skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed with article, but for ordinary users I would have much easier to understand reasons why I ditched Signal some time ago after years of use:

1. It's unreliable, if you switch between mobile network and WiFi connection it takes way long time for Signal to register to change to send/receive the messages, while Whatsapp has no such problem and send message almost instantly.

2. Devs ignore users, I waited years for file picker being able to provide such BASIC feature as selecting multiple pictures at once, for years you have to select pictures one by one, Signal devs remind of Firefox devs, zero interest in fixing basic things.

3. It's unreliable poorly operated service, I remember when Signal went down and it took almost whole night in US until someone in US woke up and fixed it, I was for hours without working service.

4. The last drop was when they started ti push on users some PIN code nobody asked for taking 1/3 of the screen until you created it, for some users full screen nag. Then I decided to move me and my wife and both of my parents from Signal, so good luck with such crappy service (I know they soon backpedalled from this stupid decision but it was already way too late for us and they lost at least 4 users).

5. It's user hostile - there is no way knowing long pressing Send button allows you to force send message as SMS to Signal user, there was no introduction at first launch explaining this to user, each and every user have to go to Google and search how to do this. I assume also there is no automatic SMS fallback for Signal messages which are not sent/delivered within specific time frame.

6. There is no 3rd party app allowed, so you are stuck with one option whether you like it or not despite their "open source" claims.

All these happened before it became hype and fashionable to be on Signal, so maybe it's different now, but these are basic things ordinary users care about who don't even really care all that much about privacy and other stuff.

If you want to use alternative service you better use Element (Matrix), it doesn't require phone number, it doesn't rely on one American controlled server.
I use a cintiq 13HD on GNU/linux with the wacom driver, and I can report that it does not phone home in any way.

I use opensnitch to explicitely whitelist (or reject) any app that wants to access network, nothing related ever popped up. Additionally, I run my own dns resolver on a raspberry pi to monitor dns request logs of all my devices, and I confirm it doesn't log anything when I plug my tablet and start using it (this doesn't help if the software tries a direct connection by IP).

Additionally, I've read the code of the driver, since it's FLOSS, and didn't see anything suspect in it. I can confirm this is actually the code I'm using, because I'm running Gentoo and I inspected directly the tarball used by my package manager to build the driver.

So, obviously, I could still have missed something, but it looks to me like solid enough evidence for me to trust the software (at least, its current version). If it tries funny business in the future, I'll see it pop up anyway (plus, I block all requests to google-analytics ). My bet : Wacom put those "features" only in windows/macOS driver, presuming users of those OSes don't care about privacy, or at least not as much. This doesn't make their behavior acceptable, obviously.

EDIT: I realize there are actually two parts in the driver, a X input driver and the kernel driver. The one I checked was the X input one. I've just checked the sources of my kernel (directly the ones used to build the kernel as well), and there is no issue there either.
Samuel L. Jackson said that’s why he only does it his way. He knows the directors will simply choose the one he doesn’t want.

There’s a great 60 Minute interview with him.
That's true for insurance in general.
We went full circle... microservices in web assembly.... one of the worst idea of this decade
I like the weight frankly. And I really like the phone being more robust. Can really take a beating with few worries.

That said, yeah I would love replicable batteries. The Note 4 I had was a fantastic phone. Had lots of sensors and features, the CPU was respectable, and the case featured a plastic back and a sturdy frame, better plastic with metal bolstering it.

A battery swap was trivial.

IMHO, making the battery removable will probably come with improvements in the phone durability.

Until then I don't mind a beefy phone. I know where the damn thing is, and it's always working.
I watched that with my kids a couple of weeks ago. Definitely one of the inspirations. Also been listening to the "What If?" audiobook and Randall Monroe is never afraid to think about things like 80,000 gorillas.
apparently grist can handle 100,000 rows, and that's just a soft limit so you might be able to do more.

being able to have an excel grid and a chart view on the same page would probably suit your use case as well. being able to use python for the formulas is a nice touch too.

the free hosted version has almost all features available as far as i remember. there's also a docker version that's easy to get up and running and doesn't have any limitations
BBG is huge as a trading platform.

Not sure these days news is a very relevant part. Certainly, in my trading days data and trading were far more important to me on BBG.
> Also, have you ever tried compiling ngx yourself (they don't include Lua modules support

There's always OpenResty[1] which is a kind of "batteries included" version of nginx - I use it in preference to nginx these days because I do a lot of experiments with, e.g., the Lua, Redis, Postgres support OR has.

[1] https://openresty.org/en/
I would guess it’s about genetic variety.

If a female duck had complete control, genetic variety would likely decrease quickly as fewer, genetically similar males fathered all the children. This group of ducks would be more susceptible to disease, genetic defects, etc.

