skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's chromium, and then, for those who take their privacy more seriously than the average VPN customer that just wants to do piracy, there's ungoogled-chromium.

It's like chromium, just without feeding heaps of your personally-identifying metadata directly to Google, who give it directly to the NSA, who give it directly to Elon Musk and DOGE.

Remember, ALL mass surveillance by ALL intelligence agencies is ALWAYS a threat to your freedom, because you don't get to revoke it. You weren't consenting to sharing your information with the Obama administration, you were consenting to sharing your information with all future administrations, no matter how far removed from your own worldview those future administrations may be.

There is one solution. We the people demand an end to ALL government surveillance as well as severe legal consequences for all US government employees who ever helped build such systems, even if they were "just following orders", because neither following orders nor ignorance of the larger picture is an excuse for facilitating moral atrocities.
Not at all.

For one, it's a continuum, not a binary thing.

Second, for topics I care about, I look at multiple outlets and/or their reported sources so that I can hopefully isolate the facts and form my own opinion.

And yes, for each outlet I weigh their reporting by how much emotionally charged language they use. Or in this case, whether they shoehorn something about trans people into an article about RAM in addition to the other emotionally charged language.
"The 5 mins it would take" --- Check the README on Red Alert, for example:

If you wish to rebuild the source code and tools successfully you will need to find or write new replacements (or remove the code using them entirely) for the following libraries;

DirectX 5 SDK
DirectX Media 5.1 SDK
Greenleaf Communications Library (GCL)
Human Machine Interface (HMI) “Sound Operating System” (SOS)

That still look like 5 minutes to you?
> The so-called privacy paradox, well-documented in academic research, refers to the gap between the concerns people say they have about their data and what they actually do about it. Some 92% of American consumers have said they should be able to control information about themselves on the internet, according to a 2019 PricewaterhouseCoopers report, but most don’t act on that concern. Just 45% said they updated their privacy settings on products, for instance, and only 16% stopped using a company’s services because of data misuse, according to another 2019 report by International Business Machines Corp.

I am sadly unsurprised, but still deeply concerned for how apathetic the general public have allowed themselves to become with regard to issues like this. The population of first-world industrialized nations seem to be more likely to riot over sports than they are over the corrosion of their civil liberties.
The ultimate frustration is when you have no real ability to fix the core problem. NTP (and its 'roided-up cousin PTP) are great, but they require a degree of control and influence over the end devices that I just don't have. No amount of pleading will get a battery vendor to implement NTP in their BMS firmware, and I don't have nearly enough stacks of cash to wave around to commission a custom firmware. So I'm pretty much stuck with the "black box cat herding" technique of interoperation.
"I can say that these systems are amazing, but get things wrong all the time in ways that matter, and so the best uses cases so far are things where the error rate doesn’t matter or where it’s easy to see."

That's probably how we should all be using LLMs.
Well , I think there is a big opportunity to make some marketing tools: develop marketing tools specifically for indie games to help developers promote their games more effectively
Just like Linux's 4.5% market share, it's a lot of people. What does it have to do with iOS? Nothing.
Do you have results for gpt-4? I’d be very interested in seeing the lift here from their last “big one”.
> The challenge here is not IK.

No, a state-based RL research like this is essentially an IK problem. Given a goal position in the world frame, you need to find out the motor configuration to move your EEF to that goal position.

> IK to my knowledge is well known in every setting I am aware of.

Really? When I was working in this field, I've actually never seen anyone who used numerical/analytical IK methods on real robots.

Granted that I was not a Robotics engineer (I was a Deep Learning engineer in the team), but my impression at the time was that no practical IK solution was available for a robot with 8 DOF, let alone a 20 DOF robot like Shadow Hand.
IceCat, maybe?

I too am looking for alternatives.

Official site:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Binary build available here but not official:

https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html

edit:

I linked to a non-official site first, added the official site and made clear that the site offering binarys is non-official.
Nintendo should have to open up their system (all consoles should), Apple just a higher priority because of how common their devices are.
ZLUDA can be used as compatibility glue, also you can use ROCm or even Vulcan with Ollama.
> AWS surely has Nigerian datacenters too

AWS's only African presence is in Cape Town.
> Half of the metro areas in the US used to have comprehensive public transit!

Sure, when said metro areas were a 10th of their current size with a couple orders of magnitude fewer residents street cars were kind of a thing. You cannot credibly expect a similar system to service the suburban sprawl around Atlanta for example. So unless the plan is to dragline the suburbs and mulch 80% of the urban population this is a complete non-starter. The sheer number of routes and volume of equipment required to service them would be financially prohibitive.
> Does that mean only Mozilla distributed binaries are governed by the "Firefox Terms of Use"?

It means that usage of binaries is governed by the terms set by whoever produces and distributes them.

