skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Question to UK people based on the responses I’m reading here.

If I, a privacy loving person were ever to migrate to the UK is it possible to have a as private and unrestricted anonymous internet as much of the rest of the sane world? Both this and previous thread mentioned some really ridiculous things like lifting restrictions through credit card or drivers license.
Agree 100%. Also, as it came from the browser developers, so not only it is OSS but it can be relied to already be there, not a plugin your users have to install (I don't miss at all the days of ActiveX, Java Applets, Flash, etc ...)
A bricked iPhone is worth way less than a functional one, making the victim much less of a “juicy” target (lower odds of a violent mugging, broken car window, home burglary, etc). It’s a perfectly rational decision to want iPhones to be known as worth 5% of their retail value if stolen. Less funding for organized criminal cartels, too.
How does this differ from the Notes app which has many (most?) of the features in the description? Is Freeform just supposed to make these features more discoverable?
The PlantUML license is slightly chaotic though, it's provided under several licenses, and each bundle has subtle differences in behavior which are not spelled out.

https://plantuml.com/download
The hackernews meme a few years ago was about how Go could do no wrong, and any perceived deficiencies was it due to being opinionated. Maybe this is a backlash?
>Freeform is an all-new app available starting today, included in the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

>A Collaboration Space : Whether a user is working at a desk or on the go, Freeform is incredibly useful for standalone projects or when collaborating with others. With the ability to work with up to 100 collaborators in the same board, Freeform creates a shared space for creativity when working on group projects or even planning a vacation with friends. Freeform takes advantage of the new collaboration features in Messages,

This limits collaboration to those in the Apple ecosystem. But many people would want to collaborate with Android users.

As analogy, Apple has wall-garden Facetime and also Group Facetime video chat for iOS users but I've only seen non-family members set up Zoom because you need to invite both Android+Apple to the video conference.

And Apple Messages chat app can have group chats that include Android users because it has fallback to SMS.
He's a very nice man and a very interesting musician as well. You may know his breakout hit 'Don't worry, be happy'.
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PFAS are used to make parts that have none in the end product. Eg all modern computer chips.
Thanks, that's an excellent write-up and I stand corrected.
Those things are no less incredible to me than GitHub. (Also not used at the companies I’ve worked for so far.)
preventing China of accessing current technology is important, but so is the long term suppression of any technological advancement China makes. US needs to apply the 'knee to the neck' of this competitor, the only way to ensure permanent US supremacy
Small nit: I'd guess it is not that easy to verify this in wireshark.

I'm not an obsidian user or familiar with the code base, so could be wrong here.

The data is probably encrypted with AES before being sent (the E2E bit), though probably there is some metadata unencrypted.

When the data is actually sent, the entire thing would likely be encrypted again with TLS while it is in transit.
This means, for example, your ISP cannot see the unencrypted metadata or the encrypted data.

So if you open a capture in wireshark then you would likely see this. Of course it is possible to decrypt the TLS to check the underlying data is encrypted, but it is not trivial for most people.

An easier way to see what it is doing may be to run ltrace on it and check what it is writing to the sockets.
Or gdb, break on the SSL write function and inspect the registers to see what is being written.

e.g.
gdb --args wget "https://www.google.com"

b SSL_write
r
x/s $rsi

> "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\nUser-Agent: Wget/1.21.3\r\nAccept: */*\r\nAccept-Encoding: identity\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\n\r\n"

Though it would just tell you if the data looks encrypted, not much else.

For example they could use a super secure key, or the "1234" for everyone, just looking at the data probably wouldn't tell you this.
I apologize because this will come off as dismissive, but I don’t mean it that way:

I’m specifically talking about musicians who make their living through music and who have enough exposure (say, through album sales) to have the attention of the rival record companies.

I say that because in the case of musicians who are “off the radar” the rules don’t really apply. Heck, it’s rare for a musician to get in trouble for playing an exact copy of a popular song at a small venue, but even then I think they all know that they could never release that song on Spotify or YouTube or anywhere else that’s “official” and that’s a demonstration of the kind of fear I’m talking about.
Personally, I use render.com to host a bunch. They cost like $1 each a month. Super easy to deploy to because it's just a docker container or script.
Hi, I'm the developer of Beluga.

Beluga is a reaction to all the Twitter craziness. I've been thinking about this idea for a long time and finally decided to build the app a few months back.

The idea is straightforward. Can we build a Twitter-like experience without central servers or a single point of failure? RSS was my point of reference, and that's why Beluga is essentially a feed reader/writer.

When you publish a post, Beluga will create a beluga.json and upload it to your S3-compatible server. Other users can follow you and get updates by fetching that file. The beluga.json file is JSON Feed compatible to maximize interoperability. The app also publishes a beluga.xml which is a standard RSS feed. Users can follow your Beluga feed from the app or from their favorite RSS reader.

