skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use signal on the reg, and the short comings are both superficial and unrelated to the security. In my opinion.

What are your specific concerns? I could list things like: lack of bold and italic , poor voice message UI, lack of video conferencing , lack of group names, ...

Note that WhatsApp was wildly popular for over half a decade before it got most of those features.

In other words: I don’t get the point of talking about these cosmetic blemishes. * Signal today feels like WhatsApp at its inception. I.e. a messaging app with the potential to be used by everyone and their dog.

Or is there some fundamental problem you’re encountering that I’m blind / oblivious to?

* edit: let me clarify: “... talking about these cosmetic blemishes as if they’re fundamental blockers to adoption. “
I agree, but I actually think your phrasing hints at perhaps missing the point. I came to an interesting conclusion about individual rights recently. You are not granted them because You are a specific You, and You are that awesome. Rather, it is someone else who is denied denying you rights, not because they would make the wrong call in your specific case, but because in aggregate, any authority making such calls would make a certain number of mistakes.

This is completely separate from that authority being right or wrong, or the individual granted rights being right or wrong.

People get upset and offended about "being told what they need", they think an abridgement of rights is a personal affront to them and their ego, but I don't think it's actually about any of that. It's more a recognition that any body set up to decide will sometimes (not even always, or most of the time, but sometimes) be wrong. Not personal, but meaningful in aggregate.

Apologies if you already recognize this argument. I feel like US political discussions tend to have other subtexts around these issues, which set me on a bit of a tangent.
Your statement is also not accurate, because there were several variants of "the agreement" and for some pairs of companies the agreement extended beyond cold-calling [https://www.lieffcabraser.com/antitrust/high-tech-employees/]. I'm sure multiple careers were set back when their prospective employer's HR department notified their current employer's HR department about the disloyalty.
This was going on at the height of the smart phone wars, which was a trillion dollar opportunity that ultimately made Apple the most valuable company on the planet. If Apple defended its early market position by poaching employees instead of by litigating competitors, there would have been a huge jump in engineer salaries that would have rippled across the industry.

You can see this going on today with autonomous cars increasing salaries for engineers working on that problem, which has had knock-on effects for machine learning engineers and top tier software engineers in general.

As a Google employee, you were especially shafted by the settlement. Google's compensation structure at the time had a significant performance bonus component, even for low performers, but the settlement distribution was allocated based on base salary, so employees at companies with smaller bonus compensation got a disproportionate amount of the settlement.
Pretty sure the output should be

3 4 5 100 200 300 400 7 8 9 10

Otherwise that is not replacing, that is inserting.

Weird, I tried it on http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html and that agrees with the doc.. kinda confusing. Seems like it should be

?[x;3;y] / insert y at position 3
?[x;3 4;y] / replace what's in position 3 by y
Signal relies on an authoritative third party to exactly the same extent that WhatsApp does as far as I know.
Just what we need, more bloated HTML signatures with images...
Notre-Dame is burning down
> For those asking about why there isn't visible water being sprayed on the fire... There's no point. Any firefighting efforts are focused on preventing the spread of the fire to other structures (potentially other parts of the same structure)

> As a rule of thumb, the water flow necessary to extinguish a burning structure is the volume of the structure (in feet) divided by 100. The resulting number is (in rough numbers) the amount of water you need, in gallons per minute. For a fire this size, you're looking at tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute. It's just not possible.

I wonder if the fire could be covered with a huge tarpaulin or alike to try to suppress it.
Currently the answer is a definite no, but that may change in future.
> when you say antique, that means mid 19th century

Where is that coming from?

I don't see any definitions that constrains antique to a specific time window, some definitions/laws include "at least 100 years old"

Antique: a work of art, piece of furniture, or decorative object made at an earlier period and according to various customs laws at least 100 years ago

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antique
Do we really need yet another chat app? I think there are far too many of them. Can't we go back to XMPP again and make everything compatible like it was ten years ago?
Kind of curious what it would make of the current foster puppy, where our best guess is “black” and possibly terrier cross, which is what the vet puts down when it’s not obviously a large dog.
The Phylogeny of Angiosperms
What about the great pyramids? They've been standing for 5000 years already without any kind of maintenance or upkeep.
It's what the ICO suggests too.
What Does Your Dream Toolbox Look Like?
>iOS being locked down and having strong system security prevents censorship because it prevents authorities getting access to your data.

This is completely false. Owning a secure device does not help you get around censorship at all unless you can also install a good VPN (or similar).

>I don't know how you can post that with a straight face, but I suppose ideology is a powerful force.

What ideology would that be? I am an iOS user myself and superior security and privacy is one of the reasons for it. But that doesn't make me blind to the negative side-effects of Apple's approach.

