skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have never seen for instance Biden or Obama close one make fascist salute

I've seen Biden be the most authotarian president of the 3 with his COVID policies (shared by authoritarian govs across the world, and I don't mean Saudi, but France or Canada) but that's definitely supported by partisans.

I also saw Obama expand on Bush's war crimes and civil rights erosions with cheers instead of criticisms.

But people like you are fixated in alleged symbolism. In looks and form instead of function.

Forgive me if I don't take "this difficult times we're living" democrat types seriously when they can consistently criticise governments.

You've lost your moral high ground.
I have "Download new updates when available" turned off (as well as the other three options) but my mac still shows me this dialog. This also means it ignores my preference to not download new updates when available.
I think you're interpreting "as you indicate with your use of Firefox." in some weird charitable way. Law doesn't work like that.
Thank you. I think yours is actually more insightful than what I remember writing “they operate on respect”

“Respect me” is more insightful.
they had to rebuild it, original Skype was written in delphi
One neat thing I know about HCN and early chemical evolution is that some DNA bases can be created from HCN polymerisation.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31491/

Like if you look at adenine, it is 'just' N-C-N-C all the way round.
You have been nitpicking on minutiae while blatantly ignoring the broader context. What is your stance on Mozilla removing the "we don't sell your data" clause as indicated in other comments? You have been latching on wordings and dragging people in clarification contests, but have been carefully avoiding to respond to this not at all vague statement/fact.

Here, let me repeat some of the comments you ignored:

ndiddy 4 hours ago | unvote | parent | prev | next [–]

Given that Mozilla updated their site a couple days ago to remove any wording along the lines of "Firefox will never sell your data to advertisers" when a flag associated with the new Firefox terms of use is enabled (see https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...), I'm not so sure that this is a CYA about standard web browser usage.

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> {% if switch('firefox-tou') %}

<p>Firefox is independent and a part of the not-for-profit Mozilla, which fights for your online rights, keeps corporate powers in check and makes the internet accessible to everyone, everywhere. We believe the internet is for people, not profit. You’re in control over who sees your search and browsing history. All that and exceptional performance too.</p>

{% else %}

<p>Firefox is independent and a part of the not-for-profit Mozilla, which fights for your online rights, keeps corporate powers in check and makes the internet accessible to everyone, everywhere. We believe the internet is for people, not profit. Unlike other companies, we don’t sell access to your data. You’re in control over who sees your search and browsing history. All that and exceptional performance too.</p>

{% endif %}

The proof is in the code, great work.
He knew that and talked about and used alledgedly illegal files. He should just not do the drugs himself and fire everyone who eats from the forbidden fruit and he would be fine.
They’re pointing out the hypocrisy and it’s a solid point.

The correct challenge to this “Joe fogan” person is it seems Spotify spent a lot of money on an exclusive contract. That’s different to alllowing someone to use your platform. YouTube didn’t pay him millions to be on their platform, at least from what I can tell.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52736364
Thunderbird on my Debian desktop, BlueMail on Android.

Thunderbird gives me the irrites because of it's mbox storage format isn't robust. That's because isn't journaled, and POSIX append to file isn't reliable. It doubly irritating because their is robust alternative: maildir. Also it's google calendar plugin doesn't work if someone shares an invite with you. But on the positive side it's IMAP so losing local data isn't a disaster, and everything else about it is better than the proprietary alternatives.

