skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"courts already decided in the US that the public has a right to access official government communications on social media." - I'd like to know more about this.

I have been bothered often when finding that city council members (and others) use facebook to put info out there, and I refuse to use fbook on most days of the year, and who knows what fbook is doing with the feed/timeline or whatever they call it so I may miss what council person posted while I get distracted by the half-truth politic meme aunt B posted..

Am wanting to find some leverage to force gov stuff to be at least cross posted to a web site, even a wordpress.com or something with an rss so I can actually get notices about whats happening rather than reading later or hearing from someone about what happened (too late to add to discussions)

So, any court case stuff, I'd love to know more about. I thought of showing politicians how to cross post, or start a petition demanding easier access to info.. but I feel those would be feeble attempts to get nothing done compared to a court thing or some new fed regulation or something.
Quite right, I was being bit lazy typing all that out.
Perhaps I am easily amused but this got a chuckle out of me. Its not the first time I have seen a lighthearted comment downvoted on HN, are they against the rules?
I'm 49; and i dunno about "ended". Its no longer required to attend a physical place to "cover a story," but I'm sure that bar is still there at every big event.
I think people are mostly concerned with what they can experience. Building on this, these systems make sure that the breach of privacy is experienced in the least amount possible. When something happens that upsets this surface, like Apple suddenly telling people that an app looked at their clipboard, suddenly privacy is cared about again.

Also, look at other things that are made invisible to the people, and when made visible, people react negatively. Treatment of animals in the various industries, treatment of workers in countries where labour is cheap, issues with waste and its environmental effects.
> The pillow stuff was fraudulent, sorry.

That's why I said they were proxies - please read what I wrote again.
Then far in the future, when your own Root CA expires, then there comes all the trouble to update all the services/devices to trust the new Root CA.

This becomes a nightmare, when the original admin in the org is gone long times ago.
Doesn't sound very practical, especially for grahical programs.
This was a great article! It provides a lot of past details that most people wouldn't know about, especially about Pavel Durov (who is an eccentric character, as seen in the posts on his channel).

I'd actually pay a monthly subscription for the value Telegram has given over the years. The pace of development is unmatched by any other platform. I know Telegram chats are not end-to-end encrypted by default. Pavel Durov has explained, and I'm sure it's somewhere on Telegram's site too, that a big reason for not doing E2EE is enabling fast search (on the server). And it shows: Telegram has the best search among chat platforms and is even better than search on social network platforms with more features like Facebook. Maybe they have ulterior motives and/or aren't technically able to provide E2EE for all chats. So far, it hasn't had widespread scandals (other than TON) like Facebook/Meta has had.

This is not to claim that Telegram doesn't have design flaws or drawbacks. But no other platform can catch up to its UX and features for at least a few more years, and that gap seems to be widening as time passes. If any platform were capable of doing so, it would've happened already.

Among Telegram's many features (if you use Telegram, check how many of these you know about):

* Phone number hidden from others? Check.

* Username that can be given to anyone or published anywhere for others to contact? Check.

* Multiple accounts on one app? Check. (the official Telegram clients allow up to three accounts)

* Fast and reliable (comparatively) message delivery? Check.

* Client applications for multiple platforms? Check.

* Messages (the default, non-E2EE ones) sync across all clients? Check.

* Send large files? Check.

* Prevent phone number enumeration by others (who randomly add numbers to their contacts list)? Check.

* Granular privacy settings? Check.

* Search messages by text, by person, by date? Check. Global search? Check.

* Use a calendar view to check activity/messages? Check.

* Edit messages after sending? Check.

* Delete messages after sending? Check.

* Message reply threads? Check.

* User mentions and quick navigation to mentions? Check.

* Scheduled messages? Check.

* Audio messages? Check. Video messages? Check.

* Voice chats (like clubhouse)? Check.

* Polls? Check.

* Chat exports? Check.

* Media editor? Check.

* Built-in video player with playback speed adjustment and fast forward/rewind? Check.

* Edit photos after sending? Check.

* Forward messages with fine control over whether it shows as a forward and whether the caption should be included? Check.

* Pin messages? Check. Multiple pinned messages? Check.

* Broadcast channels (one to many)? Check.

* Bots? Check.

* Themes and stickers? Check.

* Message folders? Check.

* Interactive emoji? Check.

* Message read receipts (by user) for small groups? Check.

* Spoiler formatting? Check.

* Reactions? Check.

