skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> full knowledge of the restrictions beforehand.

Yes, and I and plenty of others are arguing that these restrictions are anti competitive and anti consumer, and should be illegal.

Nothing about the hardware benefits, longer term software support, and aesthetic qualities of iPhones requires these restrictions.

> voted with your wallet, but you didn't.

Instead I’m voting with my vote.

> are not exclusive to Apple

And they are as much of a problem there as they are here. There are lots of right to repair laws being put forward to try to stop this shitty behaviour.
Hahaha, this is batshit, and I am here for it.

I knew it was possible, as I'd seen some thin terminals doing something similar (using ephemeral filesystems though) However I've only ever done something like this for linux, rather than windows.

Excellent work, I salute your skill.
Yes, this is correct (AFAIK).
I think they basically bought Skype to build "Skype Spaces" which is basically Teams.

See the auth flow here:
https://github.com/fossteams/teams-api/blob/master/notes/log...

They have a "Skype Spaces" JWT that's being used for some parts of Teams
I mean, the goal is to get it to a state where it can do those things. There are benchmarks for autonomously resolving issues that are being hill-climbed as we speak: https://www.swebench.com/

I don't know how far away it is, but never say never.
Is it EU based though?
> it is bolted on

WebAssembly is no more bolted on than JavaScript is and JavaScript has been part of the web for 29 years.

> violates the fundamental principles underlying the web’s architecture.

Which ones?
I launch Chrome with a bunch of flags to disable security and have a bunch of client scripts to override websites. I'm this close from creating my own browser based on Chromium
Had to delete mine a few weeks ago when I suddenly got a pro-book burning reel, showing Nazis burning books with the caption "They tell you they burned books, bit never which books."

It had 30,000 likes and the top comments were all along the lines of "The victors write history, they will never say the bad guys won WW2" and "Hitler was just fighting the Jewish transgender conspiracy in Germany. Trump will defeat it in America" etc.

I used Instagram to follow traditional musicians and people tailoring their own historical clothing. But I can't stay on a platform that is so happy to give a place to that kind of outright hate speech.
If all of these 'phone home' features are as benign as you say-- why isn't there a clear, exposed, and stable user setting to disable them?

At best there is maze of about:config which incompletely prevent firefox from phoning home and are regularly undermined by new additions.
Nvidia weren't chasing Sega. The NV1 was really just an evolution of Sun's GX graphics card, which did quad-based accelerated 3D in 1989 (though no texture mapping, GX was limited to flat-shaded quads, or emulating gouraud shading with tessellation)

Quads vs Triangles was kind of an open question as of 1993, when work on the NV1 started. Triangles are simpler, but Quads allow for a neat trick where you can do forwards texture mapping and get a much better approximation of perspective correct texturing, than you can with triangles.

Nvidia went all in on this approach. Not only did they support 4 control point quads, but the NV1 can render 9 control point quadratic patches. These quadratic patches not only provide a really good approximation of a perspective correct textured quad, but can represent textured curved surfaces in 3d space.

Quad-based approximations are much cheaper to implement in hardware than proper perspective correct texturing, which requires an expensive division operation per pixel. And the forwards texturing approach additional benefits with optimal memory access patterns for textures. The approach seems like a win in this era of limited hardware.

The problem is that forwards texture mapping sucks for 3D artists. Artists are fine with quads, they still use them today, but forwards texture mapping is very inflexible. Inverse texture mapping (UV coords) allows you to simply drape a texture across a model with UV coordinates. Forwards texture mapping requires careful planning to get good results, you essentially need to draw the texture first and build your model out of textured quads. Many Sega Saturn games rely on automated conversion from inverse textured models.

By 1996, you could just add a divider to your hardware and get proper perspective corrected inverse texturing, and there was no reason to do proper quad support, just split them into two triangles.
Im fully on board that people should try to include or link as much of a story they can so that I can form my own opinion. There are way too many times that I read a reasonable take, then you read the original source, only to find that the reasonable take is completely off base.

In this case I don't have the reaction, but I will agree that in general its a good idea to include more rather than less.

The redacted part here looks to be a GDPR boilerplate for consent. GDRP require consent to be specific. In order to do so the lawyers of Mozilla seems to have used industry standard phrasing to comply with the law, such as "to help you navigate, enhance experience, and interact with {INSERT SERVICE/PRODUCT}".

