skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, I use my laptop as a mobile "console" with ps4 controllers. It's sometimes a PITA to find good games that with controller support and splitscreen, but they do exist
I don't think he does everything wrong, but this is indeed just a one data point. A pretty random one, even if infrastructure is important.
From earlier this year, WSJ reported[0] telegram raised debt finance, and needed $700M, out of which 500M was just to return to TON investors. The article also quotes Durov as claiming "A project of our size needs at least a few hundred million dollars per year to keep going".

>To pay the bills, Mr. Durov is issuing investors $1 billion to $1.5 billion of company debt, with the promise of discounted equity if the company eventually goes public, the people briefed on the plans said.

>To repay its creditors, Telegram is selling five-year bonds that pay roughly 7% or 8% a year

Durov is rich, but he's not going to spend all his fortune on running Telegram and re-paying these investors. He's also refused to raise money via equity in telegram, so advertising is the only way to keep the lights on telegram.

[0]: https://archive.md/mGtgp
Those are only the classical tried-and-true narratives. There are always many narratives, and if one of the old ones happens to fail, new ones will rise to take their place.
As your sibling post technically notes, asymmetric vs symmetric is a wash, here. To use asymmetric encryption for saves, the PS5 would need to know the public and private keys, so you would be able to extract those and still have the same access.

Of course, there are still advantages to having the symmetric key not be used as is, but there are many solutions other than asymmetric encryption.
The podcast Well There's Your Problem has an episode covering this incident: https://youtu.be/34rdxDgpaaA

As it turns out, when you have highly radioactive stuff in your buildings, you should probably clean that radioactive stuff out when abandoning said building.
How about ad-agencies that sell "Telegram Ad-Space"? Wouldn't that be a workaround for the spammers?
I observe a similar thing in HN. I suspect HN gathers a specific type of techie-crowd, who has missed out on the crypto-scene while working hard on "conventional" tech projects. I have been and I feel the sentiment.

HN is not exactly an early-adopter community for a specific time period (say 5 years of early inception of a new tech). It is a busy-working community.
the problem for LEA is that subpoena that goes nowhere matters less when they can get the evidence in another way (Pegasus, FinSpy, etc):

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/is...
There is not a whole lot of configuring to do. Just buy a prebuilt and install Steam and you are done. After that you install the games in steam, launch them from steam, buy them from steam etc. Basically the same experience as the dashboard on playstation or xbox.
Maintaining and validating app configuration – the easy way
Check your app config before the config checks your patience
Because my domain evil.com cannot serve a page from uniswap.org (because it's a different domain).
Some great games are playstation exclusive, so if you want to play those, you have no other option.

But the main reason for me is the controller: It's just so much better than any other controller I've connected to a PC. The back triggers have excellent force feedback and in some games the vibrations tell you on what type of surface you're walking. This might not count for XBox users, which can use the controller on their PC.

Also, I use a Mac, and I don't want to bother with setting up a gaming only Windows PC. If I factor in time spent, $500 is worth it.
So which one is it? Is it"already shown by research" or "something that cannot be proven". You can't have it both ways.
I think historically games consoles were seen as more social, something you would play with someone else in the room.

Also I don’t think the target demographic would care much about it not being a pc (otherwise they would buy a pc). There’s a convenience of having a gaming box already set up, plus Playststion can have exclusive titles
Excellent point. I would add there is a hidden dimension that is defined subjectively by the programmer (eg static vs dynamic) which means that there is probably multiple ways to define "simple" (depending on the user's taste), but still I feel lisps hit s local maximum in terms of language design.
Oh come on. If you were any bit cooperative you’d say “yes” or “yes, we have two machine we call photo copy machines, but we use them for different things”
There's a proposal for immutable records and tuples: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

Theoretically they would use structural sharing for their implementation which should reduce the overhead of creating a whole new array of objects like that
Any interview should be simple. You just have to not be a jerk:

-threat the guy as a human being, showing respect and kindness

-try to understand his mental processes

-try to asses his knowledge level by meaningful discussions, no "tricky questions" or "leetcode"

-ask to explain what he work on, what decisions he took and why

-explain some of your actual work issues and ask how he would address them

-do not try to make yourself look smart while trying to make your interlocutor look stupid
Not sure how true this is, but I've heard that Sony's PlayStation division is taking a hard hit from scalping, since they sell the consoles at a loss and scalpers don't buy games. So I wonder if this trend of selling consoles at a loss will continue in future generations.
Explorer is pretty stable if you don't have any shell add-ins loaded.
In my books this is worse. It gives users a false sense of security and allows government to hide it's intensions. The safe face by supporting free speech only in principal. At least with China and my home country India the intensions are clear, you have very few rights.

Edit: changed a word
It's hard to be more wrong when postulating that USSR tried to destroy ethnic identities.

USSR took a centrally run Russian Empire and carved a dozen of ethnic states from it - ones such as Belarus and Azerbaijan. These were de-jure countries with right of secession and USSR rouble bill featured writings in all of these countries' official languages.

When talking about Eastern Europe, USSR did some rebordering but it never prevented any of countries from having a language, a government and they got to keep a national flag.
When a reaches Signal's servers, all Signal knows is the destination and a timestamp. It even hides the sender via a process called sealed sender if you want to look it up.

So all they have is your phone number, date when you've registered, and last time you've used it. If someone took over their servers, all they'd see are encrypted blobs and their destination. They have no reason to keep those blobs after they've been delivered.

This is exactly all the info they've previously reported to the courts. Example: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/

Last connection date: 1634169600000 (unix millis)
Account created: 1606866784432 (unix millis)
Need feedback for my website that a online contacts list– AloveZ
No? If you're talking about the link I posted - 3300pln is about £600, and it includes two games and a controller. So MSRP of the console itself at £449 + 2x games at £50 + 1x controller at £50 = £600.
Program induction (or inductive programming, program synthesis from incomplete specifications etc, the task of learning programs from examples) is not "headed towards ML", it is a branch of machine learning research - only, one that is dominated by symbolic learning approaches such as Inductive Logic Programming and Inductive Functional Programming.

When you say "ML" you probably mean the deep neural networks approaches that are currently state of the art for machine vision etc. Deep neural network approaches have been proposed for the task of program induction but they generally lag well behind symbolic machine learning approaches.

The most coherent efforts to tackle program induction by neural networks that I am aware of is the work of Dawn Song's group at Berkeley [1] and of Joshua Tenenbaum's group at MIT. I can't find a handy link to a compilation of the latter group's work but the Dreamcoder paper in the paperswithcode search you linked to was an interesting milestone [2].

There is a lot of work on neuro-symbolic approaches to program induction, for example see the recent (two weeks ago) NeSy workshop [3], part of the first International Joint Conference on Learning and Reasoning for some new work in that burgeoning field. Statistical Relational AI combines symbolic with probabilistic learning; see the STAR-AI workshop [4] also at IJCLR.

If you're interested in recent developments on the front of program induction (again, learning programs from examples) then IJCRL is the conference to keep an eye on.

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[1] https://sunblaze-ucb.github.io/program-synthesis/index.html

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381

[3] https://sites.google.com/view/nesy20/home

[4] https://starai.cs.kuleuven.be/2021/
> In other words, you're welcome to walk up to me, slap me in the face, and call me a son-of-a-bitch... but that's probably not a great start to a conversation that ends with "Would you please work with me on this?"

Wow, that's quite some re-framing going on there, if you're casting yourself as the advertiser in that sentence. It's more like if you were regularly "borrowing" my car without permission. Do not track is a bit like the lock on the car, which obviously you can get around in 30 seconds flat. Everyone has a lock on their car, right, and it's installed by default, so by the advertisement industry's reasoning it isn't a true indication of whether I want you "borrowing" it. If you were regularly "borrowing" my car without permission, it'd be reasonable for me to walk up to you, slap you in the face, and call you a SOB, but I'd me more likely to just call the cops.

