skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does your rationale explain Internet Explore/Edge and Safari which both have abundance of money and still can’t outcompete Chrome?

Google justified a huge investment in Blink by making effectively making it the application platform of their netbooks. They also justified such an investment because they are afraid of other companies owning the method they get their ads in front of people - Such as dramatically changing and increasing their investment in Android when they saw the first versions of iPhoneOS.

The ChromeBook is why Google has so many non-standardized API in Chrome (that people often refer to under the umbrella of "PWA".) No other browsers saw an urgent need to be able to e.g. scan for and talk to bluetooth devices from a webpage, and in fact the other browsers were somewhat appalled by the security implications.

Edge: Gave up, and now repackages Chromium. They spent over a decade as an incumbent with supposedly only a half dozen developers on the IE team, and that was because they were doing their own monopoly game (protecting the Windows platform from cross-platform applications). They couldn't overcome their lack of momentum, and quite frankly had an inability to attract experienced talent.

Safari: Does fine, but Apple never directly cares about market share - they want profit share. There's no profit maximization for free browsers; WebKit and Safari investment is about owning the best default browser on Apple platforms, and it has better system performance. It is certainly arguable that Safari is better than Chrome on Mac. And let's not forget part of how Chrome got such a quick start is that they are a fork of WebKit.
Speaking of, today you can use https://gircore.github.io for rich GObject (and GTK4) interop. It is relatively new hence not widely known but is already used by e.g. https://www.pinta-project.com. It's a proper and actively maintained successor to GtkSharp.
A signature fits but what good does it do you? The cards can't sign a challenge, and so someone with access to a valid card can just clone it. (or access to a card and reader, in the case encryption is used)
Really? So in 2024, folks are only deploying services that have excellent security, and not anything else? This seems like a high bar to clear but I'm curious to learn.
I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)
Perhaps I can hijack this post to ask some advice on how to monitor servers.

I don't do this professionally. I have a small homelab that is mostly one router running opnsense, one fileserver running TrueNAS, and one container host running Proxmox.

Proxmox does have about 10-15 containers though, almost all Debian, and I feel like I should be doing more to keep an eye on both them and the physical servers themselves. Any suggestions?
I still can't enable the TPM on my AMD Zen 3 PC without getting random hitches (I've applied all firmware updates and tried switching to a hardware TPM), guess back to Windows 10 I go.
I thought the last thing people held on to was that we have the perception of making choices and physics only states that observed states of systems follow the distribution of the wavefunction.
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Until there are significant financial damages associated with each of these breaches, companies just won't invest enough to secure the information. These sorts of breaches should be existential to the company- they should never happen. And yet because the penalties are almost nothing, companies just are not incentivized to secure the data appropriately.

If a breach meant the firing of the CEO and the CTO and the board, then you'd know that companies would spend a lot more on security and privacy.
HN post (not flagged) with a better article is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212788
I got one of my own comments on the 15 question quiz!
Crass as your point is and it may be true, each time they fine companies it raises the cost of operation and changes the nature of the decision.
If 98% of your content works everywhere but you've only tested 100% in one browser, I think "highly recommended" is perfectly valid.
This isn't really the challenge (loss function) that language models are trained on. It's not a simple next-word challenge, they get more context, see how BERT was trained as a reference.
At least I'm not
yeah that's a weird edge case that's not really worth considering. it's obviously something that can be done technically even if some edge cases are not performant.
> Presumably, you think we should what? Take the to the streets?

Ummmmmm, Yes?

It's how the people who got ALL the rights we take for grated today did.

Especially our employment rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolpuddle_Martyrs
> Most people in real life don't really give a fuck about politics.

Which is a shame because if they did they wouldn't vote against their own interests.

You’re basically saying you’re fine either way so it doesn’t matter to you. But it does matter for a bunch of real people who’s freedoms are compromised by policy decisions.
I suspect they come from the LLMs.
Ad networks are also sure as hell not going to cover for anyone, either. If a client is causing them legal issues they're just going to drop them.
If software updates are your major concern, then maybe get a device that's compatible with LineageOS and postmarketOS and flash either OS on your device?

LineageOS has support for at least a decade until the devices aren't supported anymore. And even then, usually the project just needs people that build the images for them. [1]

[1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
> And by no surprise, their browser is the only major one that has no privacy protection features and last month decided to abandon the plan to deprecate cookies and tracking.

Oh they didn't abandon the plans, they chose something worse. They are going to make it a user decision.

Advertising companies can still gain some value for people who have third party cookies enabled, applications which aren't well-maintained enough to remove a reliance on third-party cookies will fail (sometimes), and users will be pushed by things like work SaaS apps to re-enable third party cookies (as a global setting) to be able to use required services.
> The question that needs to be answer is how far democracy is willing to go outside of democratic bounds to preserve itself.