To make the app even more accessible, a static mini-site is generated and published to your S3-compatible online storage.

Here's my mini-site: https://beluga.gcollazo.com

Please give the app a try. Setting up an S3 bucket might be difficult, so feel free to reach out to me, and I will help you support@beluga.social.

Upcoming features:

- Easy publish without setting your own S3 bucket
- Read-only mode - Multiple device sync
- Support for more S3 compatible providers
- Support for GitHub pages
- Mastodon interoperability
I went from working mostly with Go and C# to JS last year and TypeScript has been amazing.
If in America politicians are bought and paid for by large corporations, does it mean the country is no longer a democracy?

Or is it still a democracy and the blame ultimately lies with voters who vote on corporate-backed candidates?
> I think LinkedIn is a good example of what you would get without anonymity

I think that would be true if the only characteristic of LinkedIn was that it's "not anonymous", but that's not true. LinkedIn is very explicitly a "professional network" which means that the implicit expectation is that you modify your behavior in the same way as you would in a professional setting.

At least in theory, I think that a social network similar to Twitter or Facebook that contained only verified profiles of real people is something that would make me interested in signing up. Whether that's true for people in general though, I have no idea.
Instead of wasting resources punishing arbitrary capitalists (the next Wells CEO is no doubt biding its time), the state should seize some portion of the bank's operations and use them for the creation of operationally resourced public banks [1]. Then use this as a basis for the creation of plan for responsible community re-investment.

As Lenin observed:

" It is absurd to control and regulate deliveries of grain, or the production and distribution of goods generally, without controlling and regulating bank operations. It is like trying to snatch at odd kopeks and closing one’s eyes to millions of rubles. Banks nowadays are so closely and intimately bound up with trade (in grain and everything else) and with industry that without "laying hands" on the banks nothing of any value, nothing “revolutionary-democratic”, can be accomplished. " [2]

[1] https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/cw/volume25.htm...

[2] Collected Works, Volume 25, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/04....
Their 5G coverage is shite also, I have smarty (three backend) running and if I’m lucky to get 5G, it’s never full strength.
> You could just compile C-like code

Which also involves rewriting literally everything to Java.

> In fact GCC used to have a JVM target, called GCJ

Which again, had a Java frontend. So, nothing like targeting WASM with C/C++/Rust.
What downsides did you experience from being uniquely identifiable? I suspect browser fingerprinting still goes pretty far in most cases even if you are behind a typical ISP NAT.

OTOH for an extreme case, and non-web-browsing purposes, I can imagine automatically spinning a VM every N hours, setting up a VPN exit node by a script, and switching DNS to point to it, then spinning down your old node. It won't even need any shenanigans with WG keys if you use two (or more) keypairs in a round-robin fashion.
Yes. I use source routing to run my DNS through the VPN, but end devices go direct because too many streaming services or sites like Wikipedia ban VPN IPs.
So much for consistency in writers. I think the message is that it is going to influence every listener in its own way, possibly informed by the preconceived notions of that listener.
Not me, the parent I replied to ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34075624

But I think we are on the same page anyway
SentinelSneak: Malicious PyPI module poses as security software development kit
I just want to ask: Why?

Is this really something that will benefit Gitlab in the short, mid or long term?
It's anecdotal, but during all my visits to London, pre-covid, I've always had good enough cell reception. I didn't watch youtube or similar, but I could always use google maps and city mapper, both of which I've used extensively since I'm not familiar with the city, or check random internet websites.

I didn't pay attention to which provider I was using, since it was probably chosen by whatever deals my home provider stuck with providers over there.
Not through a VPN service though, at least in my experience.
A few generalist instances dominating the fediverse and dictating its policy doesn't sound likely? It's slowly happening right now and will only make Mastodon a slightly less centralized Facebook.

Most people don't want to link their online persona to instances with stupid names and very strange rules. So they all flock to the more generalist ones which are few and far between and have an established user base and reputation. Since generalist instances are not "cool" to administer, only a few dedicated people maintain them and they will keep being few and grow larger and larger
Banks define their own rules. There is no jail time because unethical behavior is legal or minimally punished.

https://www.finance-watch.org/still-going-round-in-circles-t...
Cool link about the Casaba howitzer. Thank you.
The way stuff is trained right now is at most 1/100 of capacity possible in my unscientific claim. So there's possibility to go 2-3 orders of magnitude with data we have.
Cool to see Dom Syme is involved.

I’d love to see AI as git merge tool.
The Philistines likely saw Goliath as a poor victim of David, too.
1. Don't let people like Henry Kissinger run things.
Which means it's not truly OSS. But I dont think its insidious for software to have good proprietary features that make the tool better.
I really wish more GPU libraries had focused on vulkan instead of CUDA ...
“Forever chemicals“ have half-lives that range from a millisecond to 10,000 years, but this level of communication accuracy is expected from our media.
3 Home broadband is a good deal if you're close to a 5g mast as their 5g gear is quite new. If you're not close to a mast or its 4g only, you'll have the complete opposite experience.

