skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather live in a world with spam than a world where corporations get to decide what I run on my devices, and cripple a bunch of critical applications if I decide I want to, y'know, actually do whatever I want with the hardware I own.

I'm not unsympathetic to Apple's difficulties and goals here (assuming this spam problem is actually the reason, though I'm skeptical that there aren't also self-serving reasons that would be sufficient for Apple), but I'm so tired of society's slide toward "security at any cost, and to hell with freedom" since the 9/11 attacks over 20 years ago.

(It's possible and likely that slide has been going on much longer, but I was a teenager in the 90s and not really aware of such things. But I think it's undeniable that the aftermath of 9/11 was a big turning point for the surveillance state and for average citizens being so scared of everything that they'd be willing to give up essential freedoms just to quell that fright.)
I definitely get iMessage spam
> How many times has SGX been broken now?

Quite a few. L1TF/Foreshadow was pretty catastrophic, and Plundervolt was just funny. In name and execution. Plus various others.

> When (if ever) could a reasonable person think "ok, now they must have got rid of all the vulnerabilities, time to trust this!" ?

Never.

Nor should one trust Intel chips for sensitive computations, given how badly they leak and how badly Intel seems to be at reasoning about this. I'm getting rid of the last of my Intel systems this month (beyond random compute nodes for BOINC stuff I run them with 'mitigations=off' for max performance because they have literally nothing at all sensitive on them, not even passwords - I use different passwords for them).
Speak for yourself; I LOVE texting my fellow-Android-owners with RCS. My photos don't get squashed a la MMS, sending multimedia Just Works, and typing/receipt indicators are lovely. Maybe the mobile operators are getting far bigger wins, but as an average person texting my friends, it's great.
There's benefits to using bare metal, but generally only for situations where you really need them. e.g. if you want to run hardware accelerated apps, run your own virtualization/VMM (like firecracker) etc.

So yes, for the most part it is a hipster thing.
The case law is still inconsistent about taking the life of a fetus in the late stage: Scott Peterson was charged with second degree murder for taking the life of unborn son at 7 and half months pregnacy when he took his pregnant wife's life, which is a precedent for it being a life at that stage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson
Not really needed in this case. I was born with 7 months and didn't spend a night in hospital.
> This is a false dilemma. We have more choices than “enable money laundering” and “no one has privacy”.

Which other choice is there? AML as-implemented is literally a policy that says you can't have digital transactional privacy, which is the only reason privacy technologies violate it when no other lawbreaking occurs.

And it has <= 0.2% effectiveness and high compliance costs.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...

It's a total failure and it's inexplicable that anyone who understands it would defend it.
I looked at the abstracts of the references you provided, and the first two seem to share the general biases of these kind of studies.

The first Lancet one has this as a finding:

> The abortion rate was lower in subregions where more women live under liberal abortion laws (p<0·05)

They don't seem to have corrected for other factors like rule of law, income, and level of economic development.

The second Lancet one also suffers from the same issue (though at least acknowledge the rule if income), and the authors reveal their biases very soon:

> We developed a new statistical model that jointly estimated unintended pregnancy and abortion that aimed to better inform efforts towards global equity in sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The last one's [1] conclusions seem like they could be broadly correct. If no abortion is allowed at all, you'd expect more maternal deaths. However, the actual amount is disputable as this is based on modelling not concrete data. Additionally, they seem to be assuming a total ban on abortion, which doesn't seem realistic to me.

> But go off and pat yourself on the back for fetuses having more value than the incubation receptacle they're within.

Finally, we need to avoid personal attacks if we are going to have a fruitful discussion.

[1]: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7g29k
How anxious does your bank account make you feel in that regard? It's the same there. I actually can't think of examples of payment systems that have refusability built in. In fact, you can be interest if your bank accidentally sends you money (there was a case in Germany I believe, can't find it right now).
It is, I use it from my Mac Mini without owing an iPhone.
If you’re not a globalist then wouldn’t you agree that Nebraska shouldn’t have jurisdiction to subpoena companies that aren’t incorporated in Nebraska? Your argument seems pro globalism
"This Old Tony" - machining, CNC, engineering, measuring, etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony
To be frank, that's indicative of a gulf between what the user wants from the product, and how the provider views the user.

User: This item isn't relevant for me.

Provider: Yes it is.

See the problem? :)
> If you have a simple website built on boring technologies like HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS, then nearly anyone can read, understand, and make changes to it, even backend developers. If you instead wrote it in React/Webpack/etc. then suddenly only frontend experts can understand and contribute and debug.

