skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it was an organization with the aim of controlling the population not extermination.

It was bad of course, and most population despised it. Many politicians (liberals) tried to abolish it, but the conservatives counter-attacked several times by restating it. It was at last abolished in 1834.
There's no rational discussion around these e-mob hate trains. It boils down to "You're either with us or against us".

I guess we're focusing on hating facebook this year.
Well there goes my plan of buying used Tesla. Rental cars are driven poorly because the drivers don’t care
If something unforeseen happens an the GNSS systems go down for whatever reason we might be set up for a terrifying few months of disruption. Coronavirus was bad enough, and most of the disruptions were voluntary to some extent.
stay calm & fork
I am an outsider who has not personally written anything in Ada/SPARK or Rust.

But I have worked at companies that transitioned (or started to transition) from C/C++ to Ada/SPARK and from C/C++ to Rust. I suspect that there are a few additional factors besides politics that prevented some C developers from taking Ada/SPARK as seriously as they seem to be taking Rust.

1) Ada and SPARK still retain a whiff of academic/military design-by-committee which prejudices a certain kind of developer. Whereas the Rust team has been open-source from the start.

2) The military projects I am familiar with started switching to Ada (and later SPARK) due to the US DoD mandate in the 90s. Of the people I know who use it, many of them started using it because their job required it. (Though to be honest many of them now love it!) Whereas Rust adoption seems to be largely driven by a hearts-and-minds initiative to convince regular developers that memory safety is a problem in C, and that they should choose Rust to solve that problem.

3) Syntax. Some C developers don't seem to consider a language a Serious Programming Language unless it uses curly braces. (Just ask a C/C++ developer about Lisp's parentheses or Python's whitespace.) Whereas the Rust team decided to hew close to the conventions used in C wherever appropriate.
certainly!
Over the last decade we have made absolutely incredible leaps in technology by any standard.

I don't think things are really that much different now compared to late 2011. At least not different enough to be considered an "absolutely incredible leap"
>Government shouldn't be run for profit, frankly it should pay for the entire connection.

Except when the service is being provided to people you don't like. (not sure if I should /s this since based on my observation this is what most people unironically want).
As far as I understand:

1. You're on a website about pets, which has FB code on it: Facebook can't link that activity to your account anymore, which means they'll have less accurate info about you that might be relevant to advertisers.

2. You see an ad on Facebook and then go to that website to make a purchase -> FB can't link that purchase to your profile and as such a) can't tell the advertiser whether their ads are effective b) can't use that data to optimize the campaign for users like you who might also be likely to buy.
Of course the protocols Pidgin bridged were only used for real-time communication, rather than for leaving messages which could be attended to (or delivered) later.
On one hand are whistleblowers to the American public against the U.S. government. On the other hand, a whistleblower to the American public and U.S. government. Not sure why one would expect them to be received similarly.
Good catch, thank you. English is not my mother tongue!
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Oh, sorry, I didn't actually mean "natural gas that comes from a magic pipe" -- I meant propane that sits in a big tank in the backyard. I know intellectually that they're different gases, probably with different numbers of carbons in the molecule, but I have the bad habit of using them interchangeably....

In the "rural" areas I spend the most time in (cape cod, not exactly rural but also with sketchy utilities) people mostly have generators running off of big (well, probably medium sized) propane tanks that I imagine may also be used for cooking / heating as well.

I'm more curious about the stability of the fuel over the long term if it isn't cycled often, where I imagine propane / NG has an advantage, but I guess if you're using it as backup to solar and wind, there's an expectation that you'll go through a couple tanks a winter regardless so stability isn't as much of an issue.
Not necessarily. Maybe the scanners have a key that only it's creators can derive from some master key. The hash could come signed and all the public verification has to do is match against a public key. You don't need a database of hashes and you don't need a centralized db of source scans. Each scan hash could even chain with a previous scan hash and you can limit the number of times a key is good for, hence limiting number of scans a device can have. Only way to fake this would be to have the master key.
Unless you count the arrests that happened after the protests, where the social media feeds were the intel which lead to the arrests...
Plenty of people get on methadone maintenance and life productive lives. This keeps them from scoring dope in the streets and fueling the drug trade. Judges have demanded people stop taking methadone and some of these people have ended up dead from an OD soon after or in jail when they were fine on methadone. Demonizing methadone programs doesn't help anything.
This is a cryptocurrency project. The opportunity for scamming is much, much bigger than that.
The obvious solution to #2 is encrypted private social networks that aggressively lock out the monitors. To continue the monitoring it'll require abolishing encryption, that's where the views in question (more freedom + less surveillence and more content monitoring) inevitably are going to end up conflicting and must always end up conflicting.
> 90% of texts are read within 3 seconds of arriving on your phone ... So yes, I do

Well that's one way to avoid the ecological fallacy!
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Bad news for you: as apps grow bigger, they become complex and difficult to maintain in every single platform or language.
Facebook earns $9bn despite whistleblower scandal
On 3, Wikipedia says the Mozarabs were the Christians that continued to live under Muslim rule for centuries, not the emigrants.

