skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the top: "FBIs ability to legally access..."

Implying there are illegal ways to access?
Because it’s annoying.
What if there are many alternatives? Each implementation would be a challenge to optimize fairly. You’d be forced to have some open competition to make it convincing.
Well even in PRC it’s widely recognized that we saw a boom of high quality cultural work in early 90s - peak of Chinese rock band, movies from the fifth generation Chinese directors, mainland/HK/Taiwan music. This time coincide with the time CCP’s control is loosen
I have a physics PhD from 30 years ago.

I think it's just too hard to generalize. PhDs are still relatively few and far between, come from different disciplines, have different interests, strengths, weaknesses. We're not exactly children when we start a PhD program, so our trajectory is influenced by what we've already done. We come from 100 countries.

An odd thing about physics is that we don't have a lot of our own tools or techniques. We're opportunists and we borrow ideas from everywhere. My thesis involved nascent laser technology, mechanics, electronics, theory, programming, data analysis, and a bit of chemistry. Historically, physicists were often the pioneering users of those things before they became branches of engineering.

Today, my work still tends to be multidisciplinary. I do a lot of programming, but I've never wanted a software development job per se. I'm willing to work on problems that are ill-defined, that don't fall into anybody's field, and that might not be solvable. Almost all of my work is heavily quantitative. I interact regularly with management, customers, academics, etc. The people at my workplace who are doing that kind of stuff are, by and large, PhDs. They are not necessarily the highest paid employees -- the coders probably have us beat.

What I don't know (if I were to anticipate reasonable skepticism) is whether this is a special feature of PhDs, or if we move into this role by necessity due to the lack of marketable hard skills. I don't know if any of my skills, taken in isolation, would be enough to get me a job.
In 2021, Apple addressed past mistakes
I think a key part of the puzzle of PoP was the precise controls it asked from you. Also I get a feeling they assume you read the manual, because there are a bunch of unintutive controls it explains in there. When I was a kid playing it, I didn't realize there was a manual: http://www.abandonia.com/files/extras/26916_Extra%20document...
Telegram, as a capability, does not do “end-to-end encryption” for one-on-one chat.

And Telegram most certainly cannot encrypt group chat.
>I sure hope this has improved in the US since my experience.

Verizon has a link on their website that just spits out a QR code. Completely seamless.
Uptrace looks really pretty interesting. I particularly like the query language that you can use to query your distributed trace data. This is the biggest limitation I have found with jaeger, lots valuable data is stored in storage, but it's very hard to analyze in aggregate.

For example, a question I want to be able to answer with a query against the distributed trace data: show me the (mean, median) time between a parent http request and a child http request in the same trace tree. As far as I understand, this requires the query language to be able to group by trace id, then be able to identify parent/child relations.

Does the Uptrace query language allow you to do something like this?
For tail-based sampling, does it mean that every process in a trace will keep its spans in memory until the initial process 'ends' the trace? How does the flushing happen (e.g. all processes 'commit' their buffer spans)? Many thanks for the explanations!
If you or anyone else has the time I'd love to talk about what in your opinion makes a great co-working space. Looking into setting up one in the rural region I'm in.
of course it is true OSM mappers provide free labor (also) to corporate giants. They have vested (economic) interest to not fork the OSM project exactly for this reason. Maybe they will do it one day though.
Out of 55 countries in Africa, if you exempt the mediterranean countries, out of the free flow of ideas across time and space on the African continent throughout history, what major technological advancements emerged from continental Africa?
Linux 5.16 Has a Nice Performance Gift for AMD Ryzen Laptops
Reading this as a complete layman, I'm interpreting that these non-dimensional numbers are like a natural constant, not unlike pi, e, or feigenbaums constant that appears as a proportion in a relationship between types of objects (line to a circle, recursion and compounding, period of a discrete function to a continuous one etc), but it is the artifact of a locally defined or observed dynamic.

As though the "non-dimensional" fruit constant would be arise from a quantity of apple as measured by a unit defined as the average weight of a sample of oranges. If the orange average yields a Real number, small changes in either quantity have random effects and probably makes the comparison of apples and oranges appear chaotic, and some derivative in the relationship between them could yield an irrational constant.

Their example of R0 for viral spread and Mach2 always being twice the speed of sound are ways of enumerating a phenomenon based on some consistent physically observed measure (e.g. speed of sound in our atmosphere), and then applying an abstraction or counterfactual to the number (2x, half, etc), and you get irrational artifacts as a result. That is, you can use these non-dimensional numbers to reason effectively about physical phenomena, but not to compute precise simulations of them them in reasonable resource/timeframes.

