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> Others will have different opinions but I personally remain skeptical that TLS provides internet users with more value than it provides so-called "tech" companies ...

I think TLS can be helpful (for both sides of a communication), but the browser should not require it, and most servers also should not require it (but should allow it, if you deliberately choose to connect with TLS). HSTS is especially bad (I managed to disable it on my computer by using a hex editor so that the browser would no longer recognize the Strict-Transport-Security header).

Certificates can be helpful if you actually know which ones you specifically trust for a specific purpose (rather than being automatic), and if they will tell you information about a business (although as far as I know, Let's Encrypt does not do this and only verifies the domain name). However, sometimes if a certificate is changed or superseded, due to expiry, or change in ownership, etc, and it does not prevent the server operator from sending you malware; it only prevents spies from doing so. If a domain name is sold to someone else, that does not prevent cookies and other stuff from being sent, or from them adding malware, etc; however, it would be possible for end users to know the certificate to trust and avoid this problem (if a browser can be programmed to do this).

Client certificates could be helpful for authentication too, but this is rare with HTTPS (but it is commonly used with Gemini protocol). But, it does prevent someone who takes over the domain name from being able to use your information to log in, since a private key is required in order to use a client certificate.

Furthermore, the browser really should allow unencrypted proxies for encrypted connections, in order that if you deliberately want MITM then you do not need to encrypt and decrypt the data multiple times.

> IMO, this is analogous to the situation with Javascript. It has the potential to provide value to www users, e.g., as a language computer owners can use to extend and control a graphical browser ...

Yes, as well as other programming languages (if a browser supports it, which most don't).

(I disable JavaScripts on my computer, except for the scripts that I wrote by myself. I did write scripts to replace GitHub's UI (in much less lines of code than GitHub uses themself), and other things.)
Trump and Vance were saying things like "you're being disrespectful", and "you haven't said 'thank you'"--this level of argument is completely unproductive; it's what you would expect to hear from parents of dysfunctional families, not from world leaders.
You elected a mad king who is intent on tearing down the alliances that have made the US prosper over the last 80 years. I don't think your parent is the one who is brainwashed. Embracing tyranny is only "courageous free thinking" in a fever dream.
It’s called land use taxes. It’s probably one of the best ways to change the most negative behaviors that brought about this situation (if combined with less regulated zoning)
The businesses wouldn't go away. They would just move to less densely populated areas.

Businesses would perhaps take a small efficiency hit because of the reduced availability of labour in the region, but even this would probably be compensated for by better worker mobility, because businesses would be less crowded in the cities and there would be more labour available in the low-density areas.

Businesses would probably also be able to pay a little less as less income is tied up in housing costs. A restructuring of business and population distribution would probably not have that much impact on overall productivity, but it could shift the available money between income levels significantly. If less money goes to rich property owners, then more money stays with the average person.
ooh, hadn't thought about persistence. I always considered all executions running in isolation (and not necessarily in-order). Persistence would have to decide if it was localized to the same pixel, next frame or pass between pixels. A possibility for that is an instruction that sets a value in a buffer at the same resolution of the output and a paired instruction that reads the buffer generated the previous frame (with location popped from stack) so if { was write to buffer, it writes the top stack value to the buffer at the same location as the pixel output. using } to read would mean if you started a program with "xy}" would place the value from the buffer on the stack. It would also allow fade and blur effects.

In a similar vein I had wondered about a kernel function that read from a buffer with a 3x3 kernel on the stack.

Perhaps I should revisit the idea. Using a stack with multiple lanes of floats would potentially richer operations, colors, complex numbers, quaternions? 4 lanes could potentially Even storing the top value of the stack at the base for the next frame. Or, (new idea) a cyclic buffer stack of a fixed length. That wouldn't require any memory management at render time, and could persist multiple values just by popping them off.

I'm not sure how that would impact the speed. At the moment the stack expressions are converted into JavaScript expressions for the JIT to make fast. I'd have to go back to requiring an actual stack again.
One nuke and the whole of NATO will back down. To think that we could respond to the limited use of nukes conventionally is extremely naive, and to think that the limited use of nukes can be responded to with a limited use of nukes w/o escalation to global nuclear war is -quite frankly- stupid beyond belief.

My own sense is that Putin waited Biden out to see what might happen in the 2024 elections, and now that Trump is back and conciliatory there is no need for him to escalate to limited nuclear war. And my sense is that Trump understands Putin's limits and that is why Trump is keen to make peace on terms vaguely approaching a complete capitulation to Russia -- for Trump it's not his war anyways, so for him it's not so much capitulation but something that can be sold as another domestic political victory over the Democrats and the Washington establishment.
I don't disagree (in that I can't think of one either), but that makes this a terrible subject for an HN thread. We have other forums for collectively bemoaning the state of the world, we don't need that to spread to here. It's poisoning other threads in a really toxic way.
Extremely yes.
As a consultant who makes most of their money off of Microsoft technologies, I'm finding more and more reasons NOT to use Azure.

