skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a small paper planner that I keep in my pocket at (nearly) all times. People are taken aback and ask why I don't use something more modern, but why should I? This works better, for me, than anything else I ever tried.
> They still need bluetooth permissions, which is going to be sus for your average flashlight/weather/game app.

Looking at the apps I had to purge from family members' phones, I don't think that will be a problem.

> If the app already has location permissions, why would they need to pull off this attack? They get the user's location directly.

Accessing geolocation APIs will show an indicator and add an entry to a log (at least on Android). I don't believe accessing BLE APIs do the same.
Sustainability is one of the core reasons why we are not using RHEL SRPMs to build AlmaLinux. RH doesn't want us doing that, and doing so would be unsustainable and bring into question the future of AlmaLinux as it can, and likely will, turn into a game of cat/mouse getting those SRPMs :)

Let us know if you have any issues!
You are right, they got $400M+ a year.

I stand corrected, I would want to face the $400M+ per year existential wobble.
The goal isn't the wholesale replacement of html webpages. I have a traditional website for SEO and such that links to my Flutter game app on the same domain. It's exactly what the parent described: a way to ship executable code. A lot of features supported for websites don't work, sure. But that's not the point. It's a single build that practically any user on the planet can execute without needing to install something.

The idea that an app distribution method needs to natively support every feature and analysis method that works for a website is nonsense. You don't expect all that from every app on the play store, for instance. The browser isn't just for visiting html websites anymore. It's also the app distribution method with the widest reach.

On your specific complaints: it's easy to make your screens have different urls. An app that doesn't is built by a novice or lazy developer.

Skipping frames while scrolling is a fair complaint. In my experience, flutter is performant enough but always just a little short of the performance I'd like. Definitely an area that could use improvement.
I'm not sure this will ever be solved. It requires both a technical solution and social consensus. I don't see consensus on "alignment" happening any time soon. I think it'll boil down to "aligned with the goals of the nation-state", and lots of nation states have incompatible goals.
> The problem with paid versions, is that I don't really trust them either.

Yes, Trust is at the foundation of the whole problem with the Tech Industry:

/1/ users (consumers) expect to be protected (not injured, not cheated, not surveilled) by the products that they use, and

/2/ the WWW is a monstrosity, the only software that we can in fact trust is never connected to the Internet (in other words, we don't trust any software)

Ergo...

Given /2/, we cannot trust any software, full stop. Even paying $CORP for its products is no guarantee of care, safety, and security.

and

Given /1/, which software do we accept? For OS, I prefer Linux by far. Even where usability is a little rough, I can exclude components that I do not want. When obliged to use Windows, I hold my nose and try as much as possible to foil all the bloat, anti-user patterns, and telemetry. I resent it all the way!

I prefer Firefox because I like the features and I insist on a small set of extensions: uBlock Origin, Multi-Account Containers, Privacy Badger. Google is a nasty surveillance ecosystem and Microsoft is a Spaghetti Western: by turns good, bad, and ugly.

If it will fund further development and maintain the current commitment to respect for privacy, I am willing to allow Mozilla to do some aggregate analysis of my browsing habits, just as I am willing to provide survey answers for products that I buy.

I don't love the aggregate analysis, but Mozilla needs to do browser business in the modern world.
I think to an extent Microsoft is the guilty party here. For may cracks Windows Defender will trip saying "Win32/Keygen" even if there's no actual malware https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...

This trains people that do a lot of piracy to be used to turning off their antivirus to let something through, which is fine until it's not. It's like drugs, if we know a subset of the population will do them no matter what, we should make it safe for them to the extent we can. False positives, causing people to ignore actual positives, creates a market for these things.
I do wonder how much of it was really in their control.

Firefox had its rise when Microsoft had basically slowed IE development to a crawl, which allowed them to build a lead of how much better they were than IE that no browser developer would be dumb enough to allow to reoccur. Tabs, Adblock, Firebug, performance for youtube and google maps that wasn't appalling at a time when these apps were themselves new and exciting.

Like you could show a normal person who was using IE6 tabs and adblock, and that's a clear use case to switch browsers. The only feature anywhere near that compelling in the recent or not-so-recent past is sync, which is why every browser manufacturer has their own version of it. And sync still isn't tabs or adblock.

And they had a clear revenue model with Google (and not yet irrelevant competitors) paying for search and not yet starting to squeeze them. I'm sure that revenue model was partly undermined when they moved to yahoo in the US and everyone just went and switched back to Google, which caused Google to question how valuable that really was.

At the same time, Google developed Chrome because it let them push features that were useful for their revenue generating products. And google pushed hard. Some of its early market share was to wooing us with performance and tab isolation, for sure. But a lot of it was bundling with new laptops, flash player, anti-virus programs etc. to automatically set it as the default for non-tech users who may not recognise what a browser is really.