Being easily co-opted by governments for censorship purposes is undeniably one of those negative side-effects.
It didn't drown it out, exactly. Just crapped it up.
Imagine if they had been paying you actual market wages, instead of "collusion-depressed" market wages. Then they came to you and said "Hey skybrian, we need you to take a $100k/year pay cut. You'll still be making a ton of money by any standard and this will help us hire other people for less money, so our business will be even more profitable". How would you feel about that deal?
Sure it does, a primitive version via panic and recover.
I think I'm most disturbed by the author's comment that he has dropped it from a height of 30cm multiple times.
Why no sprinkler system?
>Why poison the earth when you can have wildflowers at your feet and songbirds in your trees without even trying?

Because if my lawn has any random wildflowers the HOA will send a letter and a fine if it isn't fixed within 5 days.
Adblock Plus: Potential vulnerability through the URL rewrite filter option
T-Mobile may start carrying the Pixel 3, 3 XL, 3a, and 3a XL
> you have to prove intent

The intent is proven from the in which Assange agrees to provide assistance cracking a password.

That is the textbook definition of "conspiracy to commit a hacking crime".
Great writeup. Reminds me of Penn Jillette's description of watching a space shuttle launch:

It’s beyond sound, it’s wind. It’s a man-made hurricane. It’s a baseball bat in the chest. It’s so loud. It’s so loud you can’t even call it loud.

http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/5987695109/nasas-successful-qu...
iCloud Bypass Pro – The Best iCloud Hack Tool for All iPhones
The vending machine at my college dorm malfunctioned so it would give your selection and give your change back. It went on for a couple days until, over the weekend, an acquaintance / former roommate used the trick to empty the machine. Most people were mad at him for "ruining it for everyone". I understood, though, why he did it: he had no money and no food.
Is recruiting online cost effective?
Notre Dame could have burned down at any point in the last seven hundred years. The only bright point about this tragedy is that it happened after the invention of color high resolution photography and videography.
I see. In that case, the output is right and the comment is misleading.
That's fine. The Facebook account is just the secondary account they keep running so their parents think that they are "good little angels".
Have you seen this (maps in over telnet)? Really awesome.

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
That's why I mentioned the other manufacturers. In the MP3 player market, Sandisk and Creative were #2 and #3 behind Apple and had been in the game much longer than Microsoft.

Unlike today, where we have multiple Surface-branded products, back then Microsoft only had Xbox, which operated as an entirely separate division from Windows + Office.

Before the Zune, MS tried to be the software partner for non-iPod devices, with the Windows Media Player store and Plays4Sure DRM standard (which they botched). It's only after it all failed that they rushed into the market with the Zune, which was a partially redesigned rebrand of a Toshiba MP3 player that was in the works.
WhatsApp is Signal under the hood. And as I recall, Moxie helped them set it up.
Sure,

Could you let me know where to start developing my own desktop client? Where is the API documentation I can use to do that?
> After [Munchausen] he was sort of written off ... including the critics who know to pay the piper

Do the facts even support this? The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys followed Munchausen and were well reviewed critically. Instead of inventing a cabal of critics out to get Gilliam, let’s just acknowledge that he’s made a number of divisive films. Michael Palin’s comments to Gilliam about Tideland encapsulate this:

I don't like the movie, I'm afraid I have to say, to be honest. But it's now the next day and there are images that I still cannot shake, that I can't get rid off. Either this is the best movie you've made, or your worst!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19666148
Really? I fail to see _any_ difference between the two in terms of features.
OpenAI bot crushes Dota 2 champions, and now anyone can play against it
yeah, I updated my comment after finding http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html so I could test this out and came to the same conclusion.
Google and Microsoft are working on adding one to clang and Visual C++ static analysers.

https://herbsutter.com/2018/09/20/lifetime-profile-v1-0-post...
I had issues with lag and dropped packets when I was calling from Europe to South America with Signal about 6 months ago. I was really cheering for Signal (still am) and had suggested we try it, but it failed quite quickly. We moved the call back to WhatsApp within a minute or two, and had no problems whatsoever.
So at least in my mind WhatsApp is still much more reliable.
My 'blanket statement' specifically says 'a structure like this', meaning an old structure.

But sure, go ahead and retroactively correct yourself.
I planned the trip for 3 days to get the primary and backup launch dates. The first day we did the launch, the second day we went to some Orlando nature preserves (shoutout to Gatorland), and the third day we spent exploring Kennedy Space Center.
They didn't fix RROD until the slim in 2010. Every other 360 is a time bomb.
Adapting to Windows as a Linux Developer
That, and "just go contribute" is really just a cop out answer. Users can desire features without it requiring that they learn to develop software. And really, does anyone want brand new, fresh developers contributing to a privacy-oriented product? Of course not. We need experienced and skilled developers to do that, because mistakes can be costly.
Is that you're rebuttal? Attacking my character?
> Not sure what made anybody think otherwise

Maybe a lifetime of seeing governments fail to enforce laws against the rich?
Is Not Hot Dog
Don't mean to be insensitive to the fire but I'm just glad there's no reported human injuries. Things are just things. Even if they are artifacts that represent more.
Just a nit: Inflation is the result of too much money chasing too few goods, so not everything increases in price. Electronics and mass consumer goods typically stay the same price. Only goods which have limited supply and no substitution get more expensive, like housing.

