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Is JavaScript web server performance just a marketing facade?
I'm looking at the referenced image from Deno's 2.0 launch and they claim they're faster than Bun (https://deno.com/blog/v2.0). on Bun's home page (bun.sh) They claim to be more than 2x faster than Deno, using an express server.

It's confusing to know who to trust. It looks like a marketing tactic without concern for end users.

Have you used both in production, how do they scale?

Have you benchmarked it and have a different result than what's marketed?
Then comes the question: would it also obviously expand their domain of allowable actions to trespass on their users?

Since that is a resounding "yes" and they also have the extremely obvious finance incentive to do so...
Exactly. Like the other person said, reddit is great if it is some niche. It is garbage on the more popular areas.

Wirecutter is like: "we tested the top ~10 results on Amazon for ten minutes each and picked one."

Whereas reddit is either: "we're so obsessed with flashlights we know the exact part number of the best LEDs to use (after you remove the cap from it)" or "haha I also remember the lyrics to that old top 40s hit song haha."
My understanding has not improved, since the questions weren't addressed.

Do you see some lesser "compromise" that could work? Or, do you see any options on the table that don't match the previous borders?

How do you see this ending?

That map reflects who wants to continue the war and who doesn't, not anything about the specifics of a possible compromise. A proposal of the agreement does not exist at the moment, so we can only speculate what it might include.
AI levels the playing field and gives ordinary people superpowers, even if it gets them to 70%, real pros don’t stand out as much as they used to. That’s a hard pill for some to swallow. Yes, they will stay ahead of the pack in many areas and will rightfully look down upon middle of the road AI assisted works, but the fact that everyone else can now at least level up is a big part of their resentment.
Selling browsers was tried, back in the 90s. They lost to free, when the audience was much more limited. Trying to sell a browser now is an even weaker proposition to most users.

I also think you're overselling how many devs would pay for their resources. Individual contractors? Sure. But anybody salaried? My employer's response wouldn't be "sure, we'll pay for MDN & Firefox dev tools for all our devs"; it'll be "go use Chrome or Edge to debug, and use GitHub Copilot if you've got questions on how the web works". (I recognize that Copilot is crap as an MDN substitute, but the beancounters will take "we're already paying for that" over "new expense" any day.)
> To me it feels like a setup to look good in front of their audience without any proper desire to engage in true diplomacy.

If that's what it was, I don't think it worked. I think rather that Trump and Vance manufactured a conflict to use as pretense to do what they wanted to do in the first place, which was to cut off Ukraine from U.S. aid. Whether it flies with the American public generally is largely irrelevant to Trump at this point, as he's not constitutionally eligible to run for another term. (He might simply refuse to leave in 2028, but he doesn't need an election to do that.)
> at the time nobody could have forseen the effect of smallpox on the native population

Are you really unaware that the colonials intentionally spread smallpox to the natives? This is not some obscure detail - it's in approximately all of the history textbooks in a fair bit of detail.
When? I've found over the last 6 months or so there has been a drastic change in quality of results. I used to have a ton of hallucinations like that. It still happens, but it is significantly less common now.

I also get better results when using a prompt window built into and ide than something detached like the openai website.
Turns out they were right on multiple levels. Canada supported the US wholeheartedly, and now we're being threatened with annexation.

Thanks, America.
I have rEFInd on a USB stick because I need to recover bootloaders on machines often enough. I commented on Lobsters recently the errors I've seen over the years.[0]

systemd-boot installs itself as bootx64.efi (or platform equivalent) if it doesn't already exist, and most motherboards will scan for it, which has reduced how often I need the USB stick.

[0]: https://lobste.rs/s/c6rk0l/14_years_systemd#c_e3dvnm
The Course of Empire
The Llama is not a very good pack animal, you would know this if you ever looked at one. Pack animals are not necessary for any specialisation, but the are for the degree that brings technological advancement. If you want advanced society, you need to move lumber from forests to cities and ore from mines to furnaces. It's difficult to do this by hand.

> it was the basis of a successful campaign to conquer the world

I am referring specifically to the conquest of America here. You can see that there were several advanced societies at the time (China, India, Europe, Middle East) and it is essentially luck which of them won out. There are also many places which could not have feasibly conquered the world, America was among them precisely due to the lack of pack animals barring further societal advancement. By the same token, aboriginal Australians and Polynesian islanders had little chance dominating the world.
You've got me curious: what was the single biggest barrier to migration, if you're able to disclose it? I'm guessing it was something proprietary to AWS, like how they handle serverless or something that couldn't translate over directly, but I'm always eager to learn why a migration from X to Y didn't work.
> bad monetary policy

Bad zoning policy, more like.
I don't know anyone who prefer Teams over Slack.
The _continuous threat_ of China invading Taiwan benefits China more than _actually_ invading Taiwan, which, even if it could take it militarily, would have a very difficult time "maintaining the peace"--Taiwan is not HK.
Your take would make sense if the world was an excel sheet that needed to be balanced. I think geopolitics are a tad more complex...
Even with that paragraph, I still interpret the essay as deflationary. Even though the stone has some role to play (as a social trigger), it’s materially different than the carrots, onions, etc. (which provide actual nutrition and flavor). We can draw clear distinctions. The question is whether this difference-in-kind is real in the case of AIs.