If your distro leaves the "Firefox Terms of Use" notice intact then I imagine it would be in force. The only exception that immediately comes to mind would be if the distro explicitly relicensed Firefox under the GPL (I'm not clear if this is permitted or not) in which case the GPL explicitly invalidates any such additional restrictions.

If your distro provides a binary that includes inaccurate, conflicting, or otherwise problematic terms, such as (ex) on the about:license page, then that would be on them, not on Mozilla.

If your distro removes or modifies the license terms permitting Mozilla to collect data but forgets to modify the data collection code itself, I'm not sure who is at fault. Presumably the distro maintainers. However, given that the entire thing is very clearly without warranty I doubt that you'd have any recourse. In any case I don't think Mozilla would be breaking any rules since they neither compiled nor distributed the binary in question.

Off topic, but one minor issue I noticed is that the about:license page doesn't seem to include either a link to or a copy of the GPLv3 despite the fact that the LGPLv3 states:

> c) For a Combined Work that displays copyright notices during execution, include the copyright notice for the Library among these notices, as well as a reference directing the user to the copies of the GNU GPL and this license document.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it means nothing to "own" the browser when, realistically, you're going to be playing catch-up with the whims of the one corporation that basically controls nearly all decisions on the spec.
That's fair. I wasn't coming for you and I'm certainly not trying to fight you from some kind of authority - I'm definitely not a businessperson.

The only point I was trying to get across is that even "bad" customers are still customers, and that there's still a lot of money to be made meeting people's needs doing the work others don't want to do. I feel like this applies from the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder all the way to the top - that's all. Perhaps I should've made that clearer, and that's on me.

An unsolicited side note: I think the bristling to this post was because of the language you were using. Talking about the poor as if they were to be discarded made you look a bit as if you have no empathy, which might not be fair to you. I get it - business require being hard-hearted if you want to get ahead because if you don't make tough decisions, someone else will - but it probably wasn't your best look, you know?
Do you have expertise, for example as an IP attorney? I don't meant to disqualify what you say; at the same time people would benefit from knowing what your analysis comes from.

I am not an expert in this field, and I think the meaning is ambiguous. It could be interpreted as you say; it could be interpreted otherwise.

Mozilla's current intent isn't relevant to what they do later or its legality or enforceablility.
I wish they did also dedicated keyboard app like SwiftKey that has copilot integration
dog leg is what people who aren't pretentious prats call an 'inflection point'.
If that was the intention, the correct term would have been "Mozilla's services". The very first sentence of that document defines Firefox: "Firefox is free and open source web browser software".
I use LMMs all the time. At a bare minimum they vastly outperform standard web search. Claude is awesome at helping me think through complex text and research problems. Not even serious errors on references to major work in medical research. I still check but FDR is reasonably low—-under 0.2.
I'm pretty sure you are. I've had it protect me from `terraform destroy`.
TBH, this is something that scares me about Teslas. Most people can’t handle a car that accelerates that fast. Granted, I know they have safety features that prevent you from running over people… but safeguards fail, this is just a game we shouldn’t be playing at all.

On the track? Go crazy. Long stretches of road by yourself? It’s your life, just don’t crash and don’t get caught. Around other people, though?
> Why do people get upset about the limitations on Apple, yet happily accept that their Nintendo system will not play whatever they want to install, nor any other console system

Many people can get upset and complain about many things at the same time. For me I have a smartphone and it is essential to have one for everyday life now. Gaming devices are not playing the same role in people's life.

But in principle I would agree that people should advocate for more control over all their devices.
The copper market sold me copper,
some of which was low quality, some of which was high quality. But instead of continuing to shop at the whole market and developing any sense of what is quality, I've decided to go exclusively to Joe's Best Copper. He tells me his stuff is the best. I don't go to anyone else now so I have no way of comparing it to anything else. Anyway, there's no possible way he could be lying to me, I'm way too smart for than.
Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test
Today, Andrew Ng, one of the legends of the AI world, released a new document extraction service that went viral on X:

https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1895183929977843970

At Pulse, we put the models to the test with complex financial statements and nested tables – the results were underwhelming to say the least, and suffer from many of the same issues we see when simply dumping documents into GPT or Claude.
It's probably a "grass is greener" situation.

My experience with mid-size to enterprise is having lots of observability and observability-adjacent tools purchased but not properly configured. Or the completely wrong tools for the job being used.

A few I've seen recently: Grafana running on local Docker of developers because of lack of permissions in the production version (the cherry on top: the CTO himself installed this on the PMs computers), Prometheus integration implemented by dev team but env variables still missing after a couple years, several thousand a month being paid to Datadog but nothing being done with the data nor with the dog.

On startups it's surprisingly different, IME. But as soon as you "elect" a group to be administrator of a certain tool or some resource needed by those tools, you're doomed.
"woke" has no meaning these days. It's just a placeholder for "I don't like it".
My guess is the first phrase is lawyer-brain for "we send the words you typed in the search bar to the search engine for you."

