skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> International law is one consideration but under US law, the generals are not allowed to refuse a launch order.

That is not my understanding from talking with people in the army. What I understand is that anyone in the armed forced is not only allowed, but required, to refuse a unlawful order given by anyone, even the president. Executing on a unlawful order is a crime and you can end up court marshalled or even executed if the outcome is bad enough. The Nuremberg defense ("I was just following orders") does not fly in the US military.
> I am of the opinion that we should prevent violent insurrection rather than waiting for it to happen and then responding with jail time.

Responding with jail time is how you prevent it, through deterrence.

> I'm not saying we should prevent all book publishing, but you do understand what historical precedence I was referring to right?

Presumably the unconstitutional Son of Sam laws?

> If the dumb thing they're saying is that all politicians are satan worshipers and pedophiles, then it doesn't matter what "thing" I have to say to them.

I disagree. There are still things you can say and do to black pill the crazies.

Now, sometimes the only thing you can do to convince them is to do something, because just saying "no you're wrong" isn't much of an argument. Whereas, say, arresting and prosecuting everyone involved with Jeffrey Epstein would satisfy a lot more people that there isn't a vast international conspiracy of pedophile Satanist cannibals, as compared to the presumably truer situation in which a lot of powerful people were involved a major statutory rape and prostitution debacle and yet thus far have escaped prosecution.
Will be incredibly interesting to see if investors start to clamp down on what they consider an "active user."

Also, I wonder how they deal with fraud? Huge problem for them and Tinder.

Tons of phishing attempts / attempt to get you off app to sell you paid Snapchat or Onlyfans

Here is an interesting article about the fake profiles on Tinder

http://in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/us-model-sues-dating-1-5-b-ove...

" The lawyer for a Florida model suing dating site Match.com as part of a 1.5-billion-dollar-class-action-lawsuit said that Match.com can easily weed out fake profiles by using software that can help pinpoint most fake profiles. Yuliana Avalos, a mother and part-time model, said that hundrerd of fake profiles on Match.com have used her pictures without her consent. The class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Thursday alleges that copyright laws were broken by the dating site, which also committed common law fraud by allowing fake profiles with unconsenting people's images to be approved, ABC News reported."
Ahhh, the good old days when people wrote quality software. I remember them fondly.
Learn perspectives on life, sets of values etc. of different people. See what sounds appealing to you and try implementing that. If, over time, you have problems with motivating yourself to follow that path or it somehow feels wrong otherwise, try analyzing what exactly is the nature of the problem and correct for that, or choose a different path entirely. Using this method, over time, you will discover your natural preferences and will be able to construct a life that agrees with you and feels right.
Milk in general is high calorie + high fat and a Starbucks Grande is 5 times the size of a typical coffee I was used to. Not to mention the fact that they charge a good chunk more for other low calorie non-dairy substitutes. A typical meal at an American restaurant is two meals - easily - and our portion sizes are not small by any means.

The sweetness is another major put off. There's no concept of a savory snack here. There's also no culture of an afternoon or tea time snacking. In my personal opinion, having a small post-lunch snack helps me stay satiated for longer and have a much smaller supper instead of a large dinner.
The U.S nuclear protocols are secret and very little is known about their current situation. Optimal deterrence position is when enemy is uncertain what the protocol is but the US actually has launch after confirmation. Land launched ICBM's are not absolutely necessary for US deterrence anymore, so launching them before they are destroyed is not necessary.

While the US certainly maintains the technical ability to have launch on warning, it seems that it might not be the policy.

Clinton Issues New Guidelines on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Doctrine
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997-11/news/clinton-issues-...

> ... while the United States has always had the "technical capability" to implement a policy of launch on warning, it has chosen not to do so. "Our policy is to confirm that we are under nuclear attack with actual detonations before retaliating," he said.
Surprising. Out of the three you mentioned I like Hinge to be the neatest one in terms of idea, although the worst app out of the three. The prompt/photo comments approach allows for a better conversation starter than bios IMO. Also, being able to see who is liking you by default is much better.

Way back when I used Bumble, a lot of girls used to drop 'Hi!'(double standards), and never bothered to reply to my reply which felt very annoying to say the least.

I would wish every dating app to add a simple feature, if the other person is active on the dating app and isn't responding to you, just unmatch the pair say after two/three days of the last message. I don't understand what's the purpose of just being a name/chat on someone's list.
or parler users, or twitter users, or disgruntled telegram users. could be multiple issues
I have a simpler argument. The necessity of being fed, clothed, and housed, comes with a monthly price tag. The price of an annuity which pays for these things is the amount of debt that you are born with. That debt is completely undischargeable in bankruptcy, and is, in fact, the zero value to which you are set should you declare bankruptcy. The (inflation adjusted) price of that annuity varies wildly with the economic circumstances, even if the monthly payout does not. Being born in a time with low annuity rates could mean that you intrinsically owe hundreds of thousands of dollars more than someone born in a period of high annuity rates. This is obviously a knob that should be turned.
They are (were?) hosted partially on Amazon, which should be able to scale quite nicely.

