skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised nobody cared when Google announced they'd be pulling every app from their repository that hasn't been updated in, what was it, 2 years or so?

Things that are functional and complete don't need updating. Why require a subscription model rather than a finished product in a frozen state?

From f-droid I have a few apps that were last updated 11 years ago or something, works just fine. Just tried to find an example, e.g. pizza cost calculator is an app mostly for amusement that had its last real update in 2015 (then in 2021 and 2022 there were updates to support more recent android versions) but I used it literally two hours ago and found that the smaller pizza is cheaper per cm². On my previous phone (2018--2021) I used a 'share to clipboard' app from f-droid, which installs itself as a sharing target. It only ever released v1.0.0 in 2011. Super simple functionality that indeed doesn't need updating; would still use it today if my new phone didn't have that built in. Google would have removed that from their store a decade ago.
PSA: Thread-local state is no longer recommended
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603382
India to become world's second largest economy by 2075: Goldman Sachs
And...? You replied to me. I was talking about twitter.
Val Town Types
//They are famous for protecting their walled garden and hostility towards cross platform development tools.

Trying to deconstruct this to understand better.

2 possibilities.

1. Supporting cross platform development tools is actually in Apple's interest/business and they are being stupid not to support them. But so far it doesn't seem like they are losing anything by not supporting it going by their financials.

2. Supporting cross platform development tools is not in their interest - in which case they are doing the right thing by doing what's good for their business.

So, where is the disconnect?
The problem with a lot of these systems is that copyrighting happens at the time of creation whether you register or not. If you don’t register, it may be harder to prove someone is violating your copyright in court, but it is still the IP of the creator (or employer of the creator if a contract was signed). I guess you could argue that if you haven’t bothered filing for copyright after 5 years the value is approximately $0, but that poses the following problem:

Let’s say I make a web comic that’s basically worthless for 5 years. Then, after 8 years Jimmy Fallon or some other late night show sees it and shows it on the air. Overnight, my old comics, which I have implicitly valued at $0.00 or close to $0.00, become incredibly popular. Disney or an IP troll or whoever can come along and then buy my early comics for pennies before I realize what happened and I get nothing.
With such wildly differing titles between the article title and the Hacker News title I think this is just outrage bait.
Turning driverless cars into unicorns with the group ‘coning’ Cruise and Waymo
> even if quantum computing key factorisation works, key lengths will still have an impact on the difficulty of factorisation, and it may make a difference in terms of practicality.

I mean, the whole thing with quantum computer factoring is it scales well. Getting to 2048 rsa seems really really difficult. But if we ever get there, getting to 4096 is probably just a tiny extra step.
Amazing! What icon set is that? You should send a link. Should still be available through https://store.kde.org/browse/

Edit: I suppose one of these: https://store.kde.org/u/Doches
That was my take about this article: bad EV deals are what are sitting on car lots.

EVs are just barely mature enough to have mass appeal, and the worst models don’t have almost any appeal if you ask me.

If you have $80-90k you should be buying a BMW iX, not a Ford Mach-E or a Genesis G80.

The BZ4X is also not competitive especially without available tax credits. You can snag yourself a Model Y long range for less money.

Audi e-tron models have weak range BMW or Mercedes EQ* instead.

Volvo C40 should be avoided until the new rear wheel drive revision comes out.

The Hummer EV is a completely insane show car and limited run tech demo.

The list of “obsolete” EVs goes on and on.
Last I heard, it had 100M sign-up by its 5th day, nbd.
>I don't think FB is any better than Google, but I also think online ads mostly exist to keep marketers in business.

I have similar views. Large companies with marketing/advertising budgets have to spend that money. If you're in that department, you have to be able to show people how effective you are. Digital ads make that super easy with all of the nice little graphs and charts. The only problem is, their is no way of actually knowing their accuracy. They just look impressive. The fact that we have brand awareness campaigns vs promoting specific products just shows that the only metric they really care about is how much money they can spend while FB/Googs gladly take it all.
Show HN: Servitor – A TUI Fediverse browser that doesn't require a server
This is a program I have been working on that allows you to interact with the Fediverse in the same way you interact with RSS feeds. That is, you subscribe to people by adding them to a local subscriptions list, and then their feeds are pulled down and spliced together on your local machine.

The benefit of this approach is mainly that you don't need a server, so you don't have to worry about losing your curated feeds because of your server going down, and you don't have to worry about defederation politics, because each post is pulled from its source site.

Although it is controversial, I am also thinking about indexing posts and serving them in the form of a search engine and/or algorithm (kind of like the front page of Reddit/HN), and hooking this client into the service (configurable and optional of course). If you are already working on something like this I'd be curious to hear about it.

Let me know what you think.
I’m not a cryptographer, but I can see many more pressing reasons for migrating off RSA before 2030. Is there any reason to pick RSA for greenfield today?

