skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with state elections in India is a stretch

The former CM of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav of the RJD heavily lobbied for the Madhesh Movement after the 2015 Bihar elections [0]. It doesn't hurt that a number of the Madhesh Movement leaders are Yadav as well. They even used the same flag as former CMs of UP Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party flag, as all these groups across eastern UP, Bihar, and the Nepali Terai were influenced by the Lohia movement at Patna University back in the day.

> religous divisions in Nepal is minor relative to India

Imo a divide exists but it's different.

In the Terai it's the same Hindu-Muslim divide you'd see across the border in Araria Zila or Lakhimpur Kheri Zila as the Terai region is Awadhi and Maithili speaking. For example, Nepalgunj is 3x closer to Lucknow than Kathmandu Valley, Janakpur is 2x closer to Darbhanga than Kathmandu Valley, and Dharan is 3x closer to Darjeeling than Kathmandu Valley.

I've heard of some Hindu-Christian divide occuring around Kirat/Limbu areas like Dharan, but this also seems to be impacted by politics in neighboring Sikkim [1], as the former CM Pawan Kumar Chamling was enabled by support from Gopal Gurung of the MNO, and most "Christianization" appears to be more like Limbu/Kirati ethnonationalism. The related Gorkhaland Movement in Northern WB seems to be tangentially related based on some of the speeches I've perused.

Like every other social issue in India, religion is a facade around ethnic or caste relations. Doesn't matter if it's Sunni-Shia conflicts in Parachinar or Ladakh, Khalistan in the 80s, the Muzzafarnagar Riots in 2016, Tamil Nationalism during the Sri Lankan Civil War, or Manipur as we speak. Indian foreign policy is heavily impacted by state level politics, and this has been noted in Academia [2].

For example, a big reason for the resurgence of support for monarchism in Nepal is because of CM Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhnath Math lobbying for a Dharm Rashtra as the Shah dynasty (like other Pahari dynasties from Nepal to Jammu) was a major devotee of the Nath movement.

If you understand Hindi and Khas Nepali I can link speeches/darahans from the Madhesh Morcha, MNO+Sikkim Democratic Front, and the Gorakhnath Math from that time period specifically using religion as a wrapper around caste or ethnicity.

[0] - https://www.deccanherald.com/india/nepal-madhesis-leaders-se...

[1] - https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/bot/...

[2] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/05/india-foreign-policy-dr...
Signal doesn't learn your contact list. See https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/ and https://signal.org/blog/building-faster-oram/
Yes, but Signal and Threema seem to have a pretty different mission.
> the green bubble shame set to end

I'm betting the non-Apple bubbles will remain green... and remain a bit stigmatized.

It was never about the resolution of pictures and even technical limitations around group chat was just part of it. It's a social thing and the technical protocol is incidental.

Dr. Seuss probably explained it best in The Sneetches.
agreed, in fact I suspect it'll remain a green bubble for "insecure" but at least more features will be supported.
Try JA3 fingerprinting. It’s much more difficult to spoof than user agents
> On the other hand, 3 months + 2 lightyears is ill-typed, because the right-hand side is of type Length. You can change ‘years’ to ‘lightyears’ in the example above to see the resulting compiler error.

Why not both? Make lightyears both Length and Time
Not sure what you are talking about. To me it looks like you can just DL and install 9.0 or 10.0 community release.
Am I missing something?

https://www.zimbra.com/product/download/zimbra-collaboration...
VanJS App Builder: A GPT That Builds Web Apps with VanJS
You are not wrong, but not necessarily right either. Delaware is used so commonly for this that they have a lot more details worked out where you may need a court trial for something weird. If anything goes wrong a lot more lawyers will know how Delaware laws work. There will be a lot more services that can do little things for you. You will find accountants who know Delaware rules (if you live in a state you will find accountants who know that state's rules, but good luck finding one who knows the rules for a different state - unless that state is Delaware).

Is the above worth the costs? I cannot answer that. There are many it depends. however everyone should be aware that Delaware provides a lot of value for the money, and a lot of that is hidden second order things. Those things may or may not matter.
Now that CTEs are no longer optimization fences in recent versions of Postgres, is there a way to somehow manually declare an optimization fence around a certain region of the query?

I've had similar problems in Snowflake with the query planner taking a bad path, and no obvious way to hint otherwise.
Hackers know everything is securities fraud
dupe to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082?
The green predates the existence of iMessage. That green is the color that was used from the beginning of the iPhone in 2007; iMessage was only added in 2011. iMessage was given a different color than the preexisting one.

