skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thoughts!

Your thoughts on the developers vs business decision-makers, in particular, hit the spot. When we started, we figured that customizing business software by ourselves was something we'd never be able to scale properly. So, instead, we wanted to create a community of developers and partners who know their target audience better than we do. This way, we focus on the core platform and search for these partners, who, for a cut, focus on their areas of expertise. Big competitors like ODOO, Zoho, and various local products use the same model.

Of course, as you mentioned, the pure approach didn't work well. The best clients we know are those we found by ourselves, even when we handed them off to the partners for actual developer work. But the big part was making the product customizable for the developers (including us!) in the first place because we essentially started to offer various products built on top of us that we could mix, match, and reuse.

Open-sourcing aims to attract the attention of these developers and partners by offering them a vast incentive compared to the products on the market: BYOServer and have it for free. With this, we massively cut our ability to profit from the cloud service but (hopefully!) create a community of contractors and companies who develop on our platform as their business model. With this, we create a market for the services based on our platform, and there are still lots of ways for us to profit from it with integrations, cloud offerings, and various value-added services.

Still, we continue to explore the marketing options as well — it's slow, but not as slow as before :)
> formed 400M years ago

do you mean formed 400M years after the big bang instead of 400M years ago from today? That's like yesterday to the Universe.
> But after a while these college based dreams faded. I actually came back to a childhood scenario, walking a newspaper route and suddenly realizing I didn't know which houses I'd already delivered or which ones still needed a paper.

That used to actually happen to me, thankfully I don't think I've ever had it as a dream though, not yet anyway.
IMO the vast majority of users cannot make the difference between Chrome and Firefox. They just use whatever they are used to and like it because they are used to it.

Over the years, I have converted people to Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Safari. The only common denominator is that they all strongly prefer the one they use now.
Because Columbine.
What can Apple do? They could make standards-compliant USB-C audio adapters work on the iPhone 15 and up, with no NDAs, magic chips, or Apple-specific standards. (Maybe the already do?)
Well, European elites are keen to get their hands on Western Ukrainian agricultural land. Agriculture in Western Europe is heavily subsidized. So there is that.

Eastern Ukraine is mostly Industrial and would likely lose out to more modern Industry in Europe. So less incentive for Eastern (Russian speaking) Ukrainians to join Europe. Which was one reason why Yanukovich reneged on signing the EU Association Agreement as his political base was mostly in Eastern Ukraine. And the deal was quite "neoliberal", meaning Eastern Ukrainian Industry was going to get shut down without much economic relief. The other was pressure from Putin and the fact that the Russians offered a very attractive counter offer of a deal.
> this is a fantastic workaround against one of the world's largest corporations extracting revenue from everything

Exactly. The idea that one looks at this situation and somehow concludes that Apple is good and the manufacturers are bad is absurd.
This is an amazing story and a clever innovation. I cannot fathom why the author is so upset about it.
I've used Oracle DB and Microsoft SQL Server in the past. I'm using Mysql and Postgresql now and can't say I ever looked at the source code.
The user experience might work better with display:grid based css (instead of flex): https://codepen.io/paulgpetty/pen/VwOPRKJ/5aebb16e99bbea2f13...
Agreed. Lately I'm coming across self-hosted services that not only require docker, they essentially require a docker-compose file full of many other dependencies.

The other thing that blows my mind is how many of these self-hosted applications require mysql/postgres instead of just using sqlite.
This is a completely insane take on this.

Akin to saying "You pulled the knife out of my torso, and now I'm bleeding more! Put it back!"

Putting it back will certainly cause more harm than just leaving it out.
> What's not clear is if the referenced antibiotics are all in the long process of approval or if they're considered uneconomical or some other issue. My impression was we have a strong need for approved treatments for resistant bacteria, given the way the problem is talked about in the media. I would have expected there'd be a market for them at some price that works.

The reason novel antibiotics are not profitable is because we specifically DON'T want to use them. These novel antibiotics become fourth, fifth, sixth line treatments. And that's after probably retrying the previous line for multiple rounds at bigger dosages, or in combination therapy. So in reality, that means that drug companies are not set to make a lot of money on them. Most of the novel antibiotic development funding comes directly from the government. And even that is being cut.
Something like this could be fun for language learning and memorization of new grammar patterns. Thanks for sharing.
> Coupling superficially similar code is definitely not a good thing to do.

I've taken to calling that activity (removing syntactic redundancy that is only coincidental) "Huffman coding".
> Google's heavy and sometimes ethically questionable promotion of Chrome was an amplifying force, but not sufficient.

