skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some issues could be prevented if push messages added end-to-end encryption by default, something that shouldn’t be particularly hard to use if it was built into the dev tooling. Instead, developer recommendations like this one [0] suggest that you should put content into your push messages and optionally use a separate library to encrypt them. Clearly developers aren’t doing this, hence the opportunity for surveillance.

[0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/09/notifying-...
How do you say its name:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgSGVvZlOz-/?hl=en
Youtube premium is £12.99 / month or £19.99/month for a family plan.

That really doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
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Vibes on the ground are not fact. Actionable law is.

I agree with the people saying that this is in-effect a wholesale rejection of conferences in Africa, and that we should be mindful of that and work on a compromise. But how is it sensible to expect organizations to act on so-called "facts on the ground"?

If those facts haven't already been leveraged to meaningfully affect policy, then there's a burdening question of "why not?"
The biggest question I have is what does the exit story look like? I know it's a common problem for people switching to Android from an iPhone (keeping their phone number) and not receiving any messages from iPhones as their contacts are still trying to send via iMessage.

What happens at the end of the trial when I choose it's not for me. Will I suddenly loose my ability to text with every Apple user? What about in the event of a service failure of your infrastructure (it says it talks directly to Apple's servers but does it also rely on you?)... What if Apple does go after you or makes a breaking change to the protocol?

In all those scenarios, what happens to my messages? Can I export and keep them?

I'm very interested to try but the potential to loose access even for a day or two is a really hard ask.
IPv6 support would be great for this. I run my own AS (AS200676) and one of my prefixes is actually announced at my home. I'm really curious as to what would the auto-generated green text say about that route.

I announce only IPv6, because I don't currently have access to any v4 blocks, they are expensive and I have little need for one.
These are some great ideas, thanks! I've seen a few intuitive programmable robots (things like a car that does different things depending on the color it drives over), but these are some I hadn't found yet.
Is there any context to this?
> I see that there is a lot of signal

What signals are you talking about? Someone tends to respond to Tinder's notifications at 6 PM on weekends, and such useless data?
We as unfortunate owners of Russian passports as society do have responsibility for letting some criminal scum to get in power and stay in power, no doubt about it. But the guilt for what's happening now is also lay on western countries as well for happily financially sustain Putin's regime by buying resources from them and not giving enough of military aid to Ukraine when it's needed.

And what should we do now anyway? It's not like any western countries making it easy for immigrants from Russia to acquire working visas and residency permits. A lot more of taxpayers would flee from Russia if US or EU would help them, but they dont care about it.

PS: I pesonally left Russia on February 25th 2022 and haven't been there since, paid 0 taxes there, etc. But it's not like everyone had this option.
I use HackerNews and the following:

* https://tilde.news/ (unix/linux stuff)

* https://lobste.rs/ (coding stuff)

* https://twostopbits.com/news (retro stuff)
Not really a gambit so much as a fact.
Data structures, low-level workings of CPU and other hardware, computational compexities, binary algebra, combinatorics and discrete maths. Throw in some logic circuits design.

The same things they ask on FAANG interviews, coincidentally.
Yes these papers are optimizing for social media hype, I.e what is the quickest and easiest path to make noise on social media ?
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TechMeme (short-form industry news)

https://www.techmeme.com/m/

Benedict Evans (long-form industry news)

https://www.ben-evans.com/

Best of HN (tech specific)

https://news.ycombinator.com/best
On iPhones you can add a Shazam-powered music recognition quick toggle which acts just as you described.
This blog goes a lot more in depth in different techniques for compressing them (although for the purpose of using less VRAM):

https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/13/Making-Gaussian-Splats-s...

https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/27/Making-Gaussian-Splats-m...

Including quantising spherical harmonics, grouping splats into chunks and compressing their position and rotation in groups, etc.
> At a meeting earlier this year, the PSF expressed concern that barely 16% of grants go to African communities.

The continent of Africa makes up 17.89% of the world's population (based on recent UN estimates), well within the margin of error of that 16% allocation I'd expect.

Am I missing something? Are there country's that the PSF doesn't work with at all that would skew this?
To know whether that is unreasonable or not you'd have to compare it to the cost of providing you that service, taking into account that youtube is just a delivery mechanism and so is infrastructure, not content.

And what is or is not affordable is really dependent on where you live and that kind of money is a very large amount in some places. And especially in those places access to youtube for educational purposes can be quite important.
Similar roots handle that part. Though I don't think it's all that different from FP-languages.
I'm thinking of it economically.

