skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, it would be silly to bottleneck your protocol implementation benchmark on encryption that would be shared amongst implementations because that does not highlight your overhead advantages

It would be great if benchmarks with no encryption were a thing.

There's massive overheads, and I explicitly avoided saying whether it's "fast" or not because to a lot of people serving 1000req/s seems "fast" and TLS is basically the main algorithmic complexity you'd expect from a data transfer protocol.
With disappearance of iPhone SE in United States you can no longer buy iPhone with physical SIM slot. But cross the border into Canada and you can buy exact same phone with the physical slot.

This is a sad day and not progress in any meaningful way (social engineering away physical SIM, causing loss of flexibility when traveling).
Best way to do this is a with a wireless one hand chorded keyboard. A fancier solution would be detecting subvocalizations. That would feel almost like mind-reading
Nope. ThinkPad with the butterfly keyboard.
>obviously a throwaway account

Freedom, I see.
Unless we have a clear indication, plates are not meant to be removed.
For example, plating children we usually remove the plate as to not interfere with growth, or in some cases a fibula plate can irritate the tendons and should be removed, or in cases of infection.
*> A good non-NSA agency should also learn from this to be able to effectively false-flag as NSA*

For what it's worth, this is already a TTP used domestically, as well as by our adversaries (and allies, eg GCHQ and 8200).
Grok - Two Roman salutes were given at the president's inauguration. Nothing else happened today.
mightyham, let's look at what is going on.

You made an assertion without supporting it. That is fine, this is a comment thread, not a dissertation thesis. I disagreed and gave a terse summary for some of the reasons I disagreed. You said I missed your point. Rather than assigning stupidity or malice to your intent, I asked you to clarify what you meant. In return, you said you have good reasons for your beliefs but don't want to write them down. Again, that is fine, I can't force you to do anything.

But you go on to ding me for not rebutting the points you haven't made and attribute it to me being unscrupulous in my thinking.

At this point I raise my own heuristic that there is no point talking with you further if you hold me up to a different standard than what applies to you.
I think their point was that the wireless MagSafe was basically a copy-paste of Qi, so it wasn't "mostly an Apple design" to begin with. "Qi2 is a copy-paste of MagSafe" (or "Qi2 is based on MagSafe") makes it sound a bit like they threw out the original Qi in favor of Apple's completely home-grown alternative, which comes with inaccurate connotations of who actually did the important work.

It's subjective how important the history is and how important Apple's contributions are, but that seems to be what they were getting at.
Breaking news: Apple makes premium products
Because the single language and framework makes worse apps
They make great headphones and have a decent camera that is always ready to use.
I like my 13 mini, but now I will be happy to trade some size for a bigger battery. Also, some websites turned out to be unusable on a smaller screen, so today I am thrilled for the 16e
Looks like what used to be called a "stock broker" to me.

Maybe I'm behind the times but this not exactly what I think of as "fintech".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fintech
Exactly.
I had this MacBook. It is legendary, they made it at a great price point with most of the qualities and features of the more expensive Pros of the time.
It didn't last long, they axed it the next year, figuring they were leaving money on the table.
Its weakness was the terrible iGPU in the Intel chip, you couldn't do much serious graphical work with it until you would get the spinner of doom.

I think this is really "peak Apple" era. Most stuff they did after Jobs death is re-heated or poorly designed/conceived.

Apple is just a luxury brand nowadays because they have lost focus on the user, it's a bit maddening that they are getting so rich from it but I guess that's how it is...
I wouldn't expect these initial baseband implementations to be fantastic software wise.
Microsoft's Majorana 1 quantum chip
I mean I could downvote it
That's a different surcharge, friend.
https://www.nyc.gov/site/tlc/about/congestion-surcharge.page
There's a number of firmware jobs on their website at the moment. All of them ask for C or C++ experience - I haven't seen anything that's asking for Rust or Embedded Swift experience.

E.g.: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200579953/embedded-5g-4...
Why does Apple allow Expo apps on the App Store when they effectively bypass App Review? Doesn't this go against their own policies?

I say that as someone who uses Expo precisely for this reason.
There does seem to be a bit of cult-like loyalty to every decision Apple makes.

I would agree with your statement. However...

No self respecting developer would pick SwiftUI over React Native.

But that is too generic of a statement to stand by. I just personally have prioritized development time over... uh.. fandom?
funny how that made the phone more expensive
Well, the ideal male aesthetic for black americans for instance included athletes like basketball players and the great boxers. Most of whom were hairless. Joe Frazier only had a smattering of chest hair that hardly even registered. Others from Liston to Ali to Frazier and so on might have had some peach fuzz on their chests, but it's doubtful we'd be able to see it in a photo from that era. In the 70's among that demographic you saw body hair most often in contexts where they were working hard for crossover appeal. ie - entertainment, music etc.

