skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, really. You don't even argue against

and yet I just did. Can we please stop confusing privacy and anonymity?

Your claims about Telegram being bad for privacy are baseless. Your concerns about messages is valid but it in no way compromises privacy because:

1. No telegram employee can read any messages. They use distributed key generation to encrypt data on servers which means no single server has access to decryption keys and all the servers are in different jurisdictions.

2. They do not sell message content data. If you can prove it, you can go ahead with a lawsuit and win a hefty sum.

3. They do not compromise security. They do not use E2EE by default. Their threat model and vision for a messaging platform is different than yours.

4. Telegram has never given message content for a court order. As mentioned in the privacy policy, they give out only the phone number and IP Address only in case of terrorism or child abuse and only when there's a court order from a country of a higher democratic index.

5. If you truly believe Telegram is bad for privacy even after all the evidence from FBI itself and PrivacySpy giving it a higher score than Signal, then please go ahead and sue them because surely they can't have a good privacy policy and bad privacy at the same time.
I would give most of the credit for piracy going down in music to mobile phones where especially with the iPhone, there is no method to add music not bought from iTunes without using a computer.

Streaming music is a much better experience. Jobs was right, convenience beats free.

It’s the same way for video. If I told a normal person how they could save a few bucks by getting video for free going through the steps that people hear or suggesting, they would look at me like I’m crazy. You can usually find someone to give you their streaming account.
This is what the erosion of personal responsibility and accountability looks like. Alex Jones isnt responsible if stupid impressionable people watch his show and do stupid things. That is absurd and absolutely chilling in regards to free speech. Perhaps it even sets a new precedent that everyone who posts a comment/video/podcast online is now responsible for any illegal actions that any of their viewer commit.
I've had Nexus 4->6 and Pixel 1->4. I don't understand the complaints about Android phones not working.

With that said I wish I didn't have to choose between surveillance device Pixels or walled garden iPhones.
Why not? A "mass-market" paperback book means unit sales on the order of 100k/year

What level of market penetration would you expect? I would argue that most popular products still have a target vertical.
Confirmed. Turned on the beta program and exported ~1000 text messages over to Google Messages. Settings->Chats->SMS and MMS->Export. Involves changing the default app for SMS between Signal and Google Messages.
The employer is bound by the bargained minimum. They’re free to offer more, to one or many or all employees.
I'm finding that I'm grumpy about most new videogames. Graphics are prioritized over game play. Everything is about loot boxes and skins. A lot of the multi-player seems like the person with the best connection always wins (connection has always been a factor, but seem like it got worse).

I have little hope for most VR stuff, especially the Metaverse. AR seems like a more interesting and useful realm to me.
Not so! The 5x5 multiplication can be applied recursively to NxN matrices -- at the top level the "5x5 multiplication" carves the matrix into a 5x5 grid of "blocks" each of size approximately (N/5 x N/5). It's been a while since I've done this sort of complexity analysis, but I found some nice slides here explaining how to use the so-called Master Theorem for recursive algorithms: https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ads/Lects/lecture3... [pdf]
I don’t see how framing a belief matters. People will interchangeably flip the context simply based on the subject.
Banned on stores, but why not post APKs & IPAs so advanced users can continue using it?

Instead they make one join the waitlist.
If you’re talking personal phones, that should have no bearing on your job. Your employer should give you the devices you need to do your work.
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Well, the question of law was already decided.

And, legally, I'm pretty sure (but IANAL) that "deliberately lied", "repeatedly", "for profit", and "causing harm" were very relevant in deciding how much the fine should be.

(Except, as entiex pointed out, that this was only compensatory, not punitive. Still... the harm went on and on and on for the families, as the lies went on and on and on. Is that allowed to be figured into the amount of compensatory damage? I think so.)

My overall point: It wasn't just "saying something is a hoax". It was much more than that, and therefore the damage is much more, so the fine is much more, and justly so.
I believe the person did so but then the BBC edited their own headline later.
The version from the book is under the subdirectory lst1/. The later version you mentioned is probably under lst4/. Thought you'd like to know.
It's not that they were not built for math, but more like verification is hard. But it's hard for humans as well. A large generative model + a fast verifier could do wonders.

AlphaGo was built on that - the model can propose moves, but you can verify who won in the end. There are some code generation models that write their own tests as well, or use externally provided tests to verify their solutions. The DeepMind matrix multiplication algorithm was also "learning from verification" of generated solutions, because it's trivial to do that. In general verification remains an open problem.
Absolutely. iPhones have a much better resale value if you replace them every two or three years. And if you just want to keep them until they die, they receive updates for maybe 10 years.

I've never lost more money on phones than when I was buying flagship Android phones.