Chiefly among them is their famously bad support. Just google it- I've never spoken with anyone or seen a single written word saying that Azure support is even decent.

It's a race to the bottom platform, and I'm starting to get to the point where I want to start selling AWS.
The magic is always real, but once you understand magic it simply becomes knowledge. That makes it no less magical.
This is why historically land reform occurred via revolution, not policy.
The Nabataeans Are Coming
They have admited in court to lying to both consumers, and the government, about their products. Fines have been issued for the same.

This is just reality I'm afraid.
Hard to do when there are more than three thousand of them here.
You could have let the vote/flag ratio decide. These articles all came out within a short window. Picking the first eventually (if it hasn't already) leads to a LLM race.

Please consider a (perhaps automatic) top "some comments merged from" note in the destination thread.

I appreciate the response. AFAICT you did indeed pick the first article, and I didn't check that before I made the above comment. You do not have an easy job!
I would go further: this is the end of the US. The pieces haven't hit the ground yet, but they are falling. NATO cannot last when Europe doesn't trust the US. Nations cannot trust that trade agreements will last beyond the whims of the moment. Federal workers are being sacked indiscriminately. The executive branch has openly stated that they will not obey the rule of law if it is against them, even after packing the courts. What is left?

There is something left: the land, the people. But not the country, that is something new.
Sure, and Russia wouldn't nuke NATO targets in return. And they wouldn't know of Ukraine's nuclear weapons program and destroy it before it succeeds.

This sort of gullibility is very dangerous, especially if it manifests in folks in DC who could help your scenario happen.
> (more resources = closer to intelligence)

The scaling law only states that more resources yield lower training loss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law). So for an LLM I guess training loss means its ability to predict the next token.

So maybe the real question is: is next token prediction all you need for intelligence?
A sufficiently skilled person can use a warped and bent slide rule to design a jet engine.

But that doesn't mean the warped slide rule and a super computer capable of finite element analysis are equally useful or powerful.
She's paying a school for courses and then paying an AI company to do her homework?
From what I can tell, the important distinction is that all actors (and their messages) are described alongside each other, instead of being described separately. There are many implementations of the actor model, but most of them are the 'static-location architectures' that TFA talks about.
How many millions of workers endure endless shit and disrespect from their boss, but they get the job done anyway for the benefit of their families?

How many business leaders, like you, let slide so much shit and instead focused on what was important for their business?

Even if Trump and Vance were disrespected, suck it up like the rest of us and do the thing that benefits the entire country. They met to make a deal to benefit the country; Trump failed to make the deal.
You read it backward. I expect them to be more than just friendly.
Pseudo intellectual with confident sounding podcast. Academic mercenary for the rich and powerful.
Ukraine is fighting an existential war. It has far more to lose and therefore can and will commit far more of its population and resources to the fight.

Russia has a greater population, but has been relying largely on conscripts among the poor, the incarcerated, and third world nations likes North Korea. Thats a resource that is far smaller in number than their total population. As soon as it’s tapped out, they either have to give up are start conscripting people in the middle and upper classes, and that will turn the Russian population on the war and their leaders faster than anything.
I’m having a really hard time believing you are serious. The one time I tried out azure for a few days the portal was absolutely painful. Every click would take 5-10 seconds for a response. Sometimes basic settings change actions would take 2+ minutes of watching an Ajax spinner. How can anyone enjoy working like that???
Hmm. I’m on the other side of this - this feels like what I imagined a scaled up gpt 4 would be: more nuanced and thoughtful. It did the best of any model at my “write an essay as if Hemingway went along with rfk jr when he left the bear in Central Park.” Actual prompt longer. This is a hard task because Hemingway’s prose is extremely multilayered, and his perspective and physical engagement are notable as well.

I’d say 4.5 is by far the best at this of released models. It’s probably the only one that thought through both what skepticism and connection Hemingway might have had along for that day and the combination of alienation posing and privilege rfk had. I just retried deepseek on it: the language is good to very good. Theory of mind not as much.

Edit: grok 3 is also pretty good. Maybe a bit too wordy still, and maybe a little less insightful.
Windows 2000 server was peak windows. All the subsequent versions just got harder to maintain as they gradually ruined the user interface. Nobody cares about the UI on consumer windows but if you’re spending a lot of time in RDP the vista based server products are terrible.

