skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a happy LibreWolf for years. The transition from FF to LibreWolf is seamless. And you won't be surprised anymore nor annoyed when Mozilla does moves like that.
I have all popup and sound notifications off and from time to time i check the unread message count badges on the dock icons :)
absolutely the fact they just give out on hardware side eg:nokia,surface device,zune,vr headset etc is just disappointing

I think this is about company culture as a whole too, MS only know how to make software

this is same problem with google too, with pixel device is very underwhelming success given how many resource they have
I don't know if you're aware but most of the stuff in that website doesn't work.

That is, you have e.g. a section of "Trending stories" which are apparently clickable. I would expect that if I click one, it would take me directly to that song's "stories". But it doesn't. Clicking on them does nothing. Or the button at the bottom under "Ready to explore" which says "Try Songtell now". It's a button. I click it. It does nothing.

All the links in the footer, don't work. All eight of them. The "Quick links" -for pages like "About" or "Terms of Service" just go to 404. The "Connect" links for various social sites, just link to the current page itself.
The artist having an intention when creating the art doesn't mean the purpose of the beholder is to find out that intention, or to "get the point". You're mixing stuff up.
"No better place to leave for" seems an apt way to put it.

I think/fear that in the long run, there will be fewer and fewer ways to participate in activities and communities on the web on your own terms, as only a vetted, allowlisted set of client builds (that may be "open source" on the tin, but by that point it is effectively meaningless) will be able to pass CDN "anti-abuse" restrictions. It will not be a better web, but it sure will be more profitable for some.
What's the purpose of gating "we don’t sell access to your data" by "if switch('firefox-tou')"?

{% 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>
20 years ago, but with gigabit Ethernet speeds and 5g WiFi. Oh, and modern dev tools in the browser. I’d hate to go back to only Firebug.
We sure (most) of these features haven't been available for ages?
No, Signal is compromized. Set up your Matrix server.
They use price is used to control demand.

There is small number of users who are willing to pay for expensive and slow model that is slightly better than previous model, so let them have it.
Without any explanation, this comment isn't particularly productive. Can you explain how it doesn't do it well?
Look at the market share. And look at how much breakage report there is with Firefox vs. Chrome or Safari (not to say the return of "this website works better with Chrome" disclaimers, as if we were back to IE6).
I assumed GP was referring to Musk. No one voted for him, but he can crash a presidental press meeting to ramble about DOGE propoganda.

But it is hard to tell. They are cut from he same cloth after all, simply separated by a generation of figuring out how to squeeze more out of their labor.
mmm, the classic theme is available for whoever wants it, but I'm blind and my usual hot keys work as before. I'd like better search and better calendar, but the rest is pretty fine. The new gmail ui sucks and roundqube sucks even more, so tb it is.
You mean perhaps if you define "your job" and "adapting to changing circumstances" strictly through a corporate vocabulary.

One could argue that to deliver his best continuously he adapted to changing circumstances and left.
I still don’t understand why companies don’t release a machine-readable version of their finance statements. They are read by machines anyway! Export those data from their software is a simple task.
While I have no proof, I feel like the fact that Megaupload wasn't in the US prevented them for using the correct legal loopholes that could have kept them aloft for long enough to grow to a size where they could settle these types issues out of court.
> the scetchy guy running it

You mean Brandon Eich, the author of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla? Why?

The other two points I 100% agree with.
Can you provide any additional context for this? I haven't heard it, and a cursory search doesn't turn up anything obvious regarding their ties to fascism.
OpenAI launches Sora video generation tool in UK amid copyright row
I am totally on-board with your assessment, but also please add at least Spain to the loose music IP regime at that time.

> I'd say there's survivorship bias going on.

I agree that there is definitely survivorship bias happening here. However, what exactly is the punishment for failure? Is it worth the risk for the founders?
No, It's not my "personal definition" of woke. I wrote "woke is well understood to be about identity politics.". Do you deny that "woke" is well understood to be about identity politics?

It is hard to believe you were not aware of how the term is used. I believe you are being deliberately obtuse.
> You mean Trump?

GP probably meant the immigrant billionaire standing next to him all the time, who can't even bother to dress properly to meet with (arguably) some of the most important people in your country, aka Elon Musk.
That's why I always think that the _mean_ life expectancy is a much more useful metric than _average_. Not sure why everybody reports the average everywhere. I have the same exact thought when it comes to salaries. Governments and the like always publish the _average_, which tells very little to the regular person. If anything, it would tell the regular person that they must really be very badly off if most make more than them, having a negative effect. Perhaps that's the desired outcome?
> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information,

Taken literally it means that when I use Firefox to upload a file to a customer's web site Mozilla is getting that file too, which does not seem likely. They could get a copy of the text I'm typing right now in Firefox or it means that the browser could do some local processing on those data. But if the results of that processing would stay local why would they ask the permission? It's not that emacs, vim, grep, sed, awk etc have to ask me the permission to use the information I'm inputting into them. So they are definitely sending information back home or they plan to do it.

