skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN title: "Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

This is a license to use, not ownership. If Mozilla owns the information then it does not need a license.

Licenses to use information can be revoked, i.e., terminated.
I’m arguing that Apple should strengthen Safari (and not just on iOS and macOS but to other operating systems owned by them) to make it more compelling to use for customers, and not rely on App Store guideline lock-in on iOS. But they clearly don’t care to, even when they could afford to. And they don’t care about promoting WebKit at all, because any alt-browsers running it would just provide competition for Safari anyway. As it stands it all seems very half-hearted and kind of lazy.

“The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

- T.S Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
That's a great shout. Portable versions of apps are really useful if you want to sync tools e.g. over syncthing/pCloud/Dropbox, or you work for companies with draconian installation policies.
Ok, I'll bite. Name a single phenomena that behaves differently in this "timeless" model of reality. Surely, if the concept of time is such a flawed premise, there must be some way in which a timeless model produces better results in describing our reality.
The Collective Power of Ants
I think it's pretty much what happens to every thing
Making a political donation is not a private activity.
Good/bad faith isn't just about one's preference about a form of argument, but can also completely change the validity of the underlying argument.

The point here is that bad faith is doing exactly that: making the legitimacy of the argument presented by the author fundamentally questionable. Comparing the core business model of a company that has invested in capabilities like Advanced Data Protection with Meta in an article highlighting the ways authorities can get your data...seems disingenuous at best, and just plain wrong/misleading.

> we're skipping past that entirely to deconstruct a single sentence as a "gotcha"

When someone sets up a false premise, then yes, everything that comes after it is suspect.
What you said could be true, but it's overshadowed by the fact that this is blatant corruption.
This is not about communications on aircraft itself and will have no impact on aircraft internet.

However I'd rather have the backhaul between air traffic control centers done by fiber rather than by Starlink...

Not to mention the naked corruption
He's been very clear that that is his goal. His voters were keenly aware of it. If they're surprised at all, it's that they're getting what they asked for faster and more effectively than they believed.
There's more to air safety than air traffic controllers...
For the low low price of $2.5k you can outcompete a $600 card. Wow.
I'm not 100% sure but I suspect the canibalised the skype protocol in some capacity for Teams.
That man closed the Apple ecosystem doors on Flash, naturally he was not alone, he had an horde of followers.

It remains to be seen how much royalty free Chrome remains, Web is now ChromeOS, with exception of a little Gaulish village called iOS.
IIRC Finder has an option to delete files from the Trash 30 days after they're put there. I just enable that option and forget about the Trash completely.
Videogaming's All-In Bet: Can Two Titans Lift a $58B Industry?
Normalcy bias: it's not cool to overreact
But it didn't launch with AMD support, it is support now.
And if you literally write it down, with pen on paper, supposedly that's more memorable still.

I need to experiment with this. My memory needs more assistance now that my spring chicken days are behind me.
At a grocery store or restaurant, there’s no expectation that I examine every item individually, nor am I responsible for organizing the options categorically. Those are already handled for me by the establishment. My only responsibility is to navigate the choices and make a selection, and even then, there’s no 'wrong' choice, per se.

An issue tracker, on the other hand, requires active engagement from the developer. Every issue, even low quality ones, require some form of processing, be that responding, closing, or categorizing. While tools can assist a person in these tasks, the developer is ultimately still responsible for it.

I'm not saying people should only create closed-sourced paid software, but I strongly disagree with the idea that it's negatively affecting the quality of the software because there's no open issue tracker for people to post to.

It's not just github. It's every single issue tracker where users can submit feedback, some of which are almost entirely opaque, like Apple's feedback system. Look at Mozilla's issue tracker, or look at the mailing lists for linux. It's a lot of effort which simply is not worth it for a lot of people in a lot of cases.
Gaming laptops today are the best AI laptops. They will never sell as well to the masses because they have a gaming aesthetic. This is true for Discord as well. Skinning HN like it's Facebook will turn you off, even if it has the content you want believe it or not.
I think there's a valid point about the production-readiness aspect. It's one thing to release a research paper, and another to market something as a service. The expectation levels are just different, and fair to scrutinize accordingly.
At least the malware is exposed in the light of day. I didn't say don’t fix something. I asked whether the malware should be removed vs e.g. being flagged by github. If github removes it, it will move somewhere else and be harder to keep a thumb on. That’s fine, I was curious because this “research” wouldn’t have happened in the first place if the malware was elsewhere. It sounds like intent here matters…
I honestly don't think so. They are presented as New Information by the Dear Leaders, why would they lie?
https://archive.ph/ezjFz
How many well-written code bases have you seen?

