skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually there will be nowhere to run.

Even a tiny fraction of our galaxy is large enough that you can run your entire lifetime and then some. That is also part of the problem...
Sounds like you log in from a web browser, but clear local storage (or cookies) at the end of your browsing session?

I log in rarely enough that this doesn't accommodate me: my most recent browser login must have been two years ago or so.
Very interesting question! Any experts here?
You wouldn’t believe how many people have been telling me that lately.
I thought the issue was that there were multiple collisions on the same frame and the software detection was off.
I think this is the most we can strive for: a sustainable niche alternative.
Nheko is not perfect and lacks polish in some places, but I like it a lot, and it supports cross-signing.
No, the foundation has 5 directors. Two are the people who started the project in the first place (me & Amandine); Three are completely independent: one is a university professor, one is a decentralisation tech lawyer, one is CEO at Parity (and there is zero relationship of any kind between Parity and Element). The foundation is very deliberately structured so that the Element people are in minority control.
Why would population plateau at 11bn if even more people are still sustainable?
> Examples: roof knocks -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_knocking

I am sorry but in what world does purposefully bombing civilians mean they are one of the "most humane armies in the world".

The defense of "but we are only using little bombs to bomb civilians" is almost beyond parody.
That's not at all what I was saying. WebKit was a fork of KHTML, but implying that Safari has shared origin with Chrome was a little farfetched.
The problem is bigger than hardware and software being "insecure" it's got ultimately to do with trust of these corporations. Do we trust that Apple, Google and so on will do the right thing? If not maybe we can construct new (maybe public) companies which are accountable for our privacy. Or hold existing companies accountable. Its going to need a huge swing of power towards ordinary people though.
It's way more than just grouping. It's like directories in a filesystem: you can share them; they have access control; they let you curate your rooms into hierarchies either for your own edification or for the benefit of the wider network. Think of it more like carving Matrix into a set of USENET-style namespaces - or having a global hierarchical filesystem for realtime data.
Disabilities do not excuse you from responsibility of your actions, not do they allow you to be a complete dickwad to others.
why do we call blogging journalism as if they have the same standard? Do you expect a blog post to be fact-checked? Do you sue bloggers when they write something damaging to your brand?
weechat-matrix works well; you should just install the libolm3 dependency.
Every single time matrix comes up, people make this argument like it's some sort of massive illumination. Guess what? Every protocol started with a single major stakeholder. The internet was the military, HTTP/2 was google, and JS was netscape.

The foundation is not a facade. It has a rather clear governance system, and while it is predominantly populated by Element employees, that's mostly because most people passionate about matrix end up working there. When the fondation was set up, it actually had a 50/50 split between community members and elements employees in the core team, but the community members ended up joining element.

What makes matrix a protocol is that absolutely anyone can implement it, and anyone can get involved in the process to improve the spec.
> Yes, I'm already aware of that, thank you.

Oh. Well you said "in there too now" so I thought you were saying it was like xxhash in being insecure and fast. Even if that wasn't your intent, I wanted to make it clear to other people.

> Could you please expand upon what the main use cases are for non-cryptographic hashes?

Very fast hashes are good for hash maps, or even critical for them. That covers a huge amount of uses. And judging by the list on xxhash's website, a bunch of file transfer programs use it as well as bloom filter implementations, along with the databases that are probably using it for various maps.
Yes, obscurity is great when used as an additional factor.
Anti-Vaccine Groups Changing into ‘Dance Parties’ on Facebook to Avoid Detection
"Some anti-vaccination groups on Facebook are changing their names to euphemisms like “Dance Party” or “Dinner Party,” and using code words to fit those themes in order to skirt bans from Facebook, as the company attempts to crack down on misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines.

The groups, which are largely private and unsearchable but retain large user bases accrued during the years Facebook permitted anti-vaccination content, also swap out language to fit the new themes and provide code legends, according to screenshots provided to NBC News by multiple members of the groups."
You originally asked about running your signal server. Now you're talking about the network that's hosted through Signal Inc's servers.

So what's your point? Do you think everyone should have a right to connect to their servers however they like, and the service operator can't exert any control over that?
Is your classmate aware that he's autistic?

I would send an email to the disability service at your university highlighting his likely need for support. He isn't going to be able to complete university without it.
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But putting on 100% or even 200% of weight in a year is not normal or even possible for most adults without crippling their health. All babies do this.
>>"Israel is always ready for peace"

That I doubt very much. In my opinion we are seeing a clear on going colonization effort. This is not about religion or race, but about land and the rest is a distraction.