(Yes, they need your express permission to do that, because copyright law is really fucking dumb and makes absolutely no sense if you're approaching it from engineer-brain.)
If you look at the chart in the second link, where does the wait time leave the origin? Around 60%.

The first one is even worse; by 80% you're already seeing twice the delay of 70%.

If I were to describe the second chart I'd say 80% is when you start to get into trouble, not just noticing a slowdown.

I said minimize latency, not optimize latency.
Anyone using a fork? I'm thinking on migrating to https://floorp.app
Think Toggles Are Dumb
Nobody has those skills because of how hostile they've made it to modification. That's the problem. And the more car manufacturers do similar things, they more they become the problem too and laws need to get involved.
EU voters decided to use regulations instead of the market. That’s their right. There’s no reason to give the market some magic position as the only way to do things.
> Firefox isn't a Mozilla service.

They might clarify that in the agreement. I doubt many people are intimately familiar with Mozilla, Firefox, 'services', etc. to distinguish. I am and I didn't think of it in a brief reading (which is all I have time for).
Studio 5, The Stars: The 1961 short story that anticipated the issue of Gen AI
I have a developper account and I can't load a Kindle app that lets me buy the books.

I'd draw the parallel to root access on android: it gives a lot of freedom but is not a replacement for a blessed way for normal users to loads apps from third party stores and no business will bet on users rooting their phones to use their apps.
Thanks, the emails already arrived.

I wrote a script in .net3 for outlook once, so I could probably do it again.

But I suspect someone already has something.
> from Lagos to those destinations, Joburg or Cape Town are actually double the distance

As the crow flies, Lagos is slightly closer to Cape Town than London, though Marseille is indeed closer than virtually any part of South Africa (though not by much).
This seems so much more relevant in light of the recent Firefox new terms and conditions. I think the writing was on the wall but I didn’t wanted to see it.

It might be time to explore librewolf or Vivaldi again
I would like to see a clinical trial with patients who have Stage 4 disease being treated with multiple immunotherapies, up to 5 or 6 IV and oral immunotherapies. Why are we holding back in a population with poor prognosis??

As far as legislation, we should pass "Right to Try" laws. Allowing anyone with Stage 3 or 4 to pick an immunotherapy regardless of whether it's been approved. We should never allow hope to die!
Was HashiCorp ever profitable since its IPO? From here, it says no: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/hcp/financials/

If never profitable (or terrible return on equity), why would you call the layoffs "arbitrary"? It seems pretty reasonable to me.
Something getting attention without Elon is simply unacceptable. The news was obsessed with the cave story there was no way he wasn't going to jump into that story.
The loss of credibility and trustworthiness will only make the US smaller and weaker.
One of the more important projects of our time.
> know when to think for a long time or not, and generally be useful for a very wide range of tasks.

I'm going to call it now - no customer is actually going to use this. It'll be a cute little bonus for their chatbot god-oracle, but virtually all of their b2b clients are going to demand "minimum latency at all times" or "maximum accuracy at all times."
IIRC, terms like that have been in agreements for many years. It's boilerplate, almost.
I've never wanted to sideload an app until recently. I discovered that the recent generations of iPhones and iPads can achieve native performance with the Dolphinios GC/Wii emulator, but the app can only be sideloaded. Apple doesn't have a problem with emulation in general (there are NES/SNES/etc emulators available for download in the App Store), but they do not allow JIT compilation for security reasons which these newer generation emulators require.

Currently sideloading is a pain so I still haven't done it. If it becomes as easy as Android I personally would be pretty happy just for this use case.

Ironically I'm a bit disappointed by how powerful the hardware is getting these days because of the software limitations. Don't get me wrong, I fully admit my days of running custom OSes is over, I only use my iPad as an entertainment device and am happy to keep it very simple. I just feel power users should be able to sideload an app or two without needing to use an Xcode debugger or whatever.
> Car manufacturers have total control over how users use their devices. If you want to change any of that, you have to start making hardware changes.

Cars are not phones, and your analogy here is missing the point.

No one should have to make hardware modifications because they want to put code on their computer without paying Apple for the privilege.

It's not more complicated than that. As I said, you can still have your device in nanny mode if you need it.
They're not legally bound to implement every spec the W3C publishes.
Family Office Wants Double-Digit% for Seed Capital with VC Buyout Clause
We're running a B2B SaaS startup ($10K MRR, bootstrapped, 2 co-founders) and have a family office investor offering capital in exchange for a double-digit percentage stake. We like this investor and have known them for some time.

They've proposed a "buyout clause" that would let future VC investors acquire their stake if we pivot to a venture-backed strategy.

