skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By the way, who decides what a legally recognized market is?

Primarily, the legal system, courts do. However, they always draw in expertise and considering that privacy experts don't agree on what a "privacy phone" should be, good luck defining that market when the market can't define itself. (Does it need secure boot or not? Hardened malloc? Tracker blocking? Sideloading or no sideloading? Allow background processes or not? Hardware Microphone disable switches or not? Some or all of the above? Hardware-based assertions for auditing? Built-in YubiKey? Completely open source firmware? Completely open source modem? Fuzzing required? No C, only Rust?)

But then, even if there was a standard for a "privacy-preserving phone," is that market large enough to legally matter? Currently, judging by how many people are using GrapheneOS... No. Again, Apple has a monopoly on smartphones with Lightning Ports, but I don't think anybody cares about the "Smartphones with Lightning Ports" market. And if you brought a lawsuit complaining about the Lightning Port monopoly, it would be dismissed immediately.
Notes to Myself on Software Engineering (2018)
If you don't mind wasting a bit of time, you could forward size+alignment to the allocator, return the aligned version and keep a record of aligned-to-allocation mapping. (For freeing later)

But as the other comment mentioned - it should be a problem for tf2 in the first place since that's not the behaviour they're after.
> You can find many issue threads on GitHub reporting client freezes and crashes.

The fact that these are happening does not necessarily mean the client is getting worse. For example, it could mean that more people are installing Steam for Linux. There is no baseline to say it's getting worse, because nobody opens an issue saying "all working here."

In my experience, the only issue I have on Wayland is this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7245 (workaround: disable animated avatars) (edit: all AMD machine)

> outside of Steam Deck ofc

There is nothing special about the Steam Deck. It's just another Linux machine.

> TF2

I don't play any Source games, but I could see TF2 having issues because it's in maintenance mode. If it is bjorked that has nothing to do with Steam.
https://archive.is/xP9SI
iOS didn't start with side-loading. Do you have a source for this ?
Hey, I just found your post here. I've been considering developing something in this space too. Would you like to connect? My Twitter handle is @wawagilewski. I'm the creator of CompanyResearchKit.com and I know a thing or two about competitor analysis.
Reflexivity (Social Theory)
from chatgpt

[ME]
which famous person would use these words:
- a lot of money
- tremendous
- believe me

[CHATGPT]
One famous person who often uses these words is former United States President Donald Trump. He is known for his frequent use of the phrase "believe me" in his speeches and interviews, as well as his use of the word "tremendous" to describe things that he considers to be large or impressive. Trump is also known for his wealth and for frequently mentioning his own wealth or business acumen, making the phrase "a lot of money" also fitting for him.

I am tempted to download one of the available models and start to look for these neurons. I will probably waste my time, but fun is warrantied
Here's the comment I was remembering:

Rich Altmaier
3:23 PM (5 minutes ago)
to me

The sensors Intel was producing, now about 7 year ago, did not support capturing the full set of frame pixels at one time. Rather pixels could be copied into backing store from just one pixel row at one moment, then read out, then copy the next row and read out. So the single row of pixels was from the same moment in time, and subsequent rows had to spread over about 1/120 second of time.
So all images were time delayed from top to bottom of the frame.
This method, common to smart phones, is the reason fast moving objects appear bent. e.g. helicopter blades are bent in mobile video.

Secondly I wanted an enhancement, not available at that time in any modern DSLR camera, to adjust the capture image brightness based on ambient illumination changes. This would prevent the typical gym lighting, fluorescent oscillating at 1/120s, from a beat frequency with the video shutter, showing slow moving bands of light/dark across the screen.

Rich
The upper class people will profit from the lost jobs. Just like they've always grabbed the lion's share of productivity improvements.

