skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An iPhone has this (not widely-known) feature already: Assistive Access Mode [0].

It is meant for elderly or people with disabilities. You can specify which apps to show in a simple grid, no access to any settings and dumbed down rights for the apps. Exiting the assistive access mode requires a 4-digit PIN. You can ask a friend to set the pin for you and write it down on a piece of paper store it in a safe space, or use an online time-lock service [1].

This is NOT the parental control mode where you need to setup stuff from another iCloud account.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/assistive-access-iphon...

[1]: https://lockmeout.online
For what it's worth, I also have a PhD in mathematics and I also ultimately left academia with some disappointment at the gap between what it is and my sense or fantasy of what it once was or could be.
Review of Bryan Caplan's the Case Against Education
Mass social media: I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts years ago. I still use Reddit, but with no app and throwaway accounts. I also use Discord, but only on the computer.

Direct messaging: WhatsApp is installed and in use, but I disabled notification sounds. Work email is only on my work laptop, personal email is on my phone with notifications off.

That leaves iMessage and Signal with notifications on. I use the former with my wife and the latter with my closest friends. But I still mute my phone during focus work.
did Facebook destroy society?
There's a very good database https://www.bailii.org/ that hides itself from Google. But that doesn't have everything, just the most important cases.

> There are very complex restrictions on reporting

These badly need reforming for the 21st century, but, like a lot of the courts system, which is simultaneously inefficient and badly funded, nobody's going to touch it.
I have only one [1] thing to say here

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell#Everythi...
>But we're not talking about Firefox's update mechanism here, we're talking about Librewolf's.

Doesn't matter. I don't inherently trust any organization.

>They are already the custodians of custom settings and making the choice for you, so it doesn't seem like a valid comparison here.

I can make the choice to install software. I should be able to make the choice to upgrade it as I choose as well.

If I buy a chair from Crate+Barrel, I have given them the choice of designing and manufacturing that chair and all the decisions that went into it. But I do not give Crate+Barrel the choice of sneaking into my house and swapping it with some newer version of the chair that 51% of the population liked slightly better after 5 minutes of testing or that they think will make them more money somehow.
> One of the things which the FSF did right was the GPL

And the GPL is dying. Every year fewer projects are maintained under the GPL standard. Violations abound anyway. The MIT License and other permissive licenses; or commercially restrictive licenses like the SSPL, are the new go-to; because the GPL didn’t think about SaaS or “Tivoization” until it was too late.
I too was and Amiga 500 nerd. Where I learned assembler and C.
Well, first few undergraduate texts mention the Einstein tile, and secondly, my point was that almost no modern results are mentioned in undergraduate texts, whereas many undergraduate biology texts mention modern results.
Except that it's well-known fact that none of your donations for the foundation ever go anywhere near Firefox itself, since Firefox is spun off as their commercial sector to accept Google's money
Probably because it was too recent a discovery to be in undergrad texts yet
> A little birdie (Twitter) pointed us to an interesting report regarding tardiness: it may be racist to expect employees to show up to work on time.

The very first line of the article you are referring to.
People used to have a dozen different instances of IE6 open. It was a pain to switch between them and it made your computer run slow. Firefox had tabs. And it had AdBlock. Those were things people wanted.

But these days, Chrome is plenty good enough for most people. Even if Firefox had a perfect privacy story and focused on their core users’ every whim, I don’t think their market share would grow.
I will attempt a more rigorous study with citation figures and data analysis and write part two then.
Moves and countermoves. I like the brief consideration raised by this post about all the ways that a shiny, new successful company may be attacked by its competitors surreptitiously, through the media, using lawfare by proxy, and so on. Such unadmirable deviousness!
accessibility -> display & text size -> Colour Filters.

Turn that on and then you can select "Greyscale" as an option. I have this mapped to the double tap the back of the phone with an accessibility shortcut.

Basically I can double tap the back to toggle greyscale mode.
If you haven’t heard of this book, you might like it. Dealers of lightening
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I apologize for it and will work on a fix over the few days. I'll update as soon as the issue is resolved.
Accessibility settings make using grayscale easy on iPhone. Three taps on the right button toggles it on/off. Strongly recommend.
And track your ADRs in your preferred SCM system.
For me, there was a hierarchy of habits I had to kick.

1. Being pulled IN to apps and my phone through notifications

Solutions for me:

- Disabling notifications mostly (minus important ones like Uber arriving)

- Customizing Personal focus mode so only family can reach me and keeping phone in this mode by default

2. Being bored in line or while waiting somewhere, so I open Mail or Safari app to click common news / community websites.

Solution for me:

- Clearing history / browser cache from time to time so I have to manually type in these websites. A bit more friction.

