skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> survey. If it was one of the pro-West NGOs

Nope. There is a source column. No foreign sources. And the public ones cross governments. Which, again, changed because of Xi’s hamfistedness.
To make sure we're on the same page, at the level you describe, were you able to confidently watch YouTube videos on non-fiction topics like documentaries and generally always understand? Or for example dramas? Just checking because being able to produce language without matching listening skills to understand everything they say back is a kind of popular YouTube fake polyglot thing these days sadly, and listening is the most unfakeable skill of them all. No technique on earth can shortcut building the robust neural connections needed to instantaneous interpret unmodified native speech.
I think the most likely situation is this:

Bitlocker can save backup keys in the cloud where they can probably be subpoenad by the police. If the victim used a password manager without encryption (e.g. browser) and used or saved the same password somewhere else, they might have gotten it this way.
That's baloney - virtually no computers these days are "cleanly separate" from their software, at least outside of tiny microcontrollers. Do you have any idea how much software executes before they even get to the point where the operating system beings to boot?

The idea that a CPU is going to come out of reset and start executing instructions that you provide at the reset vector is thirty years out of date.
Posted yesterday too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35671434
ChatGPT’s Astonishing Potential – Greg Brockman – TED
A warmer planet, less nutritious plants, and fewer grasshoppers
You're missing the point. An increase in the number of mammalian herbivores just means an increased point of equilibrium for methane. But there will still be an equilibrium.

In contrast, using fossile sources of carbon (oil etc) will increase the greenhouse effect every year even if the usage is constant.
I think it depends a lot on where (and how) you buy your news. Here in Denmark most of the online resources are fairly terrible, even the paid ones, and a lot of their content is often just a translated Reuters brief. Sometimes it’s even an article that’s written after something blew up on a social media site, if this blog post about Sudan gets popular enough in the right places, and enough people click on their current Sudan content, then a version of this blog could end up as a story in some of our online news sites. A lot of that is sort of useless, at least in my opinion.

But there are alternatives. We have a Newspaper called Weekendavisen which only comes out on Fridays, and it has long throughly written articles. Because it only comes out once a week, it’s often also filtered away a lot of the “breaking” news that wasn’t actually important because they don’t have to deal with feeding the live stream 24/7.

This isn’t really related to the blog post, I too think it’s great to see investigative and informative journalism thrive despite of what’s been going on with a lot of news outlets, but there are still some good ones, and I doubt they are all going away.
Maybe this is IT-specific advice, but I did this (in another field). It did not end well.

The students were great. But the administration of the school left a lot to be desired.
How does Apple dragging their feet on implementing the Web Push notification standard, that is necessary for PWAs, in anyway help in that situation? Literally every browser except Safari implemented the the standard, and not out of some noble anti-Google crusade. PWAs threaten the App Store monopoly's moneyhose.

How does Apple releasing proprietary web standards just for Safari, like Safari Push Notifications, help in anyway with the purported problem of companies stamping out web standards without consensus? It seems like it's only a problem when Google does it, but when Apple does it, it's Safari "helping Firefox just exist".
All games are not addictive drugs. Some are similar to it, some not at all.
Sure thing. But thinking about security in depth, default E2E encryption is an additional layer of security that is lacking in Telegram.
You own the hardware. You're welcome to keep it on your shelf indefinitely; give it away; set it on fire. You're absolutely free to run your own software on it. Go ahead. Oh, you can't? You don't have the skills? The manufacturer made it difficult for you? The hardware prevents you? Too bad; if you wanted different hardware maybe you should have bought different hardware. Caveat emptor.
So only Europeans get to play Secret of Monkey Island on ScummVM? Well I guess I'm grateful for being a Swede but this will feel weird...
The unfortunate thing is that screwjob conscious tech people aren't the majority of the internet anymore. Most people are consumers who have been groomed into believing being constantly restricted and annoyed is the acceptable norm, see Google's constant redesigns of Youtube.

People will tolerate this until the site becomes literally unusable, because no other site can provide it at scale.
- Vaping is not "better" than smoking.

- Being healthy and being fit are not the same thing.

- You can't replace your laptop with a phone.
It sounds like all of these problems are completely invented by people who are not Cubans?
You are free to not browse the website just as I am free to not purchase an iPhone.
700 is monstrous. I only know of one computer scientist to hit that level. Famous in several worlds. You must be in graphics.
The problem is PBKDF2 isn't as memory intensive, it's really easy to parallelize on a modern GPU thus making it a much worse PBKDF than Argon2id. Increasing iteration count is just a bandaid over this problem, you also need to have control over memory usage.
We can't teach language to apes. Chimps can learn words, but a sentence isn't a bag of words, and they don't use recursion or even ask questions. Parrots actually do better.
I wonder if security code will now become region-specific too. It would be a terrible pity if stats go on to show EU devices got hacked more than their Apple Store-only equivalents right around the time they opened up.

