skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a huge section of the population who believes it's possible to strip the security of criminals using apps like Signal without it affecting everyone's security. Same in Sweden as the rest of the world.

The military of Sweden seems to get it at least, they "write in a letter to the government that the proposal cannot be realized "without introducing vulnerabilities and backdoors that can be exploited by third parties"". The military also recently advocated for more use of Signal, so clearly they've reviewed it and find the current security good enough.
App and NetBenefits work fine
On the surface it's mostly "think of the children" and "terrorists use encryption" type arguments.

I'm sure some of the politicians advocating for this have ulterior motives, but I hope we won't get in a position where we find out what those motives are.
It's clear you never worked in a factory and you have just as much empathy as these CS grads.
This kind of thinking why I hate capitalism so much.

I worked in a factory multiple times and I can tell from experience nobody needs a stupid performance measurement like this. Your manager will make sure you work you ass off. Or you work with a big dangerous machine so you have to pay very much attention all day.
Of course not every factory is the same, but putting even more pressure to factory workers like this is just inhumane and the most capitalist move I can imagine. Next step is to put robotic whips next to the lines and when their productivity goes below a specific value hit them automatically... Literal slavery.
Market yourself as a developer that untangles the mess AI generates.
Columnar storage systems rarely store the raw value at fixed position. They store values as run length encoded, dictionary encoded, delta encoded, etc... and then store metadata about chunk of values for pruning at query time. So rarely can you seek to an offset and update a value. The compression achieved means less data to read from disk when doing large scans and lower storage costs for very-large-datasets that are largely immutable - some of the important benefits of columnar storage.

Also, many applications that require updates also update conditionally (update a where b = c). This requires re-synthesizing (at least some of) the row to make a comparison, another relatively expensive operation for a column store.
The thing is that shunning WhatsApp and Facebook doesn't put you back to a time before they existed, it cuts you off completely because they've dispaced what used to exist.
Before Facebook there was email and SMS, before that there were phone calls, letters, etc.
None of those really exist any more. If something happens, it goes into the family WhatsApp group, if you're not in the group then you don't find out.
My parents and their generation still answer the phone at least, and I convinced some fairly close people to use Signal, but generally I'm more disconnected from my family than I would have been in another time.
yah this is exactly what labor law says in some countries: a manager standing behind your desk? ok. a machine surveilling you? not ok.
I like Tuta but they are just not competitively priced. Proton purchased SimpleLogin & their $4/mo. premium plan includes unlimited aliases & custom domains. Tuta charges €8/mo. and you only get 30 aliases & 500GB of storage. Just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I thought o3-mini was o1-mini. OpenAI's naming gets confusing.
As far as I can see it is just strawmanning the federal workforce as a boogeyman. Every federal person I heard of or talked to spent most of the weekend and Monday trying to understand how to respond and what was permitted to disclose. The email looks like a phishing email because it's not from existing org structure. Most fed employees never have interacted with OPM before because that's not how any of this worked. It also doesn't help that the email before this was 'if you respond to this email you resign.'
This is the correct answer. Nothing is down, except a malformed link I suppose.
Looking for 10x discrepancies is not how this will be used, and you know it. Adoption of this sort of tech is going to lead to Amazon "peeing in bottles" situations. It's wild how much faith people have in the ethics of business owners, especially the ultra-wealthy.
Your example sounds reasonable but it's not realistic: The actual use of this type of tools is to intimidate those workers who have outputted 9.8 items instead of the average 9.9 over the past week.

This is how our society ended up making Amazon delivery workers urinating in fucking bottles inside their trucks.
>If the only way I can interact with a business is through Facebook, that's a business telling me they don't want me as a customer [...] I've very rarely encountered that,

I encounter it often because I deal with small contractors for home services and repairs and Facebook is how they reach new customers.

I used the word "businesses" but it is giving a false elevated impression that these local services are bigger than they actually are. The "business" is often just 1 guy. And the "business phone number" is just the guy's personal cell number. I hired a father-and-son business to replace some doors in the house and the only "website" they had was their Facebook page. Sure, the "Mr HandyMan" national franchise chains have "real websites" but hiring them also costs more. I'd rather hire the computer-illiterate father&son duo who knows how to replace my doors for a fair price rather than reject them just because don't know how to buy a domain name + website and relies on Facebook for customers to reach them.

Similar situation with other "small businesses" like local yoga instructors, etc. They rely on Facebook pages instead of real websites.
Let the frog boil.
Food demand is relatively inelastic.
I have snow outside, what about a snow feature? Love the concept hahahahhahaha!!! LOVE IT!
Bad Blood is a good book
Elon's AI was caught with a system prompt that would filter out bad stuff about Elon and Trump https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/grok-3-appears-to-have-bri...

