skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be happy to pay $10 for this but definitely not a monthly subscription when Mail.app is free.
This and the iPad "We'll remind you later" iPad notification nag are significant problems. I am a big supporter of Signal, but it's certainly hostile to those escaping an abusive situation. Usernames are a step in the right direction at least.
Should go on peer review, and demand replication of results before accepting a paper's findings, in an ideal world.
Most European countries are excluded:

> Image generation in Gemini Apps is available in most countries, except in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, and the UK. It’s only available for English prompts.

(https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14286560?hl=en)
For users who want strong security is messaging signal should not be considered because they lie to users about their risks, and they store sensitive data in the cloud. It's easy to use and not a bad chat/IM system, but I would never trust it to protect your data.
Apple Vision Pro supports Panavision 70 films
What exactly about Thunderbird 115 ruined it? I run 115 and it looks mostly the same as before. I avoid the "cards" view because it has numerous problems, but the "classic" view works fine for me.
TikTok is distraction, TV is entertainment? What is the difference here?
> Signal protects you from eavesdropping and data hoarding

Do they?! We can ask Tucker Carlsons about that https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/16evuej/did_the_nsa...

As long as you can’t host and use your own server, you should never assume that.

> There are benefits of the choices they’ve made, namely ensuring that most users of the service are “real people”

You communicate with your colleagues and clients over emails and you know they are real, you probably play games too and use discord and you know they are real, meanwhile you can be talking to bot in twitter that they are registered with a “real” phone number.
That's actually a fantastic example of the difference between actually owning something and not: I am absolutely allowed to modify my car in any way I please, including installing a ignition bypass.
The apps and most of the backend are open source too, not just the protocol.

The important distinction is that it's not decentralized like XMPP or email, which is a conscious decision: it would become very difficult to change it to add new features and they'd be left behind by closed-source competitors (see: XMPP).
Google Plans "Gemini Business" AI for Workspace Users
That sounds like the old "I don't do bad things therefore I don't need privacy" pro-spying argument.
You're misreading the answers. In sample A, 45% are in favor of reintroducing National Service and (38% oppose it). In sample B, the phrasing is reversed, meaning that 34% are in favor (and 48% oppose it). So, the difference is 11 percentage points.
The Secret Oil-Trading Ring That Funds Russia's War
Locked gates in historic L.A. neighborhood spark debate in City Council election
Haven't used HexWalk, but ImHex definitely supports this. It's called out in their README under Data Searching, called Sequence Search.

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex/blob/v1.32.2/README.md?plai...
Well maybe not what it wants, but probably (depending on culture) what it _rewards_.
Do you have recommendations for other high quality courses teaching CS things?
Do you have details on this? Given that usernames just came out, I don’t expect they’re storing many of them, but I’m interested in specifically a source for “a list of everyone you have contacted with signal”
Wouldn't you have an alternate navmesh for sounds with the appropriate "cost" heuristics based on how well sounds propagates through the mesh's material and across media?
Young people care and are very aware of what they share and don't share. That's why Facebook is only popular with boomers now.

Young people are in private chat groups, using alts on Instagram, and then only sharing the most anodyne content publicly under their real name.
That would also be my guess, but I live in western Europe.
Telegram has channels and groups that work in a weird but very useful way. That's mostly the draw for me, not really the private messaging. Though the UX is just amazing, even for private messages. Everything is just super neat and where you expect it to be. I'd still probably not use it if it wasn't for how channels work
I’m surprised Apple didn’t launch with this. Why do you have to wait for visionOS1.1 for video?
I usually ssh into it, so sshd runs on one and irssi on the other. Also, the whole computer is just got fun.

The motherboard also has a UW SCSI interface, but I have no disks left sadly. The 10k rpm Seagate died a long time ago.
In my opinion, anyone who uses the term "woke propaganda" unironically is anti-American.
It's much simpler to get the links via pandas read_html:

import pandas as pd

tables = pd.read_html('https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_dog_breeds', extract_links="all")

tables[-1]
100% this. This should not be rocket science. Time to kick out faculty and problematic students that want to make math and comp sci and biology about these types of things. Leave those for politics and philosophy classes where real and meaningful debate can take place.
Where do you work?

How does the business that pays your salary make its money?

Do they pay you for your efforts on a subscription based model or a one time-payment + ownership model?
Yeah, nah, it might be fashionable but I'm not 100% convinced that it's not an operation intended to be a lightening rod for "private" communication.

Given how tightly they control development, disallow third-party clients, disallow federation, disallow self-hosting servers, have a history if disallowing use without google play and have hid huge development features from the public (mobile-coin) despite being open source. etc;

The idea that it's a great undertaking of our time is so bombastic that it's guaranteed to be false even if you truly believe that they are completely altruistic (which I'm willing to believe but it's not coming easy to me based on the above).

