skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't seriously say seriously say that Canada and France are authoritarian government because of COVID lockdown.

Even in America, 71% Americans agree it was necessary.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/poll-majority-of-americans-say...

> But people like you are fixated in alleged symbolism. In looks and form instead of function.

Don't generalize me because you don't know me, I'm not even American, republican or democrat.

Merely an history aficionados with interest in totalitarian government.

Some Bush Obama and also Biden decision were arguably bad and authoritarian. The unjustified war on Irak being the biggest one imo.

They did unconstitutional spying of everyone including American citizen communications, which is already bad enough.

But with American policy you got to look at facts, only facts because everything is so biased there.

COVID lockdown, which you criticize, what is the state or individual interest ? As far as I know it made people like you angry, not good. Its only benefit was to save lives. The government didn't benefit from it.

Trump threatening every tech company to get them to follow his own agenda and donate money, who benefit ?

Giving Elon musk who was never elected but also a major tech company leader, who supported him during the election, a strong position into the American administration, who benefit ?

Every totalitarian government has to rely on a minor but endoctrined part of the population to be able to sustain itself. I had never heard of the 'proud boys' and like with other candidates, either republicans or democrats.

Blaming all the country's failure on a few selected individuals, immigrants currently, in the past century it could have been the Jew or on another continent the kulaks.

I mean there is a lot to think of when you're watching trump and open a book about history.

Btw there is no moral high ground to have here, it's not a dick competition but 2 people speaking on the internet.
That is sad. I need multiple profiles for my work and I cannot use Firefox because the profile support is awful. Creating and managing profiles as well as switching profiles is so intuitive in Chrome, it just works. In Firefox it's extremely user hostile. Hearing that Microsoft will also remove uBlock from Edge makes me angry, because that will make my work-life so much more annoying.
Interesting, thanks for sharing - definitely makes me withdraw my confidence in that prediction, though I still think there's a decent chance they change their mind about that as it seems to me like an even worse naming decision than their previous shit name choices!
I wonder how it's even possible to evaluate this kind of thing without data leakage. Correct answers to specific, factual questions are only possible if the model has seen those answers in the training data, so how reliable can the benchmark be if the test dataset is contaminated with training data?

Or is the assumption that the training set is so big it doesn't matter?
NASA's Hubble Provides Bird's-Eye View of Andromeda Galaxy's Ecosystem Science
Here's a FEN of the famous position from the Spassky-Fischer world championship match where Fischer weirdly played Bxh2 on move 29 and Spassky went on to win the game:

5k2/pp4pp/4pp2/1P6/8/P2KP3/5PPb/2B5 w - - 0 30

Full PGN here:

[Event "Spassky - Fischer World Championship Match"]
[Site "Reykjavik ISL"]
[Date "1972.07.11"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Boris Spassky"]
[Black "Robert James Fischer"]
[ECO "E56"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "111"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 c5
7. O-O Nc6 8. a3 Ba5 9. Ne2 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Bb6 11. dxc5 Qxd1
12. Rxd1 Bxc5 13. b4 Be7 14. Bb2 Bd7 15. Rac1 Rfd8 16. Ned4
Nxd4 17. Nxd4 Ba4 18. Bb3 Bxb3 19. Nxb3 Rxd1+ 20. Rxd1 Rc8
21. Kf1 Kf8 22. Ke2 Ne4 23. Rc1 Rxc1 24. Bxc1 f6 25. Na5 Nd6
26. Kd3 Bd8 27. Nc4 Bc7 28. Nxd6 Bxd6 29. b5 Bxh2 30. g3 h5
31. Ke2 h4 32. Kf3 Ke7 33. Kg2 hxg3 34. fxg3 Bxg3 35. Kxg3 Kd6
36. a4 Kd5 37. Ba3 Ke4 38. Bc5 a6 39. b6 f5 40. Kh4 f4
41. exf4 Kxf4 42. Kh5 Kf5 43. Be3 Ke4 44. Bf2 Kf5 45. Bh4 e5
46. Bg5 e4 47. Be3 Kf6 48. Kg4 Ke5 49. Kg5 Kd5 50. Kf5 a5
51. Bf2 g5 52. Kxg5 Kc4 53. Kf5 Kb4 54. Kxe4 Kxa4 55. Kd5 Kb5
56. Kd6 1-0
We have this back, thanks to WebGL/WebGPU/WebAssembly I can have all my beloved plugins back.

https://opensilver.net

https://cheerpj.com/

https://cheerpj.com/cheerpj-applet-runner/

https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/

And on top,

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...

https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/web

https://unity.com/solutions/web

https://playcanvas.com/

This is the only place where I am actually happy about WebAssembly's existence.
Thanks! I exported my data through this and it didn't take too long. Unfortunately this has the same issue as every other data export tool, in that it doesn't let you infer context in surrounding messages, it only saves yours.

