skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless there are thousands of gotras, it must be very common for a prospective bride and groom to overlap.

The brahmin communities have a handful of gothras as I understand it (7 or 8, depending on who you ask).

The relationship matrix is resolved by only tracking a single side of the family tree and making first cousins who are able to marry each other without complication on this topic. So it doesn't directly fix the inbreeding within insular communities, though that was its intention.

My father-in-law spent quite some time investigating this, as my clan is matrilineal in ancestry (still very patriarchal, just brother-sister family unit instead of husband-wife) with a history of cross-marriages from patrilineal men for treaties/allies.

Completely pointless pedigree certificate, felt like I was being picked for breeding instead of an equal partnership.

A dive into this sort of discrimination almost left me wondering why something with political eugenics didn't come out of India. Fears which I still have for the 2040s seeing the CAA and NRC.
The moment you equated blm/antifa and fascism is the moment you showed yourself as someone who is not serious, and thus absolutely not worth my time. You can keep pretending you are serious, but that doesn't make you so.

Ultimately, words don't matter to you. There is no discussion to be had with someone who is as disingenuous as you are.
> Did you actually read that comment about Toronto?

I did. Now that you have that information, perhaps you can actually read what I wrote.
> wtf is with the maximization behavior

There isn't a maximise behaviour. Per the interface guidance, that button is called "zoom" [1], not maximise, and it therefore makes sense that apps do something different depending on what they need to zoom in a way that makes sense for them.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
If you think security is the determining factor in the success of a startup product, you're seriously disconnected from reality.
It's unfortunate but afaik wayland isn't fully working on FBSD, the only other choice is arcan, but nobody will ever switch to that.
There was an earlier article here discussing a senior Google employee working from New Zealand (who opposed WFH). Seems like NZ's on top spot on Googlers' lists.
Also it will die when the organism it is part of dies because of cancer.
I can confirm that,

* Spotify over Blueooth in a car works.

* WhatsApp works, with notifications

* I'm not sure about FitBit, per https://plexus.techlore.tech/applications/fitbit it might not but things may have changed.

* We include some providers by default and you can install more from F-Droid.
Edited my comment to clarify I meant "group audio" conversations.
Even if you don’t use iOS, seems likely Google could do/is doing this also.
As well as the other use cases mentioned, they're harder to guess than incrementing integer IDs so are a useful defense in depth to help stop people guessing URLs for resources.
ehh.. so...

I agree that this is a thing. I'm not sure its the thing. Clubhouse got a fast start with appearances but the likes of Musk, high interest content like the CEO of Robin Hood's appearing mid-gamestop craziness, etc. That, combined with the invite system meant that people were hearing about clubhouse and it gained reputation as the new exciting thing. Its now struggling to find a persistent place in the world. The former is remarkable, the latter is default.

"Mountains of shite" has never been a real problem for social media. Twitter, blogs, youtube and others all had this claim leveled against them. 99.9% is crap and no one cares. All cats and sandwiches. The absence of 0.1%, bad discovery systems and such have been problems. That said, the "minimum viable" discovery method is twitter.

Anyway... most successful social media thus far has either done it with home grown talent, like youtube, or being Twitter. Twitter requires very little commitment or effort, and is much better than facebook for famous people. Youtube eventually got youtubers... Twitch, Tiktok. IG is somewhere in between, with a lot of celebrity action but also IG-grown celebrities.

CEOs and celebrities are ok as boosters, but they're not going to be there daily. The equivalent of a youtuber will have to emerge for clubhouse for it to stick. Cargo cult...eh. stretch.

And yes. Ego, self promotion, a desire to be front and centre like Elon will play a big role. That goes without saying.
Discussing the negative social repercussions of the product isn't flamebait. It's pretty important.
Downvotes?

A vps is like an EC2 instance, it can be picked up by spammers used until it’s blocked everywhere, then destroy and start again with another. This has the effect of putting the entire /24 into a spam list.

I have been through way too many VPS providers where this was the case. Even with spf and dkim I would still get blackholed randomly. It really takes time to build back reputation, so if you have your own address space it makes good sense to not send any bulk mail from it
I see it as:

Private = not sending data out of my device unless I want it to.

Secure = resistant to someone trying to get into my device.

They do overlap a bit, to be private a device needs some base level of security. But a device can be very secure and still not be private as it's sending data out for analytics, tracking, etc.
Most of the de-Googled or Linux based mobile OSes have their installation restricted to Pixel phones. Why? Is there any option for old Motorola phones?
Yeah I agree, it's a good compromise and I definitely use MicroG despite that (though not on Calyx but Lineage for MicroG, as I don't have a Pixel phone). I think the Calyx precautions are more than adequate. And better than Lineage's.

