skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither. Their cloud server is a farm of Mac Minis or similar. Then Beeper Cloud is basically a proxy from the app to that data center.
Nope. It just happens to be on everyone’s device and usually enabled
Aren't we there already? Sure, perhaps the fidelity is a bit grainy, but that's not going to remain as such for long. With the amount of data (for purchase) on the free market, the FBI, KGB, MoSS (China), etc. all have a solid starting foundation, and then they simply add their own layer upon layer on top.

I read "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" a couple of years ago and she was frighteningly spot on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capita...
Wow that must've been really fun!
Oh interesting, I have a 2015 MacBook Air. Wonder if the feature is not available on whatever macOS version I have.
Mail is also deeply coupled to the OS. The app itself does very little.
I've been to Prague once on vacation. It's probably the most beautiful central european capital there is tbh. Would totally buy a house there before the real estate market reaches the 10k per sqm that there is here :).
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but I'll throw my hat in this ring as well:

Some of those services require individual opt-in to turn on e2ee. Some of them don't support e2ee for group messaging. Of the services listed that do support e2ee, I have the most trust in Apple's (well, Signal's, but..) being "actually" [0] and "only" [1] end-to-end encrypted. The entire basis of that trust is the money they've spent positioning themselves in the market as a privacy-focused brand.

Meta runs three of the listed services (whatsapp, facebook messenger, instagram), and their positioning is not exactly "privacy-focused". I haven't looked into Telegram much, but I would want to at least understand how they generate revenue before trusting them. Neither Discord nor Slack are what I would call privacy-focused. Signal is probably better than iMessage in terms of how much I trust their company, their clients, and their protocol, but its adoption is so vanishingly small among my friends that I stopped asking people if they used it.

[0] I've seen services in the past [0a] that have tried to argue that as long as every link is encrypted from originating client through servers to destination client, or from originating client to destination server, then it's "end to end encrypted"

[0a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528437

[1] that is, not only are message contents (and as much metadata as is feasible) encrypted such that the same ciphertext passes all the way through the system and the recipient's client can decrypt the ciphertext, but also 1. the intermediary service doesn't have a copy of the recipient's secret key and 2. the plaintext wasn't encrypted also to a public key belonging to the intermediary service or some other party.

edit This other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537444 talked sense into me -- Apple doesn't seem to have designed iMessage to keep up with the times, crypto-wise. There's a huge, aging installed base that admittedly gets updates more often than any other competitor in their space, but that still means that iMessage has to be able to talk to them. I guess this is similar to the deprecation of SSL 0.9 and TLS 1.0; browser vendors collectively decided to kill them when a low enough proportion of servers were using them, but I don't know if Apple would be willing to cut off the older devices to make things better for owners of newer ones.
I’d donate to a legal fund on this personally. I think a lot of people and large corporations would like to see Apple have to make concessions here.

I think if it comes to it, Apple will wind up looking very bad in a trial. Their behavior here is deeply anticompetitive. iMessage is just too important to modern text communication to be as locked down as it is.

If Apple doesn’t want to make an Android app, they should at least make an API so other developers can.
Huh, that's actually a good point. Thanks for that.
Cognitive ability and miscalibrated financial expectations
you already have to do this to get certain apple services (including imessage) working on hackintoshes. turns out there's a really easy work-around: guess-and-check serial numbers on apple's web site until one works. they rate limit it a bit but you can usually find a working one without a terrible amount of hassle.
Apple never patches security vulnerabilities in individual apps except for Safari, and they’ve stopped doing that too.
Have enough problems with routers not sending normal ttl expired messages

Just use a better client. Takes about 3 seconds to do an mtr -b over 15 responding hops from a server in London to something like 43.249.179.0 in the south pacific.
I don't think it's possible in the strictest sense: beyond jr level none of us really 'generate code' as our main value add.

That said, I think ML advances may possibly usher in the next gen of low-code tools that may liberate a large portion of web devs from being human LLMs.
People complain about that in the English Wikipedia but I guess it can be even worse in the smaller ones? Weren't a few of them basically captured by the local far-right propagandists?

Is this group you're talking about political or just the "I/we own this and will do this my way" of English Wikipedia?
Chat Wars N+1
Firefox has separate profiles and multiple containers per profile.
No way I'm an exception. Every person I know is obsessed with the weekly discovery list... It's a major reason Spotify is as popular as it is.

It sounds like you don't really listen to music if you're only getting the same songs. I don't see how that's possible in any other way, unless youre the one listening to the same small group of songs and it has no data to make useful recommendedations.
Opening paragraph:

> The problems began when Linda was about 18 months old. For a year, she had lived in harmony with a Swedish couple and their three young children in Liberia. Hers had not been an easy start in life. As a baby, in 1984, she saw her family shot by poachers in the Liberian jungle.