Also apparently chat logs didn't start being kept until sometime around 2017, most of my extensive skype use was around 2014, so I reckon it's all gone by now. Shame.
This frustrates me too. Discord stores your messages forever for free! They're slowly eating Slack's lunch when it comes to internet communities... but I guess Slack doesn't really care; those communities were never going to pay any real money anyway.
Worse than childish. Owned by the enemy.
The frustration with Finder led me to building my own tool. Not trying to replace Finder but more like a companion app - https://www.fileminutes.com/
The problem with these privacy-first Firefox forks is none have the resources to match FF.

If Firefox dies, eventually so will they, as the code stagnates relative to better-funded browsers.

Saying "switch to a privacy-first fork" is not a long-term solution.
What? You can set a DNS server on every OS and device. It works for Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
I've just finished my solar setup and went with hybrid inverter and found out that Powerwall 3 has an integrated solar inverter which coupled with best software actually makes it very attractive product.
Hurr durr as if they can't allow you to attach your own Apple account to your grandparent's phone and put it into a supervised mode where you need to authorise for your grandparent to change settings like that.
Exactly. There's a business reason hardware companies like Nokia got killed (because it wasn't just Nokia. Lots of telco hardware companies were making handsets before and aren't anymore). That seems to me to be that Nokia didn't know how to make $100/user/year by controlling the software like MS and Google do (MS with "enterprise" sales and ads, Google with ads)

Also makes the choice for Microsoft, as opposed to anyone else, very understandable. The other choice that "worked" for cell phone companies was to be a Chinese company, with state subsidies amounting to zero, maybe even negative tax, no environmental regulations at all (my favorite whoopsie was an algae bloom that started inside China and reached 1/4th to 1/3rd the way from China to the US. It is terrifying to think about just how many fish, animals and plants must have suffocated when that happened), plus definitely using WAY cheaper labor, maybe even using slave labor.
For a GPT wrapper sure. You can get $1k AWS or Azure credits pretty easy.
Related on 27-feb-2025:

Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065 271 comments

Mozilla's new terms of use are out of step with Firefox's direct competition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194536 139 comments

Mozilla Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423 40 comments

Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200806 211 comments
Except it's a video introducing the concept and trying to create buzz around it and inviting people to try it (for free), and providing a link to the page where you can do so. (at least as far as I could tell).

So yes, but not really. This is more like when google released the initial android, and offered it to people to try to get feedback. Yes it's not offered as an obfuscated academic paper in a paywalled journal, but implying the video is promoting a half-baked product as production-ready for quick profit just because it's hosted in a proper landing page is a bit of an extreme take I think.
You may like to look at a self-hosted mattermost then.
The bitcoin transactions are scarce, just like the bitcoin itself. Hard limited to ~7/sec max. It's impossible for the fees not to grow with demand for transactions - in fact other than possible optimisations of the transaction data size there's a direct relationship between demand and transaction fee.

With bitcoin optimised for storing large amounts of value, there's a lot of room for fees to increase as adoption and the value of transactions increase. Even $50 is extremely cheap for storing $100,000k worth of value losslessly for 10 years and transferring it around the world in about 10-30 mins with final settlement. Impossible to do that at the moment without gambling/lending your money to an index fund - and more and more companies in those index funds are storing their value in bitcoin due to it being an ideal store of value, optimised for large amounts for large amounts of time.
It's good policy. I could go into detail but the short version is we live on a single planet, what goes around comes around. Some people think the US can isolate itself and not worry about what the rest of the world does or thinks, but that is a dangerous delusion.

What ever assistance we provide others is paid back in other ways, just like being neighborly isn't mandatory but is a very good idea.
I know. Because for every paid service you have one that is "free".
If Debian could just stick to free software that'd be grand. It is a good ideology and there is no need to change it. Introducing ideological confusion is one of the paths to organisational rot.
I mean, honestly, if this was happening where I live, I might well respond by withdrawing from the news, too. It's really fairly stunning.

I live in Ireland, and when I was a kid, the Taoiseach (PM), Charlie Haughey, who at the time was paid what would now be worth maybe 100k per year, mysteriously had his own island (turned out he was taking millions in corrupt payments, because of course). Over the next couple of decades, Ireland largely cleaned up the corruption, though Haughey himself largely escaped justice while he was alive (he spent much of his last decade in front of tribunals but kicked the bucket before they ended), suffering a sort of damnatio memoriae instead.

I'd always kind of thought of Haughey as the absolute epitome of modern developed world corruption, just comically blatant. Anyway, looks like this lot very much have him beat.
It should not take engineering time to have a database compute full-text indices. In sensible systems, you do "CREATE INDEX" and done.

To search multiple TBs of logs, you need a single 40 $/month server containing an 8 TB SSD running sensible software/index algorithm.

