skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also doubt whether that business model could work. But I don't think doubt is the reason Mozilla hasn't tried it. They won't go that route because the best-case outcome is that it becomes a sustainable but small business. They aren't interested in something that doesn't have a chance at turning into a jackpot.
Yes. It's time to return to McLuhan. The medium is the message and our current media are a mess.

I don't have instagram, but I sometimes overhear it while relatives are using it. It's a shocking experience. A series or random, wholly unrelated noises play in rapid succession, often ranging from harsh loud screams to the latest pop hit. From the outside looking in, it seems obvious that subjecting yourself to that daily would be cognitively deleterious.
Ask HN: Best Security Practices for Activists?
Eight years ago I asked for advice about security practices for activists, and received the helpful advice (from Thomas Ptacek, if I remember correctly) not to disarm unilaterally, but to use a useful tool if it helps a group of activists organize well, and not to obsess about the full theoretical security of one online tool versus another.
I am seeing new groups of activists pop up organized through largely online channels, including some channels that were founded way back in the early years of HN by people well known to the HN community. I use Signal now and am curious Discord (which I have never used, but which is used a lot by a group of local activists). What tools and practices should I be familiar with in 2025? How can I help newbies to activism who are also newbies to technology (the kind of folks who would never visit HN) get up to speed with best practices? What habits are useful to practice and what tools are useful to use to facilitate communication without getting nonviolent, peaceful, legal protesters in trouble just because they are trying to organize to express dissent?
(How much do those considerations change in the United States with new directors in all the United States federal agencies that have investigative powers and electronic communications resources?)
Thanks for any suggestions you have.
The decline in cnet might suggest people are using LLMs for product reviews and recommendations? I'm surprised because I personally wouldn't trust an LLM for that.

Maybe the new frontier of SEO is gaming LLMs to recommend your product.
Where’s the firewall? Reverse proxy? SSL certificate management? High availability? Patch management? SCM? Central logging and alerting?

As someone who ran many IIS boxes since IIS 4, I greatly prefer Azure websites over having to worry about all the “other stuff” that comes with onprem. Yes, the cloud needs an RP, WAF, etc, but they’re always HA and simple services, not another box to maintain.
For a foreign head of state in the White House on a state visit sitting next to the President in front of cameras, you mean? Or did you mean someone else in an entirely different context?
Can you shed any light on the rumors about TS/RA2's code being MIA?

(Or if you can't shed any light. Can you confirm "I can't talk about that")
If anything, it just confirms Mozilla is selling data.
DeepSeek-V3/R1 Inference System Overview
> Also in Australia each state does it independently.

In the US this is typically done at the county level (3000+ individual counties, all doing it independently)
It's the same major version, so it's extremely compatible. Plus if you run into something that doesn't work the same, you just discovered what's going to break for your workload on your RHEL system when the next minor version is released.
I love Workers but they are not a panacea.
You seem to be missing $15T in minerals and for sure we can’t afford a freeze on current lines and this will make Russia invasion very profitable.
Mozilla, then Phoenix, then Firefox user for over 27y or so.

If they can't stop abusing their users, I will look for another browser, goddamnit.
I'm glad to hear it! but that's in part because I spent hours paying close attention to this thread and moderating it. I've copied a sample of links below. It's not enough to just turn off the flags on these things and let them run on the frontpage—it takes active engagement to keep discussion (on a topic like this) from going off the rails.

I say 'in part' because by far more important is that the bulk of the community is on board with the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). We can only make a difference around the edges. But those edges get pretty bad, and without moderation, some of the worst comments can easily turn into tire fires that end up dominating the thread.

I wish this were inessential and superfluous because it would be so much less work! But that's where we're are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43214243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213985

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213854

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213707

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213259

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213210

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213194

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212780

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43212604
I want to agree with you but I don't see the difference between land and any other kind of asset ownership.
> this setup still relies on Mozilla infrastructure for several surrounding services for auth, email,

Why does email rely on mozilla infra?
> For housing to stop increasing in price, a lot of it has to be built.

False.

You can depress the land-based monopolistic component of housing via a land value tax. If speculating on land values stops being a good investment strategy, the price will drop.

Many economists/nobel prize winners have been quietly pointing this out for over a century at this point. Here is a pretty good primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smi_iIoKybg
Which is why they will leave with mobile wealth before the act goes into effect, taking away the capital workers use to earn a living. Property taxes on land and fixed structures work well as they cant run away in a practical way.
The Azure portal has some nice ideas - in theory, being able to divide stuff into "resource groups" works a lot better than the AWS approach of "divide resources that should be isolated from each other into separate sub-accounts".