I strongly believe it was sufficient. Which does not mean that Chrome was not better when it came out. But most people really don't want to try new tech: because you were excited by Chrome back then does not mean, by far, that everyone on the planet was.
Oh yes, native matching would be faster and remove plenty of glitching opportunities if done right - you can often see the tab being reloaded into a proper container and taking twice as long to load as it should, and sometimes the tab ends up being duplicated. You also lose the tab's history when it switches between containers at the moment.
In some parts of the world, wired lightning headphones are actually cheap bluetooth headphones that only use the lightning port for power (to avoid Apple licensing fees). For the author this was baffling, as everyone else took it as normal that bluetooth needed to be enabled to use wired headphones.
From Tim Berners-Lee webpage:

Rendition of links

Q: I'm a student of visual communications and asked myself why links are blue. I found some answers that might be, for example blue is a color of learning, but I'm not sure what is right. Is there any reason, why links are colored blue ?

A: There is no reason why one should use color, or blue, to signify links: it is just a default. I think the first WWW client (WorldWideWeb I wrote for the NeXT) used just underline to represent link, as it was a spare emphasis form which isn't used much in real documents. Blue came in as browsers went color - I don't remember which was the first to use blue. You can change the defaults in most browsers, and certainly in HTML documents, and of course with CSS style sheets. There are many examples of style sheets which use different colors.

My guess is that blue is the darkest color and so threatens the legibility least. I used green whenever I could in the early WWW design, for nature and because it is supposed to be relaxing. Robert Cailliau made the WWW icon in many colors but chose green as he had always seen W in his head as green.

One of the nicest link renditions was Dave Raggett's "Arena" browser which had a textured parchment background and embossed out the words of the link with a square apparently raised area."

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#your
All technologies live on some scale of exploitability. Mobile phones, for example, are somewhere on that spectrum, and google and apple try their best to secure them. But there are still state actors that have really sophisticated attacks that worm their way into devices. To be clear, I think the security teams at google and apple shouldn't throw their hands up and give up, but I think you need to be honest with yourself when building capability, to accept that it'll get misused. If the misuse doesn't outweigh the benefit to humanity, then it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If it does, then I think you have to wrestle with some awkward questions.

On the scale of exploitability, I think some of the LLMs we have now are pretty high up there, beyond mobile phones - harder to secure and with bigger consequences when misused. The intelligence agencies of pariah states like Russia, Iran and Israel will absolutely use this stuff to sway public opinion and get large numbers of people killed. I think employees of OpenAI need to be honest with themselves about this, rather than deluding themselves and saying "oh we'll just do security/trust/safety" better than the a nation state.

I think there are a number of ways out of this which are consistent. You could convince yourself that AI's benefit to humanity as a whole over time will outweigh these issues now [citation needed], or you could take a nihilistic approach and say that you just wanna print stacks of money and go relax on the beach. Those are at least arguments you can make. But I think it's intellectually dishonest to say "Bad stuff won't happen with our tech because our team will out compete the mossad".
https://pastebin.com/vFqCFWBP
this makes you wonder if apple specs where designed to enhance the user experience or just to gate-keep the access to thier lucrative market. If the later, and I highly believe so, then can we blame others to come up with workarounds?
I had a similar thought recently.

They really do a good job on many fronts right now.

Additionally the whole TikTok debate will help them a lot too.
I'm sure there are, but like those Windows users I'm unfortunately locked to flavors of Ubuntu by ROS and some other software. Kubuntu is generally pretty nice once you take out the trash and add the missing bits. At least it stays configurable enough to fix for now.
> and then decided to be anti-competitive instead of just letting it win

Or precisely because it was not enough to have the better product? Don't tell me you believe that the better product usually wins. Marketing wins.
Sigh. I was already 99.999% sure that's what happened. @sama became a instavillian because of finding success with a giant bullseye painted on his rep.
And that would be what, 20% of the population? Less?

If you’re still dependent on a W2 income, you’re worse off.
If you have two copies, following that logic, you can then actually read it twice as fast!
That's because chatGPT talks to hundreds of millions of people and puts a trillion tokens in their heads per month. And out of every 1000 tokens, a "delve" creeps up.
Curious minds do want to know what type of outfits to pack when visiting.
Firefox does have profiles and has had for as long as I’ve needed them. For some reason they’ve always been hidden away and needed different args on start to change the profile being started, or the use of an extension to allow profile switching. I don’t use them anymore but from what I remember they worked well and were very isolated. Hopefully they’re using the current implementation and just making it more user friendly?
Holly fuck balls this is all bullshit.

You're a cost center. Servers, staff, throw product and design in there. Do you know why the metrics are all bullshit.

Because the metrics are the ones that marketing and sales use to show off. They dont fucking matter one bit to tech.

