skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the mainstream media ended up getting behind some really nutso anti-Trump conspiracy theories. One of my favourites was the one about Trump supposedly using DNS requests from email servers as a secret communication channel with Russia (and this one US chain of health clinics) because it made absolutely no sense on any level.

It would make such a poor communication channel that using it would require some other communication channel that's better in every way and hasn't been found to agree what the supposed communications meant first (so why not just use that?), could only have been set up with the help of a subcontractor of a subcontractor who Trump had no reason to trust and yet who insisted no such thing happened, and all the evidence fits the alternative explanation of the DNS lookups being a normal response to receiving normal marketing emails about Trump hotels. About five publications rejected it for these reasons before it got published. Yet when it did, the New York Times got so much heat for pushing back in the gentlest way possible against the Clinton campaign's demands for the FBI to investigate - which went viral on social media - by saying that the FBI had looked into it and concluded all the evidence was consistent with normal marketing emails that they eventually said it was the wrong decision and they wouldn't do it again. And the only thing that was described as a conspiracy theory by the mainstream press was the idea that all the evidence was consistent with the normal operation of email systems, even though that's what most technical people concluded regardless of political affiliation.

There was some really heinous bullshit around the legitimacy of the 2016 election as well, which meant the press really didn't have a leg to stand on when then opined about how dangerous it was for Trump to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 one. Though of course that didn't stop them.
Isn't this more or less how a paradigm shift would look from the perspective of someone who sticks to the old paradigm?
Vietnam isn’t, though.
Since WhatsApp is closed source, you can't know that there isn't some sort of encryption backdoor in there anyway, so in both cases it comes down to trust that the company is doing what they say they're doing.

When you read how the cloud encryption works in Telegram, with the encryption keys stored in different data centres and even different countries to protect against any one person or group being able to read them, I personally feel pretty happy with that. (See https://telegram.org/privacy#3-3-1-cloud-chats)

Having the messages stored in the cloud and not having to rely on my phone (except for registration) is a huge win for me personally. Especially during the lockdown I almost exclusively use desktop versions of these and the Telegram one is great.
Moldable Database Analysis
I'm trying to understand what you're trying to fix with these declarations. What is the consequence of Twitter/Facebook not being responsible for content that appears on their site?

Maybe you should be able to sue the NYT reporter. I think you can, in fact!

I just don't understand what we're trying to accomplish with the changes to how things are currently. Maybe it would help if you described the world you'd rather live in, and how it differs from this world.
Like Lisp and Smalltalk?
I have noticed a number of legal documents spelling out numbers.

40 (forty) floors say
If the APIs that you're interacting with are side-effect free then it's easy. If they are full of side effects, then they aren't written with multithreading in mind and you wouldn't be able to even compile it in Rust. C++ just takes off the training wheels.
On major platforms it's both
>The right-wing fantasies about 230 repeal are even more off base. For one thing, without Section 230 immunity, a figure like Donald Trump would almost certainly be kicked off Twitter, because he constantly defames people.

Tim Wu seems to be misrepresenting what the right wants, or living in a left wing bubble. Repealing 230, for the right is about scorched earth. Deplatform the left too, by repealing 230. The right has already been deplatformed. Trump was already kicked off Twitter. The right has no expectations of Trump returning to twitter. Repeal 230 is about destroying twitter, and all the other left wing social media too.
Yes, looks the future of the EV. But at the moment, for what I know, this system is used only to replace the battery under warranty/after*miles. Not for standard recharging. Here more infos https://www.nio.com/baas
Show HN: Critter.Camera – Browser based motion detection and image capture
the first graph is completely useless, how can you distinguish between all these similar shades of light blue?
Similar to how white people are blamed for everything today?
Clubhouse is getting boring.

It's filled with self-proclaimed life coaches, marketing gurus, Bitcoin maximalists, NFT shills, and armchair philosophers. All the other rooms are in foreign languages, probably talking about the same things.

Stalking Lex Fridman and listening to Naval gets old. Elon Musk never shows up. Every room I start ends up getting filled with the above-mentioned populations.

I'm not sure why I keep tuning in, but I don't suspect it will last. I know others feel the same way.

Unless Clubhouse makes some obvious improvements, mainly letting users filter out specific keywords and languages, I suspect it won't survive mass-adoption.
C++ interop is not supported in modern .NET out of the box, but wasn't too hard to implement as a library: https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop
You say that, but this happened: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/18/6cm-tall-man...
I live in the Azores on an island with less than 15k people which was mostly closed last year. There are only two ways to enter the island: the port and the airport there isn't a lot of movement and everyone coming in is tested twice. On top of that people here are terrified of the virus and take it very seriously (masks, distancing, etc) and can even be hostile to newcomers.

Still, cases keep popping up even without systematic testing. There are no deaths or even ICU cases but the virus keeps finding its way in. I believe that, like New Zealand, we are just postponing the inevitable.
Thanks, this is neat. I love to see where the people are that liked my software so much they starred it. Makes it a bit more real that they're actual people and that all the time I spent on it is worth it.

So far, I've been using https://thepirat000.github.io/StargazersMap/index.html so far, which has a more... basic interface, but also seems a bit more detailed with usernames.
> One of the interesting city planning concepts I've seen is to build the houses with their backs to the roads. You still have a place for cars/deliveries/logistics, but it also forms a walkable neighborhood that's designed for people. I've seen some small developments based on this--it feels like a big park, and the only real side effect was the coffee shop needed a second public facing door.

My cousin lives in Dubai in a similar neighborhood design of sorts. The front entrances face the general roadways to cars (which are mostly empty and lifeless), etc, but the back entrances face a central small sized park, in a cluster of maybe 12 homes or something. Essentially the park becomes the local meeting ground with lawns, play areas and barbecue spots, and the venue for celebrations of all sorts.
I'll also mention Steelcase Leap as an alternative. Depending on the location, it might not have as much of premium in the used market as the Aeron. (I believe you can remove the armrests, but I haven't personally tried.)

Both are very solid chairs, though it really should be sat on to see if it's a good fit.
There are a bunch of protected classes already in US law, and I believe the reasoning tends to be that the folks in those protected classes would, if not protected, be trampled by the majorities for things the members of those protected classes have no control over. Some protected classes include Americans with disabilities, African-Americans, etc.

You can't fire members of the protected class, and (I believe) you can't ban folks from Twitter for being disabled or black.

Conservatives seem to want that treatment.
As someone formerly working for one of the largest WhatsApp messaging API providers, this whole controversy is really unfortunate.
The problem boils down to the way the business API works: as WhatsApp is using e2e messaging, they could not simply offer a standard HTTP API for customers to use. In that case, WhatsApp would have to read messages received via such an API, and user responses to send webhooks.

To solve this problem, they provided a Docker stack that would essentially spin up a specialised WhatsApp Client on the customer’s infrastructure - so you’d be running the API locally, send and receive messages in your own network, and the client would handle encryption before transmitting to the WhatsApp servers. All containers would connect to a local SQL database to store their data, and included a REST API (curiously written in PHP).
To handle high load, you had to spin up more images in distinct patterns and configure sharding per stack.

This was a nice, albeit highly technical solution to the problem. As WhatsApp partners we built lots and lots of additional infrastructure to manage 12000 individual Docker-Compose stacks in a distributed, reliable way. That worked surprisingly well, but obviously is way too complex.
So in the end WhatsApp concluded it would be easier to take care of the container hosting themselves, shoving them into AWS, integrated with the Facebook business manager.
And all this lead to a necessary change in the terms of service, as WhatsApp hosting containers in AWS opened the possibility of e2e no longer being given.
Taavet + Sten
WhatsApp’s encryption occurs on my phone and can I can verify it by examining the client binaries, regardless of whether it’s open source. Telegram’s story about the nine keys divided between the realms of the human, elves, orcs etc is just a story on a website. You should only trust it if you believe that organizations who want your data can’t invent a good story.
Watt is a unit of power and not force, which is already a hint that things are more complicated than that, says another humble computer nerd
It is. I started up and failed, then got a job and everything was fine. But after 9 months, I was down for 6 month. I think I was still in startup-sprint mode for the first months at the new job but PTSD finally hit me.
Doesn't the majority vote mean that they get to control the cryptocurrency?

Sounds like an attack to me.
> All sounds very similar to whats happening to a lot of artists thanks to Memo Akten's cryptoart.wtf name and shame site.

I don’t think that’s fair. Artists should be aware of the impact of their work and that site served to educate a great number of people on the ecological harm of NFT art.

That isn’t to say that those artists deserve to be harassed about it though.
Will try this out, thanks - I think I tried it several years ago and got annoyed that AirPlay wouldn’t do full resolution, but it’s quite possible the situation has improved!
They are because there’s been an historical division between publishers and carriers.

230 is about that, it lets intermediaries create policies, without having to choose between being publishers or carriers.

Disclaimer: I don’t like this side effect too
So the mailing list is going here: https://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/0003458.htm...

But do we have a new maintainer? Also donate if you can — cancer is expensive.
No. Deplatforming actually works really really well. The irony of this being on HN where shadowbanning is de rigeur.
Matrix is very much an open protocol. Just because the team who created it works together professionally doesn’t somehow make it less open, given we set up the Foundation to keep it neutral. (And the fact our jobs depend on it being successful acts a useful motivator not to screw it up).
WhatsApp’s E2E encryption occurs on your device, in binaries that you can decompile.
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We live in a copy-cat world. Every company uses Leetcode now from my experience. I’m talking down to shitty digital agencies (yep, got Leetcoded for that).

You can’t give up because there is simply no other choice. There is nothing else to do but continue walking through the darkness.
Rust Jobs Rustlang
Only when speaking about kernel code, drivers, and similar scenarios.

You are the one focusing in Java, and in your answer proved exactly my point of knowing stacks superficially.

Object pools aren't the only way to reduce memory footprint in Java.

A bit of FFI into host OS syscalls and it is done, or a tiny high performance native library for a custom data structures and ready for the races.

No need to throw away 25 years of tooling and libraries.

Then we can move into languages that offer exactly the same features as C++, like D, Nim, Swift, Eiffel, Ada.
> Calling it a 51% "attack" is like saying Biden "stole" the election by getting at least 51% of the votes.

A better comparison would be that a billionaire decided to take over just because he had more cash.
Restrictions remain on large gatherings in Australia, with capacity limits. Most of Australia has regulations regarding social distancing. Australian cities are locked-down when a single case is detected. You mentioned the last lock-down in your city was as recent as January.

There are currently ~40,000 Australian citizens registered with the government who are trying to get back to Australia, receiving little to no assistance.

Flights are restricted into the country.

Australian citizens are banned from leaving the country.

This is not yet "normal", I hope.
Pix4D made a 3D reconstruction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20wCGKTpOJw
I Don’t Believe in Consciousness
Linux systems under attack by new RedXOR malware
Any idea what makes R's data.table so fast compared to the others?
C doesn't advertise fearless concurrency.
On what platform are you seeing this? Element is three different apps on iOS/Android/Web and they implement scrolling differently. There is no architectural reason in Matrix why it should be slower than TG.
I like how easy it is to take projects tailored for Heroku and self-host them with Dokku
I don't think I've ever felt inconvenienced that I had to manually flip a light switch. I have, on the other hand, felt inconvenienced plenty of times by machines that try to guess what I want and get it wrong.
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They’re responsible for their actions today.

230 doesn’t immunize commenters from liability for the words they post online. It protects the platform, while also allowing them to moderate.

Post-230, platforms would have to zealously moderate to avoid repercussions. You think bots are a little too aggressive today. Imagine those auto-van dials turned up to 11 if Twitter bore direct responsibility for every word tweeted out.
I'm confused how the author knows that piracy caused the decline in sales. Wouldn't sales naturally decay over time anyway? The author doesn't even know the month the book was pirated, so I'm pretty skeptical that they've measured the impact of piracy reliably.

I also doubt that pirating a book selling 100 copies a month would be worthwhile for an Amazon employee with the needed access and know-how. If I had to pirate an ebook with zero insider connections I would just use a script, maybe something like autoit, to page through the ebook on my Kindle Cloud Reader and screenshot every page. Use tesseract to do OCR on the collection and now I have a poorly formatted copy of your book. I assume I could spend a bit more time on this and come up with something better that would keep formatting.

I agree that piracy is bad and basically theft (disclosure, I pirated Excession because it wasn't available on Kindle and I knew I wouldn't buy a physical copy and Iain Banks is dead so I don't feel bad). I don't think this post is particularly compelling though.
I'll post the same obligatory "actually read your Constitution" note:

The first amendment protects US citizens right to speak freely in public and private venues from being retaliated against by the government.

It specifically means you cannot be denied government services, support our rights because of any opinions you express publicly or privately.

It does not and never has obligated any private persons or business to listen, rebroadcast, or not *react" to what you say. You have never been protected from the consequences of your speech within your community, nor has anyone been required to enable it. It has never been a protection against the speech of anyone else, for example rallying their community to speak against you or for other private services to deny you patronage.
Is there a way to install Shutter on modern Debian? It only is available for old stable and oldoldstable. I would love to try it, but prefer function over non-function.
Monte Carlo Pricing in TensorFlow Quant Finance (TFF)
>I don’t know how many people ever did it

It's been many years, but I tried this to play FFIX. Turned out it was one of the few games that still had game-breaking issues at the time. I wonder if it works now.
Ok, thank you. I am not aware of any such limitation in any web standard. Any audio, and in fact 'all', information sent is converted to digital. Any amount of data can theoretically be sent. Receiving/demodulating, that data will depend on the internet service and equipment at your end - regardless of what is in that data, be it audio, video, imagery.

In reality, the general public does not have access to such powerful internet services so companies rely on compression codecs to supply things like 8k TV, and other media with high data rates.
The threat of revoking someone's 230 protection would ideally make them think about everything you just said, and hopefully decide to abide by the conditions of that protection. That is, they get to choose for themselves: either support free speech on their platform and receive the benefits of that protection, or don't. If they don't, then they'll need to figure out how to address the kinds of problems you mentioned.
Honestly if a product anyone has made becomes a worldwide hit amongst pirates, you can be sure it is of great quality. As such he should be proud and keep on working as he is now onto a path which will make him rich and famous if he wants. It is a monumental achievement.

The world is gigantic and I am sure he hasn't even translated his book into Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Hindu which will open up more markets.

I have admiration for this guy for what he has achieved.
Regarding piracy, live with it! Information wants to be free.
In college my prof had this book she made with maybe a thousand sql drills with answers. I never went to the class and just drilled all the problems and somehow got good at sql around that time.

Need to find that book again, but I think sql is something you need to drill.

I’ll take a look at some of the links in this thread, and I’m hoping one of them is just a giant bank of sql drills, and would be great if anyone knows of similar books/sites.
> Scrolling through past messages

Funny how you mention this - scrolling back manually is literally the only way to go to past conversations on mobile, as the search does not work with inflected languages. The only way to search for past content is to dump your whole message history on the desktop client and run grep on it.
It's not true. Overseas parts of France are fully integrated in the republic, and citizens there have the same rights as in the mainland. There's no distinction between "settlers" and "natives" from a legal point of view (the economic picture is a bit different). There have been referendums in New Caledonia about independance and people there still want to be part of France.

To be faire, I don't even understand how New Caledonia or French Polynesia (where people have full representation in congress) can be on the non-self-governing list of the UN when Puerto Rico (where citizens don't have a seat in the house, senate or electoral college) isn't.
I only skimmed it (so far) but the immediate application that intrigued me was G code compression. arcwelder fits points on arcs, but Bèzier curves would be so much more powerful (I don’t know if 3D printer firmware currently support that, but that’s a technicality)
i meant that Hebrew has several scripts.
A giant mirror is not expendable, and takes more than 5 years just to make. So until the astronomers tell the engineers, "hey no problem, we can do good science with little cheap mirrors", engineers are going to be stuck engineering the rest of the telescope around the economics of the mirror.
The Linux kernel does.

Minix is full OS.
If you are looking for an alternative status bar that works with sway, you can use my fork of yagostatus :)

https://github.com/denysvitali/yagostatus
Something like Astrosat or cheaper? At ~$25M it's rather cheap in relation to launch prices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrosat

> Also, if there is one basic platform, sending different telescopes with quite different sensor packages would be an option.

Satellites are usually designed around an integrator's platform, called "bus".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_bus
Sarah Everard: Met criticised over Clapham vigil policing
You have great taste in shirts, and you should feel a sense of pride when you come home later today and all your shirts are gone. Clothes want to be free!
For the record XMPP worked 10 years ago, and continues to work today (of course it has changed a lot).

If you have Android contacts then Quicksy is on the app store and an easy jump from WhatsApp, with the benefits of an open federated network. I believe iOS is planned, but in the meantime Siskin is a decent choice.

There is a lot of development activity going on in XMPP across a very wide range of projects, and I'm hopeful that as people realize that all this centralization onto single providers has been a recipe for abuse of power, that open networks may gather more public interest.
The use of Linux kernel on Android is an implementation detail, only exposed to OEMs.

Applications make use of Java and Kotlin frameworks, ISO C and C++ standard libraries and a couple of Android specific native APIs.
Hey, can I connect with you 1-1 to discuss your post-grad work? I’ve been playing around with the idea of getting a graduate degree in linguistics, but with a CS-focus. Would love to hear from someone who’s been through it.
Good, because i make a big distinction between cracking and pirated.
To add to what you’ve suggested - at least the cleanups can be outsourced via fiverr and such.
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This explains why so many books are $9.99...

> Amazon, in their drive to popularize digital content for Kindle out, made some changes to e-Books to basically force people to do $9.99. Royalties are 70% if your book is priced at $9.99 or below, but 30% if the book is above that price. Royalties of ~$7/book at $9.99 but your book has to be priced at $23.3 to make the same $7 royalty above the $9.99 limit.
Valheim Coming to Mac According to Leak
Here's a great interview with Ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-aJ8YNSYGs
Lathes are a good example of exactly what I'm talking about! The manual might say "don't start the lathe with the chuck key still in place" but that doesn't stop people from doing it.

A much better solution is to add a physical safety interlock which prevents you from starting the lathe without removing the chuck key, which is exactly what some lathes do!

I agree the safety level of a lot of Chinese machines is very poor.
Apologies, but it's not clear to me the relevance of what you are saying to what I have posted.

I don't think I'm asking for freedom from consequences for anyone, just the reverse of anything, I think sites should be granted 230 immunities but only if they provide some form of due process to users, and if they don't, users should be able to take sites to court just like they could if there was no 230.