skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most plausible theory I have heard yet. [1] disclaimer: prepper channel, some here may perceive it as nutty. Nuke sensors would explain why the guard is not touching them.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaEPvrq5VFM [video][21 mins]
Yeah? Like poor little mom and pop shops like Walmart?
> Gimp and Libreoffice both seem to go out of their way to do everything their own way and ignore what has been demonstrated to work well and has essentially been established as a standard, this is one of the major issues with OSS for me along with trying to offer more than is reasonable and put in time on niche features (MORE MORE MORE) instead of working out the issues with what is already implemented.

I haven't tried GIMP or LibreOffice for years now, but I speculate this is one outcome of ego-driven development instead of market-driven development, and possibly also because UX people aren't contributing as much to open source as developers are.
A you request footage of yourself at a specified place and time?

Having a semi automated way of doing that would be far more irritating for them.
Sorry, but they just called it "neuron" to sound nicer.
Their graph with thrust/impulse for various rocket technologies [1] has a huge omission: project Orion [2], a rocket propelled by nuclear bombs. Too bad, this is by far the most promising and technology-ready rocket propulsion idea we have for deep space travel. Antimatter propulsion is pie in the sky, nuclear bomb propulsion is something we can do within a decade if we wanted to.

[1] https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S26662027240045...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
> The age and other details (racial characteristics, ethnicity, economic status, lifestyle) are impossible to ascertain regarding the swan.

Emphasis added.
Couldn't they argue that they use a description of what is on the photos and not the photos?
Besides being glib, insulting, and wildly overstated, "$X is a psychopath" is an internet cliché. If you've read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, I shouldn't have to explain to you why we don't want that on HN.
> ml has proven that artificial networks can think

nope, at this point it's an ad-free version of google that summarizes results without linking to source websites.
This is assuming that you have to be conscious during the trip. Antimatter storage is a lot more scifi than human hibernation.
Schedule 38th Chaos Communication Congress
> and the output is the likelihood that you'll click on an ad or buy a product on a specific surface.

Surveillance capitalism isn't really about ads. Increasingly that data is being used to impact your life offline. It influences how much companies charge you for their products and services. It determines what version of their policies companies will inform you of and hold you to. It determines very big things like whether or not you get a job offer or a rental agreement, but it's also being used to determine even small things like how long a company keeps you on hold when you call them. It's being used to make people suspects for crimes. It's being used against people in criminal trials and custody battles. It informs decisions on whether or not your health insurer covers your medical treatments. Activists and extremists use it to target and harass people they perceive as being their enemies.

The data you hand over to companies is being used to build dossiers stuffed with inaccuracies and assumptions that will be used against you in countless ways yet you aren't even allowed to know who has it, what they're using it for, when they use it, or who they share it with.

Nobody really cares about what ads they get shown when they use the internet so companies like to pretend that that's what their data collection is all about, and they absolutely do use it for marketing, but the truth is that digital marketing is a smokescreen for everything else that your data is being used for and will later be used for.
Being $bad because of $ideology is no excuse for being $bad. That causal vector can be amazingly helpful for forgiveness at a later point in time, but forgiveness cannot start before being $bad stops. Preemptive forgiveness is a terrible idea.
>making function pointers into integers as that makes passing them between heterogenous architectures

This is interesting, though function pointers are long expected to be address on binary, C-brained people like me would probably adapt to the concept of "pointer to a heterogeneous lambda object" or "shared id across heterogeneous runtimes" easier.
Why is it better if every command you use starts with `uv`? Why is it "bullcrap" the other way?
plausibly deniable extra steps
> The description of WhatsApp here is exactly what Elon wanted X to become

I don't know what an "everything app" is, but that's not my experience with WhatsApp in Europe. It's just how you text or call everyone or businesses, but there's no payments or anything else going on beyond perhaps the occasional business chatbot. But even then, most 'businesses' I interact with over WhatsApp is just some person with a phone.
All those are "pesticides" that plants produce to try to poison predators. Other examples are cocaine and nicotine.
> Wonderfully you don't need to trust my words, you've got my code :)

My friend it's so incredibly bold of you to claim credit for this work when

1. Joe presented it

2. Joe's name is the only name on the git blame

3. I know Joe and I know he did the lion's share of the work

And so I'll repeat: Joe himself calls it rpc so I'm gonna keep calling it rpc and not syscall.
These are called blue bottles in Australia, and we get them fairly regularly where I live (Bondi) but also up and down the east coast. I'm sure they are on the west coast as well.

