jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Telegram is just so much more usable than Signal.

The perceived advantage of Signal over Telegram is LITERALLY not having an option for a cloud-synced chat and ONLY having end to end encrypted chats. That's all.

You give up of usability to get that advantage. Explain to your mom why she has to give up Telegram to get basically the same functionality as Telegram secret chats.

Signals crypto is used by Facebook and was sponsored by the US Govt. Before you believe "OMG Telegram crypto is bad!" FUD, do 15 minutes of research.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-...

Rare earth mining seems pretty bad.
Same with Good to Great (I think that was also written by the same guy). Some of those companies applauded are still doing well and others are embroiled in scandals of various sorts.
> The organization has no formal ties to the alt-coin, although Moxie does.

I've tried to rephrase this few times, because it seems too obvious to state, but isn't it a bad thing that a technical "lead" on an app is very likely going to personally benefit from some other technology being shoe-horned into that app?

It's his (and the Foundation's) baby, so he of course can, but I can't help but feel like this unholy but super convenient marriage will harm the reputation of Signal and MobileCoin. They could both sink or swim based upon the perception of the other.

Sorry if this is obvious. It feels like I'm taking crazy pills.
> hunter-gatherers are/were satisfied with what they could get.

If that were true, hunter-gatherers wouldn't have developed agriculture and/or husbandry as ways to get more, leading to civilization, leading to a state where, for the vast majority of the planet, knowing about hunter-gatherer society was something that came through anthropological studies rather than life experience.
I would much rather be exposed to the smells of natural bodily function than that of overly strong chemicals with unknown affects.
Ventilation, air purifier, regular cleaning
Absolutely. I thought that was the most interesting part.
not only that but dominant platforms have always evolved, going from mass media consisting of newspapers, to radio, to newsreels, to broadcast television, and then to primitive dialup services like AOL and Prodigy. I would expect this will continue to evolve, from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc, to standards-compliant interoperable services.

The audience, or in other words the public, always catch up and move to the next dominant platform. This is one reason why I think arguments about network effects are one to be taken with a grain of salt. The public will go wherever the content is. Twitter's audience is not going to remain as valuable as it previously was (ahem, mismanagement may be one reason for this).
Indeed, my job is partially thanks to the GPL.
They are not back, it's misleading bullshit. "Pirate bay" was never hidden from search in that sense. Look for "<something> torrent" that is found on thepiratebay by Brave (I guess I won't provide the exact search term I tested, sorry). Now try to look for it on DDG. You'll find many torrent sites, but not thepiratebay.org
It has optional typing, but as it’s fast without it, I haven’t dug into them. I don’t know about a union type though.
I don't think OP is suggesting that Stallman is doing it on purpose, just that Stallman's dogmatism may actually be beneficial in spite of itself.
Something about this immediately conjures up Snow Crash which I hadn't thought about in years.
This reminds me:

A few years ago, Jacques Mattheij accidentally won a lot more bulk lego auctions than he meant to. His story of sorting through them with a homemade hopper/camera/ML/computer vision showed up on HN.

It's still a good read today. It begins at:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/
Oh, I would not have left it in the box!
Of course their filings make them sound like a unicorn. Their engineering was a marketing point not a core product. I’ve got a bridge to sell you...based on something something machine learning scientists and engineering. Did we mentioned we are losing 2 billion and making our founder enormously rich?
“US life expectancy has not kept pace with that of other wealthy countries and is now decreasing.” https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2756187
You only need 64 bits for routing v6, and since the address space isn't fragmented the routing table ends up at a similar efficiency level to the v4 one - probably better once you take into account not needing CIDR.
That just means they don't know how to read demand trends or are overextended.
The thing is, most people don't invest by making one large lump-sum payment, and then sitting on their ass for thirty years.

Most people (who do invest) invest by cutting off a slice of every paycheck. This strategy will happily let you weather crashes.

Combined with a guaranteed-payment pension (Social security, employer pension, government pension, etc), it's a pretty good way of securing your retirement (Even if you have to take a haircut on the payout of the guaranteed-payment pension.)
https://smile.amazon.com/Mens-Health-Huge-Hurry-Stronger/dp/... (2008)

http://chadwaterbury.com/huge-in-a-hurry-clarified/ (Author's Update)
Great point, this is one of the reason I have not been to the gym in sometime. I do not want to figure out one more thing to track and see if I have improved at this and that. I understand logically that lifting weights is good for you so I would just like to go, lift some weights and get out. I like your idea of not really caring about number of reps of weight limits.
My guess that number will change when supplement checks stop coming.
Sorry for poor wording - my idea was just to propose a situation where you have to pay your employees more somehow, like for example your lead engineer quit and new hire as a substitute will cost you 20% more.

