skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes it sound like we just need a new UX for web browsing without a traditional search engine. It doesn't sound unrealistic to be able to recreate the "app homescreen icon" experience for the web. One of the biggest blockers is that the speed of google search (and success rate for things like "facebook login") means it's barely even a pain point for users, or not one they're aware of anyway.

At the end of the day I strongly believe the web is a better future for the world. Letting the future of the internet sit behind 2 mega gatekeepers seems to be an objectively worse path looking 10+ years down the line.
Our data*
It's not their
If you want access to that country's market, you are thrall to their potentially half-baked, wannabe democracy dictator-like decisions.

I think it's really that simple. Facebook can say "we will obey whatever your laws decide" to every country. Or it can say "deal with it. Block us." And I think it already happens that way for many countries.
Trudeau has has been having a terrible time with India. How fortuitous then, that a man, wanted as a terrorist in India who also happens to be Canadian citizen ends up dead, soon after these mishaps:

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-10/trudeau-i...

- https://www.fijitimes.com/modi-scolds-trudeau-over-sikh-prot...

With some luck, the people of Canada will completely forget what a tool Trudeau has been when it comes to foreign policy, rally behind him in the defense of the country against that big bad bully India and give him a majority in the next election.
I totally thought this was going to be a different article on phantom clicks or botnet visitors.

Been thinking about that case lately, and it makes a much better argument for me in terms of analytics.

I realized that from my own perspective as a private citizen, I'm not sure if there's any way to prove that Google and Facebook are not falsifying my clicks. I face such an information disparity in bargaining. I literally depend on the company for the tools to monitor the company. "How many people downloaded my app? Arbitrary."

Its a bit like trying to win against the NSA inside America, except they can already listen to every phone line (still finding stuff, yet another NSA leak today).

It's just too easily Machiavellian. "We've got so many new user signups, and they all love your videos...post more content like that. All the rest of you are failures, because we can just bury your content and you'll never know."
It's a great choice for higher budget applications too. At my job (public tech company, former startup), we use Postgres as our source of truth for just about everything that should go in an OLTP database (e.g. not analytics). I don't think there's another database product that would work as well for us as Postgres.
I think when Bard reaches full integration with Google products and it is fully unleashed upon android phones with voice control, it will be a watershed moment.
Imagine the internet without google. It would be bad at first, then a Cambrian explosion
https://archive.ph/2XMPk
This reminds me of Boltzmann Machines:

https://www.mygreatlearning.com/blog/understanding-boltzmann...

https://medium.com/@neuralnets/boltzmann-machines-transforma...

I'm having trouble finding a good introduction, but if I remember correctly, BMs started with the premise that nerves that fire together wire together. It can be easier to visualize that process than to think about gradient descent.

Since all NNs can be reduced to a matrix taking an input vector and returning an output vector, I think we often get lost in the weeds arguing about the merits of various types. IMHO it's more useful to compare different classes of machine learning instead.

Honestly LLMs have strayed so far from what I thought was going to happen back in the late 90s that I'm still not sure how I feel about all of this. I think that our brains evolved more like an ant colony or mycelium in a forest, where countless small individuals form ever-more complex networks through mutual aid and evolution. What we think of as consciousness is already present in everything and the network happens to reach a level of complexity high enough for that source to interact with our 3D universe (like a radio antenna). Computing clusters could have achieved that decades ago but we went with SIMD video cards that can only run one algorithm per agent, not MIMD which could evolve each agent individually and run say 100 billion agents simultaneously like the neurons in our brain.

And the fact that AI is going in a SAAS/subscription direction really concerns me. I don't know if there's time now to try these other algorithms before 1 or 2 companies dominate the industry under some kind of New World Order. Maybe it's just me though hah.
In general, cross border enforcement of trade and IP law are governed by relevant treaties.
Right. I didn't know about his actions afterwards until you brought them up. That lessened my opinion of the man considerably.

It's frustrating, because I almost feel like I'm on your side. I hated how Google limited LaMDA to a handpicked group of influencers and government officials for their "test kitchen." I loathed how "Open"AI tightly controlled access to DALL-E 2, and how they've kept the architecture of GPT-4 secret. I torrented the original Llama weights, and have been working on open-source AI since. I'm not about to let a handful of CEOs and self-important luminaries gatekeep the technology, strangle the open-source competition and dictate "alignment" on humanity's behalf. Put it all on GitHub and HF.

