skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not think there is enough data to base this statement on. I am not aware of any high quality surveys or polling or better that would assess what overlap there is between people who highly favor freedom, with those who highly favor the 2nd Amendment, with those who highly oppose porn, with those who highly favor face scans.
Privacy must be a tier 1 feature of a web browser.

The fact the market leader goes out of their way to shit all over privacy concerns says more about their marketing pull than the quality of their browser.
I don't agree with the fatalistic attitude. At the very least it makes it too easy to strengthen surveillance. Legal restrictions can be imposed.
> Is my intuition correct that non startup big tech is setting up shop in other cities

Yes, but not a lot really. It might change very rapidly though.

> Bangalore is such a waste of a good city

True

> If they'd scaled up

Yes..

> other than a few nice neighborhoods, Bangalore feels a little too slummy for a metro city

Not true
> with graceful fallback

Have you ever tried to stop having an Apple device? Hopefully better now, but a few years ago there was no way to unlink iMessage. So say good bye to all your Apple friends, as them texting you goes to the Apple cloud and not your new phone.
I'm really surprised people still pretend they don't know it's not only about the bubble color
Having to BUY a vote explicitly removes any consideration of it being any form of democracy. Democracy requires suffrage as a right, not a commodity.
> Building things that are outside the reach of AI because they're in places you entirely control

This sounds great in principle, but I'd say "outside the reach of AI" is a much higher bar than one would naively think. You don't merely need to avoid its physical nervous system (digital perception/control), but rather prevent its incentives leaking in from outside interaction. All the while there is a strong attractor to just give in to the "AI" because it's advantageous. Essentially regardless of how you set up a space, humans themselves become agents of AI.

There are strong parallels between "AI" and centralizing debt-fueled command-capitalism which we've been suffering for several decades at least. And I haven't seen any shining successes at constraining the power of the latter.
And Langfuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37310070
Genuine question - can a topic really be `opertunistic` or is that author typo? I love these `referer`-type misspellings that become fossilized over generations
"Screw the poor more"

is accurate if you ignore that a large portion of the poor don't have access to a reliable vehicle; and that commutes lead to community segmentation and increase inequality.

And that's part of policy point of this. If traffic is decreased, and premium parking is a luxury; then a community is forced into a more local economy that's less dependent on the cars - be it walkable or usable public transit.

More info https://inequality.org/research/public-transit-inequality/
I have to admit, that discussing this topic is forcing a precision in the vocabulary used to discuss reason.

However, it is a TEDIOUS process. It’s simplest to just make something - the parallel prompts scenario for example.

Can you leave your LLMs to their own business, and will they have a workable product at the end of it?

As you said it would seem as if they have the “knowledge” of the task. It should not be an issue.

However you will not get anywhere. The issue isnt in the LLM - the issue is in misunderstanding what is going on, and therefore expectations.

LLMs don’t notice things - in the human manner you assumed they do. It isnt point out gaps, its repeating text patterns.

Our habit of dealing with humans is filling in these gaps and supporting an assumption of ‘noticing’ or ‘improvement’.

I think it is hard for us to consider changes in text, without seeing the changes in meaning as well.

With LLMs you have to accept that it’s not seeing meaning, it’s just seeing correlation.
I'd wager that most workers doing 12 hour days aren't enjoying themselves.
Sure, it won't offer exactly the same affordance but the OP mentioned rare downtimes like electricity going out (rare here is used generously, obviously some places see this happen often).

Providing a read-only, static version of the services, particularly toots and blog posts, while the origin is unreachable is straightforward and inexpensive.

Somewhat related, the Solar Protocol [0] does something like this to host websites across an array of solar-powered servers across the globe.
http://solarprotocol.net/
Yeah, people can get irrational about such things (like ignoring that they're only paying when they choose to rather than paying every month automatically).

But the solution to this is to offer both forms, as several companies do.
The other way to do it is ssh to remote box, `tcpdump -w foo.pcap` there, then bring it back by scp and you can open it for analysis in full wireshark.
Not as easy as a wireless switch
cspell works as a guide, but not as a rejection/auto correction. It’s okish but it does not solve intent. It‘s perfect for comments tough
Correlated subqueries are absolutely fine and are equivalent to (possibly lateral) joins. They aren't as easy to identify and optimize as such, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend them, but sometimes they make sense. Not an issue with a good query planner and if they clarify a query.
I find Rails API-mode hard to work with, integrating the frontend towards Rails crud-like api is cumbersome because of all the endpoints you have to manully work with.

