skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU marketplace disclosures on protocol seem to be pretty close to what I remember of the non-public protocols.

Chat is basically binary encoded XMPP, with essentially a compression dictionary, so per iq overhead is minimal. Especially for the start of connection stuff (login, offline message delivery), we counted bytes and made accomidations for typical network issues we would see. Not acking a big chunk of offline messages after a few tries? Let's send one at a time and see if that works, etc.

Our socket timeouts were rather long as well. Before the move into Facebook infra, servers were in the US only, and rural India is a long ways from the US; and last mile contention on 2G gets real rough out there too... I want to say timeouts were on the order of 30 seconds?

Multimedia (attachments) was https, with resumption. I don't remember the full history, originally I don't think we had resumption on uploads, there's some coordination required for that, which IIRC started as more or less send an IQ that you want to upload a file with a hash of the file, and get a response of either what the download url is if the file was complete, or where to upload and what byte to start with if not. I think it's likely different now, but probably still https based. I wanted to move it so multimedia would be either multiplexed on the chat channel or using a similar protocol to the chat channel, but I didn't have the pull, and I got redirected into pushing TLS 1.3 into our Android client's mms upload/download instead; I didn't do the code there, just prototyping to show it could be possible, and then was more of a facilitator than a contributor. I'm not sure I got all the benefits I was looking for, but there were some, and it kept me busy while I was wrapping up our pre-FB hosting and my time at WA.
That's not equivalent.

You are describing likelihoods in time series, we are discussing the likelihoods of exceptional defects, period. Which is actually low.
There’s almost no correlation between cholesterol ingested as food and your own blood serum cholesterol. It’s almost as if we have a digestive system to break down nutrients into their constituents rather than release them unmodified into the bloodstream.
You can even tell who you speak with by recognizing the caller's voice, without seeing him.

You can recognize a writer by his style.

What GP is trying to say it's ok for people to use pattern matching but it's immoral if they use machines to do pattern matching.
Having someone in arms reach to help out that knows the inner workings of Git so much must be a lovely perk of working on such projects at companies of this scale.
> For many reasons, that's just too big, we have folks in Europe that can't even clone the repo due to it's size.

I read that as an anecdote, a more complete sentence would be "We had a story where someone from Europe couldn't clone the whole repo on his laptop for him to use on a journey across Europe because his disk is full at the time. He has since cleared up the disk and able to clone the repo".

I don't think it points to a larger issue with Europe not being able to handle 180GB files...I surely hope so.
Python vs. TypeScript in framework-less complex LLM orchestration
The sex in the tv and movies this article is about isn’t real sex. And yet!
>> involves a feasible plan to actually get there.

Most plans never realize exactly--they have budget and time overruns--, and that happens in both infrastructure and software development. So, they are not feasible to start with. On that principle, you can shoot down any and all plans, and never should anybody do anything.
And house flies would need to be recognized as persons next.
First they should try getting their LLM to be on par with open source models
Intelligent and social beings are being killed all the time by other beings. But none of them have the outsized edge of intelligence and tooling we have. We are too big to be doing the killing.
It's issues cloning super huge repo over crappy protocols across ocean especially when VPNs get included in the problem
Stunning fossil trapped in amber reveals previously unknown species
I touched it once with a stick, when a friend asked me to fix an issue on her personal website. I feel very dirty now.
Facebook, Apple and Google use people faces to track them. Governments use public cameras to track people. Google and Facebook also use other kind of tracking people.

But somehow it's immoral for average Joe to track not people but browsers.
Those things are too easy to open with a bump key. For the last 15 years I've insisted on proper secure locks and keys. The most I've ever had to pay to retrofit one is €90, and I got 5 keys with that lock. In my current house, front and back doors were replaced. My neighbour replaced his too when I demonstrated a bump key to him.

Having a symmetrical key isn't something that I even care about but I suppose it's a bonus.
> The essay you linked to reads an awful lot more like a joke than the article in the OP.

Why?
State sovereignty is how and why certain States legalized marijuana while others don't, why certain States impose a given tax the way they do and others don't, why States each have a National Guard that is legally independent of the Federal military and thus from the authority of the President, and a host of other matters that are determined or reserved by a State and its electorate.

The United States of America is a very vast country literally spanning an entire continent, State sovereignty is more important now than ever before because the needs and desires of the peoples within them can and will vary wildly from each other; they varied wildly with just 13 States across the eastern seaboard, let alone 50 States spanning a continent and islands in the Pacific.

The Federal government exists to better enable functions of government where the States have a unanimous consensus, and to that end the Federal government including the Presidency exists strictly at the pleasure of the States. For all other matters where States can and will disagree, the States reserve the power to decide by themselves for themselves.
But tracking a browser does not rely solely on the canvas.
Replicating what TikTok does would involve doing things that most users of Mastodon don't want: algorithmic ranking of their content. Even implementing simple search has been controversial.

