skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal seems to be more secure. I prefer it.

Telegram is really really well made ux wise though, scales effortlessly and is in use anyway for everything else in certain groups so it is easy to reach for.
As a non-American, I find the idea of CNN being far-left to be pretty comical.
My recollection (can someone verify?) is that Telegram continues to function in limited-connectivity environments, making it a good fit for situations where a state actor is limiting network access.
The AI plane has a tighter turn radius because it's flying slower, which is part of the tactics.

Having said that, this simulation (like you said) seems to be assuming infinite bullet speed, and making that more realistic would change the tactics massively - probably in favour of the human.
ReMarkable should hire this person and make a "v2.1".
> Is there anything that PHP is developing or adopting that can not be had at other established languages?

Good documentation and reasonable backwards compatibility.
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I had no idea that supcom worked that way! Thanks for the insight.

Your comment brings back fond memories of playing huge supcom games at a local LAN cafe. Those were some of the best times I've had gaming.
Taxis work like this in Panama. Prices vary wildly ( but are low by developed world standards) and trying to get across town in times of high traffic is nearly impossible, nobody will take you ( they ask you where you're going, snort and drive away) until you offer at least four times the standard fare.

They're also unsafe, my brother was robbed at gunpoint by a fake taxi. I've heard multiple women who had to jump from a moving taxi to escape a potential rape.

Uber is more expensive in Panama, but I use it nearly exclusively.
Most web workloads will use some sort of process cache, like php-fpm, simply because spawning a process for each request is very inefficient. So the process and any extensions used can leak memory over time across requests.
Thats why I mentioned the electrification of Caltrain as a good public transit project in California. With electrification, it becomes far cheaper and easier to run the trains more frequently. Currently it is just commuter service making the South bay kind of disconnected from San Francisco for anybody but commuters. With electrification, this train has the potential to become much more then that.
Don't they both require handing over a mobile phone number to use them? This is what has always confused me (and turned me off) about these privacy-focussed messaging apps.
Probably relevant: "IQ and National Success" https://youtu.be/8u0Lmp_jHw8?t=332
Manipulating complex data structures that are large and/or trying to manage long running processes cause memory leaks. I often find I have to jump through hoops I don't have to in other languages to deal with these kinds of problems, for instance.

I usually have to resort to queues, which just adds complexity where I typically don't want it.
Yes haha when I read the title I thought “how has this company not been sued by OkCupid yet??”
It is decidedly undesireable for "⋄˄∕≡·‒⁇⁆․⌉⌋"[1] to be a valid indentifier. Especially if, as appears to be the case, "foo[⋄˄/≡·-⁇].⌉⌋"[0] is a valid expression.

0: foo[diamond_caret / indentical_middot - questionquestion ] . ceil_floor

1: utf8: E2 8B 84 CB 84 E2 88 95 E2 89 A1 CE 87 E2 80 92 E2 81 87 E2 81 86 E2 80 A4 E2 8C 89 E2 8C 8B
All I said was that as far as I know it isn't fully known. The final report isn't out yet. I'm just an aviation enthusiast, but it's notable that in many discussions anything that could possibly be perceived as even possibly implying any pilot fault is kind of taboo. I'm not saying the pilots did anything wrong, I'm just saying that leaving the stab cut-out switch out of the story seems strange to me.
At that point, and with that much time, and assuming we live that long, I imagine humanity could park a larger asteroid slightly outside of Earth orbit to gradually grow Earth's orbit outwards. Of course that would take a while, but a "while" is a relatively small amount of time when you're talking hundreds of millions of years.
Doesn't the same also partially hold for Firefox and Chrome, though?

They wouldn't start charging for Chrome, as that's not their business model, but they might move part of their development out of (open source) Chromium and into (closed source) Chrome or further curtail extensions (e.g. adblockers) etc.
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> Is there anything that PHP is developing or adopting that can not be had at other established languages?

No, not really, but it's still very good for casual web development, which makes up the lion's share of all backend code being written today.

Languages don't need to evolve a ton to be popular – just look at Python, which is doing very well despite not having had a ton of radical changes.
See "CSV on the Web": https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-primer/
oh bummer. writing native c bindings for pike is not to hard though. maybe that is an option.
I'm not sure it's in TechCrunch's interests to tell us how credible their leakers are. Leakers probably have repeat value and they don't want to poison their relationship.
You can have both at other languages and platforms.
Telegram is more of a social media platform than a messenger. It has public 'channels' - read-only blogs without likes and comments. The biggest Belarusian channel 'Nexta' has 2M+ subscribers.
CIA encourages lots of friendly articles about social disruptions they've planned and funded. It seems likely they didn't plan BLM and related recent American protests, but definitely they are behind anything going on in Belarus.
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Crime reduction is good. Therefore crime is also good because it incentivizes crime reduction.
> Is the claim that Apple is not actually scanning notarised software for malicious content?

