skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hopefully this is sign that Android will support E2EE RCS that is interoperable with iOS.

Android/Google encryption is proprietary as evidenced by the fact that the Content-Type header is "application/vnd.google.rcs.encryption":

* https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf § Messages Encryption

They state:

> In order to store and exchange user public keys like identity keys and prekeys, we need to have a central key server. Unlike the RCS messaging servers, the key server is currently only hosted by Google.

* Ibid § Key Server

For interoperability there would (potentially) need to be a neutral third-party where everyone's public key(s) are present. ("Everyone" potentially being all folks who use RCS, which may be every phone on the planet.)
Ahh yes, EULAs are known for their stark clarity and ease of reading and understanding. They totally do not employ any dark patterns or intentionally mislead people. That would never happen.
Thanks! We're continuously improving it and nowadays have two people full-time working on it.

If you want to hear about the future of ESPHome, make sure to tune into the State of the Open Home next week: https://www.youtube.com/live/oa__fLArsFk
4090's have consistently been around 2000 dollars. I don't think there's many gamers who would be affected by price fluctuations of the 4090 or even the 4080.
Try that supply chain attack on dropbear running as ssh server on devuan. Simple utility on a simple system made of simple utilities
Basically only truly DRM-free, offline games in GOG/itch.io will be able to show "Buy", giving them an advertising edge.
It really does call into question everything in the origt blog post. The emails from the CEO are such a breath of fresh air. Even the typos are endearing. It reads like an immediate, frank, unfiltered reaction, giving an honest expression of his values. and he didn't lose his cool while being repeatedly taunted by the blog author who only wanted a one-way attack amd the last word without listening to a rebuttal.
Data of 7.5M Indian customers leaked on dark web
Absolument. But these 2 days are close to a lost for me and my team as people start talking about anything and everything for a few hours. I mean it's fun and simple but deep down it's a bit of a lost of time in the end...
This is literally the least interesting thread I have ever seen on HN. Man complains about other people doing thing related to his hobby.
I very much like distros, but unfortunately they are by nature slow to adopt new versions.

For example, Ubuntu 24.04 will ship without Deno. It will also ship with Cargo 1.75, which is too old to build Deno (there's some weird packaging issue). So, anybody who wants Deno on Ubuntu has to install it using either `curl | bash`, nix (which of course seems promising), or asdf (which I know nothing about). Most devs would choose curl|bash.

Why is Deno not packaged for Ubuntu/Debian? Because it's "hard", and it's hard in different ways for different distros (the debian ticket for this has sat without action for 2-3 years, and I think the Deno ticket a similar amount of time). Cross-distro solutions like flatpak (or nix) are 100% necessary if we are to get rid of curl|bash. But, the sandboxing story with flatpak/snap is currently pretty bad; apps just fail in mysterious ways if they try to access resources they're not allowed access to. Nobody wants Windows Vista, but it has been done reasonably well in various other OSes.
I started fumbling around computers at the age of five, wondering how the hell my computer manages to beat me in chess every time. The fact that it can even play games made me go nuts.

Fast forward 10 years or so, I picked up Blender trying to make some pretty pictures using my computer. It took an eternity to render out a clean image without much noise on my PC which had a whopping 4 GB of RAM.

Fast forward another 5 years, I stumbled upon the OptiX Denoiser that finally made it possible to do clean noiseless renders at decent resolution in one-tenth of the time on my – then proud of – 1050 Ti card. It felt like magic.

Fast forward yet another 5 years, today we have Midjourney and ChatGPTs of the world, and saying that I’m mind-blown or astonished only pales in comparison to what these things are capable of.

What I used spend hours on – meticulously placing assets, tweaking the lights and composition, doing post production, etc. – now seems to possible with just a prompt (or few prompts) away.

What next? Where are we heading?

I am not a fan of predicting the future, but looking at how things have progressed over two decades, I can’t help but to wonder how the world is gonna look in 10 or 20 years. Forgetting about how AI is gonna change this or that, the big picture seems to be clear – more and more of roles in the spectrum of ‘technical’ work are becoming obsolete.

In May of 2021, Paul Graham wrote, “There has never been a better time to be a ‘nerd’. In the past century we've seen a continuous transfer of power from ‘dealmakers’ to ‘technicians’ — from the ‘charismatic’ to the ‘competent’ — and I don't see anything on the horizon that will end it.”

When I read that article, these words that jumped out of the screen: “transfer of power from ‘dealmakers’ to ‘technicians’ — from the ‘charismatic’ to the ‘competent’”. I wanted to give Paul a high five when I read that. So beautifully worded.

But he ended that paragraph with a line that reads “At least not till the nerds end it themselves by bringing about the singularity.”

That was just 3 years ago.

