skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm extremely disappointed about how this Signal PIN rollout has been handled. Signal refused to let me view my received messages until I created a PIN. I filed a bug report about it [1]. I don't know if I was just caught in an A/B test or what because it hasn't happened to all of my Signal-using friends but it happened to me.

I don't understand why it isn't just optional. They claim they want to protect my Signal data stored in the cloud. I don't want my data stored in the cloud. I want them to store nothing. I don't care about their Intel SGX whatever because I don't want to have to trust their servers in the first place.

Cloud storage is a complete non-starter for me. I started my company to get away from cloud storage [2]. The fact that they are forcing this on their users is making me seriously consider dumping Signal. I just don't know if there are any sane alternatives.

[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9632

[2]: https://homefort.app/
Just because it's annoying doesn't mean it's a dark pattern in the typical sense of the word. Here's darkpatterns.org's definition:

> Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.

And here is the one used by the verge [0]:

> A dark pattern is a user interface carefully crafted to trick users into doing things they might not otherwise do, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills

Here there's no trickery and no chance that a user would unintentionally agree to cookies when they didn't mean to. It's just a little annoying thing that bugs you until you do what they want. It's not unethical, but if you don't like it you shouldn't use their site.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-ins...
I think this is because it can't be listend to anywere but spotify. The excusivity is what I see many people are taking issue with
Are There Zombie Viruses – Like the 1918 Flu – Thawing in the Permafrost?
I have to admit, SV has really cracked and disrupted the note taking industry. Evernote, OneNote, Asana, Trello, JIRA, ToDoist, and now Notion. I tried most of it and just gave up and started to capture my notes in Google docs and Todos in spreadsheet. Now that we have disrupted this space, we will soon move on to flying cars
See Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_pulsar-based_navigation
So its ok if local thieves and looters take the treasures with no thought of their preservation or provenance? But a methodical effort of record-keeping and analysis is wrong, simply because of the thieves nationality? That's what I mean by 'PC'. One results in the loss forever of the treasure; the other at least preserves them.

One is 'better' than the other, only from a comfortable armchair far from the turmoil.
I have gotten many years of enjoyment out of SC4 and the NAM Traffic Simulator [1]

There is (or was, I suppose) a vibrant and diverse community of SC4 modders. Really cool stuff to be found there.

[1] https://sc4devotion.com/namdoc/feature-guides/traffic-sim/tr...
Haha, I hope so :)
For narrow cases like Cloudflare load balancing traffic, it would be difficult to reverse lookup without other compromises.

It always depends on who your adversary is. Chrome is a controlled, auto-updating application. Your Cloudflare traffic is going to a central authority, Cloudflare. They could decide to sell traffic information. Or the government where Google or Cloudflare main line employees eat and sleep could ask or order those working stiffs to do something secretly in spite of company policy or promises.

This does protect against a very narrow adversary, which is your ISP or router manufacturer monetizing your aggregated traffic statistics. It remains to be seen if there was ever harm there to the user in the first place.

The government, as an adversary, generally wants to put you in jail. Google working stiffs generally don't want to go to jail, so they'll comply with requests; or Google will want the government's business and just do the thing they ask for. Google already gives you the thing for free. Your ISP and router manufacturer just want to offer you lower prices.

Corporate and closed source or remotely managed software promises are just that.
Hi! Initially I had the same impression and my team had a hard time convincing me to give it a try. Since then I really started enjoying Notion though.

So, what is notion? I'd call it a flexible on-line data organizer. Notion gives you a concept of pages (which then can have subpages) and blocks. A block can be a text, a table, a todo list, a calendar, an embedded Tweet etc.

I think a good way to see what you can do with it is to use the templates - they are example pages that allow you to see what are Notion's capabilities.

A few examples of what I've used Notion for:

* tracking my job applications when I was looking for a new position

* notes on resources I'm using for an online course I'm working on (I have a plan for lessons, each lesson has attached resources)

* planning my holidays trip - it was a combination of todo list, map with our stops, list of hotels I booked etc.

* todo list when moving to another country

I've also seen it used as a team handbook, here's a public example by Blendle: https://www.notion.so/Blendle-s-Employee-Handbook-7692ffe24f...
I think the poster you are replying forgot to add the '/s'
I know my PIN yet it asks me everytime I open the app. It's extremely annoying. I wouldn't mind once a month, but it seems like it's 1 a week (which doesn't seem true, I feel like it's more every 2-3 days for me).