"What's better"? Matrix. Which seeks to solve all of my points, the only thing lacking is market share which honestly is partially caused by these "easy to use" services which trade off everything else, which also consumes developer mind-share even if you're unwilling to acknowledge that. (devs are motivated to solve issues for friends, family and themselves if they are exposed more frequently to systems and services that are sub-par).
I've been following Rive for a while, it's an interesting approach. I think it was a response to the fact that Lottie was tied to AdobeXD (I think?). I'm not sure if Rive's renderer is open source though.
Well, they have a losing argument, because it's easy to present clear evidence of antisemitism delivered by Palestinian advocates (just like it's easy to present Kahanist rhetoric from Israeli advocates). I gave an undeniable specific example from Harvard's faculty SJP. There is stuff being said that is indefensible, and angrily denying it isn't going to get you anywhere; it just discredits your cause.
>They're messengers. They have messenger features.

And some are better at being messengers than others.
This is easy to say until the providers start playing DRM fuck-fuck games and you can't get an HD/UHD feed. I gave up using my HTPC and just started using the TV apps because the HDCP troubleshooting was just getting too painful.
Hi there! I am a moderator of said subreddit and the maintainer of its recommendation guide, so I think I'll speak up on behalf of the community. Addressing the points in order...

We do, in fact recommend lots of brands that don't pay for space in retail stores and haven't been around for decades. Isn't that the point of asking an enthusiast community for advice?

A while back, lights with lots of mix-and-match bits that could be assembled without tools were pretty popular, especially the Surefire P60 system. These have fallen out of favor for a number of reasons including the increasing popularity of electronic switches over mechanical and an increase in availability of build-to-order lights. DIY stuff is still popular for hobbyists, but usually involves soldering.

Removable batteries are absolutely a consideration for most of the community. A flashlight with non-removable batteries is future e-waste and can't have spares. Lights without removable batteries only make my list when they're a weird form factor (usually very small) and low-priced without good removable battery alternatives. We almost always try to talk people out of routine use of disposable batteries, but many popular models have a disposable option as a backup.

I do not often see people steering beginners toward models with extreme outputs; the opposite is often true. We're constantly talking to people about sustained output versus peak output, color rendering, efficiency, and ultra-low modes.

As for brands that manufacture in the USA, very few people asking for advice come with the sort of budgets those brands usually require. Trying to talk someone looking to spend $60 on a light to walk their dog with into spending $300 on a Modlite or Surefire isn't helpful.
> plus a little bit in interest.

That "little bit" in interest adds up to $1 Trillion per year.

> The lie being pushed by politicians is that the debt is something to worry about.

The annual cost of servicing our debt is currently >20% of federal revenues. What happens when it's >50%? What happens when it's >100%?
This is basically an advertisement for the site's scraping proxy service.
At this point that's entirely unclear. Because they're keeping your data in the cloud my guess is that the US government can easily access that data and any other government can get anyone's data as long as they can guess the person's PIN. You can find a discussion on the problems with their security here: https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...
I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't query the wisdom of using Discord to celebrate local-first software dev ;)
I just donated the minimum amount to Signal through the app (~$3), I encourage all other users to do the same, because every time a Signal article is posted it’s a reminder how dystopian IM would be if there was no realistic, privacy respecting option for ”normal people”.

It’s probably the only piece of privacy friendly software I’ve recommended to older relatives that actually stuck. It’s not fancy, but it’s solid, simple and does what it’s supposed to.
Lotsa CS majors

https://twitter.com/focusfronting/status/1759707849117094363
Actually, a browser COULD implement subresource integrity for bookmarked urls - it would just require another field in the bookmark metadata. They could arrange for 'rightclick, save as bookmark' to pull the sri hash from the link and autocopy it into the bookmark.
#featurerequest
This one is a classic (instant classic), I can't say anything about this better than Dan did.

What I can offer is a personal anecdote about what an amazing guy he is. I had been a fan of his blog for a while, and at one point I decided to just email him and offer to fly to wherever he was because I wanted to hear his thoughts on a number of topics.

This was in maybe 2016, but even then I didn't expect someone who must get a zillion such emails to even reply, let alone invite me up to Seattle at my leisure! I think I had the flight booked on a Wednesday for a departure on Friday, for one night's stay, and Dan was profoundly generous with his time, we stayed up late into the night chatting and I learned a great deal, especially about the boundary between software and hardware (a topic on which he is a first-order expert with an uncommon gift for exposition).

I had the great fortune of spending some real time with Dan not just once but twice! When I went to NYC to get involved with what is now the Reels ML group, he happened to also be in NYC, and I had the singular pleasure to speak with him at length on a number of occasions: each illuminating and more fun than you can have without a jet ski.

