skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The final aggregate read throughput reached approximately 6.6 TiB/s with background traffic from training jobs.

The Ceph team has been working on Crimson for years to get past performance bottlenecks inherent to the HDD-based design. I’m having troubles finding any ceph benchmark results that show any close to 100 GB/s.
This looks interesting! How does Probly handle complex Pandas operations compared to something like Deepnote or Jupyter AI plugins? Does it support custom Python scripts, or is it more of a prompt-based solution?
Ok, so you read it to say that at some later point they will ask, and that point the language will matter.

What was the purpose of mentioning it now? And why write in such an ambiguous way that it could be interpreted otherwise? And that still doesn’t give me confidence about what they will do at a later time. I don’t like it at all, these are used car dealership tactics.
It's quite funny that I got two opposite answers right away: you say it's to improve throughput, and sibling says it's to improve latency, and as we know throughput and latency trade off against each other. I'm inclined to agree it's more likely they're prioritizing throughput, since their readme charts throughput but not latency. But OTOH, the project looks like it requires RDMA. I wonder if the authors have written about their motivations and the tradeoffs they made, so we don't have to speculate.

EDIT: Their blog post answered all my questions and more. https://www.high-flyer.cn/blog/3fs/
If you take rapamycin or a rapalog as an anti-rejection drug, your risk of cancer is lower - not higher - because it's not actually an immune suppressant so much as a drug that prevents hyperimmunity. [1] Other immune suppressants work differently but it's not a blanket true statement that taking anti-rejection drugs will increase your risk of cancer. Depends what you take.

You can read the section in [1] titled "Cancer prevention in humans."

> Starting from 2004, numerous studies demonstrated that rapamycin and everolimus reduced the incidence of various cancers in organ transplant patients.

[edit] In fact in addition to its use as an anti-rejection medication, rapamycin is used as chemotherapy to treat certain forms of cancer.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10103596/
Worst investment I ever made. I like Mitchell and Armon so I emotionally just bought the IPO and closed my eyes presuming a TWLO or NET. Oh well!! :)
Mozilla should consider rewriting their statement for clarity, unless of course the ambiguity is the point.
> The reason is that the discussion is nuanced, a smartphone plays a very different role in someone's life than a Nintendo Switch.

That doesn't really align with the arguments people actually put forth for sideloading on iPhones. "It's my device, I should be able to run whatever I want" is the most common, and doesn't leave room for the nuance you're referencing. Like it or not, most people arguing for iPhone sideloading are using arguments that also demand sideloading on game consoles. It's not at all a straw man.
You seem to be saying all people are the same. Plenty of people get upset about Nintendo (and other consoles) being locked down. Plenty more people don't care and happily buy them (and Apple devices).
Copilot is a code completion, and authoring for developers.

It’s not a presenting a copy of trained material, rather generating new content based on what it has learned in the context of the problem / query discussed in the prompt.

Repositories available (complete copy) sounds more like a search engine cache, which is mentioned in the middle of the article (Bing).

So, is it Bing, the search engine or the AI model?

Perhaps I am missing the core here, but at the moment it seems like a Bing story dressed as AI story for traffic (arstechnica) and fame (lasso).
What on earth happened here? Was he trying to make some kind of weird DOGE-esque shadow IT department? There is so much drama and I can't make heads or tails of it.
Why would I use this browser instead of, say, chromium?
I worked somewhere that when people quit or were let go it was a BIG secret. Nobody was allowed to mention that they left, if you were caught discussing it you would get in trouble.

We'd be in meetings like, "where's Jeff? Will Jeff be joining?" and there would be awkward silences because nobody could tell them he would never be joining because he was gone.

All it did was create a ton of gossip and rumors. Not a great policy!
And remember when KeyBase added that crypto crap? Downhill then dead.
Not sure which specific field you have in mind there but many parts of academia also have off the charts levels of, as GP put it, "the most autistic people". Outside of the university bureaucracy (which is its own separate thing) nearly all of the "wtf" that I encountered there had good reasons behind it. Often simply "we don't have the cash" but also frequently things that seemed weird or wrong at first glance but were actually better given the goals in that specific case.

Interfacing with IT, who thought they knew the "right" way to do everything but in reality had little to no understanding of our constraints, was always interesting.
"If countries are “deemed not to be doing what you are told you will suddenly find out missiles won’t fire and planes won’t fly. You have got to be careful."

So if a country buys US military equipment, they don't really own it, just like normal consumers don't really own their game consoles, which will become useless without the online services they depend on.
> 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.