I'd put money on most males from that demographic being largely hairless, or having difficulty growing chest hair, even today. Despite their family lines having lived in North America in some cases as long as four or five hundred years. I'm also positive that the fact that chest hairlessness is so widespread in that demographic is a direct result of centuries of female sexual preference. Likely dating all the way back to long before they even arrived in North America. The cultural echoes probably continued the reproductive pressures selecting for that aesthetic when they arrived in North America. Even when other extrinsic reproductive pressures were brought to bear. (Slavery).

Same with other demographics that came later by the way. (Without the slavery induced reproductive pressures obviously). Reproductive pressures selected for a lack of body hair in some of those demographics. And males from those demographics probably have far less body hair at the median than males from demographics where reproductive pressures selected for more body hair.

Essentially, my bet is that chest hair or no chest hair was decided for human males long ago by ancient female sexual preference. Why females from different demographics had different preferences? Can't say. Maybe climate?

Of course I can't prove any of the last part, but climate induced reproductive pressures on genetic ancestors would be my bet as the largest indicator of whether or not males will have chest hair. Reproductive pressures like that don't just go away over night. Not even over millennia.
1. I don't think using power for AI is more unethical than any other non-life-critical usage of the same amount of power. Since data centers use electricity, there are already many green technologies which can power them. People are just porting this argument from blockchain where it was much more valid. The hard parts of making the planet carbon-neutral lie elsewhere.

2. ??? This just seems like you're complaining about your impression about annoying AI posters on Twitter or whatever. Also nobody is stopping anybody from developing a cheaper AI or whatever, and that would be a very valuable thing to do.

3. I don't think its disrespectful to say you've made it easier to make art or whatever, and I also don't think it's unethical to "disrespect" "hard earned skills".

4. Yes, it would be unethical to develop an AI to lie to people. It's not unethical to develop an AI that might be wrong sometimes, especially if you tell people about that very clearly.

5. If the complaint is just that you don't like particular companies, OK, fine. I don't really find that to be a very interesting discussion. I was talking about whether using LLMs was ethical, which is the title of the post.

> AI has been used for controlling masses

What's this conspiracy theory?
>I'm saying it isn't inherent in human nature to mistreat other conscious beings.

I suspect (but not sure) it may be more inherent than is generally believed. Then again simple physical pain is easy to gauge and relate to, but passing some law is an academic process where one can distance oneself from the ill effects on the adherents of the law. Then there are more variations - people will be tribalistic, they will be kind to their own kind/family even sacrificing, but murderous to some one of another tribe. All in all the average human is bundle of contradictions if you were to analyze simplistically, though it will make good sense when viewed through the lens of evolutionary biology.
Yes, panicking in kernels is bad. I've followed the whole R4L fight about working around it.

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/doc...

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/doc...

Upstream fbounds in xnu has options for controlling if it panics or is just a telemetry event. They are in a kernel situation and have the exact same considerations on trying to keep the kernel alive.
I know there used to be such a huge range of Android phone sizes, that there was likely to be a phone in the size you wanted, and you acknowledged that the phones you were listing were not the same size as the 12/13 mini...

But the Sony suggested is slightly bigger than the iPhone 16 in 2/3 of the dimensions and this comment thread is lamenting how big the iPhone 16 is! I think people who see the iPhone 16 as so large it is not an option are unlikely to consider switching to Android for an even larger phone.

It's a shame, because Sony used to make smaller phones with only slightly lower specs than their flagship phones. I also still associate them with making sensibly-sized alternatives, even though they don't anymore.
Despite not really liking AI-generated content very much myself I think it is quite neat that everyone can now have small apps that precisely cater to their needs.
It's pretty simple, working class mostly conservative white Americans have been feeling extremely disenfranchised and the right phrase is nearly "discriminated against" by the left and what were mainstream republicans. This bloc of people were used by entities foreign and domestic to wield power. Large disgruntled groups of people are really good for this. Donald Trump is the perfect symbol for this group and there are even some strange almost religious feelings towards him in a few.
I mean, it worked and is working for the other company named after Nikola Tesla, Tesla. Straight up lied about FSD, its capabilities and it's current state, to include faking test results as "proof" that it worked. One example, the "car is driving itself" in 2016, but they actually staged the video [1], the vehicle crashed at least once while gathering footage, and edited the footage [2], and were still unable to complete the claimed route to the standard advertised 7 years later [3]. Including objectively false claims [4] that it skipped a disabled spot because it "reads the signs" even though it still can not read signs and could not autonomously park as part of a route until around 2024.

