skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so? Are you implying they would make the bridges closed source if they could? Then why do they still maintain the open source bridges instead of forking or writing their own, and why do they sponsor devs to make new open source bridges instead of contracting them to create closed source ones, and why do they dump a bunch of money into the matrix foundation with no immediate benefit to their business? Not sure why it's so hard to believe that people might try to support themselves while improving the open source ecosystem.

Yes, the clients (both beeper mini and beeper cloud) are closed source. That's their business model - open source bridges that anyone can run if they wanted, then they just make it more convenient if you use their services by hosting it all for you and giving a nice polished client. The comparison was to libpurple devs - bridges are the equivalent of libpurple. This is like if libpurple devs decided to write a closed source client based on libpurple and then charge for it. Sounds good to me if it lets them keep working on the open source stuff.
Is that inherently greater than not being connected or using super apps? Also, I didn't know Tokyo or japan in general were also into the "big app" concept. Japan in general didn't seem that "connected" relatively speaking back in 2017-18 but maybe stuff has changed in the past couple of years.
That is why I think it should be some form of sampling. Where the agency assessing can pick a random vehicle from the factory and test it. It would make gamifying a lot more difficult
This particular entitlement does not trigger any pop up and can’t be disabled by the user except by uninstalling the app.
I would count food as a college cost, certainly, due to meal plans. Many colleges, like the one I worked at, had an outside vendor working many of the eateries. They had such a stranglehold that they (anti-competitively) did not want the places they didn't run (usually little student-run things attached to a particular school, vending machines, foot carts) listed at all. First they got the contract and wowed us with some great food. Over the years, however, their prices went up, and both the portion size and the quality decreased.

Additionally, many students with the mandatory meal plans had excess points at the end of the semester or year. No refunds.

Even at the university I attended, way back when, what I got for my money when I moved out of campus was a lot better than what I got when I had to have a dorm room and eat in the cafeteria from what was provided. Better space, better food. Or you could save your money and live in the much-smaller rooms which were next to campus.

I would start counting things as "college costs" when there was a some intersection of outside vendor, profit center, and mandatory subscription. You can see parallels with "textbooks" (freshly printed, spiral-bound, new-each-semester, written-by-the-prof) you must get at some incredible cost, often in excess of two hundred dollars. I'm not one of those people who bangs on about the free market all the time, but there's some serious quasi-regulatory capture going on there.
I think Stan Lee once said about programming languages: "With great power there must also come great binary size."
Funny, I remember this specific joke from my childhood.

My dad would bring home photocopied jokes or cartoons from work. It's funny to imagine someone making 50 copies of one of these, then passing them out around their workplaces laughing with their co-workers.

15 years later you saw the same stuff in email, fwd: FWD: FWD: Re: Why American is great
This isn't as much of a hack as people think. Plenty of companies will continue to provide you with service for many months even if the card declines and then send the unpaid debt to collections, resulting in infinitely more headaches for you.
Bullshit. AT&T limits MMS videos to 1 MB, Verizon to between 1 MB and 3.5 MB depending on the sender, T-Mobile/Sprint 1 MB to 3 MB depending. If you're getting "acceptable resolution" H.264 videos they're being sent over RCS.
A better post than I expected. The only thing I'd add is that foreign keys can actually improve read times because the optimiser knows it can safely skip certain joins e.g. if you have inner equi-joins between tables a, b and c

a join b join c

If there is an FK from a to b, and likewise from b to c, and you don't use anything in b, then the optimiser can rewrite this to

a join c

YMMV
Gym contracts are often set up so this results in the account going to collections for either the remaining monthly fees or the cancellation fee.
On January 30, 2024, The Browser Company will reintroduce itself to the world [video]
I do consulting for a lot of different companies. The older ones who did not religiously use PK/FK constraints have databases that are nightmares to maintain. The data will start to rot surprisingly quickly, devs will react by writing weird code to compensate, and your life will not be fun.
NVIDIA‘s newest GPUs support confidential computing which can be used for E2EE but also for intellectual property protection. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/solutions/confident...
Can't imagine where you got that impression. Calling out screwed up things in the world is entirely compatible with optimism, and really it's required to make optimism possible, because to believe in a good future you have to believe that we're allowed to fix the things that are bad about the present.
> it is not adult to tolerate dishonesty

