skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the Google, Pocket and other ad money dries up, Mozilla the company may go away but the Firefox browser itself will continue on because it's open source. As an exclusively Firefox user for over 20 years, I suspect if Mozilla the company dies, it will won't negatively impact Firefox much, at least in any meaningful way. In fact, the browser may be somewhat better off managed like the Blender or MAME projects.

In the last five years or so Firefox has increasingly introduced controversial changes that make it (IMHO) less good, primarily around interface design. And, from what I understand, Mozilla employs full-time UX designers who've been driving much of that. Of course, with Firefox it's still possible to modify, fix and restore all these recent interface "improvements" with user CSS but it's a constant annoyance to need to keep fixing it. Fortunately, there's an active community effort around restoring the Firefox interface and usability, exemplified by the brilliant Lepton project https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/releases.

My perception just watching the evolution of Firefox from the outside, is that it used to be a browser that celebrated the ethos of "Have it Your Way." However, Mozilla the company gets money to pay its executives and employees (millions in the case of more than one recent CEO) by actively driving users and eyeballs for Google, Pocket and other advertisers. So the company is highly incentivized to try myriad changes and redesigns to increase appeal to "the masses" of browser users. Thus, the UX keeps getting 'simplified' and 'de-cluttered' with advanced functionality 'de-prioritized' and add-on support demoted to second-class afterthought - instead of the shining key feature advanced users value most. Basically, in recent years the Firefox UX and end-user features have been pushed by the substantial payroll needs of the Mozilla company to become more like Chrome and Safari instead of embracing its unique position as a tool for power users who value advanced features, customization and extension. And it was all for naught because Firefox has continued to lose market share while ignoring (and even actively alienating) its niche community of fanatically devoted power users.
>but with manifest v3: Google are now in charge and have to approve all "definition" updates

No, they don't. MV3 extensions are allowed to fetch remote data which definition updates would be.
They're using weather stations that broadcast on 433MHz around their property and receive those messages with their SDR, then they pipe that into their database and display system.
Okay, this is a nitpick, but I don't think ordinal can be used in that way. "Somehow, the ordinal values of the range seem less likely". I'd probably go with extremes of the range? Or endpoints?
How does Sendbird secure AWS?
I'm looking for content (researcher myself) -- mainly on the application side. Should I start with this one? Or anything else?

Very curious about RL for LLMs for example (using data from real use).
So the story originally started with the cacheless 266 Mhz Celeron. CPUs were delivered as AICs (add-in-cards) at the time, with separate cache chips, so to deliver a budget processor, they shipped the same silicon, but without the cache chips added. Removing the cache drastically tanked the performance, especially on integer work loads (typically productivity software), but didn't really affect floating point workloads. However, it had the side benefit of removing the part of the AIC that was most sensitive to over-clocking (the cache). It used a 66Mhz clock with a fixed 4x multiplier, and upping the clock to 100Mhz got the Celeron running at 400Mhz, which had performance roughly equivalent to a 266 Mhz Pentium II with cache for integer workloads, but for games, it was almost as fast as the fastest Pentium II of the time (which topped out at 450Mhz).

In order to stop the overclocking, Intel decided to add some cache back to the CPU, but to save money, rather than using cache chips, they stuck a relatively tiny amount of cache directly on the CPU die, and released the now infamous Celeron 300A

Because the cache was on-die, it could overclock just as well as the previous celeron, but this time the 300A was faster than the equivalent Pentium because the on-die cache ran at twice the clock speed of the external caches
I love wittgensteins take on the reality of math. He thought that there were true statements, false statements, nonsense, and tautologies.

True and false are easy enough. “The cat is on the mat” is true or false depending on where the cat is in the room. It’s verifiable. Nonsense is what he would call any value statement, such as “the flowers are beautiful”. By using the word nonsense he doesn’t disparage, it just isn’t a verifiable statement.

