skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are funded by the Signal Foundation: https://signal.org/blog/signal-foundation/

"...Today, we are launching the Signal Foundation, an emerging 501(c)(3) nonprofit created and made possible by Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, to support, accelerate, and broaden Signal’s mission of making private communication accessible and ubiquitous. In case you missed it, Brian left WhatsApp and Facebook last year, and has been thinking about how to best focus his future time and energy on building nonprofit technology for public good.

Starting with an initial $50,000,000 in funding, we can now increase the size of our team, our capacity, and our ambitions. This means reduced uncertainty on the path to sustainability, and the strengthening of our long-term goals and values. Perhaps most significantly, the addition of Brian brings an incredibly talented engineer and visionary with decades of experience building successful products to our team."
On macOS the desktop client is fine so far.
Figures 1, 7, 17, 18, 19, 22, 24, and 29 from the web page are not sets as circles. The paper contains additional counterexamples.
Combine SRI with CSPs and cache-control: immutable and you could already commit a page to never change. All that's missing for TOFU is fingerprinting this combination, watching for changes and surfacing the information to the user.
Not to mention that 99% of desktop Linux installs are trivially pwnable with:

echo 'alias sudo="sudo touch /evil && sudo' >> ~/.bashrc
>> By hosted, we mean charging customers for the hosted version of the open source product. The risk is that a cloud provider decides to compete with your hosted version.

An interesting approach is what cockroachdb did, which basically forbid this very specific use case, and is otherwise standard open-source.
Isn't that about 1000x slowdown?
This is not really the largest problem with FB at all. It's that they finely tune us in Skinner boxes to react to shitposts. If the algorithm crosses the line and you back off, it tries something else.

It just so happens that what we humans engage most with is inflammatory bullshit, so of course the algos push that. It's not personal, it's just more money in that.
Mario was inspired by Popeye!? What a fun story.
They’re also not claiming they’re writing everything themselves, and certainly not in X lines of code...
They purport they are against fascism. But if you look at what they do sometimes, it amounts to little more than looting, rioting and vandalism.

Not always, but sometimes. They don’t seem to have a designated modus operandi.
As a former interviewer at interviewing.io, the CEO of this company is committing fraud. She has done the following:

- Been consistently late in paying out interviewers. Sometimes over 60 days late.
- I am owed over $50k in money for several months earlier this year. She has stopped responding to emails and calls. I am hiring a lawyer to get my money back.

This platform is a guise for funneling people through to subpar jobs.
There is no antifa to have a consensus about. It's just short for antifascist.
I suspect because of Trump's remarks that he'd declare Antifa a terror group[1]

[1] Plenty of sources, but first result for obvious keywords: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/antifa-group-trump-designate...
When the same EPA is indefinitely suspending all enforcement of environmental laws, sorry “temporarily, with no set end date”, I find it hard to believe other decisions like this have the science at heart.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/489753-epa-sus...
EmailForJustice.Today
Small tool to enable non tech savvy users to email some templates, or to build their own mailto: links for sharing on social media.

Inspired by the current social movements, and enables ease of use for end users
Hard to make it seem like a terrorist tool when the UK Conservative party also loves Signal https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/tories-swit...
This is like asking if there's no consensus on whether "all lives matter". Or no consensus on being "pro-life". Phrases often have context that mean more than their literal dictionary definition.

Edit: The comment I replied to originally asked "There is no consensus on wether being against fascism is good or bad?"
It's a great game, with the right people. One of the guys in our games group has extremely poor listening skills... the game is really not fun in that scenario.
Why? If going to a doctor is free for you, you know that.
Fact-Checking Is Not Easy
That’s a lot of words for saying nothing.
If it makes you feel better, you can learn to solve many of these coding challenges by practicing them. Taking IQ tests repeatedly leads to getting a better score, not because you are 'smarter', you are just more in practice with the quiz material and the style of questions.
Furthermore, "burner sim" implies an accompanying burner phone and all of the opsec that entails (eg only turn it on away from home), lest that "burner" number be trivially linked to your identity through databases that the telephone companies are happy to sell.

Moxie should know better, but this blog post repeatedly boasts about privacy while not addressing this at all. Getting basic encryption into the hands of the masses is a laudable goal. But when the popular threat model changes (eg pocket computer compromise incident to arrest at a protest - an "evil raid" attack), you either need to adapt or you've become an attractive nuisance.

