skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Let's dissect what it actually says

I don't believe that dissection is a good way to understand the implications of this clause.

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

Rather than go over this word-by-word, please tell me: what limits exactly does this place on Mozilla? What rights does it give to the user? One way to express such a limit is by construction, that is, construct hypothetical acts A, B, and C that would be allowed under these terms, but actions D, E, and F would not be allowed (and be a cause for action by a user). I assert that the first set includes literally anything you can imagine (modulo a sophists ability to morph "help you" into anything they want), and the second set is empty.

To steel-man this concept, let us say that Mozilla wants to store and use your password to your bank to check your balance regularly. I assert that this action is allowed by there terms. Why? First, you used Firefox and therefore enabled the clause. Second, your authentication details are entered through Firefox, and this constitutes "input" or "upload", to which they assert ownership (which I will use as shorthand for a "nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license"). One thing they could do with your financial data is show it to you (least harm). Another thing is to aggregate it with other's data (medium harm). Yet another application would be to pool it into a database to be sold to the highest bidder (maximum harm). In the latter case, you could make the argument that such a move "helps you" by giving Mozilla a reliable revenue stream that helps fund continued development of the browser.

Needless to say, I am appalled and feel bad for all the many people I've told about Firefox over the years, described it as a bastion of fairness and privacy in an all too often sinister world. And now that they've assert these extraordinary rights over user data, I feel ashamed of my advocacy. I daresay that even if they rescind this incredible overreach, I will not come back. My trust has been broken and cannot be easily (if ever) repaired.
This website sucks but successfully loaded from Aus rn on my phone. It's full of ads - possibly your ad blocker is killing it?
I think this probably isn't as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. But I find a certain kind of joy in Mozilla being judged on the worst possible interpretation of their terms of service, since they do that to others _all the time_ [1].

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
It’s almost like bitcoin bros care about just one thing: number go up. Every single initiative from them should be seen in that light.
You're looking for logic where there is none.

I pondered to myself why the Mexican government hadn't done this before. The most likely reason is that it was never requested.

Still there is risk for Mexico doing this. The cartels could start attacking Mexican police, civilians and politicians in retaliation.
> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

So basically they can track everything I upload or type on my keyboard while in Firefox?
A scheduled clinical trial is fairly late in the process.

It’s a specific treatment being evaluated not just some pathways discovered in rodents that looks promising.
I believe they're migrating to Swift instead of Jaht.
This is a bit , okay, very unrelated to the main point, but I care.

But I want a new laptop.

Really eyeballing a MacBook. But I fear the locking down of osx is likely to continue. But seems great hardware.

The other side of the coin I see is framework. Hardware maybe not as wow whiz bang, but future freedoms in all the ways.

Am I correct to worry about osx lock in, and 'sideloading' on osx being fully removed vs pain in the ass?

I can't seem to find the darn sweet spot.
> For someone who doesn't do upkeep, or can't afford competent contractors to do it, major repairs can happen any time, without warning.

We're in violent agreement here. Home ownership is unforgiving if you lack all ability and the willingness to learn. I'd like to believe that this level of learned helplessness is rare enough in the adult population that it shouldn't factor meaningfully into a discussion of major investment decisions like owning property.
I guess Brave is the best we have until something more complete comes out of this crop of new browser engines like ladybird.
I'd wager if the economists are right and if it happens within 2 years, politicians of all stripes will be racing to save the political skins.

That will lead to a titanic struggle between the executive branch and the rest, given the past history of Trump setting an armed mob onto Washington. He got away with it that time of course because he wasn't that unpopular. If the economy tanks that crutch is gone. People didn't vote for him because they liked him. They voted against the poor shmuck who happened to be in power when the hangover created by the COVID money bazooka came home to roost. Every democracy that held an election in 2024 did the same thing.

If that happens we will see the if the balance of powers the US founders put into the constitution work. I expect they will, but it will be highly entertaining to watch. From the relative safety of Australia.

It took 4 years for ill effects of the 2020 bazooka to take effect. If the effects of Trumps actions doesn't effect the economy within 2 years, I wouldn't be betting on Congress doing anything.
I don't think Sun's base model came with any compute either. It was racks/power/cooling and then you put servers and networking in. Sun would happily sell those to you...just more SKUs on the invoice.
As someone who builds observability tools for embedded software, I am flabbergasted that you're finding a more tools-friendly culture in embedded than in distributed systems!

