skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I won't do the maths here but, if the electricity was generated through fossil fuels, I wouldn't be surprised if the process actually increased CO₂ emissions instead of reducing them.
> But let's say that the hydrogen is from fossil-free electricity. You could be plugging that fossil-free electricity elsewhere instead.

This assumes a zero-sum situation where we have a fixed amount of fossil free electricity, but that's unlikely because fossil free energy (solar specifically) is the cheapest type of electricity generation we can build today.

Furthermore, the hydrogen can be electrolyzed at times when the supply of fossil free energy exceeds demand, thereby actually improving the economics of intermittent renewables by increasing their overall utilization, and hence incentivizing building more if it.
That's assuming a lot of context. Your talking about a tiny icon next to the address bar in a browser. Of course people didn't always know what that was!

Signal's primary feature is encrypted messaging. You don't get it without at least seeing the word "encrypted" somewhere.
This is a follow-up to a blog post from July, previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32886440
This is only happening in the US. In the world's largest smartphone markets it has very measly (<5%) market shares. I'll be definitely surprised if the percentage even hits double digits if you see worldwide figures.
That hasn't been true for awhile:

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

They will also deregister you automatically after some period of time. What you described is the situation several years ago, but it's much better now.
This is the most money & investment that has ever been put into VR by a single company by far.
Better article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-...
So what's the best way to use Windows on Quest Pro according to their own marketing?
If we take it further, even the eye "we" can see is blocked by the bridge of his nose, so I doubt he actually sees anything.
Apple Maps has traffic jam data. For that matter, my DVD based navigation in my 10 year old car gets real time traffic updates.

Neither of them involve using my position data to let ads track me.

Additionally nothing stops you from using Google Maps on iOS, or Waze for that matter, another Google Mapping product renowned for good traffic data.

In any case it sounds like you would prefer tighter integration of Google products into the OS, and have no problem with them collecting data on you.

In this case why not just use Android?
Fees paid for document processing are annoying and regressive but are not bribes.

They are there to stop you from wasting department resources with requests for 500,000,000 copies of an incident report whose content you disagree with.
It's not a browser game, so no you couldn't.
Thanks & I agree!
New office opened in Cyprus, lots of positions open on their site. I assume they are expanding out of Russia.
> I don't see a system that rewards and uplifts whiteness.

What you see is little more than your own personal anecdote. Who are the voices centered in the conversations around funding? Why is it easier for some people to secure investment? Who is considered important in the conversations around what tech is developed and who is ignored? Who reaps the rewards and who shoulders the costs?

> with fewer resources

Think a little deeper: why were resources allocated in this way?

>How did that result in "uplifting whiteness"?

The people put in charge of these companies have little interest in critically examining the race and caste-based resource allocation mechanisms that helped to get them there.
Is it just me or does the fact that this site already heavily pushes a particular conclusion rather than being open to all evidence lead others to take it with an extra grain of salt as well?
Their physical execution is crude. We may presume they were transcribed from papyrus written by poets laureate of the period.
Combining signal and sms to have a single messaging app is a big reason as of why I keep using it.

But like many recent developments, I'm just left dumbfounded by their high-level decision making. I've stopped recommending signal to tech persons for a while. I don't want yet another messaging app either. Matrix is serving me well.
One of the main challenges of these VR headsets is the time-to-start for any activity. It's just atrocious.

If someone invites me to an impromptu Zoom call today, I can join it quickly and easily, because it's likely I was already on my computer. I see the link on my computer, usually in my calendar or in Slack. It takes me a second to click it. And boom, I'm in. Ezpz.

Compare that to a VR meeting. If someone invites me, I'm likely on my computer. I have to leave my computer, go find my headset because it's bulky and inconvenient to keep on my desk, hope that it's charged which 50% of the time it's not, boot it up which takes 10 seconds, clear a safe space for me to stand in my apartment, put on the headset and draw a safety boundary, open the appropriate app and hope it doesn't need an update, and then try to figure out where the hell the invite link is that was chatted/Slacked/texted/calendar'd to me.

The difference between jumping into something in 5 seconds vs 5 minutes seems trivial, but it's massive. It ends up being the difference between me doing this 5x a week vs 5x a year.

What VR seems to need are more killer apps that are habitual, so I use the headset more often, so it's close by + it's charged + I keep an open space + occasionally I'm already using it when I get an invite to use it in some other way. There are all sorts of things that I regularly do on my computer, that I could potentially do better in VR if an app existed, but none does.
What anyone means when they say SMS post ~2010 is SMS/MMS
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 11
So what's the best way to use Windows on Quest Pro according to their own marketing?

