skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the only option if you don't like a master password.

I use passwordless (GPG keys on an Yubikey) with a PIN code. The PIN can even be replaced by biometric soon. This is the way forward IMO. No more passwords at all, even master ones. If you turn on the tap-to-sign function on the yubikey you can also protect yourself from malware 'milking' your entire password database while the key is inserted. Of course I create the secrets on-key as is best practice.

Of course losing the token is an issue, but I have multiple and each password is encrypted against each of them.

I like this idea though. But I don't like that anyone who has a picture of the dice can generate the passwords. And I don't like leaving my password managers logged in all the time. It wouldn't work for my desired level of security, though I can imagine users who do leave their PW managers logged in, would be happy with it.
How much is Palantir in the consulting business vs. a SaaS? Whenever I read something about it I get IBM vibes, of a company which is partly doing some software platform stuff with a mix of good ol consulting.

How off base is that impression?
Not necessarily. Expense is an important figure, but the ratio (operating expense : revenue) is more important, IMO.

They need to demonstrate they can grow revenues without a proportional growth to operating expenses, and that they can sustain this trajectory until revenues > operating expenses.

An operating expense:revenue ratio of 107% (i.e. you spend 1.07 for every 1.00, which is their H1 2020 numbers) is bad in isolation.

But when it was 157% at the same time last year? The fact that they could move from 157% to 107% while significantly growing revenue is a very positive signal.
It is encrypted by default but end-to-end is only for calls and Secret Chats (one-on-one). You can delete any message at any time without a trace for both sides, which protesters often do, really don't think the government needs messages to pin a crime on them. Hell, they've pinned crimes on people for literally no reason before.
Public estimates of his net worth are hard to believe.

Not a billionaire, at most 2-3 hundred megabucks cash as his Russian assets are rendered effectively worthless, and he burned himself a lot trying himself in investments, real estate, and, in general, burning money on expensive things, including telegram, like no tomorrow.

I am still very suspicious at how he managed to flout around Kremlin for so long.
https://readable.com/ is an interesting tool I came across in my research you might be interested in. It relies on the Flesch–Kincaid readability tests [1] and has found sustained usage.

Actually, now that I think about it... this might be a good source for bootstrapping further training data.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch%E2%80%93Kincaid_readabi...
> Iran just shot down an airliner because they had poor ROE and control of their systems.

So did the USS Vincennes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
You really can't blame them much, they had backups. University doesn't work like corporate, you have thousands of student who change every year, do their projects for which they require lot of access; you can't lock everything dangerous, can't have any sensible BYOD policy, ... It's really hard to lock up everything while not limiting students too much. With organization like this, that sort of incidents is unfortunate but inevitable.
By default it's no more encrypted than HN (as in, traffic to their servers uses TLS, messages on the server are not encrypted at all).

There's Secret Chats feature which they claim to be end-to-end encrypted, meaning that it's no more secure than Facebook's Messenger (also end-to-end encrypted in Secret Conversations). Even less so considering that they roll their own encryption (MTProto), while Facebook's Messenger uses Signal's protocol.

Further info (which will also lead you to problems with their MTProto protocol, if you're interested): https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...
There is no XUL, only Dana.
Nit: If it doubles, the price will be $40. An order of magnitude greater is $400. Does anyone pay remotely that much for electric and gas?
The paper Spitzer Follow-up of Extremely Cold Brown Dwarfs Discovered by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project [1]:

> We present Spitzer follow-up imaging of 95 candidate extremely cold brown dwarfs discovered by the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 citizen science project, which uses visually perceived motion in multi-epoch WISE images to identify previously unrecognized substellar neighbors to the Sun.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06396
Fighting games take this one step further through "rollback" netcode. Instead of delaying the game while waiting, the game predicts what the opponent's input is going to be. If it turns out when the input arrives that the prediction was wrong, the game state is rolled back, the correct input is applied, and the game fast-forwarded to where it was.

Here's an extensive writeup about the concept:

https://ki.infil.net/w02-netcode.html
I left Palantir in 2014, so this may be a bit out of date, but back then, a lot of the sales of the product were done by engineers, which was effective but expensive.

The general approach would be “give us 2-4 weeks to integrate your data and give you a demo”, and would give organizations a demo of the software using their own data.

There were some well known stories internally, of things like police agencies forgetting to ask about the product at all, and instead taking notes on suspects and investigations being shown to them in the demo for further follow up, because it was making connections and breakthroughs on stalled or cold cases. Those were the ones that they knew were hooked.

