skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use too much voice apps much. Are you basically setting a reminder and at the time it just announces the reminder? In which case I can definitely see how that could help!

That's awesome you've found ways to cope as a single parent with ADHD, that must be a serious challenge.
And it dates back from 1988 for me. I’d always rely on the nice scratching sound of the HDD and the LED to know whether my computer had crashed or was just loading. There was no need for a spinning wheel when you could hear the data getting loaded ;)
Glass seems fairly promising.

> Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster, 75 by 75 by 2 millimeters thick.

> The hard silica glass can withstand being boiled in hot water, baked in an oven, microwaved, flooded, scoured, demagnetized and other environmental threats that can destroy priceless historic archives or cultural treasures if things go wrong.

> “One big thing we wanted to eliminate is this expensive cycle of moving and rewriting data to the next generation. We really want something you can put on the shelf for 50 or 100 or 1,000 years and forget about until you need it,” Rowstron said.

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/ignite-project...
The house of cards analogy doesn't work much in real life because most things in life aren't that simple and fragile. It's of course possible to find single points of failure in complex systems, but we tend to identify them and work around them before they become a big problem.

In this situation, there are plenty of C programmers out there, so most developers don't need to know anything about these tools.
But Signal won't allow federation and is hostile to independent client development.

Also, what about the server source code?
I heard self employed electrician is a solid paying trade?
Does anyone remember the days when internet media companies didn’t want to censor anything? Because after all it costs more and puts them in a position where nobody is satisfied?

And do you remember when they were called onto the carpet by repeated congressional committees for…

Allowing copyright violations?

Allowing terrorists’ messages?

Allowing misinformation relating to elections?

Allowing hate speech?

Now censoring misinformation?

Do you remember when you were incensed by the inaction of media companies and demanded action, and now are dismayed that they are acting?
As I see it now, even if the problems described in the article are real, the great majority of people don't care enough to make the effort required to change their habits.

In order for people to care, give them something to care about.

It is hard to expect that an average person would 'care' about IPFS or Mastodon which are unpolished, hard to use technologies. But people care about their iPhones and Instagram accounts, even if they come at a great price. It is our job as technologists to give people something to care about. The perceived rate of 'caring' measures our own abilities (as creators of technologies and products), not the lack of theirs.
Having read a few philosophers, I don't really see any fundamental difference between Feser's approach and those of other philosophers. All philosophers have their positions and try to construct arguments to support those constructions. Feser's positions are traditional Roman Catholic positions, but your average atheist philosopher (such as Graham Oppy or J. L. Mackie) is doing the same basic thing.

I feel like your expectations for how philosophers ought to behave aren't based on any significant familiarity with the work of actual philosophers, just your suppositions about how philosophy ought to be done.
> To me, the more fundamental problem is the fact that we spread state across multiple computers.

I completely agree. Sharing a layer of an application between client and server is a nightmare and will fly in your face.

That said, it is possible to cleanly handle more involved interaction on the FE and have a clean separation of responsibilities. When well done, the results are very snappy and robust. Of course, it isn't always necessary, and most RoR applications beat that 5mb Angular behemoth.
Why is this seemingly okay but if my Mom leaves a card in my mailbox, it's illegal? I really hate that our countries are largely run by incompetent corrupt geezers.

Compromising the personal devices of private citizens for nefarious means should be globally illegal and, if perpetrated by a government, should be considered an act of war.

Why does it seem like we're all just kind of okay with citizens being attacked like this?
NIL is certainly an overly-overloaded concept in Common Lisp. Scheme did a better job by separating the boolean type from the empty list but in practice I don't find NIL much of a hindrance in CL.
I agree on needing the whole row tappable, its been recurring feedback I've been getting so I will get that happening!

I used to use workflowly, it was great :) I never could quite stick with it for some reason however no idea why.

Quick question, in workflowly can you uncheck the whole list easily?
U.S. Special Operations Command to Test Anti-Aging Pill
> How do you not end up with a censorship department of the government

That department of censorship will exist no matter what. Internally, it is called the trust and safety department, at most big companies.

The only question is do you want to have the decisions of that department to be limited by judges and rights that are laid out in the constitution, or do you want it to be an unaccountable free for all, where they can do whatever they want?

> Do you have any other way to implement your idea of forcing Facebook to show you the feeds you subscribe to?

Well, phone companies are currently forced to allow most people on their network. We could do it the same way, that phone companies are required to do so.
Seriously. Why have a car when you can take a bus? Why have a house when you can live in an apartment? Or a small pod?