Tautologies are where math comes in. He thought that constructions of language were like symbolic pictures that had relation to states of the real world. Math however is statements about statements themselves. So “1+1=2” isn’t “true” in the same way that “the cat is on the mat” is true. But it is a tautology; a declaration that when you have two cats you can say there are “2” cats or you can say there are “1+1” cats. It’s the same thing.

He likened our knowledge of math to our knowledge of chess. Just like we humans invented the game of chess to pas time, we invented the game of math to better understand what statements make sense.
People's web experience is in degradation for long time.

No point using 99% of the web due to the hostile, fraudolent, abusive approaches on top of the hollow (yeh, very very gentle world for the thing what it is) content. No point searching for advice, products, job, as crap is poured at you while your actions are registered, your profile is sold, just to pour dedicated crap on you by the highest bidder.

I have mail and 5 (7 with weather) pages I check regularly, and that's it. That's my online life. More like a hermit goes into town for tools and cans kind of digital solitary. Clicking on links only after reconsidering five times, if I am really interested in the possible content. Mostly here. So, so far away from the extremely curious me 20 or so years ago spending hours to the limit of my thirst and bladder, navigating all that is out there.

It is very sad what humanity made out of the Internet. It does not even hurt anymore. It is numb blob where the feeling about the rich common knowledge source this was and could have been should be.
Which is weird, because I thought we'd all agreed that the random number was 4?

https://xkcd.com/221/
Nothing is permanently broken though. At some point you can start reflashing chips and replacing internal components. Bricked has always meant the device is inoperable and beyond easy repair.
And some more to add retries. And then another few to handle attachments. And just some more to generate previews. And multipart messages. And testing. And just like that, you spent a whole lot of time to reinvent something frameworks like Laravel include out of the box, right now. And did I mention it is documented and any other developer familiar with the framework can immediately use, without having to waste time reading library code?
Show HN: Indian Opinion – An AI-Powered News Aggregator for the Indian Diaspora
Hello HN,

I’m excited to share Indian Opinion (https://indianopinion.org), an AI-based news aggregator focused on Indian news for the global Indian diaspora. I chose the name “Indian Opinion” after Mahatma Gandhi’s newspaper in South Africa, aiming to build an unbiased, India-centric news source. A lots of mistakes in current prod, its a POC at the moment.

Why Build This?

- Better Summaries: Many existing “short news” apps often turn into clickbait, risk miscommunication, or oversimplify important context. I wanted to address these issues by providing concise yet meaningful summaries—enough to quickly grasp the story without losing important details.

- Global Indian Audience: The Indian diaspora is often more engaged with Indian news than many people living in India. Keeping track of diverse regional news can be cumbersome, so I built Indian Opinion to unify and present the most relevant stories.

Feedback & Next Steps
- We’re looking to improve coverage, especially local/regional news. If there’s a source you rely on or if you notice any bias in the summaries, please let us know.
- Open to suggestions on user experience, especially around how summaries can best convey context without feeling clickbaity or incomplete.

Would love to get the HN community’s feedback and criticisms—both technical and editorial. Thank you for checking it out!

— Ramakrishnan Lokanathan (x.com/greatindianramu)
Yeah right blocking ads and trackers helps performance.
> Harris also promised to fix it, and had an actual plan for addressing housing, education, medical costs, and prices in general, but we are all now pretending like none of that was a part of her campaign.

Part of that is because there were tons of ads focusing on taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners (funded by pro-Trump orgs):

https://youtu.be/kQEMn1yRYVU

I have friends and family in Georgia, supposedly a swing state. They said that they could not escape seeing this add multiple times a day on tv or internet.

Regardless of what one believes about the underlying premise of the ad, it is incredibly narrow in terms of scope, and that narrative stuck.