If the system is built for it, that is.

Though on 2018 there was some noise from Amazon about stopping their hosting due to practice called "Domain Fronting", no idea what came out of it. At least signal.org is hosted on Google.
The quantity of the individual contributors seems to be the only stretch you seem to be able to point out, yet you go further to trying to defend the SSPL license as limiting a very narrow set of applications - despite lawyers and open source advocates almost unanimously having said the license text itself is ambiguous enough to cover a much larger set of use cases.

If you are not a lawyer and if this is not legal counsel, I'd suggest you leave your personal interpretations of a license that is broadly considered to be less permissive than advertised outside of civil discussion.

>There are certainly valid criticisms of this decision, but

Why the but? Obviously this decision hurts AWS but it also hurts a much broader group than them.
I think you’re misunderstanding what I am suggesting. People can be homeless for very long periods, so there may be some threshold below which you see positive tendencies and above which you see negative tendencies.
There are many third party mag-safe like "adapters" for USB-C, that fairly flush in the port. It does require that port being a dedicated charging port though.
I think you're getting the big hug.

Here's a question to the HN community at large, as someone who hasn't deployed a project to the general public (ie posting about it on a webforum), what steps do I need to take to make sure it doesn't get hugged to death?
Based on that, they use Google, Apple, Twilio and AWS in the backend. All who have shown they are willing to deplatform with little notice as the result of kneejerk public pressure.

How easily can Signal replace those dependencies if this comes for them?

"Extremists move to secret online channels": https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/extremists-move-se...
That was a crazy read. Thanks for sharing.
beware NVidia hybrid GPU's in laptops. I have had 4 such laptops, all 4 suffered from graphics problems. 2 ended up dead. 1 works great but the Nvidia GPU is no longer detected (???) And the last one still works, but graphics crash about every 4 hours when the gpu is under heavy load (I think due to heat)
I have been happy with this OneDrive client on Ubuntu for the last year: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/
> Just because something is popular doesn't mean people should be entitled to it.

We have generally acknowledged that things that are important to everyone and are monopolized need to be regulated.

Social media is practically the only effective way to participate in the global community. The same is true, although with decreasing necessity, in more localized communities.

Facebook and Twitter have massively altered the way that people engage with other people, businesses, even the government. They took public discourse and monetized it. That's fine, but they now have to deal with the implications of being the keepers of public discourse, and I think a reasonable stipulation for allowing them to monetize that is that they cannot bar someone from participating without a very good justification that isn't "lol our ToS allows us to cut you off whenever we want, and take your first born child".

> speaking economically when these large platforms boot people off it actually increases competition and decreases their dominance because it creates a market opportunity for competitors, exactly like what happened with Parler. Suddenly, nobody seems to care that a conservative competitor to AWS is getting a huge account, shouldn't that be pereceived as a good thing?

Sure, and what happened to them? It's a little ironic to argue that booting people off of their platform increases competition and then mention their new competitor that was immediately wiped off the face of the internet.

I think Parler attracted a lot of extremists. That's partially their own fault with their poor moderation, but it's also a reflection that Twitter has so dominated the marketplace that your only customers as a new social media site are going to be nutjobs. It has strong anti-competitive effects. The community is a huge part of a social media site. Crazy users poison the community, ensuring that the brand is tainted and not a threat to Twitter.

> Why are the people who get banned so insistent on using services they claim are inherently unfair to them? Why not support companies that share your values?

Because you'd be better off writing it on bathroom stalls.

Because there is no meaningful competitor. Even Parler was tiny by social media standards, and it's probably dead now.

Because your friends and family want to use Twitter, and probably won't switch, so you have to use Twitter and Facebook.

Because Facebook and Twitter have spent so long maximizing engagement that people barely bother looking for other sources of news and information.

I'm not a huge fan of Parler or the way it was run. It does seem damning that the only app that threatened to take some of Twitter's market share was immediately scrubbed off the internet. I don't think ISIS material gets completely wiped off the face of the internet that fast.
This article is really arguing that Wikipedia is not conservative enough for Larry Sanger's preference.

He is arguing that minority opinions should be given more equal coverage, but only as far as this applies to conservative points of view.
Yep, the new money has flowed into capital assets rather than consumption goods. But inflated, prices have.

