skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if tool-calling to output schema'd json would have a low error rate here. For each field, you could have a description of what is approximately right, and that should anchor the output better than a one-off prompt.
This is what happens when MBAs are made technical leads in charge of engineers. All the big 5 Federal Contractors are plagued like this.
like, trains?
I've been building a web extension for an Inuit language (ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ ᖃᓂᐅᔮᖅᐸᐃᑦ).

Most Inuit in Canada speak Inuktitut, which is a language with long words and two different writing systems: the latin alphabet, and syllabics. Syllabics are specially adapted for Inuktitut and well-loved by the Inuit, but unfortunately can be a pain to input on a computer, so often times the more cumbersome latin alphabet is used in casual writing.

Tom Scott has an awesome video about how syllabics work[1], but breifly, the shape of the character determined its inital consonant spund, and the rotation determines its vowel sound. So ᐱ = pi, ᐳ = pu, ᐸ = pa, ᑎ = ti, ᑐ = tu, ᑕ = ta, etc. The word "Inuktitut" becomes ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ in syllabics.

Transliterating between the two is fairly simple, but there are edge-cases around dialects and whatnot. The more interesting problem from a technical perspective is having a web extension that can detect Inuktitut on a web page (in wither writing system), and transliterate that into whatever writing system the user desires, whilst never accidentally transliterating the other text on the page ("inhabitants" could be picked up and transliterated as "ᐃᓐᕼᐊᖯᐃᑕᓐᑦᔅ", for example, even though that makes no sense).

The project is mostly using Rust via WebAssembly, which has been a lot of fun to work with and has let me do some awesome things, like avoiding heap allocation and using compile-time hashmaps to do conversions on the text. The build system has to do a lot and I eventually settled on python. Right now I'm trying to wrangle JS and the DOM (there's a lot of edge cases to deal with), and that's been difficult as it's not my wheelhouse.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4hI_METac&t=15s
Line has a fully featured desktop client that's even more lightweight than Telegram. They also have a white paper that explains their encryption which is decent enough https://d.line-scdn.net/stf/linecorp/en/csr/line-encryption-...

You do need to turn off "display stickers suggestion" before the app becomes nice.
REPL-Able Tests in Clojure
https://github.com/sirupsen/napkin-math
Apple’s value proposition is marrying hardware with software rather than, say, writing software for commodity hardware.
Sure. So the main idea is:

1) You find podcasts about topics you care about

2) You listen and read and try to understand the meaning with the help of translations and the definitions in context of the words in the sentence. (You can click each word to get a definition in context)

3) Over time you mark words as known

That's basically it. You learn with context using content you are interested in. I'm working on adding a SRS to the app and a feature to improve your pronunciation using the language shadowing technique.

And as mentioned, building native iOS and Android apps.
i should be allowed to watch whatever state propaganda i want, i'm a big boy

15 years ago in the US this would have been uncontroversial
By all accounts, this looks to me like it's nothing else but a politically motivated decision - and it gives ever more credence to my take that there is no freedom of speech in Europe

As a side note, this is somewhat reminiscent of how the Catholic Church operated at the height of its power - do what we say or burn at the stake. We should then not be surprised that no longer does technological innovation happen in Europe - at least one that's actually important or has the potential to be
A story written by a human and a story written by ChatGPT
Yes, the data is encrypted in transit. But Telegram can decrypt the data.

We can see that's true, because when I add a new device I can get into all my group chats.

Only if I explicitly "Start secret chat" does something else happen.

Telegram is sitting on a lot of group chats where a lot of horrible things are happening that governments want to see... and gets upset when Telegram doesn't use this access to share that information in response to lawful orders.

> I can only imagine there's a concerted effort here to misinform everyone

Assume good faith-- it's in the guidelines. I have been here just as long as you. I am not part of some shadowy conspiracy to make people think that Telegram security is bad.

I feel like people just don't understand the term of art "effectively plaintext".

Alternatively, if you thought I was talking about secret chats in general-- note that we are in a subthread talking explicitly about channels and non-secret chats:

"For those unaware, all channel on telegram are NOT ENCRYPTED. They are stored in plaintext on telegram servers. All chats that are not 'secret chat' mode (single device to single device) are NOT ENCRYPTED (stored in plaintext on server)."
France has never really been as liberal as people seem to think it is. The colonial history runs deep.
Oh look, my old friend Checked Exceptions! I knew we would meet again one day :)

In all seriousness, anonymous sum types would be quite nice. It would make it easier to be precise about return values in situations where `Optional` and `Result` are not sufficient.