BlueMail's nit is it isn't open source. Everything else is literally perfect. It's more capable the GMail or Outlook for example, which amazes me. I don't understand how / why they make it available for free, in fact it's downright suspicious, given it's so good I'd pay for it if there was a way. Still, I'd abandon it for an open source alternative if they did basic stuff like support subfolders. FairEmail doesn't. k9 was worse when I tried it.
Had to make this into a country ditty on Suno.

https://suno.com/song/556b62fc-bcd8-4757-951a-018c5cf0a60b
Be patient.
Thanks for taking the time to reach out! I'm currently working on this feature, and features like this. However, a major issue I'm running into is licensing. Although arXiv allows for free download of papers for personal use, we're not allowed to host these papers on our own without the explicit permission of each author. Furthermore, arXiv api is capped at 3 requests per second, which is way too little to scrape any meaningful amount of data. However, I am still working on a solution for this and hearing your feedback really helps!
Let me guess: chmod775 will not reply to this comment.
Ok, maybe they'll mind when a downburst sinks their yacht with their family ob board.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l8kj1p0ylo
We are not talking about price sensitive customers though. Hashicorp shut out all customers who wanted a fixed price agreement with RUM.
The Nomad team is a big reason why I am using it and I am sad to see you go.
I always liked Visual BASIC 6.0 and Delphi UI building and code generation. I can't seem to find any FOSS tool that works the same.
I second the TUI argument here.

Back in ... maybe 2005 or what, in our ~60 people family business, I had the pleasure to watch an accountant use our bespoke payroll system. That was a DOS-based app, running on an old Pentium 1 system.

She was absolutely flying through the TUI. F2, type some numbers, Enter, F5 and so on and so on, at an absolutely blistering speed. Data entry took single-digit seconds.

When that was changed to a web app a few years later, the same action took 30 seconds, maybe a minute.

Bonus: a few years later, after we had to close shop and I moved on, I was onboarding a new web dev. When I told him about some development-related scripts in our codebase, he refused to touch the CLI. Said that CLIs are way too complicated and obsolete, and expecting people to learn that is out of touch. And he mostly got away with that, and I had to work around it.

I keep thinking about that. A mere 10 years before, it was within the accepted norm for an accountant to drive a TUI. Inevitable, even. And now, I couldn't even get a "programmer" to execute some scripts. Unbelievable.
Grooveshark was great.

I understand the need to protect intellectual property, and much as I hate how it is run in the US, copyright it vital, but it’s sad that platforms like Grooveshark are casualties of our system.

In around 2009, I remember my dad used to listen to music on his laptop a lot, but getting songs synchronized between different computers was a pain in the ass before the days of Plex or Jellyfin and the like. When I introduced him to Grooveshark, it was sort of huge for him; he started making tons of playlists, and it was easy to listen to stuff everywhere. IIRC he figured out how to install Flash on his early Android phone so he could stream Grooveshark from his car.
Truly hopeful.
As a non-legal word of advice: when reading legal text, always read defensively. Never assume good will when legal matters are concerned.
It's Time to Retire Terraform (2024)
Google was profitable when it went public in 2004. But yeah, no longer about raising capital.
> I can understand why people don’t want to see this discussion here, especially users who aren’t American and thus aren’t directly affected

TBH from Europe I can sense already some news fatigue. US defaultism is palpable, especially considering that the US is perceived not as the biggest or most important - we are talking about 300mil people - but rather as the loudest, noisiest kid in the back of the room, which honestly isn't even that funny, interesting or brilliant.
I find rectangle to be pretty good after needing a replacement for sizeup when development stopped there. My solution is to just ignore the existence of the full screen windows in favor of using the max window size shortcut to fill the current display. Then I can send a window to another display or resize it with shortcuts that are easy enough to get used to and avoid all the transitions that take seconds. The whole full screen experience is so bad otherwise, and this is from someone that is very used to the trackpad and all their gestures.
> I'm a heavy user of Terraform and Vault products. Both do not belong to this era.

So do you find Terraform and Vault good or bad? (sorry, not a native English speaker and I had problems to transcript the sentence)
but what about rich people that live on higher floors in apartment blocks? what do they do?
Who the heck denies traditional architecture? My friends were studying architecture along side me in college, they have tons of studies on classical architecture.

Heck I know about classical building methods, styles and the economics behind them and I’m not even an architect.

And I was not even born in the west.

Like, I don’t expect a neophyte architect to use methods that can build houses only up to 3 stories based on stonework.

