skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting because they are using Java. The article mentions some sort of Java Image File but I have been out of the Java world for quite a while and don't know much about it. Does it have it's own JVM? Are you safe if you don't have a JVM installed on your system?
They have been rewamping the Java standard library slowly and silently over the last couple of years in anticipation for Loom. With Java 14 they re-wrote the tcp socket class. In Java 15 they're re-implementing the udp socket class. These re-implementations are being done to support loom seamlessly in a future update.

They also collaborated with IntelliJ to find bugs related to debugging Java apps, to make sure Loom doesn't break anything there.

Loom is well underway. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Loom in Java 19 or 20. So in 2-3 years.
Signal is not only used by protesters[0][1] so discovering that a phone number is connected to a Signal account by no means implies that the phone is used by a protester.

[0]: https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/01/23/deploye...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/tories-swit...
On iOS, Signal has implemented a data transfer from one device to another directly. It's of no use if one loses one's device or just hands over the old device to someone else before completing the setup of the new one (people are accustomed to setup a new device from backups in the cloud, which Signal won't support).
I believe pressure also plays a factor there (and the ability for our bodies to get oxygen to said cells).

In other words, I doubt it.
Ask HN: Where to post bounties for freelance, open source developers
Hi HN,

I'm looking to support freelance developers with paid contributions to open source projects. We have started adding labels on GitHub to indicate this.

What suggestions do you have for where to post that we have a wide range of options and bounties?

Thanks!

~Tony

https://github.com/hofstadter-io

https://github.com/hofstadter-io/jumpfiles/issues
You can hire lots of cracker-jack PR people from cigarette companies to beef up your social media platform!
In my country this is how the petrol stations stay relevant. Prices for fuel are pretty consistent between them (unlike say Italy, where there can be a 20c/litre difference if you drive 100m to the next station) so they've had to branch out to provide additional services.

All petrol stations that have a store have a selection of hot drinks and food, and various other things you would expect form a corner shop. The prices are lower than coffee shops, and in some cases better quality too (especially for food). I saw one brand recently started selling their food on delivery services as less people were travelling during quarantine.

Most of the automated stations (i.e. you can only pay at a machine, not they fill up the car for you :D) share the premises with a fast-food restaurant.

Most EV chargers price their electricity at quite a bit higher than you would pay at home, so in the short term I guess they can jump on this bandwagon. But as range increases and cities start installing more on-street chargers that model will fail too.
Why we introduced Ad blocker to Vivaldi browser
Hey there, don't be so discriminatory. It must be really hard for them to digitally simulate social interaction when you're that autistic.
The logically conclusion is either mass starvation or abolishing wages.

Basic income is just a stopgap. In a hundred, or two hundred, or five hundred years, if technology continues apace, basically all work that is not science/caregiving will be done by machines. How can an economy based around wages exist in a world where humans don't work?
Warranty is prepaid, not free.
I don't get this premise to try and cram tools with sleek powerful interfaces into limited old tools such as terminals and emacs. Don't get me wrong, I spend a lot of time in terminals and have a zshrc and tmux conf built up over many years, but I use them where they are best used - interacting with my local or a remote OS.
Why would anyone buy an electric car if they couldn't charge that car overnight in their own garage?
> My only feeling is that I wish I hadn't read it.

Welcome to the Internet.
My opinion is the opposite, because Electron is quite heavy (which is an issue for Signal Desktop at least), and because you can't use browser containers to use multiple accounts.
What I've seen is relationships where one or both people are displaying contempt for each other, either end or worse continue.

Merging the child rearing culture from two families is often a source of friction. Personally I think a lot of that is over things that don't matter as children are pretty adaptable.

And yeah it usually gets progressively easier after kids get to school age.
I lost count of how many people corrected me on that (saying it was Kernel) :-)

I always wanted to know why this name was chosen.
Only in the begging of the relationship. After a while, Netflix becomes code for Netflix (or HBO if that is your thing).
There is nothing complicated about simply not having a fingerprint option. If the main machine knows it cannot trust the fingerprint secure enclave, then there is nothing complicated at all about simply, not trusting it. The user simply has to unlock the phone with a pin or pattern etc. This does not, in anybway, require bricking the device. That is simply a deliberate and hostile act of aggression against the user.
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I'd take a hard look at the contractor system for one. The military industrial complex is set up to extract massive profit out of the public purse. There is no reason why the defense departments at boeing et al. shouldn't be nationalized imo.
>firing people who have attempted to have meaningful discussions at work

I guess that is one (inaccurate) way of describing them.
Does anyone here know an organization that actually uses Google+?
Microsoft Dynamics Partners in India
why not use Futures ?
The phone number issue is pretty overblown since it's a clear and intentional tradeoff that allows signal to retain very little metadata (leveraging local phone contacts instead of sending your social graph to their servers like everyone else). Moxie Marlinspike is the founder/co-author of the protocol and Brian Acton put in massive funding after the FB/Whatsapp fallout - not sure you can get better than that?

