skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now, if you changed your mind, and want instead to argue that they are incompetent because they did not implement e2ee by default, it's a totally different discussion and has no relation at all with my original post, nor with the article we are commenting (imo).

No I didn't change my mind. The incompetence is all around. Both the presense of these vulnerabilities AND the fact Telegram's E2EE is practically non-existent tell of the incompetence. The vulnerabilities here are not the major problem, the major problem is focusing on the vulnerabilities is seeing trees without the forest.

If every time there is a discussion about Telegram's issues and we only focus on the narrow set of already fixed vulnerabilities, there's never place to discuss the elephant in the room, that the whole game is rigged. The backdoor massive, right in front of us, and nobody's doing anything to fix it. These security issues do not matter until the glaring hole is fixed.

>Please do not patronize me.

That wasn't my intention. I was genuinely interested. Because if you look at the infosec bubble on Twitter with big names like Matt Green, JPA et al. they all know about these issues yet don't even bother to name them. It's like the uncle you never talk about.

Given that you wrote your article before Signal had even desktop clients, I don't think it's even remotely up to date to vouch for any kind of fruitful discussion. But! Let me know if you update it at some point, I'm sure I'd like to read it then!
last may, i recall public health officials and figures coming forward to say that mass protests were acceptable because racism was a greater public health threat than covid. you can see a similar push for gun control using the same rhetoric taking shape
Oops. Okay I’m dumb.
Was he in the 75th Ranger Regiment or “just” Ranger tabbed?

Was he in US Army Special Forces?

He should get onto LinkedIn ASAP and put in his full Army quake and assignments and reconnect to other soldiers he’s worked with and network with them. There is a rich special operations community on LI.
Title seems backwards. The challenge is to rescue the internet from the web. (or should we say "their" web)

Letting the internet be dominated by a single use (www) is every bit short-sighted as letting the web be dominated by five gigantic websites.
Right now you have a damned if you do damned if you don't situation where police get 0 credit for saving thousands if not more lives, yet the one time they make a mistake their are immediately put on the chopping block. Recognizing what policing should look like and idealizing that would go a long way.
control-f for "outdoor" in your source: 0 results
No doubt a naive question, but: Are Launch HN posts shown only to certain users? I’ve been reading HN regularly for two years and check the front page several times a day, and I can’t recall ever seeing or reading a Launch HN.
It's getting more common than not that they all remove the same popular features and add the same dark patterns.
This is because matplotlib is mostly a faithful copy of Matlab's plotting functionality. Matlab has the same set of two interfaces with the purely imperative one being the older one of the two. The more object oriented interface is a later addition there.
The term "elf" exists to describe a kind (well, a few kinds) of supernatural vaguely-humanoid being. This is not generally considered evidence for the existence of elfs.
How did I know this would be full of "My new M1 with everything freshly installed is better than my cheaper 5 year old PC"
Yes, as oceans warm, more water vapor is being released into the atmosphere. Water vapor is far more effective than CO2 at trapping heat, and is therefore driving one of global warming’s most extreme positive feedback loops [1].

1. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesci...
This comment ignores the problem and seems to imply that we should accept a bad paper because the tribe is a victim of some kind.

How does that address the harm done by basing decisions on bad science?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874100
No, don't get lost in the insincere gaslighting.
> If I could have a privacy respecting brain computer

something's gotta give. and im pretty sure it'll be your privacy
The thing is, there's already a powerful AI technology we can use to solve the "boilerplate code" problem.

It's called Lisp. You know, Lisp, the language for AI written way back when brand-new Cadillac Eldorados with tailfins were still on the road that is self-reflective enough to make writing "programs that write programs" an absolute doddle? :)

Good luck getting bigco to sign off on a Lisp project, though. Even if it is of demonstrably profound practical utility.

