skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does anyone know if this is still vulnerable to the iCloud Backups problem? The only solution to that right now is for you and your contact to turn on Advanced Data Protection.

This is such a strange two sentences as a "problem". E2EE security, as it says in the name, is about the protection of dara transmission between two trusted end points. That's it. What the trusted end points themselves choose to do with that data before and after is completely out of scope, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the data transmission aspect. This is true of everything ever. No communication service stops people from backing up with encryption or not, local or remote, or from copy/pasting or for that matter taking photos of the screen ("analog hole"). If you want to "protect" the data from the trusted owners themselves now we're in the realm of DRM.

In this case what you wrote is "do non-e2ee remote backups still occur if users do not enable e2ee remote backups or backup locally?" to which the answer is yes. I definitely do blame Apple for not having APIs for backing up to arbitrary network servers when it comes to iDevices, but it's still orthogonal. And remember iMessage is on the Mac as well where people may be backing up anywhere.
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How is it more open than Mistral with Apache 2.0? Google wants people to sign a waiver to even download it.
I wonder if Apple will use this as an excuses to not comply when it comes to providing cross platform messaging in the EU.
The key takeaway for me:

Whether data is continuous or discrete, no matter its modality (text, video, music, etc.), we now have an array of proven methods for representing it with discrete tokens, enabling us to use existing sequence modeling architectures (Transformers, linear RNNs).

We live in interesting times!
You can say the same thing about banning guns (although I just realized that's a bit of a stretch) If people acted responsibly we would not need to ban guns.
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The problem with this is all it takes is one bad actor to cause a lot of chaos and destruction. The laws are needed.
I agree with the article; that regulating car manufacturers who make insecure cars is the correct approach. This specific case illustrates the effectiveness of the approach.
That will always be the case with Apple. Their default behavior is to cater to a user that will shoot themselves in the foot anytime they have the opportunity. I applaud them for giving users the option to be secure, but I don't blame them in the least for making you turn on the thing that can make grandma lose all of her message history.
The git behavior seems greatly preferable here. As mentioned in other threads, the notion of commutativity here is very weak and counterintuitive; it only seems to cover the applicability of an auto-merge heuristic, not any actual notion of correctness or semantics, so a human is needed to review the merge and re-test before anything can be known safe for pushing upstream. If anything, git is too lenient in allowing auto-merges to take place that could in principle change semantics, and it ought to enforce a manual review stage for any merge, regardless of whether the auto-merge heuristic succeeded or not.
> And can you build me a small shed just to make sure you can do your work before I hire you.
Why does the article go to great lengths to portray the issue as a Muslim or East African migrant issue? Is there some wider context I'm missing?
The prohibition after the Butlerian Jihad was "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Emphasis added. Not "Thou shalt not make a machine mind". You have to read the text carefully.

A portrait of a person is a likeness of a person; but is not a person or even on the way to being one. Even a cartoon can contain a "likeness" if you recognise the person parodied in it.

I do not regard chatGPT and LLMs as "having a mind" at all or even being on the way to having one. But a likeness, an imitation, a mockery, a parody of a mind, yes that fits.
Yep you won. Good luck on your crusade.
The temperature at the exobase does have an effect on retention of helium. If it's high enough (relative to the escape energy of the planet) the high energy tail of the thermal distribution will leak atoms into space.
Also, 'sort by upload date' kills all the non directly keyword related results.
If you have a 12 year old kid in the house then uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
New version of caméra café (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%A9ra_Caf%C3%A9) soon on Amazon Prime?
?? Urban areas are just the default for the 20th century, let alone the 21st.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Argentina is surprisingly comprehensive. The sidebar has agriculture at 7% of the economy. The place is not without industry, it's just making and selling things at ""wrong"" prices because of the currency issue, which in turn comes from the balance of payments issue. There's clearly substantial local commerce, just not quite enough export.
From a tech perspective, this is really cool. From a use case perspective, could someone help me understand why a developer would adopt something like this over a database like Clickhouse, outside of some fintech use cases where milliseconds of latency really matter? I'd be worried about introducing an additional point of failure to the data stack. And, if this is like Materialize, I'd be worried about this not suppporting ad hoc queries -- only precomputed ones.
It kind of seems like you are being unscientific and politically motivated.
> "if you know that you are going to use Vercel, use Next.js but otherwise I would always argue for Remix"

Hmm. I'm using Remix and Vercel for a side-project right now and it's pretty awesome. Lightning fast build times (around 30 seconds).

At work, I use Vercel with Next.js and our build times are in the one-three minute range.
It is widely believed (and in some cases acknowledged) that a lot of models are trained on copyrighted data scraped from the web. In some cases, even scrapes of ebook piracy websites - google 'books3' to learn more.

