skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is value in a lowest common denominator. Originally SMS was fantastic because it was "free" in that it fit into the unused space the towers were sending anyway.

If SMS was to go away, and if RCS wasn't used, then the default will end up being something like Facebook Messenger, which is not desirable since they also own Whatsapp. 1 corporation should not have line-of-sight into the metadata of the majority of the planet's messaging, and possibly also the internal content.

RCS as implemented in Google Messages is not bad. It does include encryption (in Google's implementation) and the other features you'd expect. There are issues, such as AT&T S22 users because AT&T decided to make that device use their own server and not interoperate with the other server. But bumps like that aside, I've tried it out with some people and it works fine and because every phone has a unique phone number, you don't have to establish whether they are a Facebook friend or have the right app first to use it. If it's blue, they can be reached over RCS, and if it's green, then it's off to the SMS races.
Because the term is long and the harm the bum can do in several years can be enormous. The people hire somebody to do the job, if that person botches the job, the people should have the ability to fire them, not just wait till the term ends.
Agreed. For someone whose experience of suits is the ill-fitting obligation for the occasional wedding or funeral, it will be shocking and unbelievable to read that a custom cut dress shirt is more comfortable than a t-shirt, and suit pants, soft and silk lined, more comfortable than jeans.
Or, counterpoint: we need to get rid of the wealthy who pervert the system.
I used to do OPs for a living, so I’m a bit aware of the tradeoff involved - and for me, the math doesn’t work out. We’d need three or four people with knowledge of the setup - I can’t be the only one since I want to go on vacation from time to time. Others have the same right. Sometimes people fall ill or are unavailable. We could scrape together enough folks and train them, but it’s honestly not something I want to track and invest time in. GitHub had its outages, but none that would affect us massively.

If you already have internal infrastructure and a moderately competent operations team for that infrastructure, the calculus for you may be different. Blindly assuming that I’m wrong is not a sign that you’re aware of the tradeoffs.
> Your list is hilarious because it's how business is done in all of the parts of the US that are unlike where you live.

It's also the typical scare mongering that you see with people who seem oblivious to the fact that in the absence of these systems a rating system becomes critical and you have a myriad of people wanting to act as arbiter or intermediary to ensure QA/QC.

Darkmarkets were pretty critical in seeing what this would look like, and while it was far from perfect it showed what things would look like if it were to transition out of a State based regulatory body and instead relied on Market based forces.

I will grant that Markets are not perfect and cannot account for all externalities or be able to offset seemingly inevitable paradigm shifts like climate change as they tend to lag behind incumbent tech (that is often subsidized by those who supposedly are regulating them no less) but most of that was in regards to Consumer goods/services at the retail level which can be solved in an iterative process.

What will likely occur and is my bigger worry is monopolization, unfortunately. But then that has already happened the most critical Industries as it is.
I do not understand your comment. If he were rich, then he would not be living on donations.

I think Zig is awesome, btw. Andrew deserves to make a lot more money.
A lot of people saying "USB-C cables aren't even compatible with each other!" (Nintendo switch etc.) Guess what: that's exactly the problem this regulation is intended to solve. Fake USB-C cables like Nintendo's that have the right shape but do not adhere to spec should gradually disappear along with lightning cables. The regulation actually says that cables can no longer be bundled with the devices themselves, so Nintendo would stop sending you that fake cable with your switch, and you would just buy a real one to work with all your devices.

Other people saying "what about innovation!?" That's fine. Let's say the USB consortium releases USB-D with input from Apple, Google, and many other stakeholders. The EU can set another deadline for newly released devices to adhere to the new version instead of the old one. The transition will involve a period of time where older devices are still on C and newer ones on D, which is totally compatible with the regulation and is necessary with or without regulation. It's ludicrous to think companies won't be able to "iterate": you would be crazy to go to market with any cable technology that isn't already very mature. Apple spent years designing lighting chargers because they knew that once they were released they'd be around for a long time (and they have been!)
For folks who think SF and Oakland PD issues are limited to their systemic violence against minorities, video documented violence against protestors & intentionally making current levels of crime seem worse to help the recall it’s worth looking into some of their darker crimes.

