skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's disheartening to see people playing villification of users when it is the companies (yeah, mozilla CORPORATION) that went back on their words. Just cos you did something good in the past isn't and shouldn't be an excuse to do bad things now.

Also, why are we talking as if we haven't seen these same things happening to favourite products/companies over and over again? You don't need to be an analyst to put things together.

Tell me why I should care when they gave up Rust and MDN to competitors with the excuse of no money and then gave the boss a heft hike with an ever decreasing userbase? Would any company give a hike of this margin to it's employee when their product is doing bad in the market?

They kept doing things against the community. And then they bought an ad company, then this change. ENSHITTIFICATION IS WRITTEN ON THE WALL IN BOLD LETTERS. Let them backtrack.

Still very very disappointed. We are supposed to be a community who should be thinking through things. This isn't a new scenario. We have seen this so many times.
Unless they also make the patents coming with it public, it would be of no use. As long as I remember, Microsoft has no good history of purchasing patents and making them public. Google has (vp7,vp8, Webm as an evolution). But probably some of the patents are expired anyway.

I also doubt that they would open source the ported version (c# I suppose) but they could do this to the previous Delphi version, they developed many useful components so even without the core functionality, UI code might be useful for Lazarus/Delphi developers
For a few years, I evolved a slightly-modified Todo.txt format for this purpose, to represent both tasks and appointments.

http://todotxt.org/

https://www.neilvandyke.org/todotxt/

In some ways it worked well, but there were a few drawbacks, and eventually I switched to native calendar programs on desktop and mobile.

Drawbacks I personally felt:

* In the text file, recurring tasks didn't show up when I looked into the future, such as to schedule an appointment.

* Calendar invites over email weren't integrated, so I had to enter and update those manually anyway. (Though one advantage over the native calendar programs I use now is that todo.txt doesn't force the appointment headline someone else wrote into my calendar view, and refuse to let me edit it in my local copy.)

* I had to keep editing dates on tasks manually, every day, for my "current day view" of top of the file to work with priorities.

* No visual calendar views with the tools I was using.

* No device sync with the tools I was using (though possible).

* There are only so many ways in which I was willing to be a weirdo at once, and this one didn't make the cut.

I don't discourage anyone from trying todo.txt or calendar.txt. Just a heads-up of some things you might want to find solutions/workarounds for.
I guess it does bring new meaning to the phrase “eye teeth”.
> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items

This is the one feature I miss most from using macos. I got used to it back when Ubuntu used unity as its DE and called it "HUD". Didn't work everywhere (looking at you, java), but a huge timesaver.
Eh, that’s overly rosy.

Plenty of ineffective dictatorships will happily line you up against the wall with bogus surveillance. And shitty surveillance states will happily fake surveillance or data to look more effective.

The danger with these types of
State organs is they are constantly trying to justify their existence and cover up their mistakes, and if you can be thrown in the gears, some places are happy to do that.
Uber is really interesting example, since they started as a legit upscale taxi service, got mad Lyft flaunted the rules and regulations. They finally pivoted to the success story they are now after seeing how toothless the check and balances actually were.
It's not even a "one-time disable", it's off by default until you enable it and the icon in the URL takes two clicks to hide.

And more generally, lack of easy payment is at the root of so many problems with the modern Internet, that I really can't blame Brave for trying this, quite the opposite, that's exactly the kind of feature we need.
So...is Trump banning transgender individuals from joining the military and kicking existing serving members 'woke' then according to your definition?
This is why they tried to remake the Windows interface to be more Mac like as well. What a disgrace.
I’m surprised ‘create superhuman agi’ isn’t a stretch goal on their everlasting funding drive. Seems like a perfect Robertsian detour.
A good 10 years ago or so I was running a solution that used RDF Quad Stores - and the best one at the time (after trialling 4Store, Marklogic and some others I can't remember) was OpenLink Virtuoso - how they managed to fit a performant distributed Quad store into what started life as an SQL engine was impressive.

