skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While branding System1 an adtech company is correct, its bread and butter [at the time] was search aggregation and in effect contextual advertising (System1 didn't want to deal with PII). The ownership made a lot of sense, and of course having a view inside the company, I could see how everything worked.

It was impossible to get that point across, especially as S1 wanted to have the final say on what was said. A lot of heartache all across the board could've been saved by just being able to say things as a matter of fact.

But unfortunately people jump to conclusions, don't have good faith discussions and loved just get involved in internet drama.
I haven’t kept up with python too much over the past year or two and learned a couple new things from this code. Namely, match/case and generic class typing. Makes me wonder what else is new, off to the python docs!
Angry crowd: “Mozilla should do things to diverse revenue!”

Also angry crowd: “No! No! Not that thing! How dare you explore alternative revenue streams! You are Mozilla, just pick and the execute a successful 100 million dollar idea!”
The Missouri basin is largely west of the dry line, and so gets substantially less rainfall.
Seconded. They have been doing great work for a few years now.
"Did you know, the Catholic church is to blame for Firefox getting ready to sell user data?"

The theory has a certain chaotic pizzazz but I'm not sure I could convince anyone.
Thinking that you should treat people well regardless of which genitals they prefer is not a “silly purity test,” it’s basic decency, at least in this millennium.
So current employees want a leader that basically only thinks about said leader's salary, I guess?
That is a shared value among many, can't argue with that.
Well, that sucks.

I still use Skype whenever I’m calling internationally to my mother’s land line. I still have $9 in credits.

Skype is also a life saver when you’re abroad and need to call a US 1-800 number.
Totally agreed. The same logic applies to really all forms of transportation. Mass begets mass.
Paid version have that problem somewhat less because they have a source of income that could dry up if they do. Paying someone means they are beholden to you as well, while free gives you nothing.

There is a reason I get my email via fastmail: they differentiate themselves on privacy features. I also have my own domain, so if fastmail does turn evil they know I can easially move away. I can run my own email server, but having done that I know it is harder than I want. There are other services I'd pay for if I could find someone I could trust to take a small amount of money. (small is key - plenty would do this for thousands, but I don't have that much free cash)

Don't get me wrong, the above is not very large, but it is still something.
Yeah, when I left I think there were something like 7x the number of people than when I joined. You can't run those two companies the same way no matter who is in charge.
I'm not going to go out of my way to fetch a modified build for a functionally worse browser. I only use FF at home due to privacy, but since that is no longer covered by Mozilla I might as well use the browser I've already been using for web dev for years at work.
I've been using 4.5 for the better part of the day.

I also have access to o3-mini-high and o1-pro.

I don't get it. For general purposes and for writing, 4.5 is no better than o3-mini. It may even be worse.

I'd go so far as to say that Deepseek is actually better than 4.5 for most general purpose use cases.

I seriously don't understand what they're trying to achieve with this release.
These cards are $550-$600

16GB is great for what these are: Gaming cards.

Even on the nVidia side you have to spend $2000 (likely more) to get more RAM than that.

You could buy 3 of these for the price of a single nVidia 5090.
This is why:

https://help.obsidian.md/android#Storage+permissions
Ohh, that is lovely. I had not seen it. Black does seemingly nothing wrong and is just in a world of hurt by the 12th move.
Shocking and enraging content activates minds. These products don't just count likes but also things like pausing your scroll over a piece of content. It is really hard to avoid the immediate lizard-brain response of pausing over shocking content, leading to more and more of this content. The net effect is a product that doesn't make people feel happy or enriched but a product that makes people feel angry and stressed but in a way that is difficult to pull away from.
>unlimited crime against others with no consequences

At present I will acknowledge one great obligation to it, that is the Chapter sixth—of money page 21st “When these denominations are admitted & employed in transactions to diminish the quantity of metal to which they answer by an alteration of the real coins, is to steal, a theft of greater magnitude & still more ruinous is the making of paper. It is greater because in this money there is absolutely no real value. It is more ruinous because by its gradual depreciation during all the time of its existence it produces the effect which would be produced by an infinity of successive deteriorations of the coin.” That is to say an infinity of successive felonious larcenies. If this is true as I believe it is we Americans are the most thievish people that ever existed, we have been stealing from each other for an hundred & fifty years. If anything like health remains to me, you shall hear more upon this subject from your friend & humble servant.

-- John Adams
No one is ever forced to be evil. Everything in the human world is the result of someone's choices.

"Shit rolls downhill."

And all of Zuck's works are a detriment to humanity.
…what happens after 50-100 years?
rayiner's comment mentioning "prisoners, LGBTQI+ individuals, women, and people of color" is not about the build out. It's about community outreach and measuring impact on who is getting connected.

