skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very worried that IA has risked the parts of what they do that are fully legal, or unenforced (eg. abandonware), by going after targets guaranteed to make deep-pocketed pro-copyright industries like publishing and music labels come after them.

At this point, it seems like the sensible course of action would be to create a new entity that leaves still-in-copyright books and music alone, grabs a snapshot of the entire archive, hires everyone who used to work at IA, starts accepting donations so us supporters can switch over, and then picks up, letting IA declare bankruptcy and fall into the sun.

[Edited to add:] Don't get me wrong. I think the current copyright regime is complete nonsense, and I mostly support everything IA has done from an ethical point of view (except maybe giving away recent books for free), but I'm also a pragmatist, and the idea of IA's archive falling into the memory hole because of picking bad fights is distressing.
Right - this is a big point of what I'm saying which is that people are skeptical that "this time the automation will work out really well for everyone, trust us!"

Depends on your timescale, I suppose. But if AI is really about to take over everyone's work then we need to be having a much bigger discussion about what they imagine the billions of people on this planet will be doing in that scenario, and what kind of economic life they'll be living.
You are still allowed and able to block advertisements with extensions.
Middle-class people are taught (,and teach each other, and repeat to themselves in their journals) that the only successful labor is labor that is loved.

For them, the heads of record labels have to care, because they are the most successful people in their industry, and they wouldn't be so successful unless they loved the work. In middle-class theology, becoming successful is a matter of loving harder than the guy next to you. It takes a lot of mind games to motivate people to extreme expertise in often very narrow specializations, especially when it's usually to make someone else rich.
Gentoo user here: all the time. Worst part is that Firefox depends on NodeJS which takes a good day to compile on my 2c/4t 3250U.
yeah, I don't see users coming back/recurring on the tool. I am finding ways to deliver more value through email & I can also develop slack integration - but I am not getting string enough signals to keep building there.
I wasn't saying that there are never needs for layoffs, but these aren't the sorts of layoffs being discussed. Where that line is drawn can be a bit fuzzy in a few cases, but the for majority it is clear cut.
I used Stanford as an example, but plenty of companies focus on CS grads from big state schools like Purdue, Michigan, Ohio State, etc that have similar resumes. In my experience, graduates from 4-year CS programs with some internship experience vastly outperform bootcamp grads as a group. I have hired and worked with some outstanding bootcamp grads, but you would never know that they stood out before actually interviewing them since most bootcamps have standard resume templates they tell their grads to use. In an era of 200+ applicants/day for every junior engineering role, you need to be able to tell that someone probably has what it takes to succeed after a 30 second resume scan.
So the EU needs to hit back for "national security" reasons against the country which has subsidised their security to the tune of tens of trillions.

...yep, makes perfect sense.
Yup. Sync across all devices, auto fill works a exactly as expected, and it's a couple click process to port over all your saved info from Chrome.
People didn't switch from IE to Chrome because it was better.

They switched because it was MUCH, MUCH better.

(And was part of the ecosystem, profiles, bookmarks, passwords, etc.)

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For better or worse, no such disparity exists currently.
Honestly this is hard to parse

What is a Innertube client? What is a TV format?
> And you want to rely on donations from people that ad-block YouTube instead of paying for Premium.

Does Google guarantee it won't spy on me if i pay for Premium?

... no, didn't think so.

Besides not everyone uses youtube to the point where paying for it is worth it.

> The development of Firefox costs around $200 million per year.

Does it? Or that's what the mozilla organization wastes on harebrained initiatives overall?

> it still has to compete with a Chrome whose estimated cost goes over $1 billion per year.

But that's to add features that benefit Google not the Chrome users.

Plus Google has money from their ad quasi monopoly so they can afford to be wasteful.
People are just as bad as my LLMs
"...reality has a well-known liberal bias..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_Wh...
His claim is that it's a DDOS attack.

Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
How AI is changing Enterprise [video]
Show HN: AWS CLI Installer on Apple Silicon
I learned while working on a new Kubernetes course that the official way of installing the AWS CLI on macOS per their documentation [^0] installs the x86 version of the CLI and that Apple Silicon is, mysteriously, not supported.

The Homebrew formula works around this by building from source [^1], but not everyone uses Homebrew, including me, for this course.

This script I wrote remediates this. It's a quick and easy way of installing the AWS CLI without a package manager or having to dig through GitHub Gists or Homebrew formulas yourself.

I hope someone out there finds this useful!

[^0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-sta...

