skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is part of the problem. Application developers and the packagers should be distinct unrelated entities to reduce the chance of a malicious update being pushed to users if the developer sells out.

F-Droid and Debian/etc show how this is done.
I saw that phrase and thought it was pretty weird. Hunting wild animals for food is not some fringe thing that happens in "other places" I've eaten tons of fish, duck, deer, elk, etc. that were all "wild animals".
Yes you can, "because it's not visible".

France is about as catholic as it gets when it comes to who actually runs the show.
I also can't make a pen and a sheet of paper contain a proof showing whether P is equal to NP. Does that mean I don't own them either?

Now you could of course say that the difference is somebody having intentionally designed an object in a way that makes it capable of withholding some functionality from me but not others, and I'd agree.

But all in all, I just don't think "property rights" is the right lens to think about computing devices.
You're being too black and white here in my opinion.

From what I've seen we don't yet have a clear vision of what their end goals really are. They've talked about waste and fraud, and what they've done so far could be to that end. Going out a layer and you find people around them, and Project 2025, that seem to talk much more towards privatizing the government. I haven't seen enough to know which way it will go, but its been moving so quickly that I can't keep up with everything.

I didn't say "democrats are Marxists" and I didn't intend to imply that. To say there are no parallels is disingenuous at best. Wealth distribution is a great example that is common in both groups, as is anticapitalist and anti-meritocratic views and policies.

That doesn't mean democrats are Marxists or that the party is Marxist. It does, though, mean that there are policies many Democratic voters or politicians support that align with arguments Marx made (and that doesn't inherently mean the ideas are bad ones).
It seems there are multiple reasons. For one, the apk files include a digital signature and you won't have Signal's and Google's private keys available to recreate their signatures.
> Alternative options like Mastodon already solve that problem better than Facebook because they aren’t owned by Big Tech/the US government.

Them not being owned by Big Tech/government does not make them a better solution to the problem. It's a benefit (to some, not all), but if you're trying to recruit "normies" away from social media to, well, a different social media, then that should not be the first bullet point.
I hope so. I feel like we've been sliding backwards.
It found two solutions for 40 but one of them omitted the 5 the other added a 3.

12 * 3 + 4 = 40

1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 / 3 = 40
So you're saying it can definitely be classified this way, it's just not done properly
You have to read a lot of different code. Everyone thinks their code is good when they write it. Often old ugly code has a beautiful design still hidden behind many many requirements changes that didn't fit with the original design. Other code looks nice and beautiful but it will stand the test of requirement changes even worse than the other.
https://archive.ph/qfYWJ
> Life shouldn't be politicised that much

Musk is the one politicizing it that much, we're just responding to it. If he shut up and stopped his nonsense, it would quiet back down.

I almost never judge a work by it's creator, but sometimes the creator really goes out of their way to make me ignore that principle. Musk, Kanye, and a handful of others.
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Try going to YouTube and look for The Lock Picking Lawyer or McNally. Both are really skilled lock pickers, but the majority of the locks they review and demos does not require anything near their skills level to break. Half of all padlocks seems to be susceptible to comb picking, which require zero skill.

It was apparently never difficult to break into buildings, physical security has always been pretty poor. Unless you have an armed guard patrolling your property, there's no real reason to believe it secured beyond the fact that most people weren't going to break in anyway, or simply can't be bothered.
Hasn’t IR35 killed that market in the UK?
Apple exec concedes he had doubts about app store fees imposed on alt payment
Archive formats are hard to make reproducible because there are lots of ways of making different yet equivalent archives.
So it’s not surprising to me that someone would fail at this hurdle and find it frustrating to resolve.
Nix defined their own format for this to avoid this exact problem.
Singal is centralized? Can't they just block it at the border? I understand VPN or whatever, but if they're serious I hear there's a couple of countries with "pretty good" border firewalls.

Doing that would eliminate so many Swedes from Signal...

I haven't found a VPN solution for iPhone users in a couple of US states. It's like iphones are actively hostile to the very idea of a VPN. Or at least "self-hosted VPN", maybe the $20/month VPN work but that's... Sketchy.
These large compound statements look nice if they are perfect, but when you make giant expressions without intermediate variables, it is much more difficult to test.

When you have small expressions that have incremental results stored in variables, you can see the result in a debugger so you can see each stage.
>users can put in whatever tags they want. (Autocomplete is there to help, but they don't have to use it.) Then behind the scenes, human volunteers look up any new tags that no one else has used before and match them with any applicable existing tags, a process known as tag wrangling.

This is what booru sites have done for ages. Danbooru is the only booru mentioned in the article (and just as a passing mention despite being a few years older than Archive of our Own). I can only guess that AO3 is a bit more palatable than boorus for a general audience.

