skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly didn't learn calculus from it the first time around.
That sounds like an interesting setup. Is there a guide for this?
If I may ask (provided you’re comfortable with disclosing) what kind of content do you find there that’s genuinely interesting?
"ChatGPT helps us represent software in a programming language, but the hard part is representing it in English in the first place."
fwiw davx5 is libre licensed and available in fdroid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/

there is also a free fork of davx5 on Play as OpenSync: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deependhul...

agree that it should be bundled in to the system though....
> Shouldn't people demand more and more privacy protections?

Yes!

> It's not like these changes solve the problem.

Perhaps because it is impossible to 100% solve the problem?

A lot of people, me included, are just tired of the endless litany of "50% secure is not secure! 75% secure is not secure! 90% secure is not secure! 99% secure is not secure! 99.9% secure is not secure! 99.999% secure is not secure!"

There is no 100%. Hearing the same level of outrage over a 0.001% gap that we heard over a 50% gap is just fatiguing.

Especially in this audience, everyone knows there is no such thing as verifiable perfect security. Asymptotic progress towards that is interesting; decrying the latest improvement as no better than no security at all just feels... IDK, lazy.
> They're giving you 2TB+ of space

I think you and I have vastly different ideas about what "giving" means.

I get 5GB of iCloud storage, unless I pay them £6.99/month for 2TB. No idea what the rate is over 2TB.

Have I missed a trick to getting this 2TB+?

(I have 7 Apple devices in my possession and have owned a further 2 that I've passed on to my kids; given the premium I paid for those I almost expect that I should get 5GB PER DEVICE, but of course that's fairly unreasonable in reality)
Slouching Towards Utopia
Read the article and come back to delete your nonsensical comments once you realize how irrelevant they are to the subject matter.
Agreed but the conciseness of volume evidence body despite "misuse" of the -icde suffix should not discount all of the article.
Maybe it’s different on the software side but coming from a network VAR it’s the same skill set. You still have subnets and routes and netmasks and DHCP or automatic assignments the difference is the size. If you know IPv4 all you need to learn is “the subnets are all /64 in size, addresses are 128 bits, and you don’t need DHCP if you don’t want”.
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...the great paradox of the twentieth century remains that despite the horrors and the violence and despite repeated setbacks, material life improved more in a hundred years than in the previous ten thousand.
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The main primum movens of economic growth was and remained the rapid expansion of the combination of science and technology and the positive interaction of the two
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Closed source applications like WhatsApp can be and in fact are reverse engineered by researchers who want to verify the end-to-end encryption claim. For example, see this BlackHat talk: https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Zaikin-Reverse...
yeah satellites potentially have gigantic cameras arrays and sensors of all kinds
Go + SQLite user at $DAYJOB here. WAL is essential, and the next essential trick is to open a single db.Conn up-front and hide that behind a mutex for any transactions/queries that will write. All callers can pick this.db_rw or this.db_ro as required.
Marcan has been explicit in that he knows who Lina is and has indicated that they have been in the same room together. This scenario is not a risk.

Others have discussed in here the speculation around Lina's identity if you care about the specifics for whatever reason. Personally, I don't think it's particularly important.
We are running a lot of IPv6 only clusters and don't have any issues. The key solution is to have a NAT64 gateway somewhere at the edge.
I didn’t know Ruby did this - cool. I agree it’s not the most robust way to write a jit, but it’s prob the easiest
That got me thinking about trying to find the mission budget for TBIRD and I came up empty handed after a bunch of googling...
Lots of web based apps load more data than this. The 300 MB is only 3 seconds on a gigabit connection.
With brutalism, as it is obvious from its name, it is a deliberate move. The bigger question is why this direction has been embraced so much. I.e. why brutalist architects get commissions to build the next ugly building after they built the previous ugly (and often poorly functioning) building? Why taxpayers, who pay for many of these buildings, tolerate it? I think the latter may be because of the "you have no taste, peasant" thing - they have been convinced that "the experts" know what is really beautiful and really ugly, and only their opinion matters. I think there might be time to push back on that and admit the possibility that if something looks ugly, there may be a chance it is ugly.
I think other commenters are missing your point: an iPhone should be able to back up to a "server" the same way a macbook does. I have a 24 TB NAS with Time Machine on it so the phone should be able to backup to it (over wifi, usb, whatever) the same way it does to a Mac. And this should be possible out of the box by-design (not by using Linux based tools to backup the iPhone in ways Macs do not let you do).
The cost of a home has almost nothing to do with the materials. It's the developer that is trying to cut as much as possible, because this means he gets increased profit margins.
Oh right, that book is so old, I forgot that it ever existed ...
As a Dutch person hearing people talk about mandatory helmet laws for bikes sounds very strange.

