skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned it because it has a seamlessly built in onion routing protocol. I read further down the thread that Tor is blocked in Iran, but I’m guessing the same is unlikely to be true of Loki/Oxen simply because it isn’t nearly as well known.

The lack of metadata is also quite a unique selling point in my eyes. There’s a million encrypted messengers now sure. How many automatically connect through an onion router with zero config required and don’t require you to create an account at all, but instead assign you a random ID disconnected entirely from your phone number, email, and other personal identifiers?

It’s certainly an option to consider is the only thing I’m saying. Tor was mentioned so Session popped into my head for the reasons mentioned above.

Regarding PFS. They currently implement the Signal Protocol. Session is of course FOSS so anyone can check this. Your source does say they’re planning to fork it as the Session Protocol later this year so it integrates with their network more easily. But that’s an upcoming, unfinished project. To be honest I don’t know much about it as it’s still in development. I do know that currently Session uses the Signal Protocol through an onion router without the need to so much as create an account.

And yes the network itself is a bit of a convoluted idea that tries to do many things at once, but the fact they run on a blockchain means they already have a lot of nodes set up in different countries around the world through which to route traffic, and the reason they could build a decentralised network quite quickly despite being a relatively young project is they incentivise those node operators with cryptocurrency.

Because it is a young project they are still undergoing audit yes. This is absolutely something worth noting. It’s a relatively new project. It’s no longer in beta, but nowhere near as well established as Signal. However it’s precisely because of this it’s unlikely governments are bothering to target it yet.
Doesn't the research support time in market producing better value over cost dollar averaging?
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Side note: that is some really elegant documentation
Related to that, do you have any recommendations on good quality ticker data sources you'd buy?
So how do I (as an Aussie) use it, or see it?

I couldn't find a link in the annoucement blog post. So I Googled for "Google News showcase" but.. no link there. Maybe I had to click the "news" tab/link above the search results- but nope, this just shows me the old style results, articles one after the other.

Maybe it's an app? I searched the playstore, but only saw "Google news" which isn't updated since 15 Jan. I gave it a go anyway, but it didn't show the Showcase style anything like the blog post.

Makes me think maybe this isn't really for the users.
I've come to realize that if Amazon does something, it gets a ton of coverage.

4x10 shifts are not a new concept. This article makes it sound like what is pretty standard warehouse stuff is a new diabolical amazon plan to create the soul crushing "megacycle".

And working nights is not new. Anyone who has had to deal with 24x7 staffing (police, guard, nursing, flying etc etc) has had come up with approaches for night shift work (which is definitely terrible). Heads up, the non-megacycle night shift is also no fun for a lot of people.

That said, night shift work is miserable. No question there!
Morten Kromberg (big guy at Dyalog; coincidentally, author of the post we're discussing) in "justifying" why Dyalog isn't libre, just a few days ago: There is little risk of the demise of Dyalog APL any time soon. Our customers run businesses that are based on Dyalog APL with a combined annual turnover in excess of a billion euros/dollars.

https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/52405?m=56860424#5...

There are a few other companies with proprietary APL implementations that are also getting by really well.

k, which is pretty similar, is even more of a money-maker than Dyalog APL, having been responsible for a company worth a billion or more (Kx) and an entirely different company that also seems to be doing pretty well.

J also is used somewhat commonly, though less, and its users seem to be doing more than well, too (my current employer and most of my previous employers have been J shops, and none of them have gone under yet. I think a couple of them had record-breaking years in 2020). J is also free, libre software, so instead of paying for a Dyalog or K license, you should really just use it (or ngn/k, if k is more your thing).
Eh, Wikipedia is 20 years old, and has been a top 20 site for the past 15 years. At this point, they don't have much serious competition. Britannica stopped printing physical encyclopedias in 2012.

The WMF can certainly make their case and answer criticisms, but there are cost-efficient ways of doing that. I don't see much value in funding parties, conferences, etc. for a product that has already dominated in most markets.
Meaning no shade, since this has probably been launched on a moment’s notice, but the current list of publications isn’t that impressive - none of the big names are there, half are subscriber paywalled, and the Conversation is a Creative Commons enterprise; I don’t think their funding model relies on this kind of traffic.

Listed are: The Canberra Times, The Illawarra Mercury, The Saturday Paper, Crikey, The New Daily, InDaily and The Conversation.
Apple has an opt-in Research app, and has built relationships with a number of orgs in the US doing medical research, and has added additional sensors based on feedback from those orgs.

