skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a small SaaS side hustle where the core value proposition of the product - at least what got us our first customers, even if they did not realize what was happening under the hood - is, essentially, an implementation of NTP running over HTTPS that can be run on some odd devices and sync those devices to mobile phones via a front end app and backend server. There’s some other CMS stuff that makes it easy for the various customers to serve their content to their customers’ devices, but at the end of the day our core trade secret is just using a roll-your-own NTP implementation… I love how NTP is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wicked problem of aligning clocks. This is all just to say - I feel your pain, but also not really since it sounds like you are dealing with higher precision and greater challenges than I ever had to!

Here’s a great podcast on the topic which you will surely like!

https://signalsandthreads.com/clock-synchronization/

And a related HN thread in case you missed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39298652
My dream team of execs would send lawyers back to the drawing table on at least one of these clauses.

"Imagine that someday we get taken over by bad people. Write this as if our today selves want to protect everyone against our future selves."
It's been almost 6 years
Very sad to read (I think the grandfather isn't relevant to conspiracy theories though, it was IMO a different though similar problem of feeling alienated with a perspective certain people (institutions, authorities, local govt, health dept, etc) were not there to help him.)

Much of this emerging problem of conspiracy and BS mania the last decade IMHO is psychological manipulation capitalising on a less well educated / informed population than it was in the 70s, and the older population now more often not being as sharp as they once were or not equipped to deal with the information overload that the near endless News in various forms can be.

Roughly summing up, for the many people dealing with a family member who has gravitated to news items and other stories that have a very different narrative: more often it's the appeal of a seemingly simple answer all wrapped up as being some person or group's is to blame, any logic pointed their way is met with denial, cognitive dissonance or wishful thinking syndrome. (What I've experience with my own father it's most often in the form of they don't like ... anyhow, this validates it.)

I refer to the psychological manipulation more often as zombie grooming and less sheep grooming which aims to slowly transform the more vulnerable into zombies / sheep that'll do their bidding even if it's the lowest level, it still counts to their greater aspirations and motivations which are 99% political or involving the big money end of town. People are quick to blame the net / web / online crapfest but I see the problems starting more in certain tv and radio media areas which can expand to other more reputable news if folks there haven't engaged their thinking caps.

One would think the manipulation would be easily spotted and dealt with when a stitch saves nine, but much is designed to fly well under the radar, what most of us might disregard as some poorly informed news team, is actually something aimed just for their targeted audience they plan to groom.

The problem is akin to saturating the air with alarm bells or sirens a person is familiar with, and that the faint voice nearby saying it's just some DH with their finger on a button doesn't seem at all important or relevant.
It is unless you use old/legacy outlook. The “new” outlook is electron/webapp
You must construct additional pylons....wait....crap...wrong game!
It says in the readme this is a reverse engineering project, not stolen source code
Launch support. Starlink launches are effectively subsidized by SpaceX launch missions (private and government, so US taxpayers helped a lot here). To compete and develop a similar LEO network you need to be able to launch a lot of satellites, and if you don't own the launch system and piggyback your satellites on launches supporting other customers it's a major expense.
Do more than 1% or so of non-hackernews iOS users care about sideloading?
> why should Apple be forced to allow sideloading?

Because it's unreasonable for any manufacturer to have that much control over how end users use their devices.

> A big part of the reason I use Apple products is that they protect not only me, but my family who don't know what the implications of sideloading are.

You can still use devices in nanny mode if needed. If your relatives can be talked into sideloading an app and bypassing the inevitable big scary warnings, they can be talked into other stuff equally as dangerous.
> But being an asshole back to an asshole is hardly a red flag.

Being an asshole is almost always a red flag. It's like teaching someone to not eat grilled babies by eating grilled babies yourself to show them how bad it looks.
> It's against the Terms of Use to use Firefox to... watch porn?

Firefox isn't a Mozilla service. The Mozilla services are things like account sync, or the review tool they use.
In my experience this means network effects. Microsoft has been very successful in pushing its entire stack at enterprises, and there’s a benefit to knowing that everyone in the org has the same tools and will actually use them. Like, I can send someone docx in an email and can expect that anyone can open and edit it with instruction.

“Most people can get an email and open a document without instruction” may seem like a low bar to you, but in my experience with run of the mill enterprise it’s massively better than the alternatives.

Also, Outlook as a whole is inarguably bloated, but it’s an order of magnitude faster than Gmail at the basic act of opening and navigating between emails.
Abrupt USAID contract terminations costing lives
Unfortunately IBM is going to ruin everything that was good about working for Hashicorp and eventually everything that was good about Hashicorp products.

