skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s Fascism baby. Action for actions sake, otherwise the people will notice things aren’t as bad the shouting implies.
> Should startup founders give themselves prison sentences?

Well this is the interesting thing. Have there been any, aside from the Mega example?
> So no, Apple shouldn't be forced to help people sideload, but they should be forced to stop hindering people from sideloading.

Now you sound like FBI director "we need backdoors for the good guys". By allowing a mechanism for side loading weakens the security of the device. If a good guy can use it, so can a bad guy.
I’m just responding to the specific claim regarding the incompatibility of current UK legislation with EU law. AFAIK this is not an established fact. It’s an increasingly hypothetical question, though not entirely so.

There are EU countries with key disclosure laws. See e.g. France and Ireland on this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
Are you going to be binning Rust and focus purely on C++?
Realistically, it's whether Elon Musk or Donald Trump have an interest in it.
I don’t believe that considering that there was a 48GB 7900 for the workstation market:

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-pro-w7900.c4147

The denials are probably more saying that there will be no consumer targeted 32GB version than that there will be no 32GB version at all.
But the more important question then is: what else will the courts think this language allows? Probably Mozilla could argue they need to store those uploads and analyze them under those conditions.
> Bernd is a television presenter who wants nothing to do with TV and can’t wait to go home to stare at the wallpaper.

A national treasure.

I you visit the Reichstag in Berlin, they have an audio guide spoken by Bernd das Brot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_ViVyz474
Do you audit every software you run? Which linux distro are you running? What do you do before installing a package you want to use?

I wouldn't just install everything I find on the internet but at some point you have to be realistic.
Yes I think there is a bubble. I think AI may become extremely impressive but still be limited.

A lot of tasks involve having context to produce a correct solution. AI can whip up algorithms in a vacuum. But doesn't know about the custom data format you have to import. It doesn't understand how to map that to the target schema and will blindly import in a way that is subtly wrong. It doesn't have the context provided by chit/chat and vague statements made in an email.

No matter how impressive AI works in a vacuum, the "context" heavy problems are going to be an issue. Someone mentioned "last mile", that's where things fall apart. Same with self driving, it is impressive at first, until a road is blocked and there's some poorly marked detour signs routing you through non-standard paths.

Same with a plumber. You might make a robot that can fix many plumbing problems. But there's always custom nooks and crannies you have to contort yourself into and saw off a pipe in a very specific way that only having a tons of context would let you even know where to begin.

So until AI can consume context the way humans can, it's going to be limited to a "auto completion on steroids". Which is valuable, but not the end of human developers. Only time will tell.
Could be. Does such a thing exist?
OK: they're inefficient at killing people and destroying buildings and other structures relative to bombs with yields like 500 kilotons.
What you're arguing here is largely ahistorical. Immigration to the US was relatively small scale and almost entirely from highly compatible cultures. There's a decent write up here [1]. Some datums: Immigrants today (including illegal) are about 14.3% of the population - that's about the same level as it was following the great migration of the late 19th century shortly before it started to become an issue leading to immigration being clamped down on hard, reaching a low of 4.7% in 1970. [1]

Fertility, when shared amongst a population, has an easy to model effect on population. It's a population scalar of fertility_rate/2 per ~20 years. So a fertility rate of 1 would mean your population is dropping by 50% every 20 years. That is compounding/exponential and never ends until you go extinct or start having more babies. Compensating for this by immigration is basically impossible, and at that scale you will quickly become the country of origin of immigrants in any case. Of course we're not even especially close to a fertility rate of 1 yet, but that is the trendline and really the same argument even applies to rather higher levels of fertility.

[1] - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/key-findi...
Most email providers support mail forwarding and distribution lists, but maybe they should have added some sort of opt-in confirmation when adding recipients outside the local domain...?
Shouldn't a multi-billion dollar company have moderation in place to tag content like that?

I'm pretty sure if you start posting spoilers about Marvel properties or straight-up pirated content it'll be taken down as fast as possible.

But gore? Nah, why bother.
I had to vouch for your comment, which given that yours is the first and only comment responding with something substantive in this entire comment tree is rather... interesting. Thank you for actually engaging in the discussion about the matter at hand using well laid out arguments.

> "As indicated by you" is a grossly broad phrase. An indication is not an express, enthusiastic consent.

I agree that by itself "indicate" could be interpreted very broadly, however in context it is decidedly less so: "to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox". So in order to be licensed use, it has to serve to help the user "navigate, experience, and interact" in the way the user indicated.

Also see the steering wheel example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200940

> If you accept the terms of a Mozilla service elsewhere that indicate you are amenable to, for instance, being served ads in exchange for using the browser a certain way --it can now be argued that the data can be exfiltrated.

