skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to stop that, pay fair market value for the guns. Homemade guns have essentially zero market value, so stop paying people to make them.

this approach also has issues.

if someone wants to sell a gun for fair market value, they don't need the state as a counterparty. unless of course they don't legally own the gun, in which case the "fair market value" is zero. I guess you could appraise the gun as if it were legal, but then what if the person doesn't like the offer? are they expected to trust that there will be no repercussions for walking back out holding all the evidence needed to charge them with a felony?

seems to me the best and simplest approach is an amnesty box. getting to walk away without risk of prosecution should be enough of a reward for turning in a hot gun. and if the gun is in fact legally owned, why does the state want to take it off their hands so badly?
Discrediting Joseph McCarthy is another example of a CIA internal operation: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/48603/did-the-c....
The beauty of it is, you use pass through cameras and you can see your keyboard and you can see your mouse directly, while still having access to the full virtual experience.

I expect people to be using a mouse with this stuff, and a keyboard.
Immanuel Kant would like to have a word with you.
It's not that much different of a problem compared to real life hybrid calls between conference rooms and other conference rooms / remote workers.
> I read all his novels (and some of his short stories), he's one of my favorite authors

That makes at least two of us. :) But, I suspect there are quite a few more HN readers who like Kafka's works and literature in general (the first is arguably very correlated to the other), judging from how often literature related articles appear on the HN front page. Often, when that is the case I also can't help but wonder the same about the correlation between being a fiction and HN reader.
Metasoft.
Cool! Thanks for sharing. How did your co-founder find you, btw?
(laughing) Been there, done that, got another company's t-shirt due to it.
> Additionally, registering and configuring your app at Apple / Facebook / Google etc. is non-trivial. I know what I am doing in theory, and I have already invested a week of time in configuration and approvals and updates.

I don't feel like it's worth giving up control over your user's authentication to an intermediary in return for saving a week of work. Maybe the case could be made for day-1 of a startup, but certainly not year-1, it's just too critical a component.

I'd also challenge this taking a week. Apple/FB/Google sign-on is pretty straightforward, and I've found the cost is mostly in setting up an open-source auth library in my webapps rather than enabling a given service provider.
Amusing.
I mean I think copyright laws are dumb but this seems a like a bit of an over-dramatic comparison.
It would actually be pretty funny if Apple enabled/defaulted end-to-end encryption in iMessage used that to bash Google's green vs blue messages whining.
What your missing is that this is not (generally) the same resource. The resource is individual shows, which are copyrighted and therefore a monopoly. Back when copyright holders didn't recognize the online streaming market and sold off their licenses cheaply, Netflix was awesome. Now that publishers have found out they can charge consumers directly and be the only place to watch a given show, consumers are being squeezed.
True, but at that point you're not using dependent types.
There is an unofficial FOSS version. I'm not sure if it is feature complete, secure, etc.

https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS
Isn't that water vapor still going to be in the local environment? Is the argument here that farm plants somehow prevent water from reaching aquifers (at that 100x magnitude) that would otherwise reach them? If so, how?
Im tired of super secure apps that ask for your phone number and even publish it to your contacts. Wake me up when Signal doesnt depend on a phone number any more.
AgileBits have passkeys in the works for 1Password:

https://blog.1password.com/1password-is-joining-the-fido-all...
I think you're fighting a losing battle here, sorry to say. This sort of thing has been going on for a while.

"Terrific" hasn't meant "inspiring terror" for a very long time.
The wording of that quote is pathologically bad. I think it is trying to say saying potable desalinated water from the plant is 0.32 cents per gallon, and recycled is 0.045 cents per gallon.

It cites a hit piece from Fox News Radio with equally confusing numbers.

Anyway, the Fox article says it will cost $1000-1400 (or maybe $1500 because they inflate the number as they go) per acre foot. At $1500, that's 0.46 cents per gallon, which is about 10-15x more than people currently pay to flood irrigate fields. Flood irrigation is notoriously wasteful.

