skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But their technology, policies and the strength of Swiss privacy law [1] make them a less-ideal coöperator for the NSA than e.g. Google or Comcast.

There is also another viewpoint. Since ProtonMail is non-USA company, any internet activity associated with non-US citizens isn't protected by the US Constitution when CIA et al. are in action. They can do whatever they please.

Also, the background of the ProtonMail is not so clear.
Many might not know as they have tried to hide it, but MIT guys have been in big part of originally writing the ProtonMail, which can be linked to CIA/NSA oversight[1].

Also, major part from the equity ownership belongs to U.S (Charles River Ventures was one of the first big funders, and this naturally happens)

I also leave this interesting link here[2] (The Truth About Protonmail).

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210226014214/https://privacy-w...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210220023958/https://privacy-w...
The next decade of continuous integration
I think React have the right approach. If something isn't part of the committed to public API, then it's named `__unstable_foo`. Consumers of the library are free to use them, but they can and will change at the whim of the maintainers regardless of any stability guarantees that the library usually provides.

This allows advanced consumers to tinker where they need to and are prepared to take on the maintenance while leaving potential complainers no leg to stand on if the API changes.
The tittle sort of implies that "people contributing from GitHub try to merge garbage into the kernel tree".
Unfortunately this doesn’t help with flame wars where people can go over to a sub thread they get agreement on to harvest credits to then brigade the ones they disagree with.
Let's chat over at https://www.gitpod.io/chat. I'm Geoff.
It reminds me of Metaculus, community-generated predictions about various future events.

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/
In the intolerant spirit of the EOLANG designers, signing up for a Telegram account to learn about a language is something I won't tolerate.
True, this approach will cause false negatives. But from what I understand, most people in interviewing prefer false negatives to false positives.
Sounds like it would be easy for Github to fix? No? Yes?
My belief comes my experience teaching math the past 20 years. I think we both agree that mentally disabled people can’t learn algebra. Do you have any evidence that these are the only people incapable of learning algebra? I have lots of anecdotal evidence that the set of people who can’t learn algebra is much larger than the set of mentally disabled people.
IIRC the glitch speedruns relied on the fact that you didn't have to get the master sword since you could pick it up if you were able to "warp" to that cutscene.

https://youtu.be/OKSWkpC_SC4?t=946 Link starts at where the master sword gets knocked off but the premise of the speedrun is interesting on its own.
However, open source is almost 100% about "selfish" things like exploration, passion, relaxing etc. as shown by the number of projects that have exactly 1 maintainer (almost all of them). Linux and friends are exceptions and majority of devs working on those are payed by big corps and that is their regular job.
> Message content itself can be protected by pgp encryption (if people would bother to use it)

The message might be encrypted, but if they get to the other guy and offer him a sweet enough deal, there is no protection. There are two copies of the content out there, if it is that serious, why leave the papertrail.

People like to believe they are subverting the CIA snooping on all their very important 'activism', but in reality the most they are doing is opting out of google using their emails to market them shit they were never going to buy in the first place.
An intelligence agency such as the CIA
I thought “lol 19 lessons for keyboard shortcuts???” - but then I thought about what an Emacs equivalent would look like. To even bind a new shortcut you need to write Lisp!

I love it but you can cut yourself pretty badly on the learning curve.
whatsapp doesn't rely on SMS protocols nor does it rely solely on phone numbers but is still being exploited quite often.

Instant-Messaging = Worthy target for exploits.

Just like web-browsers get exploited after years of patching.
Crying is a complex behavior, and research on its immediate effects yield (cont)
Well, in the past we've had eugenics, sterilizations and discrimination based on IQ tests, which is going to the other extreme with genetics. So it's not just something irrelevant. Doesn't mean we should ignore the influence of genetics just because of past wrongs, or because we wish the world to be more egalitarian.
One of the few times I agree with Linus.
Yes, that is a magical alternate world, since France now cannot build nuclear power plants on time or budget. Flamanville 3 is an incredible fiasco with a budget ballooning by a factor of 5.

Hydrogen embrittlement is a known issue with known solutions. After all, the world consumes 700 cubic kilometers (at STP) of hydrogen each year. This gas is confined in tanks and pipes, which obviously have to be made of materials for which the problem is solved.
Behind the rage, there is good wisdom in Linus’s rants.
I really didn't read that from this post.
Anarchists don't believe in limited government, they believe in not being governed.
Previous threads on this. Others?

A study on dishonesty was based on fraudulent data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28271805 - Aug 2021 (42 comments)

Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28264097 - Aug 2021 (102 comments)

A Big Study About Honesty Turns Out to Be Based on Fake Data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28257860 - Aug 2021 (90 comments)

Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210642 - Aug 2021 (51 comments)
Hot take: why do we still care? Linus says something negative about something, big shocker.

