skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you're misunderstanding the situation. Companies can't legally refuse to provide information in the jurisdiction they're in some cases, especially when there's a court order. Every company is subject to someone's jurisdiction.

Signal prepared ahead for that eventuality and designed it so that their services received stored only the absolute bare minimum of information, and that most importantly didn't preserve the metadata of chats and calls. This is unlike Meta, for instance, which does keep that data for WhatsApp even though the chats themselves are encrypted.

That means that what they provided in that particular subpoena is all they can provide from their server records for any user of Signal, not that it's all that was available in that particular case.

It would've been even more anonymous if not for the phone number requirement, but I can understand why they made that trade off and given the lack of metadata it's not that useful to law enforcement/surveillance agencies in any case.
I mean, we can try to un-alter it rather than altering it further and hoping it will cancel out.
"Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM"

--> GP's point was: You need to look good while losing all your LP's money.
May 16, 2024 12:25PM
Status: Won't Fix (Obsolete)
Sorry for the noise.

Don't get your hopes up.
Study reveals how practice forms new memory pathways in the brain
Dedicated Team vs. Extended Team, which can become your ideal companion? The conflict and confusion between these have been going on for a while now. We receive so many queries related to that. As a result, we thought of fabricating a handy guide on their key differences. Give it a shot to make a righteous choice!
Fees such as trading costs are a percentage of trading volume.

Therefore, the more money you are managing, the higher your trading costs. (i.e those costs are "fixed" but its a "fixed percentage" rather than a static number.)
What a disappointment.
Microsoft offers relocation to China-based AI staff
It's still funny how this is positively encouraged by HN and yet .NET receives constant stream of FUD and criticism for already being what Swift wishes to be in some 5 to 10 years in terms of being platform agnostic (both the runtime and the tools).
Me too. I'd love something more official but I'm optimistic that Google have reversed their stance.

EDIT: Oh well, that last all but a few minutes...!
Ethereum mevboost exploit stole $25M from mevbots, DOJ criminally charges
This is interesting. Two brothers figured out an exploit of the mevboost software run by most Ethereum validators. They used it to frontrun the frontrunners (mevbots) and trick them into buying $25 million in unspendable cryptocurrencies in return for liquid stablecoins and other liquid crypto. Now the US DOJ is criminally charging them for it. Will be an interesting test of whether "code is law" in cryptocurrency.
Are there no net neutrality type laws that would prevent this blocking?
Glitch on BepiColombo: work ongoing to restore spacecraft to full thrust
No I don't but I'm sure you'll make sure everybody knows. Talk about narcissism.
I see this "torture doesn't work" claim around sometimes and personally I have a hard time accepting it. If you ask me something I don't want to tell you, I won't tell you. But you start tearing out nails (or even threaten to do so) I'll spill all the damn beans I can to make you stop.
Nickel: Toward a Programmable LSP for Configurations
Be Polarizing and Dare to Disagree
Lol 4.9% I stand corrected then! My 1% chance figure is also pulled out of thin air, I have no idea how many candidates are being interviewed for a position. I'm sure there are thousands who are applying and much less than that get to the interview stage. Do Google/Meta/etc actually make the investment of interviewing hundreds of candidates for each SWE position? I have no idea.
1:1s are just one among many cargo cultish rituals that many companies follow.
I had never heard of this in the US until now, either. But I also don't work in a factory or warehouse, and don't know anyone who does.
Funny, my first thought was Eise Eisinga's planetarium from the 18th century. I've visited, it's a work of art.

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

edit: As also mentioned in the other discussion, this is more an orrery (a model of the solar system) as opposed to a model of what the starry sky looks like.
They already do that... they raise funds from LPs which include a fee which covers the costs. And it works fine, LPs repeatedly invest in the same firms which they wouldn't do if they thought it was a bad deal. There are firms which have been investing for 20-30 years with the same LPs. If the business model wasn't working it would have failed and the VC firm would have closed a long time ago.
Maybe someone can try again once they release a 1.x version of libjxl...
Inkscape is buggy, especially when clipping. Sometimes layers or filters aren't shown properly. Editing filters is a bit arcane.

