skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> technological implementation of a sort of "bad faith" ethos

Indeed, that's what the parent commenter said.

What I do is look at all those historical "slippery slopes of bad
faith" that didn't survive, and ask "Why not?". What changed in
society and stopped that?

Child labour was set to explode in the industrial revolution. Kids as
young as 7 or 8 worked in factories. At the time it would have been
reasonable to extrapolate that in a few decades all children would need
to be employed in mills and mines. And we can talk about slavery, and
disenfranchisement of women, and many more things in the same way.

To take a counter-example, the proliferation of cars on the roads is
something we have not been able to stem through reason alone. I think
this sets up a sense of "technological exceptionalism" in which
theories of determinism currently dominate. In my opinion this is a
very immature (Level 1 civilisation) view of things.

But when we look at all the malevolent trajectories that were
corrected, it always begins when we name it. Naming a problem
(acknowledging it as undesirable) sets in motion the progress towards
overcoming it.

I think we are living through precisely that age with digital
technology. We are in a process of naming, qualifying and
understanding new harms. We are starting to apply the same progressive
models we have for race, gender and public health, to technology. The
course is set. It might seem time is not be on our side, but the
industrialists of today are no more powerful than those of yesterday
against the tides of society.
Seconded, actually we just got a 2 digit raise this month on our base salary, and on top of a massive hiring target for 2022.
That's not really what a shibboleth is...
You can easily block any XMPP address you want. Why are you spreading FUD like this?
I use Telegram because it is a superior product. Then I don't see the point in encrypted chats with many users, no use case for me. For work, I would use self-hosted solution like Mattermost. Then, if it is true that Signal behave like they know better VC company and block 3rd party clients, etc. Signal is centralized, but I want decentralization, not just from technological point of view. With today predatory imperialistic sanctions issued by US against whole countries, I do not want to place all my eggs in same bucket, controlled by US government and I still remember Snowden revelations.
Unfortunately people found out that they payed $20 for the sense of a great burgers, but found out that they were mediocre at best which began a new trend of making your own burgers - either from ready made components from all kinds of price/quality or even make them more or less from scratch. Though, some people insisted on keep buying overpriced burgers as they believed the ads made in the format as objective benchmarks or reviews.
Sadly I think libraries are a product of a past time
Same, this thread is filled with similar reality-disconnection.
Set an alias for `git push` for `git pish` not strictly programming though!

Along the same lines I still use a text expander shortcut for for loops!
Can you elaborate exactly where the unbounded lookahead is required? I genuinely can't see it. I also don't see why a dramatic update like this couldn't also introduce / require a 'strict' style to be considered valid.

I feel like we're talking serious edge cases here.
Why not both? - Zoidberg
The crypto for US military GPS uses the same keys worldwide, and rotated ~ weekly. That means if you capture any device which has the crypto keys, then you can spoof military GPS for the rest of the week, allowing you to do lots more damage.

Therefore, the military often doesn't even use the keys in their own devices.
He starts with saying that this is is the Q and A session that we didn't get and then rants for 25 minutes.

7 people tried to talk and were rushed/talked off topic

* you can't download the APk

* yes you can

* telegram lets you download the apk and it's on fdroid

* yeah would be nice if signal was on fdroid

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* there is wire... you should know there is wire

* moxy complained about the update problem... and he was right

* tor does this better

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* I don't want to use my phone number (rants over why he needs it)

* signal is working on it

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* E-Mail comparison isn't fair. it's survivor bias, many others failed

* signal has good cryptography and has a good usability

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* there are other third party clients that just work and it's ok

* it's not that frowned upon, but they are hard to maintain because signal is a moving target

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* clearos has signal fork called ClearSIGNAL I wonder if this will be shut down winkwink

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* signal has too much of a silicon valley vipe for me

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This wasn't the Q and A we were missing.

This talk wasn't what was promised and most talking points he had were easy enough to counter. But yeah signal clients that aren't signal would be nice. Kind of

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>If there isn't competition, then it's not market manipulation, it's just that they're the only market.
The USA, Europe, and some European countries are already filling antitrust cases against Google and others like it. It's unfair competition. And if you can't see it, then I'm sure that there's nothing I can say to dissuade you.

This isn't just like an internal company email, and I am not saying this is their personal email. Like you're trying to imply.

These companies are trying to create habits and gain trust from naive kids. Making them their future clients.
This creates a neverending circle, and the ones inside of it are so blinded, that'll always turn an eye to alternatives. In a space like this, its near impossible for other companies yo gain an edge, even if their product is better.
It forms a rather powerful emotional allegiance to them, and their products.

Our kids should never be their clients, simply by the fact that their moral compass doesn't adhere to the simplest of market rules, and common sense. They undermine capitalism, they undermine freedom. And if you can't see this, you're blind.
sorry, I'm not familiar with the terminology: in £600 - £950pd, "pd" means per day?