I'd wonder if the precision of a given non-dimensional measurement and the complexity class of the algorithm required to compute it past a certain point of precision have a fast heuristic for determining it. Again, layman with language and not the tools or background, but coupled with an emerging popular interest in analog computing (optical chips, AI, fractals, synthesis, quantum etc) it just piques the imagination about what in math is signal, and what may be noise.
If someone does not want to contribute for free it is his decision. But many people like volunteering.
OSM has already massive contribution from hobby users (and from corporations as well).
What will "web3" solve here? Not everything needs to be monetized.
We can certainly blame a person for using an unsafe mode of transport. Is that up for debate?
YC Rejects
One of the most valuable lessons I learned early on from hacking the binaries of savegames is that if you make it too easy, it stops being fun.

And yet, I still sometimes go to places like flingtrainer.com when a game "feels too hard" for me (and therefore is also not fun... the recently-released 2021 "Dark Alliance" is one example)

I think editing game state should be "difficult, but not impossible". The thing is, if it's "difficult", then someone somewhere's just going to make a free save editor...

"Fun" is a delicate balance in these things and probably varies by person. For example, I CANNOT STAND inventory management in games (it's not immersive, it's WORK!) so Skyrim became 100% more fun once I figured out how to console up my carryweight (and installed a mod to make the inventory UI searchable/sortable by type). To me, all this did is prevent me having to spend time traveling in-game back to a home stash to retrieve some odd thing and then traveling all the way back... that's literally "work, inside a game" to me, and takes away time better spent exploring, questing, fighting etc. Similarly, I have no idea why Blizzard limits Diablo 2 stash size (I mean... the extra database cost has to be practically... negligible for them?) because all it does is cause lots of login/logout churn for them as people switch off to mule characters to hold all their set items/uniques/runes/etc.
Ask HN: What charities do you recommend donating to?
This. Is why I love parsing HN’s comments. Thank you.
In my experience kids are tattle tales when they have had their power to intervene directly significantly curtailed. I remember a kid asking me to tell my daughter to stop doing some behavior (she was a few years younger than him). I asked him if he had already asked her to stop and he looked at me like I was from mars.

At least where I live, many kids have been taught in many ways that direct intervention is something that will get them in trouble, and tattle-tales are at least partly a result of that.

This is also IMO why girls are more likely to tattle-tale. Girls, on average, get in way more trouble for instigating physical violence than boys, so they have had one method of direct intervention more strongly curtailed.
Conversely, I think others are taking it too loosely.

There’s going to be a continual stream of new variants, and vaccines will always lag behind them. Reopening everything will always accelerate this.

Gathering is always going to be a mortal risk for the rest of our lives. I just wish the world would accept that and adapt rather than resign to it and downplay it.
More appropriate question… what the hell does “cheugier” mean? and why did they feel it was an appropriate adjective? Because even after Googling it and now knowing what it supposedly means, I have the distinct impression it’s just some random new slang/fast culture/kids on the playground/irrelevant word for “out of style” and the author is the kind of idiot that thought it was good idea or worse, “cute”, to be “hip” when writing the opening line of an article.

It used to be that senior editors rejected garbage like this…
This is a long read but worth it. I don't like to only complain but praise too, so good on the writer Christopher Leonard. The part about low interest rates causing a farm land bubble in Kansas was enlightening. I lived through the extreme interest rates of the late 70's and subsequent crash caused by the policies of Paul Volcker and it wasn't pretty, but then I was able to buy a house in the mid 80's at a decent interest rate.

Edit: Volcker
You’re welcome! Reach out if you ever need anything. :-)
My understanding is that Apple hired a lot of the staff of Transitive, and had a more or less do whatever you want license with source access. Ad that the AOT mode is based on LLVM, but the JIT piece is still pretty core to the design (hence why other JITs run well on top of it).
> Assuming a loving god exists, shouldn't that being give us a way to tell the difference between false beliefs and true beliefs?

Oh, sure, I think that makes sense. I mean, supposing god exists and wants us to know he/she/it exists, it makes sense to me that some sort of revelation has to be there. But this god, being per se infinite, has to accommodate finite creatures. That seems like a challenge.

> Assuming I'm the god of the universe, then the test would be as easy as "Anyone that thinks 'all hail cogman10!' will see a gold star in the periphery of their vision." Heck, I could simply have all my creations be born with the innate knowledge that I exist and these are my rules.

I guess I would say that the universe itself seems to be repeatable and testable, at least at the scales we can measure so far. Of course there's a lot we don't understand, but that's kind of expected if your deity of choice is infinite.