Some companies (such as those working on AI) believe this is legal, others (such as the copyright holders to those books) believe it isn't.

In any case, IMHO it's unlikely any cutting edge models will be offering us their training data any time soon.
Nothing is secure that goes to a server. Period.

Apple turned over iMessage conversations between journalists and senators at Trumps request. They encrypt but give away the keys in many jurisdictions.
(I agree with the article as well.)
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Same behavior on Windows 10. Been like this for years.

Distributing a command-line tool for Windows is a complete nightmare in my experience, far more frustrating than on a Mac.
That anecdote is a non sequitur, but nonetheless: I assume you didn't see the full video, where it turned out that the police assaulted the "illegals" unprovoked?

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/08/times-square-migrants-arr...

That Fox News article is mostly information-free, but my takeaway is that it's blaming "bail reform" for the release of the people the police assaulted, which is abjectly false: they were charged with a violent felony, which means the judge — a prosecutor for almost two decades! — could have set bail.
i tried it but it seemed like i'd need to create a new react state field manually to "watch" the fields myself, which was a bit of a turnoff. makes sense you can't watch it before js has loaded, but it's such a common use case for me
It's very "both/and".

Kia needs to fix their fuckup AND organized gangs need to be investigated and broken up.
I disagree. Looking at the aggregate data doesn’t give you much insight into whether a specific company would be better off in person or remote or hybrid.

Every company is different.
I'm halfway through coding a tool to mention brands in social media discussions
I could really use help with validating that this is a good idea. I have 200 sign ups, but I will appreciate it if you could share the link with startups struggling to grow and/or micro-SaaS products.

The tool works by naturally name-dropping your brand in the right conversations using keywords, or alternative keywords - and it does this across Twitter (X), Reddit, and other platforms soon.

Will appreciate general feedback also if you have any. Thanks :)
use a hardware wallet, engrave your bip39 recovery seed on a titanium plate, practice recovery, you're done.
> The finished product went down well—it came with a 4.4 L V8 motor packing 333 hp (248 kW) and 332 lb-ft (450 Nm), and it made an incredible noise.

I would much rather a nice big V8
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Sure. But the real issue is both of them are absolutely lethal and uninhabitable environments. There is no plan or even real dream to change that. Stepping outside on Mars will kill you just as dead as it will on the Moon. If you're going to force colonizing one of them for some bizarre reason and at huge expense you may as well pick the closer one. It's much more feasible to just build a bunch of habitats using rotation to generate artificial gravity than to plonk yourself down in a gravity well that is totally hostile to human life, and even that stretches the bounds of possibility, let alone practicality or desirability.

We all watched Star [Trek|Wars] growing up, I get it. Mars is not a viable colonization project. The best you could ever hope for would be, at tremendous expense, an Antarctic-style research station.
I have used professionally Darcs, Mercurial, Subversion, and Git. I love distributed version control systems, and I love Git.

However, Pijul looks interesting, nice work!

Pijul has a number of stated strengths over Git, and looks like the version history is implemented as a CRDT from my first impression. Some of the statements make me wonder how many conflicts occur in real use. If they are equal to or less than the number it produces, great. If more than what Git produces, that's a barrier to adoption, as merge conflicts are one of the biggest pains when using Git.

For me though what appears one of its biggest strengths (commutative workflow) is also its biggest drawbacks. There are so many teams that are trained in git workflow and are used to it, that getting them to switch to a completely different style of workflow in sufficient numbers will take years.

Git compatibility is a key missing feature. Git had this with Subversion, and I think it's a big reason why Git won over many of the Subversion crowd.
Vercel are high on their own supply
Remix has been around since 2021.
Religious norms guide behavior. They are a course in ethics for those without undergraduate education.
Just scrolling the frontpage on youtube mobile adds stuff randomly to your watch history, it seems to count anything you linger on - however briefly - as a 'watch'

Needless to say ten minutes of absentmindedly scrolling ruins your suggested results for a long time
Except that’s not what the author is saying at all.

For example, the example you’ve given about shared interests is exactly what the author wants, and is bemoaning the lack of.

I’m not sure why you say that’s siloed, but the argument the author makes is that these shared interests don’t exist anymore which they noticed because of the lack of aesthetics around them, since shared interests usually generate a set of aesthetics.

Imagine a group of D&D players who then decide to start role playing in costumes, and invent the idea of cosplay. They hold conventions, etc where they show up to celebrate their shared interest in D&D and usually dress up in certain costumes which emerges as the cosplay aesthetic.

In this case the shared interest, D&D forms the sub culture, and the costumes forms the aesthetic based on that subculture.

Now, say no one is playing D&D anymore, and a few decades pass, and suddenly the cosplay aesthetic sees a resurgence. People are dressing in those same costumes, but no one participating in this aesthetic has heard of D&D anymore.