I've left that world now, but if you're in the market for a graph store again, it might be something to look at.
huh isn't it funny when you dogfood but instead of food it's... nvm

But yeah some elements of that list have convinced me to steer very clear from any products from that company
Previously:

3 days ago, 7 points, 0 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43169019

1004 days ago, 202 points, 93 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574125
This is not practical for common folks. I wouldn't be able to get into ebanking, buy anything in eshops, probably most stuff I use daily would be at least half-broken. Imagine this for my elderly parents, just endless desperation and frustration, I am happy if they manage to use internet as it is and not fall for some scam or hack.

Heck, stuff sometimes breaks without me even trying to disable anything, like airbnb login via facebook popup stopped working suddenly few months ago (biggest internet mistake I ever done many years ago, as a host I am locked to specific well-rated account and airbnb support told me they can't migrate my account to another form of auth).

Edit: just saw its 'per site' - that would work for me, but not for my parents who live far. But damn I don't want to do this active fight of cat and mouse with whole internet. Firefox/ublock origin user here, on both desktop and phone for many years. Internet looks utterly horrible when I open it somewhere without those, hell youtube with all those ads is absolutely ridiculous shit service. Apple devices I've seen aren't that good either, shame that would be a great selling point for me.
Still makes it sound like they want to profit from user data.
Skype was very useful to call landlines from or two countries e.g. Europe to India. To my knowledge, Whatsapp et al do not fill this niche.

Is there another solution that has this functionality?
I don't if the remake will come at some point but in the mean time, you can enjoy this online port by fans: https://game.chronodivide.com/

You can play Red Alert 2 in the browser, with other players online.
They may be OK the first three initials, but they treat the fourth as a kind of insanity.
firefox for android works wonderful
The paper's introduction says:

we first establish algebraic product formulas for the direct computation of the Clifford product inverses of multivectors in Clifford algebras Cl(p, q), n = p + q \le 5, excluding the case of divisors of zero.
Not true, Chromebooks receive 8-10 years of updates. Meaning a 7 year old Chromebook runs the latest Chrome with oklch.
Yes, it's fine.
CentOS was the downstream of RHEL, and much more people used it than RedHat/IBM knew or wanted to admit. I can argue that at least 90% of their users (by the number of installs) didn't even need any help to configure/troubleshoot that either.

But with a very IBM move and with some tunnel vision, they got triggered by the few people who abuse RedHat license model and rugpulled everyone. More importantly universities, HPC/Research centers and other (mostly research) datacenters which were able to sew their own garments without effort.

Now we have Alma, which is a clone of CentOS stream, and Rocky which tries to be bug to bug compatible with RHEL. It's not a nice state.

They damaged their reputation, goodwill and most importantly the ecosystem severely just to earn some more monies, because number and monies matter more than everything else for IBM.

Remember. When you combine any company with IBM, you get IBM.
The "individual measurements" add up to tomography, there's no need to them to be fast or simultaneous if you are imaging caves or pyramids.
Good riddance. When google changed their algorithm to favor site reputation, these big news sites spun up product reviews sub-sites to push paid advertising. You'll notice that they've all hired freelancers and not full-time employees.

Now that things are going back to normal, these news sites are crying about lost revenue (that they probably took from someone else in the first place).
> People could tell scaling wasn't working well before the release of GPT 4.5.

Different people tell different things all the time. That's not science. Experiment is science.
Privacy tech firms warn France's encryption and VPN laws threaten privacy
It seems Microsoft is moving over from apps, desktop and mobile.

Apart from developer tools, Office, Windows and some games, it seems they killed everything.

Judging on how Windows releases seem to be degrading, I wonder if they will try to pull the plug from there, too.
yes the problem is that there is no consensus about what AGI should be: https://medium.com/@fsndzomga/there-will-be-no-agi-d9be9af44...
If that's really your stance, then I don't think there's a productive discussion to be had here. Your fundamentals are incompatible with mine.

