skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You think that a cop is going to download some custom app (that somebody would build… for some reason)

It would more likely be something rolled out by the agency itself. That somebody could accordingly be the agency (preferably just a rebadged and customized version of some FOSS application) and "some reason" would be "not having to duplicate a bunch of effort just to maintain an ID database".

> using a more complex system that they have less control over

I think you're underestimating the complexity of building 50 separate databases and the connections between them, as well as overestimating the control an agency would have over 49 of those databases. And that's just for interstate lookups, never mind international.

Point being: in the grand scheme of things, a blockchain-based approach would be far simpler and offer more control.
But Telegram doesn't distribute apps, they blocked a "user" related to the app from using their network.

The article does seem very reasonable, but I'd disagree that it's objective, since the author, Durov, runs Telegram and is writing to justify their actions.
The main difference is that for evolution most people can point to (or try to point to) a legitimate source of authority for why they believe evolution is true.

Whereas for religion, there is nothing to point to other than blind faith.
The web is not open for everyone some countries block certain traffic. I guess one can use a VPN, thankfully that's becoming more mainstream.
Yet at Google IO is almost only macs at the sessions.
I use atool (https://www.nongnu.org/atool/) for unpacking random archives - it abstracts away all formats including zip/rar/7z, compression and also guarantees that nothing is ever extracted into $CWD.
That must be why 99% of the SMS spam I receive comes back to Bandwidth as the carrier. On the bright side, I haven't gotten any spam in the last hour or so.
And for those who like their games on Steam, it appears that OpenTTD is also on steam. The announcement for 12.0-RC1 is at https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1536610/view/2868220...

As per the announcement you need to change the game properties to participate in the "testing" beta to get the latest RC version.
They've cleaned it up even within the last 6 months. There used to be Play Store ads with big "Install" buttons to the top, right, and maybe even bottom of the actual download.
The small image on the main page is a 256x256 version of a full-size... 4096x4096 image.

So each pixel in the small version is going to actually be an averaging of a 16x16 block of original pixels. Because they're randomly distributed, mostly that averaging is going to result in medium gray. Zooming out is going to do something similar (though the exact effect would depend on how the zoom algorithm works).

Plus, your eyes/brain are going to do some smoothing/averaging of their own even where the screen is able to display individual 1:1 source pixels (consider for example that every pixel on what's probably an LCD you're viewing the image on is itself some combination of red, green and blue subpixels).
>> whenever a candidate starts reciting hardball negotiation playbooks I just start with an offer that's 5-10% lower than what I think we'll end up with. The candidate then comes back and demands something 5-10% higher and we settle back at the number I had in mind anyway

That's not the way it has worked out for me. When I have made the hiring manager give a number first, the number has been 2x of the number I would have given. Maybe I just undervalue myself. 2x + 5-10% is a pretty good outcome.

Most profitable uncomfortable moments of my life.
Twitter is currently blocking the sharing of this post: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1441875098810519558?...
Joining the 100 mile club.
When I clicked the randomized image, why did it go through waves of rendering?
> Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays

Make GIMP look like Photoshop - https://github.com/doctormo/GimpPs

Another more extensive guide on how to make GIMP look and behave like Photoshop - https://www.pcsteps.com/1566-make-gimp-look-work-like-photos...
This is very interesting to me. I am just "Saturday browsing" but plan to try to read what I can about your community. My first impression is surprise that the group was trying to raise venture capital :) I will find out more as I read i guess.
Except that law does not apply for these elections that last several days https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4800223 The law allowing campaigning was passed in May 2021.
> The third judge, Lord Justice Birss ... also signalled that the patent case could have been made simpler if only Mr Thaler "was not such an obsessive".
You could try to have a go at it, https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr
Thank you for bringing this to the front page!

The thought process behind finding this went somewhat as follows:

iPod to iPhone transition gave more input devices (notes, camera) -> what about all senses? (eyes: camera/screen, ears: headphones/microphone, touch: touchscreen/vibration, nose: perfume, new box smell, mouth: food)

For people who don't like reading text (e.g. my girlfriend), could make a portable device for other things. That then led to thinking of a CD binder for scents that girls could swap in school not a shopping mall (and activate by just adding water). Google helped me find 68,000 fragrances categorised on https://www.fragrantica.com/

Then I searched with Google again, for an index of spices for taste. And found Gernot Katzer's index from 2002, so posted it here! Glad to see that you're also interested in making indexes :)
So I recently heard about Jeff Hawkins 1000 brain’s theory when he was on Lex Friedman. The idea is that there is a basic unit of the brain, originally meant for mapping the environment, which was copied many times with adjustments to give us our current brain.