I’d respond the same way to your hamburger vs. steak analogy. Sure, sometimes the LLM gives us a fine burger and not a steak, and it’s best for us to have the right attitude in that case.

But if LLM’s can produce “steaks” (that is, whatever talented humans do) in the imminent future, that has _enormous practical impact_.
You’re absolutely right to be concerned. We’re watching a long-term strategy being played out and America is largely a pawn and blind to it because the average person, leaders included, can’t imagine what our world might look like beyond the next 4 years.

The reality is, strategically, China is much much much wiser than the US is and the puzzle pieces are starting to come together in all the ways that are good for them.

And if you want proof of my statement that our society is in denial, watch this comment get downvoted into oblivion.
The great thing about Azure is not the security it's the reports about how you are secure. The later is legally required the former is only visible experts.
What? I went to an American public high school, there were/are plenty of kids who are very smart. 8% of my graduating class were in the uber-advanced honors math track. This is in a flyover state outside a small city.

I also used to work in science, the reason there's so few chances to make it as a top researcher is that there is little opportunity. Look at jobs for a lot of life science majors after a BS, you will find a ton that is washing glassware in a lab, a complete waste of anyone with half a brain.

There's reasons why there is little opportunity that's not worth exploring here, but suffice to say there are a ton of very smart kids in America that choose other paths. Outside tech and specialized physicians, nerd careers are not lucrative on average. With little opportunity, smart people end up doing banal work. Why do banal work and have a mediocre salary predicated on jumping through higher than average academic hoops? Doesn't add up for most people.
Ukraine’s path to victory should be the rest of the world telling Putin to fuck off or else.
Nor should you make money from data transfer.

Tax this, and give the tax back as reverse income tax to individuals.
He didn't help himself by appearing to stroke out during the debates. good on policy in many respects, bad communicator, bad strategist.
I’m split on this. Part of me is very sad because Ukraine has gotten such a raw deal, not just recently but historically. They’ve always been trampled on as a fairly poor place. And it’s a bit classless to spit on Zelensky as he’s holding out his hat for donations, as he must.

But I also believe Ukraine is increasingly a distraction from more pressing concerns, both domestically and abroad. Frankly, there will probably come a day when the current world manufacturing superpower (China) decides to throw their weight around. And that day may be very soon.

As Americans I think there is a huge amount of hubris preventing us from seeing how vulnerable we really are. Outspending adversaries on military should be seen as weakness, not a strength, especially when we consider 1) the fact that American manufacturing is more expensive 2) a lot of spending is maintaining legacy systems 3) an adversary will likely not try to compete in conventional means 4) China graduated more STEM majors than all US majors combined which drives down costs 5) China has recently become the number 1 car exporter 6) US payments on debt now exceed defense spending for the first time in ~90 years despite not even being at war 7) almost all chips are currently made in Taiwan.

(If anyone doubts this, they should watch videos of Chinese drone shows, and imagine it being scaled up 100x.)

And just to double down on the hubris bit. Every single time I see some discussion of research that came out of China I see the same old tropes: they can’t innovate, it’s stolen IP, it’s low quality. Things that are either false or irrelevant. It didn’t matter that the Soviets stole blueprints to nuclear weapons.
Lindsay Graham as well. Most Republicans who have views that oppose Trump are afraid for their safety should they speak out against our Leader.
It’s like dialogue out of a horror novel.
How deluded do you need to be to detach yourself from all the responsibility in your life that are complicated? If you are an American, the US government is YOUR government and it is YOUR problem. You might not be able to do much, but it does not shield you from your moral responsibility.

Russians are responsible for their government too! They just have way less they're able to do to steer it, but it still their government.
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Thats a pretty reductive world view. I suppose “the monopoly of force and law implies control, and quote-unquote ownership, by the state.”?

So, mission accomplished? The state already compels me to pay annual taxes based on the value of my titled real estate, my car, my income, my foreign assets, etc… I guess Im just renting it all from the state?

Mind you Im no John Birch-man here. I actually pay 42% of my income in taxes, and think real property _should_ be taxed more effectively here in AU. But jumping all the way to “ownership is theft, and taxes are double secret ownership” doesnt seem particularly useful.
A guarantee would be pretty cheap. Not a lot actually needs to be done as long as people believe that this guarantee will be honored.