Context:
• We all have day jobs and are building this as a sustainable side business
• We're skeptical about the ultimate TAM - it's solid but probably not venture-scale
• The current pace feels sustainable - we're not killing ourselves with 80-hour weeks
• We value optionality but don't want to be forced into the "grow or die" VC treadmill

Questions:
1. How would this impact QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) eligibility? We'd like to preserve those tax benefits if possible.
2. What happens to the buyout clause mechanics if our valuation increases significantly but remains below traditional VC thresholds?
3. Has anyone successfully maintained a family office investment while transitioning to venture funding?
4. What terms around the buyout should we negotiate to protect ourselves?

The ideal scenario is getting capital to reduce financial pressure without foreclosing future options. We want to maintain the luxury of building at our own pace while preserving the optionality for a venture path if our market assumptions prove conservative.
> filled to the gills with folks who spent a decade or more at IBM before landing at Red Hat

Was this true before the acquisition?
This just in: Accessibly of the past by the present an unforeseen facet of reality.
Just installed Waterfox a couple hours ago. ( https://www.waterfox.net/ ) I'm getting fed up with all the latest Mozilla bullshit to the point I'm ready to switch browsers.

Ladybird is starting to look good too, from an end user daily driver perspective, technically it has been impressive for a long time.

One other thing I'm really hopeful is to embed Ladybird engine in a "first class" way. Think of if as an Electron alternative but in a sane way.
Brave blocks more stuff than Vivaldi, FYI.

https://privacytests.org/

I would say

#1 LibreWolf

#2 Brave
I think it's also worth noting that the Nintendo Switch and I think many of their previous consoles have been jailbroken to high heaven. So there's an overhead of maybe not being able to use Nintendo networked services, but you are able to "own" the device more. People have gotten Ubuntu running on a Nintendo Switch IIRC.

This is not an optimal solution, but it is more of a solution than, for example, the (maybe I'm wrong) lack of jailbreaks for iOS that are usable (eg. tethered jailbreaks are more work to maintain).
Elon Musk is responsible for making EVs a real alternative with a meaningful market share but if you compromise moral values and ethics each time money, success, or progress comes up you'll create a horrible world
Thank you all who contributed to this project. Truly an amazing community. /s
How much time and/or money do you want to spend on this project?

Depending on how complicated the website you bought was (i.e. whether it's just a simple informational site, or some complicated interactive app) it can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months or years to learn how to maintain it.

If you just want a simple site that you can edit on your own, it's probably easier to just put it on a page builder like wix.com or squarespace.com.

If you want to keep the current look & feels that you have, though, then you'd either have to learn or work with it or pay someone to do it (or teach you).

You can start with the basics, learning HTML and CSS from whatever free resources you want, like https://www.freecodecamp.org/. If your site is interactive, you'll eventually need to learn Javascript too, which can be quite a bit harder.

If you want to provide some contac info, I'd be glad to jump on a call with you to take a deeper look and tell you how it works, etc. (no charge)
doesn't feel like to me. I try using copilot on my scala projects and it always comes up with something useless that doesn't even compile.

I am currently just using it as easy google search.
>A big part of the reason I use Apple products is that they protect not only me, but my family who don't know what the implications of sideloading are. I know that the apps my phone runs have been given the green light by Apple.

This argument always reads like satire, but comes up a lot. You're essentially arguing freedom is dangerous because some people aren't smart enough to handle it.

Apple could always do what Android does and gate it behind a hidden setting. No one is arguing your web browser should be allowed to auto install apps at will, or whatever it is you may be picturing.

>Mandating Apple to allow sideloading is essentially saying "we have no hope of ever developing a competing open platform so we have to use law to force this American company to make us one."

I'm confused on this argument, do you not know Android exists? The issue is that if you want to reach the majority of the public, you have to also support Apple devices, and you have to bend over backwards to their 30% cut and arbitrary rules.

Thank god this attitude wasn't around when Windows was taking off. I think we'd seriously have set back society if every Windows application had to pay Microsoft a 30% fee, and had to pass Microsoft approval.
I saw a case like this recently, and the fact is that the team responsible was completely burned out and was just doing anything to avoid people from giving them more work, but they also didn't trust anyone else to do it.

One of the engineers just quit on the spot for a better paid position, the other was demoted and is currently under heavy depression last I heard from him.
Nearby Supernova Left Footprints on the Cosmic-Ray Spectrum and Imprints on Life
And people have jailbroken iDevices. so what's the difference?
They already confirmed GPT-5 will be a unified model "months" away. Elsewhere they claimed that it will not just be a router but a "unified" model.

https://www.theverge.com/news/611365/openai-gpt-4-5-roadmap-...
Right but it’s feb 2025
By Deconstructing Buildings with Care, Materials Get a Second Life
Oh god, barf. Well done lol
Porn bans get proposed in the US on a regular basis.