For what duration are these contracts usually agreed upon?
> There's no way Tesla themselves changed the badge to a 90, especially since the 90 appears to be some kind of mistake, given that they fixed the mistake years later.

There is plenty of "way". Maybe they did mean to give it as a free upgrade bug did not properly document that. Maybe the person updating the badge did not realize that it was not supposed to be unlocked. Why are you jumping to conclusions like this just to give some corporation the benefit of the doubt especially when it in no way excuses them remotely downgrading the vehicle WITH NO WARNING.
Wasn't there statistics indicating the group with the most amount of expendable money are women in their forties?
Yeah, something is regularly unexpectedly broken, and it's AWS.

Nowhere near "too often", though.
Thanks for the mention @boyter. Maybe we should write something like "Why Writing Your Own Search Engine to Index Billions of Pages is Hard". It would make interesting reading about challenges we have overcome. For us it's not being secretive as much as finding bandwidth. Getting awareness is a massive challenge too, which is why we've written a lot more content in the last two years. I'm sure you are looking for something more meaty than this: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-...
"the company embarked on a massive hiring spree, growing its number of full-time employees by 62 percent, from 48,000 at the end of 2019 to more than 77,800"

That pretty much says it all.
Too many Google engineers working on this to keep up.
Afaik browser devs are dictating the standard for many years already.

Also, the post ackshually refers to a W3C draft at https://www.w3.org/TR/css-nesting-1/
Recently Microsoft introduced the public preview of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) — a new, open-source tool that accelerates the time it takes to get started on Azure. It provides developer-friendly commands that map to essential stages in the developer workflow: code, build, deploy, monitor, and repeat.
Air pollution: cognitive decline and dementia [pdf]
> The ability to forward more than one photo at a time

This is already possible (on Android at least), and has been for a long while.

Long press on one, press "select" which allows you to select other photos, select the photos you like, and then press forward.

One issue with that is that if multiple photos are grouped together, you have to select the whole group, but you can definitely forward multiple photos in one go.
I think the situation is more subtle than the poster admits.

No, ZeroMQ and successors do not tell you about socket state. You can't detect disconnection or reconnection. But then if a TCP connection fails in some way that does not lead to disconnection (packets getting dropped, remote machine powers down), it can't possibly tell you about that either, but you still need to deal with it. So in any case, you need some sort of application-level error detection and recovery; you need heartbeats, and serial numbers in messages, and a protocol for explicitly restarting a connection and performing the initial handshake. And once you have that, explicit connection events from ZeroMQ are much less important.

Admittedly, given that this is a TCP transport, reporting reconnections would still be useful, because TCP won't ever drop messages from the interior of a sequence itself (if it delivers 15, it has delivered 1 - 14 already), so you shouldn't need the serial numbers.

And if it's really not possible to detect authentication failures, than that seems rubbish. And it seems that is indeed the case: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/3505
Right - novel idea: how about academics and post docs are paid a fair salary for their work. You could require that post docs need a position with a PI to be paid and that everyone is assessed on what they achieve not what they say they're going to achieve. Post docs can follow the PIs that interest them until they make tenure.

The only question then is around equipment, which though is not trivial is at least smaller than salaries and equipment.
I’ve been using and building Conjure[0] for 2 years, because I didn’t find the particular experience I wanted out there and wanted it to help me intentionally build and maintain behaviors conducive to life satisfaction and subjective well-being with minimal friction.

I explored a variety of things prior including Habitica, Beeminder, Forte, Everyday, Nomie (all excellent and strong in various dimensions).

Some of the use cases I had were:

- Be real time across web and mobile

- Keyboard shortcuts and a command Menu

- Automatically completing habits through rules and automation

- Have time based Habits (eg do 30 mins of reading a day)

- Habits be linked to Objectives/Goals and personal KPIs

- API and integrations with Apple Health, Zapier and others

- Variations of Habit Completions (eg Sick Days, Emergency Modes, etc)

- Different views (eg Day View, Week View)

- Dashboards and reporting

I’ve been using Conjure to build Conjure for myself these past 2 years, bootstrapped and solo.

It fits my daily needs and those of a growing community of users, but I learned in the process, different solutions work best for different people. Some people want a very simple solutions to track 2-3 habits a day, others want to track 18 things a day in a sophisticated manner.

[0] https://conjure.so
Text box and submit button you say?

http://txti.es/
The most interesting things may not be fully describable in mathematically rigorous terms; that doesn’t mean they don’t exist or don’t have structure.

For example, nutrition is a very complex thing to design proper studies for, and there is nothing like perfectly controlling for all variables. Yet, this situation does not change the basic fact that our diet affects our health.