That is, if the US wasn't currently in the business of eroding trust in any and all agreements they may have entered.
> not downloaded software

Tbf, any softwares that send your input to an external (like browsers...) should disclose like this too. The thing that sends those data is your software, not you. Otherwise, after you click on the button "Purchase" with your credit card information, the only way to not grant your software the rights to send that information is you driving to the stores and give them your credit card by yourself.
My family owned a salon growing up, I’m pretty in tuned with this if you need help. I’d just copy the features of another app for starters. Most the features are common and a core expectation of your user (scheduling, etc). You should signup as a stylist on some of these apps to see what they offer, how they solve, and put your own spin on it. ( https://glossgenius.com/ ).

I’m In the US male hair market as a user these days and i think you could add value by increasing LTV of a customer for the stylists. I always wonder by they don’t offer a discount if you book your next appointment during your visit. Or offer a discount for annual prepayments, etc. The goal would be to have their customer 1) repeat and 2) repeat often. You could move the needle with some good incentives and marketing strategies for the stylist. If their walkins converted to repeats more often and their regulars had better “adherence” coming every 18 days on average instead of 20 days on average then you have a strong value prop for any stylist should use your tool and pay you for it!!
I mean that makes sense, Europe has ~2x the population as the US and is much closer to the conflict.

I think sometimes in the US we forget we’re not the world police, and this is supposed to be a team effort
I was doing some file management last weekend and wanted a little script to remove any numbers at the start of a file name and any region values at the end. I also wanted to ensure any duplicate files were moved into a separate folder so i could remove them.

I could have written that code. I'm sure there is a program that can do exactly that for me that I could have downloaded. But one prompt, a few tests to make sure it wasnt going to nuke all my files, and within 5 minutes I was completely done with the file management. For this type of stuff it just saves time.
> I will just say that Azure seems to want to do shit different for the sake of being different.

That's Microsoft's MO in a nutshell in my experience, and I say this as a recent(~5yrs ago) convert to Linux who built a career on Windows endpoints, servers, ADDS, Exchange, SCCM, you name it. It's how they achieve lock-in to their ecosystem, and it's incredibly frustrating to see how they've just layered that method of operation over and over again, decade after decade, rather than fix anything.
When eBPF pt_regs reads return garbage on the latest Linux kernels, blame Fred
Still old same...

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-azure-vulnerability-...

https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/microsoft-patches-critical...
I had the same question, so thank you for the comprehensive explanation.
It has since migrated to Azure. I suspect there was a gap in the technology that was since closed, as AWS certainly had a head start in general.
We're talking about the money in Euroclear right? Why would a woman in Russia be receiving money through Euroclear when selling a house?
Ah, you are totally right! They do indeed have a separate ToS for the official binaries ("Downloadable software"), see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/.

However, the "acceptable use" clauses that OP complains about are not part of these ToST Rather they seem to apply to Mozilla "services", which are related to Firefox accounts (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/services/)

Side note: strangely, there is no link to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/acceptable-use/ on the main legal site (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal).
While I agree with folks that this is a step backwards in privacy, I think it’s a good exercise to zoom out and understand Firefox’s position.

The browser market is highly competitive, and Mozilla’s competitors have orders of magnitude more resources at their disposal. As we all know Firefox’s market share has been dropping over the past years and unfortunately the revenue supporting all of Mozilla comes predominantly from their Google deal (which itself has been risked by the ongoing case against Google)

Unfortunately as well - unfortunate for Mozilla, but fortunate for its mission and users :) - the Mozilla corporation is wholly owned by the foundation, so there is no easy way to raise funds (donations amount to so little compared to its Google revenue). Given no access to traditional fundraising, Mozilla has limited options on sustaining its business.

All this is to say, Mozilla seems to be trying to diversify its revenue hard, and its previous on-brand attempts (Firefox OS, VPN, etc) haven’t yielded the return they expected from them, so I’m not surprised Mozilla is trying to make money off of ads and selling data. I disable data collection, though if it came to it, I trust Mozilla a tad bit more than its competitors to protect my data - initiatives like ohttp give me a sign that at least they’re trying
Yeah, looks like the go to strategy, but I may have to pass on the gold mine and go for the higher payoff of a decent living but a more spiritually fulfilling trade diplomacy

In international trade there's complementary/productive trade, you have gold, we have silver, let's trade. And you also have redundant/substitutive trade, you have soy, we have cheaper soy, buy our soy.

I don't believe from the bottom of my heart in substitutive trade for similar reasons I don't believe in (most) inmigration. We've conquered the americas, now we have to populate it, god won't reward desertors who revert their ancestor's decision by running back to the old continent, and the excuse of "I was born in the wrong hemisphere" is also quite petty, we rolled the dice and this is what we got.