With TikTok pretty much the whole point of the platform is algorithmic ranking to provide users an endless stream of content. I'm not using it but I get why it works. I see people using it in public transport all the time watching short clips of whatever. It has an addictive quality, apparently. And that's intentional.

A platform that doesn't do the ranking and doesn't have the content producers targeting it because there is no ad money, is fundamentally going to be very different. Boring probably.

I assume loops is planning to not do that. But then that raises the question what they are looking to get out of the fediverse connection.
Untrue. You don’t see these kinds of problems in Singapore, Tokyo, or even Bangkok, where drug enforcement is pretty strict. Likewise, if you don’t want people to poop on the sidewalk, make that a law and then strictly enforce it. It does work, it’s just that Americans are not very committed to the enforcement aspect, even in tough on crime red states (at least compared to Asia).
I'm in Ireland, and most people have those keys too. But those things are too easy to open with a bump key. For the last 15 years I've insisted on proper secure locks and keys. The most I've ever had to pay to retrofit one is €90 (bought it in town and fitted it myself). I got 5 keys with that lock. My neighbour replaced his too, after I demonstrated a bump key to him.

Having a symmetrical key isn't something that I even cared about but I suppose it's a bonus.
It is if you're the only one doing it.

To hide a signal in noise, there must be noise.
Another way to get a spacecraft to 550AU would be to use solar sails and ground based lasers.

You have a small spacecraft (USB memory stick sized). Do a sub-orbital launch to get it out of the atmosphere. Then deploy the solar sails and fire ground based lasers at the craft to accelerate it. IIRC the theoretical maximum acceleration gets a you to 550AU in a few months.

https://www.space.com/laser-propelled-spaceships-solar-syste...
I agree that keeping pets is probably immoral. But even if we accept that, there are multiple problems.

- There may not be much of a "wild" left to release animals into.

- Some animals have been bred for hundreds of generations and are now dependent on humans.

- Who has the right to speak for these animals? How do they divine what their client wants? It's not reasonable that any person on the street can bring a motion of habeas corpus on behalf of your dog.
I have pretty much quit Reddit. It didn’t completely change my life, but it was a good thing.

Not getting involved in internet drama is great. I have completely lost the appetite for it. I haven’t heard about American politics for a while. I read and sketch more. My phone is easier to put down and less tempting to pick up; it gets boring quickly. I noticed that I’ll often be the last one to look at my phone when I am around others.

I spend a lot more time in the real world, touching grass. I’d say that this is the cause of my departure, not the effect. Online interactions are not nearly as satisfying.

Being out of it and staying out of it means that you don’t know about the local internet drama, and that you don’t get any notifications from that site. With each visit, the website gets less interesting because nothing interesting is waiting for you there.
Open Source on its own is no alternative to Big Tech
TOR hides your IP address. It doesn't protect you from fingerprinting.
Can't wait for the legislation so I can finally be released from servitude to my cat. /s
Cover Your Tracks shows this kind of obfuscation strategy as "Randomized Fingerprint", but it only shows it for Brave, not for Librewolf when I tested it. Brave fingerprint is unique but it randomizes, while Firefox doesn't.
I would like to second this take, as someone who found it very useful while writing up my masters (in logic). When you're working with objects that satisfy lots of universal laws (particularly algebras, logics, stuff like that) CT can be used to remove tons of "boilerplate" in your proofs for things that are basically trivial/routine but a pain to state and prove formally. As an example, imagine a construction where you extend the underlying language of some logic (like adding additional constant symbols in, for instance). Strictly speaking, to "transfer" results into this new logic you need to do a bunch of tedious proof to show that everything goes through the way you would expect. Category theory can make expressing and working with this class of thing (and many others) very expedient.

It's a bit like working in a framework that has great primitives for the stuff you do a lot. Like think dependency injection for constructing instances. Saves you tons of coding time in the long run.

Of course, this point of view is probably hard to appreciate from outside the priesthood =P.
Size of keys is also important when you've got a growing number of keys. To me it's more important than ordering based on key function. Because most keyrings are circular, they sit better if your put larger keys together in the center with smaller keys on each side.
The only reliable route I’ve found is to use SSH clone. HTTPS is lousy and as you mention, is not resumable. Works fine in Antarctica even over our slower satellite. Doesn’t help if you actually drop, but you can clone to a remote and then rsync everything over time.
I saw an estimation somewhere that Lily Allen’s label gets a daily payout of $4000, which is probably much more than what she makes from 1000 OnlyFans subscribers. The issue is indeed that the amount that she gets is probably much lower than that. That begs the question: is it Spotify that is the problem, or the record industry.
You can, except Debian but that’s Debian for you.

sudo apt/dnf install dotnet-sdk-8.0

For Debian use this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-...

