skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also ran into this, but it was manageable (after a bit of research of course).

Would love to see a "startup"-Dialog, where they explain these features in a bit of detail with a choice of three modes...

Finger printing and privacy protection:

- [x] Full - best for privacy (default)

- [ ] Moderate - most features work, but may break some websites

- [ ] Off - just behave like normal Firefox

The last option would be for firefox users who just want a browser working like before. Although this might not be the target audience, I think this could support funding.

However, I also ran into the issue of Librewolf deleting ALL cookies by default when it closes. I would also love to have Domain whitelist for this:

- Delete all cookies except the following websites: a.org, b.com, c.net

Oh, and another tip: Don't go to there matrix channel with your first class account, they have a spam problem and Element is nowhere near prepared for it with any settings to prevent getting spam invitations. Once you were in, you get spam invitations all the time.
> how do you define intelligence, and on what basis are you claiming an LLM doesn't have it? Ultimately, it's a question of definitions, and I suspect it'd actually be quite difficult to give a rigorous (non-handwavy) definition of intelligence that an LLM can't satisfy. This may partly be an indictment of our understanding of intelligence.

In my opinion there's nothing wrong with the traditional definition which is "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills". But if you want to reach a minimum of "hand-waviness" then it's additionally required to define 'acquire', 'apply', and 'skills'. My personal definition is that acquiring knowledge requires building some sort of internal semantic model of it, though the occurrence of which there is actually evidence of in LLMs (see "abliteration"), so one out of three so far. But it falls apart at 'apply'. How do we even define applying? Well, I do not define it as what LLMs do, which is to predict the next token of the data.

I, personally, apply my knowledge by recognizing where it may be applicable, bringing it to thought, and then using that in the construction of ideas or strategies that I can act on. There's a degree of separation here between thought and action that doesn't currently seem to exist in LLMs; some creators are trying to simulate it by having an LLM for thoughts and another LLM for actions, or by enabling the thoughts to call tools that perform actions, or by having the LLM think before acting as in DeepSeek R1, but that isn't quite it.

An LLM still doesn't understand, say, spatial reasoning when it is helping me write something like a battle in a story. I have spatial reasoning because I can literally see what is happening while I write. I can see, and feel, and hear, and everything. Maybe that's just my dissociative disorder, but I will continue to await the day where LLMs might be able to do stuff like that. Until they can have that essentially happening "in their head", reason about it, and write using that, I won't believe that LLMs can "apply" much of anything just yet. (Other than machine learning I guess.)

> If we use traditional ways of measuring intelligence, like IQ tests, then LLMs beat the average human.

I think the whole notion of IQ is flawed because of neurodivergence. To put things in vaguely ableist-sounding terms (I don't mean it that way, but it will always sound that way), LLMs right now feel too neurotypical (pattern-based) and I would like to see future LLM developments that allow models leaning closer to autistic (logic-based).
I'm optimistic about this. I think enough pictures of an apple, chemical analyses of the air, the ability to arbitrarily move around in space, a bunch of pressure sensors, or a bunch of senses we don't even have, will solve this. I suspect there might be a continuum of more concept understanding that comes with more senses. We're bathed in senses all the time, to the point where we have many systems just to block out senses temporarily, and to constantly throw away information (but different information at different times.)

It's not a theory of consciousness, it's a theory of quality. I don't think that something can be considered conscious that is constantly encoding and decoding things into and out of binary.
I hate places like that, and I especially hate still being asked to tip 18 (or often 20) to 25 percent when I effectively did everything myself, including picking up my order (often in plastic containers, for my daily dose of microplastics and other funs tuff), getting water, and clearing my table.

Fortunately that's still the exception rather than the norm where I live, but I try to actively avoid such experiences.
> I feel that "category error" means "I think that the definitions you use or imply are wrong, but I can't/won't elaborate."

I think the rest of your comment motivates why I think it's a category error quite nicely. The word 'personality', for me, is connected with how things like emotion, temperament, .. impact a person's actions and thoughts.

Therefore, saying an object, or LLM, has 'real' personality is a category error. The LLM doesn't have any of those things. As you say, it imitates what personality often manifests as: word choices, tone, length of response..

To be clear, when I refer to things like 'emotion' and 'temperament', I mean the sort of qualia or qualitative experience that we usually attach to these words. I wouldn't accept a "ChatGPT, act as if you're sad for the rest of this conversation" as a substitute for emotion, for instance.
One that has individuals in government with a history advocating for private prisons where most undocumented immigrants are housed. 6 weeks probably leads to some solid profits for the bottom line.

Solitary is probably a bonus charge.
> its only used by Firefox and there shouldn't be any valid use case to patch an old version to use the new certificate.