You're right. It absolutely could be argued. As long as they obtain consent/a communication of intent somewhere - for instance by you leaving a "yes, serve me ads" checkbox ticked somewhere - they arguably could now have license to use your data for that.

However the point is that something on top of your agreement to the TOS is necessary to make that happen. Just agreeing to the TOS and browsing the web normally doesn't give Mozilla license to do much at all.

If I could make a change to the sentence, I would modify it to include "license [..] to the extent necessary to [..]":

> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to the extent necessary to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

I don't think that change is strictly... necessary, but it makes it very clear that Mozilla doesn't have license to do all sorts of other unrelated things with your data beyond what is absolutely necessary to realize the user's intent.
Broken trust, even if only 24h.
LLM's have been extremely useful for me. They are incredibly powerful programmers, from the perspective of people who aren't programmers.

Just this past week claude 3.7 wrote a program for us to use to quickly modernize ancient (1990's) proprietary manufacturing machine files to contemporary automation files.

This allowed us to forgo a $1k/yr/user proprietary software package that would be able to do the same. The program Claude wrote took about 30 mins to make. Granted the program is extremely narrow in scope, but it does the one thing we need it to do.

This marks the third time I (a non-progammer) have used an LLM to create software that my company uses daily. The other two are a test system made by GPT-4 and an android app made by a mix of 4o and claude 3.5.

Bumpers may be useless and laughable to pro bowlers, but a godsend to those who don't really know what they are doing. We don't need to hire a bowler to knock over pins anymore.
YMMV, but I’ve found that at least for my display, this:

> When Macbook Air M1 is sleeping, external screens connected via USB-C keep waking up every few minutes and then go straight to sleep again.

is fixed in Sonoma (yay!)
Sure, but that's not really a great/feasible/possible workflow on mobile.
> I should point out, it seems daft to me when others suggest using forks with no well-established governance of their own, essentially shifting trust from an organisation at least answerable to certain regulations, to individuals with no proper framework or guidelines

Individuals that care about these things have a far better track record than any business with employees, bills to pay, and investors.
> You can't do that until someone has written and tested the code for the "easy defaults"

The VF2 has been out for over a year. How long does it take to write a bootloader that can load a kernel from USB? Earlier you said it already exists, so presumably it just needs tested. How long does it take to test? It's probably tested somewhat already. How much testing is "good enough"? The alternative is someone having to flash their own SD card to boot from USB. The bar to be better than that seems very low, no?

> If you want only company insiders to have hardware until every last bit of software is perfected then you can do that

If Microchip can ship me a microcontroller flashed with my custom firmware I wrote the day before, surely RISC-V board manufacturers can provide updates to their firmware after the fact, certainly a year later.

> RISC-V on the other hand is changing incredibly quickly. There was not even one RISC-V chip or board on the market when Windows 10 came out.

That was 10 years ago. Roughly the time period between Windows 3.1 and Windows XP. Are we really clinging to that tired excuse? Admit it or not, "RISC-V is changing rapidly" simply isn't true anymore. The ISA is done. There are some vector extension things that remain in beta, or have possibly just left beta, but you don't really need vector extensions to boot from USB, nor should you rely on them to do so.

> I, and many others, prefer to get new hardware the instant it comes out of the fab in mass production

Yeah and that's great, I'm just saying that maybe, after a year, it makes sense to release easier firmware. It can only help your chances of getting mass RISC-V adoption, right? I don't understand RISC-V fans who advocate for positions that only hurt the ecosystem.

> But you don't have to do that. No one is forcing you. You can wait a little until others (whether in the manufacturer's staff or not) have smoothed off the edges.

Who's smoothing out the edges? Maybe the wrong edges are being smoothed, and I'm just asking for a little re-allocation of smoothage.
I get the point of unsafe. But if people replace C code with Rust code using unsafe, then the argument that this "eliminates a whole class of issues" is wrong. It is as simple as this.
Entirely feasible and yet I can’t imagine any kompromat from a visit to Moscow - sexual or financial - hanging over Trumps head today.
Yes, I agree. It will probably be a 3000$ unit.
It’s not included in the list since it’s the stealer itself - it’s not misleading, it says “stealer”/“grabber”.
But yeah the fact that it’s out still there is scary
Thank you for this, and for the project!

