skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Then they wouldn't be throwing money into open firepits on trash like a VPN service

It's pants-on-head level of crazy talk to suggest that the VPN service is compromising Mozilla's finances.

It's a re-wrapped Mullvad VPN that probably was not expensive to roll out (it being inexpensive to deploy is probably precisely the reason they moved forward with it). It's like people are just workshopping arguments where they randomly claim these things are expensive without any substantiation whatsoever.

Mozilla is sitting on 1.2 billion in assets and investments. They're not underwater. They are indeed in a position where they need to diversify revenue, but the idea that the side bets have created running deficits is a narrative completely manufactured in comment sections.
The notion of those hyenas having morals in the first place is hilarious on its own
Hey look, the goalposts are being moved again. This time it's from top end researcher to generational genius. Question: what evidence is there that this benchmark will not be reached also? Time and again these essays make the mistake of assuming AI is a static thing, and refuse to acknowledge the inexorable march forward we are witnessing. As humans, we cling to our own fragile superiority. Even on this thread- I thought Hinton said the world would be transformed by now. That's NOT what was claimed. We are like three years in! Posts like this will be laughable in 10 years.
I'm genuinely curious about why you find DDG sucking compared to Google Search? I've switched ~2 years ago, when I found DDG better in terms of less clutter and not showing ads as results - also, if there are no good results, it didn't push nonsense. But maybe GS improved in the meantime on the quality of results and I'm missing out?
For me, all this ... computer life stuff ... started with an Acorn Electron around 40 years ago. At first it was just fun, and then I played Elite and it feels like a lot of my future was defined in that experience.
Required supplementary reading?!?

I like the verse form.

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
I've just started getting into SDR - what receivers and transmitters are you using? Would love to give a similar project a go at my place!
> But we did all huff alarming amounts of lead for a generation and built our cities around them to our detriment.

And yet, this has nothing to do with the ICE itself, and everything to do with the greed of the Ethyl Corporation and the generation of corrupted minions that knowingly enabled their disastrous scheme.
Collaborative Trip Planning and Coordination App
The vast majority of time spent building software has little to do with optimization. Sky-high abstracted brain rot languages are useful precisely because usually you don’t need to worry about the type of details that you would if you were optimizing performance

And then if you are optimizing for performance, you can make an incredible amount of progress just fixing the crappy Java etc code before you need to drop down a layer of abstraction

Even hedge funds, which make money executing trades fractions of milliseconds quicker than others, use higher level languages and fix performance issues within those languages if needed
People about to retire shouldn’t be that exposed anyway. Target day funds exist for a reason.
He's a pretty objectively terrible businessman.

Like, that's the part that annoys me about him more than anything else, how he's convinced a lot of people that he's "good at business". He's not; if he had just dumped the money his father left him into basically any index fund between the 1970's until 2016, he would have made more money than he had in 2016.

Any idiot can basically match the S&P500, just buy VOO or SPY or something, so I don't consider you a "good" businessman if you don't beat the S&P.

So it doesn't surprise me that he is uninformed and doesn't know how to negotiate.
Similar to Mozilla & Firefox, there isn't an exact breakdown for Wikimedia expenditures to know the costs associated with Wikipedia. For Firefox, it's often stated its costs are ~200m but those are all expenses Mozilla categorizes under software development. For Wikimedia, within their operation expenses, ~3m were in hosting and ~84m in salaries (related to programs). The salaries are stated to be for multiple initiatives, among which platform development is mentioned*.

*Although arguably the most important part of Wikipedia, and their other collaborative projects, are the volunteers maintaining and contributing to it, rather the developers.
>that journalists anthropomorphize companies

Because companies are composed of individual tapeworms working towards a common goal?

>Companies are totally emotionless entities

You speak as if they're evil spirits. They're made up of people. They're very emotional, you just get to see all the worst emotions manifesting at the most inappropriate times.
And then have ad companies bid on spots instead of companies? That just sounds like adding a middleman (inefficency) to the system. Like making me go to a car dealer instead of just adding to cart like anything else.