I worked for a company acquired by IBM, and we held hope like you are doing, but it was only a matter of time before the benefit cuts, layoffs, and death of the pre-existing culture.

Your best bet is to quit right after the acquisition and hope they give you a big retention package to stay. These things are pretty common to ease acquisition transitions and the packages can be massive, easily six figures.
Then when the package pays out you can leave for good.
fine, but applying that method to journalism will essentially run you out of trustworthy sources to gather news and information from the very same day.
Benchmarks are not real so 2% is meaningless.
We are under an attack by Puritanism that is quite astounding actually. And no one is doing anything. Everyone just keeps bending the knee.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1hqqpbt/newest_ver...

Some of the things that are happening are just from the threat of “something bad might come down from the new administration”. It’s so ridiculous.
Unable to* compile, building in progress

as I recall, at least. I may have played tibsun to death on my grandma's computer. Not that I spoke a word of English back then, so this must have been from replaying it later actually
I have no idea how they justify $200/month for pro
overpaid executives and bloated administration

It sounds like Mozilla needs to be DOGE'd too.

Edit: this was what came to mind: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/lswv11/my_firefox_...
this seems to be a very weak response to sonnet 3.7

- more expensive. alot more expensive

- not a lot of increment improvement
Now that you're actually reading the site, make sure you don't miss this section: https://doesioshavesideloadingyet.com/#what-would-it-mean-fo...
> - Mozilla now restricts users from watching or uploading sexuality explicit content through Firefox

I'm very curious to know how they will impede this?
> ... Carlos Slim canceled all business collaborations with Starlink in Latin America, which made Musk lose 7 billion US dollars.

Uhhh.. what? Can anyone explain that line? Where did this 7B come from? Did Musk lose it or did SpaceX? This makes it sound like it was forefit like Musk just gave Slim $7B for free. What is actually going on there?
One way to do this, but before the mails arrive, is to use a service like IFTTT or Zapier that can both read your mails that match a search and write to Google Sheets. Then you can configure them to save any mails that match the criteria automatically. However, that would be for future mails only.

You can definitely make a Python script do this using the Gmail and Sheets API libraries to do this or use Google Apps Script to do it. ChatGTP and/or Claude can probably write the code for you to do it if you know enough programming to understand and debug it.
Title: U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
> "Chemical imbalance" is the wrong model and asserts culture over nature

It's the model in use. Calling it "wrong" is at odds with the medical community. I get it, but it's not a compelling statement.

Regardless, coinciding with tighter tracking of populations, especially from schools, the last few decades have shown that young girls are at high risk for depression and suicide. Some calling it an epidemic. I'm sure you can find the TED talks, news articles, etc

Notably, this is backed by CDC data. It is not stated what is causal nor how effective anti-depressants are, as a treatment, but they are an option that many parents and children choose.
French connection was a great movie in its time. It feels a bit slow moving compared to today's contemporary films. But a must watch if you're a Hackman fan.
> Like Billy G selling DOS before he owned it

DOS actually existed. It just had a different owner.
Retro Ski Game
Would you mind disclosing your current employer? I am also interested in moving to an embedded systems role.
outlook classic is one of the few pieces of microsoft software that isn't abominably bad

it's reasonably performant, doesn't crash more than once a day, has a very customisable UI (easily altered for maximum information density), can be scripted and has zero AI slop

(cf. teams)

so of course they're sunsetting it
I have the knowledge and who doesn't should be in the walled garden of some sort. Either the one I set up with words ("never install sus apps mom") or Apple forces.

Sure Apple has some sus apps on the store too but it's still a million times better than if some random "friend" got her to install actual blatant spyware that siphons her bank info and snoops on our messages
Thanks for taking the time to try it out and share your thoughts. I really appreciate the detailed feedback from a real-world use case.

Glad to hear the setup was smooth and that the chat box + import/export features worked well for you. Noted on the UI tweaks, I'll look into making them more intuitive.

On the categorization issue, yeah, LLMs can struggle with nuanced transaction labeling, especially without proper context or examples. Structured prompting could help, which ties into your second point -- having a library of refined prompts that can be reused for repetitive tasks would be really valuable.

I love your feedback -- it's exactly what helps improve the tool. And again, thanks for testing it out!
I think what was being asked is if there's something like Brave that doesn't use a webkit derived back-end. Good defaults and a good stance on privacy is one reason to use Brave and historically Firefox, but another is that it keeps the browser ecosystem from being too homogeneous. Firefox is the last browser with over sub-percent market share, and even then it's less than 3%, so it's almost gone.