And on 5/6, at first Muslims were at first allowed to stay. Then forced to convert to Christianity by law, not societal pressure, leading to the rebellion you source. And then finally their converted ancestors were still expelled from the country.
She seems more like a lobbyist than a whistleblower.
morons.

Newsweek also can’t even spell the first word right lol
As for the network, it's as easy. It creates a hash of a retina on a single device with no further confirmation or verification.

So al this comes down to several rather simple steps:

- if the algorithm for the hash is known, generate new hashes programmatically

- if not, but the hash is simple, reverse engineer/brute force the hash, generate new hashes programmatically

- if not, generate synthetic retina images and feed them to the algorithm

--- cut off point, and a really don't think you would need anything beyond this point for a shitty cryptocoin like worldcoin ---

- if the algorithm can differentiate between flat images and "actual" retinas, for some definition of "actual", iterate through artificial eyes until they trigger the required response
I have to say that I love curly braces, but given some Ada's features I can forgive the language for the lack of it. :) But yeah, those points are fair.
Yeah I guess that wouldn’t work during takeoff and landing. But for the most common airliners (a320 to a380 and boeing equivalent): are there clouds above their cruising altitude? By day I presume you could use the sun.
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And rowing splits are per 500m, not per km.
wow, this is such a great tip. Can I use the Zoom same way?
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Hardware sales is up for the world's largest company! Yay for the consumer!
How do you ban monitoring of public posts?
This is a very common deflection tactic by corporations.

Try and discredit the leaker over the information that was leaked.

We saw it with Wikileaks and now we will see as more and more tech employees start sharing what goes on behind the curtains.
Thats something similar to what we are doing...

* Local RPI / Container connects to message queue in cloud
* Web User inputs request to Web UI (cloud)
* Local RPI / Container retrieves request via queue and access final device
* Reports status back to queue which is then reported by Web UI

Basically the local device is your router using whatever message queue you want.
Adding a small wind turbine is usually not worth it. They need a lot of wind to produce any meaningful energy output while costing a few thousand $. So unless you go really big, you'd be better off adding more solar panels.
I'm not sure about Ontario, but in many places you can be grid tied which means that you use both. While it is possible to change depending on conditions, the equipment to do that isn't very common. Solar systems are just starting to come out with single outlets that can run while the sun shines without the grid, but that is rare, most assume 100% on grid, or 100% off grid.
They just said "a lot of". There are a lot of pre-1950 planes out there flying without a 6 pack to be heard of. Good ole stick and rudder flying. No gyro instruments needed... just altimeter, airspeed, tach, fuel, and the horizon.
Here are some more...

> Abortion
> It's wrong

> Killing a child rapist
> It's okay

> Killing a child rapist twice
> It's wrong

Good on the creators to start experimenting with this, but some further work required. Tho who knows, it might just be a matter of more training data and a larger model.
> When the power in Canada fails you...

I think contextually the very next sentence gives you your answer here.
Pidgin and Gajim.
After buying a MightyOhm geiger counter kit[0], I needed something to test it with. Uranium glass ended up being one of the cheapest things you can buy that will register above the background radiation level.

[0]: https://mightyohm.com/blog/products/geiger-counter/
I'm merely clarifying HN's common opinion.

As for the whistleblower, I'm very skeptical of her — to be a tech PM against encryption, and somehow linking e2e encryption to making the platform less safe, is dubious at best. Removing misinformation and calls to violence on the Facebook platform doesn't need to include monitoring private messages.

The idea that she's been a PM at large tech companies for 15 years and doesn't understand that Facebook monitoring messages will mean China can monitor those messages is almost too suspicious to believe.
Sure, but I would categorize that as under option 2.
Maybe decentralized completely: do not talk to my kids about your BS paranoid and my kids should just see whatever kids want to see.

We dont exactly need a centralized humongous social website. Im on both sides honestly: I want facebook to subside in profit of isolated more freedom-centric micro network where we can say what we want but wont impact massively crowd thinking ?