In practise, even the good ideas are implemented poorly.
Zen 5's AVX-512 Frequency Behavior
It matters if one person can buy Twitter on a whim and use it to pursue his ideological goals, or if one person can buy The Washington Post and dictate it's editorial positions, or if a small handful of people can fund an effort to identify and groom a wide bench of lawyers to one day become judges who will bend the law in their favor. Not to mention plain old lobbying and campaign contributions. When wealth is power, wealth inequality is toxic to democracy.
Trump is a world’s better marketer than the folks at MSNBC.

No, stupid people are easier to herd. That's all there is to it.

Remember that Trump only turned to the Republican party after trying everything else first.
I think the main difference here is that you _know_ your stack and can foresee the issues if the AI goes that direction. The vibes based coder in the article seems to be incapable of seeing those problems, and solves them by just spamming the prompts harder.
Symbolic order? Are you a Lacanian? It's rare to see a Lacanian in the wild, especially on hacker news.
It seems to me that this article has no way of telling whether these are actual people visiting or AI agents/bots visiting to get content. I'm betting it's the later in all cases.
If Russia could bomb kyiv more than they have, they already would have. They literally dont have the strength.

Nukes would likely drag Europeans into the war formally, which Russia cant handle. They dont have resilience, and their oligarchs dont want a nuclear war any more than we do. At the end of the day they are cowards; once their actual livlihood is at stake they will cut and run to save whats left.

Russias only actual card is political division. Biden effectively gambled the US would be more politically resilient than it actually is, and appears to have been wrong. Putin gambled he could manipulate enough in the US to turn the tide.

Now that Trump has exposed it, imo it actually increases the risk because now one warning Nuke can maybe whip his followers into line.

Ultimately today Z played new cards. He saw the writing on the wall, knowing agreeing to Trumps current deal would likely be the (eventual) end of his country. So he appealed to the US voter. This bypasses Trump so it was never going to end well. Now the next phase plays out. Trump tries to discredit z; if he wins its over. If he loses we go back to the Biden plan, rebranded as the Trump plan one way or another.

Strategic victory for Putin in the meantime. JD isnt cut out for the big stage is my main take away.
As someone who dabbled as a user of satelite internet before spacex, nobody else can do it. It sucked
In many of the denser population areas of the US _generations_ 30, 50, maybe more YEARS worth of insufficient building has left a completely broken situation of stagnation relative to population.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAUTbQ4rPI4
Indeed. I don’t think people outside the coasts realize how much more the large set of top earners make.
This doesn’t show that he was “high on cocaine and morphine 24/7” as the relevant commenter suggested; just that he struggled with addiction
Whenever they want, up until Russia officially backs down.
If you even comment on certain subreddits you'll get banned from swathes of the site.

The model of independent subreddits only works if they are really independent. But in practice, all the big subreddits are run by the same people, heavily overlapping groups, who are in constant communication and coordination with each other via discord (previously IRC).
BPF, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kernel
Depends: If you make unexplained objective observations about a topic, and then set out to develop a rational explanation for them, then I would say yes.
Generals was famously extremely rushed in development. Probably a novice programmer
> They key thing people need to remember about the Red Hat acquisition is that it was purely for expertise and personnel. Red Hat has no (or very little) IP. It's not like IBM was snatching them up to take advantage of patents or whatnot. It's in their best interest to do as little as possible to poke the bear that is RH engineering because if there was ever a large scale exodus, IBM would be holding the worlds largest $34B sack of excrement we've seen.

We thought the same thing at VMware until Hock moved WITH THE QUICKNESS to jack up prices and RIF a ton of engineering staff.

That said, I'm in tech sales at the Hat now, and IBM is definitely around, but it's still a cool company that tries hard to treat their people right.

They also care A LOT about being an open-source company. Most of my onboarding was dedicated to this, and sales treats it seriously.
Some of the things are not entirely correct.

Quotation from GNU FAQ:

> You can legally use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license provided that you call your license by another name and do not include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar).

Also, some types of additional terms are allowed by GNU GPL (and AGPL); see section 7 of GPL3. (Commons Clause is not one of the kind of terms which is allowed by the license, but it does allow restricting the use of trademarks.)

So, Neo4j could make the license terms they intended, but they would have to do it differently than what they do now; they have to use the procedure I quoted above to modify the license rather than what they did, which is not legal (it violates FSF's copyright and trademark on the license).
this is a fantastic idea. I wish I could optionally replace a doctor with AI when desired.

It should be done for vets too.
How are they going to implement custom responses per user such that if another user has the same prompt they don't get the same response. Won't they need functioning scalable quantum infrastructure for that?
First, 2% is a guideline, not a requirement. No one is required to spend 2% of GDP, which is an inherently fluctuating target anyway.