They need to use drywall and construction methods unique to their locality.

But there’s thousands of other and file architects, and thousands more who make insane and wonderful things, along with professors who …

Dear heavens, What happened on your journey?

Besides - there’s always place for new and interesting, if rebellion is your go to motif - have at it.

Modern itself was a rebellion against older forms and thinking.
Remember when Mac was intuitive?

I dig these cheat sheets but wow, what a total shift in paradigm from when you had one mouse button and if a feature wasn’t discoverable then it wasn’t shipped
All I want is an app that can fix the "broken window" focus management. Like when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app, and when an app (say, Finder) has no window open currently, bringing it to front also unaskedly manipulates the stacking order such that other app's windows become the top most one, completely destroying the visual context. Also, back in the days I used Expose a lot to navigate, but it has completely lost any spatial determinism and usefulness for me. These issues are very noticable, and feel gross and like a team of ignorants has messed around; it's very irritating that nobody is speaking about it.
Not if they were getting it from PirateBay and partook in also seeding the files others.
OpenTofu is doing just fine ! Give it a whirl.
you can do that today, I've been downloading and trying this out since before it was spun off SerenityOS

HN is (supposed to be) a technical community so pulling the code and building it is no problem
Raycast has only rudimentary file workflows. Constant efforts for monetization (VC money) and milking AI hype are just cherries on top.
> if you were going to slip something unpopular into a foss project policy, wouldn’t you want the public updates to be vague enough to not technically be lying about anything while also being plausibly innocuous?

If a company was being competently "evil"[1] then it probably would look like this!

Personally, I don't know that I consider Mozilla competent enough to reach that bar though given a lot of their previous blunders seemed like, well, blunders and not finely crafted acts of trickery.

> that seems like the kind of thing they’d clear up pretty easily if it were that innocuous

I suppose in this scenario, if it were innocuous and this is just some automated mirroring thing that someone triggered without realising the optics of, I wouldn't then automatically assume that same organisation would have a level of coordination to recognise or put out a blanket statement about the issue?

I mean, you'd think surely some amount of Firefox/Mozilla folks are very online and this would be raised internally but if this is downstream of some process owned by mostly legal and non-internet/chat using folks, it might make sense that they a) take some time to be notified, b) take some time to realise a lot of the internet is saying "What the fuck" and c) take a while to figure out what to do about it (ie; issue a press release to not make it worse? someone higher up acks and is like reverse whatever this mess is?)

My only real basis for all this is I've occasionally run into some compliance/legal types in tech and they can have extremely bad mental models of the company and product they work for so I can feasibly believe this all being accidental but in saying that, I dunno who works for Mozilla and this is very much a stereotype I'm applying.

Anyway, as above, I'm not saying this isn't malicious, just that personally I think the door is still open that this could all be a complete mess that has no real intent behind it
Kiwi browser is abandoned
they forced to ship it anyway, cause what??? this cost money and I mean a lot of fcking money

You better ship it
No fan of Brave here, but you can, yeah.
Using Cursor, I, who can't write code replicated an AI application
After seeing so many Cursor tutorials, I, who has been in product operation for 5 years, finally used Cursor. My hard work paid off and I reproduced an application that generates the stories behind songs with AI. I used Deepseek API. Except that the response time was a bit slow, I was very satisfied with it.
>standards for image quality increased very quickly

In 1997 as long as game started at all and you could more or less see whats going on it was considered ok and probably not a scam. It was a time of "accelerators" like Matrox with no texturing support, S3 running slower than in fully software mode, with most vendors missing crucial blending modes and filtering.

vlaskcz has a great Youtube series called "Worst Game Graphics Cards" and its pretty much every single vendor that isnt 3dfx up to 1998. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ljjj4LTDc&list=PLOeoPVvEK8...
I think the issue goes beyond this. I get that Apple was always opinionated and wanted to ship intuitive features. Now they lost track of the intuitive and continued with the opinionated part, which degrades the experience in my opinion.
It's been good using hashicorp tools, now IBM is going to run them to the ground. I need to look into the fork of tf now.
Not necessarily.

