skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone here know why the pay-to-browse model never really took off?

1. Free competition and lots of it.

2. No widely adopted standard for micropayment

3. Transaction processing fees often left very little for the site.
It's almost a certainty Fischer didn't just "not notice" the bishop would be trapped, he just miscalculated further down the line (in fact if you plug it into an engine, it shows an equal evaluation)

It's one of the single biggest misconceptions ever, it gets repeated endlessly
It's really interesting how much Uber was trying to do things the right way, only to then over-correct into being the most devious and underhanded app-taxi company.

But the other company that Uber reacted to was Wingz, Inc, not Lyft.
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I thought this was already a well known thing? Spotify historically set aside the money from those song plays for any legal costs incurred by playing without a contract.
To test my privacy I us a decoy! I play porn from Hunters laptop in a loop overnight. There are so many reasons it should be reported!

So far no problems.
> Everything

I was going to say Everything was awesome as a file searcher except for its non-easily searchable name.

But when I checked in a raw Edge instance it was in fact the first result. Ho hum.

It's produced by Voidtools in case YMMV: https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
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The structure of superposition is given by solution of the Schrodinger equation. It's often continuous, e.g. electron's s orbital in atom is a continuum of coordinate eigenstates. In this case a discrete sum is replaced with an integral and Born rule becomes a function on this continuum, but a discrete case can be easier to understand, so I recommend to start with that. The proof follows the law of large numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers
These repos are targeting kids. They should be removed or at least disabled.
> You probably want to remove the disks anyways so Windows doesn’t install its boot manager to an EFI System Partition on a local disk. To boot with iPXE later, you’ll want Windows to create an EFI System Partition on the iSCSI disk. ↩

Oh the frustrations I’ve had with Windows and more than one disk during install. For months I had Windows installed on SSD, except the bootloader was on a HDD. I didn’t even realise till I removed the HDD and got the familiar no boot drive found.

Turns out if a drive has Windows on it, and then you decide to install Windows on a new drive, it will detect that bootloader on the old drive and use that. Instead of putting it on the drive you just asked it to install Windows to.

Lesson learned here is always unplug any other drives when installing Windows!
This article appears to be making the case that it's definitely just lost children trying to replace religion. Infantilising boomer logic strikes again.
If 1. and 2. are done, 5. falls very easily. It's no surprise they started with attacking Roe vs. Wade.
if i understand correctly your argument, then i would say that it is very recognizable as science

>People could tell scaling wasn't working well before the release of GPT 4.5

Yes, on quick glance it seems so from 2020 openai research into scaling laws.

Scaling apparently didn't work well, so the theory about scaling not working well failed to be falsified. It's science.
The ToU is clearly referring to the browser, not the other products of the Firefox brand family. The literal first two paragraphs:

> Firefox is free and open source web browser software, built by a community of thousands from all over the world.

> Please read these Terms of Use (“Terms”) carefully because they explain important information about using your copy of the Firefox software. These Terms are a binding agreement between Mozilla Corporation (“Mozilla”) and You. For details about Firefox privacy practices, please read the Firefox Privacy Notice.
I grow wearier by the day by the incessant calls to denounce and disown everything that isn't perfect.
Yes and this phrasing is used in many other products, like credit cards. Additionally, the fact that the phrasing can be interpreted as such means that it will be interpreted as such and so makes Mozilla's new Terms unacceptable to anyone who values their privacy or data.
#1 existed for literally 24 hours and was clearly a stupid idea.

#2 opt-in only.

#3 agreed. annoying. can opt out.

#4 opt-in only.

#5 disagreed.
To put that number in perspective, drawing just 1% of that down each year and putting in a bank account earning interest would fund 100 engineers on $500k/year indefinitely.
Can anyone comment on the difference between Waterfox and Librewolf?
I’ve used this tool before for caldav: https://github.com/pimutils/khal
Inside the browser but the code is gibberish/chunked and the HTML is not there until the component is mounted.
The writing on the wall was there since a long time ago considering the actions of the foundations leadership. They burn money like crazy on some useless stuff, no direction or idea how to bring back FF into the spotlight where it belongs.

Now with the changes with Chrome (basically killing of adblockers) they have a big window to make a play but instead they make the most idiotic move possible. Typical Mozilla - a mix of great tech (e.g. Rust) and detached from reality leadership.

I've been using Firefox since decades, even when it was a slow and buggy piece of crap compared to Chrome but now I think it is time to move to something else. But what will guarantee me I won't get a rug pull when some MBA takes the reins?
> I think ReadableStream/WritableStream APIs on browsers were supposed to change that, but I haven't followed the progress in the last few years.

There has been a lot of pushback against supporting full-duplex streams[0].

