skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web app with a VueJS, Typescript frontend and a Rust backend, some Postgres functions and some reasonably complicated algorithms for parsing git history.
> Why do you think mobile games are so full of ads?

Because most games are not games, but clones of other games purely as vehicles to show ads. The goal is to show ads more than it is to be a game.
From what I understand, Moses's major contribution was describing color mixing principles for pigment paints independent of the notion of specially nominated primary colors, showing among other things that a mixture of any two paints is reduced in saturation in proprtion to their separation on the hue circle. I've been exploring classic color theory texts lately and the most illuminating by far as been Michel-Eugène Chevreul's "Principles of Color Harmony and Contrast", which has a wonderful recent translation and commentary by Dan Margulis. The core of the work elucidates what are known today as the optical phenomena of simultaneous contrast, chromatic adaptation, perceptual constancy. There is also a good overview and critique of historical color wheels at https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color14.html
I think it's related to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065
I wonder how Meta trains its models. On vanilla Pytorch or they actually have some closed tools and frameworks?
GP here: I had the exact same experience with Google Voice (linked to my Skype Number several years ago). Sadly, I could never get it to work with another Skype Number again.
Firefox on Debian is not nagging me. Out of curiosity what reason does it give for not being able to use it in the future?

Which version of each are you running? I use esr these days (I don't remember why I switched though).
This makes me wonder, are my old chats still around? Is there any tool to back them up? Skype played a major role in my life for a good while, which I'd want to preserve.
Yes, there is still a problem there. Some 'clever' services are blocking probably all VOIP numbers, not only zadarma.
> I recommend switching to an alternative browser which is only a browser, like Dillo, Ladybird, or Netsurf.

Did not know any of those alternatives thanks for sharing.

After a quick online search, I see they could work for casual browsing and it's great that they don't rely on Chromium

But do you think these can be a full browser replacement without extension ecosystems like ublock origin et al.?
yeah my Skype credit has been quietly gulped too but officially you can reactivate it when needed
Microsoft did not buy or kill Nokia though.
If the core team had ever addressed the decade of surveys showing that error messages/stacktraces were people's top complaints, you wouldn't need Claude.
How is that possible? Surely someone that worked on it must still have it in one of their archives somewhere? It was made in a time when software was still free.

The only thing I can think is that EA deliberately came down hard on that and were a little bit too zealous.
"microsoft killed nokia"

nokia did that to themselves, microsoft aquisition just prolonged its inevitable ends
Im sure when I fought for the YPG Assad might have liked that, unfortunately all the bogus surveillance in the world is no use when your army cannot enforce their borders or sovereignty. In any case I saw guys with AKs posting to Facebook, no bogus stuff needed, they were already publicly providing all the evidence needed for the death penalty without any worry of being prosecuted.
Formula 1 management shocked team used Excel for 20k-part inventory (2024)
It's all so strange. I would happily buy Firefox, either as a one off, or as an annual license, and be done with all the weird license nonsense - presumably they want to sell data to pay the bills.

But instead the choice, realistically, seems to be between giving all my browsing data to Google and to Mozilla. And Chrome works marginally better... :/
Any option will be social engineered into enabling.

> Why can't we all just have what we want?

We have it. I compiled and installed an open source app on my iphone. There is a barrier which is just perfect because it means no matter how hard they try no one can manage to get my mom to install some shady app that abuses private apis and such in order to hack her unless they first get this app on app store

Making it an option would threaten safety and life savings of millions of people who don't give a flying duck about your or my undying love for full hardware ownership but will instantly become targets for mass hacking campaigns ("just press this button and OK 3 times to the red warning")

"if you really care about it, you can do it" is a fair state of affairs. If you are dead set on it just mentally map in your head the price of a 1000$ device to 1100$ and be done with it. If you care about these things and insist on using this brand then you can afford it

(I am a bit exaggerating the point but just because it seems like almost everyone is on the other side of the argument)
GPL is all about politics, that is Richard Stallman's background regarding his world view and how it applies to computing.

All other FOSS licenses are only a rebranding of Public Domain and Shareware variants that we used to have, with the respective commercial value when used as carrot for commercial products.
I would not. I would focus on family and friends, leaving as little mess to work through for them after my passing and making the best out of remaining days. Quality > quantity for me, always.
The problem is, you're coming from paper for these PDFs, and this is the step where you add that data.

While the world became much more digitized (for example, for any sale, I get a PDF and an XML version of my receipt, which is great), but not everything is coming from computers and made for humans.

