skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “You reach a threshold where you’re actually reducing privacy,” Whittaker said. She gave an example of a person who faces severe threats and normally maintains vigilance but whose mother is only on WhatsApp because she can’t figure out the numberless Signal. The high-threat person would be stuck using the less secure option more often.

How does that make sense? Signal just made phone numbers for contact discovery optional, in which case this person still couldn't find their mother, even though Signal has their number on file.

What people are asking for is for phone numbers to be optional for account creation and identification. Everybody that wants to could still provide (and verify) their phone number for contact discovery, and this could even remain the default for non-sophisticated users as the one described above.

So that seems more like a retroactive justification for an early design choice (Signal was originally TextSecure and used SMS as a transport layer, so making numbers the primary key made total sense back then). The only thing that still makes sense to me today is spam prevention:

> Requiring phone numbers also makes it considerably harder for spammers to abuse Signal. “The existence of a handful of small apps that don’t really have a large scale of users, that don’t require phone numbers, I don’t think is proof that it’s actually workable for a large-scale app,” Whittaker said.

One possible solution could be to tie numberless account creation to a nominal donation payment: Still not great, but spam prevention is unfortunately not free to Signal either.
I was really excited about RedisGraph, and sad to see it was cancelled. In my (limited) experience with graph databases they proved very frustrating because it seemed like they tried to do too much. Ultimately the way I thought of a graph was an indexing strategy into some underlying data. So I needed the graph to be very quick, but I didn't have any requirement to store actual data in it--just references. This made triples based graph storage seem very heavy-handed.

The idea of composing sparse linear transformations to optimize queries is really cool. You can get a lot of work done in one shot that way, in a manner that's just quite a lot easier on the machine than chasing pointers around.
This is the huge difference. Apollo missions used two launches of the Saturn V - one for the crew capsule and one for the lunar lander, which rendezvoused in orbit. Artemis is planning on using one SLS launch for the crew capsule, and an estimated 8-16 Starship launches for the lunar lander and refueling.
If there isn’t a license, you can’t use it. I think it’s pretty clear.
svchost.exe isn't a service itself, but rather, as the name implies, it's a host for other services. In other words, it's not necessarily Windows misbehaving, but a particular piece of software you're running.

Find the PID of the svchost.exe process that's eating CPU in Task Manager. Then go to the Service tab of Task Manager and find the service with that PID. You'll have your actual culprit of what's eating CPU. It COULD be a Windows service that's acting up, but it's just as likely some 3rd party service.
This has Toyota's fingerprints all over it. It's all of Toyota's talking points. It's especially suspicious that the top list includes Toyota's Lexus RZ and bZ4X which are the worst by far among BEVs [1] in terms of efficiency.

[1]: https://youtu.be/c10Ck84QgEI?t=1289
I get around this by having "wt-" (wt-1, wt-2, etc) branches that act as my main/master branch per work tree.

As long as you set the upstream to master, it works fine, you can pull in upstream main/master changes without issue. It does mean you have these "wt-" branches, but it works well enough for me, never got in my way or caused me to stop using worktrees.

My workflow is like this: For each worktree I add, checkout a new branch, wt-N, with it's upstream set to main/master. If I need to checkout some other branch in a worktree, do it, finish up, check out wt-N again, git pull to bring it up to date with upstream. Leaving idle worktrees on a "wt-" branch so I don't have the issue of "branch X is already checked out out worktree Y"
A "cottage" sounds like an exaggeration, but in any case if your spouse would prefer that you spend endless hours at work rather than home with the family, then you've actually got bigger problems than "golden handcuffs".
This looks very cool for embedding workflows in a native Go project. There is also Trackman (https://github.com/cloud66-oss/trackman) which is mostly built for workflow based commanline execution.
Lots of people doesn't see Apple laptops like you obviously do. Ask provocative questions and you'll get likewise answers. For my needs and my opinions:

- The software is worse. Linux is better. Windows has much broader options. I run both.

- I game.

- Ideology? Yes, Apple is an awful company.

- Familiarity? I have used it enough to know it cannot do a lot of things I need, want, like, etc.

- Budget? Yes, but not because it is too expensive, but because it cannot do anywhere near what Linux and Windows can do (for me) for way less.

>I'm speculating that the monthly cost is on par with a PC.

What is the monthly cost of a Mac that can run games, run old software I require for work and hobbies and (importantly) isn't locked down in either hardware or software so I can use it for something completely different later in life?
> Under the Jones Act, any ship carrying cargo and traveling between ports in the United States, or to the United States from a foreign country, has to be built in America and owned by an American

https://time.com/4961159/what-is-jones-act-puerto-rico/

Yes it also applies to Hawaii:

> Hawaii and Puerto Rico share many similarities. Among those is the devastating effect on island economies of the Jones Act, which prohibits international vessels from carrying cargo between U.S. ports.

https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2022/08/how-the-jones-act...