[0]: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/1254
So why doesn't my backpack come with a mandatory TOS that I won't e.g. put illegal drugs in it and bring it across the border? Why is Firefox any more liable if I used it to publish illegal content on the web than the backpack manufacturer would be if I used it to smuggle illegal content across a border?
Hijacking for a quick tip I'm not sure everyone is familiar with. On macOS, most know that Cmd + Tab will cycle through the open apps. Less well-known, Cmd + ` will cycle through windows within an app.
How many times were you in the position to ship something in cutting edge AI? Not trying to be snarky and merely illustrating the point that this is a unique situation. I’d rather they release it and let willing people experiment than not release it at all.
Good recommendation thanks. With whist, I wonder if taking out the bidding takes away some of the fun. Spades still has the bidding, it just doesn't allow for the selection of the trump suit.

Some of the conventions in Bridge seem weird too. Why not just say 8 club instead of 2 club. I get that there is a 6 trick minimum, but the convention doesn't seem necessary. There might be a good reason though.
Anyone who thinks finder is the worst file browser hasn't used Windows for 25+ years. Explorer can't even search files on the hard drive of the computer it's running on.

Explorer has its thumbnail processor on the same thread as the UI so if you have a lot of pictures in a directory it'll just hang indefinitely. Sometimes if you have too many files it won't display any at all.

If explorer crashes, it's the same process as your desktop and taskbar, so that disappears too.
Thinking in Maximums. Escaping the tyranny of incrementalism
Fix the bug where it starts in 2021
Open AI is still technically a non-profit. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Or an authoritarian propped up by popular and powerful monopolistic corporations to which otherwise capable people depend on for their jobs.
Regarding A, I found this blogpost from 2020 interesting to get some sense of scale : https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....

As for C, the "suitable" subset really depends what we expect from a browser. In my experience, I was forced to use a Chrome based browser only for work, because mostly for google web apps (Google Cloud and Google Meet come to mind). For browsing the small web, I'm sure smaller browsers can work well. I tried some, but was usually put off because of the lack of adblockers, and I also quickly miss the element picker zapper feature of the ublock origin extension.
If you need to use ~1.5x more area, but you avoid leaking any heavy metals or similarly toxic materials - I would say that's a win.

Of course, there are other parameters to consider.
Like I mentioned, tethered jailbreaks are not restrictive and from what I've gathered and require specific hardware and iOS versions (https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/1go8wy4/what_is_...). Sure, you can maybe jailbreak the latest iOS on specific devices, but it's a lot more restrictive in selection, and various devices have various levels of being able to be untethered.

Meanwhile, old Switches have a hardware vulnerability [1] and all newer ones can be jailbroken to their fullest with a modchip. Such pervasive coverage doesn't exist for iDevices to my knowledge.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/1go8wy4/what_is_...

[1] https://switch.hacks.guide/user_guide/rcm/entering_rcm.html

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SwitchPirates/comments/13n1smv/plea...
No, I stand by my statement. I consider Apple extremely user-hostile and in many ways worse than Microsoft and Google. Those ways are just less broadly agreed upon.
> always unplug any other drives when installing Windows!

Many motherboards and enterprise notebooks have functionality to disable SATA/NVMe ports, so there's increasingly less need to faff with physically unplugging discs.
I was using Karabiner for years just to remap caps to a hyper key. A few months ago replaced it with a launchagent to run something like this remapping caps to F19 (and using F19 instead of hyper, in hammerspoon) -- has been working great.
I'm also the 2.54% and have been since the phoenix days. I am beyond thankful every day for apple keeping both desktop safari and ios running to prevent the internet being even more monoculture than in the IE6 days
>it seems daft to me when others suggest using forks with no well-established governance of their own

Yes, it may be that we are jumping from the frying pan into the fire. On the bright-side this opens up an opportunity for a company, or a suite of companies, to fund an alternative browser. Such an entity might have Signal at its lead, or similar, who's mission is solely to "tighten up" the software stack on which it runs.
To clarify, you're concerned that one or more arguments advanced in the article don't meet your personal definition of bad faith, bad faith is important to you, and as such the entire article is suspect? Entirely ignoring the central claims of bad faith handling of users sensitive information, we're skipping past that entirely to deconstruct a single sentence as a "gotcha"? One of us does not understand the other, clearly.
But at no point does any of what you type need to be sent to Mozilla. That only needs to be between the browser and the configured search engine and nothing in between.
I'm confused by this. Why are you talking about Gödel?

LLMs, like any model of computation, are subject to the limits of Turing Machines, so they cannot for example solve the halting problem.
Yep, anyone can delete a Discord webhook if they have the URL.

