skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let’s not pretend like competitive markets are possible with the kind of capital needed to compete.

The entire purpose of injecting capital in such large amounts is to prevent competition. That's literally the entire point.
> how we think about concepts like privacy, security, and trust

I was disappointed to see that a mobile number is needed and that this number is shown by default in groups. Mobile numbers are much more trackable then email addresses in my opinion. And I do not understand at all why others should be able to see them so easily.

So I now prefer Telegram because at least it hides numbers in groups by default.
The Results Are in for Remote Learning: It Didn’t Work
The only reason I don't use Signal is because it still uses your phone number for ID. What is even the point of verifying by number?
Life Sciences Observations #13
Oh. Oops.
Okay...so? Lenovo also announced they're going to certify some laptops for Fedora as well:

https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-lapt...

If you're suggesting that we all need to rally behind everything Canonical does because Ubuntu has the best shot of propelling Linux into the mainstream, I would say that's all the more reason to hold them accountable for decisions that the Linux community finds unpopular. Many don't like snaps. Don't force snaps on us through duplicitous means like the chromium installer. Why is that bad for open source?
> Do these people not live in the same country as everyone else? Breathe the same air and drink water?

"Freedom" is more important, apparently. /s
Covid-19: Lancet retracts paper that halted hydroxychloroquine trials
There are no IDN domains "without punycode". If you mean the display, both Firefox and Chrome do show them as-is at least in some cases - but as far as I know do have policies show the punycode form in others to avoid phishing attacks.
I was curious, after seeing this in the article:

> “Contrarian perspective here – it’s ok to not meet a founder in person before deciding to invest.”

> This set off a tweet firestorm — mostly with people telling me in some form or fashion that I was wrong.

I decided to look on Twitter to see more about the controversy, and while I couldn't find as many VC's discussing it as I remembered (maybe some are shy, maybe some use different words than I used in my search), you can see the varied responses below.

It seems like Andreesen's investment in Clubhouse may have been a watershed moment also - legitimizing remote investing for everyone else.

https://www.mediazed.com/vc-not-meet-in-person.html
Teksavvy which has pretty good national presence using lines from any of Shaw, Telus, Bell, and Rogers charges $45/mo for 30Mb, $55/mo for 75Mb, and $70/mo for 100Mb. Just in nominal dollars without adjusting for currency, this is better than most pricing I've seen in the US.

Comcast is showing a $65/mo promotional offer for 1 year, with no details showing on what speed that is. If it's anything like the $50/mo offer I used to have, it will most likely increase significantly at the end of the year, and will continue going up in price periodically unless you call and complain.

Which ISP with nationwide coverage in the US offers significantly better pricing than Teksavvy on comparable plans?
rxjs vibes
Thanks for your plugin. I wish it had up arrow history. I keep a separate text log with commands and it would be nice if the plugin tracked them. Especially given the high numbers of jq syntax errors.
I appreciate this, even fighting the gag order. Thanks @moxie0!
US antitrust law uses the test of whether consumers are worse off as a measure of anti-competitive practices. This assumed that consumers and customers were one and the same.

Does this doctrine still hold given that many online business models put consumers and customers in different buckets? Most of Google's services are free for consumers, but customers are less fortunate.
what happens if node has to garbage collect during launch?
I think Jimmy Maher set out to be a historiographer rather than a tech writer. He's damned good at it, too.
> smaller US/EU firms will take place of larger firms.

Why do you think smaller EU/US firms are more likely to take their place than Big Chinese firms. The Big Chinese firms will have economies of scale and more capital.

> This will result in decreasing inequality and help the general society as well.

I don't know how is that going to decrease inequality. Even if big tech is replaced by 5 small tech, there is no way on earth it will decrease inequality. Do you have any basis for such an extraordinary claim?

> There is a good reason why anti-trust laws exist people. Billionaires are already a policy failure, we don’t need trillionaires in future as well.