For those with some interest in legal history, there is similar stories in other boilerplate texts that consumer get exposed to. I always find the background to the WARRANTY DISCLAIMER text to have a fairly funny historical background that is a few centuries old legal case regarding a mill axle. The current form we see now was created as the first example in a list from US regulation guidelines (which reference the mill axle case). A company can use any other form given in that guideline, but as it happens, everyone just jumped on the first example, slapped it onto stuff and shipped it. Lawyers know it is valid for US trade regulation and that was apparently enough for the rest of the world.
Hilarious. Over two years we went from LLMs being slow and not very capable of solving problems to models that are incredibly fast, cheap and able to solve problems in different domains.
You seem to be assuming competence on the part of the author. But, as is common with documents that lawyers generate, they probably don't care if it's reasonable or if practically every one of their users violates it. Like when you get an employee contract that claims your new company owns every idea you ever had. Some people will claim it's just "lawyer stuff" and is somehow okay. It's really not okay.
By such logic, operating systems would need a disclaimer like this, as would keyboards, screens, etc.
on the bright side, it could kill jira
You’re right. Apple should also start vetting every website we go to in order to ensure this kind of security when we browser the web too.

Unless the website pays Apple a yearly fee and a 30% cut it shouldn’t be allowed to sideload itself into our browser. For the sake of security of course.
Sounds like Orion will do the job on macOS though, so that's at least one platform with an alternative. :)
If they want to do a sale rather than a rental, it should be their problem.
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I'm a Computer Science student who loves creating things. Even though university is tough, I always make time for personal projects.

Yesterday, I launched my first website that aims to help startup founders find their ideal team members and, at the same time, assist individuals in joining projects that align with their skills and interests. There are also a ranking of the most popular startups and some filters you can use to search what you are looking fot
One thing I really would like in a calendar app is some sort of "change log", and this gets somewhat close to that, assuming you track the file in git.

For example, I recently scheduled a dentist appointment 6 months from now. Unless I scroll through the calendar, or specifically search for it, there is no easy way to find that I added that event.
VSCode futures doesn't look good, OSS wise. "Microsoft loves open source" is the joke of the century.

https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
Arazzo Specification – Define API Workflows
While the OP may think that, you are assuming a lot about their thinking from those two sentences. Then somehow manage to generalize it to Americans and include religion.

Maybe go outside and take a breath of fresh air?
Thanks for the link to the paper. I notice that the abstract has a link to the page for the upcoming trial:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06816927

It will be interesting to follow its progress.
For the shit people give Finder, it's astonishing how bad Explorer is.

I miss Finder's tree view in Explorer so much.
I just installed Skype this week to talk to someone using Skype's translation feature. And it mostly worked okay too. Any recommendations for other products that can do real time translation decently well for free?

Related, I've found it difficult to also find a good phone app for handling in person interaction. Google translate is awkward to use with its requirement to specify the direction of the language and being geared towards shorter phrases rather than an entire continuous conversation.
So what I don't understand is that its perfectly able to categorise this content really well, but is perfectly happy to allow it on the network, even though it clearly violates the community guidelines.

Yes moderation at scale is hard but most of the battle is getting decent categorisation.
In some ways to me it feels like a turning point for the GFC/ZIRP thru COVID era of tech companies with no path to profit.

After the haze of the LLM bubble passes, I hope startups have an exit strategy other than "we'll just get 0.01% of users to pay 6+ figures for support" or "ads".

Good tech deserves a good business model such that it can endure for the long term.
Instagram is borderline a porn/gore website if you open a new account and spend one day doom scrolling

The amount of nsfw content including women “breastfeeding” fake babies, wild accidents, weird ultra graphic shock videos is insane.

I have a few accounts that I use to post for work. My explore pages are wild compared to my personal account which is mostly tech, cars and architecture

I don’t “like” anything on my work accounts, ever, the algorithm just knows what to feed me because of what I click on the most (impossible not to click on those thumbnails)
> is easy to block network access (never plug ethernet)

Some TVs secretly include a modem and SIM card, to make sure they get your personal data back to their masters.

Every company in the world is coming after your privacy. How far are you willing to defend it?
I share the sentiment, as far as I've used it, Sonnet 3.7 is a downgrade and I use Sonnet 3.5 instead. 3.7 tends to overlook critical parts of the query and confidently answers with irrelevant garbage. I'm not sure how QA is done on LLM-s, but I for one definitely feel like the ball was dropped somewhere.
Now that I'm not at a company that uses Google Workplace, Zoom is far and away the most common video chat I see--but with a few exceptions, I think it's pretty much all just personal accounts.
Ladybird is targeting a 2026 alpha release and last time I looked they lacked site isolation and other sandboxing measures: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/57
Yep that looks like it.
I also found that drawio indeed supports sketch theme: sketch.diagrams.net
Well, I don't know about that being relevant [0], but at least it isn't blatantly offensive to the concept of providing information like this proposal is.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
( I am neither a voter in the U.S. elections nor do I have direct economic interests there)

Could you point me to an articulation that explains why arbitrarily purging (mentioned by your parent post) has been necessary ( mentioned by you)?
> ... and Google's technical excuses for removing it are disingenuous.