The real question is how the business can mitigate rising salary (and lowering of margins) and whether there is relation between labour cost and price of goods.
In a similar vain of logic, 34% is a non-trivial portion. Why should a non-trivial portion be forced to work in an office just because another non-trivial portion wants to?
I just have more life than work.

I want to transition to developer (solo learning now), and having someone in my job over sighting my junior BS would be helpful, but honestly I just have a much more nice life now.

I work surrounded by nature sounds. Birds, a slight brise, sun... Man, no office can compete with this.
I love these new additions because I like new stuff but I'll admit it's hard to keep up and use things with good taste. C# is becoming a BIG language similar to C++. But I guess that's the only way to get a broad user base long term.
I'm an extrovert and I went fully remote. I have much more fulfilling interactions with my wife and small children throughout the day compared to basically anything I experienced at work.

I can leave the house at 5:00 PM on the dot, so we can all go out and have fun with other friends and families (in my city we're not locked down at all) much earlier in the day compared to old commute times.

I do miss the free food and fun lunches, but I don't feel like I'm getting the short end of the "interaction" stick.
It's hard enough in software engineering IMHO.

What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now

* Send a Slack message/email and wait an arbitrary amount of time for a response.

* Organise a Skype/Teams/whatever call in a few hours time and feel guilty about it, as it feels rude to just ring someone as they could be occupied or busy.

I spend a stupid amount of time having blocked stories/tasks because I need to clarify some criteria/parts of it and the people I need to speak to are difficult to reach because they're busy/AFK.
"a company you can trust to manage these things for you"

"automatically segregated into its own vlan"

Aren't these goals fundamentally at odds? I would imagine that Joe consumer (if they care at all about any of this) would be rather more inclined to entrust the role of orchestrating/segregating their home network devices to an entity like Google than to some random startup.
Probably people just figured out that they don't need big cities to live.

Personally I think cities are overrated anyway and this is why:

- heavy traffic hence heavy pollution

- huge commute times to work

- need to pay lot more for home (both buy/rent, may even have to take loan)

- everything is expensive. My current expenses are 1/3 of that of city and I already have a home. I live in a town since pandemic
I hire mainly in Germany - Berlin to be specific. So sorry, I haven't any opinions on hiring abroad.
There's many reasons why I find it refreshing.

Other than anonymity, talking to people who have no incentive to karma-farm is very refreshing.

In websites like Reddit/HackerNews, the karma system gamifies posting. You "lose" if you post any wrongthink, and you "win" when you reiterate whatever is socially acceptable.

This means there are consequences to posting. In *chan websites, there is no consequence to posting your thoughts (or just trolling, because that's fun sometimes).
Ahh - govt budgeting - I've been there.

What is a bit funny is after fighting for $1,000 during the year, some budget manager calls in a panic near year end - how fast can you spend $150K - on anything you want. Turns out - as Amazon has noticed with cheap stuff, whoever has stuff in stock and can ship quick gets the deal - price totally irrelevant.

There was a while during the stimulus spending where politicians were I guess getting heat for not spending stimulus money fast enough, so the pressure to spend got pushed down big time. Every layer was trying to push spending out as fast as they could.

For those not familiar with this area and wondering why a higher level agency would push spending rather than trying to save money?

A lot of govt budgets between appropriation and final vendors are based on % of allocated spending. So a state agency will take 10%, a local agency will take 10%, and then it ends up in the hands of whoever does the work. Everyone above has built their budgets on all the money being spent. They've staffed for that.

So if you show up and spend 50% of your allocation, now they only get 50% of their 10% and can be in a real jam, particularly if they have already spent their entire expected amount or committed to spend it (staff have been hired). It can be hard to re-budget amounts between vendors / recipients so the pressure on whoever didn't spend all their money can be intense, because it's messing up a whole chain of other budgets.
Congrats, awesome and scary all at the same time.

From having worked with distributed teams for quite a long time, including major time differences (11.5hrs) here are my suggestions.

1) If you have the ability switch your working day to match, sometimes this is doable for a short time, other times it isn't because of clients, calls etc. But in the end, it is one of the "easiest" ways.

