skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we have evolved best practice in secure commumication using the most rigorous scientific review methods available to math. We just need to help each other understand how we're modelling this stuff.
There are a number of artists where if you hear them on the radio at the supermarket or whatever, it sounds like boring pop background noise, but if you actually sit down and listen, you understand how special it is. Cat Stevens was like that for me.

It's become fashionable to say that the Beatles are bad (maybe you don't enjoy the music, but they were revolutionary) or to trivialize them as a boy band (they were, but even early on they were so much more). I don't particularly love them, but it's hard not to be fascinated by their fairly brief career.
> Nobody will stop you.

I mean, Apple blocked countless jailbreaks as of today. It's AFAIK also against their ToS, therefore means they legally try to make it so you don't jailbreak. Can you _really_? Sounds more like a gray area they simply cannot control, but they're definitely trying their hardest to do so...
Blockchain Could Solve the Problem of Digital Identity
I remember watching the movie “I Care A Lot” starring Rosamund Pike and Peter Dinklage. (*SPOILERS*)

In that movie as well, Rosamund’s character got old people institutionalised by making bogus reports from a doctor and sold off their property. I didn’t really like the movie but I thought it was kind of unrealistic that the government could really do such a thing (as her character explains the state can step in and essentially put a person in rehab/old age care center if they are given evidence that the person is “unstable”. Rosamund’s character played the system by manipulating the courts). I thought that part was unrealistic but I guess I was wrong.
Because Signal's design doesn't ask you to trust the server the way Wire's does, of course.
Probably it's not fully correct, but feels like the motivation behind Echo and similar is not home automation, but a feeding ad networks with the personal details about user.
My team goes back and forth between having each member doing individual stories, then getting together to quickly close big projects by scheduling all the stories in parallel.

Everyone enjoys the big parallel work, but it's really hard to set up projects to do that, and also deprioritize other items so we can focus.

We have a giant surface area though, so one stream per person is as few streams as we can manage most of the time
> I can make at home for vastly cheaper.

Spoken like a man who doesn't enjoy going out to eat.
Your comment(s) really nails my reservations about VR with my Oculus. After the Wow! factor of a sense immersion, you're in kind of a dead zone trying to think of something interesting to do just like in real life. You went from your real living room to your virtual living room. Big deal. You could play a game in either, but the screen is going to be much better back in your real living room. You don't want to watch Netflix in VR because the screen door effect sucks.

It'd be nice at least in VR if you were sitting in your virtual living room and the door bell would ring. Oh, whose that. It's a white rabbit. I should probably go with, because I'm really bored here. He's running off! I better chase him.

Something to do in VR that you can't do in real life. Something fun, exciting or an AI adventure tailored just for you based on what the AI knows about you.

> Are you your avatar, or are you puppeteering your avatar? This is a big issue in game design. If someone annoys your avatar, are they annoying you?

I read an interesting article earlier that speaks to this. Ram Dass imagines your ego as the coachman, but he's not in charge. He's the servant of you riding in the coach. Anyway, I thought that connection was interesting. In Ram Dass' view, we are puppeteering our avatar, we are not the avatar.

https://www.ramdass.org/the-ego-dichotomy-fear-love/
Not everything government-funded must be government-backdoored, that is quite the conspiracy theory for an open source application.

You can also download the APK directly from the website (not using Google's store), which will self-update, and will function also if you don't have Google Play Service on your device.

There are caveats, like if you firewalled off Google services because outright removal will mess up other apps and an alternative ROM with µG means no more (proper) camera app: in that case Signal will detect Google Play, wait indefinitely for the push message via Google, and thus not function at all. So I don't like to defend them on this front, but it's simply not true that it's impossible to use without a Google backdoor on your phone.
The biggest issue with proof of work crypto currencies is the "inefficiency" is the goal in and of itself. If someone makes a plane 10x more efficient tomorrow every airline is going to switch. If someone makes a bitcoin miner that is 10x more efficient they will need to 10x the difficulty to mine or it will become too cheap to attack the network.

Proof of work, unlikely almost anything else, is fundamentally opposed to efficiency gains.
It’s because they use FCM for sending push notifications and you need Google Play Services to use FCM. And Signal uses push notifications to know when to wake up and fetch data. Otherwise, it has to poll and do other ugly stuff which drains your battery quicker or makes the user experience much worse.

Signal’s taking a pragmatic approach that’s the best for most people, but not everybody.
E2EE messenger Wire comes from the people who created Skype and contributed to the royalty-free audio codec Opus (https://opus-codec.org/) which now enables WebRTC (used by modern conferencing apps including Zoom, Jitsi, GoToMeeting). They contributed to the IETF encrypted group-messaging protocol MLS (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/), which will live alongside TLS.

