skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe if they were landing in a risky country (the presidents have visited warzones like Iraq), but even then, they would ensure the airfield and a 10km radius around it would be clear and secure. If they cannot ensure that, how would landing in an unconventional spot improve security? Every part of an AF1 flight is tightly orchestrated on the one hand, and on the other, they would keep the exact flight route and timing a need-to-know secret.
So a new account called Signalvwhatsapp submits a UX "case study" regarding the usability of Signal vs. Whatsapp (it says so in the post title: "Is Signal as easy to use as WhatsApp? (a ~40 hour analysis)"). The study instead is 95% about the onboarding process and maybe 5% about the app itself. Nothing about the sharing workflow of images, videos, audio or group messages. Stuff most users are interested in the most probably.

Nothing fishy at all about this.

Furthermore: no app can access the iOS keyboard or modify it for obvious security reasons. Having a numpad up is as good as it gets. So the critique about the recommendation of pasting the numeric code from messages is hardly valid.
Not true. I and others I know use a TV only as a screen for videogames and do not watch TV in any form. You explicitly do not need a license just to own a TV.
Mandatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Well, that's interesting. The person who originally wrote the Aviation SE question was claiming to be the original photographer and saying he couldn't remember if the plane was taking off or landing... But, if the internet had access to the whole sequence of images, surely he did as well? So why was he asking? Was it just a puzzle?

EDIT: From a different comment, it's clear that the photographer later found the whole series of pictures AFTER asking the question, and posted them online. So the photographer was confused, but later found the rest of his photos, which definitively show the plane LANDING. Case closed.
The idea of the fuel cell car tends to loom large in such conversations. It solves all problems in one package, without having to resort to problematic ideas like battery swapping.
>- Taskmaster: Channel 4 (originally Dave. In fact before that it was a Edinburgh Fringe Festival show written by "little" Alex Horne)

Dave is owned by BBC Studios, which is the commercial arm that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC.
Schools? Police? Roads? Seriously? You gave probably the worst examples you could have. You only missed firemen and hospitals.

But even then, why so expensive? It is a lot of money. Germany has 80 million people, assuming 4 persons per house, that is 20 million homes times 18 times 12 is 4 billion euros per year to pay for shitty tv shows.
This is a feature. Otherwise MITM attacks would be silently possible -- in layman's terms, when someone replaces their phone, you no longer know who you're talking to; there's no way for Signal to tell the difference between that and someone intercepting your messages. The flip side of the "panic" is that when it doesn't happen, you still know you're talking privately with the same person.. which can't be said for whatsapp, which hides these messages by default.

Perhaps they could improve the phrasing of the message, but they absolutely should not remove it.
>are euphemisms for a politically powerful group to harness the productive output of the governed for its own purposes, without regard to if the perceived problems or the perceived solutions are real or not

This is unsubstantiated in that it posits the "politically powerful" as having nothing but their own interests in mind. Ignoring the possible retort I could make that then interests of the politically powerful can not only coincide with the will of the people but also be the will of the people - reformation would remove a significant monetary interest which is exposed time and time again behind the politically powerful. The drive to be politically powerful is thereby lessened, or at least changed.

>The real difference between capitalism and socialism is that capitalism requires voluntary action whereas socialism embraces compelled action.

There's plenty of scholarly work both from libertarian socialism, anarchism and defences of socialism from liberal principles; I'd recommend G.A. Cohen on this point.

> Socialism doesn't remove fundamental human desires for prestige and power, it only redirects the energy into the mechanisms of state

It's worth questioning to what extent fundamental human desires really are so fundamental, isn't it? I'm also not convinced prestige and power are bad things; arguably, that drive is how we have democracy in the first place, never mind the American revolution.

>and no that's not necessarily a benefit to the poor, or the underprivileged, or any other banner of victimization that you might fly to justify that state

There's a whole area of philosophical and economic research dedicated to what extent this is a good question - distributive justice and the theory of exploitation. If the only argument is that it's "not necessarily" the case, we'd have just as much of a case against some forms of markets in that they may satisfy consumer preferences as they create those preferences, not to other advantages.

> In capitalism, the voluntary aspect allows for failure

Democracy also allows for failure if the people do not see their will adequately reflected.
> Britain, France, Spain and Germany are not without problems, but we're not casting envious glances

Well, I do. Having lived most of my life under the governments of France and Spain, I can say that yes, I do indeed cast envious glances to smaller countries were things are easier to change and apparently more democratic.
> Do you think it's possible that Air Force One Pilots are instructed to land at unconventional spots on the runway to foil potential threats?