One feature request: as I have never dug into the internals I don't know if this is feasible, but long ago Firefox had a very simple extension that exposed a button that could disable javascript (without a reload of the whole page). It appeared to be native or built-in capability as it used to be a config option if I remember correctly. I have not found anything that works well in current firefox, perhaps it's not technically possible anymore? But being able to disable javascript, ideally on per-tab basis, is super helpful.
I'm not sure what your point is. I was just pointing out that duration of existence is not some sort of guarantee that there's no malware.
The secret ingredient is cybercrime
I think we're saying the same thing
It's reverse in my opinion. Tokens used for illegal stuff at first get into the finance sector if there is no oversight, e.g. banks start holding them, exchanges use them etc. Then when the government asleep at the wheel (or complicit) finally awakens it is too late to ban them as it was required by law in the first place and they are deemed "too big to fail". That's why even under Dems SEC was afraid to classify BTC and ETH as illegal securities and went only after smaller fish (an even that has failed).

If oversight was real and SEC investigated tokens earlier, they would have outlaw them way back then (translation - would have made all tokenbros comply with laws, thus rendering whole scheme worthless) and tokens wouldn't entrench as deep as they are now.
The R-squared on this is kinda low, no?
The really cool thing about Waterfox is that REAL vim keyboard navigation via VimFX[1] has been supported.

The integration is much deeper than what Vimium and the other WebExtensions allow.

https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx
Most of these features have been available, for years, if not decades.
The abuse reporting on GitHub completely sucks. You need to send a support ticket, which typically takes more than a month to get a reply to. And if by that time the comment or repo has been deleted they'll say "well it's deleted now, so we can't do anything". Because yes, I'm going to let spam sit around for over a month on my repo... :-/
> users

survivorship bias. you aren't account for how many users were repulsed or shocked (read: shook up, not a momentary "wtf") and left the platform.
I'm sure Gleam fits a niche—maybe something similar to Elm?—but I can't justify using it over Elixir because I'm not willing to trade things like

1. Full access to the BEAM.

2. Full access to OTP behaviours and other features.

3. Lisp-style macros.

4. Late-bound function calls.

5. Dynamic message passing.

6. Native supervision trees.

7. Internationalization.

for static types. Doing so feels like trading my car's engine for a suction cup phone holder.

(EDIT: Fixed formatting.)
hi! author here! it's taken me many years to be able to self reflect enough to produce these next few words, but the answer is I have learned about myself that I perform better under pressure. I'm more consistent, reliable, and make better decisions when it's go-time. so I guess the answer to your question _should_ be yes.

although.. I've noticed I have other flaws that have burned me many times in responding to incidents. Oh well. The one I've been working on for years is "when the system is down, check the status page of the upstream provider first because it might not be your fault". I always assume it's my fault for way longer than I should.
The bidding is the complicated part, especially if you're solo trying to join existing players.

We always had fun because we learned together, got the basics down for normal hands, and anytime someone was in a slam situation, we'd basically "open bid" and ask for advice amongst everyone.

Sure, it's not tournament-style, but it's fun.
From my experience:

Skype was pretty neat but always imperfect and throughout its history, including the Microsoft purchase, it just never could get out of its own way as a clunky piece of software.

In many ways it reminds me of the awkwardness and clumsiness of Teams, with the exception that Skype never managed to capture the enterprise market.
Interesting, where I lived (NZ), "coke" was the typical term for Coca-Cola (not generic soda, but you may be asked if Pepsi is OK), however in NL where I live now it's pretty universally "cola", and I think that's also not generic. Can't speak to other European countries though, I've never noticed.
I appreciate that! When I switched to MacOS, I demoed both Rectangle and Magnet and found that, despite being paid software, Magnet offered a much more intuitive experience.

I'm happy to pay for software anyway, but after spending $4000 on a computer I expected such basic desktop manager features, which have been common since the 90s, to come with the package. This is not something extensions are supposed to do. This kind of crap is why I ditched GNOME.
Oracle is pretty famous for suing everyone willing to publish benchmarks or comparisons of Oracle DB.
I think you should run Fil-C in production.
I've never heard dog leg before.
I understand that people need alternatives that work now but please consider contributing your developer expertise and/or donating to Ladybird[0] / Servo[1]. We need to get away from our current engine duopoly of Chromium/Gecko (yes I know webkit exists)

[0]: https://ladybird.org

[1]: https://servo.org
The point is whether we can use quantum error correction to bias the probabilities on one end, before the decoherence happens.

Modern quantum error correction techniques are dramatically improving:

Decoherence suppression: Extending coherence times of qubits.

Fault-tolerant quantum computing: Reducing errors in quantum state evolution.

Quantum memory storage: Holding quantum states stable for long durations.

So if decoherence is controllable, and if randomness is epistemic (not ontological), then this suggests we can gradually influence quantum measurement probabilities.

Look, here's what we can already do today:

Extend entanglement coherence times (already happening).