They're also making moves to make the phone number requirement unnecessary. What privacy features does Telegram have? It sounds like they don't even have encryption on by default and people have also dismissed their security? Why would anyone use them?
As others have suggested, this is the replacement for Google+. I literally just got this email: "Currents will replace Google+ for G Suite customers on July 6, 2020"
Learn from post-mortems of 339 startup failures
Then you agree, not disagree. Both or nothing, the important point was, you can't just have one without the other.
"Millennials Have Ruined GUIs"
System Shock Remastered
Never heard about this, would this affect performance?

Can you give some examples?
To my understanding, this is the same pattern where every "object" outputs the same data type for other "objects" to consume. This pattern can have a text or gui representation that is really powerful in its own nature if you think about it, its why automation agents with their events consumption/emition are so powerful, its why the web itself shifts towards this pattern (json as comunication of data, code as object), The thing is, this will always be a higher level of abstraction, i think that a gui of this pattern should exist as a default method in most operating systems, its would solve a lot learning problems like learning all the names and options of objects, i would be the perfect default gui tool, actually, sites like zapier, or tools like huginn already do this pattern, i always wondered why this pattern expands so slowly being so useful.
If there`s state associated with Akka actors, to shut them down in a proper manner and not lose state you have to use Akka persistence which just means doubling down on Akka ecosystem.
Absolutely agree. I really wish Telegram would get off the phone number system, especially after the embarrassing hack in Brazil. It's not explicitly Telegram's fault, but if your primary authentication method is insecure it's at least a little bit your fault.

Phone numbers are NOT safe. I don't know why SMS MFA is even a thing, they're worse than passwords.

When you use phone numbers or SMS for security, you are putting the fate of your entire company's security on an underpaid customer service rep at Verizon.
I was going over some old archives and ran into this old Windows installer called "The Sims Steering Committee Installer.exe" from June 4, 1998, that I'd completely forgotten about.

So I installed it on a virtual machine, and made a "lets-play" demo of an early pre-release version of The Sims that was made for The Sims Steering Committee at EA. It includes the Edith SimAntics visual programming language editor and debugging tools, and has a very early "sketchy" user interface, colored dots above the character's head instead of the signature plumb bob, crude klunky architectural editing and object movement tools, and only a few essential objects (eat, sleep, shit, shower, watch TV, dance), and some cool debugging menus (create any number of instances of Archie Bunker and his friends).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC52jE60KjY
Hah, this finally hammers the nail in the coffin that Google has truly lost its way under Sundar. Any bets as to how long it’ll be before this is shuttered like Wave? Meanwhile Slack, Zoom etc have whizzed past Google. Heck, even Microsoft has been a lot more proactive in this space with teams
Wondering about the cheats in this game :)
> Also, seems the JVM is slowly improving in startup time department.

It's not the JVM that makes Clojure JVM slow to start up, try comparing hello world in Java vs hello world in Clojure.
You know that joke sleazy guys make - tonight I’m looking to meet my next ex-wife?

Well, tonight I just saw the next ex-Google product, just a few short years away from being sunsetted.
> This trope of "as a member of the superior European culture, America is strange because..." is really tiring

Is there a name for this trope yet? I see it constantly.
Perhaps. I can't imagine sniping at my significant other like that. We state plainly what we mean as best we can and always try to argue in good faith. This caricature of a communication breakdown is more grotesque than relatable.
It's a reaction piece to https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/style/modern-love-to-fall...
Startups and downs, open on an Android phone for a group discussion on startups
Click this link from your android phones to join a verbal discussion on startups: https://fraydio.page.link/QLPn

A lot of interesting startup folks are in there to talk and listen to your startup doubts.
And boggling at the endless "...why in the world would they think that we'd like that? 97% match?! Because we liked X, we'll like its antithesis?"

Algorithmic recommendations are entertainment in their own right sometimes. And it helps you realize that the robot uprising is a looooooooong way away.
Reminds me of this [1] blog post which was on HN a while ago about Yukaghir's (a paleosiberian group) semasiographic writing system.

Also related is this conlang that was posted to r/conlangs maybe a couple years ago that I can't seem to find now. The idea was that you can represent elementary ideas with shapes and then connect those shapes in a non-linear fashion and add slight variations to specify certain semantic properties, allowing there to be numerous different "correct" readings.

Also, shameless plug of my blog [2] where I've been fleshing out a similar idea (albeit not focused on writing) for the past few months. It takes inspiration from Discourse Representation Theory and semantic graphs.

Edit: Just read about halfway through and the similarities between your conlang and mine are striking. I'd go so far as to say that yours is just a really interesting visual representation of mine.

