skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there any example in history of OSS development as to what happens when BDFL [2] is not there anymore?

The Python BDFL announced his resignation three years ago, so that project might serve as an example.

https://lwn.net/Articles/759654/

I think it will be a while before we see the long term effects of Guido's departure, but I already miss him. The few interactions we had left me feeling that he was good at choosing his yeses and noes appropriately.
Zimbabwe's debts were not held in its own currency.
TikTok feels so incredibly fake. I know that a lot of that same fake content is available on YouTube, but on YouTube, I can subscribe to creators that do real things or offer substantial and interesting critiques. TikTok and Facebook video feel like broadcast TV - highly over-dramatized and over-hyped. Again, I know the same is available on YT, but I can also use it my way.
but now you can switch them. twice the longevity! just kidding, I recently wrapped both ends in shrinking tubes, seem to stop fraying (for now)
- Meditation (Zazen)

- Reading old books on Taoism and slowly grokking Zen/Ch'an

- Biking

- Fiction (mostly audiobooks)

- Hiking (not nearly as much as I should)

- Cooking

- Playing with my Cats

- Watching movies/tv with wife

- Playing too many video games

- Trying and mostly failing to get into drawing and music creation
Risk management is the most important life skill, with rhetoric (persuasion) being a close second. If your risk management is sound then you can play as much poker or options trading or futures or any other hairbrained dipsy-doodle you like. But if your risk management isn't sound then you can still lose everything in a game (broadly construed) with an edge < 1 in your favor.
This looks cool, gonna kick the tyres and take it for a spin
Alternately, they could just log plaintext emails as they come in, before being encrypted.
> demanding walmart keep KYC of anyone buying knives, trailers, and anything else that could be used for illegal purposes

Nobody is. But if you buy a trailer every week, it wouldn’t be unreasonable for law enforcement to ask Walmart to let them organise a sting outside or even just leave a video camera on premises. They could do that without a warrant in the U.S., Walmart willing, something that is illegal with ProtonMail in Switzerland.
Similarly, homebrew on the PSP exploited libjpeg or libtiff, so this is one of those vectors that we're still dealing with 16 years later.
I don’t think you want mental health information going where it could be used against you.

Eg,

> Cheng believes the website that doxed him by publishing his personal information online was started by pro-Beijing supporters in Hong Kong.

> “I feel fear,” he admitted. His family, too, was scared and told him not to walk home alone anymore. But part of Cheng remains defiant as he considers the doxing website a component of a larger campaign to incite fear in protesters as mass demonstrations continue into their third month.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/hong-kong...

https://mashable.com/article/doj-accuses-zoom-employee-china...
Reston, Virginia ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston,_Virginia#Planning_and_...
Odin Programming Language
Every apartment building I've lived in over 20 stories puts their water reservoir on the roof. The reason is to let gravity distribute it when a tap is opened.
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Yes, to view the stats you can use the SMART commands which is fairly standardized. But the ability is reset is usually some vendor specific commands. Its possible the tools leaked from manufacturing sites.
CALFIRE's Flickr Page
Why are managers paid more than us, when we clearly do the harder work?
Sewage
If you define baby boomers as born 1946 to 1964, that matches ages 57 to 75 so I'd imagine over half are retired already and we're already in the dying out stage.

The biggest problem isn't boomers but the life expectancy of gens X, Z. Luckily(?) they look less healthy than their parents.

SS can be boosted by charging SS on unearned income and income over the limit.
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Saving a restic backup the hard way
> That's why Chia is only more efficient than PoW when it isn't in demand.

Actually that's incorrect. Chia is always more efficient than PoW, b/c in PoW everyone is constantly racing to solve every block. (i.e. find the proof) Whoever finds the proof gets the block reward and everyone else just throws away all that work for nothing and then the next race starts for the next block reward.

Contrast that with Chia, where when you are plotting you are storing your proofs in a file for later challenges. You aren't discarding that work and you can hold onto it for a long time (years). It's not until you are "farming" the plot that you start answering challenges. The challenges just translate to simple reads from disk, which are quick constant time lookups. Now it may take you a long time (or never) to find a reward for a single proof, but at least you didn't have to throw all that work away and start over.
"No matter what Apple and ProtoMail and similar companies tell you, you cannot buy privacy off-the-shelf."

The cost is personal time and effort, not money. The software needed is generally free of charge. The goal being not a physical product or a service, but a level of knowledge and proficiency. To put it another way, "tech-savviness" cannot be purchased, it has to be achieved.

The cultural problem we face is that the so-called "0.1%" are leveraging their "tech-savviness" against the rest of the population, working for so-called "tech" companies, websites that make money by exploiting the privacy of the "99.9%" in the service of online advertising.

