skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortunately:

With the way the law is going the UK could demand that Tech providers provide backdoors into end-to-end encryption.

The providers can refuse.

The UK can then demand that such apps are not available in the UK.

HOWEVER ... the providers can build WASM equivalents that run in the phones browser. These can be available elsewhere in the world, and there is no way to stop UK residents from installing them. If there is no other way to have end-to-end encrypted messaging, some provider WILL offer this ... and they'll make it pretty slick. You can try prosecute each user (not much chance of success).

Legislation that fights well implemented secrecy will always eventually loose, as the government becomes just one more hostile actor, which the tech is already set up to protect against.

If the government pushes too hard, all that happens is that encrypted messaging moves out of app stores into the open internet ... and then, not only can they not see the content, they can barely see who is using it.
The things I'd do to pick the brains of these people.
Most of the commentary I've seen is generic, but most of the specific comments I've seen mention Anduril's loitering munitions.
Actually, just straight-up re-releasing remasters of the games might be a way to make backward compatibility work as a business model. I'm really cynical that, while the consumers in threads like this widely consider the backward compatibility to be an obvious choice, it just doesn't make business sense in a world where certain companies in particular make such a killing by perpetually re-selling the same games back to the same people over and over again. It's too lucrative and too effective. But if you can make the system backward compatible and still sell them those games a second time anyway, it's a win/win.
You just have to put a door on the back of the forge. Or block the back opening with a firebrick.
Yeah we all have our own moral positions on these things. I wouldn't want to work for a hedge fund, but many people do. A friend of mine turned down a university project from a hedge fund, but went to work at a defence contractor after university. I personally disagree with your characterisation of Google, but again this is all based on opinion.
I can see how people empathize with that but on the flip side I've known plenty of immigrants who went through the process the right way, waited months or years, gone through naturalization process and did the same to get get their families here.

They, along with others still in line feel cheated by the people entering illegally / abusing the asylum claim systems. If you're escaping a bad situation in a central or southern American country, and then pass through 4-5 countries to get here, you're not seeking asylum, you're an economic migrant no different from immigrants from India, China, etc all seeking a better life.

No other developed country would or should allow people to illegally enter and skip the legal process.
>> There’s some dispute over how and why Sholes and Glidden arrived at the QWERTY layout.

Well at least it says who came up with it and when, so we know who to blame for it. None of the common suggestions make sense to me. It might be useful to examine the design of their first model now that we know who made it.
There's a fascinating video from LegalEagle as to why Florida Man is such a meme, the answer was not what I expected.

It comes down to the state having procedures for reporting everything to the press and being open with what the police are doing. More than other states things like this don't require a journalist to do any discovering, all the facts are just there.

https://youtu.be/VOxCU3wY3kA?si=LTwrL9mSX-5I_bVu
This can already be done with credit cards in Brazil.

Nubank [https://nubank.com.br/en/] lets you create as many virtual credit cards as you want, and you can delete them right away after using them. I now create one for each online transaction.

I imagine phone numbers will eventually be treated the same, specially once eSIM gets more and more common and the number is not tied to a piece of plastic anymore.

In Canada, as I assume is the same as US, even a new phone number will get bombarded with spam calls as soon as you turn it on.

I really like the idea of the post and would love to have phone numbers work like Nubank's credit card, and I would be able to create a new number (already tied to my information), use it on less reliable things, then delete it once it was over.
Here is Haskell's Monad:

class Monad m where
(>>=) :: m a -> ( a -> m b) -> m b
(>>) :: m a -> m b -> m b
return :: a -> m a

and these functions must obey the properties

return a >>= k = k a
m >>= return = m
m >>= (\x -> k x >>= h) = (m >>= k) >>= h

Anything other than the definition I gave is an analogy that will only work for certain examples, that is, unless you can mathematically prove that your analogy is isomorphic to this definition
The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia
Comparison on concurrency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34564228

On scalability, given that high-frequency financial applications are generally super performance sensitive, or at least have a reputation of such, I would probably consider the BEAM VM disqualified (not the slowest language but definitely not the fastest) and even still have some serious questions around Go. I like to characterize it as the one of the slowest members of the fastest class of languages; yes, it's compiled, and that means it generally beats interpreted and VM-based languages, but it's definitely on the slower end of compiled languages due to its prioritization of compile speed over optimization time.

In the case where I ported a system straight out of Erlang into Go, without a rearchitecture, pretty much a straight port, the Go system was 5-10x faster than the Erlang system, and I'd expect that to hold. BEAM made some decisions back in the 90s that give it some significant performance headaches nowadays... not fatal for all uses by any means, it's completely possible to build a reasonable system on it, but if raw computational performance is high on your list of needs it's got some nontrivial disadvantages.
There is no such thing as an illegal Act of Parliament in the UK. Parliament has unfettered power to pass whatever laws it sees fit, regardless of existing laws, treaties, or whatever.