The broadening of the MacOS market would more than make up for the initial loss in hardware sales. At the end of the day, Apple would be selling more Macs, because at least some of the hardware platforms not from Apple would have more problems than on Apple's hardware.

This is the exact same thing that would have happened back when PowerComputing was making better Apples than Apple was. They were in the middle of expanding the Mac market, but because Apple itself was losing money, the news kept reporting on that, which in turn had the compound effect of affecting all Mac sales. (This was the first case of "fakenews" I had ever experienced, btw... "Why isn't the news reporting on the expanding Mac market instead of the temporarily-contracting Apple market? Ohhhh because bad news gets the eyeballs!!") So Steve Jobs came back, shut the clone program down (which, again, would have succeeded for Apple AND other players in the end, IMHO), and the rest is history.

I discussed the idea with ChatGPT and here's how that went:

https://chat.openai.com/share/db5f1ef7-82ac-4f4a-ac56-390f6b...
Mastering Nim, 2nd edition
Ya that's exactly what we've done a bit of. She's interested in what I do, and its something I enjoy so she enjoys doing it with me. However, she's just learning to read so the page full of text and syntax is too much for her to really grok. This is why I was looking at other systems so maybe we can play together and create computer programs in a more visual arena.
They don't usually remove features as important as iMessage from older iOS versions. I don't believe they push updates to the iPhone 7 and older anymore, so they'd be unable to use iMessage.
I like how they translate/transliterate his name into Serbian: Stiv Voznijak.

Wish more languages would do that and not try to keep the original spelling just because.
I’m no expert but in my experience developing mobile applications & push notifications, I’ve only registered a device for notifications (and subsequently sent notifications) if the user opted in. Based on my own experience, I would say if you didn’t enable notifications for a particular service or app, they don’t get sent.
Great point, but it might be safest to meet virtually.

The board is accountable for relating their mission statement to their budget. The highest bang for their buck might not be an on-prem conference.
I think a non-LLM model would be good for learning to draft within a particular set, because it can simply encode each card and learn what cards do well together, comparative strength, etc. without learning the stats/rules text on the card.

For learning to draft in one environment and then applying it to a new set of cards, like done here, it would become far more difficult to do without an LLM. The variations and nuances of cards rules text would have to be encoded as features, which would be extremely cumbersome. The LLM gets you some level of understanding of that for free.
It's definitely possible to compress/palletise the SH bands (see https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/27/Making-Gaussian-Splats-m... for one approach).

We just found that splats encode some view-dependent shininess anyway (for example the guitar body https://playcanvas.com/model-viewer?load=https://code.playca...) and so considered the extra data and rendering cost of SH not worth it for now.

It would be quite straightforward to add SH to the PLY file and we'll definitely consider it in future!
In this circumstance there isn't a price those people would be willing to pay.

They simply want the service for free, refuse to pay but are unwilling to come out and say as much, so they use host of justifications to avoid it.
Yeah, like "talkies".
> I can't speak for anybody else but my content will still get made.

How will your content get served? If you say you'll just pay to serve it, I think that's a fine answer.
Assuming electricity is already used for heating, baseboards heaters are just big resistors and have basically unlimited life.
I'd move to MS Access. It allows reporting via a nice user interface, querying with Visual Basic but also SQL (from VBA calls or from outside). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/ac...

Then play with an exteral desktop app writing SQL queries against the database. For example https://www.dbvis.com/database/msaccess/ I'm sure there's open source software doing something similar.

After a couple of months you can go different directions: move database from MS Access to another database engine (MySQL, Postgresql, Sqlite, etc) while the SQL queries should still work. Or build up knowledge in VBA to query directly from MS Excel.

Another factor will be employability, what knowledge will be useful if you switch jobs, and working with collegues, will anybody else be able to maintain what you've build.
IG Metall already expressed solidarity, so it's really more of a question of how much it spreads and Germany and what particular actions they take.
In what way would ignoring a viable SIGINT source be incompetent?

Just thinking about only my push notifications yesterday and they revealed that I am clearly a developer or technologist (push notifications from Git/AWS/etc), who got a haircut (time and location were revealed in the message, but I'm sure government-level agencies could have tracked which SportClips location the appointment belonged to), that I am interested in generative AI, and working out.