For activists, it's not about fixing the planet's problems. It's about making sure everyone displays endless contrition for anything pleasurable. There's no reason to feel guilty about eating a substitute meat product - and that's a problem when your brand rests on making people feel guilty.
If you're referring to Fryberg, Markus, Oyserman & Stone 2008, do you think that schools deciding to change their team names/mascots might have something to do with far larger and more broad cultural trends over the last couple of decades rather than these schools decisions resting primarily on the robustness and applicability (or otherwise) of this one paper?
Isn't hindsight awesome? Even though your first bit of advice was implemented on day 1 (the modem is on a separate card), it's still expensive to replace it.
Does Israel have an entire start-up sector dedicated to spyware or something? I feel like I'm reading about these all the time?
I cannot seem connect the device and its effect with information processing? The device does not seem able to simulate gates in modern large scale circuit, right?
It's basically the overhead of testing as an indie developer as well as using SwiftUI which is missing a lot of important functionality pre iOS 14. Supporting iOS 13 would unfortunately triple the amount of code I need to write.
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Great idea, looking forward to reading about the next batch
The idea of protecting data against catastrophic events reminds me of the KEO satellite project, which I think is not yet officially dead but has been delayed to the point that it seems doomed. But they aspired to put a lot of data in a very durable format on a satellite, to act as a kind of time capsule, intended to be recovered tens of thousands of years into the future. I think the intent was to use optical media, but made of glass.

Clearly this isn't yet an example of successfully preserving data. But the mindset of setting a goal to make something readable in the very distant future seems admirable.
"You would be a fool and a poor spook if you created Signal as a honeypot and made it insecure from the get go to anyone looking. It would be made insecure either later on or by an extremely hard to find "bug". We know from Snowden that the NSA secretly weakens encryption products to make them vulnerable. All your case proves(?) is that Signal is a better made honeypot than Telegram if any of them are actually a trap. "

You can't be serious. Anyone can show that vulnerability in the codebase. Signal has internal code review processes, and the git log is public. There is no better process out there, or if there is, you'll have to explain it. There is no perfect process but if you're trying to argue that justifies Telegram doing nothing wrt e.g. group chat end-to-end encryption, you're out of your mind.

Here's the thing: There's nothing that indicates Signal has a backdoor. OTOH, Telegram doesn't have to be converted into one, it ALREADY DOES IT. All that the NSAs of the world have to do, is hack the server. And since you're so intimately aware of Snowden's output, might I remind you of his SXSW talk from 2014 where he said NSA hacks systems all the time?
I find their prioritization of features also very weird.

I can't start an empty project and get multiplayer out of the box, but my team's 7 year old (?) 2D game engine[1] can do this and have client-side prediction set up for you before you even insert your own game code.

We're months away from shipping a next major release, and for as many collaborators work on Godot, they've basically been years behind any of the features I or anyone on my team actually cared about.

We have lag compensation that works over 3G, but if you asked anyone in the Godot community how you'd pull that off, it'd be some random guy not associated with the project, on their forums, with some code snippet he shared with you that is a far cry from first-class support.

Why focus so much on rendering functionality? If you have a team that's actually remotely capable of generating assets at the labor velocity you would need to actually release a game, that team would almost be guaranteed to use Unreal anyway.

It's really incredible how much game software lags in progress because of where development teams choose to put their efforts.

[1]: https://www.planimeter.org/grid-sdk/
So would a robot collision be a software error, or a hardware error? Perhaps a lag?
Surely you're joking here.
I don’t see what the argument is that the marketplace of ideas isn’t working.

Facebook doesn’t prevent you from using Twitter, or Reddit or a small new network. All kinds of people can and do engage with multiple networks, big and small, at their own inclination. All of the platforms are accessed on the same internet using the same protocols and clients, and it’s trivial — completely trivial — to find alternate content or all kinds (at least in the US).

People aren’t abandoning the big platforms in droves because they generally like those big platforms. (Probably almost nobody thinks they are great, but that’s not the standard. The standard is better than the alternatives.)

As the article points out, the marketplace of ideas is leading Twitter to more flexible moderation mechanisms that let users choose their own level.

Seems crazy to change the rules, force companies to break their business models, when the system is working fine.

Doctorow (and others) may not like it, but many, many people like Facebook and Twitter a lot more than they dislike them.

Protective regulation should come into play when the affected populace is not in any position to consent to (or decline) the situation. E.g., because alternatives aren’t available, or because the issue requires special expertise to understand, etc. But generally this doesn’t apply here. (I do think there needs to be recourse for people who are banned or otherwise lose access to something they’ve invested in.)
It is an ironclad fact that more Americans have been killed by right-wing domestic terrorists than by Islamic terrorists since 9/11.
iprmoatnt*
Did anybody else expect this? Plants love CO2, seems like excess will lead to crazy plant growth and a rebalance.
>>This same argument could ostensibly be extended to anyone. There are armed criminals everywhere, why aren’t you carrying ${armory} on you at all times?

