skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus i'm old. This happened twenty years ago with the ICQ/Yahoo/MSN messenger wars. Everything old does become new again. I wish Congress and the EU figured this out with crypto expert advice - surely we can have apps that only show you the recent messages or something. All on phone so secure but convenient.

A/S/L anyone? +5 Insightful

Some links for the befuddled

An overview:
This made the front page
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/24/business/in-cyberspace-ri...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/oct/13/yahoo.digitalm...
A delightful internal MS assembly hacking rivals message apps interview.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/
If the law is "you will hand over this data in response to a warrant", how did they fail?

The fact that the US warrant system has holes capable of driving a truck through isn't the fault of Verizon - there exists no sensible way of validating a warrant.
https://youtu.be/PJSTFzhs1O4
BTW, I added the "In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas" thread to see how it goes [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38581205
Have you ever traveled in Western Sahara, on both sides of the berm? Especially over a span of time that would allow you to witness the changes that have occurred in the region’s demography? The indigenous Saharawi population is so small now it could hardly form a viable state, especially one able to resist migrant flows from further south. As the other poster said, European states’ foreign policy now is strongly driven by migration concerns. Yes, the marginalization of the Saharawi from their own region is a result of Morocco’s occupation, and that can be lamented, but the damage is already done.
I think you are misrepresenting the situation and misreading what I said.

What I say is, if you don't like how Oppenheimer was funded, produced and then how they tried to collect money from you when you wanted to see it then you should fund and produce your own movie and distribute it the way you see fit. Upload it to YouTube, share a magnet link - whatever. Nothing stops you from not participating in the DRM stuff.
> Actually, one of the fundamental flaws of the Oslo process was that Israel did not have to commit, at the outset, to recognizing a Palestinian state. The PLO recognized the state of Israel, and in return, Israel agreed to negotiate with the PLO. What the final status of the Palestinians would be was very much up in the air.

But.. there wasn't a Palestinian state to recognize. Agreeing to negotiate with the PLO was what made the PLO the internationally-recognized party representing the Palestinians, which didn't exist before.

> Netanyahu refused to carry out the promised military withdrawals, and generally stalled and sabotaged the peace process at every turn. He simply didn't believe in the process.

Yes, I'm hardly a fan of Netanyahu (I think Hamas is responsible for the murders on October 7th, but if any one person is most responsible for there not being peace, it's Netanyahu).

As for the rest of your post - yes, Palestinians were offered terms that they didn't like. That's part of negotiations - you don't like an offer, you come back with demands you will accept. And more importantly, it's part of compromise.

Some Israelis also believe Israel should own the entire land. Israel agreed to compromise on that. In 1947, Israel agreed to the UN partition plan, which was also a compromise.

Look, the Palestinians are in a shitty situation that's only getting worse, and there's a lot of legitimate grievances (on both sides), there really are. But at multiple times in this history, Israel agreed to what it views as compromises in order to get peace, and Palestinians have not agreed to similar compromises. This is, as far as I can tell, an accurate read of history, as told both by Israelis, but also by e.g. participants of the process.

Israel has done a lot of crappy things that minimize the chance at peace, especially over the last 15 years, but the Israeli left really did have the majority buy in in the country and the country really did try to make peace, the Palestinians could've had their own sovereign state by now, but they rejected it. I don't think in hindsight you can possibly consider this justified, given where it's lead.
You can use a software passkey and still get 99% of the benefit. For the other 1%, you can't have it both ways, where a hardware key is both required and not required to sign in.

Maybe there can be better UX around signing up, ie "give me your public keys so I can set them up in your account", but then you lose a lot of the privacy, because the public keys aren't different per site any more (and operators can then tell the same person has an account on multiple sites).
"do you have any statistics, sources for your claim of disappearing jobs?
What Microsoft broke in Windows 11
Why? It's only dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and other cars in trafic. Just stay out of its way and you'll be safe d'uh! /s

Still, I can't really blame Tesla too much here. After all, they only complied to existing safety laws so I see it as a failure of the state to regulate safe cars for everyone on the street, otherwise manufacturers will only comply to the bare minimum.
The jailbreak patches are for the walled garden, too. Security is not a concern for those who use jailbreaks. They want to get their devices in the insecure state and go to lengths to do it.

It's similar to how OpenAI uses "safety" to make sure their LLMs don't get them in hot water, and PlayStation uses "safety" to make sure their consoles do not become associated with piracy and make publishers think twice.

This kind of "safety" is about business interests. :) Some companies can say it openly that they wish to protect their business, as fundamentally there is nothing wrong with that. Others can't as that will bode poorly for their monopoly status and they will suffer (overdue) legal repercussions. So it becomes "safety".

