skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you the safest because you're Rust? Or are you Rust because you are the safest?
I suspect part of it is because movies and other forms of media are more likely to be 'shared' experiences than consumer electronics are. Like okay, some systems are probably popular enough with the population that this sort of review setup could work well (iPhones/iPads/Apple devices, video game consoles*, high end Android devices, maybe certain leaders in their market niches), but a lot of the time the market would be spread too thin to provide a reliable set of reviews for every product. Like, how many toasters exist on Amazon right now? Apparently about 740 from a quick check.

Add that to however many other brands and models aren't listed there, and I'm not sure you'd find enough reviews to make such a site worth it. Especially not professional ones, since even the likes of Which don't review every single device ever released.

It might also be surprisingly hard to find said products in such a database if it existed too, since often only the model number is slightly different, with the core name being identical across variations. So I suspect it'd be significantly more challenging for users to use than Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, where looking up something like 'James Bond' or 'Star Wars' or 'Marvel Cinematic Universe' will get a bunch of easy to understand results.
Interesting that this submission acheived a HN rank of #75 within minutes, but then suddenly vanished from the Hacker News list altogether.

This submission is 26 mins old, and has 10 points.

A submission that's 42 mins old, with 6 points is currently ranked #15 in HN.

Something amiss?
> You can side load android, you can't side load Apple (without jailbreak).

Did Cydia Impactor stop working or something? Sure you need a developer account, but then you can use the account to sideload any third-party IPA.
Looked at it and debated leaving Spark Mail but the price throws me off, and the lack of IMAP support to still be able to receive my junk Gmail is a deal breaker.
You are joining a truth to a lie.

Truth: Social normal and bias correlate.

Lie: Engineering, History, Science, et al are strongly dependent on social norms.
China's social credit score has a much broader application, though. In US, you do have some creep beyond the original intent of approving/denying credit (e.g. I've seen leases gated on credit score checks), but it's still much more limited. And since it's not government-mandated, you can still rent from a different place that won't do it.

That said, yes, it's absolutely a problem in US as well, and people have been making explicit comparisons between the likely eventual state of our system and what China already has.

> people who support strong immigration enforcement that this sort of ID scheme would be quite fundamental to identifying citizens

Also, voting. It's rather ironic that the same people who demand voter ID tend to oppose universal free government-issued IDs.
Are they related? I have both Fi and One, never saw anything saying they had something to do with each other
I'm afraid they wasted their sample. It's a large company, so it's probably filler for them, but still. If they had asked the same question at the end, the effect would have been clearer (assuming no big differences in audience, because that really happens). Now you can ascribe the effect to e.g. people misreading the "oppose" question.
An order to what? Hand over a random phone number?
Floating point numbers aren't weird
A lease of real property is a form of granting of credit.
Hey current and Ex-MAANGers, we should get a critical mass of talent and launch a consulting-ish shop that dips into focused productization of apps as a worker-owned co-op. Enough with being underpaid, uncool bureaucracy, and being thrown to the wolves cyclicly.
It just takes practice. It's incredibly powerful once you master it. I couldn't do it well at first - I kept reverting to critical analysis based on my ideas, reconciling them with my idea.

The person who taught me much of this told me one day, in frustration: 'There's another presence in the room. It's completely independent of you. It is not a reaction to you, a variation on you, a challenge to you, or a commentary on you. It didn't develop through life with any consideration of what you might be thinking.'

Give them the stage, walk off of it, shut up, sit down, and pay close attention. It doesn't matter what you think. We all think, at some point, 'but that thing is wro-' No really, shut up! :)
Because if they made a new version of old facebook, it would be subject to the same growth/enshittification forces they turned old facebook into new facebook, so better to just cut to the chase.

It is weird how different facebook is now compared to when it started. In a few of the small towns I have lived in, there are very active Facebook groups with basically the whole town in, all the businesses, tradespeople, etc elected representatives, and the Facebook group takes the place of a local newspaper/classified ads or personal/business dedicated webpages. It's quite practical, but unfortunately how much ad and other drivel content gets mixed in.

Meanwhile, the actual person-person "friend" stuff is almost completely hidden/unusable behind dark patterns.
I'm not familiar with the study, I wonder if they also did the test with no human around. Anecdotally, my dogs can be pretty lazy about getting into things when I'm around, but seem to get creative when I'm out.
I view micro services as a risk mainly in a Conway sense rather than technology.

Most companies can run on a VPS.
DALL-E 3? I've seen some similar images out of it while trying for more pointilist views. (DALL-E 3 has a certain obsession with regularity & centering.)
Ah, I see you are also a coder of culture...

