skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram and Signal are the best we have out of CENTRALIZED solutions. Both are founded by anarchists who like end-to-end encryption and user empowerment. One accuses the other of being less secure and easily backdoored by governments… but the actual problem is — they are both centralized.

We don’t even need to resort to conspiracy theories — all Germany would have to do to ban Telegram is make Apple take it out of its app store. And it is coming close to that. Telegram’s Durov also openly said that they respect countries’ laws and censor certain people because to be kicked out of the app stores in that country is worse.

What is the decentralized alternative? It takes a lot of work and immunity from the profit motive, to build a viable alternative.

Moxie is famously skeptical of decentralization, but it is essential — not just for privacy, but more broadly — for user empowerment and control. If you want to know what the decentralized solutions look like, lease read my answer to Moxie

https://community.intercoin.org/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...
It takes about .7 MJ to refine a kg of lox, compared to 43 MJ released by a kg of kerosene. So that's not really a significant fraction.
Someone already mentioned burning oil, I'd like to also mention coal which makes oil look very clean by comparison. Coal is a few ppm uranium, arsenic, and other unpleasant metals (this is from memory, but it has lot of impurities). We burned literally billions of tons of it, putting thousands or tons of these metals into the atmosphere in the process.

Also, leaded gasoline
A bunch of the Square payments are done using a company owned iPad that sits in a Square holster
I don't know if that applies. Ideally, a good code formatting tool would work with any project. If there is a specific flag you want to disable for some block to use your own format, then the tool should support that.

As a couple of examples, PHP has had a unified formatting standard since 2013 and Elixir has a formatter built into the language. Both languages need the formatter to be enabled by your IDE/CI and that's also the case for Black.
That convention makes states (i.e. national governments) liable, but doesn't by itself make SpaceX liable. I assume SpaceX would be liable under ordinary tort law in the U.S., irrespective of the convention. At least for claims against U.S. nationals, the convention is probably mostly irrelevant; it's purpose is to act as a backstop in case compensation can't be found using normal legal procedures--e.g. courts won't otherwise hear a claim (AFAIU, the U.S. is relatively liberal in permitting foreign entities to sue in domestic courts for all manner of situations, and to do so on equal footing), or the entity is unable to pay compensation, in which cases the state signatory effectively acts as a guarantor for all the entities within its jurisdiction.
Sure, but not sure the rolling friction of bearing on plastic and bearing on bearing race would be less than the current magnet sliding on teflon.

It's also a fair bit of complexity, weight, and expense. Not sure how long bearings would last in the relatively corrosive environment of chlorinated water.
The assignment to match returns undefined. The value of match is null.
> “Luckily I am an NPR listener so that’s fine,” Smith said.

Many Seattleites would also be happy if it were stuck on KEXP.
My guess is that onshoring of manufacturing, and re-learning the lessons of always having a second source, will take about a decade to complete. We'll then start unlearning them again, like we always do, over the decades that follow.
Yeah, I mean to be specific your homeowners' insurance would pay you directly for "falling debris", but then they would go sue SpaceX to get their money back.
A complete waste of resources. Cheaper just to send more of them up there. They know what caused these to come down.
+1 for Jitsi as an underrated, high-quality, free service
ERCOT has a wholesale spot price ceiling of US$9,000/MWh.

(The NEM has a wholesale spot price ceiling of AU$15,000/MWh, US$10,732 at current exchange rates or US$10,245 in PPP terms).
Even more strongly, SpaceX launches to a ~200km orbit and has the satellites raise themselves. This way any satellites without attitude control deorbit immediately.

Also, the vast majority of SpaceX satellites will be at 350km.
Thanks for the feedback Harris, I've moved signed in with Google higher in the to-do list.

Sorry if this turned you off, if you change your mind and decide to give it a try, I'd love to hear more from you :)
telegram is way overrated. too hard to create an account, takes up too much memory, accounts do get closed for automated/arbitrary reasons. not at all like described in the article .
Do you know if the surface/line integral forms taught to those without vector-calculus under their belts an actual stepping stone to the modern ones? The number of equations are the same, they are just a lot more hairy.
other digital wallets = crypto?

Yes! WWDC should be pretty interesting this year: https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/28/comment-tim-cook-said-apple-i...
agreed and good points. this just happened to coincide with an email at my work about a drop in our ratings and it caused quite a stir.
I’ve worked remotely for years. Refuse to install these apps on my computer. If someone requires a meeting with an app-only interface, I dial in. Otherwise, I run Zoom on an iPad.
You don’t need splitting the private key. Bitcoin has multisig setup. For example, you can setup your wallet such that 6 out of 10 private keys need to sign in order to transfer funds. Spread that 10 private keys out. Or 3 out of 10. Or 2 out of 5. Any n out of m.
True generally, but irrelevant here: the function in question is RegExp.prototype.match. By definition, it never returns undefined, but only an array or null. The only way `match == undefined` could be true would be if smething had overridden RegExp.prototype.match, which would be… surprising and worthy of explicit note.