And I mean, even the tech influencer effect was weakened a bit by the fact that your hypothetical grandma recognised the name Google, unlike Mozilla or Firefox, even if she had been actively using Firefox on her last laptop.

One of the big misses from Firefox was being so late to Android. They couldn't have Firefox on iOS, and it took ages for government regulation to meaningfully change that, but they could have been on Android much sooner, and used some of their desktop network effects and sync to build market share, but instead they left it so late and missed the mobile market such that their poor mobile market share turned browser sync into something that harmed their desktop market share, as people wanted a desktop browser to sync their mobile Chrome tabs etc.

Firefox's headcount (and the pace of web platform development) had ballooned over this period, and this was fine when the Google money was still a given, but now that's looked to be decreasing or entirely at risk, Mozilla has needed to make Firefox pay for Firefox (unlike Chrome, which doesn't really need to pay for Chrome as long as it's a channel for Google's revenue generating products). This has put them in pretty direct conflict with their users, as ways to monetise the browser goes against a lot of why their remaining users are their users to begin with.
Go one step further and run the browser in ring 0 with minimal overhead. Rely on the security guarantees from WebAssembly and the runtime sandbox for memory protections. Throw out the rest of the OS too.

We seem to be on track for the 2035 timeline in https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death....
Is that really true: isn't the Federal Reserve (intentionally designed to be) very independent from both Congress and the White House?
Certainly LaunchBar as mentioned above.
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It is largely a just works experience for me. I report when there are bugs (like the most recent driver causing black screens on my monitor when VRR is enabled) and Nvidia usually fixes them in a few months.
I don’t think this is possible with V2 extensions.
> Meme coins typically are purchased for entertainment, social interaction, and cultural purposes, and their value is driven primarily by market demand and speculation. In this regard, meme coins are akin to collectibles.

This reads to me like "we won't treat your crypto like a security if you tie it to pop culture". Intent in purchasing crypto for novelty purposes doesn't change what it is or how people will use it.
You’d get more thrust, but lower delta-v for the same total mass, because you’re replacing propellant mass with fixed mass.
I don't think the retail sales were very good, there were a lot of them that ended up as OEM cards or on-board (not really integrated at this point) graphics.
I especially like your 'mgrep', please do write it!

I have considered similar tools that make use of MarkDown syntax, I feel that there are many tools waiting to be written here.
Like I need to watch DRM for my job, and it doesn't work at all. I also already ported most of their configs that I actually researched each and every line of myself + Waterfox + Arkenfox's configs into my generic Mozilla Firefox, and it works great.
You're insane. Jaw dropping ignorance justifying world ending cruelty.

You understand that they're delaying the flu vaccine in a way that will kill 10,000 elderly people next year?
If we ever find a monopole, the field will be inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

Bug normal magnets and superconductor magnets have canceling magnetic charge, the same amount of S and N, so after a few math tricks [1] the field will be inversely proportional to the cube of the distance.

[1] The filed from N decays as 1/r^2 and the field form S as -1/r^2 but they are indifferent places (the r is not the same on both), so the difference is almost like 1/r^3 more details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipole_expansion
some of the largest scala codebases under active development make heavy use of this feature.
To me the biggest block for using any plain text format for daily stuff is I need a good mobile - laptop sync method that I can easily read / write and manage files on both mobile and laptop, does anyone have any recommendation? The best choice I can think right now is SimpleNote which I've been using for notes for a long time, but is there a way I can actually use .txt file instead of text been stored somewhere in a database.
I'm not talking about private mental states. I'm talking about concrete activities attempting to formally change how the state treats certain people.

And yeah, you're not supposed to voice them. That's not some sort of gotcha, that's common sense. If you think some of your coworkers are lesser, then you'd better keep that shit under your hat, or leave. You cannot expect to make those views public and then stick around like everything's still fine.
Clean and concise. While there is certainly an overuse by inexperienced developers and some patterns are controversial (eg. singletons), these patterns overall still hold true.
If only you knew that the end-game of crypto billionaires is to secede from society and use cryptocurrencies and blockchains as the foundation for an alternative parallel financial system that sucks its competitor dry. If you really hate crypto, that would just be giving them what they want with roses and a nice letter.

