jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can limit what an app can gather anyway, if you wish. If you would go to such extremes to have a second device just for WhatsApp, there are ways to hide things from it on your one main device, too. I go for microg in order to cut Google's surveillance, and usually allow no permissions on untrusted apps, so all they can get is the IP. You can mitigate that too when needed, though probably with more effort than is practical (accessing the internet is something that can also be restricted from default Android permissions).
just finally installed matrix on my phone, been using it on desktop on and off for years. never used whatsapp in the first place but the way i see it, where i live e2e f whatsapp is worthless, harmful even because you cannot express dissent as our kyc compliant phone is linked. same for telegram and signal. i might end up setting up my own matrix server but will see about that.
Signal will sync your message history from the point you link multiple devices (not those sent/received prior to that), but no tablet support (unless you're talking about iPad).
i also think it's a content thing. the content of HN doesn't lend itself to lunatics most of the time. i say "most" because it certainly happens (see the early covid threads and the hatred spewed for anyone questioning or even just wondering aloud about the lockdowns)
I'm already using Signal as a secondary messaging service (since someone I know didn't use WhatsApp) so I'll just switch to that.

Luckily I don't have any friends on WhatsApp, so the transition will be easier. Let's see if my family cares enough about messaging me that they'll download Signal.
As much as I would like to resist, I will have to surrender and accept the new terms for WhatsApp. The network effect is so big here, that none really bother using anything else. Just checked my address book, and I have 100+ contacts using WhatsApp, ~15 on Viber, ~15 on Telegram and ~10 on Signal, and I don't care much about most of those people on other messengers.
Well, it seems not to have a Swype functionality. Actually, on small Touchscreens without feedback this is quite essential.

We really need an full open source keyboard with some kind of Swype. Sadly I don't know any.
Only if you believe the Great Rock And Roll Swindle version of events. Even if McClaren was the cynical genius he intentionally portrays himself as, the Pistols are only about half as manufactured as One Direction and many others. Personally I reckon there was just a little cross promotion with Vivienne Westwood's clothing and he played up his level of control in an attempt to grab attention after Lydon left to form the vastly superior PIL.
Hi Nikanj,

We think this is of enormous benefit to landlords:

1. Fill vacant space for which you are business rates (UK specific)

2. Be more visible in search for when companies are looking for space

3. Have visibility over the state of the market and what type of space people are demanding

4. Have confidence that if you let your space on a flexible basis, that you will always be able to sustain a high rate of occupancy

5. A beautiful profile of your space online, where thousands of businesses looking for space in your area can come across you
I think no one would be willing to buy MtGox knowing they wouldn't be paying the debt. Imagine MtGox customers going to mtgox.com, then being redirected to Coinbase: it's like saying "Hi, we bought MtGox. We know you've lost your money there, not gonna return it. Come do business with us instead!". That's nuts and is going to hurt buyer's image a lot.
I agree, we actually sketched a very similar process (and a business model canvas) with some friends during a brainstorming idea :) .

One particularly promising idea was combining internet orders, with a pick-up place like BufferBox.

We also added some ideas to our canvas that were more specific to my country, but it's definitely viable and among my favourite things I'd do if I was able to do a startup. I hope someone is able to do it.

https://www.bufferbox.com/

Edit: swapbox too, it seems bufferbox is winding down which is sad.

https://www.swapbox.com/

I don't see if those offer refrigerated holding. I think a similar service, specializing in foodstuffs, has a niche.
That's probably not true, in that among the myriad distros there's probably one in which vi is nvi.
I am not sure whether I should feel happy that someone higher in power took their time to talk about something important, or feel disappointed that someone actually has to talk about something that seems obvious. I guess we all live in very different worlds.
I have a couple links in my bookmarks bar that I've reduced to just the icon. I'd rather waste bandwidth than screen real estate :)
If you don't want Tim Cook to say the words, just read them aloud to yourself and pretend they are your words. Then analyze their substance based on the content, rather than who says them. The counter to an appeal to authority is not to ask for a different authority. (It is to become an authority yourself.)
He seems to mainly be talking about discrimination against gays, though doesn't say it directly. I wonder if he really means it that Apple won't discriminate against pedophiles, incestuous couples or the grey areas on the boundaries of age of consent? Or is it like the old "universal suffrage" that turned out only to be universal to men, and not women?
What's a "mission-oriented" company?
> A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

I would hate to live in such a world where such thing would be considered illegal but ok.

> say individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law.

So? I don't see how this is a problem, as a business owner you are allowed to discriminate against who you do and do not want to be your customers. It happens all the time and to religious people themselves when they are boycotted by LGBT groups.

> Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples

If we start with the premise that we need to be afraid of every considered bill then I don't know how you could ever not be afraid these days. Just simply a bill being considered doesn't mean anything.

> They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.

The US was founded on principles of freedom of expression and association. The freedom to associate is also the freedom to not associate, only Tim skips over all that.

> America’s business community recognized a long time ago that discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.

Really Tim? All forms of discrimination? What world do you live in?

> This isn’t a political issue. It isn’t a religious issue. This is about how we treat each other as human beings. Opposing discrimination takes courage.

Except it is political (legislation), it is about religion (Freedom of association for religious reasons) and NO, it doesn't take courage to say what apparently the whole business community believes according to you Tim.
KTH tests engineering students math abilities by giving new students the same test every year. There is nothing gained or lost from this test so nobody studied for it. Anyway, this gives us a reasonable trend in how well students know the basics, and it shows that students are getting better and not worse right now. The worst class was the one starting 2007.

https://www.kth.se/aktuellt/nyheter/trenden-har-vant-matteku...
> A contract which says "we'll pay you less if you move somewhere cheaper" must also say "we'll pay you more if you move somewhere more expensive" but then suddenly my employment incentivises my location

I believe this is a key point in the argument. Currently, I see only one party having an upside but no downside.
I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who thought so too, even though it was meant to be a bunch of joke alt-coin ideas.

I guess the only criticism could be, won't you end up with a bunch of half-built bridges eventually?

*oops* hadn't realized it was by the same author!
TL;DR: there is no one silver bullet for the UI in general.

As a rule practical and manageable UIs use all these approaches at the same time.

Components, class based and/or functional (fe: UserSection, InventoryTable ), are in principle loosely coupled. They may not know about each other and use messages to communicate.

The Flight by Twitter ( https://flightjs.github.io/ ) was/is probably the first practical thing that pioneered that approach.

The Flight is not even a framework but rather a design principle.

In fact it is an anti-framework - it postulates that in practice each component may have its own optimal internal architecture. One component is better to use React-ivity, another - Angular-ish data binding, etc. On some, immediate mode drawing is the most natural.

Smaller the task (component) - greater the chance to find silver bullet for it.
It's quite hard to test heavily interactive code like this. Not totally impossible but you have to question if it's worth the effort.
What's your opinion on Layer 2 technologies like ZK and Optimistic Rollups?
Just to clarify, when I said

> 3 of them not addressing the point at hand, and 1 point dishonest at best

I meant counts of points, i.e., three of them not addressing the issue (points 1,3,4) and one dishonest (point 2) - reasons above. So dishonesty was not related to point 1, sorry if it reads like that.

To further elaborate for 1,3, and 4; I don't contend with his explanations - but they do not address the larger question of whether/why racists/sexists find his blog appealing.
For one thing, you're probably committing tax fraud if you lie.
As long as biosecurity evolves humans it will not be perfect.
I don't follow. Being part of a bigger machine isn't proof that it's hard.
> as long as we're not sure, keep doing it

There are diminishing returns in this caution principle, while the harm caused by the deluge of disinfection products on the environment and ourselves certainly adds-up.

You can never be 100% sure you won't get infected through surface. By this logic you should spray sanitizers everywhere all the time.
Also listed them https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr/wiki/Alternatives
Non-mobile link: http://funcall.blogspot.com/2021/04/early-lisp-part-ii-apply...
It doesn't seem like you are aware that WhatsApp hired Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the Signal encryption protocol, to re-implement it for WhatsApp. AFAIK it is still used in WhatsApp today.

I will take this moment also to mention that "re-implement" isn't exactly right in that they modified the protocol slightly to allow for someone in control of the administration server to change a user's private key without their knowing, so that the admin can decrypt the E2E communications using the known key.
For the aged people yes, but not for populations, there could be an increase of education and creativity that would offset the natural decline.
As someone who's lost many nights to CK3, Elite Dangerous, and not Star Citizen I'm grateful they released a limited very enjoyable game that simulates the core elements of the concept, and I hope they enhance it with native support for Gay Marriage in the future.
Second para is interesting reading. No further details given, but it’s written by someone who’s allegedly on the front lines of covid treatment, and it leaves me curious about whether there is a greater chance of an adverse effect to the vaccine amongst populations that have been heavily exposed to the virus already.

