skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems quite similar to Firefox Focus, an app from Mozilla which also comes with adblocking built in: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/mobile/focus/

Your thingie has some cool features and the screenshots look nice. If I was picking between the two based on that I’d give you a shot, but I’m curious about your plans.

Are y’all a for-profit company? What is your business plan?
I wonder if that could be because MySQL 8's replication is backwards compatible but MySQL 5.7's isn't forwards compatible. If so, it makes sense that you're only able to move forward.
They are allowed have friends and to communicate with them?
iOS has supported Safari extensions since iOS 15 (late 2021). There are far fewer extensions for Safari than Chrome or Firefox; they've been steadily adding more as Safari gets closer to the same Web Extension standard used by other browsers, but most developers still shun iOS support since the extension has to be wrapped in an iOS app rather than being loaded from the web.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/get-extensions-iphab0...
Props for saying it.

The kids would hate it, but then, they hate laws against selling tobacco & alcohol to minors and letting them into X-rated movies too. Too bad. It's for your own good, Junior.

"They'd just find ways around it" ?? Then we'll block those, too. We don't need to be 100% effective.
You may enjoy learning and using different implementations for networking, storage, DNS, containerization...from time to time.

But I just learnt Kubernetes and suddenly all those implementations become interchangeable and my knowledge is transferable between homelab and work, and even across companies and platforms.
> How is double stair MFH overzealous?

I suggest reading the article, which is intended to answer this question in depth. It provides concrete examples!
> I think the issue is that they could have taken steps to lower their rate, but didn't.

This is where it gets tough really fast. For arguemnt's sake, let's say semantic analysis can properly identify patterns well at 95% level (oooooffff already can see problems).

Public/wall comments on any platform are relatively easy to police. But, I argue the vast majority of problematic grooming comes from DMs. Policing DMs seems worse than trying to do hash analysis of private photos.

I don't think there's a win scenario here for anyone involved.

[edit]

> they could check the birthday of people,

yeah because this is answered honestly by predators.
New USGS map shows where damaging earthquakes are most likely to occur in US
After interviewing with a few teams and execs I'd be interfacing with in a Principal role, there was a pause, so I pinged them, and I got a rejection email.

Then the HR contact reached out, to say they thought I'd be a great fit for the company, and would I be interested in any roles there in the future.

Then I learned that they'd had a surprise big org chart upset (maybe AI poaching).

I suppose it's reasonable that surprise changes high up the org chart can prompt a company to pause other changes, while they assess the new situation.
> train an LLM to differentiate appropriate vs inappropriate comments
> popup asking ... which would be triggered by client-side javascript based on a hashed word

Yeah, this is the feature that I think I should build my own social media for. Owning "the algorithm" and using it to indoctrinate users en masse with my own view. Are you sure you want to insist it's in any way or form even remotely ethical thing to do?
Yes per day, it’s still a minute percentage
Honestly, I don't know. I'm not into nootropics, just a random "fact" I was aware of (fact being this group considers it a nootropic lol). But I'll reference the reddit guide if you want to dig in yourself[0]. But I'm not sure I would expect a great answer as these types of subreddits often have an abundance of unwarranted confidence.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/wiki/beginners/#wiki_cre...
It's up for "pre-registration".

But I'll gladly give this a shot with a sideload.
If a company's "culture" craters after a single round of layoffs, then the culture wasn't doing well at all.

When things are going well, everyone is happy, and the culture feels solid. But culture is also important, arguably more, when things aren't going well.

There have been enough accounts like this that it's safe to say Google is beyond just smoke; there is a fire.
... and how many of us knew this before the article?
>That is an extremely specific situation!

It’s an example. Can you generalize it or should I?
It is mind boggling how a high level Apple employee would not use Apple's own parental control abilities to safe guard their child's online activity. They aren't even supposed to be using the IG platform at twelve years old. I hope Meta would throw that back in Apple's face if they kicked up a stink.

