skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RCS is in theory and intended to be a carrier service. From what Apple announced, all we know of what they are doing is is 1) adding RCS protocol support to Messages and 2) working with the GSM Association to beef up security, somehow.

In reality, RCS is practically a Google service at this point, and we don’t know a damn thing about how that is going to affect interoperability since the carriers have more or less outsourced the service to Google.
you have an extra 60 vertical pixels - I'm not sure it matters.
Yes, I am outside of US and it could not send the verification message to the short number.
They obviously want to know what their fellow politicians are watching to blackmail them.
RCS isn't encrypted, doesn't work without phones, doesn't have a single identity across multiple devices, etc so it's not going to replace iMessage.
Washington, DC.

Pros: Decent public transportation, the city itself is compact, it has good tree coverage and lots of parks. Many museums are free.

Cons: There are a lot of car break-ins lately. Many of the public schools are bad--many upper-middle-class parents steer their kids through charters to magnets or just go the private school route. Houses are expensive, rentals I've lost track of. The summer weather encourages a lot of people to stay inside in air conditioning.
Yep! UDP/3343 by default.

You can use the -P flag to set the protocol (TCP, UDP, ICMP Other, GRE) and -p to set the port number, if applicable.

Microsoft should have stuck to the BSD traceroute. I don't know why they "invented" tracert.exe (which I believe is _based_ on BSD traceroute, like most of those early network tools in Windows). I wonder if this was a Winsock (or STREAMS[0]!) limitation.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20151229084950/http://www.kuro5h...
> The discovery of DNA’s structure was heralded as containing the same explanatory power as you describe here.

Not at all. It's like saying that since we can read hieroglyphics we know all about ancient Egypt. Deciphering DNA is tool to understand biology, it is not that understanding in itself.

> Turns out, the story was much more complicated then, and is much more complicated now.

We are reverse engineering biology. We are building artificial intelligence. There is a fundamental difference and equating them is fundamentally misunderstanding both of them.

> Anyone today who tells you they know why LLMs are capable of programming, and how they do it, is plainly lying to you.

How so? They can do it because we taught them, there is no magic.

> We have built a complex system that we only understand well at a basic “well there are weights and there’s attention, I guess?” layer. Past that we only have speculation right now.

Exactly in the same way that nobody understand in detail how a complex modern SoC works. Again, there is no magic.
> The special rights include reverting edits (...)

No, it really doesn't. Anyone can revert any edit, even if you haven't registered an account and/or you aren't logged in.

The only thing that the reversion permission capability grants you is access to a button in the UI.

Also, all you need to do to be granted access to that permission is a) have an account, b) ask for the permission, b) not have an abuse-riddled contribution history.
I much prefer Sivers' vision of tech independence[0] over Doctorow's vision of a law-regulation for every problem. They aren't necessarily incompatible with one another. Sivers is exit compared to Doctorow's voice (in the Exit, Voice, and Loyalty framework[1]). However, I think what Doctorow advocates is more likely to result in regulatory-capture than people-power. I think that capture is more likely to result in a world with higher costs in choosing forms of exit.

0. https://sive.rs/ti

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
Microsoft does install keys that you can't revoke on many computers, making it somewhat impossible to secure one's own computer against outsiders.

Also, recent laptops have started shipping where 3rd party OSes are blocked by default. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/60248.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32066919

In my opinion, Cory is a treasure, a rare voice that consistent advocates for a development where humanity at large has the freedom to pioneer & advance the open electronic frontiers.
> It's how iCloud backup works by default and we know people don't change defaults

Are you referred to Advanced Data Protection being opt-in?

If I'm using ADP then these concerns are moot, right?
Fiat 500e: tiny, affordable EV whose only emission is classical music
No. Mark Surman is the executive director of the non-profit (executive director is the term used for CEO at non-profits). She is the chair of the non-profit board, which is probably not a paid position (or paid very small token amount).
Citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532851, where the primary source for encom's opinions (encom himself) says that it's his opinion.