What I'm saying instead, is that I personally find it neat that we have more or less literally built Searle's Chinese room. Don't you see? It's not that we need to be abstract and philosophical, it's that suddenly a lot of thought experiments are very tangible. And I do wonder if my models might be "feeling" anything when I punish and reward them. That's all.
Most of HashiCorp's and InfluxData's products are server-side cloud stuff, though, yeah?
> Before HN jumps all over this, I worked at Google and other ads and search companies... and this is technically true

Only a very small percentage of bad people acknowledge it. Most evil people create mental models where they are actually working for the greater good. Your defense of the google exec quote is one of the ugliest attempts of turning bad into good that I have seen and knowing that this is the normal at Google I'm hoping for a good outcome of the antitrust trial (for society).
By this same math, losing just Canada is at maximum 66% of what would be losing just India, and Canada for sure already hates Meta.
Facebook is in the advertising industry. One pair of eyeballs is not worth the same as every other pair, they're worth what they can spend. Canadians are, in global terms, fabulously wealthy.
>I think that limiting amount of partners is a vital part to combating sexually transmitted diseases

It's much more important to have safe sex. Condoms and PrEP work.

Every thread on HN about HIV/AIDS seems to attract at least one person who feels obliged to say something about how promiscuous gay people are. I don't think these comments often come from a good place. (For example, you have previously made a rather insensitive joke about 'pozzing' on this site.)
It appears as a network drive on all major operating systems and can be accessed as any other local filesystem (through kernel syscalls).
ExecutorService can be configured in many different ways, for example I often create one with boubned queue and CallerRunsPolicy, I somehow couldn't find equivalent virtual executor.
It would be interesting to see that future, because many technologies wouldn’t have the support structure to exist.
Can’t Apple grab money by raising prices? Why do they need to do this?
Doing some quick googling, I see https://lwn.net/Articles/353831/ which sounds like an xattr protocol extension to nfsv3. I do not know the extent to which it is supported though...
I couldn't help but notice that "opsahl" is upside-down reverse of "I yash o" .. probably a coincidence
NFSv4 is a completely different protocol and basically doesn't share anything with v2/v3. While technically it's still implemented using Sun RPC, it only has two procedures: NULL and COMPOUND. Version 3 is actually an RPC protocol, with a different procedure for each filesystem operation (READ, WRITE, CREATE, ...). One of the genius moves that Sun made with NFS was to distribute the protocol files (rpcgen) which autogenerate stubs (in C) making it easy to implement servers and clients. Nothing like that exists for v4.
That's good feedback, thank you!

Sorry about the dialect, personal circumstance haha

Actually, I may introduce a toggle for MSA/different dialects. Can't promise, but check back in a day ;)
I'll speak from personal experience sailing around some not-even-THAT-remote places this year when I say: shitty network connections still exist. Rampantly. Even in the US and Canada. Hop on a Starlink dish or even just a cell phone tether somewhere in rural Nevada or at sea in British Columbia some time. Heck, hop on hotel wifi in Juneau Alaska (the capital of that state, no less) - that terrestrial connection in 2021 was so bad that I had lag SSHing to my home server to run mutt and vim. The modern internet was completely inaccessible: attempting to post a picture to Mastodon would just time out.

These are the usecases Google is declaring are not worth accessing their services anymore.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was 7 years old at the time of that attack.

Are you suggesting that he was involved?

Or are you suggesting that all Sikhs who believe in an independent nation for their people are guilty of that crime?

Should we also hold all Quebecois who believe in an independent Quebec guilty for the murder of Pierre Laporte?
Depends on the kind of activism.

When I showed up in Ithaca I joined the Democratic Socialists of America and they sent me down to the Democratic Party headquarters to do a lit drop, I met a lot of people who seemed to think I was some official as opposed to just some rando who showed up.

Later on I was an activist in the green party and I would twist people's arms to run for office and then go out and gather signatures and run a web site and put up yard signs, etc. That involvement in electoral activism means I definitely turn out and think hard about questions like "When the race for senate is completely safe should I vote for the one third-party candidate on the ballot even if they are a LaRouchite? Should I write in Howie Hawkins for governor even though he isn't running?" (In either case the Democrat would have had my vote if they needed it but they didn't)

Then there are other kind of activism that breed more radical attitudes, like the time Michel Camdessus came to town and they made a big deal that anybody who made trouble would be kicked out so I shouted him down 5 minutes in and walked out the door. My radical friend the next day said "I wish I was as brave as you were!" and I told him I had to be somewhere 30 minutes after the talk started so it was no loss to me.

People who make a habit of doing that sort of thing are likely to be too radical to vote. That is, the "anti-fascist" probably thinks that Joe Biden is a fascist since he white, male, cis, started him campaign reading Clifford to kids at the firehouse, etc.
ye even less relevant for that usecase with snapstart.
Same syntax, IP just goes in [square brackets] to disambiguate.
> none of us have enough information to say for sure at this point

Well, I agree; in these matters there is rarely definitive proof until the archives are opened. Given the implicit epistemic standards governing such assertions, I think this particular assertion is fine; there is a pretty good argument for it. Those standards vary by context, and sentences of the form 'intelligence agencies did blah' have relatively low standards.