Anyway, tap water costs about 1 cent per gallon in San Jose. These desalination plants could affordably provide water for residential use.
Does a blank white screen not get brighter on your phone when you turn up the brightness?
If the laws are flawed a citizen should resist.

I think, corporations gatekeeping huge parts of human culture is something that we can resist once in a while.
I know it is harsh to say, but whoever approved this should probably be sacked. This is really obviously a poor decision with respect to preserving/growing the userbase and will actually decrease privacy overall when fewer people are using Signal.
SadlyItsBradley's leak suggests it's a 2160x2160 panel, placed in a diagonal orientation, with a 1800x1920 render resolution.
Having just had a wisdom tooth extracted, something that can help them locate nerves for targeted local anesthesia would be nice. In both this and a crown procedure I had done ten years ago the needle hit a nerve bundle and it felt like my face was getting tazed lol.
What an awful move. Make a different app if you want to remove SMS access.
Aah yes, famously benevolent democratic leaders like Aung Suu Kyi & Indira Gandhi.
Pulse SMS is really good, but I blacklisted updates since they were bought in 2020

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/10/29/it-looks-like-pulse...

QKsms is open source but abandoned more than a year, so I guess Simple SMS at Fdroid should be ok, it's from the guy behind Simple Gallery
Thanks, that's very useful. Have been trying to customize my applications. Will definitely continue to do so! :)
3D UI doesn't work when you are playing a video game because you are ultimately using a 2D interface.

Navigation through 3D worlds is clumsy and terrible in video games, but with VR it's just like your everyday life.

I don't expect people to be doing much in terms of fine detail work in VR without some sort of tool like a mouse or keyboard accessible to them, but things like the ability to design web pages that are bigger than a screen, have depth, be able to integrate a full room into the experience, is going to be pretty incredible.

Your baseline experience, what's going to start is having basically virtual monitors so that you can have windows all over the place, from there It will probably evolve into something more native to VR.
If we had something like the Paramount Decree for streaming/tv anyone would be able to license those shows and we'd have actual choices.
Please, did you achieve to power on your MS1201.02 single-board PDP-11 ?
Thanks!
Anecdotal data but I do not watch ads.

When I occasionally see one (usually at restaurants or such), it's.. weird? People in ads don't talk like real people. The timing and intonation and facial expressions are all off.

I think my lack of exposure to ads has made them feel very alien to me.
Interesting point; do federal firearms laws have exemptions for these programs?
I cheated a lot in high school
I set Signal as my default messaging app until I was texted while my phone was off and the messages never showed up later. Could certainly have been a problem with my mobile service provider (Xfinity Mobile), but it's not an issue I've ever had before and seemed like an especially unsurprising result of using something other than the default messaging app. Curious if anyone else has had a similar experience
> If the money is their motive for selling their gun to the police, then they should be given fair market value.

I agree there. I guess the point I was trying to make the program's logic could mean it makes sense for it to pay more than fair market value, even for 3D printed guns.

I didn't realize they could be low-balling prices and exploiting desperate people.
Exactly my reaction, made me feel sick
I'm not sure, but I haven't had any issues or want any more features than it already has so it's not an problem for me, but might be for some.
It’s obviously not declining. More and more people are choosing it.
FBI targets susceptible people and surrounds them with informants that encourage the target to commit a crime, but somehow failed to take action against the 9/11 hijackers.

CIA tortures people overseas. EDIT: CIA also arms militia groups that are against, or later turn on, American interests.

NSA has a habit of spying on every American. (Remember Snowden?)

