skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there were a stipend for remote work in a town like Provo or Buffalo or Santa Fe, I'd be all over it.

I suspect that's why they feel no need to offer you a stipend to move there!
You do not need to balance privacy with security. That is in most cases a false dichotomy. On the contrary, real security needs privacy and the other way around. Especially on the web there are nearly no exceptions to this.

Don't think too much of my ranting against the security argument, but I see it as a pure invention of politics from "hard liners" with a solid extroverted inferiority complex and a bad emotion driven risk assessment.

Otherwise I agree that Firefox stands for privacy and security.
Or the government ties tax policy to the robustness of their products. 5 year lifetime? 90% tax for you!
> How is concentrating DNS to even less "points of possible collection" of any advantage to user's privacy?

Firefox nightly (not sure with other version) propose already NextDNS as an alternative in pref. and an easy way to add a custom one. I can see for example big companies requiring their employees to use a custom one.
Where artificially generated images are improbable. Oh wait.

Also, let me quote the linked page:

> malicious use of fake imagery is likely be deployed on a social media platform

Nope, that couldn't possibly relate to any news network. Never never never gonna admit that!
If you disregard the few people who change from the defaults and simplify a little, then moving from plain old DNS to DNS-over-HTTPS is moving from some DSL provider's resolver to Cloudflare's. The DSL provider has your real name and street address, Cloudflare does not.
Whatsapp adopted the Signal Protocol back in 2015. They unilaterally started enforcing E2E for billions of people despite not having any obvious business case for it. And they implemented it well: it's not optional, and completely seemless for all users. It just works in Whatsapp's otherwise great UX. Just the fact they have E2E alone makes Whatsapp better than any reasonably popular alternative - it's better from a privacy perspective than Facebook/Instagram messages, Google Hangouts, Telegram, email, sms text, RCS (not really popular but hey), Slack, Discord, Skype and any old school messengers.

I mean I guess it kinda sucks that Whatsapp isn't Signal, or E2E Jabber, or E2E Matrix. But man, it could've been so much worse. It was so much worse. A global network accessible to and used by billions of people sending E2E encrypted messages was a privacy activist's wet dream 6 years ago. Whatsapp's move to E2E alone is amongst the most impactful changes in real-world privacy on the entire internet.

Calling that a 'dumpster fire' because they transparently communicate they still know metadata about you really does make you seem like a robot. 'Dumpster fire' is not a synonym for 'has room to improve'. This kind of talk is par for the course on Twitter surely, but not it's not unreasonable to expect some flak for it.
Adjusting your behavior implies more than 'effectively believing'. It also implies that you feel concerned by the threat (some, even believing there is a real threat, just cannot change their habits, or don't care because they are old/lonely/egoistic/...).

It also implies that you think that adjusting your behavior will have a non-neglectable impact (one may doubt so, and even doubt that it may create an example for others to follow...).

Smart people are able to learn and to solve problems, and it helps when it comes to predicting the future, but does being smart always 'sufficiently helps' when it comes to predicting? Is there a single case of society able to alleviate some catastrophic total slow-moving failure, thanks to a consensus among smart people? There are, for sure, numerous cases of such failures not only neglected but often dynamized by the elites (the 'Collapse' book authored by J. Diamond seems pertinent).

We may also try to define who is smart (chose a topic, write a list of 'smart people' names, show it to friends in order to verify if they agree with you, or want to eject some names and add others you don't want in). If everyone can only add names the resulting list will contain 'smart people' rarely agreeing (and act the same way), controversy is the rule and consensus the exception. It may mean that most of us judge that 'smart people' are people they agree with. Nothing new here...

Moreover various assertions now considered false were consensual among the very tip of 'smart people' (the few ones considered smart by most) for a fair amount of centuries.

In my opinion in our huge societies everything moves too quickly, and there are too many interactions, for even the smartest to really understand, bar to predict anything. Given this perspective hoping that an unique and central government will solve anything seems grotesque, those chiefs will simply resume the "let's feign to understand, and avoid attempting any potentially decisive action" game already running and the resulting centralization (=> bureaucracy) will only create new challenges.
When I was younger, I spent quite a lot of "active screen time" with IRC. Back then, it felt like I am connected to other people. In retrospect, it would have been far better for me if I used that time to socialize with real people IRL.
If I could go back in time, I would force myself to go out and meet real people, instead of simulated friendships in a chatroom...
Yes, "Can a computer think?", and "Can a computer think efficiently?" are two closely related questions you'd reason about in very different ways.

I feel like the paper and the books are really asking the first question and not the second.

The second question is also very interesting! If quantum effects are involved then a classical computer might never be able to "think" efficiently.
> Why would you ever laugh?

I agree it's not a particularly good response, but I can imagine a teacher reasoning that:

1. A minority of students want to stump the teacher [1] - maybe out of interest, maybe to show how clever they are, maybe for sport.

