skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we really label changing "Man in the middle" to "Person in the middle" as "progress"?
`pyrolytic` does not exist as a keyword for ovens in my country. I just checked at the biggest retailer for such stuff.

The cleaning module of the one oven I'm aware of that had that option was more than just a heating thing. The manual talked about foam and how to refill it. Different countries, different mechanisms I assume.
> The U.S. government sent Babbitt abroad eight times, and though not every time was in a combat zone, such repeated deployments into violent areas tend to cause brain damage.

"Brain damage" is a gross mischaracterization of PTSD and major depression. [0]

I wish the author would've chosen better wording.

Edit:

> violent unnecessary war

I was wondering why the author wouldn't touch on post-military life and hardship, aside from the term "brain damage" and now I know why. Politics.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804656/
This is what I think. When a modern laptop or phone is old, except for a few avid collectors, it will be junk. An amiga has a completely different appeal and therefore becomes vintage.
> There's no evidence that the accusations were false

This is quite the comment; do you need evidence to prove someone's innocence? Last I checked, this isn't really how the legal system works. This does let some crimes go unpunished, which is terrible, but the alternative is much worse.

If you want to claim that the disbarment of Nifong was done for political reasons then you're going to have to do a hell of a lot better than some vague story about "the university is powerful" and "Beltway influence". Among other things, he withheld DNA evidence and lied about the facts of the case. Even Nifong himself agreed that disbarment was an appropriate judgement.
This is implicit in the continued public education (as a job) requirement of suspending the voting rights; whatever a current public education consists of. Thus they might have to train up to, at least during the initial test, currently, what a high-school civics test final would be. During the time in (comprehensive) public education that would also be a job they are paid a living wage for. I view (non-broken-window) investment in civel infrastructure as a net good; this includes the education of the people and each individual person.
He could've just as well used a typewriter - literally just writing doesn't require a computer at all. Writers in particular don't have to care about words-per-minute or error correction, grammar or style (there's lectors for that anyway) and they don't do serial letters or mail merge either.

There's no good metric for measuring "productivity" for writers with respect to the tools used.
The people are as naive as the Q people. They don't realize they're being just as heavily propagandized and manipulated, if not more so.

In the 90s and during the Bush years many on the "cultural left" (let's use that to refer to low-information voters who are left-sympathizing) had at least an intuition for the degree to which the security state controlled the media and how untrustworthy the media was — I thought we'd had this reckoning in the aftermath of the disastrous Iraq war but apparently mood affiliation is a helluva drug.

This historical cycle will not end will unless people start thinking a little more critically.
Interesting question since this is probably the main function of stock exchanges outside the trade itself. Question is how beneficial this is...

> We're 'not paying the value' of water

The situation in Canada is comparable to my country and companies do pay for it, but municipalities directly negotiate with industry giants.
Stripe has reportedly stopped processing Trump campaign donations
What is a typical price?
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Oh wow, you could totally see someone using that as a jump by accident, there’s no visual warning that the gradient is about to change if your approaching the cattle grid from below.

Easy to imagine someone at night, taking liberties with the speed limit, hitting that thing at 70mph and taking off.
> Solar panels have gotten much cheaper, enough so that generating adequate power to run a couple of laptops even on cloudy days is fairly affordable. Batteries to keep it going at night have also come down in price.

From the article:

> Our work schedule is tied to the weather, as we depend on solar energy to power our computers.

So, what's the problem then? Well, they've written in-depth about the challenges and constraints of solar elsewhere on the site. [1]

Their vessel is on the smaller side of the spectrum. There's only so much usable space to place a solar array. [2] They do use batteries and they have a small gas generator, but those are also limited and only used as a backup.

[1] https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html#power [2] https://100r.co/site/pino.html
TextSecure (essentially the old name for Signal) is 3 years older (2010 vs. 2013), isn't it?
I can:
Actually doing it, and selling them. Claiming they are not human, they deserve it, they are property, they are unequal, they are unworthy of compassion, then outlawing people's liberty to prevent it. And do it based on skin pigment.
Noticed it too and had to look it up. Was MITM bothering anyone or was it preemptive?
Tucker Carlson has also interviewed Glenn Greenwald and called for the pardon of Assange.

Something you would have expected from the "liberal" media pre 2010.
You can of course argue that a plain reading of this words is not enough, and that he encouraged the violence without explicitly stating so.

