skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Study finds little-known toxic crop chemical in four out of five people tested
Yearly at FliteFest, an RC airplane festival put on by FliteTest, we hold a dogfight/combat with hundreds of airplanes. The only difference is no munitions (excluding pesky LiPo fires)

https://youtu.be/_NFBpoD6jcw?si=YwPuus0qeq8xgj4I
No data sharing with FB
Stickers are more important because just like every other tech company, growth is the only way to stay in business. You can just run a business on delivering a good product to your customers anymore. You have to grow constantly, which means bringing in new customers which, by definition, aren't part of the core user base. It's gross and depressing and it enshitifies everything
This event is the 1 year anniversary of the https://lofi.software meet-ups. It's great Discord community to join if you're interested in local-first software development.
We are planning to move our blog off of Medium (we've been busy!), but this post is public so you can actually just click through the nag screen if you see one.
It’s really impressive how overbroad and subjective the cohost terms of service are with regards to what you’re allowed to post on your own site.

Why does every microblogging platform now feel compelled to insert moral and social commentary in their site rules? What happened to the poster being responsible for the things that they post? We don’t blame the telephone company when people say bad things on phone calls.
Yes, it felt like the right vibe. We usually kick things off with a LoFi playlist.
Oh huh, that is weird - I can use Signal Desktop even with my phone turned off, that I am certain of.
There are an inordinate number of people in sociology that undermine truth as a concept to reduce the possibility of ever being incorrect about anything. This is obviously completely anti-scientific. Almost miraculously, many of these people hold extremely specific viewpoints that inherently amount to truth claims. I'm all for "food for thought" research in complex fields where truth claims are tenuous at best - but what I'm referring to isn't that. It's rhetorical strategy to make implicit truth claims then fend off criticism by undermining the concept of truth itself.
Usually A calls B, and B accepts the charges. In this case, A calls B and then C is contacted to accept the charge.
this seems to have stopped in 2021?
Just "bought" access to the trial in Germany.
They're pretty bad. You can't specify where the backup goes, so if you are running low on storage space (eg if you have a lot of photos or videos to back up) and add an SD card, tough luck because you can't save there. The best you can do is manually export your media (also without any choice over where it goes) and then manually move it to the SD card to make space on your internal storage. They say this is for security but if an attacker is in a position to export your backup, they are already in your signal account.

Same story with the PIN signal requires if you haven't used it in a few hours. It's the same as your phone PIN and there isn't anywhere you can change it, so it's just security theater.
You can cherry pick all you want, although I would generally agree that “top level” executables will most likely bump against lifetimes far less frequently than libraries, frameworks, modules etc.

I would also generally agree that a single pass through the official book should mostly be enough to be able to read and understand the op.
Microservices almost always increase the amount of partial failures, but if used properly can reduce the amount of critical failures.

You can certainly misapply the architecture, but you can also apply it well. It's unsurprising that most people make bad choices in a difficult domain.
Nothing about Signal is haphazardly borrowed from Telegram. The feature we're discussing was chosen to help Signal to grow from a few thousand users to 50M+ without needing to build a social graph on Signal servers.

This mechanism may not be ideal for all users, and it's possible that Signal has now outgrown it, but without it, there would be no Signal as we know it today.
Google decided that the way to launch a new social network was to piss off the nucleus of it, namely, the users of its existing social apps. By canceling Reader, and going on a long, obnoxious push to unify gmail and YouTube accounts, two things literally no one wanted.

If they'd been clever enough to make Google+ an extension of those things, it might have gone somewhere.
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I don't think it's a trick question at all... I think these are standard, everyday, run-of-the-mill questions. Progress is driven entirely by people, and people are often influenced by their messy personal histories. Conflicts, disagreements, and interpersonal relations are deeply entwined with even the hard sciences! Can you imagine the situation in, say, linguistics?

Einstein as a misogynist might not be appropriate, but how about as a Jew in Nazi Germany? Is the phrase "God does not play dice with the universe" indoctrination? Can we discuss the Solvay conferences? The first Solvay conference is likely the most important gathering of scientists in modern history. The third? Indoctrination.

What about Galileo and the church?

I guess my point is that history is messy, and not scientific. Does this mean we should remove dates from science classes?
Direct link to the inciting document:

https://facultyforyale.yale.edu/homepage

Best read this closely first, before the article. At bottom, it's a demand that the administration cede power to faculty, on multiple fronts. Questions of national politics energize the dispute, but are secondary.
Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".

