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Springtime··on OpenWrt Two Approval
It's weird reading the claim as there have been plenty of routers designed for OpenWRT in years prior. Some even quasi-bespoke. A selling point of the product is they release their source code but afaik this just means OpenWRT per se (and I suppose the bootloader) as various chips have closed source firmware anyway (much like other products that try to be as open source as possible).
Springtime··on Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account
Reminds me back at the Xbox One launch where notoriously an employee arrogantly said that always online DRM is fine and defended it when pressed by saying why would anyone want to live in an area with unreliable internet. He left Microsoft after the backlash.
Springtime··on Oxygen atoms discovered in most distant known galaxy
I'd argue ranking comments per se isn't the issue, it's whether the culture is preserved that encourages useful application of the voting system. Whether any community can preserve their desired culture is arguably the most important factor and it's what the grandparent post is essentially referring to.

On HN the main goal of upranking is if one comment is more interesting/informative than another (or as a group test to see how robust its argument is if the voter has no experience to judge directly). Downranking ime isn't meant to be the method used shift the order of comments but rather to discourage a post that doesn't fit the HN culture/guidelines. OTOH most popular gamified discussion systems don't discourage use of reactionary downvoting, which can creep into other posting cultures.

The problem the grandparent post raises is if signals that voting users would ordinarily use to shape the continued posting culture (eg: downranking comments that don't fit in tone/substance) aren't used like they were intended to be and if the guidelines discourage meta discussion then there isn't any other avenue to inform users what the desired culture should be in practice.

Certainly one can post non-meta comments showing what type of comments one would like (and thankfully for most strictly tech topics here it's still reasonable) but if the culture shifts enough among the silent voting users then the concern is this erodes the quality of discussion as the signals for what is wanted/not wanted get skewed.

Springtime··on I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
> and offline customization tools are all Electron based so there's not much advantage.

Afaik it's only any Via support per se that the keyboard firmware has allowing for such on the fly customization, rather than QMK. With QMK it's all manual flashing (I was somewhat surprised that it was easier than I was expecting to customize the layout/layers/lights with code though, largely thanks to the supportive community).

Springtime··on Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
Opera browser used to have P2P file transfers as a short lived feature in ~2010, called Unite. I remember it also had skeuomorphic GUI of a 'fridge' where users could put post-it style notes that could be seen by others.

One of many everything-and-the-kitchen-sink features Opera Presto had during its heyday. Others included a separate Bittorrent client, desktop widgets that could be moved outside of the browser window, full IRC client, email client and peerless hotkey actions customization.

By some miracle the browser still managed to be a rather lean binary.

Springtime··on New Zealand's $16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet
These same bullet points and half the first paragraph are quoted in the OP article fwiw.
Springtime··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
My comment was a reflection on discourse of the article here. The US has pulled support for providing further jamming reprogramming but way the article is written clearly was giving readers the impression the systems are US specific and only able to be programmed by the US.

Evidenced by most comments on HN at the time I posted not being about the software support per se being withdrawn but jumping off the premise it was only programmable by the US, with comment chains ranging from US software and supplied aircraft can't be trusted to going so far as talking about kill switches. This led to a very noisy, knee-jerky discussion based on an incorrect basis.

Quotes from the OP's article:

> Ukrainian pilots are not receiving updates, and the programs could soon become obsolete [...] France’s Mirage 2000s are equipped with their own powerful jammers, and the Americans are not involved in their programming.

> In the longer term, the Ukrainians could refit their F-16s with non-American electronic countermeasures [...] But that could take time and money...

Now contrast to the original Forbes citation which explained the US team doing the reprogramming wasn't even familiar with the system until being tasked to reprogram it for use in Ukraine, doing so in just two weeks and it being a multi-national effort with two European countries and an overseas facility.

Had the discourse began with that there would still be criticism of the government's decision, given the US was leading the reprogramming effort, but with clarity on what was occurring.

Springtime··on If you witness a cardiac arrest, here's what to do
Useful illustrative graphic in that version of the article for remembering the compression rhythm with a Bee Gees' song mnemonic and required depth.
Springtime··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
The article is written to give the reader the impression only the US can reprogram the jamming system and the comments seem to mostly be taking it at face value.