The flip side of this is the cost of deploying anywhere from 2-20 engineers into the field to handle the system setup and integration on the fly.
Intel Xe-HP Graphics: Early Samples Offer 42 TFLOPs of FP32 Performance
Wait seriously? Where can I find out more?
Nope, I've developed and hosted my own summarization API here. It does heavily rely on open-source machine learning libraries and research / datasets released by Facebook AI [1]

[1] https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/bart-denoising...
Google has done that with Android, moving more APIs and features from the open-source AOSP core to the closed-source Google Play Services library. Google can then control which Android partners get permission to ship Google Play Services for a full-featured Android experience.

As more browsers move to a Chromium base, Google might have a similar push to move more of Google's value-add out of the open-source Chromium core to the closed-source Chrome product.
Should be noted that this kind of science in particular will be completely destroyed from satellite constellation launches from the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin.

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-costly-collateral-elonmusk-sta...

With the amount of satellites being launched, it will be impossible not to have several in frame, especially over a long exposure, and they will swamp out pretty much any signal from space with their brightness.
My perspective was Suffering causes pain, and there is a reason behind it, either you are weak to handle and take ownership so you want to run away from it.

Or either you are anxious and don't want something to let go of, embracing the pain is kind of accepting the situation and deciding to do something about it.

Progress = ( Pain / Suffering ) +_Reflection

Learnt from Ray Dalio, not my original thoughts.
Take This Hammer (The Director's Cut) – KQED and James Baldwin (1964)
To be fair "long preparing revolutionary" people tend to be dogmatic loons who are obsessed with some pure concept (religious fundamentalism, communism, ethnonationalism) that aren't enough to be a crowd.

As opposed to a general populace pushed to an edge by extreme conditions and leadership which does the exact wrong thing in a circumstance.
Telegram provides, at best, equal security and ease-of-use to previously existing solutions like Signal and Whatsapp, and in many cases worse security. Telegram didn't do anything to make this kind of technology more accessible or available.

So, the fact that it happens to be a popular solution for encrypted chat right now doesn't really speak to its necessity for any revolution like you and the article seem to be implying. Easy access to encryption technology in general, sure, but that doesn't specifically need to be Telegram.
You didn't have to download it yourself. There were vendors which offered media with it for a small fee (remember RMS was Ok with people charging a copying/service fee for GPL'ed software, as long as access to the sources was provided). Yggdrasil was one I remember.
A side-by-side view of 1902 vs current:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc

As an aside, I find it interesting that this steel wasn't reclaimed sometime during WWII when the industrial machine was desperate for iron/metal.
Apart from that, regardless if you're on Signal or Telegram if authorities get hold of a protester's identity on such an app and have the power to access the app's servers they can gradually uncover social networks by reading metadata (if I'm not mistaken).
Less likely doesn't mean zero cases, but non-zero doesn't mean non-neglible either.
Townships in New York are county subdivisions that are large enough to encompass multiple villages. Not what is conventionally considered a town.
There's no source in that article you postedfor the claim of 46%.

My 5th grade teacher wouldn't have accepted that as homework much less should it be a mainstream news article.

You can believe what you want though

That aside.

Your point is basically that people will continue to wear masks and social distance even if laws are lifted.

I think thats wrong as evidenced by packed beaches, college parties, and black lives protests.

People are not going to be responsible, what's stopping most of these people presently is laws...and barely.

The reason the numbers are going to continue to go down is not due to behavior it's due to physiological immunity.

But you set yourself up with an unprovable argument either way with no evidence for your claims other than 'people are responsible'.

When it's abundantly clear that people are not.
i made a text based horse-racing game. it's just different. a different medium and experience. i remember an old DOS professional wrestling game that was text and i found it more fun than the wrestling arcade game. my memories of it have better graphics even.
I just got access to GPT3! Have only played around with it for a few hours so far, but haven't gotten it to reliably summarize.
I would imagine a human-less plane would also be able to pull off manuvers that might be too stressful for the human body to handle.
Seeing how averse they are to putting any kinds of ads on the platform, I think they might find the middle ground by helping make ads in channels go through the official route. Basically, right now, some channels post "sponsored posts", which nets them some payment. By getting involved, they could probably help people not get ripped off, take a small cut of the fee, and make those sponsored posts integrated a bit better, maybe highlighted somehow. So no ads in the app, only in some channels, so that people can leave if they hate the ads.
So that's actually further away than the closest star systems. Got freaked out for a second, because having hard-to-see massive objects near your sun system is scary!
Hey Hacker News, I'll keep my eye on the thread to answer your questions! Thanks
> To be fair "long preparing revolutionary" people tend to be dogmatic loons who are obsessed with some pure concept

* citation needed
Sim games (eg SimCity, Sims) could spend more time on sim than graphics.
I relate to a lot of this post. There was a time when it was totally obvious to me that XUL was going to take over the computing world. And whenever someone came up with a new technological paradigm, promising it would solve All The Problems, I either believed them or strenuously objected, feeling threatened by the idea that everything I knew was going to be invalidated.