The problem is that shipping is the only way to deliver lots of goods to Hawaii and Puerto Rico (origin of shipment doesn’t really matter here). Other states have terrestrial borders and thus don’t care as much.
Nah probs mate, it happens
I use to work at a company whose product had multiple versions of Java over its existence (literally think from Java 5 to Java 18), depending on the major product support versions (yes we had clients still on 1.0 system from the early 2000s, they were mostly regional banks).

Worktrees made working on that monolith easier to do my types of tasks (updating tests that were specific to the UI team I was on, also the only person willing to touch java code).

It sounds kinda backwards, but if you have to support multiple versions of a product that still brings in hundreds of millions in revenue it's nice to use git worktree to basically check out different versions of your product in time.
The question isn't whether LLMs can simulate human intelligence, I think that is well-established. Many aspects of human nature are a mystery, but a technology that by design produces random outputs based on a seed number does not meet the criteria of human intelligence.
Cue song ... "Sayonara Basu"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efl0Jj7LlV0

by folk-style acoustic guitar strummers and singers Yuzu. [1999 Album Yuzuen]
Have worked in just about every conceivable style of office over my career and the worst was probably the beehive style six desks in a hexagonal "cubicle." Too noisy and the snacks were kept on the table in the middle which wrecked any possible attempt to diet. An interesting one was in the UK in the late 70s where a large factory space was divided into glass-walled spaces so anyone could see anyone but mostly not hear them. My favorite were the private offices and my first internship in a physics lab at Oxford was one of the most collaborative where twice a day mid morning and mid afternoon a tea lady came around with a cart with Tea urn (milk and sugar premixed) and various snacks. Everyone came out of their labs almost without fail and talked informally with everyone else for 20 minutes on anything and everything. The corridor was lined with large chalkboards that were put to good use. All for the minor cost of a tea lady to focus the collaboration.
That's interesting.

I see this as a masterclass on how to fail to convert a 19 year member of a website, back to a paying customer.

Yes, I used to pay for Flickr Pro. I stopped when I found that it wasn't providing me value other than "we will delete your private photos" if you don't pay up.

By the way, I did at one point look in the UX to see if there was a way to be able to view just my private photos so that I could delete them myself, but it wasn't obvious in my searching. It felt like it was intentionally difficult to even see if I wanted to keep an account.

Never once did he ask the simple question: "What can we do to convert you into a paying customer again?". Everything has been some sort of weird truth seeking mission to prove me wrong.
I hate dealing with USB-C, but on laptops, it hardly matters. Pretty rare that I'm plugging in anything besides power.
> Apple does partially cover that market, but only via refurbished.

That's not the same thing. If you're budget conscious then you presumably need to keep it for a long time, but now you've got a used battery and a machine that will fall out of support sooner.

> The thing that's really sad is that the build quality on sub $1k laptops is just such shite

The secret to this one might be refurbished Framework laptops. Sure, you've got a used battery, but now it's easy to replace and costs $50 instead of $250.
Britain's AI sector expected to get £100M extra funding in budget
Sounds like you know a lot more about this area than I :)

I would like an efficient way of time travelling in a single threaded context.

As you describe it, it makes sense that supporting multithreading would make the problem space much more challenging to navigate. I wasn't thinking about that, but it's clear once you point it out. I was just considering the overhead of maintaining the undo state without being able to delegate it to a separate thread.

As OP mentions, they use change detection to calculate/store deltas, but Bevy's ECS change detection isn't very performant. You still have to iterate over all components and check a component's value to learn changed state rather than being able to filter on a `Changed` archetype. It kind of makes sense, though, because adding/removing Changed components from tons of entities every tick would also be expensive. Either way, change detection feels like a sore spot when working with tons of entities in ECS. I'm not super confident there's a way around that without manually maintaining some data structures outside of the ECS paradigm, but was thinking that if I could at least run the change detection on a separate thread that it might be tolerable.
Opened in 1995, DEN currently serves 25 different airlines offering non-stop service to over 215 destinations throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia; it was the fourth airport in the U.S. to exceed 200 destinations.[11] The airport is a major hub for United Airlines and is the largest operating base for both Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines.[12] With over 35,000 employees, the airport is the largest employer in Colorado. The airport is located on the western edge of the Great Plains and within sight of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.

from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_International_Airport

(And yes, thats many different companies and businesses - but it's also 3x the size of any company on that list)
Are Deep Fakes Overblown?
The Open Source Problem
There's a guideline about this, at least in spirit:

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

If you feel so strongly about it, email the mods with your suspicions. Repeatedly posting this kind of thing, based on effectively nothing at all (lots of people write general audience articles without indexing every bit of research they've done) is just lame and rude. You owe the author an apology.
Nvidia's Surge Stokes Talk of a Bubble
> A society built on individual choice and self-determination as core values ends up looking like San Francisco or New York City. You can't create Tokyo or Mayberry with those values.

