skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means it runs through iMessage. Whether the "turn off iMessage" feature is enough I don't know. But if turning off iMessage actually stops any messages and SMS/MMS etc from running through iMessage at all, it's a pretty decent bet.
Yes, but a teacher I think has the right to decide that after teaching the same song 500 times they never want to hear it again.

I think people can be allowed one song they are tired of.
Brave lets you change it (or remove altogether). I just did it before posting this to make sure.

brave://settings/system/shortcuts
Great idea, but I expected much more from the content of the demos. The images exhibit all the issues with early generative art (blurred details, issues with faces and limbs, imaginary letters) and the text is far too formulaic even for children (opening words of every paragraph use same structure in French one) and makes almost no sense (the moral doesn't reference any actual event in the story in the English one). I suppose this shows good integrity - my expectations as a paying customer would be realistic.
McPhee is truly a national treasure. If you're interested, that article was one of several published in his book Uncommon Carriers which includes a train and river barge voyage. Looking for a Ship is also great as it follows a merchant marine through various stages of that job.

The Curve of Binding Energy is a fascinating study of Theodore Taylor, the engineer behind the smallest nuke warhead in the world, and his concerns that terrorists may be able to build warheads themselves.

Pretty much any McPhee book or article is fascinating. His book Oranges is all about farming oranges, processing orange juice so it can sit in refrigerated vats for months (and how it is reconstituted through "flavor packs" that give it back the OJ flavors after long storage) and all kind of other orange stories. No matter what rabbit hole McPhee jumps down, his research and writing are nothing short of engrossing.
The "tough on crime" political rhetoric of the past few years is partially to blame. People get upset when cops "aren't doing anything", and they criticize district attorneys and judges when they drop charges for lack of evidence. They get worked up and afraid over crime when crime is lower than 30 years ago.
You could do that kind of behavior with unit testing.
If a dependency breaks a library, it just doesn't upgrade.
Shameless plug: you can try Zig without installing in a playground:

https://codapi.org/zig

Soon it will also support running tests.

And I'd be happy to help make all the Learning Zig examples interactive, if the author is interested.
Another take from a local news source ...

"New COVID-19 stats from CDC just defy belief"

https://veronews.com/2023/09/07/new-covid-19-stats-from-cdc-...
> "For particle physics researchers seeking to unravel the cosmos, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offers an unparalleled solution. Unlike conventional particle accelerators, the LHC achieves extraordinary collision energies, enabling experiments that mirror the early universe's conditions. This distinctive feature has led to groundbreaking discoveries, notably the Higgs boson. In contrast to other accelerators, the LHC's unmatched power and global scientific network establish it as the premier choice for unlocking the universe's deepest secrets, setting it apart in its capacity to explore uncharted frontiers in particle physics."

That's a buzzword soup with barely any actual substance. You're illustrating what I meant. It's also full of jargon (particle accelerators, collision energies, Higgs boson...)

> This is endemic to ML.

Lean and ML are completely unrelated topics.
I understand your point, however California has the most relaxed drug prosecution laws in the United States. Short of distribution, people aren't often prosecuted for minor drug possession.

Edit:

In a controlled environment, I'd tend to agree with you. California's issues are so grave though it seems they should address the current issues prior to potentially adding to the existing problem.
I didn't take that away from that paper, I thought waterfall was a bad one and royce presented an alternative.

But the truth is the people who advocate waterfall in this day and age, either never have never actually done it or have some rose-tinted nostalgia.

Crunching for weeks on end to hit a deadline sucks. Especially when some manager beats you up for not following a specification that makes no sense.
> Postgres doesn’t have a concept of nested transactions

It has savepoints and those nest fine.

(perl's DBIx::Class can be configured to automatically convert transactions into savepoints if it's already inside another transaction; presumably any other ORM-like thing could also do that for you in theory but whether the one you're currently using -does- is left as an exercise to the reader)
No, that is not common sense at all, especially when you think about incentives.

Bureaucracies, if left unmanaged as they are today, will always find ways to increase their own budget or resource. It's as true with police departments as it is with... HR departments, or the Catholic Church, or the gun lobby, or unions, or congress, or Google.

The way to manage unchecked behavior is through structures and leadership that aligns incentives to policy. We do it all the time in plenty of other areas of society.
Hi! Creator here! I just started hacking on this last night and wasn't expecting to see this on HN already :)

It works by taking your prompt and generating an emoji using https://replicate.com/fofr/sdxl-emoji. Next, I remove the background using https://replicate.com/cjwbw/rembg. Then, click to download and add to slack!

