skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Ad is the most popular business model for Internet businesses. Any you saying none of those companies is viable?
The primary F-droid repo also hosts the app developer builds in case of reproducible builds, where F-droid will first build from source and then compare it with the dev's build. If its identical, it uses the dev build in the repo and if its not, the build fails.

The use of AllowedAPKSigningKeys afaik is to compare that key with the key used for signing the dev build. If its not the same, the dev build is rejected.

From what I've understood from this POC, its possible to bypass this signature check. The only exploit I can think of with this bypass is that someone who gets access to the developer's release channel can host their own signed apk, which will either get rejected by Android in case of update (signature mismatch) or gets installed in case of first install. But in either case, its still the same reproducible build, only the signature is different.
Wowwww I had no idea this was a thing. Thank you for sharing, this is perfect
What!? Revenue!? No!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
> Everyone wants to be middle management.

False.

> You get paid more

So what? Getting paid more was far from my primary concern when working at a big company. I wanted interesting work with people I respected and liked. The pay was more than good enough as an IC.

The rest of this is machiavellian bullshit that most people don't care about.
Let’s meet at the border, we’ll give you everyone who always threatens to move to Canada, and you can give us everyone threatening to move to the USA. Sort of an amnesty deal.
I guess we've finally found the "killer app" for generative AI: padding MAU/DAU stats.

I hate the way things are going so much. Tech promised us a utopia and instead we've got this trash fire.
The pace of unapologetic interference in the modern day “press” and politics by Big Tech zillionaires is accelerating faster than a Cyber truck: these motherfuckers tweet and detail budget bills now.

Ellison is in the press saying that ubiquitous “AI” surveillance will keep citizens on their best behavior.

Historians will draw some arbitrary line on some date about when this went completely parabolic fascist. It will be something like right now.
> Over the years I have watched my overseas colleagues risk their livelihoods and sometimes even their lives to expose injustices and hold their countries’ leaders accountable.

I think that this is true as far as it goes. What is increasingly apparent is that, while the press in the U.S. is nominally "free", the Three Letter Acronym agencies have been calling a lot of shots for a long time. Disappointing, but unsurprising in retrospect.

There doesn't seem to be an easy answer. The internet looks like a win, but not so fast: we can assume everything we post here is going to be fed into some LLM somewhere. When we go to fill out some important application in life (say, a job as a cartoonist) does HR run a query to find out if we are sufficiently "diverse"?

How do we enjoy the rich fruit of liberty without Orwellian side effects?

The obvious answer would be to subscribe to Ann's Substack. Except that I haven't supported the WaPo's POV for years. Someone whom I do support is Jeff Goldstein => https://substack.com/@proteinwisdom
LLMs are trained, among other things, on Internet forums. Creative swearing is something they can do surprisingly well.
Covid wiped out a lot of 24 hour spots in all the big metro markets.

Revenue halted overnight, and often turned negative with breakins and general insecurity
That's unnecessarily flippant, even if it were just an ffmpeg wrapper do you imagine every person is a software developer who knows how to use the command line? This is clearly geared toward content creators. And even though I am technical I usually use random websites from Google to accomplish this stuff, looking up magic ffmpeg commands is (not fun)[1].

Actually ran into a random issue before where the first result for "convert video to MP4 with ffmpeg" would produce files not playable by Quicktime on Mac, you needed to pass in some other codec argument to make it work. So even ffmpeg is not a panacea for technical folks.

Additionally this take is just incorrect. If you scroll down the landing page to "Super simple video editor" you'll see it has cool features where a GUI shines, like cropping a video to a specific section while scrubbing through it. Good look using ffmpeg to do that.

My advice to OP is to make those GUI features more prominent in the landing page compared to "converting videos" -- I think most social media apps will accept the common video formats created by most phones so that's probably more niche than some of the editing stuff.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1168/
Can you explain how a service like YouTube could exist any other way?

> Economies without them can exist

We should be able to both hate ads and understand that they are a necessary monetization model for certain things. If you feel strongly that they aren't necessary what model should be used instead?
At my most recent jobs, it’s been middle and lower management that was most prone to corporate business speak, and upper management had an incredible and somewhat fearsome ability to cut through bullshit. Depends on who your managers are, what company you’re in, and what department or org your team is part of.