While using Rails own templating engine creates all the links and urls for you!
Seersucker
Same. EFF is the one organization I will always send my money to
Nice work, Lexi. Let me add that your design skills are pretty excellent as well.
How many more gTLDs does the world need? Honestly? Perhaps we could add one for every single letter in the Latin alphabet, what.a goo.d ide.a! Let's also add one for all common English suffixes too: .ion would be great to have, as well as .ed and both .ally and .ly exist already. And there are also non-English languages, too!

Of course, .too, .already, .enough, and .please would be amazing additions as well.
"Third: Package it nicely.
Ideally, your customer should be able to download a zip with an executable and some config files from a well designed enterprise page - or get a URL to a Docker Repo. When your on-premise version starts for the first time, it should set itself up as autonomously as possible:
Check if it has the required access and permissions, connect to the database to set up tables, have sensible log output etc."

LOL that paragraph hides all of it. On prem means that someone is administering your application that does not understand it. Which means YOU are administering it but via slacking with your customers infra engineers rather than through your own control plane.

The article is right that there are customers who require this and if you want them you'll have to figure this out, but it is a huge pain in the ass and should be avoided if at all possible.
I guess it depends a bit on what you compare it to but the murder rate in Cape Town is about 10x that in SF and both seem quite bad to me as a Brit.
I see little evidence that anyone wants an "underground" net. Like, how would I report them if someone made an ethnic slur on it?

No, I want to live on a sanitized network SKIP AD IN 15 SECS that only allows happiness and suppresses hate.
Surf's a bit too minimal for my taste, but I found a couple of the other lightweight-ish webkit-based browsers on Linux serviceable, last I checked.

My motivation was I was trying to make a crappy dual-core low-clock Celeron rooted Chromebox with 2GB of memory usable as a light-duty workstation, a couple years back. I didn't find anything not webkit-based that I tried light enough to even be in the running. Firefox wasn't remotely close (nor were close Chrome-derivatives). Even light webkit browsers were practically limited to 1-3 windows/tabs depending on the weight of the pages, before they got unusable.
Ask HN: What ING Domains did you get?
Let's show and tell our domain hauls.
I generally agree, but I tend to turn the perspective around to this: truly "Free Markets" are basically the natural, unevolved state of affairs when you don't have a better system in place. The whole reason we invented those better systems is to improve the "consequences for the majority".
I am not the developer but I also looked at that binary to help the project at some point.

It's taken straight from OS X 10.8 (more precisely from an Update Combo on their download portal). It's calling NACInit, NACKeyEstablishment and NACSign functions from it (which have no entry points but with reverse engineering the offsets have been figured out). They are themselves relying on OS X system functions to get device information. The Python code is using Unicorn to emulate it and patch the calls to those functions to stubs returning pre computed values from a Mac machine (stored in a data.plist file). All clients are using the same machine identifier. IIRC, nobody did get its account locked but if the Apple ID has not been used at all it might fail (it depends on the donor device that generated data.plist, if it's a hackintosh for example it will likely not work).
Great list. A few more:

- Your ISP is [ISPs are, to your 2nd point] actively hostile to running "servers" from your connection, so you must either pay a ridiculous premium for that privilege, or jump through hoops to evade their intentional breakage.

- Your other cousin does something illegal (sells drugs, posts revenge porn, threatens a public official) using your host and now the police are knocking down your door in the middle of the night and dragging you in for questioning. Even if you avoid charges, your neighbors eye you suspiciously from then on.
I'm not angry. I'm absolutely baffled at how pathetic people can be.
> Why stop at chemistry? Chemistry is fundamentally quantum electrodynamics applied to huge ensembles of particles.

Chemistry is indeed applied QED ;) (and you don't need massive numbers of particles to have very complex chemistry)

> How come we don’t entirely understand biology then?

We understand some of the basics (even QED is not reality). That understanding comes from bottom-up studies of biochemistry, but most of it comes from top-down observation of whatever there happens to be around us. The trouble is that we are using this imperfect understanding of the basics to reverse engineer an insanely complex system that involves phenomena spanning 9 orders of magnitude both in space and time.

LLMs did not spawn on their own. There is a continuous progression from the perceptron to GPT-4, each one building on the previous generation, and every step was purposeful and documented. There is no sudden jump, merely an exponential progression over decades. It's fundamentally very different from anything we can see in nature, where nothing was designed and everything appears from fundamental phenomena we don't understand.