Perhaps they should call in chimpanzee psychotherapists to help them over ptsd, no?

Seriously, why anthropomorphise in this way? Are chimpanzees people?
Okay, but again: how is that relevant?

Some of us are conditioned to want to murder. Those people, if they act on that impulse, are murderers and we jail or slay them. There were probably good evolutionary reasons to kill those like oneself in the past, but context has changed and what was once perhaps evolutionarily advantageous (elimination of resource competition) is now counter-advantageous (elimination of members of society and allies, not to mention the vast resources spent on defense if "You can just kill who you want" were to become part of the social code; those resources can be spent otherwise if people check their urges).

Yes, we're riddled with dangerous evolutionary baggage. Yes, perhaps it never goes away. We learn to regulate it so that we can live in a society, because none of us are as strong as all of us.

If anything, one of the greatest risks to modern humanity is the risk that we will fail to regulate such urges. Because the urge to murder, the urge to divide, the urge to have ingroups and outgroups... Those urges are an existential threat in a world of nukes and gene-engineered virii, where someone acting on such an urge could slaughter a whole city or a whole species.
We're genetically related, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that our closest cousins are also mean as hell. We didn't become the apex predator of this planet for no reason.
The generative AI in the story is not distributed deepfake of a person.

The ambiguous case is that which may be something which has none of the qualities which make deepfake porn found online not so ambiguous.

Users of the service being criticized may not be distributing anything, and they may have generated images which bear no resemblance to any specific person. Or for that matter they may not even be pornographic, in simple terms.

The reason we should have a nuanced discussion as a society about these things, is precisely to distinguish—if we so choose—between such distinct cases.
>Perhaps heated car seats would normally cost an extra $1,200.

how do you derive $1,200 from a ~$20 BOM change?
Worse, I don't want them moving the fucking UI components around because this 'new thing' is so much better. Just leave the UI alone!
That series is really good, but chimps can be incredibly dangerous when in close proximity to humans. In rural Africa, there have been numerous reports of conflicts with wild chimps, including them abducting and killing children. https://archive.ph/2b4MJ
But how if ai bros keep stealing ip to build their little models.
I’d attend your data viz meetup if by some chance I’m nearby. Where can I learn more?
I released fastgron v0.7.5 which contains fixed in string escaping. Could you please take another look?
It’s at 5k now, so hurry up :D
I read that you don't want to collaborate but if you need help with accessibility, I can help with that. :P
As far as I know, the business features it has are just messaging related.

You might want to read the Wikipedia article you’ve quoted to understand just how broad of a feature set Wechat actually has.
> And yet you listed several reasons why folders are not directories and vice-versa.

No I didn't. I listed the exceptions where they are not the same thing. The fact that they're exceptions implies the existence of a rule, which is that they're usually the same.

Generally speaking, every Mac and Windows system I use, when I create a directory, I see a folder created in the GUI. And when I create a folder in the GUI, I see a directory created in the terminal.

So pretty sure that, aside from rare exceptions, they're identical and synonymous. So as long as you're not dealing with an exceptional situation, the terminology is literally interchangeable.

> Why are there no folders from the command line?

For historical terminology reasons, mostly. By the time GUI's introduced a new terminology, all the terminal commands had long since been named.

I really don't understand what overall point you're trying to make. But if you create a directory in the terminal that shows up in the GUI as a folder, it's 100% perfectly correct to say you created a folder in the terminal. Because you did.
You can't. Either it sends an SMS to an Apple server, or you need to sign in with your Apple account.
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We designed the process. We didn't design the models - the models were "designed" based on the features of a massive dataset and massive number of iterations.

Even if you understand evolution - you still don't understand how the human body or mind works. That needs to be investigated and discovered.

In the same way, you understanding how these models were trained doesn't help you understand how the models work. That needs to be investigated and discovered.
In this case it is regulations causing delay and costly workarounds. The purpose of the regulations is good, but the practical outcome of implementation and details of those regulations is bad.

Source: commercially sensitive private info.

I'm not a free market apologist. But government regs too often have undesirable and costly side effects. Good standards and good regulations are hard to make.

Also relevant to your point that EVs still create CO2:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116632119 “We apply our estimates to an analysis of the Biden administration’s target of having electric vehicles make up 50% of new vehicle purchases by 2030. We find that, without significant and concurrent changes to the electricity sector far more substantial than those over the last decade, the increase in electricity emissions is likely to offset more than half the emission reductions from having fewer gasoline-powered vehicles.”
Dude, you spent more time arguing with some stranger on the Internet (me) to make a non-existent point than it takes to switch ISPs where I live. Don't kid yourself, your time ain't that valuable.
It’s pretty hard to dispute that it happened before Napoleon.

