skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty funny that you identify Latvia as the turning point. Mikrotik is also from Latvia.

I still think Ubiquity rots from the head and whether they mismanage teams in one country or another should not reflect on the country the people are working from.
If you're going to post a thread like this, leave an avenue for people to get in contact with you...
Interesting! +H wasn't a thing when I stopped using IRC/writing bots. InspIRCD (and its amusing default config file) was the daemon I always used. Looks like my client of choice (irssi) never added support for this feature.
Let's just hope they aren't preparing to launch a cloud
We need to make young people aware of the perils of urban sprawl. People in their 20s are flexible enough to consider alternative cities and regions to live in when building their career. Having friends and close family makes it more difficult to move.

I chose to study, work and build my life in the most expensive and most spread out city in my country, without actually considering the cost of living and typical commuting distances beforehand. I can now afford living within 40-50 minute public transport ride from the office hot spots, and I think I would be happier in cities having realistic 15-20 minute commuting options even if they had a less dynamic job market. Also, studying without risks of starving and homelessness would have been nice. But the facts that smaller cities are more affordable and less spread out were rarely discussed at that time.

I believe this kind of advice would be applicable to the US too, since urban sprawl is more amplified there and there are career options outside the Bay area, as well.
Imagine image editors worked like this. Only over the internet, with rules attached and if a human moderator finds you are breaking them then you get banned.

It sounds riddiculous, yet Photoshop is more dangerous than DALL-E in all regards.
Sorry, I mean a currency
There are many on the website: https://freeshow.app/
Android 13 arrives
I had custom filters for a while but I stopped using them, it became unmaintainable and caused some false positives.

I then resorted to unsubscribing, but in my experience that doesn't always seem to work. I could be wrong here as I haven't kept track of who I unsubscribe from and if I would still get newsletters after the fact. But I've experienced receiving newsletters from some company I could've sworn I just unsubscribed from a few times.

However it wouldn't be surprising if some website's unsubscribe feature was buggy. I can also imagine it's not being reported. Or if it was it, and you could figure out where to report to, the report would get lost on its way customer support to the people responsible.
> I guess I'm just confused because I don't see how what you're linking answers my question.

You wanted to know what Signal was storing and if they could decrypt it. I linked to an FAQ which says:

Storage Service (the “cloud”)
What is stored?

All information stored is encrypted; note again that each storage record uses a different derived key for encryption.

This protobuf file explains which information is stored, and how it is structured. You’re probably most interested in this part which shows the actual data that’s stored; it should be self-explanatory, so not copying the list here. Notably, message history is currently not backed up using Storage Service.

The "You’re probably most interested in this part" bit linked to that same github page.

The same FAQ continues:

What is it used for?

Restoring some information upon re-installation/registration of the Signal app (on same or new device) by entering your Signal PIN. This is only possible if you are re-registering with the same phone number you used previously. Not available if you’ve disabled the Signal PIN (in this case only possible with manual backup/restore (Android) or transfer (iOS); these methods additionally preserve your message history).

Syncing contacts and groups to linked devices (this is made possible by syncing the “base” storage service key to linked devices). This is still partially being done using Signal Protocol sync messages, but that is unreliable

This tells you what they are collecting, but you also wanted to know if they could access it, and the answer is yes. I linked to one article explaining some of problems with the security of Signal's set up, but here is another https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-featur...

> As for SGX, my understanding is that 1) this exploit is pretty technical 2) it requires physical access and 3) that it is not the primary method of security, but a secondary one.

Finding exploits is hard, using them is often pretty easy. As the article put it SGX enclaves are “a sort of wet paper bag for clustering sensitive info.” but if you're interested here's a discussion on some of the issues with SGX here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23468746

Physical access isn't a problem for state actors or Signal employees, and without the enclave we're back to being protected by 4 digit PINs again which is no protection at all.
Maybe not forever but the developer shortage is accelerating [1].

1 https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US48223621
DEA published a list of emoji code for drugs
The Big Bang is indeed a form of Creationism. It was first conceived by a priest, Georges Lemaître, in an attempt to reconcile scripture and astronomical observations.

So…
> Lots of things start small but get big unexpectedly, and if you choose sqlite then now you have to rearchitect things.

Lots of things predictably don't. It seems like bad engineering to operate as though everything will. Especially in appliances/"IoT" and other embedded use cases, that line of thinking can drive production costs up a lot.
Not a Facebook user, but I wouldn't hold my breath: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129100
Again, the US before 1968.
I mean, Amazon and the rest of the cloud vendors will happily sell you managed SaaS database that's open source, distributed and a relational store. That makes it real easy to maintain. Cheaper than a team of DBAs, too, until it isn't.
The vaccines don’t stop you from getting or transmitting Covid, at best they only lessen the severity of symptoms you personally experience.
Not SQLite, but try Retool with their new RetoolDB (which is an integrated version of Postgres).