While I'm not the person you commented on I can somewhat provide insight into why it may have happened. In short, the sentiment and statement you made is misplaced and false, and neglects two critical things that are common knowledge at a professional level, which you may not be aware of. I'll elaborate below:

First, customized versions of firefox that have been non-insignificantly patched or may have been rebased into a custom tree or fork. Having a certificate hard-coded, creates by design additional work for anyone not following anything except the mainline tree. From a design perspective its known-brittle and lacking any common resiliency feature normally included in such systems. There's a good chance this was intended, sufficient to treat this as malicious compliance. By those who may maintain repositories, this can be perceived as a resource drain attack on said projects that value privacy but who have limited resources to fix the inevitable failures caused by these design decisions.

Mullvad Browser, or Tor Browsers as examples, albeit they have more resources than some of the other browser projects.

Second, many recent updates have been user hostile by Mozilla. A slew of features supporting bulk data aggregation, while also removing toggles that would frequently disable such features has been growing.

Forcing an update removes user choice and agency which they previously had in older versions, with coercive influence. Most importantly at the professional level, a lot of code changes translates into a lot of bugs, failures, and crashes.

When you have many upstream changes, to control costs you generally keep a local or semi-local repository to manage time cost in support and keeping a foundation you can build upon while staying sane. The software having a kill-switch like this, that's part of your local repository guarantees breakages, and it may not be immediately clear what the problem is (since its hard-coded). Backported security fixes are not uncommon, but the maintainability and time-cost are nullified by a kill-switch. Many view this as a kill switch because its hard-coded. Certificates for security would as a baseline require features for revocation. To my knowledge this isn't possible with these particular certificates.

There's a general rule, the more LOCs you touch, the more likely something is to break, and they've touched quite a lot recently.

Generally speaking, there appears to be quite a lot of effort (which translates into money spent) to embed points of failure within the client, similar to what Google has done in the past with Chrome.
Gov wouldn't need to pick a winner - it just needs the market to reach a critical point of competitiveness, at which the sheer amount of competition would be self sustaining, as it is in the restaurant industry, for example.

And if a monopoly were to form, it would step in.
Post Covid, takeout also means no tipping. Just because someone programs a prompt doesn’t mean it needs to be answered in the affirmative.
Sounds like a good way to increase donations to shareholders.
in war, they do not need to care about collateral damage.

I sure hope that my neighbour's drone delivery doesn't produce collateral damage if it flew near my property. Otherwise, i will have to shoot down the drone.
You may be interested in FerretDB[1].

[1] https://www.ferretdb.com/
tldw: speculation: landed with too much lateral velocity and one of legs broke
I've learned a lot. I wasn't aware of the RAE's efforts to tamp down and standardize spelling in Spanish. I think your alphanumerenglish is pretty cool.

I really thought there were only 5 irregular subjunctive verbs: dar, ir, ser, haber, estar, & saber. I've read a couple of novels in Spanish, and it just seems more regular. I guess that's just my opinion. Thanks for teaching me a few new things.
If the government was a dynamic work environment, it would burn just as much money. But instead of saying "the project went over budget", they'd say "we executed a strategic pivot."

Instead of employees "stagnating", employees would launch all sorts of initiatives and then abandon them after getting promoted.

Instead of maintaining legacy systems for decades, teams would turn down systems so that employees can work on shinier greenfield projects, leaving users in the lurch.

I do not oppose government efficiency. I support reforms to identify and eliminate waste in government. Unfortunately that's not what DOGE is doing.
> In recent years, it's started to feel like you can't trust third-party dependencies and extensions at all anymore.

Was it really a recent thing?

> Just take a look at eslint's dependency tree

Npm / node has always been extra problematic though. Where's the governance / validation on these packages? It's free for all.
Most modern LLMs are multimodal.
The alternative would be to find a sustainable funding model for open source, which is the source of betrayals due to almost all of the maintainers having to sell their projects to make a living in the first place.

The problem you're describing is an economical and a social one.

Currently, companies exploit maintainers of open source projects. There are rarely projects that make it due to their popularity, like webpack, when it comes to funding...but the actual state is that everyone that webpack is based on as a dependency didn't get a single buck for it, which is unfair, don't you think?

On top of sustainable funding, we need to change our workflows to reproducible build ecosystems that can also revert independent of git repositories. GitHub has become the almost single source of code for the planet, which is insane to even bet on from a risk assessment standpoint. But it's almost impossible to maintain your own registry or mirror of code in most ecosystems due to the sheer amount of transitive dependencies.

