MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Which is the best 100% India based cloud hosting service provider?
by pyeri | 2025-10-27 13:05:39+00:00
I'm a freelance web developer who develops apps and services for this local client, they're interested in shifting all cloud dependencies from foreign based services like Amazon AWS/EC2 to locally based companies here in India.

I'm aware that AWS already offers local instances here at Mumbai and Hyderabad (ap-south-1/2) but they want to remove foreign dependency completely for whatever reason.

My understanding is that most Indian cloud services are just in their infancy at this stage and still act as resellers of global providers like AWS or Alibaba Cloud, thus making them nothing more than costly middle-men or arbitrages. When I tried to put forth this point, the client asked me to research purely India based cloud hosting providers who aren't depending on any outside entities for their network infrastructure.

They're even prepared to pay a small premium on the hosting price if such a service exists. Their idea (I think) is to ensure that money is spent in the home country and doesn't leave the shores. If nothing turns out in my research, we might still have to continue using AWS but I want to give this a try at least. Do you know of any such genuine providers?
by jraph | 2025-10-27 13:05:52+00:00
> <!doctype html> is what you want for consistent rendering. Or <!DOCTYPE HTML> if you prefer writing markup like it’s 1998. Or even <!doCTypE HTml> if you eschew all societal norms. It’s case-insensitive so they’ll all work.

And <!DOCTYPE html> if you want polyglot (X)HTML.
by lostmsu | 2025-10-27 13:05:57+00:00
> myriad of other distros, or DIY options for that matter

Have you ever seen a working configuration? The only other distro that advertises it out of the box is Fedora. And maybe it is better in this respect than Ubuntu, but I already wasted a few days dealing with the fallout, so maybe I'll try it next year.

Manual - maybe. But is spending time learning yet another distro worth the Windows license?

re: malware/backdoored

I am not running self-wafered CPU, so backdoors at certain levels are outside of the threat model.

If anything, Ubuntu was "malware" in the sense that it didn't work as advertised. https://documentation.ubuntu.com/core/how-to-guides/manage-u...

> After entering a valid key, Ubuntu Core will decrypt the device, proceed with the boot, and restore the TPM from the recovered key. The recovery keys will remain the same and do not need to be retrieved again.

The restore TPM bit just didn't happen.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-27 13:07:53+00:00
>(And they also own a large chunk of the gaming industry nowadays).

They’re shuttering half their studios, cancelling half their games, and firing game devs by the thousands as they hand halo over to PlayStation lol. You’re technically right but they clearly aren’t taking that part of their business seriously anymore. IIRC Gamepass has plateaued on subscribers for years now even prior to their very aggressive price hikes over the last 18 months.

I saw an article the other day that said Microsoft is telling developers they have to have a 30% return on their games, which is almost double the industry standard. That’s just absurd.

Edit: worth mentioning that you have people openly speculating at this point that they might not even make another Xbox. I’m not quite in that camp, but I also think it is a distinct possibility given the back slide they are clearly in right own when it comes to gaming. Fun fact: It’s been 4 console cycles, almost 25 years, since we saw a major player drop out.
by snayan | 2025-10-27 13:08:13+00:00
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm not suggesting there's no value in the act of creation.

I think the author has been telling himself that he derived joy from the act of creating, but his comments suggest otherwise, he was deriving joy from a false belief of what being a coder meant, about what it would provide him. There's a mismatch between what he believes he's getting out of coding, vs what he's actually getting.

Put another way, reality is reality, there is no right reality, or wrong reality. Perceiving it as right or wrong is just our ego trying to bend reality to match our beliefs.
by zkmon | 2025-10-27 13:08:47+00:00
From my little knowledge, logic at Quantum scale appears quite different:

* Things don't have their own location or identity

* Spatial and temporal extents don't exist

* Something may be true and false at the same time, or concept of true and false may not be defined

* cause and effect goes for a toss, as behavior of time is different

* Existence and non-existence co-exist, or come into existence together

Similar effects at relatively-infinite scale (maybe purely mathematical)

* Comparisons (big/small/equal) breakdown

* Regular arithmetic and logic breaks down
by nativeit | 2025-10-27 13:09:05+00:00
Assuming it deals somehow with the folks who use it for revenge porn, deep fakes of non-consenting parties, and depictions of minors…has it said anything about doing that? Has anyone? Does anyone know the legal implications of generating mass quantities of sexual exploitation, or is this just another thing with AI that society will have to simply tolerate in the name of “progress”?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-27 13:09:14+00:00
>When someone is allegedly an il_legal_ immigrant, t

When someone is allegedly a murderer, or a thief, or a vandal, or whatever... a trial is needed to determine guilt or innocence.