Notice how companies that argue against user freedom for "safety" are always in circumstances where bringing up business interests behind "safety" won't bode well.
> how much variance can you reasonably expect from a logo based on an anthropomorphized bao bun

Agreed. Try this: do an image search for cute cartoon bao bun

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cute+cartoon+bao+bun&iar=images&ia...

There are, completely as expected, a bunch of different pictures that fundamentally look very similar.
might be an over-simplification but is right.
Every year there are "indultos" (pardons?) happening, the famous Aznar's ones[1], and Rajoy's infamous "aministia fiscal"[2] but I guess is only now when it's convenient to push that narrative, no protests whatsoever for the other cases.

Amnistia for tax evaders, it is democracy.

Amnistia for those protesting making a performance-like referedum (everyone knew it would not actual effect), that's not democracy.

It's a logic that I can not comprehend, I only can explain it if you consume so much mass media that you actually believe everything that is thrown at you.

[1] https://www.eldiario.es/catalunya/gobierno-aznar-indulto-dia....

[2] https://www.eldiario.es/economia/rato-franco-narco-100-benef...
Naturally if one is searching for perfection on this matter, most papers are far from providing it.

The main point still stays, "You are never taught how to build quality software" is wrong, and plenty of Engineering degrees do teach about it.
https://archive.ph/SmXZ4
Getting game engines in console and providing support for developers is certainly a business. I've met some people who brought their custom (more simple ) engines/games to consoles and there is money in providing a ready made solution which, by the nature of it, cannot be open source or permissive.

The main question is it the "10x in 3 years" kind of business or the "steady stream of a small medim profit" variety.
Resident keys are great, I don't have to remember usernames. I don't care what the RP does, I care that I can sign in with one click.
Godot seems to be MIT licensed. So anyone is free to create a proprietary fork if they want to. I can’t imagine this will be a problem as I suspect that the community is large enough that development of the OSS version would continue anyway, but the lack of CLA doesn’t seem relevant here.
LM Studio, sort of. Unfortunately my Macbook is incapable of running all but the smallest models. It would be great if LM Studio can connect to a remote model running on a GPU server that I can rent.
They don't. Companies are structures that attract and reward sociopaths and narcissists, and they're designed to maximise profit. Normal people aren't given the opportunity to weild any kind of power, but people with low empathy and high charisma scores, straight to the top!
The Wave (Novel)
> "Console support" seems a little bit thin

Look at it this way: There's a good chance that more console games will be published using Godot than any other engine.
> If the boa are the secrets the steamer is the vault

I think the inside of the bao is the secret, and the bao is the vault.
This might be of interest to you:

> Gooey - Turn (almost) any Python 3 Console Program into a GUI application with one line

https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
The design of this website is too clever for its own good
I know people with this perspective. It's healthy, especially in the startup world where a good fraction of companies fizzle without making a profit.

I also know a lot of people (scientists, and many humanitarians, for example) who really aren't motivated by getting payed beyond a basic subsistence. They could make more money, and have more stable careers elsewhere. They do what they do for a lot of other reasons: status, ideals, curiosity, etc. Maybe they are just victims in a cold capitalist world that exploits them, but they get a lot done.

Do these people exist in entertainment? Would we loose something if they become disillusioned? Should they be calculating their input based on what they need to keep food on the table and pay coming in, or should they feel some (maybe irrational) connection to the larger project?
It is business as usual for big studios, maybe a couple of indies decided to port their games to GDScript or do not care about the platforms where C#/Godot isn't available.
Reading the FAQ it seems they are not affiliated with Godot, nor control any of it aspects. https://w4games.com/faq/
It seems they plan (https://w4games.com/products/) to make money by creating a BaaS/SaaS platform and selling tools to make the Godot games easier to port to consoles.
Teach a man to buy and you sucker him for a day. Teach a man to rent and you sucker him for a lifetime.
All books by Gerald M. Weinberg
When was the last time US expelled Spain spy? I couldn't find any obvious news about it.
To Everyone Who Asks for 'Just a Little' of Your Time
There is a lot of non-information, for sure. For example,

> Some programs are not well-suited for PySimpleGUI however. By definition, PySimpleGUI implements a subset of the underlying GUI frameworks' capabilities. It's difficult to define exactly which programs are well suited for PySimpleGUI and which are not. It depends on the details of your program. Duplicating Excel in every detail is an example of something not well suited for PySimpleGUI.

says absolutely nothing and gives the reader no useful leads as to the applicability of the framework to their project.
> the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California

This guy has a lot of good points, but this is way over the line.
This is great for game development (esp. kids' games)!
Instead of hiring Banksy, I can ask a guy down the hall to draw me something in the style of Banksy.
Because South Africa did. And before that the US did. Eventually Israel will too, it's just a question of how much blood their extremists and racists will exact before they yield to justice.
Like you, I am concerned for "thousands upon thousands of murdered" Palestinian children. We differ only on where to place blame. You blame Israel. I place responsibility squarely and solely on Hamas.

