skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental problem seems to be that there is one group of people who believe that smartphones should be 'real computers', and another group that wants it to be something different, more limited.

For my personal usage I'm in the second group. I have several 'real computers', and I just want my phone to do phone stuff, and do it without getting in my way. I have no interest in switching from my iPhone to a PinePhone or whatever.

The big caveat here, which has me a bit worried in the long run, is that there is an entire new generation of people growing up using only devices that are not 'real computers'. That seems really bad, but at the same time I might just be old. Who knows.

Disclaimer: I know the phrase 'real computer' is a bit of a trope, but I hope it's clear what I mean.
> lots of pictures and simple explanations

Just some observations on that:

- a random picture of Le petit Prince doesn't make it easier to understand

- there's a huge difference between people that don't know that you'll end up in the same place if you keep walking on a sphere and those that won't quit at "closure: A \oplus B is still in the group".

- "Rotations in 2D" doesn't explain things, it just states them. It requires reasonable understanding of all concepts.

- There are also detractors, like "However, locally, they are like \mathbb R^1, a trivial 1-dimensional Euclidean space." It isn't clear why that is meaningful.

This is not meant as criticism, just to point out that the entry level for your blog might be higher than you think/intended.
> toys that used wheels

Toy wheels don’t scale. A solid piece of wood is too fragile, it easily splits into rings.

A good wooden wheel is harder than it looks.

You need planks that are crossed with each other, which require good quality saws and a tight fit. Secondly, you need good well fitted axels, which also requires precision tools.
Kind of like the Motorola Atrix dock back from 2011?
The engineering school I went to used Debian on every desktop
I'm willing to bet that 2030 is too soon and they'll kick out the deadline as it approaches and turns out to be impossible to meet. It's one thing to mandate a thing to happen, it's another when it collides with reality.
That's correct. I recently ended up using `buildLayerImage` (actually `buildLayerImageWithNixDb`) for CI, not only to run a single process, but also `systemd` and multiple processes. `podman` comes with built-in support for `systemd`.

[Here](https://github.com/fdb-rs/fdb/blob/fdb-0.2.2/nix/ci/flake.ni...) is relevant code.
Seems like GrapheneOS officially supports a very small subset of devices, aka only Pixel phones right now https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
The problem of non-free firmware has been solved, already. If you need it, you simply download the image which contains it:

https://fiendish.github.io/The-Debian-Gotham-Needs/
Likely not a breeding size population though.
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Seems quite useful.. can all participants compile and run debuggers independently? I am assuming that must be problematic to implement
In biblical terms this doesn't make sense to me because before they left the paradise Adam and Eve already had the task to step down to the animals and name them (step down as in: take care of them).

What separates us, in biblical terms, is that humans were made after the image of God.

If becomming conscious is what separates us, how do we know other creatures are unconscious?
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Can cars burn ammonia in the same way as hydrogen? Or are you saying that you convert to ammonia for shipping, then reconvert back to hydrogen just before it gets into the car?
> Why do we even bother to give any credence at all to company PR-provided explanations like this?

It's propaganda and it would be great if it didn't work, but it works at least partially. Someone who doesn't know anything about the subject will hear it and repeat it, someone will hear the repetition and give it credibility because it doesn't come directly from a company. I have heard the most stupid opinions from people that go directly against their interests. You don't need fancy algorithms to manipulate society, just perseverance.
Using fingerprints is insecure. Your fingerprints tend to be all over the laptop you are trying to protect and can especially be found on the fingerprint reader - unless it's one where you need to slowly move your finger across the sensor.

Standardfingerprint readers are not very good at detecting fakes. A German IT magazine (c't by Heise) discovered that you can fool almost all fingerprint sensors by making the fingerprint with wood glue on a plastic strip and hold that over your own finger. It's a 15 minute job if you know what to do.
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220419003833/https://www.nytim...
This gives off the vibe of a scientist throwing themselves off an epistemic cliff in order to sell a book.
I do not use a smartphone but from what I know some websites really persist in promoting their app unless faking user agent. uBlock can not do much if a backend doesn't give you anything except preview. Like when you go to Quora from Google search and it displays the question you have found but does not display any other question, unless you search that other question in Google too.
This is one of the reasons it’s not legal in many places to take a picture of a filled out ballot.
From the FAQ (https://learnedleague.com/thorsten/freq.php):
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And don't the same schools make you pledge some words including a deity daily?
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Haha, fair enough. And I'm not sure if that's a real quote, but I want to believe.
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It solves the problem for environments where problems like interrupt latency and timing criticality usually show up - embedded and real-time systems. In many systems, the set of running tasks in a system is fixed - there are even some very simple real-time operating systems (such as some OSEK configurations in the automotive sector) which require to statically define the set of tasks at compile time. After all, you don't suddenly feel the urge to start a game of Doom on your car's ABS controller :) (though, of course, somebody will try to do this...).