Not saying they would, but maybe something to watch out for.
there is a literary device where you say important things twice, once accurately by description and then again by example, it helps folks orient and synthesize the idea
> And if you have the popup, you might as well throw in Google Analytics etc as well, right?

Google Analytics is problematic[1], consent or no consent, unless you send anonymized analytics events through your own proxy server.

[1]

Austria: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-...

France: https://www.cnil.fr/en/google-analytics-and-data-transfers-h...

Denmark: https://www.datatilsynet.dk/english/google-analytics/use-of-...

Finland: https://tietosuoja.fi/-/apulaistietosuojavaltuutettu-antoi-h...

Norway: https://www.datatilsynet.no/aktuelt/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/va...
Another larger thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662571
I might be wrong, but something tells me that people who use LUKS to encrypt a hard drive would not use the password in question for an online service.
Apple knows what they think is good. It turns out lots of people agree or they wouldn’t be so successful.

You have a choice, if you don’t like it buy an Android phone. Or a Sailfish phone, or a KDE phone our one of the other open source phones where the only “apps” are low quality PWA crap. Look how successful they are.
Google (and the downstream ad publishers) requires the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) v2.0 and the corresponding information. That means specifically which purposes have been consented to (explicitly or implicitly via legitimate concern). It’s a bottomless hole you can look into, created by the ad industry to mostly keep doing things as before.
Therefore the method called "progressive enhancement" might be an option to start with an HTML-only variant and load JS only if available and required for the current page.
You can use an unencrypted /boot and have UEFI boot a unified kernel image with the kernel command line built in. And have secure boot verify the signature of that image.

A TPM could possibly be helpful: you can't be sure that the PC you're booting up is actually yours and not a clone or has somehow had secure boot disabled that's booting a tampered kernel image. So if the TPM usually unlocks your drive (and a PIN, for added security) and it suddenly asks for your password, then something could be going on.
Poettering more or less establishes that systemd was directly inspired by both Upstart and launchd: [0]

> I hope that I managed to explain in the text above why we came up with something new, instead of building on Upstart or launchd.

That, and another dozen mentions of launchd whenever it talks about socket and bus activation, strongly suggests to me that the “d” would be for daemon, just like in launchd.

[0]: https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html
If you think they were "extremely commonplace", you were living in a mid-2000s tech bubble. At best they were kinda commonplace among a narrow set of people who gave a shit, knew it was possible, happened to have devices which supported these games, happened to have a revision of the device which wasn't locked down by the carrier, and who had the time and patience to tinker with such unusable junk.

If more than 1 percent of Java-capable handsets ever had third party software downloaded onto them post-purchase, I'd eat my hat.

I wonder if even 1 percent of iPhones manage to get used without ever having at least one app installed from the App Store.
Do you have a source for the claim? Just checked the feature and the “Learn more…” text specifically says data is kept locally.
Or use an extension that does "accept all" for them, like I don’t care about cookies.
Thanks for that. Very enjoyable. I so wished it were longer, though that is also part of the appeal.
Why? This is good for the world. Surely we can find a way to come together on things that improve the world for everyone?
The associated esim app has free connectivity to complete the signup flow without wifi. It is obviously more convenient to download an app to your backup phone than futz around with physical sims you just have to remember to do so before you go camping.

Now you might retort aha! See! In a very narrow set of circumstances.. let me cut you off, look, you're going to need to remember to bring a paperclip or sim tool to do it the old fashioned way anyhow. So you're remembering something. If you're an amnesic lost in the woods you got bigger problems.

Besides, those are 2 grams of weight savings in my ultra light backpacking setup!
> Oh, this is what goes in Italian as "l'arte di arrangiarsi"

Yeah, very similar concept.

> It's a very old concept, everything old is new again

Nobody said it was new, though… Or exclusively French, although the French name is marginally better known.
Does cloudflare respect users? They don't even respect the intent of "do not track" enable it and you can do cloudflare captchas in an infinite loop which doesn't seem so respectful in my understanding of that word.
Chinese military study names TikTok among companies involved in ‘cognitive war’
Cows don't eat coal or oil.
> I think this has turned out to be the current barrier in preventing Google from completing taking over the web standards space.

"I used the monopoly to destroy the monopoly."
> Did you just compare freedom to choose alternative payment method to slavery?

Not at all. I said some businesses should not be viable and gave the simplest possible example I could think of.

And you did not agree.

Shame on you.

> You're dictators wet dream. "Don't care about unfair system, dig within yourself! If competitor is doing good under dictatorship it means the problem is within you!"

