skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft is very literally an arm of the US government, I think people should already realize that.

Google is terrible, but Google refused (they say so we don't know how true this is), to help the US government on spying, and Microsoft stepped in.

Bill Gates gets to sit with Xi Jinping and get called a "friend" and MS has exceptions in China unlike other companies.

Microsoft wants to buy ActivisionBlizzard, gets brought to the senate on the antitrust case, and the senators start barking against Sony instead, lol.

Microsoft is very literally all the US accusses Chinese companies of being for the Chinese government, now, so far it doesn't seem like MS has done that much with our data, but who knows what the future holds.
Weird. It seems this system still has a lot of strange quirks.
> why does Signal still require a phone number in the first place?

From https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

> We use third-party services to send a registration code via SMS or voice call in order to verify that the person in possession of a given phone number actually intended to sign up for a Signal account. This is a critical step in helping to prevent spam accounts from signing up for the service and rendering it completely unusable—a non-trivial problem for any popular messaging app.

I'm not sure why you need to assume that it will be linked back to your real identity; I haven't seen anything that indicates any motivation to do something like that. I'm all for being cautious, but being overly cynical can lead to letting perfect being the enemy of the good.
The latest version before Angular 18
Footage of World's First Drone Dogfight
The Rails monolith companies probably have a better chance at adapting than the 50 microservices maintained by 10 devs companies.
I don't understand which different threat model you mean. Could you elaborate? To me, it's the same: private, end-to-end encrypted chat with rooms.
Your job involves creating images of racially ambiguous humans?
I think it's reasonable to eventually treat 32-bit embedded in the same manner we treat 8-bit and 16-bit embedded today: as "weird" architectures that have their own bespoke OSes (even if it's a fork of Linux or BSD), and on which "normal" portable code is not really expected to compile or run without modifications.
Show HN: TalkBank Batchalign – one-stop speech sample analysis tool and models
Hi HN! In the past few years with the TalkBank project, I've been hacking on a tool to make transcript analysis dead simple with CMU's TalkBank Project.

What's transcript analysis? Everything from ASR (Whisper!), morphology and syntax (grammar, your sentences, etc.), captioning and alignment (you have a transcript and you have audio, you want to know when the transcript happens line by line), or disfluencies (detect stuttering, etc.)

We've also trained custom models specifically for these tasks, such as a Whisper ASR model that's better for understanding disfluencies (https://huggingface.co/talkbank/CHATWhisper-en) and for segmenting text utterances for captioning and analysis (https://huggingface.co/talkbank/CHATUtterance-en).

I hope this can be helpful for the community for both speech science and beyond.
Large part of their operation is in Helsinki, where electricity prices are a fraction of Germany prices.
I'm not sure I would agree that the point I'm making cleanly transposes onto the details that you've selected.

For one, I think the accepted premise in this conversation up till now was that there is a real issue with software bloat. And you've switched that detail out for a different one where we assume no discernible bloat or difference in performance as time passes.

I also don't think that I understand what's going on in the pivot from generational examples to individual ones. I feel like at least the comment I replied to was pretty clearly about generational trends. But on another level I think that the upshot is the same regardless of whether your surveying that disagreement at a general level versus its equivalent manifestation at an individual level.

I think the upshot would be the same in each case as long as you keep all the details the same, and I think somewhere in the transposition from the general to the individual and agreed assumption about bloat and underperformance of software, as well as some implications about what that means about prevailing assumptions and practices surrounding software development, got lost in the translation from one to the other.
If you say "Teams" the rest is just redundant. It is the worst piece of UI ever created.
I wish it were more obvious that Signal expires its apps every 90 days.

My mom couldn't receive signal calls on the backup phone I gave her. I had disabled auto-updates since apps break UI sometimes and she gets confused by things moving around.

When I visited, I opened the signal app and was told I had to update.
>issues China may cause ...The misery inflicted into generations of the peoples found under the thumb of Uncle Sam's is almost unimaginable, it's all under wraps though

Under wraps, and yet here you are talking about it on an American website, seemingly without much fear of repercussions or being censored for it. Is it as easy or welcome to talk about Chinese committed atrocities on Chinese websites?
Court to rehear Nasdaq board diversity rule challenge, putting mandate at risk
Answer is pretty clear. You are bringing them as some sort of trick question. Economics, inflation, hyperinflation calculations can all be related and on topic of differential equations but bringing in *How neoliberal economics is causing hyperinflation does not belong to maths class.