Check out their abuse of Celeste Guap, how long it took for anyone to do anything, the number of DAs, prosecutors and AGs that looked the other way, the charges dropped and finally the lone officer to actually face charges and the plea deal they received.

Police in the bay area have been able to do anything they want for a long time. The campaign against the current DA really just stems from him doing what is still far below the bare minimum to e remind police that they are not above the law.
My friend recently released Wzmach – a touchpad gesture engine for Wayland
> hedge currency debasement which is coming

You're honestly going to claim that an asset that is down more than 40% YTD is a hedge against inflation?
Some C# code to create a minimal web application:

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

var app = builder.Build();

app.UseHttpsRedirection();

var summaries = new[]
{
"Freezing", "Bracing", "Chilly", "Cool", "Mild", "Warm", "Balmy", "Hot", "Sweltering", "Scorching"
};

app.MapGet("/weatherforecast", () =>

{

var forecast = Enumerable.Range(1, 5).Select(index =>

new WeatherForecast
(
DateTime.Now.AddDays(index),
Random.Shared.Next(-20, 55),
summaries[Random.Shared.Next(summaries.Length)]
))
.ToArray();
return forecast;

})

.WithName("GetWeatherForecast");

app.Run();

internal record WeatherForecast(DateTime Date, int TemperatureC, string? Summary)

{

public int TemperatureF => 32 + (int)(TemperatureC / 0.5556);
}
You need to give away your contacts in order to chat with anyone.
> …if we're forcing every device to merely adopt a USB-C port, that does nothing to ensure they're actually using USB-C specifications or interoperable.

You certainly need more than just the physical port. IMHO the minimum reasonable requirement would be that the device must charge at near the maximum supported rate (minimum of the device's, cable's, and charger's advertised rates) with any combination of compliant charger & cable. There wouldn't be much point in mandating the use of USB-C ports otherwise.
Would it have been better if they settled on this?

https://www.mouser.it/images/qualtek/hd/703W-00_SPL.jpg

It has been working quite well in many electronic devices for decades...

I don't see the usefulness of discussing things that have not happened.

Is USB-C bad?

That's the question you should be interested in.

“The best is the enemy of the good.”

Saying that choices should never be made because we don't know what the future brings, is the same of saying that there's no point in living, because we are all going to die.

Of course they did not settle on USB-B in 1999 because there weren't billions of devices using it and it was relatively new technology.

Now it's a de facto standard already.
I'm pretty flexible on some stuff - like exterior color, but I live in Texas, and yet all the stocked cars (of the type I want) come with a black interior. Same with the sunroof problem, if I want a high end trim, it comes with everything, so at that time it meant buying what is effectively comparatively a stripper if I dont want a sunroof.

The pandemic made it so they'd actually take my business, we negotiated the purchase contract at the time of order, and I got it without all of the stuff I didnt want.. like nitrogen air, tint, and the 'paint protection' BS. I did have two minor quality issues - the rear AC vent trim bit was not fully seated, I fixed that myself, the other one is the gas door sticks on, why? no idea - the dealer has tried a couple things, I've found cycling the opener 2-3 times opens it just fine.
This seems like a good way to get enough attention around deepfakes to make them illegal. How long before a major media personality or politician is catfished by this?
Fancy that.
Because it makes officious bureaucrats feel good and justifies their existence.
At least according to wikipedia, ANTLR accepts a CFG (context free grammar), while PEG (parsing expression grammar) is not context free, specifically, the choice operator in a PEG selects the first match.

I've been reading about parsers recently (https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html and https://peps.python.org/pep-0617/). It seems like recursive descent parsers are considered a little easier to reason about, and PEG aligns well with recursive descent.