I am not really interested in "Windows 365" because my PC has a lot of private data I would not want in the cloud.
> Projected overlays on glasses could be useful, I'll grant

That's what they are aiming for long-term. Zuckerberg said in the Connect talk that glasses would be the ideal form factor.
I love how the PC market slowdown is being headlined as causal when Intel has clearly done this to themselves.

Maybe if Apple's products were still "Intel Inside" Intel wouldn't be in this position.
James Webb Telescope captures ‘cosmic fingerprint’ formed by two giant stars
I'm curious how long it will be before that public incident - they rolled their own cryptography right? With that, I would imagine that if it hasn't been pwned yet, then there would be a disproportionate amount of people trying to break it.
Pat Gelsinger was a CEO of VMware prior to Intel, COO at EMC prior to that, and CTO at Intel before that.

He was never a CFO.
Original Bloomberg article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-...

(https://archive.ph/74jNp)
Perjury or giving false statements
Or maybe someone had a rounding/least significant digit error and was aiming at Mars but hit Earth by a mistake? Obviously, they'd be calling the planets other names like Kepler-186f assuming they had a similar honorific naming convention.
This is my goto music for helping getting calm and to sleep after bed time stories.
"Currently they provide a CE edition for PyCharm only?"

If I'm not mistaken, I think they have a CE edition of IntelliJ (java) too.
They're end-to-end encrypted. Did you read the article?

This is the same threat model as password managers, which are generally approved of on HN.
He's just mopping up though?
> There are three big reasons why we’re removing SMS support for the Android app now: prioritizing security and privacy, ensuring people aren’t hit with unexpected messaging bills, and creating a clear and intelligible user experience for anyone sending messages on Signal.

Pretty weak reasoning to me. Just do what Apple does and color sms messages some other color or whatever. Problem solved.

This is gonna make me drop Signal. I use it as my default sms app and have been very happy with it, but most of my conversations (although most actual messages are Signal) are still over sms so it'll have to go. I can't be bothered to roll a bunch of different apps.

Still, I'm grateful for the work the Signal team has done over the years. Sad to see us part ways!
Man Smart, Woman Smarter was Harry Belafonte. I came across the song through the Grateful Dead.
tl;dr: Yes, and further they're only decrypted using the secure chip on the device, so the vendor supplied authentication firmware can't be updated without user interaction/approval.

From a post linked in the article:

> Passkeys in the Google Password Manager are always end-to-end encrypted: When a passkey is backed up, its private key is uploaded only in its encrypted form using an encryption key that is only accessible on the user's own devices. This protects passkeys against Google itself, or e.g. a malicious attacker inside Google. Without access to the private key, such an attacker cannot use the passkey to sign in to its corresponding online account.

> Additionally, passkey private keys are encrypted at rest on the user's devices, with a hardware-protected encryption key.

> Creating or using passkeys stored in the Google Password Manager requires a screen lock to be set up. This prevents others from using a passkey even if they have access to the user's device, but is also necessary to facilitate the end-to-end encryption and safe recovery in the case of device loss.
He was under influence once (e.g. a delirium episode), he saw that vision once and it really impressed him. The true importance of these demons is that of mosquitos: they are unimpressive, but drugs may distort visuals so mosquitos appear as dragons for example.
My point is that a lot of the people complaining about VR haven’t even tried it to experience its immersion. Until you understand that, you won’t understand what VR brings to meetings. It doesn’t demo well on a flat screen.
If you install surveillance gear that operates through the vendor's cloud management solution then you are already giving strangers the ability to invade your privacy.

Sure, the OP doesn't need to make it any worse, but it's already bad.
Nasal Covid vaccine blows clinical trial, flinging researchers back to the lab
Hopefully for them that includes executives and managers, they are the ones responsible of the death of that company, not the engineers

Congrats to Apple and AMD for having done better

Microsoft ignoring AMD in their latest Surface lineup is a hint for the people looking for answers
I'm talking specifically about their physical execution. It's not crude. I've seen plenty of sloppy hieroglyphs. These aren't them.
> A grow-house is not cheap

Why not outdoor hydroponics? After all conventional soil based vegetables grow outdoors. You get free light too. Obviously it doesn't work in cold weather, but in temperate zones it should.

I suspect the hydroponic equipment and the skilled labor to build and maintain it is the biggest cost issue.
Trying to set up an alternate 3d volume of GPS space sounds very difficult.

But broadcasting a loud signal that tells everyone in range that they are at the same exact point doesn't seem too hard to me. Couldn't that even be as simple as replaying a single-antenna recording taken somewhere else?
Wait. Doesn't Signal use SMS to confirm your account?

