skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Signal should not have been taking money from the CIA.

...

> Why not?

In fairness, at least one answer is obvious: because it created the appearance, for some, that the CIA was getting something out of the deal, undermining trust in the platform.
I have my phone store all my photos (and other media) on an SD card by default, then periodically remove the card and copy all the contents onto a desktop machine (where it then gets synced to my NAS), then erase the card and put it back in the phone.
OP was the pedant in this case, unfortunately (for you).
Some of the specific details :

https://istories.media/en/news/2024/08/27/pavel-durov-has-vi...
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S - it seems like taxes don’t really “drift” so much as find an equilibrium and stay roughly there. I think the burden is on you to explain how this law would break us out of the current ~17% status quo.
... and if was good at speaking ebonics people would complain about that too.
If you click "configure" there are prices. Seems to start at $4500 for lowest specs.
and carrying a knife... it's quite important here
Doesn't matter. As long as the code is open source and e2ee, Signal staff could be official NSA employees, it wouldn't matter (in the short term - in the long term, you would see these things to change, of course.)

I'd change my mind on Signal if you can demonstrate an attack that assumes an evil signal operator, or evil signal servers.

Signal know they just need to keep themselves open to the possibility of this kind of demonstration. Then any mistrust, combined with the fact that there is no exploit at the next CCC or defcon, becomes evidence that it's secure. More mistrust -> More attempts to prove its insecure + no demonstration of insecurity -> better argument that its secure. It's a negative feedback loop. It's also honest - you could actually break it. Did I miss how you can break it? Link to the demo.

Signal the program doesn't trust signal the organization, as it should be. That's the core idea. It's what lets them not get fucked by the government. They cooperate fully and ensure they have nothing to tell (privacy by design. data minimization. self blinding). And by having a lot of users they make themselves impossible to ban and thereby protect the whole concept.

Whittaker is very smart politically. The software isnt perfect, sure. It's polished and reliable and secure. Make a better one... it is fine.

Also, are you reading what she's saying? This is not what compromise looks like. Here is how compromise looks like: When you see them starting to talk about protecting people by establishing police control to fight the bogeyman. When they start talking about the threats here, threats there, enemies here, enemies there... When they say, because of big tech, we need things like DSA (enforcement regimes, access for police) [1]. Whittakter says because of big tech, we need a lot of open source projects backed by nonprofit organizations that dont advertise, dont surveill, and have no incentive to start doing it... and that build stuff that has no backdoors and makes no affordances for state or anyone else in power to compromise it.

[1] and then plugins like E-Evidence, and finally rules like in England that prohibit privacy by design... which would prohibit: Signal... but which the english are not enforcing because of protests by: Signal.
Sure, I did read it too quickly, but why didn't he simply extend the generalized implementation instead of saying at the end that he was limited by the amount of RAM he has?

Those runtimes seem quite a lot slower than what I would have expected, and I'm pretty sure they could be optimized by a lot, especially since he sounds like he has enough RAM to hold the entire file.

Not trying to be dismissive, but this doesn't sound like that great of an implementation.
if if we put a big radio telescope on the moon will the image get sharper (bigger telescope, the size of the Earth Moon pair)?
This is awesome, did you put this on ProductHunt?
> Integrated tetra-array mic

That's definitely an uncommon way of saying quad microphone array.