I had thought they were 3 distinct parts, not 5. It is a fascinating bit of symbiosis.
WhatsApp is basically a conduit or utility at this point. It's a more usable layer on top of raw TCP/IP. Its completely unlike any of the social media services, even telegram.

I agree, there is nothing cultural about it. I think its because there are no "discovery" features. You cant search for groups or people or whatever. You need to know someone well enough that they have your mobile number, in order to invite you to social groups etc.
I've added myself because why not? I think this is a cool project. Sure people are shy and I understand that, I'm shy too. Or I just don't know why contact someone just because he is on hackernews. But I've been on hackernews for more than a decade and I always used throwaway accounts and I realized that it is a waste to be too anonymous at a certain point.

Even when there were just forums, it was useful to have an identity on a forum, I remember meeting people with similar interests in the early 00s thanks to them, it's worth to try again.

EDIT: also can you consider add the personal websites as links? Socials are added but I think it's cool if we get to easily travel to users personal websites. Yeah there may be some abuse, but maybe it's worth the risk? Please consider this too
> FB Messenger and iMessage are not as popular as we think outside of certain high GDP countries.

Always funny when someone puts an AirTag in their luggage and wonders why they get few updates in a developing country.

Uhhhh, yeah, their average baggage handler and airport employee doesn’t have an iPhone, that’s why.
And why should I believe that? There's no reason for them not to lie and go and do whatever they want.
That phrasing raises my weasel-word hackles… first of all, it’s unclear what it would mean to “use your photos and videos for advertising.” That sounds to me like reprinting your photos to advertise something—which nobody accused them of doing.

Perhaps more importantly, it only mentions the photos and videos themselves in relation to the advertising. Analyzing the photos (as per the demo in TFA) isn’t “advertising,” and neither is building a user profile.

Then later on, when they use that user profile to allow others to advertise to the user—that’s not “using your photos or videos for advertising” either. Nor is it “selling your personal information to anyone,” since what they’re selling is access to you instead of selling specific personal dossiers.

From where I’m sitting, that still seems to leave the door open to Google itself using what it gleans from your photos to build out your profile, use those insights across their whole company, and target ads at you. It also seems to leave the door open to selling “depersonalized” analyses to third parties, not to mention giving free access to whoever it might see fit (research groups, state actors,…), no?

There’s also a big difference between “doesn’t” and “will never.” Once an analysis with value exists, it seems counter to the forces of nature and commerce for it not to find its way out eventually. Just as the consumer DNA-sequencing firms pinky-swore everything was private, then gradually started spreading people’s genomes farther and wider.
I don't follow - surely if the manufacturers have to pay for every port, they'd like something that isn't costing them money?
I unkilled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413279 manually.
I would be very careful about making such statements.

It is absolutely true that WhatsApp collects your contacts' phone numbers and your social graph. Unless WhatsApp has stopped doing that, in which case it should make a big announcement.

I don't know if the social graph is used outside WhatsApp, so that part may not be true, but it is within the privacy policy to do so (at least the one I see, EU may have a different one), the privacy policy says WhatsApp may share information with Meta to among other things:

> improving their services and your experiences using them, such as making suggestions for you (for example, of friends or group connections, or of interesting content), personalizing features and content, helping you complete purchases and transactions, and showing relevant offers and ads across the Meta Company Products;

And there have been waves of policy updates, notifications etc specifically to get these terms. That doesn't mean Find my Friends gets this information, but I thought there was at least discussion of it.
Not necessarily time period appropriate, but Native Americans would preserve meat as pemmican.
> The F-16 is the fighter jet that has been used for several decades by nearby Nordic neighbors Norway and Finland.

Just to be clear, Finland has never operated F-16. Royal Norwegian Air Force retired their F-16 fleet few years ago, replacing it with F-35.
What actually would be the hiccup there? Can't you just edit pyproject.toml and add the pinned transitive dependencies to [project.dependencies], and let a build backend take it from there? That's the extent of the pinning that the wheel format supports, anyway, as far as I understand.
When does the McMammoth burger come back?
They aren't paying you to integrate a bunch of third-party dependencies either, especially not when you could be using the time to generate actual business value.

The specific examples you listed are usually fine for generic SAAS companies (I'd usually object to a "full" web framework), but advice of the flavor "most code should be your own" is advocating for a transitive dependency list you can actually understand.

Anecdotally, by far the worst bugs I've ever had to triage were all in 3rd-party frameworks or in the mess created by adapting the code the business cares about into the shape a library demands (impedence mismatches). They're also the nastiest to fix since you don't own the code and are faced with a slow update schedule, forking, writing it yourself _anyway_ (and now probably in the impedence-mismatched API you used to talk to the last version instead of what your application actually wants), or adding an extra layer of hacks to insulate yourself from the problem.