Like that if monitoring must happen it happens in isolation, and if freedom must exist it s not on the same place as the other fucktards?
Companies make these decisions all the time. What’s remarkable about Apple is how far they were allowed to take some of the prototypes.
Phase 1: Collect eyeballs;
Phase 2: ;
Phase 3: Profit!
HN isn't one person with a single set of ideals and opinions. Its a website, with many people who's worldview ranges quite drastically. Tech, like anything else in the world, is going to have a cross section of humanity in it. You have libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, traditional GOP and Dems, European Socialists and full on communists here. You can't expect such a diverse group to have a homogenous view.
As much as some on HN like to criticize Moxie/Signal for their decisions (Intel SGX debacle), seeing these kinds of sentiments get cheered on in the media makes me really glad they exist. Same for the Tor Project, Matrix.org Foundation, EFF, etc. Can’t be easy being in their positions ever, but especially right now.
If someone is going to Congress and lobbying against end-to-end encryption of private communications, how are they an ally?
Facebook profits top $9bn amid whistleblower revelations
Now I get it, using the magnetic north is akin to the daylight saving time kerfuffle, on steroids - you basically have to account for variations even during the same flight if you fly near the poles.
Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute
How's it been? I'd still been holding out, but I've been thinking about finally moving up to Big Sur this week.
How do you define social networks? Should email mailing lists not exist either because those are absolutely social networks in a way as were BBS systems?
A hot laptop can have significant impacts on fertility in men. And in the summer you have to dissipate that heat. A heat pump is more efficient for heating, to boot.
I don’t understand why it matters what Haugen believes - whether in “no encryption” or space fairies or whatever - instead of what she proved, which is the profoundly amoral and dishonest nature of the company.
> The shareholders should ask Facebook management how they allowed their growth to be tied to the decisions of a completely unrelated third party company

That's why they are building their own VR/AR platform.
Some early jetliners had special cupola for star navigation, but it soon fell out of use because NDB, VOR, DME and other radio systems were easier and better.
> her suggestions really do not align with what the tech community wants at all.

I feel like we as a tech community should take a step back and consider whether or not we should not be the only ones that decide what should or should not be done. It is a massive country with many opposing viewpoints.

We have massive conflicts of interest and some tech companies have shown over and over that greed trumps morals in many cases. We are humans and we are not a group of enlightened arbiters that know what is best for the world.

We have done a shit job so far of managing ourselves. Sure in lots of cases we have made the world a better place but I think we need to be honest with ourselves and acknowledge that greed has crept in and supplanted that "making the world a better place" mission.
Like any social network, HN falls into polarized, sometimes unproductive, discussion with certain topics. For HN, that's frequently discussion of big tech and their antics and discussion of censorship/moderation/surveillance.

Links about the intersection of these topics, such as apple/CSAM or facebook/moderation, are most likely to have comments that devolve into polemic without much productive discussion taking place.
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In this case, government grants to individual homeowners looking to connect to the public utility makes the most sense. It's also easy to quantify since you can see how many people are interested in connecting to the grid who aren't currently. Governments can find multiple ways to source funds for those grants. Homeowners would apply for those grants and get funds for the connection. If funds aren't provided directly they are often provided as credits against property tax. The gov pays the utility directly.

I've seen it done this way for many different projects.
Whistleblower and activist are not mutually exclusive. Most are both, like Snowden was both. Reality Winner too. And whether I agree with someone views is really not relevant toward whether they are whistleblower.
That's my approach: cloud is just a dumb storage for backups, these services should not have access to the plaintext data.
> I built a great team, built the product, and unlike the current crop of whistleblowers I submitted my resignation and fostered strong relationships with my soon-to-be-ex-colleagues, because there is a lot more impact to be had through constructive engagement than in rage-quitting.

This has a bit of a holier-than-thou approach. He was in a radically-different position than some of the whistleblowers — he was an engineer working on features that would clearly appeal to FB’s user base.

A lot of the people saddled with the hard work of civic integrity & election integrity are well-paid but severely under-resourced by the company. Facebook only cares enough to put out PR fires, and not prevent real-life ones resulting from its work.
I'm just waiting for someone to create a "fresh bot" that replies automatically so issues don't get closed.
There is a certain truth to that, in that modern digital technology (from digital networks, to data centers to satellites orbiting constantly above Earth) makes it easier than ever to collect and process a lot of very detailed data about everybody and everything

But modern technology has also made it very easy to rob or kill people in large numbers and we (generally) don't do that.

Whether "privacy is dead" or not is not a technological question, it is a moral, political, economic and social structure question. Legislation that is aligned with what society wants (or should want) and is thus enforced can be very effective.

If we resign and normalize the current status quo there will be nobody to blame for the dystopia but us.
Any plans on making this free, or self-hosted?
I'd claim it's pragmatic too - but only if you have ability to charge at home AND you have an ICE car as well (maybe). Halving the cost of commute is highly pragmatic!

This applies to something like half the population right now (in the US). And we're on the path to alleviate issues for the other half of the population in the next few to several years.

