skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my not humble at all opinion - user expectations sank to absolute lowest minimum.

Oh my, for example I never asked for smooth scrolling (I've actually disabled it in browser), instead someone insists on it and forces that on me with some javascript. Thanks, but no thanks.

I can't even have my own scrollbars from system theme most of the time (why even this?!).

What we have now is ultra slow interaction because of tons of JS. Constant cpu usage and battery drain. And most importantly boundless memory hogs such as oh so great interacting facebook that easily eats 2.5gigs of memory.

And don't get me started about "effects", animations, fades, stolen keyboard shortcuts, right clicks and every other bit that throws accessibility out of the window.
> And community-maintained repositories aren't a solution, that's just the app store model but on a smaller scale so it's less of a Target for bad actors. If ubuntu's universe repo had to suffer the same amount of abuse as the play store does, it would crumble in a day.

I disagree strongly.

Most community supported Linux distributions have fairly arduous processes by which members of the community become trusted users / MOTUs / etc. It is not simply a matter of deciding to upload something, creating an account, and clicking a button. To deliberately upload a malicious package into Universe (or similar repos in other distributions), you would have to methodically worm your way into a community over time, participating on IRC, helping contribute innocuous changes to other packages, training new users, and so on. You'd then have to apply for the ability to upload, having demonstrated both skill and the ability to work with other members of the community, as well as the need for permission to upload a specific package. This process would take months or years.

And then, you'd have to keep any changes you made pretty cleverly hidden. Anything obviously phoning home or popping up full screen ads would instantly blow your cover, wasting the whole effort you put into it. It's simply not worth it. And that's before you realize how extensively open source the build pipelines for most distributions tend to be. (I can - and have - examined the actual build process used by multiple Arch Linux packages.)

This is completely incomparable to the process for uploading to Google Play. At best you're going to have to pass some automated checks. But it's an ecosystem built around closed-source (so no peer review) software, quasi-anonymous developers, and software funded by advertising. It's infinitely easier to sneak something into an app store, get a bunch of users, and get away with it (temporarily) than it is to put malware in the repositories of a modern Linux distribution.
Pardon the typos, mobile.
Hey Nitish here!
Those are application keys of some of the vendors we are integrating with. In our next update we plan to figure out a way to mask them.
I don't think it can turn yellow because the servers responsible for turning it to yellow were fried. It will just stay on green.
This use case is about where AWS cost effective scalability ends, anything more complicated and you are into multiple thousands a month for a redundant solution for a critical web-app with a database. We used to run prod and stage envs in aws but as our stage environment grew we realized we could on-prem some pretty bad-a* hardware for the cost of a few months AWS billing. Now we run prod on aws, staging and dev locally.
Question for anyone: if justice is fair and the system works, why are some lawyers paid so much more than others?
...at $99 and $129 each (!)
That isn't a reason to push against Signal, it is a reason to push for a federated solution.

Not your point, but federation is often heralded as some must-have feature for communication around here, but we already have that: XMPP does that, even with encryption. Or Email with PGP. Or even the old Textsecure code, as Signal/Textsecure started out federated, but, surprise, that didn't help adoption.
I would personally recommend Elm for production use after 3 years of development with it.

I regularly engage in refactoring efforts that would be prohibitively time consuming in React, which I also have production experience with.
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> Oh boy. I sympathise entirely with this post, but the story's exactly the same on the backend.

I was thinking exactly the same thing while reading the conclusion of the post. You leave frontend complexity for even more complexity, are you nuts!

The good old single PHP page is gone long time ago as well.
It would take years of effort and years of time to get people to switch to $BetterSignal. It is a last resort.
I have no idea which one is CT. Nor does this seem important. Why should we care when this meeting takes place? Is this going to be live streamed? No? Then what's the point of mentioning it? This whole post seems completely devoid of real information. (Other than foundation 0.0.1 is released.)

Where are the bylaws? What are the responsibilities and rights of each role? Interim? Between what and what? ...

Sometimes Rust preaches inclusivity harder than it practices it.

/rant
Group feature is already present and is a different thing than Telegram's channels or Facebook's groups.

On Signal it is a group of your contacts, so it remains private conversation.

There is nothing publicly said, and it is not open for strangers to participate.

I don't see any compelling reason for Signal to evolve towards more SNSish groups, to the contrary, by remaining in the current state they avoid the costly conundrum of moderation.

> That's what non-tech people come for.

I disagree, people come to Signal for what it is. Arguably even more people would come if there was SNS features, but on the business/feasibility aspect (Signal is still an open-source based modest-size project), it would not be worth the cost and endless legal trouble of moderation in all the different countries with all the different laws.

Most importantly, introducing SNS would entail moderation which would fail the very purpose of Signal's existence (since the contents of the messages is ciphered and private).

