skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think making contact discovery much more difficult for people will make them more likely to select Signal as their preferred chat app? Especially if you are asking them to replace Facebook Messenger. If they are willing to message people using their real name, I don't think hiding their phone number from them will be a great draw.
Why the personal attack? This is not Reddit.
Is it possible they're just sharing source and not changing the id?
> the bandwidth involved and the requirement for working internet connectivity makes remote storage seem really costly and unattractive to me

If the camera doesn't have internet connectivity, I can't see what it's seeing when I'm away from home. That's a requirement, as I have already said.
Author here. That's actually a good point. Thank you!
> It can also be coated with other materials: a thin sheet of steel coated with an even thinner layer of tin makes the light, sturdy, and non-corrosive tin cans that now hold much of our food.

Are tin cans still used? I was under the impression they'd been replaced by aluminum...
Sounds like a fun project, happy gardening!
Just curious, do you consider the US to have a nationalistic preference for US products?
We have not adapted to a billion people migrating from where they used to be able to live to where other people are already living.

Small-scale experiments thus far (with fewer than 10M people) have led directly to increasingly fascist government, in the latter places. Genocide is the predictable policy, from there on, with recent examples in Rwanda, Congo, Burma, and Charleston. Europeans demonstrated enthusiasm for it only a little less recently.
So the crux of the story is “I had to email an internet icon and she mailed me back right away having done what I asked”.

I can sympathize. When I worked at Sendmail I was tasked with running DNS for the company, which included Sendmail.org. The first thing I had to do was find a secondary DNS. Our founder said to “email his friend Paul”.

It turned out his friend was Paul Vixie, the inventor of BIND, who responded in just a couple minutes that he had set up a-root to secondary the domains I was running.

Here I was, 22 years old at my first job, emailing with the inventor of critical internet infrastructure who was relying on a database I ran as a source of truth.
Elizabeth Warren Urges FTC to Investigate Amazon for the Capital One Data Breach
I'm on mac, but opened up my windows laptop to check this. I clicked the start menu, typed "mouse speed" and the first option was "Change the mouse pointer display or speed", I picked that and there I was.
C Programming Playground
The point of Spivak’s book is to be rigorous and offer hard problems, not teach the basics of how calculus is used.

Doing epsilon–delta proofs can be fun, but it’s mostly useful for aspiring pure mathematicians, and not really relevant per se for the grandparent poster.
That's precisely what I meant when I said they missed the forest for the trees.
Even worse, the techbro is getting paid a FINE salary by pimping you, and you don't get shit.

It's absolutely disgusting to make a living for yourself by pretending to help refugees and lying about it.
As they said in the comments:

> Whenever you are in the mood to find out what you already know, strike up a conversation with an experimental psychologist.
Author here. Actually Federer does not do tennis. In fact, he's famous for trying lots of different sports before settling on tennis.
Oh, hey. Are you me? I am wrapping my time in CS grad program, and I also, never took calculus as a formal class.

Now, I will say, save machine learning/AI, calculus isn't really necessary; the world is completely discrete.

That being said, that doesn't mean that knowing calculus wouldn't _enhance_ your ability to understand and digest some of the more difficult reductions and proofs in, say, a theory of computation course.

I relied on "The Calculus Tutoring Handbook"[0]. I wanted a book that had answers to _all_ the exercises for confidence building purposes. The book goes slow and provides a great amount of detail -- the authors are pretty good at not hand-waving.

I also found \r\learnmath useful as a "I have a problem and can't ask anyone" site. They are really friendly.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Tutoring-Book-Carol-Ash/dp/0...
The notebooks are just .ipynb files (Jupyter's format, though apparently it doesn't like our notebooks very much...). So you can certainly store them in git. We don't have integration yet, but it's on our roadmap.
It would kind of feel like killing them if you went back and didn't have them.
You say source, I say narrative. While not wrong to suggest many Urban Dictionary definitions are either jokes or in use by nobody but the poster, the English language is not and probably never has been at rest. Urban Dictionary is a pretty large destination for recording slang as it develops. Especially in this case, where it was made popular by the "He Boot Too Big" meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/he-boot-too-big-for-he-gotdam...
i don't know, there's a sibling comment demonstrating that titanium has managed to enter the popular consciousness as a near-magically strong metal, when there's still plenty of uses for steel, and aluminum (even ignoring cost).

so, like vantablack, and titanium, i think the excitement around the wonder-plastic would depend on marketing.
>> Do you really think that you, by willpower alone, are going to be able to resist all the temptations of multinational corporations who collectively spend billions researching how to manipulate your lizard brain?