The problem with checked exceptions (well, one of the problems) is that the full set of error conditions a function might encounter is often _too_ detailed. Encoding them all into the type signature of every function can be a lot of work, and quite brittle to minor internal changes. So most code bases will still need a catch-call error type that gets bubbled up to a generic handler somewhere.
Trouble sneaks in when the pattern matching is only correct most of the time. Eg, if some code for regex-based search missed anywhere from 0.1% to 10% of matches, with the miss rate depending on the regex and no obvious way to know which regexes have worse miss rates, the utility of your regex-based search would be limited. LLMs are like this, but their generality makes them useful in spite of this limitation.
I get a headache when I see stuff like this. I couldn't scroll past the demo video.
What has E2EE got to do with it? If you catch someone who sent CP you can open their phone and read their messages. Then you can tell Meta which ones to delete and they can do it from the metadata alone.
Agreed, and more generally, MSFT removing these 'classic' control panels is a significant issue because the new replacements often don't replace the full functionality of the originals.

This isn't simply that he new replacement isn't "finished" yet (which was sometimes claimed in the past when power users complained). In recent years, the reason seems to be the old canard "not enough users use (capability) often enough." However, in the case of Windows control panels, this is reasoning can be invalid because control panels were many times explicitly for advanced users to adjust advanced OS behaviors.

This would be okay if MSFT was creating the new "Settings" paradigm to be an additional kind of basic adjustments-only UI for entry-level users. However, what's actually happening is they're completely removing the old control panel while simultaneously nerfing the Settings replacement, leaving more advanced users hunting through the registry to find a way to control behaviors they've been able to control via interface in Windows for decades.
Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Yeah and porn advances were specifically because the market leaders of the old school industry (publishers/distributors) could have their market stolen. So there was a large carrot out there, and it warranted market disruption. Just like dozens of other industries as the Internet and computing became widely available. The old guard of playboy and hustler and such did not invest heavily in the advances. It was small operators looking for an advantage in scale. Producers looking to cut out distributors, etc. I don’t think vr specifically offers that level of treasures and it’s not like any Joe can start a vr porn shop now. The internet originally offered the ability of a single person to sell millions of copies of their films. It (vr) probably actually consolidates it further again as larger investment in production equipment and editing is needed. But, it’s a tiny market so nobody really cares to be a first adopter. A lot of people are skeptical of Vr ever being widely available any time soon. That skepticism was optimism in early days of PC usage. Everyone knew computers were the future and we’d all be using them daily, in the home, etc. It was worth investing in for the porn industry.
Yes, you can use AI to spot errors in AI output. Done before with good results, but it requires to run 2 different, but equally good, AI models in parallel, which is way more expensive than 1 model.
My opinion would be extremely unpopular, but:

1) The guy was marketing an open-text messenger as an e2ee messenger

2) Because of (1) he was able to moderate it and help law enforcement with locating criminals but he was not cooperating

3) He was extremely cooperative with Russian "law enforcement", as multiple deanonymised activists with leaked chats, contact lists and location history found out

So, a hypocrite got what he deserved.

The overall trend of EU attacks on privacy is very concerning, but Tg is not a private messenger, it just was marketed as one.
Oh, right, of course you are! I thought I recognised your username :)
The impression I get is that there's a substantial appetite for experimentation with (and attention for in general for) macOS among Mac fans that hasn't been satisfied since iOS began to suck all the air out of the room many years ago. It's understandable that Apple might not want to rock the boat too much for more general audience Mac users, though. Perhaps some kind of "enthusiast mode" for macOS that could act as a playground for these things is in order.
I can only once again quote this section of Telegram's privacy policy verbatim:

> 8.3. Law Enforcement Authorities

> If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you're a terror suspect, we may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities. So far, this has never happened. When it does, we will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at: https://t.me/transparency.

(from https://telegram.org/privacy)

And interacting with their "Transparency Report" bot yields this:

> [...] Note: for a court decision to be relevant, it must come from a country with a high enough democracy index to be considered a democracy. Only the IP address and the phone number may be shared.

In other words, they are cherry-picking the jurisdictions they are even choosing to recognize, and within those they are again cherry-picking "terror suspicions" as the only class of law enforcement requests they will honor.

If I were the CEO of a company maintaining such a position, I'd be a bit more careful on where to refuel my jet.
M-line Macs have been beaten in pure-performance terms since the day they were released, and that goes for everything from the M1 to the M3 Max: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks

It's the single-core scores that are really impressive, but as time goes on, the performance gap is closing and not widening. It's been said many times before, but it was Apple's TSMC alliance that mattered more than their core design or ISA choice at the time.
Some time ago many people in Russia wished that Russia will become a normal European country. I guess the wishes were granted, but not in a way we wanted.
>I bet they wouldn't refuse