The other major issue (which is probably the bigger one) is that car manufacturers other than Tesla can't seem to actually get out enough cars to do anything other than supply California and maybe NY. Teslas are expensive and have a litany of quality issues that push "regulars" away from them. Once Hyundai has an electric that has inventory nationwide at a reasonable price, then we have a revolutionary orderly transition on our hands.
I recently came across Datasette. It lets you a build a map with a simple sqlite DB. Here is an example: https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plan...
Heroin is no fucking joke. Don’t touch opioids at all if you can help it.
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We still have VOR network and other legacy systems. Some are no longer integrated into parts of the avionics but you can still plan routes and use them to fly. Plus Primary Surveillance Radar will see you anyway.
No. Surveillance is the collection of data by a third party.

Do you work for Apple's PR firm by any chance?
> So now I don't close anything anymore and let users get mad at Stale Bot instead.

I can assure you I'm personally mad at whoever set up stalebot, not the bot or the people behind the idea itself.

I have several high traffic repos, or repos that got very popular. The minute they're no longer manageable by myself, I've opened up the maintenance of the repository to more people than myself. If I stop showing up altogether in one of my repos I want it to keep breathing.

This problem is easily solvable WITHOUT stalebot for all kinds of repositories up to the hyper-popular (tens of thousands of issues), at which point, there are still better ways to triage than with a stalebot. (Early in my career I used to triage for Wine, Webkit and later Chromium. It was fun. Stalebots didn't exist and would have been a dumb idea then, still are now.)
It's good to be aware of energy consumption. It requires planning and a concern for efficiency.

These habits seem difficult to inject into popular thinking until there is economic pressure. Human populations have consumed entire forests to burn wood just to cook and to stay warm. Electricity is a superior solution, but the same primitive, wasteful habits remain.

In other words, for all the people "on the grid", the challenge is to unlearn wasteful consumer habits and conditioning. Their homes are full of devices and AC adaptors that draw power when idle. The combustion engine itself is very poor in efficiency, but the high energy density of petrol masks the cost.

People prefer not having to think about the energy cost and environmental cost. A challenge in the area of EV adoption, for example, is that people expect not to need to concern themselves with expenditure. Those who drive an EV need to be aware of the energy cost of driving (e.g. heating, cooling, tire inflation, load) and of the advantage of combining trips.

Is it all "too hard"? Well, the period of "energy luxury" has brought us to an ecological crisis.
Probably you are using C++ static methods wrong
I appreciate your comment. And I found a similar experience in my life quitting smoking: once the decision was firm, and an understanding of the barriers it was erecting between myself and my goals, my resolve was total and quitting was easy. But you're a tad flippant about AA so let me share my thoughts as I have attended it many times - not for myself, but in support of an old school friend who was drinking himself to death some 10 years after we graduated. When he told me about his struggles in recovery I offered some assistance.

The people at AA are by and large deeply broken, and trying to slowly reassemble their lives without crumbling under the weight of the knowledge - largely gained in sobriety - of the massive damage they have done to themselves and others, and returning to hide in addiction. This harm often includes the repeated abuse of their loved ones throughout their addiction, and their guilt is enormous. If they appear stuck, consider that at least they are stuck in a place where they are not drinking, which in most cases is an enormous improvement.

If you do not prefer the religious component what I would say to you depends on whether you are an addict or not. If you are an addict I would say you are in dire need of a serious dose of humility: admitting you are powerless and that you need the help of a higher being fits that requirement. If you are not an addict, you should really not attack an institution whose sole purpose is to help addicts. Just smile and nod.
> One doesn’t have to agree 100% with an ally.

Depending on how terrible the bad ideas are that they're pushing, they may not be an ally at all in fact. A multi-purpose trojan horse may be more accurate.

In this case, promoting the abolition of end to end encryption is quite heinous. She's providing the authoritarians a potent argument that isn't yet well established in the public mind (we have to be able to see all of your data so we can keep you safe from the Chinese trying to see all of your data).
This is common at any Big Tech company. There are dozens to hundreds of “prototype” projects going at any point in time, and while working on them you get paid a ton and have excellent job security, but no promise that your work will see the light of day.

It’s not a terrible deal, and it’s a great learning experience. For some, it’s a great entire career. For others the not really shipping your work part is hard and thus it’s only good for a season of life, to learn and to pile up savings. But that can set you up well for leaving and trying your own startup later.
Not sure if it’s any worse than the pre-internet days, with print media making everyone believe that there was only one single truth. Nowadays you hear a lot more diversity of opinion rather than just ISRAEL GOOD (ie, Israel maybe isn’t the good guy here and their troops maybe shouldn’t be shooting kids in the street and sexually harassing Palestinian women).
My question is what constitutes a public post? I feel like that definition is evolving. Is a WhatsApp group with 1k members spreading disinformation still a private message?