You're still not saying what you want to do and why it is good for society, just that the "dictator" is stopping you from doing it. "Alternative payments" can mean all sorts of things from money laundering to easier-to-steal, and I can't support those things.
> Compile mount statically

This is cheating. Why not use also bash when you claim you only use emacs ?
Epiq Solutions VPX400 Demonstrates MORA 2.4 Compliance
Well, for one, this isn’t just a two-party ecosystem. It’s not just the consumer and Apple. It’s also the app developers. App developers are largely the ones pushing things like PWA. Apple’s long-standing heavy handed take on design standards has always been driven by a focus on consumer/end-user experience and it has often been chafed against by developers and more technical types. For instance- Apple rightly refused to allow flash and Java apps on iOS devices and I think my user experience was the better for it.
Yeah, you got it. This is the real answer.

The glut of PhD's is at such a level that the last teaching jobs available to industry professionals have all gone to boomers who will stay at those jobs until they die.
Blind kids don't though, and they still end up being smarter than GPT-4
Regarding second paragraph; I called out this very tendency a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35601539) and someone came forward to defend it.

HN may not be a great place for makers to get feedback.
“To respond to their challenge to traditional state power, stronger supervision should be implemented. With risk awareness and bottom-line thinking, effective measures should be taken to prevent the risks civilian hi-tech companies might bring in politics, economy, culture, communications networks and military security.” - quote from study
I know how to not enable side-loading. There are a dozen friends and family members who I provide tech support to and I don't trust any of them to never follow the clearly written instructions which Epic will provide showing how to sideload Fortnite onto their phone.

Sure, maybe Epic can be trusted. But perhaps Meta decides that the latest/most desirable versions of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have to be side-loaded. Now it's commonplace. Now everyone's phone has sideloaded apps installed.

Sure, maybe Meta can be trusted. But perhaps some new future TikTok-esque craze besets the mainstream, and it's in the form of a sideloaded app, made easy because sideloaded apps aren't unusual, and the company who makes this viral app is dodgy as f***.

But sure, it's always the user's choice.
Homeware giant Bed Bath and Beyond has filed for bankruptcy
A Fish for loop is near identical to a Bash for loop, it simply omits the "do".
Everything has JSON because everything has a web browser with JS these days. Calculation can change if browsers stop shipping or stop shipping with JS.
Videos of the sit-to-stand test predict osteoarthritis in a nationwide study
Libreboot 20230423
But we can devise generally applicable rules of reasoning from first principles. It's called logic. I am pretty sure the next step is to properly combine machine learning and logic properly.
Radar satellite data reveals 19,000 previously unknown undersea volcanoes
A non-app-store web app on iPhone has been able to be full screen since initial release of Home Screen web apps. When you launch from Home Screen, it gets the whole screen.

See the Xbox Cloud Gaming "app" for instance, which is outside the App Store, just launch then "Add to Home Screen", close, and run from Home Screen.

https://www.xbox.com/en-us/play

As for what can be done with browsers, see the venerable iCab but also Kagi's Orion browser which runs Firefox and Chrome extensions, even on iOS. Yes, it's WebKit based, but so was Chrome for a long time.

https://help.kagi.com/orion/browser-extensions/macos-extensi...

Given you can run Xbox games or arbitrary extensions from other browsers, it's clear the web app and WebKit limits are less restrictive than most discussion acknowledges.

For the last few features that used to be missing, like notifications or other native hooks, notice Microsoft has the sidecar native app for iOS that handles in-game chat, LAN discovery for Xbox setup, and notifications.
One idea: Maybe your shell functions do not all need to be shell functions, maybe they can be shell scripts instead.

Put them in ~/bin, then you can use them regardless of the shell you're using.

Of course, if the shell function or alias needs to modify the shell state, then it won't work as a shell script.
> It's trained on generating the most likely completion to some text, it's not at all easy to tell if it's bullshitting you if you're a newbie.

I don't think many people (at least not myself and others I know who use it) use GPT4 as a source of absolute truth, but more like a "iterate together until solution", taking everything it says with a grain of truth.

I wouldn't decide any life or death decisions on just a chat with GPT4, but I could use it to help me lookup specific questions and find out more information that then gets verified elsewhere.

When it comes to making games (with Rust), it's pretty easy to verify when it's bullshitting as well. If I ask it to write a function, I copy-paste the function and either it compiles or it doesn't. If it compiles, I test it out in the game, and if it works correctly, I write tests to further solidify my own understand and verification it works correctly. Once that's done, even if I have no actual idea of what's happening inside the function, I know how to use it and what to expect from it.
But there's no push, you can literally ignore Apple's existence and use none of their products and you'll have no care in the world. Apple's network effect is basically zero. There's always one Android user in the friend group that spoils iMessage and FaceTime so we have to use something else anyway.

If you mean you feel compelled to sell in their store which requires a laptop, a business relationship with Apple, and realistically a phone because emulator only sucks then that's a business decision if the juice is worth the squeeze.
>currency is dead because crypto currency has replaced money already

Literally no one said that, you are being ridiculous
If you want to talk about predictive power, let’s look at the first IPCC report from 1990. That had estimates which we now have data to judge them against, and have held up well:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/12/ipccs-climate-projec...