No, the claim is that just because Apple _hasn't_ scanned some particular piece of software for malicious content, that doesn't necessarily mean it _does_ contain such.

> 3) Random unsigned apps presumably have not been scanned, and might contain malware.

Exactly: they _might._ But popping up big hysterical warnings about it strongly implies, particularly to less technically well-versed users, that they_ do._

> what's misleading (and "intentionally" so!).

Strongly implying something that is obviously not true, that's what's misleading. In fact, AFAICT, that is the very definition thereof. And unless they're putting stuff they didn't intend to say into the dialogs they pop up, then yes, it is obviously intentional. Is the claim that their dialog text is un-intentional?

> I still fail to see the problem

Two hoary old quotes (or is the first a proverb? Maybe literally, from Proverbs) come to mind:

1: Nobody is as blind as he who does not want to see.

2: It's hard to make a man see something he doesn't want to see, particularly if his salary depends on him not seeing it.

(Personally, I do data warehousing / ETL programming for a living; currently at the Finnish Social Security Agency.)
in LMAX-disruptor's case, they have no runtime dependencies: https://github.com/LMAX-Exchange/disruptor/blob/master/build...
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I think the majority of game devs who would get advice from lectures/hacker news comments are probably making games on a small enough scope/scale that choosing a single threaded game logic engine is fairly reasonable. The people at Bethesda are the best of the best; this kind of reminds me of the fitness "advice" I was once given to not go on long jogs/runs because "all the best marathon runners are super skinny", but that only applies to world class marathoners, not dudes running a 5k on the weekend.
They do have unique IP about analyzing patterns in "network" of x (people, places, etc). So pretty useful for telecommunications and defense/intelligence agencies
> Is there anything that PHP is developing or adopting that can not be had at other established languages?

Probably not, but that's the wrong question. The real question is: If you already know PHP, is there enough incentive/benefit to switching languages? Based on the experience of PHP devs I know (I personally haven't used it in years), the answer is "no" for many (most?) web dev cases.
yeah its the newest game I can think of that is like a MUD
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I don't know how can you blame the hacking of your website on the language rather than your admin skills, there infinite number of websites built in PHP and never got hacked!
> I was under the impression that PHP's stateless nature, with a whole new instance of everything coming into being for each request

A couple issues here.

1. Even if the PHP process exits after each request, memory leaks during the request are still an issue. If I'm looping through 1,000 elements of an array and leaking memory each time, I could end up with a peak memory usage of 100MB when 1MB would've sufficed. That forces me to scale vertically when I might not otherwise need to.

2. Most mature applications have worker processes that may be longer-lived than serving an HTTP request. If PHP leaks memory, it's less suited to those tasks. Maybe you write those in Go instead, but then you have to ask yourself why you didn't just write the whole application in Go.
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Softbank is responsible for spreading that assumption, no? Fairly recently? (Uber, et al.)
I think that was a reference to the movie The Three Amigos. The characters misunderstanding the word sent them off on their unintentionally heroic adventure.
Some of you might remember me as the guy who defends Telegram, and I still am: most of the claims I see here are less than well researched it seems.

The thing you bring up here however is my main issue with Telegram: I want it to be sustainable line WhatsApp once was.
Do you have/think you need an on-prem version?
This is not what DNSSEC does. DNSSEC is about signing DNS records to prevent spoofing of records.

DNSSEC has not seen widespread adoption because of complexity in implementing and maintaining DNSSEC and concern over weaknesses in the encryption chosen. The protocol has been around a long time now and the encryption involved is not modern. Some DNS providers are making DNSSEC easier by handling keysigning and rotation with no user involvement. Just check the box that you want it activated.

DANE is the storage and retrieval of certificates via DNS. DANE depends upon DNSSEC to sign the certificate records to determine that haven't been spoofed.

There is no great conspiracy theory needed regarding why DANE has not been implemented in browsers. The browser makers have been pretty open about why they have chosen not to support it. For example code has been written for Chrome but Google has said they haven't shipped it because they don't want to support the 1024-bit RSA required as part of the DNSSEC standard.
> And even if that weren't the case, you're ignoring all of my other points, particularly the one about the floppy system being proven in the field for years, and your failure to provide examples of accidents attributable to the use of floppies.

