skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what you're saying is that these people:

> Greenwald, Snowden, Matt Taibbi, Lee Fang, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal, Bret Weinstein, ...

Would agree with your previous statement:

> Now liberals view censorship as a good thing, because it’s used predominantly against conservatives.

Is that true?
> Do you trust the author of the program?

I agree, but also if you don't trust the recipient you're sunk to.

Perhaps the better way to do this is to ask for permission to screenshot the message.

either way, if there is no way to send info about the messages that are "offending" there is no real way to police the spread of it. (assuming that you've done your encryption properly.)
Try flying the SpaceX Starship rocket with this new iOS flight simulator
People want it to be but facts are not up for a debate.
As if they couldn't read everything anyway.

Obviously, I have no evidence for making such a claim. What I know is

1. Facebook's reputation with regards to privacy.

2. The fact that they paid 20 billion dollars to buy a product without a monetization model. (Which is 20 times more than they paid for Instagram by the way.)

3. Whatsapp's founder left the company after the acquisition due to privacy concerns.

It's enough to be more than suspicious.
It's a sales gimmick. Just like Apple claiming they care about your privacy but at the same time collect everything you open on your Mac.
This is all pretty similar to what I've been imagining my ideal computing environment might look like.

-Applications as single-objects that are stored and manipulated the same as any other file

-Components (applications) compiled to some trivial-to-implement bytecode[0] as well as native

-User-malleable UIs where components are tied together with events, message passing, and or pipelines of some kind

-Public-key based network identity management

-Plan9-like ability to share resources over the network trivially

-Permissions applied between applications and resources instead of user and system

[0] This is so that new architectures can be bootstrapped easily and have access to the vast majority of tooling immediately. Native code could be included along side the universal bytecode for all currently-supported platforms.

I agree though that it is unlikely any of that will ever happen.
Does it mean messages can be read without agreement? Let's imagine "a glitch" where operator sees that user has opt in, but they didn't - can they see messages?
HTML is a stateless protocol Everyone is trying to turn the internet into an application server, which is stateful. Developing for the web is, therefore, necessarily complex, because you're trying to hammer a square peg into a round hole.

All I really want from the web is to READ documentation, look at cats and Youtube and do a bit of banking. HTML already caters for the first two categories. Why do we need stylesheets? HTML is a Markup Language. Just let the browser render the markup.

Why does my browser need to download fonts? I already have fonts. Just use those!

Computer folks can't leave well enough alone. We stuffed our web pages full of punch-a-monkeys (remember that egregious piece of garbage?) and Javascript. We put too much Javascript in, so now we're looking to "assemble" it.

Just get rid of it. Maybe a sprinkling - a SPRINKLING - of JS might help on some - SOME - sites. Some server-site scripting might be appropriate, too.

Now get off my lawn.
I live in Texas and anxiously await legalization because I’d love to start farming it.

However I know how things in this state work, and the economics of Ag. If and when Texas legalizes there will be immense amounts of private equity involved (lots of money here) and it will go ConAgra-ADM-Monsanto overnight.

People here do business, and Ag, really big. Fuck even one of the grocery chains is vertically integrated. They own everything from farms to shrimp boats.

My chances of doing anything are shot, except maybe high-end boutique low-yield stuff with lots of marketing.
So it can also read the messages of the reported user? Without their permission, other than what is covered in fine print? I understand this can be used to fight abuse but it seems to open up some hard questions for WhatsApp privacy.
It’s interesting that larger countries have lower median speeds. It suggests that ISP’s should not be allowed to serve more than about a million people.

I wonder what other industries have inverse scaling properties like this.
You're asking the wrong question. What measurement would you use to measure success?
Some of the people they are talking to here have just done 3 month courses. They are competing against people who have 4+ year degrees and people with more experience. They are going to have to build up their resumes with smaller things whether its a project of their own or small jobs for other people.
> I believe that what we currently know is an absolutely negligible fraction of the physics that’s out there, waiting to be investigated.