This is just the tech crowd equivalent of a tabloid at the supermarket checkout isle, Tom Cruise is secretly a ferret-lover, read all about Bob’s torrid affair with Mallory!
OK, fine, maybe I was being a touch hyperbolic. But really, the thing is - they keep your information for forever. It's on their hard drives. There's no guarantee that what they say today, won't change tomorrow, or in 2 years, or 5 years. That's the real creepy part for me.
People complaining about the neologism in the title are free to coin or nominate their own term for the phenomenon of being snubbed by someone nominally engaged in conversation but giving more of their attention to their phone.
well to be fair -- it's using a linux vm but it's a great step
I have one of these in my testing stable, including Mac IE. It's quite usable on many websites which are simply built.
That's not really rebutting the original claim, is it? If, due to genetics, they need a different environment, resources, more time and patience.. how is that not agreeing with the premise that genetics matter?
Ask HN: When is Apple's EV going to be released?
Curious if anyone knows the release date for the Apple Electric vehicle?
He said many things. Picking the one that, out of context, sounds like something irritating and controversial, is the very definition of clickbait.
It’s not a sufficiently difficult topic for you. Have you ever taught algebra to a classroom of people from a wide range of intellectual capabilities and experiences? Are you even aware of some of the pain points to learning algebra?
That's not what I'm doing and I don't appreciate you misrepresenting what I said like that, intentional or not.

UBI is purely theoretical. It does not exist anywhere on the planet in the form you're describing.

The US has engaged in UBI-like systems for quite a while, as have other countries.

UBI ascribes that everyone must get the benefit in order for the effects to be felt.

COVID incurred UBI-like payments, how these were used is worth studying, but they don't prove or disprove UBI. They certainly didn't improve the situation for small businesses, which is my point - if it takes a holistic UBI system to prove UBI and you're unwilling to figure out how to decompose it, then we'll never get it, and we're all doomed. That to me seems rather silly.

It is not a given that UBI will be a boon for businesses (big or small). Personally, I do think it will benefit large corporations, but it remains to be seen how small and medium businesses will fare -- and I think that largely depends on implementation details that need to be discovered. That much needs to be proven.

In order to prove some of the claims of UBI, countries are doing experiments and looking at specific effects that their implementations have in order to gauge UBI. Nobody is going to look a the monumental cost of UBI and fire a hope-driven-missile in terms of policy and economic risk, which is absolutely understandable. Finland and Ontario are putting out some tests, the inference they draw will largely depend on the questions they set out to answer. This is probably also informing them on how they could roll out UBI progressively.

What I was contesting was the absoluteness of this statement:

> This is why a UBI is good for businesses -- customers have more money in their pockets.

Nothing says that because people have money that they will spend it, much less where you want them to spend it. That has to be incentivized and we have to experiment with how to incentivize it.
The friendly article.
I don't see the problem with leaving when you're ready if that's before the party's over.

Not "overstaying your welcome" goes both ways. It is legit to feel "I'm done here", say the thank-yous, and go.

I don't understand. I'm open to understanding the other side of the coin.
IMO, biological differences and barriers certainly exist and are non-trivial, but the differences between private and public schools demonstrates the degree to which institutional finesse can accommodate student strengths and shortcomings, including differences in intelligence or disability. In other words, we have a long way to go.

In some schools around the Bay Area, we have half the students on the fastest track, and about half the math faculty as calculus teachers. An immodest minority of students complete Calculus BC early and go on to the local college to continue their math education for their remaining years in HS. And these aren't even the top 50 schools in the nation.
Those all seem like things that could be fixed at a lower cost than creating a whole new app, but maybe there is some technical reason I'm not familiar with
They're not planning anything beyond fancy renders.
Ironically the realization of us being diverse and having different strengths, weaknesses, goals, perceptions etc. shifted my social/political views stronger towards the libertarian left.
More on this argument here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433186

This is, to put it charitably, an idiosyncratic argument about how data encryption is supposed to work.
I would argue that that method (no pun intended) is less clear about intent and harder to read

There are lots of things like this where the OOP version and the FP version are technically interchangeable in terms of capability, but not in terms of ergonomics or readability. A beautiful thing about working in a multi-paradigm language like JS is that you can reach across the aisle for the best tool for any given job. You can use classes to hide state, plain functions instead of statics, lambdas instead of anonymous classes, etc.
Many (most?) people value conformity and loyalty oaths over honest understanding of the world, regardless of the damage that this does. What you're describing isn't any weirder than Biblical literalists ignoring "eye-rollingly obvious" self-contradictions in scripture.

In both cases, the complaint is missing the point: some subset of progressives and some subset of other religious extremists aren't even having the same conversation you are.
There is a longer breakdown of the thread here:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/github_merges_useless...

