skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were a person who'd spent 6 years getting a PhD, and 25 years doing research, I'd be very reluctant to expose myself to a group of youngsters who 'needed' to party, despite the much-more-substantial risk I was taking to help their futures.

Just the other day I heard of the 'surprise' Covid death of a 30-year-old high-school coach. Covid is an equal-opportunity destroyer and age-discriminator. If the kids won't play it safe, then they're deliberately ignoring that they're playing with other people's lives. Suspension is too good for them ... send them home with an invitation to come back in a few years, if they're still alive and have the money.
Schneier was very vocal after the Snowden documents on how the NSA has multiple methods to get hold of the data. If it's not via judicial means, it's via extra-judicial means. NSA considers Telegram's servers outside US fair game (i.e. hacking them is not a problem). GCHQ considers servers inside the US fair game. The two agencies exchange intel which allows them to bypass constitutional protections. This is old news.

As for Russia, China, Israel etc. The servers are outside their borders, and mostly they don't give a flying fuck even if it was domestically hosted.
Why should anyone care? If making larger and larger hydrogen bombs was militarily useful, people would have continued to do it. But there is actually no purpose to making the largest explosion possible, let alone literally blowing up the world which someone once claimed was theoretically possible.

Why would a bomb that is larger than needed to destroy the largest city be useful?

Besides the Tsar Bomba, there is also a Tsar Bell, the largest bell, equally as pointless:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bell

Oh, and a Tsar Cannon, "largest bombard by caliber in the world":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Cannon
That is not entirely correct, f.i. there is http://trinitydesktop.org/ which continues to support KDE3 in current systems, respectively porting it to later versions of QT, fixing (security) bugs in the bitrotten external libraries, and so on.

Compared to contemporary DEs it flies!

The question remains if this makes sense, because countless other WMs can be made to fly also, which one could also use, and not lose that much functionality at all, given the lack of available software which would utilize anything that the old KDE3 has to offer. So one way or another, the Linux desktop experience remains ghettoish.
I've had one package disappear. Another came a month late, with the dvds gone and the low-value remaining in someone else's box and my label taped on.

I couldn't help but think... are some employees sitting out covid and is chaos in charge?
I think public opinion on data collection and targeted advertising has really changed in the past couple decades. No one really thought or cared about it when Google was founded, whereas now it's devolved into mass hysteria.
Your bank doesn't force you to buy all of your furniture at Ikea.

No one is asking for Apple to give up control of their store. We just want to use a different store, or none at all.
The biggest advantage I bet (in a real AI fighter) is removing the person from the cockpit. Modern jets have been able to fly harder than humans can reliably stand for a while, being able to pull higher Gs means tighter turns.

The real question is how much does gun dogfighting ability matter now because guns are almost vestigial on modern fighters. Dogfights now are missile affairs and this test was a gun based one.

https://www.businessinsider.com/f35-pilot-f-35-can-excel-dog...
Yes. It's disappointing to hear your friends didn't receive theirs. If they're still interested, there are comments on that Kickstarter organizing an independent production run of the open source design.
Or record audio tapes, even lower barriers to entry.

Release to your estate posthumously
You call it their platform, I call it my computer.
Make Android Self-Hosting
Now we just need a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators, or at least one experienced in programming binary loadlifters.
When I first heard of Amazon starting up, I was kinda amused, and didn't pay much attention. Like they didn't get the point of a distributed hypertext of everything, and they picked the most incongruous-sounding thing to sell on it (paper books!).

Not that I gave it much thought. We dismissed a lot of companies back then, because most of them were obvious nonsense by people who didn't know what they were doing (technically and service/product-wise, not investment-scam-wise) and they didn't have to care, and I grouped Amazon in with the silly companies.

Now the Web browser is not much your interface to a hypertext, but a massively bloated GUI toolkit (albeit with zero-install, a really rich layout widget, and unprecedented spying on intimate reading/interaction behavior and communications)... and that silly we'll-use-the-hypertext-to-sell-paper-books company now sells me most of the things I buy now, and even operates the servers for my company and the majority of companies I use. :)
Something I've always wondered - before there's prestige and an aura around the company, how are 'really smart' people drawn to join an upstart?

These folks (who are "smarter than") usually have offers from everywhere in the valley, and without prestige or big salary, I'm curious to know if the conversion is primarily a vision or a 'reality distortion field' like story? Or was there any burden of proof for Jeff on progress towards the vision?

Edit: just saw you said Jeff knew the vision at the start, how did he prove he was the one to do it early on (founder-startup fit)?
Renewables are riding on the shoulders of a gigantic fossil-powered grid that (usually) handles their intermittency for them for free. When you deeply decarbonize with intermittent energy sources you have to add in new costs: storage, new transmission, smart loads. These costs add $40-60/MWh of electricity, which brings the actual system cost right up to the cost of nuclear today. So nuclear is already economic with any other decarbonized grid. Related info in [1].