I think the only one that's totally anonymous is Wickr
U.K. Police Constable: Robbers 'sneaky', crimes 'bad'
Part venting, but I really would like to know about decent forums.
The technology is cool, but the problem is Meta is working backwards from “create a platform where we have total control so a company like Apple can’t bully us” and not “create a product that people want to use”. Plus, Zuck himself being involved in the marketing is basically instantly making their VR products seem uncool and untrustworthy.

You can see this bleed through into all of their demos and apps. They are focused on social because it has a larger TAM and enterprise customers. They’re demoing digital cosmetics because they want to create a marketplace for them and skim a huge amount off the top. They’re not focused on creating something that is better than the alternatives or that people want to use.

VR/AR are for sure the future. I can’t think of a company I’d less rather be the main player than Meta (I guess Oracle, but I mean companies which realistically could make an AR/VR product). And I think that sentiment is common enough among early adopters and developers that Meta will really struggle to hit the hockey stick growth they need.
That's sorta like the effect of caffeine on me. It's not only not a stimulant, but if I take in too much, I straight up get drowsy.
I wish there was a Missing Semester of Linear Algebra course to help people go from "Okay I have a course or two in linear algebra, I know what span, vectors, basis and dimension mean, the formal definition of an inner product space, and I can do Gauss-Jordan elimination, determinants and eigenvalues for small matrices with paper and pencil" to "I have a 100x100 matrix of noisy data from sensors and this research paper I found tells me I can do some fantastic stuff if I compute such-and-such involving eigenvalues or inverses or whatnot. Or maybe I have a process with 1000 states where I know the probability objects move from state i to state j for each pair (i, j) and I want to find the steady state. How do I wrangle numpy into doing what I need?"

MIT has a course called The Missing Semester of Your CS Education [1]. It tells you about practical stuff that you need to know but isn't really taught in classes (shells, version control, build systems, package managers, VM's).

There needs to be something similar for linear algebra, it seems like there's a lot of folk knowledge and a big gap between what typical undergrad courses train you to do and what you encounter in actual practical problems.

(And don't get me started on all the weird linear algebra stuff they have going on in e.g. quantum physics.)

[1] https://missing.csail.mit.edu/about/
>I believe putting a Cfo in charge of a company will lead to this.

That sounds like what happened to Boeing.
And the iPod became irrelevant as soon as the mobile phone became popular. Even the Roku which was originally created by Netflix and spun off as a company would have failed as a “Netflix box”
I'm looking for JavaScript library that would allow me to build a hobbyist autoharp tuner. I can program the UI, but need a note generator library. It just needs one API function or equivalent: soundNote(noteNum, duration); Note-number is the MIDI note number, and duration is the duration of the note in micro-seconds. (It can be in "beats" when the beat unit is defined via another function.)
And ‘people not at home’? What does that even mean? People take their laptops to coffee shops? But so what?
Is it nanny-ish just because it makes it simpler for end users? Fairly certain most users are not interested in managing their own key sharing infrastructure.

It's built on the same technology as FIDO keys, so if you want to take control of it yourself, just use a hardware key.
Programming a Problem-Oriented Language (1970) [pdf]
Counter point most people think Telegram is e2ee secure messaging, but Telegram never said they were.
Whoa that's a lot of people.
The financialization of the global economy has been disaster of boom bust cycles that destroys the mental health of the population.
"Suspending R&D" sounds like no work is done in Russia anymore.
Technology and educational choices: Evidence from a one-laptop-per-child program
They are approaching monopoly by ... competing with each other and taking down Netflix's near 100% streaming market share?
In the long list of SMS alternatives below, can someone tell me what's wrong with the default Android SMS? I use Signal and regular SMS, why would I install a second SMS option for non-Signal ?
You know, I haven’t really thought of it like this. Those for whom I take an interest in their technical lives typically get a spiel from me about whatever solution I’m offering. That spiel often includes something about how “they’ll probably change this eventually in ways no one wants, but the most we can do is speak up. We probably won’t get options.”

But I have to admit your perspective calls to me. I can imagine it would feel quite freeing.

I’m in a minor mess of a situation with my dad’s phone and computer because I’ve tried to be helpful. Now he resists help and that makes both of us frustrated.
Does strong give you programs?
Signal consistently has been a poor UX for me. Sure it's super secure and that's nice. But I don't really care about the security of the convo with my aging parents. I care that they can easily respond to me.

I'm happy we have an available secure chat for people that need/want it, but I'm more than happy to keep it relegated to niche uses until it gets more user friendly.
I had it the other way around, neat!

Lysenkoism still isn't evidence that Marx was anti-science.
> How does one avoid DMCA notices from the ISPs?