The leveé en masse was implemented in 1793. Napoleon only rose to prominence in 1796, by which point France had already conquered the Low Countries and the Rhineland. Napoleon wasn’t running the show until 1799.

Revolutionary France was smashing the armies of the monarchies of Europe for years before Napoleon seized power.
I've paid attention to how flagging happens on here, and it's strikingly similar to how reports are used on reddit and other sites.

I guess it's not a big surprise considering reddit was basically a fork of HN, but it's something I've noticed. The features of websites get abused to facilitate antisocial behavior.
I think the idea is that this is sped up significantly.

Also, in real life, there's not a human twisting the dials for "more steam" or "more reactor", that's undoubtedly handled with PIC controllers and software. Humans are just keeping an eye on things and running checklists when the software doesn't respond properly.
Dang, I support your efforts but I just don't have any incentive to pay for a texting app. Normal texting and WhatsApp and discord and Instagram and tiktok messages etc etc are all free. So I just don't really have a reason to subscribe to this.
I found SO very frustrating until one of the moderators explained it rather clearly: SO isn't about me (or you). They don't want to help me (or you). They want to help everyone else.

In that light all the weirdness made sense. Of course, I am very interested in getting my problems solved, so I simply stopped asking on SO to avoid the frustration.
Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links shared off-platform
All of this applies to regular bikes even more :)
Specially the last one.
> I have no clue

I know, let me try and clarify the basics.

> France could export even more nuclear or be completely self reliant if it wasn’t forced by obtuse EU regulations to temper their electrical industry strength.

People only want so much electricity at any given instant so France can only export so much electricity at any given moment. This directly translates into capacity factor numbers because if nobody wants power they slow down production at nuclear power plants.

To simplify a 1GW nuclear reactor is selling at 10c/kWh on average a 85% capacity factor reactor is generating an extra ~120 million dollars worth of electricity per year over a 70% capacity factor nuclear reactor. That’s the difference between making 60$ million dollars per year and losing 60$ million dollars in the same year. Something like ~6 Billion dollars inflation adjusted over a reactors lifetime aka serious money. It doesn’t matter if nuclear is relatively cheap per hypothetical kWh if nobody wants those kWh then they are worth nothing.

Thus adding more nuclear in France means lower capacity factors and losing more money.
There’s also the registration process that could be locked down and/or hardened. There may or may not be additional metadata (including out of band) that could identify first-party clients.

I would think that’s the biggest issue right now. If spammers can register “real” iMessage accounts at scale without Apple hardware, Messages becomes less pleasant, very quickly.
Especially now that iOS is getting RCS. First-party cross-platform iMessage is nothing more than a nerd’s pipe-dream.

And I’m completely fine with that.
That's not what happens. What happens is that the government comes out with something like "Hey, we don't want you to sell AI chips to China". Then with some beauracratic process - which almost certainly involves consulting with chip manufacturers - invents a set of rules get drawn. Then nVidia produce a SKU of their chip (note: not a new chip, a variant of one that clearly breaches the rules) that exactly matches the letter of regulation, but not the intent of the regulation.

Now, the reasonable thing to do as the regulator - is to acknowledge that the company you were asking for compliance from is acting in a hostile manner and modify the regulation to punitively clamp down on everything they're doing.

What I'm saying is that if I were the US in this situation I would be happily inviting nVidia to comply with the new rules that allows them to export anything above 100nm. Nvidia had their shot at meeting the regulation - the spirit not the letter, they blew it, they can live with the consequences.
okay but this "interoperability" is legitimately hard without degrading the user experience because apple's unique level of control allows it to produce a superior product with more consistency. airdrop is best-in-class; open-source solutions like wi-fi direct are dumpsterfires with trash UX. LE proximity pairing is, i believe, a custom chip apple put in airpods (h1 chip) because bluetooth is stuck in 2005 and still doesn't have easy pairing, full quality two-way audio, etc. carplay/auto have different feature sets and airplay is an objectively easier experience than google cast.

the EU is fundamentally interested in these changes regardless of consumer welfare. this is sour grapes because they fail at tech by every conceivable metric and by degrading everything to a common feature set and commoditizing certain standards, they hope to give domestic companies a prayer. that it prevents innovation and improvements is merely a secondary concern for the hard-headed anti-Americans in brussels.
It's not inherently sexist to point out differences between sexes, especially in context that isn't discriminatory. There are also practical differences due to environment and culture, not biology.

In case of games, usually the problem is that the stories are written from a perspective of a male fantasy, where role of women is reduced to just being a pretty accessory. "Dead hooker" jokes aren't equally funny to everyone.