Blessed is one who believeth...
> Linus has openly said he wants Linux running on one

Linus has been lusting after Apple hardware for a long time. He's also been exceedingly frustrated by the lack of drivers for most of that time.

8 years ago in an interview with Tech Crunch, he waxes poetic about the MacBook Air:

> "That said, I’m have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air – even several years after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push those ugly and clunky things. Yes, there are vendors that have tried to emulate it, but usually pretty badly. I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light."

https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-milleniu...

I don't see his criticism of Apple drivers in this article, but he was pretty frustrated even back then.
Precursor, How we make our custom PCBs
MIT “Underactuated Robotics” book and lectures
From a layman's perspective it really seems like Fusion is getting closer and closer to a reality.

The organization I am most excited about is https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/
It's a no code subscription style billing tool for freelancers.

What in the title did you find misleading?
While that may be true (don't recall specifically), the Taliban were not in a position to be asking for anything, since they were essentially a group of mujahideen who won over other rival groups and took violent control of the country post the Afghan-Soviet conflict, and immediately instituted the most severe form of Wahhabism and Sharia law of that time period. A few steps away from ISIS.

Not arguing you, to be clear. I appreciate the clarification.
10 minutes in and it's still mostly about Silicon Valley and private companies, as announced as the main subject by Greenwald in the beginning of the video.
Don't do that. If you're gonna come on HN and pontificate at least try to keep the level of discourse up, eh?

- - - -

FWIW I'm left-leaning (by US standards) and I'm concerned about the increasingly censorious actions of left-leaning (again by US standards) mainstream media. E.g. the editorial that Sen. Cotton wrote and the blowback from publishing it seemed really sketchy.

My hope is that we see the moderate Left and moderate Right come together and form a new political party around common ground like free speech and fiscal responsibility.
I agreed. It think it's typical of cargo-culting: explanations don't need to make sense, it's all about the breathless enthusiasm.

Look, want to know how M1 achieve its result? Easy. Apple is first with a 5nm chips. Look in the past: every CPU maker gains both speed and power efficiency when going down a manufacturing node.

Intel CPU were still using a 14nm node (although they called 12+++) while Apple M1 is now at 5nm. According to this [1] chart, that's a transistor density at least 4x.

Not saying Apple has no CPU design chops, They've been at it for their phones for quite a while. But people are just ignoring the elephant in the room: Apple gives TSMC a pile of cash to be exclusive for mass production on their latest 5nm tech.

[1] https://www.techcenturion.com/7nm-10nm-14nm-fabrication#nbspnbspnbspnbsp7nm_vs_10nm_vs_12nm_vs_14nm_Transistor_Densities
According to the article, recent messages will be sent to whatsapp on reporting contacts or groups just like we sent messages to other users. There is no mention of E2E encryption implemented by whatsapp and its loopholes.
ARC stands for Automatic Reference Counting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
You're just restating what you said and what I accurately interpreted: the costs are higher with smaller farms. You define this as inefficiency. I point out this definition of efficiency only considers amount of surplus generated, not how the surplus is distributed. With larger corporate-owned farms the surplus is distributed in a very inefficient way.
Slack and Salesforce in Talks
MUMPS is quite popular in finance, mostly through Cache product.

Including for new developments.
> nor pursue them at large scale unless it's for profit

You, as a consumer, directly dictate to companies what is profitable and what's not by what you choose to buy and what you choose not to buy. Dichotomy of profit and ethics doesn't make any sense: profit is a signal which among other things also includes information about what consumers think if ethical or unethical, and how important it is to them.
Fortunately C++ won't suffer from this kind of problems since there, you can make your regex builder a constexpr!

(lol)
Who was the client?

