skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved to Waterfox on Android and, in a couple of small things, it works better for me than Firefox; but being a soft fork it has some of the problems of LibreFox.

As the post is saying: I'm disappointed, but there is no technical reason to drop Firefox for now. Yet I feel like I must do something when the ToS is still hot, although I don't expect any change from Mozilla.
I have been out of the field for some time, so I am not sure how much BLAST is used these days.

Therer was a time when BLAST-ing a DNA and protein sequence you have is like doing a Google search on it: it simply tells you where the sequence might come from. This is useful especially when your research is to figure out what that specific sequence is doing. It won't give you the answer immediately (otherwise why bother doing the research at all), but it certainly gives context: sequence similarity often hints at similar / related functions.

As an analogy: imagine if StackOverflow is suddenly down and you don't know *if* it's going to be up again.
Why are people assuming this was done intentionally? Is there more info somewhere describing the outage? I would typically assume that there’s some error or intentional crash.
I did a quick test, it looks like if you have set a DNS server like 1.1.1.1 you can still access it. But if you haven't, you can't.
I think an important application will be enabling the robots to have these conversations with each other, in order to replace actors.
We got a few OpenStack-based clouds.

https://www.open-telekom-cloud.com/en

https://www.stackit.de/en/
Vandalism and gross negligence _is_ the function of the government now. Failure is the goal.
Vivaldi is chromium based and not open-source.
What you do will, in part, depend on how you feel about 2 things:

1. Mozilla is now an advertising business - see e.g. links in this El Reg post [0].

2. How you feel about the alternatives.

Behind the PR bluffing of the last few days, #1 is clear. Mozilla has hitched the wagon to advertising.

There's unlikely to be a single good answer for #2. All the alternatives have compromises: Vivaldi is chrome-based and has some closed source code; Brave has crypto and Eich's political views (and also chrome-based; the various firefox forks (LibreWolf, PaleMoon, Waterfox, ...) all have questions over their sustainability.

Perhaps the most promising is Ladybird, but it's a good way off yet.

Let's hope we're near the botton of the enshitification curve and there are positives on the horizon somewhere.

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_te...
You should refrain from pushing Elon and his destructive nonsense.
I decided to just stay with Firefox and disable any rubbish that Mozilla adds as it comes.

I tried Librewolf, but the unstable RPM repository was very annoying, because zypper disallows system updates if even one repository fails to refresh. I also had some weird issues keeping it pinned to my desktop environment's dock. It also didn't want to save its window geometry (very annoying for me), and the only way to transfer from Firefox is to manually copy your profile data.

But mainly, I'm still dependant on Mozilla no matter where I go. They are the ones actually doing the hard work of developing the browser engine; all of these forks are just some patches upon that, so with Firefox I only have to deal with (and trust) Mozilla and my distro, and not some other project in addition to Mozilla.
They are being directed by putin to destroy the USA's influence and power in the world.

trump, thiel, and musk also see how rich russia's oligarchs are, and want to replicate russia in the USA.
You wouldn’t steal heat from a toaster.
Startups, Strategy, and Algorithms
I vaguely remember some research that suggested the [old] media is deeply enough into real estate investment to make it a political no fly zone.
Tell us you’ve not played Roblox, without telling us you haven’t played roblox…
Yes, there are many use cases where emotional voices are not needed, but that's not the point.

The core is not to have emotional voices, but to train neural networks to emulate emotions (not just for voices). Humans are very emotional beings, and if you want to communicate with them effectively, you will need the emotional layer. Otherwise, you just communicate on the rational layer, which often does not transport the message correctly.

Think of humans as 20% rational and 80% emotional.