It is a better user experience than dealing with C/C++ or Java tooling too.

For shipping packages you don’t even need this since you can just publish them as self-contained or as native binaries.
I don't know about SQLite, but I started out pronouncing "ess-cue-ell" until I figured out that "SEE-quell" is a much smoother interpretation of "SQL". So, personally I would say "SEE-quell-light", despite my family's preponderance of geologists.

Now, let's do "PostgreSQL"!
Did anybody else shudder at "Shrunked"?
Not quite. Hyphenation is rather unreliable in my experience.
> Moreover, as the Morningstar report shows in detail, making retirement accounts more widely available and automatically enrolling workers can help close gaps in retirement security.

This is what Australia has been doing for a number of decades now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia
I wish they had provided an actual explanation of what exactly was happening and skipped all the “color” in the story. By filename do they mean path? Or is it that git will just pick any file with a matching name to generate a diff? Is there any pattern to the choice of other file to use?
> high food prices

not really my problem the general population is unable to comprehend second and third order effects of a global pandemic and the subsequent money printing that followed

> high fuel costs

gas is 2.39 around me. major metro area with population > 8 million

> record crime levels

where? last i checked crime levels are back to or below 2019

>illegal aliens

yeah? they’re the same ones serving me at the convenience stores, the restaurants, and the ones performing the vast majority of the labor that produces our food. america runs on the labor of illegal aliens, like it or not

>tax

my taxes are fairly low
I agree, it’s also irresponsible to name something that reminds many people of alcohol. I think they were trying to invoke the idea of the moonlight as reflecting the sun’s light, just as their software reflects the speech of the user.

I think “Artemis” or “Luna” would work better.
You might have been recycling what I did at Google 8 years ago.

(Friendly reminder not to trust everything you read on the internet)
sorry the formatting is messed up
Do your work feels like you have infinite resources which you need to extract, connect and spend on building a fully automated planet-size megafactory all by yourself while fighting local roaches and acid-spitting bugs? What kind of work it is?

Ironically the game goal is to leave that place :D
Serve sketchy uncorrelated users a
subtle challenge that is unknowingly asymmetrically unique.

Maybe like a captcha.
Rights don't exist. They're an idea made up by man. You have a right to what you can defend. In the long run, legalism will align itself with that iron law of nature.

I would protect the elephants because I like them. No use bringing rights into it.
Hammas literally kills any Palestinian who is outspoken against it's regime, that's the main reason why there aren't any opposition in Gaza.
A more poignant question is what rights activists ought to have and whether a non-trivial amount of resources ought to be spent addressing their concerns.

Should policies of countries be decided by a small number of single minded zealots whilst make pretending there's some sort of 'democracy' taking place?

Anyhoo :)
An app can be like a home cooked meal

https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
I realized that the AirTag charging is like once every 10-12 months, and they tend to warn in batches within days. So, no biggy to just twist-turn-twist back in once a while. I don’t think this is something to be optimized for. Just replace the batteries once a year. Even with the warning — you have about couple of weeks.
LAWYER: Let me address... the elephant in the room.

EVERYONE IN THE GALLERY TURNS QUICKLY TO FACE THE BACK OF THE COURT. THERE STANDS AN ELEPHANT WEARING A TRENCHCOAT AND CARRYING A BRIEFCASE, READY TO GIVE HIS DEPOSITION.
How is it irresponsible?
Elephants are not merely individual organisms, but they are social animals who group in herds. Likewise, ants, termites, and bees are eusocial insects, who may sometimes be considered individuals, but indeed, their hives and mounds comprise singular organisms which are greater than the sum of their parts.

Therefore, who deserves personhood and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship? An individual termite, or its mound and colony as a whole? How mature and ancient is any given termite mound in the Australian outback? Do presidents and kings owe tribute to Termite Pharaohs?
We were all impressed with google docs, but office.com is way more impressive.

Collaborative editing between a web app, two mobile anpps and a desktop app with 30 years of backwards compatibility and it pretty much just works. No wonder that took a lot of JavaScript!
Maybe they should up the quality of the various AI features already pushed onto users first? From Google Workspace to the Messages Android app, their AI offerings are half-baked, often useless. My favorite right now is the spellchecking in Google Docs that doesn't detect your language so it autocorrects words that are right over and over again. Doesn't suggest or ask just autocorrects words randomly.
Or they might oppose:

[Elephant Lawyer]:
Dear Republican Party,

On behalf of our clients, the global elephant community, we formally request that you cease and desist from using their likeness as a party symbol. The unauthorized use of their image fails to represent their values, interests, and, most notably, their stance on environmental preservation.

Our clients object to being associated with policies that conflict with their dedication to ecological stewardship and community welfare. Therefore, we urge immediate cessation of any elephant imagery in relation to your party. Further unapproved usage may result in legal action.