I ask because my state's legislature has a staff that reviews proposed legislation and then maintains the revised official laws. If I was tasked with doing diffs, I'd first interview them, try to make their jobs easier.
Maradona Dies
Just FYI, the Google Drive backup of your "E2E encrypted" whatsapp messages is stored in plain text...

https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/about-google-drive-ba...
It is not just monoculture that has created this increase in production. It is also increased inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. At a certain point the pesticides stop being effective and the ground needs so much fertilizer it increases prices. This happens on hundred year time scales, so you can't just look at a small portion of ecological history to reach conclusions.

You are welcome to think what you want, but everything I have read about agricultural ecology suggests that nature is stronger than our science. Pests evolve (perhaps slowly, but faster than the science we stole from nature). Naturally enriched soil is more fertile.
You can explain away the oil monolayer experiment with surface tension. Anyway, this experiment works best if the oil is dissolved in a large quantity of petrol and it's fairly certain that the Greeks did not know distillation.

More compelling would be Brownian motion. Glass was known in the Hellenistic era, and the Romans were expert stonecutters. The principles of optics were known to the Ancient Greeks, and some guy could have made lenses and assembled them into a microscope. Unfortunately that path was not taken until the 1600s, but the technology was all there.
The chickens we raise on our hobby farm are "dual purpose" birds in that they are good for both meat and eggs. That is traditionally how all poultry was raised, really, on family farms, etc. Roosters were raised and fattened until a few months in, and then slaughtered and eaten, while a portion of the hens were kept for laying. The meat from roosters isn't as good, but it's frankly fine overall.

There's no reason the meat industry couldn't divert the male chickens into a separate supply chain where they were raised until 6-8 months and then slaughtered and sold as stewing meat or some other (decent tasting) protein product for human consumption. The roosters don't develop aggressive behaviours until much later.

But that would be inefficient by market measures. So it doesn't happen.
I was just trying to agree with you.
- Can you demonstrate the provenance of every phone number, email address and other contact mode on your phone? Note people's birthdays? Sure, you only want to target companies. Make sure you choose your acquaintances wisely, I guess, or make sure you record their grant of permission to email them, because people abuse laws like this to harass each other every single day.

- This also punishes possession, not use. If you think about that for a minute, it should become clear both how this doesn't attack the right problem, and how companies would evade it.

- Finally... how are you going to audit Ford or Geico? Honest question. Who pays for the audit of "every piece of unattested PII on every individual"? How often, what is the dispute mechanism, and who administers that? Seriously - this sounds like a job for a new agency combining significant portions of the IRS, the FBI and PwC.
What software are you having trouble getting installed?

I've never had issues with getting things from inside or outside the App Store working. Usually it's just dragging the App into the Applications folder and answering a prompt. Sometimes there is an installer. (or I use Home-brew)

Maybe you are trying to install something from a developer who doesn't sign their code or doesn't have an Apple Developer ID? I'm curious what that might be.
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-wow-mystery-space.html

Someone who spent their entire life defending conjecture is going to find a reason to believe it still holds half a century later. But the evidence against is compelling to those not so invested in the outcome. There are weird aspects of the signal that are perfectly explained by it being hydrogen gas.
Some competitors like Cisco opt to deploy their own AS (Webex is AS13445) optimized towards eyeball networks because capacity and latency to Google and Amazon can be tricky with some incumbents.
So they generally have good control over their cost this way.
People think end to end encryption is a magic cure for OpSec. It’s not.

All end to end encryption does is protect you from eve spying on conversations between Alice and bob. Nothing prevents Bob from doxing/publishing all of Alice’s messages.

Edit: it’s true that the signal protocol provides deniability for messages but if Bob publishes Alice’s messages and whatsapp can prove that bob sent and Alice received messages that match those time stamps...

This is why signal deleting logs matters.
What about Pelé?
A link to the project itself was surprisingly difficult to find. I ended up going to the project's website, and even there I had to find the URL in a git clone command snippet. https://github.com/nitrogen/nitrogen
While a great football player, also serial abuser of minors. He had sex [and offspring] with many girls between 10 and 12. Even took pictures on the spot with some of them.

