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by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-21 09:35:59+00:00
On the contrary. My statements bear equivalent accuracy to yours in our current reality. My statements are also very obviously FUD. So is yours.

Or do you dispute that you could be hospitalized for salmonella if you botch cooking poultry at home? Or perhaps you feel that there is no straightforward way to inadvertently endanger your life by servicing your vehicle incorrectly?
by jrflowers | 2025-06-21 09:36:03+00:00
>For starters, in most places, warranty is a legal requirement and the manufacturer isn't allowed to void it for whatever reason they want.

This only makes the statement untrue if you use “can” and “will” interchangeably.

>More importantly, rooting is only a security risk in the sense that it increases the attack surface for exploits.

This is a good point. What even is “attack surface” anyway? Does anybody actually consider it when “evaluating security posture”? If I simply choose not to care about attack surface because I don’t want to, then doesn’t it simply become a factual nonissue? There are no answers to these questions
by keyringlight | 2025-06-21 09:37:05+00:00
What kind of actions can gentoo do with your financial accounts, and what levels of user authentication does it use to do it? My phone can effectively act as a bank card with contactless payment or I can transfer up to a daily allowance (that would be painful to me if it was misused) of thousands with biometric auth. Similar to the OS if you're doing that with any browser with a web login you could potentially compile it to behave how you like or lie about what it's doing

Because it's a bank there's going to be insurance behind the scenes to cover them if something goes wrong, and I assume part of that is ticking off enough points to be confident a transaction is secure or different payment limits on confidence levels.
by nilirl | 2025-06-21 09:39:30+00:00
Just like an analogy between humans fails to capture how an LLM works, so does the analogy of being "programmed".

Being "programmed" is being given a set of instructions.

This ignores explicit instructions.

It may not be magic; but it is still surprising, uncontrollable, and risky. We don't need to be doomsayers, but let's not downplay our uncertainty.
by kseistrup | 2025-06-21 09:39:51+00:00
Perhaps I should also add that DeltaChat is really just an email client with a user interface that is optimized for chat, and the chatmail servers are just IMAP/SMTP mail stacks optimized for DeltaChat.

DeltaChat uses AutoCrypt to provide gpg/pgp encrypted “email” + metadata, and the chatmail servers are set up to refuse unencrypted messages (thus avoiding the spam problem).

The optimal experience is acheived by using DeltaChat the way it was intended: DeltaChat to DeltaChat communication, and I'd say that using the chatmail servers is also preferable to using custom IMAP/SMTP servers (whether they are hosted by the big providers, smaller providers, or self-hosted). You _can_ use DeltaChat to communicate to email-only recipients, but it provides for a sub-optimal experience.
by hnlmorg | 2025-06-21 09:41:38+00:00
When you look at pretty much every other brand out there, Sega aren’t nearly as aggressively milking their IPs.

They’re not even in the same league as Nintendo, Disney, Lego, etc. And when you look at other games companies from the same era (Capcom, Atari, etc) then you’d see that Sega are still releasing original content too vs the same rehashed shit that people buy purely because of the name.

Then on the other end of the spectrum you have companies buying studios and letting those games rot (like EA). Studios encouraging micro-transactions (Microsoft with Minecraft, EA, Roblox, Epic, etc) and even underage gambling with loot boxes. Shit that has no place in gaming. It’s Also Sega are one of the least aggressive companies out there “defending” their IP against fan-made content.

Sega are a massively underrated brand in today’s gaming landscape.
by throw123xz | 2025-06-21 09:41:38+00:00
Going from a phone with a Snapdragon SoC to a Pixel with the Tensor SoC was a big downgrade for me. It gets hotter quicker when doing more demanding tasks, battery drains faster if network conditions are not perfect, etc.

We've been having some warm weather (~30ºC) around here and the other day my Pixel 8 Pro started warning me about the phone being too hot when I tried to record a video.

I like Google's Android skin and their long support periods, but Tensor holds these newer Pixels back.
by franga2000 | 2025-06-21 09:41:45+00:00
10000x NO!

I absolutely hate advertisements in stores specifically because of their releavance. If I go there to buy cereal, I expect to go to the cereal shelf, look at the options, evaluate them and pick the optimal one for my set of criteria.

What I absolutely do not want is for one cereal brand to be placed right as I come in, exploiting my psychological quirks to get me to either buy it on the spot without going to evaluate other options or just occupy a slightly larger part of my attention to skew my evaluation process when I get to the shelf.