Most hardware companies have zero observability, and haven't yet seen the light ("our code doesn't really have bugs" is a quote I hear multiple times a week!).
> If you pay for a developer account, you can sideload an app and just have to renew the cert every year.

My definition of sideloading would be that I am allowed to put a program on a device without any need to consult a 3rd party. A developer account can still be revoked, leaving you without the ability to load an app.

With an Android Phone or a Linux Mobile device, I can put an app on without the needing any account, so there's no way to retroactively take that away from me.
That’s assuming that confidence intervals are even independently comparable. Anecdotally major OCR services with specific languages have average confidence intervals that are wildly divergent from similar services with different languages for the same relative quality of result. Acting as if confidence interval is in any way absolute or otherwise able to reliably and consistently indicate the relative quality of results is a mischaracterization at best. In the worst case CI is as good as an RNG. The value of the CI is in the ability to tune usage of the results based on observations of the users and characteristics of the request, sometimes it is meaningful but not always. In this case “good” code essentially hardcodes handling for all the idiosyncrasies of the common usage and the OCR service.
The first part of this comment is a bit of a straw man, but I'll bite.

The reason is that the discussion is nuanced, a smartphone plays a very different role in someone's life than a Nintendo Switch. For better or worse, a smartphone has become a requirement for critical services that we all rely on.
Can someone convince me this isn't NIH syndrome? Why would you use this instead of SeaweedFS, Ceph, or MinIO?
Damn, hell march still slaps
I bought an iPhone despite the lack of sideloading because my family and coworkers use iMessage, so I must be on iMessage.
I've had the incredible displeasure of having to maintain multiple massive legacy COTS systems that were once designed by promising startups and ultimately got bought by IBM. IBM turned every last one into the shittiest enterprise software trash you can imagine.

Every IBM product I've ever used is universally reviled by every person I've met who also had to use it, without exaggeration in the slightest. If anything, I'm understating it: I make a significant premium on my salary because I'm one of the few people willing to put up with it.

My only expectation here is that I'll finally start weaning myself off terraform, I guess.
A journey through the hyper-political world of microchips
LLMs share more with a Markov-Chain than many would like to admit, but the fundamental improvements is because the model is learning the state representation and that latent representation is essentially a lossy compression for nearly all written human text.

People really underestimate both the magnitude of the parameter space for leaner this and the scale of the training data.

But, at the end of the day, the model is still just sampling one token at a time and updating its state (and of course, that state is conditioned on all previous tokens, so that’s a other point of departure)
> people can much more easily deploy

But not easily, so this still won't happen.
dog food dog leg dog ram lol
1% of iPhone users is a lot of people.
Apple UK Privacy Fight over Encryption Is Noble but Shortsighted
And with MCP, the idea is that the agent can translate a natural language instruction into the specific API request and then translate the schema into whatever structured output format you want? Is there anything that Superglue does that you wouldn't get somewhat out of the box using agents and MCP? I'm not too familiar with MCP so still trying to understand how it compares to this sort of thing.
This makes sense but is twisting the arms of the infrastructure companies the way to go? Can't we just encourage free market dynamics? If open platforms are what the consumer wants, manufacturers will sell phones with open platforms and the consumer will decide what they want to buy. EU funding can help rebalance if needed by helping develop new competitors.
Oh, I’ve definitely edited RTF manually, when I wanted fine control, or to strip out certain formatting but not all. But it’s definitely not intended for manual editing; and it’s hopeless if you want to go beyond ASCII, as you can’t (from memory) just use UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding, you need to escape non-codepage characters as \uNUMBER?, where NUMBER is the signed decimal representation of a UTF-16 code unit, which is probably the most absurd escape representation I’ve ever encountered. (The character after the number, here and normally ? these many years, represents the fallback character to use if Unicode is not supported. \uc0 can disable that so it’d be just \uNUMBER. It’s cases like that that really show how RTF was designed as an internal file format for things like Word, back before they fully supported Unicode. RTF has not aged very well as a file format.)
Wonder how long before this gets flagged ...
Between 2025-02-26 at 10:20 and 24 hours later, there were 10563 posts to HN.

