skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a lot of people at that age are too trusting of strangers and of people who sound like authorities

Barely yesterday, and probably again tomorrow, throngs of people in their twenties and thirties were borrowing money to buy digital tulips whenever some dude on Twitter posted a graph with a line going up and a stock photo of a Lamborghini.

The threat of being scammed is not age-specific, although the ways people are approached and coached by scammers are sometimes different.

> and let’s face it: older people have all the wealth in the world

I know this is just a popular and divisive trope that pits one bunch of struggling people against another, but you must know different "older people' than I do if it rings true for you.
I believe Macintoshes "remember" the most recent IP they were given on a network rather than always doing a DHCP.

It's one of the reasons given for why people say Macs "feel better" e.g. you sit down in a room with a friend who has a Dell. Your Mac gets WiFi almost immediately while they have to wait a few seconds even though both of you have been on this network before.

One of the benefits of owning the stack all the way from bare metal to OS to applications.
Uh, yeah they did. Many people thought at that time that DOJ was overstepping. Many still do. In hindsight, Microsoft’s behavior at the time seems like small potatoes compared to the ecosystem protection that occurs today.
You can look at adoption rates of IE vs Firefox and Chrome, and compare them to iOS vs Android.
Yoga is great but only really supports flexbox. For most cases that can be enough but inline content (as shown in the Dropflow demo) is difficult with only flexbox layouts available.
GOP leaders unleash on Janet Yellen over $110B energy tax hike
> If we continue anywhere close to this speed, it will be amazing what will be possible a year from now.

People said that a year ago and look today, still gpt-4 but now its turbo. So if we keep that pace in a year we will be at roughly gpt-4 but turbo++, better but not a giant leap.
It looks like RTO (Return To Office) is going to get more expensive.
I wasn't talking about intrinsic worth at all. That kind of framing is still looking at things in terms of quantity rather than quality. I'm talking about the difference in the very worldview and paradigm. I am certainly not just talking about the material production someone can contribute.

The unique contribution someone can make isn't necessarily about the survival of the community. When I say unique, it means once that person has passed, there will never be again that particular contribution -- at the very minimum, the environment, relationship, and moment is unique, as is the person. As such, the community also grows and changes over time, a living system as much as the individual people within the community are themselves living systems.
Wells Fargo really is rotten to the core. The other banks at least make cursory efforts to prevent this stuff.
On top of this keychain stores logins by domain. Even if an app is in a different developer’s container you can retrieve the credentials with just a couple taps.
Reddit users pour their personalities and interests into their comments. They are highly targetable.
Interactive visualization of qubit states
This is a visualization of what the states of a qubit can look like in two different physical systems (particle spin / photon polarization). Despite their differences, they can be described using the same mathematical object: a unit vector, here represented on the famous Bloch sphere.
This practice is called scam baiting, and there are communities you can join, like 419 eater. You can improve your techniques there.

But be careful with scambaiting.

1. Scammers can have networks, with connections that are more violent and capable than a given scammer. They might be capable of hitting you with a drive by, doxing, swatting, or hiring local muscle to visit you. The risk of this is kind of 'expensive' escalation low but not zero - especially if you're causing real problems for an operation

2. Many scam agents are victims coerced into scamming by their bosses. This makes it unethical to bait them unless you have the power and intent to liberate them - which almost no scam baiters do

3. Many scam agents have bots for dealing with repetitive objections or harassment attempts. It doesn't cost them anything to string "vigilantes" along with low effort bot responses, occasionally dropping the payload URL, hoping you will make a mistake

4. Some scambaiting activities are illegal and could make you liable for legal penalties - things like verbally harassing scammers, hacking scammers back to surveil their operations, threatening to have scammers beaten or murdered, etc.

Remember that the agents that you're talking to are softies, with a little power, but they're working under the supervision - and often the coercion - of hardened criminals in many cases. Scambaiting should not be done just for fun. It should be done with some form of desire to help liberate the victims enslaved by these operations.

I have personally chosen to stop most of my own scambaiting operations until I find a new form of scambaiting that can actually help victimized scammers.

The only kind of scam baiting that I do now is teaching python and open source contributions on GitHub, with the hope that teaching a valuable skill can help a scammer escape the cycle of crime and extortion. If a potential scammer is willing to learn Python with me and start making open source contributions, I don't really care what else they are doing. But of course this approach has a downside - I could be teaching valuable programming skills to a person who will just use them to automate their scamming operation.
Thanks for the feedback -- very helpful.
TikTok doesn't ingest everything, right? And extra data is very useful, even if only for cross referencing and generally improving the quality of the datasets.
FPGAs aren't inherently secure. I'd assume that a nation-state-level actor would have the ability to extract the bitstream from an operating FPGA which would invalidate both of your statements if additional protections and security considerations are not met in the hardware design. But you are correct that an FPGA readout is a far more difficult attack than, say, bypassing the read protection on a microcontroller's flash. At the same time, it might be easier to attack an FPGA than a modern CPU's secure area/secure enclave.