I agree that ElasticSearch is bloated and needs undue engineering time. But it doesn't need to be that way.

For example Quickwit finds things subsecond.

It's a huge improvement when queries go from 10 minutes linear search to instant.

(Its index is still not perfect for me because it doesn't support fully simple exact prefix/infix search, but otherwise it does the job fast with few resources.)

> Full fuzzy text serch is probably overkill

Yes, I think most people don't need fuzzy search for log search. They just need indexed grep.

> I think grep is amazing but yes if you unleash it on 'all the logs' without narrowing yourself down to a time frame first or some other taxonomy is going to be slow. This seems like a skill issue, frankly.

Right, grep is not the tool for the job. It's neglecting all sensible algorithms that solve this problem. It's like saying "I don't use binary search, only linear search", and spend human effort to pre-select the range so that it's fast enough.

When you're searching for the rare bugs, you also can't just limit the the time frame.
Hey on a personal note, dealing with you and your team on Nomad's GitHub issue tracker was always a good experience. I hope nomad still has a future under IBM's roof.
You made my day! This is one of the things that've been bugging me since I moved to Macos.. THANK YOU
Haven't you heard? Protecting liberty is against freedom. Ask Mr. Vance about it. /s
Same, honestly. I find it very pleasant to use. Especially compared to a lot of Linux file browsers
My personal favorite is 281-330-8004.
Warning: source is jalopnik which is absolute garbage when it is anything related to tesla or musk.
Tello costs at least $5 / month though. Skype was jusy pay as you go.
> I am not young, and I was around for both. What was the difference?

imo the difference is that spotify at least tried to hide it

when you searched for songs on grooveshark you'd get names back like "Tame Impala - The Slow Rush (2020) Mp3 (320kbps) [Hunter]"

also IIRC grooveshark never even tried to set up revenue share with labels/artists

Spotify cheated behind the scenes and a veneer of following the rules, which eventually transitioned into actually following the rules and paying out artists
If only people cared as much about privacy as vegetarians do about not eating meat...
Which will go under within a few years of FF dying. (Yes, the current code may still work, but the web will move on without it.)
Ergonomics is really personal. I’ve tried a few ergonomic chairs, and they are all too big for my body. At the end of the day, the trusty old ikea wooden chair works the best for me, despite the lack of any adjustability, because it is the right size to begin with.

When standing, I strongly agree with the article that getting some sort of rug is good for comfort. I have a very furry rug for it.

Moving around often is the most important factor, which is easy for me because I like to walk around while thinking.

I find trackballs very tiring on the thumb. Vertical mouse is quite comfortable. Ergonomic keyboard seems unnecessary to me, because I type with straight wrists on a normal keyboard anyway.
Better profile support is coming soon, already in Nightly.

Edit: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/try-out-firefox-p...
I don't think so. The fact you see any particular ad instead of another, is because someone put the highest bid for that slot to show you this ad, and nobody else was willing to pay more.

By very definition 99% of ads that could be in the slot are not there because someone is not willing to pay that much to show that ad, except for the single one that won the auction.

Ads have a maximum cost at which they don't become viable/profitable anymore.

The only difference is that now the user could bid on that ad slot himself, to keep it empty.

If you look at the average ad revenue, that wouldn't be all that much money. Certainly a fraction of what it costs to become a no-ad subscriber currently in various platforms.
Slowly? Discord is #1 in gaming and probably dev too
This is pure speculation, but what are the chances this change is simply an attempt to provide legal cover what they might have started doing 50 versions ago?[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082856
Can I backup my container configuration to a json file on disk or do I still need to sync it to the cloud to save it?
Never tried it. What I have "just works" for me. Also I value having everything local-first in plaintext.

The ability to get on with life with the absence of global organisation is my saviour. While any given org file may be well structured, my org files directory is a disaster zone.

I just use rgrep and text search to get around. It's great!
It even says:

> Unix philosophy. It's one day, one line. You can grep (only show lines).

Surprisingly, grep is able to output several lines, so even if you were to use a (say) more sensible format of one line per event, grep could still output all lines, and display them.
The Google Cloud Terraform provider includes, on Cloud SQL instances, an argument "deletion_protection" that defaults to true. It will make the provider fail to apply any change that would destroy that instance without first applying a change to set that argument to false.

That's what I expected lifecycle.prevent_destroy to do when I first saw it, but indeed it does not.
In your example, you gave up before even trying?