That’s what the author sees. Aesthetics that exist almost entirely independent of any subcultures (which could also be based on shared interests). And the author implicitly stipulates that most shared interests (subcultures) would lead to aesthetics, so the lack of such aesthetics indicates to the author a lack of subcultures.

The author arrives from the outside in, but their argument is entirely around the lack of shared interests and has nothing to do with the aesthetics, other than being an entryway into subcultures.
No, they could have shipped a product on android, or they could have used secure RCS, or several other things.

FaceTime is not really true either. This was a convenient mistruth. There were several way to remedy that situation.

Also your misremembering iMessage there was no such issue.
Not exactly in disagreement with this concept:

> In the 21st century we may have pathologized ADHD as a negative disorder, but that could be just because these characteristics simply don’t easily suit the world we have constructed. In a different context, it is possible that someone with ADHD could be a saviour to a tribe by restlessly exploring new pastures.
> Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said a malfunction caused the camera to take photos. The machine, provided by the vending supplier Canteen, features a touch screen and uses a camera for people to purchase coffee with a card, she said. But Carroll added that Amazon offers the coffee to employees free of charge and has no practical use for the camera.

Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card? Genuine question. Was there an issue of people stealing coffee cards, so they used facial-ID matching? If so that seems like an expensive and authoritarian solution to a minor problem, and it doesn't make sense that the machine would do this if Amazon isn't using the cards. And it doesn't fully explain this:

> An employee at the DMP1 Amazon Delivery Station was getting coffee on February 9 when he saw a button on the coffee vending machine’s touch screen that read “gallery.”....The employee pushed the button and came across around half a dozen random photos of the breakroom, according to Canaday.

If the photos were close-ups of employees making coffee then I would buy the explanation that this was a feature Amazon forgot to disable. But if they are truly "random photos of the breakroom" then this explanation doesn't make sense to me.
monticello[0] cares about semantics too!

Tho I guess it cheats existing in an image-based world (I have never used it, it's just something stuck in my memory from many years ago).

[0] https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1287
We aren’t very serious about enforcing our laws, especially when kids are involved. We had police catch 12 and 13 year olds (Kia Boyz) this weekend in a car with guns, and they are out already. They will get some restorative justice, but no real correction in behavior and I’m sure they will do it again.

Our real problem is just the pendulum swinging too far towards assuming people want to be good and they just need some compassion.
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If this were a Costco, sure, a benefit of doubt is warranted. But this is Amazon, who pioneered ever more dehumanizing ways of tracking employees.
I mean... This study used a pretty direct test:

"Around 450 people participated in the experiment, and all were simultaneously screened for ADHD symptoms. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found those with higher ADHD scores moved on to new bushes sooner than others but more importantly, those with ADHD also tended to collect higher volumes of berries overall."
You'll get a kick out of knowing the tool I was attempting to codesign is the tool that performs the initial install and configuration of Nix (and Homebrew) for our engineers :)
Author of the project here... Weird to see this generates such a discussion when the project is something like 20 years old, and has been quasi-dead for a while now ;-)

An interesting derivative of XL is Tao3D, which shows what you can do with it.
https://tao3d.sourceforge.net

A FOSDEM workshop about Tao3D (which includes initiation to XL):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9LwSuZD64

The design philosophy, and why it's not "just another Lisp" is here:
https://xlr.sourceforge.io/Concept%20Programming%20Presentat...
I think one word you might be looking for is "technocracy" [0]

Although the Wikipedia definition focuses on the appointment of
experts to political power, there is an attendant dehumanisation where
technical and legal approaches to everything replace human values.

Another important term might be "instrumental reason" [1]. This goes
beyond simple quantitative utilitarianism to declare all areas of
human discourse and relations as quantifiable, measurable and
logically decidable.

My personal opinion is that way beyond Neil Postman's "Technopoly" we
actually have a fully fledged new religion in which technological
values have not _replaced_ ethical discourse, they are the new
ethical discourse.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/
Why does 70% of world phones matter here? There are phones in the world that do not support any encryption when sending messages or doing calls.
I started using manual folds with latex. Works fine esp if you have a hotkey/snip for inserting these. % {{{ and % }}} for begin/end for instance. Much faster!
Sure, but it seems like enforce these ethical behaviors and punish the bottom 1% that goes against them is just as much of a solution as redesign society and the environment so that everyone can't act like that 1%.
I think the important distinction is not similarity/distance as a vector of meaning, but the ability to update those vectors in response to new data.
Well Postgres has sync replication if you value consistency
This product seems to be a blend of mushroom powder, adaptogens (such as roots and herbs), and a small amount of caffeine powder, wrapped in a generous layer of marketing fluff.

