skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that the users don't pay, so foss devs often get creative to find revenue.

Another issue is that when you get donations, they are usually more than needed, so FOSS devs get to work adding new features which make the product worse.

Consider Whatsapp, after 15 years we can count the added features in 1 or 2 hands. They manage to find great restraint, possibly related to a low engineer-personnel ratio.

FOSS engineer orgs have no chance at staying the course. It reminds me of the sex mantra, if they likes it just keep doing it don't do it harder.

Exact same thing happens with Wikipedia. But the community puts a halt to most initiatives and they have to keep doing spinoffs like wikidata and wikiuniversity and such
Cool. Sorry about that, Chief...
Typing on your own computer, and having the draft stored into local storage requires absolutely no policy at all. If anyone else's computer is involved with that, then it's a problem.

Also it makes no sense for a program that runs on your own computer to have "Terms of Use".
Kagi’s browser is based on WebKit, but currently macOS only and non-opensource. I’m perfectly willing to pay for a browser but not sure if closed source is viable no matter how much you trust the company today.
It seems like there’s a misunderstanding as why this happened. They’ve been baking this model for months. long before deep seek came out with fundamental new ways of distilling models. and even given that it’s not great it’s its large form, they’re going to distil from this going forward .. so it likely makes sense for them to periodically train these very large models as a basis.
Each one of those “independent” points that can potentially fail is just added dependencies that increases inefficiency due do increased oversight, adds more red tape, and slows down production.
That's totally okay. If it works for you, keep using it by all means. The point of an alternative is to serve those who do have a problem and are frustrated with the status quo.
how i've used git every day in the last 10 years:

git add -A, git commit -m, git push

If there's an error because there are changes on the remote, type:

git pull, fix conflicts in case there are any, repeat previous commands

In all other cases, google/grok for the solution, doesnt happen often.
> Video unavailable

> This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions.

Not really sure why but I cannot load the video.
So you mean that we'll realize that the danger was actually not that huge?
Looks like this article might need a new "Updated" entry because current chrome ToS points to generic : https://policies.google.com/terms
Great find. Yes, things are different now. So too for SaaS.
code monkey writing ozempic fanfic.
Extraneous regulation stifles innovation and is the definition of bloat. I certainly haven't been protected from corporate greed lately, have you? The main function if gov’t is to provide a military. That’s appropriate spend.
I've recently embarked on indie app development [1]. It's exciting but my first lesson has been how slow things move. Just submitting to the stores, waiting, getting users... already takes months.

One of my fears is not being able to take vacation, as the OP explains. I'm working alone and had the impression hiring someone for customer support would be doable. Anyone with experience in this regard? AI also seems a good use case here.

[1] https://speedbumpapp.com/en/blog/v1/
The only chance of an another browser engine being successful at this point is if a nation state funds it
Thanks for this, wasn't exactly looking for something like this but it fits a bunch of projects I have in mind!
This is also a great way to test out a page during web-development in a pinch[when you are on Linux]. Chrome and Firefox are obviously available, and GNOME-Web is useful-enough to fill the gap[of Safari]. I'd always run a real cross-browser test before a proper release. Thankfully the cross-platform issues are dwindling by the day.
Git is not good, but I'm yet to see anything that's a clear improvement without sacrificing on the core capabilities. Do you have any recommendations that you like?
Not sure why it matters, <b> is the same as <span style="font-weight: bold">...
If you want, name it "stack" or "vbox" instead of "flex".
> Restructuring the elections, congressional seat allocation, etc. would require Constitutional amendments.

That's not always true. Proportional representation in the House would help a lot, and that could be done by passing a regular law. (The current "one member per district" law is only from 1967: [0])

[0]: https://act.represent.us/sign/proportional-representation/
so smart, privatizing essential parts of the government.

it’ll make it seem like you were able to do massive budget cuts in the moment and then you’ll spend 5x the money on consulting firms when nobody is focused on the budget anymore cuz they moved on
the berlin hackerspace scene would not allow police at their events
Every privatization of utilities I saw (not US) always devolved to being priced higher, being given legal monopoly, workers earn much less, quality degrades. A single "business man" gets super rich
> Those were the days of having to know how to compile your own kernel and fight with XFree86.

It was the XF86Config modeline HOWTO that taught me how a CRT controller works.
jujutsu: https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/
Thanks so much! This project ended up being far more involved than I expected, given how scattered and arcane Land's work is. It's always nice to get some appreciation!
It's an 8B model. There's lots of room to grow.
I don't like that scene.