Dan is a singularly rigorous thinker with the dry and pithy wit of a world-class comedian and a heart of gold, truly generous with his expertise and insight. I'm blessed to have met and worked with a number of world-class hackers, but few, few if any are such a joy to learn from.
Are there any precast "standard" stones? preferrably something symmetric and rubber coated. Maybe why I prefer flipping big tires.
That you cannot name any similar biases by people on the left...clearly shows where your biases lie.
> I'd wager you will find far more Westerners who are familiar with (some of) the Eastern classics than the other way round. No idea how you would come to believe that the reverse is the case, or that correction is needed in that regard.
>In fact, I suspect that more people in the West have read the Tao Te Ching or The Art of War than the Iliad, by quite a margin (if only because of the difference in length). The former two are certainly much more common to see in bookstores than the latter.

It would be interesting to find out. My East Asian POV is adopted from a Korean direction. My wife and all of her siblings studied Journey to the West, and a few Chinese classics, as well as the Greek epics and Beowulf in grade school.

My personal anecdote is that I had heard of the Confucian classics in history class, and seen the Art of War mentioned in mid-80s Western media as a "tips for business" fad. I had never heard of Journey to the West, or the Tao Te Ching or I Ching until I was well into adulthood in the late 90s.

> Also, I'm not sure whether Beowulf should be counted among the "foundations of Western Civilization". It's very rarely read outside the Anglosphere, and even there its importance is primarily linguistic.

I think many historians would disagree with you. It's cited as the first written work in an ancient English dialect and has been taught to billions of school children, and
while in the dialect of the scribes who recorded it, it's well understood to represent northern Germanic people, places, and events, and captures a key historic period of the transitional period of Christianization of those people that predates many other records by hundreds of years, such as those produced by the court of Charlemagne.

Unless of course you don't think the Anglosphere or Germanic peoples have contributed anything to the formulation of Western Civilization and it's just a weird coincidence that it's assumed in most places in the world that when they see a Westerner, they assume they speak English on some level. Bah, no contribution of any kind.
This is true. At every point where Telegram and Signal had the choice between being a pleasant messenger experience or being secure and private, each made decisions consistent with all their previous decisions.
It is also well known that a defense force composed of volunteers performs better than one composed of conscripts, and it is well known that performing conscription tends to make the populace unhappy.
Beyond what's possible: New JWST observations unearth mysterious ancient galaxy
There was a time we thought of physics as just a discipline physicists do, detached from the use of the science.

Then two cities got wiped off the map in intentional runaway nuclear reactions.

A whole generation of physicists learned the hard way that if you don't make hard sciences at least a little like those types of things, you may lack the framework to realize when you're being co-opted into a machine that kills... That "pure" science takes huge moral risks if it believes itself to be detachable from the world it is trying to explore.

Credit where credit is due, they responded to the new challenge (https://pugwash.org/).
Generally it's enough to archive the retrieved HTML just in case.
Welcome to Cloud Computing.
Well personal thoughts are most important product and they want to collect it for free. Is there self hosting version ?
It is very interesting, but there are plenty of stoppers for me:

1. Subscription model. I will be willing to pay even $250 for a good email client, that is superior to the native macOS client. If it really adds more features that I need. Meaning, I can use mostly all the email related features offered by Fastmail. But I am not willing to support subscription models.

2. No iOS client. I use email on macOS and iOS. Not having support for iOS is a dealbreaker. I want the same client.

3. No trial. As it seems like. I actually tried to download the app. There is a Sign-In page with a disabled Sign In button. I guess I need to subscribe to try it. I can spare $3, but I don't want to support subscription models. Seriously, give me an option to try it for 14–30 days, I will pay for it $100-$200, and you can ask me to pay you again for an upgrade in 3–4 years.

4. The main reason I don't want to try it, also because I am sure, there are probably some nice features, but at the same time, there are most likely so many issues with integrations between other apps. Like links from Reminders to the Mail client, or from Notes to the Mail client. And based on the roadmap [1] it seems like this is mostly MVP product.

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[1] https://feedback.swiftmail.io/roadmap/roadmap
I switched to movies only because I realized that TV was encouraging this behavior. It's a lot easier to watch television without looking at it. It's easier for me to consciously put down my phone for 90 to 180 minutes then it is for me to do so for however long I get stuck in a television binge.
This is exaggerated re. C, but it is true that the important thing for practical security is whether memory safety is violated in practice, and obscure compiler bugs you have to go out of your way to try to exploit don't affect that. That being said, this bug is pretty bad, and it should be fixed.

I should point out that the reason the bug is difficult seems to mainly be because of backwards compatibility concerns. If compatibility weren't an issue, Rust could just ban function contravariance and nobody would care.
I'd be careful using LLMs to learn mathematical concepts. I asked ChatGPT for the axioms of set theory, I was still in the "use ChatGPT as a search engine to see what happens" phase. It left out two of them and got one subtly wrong. It's the last bit you really have to watch out for.

