skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this aligns with what I think. Gonna check out your website about CSS. In my experience when I need to do some CSS, of course I need to look up how to do things, but I get into it and then it is rewarding, making something work nicely with minimal code. I made a personal website that is responsive without media queries at all. Requirements vary, but when you have a good grasp of CSS and don't rely on other stuff doing CSS for you, you can write good modular CSS, that just works.

The tailwind page doesn't manage to have responsive layout that doesn't jump around at arbitrary widths. Instead of floating/moving elements seamlessly when the width is reduced, they suddenly jump around to their next position. This is rather "meh", not great. I guess they go full in with media queries.
> UI still looks like it's from 2005.

Are you sure this is a problem?
Observations that most people who are supposed to be on the clock 40 hours never got anywhere close to that amount of time working.

We have our fun games we have to check into Reddit Facebook other social media, not to mention actually talking or their coworkers about cat videos etc. The amount of work actually done during work is fairly small. Wrapping that up to 60 hours a week will probably just make the most people double down on figuring out how to make those bad hours more endurable
It’s the most recent approval rating, sadly.
But that has nothing to do with the new language that was added to the ToS, which states:

> You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

This new license to the data that you enter into the browser is only for local operation of the browser itself, not for ads or sponsored suggestions. In addition to that license, they also use the words that you type into the urlbar or search box to customize the ads and search suggestions that you see. It is important to keep these two things separate, because only one of them is new. The other has been there for years.
Presumably you'd agree with a review and then follow someone.

I can't say I've ever thought of reading as a way to fight against a "bubble", nor am I sure that being in a "bubble" is inherently a bad thing. I don't think my life is any worse for identifying that I'm not into fantasy smut or steven pinker or self-help neuroticism and in fact my life is better without these authors in it.
Reading every thread related to DOGE reveals the same pattern. Defenders of DOGE, being unable to amount any defence for actual actions the thread is highlighting, have to construct the straw man of arguing that anybody suggesting those actions are spectacularly inept and counterproductive it is thinks that government is unimprovable.

P.S. Have plenty of experience selling to inefficient public and private sector entities. Many of them could have used some better decision makers empowered to remove unnecessary barriers. None of them could have benefited from those decisions being made by script kiddies with no professional experience that lack the ability to tell the difference between a million or a billion never mind understand how budgeting works, what a nuclear safety operative does or whether "recently promoted" maybe shouldn't be a firing criteria...
History proves limiting free speech is a slippery slope. I can't speak for my EU friends, but for me, yes, it's very concerning to begin justifying why some speech is not OK.
So it's been claimed, but has it been proven yet?

I'm not even sure what is being alleged there—o1's reasoning tokens are kept secret precisely to avoid the kind of distillation that's being alleged. How can you distill a reasoning process given only the final output?
I’ve thought of LLM’s as google 2.0 for some time now. Truly a world changing technology similar to how google changed the world, likely to have an even larger impact than google had as we create highly specialized Implementations of the technology in the coming decade…but it’s not energy positive nuclear fusion, or a polynomial time NP solver, it’s just google 2.0
X62 Laptop Review (2017)
Facestream: Real-time face swap with serverless WebRTC
For what it’s worth: I believe they will prove ineffective at best, damaging at worst.

I believe disruptive change should be undertaken with a deep understanding of the history of an organization and a clear-eyed accounting of its successes and failures.

I see no evidence of this. I believe the current effort is, well, a bit more like a recklessly wielded chainsaw.
That’s quite a world you’ve constructed!
I don’t think that they are trying to mislead at all. At no point do they call Firefox a service. Instead they call Pocket a service, and their VPN a service, and so on.
ark: https://ark-vcs.com/
I've been using 4.5 instead of 4o for quick questions. I don't mind the slowness for short answers. I feel like it is less likely to hallucinate than other models.
"This is yet another sign that Apple remains behind OpenAI in the generative AI space."

I do not think Apple was even trying bro. Calm down lol
That's o300 hours!
It's amazing how good and stable it got really fast. I was able to install it and use it with X and for everything in 1994 while still in high school. It's been my only OS ever since and set the path for my career and life.
My understanding is that the Mozilla Foundation is insulated from the development work on Firefox. I think it's good to have the voice alongside EFF and others advocating for good web standards. And that's definitely not a bad thing. Especially if the reason for supporting Firefox is the diversification away from Google's dominance in the browser space.

