skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Either way, if you have more than 20k connections open to backends you are doing something seriously wrong

I don't see how that is a fringe or rare case. With a loadbalancer (using no pipelining or multiplexing), the number of simultaenous outgoing http connections to backend systems is at least the number of simulatenous open incoming http connections. Having more than 28k simultanous incoming http requests is not a lot for a busy load balancer.

Now with pipelining (or limiting to 28k outgoing connections), the loadbalancer has to queue requests and multiplex them to the backends when connections become available. Pipelining suffers from head-of-line blocking, increasing possible latency caused by the loadbalancer further. In any case, you will increase latency to the end-user by queing. If you use HTTP/2 multiplexing, you can go past those 28k incoming connections without queing on the loadbalancer side.
It's been many years since I used a mac, but I feel like the alt+tab (mac+tab?) menu had this behavior also.
So since last year's debacle with Mozilla being an add-on company plus this ToU was the boiling point for me:

-Removed Firefox from all machines, replaced with LibreWolf.

-Deleted my Mozilla account.

-Changed to brave on mobile

Took about 15 minutes.

When evil shows it's real face and wants to tell me how and for what I can use my software, that's a goodbye Mozilla....so much for your ethics.
You're quite right, oneeyedpigeon. The main audience of calendar.txt are people who always have terminal open, and who are using grep, sort and similar all the time anyway.

I use +plustags for multiday and recurring events. So for each line +grandma is visiting, I would add the tag +grandma.

I take similar approach with my courses, +tt for pentesting (from the word in Finnish). I found that for me, creating and validating recurring and multiday events was easier for me. Of course, your mileage may vary.

Smikhanov, you found copy pasting challenging. For me, copy pasting from some dedicated calendar software was a challenge. Copy-pasting with calendar .txt makes it easier for me to keep date, week number, weekday and the event together. And your comment on paper planners was on the spot, I wanted to catch some of their benefits, transparency and reliability with calendar.txt.
> We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so I want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox to perform your searches, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice. We’ve added this note to our blog to clarify, so thank you for your feedback.[1]

So, did the internet explode again for no reason?

[1] https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/information-about...
It got 1700 points.
> would be distributed some other way if GH removed them

Maybe? But definitely to less people? I don't see the argument for allowing them.
Mobile web will be dead and Google will have neutered whatever's left with WEI when they get around to trying it again.
Without thinking much about it, $60 / yr seems reasonable to me.

I never click on any ads, so while I'm sure I contribute to Firefox's revenue as another pair of eyeballs, I don't deliver any end value to their ad-biz end customers.
Title should be changed to more accurately capture the snippet. Maybe "Firefox FAQ removes promise to never sell user data".
No, besides accessing training data, there is also logging and checkpointing... When you run k8s over it, and there are multiple training jobs... isolated local storage is a nightmare...
I use it. Turning off the ads and annoyances can be done in literally 20 seconds. It has uBlock Origin built in and removes the cookie modal popups.

It has a nice sync feature so my bookmarks / extensions are sync'd. The developer tools are exactly the same as Chromes.

It has some controversies in the past, but generally it has been ok IMO.
Okay, you know what? I laughed a few times. Yeah it may not work as an actual stand up routine to a general audience, it’s kinda cringe (as most LLM-generated content), but it was legitimately entertaining to read.
Windows is definitely on arm. It just sucks because Qualcomm failed to deliver a good cpu package. The experience is within a stones throw of Apple, though.

I also have one of the new AMD 300 AI platforms, and it still can’t do power right. Either the laptop is miserably slow on battery, or runs way too hot on power.
My understanding is that it is impossible for TB to become pandemic. It is an unusually slow-progressing disease. Pandemics are always diseases that spread quickly like influenza and measles.
Hey, thank you for Waterfox! I'm using it a lot across all my machines. Well done!
Reasoning models can solve tasks that non-reasoning ones were unable to; how is that not an improvement? What constitutes "major" is subjective - if a "minor" improvement in overall performance means that the model can now successfully perform a task it was unable to solve before, that is a major advancement for that particular task.
Slack is primarily a business tool, and for a business tool $10/user/month is extremely reasonable for the value (perceived or real) it brings. The company has to make money, and you do that by charging for your products and services, and that price is not exorbitant.
That varies between EU countries.
You're not a conspiracy theorist, you're just recognizing that the reality doesn't match the hype. It's boring and not fun but in this situation the answer is almost always that the hype is wrong, not the reality.
https://x.com/svpino/status/1592140348905517056

"""
In 2017, a team led by Andrew Ng published a paper showing off a Deep Learning model to detect pneumonia.