I have a feeling this is one reason why many folks weren’t aware of her plans.
I don't even think that's true. Seatbelts are an improvement in safety regardless of context. But what you're arguing here is that a system that's designed to rely on GPS availability, and gets it, is safer than the same system during a GPS outage, not that GPS availability will make any airport management system safer.
Me too, but shhh.
That’s how it works when writing CDK outside of TypeScript. You have to review the TS docs to get anywhere.
And none of the USA-bashers here seem to care about that. It got me thinking there's more to this story, too.
Are you going to pay them to?
ARM/IoT community:
https://community.arm.com/support-forums/f/architectures-and...
https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/internet-of-...

Security practitioners and academics:
https://github.com/enovella/TEE-reversing/
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10859-trustzone-m_eh_breaking_ar...
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Shen-Att...
https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Thursday/us-19-Peterlin-Breaki...

Sorry you could not cite an attack demonstrated on x86 and not on ARM or vice versa. Well, maybe TikTag (https://github.com/compsec-snu/tiktag) was demonstrated against ARM MTE, since you mention, and Pacman (https://pacmanattack.com/) against PAC. I was hoping for an actual response, no offense.
I attempted to implement this on the front end of my e-commerce site, which has approximately 20,000 products (see gist [1]). My goal was to enhance search speed by performing as many local operations as possible.

Biggest impact in performance was by moving to dot products.

Regrettably, the sheer size of the index of embeddings rendered it impractical to achieve the desired results.

1. https://gist.github.com/schappim/d4a6f0b29c1ef4279543f6b6740...
> I'm almost at the point where I consider any type of firmware update for anything to be actively hostile and to be avoided if at all possible with the sole exception of patches for specific, significant security bugs.

I recently bricked my Eufy Baby monitor trying to upgrade the firmware.

We got an additional add on camera and it wouldn't connect to the new camera. So I navigated their really piss poor documentation on upgrading the firmware but ended up bricking the whole thing.
Bypassing the Branch Predictor
Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz announces retirement, stock plummets 25%
104 points, zero comments, 2 hours ago. Might be botted.
Not OP but the idea is simple: You put transmitters somewhere outdoor (or wherever you want to measure) plop a battery in there and be set for a few years.

Such weather stations were really commonplace 20 years ago, I remember my grandparents having a sensor outside and a basic LCD display in the kitchen displaying the outdoor temperature and humidity. These days we want that data digitally on our phones or home assistant so you need a receiver that talks TCP/ip and runs a real os. That's where the SDR comes in to bridge the gap between primitive RF Tech and modern computing. Of course you could also put an esp8266 outdoors, which natively talks wifi, but then you lose range and your battery life goes from years to weeks.
I agree that ECS works great for stateless containerized workloads. But you will need other AWS-managed services for state (RDS), caching (ElastiCache), and queueing (SQS).

So your application is now suddenly spread across multiple services, and you'll need an IaC tool like Terraform, etc.

The beauty (and the main reason we use K8s) is that everything is inside our cluster. We use cloudnative-pg, Redis pods, and RabbitMQ if needed, so everything is maintained in a GitOps project, and we have no IaC management overhead.

(We do manually provision S3 buckets for backups and object storage, though.)
>leave the items up, block download of the full file, and make excerpts available.

This is what Google does with Google Books. I imagine the Internet Archive is trying to avoid it because Books is no longer a repository of works, it's a search index. If you find a source you'd like to read, you're on your own to find a copy. Large parts of their collection are out of print, and this can be very difficult.

It's still a useful tool with those limitations, certainly, but it's not an archive anymore.
Over 100 people upvoted this but nobody has any thoughts? I will share one. It is a negative side effect of capitalism that monetary power controls information flow.
Yeah, checking at such a young age is a serious distortion of the data. The average age at first pregnancy is somewhere around 30. That means they are counting exclusively pregnancies that are untypically early. A more accurate summary of the results would be:

Bullies have more accidental children before reaching the age where the average couple will start to deliberately get pregnant.
Why are you dissapointed in Ecosia for Qwant getting investment from Springer?
My beef with the term 'Jewish policies', if it wasn't clear, was the mix of opinions about the Jewish people, Israel, and certain political powers within Israel. To me when people just mix "Jewish" and "Israel" that is either a sign of ignorance or a sign of animosity. But feels like this was just an honest mistake.

