skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We still listened in on signals from the entire visible universe, but signals from further away are also from further back in time, so any aliens there would have had to develop earlier. But this also has an advantage, we could still hear from aliens that went extinct and only their signals are still propagating through the universe.

So the better way of thinking about this is a 75 year thick slice through spacetime containing the edge of the visible universe shortly after the big bang at one end and the solar system over the last 75 years at the other end. The volume between the past light cones of Earth now and 75 years ago.
> Maybe they're doing it because it's the right thing to do, and because they'd like people to trust them.

If that is true, good. But it'll take a very many doing "the right thing"s before I would trust anything Zuck owned.
This is actually a bummer.

P2P mobile applications cannot wake themselves up to sync with peers (short of relying on exploits).

The same is true of browser service workers.

The architectures I’ve explored for mobile and web based P2P apps, they’ve all needed a central trusted push notification server fallback to wake up the process so it can check for messages.

Even then the APIs will fight you.

Unless the fallback server syncs for you, it can only wake you up on an interval. It can’t know if there is a notification worthy event for you to sync.

If you wake up the process and there are no messages from its peers that generate a notification, you “consume” some of your background notification budget.

Consume too much and the system stops waking your app on push events, so you stop syncing in the background.
good old "we live in a society"
Don't Look Up was an interesting one.

Some thought it was hilarious, some got depressed.
I like that the top 15 contains movies I'd consider awesome and movies I'd consider utter garbage.

As polarizing as could be.
You can put an update capsule in that region and it will be picked on reboot. Another option is putting a file in ESP then telling EFI with a special call that there's an update to be applied (special call is also needed to inform EFI about the memory update method).

Windows Update uses those to deliver firmware updates on behalf of vendors.
> The untrusted device will be able to observe:
> File sizes
> Which parts of files are changed by the other devices and when

I know that cryfs[1] is resilient to at least the first of these, and possibly the second as well. I don't know if cryfs allows to modify the base directory while the filesystem is online, if it does then it might already be a better solution for syncthing, if you only care about Linux.

On the flip side syncthing could incorporate cryfs's base directory format instead of their home-grown one.

[1] https://www.cryfs.org/

edit:

https://www.cryfs.org/tutorial says the following about concurrent access to the basedir:

"Warning! Never access the file system from two devices at the same time. This can corrupt your file system. When switching devices, always make sure to stop CryFS on the first device, let Dropbox finish synchronization, and then start CryFS on the second device. There are some ideas on how future versions of CryFS could allow for concurrent access, but in the current version this is not safe."

Too bad.
Then why do I get a captcha loop if I use 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9 as my resolver ... but if I use 8.8.8.8, I don't?

I can switch back and forth and reproduce it perfectly each time.
I am looking forward for when we can ship an aragoscope to space. I believe the tech is already there (actually simpler compared JWST). A 1KM one could resolve Jupyter moons from 23 light years away [1]. PBS has a great video regarding this [2].

I mean, shipping an origami of light and bendy material should be easier than making an origami of super delicate mirrors that have to be micrometers tolerances and be cooled to few K to operate.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2014_phase_i... Figure 17

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIASPc89Sgk
Korean high court sides with iPhone owners against Apple over 'batterygate'
They confirm what everyone already knew, people were called "conspiracy theorists"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...
There's no possible way to guarantee that traceroute is accurate. The same route is not taken both directions.

A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute by Richard A Steenbergen explains it well
I think I adore this list.

1. Plan 9 from Outer Space
2. The Passion of the Christ
3. Twilight
4. Pink Flamingos
5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
6. Transformers....
I assume the GP was chuckling at how the OP offered two authoritative (well, not really) links to support a claim in my top-level post, but then went on to make an erroneous claim himself.
Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
The year is coming to an end. Time to look back and reflect. What are the books you've read in 2023? Which books made you change your mind or you simply enjoyed? And which books would you recommend to others for 2024?
> For years, consumers griped about cable bundling and having to pay high prices for hundreds of channels they never watched in order to get the handful they enjoyed. Despite the growing availability of legal streaming options since then, piracy statistics show that infringement has remained a real concern.

That's the thing isn't it? It was convenient when streaming first came on the scene. Everything in one place. "I'll gladly pay for the convenience". After roughly a decade it's approaching the state where it's as fractured as before, but now you pay a lot more - all services combined. So I'm not surprised it's growing again.
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable, but it is convenient.

Intellectual property isn't ethically justifiable, but it is convenient for some.

> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

In many (most?) jurisdictions downloading material is not illegal. Have these been subtracted from this figure, or is this yet another lie? Given the history of this propaganda, I'm quite sure it's the latter.
FWIU, this[1] was decrypting imessages successfully. But was also storing all your imessages in a serverside database accessible to the server (instead of being e2e encrypted like imessage is supposed to be) and leaking the authentication token to access the imessages over unencrypted HTTP.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/nothings-imessage-ap...
A fibrous path 'twixt heart and brain may make you swoon
How Google's New Pixel Repair Mode Works
No offense, but I cannot let a recommendation for this film go unchallenged. This film is just trashy pseudo-scientific new-agey mambo jambo from beginning to end. It essentially started the whole "use your mind to quantum mechanically alter the vibrational frequencies of reality" brand of quackery. It's a film not worth anyone's time.
Exactly. Every new job I have had involved a move. I now have a house and a short commute, but if I want to change jobs now, it will almost certainly have to be remote. And this was a consideration even before Covid. I really don't want to move again.
> For every "unknown" value, the sgbd will NOT decide for you if it's true or false

But it did decide. It could either return the row, or not return the row - there's no middle ground. By not returning the row, it implied that null is not not 'crazy'.

If it actually wanted not to decide, it could return an error.
It's weird that stuff like this can make it to the front page, but nobody is talking about the Schumer amendment[0], or maybe even more interesting, the push by a few Republicans mostly funded by defense contractors to gut the amendment of any teeth it had. Our own government might have more answers then they say publically, and now that we're demanding the evidence we're being denied. If there's nothing there... why not pass it in it's entirety?

[0] https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment...
My parents definitely offered me alcohol when I was a child. The hard alcohol was mostly to show me how it burns the throat and not to try it, while beer was bitter but okay for a sip or two to feel grownup. Alcohol also had a medicinal use in the family, though I'm not sure about the medicinal effect.

After I was 14 and more, alcohol was introduced on more regular bases, but not with social pressure to drink, just was available as an option.

Decades later, I'm just a social drinker.
I should have specified, I meant with the overlay. Do you have any idea what the rate might have been? It's a pretty gucci piece of gear, but in 2008 everything thermal was. A 10 Hz overlay would work fine for observation (those monoculars everyone has now can be about that shitty), but movement would be gross.
I'm not sure I'd call it an alternative to Crunchbase, I don't really see what is more "modern" about it either

I use Crunchbase for their data, such as location, employees, details regarding funding or their tech... your site doesn't seem to have any of that, it's just a brief description with a link to their website

It's fine as just a basic directory though
To quote Gabe Newell:

> "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."
Yeah. There's such a huge difference in interplanetary life vs interstellar or even intergalactic life.

Interplanetary: easy.

Interstellar: pushing the boundaries of what's possible imho.

Intergalactic: no way.

Our closest planet (Mars) is 3 lightminutes away.

Our closest star (Proxima Centauri) is 5 lightyears away.

Our closest galactic neighbour (LMC) is 150000 lightyears away.
I work in the K-12 education sector. In basically all jurisdictions this industry is not specifically regulated, but there’s an increasing trend of B2B customers enforcing these standards as contractual requirements. This is usually at the behest of their controlling authority, which is often a government, but it’s not out of the ordinary for non-government / private school systems to do the same. Contractual obligations can get quite onerous, just as you’d expect from B2B engagements in other sectors.

This blindsided our then-little edtech startup. Thus I’ve been reading ISO 27001, legislation, and all manners of utterly deranged security questionnaires since way back when I was much to green behind the ears to have any right doing so, often with little oversight. On the odd occasion where we have called in external help, supposed specialist consultants have had absolutely zero idea what they’re talking about.

I don’t expect that a typical junior engineer or even mid-level engineer, even working in a highly regulated industry, could possibly be expected to, say, understand ISO 27001. Perhaps understanding their organisation’s operationalising of compliance? But I doubt the standard itself. There a whole lot of big-picture thinking, discretion, understanding how organisations work, etc, to operationalise ISO 27001 well.

An organisation that does a good job of this would definitely need some sort of cross-functional team, as there are wider organisational implications. That’d certainly include someone/s with a level of technical understanding.

