skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the whole, I think the burden of one would be enough. You have 2 to aim for. The burden of 2 would be that 3 might be unattainable. 3 would be a nightmare of failed expectations. I have read of 3 star chef giving one back rather than experience having it taken, but if the word was out that might be cover for reality of having it taken "in advance".

I don't actually enjoy Michelin starred places. It's too stressful to balance the price:value equation behind the experience (if I had fuck-you money I might feel different) -Just off Michelin are people who seem to enjoy what they are doing and I value that immensely. I've eaten in some, and they were very good at doing the whole package. It is probably just me and the mismatch of expectations and reality.

Going to Les Routiers as a child was a culinary experience I enjoyed. Ta-DAA food placement and foam generally doesn't get to the same level of childish WOW being exposed to new food tastes. A Backyard Meshoui with a whole roast goat, thats something every child should experience. Or even just really good dark chocolate in white bread, up a hill in the rain.

Michelin say cheap street food done well is worthy of note. I can agree with that, and afford it. The problem is the logical place out is Din Tai Fung: A mega chain which is crap in many places, and formulaic even when it works well (I have eaten at many, the original in Taipei, the newer Taipei 101, in Taichung, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne)
Mmmhmmmm.

https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Ares_Macrotechnology

I'll just leave this here.

If art continues to be predictive of future development, I'm putting money on 4 generations or so to either total dystopia or societal collapse.
Cauzin Softstrip
20% of your money and 20% of my money is not 40% of our money.
I don't understand the connection between these statistics and your claim that wealthy people don't use insecure messaging apps.
This hits home as we just came from Marconi beach on Cape Cod where one of the antennas was. There is no antenna left, just a plaque marking the spot. In a way it's a little sad how behind this area is at this point compared to the energy of the times.
Say more. What ux implications are you thinking of?
Very true but at least in theory those employees don't get arrested for not coming to work and can choose to work somewhere else.
Are people actually running drones via Telegram channels?

Not that I’d be surprised. Very postmodern! But it just seems like HTTP(S) with extra steps.
Generally, not at the Chief level. Similar in the Fire Service. Chief/Deputy Chief/Assistant Chiefs are generally not unionized, because they have labor responsibilities.
You change the subject in each comment and it’s not clear how any of this relates to Telegram.
innovation like selling drugs and ordering hitmen? Which US social media platforms can be used to quickly, effortlessly and openly sell drugs? I know of one that tried, owner is in US prison right now.
Yes, it’s true. For a hint of some of the utility and complexity, consider backfilling historical data; or, how you’d ensure consistent views (as of time X) of historic data (all charges before time X) when each row in the dataset is mutable.
Performance analysis and tuning challenge #6: wordcount
It improves educational, health etc outcomes significantly and unlike a lot of proposed interventions in education, it has solid scientific evidence backing it up. Specifically it significantly improves child health (e.g. fewer hospital visits), improves maths and English test scores, lowers the incidence of suspensions of students, and there's no evidence that free school lunch policies increase BMI in those with access to them. For the cost, it is a very effective intervention in improving educational outcomes.

https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(23)00301-5/ful...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/schoolwide-free-meal-prog...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pam.22175
Aren’t notifications enqueued on the server side, implying sender info is inscrutable? I’m curious what mechanism you’d propose to gather any valuable metadata given a sufficient volume of encrypted notifications.
Would you be consistent and insist all software engineers accept screen recording software to ensure they’re working honest eight-hour days?
This is irrelevant. The Russians can just switch to Signal, or run their own instance of Telegram trivially.
Something can be legal while not being socially acceptable, and we can still strictly police related harms. Like with drugs, we can legalize them while still making e.g. smelling up an area with marijuana carry a public nuisance fine, or make littering with needles a misdemeanor (or more severe if someone gets injured).

If someone's only crime is being disturbing, the government doesn't need to get involved, but we can still not want to be around them and especially keep kids away from them.
Almost every message I send after hours saves me double the time during the workday. Otherwise, I would just save it for the workday.
Every place is different and has different pressure points. The police in other places that have stronger political positions will have more leeway.
As if silicon valley has been a bastion of ethical business prior
As someone with a good understanding of the technologies involved I came away rather confused by the article. There are a few things that are obviously incorrect, and others that don't make much sense. Some of them could be perhaps be explained if the author is doing their work on an outdated version of macOS, but I'd expect that to have been mentioned explicitly in the introduction to the article.

Entitlements aren't stored in Info.plist. They're embedded in a binary's code signature.

It demonstrates code injection via Mach APIs starting with `task_for_pid` when `task_for_pid` is only usable by root or by a process signed with specific entitlements.

VeraCrypt does use the hardened runtime and so the `DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES` example cannot work with it.