Specifically I'm envisioning an attack where say ten protestors are arrested and found to have a shared contact, and then the police turn that phone number into a real world identity and go after that person for organizing.
Zuck can zuck off, simple as that.
What about revenue impact

Write that in cursive on the black board 100 times before you are allowed back in your cubicle, employee #140932.
Closer to 1,000,000X, I’d say.
This is true with all public sector unions. Regular labor unions have a natural limitation in that if they push negotiations too far, they bankrupt the corporation and now the workers are even worse off.

It's not even about negotiating pay: if the standards of workmanship aren't high enough the company can't deliver the goods or they costs from cleaning up the mistakes are too high.

There are no such natural limitations on the ability for public sector unions to negotiate with the state.
They have this neat service called "Maps". You might want to use that.
"How to write a json parser in 2 lines of Python"

import json
json.loads('{"That": "was easy"}')

(To be fair, knowing ffmpeg exists doesn't mean I'd be able to easily write a video player with it without a lot of research. For that reason I find this tutorial is still quite interesting and valuable.)
I noticed that, too. Also: “going to”
Can I use this to do some of what Graphviz does?

Because I like Graphviz but the results are never beautiful.
What's most painful about it is you can feel the writer's desire for a different job.
That's a really interesting piece of knowledge — thank you for sharing!
So how does it not work? I talk, mask gets wet. Doesn't it mean it's blocking some of the droplets from spraying out? Why not?
> Facebook systematically promotes and propogates the most inflammatory content posted on its platform.

This is not borne out by the facts. Facebook is a lot tamer than unmoderated, uncurated, algorithm-free platforms.

This idea that facebook promotes inflammatory content was invented by unscrupulous people, with the goal of getting facebook to censor even more than they already do, because this will give their viewpoint the upper hand.
There is a concern with getting ordinary non technical users accustomed to the concept of sideloading apps... It might be totally safe to download the official Signal APK and sideload it. But people will then think that's a suitable and acceptable way to install other things, and will then be more likely to be easily social engineered or phished into loading other malicious APKs.

The ordinary non technical user has no idea of how to manually verify the sha256 checksum of a APK they've downloaded from the "official" software developer of an app.
Yeah that's how freedom of speech works. Listen, you don't police private conversations among friends. Not in America. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I'm sure I could comb over your personal beliefs and find all sorts of garbage, including what you're saying now Corporate regulation of speech is a losing proposition for society. Period.
Average usually refers to the mean or median. The uninsured folks you refer do not make up the majority required to reach “average” criteria.
> With the number 95% we can say that 95% of the time they do not need to bring a deadly weapon.

Well, no. 5% of interactions is frequent, especially for police. They need to be prepared for violent situations. That's a pretty core part of the job.

We can talk about deadly weapons being unnecessary for dealing with violent situations but your quoted numbers just don't support the conclusion you seem to be drawing.
You seem to have a problem with the X lines of code... part.

I guess I can see how it might be seen as boastful or showboating, but to me it signals "This might be a fun coding project for a single afternoon."
> homoiconicity (data structure syntax)

Can someone explain to me why we need a murky word like "homoiconicity" and then explain it as "data structure syntax" (which doesn't clarify much) when "self-modifying code" and "metaprogramming" are crystal clear?
Switching to a "real" camera has been such a huge, huge improvement for me on video calls all day, I machined a custom vesa mounting arm to hold my camera in just the right spot.

https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/088254b7439745b982784c0a4...
I'm sorry but absolutely nothing about this is a straw man or uncharitable, and I'll explain why.

>If you're required to use ID to get a SIM (as K2L8M11N2 stated in the parent comment I replied to), then what I was saying follows

Yes, and this is what I was responding to. You want that "if" to be taken for granted as an unchallenged starting premise to your entire argument. And that amounts to a massive privacy concession. And the fact that I'm challenging that premise, and bringing up the privacy concerns that are associated with that "if", that is the thing that you're describing as uncharitable. Even though you don't appear to dispute that it is indeed a privacy concession. And it only follows if you don't contemplate alternatives to using a phone number, which is what I took to be their point about the problems associated with a phone number.

>and more about what can be turned over if a user's device is compromised. In that context the name to number connection is more serious because they also have the content.

That's going true in any context where your number can be revealed, which is why it has unique disadvantages that usernames wouldn't have, under any conceivable hypothetical scenario. I'm glad that you benefited from their clarification but that struck me as a truism about the nature of phone numbers versus the nature of usernames.
US Copyright registration doesn't require you to lodge the whole source code. It is allowed to print it out, and submit a 50 page sample of the printout. (I think you are allowed to send the Copyright Office the whole thing if you want, but 50 pages is all that is required.)