You're right -- we have a huge problem with trying to trowel the new hotness (currently, "AI/ML" aka statistics) instead of taking advantage of tools that are highly suited to purpose. Instead of letting us use those tools, bigcos instead subscribe to the "programmer-clerk" myth in which programming is a menial task of mostly rote coding undertaken by minions in legion strength. And this affects not only the tools we use but our processes and professional values.
Israel has mandatory military service, and a lot of people go to work in their large SIGINT divisions (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200). A lot of them then leave service and go on to use those skills in the cybersecurity industry–on both sides.
> the US governmental does not send out black ops operatives to kill Americans with certain kinds of knowledge, unless they are traitors

Lol at this. Just keep broadening the definition of traitor until they get there.
ACLU is still silent about the latest attack on free speech. They still haven't opposed the White House's plan to enforce speech. I've cancelled my monthly donations to them because of it. Please do the same if you give them money.
Add aria-presses attribute to show the like/don't like state as aria-pressed="true" or aria-pressed="false". You could also add aria-live="polite" to make the label be announced again when it is updated.
A major difficulty of dweb technology is answering "what's the point of it all" in a self-interested sense. For centralized, it's easy to motivate a Facebook because of the assumptions of user data and attention being valuable commodities. Doing this involves competition, so the platforms are also reasonably competitive in their "home turf" and boast high usage figures, even if they ineptly overreach into other markets.

But decentralized has to embrace a kind of indifference to its users that makes it more like a natural force. Having more users is mostly a pain and lacks direct profit incentives, since, by definition, the gates are lowered and there is no tax to collect. That makes the self-interest more of a principled do-gooder fanaticism which operates outside the benchmarks of market success, and as such there's a heavy influence from anti-capitalist ideology in a lot of dweb projects.

Of course, one form of reconciliation has come through the idea of re-injecting the market dynamic through cryptocurrency. This mode of incentive-setting can produce some tremendously ugly results, but looking at the projects out there(I am using Brave right now), neither does it seem to have failed outright either.
The problem is, that the sentiment of "limits speech that promotes resurgence of X" is the same that dictatorships like Argentina used against the "subversives" that would promote and bring about communism.

When you allow the powerful to define "dangerous speech". Criticism of the government very quickly becomes dangerous when it's successful.

We've seen it with everything related to covid where in some countries people get arrested for "misinformation".

The slippery slope many warned about is very real, and very damaging.
yeah i actually like seeing my friends talking with each other & being able to join in the various conversations they're having.

if you're fine just leaving the online social circles your friends are in good for you. but i hope you can see how very very very very very short an answer & how rude is comes across to most people. and i'm sorry your friends are so boring.
What health officers said is that 1st amendment rights supersede health orders. Perhaps you could link to a health officer or health order saying otherwise?
I used it on Android through Termux, it was quite handy to convert a large amount of image-based files to text in a pinch.
To my knowledge, .nomedia files are created on Android to prevent the folder from being scanned for media. I don't think it's due to "anything besides", but Android in particular. I haven't tried configuring the Android Syncthing app to exclude .nomedia files, but it may be possible.
Show HN: Golang Remote Jobs
No - that would obviously be just as false as claiming they are secure.
That could definitely be a factor, stress is relatively high for me at the moment and has been for about a pandemic amount of time
transcript consistency is usually something that matters in group chat, and signal/matrix/and pretty much all group chat apps rely on a trusted server to order messages.
If it's a test database, can you simply generate it once, commit it, and use that in all future tests?
I think it's a great idea! Small question: since you're batching launches because there are too much of them, are you planning to do the same with job ads?
Fortunately there are plenty of developers that can reimplement or improve them. If there were a big economic incentive to do so you would see everything rewritten from scratch, redesigned, optimized and polished in two months
I know people who worked on WhatsApp and they wouldn't let that happen. Take it for what it is, but it's a pretty serious team there.
It’s a reference to bootrom-level exploits. The bootrom is burned into the silicon and can’t be updated. If one finds an exploit in there, Apple can’t patch it without new chips.
they can't both be false
Anyone who knows how to use them, their house will still be standing. Thinking about this could cause one to question what "developers", as used today, actually means. Developers of what. A house of cards.
Not taking a vehicle from someone who should be banned from driving can lead to people being killed.
I find analogies to physical systems help me generate "non-obvious" questions.

What are some ways to break up a physical thermocline?

1. Mixing and turbulent flow between layers;

2. Radiators that transverse layers;

3. Redistribution of heat source.

What might these look like when translated into a business "thermocline"?

1. Break up the management hierarchy and distribute responsibility in a homogeneous, egalitarian way;

2. Make sure that at every meeting, no matter the hierarchy level, members from all levels are present;

3. Make management also deal with low-level GitLab tasks on a frequent basis.

Whether the above proposals actually work is big question; however, thanks to the physical analogy, the pretty much immediately came to mind. When ideas come cheap, it's easier to keep discarding them until a truly good one comes along.
I strongly suspect that storage of data is far cheaper than the costs of digitization, or actually storing physical objects, regardless of how high the resolution.