If we take HN comments as true, in some cases, these employees do not even believe in the bottom line they are working to support.1 They are not adopting the behaviour of the "99.9%", i.e., the "expected" behaviour required to sustain their employer's bottom line. Not sure about you, but that would not give me much confidence they are going to work very hard to protect other users' privacy.

The term "dogfooding" is sometimes used amongst tech companies to describe the situation where employees themselves partake in what they offer to non-employees, i.e., "users".2 To persons outside the tech bubble this can be quite amusing. Does this suggest they view their relationship to users as more like "human-to-dog" than "human-to-human". There is nothing inherently wrong with someone peddling something she does not believe in, however we might consider what is/are the reason(s) for her lack of faith.

To be clear, I am not suggesting the cultural problem can be solved. I am attempting to provide further reasons that digital privacy is, like the parent suggested, generally not something you can "buy".

1 Evidence appears periodically in HN comments. For example, yesterday:
"Disclaimer: I work at Google. In cloud, not on Android.
I am privacy conscious so I though I would give a try at Graphene OS, it was brutal."

2 The term is alleged to have first appeared one the joelonsoftware.com website and to have originated at Microsoft.
Assuming you could get every American to agree to that (good luck!) the economy would be massively transformed while everyone stopped spending on every luxury and most necessities. I guess this would require enormous government intervention to prevent all the out of work shopworkers and manufacturers from starving, which might require taking on a bit more debt.

(The serious answer to the original poster's question is that the US economy is not like a household and the debt does not to be paid off, nor will it ever be paid off.)
Does this debt ever get paid back? Most likely it is sold onto someone else or a bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_stroke
Definitely the eMate. The clamshell Newton. I very much wanted one back in the day but could never really justify it. Settled for a Palm + folding keyboard combo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300
Tok Tok is just YouTube but with the opaqueness turned up to 11. Most of the people who use YouTube without worry think Tik Tok is an improvement.
Yep, but tiktok is chinese, youtube is american, so by definition tiktok bad, youtube good.

All the "data gathering" mentioned in all the FUD around tiktok in recent years is done by google/facebook too, and noone mentiones it at all.
That was not the reason.

But it was the reason that C, as standardized, adopted several C++ innovations first.
I run the infrastructure department at Discord which includes our anti-spam engineering team --

Just want to +1 what you're saying and confirm that we are never trying to ban third party clients (that aren't self-bots). Honestly, it would be a waste of our time and basically do nothing good for Discord. But as you correctly point out, they do sometimes trip the ever-evolving heuristics we build that try to identify and mitigate spam on the platform.

If this happens to your account you can write in to our TNS team at https://dis.gd/request and they will usually take care of unbanning any accounts that get accidentally caught up in a spam heuristic. It sometimes takes a bit to investigate and respond to these kinds of requests but they generally come out right in the end.
Can you war-dial attack with these? Seems like it would be super easy for a script kiddie to just start at 111-111-1111, send message, increment by 1, repeat. Maybe narrow it down to valid area codes and what not, but seems like a super low budget thing to do.
I used the phrase in a colloquial sense. Replace mentally disabled with intellectually disabled. That’s the proper modern term for what was once called mental retardation.

I gave no indications that people ought to be ranked in terms of value to society based on intelligence or any other criteria.
>2. The Chinese do this to people living peacefully inside their borders. If the US started rounding up and killing ethnic minorities WW2 concentration camp style then you could make this comparison. The US was engaged in active conflict with a group that itself was detrimental to human (specifically, women's) rights and that engaged us first.

This kind of whitewashing is what allows us as Americans to ignore the mass scale death we inflict while pointing fingers at other kettles. You don't even have the cause of events correct - we invaded afghanistan first, America were the aggressors. Do you think we invaded Afghanistan to preserve women's rights? Do you know that American soldiers were told to turn a blind eye to the afghan national army raping little boys? You mention that we don't have accurate numbers about china's tyranny, but under Trump, we repealed the rule that the USG had to report drone strike casualties. I'm not surprised other countries don't see a functional difference between the US and China, after all only one of those countries has a solid track record of overturning democratically conducted elections because they didn't like the outcome.
This is exactly what has happened during the pandemic. In 2015 if you paid $15/hour for entry level physical work you would get a lot of applications with some high quality applicants.

In 2021 you need to remove the weed drug testing provision and then hope that you will get applicants.

Printing 3T dollars and handing out 3k/month to everyone has caused the cost of labor to double or triple in some areas. In other words the way out of the social security insolvency is to reduce the quality of labor a dollar buys.

In 2040 you should expect to get 4k/month from social security and for that to cover your food and housing, but hiring a person to replace your gutters will cost $90/hour
They seem to have internalized the major lesson that "curiosity is everything," and (if the duel has happened) by not mentioning if she won is ignoring the lesson that "losing is a part of playing."
As a person who is hopelessly addicted to refreshing feeds I can say that TikTok is the first app in 10 years that replaced reddit - my previous digital drug of choice. Their algo is just to good. People without rich and fulfilling lives don't stand a chance.
This was the first comment I favorited on HN, many years ago.
The US want to take all my money and put me in jail. I like my freedom.