He also says: "But it also means proper authorship and committer information etc. All of which github entirely screws up." and they link back to an earlier complaint from him about that.
Fascinating piece.

Afaik it still has to happen, but I can't find when. [0]

[0]: https://www.pokerclarity.com/news/bbc-covers-heads-up-match-...
To disambiguate, the question is who won, not who Dan is.
I wouldn't call it "trivia" but "fundamental knowledge". If the person you're interviewing went through college it should be easy. If they didn't, they probably read about it somewhere (or should have) and can describe it to you.
> Clearly just for entertainment and not information Facebook alternative, in which GPT bots produce a significant fraction of posts, impersonating users and making stuff up. Everyone quickly learns you can't trust it, but it can still be cute/fun/humorous.

Billy Chasen developed faux-social network called Botnet. Unfortunately, it looks like it's gone and I doubt that name would have lasted long in the App store let alone how he managed to get it through.

https://www.wired.com/story/botnet-social-network-where-ever...
Is the emergence weak or strong? If it's weak, then subjectivity can be reduced to neurons firing or whatever. What does that look like? If it's strong, then you spooky emergence, which means something entirely new — something not entailed by prior physics coming into existence. That would be non-reductive physicalism, but I'm not sure how it's different than property dualism that David Chalmers would endorse.
Who Owns the US National Debt?
It's reminiscent of Arcosanti in it's aim of transforming a harsh environment into somewhere livable, instead of just picking somewhere livable in the first place. Maybe it's just pragmatic since arid land is the cheapest land, but it has a nice principal to it, of taking land and improving it instead of draining and farming everything out of it.

I think Arcosanti has a second design advantage tho, it started with a small but livable urban core, so even with 50 residents the city is functional (given enough tourists) but the plans include expansions for 500 and then 5,000 residents. To grow the city as people show up seems like a better move then spending billions of dollars before you open the gates.
That's the biggest thing to learn from bullies like Linus - he hates everything and thinks everyone's an idiot, so where does he go when he actually needs to express something strongly? He can't go anywhere. It's not an effective way to communicate.
That's just your cohort. We might discuss the answer, but we tend to look it up and then talks about that result.

Which is fine with me: I'd rather not have someone's skillfully crafted BS in my head if it isn't connected to actual truth if I can help it.
Transatlantic slave trade (was done mostly by non-government actors), the Dutch East Indian Company colonization of Indonesia, drugs traffic in the 20th century, the cumulative effects of poisoning from tetraethyl lead,...

And btw, I also mentioned the ongoing plague of opioids addiction sparked by Purdue pharma. Didn't you read it?
Does this bother a lot of people? Has anyone ever opened an issue on this? If not I say why bother...Linus is hard to please
At the very basic, almost any attack can be monetized through resources (crypto mining, DDoS-as-a-service, selling access to the machines to other criminals) or extortion (ransomware, threatening to expose data), at scale and without the attackers really having to care too much what they hit.

If they devote more time per target, they can also go after specific data, e.g. for espionage or insider trading.

One compromised server can also serve as a foothold ("oh, you have a service account with all permissions on that server? nice!") which then allows all of the above to be launched against a bigger part of the infrastructure.
> The only thing that’s going to break is the economics of solar.

Yes, that is the exact point. Unless storage capacity is introduced to the system:

1. It becomes uneconomical to add any more solar plants, because the time when the solar plants can produce already has demand fully met by other, existing solar/wind plants.

2. Since you reach peak daily demand when solar and wind approaches 0 output, it means you need just as much fossil fuel plant generation capacity as before - you can't decommission any of those plants (or, at present, perhaps you just convert them to natural gas).

I'm not sure how this thread went off the rails. All I was originally responding to was the sentiment that "you don't need to worry about storage capacity until you already have the vast majority of your energy met by renewables", and that statement is easily provably false because there are many areas of the world that still have relatively low levels of total power generation from renewables, but until the "time shifting" storage problem is solved it will be uneconomical to add more solar to the system.
Do I require evidence to not believe something you've stated? Or do you require evidence to assert something you've stated?

I don't think the onus is on me to prove you wrong, so much as the onus is on you to prove that your experience is scientifically rigorous and representative of more than just your personal experience.

And to be clear, I don't doubt that many people "can't" learn calculus in the same way I "can't" run a marathon; we don't have the desire, discipline, and free time necessary to do the work required. This does not speak in any way towards our capacities to do so, only our desire.