I’m a pretty good fake lawyer, a good reader / writer, read legislation for fun, etc. I tend to be pretty good at the bigger picture stuff. Yet I can’t in a hundred years imagine attempting to ingest ISO 27001 without doing so in service of an immediate goal (e.g. implementing it). It’s so incredibly abstract by itself, that I’d be truly impressed if an engineer ‘self-taught’ to increase their worth to a future employer. You’d need to truly have your head in the clouds to be in a mindset where you’d get anywhere.
They used to be so religious that it incited a revolt in the southern parts of the country that were of a different religious branch. That's how Belgium came to be, with the only unifying trait for the new country being their shared religion, Catholics, regardless of the many other differences (French-speaking Walloons with many merchants and tradespeople, and Dutch-speaking Flemish that were mostly farmers, and mostly oppressed by the French-speaking ruling classes).
US Military grounds entire fleet of Osprey aircraft following deadly Japan crash
AFAIK the lifetime of the temporary is defined as being valid until the statement is done. So even

printf("%s\n", obj.to_string().c_str());

should be perfectly fine.
Victimless activity (crime word omitted)
I’m not entirely sure what you’re alluding to - but yes, neither do corporations should be allowed unrestricted access to your personal data.
You can create a shared library via PackageCompiler.jl today and `@cfunction`. It's just not as modular as it could be.

https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/stable/libs.h...
> Digital video piracy is costing the US economy between $29.2 and $71 billion each year.

...

> This number surely affects the US economy in terms of lost movie industry revenue as well as lost jobs and tax revenue.

So no facts to back this up that I saw. Some amount of piracy is uncountable because the user never would have bought the media anyway.
> build out a perfect O(1) algorithm

In my experience, the algorithm-heavy interviews happen at large companies that use it as an extended IQ test to filter out people who don't perform well on mathy problems, psychologically or problem-solving wise. The argument is that with their influx of applicants, they can afford false negatives (a good programmer failing an algorithm quiz) more than false positives (a bad programmer passing a personality test).

I've had live-coding interviews where I consistently felt so dumb with flashbacks to my worst oral exams at uni.

And I've had live-coding interviews where I aced it so much it felt like improvising teaching material.
> the guy

His name was Richard Jewel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_jewel
The content is static. The fact that you’re loading it dynamically is immaterial and a bug, not a feature, at least at this scale. If you serialised the resultant DOM and shipped that minus the now-superfluous pieces (ehtml bundle, template, preloads), the result would be identical but it’d load significantly faster and more consistently for everyone. (I say “more consistently” in part for user agents that don’t support, or that disable, the scripting, but also for agents that do support it but it fails to load properly due to network conditions, which is way more common than most developers realise.)

For bonus marks, inline all the subresources (SVG, CSS and utils.js) and strip dead styles, and you can probably squeeze the entire thing into the 14KB TCP slow start window (compressed), so that it would have completely loaded for me in about 430ms at most (though it should have been closer to 200ms) instead of 1.7s, and with no reflow due to the logo not having been given dimensions.
Good stuff but the `size`, `count`, `length` section just intensifies my dislike for ORMs. ORMs bury all of the SQL, just for devs to dig it back up when they realize it's important for performance. Now you have to be a SQL expert and an ActiveRecord expert.
What a boon for genealogy.
"I've seen Rocky Horror Picture Show at least five times, and I'm still unsure if it's a "good" movie"

Well, at least it wasn't so bad that he balked at watching it one more time
Napoleon Dynamite. I guess you were a victim of autocowreck.
Already exists in some countries, like France. Non-court ordered DNA tests are illegal here, mostly for privacy reasons.
Is this really surprising?

When it was just Netflix charging a few dollars a month for loads of content, it was great. It was easier than safer than pirating, and people turned to it in droves.

Now content is spread over dozens of streaming services, with price rises happening annually and cost of living biting hard for the average person. Most of the time, you only want a handful of shows from a given service anyway, and some of those services aren't even available in your country.

The only way to combat piracy is to make it harder than just paying for content. We were there at one point, and now the tables are turning again.
The question to me is how many second order effects will there be?

How many startups were revenue positive because they sold primarily to startups ( like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38502012 )?

Are wages going to decrease for software engineers because of an increase in supply?

Is California heading back into fiscal deficit when capital gains taxes from software employees decrease?

Will pension funds/VC LPs have a harder time with their obligations due to more startups failing (doubt it because in my understanding VC is a small portion of overall allocations, but who knows)?

Etc.
Stupid question. If you develop a quasi-particle monopole, which I guess is something that is not a monopole but behaves like one, can you use it in such a configuration and get the behaviour you are describing?
Push API specification for self-hosting already exists but we're not using it
It's always funny for me how the lost profits they calculate are inflated as hell.

Here for example, they state that the US economy lost 29B$ due to piracy. In majority of the cases people who downloaded some of these shows/music would never buy all of these at full price.