As I said, imagining that the current state of AI is anything like biology is a profound misunderstanding of the complexity of both. We like to think we're gods, but we're really children in a sand box.
Sounds like the devil is in the details. Often the AI seems to struggle with darker skin… are you suggesting we sift who can be monitored/prosecuted based on skin darkness? That sounds like a mess to try to enshrine in law.

Strong (and unhealthy) biases already exist when using this tech, but I am not sure that is the lever to pull that will fix the problem.
Internet explorer didn't die out because it was sabotaged. It lost because Chrome was better.

Make something better than Chrome. People will switch to it.
Mass spying is yesterday's news. The thing we all need to worry about is behavioral management at scale, which influences politics, relationships, religions and much more. This is the true "hidden" evil behind social media and "AI" which few apprehend let alone can do something about.
It’s the ideological form of “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
Would be a nice tool to open source
That's why LoongArch contains:

LoongBT, faster x86 and ARM binary translation, 213 instructions
And yet here we are talking about Mountain Dew.
Amen!

I read the title and recoiled in horror, and yet I am fascinated by the project.
I got softwaredesign.ing , leetcod.ing and concur.ing. Still hunting more :)
As a boomer male, I can claim no insights here. But in my neighborhood there are a lot of women whom I know or assume to be millenials (27 to 42) and have more than one child.
Editorial decisions?
Mozilla need to prioritise global user feedback more than their Twitter user feedback

Wasting capital on mozilla vpn, ui overhauling the browser to make it corporate appealing never were the problems.
Proposed EPA rules require US cities to replace lead water pipes within 10 years
In the last comment below he writes

> The project has now completed its primary goals; the entire dependency graph is now green.
Nice writeup and plenty of good points made. However, the author left out one huge item in terms of why On-Premise is challenging: ongoing support and maintenance.

I was an engineer on a product that had an On-Premise (OP) offering. Some of our biggest moneymaker accounts were On-Premise and liked the product.

The downside was that we had to have a dedicated team just for On-Prem stuff. I was one of the engineers on that team. We had to develop custom management interfaces for the software that were only deployed in an On-Premise environment. It wasn't crazy hard or anything but it was time and effort.

Upgrades and installation were also a big track of work unto themselves. When you deploy into an On-Premise environment you are completely at the mercy of the clients infrastructure. One support call I did was clocked at 14 hours - there are so many things that can come up. Plus there's the whole hassle of actually getting the calls scheduled and making sure clients aren't too many versions behind.

Sometimes we had to spend a lot of time waiting on support calls because the customer didn't have their stuff together. Like sitting and waiting for a network team to open up the firewall so that bits could be downloaded from our distribution server. And of course the firewall had to be closed up right afterwards, so this was a common thing.

Another time we spent weeks troubleshooting a client installation. In the end it turned out that the client had our software talking to two different internal NTP servers which were slightly out of sync, which caused our SSO/SAML integration to break.

Database migrations were also challenging - in a cloud environment you often have flexibility to migrate things live while the system is running. But often with the on-premise upgrades, you had to take the whole system down while the migration was running (back to the 14 hour support call). This could mean scheduling the support calls at really weird hours.

On-premise also has challenges if you start selling to the US government, especially defense. There are super strict requirements that support personnel must be US citizens on US soil - so hopefully you have more than one person on the team meeting this requirement!

All in all, I am not a detractor of offering an On-Prem solution. It can be a real differentiator and it will open a lot of doors. There are some companies that simply won't buy SaaS, either due to internal or regulatory reasons. Once you land these clients it can be very lucrative and long-term. But, it almost always requires dedicated staff to support and manage.
I think that's actually exactly right. On-Premise might arguably be a wrong name - but for most customers it just means "software that you can run yourself in an environment that you control". And that environment is most often a cloud deployment.
I hope they're captured before they decide to run for Parliament.
Thats a Bingo!
Big enterprise deals can be a huge burden for a small company. They’re demanding customers and they will probably pressure you into making product customizations that don’t apply to the rest of your target audience.

Enterprise customers tend to have more edge cases and scaling requirements, along with a huge workforce with more difficult lines of communication. Anecdotally, they seem to need more follow-ups and hand-holding than smaller nimble companies.

An ideal customer is often one that subscribes, pays their bill, and rarely asks you for help. Your product already solves their problem out of the box without needing to go down any rabbit holes.
> It needs some boxes to type information

Would an address lookup service be acceptable? One of those where you start typing your address into a box and it fills in all of the address fields based on which address you select.