I have not yet dived deeper in yacc, bison, or ANTLR and how you would write a parser from a CFG. Can anyone add their experiences?
i agree it is an enforcement issue but the line i have heard is enforcement is lacking bc police officers think the convictions won’t happen on the other end so there is no point in them making the arrests in the first place. No idea if that is true or not just the claim i have heard.
The terms are ordinary balances, for regular circumstances. Recall is for extraordinary bad performance. Like performance reviews and firing on the spot in companies. The former is regular, the latter is for somebody who really screwed up.
Taking ten minute screenshots is not a good practice. Why not just measure on output or have regular meetings?

What kind of job requires ten minute screenshots? Definitely not a software development job.
But it's now a bit stuck.
Wear $250 pods while biking so they can get lost, fall down a vent, or get run over?
All my relatives live on other continents :(
Thanks for the link! I'm glad to have more comments to read about this. That thread has one of my all-time favorite moderator comments on it.

On HN, stories are "duplicates" iff (a) they've been posted within the last year ("or so") and (b) they've had significant discussion already on those threads. This post flunks (b) but not (a) and is thus cromulent.
You can already do it via Settings -> Security -> Last Activity
One great thing is it was designed to be used in primary school for kids in the uk so has a large amount of lessons to follow along with https://microbit.org/teach/lessons/
The fact that all the allocators have the same tail performance suggests the measurement is polluted by something like thread preemption or processor power state transitions.
> Now, these prices from GH can make sense if you are a team of 10-50, but I wonder what would be the point where it wouldn't take a bean-counter to say "can't we just hire someone else do that in-house, part-time? It would cost as much or less,

$250/user/year; for $50k yearly salary is 200 users.

I don't think $50k salary is a lot. On the other hand, I've heard you should roughly double salary costs to approximate cost to employer (including all overhead). So then a $50k/yr local gitlab (or somesuch) admin only becomes viable salarywise at 400 paying users. And if you have 400 users dependent on that one employee for their daily work, you need backup. At least another .5 FTE - so 600 users before the business case makes sense salarywise.

So that's not really soon - if you're reaching that size, you want professional support, not what a team of 1.5 employees can cobble together.
Hence the push in the USA to jigger data like the US Census, or just not collect the data, like the Dickey Amendment, or the state of Florida shutting down collecting COVID data, coroners that have never given covid as a cause of death.

Even more blatantly, the 2020 election Big Lie. Zero data, just opinions and feelings

Once you've got The God Given Truth, it's important to not collect data that contradicts it.
I honestly am puzzled: the both of you (if I understand you right), do you really think some fake videos will cause there to "be no such thing as trust"? Why?

Videos aren't the only way to understand the world, and there was never any such thing as "direct observation" in the first place.
I don't know how the ads model can be sustainable, so far I only get baiting ads about shitcoins. It's great that it is not targeted and text only, I hope it will remain that way but I feel like it won't.

I hope they will manage to keep telegram great and not become the next tumblr/myspace whatever, because as a social media platform I actually quite enjoy it: Minimal censorship, seems to attract very diverse kind of people, It is fast and run on everything (like a decade old smartphone on sailfish OS)
>This kind of logic I would expect only from a bean-counter

I think you're not doing a very good job of updating your expectations based on what other folks are saying. Across multiple threads you have a whole variety of folks trying to explain their reasoning, and you're dismissing them all out of hand. You don't seem to be giving much consideration to the idea that you could be wrong in at least some reasonable organizations (rather than all the folks you're replying to).
This isn’t a simple two-species system. If insect population collapse were to cause a human population collapse, I think the number of cars (and wind turbines, and insecticides) would follow, possibly early enough to prevent full extinction of insects.
Is there any benefit to a multipivot sort? The partitioning would be more complex but possibly save memory accesses.
> so aside from `def` inside a function (as opposed to `let`)

It looks like the examples on the linked page use let, so it definitely seems like it's available.