Sure. In the totally globalised world, you can decide you don't want big companies. This will just ensure a Chinese company dominates the market.
> It's as if the culture of every business has become captivated by the idea of becoming an oligopoly. My guess is because it's extremely attractive -- once you "make it" you don't have to compete any more.

You say this like it's new. US anti-trust law started in the late 1800s because of a slew of consolidation in the railroad industry.

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

The UK has had legislation to control monopolies for hundreds of years.
Have a look at LXD.
It creates system containers that are based on runtimes of most Linux distributions.
You can stick to specific versions and are certain that those do not change.
This sounds cool so it's not creating a virtual machine anymore to run Docker like stuff?

I have tried it out but seems to require a Pro license:

ERROR failed to set up port forwardings: failed to get container network: error code:exit status 255, message:Error: There is no valid Professional license to run this command

Bummer, can't use it then
[citation needed]

I know americans that use it, and south africans, and elsewhere.
Really? People didn't care when Eric Garner was murdered? When Michael Brown was murdered? There were riots then too.
> soft “skills” like charisma, rapport, etc, which are much more about social identity than social ability, and in particular discriminate against nonwhites, women, and many LGBT people

That sounds plenty racist to me*

* two can play this game
The BSDs have that philosophy AFAIK.
On sid, I've never had any such issue. I get pretty updated packages and haven't experienced any serious breaking changes, but I also don't do anything that's particularly sensitive or touchy to updates.
Riverside California also performed tests showing high levels of perchlorate in the drinking water at about the same time. The test results have not slowed residential growth in Riverside.

I'd love to see test results from Lompoc. Actually, anyone living within 10 miles of a military base needs to pay attention to their water quality.
How to Apply Crocker's Law for Feedback and Growth
One of the more funny aspects of human psychology is that when someone perfectly matched their signals to a very specific audience, it looks ridiculous to anyone not a member of the target audience.

Holmes is possibly one of the most perfect example of this. To any non-VC it’s obvious that wearing a black turtleneck is not a necessary precondition to being the next Steve Jobs, but the VC and media commentators fell for it hook line and sinker.
I think they justify sacrificing privacy like this for the sake of growth (which of my contacts use Signal? etc).
Is the question whether snapd require an init, or whether snapd should be packaged to work with more init systems?
Burner sim to setup and throw away addresses this concern.

Telegram, messages in plaintext on the server? Encryption that isn't open? Yeah telegram is a bit of a non-starter if you have these kinds of concerns as far as I'm aware.
This is precisely why I browse Lobste.rs. It's just like HackerNews but without the political posts.
Its not actually less useful, because typically very few people follow through on lifestyle improvements. When I went through medical school they did not skip this -- we were all taught well how much of an impact lifestyle change would affect outcomes across various diseases, and even then how little change was required (e.g. 10 lbs lost makes a drastic difference for those overweight). There is simply a very low uptake of lifestyle change and even then, a large percentage who reject it outright (e.g. the number of people who reject that calories are the primary determinant of weight). Its a cultural thing in that, in America at least, we don't have good cultural norms around food and activity that promote a healthy lifestyle. Which is unfortunate, given that is the primary influence (that we can control, obviously genes matter more) of many chronic health conditions.
It's a 50-line CLI I wrote (just like `entropy` on the other line). It's just a simple interface for https://gitlab.com/NebulousLabs/entropy-mnemonics which is one of the many different "encode binary as words" things out there. It's the idea that matters more.
If that's an "obvious" question that needs to be asked, then that's a signal to the candidate that the hiring manager doesn't know WTF they're doing. Waste of time for everyone involved.
The buffalo police department should be made aware of this criminal act.

Their tip line is 716-847-2255.
These recent events have really highlighted to me the fact that police lack accountability. It all folds into a bigger picture of policing (civil forfeiture, no knock warrent-less raids, etc) and a contentious history of policing minorities.

