skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Scatter Way – wallets, SDKs, and trust on blockchain networks
Nu-oh-politics.

(Snobs will spell it noöpolitics)
Once my phone is rebooted or ran out of battery, Signal would stop notifying me of any new messages unless I manually launch the app, sometimes I even had to tap on each individual conversation to check for new messages. I agree with some posters here that its UX badly needs a redesign too.
That, and tampering with voting infrastructure to alter the results. There is a growing body of evidence that the GRU has actually hacked the election in the most literal sense, using the detailed polling data supplied by Manafort and as a map.

Anomalies were detected in the data as early as 2016. The Mueller report brings even more evidence to the table. At this point it’s likely that voting infrastructure was compromised in some way in all 50 states, with detectable anomalies in all swing states, and in all states where Trump blindsided pollsters. It turns out that actual fraud might be the reason for the blindsiding.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161125081654/http://gothamist....
> Inspiring how open Gitlab is in how they run things

Are they profitable? If not, they aren't inspiring me
In a world where crypto is everywhere, I think a lot more people would be into physical crime. You have no recourse to having everything stolen and the funds are harder to track.
Link just directs to a sign in page
That's a massive exaggeration at best. The F-35B variant borrows the lift fan design from the Yak-141. That's a single feature of a single variant of an aircraft that has a half-dozen other completely unrelated features. The Yak-141 didn't have helmet-mounted displays, it wasn't stealthy, it didn't have the new combat information management systems, it wasn't built out of modern composite materials, and so forth.
Dart did transpile to JS, so a WebAssembly backend for a 'web native' Flutter experience on Chrome OS is imaginable.

But their app delivery platform is the Google Play infrastructure, which packages Android apps.
The is has a mess load of mic under the ocean, that's how they knew it sunk
When I first started learning French, I watched videos intended for French kids and I picked up a lot quickly. The biggest problem for me was, unlike a kid, I couldn't stand to watch them for very long. As an adult, boredom set in pretty quickly and thus loss of focus. However, it was still very useful until I got to a level where I could understand more adult content. It was certainly more useful than most traditional language learning materials.
Productivity in the Age of Distraction
What do you mean it's non deterministic? Because it is using floating point operations?
Can you elaborate?
But you just said the pay was comparable between the UK and USA ???
Why? I can think of two reasons. Habit. This is pretty powerful. I've deplaned a normal plane at least a hundred times. I've deplaned from a burning plane zero times.
Second is, especially in the digital age, my laptop, phone, go pro, all have digital data that is irreplaceable that I may not have backed up yet.
Same, if only to ease the transition out of the shower
It's newspeak for realpolitik. Around the turn of the millennium a lot of political words got reinvented as the power of influence became more and more outsourced to corporations and less about networks of back room deals. (Why waste years building influence when you can just buy an influence package from a "think tank.")

But a consultant can't sell his company's services using 1800's words like "realpolitik," so new words were invented like "noopolitics."

"Political consultants" became "policy wonks," but thankfully that term pretty much died after the Clinton administration.

Also, "casual sex" became "locationships" in campaign circles. I think that term should have lasted longer. At least longer than noopolitics.
> The senior trader on the desk will remind you that your wrongness is worthy of further thought.

George Soros has written a bit about this effect (about back when he was a trader).

From recollection -

Firstly he enjoyed finding his investment hypothesis turn out wrong, and he eagerly looked for errors. He stated that some of his biggest wins came almost directly from a previously faulty idea.

Secondly he hated giving opinions on any market to anyone, since he felt that the social pressure to be correct hindered his ability to recognise mistakes and change his ideas.
If that feature got naturally selected after countless generatios, what allows you to say that's a flaw?
New Knowledge was caught manufacturing Russian social media interference. I don’t recommend using them as a source.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/alabama-senate-roy-jon...

The CEO is part of several other unsavory propaganda campaigns, such as Hamilton 68, which Greenwald et al have pretty effectively torn apart.
Do you have a source?

I can't find one, but have seen at least one instance with an umlaut over the second o, suggesting something more akin to "new-o-politik" to my mind, which would fit somewhat with long o ancient Greek stuff I remember from taking Greek in college long ago and far away.
What's an alternative AOT compiled language that's as accessible as Dart that also compiles to JavaScript? I don't think there's another more obvious choice.
> What would be a red flag for me as an interviewee would be to see a codebase with poor standards, and then see pull requests open with code that wasn't any better. If the quality of the code is only getting worse that makes my life as a developer pretty miserable.