We have hand written notes, printed documents, etc., and OCR has to solve this. On the other hand, desktop OCR applications like Prizmo and latest versions of macOS already have much better output quality when compared to these models. Also there are specialized free applications to extract tables from PDF files (PDF files are bunch of fonts and pixels, they have no information about layout, tables, etc.).

We have these tools, and they work well. Even there's venerable Tessaract, built to OCR scanned papers and have neural network layer for years. Yet, we still try to throw LLMs to everyhting and we cheer like 5 year olds when it does 20% of these systems, and act like this technology doesn't exist, for two decades.
Worth noting is that many of these features come from the Tor Uplift project[0]. I'm not sure if they'd exist if it weren't for Tor's work.

[0]: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-advancing-privacy-in...
I got the same message on an older version of Ubuntu where Firefox isn't installed via snap. On my main machine with Ubuntu / firefox snap I do not get this msg.
"Both sides are the same" has no relevance anymore. Every day since Jan 20th 2025 one side has been proving they will do anything and everything they can to destroy democracy and America. The other side doesn't have any power to stop them, mainly because people didn't show up to vote.
The price is 2x from GPT4. So probably not a decimal order of magnitude.
No, woke is well understood to be about identity politics.

The following requirements were part of the program [1]. Are you really unable to see how this can be described as "woke"?

> In addition, states had to prove that they promoted participation from minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and “other socially or economically disadvantaged individual-owned businesses.” They also had to create a Five-Year Action Plan that required collaborating with unions and “underrepresented communities,” including prisoners, LGBTQI+ individuals, women, and people of color.

[1] https://www.thefp.com/p/inside-biden-broadband-boondoggle-tr...
Why the Brain's Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed
> You're right, the problem is not her phone, because she has an iphone.

The problem is her. If she is gullible enough to be talked into sideloading she is vulnerable enough to be talked into worse. You don't need to sideload anything to make a bank transfer.
> Every IBM product I've ever used is universally reviled by every person I've met who also had to use it

Not a product, but a service: is Red Hat Linux a counter example?
Tesla drivers are racking up fines using FSD in China
not really? this is basically already deployed as a cure for AIDS (with an N in the single digits iirc). the issue is not technical, it's that it's such an extreme solution that without more safety data it's ethically a hard sell for a condition like diabetes.
Ask HN: Is Brave an ok alternative?
"Microsoft mismanaged it."

they don't even manage it, like they just let it "stay" that way

I think this is the problem with Trillion dollar company, they don't want focus on "small money" problem and they can just buy tech/company if they find it important enough in the future
Random is prng. They still cannot cache though because they do many reading "passes" through the same data.

If build a cache that gets hits on the first pass, then it won't work for the second and later passes.
True, but persistent data structures are still 2x-4x slower than mutable structures on average.
Is this post an instance of that?

The following requirements were part of the program [1]. Are you really unable to see how this can fairly be described as "woke"?

> In addition, states had to prove that they promoted participation from minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, and “other socially or economically disadvantaged individual-owned businesses.” They also had to create a Five-Year Action Plan that required collaborating with unions and “underrepresented communities,” including prisoners, LGBTQI+ individuals, women, and people of color.

[1] https://www.thefp.com/p/inside-biden-broadband-boondoggle-tr...
I think they are mixing up who is supporting fascism…
This was [dead] but I don't see an obvious reason for it.
One assumption people making such arguments implicitly assume is that such things are possible, which is not a given. It could well be that you could have infinite money, a billion scientists, and make no progress whatsoever. And I'm only referring to cancer there. Anti-aging seems even less likely.

I think there's a lot of cognitive dissonance on this topic from people like Ray Kurzweil. The overwhelming majority of increases in life expectancy over the past millennia have come from reductions in childhood mortality. It's not like people in the past just hit 40 years old and randomly keeled over. But rather people were quite unlikely to make it out of childhood. If one person dies in childhood and the other at 80, you have a life expectancy of 40 years old but it's rather misleading! In reality the average life expectancy (for those that made it out of childhood) has remained pretty similar for millennia - around 70 years. [1]

So for instance the Founding Fathers died at an average age of 72. John Adams lived to 90, and Sam Adams/Jay/Franklin/Madison died in their 80s. The only two who died before their 60s were Hamilton, who was killed in a duel, and Hancock, who'd had poor health throughout most of his life. This is a nice sample because you had Founding Fathers as young as 18 (Monroe) when the Declaration of Independence was signed, so we're certainly not seeing a surviorship bias. They were certainly wealthier than average, but all the wealth in the world doesn't matter when state of the art healthcare was doing things like treating infections by bloodletting (including by leeches) to get rid of 'bad blood' or 'balance the 4 humors.'