Take go mod vendor, for example. It's great to stick your dependencies but it comes with a lot of overhead work in case something like OPs scenario happens to its supply chain. And we need to account for that in our workflows.
those disasters were externalities, which i dont disagree is disheartening, but the personal freedoms and transportation capability given by the personal automobile is worth it. Public transport, even good ones, does not provide this level of comfort and freedom.
Not exactly a country, but Hong Kong comes to mind. . .
Signal is absolutely end-to-end encrypted
Can someone please explain the economics of GLP-1s? How can people pay $1000/month for the rest of their life, just to keep weight off? Rent and mortgages are already insane as is, and then there’s insurance, kids, etc.
Slight correction: "enhanced" driver licenses are citizen-only, and this is actually checked during issue, so they can also serve as proof of citizenship.
But that's what firejail and docker/podman are for. I never run any build pipeline on my host system, and neither should you. Build containers are pretty good for these kind of mitigations of security risks.
Did the adoption agency warn you about crossing borders?

Many families with recent adoptees have terrible experiences. It’s sad, but it’s important to prepare for it.

Adoption and human trafficking can look very similar. And border guards are often assholes.
Biomass don't have C, it has sugars (C6O6H12, mostly polymerized) and fatty acids (H-(CH2)n-COOH, mostly in oil molecules).

Do you have the chemical composition of the bio-oil? I only found this https://www.music-h2020.eu/publications-reports/MUSIC_D6-1_W... that in page 20 claims 25% of water, so it's a polar solvent like thick sugar syrup, not a non polar solvent like petrol.

That make sense if the graphics are accurate and it's produced from corn stalks (that are mostly cellulose that is polymerized glucose), instead of making it from vegetable oil (that is made of 3 fatty acids and glycerin) and can be transformed in biodiesel by a very different process.

The graphic shows injection after use to make iron. Are you injecting the liquid bio-oil or the CO2 gas after combustion? I very skeptical and expect gas to escape sooner or later.

I think that it's important the "unused carbon" part of the graphic. Here we used to have a big steel mill that had a huge eucalyptus forest to make coke coal (in Spanish) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceros_Zapla
This is the death of fun. Like when you had to use SSL for buying things online.

Adding SSL was not bad, don't get me wrong. It's good that it's the default now. However. At one point it was sorta risky, and then it became required.

Like when your city becomes crime ridden enough that you have to lock your car when you go into the grocery store. Yeah you probably should have been locking it the whole time. what would it have really cost? But now you have to, because if you don't your car gets jacked. And that's not a great feeling.
This is why the ask what seems like an absurd question - “Are you a Nazi?” - on the US citizenship application.

Not because they expect people to say “yes”, but because if they find out later you hide information about your involvement in WW2, they deport you for lying.

No need to prove you were an actual Nazi. You withheld information which is enough grounds for revoking citizenship.
All this will amount to is that she will make latinos look bad. The entitlement is insane.
The repo looks like it uses itself in its workflows, so it's possible that the commit being merged resulted in the necessary credentials being leaked to the attacker.
It’s the most “powerful” of all the US identity documents. It’s a good idea to have one even if you don’t intend to travel.
Few people actually pay 1000/month. Most get it through insurance (I pay 25/month), and most of the remaining get it through compounding pharmacies like HenryMeds which comes out to 300-400 per month.

In fact, I know a few people who get brand pills (Rybelsus) mailed from India, where it's much cheaper. This insane pricing is a US only thing.
Knowing a couple people who've done it, they do it for a few months to lose weight, then stop taking it and try not to gain the weight back. I don't know anyone who's chosen to go on it permanently.
Discussion (18 points, 4 days ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327395
I use EQ only to get speakers to a more baseline neutral response so it makes sense to set them on the device themselves.

I’ve had to set EQ on Bluetooth speakers themselves that didn’t sound so good out of the box.

Though at that point I rather throw away the speakers and get better ones…
They don’t. If you live outside of the USA it is cheaper (e.g. 400 cad a month in Canada)

The article also mentions the grey market, where you can buy a year’s worth of power from China for a couple hundred bucks. You do need to be able mix it up properly though.
No chance for bridging RCS to Matrix, as far as I know. That’s what I find so concerning about it: It’s theoretically more open, but practically much more locked down than both SMS and proprietary alternatives.
> Told to Remove "Ideological Bias"

Well that will never happen except by firing squad. You can only ever be free of perceptual bias (which is ideological bias since its derived in part from your culture and identity), when you lack a sense of self and are unable to interact with your environment... that usually means your dead or pretty close to it.

If the smartest philosophers and scientists in the world, for all time, have been unable to separate their own perceptual biases, what hope is there for anyone to do this for some powerful model and have it retain usefulness.

This is just laughable.
Serious question for whoever actually understands this: what is the legal status of true, peer-to-peer, attack-resistant encrypted messaging in the "western" world? I'm particularly interested in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and whatever European countries you care to throw into the mix.

