skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now there is contact key verification, which I believe requires iMessage on iCloud to be enabled

https://support.apple.com/en-us/118246

This seems to eliminate the problem listed in the article. However each person on each side of the conversation has to enable contact key verification with the other person manually and be on software above Sonoma or iOS 17.2. But then it (apparently) makes it so Apple can’t read your messages. I assume this is some kind of back door on apples part to counter an NSA initiative

Note that an intel iMac19,1 (only model) can upgrade to Sonoma without a T2 chip , so it could be possible to use such a machine to extract secret keys or at least hack or spoof contact key verification key (maybe only for the specific user though not a global key)
Most of iCloud's services use CRDTs underneath I believe. That includes Notes, Reminders and possibly Photos as well. FoundationDB is some of the backend as well. I was told this by a drunken former Apple SRE in a bar :)
Ask HN: Has anyone solved R/4a5e1?
I found a puzzle last year on Reddit. The entire r/4a5e1 subreddit contains 16 posts, where the titles and bodies of each post contain clues. I was able to successfully decode some of the clues, but I'm stuck on where to go next. I was wondering if anyone had some insight for me.

I posted what I found to https://github.com/49pctber/4a5e1 as a Python notebook. If you figure anything out, please let me know!
How Singer Won the Sewing Machine War
This would require specifying a cache line size in the ABI, which is a somewhat odd uarch detail to bubble up. While 64-bytes is conventional for large application processors and has been for a long time, I wouldn't want to make it a requirement.
I'd like to know more about this process. But ultimately, it can only be detrimental to sealife to emit noise into the marine environment.

Imagine someone set up a radio or a noisy machine somewhere in your own vicinity and you had no choice but to listen to it (even at a low volume) all day and night, perhaps for the rest of your life. Tests might or might not show that you were stressed, but you most certainly would be.

Perhaps I am biased from regular snorkelling and enjoying being immersed n a different natural world, and for sure I do have tree-hugger tendencies. But I find it extremely arrogant that our species thinks it's acceptable to inject noise pollution into an environment inhabitated by thousands of other species.
Here you go: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?name=Immunoglobulin+soma...
Recently when I buy books on Amazon, they're often cheap versions printed in India. Sometimes there's even a "Only for sale in the Indian subcontinent" label on it. The quality is much worse - flimsy paper, faded ink, rough edges, and often quite dirty despite being new. Does anyone know of a more reliable place to buy new books?
Chrome already has optional built-in support for generating alt text for images. It's been there for years, using a server-based API.

It does seem possible that this could be replaced with a local model in the near future. It's not clear the average user has the hardware specs for this to be an option today, but it will increasingly be plausible.

Keep in mind, though, that alt text is just one small part of making a web site accessible.
I’m not really sure what their point was. My world is (mostly) not enchanted (I am a Maritimer with Irish roots, after all, so the weird isn’t that far away), as I am a reductionist at heart.

Is my sense of wonder diminished by understanding Rayleigh Scattering?

Not only “no”, but I would say that it is doubled or more by being able to appreciate the blue of the sky and the reflected blue of the water while understanding the mechanisms...

just like how my appreciation of both optics and E&M deepened tremendously when I realized that the former was just a simple expression of the latter...

the same “latter” that led Einstein to the Lorentz transformation to solve the problems of additive velocities causing ridiculous magnetic fields, and thus gave us SR.

I mean, wow, just wow.

My world IS enchanted, but by math and its wondrous ilk.
I can tell you how this meetings nonsense came into being.

It comes from far too many layers of management and empires that constantly need to align themselves, document things, track things etc.

In my experience, every layer of manager adds an order more of red tape, meetings, and complexity.

And when they couldn't do it all, instead of removing managers, they started asking rank and file to do the same meetings and produce enormous status reports so that the layers can read it all.

Everyone is wasting time without asking the root question: Is having so many managers and management pyramids worth wasting so much time of the most productive people of the company - the people actually producing whatever you produce.
Yes, especially in older homes or homes with poor grounding. Lightning can discharge through water supply lines[0]. There are even cases of toilets exploding due to lightning strikes[1]. (Google for more)

Sure, it's exceedingly rare. But it's also exceedingly easy to avoid. I've taught my kids that some decisions are easier when defined as binary rules; judgment calls in cases like this just don't offer any tangible benefit other than "I showered an hour earlier than I would have otherwise."

[0]: https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-indoors

[1]: https://fox8.com/news/lightning-blows-up-toilet-after-travel...

MythBusters even did a bit on it. They rated it "plausible".
Weird. I actually used the same prompt with both, just swapped out the model API. Used python because GPT4 seemed to gravitate towards it. I wonder if OpenAI tried for newer training data? Maybe Sonnet 3.5 just hasn't seen enough recent rust code.