(At least, that's the standard interpretation, though some authorities have suggested it's not quite as simple as that: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty_in_t... for details.)
I tried to guess which direction they'd go before opening the link. I guessed: Helvetica logo, flatter design (it's already flat, so maybe removing the little android character and going for something abstract like a triangle).

I was actually pleased to be wrong. I felt the flat logo craze had already worn out its welcome by 2016, so it's nice to think that maybe we can all have pretty logos again soon.

(I'll give myself half a point for Helvetica. It's not that exact font, but it's a move in that direction.)
No that is not what I mean, I don't consider "being conservative" or donating money to any candidate to be controversial. For Palmer Luckey I'm referring to him personally holding a multi-million-dollar fundraiser for Donald Trump, and for Peter Thiel I'm referring to his opposition to democracy and women and poor people voting, among other things.
AI writing code makes software engineers more valuable (2020)
This thread is a great example of why not to talk about sex on HN. It can only go down from there.
See the discussion of teleprompters here:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/stanfordnlp/dspy/bl...
700 euros, oh my goodness!

I would honestly expect it to be able to capture digital versions of the images too for that money.
As it happens I’ve always found the American Querty keyboard much better for C programming than the English one due to bracket / punctuation layout.
There is also (at least): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-alone_shell
exactly, there's a lot of very weird "Everywhere Is Like The US, Presumably" commenting in this thread
primg is, indeed, inspired by the prime giraffe :)
From reading that article it pretty much aligns with what I was saying. The US DoD used a Google technology that is not defence specific or designed for defence applications, like them running their servers on Google Cloud, or using Microsoft for their email or something. I think that's materially different to designing missiles/etc.
Yep, playing too much Quake online I hit a record 500 EUR phone bill once (1000 deutsche Mark back then). My parents weren't amused. :D
Both dropped after very significant internal outcry, even though they'd have objectively been very profitable ventures for Google.
It’s notable that the BMW chairman isn’t complaining about the switch to EVs in itself, the risk being highlighted is Chinese competition.

This, in my mind, was predictable and inevitable, even if the EV transition never happened. China is the ideal place to manufacture basically anything. It was only a matter of time before it gained local skill in automotive design and manufacturing.

Don’t forget that German automakers willingly built factories in China. They made their own bed.
Ah interesting. Tell me more!
Yeah, that obviously works for a small number of people. I'm talking about the large scale demographic changes though - they're clearly the result of changes in food availability in one's environment. In an environment like that seen in most of America, the majority of people are going to be fat. You don't solve that problem by emphasizing personal responsibility, even if it can in theory work for some individuals.
Truly a civilizational company. Bravo!
The reality of the world is that if you want a self-determined life and a self determined government, you MUST be better armed and prepared to fight than any bully, abuser, or autocrat. If not, they will soon take your lunch and your government — every time.

Claiming you want "peace" without accounting for how you will defeat the bullies, abusers, and autocrats only helps them, not you. It brings war, not peace. Bullies, abusers, and autocrats do not give a fork about scolding and condemnation; if they succeed in taking what they want, regardless of any talk, they WILL take more — failure to stop them is literally seen as permission to do more.

So, this is the action of absolute fools and cowards. Specifically, Useful Idiots in the Vladmir Lenin sense. Or worse yet, the actions of active supporters of genocidal autocracies.

(And, do not even try to do whataboutism about the failings of the Democratic nations. Even their worst historical failings do not begin to compare vs the active genocide and war crimes being systematically committed today by the autocracies today, Russia in Ukraine, China on Tibet and Uighurs, Myanmar, etc..).

This kind of bullshirt move by sniveling cowards and poseur fauxgressives is a move in the direction of literally getting us all killed.

edit: Also possible that they are just thoughtlessly responding to some clueless complaints, but the failed to even call out even who made the complaints. Nevertheless, this still literally carries water for Xi and Putin.
Yeah, noticed that. Complete BS and just training people to be phished.
There are very low effort ways like target date funds. Of course, that means you have to pro-actively take money out of your paycheck and deposit it.

A bankruptcy does not mean the pension funding is gone. In the case of Sears it transferred to the PBGC with the federal government. In my case, the pension administration is handled (well outsourced) by the current owner of my long ago employer.
It will do the opposite. City officials will be more hesitant to close parking spaces. Even if it turns out that the revenue paid out to CPM is still lower than the added benefit the city receives.
It was TAWDRYYARD, but apparently I'm wayyy off in my recollection of it's range.
I'm reading "— and it’s also a lot of fun, too." and picturing the stony-faced committee meeting where they decided to write that.
I sold my old 2080 at the right time and made $100 but I was out a graphics card for over a year. Sold my steam deck as well and only lost about $75. Due to kids I didnt have time to play it along with the switch and some desktop PC games.