Flippantly calling something dishonest when it may be miscommunication signals a tolerance for dishonesty. I would be upset if someone said I were dishonest, because I’m not. Someone who is commonly accused of dishonesty may be more ready to level that argument unsupported.

See what I did there? Do you see why that is not only counterproductive, but also immature?

If you really think someone is simply lying, downvote and move on. Self-congratulatory behaviour adds nothing to the discussion.
Speculation? Not really. It is beyond reasonable conjecture as a motivation for the mob orchestration at this point.

And the much more important findings around the fake elector plot are very concrete. Arguing the burden of proof on motivation for the mob orchestration is a distraction.

The mob was showy and got a lot of attention, sure. But everything happening in the background has been proven beyond any doubt by now. And it was _much_ more important.

This proof is not dependent on the mob attack having occurred.

The facts would be the same if the mob attack had never happened.

Ignore the mob attack entirely, regardless of motivation or spontaneity, and it doesn't change anything.

Look, I guess it's going to be another one of those years.

Our brains put these bias filters in place for their own protection. But they're horribly exploited. They're going to keep getting exploited, and we'll keep seeing attempts to build on gains from past exploitation. It's really hard, but try to work past it.
When Is Cash an Appropriate Gift?
Mostly physical at this point. I am lacking in the reading/meditation/relationships, for sure, need to step up my game.

* Monday: Run 4 miles
* Tuesday: 1 hour strength/weights, 20 min on stationary bike (6.2 miles)
* Wednesday: Run 4 miles
* Thursday: 1 hour strength/weights, 20 min on stationary bike (6.2 miles)
* Friday: Run 4 miles

Saturday/Sunday, nothing strict, might do a short run, otherwise hanging out with my family, or doing house work.
Entitlements don’t require user permission.
> Whether they compete with a cloud AI time will tell.

But they're not competing with cloud AI. Why would a person need to go to the cloud to give you a reminder or download an app?
They're competing against the current local assistant, Siri.

Large models are great but they can't fit on 8 or 16gb of ram. And that's a very big deal.
That’s not what that permission does. As mentioned in TFA, SSID scanning access requires an entitlement (granted by Apple), not a permission (granted by the user).
Is the Arc Browser a Threat to Google?
Check out this video of a prototype the Browser Company is launching in Jan 24 which will bypass Google for basic searches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2-d5Sty-K0
I think that’s a great policy as it’s clearly intended to help people when they need it, and get people to unplug when it’s valued by their loved ones.

_However_ (that part is probably best bookmarked until Jan 2nd), it also betrays that your system is brittle and can be broken by a bad commit. Don’t do it because you want people to grind until Dec 24th at 6 pm. Do it because it’s great the rest of the year, too. I’d recommend you look into (or ask me about) feature flags, alerting, and automated roll-backs.

The short version is: there’s a meta-system on top of your release process that can tell (if you are using roll-back not features flags):
- commits until xyzsdf are fine;
- roll-outs starting from commit abcdef have a 2% error rate, 80% on Android;
- revert to xyzsdf, send a message (low-priority, email) to the DevOps on call and the author of abcdef that it happened;
- for all commits after abcdef: if there no conflicts with xyzsdf, re-try to roll them out;
- if there is a conflict because they were on top or abcdef, send a message (low-priority email) to the authors that there is a conflict.

There are more sophisticated versions that can do things like, if you use feature flags, flagging Android users to use the previous version. Another way to do this is to scale who has access to abcdef gradually: say 1% every hour, and revert if you detect issues.

