skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For perspective, the same entity, Open Tech Fund (OTF), has funded many projects in the tools-for-activists space, including Signal, NoScript, Wireguard, Tails, Mediawiki, OpenVPN, Filezilla, Psiphon, Tahoe-LAFS, Briar, Lantern, and Qubes.[1]

Quite a lot of serious projects in this space are US-government funded.

OTF does somewhat focus on needs in regions that are geopolitical priorities for the US, but since most of these projects (like Signal or Wireguard) are building general purpose tools, it seems pretty good for the world overall and not nefarious. Germany recently started a similar fund and hopefully more countries will too! [2]

(I know people involved in both OTF and Sovereign Tech Fund I work with a user researcher who's funded by a small grant from OTF on my project Quiet.[3])

One funny historical note is that OTF grew out of Radio Free Asia, a program started after the Tiananmen Square massacre to broadcast AM, satellite and shortwave pro-democracy propaganda in Mandarin into China.[4] So the mission of funding general purpose anti-censorship and privacy tools kinda makes sense!

1. https://www.opentech.fund/results/supported-projects/

2. https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/

3. https://tryquiet.org

4. https://www.opentech.fund/about/our-history/ & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia
Like this quote from Dumbledore, when he looks in the mirror that shows your deepest desire:

"What do you see when you look in the mirror?"

"I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks."

"One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
It's just a variant of kebab and shwarma that gained popularity.
Nothing to do with the need to rebrand it because of racism. Shwarma (or kebabs as most people call those) shops fed generations of french studients and party-goers and have been everywhere for decades.

It's kind of funny though, french tacos really took over France in the last decade, I guess because of fast food chain like o'taco.
When I left France in 2015 it was unheard of where I was living, now it's everywhere.
some of us are trying to get rid of the smart phone ;). I want a flip phone but 2FA is a problem with flip phones. I recently started to use 1password paid just 2FA.

on a serious note, this is unfortunately what scammers like to use, it would be prudent to lock it down before scammers put you in the middle of a legal cases. I have a long story, I tell people about scammmers, but in the case, please be careful. Grandma is getting conned by these telephone virtual numbers.
It’s futile to expect perfect compliance with social norms, especially when our evolved biological drives are basically:

1. Breathe

2. Eat

3. Procreate

with everything else being a fraction as powerful as those.
NATO probes hacktivist crew's boasts of stolen portal data
Sounds like you don't get out much. I'm 35, grew up in a sterile DC-area bedroom community and even I walked down main streets when I went 10 minutes down the road on shopping trips.

Then again there are a lot of cities/towns on the east coast that predate the car, so there's probably an increased concentration of "main streets".
Altman is proof that there is no IQ cap on human stupidity.
I’m saying more people, literally, are worse off. But it is weird, I guess. Even in the story, most people didn’t walk away from Omelas.
AWS if you are doing it right, makes it quite for any individual at AWS to hack into your data.

All bets off with Cophone.
I never see mention of another type of integration that seems to me to be necessary for the improvement of AI and for any attempt to establish general artificial intelligence: integration with the senses. Chains of thought are born in the senses and are constantly updated in the background with information from them.

To fully match the human model, AGI based on neural networks will need to dynamically receive information from sensors of all kinds [to be able to sample at least five major categories of physical stimuli, like us]. If we want to reach the level of the neural networks that we carry in our heads, we have to learn more about the role of other brain structures, such as glial cells, which are known to influence the activation and moderation of synapses in the human brain [which correspond to the 'weights' in artificial neural networks], and then apply them to our technological endeavors.

Without it two things will happen

1. We will never have strong AI
2. Strong AI that works virtually only, aware of the world and material reality, but denied access to them by its creators.

Imagine that it is possible to take a snapshot of a human mental state [an analogue of .h5 weights] and then run it on hardware as we do with our neural networks. It would certainly be a nightmare for a mind endowed with "qualia" to find itself enclosed in a metal box [brain in a vat] with no access to the senses. There are clinical cases analogous to this condition, for example in states where the patient is aware of everything around him but is unable to respond.

These issues highlight the ever-present ethical boundaries of IA research. Without integration with real-time sensors AI will always be incomplete and/or inhumane.
Except that we should have more long lasting things and should not add to the garbage pile because of cheapness and laziness :( But money sure trumps environmentalist idealism.