But this style of tagging really is the best of both worlds. The only downside is, as mentioned, the requirement for manual labor. I implement a similar system myself, obviously at a way smaller scale, for my own pictures. Basically I tag things as I feel like it at the time, and then every few months I "wrangle" the tags, as they do here.
You need a PLL somewhere, because the audio signal is encoded in the frequency shift of the carrier (e.g. 98 MHz +/- 150 kHz).

Or maybe you were getting a leak from the audio signal before modulation, e.g. via power lines or something.
Tried it, it writes my siblings’ names for a brief moment… their names sound absolutely nothing at all like the word.

It’s likely guessing based on previously typed history.
Web3.1 wasn’t cool enough
I mean it makes sense. The biggest problem with the internet today is that all the big tech companies want to automate as much as possible, and that necessarily means quality and organisation will take a massive hit. Google services, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media services, Amazon and other marketplaces, digital storefronts like Steam and the console download game shops... they're all terribly organised and flooded with garbage because no one's manually doing anything to fix it.

Meanwhile, you've got fanwork sites like this one which have better quality and organisation standards than any large company site, simply because someone gives a toss about whether things are easy to find and of high quality.
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Does an auto-response count? Are you willing to bet your job and healthcare on whatever your answer to that is?

Plenty of federal employees do not have email access outside of their workplaces for a variety of reasons.

and

Musk has tweeted repeatedly about this, and even if he didn't an email threatening to auto-resign the entire federal workforce is going to cause a stir. This should be obvious to anyone.

So, it's a stupid idea and you support it and it's not even the real reason anyway.

And edit to address your edits: You appear to have forgotten that your claimed reason for this was to catch out people who don't check their emails. Now you're angry at me for suggesting these people exist, when my whole point was that if they exist this is a stupid way to catch them out.
Arrest can only happen when someone is subject to a jurisdiction (or somewhere with an extradition treaty), which is an added layer of protection. And it's a heavier tool, which means it gets used in fewer and more serious cases.

Blocking can shape a whole society.

Also, arrest is the appropriate tool to stop something bad from happening, rather than just hiding it.

(And to be clear, this is all about things that a government is restricting, which should be few and far between. Private sites can block whatever users they wish.)
That’s not accurate. This term, the word should be xenophobe.
Heh. Yeah, self-driving has been the laggard which muddles the predictions, right?

The way I see it (and probably mostly wrong), is that you can't fund AGI with capitalism. Progress under capitalism is driven by consumer demand. But, at this point, most consumers already have everything they need. So, you need to fund progress a different way.

But, Gov spends trillions. All you have to do is direct some of that toward AI development and continuously show decreasing spending. And, as AI gets better, you save more, and you redirect more and more into AI. And, continue that cycle.

I'm guessing self-driving is lagging because of social friction. People really like to be in control - enough so that they're willing to risk death (something like 1 in 90 chance of death from driving). Even though automated driving currently is probably safer (and an order of magnitude safer if all vehicles were self-driving).
American Psycho at #55? Impressive, very nice. Now let's see the list from r/books.
Technology very much does. It's the flesh that has a hard time triumphing over force. To counteract this, you can also engineer a system that can resist it through e.g. split secrets on multiple people located in different jurisdictions.
Fear it seems.
I'm getting really fed up with all the bugs in Sequoia in particular. I know the usual advice is to not upgrade macOS major versions until .1 or .2, but we're up to 15.3.1 now and it's still terrible.
Although no one eats there, he declares 50 kebab sales, the purchase of a frozen kebab skewer and bread rolls, etc.
The raw materials will either be thrown away or sold on to another real restaurant. But to pass the checks, the purchases of raw materials must be consistent with the sales.
The 50 sales are made with cash from drug trafficking.
The simpler the activity, the fewer raw materials and the bigger the margins, the better. Amsterdam has its Nutella waffle stands, Berlin its kebabs, Paris its nail bars and massage parlours.
Local-First group- and message encryption in p2panda
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That doesn't sound terrible but honestly I don't think DOGE has the right staffing to do this. All the DOGE employees I've heard about are very young and come from programming backgrounds. Do they have any accountants? Anyone with experience in auditing or logistics? At best, any attempt to do what you suggested would end up like a bad reality show and I wouldn't expect long term improvement.
They don’t normally get fired at random on a whim either. Nothing about this is normal.
> 2. You can’t access your email remotely, really?

No. I do not have work email on my phone. You have had some awful jobs based on what you are saying here.
Fascinating--I wonder to what extent the performance improvements are due to the better constraints Rust hands over to LLVM for optimization (specifically thinking `noalias` rules) vs aggressiv code optimization by the developers to be to the point where they beat the C zlib. The latter could be more difficult to achieve given how long the original zlib has been getting incrementally improved, though.
Graph API sat at v1.0 until Cambridge Analytica. The answer to your question is related to the amount they paid Facebook.
Jsonblog-CLI: minimalist blogging with JSON
I've been building https://mentions.us for the last couple of months. It's a little web app that monitors Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Hacker News and a bunch of other sites for keyword mentions. Not an original idea (F5Bot has existed for at least 8 years) but a fun project, and I think it can make a contribution by monitoring more sources and having a free tier that includes sending Slack messages.