A vendor could submit 50 pages of their source code, then delete the rest. If an ex-employee later distributes a retained copy of the deleted source code, the 50 pages are sufficient for statutory damages, even for parts of the source code not included in that 50 page sample. (The point of the 50 pages is to be a big enough sample to identify the work.)

https://www.copyright.gov/eco/help-deposit.html#source
By-value or copy-on-write semantics in imperative programming languages
To be fair, CPAP was originally developed for people with severe sleep apnoea and other neuromuscular disorders that have no other option.
People tend to bring this up as some sort of forceful counter-example, but the printing press contributed significantly to religious sectarianism in Europe, fuelling the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century which killed over a third of the German population.

Books might not have been burned, but about 50.000 'witches' did.

A rapid increase in the dissemination of information in systems that have no mechanism to tolerate them is no trivial matter.
I'm not much into television or big screen media but for some reason I really got into Kurosawa films. Right after watching Seven Samurai I went and got as many Kurosawa films I could get my hands on. I think there are only a couple I haven't seen now. They just ooze creativity and inspiration. Every actor is perfect for the role. Every shot is perfect for the scene. It all comes together to tell the story the way it was meant to be told.

The pacing is on point. The mood is on point. Kurosawa's films are really a study on how to produce quality.

One of my biggest complaints for modern films is how much they try and fit in each unit of time. It feels like they don't respect what they're trying to portray. There's value in pause. There's value in waiting and letting things sink in to the viewer. We don't need to rush everything. It takes time to appreciate.
My companies name showed up in one of the dialog boxes and it kinda messed me up... Well done!
True. But especially lazy rendering and fixed column headers seem to be within HTML's remit. Fixed column headers should probably be a new CSS rule, and lazy rendering should just work by default.
What's your plausible scientific reason that blocking droplets doesn't reduce the chance of spreading the virus? My prior is, it does, based on my experience of the mask getting wet when talking.
> The increasing trend of large tech conglomerates to use one money printing product like AWS or search or the Apple Store to tactically snipe competitors to destroy or acquire them is absolutely abysmal in the long run.

You're confusing competitive behavior with anti-competitive. When a company throws money at consumers in order to get their business, that's competitive.
pioneer.app
DoH and DoT encrypt the client's connection to the resolver, but they don't always verify that the response is from the authoritative server. That can be done by DNSSEC, and is often taken care of by DoH providers (e.g. Google and Cloudflare) but only if supported by the authoritative server.
Check the top companies in Europe, it's mostly the same companies founded 100 years ago or something. The increased regulation in Europe just helped existing big companies, not new ones. Compare this with the US where the list changes every 20 years or so. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2019/05/15/eur...
Disclaimer: IANAL, an not really well informed on these subjects.

I think with sufficient funding for a legal department, Signal could work without the section 230 exemption. In practice, they don't have that money and would be forced out of business long before they were able to prove their case.
How does performance compare to Docker Desktop? My employer has a complex Compose setup for building our server infra, and it's pretty taxing to run.
This fake quote is bullshit and you should feel bad: https://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/that-dalai-lama-quotat...
I don't hear any actual counterargument.

> BS. This is not economic theory, and you are not an economist, friend. If so, please quantify with numbers so we can compare (don't wast your time).

As it happens I actually am an economist, but that credential shouldn't have mattered either way. This function is called the Cobb–Douglas production function, it has statistical evidence as tested in the beginning of 20th century, and if someone has a qualified rebuttal they should go ahead because it could get them some academic award.

> Lofty claims here. I'll raise you - people die because they can't afford medicine but nobody died because of big tech.

Death is not the most useful standard by which we measure the health of a 21st century, developed nation economy. In fact, "this business doesn't kill people" is such a low standard to the degree of being virtually useless in this analysis. Sophistication of the tools we use for economic analysis should match the sophistication of the economic activity going on.
ffmpeg is awesome. However, there are some issues that all ffmpeg-based players share that I wish someone would tackle (either by fixing ffmpeg or making something new). Seeking performance and reliability (especially single frame seeking) is a big one. Robustness in the face of truncated or otherwise corrupted video files is another. Ffmpeg isn't terrible in these areas, and I realize that there are underlying issues that make these things very hard, but still I believe it is possible to do much better.
Good news! You can pare it down to a single favorite thing about him; that quote is bullshit. https://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/that-dalai-lama-quotat...
It's easy to get caught Trump's BS because he makes lots of claims.

It's impossible to designate Antifa as terrorist organization in practise because it's not an organization. It's a movement. It's also impossible to designate white nationalism or alt-right as terrorist organizations.

If they can name actual organizations and name people participating in the movement, it might work work against them, but they are not Antifa.
> An interesting approach is what cockroachdb did, which basically forbid this very specific use case, and is otherwise standard open-source.