Math is exact. It's a bad fit for a machine-that-guesses-words.
Looks cool. How do you see this differing from streamlit? https://streamlit.io/
Yeah, that's pretty much the case. Cheap SSDs provide good enough performance for desktop use.
My number one requirement for any email interface is that it easily shows the "conversation history" of any contact I'm seeing. This saves me so much time, with the current software I use. I don't love my current software, though, so I'm always on the lookout for new options. Is this a planned feature?
A few months ago I tried to register an account, but I was denied.

I don't know why, never got a response...

I went with ovh.
Except that, you can actually disable them.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...
The code in the intro blog post seems to be broken:

Hyperdiv does this:

def my_ui(hide_text=False):
button("Button 1")
if show_text:
text("Hello")
button("Button 2")
Click my timestamp, and hit reply instead of editing.

I'm keeping this up because it's fairly entertaining and I've got nothing better to do. Do I seem even the slightest offended? I'm just curious to see how far you'll take it, now we're at "let's go outside, let's go outside", I'm just grinning and getting a kick from your reaction.

Me keeping my online and real-life presences separate has more to do with integrity than the opinions you see here. Even if I'm anonymous I'm never insulting or unnecessarily rude, you'll see me calling out people for being so though.

I'm the same IRL, since you've read my comments you know it's the controversies that get me going. That's where the interesting discussions are and what stimulates me. I'm used to the entire table loosing their shit and me calmly asking leading questions until they realize we're in agreement.
In one sense you are right. But the spirit of the times at some institutions is not to be an American so you can make a better America. It's to foment violence and division and outrage even levied at the reliability and strength of the highest institutions like the SCOTUS and the Constitution and secure borders.

Furthermore, these types of things replace real learning on math and science and history and other things that have volumes of education available sans these ideas.
Most of our users today have just been word of mouth, so we need to work harder on flexing our marketing muscles. I'd love to hear more about your experiences reaching PMs specifically.

Early on we reached out to various PMs on Linkedin and set up some calls that way but that was more for feedback and direction-setting than anything else. I think most of our growth with larger teams has started from the founder or C-level as opposed to PMs but that might be a sign we need to improve more here.
It's not even fake voluntary. It's legally required, with punishment for not.
> SSDs in the cloud are attached over a network, and fundamentally have to be

SANs can still be quite fast, and instance storage is fast, both of which are available in cloud providers
Same with Google. When they announced that Compose was now "stable" I laughed out loud and said "they just slapped a 1.0 version on it, didn't they?". And yes they did. We're a lot of releases later and it's still no fun to debug weird-ass issues. Last week I had two textfields, and both of them had focus at the same time!
Show HN: Lookaway – a native macOS app for saving your eyes
It’s an excellent design choice, it more or less completely eliminates “vanity names” and the “value” of shorter names.
Yeah good question. I do a lot of email on planes and travel where there is no internet. In fact I refuse to use any software that isn’t offline first these days.

I was a Fastmail customer for many years but moved to apple’s iCloud+ when they introduced custom domain support as that works entirely offline on all my devices. Also that gives iPhone/mac integrated contacts and calendars with zero hassle that actually syncs to everything properly. It’s cheaper per seat as well (£25 a month for that plus Apple Music for 6 people a month). No brainer.
PS — Do you trust that your Notes will not disappear one day in some kind of OS-update-related or iCloud-related hiccup? I guess I still feel nervous from the "me.com" days in which Apple's cloud storage simply didn't work.
People who subpoena Whatsapp know who your friends are.
Telegram? Neither ICQ (1996), nor Skype (2003) required phone numbers. That's a later trend, part of general enshittification of internet.
Trustpilot is a scam which encourages bad reviews to force companies to buy their paid plan to “manage” those bad reviews and to feed it good reviews.
Panama Canal expansion rewrites history of worlds most ecologically diverse bats
Maybe I’ve been extraordinarily lucky, but I’ve always just asked and people were so excited that an engineer would actually care about things that are on their mind all day every day.

Might be more common in companies managed by OKR where you always know the business impact of your work. The business impact is your prime objective and you’re free to figure out the implementation.
I didn't call it a "flop", I said it's status as a flop doesn't correlate to how good a product is. The Butterfly Keyboard never flopped, but it also never got a legitimate competitor. People bought them because they were forced to, same as they were with Airpods and arguably the Apple Watch.

I feel the same way about a lot of Apple products. The Magic Trackpad would sell out instantly if it got a new model with USB-C - but Apple knows they can ship more Lightning cables if they avoid it. It's part of the sinister math that goes into making you and I rely on Apple's constant... ahem, Innovation.