Not sure if it was posed here but I could not submit the link "You are posting to fast" though I don't remember when I submitted an article last.
The tone is perfect here, you don’t have to play nice with people who are not nice to you.

You only get the benefit of professionalism if you act like one.
Fidelity is not down. This is a bad link.
She got pregnant right before she went to jail and then tried to argue this.

Also I guess fathers are worthless to children and they don't matter.
Yes, but many business owners/managers are stupid and inhumane.
Fire and Advance
Humans: High Trophic Level Carnivores
You're in agreement then that people who commit tax fraud should be imprisoned?
According to the original article (Swedish: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/signal-lamnar-sverige-om-...), the reason for the armed forces to be against it is because they recently started advocating for its personnel to start using Signal to reduce eavesdropping, so backdooring Signal would decrease the armed forces security.

> Men Försvarsmakten är negativa och nyligen uppmanade försvaret sin personal att börja använda Signal för att minska risken för avlyssning.
Weird. It's exactly what it says, but I don't see how it's useful. I guess a lot of people reuse assets between sock puppet sites?
It’s unlikely. Every time the US cuts it’s federal bureaucracy, it overwhelmingly cuts experts which means the US has to hire consultants and contractors en masse and no longer has experts who can even tell if the services the US government is paying for are reasonably priced or even work properly at all.
Yes the URnet p2p streams are like Tor. The project focuses on multi path, multi ip to make it safer and more available to different network conditions. Our security model is some stuff is blocked, so the client is able to race multiple paths to find ones that route.
I think that in general one finds that the anthologists got it right. Randall Jarrell said that a good poet is someone who spends his life standing outside in thunderstorms and is struck two or three times. [Quotation not exact, taken probably from Poetry and the Age.]
The product should be marketed as a tool for monitoring and highlighting bottlenecks in the manufacturing production line in order to help maintain peak output. This is a completely reasonable thing to want, it's no different to monitoring micro-services and their latencies/loads.

The video they made however where they berate and meanly put-down an individual employee is so far from acceptable. That's not how personnel performance issues should be managed in the real world, completely void of human empathy. It shows the founders (and did YC view and approve this?) are lacking in areas
Pro tip: It's hard to trust Twitter for opinions on Grok. The thumb is very clearly on the scale. I have personally seen very few positive opinions of Grok outside of Twitter.
D for Destruction
> It's as if all these news articles are useless...

But the news article linked in the post is based on the official ranking of TÜV in Germany. TÜV does a thorough inspection of each car registered in Germany, every 24 months. Roughly 20% of the cars fail that test, and the ranking is simply based on these numbers. Corresponding agencies in other countries had very similar rankings.
I cannot fit the full answer in a reply here, but the deep state in this sense is the same as the Managerial State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state , presented in such books as After Liberalism https://archive.org/details/afterliberalism00paul or Nomenklatura https://archive.org/details/nomenklaturasovi0000vosl_l7v8
I truly do not use WhatsApp or Facebook, and I do not find myself cut off from the world in the way you describe. For instance, family groups communicate via text messages and/or email threads.

Maybe my family DOES also communicate via Facebook and I am just missing out on it... I genuinely wouldn't know. But I don't feel disconnected.
This seems like a tempest in a tea pot. You're automating doing what factory floor managers already do? Hitler! From the title I thought they had developed a robot that flogs 6 year old workers or something.

If I were YC, though, I'd probably have a rule about startups not using "backed by Y Combinator" logos on their homepage like Optifye does. YC's a pretty low touch investor at the seed round level, their startups could do lots of things YC didn't expect, didn't know about, and couldn't prevent.
Unless you are talking about an alternative number system where 1+1 is not 2 then yes, S(0) is 1.
There’s obviously a balance. Having worked in both environments, I tend to appreciate the code of someone who at least read the books, but treats it as suggestion rather than gospel. Contrast to someone who never read the books, has no clue what’s “good” and hacks everything.

On the one hand, the books are popular because a lot of people reading them think it makes a good point, and share that view. On the other hand, just because something is popular doesn’t make it right! I think this is where AI gets so much wrong. GIGO! If you base all your code on whatever is most common, are you really really sure that common pattern is really the best? AI, and these book evangelist, often have no clue. Just parroting others.

I’d rather deal with “principles” as opposed to “rules” every time. Glean the principles from the books, and at least try to write clean code!
Thanks a lot for reporting this! I have fixed the issue, and improved the ui of the result given by the calculator. Do let me know if there are any more changes you would like to see.
Having been in this industry for a long time now, I see a disappointing trend in tech, and US society in general: viewing everything at zero sum.