So it is simply not humanly possible.
https://archive.is/PZEMN
Why don't you have Grok?
It doesn't matter how stupid it is, the OS shouldn't make it any worse even so.
As if every developer that releases a side loaded app will lower their prices by 30%. that's total poppycock. The whole point of these devs is to keep that 30% and not give it to Apple. That's some funny shit that you think devs will all lower their prices the consumer sees. Do you have a 2 drink minimum for your set?
The price will come down over time as they apply all the techniques to distill it down to a smaller parameter model. Just like GPT4 pricing came down significantly over time.
Most of the time they destroyed this equipment to keep it from getting upcycled on the Grey market to 'white' tagged gear.
With Copilot, your private code isn't just yours anymore—it's a community treasure!
If you're self-hosting, you can bring your own model and there are no limitiations. For the hosted version, we currently do custom pricing agreements with our customers using this in prod, and keep it free for hobbyists within fair use limits. We still need to figure out what the boundaries will be, tbh.

On your open source question, we accept contributions from non-team-members and have done so in the past, particularly on bugs or new features on the backend.
No, they cannot.

You're replying to a comment where I've broken the sentence down into smaller parts. It's the best I can do.
Ah, I remember Chime from back in my Amazon days.

When they launched it and started migrating it internally, they didn’t have a Linux or web version. Back then, I was still using a Windows Phone (as much as the lack of available apps sucked, it had nice UI and worked well), so that wasn’t an option either.

I managed to get by by using the Android APK with a translation layer, I believe? Nevertheless, it was unstable and awful.

Eventually I caved in and switched back to Android and Mac, the Linux dev env was just unusable most of the time.
Can you really be an independent web browser when Google basically controls the W3C?

I'll be using this as soon as it comes out anyway. It's not like there are a lot of alternatives in this space, so I very much welcome fresh takes.
It's obnoxious that you have to go through this to install software on a device that you own.

> You can't easily change the region on your Apple ID, and you probably don't want to do that anyway. But you can create a secondary Apple ID for use only while your device thinks that it's in the EU.

This seems to be the most important bit. You need to not only physically be in the EU, but have your account be under EU jurisdiction (both from Apple's POV).

I know that people create throwaway gmail accounts for things, but I suspect in the TOS somewhere it has you assert that this is your one personal account, and those policy handcuffs get tighter with things like phone number based 2FA. Not only do you have to go through all these technological shenanigans, but there's always the risk that the provider (Apple) ensnares both your accounts in some antifraud scheme and closes them.
another [dupe] from OP & Ars:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182576
Meta and Google absolutely make way more money if campaigns are effective, because the advertisers will continue throwing massive amounts of money at them. Once the effectiveness subsides, things will go downhill fast. That’s the main reason Google bought Urchin analytics back in the day, to make sure website owners could measure the effectiveness.
People who care about privacy have already moved on to LibreWolf or some other Firefox alternative.
On what basis are you sure about that?

Is it just "they're all Muslims so what's the difference" or do you actually know what you're talking about?
Yes, the web browser is independent, not the web specifications!
> why should Apple be forced to allow sideloading?

Because it is too large in terms of market share. In an ideal world, there would be so many alternatives, that I could just choose whatever ecosystem I want. However, we can't really reach that state of affairs easily. Without interference, the gap between the phones that support software freedom and those which do not will increase.

The "Apple should be allowed to set whatever terms" argument sounds like this: "We shouldn't impose any food safety or agricultural standards. If you care, you can just grow your own crops and cook your own food"
How is "to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content" different from "to do anything we want with it"?
I would GTFO, IBM ain't your friend and ain't your savior and are unlikely to invest and the worse may come with increasing IBM management sticking their fingers in the pie. The folks who did well out of this already know, they have the checks to cash if that was your take away congratulations. Otherwise find another opportunity. If nothing else look around and find out what you are worth on the market and then have that hard discussion soon with HashiCorp/IBM.
Poossibly, but reports seem to indicate that 4.5 is much more nuanced and thoughtful in its language use. It's not just being shorter and casual as a style, there is a higher amount of "conceptual resolution" within the words being used.
How is Red Hat going after the acquisition by IBM? From my view, it is going well. The enterprise product (RHEL) is still excellent.
Because of the GNU General Public License, any project/startup that makes use of Superglue is required to open source all their code under the same license? I'm not a license/copyright expert, so I'm a bit fuzzy about how this is supposed to work.
It was within a year, not like the day after.
Why is that? My statement was on the scale of centuries not 4 years

For what reasons should the government be expected to shift dramatically every election?

Personally my argument would be that the government's authority should be limited enough that it doesn't have to change very much every election.
[dupe] earlier and related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194536
> First, you used Firefox and therefore enabled the clause.

I believe your confusion stems from a misreading of "as you indicate with your use of Firefox". You're reading it like "by using Firefox, you indicate".

