skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pretty sure signal servers can't intercept messages or decrypt them. In regard to the client you cannot send unencrypted messages. We do know that lawful interception warrants sent to Signal are not particularly effective only registration time and last connection time is available. https://signal.org/bigbrother/

Please, I'm really trying to put the emphasis on metadata, and definitely Signal servers can intercept that at will. Even here on HN there was recently an article of how "lawful interception warrants" were targeting Apple's and Google's _push notification servers_ (those _by design_ really only have access to metadata -- that should speak about how important metadata is for law enforcement). The Signal server has access to significantly more metadata about you and your communications than your typical push server. Again, there's just no contest here: simply avoiding the issue of using their server in the first place is much better than anything they claim* to do (or even better than anything they could _physically_ do).

* I absolutely detest these type of "our privacy is great, believe us!" pages. Time and time again it shown that they are absolutely useless. Where did Apple report that their push notification servers were tapped?
The fact that a server collects enough data about you that it is a tempting target for authorities should be cause for concern, not relief.
Thanks for elaborating. I should have been clearer that I was just quoting the docs and have no idea what I’m talking about. Your comments have given me some interesting things to read (listen?) up on, later :)
"often because the driver simply had no idea how to lock the diff,"

Most of the locking diffs out there are automatic, like the G80. They're basically a locking limited slip diff. It uses slip between the wheels to throw a cog (for lack of a better term) that locks the diff. It then unlocks (drops the cog) after the torque is unapproved. This is very different to use from the older way of locking diffs via the hubs or the high end electronic switches that enthusiasts use.
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Relevant video demonstration of how you can hear water temperature when pouring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri_4dDvcZeM
He says "a teen". It's just incorrect grammar. He could have said 'his or her heart' or 'their heart', but not every teen is a 'he'.
I look at Rust more as an FP lang than an OO lang. By FP I mean: you have data and logic; never a combination of both (classes/objects).

Java makes this king of separation between data and logic really hard.

Kotlin came to the rescue for us. It allows us to move our Java/OO codebase in a slightly more FP direction: uncouple data and logic, immutability is preferred, no (or very little: yes looking a you shitty "platform types" in Kotlin) implicit nulls.
>Subarus are probably the most capable awd vehicles

They are.

I guess I take offense to the "don't leave the pavement" bit. 90% of trails around the world are not technical in any way. Why discourage some adventure? I think some people would be surprised by how capable their vehicle is, even 2WD.

Maybe that's it? Most people are over or under confident, and reality is in the middle (as it often is).
And also from the article: "We believe that, over time, this approach could enable the photovoltaic devices to achieve far greater efficiencies, exceeding 45%"

So that's a lot more than the current solar panels.
Salvaging a Kona
> Hopefully the scientific stack will be rewritten in better languages like Go, Lisp, Ocaml, etc.

You are talking about people who still use Fortran… Scientists ain't got any time to migrate to another framework every week.
As a software developer myself and judging by the description, this sounds like a perfect job offer so many mature software developers.

You are pretty much ticking all the boxes:

- real life application that has a big impact on an existing real industry, not another web3 crypto project or AI startup of potential intergalactical importance(AirBnb for hamsters).
- existing business with predictable income flow means that the project is not going to be scraped within 3 months, which is again going to attract experienced devs who are willing to plan their life, vacations and work-life balance.
- software is going to be built after a third-party product which makes it easier to build the actual thing because there is an existing reference product.
- software is going to be build from ground up, chosing the proper technologies, not the newest flashiest JS framework or PHP version from mid 2000s
- internal products tend to have softer deadlines and, therefore, technical debt does not accumulate so quickly, which is again something experienced devs enjoy.
- in order to help with the project, several existing employees of the company will gladly transition into something new(its basically a raise for them)

You will be surprised how easy and cheap(in Europe) it is to hire experienced developers to build something like that. I would strongly suggest hiring the actual team instead of using some outsourcing company, because they will build unnecessary complicated processes all based around billing more hours.
It's likely the point of the war was really to clear out Ukraine, not defend the borders. The leader isn't Ukrainian himself and that has effectively been what he did.
Sure it doesn't ALL go in their pockets.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2022/

The average CEO nowadays is paid 344 times more than an average worker, while in 1978 this figure was "only" 21 times.

