skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp has the largest user base, so most of your friends will be on it. Chats are end-to-end encrypted, but most of them are backed up unencrypted into iCloud and Gdrive. It is also owned by Facebook, which means it can access all your metadata and contacts.

Signal is also end-to-end encrypted, but suffers from a lack of users and their apps don't have a great UI. Sync is also not that great, and backups are terrible.

Telegram is the best app feature-wise (stickers, multi-device, bots, instant sync, unlimited storage) but chats are not end to end encrypted by default. Their apps are native on all platforms, and are very smooth.

Element (a matrix client) has e2ee chats, but the UI is not that great, and the number of users seem to be lower than Signal.
I see. So calling it "unstable" isn't really fair. It's more that it just flies differently enough that it would feel unfamiliar to typical 737-trained pilots.
Doing this reduces efficiency. You are potentially blocking someone for half of a day when you might just need to send a simple message back.
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Billionaires like Koch and economists fabricated libertarianism to do away with costs and pass on externalities to everyone else. It's a utopian ideology far polar opposite of Communism. What's sad is how many "smart" people fall for it because it assumes everyone plays nice and common infrastructure is cheap. It's a filter bubble warped reality that plays from an unconscious bias Upton Sinclair effect of favoring what's good for you is good for everyone or everything. I would wager every billionaire is implicitly and explicitly out-of-touch with the concerns, worries, and stresses of the homeless and working poor.

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary." - James Madison

Since jerks and clueless idiots exist in droves, government regulation is absolutely essential to police what (greedy) people can and cannot do.

Demonzing China isn't constructive and has the optics of racism. China isn't an imminent military threat to anyone outside the South China Sea and the border with India. The US is a far greater threat with hundreds of bases worldwide. China is a larger threat ecologically because of wanton water and air (including emissions) pollution through the manufacturing of domestic and export goods. China would be wise to tax carbon, regulate air/soil/water pollution, and/or cap/trade, even if it means driving nearly slave-wages carpetbagging corporations to Africa and other parts of Asia. Even if political interests prevent particular remediation solutions, China has the advantage that it can choose to deploy evidence-based solutions at scale ahead of economic interests in a self-serving, sustainment manner.
I think that you are describing the coming of Wisdom... Seeing how things in many different domains fit the same patterns. This does not have to be a negative thing. If you see something new that fits a known pattern, then look closer and see how it's different or how it modifies the pattern to fit it's unique state.
That's why pattern matching and algebraic datatypes getting popular these years. Make Illegal States Unrepresentable
Originally "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia".

This leads to something that upsets me - Amazon is now charging $180 for just one volume of the back issues.

In one of the early issues, Bill Gates complained about hobbyists copying software, and somebody responded that it was his problem to come up with a viable business model, perhaps selling software with hardware. The rest is history.
Work from home. I can't describe how much better my life is doing remote work full time.

I actually have the ability to exercise, cook wholesome meals, spend time with my girlfriend and invest the time spent travelling into hobbies / businesses /

Never again will I be in an office. It's a hard limit for me now.
AssangeDAO defrauds and censors investors into anti-censorship DAO/ NFT auction
The AssangeDAO, an organization that has raised $40 million dollars to form a DAO, which would attempt to win an auction of a NFT collaboration between Assange and artist PAK, Have announced that they would open a second round of fundraising for their $JUSTICE token. This lead to a great number of their community accusing them of fraudulent misrepresentations, that there would be only one round of fundraising for the $JUSTICE token. Additionally concerns about the concealed identities of the multisig treasury wallet as well as financial disclosures regarding amounts to be remitted to Julian Assange, and the governance of the DAO which may retain the funds, were expressed.

As a result of the criticism, the moderators of the discord channels, have resorted to censoring their own community members, and have claimed that those who bought the token looking for an investment, will have to eat whatever losses that they incurred.
San Francisco in the 1940s [video]
That's my situation, we have a very globally diverse workforce from the UK, France, North America. I can only see this happening more and more over time now. Companies no longer need to restrict hiring to the small pool who are able to physically travel to a single location everyday.
Chip able to identify asymptomatic Covid cases rapidly
I have to admit I read this as "democracy a planned commodity of the future" and promptly imagined some sort of 1984-esque (post-)dystopian universe with... an altogether depressing quantity of tropes taken directly from the present day real world :/
I think the overwhelming majority of software that's written does not need that much attention.
An experiment in following a worm through a folded letter (2021)
We actually did this a few times and it was really nice! Current living situations make it a little impractical, but we should try doing it again some time soon, that's a great idea.
It's similar except centralized, but I guess there are cryptos that are centralized?
Matrix is not bound to a phone number and has different design goal then the other three listed.