Otherwise everything else makes sense.
I would expect the company to pay or have insurance to cover the cost of mistakes in their line of business. If a company cannot afford to meet costs like these then they shouldn’t have been in business. These events were predictable and could have been prevented, as the inquiry found.
Given that this has happened however, the government obviously has to pay.
Yes, because there is an inverse relationship to usability and security. Signal won't add a feature until they can call it entirely vetted and secure.
"Just following orders" has been used as recently as the Obama administration as an excuse not to prosecute CIA operatives for torture, despite American law on the books that explicitly forbids using it as an excuse for torture.
Sure, German prosecutors regularly get dissuaded from investigating a crime, because the government said so.

Oh, and public pressure just made the politicians stop. On the other hand public pressure can never stop copyright reform because politicians clearly don't care about the voters.

Maybe you should readjust your mental image of Germany.
Yes, it's a real issue. There's even a VC funded startup that specializes in a React based blogging tool: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/. If you work as a web developer there's just no denying it; using a SPA framework has become the default for all new projects, full stop, regardless of the type of project.

For data, look up often reported stats on JS size.
I was gonna say the same thing. I thought the HUP suggested the Planck time as the smallest discrete unit of time.
WhatsApp is Signal Protocol under the hood. That does not make the two equivalent from a security perspective; Signal goes through a lot of extra trouble to protect metadata (note, for instance, how it didn't even really have user profiles until relatively recently).
Why don't people simply use their consumer rights where they apply? In UK there's 6 years period for electronics good where the seller is responsible for things working.
Tried that. Didn't work. He will literally vomit if anything touches his lips that he doesn't want to eat. Every time. So force feeding won't work. And he doesn't seem to get hungry. He will happily go days and days without eating rather than eating something he doesn't want to eat.
Define "anyone can use it"? Most likely it's going to be owners or their tenants, to whom owners right of parking generally extends.

Regarding 1 in 5 people own a car, that I think pretty much works out to full parking everywhere, since the area of the street available for parking is definitely not 1 per capita, but probably way less.

I can also apply your logic to school system. Why am I paying school taxes if I don't have children?
Mastodon and Keybase
Interesting, thanks! Added to my to-read list.
They meant that antique means "only" 19th century in this case because that's when the spire was installed. It's not as antique as the rest of the cathedral.
Yeah, but not just unmeasurable by like a guy with a measuring device, unmeasurable in the sense that it _can't effect anything at all_, right? (if it caused an effect of any sort you could eventually measure or observe in any way... nope).

To say that time is "really" continuous under such circumstances seems like a weird philosophical claim.
How long do they debate for?

Latest piece is from june 2018(or I missed soemthing fresher?)!
That's pretty much exactly what the Tragedy of the Commons holds; that some form of collective and controlled ownership in which both benefits and costs are collectively shared, rather than privatising benefits and socialising costs.

https://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of...
Can this work with images taken using Insta360 ? I hate the sharing option in the app which uploads the image to their ad-ridden website.
Not exactly. WhatsApp uses Signal's communication protocol, but has some flaws in the way they implemented it, by design.

https://www.cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-signal-group-chat-vulner...
This is quite hilarious compared to the actual deaths caused by Boeing MCAS. Nevertheless it is deserved.

Next hilarious bit is that this comment is being downvoted (after ~1 minute of having been posted) :) If you downvote, please have just the small bit of courage to state in a followup comment why you disagree. The (at the moment two²) downvoters of course don't have this courage.

² being updated
I might be in the bargaining stage of loss - but I have to think that the architects and engineers who worked on Notre-Dame in the 12th and 13th centuries designed it to be gutted by fire in a way that it could be rebuilt.

My undergrad's main building - definitely nothing comparable to this cathedral, but from a time where fire fighting wasn't that great - went through this three times, and was always restored. It seems like this happened a lot, and was something builders considered.
> Whatsapp can backup to google drive or icloud and restore it on another phone.

As long as it's Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone. Oh, and Windows phone backup transfers never worked, not even to another Windows phone.
Manager: "Do this on time and under budget or you're fired"

Engineer: "The only way to do that is to..."

Manager interrupts: "I don't care about the details. You said it could be done"

Engineer (silently): "Ok well I guess I'll go to jail or see my family fall on hard times"
I don't know, it's a bit like reading a bit about ethiopian children who have 3 textbooks from 1994 for 100 students, and chiming in "My friend's kids' school is teaching them computer programming already, but my child's school has no such program and even forces children to share laptops for school assignments. I wonder if he will be left behind?"