The ultra-orthodox and the Arabs are large minorities in Israel. They are actually similar in many ways as neither serves in the IDF and so both are "discriminated" against. In some ways the ultra-orthdoc are more anti-Zionist than the Arabs and I don't know they hold any specific policies on Arab voting rights in general (though their political parties align opportunistically with the Israeli right).
The tweet is a domain expert talking about his experiences using a product.

If (hyperbole) Picasso wrote a tweet saying certain canvases work great for certain tasks, and some random internet dude counters with A single tweet with lots of analogy, with no images/painting examples whatsoever. These are just words. Are we just discussing art based on vibe? ...

I will read that comment in the comic book guy voice.
The SLR lenses are still in wide production. https://www.nikonusa.com/c/lenses/dslr-lenses/overview

The Z lenses are for the mirrorless bodies and only work on the mirrorless bodies. https://www.nikonusa.com/c/lenses/mirrorless-lenses/overview

As long as SLR bodies are produced, Nikon will continue to make SLR lenses (and probably for a while afterwards)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_D6 was released in 2020.
Crimes against the terms and conditions
At no point did anyone argue you should be required to use chrome to use some websites. That is a complete strawman you made up here. No one is requiring you to use chrome.

As to your security argument: If you've never seen the past user's desktops filled with browser hijacking and ad / virus ware, then I'm happy for you, but ignoring serious security concerns isn't a valid approach to managing an end user product regardless of the nebulous slippery slope freedoms argument you're attempting to make.

This is not an advocation to ban all adblockers, but you are advocating for basically a free for all, and we've seen how that works. It doesn't and this entire discussion is a waste of time.
The way I understand it, an LLM response is a chain of tokens where each is the most probable token. Maybe there exists more complicated candidate and selection approaches than that, but biggest number works for me. For the sake of simplicity, let's just say tokens are words. You'd have access to the probability of each word in the ordering of the sentence, but I'm not sure how that would then be used to evaluate to the probability of the sentence itself or its truthiness.
Here you go, came up in a simple google search :)

https://www.livinggreenandfrugally.com/drying-your-clothes-o...
X has shipped way more new features on the past year than in the rest of its existence.

Musk famously reduced head count by like ... 80%? To me, that speaks of a very capable team. But yeah, downvote this one as well, the truth is evident anyway, lol.
Piracy isn’t stealing, and if companies want to pretend piracy doesn’t exist and that they’re not competing with it that’s their own look out. In the immortal words of gaben, piracy is a service problem.

Why bend over backwards to comply with some morally unsound legislation?
If you look at Frege’s original logical notation, all logical operators (apart from negation) reduce to conditional (‘if–then’) statements. Perhaps mathematics mirrors the cause-and-effect structure of reality, similar to Hume’s idea of causation as empirical regularity. Numbers could then be understood as convenient fictional tools, while logical operators capture something genuinely real about how the world itself works. I'm no mathematician, but it's just a thought.
I've been using Qwant, people have to be paid and there was never silence about the difficulties that qwant had. In fact, it would be odd if they would be hiring people and not really clear how they are being paid.