2) No matter what, make sure you overlap schedules by 3 hours or so with at least 1 person on each side that has broad knowledge and capabilities.

3) I know this seems obvious, but agree before hand that either side will wake up the other only if absolutely necessary. It seems obvious but when you have made multiple calls back to back over a couple of days waking someone, having discussed it ahead of time helps keep cooler heads.

4) Communicate everything in person before the team leaves, even stuff that you think is too simple/stupid to bring up or mention. It is amazing how doing this really clears up everyones view. I would also communicate every persons specific area of responsibility, not that you won't collaborate or have everyone chip in, but if you have a defined area people seem to feel comfortable knowing who has what and it doesn't create the situation where I'll just do X because I don't know who is taking care of it and I can't call Susie cause she is sleeping etc.

5) Have an end of day status email from each team.

6) During the time overlap period, get on Skype or some sort of face-to-face communication, even if it is just to bullshit or give someone shit for fun. This isn't critical but I found for teams that were originally all together and start working apart it helps keep everyone connected personally too. To your point this helps in the things you take for granted. Of course, some of this depends on how long you all have been together and how long you all have known each other.

For security, that is kind of broad, not sure what you are worried about securing. If the team needs access to things back in the home office/datacenter then setting up a simple VPN is probably the best & most secure answer. Documents that you have to send back and forth, email is likely fine for 99% of things, or use a drop folder through the VPN.
That's how currency notes enter and leave circulation.

Money is created whenever someone provides a good or service that someone else wants to consume. The money value of the currency is the total value of money created by the productive sector of the economy, divided by the number of currency units, with some variation resulting from imperfect knowledge of the market.

The central bank attempts to increase the number of units of the currency faster than money is created, so that the value of an individual unit of currency will remain stable or decrease. If the value of a currency unit were to start increasing, people might be tempted to stop spending it, which would destroy some of the money value of the economy by discouraging trades.

This also has the insidious benefit of allowing the central bank to take some money value from the economy without trading for it, just by creating new currency out of thin air. When they spend the new currency, or loan it to a government that spends it, a fraction of the money value produced by other people suddenly teleports to their own pockets, and they can pretend to be generous and benevolent.

The interest issue is a big problem. Depending on the size and number of outstanding loans, if they were to be paid off, currency would be removed from circulation and the money price of the remaining currency would increase, making it harder to pay off the remaining loans. In order to ease the crunch, the currency-issuing bank would have to actually spend back into the economy without making loans, buying goods and services outright instead of just renting out paper.
Two observations:

1) Since China effectively blocked most of Google's services (and uses Google's mobile operating system for free and makes a ton of money off it - look at Xiaomi), Isn't it basically that China was able to rob Google, and doesn't suffer any consequences from it?

2) Also most US websites are blocked in China (Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Youtube, Twitter, Wikipedia, NYTimes, the list goes on and on...) Why is it that the US government doesn't take any action against that, where as China is freely dumping cheap manufactured products that are made in factories that violate human rights?
This is likely because of Google's agreement with the US government to provide access to Chinese emails to officials as part of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, and the Chinese hacking of the access systems put in place by Google for law enforcement to collect a list of active surveillance targets.
Are Gmail's MX records necessary for Chinese email users to receive email from Gmail? If so, why?
The article's title is clearly linkbait. The gist of the article is that mobile safari is open to Evercookies. I wouldn't call the directly "sucking" at privacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie

There are ways of tracking users even in browsers that don't suffer from Evercookie. If someone really wants to track you, they're going to be able to.
While many traits that help an individual also help its group, I take it that "group selection" refers to traits evolving that harm an individual for the benefit of the group.

It's really difficult to get this to work, since the selection pressure at the individual level tends to outweigh the pressure at the group level; every group will eventually produce mutants that don't have the trait; these then come to make up an increasing proportion of the group, since they have higher fitness.

Out discomfort with it is due to this.
A decent SEO idea gone wrong.

It seems they are trying to draw attention to their homepage for searches for Software, Smartphones, etc. when in reality they should be choosing one focus for the homepage, and optimizing category or subpages for various specialities (Cloud Computing, IT Business Technology, etc).
Why does that need a separate, dedicated fund? If the time is ripe, shouldn't the opportunities fit within the existing VC paradigm...?
> Over the past 12 months, the Anti-Defamation League sent 1,000 tips to law enforcement based on tracking of social-media comments made by U.S. extremists groups leading up to Wednesday’s riot, and noted the increasing ratcheting up of violent rhetoric.