Nobody in the Netherlands bikes with a helmet, and it is incredibly safe to bike here (around 10X fewer fatalities per KM ridden than in the US). If you want evidence that biking without a helmet is perfectly safe - there you go. A case study done by an entire country with 18 million inhabitants for a period of 100+ years.

Bike safety is an infrastructure problem. Nothing else.

Wearing a helmet will not make up for bad infrastructure - biking with bad infrastructure and a helmet is still incredibly dangerous. After you have good infrastructure, biking is already safe, especially when you use a Dutch bike that forces you to sit upright [1] making it far less likely you will fall on your head.

Wearing a helmet might improve safety by a marginal amount beyond that - but so would wearing a helmet while walking, or wearing a helmet while in a car.

Comparing helmets to seat belts is nonsensical. A seat belt is attached to your car. A helmet has to be carried with you after you leave your bike. Once you use a bike for everything that means you must carry a large helmet with you everywhere you go. It is very inconvenient for people that actually use bikes as their daily mode of transportation, from going to work to going grocery shopping to going to the gym.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aESqrP3hfi8
I may be irony-poisoned beyond repair, but I genuinely can't tell if this comment is intentionally a parody of a Hacker News comment.
When you start protecting lies, you don't deserve any respect.

Just because no one likes the regime doesn't mean you go around attacking people for pointing out falsehoods about it.

It will only make it harder for people to find the truth and help others inside it.
Everyday people have insufficient wealth to shop around for homes or dictate design.
> My grandma went to San Antonio to visit one time and said of the Alamo, "This looks like a warehouse. ...

heh what was she expecting? It's an old mission built on the frontier eventually used by the military for storage and barracks. It effectively was a warehouse. The building isn't the reason why it's historic, what happened there is what's important.
This is very good! But now I wonder if there's something similar for good architecture.
Admissions folks also work pretty crazy hours and are notoriously understaffed and underpaid. It is a grind.
I understand. The truth can be bitter. My first instinct is to install most of these tools. Then I remember all the recent supply chain attacks and malicious packages that have been snuck into software.

I use 1 daily driver for everything, including my finances and crypto. So trust me, I'm bummed out about this. I'll still check some of these out. As long as they seem safe, I will install a few.
It is possible to create branch retroactively
Here's the official guide: https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-gu...

But I ended up using this slightly modified version from a guy on their forums that makes setup a bit easier. Requires 2 DDNS IPs though which are easy and free to get.

https://github.com/jitsi-contrib/installers/tree/main/jitsi-...
This isn’t actually true. Yes they don’t give you personally the ability to conduct assurance on their controls. That couldn’t scale. But they do allow large corporations looking to standardize on apple tech, governments, and other like entities the opportunity to verify the controls, their effectiveness, and continued compliance. Further they generally have to attest to their controls under a variety of regulatory regimes with third party auditors verifying.

Your startup may be able to weaken or circumvent your controls and no one would know. But is not true of apple.
Why is this being pushed in the US?
"The potential changes include new rules that would require marketable retail stock orders to be sent to auctions before they are executed, a new standard for brokers to show they get the best possible executions for client orders, and lower trading increments and access fees on exchanges, the SEC said."
I admit I just skimmed this. But, realistically speaking, what are the DR benefits over just plain out-of-the-box Postgres PITR?
I remember the family type bbses with different people of all ages male/female but I also remember my hacker group meetup where 4 of us shared a 6 pack. Each bbs was it's own scene
Now they just need to work on the latency.
Walt Disney was cremated. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suspended-animation/

It's right there on the death certificate: https://findadeath.com/wp-content/uploads/directory/w/Walt_D...
https://archive.ph/ojR5O
The goalposts have been moved because the leading argument for the past few years has been "it's not actually encrypted because you or the person you're talking to could be using iCloud Backup". Now all you have to do is make sure you and the people you talk to have this simple option enabled in settings (with the only risk being that you lose all your data if you need Apple Support to give you access to your iCloud again after losing all backup codes and encryption keys).

As for your actual argument, there are always tradeoffs when we implement "good" but not "perfect" encryption solutions. Here, your trust is indeed in Apple to not perform an evil maid attack, but for many of us, we trust that Apple doing this to a regular person (or journalist, or government official) would be absolutely devastating to their entire brand. Even if most people wouldn't care if Apple cooperated with the CIA to perform a coup in $x country via sending out targeted malware to the leader's phone, they still stand to lose hundreds of billions of, if not a trillion, dollars over the following decade in lost iOS product sales, due to them purposefully hacking their own product to steal user data.
A startup’s cooling chip may surge processor power
Californians reluctant to cash in their inflation-relief debit cards: Here's why
Only had a chance to skim the LiteFS article, but one use case closer to my heart would be blue-green deployments against the same SQLite database for zero-downtime deployments. Conceptually, I think I could use LiteFS to the same effect as distributed, but would love to see a write-up or any gotchas likely to occur.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to not just recommend an iPhone to the average person with privacy/security concerns. Sure, you can tell them to go the GrapheneOS route, but I don't think you can trust the average user not to just go and install Google Maps/Google Photos/etc as soon as the alternative FOSS option inconveniences them. I've certainly struggled with this. Then they're arguably worse off than if they'd just stuck with the Apple equivalents.
An overlooked value of these language models is that they circumvent copyright.