ATF enforces all the weird gun laws, like how an AR15 is sometimes a handgun.[2] It also engages in sieges that end up killing kids.[0] [1]

DEA is all about the failed war on drugs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_Siege

[2] https://www.usacarry.com/ar-pistols/
I mean that’s gonna be my adoption path. Once I can store passkeys in Bitwarden I’ll switch to them everywhere.
If this isn't the biggest failed opportunity to name and shame, I dunno what is. People like this should be eviscerated in the same social media sphere they work in.
This. I've switched to iOS recently and I hate that I need two apps now. Already longing to go back to Android.
Certain asians (Chinese and Indians descent), are over represented in elite universities, so yes, students of those origins face more competition, than say students who are Native American (who are very poorly represented at elite schools).
I have a feeling that the massive quantities of prescribed amphetamines we've dumped into the population, including millions of children, is going to age about as well as using radium for wristwatches. But I guess we'll have to see the "evidence" for that.
And we are NOT easily amused!
Very musical ambient compared to Eno but I love this currently: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2aGCFk3Mvhs9Am7JHwoyRr?si=Ci...
To be fair, that was a question from a reddit user that you are quoting.
> If the recipient chooses to not have SIgnal installed any longer, then your messages go into a black hole.

For two weeks, messages will be shown as sent but not delivered, and after two weeks Signal will not let you send messages to that number until it reconnects to the Signal servers.

For comparison, Apple automatically sends all SMS messages via iMessage opportunistically, and if the user then switches to another phone, all SMS messages from iOS users will be silently discarded in perpetuity. This is a big problem because the recipient has no idea that they're missing messages, and also if they no longer have access to an iPhone, there's no way for them to deregister their phone number from iMessage.
I’ve been through two layoffs at tech companies - one of 14,000 and one of 15,000.

One touched a lot of teams including my own. The second was mostly smoke and mirrors - they took multiple factories and supply chain employees and sold them or outsourced them to a company that picked up the payroll for those employees. Only a handful of roles were truly culled.

The announcement of the layoffs was theatre for Wall Street.
As federally-licensed firearms manufacturer (FFL07/SOT02), I can attest to how straightforward and even downright "easy" it is to create numerous firearms and firearm parts of varying legality. On the "not so illegal" side you have pistol slides, custom triggers, accessory railings, etc. that are all completely-legal to make, possess, sell, use, etc. It would be like 3D-printing a new case for a desktop computer.

On the other hand, you have things like removable drop-in auto-sears (RDIAS) [1], Glock selector switches [2], MP5 auto-sears, AR15 -> M16 conversion jigs, handmade silencers (suppressors) [3], and numerous other components that not only require a federal license to create/possess/use, but also require a special taxpayer status called an SOT (Special Occupational Taxpayer) [4] because all of the aforementioned items are construed as machine guns (even if the device merely converts a firearm to a machine gun, and of course silencers) under the National Firearms Act of 1934 [5], and later clarified with the Gun Control Act of 1968 [6].

In addition to those items, NFA also deals with short-barrel rifles (rifles with barrels under 16 inches in length) and short-barrel shotguns (shotguns with barrels under 18 inches in length) which are incredibly easy to "accidentally" own. However, the largest firearms loophole in the country is that by attaching a "pistol brace" to an otherwise regulated short-barrel rifle, you are in compliance. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are currently in violation of the National Firearms Act of 1934 because they possess these short-barrel AR-15's. The differences between these two configurations are strikingly and laughably small [7].

Especially with the machine gun parts, the idea of governments/municipalities expecting citizens to simply surrender them - even for "fair market" value - is simply absurd and altruistic.

Fun Fact: You yourself (in most states) can own a fully-automatic firearm! The only catch is that it has to be manufactured before May 1986, be registered under NFA, and transferred to you on an ATF Form 4 (which requires a $200 tax stamp [the same as it cost in 1934] and around 210+ days of waiting). These are known as "transferable machine guns" and are quite valuable despite their almost-identical resemblance to their semi-automatic counterparts. Here are some for sale: https://otbfirearms.com/nfa/transferable-machine-guns/

[1] https://www.recoilweb.com/turning-your-ar-15-into-an-m-16-15...

