skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Norway’s weak currency presents a mystery"

perhaps the links were muddled?
Tool author here - happy to answer any questions.
Correct.

In the past we had to offload palettes of cheap Chinese-printed bibles or guilded sweatshop sneakers for the illusion of "selling collectibles".

Now we can skip the pretense of all that nasty physical-world foreplay and get straight to the cash. Need to grease the wheels of whatever deal you want to score with the US? Just drop a few MM onto some glorified digital pokemon cards. Not enough liquidity? Oh don't worry, the family-owned reserve spigot's about to open up with an announcement of The Greatest Coindrop of the month.

And now you need not be concerned about the SEC snooping around at your preference of pokemon card or who is buying them.

We've just made government corruption far more efficient.
Yeah, they seem to be missing the plot. Eich has never been on record saying anything homophobic. It's cancel culture through and through. If you sift through the private views of anyone, there will always be something disagreeable.
> Forzani said the government needed to acknowledge that there are a small number of "very dominant suppliers" in the cloud market.

That's called a monopoly.

Would it be so hard for some of the smartest people in the world to run their own infrastructure and be more self reliant?

At least they aren't wasting tax payers money on all this total crap.. oh wait.. they are.
While the FirefoxOS brand didn't survive, the technology itself took off as KaiOS and is more popular that iOS in many markets. It just took a Chinese company with some TCL money to manage distribution successfully.

https://www.kaiostech.com
Waterfox is not new
I’m pretty sure it’s completely legal to mention trademarks when comparing your product to others.
> I never click on any ads [snip] I don't deliver any end value to their ad-biz end customers

This is a complete misunderstanding of the value of ads. Clicks are of course the most valuable signal, but any ad seen is valuable. If clicks were all that mattered TV would never had ads, nor would newspapers.

Many ads are about awareness not buy now. Ford/Toyota... doesn't expect you to buy a car the day/week you see an ad, they just want you to think of them when you buy a car. They also want to slowly drive discomfort with whatever car you already drive so that eventually you do buy a new one despite having on that works. (or if you don't have a car they want to be sure you are reminded how much freedom to go places you are giving up - without concern for the costs of having a car)
"Leaking"? My bias against homophobes and for treating people the same regardless of sexual preference is being loudly advertised, it's not "leaking."

Yeah, no shit that plenty of countries have horrible views here. Why are you acting like you think I'm unaware of this?
Thanks! That's an instant purchase for me. Looks like the APIs to permit this have only been available since Ventura.
Or they are taking the gamble that being able to continue to use µBlock outweighs the sale of customer data.
If you find Syncthing too chatty and is a bit suspicious to what it connect to, you can really to set it up to only connect explicitely between nodes in a Tailscale network for example.
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I think Warren Buffet doesn't just buy stocks. He also influences the direction of the companies he buys.
> the browser is acting as a "publisher"of that file

If that's all is required to be a publisher then ftp, scp, rsync and hundreds of similar tools are also publishers of the files they transfer. However they don't have Terms of Service like the one Mozilla is giving to Firefox.
LOL okay going to write a little search&destroy script tonight. Actually, no, f microsoft, let them do it.
Totally unrelated but is anyone else getting tired of the "[statement.] Here's why." headlines?

Seems so lazy and super cliche
Use uBlock Origin Lite, it works fine and in some ways is more efficient than the regular extension. Most people won't notice much of a difference if anything.

Firefox is debatably less bearable than a Chromium based browser with uBlock Lite at least on Windows.
Whether it serves a "useful" purpose or not has no bearing on its legitimacy. It's used to transfer massive amounts of currency between anonymous accounts. It's exactly the sort of thing that needs to be regulated.
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If you customize your toolbar you can also add a button for it there
I've kept a close eye on the crypto world since 2010 or so. I find it fascinating how it continues to draw in rubes.

The only cryptocurrency I've ever personally "owned" was acquired when Roger Ver tipped me a very small amount of bitcoin because when he asked a very stupid question on Reddit and I anonymously answered. I didn't do anything with it.

The question was about gambling. He pretty much asked, "Can't I just put money both sides of the bet and come out on top regardless of outcome?" This anecdote also aligns to "people who are all-in on crypto might lack critical thinking skills."
That is an economic question. What does efficiency costs vs what does providing more power cost?
He didn't announce his views. He did make them public by making donations that were publicly visible.

Does helping to pass laws to formalize certain people as legally less-than qualify as "mistreatment"? If not, why not?
Eich's view was totally private and pulled up by reporters. The USA is a democracy, it's completely unnecessary to cancel Eich. Just advocate for the opposing view if that's your wish.
OK, that would be really funny. I think that there would be legal precedent for that as well, given the case of the airline chatbot[0].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-cha...
If Spotify was properly paying its share of royalty fees to the artists I don't think it violates any regulations that they used pirated versions of the music. It's simply more convenient for Spotify because they don't have to rip the music from a CD themselves.