No. It's hard enough to nail a landing to pick the "right spot" especially when you don't need it

If there's a threat on ground the best thing you can do is stay on air, not try to land on a different spot of the same runway (but yes, given some types of obstructions you can try to use only part of the runway, I'm not sure if they prefer you landing after it or in front of it, but I think the latter makes more sense - depending on the type and position of obstruction of course)
> It’s often said that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The phrase was popularized by the astronomer Carl Sagan, who probably did as much as any scientist has done to promote the search for extraterrestrial life. By what’s sometimes referred to as the “Sagan standard,” Loeb’s claim clearly falls short; the best evidence he marshals for his theory that ‘Oumuamua is an alien craft is that the alternative theories are unconvincing. Loeb, though, explicitly rejects the Sagan standard—“It is not obvious to me why extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” he observes—and flips its logic on its head: “Extraordinary conservatism keeps us extraordinarily ignorant.”

Do you think "extraordinary conservatism keeps us extraordinarily ignorant" is a bad take? Religion comes to mind
How is this different from literally every single messaging service out there? Having to verify safety numbers out-of-band is an inescapable physical truth, and one which doesn't really matter unless you're worried about active attacks against you.
> It’s the management and the coworkers that make a place great.

I've stayed in mediocre jobs because of a great team, and left 'dream' jobs because of people I don't like working with.

> I wish I could figure out how to interview for that [...]

I can get a good vibe in interviews, but it's unreliable, especially remote. As is 'we do drinks at 3pm on Friday'.
They got that reputation 6+ months ago at the beginning of the pandemic. Since then their revenue has skyrocketted, giving them the capacity to hire, contract, and license to improve their security. They haven't shed the reputation, but reputation management is a different problem than security. Certainly for something high-risk, I would not put much weight on "Well, lots of people think they are bad at security, so the watermarking probably isn't very good".
With React and Redux everything is hard. These are two worst mainstream libraries out there. It so bad, even Typescript can not help too much.
In fact, I've seen some iOS apps that report an alert indicating they believe they are running on a "jailbroken device" when launched on the M1.
Ironically, leaving google is easier on Android because you can download and use apps without the App Store.

For example, how is using YouTube via the iOS app any different _at all_? If you had android you could use the app newpipe.
Thanks for a great article. Wondering what would be the best way to follow your writings, given that you're currently anonymous.
the one (obviously not a statistical sample) person I know who was in an orphanage would remember being beat with a wire brush and disagree.
DECO – Using cell phones to detect cosmic rays and other energetic particles
Thank you! The product was built 100% from dogfooding! :-)
Yeah, it was some law iirc. Regarding being busted, i was zapping one day when the bell rang so i opened the door to the inspector with the remote in my hand and the TV blaring, THAT'D i call getting busted :D
Rather trivially, as any superheterodyne receiver from has an intermediate frequency oscillator that is mixed with the signal - and it is hard to not emit RF from that.

Modern equipment just tends to be better designed to tighter tolerances as both the standards on inadvertent emissions and manufacturing have been tightened so it emits much less - but still not zero.
Are the answers to the exercises to be found somewhere?
> This article is written in what's becoming a new modern 'style' in which the author doesn't say much of anything at all, but makes references, references, and allusions to modern shibboleths and meta-idioms.

Your comment is written in what's becoming a new modern 'style' in which the author rejects the notion that there can be anything smart besides what they're familiar with, and assumes that if they don't get it, then there must be nothing there to get—so anybody who claims to have gotten something from it must therefore be following some cargo cult.
Social Media Superstars
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I agree that there are mundane and boring aspects of any job. But if you can confidently say I love my job you're at a good place.

That said, I can never tell if people who say they love their job actually love their job or are lying to themselves.
I recently had a coworker whose dream job is to be a pilot, specifically for fire rescue services. This coworker is a military officer who is intentionally taking a large demotion to become a military pilot in furtherance of that dream. They also had to fulfill a huge amount of nonsense, more than administrative actions, to ensure they had access to that opportunity.
Now you've got my brain in a twist.

What about the other extreme (apparently equally ideal) case of a capitalist state in which every single person controls an equal share of the market? Doesn't that sound the least bit socialist to you?
> It's precisely because I don't think I can predict what will happen next that I've zeroed my exposure to this entire ecosystem.

I think, given the context, it was the wisest call to make.
It's not the same thing. As long as you don't cause violence or you're not violating the terms of service which you accepted while joining to the service, they wouldn't remove your content or block you. Of course, you can come up with one off examples of ML models screwing things up but it's not the intention while developing those models.

Turkish government's intention here is getting content that criticise them removed, by asking to representative in Turkey who by the way must be a Turkish citizen, not just a person from any nationality who can speak Turkish. So that, they can apply Turkish law to this person if they would like to. If Youtube doesn't remove the content, possibly as they did with TV they are going to fine them.

