skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how people keep putting words on my mouth. How about you respond to what I actually said instead of constructing a straw man?

"Old" is not the same thing as "irrelevant", especially since the obvious point of my comment is the jailbreak ecosystem, not the devices. That it applies to older devices is important because that doesn't create the same kind of excitement and interest as if the iPhone 11 was hacked.
Most of the "sieving" is done by reviewers rather than editors, and reviewers are not paid. (There are some journals that pay their reviewers. I don't think any of them pay them much, and Nature and Science are not among their number in any case.)
Our elementary school provides iPads in all grades, taking them home starting in 3rd. I was horrified to see my 5th grader zooming into math worksheets and using her finger to work out the problems between the text. We put a stop to that and had her work it on paper, then submitting a photo.

Now in 8th grade, at least it is more paper based, but they are still provided laptops. She told me one of the teachers pre-records the lectures, and they watch those in class, instead of live instruction. I suppose the teacher thinks she can record it once and use it for several years.

Now I know why IQ peaked in the 90’s and has been dropping after the introduction of the smart phone.
I still fail to see how people fail to realize this point. Perhaps you can argue that the whole prison system needs to be reformed, but to make a special case for refugees from the south goes against fundamental laws that the US has. I feel like I’m in the minority for thinking that immigrants are welcome and great, so long as they’re legal. Dealing with illegal immigrating is something nobody wants to do. Nobody wakes up in the morning and hopes that we have a border crisis. However, laws need to be enforced, and clearly the treatment of these individuals does not deter the countless daily immigrants who nevertheless choose- willingly- to take the risk. I say all this as a legal immigrant to this country, for which I am eternally grateful and cognizant of my luck.
>since economics is a rather new science

Isaac Newton's Principia was first published in English in 1728. Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. That's a 48 year head start out of the nearly 250 years we have had both physics and economics.
It's laundering. The idea is presumably to circumvent US rules on domestic spying by having GCGQ do it and transfer it to US agencies.

Similarly the UK has had its spying ruled unlawful under ECHR: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-co... (perhaps this is why Richard Dearlove, "C" of MI6, is so Brexity)
> You can't pay rent with good feelings.

So just keep making the world shittier. Gotta love individualist capitalism.
That's a good question, but it is a real problem. Treatment for cancer causes suffering and makes death more likely.
I agree. I wasn't making a value judgement, simply stating a fact.
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Many different browsers use the same engine at the core. That doesn't mean they aren't different pieces of software. just that they use the same engine.

(In this case, one might nitpick that "programmed" suggests something different, but I don't think that's clear cut)
The "X" is two years old. That doesn't mean it's useless, but it does mean that the news doesn't carry the same weight as if it was the iPhone 11 Pro that was hacked.
The landscape changed. More people use the internet, more spy agencies from multiple countries siphon traffic en bulk, information of higher value is exchanged over the internet, more untrusted parties are involved (e.g. wifi hotspots).

I mean go ahead, do everything unencrypted. But I surely won't entrust data to you if you're leaking like a sieve.
Which is funny in itself since Google Maps is "free." Quotes because a lot of features are buggy when your location is turned off.
Around the time of the enlightenment I'd say.

Please note that I'm not saying that Ayurveda or TMC doesn't contain things that work. I'm just saying that a lot of those things haven't seen any proper testing done, so we don't know whether they work better than a placebo, or even whether they are safe, and of the things we did test, few worked particularly well.

Boric acid for example has been studied and found to work okay: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21774671
Makes me wonder if we could ever live in a post-plastic world.
Even up to a CAT IIIB approach, pilots still have a decision height where you go around if you don't see the runway or the approach lights. That's not very high for CAT IIIB (15m), but pilots are trained to abort and are basically waiting with their hands on the throttle. You can find stories of people aborting landings when already over the threshold.

Here's a sim of some pilots aborting a CAT IIIB. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o9s2jQixK9w

Additionally the tighter the tolerances on the landing, the closer everything has to agree.

In better weather there are also physical glide slope indicators like the PAPI lights. These are the four lights to the side of the runway, if you're too low they show all red, too high they're all white. You want half red half white. They're entirely passive.
If you see the internet as a source of information, then where you ultimately get the correct information is inconsequential.

If you see the information as property of someone then this is problematic, but it’s no different from a subscriber of the newspaper telling his colleagues about a big story he read. Just at a larger scale.
As someone that writes Elixir at $DAYJOB, I was really looking forward to replacing some JS with LiveView. However, after having used it for a simple feature, I'm not entirely sure if I will continue to use it. I realize it is still pre 1.0 and that there is still a lot of work being done on it.