The trick is to get the Project Management to migrate to a hot new framework: Vanilla JS...

http://vanilla-js.com/
Wage Compression at Gitlab
I've been writing rudimentary Python scripts to scrape online recipe websites for my hobby cooking purposes, and I wish there was some general software that could do this more simply. One of the websites has started making their images unclickable, so measures like that make me think it might become harder to automatically fetch such content.
It seems to me that Mastodon, tumblr, Wordpress, Threads, and any future platform's support of ActivityPub could theoretically make the entire internet "old Facebook".

Facebook is/was two things:

1) a microblog (your personal page)

2) an interface for following other's microblog posts

This sounds an awful lot like a following, say, a bunch of WordPress blogs in your Mastodon feed. We just need the interface over it all.

Heck, if Threads does what they say it will, Threads very well may become that interface for many folks.
Ah, the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

https://theportal.wiki/wiki/The_Gell-Mann_Amnesia_Effect
You can. There's a plethora of e2e messaging apps out there all catering to different threat models.
I don't think a 'new version of old Facebook' can succeed in the medium term, for a few reasons:

1) I don't think a platform can get enough critical mass like Facebook did. It's much easier to get a smallish circle of people (5-20 people) to align on one platform and use a group chat than it is to get everyone you know to align on the same platform.

2) The rise of mobile. Things like having an individual profile made more sense when sitting at a laptop/desktop PC and actively browsing someone else's content. With mobile, there's more friction to viewing profiles, so the feed model tends to win out.

3) I think many people are more apprehensive about posting content to a wide audience than they were in Facebook's prime.
I'm not sure if anything has it built in, but Thief: The Dark Project (in 1998) had sound propagation. There's some discussion about it here: https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151206. I wonder if you could query Unity's navmesh to calculate the distance, but that wouldn't work with, say, someone on the second floor hearing someone outside through the window.
indeed, the dev is asking for donations (buy me a coffee link on top right)

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/aurelien3
Yeah, Discord is it.

One other thing about Discord that I like is the stupid gaming branding. We all know this is silly space that we’re going to toss out in a few years when it starts getting enshittified (which will happen but it is still a couple years out I think).

Everybody has taken a few loops around the merry-go-round at this point, we don’t need to do the whole thing where we try to make it look grown-up and serious. The solution is somewhere in the ballpark of MySpace, AIM, and IRC.
Well, I got stavros.01, if anyone wants to chat.
My attempt to speculate on potential obstacles which exist today over the (I believe, 2009) version shown:

- Eroded public trust in (all) social media

- Increased regulatory scrutiny today vs 2009

- More competition today (i.e. TikTok)

- Changing demands from advertisers
as drones are illegal in many places and are just targetted on the battlefield like in Ukraine, I wonder when we are going to get drones looking (and with time more and more behaving) like a bird.
> then you won't be so old anymore.

haha, thanks for the encouragement. Project for my 6th decade Russian
or Chinese,, still not sure :)
No tech professional is going to resist people with legalized force showing up at their door.
the way to fix facebook is to stop using facebook!

I shed my facebook 8 years ago now (around the Cambridge Analytica fiasco). There was a giant relief not unlike drawing a fresh breath from almost drowning underwater after having done so. You can do it too!

I do use discord, as that's significantly more efficient at doing what facebook has been trying do to (keep current with non-local friends), while at the same time not relying on ad's to do so. I get no targeted advertising on discord.

I encourage everyone to delete their facebook, (move any data they want off first), and explore the open internet again.

The "value" you get from facebook is often just a thin veneer over content designed (and timed) to stimulate your cortisol levels.

So just don't use it: that is the answer; this is the way.
Walmart Seals $2.3B Deal for TV Maker Vizio
Nope. Latest version.
I'd argue the even bigger scam is charging for egress data transfer rather than just for the size of the pipe.
100%. The original "facebook" was just that. State what classes you have, have an easy way to connect with others in those classes.

The feed is horrible. Probably good for monetization. But I just choose to remove myself from that product.
Isn't that the job of universitities... to shape minds. I remember being surprised in undergrand that it took merely 2 semesters for architecture teachers to convert/indoctorinate most students from primarily enjoying traditional/classical designs to being fully being on the post/modern hype. Most people are passive recipients.
> The idea that we need to protect the rights of the powerful majority to live without challenge is a brazen misuse of civil rights

No one is argueing this. Certainly I didn't argue this, and I'm not reading it anywhere in this letter either.

This conversation is turning unpleasant because for the second time now you're taking extremist interpretations of everything.
Not if you've selected to hide your number, looks like.
This was a big deal to RV / motorhome users. I remember a Reddit thread where people were complaining that they couldn't use the TV without internet service. There were some Vizio people on the thread insisting that you don't need internet so I don't know the whole truth but at seems at least it wasn't obvious to a non-technical user how to simply connect an antenna and watch over the air TV. My RV has a Vizio TV but it's old enough to not be smart. I don't watch OTA anyway.
Do you see what I'm writing? Does it seem I'm unaware? There are even more such marks.

