skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary to what other people are saying, I've had no significant issues with nvidia drivers on Linux either, but I use X not Wayland so that may be why. Play tons of games, even brand new releases, without issues.
Or it could be that they announced an entirely new leadership team last week: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...

And their "aquisition" of an adtech company last year, and their rollout of its data collection into the browser: https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-ppa-ad/

And the US DoJ ruling last year that Google had an illegal monopoly on web search, and one of the mooted remedies was to bar Google paying to be the default search engine in other browsers... and about 90% of Mozilla's income is Google paying to be the default search engine.

But sure, "why now", maybe someone reported a typo or something.
My take is that 15 years of booming software market and endless high paying jobs made people indifferent to the way open source software was/is being exploited by tech as a form of unpaid labour, because a) having an open source portfolio ended up being a kind of resume or bragging card that help get you a high paying job and b) the money being spread around was big enough that people didn't really care anyways. Nobody was starving.

I think it's shifting. I think we'll see a return to copyleft licenses as people realize the stuff they're writing that is actually valuable is just a couple commits away from being some new AWS component they will get no compensation for, and that starts to matter a lot more.

20-25-30 years ago we were a lot more aware of this stuff. There's a reason the Linux kernel is GPL.

If corporate entities want your stuff bad enough, they can negotiate a separate license.
This only matters if "quick and more responsive" is the only thing that matters. Yes of course you can enter payroll timesheets on a TUI if you spend days/weeks/months gaining that muscle memory. The same way you can edit in vim much faster than vscode or Eclipse if you spend weeks/months/years gaining that muscle memory.

The fact that someone who has been doing it for years can do it faster is obvious, and pretty irrelevant.

Take someone who has never used either, and they'll enter data on the web app much faster.

You don't see keyboard nav in most web apps for similar reasons. First-time users won't know about it, there's no standard beyond what's built-in the browser (tab to next input, that kind of thing), and 90% of your users will never sit through a tutorial or onboarding flow, or read the documentation.
Is this a veiled comment about the interim CEO Laura Chambers? I don't know much about her but some brief googling suggests a worldview quite aligned with the majority of tech workers in the West:

* Focus on employee wellness, including mental wellbeing

* Support for making the internet free, open and accessible to all

* History of working for non-profits and traditionally neglected sectors

* Stated opposition to current influence of money and big tech in politics
LibreOffice for me, but 99% of the time it is Emacs :)
You didn't stumble up on Rotten while scrolling past your cousin's prom photos like you do with "suggested reels" on Insta.

It's being deliberately pushed to the kids, that's my problem.
I'll be installing a set of small servers in the near future. I'll be retrying Alma in a couple of them, to give it another chance.

As I said, in some cases Rocky is a better CentOS replacement than Alma is.

But to be crystal clear, I do not discount Alma as a distribution or belittle the effort behind it. Derivative, clone or from scratch, keeping a distro alive is a tremendous amount of work. I did it, and know it.

It's just me selecting the tools depending on a suitability score, and pragmatism. Not beef, not fanaticism, nothing in that vein.
It is a mistake to use modern Google like a Boolean search engine of old. You almost have to use natural language to get decent results.
See my reply to you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43205587

Honestly I'm surprised that a research technician is more interested in this style of "argument" rather than figuring out the meaning of a (very precisely worded) sentence to for its own sake.
Model Context Protocol vs. Programmatic Workflows
> support xwayland acceleration (mostly due to Linux mainline making it harder for them)

This is not true. There were many differences with how Nvidia had been doing things in their drivers (partially due to them reusing code on all platforms) and how Mesa/Wayland was already doing things, namely with explicit/implicit sync and GBM/EGL streams, but there was no intention to make things hard for Nvidia.

Mesa/Wayland ended up supporting explicit sync so Nvidia's driver could work.
Not only implement, but implement them consistently and making users aware.