I just wish there was an option to ask less frequently.
Did radio die when Howard Stern signed with Sirius?
Good spot! I guess that was a little cheeky in hindsight…
The 90% want their message history synced across devices.
Spotify has an ad-supported free tier. This will be available on that, along with all their other podcasts.
This is a feature critical for wide adoption. Most users will swear off any app that makes it easy for them to lose all their chats.
Unfortunately, not every engineer has an employer that would let them do this…
Any quick way to see hover on mobile?
Value exists on both sides of the equation. Spotify wants people on their platform and will pay handsomly for an exclusive deal. Joe instantly gets prominent placement inside every Spotify installation on the earth, rock solid distribution and a partner to help market his content.
To the contrary. If Spotify was valuable as a delivery mechanism, it wouldn't need exclusives. People would use it voluntarily.
I don't know, TBH. I've only used scoop for new installs.

I've used chocolately for both new installs and updates in the past though, but wasn't impressed. IME, packages are frequently broken in part or fully, they are not regularly updated, or they are completely abandoned.
Perhaps unexpectedly, among veterans who served during the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, those who were deployed have a lower suicide risk than those who were not deployed [1].

Anyone have any explanation for this?

[1] https://www.publichealth.va.gov/epidemiology/studies/suicide...
A small percentage of industrial facilities emit the majority of toxic pollution
Didnt they drop support for Android 5/6?
The exact same thing happened to me. They must be rolling it out gradually because it hasn't happen to my wife yet nor to several of my other contacts.
"instead of learning digital design you can use your sw development skills"

That is not a claim I've heard from any of these tools. They are all still billed as hardware description languages, just better HDLs than (System)Verilog or VHDL, which is certainly arguable.

What you are referring to with that statement is the snake oil that EDA vendors call High Level Synthesis (HLS). "Just write your algorithm in C and our tool will turn it into gates!"
> More like this…?

Yes. Not sure what your point is though. The GP wasn't talking about that submission. ;-)
> at every opportunity

This is some The Onion level shit
This is actually a really interesting comment, because it reminds me of a meta-observation that I've made over the past few weeks.

First off though, I want to clarify that the money market fund is typically not operated by the org. The GMMF choices for SVB are managed by BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, etc., for Brex it is BNY Mellon, etc. You really only get self-operated funds for larger financial institutions, e.g. Wells Fargo or Fidelity. Therefore, many of these products act as a software layer over some existing bank/fund/etc. I believe we explain this distinction in the article. There are some caveats, but this is the general gist.

But onto the meta-observation: given the current economic climate w/ depressed treasury rates, we've recently received a lot of questions about higher-yield options, specifically re: CDs which are currently hovering around 1.5%. These are from well-known, well-respected startups who presumably don't need the cash and don't need to deal with the high overhead and illiquidity of CDs. I think that this really demonstrates the survival instincts of later-stage founders being carried forward from their early days, and the fact that startups are functionally live optimization machines, not just at a product-level, but as an entire organization. It seems to us that the best startups eke out every advantage they can — with all respect to the nature of the power law, these small differences, in aggregate, might make or break the entire company.
For me it’s bye bye Joe Rogan and not hello Spotify.
There are tons of podcasts that are on Spotify in a non-exclusive manner.
having worked at Apple while he was still there, and after, he was appreciative when i saw him, not entitled, yet still hyper-focused.
Whenever I overhear JRE on a subject I know anything about, I'm reminded of Gell-Mann Amnesia:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”

– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
He's more than prominent. He's first or second in most podcast lists I see. I don't listen, but it does seem like a precedent I don't want to see.
Scanning the Internet for Liveness [pdf]
Strange. I'd expect you to be hitting at least 40-50fps on 1080 High settings in R6 Siege with those specs. Minimum system requirements for R6 Siege is an i3. Maybe because its a laptop you are either hitting thermal limits or you have significantly less VRAM than the desktop counterpart.
I use this too. Maybe I like the beancount more, but having my finances available on the web to share with my so is valuable. Too many told are meant for one pers,on and don't support modern ideas like tagging.
Links? Much more aware of the YouTube scene
not Germany specific, but 'universal jurisdiction' is a thing:

https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/legal-strategy/univers...

I can't find much information on this in English, but I believe it was Spain that also put in place an explicit law that you can use Spanish courts for human rights cases that have no very direct link to Spain.
They’ve been planning that for a long while. It requires first an e2e sync though, for contact lists, which is what the clientside secret (PIN) enables.
Spotify is rolling out video podcasts. Clips like that will still make their way to YouTube and other platforms (as they announced). However, you are right that making it harder to find and listen to will shrink its audience even if more economically sustainable. It reminds me a lot of Howard Stern leaving radio for satellite.
Very interesting, thank you. I question the application of this result to kernel performance, though. Specint has hot arithmetic and UDP packet handling pretty much does not.
I would have to ask more questions. Specifically about following the money.