Data about me is owned by me, and other entities can process it only in strongly limited circumstances. That's the default position, by the standard of basic decency, and also in law. Stop making it sound like me demanding control over my own possessions is unreasonable.
The verb is route. Rooting a phone... you made me sit up there ;)

They do have a registry, but it's not relevant to this order. When you send me a message, your phone sends Signal my phone number and an encrypted blob. Signal routes that to my phone and the server doesn't keep a long-term record of that. Thus, Signal-the-server has a record for the next many seconds at least containing the destination of a messsage. It does not have my profile name, your profile name or any way to connect your phone number to that message.

Signal running on my phone has enough state concerning you to decrypt the encrypted blob and see that it's from you.

Signal, the organisation, is in control of all the source code and could change the code to gain control of all the information Luxembourg is asking for. But the past is immutable. Noone can go back in time and retroactively store more data. Signal didn't log the destination phone number at the time and so it's not available now, Signal didn't transmit the profile names to the server and so it never arrived and could not be stored.
Forbes quotes his net worth at $17B, the vast majority of which comes from Telegram ownership.

>[..] his wealth increased from $3.4 billion in 2020 to $17.2 billion in 2021. The wealth of Telegram founder increased exponentially recently after the app became popular.
I disagree with #1. I never had issues finding great games for Windoze.
You’re not going to convince me otherwise dude. :)

I have consoles and a powerful gaming PC. I use both regularly. For me they’re good for different things.

My Nintendo Switches get the most use.
This is the kind of gotcha that is not a real argument, just a way to say that the mediocrity of the Matrix (or Element, or Potato, whatever you wanna call it) is okay so no progress is ever made.
> If the request is made by the attacker domain instead and proxied to you, then it doesn't have your cookies to display the private identification.

Why is that a concern? You try to log in on a phishing site. The phishing site tries to log in as you at your bank's actual website. Your bank sends the phishing site your picture. The phishing site displays your picture to you.
It truly baffles me why Dart never picked up(ignoring flutter since it's in it's core). It is magnitudes better thought out than js, it is consistent and it comes with a ton of features baked into it by design(package management, statically typed, null safety, built-in linter and so on, all of which are available but as afterthoughts in js).
The experience you are describing is more akin to what I remember being Linux in the '00s than nowadays. I run a machine with arguably a buggy Ryzen 1st gen motherboard (it's quite buggy on Windows too), and I have a very stable desktop experience with Arch Linux and KDE Plasma. The real game changer has been AMDGPU, I'm yet to have any sort of graphical issue with an RX 580 on Linux, and Plasma is arguably quite solid nowadays.

The only issue I had recently were audio issues which were both due to my buggy soundcard and a bug in Pipewire. Excluding that, I've had almost no issues with desktop Linux since 2017.
No. That's what I want, and that's what the law says I should get. End of story.
This is the Radiohead song, Idioteque: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwJTnZOaco
When Facebook acquired WhatsApp I hoped that Telegram will do better, but it's been so many years now and they still don't open source everything and use their homemade cryptography. I find that really unfortunate because the app itself is really great, but not more trustworthy than WhatsApp.
Workers can run WASM (as can deno). So, you're right at home with c, cpp, and rust (and any other language that can compile to wasm)
Love that podcast, surprised it took as long as it did for someone to apply the concept of the Klaus forklift safety video to a podcast, lol.
Signal can just elect not to store that data, because they don't care. Realistically it might be possible to compel them to retain a log which phone numbers communicated with a specific device, but as I understand it after the initial handshake to register your phone number they also don't retain what it actually is - just the hash of it. So it would have to be a demand for forcible cooperation going forwards, since you can't recover data you don't have.

