skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what percentage of Matrix users will now be using E2EE chats? Is it both groups and one-on-one chats or will there exist disparity between the two? Does the app prompt enabling E2EE in rooms where it's not enabled?
Do people notice if you block updates on say a work wi-fi?

I'm thinking more generally userbase wise and not quite the tech centric crowd we have here on HN.

I would expect most people wouldn't notice.
This sounds like bad company practice of hiring..

If what you're saying all checks out, someone straight out of college (2 years is young) unless he has been working on those kind of things all the time, its an edge case at best.

The fact that he said : "No, you should know this" - Even if he knew it, it shows how they would be work with. Probably dodged a bullet there.
Good thing Snowden thinks twice before recommending anything.
Wrong crushing the code interview is all that really matters.
Identification of a Novel Coronavirus Causing Severe Pneumonia in Humans
Shout out to 90s/early 2000s Quakenet and the nights of odd but entertaining wallops.
That's an Apple Card thing I believe, not Apple Pay--and it rotates a different card number than the one in your physical Apple Card or device-specific card number. It's the one you're supposed to use on legacy online stores and rotating it is similar to ShopSafe, etc.
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It could easily be attributed to automation than business troubles
As a black person of African descent, I feel confident in saying that the group called homo sapiens, of which I and all of my ancestors for millennia am a part, expanded out of Africa into new environments.
Caduceus (a.k.a. “Tensor”/“Double-Helix”) Coil
I see these discussions play out all the time: one person says "my life is better since I stopped paying attention to mainstream news"; others indignantly respond with things like "how privileged you must be to not have to care what's going on in the world", and "how will you be able to make good decisions on who to vote for?".

This line of argument conveniently sidesteps the question of whether mainstream news is the best way to find out what is going on in the world or learn about electoral candidates.

It can be reasonably argued that allowing one's self to be influenced (or, manipulated) by mainstream news is likely more of a hindrance than a help in making good decisions or taking meaningful action to improve the world or support/elect good candidates.

By avoiding the day-to-day barrage, one is better able to focus their attention and energy on things that are important and impactful.

There are plenty of ways to learn about what is going on in the world and find out about electoral candidates, outside the corporate media circus.
"Many cryptographers don't believe SGX will be technologically reliable anytime soon"

E.g. for online backups, SGX will only handle rate limiting. If you're using sufficiently secure password (+80 bits), Argon2 will provide robust enough security for your login and not even a backdoor in SGX matters.
Until you turn your computer off I suppose. Could always set up a server running screen or tmux and ssh into it each time I suppose.
Indeed the core of it is the capability for complex sexual fantasies, and human behaviour is not limited to simply just jerking off.

I'm not saying humans 200 years ago were incapable of such things.

What I'm saying is that bonobos don't read or write Kama Sutra.
Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar
> assessing whether someone will be a good employee for the next few years based on a few short meetings is really hard

Predicting the future is very difficult, and therefore probably not what interviews are designed to optimise for.

Interviews probably optimise for something like: The candidate seemed like a reasonable choice at the time / cover-your-arse scenario.
I bought a secondary phone (for the house, kids), and within 10 minutes of activating it ... spam calls.

For more than a year wife had calls from both the IRS and FBI, and some unknown lawsuit threatening to come after her.

We must be really good at hiding because the FBI never found us and just gave up calling!
The more important question is "at what point will it be impossible to use Matrix in an non-E2EE mode".
Actually it's more than just syntax, elixir and crystal borrow a lot of ruby's stdlib api design, which in my opinion is way more pleasant than other languages'.
It's really not that at level. Once at Google you really get the benefit of doubt of clearing a high bar. It's mostly a talk around your work / perf / CLs and then team fit.
I doubt it, they get "paid" by not having to pay for upstream data charges while still charging their downstream consumers.
I wonder how much of this is just another form of the Fundamental Attribution Error? Everyone thinks they are the competent ones, surrounded by incompetent people that are bringing them down and preventing them from being truly excellent at their jobs. Sure, I fail to deliver things, but that is because of reasons x,y,z; my manager, on the other hand, struggles because they are incompetent.
My experience has been the opposite of yours.
I'm pretty sure Wordball's response was meant as sarcasm.
I stopped watching TV, how about you?
I stopped watching TV for a few weeks now.
Triggers: advertisements, advertisements and lack of interest in the tv programs
Effects: more time, more peacefulness
That doesn't really fit into the SV narrative of unicorns though :/

There was an article last week about new forms of funding that may make supporting this model more common:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22275550
This is fun, but Amazon and Walmart's revenue are sort of misleading, since they obviously don't get to keep most of it.
> A mule cannot [breed].