If that is true, I wonder what brain activity while exploring hyperbolic spaces would look like.
North America was the land of the free precisely because there was no preexisting social structure that inserted itself between the work you do and the compensation that you receive.

Now that a few hundred years have passed the usual problems crop up.

I personally have no axe to grind versus landlords specifically because I recognize that letting people rent out apartments and thereby provide housing fulfills a real need that people have. After all someone had to construct the building.

What I personally despise is when people own a plot of land and abuse its location monopoly to extort people's money. I work and pay income taxes which funds public infrastructure yet I also need to pay the owner of the land a sum in proportion to the public infrastructure that is available to this location. If the government were to charge this amount directly on the land and reduce my income tax by that same amount then I would have no qualms about paying inflated rents because I know that a fair portion of that money is paying for the infrastructure I get to enjoy.
WhatsApp does have pretty good E2E encryption though.

Its weak point were the backups. They were encrypted but the key was with WhatsApp and the data with Google or Apple. All a friendly secret government request away. Of course you can turn off backups but you don't know whether everyone in your group does.

However they have recently started to shore this up too. You can now choose to keep the key yourself. Of course you still don't know whether everyone in your chat group does this.. But even the alternative password method is much safer than before. According to FB it's stored in a HSM. Yes, we have to take their word for it. But if you use the numeric key only you will have it (and thus no way to recover the data which is a normal consequence of good encryption)

WhatsApp still leaks data for sure. Like all your contacts (even non WhatsApp users), and all your metadata, like when you're talking to whom.

But the content is pretty safe there IMO. Surprisingly so for Facebook. I don't like using it very much either but I'm Europe we simply don't have a choice. I limit its access to my contacts and photos by running it inside a 'work profile' on Android.

Messenger is a different story of course.
Isn’t this easily detectable for any malicious script? Just a small timeout and try the next port.
Just wondering: is yours a security or cost concern? For instance it strikes me that running three devices all day for 3-4 years (assuming that the devices themselves were free or cheap) might well cost the same as a single modern router costs in purchase+energy cost over the same period.
I eagerly await the discussion of how we need to start imposing accountability on the country behind it all.
Laos is no where near wuhan
Not the OP but I would say it's "objective" from telegrams perspective.

They shared their decision making process which I agreed with, not too sure what would have been a better choice in that situation.
I think we agree. For me, the daily team coordination meeting has a clear initial agenda: go through each work-in-process item and quickly discuss it.

But that tends to spin off longer discussions, and there are often short things people want to raise with the team. So after we've gone through our kanban board, we'll have an optional period called "post". Long items go into Zoom chat as "Post: thing to discuss" and we give a few minutes to each.

I totally agree with blocking rabbit holes. Things that interrupt the fast run-through of the board get booted to post. Items there that are longer than a few minutes get booted to async or a topic-specific meeting, generally a smaller group than the team meeting.

One other trick I recommend: rotate leadership of the meeting once people have the hang of it. I ran mine myself for the first couple months. Then I ran it every other week, with somebody new swapping in. The weeks when people are responsible for keeping the meeting on track make them much better participants when they're not in charge.
From the looks of it both Android and Apple have a great deal of power, even for Telegram.
No problem with Amazon here. It’s an impressive company!
Someone ought to make a thermoelectric/peltier toy version of this illusion. Would be good for a Curiosity Box or something of the sort.

I've used the Coolworks IceProbe, a peltier cooler with a heatsink and fan, for cooling drinks at my desk and for the custom cat fountain I made for my kitties [2] [3]

Email me (address in profile) if you'd like the plans for my silver-infused (antibiotic) NSF-grade 0.5 micron filtered cat fountain. I spent over three years perfecting it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling

[2] https://pentairaes.com/coolworks-ice-probe-reg.html

[3] https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO871ejy0WcW85ACBSq8Ue8...
I have never heard of pet containers before. Have I been living under a rock or is this something new?
There's at least 5 that I can see from a quick glance of the wikipedia list:

* Audi RS3 (7:35.522)

* Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT (7:33.95, also an SUV)

* Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio (7:32)

* Porsche Panamera Turbo (7:29.81)

* Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé 63 S 4MATIC+ (7:25.41)

It's actually hilarious to me that you would rather double down and act like a tantruming toddler instead of taking 1 minute to read the list like I did. You're a loser clamoring to defend Tesla with any excuse possible, to the point of desperately lying.