There is quite a bit special about the Apple Watch itself well beyond the accelerometer, in software, in hardware, and in the work required to maintain privacy while sharing collective information with organizations devoted to researching diseases.
This is a great point. It’s a conversation about the place these companies should hold in our lives, in democracy and their ability to control information. I wish people would admit that directly and focus on that discussion.

Instead I see unproductive and backward conversations saying that google should pay publishers when in fact google brings more value to publishers via clicks than publishers bring to google. This line of thinking is missing the primary implications in my opinion.
Reverse engeneering is a thing, though. I would think, there is fame to be gained to show such a behavior from whatsapp, so some hackers could feel motivated to do this from time to time.
I heard that they hit a snag few years ago when they ran into spat with Beijing University which controls the critical display tech.

I also heard that iGoggles projects was closed, and launched again 3 times already.
It wasn't too fancy. I bought self-adhesive laminating sheets and reinforced with "book tape".

https://photos.app.goo.gl/QRCgTCUas1uYnY6x5

It did feel a bit sacrilegious slicing through the binding, but overall it worked out great!
Not much different, really. Most of the so-called agile features existed before with different names. Waterfall is widely caricatured to contrast with agile, but I rarely saw it work much differently in practice. Having worked with both, and after getting certified as a Scrum Master (for what that’s worth), I think the main difference is how much analysis and planning gets done in advance of coding. Too much and the process gets locked up in analysis paralysis and over-ambitious plans (and schedules). Too little and the team has false starts and can veer too far from requirements, or discover important requirements too late.

The defining bad characteristic of waterfall is getting stuck doing a lot of planning and then the plans and schedule don’t change or take customer feedback into account. This doesn’t have to happen but it can and does.

The defining bad characteristic of agile is getting stuck with a lot of half-baked code programmers have their egos invested in, before requirements are fully understood. This doesn’t have to happen either, but it does.

One thing I like about waterfall is having the goals and roadmap defined, so everyone has the big picture. The goals and map might change but everyone sees the changes. In the agile/scrum projects I’ve worked on many didn’t have clear goals, map, or a shared vision, the “conceptual integrity” Brooks writes about. Cards with user stories doled out in sprints aren’t a big picture.

One thing I like about agile is acknowledging up-front that generating complete and unambiguous requirements in advance is impossible for any non-trivial project. Requirements will evolve from feedback and collaboration and discovery. But without a shared vision of some kind it’s just a jazz odyssey, to paraphrase from Spinal Tap.
During the EFF "run a tor node" challenge a few years back, I learned that many cloud providers (a) hold you responsible for any traffic transgressing your proxy, and (b) generally were OK with running a relay node but not an exit node. Responses varied provider by provider, some have written rules some do not.

Point being there are already discussions about the relay topic with cloud providers and it's not a weird edge case to me (and the law in your jurisdiction may have a strong opinion on this), I imagine there are legal things about where you live vs. where the server lives which also matter.
Not only that, no one has a financial incentive to improve outcomes. Surgeons are judged on outcomes, but no one judges them on whether they did the right surgery or just very skillfully gave everyone who came through the doors stents and spinal implants.
Thanks for this. I’m interested in the story but not going to spend 30+ minutes or more to get to the bottom of it.
Google threatening to pull search from Australia was the most obvious bluff I've ever seen from any company. A total embarrassment, everyone saw right through it.
Likewise, the rightsholders don't have a right to extort the public for access. Since the companies producing these works rely on the public's attention and sentiment to make money, they can't have it both ways. Either make the works available at a consistent price to all distributors of content, or accept piracy as a cost of gatekeeping.
> I can spend 15 mins trying to figure out where to watch it or I can pirate it after it doesnt come up in netflix search.

Almost any movie you care about will be available on iTunes and/or Amazon Video to rent or buy. Do you check those too or is that too much work?

Ultimately, your attitude comes off as entitled. If everything you w

Any to consume isn’t available
as part of one convince the subscription you rather pirate it. That devalues creation. It’s unreasonable to expect all TV and movies ever created to be available for $20/month.
Explosion is a faster speed of burn than what an internal combustion engine is designed for.
I figured that was implied with the mention of Ken Thompson in the same sentence ("Ken Thompson's APL") and all.
I primarily do modeling, and I am first in line to tell anyone who is willing to listen that the very first thing you should do to learn to be a good modeler is spend a year at the bench first in the problem area you want to model.

