skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada has these problems not due to lack of social welfare spending, but due to institutional barriers to taking drug addicts off the street and into long-term care homes.

Vancouver used to have a mental institution where the patients worked a farm. When it closed, its DTES district swelled with drug addicts whose condition rapidly deteriorated from drug use.

Involuntary commitment and forced labor are not exactly amenable to liberal democracy, so it's understandable why there was such pressure to close the institutions and repeal vagrancy laws, but now the pro-leniency movement has gone too far, and all across liberal cities it's become a free-for-all that is absolutely devasting all parties involved: the ordinary citizens who become victims of rampant property crime, the vulnerable who are predated upon by drug dealers and who themselves commit vast amounts of crime to feed their habits, and the taxpayer whose hard-earned resources are thrown into a money pit with worse than neutral effects.
So their supposed reasons it's not secure are...

1. No e2e encryption by default (valid, obvious)

2. Telegram has access to the metadata and contacts (valid, obvious)

3. They refuse to deplatform certain content (???)

4. An old and well understood bug/tradeoff/feature which has been fixed or mitigated long ago, after it was reported or abused

5. They didn't respond to Vice, so they "aren't forthcoming with journalists" (what does it have to do with security?)

I'm not using it and no fan of it, but I expected actual technical reasons instead of reading a hit piece with no content.
I have used Threema and I like it, but the barrier is that it is not a free app. I've only been able to get fellow nerds to install it.

I like the idea that it indicates the level of safety you have with another person quite clearly. The highest level is when you physically scan one another's QR codes when you meet in person so you know nobody is inserting themselves into your key exchange.
It has nothing to do with Facebook, Google and Microsoft. And to me, that's what matters most, along with open defiance of state effort to force the platform to snoop. They didn't bow to Russia, USA and China.

Before someone brings up Signal, that project was developed in money from US agencies. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a shop operation, like the (backdoor ridden) Swiss encryption hardware company the CIA was running for 40 years.
That's just self insurance, legal in most places with a few requirements. Most large car hire companies practice it.
Wild. It's not like blockchains are in any way a clearly proven, established thing.

In fact, considering that we are stilling waiting for the first tangible contribution to society out of the blockchain field that matches its surrounding hype, I would argue that doing things differently is probably a good idea.
> where a country has its own legally mandated reward scheme

Knowing my country, that would lead to gaming the system.
[edit: this comment is outdated. the parent comment is updated now to change the word crypto to cryptocurrency. I misunderstood earlier crypto to be cryptography. with crypto meaning cryptocurrency my comment is not related now.]

I think it has. Worldwide ecommerce runs on cryptography. there are laws and regulations on how crypto should be made secure and managed in ecommerce.

if you mean blockchain cryptocurrency by the word crypto then you may be correct. but in general terms crypto has a lot of actual legal value for it.
Re: last point. Fair enough. That point is sound.

Japan seems to have evolved a work culture very similar to strongly unionised societies but without unions. Japanese salaryman culture is famously a culture of employment for life with unusually strong loyalty between employee and employer, hence weird things like "banishment rooms" that you don't find elsewhere. If it's the end results that matter and not the means, Japan might not be a good counter example.

I think French strike law sounds tighter than Italian strike law? The French are famous for striking but strikes must still be a collective decision and related to a specific set of issues, whereas Italian strike law really does sound incredibly broad and vague.

With respect to Pakistan, that's doesn't mean anything, poor countries always have very high GDP growth. It's easy to grow something small and backwards by a lot because you can get a lot of relative growth just by copying what other countries do, and less absolute improvement is needed to get a percentage point of growth to begin with. You can only compare GDP growth rates between countries of a similar level of wealth.
Uh, kinda.I think I get what you're saying, but I think you're framing it in a fairly shallow way.

I think someone good will avoid just copy and pasting the code. Shallow similarity makes it easy to thread a boolean or do something tricky with dependency injection. What I'm getting at is folks who are very capable, very fast programmers. if things aren't easy to reuse, they'll just go ahead and implement a whole new subsystem with different logs, metrics and error conditions.

I guess an example might be a type checker versus a compile time evaluator. They have a lot in common. But they're different. Adding another traversal of the AST isn't that big of a deal, really. But, there will come a time when all those passes start to be an issue, they have a lot in common. Maybe it's better to fold them all up into one or two passes.

Sometimes things are complicated. Sometimes you need to hold all that complexity in your head at once and really pick out the commonality. But that's rare. Just adding more code is a great answer for a long, long time.
Afold: Inside DeepMind’s 4yr mission to solve one of bio’s greatest challenges
Well that's the rub.

Anyone could have looked up Telegram on their favourite search engine and found all the information in this article anytime in the past year or two. It is nothing new.