Trying to claim that Apple picked an "ugly color to make you feel uncomfortable" is simply false.
I'm 6'2" and weigh 250lbs. My Honda Civic has no problem whatsoever accommodating my size.
I'm honestly interested in what your solution for private communication is that will also get mass adoption among hundreds of millions of users. (And it's definitely not running your own XMPP server and getting everyone to switch to Linux phones).
> You deserve it

It is just latte.
Also you do not need to start early just to make <whatever> coffee.
There's a lot more going on than bias. There's laziness on the part of the reporter, and incompetence in the field they are reporting on. For example, whenever I read a journalist's article about something technical, like airplanes, they screw it all up, simply because they have no idea how airplanes work and how they are designed.
If you require global connectivity, managing hundreds of carrier APIs, contracts, etc seems like major overhead. Also, there are companies whose only purpose for existing is providing messaging, like Twilio, are they just...not doing this or do the carriers just not play ball? In that case, why would the carriers agree to sell to you at a discount?
I would be cautious of using this with an Apple ID that has any purchases or oauth sign ins. Could be a EULA violation. Then suddenly lose access to all data. No recourse. Thanks, Walled In environment!

Also I wonder if there is any feature disparity between nothing/songbird and iMessage. In my experience, dealing with these bridges is far from perfect. Especially if one or more of them is closed source like imessage. Never know when a change will happen and break your flows
Almost all of them do now, since iPhones don't have SIM card slots in the US anymore.
It is about the features though. Apple users snob Android users because group messaging doesn’t work well, media features are not supported, etc.

RCS offers such a rich environment that Apple could finally truly integrate most stuff transparently with iMessage. Send a video to the group chat? Everyone gets it at full quality. Make a poll? Everyone can vote.
If the blog post author showed us the code they want to write (but doesn't work), it might be easier to understand what they mean.
Anyone remember "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"? Now it's "Chrome ain't done until uBlock won't run".

If it's not Manifest V3 that makes the Internet safe for advertising, it'll be a "browser integrity" token or some other kind of DRM-by-another-name. Google has made it clear with YouTube that the arms race is on, and sooner or later they'll go nuclear.
To be fair, thse functions aren't defined for physical quantities.

As a physicist, if you ever see units on the parameter to a trigonmetric function, you can be fairly certain something is wrong.

You can derive this from how e.g. cos(x) can be written as a polynomial series, something like 1 - x^2 + whatever; and since 1 and x^2 would have different units if x is anything but unitless, you've goofed.

That's a big reason why units are used in calculations in the first place. They basically act as a sort of checksum for your calculations.
CRDT is a different paradigm. Ideally we'd use it to replace client-server
What a surprise! I'm quite sure RCS bubbles will be green though, and that's still going to be enough of a difference when it comes to teen groups and even adult dating.

The EU may mandate interoperability, but I don't see them mandating bubble color...
Apple only has dominant marketshare in the US. Everywhere else in the world people use Whatsapp. Why didn't they all hop on the RCS train? Because it sucks to implement and is a black box to use. Google was stuck with SMS because of their inability to implement a cohesive messaging app, despite owning and distributing an operating system. So what did they do? Pitched sob stories and got the europeans to threaten to regulate. Shitty move. They should have just built something good.
Is there a sunset timeline for SMS? No service lasts forever and if Apple knows carriers will want to turn it off sometime they'd have to get on board with the RCS sooner rather than too late.
I would expect that Fedora has done the same as rhel.

I am certain that Intel Clear Linux requires at least v2.

"Clear Linux OS supports 2nd generation Intel Core (Sandy Bridge) CPUs and later, Xeon E3 and later, and Silvermont-based Intel Atom C2000 and E3800 processors... Minimum system requirements are SSE4 and CLMUL (carry-less multiplication), as well as UEFI."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Linux_OS

This will probably creep into more distros. I know that rhel8 clones are supported until 2028; that will probably be the time to retire my own Core 2 Duos/Quads.
> from the personal preferences of the engineers

https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing

https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/

Am I wrong to say... having 2 is "expensive"? Maybe not if 50% of your stuff is going to Honeycomb and 50% going to DataDog. Could you save money/complexity (less places to look for things) having just DataDog or just Honeycomb?
I’d wager he has thought of it, based on his interesting AI-girlfriend short story: https://stallman.org/articles/made-for-you.html
The $130M Cell-Phone Scam
> eventually our 'cache' will flush to a persistent storage layer

What happens if the server goes down before the flush?
The age appears to be as-yet undetermined. (reference: https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/wasp_107_b--6505/ ) I will note from the Wikipedia entry that it's not possible for its orbit to be from regular formation but it must have formed further out and been slung into the inner system. The orbit is retrograde and highly misaligned with the equitorial plane.
How feasible is 3D animation like this as a hobby? Could one expect to learn and create decent quality outputs without a substantial sacrifice to sleep/work/etc.?
FCC Launches Inquiry into AI's Impact on Robocalls and Robotexts
> but I don't see them mandating bubble color

I personally see no limit to what arbitrary nonsense regulation the EU is willing to push.
I can imagine a pretty great commercial where Craig Federighi throws an iPhone like a football, and a tracking shot zooms in to show it swiveling around to correct it's orientation mid-flight.
They most likely used ChatBLT for the docs.
> Hungary does not have the strength to invade a NATO member.