RSA, to my knowledge, is vulnerable to side channels and poor parameter choices. Implementation simplicity is an underrated security parameter. The fewer feet you have, the fewer of them you can shoot.

The NSA data centers don’t want to waste time on your RSA key anyway, much less your run-of-the-mill Russian black hat groups. What bites us in practice are 0-days of something stupid like heartbleed or rowhammer that can be automated, and takes a long time to patch.
Do you ship to Europe? And it says it's open - do you have docs for that? If so I'll buy one immediately. It's beautiful and surprisingly affordable for the size.
This is 100% the case and I’m getting quite a laugh out of all the “top minds of HN” lambasting Apple for something that’s obviously not intended.
"Expanded Accessability"

Looks like a typo? Shouldn't this be accessibility?
I think it highlights how the system is tuned to safety over all other concerns. If there had been cones put on vehicles being driven by actual humans, you'd probably have had a few bad injuries or deaths.
was this made by themselves or outsourced?
The headline is obviously nonsense. There are clearly lots of people in the US who want to buy EVs, as the article even indicates.

I am one of the few who doesn't want an EV, though. Not because of being an EV specifically, but because there seems to be no EVs on the market that don't phone home.
Maybe Google doesn’t really want anyone advertising on its platform because all its revenue is faked. The whole thing is a darpa nsa information vacuuming operation.
It's not a constant, any more than the meter or the foot. It's just part of a unit system that happens to be convenient for carrying out certain calculations.
Right, I've always found the value in organizing and writing notes is that it forms better memories from which to recollect.

Most of my writing (other than a few references or short-term scratch pads) is "write once, read never".

Pretty soon if not already, we should be able to write in any written form and have a language model search it for us using fuzzy search terms, as well as make inferences based on the text.
Honest question; do people actually go back and read the stuff the intended to read later? I have never been successful with that strategy, and have to bookmark folders to prove it.
I received a response from their support and it’s hillarious.

TLDR: “We don’t plan to delete your data again in the forseeable future”

Full quote: “You can sign up for a new account here InfluxDB Cloud using a different region. We want to assure you that there are no more scheduled shutdowns planned. Therefore, once you have created the new account and begin writing to it, we do not foresee any data loss going forward”

No more information was provided in the mail.
Yes. See https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/53425/quantum-alg....
Why would there be anything wrong with it? This is the way cultures and people have changed since time immemorial.
I still don't get what Google software GM is targeting, exactly. If it's Android Automotive (not Android Auto), that ecosystem supports CarPlay. The new Volvo IVI is already doing it and it's in production.

From a linked article to the OP: "GM has been working with Google since 2019 to develop the software that will be used in future electric cars."

So is there going to be a third auto ecosystem from Google? I guess that's not surprising if true. What a mess.
Apropos of nothing, except that it shows off that Firefox implements the OpenSearch spec correctly, here's a Wordle clone my friend Nolen built in Firefox's address bar:

https://eieio.games/nonsense/implementing-wordle-in-the-fire...

I hope it brings you the five minutes of delight that it brought me
Hey, thanks for the great post!

What do AVs actually solve?
They don't solve traffic -- they create more traffic. Both because of an immediate technical problem: (1) they tend to just fail and stop in the middle of the street, or stall dealing with common traffic situations:

2022-06-29 https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1542346416256843776

2022-09-22 https://twitter.com/DanThorn_/status/1573198574602551296

2022-09-23 https://twitter.com/philipwalker/status/1573546864472772608

2023-09-23 https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/xloemd/two_se...

2022-09-24 https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/xmivfn/five_a...

2023-01-20 https://twitter.com/fermoso/status/1616697392291807233

2023-03-11 https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/11ou7ti/cruis...

2023-06-25 https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/14iqusi/oc_se...

(many more, those are just from a quick search of twitter and reddit)

And because of a fundamental problem: (2) they result in more car trips. Same as Uber and Lyft have created more traffic. AVs are still just a car, they still need 4,000 lbs of metal & batteries and 100 feet of headway to move one or two people around.

They don't solve pollution (they're still cars, most pollution from modern cars comes from tire wear, and EV's inefficient usage of cobalt and lithium is incredibly environmentally and socially damaging)

And if you think these AVs are safe, here are a couple recent clips of them driving AT pedestrians:

https://twitter.com/desertflyer/status/1677464706251128832

https://twitter.com/flrent/status/1677483882109882368

As well as the times they've crashed into the back & side of Muni buses and the time Waymo killed a dog.

All personal private cars, including AVs, are fundamentally and geometrically incompatible with cities. Stop re-inventing shittier versions of buses and trains to exploit public space for corporate profit.

And don't worry, we do actions against all cars (human-driven) as well.
UTM uses either Virtualization.framework or QEMU depending on what you specify.
One of the other problems about RSA cracking progress is that not a lot of people care anymore.

