skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare gave up neutrality when they terminated Daily Stormer. Before that, there was even discussion if they have technical ability to terminate single site like that (deleting content from distributed store is hard).

More political activism they do, more damage for them!
Off the top of my head I can't offer examples, only my impression. In general Google seems better at narrowing in on what I'm looking for especially with more complicated queries, but in some cases the DDG results will turn up less spammy/more desirable results in the top few when I search with both.
Yep. HN (and similar community) conversations on this topic are always so snobby, but in reality all it points to is this community mostly wanting to buy different things. Everyone here is just as susceptible.
Theft doesn’t need to be brazen for it to cost money.
New open source models* still wouldn't be able to compete even if OpenAI was forcibly shut down.

Hardware's too expensive, and will be for a while, because all the big players are trying to get in on it.

* cue arguments: "'open weights' or training data'?"; "does the Meta offering count or are they being sneaky and evil?"; etc.
> enough that employers have to reckon with us

No really, they don’t.

You are confusing what you want with what’s happening.
that's how lightsaber effects were done in the original trilogy
Thanks for the feedback! It's harsh but very valuable!
> leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there

What could be going on when you're not home?

If this is meant as a security tool, the fact you have to look at it is a non-starter.

If this is meant as anything else, why wouldn't you use VNC?
As someone who's never even seen the term written before, that's exactly how I pronounced it..
I've petitioned Adobe to support pie menus in their products, but it's fallen on deaf ears.

Here's a 12-year-old thread about “Crowd funding project: Marking menus for Photoshop and other software” that I recently ran across, and wrote a reply to, providing more information and links, and correcting some old misinformation.

https://polycount.com/discussion/96932/crowd-funding-project...

Crowd funding project: Marking menus for Photoshop and other software

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Recently I was telling a buddy of mine about how I hate digging through the standard menus in some software like Photoshop. In Maya or Zbrush I am used to creating either marking menus or custom palettes that allow me to assign multiple related commands to one hotkey. This is useful for organization and also more efficient than having one command assigned to one hotkey. He mentioned that he made an attempt to address this for Illustrator and wanted to expand the Idea to work with any software. He wants to generate $1000 to hire a programmer to help with the stuff that is outside his scope of knowledge. I figured there are probably others out there like us and I might find some like minded people here. Here is his pitch:
http://www.indiegogo.com/unipie

Maybe people would like to pitch in ideas or gui designs too?
In 2000? Yeah that might be somewhat typical for fast food wages depending on locale.

Minimum wage is a floor. It doesn't mean you can hire at that rate.

Minimum wage in my state is the federal minimum ($7.25/hr) but restaurants here have to pay about double that to get anyone.
Call me crazy, but I don't think "tunnel all your traffic through a third party corporation's service" is the correct solution to "my IP changes sometimes." Maybe just set up DDNS instead?

If you really are trying to run a server behind a CGNAT, then I guess you have no other options, but I'd consider this kind of thing to be a last resort.
This is a special case because Twitter famously located its offices in downtown San Francisco, and using the old name here shows the continuity.
San Jose is bigger than SF, and tech people tend to age out of the city and move south into the peninsula- so probably a good portion of the employees are getting an improved or neutral commute.
There was briefly a log-in nag popup that would appear on scroll.

That disappeared and Musk got lots of praise for it, probably entirely unwarrented but it was basically the only thing that improved post-Musk. Then it came back with a vengeance.
> And was I supposed to like the main character? In any way, shape or form?

No.
What would you consider as replacement
This is false. Proton VPN's no logs policy has been proven in court and backed by third party audits: https://protonvpn.com/blog/no-logs-audit

VPN is not classified as a communication tool in Switzerland and there are no existing Swiss laws that can compel us to log.

The Proton VPN Transparency Report & Warrant Canary is also still available at: https://protonvpn.com/blog/transparency-report
> it was around that time that adverts shifted from being clearly labelled to being disguised as search results.

This has been a 20 year process with no single step-change. Ads used to be on he right side in colored boxes. Gradually, they started to appear above results and with no background color.
It's not my site. It's the front panel of a Texas Instruments model 980. It's from this page.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-ti-980-ttl-ba...
I'm looking forward to the next NAND price crash in a year or two, hopefully we will start to see 16TB client SSDs hit the market then.
> they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house

And they've been leaning into RISC-V[1] due to this.

[1]: https://blog.westerndigital.com/risc-v-swerv-core-open-sourc...
"putting different hosts into groups" - it's on my radar
"Maybe add some SCP/SFTP features so that moving files from host to host is easier." - sounds good, I'll check
You are witnessing the final stages in the evolution of OpenAI from a messianic hype machine to Yet Another Product Company.

