skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the uphill struggle for these forks is convincing people their brand is trustworthy.

I’m not sure exactly how, for example with LibreWolf’s lead contributor @ohfp, they are supposed to do this but having a much more fleshed (!) out set of biographies for the core team would help? Everyone’s real name, day job, background — the full curriculum vitae if you will. That would be a really good way of building trust with me, and I’m certainly someone in the market for switching to one of these forks.

I’m not saying that this kind of auto-doxing is a requirement and if it were I would be the first to decry it as an obnoxious entrance fee for the bazaar of free and open source software. We’re talking about a browser though — something as crucial as a text editor, kernel, file system, or programming runtime — and to that end it would be nice to have as much real-name trust built with users as Vim, Linux, Ext4, or Python. By way of analogy, everyone is entitled to a private life etc., but if you’re running for office then you should consider sharing as much not as little as possible.

Sorry if I sound entitled. I don’t mean to be. I’m just realistic about how terrifying it would be to find a supply chain attack in my browser.
SpaceX has tremendeous military potential. Look for "Rod from God".
He did not. In fact he promised the opposite.

Do I think anyone not drinking the koolade could see this coming? Sure. But that wasn’t the question, the question is what could be done. There are exactly two things, only one of which is legal, which is impeachment.
IMO the critical factor will be whether any Chromium forks keep support for Manifest V2 alive. If yes, it will be a viable alternative to Firefox (or FF forks), but I haven't seen indication that a project will pick up the slack.

A browser without proper support for uBlock Origin or similar extensions isn't a browser I'm willing to use, even if ad-blocking is integrated into the browser itself. The freedom to actually control the browsing experience is essential for long-term user freedom.
South Korea’s President tried to do that a few months ago and the military had to arrest them.

If the President violates the law, and Congress impeaches and convicts them, and they don’t peacefully step down, and the military/police does not remove them from office/sides with the President, we effectively have a coup and the United States as outlined in the Constitution ceases to exist.
"The order does not apply to the National Security Agency, which Haugh also leads, or its signals intelligence work targeting Russia, the sources said."

Tapping Putin's phone is still in the cards.
I realized we had a material and significant education problem back in the early 80's, and have been an alarmist about our manufacturing obedient fools for decades. Now we have a critical mass, and the nation is crumbling while large numbers just watch dumbfounded. Moronic? The end of the USA is here. For fucks sake, Fox News is #1 in the USA.
Law enforcement is under the executive branch. The judicial branch doesn’t have any physical ability to project force. The courts rely on the executive’s respect to carry out the rule of law.
Maybe I’m missing something important, but why would a locally installed application running on your own machine, open source or not, require to have «terms of use» in the first place?

Mozilla seems truly lost.

Edit: said more clearly, the outrage against the contents of the “terms of use” is misguided. The outrage should be over there actually being a “terms of use” in the first place.
You can see here the extent of the loss of trust with a survey (700 answers+): https://boilingsteam.com/poll-trust-in-firefox-mozilla-is-go...
Your logic doesn't make sense. Why would Russia be willing to escalate to ww3 in the first scenario but back down in the second scenario?

And if getting involved will escalate to ww3, what difference does those resource deals make? Either american involvement (via NATO or this mineral deal logic) forces Russia to back down or it doesn't.
Definitely this over default chromium.
This is one of the more boneheaded moves of DRM IMHO.

They are shooting themselves in the foot for no gain I can see and huge amount of downside. People are screenshotting (or even recording a 5sec clip) to _share your content_. These methods clearly have zero effect on piracy so all they do is make legitimate user’s lives more difficult.

It _might_ make sense if every streaming platform had built-in tools to share a clip or a screenshot, but they don’t. It completely baffles me.