I just wanted to highlight the difference in focus, GrapheneOS will always pick the security side when a compromise needs to be made. Another example is the "We don't lie about security features" stance about SafetyNet. Even though a GrapheneOS phone is arguably more secure than a random manufacturer-modified Android rom. I agree that signature spoofing has an unnecessarily bad name. Probably because some mainstream roms like Lineage eschewing it. Personally I think it's a great tradeoff between privacy and functionality.
This is the trade off that I hate having to make, and I'm glad to see something like Calyx here.

I want a phone that respects my privacy and is secure, but I also want to use apps like Google Photos (my favorite app that I use more than anything, aside from Firefox), Lyft, Netflix, Slack, banking apps, airline apps, and, critically, Google Pay.

I get that using many of those apps might increase my exposure to tracking and privacy leaks, but I just want an OS behind them that I know I can trust in isolation, and that may have measures in place that at least try to mitigate some of the worst privacy abuses from the apps. (And if it can't always succeed at that, that's fine, I'll live.)

Meanwhile, my only real choices are stock Android, which I know I can't trust to protect my privacy (since Google's business model depends on that), and iOS, which will treat me like a child and not let me do what I want with my phone unless Apple approves. (I'm also really concerned about the privacy implications of Apple's plan to do client-side scanning for CSAM material, assuming that's true.)

So I just don't feel like there's anything out there right now that will let me run the apps I want, that is built in top of an OS that I feel I can trust. Calyx seems to be one of the few I've seen that looks like they're actually trying to be that.
It would help if you'd put the supported devices right up on the front page. It saves much time for most visitors and doesn't end up in frustration if people get them on the second step.
Interesting - the data you shared isn't bicycle related, just all motor vehicle crashes.

It might be more interesting to look at bicycle fatalities than fatal car crashes [1]. Looking at the time-of-day distribution, fully 50% of such fatalities happen between 3pm-midnight. 6-9am is a higher risk slot (12%), but I'd probably avoid biking during 8-9am regardless.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/bicyc...
It "helps" by satisfying a market need for a space for Black creators to tell Black stories without shouldering a burden to translate, soften, or attenuate that culture for other audiences, as would be the expectation on a mass media cable channel. It's not complicated; venues like this serve all sorts of ethnicities.
Pneumatic Tube
We're very close to getting the notification issues fixed.

We've sent some patches to microG to address them at https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/pull/1483

I'm running it on my device since a few weeks now and it has been quite reliable so far.
Porting Hamurabi to Scamp
> Arguing that concerns about children are overblown or being exploited for nefarious means may be ‘true’, but it does nothing to provide an alternative that Apple could use

- If the stats don't justify their fears

- And I come up with a technological solution that will make the stats even lower

- Their fears will not be reduced

- Because their fears are not based on the stats

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> Apple’s customers do include many people who are worried about sexual predators reaching their children via their phones though

Are they worried about this because of a rational fear based on real-world data? If so, then I want to talk to them about that data and I want to see what basis their fears have. I'm totally willing to try and come up with solutions that reduce the real world problem as long as we're all considering the benefits and tradeoffs of each approach. We definitely should try to reduce the problem of CSAM even further.

But if they're not basing their fear on data, then I can't help them using technology and I can't have that conversation with them, because their fear isn't based on the real world: it's based on either their cultural upbringing, or their preconceptions about technology, or what media they consume, or their past traumas, or whatever phobias that might be causing that fear.

Their fear is real, but it can not be solved by any technological invention or policy change, including Apple's current system. Because you're telling me that they're scared regardless of what the reality of the situation is, you're telling me they're scared regardless of what the stats are.

That problem can't be solved with technology, it can only be solved with education, or emotional support, or cultural norms. If they're scared right now without knowing anything about how bad the problem actually is, then attacking the problem itself will do nothing to help them -- because that's not the source of their fear.
Slightly different take here - maybe it's not distrust but disbelief, rooted in individuals' personal experience with the government. More than once I have been in water cooler chats with other government technology contractors who (jokingly) muse "can you believe we made it to the moon?" or (less jokingly) "do you think we will ever be able to do 'moon shot' program again?" I often find it hard to square my personal experience working inside government bureaucracies with the fact that a government project of this scale and ambition was so successful - generally ending on the question "what changed?" or "if they could do that then, why can't we do even XYZ now?"
> As we know well, many racists use conceivably non-racist criticism to find ways to denigrate African-Americans, so it's important to be careful and sensitive to that.

