jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As other the other answers state: It's them rolling their own cryptography. Also, not having E2EE in group chats. Their UX is really good and I agree with you, going from that alone I would always suggest Telegram too.

There are other considerations too, like that fact that I often got notifications that someone joined Telegram but that person was a friend of a friend and not in my personal contact list. One of my friends works for an actor's agency and then I got notifications when some of his clients joined the platform. I'm pretty sure they weren't aware of it and from a privacy standpoint this is very questionalbe and left a very sour taste. I always feared that I missed a privacy setting and am exposed the same way.
I realize I probably didn't make this clear, I don't want to ban user-generated content from the internet, merely that you need to show some proactive moderation and that there needs to be meaningful consequences for inaction. Hate speech is not the same as free speech and these are private services that should be held to a minimum standard in the same way restaurants have to pass a health inspection.
> there's not a chance in hell Apple would approve a web browser as an app

Thankfully, there is a web browser.

But corporations want us to use apps instead of web browser to restrict this. Like, everything must be an app. Every social network basically forces their app down your throat. "Ew you use a browser, what a loser"
Personally, as the author, I didn't find myself particularly lacking in self awareness. I did qualify it with "I think" meaning it's a personal interpretation I was sharing. Rather than attacking my character, perhaps you'd like to try and understand why I'd have such a view?
If what Trump said that morning was intended to cause that violence, then it absolutely passes the “imminent lawless action” test. It specifically said to start the action immediately and was clearly likely to cause the action. The question is what his intent was.
Going to need some sources—the fact that cops found some of that stuff in various locations around the Capitol is not prima facie evidence that the specific individuals who actually broke into the Capitol building brought those things or intended to use them to commit acts of terrorism.
I'm always struck by how fast the rhetoric shifts when one side loses a big election. How quickly we care about everyone being civil, and respecting one another, when we are no longer holding the position of power.
That’s just the start. We’ll start seeing tech giants introduce “Partner API” for allied political parties in other countries. And soon enough there will be a world centralized government.
> 1900x1080

1900?

20 horizontal pixels short of full HD?

Why?
Sure, if you handle all the edge cases properly :-)
My landline at home has never* had an outage in 27 years.

* that I'm aware of
Anyone else think: "Battlestar was right!" ?

^^ Also what is the correct punctuation of that sentence??
I get all kinds of crazy widths in chrome - check the width on your elements.
That's not how recessions, economics, or finance works. No one has evidence for any future events.

People have theories and models when it comes to economic and financial forecasting, not evidence.
Confirmed: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
> Your link about mail in ballots says they are secure because of measures like signature validation, except we got rid of that.

I was not accurate, but you were also not accurate. Pennsylvania did not "get rid" of signature verification for absentee voting; it never had signature validation in the first place. States have the power to hold elections in the manner of their choosing, and of the last 28 years, Republicans had trifecta control of the legislature for twelve [1]. They had the full power to amend the election code as they saw fit, but they chose not to.

In any case, the absence of signature validation still does not prove fraud. The purpose of signature validation is to "prove" is the person who cast the ballot is the person who registered to vote. To take advantage of a lack of signature validation, an attacker would have to:

1. Find people who are registered to vote, but who don't intend to vote -- even in person.

2. Acquire their ballot by either:

2-a. Re-register them under a new address controlled by the
adversary (which notifies the voter).

2-b. Steal their ballot from their mailbox (and the voter may become suspicious if they don't get a ballot).

3. Fill out their ballot and mail it in.

Steps 1 and 2 each very difficult to do without raising suspicion. Step 3 is nearly impossible to do by a single person for a large number of votes. The vote difference in Pennsylvania was 81660 votes. So if Biden had 81661 fraudulent votes, then Trump should be the winner.

Let's assume that if more than a hundred people notice that their ballots were missing/voter registration changed, then there would be an investigation and the attacker would be exposed. In other words, the attacker must flip ~80,000 votes, while only alerting suspicion 100 times. Their success rate per ballot must be therefore greater than (1 - 81661 / 100) = 99.878%. A thousand? That would still require a success rate of 98.775% per ballot.

How many reports are there of missing ballots in Pennsylvania? I can't even find one person claiming such a thing, much less a hundred or a thousand.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Pennsylvania_state_...
I don’t think beds really work in a way that allows 125% utilization.
Off topic, but I would welcome a feature on HN where people could at least (perhaps anonymously) provide feedback or a canned response or something when they downvote.
They have given it thought, and have purposely decided not to distribute it through f-droid [0]. Yes you have to search for it, but if you are savvy enough to use un-googled android, you will be likely able to find it.

0. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9044#issu...
The original poster provided an eBay link, and my personal experience confirms that gift cards for US-only services relevant to non-US residents are sold for above face value on online marketplaces accessible to non-US residents. I only disagree about the reason, I don’t necessarily see anything nefarious about selling them at higher prices than face value.
A lot of this stuff comes via talk radio, not twitter or YouTube, and that's not exactly new technology.

I think you're confusing cause and effect. The problem is that people don't trust the same "professionals" to "filter" their news. People trusted Cronkite. There wasn't a huge market for "here's the news Cronkite won't tell you." Even when the country got super divided during Vietnam.

Now, I don't know why people have lost faith in professionals. I have my theory, which is that there has been a really significant ideological divergence between the professional class and ordinary people.

Let me give you an example. I don't want to litigate the specific example, but I'm just using it to illustrate. I read a lot of Matt Yglesias. He's very smart. But as far as I can tell, he doesn't believe in culture. Like, he doesn't believe it exists. He doesn't understand why people are attached to theirs. So when he talks about immigration, he draws these dichotomies "well there is the economic aspect of the immigration debate, then the xenophobia aspect."

I come from a country where a bunch of brown Muslims declared independence from other brown Muslims over the particular Indo-Aryan language they spoke. Bangladeshis would flip out if, for example, a quarter of the country was suddenly Pakistani. Not because they dislike Pakistanis. (I.e. Xenophobia.) But they are very attached to their own culture and don't want anyone to come and change it. One of the most powerful forces in the world is peoples' attachment to soil, language, religion, and shared food, history, art, customs, etc. Yglesias boils all of that down to "xenophobia."

Now, I'm quite the opposite. I get sad I'm going to die 10,000 miles away from where my ancestors are buried. I'm a bit jealous that my wife's family all lives within 2 hours of where they came over to Oregon on the wagon trains 170 years ago, while mine is scattered around the world in a diaspora. So when I listen to Yglesias, I cringe at some of his takes. I trust him because I've read a lot of his work, but I don't think he understands me or people like me. I can just imagine someone who don't want to put in the effort tuning him out.

The professional class is increasingly full of people like Matt Yglesias. Not just "liberal" in terms of supporting this healthcare policy or that one. Or in thinking the Vietnam was was a bad idea. But "liberal" in terms of not sharing a lot of basic premises with ordinary people, like “is it legitimate to be concerned about culture changing in your community.” It’s very hard for people who don’t share those views on basic things like that to talk to each other productively. I think that's a huge part of eroding trust in professionals.
Did they teleport to the outside and socialised only with people within their bubble?
This is not censorship, this is not about the First Amendment.

Freedom of Speech !== Entitlement to a Platform

And incitement of violence has never been protected speech. This has gone too far.
Wow, this is one of the most ear-catching songs I have ever heard. Thank you for sharing.
adw is totally right about news/content. Bad Market, glad to be out.
While I somewhat agree with you, I do think that in the age of the pervasiveness of the Internet, we are moving to a time when sovereign governments have (if only) slightly less relevance than they did before. Sovereigns govern groups of people pretty much by geographic location based on 'citizenry' of areas where they reside/work/were born. With the rise of the Internet we now have new groups of people that have come together not based on geographic locations, but on shared ideas, interests, financial ventures, and what have you. These people can come together from all over the world online and may have more to do with each other than each members respective citizenry. To assume that sovereigns can/will/should act in the interest of this emerging enterprise is fairly far fetched in my opinion. Corporate interests may not defend them either, but still, on the Internet large corporations are almost sovereigns unto themselves. It'd be nice if some of these interest groups could have a/some seat(s) on this commission to help voice the interests of people who continually operate without respect to sovereign borders online.
If that is the case, wouldn't we just use more specialized functions, I forget the boost_regex function for C++, but for PHP we can do strpos() instead strstr() to see simply if a string exists? In that case, I'm guessing the benchmarks would be closer.
In business the right course is often not obvious, and the merits of different approaches can be heavily debated.

In the case of the Xbox, Microsoft did both. It spent money developing the Xbox. It spent money investing in Windows. It also took lessons from the Xbox to make Windows itself a better gaming platform. And finally the cost of the Xbox approach was not as much as you'd think, because the division stood to recoup much of its costs.

How much did this cost Microsoft in the end? Less than you'd think, given the article. While it is true that costs were measured in billions and profits in millions, those costs were fixed development costs in the low billions, and profits recently have been quarterly profits in the hundreds of millions. I believe that at this point, over all generations of the Xbox, Microsoft is in the black. (But if they had invested their money differently, they could be further in the black.)