Also match[1] will never be undefined: it’ll either throw an exception, or be a string. No, this is just a bug, a poorly written guard that fails to guard what it was supposed to, and I suppose an exception is just silently swallowed and treated equivalently to the intended early return. But the clause should be changed to just `if (!match) return;` or similar.
Is it safe to just use the Zoom iOS app, since it's way more locked down?
> Telegram is hosted on Google Cloud

Source? Back when Russia was playing IP whack-a-mole, they were using at least AWS, Google and Azure.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43797176

Not that this really affects the thrust of your argument, since all 3 are US entities, but it seems unlikely that there's a single place you could tap for access to everything.
Part of the problem it could be argued is the CC card here - you want my CC number? Fine. I should have to initiate the transaction, hit "Go", not the other way around.

I can block charges, but this would be a more valid reason if it really were just about limiting "freebies".

Actually for this reason I prefer to use a small account with limited liability e.g. Paypal or a low limit CC, precisely because there's less risk for me. Why should company XYZ have unlimited power to randomly charge me tens of thousands of dollars? They shouldnt.
Hey, thank you for giving it a try and for your kind words.

If there's anything that should be improved, I'd love to hear from you!
The official history says humans started diverging from advanced monkeys only 12k years ago. The unofficial history describes a few impressive and socially advanced civilizations before that "flood" event, but all of them valued knowledge only so long as it helped with day to day tasks. So they've built some interesting structures, but weren't technologically advanced by our standards. Our generation, that started 12k years ago, is the first that values knowledge for the sake of knowledge, so we we have things like theoretical math.
9.3c/kWh is greater than my 8.8c/kWh. Your rates swing from a bit cheaper to mine to a bit pricer than mine, while mine is always the same. You would have to share your actual effective monthly cost for us to know if you truly paid less on average, as if it stays on the higher end you're paying a lot more but if it's only on the lower end then you're a good bit cheaper.

Maintaining the grid in a dense urban area is actually usually cheaper than less dense areas. More customers per mile of cable to offset the costs. Customers in urban areas usually don't impart as much load. There's more utility owned property per customer in a suburb than in a city by a good bit.

Note that it was massively unusually cold, not that it was just cold. A large part of the grid failure wasn't electrical equipment failing, it was really more of a lack of natural gas supply. There's no real long term storage for natural gas, so when you start using more than what suppliers are making you get shortfalls. Residential customers take priority, so gas companies couldn't get more gas. Gas generators were the primary expected generation capacity, but they couldn't get enough gas. Electric demand kept increasing but capacity started falling. Rolling blackouts were attempted. Sites critical to gas generation and supply were not listed as critical industrial customers so their circuits were higher priority to shed load (non-critical industrial and commercial first) leading to further gas shortages which led to further plant shutdowns which led to more circuits being shed. Those gas lines have a good bit of moisture in them. When the gas is flowing, it's not really a problem. When the producers stop because of power issues, lines freeze. Lines were unable to be unfrozen, so gas capacity really couldn't be increased to theoretical capacity even when the producers got power back on. So we had a number of plants which should have been able to operate but there literally wasn't any gas left to burn.

There were some other failures. A nuclear plant had a cooling system pipe exposed which froze. Coal plants had open piles of coal freeze solid without equipment to break up the pile and move the coal. Some wind turbines we're offlined as they were worried about icing as they don't normally need de-icing. The skies were really cloudy so solar didn't have as much output. But the vast majority of power failures were failures in natural gas supply.
Will the CFO-turned-CEO hire another CFO? Two people at the helm who essentially do math all day doesn’t sound very inspiring.
I think most people live in the present, yet if they dig deeper, realize the future is here somewhere.
Audio on Firefox on Linux does not work well for me (mics not working)

On Chromium, sometimes video/screenshare is not visible for me, only black screen.

Often there is no choice but use the app… sadly.
I think your explanation is pretty plausible, I wonder why people are downvoting it.

Like these guys probably have homes, with bedding of some sort, maybe they'd rather sleep next to their wives than some caterpillars. If I was giving somebody from a far-off place a tour of my workplace and, on the bus ride home, they suggested it was getting dark and we should camp on the sidewalk I'd probably not go for it. If they were really insistent I'd probably amplify the danger of sleeping on the sidewalk to shut them up.
Would I be able to use this to process payments at a garage sale without going through a bunch of hoops? That would be great.

