skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. To me, purely on personal preference, the Gemini models did best on this task, which also fits with my personal experience using Googles models to summarize extensive, highly specialized text. Geminis 2.0 models do especially well on Needle in Haystack type tests in my experience.
Calls worked great for me, but it’s not been able to reliably show a contacts online status for years
But CentOS Stream is not CentOS.

They are completely different products just reusing branding to confuse what people are asking for.

RHEL Developer is closer, as a no-support, no-cost version of RHEL, but you still have the deal with the licence song and dance.

CentOS gave folks a free version that let you run some dev environments that mostly mirrors prod, without worrying about licences or support. CentOS stream doesn't do this out of principle. It's upstream.
Goodbye web-components. A W3C spec that mandates the use of JS to keep browser vendors happy. Once upon a time, there was HTML imports which didn't need this, but the ad-boys killed that spec.
Thought this was about the language learning app https://yakk.app/ for a brief moment looming at the URL!
I am not even sure if Microsoft was interested in the technology. I believe Skype originally functioned using some kind of p2p network. I believe Microsoft replaced this way of working shortly after acquiring Skype. Perhaps on behalf of security agencies.
So what? I'm not responsible for other people's business models.

It's funny, because I remember computing in the 80s and 90s, when most software came in a box and was bought from a store or through mail order. Piracy was a problem then, and companies tried to invent all sorts of copy-protection schemes. Some of them worked decently well, but most (all?) were eventually defeated. That didn't stop the world from having a healthy market for software.

Phones are no different. If Android developers have a piracy problem, they should develop strong copy-protection schemes. Sure, none of those schemes will be perfect, but they generally have the effect of moving piracy further out to the margins.

Otherwise: tough shit. If people pirate your app, explore avenues through the legal system to get them to stop. If that doesn't work, that's just a cost of doing business.
The App Exposé gesture works really well for that purpose. It's gesture-based, but you can configure a hot corner to trigger it too.
>GPT 4.5 pricing is insane: Price Input: $75.00 / 1M tokens Cached input: $37.50 / 1M tokens Output: $150.00 / 1M tokens

How many eggs does that include??!
Right? Non-exclusive is good because I can licence to others too as I see fit.

What is the legal meaning of “full”?

Surely I only want to grant a limited non-exclusive licence where the limit is for the use of the browser and the expiry is immediately after I stop using the browser.
That's not what that term means.
Any issue receiving SMS messages with zadarma? In the past I have banks block numbers that come from VoIP providers.
Sadly, it has a small context window.
Eclipse was nice but WebSphere Application Developer was pretty horrible - I'm not sure how they achieved that! (WSAD was/was built on Eclipse)
We were one of those companies. I remember that you had to alter the order of users added to a group in order to have multiple groups (the equivalent of "channels") with the same member list. We'd use that trick to essentially have per-project channels. It wasn't necessarily super graceful, but it mostly worked.

When we made the jump to Slack in early 2014, we migrated as much of our Skype history as we could, which was _a project_, but again, mostly worked.
I guess the quality here is resilience more so than immunity. I guess you can say opensource is much more resilient to enshittification.

I think Mozilla has been a good example of that but the perception has been that resilience has been crumbling for years. Without an independent business model they have been in a really terrible position from the get-go.
Devil is in the details. Teenagers tend to appreciate things that can seemingly collapse a complex topic into a binary black and white thing. The real world is nuanced.
AI is actually more revolutionary than people believe, it can do the repetitive human labour 10-100 times faster and doesn't has societal issues, hence in terms of business sense it makes companies more productive, allowing economy to grow.

But instead of natural progression the forces in the industry have been hyping up AI for their benefits. Which ofcourse will have consequences in the long term, I don't think there will be a burst in next 5 years, but I'd say chances highly increase in next two year, if certain conditions are met.

Disclosure: I'm not an economist, the observation is based on my understanding of propagation of AI as a developer and founder.
The same effect applies to political parties. The people that care about X focus their complaints to the party that is trying to address issues with X.
> I remember how it ceased working on Linux once they bought it