[2] https://buybestguns.com/product/semi-full-auto-glock-handgun...

[3] https://solventtrapsdirect.com/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Occupational_Taxpayers

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968

[7] https://www.guns.com/news/reviews/ar-pistol-vs-ar-rifle-what...
I have never been to the US but lived in multiple countries and they all used SMS. May I ask where you live that doesnt use SMS?
How on earth is not our right to engage our own brains and decide if we agree with any aspect of the world that hold sway on us????!!

I completely disagree. To think otherwise is to be entirely passive and compliant in a world that quite possibly could be (edit: is) corrupt on many levels.
Let's say they make a sail that is large enough and light enough to allow the craft to accelerate to very high speeds (say, 0.1 - 0.2c?). It's quite a long way to Alpha Centauri, and even though interstellar space is very empty, it's not completely empty. As the sail hits the odd spec of dust here and there at those speeds it seems like it will be shredded. Maybe it's ok as long as it lasts long enough for it to be accelerated to a 'fast enough' speed?
Not much evidence on here, other than “avoid food colourants.”
One of the recommendations, CBT, is inspired by NLP (heavily). I can say that NLP did wonders for me.

Site is attrocious :)
> for social issues not the spread of free information

In most cases, openly opposed to the spread of free information.
That drives home the point that NTP would likely benefit from privilege separation too. One component talks to the network, another component adjusts time. Second component would enforce gradual skewing only. (Or a time jump once in early boot, per policy. And it could enforce the max size of that jump too, implement a policy where the machine boots into repair mode if it was more than 5 minutes off the desired time, etc.)

A very simple one-way data channel between the components would make attacking the second component near impossible.

With that, and an attacker that completely pwns component 1: At worst they could start a very gradual skew, which could then be picked up by monitoring before it causes much of an issue.
If I understand this, if I use SMS, I can send to everyone. If I use Signal, I can send to Signal users only. But I don't remember who's on Signal, and who's not. So I guess I will stop using Signal.
Yes, maybe eventually they will invent a cable company that carries the streaming service-specific offerings of the Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV+ libraries.

I mean, that probably does exist, that's probably what Sling TV offers, people just opt to do something even simpler and less morally dubious than piracy: they share accounts with one another. That's been a common practice for over a decade now.

> A money losing low margin business (Spotify) isn’t “innovative”

And yet the iPod was. And without the iTunes Store, the iPod wouldn't have been the success that it was- it would have been dependent upon pirates.
Is it? On what charge, "obstruction of justice" perhaps?
> Is there a neutral historian version of world events?

Just because there's no truly neutral version doesn't mean we shouldn't aim for neutrality. There are clearly anti-neutral approaches which we should always try to eliminate.

> Who chooses which facts show up, or how do we know if certain critical facts are missing?

Wikipedia already has a pretty good policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
Many of the best technical people I know use Android. Of course, they’re also not generally using SMS, they tend to use eg Signal.
Tangential but does HN have a favorite workout app / training program?
Yup - GP made the mistake of treating HN as a single person with a coherent opinion. It's not, and it's extremely tiring and intellectually uninteresting to repeatedly see people doing that.
Fair, fair. I do have a decent network locally. It's just that I'm interested in landing a fully remote role at some of these global distributed startups where I can't leverage my network.
Most people should pay extra attention to #7.

E.g. Goodfellow et al did even worse than this sin in the Deep Learning book when they claimed the condition number for a square (but not necessarily normal) matrix is defined in terms of eigenvalues. This is false, but nevertheless see 4.2 in https://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/numerical.html . When I've raised this with people in real life, I typically get some reflexive response that it should be a useful approximation, but as this blog points out, that isn't true either.
> Really, at its very core it drives home ideas of male expendability.

Do you think it's healthy for boys to be taught that they are expendable and that their lives only have conditional value that can go away at any time if they are unable to work?