Whether this game will be more appealing to women remains to be seen. It's not merely about having a female-looking avatar, but about having an intereresting character that women would want to see themselves as, and not feel objectified (which games sometimes fail with things like bikini armor, or on the other end overdoing the trope of a "strong female character" to the point of being a boring cliche).
I didn't mean to suggest that you're somehow unreasonable in how you run your server, I was mostly commenting on the larger concept of mainstream Mastodon.

Indeed, right to far-right doesn't stand a chance there so they get blocked. They effectively move to a darkweb situation where you never see their content unless you're really trying hard to look for it.

What remains, mainstream Mastodon, is moderated to the left, if not far-left. Or perhaps it's a very vocal far-left minority silencing the rest. It's of course not universal across the entire network, but roughly the vibe of the network.
Seriously. Imagine people going out and proudly buying a shiny new MiniLED TV only to have their half-educated HN jockey of a child come in and disable the entire point of that technological advancement.

Even normal LED backed LCDs can have FALD (Full Array Local Dimming for those who don't pay attention to this field) and that's not especially new, though, hit or miss in effectiveness on earlier TVs.
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I mean, haven't governments always taken an interest? Lots of countries had and still have sodomy laws. Polygamy has been fought for centuries in the West. And I think most Western governments have fought the church over oversight over marriage somewhere between the 18th and the 20th centuries?
I agree with your push back. Even in DEV, I'm not making daily schema changes. in fact, I hate schema changes and go back and forth on if the change is really necessary. sure, changes do become necessary, but sheesh, daily is a sign to me that something else needs to be looked at in the dev cycle. like, is nobody forward thinking enough to come up with a workable schema. is the requirements truly being made by the seat of the pants. also, are the new schema requests really necessary to existing tables, or can we hang a new table and extend the joins? seems like taking a bit of time to do some forward thinking on the initial schema should keep daily changes from existing
> 7. iMessage allows undetectable key insertion attacks.

https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-contact-key-verific...
> Their (public school) teachers senselessly already tell them to avoid it. :-(

Teachers have been telling students to avoid it since the beginning, this is not a new development. If anything, I think teachers may be more accepting of it than in the past, particularly for finding citable sources.
Email the President (Clinton Era)
Also, everyone knows that a tiger is dangerous, but you can be lured into a false sense of safety with a chimp...
This is wonderful! We also use typescript to define our data/database structure for our non-ts projects and this could be a very handy tool. I will definitely use it whenever I get a chance to.

One thing that could be improved are the overlapping lines. In the example, the Node->Node and Node->Task lines are undistinguishable.
There's also a very small chance that the EU would sit idly by and watch Apple wreck compatibility.
> With end-to-end encryption, Apple may also decide to roll out privacy-protecting client-side spam and phishing detection, which would IMHO be a really great thing.

Spam protection should be on the recipient, rather than the sender.
> How we would get to that point, that I don’t know yet, but it’s a valid option going forward.

Chaos engineering. As a modern example, all this gender identity stuff wreaks absolute havoc on credit bureau databases.

Tomorrow, we'll have people running around in fursuits to avoid facial recognition. After that, who knows.
Enter "about:profiles" into the URL field.

The UI on this page is rough, but once you have more than one profile you will get a popup at launch to select from your list or to create more.

I have dozens of profiles, custom launchers etc. I run four or five simultaneously most of the time. If you only need a couple profiles, the standard launch UI will do.

...

But, see also "Multi-Account Containers" which segregate cookies between sites so you can have multiple simultaneous logins to various services in a single profile.

Containers share preferences and browser config (and window), but segregate cookies. Profiles are completely independent.

I use both, extensively. E.g. my work profile has containers for user, admin, owner, and machine accounts at GitHub. My personal profile has my private personal GitHub account only.
Seems like Wikipedia should change their policy to say "be bold for trivial edits only" then. In fact, if they would just say "you're only allowed to make serious changes if you're part of the elite cabal of senior editors who have devoted their lives to memorizing our volumes of policy" instead of continuing to call itself "the free encyclopedia anyone can edit", we wouldn't be having this discussion; people would at least know what the situation is.
Astronomers find life ingredient at galaxy's edges
You forgot Digg
I have a hard time believing that the folks who were smart enough to do all this work somehow forgot that lawyers cost money
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remote attestation would mean it's not possible to pull out the binary and run it externally

you'd need the key from the TPM/secure enclave too, which is much much harder to extract
The problem with this theory is that all of the “somebody elses” were also there at the time, so if “somebody else” was going to do it, why didn’t they?
You're right - my at a glance ballpark math put it closer to 50% than 33% but looks like it's on the other end of that spectrum. Can't edit now but... still high.
Goosle – a self hosted meta search engine
From the repo: “A fast, privacy oriented meta search engine that just works. Kept simple so everyone can use it and to make sure it works on most (basic) web servers.”
that's not a correction, you're just offering potential explanations