Also curious, I run into trouble when the output program is >8000 tokens on Sonnet. Did you ever find a way around that?
the best way to see how companies respond to things is to see what happens during the bad times.

it's easy to be good when things are going easy. it's hard to be good when times are hard.
You're right, order of magnitude wasn't the right choice of words. They're 3-4x what they should be, and RealPage is responsible for a sizeable portion on its own, which is saying something.
Ink quality and hygiene are the two best reasons to never get a tattoo.
I doubt it is due to legal concerns if Ubuntu, Fedora, and FreeBSD are all distributing their own builds.
I personally find the idea of water being important to be overstated. It’s frequently repeated as fact but I don’t see it quantified.

The only experiment I have found that attempts to measure this is by Kenji with pizza. In his test, the water did not matter.

https://www.seriouseats.com/does-nyc-water-make-a-difference...
I think a society in which the poor are better off in absolute terms is a fairer society.
I think it’s more appropriate to say that self-deception is a consequence of overfitting based on other primal instincts. Our #1 skill lies in pattern recognition and imitation. A lot of time, it’s faulty because it’s guided by fear/anxiety for perfectly valid reasons of survival.
The Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot Program
I've been on waitlist for years (just checked my email - since 2014) and can't get one. I wish the whole project was more open and I could build my own from provided gerbers/BOM.
What *is* ChatGPT if it's not a chatbot?
"Wow, this article totally reminds me of Stephen Wolfram's work! It's amazing how these ants are following simple rules to create such complex behaviors. This is exactly what Wolfram has been talking about for years with his idea of cellular automata and complexity theory. I remember reading about how he pioneered the whole idea that simple rules can lead to complex systems. It feels like everything in nature is just proving him right, from the patterns in seashells to how these ants behave. I bet if we looked deeper, we'd find that Wolfram's principles are at the core of so many natural processes. It's incredible to see his influence everywhere!"

I generated the above paragraph for satire reasons using ChatGPT.
Unfortunately, the Lundholm and Svensson text you've cited suffers from the same problems I wrote about in my post. Definition 2.7 connects the interior products to the scalar product, not the inner product. Definition 2.8 gives the same broken definition of dual that has an inconsistent orientation and fails to extend to the degenerate metrics of projective algebras.
What did you do to resolve the problem?
Authors note :

It's super interesting to see the sentiment on this comment.
During EU hours, it was upvoted a surprising amount, and then when the US active time zones come in, it's downvoted pretty significantly.

What a beautiful little bellwether from a place (hn) where I appreciate the discourse I really appreciate.
I actually expected the opposite.
I started this journey with a simple idea: build something creative over the weekend. Flux Forge started as a minimalistic, mobile-friendly app designed to provide users with a seamless experience for generating, customizing, and sharing art. My goal was to make it as intuitive as possible, enabling users to generate and tweak visual art on the go.

Since sharing it on Reddit, the response has been overwhelming, with over 31,000 requests processed. The community’s feedback has been invaluable, driving new features and improvements. I’m excited to continue evolving Flux Forge into a tool that not only serves as an art generator but also fosters a creative community.
Yes, if your definition of "end-to-end encryption" means Apple can't read your messages (and I would argue that this is entirely reasonable), then the vast majority of messages sent through iMessage do not qualify. I would go so far as to say that it is false advertising to claim "iMessage is end-to-end encrypted" while Apple retains the ability to decrypt the vast majority of messages.

For what it's worth, Google's equivalent backup features do not have this loophole. Google cannot decrypt messages from your device backup without your device passcode, and while your device passcode is not a strong passphrase it is protected from brute force attacks by a hardware security module in the datacenter. I believe this is the same way Apple does it but only if you enable Advanced Data Protection.
Why not simply build in fast strafe direction switching into the game and level the field?

Seems like removing an opportunity for cheating is a better strategy for game design than policing cheating.

Balancing a game doesn't depending on specific challenges, just ensuring there are enough challenges.

Or as a non-avid gamer, am I missing something?
Its a consequence of being the only close country. Generally trade is easiest with countries that are nearby. NAFTA helped a lot too.
> How are things going on the miilitary side?

Do you have anything to share with the class?
I had a college job in the early 1980s, and my title was "Senior Coder". By that time the purpose of the particular title for my organization was to pay students less than they'd have to pay a "programmer", but if you looked at my job description, I was to turn flowcharts into coding sheets. During my annual review HR asked why I should be "Senior" and I said, "there's no programmer or analyst above me handing me flowcharts; if you want to do a reclassification review please proceed." They decided not to push it, and I decided to stick around for a little while longer because while it paid very little, it was pleasantly anarchic.
I used to think this way, but I no longer feel the signal to noise ratio provides meaningful data, in particular because people do rash or unreasoned things and develop odd habits (that they later grow out of) in their 20s. That part of your adult life is about learning, after all. (I also don’t believe there isn’t anything intrinsically wrong with tattoos.)