Now that I'm old and jaded, it all seems silly. There are no silver bullets, everything is at best an approximation of a great idea that would solve at most a small fraction of all the real problems out there, etc.

I'm still pretty invested in Mozilla (ok, I work here now), but more for the good of human advancement and discourse, and an actually useful portable runtime that is kept free from being captured by entities that would inevitably use it as a weapon for lock-in and monopolization.

Things aren't looking all that great on the latter front right now, and indirectly though it might be, Firefox's market share is one of the most potent defenses against that. Even if Mozilla has a trail of missteps and lost opportunities. (To be honest, I actually think Mozilla has done far better than is commonly portrayed on this site. It's amazing how many people could obviously done vastly better than the idiotic monkeys running Mozilla into the ground for their own small-minded amusement.)
I would make companies pay if they want to use these channels for promotions.
It's a really clever idea with technical merit. More practical than the old lava lamp CRNG. It's an entropy source, and I think there are an infinite number of possible variations on what I'm calling "entropy rituals," which may or may not generate a sufficiently large field that mitigates brute force attacks.

In its favour, good, exogenous entropy mitigates part of post-hoc decryption attacks and wrecks the economics of passive bulk interception and surveillance. It means that threat actor needs to a) use direct attacks on user endpoints, b) sabotage algorithm implementations to truncate keys or c) bias the entropy source with loaded dice (because everybody knows...) or longshot d) use a TAO-like operation to add dice with duplicate facets from other cubes to dice kits in transit to reduce the total field size, which would be easily discoverable, but chalked up to a "printing error."
Reference? This sounds alarming, and I would like to learn more.
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>- Not owned by Facebook

"nine out of ten Egyptians and Tunisians responded to a poll that they used Facebook to organise protests and spread awareness" [1]

"During the Arab Spring the number of users of social networks, especially Facebook, rose dramatically in most Arab countries, particularly in those where political uprising took place, with the exception of Libya, which at the time had low Internet access preventing people from doing so" [1]

As far as I'm aware Facebook is actually owned by Facebook.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...
I think at this point we should be more focused on getting our kids out of schools.
“We’re not evil” is a bit like “don’t worry”; if it’s said too often or without prompting, it tends to make the listening party assume that they’re in fact not worrying enough
> The Ansible vault is a bad example of this. They have a little command `ansible-vault` that lets you manage encrypted files and strings. If you run `ansible-vault edit ./nonexistent_file` it tells you that you meant `ansible-vault create` and vice versa but doesn't just do it despite the user intent being clear. This ultimately lead me to just patching it to do the right thing.

IMO it's a bit much to decide what "the right thing" is there. Blindly assuming that someone attempting to edit credentials didn't mistype a file name isn't exactly safe and sounds like a great way to cause problems based on believing you updated something you did not in fact update.
I am in a similar situation, a couple of domains are copying our site and the domain registar https://www.cscglobal.com/ it's not doing anything to solve the situation.

They even have an abuse email domainabuse@cscglobal.com but they never reply (not even an automatic reply)

After contacted them via customer support email on their site, they say that they have scalated the case to their legal team but that I have low priority since I'm not a customer.

What I did is filling this form https://forms.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/r... but I don't know if this will change anything.
Telegram has a feature that I really like. It allows you to delete your messages from other people devices as well.
Well, this actually seems to be pretty common at smaller companies (that they don't prioritize portability and out-of-the-box usability for internal tools and services), and this wasn't even nominally a software company. I did a lot of work there to try and improve these problems, mostly having nothing to do with Rust, but it was a thankless job.

My observation working at (much) larger, software-oriented companies is that things are better mostly because they have a lot of people working on tools like build systems and commit-blocking linters. Individual engineers on large teams, when incentivized toward pure velocity, still seem to ignore code quality and stewardship to the greatest degree they can get away with.

edit: These are meant as generalizations. Obviously some of us care, despite the industry's best attempts to beat it out of us.
Nobody sees "Telegram revolution" and thinks the revolution was all about or solely enabled by the brand/technology. It's just a unique aspect of the revolution used to identify it. A good example of how a brand/technology was used to name (but not describe) an event over 30 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War
Show HN: InstaNote – take notes like chat
Hi everyone! We are building InstaNote (https://www.instanote.io) to make note taking fast and easy with a familiar interface.