A child and mother who suffer from malnourishment and must rely on food stamps, who had a single glass of milk for dinner, vs. picky eater kid who threw a tantrum and went to sleep hungry instead of eating cordon bleu.

I have a close family member who has an eating issue like what's described in the comment I was replying to. I also went to high school with several kids who admitted that they grew up waking up in the mornings not knowing if they would eat that day. The situations are not comparable.
Yes. Not sure why I’m being downvoted. There is no question that if the spare/spent fuel were exposed to air, the resulting radiation would have required evacuation of a 150+ mile radius. They originally brought in an elite firefighting team to refill the pools for this exact reason.
I have never personally observed anyone build a business in 7 months and I’m nearly 50. I think your best bet is to get freelance dev work or a part time job to subsidise your income.

I have a part time job and saas sideline which pays a 1/4 of my income. I think techies underestimate the difficulty of sales and marketing. It’s hard work.

I wish you good luck and hope you prove me wrong.
I think there is always going to be a certain tension between two conflicting desires:

A) The desire to use the right tool for the right job

B) The desire to have fewer, more versatile tools

It's understandable that people don't want to learn dozens of different languages, frameworks, and libraries. There is a real cost to gaining knowledge and experience with all those tools, and a real benefit to knowing a single tool really well.

On the other hand I often find more tailored tools can be much more powerful for their suited tasks. But then again it's also true that the scope of projects is always shifting, so sometimes you can outgrow the specific use case of a tool.

Anyway, I would say it isn't clear (to me at least) that our industry has a "problem."
I also use Google Lens all the time on my Pixel 2 phone to identify dog breeds, when I'm at dog parks with my pup. You just snap any photo, then click the "Google Lens" icon in the camera, and it identifies what you're looking for. Given a dog, it shows several potential dog bread matches, along with links to learn more about them.
Great to hear about your experience with the docs and appreciate the call out. You can use the "Send Feedback" button on any of the doc pages to let us know about any feedback you have. Real people read it.
One I've found fascinating was the Eigenharp - mostly because of the technology around its keys (registering analog movement in the up/down axis, and in rocking both vertically and horizontally).
Not endlessly, but railroads can be replicated a few times.

Same holds for mobile platforms: you can replicate them a number of times, but certainly not infinitely many times.
I really think that this is crazy. I mean, that they did these kinds of agreements and actually thought they wouldn't get caught.
Your comment reminded me of this story from the codeless code[0]

>...“The initiate was only half-right,” said Bawan to the emptiness. “True, the value lies not in carven oak, but neither does it lie in the shape of the carving; for both the real pillar and the virtual one may be lost, and the temple will be no poorer. But when wood first yields to metal, one more thing is made: and that is the sculptor.”

This building was a major achievement that inspired millions of people through centuries. It is a landmark of humanity. A simple physical fire will not destroy its legacy in our culture.

[0] http://thecodelesscode.com/case/122
I remember knowing people on IRC who "had friends at Microsoft" who could do this kind of stuff to your MSN account, and I heard of people having their accounts stolen, but I never believed it. Guess there was some truth to it...
If this is what happened, it's not that stupid on the part of the customer. Or perhaps better phrased, it's within the realm of what I would expect some users to do given this feature.

Tesla should have accounted for this.
That would give the EV Certificate vendors, who have shown many times they can't be trusted, too much power, and turn the web into a walled garden, or it would be useless. Take your pick.
Silicon Valley companies are really interesting sometimes for entertainment value mostly. I doubt we are going to see any great progress coming out of that place - except maybe more spying and the like.

I don't know if you noticed those badges the drones there usually carry with a phone number, where you can report "inappropriate conduct". For some reason I had this image in my mind about someone calling to ask if it was okay to eat a ham sandwich, if one of your colleagues was a muslim and those people operating those phone lines would then have morning standups, where they would discuss such important issues.

So I was minding my own business one day doing what I do and suddenly get called upon by the big man to explain why I was a jew hater. Apparently someone had picked up that I had made a comment about jews at some point. I may or may not have made a sarcastic joke about some news story involving one or two jews. No idea, but being a bit autistic and odd person in general, that may have happened. Its not like I burned a Quran or something like that, but...

I made an attempt at explaining how that didn't make any sense, since I was a jew myself and had even lived in Israel as a child. Apparently that didn't really make a difference. The machinery had been set in motion and I had been stamped as incompatible with Apple values. I tend to agree with that..
After doing the towel trick I laid my 360 on top of a big fan so it always had cool air being forced into it. It was RROD-free until eventually a thunderstorm took it out for good along with my router.
Worth pointing out that Cloud Run was just released and maybe better meets your needs? https://cloud.google.com/run/