If this huge model has taken months to pre-train and was expected to be released before, say, o3-mini, you could definitely have some last-minute optimizations in o3-mini that were not considered at the time of building the architecture of gpt-4.5.
Your outie uses Alfred.
> Claims that CEO pay is the problem when it's 1% of annual revenue.

I fully support Mozilla. I don't think this change is bad. However, I do think executive pay should be reined in. Not just the CEO but the board as well. It is also not just about the money but the culture as well. I sincerely believe the CEO shouldn't make more than the median employee salary. This is too much.
Never had a comment translated into song.
That was awesome! Thank you! :)
> I've found the rush to distributed computing when it's not strictly necessary kinda baffling.

I'm not entirely sure you understand the problem domain, or even the high-level problem. The is or ever was a "rush" to distributed computing.

What you actually have is this global epifany that having multiple computers communicating over a network to do something actually has a name, and it's called distributed computing.

This means that we had (and still have) guys like you who look at distributed systems and somehow do not understand they are looking at distributed systems. They don't understand that mundane things like a mobile app supporting authentication or someone opening a webpage or email is a distributed system. They don't understand that the discussion on monolith vs microservices is orthogonal to the topic of distributed systems.

So the people railing against distributed systems are essentially complaining about their own ignorance and failure to actually understand the high-level problem.

You have two options: acknowledge that, unless you're writing a desktop app that does nothing over a network, odds are every single application you touch is a node in a distributed system, or keep fooling yourself into believing it isn't. I mean, if a webpage fails to load then you just hit F5, right? And if your app just fails to fetch something from a service you just restart it, right? That can't possibly be a distributed system, and those scenarios can't possibly be mitigated by basic distributed computing strategies, isn't it?

Everything is simple to those who do not understand the problem, and those who do are just making things up.
We had a tower of bable collapse, when we switched to web UI.
We gained a million things and lost a million things.
There was an era from around 1985 to early 2000s,
where a large majority of applications had a (somewhat) consistent UI,
based partially around MS-Windows, partially around some IBM 'common ui' design guide principles.
The hall-marks of it was
- keyboard navigation was possible
- mostly consistent keyboard nav
- common limited set of UI controls with consistent behaviour
- for serious applications, there was some actual thought related to how the user was supposed to navigate through the system during operation (efficiency)

Post-web and post 9/11, where web browser UI has infested everything,
we are now in a cambryan explosion of crayon-eating UI design.

It seems our priorities have been confused by important things like 'Hi George. I just noticed, that for the admin panels in our app, the background colours of various controls get the wrong shade of '#DEADBF' when loading on the newest version of Safari, can you figure out why that happens?'. 'Oh, and the new framework for making smushed shadows on drop-downs seems to have increased our app's startup time on page transitions from 3.7 seconds to 9.2 seconds, is there any way we can alleviate that, maybe by installing some more middleware and a new js framework npm module? I heard vite should be really good, if you can get rid of those parts where we rely on webpack?'
I'll never get over the fact that I had to pay $8 just to have two windows split side-by-side without using the obtuse and intrusive fullscreen mode.
Note that there are two different matching products:

- iTunes Match: matches files by audio fingerprint and gives you 256k AAC unDRM'd files. If it doesn't match, uploads files to "iTunes in the Cloud" digital locker feature (files may be converted to AAC prior to uploading). Costs in the order of 20-ish € a year.

- Apple Music: matches files by audio fingerprint and gives you 256k AAC FairPlay-protected files. Can't recall if it uploads (I think it does?) and how it converts (might convert to FairPlay protected?).

Both have song count limit (10k or something for iTunes in the Cloud), and they may differ (not sure, Apple Music may be higher).