You might be able to spend less if you buy the crappiest Android phones. But that's not even a little bit comparable to the cheapest iPhone.
No, i stand by it. There are situations where you need a reboot, there are others where it's a convenience (we could do a clean service/component registration and restart, but we'll just ask the user to reboot), and there are some "put it in the instructions just in case". Doing that and not actually enforcing the reboot when necessary trained a lot of people to ignore it and I can't blame them.
There actually were quite a lot of changes. I remember using it in 2014, and then 1.0 in 2015, and found 1.0 to be much more approachable.

Also, since 2018 with non-lexical lifetimes and some nice error handling improvements, Rust now tends to be more friendly/ergonomic than 1.0.
It's a super fun thing to be the first person to comment about #1 on literally everything Google does, but it's silly and wrong to think that's a valid criticism.

For every product Google kills, it's launched dozens of wildly successful products you've been taking for granted for over a decade in some cases: Gmail, search, Drive, Photos, Chromecast, Chrome, Books, Flights, Scholar, AdSense, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Keep, Translate, Maps...

Google can and does support dozens of good products, and pretending otherwise is getting tiresome. If your best criticism is, "I dunno if Google will support this long term" that, to me, means you couldn't come up with anything better to say, which means it's a pretty damn cool product.
Thanks!

No, you'll retain access to your data. We switch accounts without a subscription into a read-only mode.
So most people I know who do a dramatic 180 hit a breaking point.

For all that the inaccurate "boiling a frog" metaphor describes how things work fairly well, a lot of people hit a wall at some point -- for instance, when "those people are bad" becomes "your best friend Joe is bad" -- and rebound. Once they hit that breaking point, the scales have fallen, and they begin re-examining everything.

This happens both with people raised in a particular worldview, as they gain experiences outside their original upbringing, and to people who fall into a cult, as the cult gradually ratchets up the craziness.

Of course, not everyone ever finds such a breaking point, and trying to push someone to find a lever to crack open their worldview antagonistically usually just makes someone double down, but a lot of people do find their way out.
To the tune of over eighty times the average lifetime earnings of an American each?
Meet is pretty dang solid, and is pretty much exclusively used for “work” or anything related to a calendar invite. The rest of their video chat seems to be reserved for P2P/personal communications.
Keep in mind, there is a very common type of ICE that is really a IDE (internal detonation engine) - diesels.

With strong enough engines, detonation isn’t ruled out.
2 million ohms? Not bad, not terrible. Vasily, get the good Ohmmeter from the safe.
No, it's just the semantic ambiguity. I think more people should rewrite HN headlines for clarity when they're confusing (in this case, the BBC subsequently changed the headline but it doesn't auto-update on HN).
On instagram is even higher. 99% of influencers have iPhones.

Showing an Android is basically declaring you are some sort of a monster.
NewtonSript, the native language of Apple's Newton devices, was also heavily influenced by Self.

See http://newtonscript.org/ for doc, examples, etc.
Maybe... It's better than using Google/Samsung/whatever build of Android sure - but it's still feeding the google machine which is not a good thing. We need completely 'de-enterprised' Linux/BSD options.

*Edit
Database locks is usual issue. Avoidable if planned better.

Memory is second. In 15 years CPU has never been a real concern.
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Book bans are on the rise across the US[1], in blue and red states. In blue states it tends to be books like to “kill a mockingbird”, “huckleberry Finn”, or other books with racially charged language. In red states they say they are removing “CRT”, and “pornographic” or “sexual content”, but their definition of sexual and porn includes any mention of homosexualities existence and their definition of CRT includes any mention of minorities having been oppressed at any point in time.

It’s kind of a shit show all over

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/books/book-ban-us-schools...
I don't know why you're being downvoted. They most certainly have had historically poor build quality. My Pixel 2 began boot looping after a couple of years of use and apparently that was motherboard quality issue that had been around since the Nexus line. I got a replacement and it happened again after another few months. Google "Pixel 2 bootloop" and you'll find thousands of threads from people with this issue.

That was around four years ago. I switched to an iPhone 11 and have had a fraction of the problems that I had with Android phones.
Just checked with my Gen Z daughter, asking her if the thumbs up emoji would be "rude or passive-aggressive". She thought, and said, "not if you were using it". So, I guess, like every single generation before them, Gen Z has learned to detect context and take into account who's using language before deciding what they mean by that.
Ask HN: 50yo too old to start software company?
Posting from a throwaway. I am 50 and I have been running a small software company for 15 years. At the peak it had 7 employees. Then for 5 years I was traveling. The company sort of fizzled out. I am pretty good at programming and can program fast, in whatever language (Rust, C, etc). I have an apartment in SF and I don't have to work for several years. But I am not sure if i am still young enough to start a software company. For example, in 10 years I will be 60. Is there any data on this?
Latency isn't actually that hard to fix: if both connections are wired (both internet and headphones / speakers) you can get round trip latency down to about 15ms which is good enough to feel immediate and on par with POTS.