But when they arrest someone for those things, the preliminary process allows police to determine someone's identity. Their address, things of that nature. Their basic information. Basic information is all that is needed to determine whether or not someone is a citizen. There is no trial needed to determine citizenship.

>Due process in the constitution guarantees that individuals (including non-citizens facing deportation) have the opportunity to defend themselves in court

No, you attended public school and someone had you memorize "due process" in 3rd grade and you never were taught what it meant. It does not guarantee "a defense in court", because in this case there is no crime to defend against. No one's wanting to send them to prison. In the simplest terms, due process is the idea that the government must have a process for a particular legal proceeding, and that if someone must undergo that proceeding they get the same process everyone else does. If rich people were getting to skip out of the proceeding, or get a shortened one, but you had to go through the entire thing... it'd be a due process violation. Or alternatively if you wanted that proceeding and they were getting to skip it (say you had a full 30 day period to file, but they canceled your filing that same day) you'd have a due process violation.
by gpderetta | 2025-10-27 13:09:41+00:00
If you constantly switch between two tasks from the bottom of their call stack (as for stackless coroutines) and your stack switching code is inlined, then you can mostly avoid the mispaired call/ret penalty.

Also, if you control the compiler, an option is to compile all call/rets in and out of "io" code in terms of explicit jumps. A ret implemented as pop+indirect jump will be less less predictable than a paired ret, but has more chances to be predicted than an unpaired one.

My hope is that, if stackful coroutines become more mainstreams, CPU microarchitectures will start using a meta-predictor to chose between the return stack predictor and the indirect predictor.
by anthk | 2025-10-27 13:09:45+00:00
Ah, very Germanic tactics against some Mediterranean foe. Us, Southern Mediterranean/half Atlantic guys, we have it easier. We would just put fake data, hints and traces untl they get mad and paranoid between themselves, we are experts on that since forever.

Also, the Southern part of the country (which I am pretty much not related culturally at least on folklore and tons of customs) managed to bribe even the Russian mafias. They were that crazy, it's like a force of nature. OFC don't try backstabbing back these kind of people, some 'folklorical' people are pretty much clan/family based (even more than the Southern Italians) and they will kick your ass back in the most unexpected, random and non-spectacular way ever, pretty much the opposite of the Mexican cartels where they love to do showoff and displays. No, the Southern Iberians are something else, mixed along Atlantics and Mediterranean people since millenia and they know all the tricks, either from the Brits/Germanics to Levantine Semitic foes...

You won't expect it. You are like some Mossad random Levi, roaming around, and you just met some nice middle aged woman on a stereotyped familiar bar where the alleged ties to some clan must be nearly zero, and the day after some crazy Islamic terrorist wacko with ties to drug cartels will try to stab you some Sunday in the morning and he might try to succeed with the dumbest and cheapest way ever.

No, is not an exaggeration. We might not be Italy, but don't try to mess up with some kind of people. My country is not Mafia-bound, but criminal cartels, mafias and OFC some terror groups from the Magreb (and these bound to the Middle East ones) have deals with each other because of, you know, weapons and money. And Marbella it's pretty much a hub.
by suriya-ganesh | 2025-10-27 13:10:28+00:00
I'm quite curious about this decision. There is no definitive way/benefit to "not leave the shores". You're only bypassing only one layer and paying 2x premium to give money away to the hardware builders (who are all out of shore anyway.)

is this a company specifically focusing on indigenous growth product. or is that irrelevant to their core product?
by amrocha | 2025-10-27 13:10:31+00:00
Canadians love to exaggerate how cold it gets.

None of the 4 biggest Canadian cities have EVER had -40C temperatures. No, wind chill does not count.

In fact, most years they’re not even getting to -30C, and if it does happen it’s only for 1 to 2 days. The rest of the time you’re dealing with average -10C, which China also regularly deals with. But guess what, even if you can’t use your EV one day out of 364 days that’s not that big a deal. Most people should just stay home that day.

The source is I’m Canadian and lived in Ottawa for a decade.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-27 13:10:36+00:00
Interesting, this post mentions two views but glosses over what many (most? I don't know) Americans have always believed: That we humans are inherently corrupt and evil by nature and need to be taught to do good and need to have a spiritual rebirth (the term is "born again") to transform our nature. The "born again" part from what I understand is mainly evangelized by protest Christians but the rest is consistent across all denominations.

I know that the percentage of Christians has declined over the years, back in the early days of the country they used to even have mass at congress every Sunday. So, fair to say the amount of Americans who believe this has declined, but still a significant portion.