But I think it's the paid subscriptions that are the main channel of personally contributing revenue towards the part of the organization that develops the browser.
Even this is a bit overly complicated/optimistic to me. Why not something as simple as: OpenAI has been building larger and larger models to great success for a long time. As a result, they were excited this one was going to be so much larger=so much better that the price to run it would be well worth the huge jump they were planning to get from it. What really happened is this method of scaling hit a wall and they were left with an expensive dud they won't get much out of but they have to release something for now otherwise they start falling well behind on the boards the next few months. Meanwhile they scramble focus to find other means of scaling like "chain of thought + runtime" provided.
According to wikipedia[1] they incubated it, and it has since been run and maintained elsewhere. Same deal with cloud.gov (though that was an 18f prototype)

In fact it looks like most of their projects were prototypes, incubations or partnerships with other agencies and departments. Seems like a modern digital agency / consultancy within the govt. I'm not sticking up for the decision to cut them (I think it's a great agency that clearly bore fruit), but this is HN and we should have our facts straight.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F#:~:text=Login.gov%2C%20w...
Seems like we're hitting the limits of the technology...
There is waste everywhere. I sincerely don’t understand how, when the stated plan is to look closely at all orgs and cut waste across the board, when the lens focuses on specific instances of orgs, the response is “not this one, cutting here will ruin everything”. I don’t buy it.
> You mean like us?

Not, not like us. This constant comparison of LLMs to humans is tiresome and unproductive. I’m not a proponent of human exceptionalism, but pretending LLMs are on par is embarrassing. If you want to claim your thinking ability isn’t any better than an LLM, that’s your prerogative, but the dullest human I’m acquainted with is still capable of remembering and thinking through in a way no LLM does. Heck, I can think of pets which do better.

> Can you write a complex code top-to-bottom in one round, or do you gradually test it to catch bugs you have "hallucinated"?

I certainly don’t make up methods which don’t exist, nor do I insist over and over they are valid, nor do I repeat “I’m sorry, this was indeed not right” then say the same thing again. I have never “hallucinated” a feature then doubled down when confronted with proof it doesn’t exist, nor have I ever shifted my approach entirely because someone simply said the opposite without explanation. I certainly hope you don’t do that either.
IMHO it was a worth bet. Had it succeeded we could have one extra mobile OS with much more freedom today. It lost steam, but it would be a shame if not even attempted. It lives through FireOS, despite negligible market share. And I still have my Alcatel One Touch Fire as a keepsake.
While I do understand the frustration, I think the "find in page" hotkey isn't a big enough reason to change the platform. Myself, I am happy with the performances.
By the way, what would you replace it with?
I am very aware of this, which is why I mentioned corruption in my comment, and how the only solution is to make the government smaller. Should have read the comment to the end.
I think the question here is around how much money is actually needed to develop the browser features that people want without everything else that Mozilla does. At minimum, people would presumably want security fixes, new browser features that get standardized that websites will expect to be able to be used, and probably some amount of support/bugfixes for issues that people run into that aren't vulnerabilities but still might be annoying. It seems like a substantial amount of work, but I don't have a good sense of exactly how much would be needed for that. My understanding is that Mozilla makes its money primarily from deals to make certain search engines enabled by default, and secondarily from donations (with "selling user data" being somewhat of an unknown right now given that they seem to be claiming that they _don't_ make money from it because they're not "selling" it under what most people would consider to be selling, but it's not clear whether that's because they're claiming that "anonymized user data" isn't actually "user data" or whether they're not "selling" it).

The key factor to me is whether that poorly specified extra stuff is actually necessary as part of funding the development or not. As far as I can tell, getting a search engine deal is actually not out of the question for one of these forks; Waterfox's documentation[0] indicates that it has a deal like this (with Bing, from what I can tell from trying it out yesterday), and presumably a large migration of users to a fork could lead to an increase in the funding in the future, in addition to any individual donations. I don't know whether this would result in enough money in the long run to be able to continue developing a browser indefinitely, but Mozilla also is doing other things than just developing Firefox and has costs associated with that, and I don't think there's any other obvious revenue source, so the two most likely scenarios are that they're either making money off of selling user data (or something derived from it that they're claiming isn't user data but aren't willing to bet on the law agreeing with them) or they're actually incurring costs from those other things that could otherwise be spent on Firefox. If it's the former, I think that being vague and quibbling over semantics has lost them the presumption of good faith, and I'd reluctantly conclude that having browser focused on user privacy is no longer tenable and we might as well just all switch to Chrom{e,ium}. If it's the latter, then focusing solely on the browser would _reduce_ the incentive to sell user data for funding, and the fact that Mozilla doesn't seem able or willing to do this means that we're all better of moving to an alternative.