Any real tech guy would go, "Wait a minute, if he came back from the future to sire John, wouldn't that mean that even that wasn't the first timeline? So that would imply that even without the hardware we have in the lab that someone somewhere will invent something similar, which will then in turn lead to this Skynet and so forth?"
This doesn’t seem to be true on modern turbos.
I agree, except with your last sentence. There are many examples of efficient organizations that extract billions from the market from willing participants.
Are you trying to watch from a corporate managed account? That happens to me on occasion when I forget I’m in work mode.
As others said, having more details would be helpful (or a bug report on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/).

In general, we quickly act on obvious bugs/regressions on major websites.
Often, such major issues on big websites are caused by certain add-ons or antivirus software.
Thank you for agreeing with me. I think everyone else on HN understands how percentages work.
2019

Recommend in this vein the Huberman Lab podcast with Dr Erich Jarvis.
For me, the best option would be to be able to donate to Firefox engineers directly, but not to Mozilla, they do too many things, I don't stand for those, just the Firefox browser...
> WebGL is not deprecated, and uses the ANGLE library

*on Chromium!!!

Firefox and WebKit do not use ANGLE for rendering.
> After a few weeks on the drug, I'm 100% convinced that once this drug is widely available and cheap... being overweight will be a choice

It already is.
> Anyway I’m sure people can be in whatever bubble their algorithmic news gives them

> it’s shameful to be American and many of my American friends feel that shame right now. The same cannot be said for most European countries.

So you're proposing you are immune to a bubble? One of the people I referenced was _literally_ ashamed of the German government. It's happening on both sides.

I find the whole thing odd, to be honest. I had a ton of disagreements with the prior administration, and I think the way many things were handled was "shameful." However, I never once felt "ashamed" of being American. Administrations come and go. The will of the people is fickle and changes like the wind.
Ketamine is that but it's not just that. One enantiomer (esketamine) is FDA-approved (as Spravato) for acute suicidality. It's dosed as an intranasal spray.
The other models are literally distilling OpenAI’s models into theirs.
> Private sector entities can have less “dead wood” because it is easier to get rid of people.

Its not though, its the same layers of documentation, paperwork, upper management approvals, legal and HR approvals. The only exception being blatant policy violations like drug use, etc. where immediate dismissal can be done.

If you are talking about mass layoffs, for large corporations they still have to file paperwork for the WARN act, look at laws in various states around employment, get legal, HR, etc. involved.

I've seen both mass layoff and single individual layoff first hand and the only thing that might be different with Federal employees is a union. And in that case a union operates mostly the same if its serving a large corp or a government entity.
Both Firefox/Mozilla and Wikipedia are actually exceptions in this world as they do get quite a large substantial amount of donations.

So I don't really see this being true. Also foundations shouldn't seek to grow but to keep doing why they do.

See how Wikipedia/Wikimedia, while both getting more money and providing almost the same service, still haven't updated how people can actually parse their content but, at least, didn't start selling data.
One thing your comment has in common with it then ;-)
Evidence suggests that Roman lead water pipes were not very harmful:

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-did-lead...
Because it's the explicit goal of the people doing it. Why go after the CFPB and 18F and IRS Direct File? They've been very outspoken about destroying administrative capacity and making the executive branch a king to punish the enemies of their national conservatism project. Red states are already trying to roll back women's and LGBT people's rights. How does trying to overturn Obergefull balance the budget?
If you’re looking for alternate browsers, at least consider a Firefox fork (LibreWolf, Floorp, etc.) Moving to a Chromium derivative seems completely counterproductive in the big picture and feeds the Chrome beast.

While I am no fan of Mozilla’s moves here, I think people are transferring their anger and distrust at the worst offenders in the market to Mozilla, and I worry that the end result will be much worse if we just abandon Mozilla.
How DOGE detonated a crisis at NNSA
I agree with you, but it seems that a lot of lawyers do not. Most of the other browsers have the same language in their ToS, as do many programs like Microsoft Office.
This is Nate Silver retroactively justify his beliefs. He makes factual mistakes while doing. Elon was not a founder at Paypal. He wormed his way in to the company with a merger through x.com(lol), and then tried to push out every original team form paypal before a revolt kicked him out as CEO.

If Elon had his way, we would talk bout Paypal the same way we talk about pets.com
Hi, yes! You can import it anytime from Account Settings → Import Books.
Apple has often had a tense relationship with developers. When things change in the apple-provided development environment, it's rarely with the third-party developers in mind, it seems. That's not new. It would be nice if that improved over time - but so far, it's not there?
I tried both models. I could easily tell Maya was AI, but Miles sounded so lifelike that I felt that initial apprehension like hopping on a conference line with strangers. I even chuckled at one of his side remarks. It was strange knowing it wasn’t a real person, but it was very hard not to feel like it was.
Private companies don't always just fail and get replaced. They find other ways of making profits, like selling user data, externalizing risk, or your run-of-the-mill enshitification.
This is a helpful contribution. Thank you. My counterpoint is only on real names: LKML and Debian Developers are two examples of projects I trust and I think part of that is real names. Another part is the publicly known application process: namely that you can’t join unless vouched for by other members, and a degree of vetting is in place.