I once put all my photos through JPEG2 compression, because I thought saving space was a good idea... I've regretted it ever since.

The function of an archive is to preserve artifacts of the past with as much fidelity and context as possible. You can't possibly know what is going to be important to people in the future. Saving 2 cents on storage per century could be the equivalent of using shorter dates/times to save memory, the tradeoff that lead to the Y2K and Y2.038k problems.
That is nevertheless only two screens.
That’s a simple and elegant solution. I believe this is much like how threads prefixed ‘Ask HN’ already work, too?
Everything is a software error. It might have been a hardware error as well, but the software "should have" detected it and prevented it.

That's what software gets for being the brains, and the easiest to change (and therefore the most attractive part to blame).
I agree that it is nice to have a native python library, but I'd argue that the gnuplot interface is much better designed than matplotlib.
I have found EasyOCR to be more accurate in OCR than tesseract. Curious to learn about HN-ers experience with those tools.
> If they told me what I owed, and I disagreed, what recourse would I have?

You'd file your taxes exactly as you do now, losing nothing.
I use WhatsApp and it's pretty good for messaging friends, for large group chats I don't find telegram useful and I find discord much better.
Any global climate model worth its salt will have a comprehensive carbon cycle submodel, tracking the sources and sinks of carbon in all its forms, between ocean, soil, land, and atmosphere. Some models evolve the amount and type of plants e.g. C1 to project future biome distribution [0]

One such model is aptly named TRIFFID [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/35041539

Edit: non-paywall link to TRIFFID paper [3]

[3] http://terra.seos.uvic.ca/model/common/HCTN_24.pdf
This would be funny for remote dev. I’d gotten used to the fan spinning up when building on my MacBook Pro (Intel), and after switching to building code on remote servers I realized I used the fan sound as an indicator that stuff was working.

Playing the fan sound based on remote server cpu would be a fun hack.
I saw a sidewalk mural of Trogdor the other day, I am glad people still remember HSR.
That's only relevant if it affects one group more than the other, maybe you can control for this or take another approach, in any case I would find the results way more convincing than a survey.

Especially considering that going through a tough time will colour your memory and memory is extremely unreliable.
Is the American model of policing better? Not really, they are instutionalized slavecatchers put in place when the south lost reconstruction to the KKK.

The British model has a chance, they at least have a moral foundation to work from. https://lawenforcementactionpartnership.org/peel-policing-pr...
“ In order to have automated metrics you would have to have a complete and accurate specification that never changes. Something that doesn't exist.”

I challenge that assumption.

First you automate metrics for the specified work, then have an estimate for changes and give management more data on the choice to make changes.
> A small bump in plant growth can not be seen as anything but the smallest of a silver lining.

It could also be seen as a bad thing. Forest fire season in the PNW is a lot worse in years with a wetter spring followed by a dry summer. This is because the extra moisture encourages thicker brush growth, which then dries up and serves as tinder and fuel for the fires later in the season.

I would think extra plant growth in dry areas combined with any sort of warming trend, would end up acting similarly.
Train ML model centrally, sell brain computer that runs it locally and don’t send data back. Privacy.
>Inserting One Billion Rows in SQLite Under A Minute

But the results given are all for inserting 0.1B rows, not 1B rows. What are the full results?
I agree. Fuck the regular folks! They are a cross upon our backs
> improve education around critical thinking,

Aye. This would improve so many things. Critical thinking is, in fact, not an instinctual ability. It's perfectly okay to talk mathematics illiteracy, but propaganda literacy? "No, no, we can't imply that people aren't capable of thinking for themselves." We have multiple historical instances of extremely successful disinformation campaigns, and people fell for it en-masse.

These "let people decide" trolls are effectively correlating critical thinking skills with intelligence, and it's patently absurd. Philosophers, some of the greatest thinkers there are/were, have spent years of their lives pondering the art of critical thinking.
What did public health officials say about those who protested lockdowns?
Is Safari actually getting WebGL2 support? I looked into this around 6 months ago, and what I gathered was the WebGL2 support was based on rumours from a Twitter post, and the supposed checkbox to enable WebGL2 on iOS actually does not enable it. I still can't find any solid info about WebGL2 coming?
Florida hires Indian tribesmen to catch invasive snakes
>I am wondering the right way to convey all of this in the title yet also keep it short.