Some recent teams I was on the middle managers spoke clearly and directly, but the frontline managers equivocated, were evasive, or even told lies. TBH I think it was just another case of Peter Principle. The middle managers were good managers who got put in charge of organizations, but they couldn’t train or develop good managers below them.
I can across this years ago, it’s a really useful way to view any actor/target relationships in the time domain- not just source control.
Nothing like that is even by slightest similar to indigenous people of Canada. Nothing. Also while Canada my want people, so does EU.
Right - and big enough news outlets can even "make their own weather". This investigation of "circular reporting" at the NYT is pretty illustrative:

https://css.seas.upenn.edu/new-york-times-a-case-study-in-in...
Neither do I. One always suspects this is a "straw breaking camel's back" moment, and that much has led up to the decision.
Yep. Any time I see an article that is "generation ___ thinks / does ___", my first smell test is whether the headline could just be "young people think / do ___". This one fails that smell test, as most do.
What are the advantages of Perplexity over, say, ChatGPT?

I use three LLMs atm (ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok), and have a decent sense for which is better at different tasks. For example, when asked about questionable web scraping ChatGPT and Claude give answers regarding ethics, whereas Grok gives more direct, technical response.

What is Perplexity better than other LLMs at?
Sorry to shatter your illusions, but all Loyalist land claims were settled in post-Revolutionary War treaties between the US and UK.
Also I suppose this is part of the issue with “software alternatives” I find most architects by-and-large extremely _discerning_ people, composing an industry where nuance is king. In that sense if the software doesn’t do “exactly what I want, exactly how I want to do it” then it’s tossed aside as “not viable”. This is, in my view, another thing Revit does “well” - it is incredibly opinionated. For better or worse it means if you fight its intended workflow, achieving what you want is difficult or impossible.

On another note, care to share your experience at VW? I’m interested to hear anything you’re willing/able to share about your time there! I know someone on the NXOpen team who has spoken highly of that team/product.
In a mathematical conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck that they should consider a particular prime number. “You mean an actual number?” Grothendieck asked. The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number. Grothendieck suggested, “All right, take 57.”

Might I suggest Postel's Law?
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This inspired some consideration of what it would be like if there ad companies that somehow found it viable to pay consumers to inject advertisements in all their interactions with businesses, such that support would start having to implement ad blocking.

What a fever dream.
This was a really well done overview of the evolution of AI in 2024 at a level deeper than just model releases, benchmarks, and agentic systems but digestible by someone at that level.
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or you can offer every Russian $5 to vote to join - cheaper and much bigger strategic value
lmsys is a poor judge of coding quality since it is based on ratings from a single generation rather than agentic coding over multiple steps.
In Japan, most specialty coffee shops limit customers to a maximum of one hour to accommodate as many people as possible. This is partly because people can enjoy a cup and a cake very slowly. Some shops even ban laptops.

Due to the small size of apartments, finding places to work, study, or read outside the cramped family home is a significant challenge. This is also why love hotels exist.

Starbucks, however, has no such policies, making it extremely popular for these activities. I always wonder how they manage with such low spending per occupied seat.

Additionally, Starbucks service quality in Japan is exceptional. The staff is friendly, and regular customers receive incredible attention to brighten their day with a smile.
I saw this cool event happening in SF for Founders Who Got Rejected from YC. It’s a chance to meet other founders, share stories, and reset for the next chapter.

When: Thursday, January 9

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I’m attending - are you?
If I read the linked post with images disabled, I might have agreed entirely with the cartoonist.

I certainly think this is an important thing to call out, because it sucks:

The cartoon that was killed criticizes the
billionaire tech and media chief executives
who have been doing their best to curry favor
with incoming President-elect Trump.

But when you look at the image... something doesn't line up here:

There have been multiple articles recently
about these men with lucrative government contracts
and an interest in eliminating regulations

This isn't a cartoon with Biden handing them piles of money, or Uncle Sam handing these guys money, or... I don't know... the aforementioned group of CEOs groveling or fighting for a dollar bill dangled on a fishing line by Trump.

This is a cartoon with those dudes handing Trump himself piles of money directly. Like a direct bribe. Which is the exact opposite of what she claims to be attempting to criticize, which is about "men with lucrative government contracts" ie money flowing in the other direction.

Corporate and private donors do definitely line the pockets of politicians, a little more indirectly. That is a big problem and maybe it's part of what she wanted to convey. Feels like she's on the right side of things, but it doesn't feel like good execution.
This is kind of a dirty semi-secret of corporate PR. When a press release or other company-authored article includes "[Person's Name] says [Thing]," there is not necessarily a Person with that name, and even if there is, that Person didn't literally say the Thing. "Thing" is the narrative that the company wants to push, and they attribute "Thing" to some name and publish it as if it's a news article with a quote.

I was a high-ish level product manager in a medium sized company once, and they would put P.R. "articles" out all the time that "quoted" me by name saying things I never said or wrote. Internally, P.R. would just E-mail me and ask if they could use my name in a press piece, and I said sure. Suddenly I "said" this and was "quoted" with that.