I would say it should not do that essentially ever? If so, what kinds of undemocractic behavior would be allowed and what isn't? You probably have a certain kind of behavior in mind that you want to allow when you pose this question. If so, why not legislate that behavior using the democratic process?

It seems to me that the argument that protecting democracy by undemocratic means is okay, is essentially the same argument that a benevolent dictator is superior to democracy. Both arguments give special power to a certain group or individual that others do not have, which can be used to go outside the system if things don't work out. First order this argument is plausible. But second order effects (there is no such thing as categorically benevolent, and characters change, especially when in power) will always ruin it.

Democracy is messy. And when the world changes, there are challenges that democracy has to overcome. We're in the middle of a few of those changes right now. But the mess in by design. I believe that if we give up on a very high democratic standard things will turn out for the worse. My one addition here would be that in my view democracy is necessary but not suffient to get to a prosperous society. It needs to go hand in hand with a common value system where there's fellowship between citizens and genuine respect for individual right and the law. If not, there's a risk that the majority will only cater to itself.
It was not just "scrapped", they were basically forbidden from going ahead by regulators protecting the incumbents.

It's the same problem all cryptocurrency projects face. They allowed Bitcoin because Bitcoin is basically useless for payments, it's too slow and fees are way too expensive. Though Ethereum recently slipping through the cracks may disrupt the payments industry in a big way. Coinbase and Circle are already working on bringing direct stablecoin payment options to customers/merchants with USDC and other tokens afaik. Which would also be more decentralized than Facebook's Diem. Not sure how many people would trust corporate money, an open public ledger is preferable of course.

https://www.ft.com/content/a88fb591-72d5-4b6b-bb5d-223adfb89...

https://www.dw.com/en/facebook-backed-cryptocurrency-sold-am...
I always thought there should be a two-arg overload of new, so you could write new(bool, true) or new(int, 20). Would solve the problem without any trickery.
Don't be that teammate who blindly refactors code and only makes things worse
Must have been just the organizations I looked at. Thanks for the catch.
I don't think anybody would enjoy the UX with Lightning where payments regularly fail. And if you're asking them to use custodial services, that just introduces additional risk. Not to mention the fluctuation in value of BTC.

Better to use USDC on Base or Ethereum instead. or maybe USDT on Tron like many people around the world do.
> It's not like we had a left leaning judge favouring a left leaning party

Why does this matter?

> The question that needs to be answer is how far democracy is willing to go outside of democratic bounds to preserve itself.

Democracy is not an being. When you act democratically, that's democracy. When you act undemocratically, that's against democracy. Acting democratically is when the justification for your rule comes from the desires of the people ruled. When you believe it's fine to silence (or officially harass, imprison or kill) people whose desires don't conform with yours, you are actively working against democracy.

The biggest scam of the centrist blob is convincing some (comfortable, middle-class) people that they're insiders who own democracy, so all of their anti-democratic behavior becomes democratic by definition.
The example question "Why is there poverty" is presented as an example of a childish question. In the limited criticism you provide, I think you're actually agreeing with the author.
> I use an even simpler and more reliable system to avoid running out of toothpaste: brushing with plain water

Breath though. Wouldn't fly with my wife. I not only brush with toothpaste, I then use some Hexetidine. And then I take a little Fisherman's Friend or something similar.

I like the feeling of freshness. I don't care much about the actual effect: I just care about feeling fresh.
You don't need to use the command line.

If you set it as your default video player it will work as you expect.

If you don't want to set it as your default video player you can probably do something like "Right Click -> Open with..." and choose MPV.
Oh you mean web apps
I'm a lazy procrastinator and have never checked if my water if fluoridated, so I brush with fluoride toothpaste.
You’ve hit the nail on the head here. It feels like everyone who keeps saying AI is going to make it easy to churn out billion dollar businesses is only one step short of selling their latest guru course.

1. Type a prompt into AI

2. Copy/paste the answer

3. Exit for $3b

Never mind that pesky business stuff.
There is no point in investing in good displays, good speakers or high-end performance parts for a laptop that's going to be hooked up to a monitor and run bland accounting apps for 8 hours, 5 days a week.
Tesla has received over $2B in subsidies since 09, accepted $750M from New York for a SolarCity plant in Buffalo, SolarCity also received $500M in federal grants.

I could keep going but you get the idea. To be clear, I have no problem with him or any company accepting the money but this isn't "contracts with the government to provide services."
I too like to have backups, I use OsmAnd in case Organic Maps goes wrong on me. But Google Maps also has its use for me, businesses around me are best represented on that, especially opening hours.
Thanks that the most informative thing about this incident that exists at this point. Nothing on the website at all. It's terrible.