There’s phenomena that’s beyond our math, science, and logic.
It is really frustrating that there isn't money in it. People pay millions for tits on the internet and these projects have to scrap by. In this instance it really seems like they have an awesome location with a lot of machines, far beyond the common workshop. Really hope they can find some assistance. This is where a state or city could invest too in my opinion.
Albeit ineffectively, because they have an INS backup.
I found plenty of my contacts moved to Signal in the last two years. I can even order in some restaurant nearby with Signal, but not having to reveal my phone number is one of the things I like from Threema.
except as a spam impedence (not prevension) requiring phone numbers is a legitimate security and privacy risk, especially for people who think it is a stable and unique identifier
My one gripe – and it's a big one – about Obsidian is that it just does not give one whit about trying to integrate with macOS. It feels like an Electron app that the developers just checked the "macOS" checkbox on; like I'm stepping into the captain's chair of a capable but ugly tugboat when I Cmd-Tab over. (Which is a shame, because it is a capable boat.)

Basic hotkeys are modal, somehow (Open Help from sidebar. Try to use Cmd-W to close). No interface tabbing support (this app is likely an a11y fire). No proxy icons. The menu bar is supremely basic – and they don't capitalize their own app's name ("About obsidian"). The command palette calls Finder the "system explorer." Somehow no print support, anywhere. Custom context menus abound.

Best one: close the main Obsidian window on macOS and try to figure out how to reopen it. (Reopening the app is one... there's one other way!)
I read about the same thing affecting flights at Heathrow.
Bubbles are usually caused because people think to sell to a greater fool down the road and at some point there are not enough fools to sustain the upward price momentum. At some point all the fools want to be out and the price collapses.
Crypto going from a 3 trillion market cap to 1 Trillion in the space of a few weeks is a great example of that.

Technology stocks are mostly different with the exception of some startups that are valued based on user growth instead of revenue growth. Users are not customers though, and customers are the only real sustainable source of finance.

There are a lot of technology firms now that are financed by their customers so even if there is a full stock market meltdown in tech stocks, you shouldn't be afraid of unemployment but salaries will adjust to the reduced competition from VC-funded startups.
Is there a reliable way to import OneNote notes into one of these markdown-ish apps like Obsidian or Logseq?

[I found one OneNote -> Obsidian script a few years ago but it was very buggy.]
May God have mercy on this comment section. An interesting and important topic, but one that HN historically has a lot of trouble with. Hopefully I’m wrong this time.
Hell, the non-technical end user can just leave the client at the default matrix.org homeserver if they want to have the same setup experience
> That was almost 14 years ago.

Now that's a page that can be dated by its look.
Wow, didn't know about the Kindle plugin--cool!

Obsidian has really been a life changer for me, mostly due to Anki integration, and live mode with its support of mathjax which makes everything look so neat.

I've tried Dendron before: it's really cool, but the lack of live mode and the messiness of the notes (i.e. lack of clear hierarchy makes my head spin when navigating notes, though it's a feature not a bug for certain usecases) makes it so unappealing to me. But then again, I used it as a solely note taking app, as opposed to knowledge manager.
Recently found Outline. Looks very promising as well.
Thank you for adding your view. No major changes in policy around this, then?
I guess, if you want to write slowest CSS file on the planet by cramming together three pages of selectors before you open a bracket ... be my guest.
I was a PGP enthusiast for some time, and advocated it to technical friends.

In the end, though, I only ever received a single PGP‐encrypted mail from a single person.

These days, I have over a dozen reliable Signal contacts, nearly all with safety numbers verified in person, and have sent to or received from them hundreds (perhaps thousands) of encrypted texts and voice messages, and dozens of encrypted audio calls. The majority of my immediate social circle doesn’t use Signal (and some have tried and rejected it), but a sizeable chunk does use it, including non‐family.

When it comes to volume and quality of E2EE communication in my daily life, I cannot call PGP anything but a failure, and I cannot call Signal anything but a success.
I don't think this is the correct view of the system.

Individual schools in Portugal (as well as where I live, and in the US) are buying books on the market, and the books are competing on it - just writing a textbook doesn't guarantee any school will buy it, it's a risk - and that's great because it means the writers have to make good books and there's a lot of choice and many different styles and price levels.

That's very different from "textbooks paid for by public money" as if the state funded its creation and thus owned the copyright while de-risking it for the authors - meaning paid their salary. EU occasionally provides funding to authors and they're explicit about the writers owning their copyright, because the point is to support their independence. So suggesting moving a work into public domain just because a public school bought it is... weird. Why books and not other education equipment, e.g. chemistry/physics/electronics sets? What about educational software?

Imagine a school bought a book you wrote about programming/whatever you do (the school where I went did that a lot with many different books from small-time authors that were used as textbooks during lessons), should it suddenly become public domain just because some of the money someone spent on it came from taxes? I think that's very broken.