Apparently, they have. Sorry for your bet.
Some forms of uranium rich slate when mixed into concrete can dispose radioactive gases.
Also hard to just find a therapist, let alone one you like. The simple fact is that there's plenty of demand and zero supply. This is why you see so many 'personal' and 'life' coaches now btw. It's an absolute cluster.
I think it is because Telegram is a communications platform, not just another chat app. For example, it has good APIs to build apps on top of it.
In every other respect, I have excellent insurance. But the shit they put my therapist through seriously makes me wonder why she even bothers. Every story in that article echoes her own experience with insurance.
This is very true. My Wife has seen a therapist for dealing with her dad’s death and her mom’s new boyfriend situation as well as mom’s irrational behavior. Luckily I have been saving in an HSA for nearly ten years. Paying for it is no big deal. My company also had free sessions as part of our company provided employee assistance program.
The key legal and economic goal of a privately owned health insurance company, is to become entrenched as a legally required intermediary between patients and the “medical cartel.” So functionally the optimal approach for an insurance org is to ensure that they are only required to reimburse for expenses that are mandated by law. Then the trick is to reduce the number of mandatory payments through regulatory capture and obfuscation. See: Medical Biller role at each hospital and lack of consistency transparency etc…

Therapists are not considered part of the medical cartel because they are not required to go to medical school or pass the licensing process for “Doctors.” They can’t increase the service costs unilaterally into longer term revenue. This is why it’s trivial to find a covered psychiatrist - because they legally prescribe medicine which is the best possible outcome for an insurance carrier - their equivalent to SaaS margins.

So therapists aren’t legally “Doctors” and as a result they do not have the legal avenues to create an invoice that a health insurance company would accept as mandatory to pay by law. So there’s only downside to an insurance provider for this.
Do you extend the same generous interpretations to the other space-faring company owners like Bezos, Branson, Bigelow etc. or is this unique to Musk?
There's no good evidence for "you need to get sick in order to have a healthy immune system", and it leads to dangerous nonsense like measles parties.
I have this thing: https://www.fbpurity.com/

which I use to get rid of those "suggested posts" from groups I never joined. You could also customize it to do what this guy's tool does, I suppose.
Germany generated more solar power than ever before in July 2024
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Jonathan Blow approves :D
Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI
Multiple iOS Apps.
Yep. A lot of people are unwilling to fight their insurance and the insurance providers are depending on this. Same with billing departments in the various healthcare systems, etc.
That sound really interesting, is there more that are you willing to share?
They're still getting sick.
> this is somewhat reminiscent of how the Catholic Church operated at the height of its power

I think the most surprising thing I've realized as I've gotten older is the way in which these cultural and legalistic norms, even 100 years+ bygone, still have considerable influence on modern cultures.

Europe, and particularly France, is very Catholic, ex-Holy Roman brained. US is very protestant brained. China cribs tons of stuff from their old imperial system.
JavaScript-Free Single Page Applications
The development is what already being spent... Each flight, after development is complete, will be reusable - that's the plan - and will cost less than $0.1B == 100 millions dollars, if total per-Starship expenses are divided into the total number of that Starship flights. Yes, I hope the eventual costs per flight would be lower, the point is the cost of the program is surely way more than $4B.
> Evaluation by reputation and metrics is the norm. Evaluation by the quality of your work is the exception

You don't see a problem with this? Because I sure do.

> And even when your work is evaluated, it's based on superficial reading. The people reading it

Ditto

This is exactly what I'm complaining about and saying we should do better.

Just because things suck doesn't mean you need to defend them. We can in fact change things.
Comment in subreddits without those restrictions for a bit. E.g. this list: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/index/newusersubs/

I can see how it's frustrating, but the communities you're trying to post in are essentially offloading their moderation burden onto the big popular subreddits with low requirements -- if you can prove you're capable of posting there without getting downvoted into oblivion, you're probably going to be less hassle for the smaller moderator teams.
if i put up a random E2E encrypted messaging side project i made on github and then people started using it for CSAM?

People use government built sidewalks to sell drugs, does that mean I can sue the govt for the drug trade?
> It seems to have gone off in the direction of "shiny and new"

Ikey's last foray into distro-building also left same impression on me.

> without deeply considering more practical architectural decisions like isolating system vs. userland, configuration management, or manageability

I dunno, FWIW, Solus was very well regarded in UX for a while. It had the best steam integration, and the whole thing felt fairly well thought out for something built and maintained by half dozen people.

> If you're going to create a distro, at least have a use-case justification for it

That is unfair. The developers felt there is a gap between fully imperative state-modifying mudball and fully declarative purity-land, which is true, and decided to try their hand at it. How well they did is yet to be seen.
They might be dissidents that don't want their internet traffic associated with their physical identity, which makes it quite hard to "buy it themselves" in places where cash isn't used or ID cards are commonly registered.
Silly question: how does an immune system get “trained”? I imagine some of it is through familial transmission but getting sick seems to kick it into high gear.
There’s a lot of evidence that exposure is required for immunity. That’s how immunity works, no?
Where are "moderated" and "platform" defined in the relevant legislation?
I found this article that explains that the arrest warrant was only to be activated if Pavel was on the French territory.