It would be like saying there’s no inflation because milk prices are steady, ignoring that cows cost three times as much.
Last time WhatsApp was having issues, a “Connecting” banner was shown permanently on the app and all outgoing messages displayed a clock instead of a tick, showing that they weren’t reaching the server.
Many countries would do that, unfortunately
Demand a refund!
With a little bit of charity, I don't take it as a serious rant ("I can't believe we have to deal with this stuff! I demand it be made easier!") so much as musings about possibility ("How much better could this be? In what ways?"). I think the tone is a little bit exaggerated on purpose, for effect, as if one is imagining a future world in which we've progressed so much that 2020's status quo really does become unacceptable.

I think as a set of musings it's totally valid: there really is a ton of yak-shaving that still stands between "coders" and "non-coders" which actually has very little to do with code itself. It's a good exercise to brainstorm which speedbumps are unnecessary and what we could do to remove them.
SEO tools like semrush or ahrefs (I have no affiliation with either) could actually help find competitive companies. Although that is not the intent of these tools, it may work for what you are trying to accomplish.
There you go: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2019/...

argparse - or close to it :-)
That's a huge topic, which I am planning to cover towards the end of the article series 
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, but in short: yes, my opinion is that spellchecking is actually a "machine learning problem in disguise", and most of existing dictionaries are more a roundabout way of storing something-not-unlike-models than analytical data.

But ML approach will raise a question of data availability. What good your "deep learning OSS spellchecker" will do if there aren't good (and open) models for it which cover as much languages as existing Hunspell dictionaries do? And what if adding a bunch of new words requires laborous model retraining? It is not unsolvable, but non-trivial.

I believe all the giants have something like this inside (I don't think spelling correction in Google search bar is handled with Hunspell, right?), but it is much harder to do as an open tool, ready to embedding into other software.

There are a notable attempts, though: JamSpell for one (https://github.com/bakwc/JamSpell), which has an open "free" models, and more precise commercial ones; source code is open (maybe also only for using "simplistic" models, haven't dug deeper).
Yes, that's a bad thing.

This is the primary mechanism that has stagnated Japan's economy since their asset bubble burst in the 80's.

If you want to start a business you need investment and customers. You will get neither if everyone is hoarding cash. Investors will not stomach your risk when they can just safely sit on their balance. Customers will hesitate to buy your product because they will always expect your prices to go down the longer they wait.
>But it’s par for the course for newly popular services.

It is, but most consumers don't care, they just what their stuff to work 100% of the time as frictionless as possible, and, on top of all things, for free. Otherwise they just run back to the usual free surveilanceware.

I've tried and failed to convince some young, highly educated zoomer friends with good incomes to move away from WhatsApp and Facebook and even when I told them "Look, they're basically spying on you" they just brush it off and say "I don't care, it's fun, easy to use and all my friends are already there".

Ironically, it was easier to convince my boomer parents to move to Signal and they also understand and agree with the tradeoffs and extra friction for the sake of free privacy but younger people just want to be where their friends are and not feel left out (remember the blue vs green bubble stigma on iMessage).
Looks like he's running from a shell. Can't he just press C-z?
The side effects of chinese not adopting a phonographic writing system when it could, or having both like japanese does so you don’t need to use such an informal ambiguous layer when actually writing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/technology/telegram-signa...

> The result was a mass migration that, if it lasts, could weaken the power of Facebook and other big tech companies. On Tuesday, Telegram said it added more than 25 million users over the previous three days, pushing it to over 500 million users. Signal added nearly 1.3 million users on Monday alone, after averaging just 50,000 downloads a day last year, according to estimates from Apptopia, an app-data firm.

> “We’ve had surges of downloads before,” said Pavel Durov, Telegram’s chief executive, in a message on the app on Tuesday. “But this time is different.”

As someone who semi-fondly remembers the Twitter failwhale, I really don't think a more conspiratorial theory than "a few million people suddenly tried to jump on" is required here.
SpaceX returns to Starship program roots with new 'test tank' prototype
It's also called the fallacy fallacy for a reason.
That’s a different argument from the GP, who was justifying it on the grounds of encouraging extra consumption, not investment.
You made it to my quotes file, which is a somewhat high bar even if it doesn't help for anything ;-)

> We often notice how "easy"/quick it is to hurt somebody by saying something even light-hearted,

I've been very aware of this for the last ten years after realizing that despite my good intentions I could sometimes hurt others.

> but when it comes to that extreme you'd be surprised how very few words about mundane things can prevent a collapse (at least that time).

I think this will be important to keep in mind too going forward.

Thanks!
Not to diminish her problems, but at the same time this is extremely reminiscent of girlfriends that are super attention seeking and constantly have “problems” that need to be resolved immediately. Sounds like this guy wasn’t super emotional and was distressed by incessant calls for attention.
When were those days and how do I get back to them?

