skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not then, but if I were them, I would do the opposite. I will immediately do the next shady step (whatever it is ) that Zuck always wanted to do. Because yeah, there is a lot of bad press around the privacy changes. But you better get all the backlash at the same time, than several time a backlash.

And that would be so good because I could be convinced to really uninstall whatsaap
> AWS instances in other regions

Is still Amazon operating those locations, so I assume it's still the USA who's calling the shots. Please do prove me wrong if I am, this is somewhat of an assumption (even if I am fairly confident it works this way in practice).

Though perhaps I'm putting too much weight on this aspect, it's just that everything we do in Europe can be monitored through one USA organisation or another. It feels really weird when you think about the number of actually European services you use (very few) and how much money the ad machines are making with your data in the USA, how much that data is apparently worth. We're wholly dependent.

Domain fronting: didn't Amazon and Google say they were not going to do that anymore, because they didn't want to stand up for the organisations using it at the time? Some countries wanted to block certain services (was it sci-hub? TPB? Tor? I don't remember) and instead of standing up for them, they just banned domain fronting.

Therefore I'm assuming that one can see when a packet is actually intended for Signal and filter those out. From there, it should only be a very manageable number of packets, since we're only interested in the routing header and packet size.

One does need proper equipment to capture and filter multiple gigabits per second, but the attack scenario was more about legal interception (which you put in front of the server rather than in front of the datacenter) than about dragnet surveillance. The latter is indeed less applicable on non-USA soil, hence my saying Wire and Signal have the same issue but e.g. Threema does not, though centralization still makes it way easier (thus Matrix is king in this regard).

> reconstructing a social network in a p2p network (without onion routing or anything like that) is much easier than doing this in a centralized network

Hmm, you mention gnunet and I'm not up to date there, perhaps you know something I don't, but this doesn't seem quite right to me.

Sure, once you know who is running a server, you can install a tap and learn whom they are talking to. Way less traffic than doing surveillance on a Signal server, I'm with you there. But you do need to figure out who you're interested in first. The way that I understood these metadata targets work, is that you take a popular network (say, WhatsApp) and check who talks to whom. Anyone within 3 degrees of a suspect is now also a suspect if I remember and understood USA law correctly. But if there is no single central service, you need to install a lot of taps or capture the right internet backbones to get close to the same information.

And if you're serious about anonymity, if you're hiding from the police or an intelligence agency, then surely you'd host that server somewhere paid for without traces to your real name. Or use some public home server -- they still need to tap that specific home server rather than a centralized server.
Artificial gravity implies you could turn it on and off. But you can't - if you have infinite energy, you also have infinite gravity, the two are bound together.

Whenever you have energy, you have gravity. I suppose you could send the energy from elsewhere, then send it back when you don't want the gravity anymore.
> Some of the boogaloo bois, she[1] told me, are “accelerationists,” meaning they’re looking for any provocation—be it proposed gun-control measures, Black Lives Matter protests, or the presidential inauguration—to spark a violent conflict. Other boogalooers believe that the “boogaloo” will be brought to them by the opposing side, by measures like gun confiscation, or some other perceived overstepping of authority.

this is the mindset, motivation, and justification for violence exactly as Ted Kaczynski has used and preached ever since (after his arrest all the way until today from his cell). TK specifically mentions alliances with other radical groups, such as white power and militias to upend and "reset" civilization in a way that forces humans to live "as 1 with" nature (or insert whatever utopia the group imagines). I read his ramblings (at times he is very intelligent) few years ago and found he radicalized himself by taking whatever Jacques Ellul wrote[2] in the Industrial Society "a bit too literal".

[1] JJ MacNab: amazingly skilled in her field https://twitter.com/jjmacnab if you're on twitter

[2] Ellul is a sociologist philosopher who shows how a power, propaganda, and "systems" work (similar to the anarchist scholar James C Scott whose work takes an anthropological view).
Great tool. You do have your happy user group now, congratulations and cudos for persevering!

For a 202* stack that I would want to use however, I'd like to see more flexible integration with other tech stacks. It would be THE perfect frontend for e.g. NextJS, if it would support React exports and an integration to other state management mechanisms like MOBX to drive dynamic sites.
> My employer is moving away from cljoure

I'd be interested in why that is if you have a moment to write a bit about it.
Brexit trade problems: what’s gone wrong and can it be fixed?
How can the union stop the employer from hiring non-unionized workers?
No, IANAL, but my reading of the relevant law indicates that such an arrangement is illegal in the US. Unions in the US are legally enshrined as the exclusive representative of all members of a "unit" which has a precise legal definition which is approximately a group of non-management workers with a well-defined role (e.g. line workers in a factory, butchers in a supermarket, teachers in California) [1]. When a union is formed, all members of the unit are represented by the union including individuals who are not members of the union [2]. This also means that once a union is formed representing the unit, all non-official unions of the form you are suggesting are legally superseded by the official union.

