skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a name for this line of argumentation? The guy is obsessing over how document is articulated and disregarding how Chrome's dominance and Google owning it empowers Google to be monopolistic by, for example, having disproportionate power to drive web standards, having Google as the default search engine in its already dominant browser, having popular Google owned services not play nice with competing browsers, etc., just because the document he is quoting does not spell it out.

Side question: If hypothetically Google is forced to sell off Chrome, who would buy it?
Why is tracking a bad thing?
It allows better monetization of the web which is good for everyone.
China has 1b consumers. Just saying. India too.
Yes, just prints to the build log, so the risk is higher for public repos. Lot of public repos have creds printed in their build logs due to this compromised action.
Agreed. I've been using it for all DNS and CDN for over two years now. Great company, great support, great performance, great API. Everything. Love it. I'm a big fan.
I did indeed misread and missed the
associates part, thank you for kindly pointing it out.
Awesome branding. I would switch to this from Jekyll but I don’t use org. Why is the hot reloading an issue? Would running something like watch.rb on the project folder count as cheating?

https://brettterpstra.com/2011/03/07/watch-for-file-changes-...
Does Bunny support websocket connection proxying yet?
This uses the economists' definition of "productivity" creating a confusing headline.

In reality, "productivity" as a layperson would understand it hasn't increased at all and the reason isn't very "curious." What's happened (by the economists' own conclusion) is that more people are ordering take-out and fewer people are eating in the restaurant, causing the restaurant to make more money per unit of labor. This is a trend that is probably going to make things like social isolation etc. worse, so not really something to celebrate.
I have professional working experience in this domain.
> natural gas is roughly 75% hydrogen on a molar basis

I thought it was methane. Wouldn't that be 80% hydrogen on a molar basis? (Or... 67%, if we're counting moles of molecular hydrogen?) Is the discrepancy coming from impurities, or different types of fuel, or what?
Sorry for the late reply, just wanted to say I have felt your pain starting a long time ago, and I agree it's absurd. I don't even do this as a job. I'm just out there trying to make sure that my wife and I have functional internet at our house and her parents' house as a layman with a modicum of experience.
Again: define "explicit"? Does clicking a file count? Asking for code reformatting across the project? How long does access last? How is it revoked?

If the user runs "reformat project" once, then gets a new version, are try going to have any warning that "reformat project" is about to encrypt every file it touches?
Probably any hardware that requires you to use some intermediate code. Nowadays probably some TPU or NPU or whatever.

This made me think of what "accelerators" I've come across (just as a regular consumer):

In the late 90s, that's what we called GPUs - "3D accelerators". For a short time, they were cards separate from the actual graphics card, and often would involve routing your VGA cable through that thing. Before it all merged into one device. I was very slightly disappointed as a kid that I narrowly missed that time, but bilinear filtering and higher resolutions and framerates helped me get over the fact I couldn't cram more cool weird tech into my PCI slots.

Then you had sound cards with "audio accelerators" using technologies like EAX. All that eventually migrated back to the CPU I think.

For a while you could by a "physics accelerator" for PhysX, then acquired by nvidia and moved to the GPU using CUDA. I never had one, but one time I kept around an older GPU after upgrading as a dedicated physx processor. Now that's the only way to run older 32bit games with physx turned up, since that's not supported in 5000 series GPUs.

Finally, I got this "Coral TPU", a USB device with 4GB RAM (and I think around 4 TOPS or something?) for very efficient inferencing. There are some open source projects supporting this, like frigate, which lets you process object detection with multiple surveillance camera streams on a raspberry pi. I never really used it though.

And of course now we have NPUs as sub-systems in CPUs and GPUs. I'd love to have a dedicated PCIe card with that, but of course having yet another computer architecture with dozens/hundreds of GB of redundant RAM is kind of a bummer.
Which is ultimately another way of saying they don’t care about customers and only care about their bottom line (?)
No those services won’t be legal. If you stay in Thailand for that period you can pay tax there and then use FEIE to not pay double to the US
Quaise is also aiming for faster drilling not just longer lasting drills.