Seriously dude, it's an opinion and he provides some rationale behind it. Feel free to disagree, but then just say you disagree. This isn't a factual claim that can be proven or disproven.
It uses a lot more CPU on Youtube than chrome/safari, and seems laggy there.
> Let me challenge the findings of that scientific study with my highly specific anecdote which portrays me in good light.

I don't think I challenged any findings, I mearly showed how working hard in my 20s has helped setup the rest of my life.

I figured that could help people starting gout in their career.

Some of us like to help others around here:)
Similar. I use Wikipedia a lot, but will under no circumstances whatsoever contribute anything, after a bad experience with my first edit.
Firefox has account sync!
In some cases there has been recorded evidence of physiological differences (like a growth in the brain or a lack of development in some brain regions, reduced grey matter - as compared to non violent criminals) that have been found in some violent criminals.
mountain dew advertising is a post-modern art essay.
~ cat /proc/2276/cmdline
sway%

~ sudo grep -E '^[RP]ss:' /proc/2276/smaps_rollup
Rss: 523864 kB
Pss: 267873 kB
I've heard talk of the great idiot theory of history, and I think it has merit. As many have pointed out, the great men of history more often than not are channeling the historical momentum of the time period, where there are many chases of a extremely stable status quote being shattered to pieces because one idiot couldn't keep it running.
That axe may just be Chrome's war on ad blockers.
Same as above. Pixel 5, running Android 14. (Edit: the help link provided did not help, as the toggle was already on)
who would they lose market share to? you said it yourself that apple does the same thing... there's no other market to share
At a competitive cost?
The citation is right there: "In my opinion"
I can't count how many hacker conventions over the past 15-20 years I've been to where someone was evangelizing a product that claims to do what you're talking about. So many of these "dead simple" "plug and play" devices. Rarely do they survive more than a year or two before those involved lose interest or give up. They have a very hard time finding a product-market fit in a market of technophiles. They never even come close to a market of normies.

- The raw idea seems easy.

- The initial implementation seems like it should be of moderate difficulty, but is actually very challenging to get even close to right.

- The long term maintenance is a nightmare, but don't worry, you won't survive long enough to worry about that.

- The infrastructure and policy implications of getting and keeping it connected to everyone else are intractable. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531969 for some tip-of-the-iceberg examples.)

And yeah, none of that even touches on marketing.
The VirtnetX patent case is what crushed interopable FaceTime.
Gravitational decoherence vs. space-time diffusion: testing quantum gravity
The most annoying thing about them, that's seemed to increase over time, is that for 'premium' names the renewals are the same cost as 'buying' the domain.

At least if you manage to snag a .com/.net/etc, you'll have low yearly renewal fees.
> Humans are why we can't have nice things

MBAs are why we can't have nice things

FTFY
All the pokemon names
Personally I have no problem working with toxic people. Toxic people talking nonsense I cant deal with. You do have to have a f**g point if you are going to be toxic and you need to demonstrate by example how you think things should be done.
> Being heard by an AI then has a brutal defect, it doesn’t make people feel heard.

This is a hypothesis.

I would say that the consumers of now-unsexed "AI" sex-chat-bots (Replika) felt differently. So there are actually people who feel heard talking to an AI. Who knows, if it gets good enough maybe more of us would feel that way.
I would like to point out how awesome it is that someone in high school is making this caliber of a post. I've thought at least a dozen times over the last 20 years how i would like to understand macOS internals, and this person is deconstructing it. well done!
ssh and ftp over ssh.
Well said, that's probably a better way of framing my concern.
Palladium is coming again, and this time for real, with Windows 11 and its default "Secure"/Measured Boot (de facto) requirement - and all the infrastructure in place for Internet endpoints to attest that their peers have actually been booted that way.
Isn't the growth of entropy preventing this already at the macro scale? Isn't it similar to the loss of information, because it's a transition from a less-probable state to a more-probable state?
People who have cars say that a lot. I know too many people without cars to believe that mass transit is unusable nationwide. The idea that having to pay for on-street parking will ruin people's lives is frankly ridiculous, and hasn't panned out anywhere these systems have been implemented.