But you have to acknowledge that interpreting is what you are doing - no "this is obviously the truth and alternative facts have no place" as has become so popular. You'll need to accept the opposing view point as valid and engage with it.
> Most backdoor looking bug

While a backdoor is not a bug but a feature, it helps to disguise a backdoor as a bug (i.e. plausible deniability). I know of one instance (in MS Windows) where the backdoor feature was not even hidden so much:

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

That's why we need opensource. It's a hedge against tyranny.
Is opening up your source code worth it? Terry Cavanagh thinks it was for VVVVVV
I used the minimum cut algorithm to implement a texture synthesis algorithm [1]. When the images to merge are represented as a graph of connected pixels, you can use the minimum cut algorithm to try to find the lowest energy path that cuts across both images

This minimises the differences between the images along the seam so they appear to blend together

[1] https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/my_papers/graph_cuts.pdf
Why are you so bothered by Telegram receiving some well deserved criticism? It’s weird.

There are lots of posts on HN I don’t care about, but I don’t think I’ve ever had the urge to make comments like yours.

> In any case, the constant hate is (a) very tiring and (b) very uncharacteristic for HN.

There are people who trust their life and liberty on these apps, I don’t think the “hate” towards Telegram is inappropriate at all.

And actually, I think that most of the time the HN community is far too positive about Telegram. Usually I see comments criticizing it get downvoted. Funny, no?
> The reason you've chosen Haskell and, by the way, also the TLD ".system", is that you've constructed your identity in such a way that "advanced language with a steep learning curve" is something that fits.

I think you're projecting too much on them. They found Haskell performant and are promoting it, I don't see any problem with it. How is any different from all the Rust evangelism HN sees all the time?
I doubt you are going to convince the parent poster with facts. The comment suggests either the poster is not asking questions in good faith or letting opinions cloud the judgement.
As one other comment mentioned - you are bringing facts to an emotional fight.
If all the facts and evidence over past few years cannot convince them, nothing will.
Pretty balanced perspective. I'm almost a bit surprised given how strong most people's opinions on this are.
What you have described is an anecdote rather than any study that attempts to be impartial which is what I really meant when I wrote ‘evidence.’ I’m sorry for not being clear enough.

I don’t feel like this anecdote is evidence because I don’t think it’s inconsistent with the trend towards more static types over the last 5-10 years or so. For this anecdote to be convincing I would need to think that programming language design happens because of carefully thought out and researched decisions and quick feedback as good languages are used and bad languages are dropped, but I don’t believe this.
I misread the comment. The file fits in address space? As sibling comment suggests, address space is v. big and it's very much a corner case (or very specific use case) for most people.
Which makes me think the biggest problem with the file selector as described is not that it's flawed, but that it's hard to replace.

One of the thing I loved about the Amiga was that because of how the API was structured, it was easy to replace things like this, as you could patch every API endpoint. As a result, it took very little time before more advanced replacements for the standard file requester appeared. You "just" had to patch (via OS-provided functions) a couple of library calls.
discussed on the frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25722027
Well, the only reason ever really to use olive is for its flavour; otherwise something else (e.g. sunflower, rapeseed/vegetable) is at least as appropriate and significantly cheaper.
tldr; We love Haskell, that's why.
We need federally run elections or at least strong enforcement of federal election laws. Every voter that is required to present ID at the polls should be provided an ID or be provided a mail-in ballot. Every citizen should be required by federal law to vote.
And some other stuff I am not qualified to post about regarding secure voting systems.
Not the OP, but: kind of, yes. Enough logging for someone with access to the source code to stand a good chance of reverse engineering what happened (code trace) when something goes wrong, without having the user reproduce. This capability is built into the product and involves significant development effort in itself.
> you don't need to force doing it at compile time

What assembly instructions should the compiler emit if you write
sum ["foo", "bar"]
?
"For what page or what utterance of the divinely inspired books of the Old and New Testaments is not a most unerring rule for human life?"

Did he not read the Bible or does he demand circumcision?
You can read about the stance in question on a lot of github issues, one of which is this one: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37 (not actually the signal repo, but moxie talks about the need for iron control over the platform). You can extrapolate consequences pretty far from what is said there, consequences which are well understood by moxie (if nothing else, you can see that time was spent thinking about environmental factors). To me this attitude is baldly toxic because it makes the world worse (in that it reinforces the opinion that centralised is better, which is at the heart of so many problematic digital services).
Edit, first things first:

> Is Facebook Messaging encrypted messaging?

Facebook messaging is not "encrypted messaging" AFAIK.

But if you say it sends the messages unencrypted like people claim Telegram does I will probably point out that you are wrong even if I don't like Facebook at all.

end Edit.