This totally fills the Access gap for me, assuming that you are looking for / happy with a web interface and a SaaS model which is paid per user (but free for first 5)
>If Linux neckbeards truly want to realize the Year of the Linux Desktop, they have to accept how the rest of the world at large works and play by those rules.

Firstly, name-calling does not help in getting your point across.

The opposite argument could easily be made. What would be the point of the "year of the Linux desktop" if Linux is not substantially different from other OSes in the way it treats its users? That's why nobody is celebrating the "era of the Linux palmtop" with Android.

Linux makes different trade-offs from those made by the commercial OSes. The diversity is valuable. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement, but I would be pretty bummed if Linux lost what makes it different.
Deconstructing Bézier Curves
Close https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite
It's running on Jekyll with the default styling, I remember creating one for myself that I have completely abandoned and this just reminded me of it!
> Also, my people will sometimes act nice to you even if they hate you. If you're here a while you will learn to recognize it.

"Bless your heart"
Cost of living near an office is absurd. Houses in all tech hubs in the US are completely blown out (NYC, Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc.) [1].

Average house price in Cupertino (not that you'd live directly in the same place) is 2.6+ million. $300-400,000 salary doesn't cut it anymore.

I wouldn't want to finance the average house on the average Apple salary [2] or a doctor's salary [3].

Realistically, to comfortably afford a 3 million house with 10% down assuming 3% financing (good luck getting that now), you'd need clear about $780,000 per year in cash [4].

[1] https://www.redfin.com/city/4561/CA/Cupertino/housing-market

[2] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/apple/salaries/software-eng...

[3] https://www1.salary.com/CA/San-Francisco/Doctor-Salary.html

[4] https://www.financialsamurai.com/how-much-should-you-make-to...
You don't need to study cs to write software, everything you need is some online. The "I'm more of an idea type of person" line of thought is very familiar to most developers... Yeah, everyone has ideas, million dollar ideas, that they then go out and don't build..

If you want to find someone serious to work with, at least bang out a walking skeleton, a prototype or some kind of proof of concept to show your idea..

That achieves two things, easier to convince a dev that the idea is neat.. And also shows that you got enough passion for this that you actually went ahead and built something.
A win is replacing the trips you can with a bike.
None of this was really my experience, I was maybe lucky enough to do it, but I just rented an apartment near my office and had a 10 minute ride to work.

I saved myself a lot of money and time even if I paid more rent than others with cars and suburban mortgages.

I just told my colleagues if I had my headphones on , not to disturb me unless urgent. I got a fair bit done in the startup I worked for, it sold for a lot of money a year ago so I guess it was productive enough.
> there will be no putting the toothpaste back into the work from home tube.

This is true, but it's also dangerous. The lizardfolk [1] have learned that WFH works, that's the good news. The bad news is that nothing prevents said lizardfolk from taking the jobs right out of our pockets and shipping them to places where workers have even fewer rights than in the US.

COVID-19 isn't over, and it is still capitalism's Chernobyl. It might, however, first hurt American workers because it is also possibly nationalism's Chernobyl. People accept national governments when those governments protect them, either from foreign invaders, or from the private-sector smeg-thugs called "employers". The success of WFH has proven that most work can be done anywhere. This isn't just bad for local real estate barons; it's bad for nations. Western governments have done a piss-poor job, over the past 40 years, of protecting their own people from their bosses... but what happens if they can't even do that? The world becomes ungovernable.

WFH eviscerates false consciousness, which is a good thing (acceleration) but dangerous. We no longer pretend work is the most important thing in our lives, a "passion" because we somehow lack the imagination to conceive of better uses for our time than subordinate labor. (We still do it, and competently, but not for 50+ hours per week.) The bosses no longer pretend to be invested in our careers or to see us as future colleagues rather than disposable subordinates. Work becomes a commodity, a trade of (too much) of one's finite time for (too little of) an artificially scarce commodity called money. And that's really fucking depressing. "Antiwork" on Reddit (which is mostly just meme posts at this point) is just the beginning.

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[1] No, I don't believe the corporate upper class are literal reptilians. It's important to use imagery like this to dehumanize the private jet set, in order to prepare the public in case peaceful means to remove these people from power are exhausted and we have to go into the second half of the alphabet, so to speak.
A huge assumption in your story is that everyone has to have a one hour commute in a personal car between their home and office.
The first paragraph is sarcasm, as revealed in the subsequent paragraphs. Covid is intensely dangerous even to the vaccinated and boosted.

Vaccines do nothing to prevent life-changing neurological sequelae.