It's all open-source, code is here: https://github.com/cbh123/emoji

Let me know if you have any questions!
I believe they literally compile down to case statements.
Leadership Change in the Rust Infrastructure Team
> There are more managed hosting options than ever (Crunchy Data, Render, Fly.io, and on and on)

From fly.io's docs [1]:

> This Is Not Managed Postgres

[1] https://fly.io/docs/postgres/getting-started/what-you-should...
The kanji on the pieces adds a significant potential barrier. I started with the piece set that had little directional pips on them and different colors to help (it's the twelfth set in the piece set list when you go to the settings gear on Lishogi).
such a Great choice of song, especially since plugging round the ears any headphone, earphones to help the player's enjoyment. How they push it out into MIDI is beyond...
Going by GDPR any tracking that isn't necessary for your service to work has to be optional and the site operator has to list and explain every bit of data he tracks.

Moving that tracking directly into the browser seems like a cheap attempt at trying to bypass the GDPR.
Cisco ASA Zero-Day Exploited in Akira Ransomware Attacks
> To the end user these are two separate apps

You literally use your Instagram login to create a Threads account.
How is this a “hyper-efficient” system if the electricity is just wasted? Note that there is a massive negative externality (climate change!) to generating electricity, depending on the generation method of course.

You may as well just have the government set a price floor.
I'm not eating bugs.
"Yet most IoT manufacturers never thought of any of them."

It's possible they did think of these and just didn't do them for various reasons. Like it wasn't worth the cost (not necessarily due to changing the setting, but more from a support side), or they might have an incentive to leave it unsecured (Chinese tech), or something else.

The sad part is, the people making the decisions don't have imposter syndrome because they're making money with a success product and any shortcomings must be from the people under them.
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Yes, ad-supported social apps collect a ton of data. But the Apple privacy widget list is just a catch-all since people can post anything and Meta uses post content for ad targeting.

Have you gone through Apple's onboarding flow recently? The process of creating an Apple ID and setting up an iPhone is pretty similar, and has similar click-wrap terms to allow endless data use, including [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5].

Apple has done a very good job of marketing privacy. But they engage in pretty much all of the same practices they call others out for.

Also, Threads didn't launch in Europe because of DMA data separation requirements between products. It has nothing to do with the invasiveness of the data collected per se as is implied here [6].

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/pdfs/apple-privacy-polic...
[2] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-id/
[3] https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/iOS16_iPadOS16.pdf
[4] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/
[5] https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/

[6] https://www.theverge.com/23789754/threads-meta-twitter-eu-dm...
This is a very small minority. The vast majority of japan uses a lot single use plastic. Each item being individually wrapped in most cases.
Firefox doesn't get to wear the white hat if they're doing a bunch of shady stuff and saying it's for my own good.

By your logic, realistically, Google invading my privacy isn't a particularly big deal since they know the value of the data they're harvesting and will guard it. And third party data brokers are actually just making my web experience more tailored and relevant, so I should let them have their way with me too. Everyone has a good reason to cram something into my business.
Remote Ruby – Sorry for Slandering yet Another Gem
Three arrested for stealing thousands by hacking into ATMs with a Raspberry Pi
This. For the web service workloads most of us run, I’ve always run out of postgres connections before exceeding the vertical limit of a postgres server.
If you want privacy guarantees do not install or use anything connected to the internet. Even HN - with stylometry and a motivated actor it's easy to correlate your username here with any other publicly written text. An even more motivated actor could do this with privately written text (you know, all of those data breaches).

Stay offline for your safety.

This is obviously unrealistic for many in the modern era. So now the question is - regardless of how much or what is collected, which companies are least likely to sell you out, by any means? By pretty much any criteria Apple is near the top of that list. Though, they're not the very, very top. Companies like Mullvad offer services in a way such that nothing is collected at all, and since you can pay cash in theory no way to come back to you.

Personally, for me - it's more important to think about whether or not you trust the organization you're dealing with, than whether or not they're collecting stuff or not. Of the big tech companies I'd say I trust Apple the most from their track record, but I am not under any illusion that I have absolute privacy while using Apple products, and neither should you.
> There is a big difference between tracking to try to understand how users are using a software or getting information on bugs and crashes, and tracking with the aim of monetizing personal data.

I don't see the difference. In one case you are trying to improve your product using stolen data (which presumably results in your user sat scores and/or userbase going up and you continuing to receive a paycheck, ie monetization), and in the other case you are just selling the stolen data directly.

In both cases you are taking private data without consent and using it to get money, or money-equivalent things (like a better product or more users).

Technically and philosophically there is absolutely no distinguishing feature between opt-out "telemetry" and spyware. Both are using private user activity information, exfiltrated silently and without affirmative consent.
No, I do claim that attitude is completely counterproductive.