RSA is so slow that a lot of people have switched to Elliptic Curve.

That's going to dent progress as the smart people are all working on ECC instead of RSA.
I thought nations and the species were composed of women, so what is worse for women is probably worse for them too. Or are women outside of nations and the species?
Thats definitely a good question, and one that people have thought about before. I think its amazingly difficult to test it experimentally, even compared to something like directly measuring to see whether a massive object in superposition is forced to decohere faster than we expect, which is already incredibly difficult.
I'm using it for a personal project and I'm loving it. I was wondering if anyone had "issues" due to the fact that some components (in my case a date and time picker), use some javascript to show the calendar.
I don't see anyway to load it outside of when I load the actual componenet, and if I click the same button twice, it gets loaded as much generating js error because component was loaded the first time.
I can of course put some global variables to check and avoid reloading, but it seems to be so patchy. There must be a better way.
"The thing that's possible in America and arguably not possible in Europe is to just show someone the door on the spot."

It's only sort of possible in America. If you are laying people off (for economic reasons, not cause) then federal law requires 60 days notice. This is enforced civilly however, so if a company is going bankrupt they may ignore it because there will be no one left to sue.

An employee laid off that way will be eligible for unemployment benefits, which is a form of insurance payout, not public assistance. What we don't require is severance. Most companies that are not going away will do something like 1-2 weeks severance pay per year of service because they want people to not sabotage anything on the way out and for new employees to continue to be willing to work for them, but it's legal to just pay people for time worked and give them the boot.
> In case you want to play a game of guess-what-got-him-banned

My stab-in-the-dark would be using the word "Google," probably by overly-simple heuristics trying to prevent tech support scams. You know, those flashing banner ads that say "Immediate action required on your Google account! Click here to fix!"
This is correct. The last example of adding a Person property to Employee isn’t the same as Go’s struct embedding where Employee gets the fields and structure of Person.
I was under the impression that shor's algorithm worked for ecdsa just as well as rsa.
In conclusion: No one online build a good promotional platform. Google is the least terrible, Zuck second, a large empty void in front and a smaller one behind.
Guess it depends on your definition of performance.
Recommendations from various organizations can be found at:

* https://www.keylength.com

Anything recent (≥2016) seems to say 3072 for RSA.
Awesome work, and awesome product. I want to plug a friend's project, 15 years ago, Google's Radish - https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/radish - Which looks pretty primitive and bulky by comparison but had excellent engineering and set of tradeoffs at the time.

What's it's power draw? Can it be run from a battery for a few weeks? That's one of the big advantages of e-paper over a tablet screen (the other major one being viewing angles), and one with a built in battery (so it can report status on the screen itself) would be great.
I agree that some people would do this. However the proliferation of early access games and pre-ordered/special editions coming with an early access period suggests there is a significant chunk of consumers willing to pay to get something earlier
> Can anyone—anyone—solve this perplexing set of facts?

Of the various EVs I've actually driven, I've found Teslas to be the least satisfying and enjoyable. So I wouldn't buy a Tesla for that reason alone.
> It's in the LLaMa.cpp original research paper

To my understanding:

* Wowfunhappy said "I really don't see how you could prove OpenAI did that", verve_rat replied "they admitted it in public", I asked "where OpenAI have admitted this" and noted "OpenAI are still secretive about their training datasets" - specifically about the OpenAI claim

* LLaMA(.cpp) is (an unofficial implementation of) Facebook's leaked model

On balance of probabilities I'd guess that OpenAI did train on material not legally acquired, but as far as I'm aware they've never actually admitted to what's in their dataset as is being claimed.

> It's really weird. I'm completely split and inable to live with a decision either way in this case due to knock on consequences.

I think strengthening of IP law risks hindering the field (of which the majority is uncontroversially positive but too boring for press attention, like defect detection, language translation, spam/DDoS filtering, agriculture/weather/logistics modelling, etc.) while still ending up hurting individuals and FOSS/academic research more than those with large data moats (Microsoft with Github repos, Google with Youtube videos, Adobe and Getty with stock images, etc.)
I wonder, what would an appropriate amount of office furniture waste be? Sometimes irreparable damage of some sort happens, say flooding, mold, etc. 10 million tons of office furniture a year sounds high and gets even worse when you look at it in detail. Doing a straight up division by population times percentage of white collar comes out to ~100 pounds per year per person. That is certainly more than say "replace the office chairs every five years along with the printer" type sources of turnover.