The VP of Widgets is going to push an AI Initiative that will save money and increase revenue for the company, and as a result, they will get a nice bonus and a promotion of the Chief Widget Officer. Then maybe segue that into a "consultancy" where they overcharge other companies to advise them to do the same.
> iOS started out with side-loading

I don't recall sideloading ever being a thing iOS started out with. There was a trivial jailbreak and very easy third party app store install for jailbroken devices, but that was essentially a defect and not something iOS was designed for.
Just for GPU comparison I'm on an AMD RX card so it could be an Nvidia issue which is known to be jank on Linux.
TBH I'm astonished by how many Teslas I see here in rural MN. Even saw my first Rivian last week!
There are neuromorphic deep learning algorithms. From what I read, one promise of these spiking neural networks is higher efficiency than that of typical neural nets, which would enable learning from much fewer data samples.

If anybody here works with SNNs, can you share if you think this claim is true? Also, are there any good entry points for people interested in learning more about SNNs?
MAIker: AI-powered VSCode extension that generates a code project from a prompt
Maiker is a VSCode extension to generates coding projects from on a user prompt using OpenAI ChatGPT api
If you're looking for something that's offline first go for pass [0], gopass [1], or any keepass-compatible [2][3][4] password manager and sync the database yourself.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1]: https://www.gopass.pw/

[2]: https://keepassxc.org/

[3]: https://www.keepassdx.com/

[4]: https://strongboxsafe.com/
In Colorado at least HOAs are banned from a) requiring lawns and b) disallowing solar

a and b) https://news.ucdenver.edu/hoas-go-green-colorado-bill-forces...

b in more detail) https://www.cohoalaw.com/covenant-enforcement/solar-panels-w...
Maybe a bit off topic but it's always strange when someone says "Islamic Golden Age" when talking about Iran. Nothing against a specific religion. It's like saying Newton's work came during Christian Golden Age in Europe. The religion had nothing to do with it. In fact, there is a book [1] (in Persian) title "Two Centuries of Silence" that talks about the significant blow to Iran's culture, literature and science after Arab invasion [2] that it took two hundred years to somehow get back on track.

[1] https://web.sas.upenn.edu/persian/2018/09/06/talk-two-centur...

[2] Since I've mentioned this, I need to add that the focus of my statement is the nature of such "invasion" and not a certain ethnicity. No malicious intent here. If you are an Arab and reading this, hello neighbors! with love from Iran :)
Simplicity and a great concurrency model are the two biggest selling points. When Clojure steals your concurrency primitives and calls them "go" in your honor, you're doing something right. Blazing fast, consistent tooling don't hurt either. Personally, I find Go code to be imminently readable - I can dive into a new codebase and start understanding/navigating it almost immediately.

But I don't know if I'd choose to write a Golang project from scratch. It's got a garbage collector and sketchy C interop - not low-level enough to be used for most systems programming. But it's also not expressive enough and lacks the rich ecosystem of Python or Javascript. Jack of all trades, master of none, IMO. Golang is a solid language for HTTP web services for big teams with varied abilities, but there are better languages based on their technical merits alone.
It seems to work perfectly for some people. I’ve regularly had issues with the client not rendering at all, freezing, and crashing on Pop_OS 22.04 LTS with an nvidia GTX 1660ti.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver just had an episode sharing problems with HOAs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os
How about they support the algorithm parameter in the TOTP spec, rather than silently ignoring it and hard-coding hmacSha1?
Books that explain (parts of) how the world works (2018)
Things I enjoy:

- compiled. So I can release a binary quite easily

- I can usually reach far without relying on third-party libraries/frameworks (e.g., http servers, json parsing, testing)

- it’s relatively easy to understand other’s people Go code

Things I don’t enjoy:

- pedantic compiler (e.g., I cannot leave unused variables in my POC/prototype code)

- hard-coding dependencies’ URLs in imports. Why not just a simple mapping in go.mod from canonical URL to friendly name?