Just in the past few weeks I've seen so many instances of inappropriate escalation in force, all from police officers loaded up in armor, against unarmed people [1][2].

I know policing is hard, but I expect much more from people we give the power of state-sanctioned violence to.

[1] Man prone on the ground being pepper sprayed for the fun of it https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/comments/gvtnhz...

[2] Officer grabs a pink umbrella, tear gas and flashbangs ensue https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the...
Because mobile numbers enable much more easier use than emails. I talk to so many people on WhatsApp who don't even know what an email is, and would certainly never use the app if it couldn't pick their contacts from Contact List. The goal of Signal has always been "privacy for the masses". The experts always had 20 solutions available.
matrix and riot is awesome open source alternative. Awesome API too.
Как Свинка Пеппа захватила мир – Детские клипы Елены Молчановой
> "a ruler can only measure less precisely than itself"

That's actually super interesting. How do you bootstrap (as it were) a ruler?

Like, assume you don't have any machine that is itself created by using a ruler (so no screws or gears, except hand cut ones).

Obviously it's possible, since we did it. But how do you do it?
Google's "support" for their products has one of the worst reputations.

Unless you pay for it, e.g. for Google Cloud Platform.
> Knowing only each others public keys

Do you even need a "protocol" if the clients trust each other?

Client A generates a random key, maybe a nonce - and a session Id - then encrypts that with Bs public key, signs with As private key - and sends that to B. Only B can decrypt the message, A and B now share a key.

Or maybe that is the protocol.

Anyway, if you know someone's public key and they know yours - you're already bootstrapped for a secure channel?

Ed: m seeing the page, I see this is more à link to the api for libsodium, and that obviously makes sense - to have standard implementation (and I guess this does some tricks for generating public/private session keys from long lasting public keys?
I've heard the "additional hashing weakens the credentials" line since I started programming, but no one ever bothers to link a citation, or if just reasoning simply from e.g. the pigeonhole principle seems to realize the increased likelihood of collisions is negligible for typical hash choices. It also flies in the face of common in-practice schemes (pre-bcrypt) like doing n rounds of sha256. There should be no real problem with doing the first round on the client.

I agree with you on the general pointlessness of client hashing, though, and oh what a world if we had pub-priv keys for authentication instead of passwords...
Users a phone number. Doesn't have to be your main number. Setup with a burner sim and throw it away.
Pop OS [1] does something similar. Based on Ubuntu, but replaces snap with flatpak. You can apt-get packages like chromium from their PPA [2].

I'm very pleased with their developer centric approach. They also apply very nice UI tweaks, a tiling WM and a useful set of gnome extensions. Loving it.

[1] https://pop.system76.com/

[2] https://launchpad.net/~system76/+archive/ubuntu/pop/
Demonstrating 15 contact tracing tools to mitigate the impact of Covid-19
> the Western medical system evolved from medical treatments during warfare

What's the historical basis for this claim?
It doesn't auto-restore my session either, but I can usually (always?) get it back using the "Restore previous session" item from the menu. (Also, like the siblings say, that's not a snap thing. If I understand it right, snap might just auto-restart without the courtesy "I can't open a new tab" message.)
Charisma doesn’t scale. But it does work on low volume high leverage audiences; e.g. VCs.
I can see how it'd be interpreted that way at first glance. My read was always that it meant "full of fits", in the way that a child throws a fit or tantrum. So if your sleep is doing that, it's not good.
That should only happen if you update from underneath it by doing an upgrade though, which is entirely at your discretion with apt. The snap equivalent is obligatory.