That's been the default assumption of pretty much everyone anyway.
Increasing Transformer Context Length with Sparse Graph Processing Techniques
Can they just sign it with their PGP key or something? Or does it require paying money to Apple for no reason?
MS was very quick with implementing LLMs everywhere.
Celeste is a fantastic game I am still yet to finish. But I do have to give kudos where it's due, it is so well done, so polished, the movement feels great, the story is outstanding, the graphics are beautiful. The soundtrack by Lena Raine? Amazing. Do give it a try.

Obviously the link is primarily talking about the fact that the player function is 4000 lines long. That's a lot. Maybe that's the lesson, your code does not have to be perfect, the result must.

I'll also add to the discussion this amazing video by GMTK, which explains what video game developers must think about when designing movement. It's wonderful.

Why Does Celeste Feel So Good to Play? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yorTG9at90g)
Mozilla too?
Kagi has started porting Orion to Linux [1]. They’ve stated that multiplatform support is just a question of resources [2].

You can contribute code [3] or money [4] to accelerate this process.

[1] per 2/25 subscriber newsletter: “What’s coming in 2025? … We started working on Orion for Linux!”

[2] https://orionfeedback.org/d/2321-orion-for-windows-android-l...

[3] https://help.kagi.com/orion/support-and-community/contribute...

[4] https://kagi.com/orion/orionplus.html
Websites are better sandboxed and even though they are a big vector they themselves are not persistent like apps
The problem with paid versions, is that I don't really trust them either. MBA creep will happen and suddenly the TOS changes and my paid tier is going to have data collection and 'some' ads. I have to move to a high tier to avoid them. After a few cycles of that, one day all the tiers have data collection and ads.
Surely a n00b question, but: why superconducting electromagnets?

I get that means zero electrical resistance and stronger magnetic field at rest, but ultimately the engine is doing work accelerating ions, which will be "felt" as resistance in the electrical system. The total energy must be conserved. I would imagine (?) that work done accelerating the ions is far greater than the losses to heat in the magnetic coils.

Or maybe that's not right?
The extreme content gets the most user interaction and leads to higher daily active users

Which is a very important metric.

As long as the content is not illegal, if it positively affects time on site/app, it stays for as long as it can on the platforms
Are you sure? I just installed it on Android and can't find anything about lists in the settings.

Tried searching and I can't find anything about subscribing to lists on desktop either, only a few discussions about the default set of lists they use.
Quantum computing startup says it is making light-powered chips
How would Microsoft forge a DKIM signature? It sounds more likely that it's just a shitty email from Paypal.
Time to go back to Lynx ;)
Firefox has such a small slice of the browser market, that I doubt Google will bother.
The markets haven’t digested the real state of affairs at the company.

Tesla is worth $30/share. It’s valued based on the Elon cult of personality. That’s already weakening — two years ago my previous post would have been brigaded into oblivion by Elon fans.

He’s the henchman of the most powerful man in earth at the moment, who’s infamous for betraying his henchman. There’s no bottom - literally anything could happen at any time.
Why would anyone want this? Is the author evil or just stupid?
I believe they rolled the Skype technology into MS Teams and made teams their dominant video platform. MS Teams is pretty widely used based on all the complaints I hear about it. I didn't even realize Skype was still an option.
One of my favourite tips is to hold down Command while dragging important apps, files and folders to the Finder toolbar in order to ‘pin’ them. You can then drag files to ‘Open in…’ (eg, images to ImageOptim) or just launch apps.
So that there's plenty to send when they oops-accidentally forget that setting during an upgrade, and ask you to set it again.

They will of course assume opt-out rather than opt-in, and send what they've collected the moment the browser launches, then they're ready to give you the choice of opt-out once again.
I wrote a command line tool called "orji" coz of this (still in alpha).

I wanted to use orgzly or a text editor and just be able to write templates (in jinja2) or bash scripts to push data in or out of my notes.
Arc is in maintenance mode as The Browser Company focuses on building a new browser: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24279020/browser-company...
I haven’t been served that type of content but I feel the same way as you lately. It feels like it’s shock content with a race to the bottom to get users attention instead of showing interesting content I would actually like
> being judged on the worst possible interpretation

That's the correct way-- contract terms must be read defensively.
The award for the most absurd "UI improvement" must go to the Skype iPhone app that was painstakingly rewritten so that it felt like a Windows Phone app, complete with gestures that didn't make sense to iOS users: https://www.neowin.net/news/skype-for-ios-completely-redesig...

It was actually technically impressive, just...why??
Disagree

It is your device and you are free to not run that code. You can leave

Of course this changes if it is something you specifically fund like government websites
IBM acquired SoftLayer in 2013 and the bluewashing didn't reach a fever pitch until 2019 or so. Also, the pandemic slowed things down at an already dinosauric company. IBM is over a hundred years old. I have faith that it will get around to entirely ruining Red Hat sooner than later.
Less energy use, lower mass? I know superconducting magnets are a goal for both aircraft propulsion systems and use in wind turbine generators, just for the mass reduction.
> presumably they want to sell data to pay the bills.

