skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Official Twitter account:

>All 3rd party apps or client modifiers are against our ToS, and the use of them can result in your account being disabled. I don't recommend using them.

https://twitter.com/discord/status/1229357198918197248

Thus it looks like in practice you can't have a client that has local chat history, local search, or just better information density on the screen, and simultaneously hope to not have your account nuked.
I would better understand why if I wasn't still seeing people's accounts getting hacked regularly and spammers going around with botted accounts. Spammers also generally don't care if their accounts get shut down after a few days.
Note that I wrote "most countries other than the US".

Your first reference seems to be US only; the second one lists around 2-10 cent per message to most non-US destinations.

Since this is based on what phone networks charge these service providers and other networks for inbound SMS, anything much cheaper than that is usually using unreliable SIM farms or even more dubious means of message delivery (like hijacked Android smartphones on unlimited messaging plans used without the owner's explicit consent).

Viewed globally, cheap and reliable outbound SMS are a US-specific anomaly.
Land is cheap because it wasn't all given away to nobles before history books were written (we'll ignore the fact we killed everyone that there when 'we' showed up).

Energy is cheap because we tend to have a massive amount of that also, specifically coal and hydro resources.
- Grace Randolph, 'Beyond The Trailer'. She typically has inside information - most recently she's been discussing what is going on with HBO/Discovery+ (https://www.youtube.com/user/BeyondTheTrailer)

- Sean Collins, 'Cooking the French Laundry'. A good series, if you like to cook that is.
(https://www.youtube.com/user/Seanc0272)
Future of the front end: the end of Single Page Applications?
There are other libc implementations that work on Linux with various tradeoffs. Alpine famously uses musl libc for a lightweight libc for containers. These alternate libc implementations implement users/groups/network manipulation via well-known files like /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, etc. You could fully statically link one of these into your app and just rely on the extremely stable kernel ABI if you're so interested.
Indeed and I suppose in fairness I don’t think 432 was ever intended as a PC cpu replacement whilst Itanium was designed to replace some x86 servers.

As an aside I’m still astonished that 432 and Itanium got as far as they did with so much cash spent on them before without conclusive proof that performance would be competitive. Seems like a prerequisite for projects of this size.
> he'll go through your science and find your errors and get a colleague he can deny knowing to publish that. Chomsky did this to the Piraha linguist.

"Go through your science and find your errors" is science. Commendations to Chomsky for advancing science in this instance.
Some of us would love to work on a team like this. It would be nice to have the option. Your definition of "acceptable" might not actually result in teams that can take on the big challenges we face as a species as men who did find this kind of thing acceptable retire out of the workforce.
Basically there are many options, none of them perfect:

1. Support phone number contact discovery, with persistence provided by the contacts provider. This is seamless and causes the least amount of complaints.

2. Support username discovery, with persistence provided by passphrase-encrypted online storage. This is painful and risks backlash from people losing access to data. Also, now the threat model must account for or ignore weak derived keys (which is probably most of them).

- 2a. Enforce strong passphrase requirements. Many users will abandon the product.

- 2b. Sync usernames between linked devices (using a generated key). Requires multiple devices, risks people losing data, more complaints.

- 2c. Sync usernames using custom contacts provider fields (e.g. email). Nobody is accustomed to doing this, but it might work. Automatic discovery rates would be low. Possibly requires an odd workflow for people adding Signal contacts by their email/username.
Because as it seems Y2K was a hoax (see ggp), so why should we prepare next time?

Plus, noone in charge to decide will understand the significance of such a weird date.
Fascinating how different experiences can be. The changes of Android 12 are what kept me from switching to iOS (even if I disagree with some of the paradigms, transitions are finally only glitchy something like 20% of the time instead of approximately every time).
Is there a convenient way to limit the number of CRDs that Crossplane provider installs? For instance, someone wants to expose XRD only for one specific AWS service and completely ignore other AWS services
Agreed, it's not very constructive feedback. Google does respond to feedback on the Issue Tracker, but I've found posts that sound like rants tend to get ignored (unless there's some critical issue at play).
What's crazy is that this problem was solved a long time ago. The Palm Pre had gesture-based navigation and while some of it had to do with the screen size being smaller, there was a focus on navigation from the bottom in applications. Notifications would pop up from the bottom.

It's crazy that we're almost 14 years out from that and with these huge screens you have to reach to the top of the screen.
Basically they need to solve local SSDs not having all needed features and persistent disks having too high latency by:

> essentially a write-through cache, with GCP's Local SSDs as the cache and Persistent Disks as the storage layer.
Critically thinking and not being afraid of getting it wrong.

1. You can't move from a small company to running a large company without being able to identify (eventually) where it works in one but not the other, so you must think critically.

2. Not being afraid to get it wrong also means not shying away from an admission that you need to improve and then doing so.