Obviously this kind of harassment should not exist in the first place but parents who work in tech should be held more accountable for not protecting their kids imo.
It is a reference to the high-severity CVE kerfuffle that the Curl project was exposed to recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051159
Another thing is people weren't just meh about G+ but because of the 'you now must use real names across our properties, yes, including youtube' message people were actively hostile to it.
But but but I love my walled garden ...
If you don’t drive the bus (act as the numbering authority), then you’ll be hit by the bus (get bogus CVEs) and end up under the bus.
I would call this divide more-so serverless vs servers than self hosting. I"ve recently gone the opposite direction. I used to think serverless was too exepensive and unpredictable but after almost a decade of Go and 2 years of Rust I'm really coming the opinion that the resources required to run services are completely warped.

2 cores and 4GB ram is the recommended specs to run the 2008 game Crysis. It's hard to imagine that moving JSON around (which is probably 95% of services) is more demanding than Crysis. As I've begun really paying attention to the services being deployed you can actually get a lot of mileage out of the free tier especially now that they support running native binaries.
Get Rich by Becoming a Sales Engineer
Yes, this version uses OpenAI LLMs.
Exactly, it's important in these situations to put aside the concerns about children and instead we need to have a lengthy, detailed discussion on the exact nature of the use of the phrase "sexual harassment".

Once we have accomplished that, we can truly acknowledge that we've made the world a better place.
Sorry to be blunt, but how does knowing how to sell software make you good at writing it? What’s the end goal of the act of writing code supposed to be?
Noisey as in - virtual snow kind of noisey?
Ask HN: Non-Android OS for Pixel 6 Pro?
I tried switching to de-Googled Android a while back, and it didn’t work out. The upshot is that I have a flagship-class phone that apparently boots mainline Linux with good driver support.

I don’t have any interest in running an Android variant on it, at least not as a daily-driver phone. Are there any other things to try?
C worked for the last fifty years or so, I think it has staying power for the next five.

But more seriously, just keep learning stuff. New languages, systems, tools, whatever grabs your interest.
Dave Mills has died
Could someone enlighten me on how one goes about testing whether a particular crypto implementation is vulnerable to side-channel attacks?

In high school I implemented a basic ECDH key exchange algorithm, which I compiled to WASM, and it can be tested at the bottom of my blog: https://gredal.dev/projects/elliptic-curves

Using only the WASM blob, without looking at the source code for exploits, how would Alice find Bobs private key?
Apparently my phone is incompatible. Does this browser require Android 14?

I'll be honest, I'll probably stick with an open source browser, but it's worth trying out apps like these to see how browsers could be done. Based on the screenshots, the URL bar design is intriguing and the playlist feature seems better integrated than the extension based background playback Firefox offers.
Here's a hypothetical for a two-stairwell building: two couches.

We can avoid this dangerous scenario with a three-stairwell minimum requirement.
Not writing JavaScript for money ever again. I switched careers. Now all future jobs will either be in management or require certifications or someone else more naive can have it.

My solution in general terms is to go where competence isn’t ambiguous.
If I apply for US visa (which I will not, ever!), I have to wait for 3 years and get single entry visa at best which is ridiculous, they also ask for insane amount of info from me!
What you're referring to is called, no joke, the Stoned Ape Theory. It is not really taken seriously at the moment, as it completely lacks in evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_ape_theory
As a safety measure, it doesn’t, unless I missed something. In fact it says there has been barely any analysis
Not admitting senior leaders screwed up the strategy and over-hired.
Another Attack Vector for SMS Interception
What a fascinating reason.
Why are children allowed on the computer at all? Why are they allowed outside the house? Why are they allowed to leave their rooms? Why are they allowed to have friends? Why are they allowed to talk to anyone? Why are they allowed to do literally anything at all? Why are they allowed to exist?
The gun points one way
> Fair enough; I didn't go hunting around for my discs to check the order of "video" and "CD" in the moniker.