Fwiw, you can technically use def anywhere in Clojure, it's just not good practice to do so.
If there is no pricing, I will likely never return. If you cannot get your money right, how can I expect you will get anything else right?
That $950 limit is a widespread but, to be blunt, nonesense talking point that is a great example of how the police absolve their hands of their inaction and how a lack of nationwide context creates myopic assessments.

For example, In the great progressive bastion of Texas the felony theft limit is $2,500, and also the current DA didn’t make the law.

The police have been caught many times simple spectating crimes in action. That’s not the da, that’s cops on strike.
I'm talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Customer_Exchange

Obviously, this was the best of both worlds; a payment network with no fees to the merchants, and no cash to handle.

As for things like SaaS, the alternative to credit cards is a signed contract and ACH.
I really dislike this behavior from Apple. I had a first generation Mac Pro from 2006 which was able to run OS X 10.11 perfectly fine but officially only supported OS X 10.7. The reason was that this was the only Mac using a 32bit EFI so when they stopped compiling the boot.efi file for 32bit, newer OS X versions couldn‘t boot. Luckily it was quite simple to patch the boot.efi to 32bit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Have they talked at all about why? An interesting point about our implementation is that, unlike Facebook, Uno is not a custodial emergency contact recovery service. So we’re not in the business of trying to KYC all your friends and accept a “multi-sig” credential access request. We’re shamirs all the way down so we don’t have what I imagine would be a pretty large admin overhead for something that isn't really FB’s product.
It's an overreach. "A pound is 16 ounces" is not the same as "cakes shall only be 5 ounces," i.e., a standard of measure does not extend to regulation of what is measured and what measures are permitted. An originalist court could fix this.
Deuterium alcohol shown to cause milder hangover
The point was that the population is declining, not that it is long term.
> It's not about the keys of the politician. It's about the keys of the manufacturer of the camera. The aim of the signature is to prove that a video did in fact come from such camera at such location, at such time.

If the goal is to allow a manufacturer to confirm video came from one of their cameras, I think it's somewhat more helpful than I was originally thinking, but it doesn't change my opinion that this technology would only "solve some authenticity problems in some narrow contexts." Namely, stuff like a burglar claiming in court that security camera video was forged to frame them. I don't think it addresses cases of embarrassing/incriminating video filmed by bystanders with rando cameras and other stuff like that.

> Of course, if one has physical access to the camera/sensor it's possible to make a fake video with a valid signature. But it's a little more difficult than simply running a deepfake script on some machine in the cloud.

If you're faking a video like I described, you certainly would have "physical access to the camera/sensor" that you claim made it. You're making a fake, which means you can concoct a story for the fake's creation involving things that are possible for you to acquire.
You need to cut the wires to do this, as I understand it. But, more relevantly, this only applies to the person who made the note. If you want to buy something with this fairly gold note, the recipient has no way to verify that it’s real unless they either trust the manufacturer or they cut the wires and transfer the Bitcoin, at which point one wonders what the point of the physical note is.
> i've never heard a principled case for why they ought to be different. Money and speech are really not much different in terms of their power to organize problematic activity

Speech is more primitive, and far less dependent on community efforts, than money. We can theorise working societies without money. I don't think we can do similarly without speech, at least not without changing what it means to be human.
You're on the right track. I work in the data security space and while this is a cool release, it's not novel[0] and has been around for a while[1]. As a general rule of thumb, the first thing to check is if the provider is asking you to pass in your query in plain text AND without a local client (very important, because if you're sending data in plaintext, the threat model is now transitioning to a honest-but-curious model).

This is obviously not that. They're encrypting locally. However, Simon Oya & Dr. Kerschbaum's paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03465, demonstrate a fantastic efficient attack to recover keywords on most constructions without a lot of queries. It is yet to be seen how effective MongoDB's implementation will be.