It has taken a couple of months to go from idea to a product that's polished enough for other people to use, and I've been full time on it. It has a couple of dozen companies using it now, almost all from the last couple of weeks. That's been a big boost!
Transacting in Bitcoin is already unattractive to 99%+ of potential users.
Thank you so much for all the work you and your colleagues do to bring solvespace to the world.

I believe it has the potential to be one of — and probably already is in — a class of super impactful, all time classic pieces of software alongside the likes of Firefox, Gimp, Inkscape, et al.
That’s only true up to a point. PC prices fell dramatically in real terms over time as people didn’t need to spend 2000$ mid 90’s dollars to get vastly more performance at home.

But more interesting is the trend to upgraded less frequently.
What would be a moderate way to interpret this?

Is it the vector space of two words being approximate to one another?
Here I responded to the post. I’m laying in bed while I do it. It is literally one of the easiest things in the world. If you can’t manage to do the easiest thing in the world to keep your job, then what are you being paid for? How are you going to do anything that might actually justify your salary?
I took most of the 'Clearly better' and a few others; but NOT the prune options.
I don't like things getting deleted without me saying yes!
There's a good argument to be made that the role of bureaucracy in our government is to intentionally slow down change and even out the peaks and valleys as administrations change.

I'd be worried about the Chesterton's Fence problem when removing bureaucracy simply because we don't like that it gets in our way.
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That, or your incessant self-aggrandizing misantrophy rubs me the wrong way.

In a flagged thread where you refer to others you don't agree with as having mental illnesses, you try to defend yourself by suggesting that I might have a reading disability.
Amazing convergence! Thank you for playing!
In addition to Google...

DataBricks is a multibillion dollar company and was based on research at the AMPLab UC Berkeley, which was funded by an NSF Expeditions grant.
https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/news/amp-awarded-10m-nsf-expe...

Duolingo is a multibillion dollar company and was based on NSF funded research.
https://www.nsf.gov/science-matters/nsf-gave-duolingo-its-wi...

My previous startup, Wombat Security Technologies, was based on NSF funded research of just $1.2M. It led to over 200 jobs, and we helped protect millions of people around the world through our cybersecurity training.

I'm sure there are dozens of other startups that I don't know of also based on US Federal funding from NSF and NIH.

Strong science leads to a strong economy, and a strong economy is essential to national security.

We're also in an AI arms race with other countries around the world. Cutting science funding right now is a massive self-inflicted wound.

For everyone who is a US citizen, please write your Senators and House representatives pushing back against the chaos and the proposed science cuts. It only takes a few minutes, and the future of science in the US needs every bit of help it can get right now.
It's not the purpose of five eyes, it's a noted tactic.

But at the same time countries realise they are under attack economically and political from hostile cyber warefare... and so there's something self-defeating about this tactic now whereas perhaps 10-20 years ago there wasnt.

It's hard to imagine a US-China war (say by proxy in TW) or a EU-Russia war (eg., esp., by proxy in UA) "going well" under conditions of broken domestic encryption.

Eg., back when the UK mass surveillance law was passed in 2016, I imagine sigint agencies were more on-board... today I wonder if that law would now be "quietly opposed" on grounds of national defence
Elon Musk's own xAI and all of its suppliers.
Exactly, which mitigates abuse only to the same degree that it mitigates your own response to the solution to child pornography. Either the necessary custody chains needed to enforce laws overseas exist or they don't, you can't have it both ways.

It is a heavier tool, but it's also a more severe tool, I'm not sure I understand this objection.

Blocks and arrests both serve to reduce the occurrence of bad things because bad things require delivery and arrests take time and are sometimes not possible. Disbanding the drug cartels in Brazil and Mexico would be the best solution to the flow of drugs into the U.S, but that's hard and even at best will take a long time, so in the meantime countries settle for trying to stop drugs at the border instead. The response to overseas distribution of child pornography should be similar.
Sure, don't disagree. I see constantly the two sides of private equity-driven businesses- fragile exterior profitability, hollow interior. This is that story at the nation level. Profitability != robustness. Wealth != strength. Cheers.
You can also not use a service. I think anonymity is a better measure than the ability to lie for co-operative systems.
How should we evaluate progress in AI? (2018)
That could be just

git add . && git commit -a -m "git to da choppa" && git push --force

For when you need to Get to da choppa and don't have time to clean up =)
>Likewise, me thinking someone is a bad person doesn't mean it's some objective and universal truth. It's literally, like, my opinion, man.