This, of course, deeply depends on your definition of racist/racism. If I criticize some behavior that happens to be more prevalent among black americans than other americans, to some people that simple fact makes that critique, and thus me, a racist. That's the problem with the modern definition of racism. It's an ex-post-facto evaluation and it's way too easy to slap that on to pretty much whatever you want.

> But if I post that '(vulnerable minority) are morons', that's a very different matter - they are in danger.

No, they're not. I don't know a single reasonable human that would read that comment and go immediately fire '(vulnerable minority)'. Come on..
It could also indicate that it’s relatively cheap to sit on domains for 20 years, patiently waiting for someone to pony up. It’s not like valuable domains are more expensive to renew.
No. First, there are security measures that wreck privacy, e.g. sending all your data to some company's servers for virus scanning. Routing all your traffic through some filtering VPN provider. That kind of stuff. There are privacy measures that wreck security, e.g. not using personalized user accounts for certain things.

Security is also mostly up to definition, a secure computer system is a system that only does what it is defined to do. What this definition entails is up to the vendor, which isn't necessarily the same definition a user might want for security or privacy.

But generally, there is a large overlap between privacy and security.
That they are like white people listening to Hip Hop. You're allowed to like it, but you should never expect them to cater to your demographic.
Yeah the how is important when auditing the correctness of code. I would say "Never listen to an advice about never doing something, there is always a case were breaking the rules is good"
That’s why this sort of thing is first used “for the children” (or “to prevent terrorism” back in 2001 or 2015[0]) - because when you argue in favor of privacy you then also implied to support whatever is being used as the impetus.

The alternative is to not start scanning your device in the first place and getting the foot in the door, because once it’s open it’s really hard to close.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–Apple_encryption_dispute
Just forget about it and let it die.
That’s what everyone did everywhere except for America, it seems.
It is a useful feature, but I doubt that’s why clubhouse is losing users. If clubhouse truly had interest conversations from interesting people all of whom derived benefit from these conversations it wouldn’t have lost to these other platforms because of network effects. Everyone was on clubhouse.

I think the article does a good job backing up their theory about why clubhouse’s network effect has evaporated. People were there because it was a great way to show status during the pandemic. Now that other status displaying activities have opened up, they’ve left it en masse.
Google Camera works just fine, entirely offline as well.

You do miss out on some other pixel-specific features (Hold for Me for example), but camera quality should be unaffected.
The site has a section that explains the criteria including that Mozilla didn't decide on them alone but with other non-profits.

Regarding passwords: "If the product uses passwords for remote authentication, it must require that strong passwords are used, including having password strength requirements. Any non-unique default passwords must also be reset as part of the device’s initial setup. This helps protect the device from vulnerability to guessable password attacks, which could result in a compromised device."

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/about/m...
Inflation is everywhere i guess, or should I say « stagflation ».
That is lovely but what use is it of I have to buy a new phone to use it because it doesn't support the phone I have.
Aren’t the Instagram filters equally good anyways?
I do think that Clubhouse was aiming for a different use case than what's happening in these other apps. I say this as a daily user of Slack Huddles (love 'em) and frustrated week-long Clubhouse user, but mostly as a product market-fit analyst.

The problem is, the market Clubhouse is trying to create is a Wild West without near-perfect content curation. It's going to fail a hundred times before taking off and when it does it's not going to be as big as everyone though initially, much like groupon.
That's always the expectation when a startup blows up to fill a niche in a space dominated by giants. "Facebook/Google/Microsoft will release this any day now and all the users will move over." Historically speaking, the chances of that happening are very slim.
I had an engineer coworker who didn't believe it happened. Here is why I think he held that opinion:

He's the son of a politician who acquired power by pushing a fringe but appealing version of a series of events. The difference between the way he talked about it vs the news I read was revealing: it appealed to paranoia thinking but in a very inviting way. It actually fostered interest, a feeling you're in-group, and a us-vs-them mentality.

I think that's the culture he grew up in; where you can uphold an illogical opinion loudly, seeking a debate just for the sake of being at the center. There is no such thing as bad press they say.

And it worked! For a whole 3 weeks we only talked about the moon landings. We reviewed the Apollo transcripts, moon rocks, papers, telescope images of rovers tracks, catadioptric devices. He had an answer for everything!

In the end I had enough, said let's agree to disagree, that he was a clown but a friendly one.

It sort of worked for him IMHO. I'm hearing he has transitioned to sales; where you go see someone who has a very different opinion than you about who belongs their own money.

I'm positive he'll be just fine.
How do taxes work? And legal an accounting fees?
I called Clubhouse "TED meets chat roulette."
But this isn't your average hash function.