You're never going to make abstract metadata like volume of messages and relationships completely anonymous, but that's essentially an opsec issue which Signal is trying to solve by normalizing it anyway: if all your communications are always encrypted all the time, and you constantly use them, then there's no discontinuity if you go from "I don't like advertisers" too "I am in possession of the panama papers" - it all looks the same.
> Is that slightly more or slightly less than the singular UM football coach Jim Harbaugh is making this year?

Football is bringing a lot of money in at a lot of State Schools...

And I honestly think a strong athletic program might do more for diversity than almost 80 employees that are working hard toward skirting the law.
I also don't know how they know this relates to a request from Luxembourg, but (not being a lawyer) I guess you can at least tell it's from another government since it refers to 18 USC § 3512 which is Foreign requests for assistance in criminal investigations and prosecutions.
Again, I feel like you're stretching to make an analogy that doesn't actually reflect reality. You can't admit that people enjoy boring effectiveness as the premise of half the worlds' games, while also insisting that it's mutually exclusive to having fun in the other half.

I'll give you an example. Inarguably one of the most successful games of all time, World of Warcraft has multiple different paths and styles of leveling, gold farming, and most other tasks. The least effective paths are absolutely the most boring and involve hundreds of hours of grinding for very little gain, and yet, that's the consciously chosen path for a majority of players. Not because they can't figure out more proficient methods, but because they enjoy the grind (for any numbers of reasons).

The lesson learned from game designs like WoW, is that the implemented paths shouldn't be either-or propositions, because singular or linear paths alienate far more gamers than optional paths. Whereas what you're insisting, is that that the developer has done something "wrong" simply by presenting multiple paths, and they need to "improve" upon it by removing the ones which don't produce some arbitrary amount of dopamine and adrenaline per button press.
AMD graphics on Linux nowadays are vastly more stable than anything else. NVIDIA is proprietary crap and Intel Graphics still have cross-platform bugs so often is almost comical.
ENaira (CBDC) introduction and adoption in Nigeria provides some lessons
signal is IMHO the first time in history when people could communicate remotely without gvt being able to spy on the conversation.
Your friend was worse.

I have a lot more sympathy for people trying to scrape together money to feed their family than for people who smash things and cause environmental contamination for the lulz.
Yes. Look up what big firms are doing around eDiscovery or NewLaw or legal ops. look at startup legal tech companies. I believe this space will be big this decade.
The line between tech and lawyer who knows tech is blurring so think about how much tech you’d like to be involved in.

Roles in the Relativity space have been lucrative for years but it is complex.

Other terms to read up on:

EDRM process, Relativity, Nuix, Contract automation, Robotic process automation, Some are dabbling in smart contracts but I’m unsure how effective that will be for them, Audio and video, and social media eDiscovery forensic collection

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That’s a good point. The 5 has about the same memory bandwidth of an M1 Max, which is something you’ll only find in 2-socket big Xeons (NUMA excepted), but the PS4 is on the same ballpark of a Threadripper Pro. Still, they are very much PCs with memory systems that are not available in general purpose boxes of the same price.

I remember, however, some benchmarks on motherboards with console CPUs that were somewhat disappointing because the GDDR6 memory has high bandwidth at a higher latency cost that the internal caches couldn’t hide.

Still, if you can tune your workload for it, it may be an interesting compute box.
I wouldn't say never.
ex Bhutanese Democracy[1] was given by the monarchs though lot of population wanted the monarch to continue.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_democracy
(off-topic question: do you come from Murmansk, by any chance? That username sounds familiar :)
Beg Bounties
> Non-academic labs can't offer tenure because there's no tradition of it outside academia and by its very nature it only has value if an organisation can make a credible commitment to maintain for decades or centuries.