IETF MLS is one step on a long path to messenger interoperability, e.g. Matrix plans to implement MLS. Contributors to MLS include Apple, Cisco and Facebook.

Wire does not mandate disclosure of phone number or address book contacts. Their free client has been relatively stagnant for a few years as they focused on business customers, but it was so far ahead of others on usability that it's still relatively current.
> &c

People who criticize someone else for trying to show off linguistically, er I mean, live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
I'm curious whether Bitcoin and Ethereum might actually constitute "most cryptocurrencies" by USD transaction value per day. They are certainly the only non-meme ones that most people hear about.
Past discussions (ones with comments):

August 15, 2018 (69 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17766358

September 16, 2016 (4 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12509251

March 20, 2016 (46 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11323122

July 29, 2014 (92 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8103240 - As a Show HN
I stumbled across your vids a few months ago after I decided to checkout neovim & try for the full "vim as an IDE" experience. They are defiantly some of the most helpful videos I came across, great work!
People will jump through a lot of hoops to install crapware though. Facebook even has to put big red warnings in browser devtools to stop people running code from scammers that will take over their account.
> Different customers value different things. In the list of things people value in their broadband, IPv6 doesn’t even register for for the majority.

The main issue for me is that it is symptomatic of a certain culture within that ISP. If they are late with IPv6, you can expect them to also be late with other developments, like the move to consumer 10gbit connections.
Not to say it's not impossible, but isn't your hypothesis much less plausible than the alternative?
This was a technique for getting necessary goods back in the USSR. You frequently couldn't get things on demand that your workplace could so if a lightbulb went out at home you'd steal one from work.
> the technology is awful and scam ridden

The technology is perfectly legitimate and mostly not awful as long as you stick to big reputable projects such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin and others who have been on the market for a long time with a proven track record.

> In regards to censorship, trust, and any other perceived benefit of blockchain technology for applications

These are not "perceived" benefits, they are in fact benefits.

Monero represents digital, anonymous, fungible, untraceable, censorship-resistant cash, the same properties that real world cash provides. It can be transacted worldwide with extremely low transaction fees.

> those benefits rely solely on the organization that controls the application - ultimately landing users in the exact same space

Who is the organization that "controls" the "application"? As cliche as it is, "code is law".

> as if proving that some other system is flawed is proof that it's ok for their system to be a sesspool of fraud and waste

You may not like crypto, but it does have use cases that people in the real world are relying on and find useful. The crypto space indeed has many scam projects, but not every project is a scam. That's just the nature of open source software - people will copy an idea and use it for their own personal gain if it proves to be profitable.

There are so many things that are far less useful and far more wasteful than cryptocurrency. I could start taking this argument seriously if we first ban all addictive social media platforms, the whole adtech industry, gas-guzzling trucks and so on.
"Fact checkers" would be hilarious if they weren't so effective at fooling the gullible. I don't know why exactly they sprung up, I guess people eventually started to cotton on that news and internet corporations were not exactly on the up and up. So calling something news or journalism no longer cuts it. We now have another layer called "fact checking" and millions of people fell for it. Pretty soon it's going to be "really truthful Science™-based fact checking brought to you by Experts".
Orcas can work together and create waves to hunt seals on ice floes. It is fascinating, and I think proves that Orcas are extremely smart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwbNRNCxhFg
oracle cloud's free tier is equivalent to DO's $5 droplets (they also have a second free tier offering with ARM cpu's, with up to 4 vcpu/24gb memory for free(!), but it's high-demand and difficult to get a slot)
True, and also it costs more money.
Which hardening options are Apple ignoring? I would have thought the standard types of ones (debian's default) would also be set on macos/ios, eg https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/devf87a2ac8f

From what I can tell all NSO's rigmarole of making a virtual machine in the PDF parser is to work around the existing mitigations.

I guess they could also turn on asan etc in production but that's more than a few percent slowdown.
I totally agree, but how do we get people to care? Regulation seems like our best option, but politicians will not do that unless there is a big enough outcry to offset the damage it does to their fundraising by taking on big tech. The only other way is to punish Apple in the pocketbook by buying from manufacturers like Framework who have ethical practices, but that requires solving the same problem: how do we get people to care?
You would hope so, but they report to the director of national intelligence (a member of the president's cabinet) and are not a subdivision of the DOD. They infamously have their own budget, funded by their own means, and have somewhat of a rivalry with other parts of the government. The Department of National intelligence is the DOD's version of the CIA.
Seems this isn’t their first bout with rent-seekers https://cohornlaw.com/wonderbread-5-wins-trademark-dispute/
It's been legal for over a decade

https://www.macworld.com/article/206764/jailbreak_exemption....
The article is making a great point without needing to define those terms. And obviously if you have the talent for X then the harder you work at X the more likely you are at being successful doing X. That’s kinda obviously true. The point of the article is that most people refuse to acknowledge that some people are better at abstract thinking than others. And not acknowledging this leads to bad decisions when it comes to how we educate people. It is an obvious true fact that most people refuse to acknowledge. So kudos to the author for stating something that should be obviously true to most people but clearly isn’t.
Is there something false or misleading in the above comment? A few people have posted something similar. Why is it getting modded down?
> when did making profits become unethical?