I personally subscribe to 3-5 streaming services and still if I'm looking for something classic (e.g. 1995 Heat) it always turns out to be either unavailable in my region or only provided on some niche platform I've never heard of. If you're just watching what's hot right now then everything works fine, but any other case you're in trouble and have to dig through the internet just like in the old days of pirate bay.
> Even if you install them on-premise,

You mean on-premises? If so, please show me where I can download and run my own APNS servers on my own hardware, because such a thing does not exist. You can run your own workers, which send through APNS/apple's servers, but there is no such way you can own the entire chain to get a push from your backends to a apple device, not if you're using native push notifications.

AFAIK, google isn't any better, with GCM, and even firebase use that from what I know.
> But before you ditch the streaming services for an illegal torrent, take a look at the alarming piracy statistics we’ve compiled. They’ll show you that piracy is making a comeback, but they’ll also warn you against falling into this bad habit.

Gross. What is this, a spokesperson for the MPAA?
Because if you send and/or receive a lot messages with large attachments (pictures and videos), then it will eat up a lot of storage on our your storage (can be gigabytes), and if you use a smartphone with only 64 GB of storage, it can quickly become an issue, and then you have to decide what to delete.
Looks like all those interest rate hikes are working after all. Just not in a way that pleases everyone.
Laws are for thee, not for me.

They are a control mechanism for the masses, nothing to do with right or wrong, which is written in our hearts. But, if you want to disempower the individual, take his money (tax), use that money against him (police, tax inspectors) you need some authorised hymnsheet for the feeble minded to get behind. And that is law.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has a database that goes back to 1992. In it's data, this conflict has lead to what's been by far been the deadliest month for journalists. 54 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and now 4 Lebanese journalists. The IDF is responsible for 94% of these deaths

Edit: also worth noting is the 8 journalists being held hostage by Israel and the 1 journalist held hostage by Hamas
Journalists are the #1 target of the i*. The first victim of war is the truth..
Is this the guy that leaked all the SSNs and addresses of every tesla employee because he disagrees with the self driving rollout?
By the grace of God.

My dad worked for this computer company. I applied there. I got an interview. The hiring manager said, "I don't see a lot of computer classes on your transcript." I said, "No, I have a math degree; I'm basically self-taught with respect to computers." And I figured, that's it, so much for my chances at this job.

Turns out the hiring manager had a master's degree in math, and was self-taught about computers, so she couldn't hold that against me. And she hired me.
lol sounds like you need to ditch paredit for parinfer
Speaking about pro-palestinian activism in general, not particularly OP, who I don't know:

If one is an activist, a group commits atrocities and there's no private business related to them, then one sits and do nothing?

The people I see protesting against Israeli invasion of Gaza I failed to see protesting Hamas brutal and inhumane attacks weeks earlier. It seems to me they were silent.

I'm having a really hard time understanding the logic of this kind of activism. It seems to me ideology driven, not humanitarian.
Off topic but... it's pretty cheap but, seriously, another subscription stream?
> One interesting thing about the RAMBO-1 is that it includes the Rabbit chip on-die. As far as I know, Nintendo never combined the mapper and lockout chip into a single chip.

Nintendo's lockout chips were region-specific. Mappers weren't. It makes sense to keep them separate to make manufacturing easier.
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable, but it is convenient.

I don't know. After the recent Sony debacle[1], I wouldn't blame anyone who goes out and downloads the content that was removed from their libraries. You already paid for it, after all.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/playstation-is-erasi...
I made a link-sharing website
Selecting for Intelligence in Dogs to Produce Human-Level IQ in 100 Generations
> Internet piracy isn’t ethically justifiable

Is it not? What about when a company like Sony pulls millions of purchased digital content without a refund?

What about when discovery pulls a whole lot of content so they can write it off?

What about when companies push for digital only releases without a way to physically own the content?

No, piracy isn't just ethical, it is the only way one can ensure they actually own what they buy.
> and cost of living biting hard for the average person

This is a meme that won't die. This is simply false. Real wages, real per capita GDP, real median income et. al. are all higher now than before covid. There was a 13 month burst of inflation (which correlated almost perfectly with wage growth, FWIW), and it seems like everyone lost their minds.
> Patagonia? Chick-Fil-A?

There is certainly a niche catering to the handful of customers who do care, have the money to care, have enough information to care and get the opportunity to show they care by selecting the right vendor. But very often I think the consumer is just unable to care because of lacking money, lacking information or outright deception by the vendors and lacking offers from ethical vendors.

And the market unfortunately favors the non-ethical ones. Which doesn't make ethical ones impossible or non-existent, just less likely to succeed and therefore rare.
We still have to trust that Zuck is going to do e2e correctly. I just don't have that trust in him. Messenger app is doing the encrypting, and I don't trust that FB isn't doing it in a way that they get the message also.
> what happens if you are a customer from France

There are no French customers of 23andme because non-court ordered DNA tests are illegal here.