impression that many (but not all of course) in their theses are either generalizing something they themselves already tought was too general or are overanalyzing an obscure problem using tools that can only be found in maze of unreadable papers.

I'm not saying that papers should be easy, but if even most graduate students can't read the research material there is probably an underlying problem.
> I think the English is perfectly clear and understandable.

Because you are not a lawyer. The points I’ve made have been cited by actual lawyers. Your opinion as a technologist blinds you to the degree of legal ambiguity.

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL

Also, the very fact that these opinions exist shows this license is not safe. There’s never a correct interpretation that will perfectly win the day eventually, only rulings. As the AGPL has never been in court before, things could quickly go sideways.

As my second link, written by an actual lawyer, puts it: “Inebriated aliens might as well have beamed it down from space as a kind of practical joke.”
mathematicians work on problems which are interesting to other people, usually mathematicians. Sone people dont seem to be aware of this, but this is a graph with a general direction trend from the pure to the applied. Show me any math paper and I can tell you how this could potentially help solve real world problems.
Be the change you want to see.

I refuse to use rust for a multitude of reasons.
> More laws and larger governments doesn't have to be the answer to all problems

More laws and larger governments are generally undesirable (for obvious reasons) but saying that we shouldn't make any laws at all is throwing the baby out of the bathwater.

If you're thoughtful and deliberate about how you write your legislation, you can have a disproportionately positive impact with a very small amount of additional weight.

For instance, instead of trying to enumerate every single way that data could be leaked and forbid that (see: HIPAA), you should just make the end state (PII in the hands of someone the user didn't explicitly authorize it to be in) illegal and mandate a fine per unit of information (e.g. 1% of the median US salary for SSN) to every entity in the leak chain (because a chain of custody for personal information is just about mandatory at this point).

Details will vary, but this general approach is vastly better than the crazy laws we have in other areas that attempt to "enumerate badness" in the intermediate rather than the end state.
Well then they need to close up shop or think of something else, because adding more ad tracking isn't a feature to anyone but predatory advertisers, and they will only keep paying you if users keep showing up.
You don't believe him and that's it.

It's a blog post and not a published research paper for a reason. And reality also exists outside the scope of what's published in journals.
There are a bunch of reasons why it wouldn't be worth implementing, but it would be cool if you could tell it how long you thought you would be in the store and it could adjust the charging time to be a bit gentler on the battery.

I'm sure it wouldn't get used much (unless the UI was very front and center, and maybe recommended a time based on your previous stops at that charger), and Tesla would be somewhat disincentivized to build it anyway as their goal is to get as many unique cars through the charger as possible, but it would still be neat...
Standby on windows just appears to be a cue for the OS that the user isn’t actively using the machine so it should use the time to install updates and restart itself 5 times.
You don't need your job to be your hobby.

Programming was one of my main hobbies, I started quite early when I was about 9-10 years old, as a hobby it stayed with me until I was about 25-27, after working professionally for about 10 years.

After that I don't have the lust for programming that I had during those first 15 years. I have ideas but nowadays I also have the experience to know those ideas will demand more effort than I'm willing to commit to come to fruition, I found other things in life that fulfill me much more than sitting down and coding a solution for 1-6 months.

The remnants of programming as a hobby to me are scattered through areas I had never the chance to work professionally: embedded systems, electronics projects, DSP, and other fields which feel fresh and at the same time somewhat approachable after 20+ years of experience. I just don't work on them in any terms related to financial interests, it's purely interest based, and if the interest starts waning, and a project becomes dreadful I just abandon it for a while. If it's interesting enough I will pick it up as a hobby again at some point.

Working with electronics is a lot more joyful to me than programming yet-another-compiler, yet-another-library, yet-another-API. It gives me some connection from code to the real world, lights blinking, things moving, positions in the world becoming data, etc.

You'll only be stagnant if you stop being curious, if you stop adapting to the inevitable changes that happen in this field. Apart from that you gotta find the things that give you joy, not necessarily glory, or even to not be "mediocre" as if everyone is bound to something great.

