skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can talk about the classes of algorithms the brain uses to solve difficult problems

> But we do know some things about computation, so we can apply those insights to the brain

You can.

But it is a snake oil, it doesn't give you any actual insight on how brain really works.

To be able to model something with computer doesn't mean it is like a computer.

But at the same time such thinking can really confuse unprepared mind that brain is really modeled by nature as some sort of sophisticated turing machine.

This is misleading.
I don't see the point of all that encryption when the ends of a conversation are tied to publicly available info like a phone number.

Do you think $SECRET_POLICE will care that they can't decrypt my messages when they know I have exchanged said messages with a known dissident's phone number?

$SECRET_POLICE doesn't do innocent until proven guilty.
I'd pay much more than $2 if they offered account identifiers other than phone numbers. Trying to get a burner SIM or DID while still staying anonymous is getting increasingly difficult.

But I think it's pretty clear by now that this is a feature for FVEY IC, not a bug. FFS, they burned development resources on stickers, but abjectly refuse to offer alternative account identifiers. The standard apologist response is, "but phone numbers make adoption easier". Sure, but nobody is asking to replace the identifiers, or even to make them nondefault. We're just asking for the option. It could be hidden behind a developer mode for all I care, but it should be there.

The fact that they abjectly refuse to do it is enough to tell you about what their true motivations likely are.
Are you my attorney?
Not really. You can read AdGuard opinion on MV3
https://adguard.com/en/blog/chrome-manifest-v3-where-we-stan...
Assuming you're over land, which definitely isn't always the case. You better hope the integral fire suppression system works. If it doesn't you're about to have your day - and possibly much more - ruined solidly.
If you had wifi at home/work/school, you could send and receive without incurring any data usage at all.
Why stop here? Just take the 10 first results in Scholar, you have as much low correlations as no correlation results. You can also easily find structural issues in many papers. And finally fluoride supplement from the family can easily tip the scale dramatically in total consumption which make the comparison pointless.

Finally, there is probably a level at which it actually does become toxic. Like with many other minerals, too little is actually harmful, there is a right dosage and too much is again showing toxicity.

Why do the papers against do not mention this, do not mention any theorical model to explain their findings, do not correct for socio-demographics factors when we know that intelligence is generally very poorly related to any other variables except those ones which disproportionately explain it?
It is possible to apply some filtration to one's choices of news sources. Do they publish and enforce a code of journalistic ethics? Have they ever publicly disciplined a reporter for making things up or otherwise violating that code? Do they prominently and frequently publish corrections, either "in-band" or on their Web page? Do they refuse to provide a platform of respectability to people spreading [md]isformation?

None of these are guarantees of trustworthiness, but a lack of them is in my experience a warning signal.
I feel the optimism people reminisce over around frutiger aero is coupled with the more optimistic view people had of tech at the time vs today.
You can send a SMS to iPhone users, and they'll see that in iMessage.

If you want a group chat with friends, there are a bunch of apps for that. If your friends wants those cool features but refuse to use any one of existing apps besides iMessage to talk to you, then they are not your friends.
In that case, about 25 minutes two times a week. I'm fortunate enough to have a a couple of supermarkets and produce stores within a five minute walk of where I live. I go in with a list and, since I've been shopping in those places for a few years, I know where most everything is. And, most of the time, I get there just before the store get busy (or just after a rush).
It's a poem, so you kinda have to make your own interpretation but it's a famous one so lots of people have, I assume, bloviated on the topic online already.

This article made me think of the poem due to lines up front:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

and

A dog starvd at his Masters Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State

You can see a whole world in a grain of sand: the closer you look the more there is to see an understand. People spend their whole lives looking at tiny complex worlds (in, say, biology or cosmology). The flowers are full not only of chemistry but cooperation and, best of all, mathematics.

And as for the dog...sometimes the significant signals aren't where you might think to look.

The whole poem is a disquisition on the topic of scale discussed in a more shallow way by the article.
Some, but not all of the problem, can be mitigated by pointing your DNS to mullvad (the no-ads one; DNS doesn't need a subscription unlike the full VPN product).

Ironically, this might be a market opportunity for MS to get a few users back to chrome's poor cousin Edge, if they allow proper extensions again.
The difference is that network IO can be more easily masked by the operating system than block device IO. When you offload your logging to another thread the story isn’t over because your disk logging can interfere at a system level. Network IO isn’t as noisy. If durability is important you might still need to wait for an ACK before freeing the buffer for the message which might lead to more overall memory use, all the operations play nicely in a preemptable scheduling system.