This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier.
There is a huge amount of understood science, math, history, philosophy, and critical thinking to teach. It is being replaced with a lot of propaganda instead.

When students are going to school and leaving with improved skills, life experiences, networks, and more critical thinking...it's teaching. When students leave with a chip on their shoulder to disrupt the United States and attack its institutions and reputation and even cause problems, without any actual skill acquisition or increase in critical thinking, it's indoctrination.
Fair. That said, I get the impression they still do a lot because they want to. Not necessarily because they have to.
That only covers systemd-networkd. It doesn’t cover wireless and it doesn’t apply to people not using systemd-networkd.
My benchmark for large language models
(question about rust.. this is not implemented in cake yet)

Let's say I have to objects on the heap.
A and B. A have a "view" to B.

Then we put a prompt for the user. (or dynamic condition)
"Which object do you want to delete first A or B?"
Then user select B.
How this can be checked at compile time?
Email snooze is, for me, a standard requirement for any email tool. I tried the free trial but cancelled.
And a good reminder that everything you do radiates information about it all the time, everywhere, at the speed of light.
What?

We still have 'the web'. PDFs are something different and separate.
I get exactly the same energy boost from drinking any sugary drink in the morning, be it coffee, tea, juice, chocomilk, whatever. I have a theory it's the same for most people, but when they were children, adults drank coffee and they were only allowed to drink chocomilk, that's why they grew up to love coffee :)
thanks, I had no idea what that meant either
In may day job I often see systems that have the opposite. Especially for database queries, developers tested on local machine with 100s of records and everything was quick and snappy and on production with mere millions of records I often see queries taking minutes up to a hour just because some developer didn't see need for creating indexes or created query in a way there is no way to even create any index that would work
They love to brag about the times when they were asked to hand over data and they had to tell the feds that they couldn't because that kind of data was never collected or stored in their systems in the first place. They still love to brag about it, but it's no longer true. They now collect and permanently store in the cloud exactly the kind of data that the police and feds were asking them to provide. Your name, your phone number, your username, your profile picture, and most importantly a list of everyone you have contacted with signal.

This is in direct opposition to the very first line of their privacy policy which lies when it states "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information." and they've refused for years now to correct that lie and update their policy to detail all the new data collection they're doing.
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I do love that the two responses to this question are a confident assertion that they surely wouldn’t do that and yours posting evidence they do.
Demonstrate to me that it's not.
AWS docs and blogs describe the Nitro SSD architecture, which is locally attached with custom firmware.

> The Nitro Cards are physically connected to the system main board and its processors via PCIe, but are otherwise logically isolated from the system main board that runs customer workloads.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/security-desi...

> In order to make the [SSD] devices last as long as possible, the firmware is responsible for a process known as wear leveling.... There’s some housekeeping (a form of garbage collection) involved in this process, and garden-variety SSDs can slow down (creating latency spikes) at unpredictable times when dealing with a barrage of writes. We also took advantage of our database expertise and built a very sophisticated, power-fail-safe journal-based database into the SSD firmware.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-nitro-ssd-high-performa...

This firmware layer seems like a good candidate for the slowdown.
>The feature we're discussing was chosen to help Signal to grow from a few thousand users to 50M+ without needing to build a social graph on Signal servers.

How did THAT feature help Signal grow?

You only receive that spammy message if you already have Signal installed and your contact already has it too.

Signal grew a lot in 2021 (in Europe) because of the pandemonium created by Meta when they announced a change in WhatsApp Privacy Policy so everyone rushed to install Signal but the initial surge, was short lived.

Moving the clocks forward to today, looking at my extended network of family, friends and acquaintances, almost everyone has Signal installed, but most don't use it anymore as it's too frustrating and feels dead, so everything is still on WhatsApp, especially groups. All the Signal groups I have, originally meant to replace the WhatsApp groups, slowly died out and people stopped posting on them or following them, defaulting instead back to the WhatsApp groups.

You don't fix this lack of retention with stickers and spammy messenges.
I'm still rather bullish against AR. The passthrough of the PSVR2 is nice, to get your controllers in hand and room setup. Otherwise, I don't see the value add, just yet. Heck, the best games make use of the headphones so well that I feel like I'm already in another room.
Do you happen to have a preferred source for these 3-year old off-lease servers?
Bluetooth is a PITA, low-budget "smart" devices are all becoming Wi-Fi now.
Loving how very based is this HN thread
Intel is asking for an additional $10B from CHIPS Act subsidies
Signal doesn't store anything about your account on the server except last login time and when you registered. It doesn't store a contacts list, so it used your own, assuming you granted it access to do so.