Different topic: As a foreigner, really every visit to a Wallmart left me with a very strange feeling, because almost every employee had a zombie like appearance one or the other way, demotivated, sad or emotionless looking, slurping slowly through the shop.. like employees super abused or completely lost and aimless. Nowhere else, even in cheap fast foods or similar I got that, why?
I guess I didn’t get the hint that UNIX is not for me over two decades ago! Do you also dislike launchd and generally being productive?
Article mentions the climate and growing conditions for citrus are specific so there were few locations where citrus was produced that were integrated to world trade; mild temperatures above freezing, irrigation, and rich soil.
The article mentions large lemon exports from Sicily all the way to New York; and California wasn't a united state or developed market producer of fruit at this time.
but if its scoped to that app, and is removed on uninstall, how?
Visualizing one’s creative problem solving process
> people will lament how Cheesecake Factory used to be good but quality has declined.

I'm also making that prediction. Restaurants are especially susceptible to enshittification. I remember when I worked at Ruby Tuesday in the 90's, it was upscale enough that all servers wore a shirt and tie. They were big on polished brass and wood interior, coupled with above-average food made mostly fresh. These days, it's a glorified Burger King with a salad bar.
What's your solution to the problem then?
I will never do cover letters-- "Hey, spend 30-60 minutes on this so we can slip it into the pile of 500 applicants where it will never see the light of day! Yay!"
And from a typically American perspective one doesn’t have to walk. They’ll even provide motorized carts to use when you are buying gallons of cola.
Ok...so what problem does this actually solve? I use my work phone so I can receive work emails, messages, and calls while on the go, away from the company laptop. There are also mobile apps for work tools like task trackers and source control.

If I need the company laptop to access my virtual smartphone, then what's the point? At that point I might as well just use the laptop to do what I need to do. Which defeats the purpose, because it's not mobile.
This is odd to me. At LinkedIn they always needed more interviewers. And I did more than 100 in my 5 years there.
Unpatched Apache Tomcat servers spread Mirai botnet malware
The bag of spaghetti in systemd's case is not visible to you, but it's there in thousands and thousands of C code (and I use systemd).
I haven't heard of, and can't think of, a solution to this problem that doesn't introduce much larger problems. Big picture, I don't think the problem of distinguishing humans from bots online is a big enough deal that we should take hits in other areas to solve it.

The least-harm solution, as far as I can see right now, is to just accept that the internet cannot be made trustworthy in this way. The only way to know for sure the nature of who you're dealing with will be to deal with them in person. Much like it has always been.
> Sure, there are edge cases ... but the vast bulk of cases are from irresponsible sex.

*Millions* of people contracted HIV as children. Either as infants, or as victims of sexual assault. That's not an "edge case". And tens of millions of people were infected in countries where testing wasn't/isn't available. That's not an "edge case" either. Or the millions who got infected because they didn't have access to accurate information/education about what HIV was or how it spread.
The program probably works exactly as it did back 2 years ago, that's not the point. It's the advice of killing dwm.exe to reduce input lag that might be outdated.
[citation needed]

Chrome feels a lot faster than Firefox to me (Especially on Facebook!), yet I still use Firefox to resist Google's stranglehold on the web.
With all due respect, in appears your basis for believing this was submitting to Reddit. Ten minutes of web search seems to indicate you're a guy from Australia who ten years ago was listed on LinkedIn as an unemployed "Hardcore Programmer" looking for work in Hong Kong, then at some point you started a company called Irrzl, LLC that aimed to create a "post-scarcity, space-traveling human population with arbitrarily extended lifespans." In order to fund your own research, you started businesses selling "trade-secret algorithms" while anonymously employing arbitrary people who had no salaries but could request to be paid whatever they wanted on a weekly basis, and now you have some other company Dosyago Corp with an address in Beaverton, OR that is a strip mall with a mail scanning service where you can have mail sent to you without revealing your actual location, so it isn't a real business address.

I really don't want to come across as mean, and I know what your response will be already, but everything a person can find out about you within a few minutes screams crank. You come here wondering why all these gatekeeper mathematicians in their cathedrals won't take you seriously, but it doesn't appear all that mysterious to me. You may very well be what you say you are. You'll live forever and colonize the galaxy, and along the way, also provide better cryptographic hashing functions. But you have to clear some kind of minimum bar for why a person should even look at your work. Most of these mathematicians are presumably not thinking they're going to live forever, so they only have so much time to spend considering everything a person on the Internet thinks they should consider. Whatever heuristic they're using may be as imperfect as Goldman Sachs throwing away any unsolicited resume that doesn't show an Ivy league degree, but they need some kind of heuristic.
What's the point of all that "merkle-tree based integrity checking + having the merkle root in DNS" without key exchange like X25519
> One trait of experienced devs I've seen, that I've not seen in even the sharpest but less experienced ones, is the ability to see problems that will arise down the road from miles away.