The pandemic and its aftermath may be to blame for some of it being that alarmingly high. Other times and places would help shed more insight to know what the prior norms were for office work.
Integration Testing an HTTP Service That Publishes a Wolverine Message
"However, while helping a Wolverine user last week, they told me that they were bypassing those built in tools because they wanted to do an integration test of an HTTP service call that publishes a message to Wolverine. That’s certainly going to be a common scenario, so let’s talk about a strategy for reliably writing integration tests that both invoke an HTTP request and can observe the ongoing Wolverine activity to “know” when the “act” part of a typical “arrange, act, assert” test is complete."
Could be related to your site saying "Note: Due to high demand, current orders may take two weeks to ship. ".

Thats pretty long. What do you have set in your merchant center shipping settings? See https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6069284?hl=en
It's been a few years since I did frontend, but if I recall correctly, it's possible to avoid trashing the history.
"Altering" would have to include a permanent change or anything that's difficult to undo, such as completely repainting the car, or putting it upside down in such a way that it's not damaged. It could not include simply placing a lightweight object on top of the hood that anyone can remove at any time.

Tortious interference, as the name implies, is a matter of civil courts and could open up the person doing it to being sued, depending on the circumstances under which it happens. It doesn't mean they're breaking any laws.
Patrick (patio11) has some great blogs about working in Japan and the culture, if you're interested. I found this one insightful and very entertaining:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...
>For example, you cannot easily perform the equivalent of the following command: cat /log/file | grep some-string | my-custom-script-for-analysis

You can with log-store[1], as it allows you to run custom Python commands to do _exactly_ this!

[1] https://log-store.com
> specialized solutions are needed that provide protection even after the code was extracted.

Anybody know what solutions they are hinting at here? Obfuscating binaries? Some kind of encrypted flash with on-the-fly decryption(but the decryption key would be protected by the same inadequate ROP)?

Neither of these seem effective nor practical.
Hardcode the RGB array?
The kids?
I'm definitely into the "it's an emergent phenomena" camp. I think it's inherently relational, as that's a more efficient way to encode geometry rather than space itself being a quantized "thing".

Afaik this theory is the "leading"/imho most promising theory of "quantum gravity", that being the "gravity = entanglement" conjecture and the related ideas of "Complexity= action/volume/whatever" that susskind and many others have been developing for the past 20 so years.

All that said I'm nowhere near a physicist and am probably just spewing a total misunderstanding of the situation from my armchair.

That said, I've been incessantly watching lectures in this space to try to beat an understanding into my dumb dumb brain because it's super, super fucking cool.

- https://youtu.be/6_7aKoEx_kk

- https://youtu.be/6OpAreb779U

- https://youtu.be/9crggox5rbc

- https://youtu.be/OBPpRqxY8Uw

- https://youtube.com/@isqg423

I'm also fascinated by the idea of phase transitions, which seems to be how the laws of physics have "evolved" so far. It's crazy how much quantum computation is coming into play with this stuff, ex last year's Nobel prize with the bell inequality. That said I'm sure being a programmer I'm biased to think the universe is inherently computation/math.
I think that's just because the ebay search engine is installed by default? They want this to work for any site with a search engine they've ever visited - at least, that's how it works in Chrome, IIRC.
Its not totally implausible that a factoring breakthrough in ECC could have implications for RSA.
Multipass for me suffered from a bunch of Macos networking bugs when on managed Macs. Kernel panics and vms that you couldn't connect to etc. UTM also suffered from these too. Apparently some have been fixed by now though.
There have always been feature-rich and bare-bones languages. No point pitting one against the other. I don't consider myself particularly clever but with the help of "Programming Perl" and "Learning Perl" I managed to get a pretty good grasp of the language with no prior programming experience. I just feel a lot of the knee-jerk response to the mention of Perl comes from people who have never put any effort into learning it.
I thought that there was a cap on federal student loans. Isn't it like $6k a year?
Shor's algorithm can also break elliptic curve encryption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
We thought the same thing with https://neum.ai - config management/infra as code for your LLM app, using plain JSON, though we are abstracting even more what LangChain does. Not suitable for the audience here given the level of customizations some folks want.
Repetition vs. Pushing Hard
1) Because physics has had an ontology, what there really is, since like Aristotle. Even if ontology changes, posing one has worked for roughly 2500 years to partially guide science. It really does inform all kinds of experiments, even thought experiments. BUT, you might be right the trade off you propose is more worth it

2) Reichenbach's principle says any correlation must have a cause. Even without an idea of an ontology like in 1) this looser principle is hard to give up as well. It explains the mystery behind Simpson's for example. And why without the causal model behind correlations, you could easily take the wrong drug for you specifically.

Again though, these are guiding principles and trade offs I am curious to see how we could progress without them
Thanks for the explanation. I had to google "dimensionless constant" lol. Maybe it is all just math at the foundation after all!
Yeah, thats pretty much my usage with UTM as well. I run it in console mode, hide all the windows, and then SSH into my VM.
That’s a really nice-looking product, and inspiring to those of us who’d like to create and sell our own creations.