skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in FAANG I picked up Skyrim modding as a hobby, and this year I'm working on monetizing it, in style.
How would I even know if zero action is taken? I see shit and I report it. I don't see it again.
Ah, this multi-jurisdiction setup explains why Durov himself was targeted. As the presumed controlling entity behind that network of shell companies, serving him with a warrant seems like the most effective legal means to make Telegram comply.
Compartmentalizing it is an issue in itself.

Replace "security" with "safety" for, IDK, space engineering or nuclear power. Does it still make sense?

Safety and security need to be integral parts of processes. It is not something you can acquire from a vendor or split out as the responsibility of separate team(s) who have to internally battle for resources and interface with the core development through escalation requests...
Let's be realistic though, it's nothing to do with the 'Silicon Valley mindset'. It's just the classical route to dethroning a poor-performing incumbant - hire good talent, throw lots of money at reasearch and stay focused on the smallest targets where you can demonstrate the biggest progress.

Despite his projected persona, Musk would love nothing more than to get to the position of being the bloated encumbant supplier with guaranteed government contracts regardless of results.
Chamillionaire, MC Hammer and Mistah FAB Startup
Look at any cloud provider except Microsoft. I remember three breaches where hackers got to the control plane relatively easily in the last years alone.

Some examples:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/3/23819237/microsoft-azure-b...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861890/microsoft-azure-d...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-warns-azure-cus...

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-st...
It's not, but it's a feature that makes it incomparable to iMessage.
> Posting this as a reply to someone who just shared their own experience getting doxxed in a country where victims have legitimate grounds to fear for their lives... feels a little out of place.

They should pick a bone with their country’s government that allows such thing to happen, not Telegram.
The font is not good for my bad eyesight with severe astigmatism.
very interesting past few days for people running internet services. first kim then pavel.

seems like the prosecutorial, sacrificial lambs in internet platform space are those who are big enough to afford private jets but not too big to become faceless. hope he has a decent judicial insurance in place.
My interest in sound design and music production took a surprising turn and I now spend my weekends studying alien vocalization. More specifically, figuring out how to synthesize believable alien vocals and make them expressive and customizable enough to be a tool for anyone who needs that sort of thing for their creative work.

I am releasing everything for free and the first "instrument" and sample pack with previews/videos is already available here: https://neuromorph.gumroad.com/l/alien_vocalization_study_1
The readme[1] expands on that:

> "git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

> - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronounciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.

> - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.

> - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.

> - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca...
To bad that wouldn't work for good music albums. For many years (still, maybe?) albums would come out on Tuesdays. So one day of the week you'd have them all bunched up together.

That's how I remember that September 11, 2001 was a Tuesday. Album day, and there was a good one that day, too.
The fact that it has reporting mechanisms, doesn't it uses them.

There have been govt commissions in the UK, France, the EU, and the Netherlands about getting Telegram to act on their reports.

All of this while Durov is bragging in Russian press that he doesn't need more than 3 moderators.

If you're not aware of what's really happening here, I'd recommend not commenting.

This guy is a legit a-hole. There's bots on Telegram where you enter women's names or social media URLs and you get back if someone ever posted revenge porn about her. Those bots remain online until a journalist covers them. Unless the company is publicly humiliated, no Telegram channel is ever taken down. Telegram has been the go-to platform for hosting malware and stolen data for half a decade. Nothing... NOTHING has ever been taken down even if it's a blatant TOS violation. So yeah, fuck Durov!
This product seems primarily like a solution looking for a problem to solve. The rare team that actually needs this will probably only need it on a one-off basis, and so will probably hack it together ad-hoc or hire a consultant to do it. Perhaps the target market should be unscrupulous contractors.
Through intermediaries, usually Vietnam or the Philippines
Rarely that's ever true. Hardware and software assumption will change over time. E.g. Simd is rare and not available to 99% of hardware has it, pointer is 16/32/64 bit wide, that API is available, SGML/JSON/XML is all parsing you will ever need.
Deno already supports it as many other web api: https://docs.deno.com/api/web/

Who would have thought that a JS / TS backend framework would not only be a convenient but sane choice.
It might be theoretically correct in the same way that it is correct to say that “a building is just a bunch of bricks on top of each other”. But there are thousands of different buildings with different reasons to exist which offer drastically different services and serve different purposes. A video game like Elden Ring is built from the same “automation” pieces as the LS command in my terminal, but it would very disingenuous to say they’re basically the same thing.
> But.. none of that does or should require a smart phone really

Well yes, it doesn’t. I used to ask people for directions without a world map, not understand the street signs in a foreign county, come how to a spouse telling me go buy milk since we’re out of it.