[...]

But there was a big problem with their results:

[...]

A random split would have sent images from the same patient to the train and validation sets.

This creates a leaky validation strategy.

"""

He's not infallible.
Multi-Tier Storage System Simulation Project: Simulates HDD->SSD Tiered Storage
Used to, now they are kinda expensive (as most of providers).
great in code documentation.
but how to C++ folks cope. every C++ codebase looks like its own different language with so many dialects.
Does that work with DoH (DNS over HTTP)? It's my understanding that using systems like AdGuard or NextDNS or even PiHole fail to handle DoH requests. In that case the only solution is something like uBlock Origin.
It's still possible through website.
Makes me wonder if they will refund me mine.
Reliable AI agents using Actor Framework
Well now I've given up, they've told me I need to buy a new mainboard because it's "out of warranty" which is crap since I've been complaining about it since I bought it.
Been using Firefox as main browser since it was called Mozilla.

It's the only desktop application I've consistently installed on every desktop for that long. This is the end of that era and ends the streak.

It's as frustrating as it's sad.
So:

# apt install librewolf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package librewolf

If the thing that doesn't suck isn't the thing that comes with the OS, it's time to fix the OS.

Also, that feature should exist. The next time I see a story about MS training ChatGPT on your nude selfies, I want to be able to show people the big red switch that says "All Telemetry: OFF" as an example of something Microsoft will never give them.

But you first have to provide it in order to show to them that you provide it.
Blocking DRM is the only sane stance. And if you are using a free OS it doesn't change much anyway as DRMed content is only available in resolutions that might have been acceptable decades ago. If you must consume that kind of content just use a dedicated device but better would be to ignore it or acquire copies with the DRM stripped.

DRM is absolutely not necessary for using a browser.
I begin to believe LLM benchmarks are like european car mileage specs. They say its 4 Liter / 100km but everyone knows it's at least 30% off (same with WLTP for EVs).
30-50 cents per minute is very expensive.
Hahaha. We used to get desyncs on networked games of Generals pretty regularly. I remember if a game took more than 30-40 mins I'd start to get a spidey sense things were about to go wrong
> Title is a complete lie/misleading. They get a license, not ownership.

I completely agree. Saw the HN title, clicked through to the page and saw nothing relevant to the title. I've flagged the topic now.
Its good but I kill it frequently..
It's always cancer treatments and battery technology that gets pushed to the top of tech news sites for some reason but it never results in a "this problem is now fixed". Battery tech is incremental at best and nowadays may suffer from its own scale, that is, billions invested into battery factories set up to churn out batteries using a certain technique, which disincentivises new techniques.

But with batteries I like to think there's still plenty of investor money and healthy competition, so a large scale solid state battery plant may yet come to be.
The page still has Mira Muratis name under Exec Leadership
Which thing? Relying on keychain to stay logged in, or bad startup performance, or the most recent minute-long freeze?

GNOME/KDE users should have a keychain running, so it won’t affect them. It’ll only affect people who roll their own stack a bit more. I don’t object to it using the keychain if it’s available, but refusing to keep you logged in if it’s absent is bad. Nothing else acts like that.
Ah yes. Everything I don't like is fascism.

Ironically, we told you all for years that if you abused terms like fascist, Nazi, racist, etc then they would lose their power and their impact and people would ignore them in future. You were warned what would happen if you cried wolf.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stripe_Victims/ but there's better advice on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33299222
Would have been super funny (!) if Citi lets people directly purchase BitCoin from their accounts, and the person had then decided to purchase all of the BitCoin in existence (so far) before the transaction was reversed. :D

Argentina could have fixed its economy overnight. ;)
And on the other side, there's companies like Theranos, where you think the world will never be the same again, until you actually try the thing they're selling. Full cigar promised, but not even close.

Not saying this is the case with the OP company, but if you're ready to make sweeping generalizations about cigars like that on the basis of a commercial blog selling a product, you might as well invoke some healthy skepticism, and consider how the generalization works on both sides of the spectrum.

The whole corporation-glorifying, academia-bashing gaslighting narrative is getting very tiring lately.
Part of the beauty of the (current) WWW is that last W: the web. By design, everything is (or at least "can/should be") interlinked and scripting/computation is a layer on top of that. (See Fielding's thesis.[1]) Inverting to opaque WASM blobs as the information layer seems like throwing all that out.