React is a PITA to learn, and even the easiest frameworks encounter devs who jump right in and commit shot code to deliver "value" right away, only for that code to live on forever haunting the devs left with mess after the founder coders move on.
Ungoogled Chromium removes those pesky manifestv3 changes as well? The ones which make uBlock basically non-functional.
In their holier than thou attitude (shared by some here) you have to pay to do anything. And that's how you pay to use the web with their browser.
This is really great feedback and not even trying to sell you on a marketing book or something.
I think it goes further than just bad communication though. This policy is the typical cover-your-ass method of giving yourself as broad of a license to user data as legally possible.

An organization like Mozilla should take a stance and do the opposite by making their policy as narrow as possible.

This costs more in legal costs, but for an organization that defines itself as a champion of user privacy and control this should be the natural choice.
>>and this distinguishes it from other wacky kinds of space that mathematicians like to try things out in.

What other space apart from 3 dimensional space exists? And what does that even mean?
5070xt will likely be at $800-850 with my local/import tax while 5070ti is now at $1200-1300.
Those companies aren't propped up by substantial quantities of volunteer labor. The volunteers rebelled against Eich when he made it clear he would not apologize for trying to take away the human rights of the people volunteering to support the project. It was a complete failure of leadership on his part.
Is the only hope to resolve this Verizon fighting this out in court?
Instead we're stuck behind people trying to make their phones do something and taking PoS surveys...
Speaking of Edge, every so often it resets by default search engine to Bing (from Kagi), and it requires about 10 clicks in a well hidden away setting to restore it.
Ask HN: Can I Post Train my own LLM?
I don't want to pre-train because theres so many models out there already BUT I don't like their 'vibe'. can i post train my own model on select texts to make said model feel how I want it to?

doesn't need to be a massive model either. just want to keep it simple.

Thanks!!!
Getting down voted for a reasonable opinion shall be worn as a badge of honor, citizen.
I didn’t find this rude. I would prefer to not die on an airplane.
The most alarming thing to me was that early versions of Spotify would scan your local computer to find music to share. I had to ban it from my office network. My employees had no idea that it was doing that and no way to prove that it was only sharing music.
I still use Skype, mainly out of habit, but I guess it's finally time to move on. Telegram seems like the best alternative for me, but I wonder—what are others switching to? Feels like every few years, we have to migrate to a new chat platform.
While waterfax highlights a problematic section of Mozilla's change:

> UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we 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, 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. (Emphasis mine)

And they mention that we need to see the context behind this change -- but what they don't to -- is point out that the update clarification makes the whole situation even more problematic than it was previously.

The private notice indicates they use data to:

1. To provide and improve search functionality
2. To serve relevant content and advertising on Firefox New Tab
3. To provide Mozilla accounts
4. To provide AI Chatbots
5. To provide Review Checker, including serving sponsored content
6. To provide and enable add-ons (addons.mozilla.org)
7. To maintain and improve features, performance and stability
8. To improve security
9. To understand usage of Firefox
10. To market our services
11. To pseudonymize, de-identify, aggregate or anonymize data
12. To communicate with you
13. To comply with applicable laws, and identify and prevent harmful, unauthorized or illegal activity

1,2,4,5,10 are problematic. We don't want those things. Mozilla wants those things. The problem isn't the lack of context behind the changes, the problem is Mozilla wants to be able to use our 'input' data for whatever they want, and I don't want them to.

They said they're the privacy focused browser; and they're not. That's a lie. I moved from Chrome to Firefox precisely because I couldn't trust Google. Now I can't trust Firefox.
> You aren't legally allowed to use charitable donations to fund web browser development

Why not?
I do something similar for daily notes for work. I have a shell alias `tdw` for `TODO work` which opens a YYYY-MM.md file in vim. Inside of that markdown file I use a vim macro that generates a date similar to what is shown in calendar.txt, where I take notes about what I am working on and what I have worked on. Here's ane example of what it looks like:

## 2025-02-27 W09 Thursday

- Team standup
- Looking up flights to Venus
- Meeting with Acme
- Discuss hydrocoptic marzlevanes
- TODO: read up on them <http://example.com/docs/hydrocoptic-marzlevanes>
- (personal) Feed the dragon
- #5934 Fix glitch in dingle arm reciprocator

I kind of like the calendar.txt idea of prefixing every line with the date, because it makes grepping easier, but at the same time, it doesn't allow for sub-lists and more detailed notes about what was worked on. It hasn't been a big enough problem to deal with though, because of things like `grep -i -B10 encabulator`

The vim macro I use is:

" Macro To Do Today
nmap mtdt <esc>O<CR><esc>k"=strftime('## %F W%V %A')<CR>Pa<CR><CR>-
I see a lot of pessimism here which makes me think Elon Musk is right when he says they are just having some fun and people lack a sense of humor. Cheer up, people! Geez. /s
It's mental overhead; if App A's checkboxs look different than the ones in App B, then I have to switch that mental context every time I switch windows. If everything uses the same controls, then that consistency means users don't have to think about the controls.
For those interested, see slide 4 of section 7: Hertzian dipoles

https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/ece350/ece350lecture_n...
No one said it wasn't. It was not legal the way it was done.
The U.S. still has competition from Europe and China, no? I'm not convinced that the puritanical fanatics would ever make the rational decision to ease up on their efforts for the sake of the economy. For non-Western examples, see Iran and Afghanistan since the mid 20th century.
"DOGE style" as in "firing everybody, regardless of merit and often because of it, starting with whoever is easiest to fire"?