If on-street parking is crucial to the well-being of humanity, then we can absolutely subsidize it for lower-income people, just as we do for so many other things we've deemed critical. It's as simple as issuing a prox card that results in free or lower-cost parking. With a centrally managed parking system capable of dynamic pricing, there is no barrier to this strategy.

Finally, the whole purpose of using taxes to drive behaviors is that you're not taxing the people who don't engage in the behavior. That's how it works.
They both involve flushing cache to backing stores, and waiting for confirmation of the write. It’s literally the same thing. It’s just writing a cache line to RAM is orders of magnitude faster than writing a disk sector to storage, even with NVME SSDs. Octane is/was somewhere in the middle.
Not unless everyone you talk to also has ADP enabled.
Oh yeah, wrong terminology. My bad!
They mention the generation needs a plist from an actual Apple device, and provide one of their own in the repository. I wonder what Beeper does. Maybe they have just one serial number? Maybe they have multiple and rotate?
We really need to sabotage Chrome somehow before the open internet will forever be destroyed.

I remember people being mad about walled gardens, social media monopolies and the death of actual personal websites but it's like everyone has just given up now.

It's actually incredible. Open source is an amazing concept and the talent out there should be more than enough to create alternatives, but instead Mozilla like so many other alternatives have been taken over a group of rich friends who distributes everyones money among themselves while the browser landscape rots.

Mitchell Baker has received over 22 million dollars in CEO pay since 2015 while absolutely neglecting Firefox.

Try to let that insane number sink in. 22 Millions should be enough to bootstrap a completely new browser, where the hell did it go? Barolo and mansions?

We are in a worsening battle with plutocrats scamming the masses and leeching on so much work done by all of us.
Developing a Lightweight TUI Music Player in C#
Exactly. Any driver can put you at risk. Nothing to do with Tesla.

As far as we can tell from reading the article, this whistleblower is reporting on stuff that is entirely resulting from driver misbehavior, which is possible in any car. But since he worked at Tesla and has some kind of issue with Tesla, it seems like he’s trying to make it about FSD when it’s really just down to the driver. At least that’s my read of it.
Unfortunately shitt.ing is already taken but defecat.ing is available and it's only like €23.
Recently I got a spam iMessage from a sort of empty contact. There was no number, no email address. I thought this was impossible, that there had to some kind of ID connected.

Can someone explain what's going on?
> the obvious flaw that you can't talk to anyone that doesn't have an iPhone

That's because iMessage is a first and foremost a marketing tool that Apple compels users to rely on.
sorry, it wasn't meant to be a personal attack. I'll edit it so that it reads less hostile.
Thucydides is imo the original historian from that era. Herodotus was much more of a storyteller
First... I want to say this is awesome and really really cool. I'm an android user and honestly don't care about blue bubble or iMessage features, but I know A LOT of people care a lot about it, and its really cool to see a solution that doesn't involve passing Apple credentials to some 3rd party service.

That said... I will be SHOCKED if Apple doesn't prevent this in some way in short order.

Could be through legal action (not a lawyer don't know if they have a leg to stand on)

Could be through technical means (pretty sure there are multiple ways they could break this)

...but regardless I highly doubt they will let this fly for long.
Is the CZDS open to individuals? I'd like to register and go over the files in an individual capacity, but seems like people have to send requests over to registry operators, which they may or may not grant.
In the usage I'm familiar with (in the US), the entire rail network is considered "transportation infrastructure", from a national perspective.

But from the perspective of just the rail network, the track and other infrastructure is considered separate from the rolling stock.