Most of technological advances in the last 30 years are conveniences. You could argue ad absurdum since you don’t need most of technology to survive.

Like, you don’t need a laptop if you think about it. You could just do all your work in the office.
Sweden is building now new prison for underage and lacks thousands of seats for inmates. Other countries are talking about renting their spare capacities to them.
It's called Ruby, but the color theme is green.

Hilarious!
A compiler from SQL to type-checked C++ to speed-up an ML pipeline.
the cost of abstraction and complexity is shining through. hope the next mission goes as planned.
Both the Makefile as well as the source file were linked from the article, ld's "-e" flag is used to set a custom entry point to "__libc_main".
The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch.

And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.
Where will it all end? Somewhere perfectly fine, probably. But still, I wonder about the far limits and edge cases to this logic. If it was in all cases considered preferable to mildly inconvenience you to achieve a greater goal, that sounds like the cumulative effect would cease to be mild and would in fact be a bad thing. Maybe that could be fixed by regulation regulations?
If you can travel really, really fast, the earth is not a plane, is a point. A pale blue dot.
https://github.com/jhspetersson/git-task

Local-first task manager/bug tracker within git repository which can import issues from GitHub and sync task statuses.

Pretty much work in progress, made for fun and to help while programming on a plane.
When writing aviation software, there is a process you need to follow, DO-178C. So even if you produce bugs, they should be caught in later stages.

Everything needs to go through a risk assessment phase.

The fact that they were determining that one AOA sensor would be enough for such a critical system is what needs to be examined.

And people involved with this decision need to be put into jail.
Unless each spoken dialect corresponds to a matching written dialect. But that just sounds like an even messier system than modern english.
the font looks stuck at 99%
A friend of mine once had a Samsung phone that had advertisement on the Home Screen and was having a hard time removing it. He did reset the phone and all.

This was ten fricking years ago, and I never really looked close to know what it really was, but it was enough to put me off the brand forever.

Until recently, of course: I thought about getting a TV from them. But I ended up with an "OK" brand dumb TV instead of a Samsung because the Samsung TV on the shop also had an AD in it.

Samsung can become another Apple, but it's gonna take some effort.
It’s a problem in the medium sized cities too? Because many of the smaller rural facilities are being closed down (often in the wake of for-profit buyouts), and then all those displaced patients overrun the remaining facilities in surrounding towns.
It is generally hard to read, even with only mild astigmatism and perfect glasses. What is even worth is that the Website does not appear to support Firefox's readability mode.

That seems to be the curse of our time: Function follows form.
Good paper, thanks for the link.
No that's what OP is saying about LLMs.
It's going to be interesting to see the state of things in a few years.

I'm admittedly in the less pro-regulation camp, but I'm not hopeful this is going to enable much meaningful innovation, rather I'm expecting enshittification via oligopoly.

Sure, there will probably be some apps that use new EU features / APIs to do something cool. Most likely Apple will add those in the "standard" API set. Similar to how jailbreakers and Android have paved the way for e.g third party keyboards or call blocking api's. Emulators are the first example of this.

We will go from the "apple monopoly" to probably an oligopoly, where companies with enough pull effect will start their own stores. To get more info about the users, "own" the relationship, skip (part of) the apple tax etc. Great, now I'll get the pleasure to create yet another account or jump through 47 hoops to cancel my subscription.

I'm also expecting this will sooner or later put the nail in the coffin of the last substantial non-chromium browser user base. "This page is best viewed in Chrome for iOS". Also really looking forward to when some German MDM company will figure out they can innovate some custom phone/messagings apps to improve the "security posture" of my employer.
A flutter based solo rpg that is a Hack of IronSworn. It is set in a world 40 years after an event called the arkfall, and where alien Arks crashed landed on earth bring with them many new flora and fauna and terraforming the earth at the sites of the crash.

The setting is like retrofuturistic version of 1998 with survivalist elements.

I’ve been enjoying flutter, and Have found it easier than other cross platform GUI technologies I’ve used. Dart is pretty easy to learn too and I’m considering it for other non flutter based tools as well
Return To The Roots: open-source reimplementation of The Settlers 2
It’s quite common for migrant families to takes a few years off their kids age when they arrive, so they’ll adapt more easily, learnt the language and whatnot.
Probably at very high speed (in excess of orbital velocity) and near head-on.

Ideally you’d put an asteroid in LEO, slow it below orbital velocity, and have it come down at a shallow angle so aero breaking removes most of the remaining velocity.
Stop belitteling my dsablity. You, as a non-disabled person, have absolutely no idea how much energy I have to invest to exist in your world and compensate for all the barriers that you are putting up (mostly unconsciously) to make it even harder. This is actually one reason why I am against euphemisms like differently abled. It might sound cosy from the perspective of a unexperienced outsider, but its just ignorance in reality.