When I first started using Inkscape, I disliked all the dialog boxes, but I'm used to them now.
Show HN: BookML – LaTeX to Bookdown-Style HTML and Scorm (Via LaTeXML)
Quick plug in occasion of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day: BookML is a collection of CSS, scripts, and make-based magic to convert (largely unmodified) LaTeX files to HTML with as little pain as possible. The hard work is done by LaTeXML which pops up here on HN every once in a while, more often now that arXiv uses it for its accessible preprints effort.

BookML is mainly aimed at HE staff working with LaTeX everyday and not having realistic chances of changing tech stack (due to workload, collaborators, and so on). Not to mention, there are virtually no alternatives to the kind of flexibility, extensibility but also longevity that the LaTeX system has to offer. Theorem numbering for instance is something that is routinely neglected by outside of the LaTeX ecosystem and makes many potentially great options (such as Quarto) not viable. BookML also creates SCORM packages, which makes uploading files to most LMS's straightforward.

So if you work in a Maths department and are trying to get people to move past inaccessible PDFs, BookML is a surprisingly viable option to scale up the effort while not disrupting people's habits.
Yeah, sure, I agree. But the blockchain technology itself is still sound - its about the users who accepted this change and the social capital of the organization that pushed it.
In six years I wrote a lot of the 200K lines of Rust for Pernosco --- a fairly sophisticated application server for a SaaS debugger. There are 40 instances of the string 'Arc::new(Mutex::new('. A lot of them are shared caches and other innocuous things. There are 22 occurrences of 'RefCell::new('. There are other uses of Arc, and other uses of Mutex, but fundamentally the system has not collapsed into an arbitrary graph of mutable data.

Of course, one's mileage can vary. Most of our system is designed to be stateless at the top level, which helps.
Nice domain hack and super easy to use. Would be good if you could also add api endpoints for event creation :)
Yes. Often the map or messaging app.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cspwh2/my_old_photos_...
Thats why i ask. "the socket library" is an very odd way to refer to the libc.
Ask HN: SaaS Subscription or Usage-Based Pricing?
I'm in the process of building a SaaS product that enables marketers to combine data analytics with generative AI. I'm currently debating whether to implement a subscription model or a usage-based pricing model for this tool.

Does anyone have experience with how conversion rates are affected by these different pricing schemes? What are the pros and cons you've encountered with each approach?
Code generated by a LLMs or similar technology cannot be committed to NetBSD
90% thrust, but it's not confirmed if it will make to its upcoming planetary gravity assist on time. Anyone have a rough idea what would happen if it fails that, what shape the backup plan could look like?
Adepts? That is genuinely hilarious.
> With web tracking you can at least be 'careless' in your implementation and 'accidentally' make it not work very well because most of the time nobody will ever test it properly.

And users can normally install tracking blockers, either in browser or DNS-based (in your home's router), to at least prevent some thirdparty stuff from loading, so that's some defense against it.

Of course it's not always possible. But the chances that a user can do something against a web service tracking them are still better when compared to an employer's in-device tracking.
A dead account replied to this in good faith so let me address this as I can't comment directly:

> [Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station] uses sewage; people are very regular at producing waste water.

Not really, no. Germany for example ran very successful campaigns for limiting water use in the 1990s and earlier and a lot of household appliances (shower heads, faucets, toilets) were made "more efficient". As a consequence some municipalities had issues from sewers running dry due to too little waste water and had to flush them with (clean) water to continue operating them.

This likely won't turn into a problem in the US in the near future but if your plan hinges on consumers being excessively wasteful with resources, you might run into some snags as soon as those resources become more limited or more expensive.

> Pumped hydro can work very well to smooth out variability from the baseload.

