skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a shame. I’m sorry if you didn’t have the opportunity to do so. It’s very possible and practical to build wealth in your 20s and many people move to high COL places to do so when they don’t have the burden of kids or strong ties. Even small wealth in your 20s will balloon into big wealth 20-30-40 years later that you simply won’t be able to catch up to saving in your 40s and later. You’re investing in your future by delaying settling down, buying a house, and having kids in your 20s. Whether that’s worth it is up to you and your life goals.
Nothing. Amazon has already done it in the past.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-clo...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/setting-the-record-s...
Don't get me wrong, I like the tool but if all you do is train people to copy paste to show their support for whatever is trending at the moment, people will not stop being compliant with whatever wrong is happening in the world on their own. That is a fundamental problem with a working democracy. I think people should be responsible and motivated enough at least write an email instead of using a template.

While having an email template is good for many (not all) use cases, I know almost all will just use the template.

Thanks for the work though!
Much better. Thought that "Complication" part was out of place
A few places talk about the returns of most VC firms

* https://blog.wealthfront.com/venture-capital-economics/
"Over the past 10 years, venture capital in general has been a lousy place to invest. According to Cambridge Associates the average annual venture capital return over the past 10 years has only been 8.1% as compared to 5.7% for the S&P 500. That clearly does not compensate the limited partner for taking the increased risk associated with venture capital. However the top quartile (25%) generated an annual rate of return of 22.9%. The top 20 firms have done even better."

* https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...
"A VC fund needs a 3x return to achieve a “venture rate of return” and be considered a good investment ($100 million fund => 3x => $300 million return). The graph below shows what percentage of VC firms accomplish this. As we can see, only the small green slice is bringing it home. The other 95 percent are juggling somewhere between breaking even and downright losing money (remember to adjust for inflation)."

[See chart which shows that only 5% of VC firms return more than 3x, and a full 50% of firms return LESS than the money invested in them.]

Also see Slide 14 in deck in comment posted above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435889)
That means the ChiComs know all their citizens passwords. What’s new. Corporate surveillance and speech oppression coming to your neighborhood soon.
Antifa is a term people associate with far-left pseudo anarchist groups that engage in property damage, physical violence and harassment. Wikipedia has more context if you're interested[1].

> And how was the "is there not a consensus on antifascism" question invalid?

It's not an invalid question, just a leading one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)
The ecosystem is moving (2019) [video]
`alias df='df -x"squashfs"'` should do it.
No work around needed on Android. It allows installation of apps outside the Google Play Store.
And I thank you. But please don't imply that your high rates mean renewables are not cheap now for everyone else.
The thing it's solving is not needing to configure the software to bind on a particular port and IP at runtime. I will agree that this is the easiest possible solution from a usability standpoint. But this functionality adds a unique non-portable requirement to the host, in addition to making routing more difficult. An entrypoint could take care of making the port change at runtime, and then we wouldn't need the extra abstraction.

One of the biggest problems of running containers in the cloud is that they're not natively rootless. That largely comes from all the extra layers and abstractions and functionality, which again are super useful, but not necessary. The cloud would be a lot easier to manage if we didn't make it so complex.
Overlooked No More: Roberta Cowell, Trans Trailblazer, Pilot and Auto Racer
I am a native speaker and I had to look it up as well.
You're being obtuse for no reason. This is like saying ISIS isn't an a specific group because it is comprised of transregional autonomous cells instead of any specific group. Sure, maybe in the most literal application of terms, but it's obvious what's being discussed from context clues. Decentralized movements are the status quo of activism these days, that doesn't mean you can't reference the movement as a collection when discussing how to combat it or or if it should be combatted.
I had to resist the urge to post something similar and yea, it's still way too hard to track down documentation for already solved stuff like this, so there's great value in an article demystifying the process.
If you havne't already done so, check out the wonderful commentary by 'Every Frame a Painting':

https://youtu.be/doaQC-S8de8 (Composing Movement)
https://youtu.be/jGc-K7giqKM (The Geometry of a Scene)

I don't normally recommend YouTube channels for film commentary, but this channel is very good indeed.
It's not snobbish. Your way of thinking is insultingly infantilising.

I'm sorry for the disparity between your post length and mine, but there isn't anything else to say. You view the people around you as fundamentally incapable. "How ever did those poor, stupid assholes figure out how to talk to each other before us technical people came along?"
Did you get see different sleep docs after you realised the change with the CPAP was not as dramatic as you had hoped?
I don't think Donald Trump cares about the UK Conservative party.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Lets see it.
This chart shows that only 5% of the VCs are generating most of the returns, and 50% of VC firms can't even return the capital that's invested in them: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...

From the article: "“Ninety-five percent of VCs aren’t profitable,” he said. It took me a while to understand what this really means."