[0]: https://www.waterfox.net/docs/faq/#6-how-does-waterfox-make-...
There is a very big difference between a level of low intensity attacks (cyberattacks, actually) and a strategic threat.

>Russia as ally to fight China does not make it so either

Hmm, I have never suggested that...

Anyway, have a nice day.
As a general rule if your only source of information about contemporary China ( or Ukraine/Palestine wars) is from English language press and analysts, you should consider yourself disinformed or possibly misinformed.

There is no substitute for foreign language press, at a minimum add Le Monde Diplomatique, or Der Spiegel to your digest if not Al Jazeera, RT and Xinhua.

At first they'll seem propagandist with stilted English writing but you'll learn so much more about what's actually going on in the world and why countries do what they do.
I saw a reference the dog was locked in its “crate”.
For better or worse, I’ve been using Tailwind since it was released. I’m not even sure I remember intermediate to complex CSS. Better places to spend time. I’m really grateful for what that team has done.
Also, support for the DOGE mission is entirely orthogonal to DOGE's actual goals and what they are doing so far.

Sure, maybe there is broad support for making government more efficient, but that is not in any way what Elon Musk is trying to do. So if there is broad support for DOGE those people are entirely wrong to believe they are aligned with Elon, and entirely wrong about supporting DOGE as the means to achieve their goals.

That being the case, these same people cannot be trusted to understand our government and how it functions and where the inefficiencies are. If you support the DOGE mission you do not actually support making the government more efficient, so alluding to that support is a red herring. Worse than a red herring, it shows that their anti-government views are not based in reality and facts.
That's the (lowest) sample rate on telephone networks, so no. Way worse than tape.
Repeating my earlier comment as well:

FWIW, webkit's github [1] links directly to the "Epiphany Technology Preview" at gnome.org as a supported project. I have no idea if that leads to a full-featured modern browser for Linux, but I'm pretty sure if it doesn't, there should be a fork that does or creating one might be worth considering, and should be even fun and relatively easy to get kicked off. Also, since Webkit is based on KHTML, there might be re-integrations into KDE worth exploring. Ages ago there used to be Safari builds for Windows Apple created to get Safari into the hand of web developers that weren't using Macs, but it doesn't look like there's anything left to pickup.

[1]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit
I looked into donating to Mozilla, and (as always) the first question I asked was “what will this be spent on?”

It turns out it wouldn’t go to software development, so I did not donate:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/a...

Even worse, they’re spending the revenue they do get in wildly irresponsible ways.

The AI initiative makes no sense. Currently, dozens of industry leading groups are doing a great job converting unlimited Chinese govt grants, monopoly rents, and VC money into open infrastructure and open weights

Targeted advertising is fundamentally unethical, regardless of whether it respects privacy. Examples:

- A friend struggled with prescription drug addiction and repeatedly relapsed due to targeted ads.

- Entire industries are built on targeting people with gambling problems.

- Companies like Cambridge Analytica explicitly target mentally ill people to change election outcomes and dismantle democracies.

Anyway, I wish they’d spin off Firefox and related stuff (Rust made sense, I think FirefoxOS did too), and abandon the rest of their “mission”.
When did you request that firefox back up the content to your profile? Bear in mind that a nontechnical user has no idea it does this, and a technical user only realizes it does this after reading the code or experiencing a crash. You "requested" this behavior implicitly by using firefox. So any behavior firefox has, now, or in the future with data you input is implicitly something you requested.

If firefox starts backing up your profile to a mozilla server, encrypted, you requested it. If there is an additional encryption key that lets mozilla decrypt it and sell it to OpenAI, you requested it.