I believe this to be an accurate reading of the law as, as far as I am aware, there are no competing unions anywhere in the US unlike many countries in Europe which appear to have competing unions, though I am not particularly familiar with European labor markets.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/nation... Sec. 9 159 (b)

[2] https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/nation... Sec. 9 159 (a)
> This isn't malicious or bad. It's just an example of the common problem where people's view of themselves is different from their actual behavior. Something all founders should learn. It applies to users just as much as investors.

I did a bit of research and you're right; they clearly say in multiple places (including here on HN) that they fund non-traction companies often. I'd agree that this is stretching the truth and it's probably orders of magnitude more difficult to get into YC with no traction.
I tried reading it on the past. Most of it seemed out of date. What are the good parts?
Irmin – A distributed database built on the same principles as Git
The trope that most messages women receive from men are lewd and that's why women are more selective in their swipes is way overblown. The majority of men are normal and cordial in their approach. I don't doubt that most women will experience sexual harassment at some point, but that doesn't mean most men sexually harass women. It's a minority of men doing the d*ck pics and sexual harassment, so it's a non-sequitur as to explaining why women tend to be more selective in swiping and have more matches/messages online.
Security researchers earn $50k after exposing flaw in Apple travel portal
Worlds First Ready-to-Fly 5G Connected Sky Drone Mk1 available for pre-order
Far-right turns to encrypted platforms to stoke further unrest
This has been like this for a while, I tweeted to their support about this over a year ago. No response of course...

It's a total dick-move by Dropbox since access to Contacts is clearly not necessary for Dropbox to work.

However, the real problem here is obviously Google Login that only allows blanket permissions to either accept or reject.

Permissions should be granular and as a user I should have the ability the "untick" access to Contacts if I don't want to give an app access to that data. If I untick a permission that is needed for app functionality, e.g. I deny camera access to a camera app, then the app simply would be able to do that feature.
Last I heard (twelve months ago) the results for "charter schools" were statistically no different than any other.

There are anecdotes to support the point of view they are bad, and anecdotes to support that they are good.

The source of funding does not seem to be the problem. The quantity of funding, definitely.
HN has a giant global user base. Wouldn't be surprised to find more than a few west Africans here. As for myself, here in northern Europe I'm a lead developer in finance/banking, but for a few weeks a year I'm a farmer in Nigeria. Just because someone is a geek for technical stuff, doesn't mean they have to have such a limited perspective on the rest of the world.
"Cancelling student debt will help a shit tonne more workers."

I will feel terrible if that ever happens for folks that were smart with money and didn't incur tons of debt. It's gonna be a real bummer when you learn that you paid off your educational debt or never had any and that now you get to pay off debt of others that made bad decisions.
By 2025, the cloud will be the key driver of business innovation
It has taken years: one of the major GitHub issues requesting alternate identifiers than a phone number for privacy’s sake dates from 2014. [0] The devs last year started to speak publicly about making the change, but they were aware of the privacy concerns among users for much, much longer.

[0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1085
What is "cancer industry"?
Advances in ETL. Spark and DBT are large improvements over pre 2010 ETL tools. Give it a few years and we'll see really good GUIs for Spark/DBT.
> Any negotiated increase in salary or pensions should require a vote unless if there is a budget surplus.

Generally, they do require a vote of the appropriate governing body, with all the associated public information and opportunity for input that goes along with that.

> Municipalities are incurring way too much debt without taxpayer knowledge

If true, its because taxpayers don’t actually care. Because if they did, even if they were too lazy to find out themselves, it would be too convenient a lever for opposition to whoever the current majority is in the relevant governing body to use with the public to unseat them to go unused.
I think most people know about the collecting data thing. But WhatsApp/Facebook made a big mistake by forcing longtime users to accept the new rules or otherwise to get excluded from the community. This creates a very bad feeling because it’s like someone puts a gun on your chest. Take this or die! Ashole move...
> it's a shame grown ups with families can't find this backup in the community. once more capitalism shows it's ugly side.

OP had a three year old daughter with a life-threatening medical condition, so I'm not sure what exactly you're talking about.
You are not FB customer. It's not about your needs but the needs of the ad buyers.
> Reagan's firing of the air traffic controllers

It was illegal for the controllers to strike.
My fear is that people will say "Oh, I can now keep Whatsapp around for just a bit longer" and the furore will die down. Luckily, my colleagues, not just friends, have moved over so I can at least delete it after asking them if they mind connecting on Signal.
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Sounds like a planned economy. We know how well that works.
> Few poor republicans and poor democrats would like to admit that they are in the same economic boat

They might agree that they're in the same boat, but they'll disagree with why they're there.