How much does each user of your system cost on a monthly basis? Is that an average? Do you have clients that are higher or lower cost (because they pay the same rate and consume more services?) ... If your sales team brings you growth in that group is it doing any one any good?

Can you tell me per user how much of that cost is going to cloud or infra? How much of it is going to staff? Is what your staff working on going to move the needle on one of those numbers? No? Is your engineering effort going to lower the cloud bill? Is it going to shorten your testing and release cycle?

"Value" is not some abstract concept, Its very concrete and very real. Put those numbers up, make them fucking real time numbers. Tell your engineering team that their bonus is tied to making those numbers better. Empower your team to tell sales and marketing NO, Or tell them that they need to raise the dam prices.

You want to super charge your engineering team. Get them out socializing with the other nerds in the building, that's everyone who works for the CFO. Embed an accountant in every tech team to figure out how to account (literally) for the changes they are making.
Bringing VSCode to Classrooms
Honestly, I would just appreciate knowing up front what they think I owe and letting me correct them if I disagree.
Yes, and if you have a union you should talk to them about unemployment protection.
There's an old joke that when a new President is elected the Security Services take the new President into a room were there's a projector showing a film of the Kennedy assassination but from a different angle from the Zapruder film. At the end, the Security Services representative turns to the new President and asks "any questions?".
> for example ‘universal’ which starts with a vowel but is pronounced with a y sound and therefore would go with ‘a’ not ‘an’

I spent a good minute with this sentence. For me, "universal" is pronounced with a j sound, not a y sound; a y sounds is pronounced with a w sound, a letter which happens to be pronounced with a d sound; indeed thanks, English.

(The word "yes", to me, is indeed pronounced with a j sound, the j being pronounced with a d sound.)
Many businesses do not run Windows Enterprise, but plain-old Pro. Not every business is a big business, capable of reaching to these SKUs.

What they can do, is to run WSUS. Though today, many businesses do not have on-prem Windows Server deployments, and do not even have suitable space in their offices even if they wanted one.
This could need a better title: Losing earbuds has nothing to do with the actual (interesting!) discovery.

> I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.

Why blame these manufacturers for finding a clever workaround and not Apple for requiring hardware DRM and extracting royalties out of accessory manufacturers in the first place?
> Firefox was bad when Chrome came out

Funny how different people's experiences can be. When Chrome came out in 2008 I remember trying it just for fun (more than once), and it never clicked with me, so I stayed with Firefox.

What was harder for me was keeping with all the unnecessary redesigns, empty eye candy, dumbing down, the Fennec debacle (exensions used to work, then they suddenly stopped for a bunch of years; plus, no keyword search for no reason).

By that time staying away from Google had become a goal in itself, but I understand who migrated to chrome.

Anyway, I am firmly convinced Chrome won because of Google's abuse of its web search monopoly. The innovations that its team introduced were groundbreaking from a technical point of view, but Firefox was a perfectly capable browser.
The way I see it, there was a time when FF had the chance to not accept the google contracts and go 100% independent with their own search engine or something similar. This would have resulted in FF actually siding with users. It would have resulted in FF radically rejecting ads, and this would have changed the entire web because people would have flocked to Firefox.

But Mozilla leadership did not have an interest in this, in light of endless google money. Google essentially captured Mozilla back in the day.

Now people have got used to ads because they only could chose between browsers that don't protect them.

Brave is trying to correct the mistake of FF and is attracting a small userbase, but not large enough to make a big difference, because the times have changed a lot.

Now with the new management at Mozilla and the dim outlook for the next 5 years, the realization is kicking in that listening to users is actually important. But the elephant in the room is the contracts with large ad-based search engines.
Not in a negative sense, it was an ultimatum of attention focus.
A problematic estimate of warming from low-sulfur marine fuels
Facebook, I mean Meta, has benefitted from the enshittification of the tech industry.

Next to TikTok they’re better moralistically. Next to Sam Altman, I mean OpenAI, they’re better moralistically. Next to other companies doing layoffs they’re better moralistically (biggest exit packages?)
Only due to cost, the majority of that share is not devices that are capable of doing what would be required for an app like Kino to work with these features. The share of flagship Android devices worldwide is lower than flagship iOS devices.
I said commercial OS market to distinguish proprietary desktop operating systems (Windows and macOS) from Linux, the BSDs, MINIX, Haiku, Plan 9, OpenSolaris, FreeDOS, and other alternative operating systems. Windows and macOS is a duopoly, much like how US politics is functionally a two-party system. The existence of the Greens, Libertarians, and independent candidates don’t take away the fact that the Democrats and Republicans utterly dominate American politics to the point that third parties and independent candidates face major hurdles campaigning. Likewise, the existence of Linux doesn’t take away the fact that Windows and macOS combined dominate desktop computing.

