skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally like the approach Threema has. They provide their own push serice called Threema Push[1] which is opt-in for google play store version. The push notifications for Threema do not contain any sensitve information either way.[2] They also have a libre version on F-Droid.

[1]https://threema.ch/en/faq/threema_push

[2]https://threema.ch/en/faq/privacy_push
Well, that's what happens when the government retreats from financing science - a very sad and disturbing trend.
BFT

(I let you guess, but that's a close cousin of the BFG)
Yes. And it teaches the consumers that there's no point in waiting. When you want their game, you just buy it at full price on launch date, because you know that waiting for discount would take years and even then it would be 20-30% off at best.
So an IIT doesn’t really have a “refresh rate”, but the thermal component does.

I don’t get any motion sickness with Gen3 IIT’s even moving fast, but with digital systems there’s a latency in refresh rate that becomes very disorienting.

The thermal part of the combined system is digital - in the units I’ve looked at, the image from the thermal is “projected” into the IIT’s lens. So while the image from the IIT alone is lag free, the thermal overlay does have lag and can mess you up a bit.
Some good advice here, but the “don’t index boolean columns” needs an “it depends” caveat, since Postgres will sometime use multiple boolean indexes to perform a bitmap index scan, which can be advantageous.
see also https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-12180789...
> How would you target "Christians" or "Americans" or "Hispanics"?

You don't have to be able to target any group to be able to target some groups. Blacks, Jews and Uighurs might be sufficient. And those definitely have genetic markers.
Oh this is a fun one, night camouflage is actually a bad idea and makes you more observable! The intuitive solution to low light camo is black right, so you can "blend into shadow" right? But the problem is that you're not "blending into shadow", you're blending into your surroundings that happen to be in shadow, so you actually want to be the same color even if it's a light color. Otherwise you stand out by being too dark!

*There are other considerations of course, reflectivity (including in the NIR spectrum) is a much larger concern in low light conditions for instance.
I find it hard to believe that without all the immense effort of the HGP we'd have such cheap gene sequencing these days.
>It is kinda simple: you can buy a tshirt from Italy produced in Italy and having price tag 3 times more.

And it will still have been made by a slave.
I watched this video a month ago that might explain it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeJHAFjwPM.

Basically it said infrared goggles use digital processing, so there's at least one frame of lag for every image, which can cause those issues. Image intensifying googles are totally analog so there's no lag to avoid that issue.
That is not reproducible research.
To reproduce the research, you need training data, source code and all the parameters.

With black-boxed generated models, there is no way to tell how they have been actually generated. It has no value for science to how to improve it further.
Threema may very well be the Crypto AG of our times
> We can’t think of any good reason to do without [CDNn]

CDNs are another way to track everybody. So privacy is an excellent reason for not using a CDN.
"modern c++", checked amazon. there are 5 out of 5 on the first line, and more in the list, with many variations.
You might be interested in Peergos[0], where the server is treated as an adversary, and can't see file sizes, number of files etc. Everything is in merkle trees whose roots are signed. So not possible for a mirror to selectively remove a file, or add an old version of a file. They don't even know what constitutes a file.

[0] https://github.com/peergos/peergos
Well a republic or was an oligarchy now, yeah just words and semantics...
EU's AI Act could exclude open-source models from regulation
edit: nvm, looks like I just described fmtlib. I really should keep up..
Is there still a need for non-linear Git histories in product development?
I've been thinking about the Git development workflow lately and the trend towards linear histories, where every pull request is fast-forwarded and based on a branch rebased onto the main branch. It seems like a clean and streamlined approach, but are there still valid use cases for allowing non-linear Git histories?
I just took a look at this, and it looks like while the React frontend bits are open-source, I don’t see where the parts that do the heavy lifting are kept? There’s no API in this project that I can find (and it’s a Next project, hiding that is hard), and their docs steer you to their hosted API (with misspelled URLs).

Maybe this is their first-step release and the API is coming, but trumpeting how open-source you are when you’re about as open-source as something like Sanity feels like the “technically correct is the best kind of correct” definition of open source. And I quite like Sanity as a product, the model hinted ant here isn’t bad, but the marketing is misleading! If I could run it end-to-end locally, I’d be likely to do so, and because this tech stack is firmly in my wheelhouse I’d likely push patches upstream, but this is a very quick pass from me given what I’ve been able to learn from looking at it. There are other ways to do this easily if I’m not going to run the whole stack locally.
I contest both opinions:

1. More and more people care about this, eg journalists, politicians, etc. Apple has been talking about this a lot, although some being propaganda for messages, but their customers are already somewhat aware of private messenging.