Control quantum noise with precision (e.g., superconducting qubits).

Perform weak measurements without full collapse (experimental quantum optics).

I agree that directly biasing entangled measurements nonlocally has not yet demonstrated today, but it could be in the near future, which is what I am predicting can unleash this FTL communication possibility!

Quantum error correction is already proving that decoherence isn’t truly random—it can be controlled. The interaction-free measurement paradox suggests that it’s possible to extract information without collapsing a wavefunction. Bohmian Mechanics & PWT are underexplored experimentally, and this would be a direct way to test them.
oh absolutely, I agree. I don't think $150 is adequate to fund development of a browser.
Crypto shouldn't be regulated. It's explicit purpose is to bypass the regulation overhead of fiat, stick it to the man so to speak. The fallout of things like FTX is a natural consequence of the crypto community's wishes and the government stepping in to bailout and prosecute is contrary. FAFO imo.
Data races are memory safe in Fil-C.
> the variety of malware would make the script not so simple, and not so effective.

The article is about using scripts to identify and download the malware. They identified over 1000 matching repos, which would contain Discord webhooks in the script.

Scanning and identifying has already been done. That’s literally what the article is about.

It’s right in the second paragraph:

> As soon as you download and launch any of these, all the data from your computer is collected and sent to some discord server
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Didn't Firefox OS actually bring various new APIs to Firefox browser itself?

That's what I understood from their postmortem post:

"Engineering — Have a clear separation between “chrome” and web content rather than try to force the web to do things it isn’t suited to. Create device APIs using REST & WebSockets on the server side of the web stack rather than privileged JavaScript DOM APIs on the client side. Create a community curated directory of web apps on the web rather than an app store of submitted packaged apps."

https://medium.com/@bfrancis/the-story-of-firefox-os-cb5bf79...
Just going to put this here:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
Pure Independence
dog race and dog quarter
> There is no such thing as balanced as that implies a natural neutral point

It does not, professional journalists are able to provide two different points of views in their articles, granted they work for a professional publication. I'm not sure where you're from, but seemingly it isn't very popular in the US, but in other countries it does exist.

> All you're doing is filtering for people that conform to YOUR pre-conceived notions.

I'm trying to filter away people using overly emotional language, regardless of their political or moral leanings. I don't care if you're up, right, down or left, using clickbait language gives me reservations about even listening to the author.
Sure, that's also predicted by a logarithmic scaling law, you have extremely rapid growth until the inflection point.
>Microsoft will honor existing Skype credits, but it will no longer offer new customers access to paid Skype features that allow you to make or receive international and domestic calls.

This sucks for me; I used Skype for this regularly for dealing with paperwork/banks/etc back in my home country.

What do people use instead?

I know there's probably a bajillion of fly-by-night operations that offer this, but given that whenever I have to use an actual _phone_, I'm probably dealing with a bank, the tax office or some other governmental entity — I'd prefer something where I'm not worried about my calls being intercepted.
How does them selling my data help me navigate the web?
I do use this. It's not as seamless as using FastAPI. Also not as type-safe as FastAPI.

You can simply type a class variable as an int while the validation decorator works on a completely different type. It's an illusion of type safety.
The level of fear of the SEC chairman. They were afraid to classify all tokens as securities because BTC and ETH were too big by then, thus created this meaningless distinction. In real life there is no difference except number of users.
The underlying competition I am referring to is the competition for attention.

——

Yet, if we are too look at firms, TikTok came on the scene and at everyone’s lunch, till they came up with clones.

Your example, Bluesky, is also competition.

——-

The fact that people are leaving Nazis doesn’t mean that people are somehow escaping the battle for attention.

See for example, the radicalization of the left which has finally accelerated enough to be its own force.

Given enough time, Bluesky will also find that its users must deal with the same forces. If you want content to succeed on Bsky, you need to get eyeballs, which means you need to compete with other things people will watch.

——

You also missed the part that moderation construes a violation of the popular definition of “Free speech”, and is thus censorship.

I know it’s nonsense.

I used to run a boring community; people eventually leave or start importing drama from the more active parts of the web. You have to tamp down on that, which results in the “violation of free speech”.

So you now have pressures to stop moderation. Heck, Wikipedia is being targeted, senators are bankrupting misinformation researchers, all to ensure that they are able to maintain the lowest level of moderation possible.

People need to wise up to the point of free speech, i.e. ensuring the functioning of a market place of ideas.
You know, a little off-topic, but that sounds _exactly_ like the online poker boom.
Quoting the whole bloody thing is meaningless when the added bit adds nothing to the context. Nothing about the "added context" says they won't sell the data. If anything it just improves the case that they are going to sell the data.