And indeed, lots of it goes to prevent serious penalties, like lawyering-up, lobbying, (deceitful) media campaigns, bribing "scientists" and "doctors", etc. Just look at Big Tobacco's playbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Frank_Statement and see it playing out with Big Oil and climate change, Big Chem (PFAS in our water), etc etc. And, let's not forget Big Tech, with companies like Twitter/X where fascism now thrives, and Instagram/TikTok/Whatever who mine our attention.

These companies have grown, much like tumors, to be overly powerful, overly protected, and overly influential. And they wreck havoc on our societies and planet. Their attempts of "self-regulation" are laughable, and so far also laughable have been our governments' attempts to reign them in.

My point is that the kind of corp feudalism we see now is a direct following of unrestrained capitalism/libertarianism. Unless we reign in the companies, break them down, make them pay fair wages and hold them responsible for their societal and environmental impact, we will drown in our own garbage.

And yes, it's capitalism to blame, a philosophy where you optimize only for profit, throwing all other values out the window, in the hope that the (non-existent) "invisible hand" of the market will somehow fix everything magically.
You would benefit from some more in depth conversations with several strategic technical consultants - essentially a CTO type person - to get some definitive immediate steps and longer term understanding of how you may want to change your business relationship with technology.

Several of the comments here are very good -

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41195008 - is probably the one I align most with.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41193136 - is going to be a common take.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41195910 - is an extreme stance that requires and benefits specific sorts of senior leadership.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41196183 - is quite scary, but the point is a valid one.

I'd suggest you reach out to a few people who have responded at the strategic level and see where the conversations go; I'd also suggest you reach out to myself (contact in bio / south UK based); and finally tap on your network for others as well. You will end up doing a reasonable amount of internal and external exploration activities before a path is determined - so expectation management is a must.

Best of luck.
Case in point: https://www.whenwewereyoungfestival.com/
What I saw was in Taiwan, but I guess it must depends on the depth of the mud and the nature of what's below.
For me it boils down to this:

- biological gender is not binary

- there's more to it than XX and XY

Unless we embrace gender is - like many things - a spectrum, there will be debate.

I'll add, that equal is a high - perhaps unattainable - bar. It might make sense to first focus on fair / fairness, and that at times the many might have to take precedence over the few.

C'est la vie.
Everybody worth their salt should know that those languages have completely different working models in mind.

Java puts everything into the heap and creates easy expressability by having pointers everywhere. In contrast, Rust often avoids pointers, prefers the stack and is very stingy with memory access.

These languages are completely orthogonal to each other and it has consequences in their usage. Not that a good chunk of people wouldn’t butcher the code they are given in any codebase…
Website of Packages for Linux and Unix
One wife is enough I guess
You're confusing USB C and USB 3.1+. USB C is just the physical spec. You can design a cheap device that will only support USB 2 if you just connect ground, Vbus, D+ and D- and gasp add two resistors. It will work just as well as the micro-usb plug.
Gemma2 has gotten good enough that it's competitive with copilot and is completely self hostable. Companies are starting to publish full size base models too. I think the time to bring your AI service in house is here.
For the average person, yes laws are absolutely difficult to understand. We wouldn't need to involve lawyers nearly as often if laws were easy to understand and the process, defined by laws, was clear.

It isn't just about liberté for me. The law in discussion here may be pretty straight cut with regards to understanding what's on the page, but not with understanding what power the government is actually granted or when/how it will be enforced. The whole point in this thread was that the law is unclear as to how the government will define content posted online that may turn out to be inaccurate as illegal and worthy of leading to prosecution.

Consider it this way - if you handed said law to 10 people in the UK, would they all walk away with the same understanding of where the line is that they shouldn't cross?
One-shot text to story video in any language-> any language is here
Create striking one-shot text to story-videos/renditions of scientific papers etc. in any language and using samsar.one quick editor. I walk through the basics in this blog post.
L'Arpenteur – Convert a 3D Model into a Lego constructible build [video]
Most of the locking diffs now are automatic locking diffs based on differential wheel spin, like the G80. I can confirm that if you're using traction control, it seems impossible to cause enough slip to lock the diff. Then you can end up in a situation where you're on a icy/snowy hill and the car is applying the brakes due to excessive wheel spin before the diff will lock.
In practice this simply doesn’t pan out. There are many many terrible freelancers out there. And without someone technical in-house vetting their work, you’ll have no choice but to judge their based on their output. This is a huge problem.

Software needs to be designed with an understanding of the business needs and goals. You need someone who understands how to keep the software well designed (ie. Easy to debug, update and extend in the future).