There has been no debunking of the fact of the October 7th atrocities. Hamas admits doing it, filmed themselves doing it and said they plan to do it again. You can watch their videos if you can stomach it.

These debunkings are paper-thin, special pleading rationalizations for Westerners with an incorrigible anti-Israel stance.

"Oh, a game of telephone in the fog of war led Biden to incorrectly refer to the fact of a baby cranium being found as '40 beheaded babies', so this is the excuse I will use to deny anything at all happened despite Hamas proudly admitting it"

It is sad that genuinely innocent Palestinian civilians are dying. They are another crime that Hamas will have to answer for.
I recently learned that it had been reported that the music for those ads was stolen and used without permission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn%27t_Steal_a_Car
The Intel one had supervised fine-tuning with the SlimOrca dataset, and then DPO alignment on top of that using a preference dataset.

The technique for generating the preference data is what’s so interesting about that one. Instead of having human labelers choose a preferred response, they generated a response from a small model and a large model, and then always selected the large one’s as the preferred response.
It's not the same when you do it because you need it to be the president.

I don't agree with pardons; it's something that simply shouldn't exist in this day and age. It doesn't matter to me what brand of progressivism does it.
> but I couldn’t (and still can’t) do anything about the cable Cthulhu monstrosity lurking behind a metal plate in my closet that drives most of my frustration.

I wonder if this person has any idea of the amount of infrastructure the average house contains such as cable runs, pipes, chimneys and so on. Or they imagine things just "happen" magically when you flip a switch.
Yeah that's true.
sure, i can identify the moment in this chain when copyright law may have been violated. it's the contract part i'm caught up with though: law is a thing which exists whether i agree to it or not, but contracts are agreements opted into. and i can't identify any moment where i reneged on any agreement, implied (the friend i bought that DVD from knew me well enough to understand what that meant) or otherwise.
> So what happens is that I gravitate to other ecosystems.

I use a Mac but an Android phone. Android because I require the ability to install apps from arbitrary sources, including piracy. Mac because modern Windows is so contemptuous towards its users, and desktop Linux falls apart unless you know the intricacies of its internals.

Anyway, transferring files between the two was a pain in the butt that eventually grew so immense I reverse engineered Google's Nearby Share and made this: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

Though yes, I'm not North American so iMessage is just a non-issue to me. I don't know anyone who uses it. No one uses SMS for actual messaging between people, everyone's SMS inbox is 99% OTP codes and various other automatic notifications. Literally everyone who I communicate with is reachable through Telegram.
I am not quite sure what you are hinting at. Could you please clarify?

The only large-scale aid Germany is providing to other EU countries I am aware of are their (internally not disputed) EU contributions. But if I remember correctly Spain is not a large net receiver from those contributions either (barely a net receiver). Also, Germany could not change that without leaving the EU, so I am not sure how that would be any leverage.
US infiltration is ubiqiotous in the EU, so there has to be more to this. Which lines were crossed?
First of all based on how this Tweet author is writing he sounds like he is on the list of those 30 CEOs that wanted to blacklist anyone from Harvard that signed a pro-Palestinian letter.

I wish they would instead release the full list of the 30 CEOs just like how they are doxxing the students or targeting anyone on Linkedin(via scraping) with a pro-Palestine view. Instead these people are cowards.

Secondly, its been quite fascinating watching over the years the pro-Palestinian view be the minority but then seeing this event finally being the one that broke the camel's back. I always knew that the pro-Palestinian view would become the majority view but there was no way I could have expected it to grow this quickly. Over the last few years, we have seen an erosion of free speech in the US with all these Anti-BDS laws and it just drove me up the wall seeing the right cry about free speech yet have no problem with these laws. It really felt like we were going back for a decade before we could move forward.

But this reaction is just another way that Gen-Z has really surpassed my expectations. Before this event, it was like screaming into the ether but you know what can't be faked or gamed by the Chinese or whoever else hates the US? The enormous protests occurring in the West. These are people making their own decision to go out and spend their time. Thats when I knew this isn't just another internet manipulation hogwash.

Now the powers that be are brushing off all these Gen-Z people by complaining that they have a negative mindset of the world and using protest as a coping mechanism. Elon said this nonsense the other day and I couldn't believe how little he understand Gen-Z. These are the people that watched their older siblings get taken as fools by Obama's "hope and change". They entered the world on the cusp of post-9/11, watched the GFC take hold during childhood and then graduated with loads of debt into the COVID market. Of course they have a pessimistic outlook.

Eventually a Millenial or Gen-Z will take the white house and then things will get really spicy. This really does feel like a generational divide.