It's an AI toughbook due to having a unspecified "1.4Ghz AI Boost NPU" which seems to be something Intel offers, and according to other websites, operates at 34 TOPS.
I mean, yeah, I agree, but is it really worth it? Should I use a Rust rewrite of coreutils that is in its infancy just because it is written in Rust and not C? If it was written in Ada / SPARK and it was formally verified, then yeah, I would definitely go for that rewrite of coreutils, but this is not the case with Rust.
This is about time. We went from masks being ubiquitous to seeing they have downsides even if they are different types of masks.
Safeguarding Earth's biodiversity by creating a lunar biorepository
What do you mean "No" ? I am asking if it's traversing red lights while they are otherwise safe to traverse (no lateral traffic). What's with this amazing pessimism infecting this forum lately.
I would also like to point out that the "long term" is just a collection of several "short terms", so if the short terms are only price increases (which they are), then the long term will also just be that.
I am replying to a specific comment not to the article in general.
Pi is normal

https://www.unige.ch/~mccoid/presentations/TALK_piday_2019_p...
I'm not exactly sure, but I think the underlying philosophy here is that code is a lot more like math than like music, and you can't copyright math.

So to have any copyright protection at all for code, the Office had to carve a narrow trail where the standard for copying is higher, because there are plenty of circumstances where there is only one right (or most optimal) algorithm, and there's no protection for the algorithm itself.
My wife recently bought a brother toner cartridge off Amazon and it ended up damaging our printer. We later found out it was counterfeit when the flimsy brother logo pealed off (and after a printer repair person mentioned there was something weird about the toner we had used). I'm on the verge of cancelling Prime myself.
Seeing the title reminded me of "Warriors of the Net".

We were genuinely told, as a class, to watch this video to learn how the internet worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvKm0RdUY0&themeRefresh=1

Good times!
I'm surprised they didn't manage to shoehorn in a Havana Syndrome plug.
Ooof. I honestly don’t know how you can buy a usb thumb drive anymore. Even when you pay the right price you might still get a scam.
In Seattle (Rain City) it's becoming more fashionable to have flat roofs. It may be because of height restrictions - people build up as high as they can to get the view.

Flat roofs always leak. My roof has a 45 degree pitch, as I hate leaks. I also replaced the asphalt shingles with metal, because metal is lighter (less earthquake damage), doesn't burn, and will last the rest of my life.

Another oddity around here is vanishing eaves. My house has 2 foot eaves. This keeps the exterior walls dry, and they last a lot longer. Keeps the windows from rotting, too. And the house shaded in the summer.

New houses are lucky to have a 1 inch eave. I don't get it. Eaves are one of the cheapest ways to reduce maintenance costs.
https://archive.is/2024.08.28-145033/https://www.wsj.com/tec...
Is there anything here that isn’t purely speculative?

What are the signs that OSS is actually in decline?

BTW, I’m not sure there’s anything wrong if OSS is in decline. Overwhelmingly, people do it not to get paid or help industry but because they love building things and solving problems. If people are generally finding better ways to do that, then good for them. Or if people have less time for OSS due to general economic circumstances, then that is a sad thing, but that’s not specific to OSS, so it’s a bit weird to frame it that way. That is, if people have fewer opportunities to find personal satisfaction in their lives, that’s bad across the board, not just for OSS.
>It has no notion of game state (so you can kill an enemy, turn your back, then turn around again)

Well you see a wall you turn around then turn back the wall is still there. With enough training data the model will be able to pick up the state of the enemy because it has ALREADY learned the state of the wall due to much more numerous data on the wall. It's probably impractical to do this, but this is only a stepping stone like said.

> not to mention that it requires the game to already exist in order to train it.

Is this a problem? Do games not exist? Not only due we have tons of games, but we also have in theory unlimited amounts of training data for each game.
It's more likely that relevant legislation needs to change if folks want the law to be different, rather than look to courts.
You’re not getting down voted because it’s a secret. You’re getting down voted because it’s a red herring. The US shut down its primary nuclear pit production plant because of criminal environmental violations [1]. That was far more impactful than AWS is to national security. No company has a blank check.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Flats_Plant
> I wonder if that means that Cosmic isn't EWMH compliant (as if it matters),

AFAIK (i haven't checked) EWMH does have provision for multiple "fake root" windows to handle multiple virtual desktops in multiple monitors, but most window managers do not bother. I think i3 (or some other popular tiling WM for X11) does support those though.
The absence of message backups is arguably one of Signal’s advantages over the competition.