I need to dust off my plans for a simple Plex gif-maker tool. A web-based tool I can load and is queued up to wherever I am in the show I’m watching with grabbers on a video timeline to select the start/end of the clip. Then export to mp4/gif, maybe simple subtitle support or text overlays.
Here are alternatives listed here, all FOSS: https://boilingsteam.com/poll-trust-in-firefox-mozilla-is-go...
Nick's entire shtick is based on the world having been under AI leadership for a good long while before the marketing term "AI" was introduced in the 1950s. In this model, the current crop of LLMs are more of a performance breakthrough made possible by the accumulation of political-technological power; but qualitatively, we haven't progressed that far past what McLuhan described. Another more credible author who I recently discovered subscribes to a similar model is Stross.

Of course, Land presents it in an edgy 'satanist kid' way that has perennial appeal to the sort of big wigs who feel like they're not evil enough for their level of personal wealth. His text, Meltdown (http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm), from before he achieved product-market fit, is worth a glance.

(EDIT: tenses make me tense)
With precision no, I'm a newb, but a distributed system ala DHT, or git so that there is no single path of access.
I moved my profile folder into Librewolf, done. The only thing that's bugging me is the 'LibreWolf: Always store cookies/data for this site' option on the navbar padlock dropdown, it only appears for me in private windows, regardless of my 'Delete cookies site/data...' option.

It's annoying because I contributed UX to this librewolf feature a few years ago (because I really wanted it), its finally landed but I can't use it - it was the blocker to adopting the more strict privsec model that librewolf offers by default (it solves the 'cookie exceptions are a pain to manage' problem. Obviously something to do with my kitchen-sink Firefox profile folder copy, but for now I guess I'll just carry on with cookies persisting and at some point rebuild a fresh librewolf profile if I want to adopt their defaults.

So there's at least that, if this ambigious license stuff (and recent ad company purchases) bothers you, you can probably just copy your profile into Librewolf's profile folder, rename, and have done something about this perceived issue without a major disruption
Yes, I’m sorry if I gave the impression that I thought it was a different clip. I am just having trouble coming up with an interpretation which would meaningfully change its impact short of, say, it turning out to be an acting class reading lines for the villain’s role, and in any scenario like that he wouldn’t have hesitated to respond and provide that context.
All correct. To add, the main problem with ceramics is their fragility under tensile stresses. Spinning at high speeds puts the blades into tensile stress, which tends to "open up" microscopic defects in the crystal structure and cause complete failure.

Some researchers from the academic lab where I work have been working on a turbine configuration in which ceramic turbine blades undergo compressive, instead of tensile, stresses in rotation: https://www.exonetik.com/turbo Interesting stuff, but it's a huge challenge to bring entirely new jet engines, as TFA mentions, to certification and market.
> I fear soon you will be back to be treated the old way

And if it comes to that I'll leave for my ancestral country or for a Gulf State at a G42 or ADIA type organization.
I'm not sure the crying wolf is accurate.

It's like shouting that the bridge is going to collapse because you see a few supports buckle. Anybody with eyes can see the bridge is standing and heavy ass trucks are driving on top of it.

Trumps first term was relatively neutered because people just refused to do what he asked. Those supports are gone now though and like the bridge collapse the observable changes happened slowly and then suddenly all at once.
It's wildly disproportionate however.
Chrome is also fast
> fake mouse

That's what I'm doing with my new project, Valet. It's a Raspberry Pi configured to be a fake mouse, keyboard, and an Android (touch stylus). Works well on iOS and Android.
You don't, no.
Show HN: Tqu – A Minimal CLI for Queue-Based Task Tracking
Hey HN! I built a simple CLI tool called "tqu" to match my workflow for tracking tasks and todos.

Previously, I kept tasks grouped in a single text file, adding tasks to the right group whenever they came to mind, and deleting them once completed. I intentionally avoided features like priorities, due dates, or statuses because I found them distracting.

This CLI tool improves my workflow by storing tasks in a SQLite database. Now I don't have to manually edit text files, delete tasks, or explicitly create new task groups. Instead, tasks are marked as completed by setting a completion timestamp, effectively hiding them from view. New queues (task groups) are created automatically on the fly.