It's literally a nonprofit. If they earn a profit or facilitate some other profit earning enterprise it is unethical, by definition. In a just world it would also be illegal and prosecuted.
I mean it's always a bit of a middle ground isn't it? I'm not suggesting that you should literally just sit down at a keyboard and blindly start typing - of course you want to have at least some concept of how you want to approach the problem.

My point is more that coding itself is an excellent tool for probing for solutions. In many cases I think "software design" is over valued, and time spent prototyping is often more valuable than time spent thinking though the problem if you want to arrive at a high quality answer.
I take K2 with vitamin D. Good call.
sadly, security hasn’t changed much since then
Some macOS APIs that apps use (such as Wireguard) will only work if they are distributed via the App Store and notarized by Apple.

You cannot install a working Wireguard on macOS outside of the App Store.
Easy example: You're a big company (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.) and you want to publish an app without showing it on your developer page in the app store or "related apps" on a big app.

Netflix doesn't want a cafeteria ordering app showing up next to the main Netflix app, but it doesn't actually need to be securely distributed to only Netflix employees since it still requires login.
It's true that he uses it that way, but I think Sabine claims that's not the case and her theory is actually different. Other people with similar theories call it "retrocausal".

Scott doesn't believe it's possible for them to be different though.
"of course" thank you, yes this is really very obvious. As if Signal can't see whom I'm talking to if they wanted to. Yes, their marketing material says as much (and they genuinely try to make it hard for themselves), but you're not the kind of person who swallows those blog posts without thinking of the ways you would attack it. In both cases we trust the server not to snoop on our metadata.
I'm afraid to touch anything Oracle for fear that a fleet of SUVs filled with teams of software auditors & a mobile law firm will show up on my doorstep with a $5M invoice and a lein on my house.
Yes! Let’s document:
-time away from the internet(slow thinking)
-stick shifts
-food optimized for taste and not size or look(US view here)
- so many more
What makes it more suspicious other than the lack of a domain name? Would you trusted more if it was http://righto.com/MangaGuidetoMicroprocessors.pdf instead? (using Ken's blog as an example) Or did you do an IP look up in your head that told you this IP is related to malicious activity?

What if it has HTTPS instead? Would that make it less risky for you? (From my understanding of HTTPS, it wouldn't. Maybe make it harder for other people to see that you're viewing a pdf..)
Which phone number?
General Dynamics X-62 VISTA the AI warplane
Eh. I think we're all fooling ourselves when we say we're just doing anything for ourselves. People are just hardwired to seek the respect and approval and, yes, attention, of our peers.
Thanks!

Some pretty amazing stuff in there including his comments before the four color theorem was proved
There does seem to be an incredible amount of low-hanging fruit they just aren’t catching, including a huge amount of tweets that are identical apart from which account they are coming from.

Bot Sentinel [0] can pick these up without any direct access to Twitter’s data, you would think that Twitter would be able to do it with all the extra information they have available to them.

[0] https://twitter.com/BotSentinel
There still are spies all over the place, so I don't know what's all that probative about the fact that there really were Soviet spies in the McCarthy era.
You may think of them as personal computers but most people don’t.

And all of the connotations that people associate with PCs eg. unreliability, viruses, malware, constant updates and complexity are not something that people are in a hurry to bring across to the mobile world.

Then again we can look to the market for guidance which is that side loading has in no way impacted the success of iOS devices.
I have ADHD. I can achieve more of what I want to achieve when I am on my medication. I prefer not to take it on Saturdays, as a day of rest kind of thing, but otherwise I think the treatment is quite beneficial, and think "treatment" is entirely the correct word.

The idea that there isn't such a thing as a condition causing malfunctions in mental processes, and that all such things are just differences in preferences and such that merely need to be "accepted", doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If someone gets brain damage which damages say Wernicke's area, and causing Wernicke's aphasia. It would be quite silly to say that this isn't a problem or damage which could make sense to treat.

I see no reason that this should change when the differences are more subtle and such.