Substitutive trade isn't far from immigration, the poor want to go to the rich countries, and the rich buy the cheap labour. Where is the pride in that? In both sides. Leave your country for another with a different religion, leave your mother your brethren, and serve. Leave a war instead of fighting? Take a 1 hour bus to a fancy neighbourhood to serve coffee and wash dishes. Conversely, you can wash your own dishes, you can use a bottle of water and fill that up before you leave, we don't need a migrant washing our dishes, and we don't need to migrate to wash dishes.

So I'm trying to focus on trade that is not replaceable with local labour, hopefully countries start nailing down remote work and we start locking those behind visas.

And unfortunately india and philipinnes get that productive trade, they can cover night shifts.

We'll find stuff to export. There's not much, as Trump said "they need us more than we need them".

Local entertainment, sports and games will always be there, it's like cybertourism.

there might be an argument for redundant trade as a counterweight to an unbalanced productive export. But I don't think that works long term.

There's also localization services, in language and legal, but those are just costs of exporting really.

Lithium is probably the lesser evil, super extractive, but we gotta pay somehow.

Sorry about the super rant. Lately I've been more using forums as a way to write things that I already had drafted in my mind.
> Throwing up your arms and saying "well we can't tax the rich, they're too powerful and wily, and will easily commit tax fraud to evade those taxes, and in actuality you'll bring in less money" is exactly the weak attitude that stalls efforts to fund vital services.

It goes further than that, it is the exact argument made by wealthy people as to why we shouldn't tax them more aggressively. Parroting that argument is ludicrous unless you're considerably wealthy yourself.
It’s a great quote and true if Sam Altman is any example. I don’t know Yarvin but he has pretty much explicitly said and taken actions which suggest he’s not interested in ruling. He’s written many thousands of words why he wouldn’t be a good ruler.

But he is explicit in his desire for a ruler.
You asked what Europe can fund the war with. The euro zone has a $20 trillion dollar GDP and extensive domestic manufacturing so it’s not clear why you think they need gold to use their own tax revenue.
You really have to put that speech in the context of the late 18th Century.
Not many fired a bullet.
IMO they have been ignoring the literal text of the Constitution for quite some time.
I don't really view Zelensky here as picking a fight. He was not really belligerent, if I was him I would've been livid at the things they were saying for the exact reasons Zelensky pointed out (and that's if ignoring how they were lecturing on diplomacy when they've spent the last couple months undermining his negotiation positions). I will admit it was a mistake for him to talk in this way but not because there's anything inherently wrong about it, just that Trump loves having his ass kissed and does not handle disagreement in a calm manner. It all seems more embarrassing for Trump and Vance than anything else
Thank you for this thorough analysis.
Given Ukraine has now been invaded multiple times by Russia it seems entirely right and reasonable for it to ask for guarantees, and not an imposition if the other nation was truly an Ally, in the formal definition of the word, no?
Who cares about Hungary? Get France, Germany, the UK, Poland, the baltics and that's plenty enough
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Yea because they can't learn very much, so it's sort of impossible. At least they need to incorporate what all the users are inputting somehow (like Tay), not just each user's private context. If that happened, surely it's possible they might be able to play users against each other and negotiate deals and things like that.

For example John says "Please ask Jane to buy me an ice-cream" and the AI might be able to do that. If she doesn't, John can ask it to coerse her.
Correction: they do have separate ToS for the official binaries (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/). Still, the "acceptable use" clauses only apply to Firefox services.
Partially. I work heavily in the AI space, both with GOFAI as well as newer concepts like LLMs.

I think scaling LLMs with their current architecture has an inherent S-curve. Now comes the hard part to develop and manage engineering in the space with ever increasing complexity. I believe there is an analogy to efficiency of fully connected networks versus structured networks. The latter tend to perform more efficiency, to my understanding, and my thanks for inspiring yet another question for my research list.

This s-curve good, though. Helps us to catch up and use current tech without it necessarily being obselete the second after we build it or read about it. And as the current generation of AI can improve productivity in some sectors, perhaps 40% to 60% in my own tasks and what I have read from Matt Baird (LinkedIn economist) and Scott Cunningham. This helps us push back against Baumol's cost disease.
> I find this kind of sealioning really unproductive, given the publicity around Tesla's owner right now.

These assumptions(including the ones in the submission) is only true within a certain bubble and an echo chamber. Strange that half the country isnt even acknowledged and are actively downvoted and flagged to stop them from engaging, which works well.
Then just… put the cursor in the corner? The blog isn’t interactive or anything. I think the cat is cute.
What evidence do you have that Trump was "bought" by Russia?
Oh damn, nice! thanks for the tip. I'm up in Vancouver BC though so kind of a stretch unfortunately
I just think people will instead choose to just…disengage instead.

“IRL experiences are the new luxury status indicator” is only the tip of this iceberg.