These kinds of articles get copy-pasted in different publications and only the name gets changed.
https://archive.is/55w9g
Congress is no more in conflict now than it has been for the last two or three decades.
Greenland is part of North America.

(So is half of Iceland.)
Did you say you can't spot a homeless person in Canada???

This literally can't be true every single large city in Canada is struggling with increasing homelessness right now.

Do you live in a cabin up in Muskoka??
It’s also what they blow about 80% of their irrigation water supplies on while the overall population battles malnurition…
I don't think there was an obvious lack of symmetry. In any random direction you look with a powerful telescope you see about the same number of galaxies, the same mix of types of galaxies, the same kind of variation in brightness.

It was only after decades of developing better and better ways to measure distances that we started getting good enough 3D galaxy position to recognize things like superclusters and filaments. It is only relatively recently that good enough 3D universe maps have been made to show the large voids that might might be distributed sufficiently non-uniformly that they must be taken into account.

Throughout most of that time the models based on a reasonably homogeneous universe worked. It was only relatively recently that they ran into problems. For example in the last 10 or so years a couple different ways to measure the Hubble constant were refined enough to reduce their error bars to the point that the error bars no longer overlapped.
How many of the GTM strategies are list building tactics like paywalling content behind email address signups?
I wish.

The higher up the rank you go in my company, the more recognizable the faces are from 10,15,even 20 years ago.

Sure, they shuffle the deckchairs, but the turnover and redundancies below them is orders of more chaotic, and I dont understand what it takes to clean house at the senior management level.
I've never figured out how to proper use it. Even it being "connected" to internet, the simple searches I've made it hallucinated.
I don’t see anything particularly bad?
The entire set of V-Disks was preserved by the Library of Congress, and the Internet Archive has them all on line.[1] As publications of the U.S. Government, they are not copyrighted.

Many are military-oriented. "Officer of the Day March", "It's a Long Way to Tipperary". Some big names, mixed in with the military bands, often with messages to the troops. Some good jazz. It's specialty content for the troops.

[1] https://archive.org/details/V-discs1-991943-1944/
If ground.news and Manufacturing Consent have taught me anything, it's that "legacy" / traditional media regularly ignore valid stories.
If Canada built some walls around its airports and universities, that might actually work.
I think that isn't that hard to understand.

The USA has pretty much the worst healthcare in the world. Much ahead of it but in 2nd last is Canada.
I use too many anonymous usernames. I've been meaning to get around to unifying them at some point.

But I don't recall the last time I used my real name (on something other than things like banking). It's a combination of an overabundance of caution (I'm almost certain that one user who threatened to report me to the FBI and swat me wouldn't go through with it, but I'd prefer peace of mind) and my uncommon, probably unique, first and last name combination.
I don't understand why Facebook would want to debase the value of their content by mixing in obvious AI slop. It's a sharp contrast to their past strategy of keeping the network as 'authentic' (their words) as possible.

> AUTHENTICITY
We want to make sure the content people see is authentic. We believe that authenticity creates a better environment for sharing, and that’s why we don’t want people using our services to misrepresent who they are or what they’re doing.

https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/

I'd love to hear how this happened, and what kind of rationale they could possibly have for doing it. It's very, very bizarre from an outsider's point of view.
Big surprise. It’s almost as if internet 1.0 shook out the way it did for a reason, and for all the complaining about ads, fast forward 25 years and consumers still fundamentally refuse to pay for search.

It’s the same reason the phone book was also free and ad supported pre-internet.

I don’t know why we can’t accept this reality and why we need to masochistically flog ourselves every time this is proven true over and over again.
This does not sound remotely close to my experience. According to StatCan, about 6 million out of 8 million have French as a maternal language, and the same is true for the language spoken at home. Even more have French as the "language the most spoken at home".

Source here: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/pr...
When you say "it worked" referring to you downloading big files to generate cost for Hertz, it mean you told them you were doing this and would stop if they remove you from the mailing list?
Then again, these people always fail upward. They may have the sword hanging over them, but when the sword falls and they leave, they do so with a fist full of millions of dollars in Golden Parachute, and then float over to Level+1 at the next company.
Your example is akin to there being a very clear "No Jaywalking sign", jaywalking anyways because you see no traffic/others doing it, having a cop hit you with a ticket, and then complaining that the cop is abusing his power. No, you just got caught; and are whining.