Because we are not in the eighteen century anymore, it can't be done old European style, so it has to be done boiling frog style with a lot of spending in public relations.

The crude fact is that land is being taken by the strongest party:

https://sites.psu.edu/anaouf2/files/2017/02/israel-palestine...

I have not doubt that the IDF did great, but you have to recognize that this article reads like a puff piece.
Big fines can change Big Tech, says French competition chief
Prophets, wizards and games that never end
Diophantine Fruit
This one is easy:

US provides Israel with roughly $5-6B in military funding which has to be spent back with US suppliers (please add details if anyone has it)

The total IDF budget in 2011 (latest I could find and has increased) is over $20b.

more reading:
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces#Budget
-https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/4/infographic-what-you... (aljazeera of all places!)

I dont think $6B=$20B.
In my case, the iPhone users around me bump into barriers that wouldn't be there if iOS didn't keep all data in inaccessible silos, but they don't see them as such. For example, someone wanted to back up all their iMessage conversations, including photos. This turned out to be a pain precisely because I couldn't just copy an "all iMessage data" folder like I could on macOS, but they didn't attribute it to the lack of filesystem access. To them (and most users presumably), it was just a problem of "why doesn't the iPhone let me back up iMessage to my computer easily?".
Thirded, because at some point, ProcessExplorer started recording the resource usage history of a process (CPU usage, memory, I/O) only the moment you explicitly opened that particular process's properties window for the first time.

Because the last version of ProcessExplorer that didn't exhibit that behaviour no longer works on current Windows versions (certainly not 10, and I'm no longer sure whether 7 wasn't already problematic, too), ProcessHacker instead it is then.
what are you talking about? Are you confusing Parity with Protocol Labs? They are completely unrelated companies (other than both beginning with the letter P :/)
Depending on the target demographic, Discord might also be a good Slack alternative. It seems like its the preferred platform for many projects nowadays
Upvoting before you get flagged... It appears Matrix is trying the Microsoft approach to marketing. Gaslight the public until you become too big to fail.
So it seems that we have another attention-craving journalist spreading outrage for clicks, profit and free consulting. Right?
I wish Intel all the success, but we already know they're excellent at writing roadmaps. They just suck at executing them.
(aljazeera of all places!)

Curious why you find that curious.
I'm confused because on my Pixel 4 where I use the built-in password manager (for Chrome and for apps) you always have to interact with the UI (not just the site) to agree to fill in the password but it's not at all inconvenient and sounds like it wouldn't allow the sort of weaknesses that the article describes. I confirmed on a site that i know has only one set of credentials stored (so it wasn't giving me a false sense of security due to that). Is there more than one form of Google password manager available, ie a regular version and a Pixel version?
Nice article! I agree with many of the points. If I know the Julia community well enough, criticism like this leads to constructive discussion and eventual improvement.

One section I don’t get is that about the iteration protocol. It seems like the author is unhappy about the state being passed around, and the “implicit” trait methods one should implement.

The former point appears to be a consequence of the lack-of-object-orientation (which is by design) while keeping object attributes vs state separate wherever possible (which is arguably a good thing in general); I don’t see how else this can be done in a language that only has structs and functions, honestly. Also, the fact that iterators can be themselves stateful is something that can happen in Python too (one is just “expected” not to hold state information inside Iterable types, but there’s no guarantee of that by just looking at the type). This seems hard to avoid. Maybe a trait could be used in Julia to provide this information about an iterator type?

The latter is the same problem as “implicit traits” highlighted in other sections of the article, so not really anything specific to the iteration protocol.
I think you guys need a "War on CO2" if you want to mobilize the masses. Unlike the other wars, this one could actually be won...
If you define “livable” as 50% of the Tokyo population having less than 17 sq meters of living space per person. Not just college students…everybody. Different strokes, but still…

https://resources.realestate.co.jp/living/how-much-living-sp...
In the US you don't have populism, you have Red Team Populism and Blue Team Populism.

Police reform has been tagged Blue Team populism, so Red Team populists oppose it on principle.
There are definitely a lot less pharmaceutical manufacturers now than there were before the Pure Food and Drug Act passed in 01906; ten companies have 40% of the whole worldwide drug market, and if you start openly making and selling drugs yourself (like Coca-Cola in 01886 and 7-Up in 01920), you will probably get arrested within a month. Almost nobody makes drugs as a hobby now.

There are certainly people who would like to make it so that the same thing happens with software and online publishing: a few companies controlling almost all of the activity, and if you release any software or host a blog without working for one of those companies, you get arrested within a month. Other people don't intend that, but advocate policies which would have that effect.
The Element foundation should use some of that sweet money to:

1) buy FluffyChat and some serious UI designers, because Element is probably one of the worst matrix clients in terms of UX.

