skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not your keys, it’s the Operating System keys uploaded to your device.

Essentially the same way UEFI secure boot works in the PC world.

You’re telling the device hardware “it’s only ok to run software that’s been signed with the private key that matches this public key”, so that once you’ve done that, you can have confidence that the operating system hasn’t been modified in future by anyone other than the original vendor (as only they have the private key).
All the open source Discord rooms I'm in, absolutely no one uses the voice chat and I didn't even know there was a screen sharing option. The ratio of users to admins is probably 10,000:1 so ease of admin isn't really an issue (see also reddit where mod tools suck). There are plenty of visually appealing clients (e.g. this one!).

I personally think persistent message history (XMPP botched that rollout terribly) - which goes hand-in-hand with multipresence - and the extreme dearth of any - let alone actually good and usable - IRC (or XMPP) mobile clients (esp. on iOS) was the real reason they lost mainstream use.

Multipresence is more than just a checkbox; doing it correctly involves actually setting up a SSO system with actual first-party user account support (not just relegating it as a stateful detail of the underlying IRC library you are using). IMHO actual account integration would have bound users more loyally to IRC and would have created more of a "network effect".

Inline attachments, emoji reactions, etc are all just icing on the cake.
The promise of AGI isn't really optimizing something mundane like widget manufacturing though surely it will be tasked with doing that. It's a rapid advancement of the frontier of knowledge. For example we dream of curing disease and aging but it is beyond our current knowledge.

Obviously nobody knows what that looks like or when or if we'll get there but there is probably a ton of existential hazards if we do. Shit even finding out things we hope for are truly impossible would be a kind of doom of its own.
Openlibrary is an open alternative (as well as letting you actually read obscure books). They have Goodreads import I believe.
I'm on the Pixel 7 Pro (had the 6 Pro previously). From my perspective, it's the Android experience intended by Google (it is their flagship phone after all). I'm very happy with it. But yes it does have some other Google servicey things you may or may not want.
We should also consider the baseline [0]. If this is a problem in America, it's not one that's isolated to the tech sector:

> In 2019, 19.2% of U.S. adults received any mental health treatment in the past 12 months, including 15.8% who had taken prescription medication for their mental health and 9.5% who had received counseling or therapy from a mental health professional.

That was for 2019. I expect those numbers increased significantly during and after the pandemic.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db380.htm
The interest rate pause and the loan forgiveness are different policies - one can exist without the other.

The interest rate pause was not declared unconstitutional today - and it will continue until the loans are scheduled to be started again in the next couple months.
It would surprise me if it wasn't a factor. Probably not quite as clear-cut as "less T => more left" but I do view the left as more "nurturing" than the right. Not gonna die on this hill though, humans are complicated :)
RedHat was the first linux distro I ever installed on one of my own machines, so it has some sentimental value for me, but it's been a long time since I used it either personally or at work.
There's been a lot of community backlash in Pokemon Go (#HearUsNiantic Niantic movement)and the game director response to it was that the company has “no plans to directly address any of [it]” [0]

The fan base is very loyal to the Pokemon brand and it really feels Pokemon Go is successful despite all of Niantic's shenanigans.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/13lfd1c/its_offi...
Exactly this. Why do so many people feel entitled to free stuff at the operator's expense? It boggles the mind.
To be clearer, it's not that some form of punishment isn't effective. It's that more severe punishment is not more effective. And prevention is the most effective. There are plenty of studies. A search doesn't surface any for you? What search terms have you tried?
People outside the media, and games especially, underestimate the value of a big cross-media IP. If you end up working on them you find they are orders of magnitude larger in revenue terms and the spikiness of the business (in terms of surges of new users without needing advertising etc.) is unbelievable. The downside is the cost of entry is enormous.

The surprising part is which IPs have these hungry fanbases is not immediately obvious. I know some of those affected today are well aware of this and would assume that for whatever reason the dots didn't join up between the NBA or Marvel audiences and the sort of games Niantic make.
Google Fi offers a VPN as well: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/9040000?hl=en
And this (repetitive postings) makes it right ... how?
Your vanilla Debian box uses BMI2 whenever you do a string comparison, unless you are on a decade old CPU [^0].

The "strange" instructions are actually not that niche, it's just that usage tends to be "indirect" and therefore people don't notice.

[^0] E.g. https://xoranth.net/memcmp-avx2
From another comment:

> We use https://crates.io/crates/irc under the hood which is compliant with RFC 2812, IRCv3.1, IRCv3.2.
iNaturalist is already integrated with the Seek app, which has badges and challenges. My biggest complaint is the image detection could be better, but I’m sure there’s plenty of room to improve the gamification aspect too.

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app
It's not exactly the same, but iOS has an accessibility feature where you can map double and triple tapping the back of the phone to things like turning the flashlight on and off.