I've occasionally tinkered with building software (but never released said software) that uses encrypted peer-to-peer connections as the _sole_ way of communicating, because it seemed like the most natural way to build said software _and_ the most interesting technically. (And I have zero interest in hosting servers for FOSS side projects.) If I were to actually release one of these projects and it were to become popular, should I expect to be shut down by law enforcement on the grounds that it's already unambiguously illegal? Or would I likely receive a "Technical Assistance Notice" at some point, effectively requiring me to sneak a back door into the software? Or is it actually fine?

I seem to recall all sorts of stories about law enforcement and "TLA agencies" pressuring vendors of secure messaging software to make the software unavailable or to add back doors, including at least one who chose to shut down their business rather than lying to their users about the security of the product. But somehow in all this I failed to glean whether or not it's actually meant to be legal, even on paper.
> Besides, if LLMs only recycled training data with no changes, they'd just be really bad search engines.

I will admit that in my experience, LLMs tend to be really good at tip-of-my-tongue type stuff. There are certain very particular types of queries that LLMs seem to greatly excel at, and they're mostly where the words I want aren't in the words that I am using. I can just spam vibes into the prompt and have an LLM give me words/phrases that exactly fit what I am looking for, even if I couldn't recall any of the proper terms that would allow good results to turn up from a search engine.
Like so many other google products they get it going, maybe polish it a bit here and there, and then everyone wants to work on more prestigious stuff. That's why Google has had something like half a dozen iterations of an instant messaging service.

GV wasn't even an internal product - they bought up Grand Central and for a while the business offering was still branded as GC. But at one point, it was integrated into Hangouts. It's so strange...

They don't support any HD voice codecs, so call quality is shit, the integration with iOS is non-existent, the app doesn't sync in the background so every time you open it you have to wait 5-10s before you can use it...you can't even set a ringtone so you can tell a GV call from a cellular call.
Interesting cause I submitted this some time ago and I just did another one on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43369977

But it seems hashnode.dev as a domain is blocked entirely. Hopefully Ruby gets another chance in AI era.
https://archive.ph/hBucT
It's not going to happen. If buying a forever license of unlimited usage for an open source library cost $1 I'd skip it. Not be cause I don't want to give money to people who deserve it, but because of the absolute monstrous bureaucratic nightmare that comes from trying to purchase anything at a company larger than 10 people.

Don't even talk about when the company gets a lawyer who knows what a software license is.
Why Mercedes Is Putting Transmissions in Its EVs – Starting with the CLA
why wouldn't those people just donate to Mozilla?
I'm far from convinced that some random "compounding pharmacy" produces effectively the same thing as Ozempic.
In reality that would be false justification. To have a true justification you would need to have a objectively tied definition.

Circular reasoning and hegel's dialectic (outsides its intended use) is fallacy/deception.
NO THRU TRAFFIC has always stood out to me. I hadn't heard of the Simplified Spelling Board, but I'm interested in minimal subsets of languages, like Ogden's Basic English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English. I use a variation of this as a model when starting a new language, and it's been pretty fun and effective.
I got an outreach for an extension I made as a joke. It had like maybe 5000 downloads ever.
I think this is called an ICO. And it ended very badly for the majority last time it was tried.
been using https://github.com/alexrudall/ruby-openai for years with no issues which is a fine gem and works great.
GP is talking about denaturalization, which is exactly stripping citizenship.
Americans are wealthy and don’t even realize it. The median household has >$1000 left over each month after all ordinary expenses against income, per the US government’s own data and statistics. Not everyone can afford it but a large percentage can. They may value this more than many other things they can waste that excess income on.

The drugs are only going to get cheaper with time.
The thing is, GLP-1 isn't that hard to make, and these compounding pharmacies make effectively the real thing.
My high school closed down because there weren’t enough families who could afford to live in the neighborhood.
When I was small, my dad would bring home a terminal with a thermal printer and acoustic coupler modem. This would have been mid-1970's.

I remember QED. I suppose it was my first editor.
Sandbox, user specifies access to certain files (like you can do limiting access to certain gallery items on android).

Then changes made to files should be stored as deltas to the original.

But realistically a good readonly/write new backup solution is needed, you never know when something bad might happen.
Rybelsus doesn’t work.
The story itself is a marketing piece.
>I wonder if there are also cultural/regulatory differences here.

It has more to do with cost of rental and salary difference, comparing to median Income and spending. And it is a world wide thing.
Green cards can be revoked for non residence and commission of crimes.

US Citizenship used to be revoked for these things, but that’s not recent.
Most people I know using it were using insurance, so paying much less than that, however for many of them the insurance companies are dropping coverage for it. That had pushed some to the compounding, and thus ozempocalypse as that avenue is removed as well.
Yeah, I’m working on a library where the core is dependency free. It takes longer but I know the provenance of everything—me!
My understanding is that China mainland (CCP) very much prefers loans and not grants for big ticket items.