Now, that being said, I do think it makes sense to basically always defer to the person's own evaluation of whether they need treatment. If someone claims they don't need or want treatment, forcing them to receive "treatment" is, uh, in almost all possible situations, very bad? (note : this doesn't mean "in almost all situations in which this actually ends up happening.". I don't know about those cases. But the danger of like, classifying political opponents as being mentally ill and as needing treatment, is such a terrible danger, that norms should forbid anything within a very large conceptual distance from it.)
I think it is about time people / orgs would start having discussion groups on their websites. I do for my company. One of the first things people learn when discovering us on social media is to take their thoughts to our website.

I know it is not really helpful at the moment but maybe for future.
Remember this? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Munition...
Do you have any tips in auto installing an OS on a server/desktop?

I'm completely missing. I have searched arpund and I have some solutions, but back in my head, some people have something else.

The part before Ansible or puppet to kick in.
The guy I mentioned seems to do it to attract views to his blog. It's on an interesting topic and is not icky/commercial and people who read it through here seem to like it, so ok, whatever. It's stuff you can already read about in books though.
Heavily speculating but it's not unreasonable that the recording process impacts the game fps. Eg if you had 2 processes trying to max out your CPU it'd be less efficient than doing them one after the other because they're fighting for resources, doing context switching (losing cache etc).
Could your account have been hacked and thus someone was spamming with your account?
> You really like the idea of a company controlling property you own after you bought it???

If I didn’t, I wouldn’t buy an iPhone. What’s the problem?
The linked article is not about self-modifying code, but self-modifying executable files on disk.
Collecting personal data like that in Europe is hard and expensive to do legally, which is one reason why page owners would rather use Facebook.
SpaceX to launch one flight a week in 2022
> nearly every geek social group of significant size has at least one member that 80% of the members hate, and the remaining 20% merely tolerate.

I used to be part of a hacker space where the leaders had spent a huge amount of time and energy to make sure the place even happened at all, after others had failed. One member wasted a huge amount of everybody's time with multi-page forum diatribes about how they could do nothing right, asking for in-depth justifications of everything, and concluding that they should relinquish control (to the writer, of course) right now for being such terrible organisers. Just checked, and that space lasted eight years. I'm sorry it failed, but it basically couldn't function with that one user being tolerated.

It's a reason I love strictly moderated online forums like Stack Overflow or Hacker News - they are fine with down-voting, flagging, banning or otherwise discouraging the shitheads. Offline communities should be willing to adopt a similar policy: we're a community about X. Feel free to participate and discuss/showcase/etc X as much as you like. If you don't like how the community operates you're free to ~~STFU~~ make your own - an even better community would benefit everyone!

As a side note, there's often a lizardman[1]/troll contingent who are willing to support the hated member, because "every voice has to be heard" or because they just seemingly love drama.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
I am not sure where you're getting the left and right divide from. If you're referring to January 6th, it scores 1/11 for justifiability.
It eventual comes to point where people have to take personal responsibility for their actions. If you have effectively informed the user of something and they still proceed its on them. Especially, at the expense of everyone else's property rights by allowing a corporation to effectively infringe upon their property rights via extralegal means.

Further, its not just doom and gloom on other systems where being able to install software from any source as you please is the default.
The problem with the Julia version is just that it collects a word to a list of characters every time it calls match-constraint. Removing that one line makes the Julia version 5x faster.

function match_constraint(word::String, constraint::Constraint)::Bool

if constraint.type == has_no

constraint.letter ∉ word

elseif constraint.type == has_but_not_at

(constraint.letter ∈ word) && (word[constraint.index] != constraint.letter)

elseif constraint.type == has_at

word[constraint.index] == constraint.letter

end

end

This is also what the rust version does.
That makes sense. Get the gamers to fund what's coming. I bought an Oculus not realizing it was mostly a gaming platform. I'm not complaining at all about games or gamers, but I didn't grow up with games so they're not part of who I am. What I am is a science fiction reader, so I have a different idea of what VR could be. I think most of know what it is, but we don't know how to get there. What Meta is building ain't it, because that's going to be very corporate friendly to sell product. The potential is there, we just have to figure it out.
Dogs and wolves do this too.
I do know that Von Neumann was privileged, with a wealthy father.

You misunderstand. I poorly use the term of "blue collar" as a mindset, and not to their socioeconomic status. It's definitely not the ideal term.

I disagree with your words on perfectionism. I believe that their work exists in spite of their neurosis.

Van Gogh, Von Neumann, Bach, The Beatles; all of these people were industrious with exceptional outputs. Van Gogh is famous for it, as he discusses his process in his letters, adopting the ethic of farmers, painting quickly & in poor weather, et cetera.

It's not relevant anyway. It was an excuse to preach. I did not intend to submit the parent and, as usual, regret it.