And, just to say, that is exactly what the new administration is planning on doing.
It's 2025 and most apps do not match the OS they run on. What would you even want apps to match on Windows? There are different styles depending on what you build with (Win32/Forms, WPF, UWP, etc).
>You are still on microsoft github

Who is on microsoft github? The article is about malware distributors using github to distribute malware. Are you suggesting that malware authors should avoid github because it's not noscript friendly? Malware authors care about how to distribute the most malware, not about whether their distribution site is noscript friendly.
You might want to look into Nvidia coolbits. Those give fan control and frequency control. Alternatively, you could set a power target using nvidia-smi.
Because the legal system around backpacks are better understood. The more common something is the less legal paperwork there is. Judges understand backpacks and have for hundreds of years. Many judges don't understand technology. As a result when selling a backpack you can rely on the court's understanding and thus not have to account for every possibility. Meanwhile because the court might not understand technology you have to account for every possible trivial thing.
Yeah, reading this page with no mention of Firefox feels a bit weird - I was asking myself the whole time what the relationship is. All I needed was something saying "a privacy-preserving fork of Firefox" or similar to put that to bed so I could concentrate on the rest of the content.
Presumably you knew how to write before ChatGPT was a thing, though?

> we should ignore

Never implied anything of the sort. But it can be a bit like kids not learning basic math and skipping straight to using calculators for everything just 10x worse.
> Without ublock origin, the internet is simply unbearable

Huh? uBlock Origin Lite works perfectly fine.

I've seen absolutely no difference after switching.
The atypical proteome of mitochondria from mature pollen grains
Amazon has an ask a question feature and it will email a lot of people who previously bought the product, not sure how it works. Anyway, I saw tons of responses from elderly people with nonsense answers like “I don’t know the answers please don’t email me”. People felt compelled to respond, now I see why Nigerian prince scams are so successful.
> But the problems we’re talking about are far broader

No. You're fundamentally misunderstanding the broadness of the web platform.

On a broad platform even niche use cases are common. If I'm developing an application that will be used by 50 users then none of your concerns are relevant. I know my user base and I know what I need to achieve.

If compiling to WebAssembly and using canvas makes the most sense then that's what I'm going to do, especially if it means I can make use of existing business logic.

It is precisely the broadness of the web platform that makes this possible.
Kagi, a search engine with countless free alternatives, starts at $5/month.

The people who care are willing to pay.
And the moment I contribute to DOGE is the moment you'll have a point here.
If you claim in the repo description that it's not malware in order to trick people into downloading it, then definitely yes.
Not sure what nonprofits you're referring to, but most drug searches are SEO spammed with godawful websites that contain tons of misinformation while reputable sources that actually promote harm reduction like erowid are pushed down.
Are you referring to this? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-co...

If so, that was a judgment about legislation that is no longer current (and wasn’t when the judgment was issued). It may be that current legislation is also incompatible with EU law (IANAL, I’m not arguing that point), but AFAIK there is no court judgment to that effect.
..as well as Brave browser
Why does that matter in this case?
It's unfair to computers how well paper planners worked. Among with todo.txt, paper calendars were an inspiration and a benchmark for writing calendar.txt.
Yes, I’ll be leaving. I used to prefer Firefox but have long since moved to Safari for browsing and <insert Chromium based browser> for web dev. Every year I give switching to FF a try. I’ve been using it for everything since mid-December but it’s honestly a pretty bad user experience. This is the move that’s gonna make me stop for this year’s trial run and all future ones. It’s simply not worth my time if their ideals don’t align with mine anymore. Safari and Chromium have their issues but I know what benefits I’m trading off for. Without ideals, FF has no standout features compared to the alternatives (for me).
been using waterfox for a long time now and have very little to complain about. it's lean, snappy, and generally very easy to get along with as a browser. trouble is that pesky memory leak issue that seems to plague gecko-based browsers.
It sounds like LibreWolf and Waterfox both fall into this category. Difficult to distinguish much between the two.

There's a 2yo reddit thread [0] in which the Waterfox founder claims that Waterfox balances privacy with usability, and has the advantage of an auto-update feature. This could be outdated as I just installed LibreWolf and there definitely was an auto-update option in the installation dialog.

There's also an article on OnionEngine [1] which compares the two. According to this, Waterfox has support for legacy add-ons, but unlike LibreWolf does not necessarily disable trackers by default. Hard to see how up to date the article is.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/14seevh/comment/j...

[1] https://onionengine.io/blog/waterfox-vs-librewolf/

By the sounds of it, if you have a strong privacy prefence and don't mind compromising usability for the sake of privacy, Libre Wolf may be the better bet.
They're only inefficient if you want them to do something other than heat up a lot of air by a very large amount very fast. :)
The simplest strategy - keep your sites and services lean, with any heavier stuff both static and on a CDN. When the PHB's argue for 10X bloat, pointedly ask about their preference between 10X hosting costs, and any major successes (aka heavy traffic) causing your site or service to go down.
You are helping enrich someone who is sympathetic towards it. It's funny how you are immediately trying to disassociate yourself from the simple fact that you -> hacker news -> pg -> musk.