I think where a lot of people get it wrong is more static thinking. Applying what worked for you at the small company to the large and expecting it to work.

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As an aside, I see this all the time, it's not just a founder problem. I'm of the opinion that the reason agile mostly doesn't work is because well-meaning people don't actually know what good software dev looks like and reach out to prescriptions such as scrum. They form the belief that's the right way to do it and hang onto it, when in actuality if they'd make a few non-agile adjustments they may find themselves with a lot more success.
My two favorite articles from that era are from a list apart: https://alistapart.com/article/prettyaccessibleforms/ and site point: https://www.sitepoint.com/fancy-form-design-css/.

Long form articles were pretty much the norm for these types of educational content and videos were rare. CSS-tricks and smashing magazine came along a bit later with some good content also. Haven’t found video equivalents of any of it but I haven’t looked much either.
You can also apply "Pascal's wager" to many weird ideas; if X is true, what does thinking X is false do to me? And versa vice?

Most of the "big ticket" items have been found (don't drink molten lead, it's bad for you) so the marginal effects are going to be relatively low on all these things.
Exactly, and there are many pros for humanity to this too: people will be able to make funny pictures and things like that, so it's not like it's a bad deal.
For videos in particular, if you don't mind shelling out cash, the current go-to (at least according to various AI discord servers I'm on) for AI animation nerds is currently Topaz upscaler. There are free alternatives but I've yet to see any of them work as well as Topaz, though I'm sure that will change soon. For interpolating frames Flowframes is "free" (new features if you join the Patreon) and is IMO very good.

I've seen a number of 80s/90s VHS recordings of concerts being uploaded to YouTube in 4K (using Topaz) and they look like they were recorded that way, truly amazing. I do hear it can be a bit of work though getting the settings right.
I guess that gets me closer to understanding it, thanks. If we consider an example where the potential outcome is truly unknowable. If we don't prepare, it might happen; if we do, it might not have ever happened. So in that sense, the Y2K bug isn't a good example, but perhaps preparing for catastrophic low-probability events like "AI paper-clip doom" is.
Solar flux outside the atmosphere is not, in fact, 9x sea level. You can cook the numbers by keeping the orbital panel square on to the sun, while the ground-mounted panel rotates through the day and overnight. But you don't get to count nighttime twice.

Conversion losses of only 20% from electric to laser, and again from laser to electric again, would be miraculous. 20% scattering loss in clear weather would be unsurprising. 90% loss, total, would be admirable, not counting the original 60%+ loss off the top. So, even with 9x, and neglecting huge launch cost you still come out behind.
Well the government is not doing that in this case. They don't care about phenotypes for this analysis. The phenotypes are used for other analysis like public health efforts, but for law enforcement they just ask whether one pattern matches another and to what proportion it matches, and then if it matches a psuedorelative they go about to see if there is infact a person who could be this psuedorelative, then they go about and see if the person did commit the crime with other pieces of evidence.
Would this approach be resistant to a rogue actor. If one actor bad data would all the other actors still be able to reach consensus?

Paxos is complicated, but it’s well studied and proven.
I use fastmail and I have created many aliases. Some in order to avoid spam, others to help organize my inbox.

One of my aliases was clearly compromised and it is now sent a lot of spam.

Do I simply delete the alias and retire it and update my email with whatever services I care to hear from?

As an aside, I have found the spam filter on Fastmail to be pretty bad. Anyone else have this experience?
What's the difference between https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/24/former... and what happened here? Why are so many people happy about that but upset about this? It seems like a double standard.
This is the thing I miss most with a kindle. The flipping of pages, random seek to a approximate page etc. It is very useful to look back at headings, sections and figures.
Soybean oil is currently a major feedstock for production of biodiesel
The book is used for warranty work. When you are paying customer you will not be charged by book time, but multiple of that.
I specifically mentioned the sims3. That one is constantly broken by updates.

Also age of empires2 hd, after working fine with wine/proton for a decade, doesn't work with the latest proton for me.
Yeah, this is something that has always bugged be a tiny bit. I was more familiar with the idea of a paradox as something like your definition -- containing an actual contradiction. But it seems to be used instead to describe any initially counterintuitive situation.

It is tempting to attribute this to a technical/non-technical difference (similar to fallacy, which in non-technical discussion has been expanded to basically include almost any bad argument). But somehow the Birthday "Paradox" has managed to stick in probability.
I didn’t remember any of that from the article so I went back and checked. Seems that although you’re absolutely right, the article doesn’t give any details whatsoever other than obliquely hinting at it somewhere towards the bottom of the article.

Thanks for the comment, it actually seems quite a bit more interesting now.
You can't generate a secret with a webapp they control without them controlling the secret too.
Oh, that makes sense. I've never viewed books in this way -- or consumed that kind of book, really -- so I guess it was just a blind spot for me.