Today, the world is shifting towards a future where the ‘how’ doesn’t matter anymore, and it’s all about the ‘why’ and the ‘what’. Where ‘expertise’ doesn’t matter anymore, and it’s all about having a ‘vision’ or being able to ‘dream’. Where the ‘technicians’ don’t matter anymore, and it’s all about being a ‘dealmaker’ who knows what they want.

In 10 or 20 years from now, who will be the technicians? What will they do? Will we have technicians at all? Are the only technicians going to be people building the AI?

If that's how the world is gonna look – a world where I no longer have the opportunity to watch a potter make a pot out of clay, an artist paint a portrait or a landscape from a blank canvas, or to make pretty renders and build things myself, or what not – it doesn’t make me happy when I think about it.

That reality makes me ‘sad’.
I use

- Audiobookshelf (https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf) for audiobooks & podcasts

- Wallabag for links

- COPS for ebooks

- synchting for syncing across devices

It takes more time to host/support it, but I've learned a lot while doing it and knowing that my information is mine and I won't be "discontinued" is worth the time.
From personal experience, other people's storage units that are filled with stuff kept against an ill-defined future just cost money and cause someone else a headache sooner or later.
That's what Take-Two does with Grand Theft Auto - here is one example: https://rockstarintel.com/take-two-strikes-again-with-anothe....

Worth noting is that playing these reverse-engineered versions of the game still required the original assets which would be obtained by buying the broken games on Steam.

R* Games, which is owned by Take-Two, shortly after released the remastered "Definitive Edition" versions of the games, which today sell for $59.99, as opposed to about $2 per game before ($6 in total).

So effectively that's what they've been doing, but no one in the games industry or adjacent can stand up to T2's legal bullying, which goes beyond this.
> no revision control

I'm not claiming this is a sufficient solution, but Google Sheets does keep a version history and you can see changes. Doesn't solve the problem of working copies and merging though.
I think the image you paint of a "regular" person explains why some folks view this blog post as a opportunity for Vlad to learn, and others view it as a "hit piece" that he must "get a chance to respond to", as if this were combat (and as if he didn't get tens of chances to respond more effectively in the discord conversations we see).

There is a great strength in "I might be wrong here, I'd like to learn more" than makes even the most hardheaded wrongness look weak, and if you look at the history of effective CEOs, you'll likely notice that inability to entertain the possibility you might be wrong tends to be a liability.
You can delete the launcher on most DEs. I do not have a launcher button on my work KDE desktop - I start apps using the keyboard to start a launcher.
Yeah, I was thinking about that book[0])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
It was already there. I should have added it in Navbar too which I just did. Thanks for correction.

https://postack.dev/pricing
Vidar is the developer of an editor, which is labelled "experimental".

'snark'.tr('nr', 'lc')
https://web.archive.org/web/20240413123133/https://internati...
Yes. I've been trying to not buy a DM42 for a while :)
Appreciate these threads.

I believe that it is possible to work for a tech employer on a H1B Visa, where the visa comes from a charitable / academic organisation offering to be your 'primary' employer, not requiring you to work full-time with them, and being willing to work with you to get the H1B through their process that is not subject to the lottery process / visa cap. You can then work most (but not all) of the time with a 'regular' employer that you find the normal way, on that H1B visa.

>>> I am SURE I saw some service that helps to orchestrate this, presumably unusual but not illegal, arrangement, with uncapped / no lottery organisations - do you know about this? Can it work? <<<

In practice I am sure it could work well to work part-time for a "institutions of higher education or related/affiliated nonprofit entities and nonprofit or governmental research organizations." and then most of the time for a regular (e.g. startup) employer.
It's anyway a weird analysis. Keeping up with changes to the street network is more or less easy. POI search data/metadata is the stuff that is missing, is something that provides a lot of value to users, and is not easy to automatically collate.
you should tell us what "per segment" means. Never heard of it. I use twilio mostly.
Depends on the distro. openSuse encrypts all, and has (or had?) slow boot as consequence. I think Tumbleweed just switched away from Grub.

The theory is that messing with boot can compromise your system and leave you vupnarable despite encryption.
> The games have no ads

I’m pretty sure I wait through/ignore/click past an ad every time I play Connections.
https://www.nayuki.io/page/des-cipher-internals-in-excel
Ask your libertarian friends: why is it capital has no borders but people do?
A dev myself, I see any new tech that looks like something I've seen before, but different from the immediately previous, as the natural young revolt against the old (5 years older), in an attempt to be important (i.e., e.g. being paid). Sometimes I'm younger than last year too, and I throw away a lot of what I learned. I should strive for wisdom: knowing what should come and what should go.
That's what "digital ownership" is these days. The companies will outright tell you that you are "purchasing an item" and that you "own it" in your library. But will bury deep in ToS that it's a revocable license. That is the status quo of digital ownership. This is what it means in the context of reality.