2) fix decryption issues that happen randomly even by just using Element on the matrix.org server: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1721 as it's a real show-stopper once you hit it

3) add support for multiple accounts and identities (too many requests to list on the issue tracker), since federation is great, but it's not always wanted.

Disclaimer: I managed to convince a group of technical users to switch over to matrix. We stay for the principle, but not really for the experience so far. FluffyChat is the best client we tried on mobile. On desktop, I'm glad weechat-matrix and gomuks exist, because all the other clients "reek" to us. And even if you like the modern chat UIs, they're really not bug-free either.

Overall many clients and some severs to choose from, but I did prefer irc just for the simple-no-BS-clients alone (the protocol has nothing to do with it).
Any other website with login manages to remember my login. Not sure what causes it, but it's not fun.
No mention of ethnic cleansing and military checkpoint enforced apartheid where kids are harassed by fully armed soldiers? Do you want to see the B'TSelem videos? Here they detail a 5 year old child:
https://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20130711_soldiers_det...

Or "1 shot 2 kills" military tshirts for killing pregnant Palestnian women? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7960071.stm
So because you believe that one group of people can't learn a particular language, nobody should be allowed to post using that language on the internet? I both have been taught racket and taught racket myself in schools, and at no point was coding presented as 'only for elites.'

I'm not sure why you hate lisp-like languages so much and can't accept that it's actually more comfortable for some people. I'm sorry if you were hit with one too many "lisp is for a more civilized age" people.

Coding is for everyone, no?
They are not bombing people, they are warning them (and also calling and texting them) to get out so that thee are no/limited civilian casualties and only the infra is destroyed which is housing rockets etc
Use AutoHotKey to change it?
Wow, what a bunch of anti Semitic, racist assholes HN has. This story is about a humanitarian effort, and all you people can do is start your once again bogus tirade. Kudos to those who posted positive thoughts and comments.
Thats the great thing about eleven / playing ping pong in VR, you can play with other people, and it is bafflingly social, just because you have a strong presence of another person being in the "room". Everyone is kind & you can have nice conversations. Can highly recommend.
It's the ecological footprint of each person that's a concern. You can feed 10 billion people, but people don't want to just not starve. We already overshoot the resources Earth can regenerate in a given year in July, and that regeneration capacity and our ability to organize will fall apart faster and faster. Imagine if the rest of the Earth's population would be allowed to live like people in the United States.
The regulations would be tailored to favor free software if the free software community had better lobbyists than the commercial silos. You can see that isn't the case.

Instead you can look at existing heavily regulated software markets to see what would happen: medical-device software, avionics software, car engine control units, cryptography before 01996, tax preparation software, PCI compliance measures. A vast wasteland of incompetence, waste, government graft, monopolies and duopolies, truly staggering profits, and easily avoidable deaths.

Consider: why aren't you wearing a Holter monitor? How about an automated electric defibrillator? Why isn't cryptographic security integrated into all the internet protocols?

How's that Bitcoin rollout going in El Salvador?
Norwegian firm creates doomsday vault for music for at least 1k years
The biggest thing i'd like to have would be bots in fully encrypted chats and the android client to not break the encryption between clients all the time.
Ah ok, my mistake, sorry.
It's more than just grouping. Spaces are rooms under the hood, just like rooms in which you usually chat in Matrix.

What makes spaces what they are is the ability to specify some rooms as belonging to a space, in the sense of a collection. Since spaces are just rooms, this includes other spaces as well (which are then called subspaces). This allows building a tree which can be used for e.g. representing a company hierarchy. A single room can also be a part of more than one space.

Spaces also have the concept of members. Soon support will land for the ability to restrict room joining to the members of the space a room belongs to. This will make it possible to use this as an on-boarding tool. For instance when an employee joins a company, they'd get invited to a company space, allowing them to see all rooms therein and join the ones they need.

There's also a distinction between public and private spaces. Private spaces can be used purely as a tool for personal categorization. This still needs to be supported server-side so that you can have the same view on all your clients.
> The logic is simple: an individual writer is always relatively niche. Niche means small audience. Small audience means you have to charge more per person to cover your costs.

I guess the question is does that model work? Rather than catering to a generalist audience focus on a niche and charge more to people who can't get that content anywhere else.

Free content then plays to the more generalist audience and helps attract people who are more seriously interested in your niche.

I started doing this with my substack, which is aimed at the relatively narrow niche of sequencing technologies (biotech). The information I provide, isn't really available elsewhere and requires an industry background, and significant research. This information can play into investment decisions, so I've priced it to reflect that (~$50/m).

