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> XMPP is an open standard -> Doesn't this apply to Signal, too?

Signal is the opposite of an open-standard, there's a single server implementation and basically three clients (Android, iOS, desktop) and they discourage people from using other clients. Best way to think about Signal is that it's just WhatsApp with some marketing on top.

Meanwhile, I can link a raspberry pi anywhere in the world to my XMPP server with a few lines of Python and some libraries.

> Some developers claim not to track users -> Same applies to Signal.

Both cannot be verified by the users, but as an admin, I can verify that my server isn't tracking users.

> Decentralized -> The first difference, and here we can write another article on why decentralization doesn't magically add any security or privacy.

It does certainly help not to have all of your eggs in a centralized basket, both in terms of privacy and reliability.

> Users can choose a username, doesn't need phone number -> Second difference, which doesn't apply to all XMPP clients as some may require your phone number

Do not know of a single XMPP client that requires a phone number - some random server out there, maybe.

> and if we assume people can choose a non-identifiable username, then we can also assume people can choose a non-identifiable phone number. User may not be identifiable -> Another vague statement without any explanation that we can just assume the same way for Signal.

You'll find most people will tell you that you need ID these days to get a SIM card. Creating a new XMPP account takes less than 5 seconds.

> Presence status shared with others (without mentioning that server admins can see this, too) -> Signal comes without this feature.

The user can disable these, personally I find them useful on my server and miss it sometimes when I use Signal.

> Only nicknames exposed in MUCs (again without mentioning what MUC admins and server admins see) -> Signal lets users decide if they want to share their phone number and username with groups.

Signal doesn't, all phone numbers of group members are visible to people within the group.
Why is that gaming the exam? What sort of professional doesn't look up the solutions to potential problems online, even if it is just to verify that you're correct? Outside of incredibly trivial things, I would expect this of everyone.
Typescript hits that sweet spot of popularity/portability/type-safety, and although ReasonML is superior in nearly any technical criteria imaginable, I still reach to TS when I'm starting new.
It's a hard problem. Many students have very low income on paper, but also have options that poor non-students don't. There's low-cost housing available only to students. There's parental money - not for all, certainly wasn't for me personally, but for many. There's student loans. It would be unfair to those poor non-students to use the same classification for students based only on their paper income. The exclusions that exist might be imperfect, but they also close loopholes that would defeat the whole purpose of ensuring availability of housing for low-income people in general.
This makes complete sense. Corporate journalists have many incentives to not publish the truth or to be stenographers for the establishment. That is why corporate media and journalists hate truth tellers and fearless journalists like Julian Assange and demand censorship on Internet platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebok with their corporate "factcheckers" in tow as muzzlers. Access journalism wants to censor all other voices.
Scammers abusing WhatsApp Bussiness accounts
Fun side fact: that's a project from Yusuke Endoh, who also happens to be the most prolific winner of the the obfuscated C contest (ioccc.org).
Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, scientists argue
>In conclusion, one can theorize that falling interest rates can be indicative of tight monetary conditions in the economy in the sense that demand for credit is falling (due to explanation one) and/or access to debt funding/financing is limited to just the largest and most creditworthy businesses (due to explanation two).2

Boomers are retiring or getting damn close. They are moving their investments to 'safe' options like bonds. In reverse the system has to match up those bonds with someone issuing a bond. This is typically cars and houses. So for a boomer to invest in a bond, someone had to have bought a house. If interest rates were high, then people wouldnt be buying houses. So interest rates must drop so that the investments can happen.

Furthermore, it's also those same boomers who are selling their large house to 'downsize' or whatever. They cant sell unless someone is buying.

The even crazier thing, the real yields on bonds are negative right now. Interest rate is 0.25% in Canada while inflation is at 4.7%.

So retirement funds are effectively losing the difference. The boomers thought they could retire because they have some nice big numbers but it's double edged. They might have a big number but it doesnt grow much at 0.25% and their costs to buy things is 4.7% higher. So in a few years many boomers who retired may find out they cant afford to be retired anymore.
On a slightly different tangent, has anyone noticed that predictive text while typing on a phone (iPhone for me) seems to be getting progressively worse? Like it predicts the most random words that have little connection to what I typed on the screen.

I don't know if all my mistakes over the years are being remembered and so the prediction algorithm is accumulating more errors and performing worse, or if something else is at play (clumsy fingers as I get older?).
> Who defines "open standard" in the first place?

Most people on here would say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Forc...
I personally don't care how large the risk is, I care that the operator pays for it instead of the neighbours. The operator can discuss the risk with actuaries and engineers that work for insurance agencies.