That is all to say the security is not coming the FPGA but from a systems design process that prioritizes security. There are a number of solutions to the problem which may or may not involve FPGAs but when you scramble it all up along with the preverse incentives driving the pricing/costing of these contracts, it's pretty clear that good+expensive solutions are chosen more often than good+inexpensive solutions.
Poster prioritized their uptime.
You're correct, it is a brand. The point stands though. Comparing "Apple" to "Android" does not work. Perhaps a comparison between iOS App Store and Google Play Store would be more apt, but that is another discussion.
Hey I briefly worked on that feature at Google! It looks like it's now known as Fast Pair - https://developers.google.com/nearby/fast-pair

It's not part of AOSP, but something modern Google phones support. It's not a fully open thing - device makers must register with Google - but better than the iPhone situation where only Apple devices can have a nice pairing experience.
All death is certain. And taxes.
Do you think? Is it in their financial and business interest to differentiate their product and keep working at it? I wonder if that’s expensive
The dog doesn't owe anything to the hand that feeds it, but it would still do well not to bite it.
My first sentence is completely correct. I just happen to disagree with Merrick Garland's blatant misrepresentation of the Sherman Act.
The next sport it should master is navigating the American health care system.

Or retirement.

Or buying a home in this market.
But for the question of anti-trust action it doesn't matter whether it's "a lot" of people, it matters whether it's an insignificant number of people - if there were 10 smartwatch users in the US, the argument "who cares about smartwatch users" could be valid, but it makes no difference whether there's 219 million people in the US or 219 thousand people in US, since even 219 thousand users is definitely much, much more than sufficient to justify intervention.
We were just having a good laugh yesterday about antique firearms being extempt from licensing in some US states and people doing Civil War reeancments. The truth is guns are part of your culture.
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/04/tile-ceo-on-competition...

> > If you look at the history between Tile and Apple, we had a very symbiotic relationship. They sold Tile in their stores, we were highlighted at WWDC 2019, and then they launched Find My in 2019, and right when they launched their Find My app, which is effectively a competitor of Tile, they made a number of changes to their OS that made it very difficult for our customers to enable Tile. And then once they got it enabled, they started showing notifications that basically made it seem like Tile was broken.

> Prober is talking about changes that Apple made to location services permissions. For privacy purposes, Apple stopped making it easy for apps to get permanent access to a user's location. Apps in iOS 13 were not initially allowed to present an "Always Allow" option when requesting location access, and the feature had to be enabled in the Settings app. Apple also started sending regular reminders to customers letting them know their location was being used.

> Tile was not happy with these privacy changes and that privacy tweak set Tile against Apple, with Tile in 2019 calling on Congress to "level the playing field."

> > The main points of differentiation of AirTags vis a vis Tile are enabled by platform capabilities that we don't have access to.

> Apple has, in fact, launched the Find My network that gives third-party accessories some of the same access that AirTags have, and Find My network accessories will be able to access the U1 chip in the iPhone 11 and 12 models much like the AirTags, but Tile won't be able to use the Find My network unless it abandons its own app and infrastructure, which it is likely unwilling to do.

> Prober said that Tile has been "seeking to access" the U1 chip since its introduction in the iPhone , and has been denied.

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Should Apple have a "grant once for app, always allow location service?" (note: this would allow an innocuous app to turn into a tracker with a later update). Or should Apple have a "this app has accessed your location {N} times in the last 24 hours?" ... or some other functionality?

Is "grant once, always allow" a security risk for users?

For U1 chip access: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/nearbyinteraction/... and https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10165/
A lot of dutch people already spend all their summer vacations here (along most of the beautiful and peaceful rivers and places of the French countryside) they know the place, the language will follow. And most educated French people talk some form of English.
Yeah. I joined Reddit pretty early and loved it for the longest time. It was my main social media place.

But anytime a small community would grow in popularity and hit somewhere threshold, it would be overrun by the greater reddit population The subreddit would quickly lose what made the community special and core users would migrate or just stop.

And volunteer moderation is bothe best idea ever and the worst. When it works it's awesome, but it feels as if it's only a matter of time.

So when the API changes hit last year, I saw it as Reddit handing me my hat. The old reddit was no more. I couldn't use it how I wanted to use it, at least not without paying. And given that my reddit usage was more habit than value, I made the decision to accept how things are.

