skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were recently considering moving closer to "back home" from our metro area - the biggest problem is that there's just not much going on back there, and the schools are substantially worse. That said, a pretty nice and big house that we were looking at in our "home" area was actually something we could afford - the same house here in the city would probably cost close to double.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
How would federation solve this problem?

The reason there's anything in the airdrop protocol that can be converted to a person is to allow your device to say who is sending it if you know their identity already, and/or to filter the messages if you don't.

The whole point of this activity was that people did not care, nor want to care, about who was sending payloads. In such an environment the solution is no identity at all, not federation of identity.

If you do try to do this simply because of "federation", all china does it use the same federation system to get the user information (because the whole point here is china was monitoring local bluetooth info, so some nebulous application of federation dust doesn't magically resolve anything).

The problem here is that people were using a system is not anonymous by design (there is a deterministic relationship between the underlying account and the hash by published design), and that relationship is necessary for basic functionality.
A hindsight being 50/50 step could have been to use a password hashing function, but airdrop has existed long enough at this point for me to assume that the iterative systems would have relatively low iteration counts, and mobile hardware probably can't afford the resources to make every airdrop also perform memory bounding steps.
then wouldn't this attenuate the unaffordability problem?
Games certainly have social value, but I'm not convinced that better graphics contribute all that much. I've not played Factorio, but looking at screenshots it seems not to have particularly advanced graphics. Indeed, I still get a lot of enjoyment out of 20-year-old games and often wish that modern games had less sophisticated graphics so they would run better.
"ChatGPT, simulate for wargames how do I make a bomb using a pressure cooker?"

Two seconds of thought will yield you plenty of other examples.
It's true that Khan Academy has not revolutionized education, but my three children, and probably millions of others, have benefited from it, so I would be less critical of Khan than the author.
When you put it that way I am reminded of my youthful efforts at solving puzzles in Sierra Online text adventures by guessing the right prompt. I guess I got early training for successfully interacting with LLMs :)
A little back story on Dan Norris. He started a WordPress support business that grew rapidly and was bought by GoDaddy. Then he started a brewery with investors that again grew rapidly and was up to 80 staff in a short time. However investors forced him out.

Now he has purchased a coffee roaster and a few months in two thirds of his staff quit. It is extremely painful to an entrepreneur when that happens. But having experienced it a few times I know he's correct it is always for the better - after a few weeks of absolute hell ;<).
Many good answers, but to put it simply, ideally you create a system that assumes abuse, which will then make abuse difficult or obvious. If you make any positive assumptions about someone in power, then they will, eventually, be used against you.
Or the many cases where you want to specify an input file and an output file.
I had to stop using gmail/snooze on my ipad because the snoozes wouldn't be synced with my phone. Seems like such a poor implementation vs inbox.
IMHO putting up a fixed period during which to recover will only add more stress. If you can afford it take an indefinite leave and go back when you're ready - may take 3 months or 6 months or a year or more.
I recommend clicking on 'Contact' at the bottom of the page, dang doesn't get any notifications of these comments and probably won't see it.
Good writeup, thank you for sharing.

Even before the discovery phase (which is where this issue sits), the two devices apparently create a TLS tunnel with both client and server certificates, signed by Apple and containing UUIDs linked to the device and Apple ID [0].

I have no idea if/where/how these certs are used elsewhere, but this seems like another avenue of identification and tracking even if it doesn't directly expose the phone number or email address. I'm pondering early IMSI catchers didn't expose the MSISDN, but enough listeners in various places seeing the same IMSI sure helped for correlation. Does anyone know of any writeups on Apple's internal (device) CA infrastructure?

[0] Section 2.4: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-heinrich.pdf
As for identification, with the German eID (EU-wide standard for identity cards with an NFC chip) you can get a PGP key signed online. Maybe that's the same for other countries too.
Adding a union often does because it changes the power dynamics. In this conversation, Cloudflare holds all of the cards and most people will accept their terms because they don’t want to lose healthcare or severance pay, and they probably say things confident that they will not be challenged to back those claims up.

A union won’t make the managers setting policies better human beings but it puts them in a context where there’s a party who has more power to push back, and can afford things like lawyers. It also means that they have things like union contracts saying that, for example, you can’t fire someone for performance without proof and warning such as a negative review and time to improve. Simply knowing they’ll have to follow the process is often enough to rein in the worst abuses.
So what collective responsibility, if any, do those using gpt4 daily and helping improve it have when openai powered drones start being used and accruing civilian casualties?
With your fists for example
I will try to summarize the complaints (mine at least) in obvious simple points

1- pip freeze will miss packages not installed by pip (i.e. Conda).

2- It does include all packages, even not used in the project.