China want to blackmail me to do their bidding. I dont actually have much shame, so probably wont work so good.

There are days where I think the lesser of two evils when it comes to invading my privacy might be the regime whos jurisdiction I am not, and likely never will be present in.
This is all false unfortunately.

First, Charles River Ventures is no longer a shareholder: https://protonmail.com/blog/crv-investment-other-news/

Second, all of ProtonMail's code that runs on your device is open source and independently audited. It would be nearly impossible to hide a backdoor in there.
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/oae.pdf (Section 7)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21897192

STREAM is a well-studied construction for online authenticated encryption. It doesn't just involve an auth tag every few kilobytes (or megabytes, or gigabytes). There's also a byte flag (called a "tag" in some implementations) to indicate whether or not there should be additional blocks or not.
Are you talking a spend of over a million a month?
You need a private pricing agreement.

Call the duckbill group.
https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

No affiliation.
please define unearned income. afaik - other types of income ARE taxed ie. capital gains, etc.

EDIT: Asking a question to be more specific is being downvoted leads me to believe there is a party that hates these particular questions being asked, and is antithetical to the idea of community dialogue and shared ideas.

I really think the whole internet forum thing has much to be desired.
I agree. Swift is a nice language, compared to the alternatives.

I have a few months experience in it, and I can definitely agree that if you're writing Swift-only, it's very nice. The emphasis on values, and value semantics is definitely a differentiator from most other languages.

However, anytime you have to use/interop with an older API designed for Obj-C (for example, AVFoundation), it's much more of a pain. Effectively, you're writing Obj-C in Swift.

If someone is insisting on Obj-C instead of Swift in 2021, I would attribute it to a form of a Stockholm Syndrome. Many people form psychological bonds with whatever they are familiar with.
Ok, great. This is one problem, and the original problem. What about the others?
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> No matter what Apple and ProtonMail and similar companies tell you, you cannot buy privacy off-the-shelf.

You can. It's just not that cheap, and not quite as convenient.

https://thehelm.com/
> you can't disable SMS entirely I don't think

Buy a data-only subscription, and use Google Voice or some sort of PBX powered app to still be able to receive regular phone calls.

Preferably I’d want a really basic voice only, open source PBX powered app for iOS that I could use. Then I could get me a data-only plan and SIM.

Caveat: I still need Norwegian BankID to work with my SIM though. I dunno if any of the data-only plans available in Norway support BankID, or if you need a regular subscription like I have now in order to use that.
It reads like a religious sermon intended to ease the fragile consciences of a rapidly dwindling elite, jumping at shadows while they barricade themselves ever further into self-reinforcing fantasy. Complete and utter detachment from reality, complete with an imaginary foe in the form of "degrowthers," who supposedly exist and spend their days relentlessly banging at the gates of prosperity with intent to needlessly sack the city on the hill. Economics as a discipline has always been abused to justify the unjustifiable, but here it seems to be employed purely to defend the psychological safety of the most privileged, who cannot even bear to observe the destructive results of their lifestyles from a safe distance. The violence committed all around them, in their name, and the cries of anguish that result are easily brushed aside in service to maintaining the desperate illusion that cause and effect don't exist.
As I understand, these debts will never be repaid, they will be inflated away so that they remain inconsequential (for some definition of that word) relative to the size of the economy. This is true e.g. for corporate bonds as well, they are a structural part of financing operations rather than a loan to do a specific thing that then gets paid back.
Docs are like travel guides. When the underlying reality changes, they need to be rewritten. But most organizations barely make the effort for one good guide, let alone a guide that is rewritten as the code changes. So what happens is, they write a guide, go back to their business, and when a traveler says "hotel X doesn't exist anymore", they delete reference to hotel X. Not a great strategy! What's worse, it's a travel guide written by a real-estate developer. That is, the very people writing the guides are making their own guides outdated.
The scenario you describe with the apps, is not actually possible under Swiss law. Swiss laws are very clear about this, they do not allow the authorities to order something like this.
Linus is why I generally don't use Linux unless I absolutely have to.
I have no issue with privacy. The product is not called Privacy. The product is called Revolt.
Haha, love the ABS analogy!
While I am all for long-term support, as stated this law could be a little harh on manufacturers, forcing them to support multiple obsoletter models (we are talking iPhone 6 released 7 years ago). I think it would be reasonable to give them an opt-out by EITHER providing X years of support, or offering a shorter support period but with a discount on device upgrade calculated as percent from the original list price.
It's funny how, right at the beginning (20 seconds in), he is saying he is impressed with the doors in Last of Us Part II, while showing a door that closes in one direction, then opens in the other. This would be especially impossible given the closer mechanism at the top of the door, but then you notice that both parts of the mechanism are attached to the door itself (rather than one being attached to the door frame) and just swings with it, so it is worthless as a closer mechanism.