Contemplate the difference between

"The car is allowed to move as you indicate with the controls."

versus

"By using the controls, you indicate the car is allowed to move."

The former explicitly only allows the car to realize your intent, whereas the latter gives the car license to do whatever it pleases.
It's not SimpleQA...
For most consumers, existing manufacturers cover their use case. There's already a number of existing standards for modular desktop computers chassis. Framework is especially interesting to that small section of the market that isn't most consumers. Framework could pivot and sell vacuum thermos cups for all it really matters as a corporation that exists to make money for its investors. If they sell out, and modular laptops and reducing ewaste is no longer their goal, and it was all just a cash grab, that's fine too. I don't work there, it doesn't really make any difference to me, they can do whatever they want, but at the same time I feel let down.
What did they leak, private LLM model configs?
Well seeing that most
mainstream subscription services don’t allow you to purchase through the App Store including Netflix, Spotify, YouTube etc…
Serious question, but is this an age thing? When I was young, I was all about building boxes, tweaking settings, pushing to get every last drop out of the gear. That's because I had a lot of free time living a much more carefree life while still living with parental units. Eventually, I was able to parlay those skills into gaining some advantage for small companies I worked. Now, I have a full life outside of work, and just cannot be bothered with all of that now. As long as the device does what I need it to do, that's all I care about. I don't even change the desktop or any other personalization for sake of if it doesn't actively make me any more efficient. Once I'm done, I push back from the keyboard and continue on with other aspects of life.
Car manufacturers have total control over how users use their devices. If you want to change any of that, you have to start making hardware changes. You can do that with an Apple device also, if you have the skills. But why?
The squeeze on any content that religious people find 'yucky' is double-pronged in the US - encouraged both by governments and businesses. Paypal, Visa, Mastercard et al are given complete discretion over what transactions they can block, and they have already extensively used this to deprive legal NSFW platforms and creators of their income.

So, on one end, state governments are trying to strongarm NSFW services by imposing draconian requirements that ask users to submit their private data to some random opaque 'benevolent' third party business - and on the other, payment processors are using their legal right to refuse whatever transaction for any reason so they can starve them of income.
Something straight out of Samy Kamkar's book. Nice
Cathartic moment over.
That's a really thoughtful point! Which aspect is most interesting to you?
The last part of the sentence narrows it down, as does the first part.
In absolute terms, I agree with you. But in practical terms I would wager it is negligible.
wait till you unlock 1984 esque reality they are beta testing on us rn

when you see slavery is still very alive im sure this will seem like just a playful moment
Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia
The open-source community is finally realizing that Neo4j v. PureThink could set a dangerous legal precedent, allowing companies to impose new restrictions on open-source licenses.

If the Ninth Circuit upholds the lower court’s ruling, it won’t just threaten the GPL, it could undermine all open-source licenses, undoing years of work to protect software freedom.
Yes, the same “fear” that people have been saying since the Mac App Store was released in 2011…
From logs you can derive the metrics
Doc NTIA lead nominee criticizes "woke" and "socialist" fiber broadband subsidy
I'd say it was the decline and fall of the Soviet block. Without the external pressure to remain competitive, the balance shifted from realism towards ideology.
There was a recent "breakthrough" involving the same, except with patient's own stem cells, & not just in mice.

https://stemcellres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1328...

That would mitigate the cancer risk, since immunosuppression would not be required?
Japan is a western nation.
I've built some of my home automation from scratch and I'm using a web app to control most of it from my phone. I'd love to be able to build a native app to see what I can do with Bluetooth etc. But it will never be more than a hobby so I am not going to pay a recurring fee for the privilege.
How many iOS user would want to play Fortnite again ? Would people want a Netflix app that handles subscription inside the app ? Who would care about a Kindle app where you can buy the books and read them without leaving the app ?

An awful lot of people do care about these issues, even if they never heard of sideloading they'll jump on it if offered the opportunity.
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Plastic scintillator from Eljen isn't very expensive, especially if you only need a few cubic inches.

You can do very well with optically isolated pixels stacked together, followed by a common diffuser, followed by a drift gap, then 4 pmts or a position sensitive pmt with 4 cathodes. This will let you identify the struck pixel with less instrumentation. You can passively couple the outputs with resistors to get a horizontal and vertical position signals so you only need 2 data acquisition channels.
Only in america: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi
Hubris: What are some notable instances of tech leaders exhibiting hubris?