But there are still solutions there: perhaps enabling sideloading should wipe the phone (like unlocking the bootloader does on Android). Or perhaps some sort of "parental controls" where it requires a PIN to enable, but people who set up phones for their parents can keep the PIN from them.

The solution doesn't have to be to lock it down for everyone, without any escape hatches. But Apple likes it this way, not for the safety it can provide, but because it's a part of their business model. But I don't care about their business model, and it's normal and right that governments regulate the kinds of things companies can do.
I personally wouldn't go anywhere near sideloading applications that haven't been through Apple's verification processes, or advise anyone in my family to do so.

I also think that it is very hard to argue _against_ allowing sideloading.

These two opinions can co-exist.

Make it optional, make sure the user knows what they are doing, and has acknowledged multiple times that they understand the risks, and that they acknowledge support for any problems at all with the phone will be compromised as a result.

Realistically, 99% of iPhone users don't need to sideload, nor understand what it means, and would be worse off doing it on their phones.

Yeah yeah Apple the big corp walled garden big evil boo. Yes they make mistakes, yes they make a ton of money. But, their stuff works better than anything else on the market for the vast majority of people, and their decisions are almost always thoroughly thought through in favor of the customer experience, accessibility, security and safety.
It depends on how you compare.

On a subset of tasks I'm interested in, it's 10x more intelligent than GPT-4. (Note that GPT-4 was in many ways better than 4o.)

It's not a coding champion, but it knows A LOT of stuff, excellent common sense, top quality writing. For me it's like "deep research lite".

I found OpenAI Deep research excellent, but GPT-4.5 might in many cases beat it.
Ah yes the merged fonts can get unwieldy when you want to use multiple scripts in the same doc.
All talk of "Privacy", "Principles" and "Promises" from Mozilla was already empty as they were completely dependent on Google's money.

This should surprise absolutely no-one and Mozilla never cared about their claims of privacy or their users as long as Google was paying them.

So now we know that when it comes down to the wire as their biggest customer (Google) was under anti-trust scrutiny; indirectly threatening Mozilla's deal with Google, They once again chose to violate the privacy of their users to sell their data to other companies like Google.

For Mozilla, money has always crushed their so-called "principles".
This might interest you too:

https://gist.github.com/devnoname120/4767a0aa18879217170fd0c...

Disclaimer: I wrote this. It's a random gist that I wrote for me but it somehow got 150+ stars. Tbh I'm not even sure how people even heard about it because I didn't post it anywhere… Either way I guess people seem to like it, so hopefully you will find it useful too!
There are multiple ways to look at this, but for example, my middle European country's laws explicitly state that breaking copyright is okay, if the material is used for teaching purposes. Downloading for personal use is also allowed.

Are they breaking the laws of the country where they host their own data? I can't really say.

In honesty, I don't believe copyright laws will survive this decade, much less this century. With models being trained on copyrighted material and no cases setting the precendent that this is not okay, I feel like the new reality is that you can steal anything, as long as you 'launder' it through an AI model.

Maybe that may be the next big startup, re-creating copyrighted books through AI models, just different enough to skirt the laws. Who wouldn't like to read 'Owner of Numerous Pieces of Jewelery' instead of 'Lord of the Rings'?
> It cant be coincidental

And yet coincidences happen. So of course it can be.

I suggest avoiding starting any sentences you intend to be credible with that phrase. And avoid starting any sequence of reasoning you wish to have validity with that type of thinking.
Visualizing World Birth and Death Rates
Many people I know are switching away from them because of their alleged support of fascism.
They wouldn’t have to host the files.
I'm outside the US and I have access to ChatGPT 4.5 with ChatGPT Pro subscription. Didn't have that access yesterday at the time of announce, but probably they were staggering the release a bit to even the load over multiple hours.
It’s funny that AI needs that much auto-tune.
Ever since those kids demo'd their fact checking engine here, which was just Input -> LLM -> Fact Database -> LLM -> LLM -> Output I have been betting that it will be advantageous to move in this general direction.
I keep longing for a day when FOSS crowd realize that their goals are political, not technical, in nature, and thus require broad political action, numbers, solidarity and force more than yet another project promising what previous dozen failed to achieve.