Also, the failure modes of systems are very tied to durable storage devices attached to the system and very rarely to network devices. By reducing the number of things that need a disk (ideally to zero) you can remove disks from the system and its availability story. Once you get to fully disk less systems the system failure modes are actually almost nothing. But even with disks attached reducing the times you interact with the disk (especially for chatty things like logs!) reduces the likelihood the entire system fails due to a disk issue.
I feel that reporting which is done in a neutral tone tends to correlate well with organizations and individuals who are interested in factually true reporting. Also, people who are concerned about the truth will tend to use more weasel words, such as “appears to” or “alleges”, because those words leave open the possibility of being wrong.
Different like … totally. SMS was part of the very early GSM design work in the mid ‘80s and is built into the network at a fundamental level (this is why the particular character limit etc etc)- it was designed in the GSM/SS7/ telco world and has been used for over thirty years.
iMessage was designed and built by Apple as a single operator with virtually total control of the backend and user devices.
They achieve similar results in completely different ways, the best analogy I can think of is how octopus’s and jellyfish can see too, but evolved eyes very different to our own.
Fun to see this issue get talked about. Ancedote- I bought some car parts from a semi-scammer. Not a full-on scam but the guy wouldn't ship the complete order even though he had my money for several weeks. We had communicated on a few different platforms. Each platform offered up a little piece of his identity. Last four of this. First four of that. It was enough to piece it all together.
I gave him a call at his place of employment which happened to be in the exact same industry as the parts that were being sold. I asked him to ship the parts and casually asked if his employer was involved in the sale. He perked right up and the next day he shipped everything I had bought and a few extras.
And in the opposite direction, I disbelieve stats about bots because of the number of web sites that treat my real browser driven by an actual human as a bot:)

(My personal favorite was being blocked by cloudflare, and then getting an email from cloudflare telling me how great they are because they block so many (alleged) bots)
Do you have a source that it was started by Google? From looking around, they support its development but it was an industry initiative, and Samsung was one of the first OEMs to support it.
> or else the state of the window becomes no longer relevant.

I appreciate this, er, implicit understatement.
Show HN: Parrot, utility GPT that repeats your prompt verbatim
I remember watching a surgeon-narrated YouTube video demonstrating eye removal, and didn't feel any stomach-turning horror from seeing the gore. I felt it when the narrator told to check something "to ensure the correct eye is being enucleated".
I guess maybe I'm missing the purported point of signal, attaching your phone number to use it notwithstanding, but attaching payment identity to it as well? Like, what's the point of going through the pain required to use it?
Yeah, I read the comments and I was like damn ... that's not in the linked version.
That example of your small telecom company isn't really relevant here, is it? Signal needs to work well for people around the world.
I think knowing that this is a vulnerability is fine. The tool is what I take issue with.

I mean creepy as in a violation of a right to privacy. I don't consent to you knowing my phone number or any PII I put into private websites.

It's a lot easier to get caught lockpicking and it has some legitimate uses. This is like more like an autopicking machine imo.
A policy does not exist if you don't build and maintain the systems to effectively follow it.

Multi-billion dollar companies need to be held to higher standards than "we got a piece of paper around here that says we won't do that"
Landing is just a necessary part of the evacuation step.
I don't understand, if those lights are so powerful then how do actors survive under their light?
probably just front ends to diff or fc commands, drawn the same way.
There are more logs than debug logs, and using SQLite as the encoding store for your logs doesn’t make it not logging.
What if money expired?
An interesting look at theories around "perishable" money.

A very interesting concept. Most resources in the world have a lifespan - even an iron bar will eventually rust. However, a dollar is as perpetual as the system itself.

On top of that, the entire economic system is designed to reward those who take more and give less - that is how you become rich, and being rich is the highest ideal.

However, if money had a lifespan... if it could "decay" just like the crops we grow, then things would change. If you try to sell a bushel of corn today, and there isn't much demand, you will need to lower the price to sell it. This is because it will go bad and then you will have nothing.

If you get paid a dollar today, and you know that dollar has a lifespan, then you are incentivized to spend it! If you have a million dollars that can expire, there isn't much use in holding or hoarding it... like the corn, it will go bad. So, you want to spend it - on things you need, or services, or by investing in equipment, training, research,etc. Heck - even just going on a trip or getting a nice meal is better than letting the money "rot" in a bank account.

I'm not so sure that something like this would work at scale. It seems to be more workable in smaller circles, like a LETS or local trade system. Still, the thought experiment is useful, and I thnk it helps to highlight how some of the problems we face are actually baked into the system.

From the article: 'Gesell believed that the most-rewarded impulse in our present economy is to give as little as possible and to receive as much as possible, in every transaction.

In doing so, he thought, we grow materially, morally and socially poorer. “The exploitation of our neighbor’s need, mutual plundering conducted with all the wiles of salesmanship, is the foundation of our economic life,” he lamented.'
That’s not how the law would see it. Blackmailers incorporating otherwise-legal third party activity into their threat does not add legal liability for that 3rd party. Nor does it excuse any pre-existing liability for the blackmail target.
> They should at least let users choose the color (which will never happen).