Many people do. I regularly see people walking around open carrying firearms in my rural town in WA state. People will have gun on their hip walking around Walmart or getting coffee at here.
The game has an interesting "meta" aspect because it incorporates the Chernobyl disaster into its storyline, twenty years after after the Chernobyl workers incorporated the novel and movie into their mythology. Real "art imitates life imitates art" stuff.
Ironically, the "get rich fast" frenzy with crypto is making a lot of people join the distributed web without thinking about it.
If we do this every week it will hopefully be less overwhelming than the press reports on Demo Day, which usually take the form "Meet 75 of the 350 startups that launched on day 1" and then again the next day.
Plants get more carbon, but not more minerals or elements that are only in the soil. And that may mean more volume, maybe more calories, but less food.

That, even if we assume that we get to an stable and livable weather plateau, and not an ever increasing global warming, extreme weather, and livable conditions for every animal and plant.

And even in that plateau, if the ecosystem that make that plants to live (I don't know, bees, worms, bacteria and so on) don't make it the plants won't be good for long neither.
This is the correct answer - and PC originally, or "Personal Computer" is more of a distinction from old school mainframe computers that lived in a lab or wherever and took up entire rooms.
What does 15% esop mean that you carve out an esop, who takes the esop, you and your team?
> the RIIR fallacy, again

AYATAINWK?

Are You Aware That Acronym Is Not Widely Known?
Computers like the "HUAWEI MateBook X" are fanless with a powerful CPU (10th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-10210U Processor, 1.6 GHz 4 cores, Turbo up to 4.2 GHz). https://consumer.huawei.com/en/laptops/matebook-x-2020/specs...

I have used also a Surface Pro for a long time, and not being modern as this new Apple laptop, it is a full-fledged Windows 10 machine that can run any programming IDE, virtual machines, etc. and completely silent.

Can someone explain why the down-votes for TacticalCoder for just stating facts? I really don't get, unless it is pure Apple fandom and that would be just silly.
> a single printer

You've already lost, then. Printers' output can be uniquely identified.

Nothing should ever be in dead-tree format. If you need to carry something that does not need electricity to display text, use eInk. Or build your own printer.
Interesting article, but don't expect a fruitful discussion when you bring race into it.
Just so no one is confused: as the Facebook lawsuit confirmed, NSO is running the C&C servers for their clients. They are not selling some software, "do what you want".

It is NSO running these operations. They are directly implicated in whatever their malware ends up doing.
I've been writing a bunch of Common Lisp recently, where I usually have been more interested in Schemes. I'm less bothered by its little inconsistencies, like the empty list not needing to be quoted, than I used to be. Maybe because I'm getting older, and people develop cruft just like programming languages. I'm not really small and elegant anymore, so why should my Lisp be?
Awesome workaround with shortcuts! Something I'm definitely going to find useful.

I'll hopefully have an update submitted at the end of today that fixes any bugs with dark mode.
I wish we could standardise on such tools for all languages, maybe through the language server protocol? I'm afraid of building and maintaining yet another kind of parser (as awesome as tree-sitters are) and to be on the language update treadmill then...
This is quite disingenuous, as with hash functions there's infinite preimages that map to each digest.
I mean… Solaris is amazing and was made into a film at least twice. The book is about the difficulties communicating with an alien in the vein of Arrival, but it predates Arrival by many years and is a better book, in my humble opinion.

The book is much more detailed than the films. For example, in the book they go down to the “surface” of the alien and visit it… more than once as I recall. That’s not in the films.
It was a WhatsApp missed call
Yet. We get closer every time a new vulnerability is discovered.
Thanks for the detailed info. I'm working on an update today :)
(not parent) I think it is pretty easy to substantiate it (some people are actually deficient), but hard to substantiate to the degree that would justify the measures people propose. Yes, you can find a few nutjobs, but do they justify these truth-seeking policies for the general population? What suggests that these policies are even beneficial?

But even if it was shown to be beneficial, I would still be against it on moral grounds I suppose (but I'm not sure since that might depend on how "beneficial" it is).
I'm eating crackers until my paycheck arrives tomorrow or the next day, and I can say for certain that its a big part of why I talk less right at the moment. The plural of (my) anecdote is not data, of course.
At some point we're going to have to re-introduce the word dangerous to mean poor opsec in a non-CIA context.
Thanks for the info, will have an update submitted hopefully today to resolve the issue.
I've been using this one: https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters
I don’t characterise “the opposition” this way. I characterise some of the more prominent ‘fringe’ stuff as this.