A case can be made that many of the browsers split from webkit (or split from things that split from webkit) long enough ago that there is competition, but IMO that's a far cry from a fully independent solution.
There are some interesting players taking another attempt at helping people explore the web by being aggregators - kagi.com for example. And I hope they make cool things. At the same time, I feel like we've walked that path a few times now and it hasn't made too different of an outcome. I wonder if there are laws in averages that mean it will become the same thing no matter intent. Even if that is wrong, I do worry we are stuck trying to make a faster horse.
Seems too big. Market cap is 1/3 of IBM's.
The argument to force side loading is the argument that Apple are using market position in phone hardware sales to control, and profit from, the adjacent market of software that runs on phones.

Yes, you can run software on phones via a web browser. But Apple largely control the features of the web browsers that run on phones, too, and arguably limit those features so that browser apps are never quite as good as native apps.

This is "gatekeeping" and while it isn't illegal in all jurisdictions, it is anti-consumer, hence the consumer backlash.
Nice!

I had a similar use case and over holiday break I hacked together HoarderToPod (https://github.com/DerekParks/HoarderToPod) for making a podcast feed out of everything that gets saved to my hoarder instance (https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder).
I was sarcastic. I don't need to dig through pages to find out some rando's adjusted definition of a word. "I want X to be free and easy so I will change the definition of X to include those things"
I’m kind of addicted to tab containers right now and I have them set up in a way where I can proxy specific containers out different socks proxies that go through different VPN tunnels. Niche I know but it’s keeping me on FF.
buying the thing doesn't do that.

abusing the thing in the wrong region does.

question : why isn't this a matter of national import/export control? Why is that duty falling onto Amazon?

if Amazon was selling black-tar heroin I would have more questions than "Why is Amazon selling this? How dare they."
Interesting idea. Can i know how accurate or precise is your outcome. From a tech perspective, can you take more about how it works if you can?
reddit tier humor, truly

it's just regurgitating overly emphasized cliches in a disgustingly enthusiastic tone
If you pay for developer access you can load whatever you want - correct?

Yes $100/year is too much, but if you’re paying $1000+ every 2-3 years…
This exactly! Apologies for not being more clear.
Finally we can start fixing the insane amount of bugs in Zero Hour.
> It's not unprecedented to have an open source license with revocation or termination clauses, either. I recall seeing ones that basically say "If you file a patent suit around this open software, your rights to use it are gone".

Trying to take back the license based on use of the software, however, would make it not "open source", since that would be use restriction.
What is the secret sauce that makes LLM better than a Markov chain?
> I use a Firefox fork too

If not LibreWolf then what? The rest seem out of date or worse than Firefox in some way.
Re: Strawman --
Lex Fridman often asks his podcast guests to steel man the opposing side's views. The guests who have well thought out opinions seem to do a really good job at this.
Iteration is not the Yang it is bloat. There is no such thing as iteration, only head and tail recursion. May we pray to God for forgiveness from our sins.
So what about synced bookmarks?
>Wrong. I argue it's my phone. Why shouldn't I be allowed to install what I want on it?

It's your phone that you bought from Apple with full knowledge of the restrictions beforehand. If you wanted a phone with more freedom you could have bought another device and voted with your wallet, but you didn't.

>that it should allow users do on their iOS devices what they can do on their macOS devices.

Software limitations are not exclusive to Apple. They're everywhere. For instance, manufacturers intentionally kneecap CPUs/GPUs so they can sell the same chips from the same wafer at different price points. Why aren't they targeted too? You bought the whole chip but you don't get to use it.
Mozilla VPN is a service Mozilla provides though. White-labelled Mullvad or not, it a contract between Mozilla and the user and therefore presumably covered by this terms of use.

I would say porn is probably in the top 3 if not number 1 use for VPNs
Firefox performance has been trash for years, for many reasons. I still stick with it because it was included in my Ubuntu 8.04, which was the first OS I installed by myself, and more recently because of its stand regarding privacy. Now I might as well bite the bullet and move to Chrome or Edge, performance is much much better.
I read this as the GHOSTING is the thing that bother them. After a full day of interviews, it sounds like. The failure to be hired doesn't sound like it bothers them to me.
Yes, it seems like Mozilla has long had a problem of marketing getting in the way of communication. This keeps happening over and over gain. They make changes for marketing reasons, and then people are confused when they make policy changes because they've solidified their naming so much in the pursuit of brand recognition that their audience (rightly) is confused about what they're actually saying when they use that brand name to refer to a singular component of their offerings.
I made some games as a teenager and had the experience that I was basically forced to stop projects because they got too complex. Game Maker had only limited support for things like variable scoping; you really need to isolate components and have them all do their own defined thing to make it not grow too complex or you'll fix one bug and cause two new ones. Even more so as a team, I can only imagine, though I never concurrently worked on game code with more than one person (for longer than a literal weekend project, that is)

Normal software I find is a bit different because things like UI libraries give you a lot of structure already. In game code, you do so many things custom, and performance matters so much (each frame needs to finish around e.g. the 17-millisecond mark) that it's really up to you to apply the necessary discipline
Well that clearly sucks. Does anyone know alternatives for firefox sync?
> they protect not only me, but my family who don't know what the implications of sideloading are

1. The app review process is largely ineffective. The idea that it protects anyone is a myth encouraged by Apple to feed their profit margins. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/06/apple-a...