Just don't stop caring completely because from my career that's when I see programmers really going down the spiral of not only mediocrity but also leaving a trail of issues in their wake for others to fix...
> To see this, here’s an exercise you can do yourself, if you have any training at all in advanced mathematics. Take a fairly generalist journal, like the Journal of Algebra (take a topic in which you have expertise — my doctoral thesis was in algebra). Look at some of the papers. How many of them are truly interesting to you?

> These days, I can look at any of these journals and find at most one or two papers that are even remotely amusing, and algebra was my specialty. On the other hand, I can take a journal in biology like the Journal of Animal Behavior and still find quite a few papers in each journal that are interesting to me even though I’m not even a research biologist! Keep in mind I still like mathematics a lot, and I still enjoy algebra.

Can't you also say this is directly disproving his point as well? It might be that there are so many open interesting problems that we can become highly picky what problems get solved to the point these preferences are shares between less people. Indicating an expansive set of problems instead of an exhausted one instead.
I don’t have an electric car but I watched a video of an owner on YouTube doing a roadtrip and he complained when the chargers were located at places more different from gas stations. Convenience stores are… convenient. Walmarts are almost as good. Hotel parking lots offer basically no amenities to non-guests though.
This seems to be more about certain devices (consumer-grade GPUs) in certain settings (data centers), though I do question how enforceable it actually is. My guess is that it can only apply when you try to get discounts from bulk-ordering GPUs.

Also, was there any followup to this story? It seems a bit unnecessary because nVidia has already neutered consumer cards for many/most data center purposes by not using ECC and by providing so few FP64 units that double precision FLOPS is barely better than CPU SIMD.
this is simply not true

only using self verifying of PCRs is not an effective protecting against most attacks. (Against which a secure boot chain is supposed to help.)

Sure it depends a bit on what you want from secure boot. But in general if you need PCRs you also need to make sure only verified code can run. If you don't, you likely don't need PCRs either, and some simple flawed secure module key storage would work as good.

In a certain way having a trust verification of the boot loader is the most important part. Everything after that depends on how the boot loader is implemented, through having PCRs is still helpful.

Through this is where secure boot failed (very hard), as long as you don't enroll your own keys you are not really getting a secure boot chain. Something which IMHO is fundamental requirement for any company laptops and similar. (Or, instead of using custom PKs, you are MS and disable all 3rd party keys and disable any BIOS option to add/enroll 3rd party keys, like they did on some older ARM devices).

I.e. IMHO a secure boot chain and protocols related to it are a must have, but the current implementation is garbage, especially for most Windows users.

If you want to know in which direction things could be done you could look a ARM Mac Books more specifically the documentation Asahi Linux created for it. Through just the direction not the exact design.

Basically for PCs (even in huge companies with MDA) you don't need global trust chains, just local per-system trust automatically setup on first boot after "reset" and making sure a "reset" is roughly like a wipe (by using full disk encryption) is all you need (and want). The devil is in the details, but it isn't really that hard to make it work.
That is the problem, people want to run a modern corporation with its tentacles always reaching and growing instead of focusing on a core business proposition that they can win at.

If you dont grow at double digit percentages year of year, are you even trying?
I think the guys that built WebKit originally (Konqueror) are kinda good guys. I still sponsor KDE with a monthly donation <3 But the browser wasn't really kept up, I don't think they had the money for it. It lives on in Safari though.
Very interesting to see what kind of charges actually exist!

The fee for use of Airport trash compactors 974$ per month

Film permit 2,000 - 6,000$ per day, depending on crew size.

Hotel Courtesy Shuttles not Implementing Clean Vehicle
Policy 10.80$ per trip

ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), 5Mb, 384kb, 6K', 1IP 85$ per month

Water 9.81$ per 100 cubic feet

Sewage treatment 29.43$ per 100 cubic feet
I published an article on running LLMs locally in Salesforce Experience Cloud