skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm also talking about the ability to download your data or to delete your data from their servers, which was also the outcome of GDPR.

I’ll admit that I did this years ago so it may be different now. Facebook just gave me a copy of the data that I explicitly uploaded to Facebook: text posts and images. There was no other data about my login history or request history or anything else that (I believe, perhaps mistakenly) the GDPR considers as my personal data (cross-site tracking is the big one). There’s also no way to verify that my deletion request was honored, even for those text posts and images, but that will probably never be false so that’s kind of a weak point, IMO.

Not that I disagree with your overall point, just wanted to offer some words of concern on this particular point.
Whether any of that is or isn't true doesn't matter. He's publicly damaged the brand by that association. Perception is reality in business/branding.
Every now and then there is an alarmist article about aspartame, and every time it's hard to tell whether moderate drinking of soft drinks is better when it had regular sugar vs when it has aspartame - can any person more familiar comment on this with regarding to current article?
Selling an exaggerated or untrue story about powerful people also opens one up to expensive legal processes and consequences.
Amazon? FB was always a lot more evil.

Amazon just build the best logistics network on the planet and leverages this for their monopoly.

FB pushed fake news and everyting else without consideration as long as it grabs your attention which they then sell.
I think people still use FB because it given them something to feel better. In Twitter/X you see all kinds of bad things happening, but in FB they sign up for groups that send only the things they like to see (most of that being fake, anyway).
Profit-chasing never makes systems more efficient. It’s competition.
The more I learn about Sandberg the more I think she's actually psychotic
Cool I guess for a mini PC but Im one of those desktop PC tower nerds :)
> we are loosing our monopoly over human level intelligence

Do people really believe if there is someone out there smarter or more reaourceful that society has monopoly control over what they do? There was never any monopoly on human intelligence.

Information Asymmetry or Knowledge Gaps are not new problems.

Nature is full of it. And there is no over night constant collapse happening because of it.
Serious question: are you bothered by Elon's behavior?
By that standard pretty much every major German company established before the 50s is somehow “nazi”.

Then again I don’t see how can someone seriously say stuff like that, in what way is modern VW related to nazis?
To be clear, this is a different announcement. That was just RCS, this is encrypted RCS.
I am thinking now a language that had the default allocator be a GC, but you could change it to something else using implicits/context and this is enfoced everywhere (e.g.: there is no way to allocate memory "from magic", you need to call the allocator, even if it is from context).

At least thinking in Scala as a base syntax here, it would mean:

def foo(name: String)(implicit allocator: MemoryAllocator): StringBuf = {
val buf = allocator.new(100, String)
buf.append("Hello ")
buf.append(name)
buf
}

println(foo("John")) // implicit allocator from context, default to GC, no need to free

implicit val allocator: MemoryAllocator = allocators.NewAllocator()
println(foo("Alice")) // another implicit allocator, but now using the manual allocator instead of GC
defer allocator.free()

val explicitAllocator = allocators.NewArenaAllocator()
foo("Marie")(explicitAllocator) // explicit allocator only for this call
defer explicitAllocator.free()

I don't think there is any language right now that has this focus, since Odin seems to be focused in manual allocations.
They have been for years and not just in writing with there Google search deals
Grothendieck did not have a comprehensive view of mathematics, nor he ever claimed to. There are vast swathes of mathematics (e.g. PDE or probability) that never fell under Grothendieck's radar
A fork like LibreWolf or Mullvad Browser.
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The early versions had been only C. Then they added a lot of stuff.

You don't need all the fancy stuff, but OpenCL (and even more so Vulkan) are too complicated when all you want to do is some gpu number crunching.

Being able to write a kernel with something that looks like C. Having pointers on gpu and cpu and being able to call these kernels somewhat conveniently (like CUDA C) would be a great starting point.
This reminds me of the time I did a fait accompli.

Due to changes in the input data, a simulator was crashing completely and very early in the simulation, making it unusable. We had to solve this quickly. The underlying module that was crashing had been written by a non-software engineer, and it showed. The project manager was trying to understand it and do the most minimal fix to it as possible. My solution was to rewrite the module from the ground up; this solved the bug, the whole thing is going 2x faster than the previous version and is much simpler. This day I should have been working on a bullshit, internal politics-driven license module, and thus I disobeyed the manager. I couldn't think of anything else anyway, the code has to "get out".