Judging solely as a user of the software gives you no insight into whether or not a plate of spaghetti code could be holding behind the scenes.

Good code has two traits: It does the job it was designed to do. It is easy to update and maintain.

Everything else you read online is nonsense. And you need someone trusted inside your company to ensure the second trait is being adhered to.
You seem to be under the impression that this is some sort of Faustian pact that prevents you from ever changing your mind at any point in the future.
I've worked with 4 erps in varying capacities from amused observer to in the weeds screen dev (and mainly database administration), 3 of those 4 had custom languages and development environments, including deployments in custom things variously. These three seemed to want to reinvent programming all for their app. I was fascinated by it all. The only erp I worked on that didn't reinvent the wheel was in cobol and there these poor developers failed to use the original wheel invention. One asleep user could halt the company until the system administrator killed the screen process, the concurrency strategy used was "pessimistic" to the extent that the whole system seemed suicidal. It got replaced by erp 2.

Microsoft AX is a beast. I was both fascinated and horrified by it. I took the developer class and loved it but then was so baffled by their source control and deployment, ended up contracting anyways, our desktop dev who also took the course simply found a better job haha, I simply shrank back into my dba role and got fairly familiar with the schema and had developed what I felt were cool and snappy queries that could run without nolock, I am a long time database geek and actually got fired over the nolock keyword, well that and me being an insufferable asshole which was all the rage with dbas at the time hahaha

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/fin-ops-core/d...
I'm working on the tool, that includes AI. My original target is to test it on my https://www.youtube.com/c/VectorPodcast by offering something that Lex Fridman does for his episodes.

Current features:
1. Download from YT
2. Transcribe using Vosk (output has time codes included)
3. Speaker diarization using pyannote - this isn't perfect and needs a bit more ironing out.

What needs to be done:
4. Store the transcription in a search engine (can include vectors)
5. Implement a webapp

If anyone here is interested to join forces, let me know.
Don’t worry, I’m old too - that’s why I recommended it. That or Django or even NestJS running in SSR mode.
I still haven't seen any arguments why these restrictions aren't good for users. Just a bunch of assumptions that these restrictions are a fig leaf. For a technical forum, I would expect more discussion around the actual details. Instead many people are building a strawman and fighting that instead.

Assume for a moment that Apple will allow alternative web engines as long as they follow certain user privacy and security guarantees. (Given that the company has announced this and it's legally mandated, I think this is a safe assumption.) In that case, are users better served with or without these requirements?
Fair point but I think the key point here is unnecessary complexity versus necessary complexity. Are zero-downtime deployments and load balancing unnecessary? Perhaps for a personal project, but for any company with a consistent userbase I'd argue these are a non-negotiable, or should be anyways. In a situation where this is the expectation, k8s seems like the simplest answer, or near enough to it.
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People who are the victims in a controlling relationship will usually say things that the controller wants them to say, even when the controller is not there. Ask me how I know.
Adding Humans to Minecraft [video]
About as useless as the original comment.

WFH benefits are apparent on their own for a individual. How WFH affects diversity in a specific company maybe a useful exercise , it doesn't change the benefits much.
When was there honesty in marketing?

Isn't looking for honesty in marketing like looking for a nutritious meal in a spoon of sugar?
having worked in this industry previously, i can confidently say that hardware has a lifecycle. towards the end of that lifecycle the hardware is no longer affordable to even have powered on.

if the server costs $46 a month to have racked up and powered on, and is less powerful than a $15 vps we’re offering in the same location then what sense does it make to continue offering that server?
In East Germany a "Milchbar" was exactly what one would expect from the name: A bar that's open during the days for families and kids which offered fruit-flavoured milk, milk shakes and ice cream :)
Asgi-CSRF: ASGI middleware for protecting against CSRF attacks
Nature of Code, 2nd Edition
At what point do software companies just collapse and everything ends up reimplemented in open source?
The next one is rumored to be only the size of an Apple TV, basically the M4 iPad Pro innards in a smaller box.
> Apple's and Google's _push notification servers_

This never effected signal as no data that is sensitive was ever sent via that. Again though warrants against Signal are not new, and for years law enforcement has been getting the same answers to their subpoenas. If it was "possible" as you say and that "they do", pretty sure the ACLU would not be making submissions to a court that "this is all that is available <registration date> & <connection date>" especially as the source code is open, it would be easy to verify if that was in fact true.