You can install it easily with:

uv tool install tqu
# or
pipx install tqu

Using it is straightforward. Here are some common commands:

# Add a task to the "bills" queue
tqu add "pay electricity bill" bills

# Complete (remove) the most recently added task from "bills"
tqu pop bills

# List all tasks in the "bills" queue
tqu list bills

# Delete a specific task by its ID
tqu delete <task-id>

I hope some of you find this useful too. I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions!
> It's a historically obvious phenomenon. Basically all human organizations tend toward inefficiency and waste eventually

It's not that obvious to me, and is such a broad assertion that I'd require more than an "Everyone knows it. Just look at history" explanation to accept it as fact.

It also implies 2 things that I would disagree with

1) That the inefficiency and waste increases over time. It's likelier to me the ratio of those things stays the same, but it's more apparent as it scales - a company "wasting" 2% of its budget is vastly different than the US government "wasting" 2% of its budget.

2) That it's inherent to "human organizations" themselves - this doesn't seem to explore any other possible explanations. Given the nature of the discussion, I would think it's worth discussing whether other factors (like capitalism) might have an effect

(We'll ignore the vagueness of terms like "inefficiency" and "waste" with regards to government spending; not everyone agrees on what things are efficient or not. There are also many ways of measuring efficiency for both long- and short-term outlooks.)
Many Republicans don't realize this. The party you've voted for all your life is not the same party running America today. Today's Republican party has been co-opted by an Anarcho-capitalist wing. And step 1, which they're well on track to do is to dismantle the Federal government. Step 2, which will be coming within the next year or two is to sell off previous government services to private entities.
>If the point of DOGE is really to tackle the deficit

It is obvious it is not. The purpose of a system is what it does.
For all they talk about diversity, you can pretty much pinpoint every tech product to SV because they are all using the same cultural cookie cutter.
Interesting, those IP addresses are under a different AS and under a different organization, that of National Library of Medicine. They don't seem to use the IT infrastructure of nih.gov.
see: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht... Atom/Pulsar (good to very good support), VSCode, Sublime, Jetbrains, Jupyter notebooks, vim, Geany (experimental), Lem (built in CL)…
You can simply search her name to find out what’s actually going on instead of trusting a rage-bait article with no details. She was detained because this wasn’t her first time doing this. They are accusing her of working the last time she was in the U.S. under the VWP. As a result, she is likely being held for prosecution and will be barred from returning.

A quick search shows that in the past, she had posted on social media about being in the U.S. and working. It’s likely that her equipment raised a red flag, and during additional screening, they found those posts. It’s unfortunate for her, but ultimately, it was her own doing.

I know plenty of digital nomads who work in the U.S. without proper visas, but the difference is they keep a low profile. Visa laws aren’t unique to the U.S., and most countries take violations seriously. In fact, the U.S. isn’t even among the strictest.

There’s plenty to be outraged about in the world without making things up.

edit: I'm not going to justify this reddit post with any sources. It's obviously bait and 20 seconds of googling confirms it.
The democrats still haven't had their "tea party" and stick to economic liberalism with a dash of mild progressivism. Maybe that's why they're losing steam?
Here's an informative Congressional Research Service article on Enforcement of Court Orders Against the Executive Branch.[1]

TLDR; courts issue TRO (temporary restraining order), preliminary injunction, or permanent injunctions. Normally people comply. If the government does not comply then individuals can be found in civil contempt and the U.S. Marshals would enforce that. Civil contempt can't be pardoned.

There have been some TROs and injunctions issued but also some ignoring of them by the government (and also the supreme court has temporarily stayed at least one). I don't believe any contempt rulings (findings?) have been made, so not yet appropriate for the cops (Marshals).