Google also did this when it appeared on the scene. It essentially sucked value from websites that, prior to search engines, would have been considered copyrighted works. But Google made itself the go-to place on the internet. In people‘s minds, all the content was „on Google“.

Now GPT can do the same thing. It can consume all kinds of text, articles, books, video transcripts. And can then present itself as the „go to“ place for finding answers.

Of course, copyright as such has always been an artificial construct. It has never protected ideas themselves - only the specific form of their expression. By being able to suck ideas (which are free) out of their specific form of expression (which is protected), GPT can essentially resell the value that previously was there to be monetized by those who held the copyright thereto.

In the human world, we had the same thing in the form of experts. People who read lots of books over the course of their life, and thus were able to answer questions, solve problems and write books of their own. But, of course, GPT can read more books than any human ever could. And it can answer more questions than any human ever can.
It was used (with a matte painting to make it taller) as the OCP building in robocop, for reference on how "evil" it either already was considered or now is considered.
So? Keyboard layouts are not hardcoded. The dead key concept also works there.

No need to strike for DOS compatibility anymore.
I'm certainly not. I try to compensate when I can by aggressively rewriting until an abstraction stops breaking things and feels natural
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." -- Socrates

Cultures, people, and attitudes change. They've been changing for millenia and they'll continue to change.
No, because in the context of a binary search you should be able to map everything to a positive integer. So if your question is "find the midpoint, so I can start searching there" your "midpoint" is not going to be a negative number in the context of binary search.

I think in the unfortunate example question the binary search is from -1000 to +1000, but the question is not about binary search, it is about finding the midpoint between two numbers.
> The Oscars are essentially a self-congratulatory award which often were at odds with the public.

Not to state the obvious, but Oscars over the years have degraded into “who can wine and dine the voters the most”. There was a time (more than a decade ago) when almost all “Best Pucture” nominees were really entertaining and fun to watch. You look at the more recent lineups and almost all of them are a drag to watch. I’m not sure what else did anyone expect with West Side Story? It’s a movie adaptation of a Broadway show that has been adapted countless times. Anyone who has any interest in this genre has probably seen the story multiple times. What value add did the film have?
Read the link I gave in the GP post:

Apple: "So it's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8."

Also, "create an entirely new operating system" is an intentionally misleading exaggeration on Apple's part, meant to fool customers but not governments. It makes it sound like the amount of work they would have to do is larger than changing one constant about how many retries are allowed and another constant controlling rate liming, build and sign and flash it to the phone, and delete it after.
Using that argument, everything is political ....
All ipv6 shortcomings discussion aside; What I think is the more vital problem to focus on is that the governments clearly don't want us mere mortals to expose our own servers running on our own hardware to the outside world (most often justifying that with "it's for your own security" mantra, for we're all deemed too dumb to figure that out for ourselves).

ISP-imposed ipv4 double NAT (imposed on ISPs by the governments, I am pretty sure about that) reduces our devices to all but dumb receivers which are scarcely superior to TV sets. And no amount of STUNning and TURNing, or buying VPSes can realistically fix this situation, when we can't simply connect our devices directly without resorting to some service provided by some Men in the Middle. And it gets worse, 10 years ago I could buy a static public IP from my ISP for some affordable extra - all ports open unless blocked manually in my firewall - nowadays there remain no ISP around to sell those to the general public. Just no such option anymore. Too much freedom it gave, I guess.

So this begs the question: can ipv6 fix that? Will ipv6 fix that? I'm afraid not.
Speed of light is still a limit, fastest possible roundtrip time between the Earth and moon is 2.5 seconds. Round trip between the Earth and Mars would be over 6 minutes when Mars is at its very closest to Earth.
Arti isn't ready for production use yet. Its a long ways away from being usable in TBB or as a full drop in for tor itself.

I think in a years time that will change.
The big untouched mystery is how these things collimate the beam so exactly.

In order for all the mass to end up going in exactly one direction, so focused, something would have to get them started off that way. Any sort of thermal phenomenon would need a parabolic reflector/nozzle.

Currently favored is some sort of electromagnetic process that works like a particle accelerator, applying a linear electric field to highly-ionized nuclei over thousands or millions of km.