Wet lab is so informationally dense in terms of personal knowledge that it's not even funny.
Yes. I've heard from a few sources connected with the Tesla that Musk felt that engineers (both design and process) from existing US auto companies were "yesterdays news" who were not up to Tesla's standards.

Turned out that there are huge number of issues when manufacturing an automobile. And that the knowledge to prevent or resolve a lot of those issues exist only in the heads of people who have gone through it before.

The build quality of early Tesla's was... not great. And while my understanding is that it has improved quite a bit in recent years. That said, most people in the industry seem to feel that Tesla still has a ways to go before they are "world class" in build quality.
I bought an Oculus Quest 2 when it came out and it's pretty fantastic. The whole experience with setup and gaming is excellent, especially for the price.

There are plenty of little rough edges that I feel like Apple would do a good job of smoothing off. Things like not being able to get phone notifications or use bluetooth headphones.
They sell little fobs that you attach to your keys that make a loud noise when activated. I considered getting one, but I feel like I'd just lose the activator.
I could see this as a virtual office, as some of the comments speculate.

If I had a set of AR glasses that projected what appeared to be an 8K monitor on top of my dining room table, and integrated with my MacBook Pro for input / output, and that had batteries to last a workday, I’d pay $2K/$3K. Even more if it worked well at brightness levels I’d have in my backyard.

Never mind gaming, mobile high-quality virtual office is good enough.
Would have to be adaptive as in shapeshifting, since the distances between the involved satellites would differ, depending on the path?
That could definitely be explored. The key here, and to other new insurance products is: what unique data is Kickstarter generating about its campaigns that didn't exist before? I bet they have a lot of data on campaign types, product type, how much is being raised, etc, that could be used to assess the risk and eventually price insurance.

The explosion in the volume of data that companies generate will definitely help accelerate innovation in insurance.
There are enough large companies who have committed misdeeds worthy of major consequences that if we actually punished all of them in a meaningful way, the economy would fall apart, because there would not be many companies left.
I just came here to post literally that same sentence. This long form stuff is so formulaic. It always goes like:

It was an [adjective] day in [month] [year] with [seasonal weather or some such described] and [person] had no idea about [the thing that was about to happen] and we're going to slowly describe what happened, out of order and jumping around a lot, over the next 5000 words. Enjoy!
> potential $3k price tag

Doesn’t matter. People will line up out of the door for them because... Apple.
The caricatures are likely correct at some level, since the mark of a good businessman, especially in the modern day, is ability to build hype...
I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted. In the United States Covid 19 testing is free with or without insurance. Nobody needs to pay anything for a covid 19 test in the USA, regardless of their residency or insurance status.

> The Families First Coronavirus Response Act ensures that COVID-19 testing is free to anyone in the U.S., including the uninsured.

https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/community-based-testing-site...

The issue here is these testing sites were performing more than a covid 19 test and then billing for those tests without a person's consent.

> Dr. Murphy wasn’t just billing for coronavirus tests, as his patients thought. He was billing for 20 other respiratory pathogens, too.
Yeah, one of the things you are expected to accept right off the bat going into the conspiracy "evidence" is that all of these companies are essentially the same entity: Diebold, Dominion, Sequoia, SmartMatic, and Edison Research. Once you buy that, you'll also buy that they're all owned by communist China.
Maybe FAANG interviews should focus more on security than ds/algos, so people would start to care about it more

It's almost always possible to rewritte shitty performing algo, but it's almost impossible to undo leak's / hack's damage.
The MINERvA experiment at Fermilab already demonstrated communication with neutrinos, admittedly over short distance: "The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2847

Anyone from an HFT firm who wants to look into a partnership researching a neutrino link to the CME data center feel free to reach out :)
The main thing about freedom and rights is that majority doesn’t have a right to take those from a person.

I like to use this example: Can someone be eaten by the others if they vote for it?

In such case I think it is clear what a person in question should do to protect his ‘right for life’

‘Majority dictatorship’ is not my expectation of how modern democracy should function.
I think you want StackOverflow, not Hacker NEWS. You’ll need to formulate a more specific question in any case. What you posted is as unanswerable as “How can I travel somewhere?”
Not everyone has the luxury of meaningfully different choices. For many, the main task is finding the least bad out of a lot of bad options.
Most cars made today are absurdly high quality compared to when I was a youth 40 years ago. A typical car made in the 1980's would be lump of rust and barely functional after 50,000 miles. Nearly any car made today is still almost like brand new after 50,000 miles. The production quality improvements made by the auto industry are, IMO, nothing short of amazing.
Yes. No disagreement there.