I don't think the FAA could satisfactorily prove to me that corrupted data has never made it onto a plane and that plane wasn't thereafter flown with passengers. Software has been getting a free pass, I doubt they have ever competently audited any flight control software.
Because right-wing nationalism is not a good thing.
There is also a huge difference between not making a profit and burning money. Amazon made it past the point of having a runway very quickly.
Sure, but 1% globally is still like 80 million people. When you are managing a trillion+ dollar fund which controls a nation's economy, you likely want to stand out a bit more from a mid-career Google engineer or B-list celebrity.
Actually, depending on the cost of mitigating this sort of disaster in the future, they may learn the lesson that it is simply less expensive to pay the ransom.

The criminals doing these sorts of things are businesses too, the are unlikely to price themselves out.
Is "appropriation" a single thing, or does it divide, like pastiche as opposed to parody?
I'm guessing those are administrative costs related to servicing the loan. Doing due diligence on whether you're credit worthy, filing the paperwork, maybe some form of insurance.

$2,300 does still seem high for that, though. I would love to see that broken down.
It does. You can connect USB flash drive for e.g. You have to ssh and manually mount the drive though. Unfortunately, the existing xochitl app doesn't seem to show additional mounts. However, you can write your own scripts/code to take advantage of it.

The OS has udev and systemd support and it's very easy to cross compile code with arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc. I was able to build static binaries of packages with just the following option:

./configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --build=x86_64-linux CFLAGS="-static"
make LDFLAGS="-static"

You have low level access to buttons, framebuffer, touch events etc as well. You can do all kinds of interesting things with that.
LMAX is optimizing latency, not throughput.
I guess it comes down to the details of your fictional FTL drive. A lot of times normal space momentum is not maintained in FTL, and gaining normal space momentum requires conventional rockets where delta-V is hugely expensive in terms of mass and volume.
> IMO, no. The language is still near the bottom for both dynamic and "static" typed languages.

Why do you say that? It's faster than Python and Ruby for most cases, still extremely simple to deploy, the package manager (Composer) is very predictable and easy to deal with compared to Pip or Rubygems, the documentation is good, etc.

It has clean lambda functions that you can pass around easily and has for more than a decade. Type hinting has been in place for a long time, too, as have enough OOP / reflection constructs to do just about anything you'd reasonably want to do in a language aimed primarily for web development.

The only downside of PHP that I can still point to is that it's sometimes hard to remember the function parameter order for some of the common string and array functions. Far from a dealbreaker, that.
For smaller scale ransomware bitcoin was and still is very popular because its the easiest crypto to buy and use. So if your average target is a non-technical home or small business user bitcoin will net you far better returns.

Ransomeware still often includes live phone support and other features targeted at helping victims purchase and send bitcoins because its still a difficult and unfamiliar task for the average person.
A different interpretation is that those social media platforms keep the dissent monitorable and under control, and the powers that be are quite happy with the status quo. If that was the case, as soon as a platform that was not US-controlled gained a foothold in the US, we'd see a crackdown from the establishment. It would be painted as a tool of a foreign power and shut down or forced to be turned over to a US-based entity.

If that ever happens, we'll know democracy in the US is under threat.
> equal parts fascinating and sickening

That's how I felt when I watched the documentary about Robert MacNamara [0], when they started talking about how we are pretty sure that what we did to Japan _before_ the atomic bombs counted as war crimes.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War
IIRC Daech is using swarms of drones against the Russian air base in Syria (they probably don't have AI inside though).

I think AI powered swarm of drones is certainly feasible for a small team of motivated engineers and modest funding.

The thing that would let them at a disadvantage is the quality or lack thereof of their missiles guidance system.
Are you similarly critical of discussions about how ubiquitous camera phones have changed the civil rights movement?

Technology is only a tool, and is only as good as what people actually do with it. But it can be a crucial tool that changes everything.
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I have to say I think ransomware is one of the most interesting "business" practices. The trustworthiness of the criminals is huge because if they have a track record of providing the decryption key, you may as well pay.

In a logical extreme you could start adding features like "Give us the info of people you know and for every one we successfully extract a ransom from we'll give you 10% off your ransom."

It's interesting to think about at least.
I couldn't count the number of hours I spent playing that game with friends. Never played anything else like it!
That is what you try to do with most games even today, just to make it harder to cheat, and various other reasons (easy to replay games, its the natural thing to do, etc)

There are times gameplay needs don't allow that model to be perfect, but it is the norm.
So the enemy's goal is to convince people on our side that using drones in combat is utterly beyond the pale, something only a monster would do. This prevents them from being developed, lest the military feel severe backlash even from within its own ranks, and ensures we're committed to human-flown craft while the enemy gets to field drones.
> "Probably one of the most divisive ingredients for gumbo is okra. Some will tell you that it's not a real gumbo if it doesn't have okra. The other camp won't eat it if it does contain okra."

egads! having grown up in the south (but not in louisiana), i cannot wrap my mind around gumbo without okra. it seems so essential to the taste. how can it not have okra? what replaces it?