[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006

"No solution to the waste" is a myth [2]. The waste is stored in dry casks which have never injured a soul. Meanwhile combustion waste from fossil and renewable biofuel kills 8 million/yr [3].

[2] https://whataboutthewaste.com

[3] https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution

Yes, by those numbers, fossil and biofuel kill the same number of people every single week than have ever been attributed to nuclear accidents in the history of the industry.

Plus nuclear solves climate change. If fossil and renewable biofuel had to pay insurance for climate change, we'd be building nuclear like crazy.

Also, wind turbines kill large raptors and migratory bats, not songbirds.
> The CRTC, which is the gov't regulatory body (and which is controlled by the telecoms), limits access to the market.

The CRTC does not limit access to the market, the elected government does. For national security purposes foreign ownership is restricted:

> As it stands now [in 2018], foreign ownership of a telecommunications company is limited to no more than 20 per cent of a company’s voting shares and no more than 33.3 per cent of the voting shares of a carrier’s holding company, and an effective total limit of 46.7 per cent (as long as the foreign entity doesn’t have control). On top of that, at least 80 per cent of the board members must be Canadian citizens.

* https://financialpost.com/telecom/tight-reins-leaves-our-tel...

See Telecommunications Act, Section 16. That dictates only domestic companies can really do much, which is the incumbents of Bell, Telus, Rogers, etc.

Reduce foreign operator restrictions and foreign operators may come into the market and provide more competition.
>Doesn't seem to, but they pointed out that they were being conservative in saying that an employee that makes 10 rides in a day charging $9.60 per ride covers their salary. If they made 15 that would probably cover fuel, maintenance, depreciation, and their salary.

I think its the opposite of conservative to ignore the greatest cost of being an uber driver - your car.
I've been using https://www.runnaroo.com/ and it's very good, better than DuckDuckGo in almost everything.

Sometimes I still fall back to Google but if that was becoming the norm on DDG, not anymore.

Another thing that helps is configuring custom search engines on Firefox. For example, for me typing `gh something` in the address bar does a GitHub search directly and so on.
OK I read it, your welcome.

PS: Why is there not an embargo law preventing Iran from gaining access to google servers even with your credentials? There shoukd be geoblocking schemes to allow for this and jail terms for those offering proxies to the Iranian government, just like the US is trying with that Huawei lady right now.

Good luck with the drugs, I hope you manage to get stable soon.
Well, that lake your city draws their drinking water from? I guarantee someone vomited, peed and shat into it. The issue is the concentration. Remember that because this was 4KM above ground, the resulting fallout was spread over tens of thousands of square kilometers.
All the test equipment, scope cameras, and period radio equipment and radio operation was fascinating.
welcome to the medallion system
That's true, but my spending comment was meant to be relative to other players.
One of the most transparently political acts of voter suppression that has ever occurred in the US. This is the sort of thing we should expect to happen in Venezuela, Haiti, Russia, or Afghanistan...and now it is our political reality. My great grandparents left Portugal for the US, then a beacon of freedom, when things like this started happening in the 1920s. I'm reliving all of their stories now, and now I'm thinking I might have to emigrate back to Portugal, which is now a relative beacon of freedom.
This little FAQ page (part of Aboriginal Linux project) had some fun gems. I especially enjoyed the insightful note under the section "Why not extend vanilla Linux to smartphones instead?":

> Open source development can't do good user interfaces for the same reason wikipedia can't write a novel with a coherent plot. The limitations of the development model do not allow for this. The old adage "too many cooks spoil the soup" is not a warning about lack of nutrition, it's a warning that aesthetic issues do not survive committees. Peer review does not produce blockbuster movies, hit songs, or masterpiece paintings. It finds scientific facts, not beauty.
ah, yes, the simple test only had files, no symlinks, hidden files, etc, anything else you might want to distinguish upon in a shell script.

But I don't think it's too hard to solve this problem. A command which filters should also be able to invert the filter. One example for this is grep -v.
What's so good about function overloading in C++? I've never used it in any C++ I've written.
This is off-topic, but your comment on your user base caught my attention.

Do you think Android app development can be monetarily worth the time investment for individual developers who would be just starting out?

I made two apps years ago and greatly enjoyed it, much more than any development I've done since. At that time, the markets were dominated by the big players. Only the big apps made any $$. Is that still the case making individual development a hobby with the occasional bit of $$?
> In 2016 Trump polled way worse than he performed in key states.