That's almost always true, but isn't an absolute. There are documented cases of fertile mare mules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule#Fertility
Owning technology and infrastructure is not liquid, is that what you are saying? Or are you talking about operating costs?
Here in Chile, swe coworkers earn about 25k after tax if you are not a manager, boss or the like.
relying on networked cars is monstrously fragile. One critical error in the system is going to tank everyone, disconnecting from the system is going to drastically reduce the safety of both the individual and the system, as it now has to deal with rogue elements, and the potential for malicious attacks, like terrorism or simply some sort of natural freak event is huge problematic.

I think the direction of the thought is reasonable though, you should just take it a few steps farther. If networked infrastructure is a good idea, then maybe cars are not a good idea. We already have driverless, well defined, organised modes of transportation, they're called trains.

modern subway systems already pretty much drive themselves, they also come with the added bonus of not having everyone carry two tons of steel around.
There's something I read In The Company of Others by Julie E. Czerneda years ago.

"The pay's respectible when the company's not."
The velocity is the actual speed you're earning money.

The time it takes to earn one dollar at that wage is the time it takes for one dollar to scroll off the screen.

$7.25 an hour means you earn a dollar every 8 minutes, so it takes about 8 mintues for one dollar on the top row to disappear off the side.

If you look at the code for the site, it's not obfuscated, so you can see all the math:

speed={this.perHour(7.25)}
....
perHour(amount) {
return amount / 60 / 60;
}
....
let offset = (1/dollarsPerRow * dollarWidth * speed * Date.now()/1000) % dollarWidth;

Those are the key bits.

Also, there is no backend. It's all written in frontend react. Again, it's not obfuscated, you can poke around easily enough.
No problem! It’s fun! And a powerful conceptual tool. In my experience, it can be used to solve many thorny problems, and I never learned about it in school.

I had a typo in the last row, it should have been

> (“789 Orange St”, vp:(5/1/2020, +inf), tp:(7/1/2020, +inf))

my apologies!

- the valid period of the middle record is never closed, because it would be a misrepresentation of how the database’s perception of the address at that point in ”transaction time”.

- indeed, the superseded transaction period is closed.

- formally, transaction periods close (and new rows are created) whenever a column’s value changes. Think of it like an “updated at” time stamp, except the meaning is more like “canonical during”. The second half of your question is totally correct, the TP is the period during which the values representing the specified slice of valid time are/were believed.

As the third bullet point implies, one characteristic of this schema is that you have “non-destructive” updates: state is never lost, it’s just put into transaction history. This makes it possible to “roll back” to an earlier, known-good state: simply specify a point in transaction time.

There’s a whole additional rabbit hole to dive down: how to make this stuff fast and intuitive. People have mostly solved the fast part, but we’re still working on the intuition.
One could argue that personal income is also a kind of "revenue", since much of it is spent on taxes, cost of living, etc. I think the two are analogous.
> driving competitors out of the market,… raising prices, and lowering payments to drivers

So, textbook monopoly behavior.
"We've been building a ton" is false though. That's the error there.
Slightly unrelated, but the scrolling effects remind me of https://www.testufo.com/ (motion tests)
Did eBay ever have star ratings? As far as I can remember it's always been just "positive", "negative", and "neutral".

(However, I've never understood why so many eBay reviews will literally type "A++++++++++", we're not in school and that's just a weird thing to say.)
I'm in my late 50s and after 10+ years at same company I found myself on the job market. 1998 was the last time I had any real interviews - after that point it was all networking with no real tech interviews. After much cursing at the advent of white boarding and code tests, I finally just caved and bought a leetcode subscription and starting working problems I hadn't seen since the late 80s in college. Long story short, After 8 interviews I landed a great job with Big Company. At the end of the day, it's a game. You can play it or complain about it, but it is what it is. Has leetcode made me a better programmer? NO. What has helped though is stackoverflow and github.
“ …today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentiers’ of all kinds are in unparalleled ascendancy and the neo-liberal state is only too keen to oblige their greed.

Rentiers derive income from ownership, possession or control of assets that are scarce or artificially made scarce. Most familiar is rental income from land, property, mineral exploitation or financial investments, but other sources have grown too. They include the income lenders gain from debt interest; income from ownership of ‘intellectual property’ (such as patents, copyright, brands and trademarks); capital gains on investments; ‘above normal’ company profits (when a firm has a dominant market position that allows it to charge high prices or dictate terms); income from government subsidies; and income of financial and other intermediaries derived from third-party transactions.”

- Prof. Guy Standing, The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay
It’s not right, that a sensible comment like yours is being downvoted. Spoofing is real, and not easy to track down depending on the resources you have at your disposal. And Indian law enforcement is certainly behind the western world in that regard.