My biggest complaint is that if your server restarts for any reason (say, a rolling restart), you currently lose all state that was on the server[0]. There appears to be some kind of workaround for forms currently, but for anything more complex, I would need to write JS in order to attempt to not have my page get reset to the default view. So if I need to write JS already, I may as well just write JS (or something that transpiles or JS/WASM) to have fewer moving parts.

[0] https://elixirforum.com/t/liveview-and-rolling-restarts/2397...
I know, N=1 but I turn off my phone completely every night.
Wasn't good either.
Is it a joke or do they really not realize that there are no universal moral truths and that "good" and "evil" are completely subjective? What are the legal implications of that statement in theory and practice?
> What's undeniable _in practice_, is that legal prostitution leads to less criminal behaviour and exploitation.

Uh, that's totally deniable.

Ten years ago, Germany legalized prostitution in an attempt to reduce crime and improve sex workers rights, standing, etc. Curiously at the same time, Sweden made prostitution illegal (incl. soliciting), for the exact same reasons.

Ten years later, the outcome is pretty clear. Germany is seeing exploitation and trafficking on a much larger scale, mostly because the criminals can more easily hide behind a screen of legality. Sweden sees less trafficking and exploitation.
> If the source code isn't available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can't build it from source, then it was never really "secure" anyway. What lawmakers do or don't say is just noise.

Careful - you're right that WhatsApp is untrustworthy, but laws that force them to add backdoors could well be applied to open-source code as well. Or make possession of non-backdoored software, open or not, illegal. Or compel OS/hardware manufacturers on which the code runs. The law is a dangerous thing to ignore.
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Let us look at the facts from [1]:

- China require companies to transfer all intellectual property to a venture owned 51% by Chinese before getting access to market

- people running joint ventures like clockwork open competing companies cutting western partners out

- China is a developed country that declare themselves as developing to skirt economic and environmental controls

- China has state owned companies that compete with western companies that they regularly subsidize to beat competition

Also on a softer end China is trying to spread its way of ruling their people to the west [2]. How long do you think you’d last under such a system before being “re-educated” like the Muslim Uighur or Confucian Falun Gong?

[1]
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2018-USTR-Report-to-Con...
[2] Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641770546/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Da...
I quit my (good paying) job to burn through my savings and start my own company because I want to fix this, so it's not everyone who behaves that way :)
> The argument here is that by destroying the threat of out of network, the insurance company has literally no incentive to offer rates better than Medicare.

Yup. Works for me.

> That’s a huge unfair advantage to insurance companies.

Not so much. Guess what I think the next part of the plan should be?
It's pretty difficult to start making good decisions and dedicate all of your free time to educating yourself when you've busted your ass all day, you're tired, and you still have shit to do. This bootstraps mentality just ignores reality.

I personally always really want to learn new programming languages and start new projects! But after working all day I just can't bring myself to do it and all the other things I need to do most of the time. Sometimes I can do a couple hours or devote a Saturday, but it doesn't feel like much. And I love programming, and it's one of the easiest, cheapest things to extend your knowledge in. So how is someone who works bent over 40 hours a week going to have the physical and mental energy and the money to learn to be a welder on his own?
They still can for everyone else, probably everyone you talk to over Signal, so not much of a protection. Pretty much the only way to avoid that is for Signal to give up that control, don't supply Signal directly and let others build Signal from sources and publish in independent from Signal package repositories, i.e. f-droid, OS package managers on Linux, etc. Even if they don't federate, it will at least make their end-to-end encryption sound, not useless like it is now when everyone uses Signal supplied binaries.
> They were showing enough information [that] no one was clicking the links.

This is a testable claim. If snippets were preventing people from clicking the links, then publisher revenue should rise now that Google isn't showing any information.

Now, keep in mind that every single time this experiment has been tried in Europe in the past, publisher revenues plummeted. But maybe this time will be different.
> has previously warned

That's the UK's position but it's not clear from the article that some kind of forced backdoor made it into the treaty, just that WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages. But they have already been sharing encrypted messages through other legal means.