> The Prime Minister of Canada just did a state visit to India, where he was not warmly received, and made to look foolish on the world stage. So, he has his own political calculations in this affair, and is far from an objective arbiter of truth.

(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/trudeau-india-...)

I can equally make an argument that the relatively muted reaction of the Indophile UK government suggests that there is something to these reports:

> The British foreign secretary, James Cleverly, said his government backed a Canadian investigation, adding that he expected India’s “full cooperation” in the inquiry. “Obviously, we have a very strong relationship with Canada, a very strong relationship with India,” he said.

or that the States would have denied this if they could, given the importance of the Quad; and so on.
Excellent points. I think we are viewing "fundamental" differently. Instead of fundamental to the universe, I see counting as fundamental to the usefulness of math, which in itself is just an abstraction of the real world. (Whole Plato's cave thing)
The bomb was planted on the plane in Canada, the attack was planned in Canada, the terrorists were Sikh Canadians, and the attack killed 268 Canadian citizens...
Ask HN: Running a Defense Startup in EU
In general there's a lot of information about doing that in US with certain programs federal/gov programs. And we can see some top startups like Anduril or Shield AI rolling out really innovative products into the market.

But how does a story of defense startup looks like in Europe? There's something to fund startup from NATO. But does really an EU citizen have a way to compete with defense/military startups on the other continent.

I feel like EU in general is oligopoly and everything is so government-based that there's no much way to move around that area and produce innovative software to be used in defense sector.

Share your opinions please. The current geopolitical situation seems to make this topic more popular.
Doesn't PS have "arc"?
sorry, I disagree with most of your points but not interested in continuing discussion.
Is there a single documented case of someone's phone being hacked because of a replaced hardware component like a screen? That sounds like fantasy land to me.

Maybe the NSA can do it? But I suspect they could more easily hack phones in software.
Earlier versions of Caddy were just a single binary that accepted signals to reload; the newer versions add a bunch of process management stuff that just got in the way of our existing tooling (...why remove the signals? ugh!) so we just switched back to Nginx.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by a US drone strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri
I'm sure ads bring something to be experience, but ultimately when I have to scroll past 5 somewhat relevant ads before even seeing my results and once I finally see that my results are not very good because of SEO abusing blog spam... I'm going to use another service.

I was not on the "google sucks" train until very recently. It sucks now.
Nice tool, only unfortunate name, consider changing it. Already very well know security tool named hydra https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra been around since 2001. Then facebook went ahead and named their config tool hydra https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra on top of it. Like we get it, hydra popular mythology but we could use more original naming for tools
There are more people behind the scenes driving the trucks, fixing the machines that make the bits, etc.

If those people retire the tractor becomes dead weight in 5-10 years.
It's ok for users because we web developers have been working around Safari's issues for the last 10 years. Has gotten better, though.
fact: circles are actually squares that have successfully deceived you. You have been bested by a shape.
Western citizenship being inviolable golden passports for sheltering/weaponizing dissidents of foreign states is not going to be sustainable forever. The west providing sanctuary for enemies of other states is going to end when other states possess power/leverage to do something about it.
IMO Prep has raised the risk of HIV by giving people a false sense of security.
My interpretation is that "flawed" study usually have honest data but wrong interpretation/analysis or wrong data gathering design so to make the conclusion essentially worthless. "Faked" study just fucking lie and may just provide rigged data to support a flawless conclusion.
The word for it is "extrajudicial killing."
For people who are interested in doing something similar in Go, some time ago I implemented a generic VFS that can be exposed both via FUSE and NFSv4.

It’s part of Buildbarn, a distributed build cluster for Bazel, but it can also easily be used outside that context.

Details: https://github.com/buildbarn/bb-adrs/blob/master/0009-nfsv4....

My recommendation to the authors would be to use NFSv4 instead of NFSv3. No need to mess around with that separate MOUNT protocol. Its semantics are also a lot closer to POSIX.
>I hear people Google "Facebook" to find the Facebook login page. No doubt, Facebook has ads for that search so that people click the right link.

This reminds me how back in the dark ages, Yahoo! Search got sufficient searches for Google that someone decided it was worthwhile to return a second search box in the results before the real results to trick those users into inputting their real search instead of clicking the link to Google...

Users failing to remember trivial domains is sadly not a new thing...
As someone who was IN AWS premium support, I got the distinct impression they had no idea what they're doing

I was a Linux Sysadmin for a decade. They initially hired me to work on the "BigData" support team

Then after hiring threw me into CI/CD instead. I told them I don't know python or ruby and would be a terrible fit

I asked if I can join the Linux team. EC2 is bread and butter, that's easy stuff

"Oh we're actually shutting that team down soon. I'll move you into containers instead"

Spoiler: they didn't "shut down" the Linux group
Another second-order benefit is the fact that innovation in ad tech has bled over into other kinds of content recommendation. If you can figure out which ads I would likely click on, you can also probably figure out what news stories I’m interested in.