P.S.: I do not work for and nor am I in any way associated with Telegram, except as an end user.
Yes, sorry, I meant they created a pressure differential by sucking out some air; that is called pulling vacuum even if you don’t remove all the matter (hard vaccum).
[One day later]

Thinking it would cover:

- how to tell potential companies you're working on problems they care about

- how to meet potential hiring managers at other companies

- how to effectively use recruiters with great leverage on your time / effort

- how the hiring / poaching cycle works

- what to look out for regarding contracts you signed at your current position

- how to think through comparing your current role vs an unknown new role

- how to effectively level up responsibility, scope, renumeration
I only interact with Twitter via Tweetbot, so I don't see any of these weird things you describe. I see ONLY the accounts I follow.
Often inside your network you are more concerned with encryption than authentication. If you "just" need encryption over the wire, wildcard cert's are useful.
Being critical of something immediately makes you into a “hater”. People have been trained to either be all in on something or to completely reject it. It’s really not allowed to be in the middle. “Pick a side”.
You can use https://github.com/joohoi/acme-dns to issue letsencrypt certificates to your internal hosts using DNS validation.

All it takes is to setup an ACME-DNS server somewhere (or just use author's public ACME-DNS server if you don't care much), and create one CNAME record in your DNS.
It isn't exactly damning evidence to refute your claim, but some beautiful people find it very hard to get dates because their looks are intimidating. For example - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10411887/Playboy-... (possibly NSFW images if you work in a convent or something).

I mean, cry me a river if you're a Playboy model who can't get a date, but it is plausible.
Wow, didn't know about this. Thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCompris
> If so, why hasn't all the journalist unions he see forming already restricted the number of journalists and increased their wages?

They tried. Unions have a hard time stopping the supply of free labor. We have a first amendment which limits their legal means to passing laws that other unions have. We also don't have the safety dangers of plumbing or electric that give laws restricting supply some legitimacy.

Unions work best when (among other factors) everyone has a feeling that they are not better than the others and can substitute for each others. Writing fails this in general because writers want to have their own voice. You want everyone to know it was you writing, and a guest writer will have a different voice and different ideas. Note that in corporate writing the above doesn't apply and so unions are more likely to have a place (but corporate writing is mostly by marketing and probably better paid and so the union doesn't really have as much to do and so there is less reason to pay those dues)
How is that similar to foss?
I've heard rumors a lot of the grouthink happens as Twitter users share lists of accounts to block and coordinate in private Google Docs.
It definitely seems way more innocuous than the conclusions being jumped to in this thread. A simple packet sniff would be an easy test in this situation, and since nobody is even claiming that data is being transmitted, it's quite a leap to assume that they're listening to everyone with nefarious intent.
The full deck is actually fairly interesting and pretty brutal throughout: https://www.blackwellscap.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/BW_...
Unless I've misread the articles about this story this is about a company using electrical stimulation to try to get people with spinal injuries to walk again. Not government using foetuses for some deeper purpose.
Testing hardware and software via safety drivers on public roads doesn’t actually prove safety in the hands of the general public. Just as FSD being released to the safest drivers first doesn’t prove safety in the hands of the general public.

The general public doesn’t use products like you might assume. For example toilet plungers have killed or seriously injured people and not because they where used as a weapon.
It doesn't fade nearly as quickly as you, in particular, would like to think. If you have good facial symmetry, straight teeth, good skin, all your hair, etc, this will continue to yield benefits literally throughout life, assuming you don't catastrophically fail to maintain it.

The same is true for athletic ability / fitness in the sense that people like to say "it will fade", but the reality is that it provides a ton of benefits well into the 60s barring catastrophic injury.
It’s an unfortunate compromise with code formatters. As someone who takes code formatting really serious and puts a lot of manual thought into code formatting, code formatters almost always make my code worse, in my opinion, or at best unchanged outside of small errors like double spaces, etc. But it creates a standard that it loves everyone’s code towards, which is good., and also obviously alleviates the chore of manually formatting.

I just wish sometimes they were more configurable. For example, the Elixir formatter is quite opinionated on things but is generally not configurable.
Hashicorp Vault can generate certs via a web form or REST call. Easy to set up and maintain, and it's free.
No alternative if the people you want to reach, or want to be reached by, are available only on a specific, closed platform.

It's a pick your poison type of situation I think. I personally run FOSS where I can, and compartmentalize the environment where I can't but I still want the benefits.
This has all the hallmarks of someone buying their way into good PR. This guy basically ran a crypto pump and dump and he’s now trying to buy his way into good public image over the complaints of the people he scammed.

Unfortunately some naïve journalist fell for the “crypto millionaire donates to food banks” hook and published a puff piece, at least until someone higher up noticed and pulled it.
I for one prefer to look down on the masses by choice of programming language not job title!

But in all seriousness, yes our job titles are BS to a large degree and we have the tendency to look down on other programmers for various reasons like job title, programming language, operating system and editor/IDE of choice.