2. It may not degrade ad targeting that much. I imagine doomscrolling does it way more: you engaged with this post, you ignored that one, and so on.
Yeah, it seems like it doesn’t break theory, but it’s a potentially useful product instead, and folks are disappointed.
Remember that underflow is technically not the right term - MIN_INT-1 is still just an overflow. Underflow is only applicable to floating point computations which result in a number too small for the given precision to represent accurately (e.g. 1.0 / 10^100 = 0 is an underflow).
>1. Confidentiality in transit

As opposed to the prior step, "0. Analysis During Composition", in which the Messenger client is doing all the metadata analysis/collection while you are typing, and already knows all the tags its going to assign to you for Meta, before the message is encrypted.

Sure, third parties won't be able to see your message. But you did give Meta permission to analyse your content prior to posting.

This anti-pattern is all over Meta's products. You can see it in use when you type an update in Facebook using a browser - just try to leave your comment un-posted, or close the page, etc. Every single keystroke prompts Meta's analysis - which is completed when you press "Post" (prior to encryption/transfer ..)

So this is some slick positioning on the part of Meta's technical PR managers ..
I assume you mean US courts? In other countries there have been lots of cases about TOS, in one way or another. Strange that there isn't such a thing in the us
Given the 2% from usual reports on Linux gaming versus the rest of gamming world, not really.
Google just launched its Gemini AI model. Want to try it out for free? A version of the model, called Gemini Pro, is available inside of the
That's exactly where I ended with this: I was decomposing the scene and realized that if you had the ability to do that reliably enough you'd be recreating a model rather than an image and then re-rendering that model. But at that point I don't think you are looking at a compression algorithm any more other than in the very broadest sense of the word. Boundaries between objects would start to look fuzzy otherwise. As in: you'd no longer know exactly where the table ended and the hand started unless you modeled it precisely enough and at that point you have an object model. So you might as well use it to render the whole scene.

Note that I did this in '98 or so, when there was less of a computational budget, maybe what I couldn't hack back then is feasible today.
I think this is a next step we must demand after everyone gets on board with E2E messaging.

Metadata is still data!
Sturgeon's law:

Sure 90% of the Internet is crap. That's because 90% of everything is crap.
Why would you say that? It's open source and has reproducible builds
Common beers back then were very different from today's beer. Beer was more of a liquid meal, with lots of calories and about half the alcohol content of a Coors Light.
Android phones can be taken over remotely – update when you can
Amen. That kind of secret data collection should be reserved for profiteering capitalist oligarchs. Government is bad because it's government, but if you can generate personal wealth by exploiting others it's admirable.
Engineers are treated like robots.
a major focus of the project is to also monitor the whales' physical movement, in order to put the particular sounds in the context of actions.
That's true. It's also important to note that this feature of C++ actually breaks encapsulation - the size of an object, including all of its private fields, private parent classes etc, is part of the public interface of the object in C++. So whenever you add a new private field to an object, you need to recompile all uses of your class, even if your class is used through a DLL.
I wonder if some system akin to Clevis + Tang would solve this?
To expand a bit, this isn't Czech-specific, in fact it's the norm across most of the developed world.
It already exists for push, but most apps don't implement it and on Apple devices you need a special permission from Apple to be able to do it
Kind of my concern as well, maybe banning them from buying used housing but no restrictions on them owning new housing so that the money is even more focused on acting as a prime originator for new housing allowing it to trickle down later.

Also give like a 10 year or something proptery tax reduction for new construction also increase homestead exemptions to help homeowners but with increased proptery taxes to also encourge them to sell off and not rent housing after the intial honeymoon period.

Also would encourge them to purchase demolish and rebuild older housing and ruined housing so they could invest in it healing some of the older rundown areas.
> they don't have ethics, they don't have morals, they don't have values, they don't have family, they don't have a conscience.