The point becomes how to block any calls from Firefox to Mozilla. Note that don't have a Firefox account because I never trusted that the data in transit from them would stay private. I'm not logged in into Google as well. Maybe I have to finally install a Pi Hole and route all my traffic through it. Hopefully Blockada will take care of that for my Android devices.
Full screen is not the same as maximized to fill the screen.
Orion is awesome but I wish they also made a Windows version.
> So, Vowles blasts Excel, variously describing it as "a joke" and "useless." However, some might argue that this office software doesn't have issues managing a 20,000-item parts list, and an expert Excel wrangler could have made a big difference to the spreadsheet users.

>For some examples of pushing Excel to its proper limits, recently, we reported on a software developer managing to shoehorn GPT-2 (the 'Small' version with 124 million parameters) into Microsoft's spreadsheet app to create a working local LLM. Earlier this year, a hobbyist built a functional 16-bit CPU with 128KB of RAM and a 16-color display into Excel...

Not sure it's really a skill issue here. Running an LLM or Doom in Excel doesn't solve the logistics+Ux challenge of having a massive Excel file that's hard to navigate.

Doesn't mean people don't do it, whether more on whether they should.

But what would've been a smarter software for this kinda use?
> it seems likely there will soon only be 1

What have I missed, will Firefox adopt Webkit?
Ah yes absolutely. Under no system is anyone safe if they're unable to bear arms to protect themselves/family, they will be systematically vulnerable or vulnerable to the next bandit. This just becomes more visible under disfunction.
> On a subset of tasks I'm interested in, it's 10x more intelligent than GPT-4.

Very intriguing. Care to share an example?
Generals has a really annoying issue where it just desynchronizes and drops you out of a multiplayer game after a random amount of time.
Here's the remaining paragraph:

> If we decide to suspend or end your access, we will try to notify you at the email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access your account

It seems like this is not about the browser itself, but rather about Firefox accounts. The wording is pretty ambiguous, though.
What is ladybug's marketshare? Does it work flawlessly with "This webpage works better with Chrome" webpages?

It is not even mentioned on https://caniuse.com/?search=web%20components
> You mean Trump?

That's the official 1.
Didn't Apple also do this, or did that require that you had the CD?
Are they? Their incentive is to maintain their revenue stream, almost all of which currently comes from Google. That source is now under threat so, to continue being able to pay the bills, they need to find another. And it's a big hole to fill.

Google's goals were once noble.
I probably will, actually. It was good to have an ally with their stature and history.
I don't think that's the case, when a model is reasoning, it sometimes starts gaslighting itself and "solving" other problems completely than the one you've shown. Reasoning can help "in general", but very frequently, reasoning also makes it more "nondetermistic". Without reasoning, usually it ends up just writing some code from its training data, but with reasoning, it can end up hallucinating hard. Yesterday, I asked Claude thinking to solve me a problem in c++ and it showed the result in python.
I wouldn't call that "too insane." As others have pointed out, you can get similar results from fine-tuning the RLHF.
You also need Fn on laptops. I just tried it. And it seems to start with focusing the apple menu without opening it, and the focus marker is hard to notice, at least in natural light where I am now.
Yep. I've often said RLHF'd LLMs seem to be better at recognition memory than recall memory.

GPT-4o will never offhand, unprompted and 'unprimed', suggest a rare but relevant book like Shinichi Nakazawa's "A Holistic Lemma of Science" but a base model Mixtral 8x22B or Llama 405B will. (That's how I found it).

It seems most of the RLHF'd models seem biased towards popularity over relevance when it comes to recall. They know about rare people like Tyler Volk... but they will never suggest them unless you prime them really heavily for them.

Your point on recommendations from humans I couldn't agree more with. Humans are the OG and undefeated recommendation system in my opinion.
>Walmart employees are required to stand in formation and chant, “WALMART! WALMART! WALMART!” while performing synchronized group calisthenics.

Do they still do this to this day? This is definitely an -ism of the early 2010's but I figured corporate stopped pretending that "we're family" by the close of the decade.