2. Schools cover a very broad range of topics, and it isn't humanly possible for every science teacher to have an in-depth knowledge of every single question.

3. The teacher fears, if they answer a question with "I don't know" it will reveal they haven't used their knowledge of graphene in their day-to-day life, and some students will take that as a proof the subject is 'useless' and a 'waste of time' as even the most scientifically inclined person they know hasn't used it.

Obviously, (3) is a mistake on the teacher's part - it's quite possible to have a subject be important without you knowing every detail of it - but I can imagine how any inexperienced teacher might end up thinking it.

Also, intuitively when you pull two bits of tape apart both bend, and when you bend a pencil lead it snaps. And if you stick tape to a painted wall and pull it off, you'll pull off jagged flakes of paint rather than halving the thickness of the paint. So if someone gave me 20 seconds to answer whether it would work I would say probably not.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1145/
Dupe.

Earlier submission and more commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22461301
Given firefox users massively block trackers, way more than chrome which actually links your google account with your browser login, I wonder how accurate are the stats.

Firefox did lose market shares, but it's possible we see lots of chrome users also because they are more visible.

Related, although a different problem, one of the biggest stat providers is Google analytics, and a lot of sites make decisions based on those, but Google has no incentive to check if they are missing some non chrome users.
As so that's what Improbable do. They're tried to hit me up on LinkedIn several times.
> it's much safer than other popular alternatives, such as texting, Facebook Messenger, Slack, iMessage, and, yes, Telegram.

At least hear out what the Telegram devs have to say about this:

> WhatsApp aggressively pushes users to enable backups to third-party services by Apple and Google. Even if you don't backup your messages, it is extremely likely that your chat partners are doing so. It is likely that they don‘t even remember dismissing an annoying notification with a “yes” a long time ago. The interface provides no way of knowing whether or not your messages are being backed up. Meanwhile, for group chats of five members, there’s a 99% probability that all messages are stored on Apple‘s or Google’s servers in the US.

> As Product Manager Randall Sarafa put it, just one month after Google Drive backups were introduced to Whatsapp:

> “About 75% of Whatsapp users are on Android, and of our Android users, we have about 40% of them opted into Google Drive backups today. That will likely continue to increase over time, as people get prompted.”

https://telegra.ph/whatsapp-backdoor-01-16

So Whatsapp's usage of end to end encryption might not be as helpful as advertised.

I suggest you use Signal or Threema instead of apps like Whatsapp or Telegram. Both lack options to back up to the cloud.
Im wondering too. I thought I had missed something.
I thought we moved on from the "build your own bespoke Linux distribution by copy-pasting Internet HOWTOs"?

Well, apparently not. I don't think that "this time in a container" is a good fix for the problem.
Do you know how they were tested?

By having a blood sample taken (the classic way), or was this one of the new quick-tests that the German Wikipedia article mentions?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2#Schnelltests

MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/coronavirus-outbreak-ne...
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NextDNS (the other provider) is a startup / Delaware C-Corp that has been around for less than a year. I'm not sure if I trust them more than my local ISP (at least in Europe, for the US this might be different).

There's a long Twitter discussion initiated by Paul Vixie that discusses the problem in more detail:

https://twitter.com/paulvixie/status/1232427484202688512
Truth is you don't need most of SaaS when you start.
No-one is saying this out-loud because a lot of SaaS users are also SaaS selles.

Sentry, use free tier or self host or use Bugsnag free tier

Slack, use Skype instead

Notion, use Google Docs instead

AirTable, use Google Sheets

Office/coworking, work from home or cafes!

These huge usage of other SaaS is caused by venture backed companies with a lot of cash looking for an IPO.
In practice if you are boostraped instead of venture based you don't want to have a lot of SaaS and/or hire a lot of employees.
Some things like bragging about how many employees or SaaS you are using only make sense in venture-back land because by spending more you are getting to the IPO/exit faster but you are sacrificing future long term margins (which you don't care about since you will be long gone).

I'm a solo bootstrap founder and yes you can clearly see how I'm biased against venture-backed startups! :D
My 23-year-old refrigerators were made to run on solar power. Compared to them, Energy Star appliances look like wasteful energy hogs.
2003 was a hell of a long time ago when your talking about LGBT issues.
For what it's worth, there used to be a "full" Firefox for iOS, about 10 years ago. Apple blocked its release, though.
Not a vim user but iTerm2 settings have a section for rebinding modifier keys, (plus you also have karabiner-elements)
Well I get the outrage and all that, but that's mainly hard-core enthusiasts who pay attention to the industry. I also was kinda pissed when Control and Outer Worlds went exclusive, but in the end my love for those developers won out against epic's business practices. I just think it's very impressive how they leveraged their sudden hoard of cash from Fortnite and their developer contacts via the unreal engine into a seemingly(?) successful steam competitor. I'm not really a business-oriented-guy but it seems to me like it is an amazingly clever and well executed move.