The (early) XMOS chips, for example, run at 500 MHz with four threads or, if you needed more threads, you could also configure the system to run eight threads at half the speed IIRC. If you used e.g. three threads, some execution time remained unused in the four-thread mode, there was no arbitrary division of time by the number of threads.

For real-time critical systems, you could then still run up to seven critical threads at guaranteed speed and reserve the remaining one for non timing-critical tasks (which you could then to schedule using cooperative multitasking).

The RAM was a fast on-chip SRAM, so there were no problems with refresh, access latencies etc. that you have with DRAM. However, you were constrained to 64 kB RAM per core (probably not enough to run Doom...).

The XMOS development toolchain even includes a real-time analyzer for the C/C++ code you throw at it. Unfortunately, most of the XMOS toolchain is closed source.
> 1. Run some easy-peasy courses from Khan Academy or similar (if someone pays their Internet access)

> No bloatware, no autoupdater and if possible no GUI. Browser with mouse and maybe some typing courses requires GUI, but at least browser may be called from CLI.

I doubt there is a CLI Browser that can play videos (And does Khan Academy use DRM?, if yes that's another problem)
I think he's talking about the fact that with a premium membership you can have access to turnover rates stats etc...
I suspect the USA and NATO know a lot more about what is going on than they would ever announce publicly. Although it’s hard to know for sure, it seems like Russia has revealed significant weakness in its military and intelligence services with this war.
You mean I have to do 9 hours of excel a day because a monkey ate a mushroom millions of years ago.
they ate ordinary amounts of meat, some sources say >70% of their diet was carnivore. Also they were sprinters rather than marathon runners and could outrun us and also had much more muscular build. Some theories suggest that they likely also consumed rotten meat if they had no choice.

There carnivorous lifestyle would mean different gut biome to us allowing their bodies to get away with eating rotten meat more often.
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Because, if you haven't noticed, we are running out of energy?

Basic is not performant enough to make games that are interesting.

If you could afford a 286/386 you are not really in the majority of the human population.
Agreed. I too have been there before.

The whole thing is a scam to sell books and make money.
Tell me about it!

When I was younger I'd tunnel vision on things and get insanely good really quickly. The price was that everything else in my life was totally neglected. But I could totally afford to spend 6 hours after school, and entire weekends, on whatever I was into.

I just picked up guitar last year as an adult. I'm consistently practicing, but man progress feels slow! It feels weird not being able to tunnel-vision on a hobby
I'm going to be 18 this week and I'm concerned of Google having more power over my personal data et cetera.

I've already migrated everything (mail, chat, storage, ...) to a self hosted server at home, but I can't delete my Google account because I paid 25 $ for the Google Play developer account, and I don't want to lose access to that.

Is there any way to use the developer account without a Google account?
Wouldn't drone harassment increase readiness and alertness?
Ok, but what is the point of a non-VR client?

VR does not blend well with non VR unless the headset is the camera!

Last time I checked both of those where 1st person not 3rd?
> Installing a 3rd party agent that in some way permits shell access to a server and (I assume) needs to run constantly is definitely going to raise a few eyebrows especially when the benefit of using is actually fairly low.

Yea, I wouldn't go this route to just get the pairing functionality, but Teleport does have other utility around audit, SSO integrations, etc. So there are companies that use Teleport as the primary SSH access if there needs match what Teleport offers.

Disclosure: I'm a former employee of Teleport.
> "Like, yeah, blame the UAE mostly for this but let's also have a discussion about why this was sold to anyone who would pay with no oversight at all. Western countries need to do better."

The UK itself is one of the largest weapon exporters in the world, exporting to many countries in the Middle East with dubious human rights track records. The UK government can't possibly know what happens with every single pistol, bullet, missile or drone they sell (if they could, nobody would be buying):

[1] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_arms_export

A private Israeli company is exporting weapons to the same countries the UK does, and when those weapons get used inappropriately, you're then "surprised this isn't a major diplomatic incident between the UK and Israel".

By the same account, are you suggesting that there should be a major diplomatic incident between every country in the world and the UK/USA every time they catch terrorists somewhere around the world using either UK/USA built-or-designed firearms?

There wouldn't be any diplomatic relationships left then:

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-produced_firearms
You can't trust the compiler so you would have to type it in to assembly, and even that is questionable since huge amounts of the hardware's microcode is now reprogrammable.