This is an unfair argument. No consumer can be expected to do hours of research on every purchase they make and understand the implications of everything. Manufacturers can say almost anything they want as "marketing" and can/do change the terms at anytime they wish.

> 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.

Yes and motherboard manufacturers have also offered BIOS options to bypass those kneecaps. I remember having fun unlocking the fourth core on my AMD Athlon II x3 455 and getting the "whole chip".

It's not quite the same scenario though. Some of those CPUs/GPUs have hardware issues such as an unstable core and the company is making the best of it by selling them as lesser models instead of trashing them.
I think that prospect (of programmatically structurally editing markdown files) would have made everyone burst out in laughter in 2000; if you want to programmatically alter stuff, put it into sexp's or some other syntax. SGML. Apparently human readable but really a tricky format leads to this sort of thing: https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-fr...
Because the two are interconnected and aren't in conflict with each other. You not only want high throughput - that by itself would be quite limiting. You want it along with low latency as well, or else it's very easy to end up in the situation where your throughput is effectively zero if the access pattern is "bad".
New York City Littoral Common Brick Index
I'm interested because it isn't chromium
Some possible explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40506894
Verge source : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200013
I don't think that's the problem here, as I don't want to see porn on e.g. Mozilla's forums either. There's a place and time for that content and Mozilla shouldn't be the one to decide for others. The problem is whether Firefox is a Mozilla "service" or not, and the way the terms is linked implies that it is.
I haven't had the same experience. Here are some of the significant issues when using o1 or claude 3.7 with vscode copilot:

* Very wreckless in pulling in third party libraries - often pulling in older versions including packages that trigger vulnerability warnings in package managers like npm. Imagine a student or junior developer falling into this trap.

* Very wreckless around data security. For example in an established project it re-configured sqlite3 (python lib) to disable checks for concurrent write liabilities in sqlite. This would corrupt data in a variety of scenarios.

* It sometimes is very slow to apply minor edits, taking about 2 - 5 minutes to output its changes. I've noticed when it takes this long it also usually breaks the file in subtle ways, including attaching random characters to a string literal which I very much did not want to change.

* Very bad when working with concurrency. While this is a hard thing in general, introducing subtle concurrency bugs into a codebase is not good.

* By far is the false sense of security it gives you. Its close enough to being right that a constant incentive exists to just yeet the code completions without diligent review. This is really really concerning as many organizations will yeet this, as I imagine executives are currently the world over.

Honestly I think a lot of people are captured by a small sample size of initial impressions, and while I believe you in that you've found value for use cases - in aggregate I think it is a honeymoon phase that wears off with every-day use.
yeah... who designed this thing?
I think the argument I'd like to make is that when there is a oligopsony, regulators should intervene to add more competitors to the sell side. In other words, fund competitors, instead of using law to directly twist the arms of companies.

EU is already on a back footing. We are too reliant on American technology, and we don't have any players in the smartphone market. If consumers want something we should build it.
Have you tried copying the compilation errors back into the prompt? In my experience eventually the result is correct. If not then I shrink the surface area that the model is touching and try again.
They only have license to use the data in order to realize the intent of the user, how much more specific than that can it get?
Deadlock and Resource Leak Free Languages – Jules Jacobs [video]
> navigate, experience, and interact with online content

I can do all of those things just fine without Mozilla also experiencing my online content.
They can still control the spec. Ladybird would need a seat at the table to start the change there.

But if there is more browser diversity, and less support for Chrome Only things, maybe that starts (continues?) the path of Chrome becoming IE6
I don't understand the pricing for cached tokens. It seems rather high for looking up something in a cache.
I'm not baiting or anything, just purely curious --why not?

And what do you use as an alternative to Signal?
Hydrogen cyanide and acetylene detected in a brown dwarf
Vibecoding is like the start of an exciting journey. It exercises creative and technical brain activities at the same time. If you're technical but not so creative then vibecoding offers ways to develop your creative faculties. And vise versa.

I reckon we're entering a period of awesome software development creativity.
Arxiv paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13610
> because the pool of people that can see an absolutely insane idea, and ones that can actually work on them, are the vanishingly small number of nearly eccentrics.

I go back and forth with this. The further along the path I go, the more I weight good faith and sincere will to make a thing over ability-at-start. (drive + moxy + curious + perceptive - ego) is a better function to optimize for than buzzword count on a resume.

I think there's a lot of people who can do crazy things in a good faith kind of way that advances the wave front of humanity. It's possible that it's everyone, and it's all about conditions. "all about conditions" is doing some heavy lifting, but maybe you see what I'm trying to articulate.
Switched to Vivaldi long time ago. For reasons like this, ToS, Mozilla changing their mission, etc.