I have no qualms with what they’ve done. It’s their intellectual property and they can do as they see fit. But it’s not open source. There’s plenty of proprietary software that also provides the source code (generally without support).

Maybe we need to settle on a new term like “source available”. Or “source provided”. But it’s not open source.

To quote Arthur Dent, it’s almost, but not entirely unlike, closed sourced.
Earlier this year, I reported a bug in Firefox. In my report, I included steps to reproduce the issue, the expected result and the actual result (because I've been on the other side). There were no back-and-forth messages to clarify the issue, and it was fixed in a short amount of time (well, short for a project of that size).
It's unthinkable insofar as both sides are prompt for action. Planning for it is in itself a clear signal of capability and intention.

I'm pretty sure many foreign officials just read it too.
The 2019 filing deadline (including Form 990) was extended to July 15, 2020 so it may not be published yet.
Every time a new D & C19 item comes up, 75+% of the comments are already addressed in my review: http://agingbiotech.info/vitamindcovid19/
This new study is already incorporated there with a couple paragraphs of good discussion in strengths, weaknesses, importance, etc. Broadly, it's consistent with prior evidence but significant for being the 1st controlled trial (even if not random, which would be unethical at this point and thus should be impossible now). It's too bad the control group had so much more comorbidity. Hopefully their multivariate model is trustable for taking baseline differences in the 2 arms into account. The effect size is huge (OR=0.15).

Other common comment topics here (correlation vs causation, sun exposure, burden of proof for correcting deficiency, etc.) are all covered in the review already.
If something important isn't covered, email me.
My only ask is that you see the difference between free-speech as intended in the constitution vs free-speech under an unverifiable and easily forged online pseudonym. You may not even be defending free speech of an American citizen/resident
The truth is, it's hard to find a good loyal audience to monetize. My main blogging revenue is Medium Partner Program. Since beginning of 2020 I made around $500 from something like 5 articles. I don't blog a lot but I have access to pretty popular programming publications on there, allowing me to reach a wider audience. I also made some money from people reaching out to write posts for them. It's not a lot, but considering I only have 1.4k followers and treat my blog as more of a reminder/documentation for myself in the future, it's also not bad.

Medium can suck though, as their algorithm decides whether your posts will be shown on the homepage. Personal self hosted blogs on the other hand can be hard to optimise for search engines, which is something medium is great at.

Don't try to make blogging your main thing. You will either fail or it will take along time for you to see any decent sums in the first place. Do it on the side, and if it takes off then you can consider doing it full time.
By opposite, I was just saying that it's not people afraid of white nationalists, but rather conservatives afraid of liberals disdain.
Your hat tip to the famous Austrian economists in your examples, and the "fiat" part of your username are enough to indicate to me that we could be good friends ;-)
Anyone else have similar experiences as mentioned?
Don’t use the technology services of public companies whenever possible. Shareholder interests are not your interests.
Sure, antifa is about being against fascism, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is all about democracy.
Putting aside Signal officially declining to the add option to discover or manually add a server via the client, theirs nothing stopping anyone from going to GitHub, downloading the code for the server and client, editing the code however they see fit as long as it follows the legal guidelines.
It will only 'heal divisions' if you are fair to everyone and do the right thing, instead of listening to demands of the mob.

As an example, saying you want to murder conservatives, white people, the president, and anyone not progressive should be banned from the platform.

At the moment, you say something that can even be interpreted as hate in an indirect way toward a minority group or person and it's an instant ban.

You can say you want to outright murder white people, cops, or even the president (I've seen all of these myself over the past few weeks) and it's not only allowed, but retweeted/shared and shared millions of times.

Until this changes, it's not healing. It's giving special treatment to a minority group and allowing them to bully, harass, and threaten their perceived enemies in the name of equality.

The mainstream news simultaneously tells us that it's only 'white people' that are the ones agitating, rioting, and looting and then also saying that 'rioting is the language of the unheard'.

I really don't want to live in a dystopian future like this and will do anything in my power to fight it.
OneDevice – A smartphone that makes sense
Well, there isn't. "All lives matter" and "pro-life" represent specific political views, but they don't represent any specific groups or organizations. Just like antifa.
It causes vestibular symptoms. This creates the sensation of motion without movement.

Incidentally, if you’ve never had true vertigo, it is very disconcerting how much a sensory organ malfunction can affect your perception of the world. It is a kind of spatial psychosis that you can observe objectively.
Oops, yes of course! And then it can be any incrementable (or not) character.
Culture-Bound Syndrome