skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A somewhat tangential point: I think Signal's overall response was quite poor and somewhat concerning. Putting aside the usual discussion (Cellebrite sketch, Signal secure), I think the fact that this got published is evidence that Signal does not have very good self-control; or, possibly even worse, that Moxie does not have good self-control and Signal can't stop him from making snap decisions. Doing this kind of stunt is cool when you're a sole hacker working on your own, but when you run a company that makes software for many millions of people you cannot be this cavalier. There should be someone at Signal whose job is to moderate these kinds of responses, and obviously they either do not exist or are not able to do their job, and that is deeply problematic for the company. The blog post showed that Moxie (dragging along Signal) will go scorched earth against anyone who slights him–I mean, really, does a lazy PR blog post from Cellebrite really deserve this kind of response? They're living "rent free" in your head, dude.

(And, just to be fully clear, my support for Cellebrite/law enforcement in this situation is approximately zero. I just think that Signal could spend their time in better ways than going full nuclear against anyone who pisses the CEO off, which is what happened here.)
No it wouldn’t. They couldn’t see before and they still can’t see now.
It's actually relatively easy - most countries don't have the land to produce enough plant-based calories, and have plenty of meat-based calorie production.

Why would a government bankrupt an existing and well known and visible sector, to be replaced by imports? Lots of people would be pissed.
Humans Need to Create Interspecies Money to Save the Planet
This article contains a very important message. I find it strange that it did not get picked up on by the HN crowd.
Elaborate. What is preventing copying the same exact message, with the same exact signature?

If the message is the same, the signature should still be valid for the message, even if one cannot produce a valid signature for any other message.

Is there a reason the same message wouldn’t work?
Aren't you proving the article's point with the example of your billionaire friends? The higher taxes they want won't affect them because they aren't interested in getting richer, and so likely don't have high incomes compared to what the article calls the "usurpers".

Higher taxes for your billionaire friends, regardless of why they say they want them, will have the effect described in the article: your friends will remain just as rich, and it will be harder for other people below them on the ladder to climb up to them.
And I highly advise caution with TokenTax.
I chose them because I had ~2k transactions on Deribit, and they promised they can digest them. They don't give out refunds specifically because their website claims they will work with you until you're satisfied.

Well, it was clear from the 5th minute they don't have "Deribit support", and I had many email exchanges with them spelling out in detail how their engine misunderstands my transactions (cost basis etc.). I gave them every opportunity to improve, and instead they eventually just ghosted me.

I understand it may be unrealistic to expect they will build this capability in three weeks. It's a shame they weren't able to level with me, and talk about the complexity of this.
I ended up writing a taxable gains calculator for Deribit myself and would be happy to share it with them.
as best i can tell, this person wrote too many words to say:

1. cellebrite is ultimately good because it allows governments to spy on, harass, imprison, terrorize, torture, and murder its citizens, esp its journalist citizens, and

2. moxie used the wrong tone in his blog post.

something tells me this person doesn't think of themself as a typical government hack, which is presumably the only reason this blog post would be interesting enough to HN to show up here?

also interesting that this person thinks that cellebrite only sells their tech to 'authoritarian' governments.

which ones are those?
Being 'Held responsible' for laws you created is a very scary thing. Public opinion and overall morality historically is a fickle thing.
I'd be lying if I said I never had similar thoughts, but consider this: maybe 1 time in a hundred that woman would have been the love of your life. Who knows?
That example you mentioned would be just a couple of lines of html with css (which you could inline if you wanted), and there are plenty of drag and drop tools for the web (WebFlow is a modern example, but they have been around for decades).
>> As this is HN, the previous comment is to be take literally and pedantically, as is tradition.

My so bad. Thank you for correcting me. As is, also, tradition.
There is a chance that what we are observing is different from the past demand spikes.

The way we work and learn has changed, and it doesn't look like a reversion to pre-telework habits will ever fully occur. Several companies (including Salesforce, Twitter, Square, and Spotify) have said that telework will be a significant part of their post-pandemic reality.

Meanwhile, electric vehicles are slowly but surely taking market share from internal combustion engines that use less than a third as much silicon.

It feels like demand creation to me, and that means we ought to treat the prior capex roadmap for the industry as insufficient.

Even in the absence of demand creation, fab concentration in Taiwan is increasingly a liability in a world where Chinese economic hegemony is growing. One way to mitigate future perturbations that may result from military conflict, natural disasters, or other interruptions in Taiwan's fabs would be to build greater capacity outside of Taiwan.
How is the vdom novel? Any retention mode GUI does that, hell the DOM itself does that. It’s only novel in that they reimplemented it in “user-land”, because of the performance shortcoming of the DOM.
"stalin reduced inequality" There was still inequality... the ruling class lived like kings and everyone else lived in squalor.