When rights holders use a pirated version of their work it may be embarrassing, but it certainly doesn't violate copyright law. (Assuming the pirates didn't transform the work in a substantive way)
No, I didn't talk about court judgments. Yes, I had various aspects of the Regulation of the Investigatory Powers Act and recent additions to the Investigatory Powers Act in mind.

> It may be that current legislation is also incompatible with EU law (IANAL, I’m not arguing that point), but AFAIK there is no court judgment to that effect.

Quite possibly but that wasn't my point. The point is that the UK is by far more of a surveillance state than any EU country, at least to my knowledge. UK legislation is not typical for a European country in that respect. People can go to prison in the UK for not handing over an encryption password and the UK has just effectively banned end-to-end encryption (if you put a backdoor in it, it's no longer end-to-end encryption).
>take and give nothing back

Then don't release under MIT or BSD, and use GPL.
It's worth pointing out that GPT-4.5 seems focused on better pre-training and doesn't include reasoning.

I think GPT-5 - if/when it happens - will be 4.5 with reasoning, and as such it will feel very different.

The barrier, is the computational cost of it. Once 4.5 gets down to similar costs to 4.0 - which could be achieved through various optimization steps (what happened to the ternary stuff that was published last year that meant you could go many times faster without expensive GPUs?), and better/cheaper/more efficient hardware, you can throw reasoning into the mix and suddenly have a major step up in capability.

I am a user, not a researcher of builder. I do think we're in a hype bubble, I do think that LLMs are not The Answer, but I also think there is more mileage left in this path than you seem to. I think automated RL (not HF), reasoning, and better/optimal architectures and hardware mean there is a lot more we can get out of the stochastic parrots, yet.
> extract the Discord webhook links

there's a large variety of malware, they don't all phone home the same way and they don't all phone home to discord
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I just love reading DevOps diaries from different companies, especially ones that I've used and had experience with. Thank you for sharing.

You mention briefly displaying metrics on office dashboard TV screens, that's a really fun idea. Is it just a bunch of Grafana graphs, or is the system more in depth? I might have to think about creating something similar at my place.
Gift Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/microsoft...
Why isn't there a pixel comparison step after the extraction? I think that would have identified some errors. Essentially, read, extract, recreate, pixel compare.
My problem with bookmarks is that I tend to forget about them.

What would be nice is a browser where tabs, history and bookmarks blended together seamlessly.
Can you say 666?
Solar panels enabling offgrid power is tagcloud-related to surviving human civilization collapse.

We're entering an era of decreased globalism, where megacorporation scale actually becomes a danger to society due to reduced warehousing/stockpiling and long extended supply lines, and of course offshored manufacturing that goes with that.
You could specify what's vanilla default in the org packages.

For that example, there's a file-local way to specify custom TODO keywords[^0]. Maybe that can get into the standard, but I'd be Ok with with a primitive, vanilla specification for org-mode first as striving to support everything would ensure no projects form around an emacs-free org-mode anytime soon.

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[^0]: https://orgmode.org/manual/Per_002dfile-keywords.html
These are not high effort malware distributors. Its very low hanging fruit done by script kiddies essentially.
I get it on my desnapified Ubuntu, but Ubuntu says firefox is up-to-date, and the "download update" button downloads firefox-135.0.1.tar.xz but there are ZERO docs on how to update my current firefox. And running the unzipped firefox executable gives me a message that it can't find my current config, so I guess that means no addons (ublock, privacy badger, container-tabs), bookmarks, or config.

I'm taking this as a good reason to wait for an official Ubuntu update, tho, if this thread is accurate, it looks like all I'll need to keep my current version running will be new root certs.

Or a new browser, unfortunately.
What's the most bizarre root cause you've ever seen?: R/SRE
Entirely possible:

"The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate mogul first visited Moscow."

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5162890-assessing-...
An Incident Review of an Incident Review – Will Gallego
some brands put cocaine in soda, let's ban soda altogether
absolutely a solvable problem even with no tech advances
In the mid 90s, I recall talking to some of the people working on the current scheme to modernize ATC. This was the 3rd or 4th attempt, and billions had already been spent.

Since then, there have been many efforts and many more billions spent. I'm sure all of these efforts went through the proper channels, etc, but all that has shown is that (a) FAA has no clue how to manage these contracts, and (b) the normal way of doing this absolutely doesn't work.

In contrast, this is how civil infrastructure used to get done in the US:

https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/antique-machines-yo...

Elon seems to be the only person really performing at this level anymore in this space.
AI crash is gonna lead to decade long winter
His name was on a published list of donors. It's not like reporters went digging through his trash. Making a donation where there's a legal requirement to publish your contribution is not "totally private."