The blog mentions recently moving away from TCL. Could it have been related to that?

Do you have an idea why the emails arrive as a drip, spread over days?
Apple has a business agreement to use Google search, and it seems it is a similar agreement to what they made to OpenAI - we as Apple will use your service by default, we pay you nothing, and we take a percentage of your monetization.
How does its IMAP4 fare with ImapTest?

https://dovecot.github.io/imaptest

https://dovecot.github.io/imaptest/compliancy.html
Not that lazy if you brush your teeth, imo.
should just use USDC on Base instead - no high transaction fees like with Bitcoin, no crappy UX with Lightning, cheap transactions, free bridging, and no conversion fees for USDC -> USD unlike BTC -> USD.
> By your logic every industry sector that comsumes huge amounts of energy (and there are many) in the planet is evil.

Yes

> Hence your problem is not with Bitcoin, but with energy consumption or with our current power production grid.

I also have an additional problem with Bitcoin because it locks us in to using high amounts of energy. If it becomes a main currency then it's just one more think to lock us into using huge amounts of energy which in turn make it more likely to develop other harmful technologies.

> I'm not a big fan of the current power grid too, I think nuclear is the way to go.

No matter how clean energy is, it promotes further use of other resource in an unsustainable way.
Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google
Always always put in fake names emails etc when creating accounts. I do not know why anybody puts in their real names in the first place.
snmp v3 (v3, because anything lower then this is unencrypted and 4) therefore not advised unless it’s on a trusted network)

For most Linux distros and network equipment, this will get you CPU/Disk/RAM/Net statistics. Use LibreNMS for this which runs in a VM or CT which can alert you if metrics go out of spec.
>For the same reason democratic states should fund news and education -- because it's in the public's interest to have these things.

Is it? What are we going to miss out on if art's purely commercial? The most visible art that the public sees is already commercial, whether it's music on spotify or movies in theaters. Hell, even most art that's in museums are commissions funded by wealthy patrons. If anything, government funded art is a recent phenomena, and we have gotten along just fine without it.
This is no different than chip+pin for physical purchases. There are still other major areas of fraud that has to be addressed.

It doesn’t cover credit risk-even on a debit card, there can be a “hold” period of an arbitrary amount before the final transaction clears. When you swipe a card at a gas station, they often run a $50 authorization hold on your account.

It also doesn’t cover merchant fraud—- Visa/MC covers you if the merchant doesn’t ship the product because they’re a fake company.

Then there are value-added warranty services that higher end cards offer. These are easily worth the 1%+ fee.
It is a fantasy that technophiles tell themselves so they can sleep a little better at night even though they are at the forefront of an unsustainable society.
> a rational mind can believe an unlimited amount of true things without needing to in-believe anything

Sure, if minds were logic engines pre-loaded with true axioms. But none of us believes only true things from the get-go, so the capability of a mythical “rational mind” doesn’t offer much guidance for humans who need to decide whether or not to discard an existing belief.
Magic-wormhole is really intended to help with the first-step "introduction" phase of a tool like that: start with two humans that can yell a codephase at each other, and finish with two computers that have a secure encrypted connection. Once you've got that connection, you can send whatever you want through it.

The `wormhole send` tool is a good demonstration of what you can do with that API, and a convenient tool in its own right, but wasn't designed to be the end-all-be-all of the file transfer universe, nor to be a building block for other tools layered on top.

The application you describe would be pretty cool (the UI might look more like dropping a file into a Slack DM chat window). But I'd recommend against using automated calls to `wormhole send` to accomplish it: you'd be cutting against the grain, and adding load to the mailbox server that everyone else uses. Instead, build a separate app or daemon, which can use the magic-wormhole API to perform just the introduction step. You'd push the "invite a peer" button on your app, it would display a wormhole code, you speak that to your pal, they push the "accept invitation" button on their app, type in the code, and then the two apps exchange keys/addresses. All subsequent transfers use those established keys, and don't need to use the wormhole code again. You should never need to perform a wormhole dance more than once per peer.
That’s why I made Manabi Reader for language learning (currently only Japanese): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275227

It encourages finding content from native sources, learning new words in context from materials that interest you rather than textbook content, and helps you build your own personal corpus of sentences as you encounter them in the wild. Will soon expand to more media types than just web and epub, to include YouTube/comics/HDMI input/game emulators etc

If you find flashcards from others, you also get easy tools for discovering more sentences from source materials that might interest you or from your own corpus. More coming for this and other word/kanji-level tracking analytics. Offline-first and privacy friendly.
> In programming, a sentinel value is a simple way to keep track of the end of a list of items.