If you contort the "digital ownership" definition to mean that you properly own things, you are right. But that is not the definition we go by.
There are some but with very few users and limited to a small number of sites. The only one still on AMO that comes close is the one by iamadamdev (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...) which is discussed here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40016918
I think the silliest part about this “saga” is that Jason is leading a one-man boycott at his own detriment. He’s depriving himself of a social community meeting place for his passion because his donation to the organization that facilitates those meetups wasn’t put to some kind of completely unspecified use.

> A number of years later, I contacted the Vintage Computer Federation to ask how the magazines were doing, if they were part of a project, or if I needed to transfer them elsewhere.

If you read between the lines on that quote, it’s clear that Jason doesn’t even know what someone is supposed to do with all this stuff, but he called up years later in hopes that someone else came up with an idea.

If he wants the materials to be part of a project, he should have spent the time needed to make them into a project. But really, Jason doesn’t know what to do with them, that’s why he donated them in the first place.

It’s not much different than dropping off an attic full of miscellaneous paintings to the Met and expecting them to put them in an exhibit.

If you want to make a qualified donation, make a qualified donation. Write up a contract that tells the organization what it’s allowed to do with your donation. Otherwise, anything is fair game.
Also to note that the "Definitive Edition" is noticeably worse than the originals.
I wish there was a word about desktop mode. Plugging in my phone and having Windows 11 or Ubuntu or whatever pop up on my desktop has been my lifelong nerd fantasy. Something like DeX, but a "real" desktop OS (where i can open terminals, build stuff, maybe even launch nested VMs), and as a first-class citizen. Maybe Google/Android could have their own desktop skew of Android (like how Microsoft has Azure Linux optimized for their environment), e.g. take Debian and add integrations to it for the rest of the Android system, like when you get notifications, they will appear in the Gnome dock, etc.
Sure, but saying two people are the same magnitude is very different from saying they have the same level of touch sensitivity

Two complex numbers can have the same magnitude & be very far apart. Assuming we stick to the positive/positive quadrant it's not so bad. This metaphor (which, the spectrum itself is a metaphor, making this a metaphor of a metaphor) is to a 2d space tho, complex numbers are much more comparable based on magnitude as a result
This might be true in a harm mitigation sense, but really "leadership" itself is a scam invented by the people who benefit from hierarchy. It is a way of mystifying the relationship between you and your boss (or commanding officer, or politicians, etc.), attributing an abstract quality to them that justifies their position over you, rather than the truth which is that the only thing different about them is their position in the hierarchy. It serves the same function as the divine right of kings.

Nobody should be a "leader". Maybe we can't avoid hierarchy (because societies/groups that don't use it tend to be outcompeted by those that do) but we don't have to sprinkle it with holy water and pretend it's sacred.
oh bother, here's the original article: "epic pooh" (1978) https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/under...

I don't know how closely Moorcock read his rabbits: in the Watership Down I read, Le Guin's Omelas existed as a warren, a little more realistic and a little less difficult to map to our own circumstances, and Adams had the honesty to explore the ambiguity, the decency to point out the economic and cultural benefits that Cowslip et.al. got from their arrangement.

Milne, on the other hand, doesn't ever delve into the explicit delapinisation of the less fortunate.
The main problem with F# is low popularity and hence gig opportunities are a lot fewer.
The New Hampshire legislature coined the term check-list in 1840, in the sense of 'roster of names of voters'. Procedural to-do lists came later.
I remember it differently, as I rarely encountered office networks then, and when I did, they were still 3rd party (Netware mostly).

The reason I always remember 3.1 is that 3.0 was a "big" upgrade, but it was a dog, so they released a vastly-improved 3.1 pretty quickly, so many people got that as the default, and the upgrade was pretty widespread.

This was over maybe a 4-year period in the mid-90s. My memory may be hazy, and I was a university student, so my exposure may have been limited, but myself and my friends never really reference 3.11 because it wasn't used/needed, and indeed most of us used Trumpet Winsock as a TCP/IP stack (3rd party) until the release of Windows 95.
These complaints are always funny to me, because the "viewpoint diversity" referred to is usually right-wing rhetoric which not only already has a voice in NYT, but also has several dedicated outlets that are elevated to "paper of record" sources among conservatives. What doesn't get much play is, say, PoC and lower class youth perspectives on topics like foreign affairs and economics. There a plenty of eloquent voices among that cohort (that you should have to be eloquent to be heard), but that would disrupt the manufactured consensus around what government and private enterprise do here and abroad.