Thanks! One small part of the great mystery of the human condition, resolved. ;)
> I'd get a "So-and-so joined Signal!" notification for a bunch of randos

One of the reasons I wish I could use something other than my phone number and access to my contact list to work with signal is these notifications creep me the fuck out and I would rather never get them, or have anyone get them about me.

I'm fine with it being a feature for people who want it, but I don't. I want to make my own damn choices about who I talk to through it.
> We are on such a Goldilocks planet it isn’t even funny.

If we are the only living planet then it is out duty to life on this planet to expand outwards.

If not then it is our duty to meet the others.

Life here will eventually die regardless of what we do. We should start working on spreading the seeds as far as possible. Otherwise we would have lived for nothing as a species.
Thanks, this article does not do a great job of highlighting Asciidoc’s USPs
But not sims 3

Age of empires DE will not work with proton. And it's not really a top notch graphics game.
My apologies for being so defensive. It's becoming clear to me just how emotionally jarring this was.

I didn't let him anywhere near my house agin. I hired a carpenter, an HVAC company, and an electrician, and sent him the bills. Basically played general contractor then had him write me a small check in case a unit fails (both are currently running. We'll see haha).
A warranty that can be voided just because some little sticker a user can't access indicates moisture detection doesn't even sound like it should be legal. If you've done something obviously stupid like drop your monitor in the bath then you're hardly going to need such a sticker to detect "unreasonable use". It seems pretty reasonable to expect consumer goods to tolerate small amounts of moisture. In fact a monitor I just bought recently got water on it due to some dripping house plants above it. It was fine. So far anyway!
Does this narrative hold true if we replace the individual with “everyone”? How many people does it take to reach a “significant” change?
Slightly mangling the name (e.g. target => trget) is another way.
is this post just some passive aggressive dig at getting vaccinated?
Depending on how long his will is, qr codes might work. A single qr code can store up to 4296 alphanumeric characters, which is about 2.5 pages worth of single space text. This is with a 177x177 cell qr code; not sure how many of those you could reliably fit on a single sheet of paper while maintaining readability but its probably in the double digits, especially if you can print on both sides of the sheet. If you pre-compress the text data, you might be able to get a few hundred pages of text.
Photoshop Mask Placer: https://www.middleendian.com/psmaskplacer

Photoshop Layer Labeler: https://www.middleendian.com/pslayerlabeler
Please re-read my above comment--I'm very specifically and explicitly not proposing forestalling renewables for 20 years while we build nuclear plants! I'm proposing we continue building out renewables at full tilt while we also build nuclear plants at full tilt.
> Scientists may, but so what? They are wrong. The Scientific Method, that concept is what matters. You can read about it in Wikipedia.

I brought it up because you said:

>Nothing is presented as unquestionable truth in science. It is the predominent model. Just because some people might seem present it as TRUTH, doesn't mean that any scientist actually thinks that it is.

Many scientists do think their current views are the truth, not a compelling theory. You are wrong to suggest that scientists don't do this.

>It just depends, too. If someone says that there are fairies or pixies that exist, or that Pegasus exists, then that is pretty much an idiot, for all intents and purposes

You can't have it both ways. If a scientist says there are no fairies then according to you it is not the truth, but a model or theory. No scientists could possibly come to the conclusion that it is anything other than just a theory.

If I believe in a theory that hasn't been disproven like fairies then calling me an idiot would be wrong. According to you, I am making no more of a truthful statement than a scientist who says there are no fairies.

>So...I don't get what you are saying? Are you saying that the earth is flat??? Because that would be extremely bizarre to say that.

Of course I am not saying that. I am saying there are certain things in science we can say are true. We don't need to have competing theories. The Earth not being flat is one of them. If a scientist says the Earth is not flat and anybody who disagrees is an idiot and wrong, that is perfectly fine.
If you're rich, it's easy to convince rich people to give you their money, and you can keep some. So it's smart to be one of the first people to give a rich person money. The rich person will then go get even more money, at which point the original investors can cash out with big returns, leaving the last person to give the rich person holding the bag. Hope you learned your lesson, Masayoshi Son.
> Too bad the hospitals aren't trustworthy.

What the heck is that supposed to mean?
Probably a soda-stream or Keurig clone with different 'cartridges'
It would be a huge scientific loss to discard collected genetic material. We should be cataloging all DNA that we can, not just from humans but from crops we grow and ecological marker species that proxy ecosystem health. You never know if there will be some test uncovered in the future that you could use against these previously collected samples and make some life saving inferences. When you throw that data away, you've eliminated that possibility forever and damned future scientists.
I think it shows that compiling is prefered way to go. So it's more like twisting around the point :)

But what with old, binary only games ? Same as with old movies you want to watch and Hollywood prefers to not show anymore... They are super stupid IMO but maybe they have their reasons.