There are so many things I can not do independently, and cant do with external help either because that is not always aviable, that I definitely feel disabled, not differently abled.

All of you have been spoiled by leftist ideas have absolutely no idea what are you doing and how patronising you actually are.

Its my life, I decide what words are appropriate. If you have been spoiled by language whitewashing, the problem is you, and not me.
Is that you GPT?
Stop living in the past. All that is fixed.

No one's getting worse than DSL performance in the US especially not with regards to speeds
> Versioned modifications ("time travel") - ArcticDB is bitemporal. > Timeseries indexes.

That's a nice addition.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/SWE/swe...

things tend to be relative, hence statistics are a thing. The gun murder capital of Europe without some hard data as to what that means sounds a bit like the radiation poisoning center of Antarctica, gang members as young as 14 can definitely be increasingly doing things if before they started increasing there were zero gang members below 14 using explosives etc.

Another problem is just taking what the police say as being "true", for example the police say there are 62000 people in Stockholm (a city of slightly over 920000) "linked" to criminal gangs - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-has-around-62000...
this article uses the word linked twice, in the title linked to criminal gangs, and later in the article "the authorities have struggled for years to contain violence linked to organised crime." I wonder if they have 62000 people who are violent in their linkage, somehow I doubt it but this seems to be the impression.

Hey, I bet there is a problem, how big of a problem, probably not as big as these news stories imply. Why not? Well because if I had a really big nasty problem I wouldn't just imply it, I would lay it out, plenty of engagement to go around, but if my engagement could benefit from exaggerating the problem then I will imply instead of stating plainly.

At any rate more than 6% of the population of Stockholm is currently not involved in a violent gang war which one might infer from the reportage.
Blockbuster Chinese video game tried to police players
Wow, I didn't expect `c_str()` to write at all. I knew that C++ was wild before C++57, but before C++ is insane.

Thanks for the explanation!
>In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely,

Government/Defense contractors can track their suppliers and tell Congress exactly how many jobs are in which districts per project.
I'd your appreciate thoughts on this.
> Microsoft is better at publishing operating systems

Is that a joke? Microsoft seems to be in the advertising business. Their OSes are also a means to an end.
Is ant's fault, they keep making all those little bumps around.

The real problem is that we are spending a bazillion of hours on dubious philosophical amusements, while the planet is being slowly cooked with us on board.
I have a CS background and work as a data scientist, but my hobby is Christian apologetics:

http://saintbeluga.org

This is my latest article, just published 2 days ago:

https://www.saintbeluga.org/follow-the-evidence-wherever-it-...
Why do you think there is a limit at all? What is it about higher level math that is intrinsically incomprehensible to a subset of people?

I suspect that the limit is actually in research and discovery, not comprehension. Calculus took some brilliant minds to develop but now it can be taught to most high schoolers.
If there are 4500 years of developer work (not including "real work") it sounds like there are bigger problems.

The whole point of having developers do upgrades isn't just the manual work but so they learn and understand it. Skipping that isn't helpful.

And why would you wait until there's 4500 years of work before upgrading? Maybe the problem is that company policies need to be fixed rather than introducing AI.
Yeah I’m about 2 hours from the nearest real airport and it’s pretty miserable. Anything I can drive in 8 hours or less is faster to drive.

What you don’t appreciate is that it’s not just the added distance, it’s all the extra uncertainty. Losing an extra hour due to getting stuck on the highway behind an accident is a thing you have to account for.

So in the end you end up having to leave like 4 hours or more before your flight.

I live 400 miles in a straight line and I can drive to downtown Atlanta faster than I can fly to the Atlanta airport.
You mean the government that refused to allow Ukrainians use US weapons in Crimea?
A data-oriented JavaScript engine called Nova (https://github.com/trynova/nova and https://trynova.dev/), basically trying to answer the question of "what if everything in the JS engine heap was stored in vectors in creation order?" This has some interesting properties; it's basically an ECS kind of engine.
This weekend, just designing a new type of lithography exposure process platform for hobbyists. Getting sub-micron 3-axis repeatability is an interesting problem, as one explicitly considers where to source economical mechanical precision.

Mostly just bored waiting for my Tungsten sample shipment to try in a new metal 3D printing process (at $90/in^3 you figure people would just air mail it, but nope cause it is a fire hazard.) Container rail transport work stoppage means I may get time to entertain low priority vanity projects.

Also working on a physics inertia puzzle so embarrassingly stupid... I refuse to post it lest it wastes 1 minute of someones time.