People carrying on as if the Covid war has been won are fools.
One possible idea: https://appimage.org
Enjoy the hocus pocus hand waving below of your counterparty trying to explain the why the framers' writing of the 2nd amendment implicitly meant to to allow the kind of logic that machine guns from 1985 are ok but not ones from 1987.
Thanks - I'll have a look.
You want me to believe on ios it never happens that apple breaks support for older software Like they do all the time on computers?
"Trump/MAGA is just following the standard politician playbook of vilifying minorities for votes. When it works, future politicians do the same because it's easy and proven. And then the hatred turns to violence. It's not just MAGA, it's also the people who compare Trump to Hitler and compare MAGA to Nazis."

It started as the well-trodden "Southern Strategy" but now US' adversaries have poured fuel on the fire and its burst into full on fascist rhetoric and thinking now. This is quite literally, exactly how the Nazi party started and evolved. Stop downplaying this as anything but and start reading how the Nazis started and evolved - the StormTrumpers and GOP appear to be using it as their playbook.
Low cost Celeron based embedded router board with 6-port 2.5Gbps
Zero Tracking for news: https://yup.is
Here is a fullish comment thread involving me and a migadu employee on the matter. Note he still claims some kind of email was sent at the end (it wasn't). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24974369

There are a few other threads on HN about them as well.

Essentially they are a bargain basement supplier and expect them to treat you as accordingly. If you're happy with that then its fine!
The main gripe I've heard so far is "commuting".

If you drove a forklift, you'd commute, if you're a farmer, you'd commute, if you pretty much did anything out of sitting in your underpants on zoom, you'd commute.

The village where I live has almost a hundred more inhabitants post-Covid, and none of the ones I've spoken to want to move back to urban or suburban areas. It's not for everyone, but working remote allows for a completely different lifestyle.

I dunno, I live in a village which probably has about a thousand people in it, a lot of people have to leave because they want their kids to go to better schools etc. Of course 1-2 years in most of the village life is a novelty. Some will thrive, some won't.
Well, Timelock Encryption is "encrypting somewhat towards the future", and as explained in the talk, in 1996 "Timelock puzzles" were proposed by Rivest, Shamir and Wagner as a "proof of work" based system to achieve it. Sadly that's very sensitive to hardware evolution, and when Rivest tried to create a puzzle meant to last 35 years in 99, it ended up being broken in 2019 after only 20 years. It was even doubly broken: once by a guy running it on his CPU for 3.5 years only, and once in only 2 months by a FPGA/ASIC implementation done by the Cryptophage collab between Ethereum Foundation, Supranational and Protocol Labs... Other names that are also about achieving timelock encryption include "timelapse encryption" and "timed release encryption". Some people do a distinction because for instance the timelock puzzle are mostly about achieving a lower bound on the time it requires to solve them but aren't mapping well to a precise time. VDFs are promising tools to achieve timelock or timed released encryption, for sure.
>Nuclear weapons have been invented and humanity is surviving.

Isn't the point of the discussion started by PoignardAzur about how we deal with such technology after it is pulled out of the bag?

If you define black ball technology as fundamentaly uncontainable, then there is no point in talking about our practices of restricting access to new tech.
This is really interesting. Any recommendations for further reading on EPIC and related technologies?
> 250 total comp is a fairly junior engineer offer. College grads can easily pull down 120k in salary alone. Then there's equity, benefits, 401k matching, signing bonuses, etc.

According to Levels FYI [1] the average (total) compensation package at Apple for a Junior Software Engineer is U$162k in 2022 (data points skewed to Californian employees).

That website shows 33 self-reported compensation packages in 2022 from people hired as ICT2, which is how Apple categorizes junior programmers. The highest compensation package is U$229,125 from someone with knowledge in Machine Learning / AI knowledge, their base salary is U$140k and the rest is RSU (U$37k per year, for 4 years) and a one-time signing bonus of U$52k. The lowest compensation package is U$96k (only base salary, no RSU, no signing bonus). Then, based on these 33 data points of ICT2 who joined Apple in 2022, the average (total) compensation package is U$157k, with U$124k being the average base salary.

I will not say that junior programmers can not get a U$250k (total) compensation package, maybe those with a Masters degree and/or very specialized skills, but to say that “250 total comp is a fairly junior engineer offer” is a ridiculous exaggeration.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/companies/apple/salaries/software-eng...
>Coal and gas power stations need cooling water in exactly the same way as nuclear.

The vast majority of nuclear power plants are absolutely huge compared to their fossil fuel counterparts. Their thermal cooling needs exceed the ability of local rivers because they are so big. This has resulted in some countries building their nuclear power plants near the ocean even though the coast is tsunami prone.

The standard coal plant generates 500 MW or around 6 NuScale reactors.
The average nuclear power plant generates 1GW and that is equivalent to 12 NuScale reactors.
Yeah IoT definitely seems to be following Google's messaging strategy - if the platform isn't a runaway success, delete it and start again. Maybe people will love the new platform!
If we completely factor out things live commutes, time zones, living costs etc, and assume all employees live a reasonably comfortable commute from the office. Then I too would prefer to have e.g 2 office days per week. Both as an employer as an employee.