(French) https://www.sudouest.fr/economie/reseaux-sociaux/le-patron-d...

It could have been a warrant that was not communicated to Durov himself. This would have helped to catch him by surprise.
c.f.,

https://www.literature-map.com/
Evidently not. There was lots of early good results on air purification and UV, but there was absolutely no action or even official advocacy as a result.
Is there any information on the type / price of these air purifiers?

There's a lot of "air purifiers" out there on the market.
Where can I find production-ready polyfills? https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/#polyfills only lists alpha and beta versions.
Vision Pro in form factor and experience is just another VR headset the population has no interest in. They haven't since it first debut in the 90s.

I know their pathway is to shrink it down to glasses size so we are basically wearing our iPhones on our face. Yet as Ray Ban smart glass enthusiast (use almost daily since Oct '23) im fine with vocally asking my glasses what time it is & getting an audible response. Some visuals in my face only upon summoning them maybe via a ring on my finger or a watch or some natural non-intrusive gesture would be helpful.

Now I don't think smart glasses will replace smart phones as you cannot take selfies with them.
The immune system isn't a muscle.
You ask for the post to get approved. You probably can't imagine the amount of spam subreddits suffer under.
It is true that macOS is a bad example here because it is not using a Linux kernel.

But Apple also names operating systems that use the same kernel different "OSes": iOS and iPadOS share a kernel with macOS, and for all I can tell, so do watchOS and tvOS.

An operating system consists of both a kernel and a userland. The Linux kernel by itself does not make an OS. I think this makes it legitimate to call CentOS, NixOS, SerpentOS, iOS, watchOS, etc., OSes.
I was talking with someone VC-ish, about my frustration with all the endpoint hardware and communication software being hopelessly insecure for various real threat models.

But that, even if I somehow managed to pull off a successful superior solution, as a startup or an open source/hardware project, I didn't want to see all the worst criminals flock to my service.

Also, I didn't want to be in an adversarial relationship with my own government at times, nor to secretly compromise the solution.

(Probably the compromise-compromise I'd choose would be proactive: I'd have to backdoor for my government from the start, and publicly disclose that there's a backdoor, so I'm not misrepresenting to my users. Which would mean dramatically less adoption, a lot of privacy&secury people cursing it/me, and eventually the backdoor would also be exploited by parties other than the intended.)

And also, I don't have the stomach for adversaries that would include foreign state dirty-tricks agencies.

Most ostensible security solutions on the market are obviously weak, or just plain BS. The ones that might not be, I don't see how they don't run into the same barriers.
Just accept that this is the case and meet people where they are. And collect some friends that share your curiosities and passions. People can be good and reliable friends even if they are content living a simple life in simple ways as it's always been, without pushing for abstract novelty and learning.

People try to blame school for killing the natural curiosity of kids, but I've come to be very skeptical about this. It's an idealized romantic notion. Most mammals lose their playfulness in adulthood and most humans are like this too, even if not to the same extent (some say humans retain more neoteny, similar to domesticated animals like dogs that also remain more playful than wolves as adults).

These two types of people often misunderstand each other. For you a job might become boring if it stays the same year upon year. But for most people the thought of having to keep up with ever changing knowledge requirements after school and even once they are settled in their jobs is utterly terrifying.
Totally irresponsible to cut off the next part of the headline that makes clear he is accused of not cooperating with the authorities on these things. He’s not accused of doing them himself.

If you’re going to edit the headline you’re taking a responsibility. Words and sentences and paragraphs can’t just be cut in arbitrary places any more than code can.
He isn’t Signal’s CEO anymore.
There's no reason to be surprised. This coverage benefit was probably clearly stated on your summary plan description. These are short, simple documents that most health insurance plans are legally required to distribute to members.

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/health-plans/planinformati...
yeah so sounds like (what in the US we call) a sealed warrant, not that it was literally issued while he was in the air
You're missing the key part: Telegram doesn’t have E2EE enabled by default. Group chats and channels aren’t encrypted at all.

The only E2EE in Telegram is called "secret chats" and they're 1-on-1.
That's silly. I gotta go shitpost in subreddits I have no interest in as some sort of bizarre rite of passage? I'd rather just not use the site at that point.
With the mention of "radioactive dust" are you sure it's radon, as that should not produce dust, and not some other source of radiation in the attic? Like I don't kow what, a lot of old gas mantle filaments.

Any notion of whether it's β or ɣ radiation you're detecting?

Demolition is going to need careful monitoring to ensure you don't contaminate the entire site.