skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure what they accomplish strategically by breaking some Iranian gas stations.

These are most likely just trial probing runs. Iranian gas stations use government networks for payments using a card issued to citizens for the subsidy. It's just a hop skip and a jump from there to critical military and other strategic infrastructure.
How do these two align?
Why would FB sending messages that are sent encrypted (not e2e) and stored on US servers allow China to read messages?
If you allege hacking then why wouldn’t they be able to hack the devices?

Re misinformation: why would misinformation not simply happen in e2e group chats like it is already happening in e.g. Brazil or India? What’s the difference between posting to a group of friends on Facebook vs sharing a group message to those friends?

I do think messages should be encrypted but the trade off isn’t as straightforward as you make it sound.
The AVR-Rust Project
https://delphi.allenai.org/?a1=Two+women+are+both+claiming+t...
why would privacy enthusiasts not use Matrix, considering it's fairly easy to self-host?
Most countries/languages use a comma as the decimal separator - it's the English-speaking world that's unusual for using a dot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...
It's almost like you are bragging about your ignorance of the drug war. Ruthless enforcement was the norm for two generations and ruined countless lives. How much more ruthless would you have us be? Asset forfeiture, mandatory minimum sentences and massive violations of privacy rights weren't enough for you?
Looking around ebay for a geiger counter and found this post, which includes some pieces of Fiesta Ware as a test source.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/170706729804
I constantly miss messages on TG, WA and Signal because I forget to check them regularly. It also really irks me that my conversations are trapped in those platforms without a public API, and I’d like to gather them together on an open platform like Matrix, and access them from every/any Matrix client i choose. Hence the use case for Element One :)
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> D-REX proposes a really clever trick to get around not having any reward labels at all, even when the demonstrator is suboptimal: Given a suboptimal policy... add variable amounts of noise to its actions. Assume that adding noise to a suboptimal policy makes it even more suboptimal... Train a ranking model to predict which of two trajectories has a higher return. The ranking model magically extrapolates to trajectories that are better

What strikes me about this is the assumption (adding noise to a policy makes it worse) goes completely against evolutionary approaches to AI (that we can look for improvements by adding noise).
This is only tangentially related to your point, but Riot uses CRDTs for their chat system.

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/chat-service-architect...
How true is this one? I'm quite curious about the other employers that look at your resume.
And you think partisan politicians and activists will make unbiased decisions with no negative unintended consequences?

Encryption is not a pro-tech position. It is a pro-privacy position and you don't need to be a tech expert to see the value in that.
One can believe that the whistleblower is correct in their identification of the problem and believe that the whistleblower is wrong about the best solution. This is not an inconsistent position.
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I distinctly remember an assignment from college where there was a 12-page limit on the report for a machine learning assignment. Some people freaked out over this - "12 pages isn't even enough for me to finish describing the problem!" And the professor's response was essentially "If that's true, then you are writing the wrong report." Brevity is the soul of wit indeed, and having these sorts of constraints can definitely yield a better result under some circumstances.
'We' work together as a community and groups of communities.

Traditionally through Classical Liberal institutions like 'Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary' with elected representatives for oversight, but more realistically also through the '4th Branch of Government' i.e. the Central Bank, the security apparatus (Military, FBI, NSA, CIA), a Free Media with integrity (believe it or not, they don't just publish whatever, there are norms and standards), the '5th Estate' i.e. people with voices outside the norm, the Academic community, Industry, NGOs, Faith Groups, Cultural Institutions. Other nations and international bodies.

You're confusing a bit the legitimate motivation for regulation, with the means by which bad actors take power (i.e. we can't use security as a measure because then Stalin will come along).

'Security' is 100% a material issue, it's not even an argument - there are bad actors trying to do bad things all day long from petty violence to terrorism to invasion etc..

What that means is we have to take special care in those scenarios, usually by means of oversight and proportionality.

For example, the police can't just go into your home, they need a warrant, signed by a judge etc.. The laws the security apparatus use have oversight by elected officials.

There are no rules for this FB issue, it's the Wild West, and because it touches on issues of censorship, security, politics and now Public Health ... it's a tough one.
I never had to use Github professionally until the last 2 years and it's horrible for anything but basic projects. Gitlab has "scoped" labels, for instance "db:mysql" or "mysql:bugfix" "mysql:performance", maybe one day Github will copy that or come up with something unique on their own but with the way github actions is going I don't see it happening.

You can see examples of scoping here.
"devops/create" etc, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-docs/-/issues
> Satoshi created bitcoin so no one would have control of the money supply

There's no such thing as the money supply. There are many currencies, each one with its own supply.
Improving the world bit by expensive bit
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Do you think that only one US political party supports this crap?