It's nearly like shaking and uses the gyros because there's no touch interface there.
Its not like that Debian is completely drama free. Ubuntu and Canonical happily provides that mess.
One of the guys who invented back propagation, Geoffrey Hinton, for one. Of the three people who won the Turing Award for AI research, two are sounding the alarm. Hinton said he’s most concerned about the existential risk.
Why do we keep insisting designers learn CSS?
I did not want this to go through, but totally expected it since I’m in the US and until a few months ago it seemed our regulators no longer cared about monopolies
There are extensions to skip those.
> More often than not, politics is about optics, not solutions. This was doomed to fail from the beginning and I bet they knew it. Status quo continues, crisis remains, talking points for the next election cycle established. Sorry guys, we couldn't get it through this time, but next time, trust us, we'll succeed.

Also points scored in the last election. IIRC, this plan was announced a single month before the 2022 election. They got to benefit from the votes of people who thought they were getting their loans forgiven, without ever actually doing that.
Advertisers specifically avoid Reddit. Ask anyone who’s run an ad campaign on Reddit vs. literally anywhere else. The conversion rate is absolute trash.

Shockingly, the average Redditor doesn’t have (or isn’t willing to part with their) disposable income.
Wandering Powell's and reading the handwritten staff recommendations on the shelves still works just fine for books.
Maybe/at least append an rng value to the end?
The implication that nothing from Fedora will make into RHEL for years seems absurd to me. Is this true?
Did you try the stuff you are proposing? This is all a royal pita in real world projects which the Zig toolchain solved wonderfully.

(also it's a myth that STB style libs increase compile time, that's only true for typical C++ header-only libs with inline methods and template code)
That's because the GFW allowed it, GFW has no problems to block any VPN at will.

GFW is sophisticated beyond imagination, one way to detect VPN traffic(or SSL, or SSH) is to observe its patterns and where the traffic is going. It's not too hard to have a blacklist of all VPN vendors too.

shadowsocks was designed to bypass it(to make traffic looking random), I recall its developers were visited by cops and warned to stop doing that.

It's said China built the largest LAN on earth, the government is just too scared by its people to get educated, it's a true parallel universe.
I don't think they ever needed the enormous crowds. That was helpful for getting the word out that the game existed and now everyone knows, but the truly devoted Pokemon fans are maniacs about it, and enough people are willing to spend either enormous time, enormous money, or both to keep playing. The core audience that grew up with this stuff is also mid-40s now, in the career stage where they finally have a lot of disposable income and probably young kids at the right age to introduce them to Pokemon, too. The IP on its own is so valuable, I'm not even sure the game itself needs to be that good.
>”There is nothing original left to say about any of these topics. If you aren't contributing to actual progress in the area then it's best to not shove yourself into the conversation at all.”

This is one of the more hypocritical statements I’ve read recently. If you study the history of science, it evolved from thought experiments.
I'm reading this article rather than working.
It shows right there on the page that it embeds XKCD - it even has the IRC comic embedded!
Whenever I need to provide a feed, I always choose Atom because (a) the spec is better and (b) anything that can handle RSS will generally also handle Atom.
Fun fact: In some statistics on the safety of different forms of electricity generation, the largest dam failure [1] is left out, which brings hydropower down to same level of safety as nuclear, wind and solar. Our World in Data is an honest source, and reports both values [2].

If you see hydro reported as safe as nuclear, solar and wind (for example in [3]), then they excluded the largest accident. If hydro is 2 orders of magnitude more deadly than nuclear, wind and solar, then they included everything.

solar 0.02 deaths/TWh
nuclear 0.03
wind 0.04

hydro 0.02 without, 1.5 with

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

[3] https://www.energymonitor.ai/sectors/power/weekly-data-fossi...
Red hat does a lot of work in kernel, subsystems, and libraries, where linking is necessary. They can, more or less, happily ignore the legal landscape as long as they stay open, because those licenses are interoperable; the minute they started closing things, they would have to pay a lot of attention not to break gpl constraints.
The opposition to this decision worry me. Do you really want to live in a world where you're forced to create stuff even if you don't want to? Like literally spend a month of your life painting something you don't want to paint? Signing lyrics you don't want to sign? Creating art that is disturbing to you?

It's such an authoritarian position. It's not like refusing selling already made cakes to selected customers. It's about being forced to create something against your will.

Three liberal justices on the court right now are just blinded by the ideology. I have quite liberal views on social issues and disagree with conservatives on most issues but it's hard to see how one side is a reasonable one here and the other just pushes an agenda and that's not the agenda anyone valuing creative freedom should get behind.
Someone paid ~$406,000 for the first reddit NFT card in 2021 *and just those four on the page made reddit $1,079,265

So if all the engineering team that made those NFT's did was get that revenue, then financially at least, it was well worth the investment for reddit.
We should have easy to obtain or even OTC Vyvanse or some similar stimulant that is abuse resistant. (Vyvanse is turned into amphetamine in the liver, rate limiting absorption.) It would probably help a lot of people and at the same time reduce the number who get into dangerous street stims like meth.