I don’t really have an ‘us’ for there to be a singular ‘them’ I’m talking about, I’m not American and I don’t identify with any particular political party.
> Very rarely, physists DO care about logic.

Some physicists are interested in quantum logic – that is very much a minority taste within the physics community though. Like interpretations of quantum physics in general, it straddles the boundary between physics and philosophy. (But unlike some more purely philosophical interpretations, it does have some mathematical meat to it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-quantlog/

https://iep.utm.edu/qu-logic/
I’ve never reflected on why the Launch HNs are so interesting to read, but after looking through the guidelines it makes sense. Learning about a company in the tone of someone speaking to peers instead of selling to an audience is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for all the editing work you put in to make that happen.
Anyone that isn’t currently a trucker should be staying far away from any driving jobs because they will likely be replaced in the next few decades with robots.
Thousands protest in France against Covid-19 vaccinations, passes
Every product is rated 4.5 stars with 2000+ reviews when I search, which I find highly untrustworthy
>Which feature?

Almost all. Either not possible or not useful.
Telegram has huge public community. People need to be able to join/leave and forward stuff to other places etc. etc. It just makes no sense to add any e2ee to that.
Even in normal groups the default is that any user can add someone so the new user would need to get the decryption key on invite. Then you have bots that need to be able to read messages so they need the key too. Then you have cloud search so telegram itself need the key as well.
Its just completely nonsensical at that point even if it somehow would be possible to implement it.

>They absolutely did not.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-just-make-all-chats-39sec...
I have no trouble understanding it. You may not like it but its clear and easy to understand.

>Which feature isn't being copied?

All the ones that are not possible with e2ee.

>Signal just implemented effin stickers with end-to-end encryption.

Yes, and its an anti-feature for most people. People dont care if a sticker is e2e encrypted send to a chat. But what user care about is how fast it is, how much data it uses and how much it drains the battery. Telegram easily wins all of this because it does not e2e encrypt stickers, instead they are stored in the telegram cloud and the message only contains a file_id for the other user to load the sticker (once, then it is cached locally)

>Firstly, new users in e.g. Signal groups don't get access to group message history.

More anti-features, normal user want a new user in chat to be able to read the history. (If not telegram allows it to be disabled)

>overwhelming majority of Signal groups are not public.

How is that relevant. Use cases are different. I use telegram almost exclusively for public stuff or semi-public stuff.
Maybe this is the problem here. You dont use telegram and dont know that it is way more than a messenger. Its more like a social media platform.

"I dont want or use any of that (you, probably?)" Fine, stick with what you use but dont tell me everything telegram does could/should be done with e2ee. Its absurd and nonsensical. It would be like making twitter completely e2ee rather than just give the user and secure e2ee DM option. Which is what telegram did. You have the option for e2ee one-on-one chats if you actually need it. Ive used it a few time like to send someone a password or a private document. But for the most part I have no use for it.
> The unfortunate truth is that terrorist organizations use mainstream social networking sites to recruit and radicalize

If an actual terrorist organization is doing this, as defined by the FBI, then our government should be in charge of handling that.

Terrorist is already illegal, and we already have government organizations, in charge of tracking that stuff down.

And those government organizations have checks and balances, and judges, and have to follow certain rules.

These checks and balances do not exist, with other forms of moderation.
I suppose for a restaurant specifically, the people who work there and who eat there are very different. If higher wages leads to higher unit price, its not the worker paying that difference, its the wealthier customers.

Of course in the general case, the places the workers do shop at, probably supermarkets, will notice that people have more money to spend and will likely try to capture that extra money for themselves - either because demand of certain items increases or just plain greed.

So continues the endless, exhausting and unwinnable battle between wages and inflation
> As Tesla warns on its subscription page, its Full Self-Driving mode does not make a vehicle fully autonomous.

How is it not false advertising to call this feature "full" self driving, when from my understanding it can't even drive by itself in a city with a human watching yet?
> This is no way to connect to other people. And these people might also have interesting ideas, ideas I might want to hear before some bot at Facebooks deems them against "community standards" or whatever they call their censorship that is totally not censorship.

Well, people connected with each other before 2007, so presumably you could be exposed to different, interesting ideas by joining local clubs, churches, or other community gatherings where you have interactions with non "computer janitors"
In your example there's no downside to changing the name, though. It's a low stakes decision. In the book "Trust- a Very Short Introduction" the author argues if the situation is "low stakes" you should need a lower level of evidence to trust someone than high stakes. While I think the author might discuss it only in the context of human interactions, I imagine you could apply the paradigm to this situation.
Yeah I honestly wouldn't mind it even if it's a text-based heuristic; anything that's an improvement over line-by-line diff is a big win. I'm just wondering whether/how it's actually doing what it's actually advertised as doing, since it seems so much more difficult.