The other alternative would be paying for search, in which case everyone would just leave for another search engine the next day.

Which is honestly why I have so much calling google search a monopoly. The switching cost is comically cheap and easy. You could cut out Google search within the next 5 minutes from the rest of your life.
Well you have to have another core free to run your sick winamp skin, otherwise how will you keep up your K/D?
Android is pretty important as well, with its forced Google integration.
That's not the paper, that's just the abstract, which doesn't actually talk about sample size. It does point out an important limitation of the research: it looks at number of children specifically at 23 and 24 years old, rather than the full range of ages at which people have children in Canada. Which is the other limitation: it only looked at Canada, and the abstract doesn't say which parts of Canada, so there's so much information missing that it's impossible to tell what this study actually found.
> Browsers won't suddenly flourish when Google cannot finance browsers anymore, they'll just turn to shit.

Maybe what will happen is there will be a slowdown of new browser standards as Google wont have the muscle to push things through in the browser space anymore. This would be a great thing, as it would stop the moving target of web standards and would allow other browsers to catch up.

It would also stop google being able to do things like force Manifest V2 out of Chromium just because it serves their own purpose.

I'd like to see this outcome.
Confusingly, this is the contents of a second and separate antitrust suit against Google: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_...

This first one is about dominant market position by paying for placement on all surfaces (iPhone, Firefox, etc.) plus chrome. So splitting off chrome and android make sense in the context of the suit.
Canada tries this.

The result is higher prices for consumers and taxpayer money flowing into zombie companies that just happen be in regions where the party in power needs votes.
WayFi Wireless Provides Seamless Cellular Coverage via Wi-Fi Passpoint
In a completely unrelated story, the #1 post on HN at the moment is "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322922>
Twitter lets you ingest their firehose and engineer your own algorithms on top of that and lets other people subscribe to those? Cool. Show me.

Blueksy also has unique labelers and moderation lists. My favorite is the politician donor labeler.
Show HN: The Global Move – your shortcut to a tech job abroad
Not working as well on YouTube. The ad is blocked, but you still need to skip it. You didn't need to do this with UBO.
Makes me happy I never used chrome.
Makes sense. I've seen folks justify being needlessly adversarial because their crotchspawn obviously deserve the best, so anyone who stands in the way of a promotion or publication is a threat and therefor they can reframe bullying as being a breadwinner.
Honest question - let's say you can't physically experience ads. Why do you care about your data being sold? This is a problem only if you can see ads, but remember, you can't.
Apple Readies Dramatic Software Overhaul for iPhone, iPad and Mac
If it costs $200 million a year to develop Firefox, then their management team is guilty of gross incompetence.

I am betting this is really paying for the crappy side projects and HUGE pay for the Mozilla Foundation people (just like all the BS spending the Wikimedia foundation does) and has nothing to do with Firefox itself.
> Both of those countries dislike powerful, large corporations because they are a base of power that could compete with the state or party.

These countries are not different from any other in the world. The US also has anti-monopoly laws exactly for this reason: nobody wants a corporation that can compete with the government, be it democratic or not.
I'm happy to let China and Russia be the global leaders in panopticons and mass propaganda for their citizens. Google and Meta would be no great loss for Americans.
I think the issue is horizontal vs. vertical monopolies. Apple do have a monopoly, but it's vertically integrated one. That's arguably their unique selling point; tightly integrated products without a great deal of customization.

Google on the other hand have a monolithic market share in a number of key markets. There's really no competition to them in search or video for instance, whereby they command extremely dominant market share.

