skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not e2ee by default. If you exclusively use e2ee (secret chats), it becomes less featureful than signal/whatsapp/iMessage. No group chats!
This sounds very plausible. I have a Dell Windows laptop with an ordinary barrel charger port which can also be kept charged by a dock plugged into the USB C port. It seems a good arrangement. I haven't tried charging the laptop from a USB C wall wart rather than a dock, but it seems plausible it would work and it could be a handy feature if you forgot the charger somewhere.
To the extent that purchase prices vary independently of rental prices in the same market, the CPI inclusion of equivalent rents will not reflect home purchase prices.

Then again, I don’t see why it should, unless it is some measure based on the lower of rents (actual or equivalent) or amortized purchase and ownership costs (as you need shelter one way or the other), but that could only drive the CPI down compared to just considering rents as is done now.
Yeah, I'm using Android but not seeing a banner in the app.
Saw this on reddit, so copying here

Donate to them so they can buy more servers https://signal.org/donate/

* If you work in the US, many corporations will match your donation. Easy double of your donation

* Set https://smile.amazon.com to Signal, so your purchases on Amazon go to Signal

* Use services like Paypal to donate, that sends 100% of the money to the foundation
Telegram isn’t bad. They are not E2E encrypted by default, and they don’t offer E2E encrypted group chats. If that’s not important to you by all means use it; it’s a solid service with good apps.
And presumably the choice to fire back before our ICBMs are destroyed by incoming nuclear weapons would take into account the size of the confirmed launches by an enemy.

If you get confirmation that Russia launched 1-10 ICBMs, well maybe you are reading it wrong, and the loss of 100-200 missiles silos if you are wrong won't make much difference.

But if you get confirmation Russia is launching 100 ICBMs, its bombers are in the air, and its subs are rising to launch depth, well lets just hope that's hard to fuck up that confirmation.
Server is open source but good luck setting it up. There is no documentation for it. Also, they have intentionally excluded the option for clients to connect to alternate servers. This stance really rubs me the wrong way. I love the Signal protocol, everything else is kinda meh.
Hours of video watched per month is metric Netflix tries to optimize, because it predicts churn. If a customer is spending decreasing hours on Netflix and watching Disney instead, they are more likely to cancel.

Goodhart's law applies. If a customer is watching more Netflix because they are binging some fantastic new context, that’s great for Netflix. If the customer watching more because the app keeps auto playing something they didn’t ask for and gradually pisses them off, not so good. Netflix might have better ways of measuring customer satisfaction that can tell if these behaviors make the customer more satisfied overall.
Why is that? Your electricity might be from renewable resources. Or a non-renewable that is more efficient in total than using gas directly.
Another option is turning off the upstream side of eyeball connections. Basically, shutting off DLAMS, CMTS, etc.
Is SMS still popular in your part of the world? I literally haven't gotten an SMS from a human in the past 9 years. Here in Hong Kong, SMS is how your bank sends notifications, and for spam. The chat space is vastly dominated by Weixin/WeChat and WhatsApp.
I asked a similar question, my understanding is it's a matter of degrees. If you follow a unlawful order and say file paperwork the wrong way that probably won't result in a court marshal, if you burn down a village in a friendly country you most certainly would.

That said Congress is supposed to declare war so most of the wars we have been fighting for the past two decades are likely unlawful. I doubt you would be successful refusing to execute a drone strike on that basis. However if the president called up drunk one night and ordered your to bomb London, I suspect you'd be safe in that refusal.
Your memory is biased.

https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN...
> It’s perfect and requires no more innovation

When I moved from my 2014 to my current 16" MBP, I immediately fell in love with the smaller and sleeker new design. Its lighter and has a bigger screen - how are those not improvements?
I think it's worth bearing in mind that Hayek lived before the information age, and that there are real limits to the validity of the idea that design isn't useful (and especially in economics/finance).

UBI may not be a good idea, but the reason being that it's likely not the best design (I would say Minsky had it largely correct [0]).

[0] http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/ending-poverty-job...
They are obligated to refuse illegal order.

For a use of nuclear force to be legal, it must satisfy customary requirements of necessity, distinction, proportionality, and avoidance of unnecessary suffering.
> I have no patience any more for lazy know it alls in regards to programming.

Lock yourself in a palace of a library while the world goes to hell around you. Once you're finally out in the real world, make it even worse with ruthless greed and betrayal.

Yeah. Thanks Gandhi.
Connected Standby is still functional today... you might want to do a reinstall... (sadly Windows still doesn't always _remain_ stable with time)
It's the micropayments problem. That "inflated fee" would have to be over a dollar to cover the costs of doing the transaction; possibly several dollars. Not only are there the costs associated with the payment, but also the additional code infrastructure, dealing with complaints, excruciating security, etc.