But that’s not how it works. And part of the attraction of remote work is not having to live within an hour from the office. For these workers I’d much rather have mandatory periodical week long team meetings for example.
I installed a popular ad blocker for facebook from chrome store some months back.

Was surprised that it's still working now. Generally those don't work after a few days.
> Was static linking not enough?

It is a GPL violation when non-GPL software does it.
Matrix bridges support iMessage and SMS and even Signal so you do not need to fragment your communications to multiple apps if you do not want to.
Oops! I missed the sarcasm, sounds like your OK after all. :)
Most people care about design more than realiability
I just found out the other day that the original AC-LR is no longer supported in the most recent controller software and hasn't been for a year or so. It still works though. Probably time to upgrade :D
And if you do both?
Sometimes it's fun to bask in the unimaginable largeness of really big numbers: a googolplex, power towers, Knuth's up-arrow notation.

How big can we go? There's something called the Fast-growing hierarchy[0] that quickly makes even anything expressed with Knuth's up-arrow notation completely puny.

Not only do Really Big Numbers™ tickle some childlike fancy in us, but a sharp exploration of them actually cuts into some deep questions about the foundations of math.

This 46 video playlist is the most in-depth and accessible exploration of the depths this rabbit-hole goes that I know.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-growing_hierarchy
I would certainly do that if I was american.
Hybrid done right can’t be so flexible that people come in 1-2 days per week and discover no one else did. Has to be e.g “do 2 days a week in the office and one of them should be Tuesday”.

Otherwise as you say people just commute to empty offices.
Co-working spaces are basically coffee shops that allow you to stay for a lot longer.
If you already broke compatibility, might as well go all the way and optimize for your problem domain, such as graphics/AI/low power. And in fact GPUs/TPUs/ARM are doing very well, and there is a strong interest in quantum computing. So this leaves conventional high power, non-vector, core speed over concurrency computing, where you additionally expect existing operating systems and software ported and optimized for your architecture. Plus IBM Power PC mainframes and Apple ARM laptops don't fit the bill. There might just not be enough demand for such a product right now and if there is in future, someone will offer a solution?
I give this is a hurdle to working in an office, but it's not a problem with working in an office in and of itself.

If you could live in a 3 bedroom luxury apartment 10 minutes from your office in an area with nice cafes, restaurants, gyms and access to great public transport to airports etc, how would you feel then?
These disks aren't typically meant for database server usage. They're fine for consumers and even stuff like webservers, but the amount of data discord moves around on the daily means that they are bound to make some disks fail pretty quickly.

The normal course of action for this is usually to have a raid array over all your nvme disks, but since google just migrates your VM to a machine that has good disks, doing that is useless.

Really this whole article is "we are going to keep using google cloud despite their storage options being unfit for our purpose and here's how".
Being individually very productive is not necessarily good for a company. Just wanted to point that out as a lot of HN (and offline) commenters say - well, I get so much more done when I’m not at work. But that misses the point: what matters is the team’s overall progress, which is (1) certainly not equal to the sum of each individual’s perceived productivity and (2) heavily a function of personal relationships and communication. that is why remote might seem like a great idea for the individual coder yet have managers stressed out of their minds.

I’ve spoken to so many managers about remote. Off the record, all of them have said it is a nightmare for them to coordinate the team.
Linux is more than likely suited for a different sector of the computing market than the desktop, considering its endless failures to breakthrough (Android aside) and the unchanging and fundamentally incompatible-with-desktop ideologies held by the neckbeards who really run the whole show.

The point I want to convey is not so much that Linux should change (though as a desktop user I certainly wouldn't mind), but that anyone within Linux who complains about How The World Is Wrong(tm) needs to wake up from their freedom-infused obsession and smell reality. The rest of the desktop world functions fine, so if it's only Linux that Just Can't(tm) then the problem is Linux.
Oh nice, that's really cool. I am pretty sure last time I checked this was not the case (~2 years ago)
Yes, they will run, as will most VB6 apps from 1998.

But if you have developed a .NET Framework app that you want to see living into the future a decade or more from today, you need to know that maintaining it is going to be increasingly painful as time goes on. You are locked to an old version of the C# language, and you absolutely can't count on third-party dependencies to stay supported. At some point MS might well decide to drop tooling for .NET Framework development in new releases of Visual Studio.
Tech/Hacker culture has a lot of overlap with gamer and meme culture... These are the places where far-right (racist, fascist, and anti-intellectualism) ideologies have been subtly and not-so-subtly introduced. You're now seeing the fruit from the seeds that have been meticulously planted the past 10ish years.
And all random write workloads can be turned into sequential write workloads, either with clever design, or with something like logfs.