Advertising is just another money multiplier. If you have a ton of money to throw at ads, you'll make more money than those that don't. And to make up the ad investment, you'll necessarily have to be a worse deal for consumers.
by kseistrup | 2025-06-21 09:42:01+00:00
The FAQ reads:

»By default, Delta Chat stores all messages locally on your device. If you e.g. want to save storage space at your mail provider, you can configure Delta Chat to delete old already-received messages on the server automatically. They still remain on your device until you delete them there, too.«

https://delta.chat/en/help#what-happens-if-i-turn-on-delete-...
by xchip | 2025-06-21 09:42:41+00:00
> AppCloud, developed by the controversial Israeli-founded company ironSource (now owned by the American company Unity), is embedded into devices

We have new spyware coming from Israel, let's update the list:

- Pegasus

- Candiru

- QuaDream

- Cellebrite

- Paragon Solutions

- Nemesis

- AppCloud
by Keyframe | 2025-06-21 09:43:37+00:00
I think the most often mentioned problems mentioned are pollution of Hetzner addresses by shady people (might be addressed with "exits" from AWS / Cloudflare) and you are running on hardware which does tend to fail / needs upgrades. Were there some concerns on those from you?

Also, Loki! How do you handle memory hunger on loki reader for those pesky long range queries, and are there alternatives?
by camgunz | 2025-06-21 09:44:40+00:00
Thomas Ptacek dismissed SWE AI concerns as hypocrisy, and I actually think he understated the argument. This is exactly what we get for:

- using BSD/MIT licenses instead of GPL licenses

- accepting absolutely no liability for security holes or data loss

- accepting absolutely no responsibility for poorly performing software that contributes to climate change

- shipping 17,000 web frameworks, founding one more blockchain startup, founding one more wrapper service around an MIT open source project

We're gonna turn around and be like "but what about the security issues" now? We made this bed.
by dkga | 2025-06-21 09:45:27+00:00
Dear YouTube,

It’s not so much that I don’t want to see ads - nobody does, but very very often the ad breaks the vibe of what I am watching and it displeases me to the point I will invest my soul and energy to block ads. Some real-life examples:

- watching a video about coding where the creator has a monotonic, calm voice that keeps me engaged, and VS Code in dark mode which is easy on my eyes in my dark room at 2am, then suddenly comes an ad with bright lights, incredibly high sound and a high-energy backtrack.

- watching a meditation video, the exact same ad appears.

You get the idea.

At the very least, please ensure the ad is in the same volume as the original video. That alone wouldn’t be too hard. In addition, please at least try to match the background overall brightness or color, and the vibe. All this would create value because people would actually watch much more ads.
by fakedang | 2025-06-21 09:45:41+00:00
Perplexity to Apple brings obvious synergistic benefits techwise, and resembles previous Apple app acquisitions, but I really don't see how Apple can pay a huge premium for a miniscule userbase (effectively 1000 USD per user at current valuations), especially given that a large portion of the userbase are actually free users who were offered it via their telecom provider or something.
by jrflowers | 2025-06-21 09:46:12+00:00
Interesting. While there is no such thing as a chauffeurs union or an FSD alliance, if we say that they exist maybe they do. Similarly, if you say something is “FUD” then maybe it becomes that.

I genuinely do not understand the last two sentences. Are you pro- or anti- “telling people that salmonella exists” ? Is saying “salmonella exists and can be a problem” FUD or what? Do you think salmonella isn’t real
by swarnie | 2025-06-21 09:46:55+00:00
I was going to make a point here about it being ok to occasionally churn out some uncomplicated slop because it helps fund more interesting projects, that was until i looked up the maker of Friends and found NBC pretty much only make that kind of stuff.

NBC and Nintendo, no evolution or original thought. Just copy paste it to the masses because its all the seem to want anyway based on this thread.

Maybe im wrong for demanding more....
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by tomkolron | 2025-06-21 09:47:08+00:00
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by torginus | 2025-06-21 09:48:59+00:00
I wonder if the actual job replacement of humans (which contrary to popular belief I think might start happening in the non-too distant future) will be pushed along with the AIs themselves, as they'll try to bully humans and represent them in the worst possible light, while talking themselves up.

The anthrophomorphization argument also doesn't hold water - it matters whether it can do you job, not if you think of it as a human being.
by ricksunny | 2025-06-21 09:50:01+00:00
While I’m receptive to the fact that RAGs have performance limitations, and that graph database-based solutions may avoid hallucinations, wouldn’t your rhetorical position be best served by offering a trial portal for users to upload their own document corpora and see for themselves that prompts to Stardog never result in hallucinations? Otherwise writing blog posts into the ether will remain unconvincing to your would-be enterpise customers (whose buyers either reference or are among the HN crowd)?
by userbinator | 2025-06-21 09:51:41+00:00
"reasonable alternatives"?

Look how well paper straws work... and they're still coated in thin film of plastic anyway. Total stupidity, except for those who are making $$$ from convincing us that they're somehow better.

Plastic bags fulfill a need for a very lightweight, flexible, waterproof container. The alternatives all require more energy overall, which eventually results in CO2 emissions, so if you believe in climate change, that's not good either.