2. If Apple ever allows sideloading, it will inevitably involve installing Xcode, connecting your phone to your laptop with a USB cable, running obscure shell commands and clicking through scary warnings. Do you really think your grandparents are capable of doing this, let alone being tricked into it?
Yes, I do. More important than tech and jobs is that we keep too much power from accumulating in any one persons hands.
> Fil-C is faster than CHERI

Except for those GC pauses...
Huh. Disregarding the 4.5-specific bit here, a browser extension or possibly website that did this in general could be really useful.

Maybe even something that just noticed whenever you visited a site that had had significant HN discussion in the past, then let you trigger a summary.
> Ask any person what is the main newspaper of Nyc and I bet they don’t say “Ny Post” or “Wall Street Journal”.

In NYC that's probably so, but only if you force them to pick only one.
I mean, one wouldn’t attempt something unless one had some measure believe in oneself’s chances. If people attempt stuff they know they will fail… Idk how they do that
I worked with a bunch of people who had worked at a startup that got bought by IBM. As the other commenters attested, they too experienced that IBM is not the kind of company that's going to turn on the investment taps.

There are worse companies to get bought by, but if you've only ever worked at startups then you're not likely to enjoy what this becomes.
If you cared you wouldn’t have bought an iOS device.
Ok for me here in aus
> The blocker on widevine being Googles fault (while still supporting L3 out of the box) rather than deliberate "we're not even going to try" is much more acceptable than the Librewolf one.

I don't know, I think not caving in to support some proprietary BS is pretty justifiable.
Of course not. The point is that the cost difference between the two things being compared is huge, right? Same performance, but not the same cost.
Firefox-the-browser isn't a service, it's a product. Their services are things like profile syncing. It makes sense to me that they wouldn't want content on their servers that they could get in legal trouble for hosting.
That would certainly reduce my anxiety about the future of my chosen profession.
"bitcoin reserve" must be the dumbest idea I've heard since "bitcoin".
Title is a complete lie/misleading. They get a license, not ownership.

Let's dissect what it actually says, and we do it backwards, because given the discussion around this subject it seems like people space out or have their mind clouded by outrage before they get to the end of the sentence:

> help you [do things] as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

So this already only covers things that you indicate you want to do with your use of Firefox. Meaning that if you hit some button, Mozilla now has a license to process the data they need to make that button work and nothing more. That means unless you give them additional permission somewhere, they can't, for example, also store and process that information to train some AI model or whatever. All they're allowed to use it for is making whatever you interacted with work. Seems pretty reasonable.

> to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content

This further narrows the scope to websites and such you interact with (online content). It also says that license only covers "helping" you with these things. The part we looked at previously narrows this to your intent.

> you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license

So just a license. No transfer of ownership is happening.

> When you upload or input information through Firefox

Note that this says "through". They're clearly only trying to cover their butt as an intermediary by obtaining a license to process your information to act as such an intermediary. Explicitly nothing more.

Putting it back together we get:

> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Important part in cursive.

So broadly what is the license for?

> license [..] to help you [..] as you indicate
I was going to say that the print magazine was defunct, but apparently they‘re relaunching it as an annual. I don’t think that the literary side of things continued during their online-only era, but I could be wrong.

There used to be (not sure if it’s still there) a newsstand near one of the “L” stations in downtown Chicago that sold primarily porno mags, but it’s been a long time since I’ve boarded by that station and whenever I’m near there, I always forget to check to see if it’s still there. It was the subject of the first poem I wrote in my Chicago sonnets sequence¹ although that one remains unpublished.

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1. Most of these are in print only, but links to those that are online can be found at https://dahosek.com/publications/
Can you quantify “very large”?
What about a license for devs to use when it’s commercial, but their company won’t buy it?

Kind of like how Quokka has a “personal pro” license.

https://quokkajs.com/pro/
From the article:

> "It is better to put our towers, plants and optical fiber to link them," said the business magnate in his press conference held on February 10.

> Two days later, Daniel Hajj, CEO of América Móvil, confirmed the decision in a conference call with analysts, where he announced an investment of 22 billion dollars over the next three years to expand its infrastructure. With this move, the possibility of a collaboration with SpaceX was ruled out.