The problem with this thinking is you assume that the backend developers know HTML, CSS and vanilla JS, but don't make that assumption for React/Webpack/etc because then your argument wouldn't be valid.
It's also to recognize that what the Supreme Court did wasn't strike down Roe v Wade. Specifically, they struck down the idea that people do not have a right to privacy from the Constitution; thus, everything flowing from that decision is no longer supported (abortion, interracial marriage, LGBQ, etc). While some judges may attempt to argue that warrant is needed, SCOTUS has all but formally stated that "secure in your possessions" applies solely to warrants for physical items on your property. SCOTUS will likely overrule lower courts on cases. Thus, anything a company can know will be handed over.

While abortion is the hot topic, other religious purity tests will be coming, like if you have ever visited LGBQ topics. Get yourself out of the cloud. If you are minority likely to be targeted by American Christian Nationalists, do it sooner than later. Many states still have sodomy laws that haven't been just enforced.
Telegram? Never heard of it.

Messaging currently requires you and the people you are communicating with to agree on a platform. If all you use is Telegraph, then you are not communicating with those who don't.
iMessage was released on iOS 5 with the release of the iPhone 4S. Before then, all messages had a green background. Somehow sticking with the default of more than 10+ years is intentional maleficence by Apple?
I still don't get why people use SMS/MMS anyway? I've been using WhatsApp for ages now and so does everybody else in my country - and every country I've been in, apart from China and Japan. My friend who's from the US once said "I've paid for those text messages, so I'm going to use them!" But if I send him a text from Europe to the US, I pay 1 damn euro per delivered text. WhatsApp is free! Is there any viable reason why Apple users use SMS so much?
I would say the bigger incentive is not to lose the gear in the first place, but even that doesn't seem to be enough.
Hell, they could charge a token amount for un-secured devices, which I imagine could make things prohibitively expensive for spammers.

I would (grudgingly, because the whole thing is just stupid) pay 3 bucks a month or so to be able to message iPhone users from Android without dealing with unreliable message delivery and ordering, and photos and videos pixelated to hell. I have a ton of barely-recognizable videos of my niece and nephews from my sister because she always forgets that sending me video over MMS is a boatload of fail.
I believe it's unfortunate people judge the JVM ecosystem by Java. Scala and Kotlin are so much more attractive options if you write code for a living. Between this and the devolution from maven to gradle it's not a surprise junior developers are JVM-shy.

I see companies downshifting to unmaintainable toys such as Python even in data engineering circles. It's really odd that mobile developers with Kotlin (and front-end ones with Typescript) are getting ahead of backend ones in adoption of modern languages.

Once Loom and Valhalla get merged to an LTS the remaining vestiges of bad old Java will have been gone. I really hope Graal goes mainstream too. That will hopefully blow out of the water the golangs of the world. But those are platform-level improvements any JVM language will benefit from.
I don't agree, and I suppose this is just my opinion but I just tend to dislike the idea that art is in the eye of the beholder.

I think we've extended the use of the word art too far. In my opinion art is really just paintings and sculptures. Good art involves a lot of skill, eg: years of practice, attention to detail, sophisticated processes, careful choice of mediums, tasteful composition, and choice of subject matter. While a lot of this stuff is opinionated there are definitely rules to a lot of these things. There are essentially guidelines that have log existed for measuring an artists ability to capture color, shapes, light, and movement. Even with more modern styles like van Gogh and Monet these rules applied.

At some point we threw this out the window with the post modern movement and said art can be anything, becoming more focused on the cleverness and profound underlying message that this new "art" contained rather than the skill, dedication, and aesthetics that went into it.
You have the power to change your situation and find something else you enjoy more. You're not a victim.
I was on vacation in Utah last week with some friends, we missed our turn onto the gravel road our rented cabin was on. My friend was using Google Maps to navigate and said "oh, Google says you can just take the next turn rather than turning around" - the "next turn" seemed fine at first and then after it was too late to back out (no way to turn around), it became a rocky, rutted forest road. Even though we had a 4x4, it was the most terrified I've been in a vehicle in 25 years or so. When I checked Apple Maps later, it didn't even show that as a navigable route.

Anecdotally, a friend of mine in Oklahoma says he never uses Google Maps to navigate because it has a bad habit of trying to route him down unimproved ranch roads of dubious quality.

Personally, I usually prefer Apple Maps since it plays nicer with CarPlay, and while Ohio has fewer roads of dubious quality like that, my experience left me much less trusting of GMaps.
Crackpots often either Capitalize certain words they consider Significant, or write them in ALL-CAPS; I have also seen words [Bracketed] for extra emphasis. I’ve heard it’s a sign of schizophrenia.

EDIT: Here’s a reference: https://prestersperspective.blogspot.com/p/schizophrenia-ran...
> S, action, is the arc-length of a world-line. L = dS/dt. It is a natural law that systems move along "straight" world-lines, geodesics, in the absence of interactions.

This is a roughly correct description of GR, where the curvature is given by the Einstein field equations. It's not true in classical electromagnetism, or in QM.