I still think air-gapping works it's just that you need a pretty large airgap. Turn on the shower, fire up the microwave, move around, and hit some incorrect keys with lots of deleting when entering passwords.
I don't see why they wouldn't know what happened. They're never going to tell us in detail though, so we're stuck trying to figure it out for ourselves.
I think the question becomes, are people using Debian in large part because of those principles, or in spite of the inconveniences that come with them because of other benefits (e.g. it's a fairly well-maintained, stable Linux distribution, that very aggressively believes if something worked on 11.0 it better still work on 11.9)?

If we look at popcon[1], it currently says 11.84% of users who opted into popcon regularly use the "firmware-misc-nonfree" package, along with 9.57% for the realtek package, 8.76% for the modern Intel wifi firmware package (iwlwifi), and 7.07% for firmware-amd-graphics.

I can't claim that's a statistically significant percentage of Debian users, I don't have that data, but of the ones who volunteered their information, even assuming perfect overlap, a not insignificant number of users are happily opting into the "not officially Debian, we swear" portion of the world.

[1] - https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firmware-nonfree
I've been toying around with photogrammetrically matching in-flight bird silhouettes in order to have a plantnetlike bird classifier.
Very much in the data acquisition stage but I'm seeing moderate success in clustering images by bird shape so far. In between other photogrammetry work I'm starting to think about how to use colour information and reading up on how to select and train a ML model for this problem.
it seems there were very few Neanderthals or humans around in Europe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Population: “Like modern humans, Neanderthals probably descended from a very small population with an effective population—the number of individuals who can bear or father children—of 3,000 to 12,000 approximately. However, Neanderthals maintained this very low population, proliferating weakly harmful genes due to the reduced effectivity of natural selection”)

Given that Neanderthals were found from Spain to Libanon and even deep into Asia, chances are most humans never saw Neanderthals or vice versa.

Also, I don’t see how that article counts interspecies sex, pregnancies or even live births. It counts number of births who grew up to reproduce. I can easily see early humans stigmatizing or even killing kids of mixed descent or, even easier, children from such encounters being less fertile or even infertile.
Is hardware becoming more complicated without being more capable? I just think that we’re taking lots of things for granted nowadays, which require complexity to be managed successfully.

ROM to firmware creep is understandable, given flexibility that you mentioned. But to an end-user, is there a difference between having a blob in ROM vs firmware, if both are closed source?
The effect on Jstore's revenue would have been negligible.

I'm surprised to see someone so cold and unfeeling about Aaron Swartz. Especially considering the massive injustice with regards to application of the law and sentencing.

> Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.
If you consider the fact that veganism/vegetarianism is very unhealthy without taking the nutrients you're missing as supplements (which could be argued as being "reverse engineered meat"), then I would suggest that yes, until we reverse engineer the "meat" we should include it in the "diet" (along Free software).
I think you're confusing readiness with military readiness (which is what I mean in this context).

https://www.idb.org/what-is-military-readiness/
Octopus and dolphins seem likely to be conscious. Ravens too.
I think I'd rather invest the extra time into OSS or a hobby project, which, even if you only do it for vanity, might even look more impressive to others.
That's what i thought too, before visiting a majority Buddhist country and i was shocked at the lavish temples, the amount of temples, full sized and miniature versions everywhere, the amount of clerics, the indoctrination of children ( they start the journey to be a monk at a very young age, iirc 8), how much it seemed to matter to the locals ( stuff like people stopping to pray at a mini-temple before a journey, buses being lavishly decorated with religious symbols, etc), including their donations "for good luck" while the country was on the verge of bankruptcy and going through an economic decline. Funnily, in a majority Christian city in the same country everything was the same, just directed at a different diety.
This has not been my experience. My view of Bloomberg is two primary products: (1) Bloomberg terminal and (2) Bloomberg BPIPE.

(1) is a desktop (and now mobile) application that trader, sales, etc. use to communicate, view raw data, and view derived data in "mini-apps" (price this bond under scenario X, etc.) The base cost is about 25K USD per year (there are local IT costs above the terminal license fees). There is a raw data access API for Excel, but very limited. They block your API access if you try to download too much data. The days of pricing any kind of volume of products from a Excel Bloomberg API is mostly gone. Also, you cannot run it on a server and just screen scrape / use data API all day long.

(2) is a raw data feed service, akin to Reuters. Not well understood by industry outsiders: There is no "all you can eat data service" anywhere in finance. Period. Every primary data source is now carefully guarded with license costs and special rules (no redist, etc.). Some stock exchanges make more money selling data licenses than collection trading fees! I have no idea about BPIPE prices, but I assume expensive and per data source with nearly infinite granularity.