[^1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul.... Notice how the awscli dependencies are downloaded as separate packages. This might not be what you want.
Ah, that makes sense. Still having fun reading over the code. Thanks for sharing!
Aider + Claude sonnet as the model.
If people don’t like this, they can stop using gmail. Neither Chrome, nor Gmail is a monopoly.

The more things Google does to make gmail less useful, the better.

It’s no secret that Google is an ad company. Anyone still using gmail deserves what they get.
Internet was created to allow Library sharing and now companies try to stop the only library available from sharing books at one-person-at-a-time basis. This is similar.

We're doomed because whimsical companies will put down the IA and then forgot the toys they were playing with

Btw. What is age of music going into public domain? Still Disney's 123 years?
Switch to UBL, the manifest v3 successor to UBO, to continue to get updates, the performance is better too.
How big is your monitor? I can only see about 10-15 tabs on my 4k monitor before Firefox starts scrolling them off the screen. I regularly have 2-3x that on Chrome before tabs stop showing up.
But is less capable than uBlock origin.
They already did? The have a list pf extension that are monitored by them as well authoring a few ones
I think his point is that the damages they are seeking are basically punitive, not related to actual losses that they have suffered. I doubt anyone is losing too much sleep over this issue, but the approach the record labels are taking seems like it is clearly intended to dissuade others from doing anything similar to what the Internet Archive is trying to do. The RIAA has a track record of these kinds of punitive measures; think of the music piracy lawsuits they were filing in the mid-2000s.
Detailed summary from Ops.group, which is for pilots and flight planners.[1]
It's really bad. They write:

Typical indications of Spoofing

Unlike jamming, a GPS signal is present, but it has fake information. False GPS position, time,
and date information will be processed by the GPS receiver as being valid. As soon as this is
fed to other systems, failure messages will begin.

• Rapid EPU or ANP increase

• GPS position and IRS or FMS position disagree caution message

• Aircraft Clock time changes, or difference between Capt/FO clocks

• Transponder failure: EICAS/ECAM “ATC FAIL”

• Autopilot turns aircraft unexpectedly

• ADS-B Failure/Warning

• Synthetic Vision reverting to blue over brown

• Loss of enhanced display, such as display of terrain on PDI

• Wind indication on ND is illogical or has a major shift - erratic groundspeed

• GPS position symbol on ND drifts away from the FMS and the IRS symbols

• Datalink (CPDLC, ADS-C) failure warning

• GPS information on sensor page shows unusual values: altitude, etc.

• Handheld GPS (e.g. Garmin, iPad) disagrees with aircraft GPS position

• EGPWS audible warning (‘Pull Up”)

• GPS 1 and 2 dramatically different i.e. more than 100 meters, which may also give an
ECAM/EICAS GPS miscompare warning.

• Spoofing Alerting app e.g. Naviguard gives alert

• ACARS message from ground/ops advises of spoofing (based on aircraft downlink
message with unusual values)

[1] https://ops.group/blog/crew-guidance-published-by-gps-spoofi...
My main problem with (jvm) stack traces is that they generally don't include information about the values that are passed to the function calls, so you get the structure of the code, but not the actual value that could help you reproduce the error. I know that once you deal with relatively complex objects that are not trivially serializable you get an address, which is not super useful, but in some codebases / problem areas you still could be getting a lot of information that gets lost due to that design decision.
>best recreational mathematicians in the world

What does that involve? does that mean he's good at math or is he coming up with new research and theorems and such?
It was never free. The revenue streams are just hidden. It has always collected and sold huge amounts of data about every user.

And regardless, using their ownership of the browser to shut down competitors is the very definition of "anti-competitive" "monopolistic" behavior.
High quality dead reckoning over a long duration + an initial fix solves the reliable instantaneous absolute fix. So different technically but OP is correct it would be relevant to the problem of solving GPS jamming.
Name a project whose development costs as much as Firefox and that survives from donations.

Many people want AI in their browser. And what does Firefox have to do with crypto?
Could be a good opportunity for using an LLM to summarize and extract anything important?
Mozilla thus far have been very reluctant to take donations to Firefox specifically. AFAIK you can still only donate to the Foundation, not the Corp, which means that most if not all of the cash will get spent on random non-Firefox-related things that you probably couldn't care less about.
Chromium has a concept of "user data directories" which in theory keep all data isolated to a single folder. You can use a launch parameter to specify what the user data directory you want to use is (so a shortcut). I'm pretty sure Firefox must have an equivalent.
Nearly every market worldwide was dropping in 2020 due to the pandemic.

IIRC, the drops in 2022 correlated with federal interest rate hikes and other federal policies designed to help ease inflation, with the expectation that markets would rapidly cool but avoid a larger overall crash.