Regarding the Indian support of Israel: Now THAT definitely feels like internet manipulation nonsense. I have been following the conflict for over a decade on sites like Reddit, Twitter, and HN and never have I seen so much content from India over this. All of a sudden this is super important to them. Yeah right... :/
Here's a long writeup by someone who worked at Microsoft at the time: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/
I find the title rather confusing, as, after reading their FAQ (https://w4games.com/faq/) it is clear that they don't own Godot.
They are building a traditional BaaS for gaming, specifically targeted at Godot developers (and they may contribute to Godot development, which doesn't make a real difference rearding ownership).
Even with an electron microscope you wouldn't extract a root key it would just be a device key which they would then ban.
It's not at all meaningless.

It is meaningless, because pointing out the difference doesn't move the conversation forwards in any useful way. Everyone who's discussed piracy in the last 40 years knows what 'stealing' means in a copyright context, and everyone discussing the morality of copyright theft, such as this thread, rather than the legality of copyright theft, means stealing in the sense of 'taking something without paying for it' and not 'depriving the owner of something'.

While the armchair lawyers can't move on from the semantic moral (not legal, that's important) difference we won't get anywhere. If you're a supreme court judge it matters. If you're an internet poster it doesn't.
To take: "to move something or someone from one place to another". Copying is not taking, sorry.
What is the recommended modern way to write GUIs in Python? Assume I'm in Python 3.12 and have a Poetry project as my management solution and that I have general software and GUI experience. What do I use? My application might have lots of streaming data to be plotted, streaming images to be displayed, lots of buttons and other elements. Is it PyQt6 with PyQtGraph? I don't want it to look like a Python app.
To replace Unity? Yes, and if there is something missing, you just clone Godot and fix it yourself. I can compile the whole engine in 2 minutes. There are currently some limitations for AAA games in the rendering pipeline, see Clay John's nice talk about this, from the last Godot con[1]. For example, at the company I work for we use Godot 4 to recreate Google Earth with OSM data :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3IFMvDTCY
Fair enough! Tbh, we do retros as well, both regular, and when anyone thinks something can be improved.
You don't want it talked about so try throwing a smokescreen that no-one should. I say the big picture is quite clear enough.
> Not true.

Make an argument, not just a contradiction. The fact is that public opinion on the Iraq war was far higher (47-60% in favor) initially than it is now (61% say we should have stayed out).

wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United_States_on_the_invasion_of_Iraq#
The only real similarity is that it's a bao bun with a face, which Bun didn't create the concept of.
I've been saying this from day 1. Floyd overdosed and radical leftists basivally ran with that. The city council and community leaders sided with the mob, and that's why the whole thing blew up. Ended up causing an international spectacle and putting some innocent cops in jail
Of course, but since the Steam model works so well one wonders why everybody else is stumbling along instead of "just" copying it. Steam is pretty much the only platform where I don't care that I'm constantly bombarded with "targeted ads" for instance, I'm actually most of the time interested in what the Steam recommendation algorithm has in store for me.
> his substantive conclusions have served mostly as a foil for the development of more palatable philosophical positions.

Doesn't sound like he's held in high regard, except possibly to take a position to debate against.

And then there's this ...

https://www.existentialcomics.com/comic/525
Desperate Russian divide and conquer stuff?
To me it sounds silly to name a technique after a minor implementation detail of the technique.
New Analysis of Heart Scan Data for High LDL vs. Avg LDL Cholesterol
> For instance, I haven't found an end-to-end encrypted and still user friendly cloud option for my photos.

iCloud Photos is E2EE if you turn on iCloud’s “Advanced Data Protection”. That migrates the vast majority of your iCloud data into E2EE storage.
This is very strange.. Those are not what tautologies are.

In order for something to be tautological, you need to be working within some formal system of proof. Proposing definitions to terms could never be tautological.

I think you just want to say "I know that already!"

Also, Deleuze would love this comment, precisely because of your confusion in the term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Sense
This is just our version of celebrity gossip.
Given Android users don’t have iMessage that’s kind of not an issue then.
How the Bassmate Computer came to be
I've used recently the networkx algorithm to find Hamiltonian cycles in a graph, in order to generate a Secret Santa with constraints (couples don't send gifts to each other, and people don't give to the same person as last year), it works great even though the problem is NP-complete, since my number of participants is very low.

I've tried the same in Rust with petgraph which resembles networkx, but it doesn't have the algorithm for Hamiltonian built in and I couldn't wrap my head around the DFS/BFS visitor pattern, but I'll continue this some day.
Godot currently doesn't even have good support for things like in-app purchases for iOS/Android. No one is willing to work on stuff like that for free/open-source fun.

I think the big moat is that for studios, games are so risky to make, that there's no reason to take on tech risk by possibly running into issues like this. You know Unity will work for basically any non AAA game you want to make.

Hopefully this $15m closes that gap.
Oswald Spengler's predictions that became true
hmm, if that is the case - why would companies be having me do 5 rounds each with 1-2 people on each round?