Basically, the default mode for VCs is to either lose the money investors put in them or modest returns, which isn't particularly good given the risk of the investment class. 80%+ of the VCs you'll talk to underperform the S&P. Those general returns you see? They come from a handful of VCs, who will be much more selective. Basically you can't approach them, they'll approach you since they know they are the kingmakers in the industry.

* Also, check Slide 14 in this deck: https://www.slideshare.net/gilbenartzy/money-talks-things-yo...

- The Top 20 VC funds, which represent 2% of all VC Funds, generate 95% of all VC returns
- 50% of VC firms return less than 1x of invested capital
- An additional 35% of VC firms return less than 2x of invested capital

So yeah, it's even worse than 80/20 rule. 9 out of every 10 VC firms you talk to will most likely be loser funds that don't generate substantial returns. Focus on the top 20 VC funds if you want to be in with the real winners. For everyone else, they're just money managers, mostly losing their investor's money, but pretending like they're kingmakers.
no, we don't have 20 options available. we also need to talk to people who don't understand the problem and can't be persuaded to use one of those other options.

there is a difference between enabling phonenumbers as an ID vs requiring them.

signal could easily support both. (i read somewhere that they plan to support alternatives to phone numbers in the future, just haven't made it a priority. well, i'll wait. edit: actually it's mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435050 )
I'm strongly in agreement with this, presuming that you have the facts and thinking on "your" side. If you're trying to sell air or otherwise have unavoidably the skinny side of the facts, you are probably better off taking your chances with a flashy presentation than a long-form document (which is much more likely to expose the flaws in your thinking).

As the old aphorism goes: If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.
What (if anything) will it do in the absence of their service? Is there any open source software/open protocols/etc... for it?

After being burned a few times, I've resolved to make hardware purchasing decisions based only on what a device can do using built-in/self-hosted software without any external services...but vendors make this difficult or impossible to figure out from the marketing glossies.
This uses https://github.com/itchyny/gojq which is a pure Go re-implementation of jq. Can be used as a cli tool or as a library. Didn't know about this, very cool that it exists!
Nice clients to work with :-)

I'm curious about if you get paid / if you charge software developer rates when working in the restaurant?
Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)
Currently totally unrealistic in practice, but it's proven that the algorithms are in P (polynomial time), and it's just ("just", I know...) a matter of getting the constant factor overheads down. It's definitely desirable, because it means some untrusted host could perform operations on your data without ever knowing what they were operating on e.g. "I added your numbers but I don't know what they are or their sum."
> There needs to be somebody to push back that's bigger than the individual officers.

We do have that. It's Congress. It's the same thing that keeps private sector employers from forcing non-union employees to endanger their lives.

And if that fails, they still have the option of last resort -- quit. They're not in the military. They can walk away at any time and get a job at another police force with better leadership, and those kinds of resignations are just what it takes to get the media attention necessary to change bad policy.
The study I read about apnea said people were given simple plastic didgeridoos. Authentic ones are $100-$2000, and a plastic one with beeswax was $35 on Amazon.
You should read this: https://hbr.org/2013/05/six-myths-about-venture-capitalists

"the standard VC fund charges an annual fee of 2% on committed capital over the life of the fund—usually 10 years—plus a percentage of the profits when firms successfully exit, usually by being acquired or going public. So a firm that raised a $1 billion fund and charged a 2% fee would receive a fixed fee stream of $20 million a year to cover expenses and compensation. VC firms raise new funds about every three or four years, so let’s say that three years into the first fund, the firm raised a second $1 billion fund. That would generate an additional $20 million in fees, for a total of $40 million annually. These cumulative and guaranteed management fees insulate VC partners from poor returns because much of their compensation comes from fees. Many partners take home compensation in the seven figures regardless of the fund’s investment performance. Most entrepreneurs have no such safety net. "

Yup, those high-flying VCs? making money the same way money managers too - taking a cut of assets under management (AUM). Nothing to do with their investment prowess -- just gather lots of money, take a cut of that gathering, and whether or not the investors make money won't impact your paycheck. yes there's a nice bonus if you make it, but that's not necessary.

That's how the 80% of VCs that don't generate substantial returns are making a living.
Is there any application that will benefit from FHE? I can't think of anything where taking a hit of at least 5 orders of magnitude is worth it over doing the calculation locally on a trusted CPU.
I understand what you're saying and I agree to some extent. And I'm coming at this with someone who's been adjacent with the left for a long time.

But even reading the Wikipedia article, it describes such a broad range of ideologies and tactics that I think the only thing really unifying the term is literally being anti-fascist. This has been my personal experience as well - I know a lot of people who identify as antifa, but they vary wildly in how that manifests.
>At least with Google, evil is divided across five tech giants that can serve as checks against one another, instead of merely four.