I believe weak/no backup encryption to be the primary attack vector against otherwise well-designed e2ee messengers.
Ukraine's F-16s Have Scored Their First Aerial Kills
Sometimes you need a self-defense device and laptop all in one.

When you knock a mugger down with one of those, he stays down.
don't be disingenuous. they're clearly different kinds of masks.
> your packets go over us for at least something

I'm in South East Asia -- are you sure?
After cybersecurity lab wouldn't use AV, US accuses Georgia Tech of fraud
Of the top of my head I can think of 5-10 youtube videos that have had such a profound effect on me, or I enjoyed so much, that I want them forever. This isn't counting for example videos like "how to remove a 2012 mazda 3 wheel bearing" that I have watched 4x over the last 10 years.

Like anyone else though... I won't put that into effect until it's too late, because I'm used to youtube "being there." Additionally, that's not my content to download. Even if I feel it's legally and ethically not google's....it certainly isn't legally mine.

The idea of asking individual youtubers for licenses to download their work, which by proxy is essentially Google's property, is too much for a well-meaning concious person to deal with. SO it's either youtube or uhhhhh another platform.
It requires a local application and an extension, I think. I found the documentation to be confusing as somebody not familiar with IPFS and eventually gave up on it because I couldn't figure out what the right settings were for me or what the options meant privacy-wise. I also wasn't willing to sink a lot of time or effort into it, because I have enough on my plate generally and I wasn't sure what the benefits were for me.
NVIDIA did something similar with GANs in 2020 [1], except users could actually play those games (unlike in this diffusion work which just plays back simulated video). Sentdex later adapted this to play GTA with a really cool demo [2].

[1] https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/gameGAN/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0
I'm talking about nuclear power plants in general, which have been in use since the '50s. Not a specific type of reactor. If 'it was proven' then I guess France's electricity shouldn't be cheaper than Germany's? Oh wait...
oh wow, wordpress is still strong
So you have no lateral traffic and run over the person walking across the street?
It seems obvious how they're comparable, in the same way that you can compare a parrot talking to human speech.

Black-box both systems and there's enough similarity to make a layperson go "Huh. Those look remarkably similar," even if the mathematicians among us know the underlying mechanisms, inputs, and outputs are quite different.
I look at source code and learn, and then sell my services for money. It's a very valid argument.
Thanks for the feedback! Growth is an interesting concept I hadn't heard people wanted yet, but totally makes sense. Population and home price over time for a specific place, of course. But to filter or weight choices based on YoY growth in some aspect? There's definitely a case to be made for the momentum of some places to keep getting better and others that stagnate.
Well, I'm thinking more specialized. I mean, how often do people come up with the same riff or melody and end up in court? You don't need an AI to either purposely or accidentally skirt copyright.
Show HN: FocusGuardian – Block distracting sites on any device, on your schedule
Hi HN! This was my submission to my university's hackathon earlier this year. It allows you to set a schedule to block popular services and apps, across any device, with easy setup (iOS, macOS, android, windows, linux, browsers, etc).

If you want to read more about how I made it, you can check out my blog post: https://matthew.science/posts/focusguardian/

PS: I haven't actually added the code that checks for premium yet (probably at least a few weeks), so feel free to try more than 2 rules until I do :)
Are you saying that there is massive numbers of empty housing stock in areas in high demand?

Because when there are 15 people wanting to live somewhere and only 10 places, then the lowest the price will go is higher than 5 people are able/willing to pay.