Well, it is difficult, but not impossible to develop oneself to withstand this onslaught. They create these entrapments, mostly through the use of technology :).

However, you are right, that in itself may not be enough if you are still embedded in it. But wouldn't it be great, if we can figure out how to do that.
Yes, it needs some resources, in terms of community, wealth . I feel this is the next chapter in our philosophical evolution - to create a philosophy which makes you anti fragile to these things. Those before us did not face this problem at this scale.

And The problem is, people mistake a way of life for life itself. And it becomes difficult for them to change that for a better life.

I am not talking about the Amish here, but the general populace so dependent on modern technology. A simple suggestion to get rid of their smartphones gives people anxiety attack and make them go all defensive.
> How do you think it's possible for an app appearing seemingly out of the blue to move so fast in such a crowded and mature market like social media?

Occam's razor: It provided what people wanted.
At what point should we say "lying" instead of "over-hyping" or "overbranding"? I think they crossed that point. They were just plain lying.
Oh, you're right there isn't a distinction, for some reason I thought there was.
it is in their faq [1]

>> Tractors are often equipped with steel wheels rather than rubber air tires to discourage its use as a vehicle on the road.

[1] http://amishamerica.com/technology/#tractors
>"For starters, you shouldn't browse Tor without blocking JavaScript by default."

Could you say why this is recommended?
That is a nice translation available under Bible software based on the SWORD project if I remember correctly. I too like to use that one from time to time.
After not having used Windows for a couple of years, I installed Windows 8 on my old computer before giving said computer to my mom. Out of the box, Windows update was broken. Known bug, the fix for it was to download a patch, and the said patch, after being downloaded could only be installed with network access disabled (???). What garbage. How did Windows update ship broken out of the box? How did this pass quality control? I don't know how anyone can trust Microsoft and let themselves get sucked into their vendor lock-in.
BPF at Facebook (and Beyond)
Pernosco Demo Video
> I think there's a psychological component too.

You may be on to something.

Perhaps part of it is not wanting to switch from a winning position to a losing one. Thats harder to take so inertia sets in.
Interesting.

Visually, it looks a lot like Meson's Mesonfile syntax, in some ways.

Does the indentation have semantic meaning at all, or is it just to convey a hierarchy?
Why Twitter killed vine will forever be a frustrating mystery to me
HN really needs to have a baseline rule of shadowbaning the downvotes by all accounts associated with a company subject of the article.
And how do you turn it into money to pay yourself and your lab nice salaries? Which is of course the point of the TED talk, it's marketing. For you, not for refugees. Refugees can garden without paying American academics six figure salaries to pretend to help them do it. Helping refugees sounds nice, but if it doesn't result in very comfortable salaries for non-refugee Americans, what's the point of that? Much preferable to pay American academics to pretend to help refugees -- get your priorities straight man!
Look into the Peshitta Bible. Whilst Greek manuscripts have come and gone. The Peshitta has remained untouched as far back as it goes.
Humanity adapts, humans die en masse and take societies and nations with them.
You're welcome to contact me for my own doc once I prepare it. I'd welcome your feedback and help in making it valuable to you.

For what it's worth, I come from a mainstream scientific background, and my own view on this subject is not heavily based on Lipton's.
It's certainly not the majority of people here.
I saw nothing remarkable at all for your search term.
Elizabeth Warren Wants FTC to Look into Amazon Involvement in Capital One Breach
There's some wiggle room in the floppy so when you move your finger around the hole like that it's pushing the disk to the edges of the casing. So to help see what's happening here, imagine the casing is 10x10in, the disk is 5x5in, and the hole in the casing is 3in circle. If you're moving your finger clockwise starting by pushing your finger up, the center of the disk is centered with the casing. Move your finger to the right and the disk rolls on the top edge for a bit (spinning counter-clockwise) before you start coming around the inner circle and the disk comes off the top edge and to the side edge.

As you are moving your finger clockwise, the disk is pressing against the edges causing it to roll counter-clockwise.
100 signups a day? sourcehut is already dead, they just don’t know it yet.
there is a modern version of geocities, you can see what sites used to look like back in Web 1.0 https://neocities.org/browse

geocities was the most popular way of having your own personal website back in the day, people were making websites for fun and you can see it in the sites and pages they created, overflowing with personality and quirks.
Do you guys get the Toyota Hilux[1] in the USA? That's a classic "ute".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux
FB employees turn to hacker from Hong Kong to learn what other teams are doing
It wasn't that hard for Whatsapp:

- Provide excellent clients.