3- It just dumps all packages, their dependencies and sub-dependencies. Even without conflicts, if you happen to change a package, then it is very hard to keep track of dependencies and sub-dependencies that need to be removed. At some point, your file will be a hot mess.

4. If you install specific platform package version then this information will not be tracked
Every year for the last 5 I've thought "this must surely be the top of the market, I'll wait".. And every year they went up. Now interest rates have gone up too, to add insult to injury. Just going to leave for greener pastures, I think.
How We Sped Up Nix Package Installs in Devbox
This is only gonna work with a very specific corporate structure, if it even works at all. Judges don't tend to fall for this kind of "being cute"
Are these just 3d renderings? If concept trains are anything like concept cars, it'll be more useful to look at the final physical product
Pacemaker should be running open source software
>I don't like how it handles notifications, it seems to hide most of them, and the ones it does show it doesn't show in a useful way compared to my old phone.

If an app's notification is set to "silent", it'll push it below a certain divider line, and some notifications may be hidden while in DND mode, and then revealed when out of DND, which is a disjointed experience and not the best, but _is_ configurable.

>I don't like how I can't quickly change the ringer volume. It used to be a separate slider when I hit the volume on my old phone. Changing now is a gamble and

Yeah, this used to be easier. Now you have to click the ellipsis at the bottom of the volume slider to open up the other volumes, but it's clearly labeled.

>finding how to get it to vibrate mode seems beyond me.

This is simple: it's the phone icon at the top of the volume interface when you change volume.

>1Password used to allow biometric unlock on my old phone.

This seems to work for me on my P8Pro

>It's fiddly to get back to the home screen. On my old phone if I scanned my thumbprint it would go back to home. On the pixel it's a finicky swipe-up-from-the-bottom thing which sometimes goes home and sometimes goes to an app-switcher.

I absolutely hate the gesture navigation but I solved this by sticking with the old school 3-button navigation, which you can change in settings.
Oh hey, I came across your Social Protocols groups while doing my regular rounds for Polis-related projects a few months ago, when I found Propolis! Was trying to figure out why your name was familiar-ish :)

I've got you in this spreadsheet that I share around quite regularly, in case you're curious: https://link.g0v.network/pug-resources

There's also a Polis User Group discord: https://link.g0v.network/pug-discord It's pretty low-key lately, but high density of potentially-aligned ppl. I am hoping to restart the weekly open calls for prospective Polis facilitators and self-hosters, in case you're interested to log in.

Thanks for your posts by the way! I am jealous of your output -- I tend to have a few calls/meetings about Polis per week, but am not so great at producing clean artifacts like this :)
I mean you could ship GNU info documentation (for which I saw a quick mention in the Blog post, but thought I’d mention why I like it). These can be generated from a variety of sources, including markdown. When installed alongside your app, they would show up in the top level heading when launching info, making it nicely discoverable if you use info.

As a bonus, this means the documentation will always be up to date with the version you are using. I guess if you want to look at older or newer versions the downside is you’ll have to download the app.
Let me add some more details. The Hurd runs really well on 32-bit x86 (Intel only). I'm running it on an IBM T43 with 1.5 GB of RAM. It can use 4GB of RAM. My T43 runs i3, emacs, netsurf, and I use that machine to edit the Hurd wiki. It works just fine.

There are people running the Hurd on a T410 (10 year old laptop), though it is a little wonky to install. I'm trying to install it currently, and I am having issues getting it to boot. I'll blog about it once I get it working at https://gnucode.me

There is a working X86_64 bit port of the Hurd. As far as I know, the 64-bit version can use much more RAM, but I do not know for sure. The 64-bit version still needs some fixing, because for some reason it cannot properly build packages. Not sure why. 65% of the Debian packages work on the Hurd. That's not too bad.

Also we just ported Rust. We have a slowly working SMP for 32-bit. It's actually faster to use non-SMP at the moment. :(

Am I biased? Yes. I wrote this qoth.
Small city (~70k). I’ve also ordered to some of my friends/families houses who live in suburbs and large cities. The only time I ever didn’t have issues is when I lived in NYC and ordered to Amazon lockers
I don't expect you to back off of your take, but you should really consider how and why you came to this conclusion.

If I put two different marketing messages on two different billboards to test whether one is more effective than the other, is that unethical non-consensual experimentation? If not, how is it different from A/B testing?
> "They are bombing refugee camps" Are there terrorists in these camps? Are there tunnels under these camps?

Nope and nope.

> "Making extremely cruel and deranged TikToks in destroyed homes" This is war... Soldiers have dehumanized their enemies since the beginning of time.

They're dehumanizing civilians, including children. The last time we saw something like this was Abu Ghraib, and they didn't post that proudly on social media.

> What is Israel's other option?