- lack of a more powerful standard library (like Python’s)

- error handling. It’s simple, but it becomes tiring after a while. Not a huge deal, though
Yea that's weird. I can underestand rules to avoid things like "OpenAI Barkbytes Plugin", but Barkbytes plugin compatible inegrated with ChatGPT seems fine.
Ask HN: Will you become active on BlueSky?
With the recent Twitter drama, seems a lot of people are joining BlueSky. But any new social media at this age seems like a far fetched idea. Would you be active on BlueSky?
I really didn’t get the point of lawns until I had a child and wanted to give them a place to run and play and roll around outside without having to worry too much about them hurting themselves on rocks, short sharp sapling stumps, etc. We do still have woodland on our property but its kind of gnarly in there.

I realize this is a very narrow use case and many places require lawns for not necessarily great reasons and also a ton of chemicals and resources go into maintaining them. I try to do it as minimally as possible, and it’s not a very big area.
Will always be GUID Partition Table to me.
is this just bait to trick us into thinking there's news about google reader?
>It's not "your" IP address, it's DigitalOcean's IP address. And DigitalOcean is unwilling or unable to police their IP address space, so you've been lumped in with the other bad actors inside 45.55.0.0/16.

It's not an arbitrary search space, it's usually a /24 to easily disqualify noisy neighbors and in addition the reputation of ips registered in the ARIN record. I would urge everyone to register any IP block they use that's more than a /29. To the end of this story, I have successfully sent email to microsoft servers from my /27 and /28 because (a) the /24 i'm on is not spammy and (b) my entire netblock is not spammy.

But even then I get certain random companies/universities that will flat out reject my email because I'm not going through one of the big 5 mail senders. I gave up, still host my own email but relay my mail through an O365 exchange server
With Google Authenticator, there is no notification, is there? As a user, you have to open your phone, open the app, then scroll to the right code, and copy/paste it. (The lack of search in one of the reasons that made me switch to Aegis)

I always thought Okta was kind of weird, because it's just a notification that says "allow/deny" and it's easy to click the wrong one.
More platitudes. This comment was also unnecessarily rude.

Enjoy the day.
> using gpg via email on an Open System (Linux, BSDs), good luck stopping that

They won't engage us on those terms. They'll use their authority to pass laws saying use of cryptography strong enough to defeat them is evidence of guilt. Judges will instruct juries to assume there's CSAM in your encrypted hard drive.
They'll likely use the same system they use to limit health features in jurisdictions where it's not approved (e.g. ECG).
Why are you not able to bounce ideas around in a text chat room, audio chat room, video chat room, 2d/3d/VR shared space? Why is it so hard for you to do it unless you are literally in the same physical location?
From what I understand a key difference from then to now were short term stressors that appeared solvable by direct (group-) action as opposed to modern day long term stressors that can appear abstract and outside of our own radius of action, resulting in paralysis and psychological/physiological harm over long periods of time.

Don't have a source on hand though, may have come from a book by Robert Sapolsky
Microsoft is securing their position with Azure. It definitely keeps getting better in ways that work well for their customers.

Windows is the linchpin in that strategy so I don't understand why they've moved organizationally moved it so far away. It's relegated to being Bing adjacent.
Again - yeah sure, there are communication benefits to general proximity.

But the idea that this literally happens "at the water cooler" (or from bumping into each other in the hallway) to a significant degree -- such that it's worth dragging people into their cars for a 90 commute each way, on top of the obvious productivity-killing effects of the vast majority of office spaces, these days, just to benefit from these wonderful and sublime interactions -- is just nonsense.

Or like another commenter put it: one of these things people hear and like to repeat, without checking whether it has any grounding in reality.
I don't think any of that is relevant. It's obvious they didn't mean that they only wanted citizens to have the right to bear inferior arms and that only the government should get the more advanced or powerful weapons. The entire point is being able to oppose a tyrannical government.

I can see an argument over nukes, but this "they didn't imagine assault weapons" is just some kind of gaslighting. They imagined sufficient arms to defend oneself against authority.
Came here for this comment
On the other hand, the best camera is the one that you have with you, so having a better photo camera is always a great thing.
For video I much prefer iPhone with a gimbal though. And the gimbal, with its built in stick and tracking, makes me much more creative for stills than I am with my traditional cameras.