It gives an example of using `emond` for persistence, but that was removed from macOS several releases ago.
> you’ll know what the pictures were used for.

Fapping on? And what's the problem with that, exactly?
It’s the difference between legislation for the benefit of people and legislation for the benefit of businesses. Both can be good or bad, it’s just a different mindset.
Note that the track record of government dictating what they'll pay for drugs is shortages. You drive prices as low as the drug companies can afford and the result is the drug companies don't make enough to pay for ensuring regular supplies even when things go wrong.

One plant has a problem and a whole bunch of patients don't get what they need. The government has caused chronic supply problems this way before and I do not trust them not to do so again.
…and Mastodon, and… basically all social media.

So it’s likely another reason but the authorities are using legal pretenses to arrest this guy.
Show HN: I'm Creating the Next Big Social Media Platform – Rated
Hey all, I've been working hard on my side project and will be trying to turn it into my main project now.

Rated is a social rating platform for media, places and products. By having everything in one place, its easier to add friends, follow and compare ratings.

There are cool data features like similarity scores between each users and predicted ratings for every item. The main aim is to help people discover the best content in a fun and social way.

I've made a website (not that pretty yet) and launched on the app stores, but there's a long way to go. Still haven't properly validated the idea and need to get some users.

I would love feedback on the idea, landing page and if you are interested in trying it out - feedback on the app itself.
russians do https://youchu.be/watch?v=mwtbTuLZXWw
So, again, I ask: what size does this sort of argument start applying at? 100 users? 1 million? 1 billion?
The Australian government R&DTI operates this way. Nearly every job I've had I've had to fill out specific timesheets and project descriptions to fit the gov's reqs to get the tax incentive.
I am pretty sure he does not, given all I know about him, his brother and the way Telegram is being developed.
As a child I collected photo encyclopedias of things like space, and they all universally said the major reason the N-1 failed was the multiplicity of engines and the complexity of controlling them, along with reliability. Likewise the OTRAG proposal (bundles of simple rockets) which was killed by politics, but remained essentially untested except for ground tests.

I now begin to suspect it was a join over the pre-history of computing, and post-hoc reasoning behind the F-1. What worked? 5 big ones. What else might work? We don't know. the ones who tried lots of smaller ones failed.

It does look like a highly reliable rocket cluster can work, if you have the smarts and can handle flame-outs.

The V1 and some follow on had vanes in the thrust plume to steer. Crude, but also possibly reliable? They've been rejected for thrust vectoring but that means flexible joins and actuators for big flamey things with lots of energy and weak joint risks. Those flappy paddles which come out of the SpaceX booster look like something in the same vein: Simple, mechanical methods to get some airflow alignment and manage things without having to make it .. complicated.
It seems I didn't say what you think I said.

And we're talking pharma inflating prices to increase dividend/buybacks/exec compensation rather than investing in R&D. Different ball of wax from biotech startups looking for investment
Yes, but 'Employers should be able to justify contacting professionals after hours based on common contract clauses that say a worker’s high salary includes reasonable overtime'.

See: https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/the-right-to-...
I don’t think you can, which is why I criticized this blogpost for failing to demonstrate a compelling answer, and instead relying on misleading arguments based on invalid pricing assumptions.

If you think it’s easier to calculate MRR with Lago than with data derived from Sigma or the reporting data exports, I suggest showing how it’s done in each case and explaining why Lago’s schema makes it easier.

Arguing that it’s harder on Stripe because if you’re DoorDash you would have to pay a lot of money for Sigma is not honest.
Those who need to dissociate with a number have anonymous sim cards in abundance. Costs around $2-5 a piece when ordered in bulk.

That said, such high-tech operation is just a geeks fantasy about spies. When you cross the line where it becomes reality, you’re either a very big name with a sudden drug/rape history or a subject for waterboarding which is the most effective cryptoanalysis tool invented.
They license the software to run the cloud , they don’t act run it . Basically a white labeled solution for DC software like OpenStack

This is not a new idea and is how Azure(or AWS) always operated in China. The Azure Fabric software is licensed to DCs owned and operated by 21vianet a Chinese company. Microsoft has no control over what happens there.

No amount of legal[1] US pressure can make Microsoft give access to those DCs as they don’t have it in the first place

This is why you cannot just provision hardware in China in AWS/Azure, you have to enter into separate contract with the Chinese operator first and comply with any government restrictions that the Chinese state may require

[1] illegal/unauthorized tapping is a different matter and preventing that is not the intent of sovereign clouds .
What if you don't know how many nodes you have? UUIDs can also be generated on the client side (in cases where you can trust the client).
Wearable MRI with some type of big model on it that can enable brain to brain communications.
Unfortunately if the answer is no, it does not mean law enforcement can’t
the EU may as well go back to the stone age, it seems to be what they want
CL-32 is a DIY pocket computer with a thumb keyboard, E-Ink screen and ESP32-S3
So we have nuclear weapons but we can't use them because then our enemies will use theirs and everyone loses.