Hence all the people leaving, too.
I think the answer is that much like an ad for a car or a mattress, the cold call isn't meant to take someone from zero to full interest, it's to find that one person in a hundred who's already thinking about it and just needs an opportunity presented to them.

How many random people would you need to ask before you found someone who was pondering joining a gym this very morning and would love some more info about it?
at least clownstrike.com goes to the real clowns
>If someone comes along and says "I'll pay 50% of the current lease", the owner could go to the current leaseholder and say "I'll let you out of your obligation if you pay 60% of the remaining rent" (discounting for present value).

This is a fun idea. The amount above 100% current lease value is likely 1) the risk of the new tenant vs the old tenant and 2) the optionality of the old tenant wanting this space in the future.

>you've also just lowered your property's value on paper.

Not really. you've increased the value since you're getting 110%. Plus it's not like leases are public knowledge.

>make such long-term leases unenforceable

if this were in place, all leases would be priced higher to account for the lower enforceable term.
Musk Twitter stopped paying office rent a long time ago. I can only assume they finally couldn't keep doing that without getting evicted.
Microservices are just SUN RPC, CORBA, DCOM, EJBs, .NET Remoting, SOA, WCF, rebranded for a newer generation, which apparently hasn't learnt much about them.

Hence now the modular monolith hype, as they rediscover programming languages have modules, and placing a network in the middle doesn't sort out spaghetti dependencies!
Rotoscopeing in anime examples.

Flowers of Evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toc9x19Cmkg

Kaguya-sama Love is War scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toc9x19Cmkg
Thank you for the feedback! They are truly insightful!
You're talking about different age groups. You mention retired people (who are likely empty nesters), but the age group OP is talking about are middle-aged CEOs with young kids or teenagers.
It surprises me too. When my current company was getting off the ground last year I was cold calling to find our first customers for our MVP. This is in the B2B software space. I would make about 70 calls a day and it would shock me how many people not only pick up, but stay on the phone to hear me out. I landed a number of accounts this way to get the momentum rolling.

And it was awkward for me too, I don't even have a background in sales. I'm sure a talented salesperson could have done much better than me at retaining their attention after the first opening sentences.
> just big companies using big processes

Too big to care?
That's measuring 'cksum', which must have an awfully slow implementation. The document notes that this is distinct from measuring PG's checksum performance. (I think it's a pretty useless measurement.)

Earlier (page 4):

> How much CPU time does it take to checksum...

> ...a specific amount of data? This is easy to estimate because PostgreSQL uses the crc32 algorithm which is very simple, and (GNU) Linux has a command line program that does the same thing: cksum.

Yeah, using cksum as an estimate here appears to be very flawed.
There’s plenty of money in it. Even if the ads were minimally personalized (ie use location so that when I search for a plumber I see local plumbers) just the keyword-based ads would probably be enough to cover the costs. Apple users are exactly who advertisers want to reach.

Apple has shown in the past that if something is considered a key technology, they would rather own it than hand that power to a key competitor. They made their own CPUs, they made Maps, and they could make search.
For the record, you should never use that in an application. Always explicitly note the full versioned model name. This will prevent bad surprises because not every new version is an improvement; sometimes they get worse, especially at specific tasks.
I am precisely thinking of oligopolies where either formal collusion happens, or as we often see in the real world, prices going up, without any collusion. In the latter case, the players are using some strategy for switching prices, that leads ultimately to (game-theoretic) cooperation between them.

My understanding is that this a multi-player multi-shot Game, and the methods of game theory can help us understand what the strategy in question is.
Cold calling is the hardest! It's probable my greatest weakness (of many!) as an entrepreneur. Not just cold sales calling but any equivalent. I don't like to get a random call so I feel I'm interrupting the person at the other end.

I am fascinated by employees I've had who love cold calling and are great at it. They are even energised by it! Most have a mirror in their cube smile on your call and the other person can hear it through the phone). One thing about all of them I've spoken with: they are certain that the person they're calling needs our product (and if not they're happy to get off the phone as quickly as possible so they can call someone else). Maybe the Stratton Oakmont sales folks thought that, though my impression was that instead they saw the callee as a sheep to be shorn.

I am astonished at people who can just make a friend or at least an interesting connection while waiting in line for the bathroom.
Why not JSON Schema?
> Bing as of a handful of years ago wasn't all that bad -- in fact, if you lived in the Microsoft enterprise sphere, it was arguably better than Google.

That is probably not enough though. Products that are just a little better than something that is good enough usually fail. I'm reminded of all the analysises of why plan 9 failed.
Personally, I find it impossible to stomach continuing with ad-based models. I want zero ads in my life. Also, with newer AI the old search model is done for. Search will shift, should shift, to AI agents doing the search along with reading through various pages before giving accurate summaries with links. In that model users won't be exposed to ads as many searches won't even require them going to the end pages.