All those seem daunting to teams that haven’t worked like this before, but it my experience, they love it very fast.
The one exception is if a car pulls into a lane in front of you when you are traveling faster.

His actual statement was, "if you rear-end someone that you are following, it is your fault..."

If someone abruptly pulls in front of you, you weren't following them.
Right now there are already local LLM apps with uncensored models in the app store.
If EU app stores fill up with pornography and terrorism apps, that will be a problem of the companies running the stores, not Apple's problem.

Apple has no right to decide what users do with the hardware they sell.
My personal favorite:

A man yells in the street: "Nicholas is a moron!". He is taken away by the police on charges of lese majeste (insulting the monarch). He tells the policemen "Please let me go, I meant another Nicholas!". The police chief replies: "Do not lie. If you said 'moron', you certainly meant the Tsar!"
Which checkbox?

I cannot find anything relevant in any of the 3 browsers I use (Vivialdi, Firefox, Chrome). Would really appreciate this option.

A quick search gave some apparently unmaintained browser extensions, and it's it.
"... why should Tor not send it?"

Why not send the string "Hi there! I'm using Tor." Why not. Tor is annoucing itself with a unique TLS fingerprint anyway.

"Why not" was not the question I asked. IMO, it's a different question than asking "Why".

SNI has been used for censorship. Perhaps this is why the servername is apparently dynamic rather than static. I do not know. There could be many answers to "Why not". We might not know all of them. I certainly will never know all of them.

I am not arguing for or against sending SNI. I have had that debate too many times on HN.

TLS1.3 encrypts the handshake and ECH encrypts SNI. The folks who did that work on TLS thought it was worth doing. What was their reason. Was it "Why not encrypt the handshake and the servername."

Why encrypt DNS. Many people cite privacy as a reason. Yet HN commenters will routinely claim that they can determine (with no significant, additional effort) what sites someone is accessing because they can see the IP addresses on the wire. If so, then why try to make DNS private.

Why encrypt DNS and at the same time send plaintext domainnames on the wire via SNI. A significant portion of the web is still using TSL1.2 so the DNS names in the certificate are sent plaintext in the handshake as well. Why not just use unencrypted DNS. Everyone else is doing it.

No doubt Apple and others who have implemented "push notifications" thought "Why not" when they saw no need to be concerned about people sniffing the traffic.

As a user, I'm not a fan of all the noise on the wire from Apple and so-called "tech" companies. I'm generally not interested in the "features" and "conveniences" they are pushing. (No pun intended.) Plugging in a computer with an OS from one of these so-called "tech" companies usually results in it immediately trying to connect to remote server(s) without any input from the computer owner.

This is why I like NetBSD. Generally everything is off by default. It's up to me to decide what I want to automate.
> It often takes less time and way less mental energy than a phone call.

Really now? Preparing a physical package and dropping it off at a physical location to be picked up and delivered is faster and more efficient than speaking into a wireless device for a few minutes?
I guess I should just give up on privacy, because the typical user prioritizes convenience.
A nation wide blanket restriction is a dumb way to go about any attempt at neighborhood safety. It is a best indirect. But again, making meth in a home lab hasn't been economically viable for the better part of 10 years now, so why is the restriction still in place?
Microsoft Windows will let you multitask DOS applications
Feedly’s fine for RSS btw
Can you give more specific examples where deploying to Linux does not work? I use AoT compiling with static linking to have one binary - which can be copied and executed like any other Linux binary.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
The responder to that issue has also written some blog posts that go into more detail on the subject.

* https://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/things-that-dont-work-we...

* https://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/the-problem-with-mysql-f...
The statement in the article would sound to a non-technical audience like this guy is some sort of hacking magician, and I'm sure nobody minds this perception for the reason I mentioned above.

I'm just providing a counterpoint as well as a reason why there's an incentive to make this guy sound more skilled & evil than he really is.
Yeah I disagree with that as well. Here is a much simpler story:

When you install a blank motherboard, you need to key in the desired serial number. If you make a mistake, you are supposed to ask apple to re-ship a blank and you take an oopsie on your record.