Consistency is a thing. Old windows apps often followed a style guide to some degree, that was lost with web (while it's also hard, as styleguides differ between systems, like Windows and Mac) and wasn't ever as close as Mainframe terminal things where function keys had global effects.
It's not about bad company, it's that Eich was the status quo. Obviously his removal represents a departure.
Gotta admire the way they worded the dialog box.

"uBlock Origin was turned off. This extension is no longer supported. Edge recommends that you remove it."

I have a few decades of experience with the Internet, and even I understood the dialog box as saying that Ublock didn't work anymore. In reality, as the text says, it still works if you click "Manage Extension" and turn it back on.

This infuriates me.
>Blackrock does not have any political motives at all

Thats not true, at all.

They have donated millions in the 2024 election alone to a number of politicians[0]. They definitely have political motives

[0]: https://dallasexpress.com/uncategorized/blackrock-giving-big...
The thing is if you don’t need graphic output they are rock solid. I can understand how someone who might use them primarily in headless servers would say the drivers are great.
Sugar tax.
Is this Firefox rebranded with anything privacy breaking removed?

Personally that is what I want. A minimal set of diffs on top of Firefox that turns off anything obnoxious Mozilla might (or might not) add, but is close enough to the original codebase that it can be updated with security fixes right away
That's also a use case where the consensus among those in the know is that you shouldn't be relying on the model's size in the first place.

You know what gets the list of restaurants in my home town right? Llama 3.2 1b q4 running on my desktop with web search enabled.
Hydrogen becomes a superfluid at nanoscale, confirming 50-year-old prediction
> Wrong, Flash was in the process of doing exactly that.

Except it didn't succeed at it. And Flash is long dead now.

WebAssembly is here today and supports more languages than Flash ever did.
There can be no rebound from solar and wind at least, they are just too cheap
It does seem like there is room for an $700-800 9070AI with 32 gb vram.
Tbh while I have been using Kagi as search and their AI assistant a lot lately, their browser lacks massively in functionality. uBlock Origin has never been working for me, neither on macOS nor on iOS, and for me it just doesn't deliver enough to convince me to switch.
Dunno, I have an Nvidia card in my laptop, while it "works" on Linux (even Wayland), it also heats the laptop up so incredibly hot that the laptop's thermal settings just turn it off. No way to throttle it, increase fan speed, etc..., at least not without a bunch of hackery I don't want to deal with. All for performance that's in many cases worse than the integrated Intel card (since the integrated card has access to 16gb ram versus the GPU's 4gb).
Apple has been using these non-discoverable keyboard modifiers since the very start. I remember using them with System 6 back around 1990.

Their design philosophy has always been discoverability for regular features, and then these extra "hidden" features for power users.

Nothing has changed.
Automated scanning is easily bypassed - just fine-tune the submission until it passes the checks.
Right. I don't agree with the quote, but it's more like a subtext thing and it seemed to me to be pretty clear from context.

Though, as someone who had a flagged comment a couple years ago for a supposed "misquote" I did in a similar form in style, I think hn's comprehension of this form of communication is not super strong. Also the style more often than not tends towards low quality smarm and probably should be resorted to sparingly.
You can get paid to farm gold, I think. That's sort-of equivalent?
There were rumors that a 32GB skew is coming.
We might need a new term, like we're in the Darth Vader Economy now, pray that corporations/CEOs/presidents don't alter away your jobs, features, and rights any future.
More importantly that fork should be what other forks base off of. Anyone can put a skin on a browser, but someone needs to do the engine. If every fork who wants an engine improvement goes to the one place there is some mass behind making the fork real, and the other forks can still to their skin if they think it useful. That one fork also means that when mozilla comes out with a new version there are enough hands to merge (at least until Mozilla diverges too far from the fork)
Maybe just an updated user.js would be enough for this goal?
It's what the default is. TUIs default to fast, stable, high-information-density, so you have to real work to make them otherwise. And I say this next part as primarily a front-end developer the past few years: web apps default to slow, brittle, too-much-whitespace "make the logo bigger" cruft, and it takes real work to make them otherwise.