[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB11271
In the short term, I've switched to Librewolf. In the long term, we're probably hosed unless some heroic individuals can produce a new mainstream browser (or just a successful, long-term fork of Firefox that does not necessarily rely on Mozilla maintaining Firefox)

It's important to remember that Firefox itself is a good browser, but is far from perfect; it just remains the better option than Chrome. In an ideal world, an ideal browser would look itself would look quite different, as would the web itself.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to be replaced by the new Billionaire Financial Protection Bureau.
I find LLMs are best for creating the template, or filling in gaps of my knowledge. Examples:

1. Using a prompt like "Using Tailwind, create a three column layout with main content in the center column and smaller side columns for ancillary information" will generate HTML + CSS faster than I can type.

2. I use the LLM to generate some CSS styling for setting a background blur, which was something I hadn't done before using Tailwind. It created code faster than I could find things in the documentation, though I had to go and patch it up later. In essence it pointed me in the right direction.

If I'm looking at a preview and want to change the styling of a particular element it is usually faster to directly edit it myself than get an LLM to do that. Tailwind makes this faster as the CSS is right there on HTML; I don't have to switch between stylesheet and HTML.
Blue Ghost Mission 1: Firefly Aerospace successfully lands on the moon
Fundamentally, conservatism is about conserving (and reinforcing) existing power structures. Everything else is just set dressing.
Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
We have known a long time already. This was under the Biden administration:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/08/australian-t...

You will be happy to know that the detained person was a White Australian. By the way, whenever I see pictures of US border patrol officers, many of them are not White.
why does the reason the Americans put boots on the ground as a tripwire change the logic on escalating vs backing down?
If you hate Python so much you need to replace the linters, package managers, and now Web frameworks with Rust, why not just go all the way and write everything in Rust?
It is a well-known fact that 99% of architecture schools are about making students follow a particular set of tastes we call “modernism” - an ideology that states that buildings need to be innovative, that traditional methods should be neglected. It favors minimalist forms, neglects art forms like ornament, idealizes the “genius architect”, and favors “modern” materials like concrete.

If you don’t follow this stream, more often than not you will get bad grades or fail tests.

Some people said “architecture is not about education, it is about entering a cult”.

Some more details here: https://youtu.be/syQMTZyzqcg?si=NTz362TrktrIEBhr
> since we develop Artificial Intelligence simply because we can, without any plan, without knowing where we’re going, and therefore without giving it any purpose, it means Artificial Intelligence is its own cause!

What nonsense is this? The plan for a thing and the cause of a thing are completely different. The assertion "since there is no plan it means the thing is its own cause" is non-sequitur, a claim that is not true and there does not seem to be even a hint of why it might even be considered true.

If I hit my finger with a hammer, I yell without any plan, so... the yell is its own cause? Who believes this nonsense? It fails the most elementary logic.

The causes of AI are plainly the curiosity of researchers and the greed of corporations who hope to make money with it. This is exceedingly evident. They shout if from the rooftops.
BLAST is totally outdated, not because it's a bad algorithm but because people should be able to run their own version locally. i find it disappointing that there isn't a lot of innovation in determining protein homogeneity, i thought of multiple ideas when i was doing bioinformatics but never had the time to implement it. slow and bad slackademia strikes again
I am not a Rust programmer and barely know it.

It's just wherever you go, here, Phoronix, Linux Kernel Mailing List for example, the forums are full of haters that just ask "not again, why?" anytime Rust is mentioned. Maybe I've become biased because of that.

Rust helps with performance and security, lots of examples are evidence of that. It's not 100% bulletproof, but nothing is. But it helps. And yet IT people just yell on it for some reason. Like we all should just get stuck forever with C, C++, praise Go, and hate everything else.
What should they do in the case that they shipped a software defect that in some circumstances leads to physical damage of a circuit board?

The "overstress condition" being detected probably indicates that the steering is drawing more than the expected amount of current due to damaged components on the circuit board.