I can't blame the devs for taking shortcuts like that, but still a bit weird to call that one out as an impressive example.
Unless someone applies the squeaky wheel rule. The thing causing everyone to look at you gets pushed to the top of the list.
Can confirm.

We (Discord) moved off of MongoDB for various reasons and are quite happy about that decision but managing Cassandra/Scylla clusters is not exactly a walk in the park either.
I was curious too, on their profile it says "Howler", so I'd assume it's this? https://github.com/HowlerChat/Howler
meanwhile, java 8 is the blessed version used for many of their cloud services.
You can encrypt with a passphrase.
Thanks for asking. Your suggestion seems rather extreme, but I'm open to it if you make a good case. I'm curious to see more Tor-first service launch.

1. More blog posts about Tor, how Proton is supporting Tor
2. Updating their Onion link. Their original blog post still refers to a v2 address, which are being retired
3. Supporting Tor broadly for other uses
4. Support anonymous account creation through Tor. I get it, it's hard. Find a solution that doesn't require de-anonymizing users.
If you want to use a decentralized finance app on ethereum, must pay transaction fees in ETH. That seems like the same level of backing to me
Confluence can take text and turn it into a black box format shoved inside a database that you can't edit with a real editor, then shove that text into a black box unstandardized version control system shoved inside a database! Take that, other tools!
“Jews” is too broad a term. Ashkenazim are generally considered white, for instance, but not Sephardim and Mizrahim.
Amazon Marketplace?
No, it won’t be.

Society will collapse, humanity will die out, or we’ll legislate it away. Two of the three have happened before. No national debt has ever been paid off.

Cheney said the quiet part out loud back in the day with “deficits don’t matter.” Debt is circular political chicanery.

Humans participate in economic activity to survive. Not to enrich a minority. The idea we have to owe some random person to exist is ludicrous on its face. Aristocratic minorities are as outdated as monarchy and slavery.
How is this a project?

A project is not simply work leading to some outcome. At its core, it’s a specific work-management method tied to the iron triangle (constrained cost, scope, and time), which requires a set plan from the start.

This iterative method breaks the iron triangle. If the iron triangle is broken, is it a “project”?

I feel that project-management industry is diluting the meaning of “project” to encompass other kinds of work management that aren’t “project”. End result is we’re really confusing things. Cynically, this may be the PM industry trying to assert its relevance in different disciplines, to the harm of all.

We can say the same thing about “bad agile”, where a set of ceremonies is confused with agile philosophy.

Do we need to burn it all down and start over?
On her twitter feed, there's one reference from a few months ago that they are aiming for October in Vegas.
You didn't reach the part where you are told:

- It's parsed into an XML document.

- And: There are a number of XSL transformations that need to be done with the XML document in order to make it ready for compilation.

- Plus: Then transforming the XML document into a collection of .java files.

But hey, if this are the tools you are familiar with why not use them for you pet toy.
More than half of the "baby boom" generation has already retired. The "baby boom" was born between 1946 and 1964. They are now 57 to 75 years old.
If the US is in a situation where it’s defaulting on its debts then social security would have been dead long before that ever happened.

Besides, the choice to default on dollar denominated debt is completely the US government’s.
Sure there is, the government will print money, as always.
I loved the keyboards from the first Intel MacBooks. In my opinion, even better that classic ThinkPads.

Great feedback, spring-like feel and good travel.
We understand where you are coming from, but this information is disclosed in our privacy policy, threat model, and transparency report (updated annually since 2015). All 3 pages are linked from every single page on our website. They are also included in the welcome/onboarding email sent to every single Proton user. At the end of the day, we cannot force people to read, but we do take your comment to heart and will try to be even more explicit.
You can use "cognitively impaired" as a more neutral and factual descriptor than either (and "cognitive impairment" as the generic term). It's also more broadly applicable. (I.e. If you got whacked in the head once too many while playing rugby, that might not count as "intellectual disability" according to some since it's not developmental. But it might interfere with learning math, so it's pretty indistinguishable in a practical sense!)
Are you seriously surprised that zero experience translates to a hit on credibility?
Countries override democratic standards for vaguely defined "national interests" all the time. It so happens that US, with its sprawling global empire, has a lot more "national interests" than the generally MYOB Swiss, and so is more prone to such abuse.
>You should get vaccinated so the rest of us can get back to our lives.

Vaccinated people can still spread virus but I know at lower rate that's what you gonna tell me..whatever
If you like this, vote for my post on the truth of the pandemic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437994