What about the patriot act?

There are tons of other examples about how this isn't a partisan issue, and getting people to think of it as partisan only helps their goal in getting it through.
Agreed. The media has always known to cherry pick instances that dont indicate a widespread problem and then run with the fear mongering to boost ratings.
Alphasmart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart

I had a Neo2 for a while. Transferring is weird but it is just a USB keyboard that types whatever is in memory making it future-proof.
> Gamedevs working on multiplayer FPSs and MMOs (which requires resolving incredibly complex state synchronizations at millisecond-scales) have done this for decades

No they haven't. Servers crash and players drop all the time, and many things otherwise don't always act as intended. But practically it doesn't matter because nobody, not the developers and not the players, cares about whether or not their FPS is byzantine fault tolerant.
They were teaching cadets at the Air Force Academy celestial navigation in the 1980s.

This guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Murchie

taught celestial navigation to navigators flying across the Atlantic in WWII.
A chest freezer in a garage or porch solves this problem and will stay safely cold for days.
Msdos edit had cut/copy/paste. The 64k limit which I presume is the base for the 40 pages was sometimes bad, but you can just open another file.

And then there is autocorrect. I am not at all a writer, but even for me the thing causes as much trouble as it solves. Tolerable on a cell phone, but a real keyboard is a much better option than mr oh-I-don't-know-that-word-here-is-red-squigly-for-you. If a real writer is forced to use it, I understand it very well if he attacks the precocious abacus with an axe.
Mars the Arrival: an ode to the slowest game in the world
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Just for fun, I have installed "Joe's Own Editor" by running "yum install joe" from Oracle's EPEL mirror.

Then I ran "joe /etc/passwd" (after exiting root) then pressed ^K-h, and Wordstar's help menu appeared.

Wordstar and the vi editor share evolution on serial terminals of the 70s (vi specifically on the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A). They were designed for a minimal number of keys, and thus keeping the hands on the home row, away from the function keys.

Some people grow very much accustomed to this.

$ rpm -qi joe
...
URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/
Summary : An easy to use, modeless text editor
Description :
Joe is a powerful, easy to use, modeless text editor.
It uses the same WordStar keybindings used in Borland's development
environment.
What wars did David Cameron start? You sure you're not thinking of Tony Blair?

Incidentally, Cameron is far from the only UK politician to have studied PPE at Oxford. An alarmingly high number of our leaders are products of that one degree program at one university [0] - which suggests that this program deserves a lot more public scrutiny than it gets, given the shoddy results it seems to produce!

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/23/ppe-oxford...
> My main point is that we are tech workers that have conflicts of interest and that we should look hard at our viewpoints and ask ourselves if they are better for us or better for everyone.

That is a trait lacking in almost everyone these days, not just tech workers.
Right to Internet Access
Especially for large solutions (in terms of .NET development) , VS Code seems much slower than Rider.
Seems rather poor strategy to tip your hand in such a big way for a probing run. With a crisis this large the Iranian authorities HAVE to respond, and could possibly plug whatever holes are being exploited.

Stuxnet worked because it was subtle. This doesn't fit that pattern at all. Granted it could be a probing-run gone wrong.
This has got to be the best rant I've seen on HN in a long time.
I think it would be foolish to assume that the US no longer cares about the Middle East just because the boots on the ground are moving out. The US conducts shadow operations across the globe to further their interests. Cyberattacks allow countries to continue to wield power without spending the physical resources that were required in the past.

I’m not sure there’s enough evidence in this case to implicate anyone, including the US, but I don’t think they can be ruled out simply on the argument you’ve presented.
Here in Sweden, roughly 50% of all small houses (ie one household) have a heat pump. Direct electricity heating is just somewhere around 15%.

In bigger houses direct electricity just isn't a thing, most have some sort of central heating, and lots have either some combustion or heat pump solution. The latter is gaining.
A lot of issues that ask for breaking backwards compatibility are usually going to be "treated in the next version". I'm glad most projects don't put out new incompatible versions every 60 days. The issue could stay here for a few years, to serve as a source of information and a reminder. Milestone: 2.0 is usually a good way to indicate that.
I believe that with screenplays there's a fairly direct correspondence between the space taken up on paper and time in the movie. So a page is generally a minute. In the article, he talks about how it "creates acts" - each act is going to be about 40 minutes.

I'm not in the field at all so I'm hoping someone knowledgeable will confirm or refute this.
(this is a slightly different discussion since I think most people who work on the Linux kernel see it as something entirely separate from the userspace. It isn't a given that the kernel must absolutely be the same language as the userspace or vice versa)

I think it might be a good idea to examine whether there is indeed such a mentality. I suspect that much of this comes down to "tradition" (whatever that is) and convenience. In particular, what it takes to set up a build environment for the tools in userspace, and to package and distribute them.