[1] - https://aeon.co/ideas/think-everyone-died-young-in-ancient-s...
I switched to LibreWolf over this, and it's good so far. A couple of things:

* I had to switch off the fingerprinting protection. For me, running at 60 FPS and without automatic CSS dark mode detection isn't worth whatever fingerprint resistance it provides. Sadly, you don't have granular control over RFP, you have to turn it off entirely.

* It doesn't have Google Search available by default, but it turned out to be fairly straightforward to add. DuckDuckGo is just too slow to load for me compared to Google, and their AI integration is stupid. Google doesn't have AI answers and text fields like DDG does in my region.

* Their implementation of container tabs don't seem to support automatically opening certain URLs in certain containers, which is annoying. Maybe I can get the official container tabs extension working, but I kinda wish LibreWolf either had proper container tabs or left it out in favour of the Mozilla extension.

Otherwise, it seems great. I found it hard to pick between all the different Firefox forks and rebrands, but LibreWolf seemed like one of the more serious ones and I don't regret going with it.
Yep, I linked that subthread cause it puts some actual numbers into perspectives.
The format is probably ok for non-edit logging like journalling or recording something like weight loss.
SafetyCore content scanner is being silently mass installed on Android
No, it's acceptable because he bought the White House.
Mine too! I still play it sometimes through cncnet but you need a windows machine or a VM?
Will they, or it will be like Jank, just a kind of side endevour without commitment to actually make use of?

It isn't as if Swift developer experience is that great outside Apple's ecosystem.

While I would definitly use it when on Apple's ground, I feel less inclined to thouch it for anything related to cross platform GUIs.
wdym non user?? it integrate nicely with windows eg:for sometimes skype installed by default on windows
Perhaps. I would more readily believe that if Microsoft didn't have an established pattern of killing competitor companies and tech.

I think they really tried to merge Skype with Live Messenger, stripping Skype for parts. And maybe those parts weren't the tech as much as the brand, but we don't know how much tech they adopted.
Laptop and computers still is used as dominant for writing software including for mobile - you know software that could be infected. Still no collapse. Smartphones were not main device 10 years ago and people did bank transfers on laptop and world didn't collapse 10 years ago
I seem to recall that Skype had the concept of "super nodes" which could facilitate NAT traversal for of users which didn't have a direct internet connection. Microsoft got rid of that pretty fast and replaced it with Microsoft managed servers (which to be fair seems less sketchy that using random users machines as something akin to a STUN server).
We take the modern internet speeds for granted, at that time the tech behind Skype was top notch and probably when Skype made its way into Windows, that looked like the original destination. But later many questionable decisions made things worse even before the internet became faster and other voice technologies were up to the task. One of them was changing the protocol that made many headsets bricked. Probably from the marketing point of view it was a "if one wants Skype, he or she would buy Windows" step, but obviously it was not
They had direct or indirect scene connections and got reliably high quality material. Lots of it. Like Oink amounts.

That's what I liked about the early service, they had so much obscure and niche stuff that it was fun and interesting to just browse and discover. Then the entertainment mafia bought in and they deleted huge portions of the catalogue, and I never returned.

Bandcamp was good until recently, now it's turning into a garbage dump for "AI" gunk.
> The recurring joke was that general AI was just 20 years away, and had been for the last few decades.

You seem to think that joke is out of date now. Many others don't ;)
>donating to anti-aging research

Not as much as I should've. You've made a good point, thanks.
SIP providers, such as Ippi.
> I've worked for a European company acquired by big tech in the US. My experience was that the Americans were quite full of themselves and didn't want to learn how we operated.

Yup, that's also my experience. Americans are just like the unofficial President - they don't take "no" for an answer when they demand something, no matter what, unless you manage to get court judgements because that actually threatens the bottom line.

> Still, I wouldn't blame Europe so quickly. American big tech often fails to do business here within the local culture and laws, too.

I always remember when Wal-Mart tried to come to Germany... and had to leave with its tail tucked in because they just couldn't cope with stuff being done differently here [1].

[1] https://medium.com/the-global-millennial/why-walmart-failed-...
Yesterday I tested Windsurf. Looked the docs and examples. Completed the demo "course" on deeplearning.ai.
Gave it the task to build a simple Hugo blog website with a theme link and requirements, it failed consecutive times. With all the available models.

AI art is an abomination. Half of the internet is already filled with AI written crap. Don't start with the video. Soon everyone will require validation to distinguish reality from hallucination (so World ID in place as problem-reaction-solution).

For me, the best use cases are LLM assisted search with limited reasoning. Vision models for digitization and limited code assistance, codebase doc generation and documentation.