But I do not have much hope.
This post was what finally pushed me to switch after years of growing dissatisfaction.
It's interesting but also annoying because localized versions of macOS don't have the same shortcuts, or at least I cannot make them work. The main problem is that some special characters such as / are in a different key and they also require modifier keys to type them.
I just made my own window manager with Hammerspoon. First I copied whatever rectangle/magnet was doing and then added my own logic on top of it to fit the style I work with windows.

As a bonus I can hit hyper-l (L for layout) and it'll open the correct apps + place them correctly depending on where I am and how many monitors are connected.

And caps-lock is of course mapped as hyper with Karabiner Elements, it even has a preset for it.
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1foc98Jtbi0-GUsNySddv...

how do you do the different size circles and colored sequences like that? this is god tier skills
Why is that a random read? Also is it truely random, or from seed? But if prng then they could cache right?
Such brutal reductionism: how do you calculate an ever growing percentage of customers so pissed at this terrible service that you lose customers forever? Not just one company losing customers... but an entire population completely distrusting and pulling back from any and all companies pulling this trash
Clickbait title. I have read what is linked there and it claims no such thing.

At best, if you read through the notices, input data can be used to train personalised AI chatbots (running locally) IF you give your consent at the time of activation.

There's a lot of vitriol in the comments below but nobody seems to have read what is linked here.
> Her problem is less to do with ageing and more to do with not being interested in or exposed to technology in general throughout her life

We do all sorts of things in life (that have nothing to do with technology, even) where we are required to develop, at minimum, some sort of basic understanding of the safe way of doing those things. And then we take responsibility, and follow those safety guidelines. Or we don't, and then have no one to blame but ourselves if it blows up in our faces.

There certainly should be guardrails on phones that can be enabled for people who are aging and suffering mental decline, or just have developmental disabilities in general. Or, sure, for people who just don't care, and want someone else in their family to "deal with all that nerdy stuff" for them. But building systems for the lowest common denominator is rarely the right solution.

> 25 year-old me would be the opposite of course

I'm in my 40s, so I don't think my take on this has much to do with age.
Try Mullvad Browser or Librewolf, both of which are derived from Firefox.

These projects are made possible because of Firefox's customizability and feature set.

Firefox has a fingerprint resist toggle that may not be on when using vanilla Firefox.
That's the problem with the current deep learning models, they don't seem to know when they are wrong.

There was so much hype about AlphaGo years ago, which seemed to be very good at reasoning about what's good and what's not, that I thought some form of "AI" is really going come relatively soon. The reality we have these days is that statistical models seem to be running without any constraints, making rules up as they go.

I'm really thankful for the AI-assisted coding, code reviews and many other things that came from that, but the fact is, these really are just assistants that will make very bad mistakes and you need to watch them carefully.
Orion cannot support uBlock Origin completely either. I know that Orion allows the extension to be installed (I have done it too), but it only has partial support.

Quoting from a reply in a discussion on the Orion Feedback site from a few months ago (November 2024):

> " uBO is not supported on iOS due to Apple limitations."

[1]: https://orionfeedback.org/d/9145-ublock-origin-not-existent-...
I honestly think that Explorer on Windows 11 is way worse than Finder. But I'd love a FilePilot [1] for macOS...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43091466
Welp. I don't know what I'm talking about. But at least for key remapping, I use `hidutil`. For example, to remap right ctrl to fn:

hidutil property --set '
{
"UserKeyMapping": [
{
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc": 0x7000000E4,
"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst": 0xFF00000003
}
]
}
'

To make it stick through reboots, you can run it in a launch agent. Posted my notes and plist file here:
https://gist.github.com/andelink/9df452c8cafb6790f196277705c...