So it seems the only way to make Hungary invade Slovakia is to make Slovakia leave NATO. We'll see.
> It was never about the resolution of pictures and even technical limitations around group chat was just part of it.

It can be about both. It’s really nice to know when the images you sent are gonna be potato-quality and you need to find some other channel to send them, or that message reliability and capabilities in general are being limited to SMS (or RCS!) levels. I don’t give a shit about the social aspects, it’s valuable as a UI affordance.
There would seem to be risk of your site being repurposed as a honeypot by authorities, and investigating sources of requests made to it from their jurisdiction.
The issue is with paying high taxes and getting services of a quality comparable to hu, bg and so on. Things are really that bad in the UK (albeit more friendly and relaxed). You can indeed create a company in a few clicks, but the system has so many small issues here and there that it becomes frustrating real fast.

Post brexit uk is seriously under skilled (the media calls it under staffed, but we all know whats really happening).
That is a really interesting fact.
"Computer, load up CELERY MAN, please"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8K6QUPmv8Q
Something tells me you have no clue how to teach.
> I hope the GSM association moves fast to make robust E2EE a standard required for proper implementation for carriers. That would go a long way in making a huge improvement over SMS/MMS.

Can telcos actually offer E2EE given the various lawful intercept statutes that they are usually subject to?
> The cable industry did the exact same thing.

Kinda but not really. The cable providers were and continue to be hamstrung by the networks who force the cable providers to buy channel packages. Cable never had the leverage to, say, tell Disney that they only want to offer ESPN but not the 10 other Disney branded networks being offered. It was often all or nothing.
[dupe]

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
Visual border and resize border are two different UI things, and regarding the latter, precision-hunting for a tiny line instead of a thick area doesn't make manipulation easier, that's just a persistent mistake of the previous generations of UI geniuses
allow manual entry of location

"is it legal where im planning to go?" is a valid question too

user comments on actual enforcement in specific cities / counties might be good; state laws are rarely the last word. Could allow room for a score of "social tolerance" as well.

you might have to categorize "legal weedlikes" and delta8 etc.
No it didn't. Collisions killed those people.

As I said elsewhere in this thread..

The weasel word "related" is doing all the heavy lifting here.

Speed is constantly and accurately measured. Police love to say accidents are speed related, because that is always technically true; and it lends vain credibility to the most lucrative traffic law.

We have a similar problem with scheduled substances.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
> Should the federal government mandate trackers in every car so they can always find any vehicle?

This is a red herring. The federal government doesn't mandate this. You said "if you want to put a tracker in your car, that's up to you." People are choosing to put trackers in their cars.

Honestly, as someone who is fairly strict on matters of privacy, I'm fine with a tracker in my car. I don't drive it that often. And when I do, it's around town.
The current status iirc is that Google built its own e2e solutions in Android Messages, first for one-on-one conversations and as of August 2023 for group chats as well. They released technical papers but I don't think the implementations are part of the official spec. I think this section is basically Apple saying that they are going to push for that standardization:

> Finally, Apple says it will work with the GSMA members on ways to further improve the RCS protocol. This particularly includes improving the security and encryption of RCS messages.

I doubt anything has changed since 2020 in terms of China, Cuba, Iran or Russia but I couldn't find any news one way or the other
And they'll kill all of us, including themselves, in the process.
> unscrupulous corporations

I wonder why everyone is afraid of unscrupulous corporations, but are not concerned about use by unscrupulous governments. The latter are a lot more dangerous.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
I think a lot of people see that, but it seems rare that any debate is arranged in a way to investigate the topic from those two perspectives and the other demographics or situational factors that are related to those locations/environments.
Most economists and left-leaning research institutes disagree with this. Transaction costs, both monetary and temporal, are always higher with more regulation and governmental institutional involvement.

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/notes/2006/N2505....

https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/stadelis/tce_org_handbook_...

The arguments are usually about whether equity/fairness/outcomes are better, but cost in money and time is always higher.
Graphics Offload
If you hire an architect to design a house, then make some adjustments to the blueprint before it gets built, it doesn't make you an architect. In fact if you give your adjusted design to builders and have it made without consulting an architect first, you have a good chance of unknowingly violating some building code somewhere.

Similarly if you use a code generating tool written by a software engineer and then adjust the code output, it doesn't make you a software engineer.

Yes, software engineers can use those tools, but they're limiting their growth as engineers if they rely too heavily on those tools.