I wonder: If the rolling stock becomes immobilized, does it now count as immovable stuff?
Don't worry, .computer is already available.
I don't think a static Mastodon or Lemmy is very useful. For PeerTube that might be something to consider.
Also, what exposure?

Is anyone here thinking, "you know what, I need to hop onto the official Mountain Dew Twitch channel so I can see exactly 10 minutes of a 6 simultaneous streams, chosen randomly with the only similarity between them being that a beverage is visible in each stream. That is definitely the way I'm going to find my new favorite streamer."?

I can't imagine that this is an effective way for a streamer to get discovered by an audience.
As far as I understand the conditions of a free market are not met in this case:

According to the english Wikipedia:
* A capitalist free-market economy is an economic system where prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand [...]

Here one can argue that the available services (i.e. maintaining a train) are not set freely by the forces of supply and demand, but by the constructor of the train; at least to some extend.

You said that "[a] real competitive free market will always require the government to prohibit companies from forming artificial mottes around their monopolies".
I partially agree in this case. A free market that contains competitors that are able to fully satiate it will always require a government that hinders it from working towards a controlled market. By a controlled market I mean monopoles, oligopoles, cartels, or otherwise controlled environments(1).
So if there's no competitor I can walk to in case I am unhappy with my trading partner the market isn't free by definition. I can hardly think of bakeries in town requiring governmental intervention (unless they form a cartel, that is).

Not every market should be free, however. I guess you've just met too many hard-liners arguing for shady business practices in the name of the free market. I'd argue that a shady business will cease to exist in a free market due to the customers running away.

PS: Funny enough, I am fully onboard with stronger anti-trust enforcement (legislation only if that proves to be insufficient), only that I am doing it as a proponent to regain market freedom.

(1) Intentionally left broad as I can't be bothered to come up with a definition that fits what I have in mind.
Thinking of finally creating a private server for receiving emails. For sending email it is known to be very difficult, but I send very very few emails these days, will outsource it to sendgrid or similar.

What's the best docker image for that, simple in configuration?
Spanish cinema chain fined for banning customers who bring their own snacks
> dropping nvidia + Wayland in favour of amdgpu + Wayland did.

This also dropped my laptops power usage by 2.5W.
> Good thing we have open-source hardware out there and open-source CPU's on deck.

Read "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson. It describes how even recompiling all the sources isn't enough.
Ha. You'd like to think so, but it's going to be awfully hard to coordinate resistance when the mass spying sweeps everyone up in a keyword-matching dragnet before the execution phase. This is the problem with every outgroup being labelled "terrorists."

Sabotage will be the name of the game at that point. Find ways to quietly confuse, poison, overwhelm and undermine the system without attracting the attention of the monitoring apparatus.
I've had no problem using Microsoft's toil for free by downloading free windows ISOs all my life, so if they want to pirate my Github code it's not bad enough to care about. Besides the bad practices the model might internalize as a result that is
So you're saying that if I install WhatsApp on my phone, I can text anyone I want, if I have their phone number? Doesn't matter if they have WhatsApp installed? I just say "send this to 5551212" and it gets there?
I've seen them folded like that in restaurants, but the homemade ones are usually folded with a plain edge.
It is my default, but keep a Brave install around just for the ability to "fake" a site into being an app. ie, it gets a separate launcher shortcut, a separate icon, etc. Very useful for sites I use constantly so they're not trapped in the same window as random surfing.
No -- I don't want the US government (or any other) involved in setting web standards. The W3C is not going to be helped by being run by governments instead.

No -- I don't want the US government providing a reference implementation of web browsers.

No -- I don't want to log into a mainframe computer to fill out my taxes or sign up for Medicaid or a health plan.

The government should simply build services that work, in practical ways that are familiar and friendly to their citizens, according to the tools and habits their citizens are already accustomed to.

That means websites and apps for popular OS'es and browsers. It means phone numbers that work with existing telephones. It means offices in population centers.