I know you could theoretically use Zelle/Paypal/Venmo, but it seems much easier to just be able to accept a card payment. Plus, I wouldn't have to give strangers my email, phone number, or username, which would be needed for those payment methods.
How did you learn you're low in BH4 ?
Don’t let anyone fool you. We let a generation of progress go to complete waste because some fools wanted to run JS on the front end and backend instead of actually fixing the front end debacle that existed.

It’s a shame we didn’t make better use of our time solving the problem before the JS posers did their horrors by pretending that the solution was to take front end languages and code the backend.
There are a bunch of small companies building demonstrators right now. Even before SpaceX started Starlink, there were companies trying to do the same thing. SpaceX seems to be the most successful so far but there is still a lot of work to do to build out a network as reliable as GEO comms or something like Iridium.

There are a bunch of different kinds of services offered or soon to be offered by other companies. Some only handle small text messages at like 4800 baud (like Orbcomm) and some others are planning commercial cell towers in space (like AST). Everyone has different needs so not everyone is going to require a blistering fast, low latency, high availability link. So while I applaud SpaceX going for the gold to deliver such service, it's not for most people and is overkill for most applications required a satellite uplink.
Because they are well known platforms that plenty of media personalities have careers on. When a person sees that a podcast is hosted on www.1776GeneralLeeDidNothingWrong.com, they are going to automatically turn up their noses and walk away. Youtube and TikTok don't incur such baggage. There is a reason that conservative personalities screech everytime they are given the boot from these platforms.
Mid-late 90s radios could scan along the spectrum and stop when they found something.
No, I'm not going to "enter my email to continue." Looks an interesting article, but, no, sorry, modal sign ups that continue after a refresh lead to a page close. :/
Great to see this; once again reminds me to stay away from BS friends in insurance, etc, that talks about "tech" but smells con-artist and pretentious in general, even if you two used to grow up together

Can't trust them if they are lost in the money game
A Honda Legend has level 3 autonomous driving in Japan I wonder what their setup looks like. Every car that I've been into looking to scrape the controllers and motors out of uses a singular EPAS ECU, but none of them provide any level of automation.

What level of system redundancy do they offer on brakes?
>Capacity payments ARE a market mechanism.

Yes, I think maybe my post wasn't clear enough.

The usual justification for deregulation as in Texas, California, and other states is the supposed improved efficiency of generation assets as a result of these market mechanisms. I claim, to be fair without evidence, that the way these "efficiencies" are realized is to cut down on surplus capacity. As such, the existence of capacity fees and/or capacity markets, as they provide incentive to build surplus capacity, seem to me to be an argument against the existence of the market mechanisms at all. Simply:

1 - We need to deregulate because it will make generation more efficient.
2 - The only real way to make generation more efficient is not to have surplus capacity (this is my own claim).
3 - Market mechanisms are needed to incentivize surplus capacity, or else we wind up with blackouts.

I think that the fact that point 3 seems to follow is in fact a clear argument against point 1. Why deregulate if not for the supposed efficiencies in generation? If they're eaten up as soon as we have a separate market mechanism to incentivize surplus capacity, then the two markets don't do anything but justify one another. Just go back to vertical integration and be done with it.
Ask HN: How to Deal with VC Spam?
I run a smallish but growing, largely bootstrapped Fintech SaaS company. For whatever reason, we seem to have tripped some kind of VC attention radar and I now get 2-3 emails a day from VC analysts trying to speak with me. I generally politely decline and say I'm not raising now (truth is, I'd rather be profitable than raise VC anyway).

What should I be doing with all these emails? Is it worth replying to these folks? Are analysts even going to be in a position to help me if I did want to raise?

Thanks for any advice!
Jared Diamond tells a similar story about tree falls in the jungle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/science/jared-diamonds-gu...
It's because they orbit raise in groups of 20 (typically).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIQr1UyhwWk&t=350s
This is how my 2007 Japanese car functions and it works just fine. No extra unnecessary features added.
I don’t think this is true. Looking at this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/pMchk.jpg from UN, objects above 500km take ~25 years to decay from orbit. They reportedly start at 550km, so I wonder how they hope to achieve 3 years of deorbit without active control.
I really don't think Sputnik cost more than the entire Apollo program, nor 8x the cost of the JWST. I can only find a couple of sites saying "33.000 million" for Sputnik's cost, unsourced.
Trust isn't necessary at all when faced with a behemoth that can and will crush you without noticing or caring. "Going along to get along" has nothing to do with trust and everything to do with survival.
They do that when they're concerned about bad actors or want to prove out the API first with a controlled set of people who are willing to experience breakage

Not only must you be reviewed by the App Store, but your app will require security entitlements to act as a payment processor. And you'll have to be a registered Apple developer in good standing.

If a malicious actor went through all this trouble to grab some transactions, they'd be shutdown within hours of the scam and Apple would refund the money.