The smiling argument makes perfect sense. I hear several EU countries simply have a more blunt approach and pretty neutral mannerisms towards strangers. Americans would call the approach "cold", so there's definitely a cultral difference.
For me it's Safari. In Firefox, everything works as I expect almost always. Chrome requires weird workarounds from time to time. And Safari is just all kinds of screwed up.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's some stock AWS instance type, probably not even NVMe-enabled, or some kind of metal instance bottlenecked by EBS. The downside of Cloud push in SaaS is that they were unable to tap into the ever-changing storage landscape, NVMe-oF, and so on. This is mostly gun-in-foot matter more than anything.
Skype worked well a decade before Hangouts even existed. It then went through Microsoft's "reinventions" that basically rebuilt it from scratch.
AI and Esoteric Fascism
In EU European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) mandated machine readable standard from 2020. In the US Financial Data Transparency Act of 2022 (FDTA) made similar push and SEC is working towards it.
> one line per event, so good luck finding multi-day events like “Grandma is visiting”

The format allows for variable granularity and ranges. If Grandma were visiting for a week, it would be fine:

2021-02-20 w07

Right now, the range (start-end) can only be hours, but changing that could fulfil your requirement, e.g.

2012-02-20 w07 Mon-Fri Grandma is visiting

> grepping is really not how most people interact with a calendar.

I don't think the creator ever suggested for one minute that this is a calendar for "most people"! Most people don't use Linux, macOS, or a command line.

> sorting by date must be done manually, my god.

| sort

is not much of a hardship. At least it's possible, unlike a typical GUI app that doesn't support sort.
> unless I install a Snap-based one (which I cannot do remotely on family computers)

I find that surprising - you could do something like "snap install skype" from the command line. Do you not have remote command line access?
The way Microsoft and Skype missed their opportunity during the pandemic to maintain or even expand their lead in video conferencing, while allowing a complete unknown (outside of the corporate world, at least) like Zoom to become the dominant platform, should be studied in business schools.

The term 'Skype' is so synonymous with video calling that, based on personal experience, it is still used in place of FaceTime and other services, especially by older people.
People talk a lot about how transformative AI will be but rarely from the point of view it will have on society when interactions like this are 10x more realistic and ubiquitous.

I imagine an agent with this kind of conversational capability but better. And then I imagine that coupled with a video model that presents a proper talking head that is pretty much indistinguishable from a real one

Then what if these personalities were highly configurable to your tastes, had a very long memory and were so cheap and available you could build an entire customised social circle from them.

This is a bizarre nightmare for us but will become the norm for future generations. As rigid and inflexible as it is, my kids even had a hard time understanding Alexa is not real at first, and they have come accustomed to this style of conversational interface from a young age, I think about that but in 30 years for their kids.
Most people can evaluate whether the model improvements (or lack thereof) are worth the price tag
excellent - thanks!
I like to think I caused this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827280
Details of Std:Mdspan from C++23
You missed off the important part:

"the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate"
Aerospace tiling window manager is amazing
Exactly. Some people are looking at the format and thinking "well, this doesn't do much" but they're missing the point: it's a plain text format that plays very well with other common tools such that 'doing more' is trivial.
I have no idea what I am talking about but could it be related to future AI related features that process user data locally and/or on their servers? At least that would make some sense to me.
You should check out aerospace, much better than amethyst or yabai IMO
It's hardly hyperbole at this point:

- Letting sellers replace listings with completely different products while keeping the ratings.

- Not providing any way to filter dodgy chinese sellers that spam search results with duplicates of the same cheap shit.

- Comingling inventory so that even if you take care to select a trustworthy seller you might get stuff from a dodgy one.

And no, being able to remove the scam ads is not good enough.
Try voip.ms. Incoming texts can be sent to you as an email. A US number costs about $1.50 a month.
What does you business do? How high was/is the dispute rate?
Definitely.

There's a hidden motive, or utter incompetence in managing this side of the licensing and communication (either by beginners "better cover you ass" MBA or lawyers thinking, which could mean it's the result of some consulting firm operation).

Either way, the sudden change without proper communication is suspicious.
having thought about this a bit - my new conjecture is that if I had a way to feed in an example map of transaction payee => category, as one of the prompts, and a way to incrementally add prompts for outliers, then the AI _might_ be able to do a reasonable job - I am planning to mess with raku LLM::Functions to see if I can get this to work
I did the same, though I'd modeled my setup after my prior swaywm workflow. Hammerspoon was really the only thing that made macos usable for me.
Sigstore is an open source project for improving software supply chain security
> Chromium, Safari, Firefox. And a longtail of half implemented alternatives. But the point is that there are 3 independent browser engines that are fairly widely used.

Come on, you can't say that with a straight face.