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Tell me then: If you call point-to-point-encrypted "unencrypted", what do you call the old WhatsApp protocol from before Moxie helped them, which actually sent messages unencrypted? [1]

What do you call the files that Whatsapp store on my phone (messages.db or something) that I can transfer to my computer and open without any tooling besides a zip tool and SQLite?

Unencrypted -- ?

Even more unencrypted?

There is a reason why we keep repeating our plea to differ between unencrypted, point-to-point-encrypted and end-to-end-encrypted and it is not because we adore all of Telegrams decisions, at least not for all of us.

It is because precision often matters in engineering and I think especially for security work.

[1]: Irony over irony, I used to love them back then. I knew fixing the crypto part would be doable and they were such a nice company with such a nice business model which aligned so nicely with our interests as users.
Drilling is also complex and expensive. You'd have to go down, reinforce it and deal with pumping at the very least. On the other hand a crane is, well, a pretty small and simple (/well known) thing. It's a crane and a stack of bricks, it doesn't feel particularly over engineered to me.

Either may make sense given the surroundings but I don't think building up is an obvious problem
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The NSAKEY backdoor claim should be trivial to prove with a debugger, until someone does so I think we can safely dismiss it as a lie.

It’s been two decades, and nobody has been able to explain how it would’ve been used.
I think the main founder is a CalTech alumnus who also has another company (Heliogen) which promised solar heat at 1 cents/kwh. Backed by Breakthrough new energy ventures.

I believe this idea and kite power ideas are crazy but they might just work.
Schwarzenegger is now our true moral governator
I'm clueless in this area. Would a raft be viable? Presumably it would add some drag if you're underway but a small inflatable pontoon raft seems like it could run 4-6 panels and be reasonably portable when not in use.
It frustrates me that people mistake the political compass meme for a thing that actually exists.

It's more complex than "left" vs. "right" and authoritarian vs. libertarian. Compressing politics down to literally two dimensions is a disservice to any political discussion.
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It's amazing the things partisanship makes acceptable. This is a crime, yet people are cheering it on because they don't like the target.

And I'm pretty sure it's not allowed by reddit's and Twitter's ToS, yet this time it apparently is.

Whatever Parler's role or responsibility in recent events, it should be sorted out by the justice system, not vigilantism.

Those who would throw away the rule of law in order to protect it have already abandoned the principles they claim to be defending.
It's also because the old guard is no longer in control influential. The early internet was very libertarian, which included you're ACLU-left wing and right wing versions. Both of which hold free speech as one of our greatest strengths.
Additional interesting scenarios:

- Nation states that manage to infiltrate a few spies into Amazon or Google could "just" copy the backups of the database without anyone being the wiser.

- My favourite mission ever from the "Shadowrun" games: Step 1 was a mission to alter the backups of some main database (stored at some 3rd party) to include additional admin credentials. Step 2 was to "clumsily" attack the main target and not-quite-hack the main system so that they would restore from backup just to be sure, thereby importing the actual backdoor.
A large water tank of 500m3 on a high tower at 50M above an underground storage tank yields approx 70 kWh at best.

Not much, but a bit better than nothing. Especially if the tower and upper tank can be dual-purposed. Of course in that case you'd lose some energy capacity to maintain water pressure head.
This is a tweet of a Reddit post of a tweet that was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726620
I once read (or heard?) that the reason why Twitter has such outsize importance is because a lot of journalists use it. They’re on it a lot, follow a lot of people, use it to discover what issues are blowing up...

I’m sure that’s not the only reason, but I thought it an interesting idea.
If you can't produce the app as you download it, it's not reproducible. Saying part of it is is disingenuous.
That suicide bombing was really strange. It seems the person might have deliberately chosen a time when there would be no one around and made sure to warn anyone who might be in the area to get away before detonating the bomb. This would seem to indicate the person did not intend to commit mass murder, only property damage.
There is an all out war right now from big-tech on conservative everything. Ushering in authoritarianism like its 1984. Parler blocked by iOS app store and google play, AWS removing their servers from its platform, youTube banning Bannon's podcast. There are plenty of people, groups, and politicians, for example the ayatollah of Iran, chinese state media etc that should pose far more of a threat to the world than some conservatives, but that doesnt support the Liberal narrative so they get to stay. Welcome to dystopia.
"I don't know much about this thing but I don't like it, and I know even less about this other thing and I like it even less!"