I don't see this model working for long time and expecting most of the companies to pull their representatives soon, if they open the door of every country getting content removed however they like, I'm sure there will be other countries who would want that and it would be terrible for freedom of speech.
More band-aids indictive of an inadequate desjgn.

Wake me up when Bitcoin's primary function, utility and real world impact is something more practical and positive than speculation and energy consumption.
People think that knockoff products don't have engineering in them? Even in cars, a lot of things don't fit neatly as they should and its fine, we just do a little push.

Its not exactly the same (which two engineering practices are, anyway?) buts its pretty close.
'Purple' sounds like the 'Display options>Merge exe, comm and cmdline in Command' setting, hotkey-able with `m`. Yeah, echo'ing to the UI which hotkey was just activated could be helpful.
You cannot access it from abroad. That is what I was told at least since I don't watch German TV. If what you say is right, I doubt, my bad. Still, I am forced to pay something that I have absolutely no use. Is like if I was forced to pay for slaughterhouses if I am vegan (I am not).
Off topic: nice PDF rendering I wish normal PDF would be as fluent.
More than 90% of households in the UK watch/listen/read at last 1 things on the BBC every week.

A lot of people say "Oh I don't consume anything the BBC makes", and often they just don't realise that they do.
From Funny to What the Heck? 22 Scrum Master Anti-Patterns from Job Ads
Stepper motor drivers that support stallgaurd (trinamic's stepper drivers) seem like the best of both worlds, and even in-theory can give you some force feedback.
Isn't it better to admit it than to not do anything about it?
Just to expand on your point why haven’t we called for banning Rachel Maddow for pioneering conspiracy theory nonsense for 4 years and furthering the notion along with Hillary Clinton that 2016 was an illegitimate election?

Was Maddow an insurrectionist interfering with our sacred democracy by sowing distrust?
I'm glad I decided to open hackernews before running today. I had no idea you could do this.
> perhaps the license fee could also fund the infrastructure for something like signal

Why like signal? Signal has no protections to avoid the same abuse as WhatsApp.

While I would agree with the sentiment, I think that if EU funds anything it will just as likely be much worse than WhatsApp than better than it given their track record (e.g. stupid popups on every damn website that makes life just that extra bit worse).

But there is some hope in that both the french and German governments have adopted Matrix. The benefit of this manner of funding (through adoption and payment for actual services) is that there is actually a customer/provider relationship - and the potential for more direct feedback. That way if it totally sucks you don't end up with a situation where the people authorizing payment/funding are not affected by how badly it sucks.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to offend.

Making a wifi adapter out of a software defined radio is going to be a less than ideal way to enable wifi to a product. The power consumption will be tremendously higher than a dedicated device. The cost for the electronics will be tremendously higher than a dedicated device. The cost to get an SDR which transmits certified for sale as a wifi device in every country you wish to sell it in will be expensive, especially compared to a dedicated wifi dongle which already has modular certifications.

Based on my experience, expect to pay upwards of $5k for an FCC compliance test report from a lab for a not intentionally emitting device which incorporates a certified wifi module. Expect to pay upwards of $25k for an FCC compliance test report for a device which is an intentional emitter (ie: you put an SDR inside your product as a wifi radio). If you want to sell outside of the USA, the ratio of costs is (in my experience) fairly similar for many other countries/regions of the world.

If you feel that you cannot find a reliable off the shelf pre-certified wifi module for your product, I think you would be best served to contact some lower volume wifi module vendors and to speak with them about why you feel their offerings are not reliable. They will likely be happy to help you, especially if they're competing with a multi-hundred dollar SDR for the design win.
How about Asia chills out playing with diseases for a little while
Education isn’t a panacea. Think about how there’s the stereotype of pro-Confederates as ignorant hillbillies but then look at who reacts whenever someone suggests not having an inaccurate statute in a public place or naming a U.S. military base after someone who fought against the U.S. military. You’ll find people with Ph.Ds arguing to protect that, not because they’re incapable of learning but because they were deliberately educated with incorrect information and, since the results haven’t harmed them personally, will use their critical thinking and analytic skills to mount as strong a defense as they can. Thinking “critically and independently” is also how people who believe in creationism, are anti-vaccination, climate change deniers, opposed to public health practices during the pandemic, etc. explain their beliefs, too, often sincerely.