Poor democrats will blame corporations for keeping wages low and sending jobs to China and lack of government assistance programs. They think the solution is to increase taxes on the rich to provide better social programs.

Poor republicans will blame illegal immigrants for stealing their job, or they somehow think the government is in their way. They think the solution is to cut taxes on the corporations to create jobs (regardless of the fact that this never works).
https://noncombatant.org/2016/06/20/get-into-security-engine... is an amazing overview of security engineering and provides some resources to get started
iirc, biosphere failed because the concrete absorbed carbon dioxide and caused crop failure. interestingly, this allowed Dr Roy Walford et al to study calorie restricted optimal nutrition (CRON) diets and discover their effects, slowing the aging process.
I wonder if this is a wake-up call for Facebook executives re: how completely toxic their brand has become. Every time criticism of Facebook comes up here, a bunch of people handwave it off with “It’s just us HN nerds, 2 billion people don’t care“, but I’m seeing a whole lot of non-tech people fleeing WhatsApp as fast as they can.
I knew from the title it was going to be Michael Abrash's book. There is, indeed, a lot of wisdom there. I did most of my recreational x86 assembler coding in 1993-95. I got the book when it came out (an unwieldy tome in paper form) and poured over it but, sadly, I never really did much x86 assembler after that.

There's a lot in the book that's dated, being very VGA-specific, or specific to the x86 CPUs of that day. Even so, there are lots of ideas in the book that transcend that. His advice about optimization, and about how to approach problems, is timeless.
Yes and no. Your mix is never going to sound as crisp as it does in the studio (ideal listening conditions). Road noise + reverb off the glass + cheap speakers = not as good a listening environment. It's best to build familiarity of other commercial productions on your ideal setup (monitors/headphones/etc.) for referencing purposes earlier in the process, in my opinion. Good to reference on more 'everyday' listening systems, too (personal favorite, the iPhone speaker).
I agree in the sense that the HN community cannot save a bad product. And sometimes it wouldn't even save a good product.

But I think the thanks here is for the community that was willing to give a new product a try, provide feedback, and help the founders build momentum towards what it ultimately became — especially when it was clear there was no traction on other sites. I think that's something to be thankful for, and shows that HN can be different from other communities in meaningful ways.
I bought and index and have been driving it with a 2700x and 1060 6gb. Alyx was hands down one of, if not the best gaming experience I’ve ever had. I think the index controllers really take the experience to another level. Being able to pick up things by grabbing them is awesome. The headphones on the index are amazing too, and really help with immersion.

Support with other games is pretty good. I bought a bunch of games during the summer sale, and haven’t found anything unplayable for me. Not all games have full finger tracking, and not all games have the ability to pick things up like you can in Alyx. Some older games have been updated for Alyx style controls, but many control exactly how they did with the Vive.

I tried VR in Linux first, then tried on windows. Windows has better feature support and performance hands down. If you have a better GPU, you might be fine, but the advantages to booting into windows was worth it to me.
Important to note that:

> Construction would start in early 2021, with factory production expected in 2024.
I think if WhatsApp were serious about "we don’t share your contacts with Facebook", they would put it in the privacy policy [1].

As it stands, the policy refers to an FAQ entry [2] which leaves this almost completely open-ended: "The information we share with the other Facebook Companies [...] may include other information identified in the Privacy Policy section entitled ‘Information We Collect’"

That is, anything identified as information WhatsApp collects (including contact data) could be shared with Facebook.

[1]: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/updates/privacy-policy
[2]: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/what-i...
Honestly curious - are there any laws that would stop Amazon from just terminating employment for anyone found to be participating in this union?

When a company can hire 100,000 new employees at the drop of a hat[1], I see no reason why Amazon would ever cave into unfavorable union demands.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/amazon-to-hire-100000-wareho...
Terribly. But that's a good example of countries agreeing to ban something.
Prime Video's work on sports field registration, recap/intro detection
Bugtraq: BugTraq Shutdown
Espressif IoT line (ESP8266) took off in part because of NodeMCU that used Lua firmware.
Scenes from the Second Civil War
After spending 7+ years in the static site generator world, I recently started using Webflow exclusively for all marketing sites and landing pages and have been blown away with how much better it is than dealing with the complexities of the Static site + Headless CMS ecosystem. It seems you've actually delivered on the vision that dreamweaver was originally trying to create all those years ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if one day Webflow's market share on the Web gets to be Wordpress-sized.

With the recent funding raised, I'd love to hear what your vision is for the next 5 years of Webflow as a product?
All of the above if most of the demand from people fleeing from USDT goes into Bitcoin, which is likely.

More people chasing the same thing -> price goes up.