I remember that when the orange box launched a lot of people (at least on the messageboards) where opposed to steam because it sucked and was basically DRM disguised as a store it's only because of the passing of time that it's now considered good. The orange box was in hindsight also a masterful move. I guess the lesson is, if you have content people REALLY want, you can get them onto your platform despite the outrage.
Yes, that would be a good option. They should've just waited for more providers switching to DoH before they turned this on by default, IMO.
If you are otherwise happy with the job I'd say just let it go. You don't need to fight anyone or convince them.
really? I think that most people using WhatsApp have no clue that it’s E2E encrypted. And that’s amazing!

You even say this yourself in a post you linked to above:

> “WhatsApp’s main appeal to the masses is not its secure, end-to-end encryption, but its general simplicity. “

> “99% of WhatsApp’s users more than likely have no idea how E2E encryption works and they don’t even particularly care about it.”

https://risky.biz/e2e-not-pointless-but/

(I generally liked that post! Which is why this jumped out at me)
iMessage and FaceTime have been E2EE for at least 4-5 years, and Messages in iCloud is too fwiw [1] (as well as other misc services, the list has grown over time). There are other reasonable complaints, not at all least of which is it’s not cross platform and iCloud Backups are not encrypted (reportedly due to government pressure too!). But security/privacy shouldn’t be one, for Apple<>Apple devices anyway (low friction fallback to SMS is its own can of worms in 2020). I don’t know about the others on your list but you got iMessage wrong at least.

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1: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Haha granted, I do enjoy Hacker News, because it's just random interesting links, not politics or current events, which is what I'm very deliberately chosing to cut out.
I'm pretty sure that mozilla is currently negotiating with other DNS providers to get them onboard. Hopefully, within a few months, you'll be able to pick from dozens, in addition to rolling your own.
I remember playing with effects like this ~8 years ago. My first instinct would be to laugh at the "AI" part, but I'm guessing the point of the exercise isn't the parallax effect - the point is that they've actually managed to get a neural network to do that.
Sounds like "conscientious"
> Some cases I've seen lately seem to forgo this not out of ignorance but as a form of elitism/knowledge gate keeping.

It's a natural tendency for ingroups. Nearly any video game forum, or anything else that's full of hobbyists will ultimately contain posts that are absolutely full of acronyms. And they're impenetrable. Bear in mind, I'm not defending this behavior, and certainly not disagreeing with you.
I assume they've been omitted from the output (each hash is 35 characters, but a full one should be 40). This of course reduces the size of the result, conserving bandwidth.
Related to reducing media exposure and the attendant increase in the sense of wellbeing, this is a lovely article by the Serbian / American poet Charles Simic, about discovering how his dad had attained "Olympian calm":

"Like others growing old, I had expected that after everything I had lived through and learned in my life, I would attain a state of Olympian calm and would regard the news of the day with amusement, like a clip from a bad old movie I had seen far too many times. It hasn’t happened to me yet. My late father, in the final year of his life, claimed that he finally found that long-sought serenity by no longer reading the papers and watching television. Even then, and I was thirty years younger than he, I knew what he meant. What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day.

My own inordinate interest in what the lunatics are up to in every corner of our planet has to do with my childhood. When I was three years old in Belgrade, German bombs started falling on my head. By the time I was seven, I was accustomed to seeing dead people lying in the street, or hung from telephone poles, or thrown into ditches with their throats cut. Like any child growing up in an occupied city during wartime, I didn’t think much about it. I was as serene then as I will ever be, sitting among the ruins smoking my first cigarette, riding on a Russian tank with a friend, or watching our school janitor hang the portraits of Marx, Stalin and Marshal Tito in our classroom after the liberation."

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/12/05/goodbye-serenity/
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That would also be a bit confusing because it can be interpreted (incorrectly) as that all languages with garbage collectors offers all the safety guarantees of Rust.
A trivial counterexample is the protection against data races.
Yeah. I think you must be right.
Nevermind. Think quitting iTerm was key.

Off/on again.
I'd like to stop using WhatsApp but it's complicated.

The foothold it has over here in Europe (The Netherlands) is enormous. Everybody uses it, there's even neighbourhood watches that use it, see:
https://cdn.nieuws.nl/media/sites/305/2015/12/05153708/atten...

Any advice? Just pull the plug and pay the social cost?
Agreed this is the most important feature for me. I use it in the same way.
I just remembered that steam made a similar move with the orange box (half-life 2, HL2:episode 1, HL2:episode 2, portal & Team Fortress 2 for 60 bucks, but you have to install steam to play) also amazingly clever. Still the best gaming deal I've ever made if you look at price v quality of games.
Are you saying that just because there is a choice of configuration build tools and utilities for Python, the argument that there is a standard way of doing things is invalid?