But Telegram has pretty good word-of-mouth PR which is why it was so popular for things like the HK protests even though it clearly wasn't a good tool to use with regards to anonymity and safety.

I don't think, and did not say, the article is bad. Just that it is nothing new.
This is no longer the case. Compose is an open spec and the v2 and v3 formats are being merged into a unified format (where you don't need version numbers). There are now multiple implementations (eg for ECS/Fargate and ACI), and implementations are being encouraged to support all the options.
A rough guideline, being the first country to let people do something successfully is a lot more impressive than being the first to ban something.

If Denmark manages to thrive after banning fossil fuels, then that will be the time to be impressed.
Not everything is a technical solution foremost: new laws prohibiting the import and sale of certain polluting equipment and/or incentivising people to buy lower-carbon equivalent are primarily political/economic/social solutions. If they are well-designed (which isnt easy, I give you that) reasonable people can accept them.

Your point about sacrifice probably stands
I find it absolutely ridiculous that the news uses headlines such as "sources from FBI say" (or any other US spy agencies) as though they are the real source of truth, whereas reports such as these show that they should be treated with a greater amount of suspicion. But you know what, people still fall for it all the time!
Hi and AI – Drawing the line between humans and machines
it seems like the usual occurrence of tech people reinventing established fields and calling it novel.
Because the scratch code is usually pointless, it's the 'key notes' that matter.

200 lines of crazyballs scratch code is not 'the insight' really 'the insight' was that the API works 'really slowly upon first iteration, but very quickly after n iterations' - which implies x, y, z possible courses of action.

I suppose you could jam it in the VCS but I've never personally cared.

Now that I think about it ... it's interesting because that's definitely not what a VCS is for, though it could absolutely be used in that way.

A VCS really is not that great to store arbitrary, secondary related activity and notes wherein 'the code' really isn't the important thing.

What's missing here is really a form of document/information sharing that just hasn't caught on very well. Or perhaps I'm still caught up in the ridiculous Confluence/Atlassian garbage, which is the worst wiki ever made.
Telegram has the huge advantage of not needing to reveal your phone number.

If your threat model doesn't really include the government but does include people stalking you then telegram is actually better than Signal.

With Signal you have to buy a new SIM card to get rid of a stalker, which is a huge annoyance.
I'm not sure rewriting Latex in XYZ is a good idea. The whole thing is a mess and a pain to use (and I use it multiple times a week). Sure the documents often look good, but when they don't or there is an error, fixing it just becomes a nightmare. I wish somebody would design a modern typesetting system that would accept say latex equations but without 50 years of cruft and levels of macroses upon macroses.
I made bitly with Google Scripts
Known by everyone who really cares and understands what the differences are.

It's not as if normal people would be better off with e.g. Whatsapp - yeah it uses end2end, but I'm sure 99% of the users backup their chat in the cloud - and now they are not really better off but maybe even worse.

People usually don't understand the difference. From their perspective, everything probably has the same wizard like security level. And the ones who know and care use a non-mainstream messenger.
Sure, but I'm a brit. See my past posts.

(and btw no chance of russians doing the same https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_from_Olgino thing is there. Or those these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot doing it for them)
Underclocking and undervolting CPUs has been a mainstay of silent computing. AMD's Duron platform was excellent for this. Not suitable for gaming, but fine for daily computing. Big heat sinks with heat pipes work pretty well. Big, slow fans when there's no way around them. Plastic rivets instead of screws and rubber washers manage to keep vibration noise down (fans, spinning disks).
It's not an oxymoron to anyone even remotely acquainted with crypto.
They had real UNIX System V R2 (at least - R3, maybe?)) deployed by 1990 at the latest. GTE Mobilnet had their usage tracking running on whatever the biggest VAX was at the time. I had to fly to Bothell in August 1990 to diagnose a problem with Informix not playing nicely with DEC's bleeding-edge disk array controllers.
Came across it looking up "Radix" in Wikipedia. Meant to do "Radix sort". Then saw the list of other radix systems. Clicked on this one, found it was made in the 1990s, by middle school students, and read how it's greatly improved math test scores of Iñupiat students.

I see jermaustin1 posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992791 linking to an Artifexian video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS6FfczH0Q but with no comments or up-votes thought it was too interesting for people to overlook.
> that project was developed in money from US agencies.

So was TOR.

I defend Telegram, but this is not on its own a valid argument against Signal, only an encouragement to verify it extremely closely before trusting it.
I don't know MKDocs but as far as I can see in the link you posted, it should be straightforward doing the same of the other libraries.

I got curious, thus, I make a proof.

Embedding a hosted presentation, it's just a matter of using an iframe: https://codepen.io/abusedmedia/pen/zYKBOXb

An here a test to avoid external hosting:
https://codepen.io/abusedmedia/pen/YzGWPzY

The last one requires to download the libraries locally following the same example of flochart.js in MKDocsPlus.