More speculation here: https://www.justsecurity.org/24145/u-s-u-k-data-sharing-trea...
That is of course true, but I think that the number of variables is so huge that nobody really knows why civilizations collapse. For example, while as you say knowledge is more distributed today, a lot fewer people know how to life self-sufficiently and knowledge is a lot more specialized that it used to be the cause. Proverbially nobody knows how to make a pencil from scratch.
What happens if you cover your face while you scan?
If the source code is available for audit by 3rd parties, but nobody you trust have actually audited it (depending on your paranoia, this may be only yourself), then it was never really "secure" anyway.
> * Signs in the Hotel warn you that you DO NOT have a right to privacy, and you must register your passport or state ID

This applies in the US too in most cities I’ve done business in. Some hotels don’t enforce the ordinances, but the hotel is supposed verify who is staying at the hotel, along with license plate numbers of vehicles the guest has. Also, I wouldn’t want to stay in a hotel that doesn’t check rooms periodically (at least once per week), as that is a recipe for meth cooking and hoarders bringing pests into the building and numerous other problems.
They can simply put up a paywall and set their pages to “do not index.”
I agree, it's pure cancer and I think right now 40-60% of UK's population has it, in varying stages..
Cellebrite might pay for it. Unless they already knew about it.
Isn't most of the crime happening insides the bank offices?
Signal was never safe: https://web.archive.org/web/20180914145702/https://sanderven...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12880520

The safe variant LibreSignal was killed by Signal. https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/wiki/What-to-do-a...
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The amount of time to develop a feature makes no difference if the client didn’t want to pay for the time it would take to develop it.
>The GPL is based around a well-defined set of ethics that centers around giving the user complete freedom to use and modify the software

I take issue with this. First of all, this “well-defined” qualifier is ironically poorly defined. What does that mean? It either is or is not derived from some principle or set of principles; it is ultimately an example of ethics being imposed as a restriction.

Secondly, you don’t actually have “complete freedom”. A recent example I encountered was the utility github.com/gojp/goreportcard which still relies on github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter despite gometalinter being deprecated in favor of the much faster github.com/golangci/golangci-lint. Because golangci-lint is licensed under GPL and goreportcard is licensed under Apache 2.0 it would violate GPL to integrate golangci-lint into goreportcard. So either goreportcard has to adopt a new license and ensure they’re compliant with that license or suffer relying on subpar software that has been abandoned by its creator and community.

Now perhaps I’m ignorant (something I often find myself guilty of when speaking on such lofty topics, please forgive and correct me if this is the case) to what you mean by “complete freedom” but that doesn’t seem like “complete freedom” to me, it sounds like two incompatible sets of ethics.
What if they’ve already profiled that person and they are in jail already?

I think the worry with this new form of authoritarianism is that it will be so good no one will have the chance to stop it.
Oh you're right, I got mixed up with the announcement:

> In the first Clojure survey in 2010, 27% of respondents reported using Clojure for work and 33% for serious hobby projects. This number has steadily grown over the years and we now see 66% using it at work and 54% using it for serious hobby projects.

https://clojure.org/news/2019/02/04/state-of-clojure-2019

It's the number of Clojure devs using Clojure for work that has consistently grown. Interesting that this has happened without the community growing in numbers.
IANAL, but the HL reads to me as if you'd have to convict some entity of effectively breaking the human rights in order to prevent their use of your software.

This sounds next to impossible, unless the entity is a war criminal,in which case a civil suit would be entirely pointless.

Or do you even think there would - as an example - be a US court prohibit the use of some software for ICE? Such a court ruling would imply the US government acts against UN human rights. Which court would open this box for a software licence?
> I mean go ahead, do everything unencrypted.

That is not what I wrote. I wrote "encrypt everything". There is valuable and useful use of encryption, I'm just not certain everything everywhere needs it or benefits from it.
I love a good rant. Especially the "emperor has no clothing" variety. So yay. But that's too easy.

What I need, personally and emotionally, are new ideas, solutions, some notion of a path forward.

When I rant (in public), I try to also propose an alternative, to somehow make it constructive.

So please stay angry. Moral outrage is a potent tool.

But also please help me (us) by converting your outrage into action.
> this immunotherapy essentially works by turning off some of the immune system's "don't attack your own body" safeties

That sounds like checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy. Others like CAR-T may have fewer side effects, since they're just augmenting your T cells with a manufactured supply that is primed to attack a specific target.

CAR-T is a lot more expensive for now but over time such "precision" immunotherapies may become mass produced and cheaper and we'll be able to make the immune system do what we want with fewer side effects.
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The Art of the Con and Why People Fall for It
I do not agree with you. The entire portions of the article that you say are “[explaining] her history” are indeed anecdotes that she is relying on to drive a willingness to then take her other observations more seriously. This clearly qualifies as presenting a collection of anecdotal data as support for a point of view.