Rent a seedbox from a company not based in the US, under a pseudonym, and use cryptocurrency for payments. This is surprisingly common.

> Is this where private trackers come into play?

The main benefit of using a private tracker is access to high-quality content: no mislabeled content, no audio lag, etc.

A side benefit of using private trackers (instead of public ones) is that you probably won't get any trouble from your ISP or any law firms.

> How does one who's not immersed in the community obtain access to private trackers?

Some trackers have Open Invite periods where anyone can join. You can use your membership there as a foothold into other private trackers.
Example:
https://www.ancient-code.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/saqq...
How about a near infinite canvas with 6DOF for a Visio app along with social immersion? How about a desktop the size of your physical room?

You have to try the productivity apps before you pan it
> I mean first of all, free and preserving facts would be fulfilled so the only part that could be compromised as you said is neutrality.

Yes, which was a requirement the OP specified alongside the others. Abdicating neutrality was not acceptable.

> But their grants affect future events not the ones recorded and wikimedia aren't even the people writting the text on wikipedia, they are unpaid moderators.

Wikipedia only posts information with citations. The grant is funding organizations that will provide citations from a certain viewpoint ("shifting away from Eurocentricity, White-male-imperialist-patriarchal supremacy, superiority, power and privilege"), thus affecting the information that will show up on Wikipedia in the future. This follows trivially so I'm not sure exactly what doesn't follow.

> how so? The non voting shareholders of exxon and the donators in wikimedia have the same role, financing the operation.

The returns shareholders are expecting is money. The returns Wikipedia donors are expecting are improvements to Wikipedia in its role as neutral historian. Money and those expectations are not commensurate, so the comparison isn't really valid on its face.

Furthermore, if you accept that Wikimedia funded activism that's not strictly in line with being a neutral historian, then you must conclude that they abdicated that role contrary to donor expectations.

If you wanted a proper comparison to Exxon, then it would be comparable to Exxon making a series of choices that reduce shareholder value, which gives shareholders grounds to sue. There is no such recourse for Wikimedia donors as far as I understand so they still aren't directly comparable, but the "betrayal" of violated expectations as you termed it, is of a similar kind.
I asked an Intel chip designer more than 10 years ago why they were not prioritizing mobile chips. He didn't have a good answer. It has been obvious for so long that everything was moving to phones, tablets, etc. The fact that Intel has no foot at all in that door is astonishing to me.
And while older generations might be less willing to use a high number of apps side by side, having one kind of message in one app and the other kind of message in the other app is still much less confusing to them than dealing with the subtleties of multiprotocol if everything is forced through the single one-size-fits-all interface of a messenger that tries to do SMS on the side.
There is (or was?) a relatively widespread conception that sugar causes ADHD. Although I think it may have fallen out of favor a bit.
People usually want both and that's what causes most people to ignore good tools.
I made a mistake here.
I no longer stand fully by that statement.
For details, consider my later reply.

Original text:

It is.
The article does not say where this will occur.

They cannot lay off people from the EU like that.
It's not that easy.
Unlike the US, EU countries are welfare states.
Mess this up even a little bit and the only profit to be seen will be at the jail's commissary.
I recommend this Huberman Labs podcast about ADHD:

https://hubermanlab.com/adhd-and-how-anyone-can-improve-thei...

Huberman is a neuroscientist and everything he recommends appears to be backed by peer reviewed research. He does also promote various products, but afaict, he does a good job of keeping that from biasing his recommendations.
"Feel good getting work done" is the overwhelmingly dominant modern hustle culture vibe. But why self-reflect when your flow group will applaud instead?

> When you refresh the page, your Hype Goblin has a new message for you.

I want off.
Yet another editor :shrug:
In situations where there is a dopamine deficiency, stimulants like amphetamines counterintuitively have the opposite effect than you would expect.
Be precise: what threat is added here that is added by a third party holding encrypted keys?

Like this isn't particularly different from me backing up my (encrypted) disk which contains my (further encrypted) keys to the cloud somewhere.
> Speaking poorly about your prior employers will make future employers wary. Even if it was anonymous.

Perhaps in a previous world, but the power imbalance between employer and employees in the corporate world, and twice so in the tech corporate world is extreme today. The very presence of "quiet quitting" as a thing not immediately being turned around as "don't you mean required overwork?" shows how brainwashed people are today. The attitude of not talking honestly about one's employment treatment continues to perpetuate terrible working environments. Places like Glassdoor.com and if you remember fatbabies.com - they do society a great service.
It's not the driving part. He risked federal prison for even making them.
“Killing Signal”? They don’t publish their user numbers, but they were having outages due to massive user growth a few years ago.
And the effect gets multiplied - all of them have a family, buy products, hire services etc.