As you say, it would likely cost as much as the dead-tree edition, and how much usage would it get? What fraction of people would ever use it? I suspect a lot of people would say, "I could see giving you $.05 or $.25 for this, but I'm not going to pay $3.00 to read one article. And I don't want access to more than that; I just want this article."

I mean, it would probably be worth the experiment for some major newspaper or magazine. I bet somebody has tried. But the history of micropayments is already a long string of failed attempts. Money just makes everything hard, and there seems to be a minimum below which it's just not worth it.
Young people are (generally) fans of corporate governance and government overreach. It's older "boomer" types who feel threatened by the new religion of sensitivity and cancel culture who worry about corporate governance and government overreach.

Please don't be pedantic on my comment and try to understand the general picture I am painting, you'll find the gist of the comment to be true even if I didn't articulate it super well. Thanks.
Your Coindesk source is wrong, the limit was never lowered.

Here is the commit where it was raised from 40 to 80: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5286/commits/a930658...

If you believe if was ever lowered, show me the commit.

The Coindesk articles contains the phrase "OP_RETURN was originally meant to store 80 bytes of extra data in a bitcoin transaction". How do they know what it was originally meant to do? If it meant to do it, why wasn't it in the source?
Well, you can also get many RTX 3080's (~$700) for the price of a V100 (~$6000), and the RTX 3080's are faster:
https://browser.geekbench.com/cuda-benchmarks

As I understand it, the V100 price is mostly artificial datacenter markup, enabled by lack of competition...
> Compared to tinder, bumble has more serious people looking to date

Not really true, Bumble engages in less shitty behavior than Tinder, so they don't prevent you to match with the people who are compatible with you basically. Which is more likely to create a serious relationships. But the 24hr thing for matching doesnt work anymore, that just eliminates girls who only want more followers on insta.

But yeah overall the app works better than Tinder, because Tinder needs to capture as much money as possible from their user to be the most profitable as possible. Bumble doesn't have to, at least it didnt have to, now that they become public, they will become as bad
Government just calls ISPs and tells them to shut stuff down or face charges.

> there is some government entity able to turn off a satellite, but that probably only applies to a few countries in the world

A satellite internet provider can’t provide service to a country without the complying with its government rules (assuming there is any kind of trade relationship between the country and the country of the satellite internet provider).
>The other unsettling truth is that HN can read this story and come away asking what people could possibly object to in his life story, and why one should believe the spouses (plural) that describe his dark side

What's unsettling about thinking that hit pieces on a dead man with quotes from supposed "ex girlfriends" is obnoxious?
Probably, in specific context - unrecognized and left to develop cancer will be boosted according to this research and if supplement reaches it which depends on many factors.

At this point there is literrary nothing you can recommend to your friend.
It won't help. Too many people will fall for schemes that just take all the UBI payments. They will apply the UBI plus their income to get the amount of mortgage they can afford, and then when (not if - bad things will happen, though how bad differs!) bad things happens they can't afford their payments. Or worse they will get involved in some sort of scam which takes all their UBI for some reward that never happens.
Bret Victor's, "The Future of Programming" is illuminating. He walks through what "programming" means and how the concept of "programming" has shifted in little evolutionary leaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=167&v=8pTEmbeENF4

"There can be a lot of resistance to new ways of working that require you to unlearn what you've already learned and think in new ways. ... And there can even be outright hostility."

Programming Baduk used to involve expert systems. Now convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can hoist a computer to superhuman performance, even doing so without pre-programmed rules (see MuZero). We no longer "program" computers to play Go, chess, shogi, or even Atari games.

Some people have difficulty keeping code structures in their mind's eye. Here's a conceptual development environment for navigating code visually, ending with a dual text editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3QqjhzhnAw

Is that programming?

What's the difference between _typing_ instructions into a computer to place a graphical user interface widget on a screen and _telling_ the computer you'd like to put a toroid on the screen? Computers can use CNNs to fill in knowledge gaps. Even though the computer wasn't told the colour, size, shading, material, or location of the toroid, it can still show us the ring.

Is telling a holodeck that you'd like to replay a scene from a novel a form of programming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7dfsLfWJvc

Each evolutionary step in programming has given us more powerful ways to express ideas in ever terser forms. Few people code in binary anymore. Did Picard need to tell the computer where to put every chair, table, glass, and machine gun?