Someone did the oopsie, but it validated so they either never noticed or didn't feel the need to call it in.
Not by 1000%.
If it's real fraud, sure. If not, that might work in the first month or two.

If you've been going for nine months, good luck. They'll pull up all the photos they automatically took of you entering the doors to check in.
True, a foreign key by itself is just a business requirement. A foreign key constraint is what the database does to enforce that. There's rarely any confusion about the two concepts, though.
Depending on your needs. It's not ideal, but if your use case demands Linux and performant ARM hardware this is your only option right now.
As someone who also browses Reddit, I assure you that an upvote counter does little to prevent confident bullshit.
You can in Emacs, though you must first learn how. Last time I tried, I gave up.

Emacs is, by far, the best case. Even if I did get Emacs to behave exactly how I wanted, I can't apply that to any of the other software I use.
So what? Reasonable file size limits and codec support in MMS predate the push for Google RCS. Besides, Universal RCS is still a broken mess.

At any time in the past decade carriers could've solved pretty much everything RCS claims (and fails) to address with mature, standards based technology. But somehow this is an Apple problem? Give me a break.
>it's unexpected and needs to be hyperanalyzed

There's a good reason for this. It's because the human can be interrogated into what was going through their mind whereas many ML models cannot. That means we can't ascertain if the ML accident is part of a latent issue that may rear its ugly head again (or in a slightly different manner) or just a one-off. That is the original point: a theory-of-mind is important to risk management. That means we will struggle to mitigate the risk if we don't "hyperanalyze" it.
Can confirm. From an ar5iv standpoint, 2.56% articles currently fail to convert entirely, and 22.9% have known errors to the converter. That leaves 74.5% of nominally usable articles. This success rate is noticeably lower for the newest batches of arXiv submissions, as the converter hasn't caught up with the most recent package innovations.

We have a plan in place to meaningfully fall back for unknown packages, but that will take at least another year to put in place, and likely another couple of years to stabilize.

Meanwhile, there is some hope that with arXiv launching the HTML Beta we will get more contributions for package support (LaTeXML is an open source project, with public domain licensing, everybody benefits).

But again the original point is spot on. Coverage will be hit-or-miss for a while longer yet, for an arbitrary arXiv submission. The good news is that authors could work towards better support for their articles, if they wanted to.
Bitcoin, a decentralized something, is the 10th largest global market cap asset - $855b. Gold is#1 at $13T. Mortgage backed securities are $11t, for reference.

That to me is working at scale, and all the “what ifs” you’re referencing have happened to Bitcoin, but it is still around since 2009.

Edit, as someone else commented - we are also all talking via the internet, at its core a decentralized technology of combined infrastructure, routing protocols, and DNS tracking. The presence or involvement of centralized entities doesn’t count against that fact.
Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning
In general, Rust should commit more to stabilizing important features like this. I think because of how easy it is to switch to nightly, there isn't as much pressure to stabilize features as there should be.
I currently use 3x 48” LG OLED C2 instead of an ultrawide. Arranged something like this: \_/
Those are issues with JavaScript, not HTML. Wouldn't filtering out iframes pretty much keep us in the clear?
BGI-style graphics in modern C++
Yeah, it seems like a bug in HTML generator...
> Being stuck in a self-driving car for hours commuting doesn't give you that kind of time back.

It can. Most would probably prefer a 1 hour self-driving commute to a 30 minute manually-driven commute. That hour of self-driving time can be used for chores (paying taxes, calling the plumber, etc.) that might otherwise have to be done during family time.
Do you work extensively with LaTeX?