"new deal reduced" and didn't remove. Inequality has grown steadily with a wider range of "all boats rise unequally".

"Why reduce" the goals aren't in question... simply the results. You can say you want to reduce inequality... but if the end result is more inequality and more suffering? then your stated goals don't match reality.

"inequality reduces social cohesion, promotes corruption, reduces democracy" all things that happen in the march towards "equality" and "equity".

"few wealthy" the problem is, again, the results... the harder the push for "equity" the more likely its everyone who suffers - not just the "few rich made poorer".
How do i do this myself now?

I always have put my phone in air plane mode when i was in a train due to the modem consuming a lot more energy.

I always assumed and still doe its due switching towers and less connecitivy which means using more power.

Whenever people argue that public transport doesn't need wifi i would argue against it due to power usage and also for more accessablity of the internet in general.
Our employee handbook states we are supposed to undergo annual performance reviews but I never received one in the years I've been with this company. I don't believe anyone on my team has received one either but other teams within the company have as there have been promotions.

I know I'm not perfect and have even asked the person I report to for feedback / training / continuing education opportunities and he literally says he doesn't have any for me. I've asked HR too but they have no suggestions.

There is some incompetence, negligence and careless mistakes that occur repeatedly with specific team members but there isn't any kind of corrective measures being made with anyone. I believe performance reviews would help rectify this problem.

When working for previous companies, we had extensive performance reviews, 1 on 1s and step 1 on 1s with our supervisor's supervisor. Everyone always took those opportunities seriously and wrote essay-like evaluations. It was time consuming but now I actually miss those days.
Long story short : designers don’t always build sites. With easy CMS solutions, content managers instead of designers, you get questionable font choices. It’s not as bad as the early days of Comic Sans, but there’s still a lot of work for typography experts out there.
I want a language where it's as natural as my example above, and normally an object or array so the integer was just to simplify the example. Do you have any suggestions?

I want to declare a variable and then be able to access/modify the same variable through a closure in a callback for incoming requests, so I guess that requires it to be single-threaded.

(I'm using this for game state where it's very convenient to just declare a persistent data structure in code directly without without having to use any additional abstraction.)
It is incredibly disingenuous to frame this as a personal "slight". This is a real security threat to the users of Signal, not some vendetta. Celebrite sells their tech to oppressive regimes and they use this against their opponents, who likely use Signal to communicate.
I can see that EVs may need fewer sensors (or fewer types of sensors, anyway) because of not having to deal with hot gases and flammable liquids. But fewer computing elements, not so much.

A battery pack may be made up of 20 or more modules that each have their own charge management logic, and there are battery heating and cooling systems that need controlling.

Most systems are the same in ICEVs and EVs - cabin control, entertainment, steering, transmission, throttle and brakes, suspension, lights, safety systems, and so on. To me, the difference doesn't seem very large.
Seems like the hashes are being cracked and refer to games, mostly.
title doesn't state if larger size is positively correlated with more frequent yawns :)
> And I'm saying that it's wrong. They are vocal for higher taxes because they know that higher taxes reduce wealth inequality

Even if your billionaire friends are super virtuous, it doesn't mean that other billionaires are the same. They could want higher taxes for the exact reason the article describes.

And regardless of why your friends say they want higher taxes, the bottom line is that it's very easy to say something is good idea when it doesn't affect you negatively. Did they also want higher taxes back when they weren't so rich, and were working on building their wealth? My guess would be no.

And also, you don't mention what kind of taxes your rich friends would like raised. I assume income taxes, of the sort that might not affect them all that much? How do they feel about wealth taxes, which likely would affect them? If they're in favor of higher income taxes but not the enactment of wealth taxes, then perhaps they aren't as interested in fixing wealth inequality as they say they are. It just sounds like, "we'd love to fix inequality, but only for the next generation; don't take away the result of how we've benefited from that same inequality!"
Publishers removed their games because they want the platform to pay them to have their games on there eg Rockstar, Bethesda, EA, etc. It's disgusting since it's depriving the end-user who has already paid for their games to play on the hardware of their choice, all because they want to double-dip.
Stealing is taking something illegally. If a judge takes away your license because you drive on the wrong side of the road, he isn't stealing it. If a mugger takes away your license because he's grabbed your wallet, that is indeed theft.
They don’t mean because of material damage, it is due to the clear signal sent that Israel is willing to use military action against the media. obviously this is going to reduce the coverage as not all journalists are willing to risk their lives to cover a story.
It's already almost impossible for anyone who isn't born into wealth to become a billionaire.

