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I think the space of RSS feed readers and aggregators are very rich already. The pain point for ordinary users is to have easy way to generate RSS feeds for websites that don't provide organic one.

There are few options but mostly proprietary and expensive. And no normal person will want to play the CSS tricks to extract feed that something like FreshRSS support.

I disagree because yes I dislike the whole JS ecosystem and the language itself. But also because Electron apps in general are resource monsters and while some are better than the others, Claude Desktop is definitely not one of them. Hell even their website will crash on Firefox very often.

> OpenAI reportedly discussed charging $20k/month on PhD-level research agents with investors.

At this price point, it will be cheaper to hire a bunch of actual PhDs. The vast majority who will not earn anything close to 250k per year in most of the world.

That's for family plans. For individual plans it is increasing as

> Current vs New Pricing: Current price: $35.88 USD / year New price: $47.88 USD / year

When a corporate does something good, a lot of executives and people inside will go and claim credit and will demand/take bounces.

If something bad happened against any laws, even if someone got killed, we don't see them in jail.

I don't defend both positions, I am just saying that is not far from how the current legal framework works.

I would be less interested in scattering amplitude of all particle physics concepts as a test case because the scattering amplitudes because it is one of the concisest definition and its solution is straightforward (not easy of course). So once you have a good grasp of the QM and the scattering then it is a matter of applying your knowledge of math to solve the problem. Usually the real problem is to actually define your parameters from your model and define the tree level calculations. Then for LLM to solve these it is impressive but the researchers defined everything and came up with the workflow.

So I would read this (with more information available) with less emphasize on LLM discovering new result. The title is a little bit misleading but actually "derives" being the operative word here so it would be technically correct for people in the field.

pypi also added this last year [1] and encouraging people to use trusted publishing as well.

[1] https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/

I think he was just saying that it is similar business to that. Just drawing comparison that there are a market like selling video games accounts. Also usually people who cheats in games will buy high level accounts because they will be banned much faster if they start playing with new accounts for cheats. This happens in some of the games I play all the time.

Particle identification using NN classifiers was actually on the early success stories of NN. These are pretty standard algorithms in tracking and trigger software in HEP experiments now. There are even standard tools in the field to help you train your own.

What is more interesting currently is things like anomaly detection using ML/NN and foundational models..etc.

We should assume that all ads in general are scams. The noise to signal ratio is too large to care. Word of mouth and maybe trusted communities like HN is the only way to reliably discover new things.

I think the link to source code repository would be better

https://github.com/sethbarrett50/LaTeX-wc

I feel like people avoid the elephant in the room that social media companies became too influential and too big that going after them for addictive and dark patterns is not possible. Specially that most of them is in the US with current political situation it will not be possible anyway.

So they are taking half measures that are more problematic on different aspect like privacy.

Not to praise China, but it seems they seem to do doing better job against their big companies to prevent such situations (please don't pass the point here).

I think things would be much better if these companies is to be held accountable for their actions beyond the current fines that they just consider it now cost of doing business.

I feel like with all the AI news and headlines we are seeing lately, I bet many people including me were ready to just be angry at another Mozilla AI bloat.

But for once, it is a good thing

How do you selfhost your own derp servers? I am curious if it is an easy like headscale itself

> Virtually all previous particle discoveries were predicted

That's not true at all. To give just few examples.

Electron was not predicted but Thomson found it during first fundamental particle discovered came from cathode‐ray experiments, not from a prior microscopic theory of matte. Remember this was during thr 19th century.

Another one is the muon discovered in 1936 which was detected as "heavy electron" in cosmic rays. it did not fit any clear theoretical need in nuclear physics at the time, leading Rabi to quip “Who ordered that?”

Heck there are many more examples that I will bypass the comment limits if I tried to list them (resonances in particular will be very numerous).

You can of course move the goal target by narrowing what you mean by particle but this is exactly why physicists try to define what they talk about before making an argument.

> There is no such motivation here. There is no theoretical or significant practical benefit for the FCC, it's basically a jobs program.

Really? There is a huge volume of the feasibility study about the physics program of FCC. Are you claiming that it is false. Have you even read it?

They solely use US servers [1] and don't have plans to offer EU or any non-US servers though.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1jbryai/european_...

> Then just yesterday, a friend of mine was telling me how he got tired of paying for Typora and decided to vibecode his own Markdown editor

But typora is actually one time purchase and one of the rare apps that is priced well with good business model.