I would also wager that if it was actually tested independently the performance would not hold up to what Tesla claims, and that the M5 below it would probably exceed it's time. We already know Tesla lied egregiously about the 0-60 time as no independent test has managed to get below 2.27s without a glued surface and drag slicks.

It's also extremely embarassing that the S Plaid cannot beat the times of the Camaro, C6, C7 and C8 corvettes, and R35 GTR. These cars all were less than $80k USD new, while an S Plaid is $148k USD.
The Perfect Voxel Engine
Which is what I gladly payed for.

Developers should be compensated for their work, just like any other professionals.
Nah, we should just keep charging people insurance rates based on their credit score because that’s more fair… and not use something that actually is more tied to driving and doesn’t arbitrarily penalize all poor people
W3C have zero power. Apple and Google have power.

Also I don't think that DOM presents any problem to security. It makes no sense to cut DOM or JS engine from your sandbox. You can use Canvas/WebGL/WebGPU to access GPU and draw anything in browser window. You can use WASM to have good speed. Tech is already there, you don't need W3C for it and DOM or JS is not really in the way. Storage, Cameras, GPS, Mulththreading, Gyros are available for web apps. Everything is already there.

Web apps miss notifications on Apple platform, home screen installation via API on Apple platform, better integration with OS on Apple platform (not sure about Android), but probably you want your password manager to be native app anyway.
This article needs a rewrite. I can't understand what's going on here:

> But if the person presses against only a cool bar, only coolness is experienced; if the person presses against only a warm bar, only warmth is experienced.

> Researchers have used the illusion to demonstrate that burning pain sensation is in fact a mixture of both cold and heat pain and that it is only the inhibition of the cold pain "channel" that reveals the heat component.

How does the point about inhibition follow from the experiment? Is the cold pain channel somehow inhibited by the grill, but still active when only touching the hot part? idgi
Should have gone for the name Ferdinand
This is a corporation with extra steps.
This mostly sounds pretty scary.

Over flatpaks and snaps, I choose Nix. I really don't want to shove everything I do into per application containers.

Actually, every single bullet point they mentioned is solved in NixOS.

Distinct packages? Check

Immutable OS with trivial and guaranteed roll back? Check

Different applications using different libraries? Check

Pipewire? Check

Different libgl support? Check

The best part is that all of these is possible with the same exact tool. It isn't a hodgepodge of different tools to accomplish different tasks.
Testing a compiler that can’t even print
Yeah, true, the problem is basically becoming

Whether an app should block a bot/user when the app store blocks the bot app?

=> Whether an app / telegram with third party extension/bot ability would be considered as similar to an app store?
=> Whether a bot built on a private application ecosystem should be considered as an independent app?
Good catch, thanks!

Remedy: Don't let fail2ban send mail, or at least remove the whois part.
That's been something I've barely seen discussed. Why are you bringing it up?
Which brings me to the question, how come Arch manages to not cause massive problems for users wiry the massive AUR that is even user maintained?

I've been using Arch for like 7 years or something now and it just works, probably because of some very hard work by the maintainers.
Is this an American thing? I remember being taught the basics of evolution in year 8 or 9 science class in a way that was impossible to misunderstand ("children resemble their parents" + "some parents more likely to survive" => small changes in distribution of traits among each child generation => specialisation to local environment over many generations).

I do have a Christian friend who believes that it was God who set the wheels of evolution in motion, but there seems to be little misunderstanding where I am (Melbourne, AU) about what Darwinism is or denial that it's a strong force at play.
I can relate in so many ways - by any measure I’ve had some success looking-in-from-outside, but deep-down I know I’m probably at 25% of my true potential. It can be maddening.

Like you, I came from nothing [0] my dream growing up was to make equivalent of $25/month. I’ve and continue to struggle with almost every vice you mentioned and more. I tried therapy, mastermind groups etc but it didn’t work.

Here is what I know for those of us who’ve somehow made the journey from nothing 1) you’ll always struggle with Survivors Quilt - you know you got lucky somehow (even if you worked your buttocks off) and you end up feeling like you’re not doing enough to the take advantage of the opportunities you’ve avail yourself. 2) you develop something close to PTSD with constant FOMO 3) you carry insecurities and some shame (trying to fit into particular status or group etc) 4) given your journey- you’re simply exhausted in so many ways 5) lack of a support system can manifest itself in so many harmful ways.

This is what has helped me - a) I don’t try to fit in or overcompensate. b) I’ve checked out of the rat race to focus on what’s important to me and my growth — mental health. c) stopped trying to be a hero or the smartest one - hired people to get things done, so I can truly become an idea machine (taking advantage of the lack of sustained focus)

I have my email on the profile if you want to reach out.