Second, European underspending has been by American design. Europe spent decades being told to rebuild their economies and states and not worry because the US nuclear umbrella protected them. This redounded to the US in terms of leading the world economy; it also gave the US tremendous influence in the EU.

In the 90s, Europeans talked about standing up an EU armed force. A small one, around 50,000 people, mainly to serve as an umbrella organization should EU forces come together for some mission, or to go to war as part of NATO. Clinton leaned on France and Germany to scuttle the idea. If Europeans became less dependent on the US, it meant less soft power for the US; less say in European affairs.

The secondary benefit of keeping everyone individually weak and collectively strong is that no European war was possible. The 80 years of peace in Europe following WW2 are the longest period of peace they've had in almost 400 years. Europe upping its defence spending directly threatened that and was actively discouraged until about a decade ago.

Europeans haven't been freeloading. They've wilfully subordinated themselves to the US security establishment for the collective benefit. To pretend otherwise is to be deeply ignorant of modern history.
> This costs 15x more to run compared to 4o and is marginally better.

4o has been very heavily optimized though. I'd say a more apples-to-apples comparison would be to original gpt-4, which was $30/$60 to 4.5's $75/$150. Still a significant difference, but not quite so stark.
... The current global system just isn't going to make it, is it?
Their weird org structure is their own fault. Millions of dollars squandered on things most people simply do not care about, while neglecting Firefox for a decade.

When Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix first came out, the org structure wasn't that weird yet. The hybrid structure came a few years later, and even then it was fine for a while, but somehow mission creep set in and they became this ginormous org that did nothing useful, but padded exec salaries at the expense of their only service that people actually cared about, the Firefox browser. They kept adding more and more ads and intrusive partnership and lost marketshare year after year until it became completely irrelevant.

Meanwhile, the Mozilla org tried to become some sort of EFF-wannabe, but heavy on the virtue signaling and low on producing anything of actual value.

At this point, I think Firefox would be better off spun off and managed by another FOSS entity altogether, not whatever the husk of Mozilla is today.
Resident physician hiring is strongly based on test scores, specifically the USMLE Step 1. It's true that scores in the board exams the OP discusses aren't super relevant to hiring, though.
Quite a good article, I like the ‘hyper local democracy’ suggestion.

But it’s weird how every discussion of housing seems to jump to increase supply and density.

Never a mention of:
- immigration driven demand
- historically low interest rates inflating all asset prices
- occupancy per home

The macro trends that have driven these for the last 50 years are now reversing, at least in places like the SF Bay Area which will have a huge impact.

Also the population pyramid of the US will (sadly) drive down demand in the next couple of decades.

Also I’ve read studies that suggest that dense housing is less likely to promote family formation e.g. Japan’s high density and laissez-faire zoning hasn’t helped with their fertility crisis.
Deno shows us there's a better way
The one thing I haven't seen in any of these threads is where privacy-conscious users are supposed to go now. Are there any viable alternatives to Firefox?
She’s paying to take online courses (for fun, apparently) and paying for an AI to do all the work. She’s not learning anything and the courses must not be that fun.
> Vibes are the raw material of genius.

No, sorry, but if you actually examine the lives and work of the people we tend to grace with the label "genius" their revelations are backed by a history of detailed, dedicated investigation and elaboration of ideas often across a lifetime.

LLMs can be useful for certain tasks, but let's not start turning shallowness, stupidity, and laziness into general virtues, please.
Generals was EA Pacific (Formally Westwood Pacific, opened by EA)
> I can't see why the midterms would do anything to unseat him.

Hopefully, today, you realized what midterms will do to unseat him. The mockery of what US stands for has been going on since Jan/20 and people have been watching.
Honestly, he argument you make is quite confusing as it seems to conflate ideas/terms[1], redefine language[2], and draw distinctions[3] at will. It's a bit hard to reason about something when it mixes interpretations of 'what is' with 'what could be'.

You're conveniently glossing over issues like price discovery (auctions?), periodicity (annual?), and what I suspect are some pretty large inefficiencies implied by requiring continual re-bid/repurchase of existing real property vs a small proportional tax. Im an amateur, no graduate degree in economics here, but I would wager there's a reasonable amount of literature around the benefits of surety of title and depth of markets for efficient discovery to support a distributed, private, ownership & transaction model.

WRT "scary" ownership, as I said I live in Australia. I understand what crown land is, title, registry, and how we've transitioned through those ~3 times in 200 years. That's actually another example where some proclamations[4] don't quite hold up; Land ownership in Australia _is_ owned by the crown already. I merely hold (indefinite) title, so maybe 'government ownership' isn't quite the panacea? I do find our current real property and capital rate mechanisms deficient, and would appreciate something a lot closer to an annual LVT.