Besides, it’s not like these scammers are paying taxes to the Indian government, so they don’t have any national incentive to facilitate scammers. Tax compliance in countries like India, outside the first world, is very poor. Though the article mentions that Indian authorities are cooperating with Canadian officials, it needs to be understood that this cooperation isn’t based on any incentive structure, other than civilised societies need to crack down on crime. Crime in Canada is a low priority for Indian officials, just like I’m sure it’s the other way around.

Finally, Canada doesn’t even feature in the top 15-20 trading partners for India, last time I checked, so I don’t know what punitive incentive can be hoped for here. If you need a solution, it would be more productive to approach from a more pragmatic, cooperative point of view, rather than being all high and mighty and taking a carpet bombing style approach that affects legitimate business as well. Or, you could do that but it wouldn’t even matter.

Edit: I’d like to add that every day there is news about people, here in India also losing their life savings to these scammers. So it would be wrong to have an impression that authorities and citizens of this country take pleasure in people from richer countries being scammed. I’ve old, not so tech savvy parents myself, who I realise are pretty vulnerable to this evil.
You do realize that show is based on reality, right?
I start a new position Monday. I expected my search to be exactly like this, so I started early.

Within a week of setting the "would hear from recruiters" flag on my admittedly-thin LinkedIn profile, I had 3 solid leads from 3 companies.

I had 3 in-person interviews, and even feeling like I flailed a bit on a couple of the coding exercises (I had the exact panic about writing The Game of Life in 60 minutes), I had two offers and one almost-offer. (The almost was more due to they wanted a principal engineer vs. senior engineer).

Maybe around where I am companies are learning their lesson.
moving 4 million people here would create the money to allow the infra changes
SoftBank vs. Zume: Robot pizza fail
Excerpt:

"One radio amateur found that with two such coils, one used as a transmitter and the other as a receiver, the second would not pick up the signal from the first unless they were precisely aligned for the signal to be transmitted the alignment had to be as critical as that of a laser beam."

Now... I'm not saying that Caduceus Coils work or do not.

I'm saying, I haven't tested them -- so I do not know.

But if they work, IF they work for the purpose of sending and receiving RF -- but in tightly focused laser-like "beams" (but of RF energy), then these might be perfect (assuming one could handle the precision alignment necessary) for setting up P2P packet radio networks...

Now, P2P packet radio networks already exist, but they are currently based on hertzian waves (aka, Inverse Square Law RF propagation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law).

If they could instead be based on links where the RF was focused in a tight beam, like a laser beam, instead of broadcast out into all directions of space at the same time, the potential benefits would include:

-Not interfering with other rf sources / receivers, even though the frequency might be exactly the same (remember, you have to be exactly in the path of the tightly focused laser-like RF beam for there to be interference)

-Use of less energy, much less, to get a signal across a specific distance... the energy would not decrease as the square root of the distance (remember, laser beams have travelled to the moon and back with not much beam widening, relative to the great distance...).

-At certain frequencies, it might be possible to directly go through objects... That means that at a certain frequency, a path from point A to point B which does not appear clear -- might in fact be functionally clear to send/recieve RF in this tight beam...

-If the above point is true, it might be possible to send such rf beams through the earth to communicate with distant continents (although, obtaining the precise positioning would be very difficult the longer the distance...)

But if it could be done... think of the possibilities for communication, both terrestrial and possibly with points in space (well, once you got the exact positioning bugs worked out that is...<g>)
The US deficit is growing at an insane rate. So does military spending.

What’s gonna happen if this is left unchecked for another few election cycles ?

Like how fucked are we?
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television:

1. The mediation of experience.

2. The colonisation of experience.

3. The effects of television on the human being.

4. The biases of television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimina...

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=448E80906BCD92C0AA0...

By Jerry Mander, 1977. An advertising executive with a deep personal and professional familiarity with his subject.
So fun when it’s all our there to learn from.

I can’t wait for the web to be an archive of torrented Git-versioned repositories à la Ceptr.org.
the issue is the reference frame. We are building a lot relative to 2009 to 2013, but that time period was a historic aboslute low point in new housing starts, the "boom" that were in now has less new housing production that the majorith of previous "busts" since WWII
His diet was correlated with pancreatic cancer, and he doubled down on it after he had got it; foregoing treatment to use a more extreme version of it, until it was too late to be treated effectively.
"I love the path-dependency here. “Why do the robots cook the pizzas in trucks?” “Well, in an earlier version of the business plan the trucks were moving; it was a terrible idea, but by the time we figured that out we already had the trucks.” "
My understand use these call centers use VoIP providers in the country though. The traffic crossing the border is likely just an encrypted stream, indistinguishable from some VPN or other generic service.