There are people who don't use Twitter for the simple reason that Musk owns it. You can do the same with HN, no?
DMA-buf was GPL symbol exported specifically to make things harder for Nvidia. This is well known and is not the first time mainline developers have intentionally sabotaged third party driver developers. Saying otherwise is contrary to reality.

Reusing code on all platforms is a reason why the Nvidia driver has long been so good. It deduplicated effort so that they could focus on making the driver better. AMD avoided this prior to vulkan and their drivers had long been a disaster until Valve started helping on Linux. AMD tried copying the unified driver approach for the vulkan portion of their driver with AMDVLK and had some minor success, although the community driver developed by valve is better and they would be better off porting that to Windows.
we will never know apparently
Did you buy a small business that is not software/tech but just has a informational/marketing website ? If yes, then it is most likely a simple "static website" with pages in HTML (what renders on the browser). It may also be something like a .php file that is easily available to render on many web hosts.

To help you more, you need to first tell us what is the file extension (is it ending with .html or something like .php or something else). We can then help you more on how to edit them.
I'm painfully aware. Modern apps are mostly terrible.

I don't know or care what apps would match on Windows. I don't use Windows. On the systems I do use, I want apps to look like they fit in.
Personally I don't know of any MMOs that allow in-game currency to be 'cashed out', thats pretty much always a bannable offense
At least it has a column view.
And AMD already said there is not a 9070XT 32GB coming. Which I understand as "we're building a 32GB card with this chip, but it's not coming before christmas and will cost you a kidney".

I really would like to upgrade from my 2070 Super but I'm not getting a 16GB card now just to buy another one with 32GB later on.
Yeah, and that makes sense in the context of an acceptable use policy for Mozilla services that are not your use of the Firefox browser.

But the same AUP for the services is now explicitly referenced in the TOS for the browser. How are you supposed to read it - the AUP only applies to your use of the browser to access the services? Isn't that already implicit if you're using the services? Surely it can't be attempting to apply the services AUP to any non-service use of the browser?

Very confusing, it seems badly written to me.

Same thing with the "Some Services in Firefox Require a Mozilla Account" and then the "Termination" with a notification to the (optional) account. Somewhat disconcerting.

[1] Mozilla can suspend or end anyone’s access to Firefox at any time for any reason, including if Mozilla decides not to offer Firefox anymore. If we decide to suspend or end your access, we will try to notify you at the email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access your account.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/#moz...
You can buy used nvidia tesla p40 with 24GB from 2016 and unlike AMD, they still have CUDA support. The only thing they are missing is support for the latest data types like fp8.
> There's a great philosophy paper making this argument: Schwitzgebel, Eric. “If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious.”

Maybe, but this strikes me as a borderline category error, like saying, "If databases can order results, then they are probably sorting algorithms". The argument makes assumptions that consciousness is transitive or "sticky" in some sense, where if a property applies to a part of the system it must also apply to some aggregate of those parts.
I'm not here to defend or attack Mozilla.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43205587
Disclaimer this is a rant, and I'm bitter about not becoming am A.I researcher or data scientist for job security reasons.
WebAssembly is explicitly a new native plugin like API but cross browser, standardized , and with lessons learned for complexity and security.

You can see it skimming the WebAssembly high level design goals: https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/. Many of them directly address limitations of past web content plugin systems.
So first of all, no I'm not. And second of all, "helping enrich someone who is sympathetic towards it" and "helping to get a law passed" are not the same thing.
Good timing with these other HN entries on the front page:

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Looks like it will be an alternate browser kinda day in the top stories...
Back in the Windows 7 days I installed Skype on my parents computer before moving abroad, their user experience was basically like receiving a phone call. Even though they weren't tech savvy we never had any issues. I would call them, and if they were home and near the computer, they could answer it and we'd be video chatting.

A year or so ago I found this to be impossible, there was no application for desktop that was as simple as receiving a phone call. My father has no smart phone. I sent him a zoom link via email but he couldn't log on to the family computer without getting blasted with UI updates, terms of service changes, "Do you want to use OneDrive?", "Here's what's new in Chrome", "Try asking Copilot anything!", etc. From his perspective the computer never worked the same way twice. I wish we had regulations that prevented buying out competition.
Move fast and break the law.
> Can you make PV at home?

https://hackaday.com/2018/01/26/home-brew-solar-cells-for-th...

Not anywhere near as efficient as commercial PV cells, of course.
> And second of all, "helping enrich someone who is sympathetic towards it" and "helping to get a law passed" are not the same thing.

I have never made this claim.

And yes, Hacker News is literally a marketing site for Y Combinator, of which pg has a stake.

In any case I've already ascertained your level of conviction so we can let it go. At least redditors had enough to leave reddit over simple API changes.