All you do is send a DELETE request to the URL.
any idea when they started?
I'm ignorant on this - but are there browser APIs that make it possible for the dev to integrate testing and accessibility tools, such as screen readers?

If not, this sounds like a major oversight, and basically kills accessibility dead in these software and makes testing pretty painful.
This is the ultimate business model.
You’re right and... the real issue isn’t the quality of the model or the economics (even when people are willing to pay up). It is the scarcity of GPU compute. This model in particular is sucking up a lot of inference capacity. They are resource constrained and have been wanting more GPUs but they’re only so many going around (demand is insane and keeps growing).
You are right my last sentence was an approximation. The gain of H3 over H2 is theoretical not practical.
Yeah - this is really really cool, but if you have code running on the target device, why relay its location via FindMy? If you are already talking to an external server to get pre-computed keys, there are easier ways to share location than FindMy… I guess if the target device doesn’t have GPS, FindMy does get you closer than other geolocation methods.
Is that a criticism of Canadian border security, the rcmp, US border security, the fbi, …? Countries protect their own borders vs entry and their internal security. Who let them take flying lessons?
Assuming it's the same as on desktop, go to settings->shields->content filters. They have a bunch of default filter lists you can subscribe to or you can add your own. You can also create your own custom filter rules. You can also do it semi-automatically by right clicking (no idea the equivalent on mobile) on an element in a page and there will be a "Block Elements" option that does a pretty decent job of wildcard blocking the element group you selected, and can be configured pretty easily with the popup.
I am doing no such thing. Down payment goes straight to principal, so that's equity banked from day one. And you're going to have to define "relevant time scale" because property demonstrably appreciates over time.
Ive run chromium and firefox side by side for years to isolate personal from work. The only noticeable difference is Chromium crashes when it uses all the memory.

People's overwhelming fascination with Chrome escapes me. Some subtle detail seems to make it stick out. Everyone remembers that one time ff crashed on 2005, but gives berth to Chrome crashimg every few days and selling their personal data to google.

I dont care if ddg and ff sell aggregate data.
Conventional solar cells also suffer from decreased efficiency (-0.45%/°C) as temperature increases, a the inclusion of TEGs could help dissipate this waste heat while simultaneously increasing solar panel efficiency.
No, stop blaming the users.

Look at this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204869

It clearly shows that passively scrolling on a fresh account will get you gore in no time.

Yes, as humans, shock content makes us look but that doesn't mean users want this kind of content. They are being manipulated by these algorithms. Social networks are optimizing for "engagement", meaning ultimately profit, not what users actually want.

This is the lazy excuse of every company ever hurting society. Oh, the users want it. No, nobody asked for more gore on Instagram. You are just wanting to save money on moderation.
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Development has been slow lately, but Quicksilver[0] is still around as a FOSS alternative. We have an upcoming release that should refresh things a bit for Seqouia.

[0]: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver
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It's all well and good to suggest that each program receiving funding gets a thorough review. Of course, that review needs to be by experts, to ensure it gets a fair shake. Who are the experts in the field? The odds that you can be an expert in the field (by publication count, let's say) without having already been funded by the NIH is pretty slim. So now your experts are also insiders.

That's going to be a big problem as very few insiders are going to be willing to rock the boat. Even if it's necessary.

Maybe you've got a good idea of how to solve this "good review requires experts, experts are very likely insiders, insiders are unlikely to rock the boat" problem. It would be wonderful if there was some solution, even if it was hard.
They did try some extra services, such as VPN or Pocket. I think at this point a Pocket subscription is how one can fund Firefox.

But indeed, even if they ensure that donations go towards Firefox development, instead of other crap, that would be a step forward.
People are acting like this is new. This is about:studies. With about:studies you agreed to upload usage data. Right now they are enabling credit card autofill support, a CRL alternative that doesn't give information about the sites you visit, etc. Actual corporate goes out of their way to say "we do whatever we want", Mozilla at least gives a condition.
It's funny because Firefox and Chrome both support full webpage screenshots natively, but they just bury it in their dev tools.
You still have 15 applications, it's just that now they appear as tabs in your browser - which is actually a virtual machine in disguise.

I see the news in the front page of HN: Edge, Firefox, Ladybird. The problems with privacy, funding, etc. will remain as long as one refuses to do an "AT&T" on the Web, that is delegate the non-essential browser functions (text, image display) to other applications (e.g. VLC for video, audio).

With a strong emphasis on banning remote code execution (JS), the father of all evils.