I.e. it's not like a protocol usable by system competing with discord, slack, teams etc.

If you ignore matrix in this comparison and only look at phone messaging signal wins by far.

If it's about non-phone specific messaging matrix wins by default as the other don't even really compete there.
It's worth noting that the Perceptron (at least early) was a system of circuits, not a program as we'd think of it now.

Here's a 1963 paper, "System and Circuit Designs for The Tobermory Perceptron", which includes circuit diagrams. It would be intriguing to build one, a bit like building a working Babbage machine.

https://blogs.umass.edu/brain-wars/files/2016/03/nagy-1963-t...
It’s interesting, I’m severely ADHD and I can focus much better at home. I find offices horribly distracting. I used to come to the office 1 or 2 days a week before the pandemic, and they were my least productive days by an order of magnitude.
When you've got chronic problems with your gut, it is so frustrating and difficult to try and figure out what's going on. That process alone is enough to make you feel anxious and depressed. In my own experience, I'm not sure whether I have stomach problems because I am anxious, or vice versa. I do know that symptoms of both cropped up at the same time, so in my opinion they are definitely correlated.

It's exciting to see even small breakthroughs in the research that's being done. My heart goes out to those people who are struggling with depression, anxiety, and stomach issues.
Why does this keep popping up on the dash here? I have seen it at least three times in the last few months. It is an interesting historical factoid, but there are plenty of others now more worthy of my attention.
The purpose of our life is happiness

Happiness is determined more by ones state of mind than by external events

Happiness is how we perceive our situation, how satisfied we are with what we have. Our feelings of contentment are strongly influenced by our tendency to compare.

Frame any decision we face by asking ourselves 'will it bring me happiness?' A state of happiness that remains despite lifes ups and downs and normal fluctuations of mood, as part of the very matrix of our life.

Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness

Identify and cultivate positive mental states; identify and eliminate negative mental states.
Because anything seems more futuristic when you ignore the actual logistical constraints you'd need to build it.
Of course.

So the real enemy is tribalism.
Wall Street was the real winner of the GameStop saga
When I started to WFH at the beginning of the pandemic nearly two years ago I thought that a few days/weeks would be a nice change of scenery. Now, two years later I wouldn't want to go back to the office.

I can imagine doing offsites together with my team. Or client workshops. But regularly driving a quarter hour into the office is off the table for me.

Three days a week I start with swimming between 07:30 and 08:30 am. Sitting at my desk at 09:00. The other days I start early and am able to get some hours done before the meetings are killing productivity. And this way I am able to call it a day quite early.
Zydis – Fast and lightweight x86/x86-64 disassembler and code generation library
Yeah any work done from cafes or boats wont work for me. I want a good desk, seat, 2 monitors, keyboard or I find it too frustrating to work.
I'm a little older than you, without kids, and its still a challenge to work on my projects and other things in life (relationships, fitness, etc).

I've seen a friend of mine get up earlier to do side project work while then attending to their child, and perhaps this is a conversation to have with your partner, so you can support each other (carve out some side project time) to continue with that goal too, your partner may also be wanting a bit of time for themselves as well.
Presumably related:

Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30233755 - Feb 2022 (154 comments)
I get what you're going through. The side hustle and the hope of being successful on your own is a dream, it's part of your identity and now it's impossible.

You have more choices than you think. 500k is a big run way. You could start your own business and sustain a family for a long time ( as long as you can live a low cost life style ). Alternatively you can put your dream on hold, work your day job and focus on your family. The thing that is choking you is the day job. Don't let yourself blame your family they are important and worth it.

If you pick a path some potential options will have to die. This is life. Pick one and run full steam at it. Life will come to another junction and you'll be able to make another choice. Just make sure you back your choice and run with it.

Your family can bring you so much joy and being single in your 30s is harder than you'd think. I did not enjoy it.

Maybe your day job just sucks and you could switch for another good salary?
5 years ago, maybe. Today, no.

Even 30-40 years old 2nd hand equipment is completely impossible to find now.

Equipment once sold for scrap, or simply thrown away is now sold for more that it was new.
I had a lot of similar thoughts when my son was born. Start looking for a therapist, I cannot stress this enough. Postpartum hits fathers too.

Feel free to drop me a line. My handle + that email service Google runs.
A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together (2016)
For a billion dollars, you're not getting anything latest and greatest. And you're definitely not going to get anything in the timeframe of the chip shortage.