Still no source for your claim. Why do you think these things are true, and that always flawed claim, universally true?
My current work-around is just to use a group chat and have both work and personal accounts part of the chat. Fortunately, I only need to be able to chat with a few people (family) while off with the work phone so this isn't that big of a hassle, but it's something I wish I didn't have to do.
I don't think that real-world conditions would be giving them 12 hours of recording throughout the day - a malicious app that explicitly asks people to swipe left/right on pictures of kittens is a very realistic attack scenario and would know exactly when and where to look for the swipes.
I have always been incredibly saddened that apparently the cloud providers usually have nothing as advanced as old VMware was.
It's a reworked email protocol, created by fastmail. Basically email over json (send + receive) instead of imap+smtp.

https://jmap.io/
Show HN: Free and Open-Source Survey Bot Builder Inspired by Notion
I am not top 1%, but 3%, and to be honest, I have never been that active on the SO. I wrote one answer, which is easy to find in the documentation, something about JSON serialization with C#. People just kept upvoting this answer for more than 10 years, and that is how I keep my reputation. None of the answers, that I actually had to research, or spent more than a few minutes of my time, got that much traction as the one I have mentioned above.

Based on that, I would not trust much anybody from the top % of the reputation on SO. It does not mean anything.

This is an answer if somebody is interested https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15915503/net-newtonsoft-...
Is it a flaw though? There's a lot of truth in that eCard: "a clean apartment is a sign of wasted life". How much of technological progress occured to ease the maintenance burden? Is it a flaw that the washing machine is saving people ridiculous amount of time (to the point of, arguably, allowing two-income households to exist in the first place)?
I don't think this is right - Consumer Reports exists, for example, and I don't see any attempts of silencing it.
If even A55 is too chonky, there is also A34 which afaik is the smallest 64bit ARM core. Unfortunately I haven't seen anyone actually releasing chips based on it :(

There are some socs with A35 cores though, that is probably lowest end that is actually available.
Hasn't LinkedIn kind of maintained 2 & 3, but in a work specific context? Which maybe feels safer, armed by the suit of a corporate identity...
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-adver...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/vizio-tracked-sold-u...
> It is a way to increase usability for casual users

You can keep it as an option.

> decrease spam by requiring some other source

Phone numbers never been a good way to counter spam, just look at social media, you can buy phone numbers in bulk these days, not to mention spam might work in social media because there’s the concept of “public space” where everyone shares and talk, so it does make sense for some bad actors to spam or even trying to influence others, that’s not the case in messaging app, because first I need to know your “unknown” username that I can’t see it elsewhere, and second, the efforts are worthy for such unsolicited message, which in case it was, you can get a burner to send it. The point is requiring a phone number to counter spam doesn’t work, and it doesn’t make sense either for messaging apps.

> If you want a private messaging platform with zero prerequisite identity, use Briar.

Well, personally I don’t use Signal, never will in its current state, but they always try to promote it as privacy messaging app while still relying on a broken system known as GSM.
This is exactly the view that propaganda pushes. There are not two sides, but rather a complex tapestry of different actors with many different philosophies which are inconsistent and change over time.

Compressing that all down to "two sides" serves an agenda, and does a disservice to understanding the world for what it is.
Mind sharing which one? I'm curious
I don't see that option in Settings > Chats on my iPhone. What device are you using?
yeah or if you're using someone else's code that you're trusting doesn't have "obscure bugs" put there to smuggle in a vuln.
Wow, this guy's patreon is something else. https://www.patreon.com/danluu

$16/month "Short-form posts"

$256/month "Sponsor"

$2,048/month "Major Sponsor"

$16,384/month "Patron"

You certainly can't fault the guy for trying, although it does make him seem a bit crazy. And I'm aware of scenarios where raising prices doesn't have the negative effect you might expect. You never know what people might spend but I can't imagine this is a tempting proposition for anyone.

Maybe it's all a ploy to get you to spend $16/month to see how many "Sponsor", "Major", and "Patron" level subscribers there are.
Court Tosses $1B Verdict Against Cox Communications for Music Piracy
> But then you've got to put that server somewhere, with reliable power and probably redundant Internet connections. You have to pay someone's salary to set it up and load it to the point that a user can SSH in and configure it. You have to maintain an inventory of spares, and pay someone to swap it out if it breaks.

There's a middle-ground between cloud and colocation. There are plenty of providers such as OVH, Hetzner, Equinix, etc which will do all of the above for you.
I think our outsized compensation is less because it's hard, and more because of our industry. In tech companies, labor is a relatively small expenditure, so tripling your labor budget to get 5% more "output" can be a very rational thing to do.
(Also, the Mythical Man Month means that a smaller, sharper team is often more useful to solve your task than a bigger one.)
im confused by this because its basically open information now that social media websites have very close relationships with the federal government, is this not already done?
But these 'assets' are entirely notional. They may not really exist.