Yeah, sorry, I forget how to people sometimes. Just a nerd who burned a LOT of VCDs back when DVD burners were expensive yet DVD players that read VCDs were cheap so it's one of those details buried in my brain that just came out.
Maybe heat it up a bit and filter the moon dust! Good to go.
I don't think this is the same thing as "noisy brain", but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this before since it sounded similar. Sometimes, typically when I'm sick and I'm trying to sleep through the symptoms (e.g. sleep all night and all day), it seems like my brain gets bored or something and suddenly I cannot stop thinking/dreaming about something. That something is different every time it happens, but it's the same thing over and over repeating in my head. Eventually my head starts to hurt and I'm seemingly forced to be awake as it is the only way to stop this.
I heard modern OS protection mechanisms prevent debuggers do things like SoftICE did. Is it true? Where can I grab more information?
What is currently the largest carbon dioxide sequestration operation in the world is pretty much a running joke, not the least for being some years past the initial starting date, accounting for a tiny tiny fraction of the CO2 emitted by the larger gas project, and essentially being little more than a distraction from ongoing CO2 from oil and gas operations as usual.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Carbon_Dioxide_Inject...

Chevron are not "trying to help", they're actively engaged in smoke and mirrors.
The competitor features comparison is not accurate. For example, Brave does have playlist. And I Firefox has flavors with built in ad-block
When I saw an article that linked here, I was thinkiong about Phil Foglio, because I was familiar with the version of the logo that he drew.
Locality-Enhanced Projector for Multimodal LLM (licensed under Apache 2.0)
I didn't say trickles down. My claim is that it leads to GDP growth. How it gets allocated is another question.
You can always edit it after the fact.
I'm not sure, honestly. I certainly think it's a risk that the next big war starts, it goes poorly for America, and then we resort to nuclear weapons to squeeze out "victory" (i.e. everybody dies) if we're all going to die anyway.

But I think there's another possibility that most people aren't considering: disintegration. It's very common for countries to cease to exist as countries when they start losing a war, particularly a war that happens because they're moribund and falling apart internally anyway. Witness the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian Empires in WW1; the end of the Roman empire; England during the War of the Roses in the aftermath of the Hundred Years War; Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the wake of the Cold War; etc. This also doesn't have to wait until the end of the conflict: most of the big disintegrations in WW1 happened in 1917, before the armistice, and sometimes even to "victorious" parties.

Modern nuclear weapons are very tightly controlled with PALs, so that you physically can't arm them without correct codes produced by the Pentagon/NSA bureaucracy. If that bureaucracy falls apart, it's likely they will just rot in their silos, while humanity dukes it out with relatively primitive technology because nobody wants to work together anymore.
My brother used it to keep getting alcohol while he was home bound due to complications from diabetes. He was able to hide his consumption from us during the last few months of his life because Drizly delivered for him.

I'm not attacking them or anything, I'm sure there are people out there who are home bound who love to get a bit of a tipple now and then for whom such a service is wonderful. It just wasn't in my family's case.
Well before Snowden, there was a techie joke: "Want to work for the NSA? Call your mom and tell her."

I guess Palantir doesn't have the same reputation for capability.
https://archive.ph/MyzXW
Good point. Why do we even bother with two-lane roads and a double yellow line? Such a waste of space. Very contrived to presume there is always a car coming the other way
Self-Rewarding Language Models
https://archive.ph/G8Ppk
I'll guess this is people who can afford a big stand-alone house in a nice area
Wow, that's some history to this. I used to believe MITRE deserved some respect, but now, I'm not sure I do anymore.
I have always been fascinated in the fact that psychedelics, and, indeed, any plant-based molecule that can mimic a neurotransmitter, exists.

Us and plants aren't creating the same molecule because we share a common ancestor. There are far too many other plants that don't create cannabinoids or opiates or whatever, and far too many other animals that don't create them, for this to be at all likely. It had to have evolved multiple times.