It's all in the Notice of Funding Opportunity for the program.

The only reference to actually diversity in the actual build out are:

* Complying with CFR 200.321, considering MWBE are considered in subcontracting, which is standard in many federal contracts

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/p...

* Non-discrimination in hiring, also standard in federal contracts

* Encouraging, but not requiring awardees to broaden their recruitment to underrepresented groups:
> Ensuring that subgrantees prioritize hiring local workers and have robust and specific plans to recruit historically underrepresented populations facing labor market barriers and ensure that they have reasonable access to the job opportunities created by subgrantees
High ram cards are just nice for their longer lifespans though.

Since Nvidia dominates the AI market anyway, AMD has the opportunity here to not try and help them protect it, and sell cards with more RAM. IMO that’d be a good move. They’d be keeping gamers happy by not hampering their product artificially. And, some poor grad students might use their cards to build the “next thing.”
What's internet explorer's market share? Answer: way less than a percent at this point because current market shares are no guarantee about future ones.

Chrome is the new Internet Explorer. It successfully replaced it. Only to start sharing most of the qualities that were the reason for Internet Explorer to fail in the market. And there was a web before Internet Explorer as well.

Chrome once started at 0% market share. Displacing the dominant browser has been done before. It can be done again.

Web pages that only worked with Internet Explorer did not age very well. Companies ended up spending a lot on needing to replace those. Making a webapp that only works with Chrome is at this point seriously misguided. If only for the simple reason that you can forget about IOS compatibility if you do (as long as Apple keeps a death grip on the app stores, there will be no chromium based HTML rendering on IOS).
In my experience booting VMs over iSCSI at home the network speed made it practically unusable. I'm happy Terin got Windows working though.

Clearly it depends a lot on the network backend.
Or just cover 1% of that area with PV.
Among other things, I am also a musician and composer, and I also was a music and video producer years ago.

However, I have distanced myself from the collecting societies long ago and now distribute most of my music for free and under a Creative Commons license on my website (http://rochus-keller.ch/?cat=3).

After analyzing the publicly available financial figures of some collecting societies, it became clear to me that as a musician it is much more helpful if people are able to listen to my music without hindrance (paywalls, etc.), compared to the small amount of revenue that copyrights generate. In my view, copyrights collecting and enforcement are clearly an anachronism that tends to get in the way of most musicians and composers today rather than helping them.
> very stringent stray magnetic field requirements of the ISS.

I'm sure that others, here are far more conversant with the tech, but it's my understanding that one of the attributes of superconducting magnets, is that the very strong field is extremely localized. It doesn't extend too far from the magnet.
Since the goal was just to have non-virtualized Windows to satisfy game developers, I haven't tried much else. Sorry.

> all the exampled online seem so outdated.

Many of the guides felt like they've been only slightly dusted since the Windows XP days. I've seen none that even hinted at making the DVD ISO a target, leading me to believe it wasn't well supported 20 years ago.
VSCode is still a very competitive text editor even without its proprietary plugins.

Ootb VSCode is already a superior experience to Emacs, which I only begrudgingly move away from because of subpar TypeScript + JSX support like 6 years ago. However, after I started using VSCode for work there was just no going back. I use VSCode a lot for text manipulations. I find its regex search replace much easier than using sed in the terminal. Multiple cursors, Git integration, beautiful diffs, command palette is just like Emacs M-x.

Without its proprietary plugins it's still a great gift to the public and forks like Cursor is a good showcase of that. Thanks to monaco almost every web editor nowaways have great usability, syntax highlighting and the keybindings that I'm familiar with.

I think the bigger joke of the century are open source beneficiaries that only take and give nothing back, but still have the audacity to demand for things and hound open source developers to implement what they want. You can't have your cake and eat it too
May 5, Microsoft's Skype will shut down for good
Also interesting using it as an EFI executable. Remind me to start adding that to the menu of ... well, everything.
I'm working on Digest (usedigest.com) which curates content from nearly any source into your own personalized email newsletter. It also has a newsletter reader built into it as well so all of your newsletters get funneled into Digest, instead of your email inbox.
I think it only refers to there being no more oversight from the SEC.
Instead of hiding which game it is, the company should be properly shamed.
Under Eich Mozilla mostly abandoned Firefox development to focus on his big bet that failed: Firefox OS. It took Mozilla many years to recover from that technically after it finally killed FirefoxOS.

It was a good bet. But it did not work out. No leader is infallible.
Rx 9070 seems perfect for compact builds on a power budget but I can't see a single two-slot, two-fan card from partners so far. They all look like massive, three slot cards.
Even with the proper contract awarding process, corruption is widespread.