What is programming?
This is bad. I spent a lot of time and effort getting non-techie friends to switch from whatsapp, and now what is supposed to be the best alternative is having a massive downtime. I think I'll just give up.
Recipe-wise, this is a copy of the main database structure that we're using. Sharing in case it's helpful for other people spinning up similar things in other states: https://airtable.com/shrb5QLQ2DGSoau2l
Perhaps there are 2 kinds of people: those who think the way you're describing, and those who would hit the button to retaliate. I wonder if the people who end up sitting in the missile silo are selected for the job by asking them how they would respond.
New AI models scan X-rays to predict the prognosis of Covid-19 patients
There are roughly ten results for “sodomy” with the search modifier “site:sec.gov” but it seems like only one of those is there because of sheer stupidity
Turning off the internet isn't impossible per-se, it's just very difficult without disastrous effects on the local economy. I don't know how developed Uganda is, but I can tell you for sure that if the internet is blocked in the US or any major European country, everything stops, including real-life things such as card payments and even airport timetable signs (interesting fact: most of the UK ones run a Chrome instance displaying a webpage hosted by a Romanian company). Even if access to national services is unaffected, those services themselves depend on various SaaSes that would be affected by the international blocking.
My theory about what might have governed his behavior: boredom. He was designing a game, which is a system designed to mitigate the boredom issue. Knowing people better could make them boring to one's eye -- there are familiar patterns, and not much interesting new patterns developed. Nature has a lot of interesting new patterns.. but maybe he eventually got bored out of that too.
4K is a little much even for 17" screens. I think 1440p is a better size.
Law enforcement gets around your smartphone’s encryption
Using Telegram is a rational decision if you want a service that's good at fun conversations. Signal's value proposition is _secure conversations_ and it does that much better than other services. "Fun" is not part of Signal's value proposition. More people want/need fun conversations than need secure ones. Regardless of what people "should" want, Telegram serves people's mundane everyday needs materially better than Signal does. "It's fun and the people I care about talking to already use it" is a compelling value proposition, not a frivolous one, given people's everyday needs.

The more someone cares about security and is willing to trade away other good things for security, the better a platform Signal is — but remember, this also flows the other way.
I understand - I'm also in my 20's. It sucks. A lot. But we're not the only people having to sacrifice and hopefully things get back to normal soon! It's tough but I don't think anyone will regret doing the right thing and hopefully we'll appreciate life a bit more afterwards.
To late to edit, I meant “buy his book”. Typo.
from an economic perspective, it doesn't make sense to buy a depreciating asset, like a car, with debt. a house, on the other hand, is generally considered a stable asset, so debt is appropriate there.
I was replying to the (Edit) by GP (to me) about the Impressum, it appears you were addressing the censorship preceding sentence. I read your reply as a challenge to the second (Edit) statement due to it's passive-aggressive nature and non-specific target subject. You simply said "show me some laws", so I did and here we are.
How fun is this!

It's nice to have a reminder and to realize the impact that comments, sharing and encouragement can have in the greater world.
Tools around creating a gmail filter to remove recruiters' emails from my inbox

https://github.com/StefanoChiodino/i-dont-want-to-be-recruit...
I see what you mean. Lazarus look great, I might try teaching it to a friend!

EDIT: Any good small-ish project in GitHub to get a feel for the language?
An company in California spending $500k a year on an engineer will get the employee about $290k a year

An company in the UK spending $500k a year on an engineer will get the employee about $250k a year

An company in California spending $200k a year on an engineer will get the employee about $147k a year

An company in the UK spending $200k a year on an engineer (gross salary £130k plus £17k employer NI) will get the employee about $107k a year

Its not taxes that keep the salaries "down" in the UK
Need for approval maybe. Skilled at getting approval from strangers. Once in a relationship that disappears.
Please don’t give up so fast.
Maybe it's been a while since I last ran the search haha. Noted!
Thanks! Just donated too
Any details? Is this an Apache vulnerability or a JRE one?
Ask HN: What do you use for Engineering Management
Hi EMs,
There are thousands of resources to become a better IC Engineer in any programming language. As a engineering leader, I am curious what tools and resource have you found useful for better managing engineering teams/org.
This is one of the many reasons why I prefer not use google to store contacts; you can grant the permissions, and not worry about it.
> I could believe them getting rid of the touchbar

Either they should get rid of it or add it to more products.

Devs can't rely on a touchbar being present since as soon as you plug in an external keyboard it's un-reachable or simply not there for Apple's desktop offerings.

I'd love it if Apple sold an external keyboard with a touchbar, because there are genuine uses for it.
Completely wrong, it's a service as centralized as Facebook.

Maybe you're mixing it up with Matrix, Briar, or some other decentralized chat system.
Thanks for your comment, I've just donated too.
Blinn's classic paper "How many ways can you draw a circle?" seems relevant (discusses CORDIC):

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4057251
What are the shortcomings of Wordpress, Tumblr etc and how did you address them? Thanks
But the new MacBook would still have USB-C for peripherals right? So it could be, if those still would support USB-PD, that the new MacBook can be charged over magsafe or, if you happen to be near USB-C, using your 'legacy' USB-C charger for 'backwards compatibility'. That would be pretty sweet!!
Anyone know what their backend is? Is it an erlang stack like Whatsapp?
> Also, they have intentionally excluded the option for clients to connect to alternate servers.