I don't have enough paid subscribers to justify the effort yet. But every paid subscriber provides some meaningful amount of money...

I could see this working in other areas too. I'm not sure the niche even needs to be super small. For example, English language reporting on Japan is generally pretty bad. Could you find at least 200 people worldwide willing to pay $50/m for detailed well sourced reporting on Japan? It seems likely to me...

It doesn't even matter if those 200 people republish your work in some form. They're paying privilege of getting that information first.
I'm the founder of https://www.scrapingbee.com/, an API for web scraping.

At the beginning we had a banner on the dashboard with a CTA to book a call with me. To incentivize users to book the call, we offered free API credits: https://twitter.com/PierreDeWulf/status/1329765250707623939/...

I had 100+ calls with users in the first months, it helped us a lot to understand our market, what they needed etc.

It worked so well that we had to remove the free credit incentive because taking those calls took all my time.
> she had lived to 120 like a real supercentenarian

The point is that no one ever lived to 120 in a provable way, so it's not something that could have happened to the daughter. Also in the swap hypothesis Yvonne made it to 99, not 100.
All three statements using "because" are counterfactual. If you said "I'm tired and I stayed up all night playing games." you're only making a factual claim. But using "X because Y" implies that Y matters for X, i.e. in the counterfactual situation where Y is not true, X wouldn't be true either.

The author of TFA seems to suggest that explanations where Y is "not Z" are inherently less useful (I don't think so) and also calls them "counterfactual" even when "not Z" is a fact, which is confusing.
Matrix's architecture today means that the servers can see who their users are talking to, and when - but not what (assuming it's end-to-end encrypted). Just like a PGP mail service like Protonmail. Because Matrix stores conversation history on the server (unlike Signal) so you can get at it when from multiple logins, you end up with that metadata stored on the server.

We're fixing this by working on P2P Matrix (as per the blog post - it's one of the main initiatives that the funding is going towards). https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix explains how P2P addresses the metadata problem.

The whole "heavily sponsored by the intelligence community" thing is a conspiracy theory. It's true that Matrix is popular with government and national security folks and Element gets money from them... but it's because they want the E2EE and data sovereignty for themselves, rather than because they are trying to torment their citizens(!!)
One example I saw: countries that were the main drivers of population growth, India and China, are seeing drops in fertility rates.

Wider afield, increasing access to education drops desired family size (I guess gives people other options for “growth” than literally having more children). And education levels in populous developing countries are rapidly increasing.
Indeed, my bad.
We're hoping to get it good enough so that it literally is the first choice for new users - and it's only if they consciously want to pin their data (and metadata) to a server that they'd do so.
1 angstrom = 0.1 nm

10 A = 1 nm
If the US and Canada managed to cut down on their dramatic per capita emission levels then this could serve as an example to others and give some weight to otherwise empty pleas for change. It would also help accelerate green tech to a point where it can compete with fossil fuels on price line it's happening with solar. Others will follow suit naturally at that point
Same experience here.

It's one the first programs I install on every new system and have recommended it to friends for years.

If any of the programmers involved read here: Thank you very much for all the hard work. It was worth it.
A Chemical Hunger – Part VI: PFAS
Totally agree. SumatraPDF is an awesome reader. Been using it for many years.
> Internet Explorer is now a thing of the past, replaced by the far-better Microsoft Edge.

Not really. There still are IE-only webapps ran by some government agencies.
I really appreciate your response. :)

And yes, I agree good things should be acknowledged regardless of where they are coming from. I think people are generally just jaded with Google because they want something that Google will never be able to offer (that is, to be respectful of their privacy), so they lash out automatically out of frustration.
I get it why readers can't pay individual writers in the newspaper world. That's because it only makes sense to print and deliver one kind of identical newspaper and deliver that to everyone. The printing is done with plates. You make one plate per page (well a few pages at a time) and you use that plate to print thousands of copies of the page. The page contains an assortment of articles. The newspaper is physically delivered to homes and news stands.

Now we're in the internet. There are no such constraints. Why not just pay directly per article?

Spotify for example collects money but distributes it to artists, per-listen. Spotify has basically almost all the music in the world. And other services have it too. Anybody can upload to Spotify or Apple Music or Tidal or what you have. So Spotify is not really doing curating or having a quality standards or an editor anything, like a newspaper, it's just a way to collect and distribute money.

There is the still-unloved problem of curation. You could use humans for good curation but discoverability is quite bad.

(Edit: yes in the newspaper world there is the syndication, Reuters, AFP etc, too, and staff writers etc, it's a bit more complicated.)