Corporations aren't people but they are run and managed by people. I'd like to think that they have ethics, morals and a conscience.
> C Printf never was, never could be and never will be a suitable way to output data from C++. Now excuse me while I go through the list of thousands of predefined format macros to find out which I need to use to output a uint_fast16_t without making the compiler vomit nonsense.

printf("%d\n", (int) myfast16_t);

Not that terrible for a type that I've never used, nor seen used.
nope. archive.is has their cloudflare configuration set to "i am under attack mode"[1], which makes the cloudflare captcha come up every time a tor / vpn / "bad" IP address visits it. its been like this since 2015. if you aren't familiar, cloudflare just serves tor / vpn / "bad" IP captchas for every domain you visit. the captchas themselves are broken half the time. in 2018 cloudflare then added deep packet inspection to see if you're using tor browser and then let you not solve the captcha [2]. but if you're in "i am under attack mode" or some other non default cloudflare configuration, your users will get the captcha

1. or something similar, been a while since i went through cloudflare's configuration options

2. this is also why you will never be able to browse the internet with links / lynx / w3m or use curl / wget ever again without using your bare IP
The interesting thing is, the gov't cannot open your letters if it's first class mail, and may only open your letters under some well defined circumstances (https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/yes-the-government-can-op...) - it's all related to the letter being foreign, and i don't see any clause for domestic mail between US citizens being searchable warrantlessly.

SO why should electronic mail not have the same rules applied?
Also of interest on this topic is the episode "The Politics of Possession" from the series "Ways of Seeing."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z7wi8jd7aC4
Zurich has to change its roads to have more e-bikes than cars
Really solid list! I went through all the Active Record, query design, and index design tips for PostgreSQL, and can +1 them all. Nice work.

For readers who want all of these and more in book form, with a sample Rails app and big data to test with (generated), please consider my book:

High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38407585

The book helps readers build database skills with the overall purpose of improved performance and scalability.

Again, great, concise article. I’ll be recommending it to others and it will help a lot of developers!

Thanks!
When the crypto crowd complains about PGP being obsolete, they don’t just knock PGP, they very often mention alternatives. One of the most frequent recommendations is instead of using ordinary email and trying to bolt PGP onto it with individual contacts, use an encrypted messenger. I have been using Signal for four years now with the same install moved from phone to phone, and it has worked just fine. I can chat with my friends and relatives with E2E encryption, while I could have never got them to use PGP at all.

[0] https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html
There definitely is a difference. For example, he is alive - in countries around me there are similar cases which didn't end that well.
Their web client is based on angular.js - i wouldn't dare trust it with private information.
> I'm pro-science, but scientists refuse to even ask this question: when you ask for billions for a super-duper experiment (ITER, looking at you, post-CERN collider too), what is the chance that you could get the same experiment 30 years from now for 100 times less money?

They'd correctly point out spending the money inventing the technology is precisely how it gets that cheap 30 years later.

> At what point will scientists be willing to say that maybe the price for the JWST was too high?

For context, the JWST cost us about as much as Americans spend on one Halloween. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-americans-spend-hallowee...
> XFS is probably the best bet on Linux

Yes, agree. However, I also lost files on it (had files overwritten with 0s, as other people already commented here). Also, it's your best bet of you don't need the extra features provided by ZFS. Thanks to its checksum validation, I detected bad SATA cables three times already (on different systems), instead of getting corrupted data.

>it was beautifully designed and implemented by SGI back in the day. Hopefully the ChatGPT generation don't start modifying that code too much.

Except it's not what happened. Please check this talk from Dave Chinner, where he explains how XFS was developed and ported to Linux and then made robust and stable by him and other contributors. The disk format has changed many times, now it's robust and resilient against metadata corruption.

XFS Development talk by Dave Chinner https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FegjLbCnoBw&t=683s&pp=ygUQeGZz...

History of Linux FS, also by Dave Chinner: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZzSifuV4Q&pp=ygUQeGZzIGRhdmU...
I remember reading that Napoleon Dynamite was not only polarizing but it was incredibly hard to predict if someone would like it or not based on their previous viewing history. Netflix struggled with this in their rating system for a while.

https://www.cracked.com/article_35884_that-time-napoleon-dyn...
Being able to smell from the outside that someone is smoking inside their home is not "second hand smoking". You'd need to be in the same room as them to get the necessary level of exposure.
The thing with a lot of the arts is they aren't pushed or required in school the same way math or writing are. So someone that says "I draw like a five year old" probably stopped drawing around that time.

I'm a firm believer that everyone can learn the craft part of drawing and painting. Some people will learn at a faster rate and some will learn at a slower rate, but everyone can learn. And just like math and writing, there will be those who excel, those who are average, and those who are below average.
It's also an extra point of failure, an extra account to manage, etc. I have seen plenty of low-traffic Rails (and other) apps where neither hosting cost nor performance would be significantly improved by adding a CDN.
Depends where you are! ITAR/etc means the markets fucking confusing.