A few days after, I showed my thing and the client royally ignored it, preferring to continue with fixing the older, shittier solution. After 10 or 20 minutes they finally caved and accepted to merge my thing. I don't understand the initial reaction at all.
So essentially, it's not really an Apple thing, it's more that the universal RCS profile just didn't have encryption, and Google RCS was a non-standard extension that nobody else was allowed to use.

The real news is the update to GSMA RCS, because without that, none of this matters. What I'm missing in the article is who's going to own the keys and why this is probably going to default to the telcos as if it's MMS. Are they going back to the days of charging per message?

With iMessage you'd be putting your trust in Apple, with Google RCS you'd be putting your trust in Google. For WhatsApp that'd be Meta and for Signal that's Signal. But with GSMA RCS?
And in disturbingly relevant news from 1933...

"Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it."
--Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly, "Duck Soup"
The point is still kind of valid, it is a decently affordable EV compared to many other ”luxury” EVs. They also had (have?) very cheap payment options available. I’d suspect the expenses are a big factor in the purchasing decision.

edit: obviously it’s not a car for poor people as it is still very expensive. I understand your point too.
There was this open protocol (that still exists!) called IRC. Also: Usenet and email.
I think the frequency of organ-centered cults is lower than you might imagine.
Hetzner's Object Storage does not seem API complete and it was released only recently.
> very easy way to get around such a requirement from legislation: Just call it licensing instead of a purchase.

Licensing should come with enhanced consumer rights e.g. an explicit license duration and allow the consumer to return the license for pro-rata refund within that duration. The license should be for the IP and honoured for all formats and platforms that meet some regularity threshold. The absurdity of having to rebuy things you "own" because you switch device or format has to end.

Along similar lines, hardware should be called "hire" not "sell" when the manufacturer maintains control over the device e.g. locked bootloaders, encryption keys, online service dependencies, forced updates with no downgrade, remote-access privileges, telemetry, not meeting "right-to-repair", hardware locking preventing component replacement or choice of consumable (e.g. ink) etc.

Similar return rights should apply if hardware is leased. Seller would need to be insured/escrow to meet consumer refunds if they break their side of the lease (e.g. going bust and shutting down required online services).
Are you really saying that first hand evidence of Zuck’s character is irrelevant to our understanding of him because it relates to a period when he was relatively young? We can’t use that together with his more recent actions to create a more complete picture of his character and motivations. That biographies should all start at age 30?
Thinking that a Swedish Sweden is racist is racist. Do better.
Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush
I Want to Believe (2013)
Could also be coming from the other side of that contact interaction.
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So it sounds like:
1. consuming aspartame triggers insulin release (unclear if this is novel information)
2. insulin release triggers inflammation that leads to atherosclerosis (they go into further detail on the mechanism here, which appears to be novel info)

It really doesn't seem to me like the artificial sweeteners should be the critical aspect of this finding, as this affects anything that triggers insulin release. Is there any data linking sulfonylureas with atherosclerosis? Based on this finding, one might expect that to be a consequence of their insulin releasing effect.
Or just taper. It is quite simple with caffeine for most people. Takes a few weeks. Just reduce consumption by 10-15% every 2-3 days. Symptoms should be much more manageable. I am at 2-3 cups of coffee per day. Maybe a diet red bull. If I stop outright I rarely even notice other than feeling a little slow that day. I am fine with that.
Fireforks
Watched the video. That is an absolutely fantastic UI. Seriously, huge props. This makes the project actually useful (as opposed to "why not just code this myself?"). Well done Xataio!
Is there anything that shows "no one was allowed to use it" or was it that it wasn't an accepted standard?
It’s excellent for its price point! Not so much for the $75-$120k Tesla price tag.
Many mix up what politicians want to do with what they can do.
"I think one thing that we’ve learned from the work on Tables is that it’s these _properties of storage_ that really define S3 much more than the object API itself."