Perhaps you should be going about this from the other direction: offering your "real, objective" process to DOGE.
Don't get me wrong: I believe what is happening in the US is catastrophic.
Here are the facts regarding the situation with Starlink, the FAA, and the Verizon contract as of February 28, 2025:
The FAA awarded Verizon a $2.4 billion contract in 2023 to upgrade its air traffic control communication system, known as the FAA Enterprise Network Services (FENS) program.

As of February 27, 2025, reports indicate the FAA is considering canceling this contract and potentially shifting the work to Starlink, a SpaceX subsidiary owned by Elon Musk.

The FAA has not finalized this decision, stating "no decisions have been made" about the Verizon contract.

Currently, the FAA is testing three Starlink terminals: one in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and two at non-safety-critical sites in Alaska.

Elon Musk has claimed the existing Verizon system (though later corrected to an L3Harris system) is failing rapidly, posing risks to air travelers, and that Starlink is providing terminals "at no cost to the taxpayer on an emergency basis." The FAA has not publicly confirmed this risk assessment.

SpaceX employees are working within FAA facilities, assisting with technology upgrades, amid a broader Trump administration effort to modernize the agency.

The process to unwind a federal contract and reassign it typically requires a competitive bidding process or justification under specific legal exceptions (e.g., national security or urgent public interest), which has not been publicly detailed in this case.
Even if it was cheaper, permanently, I just don't think that the CEO of the company doing the contract should be in charge of the decision to choose that company.

Since governments are positions of power and demand trust, the appearance of not being corrupt is almost as important as the actual act of not being corrupt.

Personally I don't know that I think that any acting CEO should be in charge of government decisions, but even if I was more amenable to that, I think we shouldn't have one who will directly financially benefit from these decisions. It just gives an appearance of impropriety, and it erodes trust in our institutions, which I think are important. I would be similarly against the Verizon CEO being in charge of this decision.

Suppose they hired a disinterested third party, someone with experience with communications infrastructure, who doesn't stand to directly benefit from this [1], and then that person determined that Starlink was actually the best product for the money for this; that would be fine. I'm not opposed to everything that the Diablo cheater has ever breathed on, and if Starlink is the best tool for the job then it's totally fine to use it.

[1] I know everyone has an S&P500 fund or something, so most professionals in the US could indirectly benefit.
Do you assume that it working means official support? I had been under the impression that RDNA had unofficial ROCm support.
You mean fine-tune?
Pi Network's Token Debuts at $195B Value Despite Minimal Liquidity
you and the guy you are answering too are not talking the same language (technically yes but you are putting different meanings to the same words).

this would lead to a pointless conversation, if it were to ever happen.
> Are you referring to the private one time donation of a thousand dollars as activism?

Uh, yes? If activism does not include political donations, then nothing is activism.
While the modern web is complicated, there's a few things working in Ladybird's favor.

Web Platform Tests (1) make it significantly easier to test your compliance with W3C standards. You don't have to reverse engineer what other engines are doing all the time.

The standards documents themselves have improved over time, and are relatively comprehensive at this point. Again, you don't have to reverse engineer what other engines are doing, the spec is relatively comprehensive.

Ladybird has chosen to not add a JIT compiler for JS and Wasm, reducing complexity on the JS engine. They're already reached (or exceeded) other JS engines on the ECMAScript Test Suite Test262 (2).

There's a big differential between the level of investment in Chromium and the other engines - in part because Chrome / Chromium are often doing R&D to build out new specifications, which is more work than implementing a completed specification. There's also a large amount of work that goes into security for all three major engines - which (for now) is less of a concern for Ladybird.

I'm confident that the Ladybird team will hit their goal of Summer 2026 for a first Alpha version on Linux and macOS. They'll cut a release with whatever they have at that point - it's already able to render a large swathe of the modern web, and continues to improve month-on-month.

(1) https://web-platform-tests.org/
(2) https://test262.fyi/
Similar reaction here. I will also note that it seems to know a lot more about me than previous models. I’m not sure if this is a broader web crawl, more space in the model, or more summarization of our chats or a combination, but I asked it to psychoanalyze a problem I’m having in the style of Jacques lacan and it was genuinely helpful and interesting, no interview required first; it just went right at me.