It could also be the case that if male ducks can’t be certain who the father is, they are more likely to help protect/not kill the young.
Haven't read it yet, but do I want to trust security advice from someone serving their site with a self-signed certificate?

Edit: looks like accessing it over HTTPS just gives you a broken looking site saying "Lupinia Hosting Is Shutting Down".
Yeah, I'm confused, isn't "To get help with problems relating to your account, press 4." and similar just par for the course in almost every automated call system?
You are right about that.

Honestly, I don't care.

I've got two of them. The key thing is avoiding device downtime and supporting high demand uses. I get plenty of power into doing the task at hand to basically not worry.
gzer0's comment is a bit confusing. It could either be interpreted as saying "here's more info about this exact vulnerability" or "here's more info about this category of vulnerabilities". EE84M3i interpreted the comment as the first, but then saw the link is actually the second, and thought maybe EE84M3i made a mistake with the comment.
> Even on websites, you can feel when you click on a link, it is doing something more

It is, analytics hooks which require network round trips. Otherwise disagree and this is false memories and/or very superficial observation of "snappiness".
I think a lot of people underestimate how often Linux is used in the animation/VFX industry.
CDC mainframes and minis in the late 1980s (some or all of them) had a lovely OS written in Algol 68. I don't remember what it was called.
Remember folks these ships approach the size of the tallest skyscrapers in the country. Inertia is a bitch.
> there's basically no wheel in nature

Agreed, but V-ATPase is worth mentioning as it has a rotor and is very highly conserved. I guess it all depends on scale.
Researchers Made a New Message for Extraterrestrials
Yeah, the Flint water crisis is not a science problem at all, it’s something that could just be solved plainly by fixing infrastructure. Obviously, great accomplishment for the high schoolers, but right now this news is just becoming another excuse for institutions that actually have power to do anything about this to keep doing nothing about it.
I think we should understand how users get scammed with study, research and empathy and not because we get scammed ourselves. Having bias that it's the stupid user's fault us just that, bias, and doesn't help in the pursuit of any scientific results.
Isn't this appeal to authority? He's obviously pretty smart and a lot of people take the risk modeling thinking seriously, and his arguments and output deserve to be evaluated on their own merits.

(Also on the tech practicioner side there's obviously lots of major figures that don't have formal qualifications)
Half a decade ago people believed that if you could make a machine that could play chess, then that surely would have been a sign of machines achieving general intelligence and that they would soon thereafter take over the world.
To be clear, if I recall correctly the spyware was in the package of (usually rubbish) software that came with the drivers for Windows (and maybe also macOS?). The Linux drivers are upstreamed in the official source tree and there is no way in hell you would be able to do that with spyware.
Biden invokes Defense Production Act to boost EV, storage battery minerals
Hi! (one of the authors of Spin here)
Interesting to hear your thoughts on this, why do you think that?

We believe that the things that make WebAssembly attractive in the browser (compact binary, near-native speed, the sandbox isolation model) make it really compelling outside the browser, on the server.
Small pressurized Lunar Cruiser rover prototype by JAXA and Toyota
Resume = 1 page. You compress stuff as your backstory gets longer. A multi-paged one is called a curriculum vitae (cv). That goes into more detail.
Btw if you want to try the games, they seem to work in system7.app but not in macos8.app
The amazon rep is a scam. Amazon would not waste their time to do a 3-way call with a technician. They always provide you with a refund or direct number if you ask... but that direct number is usually searchable. The fact that they 3-way call suggests they wanted to hide the phone number
"According to my reckoning a human weighs at most 80kg" - really?
What we can learn is that "mainstream media" (as they're called nowadays), the reputable, serious media that publish at large scale, should stay the fuck away from twitter (but also facebook and the rest of it). It's their reliance on easy vox-pops from social media that has given those platforms their almost global influence on opinions. Opinion settles (and divides) very quickly on twitter, and the rest follows out of fear of being called stupid or worse. That makes that publishing amibiguous information, or even being slow with an initial opinion, becomes a topic in itself. Corrections take forever, because you can't agree with the other side. Twitter is a cancer that's not going away soon, so the only option is to isolate it.
Almost all exponential curves become s-curves in time.

I don't believe that agi will be created. I believe either that there's something fundamental to the universe that manifests as life, or that human neurology limits the understanding required to bootstrap it. Either way, we can't make it, and neither can an AI designed by humans.

We will have powerful application specific, narrow scope AI tooling. This is obvious. And these will be very, very cool. But AGI, I just don't see it.
Bringing the Art of Origami and Kirigami to Robotics and Medical Technology
Scale of the Human Brain
Yes ! Thank you ! It was SimpLink.