One could mention all above physicists and more in Physics class but talking about how Einstein was misogynist would not be topic for Physics class.
i prefer mine as more apropos.
That's a really clever analogy, but is it really a trick? UberEats delivers the food to my door but if I go to Costco I have to make my dinner myself. Sometimes life happens and UberEats isn't just a convenience thing, it's the only way I'll manage to feed me and my crew. I could run a pubsub queuing system and a database myself, but if I don't have to do that, it frees me up to focus on the tasks I'm really trying to accomplish instead.
Inexhaustible Flows?
Linux. It worked out of the box. But some details here: https://docs.kernel.org/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/a...
I’m politely putting it away into the not-a-problem drawer.
The internet used to be filled with nerds and people that are interested in things enough to seek information on the web. Now, internet is a marketing tool, filled with corp influence and mostly garbage.

I really miss the old days of niche forums, gaming communities with own servers and forums. You were actually able to get decent and reliable information, now internet is mainstream.
Hello, how do you do those drawings in this post?
Another way to approach it is to ensure the inbound pipeline (to you) is good because outbound has significantly less weight and a possible sense of desperation.
If you allow people to freely post messages, it will just devolve into the same sort of facebook/twitter/tiktok/instagram toxicity. Big companies will still overwhelm you with ads on the platform.

Facebook was great for a few things when it started and was exclusive to college students, like:

1) connecting with new friends at college - it's still pretty good for this as far as I know, as long as you share exactly the same sociopolitical beliefs as the people you befriend (no longer on it).

2) organizing events (usually parties, but also dorm events or others for school) - it stopped being great after the first 2 years, when police across the country started using it to shut down parties. The culture around parties also changed. Now it's not great because a lot of people no longer use fb, and because they made changes to make it harder to actually use this feature effectively.

3) documenting how you met someone - they removed this feature around 2006 or so, there's no replacement for it on any platform that I'm aware of.

4) sharing photos with friends - Instagram is better for this. Nobody wants to look through a whole album of poorly taken photos anymore. Also normal people learned that having a ton of photos of you online could be a bad thing.
In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence showing detected state affiliated adversaries—tracked as Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, Charcoal Typhoon, and Salmon Typhoon

Does anyone else think this new APT naming scheme is terrible or is it just me?
Off the Run: Piero Sraffa and Imperial Japanese Government Bonds
I think (but don't quote me on this) that you don't need the Signal phone app to start using it. As long as you have a phone that can receive text messages, I think you can also enter the confirmation number into the desktop app.
Do they actually have that capability(genuinely asking, wouldn't know how it would work)?

You know these tweets that get reported and investigated because they "don't comply with local German laws" or whatever? I would've thought if region locks were possible then this would've stopped happening a long time ago.
Depends entirely on the group. I still have some activities that organize primarily via Facebook.

And honestly, it’s fine. HN talks about Facebook with out of control hyperbole, but I have no problem logging in and finding what I need. I could see how it would be a problem for people without impulse control or with social media addictions, but then again HN is a well known time waster website with social features as well.
Great article! The breakdown of ETL, Analytical and Production workloads is so critical to understanding the pieces of the ecosystem and the history from your experience makes it much easier to understand.
It’s all statistics. In the training set, there were probably questions asking about its capabilities and it was trained to say it has less than it does. (Or it’s a bad system prompt)

There’s no internal understanding of itself or its capabilities.
I suspect you must be conflating several different storage products. Are you saying https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd devices talk to the host through a network (say, ethernet with some layer on top)? Because the documentation very clearly says otherwise, "This is because Local SSD disks are physically attached to the server that hosts your VM. For this same reason, Local SSD disks can only provide temporary storage." (at least, I'm presuming that by physically attached, they mean it's connected to the PCI bus without a network in between).

I suspect you're thinking of SSD-PD. If "local" SSDs are not actually local and go through a network, I need to have a discussion with my GCS TAM about truth in advertising.
Depends on your definition of usable. It sends and receives messages and has been for years now.
But there are backups available in signal app
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize

> Over time, many individuals have become known as "Nobel Peace Prize Nominees", but this designation has no official standing, and means only that one of the thousands of eligible nominators suggested the person's name for consideration.[22] Indeed, in 1939, Adolf Hitler received a satirical nomination from a member of the Swedish parliament, mocking the (serious but unsuccessful) nomination of Neville Chamberlain.

https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/nobel-peace-prize/nomination...

> There are 351 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 out of which 259 are individuals and 92 are organizations.

> 351 candidates are the second highest number of candidates ever. For eight years in a row the number of candidates has been exceeding 300. The current record of 376 candidates was reached in 2016.
So they cannot get data integrity constraints done properly with a single database? Wait until they have to do seven. Also, sounds like not even proper indexes were in place, so database amateur hour.
Scrypted does this. I actually have no clue how it works but you get 2K streaming and recording.
That never worked out in my experience. Often, clients just wanted to see what your lowest price would be.
Unless you're working pro bono, the "pride of a good job done" isn't enough motivation for you either. Your employer may wish it was, though.