“Nevertheless, what I am currently struggling with is the failure to report the reality of the morbidity caused by our current vaccination program within the health service and staff population. The levels of sickness after vaccination is unprecedented and staff are getting very sick and some with neurological symptoms which is having a huge impact on the health service function. Even the young and healthy are off for days, some for weeks, and some requiring medical treatment. Whole teams are being taken out as they went to get vaccinated together.”
Two things:

1. The meaning of $500 varies wildly across earth. It's not much work to figure that out.
2. It depends on the kind of project. If you want a community project, a project that lives and breathes, you don't just need to put out code, but also inspire use and new contributors. For that, a pleasant atmosphere helps, and have existing contributors seem approachable. For that, you need to project not being a tiny club of likeminded, or worse, outright similar, people. This tends to discouraged interest and participation. It also tends towards a particular internal culture having way too much overlap with a particular culture is my experience. Teams consisting of 30 year old male computer scientists will have a particular kind of banter/small talk utterly incompatible with many other backgrounds. Not having too much of one kind of team member protects you from this, making on boarding easier.
I mean, it's all chemicals, right? It's chemicals all the way down.

Neurotransmitters secreted by lipid-bound sacs (cells) packed with protein and sugar, arranged in vicinity of each other based on chemical and electrical (chemical influx/action potential) pulses.

We abstract the chemistry from a machine-code level (raw, chaotic, biochemistry) up to medicine's version of brain C++ (neuroscience), and then brain Python (psychology).

And, so, sure, maybe mental illness isn't simple chemistry (only a matter of one or two neurotransmitters a little off-kilter), but everything happening in your brain right now is chemistry, and so deviations from normal must therefore be a matter of chemistry.

I would argue that calling it an imbalance or whatever is just a matter of semantics, but everything we see, and are, and do, and perceive is chemistry and changes in the chemistry (imbalances, whatever you want to call it) influence everything we see, and are, and do, and perceive.

At a low level with current technology, we can tweak individual neurotransmitters pharmacologically (SSRI). With things like CBT we can try to tweak the chemistry in a more complex manner, and at a higher level of abstraction (changing wiring of chemical and electro-chemical synapses via chemically-mediated long-term potentiation/depression).

So, I want to try to make the argument that it's less a matter of whether you address chemical imbalances or not, but rather at what level of abstraction you address the chemical imbalances.

I'm genuinely not trying to be a pedantic douchebag. I'm just trying to argue that it's all the same shit, just at different levels of abstraction.
Very helpful write up. Do you feel ‘guilt’ for being solely managerial? How do you manage code and design quality? What criteria do you use to hire now vs early days?
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford
I think it's time to have some unit tests written and get bolder with refactoring. I remember smarter-than-me developers claiming it's impossible to have tests in the kernel, but I never quite got a satisfactory answer. BTW, is there a USB connected power meter that could be used to reliably measure power consumption? It's easy to setup abox that continuously deploys different kernel configurations and measures power consumption. With something like that we could have a good map of power consumption x kernel x hardware in a couple days.
Ah okay, trickle-down economics 2.0

So, give the wealthy the opportunity to ship twice the number of widgets at half the profit and they'll just have to give someone a job, regardless if it's the lowest possible paying jobs that will only be temporary anyway until the cost to make the widget also increases because of the supplies they need will now also cost twice as much.

Then when China out-deflates us to make the widgets even cheaper, all that temporary labor will be on unemployment and need taxpayer provided benefits and health care. Win-win for the factory owner.
The better, easier way to competitiveness is to increase productivity by enticing more productive workers with higher compensation.

It's a great time for startups because it looks like investors are encouraging another Internet "bubble" -- the US economy boomed in the last one, and it was a significant contributor to the record economic surpluses we had under Clinton (http://pragcap.com/visualizing-the-destruction-of-the-clinto...).
Do you now use C for web apps? Like parsing GET, POST, DB, Cookies?
There's a playlist for that:
http://bit.ly/18JB6Yw
(FYI 'y' is a vowel, too.)
If any devs read this, for MySQL, you may want to consider using the update method adopted by many larger companies - something like pt-online-schema-change (or make the alter method pluggable so someone else can).

Basically, create a table as a copy of the old table, set up triggers to update the new table as data pours into the old table, alter the new table, and then do a rename.

This buys you some rollback capabilities, but more importantly it limits the impact on production traffic as the alters run. Of course, this is only really an issue on tables with hundreds of thousands of rows, but it's better than the naïve approach.
Interesting, I've never thought of using it as a meditation object. I might have to try that, as my tinnitus works the same as yours (I only notice it when it's super silent and I'm not working on something else)
Contactless payments are great but there are many intermediaries in 1 simple purchase in the current payment processing system. I would like to see digital payments evolve into true p2p transactions. Let me pass you my bits. I don't want to pass them to bob, jessica, then larry and then have larry pass you the bits.
Not necessarily. The vaccine design work took all of a day, at least for the mrna vaccines.

