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Ask HN: Meta Threads – no dotcom domain name, no desktop site, MVP gone mad?
Alright, the MVP concept is about getting something rapidly to market. That's great for startups testing the water.

But does that really apply to companies the size of Meta?

How can this be launched without even a desktop user interface?

Even more of a mystery, who approved launch of a service without owning the dotcom domain name? I know facebook itself started out without the domain name, but it wasn't a 744 billion $ company.
This would be a major development should this come to pass. Even if Genera doesn’t get released under a OSS-compliant license, this will be beneficial for hobbyists and historians (though I don’t know how restrictive non-commercial licenses are for people in academia), similar to the recent release of the Apple Lisa source code (which has similar stipulations). I’ve always wanted to use Symbolics Genera, but I was born around the time of the AI winter of the late 1980s.

I wonder if there were any efforts in the 1990s or 2000s to create a FOSS clone of Genera in the vein of either the GNU project, the Linux kernel, and 4.4BSD and its descendants. I heard that Genera is quite complex, but complexity didn’t stop ReactOS and Haiku from chugging along after all these years.
It's hard to come up with a compiler that produces a sound checker for arbitrarily complex union/intersection types. Perhaps there could be a restriction on reflection to "simple enough" types, but that's always going to be a weirdly moving target based on heuristics. There's already cases where Typescript tries to generate ~40MB+ .d.ts files which are just re-stating the types themselves. So it's easy to imagine a validator compiler emitting 100MB+ of code to check more wild and crazy types.
And to clarify the approach, the equivalent version would be 1.0.0-alpha.100.0. Clear in its meaning, clear in versioning resolution, ambiguous only in its maturity but that’s what the project is trying to do.

Edit: or probably it’s 1.0.0-beta.100.0. That’s still much clearer
> If you have even just a small group of people, the odds change drastically.

Yup. Bob is good at making gill nets, Ted is good at gathering berries. Fred is good at making a cabin. Sam is good at bow hunting. They trade their surpluses. A small economy. None have the skills needed to go it alone.
Without a consequence, it’s in one out ear, out the other. Plus we have had the talk about actually reading several times.

Phone is her currency.

A warning on losing it will usually fix any behavior problems.

After one really bad episode of mouthing off to her mother, it sat in the blender for a week.

There was a firm understanding that it was being turned on if she didn’t correct herself.

She’s still a mouthy teenager, but she’s learned to keep it at a playful level and not getting out of hand.
Previous (2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047

Also posted 7 days ago (No discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548428
Actually, semver would make sense if people used it correctly.

Changing the major means that it breaks backward compatibility. Changing the minor means that it has new features. Changing the patch means that it had bugfixes.

That's useful for libraries. Of course it's a bit less useful for executables. I just increase the major for executables, but if I need to backport a feature or a fix (to somebody who still uses an older version), then I use the minor/patch.
In your opinion who is?
5. Only works on M2 Apple hardware (ps. major functionalities only supported from M3 Pro devices)
They give two sources of broader data, which you can take as you please:

> Freedman is the owner of HostWell, a company that helps manage properties for short-term rental hosts across the Bay Area. [ ... ] Freedman estimated that pricing for Airbnbs in San Francisco is down about 40% from last year, and occupancy has declined by roughly 20-25%.

> According to short-term rental data company AirDNA, nights stayed in vacation rentals in San Francisco in May 2023 were down 29% from May 2019.

Interestingly there was no mention of asking AirBnb themelves for the ground truth.
I don't think OP is suggesting they might have murdered him in retribution for the hack. As the article describes, there was quite a lot of animosity between the contractor Harrison and the owner of Ashley Madison, including a harassment campaign from Harrison that started two years before he killed himself and three years before the hack.
> when it comes to the masked email feature in iCloud+, there are finite number of emails they let you generate for that, (…) It’s something like 150

Do you have a source? I did find reports saying that it was limited to 100 during the beta but that the limit has since been lifted. People are claiming almost 350 addresses with no cap.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253893742

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/pbfg1t/hide_my_ema...

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-privacy/
No, it does not depend on our technological capabilities. The observable universe [0] of a point is defined as the space from which it is theoretically possible that a signal can reach it. So: every point in space has its own observable universe and it is not dependent on any technological capabilities.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

Edit, excerpt from [0]:
„The word observable in this sense does not refer to the capability of modern technology to detect light or other information from an object, or whether there is anything to be detected. It refers to the physical limit created by the speed of light itself.“
Good plan. Scaling (up) the 'Web Of Trust' may be the most difficult thing of all... I wish you well in building it out!
No it's actually much more nuanced than that. Because if this was the first dealing of this kind between these two individuals it's likely the court would have ruled the other way. Contract law is very nuanced taking in the mindset at the time when the contract was agreed upon.