Moreover, having a tattoo isn’t necessarily a measure of low impulse control. I have friends who have ruminated for years about a certain tattoo. Plus, imputing bad decision making to having a tattoo is more a (cultural) projection on your part than anything else.
You are absolutely correct. However, when people talk about "corporate greed", they usually are talking about large corporations with shareholders, not a food cart with three employees.

I find the second point questionable. Firstly, the two options you give are mutually exclusive; either they don't have to pay staff as much, or they will see lower turnover. Lower wages made up for by tips will not decrease turnover if the owner passes that on to themselves via lower wage.

Secondly, and this is a regional thing, but where I live (Oregon) there is no exemption from minimum wage for tipped workers. Workers who make tips must still be paid at least the base minimum wage as everyone else. This puts a hard floor on how low wages can go regardless of tips.

I'll acknowledge that there can be some benefit to owners and shareholders from tips, but I do not think that the tip gouging that has become common benefits a shareholder more than it hurts them via consumer frustration.
Alright, no worries. Thanks for the reply
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I find them a good litmus test for narrow minded, presumptuous, low empathy people who invent narratives to suit their predetermined world view and run with it.

My tattoos have worked great so far, even online!
Static fields may be placed on Frozen Object Heap. The values of static readonly fields may not exist at all if the ILC's static constructor interpreter can pre-initialize it at compile-time and bake the value into binary or codegen. Tiered Compilation does a similar optimization but for all cases. This is with JIT though which is not usable in such environment.

Otherwise, statics are placed in a static values array "rooted" by a respective assembly. I believe each value will be contained by a respective box if it's not an object. This will be usually located in Gen2 GC heap. My memory is a bit hazy on this specific part.

There is no concept of globals in .NET the way you describe it - you simply access static properties and fields.

In practice, you will not be running .NET on microcontrollers with existing mainline runtime flavours - very different tradeoffs, much like no-std in Rust. As mentioned, there is NanoFramework. Another one is Meadow: https://www.wildernesslabs.co which my friend is using for an automated lab for his PhD thesis.

Last mention goes to https://github.com/bflattened/bflat which supports a few interesting targets like UEFI. From the same author there's an example of completely runtime-less C# as well: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp. It remains a usable language because C# has a large subset of C and features for manual memory management so writing code that completely bypasses allocations is very doable, unlike with other GC-based alternatives.
We solved unlimited agents/executions or you can run a local model, so you can use Open Agent Studio to do unlimited captchas
This made my day..
Thymer[1] uses CRDTs for everything. It's an IDE for tasks and planning. It's a multiplayer app, end-to-end encrypted and offline first, optionally self-hosted, and an entire workspace is a single graph. So CRDTs were the logical choice.

All operations in Thymer get reduced to a handful of CRDT transformations. It doesn't matter whether you are moving or copying text, changing "frontmatter" attributes, dragging cards, uploading files, or adding tags. It's all done with the same handful of CRDT operations. Although this was a lot of extra work up front (we're not using any libraries) the benefits make it totally worth it. When your application state is a single graph you can move text between pages, link between pages (with backlinks), have transclusions, and do all sorts of cool stuff without having to worry about synchronization. CRDTs guarantee that all clients converge to the same state. And because CRDTs are by their nature append-only you get point-in-time versioning for free! We did end up having to make a couple of compromises for performance, though. Version history is not available offline (too much data) and in some cases we resort to last-writer-wins conflict resolution. On balance I think CRDTs are very much worth it, especially if you design an app with CRDTs in mind from day one. I probably wouldn't use CRDTs if I had to retrofit multiplayer in a more conventional AJAX app. Mutations in CRDTs are first applied optimistically, and then when the authoritative sequence of events is determined all clients need to revert their state to the last shared state and then re-apply all events in the correct order (thereby guaranteeing that all clients end up in the same state). Sometimes your app might need to revert and re-apply days worth of changes if you've been offline for a while. This all happens behind the scenes and the user doesn't know how many tree transformations are happening in the background but I guess my point is that CRDTs affect the design of the entire application. Most apps that are popular today were designed back when CRDT transformations were not yet well understood.

[1] https://thymer.com (almost ready for beta)
A low-overhead bullet journal (i.e. zero time spent to make it look pretty) works best for me - preaching to the choir, man!
> I don't use a Slack Client but the Web one, and i don't use Spotify.

The comment you were replying to was talking in general terms so I thought you were as well.

> And to be clear a LinuxJail is actually NOT using the Linux Kernel but the GNU-Userland

Huh, that means even less stuff will run. I thought it was more than just an emulation layer.