Also, who's going to trust or want to use "Bob's rando payment processor"? No merchant is going to do that.
The "free ad-supported television" offerings are actually pretty decent. It's a first-party software profit-center, so the teams making them have every incentive and capability to give them a halfway decent UX. Then on the flip side no-one actually advertises on them, so instead of ad breaks you get 2 minutes of relaxing music and nature montages every 15-ish minutes. Honestly preferable to Netflix's "go-go-go, don't-miss a beat, quick -- next episode is starting!" style.

(My experience is with Vizio's WatchFree+, but the shows are syndicated so I don't think there's much difference from one offering to the next)
The problem is that not every business is fully transparent about their business models nor we don’t know which state level actor is sometimes behind the ”accidental” data collection.
If you shut down the datacenter, then all of the folks that rely on IoT-controlled furnaces will freeze in _their_ homes!
I started my career on IRC, that was pretty good but needed a little bit of discipline and a good pastebin to work effectively.

I have used Skype for Business (formerly Lync, former-formerly Office Communicator) and that was in some ways worse than teams.

I have also used XMPP for internal communications and that was infinitely better than Skype for Business for the things you would want a chat program to be good at.

Slack is good enough, significantly better than teams but definitely what I could consider a baseline, it improves on IRC in a meaningful way in many areas and is a bit superfluous in others. (though, I suppose many people would consider the things I prefer superfluous, so, hum)

Zulip is quite exceptional, I highly recommend trying it.

I use Slack/Zoom at my current employment and it's perfectly serviceable, on MacOS, Linux and Windows.
Ask HN: How have distribution changes shaped the movie industry over time?
I was watching Airplane and one of the gags in it is that while the plane was crashing the passengers are watching a movie where the plane crashes in a fiery explosion. I think the effects of big distribution model changes (e.g. VHS & DVDs at rental places, then redbox, then just streaming) have shifted the business model of the industry, but have there been other more niche things that shape what gets produced? For instance, are there fewer movies that feature plane crashes because they won't get picked up by airlines to be shown on their planes?
Maybe we are just simulations living in a computer that is designed to calculate solutions to PDEs?
> Importing the module is not sufficient: really, the functions (or any other imported objects) themselves need to be named. (or, the function needs to be qualified with the name of the module; actually, Python seems to do a reasonable job at this)

Well, in Python you can do it well or poorly at your own discretion.

Good:

from module import fun
...
fun()

import module as m
...
m.fun()

Bad:

from module import *
...
fun()
This is great. Let me know how I can help
Will we be able to see the deorbiting satellites as shooting stars?
You've hit upon the limits of Signal and other messengers.

The version on app stores is not a closed source version. However it is a binary, and there might be questions on build reproducibility. I do not know the answer to this nor the answer to your MRENCLAVE question.

Virality is because of their philosophy - their first goal is to end mass surveillance, not provide custom software for preventing individual surveillance. The quicker everyone in the world is using E2E, not only is there less mass surveillance, contact discovery leaks zero additional information at that point.

Concerns with SGX are real - but it remains the state-of-the-art - your criticism assumes that the competitors do any better, at this point they do not. They have traditional backends or are as flawed. Signal is doing the hard work on researching solutions at this point, the others are not as close.

> Signal could generate a long enough key locally, and if you want to add another signal user, the client could send it automatically to a contact through SMS. The client on the other side could automatically read the key through SMS and add the contact. Or the user could manually send the key through any mechanism they wanted.

This is what happens when contacts verify each other through QR codes on Signal. But this mechanism does not solve your problem nor are you solving the problem Signal wanted to solve - minimizing data on servers. Even with keys, servers still has to route messages, and with your solution they'll have to maintain a user database.
I definitely don't think modern diets are better than what I imagine Native Americans ate hundreds of years ago. Venison sounds like a very healthy staple in a diet.
How Does Excessive Debt Hurt an Economy?
Some still do. Recent model Motorolas still sport FM radio functionality
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: “Acquaintance” (1979, USSR)
A lot of people say this has nothing to do with it. But for me personally, even when I started watching TV on the computer - which was always a specific Show or Movie, I would still "channel surf" the regular TV as a way to kill time. But once the digital boxes came out in the late 90s/early 00s, it would take 1-2 seconds to switch stations. Longer than I would have been on that station at all while surfing. This completely ruined it for me and I never channel surfed again.
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I mean, yes, but at the same time, album art is a pretty normal thing to have along with music. And actual cellular data is just radios, but on different wavelengths and whatnot. So it’s not really a stretch to imagine sending arbitrary data along with music over a radio wave. And some of that data is actually very useful, like the track name or artist name.
The article states that intelligent life is rare because it took earth 4 billion years(a long time) to evolve human intelligence, which doesn’t really make sense because given every planet in the universe isn’t destroyed by violent events, they all would get a chance reach 4 billion years, to me that’s a lot of tries.