In the end, actually less people would maybe come to Signal if it launched SNS features.
Elon Musk should tweet about Matrix.

Signal team seems completely irresponsible here.

Censorship in countries where this app could help puts opponents lives at risk and already led to executions.
Well, Apple is not exactly know for being first movers in tech. I'm sure they'll refine the approach in a few years.
There are two practical options.

1. Bundle an Open source IME to be used when in incognito mode.
2. Warn users when they switch to incognito that their IME may still be recording the words they type.

This isn't just about compromised phones. A 3rd party keyboard doesn't have to respect the incognito flag.
Poor logic. I don't have add tests to my code, after all they're free not to merge, but I should.

Exercises with no solutions are very hard for people learning away from traditional academia - I haven't read this book so I don't know what they're like, but in a physics books it's often common to add questions that take fairly deep conceptual understanding which if you don't click with the book means you're totally out of action until you find somewhere else to learn from.
>use phone numbers for usernames, to avoid having to store contact lists/social graphs on Signal servers

Why can't the user just be expected to deal with their contact list? The phone company doesn't store your address book either.

This is a terrible excuse. They require the phone number as an anti-spam/moderation measure and hide behind privacy.
Given the fact that she is a journalist, couldn’t she just write the story?

And she later noted the clarification that it wasn’t him.

I don’t hold tweets at the same bar as a reputable news publication. Tweets are often point in time, not verified, often on whim.

Grenwald’s blog seemed more appropriate for yellow cake taking us to war than this tweet.
Apple’s Riccio Shifts from Hardware Chief to AR, VR Headsets
I didn’t realize the OP was being ironic instead of snarky.
Yes, a significant fraction.

My point is, physically-present operators did spot AN issue immediately. It wasn't properly attributed to malice for months, sure, but they could still mitigate during that time.

Without their presence, would you (as attacker) really bother with all the stealthiness? It certainly hasn't seemed to avoid long-term attribution. Set the controller to +INF RPM and let whoever pours over the logs in the morning spit out their coffee.
Hey Nitish here! Point taken. We will get our stand around this more clearly and update our websites accordingly.
I think real improvement from SQL would be the ability to construct query in sets. Like I'd make a set of persons, check if it looks right, then another set of pets and if both are alright then compose the result set by joining them. Not by cutting and pasting a code but actually using variables. Your examples do everything in one statement which does not look so easy to compose, why?
All Widevine Level 1 keys are in hardware. It's one of the definitions of a Level 1 key.
What a fun article of where we are.

No names are provided in the article of perpetrators, so those in the know know the race that shall not be named, example is the rail line actively saying they will do this.

An existing issue already exists between the race that shall not be named and Asian-Americans, see Jesse Jackson in New York or LA riots. Then me having to explain to Asian American colleague why their other Asian American colleagues will not walk in certain neighborhoods for fear of being attacked by race that shall not be named.

Then the article pins this new found increase in attacks (which have been a problem for this entire time, but now and only now because it fits the narrative) on a term used to pin this on the Chinese who actively sought to suppress the news of its spread. The Chinese government is actively involved with media blitzes to try and move the blame away from their ineptitude.

So, an existing problem is pinned to an imaginary issue to obfuscate a country screwing up. How do the CNN reporters look themselves in the mirror you may ask, because they repeat the journalist mantra: for the greater good, no matter the lies.
How come support is not pay-as-you-go based on time?
Multidimensional Arrays and Operations with NDArray and Rust
There are a lot of resources on compiler backends, just that GCC and LLVM don't follow them.

The GCC and LLVM machine models for example are very sophisticated and I've never seen anything like them documented in a textbook because they all basically assume a early 2000s RISC machine rather than a CISC with a very bulky decoder.
Well that was concise.

I'd love to know the types of sites they hosted.
Anyone here have the skillz to find out?

My bet is on slimming tablets and viagra sales.
I hear game dev is the worst paid as well!
"I feel hanging" is also another colloquialism related to this. Means as you'd expect, not good.
And I disagree with your take. I've played a lot of videogames in my life, plenty of them feeling "more dumb and low brow".

For instance, as a kid, I've spent some ridiculous amount of hours playing Unreal Tournament (and to the lesser degree, Quake 3 Arena) - some of it with friends in an Internet cafe, but a lot in single-player mode too. I'd consider these two games to be pretty addictive for their time. But they were addictive because they were fun. Not because they tried to lure me in with skinner boxes, keep me in with time-gating, and monetize me with microtransactions.

Or, more recently, I've spent countless of hours playing 2048. At some point it became my go-to activity for every moment I wasn't actively concentrating on something. It may sound like an "intellectual" game, but in reality it's pretty braindead once you get the gist of it. You could probably say that the time I spent with it was unhealthy, but again, at no point it tried to be anything but fun. There were no features in there designed with exploitation in mind.

