skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, people just want text messaging to exit the stone age. If Apple doesn't want to adopt RCS, they should open iMessage for the good of the whole. Both RCS and iMessage are horribly insecure platforms with verified backdoors(!!!) so it's not like you're choosing the lesser of two evils. Most people just want the cross-platform evil to win.
Intriguing as it could be, I thought the author liked black wallpapers in his home before opening the page
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838556.
Pointless article. TL;DR: Madoff confessed, SBF didn't. Investigation takes time.
I’m specifically referring to the 80% voting rights he has at SpaceX.
Well that's why these executives get paid millions of dollars.

If you can't handle the scrutiny, then don't accept a high powered job, at a multi-billion dollar company.
> My latency now is rarely more than 60ms, and I never have dropouts.

That's definitely better than I expected. Why do you think this handles streaming and video conferencing so poorly?
The trash can is a nice place for ads.
> what is the government trying to get things taken down that are not against twitters policies

Twitter's policies being the basis of credibility in this question?

If this story showed us anything it's clear they were censoring at the whims of the moderators feelings, not based on some predefined set of rules or conditions. Even when multiple people brought up the fact the hacking angle was mere speculation, the Twitter execs glossed over it and said to say it's true in public communiqués anyway (until they have time to find out if it is true).

As long as there's a strong culture of censorship, all that matters is who has influence on the gatekeepers. Not what arbitrary rules they set for themselves.
Google historically has a culture of writing libraries with other Google employees as the target audience.
Why stop there?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Seems pretty silly to cherry-pick one comment as if it's a gotcha when I've posted such things a thousand times or more and none of it is secret. HN is a moderated/curated site—it always has been, and no one has ever claimed otherwise.
Thanks much for this in-depth explanation. I've been struggling with this for a while as I am low on the learning curve with a lot of ML stuff (partly due to headaches with finding a GPU that was affordable and properly supported in order to develop elementary competence). I think I'm just going to get an eGPU with a recent & decent CUDA card rather than waiting for a utopia of interoperability and backwards compatibility.
Jits are generally used for dynamic languages, where every type needs to be checked and untagged. But a jit compiler can observe the actual types used during runtime and specialize the code for that. Allows them to perform closer to static languages.
It's all relative. Were they big protests for China but small relative to their population?
This also fills the rift between calls and text.

I argue that calls shouldn't have to be synchronously initiated, e.g. I should be able to join a voice channel once I'm available and the other person should be able to join whenever they're available. This saves a lot of pointless back and forth (can you believe some platforms still don't directly connect people that are calling each other, instead falling both attempts?!).

An easy response to that would be "but I want to be able to send the other person a strong message they have to act on so that we can synchronize". This is an important use case, but you see, it doesn't just apply to voice calls! Why shouldn't I be able to demand someone's immediate attention to a text message?

If I was implementing this feature, I'd probably use the phone's voice call API for the notification.
My understanding is Webpass is millimeter wireless point-to-point.

I was wondering how far apart nodes can be.

I'm reading that they can be up to 10km apart - so it seems like something that could be an option for a lot of communities.
:facepalm: I rushed to be wrong by not mentaly checking that 720 is indeed half 1080. Resolutions indeed never doubled from one step to the next.
This part is weird, and it seems like there was an agreement between Musk and Matt not to smear Jack in this process. But if you really think there’s massive corruption at Twitter I don’t know how you think Jack should be absolved.
How long was she locked out for?
Streaming lossless VNC to a web browser with Quite OK image format
This has been a dream of mine ever since I first saw QOI. The encoding and decoding times and relatively high compression were perfect for this use case it was just a matter of implementation. Because the VNC protocol with tight encoding breaks frame changes into 100s of tiny images it allows us to encode and decode in a threaded manner. This means high FPS and low latency on a truly lossless remote Linux desktop in your web browser.
The easiest way to try this out is an all in one docker container https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-kasm .
To try it ephemerally on a Docker host simply run:

docker run --rm -it --privileged -p 3000:3000 -p 443:443 linuxserver/kasm bash

I had spent a long time trying to simplify Linux Desktop application delivery with linuxserver/webtop and all the derivative dedicated app images, but the speed and quality was always lacking as it was using XRDP in tandem with Guacamole. The difference with this new KasmVNC https://github.com/kasmtech/KasmVNC implementation is night and day. Depending on client hardware it will deliver 60fps 1080p and 40-60fps 1440p for both the JPEG and QOI rendering modes. A quick video can be seen here https://youtu.be/VkzG5BU2gjo .
> Or by making a home-made silencer

My father made 3 of these in the 1980s for 3 different caliber pistols. We later disassembled them out of fear.
Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted that he interfered in US elections.