In the US it’s possible to get really nice L3Harris Gen3 tubes, whereas in Europe you are more likely to find Photonis Echo or similar - which are really nice.

There’s the older school green phosphor tubes, and more modern white phosphor tubes - the WP ones are better in terms of contrast, and IMO easier on the eyes.

The set I have the most time on uses Gen3 WP Photonis Echo tubes, and is really nice, but I’m told it doesn’t hold up great compared to the ones available in the US.

There’s some Chinese tubes on the market now that are supposedly rather good, but I’ve not played with those.
Or simpler, why do you need a CDN? It's rarely worth the additional work (setup + deployment) when most websites are not limited by bandwidth for assets.
We're talking about parallelism here, not concurrency. async/await solve concurrency, not parallelism (on their own). Kotlin coroutines solve parallelism only because they piggyback on Java threads. I'm not sure about Go, but it's probably M:N concurrency (so with parallelism) like what you get on the BEAM. Then again, on the BEAM you don't get to "share" anything (other than binaries, IIRC).

I'd say concurrency is largely a solved problem, yes; limited parallelism (e.g., with message passing) also mostly works. We don't need to worry about the "C10K problem" anymore. But shared (mutable) state parallelism is, I think, still far from solved - if it can ever be "solved", which is a pretty big assumption :)
There are no regulations in Denmark, but driving recklessly is easy to do without winter tires.
> who gets to decide the criteria for trust

Good point. Both are important: who does the trusting and how they define trust.

The latter is the second set of concerns: remote attestation.

I recall reading someone on Twitter mentioning having remote attestation for online banking. So starts the dystopia.

But yes, having a trusted chain can be a good thing. It depends entirely on the who, the what, and the how.
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The idea that people seem to struggle with is that this is not a new development - it has always been the case. It puts people through its education, teaches that bad is good, that the state is the best we've got, etc, and kind hearted people believe it! It's not a case of voting a better psychopathic ruler in, to help turn the ship around. It has only ever been/can only ever be a mafia extortion racket.

While the problem is not understood, there is no chance of finding a proper solution.

As Nietzsche said:

A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly lieth it also; and this lie creepeth from its mouth: "I, the state, am the people."
It is a lie! Creators were they who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
Destroyers, are they who lay snares for many, and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.
Where there is still a people, there the state is not understood, but hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.
This. The irony is too much
Why 2023 was the year of the e-bike and not the self-driving car
What's hard to tease out is people voting with the "so bad it's good" reasoning. Primarily horror movies are like this.
It's Qatar though.
Good Hash Table Primes
The Shunting-Yard Algorithm (2011)
> I still fail at coding interviews, and I attribute it to the gamification fatigue and age.

This statement should be clarified:

You probably don't fail all coding interviews.

The closer your test is to realistic work (without realistic time use), the better you'll perform.

When interviewing for a senior position, what should matter is all of those secondary abilities.

Your ability to code should be a formality at this point; I think the touchy subject is that some engineers are primarily senior by age, and some by work-year inflation, and so are expected to be better in all possible ways than anyone with fewer years on their back.

I interviewed for a position this year where they requested I solve problems for a full workday.

I don't mind spending a couple of hours solving a programming problem (and risk failing), but I'm too old to spend an entire day working for free to get a chance at advancing to the next interview level with 3-5 other candidates. I could be making money, seeing friends, learning things, building things.

Looking at Glassdoor for that position, I saw someone say they spent 25 hours and 4 interviews to finally end up declining the offer because the company was being sketchy with the terms.

I have friends who love puzzles. I just always ask: Will my effort compound? If not, it's a tough sell. My time is precious.
> if you choose to enroll your own signing key.

Can you also re-sign the firmware and hardware checks as well? Last I knew you could not.

Of course, you can't dual boot anymore.

https://community.frame.work/t/solved-secure-boot-and-custom... seems to be a good read on it.
Interesting to read some of the comments on some of the posts linked in this article.

Startup Decoupling & Reckoning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34982309

Braid is dead, long live Braid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37797696
I think many folks are missing the fact that Dave's blog is largely targeted towards those in leadership, in which story telling/selling is an _essential_ skill.
The Right Chemistry: Reflections on the manufacture of mirrors (2022)