skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does accessibility hurt security? Security issues for a messaging platform manifest when messages can be intercepted. Having the option to send or receive from more users does not put a man in the middle.

If you are doing something that definitely requires E2EE that you are certain works and forces the user on the other end to comply, then maybe I could see your point. You would be in the vast minority of users and it's debatable that your use case is worth gutting the functionality for the majority of users who would benefit from being able to iMessage their Android friends, but you would still have a valid use case. I would tell you in that case to use an open source E2EE solution instead of Apple's closed source one though, given that privacy is such a concern.
The other major open source email server is Exim, which is the default on Debian.
Give it another try. The current version of Nightly (v122.0a1) from the Play Store has functional sideloading for me after I unlock the "secret menu" in the settings by going to "About Nightly" and tapping the Nightly icon several times.

Before Bypass Paywalls Clean (D) existed, I was able to install Violentmonkey on Firefox for Android through the add-on collections workaround to use the Bypass Paywalls Clean userscript. You need to enable desktop mode when assembling the add-on collection (or do it from a computer) for Violentmonkey to show up as an option in the search.
Uhm, I just wrote that AGI is not a thing. AGI is a hot term for 1) people who need an imaginary deity to worship and 2) people who want to profit off a buzzword. The term serves no purpose except making ML look fancier than what it is, for religious or money-/power-grabbing purposes.
The average includes the over performers
It’s a trivial cost that people don’t want to pay. Sadly it can’t be run as some kind of ala-carte computation that can scale-to-zero like a Lambda function can, because it needs to be an active connection-oriented daemon that keeps per-connection state — i.e. something that always maintains at least one real OS thread, holding open real OS sockets, on the same machine (so that those sockets don’t break at the TCP level.) In other words, for an individual to deploy their own push daemon, it would necessarily need to live on a $5/mo VPS or something. And people don’t value iMessage at $5/mo.

(…which naturally leads to the question: why is there no Lambda-like serverless compute substrate that allows your function to speak a connection-oriented protocol, by externalizing the connection-hold-open and per-connection book-keeping state into the routing layer, such that your own function in the system could scale-to-zero? Exactly like Pusher did for websockets 15 years ago, but routing to a vertically-integrated serverless compute layer rather than a “passive” PHP/CGI-ish REST backend. Seems like an obvious extension for Cloudflare Workers…)
They have the code, then need to steal the code, then need to upload the code???
If the product is so great why doesn't Apple make it available on more platforms? The answer is because it's not a product, it's a marketing tool. And a very successful one based on the widespread bullying it has caused.
If you were coding because that's your passion, yeah. I'll bet a number of the people laid off (as happened after the dot-com crash) decided that this was the sign they should go and get a career they actually enjoyed.
AFAICT neither the blog post nor the linked paper showed anything like this. Specifically, they didn't make any comparison between results obtained _with_ an LLM vs results obtained _without_ one. IIUC, this paper showed results obtained by genetic programming using an LLM to generate a python kernel function conforming (maybe) to a given type signature. You don't _need_ an LLM to do this.

So the question of whether the LLM in particular does anything special here is still wide open.
Google Just Killed Warrants That Give Police Access to Location Data
Intel has over 15,000 software engineers, per their website. I couldn't find a number for NVIDIA, but it looks like they have a bit above 26k total employees.

So, its very likely Intel has more software engineers than NVIDIA. Intel has far more products than NVIDIA though, so NVIDIA almost certainly has more software engineers working on GPU.
> He told my mom even if it didn't help him he hoped it would help someone.

He did help. Absolutely. A friend was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma 5 years ago, and she's in full remission today with an optimistic prognosis. Her life is possible because of researchers and people like your dad.

I'm sorry for your loss.
GitHub: New custom M1 macOS runners with Christina Warren [video]
> Why let them intervene?

Because it would be the most sure-fire way to be certain that it actually gets done, whereas "the market" is less certain and prone to manipulation tactics such as lock-in. Returning to my original question that you kind of dodged, why not let them intervene?
Learware
I had a quick play with stuff around when the first images were announced. A ton of info is available including stages of processing, details on instruments, info (including Jupyter tutorials) on the Python calibration pipeline, etc. And of course how to access the data.

https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/getting-started-with-jwst-data seems like a good spot to start.
This has been discussed ad nauseam. In the US, not being a "blue bubble" can have a very high social cost and get you excluded from groups and communication opportunities. People just want to be able to communicate without ridiculous walled garden vendors throwing stupid road blocks in their way and making things artificially harder to get you to "buy your mom an iphone."
every time I hear someone suggest such a thing, I remind them that now you have two systems who believe they own the state of the world: .tfstate and etcd and let me assure you that no matter how much our dumbass TF friend thinks it knows what's going on, etcd wins hands down every time

that's why I strongly suggest that if anyone is a "whole TF shop," they go the operator route, because trying any lower level management is the road to ruin
The best alternative isn't even listed: stainless steel. There's a reason commercial kitchens prefer it.