The FBI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/biden-trump-electoral-colle...
But we can agree that not every interest in national well-being is bad.

I think that's what GP is saying - talking about (for instance) NATO members contributing their contractually agreed funding to the organization and aligning with our own contractual commitment seems like a sane position, but when it's called "nationalist" either the word isn't bad anymore or the level of hyperbole is so off the charts that the accusation doesn't mean anything. Many other examples of the "nationalism" criticism that have been pretty hyperbolic in the last four years.
#perl was interesting to follow when I was into it and helped me when I was learning the language and had, like, intermediate level questions, I remember I also had a general question about stuff sysadmins would know about and got help there too
Why do you feel that they should be held to the same standard?

Violent content is a tiny of percentage of twitter, but a huge part of parler. Twitter also does moderate their platform, Parler refuses to.

One of these obviously has a bigger problem with violent content than the other.
The best thing is for republicans to admit that they are lying about election fraud.
I disagree. This is great, because it illustrates the problem you're citing.

Without this use case people won't realize why open source matters, or phones without control matters, etcetc. While i don't agree with Trump or his party actions, this definitely is waking thousands of people up to how easily even Americans are censored.

This realization is crucial to privacy focused applications, imo.
You are confusing time spent with productive work done. Those two are not necessarily related. You also don’t take into account skill demand and supply. There is a very limited pool of good software developers.
You can do even better, namely analog computation.
I don't know but agree it's unreadable and terrible, so I don't bother to read them.
Few decades ago, us brown, blacks, gays, jews etc were banned and anyone defending them was destroyed. Now people are forgetting that conservatives are the new group going through the same. They are the modern group being targeted as "don't buy from the jews".

Once this is all over, everyone will simply look back and wonder "Hmmm, I can't believe people did this to them. But it surely can't happen again." Typical human nature.
I meant all our fundamental physical models are fully-deterministic globally. The only exceptions are singularities of General Relativity, but even for those the believe is that a proper accounting of quantum effects should resolve this. We build those models based on experience. So here is comes the contradiction with personal perception. One can always say that it just implies that free will is an illusion. But as there are other ways to resolve this that keeps free will and are compatible with apparent determinism of external world, the inevitable conclusion is that physics cannot resolve the issue of the free will.

As for the problem of now, for me it is similar to the problem of free will. Starting from Parmenides and Buddha one way to resolve this was to declare that the perception of now and movement is an illusion similar to the notion of free will. And as with free will, that will be compatible with physical models and the opposite cannot be expressed within physical models.
Issuing loans is risky, and the price of borrowing should reflect actual risk. The US economy is moving to a more and more highly leveraged scenario where all firms avoid worrying about systemic risk because it's profitable to do so since they know they will be bailed out when the inevitable occurs.
Go to a drug store.

Find a generic no-brand ibuprofen. Check the price.

Find a branded ibuprofen that is advertised on TV. In the UK, Nurofen is popular. Check the price.

The difference is advertising.

Same goes for detergent, breakfast cereal, AA batteries, etc., etc.
This is a good thing, this sort of functionality belongs on your desktop, not as a webpage. We need less "apps" in the browser, not more. This is part of the reason why we sit with a broken and fragmented web where browsers include everything under the sun because all these "apps" want to do stuff while being in the browser.
Yes, I (think I) understand. My point was that while a robot indeed won't have a wrongly felt "fear for one's life" like a human cop might (be it genuine or a cover-up), it will certainly have other bugs. And because (I claim) humans cops are generally very very good at handling situations correctly, it's not at all obvious the shift will have a net positive effect.
Looking at COVID models, the hospital admission peak is around the 10th of January UK wide. Cases have already started to level in London. Lockdown has been implemented too late to make any significant difference to that.

Not the most reliable source, but confirmed by other sources which are unfortunately behind a paywall.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9115357/amp/Coronav...
Sure the network effect is strong but let’s not forget how WhatsApp got here in the first place: people installing a strange new app, often shared by their friends via a text message invite link. I remember sitting in a circle with a group of friends one night 10+ years ago while each of us installed WhatsApp and had our first conversations on the app. It was a time when BBM was dominant and cross-platform messaging was new. Fast forward to today and already many of my groups are switching to Telegram or Signal.

The move can be made faster now because groups are so prevalent on WhatsApp.