Between the above philosophy, S3 Tables, and Express One Zone (SSD perf), it makes me really curious about what other storage modalities S3 moves towards supporting going forward.
> If someone could hack into Apple, download the schematics of their chips and the source for their OS, and then post it on the internet, after which a third party could sell commercial products based on said data, there wouldn't be a software/hardware economy around of very long.

Part of this tension arises out of a social understanding: we want competition precisely because we value the way it keeps an industry/nation "alive" --- there will be "winners and losers"--- and yet we also want to balance that with a coherent idea of ownership such that it's not just a complete lawless free-for-all. In other words, we don't want intellectual property to be too strong because it's economically and culturally stultifying.

Business interests naturally seek the complete nullification of competition, so they promote as strong as possible copyright protections; while the vox populi understands that common culture is the primordial goo that all intellectual property arises out of and returns to and finds copyright at base rather arbitrary. The legal, political, and social, understanding of copyright we have has arisen out of balancing these competing interests (themselves in productive competition) understanding that finding the right balance is precisely what has made a country like America, for example, so successful.

That the balance seems so out of whack in the direction of large and monopoly seeking business suggests the ways in which large business interests exerts undo influence on the legal and political landscape.
> Substantially worse product than Facebook from the start

I disagree. When Twitter first started taking off at SXSW twenty years ago it had very little in common with Facebook. There wasn't an algorithm, there were no ads, and there was barely a website. You just received text messages from people you followed. You mostly interacted with it via your phone and for many of us, that meant text entry on the digits keys of a Nokia or Motorola phone. It was delightful. You likely personally knew all the people you were tweeting with.

Facebook was something you did on your computer. There were lots of ads and they had just launched the algorithmic news feed. It was the beginning of something bad IMHO.
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To arrive in the bladder, the CO₂ would have to be absorbed into the blood stream first. Which it isn't, it is just burped out from your stomach. Also, CO₂ which is dissolved into the blood stream is removed through your lungs, and the blood CO₂ level is very tightly controlled by various regulators and reflexes. You would know instantly through your suffocation response that your blood CO₂ is elevated.
There is no silicon for useful laptops that isn't US-controlled or China-controlled. On top of that, there is no ISA or reference CPU that isn't US-based.

In the future, we might have RISC-V, but right now, we don't. You can get laptops with Intel, AMD, ARM or IBM, and that's about it. All of the chips that are fast enough to be useful are US-based (in design and manufacturing instructions, but Asia-based in physical construction).

Say you'd be more interested in something that looks/feels like it's not from the US, you are pretty much restricted to stuff that's from ODMs in Asia. But it's the same hardware from the same production facilities, running the same firmware and operating systems.
This is the classic example of the quote:

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses
My grandparents raised my parents in large cities. My parents raised their children in small towns. All of the children moved to large cities.

I often describe the town I was raised in as "a great place to raise children and an awful place to be a teenager".
He’s not on a visa. He’s a green card holder.
Good reason for Australia to think again about its $800M US subs contract. Unless they are prepared to pay in minerals...;-p
A twitter user claims that the Bitcoin whitepaper contains a hidden signature of Craig Wright which emerges only when you apply the very rules of Bitcoin’s operation as described in the whitepaper itself to the text of the whitepaper. Seems to check out, and is very elegant.
I think at least some of the NOPs are due to this

From my C transliteration:
https://github.com/loadzero/si78c/blob/master/si78c.c

// xref 0462
//
// This code is using the shot counter as an index into the ROM
// (where some code resides), for the purposes of random number generation.
//
// For the saucer direction logic, only bit 0 of each bytecode is used.
//
// The 256 bytes used reside at 0800 -> 08FF
//
// If you check bit 0 of each byte in that ROM section, you will find that there is no bias,
// and there are exactly 128 0's and 128 1's.
//
// It seems unlikely that this was an accident, I think Nishikado deliberately constructed
// the ROM this way, and used some well placed NOPs to achieve fair balance.
//
// E.g. these NOPs
//
// 0854: 00 00 00
// 0883: 00 00 00
//
// This information can be exploited to the player's advantage.
//
// If using the shot counting trick to get high scores, the
// expected saucer direction for the first 6 saucers (if counting),
// will be as follows:
//
// [22,37,52,67,82,97]
// [0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1]
// [L, R, R, L, R, R]
Not the US but most EV markets, apart from maybe eventually asian markets. Tesla and Musk had a crazy amount of goodwill and pretty much everyone I know was ”oh look, it’s a Tesla!” early on. Now every is more like ”oh look, it’s a Tesla..”
> Who cares about what the plebs do?