Nevertheless, Ben Franklin and the rest may have been famous but they by no means reflect the beliefs of the masses at the time. As much as Obama, AOC and Tom Cruise's beliefs don't reflect modern American's views.

It's quite the contrast. across societies, even people isolated from the rest of humanity for thousands of years, you'll find the same moral failures such as murder, rape, invasions and wars of aggression, prejudice,etc.. The view that "the world corrupts us" is hard to buy, even when we have everything we could possibly want (think healthy billionaire good), our moral character doesn't change, even when one is born into that life. Even without considering complexities like the meaning of morality, by a person's own accepted beliefs of morality and ethics, we fail by default. we do what is convenient over what we believe is right.

The title of "You are how you act" is sort of true, but it is more accurate to say "You are how you decide". If we're programs, a program is the instructions it executes. The input data it processes and the execution environment will decide which instructions it processes for sure, and most bugs are triggered by specific input, but that does not change the fact that the bugs exist as an inherent nature of the program. And for us at least, we prefer to execute the most efficient (convenient) instructions instead of the most correct.
by nu11ptr | 2025-10-27 13:10:46+00:00
I did some quick research. I knew Rust ABI was unstable, but I didn't realize you could create Rust ABI dynlib and Rust would automatically dynamically link it. For intra-app it would work just fine. Neat. Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75903098/dynamic-linking...

However, I don't see what advantage this gives. You are going to specify that dependency in your Cargo.toml just like any statically linked crate. Anything that would invalidate the cache for a static crate would invalidate it for a dynamic linked crate. Iow, it seems like separate crates are the magic here, not the linking type. What am I missing?

Thanks for the build stats. Those are helpful. I have an M1 Max currently.

UPDATE: Good points below. As a dynlib it would create a boundary for sure (no LTO, etc.). Worth playing with, thx.
by ragazzina | 2025-10-27 13:11:18+00:00
>someone who just wants to get by in life and is content

"It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does."
by croon | 2025-10-27 13:11:33+00:00
> For covid once infected ... and thus more likely to go about their business as usual (and thus spread the virus) than to stay home like unvaccinated.

> As a result the vaccinated people do possibly spread more infection than unvaccinated.

You are using a subset of the groups to argue around the entire groups.

If the entire (much larger) group of vaccinated got infected at a rate of unvaccinated, your argument would hold, but they don't and it doesn't.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-27 13:11:34+00:00
It might as well be a warzone ....

> https://www.google.com/search?q=california+declares+war+on+t...

> California has not declared war on Texas, but the states are engaged in a "redistricting war," a political struggle over drawing new congressional maps. This "war" is a symbolic conflict between the states' differing political parties and aims to gain an advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives, with California attempting to counterbalance Texas's Republican-drawn map.

If numerous publications are referring to your country having a war, then it might as well be ok for a lay-person to use the word.
by onionisafruit | 2025-10-27 13:11:45+00:00
> It makes two characters that look identical to the eye look as two completely different tokens internally in the network. A smiling emoji looks like a weird token, not an... actual smiling face, pixels and all

This goes against my limited understanding of how LLMs work — and computers generally for that matter. Isn’t that rendering of a smiling emoji still just a series of bits that need to be interpreted as a smiley face? The similar looking characters point makes more sense to me though assuming it’s something along the lines of recognizing that “S” and “$” are roughly the same thing except for the line down the middle. Still that seems like something that doesn’t come up much and is probably covered by observations made in the training corpus.

All that said, Karpathy knows way more than I will ever know on the subject, and I’m only posting my uninformed take here in hopes somebody will correct me in a way I understand.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-27 13:11:52+00:00
So here's the thing. We dont have free trade with China and Auto manufacturing is something have the resources to do and export. The tariff will be something and it's going to be high because we protect our jobs and markets. Not to mention heavy investment from the government. Canada produces far more cars than we need for ourselves, it's an export focus.

China then tariffed us on canola for example; but the Federal liberals arent going to melt down Ontario for the benefit a few thousand western farmers who will never vote liberal.

Counterpoint though, stellantis and GM are essentially exitting Canada due to Trump. Essentially every single car manufacturer has commented they are exitting Canada and we're penalizing them all. Has trump forced us into the hands of China and Europe?
by ndegruchy | 2025-10-27 13:12:00+00:00
I do.

`<thead>` and `<tfoot>`, too, if they're needed. I try to use all the free stuff that HTML gives you without needing to reach for JS. It's a surprising amount. Coupled with CSS and you can get pretty far without needing anything. Even just having `<template>` with minimal JS enables a ton of 'interactivity'.
by patrickcneuhaus | 2025-10-27 13:12:18+00:00
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It's an alternative to either treating DNS as "set and forget", or doing manual checks / DIY scripts.