A better tldr would be the case revolves around if you have a history of informal contract acceptance, future informal contracts will be judged against that.
"But it was us who scorched the sky..."
Czech Footballer HAHAHA Amazing
The equipment was constructed by workers. The mine was constructed by workers. The food to feed the workers was produced by workers. The gold was sold by workers.

If value was derived from capital itself, then a pile of tools or machines would spontaneously generate wealth without the application of human labor, and idle money in a bank would somehow enrich society.
Data at rest in encrypted volumes. That's not saying much, obviously; you'd hope everyone is using encrypted storage for user data by now.
AI Weekly: Composable Diffusion, MoonlanderAI, and GPT-4 API
Email has been around long enough that it's hard to imagine someone submitting an email as evidence without including full headers. Do you think that it was done intentionally to trick the court or was it just incompetence?
Regulation and treatment. If adults can buy cigarettes and alcohol, might as well regulate weed and slightly harder stuff in limited/maintenance amounts. Certainly people can huff glue and make other poor choices, but the elimination of street-sold drugs should be a goal because they are unregulated, untested, and often contain toxic cutting adulterants.
Which sucks, to be honest. Just accept that your major can go up to 23.8.3, and it does not make it less professional than 0.231.0. Actually it's better because it said which releases broke backward compatibility and which ones did not.
On Fairness
So, government?
Ah, but somebody could man-in-the-middle your request and change it around so it looks like I said some really dumb stuff (dumber than what I actually said, I mean)
If there's a baseline level of good education and whatnot, it stands to reason that there would be roughly proportionate demographics among the applicants. Get rid of legacies, and that seems perfectly fair to me.
One of the most sobering experiences I’ve had was reading a writeup on how someone was doxxed using ad telemetry. If that can be done by a lone individual, imagine what can be done en masse.
You'd hope that that these folks could at least do a GPL-style/copyleft license, which would effectively prevent (non-negotiated) commercial use anyways, while still enabling the open source community to enhance and distribute?
Gas stations are a $150B industry. No way someone would want to disrupt that, especially with federal and state EV subsidies and consumers from every other EV platform coming to you because those platforms are incompetent in building charging out.
It's on pace to hit 100M users in a few days, so if anything I think it's evidence that (at least in social media) those things simply aren't that important these days.

Disclosure: work at Meta, not on Threads
I think part of the problem is that "the calm scientific approach" may be apparent to people who work with scientists, read original research study reports, sometimes listen to NPR for entertainment, and generally move in egghead circles.

However, to the general public, science looks like the mild hysteria or sensations attached to every new study by the mainstream media that reports on them. The mainstream media is how the general public consumes their science, and so it's through a deliberately ignorant and sensationalistic filter that wants their engagement and enragement, not their thoughtful and curious discussion.

But hey, it's been about the same for a long time. Remember Greenpeace, and the rainforest controversies in the 70s and 80s? Remember the hole in the ozone layer? There's always room to panic over the environment, calm scentific approach be damned.
I would do everything in my capabilities to never work with oracle.
The general consensus is that the current Congress is much less amenable to that lobbying than Congress was back in 1998, the last time US copyright terms were extended – and that Disney realises that, so they aren't seriously pursuing it this time around.

One reason is that supporters of the public domain are much better organised than in the 1990s, and their cause has become a lot more popular and mainstream. For example, Wikipedia is a household name with a lot of money (the Wikimedia Foundation has over US$200 million of cash and investments), and they would lobby and campaign hard against any such a proposal if it was being seriously pursued.

In the 1990s, you had the film, television, publishing and music industries all supporting copyright term extension, and no serious corporate opposition to it – I doubt most big tech companies would support copyright term extension, because they get no benefit from it (all of their own copyrighted works are much more recent), whereas public domain works are actually a resource they can use for their own purposes (zero copyright risk AI input)

Also: Disney was already unpopular with social conservatives in the 1990s, but they've arguably grown even more anti-Disney in the years since, plus the post-Trump GOP finds itself far beholden to its base than the 1990s GOP did – nobody in the contemporary GOP wants to vote for anything viewed as doing Disney's bidding, because they probably won't be forgiven. In the 1990s, they could be confident they would be.
I was laid off and took a year off doing nothing. It wasn’t too big of an issue when I recently went looking for a job.
If they start taking those bills, they will want to get them often.

Self hosting is a lost cause for e-mail unfortunately. You either get overrun by the amount of creatively formatted spam, or all of your e-mails are dropped despite having perfect SPF+DKIM+DMARC records and long-time owned domains.