I can’t speak for long ago, if that’s what you’re referring to, but the last two generations of the Skype client have run just fine on Linux. I’ve been using it for the last five years. My only real annoyance with it (that is, the Linux client rather than Skype problems in general, which have steadily got worse) is that it relies on an org.freedesktop.secrets implementation (e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet) to stay logged in, and so because I stubbornly don’t have such a thing (I have no other software that wants such a thing, and I use Sway so anything will be poorly-integrated), I have to log in every time it restarts. And it’s really slow to start, badly-implemented web tech UI; twenty seconds to start and show the normal logged-in start screen, then it decides you’ve been signed out and takes you back to the login screen… all up, it tends to take almost a minute to start, including typing password. Except that some time in the last couple of months it broke further, and now freezes up for a minute before taking you to the login screen, in which it also requires you to enter username, not just password. So now it’s more like a solid two minutes of startup time, if you’re paying attention to it.
Once we get to that stage, unless you're a capitalist, remember that your job is next in line to be replaced.
I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand I just want Firefox to keep being a free software web browser that I can trust. But on the other hand I realise Firefox isn't some hobby project and competing with Google isn't cheap. They already take money from Google and this could be shut off at any time. How can Firefox be independent if it doesn't have some revenue?

Unfortunately they've been stupid and blurred the lines between Firefox the browser and Firefox the "web platform". I don't think anyone would be too concerned if this was clearly about the web platform bit.

Maybe we need a smaller GPL browser that doesn't have the fancy stuff but can actually be maintained by the community. Yeah it won't with with a bunch of "web apps", but it will still provide access to information. This is also why if you are making websites you need to make sure it works without js etc. Otherwise you're basically forcing people to use adware.
Minor quibble, 555 isn't fictional, it's typically reserved for teleco internal use, or at least that was the case 25 years ago, who knows what the deal is now. Used to be you could wardial 555-xxxx and end up with all kinds of weird AT&T field installations, back office numbers, switch remote command and control modem numbers, etc.
True, Sana above are attempting to extend their gene engineering ("HIP") to stem cells as well

>apply the HIP technology to develop therapeutic candidates at scale, including both pluripotent stem cells and donor-derived allogeneic CAR T cells.
This is exactly how we get a proper tech crash + an AI winter as we're seeing so-called VC funded startups getting cloned for free; worse case "open sourced" as well.

The job losses that everyone is finally realizing and now experiencing (which was predictable) will only accelerate.

This won't be a correction this time. It will be a massive tech crash followed by the start of a new AI winter.
What kind of coding do you do? How much of it is formulaic?
I applaud the effort but seriously though I just wonder...

For reference, Chromimum (and therefore Chrome) is a monster of a project and has at this point probably over 10 million lines of code and has taken +20 years to develop with thousands of developers involved.

I can only conclude that:

a) the modern WEB is so complicated that this is the minimum required level of complexity to run and render modern WEB safely

b) chromium is extravagantly over engineered and the actual amount of complexity and code needed to run and render modern WEB is actually much less

c) Ladybird is actually not targeting the same features but some "suitable" subset of features.

If the answer is A) how does the small team working on Ladybird think they can actually pull this off? Are they all 10000x developers?

Or maybe the answer really is C thus making this a toy/hobby project?

One could of course then hope that the answer is b) but somehow I don't feel like it is.
That is because the green button is a «zoom» button, which maximizes the window to display its contained document: https://blog.xoria.org/macos-tips/#window-management

I am not sure if I agree with the choice either, but that’s the explanation.
That’s how you work, though. Having Safari fullscreen is really not great for me. Nor Preview. Actually the only thing I have fullscreen (not in its Space) is Xcode.

EDIT: I meant window maximized to fill the screen, not fullscreen, which is what option-double-clicking a window corner does.
Termly also works
What are the modern equivalents? For Terraform I'd imagine it's Pulumi or OpenTofu but what is it for Vault? Last I checked OpenBao didn't seem to have much juice but it's been a minute since I did so. Or are there unrelated projects in this space that are on the same trajectory as Hashicorp was a decade ago?
Nope, Nokia was killed via suicide-by-microsoft-exec. They took in a MS aligned CEO and promptly proceeded to destroy their own chance of competing (using Maemo/meego or android for their phones) by using MS operating system.

I guess one could call it leadership stagnation, but I would argue more it being just plain old stupidity
If it's chromium based, they will need to remove manifest v2 at some point to stay close to the upstream version.
What is the alternative to do cheap calls abroad?
> And yet you expect them to do that research for EVERY APP someone on the phone tells them to install?!

No, we're expecting people who don't want to do that research to only install from an official, vetted source, like the Apple App Store.

> That is how scammers walked my grandma through installing a fake banking app on her android phone, and stole all her money.

That genuinely sucks, but I don't think keeping people from fully owning their devices is the answer to that problem.

Put another way, if this is your position, then you should also support the idea of Apple also locking down macOS so it will only run apps installed through the Mac App Store. And Microsoft should do something similar with Windows. But I sincerely hope you wouldn't support that... that's just absurd.