Simply put, a 10% drop isn't in itself concerning if correlated with shifting market conditions. It is when those in charge are foot-gunning the market with their policies, and then threatening to double down in the face of the 10% drop they caused.
Except if you mount an old, so called pre AI lens, on certain Nikons, you will have to disassemble the camera to get it off. Many modern Nikons can't autofocus older AF lenses due to not having a motor. And many AF film SLRs couldnt meter with manual lenses. So far from perfect compatibility.
Nikon F mount was introduced in 1959. The oldest mount used today is probably Leica M from 1954
"One lamp out of 18 on this radio tower is operating at 75% brightness" repeated every day for years
As long as I have an alternative I would never choose the ad blocker that doesn’t let me block the elements I want.

For most websites I don’t care but there are many websites that I visit very often and removing annoying or useless elements and padding is practically mandatory at this point - I wouldn’t want to go back to not being able to do it.

So, answering your question, yes, “useless” was hyperbole.
How do you "strip the formulae out of the XML" then? You sort of hide a lot of complexity there. The Excel file format isn't complicated because it's stored as a zip file, it's complicated because it's complicated.

Again, the use case is straightforward. You have an already-solved accounting problem. But, say, last years accounting solution is giving different answers than the one you just ran. So what changed? With the script in the linked article, the answer is trivially findable via the git history (and in larger software searchable via tools like "git bisect", etc...). And the reason for this is that source code is intended to be read by human beings, often including things like "comments" and "style guidelines" and "literate programming" to help the process. None of that exists for ad hoc GUI tools, and the result is that you can't meaningfully develop them as software.

That kind of tasks maps very poorly to "strip the formulae out of the XML, and diff them".
And 60% pricier than Soyuz. What's the big difference between Putin and Musk nowadays? Because if I had to choose the cheapest option, why wouldn't I go with the actually cheapest?
Surely this is hyperbole? I usually have hundreds of tabs open on firefox.
There is absolutely nothing the administration is doing that will have any impact on this stuff. That's not suprising for two reasons (a) the current administration obviously, clearly, self-admittedly represents the interest of the capital class (b) the current administration is so willfully ignorant and utterly incompetent at so many things that even if (a) was not true, they would be unable to anything to advance on these issues.

To take just a single example: tariffs. It is true that if one were interested in re-growing a domestic manufacturing base, tariffs might be one tool you might use to help promote that (they also might not be). So now we have an administration that has actually gone with tariffs, but in such a ridiculous fashion that it is more or less certain that they will have no such impact on the US economy. Tariffs on! Tariffs off! Tariffs on! Tariffs off for my friends! etc. etc. In fact, the most charitable interpretation of the current tariff strategy is as a back door for more ass-kissing by companies and economic sectors.

The same applies to everything else they've done so far. This will not remove the tumor, though it may amputate enough limbs that the tumor is the least of our worries.
Will uBlock Origin Lite[1] a good alternative to uBlock Origin? It is one of the alternatives recommended by the uBlock Origin tea.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...
"Don't be evil"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil
To me it’s just another decision rooted in greed, to take away more Agency from the User Agent.
Not even "back in the day". Youtube and Gsuite constantly break on firefox.
Reddit is an ad-driven business. Ad revenues decline when economy shrinks.
It doesn't... yet. They're playing the long game, the DRM noose tightens slowly.
Yes, most spineless. Community is shared interests worth standing up
for together all the same, so it's not always a watering-hole around
money. But I get your drift.
Musk says it's DDoS. [1]

It's been in and out today.

[1] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ky6zydYw5QPEfVKV4UT7j9-970...
It's called "fuck _me_ money", and it's one reason billionaires shouldn't exist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamCarolla/comments/5jfeoz/whats_t...
Yadaphone – Make calls directly from the browser
Isn't Developer Edition just a rebranded Firefox Beta that uses a different profile by default?
The adblockers still work on Chrome though.

Pretty sure people are figuring out to switch to uBlock Origin Lite and ads -- including on YouTube -- are still being blocked just fine.
Hi - I am the engineer @ Kagi who works on billing things.

From my understanding (at least with the way we do trials at the moment), it will always say "and then X per month" even if the trial is to cancel at the of the period.
I do not believe Stripe (our payment processor) has any options to change this behavior from their built-in checkout page that we use.

The options they do let us control (and options we do set) are if there is no payment method given during the trial - it will cancel it at the end of the trial.
If a payment method is given during the trial, then Stripe will it set it to auto-renew by itself (and as far as I know, this is true for if a payment method exists beforehand).