- Promise to take payments and not mine data or show ads.

- Use few but smart employees.

- Profit.

Telegram managed to get this right too, and I'm disappointed with both of them for now, Whatsapp for selling out and Telegram for starting yet another crypto currency.

Both managed thanks to people going around selling it.

At the point were I

- either need more than mail envelope security (protection against causual snooping by local mail delivery)

- or were Signal or Matrix becomes equally usable as Telegram

I'll be happy to move, as will many others I think.

Provide a better messaging systems - and this time show me up front how you won't get away legally with selling out for > 10 Billion USD - tell me about it and watch me sell it. PS: protip: do charge reasonable payments like Whatsapp did! Or sell API access or something that makes you aligned with the users instead of investors.
I don’t remember how I learned about that book at all. But I appreciate having another data point about the author. Thank you.
Author here. It's the culture of the site. Like Reddit. Much more critical.
Also, remember that Medium is the platform where the writer writes. Commentators mean in fact to address the author. That helps for civility.
IIRC Tyndale was burned at the stake for his efforts.
I think sword made of alloy tool steel would put divots in a medieval one. I have a tungsten steel knife blade I made. You can use it whittle a regular knife. It's also not brittle in the least.
How do we distinguish old craters from new ones on the Moon?
Facebook Could Do to Banks What It Did to Newspapers
It’s about the same timeframe for me as well. I definitely used a floppy for BIOS updates and transferring Matlab files in 1999, but a laptop I bought in 2000 didn’t have a floppy drive.
https://web.archive.org/web/19961226152953/http://www1.geoci...
How do you find the stuff you need then? Go to the big product box in the sky?
It is worth adding that something like half the energy that goes into compressing air actually heats it, so you only get as much back if you can retain the heat somehow. That is a lot easier to do storing the air underground, where the rock insulates well.

But you can use the whole ocean as your heat sink. Pumping air down, the heat escapes into the water. As the compressed air expands, it chills, but if you allow it to absorb heat from the water on the way out, you get the heat back that it lost on the way down.
I was super-impressed with Acton's creation & principled stewardship of WhatsApp, but with regard to Signal, he's been essentially invisible since the initial announcement of his donation/involvement.

His name only appears twice at the `signal.org` website:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asignal.org+Acton

His name doesn't appear in any recent Signal news – such as this, about the foundation being ready to take donations.

As of April, he was supposed to be speaking at the 'TechCrunch Disrupt SF' conference that happened earlier this month – https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/03/whatsapp-brian-acton-disru... – but he wasn't on the final schedule/speakers-list and I've seen no followup coverage indicating he actually spoke there.

It'd be good to know what his actual involvement is, before transitively having confidence in Signal based on Acton's experience.
https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world...
For many of us, Geocities was an introduction to having a personal website and building community through the internet. Personally, I wish the old geocities sites were still accessible. Believe it or not - since this was before search engines (really) and wikipedia (really) many geocities sites were treasure troves of links that led to a world of information.
Depends who you talk to, but generally no.
Facebook Bought a Police Force
Is this a serious question?

What is the alternative, focus on not providing value to your customers? Yeah, I would go with the initial idea and given them something of value.
They are selecting which content to show. That's no different then editing. It's easy to post 2 posts where missing the context of one other the other changes the entire meaning. So by not displaying one or the other they've edited the meaning and are therefore arguably responsible for the new meaning
You never win until being strong is the only choice you have
Geocities was a service people used to make web pages. It was one of the first places online where people got an Internet presence. People used it to make pages about themselves, their families, their pets, and their hobbies.

It didn't require any coding skills, and you could make a little page and suddenly be on the Internet. Back then, search engines were very basic, so there was this common idea of needing to have your domain, your site (both words being used traditionally to describe land and property), so you'd have presence. A more recent analog Myspace, where people could have a profile, show off what they liked, these kinds of things.

Fun fact: the entire Geocities archive was saved by a bunch of fans (I saw them at DWeb Camp this summer) and is below 500Gb - so it can fit on an SD card!

There's also a fan effort to recreate the experience of Geocities, called Neocities. It has a bunch of fan pages that will give you an idea of what Geoticies was like.
Woz aside, I don't think people realize the increased mortality of being on the upper end of the (literal) scale.