This is called second (or third) order thinking btw.
Ah sorry this was hyperbole, let me adjust the phrasing. It's hard but probably not as hard as 2001 or 2008.
It’s not just an init system and you can opt into resolved, networkd, etc. but you knew that already!
Just curious, have you had tacos in El Paso? As a non-expert, strikes me as a place that would have good tacos since half the city is in Mexico.
We are looking for beta users who will try our quantum simulation software and/or just use our GPUs for ML/AI. Please fill out the form if you're interested.
> but even as an American with extremely bad and limited French, most people were very nice

The trick to Paris, I’ve found, is to start with broken French and then suddenly everyone speaks fluent English. But if you start with English you’re screwed.

Even saying “Bonjour” with a decent accent (you can learn it like a song almost) will make them significantly nicer to you.

But yeah don’t expect a big city person to actually verbalize anything if they bump into you in a crowded place. That’s just expected and normal. Not worth aknowledging.
Ruins of ancient Nero’s Theater discovered
He's completely missing the point, but I suspect he knows that
Researchers successfully train a machine learning model in outer space
Is there an open source server you use to proxy SMS/calls to your real phone?
>By Seth Shostak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Shostak
Small towns should be able to change and adapt, but Walmart being the corporate small town core is another version of enshitification (Walmart being your IRL ecomm platform), with your town's core dictated and governed by Bentonville, Arkansas.

Build strong, local communities and economies instead: https://ilsr.org/ | https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/how-small-towns-and-cities-c...

(it will not be extremely economically efficient, but you are trading efficiency for resiliency and local governance and control)
> A friend loves Walmart as it means he no longer has to maintain his lawnmower. He just throws it away and buys a new one annually at the start of the season. He can still mow his lawn while abandoning the need to maintain mechanical knowledge.

It's hard for me to respect this as a valid choice. Waste and consumption concerns aside, the justification of not knowing (or wanting to know) how to perform simple maintenance is alien to me. Why even own a lawnmower at this point-- just pay someone to mow your grass for you. The milk and honey has flowed so freely for so long that when the tap turns off, people really won't know how to take care of themselves.
I have to let you know that I truly appreciate that: thank you :)
Sorry but this attitude towards material goods, while quite common in America, is quite depressing.
Ok fine. Everyone deserves privacy except those people
I always wonder, for rare games like this, do folks copy the firmware/ROM to preserve the software for others?
I dont think the keychain can be used to track...
>some of the worst

Sure, but code put out by US coders I’ve hired has been consistently better than code that has been outsourced outside of the US.

Obviously, there are “diamonds in the rough” occasionally, but skilled people tend to get snapped up by a recruiter willing to file an immigration form for them very quickly.
"made with love in x" makes me want to curl into a tiny ball
The Hudson Valley has something analogous to bedroom communities, scenic small towns which have vibrant downtowns with all sorts of little shops for weekenders to stroll around.
People still don't understand the 'this is not a pipe' painting...
There is so much prayer that is designed to regulate and temper the breathing. Where should we begin? Any antiphonal (call-and-response) singing or recitation is a breathing exercise: the participants are alternately vocalizing a prayer, breathing out, and meditating upon the meaning of the words, or they are listening to the prayer, inhaling, and meditating upon the meaning of those words as well. This pattern can be observed in the Responsorial Psalm portion of the Christian liturgy. In Byzantine liturgy, the first antiphonal chant that comes to mind are the petitions, where the leader (priest/deacon) prays for peace and favors from the Life-Giving Trinity, and the faithful repeat, "Lord have mercy/Christ have mercy/Gospodi, pomiluj". But there are many more.

Some languages are better than others for this purpose. Latin and Greek have excellent word formations with good vowel sounds, and these languages easily become legato, connected syllables throughout a smooth phrase. English and German, not so much. The Eastern Churches worship using the vernacular tongues, or sometimes using sacred, ancient languages, and so YMMV there.

The Rosary itself is a meditation and a regulation of breath. Jesus admonished us not to "babble like the pagans" because their "many words" were meaningless and fruitless, calling upon created things, rather than the Creator. So praying the Rosary (auricular, in groups) is not liturgical, but it is a discipline. The leader chants half of the prayer, then the participants chant the other half, and they take turns breathing. It is an intimate, primal, profound experience in itself, but the breathing is not a mere goal or object. The object is to enter into each Mystery, meditating upon its meaning for us, in full context: the context of the prayer, the place and time, our individual lives, and the life of the Church herself.
I'll throw the provider in the mix that I'm happy with: numberbarn.com They make it easy to search for phone numbers you might be interested in and either park or forward them.
I installed Overcast on my phone and since a UUID is saved to iCloud, when I installed it on my iPad, it automatically ties it back to my Overcast account without having to explicitly create an account.

The author of Overcast, Marco Arment, did that specifically so he wouldn’t have to store usernames, passwords and emails on his server - increasing privacy.