So what was the result in the end? I think they sliced something like a quarter off of Sony's profit margin. Almost for free. And Sony failed to execute on their strategy of having TVs replace PCs in the home.

Whatever you think of the merits of the strategy, Microsoft clearly thinks it works. They have used it repeatedly. For example look at Bing. And I wonder whether Google TV is an attempt to return the favor.
This is extremely naive. I could insert almost anything for 'college' in your first sentence and it would be "true."

But more than that, I think you're grossly underestimating the value of four years of collaborative work with other smart students and professors. I honestly don't see any way to get a half hour of a math professor's time, every week, for three months, without taking a course in mathematics at a university and going to office hours.

It may be that you think it is too expensive, which means it's not worth it. That's fair enough. But don't deceive yourself into thinking that college offers nothing that you can't obtain somewhere else.
The area in question was not thriving before Columbia began buying the property on the open market. It's not fair to suggest that Columbia engineered entirely the conditions of that real estate.
I think you underestimate how often fear comes into play. I recently was at the park with some kids and I noticed a couple of dogs playing... I then realized they were pitbulls. Maybe perfectly nice dogs, but my fear factor jumped through the roof and I quickly, but quietly gathered up all the kids.

Now fear isn't something that kicks in often, but when it does it usually means you're in pretty grave danger. Not properly reacting to potentially life threatening situations, just once a year, likely greatly shortens your expected lifespan.
College might suit some people better than others. What are your life goals: are you trying to fit in, or trying to stand out? You could argue that college is doing a decent job of the former, but failing at the latter. If you want to stand out then dropping out is probably a good idea (assuming it's done in pursuit of something ambitious).
> systemd-nspawn calls itself "chroot on steroids", and chroot cares nothing about the init system.

If I remember correctly, systemd-nspawn uses cgroups (hence the "steroids" part of of "chroot on steroids").

On Linux, cgroups require a single manager for all cgroups (in this case systemd). This is not a systemd limitation; it is a requirement set by the Linux kernel[0].

In theory you could bring-your-own cgroup manager, but cgroups are nascent enough that trying to make a userland tool like systemd-nspan work with a completely pluggable cgroup manager would be a nightmare.

[0] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGrou...
Justifiable and terrible answers:

- "" (the 1 gets converted to a string, and string-string could have meant remove-if-tail)

- NaN or undefined (bad operations could give bad results)

- "1" (bad operations could be ignored)

- "1-1" (because life is hilarious, and a-b = a+(-b))

- Parse failure (the -1 could get parsed as a constant because there's no string minus int operation, and two adjacent constants is invalid)

- throws (bad operations could act like 'undefined()' does)
Agree. I was so happy when I heard they were introducing an intermediate language and so disappointed when I found out it was custom.

I'm back to being quietly hopeful though:

- Epic ships games and has internal game developers. They're probably not going to create something too dynamic or untyped that has issues scaling.
- I was worried about coverage but then realised all of BP is generated from code annotations using the unreal header tool, and they've already done it for Python (I think? maybe just editor functions).

If it's just a textual replacement of blueprint that will be enough to make me so much more productive for gameplay programming.

Might be more likely it'll be used for player-generated-content and their metaverse push ala roblox though.
I thought that was what I was imagining too, but I realized that what I'm offering isn't simply "a place to talk about your problems". What's missing in these communities, I think, is a particular level of expertise and understanding of personal development, our ego, personality differences, etc. It's hard to describe, that's why I don't really know how to pitch my idea succinctly.
I've finally decided that regular expressions are not witchcraft and that I need to learn how to use them.
Hi, I can't see an email address in your profile so sorry for the public message. With the lowRISC project http://lowrisc.org/ and related research at University of Cambridge we're becoming very interested in formal verification of hw+sw. I found this work out of Kaiserslautern interesting <http://www-eda.eit.uni-kl.de/eis/research/publications/paper.... Could you say any more about your research? I'd be very interested in an email conversation - I'm at alex.bradbury@cl.cam.ac.uk
I don't understand this, I guess. Is it more cost-effective for the IA to buy a house and rent it to its employees at low rates, than it would be for the IA to increase its workers' salaries who would then pay market rates for housing?

If it is more cost-effective this way, why don't all companies do it?
This article is only talking about some "internet biijl je wjiit hurf durf €29.95"? Is it appropriate to flag this spam link?
I don't understand the problem? If a business does not want to do business with you why would you want to do business with them?