This would imply that it's impossible for non-academic institutions to offer pensions, too. Now, they are certainly moving in that direction, but it seems strange to argue that they can't.
Feel like they're solving problem that doesn't exist. Who in their right mind would bother with VR facebook when it's something that mostly grandparents use to occasionally see family pics. Honestly if facebook disappeared tomorrow I wouldn't even notice.
I think your experience is not universal. I would say windows has been far less reliable than linux on my thinkpad machine, but overall I have to say that I have yet to use an OS that never crashed on me, all software of this complexity is buggy.
So could Twitter make two requests, one as TwitterBot and one anonymously, and then add a warning if they don't go to the same place?
> It's sometimes a PITA to find good games that with controller support and splitscreen

You’ve just demonstrated one of the reasons people get consoles.
I think it's also important to keep in mind that at minimum it would take a generation to truly solve in a root-cause way (one that won't just come back the minute you focus on something else). Many of these biases get built during childhood when your brain is so so much more plastic.
Send to China (Beijing)? Many of my packages have gone lost or got opened and stuff taken out. And yes, the value on the CN23 form is conclusive for the insurance amount you can claim on the CN24 form.
Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
Don't the people that they resell the console onto buy games though? Possibly missing something here
I come back to these sorts of incidents when the topic of warning future generations away from nuclear waste comes up - e.g. "This is not a place of honor" etc. We can't even reliably warn people away now, when we know their language and have internationally recognized symbols for radiation.
It'll shake out. I'm sure that is weighted to return more later in the generation anyway.
There is a different way of closing applications on iOS?
If you're using the 17B net worth figure (the one reported by Forbes), it is mostly just based on Telegram's quoted-valuation jumping to 30-40B. A lot of his net-worth is telegram equity at this point, and he's using debt financing to keep telegram operational.

The burn rate was "few hundred million dollars per year", as per Durov a year ago. Telegram has grown 50-60% in users since (350M->550M as per the graph on Wikipedia).
> The back triggers have excellent force feedback and in some games the vibrations tell you on what type of surface you're walking.

I did play Forza Horizon 4 on the PC with a Xbox Series X controller and it worked fine. But had bad experience if I tried to use an PlayStation 4 controller. Which controller did you use?

But for Forza Horizon 5 I do play it on a Xbox Series X and currently prefer it for two reason:
1.) Its just works without any major issues (a friend of mine has on the PC currently constant crashes)
2.) My PC hardware can run the game but not pretty well

One big benefit I see on the Xbox side is that you can play the games on your PC too. And I hope that "exlusives" die as its just annoying.

But in short if you just want to play games a console might be less friction compared to a PC. No need to fiddle with graphics settings and so on.
It's popular among college students where I live. I guess it initially spread among the the sizeable engineering student body, many of whom found it preferable over a Facebook-owned IM application, but less of a hassle than Signal.
> This might not count for XBox users, which can use the controller on their PC.

I use PS4 controllers with my PC(linux), pretty sure they work with windows too. What controllers cannot be connected to a PC?
Cost is also a valid factor. You're not going to get an affordable PC with comparable specs that run 4k games. At some point your PC might break even, but in the here and the now, a console makes sense. I'd only recommend a PC if you needed a decent graphics card for some other reason, like video editing.

Another factor is you're far less likely to encounter modders. First thing I do is disable PC crossplay, if the game lets me.
Not optionally typed but global type inference is arguably better anyway.
Very recently they added their first closed-source component to their code, supposedly a spam filter. This sort of went by HN. I can't help but think that the timing with all these requests is rather coincidental.
> Sure, you and I may be happy to pay this, and may even fork out the fee for our loved ones, but how many other people would do that?

I was thinking exactly that while reading the beginning of your post. I'd be ready to accept a part of my fee is to allow others to use the service but it'd need to be balanced so freeloaders don't tip off the balance. Maybe premium stickers packs or some vanity stuff. Or they can `choose` to pay by granting access to their ad profile and marketing tracking ?