Both pale in comparison to the creativity I feel with a 360 camera though. Image quality ain’t everything.
Privacy is about more than just targeted ads. That is just the most obvious application. Here are a handful of other practical privacy concerns:

* Negative information about you floating free (mugshots websites, revenge porn, news articles about past behaviour)
* Health and other behavioural information (e.g. used by health, life and auto insurance. These days your medical info might be used to sue you in another state even!)
* Privacy in semi-public places (ring cameras, uber dashcams)
* Financial information being used against you (credit ratings obviously, but also being deemed a fraud risk makes a lot of transactions difficult)
* Criminal history is commonly used in job applications.

I'm not saying we need to go to one extreme - how would loans work without credit ratings, and CCTV definitly improves safety in some situations - but I just want to point out the range of issues at play. Most of these already have some kind of legal compromise.

Also beyond practical concerns there is a principal at stake too. We fundamentally deserve some degree of privacy just for it's own good.
If they ever wanted to increase tourism, just consider:

1. Would you like to visit Persia?

2. Would you like to visit Iran?
You can sideload on both in Europe since it's required by law.

But yes, I agree that Google's strategy is more open, and they allow others to use the Android source code to make their own (Amazon app store, Microsoft, etc).

Apple is more of a walled garden and a strict monopoly on their platform (and hardware).
I've had exactly the opposite experience with my MX Master 3 AND MX Ergo. Dongle is horrible, bluetooth is perfect.

No idea why, just is. It's not even sometimes, it's instantly noticeable and never goes away.
Thanks for the kind feedback!

As I kept building it, I realized I can also extract all the history of changes belonging to all features/segments/attributes in the repo and show them nicely via the static site generator as well, which serves as a status report for your wider team/organization.

You can see the screenshots here: https://featurevisor.com/docs/site/#screenshots
My iphone camera is good. But It does some weird things. In just normal mode it blurs and shifts. It seriously distorted a sheep in the background of one of my shots and gave our dog a extra paw while running. (Its doing the multiple/merge thing..) Its great for bright and static shots. but anything moving or lower light it can have issues.
Do you have a dedicated desk? When I stopped office work in 2012 that had pretty much gone. First come first serve
This is why I don’t like when people outright dismiss SMS as suitable second factor. Yes, it has problems, but it also has a recovery mechanism that is accessible for ”ordinary peope”.

The best solution (for me) would be to connect the Google Account to my government issued identity and utilize the strong authentication provided by government for account recovery.
They're ebooks. So no trees chopped. Just oil burnt.
> Imagine if the US had to recruit prisoners to fight a war…

The US used to do that at the front door of crininal justice rather than the back, with judges selectively offering convicts the reduced or suspended sentences on condition of enlistment.

Policy changes in, I think, the 1980s (this was very much still a thing in the Vietnam era) have really shut the door on that, though people keeping suggesting bringing it back. [0]

[0] e.g., https://www.wjhg.com/2021/12/28/new-legislation-would-allow-...
What if I don't like viewing web pages on a phone?
> The persons reaction doesn't negate any problem with the managers behavior.

Tirades immediately discredit one's point. Having a tantrum is not the path to solving workplace issues.

> For what it's worth, I don't think there's a shortage of malice, passive aggressive, instigating behaviors that occur in the workplace that can lead up to a such reaction.

If you'd actually like to move the needle on solving those issues, having a tantrum is not the path forward.
>Then again if you were form your views based on something more than a few random videos you happen to have caught -- you just might come to a different impression.