Prior to the overseas regulator issuing a recall, it seems they were happy to not worry about it (they updated the software used in vehicles produced after the fault was identified but apparently had not issued an update to previously produced vehicles).
For what it’s worth, as a Pocket user from before it got bought by Mozilla, it’s only gotten worse since then. First the mobile apps lost the ability to show full web pages (“Web View”) while offline, which was basically the whole point for me originally. Now the Share Link button has stopped sharing the actual link and instead uses a redirection service (pocket.co) presumably so that Pocket/Mozilla can track you.
That message is a signature of Next.js applications, not of any site in particular.
Yeah nobody has managed to make a successful business in the USA in 30 years, including Elon.

Nope, it's simply impossible. Look at all the failures like Tesla, SpaceX, Meta, Rivian, Bluesky, etc.

Someone think of the CEOs!
This blog entry makes me feel heard. I've chosen Firefox through Debian, but the browser is one of those problems that may kick me off the web entirely. People complain that Firefox is dependent on Google, but the forks are also dependent on Google, through Firefox. Chromium is dependent on Chrome. Moving to Apple explicitly attaches you to a company that wants to monopolize your purchases.

This is pushing me to deal with the internet only through single-purpose things that are not browsers, which can be even worse. Losing the browser seems similar to losing general-purpose computing (losing general-purpose social computing, maybe?)

edit: will Apple eventually buy Ladybird? Seems like that's what's going to happen.
This is something I'm confused about. When people "build browsers" it's largely just Chromium with a couple of features tacked on top. I'm not sure why no one is trying to keep only the rendering engine and building their own, much better browser on top of it.
Fuck Elon Musk
How would Mozilla have acted differently if it was captured by its commercial competitors?
I’m visiting South Africa right now and this country feels like a military base. The amount of security, electric fences, and on-call “tactical response” vehicles is just bonkers. Needless to say, not many windows visible from the road behind 12-ft electrified perimeter walls.
A VPN could work iff they made it actually usable. To this day I can't pay because VPN is partially rolled out.
I wonder how long until they pull the "who needs public libraries when you have Jeff Bezos?" shtick again.
There’s something up with your internet connection.
This is true. So now let’s look at the substance of what DOGE has actually done:

- indiscriminately fire people who have been in long term positions but recently got promoted and so were considered “probationary”

- dismantle the CPFB which was a net gain for revenue

- dismantle 18F which has a track record of improving government efficiency

- fire people who were involved in managing nuclear weapons and bird flu and then try to bring them back

- share spreadsheets on Twitter about really old people in the social security system making people think there’s tons of fraud without learning about the 2023 OIG report that already existed that explained this data

- make a bunch of noise about cutting a bunch of contracts including a third of which were already fully spent and will save nothing

Does this give you confidence that they are genuinely focused on reducing inefficiency and waste? It seems to me like they are rushing in, not bothering to learn what has already been done, arrogantly making assumptions, randomly breaking things and causing chaos, and all for what… a few billion in real savings which is not even a fraction of the proposed increase in spending by the current budget resolutions being worked on by the Republicans in the house?

Why should we have ever thought that an operation literally named after a dog meme was serious about anything?
Do any run ublock?
Given that they Kennedy retracted on the vaccine mandate suggests gross incompetence might be at play here.
I take this to mean that the assets exist and could be compiled back into the game, but doing so would be a pretty intensive undertaking that isn't worth it for what appears to be a nuisance lawsuit.
I never got the appeal of Tailwind, it's almost a 1-to-1 map from style="" to classname="", they just made the terms slightly easier to remember.

Tailwind is a prime example on how good marketing can help you win a market, even if the alternative is free, even if it's already crowded, even if your product is trash. Marketing wins.

Edit: I have used Tailwind, a lot. Recently, upgrading from v3 to v4 in a Next.JS project, which was supposed to be a no brainer, turned out to be a four hour ordeal. I cannot spend that much time just to make sure that "background-color: red" still works, lmao, it is such a travesty. Because of that, I'm in the process of removing it from my projects now.