It's not any kind of symbiotic relationship. Our ancestors didn't cause opiates to evolve by selectively eating and spreading their seeds.

So it's a coincidental convergent evolution. But these are really complex molecules doing quite different things. Both cannabinoids and opiates evolved in plants to defend them from viruses and fungi. I don't know what other neurotransmitter-mimics are for, but they're not being used for plant nerves.

I'm sure people know the answers to this, and I could read a book about it.
Yes. I still remember back in the day we used PC Tools to modify hot game data and bought pirated games from corners of alleys.
> I guess education in the US has local standards?

Very much so! The US didn’t have a Department of Education until the 90s.
The “standard” place for geometry is 10th grade (after algebra 1 in 9th grade). A few geometric ideas have been moved from geometry to algebra 1 so that slope can be explained using similar triangles but this is just about memorizing explanations instead of doing proofs.

Today, if you aren’t in an honors geometry section, you likely learn a handwavy version of two-column proofs and do some pretty linear proofs that way. No symbolic logic, no mathematical writing.
> if your implementation.. is used as the first layer...

Don't you have this backward? The inner-most (first) layer would be the unverified roll-your-own, the outer layer would be standard. Outer layers are the first to be penetrated to get to the plaintext, not the inner layers... I'm intuiting as a non-crypto guy so please correct me if wrong.
> With a cart you might want to add a ‘cart state/session’ id so you can share it

That might not work for carts that work by temporarily 'booking' an item, like a seat for a cinema ticket. By definition, the cart is unique to a user.
Can someone explain what this means?

“It’s nice that they use hindpaw stimulation as it adds a translational component” says Anubhuti Goel, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, who was not involved in the study. Past research has often opted for whisker stimulation, which is clearly not relevant to people, she says.

Translational means it can translate more easily to people? I don't really get it tho.
10th grade is the “on level” time to take geometry.
Here's an Associated Press article:

https://apnews.com/article/burger-king-franchisee-carrols-15...
That is a question of whether or not it's responsible to open source it at all - what I'm asking is how would responsibly open sourcing something look, vs irresponsibly open sourcing the same thing.
Meta doesn’t have the Quest certified for Widevine levels needed for higher quality playback.

That’s really all it is. Till Meta put in the effort, nobody will really want to support them.
It's theft.
Thank you for taking the time to explain, your explanation is clear and gives me something to think about. But I have a question about:

> But it's quite easy to turn a correct encryption algorithm into an incorrect one by bolting on something seemingly innocuous.

Isn't every poorly designed web app essentially a giant "bolt on" to the encryption algorithm (HTTPS, etc) it is served through?

If there's a get_thread API, which zips the comment thread, includes it in some JSON as base64 along with other metadata (only the thread itself is zipped), and then sends that as the response over HTTPS, is that not secure? Nobody would bat an eye at this scenario, but it's essentially the same as your example because the plaintext is compressed before encrypting and sending. If it's okay to do this for a web app, why is it not okay to do it as part of a home-made RSA implementation.

(Of course, I'm not actually arguing for a second layer of encryption because it is unnecessary. But my understanding is that it wouldn't cause any harm and I'm trying to understand if that's correct or not.)
I don't think it's VC funding as much as being a public company, and being beholden to quarterly earnings. That's the cycle for most "revolutionary" tech companies that end up needing to keep revenue growth going each quarter.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's wrong or bad, but just the way corporations work.
No it would be much worse. Some of the material posted on HN is great and it's good to keep up with things. I check HN once every four or five days. The rest of the time I'm working, as you should be.
Funny because YouTube and Netflix are present in the competing meta quest ecosystem.

I don't really understand why they don't go for this especially because it's not a terrible lot of work to port their iOS apps.
It's a propaganda piece using children as political weapons in an effort to weaken encryption worldwide. Would be bizarre if encryption denouncement was not present. If you see anyone using children as an argument, they're arguing in bad faith. It's worse than Godwin's law.
Some of these animations transported me back 20-25 years ago to the days when I would have Winamp cranking with its visualization plugins. Fun times.