Leaving aside that Mayberry is a fantasy, SF and NYC look pretty good compared to, say, Dhaka or Tehran, and they stack up reasonably well against Tokyo. Plus: You're focusing on a snapshot, when in fact it's a movie — I'd venture that the individualist-but-cooperative mindset is considerably more adaptive over the long term.

> Values that are important in the Muslim country where I come from, for example, are undermined every day in the secular blue state where I live.

So? The reverse is also true: Values that are important to people like me are undermined every day in that same country; does that mean we should change our values? Saying "yes, you should change your values because theirs are just better" is pretty presumptuous, no?

> That is how you treat them, and you don't hide it well at all, and that's why they don't trust you.

You haven't answered my question: Why should we privilege the dictates of "Christian" fundamentalists over those of Islamic fundamentalists — and why should we privilege either over our own values?

If Alice doesn't trust Bob merely because Bob insists on having his own values and prefers not to live according to Alice's, then that's Alice's problem — and if Alice tries to force Bob to adopt her values, then she should expect, let's just say, vigorous opposition.
>most people fit the mold.

Which mould though? I'd say most fit the Windows mould, but I'm guessing you mean the Apple mould.
Nobody is thinking about the multinationals, they are thinking about what is morally correct.
https://archive.is/s4WHC
Oracle, IBM, Sun on its days, didn't set the tune of the music at Apache, as apparently Microsoft does at .NET Foundation, as per complaints of the projects that decided to withdraw from the Foundation.
AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania
Recommend taking a read of CrowdStrike's write up on this [1].

The threat actor maintains a presence on the roaming exchange through compromising "at least 13 telecommunication companies".

> If it's the former, then it seems very un-stealthy

In this article there is one example where the outbound connectivity to the Internet was via a "SGSN emulator in a loop, attempting to connect to a set of nine pairs of International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) and Mobile Subscriber Integrated Services Digital Network (MSISDN) numbers."

In this example, the transit traffic before egress to the Internet would appear to be legitimate subscriber traffic - user payload encapsulated in a PDP context / GTP tunnel to another telco's GGSN / packet gateway.

> Which, maybe they don't care, but it seems like they're risking blacklisting.

By compromising so many telcos, there are many points of redundancy for persistence on the roaming exchange. This threat actor has remained on telco networks for many years undetected - their techniques are apparently are quite effective.

[1] https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/an-analysis-of-lightbasin-t...
Which peoples is this not true for?
Another way to look at this, is that a working copy is a projection of the state of a repository at a particular commit. If you are working on or with a tool that utilizes the repository contents to drive it, then you can expose multiple instances or versions of the tool from those projections, while leveraging a shared content cache and upstream configuration.

For example, let's say you are working on a static site (this is just an example). You can have a web server running that is serving the main worktree from https://mysite.local/, and any worktrees from https://mysite.local/~[worktree]/. Then, if you want to make a particular branch available for someone to review in their browser to provide feedback, you can direct them to the worktree URL while you continue doing other work either in your main branch, or on other branches altogether.
You're just trying to ruin our zorbing fun.
To say nothing of the event itself, apparently the terms of Project Nimbus "contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure."

Interesting that one would draft that as a clause in the first place, and even more interesting that AWS and Google Cloud agreed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/israel-government...
My opinion is you can pick two: low cost, high build quality, good specs.

No one matches Apple's build and screen quality. But their base models are pretty underpowered, and it's not until you're spending closer to $2k that you get specs that feel appropriate for 2024. On the Windows side, there are lots of cheaper options, many of which have beefier specs, but the build quality pales in comparison.

The right tradeoff depends on your budget and what you really need out of a device.
It's a good name, to me it's similar to "browsing the internet". Which in my mind is just "looking" around on the internet without necessarily contributing as such, like posting on blogs, playing names, sending emails etc.

Browsing the internet like just browsing in a store.

I guess we use Browsers to Browse the internet.
Really nice execution! Thanks for sharing
> 1. There seems to be sanctioned and "external events". It happened at an external event. But it seems to have been some event related to the conference.