Point is, there is more to the equation. Employees don't exist in isolation, and when jobs actively refuse to take into account that the workers are real, living human beings, with needs and plans and dependents to feed, then resume-driven work will continue.
Metal theft was soaring in 2007 too.
I got it after a few hours. You need to install drivers/CUDA yourself, but all very straightforward. Unfortunately due to having 20GB of VRAM, I'm limited to mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q2_K but it runs fine, generating at about 40 tokens/s (65 tok/s for eval). As per official specs, it's running maxed out at 70W (being an SFF card).

(I've now tried running the Q4 mixtral which is 26GB. 18GB is on GPU, 8GB through CPU. Gets about 11 tok/s.)
How the UN Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert [video]
For what it's worth I'm often on r/Netherlands pointing out that the 30% ruling is unfair to Dutchies and downvoted to oblivion for saying it.

It would be kinda weird to have the 30% ruling available and then get mad at someone for taking it. For what it's worth, I think it's insane that people get to claim gigantic, child-crushing Dodge Rams as a business expense and pay almost zero tax, but I don't blame the truck owners, I just think those laws are stupid.

If it helps, though, I brought my job here with me, I barely go to bars because I have two young children, I don't say "like" much, and the Netherlands has horrendous demographics and probably benefits from someone who came here with kids, brought a job with them, lives car free, and has a strong desire to integrate. It would help if country built enough housing though. Funny enough, though, my landlords emigrated to my home country (the US), so I guess it's a wash when it comes to housing.
Got curious, turns out their WordPress theme adds a wild

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/themes/gds-blogs/favicon.ico">

at (or near) the bottom, and that is the old favicon.
Cognition Porn and Discursive Dehumanisation
Instagram and WhatsApp could have remained independent, but they were acquired by Facebook.

This suggests that anti-monopoly laws may not be effective.
It's an estimate based on my own experience? I'm not really sure what your specifically asking for.

And I never mentioned whether something 'qualify as information worth retaining the ability to retrieve'... are you confused about what the comment chain is about?
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Yeah, it's like you can create different circles of friends to target your messages to
I'll add that book to my reading list.

I think, more broadly, that American, British, and French "anti-communist" foreign policy has consistently been about ensuring that American, British, and French companies continue unfettered access to a colonized nation's resources. Your actual governmental or economic structure is irrelevant, so long as Shell Oil or United Fruit Company are only answerable to their shareholders, and not the people of the country they're exploiting.

Anti-communism, colonialism, nation-building, all these justifications eventually become just rationalizations for protecting specifically the colonizer's economic interests. The Great Hunger, the Bengal Famine, the Banana Massacre, the excesses of the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah, the Mandate for Palestine, the Belgian fucking Congo, all of these result from optimizing for foreign economic interests without any regard for local social interests.
FB is a result of slowly AB-tested mutated app. By the way, FB is dead.
The people I care about I want to keep away from FB.
Oh, we have IG, which is an absolute mess right now.

But really, the answer is pretty simple, just compare what people post now and 8 years ago... Now we need "perfect" stuff to post, because we got auto-curated by the algorithm.

TikTok is even worse, it basically gives you a demo version of attention for some random post and from now on you have to work on each post, because there is no followers on the app (just random people who could maybe see your post again, if algo will like it).

So, TLDR: very low expectations for social networks to be useful in any kind of form for most of people, so there is zero interest to invest anything into it (i.e. post coffee/cat/travel image? maaybe to instagram stories - these are still alive).
>If a product with tens of billions in yearly revenue is a flop, well, sign me up!

Windows 11 also sold incredibly well yet I still consider it a flop.
Yup, I was on an international trip with hardly any data allowance when all of a sudden my messages stopped sending, and I couldn't receive any new ones... That'll never happen with SMS. I love Signal, but some of their product decisions have been questionable.
> I'm thinking more in the North. Ha Giang, Cao Bang, even out to Sapa

Ah, the only parts of Vietnam poorer than Gia Lai.

Fair enough.

> Gia Lai isn't that rural

On QL14c and AH17 it isn't, but in between those two highways it definetly is (think dirt roads, wooden shanties like you'd see in neighboring Mondulkiri/Ratanakiri).

> ID cards aren't going to stop anything.

If you are distributing social assistant payments, you need identification.

If you leave identification to local PD (who are paid too little to care about being competent), it's not that difficult to bribe them to either add or remove you from a registry, or create multiple ghost identities in order to siphon social assistance payments (probably at the behest of the local party official).

The only true form of identification that is tamper-proof is biometric.