From what I've read, alot of 3 Towers only have a single 1gbit virgin fibre link so you're at mercy to who else is using the same tower. If it's in a area with alot of traffic, you'll probably have pretty crap speeds.
There are price tags with E Ink and Wifi. Forgot the brand name.
They cost around 2.5 $ each.
It's great what you can do when there is no copyright. Imagine all of the worlds music to be open to re-performance like that without a bunch of rent seeking.
Sorry, this went over my head. What was that about girls, you said?
The component-model proposal makes this statement even more interesting. It will allow to set capabilities to the libraries that your Wasm module uses. For me, this is critical as in most language ecosystems, libraries gets the same permissions as the main application.
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It’s a good thing if done right. But there is the risk of greenwashing going on if we don’t track the details.

Two things to consider: First, when someone announces a huge fleet of trucks being purchased, take note of whether they are upgrading the electrical facilities of their depots and on what timeframe.

Charging a fleet at a local truck depot that previously didn’t use much electricity is a nontrivial problem.

One shell game being played is that to meet some arbitrary/political deadline, they bring diesel generators on-site to charge the trucks. It’s a bit head-smacking but I’ve seen it discussed in trucking trade publications when reading about similar announcements.

Second, if you are inferring a global-warming benefit from CO2 reduction from electric trucks, do note also that trucks at a depot charge at night when solar power from the grid is not available and factor accordingly. Huge industrial batteries could mitigate that but I am not sure what environmental costs they come at (pointers welcome.) Do the entities pony up the fiscal costs to support that too?

When people start buying electric cars AND workplaces put chargers in parking lots such that solar power can be used to charge them during daylight (rather than at home, at night), the end to end system makes sense to me. But that’s a whole other topic.

P.S. Yes I know wind and nukes work during the day…
Ali from Vancouver has approached us with his idea of video social media. No filters, no masks. Just a pure feed with exclusive videos as-is.
Yes. Tor.
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Weren't "advanced search" UIs and the old convention of using quotes exactly for this?

Use fuzzy search as default, switch to exact search for everything written in quotes.

Where would be the problem?

The convention is well-known enough that even nontechnical users wouldn't be surprised by it.
is sublime an IDE? i guess i could call my neovim python setup an IDE, but i don't.
I don't want to work for a company that doesn't want to work with me.

Also, don't forget your perspective. They think they are interviewing you, but the reality is that you are interviewing them.

Also, from the post "don't apply to a specialist position if you are a generalist" ... wth?! If they have a top down approach to how they perceive themselves and you, cut the cord and run away. Everyone has to start somewhere, and in tech, often specialization comes over time.
There might be another angle to this.

The law firm's previous personal injury lawsuits against MSG were because they served alcohol to someone who later drove drunk. Multiple lawsuits were successful, in one case getting $20 million.

In general they appear to represent drunk driving victims and associate with MADD.
Oddly enough it seems like this launched without the ability to make new branches. Kind of makes it unusable for me at the moment.
Well, to decrease performance.
Yes, it's an egocentric company, that's for sure, but most people here already know that.
The ephemerality of iOS applications is the biggest tragedy in software preservation history. So many memories, so much software history, locked away forever on some Apple internal archive server.
What will get bigger than VSCode is the wrong question to ask. Eventually it'll be unmaintained and people will have moved onto something else. The only constants in the editor mindshare circus are Emacs and vim, and even those will fade away, one day, much later than VSCode.
Developers can decide to allow the download of the latest compatible version for old devices, but it seems a lot decides to against it.
So unless you manually backup the apps, it's really a pain to restore things on old devices.
As a practice tip: split out the voices and practice them individually.
From an economic perspective the thief doesn't have any incentive to steal the device in the first place.
There will be a blog post about the experience after I finish it!
There are hundreds if not thousands of instances which federate with each other. The entire point of Mastodon is to avoid giving too much power to one instance. Join a smaller one.
Unrelated to 3, but we had an issue where our brand new site was blocked by Vodafone UK. Turned out they had some automatic firewall service that marked our site as suspicious and blocked it. They seemed a bit better than 3 as there was a process for applying for it to be reviewed and removed.

I'm assuming something similar happened to 3 where it was probably automatically picked up and blocked.
Pine64 takes another shot at open tablet after chip shortages killed PineTab 1
This note appears to be for the older v1 APIGW, though – isn’t the v2 HTTP gateway case-insensitive?
I'd go as far as to say this has no place on HN at all tbh
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You got to love how industry regulations really defeat most of the benefits and points of the decentralization by going in the opposite direction.