A type of sentinels that are cute are "poison pills": when you have a queue and know at some points that no more items are coming, and several consumers, you can simplify the logic by putting as many poison pills at the end of queue as there are consuming threads.

When a consumer finds a poison pill, he stops removing/processing items for the queue.

As there are the same number of poison pills as there are consumers, all consuming threads shall eventually stop.

I probably learned about poison pills back in the days either in Effective Java or in Java Concurrency in practice.
I feel like we aren’t supposed to talk about that. Like it’s a rule.
Nice launch.

Can you talk about some of the product thinking that has gone into this? Who is the ICP, what experience are you trying to give to the user here?

I type destinations in and it doesn’t find anything every time. Even popular places like Barcelona.

What are you doing that is different to chatgpt?

Do you have some prompts that work particularly well, or RAG for some travel content?

Travel planning is some of the worst performing applications for stock chatGPT, manually searching on trip advisor and just looking around on google maps is much better.

Also Wanderlog is killing it in the trip planning space, what sets you apart from them?
It also causes excess stress and anxiety and mental health issues.

There are magnesium gummies.
There are graphical frontends like Celluloid.

https://celluloid-player.github.io/
Nothing hidden about it.
[Eric patting a big box of H100s] this bad boy is going to generate so much slop
It's becoming more and more obvious the number one product this industry sells is shares in companies. Everything is about getting the price of those shares as high as possible for the anxious billionaire/institutional investment class whenever they go on the market.
baguetter library for the win!
The Microsoft view is that LTSC is for "single purpose devices", more akin to appliances or embedded systems (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/ltsc/ove...)

Those tend to be shipped on some validated hardware that will take years to validate, then eventually gets approved for use, and won't be replaced for many years. My guess is in many of these use cases (industrial etc) you won't see TPMs present or used, because they value availability and uptime over all else (i.e. confidentiality and integrity) - you won't be encrypting the filesystem or doing any kind of TPM checks on an industrial control system, as the operational technology mindset is to put availability above all else, and a TPM or encryption issue would compromise availability.

So not really for workstations - they'd probably say you should use enterprise and just accept constant changes and new features being pushed down to users causing support hassle. They don't officially consider LTSC to be something used by regular users for daily productivity though.
mpv tries to be pretty minimalist (and does this well), you could try a frontend (Celluloid, Haruna, etc.). And for the commandline, when you install the mpv package, depending on the distro, the package creates a default shortcut/desktop file, so you can open videos on your WM without hitches, on the menu bar. You can associate the shortcut to mime/file types and set as default player too. You can create yourself a desktop file too if necessary on your profile (eg: $HOME/.local/share/applications/mpv.desktop) with this file/content [1]

[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/etc/mpv.deskto...
This is not success when considering the harm incurred.
Epic Games can probably tell you exactly how many fewer people install an app that's not on the Play Store on their Android devices. That information might even be in public documents from their lawsuit against Google. That they were able to sue and win suggests it's large.
X was not fined.

The €550k was compensation for unlawful termination.
Is the country wide 2FA implemented by the country or a private company? While rare, what if a person does not have access to the 2FA mechanism, and what mechanisms are permitted to confirm an identity?
1. System temperatures with a custom little python server I wrote that gets polled by HomeAssistant (for all machines on my tailnet, thanks Tailscale).

2. Hard drive health monitoring with Scrutiny.

https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny

Everything else, doesn't matter to me for home use.

Good luck with your endeavor!
> If that's true, then shouldn't we put some weight in what he says? Even if it's not first-hand knowledge, even if he's only repeating what knowledgeable people told him, it's not likely to be all bullshit is it?

You probably _can_ take it at face value, and billions of dollars changes hands daily on this sort of conjecture. But is it the smart thing to do?

At a time when we have more data, instrumentation, and analytical models of everything (including market trends for tech companies) I would argue no. What one guy with unclear motives says doesn’t supersede whatever we could otherwise extract from evidence.
>Men's experience is relevant to them, but not the owners of the app.

Men are typically the vast majority of paying customers. If guys have a terrible experience they will stop paying eventually. But there's a sucker born every day, as the saying goes...
We know from the No Communication theorem that quantum entanglement does not transmit information between classical observers who have no role in preparing the initial state of the entangled elements. Why should one think that this No Communication theorem is applicable to the phenomenological description of brain behavior? It seems that the speed of nerve conduction is at odds with the time constants of brain synchronization. If we are to doubt that quantum entanglement plays a role in accounting for this discrepancy, then what are the assumptions that underlie this doubt, and are they reasonable?