That's not really true. The state-level polls were generally within normal polling error, although there was a systematic error due to educational attainment. In 2020, more pollsters have incorporated educational attainment into their weighting, so this source of error should be reduced.
The only effective way to deal with apple is to vote with your wallet and your development machine. Nothing else will help. They can do with their platform what they want. Start developing for other platforms and take your users with you.
The Soviet system was kind of like capitalism, but just with one corporation and getting fired meant going to prison or being executed and you weren't allowed to quit (immigrate out).
Outreach Tips (that are better than anything you’ll find searching Google)
Thanks for the link, it's great to see the EU regulators starting to tackle these issues with actual regulations. I agree that it does not in its current form go far enough, but it's a good start.
It was just his building or may be apartment complex. I imagine city wide outages are more severe and likely due to some event like storm etc.
Still don't see your point other than "my preference is good, their preference is bad" or am I misunderstanding?

Wasting time is sort of the point.
>That's self destructive behavior on a planetary scale. No species that has an instinct or culture to consume all available resources will survive long enough to do it on a galactic scale.

Have you ever read Issac Asimov's story "The Gentle Vultures"?
It would probably be easier to just get that person a XMPP client that supports PGP.
My “freedom” is mine to trade, thanks. It’s not an excuse, it’s an informed choice.
> however it also includes enormous income tax hikes on anything above $1MM

It's a 1% tax hike on income over $1M, 3% on over $2M, and 3.5% on income above $5M.

I wouldn't call that enormous.
Show HN: Stressed and busy? Reduces stress while using your laptop
There are good nuclear waste solutions. The "no solution for waste" is a myth propagated by antinuclear institutions who one one hand claim it's infinitely hazardous and on the other block any and all attempts to move it out of the biosphere. They have proven to be quite cynical!

More info here: https://whataboutthewaste.com
If you disconnect machines, you can slow down the mail, which means that you can slow down the votes of people who have indicated via polls that they are overwhelmingly going to vote for someone else.
Thanks for mentioning exa. I saw it before, but never tried it. Maybe this is an opportunity to learn Rust.
I guess in no less than 5-10 years, blender will become No.1 tool in 3D modeling world, much better than maya and 3ds max. I hope that day come!
Everything's relative. Of course it generated more radioactivity than Hiroshima's measly fifteen kilotons, but for a fifty megaton bomb it was pretty darn clean.
" I always took the claim of routing keys and messages in different jurisdiction to be about not writing them to storage in those jurisdiction, not about not having them in RAM."

There's no precedent I'm aware of that if e.g. NL Telegram server has the key in its RAM but not in its disk, that it doesn't have to hand out the keys. Also the keys and/or plaintexts can just be stolen by foreign intelligence establishments. It's not just judicial means we need to be concerned about. E.g., just because it's legal in China to hack Telegram servers abroad, doesn't mean it's right, and Telegram should take this into account.

"the idea being that there can be an internal policy to shut down the server and wipe the ram but it is harder to do with drives."

This is pure speculation and it wouldn't matter because key lifting attacks would be transparent, i.e. the exploit is polished enough not to raise alarms.

"I also have a question since you probably can answer: can E2E offer a similar user experience to what normal telegram chats offer?"

Yes. Except channels and extremely large supergroups. But these two don't enjoy expectation of privacy. You can't expect something you say to a group of 10,000+ people to remain private, people consider such groups public.

Encrpytion is just math so there's also no way around the UX problem of authentication that's part of E2EE, but since that's expected of users, it's not a problem either.

Everything else, group chats with roles, synced chats, file transfers, locations, stickers... you name it, can be done over E2EE, just look at how Signal is showing each of those can be done. It's not trivial of course, but like you asked, "can it be done", yes, it can.
Scientists demonstrate tunable, atomically thin semiconductors
Clearly we value different things.
Hi there,

This app is perfect for the remote work environment... A patented approach that pulses display gamma to reduce stress and increase focus without interrupting what you are doing. The idea is that when we start getting mentally taxed under a deadline, "taking a moment" is difficult. This product helps you out without requiring you to stop what you are doing.
> Problem is, anyone can have what Walmart sells.

5,000 massive scale physical retail buildings (at a time when other physical retail is being mauled), a brand with buyer loyalty that took half a century to create, operating on a 3% profit margin in a hyper low margin business, and excellent real-estate locations across most of the US.

Be sure to wave to Kmart, Penneys, FW Woolworth, JG McCrory's and Sears on the way to having what Walmart has.

No, you can't have what Walmart has.

Nobody can afford to replicate what Walmart has built up over time. And if you try to compete with them via ecommerce instead of physical retail (thinking that will somehow be cheaper), you'll need to spend tens of billions of dollars on distribution to do it (and good luck competing with Amazon).