But obviously the BTC/USDT price would go up a lot more because USDT would be going down at the same time.
What don't you understand? The point of a union is to extract more money and reduce productivity (yes, it is). A company will resist this since it's the company's money that's getting extracted and their productivity that's getting hurt. Politicians will not resist it since it's public money and public services--not specifically their own.
People will take out the filters because humidity is uncomfortable to them, so I would definitely encourage people to mistrust them.
Why? For all you know, the OP had specifically his/her aunt in mind.

If I wrote that, I’d have my 93 year old grandma who got Signal years in mind. She’s i it because because I refuse to share pictures of my kids otherwise.

Or maybe I’d have my sister in mind. The older one of the two, who has zero interest in this stuff. My youngest sister, OTOH would just as likely advice me to adopt some technology.

All this ranging about fake (and it is fake) politeness is oppressive to the thought process. And it’s very irksome and tiring. When I speak, I want to say something. Not stop and figure out which real an imagined person with a disadvantage might perceive a slight where none is intended.

If I mean to insult you, you’ll know.

When you write instructions to others, by all means, make the “idiot” a young white man from the Midwest. I don’t care. But, just so you know, my grandma is an inspiration of fierce independence (she lives alone in a bad neighborhood in a third world country ). My sister who doesn’t care about tech is brilliant. They just don’t care about apps. And it’s ok.
That seems like not a great mood when the nation (USA) is apparently under attack by domestic terrorists. I can understand if people are just being overly political, but it's hard to be political when a sizeable faction of the country evidently thinks it's time for the US experiment to get cancelled.
It's a non profit. It runs on donations. There is no "monetization model"
Not reading enough yc materials early on lol. Much of what matters as dev is hitting your business goals and meeting your users' needs, yc materials covered a lot of that.
It seemed to imply that from Feb, metadata would now be shared with Facebook (I know, probably was anyway), and a lot of people took a dim view of that. (esp. those that paid for it originally)

I think a lot of horses have bolted, but I'm sure there will be plently left once the gate is shut.
I know that the situation with mid-range phones was not always so rosy. I was myself buying mostly high-end phones in the past.

But recently my friend bought a Motorola for 200 Euro - Snapdragon 730, 6 GB RAM, 128 GB UFS 2.1 storage, pretty good main camera + (so-so) ultrawide, (gimmicky) macro camera, 5000 mAh battery. I was very impressed what can 200 Euro these days buy. I'm pretty confident this phone will do just fine in 2 years too ...
Not only did I run out of money, I ended up homeless!

TL;DR -- don't run out of money.
The details are witchcrafty to me, but the base idea that virtual devices passed to the guest can have unintended access to host memory (or files, etc) seems straightforward.

Edit: Curious, are there common guest escapes that exploit something other than virtual devices?
NRA Dumps New York to Reincorporate in Texas
I love this comment. I don't think this notion gets highlighted enough.

This is definitively anecdotal, though I've been at / through approximately 5 startups across 12 years, and looking back, I believe each end everyone one (except for one) was definitely helped / started by a founder or set of founders who didn't have to worry about whether they went belly up or not due to family wealth. Hell, I still know some that I've consulted for that have lived in the bay area for the past 8 years without a product that makes any money, no vc funding, and were just out of their masters 8 years ago.

Clearly looking back, nearly every founder I've worked for came from a family with $$$. Even currently, at least one of my co-ceos just up and left their 2 million dollar menlo park house and went to live in their parents vacation home in monterey right when covid began.

Taking risks becomes extremely easy when you have a large family wealth backed safety net propping you up along the way. This happens way more often than people realize, and often the founder(s) will definitely not talk about this at all / downplay it if it is brought up.

The privilege is real.
> Startups OSS their work because it helps them get users and figure out what to build.

Therein lies the problem: Startups esp the ones that need to grow really fast and at all costs choose to permissively give away their proprietary advantage but still want to "capture most value" from the market they help create are making it unnecessarily hard for themselves by going down the F/OSS route just to "get users and figure out what to build". It is a losing strategy (you'd agree?) because... if the startup's F/OSS product is any popular and lots of users do use it, it is only inviting the likes of Amazon (and anyone with the chops to build a cloud offering, really) to package it as SaaS / PaaS around it.

I'd like to see startups experiment SSPL / CCPL / Commons Clause licensing from day zero (like materialize.io) to see if they can still attract users or build mind share. I'd hate for them to instead release it under F/OSS licenses (and CLA all contributions) to only conveniently turn hostile with super-strong copylefts like SSPL or non-Libre licenses like Commons Clause and BSL.
> how much it must cost them to run something like WhatsApp with millions of users

I'd be very curious to know. I don't remember specifics, but they were running a shockingly low number of servers early on in large part because WhatsApp is built on top of Erlang/OTP.
An Explainer on the Different Types of Lidar Devices
Pretty much every genre changes significantly over its lifetime though. It seems like you could just say you like early dubstep just like people say, "I like old school hip hop" all the time.