- Deleting YouTube or other unlimited content websites but keeping high quality leisure apps (Kindle or Podcasts)

For me, grayscale didn't work
The only browser I have on my phone is Firefox Focus (I even disabled chrome and the samsung browser since they can't be deleted), I have deleted Snapchat, Discord, Instagram, etc. My social life is perfectly fine. I just text or call my friends either on Signal or directly using SMS / regular calling. I think it has positively affected my mental health.

I am also at the point where I leave my phone at home when I go out if I can avoid it. The only times I bring it is if I'm going someplace unfamiliar or if I'm specifically trying to coordinate with someone, and they wouldn't be able to reach me otherwise (such as text someone else that I'm with).
The title is far more general than what you actually mean. What's the reason for that if not click bait?
They do it because people believe there is an immediate economic advantage: namely, to strangle ordinary people and concentrate all that is worth trading in the hands of the already rich.
> Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment for monitoring.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry

Telemetry’s incompatibility with privacy is self-evident.
This might be a very American-centric view but I usually tell people that if you have a garage or driveway then your electric car ownership will be a dream where you truly stop thinking about range.

But if you don't, I can imagine there being more stress about charging times, fast chargers, etc.

For road trips, thanks to Tesla's extensive Supercharger network, they are really great for that.

But with more standards (CCS and NACS) becoming pervasive, hopefully this becomes an issue of the past (payments, etc).

My big question is, I don't understand why the oil companies haven't gotten on board. Why aren't we seeing more and more L3 chargers at gas stations?
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So for every variant case, you generate a unique integer tag, different from a tag of any other variant cases ever compiled in the future or the past? OCaml, for example, tries to do exactly that by hashing the names of cases in the polymorphic variants, and in case of hash collisions it just gives up [0].

[0] https://schu.be/til-ocaml-polymorphic-variant-hash-collision...
> It seems somewhat questionable whether or not it is possible to sustain something as complex as Firefox based on users like us.

I have this crazy theory that Firefox could be completely sustained by users willing to pay for it.

I mean... Mozilla Co definitely couldn't be sustained by users money only, but Firefox could.

The only path I can see for a healthy web (if this is even possible right now) is to completely liberate Firefox from Mozilla's shackles and mismanagement. A free and open-source browser should be treated more like a public good, such as a Linux distribution, than a money-making machine.
how about the near 70k justifiable homicides per year from guns? there’s 70k victims per year disproving your point.

you don’t get it. you want to ban guns and save 15k lives a year, yet drinking takes 140k lives a year. why aren’t you scared of alcohol? you have a higher chance of dying from a drunk driver or drinking yourself than being shot. so why don’t you focus on saving more lives?
> My household dropped Netflix and Prime over their silliness. We currently still have Disney until they get too greedy. And that is just streaming. Regular net is soooo much worse without a way to scrub the ads away.

Isn't that a good example of consumers exercising their right to not patronize companies they don't agree with? You didn't need a law stopping you from using Prime, and you don't have a right to use it, you just decided you didn't like their product anymore.

The blindspot missing in a ban of advertising is what that does to the viability and price of a product. Prime and Netflix as it is today is built based partly on the advertising revenue. Presumably if that money disappears the product would get worse, disappear, or become more expensive.
> Measure what people are doing once they land, and optimize for better engagemen

What tools do you use for measuring/optimizing?
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I will do some serious data analysis on this topic and get back here with part two when I have time.
You may not see the ads in that content, but your data will still be collected and sold. This is where we lack fundamental protections.
How do you sync these settings across devices? I need such a thing, too.
I know it feels right to say that. But really, do you think the majority of people who switched from Firefox to Chrome did it because FF did not address their privacy concerns? Seems ridiculous. However bad FF is, Chrome is much worse.

It seems far more likely that the remaining 3% are the few people who care, and therefore, "pulling this shit" did not cause the current market share.
> You're right that most people only use a small subset of cuda

This is true first and foremost for the host-side API. From my StackOverflow and NVIDIA forums experience - I'm often the first and only person to ask about any number of nooks and crannies of the CUDA Driver API, with issues which nobody seems to have stumbled onto before; or at least - not stumbled and wrote anything in public about it.
Linux support for laptops is fine. Getting an OS to work well on hardware requires a whole team of people called system integrators. Just slapping Linux on a Windows laptop and expecting it to work is naive.

If you want a better Linux experience, you have to buy a Linux laptop, i.e. one that was designed (especially in firmware and chip selection) to run Linux, with support. You know, like you do for Windows.
Same-ish, except my dock is Phone, Messages, Camera, and Safari.