They may start existing at some point in the future, or they may not.

How can I claim ownership over something notional?
I thought always that Safari was the fastest to render web pages on Mac/iOS. But sounds like I was wrong?

> In December 2023 we made the decision of giving Skia a try internally and see if it would be worth the effort of maintaining the project as a third party module inside WebKit. In just one month we had implemented enough features to be able to run all MotionMark tests. The results in the desktop were quite impressive, getting double the score of MotionMark global result. We still had to do more tests in embedded devices which are the actual target of WPE, but it was clear that, at least in the desktop, with this very initial implementation that was not even optimized (we kept our current architecture that is optimized for CPU rendering) we got much better results.
this is dope! I bought a pair of pinebuds to do something similar but got pulled into another project.

my use case was to tape one pine bud to my shoulder to wear all day, and it would bluetooth connect to my android keyboard app, with the simple goals

#1) always record my voice even if I have another headset connected to the phone. I.e., do not get interrupted by incoming calls, spotify, or other bluetooth jank

#2) only do STT on my voice, bonus if you can figure out context and only do STT when i'm talking to the phone (via eyeballs?)

#3) always put the generated STT into a form, or if no form has focus, spawn a new browser tab and put focus on the search-input form

that's all. fin
Because both are designed to look like Apple Mail (the MacOS native app look is a selling point)
There are no backups available on the iPhone/iPad app, only a device-to-device transfer while setting up a new device assuming your previous device and new device are both iPhones/iPads. This is despite support for apps storing files to the filesystem that was added some years ago now, and many other apps on those platforms supporting backups of custom file formats (or JSON, etc.).

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
My first question: "How do I get an API key to use gemini ultra 1.0?"

Response was that you have to request access, either through 1) your account representative, or 2) "Apply through Google: If you don't have an account representative, you may be able to apply for access through Google's channels (a specific form or process might be available)"

I don't have an account representative, of course (who does?!)

But the really interesting thing is that there was an additional annotation added to option 2, about the other channels, that said "Google Search didn’t find relevant content. Consider researching further to assess the statement." which sounds about right.

So, the model itself seems OK, if Google can figure out how to get out of its own way.
I'm really curious about Discord for social, because literally _no one_ I know uses it here in the UK for anything social. is it a US thing? Or is it people who are on fringes/deep into gaming, breaking out into social use?
https://htmx.org/essays/hypermedia-friendly-scripting/

https://hypermedia.systems/client-side-scripting/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...
Why wouldn't it know the direction of motion for the swipes and the orientation of the finger? Any mobile app has access to the touchscreen input which provides exactly that information.
> Either: billions of people who used to find old Facebook useful have changed their preferences in the last few years, and no longer need something like that

Yes. To elaborate, these people have gotten used to Facebook’s new UI, are now relying on its new features, and are accessing it in different ways.
I think categorizing US employees for gender and race is widely accepted and widely done. Disclosing the board members as "unknown/undisclosed" for LGBTQ+ status would seem to have to be permitted under the rule (which it does by my naive/lay reading, perhaps with a required explanation, which could be "we choose not to require the answering of invasive personal questions from any of our community, including our board.")
I left Facebook in 2018 and it was very nice. I worried about missing those friends, but I realized that the real world friends I see and text with regularly are more real than old schoolmates having a baby.
Backup functionality was removed in the latest version?
Try telling instead of asking. When I tried it the other day "Can you create a picture" gave the response "no try DALL-E instead". Then I noticed one of the example prompts was "Generate an image with an Elephant ...." It worked, as did some other random stuff I tried as long as I told it to do it not ask it to.

I just tried asking it again and asking seems to work now too.
I've struggled to get it to generate images, especially when related to memes. For instance, I wanted to extend the "this is fine" image, but Gemini Advanced would not because it was harmful to animals. Most of the image requests I give it are back-and-forths on what it can't generate for me for some ethical or moral reason.
Signal:

* Gives the servers virtually no control over communications between parties.

* Goes through huge pains to minimize serverside metadata storage.

* Is a sealed system end-to-end; the client and the server are part of a single coherent design that together make promises about privacy and security that apply to every user of the system; Matrix is a protocol ecosystem.

A good example of this is group messaging: Matrix servers control group membership. In Matrix, group membership is key management; a Matrix server decides who can decrypt your group messages. That's not how Signal works! But I don't think anybody seriously thinks Signal is a replacement for a large Slack.
>Google is terrible, but Google refused

Isn't "we refused" what they would have said they did even if they haven't refused?
> physically attached

Believe it or not, superglue and a wifi module! /s
Daiso: Billionaire founder of Japanese discount store dies
Maybe it will be a red flag like being rude to wait staff?