If a much bigger and higher profile company can make even more outrageous lies to pump their valuation to non-accredited investors and make their investor and CEO one of the richest people in the world, it should be no surprise that others follow suit. Outrageous lies are the path to riches.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-sel...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPgbDEVYOUQ

[3] https://vimeo.com/863217478/9e527571f6

[4] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/789020841489018880
Yeah, last week, I took a few minutes to convert my mdbook draft to typst (most of it was renaming files, adding a main,typ and replacing `*` with `*`, `#` with `=` - I didn't have any tables), then happily proceeded from there and towards a beautiful (draft) book.

I'm quite happy about the workflow.

Plus now I have a template that I'll apply to the second book.
Antoine Joux was on the side of classical cryptanalysis on a 2014 bet. This was right after the small-characteristic discrete log advances, so that might no longer be the bet if it was made today.

https://x.com/hashbreaker/status/494867301435318273
This might replace my 12 mini. But I'll probably use my phone until it's dead or out of support because this phone just works for me from a form factor perspective.

It's unfortunate jumbotrons sell so well to the mindless masses that live on a phone. Otherwise the two main sizes would be the 5.42 and 6.3. Both reasonable for daily carry in a pocket. The 6.7 and 6.9" sizes are what are silly.
Dupe (283 points, 5 hours ago, 121 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104071
How low the quality bar has gotten! A device with a battery is now considered "worn out" after a measly 3 years?
https://www.stacksocial.com/sales/control-d-5-year-subscript...

ControlD over NextDNS - one is on zombie mode it seems, the other isnt...
Swift has no use beyond writing software to target Apple users.

Apple isn't viewed as friendly to open source since you can't even distribute software to their platform without going through their censorship/taxation centralized review process. (And an army of people will rush to tell you this is okay.)

The meme of Swift being useful to anything but Apple devs needs to die.
How funny!
> Neither?

As someone who had to make sure that call audio was properly processed on a phone I worked on to make it match today's standards, I can say without hesitation: it's all three.

The codec you get can vary from okay to terrible; the way mobile phones are built these days requires you to do echo cancellation; and the environment phones are used in requires you to do noise reduction.

Just disable audio processing on your phone, feed the network with raw microphone input and notice the complaints from your interlocutors. I've been there :)
> what the world is talking about today

Not world. Twitter and whoever's left on it.
Then sell it and buy a $10 Qi charger.
Only because Apple made a non-open platform.
Not at all. I'm simply stating that when you receive Federal or State grants or assistance for a portion of your road system that you have to accept the restrictions placed on that funding and the road should benefit everyone. We build roads as a country so that everyone can use them not so your local government can use them as a revenue source. It's very likely that 30%-50% of the cost of the roads was paid for with Federal $'s.

This is not any different than the idea that if you accept Federal money for research dollars, you should not turn around and charge enormous sums for access to the research. It doesn't mean that the Federal government took over your research.
> the crews who actually do the test fire treat it exactly like they would in the field, and are isolated from the more test side of thing

Is anyone kept blind about it being a test? Like, does the crew wake up in the morning knowing "we're gonna launch a fake nuke today", or are they drinking their morning coffee like any other day in the bunker and suddenly the glaxon starts glaxoning?
Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries
I think there is an implicit assumption that the top 40 apps is reflective of what all app developers should be doing. The top 40 apps are probably also all made my mega corps with enormous budgets and desires to be multi-platform right out of the gate, and also have already vetted necessary issues like "does app performance matter" versus "does developer productivity and app-parity across platforms" matter. Just because a top 40 app is high, maybe it's something like Amazon's shopping app, maybe the trade-offs are heavily towards slow-starting but very feature rich and also equivalent across platforms is necessary. If someone writes a note-taking app that takes 10 seconds to start because it's loading some JavaScript updates and spinning up the non-native code execution hamsters, I already forgot my note. Native is obviously desirable. Or a game is interesting because maybe people are patient for a slow load, but still desire very fast native performance. My main point is there are quite a few trade-offs, and it's unsurprising the leads at Expo are saying look how awesome this stack is. I've used Expo and it was awesome, but it comes with costs too.
its more like conspiracy theory. when you're picking a token youre kinda like putting a gun to the LLM's head and demanding, "what you got next?"
Yeah this is a key tenant of the MAGA 2016 and 2024 campaigns: draining the swamp, fighting the deep state, etc.

How else is the executive supposed to align fed bureaucrats to his goals?
I started using Typst this year and am really liking it so far. The rendered document updates as you type, and it's easier to code grid layouts. I like how I don't need to be paranoid about adding "%" at the end of lines, lest extra spaces sneak in.
Yes, but the point is that the customer has the agency to decide.