It may be convenient to call a coworker from Teams in your browser, but it is not a sane way to do it because we end up to where we are now: browser oligopoly. Convenience can be a trap; scammers and phishing use it all the time by including "direct" links. People are told again and again to know better and use their bookmarks instead.
So you're saying there's a mass of helpless financial illiterates walking around unsure of which end of a screwdriver does the work? Depressing if true.
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> The extreme content gets the most user interaction and leads to higher daily active users

For some people yeah, but for a lot, it causes the opposite. That's why its quite heavily policed. Its not like thirst traps which are liberally sprinkled in the first 5 minutes of creating an account.
Job market in the US very tough right now, especially for entry-level and junior people. You may know about the waves of large layoffs. To make matters worse companies increasingly use LLMs and no-code & low-code tools, eliminating jobs.

Recruiters won’t look at your web site, portfolio, GitHub repos, or leetcode scores unless they already have a strong interest in you. Much better to look for work through professional and personal contacts.

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> The technical aspect that contributed the most to this burnout was both the lack of observability tooling and the lack of organizational desire to invest in it.

One of the most significant "triumphs" of my technical career came at a startup where I started as a Principal Engineer and left as the VP Engineering. When I started, we had nightly outages requiring Engineering on-call, and by the time I left, no one could remember a recent issue that required Engineers to wake up.

It was a ton of work and required a strong investment in quality & resilience, but even bigger impact was from observability. We couldn't afford APM, so we took a very deliberate approach to what we logged and how, and stuffed it into an ELK stack for reporting. The immediate benefit was a drastic reduction in time to diagnose issues, and effectively let our small operations team triage issues and easily identify app vs. infra issues almost immediately. Additionally, it was much easier to identify and mitigate fragility in our code and infra.

The net result was an increase in availability from 98.5% to 99.995%, and I think observability contributed to at least half of that.
Fair enough, AI moves fast, but little has changed besides DeepSeek and the reasoning models. AI agents hit an inflection point around November, but people had always bet on them anyway.

I don't consider GPT-4.5 or Claude 3.7 as major enough, and based on the versioning, the creators don't consider them major either.
Like they say, die early or live long enough to become a villain.

I never thought I would live to see the day when Mozilla's ethics would shift away so much from the "ethical" alignment.

Does anyone have any idea of what has changed inside Mozilla to prompt this?
Step one: Bore out one of your cylinders.

Step two: Your car breaks down, because everything in the engine is connected and finely tuned by the microsecond to function as one integral unit.

Step three: Blame Toyota and petition the EU to force Toyota to help you bore out your cylinder.

That's pretty much the equivalent. You hackers already have hundreds of Linux distros that are destroyed-on-deilvery because of the endless tinkering and programmer-first mindset. There's Android, Windows, and a plethora of other systems for you.

Why can't we have at least one computer (Mac) and one phone (iPhone) that is not destroyed by FOSS and corporate people, and is actually useful for normal people who want to get things done?

I don't get it. Why don't you direct your efforts into fixing Linux or Android? Then you wouldn't have to think about Apple and their devices.
I was going to comment that one of them (WaterFox) has a shady sponsor (System1, an advertising company) but it seems WaterFox has been an independent project again since 2023 [0]

[0] https://avoidthehack.com/review-waterfox-browser
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There's an app from Sindre Sorhus that adds CMD+X functionality to Finder.

https://sindresorhus.com/command-x
It’s a nice language, and I like Lustre, but `use` is truly ugly.

I don’t understand why they didn’t make promises a first class citizen and added something like `await`. We’ve learned this lesson in JS already.
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Money and resource are not the problem nor the reason microsoft gave up on their own browser engine. Same as why they gave up on mobile.

No reasonable amount of engineering resources would have made a dent in the problem.
What OP is calling "weaponization of complexity" is just the asymmetry of effort required between new comers and entrenched players.

You would have to be naive to think that google would just open their arms and kumbaya with microsoft to do the "hard work"

We have seen this played out in any industry in history.
Sometime hard work is not enough and it's easy to abuse dominant position to grid lock a market.

The rest of your post frankly sounds like someone who is drunk on the usual company cooliad.

> The end goal is to help user

No. The end goal is to make money. Sometime it requires helping user, other time a bunch of anti competitive ( forcing android oem to prevent meaningful forks)and anti consumer (like playing hard ball with ad blockers) BS.

>The world has never been built by those throwing rocks from the sidelines, no matter how much they want it to be, and no matter how much they try to paint the hard problem-solving work of others as "weaponization of complexity

So much wrong with this. And is just a strawman.
OP is not saying that it's not hard problem solving. The point is the solution achieved is self serving and sucks for the rest of us.

> In the end, the world is 99% built by those who show up and do it. That's how this "weaponization of complexity" happened - people showed up and tried to solve problems. The world evolved. They tried to keep moving forward as that happened.

Yeah no. History disagree with you