Safari exists because Apple has a monopoly on iOS traffic, and therefore an financially significant portion of mobile traffic. As soon as their rigid fingers are pried loose of that (which we're seeing the beginnings of), that's gone.

Firefox is great, and I use it, but it has an insignificant market share.

The "longtail of half implemented alternatives" are by definition not alternatives.
Awesome Once I got the hang of it, the controls (on my touch screen) are better than the originals that used a D-pad.

As an aside, How are the majority of skiers on the mountain able to against our skiers direction of travel?
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Aerospace is much better than yabai especially workspaces feature without disabling SIP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065
Is there an actual genuine legal threat or something that prompted this change, or is it just some bored lawyer.
this might be in the way of alan kay's core idea, sending messages with interpreters. if we want to go all the way of the snowcrash pipe dream, then imagining objects with programs thrown around is more realistic than making it somehow work with html. on the other hand, in brings back bad memories of flash silverlight, java applets, that almost destroyed the open web. there is a beauty in easy-to-read text rather than binary blobs.
I don't think they'd use Swift for GUI building. Ladybird's GUI's are platform-dependent (Qt on Linux, AppKit on Mac, etc). From what I understand they want to use Swift as a replacement for C++.

I haven't done a lot of Swift, but I did play around with it recently, and it seems to work fine even outside of the Apple ecosystem. It has a LSP you can use so you don't need XCode, they even develop a first-class plugin for VSCode.
> Either their legal team made a mistake, in which case they should correct it and issue an apology ASAP

I don't think it is a mistake but more the translation of a vision and strategy that took hundreds of meetings to be laid down very precisely.

I have nothing to back what I am gonna say but I am wondering if their strategy might be to truly become the default browser of governments who are uncomfortable having Chrome or Edge as the default browser. Especially since now they get augmented by a lot of AI.

Firefox has it largest market share in Europe and Germany it seems and with the concerns with are hearing over there about Big tech I wouldn't be surprised at some point some govs try to make their workstations Firefox only.

Also some governments are trying hard to restrict access to porn, violence and social media for children but we know it is almost impossible to do it at the network level. So they might try at the browser level with the help of Mozilla and some "sanctioned Internet AI safety" inside the browser?

I really don't know but think about it, Mozilla is a dead man walking with it's 2% market share and huge cost of maintaining one of the most complex piece of software. They have to do something about it.

What just tipped me off is reading on Wikipedia [0]:

> On February 8, 2024, Mozilla announced that Baker would be stepping down as CEO to "focus on AI and internet safety"[2] as chair of the Mozilla Foundation.

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
It's not allowed in our policy. However Firefox is still on my system from the time when it was officially supported. I've heard they want to schedule a removal though.
Firefox is supposedly owned by a nonprofit organization that's expected to act in the user's interest.

Nonprofits are supposed to raise funds from donations and grants, not via enshittification for the primary subject of their mission.

The problem is that besides being a supposed nonprofit (Mozilla foundation), the same people also want to larp as a sillicon valley tech business (Mozzilla corp which largely shares leadership with the org) with insanely high saleries funded anti-user bullshit.
What is the go-to toolbox set these days to make this kind of analysis?
We don’t run anything on bare metal anymore it’s all containers (90k employee very large enterprise).

Of course I can’t speak for all the teams, but all new projects are going out on kubernetes and we don’t care about rhel at all, typically it’s alpine it Debian base images
Sigh. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Mozilla's situation. The "weird license nonsense" you're vaguely gesturing at doesn't even make sense in context. Firefox is open source under MPL 2.0.

Your framing that "the choice is between giving all my browsing data to Google and to Mozilla" creates a false equivalence. Even with their recent privacy policy changes, Mozilla's approach is structurally different from Google's core business model.

And "Chrome works marginally better"? By what metric? Firefox has better memory usage, stronger privacy protections, and doesn't exist primarily as a data collection tool for the world's largest advertising company.

The idea that you'd "happily buy Firefox" misses the point of Mozilla's mission for an open web. This kind of uninformed take that ignores the nuances of browser economics is exactly why we can't have nice things on the open web.
You've missed Firefox's marketshare inching towards irrelevance, its revenue - "charitable" donations from competitors worried about monopoly lawsuits that can stop at any time - in freefall, and more and more websites not working with anything other than Safari or Chrome.
The most effective ad blocker is choosing not to use websites that display ads. That won't ever change.
Minions: The rise of small, on-device LMs
I have found simple hammerspoon scripts to be a great alternative to a windows manager. You can map keys to some parts of the screen. It also supports multi-display systems.
EsProc SPL and MongoDB: A Match Made in Data Heaven