The funny thing is that directing people to malicious websites is generally a lot easier than getting them to sideload a malicious app. If Android were to suddenly start disallowing sideloading, I'm sure the people who tricked your grandmother would have based their scam on a malicious website instead. If she trusted some rando on the phone to download and install a malicious app, I'm sure she would have been tricked by that same rando directing her to a malicious website.

But I guess we can just ban web browsers too, right?
It's more they had to wait for processing power to catch up.

One of my bit older friends got an AI doctorate in the 00s, and would always lament a business would never bother reading his thesis, they'd just end up recreating what he did in a few weeks themselves.

It's easy to forget now that in the 90s//00s/10s AI research was mainly viewed as a waste of time. The recurring joke was that general AI was just 20 years away, and had been for the last few decades.
There's also Zen, which is Firefox based.
Which parts of democracy are being destroyed?
You're too generous to Mozilla, and too ungenerous to people tired of being betrayed repeatedly.
> remove any wording along the lines of "Firefox will never sell your data to advertisers"

You mean wording like this?

""Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love."

Which is contained in both the link you provided, and on their official Privacy FAQ: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/

I'm really confused how you can possibly claim that they removed the wording when it's right there for you.
No, this post is perfectly fine where it is: a dev forum full of people who may be interested in the source code and contributing to this ongoing project.
What history do you have?
My mental model of a browser is the same as of any tool, as a hammer, purely defined by its technical capabilities to do a job, like to display a website and offer basic functionality like for saving a bookmark.

The very idea of an entity called "we", an anonymous and ever-changing cast of people managing "responsible defaults" and "simple tools to manage your data" and communicating it on their terms, making me try and keep up, is alien to this idea. They lay their hands on our data; want to know how exactly? Follow several links to this page:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#notice

The page in its tone trivializes the entire deal and is just another EULA and as such could just as well be presented in a small textbox in all-caps. It's more than the average user will ever read, and way too vague anyway.

"Be informed about what data we process about you, why and who it’s shared with (that’s this Notice!)" they say, but

...how about you show the entire dataset compiled about any user with information who is using it and for what exactly (excluding truly secret law enforcement requests). Everyone involved would be mortified with shame.
I don’t disagree with any of that other than I’m pretty sure the sequence is the other way around. The guardian story linked, published at the time has the sequence cnn interview calling it a publicity stunt and the pedo guy tweet after that. Unless I’m reading it wrong somehow or they messed up the story?
I wouldn't say, cope, the green screen stuff has predictable field input, and predictable rules around selecting elements.

Despite its obvious downsides, for people who do regular form input and editing, it's often better than the flavor of the day web framework IMO

I mean, I wouldn't choose to use it, but I get it
https://soundcloud.com/anchorball/grifters-paradise

What a time to be alive!

This is generative AI music, aka the future of music?
Is Portable Firefox still an option, or is that sort if thing possible to lock down too now?

(I've only very briefly worked with restrictive Windows, and it was years ago.)

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
Possibly in Arc, although Brave also continues to support Manifest v2 so it’s possible it will continue to persist in some subset of Chromium-based browsers and as I said, it ships with the browser and is installed by default; but Orion is not Chromium-based.
Are you seriously saying porn is being suppressed? It's a bigger industry than it has ever been.

Visa has the option to do business with whomever they like or dislike and I'm not even sure they don't support them because of religious reasons.

I'm not saying it should be banned but saying the people who are against it or don't want to do business with such entities are miserable is twisted given it is an industry where most of the actors are victims of abuse, the viewers learn a distorted view of sexuality and younger generations have less respect for each other because of it.
> when I click a window, Mac OS brings to top all windows of the respective app

I don't have that, and I can't remember having done anything to stop it.
GPT-4 not only has orders of magnitude more parameters than GPT-3.5. It also has a different architecture, using a Mixture of Experts approach rather than a raw GPT.

What is interesting to me is the fact that they haven’t developed (or at least publicly disclosed so) this idea further. What if you have 37 “experts”, but each being notoriously small? Is it a requisite that each expert is a fully functional LLM on its own? Can’t they interconnect like the brain does with its lobes?
Mucking about making color wheels is something I feel I’d do in that time period too. Y’know, barring racism and’s all that.
One cool feature that early Spotify had is that you could put your own MP3s in your playlists and Spotify would synchronise them across your devices.

How modern technology should work, but doesn’t anymore.
In a situation where one does not know a lot it also mitigates the risk that the thing you ate a lot of turns out to be really unhealthy.
Full context, from the link YOU provided: ""Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data“), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love."