I’m probably naive, but I remember in the past tech focusing on innovation that would generate enough gains for everyone to get a share (or at least the gain to the tech company did not come at the expense of someone else)

Now, more and more I see business plans that are zero sum. Using tech to take from someone else, not growing the pie.

This matches a general trend in public life is the US to view everything as a zero sum contest
Funny indeed. I recently needed to set up GNU stow to manage my dotfiles on a new machine.

So I searched google and lo and behold, my own stuff was among the top 10 results.

https://rednafi.com/misc/dotfile_stewardship_for_the_indolen...
Because we’re cuckolds and a politically dead society. Also very old. After you’re passed the age of 40 you’re more interested from your pension is going to get paid for when the day will come, not in abstract things like “freedom” and what have you.
European bureaucrats generally have little understanding of the technology they get paid to regulate, as we've seen with the their previous attempts to regulate the industry. It's very much a "vibes-based" approach. They can simply keep proposing the same regulation with a new name until it's voted through.
Graphina: A High-Level Graph Data Science Library for Rust
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I'm developing an open-source Rust library called Graphina for graph data science. The library is in a very early stage of development, so it may not be ready for serious use yet. However, early versions of many core features and algorithms have already been implemented.

I'm announcing the project here to invite contributions and suggestions from the community. I'm still relatively new to Rust, so I would especially appreciate any constructive feedback you might have to help improve Graphina.

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Humanoid robots promise a multi-trillion-dollar market, but pose challenges
Does the api work again? It has been offline each time I tried it over the last month
the english interview is actually in the video banner above the page btw
tl;dr some cryptocurrency promotion nonsense
check out kpic from Ken Silverman: https://www.advsys.net/ken/utils.htm
Pray tell why the govt has our personal information... particularly in light of all of the massive leaks that have occured from govt databases
I believe the citation falls under "street smarts" as the WikiLeaks press release mentioned Signal explicitly. Whether this was a subtle outing the origin of the tool itself is left as an exercise for the reader.

Regardless, the threat vector is accessing the data before encryption anyway. And drawing attention to yourself by running certain apps and services in the first place.

There's a lot of mathematicians in maryland and those who studied the history often land on "if they want you, they got you."
Overall energy efficiency has improved by about 35% in my napkin math, but I find whenever I improve efficiency, my electricity usage increases. This applies to both electric sources of energy and non-electric sources of energy as something new always seems to follow the efficiency gain. The reduction in overall energy usage is a side effect of efficiency difference of the heat pump (although on a dollar basis, costs remain about the same) being huge and is an abnormally.
> But TCP port 22 is a completely different thing than UDP port 22

OH woah woah. Okay that's the root of my confusion then. Nevermind. I thought the OS network stack exposes ports and packets come on to ports

Nevermind then :)
Some American as well.
This is not a very good site though. It's basically "Apple Rankings of Some Random Dude" and not much else.
as a general rule countries that succeed with a policy of neutrality do so by having their military strong enough that they're mot worth fucking with.
The product is shit. At some point we have to put human decency first, and not lock people in AI-surveilled setups.

If you're worried about some guy slacking, then hire some supervisors, ask them to chat with the employees, understand what their issues come from, if they had a rough week and they need some slack, etc.

But doing it impersonally through an AI is inhumane.

Imagine if you have kids and we replace all their teachers with just a camera and an AI, that "teaches them to write" and then nag them if they're not "as good as their classmates" or whatever... that would be insane. Kids are meant to be loved and grow with care.

Well, guess what, grown ups too. Job or no job. We're not here "in order to make money for the bosses", but just to all contribute in a just and useful manner to society. And so workers need to do their part of the job, but bosses need also to respect the humanity and decency of workers. It goes both ways.
The only thing truly embarrassing is that nobody at YC advised them that this ad is 1) terribly amateur and 2) has the chance to look extremely bad. Did not advise and in fact published to their feed. Weird optics, I am not familiar with what I presume to be Indian factories, other than the wild lack of safety (thanks youtube) but I cannot see how this video does anything positive.

As for the product itself I don't think it is unusual, these types of measurement systems are not new and can be helpful for a factory, like all things, it boils down to the owner/managers of said factory not the tool.
It's uncanny how that email perfectly mirrors a phishing one

- Request for sensitive information

- Apparently trustworthy but unusual domain

- Manufactured urgency (of the highest level too)
Yeah we frequently shop in France and I was ham 'without nitrate additives' for some time in naive effort to make food kids eat more healthy. Of course then there is 'natural celery extract'.

Stopped doing that some time ago as per info I saw here and then in few articles, buying now just one with less salt (although considering cooking our own, its supposedly not that difficult and have a friend who does it).