Vivaldi respects your privacy, supports Chrome extensions, and all the customizations you'd ever need.
> stick the submarine up his ass

This isn't accurate.

> "He can stick his submarine where it hurts," Unsworth replied. [1]

There are plenty of places that a submarine can go where it will hurt, such as ear canals. You are assuming in bad faith that Unsworth told him to place it in a specific area.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/16/629348178/elon-musk-and-briti...
If the goal is ensuring a future stream of bananas then can you really say the behavior is misguided?
When you’re in it, you can’t reflect unless you’re no longer in it.
Company meeting and internal announcement details.

https://www.theverge.com/meta/603812/meta-warns-leakers-leak...
Wasn't their entire original premise the Basic Attention Token? It was some kind of crypto that you'd buy and then the browser would block ads for you and instead pay a small amount to the website owners. Problem was if the website owner wasn't part of the program they'd just keep the tokens for themselves, something like that.
Particularly interesting given the UK’s nuclear deterrent relies on a delivery system consisting of a co-mingled pool of Trident II missiles held in the United States.
> Or it's like a normal person making a normal mistake.

Except that like the kings of old, Elon is not a normal person, and therefore his "mistakes" are not normal either, because they have repercussions.

The whole point is that with great power comes great responsibility. And when you have someone who can't handle that power responsibly without lashing out the way Elon does in a highly immature manner, then you do wind up with a modern version of the "off with your head" tyrant. Sure, he may not cut off your head, but he can cut off your livelihood.
And poorer. Who's going to buy US arms if that's the way they are?
This was one of my favorite demos I've seen live at YC - congrats on the launch!
He was a force of nature embodying his role in Mississippi Burning. Very physical and I never realized how tall he was until you see him face down some redneck racists! He plays the in-the-trenches tough guy who makes Willem Dafoe look like a comparative dweeb.
If you pair this with genetically engineered hypoimmune islet cells to avoid needing to suppress immune system you could have a viable cure. https://ir.sana.com/news-releases/news-release-details/sana-...
A license grant like this is common in the context of review systems or forums or the like. For example if I go to addons.mozilla.org and post a review for an addon, Mozilla arguably needs a license grant like this to allow them to publish the review. And preferably they would want to word it in a way that then allows them to use the same review in print or a super bowl spot.

The weird thing is that a) I don't think this license grant covers any of that, since publishing a review doesn't improve my experience, it improves other's experiences, and b) Mozilla Websites like addons.mozilla.org have a completely different TOS [1], with a completely different license grant.

I have no idea what this license grant is supposed to accomplish, or what it would even allow that requires a license grant in the first place

1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/mozilla/
The phrase is "...as you indicate with your use of Firefox"! It is NOT "...as you indicate with your Firefox user preferences." Using Firefox is what indicates your agreement, similar to how using your credit card indicates your agreement with the card terms. I take it back - the meaning is not ambiguous at all.
If NIH syndrome boosts morale of the team, it should be helpful on overall team progress though.
It’s the cost of living. Everyone is dancing around the obvious, but the problem is Capitalism isn’t serving society like it needs to, society is serving Capitalism. At some point we need to address the elephant in the room.
I think you just assumed the result. With quantum mechanics, a and b will be different if could rollback time. Or if made the same measurement with the exact same state.

Quantum mechanics is indeterminate and probabilistic. Some of the most brilliant physicists like von Neumann and Bell, who won the Nobel Prize for this work, have proved it. Unless you have something that will win the Nobel Prize, your intuition is wrong.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_indeterminacy
> there a large, frustrated demand for unauthorized Nintendo software?

Ironically, yes, from people who don’t like paying for things. It’s a booming market on Android.

And yes, I absolutely believe that saying Nintendo and Sony are allowed to make a locked down device, but Apple is not, is an arbitrary double standard, setting up a potential legal victory for Apple.
The target audience is presumably people who dont like chromium, so the question kind of self-answers.
Podcast format is a game changer in my opinion, i always thought to look into it (just like google llm). Nice work!
Maybe I’m overlooking it, but is there any mention of how browser extensions will (or won’t) work? I imagine I’m not alone in needing a password manager and ad blocking extensions for any browser I use. Either way, looking forward to seeing how this develops!
Whichever one used sensory deprivation tanks. I don't remember the specifics.

High salinity solutions make wizards more buoyant. It's immediately self evident to me how this helps one telepathically view the inside of missile silos on the other side of the planet.
This commit looks particularly bad:

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b...

Notably, this was deleted from the Firefox FAQ on 2025-02-25:

> Does Firefox sell your personal data?

> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.
Patreon is letting me bump my prices up for people who subscribe to my work via the iOS app. I don't know if this is because they are simply ignoring the "you have to have the same price through apple" rule or if they worked out some kind of deal.
You're comparing oral discussion with written discussions.

We got so distracted by shiny new tools that we forgot what it was underneath.

My grandfather, before the modern computer era, used to say "words fade, writings stays".

Trying to prevent government from breaking encryption won't solve the underlying issue that we are naive.
> why shouldn't they be able to charge the fees they want? It's their platform.

Why shouldn't a country's people, through their government, be able to make rules about how Apple's products should work in their country? It's their country.

They think it's good for consumers for Apple's ecosystem to be more open to independent developers. I think it's easy to understand that, fears of Grandma loading a non-Apple approved app notwithstanding.
> I don't have to grant Word a license to what I type in it.

Yes you do.

From Microsoft's Services Agreement [1]:

> To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others, to protect you and the Services, and to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, display, and distribute via communication tools Your Content on the Services.

That's broader than what Mozilla is asking for.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en/servicesagreement
I'm with you until the fees part.

I like the fact I can more or less assume security. I really like the fact that my mum can. Any way of unlocking your phone for sideloading seems almost bound to be an avenue for scammers to talk people into installing malware.

But when a platform is so widespread, I don't think "they can charge whatever they like" is necessarily great.

It's difficult because you want the market dynamic (if they charge too much, we'll just take our app elsewhere and people will move to that platform) to be present in at least some way, but at the same time the real world isn't that simple.
> As if every developer that releases a side loaded app will lower their prices by 30%.

That is literally already the case for many apps. Many offer a better price outside of the iOS ecosystem.

And why are you drawing the goalposts at EVERY developer?
Getting to know about this through here, and tbh I believe the writing has been on the wall for Mozilla for quite a while. This honestly does not surprise me as much as I thought it would.

That being said, I am sad to see this fear of mine come true. Mozilla products were rock solid, and available on virtually every platform imaginable. I do not want to live in a Chromium and WebKit only world.
there are literally hundreds of extensions and sites that do this

the problem is that they are competing each other into the ground hence they go unmaintained very quickly

getrecall.ai has been the most mature so far
Any sufficiently large configuration language eventually becomes Turing complete (or close to it). See HCL, GitHub actions, kubernetes.
Multiplexing websockets has always seemed trivial to me. Curious to learn more about h2 streams though! Support is coming to JS and has already landed on Firefox and Chrome: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebTranspor...
So what? The answer to the question is still yes.
What's crazy is that Firefox on Debian has been nagging me for weeks that I won't be able to use it after March 14th?

I have never seen those nag screens in Firefox, near the bookmarks toolbar. I think that is working around Debian's policies, IIUC. I have never had software on Debian nag me to update

It seems like this is under the guise of some DRM updates, and the like.

So I'm supposed to update, and then they apply a new Terms and Conditions that I didn't agree to?

And sell my personal data, I guess because there's a big market in AI now.

Also Firefox seems increasingly buggy -- I have had to switch to Chromium for 2 particular sites, so I guess I need to find a new browser ...

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This reminds me of the Twitter thing where they asked for your phone number for security purposes, and then used it for advertising.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/25/twitter-u...

I think Firefox is forcing updates ostensibly for one reason, but the real reason is because they found a market for data, and want to apply a new T&C
Porting Doom to TypeScript Types Took 3.5T Lines, 90GB of RAM
I have never seen this on Android, and it definitely seems like developers don’t care about the 30% cut on Steam, even though sideloading is fairly easy on Windows. How many Steam games can you buy direct, let alone get a discount for?
The line scan video picture
Good attitude.
I don't think he's purely about attention, but he craves a particular kind of attention. The kind that the gifted schoolboy gets when they put their hand up in class to a tricky question posed to the class. This might have been his only validation in childhood, or at least the one that was most rewarding, and now his whole life is based around being the clever guy in the front of the class. Most gifted children course-correct some kind of humility in their adult years, either voluntarily or by being humbled by reality, but Elon is yet to meet the moment of his awakening. Being told he's wrong in front of the whole class is the most mortifying thing he's experienced, but he has enough money, enough sycophants surrounding him, and enough momentum is his business ventures (so far) to keep making the same mistakes without any reflection.
you misunderstand, the business model is extracting cash from Qatar et al
And the means of realization are up to Mozilla. In other words they can do whatever they want. If my intent is to type something into the searchbar and get redirected to the search engine website, there is no reason why Mozilla would need to know about this.
I don’t think they are thinking of that yet, the UI is barebones, they are working on the web engine mostly.