Low dose time release Vyvanse would probably be no worse than a lot of caffeine or these energy drinks full of megadoses of taurine and stuff.

Amphetamine is actually not that dangerous if taken at reasonable doses and not abused. Street meth is impure, uncontrolled in dose, and delivered without proper packaging.
Wait, can you now do QWOP with real human body parts as input and ... finally run? that would be so full circle!
Reddit is very heavy handed with bans as of late.

I got IP banned across my older unused accounts, and my newer ones for mass editing, then deleting my comments to a message that was basically "reddit killed itself due to this API change".
And no one has named the application in question.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35300200
> In this way "disk controller" can easily expand to S3 or some such.

Disk semantics are subtly different from S3-style blob semantics in important ways. Crucially the immutability of blobs makes life _much_ easier for the blob storage than the ability to write into the middle of a disk file.

Given the latency problem, I think it would be interesting and useful for there to be devices which expose a "blob" API to a bunch of Flash on a PCIe bus, and for there to be a suitable OS API for this.

Flash itself is only weakly mutable! You can only write in one direction (usually 1->0) to a Flash cell. To go 0->1 you have to do a block erase on a whole bunch of bits, which takes much longer.
Ah, so just like the US then!
Even GPT is not at all what anyone predicted before the late 2010s, when we started seeing Transformers scaling up and improving rapidly with more data.

Now that we've cottoned onto that trend, it's all anyone talks about. Which is going to make it extra funny when it doesn't deliver what so many predict.
One of Matt Levine's recent columns was about this topic too: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-27/silico...
Anaconda Assistant Launches. No need to remember how to use Matplotlib
I would work 3 years, save 2 of the 3 million, and retire on my $60-80k a year passive income.
NJ is one-party consent.
Debian LTS only has 5 years of support, without guarantees, on a volunteer basis.

RHEL has 10 years of support, with the option of 13 years.

I like debian, but sometimes you have to have long term support. And I fully understand why you wouldn't support 13 year old software without getting paid for it.
> might be better in terms of making sure all born humans get what they need.

Might be. Or might not be. Who knows? Let's leave it up to random chance and see what happens! No point in trying to understand this phenomenon right?
> Me being gay has nothing to do with you serving me lunch

"allowing you to dine in my restaurant is normalization and tacit support of homosexual lifestyles, so i will not serve you."

"giving you medical aid means i have to come in contact with you, so you'll need to find someone else."

what happens when your bank no longer wants to support gay communities and closes your account? when your bus driver is homophobic and doesn't want gay people on their bus?
FP Pattern – List of TODOs
Appendix X: How “slot” machines work in WA state [pdf]
It's really stinky though
A hill I’m happy to die on is: the standard of behavior appropriate for websites is you send whatever (not actively malicious or illegal) content you want, and the user renders it however they want.

If sites want to send me useful content and additional annoying content, I’ll just render the useful bit.

If sites decide they aren’t willing to send the useful bit unless enter some other sort of arrangement with them, that’s fair on their part, I’ll evaluate their other options.

I don’t feel any obligation to render ads or make their business model viable, of course it is no problem if they decide they don’t want me around as a result!
It's interesting you made your own feed format, but... why? Does anything actually support it?

May be worth making a jsonfeed while you're at it, if you just want to make more options.
That's what I would assume. Also, while significant, $1.6B wouldn't put it especially near any of the top US university endowments.
Sigh. That happens to me too.
Well not sure how possible that is with the current YAML implementation of config.
PGP Tool
The numerous other PGP software applications which currently exist don't seem to support this use-case in a user-friendly way, as they require the user to perform many manual operations (which is quite annoying). Software is supposed to automate things and not the other way around.
I kind of agree with both of you. Both this Supreme Court and the insurrection will be the historical legacy of his presidency. But I think over time Mitch McConnell's name will be the one in the history books when talking about the latter years of the Roberts Court.

Maybe also the thing about doing crimes after leaving office and getting charged for them will set a new precedent. Though I think mostly future ex-presidents will just do the speaking tour thing instead of doing crime.
Niantic still can't solve the problem of selling 100 Pokecoins for 0.99 yet also selling 550 Pokecoins for 6.99! Why?!?!?!
>×Riots might be a big word for what is happening.

That's what Obelix always says.
If you go look at their explanations, the 3rd party apps shut down because there was no transition plan for them to increase the price of only future payments (so, they would need to have billed people more months ago), and the prices were too high for the authors to absorb the loss.