You could have frontloaded manufacturing by commissioning companies to produce doses while waiting for trials. But we didn’t do that with the knowledge we had, so unclear earlier knowledge would have worked.

Trials were the big bottleneck and for that you need infected patients. So I guess if they had got a vaccine to wuhan for trials it would have sped things up, but not clear it could have been used in trials there before this all seemed serious.
I don't know. I tend to just follow the "everything in moderation" philosophy and look to stay away from some things when possible, like trans fats, soda, and artificial stuff. I figure if both sets of my grandparents made it to their 80s and 90s that way (without major issues up to that point), then it should be good enough for me.
I think colleges just do a terrible job of actually saying what they do. The purpose of an undergraduate education isn't the simple transfer of knowledge, it's more about "learning how to learn." The thing I've noticed about the self-educated is that they are absolute experts in the thing(s) that they're really interested. It is rare indeed to meet someone whose intellectual curiosity takes them to the places that a simple undergraduate education will.

In college you were exposed to philosophy, literature, and a host of other things. That self-educated guy generally knows a lot about quantum mechanics, but has never bothered to read a classic novel or has never heard of Kant. All of those things form the basis and experience that allow you to learn from the world around you so much more efficiently.

I don't think college is broken, I just think the expectation that college is somehow a four year skills-training institution is fundamentally flawed.

My viewpoint on this has definitely evolved over the last decade. At 22, fresh from dropping out of college after my junior year, I would have written the same thing. A decade of experience has taught me the value of what I learned in college.
College is like bundled software. You're buying a basket of goods, some of the items, probably all, are not the best-of-class, but you get an overall value that some people think is worth the cost and time, particularly if they don't think about the time or cost, since there is social validation from everyone else doing it, and it lets them avoid the thought and effort involved with evaluating the alternatives for their lives.

Best way to learn? No, but you'll learn something. College is about being socialized into society. You'll meet people and join networks. You'll have fun, go to parties, and date. You'll be away from home and learn to live on your own. You'll get a certification that will allow you to apply for certain jobs you would otherwise be excluded from. In short, to fit into the role society wants for you.

The people who are supposedly being glorified for dropping out are actually being glorified for dropping out to do something better than the usual thing. And to those comfortable with and benefiting from the status quo, this act of rejection is perceived as a threat to their plans for you.
I wrote a quick Ruby script that prints out a tabula recta for passwords. Enjoy!

https://gist.github.com/745446
> If it's "fair market value," then why do they need to exercise eminent domain in order to force the sale?

Because sometimes individuals choose not to sell at the fair market value (e.g., not everyone sells their stock at the current stock price - in fact, some people choose to buy at that price. That's the definition of a fair market value.)

> And if the person is irrational and refuses to sell their land at any price, you freaking change your plans.

Sometimes this makes the plans dramatically more expensive and/or impossible. The canonical example is if a road needs to be built. It may be that there is _no_ viable route where all the existing property owners are willing to sell. This may either be because of personal attachments to the property or because they know that as the last holdout, they can demand a higher price.

In either case, "eminent domain" says the government can force the sale, paying a just compensation, in order to promote the public welfare.

Yes, this is imperfect (the owner may not consider it a fair price, or may not want to sell at any price). Yes, it is open to abuse. But yes, there are cases where it is needed, hence the inclusion in the Constitution, but with possibility of judicial and electoral review.

kb
This story has been several times over the week, although it's not sparked any discussion. In case you're interested, here are some previous related submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007338

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009001

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010251

This much earlier submission has many comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436625
The other thing that isn't the same is the external validation- or failure. Most people who are learning on their own don't have the same hard deadlines and pressure to perform at a particular level. That pressure pushed me to work harder than I ever would have on my own; and that's the case for almost everyone, even autodidacts.
As some one pointed out in the comments, everyone is different. Sure, college may be broken, but I certainly don't regret going to college. I then went to grad school (for ECE) and now I am in school for an MPA (nonprofit studies).

I do not think Peter Thiel is encouraging people to crap on colleges. It all boils down to an individual - people going to college and those that don't - both can make a difference.

As much as I admire entrepreneurs, facebook and myspace do not solve pressing problems (disease, hunger etc). Sure, we admire the founders because they made it, but money is not the end all. I'd be scared to live in a world full of entrepreneurs :).