i've had tasty gumbo in new orleans and other places, but alas, i can't find any good gumbo in (the city of) LA, with or without okra.
haha, I rely too much on my spell checker. If I misspell a word I’ll too often click on the first word in the context menu without actually reading it and seeing if it is the word I want.
>"VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) is a helicon magnetoplasma thruster designed to provide a variable thrust profile, from low-specific-impulse / high-thrust to stupidly-high-specific-impulse / low-thrust. Specific impulse could max out at ~12,000 seconds, drastically higher than the roughly 2,000 s from current hall thrusters. VASIMR creates thrust through a multi-step process. First, it bombards a neutral gas with RF energy in helical waves to ionize the gas and create plasma (it can use multiple gases: argon, hydrogen, or even CO2). Then, it uses magnetic fields and an additional RF coupler to contain and energize the plasma to a superheated state (in the neighborhood of the temperature of the Sun’s core). Finally, a magnetic nozzle ejects the plasma at exceptionally high velocity. The most recent tests of VASIMR have run at 200 kW and expelled ions at 180,000 km/h (test fire video… or a blue party light being turned on, we’re not sure). A massively scaled up version running at 200 MW could make the one-way transit to Mars in as little as 39 days, but generation of this amount of in-space energy isn’t currently anywhere near possible..."

Thoughts: We need a functioning ITER -- in space...
> Criticizm of that scholarship and field is well warrented given the mess it is making.

What mess? Can you expand on this claim?
Agreed. Curious to hear if you think it's side effect of a more corporate-looking UI? Or is it the association with Microsoft and other "office products"?
> PHP is seeing a renascence and renewed interest

I have seen no PHP renaissance anywhere (real life, Hacker News, reddit, or anywhere else), but I also checked TIOBE[1]. PHP's popularity peaked in 2006, when it was 500% as popular as it is now.

1. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/php/
I completely agree genmon! RSS / web feeds are a bit hard to grok for the average user.

My belief is that, in order for RSS / ATOM to really catch on, we need to completely abstract those concepts for the end-user.

In my opinion, getting people to care about RSS / ATOM is like getting them to care about HTTP. They do not care about the actual mechanisms - only the end result. That being said, I think all we're missing is GREAT product design. Too many pipes are still exposed and it scares away the average user.

Make webfeeds as intuitive as social media giants and we have a revolution on our hands :p

PS: would love to build this with someone if there's any takers :)
Compared to WhatsApp that is owned by a massive megacorp that bought it for over $10bn and that has already tried to start mining metadata from it I would say Telegram still has its advantages.

(FWIW: I prefer Signal.)
A very good article on a topic rarely faced head-on.

Science is not truth; science is the neverending pursuit of truth. It reminds me of a Carl Sagan quote:

“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
Nonsense, it's not like it's one criminal group behind this or like these people are building a sustainable business model. Pay and ignore approach doesn't work at all long term.
You forget to mention the desktop and mobile apps both are open source, so anyone can build their own network.
Matrix has comprehensive encryption now and is decentralized.
royal navy is a joke these days. always wonder if a Falklands happened now would they remain british?
tbh that's not necessarily the case since the attackers are anonymous. It's just they don't actually have much incentive to release the records once they've collected their blackmail money.
I don't think so.

Calling it "{arbitrary brand} revolution", when pretty much every messaging platform is indistinguishable feels crass and tacky. The brand isn't the one in the trenches making the sacrifices.

It could be called a smart phone revolution instead. A revolution of the people.
Perhaps calling a foreign place a village is a way of downplaying it, so that the listener does not feel that they were expected to know the place by name, perhaps?
John Boyd must be rolling over in his grave
I don't think it's necessarily a human impulse, it's just so foundational in our culture that we can't unlearn. Blame Plato.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism
I don’t see the market being very favorable toward floating another “geriatric unicorn” with this sort of financial profile.

I also continue to not understand what their product really is and if it’s actually valuable. They seem to just throw armies of people at data problems which might produce some results but is hardly a scalable or valuable business model.
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I, and I'm sure others, appreciate this response. But I think if someone is under the belief that "I expect to hold them to account", then the only appropriate response is: "Then GCP is not for you"
You can see the code online through the CS browser - https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:c...
It is not a design flaw to make a reasonable choice about what data types you support. Especially given the ones captured in JSON are overwhelmingly the most commonly used and necessary types.

In cases where that's not enough, you could roll your own types by putting the values in plain strings and it would still be strictly more expressive than CSV
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I get what you are saying, but it just occurred to me "survive" might not be fitting for these ... "things"? They are not quite "alive", are they?
It’s hysterical when conservatives play as if they have a valid ideology.
What is the advantage when Telegram has less money and more data?