I miss it. This PG post felt more like a eulogy than a promise, despite the closing. But I think I'm better without Reddit. At this point it seems to primarily be a content farm for AI agents, both producing and consuming. So maybe the dark-forest Internet is starting to arrive.
How much does it cost? Is it subscription-based? I can't find anything about it on the site.
I’d be fascinated to know if he uses old.reddit in private
Question (you might need to pass this one up the chain of command):

Was basic HTML gmail deprecated because users so overwhelmingly preferred slow, bloated UIs that there was no demand for an alternative?
Intelligence is not well defined enough for a succinct distinguishment. At least, not colloquially.

But also we're in a context where acknowledging the intelligence of other life forms is pretty radical so distinguishing them as 'lesser' than human would be precisely opposite of the point. The baseline world view is that human intelligence is magically different than other animal intelligences.
my biggest gripe is NFC, through more then their not-so-competitive parts but also that they didn't support it at all until they had their own 1st party use-case for it (which isn't anti-competive just sucks)

the reason is that it crippled a whole industry of smart door looks

NFC is (by far!) technically the best way to handle them (for many of the common security levels). (Through I mean proper secure application of NFC, something you often do not get in a satisfying way with a lot of the RFID card solutions. And I'm aware that a ton (most?) of smart door room solutions are a complete security nightmare, but that is companies cheeping out and/or not hiring anyone who know anything about security etc.)

EDIT: stuff like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779291 is what I mean with most RFID based solutions are shit. Through not sure how much this specific case was very competent hackers and how much bad security.
> I often wonder if all of the sub-optimalities in our "advanced, 'scientific' culture" are purely coincidences / oversights. That people seem to so reliably (in frequency, and form) have an innate and very strong aversion (a lot like how religious or anti-religious people get nervous/agitated if one is to call into question the truth of scripture) to discussing such matters in the context of concrete reality makes me more than a little suspicious.

I think you are right, but I am not sure what the underlying problem is. I wonder whether there is a bit of cowardice there and a fear of where the line of thought will lead - not wanting to turn the stone over for fear of what you will find. Our scientific culture is afraid of facing facts.
Exactly, the founders/investors are trying to bleed it dry. Just like We Work, hopefully reddit gets slapped just as hard, they deserve it.
This is no longer correct I believe at least in the European union.
Oops, my bad. Must have counted the shadowy shadowed shadow root servers (ya know, some big enterprise like a backup)
I’m GenX and its always funny to see Boomers referred to as a tech-illiterate generation, when my father, technically a Silent but right at the cusp of with the Boomers (who spent most of his working life in sales in line/middle management at a large farm machinery company, not “in computing”, though he did both things like physical network setup in the office and mainframe programming in the days before that was restricted to a closed high-priesthood of people with softeare-related job titles) is who developed my interest in computing by involving me in what he was doing.
Why would you hold this when the VCs and others are dumping it?

This was the easiest short positions I have ever called. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735444
the "open source" part https://git.net-core.org/groups/tome (GPLv3)
Building an Efficient Grid on GPU
> To be fair, on this particular point, you aren't Apple's customer in this scenario.

But Apple's customer is also affected, in two ways:

1. I then have to text the person back, asking them to re-send the video using another chat app, or emailing a link, or something like that. That's annoying for the iPhone user.

2. In the other direction, if I didn't know better, and I tried to send a video to the iPhone user, it would end up looking like crap for them. That's not a good experience for the Apple customer.

> The newer 'standard' was a Google dominated way of trying to make inroads...

Not sure why "standard" is in scare quotes; it's an actual standard, whereas iMessage is just some proprietary thing Apple made. And it's not newer: RCS is from 2008, which is older than iMessage, and almost as old as the iPhone itself. Likely work on the standard started before the iPhone's release.

> ... on Apple's superior implementation

This is of course a matter of opinion, but to me, any protocol that is locked down, with the owners refusing to enable interoperability, is by definition inferior, regardless of its other merits.

> Apple has announced support for RCS incoming

And we'll see how that goes. If Apple works with Google to enable full interoperability, including E2EE, I'll be pleased. Anything less, though, and it'll feel like Apple is just doing the bare minimum to try to avoid regulatory action. It also remains to be seen as to how much Google cooperates in the other direction. The RCS E2EE stuff is a proprietary Google extension; hopefully that gets made into a public standard as well.

The bottom line, though, is that Apple doesn't interoperate until they believe that they're going to be legally forced to. At least if they get in ahead of the regulatory action, they can do their implementation more or less on their own terms. It's a smart move, but IMO is also scummy.