Elevating a browser to the same standard as (or even higher than!) an OS is completely reasonable.
And so have I. Government is not bad or inefficient by definition, and your anecdotal experience with government does not change that. To believe that government is automatically bad because it is the government is an article of faith, whether or not every single individual has been influenced by propaganda.

Government is what we make it. A snapshot in time of your own experience does not define government and its capabilities.
I live in CT where most of the power is supplied by Eversource. Whenever there is a big storm that knocks out power (happens every few years) to most of the state they are never prepared even though they are mandated every time to prepare more than the last time. And after they restore the power the delivery charge goes up. At this point the delivery charge is more than half the cost and our electricity is north of $0.30 per kWh and keeps going up. Even if you switch generation companies your cost doesn’t actually go down significantly overall due to the delivery charges.

Moreover, Eversource has their hands in any solar projects. They drag out the process to approve any installations and fight you tooth and nail to make sure you can’t install a big enough system because they are mandated to buy electricity at the same rate as they sell it. They fully captured the market and are essential to the state’s functioning so whenever there is an issue the government backs them. When there isn’t, they post billions in profits.

What part of that sounds correct to you?
> in keeping with how most people in both Taiwan* and the rest of China normally use it.

I lived in China for 6 years, and also worked in Taiwan. I can tell you that is _not_ how most people in Taiwan and China use it. People in Taiwan most certainly do _not_ refer to Taiwan as 中国 (ZhongGuo), and people in China refer to Taiwan as 台湾 (TaiWan). The CCP does consider Taiwan a "renegade province" of China under its "One China" policy, but wishing something is true doesn't actually make it so, and in practical terms Taiwan is no more under Beijing's control than Ireland under the control of Westminster.
The theory of capitalism leading to efficient markets makes a great deal of assumptions that are simply not true in the real world. Even for elastic goods that nobody needs to participate in at all, let alone an inelastic good like healthcare where people will pay pretty much anything for themselves or their family members to continue living.
Biden was sleepy though!
And yet, here we are reading about it in the news.
Enough with this noise. FAA ordered to find $ without paper trail to Starlink. All corruption is the same, no matter who does it.
Agency heads can be SES and can make more than GS-15, but the max is still far lower than private sector equivalent.
The best part of Goodreads for me is the communities. You can join a group with monthly book reads, and participate in their forums. Do you have any plans to do something similar?
Temporal Motivation Theory
> I believe anyone can learn this tech with the presence of resource and LLMs

Is this really the world we live in now, where people think you need LLMs for learning?
Loans create deposits, as outlined in this document from the Bank of England: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

These deposits can move between banks along with an associated asset.

Balance sheets always balance. Most of the balancing asset against a deposit is a loan. This is how banks make money and arguably their purpose. You can see the balance sheet of HSBC here (page 12):
https://www.hsbc.com/-/files/hsbc/investors/hsbc-results/202...

It's clear that the majority of their assets are loans as expected. Then a fair chunk of reserves which reflects transfers from other banks (which hold a corresponding loan asset) or payments from the government. Finally there's a smallish quantity of financial investments that includes government bonds.

Bonds are just a floating price asset swap for reserves so the reserves must exist (have been spent) before the bond sale can happen. That is, governments don't borrow money until after the spend. In the case of the UK, this is shown in the following paper:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4890683

You seem to be of the understanding that there's a one to one correspondence between stuff and money, which a moments consideration of the endogenous nature of money (as described into BoE paper) would highlight as flawed. If you're suggesting something else by your point that savings imply a drop in consumption, please do clarify.

It feels like your understanding comes from an economics course, which generally bears no relation to actual monetary operations and understanding, rather reflecting the particular philosophical bent of the economic school.
Exactly, Mozilla just tries to mislead people that their "web services" are indivisible parts of Firefox, but they're not, for me it's a software running on my computer.
Seconding VoIP.ms - they're great. Calls are billed at about 1c/min depending on if they call you (DID) or you call them.
This is a fair reply, and I was being a little glib. This is in response to the facile premise and body of the article that seeks to defend wealth concentration.

What is clear is that wealth disparity is making it hard for more than half of the country to meet basic needs, and they are not contributing towards consumer spending measures because they are unable to not because they are unwilling to.

