skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The place where everyone communicates like they're sending a job application and most of your inbox is just recruiter spam...? That place is like Facebook in '08?
There is nothing shady about the integration of MobileCoin with the Signal client.

You may not like MobileCoin (or perhaps not like cryptocurrencies in general) but to call it "shady" is inaccurate.
I think you are wrong. We'll know in 5 years.
Just about every non-c++ implementation depends on reflection or compile time introspection. Neither of which are in C++. So people endlessly reinvent the wheel.
Reminds me of a colleague who used to input "president@whitehouse.gov" into all of such mandatory fields (early 2000's). When I asked why, his response was: "If anyone is able to do something about all that spam, it's probably him". :D
That's all true but besides the point. Paying a developer less because they have bad Internet connection quality, lack availability or because they incur more administrative costs makes sense. Those are all things that can affect their work performance or cost. Paying a developer based on their cost of living or based on what their neighbors are earning is nonsense.
Ask HN: Is Gmail Down?
I unfortunately still use Gmail for work, and it appears to be having an outage this morning. Anyone else affected?
On BitBucket, at least, you can utilize wildcard DNS and use different hostnames with SSH keys.

$ git clone git@workspace.bitbucket.org:workspace/repo.git

I haven't tried with GitHub as I only have one account I use there.
I loved the idea of Delta Chat, but it ate some non-chat emails and wouldn't reliably notify me of new messages.

But as far as holding conversations, it worked alright, though I missed having a typing indicator.
Interesting because your examples all suck in different ways, especially when devices of different manufacturers (or even models) are supposed to interact.
The first "smartphone" I tried was over 30 years ago (Apple Newton)
Take a look a these (not tested these configurations personally):

- High Availability WireGuard on AWS [https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/02/ha-wireguard-on-a...]

- High Availability WireGuard on Azure [https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/06/ha-wireguard-on-a...]

- High Availability WireGuard Site to Site [https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/10/ha-wireguard-site...]
thats just so many words for "greed is better". see, bad thing, dressed up as good thing.
I like the social impact of real-time disclosure of my location. I’d rather share my location for an hour with someone that I’m meeting than send them periodic messages guessing about how far away I am.

I think Apple has done a really good job with this — you can share your location for an hour, the rest of the day, or forever. I use the “share for an hour” option all the time.
> Signal is a stunning success.

That is what those criticizing it disagrees with, at least in that area. It is not a stunning success at letting you communicate with someone without disclosing a phone number.

> If you or anyone does better I will cheer and yell about your success often.

And that is what people are criticizing about the ecosystem when they say that it is hard to run your own client or infrastructure.

> Firstly citation needed please.

Search "zero-click iMessage exploit" and pick your favorite source.

> Secondly, great, should they have been using email and pgp? Or google chat?

Most already do because Signal doesn't really cater to other use cases. When people say they want federation or different clients it is often because they want to replace things like e-mail.
I frequently 'watch' TV Shows and movies by just listening to them. It's a habit I picked up as a kid since I was blind.
It sounds like you are still under the impression that Telegram is, or ever was, Russian. It's run on infrastructure from the USA and its allies just like Signal, Wire, etc.

What you're looking for might be WeChat (this is definitely the first and hopefully will be the last time I recommend that)

On a less sarcastic note, Threema makes a point of running in Switzerland. Not that they're friendly with military powers other than NATO, but (per your desire) it's slightly better than running on US/UK infrastructure directly.
"Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...
This is like an RSS client where the last update is never expired. I have a few feeds where I manually mark an update as unread so that it keeps popping up.
> Out-of-order execution and pipelining date back to the 1960s.

On that note: I read The Soul of a New Machine a while ago, which is about a team of engineers designing a computer with a new architecture at the end of the 70s, and while it didn't go into the specifics of how the CPU was implemented it mentioned features such as different layers of cache between the CPU and the RAM, out-of-order execution, instruction prefetching and branch prediction. You'd be surprised at how many things in computers have already been around since the 60s.
When I hear employers present these ultimatums, I always wonder what would happen if you didn't quit but also didn't come into work, simply continued doing your job as before from home. My sense is that many employers are bluffing and would not fire, but I've got not data points.
Isn't Dendron basically the same thing? It's built on VSCode as well. Foam was literally mentioned in the article and didn't scratch the author's itch, but I'm not sure why it didn't but Dendron is.
There is no "right" way in how to deal with complexity.

Yes, both disciplines have their own way of handling that subject. And each discipline is struggeling how to find a way to gain evolution.

For me the key performance indicator is that in software development people controlled open source now takes a crucial part in the basis of most software projects whereas in science everything is much more corporate infected.

In science knowledge is created where money is. And money comes from corporate interests.