So I suspect the vast majority of your students didn't have the sufficient desire to learn a lot more than they were incapable, and I think it's a critical distinction, because you can change people's motivations, but you cannot change their capacity.
PC Soft, makers of a RAD tools called windev
makes the best brochures

https://windev.com/storage/en_US/ebook/newfeatures/3/

RAD is a strange market though, tools are real, and customers make real business apps with it

The marketing is usually very .. unusual
Yes, you're probably right. For proof we just need to look at RAM & CPU requirements for most software. As both of those components increased, the software grew to consume them. sigh one can wish, can't one?
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments. We ban accounts that do this sort of thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Email isn't much worse at leaking metadata than most of the things people use for messaging and is better than many:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:anonemail

Ultimately, for the strongest privacy protection you need to go to something offline, like email:

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:emailvsim

Obviously not everyone needs the highest level of protection, but the fact still needs to be acknowledged.
Which is sad.

Said "as an introvert".
this. There was a thread an Ask HN around the new decade with predictions for 2030 and I wrote this too.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28434514
For anyone that haven't tried this yet, please have a look at 3-way merging. A number of tools support it, including simple ones like `meld`. I've been using it for a while and it has been a huge help on complicated merges.
Well I would dare to say iMessage isn't the biggest target to convert to Rust.

At the end of the day, it is still an app with app level permissions, sandbox etc.

Kernel\Kernel modules are far more likely to be written as they allow for vastly more access than an app.
I never said the USD didn't have value. I said the value of the USD is not backed by anything. The government and banks are free to inflate the USD as much as they want. It's like an unconditional tax on everyone.

Like all currencies before it, its value will diminish over time. When the US ceases to exist, its value will finally become zero. Precisely because tax payments were the only thing keeping it relevant.
Is that DNS DB publicly accessible?
>- Clearly just for entertainment and not information Facebook alternative, in which GPT bots produce a significant fraction of posts, impersonating users and making stuff up. Everyone quickly learns you can't trust it, but it can still be cute/fun/humorous.

Aren't we pretty much there now with a so many bots posting?
Prions are in the brain. The vaccine does not cross into the brain.

Could someone suggest how this could possibly work?
> from churning pointless new models year after year with minor spec bumps.

They'd never abandon a working business model like that
And sidestep the monopolist at the same time. Its a win-win!
It’s linked from their main site Security page, and it’s in their Knowledge Base.
Producing cache friendly output is how you scale easily.

A content management system that doesn’t produce cacheable html isn’t scalable and one that does is. It’s not the job of the content management system to serve the cached pages. That’s what CDNs, browsers, and caching layers in general are for.
That's great, thanks for chiming in!

If I could make a suggestion for KeyCombiner, I think that having a way to start out as an anonymous user (with no sign up or email confirmation) at first, and then asking users to sign up once they've completed a few lessons would make it even more appealing to try out.

The "Start Learning" button at the top right of your site IMHO should be a bit of a demo mode.

(I know that it's harder/messier to implement a "half anonymous" mode -- this is just a suggestion) :-)
(That first one should be "premises", but I didn't proof-read or notice in time to make an edit. Also the last sentence should have "self-hosted". Bad QA.)
Maybe, but they've never cared about supporting the Linux kernel team's workflow.
I've never seen this in any of the BW games I watched. I wonder if they fixed it. You just can't land a building where a unit is. There was a crazy bug where you could load units into a flying CC and use it as a mobile fortress but that too is patched.
According to the article women still believe the trade-off to be worth paying for and attending college since their application numbers are still holding steady.

Are most of them making a huge mistake? I guess it depends heavily in the credential(s), but I think there has to be a deeper reason for falling and unbalanced undergraduate enrollment amongst men.
Yes. Here's an excerpt from their documentation on <https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/m...>:

> GitHub will automatically use GPG to sign commits you make using the GitHub web interface
Merges done from a GitHub Pull Request (PR) contain a reference to that PR. The reference is not even a full URL, but just a number (e.g. "#42"). You need to use the GitHub web UI to turn this number into a URL (or deduct it if you know the repo URL). If you have that, then you can go to the Pull Request web page when you can read the whole story about the merge.

What Linus rightfully wants is the whole story right in the commit message of the merge.

I think GitHub purposely makes condensed commit messages for merges as a way to hook users to their web UI.
I feel as if I'm asking something fundamental that hasn't been considered by insiders. As if I asked music afficionados why Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata couldn't be performed in F-sharp minor and the response is something like, "Because arbitrarily changing the keys of sonatas would make a travesty of classical music, and performing the piece in F minor supports the preferences of the people who enjoy listening to classical music."

In other words, complete horseshit.
It's OK not to know something in the moment.

Leave it at the tip of your mind and roll.
With respect, there have been many attempts in the past to create utopian cities. They have invariably failed.

https://archive.curbed.com/2019/7/18/20695051/curbed-nice-tr...

I'm sure there are plenty of other books out there on the subject.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana.