skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The end-to-end encryption is a client feature. It will work with any RCS provider that implements Universal Profile, as long as both clients are using Google Messages.
So, what I see here, is yet another Open Source creator/maintainer being crowd-bullied into compliance with the (possibly correct, but never-mind) consensus on new features.

It's my personal opinion, not backed by any scientific studies or whatever, that this kind of behavior directly leads to developer burnout, and is, put plainly, toxic and counterproductive.
This is why I get so furious when I hear Apple apologists try to defend the lock-in nature of iMessage.

Before iMessage was so ubiquitous on iPhones, everyone just expected that you could message anyone else, regardless of their phone or carrier, over SMS/MMS. And I also don't fault Apple at all for releasing iMessage. But it's not like they released iMessage as just another app in the App Store like Whatsapp or Telegram. In true "Embrace/Extend/Extinguish" fashion, iMessage was just released as the default "texting app" on iPhones, and over the years the situation became more and more awful for iPhone -> Android communication. Non-US folks often don't understand the situation - "Why don't you just choose another messaging app?" Because in the US most people never "chose" a messaging app to begin with - they just used the default texting app on their phone. The US didn't really have the issue with exhorbitant SMS fees that other countries had that pushed usage to other messaging apps.
Yeah. This misses the point that founders often go unpaid for long periods of time.

Those payments catch founders up to being able to have a “normal” lifestyle - which enables them to perform their CEO or CTO jobs better.
A CEO having issues with making ends meet at home, having personal debt, and eating ramen can sustain that additional pressure forever.
It’s in the interest of VCs to arrange things so that founders can focus 100% on the success of the company.
Hey all, I work with @sewen, and I focus on the cloud platform which also launched today (https://restate.dev/blog/announcing-restate-cloud-early-acce...)
Happy to answer any questions :)
If Putin wanted to recreate Imperial Russia, or the Soviet Union, then why would he negotiate for peace?

Because as he keeps saying over and over -- the only "peace" he will accept is one in which his claims to sovereignty on the territories he is currently sitting are recognized by Western powers. This was his core demand during the Istanbul talks, and it's his current demand now (though he's upped it a bit recently to include regime change in Kyiv).

For a serial territorial aggressor like the modern Russian state, "peace" is simply another mechanism for arriving that same the desired end state.

It's also useful as a propaganda tool, to mollify the opposition to what he's doing ("See, Putin just wants peace -- he even says so!"), get people to start talking about how costly the war is, how the West is the real aggresor and so forth. That's where Mearsheimer et al come in.
AI to increase banks' reliance on big US tech firms; sparks concern
Google Talk supported XMPP so I could connect via Pidgin. I could also message myself on Facebook from my Gmail thanks to GTalk supporting this ;) which was fun. Then they locked it down (both FB and Google). Then there was Google Plus Huddle, Google Hangout, Duo, Google Allo, and Google Chat.

You also had Google Voice, Google Wave... and so on.

Google is where projects go to die.
I absolutely love the RP2040, and the PIO is extremely useful.
If you're CEO at a $100MM company, your peers ARE executives at FAANG
I think it would make more sense to ask them if they tried that at all, before asking what problems they encountered.
> The actual game logic should take like 10 minutes.

True, but there's a lot more to it than the game logic. Regardless, it's not a complex application by any standard -- but I don't think I know any dev who could implement it well and in its finished form in an afternoon.

> Like what would be the scope of an "alpha" that isn't a working game?

I don't understand this question. Any alpha is a working program. If the devs don't think it's done, then it's not yet an alpha.
Facebook, although it didn't have nearly as many employees upon its IPO
Lists of things are not a particularly good fit for Show HN and really not for HN in general. There's lots of moderator commentary over the years explaining why it works out that way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39486241

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39402244
Although, in the US semiconductor companies have to compete for technical people against companies doing the apparently really economically productive stuff—coming up with ad algorithms and playing Wallstreet shell games.
I have a small kid. When they first saw some jackdaws, the first bird they noticed could fly, they thought it was terribly exciting and immediately learned the word for them, and generalised it to geese, crows, gulls and magpies (plus some less common species I don't know what they're called in english), pointing at them and screaming the equivalent of 'jackda! jackda!'.
> Open to all feedback

Ok, then I'll bite: who is the target audience that cannot watch a video without some horrible music turned up way louder than the voiceover? At least over on YT, if there's some b-roll music playing over something, then I'm almost guaranteed it's a scam of some kind and just close the window
Nailed it. It's honestly criminal and something I consider UX terrorism the way macOS lacks this basic functionality when even something like ChromeOS ships these by default. Wonderful hardware, but boy is the OS rough 20+ years later.
>....why much of SE/east asia is super thin despite a heavily rice based diet.

I would say: ....why much of SE/east asia is super thin because of a heavily rice based diet.
They already had Bookmarks for the purpose of saving a Tweet without putting it on your public Likes feed, so what's the difference between a Like and a Bookmark now? I guess a Like gives an algorithm boost that a Bookmark probably doesn't, but that's a pretty opaque distinction for users.
This makes a lot of sense. In the current political climate people feel afraid of getting punished for liking the wrong thing. But it’s nice for the person whose post you liked to know who liked it.

If you want to appreciate something publicly then that’s what reshare is for.
The banana republic jokes just write themselves!
> I don't think I understand when it can be abused

The same key + nonce generates the same keystream.

The ciphertext is generated by xoring the plaintext with the keystream.

The keystream can be recovered by xoring the ciphertext with the plain text.

To abuse it...

The defender needs to re-use both the same key and nonce.

The attacker needs to have a ciphertext/plaintext pair, know or find the position of that text in the keystream, and needs access to other ciphertexts generated with the same key/nonce.
Isn’t proof checking at least as hard as k-sat and therefore NP? Given that neural networks process in constant time, how would that be possible without approximation?
Hybrid work is a "win-win-win" for companies and workers
Interesting... My initial reaction about the startup looking for a CTO was the same as yours. I was a founder and CTO, so it seems odd that you would not already have that in the mix... however I can see how there could be an idea, a market, a sales strategy, and a tech idea without the actual tech. In that case you would need to find a CTO to build that tech.

Of course the real gotcha is that there is no 'idea, market, sales strategy' that will be perfect, and the work is finding out where those ideas are wrong and fixing them. The lessons from my successes and failures says it is only worth doing that as a founder, because the failure risks are both high and unpredictable. Time is expensive, so spend it where there is both risk and reward, not just risk.
> Simply memorizing sequences of steps is not how mathematics learning works, otherwise we would not see so much variation in outcomes

Everyone starts by memorizing how to do basic arithmetic on numbers, their multiplication tables and fractions. Only some then advance to understanding why those operations must work as they do.

> It's worth noting that for composition, key to abstract reasoning, LLMs failed to generalize to out of domain examples on simple synthetic data.

Yes, I acknowledged that when I said "Composition tasks are still challenging". Comparisons and composition are both key to abstract reasoning. Clearly parametric memory and grokking have shown a fairly dramatic improvement in comparative reasoning with only a small tweak.

There is no evidence to suggest that compositional reasoning would not also fall to yet another small tweak. Maybe it will require something more dramatic, but I wouldn't bet on it. This pattern of thinking humans are special does not have a good track record. Therefore, I find the original claim that I was responding to("there is no AGI pathway in the current research direction") completely unpersuasive.
The cloud setup was super fast! I used it for an existing app + restate TS sdk, really took a few steps to get things up and running! Looking forward to more support for nextjs/node
I think this is true as we keep building up abstraction layers. Computers are getting faster yet feel slower as we just want to work with higher level tech which makes it easier to understand less of how the sausage gets made.

But I don't think this is a now problem, in the age of AI, but has been a growing problem for decades as software has matured.
In my industry the series A occurs in the first year of operation, and before the company has really achieved anything. A founder taking money off the table then is ludicrous.
Not if you’re into things that will get you “canceled”! I think this is designed specifically to make it easier to spread hate speech.
Why not? He's supposedly anti-imperislist yet had no problem living in their society.
I have the exact same impression.

Imo there's no evidence whatsoever that nailing this task will be true AGI - (e.g. able to write novel math proofs, ask insightful questions that nobody has thought of before, self-direct its own learning, read its own source code)
Investors do it so that the founder can better focus on increasing the value of the company. Having financial stress on top of everything else reduces the probability of liquidity events.
Spot on, and I say this as a founder of a company that didn’t fuck over the employees. 40 years and still going, and most people have been with us for more than 25 years.

I didn’t get rich because I wanted to sleep at night, but people in my orbit (probably me in theirs?) advised me very differently.
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Her life sounds like an interesting one (in good and bad ways). I would like to read a biography, or even see a biographical or dramatized film about it.
$200k is extremely high for France. Even half of that is high. I wish I could do that.
Re your father; wow, what a life. Thanks for documenting that for us.

My grandfather became a Navy navigator, B25s I think, right as the war ended. Chased hurricanes in the Pacific. I was the only person in the family to ever get much out of him about it in the last years before he passed.

Even in peacetime operations, he watched many colleagues die in storms, fog, and from accidents. I think everyone who served then saw how arbitrary death could be, and how the entire service was designed to operate around the necessary assumption that lives would vanish for nothing - and that everything else had to keep humming along.

Provides a very different perspective than the modern era.
I don't follow how you're reaching your conclusion. You only mind reading AI content when it's obviously AI/slop and you conclude the vast majority of decent content is not AI generated. In your conclusion how were you able to identify good content as being written by AI or not?

E.g. it's perfectly possible that in terms of prevalence "AI slop > AI acceptable > human acceptable" instead "AI slop > human acceptable > AI acceptable" and nothing noted explains why it is one instead of the other.
Getting to leave is so underrated. Nothing keeps your head above the doom and gloom like knowing you aren’t shackled to the thing, and the world’s your oyster if you need to move on. We live in a weird world if people don’t think a gig with $160K salary, 2% of the company, where you can work hard but not 24/7, and _leave any time you want_ is a bad gig. That 0.25-0.5% after one year that you get is PERMANENTLY gone for them even if you just fuck off after a year. Years later it could be worth millions.

But anyway, as founding engineer you get to set the systems, culture, language etc. maybe some people don’t want the responsibility but for others it’s an opportunity to build things out in our own image and learn a lot.
> if there's a Score on the HUD, are you doing a SQL select to read the value on every frame?

Yes. That was the point of my experiments, after I realized that good chunks of the data structures I set up for my game look suspiciously similar to indices and materialized views. So I figured, why waste time reinventing them poorly, when I could use a proper database for it, and do something silly in the process?

In a way, it's also coming back to the origin of the ECS pattern. The way it was originally designed, in MMO space, the entity was a primary key into component tables, and systems did a multiple JOIN query.
That's where add to homescreen has been forever
I don't think the parent comment meant fully formed, intact castles, but rather the ruins of them.
My point is that a random AES-GCM nonce is a problem because you will end up re-using nonces by chance, assuming multiple messages are being encrypted with the same key. Due to the small nonce size, this is still a problem even with secure randomness, it's just even more of a problem with weak randomness.
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Care to explain?

E.g. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/226966/algorithmic-comple...
If you can't stomach screwing people over you shouldn't be a CEO.
I wish I knew how to get to $200k. Not even mentioning 1m/year, that seems absolutely insane to me.
Nothing you say here is a defense of this industry. Some of it is an indictment. Was that your intent?
s/deci/deka/
TC isn't TC if it will remain illiquid for a number of years. That is the issue described in the blog post. Founders get great secondary liquidation in each round which helps realize some of those gains. For you as the early employee you get stuck with a now more valuable potential lottery ticket, but no clarity on when it can be cashed in.
How can this article not mention "encryption" even once when that's the major point of contention?
That seems like significantly more work for marginal (if any) benefit over just having a single squash commit per PR.

I don't think I've ever found myself in a situation where I needed more granularity than the PR level when looking back through the history of a repo.

What are the situations where this is actually useful enough to make it worth the effort?
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about this.

My narrative detector is going off.

The guy found that most supplements didn't actually have real ingredients, which is incredibly believable.
The guy is now being discredited.
Does this mean Supplements were fine all along? Somehow I doubt this!
Sketchy people on both sides--why are so many industries like this? Supplements are an obvious one but have you tried buying a mattress/adjustable bed recently?
But in that single interaction, you might have seen the cat from all kinds of different angles, in various poses, doing various things, some of which are particularly not-dog-like.

I vaguely remember hearing that there's even ways to expand training data like that for neural networks, i.e. by presenting the same source image slightly rotated, partially obscured etc.
The philosophy of science has advanced significantly since the 12th century, and scientists don’t generally use the original definition anymore.

I have never, ever heard it expressed in this statistical mechanics sense, and it doesn’t line up with most advances in physics (my field) which have been accompanied by increased number of states but fewer rules.
What shines better in a resume? ex-founder or ex-founding engineer? If ex-founder is a better role for next job, I think founders are taking much less risk than founding engineers. They get all the exposure to talking to rich people, VCs, learning how financial game works, which i regard much more rewarding career-wise.
> add a button to the top to allow you to toggle to a more readable typeface though

That'll be the 'Reptilian mode' link at the bottom, which goes to the plain equivalent on GitHub
5 gigabytes vram in its minimum configuration, but various things can be done to increase that. Quantization and distillation might theoretically reduce resource needs, but that's still small enough to get halfway decent CPU generation time.
Is it just me or was anybody else not sure what Obsidian was while reading this article?

The article doesn't explain it at all, so I'm left wondering if I'm incredibly out of the loop or whether this is a very niche thing that I haven't run into yet.
> while your peers are all making ~$1M per year working 6 hour days at FAANG

Unless you are a manager, in which case you are working more like 12 hour a day.
I considered that, but I think in my arrangement you can still manage it like a Debian box, including having the base OS in .debs that apt installs and upgrades.
You can start facetime calls from an Apple device to anyone by sending a link that works in their browser. No it's not 100% of the functionality, but it's a lot of it.
Where I come from, that's an ultra-liberal point of view. "Instead of saying that Elon Musk does not deserve 68b as a salary (because no human does), then maybe you should become ultra-rich yourself".

Sure. You just completely missed my point.
That’s cool. I want to learn cuneiform. Can you have your AI teach me?
> it's that being overweight is a social death sentence there

The US isn't really all different. There's a veneer of acceptance, but it's just that.
Not really, if you use IPv4 BROADCAST the traffic will go to all machines. If you use multicast and IGMP support is turned on in the switch the data will only be forwarded to receivers that care about it.
Congratulations on the launch. I noticed that you guys are SOC2 type II certified. I wonder how did you achive that so fast?
- Groq has exactly 0 dollars in revenue
- Groq requires 576 chips to run a single model
- Groq can do low latency inference, but can't handle batches, and can't run a diversity of different models on each deployment
- Groq quantizes the models, significantly affecting quality to get more speed (and don't communicate this to end users, which is very deceptive)
- Groq can only run inference, cannot train on their systems

- SambaNova has real revenue from big customers
- SambaNova can run any model on a single node at the speed Groq requires
- SambaNova can do low latency inference just like Groq, but can also run large batches and host hundreds of models on a single deployment
- SambaNova does not quantize models unless explicitly stated
- SambaNova can run training at perf competitive with Nvidia, as well as fastest inference in the world at full precision

It really isn't a competition. Groq has done great as garnering hype in recent months, but it is a house of cards.
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>though ULID has the same problem

I thought that ULID was meant to solve these issues by being sortable, is that not right ?.
I don’t really understand what the evidence was that led to others suspecting falsification here. But in general, the review process for studies has a lot that it simply cannot verify. This is why we need a higher degree of skepticism even around peer reviewed studies and also why we need to create incentives for people who try to reproduce findings, rather than only trying to reward new findings.
Historians
Documented in the famous Neruda poem
How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system
It's going within about 10 miles of my mothers house... Not sure she would care... But i'll tell her!
I think you are simply wrong about your assumptions. If the system is semi-stable the total utility won't decrease that much. If it's not stable it will.
I am not sure exactly what you are missing there but maybe that it's expected utility going down, not utility going down with every outcome. For example if people with 80 and 120 net worth flip a coin for 20 it might be go up or it might go down but u(60) + u(140) < 2x u(100). Maybe that's why you utility model predicts the total utility collapsing quickly while in fact it predicts slow utility decrease (if the whole setup is close to being stable).
The Bay Area housing market is too competitive for this. If you’re renting a room in your early 20s then sure just have fun, any tech job should cover it. If you want to own a place to raise a family in by your 30s, and you don’t have some exogenous source of wealth, you’re going to need every dollar of liquid compensation you can possibly get.
As you are making the point, can you please provide the example? If it's really new, posting it as a comment here is not likely to affect LLM training, at least not for a day or so. And even if it is, you can still provide the examples that you are thinking of?
It does

> Right now, when people on iOS and Android message each other, the service falls back to SMS — photos and videos are sent at a lower quality, messages are shortened, and importantly, conversations are not end-to-end encrypted like they are in iMessage.
AES-GCM has a 12 byte nonce if I recall correctly. Is 96 bits of entropy insufficient to guarantee uniqueness every time it’s generated?
so to summarize... it's the oil companies with bad drilling practices yet again (and not fracking)? injecting wastewater and causing pressure imbalances?
Before iMessage, they used the green bubbles for SMS. So unless Apple was planning a long con, they believed the green bubbles were fine for their customers for years, and switched to a new color (blue) when iMessage came about.
The article mentions that he has conflicts of interest.

Possibly his intent was to discredit some supplements in order to boost others?
This is pretty useful, thank you!
As a researcher I can say the opposite. In my field (cryptography) modern papers usually start by specifying formally exactly what the algorithm APIs look like; then they provide precise security definitions; then they describe algorithms; then they provide formal (if detailed) proofs of security. It’s long and detailed, but you get all the pieces you need for precision and you know where to find it.

Papers in the same conferences from 1982 are full of beautiful insights and they’re easy to read. But often that’s because they’re a five-page long story that might provide only a tiny subset of what we expect nowadays. They often don’t specify exactly what the algorithms do, they just kind of describe the ideas in English. Formal definitions are like three sentences of handwave. Proofs are similarly short or missing. Typically if you follow the citation chain you’ll find a dozen papers saying “we show that the original construction by Seminal Author is totally broken in this situation, but we show how to fix that with a small tweak and a better security definition.” Eventually you get to modern papers that actually start with the right definitions to deal with all that stuff, but take longer to read.

Obviously to the layperson the short old papers are fun and full of insight! To an expert they’re still full of insight, but we wouldn’t let them out of our lab in that condition. It’s very much like comparing a beautiful old classic car to a modern car with safety features. They both look great: but you don’t want to get into even a minor fender bender in the old car.