Check eBay prices and local Craigslist/FB market place.
Qualcomm main loser from Huawei’s adoption of Kirin9000S and new Kirin chips
i really like the idea of these and this brand is customizable but i cant bring myself to spend 350$+ USD on a keyboard
Only if you allow untrusted clients to join to the cluster. To really make use of something like this, you’d have to control the clients rather than opening it up to anybody on the public internet.
> How exactly does the mathematical definition of a monad say anything about "transforms"?

Im not sure that it does, but a "transform" as I mean it in my basic description is applying an operation to the "wrapped" properties.
> Germany being divided in South and North Germany (or eventually forming a somewhat loose federation) wouldn’t exactly have been a tragedy for the German nation.

Germany's late development was indeed a tragedy for the german nation. Compared to france, britain, russia, etc, their inability to unite and compete relegated germany to a 2nd rate nation forever and the german nation has little say in world affairs compared to britain, france and russia. There is a reason why britain, france and russia are permanent members of the security council while germany isn't.

> And it likely would’ve meant no WW1

WW1 was a result of interests outside of germany. WW1 happens regardless of where germany exists or not.
As an American for the past 44 years my anecdotal experience has been the 3rd option you provided mixed with senseless war and death when someone is anti military.

Growing up in republican midwest and living in CA later I haven't met someone who just goes "military bad bc political party and moral outrage". I think that is just a twitter thing
Arduino raises $22M Series B round
You kind of need data for this claim :3

To be fair, the data is easy to cherry-pick and manipulate: it's probably pretty easy to plot Facebook against enforcement actions and say the enforcement actions led to a stock rebound (instead of cost discipline)
>whilst also having to handle this drama on Mastodon

What do you mean by "having to"? It is unreasonable to set a standard where every single complaint on social media deserves a reply. Either the sponsor is dropped or it is not -- where is the handling?
Agents challenges, SDKs and finding common frameworks for the agents' space
Does your employer not (optionally) manage your 401k? Mine has been doing better than my other accounts on index funds.
This was in a top level comment on this post. It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages. Essentially performant, fault-tolerant parallelism by design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4_Wlq8JeI

If you need to break out into SIMD, you also have NX at your disposal. And Rustler/Zigler provide you an escape hatch to low-level languages, with the latter you can code in Zig inline

https://github.com/elixir-nx
https://docs.rs/rustler/latest/rustler/
https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zig.html
> Legislation that fights well implemented secrecy will always eventually loose, as the government becomes just one more hostile actor, which the tech is already set up to protect against.

this is a very bad take, especially as governments across the world are all trying to do this exact same thing.

the US ban on encryption exports stopped secure encryption being exported for a long time. china's security services have enormous ability to spy on their citizens. Prism/Echelon/etc all existed and worked well. LI is a thing everywhere.

this last five-ten years where ~all citizens of rich countries had secure communications is a rare and unusual time, and people are trying quite hard to end it.
Project Maven looks exactly like the cloud services thing I was talking about. I'm only going on what I can read in public online news sources though. Dragonfly looks a bit different, I'm not super familiar, but it seems it was shut down anyway?
And are there such invisible former galaxies out there now?
> Clearly nobody sane writes (or consumes) APIs which sometimes produce array of object, sometimes produce singular objects of the same shape...

Has nothing to do with arrays, it has to do with the fact that Python dicts with string indexes and Python objects with properties are different things, unlike JS where member and index access are just different ways of accessing object properties.

> Or maybe I'm spoiled from using typed languages and cannot see the ingenuity of the python/javascript/other-untyped-hyped-lang api authors that it solves?

This isn't an untyped thing, this is a JavaScript (and thus JSON) and Python have type systems (even if they usually don't statically declare them) and those type systems and thus the syntax around objects are different between the two.
IMHO it's a feature that instant photography users are not interested at all.
> “How am I in this war?” Musk asks Isaacson. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”

Really hope the book includes followup questions from Isaacson on Musk's complaint here. Is Musk claiming that he didn't realize his offer of free Starlink to the Ukranian government would involve military usage?
>If you can reason about f and g that doesn’t mean that you can tell anything useful about f o g