This is a function that is created to be robust against modifications to the image.

A perfectly robust function would - in my opinion - be one that could detect even a recreation of the original setup.

I don't know where on this scale the function law enforcement use is, but if it is any good I struggle to see how it cannot detect similar legal imagesm
> if they can't get the fundamentals right, what else are they screwing up?

It was the lack of an Android app for more than a year (Android accounts for more than 70% of marketshare worldwide) [0], plus they have kept the invite system in place even when all their competitors have already cloned them to death.

Finally on top of that, the end of lockdowns for hundreds of millions, worldwide and getting back to normal.

By the time all of that was phased out and the Android app released, everyone went back to Twitter, Discord and Reddit and the Clubhouse hype died.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...
> then you are no longer middle class i would say

Well what are they then?

You can't seriously claim that having just $100 a day of disposable income makes you part of the upper class?
Perceptual image hashes are a hard problem. Searching for subversive text strings is easy.

And, a bunch of the obscuring-of-surveillance-intent achieved here is oblivious as to the types of detection-events - not at all image-specific. (That is, the private-set-intersection, cryptographic 'blinding', & threshold sharing schemes will work just fine for text/text-shingle/text-vector snitchlists as for image-perceptual-hash snitchlists. They're generic tricks for hiding what searches are being performed, & easy to repurpose.)

Once Apple's shown a willingness to install iOS software that does a crime-grep on private data, & snitches on users without their assent, adding text-triggers is technically simple. A iOS point-release.
Furness is a postdoc in my department; glad to see him on here!
> 4. Syntactic sugar is usually bad.

I agree now, after switching from Python to Go.
Seems to me that a 1x1 pixel image tag pointing at an image matching one of the signatures would be enough to trigger some kind of action, even if the end user doesn't see that single pixel. What then, does your phone get seized automatically?

Of course the civil disobedience way of dealing with this would be to find an entirely safe image which matches the hash so that every website can safely embed such an image and show the utter futility of the idea.
U.S. per capita carbon emissions are lower now than in 1918
> becomes to our friends on wall street.

Perhaps I'm misremembering but domain squatting was an issue for the last 20 years. Before "wall street" got a hold, I'm sure regular people like you and me just bought domains and sat on them for a while.

I know I used to try and guess which domains to buy and hold for some time but by the time I figured it out, those domains were already reserved.

It was also us engineers that figured out you can query ICANN for expiry information so you can catch domains that expire and steal them from other people. Not sure wall street had anything to do with that.
My issue with smart devices is that they aren't smart. They are just internet controlled devices that can you can control via an app. To me, smart devices are objects that have added value by doing a task more intelligently. Think like a thermostat that can learn your lifestyle and adjusts the temperature accordingly. Or like a microwave that sets cooking time based on what was put in it. These are smart devices, and honestly, I don't think there are actually many out there now.
dont bite the hand that feeds you
Because those are the phones that are supported in the upstream Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which these OSes are typically based on. Other phones, even ones that to a great job of publishing their sources (like Sony's), have their support living outside of AOSP. And older phones get dropped from AOSP, the original Pixel was dropped in Android 11. So, by only targeting the devices that AOSP supports these OSes can focus on the interesting part of building the OS, rather than getting bogged down with hardware support.
I agree, this is my stance as well,. Though I don't think Calyx tries to limit tracking on installed apps. I would recommend using something like TrackerControl to limit those.
I feel like I have read about a similar YC startup before. Search brings up afrostream.tv - how did they fare, and what is different? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/afrostream

Not that there can't be more than one.

For non-blacks, what would be recommended shows to watch to get a feel for black culture (or your vision of black culture, I guess)?

Edit: it seem Afrostream shut down in 2017 https://techpoint.africa/2017/09/22/afrostream-shut-down/
This is funny because everybody makes mistakes , so of course people fail at semver.

However, if you are the maintainer of a popular cargo package, and make a mistake, people _will let you know_. Because a lot of people in the Rust ecosystem expect versions to follow semver.

Crates that fail to adhere stop being used, get bad rep, people fork them, and keep them stable, making them loose users.

Rust actually has a tool called rust-semverver that does an AST to AST diff of the current version of a crate that you want to release, with the latest release, and suggests how to increment the version.

It can list all API changes, and it will tell you which changes are minor, major, or patch.

You can use it in your deployment workflow on CI to, e.g., deploy a new version of a crate only if, the changes follow the version change that was specified. Such that, e.g., if you bump your 2.0.0 crate to 2.1.0 but your crate has an API breaking change, the tool and CI fails telling you that you need to change the version to 3.0.0 because of these changes.