Sometimes one needs proprietary software packages that only work on Windows or macOS. Granted, the situation in 2024 isn’t as bad as it was in the 2000s thanks to the evolution of Web apps as an alternative to desktop applications. Still, some people rely on heavy-duty desktop apps that rely on Windows- or Mac-only APIs. The GIMP and Inkscape may not fully replace Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. FOSS diagramming tools, last I checked, aren’t at the level of proprietary tools that are unavailable for Linux like Microsoft Visio and OmniGraffle. Some people need functionality in Microsoft Office that is unavailable in LibreOffice.
I know we aren't going back to peak popularity. The concern is that FF moves to so little marketshare that websites no longer build for compatibility.
Totally agree, the time to crack down on these devices was before they were needed in the first place.

Apple created this situation, I just hope they don't feel the need to "fix it". Given their sensitivity to bad PR, I'd be very surprised if they did.
Assuming the positives outweigh the negatives. You can't release tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere without causing acid rain and speeding up ocean acidification.
They're moving away from inland hypergolics, to coastal cryogenics, especially for commercial. TLDR history is PRC space program really exploded in last 15 years. Before that, budget/development poverty tier. Most of payload considerations since are urgent military (ISR), so prudent/expedient to use existing hypergolic infra (legacy/synergy of strategic missiles) to maintain launch tempo because they don't want boondoggles when it comes to getting military space infra up reliably. Cryogenic LM6/LM7 first test only in mid 2015s. They'll switch over eventually, but right now priority is still military launch. IIRC all the current reusable efforts are cryogenic fuel.
I'm pretty sure they already do. The story in the tweet mentions Lightning.
> A scourge of cheap "lightning" headphones and lightning accessories is flooding certain markets, unleashed by unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers who have discovered an unholy recipe:

> True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make. So instead of conforming to the Apple standard, these companies have made headphones that receive audio via bluetooth — avoiding the Apple specification — while powering the bluetooth chip via a wired cable, thereby avoiding any need for a battery.

Ditto for minijack to lightning adapters.

Wonder if this will be fixed now that Apple uses usb-c like they should have been doing all along.
If only there was an audiobook - listen to it at 2x speed. :^)
It’s bad and unreasonable to link to deep web content on a different site.
I really hope the profile management system keeps tab containers working the same. It's incredibly useful to have different containers automatically generated for AWS console sessions.
Title should be changed, the cash prize is 0.5M OR a 10M equity investment
Terrible people have powerful people vouching for them all of the time (just look at the retinue of high-level politicians who showed up to support Trump at his trial). Sam is CEO of OpenAI, arguably the most important company on earth right now, and will be for the foreseeable future. A positive relationship with him is beneficial. I don't think you can infer anything about Sam's character from this tweet.
I find it fascinating that Texas and Florida, the states that get hit by intense weather are the ones building the most Housing.

Home and car insurers are having a field day in those states.
Evolution of Cloud Block Store
I wonder how well this would work for a child's music device.

I desperately want a device my child can bring with her to her room after bedtime to listen to music, without also being able to look at Youtube, or google for more tiger facts, or play games. Something that can be easily controlled with a physical input, and minimal screen interaction.
They're talking about the mobile application, where only a small subset of extensions was available for a few years. Access to about:config was disabled in official builds (but forks and custom builds such as some on F-Droid still have it).

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/21276
I agree with you but if YouTube proper included sponsor block, sponsors would no longer sponsor
I think this perpetuates the fiction of assuming browser share is directly tied to specifics of browser functionality instead of more important macro forces like differences in brand awareness and ability to leverage market sector domination.

There's been a proliferation of conflicting just-so stories purporting to explain the history of Firefox's browser market share, and they seem to relate to idiosyncratic preferences for customization instead of actual market dynamics.
I regularly have 10 times as much open in Firefox and it works just fine. Chromium barely works at a fraction of that (or at least used to, haven't felt the need to recheck for a few years now).
And with spec first and OpenAPI Spec we are back to the methods and tools, that we hadwith WSDL/XSD and SOAP/XML like 20 years ago. We went full circle. :) I love IT

The problems with GraphQL where so obivious in the first 5 minutes that I looked into that. Looks smart and flexible - but isn't
Having hit 4-5k tabs in a session, it's really not that bad of a perf hit. It's also an unreasonable thing to ask of the browser, but it holds up well enough.
I accidentally bought one of these pieces of garbage from Amazon a few years ago. I had no idea why my wired headphones needed Bluetooth. They broke after a few months and Amazon gave me a refund.
I would love for applications and even web sites to have an expert mode. Maybe when the UX teams aren't looking devs could add a mode that puts Everything back in the UI.
This video explains this fairly well (Hank Green).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk8pwE3IByg