While I find mushrooms intriguing, I find the claims around their specific benefits lack concrete research on dosage, ingredients, and potential interactions.
Adding on to this, if an app uses client-side hydration (ex Next apps) sometimes you can find a big JSON object in the HTML with all the page data. In these cases you can usually write some custom code to extract and parse this JSON object. Sometimes the JSON is embedded in some JavaScript code so you need to use a little regex to extract it.
And the crux of the argument is whether you believe the law will prevent the bad actor from acquiring one or not. Or if the law will only prevent the other 999 law abiding ones. Personally, my take/view on it is that (deeply) unethical people are going to break the laws regardless of what society says or encodes. This probably is a commentary on the failures of policing to enact what we've encoded in law. Part of it being a problem that many laws are overstated (eg It's illegal to own a flipper zero vs It's illegal to use a flipper zero on someone else's car without permission) ...
OP is talking about western culture - there is no Chinese Legalism tradition in Western Culture so yours is a red herring.
> iirc ~75% of propellant mass on Starship is LOX

I remember something similar. The stoichiometric mix is 80% oxygen, but the actual mix is fuel rich, because CH4 is a light molecule, and the end result is a higher specific impulse.

Still, one could imagine that you could run the rocket in oxygen rich mode; you give up some specific impulse, but you might need to carry less CH4 with you for the return trip.

All that said, I just run the numbers, and I had a huge surprise: if I didn't make any mistakes, the Starship has enough fuel for the return trip, without any need for fancy refueling in Mars orbit. According to the wikipedia delta-v map [1], the delta-v needed to go from GST orbit to the Mars transfer orbit is only 1.16 km/s (yes, not a mistake). Then from there to low Mars orbit it's a further 2.1 km/s, but aerobraking is possible. Also out of the 1.16 km/s from Mars transfer to GST, 0.77 km/s can be done with aerobraking on the return trip. But let's be conservative and ignore all the assistance from aerobraking (although the Starship was designed specifically with that in mind). We end up with a total of 3.26 km/s for one way, and 6.52 km/s for both ways.

The exhaust velocity of the Starship is 3.56 km/s [2], which leads to a ratio of delta-v to exhaust velocity of 1.83, the exponential of which is 6.24. So you can have a ratio of initial mass to final mass of 6.24. The ratio of the Starship gross mass to dry mass is 1300/100 = 13, so more than twice the minimum. Of course, the delta-v map assumes the most economical routes, and for human travel you might need to splurge a bit, to get up there faster. Still, 13 vs 6.24 seems like a good margin to me.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Solar_sy...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_(spacecraft)
That makes zero sense to me.

Theft is not acceptable by any means. People that steal do so by several motives, most commonly because they feel like they have to due to poverty, addiction, etc.

You also already get punished for it with harsh penalties. But no matter how dystopian a government gets, it can't guarantee 100% enforcement of any law.

To fix that, we'd have to create a society that takes care of those motives that drive theft, so it doesn't happen anymore.

Unfortunately that will never exist in our current society.
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They get exported overseas and any technology lock or security device gets ripped out and replaced.

This isn’t about extracting encrypted data, but bypassing systems to start a car.
Also, even if a camera is involved in purchasing a coffee with a card, why is there a gallery of these pictures?
Working at google is like this, where no matter how much you try to do the right thing you're always under attack.
Is this not the same argument with gun control?
> End-users should also be aware of what thoughts are permitted in these constructs. Why omit this information?

Can you define that in a way that's actually testable? I can't, and I've been thinking about "unthinkable thoughts" for quite some time now: https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/unlearnable...
>Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card?

to scan the QR/bar code that's on the card
Good pull. I used to obsess over Daniel Quinn’s novels. They’re kind of perfect for the college kid finding philosophy for the first time.
> It also leans heavily into the Web APIs so you get a lot of non-framework knowledge when you use it.

This is thrown around by each and every framework so much that this lost any meaning. What does it mean? Which of the 11 custom React elements (including Link, Form, Await) and 26 custom React hooks are "simplification and leans heavily into Web APIs"?

---

As a side note, here's how it tells you to add a stylesheet to the app. So simple, much Web API: https://remix.run/docs/en/main/start/tutorial

import type { LinksFunction } from "@remix-run/node";

import appStylesHref from "./app.css";

export const links: LinksFunction = () => [
{ rel: "stylesheet", href: appStylesHref },
];
> Other sci-fi has had outsized impact too: tablets and video calls in Kubrick’s 2001 for instance.

"The Jetsons" had video calls earlier than 2001. In fact, a lot of predictions made in the Jetsons have come to pass.
I'm glad to see that cases are starting to be decided about the liability of using AI generated content. This is something the general public should not need to second-guess.
I'm not a layperson in this subject and I get confused. :)
Amazing how quickly this happened.
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