Germany is well described as a mixture of densely populated and even more densely populated areas, with very few large and sparse areas. (There was a minor scandal a few years ago, after an airplane crash. Each airport has some sort of designated crash site, "dear pilot, if you can't avoid crashing, try to do it there". Some airport's site was near a village, because there was nothing uninhabited nearby.)
Annotated Equations
I try to cut it down to as small a set of candidates as possible. Any reason to think a different split is better?
Build Interactive Phoenix LiveView UIs with Components
Certainly for a tintype the subjects needed to be well lit and the exposure was still long.

Perhaps this persisted as habit even after the development of colloidal photography?

Yeah, I am even now a little suspicious of the photos authenticity for this reason.
As a European the main problem that i see, is that even if we assume Natural Gas and Nuclear are both equally bad, relying on natural gas make the EU reliant on russian gas furniture. And this in turns means that we can never take a hard stance against Russia, or else the pipelines will receive less, something that is already happened this year and that made electricity cost skyrocket in countries heavily reliant on energy import, like Italy.
You don't want to put on a VR headset, head into the "metaverse" with your web3 crypto wallet, wearing your favorite NFT backed digital outfit and calmly try to phrase "buy honey wheat bread" in a VR grocery store to an AI bot that thinks you are buying honey? And then rephrase it 3 different ways without success, get frustrated and just click a couple links on your phone to order it.

This does feel similar to the dot com boom/bust cycle that happened which possibly pre-dates your work experience by a decade. There will be some interesting useful technology and companies that survive this boom/bust cycle. I don't have a crystal ball but maybe the test is if you can explain what a company does to a grandmother and she understands it then its probably okay (not withstanding competition, market cycles, etc.)

The last time I was elated with some technology was when the iPhone came out, so I could ditch the flip phone and ipod I was carrying.

I think you have achieved the ability to see through the illusions (aka bullshit) companies try to create.
There's a lot of assumptions going on here. Domesticated pigs can live up to 23 years. We'd also need to know if heart failure is a leading cause of death in pigs, if it's not then the heart could be viable long past that age. There are a lot of completely unknown factors like how a xenotransplant will fare in the host body over a long period of time. That's open ended if there are no rejection issues due to gene editing. Also, the person in the article clearly doesn't share your view on death and there are a large number of people out there that agree with him. Their chance at a longer life shouldn't be curtailed by other people's preconceptions.
https://www.armbrustusa.com/blogs/mask-review/surgical-beixi... has breathability expressed in percentage. Others not.

Buy this mask button should be green :)
Dagoba: an in-memory graph database
Yesterday a friend just sent me a great post on tuning gevent with gunicorn: https://eng.lyft.com/gevent-part-3-performance-e64303fa102b

gevent workers are best suited when your app spends a lot of time waiting on I/O (as you note), and they recommend setting `--worker-connections` to the ratio of {network IO time}/{CPU time}. If you set that too high, then it can result in higher latency for requests.
Control systems (analog) was one of the courses I did poorly in university. And of course, my first job after school was working on (digital) control systems! It turns out digital is a lot easier than analog (to me, at least).

A couple things I discovered:

- When changing setpoints for your controller it helps to slowly ramp them to prevent disturbing the system. Calculate a (end-start)/steps and apply the delta every loop cycle.

- For integral wind-up, I found it more convenient to re-calculate the integral term when hitting a control limit.
> PHP is C-like and written in C so the hate is funny to me.

You didn't realize how many people hate C? (Like any other popular language, yes)
This is great. One issue: type url requires "https://".
Should we be concerned then about nuclear weapons to be hacked too ?
Isn't it funny how (ba)sh always gets a pass and PHP is hated even though bash is a complete insanity?
When you get a bad feeling about something, it's often an indication of implicit knowledge that you might not be consciously aware of. In this case, I'd suggest your brakes might need maintenance/replacement. As the sibling post here notes, you shouldn't be working near the limit of your brakes in normal use, anyway, and so a small reduction in their ability in rain shouldn't be a problem.
More funny is how developers keep being unware that ARC is a GC algorithm implementation.

Then they tell learning CS theory is not required.
Even with "desktop mode" enabled on mobile (android chrome) I still see only one column. You can click in for more information but it is pretty useless as an interface.
You don't even have to look at inconsistency on different issues. Euro-crats are also stupid and/or evil on the issue of green energy itself. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/4/18216045/ren...
I started at 16 and I'm 34. Went from working on gaming websites to running giant ERP backends for mobile apps, web apps, and api users in high throughput environments.

All I need to get to work is VSCode and some linux VM or container. PHP has an obnoxious amount of depth. You can become an expert on just ORMs or just SSO or just Collections or just routing and still be learning something new everyday. I am actually "self tought". Whatever that means.
Is it a rule that all NFT art must be algorithmically generated and look like shit? Jesus wept.
I think it's better to not repeat too much from previous guesses. I don't think my greedy algorithm is optimal, and also there are multiple ways to define "optimal". For instance, you might optimize average number of moves, or try to lower the upper bound for all possible words.
But now you need a ton of time to type things.
Global inequality is decreasing: other countries are getting relatively richer while the West is (at least relatively, on a global level) becoming less rich.
How these people who sits always in front of computer gets social life?
As a software professional who has 9-5 job and also who works on side projects How they will get the social life. can somebody share their schedule? I don't know about western countries being at home all the time and working is healthy but in India it is bit different how other people perceive
> Wtf are you saying Willis..