Good governments come to where users/citizens already are. The shouldn't make users/citizens jump through hurdles to come to it, any more than necessary.
I'm curious what are the implications of having pre-set hardware info. Maybe rate-limiting? or easier for Apple to flag those particular serial numbers to block the service if they wish?
It sure must be nice to be gifted the right to sell these domains for any extortionate price you like... I looked at think.ing and it's a cool 36k eur per year at Namecheap, 43k at (those scumlords) Godaddy.

Pssshhhhh, what absolutely transparent grifting.
> Thanks for the environmental collapse, Mr. Overachiever.

Can you explain your comment? I think you may have responded to the wrong comment?
> Spamming advertising in chat [without paying Twitch] is a bannable offense.

The reason the rule exists is because you don't get to advertise on Twitch without paying them, but they're paying them so :/
I think another interesting take not talked about is a number of millenials view the system as broken. And by having kids they are not only perpetuating that system for a slim percentage of very well-off capitalists that would like to retain the status quo, but also dooming their children to live and be a part of that system.
Fortunately, I think this is going to be a forcing function for the RCS conversation.

Unfortunately, I'll be waiting for the data loss post coming in the near future. As some one who had to deal with a stuck iMessage validation with Apple support on a genuine iPhone a few years back this can get sticky.
Its less about the color and more about the encryption + full res images and videos, and reactions working cleanly.
I love foobar2000. I recently switched to Android and it didn't occur to me that I could use foobar on my phone. Thanks!
Imo, the people who have an issue with green bubbles are mostly teenagers trying to fit in. Besides that, its also about how android users can't join imessage group chats, media sent between platforms over sms/mms is extremely degraded in quality, and facetime is a worthy apple service that android users don't get.
Stone Circles
Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?
Namecheap still doesn't charge VAT in Europe
So I was going through my namecheap account and I found out that Invoices are nowhere to be found in Europe. How is it possible for them to still skip this obligation after these many years?
If your contention is just something like "the root psy- comes out of mystical/spiritual conceptions in Ancient Greece, and that speaks to the bunk/ungrounded conceptions of modern psychology," then I would ask why the same critique is not levied against the ancient Greek conception of "nature" and the "natural" from which we get the word "physics".

You might retort here "ah well, 'nature' is just the word we use when we speak of observable phenomena in the hard sciences, its not muddied by religion like that crock stuff psychology."

And then I would say, "ok, if 'nature' is just observable phenomena, what is the aim or purpose of the hard sciences? If it is all just observing/experimenting on discrete phenomena, there would be nothing we could do or conclude from the rigor of physics."

You laugh at my insanity (well, if you believed in such a thing): "But we do conclude things from physics, because experiments are reproducible, and with their reproducibility we can gain confidence in generalizing the laws of our universe."

And yes! You would be correct here. But now all the sudden you have committed physics to something just as fundamentally "spiritual" as the soul: that the universe is sensible, rational, and "with laws." Which is indeed just speaking the very same mystical "nature" of ancient Greece from which we get phys-.

But this need not be some damning critique of physics itself (like psychology), and rather, can lead to a higher level understanding of all scientific pursuits: that we are everywhere cursed by a fundamental incompleteness, that in order even to enter into scientific pursuit we must shed an absolute skepticism for a qualified one. Because this is the only way we accumulate a network of reinforced hypotheses and conceptions, which do indeed help us navigate the purely phenomenal world we are bound in.
Your ad hominem arguments will never negate the arguments made against you and ultimately you know this at a deep level. Good day.
iMessage is not free though?

Apple's "free" services are all dependent on you having bought apple products. When you buy a device, the "profit" on the hardware (the oft reference BoM only cost) also pays for the software development, the services, etc.

Claiming that anyone should be able to use those services because they're "free" is like saying anyone should be able to get free service at Toyota garages because Toyota does free service for people who bought a Toyota vehicle.