This is not some case of bad pick of algorithms. The entire optimization work will happen through microoptimizations spread through the code.

If you insist on doing the microoptimizations on a language that is actively antagonistic to them, you will only create a lot of useless work, and have only mildly useful results to show for it, that will go away as soon as anything on your ecosystem changes (in JS that is measured in what? minutes?). And also, you will end up with an horrible codebase that's probably much less legible than what a lower level language will give you.

And that besides not having any good tooling or community support, because all the tools and the community are focused on developer productivity, not software performance, as that's the entire focus of the language.
This is a shitty situation to be in for people who maybe quit their jobs to join, but it's refreshing to see honest and clear communication like this and not a corporate blog post.
> Tesla Model S Plaid with Track Package flat out on the Autobahn (200mph)

Yeah. For 38 seconds. Then it stays on the right lane doing 100 km/h because the battery is low. /s
China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices
If it can parse signal from the noise of slack channel overrun, I'm in.
Really well done, this same narrative would also make a good Youtube video.
Mull is another popular Firefox Android fork. It's part of the DivestOS project and available on F-Droid.

https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
Why should anyone care about Firefox when not even their parent company cares about it? Mozilla exists solely at the whims of Google anyway. The fight is long over, people on here just haven't accepted it yet.
One thing i liked from the OPs page is the "dehyped" title.

Current article titles are pretty bad at explaining what an article is about. This in the web in general.

For example "my nodejs is as bit rusty " may be a good pun, but doesn't tell me anything.
> Can you “anonymously” report this without too much backlash? (I assume the answer is no: you clearly know it's wrong, and haven't done anything about it yet.)

This is so extremely common that I don't believe that there is anything to report. I reviewed dozens of papers under my PI's name throughout my entire PhD. Now that I have completed my degree, I never want to review another paper again.
One reason for them being called investor owned is many people own solar systems based on leases which means you don't own the panels on your house, the company that installed them does. This is to distinguish between owned by the consumers of power vs corps.
It's hidden. It's spying. It's software. It's spyware.
What if the new economics of solar mean that maintaining the wires actually costs more than producing the power? Who should pay more of those costs so that your preferred customer can pay less?
Note to self: You don't need constant entertainment
A short blogpost on quitting YT addiction
tough one. can’t say how much i don’t envy him as a founder. stay lean, stay humble, appreciate the honesty and feeling bad for folks who got the message
Sure, that happens all the time. A lot of new shows just pay lip service to political viewpoints and pick actors seemingly to check corporate boxes.

The Rings of Power is a recent example where almost every strong and noble character is either black or a woman or both. It serves no purpose in the story.

Watchmen was a rare example where they actually took on racial issues rather than just pay lip service to them.
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First it told me ‘pro-tip’ that I was holding my phone wrong and when I did rotate to landscape mode, it ignored the rotation. I applied some ‘critical ignoring’ at that point, as per a peer article
Okay, but there is some flag that means that going to https://www.threads.net/@instagram works but https://www.threads.net/@nasa doesn’t (even though https://instagram.com/nasa/ is a perfectly valid public Instagram account). This flag is toggled when the Instagram user first signs into Threads. Why can’t Meta just set this flag to false and delete all Threads posts while leaving the Instagram account intact?
> people generally turning to higher quality sources than have previously been available

Out of curiosity, what do you consider some examples of "higher quality sources" that people have started turning to?
I think it is same in Germany too. But I have a copper cable.
He helped me with a research project and scanned some photos in. If you are a researcher and ask it seems like his office might help.
It will come down to perks and worker desires. I live less than 15 minute bike ride from my office and only go in twice a week. I notice my electric bull is higher but worth the flexibility. I would move to another position offering flexibility if my employer foolishly and selfishly started requiring full time in office... I can guarantee all that my productivity would not improve. That being said I was a hybrid worker before the pandemic so I already enjoyed the flexible lifestyle and wouldnt have changed anyway. I am not alone in this and companies need us more than we need them.
You should build up primitives and compose them instead.

---

In top-down design we say, in effect, "this problem is too complex for me; I shall dissect it into a number of smaller problems, and those into smaller problems still, until I have a set of problems simple enough to solve."

In bottom-up design we say instead "this machine is not well-suited to my problem, because the elementary operations are too elementary; I shall therefore use the elementary operations to create a more powerful machine, and the operations of that machine to create one still more powerful, until I have a machine on which my problem can be easily solved."