Sincerely,
Counsel for Proboscidea
It's nowhere discussed in the article, so the other elephant in the room:

Our whole society is based on animals not having rights.

Some people see a gradation where we could have criteria to determine how many rights could each kind of animal have, and argue about small details. But of course the other point of view will be that any fissuring of the concept of animals as "things" will break the dam and there will be no going back.

For anyone seeing simple and clear lines that could be drawn, try to classify the elephants in the article, the differnt kind monkeys, pigs, cows, dogs , racoons and ant colonies. You see the wall that rises the minute elephants get special rights while cows keep feeding us, for instance.
Grail Demo from Computer History Museum (1968)
I'm very pessimistic this is ever going to work. Even if they get above the threshold with everyone still on board, I'm certain this is going to be challenged in court and overturned. Not that there's anything unconstitutional about it, but the popular vote (generally speaking) benefits the Democrats, so there's no way the current Supreme Court is going to allow it. Which is a very depressing view of the Supreme Court, but that's the world we live in.
Physical access to the computer meant you could boot it into the OpenFirmware interface, which not just had an interactive interface but allowed for entering code (I seem to recall finding someone's Towers Of Hanoi solver written for OpenFirmware and typing that into my own machine once), so a malicious actor could use it to tamper with the boot process.
Well good for you. On my side of europe, I pay €50/- for a cheap 50Mbps(1 month cancellation notice period). I could get a slightly cheaper 100Mbps from a predator for €20/- for first 6 month but then it goes up to €50/- and they pull bs about not being able to cancel if you even move because your new location is also in their coverage area(over garbage copper) and suffers at least 20 outages per month while there are other providers with much cheaper rates and better service.

Some EU is still suffering from Telekom copper barons.
Pelicans on a Bicycle [SVG LLMs benchmark]
Rights are obligations we constrain ourselves with for the sake of others.

They absolutely do exist, but it's really unfortunate that we don't talk about them more accurately.
When a court is essentially dictating law, you know we are in trouble. When a law tries to do philosophy, it's even worse.

You can't do this stuff unless you have a working definition of personhood. Good luck with that. The moment that animals have rights you run into a huge series of ethical problems. Should dogs have rights? Should rats? Should insects? Should tardigrades? Should plants? Bacteria?

Most of these philosophical questions have no univocal answers and are usually the layperson can't go beyond "this cute animal has rights because I like it and this other animal doesn't because it's ugly", which frankly is appalling.
> I think the point that the person you're trying to make is that too many people with an ADHD diagnosis think that being public with that diagnosis gives them a free pass to not over come the difficulties they face.

Yea, and my point was: imagine telling a quadriplegic they should just try harder to walk, or alternatively that they should try to keep it secret. It’s a stupid idea.

You’re clearly uninformed about this topic, and should research it better.
I believe it is backwards: Human society is predicated on humans being special.

Any truly objective observer will say humans are no different from other animals on Earth.

And of course, an elephant will likely say they're special while everything else isn't.
I was also bugged by that. I imagine that the meta variables foo and bar are at fault here, and that probably the actual package names had a common suffix like firstPkg and secondPkg. A common suffix of length three is enough in this case to get 16 chars in common as "/CHANGELOG.md" is already 13 chars long.
Why pets but not the animals we eat?
This isn't the thread for the undemocratic Federalist capture of the US Court system.
It's long been known that certain animals are far more charismatic than others. Dogs and cats should never suffer, while thing like rats, mosquitos and wild boars are to be terminated on sight. Things such as hippos, squirrels and food sources are somewhere in between.
An opinion at odds with actual definitions. Especially when it comes to “pure” OOP which has a pretty specific definition.
the permaculture of: patches in emails; binaries on usenet; releases / of sources on maybe less savoury personal web sites

otoh lack of basically centralized source control / git / hub / lab etc would also be missed dearly

depending on context: corporate polish can be fine; especially if software "is infra"; let truly (?) fun inconsequential software be messy and / or fun if sparks joy

apropos permaculture: i enjoyed TIS-100 but never got interested by factorio (maybe its art?) but anyways i'd personally find it more interesting to see more declarative / triggered simulation / play out in ever interesting ways

so maybe biologic systems over industry in space?

maybe there exist such games already? they do in my mind at least; i should look into current simulation frameworks maybe and read up on ecology
> or typical migrant

In other words he's white so its ok.
Should we not allocate rights based on varying levels of consciousness and sentience as emergent phenomena?
You think public education is bad, but instead of trying to fix it, the solution is to disenfranchise poor people and childless people. And who cares if political parties try to block reforms, that's just normal.

That isn't freedom.
You don’t compare disabilities, none are worse or lesser than others, it’s simply a disability. Anyone, even those with disabilities, who try and argue one type is worse off than another type are simply being ableist by trying to minimize or marginalize that person’s struggles.