Sure, WASM could still simulate interlinking -- because it's so general -- but that generality also imposes an implementation bar. Who's going to write an HTML renderer in WASM just so they can get links to work how they used to? If someone comes up with some simpler WASM-linking solution, how long will it be before there are 15 competing simpler solutions which are all mutually incompatible?

[1]: https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dis...
Mean _is_ average. You perhaps mean median?

Even then though, in e.g. Victorian times, the median (50th percentile) gets skewed by horrendously high infant mortality.

Looking at the 75th or 80th percentile, or the life expectancy for an 18 year old, is a better measure. High scores for the 75th can mask deaths due to inequality to some extent, but because wealth distributions are _so_ skewed at the top, the 75th percentile typically looks more like an average/poor person than a rich person.
I play this game once a year... every year :)
Definitely not. They don't distill their original models. 4o is a much more distilled and cheaper version of 4. I assume 4.5o would be a distilled and cheaper version of 4.5.

It'd be weird to release a distilled version without ever releasing the base undistilled version.
This confirms my suspicions.

I used to use spotify a lot from 2010-2015. Around that time I started to buy CDs of the music that I really liked. This mean that I was finally getting legit high quality copies of stuff I had already.

It was then that I noticed that certain, more obscure albums on spotify had the same corruptions and odd encoding artifacts that my non-legit copies had, but the actual CD didn't. (sometimes the rips were shit, some had CD dust skips, other had other corruption type errors)

So it makes sense.
"The intend of the user is to experience the best browsing experience hence we upload and sell all data for training to improve that experience"

This is why broad "boilerplate" agreements are unacceptable especially from a self proclaimed savior of online privacy such as Mozilla.
Last time I checked, Mozilla's ARPU was less than $5 pa. I think many of us would pay a multiple of that per annum _iff_ it went towards Firefox and not whatever project/cause of the week that Mozilla has undertaken.
I'm personally hoping for Ladybird and Servo to eventually grow into usable browsers. Ladybird is making faster progress on actually delivering a browser to end users, but if Servo gains foothold in the embeddable use case it should help them gain more stakeholders with an interest in keeping development moving forward.
> I genuinely am struggling to see what the product is too.

They're nice for summarizing and categorizing text. We've had good solutions for that before, too (BERT, et al), but LLM's are marginally nicer.

> Is there a market of people clamoring to use/get anything GenAI related?

No. LLM's are lame and uncool. Kids especially dislike them a lot on that basis alone.
Missed?

They grew Teams, lol.

Zoom - wtf, who the hell uses it after.

Discord would be better example since it is huge, even LLVM community uses it
The funny thing is that sometimes we need to machine-read documents produced by humans on machines, but the actual source is almost always machine-readable data.

Agree on the hand-written part.
Emacs got you covered, my friend, no reason to reinvent the wheel:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fo...
Based on this, Firefox has a 2.54% market share of browsers worldwide, so if their goal here is to shoot themselves in the foot and get that number under 2%, mission accomplished.

Firefox is still the lesser of two evils when compared to Chrome with all of its telemetry turned on. And at least it supports a proper implementation of uBlock origin, which Google just broke in Chrome.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

previous discussion from mid 2023 on low firefox market share: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36759162
Yes they can and will, they are a add company now, the money from google will stop flowing so they do everything to make money with your data.
... no.

If you need to add human readable information (which is your scenario), a URL is never the right answer. Write a name or a sentence. Computer-readable information is for computers to read.
I've been interested in Org Mode before, but the thing that always kills it for me is a good synchronization solution. Does anyone have any tips?

I regularly access and update my notes on at least 5 different devices, and I often need to share notes with non-technical people, where the barrier of entry needs to be nothing more than a single link they can click. Currently, Google Docs serves that need, but it's not ideal for writing.

The ideal solution for me would support using a Git service as the backing store, but the churn of making commits to synchronize has to not get in the way.
Ask HN: Is ungoogled chromium a good alternative ?
That's very nice, thanks.
RIP. My favourite Spassky game is this 24 move win against Petrosian and Petrosian was no patzer: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1106864
> f the suppliers fully trusted your solution they would need zero personnel determining quantities?

You'd still need people to check what actually got installed, so that you can bill for it. Like, there's only so much you can determine off the plans.

And what happens if (when) the plans are wrong or impractical?

My Dad worked in construction for his career, and I did briefly, and there's generally a lot of stuff that needs to be figured out on site due to physical or logistical constraints.