But if cruise missiles (or drones, or anything else that put explosives on a target) become cheap enough to basically allow you to loiter thousands of weapons over any conflict area, overwhelm any defense, and annihilate all the enemy's material it becomes a similar game of mutual destruction.
The US and NZ are the only two countries in the world that allow direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medications - and New Zealand is trying to get rid of it (and only allowed it following pressure from the US for a trade agreement).
How Do You 3D Print Glass?
And once you have yourself bootstrapped, you can presumably turn around and compile the compiler again, now with borrow-checking and optimizations.

In the very special case of proto-rust bootstrapping, the cost of not having borrow-checking can be paid back basically right away.
Web3 is going just great! ;)

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
> We cannot really be confident that an LLM will produce correct output based on correct input.

There are 2 things at play here, one is LLM with human in the loop, in which it's just a tool for programmers to do the same thing they have been doing, and the other is LLM as black box automaton. For the former, it's not a problem that the tool is undeterministic, we are double checking the results and add our manual labour anyway. The fact that a tool can fail sometimes is an unsurprising fact of engineering.

I think the criticism in this chain of comment applies more to the latter, but even it always has values to non-tech people, just like how no-code approaches are, however shitty it looks to us software enfineers.
Ask HN: YC Fall Batch 2024
Has anyone else noticed that YC is promoting their Fall batch really aggressively? Their YouTube videos have some unusual intro ads that seem out of character for YC and YouTube. It feels like they're pushing this batch harder than usual. Did something change?
kim dotcom ran basically a pirated game/book/music/movie site. Telegram (what I have seen) is mostly hacking leaks although rumored to have CSAM (to those not familiar with the acronym, it means cheese pizza).

Of course you can find both somewhere in the walled planetary garden of googlotron in facebooks sure. But they clamp down on it hard as they can. They clamp down on anything marginally offensive much less illegal. Have you tried the facebook "report post" interface? there are 3,000 various types of offensiveness you may report. That's their bar, their standard, that's 1,000 miles away from definitely illegal content. If their censorship apparatik is so bold as to be wiping out vast swaths of totally valid free speech, anything illegal has no chance.

If the question is "what's a great place to go for piracy" - megaupload, pirate bay, etc, then any common answer to that question is a target... "where to I go for data breaches" - breachforums, telegram, etc. Don't get worked up, all those places were destroyed by the feds and no longer exist.
> To cater for emergencies and jobs with irregular hours, the rule still allows employers to contact their workers, who can only refuse to respond where it is reasonable to do so.

This clause pretty much invalidates the rest of the rule. Why should an employee need to justify their inability (or unwillingness) to respond? I can understand the "jobs with irregular hours", but otherwise shouldn't it be a best effort thing, without any obligation?
The comparison between police wearing body cameras and software engineers being monitored by screen recording is flawed. Police officers hold unique power and responsibility. They enforce laws, potentially use force, and make life-altering decisions. With such authority comes the need for transparency to maintain public trust.

Body cameras are essential for accountability, ensuring officers act lawfully and ethically in public interactions. This isn't just about ensuring an "honest eight-hour day". It's about protecting citizens' rights and upholding the integrity of the justice system.

In contrast, software engineers work in private environments where their actions don’t have the same direct impact on public safety or civil rights. They don’t have the same privileges as police, such as detaining individuals or using firearms in the line of duty, which require higher accountability standards.

Even when software engineers work on projects with life-impacting or public safety implications, they don’t operate in a vacuum. Best practices dictate that their work undergoes rigorous testing, peer reviews, and follows robust standards to ensure safety and effectiveness. Unlike police, who interact directly with the public and exercise immediate authority, engineers work in controlled environments without the same direct power over individuals.
There’s an XKCD about that…
If we're doing US criminal law, failing to report crimes is a red herring here, right? I'd assume the accusation would turn on accomplice liability, on Durov both knowing about the crime and, in that knowing state of mind, doing something concrete to help it (like concealing it from inquiring authorities).

Obviously this is French criminal law, which is, well, wow.

https://www.debevoise.com/-/media/files/pdf/20190521_10_thin...
Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors
Cool! I visited that same Buran decades ago in Sydney near the Pyrmont Bridge. It's sure been around the world :) its future was unclear for a while so I'm glad it found a stable home.
Considering the historical distinction between coder and programmer
The question I always ask is, why is there even an off button? It defeats the entire point of the camera as it’s meant to keep cops honest and not abusing the inherent power of their position.
Like you said I imagine it was less effort. Less effort can be very valuable if you’re still producing something useful. Perhaps you could use a simple transpilation approach yourself if you think that’s a good idea.
I'm a Canadian citizen with a Canadian passport. My US citizenship lapsed over half a century ago under a now repealed provision of the INA. CBP officers today may not be cognizant of historic provisions of the INA.
None of these comments here are reassuring. As if people’s concerns about developing weapon technology are economic concerns lol.