If I want to start a Python project, I `pip install -r requirements.txt` and I can start using it. In Clojure, I need to choose which tool I want to use to perform this simple task, in Python this is standardized. Leiningen, Boot, tools.deps and Maven are all candidates to do this.
Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates
> Trouble there is that people won't pay $2000 for a fridge even if it is extremely well built and will last 30 years.

It's all about expectation management. Of course people today would be shocked by huge price rises, but eventually, as the "new normal" bedded in, no one would bat an eye.

Take light bulbs as an example. Here in the UK filament bulbs used to regularly burn out, and the replacements cost maybe £1 each. When filament bulbs were phased out, compact fluorescents (CF) were subsidised and cost... about £1 each. The entire light bulb "fleet" was changed over with very little fuss.

Now these new bulbs last for 20 years, so the number of replacements we need to buy is minimal. I can't buy CFs in shops these days, it's all LEDs, and they cost £6 each. But nobody cares, because lightbulbs are no longer an every day purchase.

In fact, I recently fitted new lights in a room, and a friend of mine was baffled by the LED bulbs. He'd never seen them, _because all of his own old CFs were still working._
That's pretty interesting. Was it an article? If so, do you think you can dig up that article?
I've successfully migrated from iOS to Android; just following the tutorial that the top Google results show work like a charm
I have never though about it but that makes absolute sense.

Thanks for pointing that out.
And this is another point in favor of compacting GCs: non-GC languages are moving things around almost as much (i.e. growable arrays are ubiquitous, plus hashmaps may be based on them too etc). Without a GC the simple task of moving references becomes dangerous and requires the pain demonstrated to us by Rust (or leads to pervasively crashy software culture demonstrated to us by C++). With GC, this type of thing is not something the developer needs to care about.
They might face regulation e.g. in the EU (but also the US) based on antitrust or competition laws, as they would effectively be dominating the browser market. That would limit their freedom to operate, so I can believe that it's in their best interest to "allow" competitors like Firefox to capture a small market share. Effectively they could kill them easily as a large percentage of Mozilla's revenue (I think more than 50 %) comes from the Google search deal, and I don't think that deal is really vital to Google. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
To be honest, I read only ~75% of comments, but I'm very surprised that [almost?] everybody discuss postgrad's salaries and conflict with university and is it «free market» of employment as TAs and scuh/.

Why doesn't anybody discuss housing situation & regulations?! Why these students protest against university and not City's government?! Why is it strike and not revolt agains housing regulations!? Why is here no discussion about «free market» of housing?!

I'm not live in USA, but looks like there is A LOT of demand for new housing and offer is limited by totally out-of-market reasons! And everybody discuss salaries and their fairness, not new housing and fairness of regulations! For me, outsider, it is «obvious» that housing regulations, not university, are to blame and protest against!

Also, I'm shocked, than room mates are offered as viable solution! I was raised in USSR, where one of the main sins of government (in top-10 for sure) was failure to provide personal housing for everybody.

I was raised in shared apartments (multiple bedrooms, single kitchen, toilet and bathroom). Of course, room mates is theoretically better, because theoretically you could choose room mates, and in USSR it was impossible to choice so-tenants, as these rooms and apartments were distributed by officials without consulting with people. But anyway, it is mind-boggling for me, that it is suggested as good solution for adults peoples, who effectively work for one of the best education institution in richest country in the world, to live in shared apartments. Of course, it must be allowed, if friends want to live together, but it must be decision based on convenience, not as only solution to have ANY housing!
They slid a zip-tie under it for protection and another person kept it cool with a tiny stream of water.
Indeed, metaphilosophy [1] is the branch of philosophy which studies the questions of "what is philosophy?" and "why bother doing philosophy?". So far from being some kind of "forbidden question", this is a question which many philosophers have considered and sought to answer.

[1] https://www.iep.utm.edu/con-meta/
Rent control is bad. Rent control does what it’s meant to do. It’s ok here. It’s ruined there.

Housing markets and government intervention seems more complex than any one fact can effectively explain.

I want to see some simulation/model research which we can apply to prediction and verification.

I’m on the fence. And i can’t help thinking all opinions are biased depending on your situation. And let’s face it, when it comes to housing we all have a situation.
https://github.com/lread/clj-graal-docs
I used to hyperconsume news but concluded that news just isn't really a good way to know what's going on in the world. It's mostly alarmist outrage devoid of any meaning.
Harvard awards nearly all A's and their reputation hasn't suffered for it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/...

I suspect it would take a lot more than one "A strike" to substantially impact a school's reputation.
So the reason why this causes a problem is that mutating an outer value could invalidate the lifetime of an inner value.

Could this not be covered by the lifetime guarantee without imposing read/write exclusivity on all values even where lifetimes are unaffected?