The article makes a much better case for updating the higher tax brackets, taxing income avoidance strategies more effectively, and using the proceeds to ease the load on the least wealthy half of americans so they are able to contribute to consumer spending and live happier and healthier lives.

This is where behavioral, microeconomics, and macroeconomics meet up. You have to appreciate the stress on individuals and the social fabric that these figures imply.
I've seen juniors style divs as buttons, it's disheartening.
I name it: 192.

But I'm a Beatles fan
A bunch of Firefox and Chromium derivatives are not a long term solution. The good news is that both Chromium and Firefox are open source. The bad news is that Google is funding these (and Safari too) via advertisement revenue. So, Google holds a lot of power here. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The core of the issue is that Google pays directly or indirectly for the salaries of most of those working on Chrome/Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Their money is funding the whole thing.

Alternatives like Ladybird that lack this funding and commercial backing don't stand much of a chance to catch up technically. Unless they nail a sustainable funding model that isn't Google bribing them into submission.

Both Chromium and Firefox are fixable and there's plenty left to salvage. Firefox has loads of regular contributors. Mozilla employs many of them of course but not all. Aside from the drama at Mozilla, it's a pretty well run and healthy open source project. Same with Chromium probably. Though most developers are likely Google employed currently.

The solution isn't moving the problem to some new project but actually addressing the core issue. Which would be funding them properly.
Inside your head? Maybe we need a new 'head sunroof' or similar.
It's not about individual numbers. Most applied maths fields (including physics) use the real numbers and the properties of real numbers as a complete field are implicitly assumed all the time (e.g. for differential equations). It's only ever some mathematicians, computer scientists and philosophers who care about the fact that most of them aren't computable.

If you want to argue that one could derive a theory of physics etc. that doesn't rely on the real numbers that's one thing. That's probably possible although I doubt that it would be very elegant. But it's simply not what people use.
Just ranking everything in order is the ideal rating system. And it's easy to convert to whatever poorly-chosen system someone else wants you to use. It does mean the scores for your first few ratings will fluctuate quite a bit, though!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208563
Advancements in Embedding-Based Retrieval at Pinterest Homefeed
>All those distractions cost money

It's like a never-ending horde of zombies that keep coming and repeating the same argument. So as ever, my reply is going to be the same. Sure, they cost money, but they cost more or less, and they either do or don't cost engineering resources, and they cost more or less of those as well. Nobody can articulate what the missing browser feature is, that's not there because of this bet on side bets. No one can articulate the relative scale of the investment on side bets and what the impact is on engineering resources and no one can draw a connection between that and market share (if anything, it's the relatively inexpensive resource demand that probably made them attractive strategic options to begin with). And none of this is responsive to actual macro-level forces that drive market share, which is Google leveraging its footprint in the search space, in Android, and over Chromebooks to drive up its own market share.

And those are the things you would have to think through in order for any of that argument to work, not just hand-wave toward their possibility. The ability to trace cause and effect, the ability to assess the relative scale of different investments, these are all like the 101 level things that would sanity check the argument.
Land has always argued with Omohundro against orthogonality and thus against paperclip maximizers, but the singular goal is correct: for him it's intelligence optimization.
I recently learned it.
I have personal and work laptops (two work laptops as of now for different companies). 90% of dotfiles should be the same. But rest is pain to sync.
I’m using chezmoi that has templating mechanism that helps me.
Surprising how many times this exact comment is posted on HN these days.

Arent all human treatments tested on mice first?
Show HN: My Approach to Personal Analytics
Hi, I've written this post to share at a high level what I use for personal analytics, mostly focused on workout tracking. I use PostgreSQL, Bitacora (a DB client I've made for inserting) and Metabase for visualization.
I dream of a good recommendation system because Goodreads is completely terrible. I just want to know two things: which books are similar and which books I would like, beyond typical recommendations. Something akin to what platforms like VOD, YouTube, and Netflix offer. For me, this is the most important killer feature.
I hate cookie pop-ups. Enjoy. https://archive.is/nhCC9
They do not, conservatism is seen as serving as a governor for liberalism and without conservatism liberalism would fail faster. Neo-reactionary is anti-enlightenment where some are accelerationists and others are not. The accelerationist support liberalism (to speed up the self-immolation) and the non-accelerationists support conservatism.

One way to look at it is how far back do you want to unwind the clock, if to the 90s then they consider that a 'this far and no further conservative' which they consider to be a liberal. You'd have to unwind the clock all the way to pre-enlightenment to get to the neo-reactionary position.
> compete in price

Which equals worse service.

I've yet to across a privatization project that improved anything for the end user, and I lived through a bunch in the 90s. Interregional rail, public transport, postal, telecom... They were all failures.