On the same topic, I once bought a vacuum cleaner on which they wrote on the box « ExtraRangePlus (R) TM: Up to 12m power cable length ». Just why !?
Im sorry, but using consumable filters instead of installing few meters of PEX inside a house sounds insane.
Exactly the same on PS5 <> Philips TV. Needed to turn it off completely.
No way! I got the weight of a caffeine molecule right! I am so proud of myself right now. Thanks! I've got water as 3e-26 but that doesn't seem right. Water molecule x10 lighter than caffeine molecule?

"The fuel weighed almost 20 times more than the Shuttle" - makes me want to go play KSP.

Yep, I think I've got the fully loaded shuttle + external tank + boosters weight.

Thanks a lot!
How so? I think WASM has major benefits for specific applications, especially for sandboxing, and running things in a cross-platform way. As far as I can tell, it's not that different from what Java and C# do (compile to your own bytecode, run that in a VM), except that you only give it access to specific functions.

While it might be slightly slower than running native code, I think that for certain users those are benefits that they can't overlook.
Doesn't mean much when so many countries in the world regularly codify the violation of multiple "human rights" supposedly agreed by the UN.
In most cases, it's not that the manufacturer doesn't write drivers - it's that they don't even release any hardware specification at all.

There are a lot of people in the Free Software community that can write drivers, but not so many that can reverse engineer unknown hardware.
I'm always curious about having runbooks in markdown - normally I use something like confluence or google docs, but version control would be nice.

Do you use anything to render the markdown to HTML, or do your alerts link out to the repo containing the files?
It's a problem with FOSS.

Microsoft, Apple, Google have lots of resources to incentivize h/w manufacturers.

Apple is even making its own chips now.
Linux on the desktop is alive and well in the entertainment industry.
That looks like it's partly because it shows the raw LIDAR data (with some camera data mixed in I think). That's intrinsically not "jumpy" but it's also not what the car uses for driving - you have to look at the shapes on the ground.

It's kind of hard to tell, but they do seem a lot more reliable than Tesla's. Of course that's not surprising seeing as they use LIDAR.
This article says nothing of value. Certainly doesn’t answer the question “why”
>A simple thought experiment is the same architecture of the human brain (whatever that is), but just with way more power to run at more operations per second.

That's your quote, is it not?

I'm pointing out that it's not just a matter of replicating an architecture, because the architecture only really makes sense in the context of everything else in the human body. There's zero reason to expect that we could replicate the architecture of a human brain (whatever that means) and just plug in a few cameras to have a working model.

This also implies that it would be exceedingly difficult to make human-like AGI, because doing so would be tantamount to making an artificial human. Anything that we do make will almost certainly not be human-like, and will probably only make sense in the context of its sensory system and the inputs it receives. This goes beyond training, because inference happens on data drawn from the same distribution that you trained on. Note that I haven't said anything about consciousness here, because that's an unrelated issue.

I've read bits and pieces of Bostrom, and I would argue that it's "not even wrong", in the sense that, yes, building a child god would be a disaster for humanity, but we don't even know if building such a god is possible, because it's totally undefined and we have no way of measuring it. That's the problem. Without a definition of intelligence as a physical process that maps humans and AI to the same measure on a like-for-like basis, it's essentially an argument on whether or not Thor is stronger than Superman. We have no context for what the limitations are likely to be; it may be that building an angry god just isn't possible.
I applaud their effort on this! It's great to see push from more companies of WebAssembly on the server-side (disclaimer, I work at Wasmer).

I have one nit about the article though. I think I haven't seen the claimed support for the Component Model anywhere in the code (other than naming the Wasm modules components), as its mainly based on the extent of WebAssembly Interface Types (WIT). Could anyone from the team give more info on where the Component Model proposal is actually used?
That's it, I'm now a Wacom fanboy. What tablets are good for hobby game makers?
While this is true it is also changing. Studios are starting to allow Blender.

But yes, only since Blender 2.8 it came in the spotlight and adoption is slow.
So then what makes you think that the US has some penchant for racism that is lacking in enlightened Europe? European society seems largely free of it even with them, might that be the case in the US also?
Makes me wonder if the Twenty-mule team could have been replaced with a conveyor belt, 165mi according to wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-mule_team
I dont know. Look at what nature did with nothing but chaos and time. Having computers being able to simulate things faster than realtime is already possible, its just about how fast can we make them. Or, later, how fast can they make themselves.
Mostly because the animation/GFX industry doesn't care about FOSS religion and doesn't have any issue using vendor binaries or custom distributions.

Thanks to SGI they were deep into UNIX already.