Another day might have yielded far more interesting facts, but those bits added to a record of my interests and habits can become quite powerful over time.
It's as much about the Swedish unions not wanting a new precedent set as it is about Tesla not wanting a new precedent set.
Give it a try! You can copy those scripts as-is into the workspace directory and with a few lines of code turn them into web apps.
Not sure if it qualifies as 'groundbreaking', but Ben Eater's youtube and websites are an amazing way to stay sharp on first principles. You can watch him build and program a 6502 or similar computer on a breadboard, and there's an entire subreddit of people following along with him.
It says he is the "creator of the global IT industry" and that GPS is the acronym for Global Navigation Satellite System.

Is this just a bad translation?
Or the ever favorite: you need to login to be able to state your preference.
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Why would Woz want Serbian citizenship? It’s not an EU country and let’s say it’s not exactly Monaco either.
That was my initial reaction, I mean was the PSF going to stop sponsoring all conferences in America when Trump won because they think building the wall makes Latino's feel unsafe? Singling out African nations like this does reek of colonial style paternalism
> In a statement, Apple said that Wyden's letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications.

> "In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information," the company said in a statement. "Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests."

If Apple knew about this why wouldn't they limit their exposure to this user data?
wait is this where "green with envy" will come from?????
What a weird thing to say:

"It is the greatest honor for us that I believe that the Government of Serbia will grant the creator of the global IT industry a Serbian passport. I congratulate Wozniak and his wife, who will become citizens of Serbia today or tomorrow," said Vučić.

"We can boast that the computer genius is a citizen of Serbia," he said. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met in Belgrade with computer engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Apparently, the two decision making bodies in the PSF for this matter have once-a-month meetings. This means any problem or missing information or whatever will delay the process for at least a month. So, maybe not a year, but 6-9 months would be a comfortable timeframe. I stand by it: 4 months before the event is WAY too late, and even with a slim organization, 3 months to get a decision is an absolutely reasonable time.
I think that is totally fine. Serving it, of course, is not free. Content may not have been my best choice of words.
I extracted Narrator module from Firefox'es reader mode. It's not so good in other browsers though. On macOS, I'm using Alex voice.

https://tts.cns.wtf/

https://github.com/python273/tts-app
I didn't notice anything in the article suggesting the citizenship is just honorary.

But the article was also surprisingly silent on why they were becoming Serbian citizens.
There are plenty of reasons that aren't xenophobia to not have open borders.
It would indicate that they're lonely and looking for a partner. If you were looking to turn them into an intelligence asset, you could have an officer approach and seduce them.

If it's Grindr instead of Tinder, or if they're married, you have a blackmailing angle. In a lot of countries it would be very effective.
I visit https://www.slowernews.com/ once every few months. ;)
Thank you for the detailed reply!

> I tried putting a few job ads on MyCareersFuture for an average salary for Singapore, and only got a handful of responses, most of whom were entirely unqualified. Our circumstances changed, so I didn’t keep trying to hire here, but I get the impression MyCareersFuture is only really used to prove to MOM that you tried to hire a local so you can justify a visa to bring somebody into the country. I think most proper hiring is done via word of mouth or LinkedIn here.
> I think a lot of people here hire developer teams in Vietnam and nearby areas. Which is certainly cheaper and opens up much bigger markets, but also introduces a language barrier.

Yes I think you're right about that. Am I right to understand that you ended up hiring elsewhere as a result? How was your experience in that regard? Yes, I know couple of founders who hire developer teams in Vietnam specifically. What they said is, for the equivalent of a fresh grad's salary (assuming you're getting the good end of that bimodal distribution), you can get a senior engineer in Vietnam. Oh, and I know someone who has dev team in India but I think he's originally from India and was able to tap into local connections to pull this off.

> If you’re keen on living in the region as a founder, then I’d say Singapore is the best place to be by far. But you probably aren’t going to build a dev team here.

So your advice would be to live in Singapore, but build a dev team somewhere else in Southeast Asia?

> It’s pretty easy to meet other founders and investors here. If you’re a founder then it’s a pretty good place to be as far as the entrepreneurial ecosystem is concerned. Antler started here and is very active in the community.

Any specific events you'd recommend?

Thanks in advance!
I thought the same thing … but I didn’t read the whole article so perhaps I’m missing the significance here.
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Love that Rich jumped in in the comments!
"Your comment seems unbalanced, to me."
This has nothing to do with content. Patreon, non-profit and other models exist for this purpose.
Unless you're a VERY large and successful YT channel, you aren't making bank on YT itself, it's merch and sponsorships, Patreon and so on that make the money. Monetized Twitch-like feeds are another winner, and again not dependent on YT monetization.
Byzantine gold coin with 'face of Jesus' unearthed in Norway
I wonder if this is the "one weird hack" to expand the tax base of a country. Just grant citizenship, then start sending tax bills.