It can also me cheaper, as you don't need a solid slab of it, a 1-3mm plate of stainless glued to MDF will do.
Just a reminder, here are verified ways to help Ukraine and the Ukrainian Army:[0]

[0] https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/02/27/verified-ways-to-help...
Thanks, that little twitch under my eye just started up.

I worked at an org where an admin went a little rogue and updated the config without using the macro file. Another admin didn't realize. Well, didn't realize until it was too late.
The article is utterly silent on what seems a critical question to me: how is the outcome evaluated? Number of targets generated? Fraction accepted by a human analyst? The outcome of a detailed investigation after a strike as to what was actually hit (yeah right)? The effect that striking a target has on Israel’s long term security (sounds likely to be negative at this point to me)?

How is a “target” defined anyway?
For that you'll need the iPhone 16 Pro Plus Max.
Do you similarly think it's perfectly ok for a loanshark to "threaten" to smash the customer's knees if they don't pay up in 7 days? Because obviously they wouldn't really do that?
Android has 70% market share.
If you catch it before it's totally incinerated, Tergazyme/Tergajet is the way to go. Otherwise try either Citranox or Alconox (or the 'jet versions for low foaming).

If none of those three will touch it, it's probably not cleanable by anything short of piranha-class terrors. If they can touch it but don't get you all the way there, there's probably some combination of detergents and procedures that will do it, but it may take some serious effort to figure that combination out.
Scratch Data (YC S21) Is Hiring
Not really. It makes it harder, since the warrant would now have to include the cell-provider(s) for your mobile device(s), which would all them to geofence you by tower location or the HTTP headers (which Google could also be compelled to provide). And they would need to correlate the various data to be able to get a rough idea of where you were, as opposed to getting that data in one step from Google.
We're About to Find Out How Dangerous the Cybertruck Is
When I hear about a case like this it actually warms my heart. As the 20th century ideological parties/governments/organizations demonstrate, compared to true believers, criminals faking it to enrich themselves are a lesser evil by far!
Show HN: Matchbooks – AI generated storybooks for kids
Thank you for sharing, fascinating to understand the study’s intended purpose.
There was another incident recently with garbled data[1]. The issue then was Voyager was trying to use a processor that was supposed to have been turned off. It either turned the malfunctioning unit or thought that the disabled unit was turned on when it wasn't. But the flaw is similar to the current problem which a malfunction in managing its internal state.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/missions/voyager-program/voyager-2/engi...
Hopefully, for the pacemaker, the authors of the code would be using a verified compiler like CompCert (although it's only verified for the compilation, not the parsing or the preprocessor), but you don't have control at every level, like for the hardware. You can't verify centrifuge timings, but you can specify software and verify that it fits the specification to the point that it won't be the point of failure (assuming you have everything under control, like the pacemaker SDK, everything). I do see what you're saying about it being infectious, though.
Given everything else happening, the satisfaction with UK gov at the moment and party issues... I find it really hard to see it as anything apart from a quick attempt at popularity points with the right groups.
Every star that is not our sun is in a different solar system.
Could you have meant to say a star in a different galaxy could toast us?

I think, ball park, a SN 500 light years out is considered safe e.g. Betelgeuse.
Our Milky Way galaxy is thought to be roughly 100,000 light years in diameter
so we should be safe from all but those within about a hundredth of the radius
of our galaxy from us.

space is big ...
You can choose to use sms only, and not use iMessage messages.
Help me understand: this allowed people access to other people's self-hosted infrastructure? It is self-hosted, right?
I use PiHole, but DNS options don't catch everything. uBlock catches a LOT that it doesn't, and allows for lots of custom stuff I can't do otherwise.
7 hours is still quite a bit below the 20-22 hours with MacOS though. It may seem a lot given how bad batteries are on non-apple computers, but it's still less than 1/3 of what it could be.
But there's nobody on it :(
Google was found guilty of antitrust violations, not of having a monopoly.

Having a monopoly is not illegal.

Here's an explanation of the verdict from a lawyer familiar with tech and antitrust.

> EPIC WIN | Why Google Lost and What it Means For Apple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ23ExDJSec
Interesting. The researcher correctly states that economic concerns are only an excuse. But he never asks why people object to reducing their homelands to mere economic zones. This is typical of such research - their goal (openly stated in this interview) is to undermine national identity and promote immigration. He does not ask or propose what we should do instead of mass immigration - he is only concerned how to continue immigration despite the people's objections, and how to silence those objections.