That, combined with just how easy it is to write most software a business needs, pushes me to avoid most dependencies. It's really freeing to own enough of the code that when somebody asks for a new feature you can immediately put the right code in the right spot and generate business value instead of fighting with this or that framework.
Your right to flag comments hasn't been taken away from you. (In fact, you flagged a comment 2 hours after you posted this one.)

But even if it had, that doesn't make it ok to break the site guidelines.
More than a bad day. We should assume that those marks left permanent scars.

I had spotted visible marks on a leg, five years after a mild encounter.
If you are going to characterise hundreds of years of behaviour in Russia as excessively violent, wouldn’t that indicate a problem with its values?
There's lots of standards covered by patents. Gif included https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF
but how about an entire city? http://pac.tom7.org/
If the host has an antique glibc, surely it has an antique llvm libc? Does llvm just have a more stable ABI or something?
"It didn't happen but we fixed it" so no one needs to be help accountable.

It's not like they want to send the kids who did it to prison. Russian society operates as an efficient unaccountability machine.
> The natural mission of regulating food _and_ drugs is no longer sensible in our current social and political environment.

Speaks volumes about the state of the USA given that y'all's regulations on food are so lax that the topic already tanked an agreement with the EU (TTIP) as well as a bilateral agreement with the UK (the one the Brexiteers proclaimed would be possible once Brexit came, but still isn't there).

The most obvious differences are washing eggs, washing chicken carcasses with chlorine and prophylactic (or worse, growth-stimulating) usage of antibiotics. All of that is banned here, but allowed in the US - mostly to mask the horrible sanitary and working conditions in farms and slaughterhouses. I'm not going to act like European slaughterhouses are paradises because they are everything but that, but nowhere near the levels of horror from the US.

When even regulation to prevent the worst of the worst isn't feasible any more, frankly I'd say your system has failed entirely.
I think it's fine for readers to work a little*, and fine to expect this audience to know that there are two Georgias.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Making the protocol a standard doesn't mean they have to accept every client. They already restrict that.
School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
With beeing nice I mean I can listen to a controversial topic and not take side or engage with it at all. Unless I feel like it, because it is the right space and time.

So I can and did enjoy time with people, who would otherwise want to murder me online in a political discussion ... but then in the right mood, it is possible to communicate also with those people about controversial topics without having a fight. In fact, face to face discussions are usually way more calm as it is easier to insult a anonymous stranger than a living being in front of you (but when those escalate, the consequences can be worse of course).
Yup the problem with antimatter propulsion is it’s still subject to the tyranny of the rocket equation. The only way to escape that is to leverage energy external to the vehicle, like laser pushed light sales or relativistic railguns. You just can’t be carrying your own fuel around for an interstellar trip.
That may be Triton by Samuel Delany. As I recall, people would go to see a collection of footage of themselves to better understand their personality.
Did DisplayPort support bonding signals like that? Or would it just show up as 2 separate monitors to the GPU?
INAL, but guessing they're technically contract law.
I see many people in this thread thinking that WhatsApp took off because of SMS costs, and while that may be true in some countries, at least here in Finland I think the biggest factor were group chats. By 2013-2014 basically every high school and college class had their own whatsapp group chat since it made sharing of videos/photos and keeping in touch with everyone so much easier. By 2017 i'd say the vast majority of smartphone users under 60 years old were using whatsapp and nowadays even my almost 90-year old grandma uses it primarily for video calls and to receive photos/videos.

This got me wondering if people in US do not typically have such group chats or whats the alternative?
There are many difficult technical and other important considerations and trade-offs and I think that Apple is answering them the majority of them as best it can. There are major benefits to having the kind of integration that Apple has, for example, the security chip and the wifi obviates theft of laptops and phones. You cannot get that with the traditional "PC starting from a boot partition" model. I lost a lot of respect for Apple when they seemingly limited the AirDrop sharing time coinciding with the protests against the government in China. I dread to think about what kind of compromises Tim Apple has made for the government of China, but then, there are many people who install and use TikTok voluntarily. It's fun to think about what if The Cloud™ was like a technoir IPFS running on top of peer-to-peer radio. You can make a decision to get out of your driveway huffing your new car's smell, and drive somewhere dirty with it.
While WhatsApp started as a way to set status ("Can't talk, text only", "Urgent calls only", "At school", "Busy"), the eventual razor-sharp focus by Jan Koum & Brian Acton to replace SMS (not MSN/Y! Messenger, not BBM, not IRC), in my eyes, made it the juggernaut that it became, inspite of the many regional/global clones.