Bingo. Bad code bases are fine as long as people agree that it needs to be better. I’ve worked on bad code bases that people just do the bare minimum, quick and dirty bull shit they’ve always done, and it’s absolute misery.
I currently use Wire. Their apps are solid, not perfect thats for sure but good enough, but most importantly I am not required to use my phone number to register an account.
what kind of metadata does signal generate by using google cloud services (or whatever) to send push notifications?
> Political consultants" became "policy wonks," but thankfully that term pretty much died after the Clinton administration

Political operative is making a comeback.
Dating, crime, housing, education... so much is dependent on a good economic foundation.

JFK was right when he said a rising tide lifts all boats. Every politician everywhere should make this a foundation of their platform.
Probably because the lower addresses are for the interrupt vector table.
Don't take philosophy or economics too seriously. The vast majority of it is bunk.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/a-foolish-consistency-is-t...
Show HN: Build Your Own Newsfeeds and Share Them
In theory, yes. There are a lot more registered non-union voters than there are registered union voters. But union voters have a far higher voting rate, and the u jobs work hard to ensure that remains the case.
The Death of Final Tagless [video]
That's the whole point of the article - the final output might not be realistic enough to be actually disturbing, but the process to get there has required many people to absorb a lot of very, very disturbing content.
For any given type of item of information about me that a site may be able to see and want to use, it is going to fall into one of these groups:

• Items that I'm OK with sharing with every site.

• Items that I'm OK with sharing with some sites, but not with others.

• Items I'm not OK with sharing.

It might be nice if there was a standard list of items and a way to tell my browser which group each item falls under, and a standard way for the site to tell the browser which items it wants. The browser could then tell the site which group each such item falls under, and the site could dynamically generate a permission request and privacy disclosure that just covers those things I'm not willing to share with every site.

Maybe add some other dimensions to this covering things like how the site uses the item (internal use or shared with third parties; just to provide the services I use or also for marketing, for example), the category of site, and the location of the site.
And wouldn’t make an ounce of difference in the student debt problem, given the small numbers of students at private Christian schools.

It’s also worth pointing out that other private schools, such as Vanderbilt, would also be in a lot of hot water for similar reasons.
> like 2.4ghz

2.4GHz is in the ISM band, and 47 CFR 15.247 specifically covers devices that use this range. Provided you stay within the specified limits, you have an implied license to use the band for those purposes.
Some might argue the transparency and eyeballs are even more crucial in such a situation.
Nanobots by definition have important/active parts with sizes on the scale of molecules. Doesn't matter what the molecules are exactly - if a radiation particle hits an atom and ionizes it, it's likely to break the molecule it's in and thus the mechanism. By break, I don't mean break apart - but a molecule that suddenly gains or loses charge in its structure starts interacting differently with other molecules.

(Except it's how ionizing radiation damages DNA; cells implement error detection, error correction and self-destruction mechanisms to limit the spread of DNA damage. Unless we go the biotech route and make our first nanotech by repurposing viruses and bacteria, our nanobots are unlikely to be as resilient.)
Depends, with grocery delivery services I find myself doing it less often. Also, if I do visit the store it may be after work and before I'm back home.
> The data Snowden took relative to his access level does not support your theory.

How do you know that? The only people who know what Snowden took are Snowden, the journalists, the NSA, and the foreign intelligence agencies who took the data from the journalists.

Nobody thinks Snowden had the intention to damage the US. He was just so stupid that he did it accidentally.
const value = myCharacter.${name};

Afaik. This is not valid JavaScript
Not a real-time OS?
riot/matrix is substantially worse in usability than Signal.

In addition, if you wanted something federated with decent crypto, an xmpp server with something as basic as TLS and OTR on the server and clients would be far more usable than matrix.
Should you not target your Google Ad spending?
>That embedded Mortal Kombat trailer was pretty unrealistic looking IMO, the physics was cartoon like and several what would be real life death blows were not death blows until the fight was over.

It's still super exaggerated, but FWIW, the trailer is pretty mild compared to the actual content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iynVeWhFqsw
Because only JavaScript has the right to be everywhere?
Rationale? (genuinely interested)
I think the basic business model is akin to any other kind of school. The issue at hand is that they're dropping the things that make other schools work: admissions and structured instruction.

Unfortunately, those things aren't fripperies to be tossed away lightly.
here you go https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/ap9lin/gcm_notifica...

Its amazing how paranoid some people are
Yes, you do. Quite a lot of it actually when near a radiation source; not so much farther away, but to remove it, you'll obviously need to be real near.

More here:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ionizing+radiation+shielding
https://quicksy.im/ – a spin-off of the popular Jabber/XMPP client Conversations with automatic contact discovery.