Thus, there needs to be new models for how things work, both for end websites but also for search, models not based on ads.
fwiw, hiring senior talent in SF works just fine. If you pay at the right pricing tier. SF is a decent city. It could definitely do better, it has issues, but if we all could stop pretending it's a post apocalyptic hellscape, that'd be nice.

Yes, you pay an SF premium. You pay a premium for most major cities, and the worse housing is, the higher the premium. But I'd bet moving to the South Bay isn't happening for that reason. SF pricing has a halo effect on the South Bay, and your savings will be minimal, if any. (I see little differences in South Bay and SF salaries, for larger companies)

What I'd wager precipitated the move is SF rents are stupidly high , and then you combine that with half the twitter offices being empty. If you believe loopt, San Jose office space is ~ half the cost of SF. Half the space, at half again cost - their real estate bill shrinks by 75%. And given that Twitters bill is likely ~$40M-50M/month, that's a good chunk of savings.
There is a mile of difference between "person in the Army" and "West Point graduate." Also I want to clarify that the Master's Degree isn't like an online grift, it's really Stanford's graduate program (see link).

https://knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/
Given the fact that I live happily in Portland, I think it's safe to say I don't find these situations necessarily dangerous. However, I'm aware they exist, which many of my neighbors are not.

Again, I do think voting patterns would change if people were simply aware of their surroundings.
Long Output is 64K though.
Cities' attractiveness feels u-shaped

Young adults love it bc they have the time to go to bars/restaurants/clubs

Middle aged folks hate it because they're so busy - they can't take advantage, and other people get in their way

(some) Older folks like it again bc they have the time to go to restaurants/theater
Not quite, some ISPs lock down their routers and you can't expose the relevant ports publically. That's when Cloudflare Tunnels combined with a reverse proxy save the day.

Another really useful service is being able to protect everything behind a SSO like Github, allowing at least the most basic form of intrusion prevention that would secure your homelab from the majority of attacks.
Proven in court is ultimately what I think most users really care about.

Thanks for sharing this.
AI agents but they're working in big tech
If we structured AI agents like big tech org charts, which company structures would perform better? Inspired by James Huckle's thoughts on how organizational structures impact software design, I decided to put this to the test: https://bit.ly/ai-corp-agents.
SF is a great place for kids of all ages. But housing is indeed very expensive, as is childcare. Families in rent-controlled apartments who want more space without significantly higher expense don’t have a lot of options; several such families we know ended up moving out of the city (sometimes to elsewhere in Northern CA but often across the country to be closer to family). I don’t know anyone who moved because they thought their kids were having a bad time in the city.
I disagree that Cloudflare is super-responsively following the DMCA takedown notice requirements. The DMCA requires them to respond to a takedown notice by expeditiously taking down the content, and to a counter-notice by restoring the content. Instead, they responded to a takedown notice by forwarding it to their customer, along with a commitment to wait for 72 hours before taking anything down.
Not "everywhere", as an European that grew up in a big city (Paris) that's unthinkable.
https://archive.is/8LB7U
I think it's a fair/interesting question. I'd hypothesize the normal heating/cooling and mounting tensions cause variations on the order of 3% or larger mounting strain when you do something as simple as flip the lid open and launch a game. Could be something "cool" for one of those YouTube channels to actually test and find out though.
Balanced? Only if you like mob rule. Which maybe is the point.
why would it be hard to delete content for them? you can literally in seconds delete files/sites from cache in cloudflare
No area in the United states has crime rates as high as in my hypothetical, but many rural areas of the South have homicide rates on par with a city.
That is genuinely surprising, one would imagine it being mostly flat. Also oof, they lost a Kongsberg MBES, those things are beyond expensive ($100k+). Probably dwarfs the cost of the rest of the AUV. Then again it's also a Kongsberg AUV so perhaps not...

https://www.kongsberg.com/discovery/autonomous-and-uncrewed-...
Direct-Drive Bicycle
In a hypothetical future where the reliability of LLMs improves, I can imagine the model being able to craft optimizations that a traditional compiler cannot.

Like there are already cases where hand-rolling assembly can eke out performance gains, but few do that because it’s so arduous. If the LLM could do it reliably it’d be a huge win.

It’s a big if, but not outside the realm of possibility.
Companies have to be sensitive to the overton window of their customers. You make a mistake - it can be expensive. Let's ignore X/Twitter for a second - look at what happened to one of ABInBev's brands, Bud Light. They stepped outside that window and got smacked down pretty quickly.

I still don't understand why Musk believes he can dictate to his customers who they should do business with. I can kind of understand regulating what vendors do when interacting, particularly with (for the most part) completely powerless customers caught up in monopolies. But I'm looking forward to digging into the theory of law which suggests that vendors can regulate who/what type of business their customers do.