If not, then you need to ration the housing in some other means. What would you prefer? Nepotism? Lottery? Sexual Favours?
People make these equivalences to other social media platforms, but alas it is the only social media I use where I frequently see stuff like IS recruitment videos in larger groups. That is, professionally produced videos in my local language. It's always the same videos as well, so you'd think they at least ban known bad files by hash or something, but nope, they get removed manually by the group's mods hours later.
Step up in basis on death is its own separate and obvious problem to fix (which the Democrats have also proposed doing).
Practicality aside, another major controversial opinion of the Nazis was that buildings should be beautiful. There's a lot of ugly communist architecture in Europe that shows which side won the war.
Node.js new features overview for next LTS [video]
Many years ago, at a previous job, I was issued a Toughbook. I loved that I didn't have to even think about babying it. I could just slap it closed when done and throw it (literally) back in the truck.

I didn't like the cost of the thing; which is still costly today. However! Just like back then, today, you can get REALLY good deals on used Toughbooks through eBay. Because they are niche and not many people want to carry an 8Lb brick with them.
Citizen Animosity Survey
These ruggedized laptops (I have a Dell variant) are the only way to get a sunlight readable display. It's true they're heavy.
> EU is against genocide in Ukraine, where more than 500 children were killed and +25.000 children were kidnapped and filtrated in Russia. A deliberate action to eliminate Ukrainians and the Ukrainian culture.

Sorry for being the devil's advocate but Russian children also get hurt or killed from Ukranian shelling of settlements near the border.
Anybody buying FSD is a fool, and you know what they say about fools and their money. It blows my mind that some consumers would spend $8K on a feature without doing the 5 minutes of research it would take to determine that FSD isn't here, and won't be here for years.

I own a Tesla, and I chose not to buy FSD because in 2019 when I bought it, it simply didn't work based on what I had read. Earlier this year, when Tesla gave a trial to all Tesla owners, I tried it out and was surprised at how good it was, but it still make bad mistakes, one time even curbing the rear wheel while navigating a curve to the right [0], despite it knowing exactly where the curb was.

The problem is that you still have to babysit it. And if you have the babysit a self-driving feature, then it's entirely useless. It becomes nothing more than a party trick to show off to friends about how neat it is.

Autopilot is great. Love it, especially on road trips. But until FSD is good enough to drive my drunk ass home from a party and even park in my driveway, I'm staying away (and staying sober!).

[0] Here's the curb it hit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BLeqSywhXHRyf7a39. With how wide that lane is, there's no reason it should have cut it so close that it hit the curb. There wasn't even anybody next to me.
Considering how much of Amazon has become just merchants who buy on Alibaba and sell on Amazon, or even outright Alibaba sellers, I’m shocked that it hasn’t had any blowback.
Another roundup from Science magazine: https://www.science.org/content/article/trouble-and-strife-d...
Notion restrictions for customers based in Russia
i'll be happy to pick one of these up used for 10% the price in a few years
if you search for panasonic fz40 on google or youtube, what do you get, results for the lumix camera or the toughbook laptop, both by panasonic, both having the same model number?

google gives me the laptop, youtube gives me the camera
Perma.cc: create links that will never break
> This is not any different than a person copying a code snippet from Stack Overflow that is under the GPL and used on Stack Overflow as part of fair use for educational purposes.

Code snippets and answers on Stack Overflow also have their own license[1] and the terms[2] specifically outline that they're not responsible if you go posting things you aren't permitted to (s.8).

Where it differs is that the various chatbots are removing this attribution. Even the permissive licenses require attribution.

I've no doubt OpenAI's terms are such that the end user is ultimately responsible but do you not think that creates a problematic situation wherein they can effecively obscure and violate license terms?

Copyright refers to copying. No matter how complex the scenario you create, ultimately if the output is a copy of what someone else holds copyright on, you are liable. Or at least I would be as some random developer. Is the argument here that OpenAI is free to do the same and because they made a complicated enough system of smoke and mirrors they shouldn't be held responsible?

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public
I mean, most commercial and industrial buildings are approximately flat on top. There's some pitch, but its pretty minor. Its basically a solved problem, and a qualified building inspector would know how to inspect for the requirements of that particular roof style. Its unambiguously a higher-maintenance style, but it's no worse than having wood siding in terms of annual maintenance labor. Just that the consequences of failing to keep up with the labor is a lot worse.