I'm being sarcastic :-)
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I know someone who is fighting this. It's not so much they don't want to work, but the fact that with our current system there are places where working causes you to earn less. Unemployment is one piece, but food stamps and other benefits get cut off as well. Working costs money. Commuting, child care, uniforms, etc. For a person with children, a minimum wage job is tough to justify.

A system where government help was tapered until people were above the poverty line would eliminate these perverse incentives.
Is There Anything Good About Atheists? Exploring Positive & Negative Stereotypes
Fogus joins Clojure core team
I don't think there's any indication this person was murdered, nor that there's anybody to seek justice against.
> The Social Security Administration sends out checks each month to 64 million people, mostly the elderly and disabled. Unemployment Insurance programs send out checks each month to 2.1 million people. In other countries, the government, in addition to paying these kinds of old-age, disability, and unemployment benefits, also pays out a monthly benefit to every child. In the US that would mean checks going out to the families of around 74 million children.

> None of this leads to any inflation problems because, as mentioned in the very first section above, taxes are used to fund these programs, just as they would be for any other permanent welfare state expansion.

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/03/18/understandin...
So very many moderators with an ax to grind.

If there is a net bias, it is against new information that upsets professors emeriti. New and wrong do frequently go together, but that should not protect old and wrong.
Not a single non tech person I know has ever complained about the size of an app on download. Not one. They don't even look at the size its not relevant to them. They want to do something that some app enables. Besides how well it lets them do it no one cares about the size until they are out of space, which is usually because they have so many videos and photos stored.

You're kidding yourself if you think the average person looks at the size of an app.
Even granting your position, but while the set of “orders to use nuclear weapons that the public would, in retrospect, consider catastrophically undesirable” and that of “orders to use nuclear weapons that would be clearly illegal” do overlap, the former is not at all fully contained in the latter.
And the site is hosted on Digital Ocean: https://www.nslookup.io/dns-records/dns.watch
After rereading the relevant section a few times, no, I think SSPL is fine for our use.

EDIT: I should say for our current primary usecase. It does look like this would make it awkward for us to expose grafana to clients, but that's a narrow case and/or one that I suspect you'd intend to be in-scope for virality.
Who cares about Apple haters? I care that it’s a super common device that a lot of people have and could therefore be dangerous
I remember years ago back when I still used WhatsApp when there would also be temporary outages due to huge increase in traffic/popularity. Growing pains. I would have hoped, though, that the engineers at Signal would have foreseen this and would have been prepared.
Quite feasible no competition is allowed and they resorted to DDoS the new neighbor. Support government backdoors or get hammered.
Even if inflation were to occur at the levels you anticipated, I would find it hard to justify crypto being a safe hedge against the dollar. Dollar backed productive assets are largely much safer.
He's probably looking at it from a different angle.

As someone who has had to set up MSBuild & other BS for a CI server, I definitely agree with you.

For a dev used to double click Visual Studio, the current setups are more complex.
Is this an elastic employee throwaway? How is going from a more permissive license to less permissive one "not really that different" than the inverse?!
Being able to pay the government to not close you while your competitors are forced to close is not a free market.
I don't know how he manages to write Node.js programs when one of the first things he says is that he couldn't get node to install.
Signal is totally centralized. The server is (if I recall correctly) open source, but if you were to run your own server, all of your contacts would have to be using your server too in order to communicate with them.

I assume that the hostname(s) of the central Signal servers are hardcoded in the app somewhere, since they're not meant to be replaced.
After getting burned by Keybase, I didn't even look at Signal. I am curious to see how Signal works in the long term without a revenue model.

I paid for Matrix and got my team on it, working great.

The nice thing about paying for something is you know what it costs.
Everything has sugar in it. Even Sriracha!!! My experiment with cutting adding sugar completely for a month was the single hardest experiment I ever did with my diet. I lost 10 pounds in a month - absolutely unhealthy and I had to reverse course because of that. But, that's how much sugar there is in American food.
Of course there are protocols like XMPP and Matrix.

But there are also solutions that don’t require everyone to host their own server. Rather, people just host impersonal nodes on the network and everyone uses the whole network together.

Examples would be Status[1] (Ethereum) and Session[2] (Oxen neé Loki).

I’m sure there are others that use this architecture too. I just like it because I don’t have to be personally concerned with who is running my “home server”. Because there is no one single home server in this model.

[1]: https://status.im/

[2]: https://getsession.org/
The notion that corporations are actually allowed to own parties in Australia seems shocking. You mean they are top donors, right?
I'm curious how a link to a Fulton County board of elections surveillance video has anything to do with Signal's availability issues.