For window tiling, can't say I've ever looked into it.
And remember, with increasing accuracy, the cost of validation goes up (not even linear).

We expect computers to be right. Its a trust problem. Average users will simply trust the results of LLMs and move on without proper validation. And the way the LLMs are trained to mimic human interaction is not helping either. This will reduce overall quality in society.

Its a different thing to work with another human, because there is intention. A human wants to be correct or to mislead me. I am considering this without even thinking about it.

And I don't expect expert models to improve things, unless the problem space is really simple (like checking eggs for anomalies).
When it doesn't sound like auto-tune, is when we really have to worry.
That _may_ be happening, with fairly dramatic Tesla sales declines in Europe, though that also might just be competition.
Made an account just to reply.

I use https://rectangleapp.com/ on Mac and it's great. I mostly use shortcuts Left Half and Right Half, and also Maximize (Not the fullscreen mode thank God)

Might as well recommend enabling moving windows around with by clicking anywhere on the window with a keybind just like in most Linux desktop environments https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/321918/move-window...
Yeah, I've been a Firefox user and Mozilla supporter for approaching two decades now, even used to donate monthly to the foundation. I'm furious over this. I installed LibreWolf on my personal machines last night and expect to uninstall Firefox after work today.
AdGuard also has a browser extension for blocking inline ads. The combo of AdGuard extension + DNS blocking is good enough that I haven't missed uBlock Origin
Pinging a Mozilla server to see if there is an active and usable internet connection is not spyware, let's stop with these useless accusations.

It's a product which optionally does accept some help from the users, e.g. opt-in error reports, which is a huge help.
Certain people consider that a blatant violation of their rights for some reason, and they would apparently rather see the last bastion of a non-chrome internet die.
If you search YouTube for "effects of porn addiction" you will find mostly clips from secular sources. A lot of scientists/psychologists say it's harmful
All Tuberculosis programs funded by the U.S. Gov were officially terminated
> Plastic scintillator from Eljen isn't very expensive

Do they sell directly to private individuals? If not, where would I get some? There are some listings on eBay but not exactly the place I prefer to shop such stuff.
Secondly, text typed into the search/address bar is sent to them for "suggestions" and to broadly categorize the search ("travel"). Turn this off if you don't want it.

Thirdly, they'll be notified if you click an advert on the new tab page. Again, this can be turned off
I don't know how to feel about this. If you as a state actor had a problem with people using rural roads to smuggle drugs instead of a highway, you would probably be in your right to monitor said rural roads, even though they're not used only for smuggling drugs.

It is well within their jurisdiction to do so, even though privacy may be threatened. Isn't it threatened anyways, since usually the hosting servers are in US, and all traffic to and from US is read by a bunch of NSA agents anyways? Is the problem that this data would not go to just US, but that other countries want a cut as well?
related research paper (english - html ) - https://arxiv.org/html/2408.14158v2

arXiv:2408.14158v2 [cs.DC] 31 Aug 2024

"Fire-Flyer AI-HPC: A Cost-Effective Software-Hardware Co-Design for Deep Learning"

Abstract:

"The rapid progress in Deep Learning (DL) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has exponentially increased demands of computational power and bandwidth. This, combined with the high costs of faster computing chips and interconnects, has significantly inflated High Performance Computing (HPC) construction costs. To address these challenges, we introduce the Fire-Flyer AI-HPC architecture, a synergistic hardware-software co-design framework and its best practices. For DL training, we deployed the Fire-Flyer 2 with 10,000 PCIe A100 GPUs, achieved performance approximating the DGX-A100 while reducing costs by half and energy consumption by 40%. We specifically engineered HFReduce to accelerate allreduce communication and implemented numerous measures to keep our Computation-Storage Integrated Network congestion-free. Through our software stack, including HaiScale, 3FS, and HAI-Platform, we achieved substantial scalability by overlapping computation and communication. Our system-oriented experience from DL training provides valuable insights to drive future advancements in AI-HPC."