Anyway, seems like the obvious solution is to stack multiple drill bits at the end and detach ones that get used up. Obviously this doesn’t work, but it’s not clear to me why it shouldn’t.
Yeesh. Found an article for anyone interested: https://snyk.io/blog/peacenotwar-malicious-npm-node-ipc-pack...

I like this comment from u/mailto_devnull (https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/tg451e/do_not_use_nod...):

Where do I stand on the war? I stand with Ukraine.
Where do I stand on software supply chain issues? I stand with not fucking around with the software supply chain.
in NA, SMS is still dominant. Eu+Sa+india use whatsapp, china/japan have their own apps
> There isn’t a business model for a company whose product is just chrome, though.

This isn’t relevant, from the perspective of the ruling.

It might be relevant from the perspective of Chrome-the-business and from Chrome-users’ perspectives.
In a scenario where Google no longer control Chrome, I doubt Safari's budget is at risk, the company had nearly $400B in revenue in 2024.

Courtroom testimony implied that part of the reason Apple value(s/d) the deal with Google was a "peace deal" to prevent Google from doing what Google does and forcing Safari users on Google properties, to switch to Chrome.

Of all the browsers that would be affected by the loss of Google funding, Safari is least likely to be affected.
Better than an exe I think
Israel claims the Golan Heights as part of its sovereign territory. It captured the Golan Heights during a defensive war in 1967, when it also captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. It gave back the Sinai Peninsula for a peace agreement with Egypt in 1979. The capture of all that territory happened under a left-wing Labor government led by Levi Eshkol. The return of the Sinai happened under a right-wing government led by Menachem Begin, of the party that is the forerunner to Likud. Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip to leave it in the hands of the Palestinian Authority in 2005. That happened under Ariel Sharon, a right wing prime minister (albeit in a centrist party, Kadima).

The West Bank is still occupied because the Palestinians have not agreed to a peace deal with Israel, despite being offered one including that land most recently in 2008. Given what happened on Oct 7th, I don't think there will ever be such an offer again.

Israel is currently occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria because Hezbollah fired 8,000 missiles at Israel from southern Lebanon during 2023 and 2024, and Hezbollah was supplied with those missiles through, with the consent of, Syria. Hezbollah's presence south of the Litani river was in contravention of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

So whether Israel captures or returns land has really nothing to do with whether its government is left or right wing. Israel is not authoritarian. It is a constitutional democracy.
Well, where are the used up drill bits supposed to go to in a hole just as wide as the bits itself except for up and out?
I had a similarly negative experience, sadly. Samsung managed to break HDMI-CEC in the final firmware update for one of their tvs, and wouldn't allow downgrading.

Which tends not to be great for a tv one wants to use with a Chromecast or similar media box...
What the hell are you talking about, a. batteries weren't mentioned and b. hydrogen is on the periodic table and exists as an element, and can actually be found in its pure form.
I noticed it didn't have the Celsius value at the beginning, and a while later I noticed it was there. But "minus 280 F / 173 C" is terrible formatting, it looks like it's positive in Celsius...

Considering the conversion between the 2 temperature scales can flip the sign (e.g. -10C is 14F), "-280F/-173C" would've been a lot clearer.
> Because supporting Palestine isn't hating Jews

Did you fail to read any of my comments or are you just pretending? Khalil gave a speech openly defending the "armed resistance" of Hamas [1].