For what it's worth, C++ has HKTs in the form of template template parameters, making it possible to write, e.g., monad transformers, which cannot be done in Rust, last I checked. Now as for whether you'd actually want to do this in a production codebase...
There is likely some significant sample bias if you're receiving clips from social media.

If you go to conservative forums, you'll find the same biased clips of CNN/MSNBC that portray those networks as heavily propagandized.
I do off grid PV professionally but don't know a lot about boats. But having been on a few 42-48 ft size cruiser type sailboats, I can't think of a place you could easily pack away six 1.65x1.0 meter size (typical 60-cell) rigid, aluminum framed high efficiency PV panels, unless you basically dedicated the smaller guest bunk to storage space.
You're grasping at straws here. Are you genuinely trying to compare a private corporation to the sidewalk of a city/town? Cities/towns are registered private entities for organizational purposes, however in good faith and spirit they are owned indirectly by the citizens of that place. Private corporations like Google, Apple, are not the same - and to think a ruling from the 40s applies is interesting. Another point is you must become a registered user, which arguably removes you from the group of general public.

Besides that a ruling doesn't mean it's in the correct direction. Slavery used to be legal and abortion - a woman having choice - is trying to be made illegal again - as two examples. The general public distributing religious flyers on a sidewalk freely open to the public sounds like a reasonable ruling, that wouldn't allow a person to do the same thing say at a gated community though where the public is generally allowed access to - which could be considered akin to requiring users are registered.
Most people will insist that their politics is an ostensibly intellectual exercise—thereby refuting the argument for it being a protected class.
Most faces of my colleagues are also not particularly pretty under the TL lighting of our office. My own face even seems to benefit quite poorly from proper lighting. Yet, somehow, I'm not really expecting #insta quality selfy images but (call me crazy) I like how real it is and the fact that I can read their emotions.

Sure, I check if I'm not showing overly dominant nostrils due to camera angles or have food anywhere on my face but other than that, I's just how I look.
I think a more correct statement would be that people are complicated, and therefore business is also complicated.
I like Telegram. In my (subjective) view it has the best UX of all messengers. It also has APIs which should give a big plus on here and at least till now they are not doing censorship to my knowledge.
What might be problematic is that its reception is generally to be the "rebellish" alternative to WhatsApp etc. and people tend to think that it is more secure and has a better encryption.
Another pro Telegram point would be that they at least don't have an as big incentive as FB to capitalise on their users data.

What saddens me is that Signal seems to be the go to alternative. Which is obviously more secure but still centralised and has a terrible UX (e.g. drains the battery of my laptop very fast when I tried it the last time). Why not directly go for Matrix / Element.io for a secure and decentralised (like eMail) approach? Do you really want to upload your contacts?
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complaint also involved one officer responsible for mishandling and censoring our personal data but that customer care officer left the Council before being interviewed by the Investigators.

That officer then rejoined the Council after the Interviews had been completed.
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Eh, I kind of agree with the parent comment. The author didn't bring up any compelling points that couldn't be found in other modern languages (granted these likely borrowed from Haskell). As an outsider to Haskell I was hoping for some more concrete use cases for picking the language.
I'm particularly excited that the author mentioned manufacturing in space. I can imagine a future where purchasing power is greater in space than in some countries on Earth. Which was often the cause of earth based risky emigration. I can see the same by the 2050's
Highway barriers are different problem. RADAR, and I think ultra sound, has very poor angular resolution. So it’s very hard to distinguish between and object directly in front of you, from one just off do the side.

As a result cars ignore RADAR data about stationary objects when the car is moving at speed. The assumption being those stationary objects are things like highway barriers to side of the car. You don’t want the break slamming on just because your driving parallel to the highway barrier.

Consequence is that cars ignore stationary objects like highway barriers, when moving at speed. So if you’re heading straight at it, the car won’t slow down. But then the assumption is that the human really ought to notice they’re driving at a wall.
My problem with non-software companies is that they don't treat programmers as equals. To them they will always be "code monkeys" and below the mechanical or electrical engineers. These companies are led by people who think all programmers are stereotypical "nerds" and try to create software departments according to the script of The Big Bang Theory. Just look at this crap I was sent by a recruiter: https://www.mercedes-benz.io/ It's chock full of buzz words and infantilizing language. I don't want to "impact", "move the world" or whatever bullshit the marketing department can pull out its ass. I want good pay, good work-life balance and I want to be treated as a professional.
i have never seen retail prices of lfp batteries below 300$/kwh yet. Although i am confident near future versions of these batteries can last > 5k and may be even 10k cycles