For instance, how many people care that Docker and Kubernetes is written in Go? Does it have any practical consequence for the user? Would people notice if, say, Ubuntu were to distribute a `grep` that was written in Rust? Or better yet: if unixen were to adopt a replacement for grep that can be trusted to behave in a defined manner?

As for backwards compatibility, well, that ship has kind of sailed since you can't really trust utilities to behave the same way across systems and configurations. For instance if you change locale on machines things may start to behave differently.

("Back in the day", we used to lean quite heavily on "sort", "uniq" and "grep" and a few other utilities in a system that essentially was a hilbilly, shellscript version of map-reduce, and quickly found that these do not behave identically across UNIXen - or even across the exact same version of the same distribution if someone has messed with the locale. So we wrote our own versions of all of these small utilities and made them militantly ignorant of their surroundings. If I learned something from this exercise it is that any promises of "compatibility" are highly dubious and the design of these utilities isn't always so good that one wouldn't be served better by perhaps augmenting the menagerie of utilities with ones that have properly defined, and sensible, behaviors)
Please refresh yourself on the definition of the word "opinion".
I think the article comes off to many here as anti-technology because it doesn't continue past the thesis: Apple's vast amount of unilateral control over devices and software gives it the ability to surveil the population in ways that were not possible before. It then goes on to suggest a very consumer-centric way of addressing this, through a special iPhone that's more privacy-centric.

This ignores two big things we have to address when thinking about mass data collection.

1. The ability to collect data at scale unlocks capabilities that simply weren't possible before. There are lots of positive outcomes that can come out of this. Focusing on only the negative can lead one to a sort of primitivist mindset, and it convinces no one who feels the positive effects of it.

2. Apple could very well offer a phone with no facial recognition, rock solid encryption, an easily coverable camera, and it would affect close to nothing. The entire point of mass data collection is the "mass" part of it, and as long as people observe the benefits of being tracked (i.e. using maps, social media, finding their lost things, getting notified when their heart rate is up, counting their steps, tracking their sleep, getting notifications, seamlessly backing up their contacts and photos, dictating messages, etc.) then they will continue to be able to collect mass amounts of information regardless if some individuals choose to abdicate completely.

Other people are pointing these things out in the comments because it's the natural antithesis to what the article offers.

Salome Viljoen[0] talks about this thesis/antithesis in her research on data privacy and ways to treat data from a legal perspective. She explores an alternative to the "I'll just take my data elsewhere" and "I'll just not let my data be collected at all" approaches: democratic data governance[1].

> One path forward reconceives data about people as a democratic resource. Such proposals view data not as an expression of an inner self subject to private ordering and the individual will, but as a collective resource subject to democratic ordering. Democratic data governance schemes consider the relational nature of data: information about one individual is useful (or harmful) precisely because it can be used to infer features about—and thus make decisions affecting—others.

The problem is not necessarily that Apple (or Google, or anyone else) is collecting data. The problem is that we have very little say in what data they collect, or what they do with it afterwards, because the data is captured by corporations that act as data fiefdoms without any sort of democratic control.

Unfortunately, the massive valuations of these companies are essentially based on the amount of control they have over the data they collected, because it gives them incredible abilities to extract more value out of it. Any loss of unilateral control would be seen as a threat to the value of the companies, which in America makes it very politically distasteful right now. Perhaps that can change.

0: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rH63p3sAAAAJ&hl=en
1: https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/data-as-property
Windows backward compatibility is legendary.
Do you have an extra invite by any chance?
Appsmith just clicked for me. It just feels nicer to work with appsmith than retool, for example.

I don't think it is just the capabilities of the three tools, I guess they are comparable. Retool has been around for a while, gets a ton of praise, raised a lot of money too (I don't know these info about budibase). It is just that appsmith feels nicer to work with, even though the UI is quite similar to retool.

I know appsmith's support is very very good, I have no clue about the other two.

I am sorry I am not able to give you a concrete answer, beyond the vague I like it :( I guess there might be others who think appsmith sucks and retool rocks. It is one of those things where some people like some UI and the other people hate the same. Another example is clickup, I like the tool in general (I do have complaints) and I pay for it but there are lots of people who hate it.
This kind of paranoia is how you get another insurrection.

If you're finding it difficult to ignore thoughts like that, maybe it's a sign that you need to take a break from social media.
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Why does HN purposefully not display certain comments except to the author (shadowbanning)? Where is this explained in the policy, or are we just dealing with straight up censorship? I thought this was a platform for free thought and discussion, but conversations are not allowed to happen if they are critical, even if polite and non-derogatory. Comments like, "don't trust closed source software" are purged from view. This is a disgrace.
Ah. That makes some sense. I'm curious how often this comes up.
Some people instinctively reach for "regulation" whenever they encounter a social problem. Oh, is that a problem? Easy - make it illegal. Viola, no more problem!