What I said about the progression of skill still holds true and if I would include Architect in that list I would define him as:

* is able to set up an architecture for a system

* is able to consider all layers of the system (frontend, backend, services, deployment…)

* is able to change/update an architecture of a system if the requirements change and is capable to predict possible requirement changes in the original architecture

Honestly you can’t be an “architect” if you haven’t been an “engineer” and to become one you will have to have been a “developer”. You just can’t start at the top. What is more interesting is that not every “engineer” wants to become an “architect”. There is theoretical prestige in that title but it also takes you away from the code and I know people who have quit their jobs when their role started to become to detached from actual day to day coding.
Sometimes when you travel you find a box that is much better than the one you were in previously.
Might be a legal thing.
I might be in the minority, but I actually really like the new features of the official twitter app. I mostly use twitter as a way to keep on top of interesting things that are happening in my fields, and I find that twitter is pretty good about introducing me to relevant content I wouldn't have seen otherwise.

That said, the reordering of the feed by inferred relevance is kind of annoying when someone does a rant without using threads - often the first tweet I see is like the 4th tweet in the series
Can you explain your use-case for this?
Wow.Thank you. I have not found one of these before. Only some that asked me to log in but no one with these restrictions , even if I used Google pay in the past, many years ago, is asking me for a credit card after logging in.
Reminds me of the routine kept by maintainer of D language (Walter Bright, if I'm not mistaken). First thing he does every day is open up his laptop and review issues that he needs to solve. Then he immediately closes his laptop and goes on a run.
At a previous job, I used Smallstep Certificates[0] as a hosted CA, though for certificates to communicate with our Kafka clusters. It worked pretty well, and was relatively easy to set up.

[0] https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca
Wouldn’t not witnessing this yourself or similar be a similar kind of groupthink behavior? In an us vs them mentality.
I think this is just the current state of the job market today, though.

In order to "be successful", it requires an almost constant engagement with your curated social/online identity. And for many fields, being an attractive candidate for employment means you should have: a blog promoting your side-projects; a Twitter account engaged in networking & self-promotion; a GitHub account linked to your identity; maybe even a YouTube channel; and, of course, a highly polished LinkedIn account.

Sure, if you have 20 years of experience and plenty of industry connections, this might not apply. But for anyone else? Hustle, hustle, hustle + Promote, promote, promote. Personally, I find it pretty gross...
NPR Planet Money Episode[1] has interesting details around Phosphorous mines in Morocco,

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/581149776
I don't have kids at all and I found it a fun movie. It's not a heavy plot (there really is no villain) but so refreshing after a steady diet of superhero movies. Look at the average broadway musical and the plot is even lighter; every movie doesn't have to be Citizen Kane. The movie is a perfect embodiment of the culture (from people who are Columbian, not me), the music is very broadway but still in keeping with the country and well written and sung, and the animation is of course magical. There is no comparison with tripe such as Sing 2.

I wonder what it would be like to work on something that takes 5 years to make, the longest I have ever worked on 1.0 apps (since the 80s when I started) is 14-16 months. Just coordinating thousands of people for 5 years is mind boggling.
Actually, it’s the shareholders, who have to bear the costs of these expensive lawsuits from the parents of these irresponsible children! Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?
> Why would crypto be the missing piece to micro-monetization?

Accounting fees, laws regarding employment, the "tiny problem" of child labor...

Something I've found very interesting on reddit gaming subs is how a lot of gamers easily admit they use Bing simply because it gets them a free gamepass every month.

Could Microsoft give them an equivalent amount of money? Maybe, but the costs in red tape alone would eat a lot of what they'd get.

A gamepass paid by Microsoft rewards points achieve the same thing, without having to consider the legality of say whether compensating someone below 18 to use a search engine could constitute child labor.

Microsoft has tried to shove Bing down people throats using various strategies, but this one works! I see it as one early type of micro-monetization, and crypto as what will enable that for most companies who can't mint xbox gamepass :)
For this reason I use chrome to perform my directly work relates tasks and another browser for everything else.
No, it’s really easy to model. And all models show it as not feasible. Saying something is “hard to model” is not accurate in this situation.

It’s like saying “it’s hard to model how prepend will marry Katherine Hepburn.” It’s true, I suppose. But it’s true because that’s an impossible situation on many dimensions.

And again, it’s not about some suffering so others don’t (although I think that’s an unhealthy way of looking at it). Even if you take all money from all billionaires. Like every penny and they suffer. That doesn’t even support a simple UBI of only $13k/year. So there’s not a suffering model that works out. There’s no proposed taxation plan that would account for this.
where did you learn this?
Just asking as I don't have a treadmill myself, how would any other brand of treadmills prevent this accident from happening? They have some fail-safes that this brand doesn't have?
Fuck you. ban me then. The comment I was responding to was the same asshole.
Thank you. I have not found one of these before. Only some that asked me to log in but no one with these restrictions , even if I used Google pay in the past, many years ago, is asking me for a credit card after logging in.
I thought about submitting the PDF ( which is actually linked in the tweet ) but then the title wouldn't be descriptive and completely lacking context. The tweets and replies also have a decent summary of the issue.
In case anyone's wondering where the Socrates quote is authentic (it is), or where it came from, it's from Moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca, Letter 28: https://archive.org/details/adluciliumepistu01seneuoft/page/...
> They have got to be taking the piss.