Kind of like this ear worm... these kind of problems are annoying... lol =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSuueEGQSM

( don't click this link, seriously )
> In the case of violations of other criminal offenses,

"other offences" probably means copyright issues?
I’m creating a series of video tutorials to get people started on neurotechnology and brain-computer interface design. You can check out the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBm6iuVBaQ&list=PLJYQoZIKDl...

My ultimate goal is to bring brain signals to the browser and develop neuro-apps, all in public. I share updates weekly on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/mind-tether
Uhm yes he is. You didn't listen to the whole video did you?
I never had to give serial numbers or anything when calling, so I don't think they know/care?

Even at the Apple Store, they help with out-of-warranty items all the time. I recently gave away an iPhone 8 and they helped my friend setup.

A nice woman there gave me new rubber-thingies for my AirPods and it's been out of warranty for the longest time. I mean they never checked or anything.
>“notoriously insecure”

sounds logical and can probably be checked!

>"routinely cooperates with governments behind the scenes.”

sounds logical and being a big company I suppose true.

>“the US government spent $3 million to build Signal’s encryption”

sounds probable, meaning they got funding from some NSA project.

>“activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad.”

this sounds a bit crazy!
The hundreds of features things like Solr and Elasticsearch/Opensearch have. These are complex products but mostly this is a form of necessary complexity.

To be blunt, the intersection of people that know what they are doing on this front and people that choose to use Postgres for this is pretty narrow. It does happen and I've seen a few nice things built with Postgres. But mostly it's just people using the wrong tool for the job.
Back atcha: Have you ever heard of stemming?

That'll be different depending on the language, you can't simply transliterate words to another language, the mapping may change things and the rules might be different.

For example, in English "manage / managers", are practically the same, but transliterating to Spanish can give you "gestionan / gerentes", which diverge very early on.
Lets replace Windows Control Panel (now end of life) with ReactOS Control Panel
I think the backlash against phonics is because English just has too many exceptions which makes it frustrating, but it's still important to teach simple phonics (common uses of short and long vowel sounds). Beyond that, any rigid approach is bound to fail because kids just need to get used to the general guidelines of English spelling and learn the exceptions one by one, through guided read-along practice. But the process of making educated guesses on how to say a word based on spelling is part of the learning process.
FWIW InteractiveBrokers charges per share, not per transaction. You could theoretically automate rebalancing.

I know it's overall pretty daft, but I've also had the 'personal ETF' idea.
If you do, you must unit-test the LLM stage. How do you do that without wasting a lot of time and resources? If the unit tests run through a few thousand times, would you bet your life on it never failing? I would if it was any other code.
It's hard to respond to some of the commentary here. We truly exist mentally on different planets. The West wants Telegram destroyed because the platform permits the sharing of information and ideas that are in opposition to Western domestic and foreign policy(Israel, Ukraine, China etc). This is in addition to the West not having a backdoor to Telegram and not having it's servers on Western soil.

Why do you want your country to control what you can see, read or say? Why do you want your country to have access to your private thoughts and opinions? Stop being a coward and fight this fascist overreach. And spite yourself if you support it.
Quickly find the email addresses of article authors
Custom Linting Rules in Go
They have tons of money, enough to support a development team improving their database. In addition there is a long legacy, both technically and politically, making it hard to even propose to get rid of it. The only likely switch is a gradual decline, with parts of the system moved to another database.
That depends on what being good means.

I have absolutely no problem being a 10x developer. While I might be a better than average developer I am not more than 10x more talented than my peers.

I have no problem achieving 10x status because I ask better questions and loathe doing repetitive work, especially out of social conformance. It completely blows my mind that most people strive first for emotional comfort, especially amongst a social reference group. Any effort moving in the opposite direction of that emotional comfort results in fear and possibly anxiety.

That is why I abhor software as a career. As a dumb soldier I feel like I am the least educated in the room and my delivery is inversely proportional to that. That is because, as a dumb soldier, I focus first on delivery. Focusing on delivery first means knowing the end state and cutting out all the bullshit in the middle. Military people think like that because they are highly assertive. The average software developer is meek.

Can you see the friction that follows? You have this dumb guy with less education that is a 10x developer but not because they are better at writing software. Nonetheless the output executes much faster with greater durability written in a fraction of the time only because of a difference in value system. That leaves the dumb soldier believing they are surrounded by a bunch of cowards.
Building this with Elixir: https://flexlogs.com

I've always found adding custom metrics and monitoring to applications to be a big hassle, so I'm experimenting with one that uses the log stream instead of agents/daemons.
> AI doesn’t buy your service, but humans do.

Only specific humans do, not typically fellow SaaS makers.

It would be better if the reviewers were also the target audience.