Apple on the other hand do not dominate any markets, they just have a locked down product. Pretty similar to luxury cars, Nintendo, and other companies that think their customers value the integration over an open ecosystem.
Reading the BeOS Bible talking about that is quite a throwback:

> As described elsewhere in this book, BeOS uses multiple processors with incredible efficiency. If you'll be running BeOS most of the time, you'll get more bang for your buck by getting two (or more) older processors than by installing one superfast CPU. Last year's 266 MHz CPUs will always be dirt cheap compared to today's 450 MHz CPU. Thus, when running BeOS, you could have 532 MHz for less than the cost of a single 450 MHz processor. The catch is that if you'll be dual-booting into operating systems that won't recognize a second CPU (such as Windows 95/98), you'll end up with half of your processor speed being wasted until you reboot into BeOS. Chance are that once you start using BeOS regularly, you won't want to use anything else, and you won't regret buying a multiprocessor machine.

https://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/bos/ch_hardware1.html
This is very helpful, thank you. Also cleared up a misinterpretation I had along the way (my initial reading that maybe only DRM format information is supplied but no content, indicating a minor breakage e.g. due to API changes - a very different nature of issue).
It wouldn't have to be deficit spending if we raised taxes on the highest earners to levels more like what they were before Reagan.
Enough to keep some companies in business,

https://nanoframework.net/

https://www.wildernesslabs.co/

Yes, the Xamarin.Forms to MAUI rewrite, killing off MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio, and with exception of a few key technologies like the linker, llvm AOT (used by Blazor), and the mobile targets, everything else is gone.

There are few public faces from Xamarin still at Microsoft.
Those SVCD rips looked really good on a television.
What's in Chrome that they are so used to? I use Vivaldi, Chrome, Firefox on every day basis, and can barely see a difference.
This a million times over. Although demand for this layer of jobs will obviously be hugely squeezed in this future we are all discussing.
you forgot the .NET Compact Framework, =D

It let XNA games run on the xbox360: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Compact_Framework
Tautologically, everyone taking three jobs is what causes median hosehold income to be at that level.
My only motivation is to help my friends who got the "uBlock Origin is no longer supported" notification get their ad blocking back in a way that sticks. To me that's the most important thing. Any what ifs about the future can be addressed then.

The browser that is a literal drop-in replacement is the best way to do this. I think it's cool that other browsers are trying new things but now isn't the time. People have to be be in a place where they want something different in order to accept change. All of them got the notification while trying to something else and "install Brave, import, move Brave to where the Chrome icon used to be, and continue with what you were doing" is alarmingly effective.
Breaking up big tech would oxygenate the entire tech sector.

Startups would be able to grow larger. There would be less threat from big tech coming in to eat your market, and M&A wouldn't be the preferred exit strategy.

Tech talent would be able to get paid more without big tech setting wages and orchestrating coordinated layoffs. More successful startups = more money for venture and labor capital. Right now that money just goes to institutional shareholders which are not the innovation drivers of the economy.

Startups will actually get to compete for markets rather than having them won and subsidized by unrelated business units at the big tech titans. The solutions delivered will fit the market needs much better.

Even big tech itself might fetch a higher valuation and be greater than the sum of its parts. So much of big tech is inefficient, untethered from market realities (eg. Alexa), and a waste of talent and human capital on dead end projects. Having Jeff Bezos "pay whatever it takes" to acquire the rights to "007" is a sign of how bloated these market distorting companies have become.

This needs to happen and is long overdue.
If a thumbprint can do damage, why can't a lower dose? What's the mechanism?
Many townships make line drying illegal, at least in PA.
https://www.energystar.gov/products/clothes_dryers/heat-pump...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw183KZQNwc
Tariffs... sounds familiar.
Xbox is now a cross platform brand, and arguably bigger on PC than in the console market.
Because pressure works on girls?

The rapes?
Good resource, thanks.
Wow, Kagi is just extremely good. Found old friends I couldn’t reach, found product infos where Google would pollute me with ads and garbage. This is awesome. Thanks for mentioning.
That is, again, not backing up your full claim, that the protests selectively denied access to campus facilities to Jewish students.
Neither is uBlock Origin.
One of the big questions is what happens to all the money Congress has allocated?