All running on the implicit assumption that "xenophobia" is simply incorrect (not just morally wrong) - that humans are unique in the animal kingdom in that they benefit from more competitors in the same territorial and ecological niche.
So what exactly is replacing PFAS?
Hashicorp is a public company so the theory doesn't make much sense to me. The execs and early investors already made their money.
Importantly, during this entire multi-year gap, nearly all of them worked just fine but it was gated behind an AMO account for... I don't know what reason.

If it was just an experience issue because like 5% failed weirdly or had bad performance but they couldn't validate them all: that's basically fine! Hide it behind an about:config flag! The AMO requirement was a privacy-invading piece of nonsense that had no business existing.
I would suggest that as often as not, when the EU intervenes in technological affairs the result isn’t that things get massively better but rather that people are forced to deal with corporations finding ways to maliciously comply with the letter of the law.
I’m not hungry for it. Other priorities
Happened to an ex of mine. "Who? No, they're out. I'm just visiting."

Got away with it too.
Part of the background for this is that over the past month or more, Usenet has been under an unprecedented spam attack from Google Groups that Google isn't doing anything about. People have resorted to filtering everything coming from Google Groups, with a white list, and there are voices calling for de-peering of Google Groups from the Usenet federation.
The Soviet Century – The Path to Putin's Russia
> The universe where in the early 1990s, my grandparents and their friends existed, had the opportunity to buy more sophisticated (complicated) foreign vehicles, and did not.

They're enormous, hard to park, and by no means performance vehicles. But I've ridden in exactly one Lincoln Town Car, and let me tell you, it was a dream. It's not a sexy car. It's not a performance vehicle (in standard civilian models). It's ridiculous for one person. But if you need to transport four adults in absolute comfort and luxury, you couldn't do it better with anything else that was around at the time except maybe a Lexus LS or Mercedes S class.
Lard or tallow
It's because SMS is unencrypted, and this is an effort to have secure communication between iOS users and Android users (since iMessage is Apple-device-only). There's also a status factor, where Android users are lowly "green bubbles" in iMessage, which signals decreased security and questionable support for the interactions available to iMessage users.

Of course everyone can switch to Signal and this is a moot point, but millions of Apple users use iMessage and aren't likely to switch.
> useful where a program like ls not only specifies the structure of its output in a way I can automatically read fields of without hand-parsing it

I don't think C ABI gets you this. Passing structs across ABI boundaries is kinda iffy, especially if you're using a different compiler than the program was originally compiled with. And lord knows what non-C programs would try to do.
Yes, that's a fair point, but it hinges on the law being weak and poorly worded. Obviously I would not be happy with that either. But loopholes like that are a risk with any action that the market or the government would take, and ideally I would like the government to make a strong, well-worded law that accomplishes only the original intent, which can and does happen frequently as well.
Yes there should be a more substantial ask and price to pay for committing a Holocaust, just as Nazi Germany was dismantled, we in tech should be demanding of a ceasefire AND the dismantling of the Holocausting state of Israel.
It's completely unreasonable to expect it to be sustainable. Why wouldn't Google eventually crack down on completely negative value customers?

When you use the actual numbers instead of a theoretical argument it falls apart even quicker. These are message board arguments, not ones you'd make with a straight face in person.
presumably: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643348
Apple s AI advantage is the chimeric memory dependency. Nvidia seems to artificially stratify the market by memory segregation.

As soon as Intel or AMD say fuck it and shoot the moon on memory Apples distinction evaporates.

I assume Intel is the most likely to do this by 2025.
Isn't that just understood? If I say my grandfather is my oldest relative, nobody is like "oldest LIVING relative"
Why yes. I follow comp.lang.c, comp.lang.awk, comp.unix.programmer, comp.unix.shell, comp.lang.lisp.

Make an account on Ray Banana's "Eternal September" server (or any one of the others), connect a client and you're good to go.
Check if they aren't just xor'ed, I've seen that being used before as cheap "encryption".
Ugh, it is beyond depressing to imagine Apple bigwigs sitting around discussing ways to make absolutely certain teens keep getting ostracized until they buy their overpriced product.
Yes MrX owes licensing fees, full stop.

Die mad about it
> where it's folks who opted into a closed system that are complaining about the system being closed

The folks complaining are a vocal minority of Android users. Everyone else doesn't care.
> since there was never an official MSN messenger client there.

There certainly was: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/989-msn-messenger-2-5-1
Which reviewers are you talking about?
Normally, I wouldn't do that, but this time I felt like both comments were intentionally inflammatory and then the context for my response was lost.

"literally nothing" is also wrong given that they just had a large press announcement on Dec 6th (yt as part of my response below), where they spent 2 hours saying (and showing) they are serious.