Also, I am requesting that firefox send this post to HN by pressing the reply button. By the terms of firefox's ToU, this gives Mozilla a license to this content. That license is not limited to the duration of the http call if other firefox behavior that I have "requested" uses that content later. Perhaps they will scrape my comments from HN and use their content in targeted ads that firefox will display to me later. All allowed by the ToU.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

-Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971
Government employees have greater legal rights to challenge their termination than private sector employees do.
They switched to a non-free license about 6 months ago [0]. This is not just the usual BSL terms of "do not compete with our hosted offering, but use it in your own product without issue", but they mandate telemetry from the free version.

Oxide and Friends did a great episode on it at the time [1].

[0] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/whither-coc...
Why do you use supabase and not just postgres?

Do you use supabase’s api interface to do the queries? Or do you use supabase for other features?
> The difference is private companies that accumulate too much waste and useless things can fail and be replaced.

Only—and this is a critical detail—if the market is competitive.

Otherwise, a government entity answerable to elected officials at some level is more efficient.
The argument in your case is you should actually be _much_ better off than you are without this massive wealth transfer.

That’s part of the challenge in the populous understanding this issue. Many people are better off than their parents, but for being the richest country in the world most people should be far better off.
I've read most of Paine and as much as I like him, he was an iconoclast, un-pragmatic to the core. He's not going to have a good opinion of anybody.
Rush did not like Washington's military style, because he did not understand the necessity for fiat decision-making in an army ... again he was unrealistic and later grew to respect the man. So yes you can cherry-pick (npi) people who at one point or another did not like him. Politics is a blood-sport and anyone who has been in a leadership position understands you cannot make everybody happy ... that does not change in basic fact that Washington was at all times trying to make the right decisions for all 13 of the colonies. At core he was a pragmatist who believed in federal strength and yes Hamilton did much of his thinking for him. He did not love the English or the French too much and while Jefferson and Madison benefited from their friendship with France, they also got the Capitol burned. It would have been great to see what a President Hamilton would have done instead of Madison, but the Federalists pushed too far and Adams screwed that up nicely and ultimately destroyed his party.
But would you have enough to buy your favorite society and run it into the ground?

Re: embracing aesthetics while misunderstanding ethos - I've noticed this about religion too. There is frequently a divide between subscription to deep ethos and social aesthetics and the latter often seems more popular.

This is especially puzzling to me with Christianity considering that a fair bit of the New Testament (and some of the Old) appears to be a criticism of exactly this problem and attempts to transcend it.

It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem.
Kremlin says US foreign policy pivot 'largely coincides with our vision'
Discmaster 2 Soft Launches
There's no mention yet of Kagi's Orion browser. What are people's thoughts on that?
pretty cool and thanks for the details about TUN devices!

I believe wireguard runs over UDP and while you still need a TUN device, it has kernel implementations to handle encrypting the traffic.
What's normal? You just offended a whole group of people and probably had no intention of doing it. You're proving the point on why the whole thing doesn't work. You should get your comment removed if you seriously believe this to be true and want to avoid being hypocritical.
Destroying is quick and easy. Rebuilding is not.
What damage DOGE can do in a year can take 20 years to restore.
Do they? Why doesn't this happen to Claude then? I've been hearing this for a while, but never saw any evidence beyond the contamination of the dataset with GPT slop that is all over the web. Just by sending anything to the competitors you're giving up a large part of your know how before you even finish your product, that's a big incentive against doing that.
Apparently, OpenAI API “credits” expire after a year. I stupidly put another $20 and trying to blow through them, 4.5 is the easiest way considering recent 4o has fallen out of favor for other models and I don’t want to just let them expire again. An expiry after only one year is asinine.
The problem with all this combining is that it's making apps less portable. Like I want to make apps that work on desktop+mobile with flet[0], but now I have to specifically seek out more "traditional" alternate packages and hope they stayed in reasonable feature parity with these Rustified Frankensteins. Not a fan at all.

[0] https://flet.dev
If Twitter was a failing business and Musk didn't have a proven track record, I’d be a lot more skeptical in general. If the nuclear staffing cuts weren’t immediately rolled back, I’d feel more concerned about the ability of the wielders.
I think before commenting further you need to take a deep dive into actual banking operations, because you really are wide of the mark. I posted a few links in the other post local to this one that might help. I also suggest reading the Basel III accords (or at least a summary) to understand the role of liquidity in banking.

There's not much point me discussing this further with your since you're so wrong. Take care and good luck with your enquiries.