Since Signal doesn't federate, if you switched your client to an alternate server you would be unable to communicate with the 99.9% of people out there using the official Signal server. Signal isn't going to give a UI option that is certain to cause frustration and bafflement for the vast majority of users. Those wanting to use an alternate server are probably a small nerd niche who already know how to fork the client.
https://keebord.io a website to show cool mechanical keyboards. Submit your builds if you want!
WebRTC mandates end-to-end encryption, but that's for the web browsers. Can you please link me to evidence that Telegram does not have any way to encrypt video or audio calls?

You say Telegram is a for-profit company, but I am not sure how Telegram makes money, at all. It was approached by various government agencies looking for backdoors and claims to have rebuffed them all. Unless the whole thing with the founder of vkontakte having to give up his shares to mail.ru and run, was staged, I'm pretty sure he's an anarcho-capitalist who isn't very happy with states having data. So if that's the case, Telegram (unlike Moxie Marlinspike and Jan Koum) is much less likely to sell out their platform down the line.
And herein lies the reason decentralized isnt about uptime, when the server you use is down its down regardless how many use it and it doesn't matter to you others still work. It'll probably get more downtime over the years than the mega important one as well.

That's not to say decentralized doesn't have a ton of benefits just uptime for the user isnt one.
> Yep, the new money has flowed into capital assets rather than consumption goods.

Yes, because the wealth has flowed to people who primarily relate to the economy as capitalists, rather than laborer/consumers.

> It would be like saying there’s no inflation because milk prices are steady, ignoring that cows cost three times as much.

So, it would be true, for the purpose for which we have and measure general inflation. It would not be true for certain other inflation measures which are also used, but which aren’t part of (and aren’t relevant to the purposes of) general inflation measures like the CPI
While i am very pro-tax and pro-support nets, i don't think we can have UBI - an insanely high tax social program - without a tax overhaul.

Most specifically, the more social programs you provide the more transparent taxation becomes. Right now our tax programs are not only lacking in transparency but are straight obtuse. This exists, i assume, because they had to work around peoples aversion to taxes and sticker shock when paying taxes.

A massively increased tax spend will only serve to illustrate the sticker-shock problem more. I just don't see UBI happening until people can learn to pay for the common good, recognizing what they're getting out of it and how the common good has material impacts on their self - even if entirely selfishly motivated (as most Americans seem).

Unfortunately the only way i see UBI (or similar) happening is in the face of mass layoffs and lack of work due to a large technology change - like various forms of automation. Until then, it's a problem people can't see, aren't directly affected by, and won't want to pay for.
just a few datapoints, the Dell Ubuntu machines (4+) we've received, I just do the "Additional Drivers", click Nvidia, reboot and stuff like TensorFlow just works. CentOS (RHEL) same.

I think if you start messing with one of distributions not on the CUDA download paper, you get stuck easily, but at least for work purposes, I don't see the point of using something other than RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Debian.
Agreed this was my surprise about the headline. I assumed it'd be blocked.
Signal that can damage hardware is something that used to be discussed with CRT monitors back in those ancient times, and rumours existed of a virus that played on this.

Having damaging audio signal is a new one for me.
The thread there is really interesting. Apparently the "OEM" IMEs aren't the ideal standard for Chinese input, so people tend to use a proprietary one like Sogou's. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogou
Agreed, most of these problems are so core and fundamental to human nature or societal infrastructure one could add "solve world peace" or "solve world hunger" to this list and it would fit right in. This isn't to say they shouldn't be attempted and many are trying, but I wouldn't make a "companies I wish existed" list with ideas so broad in scope.
If this legally possible, that will happen 100%, the match group business is to buy any significant competitor, and they tried in the past to buy Bumble.
Listening to the Skrillex samples in the article, it just sounds like DnB but... obnoxious.

The Loefah track in the parent comment though, I can get behind that.
But, see, who holds the debt? It's not just evil people who deserve to lose their ill-gotten gains. It's things like pension funds, too. So a debt jubilee sounds great. A "lose your pension fund jubilee" sounds a lot less nice.
No strong feelings; I'm in Japan, rather than California, but combination of local knowledge for e.g. which state resources to scrape plus some local affinity for maintaining volunteer enthusiasm seemed useful.
Thanks, I'll send this guide to my mom!
It's only FOSS by appearance really - it's still a team of well-paid engineers that operate like any other startup, with the difference that you can read the code of their apps and the bug-tracker is public.

They operate on their own schedules and priorities, and it's tricky to get your PR into any of the clients.