The second comment was made and then immediately deleted, in a way that was to send me a message directly. It is what irked me enough to post their comments back.
RROS：dual-kernel OS in Rust for satellites that supports real-time
Some observations:

- Very bad performance at existing x86 workloads, so a major selling point was basically not there in practice, because extracting any meaningful performance required a software rewrite anyway. This was an important adoption criteria; if they outright said "All your existing workloads are compatible, but will perform like complete dogshit", why would anyone bother? Compatibility was a big selling point that ended up meaning little in practice, unfortunately.

- Not actually what x86 users wanted. This was at the height of "Intel stagnation" and while I think they were experimenting with lots of stuff, well, in this case, they were serving a market that didn't really want what they had (or at least wasn't convinced they wanted it).

- GPU creators weren't sitting idle and twiddling their thumbs. Nvidia was continuously improving performance and programmability of their GPUs across all segments (gaming, HPC, datacenters, scientific workloads) while this was all happening. They improved their compilers, programming models, and microarchitecture. They did not sit by on any of these fronts.

Ironically the main living legacy of Phi is AVX-512, which people did and still do want. But that kind of gives it all away, doesn't it? People didn't want a new massively multicore microarchitecture. They wanted new vector instructions that were flexible and easier to program than what they had -- and AVX-512 is really much better. They wanted the things they were already doing to get better, not things that were like, effectively a different market.

Anyway, the most important point is probably the last one, honestly. Like we could talk a lot about compiler optimizations or autovectorization. But really, the market that Phi was trying to occupy just wasn't actually that big, and in the end, GPUs got better at things they were bad at, quicker than Phi got better at things it was bad at. It's not dissimilar to Optane. Technically interesting, and I mourn its death, but the competition simply improved faster than the adoption rate of the new thing, and so flash is what we have.

Once you factor in that you have to rewrite software to get meaningful performance uplift, the rest sort of falls into place. Keep in mind that if you have a $10,000 chip and you can only extract 50% of the performance, you more or less have just $5,000 on fire for nothing in return. You might as well go all the way and use a GPU because at least then you're getting more ops/mm^2 of silicon.
If aliens are sending a battle fleet to destroy Earth because there's life here, they were on the way long before we emitted and radio waves. Earth has been broadcasting the existence of life for a billion years.
> There is real value in being able to use the same tool to manage AWS/GCP/Azure/etc., Cloudflare, GitLab, VMware

My bad, I did not define meaning of multi-cloud. I meant using AWS and GCP at the same time, doing mostly the same things, for redundancy and no lock-in.

Still I prefer native IaaC tools, it is simpler, faster and more reliable. I'm AWS guy, so Cloudformation for all things infra. It irks me when I see Terraform doing AWS infra. I jump in to rewrite it as first matter of business, lol
What in this analogy is mind control versus reinforcement/training within the context of ML? Is it pretraining? Is it prompt engineering? Is it fine-tuning?
For values of "less spam" approaching "no spam".
Show HN: On-device, no-code LLMs with guardrails (for Apple Silicon)
We've been working to make uncertainty quantification and interpretability first-class properties of LLMs. Reexpress one, a macOS app, is our first effort to make these properties widely available.

Perhaps counter-intuitively, and contrary to common wisdom, LLMs can in fact be transformed to generate very reliable uncertainty estimates (i.e., "knowing what they do and don't know" by assigning a probability to the output).

Getting there is a bit complicated, with vector matching/databases, prediction-time data dependencies, complicated inference, and multiple models flying all over the place.

We've made it simple and efficient to use in practice with an on-device, no-code approach. Common document classification tasks can be handled with the on-device models (up to 3.2 billion parameters). Additionally, you can add these capabilities to another LLM (e.g., for QA or more complicated tasks) by connecting your existing model by simply uploading the output logits into the app. For example, if you're using an on-device Mistral AI model, or cloud-based genAI model, just upload the output logits into the app.

Would be great to get feedback. Also, if you have another use case with a scale that doesn't fully fit into the on-device setting, happy to discuss and collaborate for your setting.

And if anyone finds this interesting and wants to get involved more in building reliable AI, let us know!

(Note that an Apple silicon Mac is required; ideally M1 Max or better with 64gb of RAM. You train the model yourself, which requires labeled data. The tutorial 1 video has a link to sentiment data in the JSON lines format; it's a good place to start: https://github.com/ReexpressAI/Example_Data/blob/main/tutori...)
Except slavery is non-consensual whereas working in a shitty job isn't.
I have access to 2 or 3 streaming services plus Spotify, which I haven't used in a long time because bittorrent content is always better and faster. Just get the files and play them wherever you want, however you want.
James Burke and the Apollo A7L spacesuit [video]
A description of the A7L spacesuit, used in Apollo 11.
They've been for sale since pre-IPO. Cisco almost bought them.
Sort of, if you think of a swamp cooler as something like a "rehumidifier".