At the end of the day most people are lazy and most things, including (especially?) things done for work, are low quality. So you end up with the default more often than not.
There is no certainty the new order will be better than the previous one.

Trying to fix the world with a sledgehammer.
I hope that the events like this could start a bigger wave of opening the source for many other older games.

To anyone else reading, who's passionate about the topic: reach out to the companies however you can! I can share a personal experience that it does sometimes work, and thanks to that, a somewhat niche game of Zatikon is getting a second life as a FOSS project :)
At this point I find it very hard to chalk it up to mere incompetence.
It is counterintuitive, but this feature did not do much for the Scala ecosystem. I wrote some toy projects but have not seen any in the real world.
Can you make PV at home?

Thermoelectric devices are interesting because they can be manufactured using comparatively simple metallurgy. Not because their efficiency is competitive with semiconductor photovoltaics.
That's a wonderful non-answer. It's really showing how much leeway you're giving Mozilla for this overreach.

What changed? Why do they need it now?!
Thinking that everyone in a federal job or benefitting from those big bad grants are all in one party is some massive ignorance that takes a lot of brainwashing on right wing media to accomplish. They won't understand until it affects someone they know. By then musk will have diverted a lot of spending to his own companies with the doge fraud.
The problem is a lot of the semantics is dependent on one of a myriad of user's configs. As a simple example, TODO keywords, tag inheritance, etc.
What does this comment mean? What institute are you referring to in this cryptic comment?
“Californian”??...
Interesting times that are changing quickly. It looks like the high end pay model that OpenAI is implementing may not be sustainable. Too many new players are making LLM breakthroughs and OpenAI's lead is shrinking and it may be overvalued.
> Some TVs secretly include a modem and SIM card, to make sure they get your personal data back to their masters.

That’s a pretty wild accusation to make without naming even a single brand or model…

> Every company in the world is coming after your privacy.

This is clearly true though.
AdGuard launches nightly version of first Linux ad blocker
Launchbar[0] is also still around - not actively developed, but actively maintained. Happy user since 10 years already, even though I own a lifetime Alfred license.

[0]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
Ah just randomly pick between F1 and F9 for the two questions and don't necessarily put them in order. Yes=F7, No=F3

/s
How do we actually know these browser forks don't contain malware of their own? If you can hide something in a tiny package like xz-utils... and a browser would seem to be a very juicy target.
This already exists with F#, OCaml, Scala, Haskell... it doesn't seem to be a big draw.
OK, doom scrolling is “scrolling compulsively” without intention, and with the vague feeling that time would be better spent elsewhere.

It doesn’t have to do with the content.
Rest in peace, GM Spassky. He made wonderful contributions to the game, and was a gentleman to boot. Applauding your opponent in the middle of a world championship game? Class.
Thanks. I guess one perk i could add is "3 random perks" where you have to figure out what you got haha. The flashing lines you see are signaling that you missed the bricks and didn't hit any. That will reset your combo. If you manage to never miss in a level, you'll get and extra upgrade and choice. If you miss less than 3 times, you'll just get an extra choice.
The blog does come from company officials and so you can show it to a judge and state "this is how you should interpret their ToS". It will be harder than if the ToS was clear, but the judge on seeing the ToS and blog differ is likely to come down hard to Mozilla for creating this situation. But you also need a good (expensive) lawyer to pull this off.
It doesn't even need to be an extra service.

I'd donate to Firefox for no additional service if they would guarantee my money only goes to the browser and not crypto or AI initiatives.

Note donate. As in one time payments at a time of my choice. They also try to push towards subscriptions when you hit that donate button.
A 30x price increase with zero named benefits?

This sure looks like the runway is about to come far short of takeoff. I’m reminded of Ed Zitron’s recent predictions…
Trump told a room packed with people he was going to make it so they didn't have to vote again. They just didn't realize he was going to achieve it by cutting off all their healthcare so they die
Luckily Elon said he would step away if he thought there would be conflicts of interests - nothing to see here.
There's a cool feature web browsers have called "bookmarks"
541,000 paid driverless Waymo rides in California last month
This is such a bad way to look at Firefox browser share. Instead, look at desktop share worldwide, where it's more like 7%.
Not my recollection at all. Adobe invested almost 0 effort in getting their runtime working on non-x86 platforms. It was pathetic, honestly, how many years passed before they had any kind of passable implementation there.