Contrast to MSN, which kept your contacts on the server, as well as information about your account, groups, your plaintext messages, etc.
Again: Metadata. WhatsApp records a timestamp of every message you send/receive, and who the other party is. Signal only records two pieces of metadata: timestamp of when you signed up, timestamp of the last time you sent a message.
> It's meant to cover local contained bank failures. It won't do shit in the event of a domino collapse event.

This is wrong. In the case of a large-scale collapse, depositors have a legal claim on the Treasury through the FDIC.
I'm sorry you don't think Germanic peoples have anything to contribute to Western Civilization.
May be. But that feature wasn't there since 2014. Signal has adopted a lot of "social media" feature from WhatsApp and Telegram over the years.
After I realized this happened to me, I uninstalled signal. But because of the way signal jumps in and replaces normal sms, I found out later that signal users were no longer sending/receiving plain text messages to/from me properly. I forget the details but it was really frustrating.. first it ate my contact list and contacted them, then after I uninstalled it held those contacts hostage, breaking comms with them because those users didn’t know they were still signaling me, not using a normal text message. I text, they reply with signal, I can’t ask them to uninstall their app, so now if I don’t reinstall the app myself or borrow a friends phone to try and reconfigure it then I guess we’re now out of touch forever? It’s not privacy-friendly to replace or hide built in functionality, it’s just an attempt to coerce people and to bolster your user numbers.
One GrogCard has 230 MB SRAM, which is enough for every single weight matrix of Mixtral-8x7B. Code to check:

import urllib.request, json, math

for i in range(1, 20):
url = f"https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1/resolve/main/model-{i:05d}-of-00019.safetensors?download=true"

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as r:
header_size = int.from_bytes(r.read(8), byteorder="little")
header = json.loads(r.read(header_size).decode("utf-8"))
for name, value in header.items():
if name.endswith(".weight"):
shape = value["shape"]
mb = math.prod(shape) * 2e-6
print(mb, "MB for", shape, name)

tome's other comment mentions that they use 568 GroqChips in total, which should be enough to fit even Llama2-70B completely in SRAM. I did not do any math for the KV cache, but it probably fits in there as well. Their hardware can do matrix-matrix multiplications, so there should not be any issues with BLAS. I don't see why they'd need other hardware.
So the data seems to come from the overpass API as XML, gets a bit of transformation in rust, passed back to javascript for drawing...

To me, that seems like the wrong design for performance... Drawing you probably want to use webgl shaders for so you can do zooming and panning at 60 fps...

And downloading the data as XML seems like a bad idea if you're drawing city-sized areas because the XML will be huge and contain plenty more detail than you need. Instead you need a server-side component to pack simplified and quantized polygon data for the necessary scale into a binary datastructure for sending to the client.

And thats exactly how bing/google maps/apple maps work...
How are you going to reach the market of project managers? Have had some experience with this in the past to mixed results.
I haven’t faced this issue myself, however, lots of people from India and some other countries have this experience.

I’d assume it’s something to do with collecting recurring CC payments from Indian cards. That’s inherently difficult.
You're missing the whole point of the post. The merits of National Service are not under debate and are thus irrelevant.
Yep. Russian facebook clone.
There's nothing cryptic about his post.

He'a referring to an idea that sounds nice in theory and doesn't work in practice.

It's a common English phrase.

And the phrase works well, the concept of informed concept sounds good in theory and never works in practice.

Anyone who has observed tech companies for decades knows they don't ask for your consent before they make any consequential changes. Tech companies do whatever they want until they get sued or regulated. It's always been this way.
Not really the case with signal anymore. if you want privacy you should look elsewhere.
Us humans make the (human) world work and we haven't changed a lot in a very long time indeed.
This post read like a “we want an operationally simple setup,” until the bit about selecting Kube as an orchestration technology. I think it’s still a service oriented architecture and still has to reason about asynchronicity given it uses celery and queues.
spying === user engagement?
I think it's the job of universities to shape minds. Somehow all these universities seems to shape minds into the exact same dysfunctional shape. The seeming uniformity of shape is what's surprising.
I currently, have a free two-month trial, but it's not worth paying for yet. It still fails in hilariously simple ways. E.g, one of the example prompts shows how to use it to generate an image. But asking [Can you generate pictures?] results in "Unfortunately, I am not currently able to generate images directly. However, I can help you explore some resources that can do just that!...". Forcing it to generate an image result in broken <IMG> elements.