[1] http://historyview.blogspot.com/2011/10/yukaghir-girl-writes...

[2] https://rpandey.tech/blog
Yes! I love 2020!

(My point about C was in the historical context of Unix, which is relevant when talking about its design principles.)
I did it for a hand-wired keyboard, and the total cost was under 1USD, and no real complexity was added (I just used the diodes as the row wiring, the only thing to keep in mind was having the correct orientation). For modern manufacturing, there's no excuse not to use diodes in the circuit.
Futures and Actors are complementary tools, and neither is really a substitute for the other. `Chapter 16: Message-based Parallelism with Actors` has a good discussion of when you would use each one, and some of the exercises involve using them together
Wire sends your social graph to the cloud.

Maybe this is an okay trade-off for you, but Signal's phone number as ID requirement means they can rely on the local contacts kept on your device and keep very little metadata about you on their servers.
Immunity Passports and Information Privacy
Imagine a blockchain-based immunity passport as an addition to your digital wallet...
Telegram is THE standard in messaging apps. It's basically flawless. It's extremely fast, and it works every single time. Notifications are rock solid on every platform, it doesn't hog your battery and it feels fluid to use.

Signal, Wickr, WhatsApp and others do not have this experience. They all have drawbacks and do not feel Telegram fast.
ClojureCLR still exists and is somewhat maintained (last commit was last year, but then again, little has happened in the clojure world in the past year so I'd still use it): https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr
This New Yorker piece is a comical riposte to the NY Times article cited in the epigraph. I remember the original Times article well because it was discussed here on Hacker News and inspired this extraordinary comment recommending its own version of a follow-up study, one involving a video camera, 20 photographs with multiple-choice descriptions of smells, and a "treatment room":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807897
IANAS, but I like to think that Yes, you can hold your breath longer with synthetic blood. Popular Mechanics covered this in 2006[1], an article I will never forget. But it's a speculative piece. More research has been done recently, a cursory google search for "synthetic blood" indicates many possibilities.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a646/2713146...
I never thought I would say this but Teams is actually quite good
Meaning is based on context. "Meaningful" for work would be company policies, discussing a situation affecting a customer, discussing how to address a particular bug, etc. The "deep" topics you referenced usually aren't meaningful to the work place, even if they are to humanity in general.
This looks very bland and unoriginal. Too much whitespace.
Author of tmate here. This is really cool. Bravo
What kind of backend work do you tend to do?

I am curious because I am doing real-time financial data processing with sub-millisecond latencies just fine in Clojure. Admittedly, there’s no heavy number crunching in my use case.
I think it’s abundantly obvious to anyone looking at this with good faith that the autonomy refers to the targeting of the weapon and the decision to fire the weapon.
Will only ever happen once Signal ditches their dependency on mobile phone number.
Sky's Edge: open-source Robotics and More
Updated and rebranded Google+.
This tradeoff is arguably a good thing.

By using phone numbers as IDs signal can rely on your phone's local contacts (meaning they don't have to send your social graph to their servers). This way they can keep very little metadata on you.

There's pretty much nothing for them to turn over except the fact that your phone number has the signal app.

Most of the other secure apps could turn over your entire contact list (which could be damaging for people in a protest that are being targeted).

Confirming a single phone number has the app is not nearly as big of a deal (I'd argue it doesn't matter at all).
It doesn't do Video calls for one thing.
And in all the cases in which this doesn’t happen, either because the editors/referees notice it or because the aspiring fraudsters don’t even try, because they don’t think that they could slip through.
Related question, is there an endorsement from a recognised expert? I'd have to live with that since I won't be getting an advanced degree in cryptography.
Sure, if your goal is to build a compiler that outputs the fastest possible code.

If your goal is to apply the "principle of least surprise" to the generated machine code, then that eliminates or constrains most interesting optimizations, including procedure inlining, dead code elision, and compile-time evaluation.

Go is a "principle of least surprise" language, based on a vision of simplicity for C that hasn't existed among actual C implementations (outside of maybe Plan 9) for decades now. It's yet more suckless idiocy: sacrifice everything, including utility and friendliness to end users, to buy "simplicity" for hackers. No wonder the suckless folks love Go so much.
I wonder if it supports negative oil prices.
Not saying it's a bad thing at all, it's just going to be very different from the world we know.
Then I'll be calling you a liar because it's not. I jest, I'm sure it's great for you however my gripes are that it is sluggish, especially on mobile, and whilst slack suffers drowning-in-noise syndrome because of how difficult it can be to find the channels you want, Teams has the polar opposite problem. I also particularly dislike the auto-away feature. I'm not away, I'm mobile goddammit.
I trust the browser security model more than the desktop app security model
The article is a joke...
Why do you have contact sales to try out a Chatroom app?
What dosage did you try? Maybe increase that?
I file that under snarky comment.