The only argument I've heard against them is "they look bad littered everywhere", which is a purely subjective opinion and one that is better handled, should one want to tackle the problem, by other means than depriving the majority who doesn't litter.
by oreally | 2025-06-21 09:52:55+00:00
It's just the palate of the mass consumer who has such busy lives that they don't have the time to think about what other games can offer them.

And even if a "new and interesting concept" turns up, it's is too bothersome to learn for them. That's why once they find the fun in one thing, they tend to stick to it and be blind to others.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-21 09:53:02+00:00
As someone who lives on the beach and lived on the beach since before these bans, plastic bags never seemed much of an issue and the real issue is that most people who visit the beach think nothing of leaving their garbage on the beach. Before the ban people tended to leave their garbage nicely contained in a plastic bag, now everyone just leaves it strewn about because they don't want to put garbage in their reusable bags that they use for their groceries which also would mean they would have to deal with the garbage instead of "forgetting" their plastic bag of garbage. The worst is the massive increase in sodden diapers, no one has a disposable bag for the diapers so they just leave them on the beach.

The garbage bags and plastic bag that wash up on the beach are insignificant compared to the garbage beach goers leave on the beach and people who don't live on the beach don't realize how much garbage that is because those of us who do live on the beach spoil our morning stroll and swim with picking up the garbage so the beach can be clean and ready to be spoiled all over again.
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-21 09:53:53+00:00
Pollution: We front everything user-facing through Cloudflare, so external users (and bots) don’t interact directly with our Hetzner/OVH IPs. We lock down our IPs at the firewall (ufw + Cloudflare IP allowlisting) so only trusted sources can even connect at L4.

Failures/upgrades: We provision with Terraform, so spinning up replacements or adding capacity is fast and deterministic.

We monitor hardware metrics via Prometheus and node exporter to get early warnings. So far (9 months in) no hardware failure, but it’s a risk we offset through this automation + design.

Apps are mostly data-less and we have (frequently tested) disaster recovery for the database.

Loki: We’re handling the memory hunger by

• Distinguishing retention limits and index retention

• Tuning query concurrency and max memory usage via Loki'’'s config + systemd resource limits.

• Use Promtail-style labels + structured logging so queries can filter early rather than regex the whole log content.

• Where we need true deep history search, we offload to object store access tools or simple grep of backups — we treat Loki as operational logs + nearline, not as an archive search engine.
by phoe-krk | 2025-06-21 09:54:58+00:00
> Please share your reasoning that led you to this conclusion -- that natural language "evolves slowly".

Languages are used to successfully communicate. To achieve this, all parties involved in the communication must know the language well enough to send and receive messages. This obviously includes messages that transmit changes in the language, for instance, if you tried to explain to your parents the meaning of the current short-lived meme and fad nouns/adjectives like "skibidi ohio gyatt rizz".

It takes time for a language feature to become widespread and de-facto standardized among a population. This is because people need to asynchronously learn it, start using it themselves, and gain critical mass so that even people who do not like using that feature need to start respecting its presence. This inertia is the main source of slowness that I mention, and also and a requirement for any kind of grammar-checking software. From the point of such software, a language feature that (almost) nobody understands is not a language feature, but an error.

> You also seem to be making an assumption that natural languages (English, I'm assuming) can be well defined by a simple set of rigid patterns/rules?

Yes, that set of patterns is called a language grammar. Even dialects and slangs have grammars of their own, even if they're different, less popular, have less formal materials describing them, and/or aren't taught in schools.
by Cypher | 2025-06-21 09:55:18+00:00
Sometimes the single person making the change is doing so because they're expected to do something, tasked with finding efficiency, cut costs and improve productivity. Fine goals from top level. But implementation translates to stress and disruption followed by overstepping, increase work load, working out of hours, burn out, lower pay is then justified by missing goals and failing to do the failed strategy that was expected to work... single complainers are then scape goated and punished for speaking out which is why a group is necessary to protect those brave enough to say when enough is enough.
by PurestGuava | 2025-06-21 09:55:56+00:00
> If it followed the USPS model there would be a retention fee for the uploader and a transfer fee for the downloader, both based on size.

The problem here is that we're already only having this debate because people refuse to pay, even when what they're paying with is functionally intangible (i.e. their letting an ad play on their PC for 30 seconds.

So any model which relies on people physically paying real actual money* is doomed to fail to begin with because you're not solving the issue.
by arendtio | 2025-06-21 09:56:02+00:00
Okay, and how am I going to give the user the right to wipe all software from the device and use a completely custom software?