Argentina is have a three day duel for this guy, portrayed as a hero, with honorific status.

As someone born in Argentina, I can't help feeling disgust and shame on this.
> This issue has also affected our ability to post updates to the Service Health Dashboard.

looks like a circular dependency to be fixed.
Hi, one of the paper authors here. This is unfortunately only part of the story. This "calculette" covers only a fraction of the tax computation; furthermore, without knowing the crazy semantics and computational rules of the M language, it's very hard to reproduce the tax computation.

As a side-note, the source code appears to have moved here: https://gitlab.adullact.net/dgfip/ir-calcul
Also Zoom classrooms for kids/students. Work and school from home is probably the catalyst for higher inter speeds as employees/parents need faster internet speeds for Zoom. It would also correlate with the rise of Zoom stock price.
Eggs don't feel pain, live chicks do. For some people that is very important, it might not be for you but its a very clear difference.
I think there were lots of good reasons to have more layers of abstraction between apps and OSes - portability, security, ease of deployment to name the obvious ones.

Browsers were the wrong thing to target but they were the only thing getting even vaguely standardised across the proliferation of devices and OSes.

The problem I think was the pace. Nobody really had a chance to say "hang on folks, if we're going to do lots of this we need to talk about javascript and the DOM". Now we're stuck with it for good.

At this point the best we can hope for is to put a better layer on top and treat it as machine code.
.oO( humans... portable mayo powered reactors! #matrix )
This link is giving me 404. Looks like this is the updated URL:
https://www.thequint.com/cyber/whitehatjr-bug-exposed-person...
If you are asking whether a back door can allow them to read your messages, the answer is “obviously, that’s why it’s a back door”
As of now this is a no code subscription style billing tool for freelancers.

Also want to add some integration features so you can embed this on your site.
Salesforce in Talks to Buy Slack
Not quite.

Nuremburg: 85ms from east coast, 156ms from west coast: https://mtr.sh/#ping/8EC5V,MHi1W/nbg.icmp.hetzner.com

Falkenstein: 87ms from east coast, 157ms from west coast: https://mtr.sh/#ping/8EC5V,MHi1W/fsn.icmp.hetzner.com

Helsinki: 107ms from east coast, 163ms from west coast https://mtr.sh/#ping/8EC5V,MHi1W/hel.icmp.hetzner.com
Well, the thing is that you won't find a standalone product that does all this, because it's already difficult enough to get right some of those requirements on their own. These are just different verticals, so what you need is somebody who decides to integrate them into a cohesive final product. For that, the integrator will need to base off intermediate implementations of each vertical (or have huge resources to reinvent the respective wheels from scratch...)

Like for example OpenVidu [0] offers a platform over which standards-based video-conference products can be written. It takes care of WebRTC stuff, STUN/TURN/ICE shenanigans, user permissions, recordings, etc. so you can focus on e.g. building native apps with your desired chat solution. And even then, it in turn delegates the low-level WebRTC media transmission to Kurento, of which (disclaimer) I'm the current developer and maintainer.

[0]: https://openvidu.io/
I don't know the implementation on the client, but in theory it can be implemented locally on the client only, and I made the above statements under the assumption that it's how it's implemented. The user issues the report command in the UI and the client takes its local copy and uploads it to the server as part of the report. So it's mainly a convenience feature.

The only case where the current E2EE security model is changed is when the protocol gains a feature to enable the client to attach a cryptographic proof about the message's content. That would violate the non-repudiation properties of the Signal protocol, but it would make reports more believable as you can't fake them any more with a modified client. As I've said I don't know the implementation, but it's entirely possible that they didn't include any cryptographic proof and keep it equivalent to screenshotting.
This seems mostly fine. I'd prefer to see it as a box you have to affirmatively check (such that you can still report someone without opting in to sending the messages). But... I can't really get riled up about this.
How does the level of precision here compare to the precision needed to design LIGO?