I'm not sure what Mormonism teaches, but the Bible at least says that everyone knows that God exists, and that they suppress that knowledge. Maybe that's begging the question, though I doubt such claims are merely axiomatic (i.e., without some kind of reasonable argument). At least the request for something repeatable and testable that expresses the divine in some way would be answered by the universe you inhabit. This doesn't really lead to a Personality, which I think you'd have to arrive at in a different way. But I don't think persons—divine, if they exist, or otherwise—are repeatable that way.

> Wouldn't the act of asking for literally anything demonstrate the minimal amount of faith?

I don't know. Maybe the point of the saying is that no one has faith the size of a mustard seed?

> But, assuming there is some law of the universe that I'm bound by (making me not all powerful), then I'd surely know how to communicate specifically with cogman10 to let them know that I exist beyond doubt (and to do that for everyone). If I didn't know that, then I must not be all knowing.

It seems to me that one of the essential problems that most religious systems have to deal with the challenge of creaturely freedom and divine omnipotence. One possible supposal is that freedom is somehow incompatible with the desire for incontrovertible, watertight evidence, and that the two exist on a continuum. Perhaps the maximal amount of evidence is provided for the maximal amount of creaturely freedom?

Again, I think I understand the objection, but I'm not sure whether it adequately addresses the challenges that come along with it. I appreciate you thinking about the problem and talking about it, though. I have a lot of questions like this, too, and it's helpful to push some electrons into the ether instead of just talking to myself about it.
The number one problem with matrix in my experience is latency...it's common for loading the app or a room or message history or sending a message to take multiple seconds. I wondered if dendrite might be the solution to this, but the readme says it can handle only 10-100 users, which feels off by a couple orders of magnitude. Is the overhead of decentralization really that bad?
Which instructions are you using? I'd trust basic arithmetic, but I wouldn't trust functions like sine (AFAIK the standard fully specifies the former, but not the latter).
Seems like employees can manually escalate accounts into a locked state and my guess is if it remains in that state long enough its easier to claim.

So they frustrate users long enough to eventually give up on constantly reclaiming the account, then they get it for themselves to sell or whatever.
Agreed. I am also at a robotics company (see profile) and most of our staff only had a brief time at home and have been working onsite for almost all of 2021. I joined half way through the pandemic and was surprised to find that I was very happy to return to the office.

Our challenge, as I'm sure you've guessed, is finding smart, motivated people like yourself who would prefer to be in the office. We are finding that many people, even those local to our market, would prefer to WFH.
GNU social – a free software social networking platform
I don't really dislike any language i've worked with, but I find myself looking forward to writing some Elixir at work and Common lisp in non-work situations.

Ruby is pretty great too.
The requirement for signatures to authenticate public key encryption is inherent. OpenPGP includes it because it is for all practical purposes mandatory. It isn't some sort of useless frill.

This is public key cryptography 101 stuff...
Come to Canada, where our plans are shit and their international roaming rates are even more shit. The second I'm across a border the SIM card comes out...
wait what? how are they not fired, thats got to be against the "community guidelines" (unless of course its for an advertiser or political organisation. )
I'm actually more moved by the sacrifice of a mere mortal who is trying to improve things by sacrificing himself/herself, than by someone who believes his sacrifice will not really be the end; And I have a really hard time to see things the other way around, in fact.

Actually, I never managed to understand this: if one believes souls are eternal and virtue is rewarded in the after-life, then any kind of sacrifice seems cheaper and virtuous behaviors get closer to self-interest. How to reconcile morality with such beliefs?
How do you write your tests? I love go, but when it comes to testing I'm torn between having a more standardized setup with BDD tests (but worse ergonomics), or completely free-form tests with just a simple assertion library (but better ergonomics).
They want to export data out of an application that has no data export feature and with discords strategy atm they don't want to implement one. There is one feature implemented for GDPR purposes which is GDPR compliant (even the long wait times). He is complaining about a non existing feature and than argues that the law whole HN is going on for like 6 years doesn't reach far enough? Just don't use discord if you need features they don't offer OR even better call your senator and tell them to regulate it OR scrape it yourself.
Interesting, do you have any links to that end?
That's why Starbucks is so popular for work and some locations redesigned their sitting area to fit remote workers better. At Starbucks no one cares how much money you spend vs how long you're sitting there. I like working from coffee shops but it's more for a change of scenery for a few hours when I don't have meetings. Besides the meeting issue, it's not the most comfortable setup.
The thing articles like this miss is the problem is not will there be some set of skills gained on a given path, but what skills are gained (and at what opportunity cost) versus alternatives.
HN isn’t a place for this sort of rhetoric. From the guidelines: Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, and those standards are immersion "up to 30 minutes" sort of scenarios. Do it day in and day out and the seals will fail over time.