Just like AAA studios are used to POSIX/UNIX flavoured OSes on Nintendo/Sony game consoles, macOS/iOS, Android, game servers, and that hasn't made them care more about people using GNU/Linux for their games.
The school does not help kids. Most of the teachers are not able to present concepts even to people who know those concepts, let alone children.
Hiding grades is bad because the parents cannot help the child to improve and the school does not care.
What kind of tasks? I'm looking for an excuse to learn Prolog, but I don't know enough where it shines.
Postgres wire compatible SQLite proxy
This sounds familiar to my used car shopping experience a few years back. Went to see at least 20 private party sellers over a period of a few weeks and most were junk, bought by shady dealers at used car auctions. And their prices were well above the blue book for excellent condition, despite the cars being fair at best. I did manage to find some actual private sellers, and ended up with something I like and still drive now, but it required a lot of time and determination. I can understand why some people would just go to a lot and drive off a couple hours later
Lightweight and scalable reverse proxy library built for Cloudflare Workers
I wouldn't say well... it's definitely not as popular with artists as it was 5 years ago.
Steal a purse, get jailed, kill millions of people, and walk scot-free?
Microsoft didn't write the drivers that came on a CD with my device.
DPA is state planning / state investment. Good to see free market shibboleths be discarded this way. The future of humanity cannot be determined by the whims of a market, whose actors do not consistently align with state objectives
Not the flavour that FSF would be happy to have though.

https://vfxplatform.com

Or Linus, given the NVidia's domain on the rendering sector.
But then the choice of early 2000s as a reference is just arbitrary. I mean: I have both ethernet and landline now, having never discontinued my use of them and not intending to do so in the foreseeable future. (The landline is VoIP-through-DSL, but I have a hardware VoIP phone connected to the DSL router, and the DSL itself runs on the infrastructure that was originally put into the ground and the house for use with landline phones, so in that sense both the infrastructure and the end user device could still be referred to as "landline").

The timeframe where Ethernet ascended to displace other modes of networking was mostly the 90s, though its history dates back to much earlier time periods.

The only thing that's peculiar about the early 00s is that this marks the time period when PCs had already squarely displaced mainframes in business contexts and also found their way into private homes and WiFi hadn't yet broken into the mass market. (Wikipedia tells me the WiFi alliance was founded in late 1997, but I don't personally remember anyone using it until the early 00s).

So, maybe in an "oral history" sense a reference to the early 00s seems justifiable as that may be what one's personal associations are. But, then again, that's the exact thing I'm poking fun at when I say "amorphous chunk of history" corresponding to the "olden days".
I think that’s what GP was saying. It feels like everything is doing way more behind the scenes, and it feels sluggish. I almost can’t type anything long in Slack because the key input latency is so awful. What is it doing? Firing off a cascade of JS event hooks that pre-query reaction gifs, fetching away status for every user I might have mentioned, or what?

Slack is obviously a pathological example, but it illustrates what’s feeling more and more common in modern GUI applications.
Because they don't _control half the internet_. They only have one service you use, not 50. Your phone (voice), cloud storage (drive), website hosting (sites), chat (not even gonna try), music streaming (YouTube music), video hosting, etc aren't all dependent on the same single point of failure like they are with Google. All your mail provider can do is stop processing your email for you (at which point you switch providers). If Google doesn't like you, you lose _all_ of those things, likely all at once. Google even has a hand in your credit card transactions with Google Pay (though anecdotally, I've never actually seen anyone use Google Pay, so not sure how many people that would affect). Google provides such a diverse range of services that having them all shut down on you is a huge deal. I'm currently in the process of looking for a replacement for my legacy Google apps account, and that's just email.
The author didn't state that. That's a direct quote from the Debian page, from the "Audit Scope" section.

That statement is entirely reasonable, yet the author frames this as the the point where "things begin to spin out of control!".
Cool project

> Github renders text files without line wrappings

Save it as .md not .txt and it should work
I guess one advantage is that it's a lot harder to get (safe) Rust that compiles while doing something awful with regards to important subtleties of C++ not obvious to a "C with classes programmer" (e.g. Rule of 5 stuff); my university's everyone-takes-it C++ class made essentially no attempt to teach this stuff past mentioning it.
Is that actually happening though? I know there's lots of anecdotes around here, but there are still many people using Amazon frequently. I wonder if their numbers have actually gone down
Of course, judges can be easily faked too. How do you know it’s the real judge on the phone?

I guess you could always send someone to the courthouse in person, but that seems prohibitively expensive.

And anyway, how much money can we expect e.g. Google to spend verifying court orders targeting users on free plans?
There is an official reference platform on the industry, https://vfxplatform.com/
I love seeing more and more apps targeting the browser with WebAssembly (in this case via Emscripten)
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers and Product Managers to Work on Messaging
do these people not know the dark forest theory?

humanity's survival may be dependent on our anonymity to potentially hostile extraterrestrial adversaries. Signalling to them seems like an ill thought out idea. Also, where is the democratic oversight here, where is the will of the people
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