I've heard of Monosopny's - but it just doesn't feel like there is a "single buyer" in this scenario - and, companies are really, really profit seeking - if there was an opportunity for them to make a lot of money by advertising on Twitter/X, and increasing their revenue, and therefore their stock - I challenge you go find me 1 CFO/VP Marketing in 100 who wouldn't jump at the chance. Their political views would be irrelevant.

The problem is - when all these trust and safety and advertising people were let go -their was nobody left to reassure those CFO/VP Marketing types that something horrible wouldn't happen to their brand on Twitter/X. So they just decided to play it safe until things shook out.
By “intellectually stimulating”, they meant “with enough verbosity and with a high enough frequency of multisyllabic words that this sewing circle of self-congratulatory computer operators feels intellectually engaged by it”.

“Gross” contributed just as much as the 50 highly upvoted “stochastic parrot” or “WFH or die” rants I see here every day, with the added bonus of its concise nature making it easy to read.

HN needs more of these comments!
"You and everyone like you should be rounded up and executed" is a just a mean message, but it's also dangerous. People will believe that stuff, and then try to do it. This isn't a theoretical danger, it has happened time and time again throughout history. These sorts of seductive messages that target out-groups and provide a sense of community have lead to real life horrors.

X has also gotten very bad about amplifying misinformation, especially on white supremacist topics. Just yesterday (maybe the day before?) that bullshit old paper that said sub-Saharan Africans had an average IQ of 55 made it to the top of the feed with no community notes. The comment section was full of great replacement theory blue check guys all agreeing with one another and making it sound like there was a consensus. People see stuff like this and actually believe it. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if Elon himself re-Xed it at some point.
“You mentioned that bringing back nazis killed the site but curiously you did not at any point in any way imply that it is the world’s biggest platform… The argument you’re making solely in my head isn’t very consistent!”
Again, when judging danger in a situation, you as a random by stander are unlikely to be the target. However, again, a targeted shooting in a spread out locale is less dangerous than one that happens a few feet from you for the simple reason that the bullet can miss
I watched a video where a guy asked people how many moons the earth has, the person on the video said seven. I am not surprised in any way the script had huge success.
Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X
One way you might fund a search engine is if you needed the index for some other busineds purpose (say, Siri). It will have a cost, but if you can defray the crawling and some processing cost, it becomes much easier to stomach without ads.
Watch the world burn with vodka in hand. It's much better than doing nothing while you can.
The greatest man alive.

Thank you!

For anyone who wants to dive deep, this is so much better than installing transfromers library v4.44.0
I remember getting a cold call in 2014 from (supposedly) an investment company in Hong Kong. I was curious to hear what kind of pitch they had for someone like me living in Finland.

They claimed to have access to a block of NVidia stock available at a discount to the market price (I think it was around 10-15% off) and they needed investor funds immediately to buy the whole block. The minimum investment was $10k. When I sounded interested, my call was moved to a different young man who had a much more aggressive tone. That's where I hung up.

After the call, I remember thinking: "This is actually a good investment idea. I should buy some NVDA, but not from these weirdos in Hong Kong."

— Dear reader, did I buy the stock then? Of course not. Looks like NVDA is up about 260x since that call. (Insane. I had to double-check that.)

Imagine if someone actually sent $10k to this cold-calling Hong Kong company and just forgot about it. Now that $10k would be worth 2.6 million dollars. You see NVidia in the news and get excited about cashing out to buy a mansion... You call their phone in Hong Kong. "This number has been disconnected." No trace online of the investment advisor who got your $10k. That would sting far worse than just realizing early on that you'd been scammed.
They are very different propositions.

San Jose: your average American city, in terms of looks, but considerably more upscale.

San Francisco: an NYC-style "world-class city." It's trying for that title in terms of tempo, density, architecture.

Doesn't always succeed of course, but the cities are fundamentally going after different goals.
Disruptive for employees? Have you been reading about the recent history of this company?
Idiots in the government office trying to enforce trademark law when they absolutely know nothing about trademark law. I wonder if people in government understand how normal people see them and their actions. Because literally this was just a petty person doing something dumb they weren't qualified to do. If they had asked their coworkers or their manager and they agreed then they're all at fault.

What makes people so upset is that it all seems so opaque on what happens and why. Literally having to raise a fit on social media to get it corrected is the biggest problem here. Because if you didn't have a sufficient social media presence you would get ignored so how many people are getting ignored? There needs to be some accountability for people in these government offices for their actions. It seems we've granted people large amounts of power over individuals but absolutely no responsibility and repercussions that come along with it proportional to that power.
they have a fiduciary duty towards shareholders to reduce the cost (and if needed the quality) to the point of maximising profit.