Be sure that almost everyone was hostile to Spotify very early on.
Coke is a trademark owned by Coca-Cola - the generic word is cola. Their brand is so strong that even though you were thinking about the topic of branding they still got you!
As the browser runs locally on our machine, surely its possible to just block firefox phoning home by DNS black holes or even hosts file or something?
> no one is entitled to having a free, ads free and privacy respecting web browser

I disagree. As governments and society at large are increasingly requiring you to be online for basic tasks we do owe it to make sure people have a user agent that doesn't come with strings attached.
> (using no pipelining or multiplexing),

"Doctor it hurts when I hit myself"

> the number of simultaenous outgoing http connections to backend systems is at least the number of simulatenous open incoming http connections

No it isn't. You establish a pool of long lived connections per backend. The load balancer should be coalescing in flight requests. At that traffic volume you should also be doing basic in-memory caches to sink things like favicon requests.

I am not going to respond further as this chain is getting quite off topic. There are plenty of good resources available from relevant Google searches, but if you really still have questions about how load balancers work my email is in my profile.
does he even have the capacity
Thing is, so was Firefox. Say, for example, Ladybird becomes a massive success. What is stopping it from going down the Chrome and Firefox route? No project is immune to money.
I would love a privacy-friendly (e.g. Proton or similar-supplied) log in option on lots of websites. Log in with Google is what keeps me using Gmail.
I've been using Gvoice pretty much since it started. I'm just as surprised as you that Google hasnt killed it. The writing has seemed to be on the wall a few times but it's still around, thankfully.

When they semi-killed hangouts a couple years ago I thought for sure Gvoice was gone.
Yup. See Bannon's 'Build the Wall' scam. This sort of thing kind of selects for easy marks.
They do, but anyone trying to see how a Website works will find the developer tools as usable as with any browser plugin, unless they have the right plugins installed, and running the developer build.
Note that more recent versions of Postgres have added support for the CYCLE keyword, for easier loop detection.
I think Apache AGE is much more generic, as it can parse Cypher queries and comes with a bunch of utility functions.

OP article is more like a hack, and a good one! It seems like you can achieve a lot of what you might expect from graph database with pgRouting functions and good old SQL.
>NIH at its best

How do you know?

Teams feel totally different from Skype, from design perspective
honestly, at this point it makes sense to use vanilla Firefox for you, that offers exactly what you need and it's still quite good about privacy.
> But what would've been a smarter software for this kinda use?

A database (ie PostgreSQL - https://postgresql.org), plus an application written to do what they need in something like Go (on the backend), and there are a bunch of potential choices for the front end user interface.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253
In Germany, MS was very successful though to get organizations on Teams during the pandemic. Zoom is not a thing.

Sure, it's nice to brand the verb, but when the product behind it is EOL, why bother.
> I have hard time seeing who's actually going to support the guy.

The same people that voted for him the last two times even though it was against their own interests to do so.
Hmm it seems to me a viable solution (at least for the more tech inclined) is to just firewall it so it's unable to call home (although then there's an extension sourcing issue). Unless there's more of a philosophical stance. Or am I missing something else?

I've been a mostly happy Firefox user since v2, and have made it through - though will never forget - the extensions system "upgrade" debacle and more. As long as I have means to maintain reasonable control, I'll continue with it into the foreseeable future, because I consider the Chromium-based alternatives to be worse.
> I only bothered to learn Vim after seeing somebody do some wizardry with it and wondering how they did it.

That's usually the biggest motivator. It was for me too.
These FF forks will all be nonviable within a few years of Mozilla going under. Google and Apple will keep moving the web (for better or worse), and these forks will be unable to keep up for lack of resources.

Whether they get relatively slower, or just can't support some new web tech, the writing will be on the wall.
Fascinating. Just for fun, comparable compute (by cpumarks) to your 13900k for 30 fps would be 39,600+ 96-core AMD EPYC 9655Ps. Bravo on the project success!
Lync was completely unrelated software with a different tech stack that was just branded as Skype.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_for_Business
If both users are using Chrome, you may try my Chrome extension:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/eparto-virtual-phon...
Firefox only exists because Google needs an alternative to pretend its not a part of a duopoly. That alternative doesn't have to be Firefox tbh. They could stop sponsoring and choose any of the thousands of alternatives. Similarly Safari exists because Apple has exclusive control of what goes in iPhones. If it is ever forced by legislation to open it up to other browsers, it will lose some of that control. I don't think it will ever be forced to fully open though. I expect apple to make it so only a select number of entities can afford to release a true Safari competitor.
Show HN: I built Notion Newsletter, now I get my newsletters in Notion
I don’t want to read my newsletters in my email client.

To solve my problem, I build pikr, an easy and fast solution that acts as a middleman between my inbox and my Notion Workspace.
Diversification is good but considering ladybird choose a liberal BSD license, there is no protection from Google, Microsoft and friends. If it ever takes off they can just do the good old embrace, extend, and exterminate on it.

We need a GPLv3 licensed browser to ensure it will always stay open.
boost.beast also only talks HTTP/1.1 AFAIK, so if you want HTTP/2 or /3 on your frontend then you must put it behind a reverse proxy anyway.