It's just a matter of getting your coworkers onto ethernet, and convincing them to give up their Bluetooth headphones...
> If the purpose of science research is to build the understanding we have.

It's not. It never was. It's always been "to build the understanding that I or this small group I am part of has, that gives us an edge for a while until we share it with the world because it looks like someone else might otherwise pretend to have discovered it".

The idea of a noble science, diligently working towards the betterment of mankind, has always been a romantic fantasy at best.
a company that has low profit and employees a lot of people as a lot more beneficial for society than the opposite
That's not the permutation I tried, so maybe in group chats it still happens that way. But in a 1:1 chat it worked fine.
It’s honestly insane to invest that much time and effort into an app so dependent on a 3rd party API.
I bet FB has noticed that 1) people want to see more posts from the folks they follow, not brands, and 2) lots of people are using adblockers.

More a scare tactic than anything else.
As long as the copper doesn’t vaporize until the end, we’re all good?
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I suppose it depends where you are. I’m in Europe.

Almost everyone I message with defaults to WhatsApp, or even insists on it. A few also have Signal or Facebook Messenger or iMessage.

SMS is only for notifications and such. Even some businesses default to WhatsApp.
> It was one of the most successful branding campaigns. It allowed Intel to become the primary brand over the laptop/pc vendors.

I mean, it coincided with that. It's not clear how much was caused by branding/marketing and how much was caused by Intel being better (at least in laptops) from the Core Duo days until now[1] plus-or-minus a few years?

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1. Honestly, I haven't kept up with laptop hardware performance during the AMD chiplet era.
Read the story how he treated a lot of employees when Apple went public. There wasn’t much hippie in him. It took Wozniak to give stock to employees because Jobs refused.
https://tlstoy.com/ detects fraudulent requests
Yes, a client is not necessarily a clone. But this one is, that's the point
Apple can’t provide the same assurance that an android app is secured.

The degree that matters is of course debatable, but it is one of their talking points.
What an incredibly frustrating video. Here is the actual run without all the unnecessary fast-and-furious computer graphics rubbish at the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjDK0LhKkMs&t=76s
Correct.
But in the case of matrix you can host them in your home if you want, or maybe on your phone(they are still checking if this is possible or not)
We're still going to need a word for "exponentially" though, and it would help if that word contained "exponent." "Terrific" is an unnecessary word in English, just because we have a ton of words for things that inspire fear.

"Exponentially" being used to mean "a lot" is bad not because it's a new usage, but because "exponentially" is being demoted to a word that has a bunch (a shitload, a fuckton, lots, plenty, too many) synonyms when in its accurate usage it's a word with few or none. You're losing meaning when you make a thing more complicated to say.

Of course, this sort of usage happens a lot, too, but it's always because some people are using a technical-sounding word to substitute for a common word in order to give the impression of expertise.*

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* as opposed to when technicians steal a common word and make it a very specific technical term, which also happens all the time.
They're compensatory damages, not puntive damages. His trial behavior should be completely irrelevant, as should his level of wealth for that matter.
It's not available.

On the iPhone you need to take it out of your pocket, wake up the screen by tapping it once, or lifting it to some angle that the screen turns on. Then you need to long press the on screen camera button.

If you enabled the double tap, you still need to take it out of your pocket and wake up the screen before you can double tap.

On Android you could have the camera ready before the phone is even out of your pocket.
Honestly not against restoration of the code duello.
Just because manufacturers have inflated the prices over the years that doesn't make $400 cheap.

My current $200 phone is better in every aspect than the high end flagship phones not too long ago. With its performance and features it's still far from the low end.
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If you complete the maze by luck and can repeat yourself, then you have gained the information you claimed to have!
I think you'd see this with some c-suites types or VCs who have money to throw around and possibly designers who want to give better sense of prototypes to colleagues from afar
Prior discussion (May 2, 2021):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
> Harm is required in all defamation.

Harm is required in _most_ defamation. Some claims are considered "defamation per se", in which they are considered automatically harmful.

- Indications that a person was involved in criminal

- Indications that a person had a "loathsome," contagious or infectious

- Indications that a person was unchaste or engaged in sexual misconduct

- Indications that a person was involved in behavior incompatible with the proper conduct of his business, trade or profession

https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/w...
> So your criticism of "this is a non-problem -- everybody's just using it wrong" sounds pretty lame.

I don't follow your argument.

Perhaps let me try with simpler example.

I'll tell you my credit card PIN number is 7341.

Following your line of argument, you'll stand there screaming until you're blue in the face: "that's a secret credential leak, your card is compromised".

To which I say: "well, my card is in my wallet, and my wallet is in my pocket, so watcha' gonna' do with that PIN number chum ?"