You can turn on high contrast mode in Messages settings which gives you a forest green color that's imo pretty nice to look at.
I would point that witches, if you think of them as people who follow pagan doctrines and knowledge not sanctioned by church also existed. What did not exist was old women flying in brooms. The medieval witch hunt existed to hunt ideology dangerous to the medieval status quo. If these real witches did not exist, the myth created by propaganda involving evil women flying in brooms also would not exist.

Likewise, communists are also people with ideology anathema and dangerous to the current capitalist status quo. I also would point that while real communist exist, the propaganda of children-eater communists do not exist. But the exaggerated propaganda would not exist if the real thing did not exist.

Anyway, communists always would be persecuted and vilified in a capitalist world because they are against private property, a central principle for capitalist societies. It does not matter if they try to advocate their ideas democratically via elections or not (Salvador Allende was violently overthrow anyway). This would change only if the ideology somehow become harmless to the status quo. Likewise, a medieval society never would allow pagan ideologies not aligned with the church, because this is against the core principle of medieval societies.
> As a physicist, if you ever see units on the parameter to a trigonmetric function, you can be fairly certain something is wrong.

Exactly. Which is why trigonometric functions in Numbat have the signature

cos(x: Scalar) -> Scalar

and only take quantities as arguments that are implicitly convertible to a scalar, like 'cos(pi / 3)', 'cos(30 deg)' or 'cos(0.5 turn)'.

Whether or not angles should be considered dimensionless is actually a matter of academic dispute. If you want to know more, take a look at https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat/pull/167 and the references therein.
They aren't (edit)carbon* arc lights, they are regular 1000w par bulbs, which should all have UV filtering unless its a knockoff.

If you're too close you may get burned from the heat, but actors spend hours under them and don't get tanned.

But yeah, 72000 watts is alot of heat to pump at an object for 9 hours
Valid but if there is no model that is sustainable then who cares if its successful? Some trade offs will have to be made. How can they keep going if the vast majority of people don't pay? They don't have the model of "ok we are going to flip and monetize after we get to X mass". Its like a growth startup but with no end game plan.
Most replies missing the forest for the trees in this anecdote by focusing on a lack of mutual trust.

Management is fundamentally the art of aligning your team’s motivations toward the company’s benefit. Inevitably, those things will be irreconcilable and as a manager, it’s your obligation to do what’s in the company’s interest.

If you can’t stomach that, you will be happier avoiding the manager track.
Maybe I've been kept out of group chats, it is annoying group chatting an imessage thread with android in it. I forget what it does but something is strange about it, but I'd definitely remember if someone I remotely cared about talking to just ghosted my SMS one day. I can't think of that ever happening. I had tons of friends in my 20s and almost none of them ever used Android. It was mostly tech people I knew that used Android.

But, yeah, who knows. Probably nothing lost.
Cruise Suspends Employee Share Program, Citing Need to Revalue Business
Can’t they support RCS but still have iPhone users blue ?
> His actions have been in the same vein since well before twitter or even tesla.

Yes, he's always been far right. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-m...
Apparently there are currently 6 trillion dollar companies: Apple, Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Alphabet, Amazon, and Nvidia.

Based on that, I don't think anything special "happened" to the UK...
If you're using a language with proper static typing and generics support (so C++, Rust, Swift, Go, etc), disabling the optimizer is typically a 10x hit. Most of what the optimizer does relies on statically analyzing call graphs, which it can't do if you're slinging function pointers around all over the place.

Godbolt.org has a great example for Swift. Switch the editor to swift mode, load the "Sum over Array" example, and compile it with defaults. It produces reams and reams of assembly code. Now, pass -O in as a compiler flag to enable optimization, and it produces extremely tight code. (Swift 5.0 even noticed the two functions are semantically identical, and deduped them. 5.9 doesn't, but it also produces more compact code.)

It's a similar story for rust, since the example is written in a functional style with an iterator. The C and C++ versions only have an imperative for loop variant, so the optimizer doesn't matter as much for them. (Though you could easily produce a C++ version of the code that takes a sum() function, and has similar bloat until optimization is enabled.)
Radians vs degrees?
I thought one of the basic skills of programming is to turn a prose description into code...
Show HN: Pipedream now has 1600 integrated APIs
I wonder when Google will add proper RCS to their own Google Fi?

Currently one has to disable Fi cloud sync losing a lot of features.
a) Apple doesn't decide whether carriers keep SMS. Governments do.

b) Apple won't stop users from using a particular carrier because of commercial considerations. It would be a clear breach of anti-competition laws.

c) Many carriers don't have relationships with Apple to sell the iPhone. And in many places internationally the iPhone is not even that popular. What matters is whether you can buy a SIM and install it into your phone.
I am fond of the "STASM" analytical framework given in: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...