About revenue: (1) Wiki says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_Terminal

If you believe it: 20K USD per terminal and ~325,000 terminals as of 2016. That is 6.5 billion USD per year. Nice.

About revenue: (2) No idea. I cannot find any reliable published stats.

Lastly: I regularly see people argue on HN about an open source version of Bloomberg. It is impossible for two reasons: (a) Network effect in the communication channels -- lots of people mostly use Bloomberg chat / email and hardly use data, besides the trivial. Most people on the buy side (money management, hedge funds, portfolio managers) join Bloomberg to talk to other people on Bloomberg. And: (b) data licensing.
Why cant FSF groups just do what FANG do, and make it easy for users in the first place, then once you have them in your walled garden pull the ol' ideological switcharoo.
Right, and linux-firmware contains mostly proprietary firmware. There is a small amount of libre firmware in it but that doesn't get built from source. The post is about directing users to an installer ISO that installs the proprietary firmware by default.
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Was it the phone provided and secured by the government or the off the books phone they have WhatsApp groups on?

If it’s the first then security services have a problem. If it’s the second then those individuals have a problem.
I am a 20yr linux user. I got a new HP laptop recently and decided to try Debian. To my surprise Debian didn't recognise my network adapter and would not let me continue the installation. I wrongly assumed the installer would install, let me fix the adapter.

I read around and used an installer which apparently had proprietary drivers. Same issue, couldn't install.

At this stage I returned to Ubuntu.
> The reason I mostly avoided engaging on the specifics is because the rest of your comment and the way you engage suggests it won't be worthwhile.

The reason is simple: 99.9999999% of all discussions with crypto people follow the same pattern. After a decade of snake oil, you don't expect snake oil salesmen to engage in anything productive.

> Previous threads that go into details/have interesting conversation about specific capabilities so we don't have to rehash all of it here

These reiterate a few false dichotomies and false equivalences as in "Banks don't won’t protect you from wire fraud" === "same in crypto". Not the same.

There is some value in "having your money with you always", but fails to account for two things: the need for immediate and continuous internet access, and security (https://xkcd.com/538/)

> if I had to pick one general one, probably this:

which is void of any interesting discussion, doesn't address any problems, and reiterates that "bitcoin is a speculative asset"

> This list is good

I may skim through it, but I won't hold my breath.

> For your specifics

How it started: "The interesting bit is gated community access/easily verifiable ownership of membership"

How it's going: "we build this OS with blockchain built in, we verify identities there". Also: "nonymity is a different feature sure"

Authentication, authorisation and memberships have overlapping concerns but are not the same thing. And this is the thing I absolutely loathe in these "productive conversations":

- when faced with facts or reality, the narrative is always shifted. We were talking about memberships? "Well, let me talk about something else"

- complex issues are just brushed aside as being non-important, non-essential, trivial, or that they will be magically solved. Anonymity? "oh, it's a different feature set"

- literally no one is pausing to stop for even a second beyond the absolutely obvious use cases. Because the next set of use cases is merely immediately obvious.

In a world where everyone is tracking everyone anonymity is essential.

"Ownership can be transferred without central authority"? What recourse is there when that happens without the owner's consent (even people developing "smart contracts" currently fall prey to errors in their code logic)?

What happens when gated communities (which are centralised by default) ban you based on something completely unrelated because all of your membership info is easily available and verifiable (your church group outs you as gay, your teacher's union fires you because you're a furry, you can't find a job because of a felony offence)?

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So, after more than a decade of snake oil, I will call snake oil for what it is until proven otherwise. No amount of "you just have to believe", erm, sorry, "you have to be curious" will convince me otherwise.
I love this. It works great on mobile. It's inspiring, seems like something that can be put together without too much tech, but requires some thinking to design properly. I really enjoyed the puzzle aspect of figuring out your opponent's location based on their movement history.
What have you done to protect the site?
Most automation libraries are detectable(puppeteer, even with extra-stealth, selenium, playwright...)

The only library that I know that is more or less undetectable is used by a just a few hundred people...
> beaten sometimes raped

You go to prison for this in Dubai.

> have their password taken away

I suppose you mean “passport”. This is also illegal, government has been cracking down on this for years. The MOHRE hotline for these issues is advertised everywhere, it only takes a quick call and the police will come recover your passport.

But yeah, I guess it’s pointless to try and have a conversation with someone engaging as dishonestly as you.

I obviously don’t mean that violence or rape are okay, and it’s really shitty of you to suggest that. What next? Will you accuse me of molesting children too?