I don’t hate windows 2019 but Linux is better, easier, faster and a relief after any futile attempts to use IIS or sql server in 2025.
That's what they thought about appeasing Hitler - why would peace talks stop Putin from taking even more territory? It wouldn't and it wont.
I also had frequent occurrences of errors where I needed to hit the 'please regenerate' button. Sometimes I kept hitting errors, until I gave up and changed the prompt.
This is exactly my point. The idea that generating music is the sum total of all the cognition that goes on in real time is totally off base. Can we make crappy simulacrums of recorded music? sure.

Can we make a program that could: work the physical instrument, react in milliseconds to other players, create new work off input it's never heard before, react to things in the room, and do a myriad of other things a performer does on stage in real time? Not even remotely close. THAT is what would be required to call it AGI – thinking (ALL the thinking) on par with a highly trained human. Pretending anything else is AGI is nonsense.

Is it impressive? sure. Frighteningly so even. But it's not AGI and the claims that it is are pure huckersterism. They just round the term down to whatever the hell is convenient for the pitch.
> This is false. The EU has put up more money than the US but they have not _donated_ more money than the US.

That's not quite right, either. A large portion if not a majority of the financial aid from the US is--and tacitly required to be--spent on purchase of weapons and services from US defense contractors. That's in addition to direct military aid where the Pentagon directly purchases and transfers weapons, and transfers old weapons--I think the replacement cost is what's calculated as the US "contribution" for that portion.

This is how military aid packages are structured for Israel and Egypt also. I don't mean to insinuate anything negative, but the reality is that the majority of all this aid is effectively a direct subsidy to US defense contractors.

The EU does the same thing, but the structure and pretense is different--loans tacitly required to be used to buy EU weapons and services, the loans forgiven after the public stops paying attention. Though in the case of Ukraine I think a much larger portion (relative to US) of aid is intended for civilian programs, at least early on, on account of the EU's squeamishness.
I'm a huge fan of the writing style. it's like hacking gonzo, but with literally 0 fluff. amazing work and an absolute delight to read from beginning to end
You can easily crush a person with a super computer. But what are you going to do with a slide rule—lightly tap someone?
Can you point me to a comment on this thread that you found to be more substantive than what you'd find on a typical subreddit? I sure couldn't find one in the deluge of low quality hot takes, so if you have one I'd love to see it.
> What dense city with a thriving commercial and business/industrial base is cheaper to live in than a less-developed rural small town?

Wrong question; dense cities with thriving economies are more valuable, so they should be more expensive. The question is who collects the rent? Land title holders, or builders and value creators?
Hot take: anyone who calls something a "___ burger" can be completely ignored.
the same could have been said about Ukraine, yet russia invaded
Yep, so much crud gets included in app binaries that's just dead code feature flagged off permanently.

IMO a lot of companies pinch pinnies on this internally ("focus on performance and app size, the app binary is huge!") while jumping over suitcases of cash ("yes, we absolutely need those 8 analytics libs driven by a json blob, of which we've only used one in the past year due to our contracts expiring 4 years ago").
This is not a thread safety issue though, this is a transaction problem.
No, that's not what I'm saying. At the moment, cities are too attractive, and this is largely due to the availability of jobs. What I am suggesting is incentives, in whatever form, to encourage companies to move to less populated areas.

It is not necessary to obliterate the local business environment, only to limit it to the extent that the available jobs roughly match the available workers. Yes, it is true that house prices would fall to be more in line with construction costs, but that is the point, if you want cheaper housing, the housing must actually be cheap.
Based on which claim? That 12 months from now they might accidentally discover a new bug just as serious?
Very recently, I tried using a combination of nail(1), and calendar(1) on OpenBSD as an email and calendaring combination for home use. "nail" is provided by the OpenBSD s-nail package and provides an extended POSIX mailx style environment. calendar(1) is part of the base OpenBSD distribution.

It worked far better than expected. The only thing missed was age calculations for birthdays. I never figured that out. Using the Emacs Diary provided that sort of thing though.

I've since moved to KDE Kontact for mail/calendaring. It works more smoothly if you do a lot of calendar sharing with others, but I could see going back to nail(1)/calendar(1) if Kontact disappoints.
And yet those nuclear weapons, those they do have.
It seems you already know the answer to that, which is that you don't.
Careful, anytime the topic of self-hosting comes up, you will see a bunch of engineers crawl out of the woodwork to insist only the cloud can handle the complexity.
Practical Guide to Switching to Linux
Another factor everyone is missing because it's politically incorrect to talk about:

There needs to be a way to avoid loud inconsiderate neighbors. Currently, this is done in practice by choosing an area where loud inconsiderate people are priced out. Until there's another way to do it, there will always be a demand for such areas.