Sounds like this is just for homebuilding though, which is a much easier problem.
Do you know how providers detect your country when using wifi calling? Mine says it's only valid while you are within the country, wonder if VPN would work around it.
I switched to Windows/WSL because of this!!
I used org-mode for more than a decade and I still like it as a format a bit more than Markdown.

But the main problem with it is Emacs. I want to use org-mode, but I don't need the hassle that is installing a decently configured emacs in multiple environments and platforms.

Eventually I just gave up and went full markdown first with Joplin and currently with Obsidian.
If you think Librewolf is too opinionated, try Waterfox [1]

[1] https://github.com/BrowserWorks/Waterfox
Defunding USAID was brilliant, next should be military–industrial complex.
How do logs matter more than metrics? it's a meaningless conclusion unless we're talking about offline applications

They are different things for different purposes.

When I need to observe or be aware of abnormalities, I need metrics.

When I need to get into the details and the informational context, I need logs.

live services(webapi, gaming, etc) can not work without anyone of them
In the case of health, I can see how having too much money can potentially be detrimental. If he tries hard, he can find doctors prescribing unnecessary pills or surgeries.
- their attempts at having kids decades later take longer or fail completely

Isn't that normal when you try to have kids "decades later"?
And whatever users are willing to pay for not seeing ads someone is willing to pay more for users to see ads.

Of course the best would be to let users pay for not seeing ads and then shove them in their face anyway for maximum profit.
Rest of that comment

>but the GDF is the underlying infrastructure that makes it all possible, and shutting it down stops treatment for millions of people and will spell their death.
HNers, become part of this! Put your skills where your mouth is and start contributing code, tests, bug reports, etc.

Get involved: https://ladybird.org/#gi
Most of the other "forks" (e.g. Librewolf) are just patches on top of vanilla Firefox sources, so it's really not a whole lot to scrutinize by hand. I've skimmed at least most of the patch files personally just out of curiosity. In my distro of choice, NixOS, the sources are built by Hydra or my local machine, so I'm not trusting that their binaries match the source either.

That makes it a bit easier to trust, but it does run into the issue that it stops working if Mozilla hits a certain level of untrustworthiness.
Just sponsor Servo[1], it will be much safer than Chrome or Firefox once ready.

[1] https://opencollective.com/servo
I mean the 1% only have skill in government lobbying and increasing the wealth that they hoard; they're otherwise quite inept. So makes sense I suppose.
I see a lot of people suggesting Brave, but is it still full of crypto nonsense?
Have you tried Obsidian and can tell us if org-mode still holds some magic sauce from it?
I want less and less of these "do it all models", what I want is specific models for the exact task I need.

Then what I want is a platform with a generic AI on top that can pick the correct expert models based on what I asked it to do.

Kinda what Apple is attempting with their Small Language Model thing?
No Free Grok Anymore?
This is a poor analogy. There are thousands of people to meet and bond with, so you do have a choice. But there are less than a handful of fundamentally different browsers.

Derivative browsers don't really count here, as they depend on the upstream to not hurt them. For instance, if the parent project completely removes something essential for privacy, it it a lot of work to keep it in your code. The Manifest v2 removal is an example. Over time, when other changes are built on the removal, this creates an increasingly high burden. Eventually, the child project is starved. You simply do not want to be in this position.
I was watching this old British show called connections where they try to connect random things in the world together and they talk about your online persona and how the world will change because of the internet and World Wide Web. What I found interesting is that they present it all as if there will be an online version of you that you should treat, essentially, as a separate entity. It is not you, it is your representative to the digital space. That you should think of it as some agent that does things for you in that space even though in reality it’s simply a collection of data about you. But I liked that idea because it helps create a delineation between you the person and your online presence. I think what people don’t realize these days is that it is rather difficult to be anonymous online in the same way it is rather difficult to be anonymous in a room full of people you know. This is because your online profile is essentially known to any online actor who wants to know as you and the article point out. But tbh I think most people, including myself, spend too much time engaging in doing things connected to online. You don’t need slack and zoom to talk to colleagues it is possible to have in person interactions. You don’t need strava to go for a run. You don’t need your phone to go to the coffee shop and read a book.
>despite Mozilla working in the interest of users to a infinitely greater degree than any other major browser vendor.

Obviously not anymore, it's a add company now.

But at least they have "cool" party's in Zambia.
It's infectious and deadly, it actually doesn't have to do anything more to scare the bejesus out of people and have profound social and economic effects, should it show up in numbers in the future.