There's literally an entire branch of study that tries to formalize it so it's not just "It's literally, like, my opinion, man".
Before your edit I was going to link to this, much the same info: https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/details-map/en/...
This is important. This is all distraction and flooding the zone. Keep focused on what is important. If you voted for Trump, did you vote for this? Are you seeing the results you wanted? Are prices down and wages up? Are you ok with Trump wanting to increase debt by several trillion? Isn't that the opposite of what they are saying they are doing?
One of the best handyman in my area charges very little. He does a lot of volunteer work in disaster areas (after a flood or hurricane, he will travel and help rebuild communities). He told me he didn't care that much about the money. He wanted to make a modest living and he performed his trade with excellence. He wasn't a pauper, but he also wasn't running a multi-million dollar construction company.

He has a lot of friends and is well loved in his community.

What a chump.
Short version: when designing new software, you don't have its architectural picture in the beginning. So when starting from scratch, the architecture shouldn't be screaming, but rather, it has to be non-committal/non-speculative to allow wiggle room for the future. (How to achieve non-committal architecture is the biggest topic I'm interested in, and I find 1 good tactic every few years). Specifically, the architecture should ephasize entry points and outputs. That's exactly what frameworks like Rails provide. You go by entry points until some sort of custom architecture starts emerging from the middle, which is when it can slowly begin "screaming" over time.
I have a hypothesis that "popular" restaurants in tourist heavy cities like Paris, London, Tokyo have google reviews are heavily skewed by these tourists. Basically any place that has over 1-2k reviews and 4.5+ becomes a self-fulfilling cycle. Sometimes you go into a supposedly local place and everyone seated around you is American. I tend avoid places with thousands of reviews therefore or when there are barely any reviews in the local language
Good question! I assumed it was US only but things have changed a while back after it becoming popular it seems.
Going by https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

>Because everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted, we can rent server infrastructure from a variety of providers like Amazon AWS, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, and others while ensuring that your messages and calls remain private and secure.
Bear with me here, but I think it comes down to believing in a "benign government", coupled with a misunderstanding of the technology.

Under a benign government (as arguably we have in most of Europe), we can have a reasonable assumption that the state will act in the interests of the population. The public sector workers who have chosen that line of work probably believe in what they're doing and want to do it well.

The government has always had the ability to steam letters open, and they will always need to, in order to fulfill their duties to the population.

Of course, requests such as adding a back door to end-to-end encryption are unnecessary when they could take control of one of the devices in some fashion...
I'm not disagreeing with you, however, Empire Access is neither Verizon, AT&T, nor CenturyLink.
> Personally, I think the default behavior of Git should be to make your remote references as close to what is on the remote as possible. Prune stuff that’s gone, etc.

Yikes, no. Remote junk disappears all the time, and you never know when you'll have to recover something. Old versions of GitHub pull requests, in particular, tend to be garbage collected at the backend rapidly. It's a semi-regular occurrence for me that I have to dig through reflog to get to early work that everything else has forgotten about.

Just in general, don't delete stuff you don't know you don't need. That's just data robustness 101. nothing to do with git. Deletions should be as manual as possible, and generally done following a backup.
You must be a fan of the Barber Paradox.
same thread, tory bruno says it was not for delta IV

https://x.com/torybruno/status/1848797537215410627
Surely you can see that there are trivial counter examples to this? Someone stealing to save someone's life, or to feed a starving child, or etc. From their perspective they won't be bad people, it's not universal.
> Many European leaders have acknowledged Trump was right regarding a lot of things in his first term, and that Europe would have been better off had they listened to him.

Who did and what did they say? Cite your sources.
a bit different lol
The Corruption of the New England Journal of Medicine
Do you really know that for sure? Have you asked them if they'd think less of you if you bought a Tesla now?

I judge people by their actions, not the sins of their parents. The companies you list aren't run by the same people, so your question is irrelevant. If Tesla were to toss out Musk and ensure he has no influence then people would likely stop judging Tesla owners the same way they do today.
Startups have nowhere to go but up. Large established companies have nowhere to go but down. Why do you think large organizations are so conservative? It's because getting new customers is much harder than losing existing customers. The US government has flaws, but it is phenomenal overall.

This is like taking over Apple and tearing apart its culture and management. Only bad will come out of it.
I'm not rich and I have this mindset. I make far less than most people on HN do, less than industry average too, but I've been able to live an okay life regardless.

The goal was never to get rich as I realized early on that was improbable and I focused on other things.
> I guess the downside of that an opponent is likely to attack your groin

It's possible but dangerous to do. You open yourself up to attacks when trying to attack someone's groin from below.

> I assume that must have been detachable?

I'm not sure. A lot of them don't look detachable, being partially covered by other armour pieces.