However, I used to do some other work where I was on longer but thought less. In this other job I'd put headsets on and just listen to podcasts and music while working, and when I was done, I was DONE. Any problems were someone elses to deal with.

One problem I have with office work is that it can be hard to leave "at the office" when you are behind. People expect problems to be solved, and if you don't solve them they wait for you the next morning. This has really impacted me badly at times (trouble sleeping etc).

My dream scenario - 4x10 and then somehow have no risk of stuff hanging over me to get done the next week!
The author presumably got paid at some point and how much directly relates to how long the new rights holder will be able to monetize the creation.

If a book is only copyrighted for, say, 5 years after creation, the advances for authors will become a lot smaller.
"former Liberal member Peter Costello" considerably undereggs the situation.

He was deputy federal leader of the Liberals for 13 years, 11 of those as Treasurer in Government. He remained a powerful factional leader for years after that, and as far as I'm aware is still a party member.
Wow.

Looks like Rust is winning the catfight against Go, D, Julia, C++20.

Need to grab more popcorn.
That really depends on the the advice is.
I don't see a big problem with "This would make you a bunch of money, but you should have your lawyers look at it" or "this will make you a bunch of money, but has a high legal risk".

If the advice is: "this is illegal, and here is how to avoid getting caught" then I could see that being a crime.
> if they don't know the default rate?

It's rarely ever been above 5%. Plus, a default doesn't necessarily mean the creditor lost money equal to the full value of the loan plus all interest payments. Some defaults are haircuts, some a break-even, and others simply fail to realize their full value.

> and they think the amount of profit correlates negatively with how responsible and good for the world the company is (when in fact there's very little discernable correlation, and it may be positive).

Sure, you just have to be willing to ignore "fairness, consumer protection, environmental protection satisfaction, and employee satisfaction" when considering "corporate social responsibility."

> given how uneducated those opinions generally are

So, do they merely have these opinions because they are uneducated or because they're misplacing blame in the system?
Hey some of us Apple fanboys are cheap asses :)
Am honestly not trolling here although it will sound like it:

Can someone please explain to me why it's a OK to reconnect Iranians to Signal, but not Trump supporters to Twitter (the ones censored and banned by Twitter)?
Yes - I once worked a summer job like that - one downside - talk about work hard party hard - you are with a group that can go just crazy on days off.
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If they implement paper trading (as their survey suggests they're thinking about) then that should build the same level of trust. If your fake money is growing then you'll want to put real money in.
Working at a station, you can build up camaraderie. Working as a picker, moving around a warehouse on your feet at a fast clip, not so much.
I agree mostly and it will probably lead to a more happier life. But the incentives amongst interviewers and the ones that are interviewed are too aligned in these cases. You can trust the government because you have little choice, but most media is different, the authenticity just isn’t there nor is the necessity.
I had big hopes when wordpress became popular and people started to write small blog posts about their experiences and thoughts. Medium seems to be damaging this though. I’ll stop rambling now.
Living Conditions in Europe (2018)
Jony is gone. We can expect stuff to actually work now rather than just get thinner and shitter.
The government decides all the time that some people should be punished. It's the justice system.
Furthermore, I would be willing to use 16-bit colors for higher resolution.
This uses [lalrpop](https://github.com/lalrpop/lalrpop) under the hood I believe, which is a pretty awesome parser generator library for Rust.
Ironic how people want to help de-censor what's considered to be an enemy nation (by the media), but are ok with censoring half their next-door neighbors based on politics.
>doesn't set the name of the project in the prompt

I agree with you there, it's very annoying and I've fallen for it a few times. Having not used Poetry on other platforms yet (still using Pipenv in a few projects), I wasn't even aware that this was a feature.
I love how everyone here jumps on this, spread the love and joy for Iran, meanwhile much of the same group of people is perfectly OK with an entire cohort of our population being utterly censored and shunned. Best of all, the same cult will down vote this comment into oblivion, and while doing it they will convince themselves that they are doing it to make this prediction a self-fulfilling prophecy, and then when they read this last part they will then again feel doubly justified. In the end, we all lose because of politics and ignorance. A couple will add a snide and "clever" reply, in order to justify their down vote to themselves and to others. Inside, everyone is lying to themselves, because they know the truth.