I find it interesting that we're reasoning in terms of balance of power, pre-eminence, and hegemony, to address issues related to a few companies. Cardinal de Richelieu sure would have found his footing.

No wonder some Google had a "Head of International Relations" whose job is to deal with diplomats, the U.N and the like[^1]. I believe Condoleezza Rice is also on the board of Dropbox.

[^1]: https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-inter...
A wallet so full of cash it was causing backaches sitting on it.
I'm talking about the discourse sorroundig privacy, not literally specifically about my phone. I hate to see it marketed as a tool of revolution instead of just common sense practices.

Your use of "ideologically driven" is confusing. Of course they should be driven, by their ideology on how a messaging app should be. But how could their opinion on the protest drive them? Just some weeks ago a whole different crew was taking the streets fighting for their own "freedom reasons". Some years ago there was the sad tiki parade.

It's like setting up a gun shop in Syria and claim your guns kill "the bad guys", whatever that means to the customer.

I'll choose the app that works best for me, and will call it out when someone feeds the meme that privacy is for rioters, unwittingly even.
But faster price discovery doesn't actually do anything. Outside of other HFT firms, efficient pricing only matters for large events that happen on a macro timescale - share issuance, buybacks, dividends, etc.

Unless one of those macro events occurs, knowing whether a stock is worth $10 or $11 doesn't actually matter - there's no efficiency gained or resources allocated based on that difference.

Resources aren't allocated on a nanosecond timeframe, no matter how fast your trades are. Actual resource allocation happens on a weeks to months timeframe.
It was great where I live
TL;DR / I accidentally wish-listed myself:

Sign in to matrix.org with Riot Android / IOS / Web

Like sibling poster, XMPP with OMEMO encryption is an option, but it requires setting up an xmpp server with ejabberd or prosody software, then installing Gajim on your PCs and Conversations (paid via play store, free via F-Droid) for Android / a good iOS Xmpp client that supports OMEMO.

Except for techies, ^ is waaaay too much for people who are just looking to have an alternative to Signal's lock-in. I can barely get people to install the signal app and click open :)

I currently recommend installing Riot IOS / Riot Android and logging in to the free Matrix.org instance, which does not use your phone number or anything.

In the future I hope to recommend whatever P2P Matrix phone app comes out, and you just share your ids with friends via QR code handshakes and boom, you are off to the races with nothing but an internet connection and a friend ID. Metadata is all local to phones, so nothing to see.

In the medium future, I also hope to recommend cwtch.im which is the replacement for richochet, a metadata resistant p2p e2ee messaging app.

In the far future, I hope to have something like a smartphone mobile ad hoc network-based p2p e2ee app where you scan qr codes to handshake and you either communicate over the internet (like p2p matrix) or over mesh network as long as you are within 10 hops of another device (like bridgefy or firechat). Bonus points if one can DIY a passive repeater that works with the mesh network.
> My personal feed is not the issue here. The issue is how reactionary material keeps popping up in the feed of people who are susceptible into rallying behind it.

What you are basically arguing is that people are too stupid to handle free speech.
On the atmosphere point that's one thing that isn't as much of a problem. Plants can breath in Mars atmosphere and pressure.

Sure the pressure is 0.6% comparing Mars/Earth but the CO2% is 0.04% when comparing Earth/Mars.

In other words the partial pressure of CO2 on Mars is actually higher than on Earth. Which is great for CO2 breathing plants. If the temperature was raised a plant would have more CO2 available even with the much lower pressure than on Earth.

Indeed experiments with 95% CO2 (matching Mars) and 6millibars pressure (matching Mars) and with martian soil showed that Potato's grow fine. https://cipotato.org/blog/indicators-show-potatoes-can-grow-...

The only adjustment was temperature!
Yet our profiles are still alive and well, as our friends are telling us.
The radio station mentioned was the inciting element in a genocide. Surely it does not take a large amount of analysis to understand that the underlying mechanism, dissemminating lies or propoganda on a widely used, easily accessed medium, applies directly to OP...
Right, here’s another comment on the topic by Signal staff too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pthatcherg
Signal is open source; I'm wondering, has anyone here ever built the service and one or more clients and run it on-prem, or even as a white-labelled competing service?
> If a newspaper publishes articles claiming that going to polls will be dangerous given Covid, how should we determine whether that is health information or voter suppression?

That's a really interesting and tricky question. Now remove the word "how" and think about it again...
>> "Going for VC means you are committing to an exit or a failure - you can't really change your mind later that you want to take things more steadily"

Exactly. And that is a huge reason NOT to use VC-funded opensource.
I wrote it out ad hoc, I don’t doubt that something similar has been written before though.
https://twitter.com/juliagalef/status/1054898254649802752?la...
> long as it follows the legal guidelines.