Is that a metaquote or something? Mr. Belvedere doing an impression of "the children's favorite programme?"
> If a nuclear power plant seriously fails (2 accidents in 70 years) nobody and their nephew's nephew's will be able to live in that area.

People do live near Fukushima power plant. Regarding one of the nearby towns, Ōkuma: "In April 2019, parts of the town were deemed to have been successfully decontaminated, with residents allowed to return to these areas. [...] The actual population resident in the town was 2578 people". [1]

> If a dam fails at least that ground is not lost forever.

Relocating population for good is very much the case when it comes to dam _building_. [2]

Nuclear power does have pros and cons, but let's stop with fearmongering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckuma,_Fukushima

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flooded_towns_in_the_U...
I, on the other hand, am baffled b by the lack of basic engineering skills of mods ML workers at my company. Their code is unmaintainable, and they seem to lack the usual problem solving skills I look for in software engineers.

Then again, my company business model leads to terrible hires anyway.
Getting triggered would be how some reacted to The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese. I was the opposite. I was untriggered by this Matrix. I'm uninterested because I predicted (correctly it seems) that this Matrix was going to be a dull and uninteresting film.
Where do I sign up for not wanting oncoming Tesla's to take my lane? Where do the pedestrians sign up for not having a Tesla drive over their feet?
I’ve often thought that this would be a good constraint i.e instead of hiring a dev ops to migrate to a complicated AWS/k8 setup, it might be better to spend that wage on added Heroku costs to keep things simple
On the other hand, Bing got it right. I’m the sort of person that would happily see AND and OR back as search operators, but most people aren’t, and they shouldn’t have to be trained to put things in quotes just because.
There are some good people working on this within the Verifiable Credentials working group within the W3C, and the Decentralized Identity Foundation.

- https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/

- https://identity.foundation/
Gevent Performance with Gunicorn (2020)
I was on the train last week opposite a couple of American tourists ranting about how racist Denmark was, after we passed the Carlsberg entrance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Tower,_Carlsberg
> Again, a lot of guessing and assumptions what could be in a perfect XMPP world, but nobody finds nowadays.

The German police and British health service would say that their XMPP implementations are pretty secure implementations:

- https://twitter.com/inputmice/status/1203611711967813633

- https://hellopando.com/ / https://www.erlang-solutions.com/case-studies/pando-health-c...
What part of these guidelines advises against the use of derogatory speech?

I'll grant that focusing on it was not in the spirit of the HN guidelines. That's on me. However, GP's comment would have been just as unacceptable if it was distinguishing based on race, or gender, or LGBT status. I'm surprised and a bit disappointed that there's no explicit guidelines against derogatory uses of that kind of language.

Does "derogatory speech" count as "flamebait"?
Actually that is kind of the idea behind Eclipse's workspace concept.

It wasn't abandoned, rather rebuilt on top of a virtual file system.
Wow, Php almost catches up with majority of programming languages!
Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and Mediating Role of Team Identification
Awesome!

I'm having some issues on the Search Brand part (Pixel, Chrome) it's not clickable and I'm unable to scroll down past that point.

But it works great on Firefox.

Also, I don't see the Envo masks - but they aren't on Amazon. Any chance to expand beyond only what uncle Jeff sells?
There is also /usr/share/dict/words or https://github.com/dwyl/english-words which can be used.
There's also Costco which I suspect has control over its supply chain.
"Nuclear has been mostly replaced with renewables, while fossil fuel generation has been in slow decline as well."

That's another way of saying, the German Gov't have decided to shut down nuclear power, while they still run fossil fuel power plants and bringing renewables online.

Given we're in a climate emergency, we need to shut down fossil fuel power plants first, while bringing up renewables online. Nuclear shouldn't have been prioritised.
Cropping does seem like a harder problem, in the sense that there's no "clever" (high compute efficiency) solution available. The only thing that comes to mind is the brute-force approach of comparing normalized small tiles instead of whole images, which would involve exponentially more compute effort. Interestingly, the article you cite mentions rotation and skewing, which make both clever and brute-force approaches even more expensive and/or less effective. Certainly seems like a target-rich environment for research.
> the takeaway for me is that a SAT solver isn't that great a way to solve wordles.