To borrow an iain banks word, the “fragre” def feels improved to me. I think I will prefer it to o1 pro, although I haven’t really hammered on it yet.
A non-profit foundation is allowed to earn revenue from a product. It just can't transfer that revenue to the owners of the foundation or spend it on dividends.
Dont worry, the Corpo Wolves will battle out in court. Us lambs have nothing to worry about.
Implying Windows Nvidia > Linux Nvidia?
Anyone knows of an alternative to Skype to make free calls to 1-800 numbers? I was keeping Skype in my back pocket during trips abroad for that exact reason (allowed me to get away with using data only eSIMs and still be able to call bank/airline if something happens).
You'll get better efficiency running a Stirling engine from a lightweight solar collector. I actually wonder how it would compare if you equalize the weight.
It's also an inefficient use of ICBMs or whatever "system" is being used to "deliver" the bomb to the target (which BTW is more expensive than the bombs themselves).
So many tempting options...

Can you recommend a tool and open your accounting workflow, marttt?

Are there any pain points, like filling tax forms or handling travel paperwork?
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766358
The ROCm libraries were built for RDNA 4 starting in ROCm 6.3 (the current ROCm release). I'm not sure whether that means it will be considered officially supported in ROCm 6.3 or if it's just experimental in that release.
I looked at your demo video, and website.

A game is like a story or movie, or any other creative work: foremost, you need a vision; and then a way of communicating it effectively to an audience.

The design, mechanics, and marketing are just functional details - essential, of course, but pointless without that overarching vision.

Your vision should be powerful, purposeful, and exciting (to you). It's more than just an 'idea'; there should be feelings associated with it (urgency, mystery, thrills, whatever) and a sense of a consistent inner 'story'. It fuels the passion that drives you to solve a series of problems that lead to game creation.

A relevant short essay: "Drunk, and in Charge of a Bicycle" by Ray Bradbury. (And probably the rest of the essays in his book, "Zen in the Art of Writing"...)

(Note: I have a game in the iOS App Store)
I think it's safe now to call Mozila's management as criminals. They are using old Mozilla's reputation to profit off people's data.
There's room but neither GPU vendor is willing to sell 32gb at that price
Machine Learning About Venture Capital Choices
European VC's missed five unicorns that are currently valued at over 2BN euro each. This study shows that VC's misallocate capital in predictable patterns by analyzing a dataset of french companies and investments. These patterns show that they are ignoring objective company metrics and are over-relying on subjective founder qualities.

Sounds like a VC firm that employs machine learning might actually out perform firms relying purely on human judgement. Of course the dataset only covered France, so it's uncertain if this research would replicate in the much bigger US market.
> Why don't we consider trying to pass laws that hurt your coworkers to qualify as "being nasty with coworkers"?

Because "advocating for laws that potentially negatively affect coworkers" and "actually being nasty with coworkers" is a difference in proportion of at least 100000 (maybe slightly less if your advocacy effects a lot of votes).

By cancel-campaigning against Eich you basically

1) Discriminate against someone for a political view they held (5 years ago!)

2) Suffocate honest discussion/debate about any affected topic

3) Directly promote creation of cultural echo chambers

You also make the workplace an observably more hostile place for anyone that leans more on Eichs side on the topic.

On the other hand, what does the whole thing actually achieve? I don't even see accusations of anyone actually being affected, in the workplace, by Eichs views (and that would be the bare minimum to demonstrate actual harm).
Sure my share for knowledge live human DJs (about 75% of the time- they also have a few talk shows) is https://www.xray.fm/
I contributed heavily to a paper once. One of my reviewers lit it on fire with ample, good criticism.

There may be problems with the system (show me one without), but it does work.
I vaguely remember they making unusable in some situation that many people wanted, and people drifted away from it.

Combined with not advertising it at all recently, and other services taking the spotlight ("Let's facetime!"), I'm not surprised that people have largely stopped using it.
the article details how github is spammed by multiple people who read one guide. not every single one of the 1000 repos is THE SAME breed of malware. some overlap, maybe. but some is c#, some is rust, some is python. out of those that are python, some are obfuscated with this love/trust/joy obfuscator, some use pyarmor, some are compiled with nuitka. no, the guide does not instruct you which malware strain to use, only how to game github for traffic.

if it was that simple it would be a solved problem. i encourage you to give it a shot
Recently, MB released the first-ever percentage-based budgeting app, reshaping the space of money management.

Their new design, however, seems a bit off—they've adopted an ultra-minimalistic approach for their landing page.

What do you think of it?

Is this the future?