In the very Forbes article the OP's article cites it links to info about this F-16 reprogramming effort[1], showing it was collaboration between the US/Norway/Denmark and that the US electronic warfare team wasn't familiar with the system, yet within two weeks they say they managed to reprogram them to meet the initial deadline.

> The 68th EWS assembled a dedicated team comprised of a mixture of seasoned experts and bright, young engineers to approach the reprograming challenge. Their first task was to understand the unfamiliar EW system and how to reprogram it.

> Relying on data provided by Denmark and Norway, then adapting new processes and approaches to the usual process, the team was able to understand the system and start their work.

> After understanding the system, the 68th EWS deviated again from normal methods and sent its members overseas to a partner-nation lab to collaboratively develop and test the system alongside coalition teammates.

[1] https://www.dvidshub.net/news/479401/dominate-spectrum-350th...

Springtime··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
Regardless of what happens to Chrome per se it's who is involved with pushing for major controversial changes in Chromium that matters.

Manifest v3 and Web Integrity API are prominent examples of Google's team shaping how all Chromium based browsers will be, regardless of pushback (though they relented with the latter for now).

Springtime··on Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks
There were accounts with as few as 1 (yes, 1) PBKDF2 iterations[1]. Others changed theirs to over 300k but it still ended up only being 5000 in reality[2].

So despite the messaging from LastPass about improving iteration count for existing users it wasn't always accurate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34152779

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Lastpass/comments/zuve7t/cracking_e...

Springtime··on Is ChatGPT autocomplete bad UX/UI?
Whenever I've tested ChatGPT I've never seen this autocomplete. Does it only conditionally appear if someone is logged into their service? I also only visit under Linux.
Springtime··on YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
Twilio's verification API for instance has this[1] but only for US targets. Though the person in the OP is from the UK. I wonder how many other countries' carriers have non-business caller name lookups.

The other aspect would be if Google were able to cross-reference address book contacts that were obtained from permissions from their apps/services to check what name is most commonly associated with that number.

[1] https://www.twilio.com/docs/lookup/v2-api/caller-name

Springtime··on How to professionally say (2022)
> "You are overcomplicating this"

Tbh I don't think the worst problem here is with stating something is overcomplicated but the directness and variously pointed use of 'you'. People will naturally be more defensive.

Many of the example statements involve this use of 'you' in the same fashion. 'Did you even read my email?', 'If you would have read the whole email you’d know the answer to this'. It's a deliberate use of 'you' like an intensifier.

With minor rephrasing these could just be expressed more passively, for scenarios where one doesn't want an almost completely euphemistic tone.

Springtime··on I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)
You can run non-module scripts, yes, though not modules.

Though it's easy enough to run a caddy local server. It was easier in the past, in earlier caddy versions one could just place the caddy binary in PATH and launch `caddy` from any directory to auto serve a local server, now it requires more arguments or a config file.

Springtime··on Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
From what I've read finasteride can cause general psychological adverse events, including suicidal ideation[1], in mostly younger people. Heard someone saying their suicidal thoughts began when taking it and stopped when not, leading them to find more info about it.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33175100/

Springtime··on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
I run a few Linux desktop VMs and Cloudflare's Turnstile verification (their auto/non-input based verification) fails for the couple sites I've tried that use it for logins, on latest Chromium and Firefox browsers. Doesn't matter that I'm even connecting from the same IP.

I'd presumed it was just the VM they're heuristically detecting but sounds like some are experiencing issues on Linux in general.

Springtime··on Chrome 133 Supports DOM State-Preserving Move with moveBefore()
> move embedded iframe to lightbox for “full screen” and back

Presumably this would also preserve the state of animations, such as GIFs and objects with embedded animated documents (like SVG). With current methods these get reset (along with the already mentioned video state) which break the illusion of an element being transported elsewhere when the original can't be just literally moved.

Springtime··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
The Deepseek hosted chat site has additional 'post-hoc' censorship applied from what people have observed, if that's what you're referring to. While the foundational model (including self hosted) has some just part of its training which is the kind the article is discussing, yes.
Springtime··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
Only the R1 671B model (aka just plain 'R1') has the censorship being discussed in the article. The smaller parameter models are fine-tunings of Llama and Qwen, and the former at least doesn't have the censorship.