Or, roguelikes and roguelites. Between Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and RimWorld, I'm probably approaching some 1000 hours of total play time. Both are fun and addictive, in the positive sense. Neither has any of the addictive money-making features in them.

I could go on. But the point is, I maintain that ill intent is a better way to categorize games than "addictiveness". And I hate to invoke the "you'll know it when you see it" cliche, but the difference between the games designed to be fun and the games designed to milk you is glaringly obvious. Entertainment has value, and good entertainment tends to be addictive (it's pretty much a tautology). But it takes more than good entertainment to create a problem.
Because things are moving away from everything else, the visible light they may (are they gone in our time cone?) be emitting is ‘red shifting’ into longer wavelengths that our vision system can not see.

If your eyes were capable of visualizing 0-1000 THz, it would see a blinding white noise of creation.
OK, true -- I guess you can slow it down Zeno-style per IP if you set it up correctly.
Justice being fair isn't the same as saying that all justice is identical.

If a lawyer works a case that takes a reasonable lawyer a day to complete, why would you expect the same compensation as a lawyer that works on a complex case for a year?

That doesn't imply unfairness. It doesn't even imply capitalism.
This is a stupid "argument", I've personally participated in an audit of a program that has 5-6x as many lines of code.
I stopped doing FE development a few years ago because of the unnecessary complexity of everything. I've gone back to my roots and am now actively avoiding anything to do with the internet / online world. Bar HN & Mastodon.
Blah blah blah, so the answer is no. I get it.
Apple Is the $2.3T Fortress That Tim Cook Built
https://www.playdosgames.com/online/tunneler/

It's a cult classic, perhaps it would be interesting on hyperbolic plane.
Can confirm, I loved windows 2000 UI and I'm now using XFCE. XFCE is of course better, just sad there is not more maintainers for it.
Again, you don't have to use this book. There are hundreds of books on algorithms, many of which have solutions for people who need them. Getting all pissy with the author because he doesn't provide them is sad and not neccessary.
The policy is for how wikipedia will act when encountering clients with certain user-agent headers, not a rule for the clients.
It isn't the CP2077 source.
You are entitled to your preferences, but let's not dismiss actual practical advantages of emoticon support in Slack-likes compared to IRC. I agree it has costs as well as benefits, but dismissing the real benefit is a bad manner.
Some words carry intents, even vicious ones, even if you're ignorant of them.
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I mean, that's not very good logic given he's now on the hook for four times that.

His understanding of the costs is wrong anyway.
Make a game in the programming language that you know.
> So what should we use instead of signal?

Threema is one alternative.
The trouble is that content generation is potentially inversely related to ability to pay (i.e. much content is produced by people with less money and more time).

Additionally, the willingness to pay makes a person much more attractive to advertisers, so subscriptions alone tend to be less sustainable (who doesn't like more money?).
The issue is that all of the platforms people want to interact with right now tend to be on Ethereum (which is part of the reason it is so expensive).
Hey Nitish here! We use FullStory only on our electron apps to understand how we can improve Kloudi in the future.

In our upcoming release tonight we plan to provide this is an optional feature in case you want to opt out of it.
This is the story you want to believe in. I was doing the exact same kind of interactive apps 10 years ago without any of this crap. Some things are easier, but their are not worth the 10x complexity.
Hey! Can you send me some more details on nitish@kloudi.tech
You can get a VPS with your own IPv4 for the same price: http://www.lowendstock.com/ .
I don't know about Germany, but in Belgium you pay a crazy amount of money for the notary service.

So it only makes sense to hire them for when dealing with large amounts of money. So what do you do with small amounts of money?

Plus, not only notaries but also escrow services might be replaced with smart contracts. Smart contracts might be way cheaper.

It will be very interesting to see this play out. But I wouldn't just discard smart contracts because we have some ancient way of doing things right now. And let's be honest, every time I have to deal with a notary, the work looks like it comes from Medieval times.
Taiwan's TSMC to build $190m R&D site near Tokyo
Give it a few more minutes and no doubt they'll be removed for ToS violations or something.
I Turned Off My Hunger Switch – News Break
It turns out that when you abstract away the complexity of a system, people have no idea how it works.

This is also true of modern vehicles. Who cheers when realizing that the motion of Li+ ions moving across a 10 micron thick polymer membrane pulls electrons into a swirly motion through the atomic orbitals of copper to create an electromagnetic wind that can propel tires to spin fast enough to get you from 0-60 in 2 seconds. (I do)
Is it though?