Agents are just workflows with more privileges. So where is the revolution? I don't see it.

Where is added value? Making Junior Engineers obsolete? Or make them dumb copy-pasting bio machines?

Depressing a horde of intellectual workers and artists and giving a good excuse for layoffs.

The real value is and always will be in a specialized ML applications.

LLM hype is getting boring.
What's wrong with the Ganzfeld effect? I can experience it personally even without a uniform visual field by suppressing saccades for about thirty seconds.

Or, at least, I could. It seems I lost the knack of controlling saccades. When I was younger I was able to suppress saccades and induce nystagmus-like eyeballs movement.

Ah, I still can do it after some tries. Amplitude of induced nystagmus seems to have diminished though. And it's more uncomfortable than it was.
The dog that died was locked up and probably died without water. The two that weren’t locked up survived. It’s likely she was in some kind of danger and he had a heart attack trying to deal with it. He was found in the mud room by the door and she was in the bathroom with an open bottle of pills spilled.
Yes: the real truth is, if there really was a good AI created, then we wouldnt even know about it existing until a billion dollar company takes over some industry with only a handful of developers in the entire company. Only then would hints spill out into the world that its possible.

No "good" AI will ever be open to everyone and relatively cheap, this is the same phenomenon as "how to get rich" books
The AI hyperbole is so cringe right now (and for the last few years). I've yet to see anyone come up with something that'd wow me, and say, "OK, yep, that deserves those cycles".

Writing terrible fanfic esque books, sometimes OK images, chatbot style talking. meh.
He might not have business chops, but this seems a bit harsh :/
Incredible to watch this continued vandalism from across the Atlantic. It seems if there's something that Trump and his cronies can't make a quick buck off then it needs to be smashed. America, the leviathan (in the Hobbesian sense), is crippling itself, blinding itself, cutting itself off from allies. What's will be left in 4 years? Not the same country.
Currently my daily API costs for 4o are low enough and performance/quality for my usecases good enough that switching models has not made to to the top of application improvements.

My cases' costs are more heavily slanted towards input tokens, so trying 4.5 would raise my costs over 25x, which is a non-starter.
FWIW, I have a bind to toggle relative/absolute. You can have both!
https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/
How much of a financial effort would it be to have some non-profit take a fork of Icecat and Fennec F-Droid, and just maintain a browser for the actual free world (akin to codeberg for example)?

i.e. if we strip down all the corporate overhead what would be the annual cost of maintaining a European sane version of 'land of the free' Firefox?
> Don't worry about "regulatory."

Are you recommending to break the law or are you being sarcastic?
I sincerely do not know anymore.
Proprietary or non-proprietary isn't something I particularly care for (maybe 10 years ago I'd have cared, but I'm just a good deal more cynical these days I suppose). I just want a browser that works and doesn't actively try to screw me over.

There's nothing stopping Mozilla's current descent into stupidity just because Firefox is non-proprietary free software; they have enough engineers and manpower on their end to overtake any forks in development speed (which limits any forks to trying to stay in sync with either upstream or ESR.) Chromium is as a browser non-proprietary too, but that didn't stop Google from getting rid of declarativeNetRequest, leaving the forks mostly powerless to do anything about it because they can't hard fork Chromium.
What does aerospace provide that yabai can't? I'm using yabai pretty much like I used to in Arch with i3
Yes, Stallman and his generation was more aware of this reality, yet we are losing it. It is similar across all dimensions of the society, where younger folk take for granted what was gained only after long struggle, as a result losing it, bit by bit.
It's fine if they do it like Facebook - just leech.
I'm not arguing the complexity of hacking a password, I'm familiar. So instead of responding with rainbow tables or how knowing the schema informs you the location of salts for the salted hash (which is the actual proper way), I'll just point to an example.

Look at how RSA is implemented. Look at the intentional obscurity of S tables and lack of detailed information.

There is a reason information is withheld. DB schema is just that, information that increases increases the threat.

And running a DB on someone's infrastructure doesn't necessarily give you access. You need to read up on AuthN and AuthZ.

If you listed an open source example I'd take the time to poke holes in your strawman argument but you honestly just need to take a step back and think about what you are really arguing.

Do you really think not having the schema is as inconsequential as having the schema when attacking something? I mean what is the first step most folks do in reverse engineering? I honestly can't believe I'm having to say this.
Brave was never good: crypto-crap, based on Chromium, and was modifying web pages from the start without your consent. I never understood why people use it.
That is counting all comments and empty lines, which are many.
> [Expose] has completely lost any spatial determinism

Could you elaborate on that?