I remember reading the precision requirements for LIGO and then reading about the efforts needed to achieve that precision and it seemed like magic. e.g. IIRC LIGO has a precision of PORTIONS of a wavelength of light at the end of arms that are kilometers long.

Is the precision for plasma stability that much higher?

(I understand that these are very different systems so asking more from an overall "what can we currently achieve" perspective).
Maradona’s documentary on HBO is excellent and really captures how incredibly far his talent was. Not just an outlier. Completely out of this world. He basically won a World Cup by himself.

Really recommend it to anyone interested.
Yes, but if your labeling one viewpoint and not another then your stifling free speech/free thought ... you no longer are a neutral platform. Idiotic for them to go down such road as labeling only further riles up that persons base.
For everyone that doesn't see the point, take a look at the example of parsing a long string [0]. The verbal expression is _much_ easier to read than the regular expression.

[0] https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/JavaVerbalExpressions/w...
The title of the article feels like it has the wrong "tense".
Our local town library use RFID tags, eg stuck down the spine of a book.

Presumably for expensive books an anti-tamper case like supermarkets use for expensive items (acrylic box with radio-tag) would interfere with opportunistic theft. IIRC or library use such boxes for DVD movies and PC Games.
One of the biggest challenges with fusion is to be able to contain plasma as far as I understand. Magnets seem to be the way they want to do it but I am a layman so take what I say with a grain of salt.
> Taliban were not in a position to be asking for anything

If they weren't, then the US military wouldn't still be in Afghanistan dealing with them nearly 20 years later.
I always found jdownloader to be quite beautiful. Way before youtube-dl was a thing, jdownloader was there to the rescue.
Although this feature probably isn't a big concern, I am curious because you can't report without sending "recent" messages to WhatsApp, and "recent" is vague enough to mean "previous 500" or so. Again, probably not an issue since you presumably don't have much message history with someone you are reporting, but a bit of a strange decision from a privacy perspective.
That's genius.

A buddy of mine retired rich after creating property tax administration systems. They only had a few client counties.

They'd just about rollout new system updates before the next wave of tax code revisions. Never ending work.

Sounded like living hell. I couldn't do that kind of work and stay sane. But he seemed to enjoy it.
Google will make the Android Runtime (ART) a Mainline module in Android 12
There are mountains of evidence available in all corners of the internet. You should know because as one of Apple's elite True Believers, the vast majority of your HN activity is trying vigorously to handwave away any and all evidence of Apple's malfeasance.

The real problem is that for someone like you, no amount of evidence is sufficient. Someone could post a video of Steve Jobs masturbating furiously to Kim Kardashian's iCloud photos folder, and you'd still find some way to spin it as him having an erotic fetish for Apple's data security and privacy practices.
Who are the two billionaires? I had thought you were talking about the recent Presidential election in the US, but Biden is nowhere near a billionaire.

Almost all of his wealth came from his salary as a Senator (1973 until he became VP) and then his salary for 8 years as VP, plus Social Security starting in 2009 and also pensions. His net worth at the end of that was under half a million.

He's boosted that to somewhere in the $10-20 million range since leaving office, mostly from book deals for him and his wife ($8 million), speaking fees (basic fee is $100k, but it has ranged from $8k to $190k), and a professorship at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement ($540k).

There's an article that goes into detail [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/10/22/how-t...
Typically, people who have a higher-than-average concern for the welfare of animals also have a higher-than-average concern for welfare of people. Compassion and empathy seems to grow for both, not be a trade-off.

Compare an analogous concern to the one you raise: "what if caring about people of color comes at the cost of empathy for your fellow whites?"
Blender 2.91
This comment made me laugh so hard! "Yet it seems we reached the opposite, a fully eloquent idiot."
Although superspreaders are more likely to have already been infected, and thus already have any benefit the vaccine would give them.