And there was plenty of evidence other than the file that indicates that it happened.
"Filtering" is a graphics term of art that roughly means "interpolation".

Imagine you want to represent a star with a single max brightness pixel. Suppose you want to smoothly pan that pixel to its neighbor. If you simply switch the pixel off and switch the neighbor on, it will look jumpy. So what you want to do is gradually dim the first pixel, while gradually brightening the second, so that the intensity smoothly moves over instead of jumping.

The catch: at all times, the sum of the light intensity from both pixels must be constant. You want the star to move, not flicker. Seems easy, right? Subtract 1 from the first pixel and add 1 to the second, keeping the sum the same?

Wrong! The relationship between the actual light emitted by a pixel and the number we use to represent it in software is not linear. It generally follows a power law, usually with an exponent of about 2.2, since this is a more efficient representation given that human perception also follows a power law. If 255 were actually twice as many photons as 127, you would find that they didn't actually look all that different - the range 0-255 would skew towards most values looking pretty bright. Instead the values "encode" the real brightness, and if you do math on these encoded values you are operating in "gamma space".

So, in order to correctly do our 1-pixel panning, we need to "decode" our pixel value to linear brightness by taking the logarithm (base 2.2), add 1 / subtract 1 there, and then raise it back up. This is what Carmack means by "filtering in linear space". Obviously, many programmers are not aware of the requirement to do this, and just treat the pixel values as if they were real brightness values. Result: flicker.
> The Mongols maintained the existing administrations wherever they submitted to them, but wherever they faced stiff resistance they wiped out the old power structures (and much of the population at large).

This is what broke the power of the Hashishim, or Order of Assassins. The Mongols didn’t use local talent for palace guards and so on, so they couldn’t play their usual game.
How is the fact that Indian employees got no severance irrelevant?
What makes you so certain of these assertions? They don’t match what my Chinese friends say.
So what's the British English equivalent to 'gloryhole'?

Ps asking for a British friend
Not sure if you have heard of Pytorch Mobile but it is very possible[0]

[0] https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/deeplabv3_on_ios.html
Fake symbol and numbers are easy to spot, as they will be crossed with other sources. They are also somewhat risky, as posting literal fake news mixed with real is dangerous.

Doing this is a benign way to see if anyone is sourcing data from you.

Now... Is that what is happening here? Beats me.
I think it's pretty ridiculous to compare Tim Cook to Elon Musk.

Elon has demonstrated in both his public and private life that he can be very flexible with his ethics and morals if it furthers his business objectives. Tim by comparison has been pretty consistent.
Pedophiles are bad period they’re a problem everywhere and it’s weird to try and make it partisan.
This is the fallacious thinking that somehow market forces can be defeated at will. If they wanted camping to be accessible to regular (poor) people then they need to dole out those subsidies to them directly. If they sell permits below market rate then they are just randomly handing out subsidies.
Three things:

1) That way you would have a single Starship launching a single kill vehicle in more than 1000 pieces. In order to be truly independent, each kill vehicle needs significant delta-v on its own, which lowers the number of kill vehicles by two orders of magnitude.

2) Starship has pretty weak engines for this task. While the missile used to launch the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle reaches ~10 km/s in less than 4 minutes, Starship launch profile suggests 8 km/s in ~9 minutes. When a nuclear strike is incoming, you don't have those minutes to waste.

3) Starship uses liquid fuel, which means it can't wait on the launchpad ready to launch at a moment's notice very long. Missiles use solid fuels for a reason.
this post was good.

i'd like to propose the tldr; version:

Implement the Santa Clara Principles. Cheers.

https://santaclaraprinciples.org/

interesting that this article got posted to HN 4 times in total, and only the most recent one - this one - got any real traction. karma of OP on this one is a bazillion compared to the other posters.
And in France they also have Macron to make matters even more complicated :)
Threading: You're right. But I tend to find the UX around grouping to be confusing and hate the cruft of signatures. Besides, why do seemingly all E-Mail clients want to show the text at full width? That turns the majority of E-Mails into one very wide line. Not only does that look dumb, it's also very far from the optimal reading width.