This has caused a lot of conflicting anecdotes since those finding their prompts aren't censored are running the distilled/fine-tuned models not the foundational base model.

A sibling comment was facetiously pointing out that the cost of running the 'real' R1 model being discussed locally is out of the price range of most, however someone in this thread actually has run it locally and their findings match those of the article[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859086

Springtime··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
My understanding of distilling is one model 'teaching' another, in this case the main R1 model is fine-tuning the open weight Llama model (and a Qwen variant also). I'm not sure of a comparative analysis of vanilla Llama though they benchmarked their distilled version to other models on their Github readme and the distilled Llama 70B model scores higher than Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1-mini in all but one test.
Springtime··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
The main 671B parameters model is here[1].

[1] https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

Springtime··on Questions censored by DeepSeek
> The actual R1 locally running is not censored.

I'm assuming you're using the Llama distilled model, which doesn't have the censorship since the reasoning is transferred but not the safety training[1], however the main R1 model is censored but since it's too demanding for most to self host there are a lot of comments about how their locally hosted version isn't since they're using the distilled model.

It's this primary R1 model that appears to have been used for the article's analysis.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825118

Springtime··on YouTube plays out hours long unskipable ads to adblock users
It's hard to judge if this is a bug (given users who've experienced this as such) or intentional.

Someone in that thread says Youtube confirmed they were doing this but when finding a source[1] statement Google don't directly acknowledge this but use language about having launched an effort to urge viewers to allow ads or buy Premium, whatever they may mean by that.

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-long-unskippable-ad...

Springtime··on DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Interestingly they cite for the Tiananmen Square prompt a Tweet[1] that shows the poster used the Distilled Llama model, which per a reply Tweet (quoted below) doesn't transfer the safety/censorship layer. While others using the non-Distilled model encounter the censorship when locally hosted.

> You're running Llama-distilled R1 locally. Distillation transfers the reasoning process, but not the "safety" post-training. So you see the answer mostly from Llama itself. R1 refuses to answer this question without any system prompt (official API or locally).

[1] https://x.com/PerceivingAI/status/1881504959306273009

Springtime··on The Most Mario Colors
Oh wow, it's Louie Mantia. I remember them from their superb Icon Factory releases. Still have zips of their icons from 2009 (!). What an amazing crew of talent from what I feel was a kind of golden age period of icon creation and OS customization.
Springtime··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
> These charges were dismissed partly because he had already been sentenced to life in New York

It was further complicated because a couple of the law enforcement officers involved with setting up one of the six murder-for-hire scams* stole the Bitcoin Ulbricht paid and it was also felt that trying to prosecute based solely on the other chat logs would have been difficult. The FBI agent who arrested Ulbricht was interviewed about it recently[1].

* The other five are said to not have been law enforcement, which makes it curious the number of times Ulbricht was scammed in this manner.

[1] https://risky.biz/RB770/

Springtime··on Please don't force dark mode
The other issue is many sites don't use that CSS media query at the minimum for auto setting the theme. They instead use a Javascript approach that often involves local storage/cookies even if no choice is made, which doesn't work if those are blocked and/or Javascript disabled. In such cases the default theme is forced.

The optimal approach is applying the appropriate `prefers-color-scheme` using CSS alone, while additionally allowing a theme override using JS/storage. Fewer do this though, even though it wouldn't require any cookies and thus no consent dialog.

The worst are sites that only have theme switching gated behind registration.

Springtime··on Please don't force dark mode
Yeah their actual point is about contrast ratio, which makes the headline a bit disingenuous.

Ironically they end by saying they'll use an invert filter as a workaround, while for those who prefer dark mode if doing the same on the author's own stark white bg/black text site (such as Vivaldi's 'Invert Mode') will produce the very contrast ratio in dark they're complaining about :p

Springtime··on GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
It's neat there are more options for filtering though ime the new issues UI is less responsive, showing placeholder skeletons more frequently than I'd like. Perhaps less noticeable when a fast connection is always available but even just showing the total Open/Closed ticket counters can take a few seconds when it used to be instant.
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