Two columns is good, albeit annoying on mobile. But the font. The typeface kills me, and almost every LaTeX-generated document sports it.
True. Maybe ROI wasn't the right phrase.
Not if my son has to share a road with them, no.
The estimated cost of the Merced to Bakersfield segment (the only one currently being built, and two locations between which no one outside of a Merle Haggard song has ever wanted to go) has ballooned to $33 billion, more than the initial projected cost for the entire system. The full system is now projected to cost $128 billion, nearly 4x what it was supposed to cost.

It's not "Musk" who's responsible for that.

Edit: link.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-11/new-cost...
It doesn't matter if it was in your mind. The people who claim to be pro-life explicitly do not believe that ending any human life is always murder, and are very vocal about it. Regardless of what was on your mind, it's impossible to reconcile these two claims about their moral beliefs.
There’s no evidence to suggest that a system of self-driving vehicles are safer. The solution won’t come from the US because there are way too many red tapes. It’s coming from a smaller country perhaps Japan/Korea.
Where I live then mostly yes. I'm sure the construction would require some labor from abroad because which project doesn't nowadays.

But I am not sure what the point is. Wind power doesn't get any subsidies here (since some decade), but there are plenty of companies who build parks. When it comes to nuclear, the (state-owned) company want subsidies because otherwise it's not worth it (electricity will be too expensive). Interest from other companies is basically nonexistent.
I first heard that in a movie. Something about politics, blame on me, blame on society, write 3 envelopes…
What are you going to do? Blast the airhorn until the manager shows up? Sounds like a great way to get ejected from the premises and possibly get charged with disorderly conduct or similar.
This might even rub off on glow-in-the-dark technology. Exciting! Most glow-in-the-dark materials in blue are feeble by comparison to green and must rely on various inefficient tricks.
I didn't realize you were already a customer.

Fwiw, I agree with you, a good Linux client (or better, an API, so we can get Nautilus and Dolphin etc integration) would be great and I'd also pay more for a subscription, since now it can be a backup for my pictures.
Huh. It would seem like, of all the things which should make it easy to generate the correct accessibility information, the pipeline of compiling a paper from source code in LaTeX should nail it... maybe we should all pitch in to some pool to pay someone to put in the required effort to connect all the dots?
I could just as easily claim there is more of a "they are just capitalists trying to sell a white knight narrative" narrative than an actual white knight narrative.

They're a smaller business that wants to make money, but Apple doesn't want to play fair. I agree with this part of their blog:

“Apple is within their rights to run iMessage how they see fit”

This might be true if Apple was a small company. But they aren’t. They control more than 50% of the US smartphone market, and lock customers into using Apple’s official app for texting (which, in the US, sadly, is the default way people communicate). Large companies that dominate their industry must follow a different set of rules that govern fair competition, harm to consumers and barriers to innovation. We are not experts in antitrust law, but Apple’s actions have already caught the attention of US Congress and the Department of Justice.
> I wonder if we can get better open source tool support from the new entity. That would be a win.

Unfortunately, this seems unlikely. The FPGA vendor tools are a complete shit show and open source tools would be greatly welcomed - they're doing really well in the Lattice/ICE40 space but those are small FPGAs. But Altera and Xilinx don't seem at all inclined to encourage the development of open source alternatives.
This is absolutely, unconditonally untrue. I can send a message to an Android user just fine. SMS is delivered as it is anywhere else. Pictures go through fine - my partner and I can, and do, regularly share pictures without any issue at all.

Why hyperbolize things and spread outright nonsense? To what possible end?
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a politician is a good guy with a politician.
Can confirm that in my 1920s house, now with heat pump, my energy use is now a fraction of what it used to be, since replacing boiler with heat pump.

Before: Jan 600kWh electricity, 3300kWh gas = 3900kWh

After: Jan 1580 kWh electricity, 20kWh gas (cooking hob)

So in total, 41% of previous amount, and for heating, 30%.

So yes, for crappy uk houses heat pumps are totally fine.

Adding in solar pv, and a time shifting battery, and the bills are maybe £2k per year lower than they would be.
Without end to end encryption, because that is not part of the standard, as the grandparent comment said