Or do you just think "that's the way things have always been so we should embrace it?"

I think probably most manosphere guys think the former which is why I say that there's no positive vision of a future for men. Just this very dreary outlook that life is some sort of hopeless struggle. No wonder so many men are violent and angry if that's the message they get their whole lives. :(

I actually love the men in my life and I want better for them and this slaying dragons stuff doesn't help them as far as I can see. They need to feel like they are valued and loved so that they can open themselves up to more possibilities beyond trying to act tough by building walls around them.
You're just intentionally misinterpreting what they mean.
re "many meetings", You mean online right?
"Even though in reality processes may run in parallel, we do not need to model this parallelism since the only communication between processes is by sending and receiving messages, and we can assume that a process finishes processing one event before starting to process the next event. Every parallel execution is therefore equivalent to some linear sequence of execution steps. Other formalisations of distributed systems, such as the TLA+ language, also use such a linear sequence of steps."

Ha-hah! Proving that you can treat "processing one event" as globally atomic was the funnest thing in grad school.
More like real life where you're on screen share but your client is literally phoning it in (because they can't run webex/zoom or they're on the road).

Lowest common denominator applies for critical attendees.
Would your aarch64 test suite have caught it? Testing is fine and all, but it can only find bugs the test authors predicted. There will always be some issues that test suites miss.

It's obvious to add regression tests for this and related issues now that they've been found. And great! That's what regression tests are for. But testing is always going to be fundamentally incomplete in that it can only cover non-obvious things after they've already been encountered.
Why?

I tell everyone I don't use SMS. The only ways to message me are e-mail, Signal, WeChat, FB, and Instagram.

E-mail is the best "generic" way to reach me that isn't tied to a company's platform, and a much, much better UX than SMS in almost every way, especially when travelling internationally with multiple devices.
Gen. Flynn was prosecuted for something the FBI claimed he said in an FBI investigation that he didn't say, and the FBI slow-walked producing the exculpatory evidence.
I've been using Chomp SMS a long time and it's still being updated.
There is IMO a coherent moral framework that says "this is harming no one"
It's written that way because the target audience is enterprise IT folks who are managing fleets of employee devices, but you can freely use MDM profiles as a consumer. It's certainly not user-friendly which is why I commented that the way it works for VPN clients installed as apps could be seen as a dubious implementation.
I think the problem with evaporation being made a point of by the GP is that ultimately the water cycle isn't definite on where it will put that water back. Water vapor can travel great distances to the point where the vapor in the breath you exude right now could end up in someone else drinking water some days or years from now, on another continent.

But ultimately no, the water doesn't just disappear forever. It just moves to a new location. That is, unless you are doing things that literally split the bonds of the molecules and revert it from being water at all. But that's a whole other level of discussion.

(And it's why I am against any form of energy that requires splitting water to create hydrogen. I would much rather we just put our efforts into going to space to collect the hydrogen there instead. Taking it from sea water is, in my honest opinion; extremely foolish.)
Agreed. It almost seems intentionally designed to make it hard to find useful information. Inconsistent spacing, typography, insufficient negative space, lines that are far too long, etc.

That being said, I wonder if it was made by someone who has ADHD?
Why Virtual Reality Will Be the Most Social Computing Platform yet (2016)
I know this is for laughs but I wouldn’t be surprised if we get a watchOS update at some point that learns your routines and understands what you’re doing.

Also, the icons you created fit in so well with the rest of the workouts. Kudos
Why were they so intertwined early on?

The early stoic schools had whole subsections of them essentially devoted to math/science.
You can send feedback to support@signal.org. I don't know if it will do any good, but I sent them my respectful two cents.
the author is a self-important dilettante
Who Loves Woke Wall Street?
Anyone else wear your watch in the shower and get a minute or two of exercise time as a result? But then I go on a 5-minute jog and forget to tell it what I’m doing and I get zero exercise minutes…