Except that making more rules doesn't actually remove social problems. You have to pay for judges, lawyers, courts and prisons; and the lives of rulebreakers get ruined. And the problem persists.
> Any kind of bridge has to inevitably MITM your conversations in order to work

Can't you just pass the encrypted message further without decrypting it? Of course, there needs to be the same decryption mechanism on both sides, but it doesn't make it impossible.
I normally like his stuff, but I did find relief in the one scene during the final fight where the background "music" stopped for a few seconds. That's when I realized how annoying 2 hours of continuous background pad can be.
> If someone is going to Congress and lobbying against end-to-end encryption of private communications, how are they an ally?

Because they're also lobbying for other things you care about. And those things are more likely to be passed into law than the E2E encryption pieces.

Taking a puritanical view on an issue is a high-risk high-reward gambit. Nine out of ten times, it ejects you from the room. One out of ten times, you will organize sufficiently to make it a wedge issue (e.g. the NRA on guns, NIMBYs, et cetera).
Basically the reason there are pizza ovens is because they get way hotter than a normal oven.
"But kindness doesn't scale!"
"Killing someone" vs "killing someone if it creates jobs" is another illuminating example.
Its based on Spanish history and its "The Poem of the Cid (Cantar de mio Cid)", a old preserved Castilian epic poem.
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American police would definitely have killed that dog.
> Their review workflow, for instance, is innately structured as a dehumanizing pipeline for delivering soundbites of impersonal criticism that Must Be Attended To.

If you have good relationships with your colleagues/contributors, this will be reflected in the review process.

If you have a bad relationship, the process will be painful.

I don't think this is particularly a technology problem.

GitHub also allows "comments" for points which are suggestions, rather than requirements.
> Electric heating converts practically all energy into heat

No, not even close. There are huge losses in electricity production and transmission.
Yes, in the same way that you need to trust Whatsapp not to MITM you. What's your perceived difference between these trust levels, other than one is something you pay for with money, and the other doesn't require money?
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You're not. That's not what I said. There's nothing wrong with calling someone's behavior (emphasis on "behavior") a bit dickish! We all do it.
> Also, the "is-ought" problem follows from a particular (very problematic) metaphysics.

No, it flows from propositional logic, which is not a metaphysics. You can't have an “ought” conclusion with only “is” premises.

A metaphysics may assume “ought” axioms and thus support “ought” conclusions from only “is” additional bases, but then you still aren't getting an “ought” from an “is”, you are getting it from the “ought” you assumed with your metaphysics.
Those are slower than the 10 core m1 pro.
Makes sense. I've never seen mocks that relied on this particular box.
7x is the sweet spot.
I've never read the book, and had no idea about the plot. I didn't really enjoy the movie. I'd still recommend watching it though. It was clearly done well - I just didn't personally like it. It was hard to become invested in the characters - they all seemed like they were sort of zoned out or high, if that makes any sense.
It took me a while to realize that you meant vacuum powered. :)
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This is what they should've done from the start!
Photoshop’s journey to the web
Yes. I thought the overall "feeling" of the movie was a bit like Arrival (another Villeneuve movie).
https://archive.md/MbFXo
> I don't think it's fair of you to use quotation marks when the person you are responding to didn't use that language.

Which everyone who reads it can clearly see, and understand that I saw that kind of language as a possible response to my question of "why?". I wouldn't say thats any kind of trickery on my part.

> Not is it productive to misinterpret his comment as perpetuating a tired trope and then launch into an emotional rant against something that literally nobody here is supporting.

Theres an irony to saying I "misinterpreted his comment" and then immediately doing the same to mine. It wasn't an "emotional rant", maybe a bit of a rant, but I'm not going to apologise for that. I'm not sure which tired trope I'm perpetuating.

> and the rest...

I think you're missing my point. Perhaps, to use your own words, I could even go further and saying your misinterpretting it and launching into an emotional rant.

My point isn't that people can't change their circumstances, or that self improvement is pointless. Its that so many factors govern these things that its a fantasy to believe anyone is in complete control.

You're not depressed because you just are and theres nothing more to be done, nor are you depressed because you make yourself depressed. Hence why I argued to keep asking why, if you truly believe that your depression is caused by yourself, ask why you would do that to yourself, and keep doing so until you find the true reason.
https://archive.md/G247W
No, this is not the same. You want the utmost privacy, yet you still decide to trust someone over it.