I mean, we all agree that such permissions are not required during everyday operations, but there should be a way for the consumer to have control over the software being used. And I mean all aspects of the software: firmware should be updatable, the OS should be replaceable, and the security concepts within the OS should be customizable by the user as well. I have no problem with hiding such functionality and requiring users to read the documentation to find out how it can be done, but it should still be possible.
by keepamovin | 2025-06-21 09:57:14+00:00
The cost you cite sounds more like the cost of the earthquake and tsunami, rather than the Daiichi reactor meltdown cost.

Even if it were, in the time limit safety increases, such costs decrease, more so with more development.

More broadly, nuclear looks expensive not because it's unproductive — but because standard asset pricing discounts its most valuable feature: time. Dense, stable power for centuries gives a low net present value due to long-duration-use and high up front cost, but this more a flaw in how future value is discounted in common economic models that punish rather than reward long life.
by grafmax | 2025-06-21 09:59:35+00:00
Now you’re dismissing all food scarcity concerns, including ignoring the recent intensification of food scarcity under the blockade, because supposedly a subset of humanitarian concerns expressed earlier in the genocide were overstated. But we have strong reason to believe famine is occurring today, thanks to the IPC reports, our most thorough picture of the food scarcity situation in Gaza, which show a consistently worsening picture, now tipping into famine thanks to the blockade.

To properly evaluate the GHF system we must note:

1) Israeli policy is to provide humanitarian gestures while perpetuating genocide.

2) Israeli policy manufactured this famine in the first place.

3) The GHF system is widely seen as inadequate and inhumane among humanitarian organizations. The inadequacy is corroborated by the IPC reports as I described in my last reply to you, providing token aid in the south that does not address the mass starvation in the north or Rafah.

4) Israeli military are continuing to block all aid except for the GHF stations under the control of the war machine.

5) GHF aid stations are the sites of frequent killings of starving civilians.

6) Mass starvation is occurring (again, we know this from our most thorough picture, the IPC reports).

Thus the purpose of the four GHF stations cannot be to significantly address starvation.

You claim that the stations will ramp up enough to stop the famine that Israel policy has created. However if we soberly assess the situation we must conclude that that scenario would be utterly inconsistent with the facts we have available.
by the_third_wave | 2025-06-21 09:59:43+00:00
There is so much scaremongering about running mail servers that it almost looks as if interested parties are trying to dissuade people from running servers using this well-known open protocol and instead tell them to use whatever proprietary or single-sourced product. In reality running a mail server is not difficult at all, it hardly takes resources and once configured it tends to run fine without needing much in the way of maintenance. The main pain points seem to be the need to configure a bunch of DNS records for things like SPF and DKIM. Spam is solved using a filter like Spamassassin and possibly a graylist so that boogeyman is vanquished for now - I'm still waiting for the next wave of LLM-generated spam which is less easily recognised for what it is, this far is has not shown up yet. You may need to add some exceptions to the graylist for some of the bigger, non-standards-compliant services like anything run by Microsoft and you may need to use a "smart server" - an SMTP proxy for outgoing mail - if port 25 is blocked on your connection but these are not hard to configure.

I've been running my own mail services for close to 30 years now starting with handcrafted Sendmail configurations, now running Exim and Postfix. Running your own mail services isn't the scary problem it is made out to be.
by i80and | 2025-06-21 10:00:26+00:00
Norway is not cold: its temperature is very heavily moderated by the ocean. Trondheim's lowest mean daily minimum is 24.6 degrees F. The coldest place I could find there is Lomen, which mininums out at around 20 degrees F.

I am strongly pro-EV, and think they're broadly fine in every part of the US, and having just gotten back from Norway they're 100% on the right track, but they're nowhere near comparable to even my hometown of Minneapolis (8.8 degrees F lowest mean minimum).
by Fargren | 2025-06-21 10:00:40+00:00
Things can be challenging, easy, predictable, and trite and still be good. Garfield/Tetris/KFC is fine. There's not shame in enjoying it, and there's certainly no shame in working on it (or selling it).

Evolution and original stuff are amazing and we should want them to exist. To be disappointed because we also have stuff that isn't like that is to turn a blind eye to what makes up a lot of our life.
by Strom | 2025-06-21 10:01:20+00:00
The core difference is that when Twitch plays an ad, they'll never send you that part of the video. [1] So buffering doesn't help. If YouTube would do this, you could have a custom player that preloads enough of the video so that all ads could be automatically skipped and as a viewer you wouldn't notice their existence. However, on Twitch, even if you're willing to give up the live factor and would buffer, you still would have missing parts of the video where an ad was placed. So you would lose content. [2]

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[1] They do send a super low resolution stream with no audio, but not the actual quality you are watching in.

[2] Right now Twitch does not stop sending content in markets where they don't have ad inventory. So there are actually browser extensions already that will use a custom foreign market server to proxy the video during ad breaks, so that you can still have an 100% effective ad blocker.