I'm confused. If you can reason about f and g, there is nothing more to know about f o g -- provided f and g are pure functions.
The whole thing is about making sure side-effects are properly pushed at the boundaries so that you can keep working with pure functions. Haskell just provides more help (or more constraints) to ensure that you work with pure functions. Because if you aren't, all bets are off, and indeed the case of f o g may be a haze.
I'll check LSD. Exa was very easy to swap for eza, though!
I'll predict the west Texas wind turbines will be blamed, just like the winter freeze that caused the gas plants to fail.
Given that many services do not accept VoIP numbers now and some even reject prepaid mobile numbers I'm not sure how long a service like this would work. Although maybe if Apple made it a default perhaps it couldn't be blocked like with their private relay or iCloud hidden emails.
The transformation mentioned there has nothing to do with using the bind operator within a monad. An example of a natural transformation would be transforming from one monad to another monad
There's a lot of misunderstanding about antitrust and monopolies. Monopolies aren't illegal, anti-competitive behavior is. Antitrust breaks up monopolies that are anti-competitive. If you're a monopoly because you have the best product, that's good for consumers.
> They are net contributors even before tourism.

Explain your reasoning, please.
They’re not saying the company did anything wrong. Just deciding not to take their sponsorship money. I don’t think you should need to enact a new rule in order to decide not to accept money.
eBPF Load Balancing with Katran
We have a gub that on the webpage canonical was wrong
If 99.9% compatibility is good enough they could probably switch vendors if they reimplemented NVN on a different SOC, assuming that Nintendo was smart enough to retain the rights to reimplement NVN.

Reimplementing NVN is a big lift so NVidia certainly has the inside track but it's probably enough of a threat that Nintendo has some negotiating power.
It would have been a worse deal for the politicians who brokered it.
The article mentions Linkedin presumably due to mindshare reasons, but it is Indeed that is far bigger in casual (not tech nerd) hiring. If Twitter enters the market, it seems like Indeed will be completely demolished. Wonder if they have any defense plan (they are not a public company so don't necessarily need one but still...).
> have a back-door installed to spy on users

There is little evidence this is a motivator for Western leaders. It’s certainly not explanatory for Europe or American states.

Your single point of control point is valid. But these conglomerates’ value to policymakers is broader than spying. Want to pass a tech-leadership package? There’s a ready provider. Deliver on social messaging goals, like diversity or free speech? Scaled provider there, too.
The Housing Crisis: We Must Tackle Property Wealth Inequality
Definitely agree about intuitions,

I think even experienced people can have issues when a type has a lot of type variables. What do they all mean? It's almost like an implicit API you need to learn for that particilular type, with varying levelsnof documentation or lack thereof
Given Apple closes everything, isnt it bad for society whenever they make an acquisition?
Current US border policy is in no way designed to minimize hyperthermia related suffering. For instance, there are nonprofits that install water stations in the desert to minimize migrant deaths. CBP agents regularly vandalize these to prevent their use [0]. They also keep captured migrants in crowded outdoor cages and in facilities without meaningful AC during the hottest months.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/us-border-pa...
Bad schools are generally in bad areas.

A few years ago, primary age students going into high school from my home village were going to be split between two secondary (or high) schools, as not every student could be accounted for in the closer school.

The closer school was a decent high school in an affluent town across from my village. Decent teachers, grades, no drama.

The other was a poorer high school in a rough and downtrodden town. The town has higher crime, including crime which reaches students (anti-social/troubled kids, more bullying, even cases of knives being brought into school).

This is a classic pattern in the UK. Well off/decent towns within spitting distance of formerly well-off towns which used to be industrially important and are now in stagnation, with poor job prospects, crime, anti-social behaviour, poor maintenance, nothing to do, and nothing to help.

Worse average grades, worse teachers (due to high turnover from teachers being pushed out by bullying), more potential to get in trouble, and worse life potential.

Not sure how this should be worded to not be construed in a funny way, but the kids from my village would have been the only white kids in the school in the rougher town, so you can imagine how that may amplify the effect the school would have on them.

Unsurprisingly, parents protested and many sold up and moved in order to avoid the "bad school" in question and get into a better school catchment area.

If you know West Yorkshire, you probably know exactly which towns I'm talking about. Such is the reputation of both towns and their respective schools.
My email is first @ la.st (with the TLD being the last three letters of my last name).

People really struggle with this.

Websites sometimes reject it on principle that the TLD obviously can't exist.
Apple spending “millions of dollars a day” on developing conversational AI
The Debian maintainer of the exa package can, and probably will, either:

- just add a backward compat alias

- make eza a transitive dependency so that exa can be sunset cleanly and adds a NEWS file entry that every user will see on upgrade to the version that drops the exa binary.
You can call it blame, of course, but then we also have to say that the fire is to blame for hurting these people. The point was to show that the same analysis for why we should stop a fire (which is not considered a moral agent) is or can be carried out for why we should jail someone. Since we don't need to believe that the fire has free will in order to put it out, it stands to reason we also don't need to believe that a killer has free will in order to justify jailing them.