> The "future-looking" nature of the least action principle is unsatisfying: sure, the action is minimized over an interval in time. Since L = dS/dt, the E-L equations are that same principle expressed at a single moment in time--right?

Yes, although the global principle is that the action is stationary, not minimal.

> Is there some sense in which L is "orthogonal" to the space spanned by constant energy and momentum?

Not quite, but you're on the right track. Conserved quantities of integrable systems are "orthogonal" to the Hamiltonian H, in that the poisson bracket `{f, H} = -df/dt` and so `{f, H} = 0` for constant `f`. The Lagrangian arises as the Legendre transform of H.
Identity politics, which is about as mainstream as you can get is based entirely from post modern principals.

Anything “normal” is only thought of that way due to the discourses of established power (white, heterosexual men and their paternal nuclear family structures) and not only can be replaced (everything is equally arbitrary) but *should* be dismantled and replaced because it’s oppressive.

That’s literally our society today and it’s 100% postmodern.
The keyword here is “reasonably”. What I hate the most is “lifestyle abortion” when a woman says she’s not ready for a baby, but at the same time treats sex like a cheap entertainment, fucking her way through dozens of guys.
Holographic Glasses for Virtual Reality
I think for whatever reason they chose to wait is doing a lot of work there. They probably didn't have much of a choice. Unless you live near Omaha or Lincoln, there aren't many options available to you when selling this type of care. One of the ways the system is rigged to run out the clock on girls and women until it's illegal or unfeasible.
That's preposterous.
They had a surefire strategy starting in 2013 when they added SMS integration to Hangouts and made it a default-installed app on all Androids. It was tied to your Google account so most people (and basically all Android users) already had an account. It was pre-installed, meaning you didn't need to pitch people to install another app, which is usually a big ask. Instead you say "hey open this app you already have installed, we can chat here and it's better, and you can text all your other contacts who don't have it too." It had video calling too, basically all you needed.

But then Allo and Duo came along. Remember Allo? Me neither! It was Hangouts' death sentence anyway! And now Duo is being rebranded/merged into Meet for some reason.

Get out of the Google ecosystem wherever you can. They're only getting worse.
Companies only seem to move forward if you are doing exactly what they are doing exactly the same way they are doing it.

They do not want to give you a chance to adapt your skills to the position.
They will not give you feedback.
They will not work with you to clear-up what might be minor misunderstandings.
They really do not want to hire anyone.
It is shocking that such a clearly bad design choice has stuck, and that Helm has become so popular in spite of it. I've had my eye on jsonnet, I'll have to try that next time I do something in k8s.
There are many people in the US who have no international contacts, and so they grew up using only the default messaging app. And they are not sufficiently incentivized to install another app like WhatsApp.

Between NYC/SF, I do not know a single person that does not use both iMessage and WhatsApp. But typically it is people who are not children of immigrants and whose social circles have no one outside the country that tend to not have WhatsApp.
HN is for anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Sometimes that's news in the usual sense of the word, but often it's more obscure things, and those are welcome here.

I think of the "new" in the "news" in "hacker news" as being like the used clothing store in my home town that used to be called "New to You".

In the case of classics/perennials like the OP, there are of course a lot of readers for whom the story is anything but new, but it's important that we also take care of the newer cohorts of users and make sure they get some exposure to the classics too. That's one reason why reposts are allowed after a year or so.
Also not consistently, SI units and prefixes are case sensitive.
Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died
I'm curious if Astro supports git-backed visual editing? I can't seem to find that, but it would rather useful if so! (ala tinacms.io , stackbit, etc.)
tldr; it wraps Terraform providers poorly and can fail building proper infra diffs from time to time...

https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws-native is nowhere near GA state, just scroll through the issues...

and the respective terraform wrapper https://github.com/pulumi/terraform-provider-aws
is somewhat neglected in favour of the tf2pulumi native port above.

Crossplane, on the other hand, does better with the Terrajet codegen, and all the infra drifts are a part of the reconciliation cycle, which is very handy on simpler deployments but doesn't work with more complex ones due to excessive drift polling model.
In my opinion, the complexity is something that's entirely your own making.

k8s can be as simple or as complex as you like it to be and really isn't any more complex than setting up a VM (provided, you are using cloud provided k8s).

Want to run an application? Write a deployment file. Want to expose that application to other applications? Write a service file. Want to expose the application to people outside the k8s cluster? Write an ingress. Want some configuration? Write a config file.

With that, you've got the basics of k8s. None of this would be made easier without k8s. If you had just a VM, well, now you need to figure out how to get your deployable in the image. If you want to expose your app to others, you need to configure the routing. If you want it private, you need to configure the VPC correctly. If you want to configure the app, now you need to figure out how to set that up.