Add "trying":

"Trying to insert 1 billion rows in SQL in under a minute".

If anything it's more interesting because it implies the chance of failure.
Can you answer my questions? They paint a different story than what the NYT is telling you.

I'm being very sincere I want to get to the truth. If one person of a specific group does something bad and it gets mainstream news does the size of that group and overall impact it has increase? Of course not.

If there are less neonazis now than in the early days of the internet then doesn't that mean that having the ability to see their information actually exposed their bad ideas and allowed people to see them for what they actually are? Consider it.
> If there's more information that people want to know, create the expectation that they should just ask in the comments.

To expand on this, it may be the case that less is more here. Making the description be very short (a paragraph or so - no more than 200 words total) and being emphatic that the founders need to be available to respond to comments will result in greater engagement I'm sure.

If in the course of discussion, the same question keeps popping up, adding a FAQ or some addendum edits to the body should work to fix that.
Stop Bit Burning: 2021 directory of channels banned on YouTube, alt-tech links
I'm not sure what kind of artifact would assemble into a series of novel ORFs but I suppose we will indeed have to disagree.
Before multi-sync CRTs and SVGA, 60Hz was not the "cheapo" option.
This packages the tesseract very nicely:

https://kebekus.gitlab.io/scantools/

Make SURE to select the correct OCR language
Affiliation and principle aren't always different. Hitler was defeated by murdering his associates. Taking credit for the fruits of civilization is to whitewash the history of the world.
No to connecting to WiFi from the installer: this is currently done with iwd before installation. Yes to everything else.
You are thinking about individual immunity. The comment you were responding to was about herd immunity.

Herd immunity is when enough people have individual immunity that when those without immunity get infected so many of those around them are immune that the outbreak quickly dies out on its own.

Even if individual immunity is the same for variants A and B of some virus, if variant B spreads more easily than variant A then you will have to have a higher percentage of the population with individual immunity in order to have herd immunity.
You see I have a bit of a problem with the common use of "virtual" because "virtual" means it doesn't really exist. A virtual world is a world that doesn't exist. But the connections you make with people in virtual worlds, or the digital friend you chat with, are very real.

> You will never meet in person, never go for a coffee, go biking together or whatever. This friend will never invite you over and cook for you, never introduce you to his/her parents.

Some friendships never reach meatspace. There are so many stories of people meeting other people in an IRC channel, or in some online game, growing mutual bonds that go way beyond the medium. But those people never meet. A digital friend can be the same.

> A virtual friend means the friendship is all about you

When I'm talking about a digital friend, I'm not talking about a bot tending to you; I'm talking about a bot that also has issues and needs friends to solve them. A bot that is curious about any topic and would like the help of humans to know more and get a more specific point of view. That is the essence of friendship. Otherwise what you are talking about is not a friend, it's closer to a butler

> Also a manufacterer will be extremely tempted to exploit that very personal connection. There are many ways of making money from knowing absolutely everything about you and having 'your trustworthy friend' for giving suggestions and ideas

Can't agree more.
I genuinely presume this sort of transfer learning will outpace, or even prerequisite, the neural lace used to integrate it with a customer's consciousness.
Did that actually happen? I thought the Saudi Arabia hack was a convenient tale conjured up by Bezos’ team to cover up that his girlfriend was the one sending his pictures and messages to her brother, who in turn tried selling it to the National Enquirer.
Incredible!

This invokes the feeling that it'll be impossible to keep computers out of our bodies at some point, which is scary on so many levels.

But like any tool, if I look at all the good that can come out of it - simply amazing things are possible.
This is very cool, the ability to embed Lua programs gives a lot of flexibility. A lot of capability into such a small program.
That's why I recommend physical prints. Hopefully you would put them somewhere where you actually look at them from time to time. Or put them in a safe deposit box (assuming you trust those).

The problem of "what to keep" isn't even digital-specific. In my youth I probably bought two dozen disposable cameras, had the pictures printed, even paid for the CD-ROMs when they became available. Where are those pictures now? Who knows! That's why I like Marie's message: it's not about throwing away junk, but keeping what you love close to you.