Especially Microsoft has a horrible record of dropping e-mails everyone but big enough companies. Guess which software is the most popular choice in business e-mails: Microsoft Exhange. So no job applications, no communication with the various government offices, no business enquiries but loads and loads of spam that uses all possible codepoints in UTF.
Serverless will handle scale, if your pockets are deep enough
Just use semver from the moment it is usable by a third party.

Then maybe it goes up to 41.x.x until stability is reached. So what? It's not less professional than keeping 0.x.x forever.
A team that doesn’t have the resources for both Android and iOS experts. You won’t get as polished of a product but you’ll get it done with less work.
The second example is fraud _and_ speech. The first one would be more like perjury, _and_ also speech.

That's the whole point: fraud, perjury, and several other harmful things are subcategories of speech.
"When all was said and done, the project took nearly exactly 5 months, just with a ton more stress and worse quality"

When in the heck did corporate America stop having men/women in the adult sense? I work in software/finance and it's disgusting the number of people who know better but don't have the backbone to stand their ground. People are too afraid of the mysterious ways of "blowback" by corporate whiners and politicians.
The original author said:

> My philosophy is that you should do what you want to do today, instead of doing something you don’t want to do because of a hypothetical future repercussion.

Even interpreting this absolutely literally, the hypothetical car would be a today problem — not a nebulous future one. “Survive the day” would, for most, seem like a present want.
I could easily be misunderstanding PGP, but for (1), if A signs an email with B's public key (but does not sign it with A's private key), the intent is to make the email readable only by B but not verifiable that A sent it. If A wants both (they want to have the sender (A) verified and to ensure only the recipient (B) can read it), they then also sign it with their private key. Order does not matter.

If B wants to forward it to C, they can strip off their own (B's) encryption, leaving A's (optional) private key signature, and send that to C.

C gets an email that contains a message from A which is (again, optionally) signed with A's private key, where if it was signed they can verify the A sent that part of the message. (Headers and newline mangling aside)

Or does that not work?
"It's not Twitter, so it's a failure."
Given the '.net' link is going to be embedded all over the place now, I wouldn't be surprised if we never see 'threads.com'
The Utah teapot is never around when you need it.
Binance Unravels as Executives Flee and Layoffs Proliferate
Why do you need the desktop user interface or the domain name when you have such powerful branding of the app?
Also expect it to require using Apple's MUA to read your messages
>I wonder why it's a so common pattern here that everytime someone ...

it's only common for normies (ok, I guess that is a lot) to expend too much energy looking for emotional content. Just pay attention to the facts, here's a library/framework, here's another library/framework. See? now you know about two. Want emotion? ok, one guy seems proud of his, another guy maybe too proud of his? So what, you be the judge, look at the code.
https://archive.ph/q88pv
After a host canceled on me the evening of New Year's Eve as I was arriving in a city I never booked Airbnb again
Those numbers could also be a consequence of more people trying to rent out AirBnBs right? That’s always the biggest issue trusting host-reported occupancy rates.
It’s a pain to do the work associated, with no personal upside, so it’s probably neglect more than anything.
Yeah this is my take as well. I used to Airbnb every time I travelled out of state for work, but the last couple of times has convinced me that it’s no longer a real option.

Scummy contracts, poorly maintained rentals, and nonsense followups seem to be the standard, and it’s basically the same cost as a decent hotel room. I can’t see a reason today not to just use the hotel.

Sucks, because my initial experiences were really good, it only started to be awful after property management companies started buying cheap homes to use as airbnb rentals.
I don't think anybody is ever going to do this, because encrypted email doesn't work.

https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....
I’ve heard only bad from people who grew up there and have been back to visit family over the years. Obviously just anecdotal but I think that’s how this sort of info spreads.
At the cost of bigger downloads, not working with other python implementations, and in the case of pydantic, the performance gains aren't that impressive compared to pure python libraries.
And that's not even the worse part of it

It seems optimized to be a "firehose of influencers" more than a discussion place (think the text version of TikTok)
I find it hard to believe that it’s just 16%. The last time I saw that stat, it was just tourism revenue without inflation adjustments.

I left SF late last year and I visit quarterly on business. It’s obvious that business travel is way down looking at hotel vacancies.
Okay so it's not a forked compiler but it's adding a feature to the compiler.