I never liked any apps on the screen when I had Android, and liked (and still like) its swipe-for-app-drawer mechanism. It’s unfortunate that on iOS it’s more difficult to have a clean Home Screen, and no options that I’m aware of to get the Android launcher actions.
>> Why?

Alcohol is suspected to be carcinogenic.

https://drugfree.org/drug-and-alcohol-news/australian-study-...

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/alcohol-based-mout...
I meant no reason from a technical point of view. People might say most of the compilation time is spent in the type/borrow checker, but that's orthogonal. You can JIT potentially incorrect code and postpone static checks for a later time (or run them in parallel).
The placebo effect itself isn't real (at least in the vast majority of cases where it has been claimed to exist), when people measure a "placebo effect" what they are actually measuring is simply a regression toward the mean, not a causal effect.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/31/powerless-placebos/

https://www.dcscience.net/2015/12/11/placebo-effects-are-wea...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6369471/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707261/
> It's marketing. "Our AI is so powerful it's going to destroy the world" is just a way to market "Our AI is so powerful, give us money".

Even better - it's a way to simultaneously market your AI as very powerful and to get governments to clamp down on your competitors.
> Well, the same goes. It turns out, renting a server large enough to run big (useful, > 8B) models is actually quite expensive. The per-api-call costs of real models (like GPT4) adds up very quickly once you're doing non-trivial work.

I run my own models, but the truth is most of the time I just use an API provider.

TogetherAI and Groq both have free offers that are generous enough I haven't used them up in 6 months of experimentation and TogetherAI in particular has more models and gets new models up quicker than I can try them myself.
Damn, at first I thought it was an app for hunting Mutahar, the Canadian Youtuber.
Charging has gotten pretty decent in the last couple of years.

I used to be annoyed that signs for highway services don't show which ones have chargers, but they've fixed that by installing chargers at every one of them (at least along my routes).

It's even better in western Europe, where Ionity and Fastned have a pretty dense coverage of 300kW chargers.

I've been road tripping around the UK and Europe for the last three summers, and it's been easy peasy.

Hyundai has a universal charging card that works with the majority of minor crappy charging networks, which solves the pain of having to install seventeen different charging apps.
Well, a general statement about technology and invention is not exactly the same as a highly specific branch of knowledge becoming mature and not having anything innovative left to add to it.
Some developers need/are used to a fast edit-compile-run loop. The JIT doesn't even need to be optimized, just good enough to improve the developer experience.
> “People don’t want to talk about this,” the barrister said gloomily. “It doesn’t sell.”

People have long talked about the difference between "the public interest" and "what the public are interested in", but I think it's becoming particularly acute with regard to what the public will pay for.

Social media and lately AI make this worse, too. People will be content consuming only the highest-octane global court reporting (US Supreme Court; I know far too much about this for a Brit) and the rest will just be .. fake news.
It's just weird that ladybird is picking ideological hills to die on, such as "no gender neutral pronouns"[1]

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
In the interests of protecting your site from disappearing from search engines it'll be worth using this plugin in combination with Google's advice on AI content: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-sea...

Primarily follow their EEAT guidelines, strive for original content, not mass-produced recycled content, and label the content as AI-generated.

The example on the GitHub page, of a travel blog, is probably a low-quality one with regards to Google's guidelines and I wouldn't want to run a site with that type of AI content.

However, the plugin could be useful for other things.

For the creator: One feature request that could be incredibly useful is the connection of a data feed for the original or live public data.

i.e. Prompt: Write an article summarising the latest football score
Feed: A Google Sheet with aggregated live football data

The data could be grabbed by your tool and appended as a table to the prompt, or perhaps with Gemini Pro it could be integrated directly.

That kind of feature would unlock the potential for the automation of original content that will stick to the EEAT guidelines more closely.
What about the current safety/control attitude prevents that?

The current approach, where OpenAI keeps everything private in the name of safety only makes the safety situation worse because we'll only find out things like that are being done after the fact, and there won't be any accountability.
I found that Android was better for dumbing down. If you have enough technical sophistication to run adb over a USB cable, you can run a single command to uninstall any app, including the built-in web browser app. Super nice for getting exactly what you want on your phone.
> Your "counterexample" is not a normal number in any sense, most obviously because it isn't irrational, but only slightly less obviously because, as you note yourself, the sequences "321", "654", and "99" do not ever appear.

lol. Your counterargument is a tautology because it contains "the sequences "321", "654", and "99" do not ever appear."

It's like if you claim, "A has the property B" then I say, "based on this definition, I don't think A has property B"

Then you say, "if it doesn't have property B, then it's not A"

...okay, but my point is, the definition that I had (from wikipedia) doesn't imply B. So for you to say, "if it doesn't have B, then it's not A" is just circular.