Out of the top of my head: pillars of eternity, divinity original sin 1/2, what remains of Edith finch, firewatch...
Don't Let the Short-Termism Bogeyman Scare You
In Greece if a burglar dies while in your house you can be held responsible, even more so if you have set up traps.
r/The_Donald isn’t a thing
My understanding was that those were meant to be the dimensions prior to planing . . .
> when you are signed in

"Just works" for me, with no sign in.
> 'if justice is fair and the system works'

Justice and The System only work fairly in so much as we make them work fairly. People have fought revolutions over this stuff.

As for being paid well, lawyers may be considered primordial devops, dealing with the source code of society. It would make sense for there to be 10x law engineers.
If only he could find a lawyer to help him understand the costs.
This must be what time travel feels like.
I find job application advice and takes very polarising. Some people are adamant about including other interests in a CV/resume while others consider it a waste of space that implies something negative about the candidate. There are also huge variances in what a CV/resume should contain and be called, such as how many pages it should have[1] or if there should be a picture, that people will die on a hill for.

This is normal! If the hiring managers will reject CVs that have hobbies and you find them valuable information, what you're experiencing is a culture mismatch. That's effective filtering, before you're saddled with a new job contract. Viewing a job application like school, where you're guaranteed a certain result if you have the right talent and work ethic, is the wrong model and will lead to disappointment. It's fundamentally a relationship, so should be viewed like dating.

If I one day become one of HN's fabled star engineers that can have any job they want, I'd like to write a CV in a markdown text file. That's how I really disseminate information in my working life, not Latex.

[1] Having the proper number of pages is an important signal that you are also proper and well educated, i.e. the correct social class.
And because it's an expenditure that only hypothetically might decrease a larger expenditure in the future, many managers will decide to do only the minimum necessary to check the compliance boxes.

Another problem is that when the security systems get in the way of expediency, there's always somebody around who can disable or severely cripple the security to make it easy for people to e.g. work from home during a pandemic.
Wasn't the code for XP leaked a while ago? Could the ReactOS developers learn how things work from it?
The business model of TP is to help people get these positive reviews, since they're harder to coax out of satisfied customers. They know that unhappy people want to vent, and they make it easy for them to do so. It's a real grey zone from what I can see, and I wouldn't want to be supporting it.
They were also built at a time when environmental impact (including on fish, natural beauty, etc.) was much more of a fringe concern. The Redwall Dam in the Grand Canyon wasn't quite built but the Glen Canyon Dam was and almost certainly wouldn't be today. And many smaller dams in New England for example are being decommissioned today.
lol @ all these comments immediately jumping to stereotypes. My English is great but it's not my first language. What's the right word here? Feminine? "More female in brain structure"?
> I submitted my case based on written law and the judge said it did not apply to me and ordered me to omit the law from my submission, before the trial hearing.

I wonder what this means? I don't fully trust that guy to accurately summarize issues of law.
It's a policy how wikimedia acts when clients lack a user agent header, it's therefore effectively a rule for clients as without a proper UA header, they may be blocked indefinitely.
A centimetre is about the width of my pinky finger. And, an inch is about the width of my thumb.
> It is a complete silo. So if it did become popular it would eventually be a serious problem and would need to be fought against.

This is an explicit design decision. It used to federate, and they found that to be terrible, so they stopped, and now it's better.

Maybe you should find something else to fight against.

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

Worth noting: Google Talk used to federate, via XMPP. They found that almost nobody actually used the federation functionality, and something like 99%+ of the federation traffic was inbound spam.

Federated protocols aren't very good, and don't evolve.
My favorite reasons for pushing something down into the database include performance, security, concurrency, and portability. Yes, portability. My client language is way more likely to change than my database.
And would that regulation I'd be in favor of prevent them from doing this kind of cool project linked here?

Because I would be in favor of such regulations, and yet I'm also not against the project here, so i don't see your point.
I hate to be that guy, but there is a massive difference between a game like Factorio and a game like Cyberpunk. Of course we all know that, but it has an impact on the quality, etc. The technical complexity of CP requires many different technologies to work together, and that draws a large amount of gamers-- Factorio is and will remain rather niche.
I agree. If you don't like it, create a fork? It is open source.
Not every application needs to be "enterprise grade". Yet, many design teams seem to approach them all the same way. Stop the needless bloat!
>It’s hard to find games with good stories and lore nowadays, I think.

Let me introduce you to Disco Elysium. You're welcome.
I can agree with you that PoS is the most promising fix, but even still I don't think it's an easy fix just because the technology exists.

For example electric engines are an easy fix technically, but there are still lots of political and practical barriers that need to be solved before they can achieve widespread adoption.

It will take time for the market to build the same level of trust in PoS systems that they have in PoW systems.
Try Rails and Stimulus before you give up. Next to no JS with snappy front-end rendering. I believe Laravel and Django have adopted it too.