If you have both, iTunes Match applies.
This strategy worked out well for FTX
One thing that’s been annoying me about desktop/window management is that whenever I’ve organized my windows that I need for one project on one desktop, I eventually need to upgrade vscode or warp or macOS needs to be updated. And then restarting an app it forgets on which desktop each window was running… I typically have 3-5 projects open that I switch between (and trying to organize them on different desktops has been sort of futile.)

Anyone know how to pin a window to a desktop so that it remembers this across restarts?
From Wikipedia: When Lotus 1-2-3 was launched in 1983,..., VisiCalc sales declined so rapidly that the company was soon insolvent.
The internet is unusable without uBlock. At this point I don't have a browser preference, I only have a uBlock preference. I'll use whatever browser that has good uBlock support.
He launched Megaupload two years before Dropbox. Kim could have pivoted there, then expanded to docs/collaboration. Yes, hindsight is 20:20, but in theory it would have been possible moving from a piracy-centric business model to regular cloud storage/collaboration for businesses and small teams.

Regulatory does not matter if your product does not matter. Megaupload did matter, and did not solve the regulatory problem or change the business model.

Maybe it came too early for the solution or alternative business models to become apparent.
> In the early days FreeBSD support via Wine was great due to one of the core developers being a fellow FreeBSD user.

I used a bit later on linux via Wine and it was working just fine. One of the best Wine experiences I had back then.

I still remember my confusion when native linux client came out and crashed, produced choppy output or had issues to start at all... Weird times.
> My advice is to celebrate the successes of large corporates in this regard very hard and often - this provides backup to the champions on the inside.

I am wondering what the metrics / KPIs are they are tracking to see if open sourcing something is a success or not. Can't be just "sales went up for retro games when we open sourced" - there must be something like community reception and retention, general acceptance or whatever...

But yes, I agree. Let's celebrate this and hope for more.
> I wish something like AOL would come back around

https://www.thelaughline.com/the-diary-of-an-aol-user/
They can open source it.
I was long time Kiwi user, then changed to Cromite recently. But I missed uBlock Origin so I decided to give Edge a try. And fyi, Kiwi browser is discontinued. [1]

[1]: https://browsernative.com/kiwi-browser-discontinued-7097/
It's 736 LOC now.

Last 2 lines, 735 and 736:

# Start the event loop with the main coroutine
event_loop(main())
Tbf though, UBO Lite works well enough in the 'optimal' filter mode. On the pages I visit regularly I see no difference to UBO.
That best describes Obama, Biden and Kamala to be honest. Maybe not Kamala, I don't think she's smart enough. People try to proclaim Trump's lust for women to be a problem, but Fallen Messiah Obama was confirmed LGBT when we learned about Larry Sinclair. And I am convinced he's scared of Big Momma. Trump is not in sheep's clothing. He does profess a belief in Christ. Which for the antichrist is impossible, so that particular claim cannot be true.
I just deleted it from my phone, yesterday. I haven't actively used it in I don't know how many years; maybe briefly last year when traveling o/s and needing to make a landline call to a number back home, but other than that, pretty much no use for years, and lately all I've been getting was crypto spam group chats.

I remember how amazing it seemed when I was doing the "digital nomad" thing in the mid-late 00s, using Skype to redirect my landline number from home to my mobile (some Nokia thing, whatever was the best one for 20-somethings in 2006) with a local SIM as I caught buses around Thailand and Vietnam. It seemed so futuristic and exciting to be able to break free of the constraints of being stuck in one place - to travel around exotic places but still be connected to your work and contacts at home.

That said, most of the calls I received on that trip were telemarketing nuisance calls, so, as always, the reality didn't quite live up to the fantasy. Still, looking back it feels like it was a more optimistic and wondrous time.
Ubuntu Unity had that first, way before Windows had morphed the task bar to something dock like.
For users who will miss custom filtering in uBlock Origin, AdGuard supports custom filtering and is compatible with Manifest V3. Custom filter lists from uBlock Origin can be imported into AdGuard. However, AdGuard lacks the element picker function.
WASM Wayland Web (WWW)