How exactly would taxing ultra-high net worth individuals make it harder for everyone else to get rich?
The same thing happens in nature too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...). Capitalism isn't the cause of everything you don't like.
Artsy.net has had quite a bit of success with a brown field RN app. We adopted RN in our iOS app in 2016 and gradually used it to render more and more screens in the app. In 2020 we decided it would be nice to have an android app, and we spent the last year incrementally refactoring the app infrastructure from Objective-C to TypeScript to support that. Crucially we did the entire thing with a tiny team of 1-3 people and without blocking any product engineers from shipping new features.

We had occasional tooling issues like you describe but all fixable. I'd be happy to go through the same process again.
> that you shouldn't support higher taxes on the wealthy because they are just doing it to prevent you from being as wealthy as they are.

The inevitable math is if income is taxed at 40%, it greatly diminishes the ability to grow wealth.

Instead of taxing wealth creation, the government should be taxing pollution.
These are valid points, but in non-perf benchmark terms, what is the benefit to rendering before fonts load? I have never appreciated getting to read for a couple of seconds before the screen repaints and I lose where I was and just start over.
Yes, but I think the learning curve matters more, especially for students who are going to be mostly writing code, not reading existing projects.
Inequality growing in sweden says hello

https://nordregio.org/nordregio-magazine/issues/state-of-the...

"From having the second-lowest level of inequality in 2000, by 2017, Sweden had the highest level of income inequality in the Nordic Region. The overall income inequality between households in the same municipality was also higher in Sweden than in the other Nordic countries."

https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/a...

"From an all-time low around 1980, income inequality substantially increased, reflecting a strong rise in top incomes and income from capital, more recently also a widening gap between bottom and middle incomes. Behind this are the dual income tax system, established in the early 1990s, the introduction of earned income tax credits, and a diminished coverage of social insurance programmes, which widened the income gap between employed and non-employed during the 2000s. The benefit and tax systems became less redistributive and thereby contributed to increased income inequalities"
[rant] the tone deafness of the process is in the fact that the company is okay letting perfectly good people go for some self congratulatory metric. The company has a high interview bar, if I may claim so myself. So it's perfectly possible that all 5 people in a team are doing good work. But now you are forced to push someone out because "we only retain the best".

They are okay losing people, okay losing the investment done in them, okay losing the knowledge of systems they acquired for a rule someone in the HR made because they read a study on it. What a bunch of buffoons really.
That makes backwards compatibility very challenging so is not really an option.
> There should be someone at Signal whose job is to moderate these kinds of responses

The article proposes the correct solution to this.

> Signal doesn’t have their own in-house General Counsel. At this point, with many millions of users around the globe depending upon them for their privacy, security, and even physical safety, they really should.

Even if the founder was then most composed person in the world that never made snap decisions, Signal is doing something a lot of people don't like. Those people have a lot of legal power and Signal needs to understand the playing field.
Yes, that’s it’s purpose. Hence why the results of this study is not really surprising.
> Inequality still exists and is growing worldwide... so I'd say... Yes.

I think global inequality has drastically reduced these past 30 years. Don’t forget that 30 years ago for anyone in India or China the main prospect was subsistence farming.

And why are the consequences of curbing inequality increasingly bad? What is “increasingly bad” about the Nordic countries?
In America it's very possible. For example, Oprah Winfrey went from welfare to billionaire.
This seems unlikely. I could see this make a bit more sense if Microsoft wouldn't have screwed up their mobile platform so badly, but if you just serve desktop/laptop, a switch to arm doesn't make sense. I expect x86 to catch up enough to not justify the performance impact of even really good emulation on arm. Usually if you go Windows it's because of its huge software library and backwards compat, so I wouldn't bank on having all the important apps be native arm after a year or two. Everyone else is already on a different platform.
Wealth inequality is not the same thing as income inequality. Moreover, they are inversely related: more income inequality usually means less wealth inequality (because people know government won't care for them so they save and invest cash to make up for it). And there is nothing morally wrong with wealth inequality: European democratic states that American liberals love the most, like Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden, are more unequal in terms of wealth than the U.S. - but much less in terms of income, and even less in terms of after-tax income including "free stuff".
Cellebrite has been operating with their present capabilities for several years. I can see few reasons why Signal would choose to publish a blog post such as this now, if not for the fact that a couple months ago Cellebrite write a blog post that specifically mentioned their ability to extract data from Signal (which, to be clear, was not a specific vulnerability in Signal). This prompted a very pointed response from Signal, which you can read here: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/. The timing makes it pretty obvious that Signal/Moxie took this personally (to say nothing of the general atmosphere when that blog post was written) and then took a few months acquiring a UFED and exploiting it, the results of which we're seeing now.
Nice, that would be really nice to have for large Wi-Fi systems in big commercial buildings too.
You wrote what I wanted to say about myself but 'somehow' couldn't.