"Then they hit up a bar called The Three Monkeys, not far from the Hilton conference hotel in Midtown Manhattan." It sounds like they just went to get drinks at a bar. It being near the conference venue is meaningless, this is midtown Manhattan, there's 10 bars on every block and probably half a dozen conferences going on at any given time.

Someone else already addressed your second point.

> 3. It was a "legal tech" conference. What?

"Legalweek New York is the one week in which thousands of legal professionals gather to explore the Business and Regulatory Trends, Technology and Talent drivers impacting the industry" (from https://www.event.law.com/legalweek/who-we-are)

Any conference in any industry is probably going to involve technology at least a bit, because it's 2024 and technology is everywhere. That doesn't make it a "tech conference".
It's sad that Arm hates desktop Linux but I guess they don't make any money from it.
Or go for 33% of your salary or even better, live on 1% of your salary… at some point you simply can’t make it work unless you are making 7 or more figures. Which then it really doesn’t matter anyway. :-/
Which browser is that with? I wouldn't try that with Chrome, but I'd be kinda surprised if Safari wouldn't handle it.
Things were already pretty bad when Damor was fired, it's only gotten worse since
Won’t it be encrypted with FileVault?
Ok maybe I should have specified that I was flying from an international airport.
> Well, what PC people do is they hyper-focus on one specific spec like number of displays supported or price per GB of RAM but can’t see the forest for the trees beyond that.

Not at all, there are many examples of various types of specs in this thread, where apple fanboys suddenly go mute :)

> If I just do the same thing I can win arguments just as easily. Find me a laptop with the kind of performance per watt specs as the M3 systems. Find another laptop of the same size/weight/power draw that can match the M3 Max’s performance at anything close to the same battery life.

So the only example you can come up with is performance per watt? (Your second question is basically the same as your first). M3 very good in that category, I don't disagree, it's apple's latest/best processor, and it does slightly outperform AMD Ryzens in that category[0]. Of course, when you take price into account, apple M processors are not even close to best :).

> Find me a PC laptop where you can feed an RTX 4080 mobile with over 100GB of RAM

Hilarious that you bring this up when macs don't even support CUDA and basically useless when it comes to the the most important aspects of having a GPU today... gaming and deep learning...

> Those laptops don’t exist, unless it’s a Mac.

Yeah, nothing but apple exists in an apple fanboy's mind.

[0]https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cpu_performance_...
There are moments in time when all you need to boil is a small pond.
> "choose which application to terminate"

What is that?

I've been using macs for decades, and I've never seen or heard of such a dialog.
Baseband chipsets.

* For example, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905937

* Mobile-phone baseband chipsets are proprietary and secret a.f. and part of that is down to the carrier's insistence.

* Baseband chipsets run software that the carrier ships OTA to the phone.

* While baseband chipsets are ostensibly part of the wireless modem and meant to simply provide a service to the rest of the phone it looks like they generally have some form of access to the phone's main memory bus (just like any other PCIe device in a PC) and so could read the framebuffer (assuming it's backed in RAM at all) - or at least the back-buffers of the screens of running applications.

* Even 6-7 years ago, there existed definite causes for concern in (at least) the 32-bit version of iOS - but I can't find any hard evidence that the baseband chip in Apple Silicon-era phones wouldn't have at least some access. See https://github.com/userlandkernel/baseband-research
That's crazy. I can but it over the counter without a prescription.
I like how one is Intel i7 and one is Intel 7. Mind that the i7 is a -U, which is totally different from a -H or a desktop i7.
Thanks for this, I am now glad they closed my account!
> Also incorrect. Mass budget does not change fundamental Newtonian physics, nor does it alter the issue of instability caused by a high center of mass.

The size of the ship solves some problems. Illustrations depict landing gear taller than a person, which means small rocks and holes are less of an issue.
Turn on FileVault. Don't give anyone your password.

Pretty fathomable.
I used to work for the firm that sells "The Vest", which helps people with cystic fibrosis and other lung problems clear their airways (I worked on a different product).

It rapidly inflates/deflates to vibrate the chest cavity (not unlike attending a metal concert and standing in front of the speaker stack) to dislodge mucus. Using it can significantly increase the life span of people who haven't/can't have a lung transplant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZbDcPiJv0
>800-ish tabs

You're never going to read those, before the links rot.
agree - which is probably why Elon Musk is so obsessive about increasing the efficiency and thrust of the merlin and raptor rocket engines, a huge amount of downstream capability can be achieved by increasing that number (all other things being equal)