The "geysers" coming out of Enceladus would likewise need parabolic nozzles to stay collimated, so must be similarly electromagnetic. Unfortunately the notion was first promoted by reviled "electric universe" enthusiasts, so astrophysicists need to file the serial numbers off before they can acknowledge it.
What do you mean, “can pass a bill?”

On some level the US could also pass a law that says every iPhone user will be summarily executed. That’s how sovereignty works. Is it a realistic concern? Probably not.
Norway is not big enough on Internet scale to make a difference. Equipment and software companies will put in balance the cost vs the benefit and may decide to ignore that market.
Oh, you're poisoned. There's something shady about all these new "chat clients" that require so much personal crap. I tend to prefer software that allows you to host your own server - Jitsi and Jitsi Meet allow that. Jitsi has ZRTP encryption and Jitsi Meet uses WebRTC for end-to-end encryption, but I like that even if you don't want to host it yourself, you can still use it without software/logins here on their official site:

https://meet.jit.si/

Just type in any name you want, give the link to a friend and bam.
Aside from the engineering this plane came out at exactly the right time.

What made 747 special was enabling cheap flights for mass tourism. Four hundred passengers to Acapulco and Benidorm.
Yeah I’m thinking about how many millions of HN comments are now invalid. I’m sure there’s some other gripe in its place. That’s what we engineers do.
Great, now let me run my own web browser instead of a safari webview.
How does that work you have more than one ISP giving you an IPv6 prefix?
When I first starting using Tor in the mid aughts, I was using it to download movies and music. I remember talking with a security friend and he was like, "Bruh, what are you doing? That's not what Tor is for." and then launched into a 20 min rant about why I was misusing Tor and affecting other people using the service by what I was doing.

It was a good lesson and helped me realize what Tor should really be used for.
The question was: what is the range of possible values of the int type in Java? (In the context of finding the middle problem)

"256" is a ridiculously bad answer on multiple levels. Believe me, I heard it from more than one Java developer with a CS degree and at least 5 years of experience at the time.
Are you sure you're running the monitor at its native resolution and not scaled? And do they provide a display profile that you can load?

Edit: This post would indicate that it's a bug in the interaction between the Mac and the monitor and is not fixed: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/fuzzy-text-with-lg-38wn...
My mistake for misinterpreting. I agree!
One of the small towns I grew up in had a post office, probably built in the early 20th century or very late 19th (I don't recall for sure, but I'm certain it had the date displayed on one or more floor or wall plaques, somewhere)

Heavy metal doors with perfectly smooth-operating hinges. Marble everywhere—floors, counters, stairs, [edit: hell, even the walls!], everywhere, and this was not in an area that mined marble, it was surely imported from at least several hundred miles away, and likely much farther. Thick, ornate brass doors on the PO Boxes. Serious- and heavy-looking metal light fixtures. I loved going there as a kid. It seems silly, maybe, but that post office felt magical.

Similar story for older libraries (including the one in that same town), older university buildings (ditto), older bank buildings even. They're all so nice to be in, and embody a confidence in some kind of permanence and continuity.

Now all that shit's in strip malls or buildings that are otherwise intended to have a 50-year lifespan at most. Cheap low-pile carpet on plywood, comically fake ornamentation if they bother to have any at all.

What's so weird is that we built basic public buildings like we were rich, back when we were, relatively speaking, paupers, but now that we're wildly rich we build everything like we're paupers. It'd be inconceivable for anyone to get half the budget it'd take to build a post office like that one, for a new post office building these days.

Hell, even my Grandparents' cheap, small post-WWII house in a cheap rural town had details that are rarely found outside luxury homes today—the heavy solid-wood front door and extremely solid-and-smooth-feeling metal doorknob, nice metal switch-plates and heavy-feeling, satisfying switches, that kind of thing. I bet you'd have to special-order a storm door to get one with more than half the metal in it that theirs had and it'd cost a fortune, and god, all that stuff felt so nice, and held up to years and years of use without being the worse for it. Their whole working-class neighborhood was built like that.
Except for the 88 million who do?
https://archive.ph/f20SU

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> BlackRock has been hit with criticisms from both sides of the sustainability debate

a $10 trillion Rock is not easy to roll, especially if it is black.
Jack Shafer in their book "The Like Switch" says that there are 4 elements in building a friendship: proximity, intensity, frequency and duration of interaction.

Similarly to work and school friends who are very proximal and spend a bit of time with us, online friends tend to be very distant physically but the interactions we have with them can be intense (like gaming) and frequent. So these pseudo-friendships can have some elements of a strong (substitute for the word "real") friendships, but don't have all of them.
It’s mostly a solved problem as most mobile network operators are ipv6 only now. My iPhone only has an ipv6 address for example.