That said, the update auto-restore almost always works in my experience. I've been running the nightly channel for a while (which updates once or twice a day) and it rarely eats tabs.
Office Towers Are Still Going Up, but Who Will Fill Them?
Some third world countries have better behaved citizens.
Isn't this antithetical to the ideals of equality (chosen by our merits rather than our skin color)? And isn't this sending a terrible message: "you weren't good enough for this job before as I was but now I feel sorry for you." Seems counterproductive.
Show HN: Free Cardiac Monitor Simulator (with embeddable plugin)
Hey everyone,

I'm a physician who likes to code. For a while, I've thought it would be cool to be able to pull up a free cardiac monitor simulator in a browser for teaching purposes. Would be even better if you could somehow control a monitor window remotely using your phone to simulate a case in realtime. Some of the existing sim software is ridiculously expensive (like everything in healthcare), or requires a software download. With that in mind, I give you:

The Site: https://monitorsim.com

About It: https://jt.netlify.app/posts/monitor/

Tech:
* React, Firebase (for remote control), D3.js, Netlify

Features:
* control simulated scenario remotely using phone or other browser window (uses Firebase)
* supports a variety of tracings (needs more work)
* embeddable plugin for blog posts - just pass a JSON object

Future directions:
* add more waveforms (heart blocks) and finetune the existing ones
* add arterial blood pressure waveform and styling

Collaboration/Feedback:
* Feel free to fork on github: https://github.com/th3o6a1d/monitor
* Hit me up on twitter for feedback: https://twitter.com/th3o6a1d

Disclaimer:
* Some of the wave forms are the best approximations I can make at this time, and I've tried to keep them to scale. There's plenty of room for improvement. Go easy on me!
YouTube is taking a lot of ad money that would go to cable and newspapers. People's attention is finite. Less competition for eyeballs.
That’s why Zuck has dinner with Steve Bannon and Trump.
Idk, soldiers are extremely patriotic, principled, and disciplined. I actually think they’d probably be better than police, even though I think it’s abhorrent to direct the military against citizens.
Probably like most film school students I had a Kurosawa obsession. These are incredible to see. Would love a framed reprint of some.
I have this for my mobile devices that are running Android, but can't wait for the ability to use it on Linux. I do wish that Mozilla would publish some regular updates, though. I realize it's more or less in beta, but I know I'd appreciate at least having a timeline of when they're expecting support, or at least to make sure they're making progress in that direction.

I'm also excited by the prospect of Mozilla offering consumer-facing privacy-focused products besides Firefox and Thunderbird. I can only imagine there's a market for hosted alternatives to GSuite, etc. in that niche that they could capitalize on.
They are still on the force. The union said they aren’t going to pay their legal fees for the protests so 57 officers quit the emergency response team. They are still being paid to terrorize people.
Nice! Bookmarking.

2 typos: Rule 10 ("it's" s/b "its") and 14 ("marke" s/b "mark").

Brings back memories of this: https://guykawasaki.com/the-only-10-slides-you-need-in-your-...
They could at least do what Telegram does and hide the phone numbers by default and have a username system as well.
it's their negotiation of the bare minimum invasive activity they've decided they must do to give us some threshold of network effects in an otherwise anonymous service
Wow this is great. Beyond the titular map, it's also just a really good-sized collection of videos of incidents (bigger than any other collection I've seen so far). Good job.
They are working to remove the cell phone requirement.
https://signal.org/blog/signal-pins/

"PINs will also help facilitate new features like addressing that isn’t based exclusively on phone numbers, since the system address book will no longer be a viable way to maintain your network of contacts."
> The article says "Scientists previously had determined that four motivators influenced people to behave in a way that benefited other people."

I know. That's why I listed the 4 that was mentioned in the article.

The rest of your comment has nothing to do with my comment or the article so I'll just ignore it. Pleasure, morality and best person are really philosophical questions better left to another thread.
How do you even define accuracy for an analog process which solves for unknown formulations? Not saying you can't, but afaik there's no ground to call them accurate. It's certaintly chucking a lot of data in functional ways.
The really annoying thing about snaps is that they pollute the mountpoints on the system. I’ve had as many as 100 mounts on a box after installing just a few snaps, which is super annoying if you ever want to try to get an idea of disk usage. God forbid you want to figure out what lvm volume can get shrinked.