The thing that has always baffled me about Apple keeping iMessage iOS-only, and not supporting RCS, is that they've been hurting their own customers with this stance too. Plenty of iPhone users live with a degraded, less-private experience wen communicating with non-iPhone users, or have to remember to use a different chat app when conversing with certain contacts. This makes a lot of Apple's rhetoric (in general, not just regarding messaging) about protecting user privacy feel a bit hollow at times. Clearly their primary motivation for the privacy stance isn't to protect users, it's because they believe it gives them a competitive advantage.
I'm not sure Apple makes or don't make an exception in China. From what I can see, Chinese chat-pay superapp features are something largely chat and web based. From what I can see, it works something like following:

a) Users may reload HNPay balance by credit card, debit, or bank transfer, through in-app browser.

b) Users may use "send money" button to create some special chat message or link, which will be intercepted at server side, to send HNPay balance to a HNPay address/user ID.

c) (Deprecated)The user may scan QR code on a fading sticker at storefront that does the same as above.

d) The user may also use "show QR code" button, have the other user/store machine scan the code, which allows the other user/store computer to do b) with a negative amount for withdrawal.

e) The HNPay balance can be refunded to bank accounts if needed.

I'm sure people here can come up with half a dozen applicable financial regulations, restrictions imposed by banks and payment processors, cybersecurity attack vectors and massive lawsuit potentials for each of above, plus perhaps couples of solvable App Store guideline difficulties across a)-e). I think those would be problems towards realizing Facebook Messenger pay or TwitterPay, not App Store special treatment that only applies to China. Not many of them, if any, use NFC and secure element hardware in iOS devices like the point 5. misleads.
Sounds to me like something's crashing on disconnect, the ethernet watchdog notices a full receive buffer so it starts sending out pause frames, but the buffer never gets emptied anymore so the watchdog keeps sending out pause frames. Similar to like how you keep hearing the same audio sample over and over again when Windows bluescreens.
You know that nobody forces you to use features you don't want to, right?
It's quite true that there is a lot of excitement in this space, and that naturally comes with a lot of competitors. We were among the first movers with respect to AI tools for musicians, and we've seen that many others are having to move fast to catch up. Our unique insight is and has always been thinking about what musicians and music enthusiasts actually want, rather than blindly implementing a text-to-music model.

With respect to growth, our goal is to continue lowering the barrier to entry for people to write amazing music that they are proud of. Our initial product is focused on music samples, but by increasing the level of abstraction to remixes and then full stem generation we can literally enable more people to consider themselves to be "musicians." Adding music distribution to our platform will greatly improve virality and organic growth, since most people who make music want to share what they've made with their friends. We are confident that we can achieve our lofty goals by building a vertically integrated music creation and distribution platform.
There’s something missing from all these discussions. The country where the caller is located.
Written instructions / explaining board games. In both cases, your best bet is a good tutorial. "Do X and Y will result" gives you instant feedback. If Y didn't result, you have probably failed to do X correctly. Versus "Do X1. Now do X2... Now do Xn. End." The latter is decontextualized and hard to follow, while a well-illustrated tutorial takes you a long way to success, having actually _done the thing._
It's more about maybe expanding in other countries instead of in the Netherlands.

And one of the options they mentioned is Belgium, and the Belgian border is about 10km away from ASML HQ.
on this topic, it's interesting how my mindset changes when I'm writing Rust vs Python, with regards to vtables, dispatching, and allocation.

Writing Rust for a toy project: "I MUST avoid allocation, and the dyn keyword, at all cost!!"

Writing the same toy project in Python: "lol just copy the string who cares"
In most countries one of these is the one everybody uses, and it works on every phone. In the US, the country is split, mostly by economic class, between people on iMessage and “the rest”.

I’m not saying “whatsapp is effectively a monopoly in $country” is great, but it’s better than the US situation. You can buy a $50 phone and use the ubiquitous messaging app.
Just here to point out that was 32 years ago. This could definitely fit within someone's lifetime, even more into someone's memory.
reddit has been rubbish for a while, an orangered and periwinkle mess.
$10/month or $100/year for unlimited downloads
Yes, exactly. Free money from the sky is exactly it.

It's definitely not coming out of card issuers pockets, from their fat interchange fees, that they may be happy to pay due to reduced fraud and other costs. Nope, the free sky money thing is it.

That high school education is serving well.
Apple slams DOJ case as misguided attempt to turn iPhone into Android
I think what happens with Reddit is that it's basically a collection of niche message boards for very niche interests, and over time the people who stay active in a given subreddit are people who take some topic extremely seriously and it essentially devolves into extremism/cult-like vibes with the mods at the helm.
Can We Prevent LLMs from Hallucinating?
Can We Prevent LLMs From Hallucinating? And if not, what implications does this have for the future of AI? Let's talk about it.