So its the same with AWS.

I could tell you one of my access keys is AKIA3CWKZKKGZLHN and its secret access key is QOF0yG/lvqqAcklAHCDzPKRtk9D5oPnY.

But watcha gonna do with it ? Try logging in ? To what ? And even if you knew which AWS service, even with just low-hanging fruit security layers of IP range restrictions and time-gating you still won't get anywhere. Once we start adding extra layers such as roles and STS on top, then frankly you're more likely to win the jackpot on the lotto twice in a row.

If its not usable, its not compromise.
What are you talking about? The workers at those business don't disappear in a puff of smoke, they go on to work or not work somewhere else so if the end of the industry makes them spend the rest of their day unemployed that will of course impact their total earnings.

At most they end up in the "didn't work that long in a union job" bucket, not sure where you get the idea that these peoples experience is _excluded_
Blog comments on a static site via social networks
> running the actual compiler will in the long term always work better than writing your own parser.

No, it won't. A compiler and an IDE code analyzer have completely different non-intersecting goals.

As an example, consider error recovery. Where a compiler can just fail with an error, in an IDE you need to continue to provide full correct syntax highlighting, display all other potential errors and warnings, continue providing code analysis (including suggestions on how to fix the error) etc.

> The language server team has done great work, and they support things impractical to do with just parsing like autocompleting functions defined by macros.

None of these are provided by the language server team. These are provided by whoever wrote the code to analyze your stuff and provide data to the language server.
hehe now they are just messing with him
Not telling you what to do but offering an alternate viewpoint.

If this was ten years ago myself might have agreed with others on the full-disclosure approach. However considering the irresponsibility of 'lowest common denominator' of people in modern times do you really want to enable script-kiddies to violate the privacy of many unwitting victims with a metaphorical loaded gun?

Perhaps an amicable middle-ground could be demonstrating the existence of these vulnerabilities in public (such as with a video) and withholding the exact exploit code from publication at least initially. Assuming you are at minimal risk of retaliation from the vendor and a diplomatic resolution fails to achieve results you could carefully measure the pros and cons of full publication and wash your hands of it.
I do not think that due to the fact that poverty exists, we should stop scientific advances.
> I am free to make any statements I please, in any manner I please, and claim protection under the right to free speech

Yes, you are.

> things like defamation and libel law simply do not exist.

I never said they didn't exist.
doesn't seem like it
I think the mobile phone market in Japan is also dominated by iPhones now?
Well you’re paying for the Samsung brand I guess. There are plenty of cheap and usable Android phones.
> Personally I stopped donating to them when I discovered how difficult it was to correct errors in literally my own family's history;

As it should be. Wikipedia is not your personal blog. If you cannot prove what you say is true to an acceptable standard it should be reverted. That is how it wikipedia stays reliable.
Apple fixed this[0] but I don’t personally use FaceTime much so I’d be interested to see if people find it creepy or better.

0: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/how-to-use-eye-cont...
> It is advertising, but usually not the kind people are complaining about. There's no Netflix tier to remove product placement from shows.

Fair point.
Well sure. Technically lying isn't punishable either. Only getting caught and only in some circumstances.

I'm probably just a bit bias, as I remember a bit of a fiasco with content creators relatively recently with the Johnny Depp trial.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/02/johnny-...

here's an excerpt from the editor's note:
The first published version of this story stated incorrectly that Internet influencers Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy had been contacted for comment before publication. In fact, only Mazeika was asked, via Instagram. After the story was published, The Post continued to seek comment from Mazeika via social media and queried ThatUmbrellaGuy for the first time.

So did the original author simply lie? Did they forget that they never contacted these people? What was the punishment? Clicking on her profile it appears she still publishes regularly.

I just am not a fan of that "loophole." What's to stop FOX news from saying "we just heard all of this bad stuff about the voting machines?" What if its just the opinions of the hosts that the voting machines are compromised?

Not at all saying this is what happened. Just saying its kinda frustrating that _if_ you're smart about it and change your actions, you can still have the same effect of misleading millions of people but be entirely "OK."
PCs?

Gamers (and non-Mac high-end desktop performance users) would seem to be a pretty small slice of the pie these days. I have a high-end current M1 laptop but I do a lot of my work on a couple of 7 year old Intel-based desktop/laptop machines which are perfectly fine although they're about to go out of OS support. (Though I'll probably use them for a few more years anyway.)

I remember when you wanted a new PC with every tick of the processor cycle. These days, for most people, who cares?
I have a theory that the present seems worse than the past because of anxiety - the fear of what might happen in the future. In most cases, what we fear does not happen and so when we look back, the past almost always seems happier than the present. We don't feel anxiety about the past.

I think about this regularly to remind myself that at the current moment, life is pretty good.