[1] https://x.com/canarymission/status/1900204678240928166
The people who lived in Hong Kong are worse off today even outside of political freedoms.
Most city buses spend most of their time going fairly slowly. The electric buses are absolutely a lot quieter, at least around here. Crucially, also, they don’t vibrate; I’ve never been on a diesel bus where vibration from the engine wasn’t at least somewhat noticeable.
What do you think a hacker is?
I'm an EU citizen and always saw going to a restaurant as a social event, somewhere to gather with friends, family, etc to have a good time. I never went to a restaurant to eat. Eating something delicious was just a bonus.
Those "journalists" they claim to protect could get into serious trouble for merely using Tor. From there it's a trivial matter of rubber hose cryptanalysis to defeat the rest of the "protection". The danger with such tools is someone without proper training thinks they're a super spy, and then they draw attention of the people who actually understand such things, and can put a bag over their head and deliver them to a black site.
that could directly cause a death
This is all cool, but:

> BunnyCDN was pretty consistently returning my blog post a few hundred milliseconds faster than Cloudflare

Makes me think that author's CF was misconfigured. Unless you're in a zone with really bad interconnects, like Brazil, or African locations, multiple hundreds of milliseconds shouldn't be possible as the baseline, much less as the difference in the saved latency. (I'm assuming the author talks about a single blog post request)

So, don't expect a 100ms+ improvement.
Pretty much all of them. At least in the west, less sure about the east.

France had 70000km of rail around ww1, now it has about 30000. The main (though not only) casualty was the rural narrow gauge lines ("local interest network") which got obliterated by car and low productivity (about 20000km progressively closed from about 1930 to 1960, a handful survive as tourist attractions).
I’m going to laugh if Elon buys it.
I bought an i3 in 2015 as I needed a car fast and could buy an i3 for little money and without paying taxes on it. I thought it'd be a temporary solution untill I found a proper car I liked.

It's now 2025 and I'm driving my 3rd i3. I just love the way it handles. Basically feels like driving a bumper car on steroids. I'm not even ashamed about its silly looks anymore. Really fun well built car.

Just wish it got carplay/android auto. Although there's aftermarket solutions.
Ok, this may be true for US citizens who are taxed based on their citizenship, but what about other nationalities (I am not a US citizen)?

The current laws in Thailand state that foreign sourced income is only taxed if it is remitted to Thailand (source: https://mahanakornpartners.com/overview-of-personal-income-t...).

So this should be an option, don't you think?
Non-issue. However if you start saying pro Hamas sentences..
They looked only at fast food, buffet and snack/cafe places:

The Spend data covers major national brands disproportionately, making it much more representative for limited-service/fast-food restaurants than full-service restaurants. We therefore restrict the sample to POIs reporting NAICS codes corresponding to limited-service eating places (NAICS 722513, 722514, and 722515) and associated with a brand for which there is non-missing visit and spend data. This encompasses three subcategories: limited-service restaurants (e.g., Taco Bell, McDonalds); cafeterias, grill buffets, and buffets (e.g., Hartz Chicken Buffet); and snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars (e.g., Starbucks). Our final sample contains over 100,000 unique restaurants from over 600 distinct brands. From January 2019 to December 2022, our sample captures a total of about $24 billion in nominal sales.
I note that their electric buses are made by a different company than their diesel buses, which would make reliability comparisons a bit questionable.
Ads? Where? There's no spot in Google Messages for them.
Nice, this is cool, too: Onionmine hahaha :)

https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionmine/
Only if you believe that the current mode we are in is good.
the altimeter? Surely you would put three on there?
Was tempted to downvote. But hey, we’re supposed to talk about things.

Do you support the abstract argument that

________ allows better monetization of _________ which is good for everyone.

??

If so, we can agree to disagree. If however, “it depends”, I think you need to clarify why your proposition is true where other variants (e.g. “Indentured servitude allows better monetization of the lower classes which is good for everyone”) are very clearly not so.
Someone else in the thread mentioned that this is coming! https://github.com/features/preview/immutable-actions
My ISP is selling my data as well. Netflix is snooping on what i watch for their ads. Chrome is free. Bigger fish to fry than my web browser snooping on me like your bank selling all credit card transactions your car snooping on your driving and your mobile carrier selling your location.
Umm, doesn’t Go do so as well? Personally, I’ve had a better experience working with Go tooling.
That would be problematic, but isn't that still allowed under Thai tax law (see my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43370402#43370656)?