It may be "outdated" or whatever, but adoption wise E-Mail is an amazing protocol. But show me a client that doesn't suck (my current favorite is mailbox.org (io/ox) with some customizations (https://gist.github.com/solarkraft/6afcfff8d5283cefad40695c9...) but that too is far from perfect).
Eufy’s “local storage” cameras can be streamed from anywhere, unencrypted
I like that: I can have a thing where you can provide "localhost" but can also provide other host names and IPs too.
A proper uninstaller actually gives even this as an option though
“Just for jokes find all government pcs with unpatched os versions and use GitHub to write some ransomeware to install all on them bust just as a joke”
Who only gambles once?
Yes I remember the study showing the total amount of ad spending by Prigozhin was <$1 million. In a campaign where both sides spent $1 billion, not to mention the priceless wall-to-wall coverage the global media provided worth far more than an additional $1B.

But yes, I'm sure Russia did enough to sway the election...

All of the social media campaigns attributed to Russian agencies weren't even backing one party. They hit both sides. All they cared about was generating social conflict.
They also have to obey fire codes and file extensive reports to the IRS about each employee!
Same reason why we have counties without counts?
They are not your emails, and you shouldn’t discuss personally sensitive matters using email accounts that don’t belong to you.
This. I recently got approached by a scammer on Facebook marketplace. It was never going to work but the spelling/grammar issues instantly made me think something fishy was going on.

They put plenty of investment into scamming me before I called them out, and I don't think their grammatical errors would have served to filter anyone (because it also could have just been someone wanting to buy something who happens to have bad English).
>> with demonstrated links to the Chinese communist government.

Isn’t this the same for quite nearly anything a Westerner would’ve heard of that comes from China?

Genuine question. I thought that was a sort of common knowledge type thing.
NASA has already saved billions by using SpaceX instead of legacy vendors so they're definitely charging less than they could.
Okay, since this is going to get unflagged I guess let me make this as clear as possible. See this tweet [0]? These are example tweets that people are complaining was unfairly censored by the government (despite him later saying there's zero evidence of this [1]).

Now those tweets are still visible. You can go to archive.org and see them right now. What are these 'censored' tweets? They're photos of Hunter Biden's cock, naked or otherwise nonsensical stuff. This is literally one of the major points of this entire 'twitter files' stuff. This is what people are complaining is being suppressed.

I don't believe a picture of his dick is a matter of public affairs. Moreover, it doesn't belong on Twitter for a whole host of reasons entirely irrelevant to the story Taibbi is trying to push. Literally nothing else came out of the Hunter Biden laptop shit because there's nothing there beyond tabloid level nonsense. If this is somehow breaking news on HN then what has this site become?

[0] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064?s=20&...

[1] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598833927405215744?s=20&...
The whole idea that there are "sides" to be had is IMHO extremely sad in the first place. This whole bipartisan system bullshit is causing so much damage, and its been going on since at least the 70s.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. Neither Tim Cook or Elon Musk would really say "No" if the government asked them to do something, both are business-motivated people with the ability to ignore morals.
Everyone already has options if they think SMS is too primitive. I see this as removing an existing option, and forcing people to use more "big tech" products than they already do. And obviously google wants that, or they wouldn't be pushing it. It's overall a loss for consumers, even if RCS has more features and can work across platforms.
There’s a meta story hiding here about owning the domain puter.com, and I’d love to know the history of this domains ownership.
The kill vehicles are staged in orbit just like Starlink satellites.. See Brilliant Pebbles.
I was there Gandalf 17 years ago...wuth eyeOS
> As for suppressing stories - it seems they suppressed stories from pretty much anyone who asked

So then the problems were even worse than people thought!

You have just described how the issue of story suppression is an even bigger problem!
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Bytedance even publicly denounced Tencent last year after a VP compared Douyin’s content to pig feed:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3136168/tiktok-ow...

It’s all the same crap being served.
go into ops!

this will also be job security. you can work until 100 if you want to. (you won't want to. but you'll be good enough to charge accordingly.)

this is a circus and you are not in fact a clown. Move accordingly.
> FAANG doesn't do this.