Certainly not required. A PhD will teach you a lot about methodology but not necessarily the technical details required and involved in secure multi-party or P2P messaging.
Cell tower association should be enough. Maybe not recording videos of yourself and others committing felonies would be a start.
Pooled Testing for Covid
Yeah, if you're ever asked why you're on Signal, just say you wanted to stay in touch with a programmer friend who's not on Facebook/WhatsApp, and they suggested Signal (that is now literally true as well - I suggest you try Signal, friend)
In fact, that's the main reason I'm using it, and the main counter-argument to 'I've got nothing to hide', IMHO. Sure I don't, but there are plenty of people who justifiably do.
I had the same idea, but then reasoned that the network is adding specifics to the sketch, which might not be desirable if you're trying to give a vague idea of someone's appearance.
Be precise.

It seems like you think the Fed's failure is that they don't buy individual bonds. Why would the Fed prefer to buy individual bonds? The Fed buys individual bonds. It buys government debt and people hate them for it.
>I've had an American gf - her constant blubbering and her inability to just enjoy the silence together was what killed it.

Reminds me of that stereotype of the American girl for whom everything is "awesome". OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME THAT WAS KINDA LIKE AWESOME HE IS REALLY AWESOME
Do you believe this can be applied generally to everyone
This is supposed to be the successor to G+ for G Suite, so you could argue it's already been sunsetted once
Or Garfield.
I prefer AppImage because it has no requirements on the host other than basic libraries like libc.
Threema.
Don’t provide your phone number when signing up, and don’t permit it to access your address book. Set a recovery password. It’s not free, but a one small fee per app is worth getting my privacy back.

Oh and it’s hosted outside the jurisdiction of 5-eyes!
What I means is say we apply that to landmines. Anyone selling, manufuring or deploying landmines risks prosecution if they travel to another country. Because a lot of them will arrest, try and imprison you the moment you step on their soil.
Given that they're working on that, that's very likely going to be the case before we've managed to get everyone to use it
As a parent of 2 boys (just under 2 & just over 4 year olds), I would say the hard part began at ~18 months with both our kids. Our oldest is now already much easier than he was a year or 2 ago.

first year was the easiest with both - the only real difficulty was the sleep deprivation.
I would disagree - everyone didn't just stopping paying their mortgages. The issue was that it was uncovered how inappropriate a portion of mortgages had been and how toxic the investment mixes were. This realisation led to banks valuations changing and led to a run on banks. The property behind these mortgages was worth less than the mortgages supplied on them.

While the default rate increased in some areas, it was in no way universal, or as high as we see today in the retail property market. Also (currently) the property backing the mortgage has retained its mortgaged value. So these are not that similar scenarios
In an email to GSuite admins, Google said that Google+ is to be replaced by Currents.

I was under the belief Google+ is dead. What is happening?

Also, if you roll into currents you can't roll out.
It at the very least shows "good faith" as in, no one can claim they were trying to misrepresent something as a new Apple part or product, when they not only didn't create an unauthorized logo themselves, but even took an active measure to obscure a logo that already existed that Apple put there THEMselves.
The next LTS version of Java is planneed to to be Java 21 (fall 2021, numbers a coincidence) and my presumption is they are trying to get it into that.
I don't see how the two are related? They've already got a Desktop client.
Article shouldn't have been accepted. Research papers relying on code without any verifiability ought to be more of an issue.
Completely agreed. In the era of concordance cosmology, one can, if desired, use the relative abundance of the elements, the distribution of galaxies in the sky, and the distance to far-away supernovae and, with two free fit parameters (dark-energy and dark-matter density) predict the properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy.

It's an incredible fact that one can do this -- predicting the properties of the photons emitted at the very first instant that the universe became willing to allow a photon to propagate freely.

A young Randall Munroe could have picked from a number of really well-motivated reasons to state, "Science, It works...", but he picked this one: https://xkcd.com/54/

Modern precision cosmology works really, really well.
Signal has video calls
Passport pictures are unreasonably expensive here in Finland. Luckily you can register as a photographer for passport pics with the police, and do your own. I've been doing my own, and some for friends, for many years now. The last time I paid for one (probably 13 years ago or so), it was upwards of 20Eur
And I’m reminded of “oil imperium”... played that for hours - when I was young
I really love these hacker projects. Also your enthusiasm. I usually order the parts but after the some failures I give up and the land in a box. Ok, in most of the cases the project have no real life use, so there's not too much motivation.

However, the most important question : is your partner using the watch or ordered one?
is the sensor density in cars not high enough yet to detect and notify?
You do not, for obvious reasons.
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Your point was that people don't care about facts, which you are proving in ironic fashion. Even when presented with evidence and facts, you fail to acknowledge it.