My native is Russian and I have been watching battle field videos on daily basis since the first day of the conflict. I draw my empirical conclusions based on what I see & hear and based on own conversations with my relatives in Ukraine (my mother is from Odessa region).
DMT Users Are Using AI to Draw the Strange Beings They Meet While Tripping
If I'm on Substack and am reading a genuinely interesting article, and half-way or something through I get a popup asking if I want to sign up for that person's newsletter, I might do it.
I suspect most will stick with their main camera with all the lenses, settings, filters, etc it wouldn’t even really be that much of a conversation.

Funny story, I was in Venice last week to do photography. So I had my camera. I was taking pics of the sunset but I wanted to take a pic to send to my friend. So I used my iPhone. The confused looks I got from people who could see a camera dangling from my wrist while I used an iPhone to take a picture was quite funny.

I suspect it’ll be like that going forward. Want to take a quick snap to send to people use your phone. Want to take a photo to put on your wall, use your camera.
Yeah, this reinforces another perception I have. Which is that we have lost any concept of opportunity cost. We might save on commercial real estate but what is the cost in productivity, innovation, and ultimately profit?
I also use Steam on Fedora, and I've not had any issues with Stardew Valley, Factorio, Celeste, N++, Undertale, and others. I remember having a brief issue with Portal, but I was able to resolve it. Overall, I've had a good experience.
I'm actually interested to see if this is accepted.

Common words are fine for Trademarks but in this case "GPT" could be considered a "generic" form however in a very niche field.

My understanding is that "Apple" as the trademark for a computer company is fine. "Apple" for a brand of apple juice would not be.
Nope. I still don't really like Twitter's culture, using Mastodon in conjunction with RSS feels like everything I need.

You might see me on there if they add ActivityPub support though!
According to the judge's interpretation of the US antitrust law*
Yeah. It depends on the season and the year but I've had days around where I live in MA where, especially in the late spring, I can't walk a mile out through my field--which is typically short at that time of year--down to the river without finding multiple ticks on me when I get back.

This was the case growing up in PA too but it's much more troublesome disease-wise these days.
Many safes allow for securing to the floor, making porting it away require a bit more effort, possibly including power tools which are quite loud. Also they're quite heavy usually.

I remember as a child someone broke into our house while we were away to steal stuff. The safe wasn't bolted down, and they carried it from one end of the house to the other before giving up, either because they got spooked by something and bolted or because it was just too damn heavy.

Think about the logistics of it. If they're stealing a safe, that probably requires a vehicle. A vehicle is more identifiable and unless stolen makes it easier to track people if noticed or recorded. If stolen, there's a chance it will cause a problem immediately before, during or after the crime. If they don't use a vehicle, all the benefits of not using one, such as being able to take non-road paths and blend into crowds are negated. And if they choose to crack the safe on location, that adds time to the crime while doing so, and all time spent at the location of the crime increases the chance they'll be caught because someone notes something suspicious.

Like a lock on a house a safe within a house serves it's purpose not by making it impossible to gain access but by making it much more troublesome and likely to be noticed, changing the risk to reward ratio.
Nice (blog author here); just heard this showed up on the frontpage from someone on Nostr.

If I was writing an update to this, I'd probably point out how much better the clients (especially mobile) have gotten, in such a short span of time. As well as how lightning integration (zaps) are letting us build new capabilities (instead of just cloning twitter) that don't exist anywhere else.
Ninth Circuit opinion

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/24/2...
There's an interesting question whether it makes a difference that as human societies have modernized (through the agricultural, industrial and digital revolutions) the causes of stress have become progressively more detached from physical or existential adversity and the physical stress related to those threats (adrenaline, exertion, starvation, etc).
Who knows.

It depends on whether the tech has standards & protocols that seem like it will have long term sticking power, & be something we can grow & shape & nurture forward.

There's a lot of very smart developers who seem to have gotten a lot of license to make new protocols & systems that made sense to them, and so, yeah, I'm excited to see what happens.

But there's a lot of very promising new personal-scale communication systems. ActivityPub, Nostr, and now @ are all promising protocols. Anything could happen. But I do expect to be exploring BlueSky for at least a while.