I'm happy for them on this partnership.
It's always said that you should worry about customer needs before even thinking about technology. How do you see that with your company?
For one, ffmpeg is 9 years older than Go. Plus, when dealing with video files a garbage collected language probably isn't going to cut it. C++ and Obj-C also feel overkill for ffmpeg.
It depends if having the organization chasing the latest fad as it changes yearly inspires you trust or the opposite...
Off and on they've been threatening me with a PIP for the past year, but haven't actually triggered one. I did talk to a lawyer. They said there's not much I can do until they terminate me, or risk losing the job. They could help me respond to a PIP when they PIP me. But even if the company terminates me, the lawyer said they are inclined to negotiate higher severance than going to court because it's tricky to prove that any bias or singled out treatment was because of the disability and not something else. Although I do have notes of my manager saying requesting accommodations might have hurt me and that my department head is targeting me for some reason.
Can you quote the specific part of my comment (or anybody's comment) where such thing is claimed?
The data can be used for more than ads - it can be used to adjust prices, etc.
Could someone please explain in-browser inference to me? So in the context of OpenAI usage (WebLLM github), this means I will send binary to OpenAI instead of text? And it will lower the cost and run faster?
People have been using hard bricked and soft bricked for a while. But this doesn't even seem to be soft bricked.
Bob also picked the best stock market to invest in. He would have done a lot worse investing in any other stock market. It's not surprising he did well, he picked the winner.

What are the chances the US is going to have the best stock market over the next 50 years? It's possible, but doesn't seem likely.
Working with Systemd Timers
Hopefully the market self corrects on this and washington posts loses subscribers. Forcing an opinion section to have only opinions you want is just the opposite of its purpose.
This is actually a fascinatingly complex problem. Some notes about the article:
* The 20s delay before shutdown is called “lame duck mode.” As implemented it’s close to good, but not perfect.
* When in lame duck mode you should fail the pod’s health check. That way you don’t rely on the ALB controller to remove your pod. Your pod is still serving other requests, but gracefully asking everyone to forget about it.
* Make an effort to close http keep-alive connections. This is more important if you’re running another proxy that won’t listen to the health checks above (eg AWS -> Node -> kube-proxy -> pod). Note that you can only do that when a request comes in - but it’s as simple as a Connection: close header on the response.
* On a fun note, the new-ish kubernetes graceful node shutdown feature won’t remove your pod readiness when shutting down.
The big question is, would it keep that market share without Google. The big selling point of Google Chrome is the seamless integration with all the other Google services.
China's Homegrown EUV Machines Rumored for Q3 Trial Production
> Does anyone still mix clashing styles/physics this way in modern animation

The Spiderverse movies have characters with clashing styles and frame rates sharing the screen, but perhaps it fails your second test because they come from different in-story universes. The design, art direction and animation are great, both movies are a visual feast
A law only matters when it's enforced. Who the fuck is going to go after me for downloading a few films and songs?
I love the mental picture from Greg Egan's Diaspora of the truth mines, literally hacking the math like chunks of coal:

"If ve ever wanted to be a miner in vis own right -- making and testing vis own conjectures at the coal face, like Gauss and Euler, Riemann and Levi-Civita, deRham and Cartan, Radiya and Blanca -- then Yatima knew there were no shortcuts, no alternatives to exploring the Mines firsthand. Ve couldn't hope to strike out in a fresh direction, a route no one had ever chosen before, without a new take on the old results. Only once ve'd constructed vis own map of the Mines -- idiosyncratically crumpled and stained, adorned and annotated like no one else's -- could ve begin to guess where the next rich vein of undiscovered truths lay buried."
Tried signing up, but got an error message about signup failing and to try again. Tried again, and it seemed to work though I received 5(!) confirmation emails. After clicking the confirmation link in the email and trying to sign in, the message Please check your email to confirm your account before signing in. displayed.

Thanks, but no thanks.
Much easier as in otherwise they'll suffer material and bodily harm? Look at what the Syrians are doing to the Alawites now and then tell me again how Israel should just let those same people have the power in this balance.
you can't really compare regular drops to the current drops triggered directly by trump. the current situation is unique.
When did I say they are separate? I think you’re confused.
So much history here for me.

One landmark buried in there was the ARM 250 chip based machines.

I think they were some of the first system on a chip desktop computers.

They lacked the glamour of the Arm 3 based machines launched around the same time but really they were ground breaking.
Tor is far to easily blocked, and given that a great number of nodes are compromised, it is likely it is far worse at providing privacy than some self-hosted vpn on some cheap hosting.