And I say that as a person who believed for a long time that I was 80% rational and just 20% emotional ;-)
it's much faster for development and prototyping to production, because:

- doesn't require any external ASGI in Prod

- has in-built CORS

- Rust runtime

in my opinion
I moved to LibreWolf - https://librewolf.net/
Which is... annoying in voice interactions on the web. I purposefully set up my mic to avoid any echo and sound pretty direct like a radio host. Adding a simulated environment is less of a problem than getting a good baseline.
Strix Halo is the old name of the Ryzen AI MAX+, a CPU/GPU hybrid also used in the recently announced Framework desktop [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176314
Now I'm thinking of the Koenigsegg Dark Matter, "an 800 hp, 1250 Nm patent-pending Raxial Flux e-motor". What if it was used as a generator? It's 39Kg, although 6 phase.

Well, I'm dumb, it says max motor RPM 8500, so I don't think you'd get close to what's needed as a generator :D
I see - you think harassment and privacy violation is free speech.

Please stay away from Europe.
Do yourself a favor and go increase the text size (not zoom!) in your browser's (if not OS's) settings.
What capital gains? Everyone will be getting tax relief next year for market losses.
End users aren't domain experts. That's like if I was allowed on the factory floor where my favorite products are made so that I could make subjective, uninformed decisions about the manufacturing process which also affect everyone else.
GObject still works pretty much this way.
And at some point it's time to take action to go around a rogue non government. We have the technology, we can rebuild it.
This is like saying:

Gogole is great for one thing: brainstorming, and brainstorming is only useful if you have no idea what to do in the first place. Once you know _anything_ substantial about the subject matter Google loses its value to you.
I suppose that’s true.

I do think that your original argument that bank deposits don’t contribute to economic growth is wrong though. As you point out, they are a cheap form of liquidity for lenders. I think you’d agree that loans play a key role in economic growth.
I think that's the question on everyones minds. A judge has to order it though, which would trigger a direct confrontation between law enforcement divisions.

They could also order assets frozen or something though (I think?) which I don't understand why they don't do.
This is what the US electorate voted for.
Well I'm astounded. I talked to it for 13min, it crashed, but remembered the context when I returned a few minutes later and talked for a full 30min (it's limit).

It 99.9% felt like it performed at the level of Samantha in the movie Her.

I started asking all kinds of questions about how it worked and it mentioned a word I had to have it repeat because I hadn't heard it before: PROSODY (linguistics) — the study of elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously with individual phonetic segments: vowels and consonants.
I asked about personality settings, à la TARS from Interstellar, and it said it automatically tailored responses by listening for tone and content.

It felt like the most "the future's here but not evenly distributed" interaction I've had since multi-touch on an original iPhone.
How is this a reason for anything? Feudal lords provided 100% of paid jobs at the time, yet this was not a reason to keep that system.
Switching between forks of it seems a bit pointless to me if the base project is in trouble.

The Chrome/Chromium mono-culture google created is imo the problem here. Until a solution to that is found this will continue to be a problem
But aren't app stores are too saturated to the point where it's not much easier to discover apps compared to websites?
Almost everything has been infected by a zero-sum mindset in the US. Some other group of country wins means I must be losing, etc.

The administration doesn’t see that the entire world order is built on many positive sum relationships and coalitions that the US has asymmetrically benefited from. And the same goes for social order. Wealthy people suddenly see themselves as victims(?) of their employees, and investors blame entitled tech employees for companies problems. When the reality is that employee and management - and social classes - benefit economically by supporting each other.
I'm not sold that avoiding Chromium is any sort of win. It seems to be BSD licensed. The code comes from a long and storied OSS tradition.

It is unclear why that having multiple different browser engines is strategically important. As far as I know we've long left behind the world where a hobbyist project could reasonably expect to implement modern JavaScript. Brave's existence and success suggests that competitors building on Chromium are viable.

Not to say it is a bad thing to have alternatives floating around; but at this point it is probably easier to have multiple forks of Chromium than strive to have code with a completely independent genealogy.
All of that should be covered by not allowing illegal content ?
It is well-known, but it seems like it is hip to be indifferent on this sinking ship.
The kernel is only a small part of the overall Linux ecosystem.