There’s also not as much screening before an update is allowed, as there would be for the default Ubuntu repos (considering that 1-2 years into a LTS release you’re probably bringing in dependencies from PPAs anyway, I don’t know if this matters much).
Ask HN: How do you start a cryptocurrency? What value add increases adoption?
Nextcloud?
DIY with calendars is asking for trouble.
Apart from the "People who are too passionate about one thing" part, I can 100% agree with you. Over the past few years I've changed from a rather sad person obsessed over topics others would find barely relevant (kids, don't do /g/) to a person that's rather satisfied with his own life. I still care about these previously mentioned topics, but it's not something that'd make me throw insults at someone if they didn't agree with me.
While I'm not super up on these newfangled app distribution systems, I've had mostly negative experiences with both Snaps and Flatpaks.

As someone that administrates a small handful of workstations and a server or two, I just don't get what these tools buy me. It seems that usually installing an application via one of these methods has negative externalities (e.g. some things not working out of box, like access to user file, or ability to play audio), or most often the applications simply don't work at all.

If snaps were able to work properly out of the box, they could be good if they reduce the work for the packagers. That said, I've burned enough of my time trying to debug broken snaps that I won't entertain ever using them again.

I guess if it works for someone else's use case though, that's nice. However it sure seems pretty grubby to install a snap when the user clearly intended to install an DEB package via aptitude.

I will say, I've had very positive experiences with AppImage. I haven't really dug into the technical details of how these different approaches work yet, since I haven't had any reason to, but every AppImage I've wanted to use has always worked perfectly.
IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS
This is a fair concern, and I hope Signal Addresses it at some point, but Telegram is no replacement. From Telegram's Wikipedia page "The default messages and media use client-server encryption during transit.[19] This data is also encrypted at rest, but can be accessed by Telegram developers, who hold the encryption keys," and "the desktop clients (excluding macOS client) do not feature end-to-end encryption, nor is end-to-end encryption available for groups, supergroups, or channels." In addition, the Telegram server software is proprietary.
This is a cool project. I've used Scraperr[0] for years, but it's always great to have alternatives.

[0] http://scraperr.com/
I didn’t mention police at all, nor does that thread have anything to do with police. Read the thread again, it’s about stupid people terrorizing their communities.
What's so surprising about it when "we see it in bees and ants, and humans and throughout all of nature." His own words.

If it is found throughout all of nature, shouldn't it be expected rather than surprising?
In most European countries you need to submit your ID to get any sort of working SIM card.
I believe the point was that phone numbers are already used as unique IDs people know intuitively. Essentially make it quick to onboard new users

Thankfully they are moving away from this with the option to use a PIN instead pf phone #. Not sure when that rolls out, but I'm v. excited for it
Don't you have to keep paying for the sim, otherwise someone else might "steal" your account once your phone number gets reused?
What happens to Signal when the EARN It Act passes? I assume that eventually the Apple App Store and Google Play Store will just stop allowing it to be downloaded if they do not add the backdoor in? Is there a workaround that will allow people to use it still? I've heard people mention locating the servers in other countries, but wouldn't the various App stores be bound by US law and still not allow them?
Anyone have a link to Signal’s 2019 IRS Form 990?

Most recent I was able to find was this 2018 version:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23431076
It's like a Family Guy version of Yoshi.
I'm hopeful that Signed HTTP Exchanges lead to what you describe, but another Chrome-originating technology that could be extended/abused to achieve a similar goal is the <portal> tag.

There is already a little trick[0] that can be done with bookmarklets (or locally saved files) which allow you to bootstrap a page with a known set of JavaScript code running on it, but it has the disadvantage that the URL bar doesn't contain a familiar domain. If the <portal> spec[1] ends up supporting SRI[2] integrity hashes in a sensible way, this little bootstrapping technique could actually be practical.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456

[1] https://wicg.github.io/portals/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/