The problem in reality would be non existent if people used crypto currencies for what they were meant to be used for: an alternative economy with no need for exchanges and third parties: you sell me a banana, I give you some satoshis.

Not saying this is convenient IRL, requiring to sync to a network and chain is expensive and difficult from a phone, but that was the supposed use case.

I'm more and more convinced that blockchain industry solves no real world problems at all, except in the crypto sphere itself (like smart contracts do have a use...for crypto exchanges, crypto games and crypto gambling) and that 99% of the people who get involved couldn't care less about crypto use cases, only if they will sell for more $ than they bought for.
Zoom client also Just Works.

I can test the mic and video before joining. I can also change my mic and video source after joining.

You'd think that both are 100% basic features, but nope. Can't do either in Google Meet or Teams...
You're arguing against a strawman saying that no binaries should ever be anything but statically compiled, including system binaries bundled with the operating system. I certainly did not say that.
I didn't read the whole thing but my sense was what was actually preserved was the game's code in AS3.

I think you could still call this a soft port.
Yes - Honestly i think most people on any given day have no idea what it's like to go 24 hours with zero carbs or zero calories, most are just not aware of this whole paradigm. It's the complete opposite to the last 50+ years of official guidelines.

The keto diet, avoiding ALL manufactured vegetable seed oils (canola, cottonseed etc) ,rejecting ancel keys and the last 50+ years of completely horrible dietary guidelines and toxic food pyramids, fasting for autophagy, growth hormone, and restoring insulin sensitivity. Most cancers and diseases find their origin in high processed carbohydrate + seed oil diets, constantly triggered high insulin of the modern day.

calories in/out is nonsense.

So yea, no thanks on the Eat Potatos study lol
> he will still get some money for it from a fence.

From my understanding of the activation lock, the phone is effectively bricked - no-one can ever use it again. No fence is going to pay for a useless device.
I still haven't seen anything beat Flash with its sweet 1-2 combo of vector drawing, animation and programming tool

Or maybe it's just me reminiscing
And many of them are walking around 100% compromised from a security perspective.
I am not sure about usefulness of kinetic impactors at near light speeds over long distances.

Imagine you are in impactor frame of reference -- any particle of dust it meets will cause tremendous damage to it regardless of what the impactor is built of (assuming our existing technology).

It is in my opinion very likely that over long distances the impactor will just get converted to a shower of high energy particles over very large area.
"Caucasian couple"

https://www.google.com/search?q=Caucasian+couple&source=lnms...

"White" is a less preferred way of describing ethnicity, and I think that's why it's an issue.
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that sounds to me like growing pains.

i happened to find a “generalist” mastodon instance without really trying. i just read a few twitter ex-pats for awhile, to get the lay of the land, and picked one. i sent an email to the administrator, offering to donate some money, because i couldn’t find a donation link. if this one doesn’t work out, i’ll pick a different one. or run one myself!

again: your criticism sounds to me like “social media has never worked, therefore mastodon also can’t work.” i choose to believe that there is something beyond the status quo.
From time to time I head over to cscareerquestions at Reddit - a place predominantly populated by college students and fresh junior candidates. I see users there applying for hundreds of positions - I don't think I've ever applied for more than 15 positions in my life. Since 2014 I've applied for 8 positions, as I've documented those in a spreadsheet I still have.

So while failing "only" 3 job applications may seem comically low for many people, it's on par with my experience (should be mentioned that I, like the OP, am also from Scandinavia. Maybe a different culture from the US?).
What if I write a book when I'm 20 and is a huge flop but it gets massive success 30 years later when I'm 50?
Hmm, I read your comment and expected to agree with it, but... ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

I found it mildly interesting, and not very scandalous. I mean, sure, when we are interviewing/hiring people, I suspect almost all of us wish we could just keep everything off the record, but... would that really be a good thing for human civilization? I'm skeptical. Anyway, we can't.

Definitely, three interviews is nothing in the sense of "I interviewed at THREE COMPANIES and got ZERO JOBS!!" but it is (again, mildly) interesting in the sense of "I did some interviews and here's how the non-successful ones went."

Anyway, I suspect if we had (a lot) more of this kind of blog post, the net effect on the interviewing/hiring process would be positive... (?)
Usually when I assess code as over complicated it is because the engineer is solving the problem indirectly. Very often I see people focus on the perceived constraints of a problem instead of solving the actual problem. These same people often get married to their approach and resist other ways because they have already invested so much time in their current approach. We never know less than we know today and to not change your approach based on new information will undoubtedly result in spaghetti code, I mean “over engineered code”.

It’s incredible how simple things can be if you think about them creatively enough.
C'mon, Adobe. Open source it.
But if you had read TFA you would have realized it talks about creating a new player that can understand swf files so those don’t have to be rewritten, it’s not about using the old, ugly, insecure Flash player from Adobe.