These days even GNU is a small part.

systemd, Wayland, Xorg, PulseAudio, CUPS, KDE, Gnome, etc are all maintained outside of Linus and GNUs governance.

What FOSS operating systems (and not even Linux specifically) offers is freedom to choose. But the effort of using some alternatives can be significant.

So I wouldn’t say Linux is immune to having its “well poisoned” because if Linus.
Yibico's python-fido2 library (https://github.com/Yubico/python-fido2) contains (a minimal) CBOR implementation too: https://developers.yubico.com/python-fido2/API_Documentation...

I found it wouldn't encode `None`s, but didn't dig at all, just worked around it.

Star count would place it about midway in the list.
Thank you for writing this down. Might become relevant if they don't solve that before Monday.

One can only hope this is not intentional.
Yes, court orders. But the officers that enforce them are part of the executive branch, so under Trump. They have been purging all career agents so there’s few left to willingly enforce court orders.

Its a coup.
Those are to identify who should be targeted with drones.
It's surprising to see how many people still don't get this. None of what happened so far was in any way surprising. You can literally go right now and read up what else they have planned. We're in for a wild ride.
Which is a possibility, given that ldd/Dependency Walker result won't be an empty list.

Even shipping the whole computer on a container, might not do it, because most containers are leaky abstractions the way their Dockerfiles are written.
That's already planned. The republicans want to pass another 4.5 trillion of tax cuts for the richest 0.1%

They simply lie to their supporters, and are believed because republicans are indoctrinated throughout life to believe that "government bad, corporations good, taxes bad, money good, collective power bad, individual power good"

trump said before the election he didn't know what project 2025 was. He lied, pure and simple.
Zen Browser is the closest thing to Vivaldi in Firefox fork land.
https://zen-browser.app
Democratic turnout was a problem in the 2024 election. Rah-rah is important, like it or not.
I may be wrong, but the US detention/prison system seems to be there to punish people. This is bad in and of itself, but excruciatingly awful when the people involved are innocent.

Other countries of course are worse - I hear very bad things about Japan, and in places like Syria and Russia prison is there for torture and death.

There was another recent story, about an inmate in a NYC jail being killed in what looks to be a routine beating by guards.
Online propaganda since 2014ish led the US to its current state, which is incredible. It turns out you can destroy a country with nothing more than words.
It really isn't, people just keep saying that out of habit
My needs are:

- I like Safari as a browser and can live with it - at least on Mac and Safari. But goodness, its sync and almost anything it does with iCloud is atrocious. Now, Apple being Apple they definitely wouldn’t let anyone else fix that.

- I also need to use Android where I use Safari.

I would happily ditch Safari and Firefox if I can use a browser (without crypto shenanigans, edgy UI) all I need are:

- robust sync (tab, bookmarks, and if possible preferences) across platforms (at least between iOS and Mac; and I repeat, no Safari/iCloud isn’t that)

- Decent tracking/ad blocking. Doesn’t have to be top notch

- Snappy

- I am fine with closed source because I have been using Safari all these years
If you’re just skimming and didn’t read the whole blog: this was done by high school students over the course of their high school career, makes the project even more impressive imo.
Sidelobes aren't really 'soft edges' to a main beam, they're unintended peaks at angles outside the main beam which sap gain. You can see peaks here around 29, 55 and 68 degrees:

https://www.gpsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Improved...

As such, successive GPS satellite antenna designs have been refined to reduce sidelobes, just as deep-space operators have realised they could be useful.

TLDR: sidelobes aren't like gentle feathering at the edges of a beam, they're more like petals of a daisy.
So basically metal gets rubbery when hot, and stopping something all off a sudden could have inertial forces(moving blades, gears etc) wreck the structure?