It also fails at more complex tasks that I would actually use AIs for. E.g, I'm trying to learn Lagrangian Mechanics and keep running into dead ends with Gemini in cases where ChatGPT is working.

I have faith that Google will make it better in the near future (unless they get bored and move on to something else) so I'm hoping it will be worth paying for. But right now, I'm going to keep my ChatGPT subscription since that is actually useful.
The newspaper claims that they explicitly asked for and received confirmation.
Extra annoying when people half ass clean up, i.e. stack plates on wrong pins, makes cleaning up for others even harder. The only weight storage I've seen people reliably use (and not well) are bumper racks on the ground, but it gets people to do something since it's already on the ground in the first place.
I don't agree with the conclusion; 3% difference is basically within the error margins for these types of things. I typically assume a ~5% error margin, which is nice round number I just pulled out of my ass, but it seems roughly accurate.
I uninstalled Signal and haven't looked back due to the constant `X from your address book has joined Signal` notifications that you can't disable.
Subscription models are cancer. Sell me a license for a flat cost and stop wasting my time.
No it's not, you pay at the start of the month for a month of access. A newspaper subscription isn't a form of credit.
You think history is independent of social norms? Our understanding of history changes constantly, and has for as long as humans have been alive.
Connecting on a personal level does not mean accepting everything that person says and never challenging their opinions or beliefs.
Bryan Cantrill is a million times smarter than me so I'm probably missing something. I thought people bought into the enterprise cloud ecosystems because of cost savings elsewhere? If you go into a platform like AWS/GCP/Azure shouldn't you be designing your applications to take advantage of the flexibility in the wide range of services offered? If you don't need that and you're not buying into all the abstractions they provide, you could use any other cloud-lite (Vultr, OVH, Linode etc)?

Maybe I'm stuck in 2015 but are people really out here rolling their own clouds these days?
Good luck bypassing akamai
I used to work in my downtown and I would regularly run into a guy who would push around an empty wheelchair most days. Some days though he would be sitting in it. I asked him about it, and he said he did drug and medicine trials, and some days he couldn't walk because of them so he would need the wheelchair to move around. No idea how truthful he was because I don't know how that stuff works here in Canada (and this was years and years ago too) but he came to mind after reading this article.
They're messengers. They have messenger features. The details of how those features are implemented is what matter. Last I checked, Telegram doesn't even have encrypted group messaging, and it has a serverside database of who's talking to who.

I don't know what "feature" you're talking about not existing until 2014, but before Open Whisper Systems, the thing we call Signal was "TextSecure", a literal SMS replacement.
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My parents, in-laws, grandmother-in-law, and entire extended family is on Signal. It's the extended family group chat, video calls with grandparents/great grandparents, and the baby photo feed. That's mostly because you just install it and it works.

I have no idea how to get my extended family on a Matrix homeserver without extensive handholding. I can barely figure it out myself and I was a huge XMPP nerd that ran my own ejabberd server for years.
If you like the series then this article[0] which was published in the LRB early in its run is well worth a read - it gives you a good idea of how the series came about and why it feels very closely observed. Reportedly many politicians at the time, including Margaret Thatcher, felt it to be very closely observed.

But the really clever thing about the writing is that you never know which party Jim Hacker is a member of and it is equally believable regardless of which one - it's so remarkable that it's a series about politics which manages to be really quite apolitical in that sense.

0. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v02/n10/antony-jay/informed-...
It doesn't "require" Syncthing, I just choose to use it. I could choose to keep it on my device, or upload it to Dropbox or something else. Even keeping it locally is still a backup that protects against the device corrupting it's local database or accidentally getting uninstalled / cleared.

There's no single obvious thing called "this is what everyone wants from backup".
I live a mile from the Pacific Ocean and have a bunch of 10+ year old 316 around the outside. It’s starting to rust.
Federated Credential Management (FedCM) Migration for Google Identity Services
Laptop? When I'm done using it.

Desktop? Not very often.

> up 8 weeks, 2 days, 18 hours, 9 minutes

I do put it into sleep sometimes.
I think you can turn that off with telegram, but I'm not sure if it's still the case.
Re-read the question. The first one is 45-favor, 38-oppose, the second one is 48-oppose, 34-favor.
After the exchange rate, that's $270 CAD a month... after a few months, you might as well just buy a raptorlake and run it locally.
Whatsapp message content can be pulled via a subpoena along with a lot of other private data. Signal's can not.

FBI doc on what messaging apps can provide via subpoena pulled by a FOIA request...

https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=2111...