Decisions made at lunches and then the contract award process skewed to award the correct person, at some insane markup over real market prices for the same service.

The process is unfixable. Instead we should just look at a teams total cost and total achievement every year, and if the money they've spent doesn't look good value for money, we give them a bad performance review and their government career will be tricky to repair.

That is a far stronger incentive to get the most out of taxpayer money than ever stricter, yet super easy to game, anti corruption measures.
Operation Chokepoint 2.0, presumably
There's been garbage online forever. But you had to seek it out and if you didn't visit those sites you weren't going to come across this content organically in the same way.

Now you just have an infinite feed that shows you this stuff organically and unless you are diligent in clicking "not interested" over and over, it'll show up in your feed more and more often.
Mozilla lost its missing a long time ago. The previous CEO was a disaster, and it looks like this one is too.
> We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible

wow, that's scary.

So either
a) the current license doesn't allow some current basic functionality or
b) the basic functionality of firefox is about to change

I can't imagine how a) can be true. So b) must be true and quote implies, that firefox's basic functionality is about to change. And I do not see how it can change for the better regarding the context of the quote.
That would be because I linked the wrong article. The original is here, different journal:

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...
“Dual channel” is not a thing with CAMM. CAMM is 128 bits wide. To feed a 256bit wide memory controller, you need 2 CAMM modules. LPCAMM2 uses 4 memory packages. The observed number of packages next to the APU on this is 8. So you need 2 modules.
How much do you think someone has to support “a decent fraction of my employees and users should be legally considered lesser” before it counts?
> three years on

I have been using org-mode for nearly two decades. Org-mode itself has existed for 22 years (beating markdown by 1 year!). For something as important as an archival format, I wouldn't base my decisions on the vagaries of the latest trends.
A memecoin is a type of cryptocurrency, but not all cryptocurrencies are memecoins.
Nope, there are no numbers there, how can you put in a position and get a value (probability) out? Saying "it is" is not evidence or an explanation.

Here is the normal distribution probability function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

You can see that there is an actual equation where all the numbers can be filled in except for X, which is the function input.
I'm really intrigued to get one, but where is the 32GB version for all the LLM goodness?
Why do you consider the use of story points for those 2 cases "abuse of metrics"?
Eich was being the more tolerant party: he wasn't trying to get anyone at Mozilla fired for their political beliefs (or their sexual preferences).
Yeah that's what happens. It can recreate anything it's been trained on - which is a lot - but you'll definitely fall into these "Oh, I see the issue now" loops when doing anything not in the training set.
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Dealing with old crappy codebases can really tank a product, especially if you don't have management support to fix the broken practices.

I imagine the Teams project gets a lot of pressure to deliver features instead of fixing the underlying problems. While the VSCode project probably only occasionally gets a push from upper management (like to add copilot stuff)

Delivering features on top of an unmaintainable mess just makes the mess bigger.
This is flame war now, but there are > 1 person who can run a company successfully. No Eich != bad company. Blame current leadership not lack of specific leadership.
I heard a rumor that certain account was planning a raid on Instagram for today (feb 28 2025) a couple months ago, that said "something will happen on that date". But I just thought it was some kind of weird advertising method from Meta; it kinda worked though, it got me to open the app (I'm too curious).
And yet there’s just as much connection to them as to the people who pushed to get Eich removed.
It's just not the default. As the developer, it's trivial to make text selectable.
You're right I shouldn't have used the adjective "totalitarian." It was the kind of mindless parroting of phrases that I dread myself, so thank you for pointing that out! The UK has extremely strict surveillance laws, which are incompatible with EU legislation by now, so it's not a typical example of European countries in that respect. That's all I meant to say.
Angry crowd all over my tech bubble: "Mozilla should make a subscription that directly funds the development of Firefox, and not the salary of the CEO that does nothing."

Also angry crowd: "No, not ads or AI, it's stupid."

What was your point anyway?
It's the corruption of the whole executive branch.
Microsoft keeps track of licenses in some cloud database keyed by machine fingerprint, so if you run the same image on multiple machines it's supposed to work fine. I have actually purchased licenses for all the machines.

I have found, though, that sometimes machines don't actually query Microsoft for activation info, and instead complain about activation after a few hours. If I then manually go to the activation settings and click "troubleshoot activation", then it realizes that it's already registered in the Microsoft database and it stops complaining.