Increasing supply of housing is great on paper. But imagine you're a productive citizen who gets up early, works hard, and goes to bed early. Housing prices get reduced to where anyone can afford to live anywhere? By definition, suddenly ANYONE can become your neighbor, including folks who will play loud music at all hours of the night, keep loud dogs, etc. And sure, that might violate noise laws. Good luck getting those enforced, if the laws aren't changed to have teeth!!

When dreaming up solutions to housing problems, ask yourself: "Would this solution allow a bum to move near to Bill Gates?" If the answer is yes, then your idea will not work. "Would this solution allow a bunch of high school dropouts to live alongside highly-paid software engineers doing work crucial for the economy?" If the answer is yes, your idea will have unforeseen bad consequences.
I don't care about images in README's in general. It could represent developer's love for their project or set the mood for the rest of the document. But, AI image generation models are notoriously known for having been trained with works of artists without their permission. Many of those models are ethically problematic. They also almost always look poorly done as in this example. I don't doubt dev's intentions, but I agree that this looks bad.
Zelensky said as much during the meeting. Trump shrugged it off.
Now do Vance.
Is there a particular text that you can reference showing their goal was dynastic wealth?

I can take good ideas and leave bad ideas, the generations following the founders eventually did that by ending slavery.
off-topic: You made both the redis and dump1090? I recognized your handle but not why, so i googled it, and dump1090 came up; i've used both.

on-topic: I have no desire to be a front-end dev but my friends don't know a front-end dev from a front-end loader, so whenever they need something thrown together i usually reach for Ghost or whatever. But now they want custom "web apps" - and that's fine, thank goodness for AI.

Most of my "LLM" use is remembering phrases, terms of art, and the like. I have used aider and Cursor, and they're about as useful to me as stackoverflow, i suppose. LLMs have definitely improved a lot, i don't get circular chats much except on Gemini, Gemini is the weakest LLM by far, which is ironic considering the extent of data they have.
Maybe eventually the whole stack can make its way into a docker container with a shell script for config.
He’s not scared of the Russians. He’s scared of the voters thinking they should be scared of the Russians. When Zelenskyy said the Russians will come for America, Trump was angry because he knew it was going to scare voters and lose him support.
That's not true everywhere. Colorado got another US house district seat in the 2020 census. Colorado is pretty Democrat at the moment. We voted for a nonpartisan committee to do the redistricting. Gabe Evans, Republican, has that seat now.

I'm not sure you can honestly bothsides that issue easily.
The networking is so, so bad in azure. We ran into all kinds of craziness with simple things that kept kicking us in the nuts like port exhaustion between different subscriptions. I quit my last job partly because they were wedded to azure.
All running on a goat and penguin?
Those things are Mozilla services. If they spoke of operating Mozilla services and data you input into Mozilla services, it'd be fine and expected. But instead they speak of operating Firefox and data input into Firefox, which is much more broad, and just happens to give them coverage for all kinds of data collection and abuse.

The fact they've issued this update and not clarified the scope as Mozilla services is disturbing.
Don't wear a mask.
Social change is about many caring people coming together to support a worthy cause.
Solidarity and visibility are key.
The women's rights movement was not organized by cryptographers. Social change does not come from the shadows.
Spend your time on simple basic things that support solidarity.
Discord, web-pages, Whats App... use it all!

Model you tactics on successful campaigns and people. What does the ACLU use? How about Amnesty International?
There’s also this: https://github.com/mozilla-services/go-syncstorage

While it was never fully deployed into production it was tested with a few hundred thousand users. It is stable at least.
I think that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater; sane defaults are still an important thing to think about when developing a product. And for something as important as a database, which usually requires authentication or storing personal information, let your tutorials focus on these pain points instead of the promise of a database-driven app with only clientside code. It's awesome, but I think it deserves the notoriety for letting you shoot yourself in the foot and landing on the front page of HN. Author also found a similar exploit via Firebase for the Arc Browser[0]

I have a similar qualm with GraphQL.

[0] https://kibty.town/blog/arc/
"the build container now has a privileged sidecar that does all of the signing, uploading and everything else instead of the main container with user code having that logic."

Does this info about the fix seem alarming to anyone else? It's not a full description, so maybe some important details are left out? My understanding is that containers are generally not considered a secure enough boundary. Companies such as AWS use micro VMs (Firecracker) for secure multi tenant container workloads.
Blocking AI content bots is the name of the game. Luckily most of the big hitters stick with a unique user agent string and/or IP.
Yes. But now that the US is the enemy of the free world Europeans are likely going to look to divest from the US and take care of themselves. Meaning Euro first, and likely giving preference to non-US countries in matters of trade.
Is Mozilla Relay (email) really needed for Sync?

Never used Sync, so maybe I don't understand something. But does not sound safe to put all eggs into this busket at once.
Hash Denial-of-Service Attack in Multiple QUIC Implementations
Does Microsoft Mouse count?