There is no reasonable way to read this as an attempt to sell your data. This quote is also reiterated in the linked Privacy FAQ on their official site: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/
I really doubt LLM benchmarks are reflective of real world user experience ever since they claimed GPT-4o hallucinated less than the original GPT-4.
anal_reactor says so.
Either silly, or 20 years in the business.
Possibly QuickSilver?
> it's reasonable to require a plan for outreach so that those groups know they can connect. Why have a program if people don't know about it?

It's not about outreach to those groups so they can connect to low-cost internet, it's about who builds out the network itself.
In the spirit of constructive criticism, I'd suggest that the GPU section of the summary feels like a fish out of water and should probably either be removed or supplemented with a bit more context from the actual paper. Cheers.
From the link that was already provided:

"(BTW there are opt-outs linked from each chapter/category of data, like sponsored content in new tab experience etc. that should lead you through settings to disable such telemetry. Nothing has changed about that, and you can always find it in the privacy center. The changeset you're looking at here is just to remove things that are unfortunately not that simple, and need explaining in the full legal documents instead.)"
Just a decade or so ago, 'Skype' was the 'Kleenex' of video calling. Funny how fast tech moves.

Sad to see it go.
protect sensitive data by putting it in a high radiation environment, at high risk of micrometeorites, and where getting rid of tons of generated heat is hilariously impractical.

Got it
Claude and ChatGPT Bookmarklets
Wow it googled the date!
I've worked for a European company acquired by big tech in the US. My experience was that the Americans were quite full of themselves and didn't want to learn how we operated. There was a vibe of “things are going to change around here, no more free rides, the grown-ups have arrived.” Awful management decisions were made, most of the talent left, and the team from the original company now only exists on paper.

n=1 and all, but I've heard similar stories. European tech companies have very different cultures and ways of making money, shaped by our laws and consumer expectations.

Skype, for example, was used as a pay phone and a simple messaging app before Microsoft bought it. You put in a euro, and you call and message your friends. It mutated into a bloated Microsoft Live app with several different front-ends, including some integrations with Office and various subscription services that sold the same thing in multiple ways. Core features stopped working, too. I'm sure someone liked the Frankenstein monster that it became (I don't kink-shame sadists), but most of the original users, and especially Europeans, did not.

If Microsoft had a purpose for Skype except for taking out a competitor, I'd say the decline would have been the result of managerial incompetence and American managers' lack of understanding of Europe. But of course, once a competitor bought Skype, there was no reason for it to exist anymore, so perhaps that is the reason it died.

Still, I wouldn't blame Europe so quickly. American big tech often fails to do business here within the local culture and laws, too.
Disagree. All three companies exist in the set of massively international megacorps who as a matter of routine daily business collect and distribute personal information of the individuals who use their service. Being precious about what percentage of their yearly revenue is generated by this activity seems weird.
If you don’t like it buy a “fair phone”. There is some freedom of choice here too. I want the freedom to choose a locked down phone for my family and myself to use without worrying about it being hacked.

I write this as someone who is a major open source contributor and advocate. There are somethings I just want to work, and my primary phone is one of them. I have other play devices.

I haven't checked in some time but why don't you just jailbreak your iphone if you want it to be "yours".
Threat modeling the TRAIL of Bits way
From the link that was already provided, and which is repeated in their Privacy FAQ: "Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data“ is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love."

That seems like a pretty reasonable justification to me
The trouble is people thinking it can be fixed with the system. I've been to a few dictatorships, none of them had the slightest clue what I was doing because the government was too poor and distracted with stuff like militias at their door to take much interest in what I was doing.

Safety comes from dysfunctional governance. Surveillance is a property of functional governance. Embrace disfunction.
> Can't we just encourage free market dynamics?

The free market is a myth. We have a smartphone OS duopoly, and neither one needs to provide what customers actually want in order to be successful.

A new company entering this market will have essentally no chance of being successful.

We don't have a healthy, competitive market here. If I want to buy a new couch, I have hundreds of manufacturers to choose from, with a wide variety of styles and colors. I can pretty much find my perfect couch, given enough research. And if for some reason I can't, I can hire someone to make me a fully custom couch.

Obviously furniture and phone OSes are not the same thing, and it isn't feasible to expect there would be a market for hundreds of different phone OSes. But the principle is the same.
PathFinder is the only one I can think of. I find it overly complicated when all I really need is Finder - the endless jank.
That makes sense! Thank you for the feedback! :)
I agree that would be what good software would do, but what incentives would Spotify have to do that? They would have to pay for hosting and are possibly legally responsible for the file content, which could itself be illegal. And most people today who use Spotify don't extensively listen to music via MP3 files.
200$ for correct latex