If a new version of this is created, shouldn't it be tested on browsers? Which browsers should it be tested on?
> Aside: asking how traceroute works is one of my interview questions, most people don't know...

Curious what type of roles you interview for, are they networking-centric? Iirc this is CCNA-level material, I'd expect anyone working in networking to be able to describe how traceroute works. I've used it more as a smoke test question than a question that most people don't know.
DNA methylation rates scale with maximum lifespan across mammals
> The color of the bubble meaningfully signifies that the existence of that person in a chat is degrading the chat experience for everyone else.

I would say Apple has been degrading the chat experience in this case. RCS will improve that somewhat.
What?

Shopify and GitHub uses MySQL heavily.

And so does Youtube and other behemoths.

Where did you get the notion that MySQL doesn't scale?
I'm confused, which part am I not right about? It seems like we agree based on your second paragraph.
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> If you go work elsewhere, you'll lose out on this weather

And salary. People often forget Bangalore salaries. That is one thing techies stick to Bangalore other than weather. Compared to BLR other tech cities in India are not really close. Esp. a place like Chennai. Tell a Chennai HR your Bangalore salary and it feels they fainted on phone or they just saw a ghost.

> other tech cities really suck

Not true. Problems that come with natural calamities is not a city specific problem here.

Tech is still Bangalore in India but it is not going to be this way for long especially seeing how the city has been shitting on itself forever. I am a resident and that is how it is sadly.
There was some recent concern that Youtube may be slowing down FF https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/17z8hsz/youtube_ha...
I think your point is fine, but I don't think we should say a root cause analysis of a rail accident is "trivial".

For example, the most recent serious report from the UK has 113 pages, and detail on technical (friction, braking etc) and organizational issues just like an aircraft accident report:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/report-122023-collision-b...
Nam Shub of Atari
it's almost like google has a business model where its users are the product it sells to customers and Apple doesn't
How come more languages doesn't implement non-halting GC?
The only time I use Chrome is for Chrome Remote Desktop. Otherwise, Safari on macOS and iOS seems to do what I need it to do for at least 8 years.
Stop buying and using cars. Cars are the worst, most destructive invention in human history. Want global peace? Stop driving cars and burning oil. Want to save the environment? Stop driving cars and burning oil. Want to bring life back into your community? Walk. Want to get healthy and get into shape? Walk. Want to commute? Bike and take public transit. Want to take control of your life and dump these disgusting corporations? Don't buy, don't drive, and don't burn oil.
I mean, presumably the AI wouldn't just be monitoring people sleeping under bridges, but would also be able to effectively cut through tax evasion bullshit, insider trading, bribery, etc.
I get your point, I think along those lines quite often myself.

As per the sabotage part, bad input data that does not accurately get labeled as such until way too late in the “AI learning cycle” is I think the way to go. Lots and lots of such bad input data. How we would get to that point, that I don’t know yet, but it’s a valid option going forward.
SQUIRREL!!!

How did you manage to tilt the section header text? I've not seen that done before.
Seems like everything is rare for a startup to have.

Productisation, infrastructure expertise?

Why do anything?
Not even young at this point. I overheard two grown men talking about how much they hate people with green bubbles and purposely skip inviting them into group chats because of it.
I really disagree. On-Premise software is frequently bought by large customers with significant resources - including a competent ops team. Yes, there may be some initial handholding, but once things are up and running, there is little support necessary.

Basically, if you want to build an on-premise offering, look at the way Nginx, Postgres, Redis and similar projects are packaged and do the same.
It’s not true that Apple is focusing on security for “greed”, and we know that Chrome can be a successful browser (and Google a successful company) without these changes.
No, when you sign into iCloud/your account in Settings, it sets a bunch of insane defaults like iMessage and Facetime and every app you add is opt-out for iCloud storage. Defaults are end-runs around true explicit and informed consent and open people to implications they didn't knowingly understand
ROFL. Your casual dismissal doesn't make your ideas more valid.

Thanks, I needed a big laugh today.

Google "free town project" for an idea of how Ayn Rand's self-centered approach to community plays out IRL.
I just got an iPhone for the first time, and it is a noticeably better device than my previous Android phones.

One downside is that I can't use iMessage on my Windows and Linux computers. Will look into pypush

Honestly, the iPhone is nudging me further to giving a Macbook/OSX a try one day, but the major blocker to me is the poor state of gaming on Macs.
Chrome is the web, Safari is a niche.
The Case for a BFF
presents several valid arguments in favor of integrating a Backend for Frontend (BFF)