Why is it OK for Eich to try to prevent certain people from getting married, but it's not OK for Eich's employees to try to prevent him from having a certain job? Please explain using small words so I can understand the difference.
Because of Steve Jobs, followed by Chrome NaCL, superseded by PNaCL, that Mozzilla refused to adopt pushing asmjs instead, and having everyone to agree with WebAssembly, still a shadow of Flash developer tooling experience today.

And for what, now that Firefox is mostly irrelevant and is Google for all practical purposes calling the shots on the Web and related standards.

Don't mistake technical capabilities with political games.
We were working with azure bing 7 for API search had issues switched to Brave working so far. The results don't match but yeah (looking for PDFs).
I’m still bitter with Microsoft shutting down Wunderlist.
Are you backing that up with financial support if they get sued by overzealous lawyers?
Support MV2, MV3 like Firefox, and also supports "classic" bootstrapped extensions, if they've been updated, which you can randomly find on Github.
Not surprised. Many successful video platforms started with pirated videos. Copyright is not a word in their dictionary. And once they get big enough/have enough investment money, they suddenly become the good guys, activity engaging with copyright holders to sort things out.
They just use Gecko, right? Is telemetry actually built into the rendering engine
I had solicitors involved, they basically said you are in the right, but they have more money. Not a hill worth dying on.
There are companies that will pay $1M+ per answer IF it comes with a guaranteed solution or full cash back refund.

This is why being the top tier AI is so valuable.
These are not sophisticated attackers.

Discord is free and easy. The notification pops up right where they’re already chatting with each other for 16 hours every single day.

Renting a VPS and writing custom software to accept a POST request requires a credit card, programming skill, and time.
> I personally find this concept pretty darn offensive

I'm more offended by the idea that we should sit quiet and not do anything just because the status quo set up the rules in their favor.

The immoral part here is not using pirated content to build the initial catalog. The immoral part is that their success came by aligning with the exploiters (the labels) and not the exploited artists.
Maybe business necessity finally caught up with them
Memecoins are also "collectable" and for "social interaction" without "expectation of profit but you can get profit as long as you say the magic words that it's not expected" whereas cryptocurrency is "accumulated" and used for "payment that isn't technically social interaction" and you can "expect profit and you can say you expect it". I hope that's clear
Last time I looked, you still can't touch the DOM without a JavaScript shim. You can't use it to write "normal" client-side web applications without hacks and workarounds.

IOW, it's a VM-style environment that pretty much lives on its own and completely ignores the elephant in the room: that it's running inside a browser that deals predominantly in HTML and CSS.

Just like Java Applets, Flash, ...
What is the fundamental limitation that prevents AI from ever doing the maintenance tasks that you mentioned?

Current AI cannot, of course, but the trajectory seems to be that it will be able to do such things better & faster than any human can.
>Some TVs secretly include a modem and SIM card

Which TVs? This is a major expense for a product with rapidly depreciating costs and intense competition, all to do something illegal/immoral?
> but Waterfox has been out there long enough that I'd think someone would have picked up on it by now.

lol that doesn't mean anything. it's good that it's open source, but time unfortunately is not an indicator since it doesn't necessarily imply anything about the amount of those checking or the quality of said checks.
Did you read the linked article? The template they’re duplicating phones home via Discord.

I’m not saying every malware uses Discord. I’m talking about the article.
There's more than one. I originally thought it was LoL, but then he mentions Steam at the end.
I'm sure you have direct economic interests. Odds are good someone in your circle is type 1 diabetic, and helping that person will indirectly help you.
Most cars are "proprietary". The only cars that come close to being open is older vehicles that are no-longer manufacturer with a good after market parts market.

e.g. I bought a Land Rover Defender because it is the closest thing to an "open source" vehicle. However you are giving up many modern conveniences and you will be doing a lot of work yourself.
You can make Schottky solar cells too with bismuth but as others have pointed out optimum operating temperature is different for thermoelectrics.
It is also a collossal missed opportunity. When Google eventually kills it on Chrome, everyone will switch to the next best thing. Microsoft could have put Edge ahead of Firefox in that game and collected all those users. Since Microsoft's business doesn't revolve around ad-revenue, they don't even have any skin in this game. It's pure lazyness that will only hurt them long-time.
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I use my Gmail drafts as permanent, in-sync notes (with subject as the title of each note) Why?

- No extra app needed

- Keeps them quite hidden / private / secure

- Always easy access (I always have emails open)

- In sync with different devices
Yes, they are currently targeting Venezuelans and Haitians who have legal status
The Federal Reserve is a bit odd since it's a mix of private corporations & public governance. The Federal Reserve Board of Governors (BOG) is part of the government, the Federal Reserve Banks are private corporations whose officer's salaries are approved by the BOG but whose officers are elected by the Member Banks (banks in the US are required to be members). The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is a mix of the BOG & some of the presidents of the various Federal Reserve Banks.