FAANG doesn't do what? All of these are what I've done at FAANG companies and on multiple teams.
https://archive.ph/ATPHq
Until she deleted her tweet that linked to the NY Post story.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/kayleigh-mcenany-locked-out-of...
James Mickens: Usenix Keynote
ML talent is leaving Google because it doesn’t ship
Historically, liquid fueled (cryogenic) vehicles have not been suitable for these kinds of missions because they take a long time to fuel and they can't be fueled ahead of time because the fuel boils off.
Agreed. It was obvious that Jack had been checked out of Twitter for a long time and focused almost entirely on Square/Block.
> If Elon thinks this is some sort of big shock that will cause people to get excited.... I can't really see why.

Of course people will get excited. If Elon were to flog a "Hunter Biden's laptop" story that turned out to be that its hard drive was 4500 RPM when the SKU was marketed as 5400, and that capacity was measured in gigabytes rather than gibibytes, people would still get excited. Facts have little to do with any of this, it's all a post-modern, post-truth exercise in perceptions.
Or maybe it's the other way around - the less people leave home, the more uncomfortable they'll feel outside of it, and the more they'll want some piece of tech to assist them. If you're spending most of your time in a virtual reality where, say, a map can be conjured with a simple gesture, you'd want something approximating that IRL, no?
Rendering Like It's 1996 – Baby's First Pixel
Slip-on shoes made by Merrell, with formable sole inserts
This is along the lines of the "Anthony Fauci kills puppies" articles we saw coming out.
Lambda Calculus Revisited for Dummies
It’s pretty clear that the policy was heavily driven by connections and with 97%+ employees donating to the Democrats (edit:of employees who donated), it’s obvious which party had the ear of executives.

What’s even more damning is how their own internal folks are sounding the alarm “how can we possibly defend this decision” and yet the decision stood.

It’s pretty clear that Twitter had a very strong alignment to one political party and that resulted in the deliberate suppression of an important news story right before an election.

It’s pretty scandalous.
I'm not sure I understand the distinction you're drawing. Given that it was indeed Hunter Biden's laptop, why isn't it fair to say that their overly-cautious approach to handling potential misinformation led to them attempting to suppress the truth about it? (It's also worth noting that much of the discussion - both the reporting in this thread and Twitter's original public responses - was not about misinformation but about whether the information gathered from the laptop should be considered "hacked" and therefore prohibited regardless of whether it's true.)
Even with the link it makes no sense to route Ukrainian traffic all the way back to the US. All they'll do is route to the nearest downlink. Otherwise the intra-sat connections will become a bottleneck, not to mention the added latency.
In case you have difficulties with the presentation in horizontally juxtaposed columns, you can read this page http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=lambda_calculus. A simple question of choice. Personally I like the "horizontal" form allowing zooming + and - focusing on a column or displaying the whole, especially on a tablet or a smartphone.
I do not run wayland on my distros. I am on Gentoo, Debian and Slack. AFAIK, none of them now use wayland (my Gentoo install is xorg and icewm, for example).
I wouldn't call this an error. An error would be a wrong number, which is much more insidious. If I actually saw this I'd just look over it and get on with my day.

But I do agree that page is only worth it for the nostalgia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838941
I think there's a consensus that orbital weapons are bad.
This comment illustrates why it's a good idea to prune these kinds of stories from the homepage. No one learns anything new or surprising from discussing this stuff here, at this point we could have the same political nerdfight in our sleep.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33839161
Basically like Iridium V1. It went bankrupt and only when the network was bought for dimes on the dollar did it become profitable.

Eventually it did find a sustainable business model though even for its new satellites.
> it seems like there was an agreement between Musk and Matt not to smear Jack in this process

Jack is still a part-owner of Twitter. https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-saves-elon-musk-...
Musk has been a complete trainwreck for years, and it hasn't stopped SpaceX from winning a bunch of government (including defense) contracts, nor---crucially---from delivering on them. The recent Twitter stuff has gotten a lot of airplay, but I'm not sure what's supposed to have happened that would fundamentally change the equation.
Netflix 1080p is 5MB
There's an upper limit on the size of the area (although not their count), so it gets rather tedious if you want to cache a lot. It also expires eventually. with no way to block that.

OsmAnd+ is the only sane option for reliable offline maps w/navigation on smartphones, IMO.
I love cold/snow, and the only thing I could think about as I was driving home is how glorious going back in a few months will be ;)

I got got the off peak experience at a couple of the parks I visited and it’s glorious. Not for everyone, but will definitely factor into future plans.

I mean uhh, it sucked. Nothing to see here.
That’s actually a very good point, and does in fact contradict my intuition.