It may not be the best way, but it seems to lead to very clean, compact and understandable code. I have no background with Z3 (or any SAT solver for that matter) but I didn't have much trouble following the author's approach.
It was one of the first freely available languages that allowed you to do image manipulation so sites like DeviantArt would use it.
> I mean, why isn't this already a thing? This isn't difficult at all. I don't buy my phone from my carrier.

There is no need to buy a phone from the mobile network in the US. People have been able to pop a SIM into a phone and call the mobile network and have them add the IMEI for many years.
It's not the time when most of your threads are idle that's the problem; it's when you've accepted a million incoming socket connections, given one connection to each thread and now you're thrashing wildly trying to get any useful work done as your clients timeout, reconnect and repeat.
Yeah it was a quote but i translated literally from Italian 1:1 and i guess it was hard to catch in English https://youtu.be/bJd1RktjYTU
Right, I think you make a lot of good points which I (for some reason) had to remind some friends who have spent money gambling for skins in games that virtual items can indeed have sustained high value appraisals from large groups of users. From a user perspective (assuming the NFT's were on a chain with reasonable tx fees), liberating one's Steam inventory would likely be a net positive depending on the player (some are susceptible to scams and would do better to remain in Valve's safer, slower system). Being able to trade skins directly for money to anyone with no third party and no corporate tax rate would be great.

The issue of course is that Valve has no reason to do this, and this is important, because a huge part of the reason in game items have dollar value is that they have aesthetic value in popular, well crafted games. Anyone who makes a quality video game will seek to monetize their in game items, not liberate them through NFTs. For this reason I am indeed saying that NFTs and their properties have to be a selling point.

This means that game developers make their money up front on the initial minting or selling of the NFTs (hoping that the real promise of a forever more decentralized market adds a premium - this should also include a promise of no future releases or algorithmic/predictable future releases), or the NFTs existed before the game and were valued enough that integrating them into a game after the fact is somehow profitable. Its certainly an interesting space (will be a lot more interesting when volume flows across cheaper chains than PoW Ethereum).
Scientists Reduce All-Solid-State Battery Resistance by Heating It
No doubt. I know nothing of the Italian system; I’m in Germany now, which seems to be not just what all the left wingers I know in the U.K. are afraid the Tories want to do to the NHS, and what all the right wingers in the USA have been complaining about when they say Obamacare is too socialist, and what the one British anarcho-capitalist I knew didn’t like about UK National insurance: there are a bunch of private healthcare providers, insurance of some sort is mandatory, the providers don’t have clear differences beyond branding, it’s not called “a tax” despite being on end of year tax forms, and rich people are allowed to do some sort of shenanigans that makes it cheaper.

But… it works.

The NHS is cheaper, but — and here I wander dangerously into opinion — I suspect that’s short-term benefits with long-term problems which will bite the U.K. in the backside rather than better overall cost-benefit decisions.
Managarm: A pragmatic microkernel-based OS with fully asynchronous I/O
It most certainly would matter for hunter gatherers. They hunt and they would be hunting the same prey as the dogs. They are feeding the dogs by giving up some of their potential prey as food whether thats by giving it to the dogs after they kill it or allowing the dogs to kill it and eat it instead of them.
Can you block devices from getting an "upgrade" which is basically a "downgrade"?
No good backend frameworks comparable to Rails/Laravel/Django in JavaScript though (and I say this as someone who works with JS backends in my day job).
> you will have to manually install Chromium updates from the same site

That sounds like a bad idea for something like a browser that should get security updates as fast as possible.
> This is good news. People are increasingly preferring to interact with (and buy from) real people on social media over large, faceless corporations.

I expect to see numerous fake personalities and influencer spawning and people will probably lose their trust in them too after a while.
But that's one of the differences between faith and knowledge, namely justification. You'd be correct to claim that it's non-arbitrary if you happen to know that this justification was how it was arrived at. Randomly arriving even at a correct belief without justification would not AFAIK constitute knowledge.
It seems my views are not simplistic enough to not warrant a snotty response from someone who knows so much better. Oh, what tortured lives we simple folk must live...
When I tried with the /usr/share/dict/words dictionary it guessed "raise" first, so I can confirm it's a great way to start the game.
Most money is created by commercial bank lending. When a loan is made, the bank simultaneously credits the borrower's account and a adds a corresponding "negative" balance on the loan.

Money and debt are created and destroyed together, much like matter and antimatter.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...
Definitly, I just cannot anything.

Worse, when one is polyglot and it will just automatically translate search results or nicely return local results (after automatic translation) when I want the original stuff I am looking for.

Then all the shitty url redirects for any kind of document returned by it for analytics.
That must have been unbelievably frustrating and helpless experience. Are all patients tested for Covid? I wonder if unvaccinated are more likely to be tested or required to be tested when admitted to a hospital than vaccinated patients. If so, the stats for hospitalizations with covid are biased and less useful. The question is to what degree.