Fewer seals, fewer seal failures. (Salt water can be fun on the metal contacts, too.) I expect Apple to go induction-only charging at some point, for similar reasons.
Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
NFS Mount via Systemd (2017)
Nice. FYI, I've been using Fennel on Monterey (via brew), and it's also great for that extra LISPy feeling.
It is a rather soft definition of hard, yes.
Ask HN: Are we entering a 0-click era?
Just finished reading Project Zero's sobering blog post on the NSO 0-click iOS exploit (see googleprojectzero.blogspot.com). If an integer overflow vulnerability in iMessage's GIF codec can be turned into a pretty much full-fledged 64-bit VM, then there's simply no trusting anything more sophisticated than a tin can phone. And even if you only use a basic feature phone, you can still be targeted by 0-click (e)SIM attacks (e.g. the ones targeting S@T browser or WIB and probably many more yet-to-be-discovered flaws). Plus all the (pseudo?)-lawfully backdoored layers (pretty sure it doesn't take less-than-democratic states more than a few threatening emails to the compliance department of most banks to be get access to their banking app).

Assuming that the number of 0-click exploits will increase with the complexity of our phones, do you think we're entering a great-equalizer-era where the tech-savvy political dissident has the same chance to avoid malware/interception as the novice? Or are there best practices to manage risk (compartmentalization, makeshift hardware switches, frequently changing/resetting devices, etc.)?
> The vast majority of the programs in the world are written in Javascript

Where is this coming from? What about the literal thousands and thousands of programs on your OS right now? Or the thousands of systems that power large corporations that predate JavaScript popularity?

Sure the language is popular right now, but software development has a much longer history than the last 10 years
The message is https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/692648638823..., and you can see the video demo at https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/692648638823923732/92.... They say:

> I'm working on cleaning up the plugin I hope to put something out there this week
Huh? How was that the implication?

Netflix has reality tv, but that doesn’t mean you’re watching reality tv on Netflix by default.
That's so beautiful I wanna cry! :D 25 years ago is exactly when I started hanging out on the internet and that's how it all looked like back then. That professor is awesome for keeping it. Most recent update seems to be 2012.
Then I suggest buying fridges that are smaller in addition to being more efficient... SCNR. The average US household is larger (2.5) but not that much larger than the average German (2.0). I'd guess a typical fridge is more like 300l (but I don't actually know).
You're talking about US modern schools, right? (Genuine question)
>The car was valued at an amount equivalent to nearly $43,000 today.

>The automobile was near-totaled, a jumble of hubcaps, spark plugs and gaskets that racked up a repair bill adding up to $2,200 in today’s value

Weird, no?
DKMS (Germany and America): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DKMS

Welthungerhilfe (Germany): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthungerhilfe
Yeah it’s a content ownership and licensing problem more than anything else.
You make the assumption that the device knew it was being used by a child who was unsupervised.

This thread and the some of the responses in it are just getting absurd. Before making outlandish legal claims, maybe read up on the law. instead of just making hyped up claims.
What are the obstacles with current technology to use OTP encryption technology. As far as i know its unbreakable. Of course you are limited to people you know in person, but that should be not an issue for people for who private communication is of most importance.
Thanks. I'm not in a rush, have some savings. Might start my own thing, but even if I don't, I likely won't do anything until after ski season. Relocation is off the table.
Machine Learning. Nobody's going to program hard coded programs in 10 years. It will be looked like handwriting assembly or something equally absurd.
Can the package system be installed within another distro, much like Nix is able to be run without NixOS?
I am fairly new to programming (beside dabbling in it when I was a teenager). So far I enjoy C the most. I find it way easier to reason about than a more complex language like say Java (both in regards to language-features as well as the respective libraries).
Also it seems to me every time C lacks something I'd rather like to have/use, having to figure out how to do it brings me closer to understanding advanced features in more complex languages. All this obviously assuming I correctly understand the problem I try to solve.
Edit: This does not mean that I dislike other languages as a whole. I am getting into Lua for scripting and am obviously using Java at university.
Yep to be honest the whole vaping scene is a good template for what regulatory capture looks like in the USA.

I'm not sure if it's due to lawmaker/parent ignorance, or an actual plan by larger tobacco companies.

Probably a mix of both.
There is no room for free will, but we live like there is.