Now, you can point out that the definition I got from wikipedia is different from the one you got from wolfram. That's fine. That's also true. And you can argue that the definition you used does indeed imply B.

But what you cannot do is use B as part of the definition, when that's the thing I'm asking you to demonstrate.

You: all christians are pro-life

Me: I don't see how that's true. Here's the definition of christianity. I don't see how it necessarily implies being against abortion.

You: your """"counterexample"""" (sarcastic quotes to show how smart I am) is obviously wrong because, as you note yourself, that person is pro-choice, therefore, not a christian.

^^^^^ do you see how this exchange inappropriately uses the thing you're being asked to prove, which is that christians are pro-life, as a component of the argument?

Again, it's totally cool if you fine a different definition of christian that explicitly requires they be pro-life. But given that I didn't use that definition, that doesn't make it the slam dunk you imagine.
That is true, and that was part of my point.
The UK seems like it should be a slam dunk for EV adoption; moderate climate, high gas prices, short distances, and an affluent populace. Yet Germany (and Europe at large) is handily beating them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country

Why is this?
> asking people to pay for Firefox

I do expect that's the next step at Mozilla - locking features behind paywall with some premium plan. Cloud sync probably will fall into that basket. And if that eventually won't work - they'll surely announce it's time to "sunset".
Agile, that's big "A" agile, won't be over until they find something they can productize that's going to replace it.
I suppose that might ruin the fingerprint, but worth a try.
My sources are leading immuno-oncology pharma R&D teams and oncology VCs as recently as this week. I am launching an immuno-oncology therapeutics company.
Tbh it's much easier to turn off all notifications on iOS than other platforms.

But say, what happened to Ubuntu? I haven't used desktop linux in quite a few years (in spite of doing headless linux projects 2/3 of the time), now I have a project that requires that I see the desktop and it feels... spammy. What's with all those notifications and auto downloading of updates? Do they want to remind me why my main desktop is a Mac?
I found it informative. It seems people interpreted the comment very uncharitably.
That's an interesting idea, but wouldn't it be seen as a bit of a red flag? I thought most devs if they see a license other than MIT they will frown upon it :)
I ditched my smart phone 2 years ago. Huge life improvement.

I'm on the computer or iPad a lot, but when I close the lid, I'm in the real world, like the old days. Highly recommend.

(It does help to have burners though, because you do require them on occasion)
Reminds be a bit of this 1971 tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qqnHtH1RAs
RCS on the iPhone is almost the solution to our green-bubble nightmare
That still doesn't involve pulling records from random servers like registrar's DNS server for domains they are not yet authorative for.
AGPL is the way.
This looks nice Kizz - very simple and approachable. Well done
Get an Android phone and uninstall the Play Store and built-in web browser via adb. Gets you Maps, Spotify, banking etc. and nothing more.
Read the article. The authors suggestions won't work because why wouldn't teams have done that in the first place? Agile as we know it is just productionized micromanagement.

I think the solution to this is for individual development teams to discuss with each other what works best for them instead of being told to "do Agile", attend tens of meetings each sprint, and enter stuff into Jira constantly. But that is in direct conflict with the needs of the business as stated in the article: scheduled software delivery.
one of the funniest titles.
Vectara raises $25M for enterprise RAG and releases its own generative LLM
Germany seems to be forcing this through law in a few years.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Elektroautos-Bundesregierung-be...
This link better? https://www.aei.org/op-eds/smithsonian-institution-explains-...
You think they are, but you have to trust that this happens. And even if they are, what happens if the grid is offline and comes online while the inverter is operational, how long does it take, if it does at all, to adjust itself.

If the product doesn't explicitly state this on its packaging there is absolutely a chance for competing sine waves. If this wasn't the case, transfer switches wouldn't have been invented. The original comment I replied to is simply dangerous.
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> Why aren't we seeing more and more L3 chargers at gas stations?

It's a good question. I don't know for certain, but my hypothesis would be because of what you and the OP said:

> Destination charging is a thing. Drive somewhere, plug in, do what you came to do, and drive back with enough charge to get home.

> if you have a garage or driveway then your electric car ownership will be a dream where you truly stop thinking about range

No one goes to a gas station to hang out, you know? Instead you plug in at work, or the mall, or the restaurant, or just don't bother until you get home. It doesn't make sense to spend your 20+ minute charge time at a gas station.
This line of discussion is the “Let’s talk about whether the word ‘destroy’ is correct here” which is tangential at best.
I went down this path, it's actually very easy to uninstall the built-in web browser and the Play Store via adb, which actually got me exactly what I wanted in my dumb phone without too much technical work.