It would be nice if you can test it out.
Not only is sacrifice an insufficient toll but it’s an unfair one. Who’s getting sacrificed for whom. Are we just going to tell thousands at a danish scale and millions at a global scale tough luck but at least you’ll have a shot at eeking out a subsistence level livelihood for your family. The smallest minority on earth is the individual and a civilisation that exists on the basis of overt human sacrifice isn’t one I and many others will abide by. This sounds a bit melodramatic but I’ve seen the toll it’s taken on family members this year who’ve lost a year of turnover in their small business. If the powers that be continue to throw these people under the bus they will have a fight on their hands and then we won’t even fix climate change probably the other way around.
TeXLive has to me been the obvious choice on Windows for years. Miktex always seemed to be fussy and missing things the few times I tried to use it.
I think that there is something nasty with this Vice article. A hidden agenda maybe?

It reads like if it is an informercial for whatsapp.

It is very strange that it advise everyone to go to whatsapp and not any other solution and does not evocate all the issues with whatsapp.
For example the fact that enabling automatic backups is strongly pushed on users but these backup are performed on google drive in clear, not encrypted!

And so far, in spite of the telegram issues that are well known, Telegram never betrayed any user to this day as far as I know.

Also it is strange that they use nazi arguments and co. It's not because you don't appreciate some people or ideas that a platform should censor them. Also the goal of the platform is especially to not mess with users data. So I find it very strange to say that it should be uninstalled both because it does not encrypt enough and also because you say that they should look more into their users messages!
Netherlands here. I don't use mobile internet, so no difference for me.

You can use it on IoT, maybe there's some gain in that area. The near future will have many more devices connected to the internet, consider "smart phones", "smart watches" and all the other toys.
This guy is great -- the livestream VR coding stuff is pure hacking fun, and it's all so painfully wholesome. Highly recommended.
Is Stencil a Better React?
for the confused, here's the key:

> For the entire duration of the contract, the
Beneficiary pays a part of the energy savings
generated to the E.s.Co. This gives a return on
the initial investment.

> The greater the energy savings obtained by the Beneficiary, the greater the returns for the Esco
and the Contributors, since the savings generated are the actual financial performance of the initial
investment.

So, contractors figure out how to make a company more energy efficient, and in return they get a cut of the savings they saved the company.

> the company can use EFFORCE to look for the necessary
crowdfunding to proceed with the energy redevelopment projects, in exchange for sharing the
savings generated.
I was expecting they had solved some sort of Proof-of-Savings. The "without intermediaries based on exact consumption/savings data" sounds more like filling a ledger to resolve a smart contract. How exactly verification achieved is left unanswered.

With grid-energy blockchains there is a tangible good. But decreased power consumption by one metric doesn't assure power is not used off platform. (not to mention the green-ness of any such generation)
I meant cryptocurrency of course and have updated the comment.

Also it's a legit question rather than a statement. I haven't ever seen what blockchain is truly good for, but perhaps I've missed something.
> and much of that oil can probably come from sources other than pumping it out of the ground.

More importantly, it will hopefully come from onshore wells which are easier to access and manage than the crazy underwater shenanigans necessary of deep offshore extraction.
1. I wouldn't call that obvious. I could claim that any messenger that doesn't use OTP is unsecure, because in comparison they are. So this is a generic complaint that applies to literally all existing communication tooling available to normal folks. Hence, not helpful.

2. Only if you give it access, so also not obvious
I understand folks ITT saying some of these are known issues, but it’s important to remember this community is more informed than most others in terms of technology.

I’ve absolutely had to steer some users away from telegram who were misled and under the mistaken impression that telegram was a privacy panacea.

In today’s climate where many activists and others actually need privacy/security, this article will hopefully reach and inform some of the types who swim in different circles than this little community.
> Counterexample: C++. To a lesser degree, perhaps also Rust?

Are these actually counterexamples? While in absolute terms there may be a fair number of people using them, in relative terms the amount of people who know C++ and/or Rust is absolutely dwarfed by the amount of people who know "easier" languages like JS, Python and PHP.

In this case "easier" refers to the amount of effort needed to pick it up and get some result on screen, not to the amount of effort to be a guru. I think for a lot of beginners productivity and even (memory) safety is completely irrelevant. They are not very productive anyway and their code crashes all the time because by definition they make beginner mistakes. What is more important for beginners is to keep up momentum and get through the initial hurdle of "I don't understand this" to the point where you start thinking "this is fun, I can make cool stuff". Rust and C++ solve professional problems, not beginner problems.
> And some shippers falsely declare container weights, which makes it harder to do proper balance calculations.

Can't that be safeguarded against by adding a bit more smart tech to dock loading cranes?