The budget keeps allocations the same, but now that for example Mark Rubio announced USAID is to be entirely eliminated, it's remaining 15% of programs moved into State Department, what happens to that money? https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-rubio-usaid-foreign-ai...

Expectations are that it's just treated as a giant slush fund for whatever the executive feels like. Whether Dems do anything to curb DOGE's chainsawing act or whether they try to wrestle with what happens to these "savings" is something Dems have a chance right now to tangle with, and much less leverage in the future. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/will-dems-pick-up-their...
I completely agree, but I would argue this whether or not the stock market is going up or down in the immediate term.
What's the news on them getting into AI?
A lot of people plan on living twenty years past retirement and leaving some behind for charities and/or younger relatives.
Good! Next: Android, YouTube
What do you mean "if" of course we do? Relying on older methods means narrowing the acceptable conditions for landing. It means reduced economic activity, reduced opportunities.

How about we treat enemies as actual enemies, rather than rolling over and letting them make our lives more difficult?

In comparison to the US's power, Russia is an annoying pipsqueak, but instead we are letting Russia boss around on everything. It's shameful and embarrassing.

Why in the world should we have to rely on inferior methods?
No one. Chrome would be bought for pennies on the dollar, and the buyer wouldn't be able to sustain the project.
https://archive.ph/uSRIo
The CCP is much better organized with its “Do nothing. Win.” strategy. If Trump did nothing as well as they do, America would still be a superpower.
I'm not talking about Early Twitter though. I specifically bring up an outage in an era with competent organizational ops or SRE capacity.

2021 was well beyond the growing pains in the "failwhale" period.
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

Don't worry, they won't. They have more important endeavors like funding some new bullshit virtue signalling campaign and paying huge CEO bonuses.
But does it support blocking JavaScript, large media elements, social widgets, and fonts?
Tesla is still up compared to where it was a year ago.

If you look at their chart, there was a massive election bump. An investor trying to be savvy maybe would have assumed his businesses would benefit from proximity to power. Now that it's pretty clear he is thoroughly disinterested and distracted from his businesses.

Does Musk even want to be CEO anymore? He hasn't seemed to care about Tesla ever since he had to settle with the SEC. He got his massive payout that he will be unlikely to repeat. Ostensibly he is only CEO on paper because the magic affect his name had on stocks in the past.
Maybe. Current prices certainly include probability that Tesla is able to pull off major transformation into more than just a car manufacturer (batteries, supercharge network, self-driving software, etc). The implicit assumption is that Musk is helpful for that - which would certainly have been true some years ago. Getting rid of him would be an admission that the loftiest dreams won't happen as fast as some would like, but doesn't necessarily mean they're out of the picture.
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Here’s a critical NOTAM that was missed. Translated, it means, if you fly here, the Russians will shoot your ass down. And so they did. But nothing encodes that information in the NOTAM so there is nothing for an LLM to summarize and extract. Expecting an AI to compensate for poor system design is magical thinking.

A1492/14 NOTAM
Q) UKDV/QRTCA/IV/BO /W /260/320/4822N03807E095
A) UKDV
B) 1407141800 C) 1408142359EST
E) TEMPO RESTRICTED AREA INSTALLED WITHIN FIR DNIPROPETROVSK BOUNDED BY COORDINATES : 495355N 0380155E 485213N 0372209E 480122N 0370253E 471352N 0365856E 465018N 0374325E 465900N 0382000E 470642N 0381324E THEN ALONG STATE BOUNDARY UNTIL POINT 495355N 0380155E. RESTRICTION NOT APPLIED FOR FLIGHTS OF STATE ACFT OF UKRAINE.
F) FL260 G) FL320)