Here's a journal article:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

but to summarize BMI vs years lost:

BMI 40-45 45-50 50-55 55-60
men -6.5 -10.8 -10.6 -17.0
women -6.9 -9.1 -10.3 -13.1
Security Guard to Analyst: Edward Snowden Reveals His Shocking Career Trajectory
great writeup! Very easy and to the point. But if I have to suggest something (and I'm just nitpicking here), an example/section summarising everything at the end would've been the "icing on the cake". May be because I read the entire three pages in one go, I got a bit lost in the "Concurrent UI Patterns" examples, primarily when to use `useTransitions`, `useDeferredValue`, `Suspense` and various anti-patterns/edge cases that the examples mentioned :)
OT: The other day in one of Europe's biggest consumer electronics retail chain (MediaMarkt):

Why does Huawei has 3x more showroom space than all other smartphones manufacturers together, right in front of the entrance and this in every MediaMarkt? No other brand has such a setup.

The US is the only country trying to interfere and seeing potential and bigger threats.
W3C Compatible Keys for JavaScript/TypeScript
I guess my issue is that once it’s published by TechCrunch, it doesn’t feel like it’s nonpublic anymore.

If someone at TechCrunch were to trade on the information before releasing it then I guess that would probably count (and it certainly would breach whatever NDA there was). Similarly for someone who passed information on to an accomplice.

But just the article being released a bit early doesn’t really feel like insider trading (at least in the US). If a draft of the article were left in a coffee shop and someone found it and traded on it that wouldn’t be insider trading. And that situation feels a lot more nonpublic than this one. I don’t really see how TechCrunch would plan to gain from releasing their article to everyone at the same slightly early time.

Naturally it feels unfair but insider trading isn’t really about fairness in that more general sense.
That doesn't actually mean anything. Every large site will have it's UA number copied by random spammers, often in Russia.

I've never figured out the motivation, but I've seen it a number of times.
Wow those SR SFP prices have fallen.

Every SFP adds about 1W, but 10Gb-T ports are particularly thirsty, they were 5W when first introduced, still in that ballpark. It all adds up.

Another reason to prefer fiber/DA is 10Gb-T has shit latency, it has a modem doing QAM, hence the power consumption. Probably only relevant for HPC or HFT, but just inelegant.
Ha! The internet was better back then. Thanks for this...too bad it only goes a couple of links deep...
In the long term a supply chain that is predominantly local will consume fewer resources and be more resilient to disruption. This isn’t always possible but the incentives you’re referring to are only because us corporations optimize short term profits over sustainable businesses.
That seems like a generalized gospel in the US : the environment will sort this out. The free market will sort this out. No worries, god's hand will sort this out.
I'm genuinely curious, are you taught this at some point ?
Do they read the article before writing the headline? Did you read the whole thing? From your link:

[Gabbard is] the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up. Which she might not, ‘cause she’s also a Russian asset.

"She" in the final sentence refers to Jill Stein. So, Hillary is at the very least slandering a genuinely good person with a baseless accusation. For shame.

But, there's another word in that sentence, "also". In isolation, we might think it means that Stein is a Russian asset in addition to her other allegedly unsavory qualities. That reading doesn't make sense in light of the previous sentence, however, which is mostly about Gabbard and only introduces Stein at the end as someone who might or might not do something. Might or might not do it, because she's also a Russian asset. In English you don't say "also" about the thing that explains the first thing. You say "also" about some unrelated thing. The only reasonable reading is that Stein is a Russian asset in addition to the only other person under discussion also being a Russian asset.

I can't believe we're trying to steelman something a Clinton said in an edited interview by a loyal Democratic "operative" she has known and worked with for years. Those are the perfect conditions for saying exactly what one intends to say. She wasn't taken out of context. There was no trick question. English is her first language. I really think she thought it was a good idea to make this baseless accusation.

Really, though. I can't believe you've got me suggesting you could trust the media a bit more, if only when it comes to reading transcripts. This whole thing has come under intense scrutiny. If this obscure financial site had unearthed a bombshell, do you really all the big media firms who love to hate on Gabbard would have ignored it?
My mother got a perfect 800 score on the GRE English test many years ago when she wanted to go back to graduate school after her children were grown up enough (highschool/college age).

She told me that the way she got her perfect score was by realizing when the questions were wrong and thinking of what answer the test creators believed to be correct.

She had to outguess the test creators and answer the questions wrong -- in the "right" way.

This seems like a similar situation.
And shitty and very smart people. Remember, nazis built the u.s. space program.

But the real question is: to what extent is this a systemic issue? In other words, does the current system/ environment select for these types of these PR over engineering people?