You have to shut things down step by step, so that rigidity is supplied to the metals as the inertial forces are reduced.
I believe the model is just like renting but the rent is a percentage of the value of the home. When you leave the landlord has to return part of the "rent".
Show HN: SafeHaven – A Minimal VPN Implementation in Go
Hi HN,

For the past few months, I've been exploring tools that integrate with the Linux networking stack. This led me to build SafeHaven, a lightweight and configurable VPN implementation written in Go. The goal was to better understand how virtual private networks work at a fundamental level.

Would love feedback from the community! Repo link: https://github.com/kwakubiney/safehaven
What benefit would that provide? It's just one more thing that has to be constantly maintained and could break while providing very little additional security.
Microsoft has been investing billions into OpenAI and new data centers specifically for AI. Recently that ended. Microsoft has seen no return from the investment and simply concluded AI isn’t worth it and is not the future of software.
What’s wrong with Chromium?
I would believe it was an accident or bug if it was any other administration under any other circumstance. Given the vandalism that’s already been committed against basic U.S. government functions, I have to conclude it’s malice until proven otherwise.
I think the one under "Stream Realtime" should be similar to the demo. It's only Gemini 2.0 flash though and not the full one.
There was also something like that with glassmaking in Florence hundreds of years ago.
I have to say Firefox (and forks) for Android is several levels inferior to chrome (forks). Just slower and consumes way more battery - and does not even have the customizability of alternatives.
I'd love to go with Hetzner (reliable for decades, well known etc), which has almost everything I need in their cloud offering, except an AWS RDS equivalent. OpenStack is probably worth a look!

Sounds naive I guess, but my tech choices are pretty heavily biased towards "can I quickly find someone affordable to work on it?". Makes the market leader the obvious choice, quite often. And that's currently usually a US company.
Concerning links between HPV infection and male infertility
I find this an interesting position after the news I just saw that police departments are getting cybertrucks. I know that doesn't technically mean anything but it sure has the optics of police being very unlikely to arrest doge staff.
I kinda agree to your general point but it seems awfully shortsighted and narrow in the information it's based upon.

Narrow in the sense that Russia "has rebuilt its global status" while sacrificing many of their global position: security guarantor at Caucasus collapsed with Armenia and Azerbaijan war (something western media was oddly quiet about. Maybe due to the Turkish gass pipeline project), Losing ground in Syria and even report that the their influence in Africa through Wagner etc is not as great as it used to be.

Short sighted in that the take on India is true now, but would've equally applied to China around the time of Deng and it's opening up. It was also that same short sightedness that led US (with Kissinger) to side with Pakistan which is part of the reason you can't really call India aligned to US interest in any meaningful sense.

Sensible analysis, but only based on narrow fact, and ignoring historical context and the fact that those "insignificant parameters(non global power)" stil act on their own interests and more or less have some effect. ignoring that can often blow up in your face.

That's probably why the realists, which I'm assuming you're part of from the way you put things out, while sounding good on paper don't really have a great track record (mainly Kissinger, again.) of successful decision making.

Nothing was learned in the Vietnam failure, and it was repeated in Afghanistan by that line of thoughts.
I've built something in a similar direction but more around the places where I've been based on the EXIF data of my photo library.

https://github.com/dewey/my-life-in-weeks
I use Brave as my go-to "website doesn't work in Firefox so I've got to use Chromium" browser on my phone. The constant cryptocurrency ads are really putting me off. No matter how many times I go through the settings, there's always some kind of cryptocurrency feature being placed front and center.

I guess they must be making their money off crypto bros in some fashion, but this crap is preventing me from doing anything more than necessary in that browser.

I don't think it's worth it to build Firefox from source when there are so many tiny projects out there maintaining slightly altered versions of Firefox already. You can do it yourself, but then you need to go through every line of code to check if they've added something suspicious and probably end up with some old, vulnerable version as your main browser (because who has time for that stuff).
I can see how it's worrying, but mostly as a replacement for real connections - if instead it supplements them, then not so bad.

Most children love talking to a fun adult who enjoys talking to them. As parents we hope to be that adult for them most of the time, but of course that's not easy to do all the time.