Public schools aren't the only ones buying textbooks anyways. There's a very healthy market of private schools, and I know of textbooks catered specifically to them, some of them even funded by them, that are then also bought by public schools. There's also homeschooling, alternative non-public non-profit schools, etc. Sometimes people buy textbooks by themselves, e.g. adults who want to (re-)learn, parents who think the books provided by school are inadequate, children who destroyed the copy they received at school...

That textbooks are "paid for by public money" is reductio ad absurdum. The system is much more complex. However, I think that the state/EU (or US) should also fund textbooks and put them into the public domain, as long as using them isn't mandatory - that's a great idea and it never hurts to have one more option.
I started reading your list thinking I'd get an essay of how ridiculous software development would look like, only to get a list that more or less matches what a significant part of software development looks like.

I guess Poe's law strikes again.
Even that doesn't let the neighbour just bulldoze the shed when you are using it without involving the legal system.
Why not use user agent detection (and maybe have a header/footer that says "This page has been formatted for readability based on your User Agent: curl").

I'm guessing the blog is made by a static site generator, so the above is harder than it seems. I suppose one could add a reverse proxy that redirects to /raw/$PAGE when it sees "curl".
I was in high school there during this time and every day was a new tale of who ran into her before school/during lunch. Many people would check with friends in earlier lunch periods to get the word on where she was for the day so that they could pick a place for lunch on a different street.
Covid conclusively proved that online schools are for poor people who want to be stuck in perpetual poverty.

Rich people will obviously pay for in-person schooling and reap the future job prospect rewards.
Friction stir welding is still a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUyLHQxRHKo
Shopify culls Australian staff in late night email
Not sure if really life changing but in primary school I saw a senior draw a big circle with two eyes in GW BASIC and all I could think about that day was "woah.. the possibilities."

That silly thing consumed me so much I even had a dream about it that night. That time we had computer labs in which access was pretty limited and the teacher had to authorise students and small kids weren't allowed.

Didn't get to do it in school but from that moment on I bugged my parents so much to buy me a 386 that finally my dad sold his car and got me one on my birthday.

No wonder I'm still doing programming to date. And I still remember that smiley face on that ega screen(?) to this date :)
I too am salty about this, but the W3C uses IRC for discussions and have no easy forum or boards for RFCs (like TC39 with their use of GitHub for ECMAScript proposals).

Contributing to web standards is not really accessible and that contributes to this Chromium-centric world.
I am try to unify my note taking/planning in one place.

I use Google Sheets and Keep. Sheets because I can dump photos, use formulas, paste links and Keep for jotting down some quick thoughts.

Can anyone recommend something similar? I would like to move everything to the same app where I could sync with my server of choice.
Theres's alternative YouTube clients for Android (and other platforms, apart from the great cli tools mentioned) that help with the audio-only use case that the main apps upsell mechanic breaks accidentally(?) without having to totally reroute all the content.
We have tiktok now which is even worse

There is no reason to celebrate
Oh, this is just my guess why it's named .COM: I have no idea if any of it is true, and I am in no way related to the project!

I am not disagreeing on the clarity and naming, but in this case, I don't think it's a big deal at all.
I've always hated Moxie's stance on federation and alternative clients. As a result I've never promoted Signal among my friends as an alternative for WhatsApp.

I strongly believe in federation and open client ecosystems. Matrix is ideal for me but people don't seem to like it. I'm kinda hoping that signal will change now that Moxie is gone.
The @stack idea together with the named selectors would be pretty comprehensive.
Seeing this on the HN front page the day Nikon told me they did the necessary service and "repairs" on my 10+ year old D700 is purely coincidence I'm sure.
Care to share the link to it? Thanks anyway.
In its current form though I wonder if communication via be will be a step backwards, as I'm not aware yet of any way of capturing facial expressions, like a video chat would.
> Are they going round trying to convince other people to choose against decentralization in their systems?

Yes? For a while moxie would show up in every matrix topic to talk about "But matrix is federated and federation is slow moving and therefore bad". The most commonly quoted argument against decentralisation is hosted on signal.org: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Should use the article’s headline.
CDs to flexible biosensors: Researchers discover inexpensive recycling method
> What this technocratic language stated, in effect, was that anything without a price tag – including the environment, peace and unpaid domestic work – was considered to be of little value to a nation’s economy.

Why is this attributed to males? Whats up with the current meme of forcefully interpreting existing systems as "male" and proposing "female" systems as solutions to this? Its like some people got glasses on their head that divide the whole world in either male or female, regardless of whether it makes sense or not.

This is some oddball kind of sexism and i don't like it.
Not used it with Rust, but have used it with OCaml, Perl, Ruby, Tcl successfully. In managed languages it's mainly useful for detecting problems in C bindings rather than the language itself. Languages where it doesn't work well: Python and Golang.