So the authors did the only thing they could, that is returning all of recently billed money and closing their apps down.
And battery life, quietness and generates very little heat?
Has there ever been a better case to apply Betteridge's law of headlines to?
Just like how it was tried (and quickly repealed) in Australia, news orgs in Canada will see their traffic plummet massively and significantly, and then scream bloody murder to have this law rolled back.

Google and Facebook (along with other social media sites) are the primary method by which news orgs have their individual articles percolate through the population. This law cuts that exposure off at the knees, and by proxy, any revenue gained from having readers pulled into these articles.

Most people don’t go directly to a news org website to read news. I don’t. No-one I know does. We just see interesting articles as they pop up in our social media.
> Actually the more I think about how good the M1 MacBook is it's actually a crime these beautiful processors were locked up in that abysmal form factor and forced to do Facebook and match-3 games instead of real work.

I feel the same, but for Apple's UI design. The fact that the entire silicon engineering team's achievements are being wiped out by Apple's UI fashionistas is a shame. These people will find a way to make it slow again. The entire system would feel 10x faster if all animation times were cutdown by half (from 150ms to 75ms for example).
> Riots might be a big word for what is happening.

I'm sorry what?
> AFAIK Amazon acquisition didn't ruin Zappos.

As someone who used Zappos a lot before Amazon acquisition, IMO the quality and selection decreased after Amazon takeover. Today, given the authentication issues across all Amazon services, I just don't go to Zappos anymore because I don't trust the products. Because Amazon. Additionally the UI is dated. Such a bummer.
They let the private sector do it for them instead.
Ubuntu and Canonical are downstream. So yes, Debian is more or less drama free.

I run Debian on all my servers and, knock on wood, I have not had an issue in over 15 years of usage. It quite literally is the most rock solid and trouble-free OS I have ever used.

I have a ton of experience with Ubuntu, too, but these days there is no compelling reason to use their stuff. The contrary actually - considering all the telemetry, motd integrations, etc and don't forget snap.

Debian 12 is a really outstanding release.
Smartphone games in general are still a big business. King's problems were (1) it had no moat, and (2) the strategy of "get people to spam their friends about game activities on Facebook" was squashed. Today it seems people depend on paid ads on the app store and elsewhere which is moaty for the ad exchange but not for publisher.

I think the potential of AR games is barely tapped but it's not an easy business, particularly if you want to do something new and risky. The strategy of sticking to IP that people are already into is a sensible way to justify dev costs and derisk.
It's ~an hour long walk.
Bril: A Compiler Intermediate Representation for Learning
I was a Google engineer, team lead on the Play Store. I know what data we collected, but I also know controls around accessing it were very strict (rumor is in the early days of GMail an employee was caught accessing his girlfriend's email, so they went full lockdown).

There were tables we could access for reporting and analytics that were aggregated heavily for anonymity. Anything that needed deeper metrics required sign offs from a pretty high level. VP if it was unique and sensitive enough.

Yeah, other business areas may operate differently, but every area I worked in took this stuff pretty seriously.
Interesting. However, I don't pick books based on review sites. I like reading reviews of books I've already read, a kind of "conversation" with another person across the globe. But as purchasing decisions? Nope.

(Same with movies, by the way. I don't remember ever avoiding a movie because it had bad reviews, who cares?).
Sure, but I know that YOU know that people talk about these items together. The general tone of this convo has been that nothing helpful has come from these actions, and that’s not true. It’s been stated it was all politics, and we know that’s not fair, as some good has happened as a result.

Now, if we’re going to argue about the very specific loan forgiveness being effective, then sure, it has been currently struck down. But I have trouble believing that nothing good has come from it, if only by forcing this convo, and convos like these taking place.

Sometimes you have to do something loud to get people’s attention; it certainly got yours.
I hope not, the preponderance of religious gullibility is already off the charts. I guess sheeple just need to follow something.
That's the idea, but Red Hat is making that ever more difficult. And I can understand why. Why would you build your world on such shifting sands, when all those forks could pitch in on Debian long term support instead?

Or just shell out for RHEL?
If you want to talk about reducing innovation then have a look at Apple's walled garden. They're preventing so many innovative new apps from ever being created by being inaccessible to young/poor developers.
I was actually thinking of a podcast interview I just listened to that Sam Harris did with Marc Andreessen, so just one person over the course of a long conversation.
I don't know why this would be doomed, other than the Supreme Court is already considered too politically biased.

The legal analysis at the time of its passage certainly thought there was a strong legal argument for it to be allowed.
It's made with the Midjourney niji engine and finished up in Photoshop.
Unreal Engine 5.3 Public Roadmap
I don't mean to be rude but your response really sounds like it could be turned into a dril Tweet.

"advertising may be immoral, but it also helps pays for the content you watch, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"

https://twitter.com/dril/status/464802196060917762
Yeah, profile pages are now behind the login wall if you're not logged in.