So like, as long as they add in the backdoor?
Wherein the Zucc measured the interest of the public in reform and found it was his writing that prevails in boring those protestors and driving them back to their abode
Very good. All of that makes sense to me. Well almost

Can't make heads or tails out of point 12 though. Who's including homework (??) in slides and making some assumption about it? Very "failed to communicate" meta.
Don't they already have those tools readily available?

People don't believe QAnon, or that Bill Gates created COVID-19 as part of his secret plan to implant chips in everybody, or that 5G towers caused COVID-19, or that the earth is flat, etc., because they do not have access to the tools to find and critically evaluate the refutations of those idiotic beliefs.

All the necessary tools are readily available on the internet. But using them takes more effort than they want to put in. And if they do put in the effort to think critically about something they saw on social media, there are dozens more to take its place.

The falsehoods can be designed to be entertaining and to appeal to the fears and prejudices of their targets. This makes it easy for someone to get into it because they can start out just for the entertainment. They aren't going to seek out opposing views and critical evaluate them at that point because it is just entertainment. Somewhere along the line, it changes from being just entertainment to something they actually believe in.
If you accept that someone could compromise the web server but be unable to modify the website sent then sure. More generally if you don’t trust the other end you should not be using passwords.
I could honestly not tell whether that quote was written satirically or actually in the article without looking.
As a short term solution, you can use netguard and always have it run in lockdown mode. It works on most phones and doesn't require root. You can use it to whitelist app access to the internet (inc. blocking samsung and google play updates). It's also open source.

In the long term, just avoid samsung products that don't respect your authority as the owner.
> With that being said, my original post had a stupid mistake: I meant to imply that the listed countries don't speak a Latin language, not that they do.

I got that.

You are right, German is per definition not a latin language. You win 5 internet points, even though you still did not get the context of my original post, which is why you were downvoted.

> I speak five European languages including German. What you say is the opposite of the truth - English has far more Latin influence than German.

Nobody is interested in how many European languages I speak and it does not matter here, but I do speak German and English and have studied Latin. English might have more Latin words, but German feels way more like Latin than English does, because it is more structured and rule-based, has less exceptions (funnily enough because it has had less influence from French aka Latin).

It is not only about a case system, it's also gender of words, conjugation of verbs and the whole structure of sentences. English feels more linearly "one word comes after the other"-style, while German and Latin both rely more on rules and sentences can (or sometimes have to) be taken apart piece by piece. One thing they have in common is the ability to form long sentences with the predicate all the way at the end, making the listener remember the whole thing before finally getting the actual meaning.

Another important point is: You can mostly just read both Latin and German, because words are pronounced the same way they are written. We might pronounce some Latin words differently than they were originally prounounced, but since Italian behaves the same, we should be reasonably close.
Peer-to-Peer Communications with WebRTC
Yeah that's what I've been using, guess I'm turning into an 'old' as evidenced by my hair now approaching ponytail length.
Have you noticed how corporations with dubious histories are falling over themselves right now to tell people "your lives matter and we're listening"?

It's nothing more than opportunistic grandstanding.
Here you go: https://spider-gazelle.net/
The methane gets burn, you know.
Thanks, makes sense, though guess I would expect a non-profit to communicate this; don’t believe Signal even links to the 990 I linked to on their own website; possible they don’t want the public to (easily) know salaries, assets, etc - but unclear.
Is that a problem with the platform or is that a problem with people?
Please don’t put words in my mouth...

If reactionary speech gets scrutinized or if false speech gets a fact check it doesn’t make it any less free does it?
He didn't "pin" it though. He said it was going to be a peak of a 10 year period.

Being that 2020 is a round number, I wonder how many other (more unsofisticated) doomsayers simply guessed.
I'm sure that it's nowhere near as productive as Rails, but this framework is probably best positioned to be the Rails of Crystal, in case you haven't seen it:

https://amberframework.org/
I was 18 the first time I saw a computer. Before that, I gathered info from books, newspapers, magazines, libraries. I stored info on papers in notebooks, and on film. I communicated in person, on the phone, and via mail. And in general I was not very well informed.

I prefer the current situation, where more info than we can possibly use is instantly available. But I acknowledge that it can be overwhelming.
Could we make encrypted text look like some random unencrypted text?
Would it be useful to (say, using ML) encrypt text such that the ciphertext looked like intelligible text itself? So you could hide an encrypted message in plain sight? Has this been done?
I feel like Europe would definitely be involved in a US-Russian conflict. I'm having trouble coming up with a scenario in which the US and Russia go to war that doesn't start out of some conflict in eastern Europe, or maybe Turkey.