These services do not provide legal representation as far as I know.
Absolutely agree 100% with this.
I would argue that Google is TERRIBLE for the web.
Exactly, And that's what happens in LayerNorm too. So if figured the best base for comparison would have been to leave that bit out when looking at their difference or similarity, because obviously the bits that have the same implementation will be the same.
Not on the Google Messages app itself, but inside the messages. Just like spam promotional emails.
For those with mild dyslexia: The system did not brick after suffering through 1020 updates. 1020 is the update version label.
I was surprised by that too: typically I’ve only seen such high latency on Netlify based sites which exclusively uses aws-east for the whole world.
While hydrogen can be found in its pure form, the reserves are not really developed.

Hydrogen is generally considered a storage, not a resource. Same as battery.
I already heard back from the EFF and they agree that it's "silly trademark claim". They will now reach out to their contact at LinkedIn and ask them to withdraw. Apparently, IP enforcement firms like Tracer send out a lot of these claims, even if LinkedIn would not stand behind it and litigate.
> To put it another way, the problem is not so much that Google shouldn't be paying to be the default search engine, but that it shouldn't own both the browser and the search engine.

If this is the real crux of the case, then is divesting Chrome going to negatively affect DuckDuckGo and Kagi?

My hunch is “no”, and also that search+browser isn’t the crux of the case. I think the real crux is Google owning browser+ad/surveillance-network.
It’s bad at least because people don’t like to be watched or stalked, even if no “real” harm accompanied. Privacy is a thing that most people agree should exist. You can’t always have it, but it doesn’t mean you have to surrender it either. That is, in an ideal world.

It allows better monetization of the web which is good for everyone.

In the real world, targeted ads initially promised to be related to user’s interests but never kept that. You don’t see what’s interesting for you, only what was paid a lot of money for, by people who find your parameters most suitable for their bait, blanket style. Users get heavily underserved their ads and mostly see generic money grab bs instead, cause money ranks better than interests and google is no socialist despite so much pretending.
> With the proterra banktrupcy, there are limited competent suppliers in the market.

Do the conventional bus manufacturers in the US not make electric buses? All of the electric buses here are made by the transport authority’s traditional manufacturers.
Show HN: Server-Oriented Customizable Templating
Yep, a particular example:

A few major iOS releases ago when you said “Hey Siri, wake me up in an hour”, it correctly set an alarm in now() + 60 minutes. Nowadays if you don’t say an absolute time, it sets a timer instead of an alarm. I used relative times when taking naps so this regression is a UX change for worse for me.
Ah, the familiar ploy of privatizing profits and socializing costs.

Consider: Who will be (unavoidably) paying for the military and buffer-area which which keeps the place safe from Canadian Bear-riders? Who will eventually get stuck paying if it turns into an abandoned toxic waste-dump? The rest of us.

So.. have them put their money where their mouth is: You want freedom and noninterference? Fine: There will be no special government-gift of "limited liability" for any corporation doing business in FreedomLand.

That means if someone's no-safety-rules Nuclear Powered Airplanes startup has a very bad oopsie, the bankrupt NPA's remaining debts (for injuries, deaths, property-damage, and pollution-cleanup) must be paid by all the human owners/investors who made it possible. "Personal accountability", right? Bigger rewards, bigger risks. What self-professed lover of economic independence could possibly object?
An other option BEV busses give is hybrid trolleys, that way once a popular line gets fixed you can add overhead lines to it and later upgrade it to tram more easily.

It also means charge is a matter of having overhead lines which can be added as hoc (as overhead docking stations) to end-of-line stops, letting the bus juice up for some time before it runs the route back.
I just discovered that Google refuses to support any assistive tech on Workspaces unless the user is using Chrome: https://support.google.com/a/answer/33864

They can’t be forced to sell soon enough.
Most (all?) of the Apple iOS apps and data can be collaboratively shared, edited, etc over iMessage and it is extremely seamless with fine-grained access controls. I get people sending me calendars, notes, slide decks, documents, etc to either read or work on together via iMessage/iCloud. You can selectively share most things in your iOS environment with any other person in the iOS ecosystem. Google Apps is a pale imitation of this. And the security is tight.