If parents made a tool like this a crutch and it replaced quality time with them or they were less likely to hang out with their friends, then yeah that's a big problem. If they use it as a learning aide or occasional fun diversion, it seems great.
> Nobody will pay for a browser.

I would, if they offered a payment-only access to Firefox with no added services and no telemetry whatsoever. I'd pay 50€ a year for that.
This article misses a crucial point. We've been training the ability to discern quality (taste) out of the population for the past 50+ years. We do this by reducing funding for Arts education, shifting STEM courses away from empirical, experimental scientific approaches and mathematical logic to rote memorization and lessons focused on creationism.

This gradual shift has allowed us to accept the disposable nature of the goods we consume today. It's all bad machine drip coffee that needs creamer for $5.

Watch an action TV show shot in the 70s that features car chases and you will see cars from the 1940s and 50s on the road. Sure, you see cars from the 90s on the road today but very few of them are American. When was the last time you saw a Saturn or a Pontiac? Those companies have only been gone 15 years.

To return to the coffee analogy, why is Starbucks so popular? Their beans are stale and over roasted and their drinks are bitter and often scalded to the point that vanilla, caramel and pumpkin lattes are more popular than regular ones. It could be argued that it's because of non-coffee offerings (pink drink, etc.) but I would argue that it's because of a lack of taste and an inability to think for ourselves -- to trust our own taste over the need to fit in to trends (be seen with a green straw or a blue text message bubble).

Isn't this why the author used ChatGPT in their example? Brand recognition. And true to form the results are terrible. AI is a product that would have been laughed out of the marketplace by a more discerning public. Sure when it's on it's amazing, but when it's off, it's terrible and nearly 100% of the time it's in-between and close-enough will get sold. This is where the author's argument says people will still buy from a barista, but if most people buy at Starbucks the barista's coffee shop goes out of business and the consumer loses the choice.

So many things are coming together in a perfect storm for profit that it is inevitable that AI will be widely adopted, jobs will be lost, products will get worse, the gap between have and have-not will increase at an accelerated rate and worst of all, no one will notice.
'He contains the whole of literature': is Dickens better than Shakespeare?
I just use a “dotfiles” folder that is a git repo and then hard-link the files in there into the home directory. One for unprivileged user and one for root on each platform. Simple enough and doesn't require an extra tool.
> Less the people who earned it, and more the people who stole it through money printing non-reserve debt issuance.

Yep. That ended and brought the entire bloated economy crashing down. Now the narcissist psychos who rode to the top of that economy are gutting everyone and everything including their own companies to float the stock prices.
Macromedia released the AS3 compiler. Adobe inherited it as OSS. Adobe were really reluctant to engage with the community on open-source development issues. They always dragged their feet on Linux support. Eventually, Adobe closed Flex Framework to external contributors, and after they donated it to Apache they undermined the community effort by not releasing the player API library, something that made automatic builds a problem (because the user had to interactively accept EULA to download that SWC).
That's my issue with all of these solo-maintained forks. It's a security nightmare, and browsers are a prime target for supply chain attacks or other forms of subterfuge. The security model just simply isn't acceptable.
Don’t worry bigballs is on it. What a clown show.
I felt that way until the last week. But I feel better using another project that mainly or only exists to strip dubious FF behavior from their code. I installed Waterfox, copied my FF profile folder, pointed Waterfox at the copy, and it has been smooth sailing.

Yes I still depend on FF, yes it makes FF just a tiny bit less sustainable, yes I might need to change browsers again. But they have pushed me over the edge with their nonstop shenanigans.
Then incompetence as as reason isn’t useful.

If it’s malice then it’s an attack. You have react differently to an attack than to incompetence.

The EU made the same mistake with Trump‘s appeasement to Putin. They hoped it’s some kind of clever negotiation tactic but they learned it’s not. It’s just two autocrats teaming up at the expense of Ukraine.