As a contracted podcaster on a paid platform, does that mean his management and production team spend less time on trying to court advertising dollars? Does it mean fewer conflicts of interest? Does that mean less of (well I hardly ever listen to him, but for argument's sake) my information is sold?

Some of that could probably be figured out now. Some of it we will only know after Spotify has experienced financial distress a few times.
Currently, Spotify doesn't have video (except album cover clips which occasionally show up). I prefer JRE's video format instead of audio. Think of Elon smoking weed on video vs on audio - very different.

Seems like Spotify might be adding video later in the year but until that happens, we don't know what we will be getting.
That being said, as you have noticed, Linux is the go-to OS for servers, and the post has a number of Linux-isms.
Crypto currency does not have "low" transaction costs: it takes a lot of energy to commit a BTC transaction to the blockchain. Crypto can only ever be viable for non-trivial (large, or unusually valuable) transactions where trust cannot be provided by common mechanisms, such as a stable government or a private escrow agent. This clearly doesn't match the typical use case for micropayments.
> orgmode is a bit like notion without collaboration

Emacs has a number of collaborative editing solutions: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollaborativeEditing

The nice thing about org-mode is that it automatically gets all the cool stuff that emacs has. (Although, I have never tried any of the solutions listed in that wiki page and I suspect even the "working" ones have issues).
I'm working out the pseudocode for this and it's already spaghetti ;)
My guess is that the show will still be released on YouTube. I think this just applies to the audio feed.
It sounds like it's on the roadmap. From the article:

> As we move to support additional features the Signal community has asked for – like addressing that isn’t based on phone numbers and chatting with contacts that aren’t saved in an address book – it means that more and more of this important supporting data can also be lost.
Best Google Doodle in 2020
Temporarily. Unless SMS and email actually fulfill everyone's needs, which would be quite surprising.
This looks very cool. I'll be taking a closer look.

One minor nitpick - you might want to adjust your comments and site copy to say "it will be open source" rather than "it is open source". Cheers.
And the Apple touchpad doesn't hinge at all! The "click" reaction you get when you press it is simulated by a set of force sensors and an actuator that vibrates the trackpad to simulate a click.
also highly recommend its tui https://hledger.org/hledger-ui.html
big exhale Woah.
Have you tried more advanced features like making lists in word? Word and word online behave differently.

And when it comes to file sharing: how do you copy the name of a file into the clipboard?
Most people want this, although I agree it should be optional.
My son was scarred for life by what he saw, and what he had to do. No, not a walk in the park.
Then use What’s App, there are a million solutions that solves your problem, signal was the only serious app that doesn’t store my messages somewhere else.
Succinctness Is Power
How much are you into visual design and creation? I suppose Minecraft has that appeal, but it also a survival/action/crafting component not found in a city sim. For example, I'm personally confused about the appeal of Animal Crossing as a game, but from what I can see from those who gush over it, a lot of the appeal is getting to decorate and personalize an island.
So basically … Chromium?
I’m curious: on what grounds would Comcast have to sue? I could understand the US government stepping in with the Commerce Clause, but I don’t know of any laws that would give Comcast and friends the ability to sue.
Sure, if a national treasure is found below your home, you think it's okay to kick you out without any compensation, because history >> individuals?

Do you want to share the natural resources of your own nation with others for free? If not, how on earth is it OK to snatch that of others from them, just because they fit your historical curiosity? This is basically saying we are superior people, and we need to keep things away from the hand of barbarians.
That MIT article is much more informative that the originally linked article.
What are the five apps called?
> Rebekah Jones said in an email to FLORIDA TODAY that she single-handedly created two applications in two languages, four dashboards, six unique maps with layers of data functionality for 32 variables covering a half a million lines of data. Her objective was to create a way for Floridians and researchers to see what the COVID-19 situation was in real time.

She will not have a hard time finding further employment.
When was it free and open?

JRE stopped live streaming his shows a year or more ago and they were on YouTube which I wouldn't consider open. They would complain pretty regularly about being demonetized because they played a short clip that Joe or a guest was commenting on.

Seems like this deal gives them more ability to have fewer restrictions imo
Bitcoin (and other proof of work coins) are not suitable for the job. But there are cryptocurrencies out there that are almost purpose-built for it! Stellar, on which https://satoshipay.io/ is built, is one of those.
"Discontinue" has gotta be one of the best (worst?) corporate-speak BS terms of late. I'm genuinely surprised to see an outlet like TechCrunch using the term when not directly quoting someone — I mean, who are they trying to protect here? "Walmart says it will /(shutter|shut down|sunset|retire|axe|kill)/ Jet" would be truer to their spirit, IMO.
Well that's unfortunate. I just got in to watching his full interviews.