To be clear, there is nothing at all wrong with her choosing to do this or with anyone choosing to publish it.

The part I feel is wrong is the attention paid to it and the endorsement that it is valuable. These come at a great expense because they invite people to decide that the emotional mental portrait it paints in their mind is a reasonable basis to form opinions for the general kinds of policies or actions they would support.
> - Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free.

This means the public is paying the academic to do the work, they're not doing it for free. Grants do come with the expectation of results.

> - Finally finally, none of the Authors are ever paid for their work.

> The most frustrating part is that Academics themselves are locked into this system by the career prospects conferred by prestigious journals/conferences.

Just to be clear this doesn't mean scientists are unpaid, it means they're being paid in career prospects. (Edit: they're also paid in their salaries which include the expectation of work.) (And part of the journals' service is helping academia determine who the best scientists are. That's an important service if done correctly and deserves payment just like any other work.)

As with many scientific problems a good problem statement can make all the difference. It sounds like what you want is a different form of payment?

It's unclear how much of your problem with the academic system stems from its already nationalized aspects, how much comes from its non-nationalized aspects, and how much comes from it being partially nationalized. Until you can answer that question you might hold off on the "more nationalization" drum.
It would help if you tell us in which EU country you are. Depending on the country, there might be scholarships etc.
Isn't there any laws against this?

I would think this should at least be against one or another amendment for Americans?
I don’t think the iOS App Store allows for that sort of checksum comparison.
The JSON license is a joke, like Google's "Don't Be Evil". It's not enforced because it's impossible to enforce, and IBM got an exemption anyway.
> Why is the parent comment being downvoted?

Probably by people not reading it and having a kneejerk Brexit-related response.
I couldn't find the actual essay, anyone has the link?
Unfortunately, in a world without GPL, you might not have easy access to that binary. It could be installed on a piece of multi-million dollar enterprise hardware that you'd have to purchase to get one.

That's probably exactly what companies like IBM would would do, if they weren't required to push their changes by GPL.
One could argue that those are the folks that aren’t religious enough to feel that they should not make others work on a sabbath as a result their personal commerce. The religious folk that make it rain come in on other days of the week.
Canada, for one. China continues to imprison random Canadians as retaliation for the arrest of Huawei’s CFO in Vancouver.
If I can compile audited code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren't any backdoors (excluding perhaps hardware level backdoors--but that's why we do the encryption in software).

Implementing hardware backdoors that are opaque to end users is theoretically possible, but more difficult in practice. You could, for example, build a screen/monitor that just captures everything on the screen and forwards it to some other entity, but in practice it's not so easy because of bandwidth limitations, etc. I suppose it would be much easier to create a physical keyboard that phones home over a mobile network, although it would only give you half the conversation.

*edit: added the word "audited".
It's a sensible default since the developers don't know when users will need it and users don't want to bother to choose for every single action they take. And they may not even know in advance that they will need it. An innocent conversation can quickly turn into something confidential or private.

That said, I do agree that p2p is preferable since it cuts out a central party that can be strongarmed by government being in control
"complete freedom" does not exist even in theory due to basic information theoretic arguments.
Would you treat cancers that are caught 2-3 years earlier any differently?

Along with better early detection, aren’t we trying to increase the tests’ accuracy?

If we have 2-3 additional years to monitor and treat a cancer, we have more options.
It will be quite funny if the US inadvertently makes the traditional market system obsolete by becoming too "sanction happy". Kind of like how they triggered a de-dollarization push...

China already has a crypto Yuan, there is no reason they can't use a Binance style exchange for frictionless worldwide direct investment in their companies.

China: You want to boycott investing in our companies? We'll route around your whole financial system and help make it obsolete. See what happens to the US economy when banks can no longer collect 20% fees on a growing percentage of the world population's transactions.
Off the topic, how much can we trust the keyboard we are typing on (on mobile). They probably collect everything we type.

Wow !! Just realized that.
Well you relegated iPhone X jailbreaking to "mostly academic".

I think it's fair to say you called it irrelevant.
You are using your perfectly logical reasoning to hide how horrible beings humans are. We show compassion for orangutans and care for the environment. And we can carry on normal productive lives while horrendous pain is inflicted to millions of other human beings, and this pain should be so unbeareable for ourselves that it would hoard all of our attention.
Why would anyone wanting to exchange incriminating information use Whatsapp or Facebook?

It seems this would only serve to catch the most stupid small-time criminals.