Can't the EU just sponsor Firefox?
"Never" always means "Until we decide otherwise".
"Yes, in many parts of Europe, people commonly use the word "coke" as a generic term for soda, similar to how it is used in the American South, essentially referring to any type of cola beverage rather than just the Coca-Cola brand; this is because Coca-Cola is so widely recognized across the continent."
--Google's ai thing
I run single script that does a commit, pull and merge without pulling open the editor. It takes a couple of seconds and works fine.
> That's ridiculous though. Performing a search is taking text I entered, concatenating it to a URL and opening that.
Nowhere in that process does Mozilla need to know about what is happening in the local browser of the user.

Every browser I’ve used in the past decade does “search as you type” by default. That does require local access to your browser and your key strokes.

Normal people wouldn’t use a browser that didn’t do search as you type.
Instagram is ad matching machine. Meta is not in the business to care about people.
since 4o openai has released:

o1 preview.
o1 mini.
o1.
sora.
o3-mini <- very good at code
The help menu is what searches all menu items.
The photo is consistent with predictions of general theory of relativity about collapsars, there's no real need to invoke black holes here.
I learned many things at HashiCorp but none as important as choosing ISOs over RSUs when given the chance. Thank you for the gains $HCP.

I met some great people along the way that I'm glad to have gotten the opportunity to work with. Godspeed all!
They got more than $7B to build a browser.

"I appreciate the constant existential wobble Firefox faces"

I would also love to face $7B existential wobbles.
As you guessed, roland35, I do track my calendar.txt in git.

One main benefit from git is also to work as an insurance against (user) errors, and make the whole process much more transparent. When I have used calendars with automatic synchronization, I would have enjoyed a "change log" to make sure that my timezones and meetings are not mistakenly modified by software.

For your dentist example, I would probably just use 'grep' or find in my text editor. After all, six months of days is very little text.
> If you use Firefox to upload a file to a website then, legally speaking,the browser is acting as a "publisher"of that file.

If that's the way the law is interpreted, it's silly.

The "publisher" in this case would be the website the file is uploaded to. If the website doesn't make the file public, then they're not a "publisher".

The browser is merely acting as a tool to do the uploading. Firefox shouldn't be held liable for the contents of the file any more than any other web client. If it did, tools like cURL should be liable in the same way.

Somewhere along the way web browser authors forgot that they're merely building a web user _agent_. It's a tool that acts _on behalf of_ the user, in order to help them access the web in a friendly way. It should in no way be aware of the content the user sends and receives, have a say in matters regarding this content, and let alone share that information with 3rd parties. It's an outrageous invasion of privacy to do otherwise.
We are able to develop not just an open source kernel, multiple different distributions and a large suite of software. I would think that we could also develop a browser that doesn't need to spy on us.
Good sales lines are like prompt injection for the human mind.
Microsoft planted Stephen Elop to make sure they kill all their effort at a modern mobile OS so they end up using Windows Phone.
Shout-out to Vivaldi. If you're looking for alternatives, give it a chance.

The engine monoculture is not great, but they're a small team and doing a great job to create a useful browser.
why did you remove the comment . now who ppl responded to you look like dummies. do you do this sort of stuff in real life too?
the question is how many do that exclusively. I have a local NAS that has all my files, but I also back it all up to the cloud as well, because if my house gets destroyed in a fire, I want there to be copy that's not there.
This was the original report from 404media[0]. They are doing really great work over there.

[0] https://www.404media.co/instagram-error-turned-reels-into-ne...
> You can contribute code [3]

How exactly? The link doesn't say. Orion appears to be closed source.
Tab containers are a godsend when managing multiple AWS accounts as well.
Which Motorola Phone Should You Buy?
Maybe, but I'm not sure how much the style is deliberate vs. a consequence of the post-training tasks like summarization and problem solving. Without seeing the post-training tasks and rating systems it's hard to judge if it's a deliberate style or an emergent consequence of other things.

But it's definitely the case that base models sound more human than instruction-tuned variants. And the shift isn't just vocabulary, it's also in grammar and rhetorical style. There's a shift toward longer words, but also participial phrases, phrasal coordination (with "and" and "or"), and nominalizations (turning adjectives/adverbs into nouns, like "development" or "naturalness"). https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16107
They could have done this on literally any date and your question would apply.

Usually the answer is something really mundane. They did a privacy policy review and realized a couple of their core fewtures break the policy.

Or someone new joined the team who had an interest in their privacy policy and realized it contradicts.

There could be a thousand mundane reasons for why now.
From your perspective inside the industry (or formerly inside), what do you see happening long term?

Will there be sufficient incentives for good actors and do consumers understand the risk of unregulated investments?
Users post it?