So the BOG isn't independent of the executive branch (it legally can't be), but the FOMC is partly independent since it's a mix of executive branch employees & private bank employees.
You're absolutely right but attribution is still the core issue here. I clicked on the page because it seemed like a promising alternative to Firefox, and I expected the focus to be on how it differs from Firefox. Instead, I was surprised to see Firefox completely ignored, especially when the project is clearly built on its foundation and even borrows part of its name. It feels like a missed opportunity to acknowledge the very platform that made Waterfox possible in the first place. Transparency and credit matter, especially in open-source projects.
You guys are using Edge?
Donating is not the same as buying. When you donate you are subsidizing every freeloader who doesn't donate. No thanks.
What's concerning is that this repository appears to be the template that much of this malware was built from: https://github.com/Jalynn0922/steal-cook. This repo mentioned in the article has existed on GitHub for 3 years without being taken down.

Also, I am seeing firsthand that AI is not good at detecting this stuff. Claude's main problem in a code review of one of its descendants was the unethical use of an aim-bot.

edit: to clarify, my concern is about how this can exist on Github for 3 years. Thank you for compiling this and sharing your review. Great work.
Does it matter?

Personally I love it when I see people dismiss AI as a “stochastic parrot” or whatever other snarky phrase is currently popular on HN.

I just keep getting tons of value out of AI and am more productive than I ever have been in my life. If the competition wants to shoot themselves in the foot, I’m not going to wrestle the gun out of their hands.
The explosion of garbage content is a big issue and has radically changed the way I use the web over the past year: Google and DuckDuckGo are not my primary tools anymore, instead I am now using specialized search engines more and more, for example, if I am looking for something I believe can be found in someone's personal blog I just use Marginalia or Mojeek, if I am searching for software issues I use GitHub's search, general info straight to Wikipedia, tech reviews HN's Algolia etc.

It might sound a bit cumbersome but it's actually super easy if you assign search keywords in your browser: for instance if I am looking for something on GitHub I just open a new tab on Firefox and type "gh tokio".
This conversation is a total Racket
I agree unfortunately. I might be a bit of an extremist on this issue. I genuinely think that building agentic ASI is suicidally stupid and we just shouldn’t do it. All the utopian visions we hear from the optimists describe unstable outcomes. A world populated by super-intelligent agents will be incredibly dangerous even if it appears initially to have gone well. We’ll have built a paradise in which we can never relax.
I have great news for you: you can cure it on your own, just get off donuts and move your ass. I'm actually jealous of type 2's.
- Awkward sorting by name (mixing folders and files), unless you change the default

- Does not snap files to a grid by default on icon view, leaving some folders looking like a mess

- Not possible to figure out what's the exact path of the open folder - I just want a full path in the header/title bar. Or let me copy the full path without having to open "get info"
They can be tolerated if the alternative is worse. Having a good browser captained by a homophobe can be better than not having the browser. That doesn't mean the homophobia is good.

At the time, no one thought that getting rid of the homophobe would mean there wouldn't be a browser at all. We (the world) got rid of the homophobe, because homophobes are rightfully quite bad, and we didn't think that would stop there from also being a browser.
i did, in fact, read the article. you said "a simple script to download these repos". the variety of malware would make the script not so simple, and not so effective.
These people are following a guide. They don’t know the details of GitHub.

They don’t care about people who know enough to check the issues. They’re fishing for the people who blindly download and run things, not who look under the hood.
That is likely to be AMD’s workstation variant. Here is the workstation variant of the 7900 XTX that had double memory:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-w7900.c4147
Is it that good now?
>The client would even upload all songs I had

You may wish to edit your attempt to SWIM this
Worked out better for Uber and Lyft. Say what you want about how ubiquitous those platforms are these days, they were unlicensed taxi services for years.
Help me understand which position you’re still advocating for:

1) if you knew a coworker supported this bill you would want them fired,

(I’ve said all I can here.)

2) the harm was when he gave $1000 which is when a bias because mistreatment

I don’t know what to say to that one.
Ad blocking?

The browser many not track you but the ad networks do. Without ad blocking, your browsing really isn't all that private.
I’m not clear the distinction you’re making. Doesn’t coin base make more money is people think Crypto is real? Like rug pulls are relatively small potatoes for the big banks who could be making billions on fees if crypto is legitimized, I might even assume the opposite low level crypto fans or maybe better put “influencers” want to do unlimited crimes but the “industry” wants reasonable regulation.
you know what's funny, I also have a threadripper rig (which is my main development rig) and it ran _slower_ than on the 13900k. Like. by a lot. and while that surprised me at first, it's makes a lot of sense because this is Node.js in the end (i.e. the TypeScript typechecker runs within Node.js) and that means it's single threaded. So single-threaded perf is all that matters.