Sometimes road to hell is really paved with good intentions, or at least appearance of such. Having 0 doubt manufacturers know exactly what's going on, but they just find their profit within rules and expectations of society, consequences are for others to pick up.
Consulting companies destroy valuable institutional knowledge and make the government less effective, so I'm onboard in theory.

The flipside of removing them is you now need to hire experts/specialists to do the work properly, not fire them...

https://youtu.be/ycVBoWsGLJs
It just makes everything perfect.
As an example of something similar happening, my family and I once went to a little village in the middle of Bulgaria to visit a family fried, and booked a hotel room for the week. This was a huge hotel, next door to another huge hotel, serving a village with a population of a few hundred people.

At one point our friend told us it was well known that both were owned by the local mafia. If you were to check the books you'd find the place was fully booked every day of the year and doing a roaring trade, while if you actually went and visited you'd find 3 slightly bemused looking English people and maybe a wedding party.
as for me, I want something more.
Like git shell. Where I no need to write git, git, git again and again.
Strange that there is no something like this yet.
What would even be the point of Signal if there’s a backdoor? This isn’t just principled, it’s necessary for business.
> House arrest would make the math on “should I try fraud” lean heavily towards fraud I think.

You argue that house arrest is an insufficient deterrent for the level of fraud committed by defendant A.

Is the sentencing for defendant A consistent with the US Sentencing Guidelines, and consistent with other defendants convicted of fraud?

> Maybe even more so if you’ve got a nice house.

Defendant B apparently isn't even on house arrest, and apparently sent someone else to their civil rape deposition obstructively and fraudulently.
It was a pun. It should have been quality of life. Our rooms are better lit now, as the lumen output is higher.

On a more serious note, the CRI improved when going from fluorescent lighting to LEDs, when better quality LEDs were used. Thus quality of light is actually meaningful as more than a pun.
As soon as I saw the news that he sent that email I said to my wife that I bet they're all going to be fed into an LLM which will decide who gets fired.
Count how many things you bought Made in China over the years, purchases that have been directly funding the CCP to commit actual genocide and crimes against humanity for years, then apply your anti-Tesla-owner logic to that fact, then look at the clown you see in the mirror because that's what you are with that logic when you apply it to yourself.

And with that egg on your face, hypocrites like you dare lecture people for buying a car brand, just because the company's owner raised his right arm. Two-faced cherry-picking hypocrites. You have no logical arguments, just cheap appeals to emotional manipulation. It's best to be quiet and let people assume you're stupid than talk and remove all doubt.

BTW, did you know VW, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche used slave labor in WW2? What do you say about the owners of those brands? Why don't you all hate those users too using the same logic?
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/11/tesla-model-3-comes-bottom...
Super cool. I have something similar in my browser tab for years now when I open a new one
The Oberon+ compiler (https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon), which also compiles Oberon-07, is still missing in the list.
Rust Edition 2024 Annotated
My thinking is that we should look at the electricity usage rather than the subset of electricity used by lighting, since the bill going down because of lighting means the bill can go up because of something new.
Cross-tissue comparison of epigenetic aging clocks in humans
And would give me pay raises every quarter moon.
Having a "job" is not some universal good. What people need is resources/needs met. Refusing to buy factory shoes because it puts cobblers out of business is a losing strategy. Better to support the former cobblers needs than to keep forcing them to make shoes.
I read through a bunch of other articles on this and have not been able to find anything that has more details than this specific article. Sounds like it's possible that it's a malaria variant but far too early to tell
CACM used to be high quality.
This need to bend the argument back to the initial English colonization of America is stupid. These mediocre Indian IT drones are not putting everything they own in a boat and washing up here hoping to find a better life. They're the rich B students that could afford the process which become part of an idealized system that American corporations are now bending and exploiting to hire what are essentially indentured servants from a population of people who couldn't get the best jobs in their native country, so they settled on this backup plan.

And they DO have families of their own here (and bring over their in-laws), and a lot of them don't integrate well, for a variety of reasons. At least a third of my neighborhood is Indian. They glare at me on the sidewalk when I wave. And most of them remain inured in their caste system, and are difficult and unpleasant to work with.

Again, all the same arguments about developing our own chips domestically -- which I doubt many people have a problem with -- apply to developing our own, better education pipeline to fully develop domestic software engineers.
I'm sad the top comment is this.

We should be marveling over how much better of a world this is than the "GPT Store".

The open AI company, Deep Seek, is kicking OpenAI's ass. This is a million percent better.
She largely defrauded idiots on the investor side, granted. But that's still not allowed. Even defrauding idiots is a crime.
Do you really think this tool is making folks micromanage and abuse employees or perhaps they already would be doing that and this tool helps it?

There can be real value in these types of tools, its ultimately up to the implementation and I don't believe this tool will somehow make a happy work environment into an abusive one, the abuse will have most likely already existed.