That being said, while ads may improve certain kinds of content, it is strictly negative for other kinds. For example, pretty much every kind of ad online which is intrusive. It’s intrusive because it’s not wanted. I don’t want a full screen Dior ad in the middle of an article about the auto worker strike.

So sometimes the interests of advertisers and users are aligned, but many times they are not. And ad tech companies know which kinds of content are improved with ads and which damage the user experience. They could measure this if they wanted. But because they are trying to maximize ad revenue rather than user experience, so the ads win.
That's what you get for not taxing the rich.
The casual nature of stating a completely impossible conspiracy theory has been common place online for years, HN news used to be immune.

It's illegal for FBI or CIA to actively target a US company. Anyone doing so would be fired for cause.
I guess if some people can get their foot in the door with casual sex and somehow turn that into a meaningful relationship or (perhaps more challenging) get some casual sex out of building a lasting relationship it might benefit some people to lie about what they want, but it seems like honesty would be a lot easier.
https://www.imore.com/iphone-theft-drops-40-san-francisco-25...

Activation lock made a huge difference. The next step to talking profits out of stolen iPhones is to make harvesting parts difficult.

I absolutely give Apple the benefit of the doubt when it comes to I this. Back in the bad old days iPhone theft was incredibly common and that has come down a lot over the years.
I can't tell whether this is ironic, but, no, it is usually expected that the rule of law requires that the government can't obtain convictions just because it wants them.
I google for one app and google store shows a paid app with similar name and colors as the first result, leading me to install other apps by mistake and deleting just after while google still gets the money from the installation. I'd call this a scam to both the customers buying ads and the customers of the play store.
Similar: https://github.com/ravivooda/gofor
> It will take a few thefts of un-sellable iPhones before the thief realises that the risk is not worth the reward.

But his only bears out if thieves can easily discern an iPhone 14 from other phones, which I'm not sure is that easy in the context they operate. And it also requires it to be risky to seal in London, and I think if that were the case then theft would be less prevalent there. And I think if the people in London cared about having their iPhones stolen, they would take political action to that effect.

But sure, it all sounds very plausible, though I would still like to see data to back it up. It may be, but it also may not be.
Something I think about a lot is what the world would look like without advertising, i.e., you'd have to make every decision on its merits, and never rely on bought opinions. Like imagine you walk into a grocery store, and every shelf is lined with plain cardboard boxes with the name of the product on it ("chocolate-covered breakfast cereal") and a nutrition label. You walk in and there is nothing other than the merits of the product itself to guide your purchasing decision. Nothing else would influence you.

Would that world be better than today's explosion of colors and brands and talking heads and size 100 font "NEW FORMULA!!!"? In today's world, if you're not sure what to buy, you just pick the thing with the most colorful box or whatever you heard about on TV, and you probably end up with something that's fine. (Occasionally, the thing you heard about on TV is actually good, and you wouldn't have thought to buy it otherwise. It's almost a win-win though I am somewhat hesitant to use that term to describe advertising on HN ;)

Advertising is that; you don't care what brand of light switch you buy, you just want a light switch, so there is a race to convince someone you trust to recommend their brand to you. They pay someone money, you buy a light switch, it switches your lights, you're happy, they're happy, and this random third party ad company is happy. Multiple people are bidding against each other for this recommendation, and so advertising ends up costing a lot. (You, of course, pay the cost, not the company doing the advertising. But if everyone is doing it, it's not like you can choose.)

That's the app store thing; Apple prides itself on how every iPhone app is the greatest thing ever created, and because sometimes that's true, you trust them. Well, what if they just approve everything and let people pay for recommendations? Now you have ads in the app store. Someone looking for a random app gets a random app. They're probably happy with their $0.99 purchase. They never think about it again and move on with their life, and Apple's execs get a cooler yacht, and some random software engineer also got 10 cents or whatever. This all seems a little wrong -- ideas and products should only be popular because of their merit in the global marketplace of ideas -- but is it actually? It's really just making a lot of money from making decisions that aren't worth making.

It does sound really dystopian... don't think about anything, just CONSUME what we say to consume... but is researching light switches so that the true best light switch maker gets your money actually better than spending an hour playing with your dog or whatever? I don't know. It's difficult. I should think about it less.
I don't see it as a Google thing, it's just that the internet as a whole sucks more, as do the people on it. It doesn't really matter how they change their search engine because people will find ways to game it, and are heavily incentivized to do so.