Yes, that's an energy storage technology that isn't a battery. The reason Switzerland makes heavy use of it is that it only works when you have a landscape with a lot of changes in altitude (i.e. large hills or mountains). It doesn't help in very flat regions. It's a great solution but it's just one solution. We need more. And we also need to improve the grids themselves.
oh, sorry, I didn't know that was a restriction. We legit wanted to show HN what we had built :-)

The product is ready - we can let people in straight away. In fact, secret tip, if you go to the searchbot docs, you can find the URL of the live app :-P

But we'd still like to chat to our users, hence the waitlist. We're setting up a slack channel for that. We'd love it if you'd like to be involved in trying it out and giving us feedback.
There's no right answer, unfortunately, but the one I'll give is React, Node.js, and Express for consistency.
The whole "hate VCs" thing is kind of silly in my opinion. VC wouldn't exist if founders didn't want and need capital and have no other way of getting it.

Also, for every other "evil VC" story, there are other stories where founders are really happy with their VC board members, have a strong and positive relationship with their VC partners, and end up getting some kind of positive exit which wouldn't have happened at all without the investment.

Sure, some VC companies may be shitty, some others may be amazing, but this is basically like everything in life. Some schools are shitty, some cops are shitty, some cars, tech companies, managers etc, are shitty. But some of all these things can also be great and awesome too. Thats life.
Hey everyone, I know HN community is very polarizing, and the discussions here are always great to read through as both sides are always eager to prove the other wrong. I think we need more of that in the community. People not being afraid to disagree.

I'm really curious to hear your thoughts and experiences.
> Using a library for every little function, or worse, adding a huge library for a couple of function calls make my hairs go up.

Well that's where modern bundler steps in - who cares if you throw the unnecessary cruft away during build process?

Except in Python where a dependency might uninstall your desktop GUI and switch the init system, perhaps.
Isn't it better to just use 7z instead, which can encrypt filenames without tricks?
> A VC receives 10 to 50 decks per week. Out of those, 10% are hot: think OpenAI.

lol.
> Using a library for every little function, or worse, adding a huge library for a couple of function calls make my hairs go up.

Well then which one is it? There’s no middle ground, unless at some point you decide it’s now worth using a big library and start replacing your own code.

If you decide to write everything from scratch, good luck to your users, they’re not getting a better product.
Yes, I have an AVX512 double precision exp implementation that does this thanks to iperm2pd.
This approach was also recommended by the Intel optimization manual -- a great resource.

I just went with straight math for single-precision, though.
But you just explained exactly the problem: they work as a first strike. They work as a "surprise we're doing it". But they don't create a tactical military advantage...however they will absolutely massacre nearby civilian populations and non-combatants.

Zone Rouge isn't full of chemical shells, it's full of everything - just general unexploded ordnance. Chemical shells in WW1 also did not cause "hundreds of thousands of deaths" - the highest estimate is about 90,000 deaths and 1.3 million casualties[1]

Same story with the use of chemical irritants: while they worked on the gas masks of the time, they don't work today and they weren't particular efficacious. And you've identified again, the obvious problem: clouds of chemical gas in the air will affect your own troops just as much as the enemy.

Which loops around to the basic problem: two military's can have a fun chemical weapon exchange on the battlefield, and accomplish basically nothing when properly equipped: with appropriate counter-measures the shells don't do anything, they leave people, equipment and fortifications intact.

But the wounded? Nearby civilians? Anyone downwind who wasn't properly informed friendly forces are deploying chemical weapons? The weather changing unexpectedly? They're all going to be wounded or die from that. They are tactically ineffective compared to conventional weapons versus any force prepared to face them, and they are sufficiently easily produced that they do not represent a substantial advantage. Not to mention other basic problems - like your own munitions stores now not just exploding, but exploding and releasing a fast moving, possibly persistent toxin - or worse, being damaged and slowly leaking your VX nerve gas into a cloud which takes out your logistics base and the frontline guys rotating back, and then leaves all your stores intact for the enemy to retrieve when they turn up later and it's dissipated.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376985/
An in-browser sandbox MMORPG – using React, Three-JS and Next
Fair point. If that's the signal who the people financing the VC believe in, then I guess it makes sense them to follow along.
Your scenario leaves out the fact that before this went down, you loudly announced to all and sundry that you don't need the Godfather or his fuckin' rules, so you were gonna start your own town with blackjack and hookers. Then you went back to him asking for help once you got ripped off exactly like how everyone said you would.

If you don't acknowledge the flaws in your ideas, that's not really hypocrisy, but it is very dishonest.
here are the key facts of what happened:

1. Oz Ramos developed an open source project called Handsfree.js starting in 2018 to help make computing more accessible, inspired by helping someone at a homeless shelter recovering from a stroke.

2. Around 1-2 years ago, Laurence Moroney from Google asked Oz about using Handsfree.js for accessibility. Oz showed him demos of Handsfree.js and related projects like a gesture mapper.

3. Oz asked Laurence for support and collaboration, but felt Laurence ghosted him after getting information about his projects.

4. Google later released Project Gameface, which has similarities to Oz's work in using computer vision for accessibility. Oz felt Google stole his ideas instead of supporting him.

5. Oz posted about this publicly on GitHub, accusing Google and Laurence of stealing his work when they could have supported his open source efforts while he struggled with poverty and mental health issues.

6. The post gained attention on social media and Hacker News. Many criticized Google based on Oz's account.

7. Laurence responded stating Project Gameface was inspired by Lance Carr, not Oz's work. He explained Handsfree.js did not solve a specific technical problem he inquired about.

8. Laurence said he could not directly financially support Oz the way he requested, and directed him to Google's formal processes for charitable giving and support.

9. Oz apologized for accusing Laurence of literal theft and the emotional tone of his posts. He explained he was struggling and felt validation-seeking from their interaction.

10. Laurence accepted the apology but noted the severe reputational damage and harassment he faced from the public accusation.

11. Oz deleted his repos and expressed regret over the harm caused. A professor retracted his earlier criticism of Laurence.
> can't imagine someone like Steve Jobs or Nikola Tesla passing these VC/Ivy League kinds of tests.

My "favorite" "test" is the one more for soft studies (think law or public policy) rather than STEM: for example UN internships typically have no compensation and they often require you to relocate to extremely expensive CoL areas, meaning there is an automatic filter built in where only children of very well-off parents can do these kinds of internships and segue into the jobs connected to them.
Still feels way off. If VCs receive 1-5 pitches per week that seem as exciting to them as OpenAI, they'd spread their money around a lot more startups. Don't think they're that excited by half the "solid metrics, good founders, there's plenty of money in generic B2B SaaS if we throw enough at the sales team" stuff they actually invest in.

Now I can believe that at least 10% of the pitchdecks they receive are "we hook $industry up to OpenAI's API"...
Not your spouse*
This is such a bad take, I’m glad you already got like 8 replies.

My code is open source, at a minimum it’s there for your own perusal to be copy-pasted. I don’t owe you anything.
You raise a good point. E-mail spam is mostly fixed, and, if I remember correctly, a relatively easy solution works good enough: ask users to mark spam as spam and e-mails that look similar[1] to spam would be banned.

Which got me thinking: surely that would work for websites too? Why not let people report low quality of sites directly to the search engine?
Kagi lets you to ban sites you find unhelpful, but it doesn't downgrade websites similar to the one you've banned.
I shan't speak of Google practices as we all know them by now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_spam_filtering
A criminal ecosystem of small lanky dudes sitting in basements :)
Yes just dilute it. In freshwater. Freshwater you got from ... where already ?
I highly doubt trading costs are part of the 2% management fee.
No, think about it. The granularity of the interface (the tokenizer) is the problem, the actual model could count just fine.

If the legally blind person never had had good vision or corrective instruments, had never been told that their vision is compromised and had no other avenue (like touch) to disambiguate and learn, then they would tell you the same thing ChatGPT told you. "The objects blur together" implies that there is already an understanding of the objects being separate present.

You can even see this in yourself. If you did not get an education in physics and were asked to describe of how many things a steel cube is made up, you wouldn't answer that you can't tell. You would just say one, because you don't even know that atoms are a thing.
There are plenty of things that give economic and military advantages that we thwart.
Built with javascript libraries, an MMORPG that can hold thousands of players in an open world RPG - inspired by minecraft and stardew valley with elements of WoW. Running on Kubernetes on the backend.
Yeah that's why all large startups are bootstrapped
iPadOS has hover states and pointer events; those could be arguably trigerred by eye tracking.
Presumably you have a smartphone?

Last I saw even the cheapest of Android phones had some form of “selfie” front facing camera.
US Inflation Data Was Accidentally Released 30 Minutes Early
The problem with this approach is not shipping unused functions at the end. Pruning them is an old practice.

The problem is inclusion of that much libraries creates a dependency hell, because a higher level library pulls in approximately 5 more libraries which are generally shared amongst other libraries you potentially pull.

Library A updates its' dependency to library C to a new, more recent minimum, but library B depends on C's behavior which is recently changed. Hence A requires C > v3, but B requires C==v2. Then the fun begins.

Bonus points for having a serious CVE/RCE as a reason for updating C to v3 in the first place.
> If VCs had to work for free, where would you be meeting them?

It's interesting you are pointing exactly at the OP point without realizing it. If you are assuming that the VCs will be doing this for "free", it means they simply don't believe they'll have any ROI, let alone one that beats the market.
Playing with Schrodinger's stuff. The storage industry/equipment lies so pervasively, even when it's working as intended

More importantly, perhaps, is this is a "brain worm" being spread to others. Not to armchair too much, but there's a certain responsibility by publishing your writing.

I'd hope for more dutiful research before publishing/risking data with anything even remotely nearing suggestion. Loud/clear warnings.

We're all playing the Telephone Game whether we want to or not.
libretro kinda is this by providing runtime where the game runs inside. You still need to compile the game/core for the correct architecture.
What else would they be part of? It's an operational cost.
> the risk is that the core developers become a bit insulated from the community of users

I think I like that actually. The core is quite conservative, meanwhile the packages that the average R community member uses break their own backwards compatibility every few months for silly reasons like renaming an argument `linewidth` instead of `size` in a function that was otherwise backwards compatible for a decade.
https://archive.is/cXzX9
Are the AI changes also made on RAW format images?
Doomers have lost the AI fight
"If the business model wasn't working it would have failed and the VC firm would have closed a long time ago."

Tons of VCs do fail.
It's worth keeping in mind the risk-reward payoff though. It's an ecosystem, exactly. They're not going to murder your family to unlock your phone like in some kind of Hollywood action blockbuster.

The catfishing/blackmail scam of getting you to send nudes to a stranger who then turns around and threatens to release them is a different matter as the added charge of "revenge porn" relative to the blackmail charge is not as significant as the added charge of "murder" in the phone theft scenario.
How would you raise capital for operations separately from LPs? What's the upside of that for any investor? Do they get part of fund returns? Nobody is giving any kind of fund any money unless they get part of the fund returns for it.
Do you mind going into details here? I have a RPi and a friend has Orange Pi. They’re the same, but his was cheaper and is more powerful.
Area ReSTIR: Resampling for Real-Time Defocus and Antialiasing
It's even more a mess when doing multi-platform. I've a Monogame Android prototype build of my game and somehow the .NET localization throws me exception at runtime. So it's easier to implement a service that load and handle localization than relying on supposed built-in mechanism.
That can be also a nice thing for people with disabilities to use.
The Georgian Government's Great Gamble
"With the so-called Russian Law now passed, Georgia risks far-reaching consequences in its relations with the West."