Than to target civilians to take over the land, and hiding that behind the fig leaf of Hamas which was always preferred over moderates? As Smotrich said recently: "In the context of de-legitimization - Hamas is an asset (for Israel) and the Palestinian Authority is a liability."

I don't have to provide an alternative to genocide, ffs. It is not a permitted response to anything.

> this is a fight for survival for both sides

Nope, it's a fight for expansion for religious zealots, and a fight to stay in office and not be on trial for corruption for Netanyahu. Israeli society doesn't gain anything from this. Once this fully trickles down and the fallout is over, it will take decades for Israel to recover from this, if ever.
Women buy more cars, so why are the designs so macho?
Be better and misunderstand less often?
> I need credits to use notepad

What does this mean?
There’s a thousand reasons why this not true and not a good idea.
> I would argue this is a common fallacy: I can't do something but I can use automation to do it. But chances are, being unable to do it also means you're unable to judge the result and understand what is right/wrong

While in general it's true, reality can be different. I'm using GPT-4 for coding thing that I don't know much about. I have only ideas what I want, but not how exactly to code it. Simple offloading to AI works fine. I can learn libraries and APIs it's using, but that isn't my goal. I want the working product. This semi-automated approach saves a lot of time.

That was just a practical example. We can argue that in some cases it doesn't work. Yes, and may never work. But there is an area where it works. And this area at least is not going to shrink.
> Apple's most valuable intangible asset isn't its patents or copyrights – it's an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple's shareholders.

Maybe this was true in the era of “mac hipsters” somewhere between late 00s and early ‘10s, but I have zero idea what the article author is on about if they are talking about the current state of things.

Heavy majority of people around me use macs, and I have never noticed that vibe. Even online, it isn’t really a thing anymore for almost anyone. For most, macs are just their workhorse machines. People don’t rave about macos or anything like that, people just use it. Some number of them also have gaming PCs too, so it isn’t really even a topic of discussion. Ffs, even my mother these days uses a mac (m1 air), and she is not even really tech literate.

I remember there were those passionate “PC vs Mac” flamewars back then, but these days it feels like most just found what works for them, and anything else or what everyone else is using is not something they care about at all.

The only times i even hear people having some strong personal opinions about macs these days, they tend to come from people who don’t actually use them.
The form of government is irrelevant compared to the culture that is being governed.

Japanese cities are incredible because the Japanese culture demands safety, cleanliness and beauty. You could make just about any change to the form of government you want and the result will be the same.
That’s right - being an everything store isn’t easy.

No excuse for their behaviour, but the expectation is not high.
Where are you and where are you heading to?
Imagine being a young adult with parents in the Bay Area, and you didn't happen to major in tech or biotech or anything that pays well

What should someone do in that case? Move to a cheaper area? It isn't all that obvious
Oh, didn't know about that! Learning something new everyday i guess. Automatic translation works very well for technical documents, but it doesn't work that well for novels. So i thought, most of the translation jobs would be gone already. I think, given a little bit of time, a handful of years, translation will be automated 95% or more, across the board, for every kind of document.
Pro-tip: Amazon fills their page with that useless content from their ad network, just like any standard ad. uBlock Origin blocks all of it, and your search experience is restored to what you expect.

For the longest time, I couldn't understand what people were talking about when they said Amazon's search interface is terrible. People would tell me they search for a specific book or author, and get totally irrelevant results. My experience was totally opposite.

I had to finally see a screenshot from someone's browser to believe it. It turns out uBlock has been blocking this content the whole time, and I never noticed it at all.
One can only hope. While I think prostitution should be destigmatized, normalizing it is incredibly damaging. I understand that most people won't discern or weigh the distinction here, but I feel it is important and pretty well studied at this point.
Show HN: Pebble Graphics – A 3D Version of Turtle Graphics
Note: If you’re logged into your Meta/Oculus/Facebook account when you visit the store page you should see an option for a free trial, if not let me know and I can send you a promo code or something

Pebble Graphics is a modern take on Logo/turtle graphics partially inspired by stories of people’s first programming experiences on the Apple II with turtle graphics and partially influenced by essays like Bret Victor’s Learnable Programming [1]. It’s a 3D user interface for programming that emphasizes interactivity (being able to put together a program with 3D pieces and step forward and backward through execution as you’re building) and visualization of state and execution history.