Adobe Flex was interesting and not awful. The problem was the runtime.

And the company behind it. Who remains awful.
Possible, but Waterfox has been out there long enough that I'd think someone would have picked up on it by now. Especially with it being marketed as a more secure Firefox.

EDIT: I'm not the one that downvoted the op. Not sure why it's getting heat, it's a valid question.
Cloudflare Agents
I run KDE Plasma. I have no issues with the animations. I am not sure why your experience would be different.

In the past, anyone experiencing that sort of thing had a MTRR issue from how the BIOS set things up that could be fixed by setting NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable=1 on the Nvidia kernel module, but I have not heard of anyone in that situation for a few years now. I had been under the impression that the setting was obsolete as Nvidia had made it the default behavior.
Lol and they're as open as they're non profit.
The JS approach is worse than a do-notation approach because it is not extensible. Now we are stuck without cancellation token propagation (forever?)
Problem is you need to cover a vast area with such rocks to make a difference.
Long time Org-moder, 1-year Obsidian user here.

I love org-mode with all my heart. I used it to run a consulting company for a decade and organize my entire life (reminder to mail my mom a birthday card? Recurring org task. Task breakdown and schedule for clients? Org.) I used it to keep all of my implementation and debugging notes. I’ve used it like Jupyter notebooks with inline code blocks. I’ve written tons of LaTeX math in it.

For what I use it for, Org has a ton of magic sauce that Obsidian doesn’t have for me. But Obsidian has one feature that, sadly, dominates all of that magic: ease of use on iDevices, including offline use.

I can sit and work on Obsidian documents on my iPad+keyboard on an airplane without Internet access. I can reference my documents and update my todo lists from my iPhone without needing to SSH somewhere. The sync service is super smooth and the (much smaller) set of features is enough for most of my daily use.

I miss org-mode very much though and if I were to change jobs and spend less time work-travelling I would probably switch back to it.

One of the biggest reasons that I was comfortable using Obsidian specifically is because the disk format is mostly just Markdown (mod the infinite canvas stuff, which is documented JSON). Being locally-stored Markdown instead of a proprietary format, I feel like there’s a reasonable pathway for me to reimport all of my notes back into Org-mode in the future if I decide to go that way (eg Pandoc)
I really enjoy seeing new projects, especially now with Mozilla's updated TOS, but this project's page really bothers me!

Why include a feature comparison table with browsers like Chrome and Edge, but leave out Firefox? Your project is built on Firefox, and you even borrowed half of its name. Attribution matters. If Mozilla were to shut down Firefox and all its users left, would Waterfox even survive?
Move fast, break things.

it’s been tech’s motto all along, it’s not a good motto, but it works cause the system is messed up
This one kills me too.

I don't miss anything about Windows.

Except this.

I've been using a Mac for 15 years now, and I still want to right-click and create an empty text document.
Magnetic fields produced by dipoles have an inverse cube dependence, so dissipate much faster than gravity or other fields.
Lately I've been working on strategies to use software in unusual enough ways that I'm essentially off the radar of, well, anyone looking. The dark forest approach to the internet.

To avoid interacting with the web directly, I'm thinking of running some AI software in a container on a home server that would be a translation layer between me and the real web. All webpages would be converted to a simple, and secure, format. Gopher, gemini, asciidoc, or maybe just static html.

Is that a tractable problem with modern AI tools?

The only way to win is not to play, but I'd like to have my cake and eat it too.
I don't know... do they even have 100 engineers? Or 20 and the rest is management and crypto and AI projects?
Why fix it when it provides market segmentation and more people on the “platform”
It does actually seem pretty difficult to sell a browser; I don’t really see how anybody in their right mind would trust a closed source browser. So, it will be hard to make any parts of it proprietary. It isn’t impossible to sell open source software of course, but it does seem to be pretty difficult.