Stripe does not let us control this like it does for no payment method, but we can do a simple workaround on our end to get around this.
For what it is worth, there is a warning email is sent out 7 days before if it will renew.

As Vlad (freediver) mentions though, it is definitely not our intention to be misleading or anything like that.
I hope that makes sense and clears things up.
My biggest complaints with my switch is 1) no Chromecast functionality on Youtube and many other supported video platforms, 2) Very minimal page/text translation services (Arabic is missing), and 3) no search or translate from image (google lens) which I have gotten pretty used to. Oh and also, seeking videos is weird on FF, the mouse goes way past the scrubber when fast-forwarding or rewinding, just seems weird..
Hmm, this looks like a fork that extracted KJ from the Cap'n Proto repository 4 years ago and hasn't been updated. KJ has been continuously developed (as part of Cap'n Proto) over that time, so this is outdated.

The Cap'n Proto repo itself allows you to build and link against KJ independently of capnp. So if you only want KJ, there isn't really any downside in using the version as it exists in the Cap'n Proto repo.

Anyway I'm glad people like KJ!
Google push out updates at regular intervals that detect the adblocker

why didn't you notice before? ublock origin has a special quick fixes list which updates very frequently, without Google's involvement

but with manifest v3: Google are now in charge and have to approve all "definition" updates

which they will only do once they've got a new detection method ready

and this is the entire point of manifest v3
Ah, thanks for a vitally important contribution to the thread. Error noted, and maybe I will remember it next time!
Amazon properties (the storefront, Prime) have been quite flaky for a long time now, but that may just be me.
The vast majority of Chrome extensions work on Firefox. Up until Manifest V2 being deprecated, the reverse was true, too.
Typescript is the language it probably has most data on...
OMG Tribes, totally forgot that existed.
It's not ideal, but if that's what it takes to block ads as well as uBlock Origin does, then that's a price I'm willing to pay.
But quartz is accurate enough for that, let alone a properly calibrated oscillator. So why is the article focused on giving planes atomic clocks?
Haha I will always remember this - "Hobbies cost money, they don't make money"
Some Elements of Intelligence Work
> Russians would be on the border with Poland right now

He doesn’t even realize that Poland already borders Russia in the northeast. The arrogance coupled with the incompetence is staggering.
I can't login to the work-paid-for version of Microsoft Copilot with Firefox, for some reason. I've had one or two others - I think they were internal CMU website tools. And even more niche: My kids took a ski lesson last year at Snowbird and the website with their report card rejected anything that didn't identify as Chrome. It _worked_ with mobile FF, but it popped up a "YOU SHOULD USE CHROME" banner and wouldn't let me past.

So, small stuff. Maybe Copilot isn't working because of ublock, though.
Solving the "Miracle Sudoku" in Prolog (2020)
He means YMaaS, no? Might as well coin the acronym early.
I'm thinking about adding that. (Donations help, see the About page.)
Sony and EMI worked with the Library of Congress on the National Jukebox a decade ago.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-jukebox/about-this-...

Internet Archive is free to archive whatever they want. The problem is that they want to be a publisher too but refuse to follow the rules.

There are traditional rules around access to archives that keep things in balance. But when you're publishing the most popular song of all time and your strategy is "pops and scratches makes it Fair Use" when people ask to take it down -- well then you're going to lose. Again.

They could structure things so that these uploads would be protected under DMCA, and act more surgically, but they can't decide whether they're an archive, a library, or an activist organization. Each of those things has different expectations for longevity and different rules for survival.

At this point I'd be happy if they'd just pick a lane. Other organizations would step up to handle other aspects (Musk was down there looking to vacuum up the data). And if they chose to behave like a legitimate archive, they would have less of a problem partnering with rights holders and raising money from individuals and corporations who support preservation efforts.

Right now they're asking for $17 donations next to pirated material and that's not a strategy.
Abstract: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/ebs0000374
> I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions,

The problem is that Mozilla's customers are not Firefox's users. Mozilla's customer is Google. They pay Mozilla to exist and they are paying Mozilla to intentionally drive Firefox into the ground.

I think it's pretty clear that the TOS change basically coincided with the removal of manifest v2 change in chrome.
Gotta pick the right environment+tree combination.

You could always settle in the Mojave, plant a grove of bristlecone pines instead.

I don't know if more boreal climates support longevity, I think it has to be some combination of temperate + dry + safe from natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes
>The solution for me to eliminate headaches when working at computer screens was getting an extra set of intermediate distance glasses specifically for computer work.

My wife is getting bifocals for basically this same reason.
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