If I rent a server I want to be able to run it to the maximum capacity, since I'm paying for all of it. It's dishonest to make me pay for X and give me < X. Idle CPU is wasted money.

The flip side is that the provider should be also offering more climate friendly, lower power options. I'll still want to run them to the max, but the total energy consumed would be less than before.

Also not forgetting that code efficiency matters if we want to get the max results for the minimum carbon spend. Another reason why giant web frameworks and bloated OSes depress me a little.
From a strictly UX perspective, I'm strongly of the opinion that most shopping apps also suck industrial quantities of ass.

Like I use them, I can't not and it beats ordering stuff over the phone or whatever. But most of them at best can rise to the dizzying heights of "tolerable."
>What makes you confident that they won't reasonably perceive this outcome as tacit permission to start coming for other territory?

Putin has approximately zero interest in territories and annexations. The entire war with Ukraine is exclusively a reaction to the Maidan in 2014, an attempt to prevent something similar in Russia.

Talks about "rewarding Russia" - is literally Putin's propaganda to hide his complete failure. There is no reward, the whole current situation in which Putin put himself, when his authority and influence is lower then ever - was planned as a short two week campaign with no downsides.
I went from 13 mini to 16. I considered replacing the battery in the mini but a brand new 16 was so cheap with all the Verizon discounts and trade-in that it wasn’t worth putting a new battery in an old phone.

The 16 at first felt freakishly huge after years of the 13 mini, but I’ve gotten used to it.
I would buy that a decent modem is harder than many CPU designs, maybe even most. But harder than state-of-the-art? Surely not, have you seen the complexity?

And even CPUs (esp state of art) have to worry about radio effects, as in avoiding internally and across chipset.
Because you don't have to reinitialize hardware if you don't shut it off. Which is hard and causes problems. It's easier to just go into power saving++.

If you want your device to be off, power it off.
oh ok will remove
I'm willing to allow much, much more lying than that. Especially for national security concerns.
Especially on home projects, I push commits frequently as a second layer of Ctrl-Z.
Grok 3 Beta – The Age of Reasoning Agents
A comparison of human crowdsourced storytelling and AI storytelling
The 15 and 16 Pro lines support USB 3 speeds.
Building my own stuff: definitely.

Doing all the admin work, all the capital raising, etc. needed to build my own stuff: I suspect that this would kill me.

Joining a nice startup: been there, done that... will do it again :)
Sprint (Missile)
This is one of these situations where my immediate instinct is to clarify my own politics, but then I catch myself and conclude that my comments should stand on their own whether or not you feel like you have a partisan affinity to me. Mostly: this is why the threads on these stories are just wretched. You could say I'm wrong and nerd your way out to whether that's the case --- that's what this site is for --- but instead we're all just reflexively venting emotions.
Did this submission just got "hidden" from the main HN page or is it just me? If it is hidden, may I ask what was the reason? I am just curious.
Nice one. Another Dune-concept French progressive album from around the same time is Eros, by the band Dün: https://www.discogs.com/master/122007-D%C3%BCn-Eros
Yeah, I’m in the midst of building out something for this. Involves a few pieces, the first is being able to apply the files in the right order https://github.com/joshainglis/topcat
Essentially the output of that should be a file that should drop and recreate everything. Easy to build some automation around. And if you’re just operating on functions and views ect that should be all you need to allow a tree based code-base. If you also want to handle tables etc you’ll want to add a diffing tool (migra, atlas) etc.
This was a fun thing to see after having just finished binging Ben Eaters 6502 breadboard computer series.

Since it's printing something out I suppose it also has everything else virtualised, would be cool to be able to provide it some machine code / assembly
Singapore is also very land-constrained. Google's latest DCs there are multi-story, which is obviously going to be more expensive to build that your standard one-story warehouse.
> The desire for small phones is an internet thing, but not backed by the market. Take it as a reality check for how internet opinions can be mostly irrelevant.

People have said this for years, but the mini phones were never going to be instant day-one hits. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy to launch them during Covid, offer them 2 years, and say no one wants them.

Give them a permanent place in the lineup, treating phones like every other very personal device meant for humans. Small, medium, and large.

If you do that, and give people time to see exactly why 5.42 screens are superior to 6.1"+ sizes, then I think the numbers will start to change from what we saw with the iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 13 mini that were launched when people were less on the go than in 100 years.

And no, I don't think a mini SKU can ever beat out the "cheap and big" midrange device that the average person is going to go for. Those will never be beat because they have perceived value. But I would bet in time it comes close or beats the "big and expensive" iPhone Pro Max option.