> The point will invariably arise: "This tells me how to listen to a foreign radio. Okay, I'll get the news, the lectures, the plays—all the rest of it. But so what? How am I going to know what's the truth and what's propaganda? How can I tell 'em apart? Tell me that!"

> The answer is simple: "If you agree with it, it's truth. If you don't agree, it's propaganda. Pretend that it is all propaganda. See what happens on your analysis reports."

(If I understand TFA, Linebarger's proposed 1948 sol'n seems to lie in not updating beliefs, or at least not so aggressively?)
You aren't likely to need to change a lot of these: the whole point is basically making it so that all that can run as normal but won't really get in the way of your high-priority process. It's just that your high-priority process needs to be careful not to block on anything that might take too long due to some other stuff running. In which case you may need to avoid certain C standard library calls, but not replace it entirely.
The bad guys know these and a million more exploits already so personally I'm fine with these guys exposing the industries dirty laundry especially if it shames them into doing something. There is also no defense from the company that they did not know when it comes to legal action.
Yeah, I think he's edited a few things. A lot of comments here no longer make sense.

Here's the original:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231116091926/https://mazzzysta...
Wasn't there a time where something like 95% of all e-mails were Viagra spam? If so then at 73% the bots still have some catching up to do.
I have only used Android phones and I strongly dislike RCS. RCS in theory is a standard but in practice it is == "Google Messages" the app. I don't know of a single telco that supports it (hosting their own infra of it), nor does any other SMS app (maybe 1 or 2 being exception that proves the rule). RCS(Google Messages) is just another messaging app like Whatsapp/Signal just that it pretends being a standard. AFAIK AOSP has no RCS APIs like it has for SMS. Not to mention the amount of SPAM one gets on RCS is comparable only to traditional SMS, and blocking has no effect unlike Whatsapp. It exists mainly because Google got tired of making messaging apps that weren't dominating the world (Hangouts/Allo) and thought that forcing a standard might be the only option available to them. E2E is optional and there is no switch that says only do E2E.

There might be some solution needed to let iMessage interoperate with Android, but pretending RCS is a standard just like SMS that Apple was not supporting is wishful thinking.
Humans are actively cooled, and I think these lights were much higher power and much closer than typical film lights are to actors.
I thought Apple intended to do that but found out the a lot of the tech was patent-encumbered.
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38286022
I have nothing against online appointments and the need to use a email address to create one. My issue was that I was there in person cash in hand and they seemed to have no way to proceed with doing business with me without a email address, which seems crazy to me when all I wanted was my hair cut.
Weirdly, this only happens for me in Chrome despite using the same extensions there that I use in Firefox. I initially fixed the problem in both browsers by switching my DNS provider from Cloudflare to Quad9 (which also noticeably improved network performance more than I'd ever expect a change in DNS provider to do so), but then the problem returned in Chrome, and since Firefox is my daily driver, I haven't bothered to figure out why just yet.

Originally, it had something to do with how Archive.today handles Cloudflare's EDNS configuration. Now, though, it appears that it might be caused by something else.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#Cloudflare_DNS_a...
I'm 21 and from Germany, I absolutely remember paying for sms in the first years of my highschool time.

I can also remember killing my data plan browsing Instagram while skipping my French class ... So about 7 years ago?
This reminds me of a Star Trek (The Next Generation) character consulting an AI expert on the Holodeck.
I mean, they're doing it right now.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-messa...
Your cells will multiply to heal damage. Most polymers will just crumble.
Damn 2014?? My years are all skewed nowadays.
True, but at least in the case of iMessage, that would also mean not being able to text all while not within Wi-Fi coverage (since Apple absolutely refuses to let people actually send an SMS to a number it considers to be participating in iMessage).
Doesn't match my observations. I often hear complaints about "mainstream media", and some even consider the fact that a news source is "mainstream" sufficient evidence to dismiss all its claims.
Ah, good ol’ Bob Wehadababyitsaboy.
Had a similar effect with bupropion, which is an antidepressant not a stimulant, but known for its activating effects, unlike the SSRIs which make some people (including me) super sleepy. Unfortunately I wasted the period where bupropion was giving me energy by pumping it into a dead end job, which eventually went away. I should have 100% used it to find a new job.
Good news, Apple just announced they'll start supporting RCS next year.

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/breaking-apple-will-...
The nuclear option will eventually be to just ban Google accounts for using any ad blocking.

The question is whether that atmosphere would simply cause people to quit Google services vs. turn off Adblock altogether to continue using them. I would wager that the latter would be far more likely and common for the average person.