- Partner countries like Israel (however you feel about that) will eventually use whatever we make. America will not be sole user.

- America’s police is not afraid to use technology on its own citizens. Obviously they don’t have access to missile defense, but there are plenty examples of them getting military hardware.

I am not actually 100% never-make-weapons, but I have strong doubts anyone profit-motivated is strongly thinking about the second order effects.
There is a fair amount of startup activity in defense around software/tooling. There isn't a ton in hardware for same reason you don't see as many consumer startups doing hardware, it's very expensive and risky business.
Isn't that like 2/3rds the HN population?
If software engineers had the ability and the authorization to shoot people, you betcha.
The problem here is the idea that medicines have a particular price.

In reality you have a very big bill for developing it. A substantial bill for tooling up to actually be able to produce it. And typically a small bill for each unit you produce.

Now, I would like to see the developed world all pay the same price. But it wouldn't end up being the UHC-negotiated rates. I actually consider negotiation (or this dictate pretending to be negotiation) a bad thing. Instead:

You must sell to the US market at a rate no greater than you sell to any developed country. This is measured as net $ vs doses. No playing games with rebates, no playing games with giving them some for free. Reciprocity is encouraged, make the playing field level.

The US would benefit, the rest of the developed world would be screaming bloody murder.
I mean the FWC can straight up fine the company, and in general our commissions & ombudsmans are pretty decently run. It'll have an effect, I'm sure.
Elite athletes are generally smarter than us–cognitive sciences can explain why
The american tech industry in general and YC specifically used to be softly, subtly technofascist. The last 18 months it has been shifting more towards overtly so. This is another notch on that ratchet, rather than a totally new thing.
It depends on the box fan and your electricity prices. When I did the math for me, the break even point for buying a $150 purifier was on the order of months. But I'm in California where electricity is relatively expensive
20 years ago, Google had a custom search engine capability where you could give it a list of sites to search from. Is that functionality still around?
ukrainians uses telegram just as much. It's a popular app in eastern europe and asia.
An analogy could be a light dimmer switch compared to an on/off light switch (nuclear is on/off, while the dimmer can be strategically adjusted without complete mutual destruction)
Schneier mentioned this late in 2023:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/spying-throug...

> Wyden’s letter cited a “tip” as the source of the information about the surveillance. His staff did not elaborate on the tip, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.
The people we drop bombs on are citizens of somewhere too.
And what constitutes an emergency. If nobody's wellbeing is at risk then imo it's not an emergency, but I doubt that how a company will interpret it.
FWIW, it's not just you; that doesn't make it OK, but at least you're not alone.

The tech industry has a lot of unaccountable poor behavior, in interviews, and in general.

I don't know how we can solve it. For one reason, the bread&butter of some of our most desirable employers is underhanded exploitation, so we can't expect the environment to be a paragon of decency. For another reason, a lot of the other employers are money-losing investment scams, and a lot of what they do, at various levels, is theatre, not having to optimize collaboration towards successful business.

To the extent that companies care about poor behavior, AFAICT, at established companies, it's usually about "compliance" appearances, suppressing legal liabiltiies, and sometimes about morale.

That a person can walk into an interview and sense insta-disapproval from the interviewer, before it's even started (or poor behavior during) usually isn't a high priority, since there will be more candidates. It's not even a morale problem, since the person isn't hired.

(For example, to hear one former Google hiring expert's talk, that company even knows they have problems like this. Yet the snooty frat rituals, with pretense of relevance and objectivity, and unchecked poor individual behavior and biases you'd expect to accompany that, remain. And that's a relatively nice company.)

Thankfully, there's a lot of people who recognize the BS. But even they have constant learning and improvement to do. And it's harder when there's so much bad examples around and thriving. And there's constant new graduates, who are still assuming they're supposed to aspire to and emulate the hotbeds of bad behavior.

All I can think of here is "act locally", try to avoid the jerks, and try to do better in our small circles of influence.

Other ideas, other than fleeing whatever field is attracting the big money weasels that decade?
Thank you for your clarification and explanation! Best regards.
This only makes sense if emergencies are strictly defined. For instance "don't come to the office there's a bear inside" is an emergency. "the crud app you support fell over" is not an emergency. If the latter is an emergency to the company they should staff for 24/7 support, not rely on exploiting people during their off hours to provide free support.