- No logins. No sign-ups. Mobile phone number was the username; SIM card, the password.

- No central database of messages. No backup & restore. No stickers. No web-based access. Only fast text-based relays. For phones.

- Aggressive cross platform focus. Including clients for Blackberry & Symbian, not just mainstream OSes.

- Little to no perceptible downtime. Worked just fine in all sorts of flaky networks. Consistently and reliably.

- No ads, no spam.

- As cheap or cheaper than SMS (£1/yr), but works & roams globally.

- Voice notes and media to expand beyond the Anglosphere.

Another tidbit I find interesting: Jan used the fact that every time an app's title / description was changed, it would show up at the top in the "new" category of the iOS App Store, to help reach a wider install base.

In short, being laid off from Yahoo! to being rejected by Facebook, brought the best out of Jan & Brian. They ran a very unconventional SV startup and got a lot of the details exactly and deliberately right. Not many stood a chance, as evidenced by their eventual £22bn exit.
A nice article explaining the difference between hsl and oklch and the benefits. I also think it should be called 'Oklachroma'.
I sent photo of subway information screen in Hamburg with clearly visible line and direction - it did not pick up anything except the line number and "it's possibly a subway".
It's also the planet you land on in the M.U.L.E. game.
The CMB becomes deadly well before these speeds (the rear facing light burns you; the forward facing light nukes you). That's not even accounting for objects in space, or the light from stars, which will be amplified according to the Lorentz factor.

EDIT: here's a small discussion:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/196171
There's a whole PBS SpaceTime episode about this, but I can't find it, rn.
I did once, a long time ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521 (March 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444556 (Feb 2018)

It's on my list to do this again!
It's not really the DRM part, but the fact that someone could avoid paying $15,000 by reading some publicly-available source code instead of joining the HDMI Cabal.
> much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit, much less a superintelligence.

I'm always blown away when I see comments like this.

It just makes me think the people that say this either work for a competitor or simply haven't used their products.

The things that OpenAI and similar companies have created are literally revolutionary. It's insane. Pretending it's "little return" is a very strange opinion.
Does anyone know how those numbers are generated? e.g. are they one of those outfits that use a browser extension?

Those numbers seem mostly in the ranges I posted back in 2018 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521). But the total views they report at https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com is way off. I think they report 11M monthly (I can't view the site anymore), but the actual number was 209M in November. There's a lot of bot traffic in there, though, so it's a bit hard to interpret.

Edit: on the other hand, 16% of those 209M hits were by logged-in users, who tend not to be bots, and the ratio of logged-out to logged-in users is always high (I would have said at least 10 to 1), so maybe 209M isn't so far off.
I feel like smartphones should be banned but

> On average, they were falling asleep 20 minutes faster than before the ban,

20 minutes seems like kind of a small impact.
Yes, which is a great example of a patent encumbered standard creating problems for people implementing the standard.

Considering FaceTime postdates the GIF experience, I'm sure plenty of corporate lawyers understood the problem much better.
whats the status of swing? can we port old applets easily? multi-threading or am i dreaming?
> Using Rust enables uv to install Python interpreters.

A Python workflow tool written in Python could equally well install every Python interpreter except for the one it itself is using. Those tools generally work fine with any recent installation, and getting one of those is normally not difficult. On Windows the official builds have standalone installers, and Linux normally comes with Python - an isolated development environment (that won't ever mess with the OS) is at most `apt install python3-pip` plus a `venv` invocation away.

But I'm equally well not going to reject a Python tool because it isn't written in Python. (Of course, if it requires installing a massive runtime that I don't already have, or if the compiled binary is larger than an entire Python source tarball - as I found to be the case with uv - then yes, that does count against it.)

> Still, I would consider package and project management to be a separate feature from Python management, and I’d leave it to a different tool

I do as well. I don't want an integrated "project management" tool, either. (I quite like the Unix philosophy for dev tasks.) But I do want an integrated Python application and library installer with a smooth experience, and Pipx isn't quite there yet.
I used to run role-playing game sessions in school at what would today be considered a semi-professional level and I always found that the difficulty of making the session enjoyable doubled for each PC after four. Five was doable with skill, but at six or more it was a challenge to keep everything fair and tight.
Yep. Interstellar space is pretty famously big.
which country is this? israel?
Making it an open standard and then not accepting any clients but their own is an option I didn't even consider.

Not sure it would help them build their network, but I guess it's an option.
"The subtle shadow suggests that he is a well-known terrorist. The paving stones in the square appear to be recently laid, implying relatively recent explosives training background."

cat *.txt | grep -nE 'explo|terror' | fbi -open -up

Expect something similar to this in the near future.