If that's what you're arguing we should be hearing more of from the NYT, though, I'm all for it. Not, say, another half-baked article about "crime waves" so that the NYPD can get another billion in overtime or whatever. Or, on the hysterically liberal side, not another article about "Biden wiping out student loan debt [which he was obligated to do under already existing statute]."
If you apply the same precautions to code generated by the LLM as you would have applied to code generated directly by the user, then you no longer need to rely on the LLM not being jailbroken. On the other hand, if the LLM can put ANYTHING in its output that you can't defend against, then you have a problem.

Would you be comfortable with letting the user write that JSON directly, and relying ONLY on your schemas and regular expressions? If not, then you are doing it wrong.

... as people who try to sanitize input using regular expressions usually are...

[On edit: I really should have written "would you be careful letting the prompt source write that JSON directly", since not all of your prompt data are necessarily coming from the user, and anyway the user could be tricked into giving you a bad prompt unintentionally. For that matter, the LLM can be back-doored, but that's a somewhat different thing.]
That name would make for a really interesting bar.
I used to prefer class << self because it is less repetition. Then I discovered this led to crashes in the GC in early ruby 2.x, so I switched for a while to class self.method.

Now I write an inner module ClassMethods and use extend at class scope. This I think makes it clearer that we are dealing with two distinct classes, the class and its metaclass (which is a factory).
You can be banned from the US for any reason, or no reason, just because they don’t like the look of your face, or the officer is having a bad day, etc.

Regardless of what the law says you don’t have any right to enter the US, regardless of what visa you hold (except perhaps a green card), so be friendly, look wealthy and important, and say the right things.
This is great, but this person is 4/10 on the disgruntled scale.

A truly miserable government worker has a daily countdown to retirement. At extreme levels, down to the hour.
PC Magazine (and others I'm sure) used to regularly do "showdowns" with DOS multitasking environments and upcoming GUIs.

There was a time when none of this stuff was settled and a lot of folks threw their hat into the ring.

I used to love the writeups as a bbs operator, lol!
Thank you, we've done a little digging and found a way to force Steam to download the depot. We've published a guide here[1] and are currently waiting for a friend with a Mac to test it.

[1] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=32211...
If that gives you any comfort “new” Java is starting to go the same way.

Too many smart language people trying to justify their salary.
Hope you have money for a defamation lawsuit
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Interesting, how are you handling A2P?

Curious, what was the worst thing about Twilio?

FYI I went straight for api examples, and the docs page looks like a placeholder https://docs.postack.dev/quickstart
How often have you seen desktop apps pick postgres over sqlite or the file system?
It's very easy to imagine one guy being enthusiastic about this and possibly even thinking that digitizing the issues wouldn't be a big deal. And then after he moved on, someone else going What is all this crap? Not even knowing where it came from. And sure as heck not about to undertake a large-scale digitization project.
> For example if you've ever taken a look at the bluetooth specs you would not trust a single person in the world to implement it correctly and you probably wouldn't even trust an arbitrarily large team to implement it correctly.

I messed around a tiny bit with Bluetooth on Linux recently. Going to rankly speculate that Bluetooth is such a special case of hell such that it makes a distracting example here.

I mean, as a joke suppose we wanted to design a 3.5 mm patch cord that pitch shifts down a 1/4 step for randomly chosen stretches. It turns out to be easy-- just remove the wire from the casing and replace it with cheap bluetooth chips at either end. You'll get that behavior for free! :)

Compare to, say, USB, where your point above would apply just as well. I wouldn't be distracted by that example because even cheapo, decades-old USB drives to this day let me read/write without interleaving zeros in my data.

Shit, now I'm distracted again. Does Bluetooth audio even have the notion of a buffer size that I can set from the sender? And I guess technically the receiver isn't interleaving the signal with zeros-- it's adjusting the rate at which it sends blocks of the received data to the audio subsystem.

Was Bluetooth audio basically designed just for the human voice under the assumption we're constantly pitch shifting?

Oops, I almost forgot-- the sample-rate shift is preceded by a dropout, so I do get interleaved zeros in the audio data! I actually get a smoother ramp in my Prius changing from battery to ICE than I do in my wireless audio system!!!

Anyhow, what were we talking about again?
10% of infinity is infinity.

That's as good as 0% accuracy.

And AI text will keep changing.
George Washington Carver
That is indeed the cost. However, the talent pool is much better. This means your developers aren’t as easily replaceable so that might impact management’s decision making.
General Dynamics used to make these for the military - they're great for car diagnostics and such. The sunlight visible (transflective?) screen is a huge plus, and the whole thing is water proof:

http://www.ruggedpcreview.com/3_notebooks_itronix_gd8200.htm...
Have you ever had an SMS get chunked into two?

A segment is the character (really byte) limit for a single message.