This is a very interesting space but structural encryption is the right way to put the theory into good use.

Most of the other encryption mechanisms such as homomorphic, partially homomorphic, etc. are just too impractical or require very specific niche use cases to be useful.

There are other misnamed technology I've seen in marketing such as "polymorphic encryption" or "vaultless" - but most of these haven't had real research or cryptanalysis behind it.

[0] https://info.ionic.com/hubfs/IonicDotCom/Resources/Assets/Se...
[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/111.pdf
By the way, it’s been talked on HN a lot when USB c comes up, it you shouldn’t use those magnetic cables. The “magnetic disconnect” motion can cause arcing and static electricity that can theoretically damage the thing they’re plugged into. Especially if you leave the exposed pins on the device as you use it unplugged.
Stopping/preventing crime is handled by police and other organizations. Prosecuting criminals who are caught is handled by the DA's office.

Simply put, it's not the DA's job to stop crime. So if the problem is "there is too much crime in SF", changing the DA themselves isn't going to do much in the short term (perhaps in the long term though, with more people locked up).
Tell HN: Figma Major Outage
I can't access Figma at all - both the website and the app are down for me (the app is really just a website anyway).

Seeing multiple 500 errors.

It would be nice if websites posing as native apps at least let you use the app with local storage during outages.

EDIT: I guess it's been down for a while → https://twitter.com/zoink/status/1534207152616710146
Possible breakthrough in Cancer Cure
This sounds like it's making the gun control argument regularly made in America, and I disagree with it vehemently
The Netscape Server products were amazing. High performing LDAP multi-master systems years ahead of its time, a calendar and email product that we used at companies years after Netscape was no more.

It was tragic that so many amazingly talented engineers ended up resting and vesting at AOL for years - but, at least they all scattered to the winds a few years after that and went to see other companies.
M2 MacBook Pro 13”
That’s a great question! No idea but it gives me a glimmer of hope it’s not purely human driven.
Very nice! How much are the notes expected to cost?
I remember reading a (not so tongue in cheek) proposal for powering the moon on diesel. The justification was how complicated solar and storage would be given our current state of the art. Does anyone know the blog post I’m talking about? I can’t find it
Just to play Devil's Advocate, what this article might get wrong is that it's taking Elon Musk at face-value. Everybody has hidden motives, and I'm not sure that we know what any public figure's genuine position on any given issue always is.

I could give quite a few examples about Elon Musk in particular, but just to give a generic point, many companies might be outwardly strongly favoring working in the office as a means to try and achieve stealth layoffs without admitting weakness in their core business. Some companies are probably hoping that 5-10% of their workforce decide to quit so they can avoid some layoffs and the questions, pressure, and possible reduced investor confidence that comes from an actual layoff.
... and uses USB-C on the other end of the cable
Didn't one of the higher ups mandate back-to-office while also moving to *checks notes* New Zealand??
>This was reported before it was clear that cables were cut.

That's rude. Who did that?
Hunter S. Thompson would have made one shitty PM. God bless anyone who works at this company.
I'm pretty sure this is wrapped in all sorts of dependancy hell
Maybe. Is it patent encumbered?
Many people with mechanical keyboards (as in non-disposable keyboards) can probably relate to this, having put some keys back the wrong way after cleaning.
I greatly appreciate the feedback!

I agree on the table idea to more candidly and clearly compare other aspects. This launch/experiment was that the quality/cost would be the main factors, and we’d go from there, iterating and customizing it to work for early customers.

The 8x math is per 1M characters. I do see that since we’re charging a subscription, it may not be a fair comparison. But the minimum commitment is is so small that I thought it wouldn’t matter for the customers I’m targeting right now. I do think it can be misleading because people might expect pay-as-you-go.

We aren’t able to provide pay-as-you-go right now, so I’ll look into updating the copy or how we communicate the subscription model!
Larper.