> I absolutely detest these type of "our privacy is great, believe us!" pages

The page literally has the legal request and reply, these would be able to be checked against court records. Remember being in contempt of a court order is actually punishable, so if there was more I'm sure Signal would have been fined by now lol.
I see this in Android. Every few years (sometimes multiple times in a year) a new arch. becomes the fad and every TDH dev starts hankering for one way or the other on the lines "why are you not doing X..". Problem is, at immature firms (specially startups) the director and senior manager level leaders happily agree for the re-write i.e re-archs because they usually leave every season for the next place and they get to talk about that new thing which probably didn't last beyond their stay, or might have conked off before that.

And the "test cases" porn! Goodness! People want "coverage" and that's it. It's a box to tick, irrespective of whether those test cases and they way those are written are actually meaningful in anyway. There are more like "let's have dependency injection everywhere" charade.
It depends a lot on context.

For example perovskites, which are the focus of this article have gone from having 3% conversion efficiency to 25% efficiency in the last 15 years.

That's amazing progress in the lab but deployment into standard PV markets is effectively zero.

This might change this year, hence articles about deployment, but still only 1GW or so predicted this year.

And even that is "just" tandem cells where you have a layer of standard PV and perovskites working together.

Some of the real sci-fi possibilities of perovskites are of being able to print them easily and cheaply onto flexible lightweight structures entering whole new markets.

But with wider context, it's weird this gets brought up so often in regards to solar PV and batteries which may actually be two of the most impactful technical revolutions in human history, totally reshaping the whole world right now at a breathtaking speed that surprises even enthusiasts that are paying attention.
I'm FT WFH, my anecdote is that every time I'm on a call, it is the father who is taking care of the kids in the background.

If we're trying to equalize traditional gender roles, how about getting more fathers home to take care of kids?

Better yet, remove gender completely and let WFH stand on it's own, which it clearly does.
Have you tried Monal on iOS? It has made the iOS experience a lot better recently.
> They are not fascinated by AI, they are not on Instagram or TikTok, they are not really partaking in the present

If that's actually how you define "partaking in the present" then I truly pity you. There is far more to life than obsessing over the latest silicon valley bullshit machine.
Yes, I was about to propose this. But then again, the author wants to learn the basics without grappling with abstractions. I think zx can be a bit quirky.
As a hobby I created in 2014 a console on a single microcontroller that does exactly that, with VGA resolution https://bitboxconsole.blogspot.com/
Hmm what's your point? I'd think they're under time pressure, and if they see they can't fool you, they'll immediately proceed with the next target instead. (Regardless of if they're working for themselves or being trafficked & forced)
I'm reading about the founding story of many startups .. at the early stage when they had few users, there was no moat. Success seems is a big moat. If this guy had taken venture financing(I know this wasn't a thing back then but humor me), trademarked milkbar, peppered ads everywhere, it isn't inconceivable that he'd get to 500 stores. Would that have led to lasting success? Unclear.
Gaudi was made by an Israeli company Intel acquired in 2019 (not an internal project).
Gaudi 3 has PCIe 4.0 (vs. H100 PCIe 5.0, so 2x the bandwidth). It's strange for Intel, of all vendors, to lag behind in PCIe. And Nvidia has SXM for larger models (5x bandwidth).

"N5, PCIe 4.0, and HBM2e. This chip was probably delayed two years." -wmf
Maybe this is insightful at its core, but “growth” and especially “growth mindset” is the most LinkedIn performance review garbage I’ve ever been force fed, so it’s a bit of a turnoff simply based on how I’ve seen it used in practice.
Apparently the first was in Sydney, Australia. It opened in November 1932 and was called the "Black & White 4d Milk Bar". No coincidence that London's Milk Bar was opened by an Australian and it was called the "Black & White Milk Bar"?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2373518X.2023.2...

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/world-s-first-milk-bar-l...

https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/australias-first-milk-...

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-modern-milk-bar-an-a...
Revenge porn is free speech. If you think the US Supreme Court will hold differently, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 25 years.
Not soon enough, and it will never happen for tier-1 cloud providers, and Microsoft is one of those.
correct, that is one of the problem I'm working on, happy to help.
I stopped trying to understand dynamics when an accountant mentioned that there was such a thing as a one sided journal entry. I only had a year of accounting in college so I took her word for it. NGL I could have simply misunderstood her so I could be so dumb I can't even talk about journal entries that post to a ledger.