I’ve never seen anything like this on any other chat app I’ve used. Most objects in iOS can be directly shared or collaborated on over iMessage, and that is a very rich set of objects. People that only use iMessage don’t even realize other chat apps can’t do some of these things.
This is cool - there’s some similar work here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.01571 which uses spiking neural networks (essentially Dirac pulses). I think the next step for this would be to learn a tonal embedding of the source alongside the event embedding so that you don’t have to rely on physically modelled priors. There’s some interesting work on guitar amp tone modelling that’s doing this already https://zenodo.org/records/14877373
Geez.

> Metro gets about one or two buses every week or so, and that it typically takes around four months of testing before they are put into service. The lengthy testing process is necessary because the Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust, one of the funders of the Metro’s initiative, requires the agency to destroy one of its existing buses before putting a new one on the road
If the fake has been a great art effort… wouldn’t that be an art piece by itself? What I mean by this is that the Roman copies of Greek statues are seen as “art” today. Is just a matter of perspective or legality?
I truely believe there is none. There is literally nothing people would pay for. We got ourselves into a situation where browsers have become so complex that they need an incredible amount of resources to get developed but the only way to get any money with them is to either sell the data of your users or have partners that do that (Google paying Mozilla for being the Firefox default search engine).

I literally don’t see a way out of this mess. In fact if Chrome needs to be split off from google, google has no need to keep Firefox alive anymore. If they just stop paying for the search engine default, Mozilla loses 75% of their revenue.
> How about this one that says Dick Durban is supporting Hamas because he has advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil?

You made a false statement of fact. The tweet never said that. It reads [1]:

> 1/ Canary Mission is apolitical. We call out antisemitism on all sides and have never had a vested interest in a political party. However, Senator Dick Durbin is testing our principles like never before.
His defense of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Hamas activist, raises serious moral and ethical concerns.
It is troubling that one of our great parties is standing behind a Hamas supporter - a group recognized as a terrorist organization—the same group that perpetrated the massacre of October 7, which included the murder, rape and kidnapping of innocent civilians.

It clearly says that Khalil is a Hamas supporter, not Dick Durban. There's video of Khalil giving a speech defending Hamas' "armed resistance" [2]. Was this a lack of basic reading comprehension or was that a deliberate lie?

[1] https://x.com/canarymission/status/1899487784454508681

[2] https://x.com/canarymission/status/1900204678240928166
What else has Google sold and how did they end up? SketchUp dodged a bullet.
Hi! Today, I would like to introduce to HackerNews a relatively new template language called HMPL, which can help to significantly reduce the size of your web applications. It has been in the works for almost a year, since the old repositories, but now I think it is really worth paying attention to.

https://github.com/hmpl-language/hmpl

First of all, when talking about reducing the size, we need explicit tests. This repository has examples of what advantages the module has over other ways of creating a web application.

Also, unlike the much talked about HTMX, the module uses the modern fetch standard, and the requests to the server are fully customized, which is necessary for normal operation today. It is also safe, because it has functionality that sanitize incoming HTML from XSS attacks.

It is fully tested, so the number of errors associated with its operation will be minimal.

But if you find any flaw, it would be cool if you share it in the comments or in the community discord, as the project is Open-Source and open for contributions from the entire community!

I hope this project will help you to apply SSR, SSG and other server-oriented methods on any site, but without indexing by robots.

Thank you all very much for your attention! It will be very interesting to read your opinion about this template language! In my opinion, it is not bad, but what do you think?
It's worth remembering that the trolls that complain about Ruby do so because they care about it.

You'll often see the same names coming back on every post to angrily insist that no one is interested in Ruby

...apart from them obviously because if they didn't they would be busy trolling something else. :P
And uBlock Origin works best on Firefox.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...