These cranes already have information on which container goes from where on the dock to where on the ship, and they also should have some sort of weight sensor or other feedback to prevent overloading the crane / its motor. So it should be possible to add a cross-check "container weighs x.yz tons, should weigh a.bc tons" and emit an alert in case of a too gross mismatch.

This could also be used to prevent or at least detect smuggling of drugs and people as well as theft.
I was just considering reading that book today. What are your thoughts on it? Is the tech prognostications realistic otherwise?
Soviet union no longer exists as such so let's talk of current russia. Hence my link.

From my link: A CBS News story on the launch of Russia Today quoted Boris Kagarlitsky as saying it was "very much a continuation of the old Soviet propaganda services".[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_Soviet_Union...

But no mention of the gulags then.
> to let people do something

let people do heroin for example. would be very impressive.

much more impressive than banning slavery.
> the whitepaper is too thin on tech details and

Which is the #1 sign of every crypto scam (or a less maliciously: of a poorly constructed crypto project).

A whitepaper at the very least should outline the incentive mechanisms of _all_ the actors (and their actions) in the system (and not just the miners like they do).

On top of that it has the very traditional real world->blockchain problem of needing to have verified data about the real world on the blockchain for the token to work. "The data that each smart meter will transmit will be validated and certified by the blockchain" sadly are just empty words, as the blockchain can neither validate nor certify anything about the real world on its own (and any "smart meter" can be tempered with). That's also only a single data point that's required for the token to work (if everything else holds up). They would also need prior energy consumption, which the implementing companies would be incentivized to downplay.

The concept is as full of holes as your run-of-the mill 2018 bubble crypto project.
Show HN: Transform a video into an article and embed with iframe
Why Open Source Software Is Critical to the Future of Financial Services
The standard ham radio cry of "think of the spectrum" applies here. It's great as a demo but please don't intend to use it for anything serious, this is likely outputting harmonics into areas of the RF spectrum that people care about.
I was at an event where Joe Lonsdale spoke a couple months ago.

He took questions after giving a short speech.

One person asked what he thinks about blockchain-based businesses.

Joe basically said "These days, in Silicon Valley, if anyone brings up a business idea that involves blockchain, that's how you know that team doesn't know what they're doing."

Basically, to paraphrase, people trying to throw blockchain into business concepts is like throwing like spaghetti against walls. Investors, according to Joe Lonsdale, do not typically find such ideas respectable-- in fact, the opposite: they seem to find them comical and gimmicky.
Top FinTech Accelerators in Berlin
Books are a superior format, consider cookie walls, notification popups, ads and all the other junk.
What’s Ahead for Open Source and Financial Services in 2020
> 2. Only if you give it access, so also not obvious

Or rather invalid, unless you make it valid, and then obvious.
My instinct was to close the site immediately but decided to read what Woz is up to.

Navigation didn't work for some stuff on mogile but I dowloaded the PDF whitepaper and I must say this is more shallow than most "tokens".

If I understand correctly, people invest money into a pool that is distributed for companies/industries to spend, in order to increase their energy efficiency. Once they are done ("once" should be "if"), part of their savings goes to the investors. I think it is reasonable to assume that such process doesn't need any crypto proof and ultimately depends on lawyers, salesmen and bankers. Making a company or an industry more efficient requires talent and strategy, not just pouring money and it is a very risky and long process. If these guys feel competent to make a profitable energy efficiency fund, they should start one. And with clear legal protection for the investors, not a token.
Matthew Butterick is working on the Quad document processor, which is intended to "modernize the good ideas in LaTeX," but I'm unsure what its equation typesetting is like. It's written in Racket.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/quad/
Found this blog via the wonderful futureofcoding podcasts, episode Building for Developers: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/021

What should be noted is that the author already did the low-code/no-code thing as a startup that is still active and thriving: https://www.dropsource.com

So what he's doing and describing now is informed by that experience, which he talks about at length in the podcast episode. I find it much more insightful and less superficial than a lot of the writing on the topic.
There is an extreme amount of difference in security between e.g. the axotlotl prototocol and only transport encrypting to and from the server. The benefits of OTP might become real decades in the future if we develop large quantum computers (or if we become a Kardashev type 2 civilization and suddenly can afford spending the energy required to boil all oceans on earth multiple times over to crack encrypted content by brute force).
> Entrepreneurship clearly isn't his strong suit.

Makes me wonder how many top 1 world wide companies you have to have founded to be considered a successful entrepreneur.

EDIT: HN, where people argue whether Wozniak really qualifies as a successful entrepreneur or not :)
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Similar project with ESP32 for Composite Video [by bitluni]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1_XNc3vNw
Yes it not being open source was the reason I never looked at Threema further as Signal did everything I wanted/needed while being open.

The only feature I wish Signal had is group video/voice calls but hopefully that will be available soon as it is currently in beta https://community.signalusers.org/t/group-conference-calls/8...