Why? From Microsoft to ServiceNow to my own previous startup, domain issues are common and fly under the radar — website visitors usually spot them before devs do. I'm talking: - SSL certificate expiry/validity - Unused subdomains at risk of a takeover - Email configs (DKIM/DMARC/SPF/MX...) - HSTS/CSP - DNSSEC - Typosquats

The list goes on... and that's what led me to build Httpeace.

I'd like to invite you to try it out: it's free forever to audit and monitor one domain.

I'll be super grateful for any feedback and hope to help you catch and prevent any problems with your domains!

Cheers, Patrick
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-27 13:12:23+00:00
This is just outright FUD from this person. Or just ignorance combined with a need to be heard, I don't know.

I lived in Edmonton and surrounding rural Alberta for the first 25 years of my life, the most northern and cold major city in the country and it does not get to -40 unless you're counting wind chill, and cars don't feel wind chill, people do.

An EV has no real problems operating in typical Canadian weather, less problems than a gas car in fact. Yes, they lose efficiency but so do gas and diesel vehicles.

And sodium ion batteries are now entering mass production, which have no efficiency loss in extremely cold weather, and in fact will outperform ICE in this regard (though their power density is lower than lithium ion)
by tux1968 | 2025-10-27 13:12:37+00:00
I'm all ears if you want to explain how you have a magic soul that is too important and beautiful to ever be equalled by a machine. But if intelligence is not equivalent to computation, then what is it? Don't take the easy way out of asking me to define it, you define it as something other than the ability to successfully apply computation to the environment.

Was Hellen Keller not intelligent because she lacked the ability to see or hear? Is intelligence defined by a particular set of sense organs? A particular way of interacting with the environment? What about paraplegics, are they disqualified from being considered intelligent because they lack the same embodied experience as others?

Whenever you give someone kudos for being brilliant, it is always for their ability to successfully compute something. If that isn't what we're discussing when we're talking about intelligence, then what are we discussing?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-27 13:12:38+00:00
>Use the existing social security verification system, 5x fines median salary per year of suspected employment.

You explain how to punish them, not how to determine that they deserve punishment. This fixes absolutely nothing. "Social security" won't find anything, because everyone working for those businesses has a social security number (even if it's not their own). To determine those are fake or misused, the government would have to get access to the deep HR paperwork, which would require search warrants and subpoenas, in other words, it would require "probable cause". That isn't going to happen.

>But the goal actually is to have a section of society scared to report employer abuse

Yeh, probably. But nothing you've described could help to change that circumstance.
by gregoriol | 2025-10-27 13:12:51+00:00
Can only agree on that: took 5 ferries this summer from 5 to 18 hours, and it's almost always a very nice experience. You have to be ready for "rough" seas though, may be a problem for some. Even the wait time before getting on the ship can be a good time to chat with other travellers. And you see things you wouldn't see from land.
by bhouston | 2025-10-27 13:12:55+00:00
Meta's censorship policies reflect the ideology of their owner.

They have loosened hate speech restrictions in some areas to curry favour with Trump but declared that Zionism is a protected category while they have banned a ton of Palestinian voices:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/meta-new-poli...

https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/metas-zionism-zionist-h...

https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palesti...

It is all inconsistent.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 13:13:02+00:00
My experience as well, my background is enterprise development - mostly what would be classed as the M in SME (Small-Medium Enterprise) with forays into the big E and all of them fell down on even basic security in so many many ways.

Example: at the largest place I worked (5000 staff, 200 in Dev/QA) I found out by accident that the outsourced devs where using personal laptops when in a sprint meeting I asked where someone was and got back "His work machine died, he's nipped home to get his personal laptop".

That company constantly raved about how good it's security posture was...

I spoke to my oppo number on the IT/platform team and his response was "yeah we know that happens, I've been trying to get them to ban it/make it impossible for a while".
by Fricken | 2025-10-27 13:13:19+00:00
They especially aren't our friends if we go out of our way to make enemies with them. Why would we do that? It doesn't make any sense. It's a small world, China isn't going anywhere, we're stuck living on the same planet as them. They aren't going to have less of an influence on our affairs in the future going forward.

Canada has a long standing problem. The only thing we've ever been good at is natural resource extraction. Ironically we have several world class universities producing very talented people and IP, and the vast majority of it goes to the states to make money. Then here in Canada we carry on digging stuff out of the ground.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-10-27 13:13:51+00:00
There has been proven a link between smoking cessation and an increased risk of autoimmune diseases [1].

Maybe something related is going on when you quit working with something like asbestos, and once you "settle down", your body is no longer under constant attack, so cancers happen ?

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17153844/