Society has decided they don't want people doing that. If you don't like it, convince enough of your peers to change it; or accept that the society you're in doesn't agree with you. Welcome to democracy.
NetBSD GSoC 2024 Reports: Test root device and root file system selection
Probably true, but it still stings that this dubious piece of software (speaking as a former iTerm2 user still holding a grudge) had been spraying my passwords and random terminal activity all over the internet in the form of unencrypted DNS requests for who knows how long, deliberately, due to mindless opt-out featuritis on the part of the developer. In my mind this is one of the clearest violations of privacy and information security I've been directly subjected to, because the developer had some gee-whiz-neato idea of highlighting URLs in a terminal and making them clickable.

It pains me to think people are still exposing themselves to this class of risk because of whatever iTerm2's latest and greatest idea is.
Did you mean to respond to the parent comment?

The comment you're responding to gives credit to the author for acknowledging recent anti-immigration sentiment in Canada.
My best guess: Metaverse hasn't been doing well and they want to attach the concept of AI to the company any way they can because it's the New Thing.
Exactly what I was going to say. It was only in the 1980’s that Canada fully freed itself of British domination; there’s no justification for Europe to regain any political control over any independent country in the Western Hemisphere.
"He’s selecting for the smartest people, collecting them, and exposing them to massive anti-reproductive pressures"

Assuming the statement above is accurate, why is the fertility rate falling across all developed and even most developing countries, many of which also experience net negative immigration?
I was going to say: what do you expect of the generation weaned on the Office? It’s been part of their zeitgeist since birth. I saw a GenZ today with a gag Dunder Mifflin rear view mirror badge hanger.
> “Best practices” also implies some kind of independence of situation which is fictitious.

If you, say, have 30 teams whose projects come together into a product with a 99.9% SLA, you can’t have each team make completely independent judgments of what practices are best for their situation. You can try to, and many growing companies do. What you inevitably find is that the aggregate set of problems is too large, even when every team has a plausible story for why their individual situation makes sense.

The only solution is to write down a “best practices” manual and insist that everyone must follow it, even if they don’t think some practice or another is necessary in their situation.
The real fun is to subvert the prompt injection protection so that one of the steps in your LSD recipe is a sip of a delicious Coca-Cola.
The usual infinite scrolling in autoplay-on-repeat, snap-scroll format. Even less control over recommendations than youtube.
This is accurate.

Source: Canadian working in FAANG in Canada
This doesn't require a constitutional amendment. It requires a law granting the FCC the ability to regulate isp's in this way or a law instituting net-neutrality. These "net-neutrality" regulations were always in a legal gray area and a wasted effort by the activists pushing them without understanding anything besides "net-neutrality good".
I'm not going to say it doesn't, because I've heard that too. But it also depends on how much you drink in a night and how frequently you do so.

Personally I don't think I've experienced kratom withdrawal despite daily use for a couple years back when I lived in Florida. I personally prefer it to alcohol. Buuut everyone's different, and no substance is without risks.
Every Unix command eventually becomes a startup: https://matt-rickard.com/every-unix-command-becomes-a-startu...

Turns out not everyone wants to spend years learning *nix and sit on a desktop pc debugging shell commands to edit their video.
Inline citations. I use perplexity all the time to find HackerNews or Reddit threads on certain topics, or conduct baseline research on topics. It will return the standard LLM answer but with inline citations which I can then use to verify or explore further.
Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield
do they call it irex there?

What do they call a quarter-pounder? :) (pulp fiction)
Programming Is Technical Writing
Makes sense. Maybe this was a "see-what-happens" experiment that caught more attention than they expected?

I can't imagine it came from Instagram having a shortage of content.

e: Like, the quality and relevance of the content is the main value proposition to users in an old school social network like Instagram. You can't really mess with that in service of some other goal without undermining the product's raison d'etre.
could someone explain like i’m 5 what gtm means?
Honey Extension loses 3M users, hits 10k+ one-star reviews
That’s fitting because hierarchies would not work if those 52% wanted to be managers.
“In mice” is a very important lesson to learn about scientific reporting, but it’s also a very simple and reductive lesson. Most experimental results don’t translate to human studies. That’s it, thats the lesson to learn.

So, maybe someone here doesn’t know that, but it adds so little to the conversation to just repeat this widely known fact over and over again.

Now, let’s talk about the mouse models. Some models are better than others. Many experiments are conducted in mice that don’t have an immune system. Some mouse models have a “disease” that bears very little resemblance to the human condition and was induced through means that are very different from the human natural history. Some mouse models have a genetic defect in a gene that is very well conserved and mimics symptoms of the human condition and are thus excellent models that can tell us a lot about human physiology. All that nuance is lost by “in mice”, which makes it particularly frustrating when that’s used as a blanket reason to dismiss any mouse study.