That said, when people start throwing gardens onto their roofs, or otherwise doing things that the roof was not originally designed for, things get iffy.
The paper mentions them and they didn't find toxicity at concentrations that are typical of a household dishwasher.

https://www.jacionline.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0091-6749%282...
Neutral beam microscopy using magnetic beam spin encoding
In the US, it's "To promote the progress of science and useful arts" as per the US Constitution.

Making sure individual creators can eke out a living is one avenue to pursue that goal.
Meanwhile, Waymo can sensibly move through a street with crowds of people walking around: https://x.com/TechTekedra/status/1828816255404687773
I am the author of PDFSyntax, thanks for mentioning it!

The HTML output is like a pretty print where you can read view objects and follow links to other objects.

Since I have added a new command (disasm) that is CLI oriented and displays a greppable summary of the structure.
Here is an explanation:
https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/disasse...
I'm not very familiar with the ecosystem, but I have used this on an RPi4 to run some games through wine.

I'm wondering, how's the landscape nowadays. Is this the leading project for x86 compatibility on ARM? With the rising popularity of the architecture for consumer platforms, I'd guess companies like Valve would be interested in investing in these sort of translation layers.
A question I asked 14 years ago on ways to sanitize database queries in JavaScript was moderated two weeks ago as violating rules. I lost reputation points for the moderation and more for having the points from the question deducted.

First, why aren't they simply archiving anything over X years old? The fact that this question from 14 years ago was open for moderation is crazy. Second, who has so little to do that they're hunting down ancient questions to moderate?

I edited it to ask, instead of for the best way, some ways. The edit was rejected. I gave up and have no interest in ever asking or answering questions there again. It's just too random.
Lately, I've thought it would be cool to work for an agricultural robot/equipment company. Interesting problems (computer vision, system control, navigation, etc.) and working on something that could actually help the world...
What are the use cases for the advertised barcode reader accessory that appears to shoot the laser out the side of your laptop?

https://connect.na.panasonic.com/toughbook/accessories/fz-vb...
What do you mean by “skin paint”?

Civil primary radar usually isn’t 3D and does indeed depend on transponder, i.e. secondary radar, supplied altitude data.

They should know what their radar supports in any case, and get suspicious when an aircraft asks them for a readback of airplane-supported altitude data.
I agree. However, the reasoning behind that hard sell has less to do with actual technical considerations and more to do, I believe, with a combination of long held assumptions (not always right assumptions) about what Erlang is and the fact other other stacks have become entrenched and are good enough in the ways that are easiest to assess that Erlang/Elixir would be a tough sell. Add to that recruiting talent to work with Erlang/Elixir requires some outside the box thinking in HR hiring practices (something I rarely accuse HR departments of) and you have a tough sell.

This is all unfortunate. I do think the BEAM based stacks are underrated for applications outside of communications. Many of the same traits of resilience and resource utilization designed to facilitate communications systems actually apply to web apps and APIs, too. Elixir is very expressive and a good fit for writing business applications like accounting related software (what I'm currently working on). But... you have to think you can arbitrage those operational advantages into an overall competitive advantage... and that's a tough sell especially because it involves a lot of speculation which doesn't play out until you're getting to the end of a project.
Did you even click on the link? The secondary headline is pretty clear it's not even remotely that.

> Wesslin Omar Ramirez Castillo was frisked and charged with knife possession after the police stopped him for wearing a ski mask.

Like, you didn't even need to read the article to make that clear. Reading the first line gives you even more clarity.

> A man on Long Island has been arrested and charged with possessing a knife and wearing a face mask in public, a milestone moment in the debate over whether to criminalize masks in New York State.
Of course not. It's Atlas Obscura, everything in there must be taken with a whole bag of salt.
you can sell the flat roof as an amenity for more usable square footage.