And that DT_HASH lack can be easily patched if someone wants. And if GNU will keep to sabotage like this then there is time to move off GNU. Ah, right - noone wants to sponsor libc fork for few years... Maybe article is right about binaries after all ;)
UK Government is discussing billions of £ to help people this winter. One Winter. I say invest in renewable tech + atomic energy and just get on with it.

The problem is that's a multi year plan and governments like the UK right now can't see past September, then 2024, then whatever short term deadline's around the corner. It's pathetic.
I don't know specifically what Samsung does, but a lot of OEMs who offer similar features licensed tech from a company called Tempow. Tempow offered its own BT stack and profile called Tempow Audio Profile (TAP) that enabled streaming audio to multiple Bluetooth audio outputs simultaneously. Motorola and TCL deployed phones with this tech.

BTW, Google acquired Tempow last year: https://www.protocol.com/entertainment/google-synaptics-temp...
This is worse
Legal guardians consented.
It's not, and it is super sad to hear people advocating for such horrible idea

Linux being infested by windows is the beginning of its death to me, what a tragedy

A well deserved death after the system-d drama anyways
This is effectively how globals are handled in Lua: they are first-class environments, ordinary tables which can be assigned to a function (5.1/LuaJIT) or upvalue (5.2+) to resolve globals.

I like it a lot, it's a supplement to lexical scope: like ordinary globals it's a flat namespace 'behind' the locals, unlike many implementations of globals these environments are replaceable and (mostly) fungible.
Show HN: Power off all DDC/CI capable displays on Windows shutdown
You might be thinking of heavier race cars with bigger engines generally having higher top speeds. They aren't more efficient, just more powerful, and weight doesn't affect top speed (only acceleration).
>"potentially" misleading :)

Oh no! You mean John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men isn't about... MICE!!!!!
> Even if countries do allow private gun ownership, the restrictions on how to obtain them (and what they can legally be used for, what kinds are available, etc.) are exceptionally onerous

Citation needed. I, and probably the majority of the citizens of those countries do not consider the standard test/psych eval/background check/random checks in the future to make sure you're following the rules to be "exceptionally onerous". And i think most non-Americans would agree that adding some friction to a fringe case (owning a personal firearm for protection or fun is not something most people do, even in the US) is worth it if it nearly eliminates blatant misuses of firearms - either making suicides easier and more terminal, enabling easier revenge murders, or making your average school/public place shooting easier.

What would you consider a just middle ground between "onerous requirements" and "everyone can buy any weapon without any requirements but paying for it"?
Yes, I'm explicitly asking them to undo their work because it was actively destructive for everyone's user experience.
Ah, it's not an interface but a struct. My mistake. The syslog part of the log package allows you to specify the priority. https://pkg.go.dev/log/syslog@go1.19#Priority
Something I'm a bit fuzzy on, but can WAN/LAN address separation be done without NAT? I think it can, but if it can't that seems like a good argument in favor of keeping some form of NAT even for IPv6. While it definitely shouldn't be the only defense, I think it is a reasonable layer of defense for home networking.
I'm using Ripcord for over 3 years now and love it.
Unrelated to this current focus on the weakness of using a phone number as a contact reference, I have experienced a different problem. If a user has ever used Signal previously and for whatever reason revert back to SMS, if another user sends them a message via Signal it is lost with no indication. This is a growing problem as people try out Signal and when they get a new phone just forget or don't care to install it again.
Q about a related use case: Can I use tiered storage (e.g., SSD cache in front of a HDD with, say, dm-cache), or an md-based approach like Discord's, to successfully sync an Ethereum node? Everyone says "you should get a 2TB SSD" but I'm wondering if I can be more future-proof with say 512 GB SSD cache + much larger HDD.
Sure we don't live in Jane Austin times when a woman needs to marry because she can't inherit property and has limited economic choices.

But on the other hand in the end of Grease when Sandy sings "You better shape up, cause I need a man, and my heart is set on you." I don't think she has finance and protection in mind, exactly.

I think she's looking for happiness when she says she needs a man.
Element Android’s UI performance problems are thanks to using Realm as a single source of truth and then calling it synchronously rather than async - this is being fixed currently irrespectively of sliding sync or element x etc.

For fast remote joins: however you express the state events per room, there’s no excuse to block joining the room on having all the state. In fact, the original driver for fast joins was me implementing peeking over federation in Dendrite and needing a fast way to look at the state in the room.

Unsure that having one membership event per server rather than per user is obviously a win - it’s the same amount of info in the end, plus you’ll hit the 65K event limit as well as increasing chance of races (within the server) if you put all users in the same event for a given server. Feel free to prove me wrong tho :)

On the other hand, we definitely need a way to delete irrelevant old state, and there’s a bunch of work happening around that currently.