It's a free society. They made there choice now you make yours. Take your business elsewhere.
His reference to a simplified English (already established in aerospace) seemed like an under-appreciated concept. Why not have a standard simplified language construct? Much like we do with Javascript.
Whatever 'brilliant' is supposed to mean, when I try to apply that adjective towards myself I'm immediately reminded about the numerous times I've felt humbled by someone else's infinitely higher brilliance (be it a book, source code, mathematical expression, song, poem, movie, etc) and then I just feel stupid for trying to place myself even close to those I so deeply respect.

Brilliant is impossible to be, what we can hope for is moments of 'brilliance', where one can come up with original solutions to problems. Ideas, revelations..

I do have those from time to time and it feels great.

But as a human being, it does matter what and how you feel in between those moments of brilliance.

And during a 'low' phase (which can last months, day after day), all your moments of brilliance are replaced with mental blocks, melancholy, cynicism and pessimism about everything and everyone.
It's a very bad place to be, it's painful, the feeling of being a fraud, the way you disappoint yourself and others by not following through, the way you see your dreams and hopes drown in a sea of confusion and frustration.
When everything you've earned/gained is slowly erased and you have to start again from step 1.

Yeah, I think that's a problem. You either kill yourself, drink/drug yourself to death or find a way to cope with it. My solution is to just obsess on books/studying new stuff when the mental winter comes and try to stay away from the easy escapes.
this comment reads like the "why is this on HN?" comments, which are against the guidelines. people are voting this up and they find it interesting, and that's why it's on the home page. just click the flag button.
For those of you who, like me, had no idea of what this bill said, since it's not mentioned anywhere in the article or title, here's a description:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0324/Indiana-relig...

Apparently, it gives business owners the right to discriminate against customers who they feel go against the owner's religious faith.
We face the same scalability issues as most other startups: a fairly steady stream of normal traffic and the occasional big spike from big mentions on blogs/TV/etc.

We could have done it the same way that we did with DotSpots: EC2 + MongoDB/MySQL. Instead we chose AppEngine to host our system and have spent very little time managing infrastructure.

An added bonus: we've also spent somewhere around $2.00 total to keep the lights on.
Too much drama.
About a month ago I tried to find a wordpress plugin that would mobilize my blog.

I was shocked to find out that the vast majority of plugins only detect smart phones, which is but a fraction of the mobile market.

Over the past two weeks I decided to build my own plugin that would detect as many mobile phones as possible.

Currently I calculated that my plugin can detect over 5,000 devices.

It is my goal over the next 6 months to optimize the mobile detection through community feedback.

Through this WordPress plugin, I hope to create a class that I can open source to help all websites detect mobile users and provide them with a better user experience.
Wow, most of his Categories are some variation of "other people are stupid".
> Whenever someone gets banned (for any reason), the person who invited them gets banned (recursively).

If I understand your "(recursively)" part correctly, this could make for a really interesting mass-shedding of users the first time anyone was banned. Like watching Filezilla delete a directory structure ...
Can you do counts on the 'Sent Mail' folder?
The list in the article is terrible. Mostly evolution or biosphere mumbo-jumbo that says more about our time today than helping humanity start over.

I'd pass along the idea of the scientific method, that through observation, hypothesis, and testing we can advance knowledge in a cumulative way.
Prove yourself first. Then it (should) be rather easy. If they don't accept, time to find another client.
I was merely remarking upon the fact that your comment classified all Indians in one category, that of folks who mug up jargon, acronyms and definitions but are not really knowledgeable about the actual usage. However, let me assure you, not all Indians are like that. There are Indians with reasonable thoughts and rational curiosity. In all your interactions you might not have seen such kind, that's certainly unfortunate.
Am I missing something, or is TalkBin pretty much a clone of Skweal (http://skweal.com)?
Most of us don't :-(

But don't feel too good about it. Science teaching is, for all I can gather, going down the drain just about everywhere.
Buy the book Presentation Zen and read it. Build your slideshow based on advice in that book. Practice your talk, with a timer, both alone and with a friendly audience (my dogs will sometimes listen for upwards of five minutes if they think they'll get a treat).
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/895/
What’s the difference between being against what they’re doing and boycotting a product? Both involve the withdrawal of participating in that business’ ecosystem as an act of protest. To continue to involve oneself with that business is to tacitly approve what that business does and doesn’t do. How does that rub you the wrong way?
I want to know if they asked reliable questions like 'how many friends do you have', or ones which people are prone to lie about like 'how much time do you spend on facebook per week?' Maybe the 'NFC' people are just more willing to admit how much time they really waste on FB.