Similarly, Dr. James Hansen (director of NASA's Goddard Institute) testified before Congress based on his 1988 study predicting global warming and his numbers were very close to what we saw over the subsequent 3 decades:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

This research shows that one variable might be 30-40% smaller but the impact of that is clearly still within the margins on reports from 3 or 4 decades ago, so perhaps consider that the fossil fuel-funded sources telling you that the models are “shockingly simplistic” are not being entirely honest about their motives.
Extracted via the GitHub Repo tiktoken [1]

After you try to decode a string the list on my computer shows up in
/tmp/data-gym-cache/9b5ad71b2ce5302211f9c61530b329a4922fc6a4

[1] https://github.com/openai/tiktoken
I looked into this, as I'm starting to burn out of working in the industry.

The community colleges in my area require a surprising amount of prerequisites and pay _dismally_. Even with 15 years of industry experience, I'd need at least a year or two of additional schooling (while not being paid) to earn a paltry few hundred dollars per credit hour per semester while teaching.

Hard sell to not get paid for a few years to then take a 75-90% pay cut.
Interesting to see what happens in the case (no pun intended) of Champagne regarding climate change.

Due to global warming, there are indications that ideal growing conditions are moving westwards towards the South of England.
Established houses like Tattinger have been buying up vineyards in Kent.

I wonder what would happen to that protected name if parts of their raw material had no connection to that region of France.
> I don't now if this was simply Pratchett's standard cynicism / semi-jaundiced take on humanity

It’s Pratchett, so most probably a bit of each. Plus a healthy dose of piss taking.

As a side note, I would not use “cynicism” for Pratchett. Whilst there is some of it, cynicism has become associated with mindless reactionary contrarianism, which is very, very far from Pratchett’s general optimism.
In theory, eSIMs actually make life easier in that scenario.

Easier to get online in a new country if you don’t have to first seek out a physical SIM card. Plus you keep your home SIM secure in the phone where there’s no danger of losing it.

Instead, just get on WiFi when you arrive, take your pick of cheap offers, and download the eSIM directly to your phone.

> ”I couldn't imagine them jumping on the esim train in any useful way in the near term.”

Depends on the country. Thailand, for example, is very eSIM friendly. But there’s plenty of “developed” countries in Europe where eSIMs are almost unheard of.
That's a great point. The GWP of computation is hugely underappreciated.

(Also, nice work!)
The Loss of Longing in the Age of Curated Reality (2019)
The iOS app store has way more trash than the Android one. Android has lots of open source software. iOS has a bajillion crappy $2 apps instead. I got an iPad from work, and not only does it not have a calculator from Apple, it's really hard to find a lightweight, low-permission, ad-free calculator on the App Store. I eventually had to settle for one designed for iPhones.
> Typically, an initramfs is not needed, but may be necessary for:

Mounting an encrypted, logical, or otherwise special root partition
Providing a minimalistic rescue shell (if something goes wrong)
Customize the boot process (e.g., print a welcome message)
Load modules necessary to boot (e.g., third party storage drivers)
Anything the kernel can't do that's usually handled in user space

So a lot of things which are not emacs.
I don't know if it's likely but there are a lot of big brands that can't get their apps on the Apple store for whatever reason, just like Fortnite and Chrome. With enough of them, alternative app stores will take off.

I think the biggest category is alternative stores.

Like NVIDIA Geforce Now or Steam.
"Markup languages" are for documents. RON, YAML and JSON are data-oriented.

Even though YAML was named "Yet Another Markup Language" in the beginning, it changed to "Yaml Aint a Markup Language" to emphasise that.
I don't understand why people speed up podcasts.

"Consume more, faster!" - yeah, screw that. If I'm listening to something, it has my full and undivided attention, and I want to experience it at the pace it was created for.
Recently moved to a new country (non-EU). The carrier I'm using does not offer eSIM and shipped me a physical SIM card. This is not an outlier, I have a couple of physical SIM cards, some US, that I wouldn't be able to use if the phone was eSIM only, like the recent US iPhone.

Also moving a eSIM from iOS device to non-iOS device (for example to plug into my secondary Android) is a massive PITA. I always have to re-issue the SIM which I often can't do and need to jumps through customer support queries and hoops. My current provider back home doesn't even give me the option to do it while abroad and support told me to come back for a day, then finish the eSIM reissuing application, so I'm stuck with the physical SIM anyway.

eSIMs will be great one day, but that day is not now. I much rather pop the SIM out of phone 1 and move it into phone 2, or iPad when I want, than wait hours (or sometimes days) to get a new eSIM approved, and repeat that process every single time I want to move a connection to another device