> Even if you are not a Quicksy user you can enter your Jabber ID into the Quicksy Directory and give Quicksy users the ability to automatically discover you based on your phone number. This lets you enjoy the privacy-friendly, federated nature of Jabber/XMPP while giving your less tech-savvy friends a low barrier entry into that world

// not affiliated; saw this recently, like the idea.
These articles come in like clockwork every time Bitcoin's price moves upwards (or downwards, or plateaus... you get it) to the point I'd take all of them with a truckload of salt.

It's been over 10 years since Bitcoin came out and it's still here. It'll still be here long after most loud detractors (and supporters, for the matter) have moved on, whether it's $1 or $1 million per BTC.
It’s the volume not market cap that matters. Market cap is a bullshit metric for cryptocurrencies. If I issue a million tokens and sell you one for a dollar, I’ve created a million dollar coin instantly in terms of market cap.
> very soon go to a place where there is a coding test

Sadly, I fear that will be like “going to a place that doesn’t require unpaid overtime” or “going to a place that doesn’t have a noisy airplane hangar ‘open office’” - once it catches on, it will spread everywhere.
>You've been reading too much Guardian.

No, just the early statements from Cambridge Analytica and Leave.EU.

Was rather odd that Cambridge Analytica and Leave.EU both claimed to be working together until it started to look bad - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cambridge-analyt...
For some critique of Signal, Drew DeVault wrote this up several months ago: "I don't trust Signal" - https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html

Past discussion here on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17723973

Just posting for discussion. For me, the fact that Signal can only be downloaded via Google Play and not F-Droid. is a major blocker.

For that reason I run a Matrix/synapse instance and that's what I use for day to day text based communication. Matrix clients have some issues and aren't as user friendly as Signal's IMHO, but they're getting better and better.

That said, I don't think federation actually contributes to security. My instance is firewalled off from being discoverable by the larger Matrix community, mainly because my instance is for close friends and family.

I can't really comment on what he brings up about the Signal founder -- not very familiar with him..
The DMG boot ROM fits into the top 0x100 bytes. To protect it from being snooped, the last instruction shuts off the boot ROM by flipping a register that can’t be flipped back, mapping the top 0x100 back to the cartridge (and allowing the cartridges interrupt vectors to be installed.) So, there is no jump to 0x100 at any point; they just fit the DMG boots ROM perfectly into 0x100 bytes and control flow leaves bootstrap right as PC hits 0x100.

This simple security mechanism was extremely effective, and lead to the DMG BIOS being undumped until relatively recently, when it was dumped by imaging the ROM directly and via fault injection to skip the last instruction.
Native widgets on iOS are rendered with the system compositor, Core Animation. If you render everything yourself into a GL or Metal context then you have to blit everything to the context, and then Core Animation blits your buffer to the screen. (This may be bypassed in full screen mode; I don't know. But in any case if you are using native widgets at all then you have this extra blit.)

This is a significant power consumption concern.
Nobody is disputing that AI can be useful, so your comment seems to be missing the point.

It would be slightly more coherent to at least point to a potential use case for text generation specifically.
I found this podcast fascinating, as it contradicted almost everything I had heard about CA. It seemed well researched, but now I'm wondering who is right? I'm leaning toward believing Alex Kogan, but honestly, I don't really know at this point. It's confusing.
Ok, so why do they call it crypto?
I couldn't find it either and I finally figured out why. The name changed between editions. The first edition was named The Effects of Atomic Weapons. The revised first edition is from Sept 1950. Searching the Google Books scan mentions the Independence. So you are correct on that.

I still think these tests and towing the Independence back to SF were stupid. But I'll grant that I got the timelines wrong.
The "overblown" part refers solely to the predictive powers of the dataset.
You mean the "responsible journalists" of the PRC? https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1266777/exclusiv...
I wonder how much of the adult language learning research is like the research on physical fitness. There's decades of research about the precipitous decline in fitness and strength that comes with age. More recent research shows that the decline had more to do with decades of an increasingly sedentary lifestyle than physical decline. Yes, a fit 60 year old is less fit than a fit 30 year old, but still may be quite fit. Probably the decline in ability to learn languages is real but may not be nearly as pronounced as some studies show.
I thought it was a fancy contraction for 'no-op politics' where at the end of your term, the org/country would stay where it was before you :-)
Cool, a piece of history lurking under your workplace. Far enough down that there's no problem with floating above that particular spot.
Computing Faster with Quasi-Particles
Even today, in my language "Telugu" if some one is trolling we call it "vitanda vadam" - i.e. No point in continuing the discussion.
Funny to see how iOS / Apple is currently working on their own cross-platform tech (marzipan), which means running iOS app on macOS with minimal changes (time will tell what this thing ends up looking like). On the other side, google is releasing a cross-platform tech that's actually cross-platform.