They have probably best RTL support and I wanted like your friend to write my own focused markdown editor with RTL support using clause and made some progress but realized that the time and cost of doing this is not worth it. I just paid typora a week ago for $15.

But I understand the point and I use Claude to hack together personal tools all the time.

I have a userscript that takes a list of keywords, domains and user names on HN. I host the json file containing the list on git instance and I use userscript plugin on iOS safari which would support this userscript. This is the lowest friction solution I found that would work on different devices.

I find HN much more tolerable this way.

There is also network-tooling of the same idea and works locally [1]

[1]https://github.com/Lissy93/networking-toolbox

They are free to block me if they detect I am using adblocker. It is on by default. And for most services paying does not guarantee that I do not get ads.

I am not under any obligation to let my client serve their ads which is usually the number one malware vector.

I hate ads with all my heart. And I go out of my way to religiously block them. I employ DNS blocking (through my own adguard home server) on my whole network (I use this DNS server connected to unbound to act as recursive DNS on all devices even when I am outside home). I use ublock origin on Firefox browser (one of the forks that guts Firefox ads and privacy settings by default) and on my iPhone I use wipr + uBlock Origin lite. I have several userscripts to block ads one some websites (i.e I block HN jobs posts).

I have a mental view that gets disrupted by ads and sometimes even angry. In the rare moments which I use a computer or phone of a friend or family without those, I really can't tolerate the suffering they go through. My single best advice to people about using ublock origin and Firefox resonated with everyone of them. I use it on my parents devices as the best security measure that could be used.

Am I overreacting, maybe but I find my level of tolerance for ads is zero no matter how much I agree that some of them are good or not. Maybe this is the result of decades of self imposing dark patterns and intrusive ads do to some people. I really feel sorry for majority of internet users that do not use adblockers.

> ACM will become one of the very few organizations to offer a large, integrated, and highly curated library of articles and related artifacts openly accessible to all

Is there anything specific about them doing that? Most of the publishers are now moving to open access model (where they charge authors thousands and still not paying for reviewers) so not sure about their claim here.

> 25 years ago it seemed like physics was mostly complete, and the only remaining work was exploring the corner cases and polishing out all the imperfections

Around 125 years ago, many thought the same about physics, that physics is mostly complete and it just explaining and finishing some edge cases and polishing all our measurements. There was just two things that were a little bit puzzling, the "looming clouds" over physics (per Kelvin description) will later lead to both Quantum Theory and Theory of relativity (Black body radiation and Michelson–Morley experiment) and the fundamental change of our understanding for physics after that.

So I would not take this position. Does this mean we are in a similar moment? maybe, who knows?

You made my day with this prediction :)

> The Ultimate Fork

> Frustrated with Waterfox and Orion, you will finally launch 'CERN-fox', a browser that only renders LaTeX and requires a muon-detected captcha for every search query.

I don't disagree that the ultimate goal is have open and free access is a noble goal. I just point our that what is happening in practice is that it is being taken as a new business model that pays on average more for the publishers. I'm not sure my comment implies I criticize the open access concept and I apologize if it is not clear.

I think they probably have aggressive firewall with a lot of false positives. I live in Switzerland and got blocked but tried a VPN to US and it worked. Although it is usually that I get blocked for using VPN.

But I'm not sure if it is about your IP or the whole country but I guess it the former. Who knows what the firewall god at Cloudflare does.

Just friendly remember that Open access publishing is the new business model that is more lucrative for publishing industry and it is basically a tax on research activities but paid to private entities and mostly paid by taxpayer money (part of grant money goes to that). That's because as another commenter says now authors pays high fees (thousands of dollars) in advance, while at the same time peer reviewers and sometimes even editors are not paid. And of course in neither case (open or closed access) authors get a dime.

And after the acquisition it seems they abandoned the browser and it is independent again since 2023 [1]

[1] https://www.waterfox.com/blog/a-new-chapter-for-waterfox/

Yes you can actually self-host both Firefox sync server [1] and use Firefox accounts (which also can be self-hosted [2] and someone put something simpler in docker image [3]). And those can be used even with Firefox itself not only the forks.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

[2] https://mozilla.github.io/ecosystem-platform/tutorials/devel...

[3] https://github.com/jackyzy823/fxa-selfhosting

> Hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper

Unfortunately not anymore and not in the foreseen future if we don't see some AI investment corrections.