But this is really annoying to have to do for every machine at every party, so more commonly we just don't bother, and some people end up with the annoying "Activate Windows" overlay in the corner. But it's actually far enough into the corner and subtle enough that often people just don't even notice it's there and it's fine...
I don't use Instagram or any social media apps--I do use webapps. For Youtube if I'm tempted to click something I wouldn't have searched for myself I use open in private. I mark watched videos with a Like. I also actively click "Not Interested" and even "Do not recommend channel". My recommendations are narrowly curated. I even got Youtube to 'run out' of recommendations showing me the same set on reloads.
Kinda hope they have a good way to migrate Skype numbers. I have one that I used sometimes when I don't want to give my real number. I have been meaning to look into alternatives. I think I can port it to some other provider, but haven't found one I liked.
No. The issue is whether you NEED to not whether you want to.

10 to 15 years ago, you could argue, however implausibly, that hardware constraints meant vertical scaling was impossible, and you were forced to adopt a distributed architecture. Subsequent improvement in hardware performance, means that in 2025, vertical scaling is perfect acceptable in nearly all areas, relegating distributed architecture to the most niche and marginal applications. The type of applications that the vast majority of businesses will never encounter.
Nobody in the crowd ever said the first thing.
> no HTML, no javascript, no CSS. Just HTTP of WASM blobs. This is where the web browser is going eventually anyway

Uh, hm, I think this critical assertion requires some justification.
Eich faced those consequences that you would have wanted -- so he wasn't tolerated -- and was forced to step down. Now we're faced with a Web were all Browsers come from large companies and people are wondering why his successors aren't up to the job. The world is made entirely of trade-offs. Your like that boss who doesn't get the Quality/Speed/Price triangle and says I want it all.
Right, he was just trying to enshrine lesser status in state law. He wanted a bunch of people at Mozilla to be officially lesser in the eyes of the state. But that’s ok, he didn’t try to fire them!
GP does not imply, that it would be ok for chrome to send all non-google search-queries to google as well.
Welp, they stopped being open source, then. From the OSD:

6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
I'm one of the apparently few people still using Skype, had the same issue with Skype just no longer working one day. But I was easily able to install the Snap package remotely on both my parents' laptops, wasn't any harder than any typical remote install.

As much as Skype has deteriorated, I've happily kept using it since signing up for an account very early, probably in 2004 or even 2003. And I'm not even sure what to replace it with for family communications. I want something that works on desktop, phones and tablets without requiring a power user. Signal is my preference on phones but it doesn't work on an Android tablet. I don't want to use WhatsApp, I've never used any Meta-owned service and that's the number one tech company I want to avoid. So it's not easy to replace Skype.
What hasn't been explicitly said so far is that those files you uploaded can be edited just like any other file. Open a text editor of your choice, and change things.

- If you want to change the words, edit the words in the HTML files, which are the file that end in .htm or .html.

- If you want to change the colors, look for a "style" section in the .html files, or files ending in .css, and colors will be in there, probably in a 6 character code that represents the RGB colors. There will also be a lot of other stuff in there - it all controls the look and feel of your pages.

- If you want to change the formatting, change the HTML tags around the words.

- If you want a completely different layout, you'll need to really learn HTML and CSS.

To learn HTML/CSS so that everything you see in these files makes some sense, go to the sites others have already mentioned, or just use one of the free AI chatbots. Paste in a file, ask question on how to change it, and you'll get reasonable answers. While the chatbots are imperfect, they will work fine for you at this beginner level.

Once you make your changes on your local system, you can open your local files in your browser to confirm they look as you desire. Then re-upload them just like you already did, replacing the existing files, and your changes are live.
Yes, this. When Mozilla (or any other corporation) demonstrates positive cashflow, the odds of MBAs and other vulture capitalists descending on it increase massively. And I have never seen customer agreements like this survive a buy-out: the new owners are never constrained by the promises (or even contracts) of the previous company.
I think as long as anybody promoting a meme coin uses an appropriate disclaimer, it's probably a reasonable decision. The problem is going to be that nobody is going to enforce people making fraudulent claims about meme coins because they're gutting the SEC.

The interesting thing about corruption and frauds like this is that when people get conned and lose everything, they don't get angry at the person that stole from them, they get angry about the people that called out the fraud or enforced regulations meant to protect them from losing more money.
and less than I would like.
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I’m talking about these comments. Why is blame put on the people who wanted Eich out, but not on Eich?
In my experience, with KDE Plasma, Nvidia is quite awful. Animations are laggy, and the desktop slows down when a new window opens. As well, there are a bunch of small issues I’ve only seen when using Nvidia.
Is there a legitimate reason for them to forward paypal emails? Why not just not let that happen under any circumstances?
No?

Maybe could stop people from being able to git pull them without a confirmation, but deleting does not make sense
this model does have a niche use-case: since its so large it does have a lot more knowledge and hallucinates much less. for example as a test question I asked it to list the best restaurants in my small town. and all of them existed. none of the other llms get this right.
It’s a $600 card with 16GB of RAM. That’s a good deal.