If that's peer pressure, then I am unapologetic about it. I'm not hiring people who can't build their own code to work as software engineers.
Most do, but this often means a physical address. In Delaware there are companies that will provide you a physical address and forward any mail you get to that address to wherever you want to get mail. While this can be done in other states, this is much less common and so if you look for someone you may discover everyone refuses because they assume you are trying to commit fraud (it isn't fraud, but if you don't worry about that you need to readjust your moral)
That middle era of computing between WinXP and Vista, mashing up Bryce3D-esque reflective renders of desktop icons with elements of videogame console palettes, mostly Wii and PS3.
> - Guesty (calendar management & guest messaging) - $40/mo

Is this not provided by Airbnb?
Awesome! Great work and thanks for sharing your experience!
Where are they fundraising right now?
That's an interesting problem. I'm still realizing how different embedded software constraints are from the desktop.
Look at the success of ComfyUI in the Generative AI world and node-based editing in the graphics world (i.e. blender). "No code" works, but it has to be tailored towards experts who want to actual write code sometimes, not billed as making it possible for suits to write software.
It really comes down to that? Wow.

Thanks for answering though, it really bugged me, and I couldn't find anything on it.
Oddly related from yesterday:

Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38271775
> It's okay to be self-interested and say "we want to remain in control, AIs should not be, no matter how much (or if) better they are than us."

Thank you for solving the riddle!

What AI lacks compared to humans, is what humans share in common with all of life, a motivation for survival.

As the creators of AI we need to be mindfully aware that we are the moral agents, we are the ones with motives, desires and goals, and we are responsible for making ethical decisions.

My bicycle can go down a hill much faster than my feet, but it doesn’t go anywhere without me because it doesn’t have anywhere it wants to go. I’m the one providing directions.
I'm writing this message on that keyboard and I don't really recommend it. It's a literal copy of the modern ThinkPad laptop keyboards, only a little worse.

It's mushy for a proper desktop keyboard, the TrackPoint is too flat and requires a lot of force to use (just like in the recent laptops) and worst of all, dust, crumbs and dirt easily get under the keys and make them not register unless you press hard.
Emergency calls piling up at L.A.'s tiny home villages
In the long term, but in the short term unscrupulous corporations far outnumber unscrupulous governments and they act much, much faster to adapt to new technology.
They used to "require" a subscription of 1$/year but it was not enforced. If you missed the deadline, nothing happened. It was basically the WinRAR model but for an online service.
Before I could even finish reading the final paragraph of the article it seems like some kind of javascript noticed I'd scrolled to the end and promptly loaded an entirely new article automatically.

Christ.
Speaking of opening up to other platforms due to Digital Markets Act: maybe we'll finally get FaceTime as an open industry standard at some point?
I've actually starting incorporating the Vista/Aero aesthetic again in some recent UI work. Not explicitly in anticipation of the 20y trend cycle returning to it and not nearly the same level of overall gloss (yet?), but I wouldn't be surprised if it feels fresh and new soon enough. :)

Though from a hobbyist perspective I probably own more interesting designs falling under Y2K. Transparent PDAs, game systems, etc. have always been cool in my book!
> I’ve got a recurring donation of $5/mo I set up ages ago

Thanks for that, I did a one off 300 euro donation back in '21 during the bubble market; Meredith has been doing the rounds [0] and she hits on lots of good points, and even went to the UK over their now failed bill during the Summer.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykfABSBeAVo
I wish in the future pricing section they would be referencing a possible free tier.
I can edit an iMessage after sending it, I can use threads and it doesn’t require a cell carrier - just an Internet connection. It’s also e2e encrypted and I can optionally let people know I have do not disturb on.

It integrates with sharing my location and I can tell when someone is actually typing
http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/

"As the saying goes, there is much here that is new and true, but what is true is not new, and what is new is not true; and some of it is even old and false, or at least utterly unsupported."
Signing up to fight wars of imperialism to benefit the few does not make you a hero. Killing civilians doesn’t make you a hero.

However, you are right that without the brave soldiers of the USSR you might be speaking German. Or not, it’s pointless conjecture.
Another single author paper. But at least he's citing Robinson and Berridge, 2008, that's solid work. But then it goes on to try to say any changes in the brain (he phrases it as neuroplasticity) are addiction indicators. But that's simply not true. He should re-visit Berridge (who does actual science and not just meta-studies) and look at more recent work on incentive salience and teasing apart the mechanisms of liking vs wanting.
> They should have just built something good.

This, but with Apple. Whether or not Google whined about it, iMessage was never going to last. It was never a matter of if iMessage would be forced to reconcile itself with the interoperable protocol it replaced, but when.

So... Apple should have been ready. They should have been drafting absurd standards centered around their own servers, and taunting Google into adopting it. They could have even charged a license fee for the software. But instead they played high and mighty, and now they have to contend with the law. Frankly, I'm glad Google summoned Shai Hulud.