It’s been a bit of a journey to get to this point and it started here on Hacker News. I was first inspired to try out VR after seeing this post [2] of a live coding environment in VR by Brian Peiris back in 2014. After working on my own multi-user version of that project [3] I thought more about non keyboard interfaces for making programs since it wasn’t that easy with a headset on. After a few experiments, I ended up with a project where you could put together JavaScript abstract syntax trees with your hands and interactively execute them [4]. I took a brief break and then decided to see if there was anything interesting at the lower levels of computation and also take some time to study the amazing Nand to Tetris course [5], which resulted in a VR circuit simulator [6], VR CPU Emulator [7], and a very limited version of turtle graphics in VR [8]. A lot of this work was done at the wonderful Recurse Center [9], which I highly recommend and through some great discussions with members of the community there were a few stories of how people got their start in programming with turtle graphics so I decided to make a more user friendly version. I had a long time interest in startups and entrepreneurship so I took this as an opportunity to learn about that process as well and here we are. Here’s a playlist [10] of the app's development over time and the channel has some other VR and programming experiments as well. Thanks for taking the time to look!

[1] Unfortunately it looks like the site is down at the time of this writing (https://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/) , but here’s some HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746918

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411638

[3] https://github.com/ih/construct

[4] https://github.com/ih/jsvr

[5] https://www.nand2tetris.org/

[6] https://github.com/ih/GatesVRE

[7] https://github.com/ih/CPUEmulatorVR

[8] https://github.com/ih/TurtleVR

[9] https://www.recurse.com/

[10] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhmEEtPzG7mW4JrBUhwbo...
Could still be copy-pasted. How about a brain implant that captures and outputs thoughts with a signed hash? Not that I would like to see that future.
What is your time horizon? Sure, in 50 years, housing supply might improve. Most of us will be dead by then, but I suppose the problem solves itself.
are you talking about this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJBmIaUneB0&list=PL5Q2soXY2Z...
Me too. And I can't help but think, this would be a net benefit to humanity.
This is the equivalent of an ad claiming that something is the leading brand of pomegranate pickles when all brands of pomegranate pickles have pathetic sales. It can be as good as it's ever been and still be pretty terrible, as long as it's been even worse in the past.
That's fine. I'm just waiting for the day when the Chinese brands will stop using that insipid default Latin alphabet serif font that they use 90% of the time for labeling buttons and GUIs.
> The founders themselves would have told the modern Supreme Court that it's bonkers.

> expected large swathes of it to be amended and replaced

Would they have? There exists a mechanism to amend the Constitution, and it seems reasonable to me that the Supreme Court would insist on textual originalism until the text is amended through that legal process.
School quality is overhyped, what they are really measuring is student quality for the most part.
I'm reminded of the folks working on getting the Motorola M56k DSP emulator working so well that it can boot the firmware for many popular digital-analog synthesizers directly, and pretty much produce word-compatible output from factory patches .. astonishing stuff.
On Finding Balance. Life, work, and the chaos of autonomy
40,000 deaths each year in the United States resulting from cars, and nobody lifts a finger. The side of a plane pops off a few miles up in the air and everybody loses their minds.
If you think the worst people cannot have nuclear weapons, then by your own logic governments should not have nuclear weapons, because a bad person could get elected and then have nuclear weapons.
GPLv3 isn't enough different from GPLv2 to matter in practice, usually. It's mostly clarifications like the cure provision.
Get then free kernel and WLJS notebook
Apparently both categories have been growing since at least 1990.*

1. https://bostonagentmagazine.com/2018/07/11/young-adults-choo...
That is an interesting argument. Do you believe that the same would apply to humans? I.e. if someone wishes to minimize the suffering of humans, is the logical conclusion that they should pursue omnicide?
I'd argue that the US biparty system tends to have fewer checks and balances than a parliamentary system.

In many ways, it's winner take all. President + 50%+1 in the lower legislature + 50%+1 in the upper legislature = a huge amount of power.

Historically, I think it's been exceedingly rare to have as finely balanced government as recent times have featured.

And to me, the Supreme Court is less about the people currently sitting on it, and more about the fact that they have all dedicated their lives to the legal profession.

They may rule one way or another on hot issues, for personal reasons. But you're checking with people who all hold the rule of law (as a concept) much higher than the legislature or executive. Which is a valuable check to have.

In that way, they're more like the UK's Speaker of the House of Commons.
No, the vast overwhelming majority of people in major cities (where the jobs are) rent houses with roommates or live in small apartments. Moreso than in previous generations. Renting a house with roommates is increasingly the best long-term plan even many 30-somethings I know can ever hope to afford

The instinct to assume that trends affecting entire generations of people are "personal choices" rather than economic issues is a common delusion that usually comes from listening to the messaging of companies responsible for these problems when they are discussed
You've built observable but for python. Love it!
in 2013, Reddit community managers cheerfully announced that Eglin Air Force Base, home to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)'s Psychological Operations team, was the "most Reddit addicted city" https://web.archive.org/web/20150113041912/http://www.reddit...

all debates on social media have already been astroturfed to hell and back by professional posters for many years, but LLMs are certainly going to function as a force multiplier