"Dear Mr. Musk, here is your Argentinian Citizenship! We welcome you with open arms! P.S. please note that as of 2020 we have in place a tax on high-wealth individuals. The appropriate agency will be in touch. Renouncing citizenship takes about a year"
can’t wait for everywhere all at once function.
Yes! We are using this clustering approach for position and scale data.
Elon simply doesn't believe in unions and wants to operate like a dictatorship (his public personal history has a substantial paper trail on this matter, both with personal and business relationships). It works until enough people say no. Certainly, just as Elon disagrees with the idea of unions, there are likely enough folks who disagree with the idea of Elon. If he wants to be remembered as the dude global labor had to organize against, I mean, the bar is already pretty low where he's at but perhaps we have yet to hit bedrock. Probably with a bit to be said about dying a hero or living long enough to become the villain through the appropriate lens.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sctgA2qa-rA
Another option is to use the “Guided Access” accessibility mode which lets you lock the phone into the current app, requiring a password/optionally FaceID to unlock it. Can be activated with a triple click on the power/home button. It’s also great to use with kids to stop them switching apps.

It’s effectively a kiosk mode.
I personally prefer free content made by volunteers and would like the whole web to be ad free. It would be fine for me if Youtube stopped operations and if all "income-oriented" content producers went away. I feel the same about websites. The Internet was fine before it became commercialized. I'm both creating and consuming free content (why not?) but I'm not willing to waste my time on watching ads or anything like that. For other things, I'm willing to pay.

Other people's mileage may differ, of course. It's just a personal preference.
A sponsor/steward of the conference like the PSF certainly can ask for their Code of Conduct to be enforced in exchange for sponsorship. If what is in the Code of Conduct does not suite you, go find a different sponsor.
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If it’s metadata they’re after (according to the article) would it really matter if the push notifications themselves were encrypted? As long as you’re using Apple/Google’s servers to manage push notifications it seems like there would be some metadata that could be useful for surveillance purposes, encrypted or not.
I agree, and I think its also important to fund the creators making the content we consume. Artists need patrons and YouTube has made that possible and practical on a scale humanity has never seen. That's a valuable thing, and if google wants to get paid for it, I don't begrudge that.

Ads are phycological warfare and must be eradicated with prejudice but asking the audience to chip in a couple bucks a month seems reasonable to me.
No, motion blur is not caused by that. Motion blur might be added intentionally to hide non-smooth movement with low framerates but that is uncommon outside of games or pre-rendered content (movies).

And for a 120 Hz display (or even higher framerates) the jump between frames is small anyway that any reasonable scroll speeds will appear as smooth without the need for motion blur.

If you are seening motion blur on a high-framerate display then either it was already there in the source content, intentionally added by the application, or you display has a crappy pixel response time. It's not an inherent problem with high-refresh displays.
Ask HN: How are quantum computing companies making money?
I see many companies raising VC but I'm not entirely clear what the business model is at the moment. Do they have business applications that can be sold already?
What is El Niño–and will it lead to more snow this winter?
this make sense, my fault haha.
This thread is pretty wild. It's interesting to see north-western racism and african homophobic laws exposed like this.

I don't think it should have been an issue and PSF should have been clear about the reason behind their delay.

Nobody intimately studies a countries law when sponsoring events in said country, they judge based on general knowledge and vibes, which is what makes this iffy and biased.

Else most countries would be in the spotlight as nation states don't generally do whats good for their population, they instead obey "national interests" which in capitalist societies is the capitalist class' private profit enterprise.
I am in Munich right now. Bavaria should start doing something about this. Snow from Friday is still not taken care of. Public transportation still does not work. Pathetic.
YouTube is incredibly expensive to run which explains why there's such little competition.

Think about it, anyone can host gigs of videos perpetually indexed for free. What percentage of videos have fewer than 100 views?

Google has killed off profitable projects. If you think they'll dump tens of billions every year hosting videos that no one watches, you're kidding yourself.

And what we noticed with paying is that people are very unwilling to pay even a small amount for a service. For instance FB makes around over $50 per user in North America. What percentage of users do you think would pay $50 a year to use Facebook?
> …a source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.