> ALL of the borders are porous

Agreed, but Laos and Cambodia are significantly more impoverished than Vietnam, especially the portions of Cambodia and Laos neighboring VN. It's hard for someone there to migrate to Thailand like how Cambodians in Siem Reap or Laotians around Vientiane do.
Backups have existing for quite some time: settings -> chats -> backups

update: only on android. turns out there are quite a few caveats for backup. See https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
Huh, happy to be proved wrong. I guess I had conflated CR with JD Power.
Bostonian, assuming that you are from Massachusetts, the Mass. House has 160 members, each representing about 44,000 people.

The average population of a Federal house district is over 750,000.

Does the size of the Mass. House feel unwieldy?
Teaching is about encouraging students to ask questions. It's hard because the questions sprout like mushrooms on the forest floor and you may not have the answers, the time, or the patience for all of them.

Indoctrination is the opposite: providing stock answers and refusing to elaborate. Using social pressure and authority to shame students and block their questions. Its purpose is to instil deference and obedience -- to enlist more soldiers for war -- not to enrich the spirit.
> The diversity rule, proposed by Nasdaq to the SEC in December 2020, required each Nasdaq-listed company to publicly disclose information on the gender, racial characteristics, and LGBTQ+ status of the company’s board of directors.

Putting aside the asininity of the rule itself, how could a company possibly comply? To ask for the information would be incredible intrusive.
"Every moment in business happens only once." -- Peter Thiel

The success of the old Facebook was very much rooted in a particular time and place. The leading edge of the Millennial generation (which was raised to be both more social and more trusting than previous generations) was in college. The Internet was new, and people were figuring out what it was for. The economy was humming along, and recovering from the dot-com bust, and people had few concerns that basic needs like housing and food would be taken care of. A website where the point was to throw sheep at each other was a nice idle diversion for that time surplus.

It also helped that Facebook was started in one of the highest social-status dorms, in the highest social-status college, among the highest social-status demographic (college students), in a generation that was tightly socially connected. I'd remarked to a coworker, when Google was just starting Google+, that we were replicating all the technology in Facebook (and many good ideas not in Facebook that had been pioneered by LiveJournal), but we were missing the particular social moment in time that Zuckerburg capitalized on.

In short, yes, consumer preferences have changed. Consumer preferences are always changing. The new Facebook is messaging, or hanging out in person, or maybe TikTok. Replicating the old Facebook won't give back the moment in time that lead to its ascendance.
"Why should I believe in a real number if I can’t calculate it, if I can’t prove what its bits are, and if I can’t even refer to it? And each of these things happens with probability one! The real line from 0 to 1 looks more and more like a Swiss cheese, more and more like a stunningly black high-mountain sky studded with pin-pricks of light."

...see chapter 5 of Meta Math! by Gregory Chaitin:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0404335.pdf
I really like how much utility we've all managed to get from Cairo. It is everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)#Notable_usage

I don't know the full story behind it, but from an outsider's point of view, any open library that pulls that kind of weight for so long should be considered a major feat of engineering.
I'd argue it's something a little more fundamental than mere CV padding

Taking the CV aspect literally — this is a sleight of hand because it's a metaphor — I know lots of people who do this stuff that don't have a CV at all.

There's levels to it of course, but I don't really view it be any different to people who insist on using old machines as a bit (but in the other way obviously)
Facebook lately has gone through phases where my feed was full of downright creepy sexualized content, and I’m no prude. There are a few communities on Facebook that don’t exist anywhere else that I would rather not leave, but the next time I get put on the feed for every third picture being either a “sexy sport girl” or an entirely nude breastfeeding woman I might delete my account for good.

This time after “show fewer posts like this” and several blocks my feed stopped being like that after a few days… but still. Yuck.
Same!
I like Sketch's and other app's approach. Keep the version forever, 1 year free upgrades.

Great work! Will def. try it out
The variety of products is enormous, and is deliberately made complicated by the vendors - is SHP65CM5N different from SHP78CM5N? Do reviews of one apply to another? When a new model code pops up every year - does it invalidate the old reviews? If you watch "Oppenheimer", and your pal watches it - you can be sure you watched the same movie, and can compare the notes, and tell your other pal who didn't watch it yet whether you liked it or not, and it'd be useful. But with every store having their own model code set and those rotating all the time and having a thousand options, your experience may not be comparable to somebody else's. There are review sites and recommendation sites, like Consumer Reports, which kinda approach it, but there's no way to make it as systematic as for movies or video games, because there's too much variety.
The TechEmpower benchmarks are such a mess. Factor 10 difference between the fastest and slowest Axum implementation:

axum [postgresql]: 438,996

axum [postgresql - sqlx]: 42,945

Throwing Go (std) and a popular Node framework in the ring:

go-pgx: 101,786

fastify-postgres: 71,782

Now what? We have to do our own benchmarks.
Except that it’s the person on the side track who controls the switch.

People are not being forced into this (by the US at least).
It's called vk.com if you don't mind FSB reading your private messages :)