If you had to choose who to compete with, Walmart & Amazon or Tesla, that's a comically easy choice. That's why companies like Nikola or Rivian exist (and 37 Chinese Tesla clones), and absolutely nobody is eager to build a thousand new giant physical retail stores to go after Walmart (besides, you can't get the money to do it, there are no funding sources for that financially suicidal move).
Civ 6 was such a massive disappointment.

It seems like, 10-20 years ago I could reliably look forward to the next installment to the franchise to give me more of what I want, or at least be decent. Lately I realized how almost the opposite is true, that the longer a game series goes on the less innovative it is, the more bloated, less joyful.
People could have gotten rich investing in anything that Dvorak poo poo’d

https://512pixels.net/2009/01/early-macintosh-reviews-show-d...

Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices.
Ah yes, the classic hacking someone with their phone number!
Exactly! In the extreme, things like mercury have an infinite half-life and are toxic forever. Yet nuclear waste always gets the bad reputation because it becomes less dangerous with time. Odd.
Whoops, correction: `ZPKG_DB` actually defaults to `~/.local/pkg/.db`, not `~/.db`.
Like Nokia and Blackberry when the iPhone came out. Autodesk is about to pass into irrelevance as Blender becomes the tool of choice for developers. I've used 3ds Max and Maya professionally since the 90's, and while they still have more functionality, Blender is improving and becoming more functional with each release and is quickly coming up to par. I'd argue Blender has better UI and is more stable than those programs. The Blender community is fantastic as well.
> that his story is fiction that he might believe.

Could also be a psychosis. I had a brilliant friend in college that had a psychosis.

He kept looking normal but the stories he told were completely detached from reality. Over night he had several conspiracy like theories, contact with famous business CEO's, conversations with politicians, and was asked to run secret projects. When I saw Bob at Joe Rogan I immediately had to think of that friend back in the day.
> They would be democratized in a blink of an eye.

Wait, how do you think that would happen? Why didn't it happen 20 years ago before they had nukes?
> The recipient and re-seller of the stolen books - Schulman - was not only a member of the Antique Books Assoc he had served on its ethics and standards committee.

Not really that shocking... really it's no different than people who regularly attend Church every Sunday yet lie and cheat the rest of the week without batting an eye!
Some of these I do not find so useful and stuff, although I do use ts, and sometimes sponge.
It's the vendor that should be releasing the clients with support for it. The fact it's a third party is both a problem and proof of huge internal problem.
I would (and actually do) sponsor small projects I find useful for my business. Derick Rethans’ Xdebug, Ondrej Sury’s backport Debian repos, etc.

I’ve also made one off donations to get a higher priority fix for a bug/issue.
Which current option is better than nuclear? Please take into account the lack of battery storage capacity and water pumped storage capacity that makes an all solar and wind grid completely impractical, and that adding extensive hydro power would cause further degradation of our rivers. Nuclear power is our best option among coal/oil/natural gas/nuclear, if you believe that reducing carbon/methane emissions to slow or halt global warming is important.
Long term storage of high-level nuclear waste is not a technical problem - there are a number of viable solutions. All of them boil down to "dig a deep hole and put the nuclear waste there."

The only problem is the political problem of choosing the sites.
In an authoritarian regime everyone looks suspicious because by definition the government trusts no one except themselves and even then it's not very true.
Do people really buy android apps?
A list of libraries and tools for NUMA-aware programming
A lot. I'm more interested in Espionage than the Space Program (I imagine if you asked nicely Roscosmos might give you footage), but to this day there is more material from the KGB from defectors than official sources (and this includes material going back a century). The biggest single dump of KGB archives was from Mitrokhin, who in the burst of freedom after the union dissolved walked off with a few hundred thousand papers he'd copied (The book version is a good read).

It will likely remain that way for many years, the Russian Federation is still chekist just as the Soviet Union was before it - those who criticize Putin do not live long.
I would complain the opposite, that gaming is become too accepted and too mainstream and we are raising a generation of sedentary addicts.
I don't see how it could have been predicted. Amazon being as big as it is now is stranger than fiction.
> On the flipside, any serious gamedev C++ FFI must accomodate exceptions-disabled environments

Any C++ ffi that accommodates exception also accommodates exception-disabled environments by virtue of accommodating function calls. Certainly AutoCXX accommodates codebases that use exceptions as well as those that disable exceptions by convention.
On the billion year time span, don't think it matters if women look down on some dude's dating profile because he lists "gaming" as a hobby.
If I were in China doing anything even slightly over the line, windows telemetry would be the least of my worries, keeping my vital organs and freedom would be at the top.
I make sure to video conference right in front a mirror and I find it's no issue for me, but for this video:

1. The video itself uses the cliche "weird" baitclick.

2. Honey sponsership.

On Hackaday.

That's just sad, hackaday used to not be like that.

Guess really it's the times.