I’m not sure how to break that cycle. It seems to require some kind of forcing function which pushes the topic into verifiable facts and logic but that’s hard to against opposition and only works when things are fairly clear-cut (e.g. you can show Robert E. Lee was a bad person from historical records but it’s not easy to objectively prove the causes of poverty or crime rates).
It's not international, and is jealously geo-blocked. As a Brit expat, I wish it was available. They are effectively refusing my custom, presumably because they can make more money from international licensing deals for terrestrial stations and higher-reach streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon.
Why continuous learning is important
Building my own 5ft x 10ft CNC from start to finish (ie frame design/welding to integration of a controller/software) was an amazing journey to learning various engineering concepts involved in making an industrial grade machine that churns out accurate machined parts every time and all the time (my case being wood/composite materials and sometimes aluminum). Video of my machine here: https://youtu.be/qpLQEtcjPSY. Here’s a video of the machine pocketing text CNCZone https://youtu.be/NQFKHyqxvJw. CNCZone is a great resource forum for DIYers.
Jack Dorsey took the initiative to side with the people who tried to overthrow the Turkish government in 2016. I'm surprised Twitter still survives. The MSM almost entirely ignores this because they're fixated on this "strongman" narrative that makes American liberals feel good about themselves.
Strongly agreed. Having lived in the US for a good number of years now I can see how the idea of vans roaming looking for TV viewers is baffling, but the public TV offering by the BBC, while definitely not perfect, is miles ahead of both the public and network offerings on US TV (though credit to the likes of PBS and NPR for doing miraculous work with a fraction of the budget!). I even got my start in computing from the BBC Micro machines at school.
They used to do this at some point. I remember medium telling me I could not proceed in incognito. I wonder why they rolled that back.
The Signal Windows Desktop app is unusable if you don't keep it running all the time.

During busy work periods, I'd close WhatsApp Desktop to help me focus, re-opening it when I'm done, and jumping back into the group conversations.

However on Signal, the app spends AGES downloading (and decrypting?) each message it's missed when you re-open it, and whats worse, is that you can't even use the app while it's doing it. Totally destroys any ad-hoc use of it.

As a primarily desktop based chat user, I found this issue to be a deal breaker, so back to WhatsApp I go.
YLE also has some originally English content (and as we don't dub adult programs in Finland you can enjoy them too). For example the early seasons Game of Thrones were shown on YLE in Finland (this was before HBO Nordic existed)
As opposed to one class controlling what news reaches the populace, e.g., Twitter suppressing Hunter Biden story from NY Post?
If someone takes a 1000 mile trip every week I don't blame them for going with a gas car (although I still reserve the right to say that traveling 1000 miles every week is inefficient unless there is an economical reason for that).

The problem is that most people use their car to commute and they also use that car for maybe 4 car trips per year. Somehow waiting 2 hours more per trip is completely unacceptable but causing pollution that makes people ill even when it is completely unnecessary is somehow very acceptable.

People will imagine impossible technology to save those 8 hours per year and then pretend that they deserve this impossible technology. Think about how impossible it is to solve climate change with CO2 polluting cars. Meanwhile waiting for your EV to charge up 4 times a year is the worst and climate change is considered the lesser evil.
> Yes, but these parties use 'social democratic' after a split of socialist parties in 1920s

Depends on the country: The parties are still called 'socialist' to this day in Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain.

> The modern meaning of 'socialism' is to describe economic system in countries of soviet communist bloc.

Quote German Wikipedia on Sozialismus[1], which views Sozialdemokratie as one of its branches:

> Demzufolge wird auch grob zwischen den Ausrichtungen von Kommunismus, Sozialdemokratie oder Anarchismus differenziert.

> Hence one differentiates roughly between the strains of Communism, Social Democracy or Anarchism.

Quote Wikipedia on Sozialdemokratie[2]:

> Sozialdemokratie ist eine politische Bewegung und politische Ideologie der Linken, die sich selbst – mal mehr, mal weniger stark ausgeprägt – als Form eines reformistischen demokratischen Sozialismus betrachtet.

> Social Democracy is a political movement and political ideology of the left, which views itself - sometimes to a greater, sometimes to a lesser extent - as a form of reformist democratic socialism.

Quote Hamburger Programm, the German SPD's party platform[3]:

> The end of the soviet type state socialism did not disprove the idea of democratic socialism but it clearly confirmed the orientation of social democracy towards core values. In our understanding democratic socialism remains the vision of a free and fair society in solidarity. Its realization is a permanent task for us. The principle for our actions is social democracy.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialismus

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialdemokratie

[3] https://www.spd.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Beschluesse/Grundsatz...
I would also agree if the government had basic level of fairness to all of its citizens.

You assume Turkey has fair, not corrupted justice system, I can assure you that that's not the case. At the moment, it's quite political and almost impossible to rule anything against AKP or someone they have working relationship. So, a business man who has good relationship with the government can do something terrible and can easily get content that exposes this removed. This is not OK.