The origin of this phrase (I am certain you know and merely detailing for others) is literally in the once-financially-viable business of collecting urine (from public houses, outdoor toilets, and even private houses) because it was a valuable source of ammonia before the invention of the (from memory, Haber-Bosch?) process for its industrial production.
> Indeed, many men self-police their hands around each other. In younger men this manifests in the ubiquitous “No homo!”

If you think men police their hands around each other, just wait 'til you see how much they police their hands around women.

(There's also the empirical pattern that men show more physical affection with one another in cultures where homosexuality is more off-limits and strictly punished. For reasons that make sense if you stop to think about them. But enough about that...)

> There’s a reason the majority of clients seeking private services from the nascent professional cuddling industry are overwhelmingly male

In like every interview with a prostitute, they say that a lot of their clients want to spend most of their time talking. And, yes, there's sex, because of course that contributes to those (ersatz?) feelings of closeness and wellbeing they're looking for. So how is this substantially different? Or different from going to a shrink? It sounds to me like these things are all more closely related than we admit. Oh, and, as we all know, most prostitutes' clients are men. Why is none of this a surprise?

> men are “more likely than women to report that they received less affection from others than they wanted.”

I'll bet rich men and old women break this pattern. Because rich men have something people want, and old women don't.

Didn't Donald Trump have a line about that? Something like, "Being rich, being famous -- it's amazing, you can do anything and they love it -- you can grab 'em by the pussy!" I forget exactly, I'm paraphrasing.

> the 30 heterosexual undergraduate males interviewed felt safer cuddling, hugging and, especially, confiding in platonic male friends than they did with their girlfriends. These “bromances” provided less judgment and increased “emotional stability, enhanced emotional disclosure, social fulfillment, and better conflict resolution, compared to the emotional lives they shared with girlfriends.”

I mean, men don't typically "cuddle" with each other, but yeah, there is male bonding, and some of it is somewhat physical, albeit gender-conjugated. And it's not surprising that men often get along better with their friends (I believe this is called "a boys' club" and "misogyny", when it happens).

Not a great comment on the state of heterosexual relationships in 2022 though, is it?

I also laugh at this line about there being more "emotional stability" with men ("that's a dog whistle!"), but, uh, yeah, not uncommonly...

> "Women have it right," I said [...]. "They find friends or sisters to talk with when things are rough"

If "men are defective women" is the only framing you can use to get this published, go ahead, do what you need to do.
This doesn't cohere into an argument, its like a loose pile of grievances and suppositions about...who, exactly?

For easier scanning I've extracted this author's ideas as to what constitutes "heresy":

- Accusations of politicians and celebrities

- Cheap pablum for frothing basement trolls and listicles of reasons never to let your kids leave the house

- Election conspiracy theories

- A new expose on why red wine and chocolate will cure Covid

- Corporate public relations expressing the deepest committment of the NFL to protect everyone and only good from here on out

Do these things sound at all similar to each other, like they would be produced by a homogenous group of people? Does it sound reasonable that these things are produced by low-paid writers in Brooklyn due to the financial pressures of middle age? As far as I can tell, the progressive unionized sports writers of Brooklyn have been more vocal than anybody against the public relations arm of the NFL, to take one example.

I wonder if the unidentified group of people this guy has a problem with - who do the "progressive cosplay" and produce "little in the way of insight or information" - are even that low paid. Journalism on the whole doesn't pay well, but some national outlets in NYC really do! Unfortunately, this article has no insight or information on the topic.
Some of the Samsung Galaxy Watch models support downloading tracks from Spotify directly to the watch for offline listening FWIW. I do it because like you I find running with a phone a bit of a pain.
Separating urine from the rest of sewage could mitigate some difficult environmental problems, but there are big obstacles to radically re-engineering one of the most basic aspects of life.

I briefly had a project called Pee on a Tree that got mocked and got no traction. This is why Earth is doomed: The simple solutions are derided while people overcomplicate things that don't have to be complicated.

Hoomans: Y'all fools deserve your fate and I shall say so in my dissertation for my degree in Human Studies when I get back to Vulcan.
I have found that the three best ways to use twitter are:
- use Tweetbot or Twitterrific
- subscribe to the feed in NewsBlur
- use nitter.net

In other words, don’t use twitter’s own website or app.