[0] - https://tinyurl.com/26zp9yb6
All three of mine felt like they were in a hot cup of coffee. The faster you put your fingers in, the more intense the sensation in my experiments
Cancelled Prime membership this year due to a range of factors:

1. Product selection declining (one good product now has 20 knock off brands with 4.5-5.0 star review scores making it impossible to determine what quality level you're buying)

2. Increase in counterfeit goods enabled by the business model

3. Increase in awareness that the firm is not acting ethically or responsibly

4. Maturation of competitors that now offer similar online retail experiences, albeit within market subsets
A bit hard, when plugins can use anything from .NET platform.
> The issue comes when your insurance provider has access to detailed data. Say there was an accident where your insurance company would normally pay. But now, they will be able to dig into data and find some clause that they will use to deny your claim and find you at fault.

Buy comp and coll coverage and they won’t deny, they’ll duke it out with the other party’s carrier to put you not at fault if reasonable evidence shows that
Is there a reason Mercedes don't qualify in youæ¹¹1r book? (regarding manufacture of chassis and engine in F1)
If the app is a website or a webapp.

I am pretty sure the pressure will be given to the host and domain register.
Sir Isaac Newton was a devout Christian theologist. Perhaps his adopted philosophy offers discipline features that aided in the production of fruit prized by the scientific community. Islamic discipline gave us fundamental mathematical systems. Nikola Tesla thought of his brain as an antennae for the universal core ("I don't know its secrets, but I know it exists"). George Carlin has a bit about how the aliens don't talk to us because of our own self-centered hubris.

Religious thought is there for a reason. Science searches for explanations for observable phenomena. If you call yourself an "atheist" and announce your belief in "nothing", then you will shut yourself off from fellow citizens (complete with their own unique knowledge) who are inheriting rehearsed traditions. I've been taught to never tell someone they're wrong. Why would you want to become someone's ideological enemy? Perhaps there are fundamental, ancient gears turning if you embrace religion. When describing my complicated views about religion to my own "simple", hard working father - I was told "Well, I just go to church because everybody is there." You must speak their language so that they sing for you. Their willingness to profess their view of the world is a beautiful, valuable thing.

An honorably discharged American marine with a missing leg told me that Islam preaches punishment, while Christianity preaches forgiveness. Both of these concepts are necessary to steer a population, and both can be issued excessively. Forgiveness can mean more intimate personal data released to the priest in a confessional booth, and punishment can mean less corrosive civil behavior overall.

I've had hail strike my car seconds after sending the sarcastic chat message "the algorithms replaced the priesthood". I've had lightning strike dozens of feet away from where I slept in the middle of the night in a parking lot mere hours after watching the clip [0] of Christof demanding his team "DO IT!".

If you want proof, you've incentivized your industry to make my car constantly connected to an LTE tower by default. In a Faraday cage protected HDD somewhere, I'm sure my file is residing along with billions of others, courtesy of Pegasus (et al). Unless you are going to say "lightning struck the same place 4 times in a row." [1]

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

[0] https://youtu.be/wcMCS_6oung?t=248

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/212586-google-data-cen...
Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as Covid-19 deaths mount
Bandwidth is the underlying carrier or tandem provider (path that a call routes down) for a portion of nearly all VOIP carrier's traffic. Google Voice & Microsoft Teams Voice & Conferencing entirely rely on Bandwidth.com for calling & texting.

In many ratecenters, your only choices are buying tandem transport for incoming calls from Onvoy, Bandwidth.com, Peerless Networks, West/Intrado/Flowroute or establishing your own physical presence to switch calls and paying the incumbent telco for connectivity.
The website experience is terrible. Search results initially surface organic results, but a millisecond later, the sponsored results are loaded, which shift the page layout.

Once you're on the page, it's hard to make out key details because of the god-awful CMS their vendors have to use. Some just end up posting giant JPG posters instead of text. Oh, and the page is swarming with 10 different alternatives to the product you are looking at.

These days I think Amazon cares more about landing fat AWS contracts than minding the store.
Yeah It’s clearly more complicated than just a textbook market.
Twitter blocks telegra.ph links for the last 3 years
I'd suggest you read about managerialism, our reigning business paradigm. Spender and Locke's "Confronting Managerialism" really opened my eyes. If you think of management's purpose as making the business better, there's a lot that doesn't make sense. But it gets clearer if you think of it as caste dedicated to both individual and class power and enrichment, who also try to keep the business on the rails enough that there's something to have power over and extract money from.

Not that all managers are bad or anything; plenty of them are people just trying to get things done. It's a structural problem.