I solved the doctor issue by unofficial ways. I would be on the street now if I didn't (as I was living in my car when I began). Keep trying to get a doctor, medication really helps - though I need oversight, I would snort it all at once without my girlfriend by my side... Don't go the medication way if you don't have a doctor or a partner to help you.
Organic, printable device could restore sight to the blind
> Wealth inequality is the problem

Wealth equality has been tried many times, and turns out to be an intractable problem.
The post quite literally lists these out:

> But Cellebrite has lots of customers besides U.S. law enforcement agencies. And some of them aren’t so nice. As Signal’s blog post notes, “Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, and China; death squads in Bangladesh; military juntas in Myanmar; and those seeking to abuse and oppress in Turkey, UAE, and elsewhere.”
I struggle hard to keep my desk and desktop from cluttering up and every day I waste a sizable amount of time looking for my phone, the wallet or the keys.

At first, partners or co-workers found this quirky but it got old fast and leads to frequent arguments.
She is literally the only person on the billionaires list who was born in the bottom quintile. She is the most outlier of outliers.
Possible, but still vanishingly unlikely. An outlier generally does not prove a trend.
Understanding Linux: The Kernel Perspective
What exactly do you still use or need jQuery for?
> A broke, non handsome, average 50 year old guy will have exactly 0 access to women between 18 and 35.

I have seen tens of counter examples to this in the West. Men often get more confident, more stable, and more stable as they get older, and the world itself simply treats them more respectfully.
The parts of the article quoted above suggest that the principle is a CFAA violation – someone who distributes an exploit tailored to destroy evidence captured by Cellebrite probably “knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer.”

Difficult philosophical questions arise with the phrases “knowingly causes” and “intentionally causes damage,” but a jury can use common sense to resolve them on the evidence in a particular case. The same issues arise when trying to determine intent and causation when someone fires a gun or carries a bag full of white powder. The details matter.
That's literally the second sentence of the article.
I think you're like 98% right. Swapping a MCU is a lot of work, and other chips are too... I just wonder how many people are going to have all the chips but one, and figure out how to wing it, and how many of those solutions end up being interestimg/useful/kept past when the missing chip becomes available.

I'm thinking of stuff like (at least some) dishwashers with 'dirt' sensing don't actually sense dirt at all; instead the pump has a thermal overload, and they sense how many times the pump cycles to indicate dirtyness.

If you used to have a dirt sensor, but it was delayed 18 months, you might figure something like that out, and maybe that's handy. Or maybe there's some other thing you'd like to measure, but there's not a good way to measure it, but it causes something to misbehave and you can measure that; but you wouldn't have thought about it except that you ran out of dirt sensors.
Which specific European countries are you thinking about? This does not match my experience at all - I have never heard of inheriting rental contracts & I have lived in Europe for basically all of my life. Family in Germany & Italy have also never mentioned such a thing.
> and they are generally considered extremely successful

All the FAANG companies are American.
Python did had a couple of smallish killer applications like Zope, being used as scripting language in 3D applications, and gaining adoption among Perl users after Perl 6 never ending story.

Additionally Guido has always worked in well known companies, and Microsoft and IBM have toyed with Python on their products as well.
Then there is room for disagreement about what is fair. Some folks believe that fair is measuring everyone on the same objective criteria. Others believe that students shouldn't lose higher education opportunities just because they were poor or disadvantaged through no fault of their own.

There are good arguments on both sides.

But, as other commenters have pointed out, the conflict only exists because:

1. We rely on university degrees as a credential to filter people for jobs and other desirable opportunities.

2. To maintain the value (and price) of the credential, the best universities must restrict supply.

3. Outcomes from the USA's public grade/high school systems vary widely, and no one has figured out how to give everyone a good (if not equal) shot.

So perhaps there's no perfect solution possible from tweaking one thing (university undergraduate admissions). The whole system needs work, from K onwards. But such an overhaul would need people to agree on what they're trying to optimize for.
I don't think anyone here is seriously advocating for wealth equality, just less inequality.

In a fair world, financial success would be based more or less solely on a person's abilities, and their effort and skill in making use of their abilities. Since those things will have wide variance, there will be inequality, but that kind of inequality is ok (though we should still have a safety net to ensure no one must live in poverty because of their lack of ability). Our world is not fair: luck, ancestry, and unbalanced power dynamics (among other things) have an outsized influence on financial success. And I fear it will only grow more unfair as time goes on.