At which point it makes a lot of sense to ask why that feature shouldn't be merged.
I recall that once upon a time, Service Manager was a client side app using the same GUI framework as Eclipse. Which made it very heavy, using tons of memory for an app that you only used now and then. I am not completely sure it was Service Manager, but quite sure. Then it was made a web app, 15+ years or so ago. Compared to that, ServiceNow is a dream to use.
My setup is a little unusual with the shenanigans to allow multiple clients to access a single Bridge instance, but "run Bridge on your Windows desktop and point Thunderbird at it" is a pretty well-advertised use-case in their own docs/advertisement... and Thunderbird has PGP built-in, to the point where it's actually got its own key management stuff and everything.
"FFF" is a result of an implementation consisting of a poorly(?) though out mix between compositional OOP and dependency injection.
We do agree on this. My second sentence is exactly what you just said:

> Thankfully, many universities (even the prestigious ones) are now starting to hire more semi-permanent teaching-focused staff (and some even use the title professor for these).
Check internet speed with WiFi/mobile signal strength
Calculates the signal strength based on the TCP RTT changes for file download.
Except, in this case, there aren’t. WFH + a nonexistent job market for CS grads means that there isn’t much of an influx.
It’s been at least a year or so since I read that, so it’s very possible that it’s changed.

As is typical Apple fashion, it’s not documented anywhere that’s easy to find.
When most people equate emotion-based beliefs to logic, that's what happens. Of course everyone has their biases, but most conveniently ignore theirs.
1. Ai based load performance testing.

2. Slow websites stop users from using the system.
but the CEO was a victim don't forget
I'm hoping this new court ruling that the Government can't go directly to companies and must go through the process if it involves civil rights (in the current case the Biden admin talking to social media sites about removing content is a violation of the first amendment) gos through and some lawyer get's it applied to all rights (in the case of your example to government going to companies to get around people's right to privacy).
This is the rare case where the "perfect is the enemy of the good" logic doesn't apply. Encrypted email is secure messaging. Secure messaging is life-or-death (or at least life's fortune) for many ordinary people who rely on it. The only reason encrypted email is taken seriously by nerds is that none of their messages matter; it's LARP security, a thing done performatively as a social signal, and it doesn't matter if it's safe because getting hit with the LARP sword doesn't kill you.

The right way to think about secure messaging and the compromises we should be willing to accept with it is avionics or radiotherapy software. Safety is practically the only thing that matters; if you can't provide it, there's no point in talking about how convenient, open, federated, or standardized it is.
While we're here, (and if anyone could chime in and refine or otherwise pick apart my analogy), it's impractical in the sense that it still requires us to take care of all the key and session management business in the real world, which is why AEAD systems and the like are necessary (in order to reliably and safely construct "one-time pads" under the hood).

I've always considered the OTP to be (not in some strict, rigorously correct sense) more like an ideal, theoretical/abstract cipher, much like how a Turing machine, generally unconcerned with a practical limit in tape size, is a sort of idealized, abstract computer.

"It is the Turing machine of encryption schemes"?
You can spend your whole life doubting yourself and worrying about what other people think.

Life's too short for that. Go build.
That's an option, and maybe even the ideal one: an extension which takes a TypeScript+macros file and converts it into TypeScript before feeding to the TypeScript compiler.

However, such a preprocessor will basically need to re-implement TypeScript's type checking. So either TypeScript must expose it via an API, or the preprocessor needs to itself implement a subset (which as mentioned, could also be faster)
The people complained about living on the streets of SF are generally doing and dealing drugs, not attacking random passerby. I don’t know what boogeymen this post is about, it’s completely orthogonal to the problems in downtown SF.

Edit: as usual, I regret opening much less participating in any politics-adjacent topic on HN.
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This isn't a problem at all. I'm interviewing candidates right now and I regularly see people who: spend 6 months working on a specific project, build out a niche project, or whatever. I think the key part is that you "have something techish in your resume" for that time period.
You're right that I forgot to factor in taxes. I agree that 24.5k is not enough if you have dependents. I think it's doable as a single person. You would need to go into debt if you needed to buy a car or something that year, but also, this is the entry level salary for new hires. You can expect your salary to go up, probably on a predefined schedule.

The part about my mother was unnecessary.
And I live in Manhattan now. Sure, there’s a bunch of office vacancies, but when it comes to foot traffic it looks like it’s 100% recovered.

Can’t say the same about FiDi in SF
Here's the best fish I could make at the end of March: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/P1vPxB8t

Here's the best fish I could make today: https://www.svgviewer.dev/s/3IuulHlC

Make of that what you will.
Don't hold your breath, these rumors have been going for well over a decade:

2018: "The current owner of Symbolics displayed interest in open-sourcing Genera a few years ago but nothing happened since then." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17824330

2014: "The problem is that the Symbolics IP is now owned by John Mallery; he has stated he has plans for making it available but so far (several years) has not yet done so." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882034

The software itself can easily be found these days, if you're interested for hobbyist reasons.
Analyzing Netflix data with only English
> but it's not very good

My criterea don't involve judgement calls :p

The tough choice was to exclude projects without prose; I myself am more comfortable writing code. My own contribution is still down the road, and I bear a great respect for those who have put their words (and themselves) into the world.