Cool animations here.
> any package that depends on a 
deprecated
 package may, unknowingly, become vulnerable itself.

Fixed it.
Metaverse got boring quick
There are >3 billion active meta users. What Chinese companies have more users than this? From a quick search tik tok has 1/3 of that
Yes.

From my perspective the conversation here is generally awful. It’s the same tired faux genius rhetoric over and over again. How many times will I read “these companies are just way too bloated” as the top comment on a layoff post? It’s always written with perfect confidence as if the commenter understands the chaos of the tech industry better than anybody else. People upvote it because it sounds good without ever thinking critically about what they just read. Well written, confident, and reassuring to me (as one of the few competent tech employees)? Upvote!

How many times will people reply to the top comments with some vaguely related point they desperately want to make and that they feel is worth hijacking your attention for? Every single time.

How many times will a top comment ask questions that are clearly answered in the link? We’re not even allowed to tell them to RTFA because that’s against HN rules. Posting the comment isn’t though.

I stick around for those rare diamonds in the rough. The moments where an actual, proven genius logs in to post their yearly comment. Usually because somebody posted a link to their work and the top comment has hopelessly misunderstood it.
and why have you heard of them?
Would that explain getting past an auth wall though, i.e. loading the HTML page as if the user were logged in but without auth headers and cookies?
> If they think you are using bots in this way they will ban you from all of their services.

If you're self-hosting everything like the person above recommends, then the only services that they can ban you from are the services that show you ads, which sounds like a win.
The Reason the Office Isn't Fun Anymore
Any reliable provider? Or is the solution to buy a server and colocate somewhere else?
Goatse set up shop on a plot of mental real estate nothing else would go near. its in a bad part of town, but acts as a kind of landmark being the only object anything like its kind for miles in all directions.

edit: removed the unintentional reference to the url; I did not expect it would still be active!
In Search of Hidden Conservation Laws
Classical Mechanics in JAX inspired by scmutils from "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics"!
>> But I haven't seen a model that works to date

Sure you have. Amazon grew without giving stuff away for free. Customers paid (just below market rate) from day 1. This demonstrated the -convenience- of ecommerce. It had revenues from the first sale. Yes, it spent mountains of VC money on marketing and development, but -not- on just buying stuff for you so you think it'll be free forever.

Uber is the same, although it's less clear that users will pay gor what a ride really costs. (And their margin makes it attractive for competition)

In both cases though there us revenue from customers from day 1. You can wind prices up. It's really hard to "go from free to paid".
More likely Carmack left because meta stopped pushing hard for the metaverse as their future and the lawsuit involving him left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth. Not sure why we’d take his declaration of building AGI seriously when he isn’t an AI researcher but a video game programmer.
More about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills
We make file formats. It's all C and we work on the low-level FFmpeg C API and low-level jpeg & brotli apis. We use GCC. I didn't know there's C89 and gnuc89 lol
Polishing Voice Recordings with AI
I've created an app that takes voice recordings, edits them, and returns them as re-voiced versions, either in the same voice or in someone else's. Here's the code of the hackathon version, which I later turned into a full app: https://github.com/mitkury/speech-polish

I found this approach useful for effective voice recordings where I get back a nice first draft that is easy to consume and iterate on.
Industrial JP is very good also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QjVeH2Z57E
Precursor to the matrix.
https://archive.is/I0h0k

imo sounds like WSJ pushing their typical narrative to try and encourage employees back to the office.
So he will change the company from Meta to AI? Since the company shifted from metaverse to AI.
Like the mice in question, humans also have limbs. Unlike the mice in question, we do not have whiskers. So this study shows that the previously observed trend is not whisker-dependent.

Doesn’t strike me as a particularly significant nor interesting point.