You can add a username and password to your account if you need to log in to the website. But he really wants to get rid of that requirement too.
Absolute and utter bullshit, and you know it. Sam Altman is always in for a single person: himself. I have never seen less altruistic, less simple to understand than him [0]. Everything, the world ID, the money, the coins, is just a pretense for a single purpose: that he gets involved in everything whenever the idea of a global ID appears anywhere in the world. Or an ID at all. What's that Alabama, you want to create a state ID ? For the low low price of the GDP of a small african country, you can have access to our World ID database of all Alabama-scanned eyeballs.

[0] Aside from Larry Elison, but there's still debate on whether he's actually human or not.
reputation based
The harsh lighting and reflective white paint literally hurts my eyes in Walmart. Like there's a low-grade sting and I'm slightly squinting for the duration of my shopping trip. Target doesn't have this problem, and I'm willing to pay a slight premium if it's convenient.

Maybe they can fix that first.
>Because there's nothing stopping anyone from setting up exit nodes and analyzing the traffic.

This should be assumed. So what?

In 2023, almost every website supports https and unencrypted traffic is the exception, not the rule. So if someone sets up an exit node, they can only collect metadata from a few circuits from a competent user. Of course, this becomes a problem when someone sets up hundreds or thousands of nodes, but that - including statistical analysis or the use of 0-days - can only be done by a small minority.
They certainly can but it would impact their profits, which is a no-no.

Will they drop the subscription? Almost certainly. Even if the spinoff included free access to AT&T subscribers, it'd likely only be for a few years.
Exactly, tech is hellbent on preserving our humanity while discarding the embodied world that makes us human. It's a schizoid's fantasy.
Not to mention that the product you get from dedicated merchants will invariably be better. The worst bakery in my city is leagues better than the best bread available at Wal Mart
pipewire was not started by Lennart Poettering
I like it. Nothing is better than a pleasant surprise. You win this one dang!!
I have zero clue why they are gatekeeping UserDefaults. Basically every app on earth uses it for even simple details like preventing show of onboarding/tour screens and it is fully sandboxed. If they are worried about some data access or such that one can do with User Defaults, put that behind an entitlement or change default behavior.

Mark my words, this goes two ways:
1. Apple rolls it back, devs feel like they have power, Apple does security/Dev theater over the whole ordeal.
2. Massive App store review issues for 99% of apps on the store.
Snowflake as far as I am aware only helps people connect to tor, it doesn't route any traffic after that point.
> Detroit Syndrome is a form of age discrimination in which workers of a certain age are replaced by those who are younger, faster, and stronger, not to mention endowed with new skills better suited for the modern workplace.

Does a certain 20yo junior writer for a Web site resent the senior writers?
You can use Tor Browser for that.
Embraer is a big name in aviation. This is more like "Tom Cruise plans to marry Ariana Grande".
That's the one! The bug seems to be several years old now.

I gotta say coming back to Windows for a while was a real shock for me. I can't believe how much basic stuff was more or less broken.
This comment has big "it was better when you could punch the nerds" energy
Interesting.

I've lived in cities since I've been an adult and every neighborhood I've lived in still has a main street for our small community inside the city. Granted this is only 4 different places, but most cities have many smaller communities inside of them with their own "main streets"

The neighborhood I currently live in, is considered by its residents to be its own little town inside of the city with everything being walkable along the main street.

We even talk about leaving our neighbourhood to go to other places within Toronto.
Here’s a podcast that talks about how Dollorama (and Walmart) is changing city design.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-strong-towns-podca...
As our company uses Zoho, we use Cliq. For a while we had 2 chat apps - engineers using Slack, rest of the company using Cliq. I reluctantly agreed to give up Slack. It's not bad, and even have a few unique features (remote work status, dev environment for extending it with Javascript, etc)
Will this still work now that VHF and UHF are no more?
Worldmap Protocol: Sitemaps, but for External URIs
Not all tools are equal. The iron maiden was also a tool that I suppose could be used for cracking open pecans.
I think the key is DC area. Having grown up in a small town, we didn't have a main street anymore, only a Walmart.
It sure should be up when you need it, exactly at the time you need it.
If you think about what templates are, it's not hard to understand why they must go completely in the header files. It's literally a source code template. It's a set of instructions to generate code at compile time, depending on the template parameters, hence 100% of the source code must be available at the point of instantiation. Just the interface is not enough.
I think even as a user, the risk then is that law enforcement agencies want to unmask/correlate users which leads to the possibility of them screwing that up and conflating people's identities. Arguably this is more of an issue with trust in those performing/acting on the analysis but on an individual level still factors into the "do I want to use tor?" mental model.
My wife chuckles because I darn my socks a few times before throwing them out. I chuck them when they either aren't comfortable, look terrible, or are too damaged to fix.
If you're somewhere like Irvine then downtown can be owned by a single corporation in full control of everything, with a superficial veneer of choice and competition.