I applaud the effort, but feel like it's just going to be people taking advantage of the money for no net benefit.
Not OP, is it the 4D Hypercube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Qh2XpoCsY

side note it is a mind f (to me) to do point rotations in graphics case, just trying to make a rotating cube in WebGL wow.
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Sad that this had to be written…

But it's sort of like button labels, e.g “Cancel” and “OK” when you want to cancel something – nobody wants to think, they just do :/
Wires also double as safety tethers for angry people who like to throw their mouse/keyboard.

Yes, I have intentionally purchased wired stuff for others with this in mind. Yes, they needed to get their shit together and they did.
People talk about The Art of Computer Programming that way. I can't personally speak for the contents though.
You fall into the trap here of having someone decide for others what is and is not valuable to learn.

Once you take this step you legitimise the idea that there is an authority with the power to censor - ostensibly for good reasons - and sooner or later that power will bend somewhere else.

It's important that children learn about everything, especially about opposing ideas because only then can they form their own opinions and develop critical thinking, and most importantly the ability to reevaluate an idea based on changing data.

To paraphrase your analogy I prefer my children to only learn about the US healthcare system, and not waste time learning about how other countries do it for better outcomes with less money.

And this is the problem with your post - who decides what is OK, and what is a waste of time?

Ps - I am upvoting you not because you are right, but because you add a valuable perspective to the conversation, and I support your willingness to bring it.
I don't remember using one ever. However, my granddad uses it every time to get out - he is 93. And user's manual says it is for easing getting in and out.
20% of the job that applies 80% of the time.
I think this is the key aspect. For people with families at home, WFH is a godsend. I have two small children and am an avid runner on my local trails. WFH has meant I can get up around 7am and go running with my dog through the countryside, to then return, have a shower and walk with my young son to his school to drop him off. I can do all that and be showered and ready to start work in my home office by 9am.

Any companies not offering remote now that instead want me to commute to an office and lose all of that personal time, are an immediate rejection.

On the other hand, young professionals who have moved into a city and our just developing their career, they want to be among peers, socializing , learning and building a network.
I'm really in love with having my own office. Given how that it is impossible these days in actually offices, the fact I can work in my own space at home is nice. If there was a chance of me having my own office somewhere else, it might be a harder choice.
Due to a series of events at the company I currently work for, I've been one of a few permanent WFH employees in an otherwise office-bound company for a few years now.

For the most part, everyone is still WFH in my company even now, though that's beginning to change. I prefer this for mostly selfish reasons. I'm no longer an outlier, someone that they need to remember to loop into meetings, or that single outlier with an odd schedule. That part has made my job easy.

What's not easy for me: I'm now seen as the expert on how to WFH efficiently. I know what works for me, but communicating that to people in wildly different living arrangements, or just different work styles is surprisingly hard.

And, it turns out I do miss meeting up with colleagues in real life. I used to travel to our different offices a few times a year and meet with colleagues. As much as I'm one of the ones that's really adapted well to WFH, turns out even I need some face-to-face time. I suspect I'm going to be a bucket of nerves and stress next time I attend a conference.
A concise forecast that reads as pure poetry, and before it, Sailing By

Followed by the National Anthem to end the day's broadcast!

It's really relaxing drifting off to sleep to the gentle tones of the forecast, but countered somewhat by the need afterwards to stand up in bed as the anthem is played.
Apple Watch and the apple health app are privacy friendly, although not very hackable.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an app to export health data in a user friendly way, but I am not familiar with one. The data sitting in apple health is enough for me personally.
Cash is already heavily monitored and most petty criminals have already moved on to Amazon gift cards. The latter is easier to track in theory but nobody bothers.

At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, I think this is part of an overarching move to slowly phase out physical cash co we could have practical negative interest rate one day. Otherwise it is not actionable as long as people could literally stockpile money under their mattress.
> I think I'd have already gone completely insane if I were still a bachelor when this pandemic WFH experiment has been thrust upon me. I go stir crazy when I'm home alone, but I'm not really a social butterfly either. Work was a good compromise.

This is the issue with all of these anti-WFH posts and threads. It was in the midst of the pandemic, where you were not strongly discouraged from leaving your home and socialising. I imagine if there was no lockdown yet everybody similarly worked-from-home, the answers would be markedly different.
shamelessly sharing my UI for viewing 4D objects (works with touch screen or mouse)

https://transdimensional.xyz/
https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2022/02/05/wordle-new-york-...

Once it makes it to the MSM, that makes it officially uncool.
Headhunters now are asking me if I'm ok with home office, like it's something bad.

My problem with home office is that I don't have a dedicated room for my "office". Also my heating costs went up, so did my power consumption. I still need to pay for car insurance and maintance :D.