Besides that, would the developer of the LLM accept liability for accidentally filtering out important NOTAMS, or hallucinating NOTAMS that did not exist?
Some of it was stimulus, but some of it was logistical interruptions caused by covid. You can't just wave away how hard China shut down. Automakers struggling to source chips was not caused by too much stimulus.
GCP dataflow for io intensive tasks
Looking to talk to someone who knows GCP dataflow really well. Is dataflow a good fit for situations where there's a lot of IO related tasks that need to execute in parallel? Trying to decide between using an async library like asyncio in python deployed to compute or gke, or go with a fully managed solution like dataflow. Unsure about performance.
This is why I mentioned (and variants). While I’m unhappy with the Mozilla situation, Firefox is still a significantly better option than Chrome at this point, and the various forks address any concerns with their privacy policy.

One can even self-host their own sync server if so inclined.
A point that is often overlooked in discussions of this, which seems huge: they would also be banned from buying search engine dominance (as in, the primary source of Mozilla's revenue).

"Similarly, Google would be prevented from pressuring its partners to use Google search or AI services over the competition."
Safari content blockers are awful compared to UBlock and I’m a Safari user. Not only does YouTube either get through or cause weird issues, YouTube now blocks you until you completely disable the extension. Content blockers often block cookie banners too which can often result in broken functionality - a nightmare when you’re trying to buy tickets to something and have to “reload without blockers” for the website to work.
Browser development doesnt need to go as fast as Google is pushing it. Its OK to slow down and not push new features and standards all the time. It doesnt need to be as expensive as Google is making it.
While today's 14% drop sounds bad, that's really just giving up part of the big spike they got after the election. Another way to say it?

"Tesla's shares haven't been this low since... October."

UPDATED COMMENT: On the other hand, that spike in November was so huge, CNBC is also correct when they say...

Since peaking at $479.86 on Dec. 17, Tesla shares have lost over 50% of their value, wiping out over $800 billion in market cap.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/tesla-shares-plunge-14percen...

Ironically, CNBC thinks Tesla's drop is actually tied to actions taken by the Trump administration:

The downdraft in Tesla’s stock on Monday was tied to uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s plans on tariffs. Canada and Mexico are key markets for automotive suppliers, and increased tariffs, with the potential for a trade war, will likely impact production and lead to higher prices.
Especially the marital rapes.
That's down from 112bn in 2019[1]. That's a huge drop in just a couple of years.
Other than optics, I don't see the relevance to simplistic nominal comparisons with Ukraine aid.

[1] 68bn in 2020 and 123bn 2021, but 2019 is better baseline given COVID.
The political philosophy motivating Musk
You and literally everyone else. If ideas are "a dime a dozen", and the hard part (aka building the implementation) is trivially solved by LLMs then it won't be you competing against a handful of similar businesses, it'll be you against TEN THOUSAND.

The ultimate end result of lowering the barrier to entry down to zero is that making money on bespoke software will be about as commercially viable as making money writing music.
> How about we treat enemies as actual enemies, rather than rolling over and letting them make our lives more difficult?

Treating someone as an actual enemy means accepting that sometimes they're going to do things that are inconvenient for you.

> Why in the world should we have to rely on inferior methods?

Well...

treating someone as an actual enemy means accepting that sometimes they're going to do things that are inconvenient for you.
This has been repeatedly debunked.

Yes, there was a small amount of money pumped into the consumer economy ($2000/household). Yes, there were some supply shocks during the height of the lockdowns.

No, those do not explain the persistent high prices.

Unprecedented consolidation across all sectors made it easy for a much smaller group of people at the top to respond to a zeitgeist that expected inflation by keeping prices high after the supply shocks were over, and pocketing the difference. It didn't even require active collusion (though it wouldn't surprise me if there was at least a little).
No, I love it. It has made programming fun again and lets me focus on the creative parts. Really satisfying.
It's still overpriced at least 5x. They still have time to cash out.