> To be short, double lol

Not sure what this means. Long and short of it is though the original commenter was right IMO. The BSDs are generally the OS of hobbyists and sometimes contrarians, and it doesn't make sense these days when there are better options in most situations. If often makes as much sense as running Hurd or P9.
But such a cheat aid could also just be connected to your speaker jack.
I'm not interested in redistribution, I'm interested in public goods. I want public transit, public housing, public health, and public internet.

Why? Because it benefits me when other people have housing, can get around without cars, and aren't unnecessarily catching and spreading communicable diseases. These things aren't "worth" it on a purely financial basis, but they're absolutely worth it on a social basis.

How do you defeat the prisoner's dilemma? You make a binding, enforceable pact. How do you prevent the tragedy of the commons? You cap the amount people can graze their animals on public land, and remove privileges from those that violate the cap. How do you improve the quality of life of literally every person in the country? You make policy and infrastructure, and then you fund it and maintain it.
> You need to be very clear about what you mean by "lab leak theory"

Why? Are you implying that it was okay to censor discussion of some versions and not others?
They pre-date the literal magazine, but definitely Vanderbilt, John Astor, Jay Gould, Rockefeller if you count that standard oil was broken up into multiple ones, and Moses Taylor if you count that he did not found, but rescued and built up citibank from an early stage, not unlike tesla.
> I don't see how diversity of platforms/OS could be anything but a good thing.

I didn't say it wasn't a good thing, I said I don't think it giving €686k to FreeBSD is the best use of that money, even if diversity of systems is a goal. In that case, give it to ReactOS or something.
Indeed, there seems to be a serious correlation.
I see, thanks for clarifying. I guess my frustration with that viewpoint comes from a personal bias- I can't share any sympathy for reports of that nature after seeing many of my friends and my own hours "wasted" when budgeted free time that could have been lighthearted and relaxing turns into frustration, venting, anger etc. after getting repeatedly shut down by blatant cheaters (though one could say games are wasted time in and of themselves). That I paid for the game to play with friends and none of them are willing to play it anymore because of how ineffectual the developers were at dealing with the problem compounds that frustration.

I do agree that developers should put more effort into thinking about proper design and anticheat protections. But it's also a huge ask for smaller or more inexperienced studios when they have to waste time dealing with bad actors that could have been better spent on game development, and an excuse for antisocial cheaters to keep behaving poorly. People want to assume the best out of each other. In an ideal world, people who can't keep themselves from making their hobby that of making others miserable for pleasure would be the ones being punished instead of laying the blame on those naive enough to assume that everyone is good natured and cooperative.
Only some viruses work this way, HIV is an example. This is a good article on endogenous retroviruses [1], that is viruses that work by integrating themselves into host DNA (a retrovirus) and made it into germline cells (eggs and sperm, the endogenous part).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230519-the-viruses-that...
I'd worry that this type of public announcement by a US ambassador is part of propaganda to manufacture consent for the Canadian government to either block select US "news," and/or promote select Canadian "news" - where many people don't realize that this current government already does censor/block news from organizations that are above a certain size.
I don't think you have a grasp on how businesses work or how the markets work.
This line of thinking is so far away from reality that while I believe in your heart you think it's right, it's clearly an emotional action and not one based on factual data.

The market volatility, job volatility, international competitiveness, and impact on innovation and entrepreneurship, that this will cause will be absolutely chaotic.

Assuming it works out exactly as you believe, do you believe this will solve the US's financial issues and burdens? Everything i've read say they expect $300-$500 billion over ten years. Let's just go wild and say we get 1 Trillion a Year, currently the deficit for just 2023 is estimated at 1.5 trillion. Again wouldn't solve this issue, and that's assuming we spent 0 on any more social programs or other welfare programs.

Instead, why not focus on specific tax laws you feel are lax and more importantly hold your representatives accountable for the run-away spending? I assume based on your position you would be encourage to spend more on social programs than we currently do? It's noble.. where's the money coming from though? It's all a bit too communistic to me.

We have seen time and time again that laws passed end up impacting the middle class. Congrats, currency inflation continues to run rampant, your house value is through the roof now.... And because you don't have the capital we're going to seize it for non-payment of unrealized gains.

I have yet to see a well thought out logical response to the impacts this sort of emotional lawmaking will bring.

Can you counter the above genuinely? I truly want to understand.
This was a response to the comment about nuclear weapons proliferation being a cat out of the bag. It's not out of the bag yet. Iran has been "nearly there" for several years already, and that's only wrt the enriched uranium, not the actual weapons.

Another important example because they're at war, Ukraine. And in the vaguely possible event of an Asian Pacific war, Japan and Australia have no nukes, but that's more by choice.
Then they are wasting taxpayer dollars and should switch to Linux.