I seem to work more at home. My stress level actually increased.

Also some people don't understand the concept of home office, and are now bugging me during work (my mom e.g.).
Yes, for him… 10,000 * 1.5 Solana

This buys access to TBD content.
No, that's not what I said. What I said is, if FBI wants it, it can be treated by them as terrorism, and to prove them wrong would take a lot of effort. And there's no way neither to prevent them from it, nor to punish them for getting it wrong.

And if you think matters are different in Canada with respect to how law enforcement works, or how "anti-terrorist law" works - you'll soon learn Canadian law enforcement can make one's life hell the same way FBI can.
same.
home has been the place for my side projects so having work stuff take over my real estate has been invasive.

home maintenance and electricity is also conveniently ignored by my employer (internet bills are flat so I don't mind). someone else does and pays these back in the office. staying at home longer means it gets disorganized faster, especially with work stuff thrown into it.

i had also always hated remote (micro-)management, even before the pandemic. now that's not just the norm, that's the only option. there are a lot of things that are not communicated verbally/textually. a lot of details get overlooked as we are only using documents as a guide instead of the actual stuff that is being built/developed. things look nice on paper, but the reality is full of duct tape solutions. there are also a lot of decisions that can be made better if you are at the workplace seeing the actual work.

it's also kind of insulting to do "extracurricular" work that would have been tolerable in the office. i had spent hours making "educational" presentations that had nothing to do with product we are developing, only because it had been a tradition in the workplace. when i'm doing stuff at home it's hard not to question whether it is ultimately meaningless.
Maybe depression leads to eating low-effort foods and low effort foods leads to getting this gut bacteria.
It shouldn't take long for some enterprising Europeans to create a far better, less polarising social networking site. It could even be more culturally sensitive and inclusive.
Smartcard access api was present in all browsers decades ago, then purposefully aabotaged to make way for webauthn - which still doesn't work.
Self-hosted Matrix servers still incur the risk of leaking metadata to whatever other servers it federates with (which of course isn't a problem if you don't federate, but that kind of defeats the purpose of using Matrix in the first place).

IMO that's an acceptable tradeoff for achieving decentralization without making the protocol overly complex (AIUI something like Signal's "sealed sender" system doesn't work in a decentralized environment)...but it still feels like a nagging threat that needs a proper solution eventually.
MOMMY, he TOOTS and is SILLY. Better than having the SHITS, I GUESS.
I am unfortunately not eligible for parental leave, although I used up all of my vacation days already. I have to admit my workload is not so heavy though.
I'd be more impressed if they could change the bookmark sync mechanism so it's more predictable and, you know, USABLE.
Congrats on your new family member, that's awesome.

He probably will never have any career expectations of you. He'll probably have parenting expectations of you. So if you want to optimize one of these platforms with him in mind, it'll be easier to focus your energy on the latter.

I had some tough but therapeutic discussions about this with my spouse a long time ago. At the time I was a workaholic. On top of that, I had 5% of your savings and just found out that I lost the client providing 30% of my income. I had just finished a guilt-filled workaholic spree to try to rebuild my clientele and almost wiped myself out. I had kids but no feeling of any reason to live, which I think you understand is pretty jacked up.

I eventually chose to reexamine my work life really thoroughly. My results were showing that it wasn't as important to me as I thought it should be anyway. I hired a business coach to help with that side. And I took all the risks I could with my work life, cutting down my hours and saying yes to more time with family.

Looking back now, I had suffered way too much by having zero boundaries. I think I thought that was a good thing, that I shattered through all of them like the hulk or something. But those boundaries were the line between "healthy, happy" and "good luck with that." it didn't work.

Whatever you decide, hang in there and give yourself time to think it over and plan it out. Make a strategy. You won't need to improvise. You can run tests and see results, find new ways of being and working. Take better care of yourself, look after yourself, no more martyrdom, it doesn't really help.

Any new approach you take is probably going to benefit from your thoughtful side, even just by dint of your posting and writing through it here. It will probably be better for your child as well. Take care.
> It doesn't though. If laws are not prosecuted consistently, then they are not 'applied' consistently.

Which company that breaks GDPR on the same scale as Facebook is not prosecuted though? If you make such an accusation please provide at least an example.

If you mean that the EU is using more resources to hold Facebook accountable than some two person shop: Yes. In the face of limited personal and time, you'll have to choose which to pursue first. And the EU has wisely decided that going after the big companies first gives the most bang for the buck.
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Example – Single-board computers for control robotics with the power of thought
Open source project
https://github.com/Ildaron/EEGwithRaspberryPI/tree/master/Ro...