Good thing Techcrunch reminded me just how evil he is. That way I avoid downloading Spotify.
That's an interesting theory. But wouldn't the same people who like distorted guitar also like the sound of sports cars and motorcycles? I know there's some overlap, or at least many motorcycle owners listen to rock, but among the total population of rock fans are relatively few motorcycle owners.

(Anecdata: committed rock fan since getting Boston's "More than a Feeling" on 45 in the mid 70s, later played in several punk and hard rock bands ... but I can't stand the sound of Harleys or loud engines)
This seems like short-term thinking from Joe.

I'm sure he got paid big time. But his audience will shrink massively and he'll become a niche personality.

It'll be similar to what happened to Howard Stern when he went to satellite radio; he quickly faded into relative obscurity.
> Sure Lebron has not won as many championships as Jordan (Lebron's 3 to Jordan's 6)

He's won 3 and also been to 9 in a row, not a small feat.

A little confused by the rest of your arguments, over their careers MJ averaged 30.1 pts and 5.3 assists per game and Lebron so far has averaged 27.1 pts and 7.4 assists per game so doesn't that counter your argument since clearly Lebron has done much more passing?

> He has led his team in scoring for 16 years in a row, including his rookie season.

How is that relevant? Lebron is number 8 all time in assists as a SF.

The numbers don't lie, its pretty clear he could lower his assist output and increase his scoring pretty easily.
There are a million apps which store messages on a server, those users are already on those apps. The thing that differentiated signal is the data-less functionality.
This is pretty strange coming from a dude who talks about how corporatism and monopolies are bad for us regular humans in every other episode. Either he's planning something or he just sold out. Either way, podcasting will stay as long we keep it alive. Rogan wants to move to a closed ecosystem, fine, that's one less podcast for me to subscribe to!

Edit: one thing we can do as consumers is to stop paying for a company that's trying to take over an open medium.
The main problem is Spotify isn't a podcast app. I don't listen to music like I do podcast, and I don't want my queue there because music would mix in, and it can easily reset.

Also, most "real" podcast app have better playback options. I want to be able to see chapters, and skip silence, but forcing to use Spotify for an open format is bad for everyone. Podcasts are great because they are open, and give you choices in playback apps.
As someone whose parents run a small business, I've found out that the average person doesn't realize how complicated it actually is for businesses to get payments from customers. All of the overhead in payment processing happens because meticulous records need to be kept for transaction to happen (Account Balances, Payer/Payee IDs, AML/KYC requirements). All of this needs to be logged and audited in case of invesitigation or a charge reversal.

With cash you don't have that problem - the transaction is physcial and immediate. But I doubt any micropayment system will get approval to transact money without anti-money laundering laws and transaction reversibility.
yeah, across devices not across the world. What stops your devices being synchronised over lan/wifi network?
Same reason iPhones support PINs. It’s easier for the user, and provides some level of protection versus nothing.

If it’s not user friendly, the user will defer to convenience over security. Signal PINs do support alphanumeric strings FYI.

If you have a password manager, use a string. If not, a PIN works just fine.
Python vs. JavaScript for Pythonistas – Real Python
Ask HN: Why is code from chip manufacturers of such a low standard?
I have had the unfortunate to work with a lot of C code from chip manufacturers such as ST, Microchip(Atmel), Bosch, Semtech. More often then not the code quality is rather low[0], sometimes even embarrassing.
Perhaps I am just unlucky and only seen the bad parts, but it seems like a good business plan to provide a decent driver/library before spending a single dollar on marketing?
Or at a minimum, have a experienced programmer review what is released as "official" to avoid shaming the company name.

Can anyone explain this?

[0] To avoid offending anyone I do not want to link repos, but here are some examples of "low code quality":

- Libraries that looks like internal test code renamed and pushed to github.

- Using bit-fields for registers. Well, it will probably work even though it is implementation defined. It is however a strong indicator the programmer(s) are relative new to C which manifest itself in all kinds of other issues.
How is Evernote going downhill?

I'm not in love with it, but it works and I have a client everywhere I need one. It's text recognition in images is one of the killer features (I save snapshots of whiteboards), the other is searching metadata.
so it's a shiny todo app ?!?
Scientists use light to accelerate supercurrents, access forbidden light
Antidepressants or Tolkien?
Doesn't JRE have guests on there with cemented right-wing opinions, and in general controversial figures from which he gains his popularity/notoriety? Is Spotify going to allow those guests or is JRE going to have to censor?
> Currently, that also happens to mean that if your hands accidentally lose your phone to the toilet, your information in Signal is lost along with it.

Duh. Because they explicitly disable backups.
Too many of these personal finance apps aren't putting the web first