Pretty much everyone involved in the security and usability of the internet.

Enthusiasts will find ways to accomplish what they want to regardless of whether there's an easy browser-based path.
Not at all an expert, but the brief research says that it does cause insulin creation, though due to it not being actual sugar and also due to that there is 200x less Aspartame in mass in your drinks (as it's much stronger per weight unit), then this spike is small and the organism can easily handle it.
> Pressly's book is less about privacy and more about what it
protects, a condition he calls "oblivion."

Privacy is a beautiful word because it actually describes a cluster
that is a massive part of the human experience, including dignity,
respect, self-respect, and most importantly perhaps "peace".
In France you only get 20% pay while sick? WTF, I thought France was a socialist worker's paradise.
Somebody should tell them about Hetzner Cloud
Yes, Google only made it available for Google Messages. They don't have an SDK or API you can use to make your own clients or servers. Google also didn't put it up for standards with the GSMA or any other standards body, at least not publicly. There are no records of it.

There are some older submissions here you can probably find using one of the HN search sites about this, but IIRC those didn't really have any internal Google policy about this, they kept it all pretty private. The only 'leak' I remember about this was the thing where manufacturers that preload Google Android have to ship Google Messages to get RCS support from Google, otherwise they can't have it. Also means you can't have RCS without Play Services.
I somehow read that as Joe Biden...
Why was RCS even designed with a none encrypted mode? I get that the original spec isn't exactly new, but it's also not so old that encryption, security or privacy wasn't an issue.
blame perimeterx
You could have an elevated service that has separate configuration for which devices the user wants to grant access to, and it could even work as a proxy to disallow "bad" usage patterns. The interface to USB devices doesn't need to be directly with the kernel.

It's true though that it's difficult to ensure only a certain process has access to it, though the default value set to ptrace_scope by e.g. Ubuntu is a step towards helping that.. But in principle the service can know which executable is issuing the request.

All in all this seems quite a big effort for perhaps not that great benefit. In the meanwhile I'll be using Chromium for WebSerial and WebUSB needs.
There is a whole industry in the US to celebrate that some people are getting richer. And it is literally funded by some of the richest people in that list.
Seems like Apple's M2 is a sweet spot for AI performance at 800 GB/s of memory bandwidth which can be added under $1,500 refurbished for 65 gigs of RAM.
The government or other parties will come and take your data wherever you are without a moment's notice. There is no defence against that.

The objective should be to make that as hard as possible by not putting it somewhere you make it easy for them to do so without your knowledge or without legal due process.

And that is NOT in some cloud.
Those seem totally distinct?

For example, credit card points are a zero sum game. Credit scores are not. Everyone could be creditworthy, but many are not, and it’s highly beneficial to the entire system to be able to identify which group a person fits into (including for the person who isn’t creditworthy!)
Looking at PE in isolation doesn’t make much sense. For starters Tesla has very little debt compared to Ford and other major car companies.

Of course it’s still massively overvalued especially if their sales collapse across most of the world this year (which seems to be the case).
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Indeed. But that doesn't solve the issue that OVH's reputation for their Canadian DCs isn't great from the (again limited) information I have. If we had heard consistently positive things, we'd be there (or strongly considering them). A few platform engineers I worked with had worked at OVH in Canada - again no stellar reports sadly.
>MAGA

I haven't seen anything that would tell me that these are very smart people. But what it tells me is that they are just NOT very very dumb.
And then there are the doves, birds notorious for making the most lackluster of nests. They will lay eggs right on top of the spikes.

When you see the nests, it is amazing that doves / pigeons exist at all. They must survive out of spite and numbers.

Check out /r/stupiddovenests on reddit for some good examples.