When you say "... the real solution has always been government ownership of all land. There is no advantage to privately owned land ..." don't act surprised if you get lumped in with those who argue against private ownership of real property.

[1] "The dual of owning a home is the ability to deny others access to housing"
[2] "a tax based on the value of something is called rent"
[3] "Given that the two systems are essentially identical, but the second brings in undue political meddling"
[4] "...the real solution has always been government ownership of all land."
I used to work at a Sybase shop in the late 90's. It was way nicer to work with than Oracle!
They really don’t need more revenue. They are nominally a not-for-profit and in 2023, they had 250 million cash and a billion more in investments.

They’ve taken billions of dollars from Google since 2005, and now they’re turning their back on user privacy.
Jailbreak your Tesla
If you're running cutting edge datacenter hardware, CentOS is a better fit now than it ever has been before. It will be the first to get support for new hardware within a major version, ahead of RHEL and all it's derivatives. It is possible that some hardware doesn't get support within the current major version of any of these related distros, and you'll have to wait until the next major version, which CentOS also does first before the rest.
Give Russia some of what it wants, give Ukraine security guarantees. Put NATO troops in Ukraine. Maintain sanctions against Russia.
You only accumulated and maintain the wealth because of the government. Without the government and the economic system it cultivates, you’d never have it.
The argument has always been "Isn't this amazing? Look what we can do now that we couldn't do yesterday." The fundamental mistake was measuring progress by the delta between yesterday and today rather than by the remaining delta between today and $GOAL.

Granted that latter delta is much harder to measure, but history has shown repeatedly that that delta is always orders of magnitude bigger than we think it is when $GOAL=AGI.
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;

who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;

who rules the World-Island commands the world.

— Mackinder, Democratic Ideals and Reality, p. 150
That only works if the people doing the rating are experts on the topic of the answer.
> If they can't stop abusing their users, I will look for another browser, goddamnit.

This seems to go beyond "can't stop" to "are actively plotting a course to continue." I've seen a lot of missteps from Mozilla over the years, but I never thought I'd see them selling my data. From seeing the news yesterday to today, I know now I have to stop recommending Firefox, and figure out a browser that I can trust.
> It feels bad to delete a 4.5 chat.

This is interesting, but feels like a you personal thing. I don’t feel bad wiping message conversations with my SO
It sounds like both Spain and the US have tax systems that cause it to be expensive to sell a house and buy a less expensive house.

In the US, this takes the form of a nonsensical capital gains tax system: personal residences are not eligible for 1031 exchanges, so taxes on gains are due immediately, those taxes are not indexed to inflation, the exemption is too small to make much difference in any high-property-value area, and the basis step-up at death strongly incentivizes children to encourage their parents to keep their house until they die. California puts icing on the cake with Prop 13, so you can trade for a cheaper house and your property taxes increase. At least some recent changes in CA take baby steps toward improving this.
Yes it is. Hashes must absolutely be used in that case.
I mean, it’s not like you can’t look up all the various grants, fellowships, groups, businesses, programs, etc Mozilla funds. Or fault us for noticing all the random endeavours they pursue then kill because they would seemingly rather do anything than make sure Firefox offers an attractive alternative to other browsers. Firefox had ~30% market share 15 years ago and Mozilla leveraged that into Pocket/firefox send/firefox os/hubs/lockwise/hello/thimble/notes/persona/etc. All defunct except the ones they mashed into the browser itself, when the initial selling point in the IE days was that it was “lightweight”.
Wow, lol. That's pretty hilarious.

It seems like they need to increase the repetition penalty.
Trump failed to negotiate anything with poutine and now thrown Zelenski under the bus. What a pathetic looser.
Rich people generally don't keep the majority of their money as cash in a vault. When money lies in the bank, the bank invests it in the real world. Or more directly, when money lies in stocks and bonds, it is invested in the real world.
It seems paradoxical to me that the only "solution" to housing shortages, which exist because the area is too attractive in large part because of the availability of jobs, is to build more houses and thus make the area more attractive to businesses because of the increased availability of workers. It looks like a battle against windmills that is bound to get out of hand. Efforts to alleviate the problem only exacerbate it.

It would be interesting to see if the shortage could be reduced by taking a different approach and making the area less attractive. For example, you could tax businesses much more if they are located in very dense areas, or even just limit the total revenue of all businesses in a certain area. Such things would have their own problems and challenges, of course, but there are few economic problems as bad as the housing crisis, and there is more than enough land to go around.