After the initial learning curve, k8s ends up being, frankly. What I've listed here is like 90% of what any dev needs to learn or use in k8s. Everything else can be learned on the fly based specific requirements.
With blue bubbles?
having worked in the data industry, this sounds about right. Digital fingerprinting is certainly real, but I was way more paranoid about what I thought companies knew about me before working in the industry. the data quality across the board is dogshit. Even for the best companies doing B2B data like D&B and Zoominfo which are talked about as being better than most of the others - it's still mostly dirt.

Data right now is typically bought and sold with an expectation that most of it is crap. it's faster to buy and process 5000 dirty items that probably has a few good leads buried within it than to find leads manually / naturally or broadcast random advertising. (I left the industry in 2020 and my NDA expired in 2021)

Data quality is typically assessed at the "Does this data field have a value for this line item" level. That means data vendors are financially incentivized to make shit up about you as much as they can get away with. think about it for a second, these companies are selling themselves as the source of truth. the actual accuracy does not matter, and the better you are then the less data your customers buy. the data goes stale faster than the accuracy of the data becomes relevant

Did you like a post about a fresh baked baguette that had #french as one of the 100 tags associated with it? congrats, you're french now. it's not exactly this ridiculous, but you get my point
So, what do you think needs to be said? Say it, instead of just hinting that there's something there.
Apparently technology (my phone) is too. Thanks :)
My advice is to go to another job and move on.

A lawsuit would take a long time and is very difficult to prove. Short of an insider to corroborate this, you’re probably SoL.

If they continue with these hiring practices (they will), they will have a tough time hiring and their business will suffer.

Find yourself a company that doesn’t hire based on skin color and be successful.
Anyone else annoyed by the growing use of the word "impact" to speak increasingly passively?

People are so afraid to make a claim nowadays, even if it's obviously true. They speak of "impacts" or that something will be "impacted". But they seem to want to avoid saying who or what will be impacted.

"I was impacted by today's layoffs."
"We expect there to be impacts to website traffic."

These meaningless words do nothing except to say "something has happened" which puts the reader in the mindset of having to unravel a mystery.

Anytime you write it's your job to make yourself understood. I don't want to have to be Encyclopedia Brown to figure out what you're trying to tell me.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=impacting&year...

Edit: A better headline for OP would have been "Private phone numbers + email addresses leaked for 5M Twitter accounts"
Authy is a TOTP app.
You can sign up and use an email for iMessage through wifi
Unfortunately they did implement WebP support in WebKit…
>Those other methods can be shut off too. That isn't an argument to leave known laundering options available.

But that wasn't the argument you made. Now you're moving the goal posts. Sanctioning Tornado cash doesn't remove DPRKs profits as you claimed. I also doubt all methods can be shut off, or that it makes sense to cut off all "US Persons" just because DPRK uses it the way we don't like.

>Don't use technologies that have no advantages and only disadvantages. When I spend with my credit card, the merchant doesn't know how much money I have, and my transaction goes through nearly instantly with negligible energy usage.

When I use my credit card to buy say metal bullion online, I'm charged a huge markup if I pay with credit card. There are times when I don't want to pay the credit card markup and things like cash aren't always easily usable online. I don't even like spending crypto but I've paid for bullion with crypto online merely because it happened to be the lowest fee option for me with fast clearing. You don't know that for everyone crypto always has no advantages in their options.
It's literally an elite salary. It makes no sense to imply you're living a frugal, simple life if you need an elite salary to do it.
perfectly doable in London
The green used on the website is significantly brighter than on an iPhone. In fact, on the iPhone, I would say the green gives better contrast than the white text on a blue background.

For direct messages, the colored bubbles are only used on messages you send. Messages received are always white text on black background (dark mode) or black text on grey background (light mode).

edit: my bad. "increase contrast" option is on, set years ago.
Had a similar issue with Prime Video - it kept displaying only Indian suggestions even though I only visited India for a short time. I don't remember how I corrected it.
I wonder how many people are murdered each year due to communications platforms that haven't implemented end to end encryption for private user communications, since all these large platforms are easily infiltrated by agents of homicidal regimes.
Not getting it tbh. Why would you go nuclear and develop a React or Vue app and then not actually use it on the browser side? For content-oriented websites there are much simpler workflows based on SGML and other classic markup processing and content management practices. I mean the point of "content-oriented" and web sites in general really is that an expert in the field, rather than a web developer, can achieve useful results as an author.
This abbreviation is not in the article (nor is the number). And the HN headline now says "5M" which is maybe a more common abbreviation for "million".
Seems like they're doing a good job of keeping your identity veiled.
It happens in California all the time but you only mention it happening in Texas. Why is that? If you were unaware that it happens in California, why is that?
I went down a rabbit hole. I remembered seeing guns like that, but they all seem to have spinning barrels. Look up centrifugal guns.

I was sure I'd seen a space launch method but it took me a while to find. It's called the slingatron and has a tube that wobbles like a hula hoop.