Rather, I wish we would stop accepting web standards that don’t come with reference implementations. Then, we could have a reference browser, and just run that. I don’t expect it to be performant, but I also don’t think browser performance matters much at all. Web pages are not HPC applications.

Currently we’re accepting the anti-competitive behavior of Google, just DDoSing the community with new standards to implement. This is the root problem. The fact that Mozilla is being killed by funding problems is downstream of the fact that maintaining a web browser requires multiple full time engineers.
> listening to authors who clearly are over-emotional about subjects isn't a way to learn more.

Independently of the guy's own politics (I only know his “Linux Sucks” videos), he is directly citing an official Mozilla[1] document.

[1] https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/schedule?isRecorded=tru...
Getting Caddy Logs into ClickHouse via Vector
Let's shut down Discord instead, for the good of all mankind.
Love this game. It taught me to look for a move like g4.

Also it was probably not objectively the best move (and definitely not Spassky's best game) but Tim Krabbé made a list of 110 most fantastic moves ever played, and he put Spassky's 16...Nc6 against Averbakh as no. 1 (certainly an unorthodox choice):

https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/fant100.htm
Second try:

Hi noduerme, I'm the guy who wrote the original 'Kaos'. I stumbled upon the discussion about it, and have no idea how to contact you besides commenting here...

Any way I can message you?
What you said is true: I indeed cannot tell the difference between a v2 and v3 ad blocker. But that doesn't change OP's perspective that a v2 ad blocker is a symbol of the power user era. Power users often want customizability to an extreme level. Normal users who block ads simply install the extension and be done with it: they don't write custom rules or adjust the filters.
Cancer develops resistance to rapamycin. Cancer always finds a way

My point is cancer is worse than DI. At least you can manage DI
>Operationally mature" is code here for "the gun starts out loaded and pointed at your foot"

No, it's code for "don't build a load bearing bridge if you don't understand structural engineering."

> It's fine to point out that that's a suboptimal design for a tool.

This isn't "suboptimal" though. If you delete a stored procedure in your RDBMS and it causes an outage, it's not because SQL/PostgreSQL is suboptimal. Similarly if you accidentally delete files from your file system, it's not because file systems are "suboptimal". It's because you weren't operationally mature enough to have proper testing and backups in place.
I’ve heard this before and I keep hearing it. Maybe I don’t understand it fully but I just can’t see how what we have now is different from the days of old. Do you have any material about the collapse of the shared moral and ethical framework?
Interesting. Looks like this specific one has already been deleted:

curl -X DELETE https://discord.com/api/webhooks/1050437982584324138/VJByvmBKESSUv4fYn0LIjlBR4VzMRTEPOKVJoWFvCeHd7o3LtclQMJDMuiLzT57iqn7B
{"message": "Unknown Webhook", "code": 10015}
Sail Simulator on Browser
I made this browser sailing simulator over the last few days with the aid of various llm tools. Cursor and replit.

I am not an expert sailor but I have taken a license and went out some dozen times.

It is surprising how few vectors can create a reasonably realistic simulator of sailing. The wind push the sail based on the angle of the sail. The sail creates a vector that is decomposed on 2 vectors (forward and perpendicular to forward). These are the acceleration vector and the side leaning angle.
Then you add a drag that in this case is some function to the cube of the speed.

I think playing this make the physics behind sailing more understandable.

P.S.
I have almost zero following on Twitter but got retweeted by Replit's very own Amjad Masad https://x.com/amasad/status/1895055366817489131
Trying to get laws passed and posting pseudonymous comments on a web site are not equivalent activities.
And it crashes constantly. Lots of other bugs that you start noticing when doing deeper things. I tried it for about six months. Just not a reliable or serious browser although very fast when it actually works.
You could contact an insurance firm about this. Lots of SLAs are simple forms of this really where you aren't buying reliability you're getting payouts if it falls below some level.
No worries, thanks.