The VoIP providers are getting paid (by the scammers), your cell/phone company is getting paid twice (by both you and the VoIP provider). It's not like customers are switching to the other spam-less phone option, or giving up having voice service entirely.

I hate to be cynical about it, but literally all the players in a position to track and shut these calls down via technical means have absolutely no tangible incentives to do so.
You can find very similar communities on Discord today. You may argue that Discord is a totally different vibe, full of kids, spam, memes, and rude people. And you would right, but that's pretty much what most IRC channels, especially those related to gaming, were in the early days as well. You have to go around and look hard to find channels that are different, but they exist.

So, maybe the reason that you don't feel it's the same vibe is not only because technology has changed, but also because you have changed. I also have fond memories of my IRC time in the 90s, but I believe I'm looking at them with rose-colored glasses and not everything was as amazing as I remember it to be.
Confidential Threads API
Well, we'll have a lot of debt that we mostly owe to ourselves.
YouTube promotes climate misinformation and major companies are funding it
> Hmm. I like the sentiment, but I'd be worried about the implementation (sounds like complex tax math)

You already need to keep track of two assessed values for prop 13, along with history for catch-up basis increase. All you need to keep track of here is original tax rate (to know the maximum for this year) and deferred amount.

> I can imagine a housing bubble popping and you end up under water due to owed taxes when the property was worth more

No one's guaranteed to make money on every asset.
I first started using Signal not because of its hard-core encryption, but because it was the only messaging app I could find that:

- Wasn't SMS

- Had a quality interface and feature set

- Had a desktop app

- Wasn't overly clunky for direct messages (Slack and Discord)

- Wasn't affiliated with any major tech company

Its encryption pedigree was just a bonus. I think it's well on its way to becoming a WhatsApp replacement (it already is for me of course, but for the average joe too), especially with the recent breaches the latter has had.
Has your book recommendations changed in this decade? Would you recommend different books today?
Things coming over lines no longer have a country. How do you determine which call are international? All of them are local and operated by foreign call center over the internet. They can easily acquire a VPN and the internet traffic will be local as well. How do you even track all that internet traffic? Are you prepared to give all your secret to government to track these things?
As a purely economic position, sure, it's not awful... But if you're going to chase retirees out of communities they've lived their entire life that's kinda unfortunate.
This is just marketing jargon
Will YouTube Compete with Netflix?
You can't install .NET 1.x itself on Win10. But you can install .NET 3.5, and it can run .NET 1.x apps.
Honestly, I don’t believe the current systems can deal with the complexity. Like, it’s an unsolvable shitshow until we start using better tools.

https://medium.com/metacurrency-project/the-future-of-govern...
Comments above are correct, I'd also add that NYC and SF are "inducing demand" not by building housing, but by building office space at a rate 8x-12x that they are building residential dwelling units. Over the past ~10 years, for every home the SF bay has added it has added office space for 8 jobs. Adding housing doesn't create more demand for housiing, adding more offices creates more demand for housinig.
I will never wrap my head around the concept that building more housing won't help housing prices because apparently 7 billion people want to live in San Francisco or something.
That came from Jim Barksdale: "This isn't a family and I'm not your Daddy".
Whether or not it's intended to be a hidden source format, the fact remains that if it does not render reliably and repeatably, it's failing to do its job.

Markdown's job is to be a human-readable, lightweight, unobtrusive way of communicating to software how to structure and format a document.

It's one thing for a freshly-entered document to fail -- errors in markup occur and need to be corrected. It's another to change the behaviour and output of an unchanged text, which is what Markdown implementations have done.

(I've run into this myself on Ello where, For Mysterious and Diverse Reasons, posts and comments which I'd previously entered change their rendering even when I've not touched the content myself. This is compounded by an idiotic editor which literally won't not muck with plain ASCII text entered and insists on inserting or creating hidden characters or control codes. Among the reasons for my eventual disenchantement of what would otherwise be an excellent long-form text-publishing platform.)
“overestimating objectivity of thought”
Yeah, but is 39 call centers a lot, or just the tip of the iceberg? It wouldn't really surprise me if there were hundreds of these companies, but I don't know.
This depends a lot on how the rest of the world is doing in comparison and how viable inflating our way out of it is.
I wrote "greater economic stability", not "a prerequisite for economic stability". Would anybody seriously argue that not having to pay rent, and not facing with the possibility of eventually getting kicked out (even with all the protections, this can happen if the owner is taking the property off the market altogether), does not translate to more stability.
I've held many other white collar jobs in my career. Software engineering is different, the interviews are at least an order of magnitude harder.

Google knows and admits that their process has flaws and their HR team does internal studies on it. Just because Google does something, and Google is big, doesn't mean what they do is optimal.