Most notes apps are heavyweight and require a lot of overhead to save things and manual organization to manage. They also aren't optimized for things people save often (URLs!). Many users resort to sending themselves emails or messages instead of using these apps.

I wanted something extremely simple while supporting the most common needs, so I started building this for myself. The interface is just like chat where you can send a note to yourself. InstaNote supports free form text, lists, images, audio, and custom reminders. It also natively supports shared notes, just like chat rooms.

I built this for myself, but have heard from others that they find it useful too. Would love to hear feedback from HN!
If for some reason they were caught doing something worthy of changing the network, then I could see it happening. With their recent addition of video messaging, they pretty much have the best messenger app to date.
It's literally what one of the protestors called it.

> “Telegram channels and websites that don’t belong to our government are the main source of information today as we cannot at all rely on state media,” said Roman Semenov, who follows the NEXTA channels and joined a rally in central Minsk on Wednesday evening. “It’s a Telegram revolution.”

On top of that this is article detailing how this particular technology, has made a significant impact for the protesters.

“The fate of the country has never depended so much on one [piece] of technology,” Viacorka said.

There have been a number of articles and news coverage of this topic. That this one article focused on the technology aspect of the protesters and protesting does not make it, "tech propaganda."
By the way you phrase that question, you're dismissing that single key feature that PHP _already has_ that cannot be had at other established languages.

I know of no other language that lets you deploy a web app by dragging some files from the left to the right in FileZilla. No setup, No vendor lock in, no nothing. It just works.

Cross-cloud serverless frameworks that wrap AWS lambda + competitors get you somewhat close in other languages, but you still have a lot more setup to go through, and lot fewer hosting providers to choose from.

PHP's deployment and execution models really set it apart.
I've started using IFTTT to sent RSS feed updates over to my email, and I think I've finally found my preferred way of consuming feeds.

My email client is actually much more powerful than most readers in letting me capture read status and labels / sorting.
It's amazing that we could detect an object that cold, that small, at those distances. How does that work?
Actually there are reports that riot police was specifically looking at ones telegram channels to decide on the degree of your immediate punishment (yes, old school batons). And it was easily decrypted (phone unlocked) with a threat by the cops. I am in Belarus at the moment and can confirm telegram was not available without vpns/proxy just like any other resource. And why wouldn't it be?
Care to cite an example?
Well I thought it was funny at least.
Matrix really does seem like the ideal future platform to build on, I've started poking around it and really like what I see. Does anyone with more experience want to chime in on what they've found using it?
So disappointing that true anonymous communication is technologically feasible but is only unavailable due to government intervention and public apathy.
Ctrl-F "Signаl": 10 instances

Seriously, it'd be nice if we could have one thread about Telegram without S-advocates showing up and complaining about "security". Yes, we know Telegram isn't as secure, yadda yadda yadda. Now if only Signal provided half the features Telegram does, maybe non-cryptonerds would have heard of it.
Thanks, I know that "it depends", but a few thousands a year is just a (vague) number, as well as how much small is the small business is to be agreed upon and - very likely - small businesses are "easy wins" for insurance companies, not because they have better security, but rather because they are very unlikely probable targets.

I wondered about what would be rates (order of magnitude) and on what they would be calculated.

To give you an example, AFAIK if you were to get insurance, so called "Contractors All Risk" for a building project, you could expect anything between 0.7 and 1.5 % of the value of the project, on average around 1.1-1.2 % over the usual 5-6 years of duration, with the lower end about (relatively) low risk projects (roads without particularly complex contructions and normal houses) and the higher end on (relatively) high risk ones (roads with bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers).

These can be negotiated a bit, based on experience on past projects, internal safety and quality assurance procedures, but the order of magnitude remains in that range, but in case of an accident/claim, not entirely unlike the car theft example, but much more complex, you need to prove that you followed all safety and employment regulations, respected building codes, that machinery was efficient, etc..

In the case of IT, rates for a given firm/institution would depend on the invoicing or on the amount of personal data?

I mean, you can make 1,000,000 US$/year with 10,000 customers (personal data) at 100 US$ each/year or with 50 customers at 20,000 US$ each/year.

And what kind of "good practice" would you need to prove (if any)?
There was a previous discussion on this[0] from the source[1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24172603

[1]: https://voshart.com/ROMAN-EMPEROR-PROJECT
IBM is one of their main competitors. When I interviewed a few years ago, it was primarily consulting. Things could have changed, but I doubt they have.
My favorite thing about PHP is the documentation! The comments often have exactly the example I need to do whatever simple thing I'm trying to accomplish.