As a currently mostly iOS native dev, i must say this makes me a bit nervous.
You can make bunches of sources into Newsfeeds you can follow by grouping together RSS feeds, trusted webpages (like an authors' from a trusted outlet), or get it updated from the articles you share on your own Twitter feed or YouTube account.
Use of robots and artificial intelligence to understand the deep sea
I think it's worth bearing in mind that people who sign up for bootcamps generally expect to have a normal career trajectory. They do not expect to spend their careers as effectively junior developers. They genuinely believe they will become Technical Fellows, and expect that a bootcamp will get them started.

Few bootcamps seem to do a good job of teaching students what to expect in a career path or what they'll need to do to advance in it.

I think our industry is headed for a collective reckoning, though I would not begin to speculate on a timeline. We're going to have to square seniority as a measure of skill with seniority as a measure of time, and no matter how it happens a number of people are going to be unpleasantly surprised.
Broadcasting in the open (i.e. not hiding the message) that Alice signed transaction X, unless Alice runs a business producing these transactions (i.e. Alice runs an exchange) - I am not seeing how that could be constructed as "commercial".

Intent behind "non-commercial" I believe was to avoid businesses jumping on the free resource and completely saturating channel with business stuff, where amateurs unlikely to do that, as there is no financial benefit. With that intent in mind, P2P transactions are "non-commercial" in my opinion.
VanillaJS for one: http://vanilla-js.com/
Data center trashserver no used green energe
If a human impactor would give it an atmosphere of dust, then said atmosphere would already have been created by one of the dozens of similar-sized impactors the moon gets per year.
Yes, they were going to work together. Nix was a salesperson and wanted to sound like business was going well, and I suppose leave.eu wanted to sound like they were getting things done. I refer you again to the ICO report.
Is this meant to be sarcastic? I suppose it would be possible if you enslaved those with PHDs and unpaid debt, forcing them to teach at universities administrated by those enslaved for their debt, built by those enslaved for their debt.

Pharaoh had a lot of things for “free,” as did the plantation owners in the US, but the cost of free is pretty much the opposite of free for those who end up doing the paying. And the cost to society is something I’m pretty sure most wouldn’t advocate today.
Presumably Nintendo will shut this down shortly?
Very sorry, was making a silly joke, not providing useful pronounciation.
I know you might find it hard to believe, but some of us actually pay for stuff in crypto
Ask HN: Which one is your favourite book?
Hello,

I would like to know about your favorite book belonging to any genre. I have just developed my reading habit. I want to read more books which will increase my knowledge. I like biographies as well. Right now I am reading losing my virginity by Richard Branson.
In your last sentence, the converse also applies to would be trendsetters denigrating mature technologies. I think that the key problem is that people in this industry are quick to play the denigration card in order to justify their own beliefs, instead of fostering an environment of mutual respect. Remember, a lot of the audience of hackernews, for better or for worse, are impressionable green management that aren't exactly qualified to start powering their homes with miniaturized fusion reactors, and would be better off to keep using things like relational databases and cobol if the ends justify the means.

Does this problem play out in respect to experimental medicine I wonder?

j2ee+oracle == aspirin?
isomorphic reactjs+node == S100A9 vaccine?
Yeah good luck with that. Most managers I talk to still think adding more people to late project = faster delivery.
Who knows? There's always uncertainity, and a non-zero probability that the bombing site happened to have a geologically interesting cave system underneath, or a hidden cache of alien artifacts. The probability of such a thing, while non-zero, is really low, and we also don't observe fragile systems on the Moon. It's simply a dead rock.

As for bombing Mars ice caps, that was a nice idea too, IMO (even though AFAIK it turned out to not be useful). The goal here was to densify the atmosphere with water vapor and CO₂. Assuming you consider terraforming Mars a good idea, doing it in reasonable timescales will require some preparations involving direct applications of lots of energy - whether it's melting the ice caps, or redirecting comets to hit the planet. At some point we might be able to accelerate the process by deploying bacteria and plants (read: self-replicating chemical processing nanobots), but the conditions are not right for this yet - hence the ideas like using nukes or comets to bootstrap those conditions.
Yeah so if you have like... 5 people who want to play with you, I'm not sure if we would as of the current product (maybe once we had analytics, a huge platform to help you grow your audience, whatever else, sure it's still valuable). However once you start to get more people, scheduling that effectively would basically be impossible. I've never used Patreon, but I'm fairly confident they don't do that at all for you, they just help with the payment, correct?