-- Jackson, M.A. Principles of Program Design (1975)
Nuclear startup Oklo looks to rebound with backing from Sam Altman
People that don't know how the sausage is made say the most outlandish things don't they lol.
"transform"

I wish we'd get over the use of hyperbole, reserving it for things that are genuinely transformative.
This article seems to conflate Apple for Meta's privacy violations. Yes, the OS can always make it more difficult to do fingerprinting and the app store could add even more "privacy warnings", but in the end if you use a privacy violating third party app they will always find ways to slurp up all your data. Using this as some kind of argument that Apple doesn't care about privacy is dishonest.
And yet it isn’t. One is a totally new platform and one already exists. You might use your login from one to enter the other, but they could totally delete just your threads account if they wanted.
Re "but using commercial sats for warfare" GPS? Or uing terrestrial signals for drone navigation?

The people quoting the TOS are being disingenuous. That caveat is in a lot of click-through licenses for CYA. Enforcing it selectively in Ukraine is a hostile act against what most NATO leaders see as preventing further aggression in Europe.
That is super messed up.
As someone who lives in Shanghai I know that this is patently false. Yes, the apps do have an option to choose if you want cutlery. However, the restaurants you order from will always throw cutlery packets in regardless of your choice.

The reason is that sometimes customers forget that they need cutlery, or click the box by accident, or the person preparing the order read it wrong. If the customer doesn't have anything to eat their food with they'll be understandably upset and leave a bad review. It's safer for the restaurant to always throw them in.
Surgery is important but was the work of the medieval surgeon experimenting on corpses really relevant to the modern understanding of medicine? Probably not when they were concerned with the source of the four humors or whatever it was, and had zero concept of germ theory much less cellular biology. We are spending too much money and effort on process that will no doubt be obviated with a future technology. We are still very far from having a sustainable method for human settlement and colonization, and having people poop in bags on the iss probably isn’t advancing much understanding in those technologies beyond what terrestrial experiments and simulation could do.
This is great! I often find myself using ChatGPT plus to summarize discussions for articles manually. We should make the summary and discussion summary part of the HN Feed home page? It does not have to affect ranking.
Does it matter? The "threads bit" isn't set until you click go. They could totally support zeroing that bit back out. Obviously you and I can imagine how that might be super difficult, but it needn't be. More to the point, not everyone would think that way. They just want an "undo".
Here I am, still continuing to dream of a laptop and desktop grade power10 processors in consumer grade products running AIX.

I want a solid UNIX ecosystem with power10 to compete with macOS + Arm. I’m tired of there being only one real option for a reliable unix laptop.
The issue that needs to be addressed is economic. Devices are paid for once, but security is ongoing work. The Android world has shown that no-one has figured out how to deal with the mismatch.

I'd expect that devices on subscription will do better on security because they have an economic incentive to do so. Even then vendors will want to end of life hardware that is no longer economic to support.
By 2035, we will all be afloat.
The kind of sunshades that are reasonably being proposed are not large enough to see from the earth without a very powerful telescope.

A single giant megaproject sunshade is not feasible. But it is possible to make many smaller ones, each diminishing insolation by just a few fractions of a percent.
What's an "a*hole"? Some kind of graph traversal algorithm?
Texan residents 65 and older are exempt from property taxes if they live in their main property.

If they aren't taking advantage of this, they need a real accountant.
What we know about the mysterious deep-sea golden orb
By left you mean he was executive chairman of the board of course.
Yeah, and we know it's relatively common for open source projects to end up with malicious code in them unless the project has maintainers that can be trusted.

I have LibreWolf installed and I use it from time to time (although I prefer Brave), but I don't have that much trust in project as is. I think if it had sponsorship and could afford to pay a few reputable pro-privacy developers to maintain the project then there's less risk, but as it stands is anyone honestly looking through all the source code to validate their pro-privacy claims? And even if they did, could you trust them or their releases?
Chess involves an opponent that's doing their best to cause trouble.

Driving on icy gravel, that's just a physics simulation, with no opponents.

The hard part of self-driving is vision, with hard constraints on real-time and power supply — how long that takes (especially given the enormous pile of scenarios we don't think about when trying to list them but do know how to deal with when we encounter them), I don't want to guess, as I think it could be anywhere from negative 6 months to positive 16 years.
So, you "create a Threads account", but somehow you can't delete it?

There are thousands of services where you use the account of one service to create the account of another, and you can still delete those accounts.
Mozilla has a pragmatic view on privacy. Your freedom has no worth, when you can't use the browser because it breaks sites all the time. Though, it's true that Mozilla has become kinda lazy in their quest for protecting the user. They could do significant better.
This is one of those trade-offs between convenience and privacy I have internalized over years. You can refer to this guide to configure Firefox to be more private. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/#firefox