In software corporate interests tried to control the market but in the end had to capitulate. Most servers are run based on open source, most software is developed with tools being open source. Of course, there is no standard. You can write an application in Vue, React, Angular, JSP or whatever.

Yes, in the end software industry is insance. They have managed to get accepted that every five year the old software is scrapped and basically the same software is developed again.

But letting old software die and creating a new version with new ideas in mind is much closer to the way nature is doing things.

And to be honest - the only one who really can deal with complexity is nature hands down.
Id be fairly confident that they would. They also are encoded so that receivers that literally have no idea where they are can train on the received stream. Also don't forget that the receiver needs to hear signal from at least 3 or 4 satellites to be able to triangulate their position and altitude.
Why was that an EEE? It's not like Talk "killed" Jabber. Jabber had very marginal use, it shot up when Jabber support for Talk launched, and then it tanked to the previous levels when Google pulled the plug.

Whatsapp also originally (or maybe still?) used Jabber. The whatsapp protocol was Jabber with binary tokenised XML, iirc.
it isn't the solution, but it is a solution. it might be the solution for a particular subset of tools, which is still great, because it usually was a PITA even for those constrained use cases.
No, it was definitely possible to meet new people. The propagation of these closed spaces worsens the loneliness epidemic, which is way worse than at any point in history.
They don't even care about their advertisers, they knowingly perpetrate click fraud (and lying about video metrics). They don't care. Because Zuck doesn't care, he has contempt for everybody, advertisers and users alike
It could be just an instance of https://twitter.com/swaglord__420/status/1377051721655066629

I'd totally consider something like that, if an issue was bugging me enough.
In my opinion it is.
Is a good way to have a space on the internet that is really yours.
This is the type of product and customer commitment we need more of.
> End user applications, sure… but the raw python interpreter? If you want it, you have to install it. If you want to install it, you go to python.org and install it.

If you want just the raw python interpreter, you're not the end user?

> Not having it installed is definitely not solved by this.

But not having to install it is the point?

> Bundling python packages into a single binary is definitely not solved by this.

It is? There's even a working example in the article?

mkdir -p Lib/site-packages

# specify python version to pip if necessary
/usr/bin/python2 -m pip download flask -t .

# start "build"
cp ./python.com ./my-release.com

printf '%s\n' '-m' >./.args
printf '%s\n' 'my_module_name' >>./.args

# wheels are just ZIPs, use unzip if pip complains
./python.com -m pip install flask*.whl -t ./Lib/site-packages
./zip.com -qr ./my-release.com ./Lib/site-packages/
./zip.com ./my-release.com ./.args

# optional cleanup
rm -rf ./*.whl ./Lib/site-packages/

./my-release.com
Do you want a new attack vector to make your browser crash? It's not like all CSS is crafted benevolently!
Honestly? Yeah. HN is (I’m pretty sure) the only site I visit where uBlock and brave both detect nothing to block/restrict.
For most applications, I prefer PEM over Rivet Nuts but sometimes Hex Rivet Nuts do the magic better! For PEMs, we use Haeger 824 Plus insertion press.
I have been.
From your reference:

> but only 0.5% uninstalled WhatsApp. Let me put these numbers into perspective: if we translated this result to the entire population of WhatsApp users (approx. 2 billion), we’d be talking about 500 million users trying to flee from WhatsApp, and only 10k uninstalling it

0.5% of 2 billion is 10 million not 10k, which incidentally corresponds quite closely (within order of magnitude) to the number of people who downloaded signal at the time. As a side note if someone argues with numbers and is 3 orders of magnitude of in their calculation are their conclusions still valid? It doesn't give a good look.
> This looks like the beginning of the end of a free web governed standards established by an independent body.

The end sailed us by a few years ago.

Chrome now dominates all standards bodies and pushes quite a few of its proposals forwards with utter disregard for anyone.
To save other Windows users a click, it's mac-only right now.
Anyone here tries the tiddly wiki approach The software has a nice idea behind it, but I don't have enough faith to take the leap.
You are thinking about particular renderings of emojis. The actual definition for U+01F97A FACE WITH PLEADING EYES does not represent loneliness at all and you can't expect that whatever shows up for whoever you're talking to does. But people do keep adding these expectations to emojis that are not encoded in unicode at all so while emojis do give the impression of being a standardized encoding we're really back to vendor-specific codepages.
Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Creating a Recommendation System
The post makes it quite clear that all three proposals sprinkle some markers and constrain their use to avoid ambiguity for the parser, so not sure what you're talking about.
Isn’t that just the Matrix protocol then? I think the hard part is adoption.
+1 for Outline! Self-hosted server and web app, clean codebase, loads fast, mobile friendly, actively maintained. I had tried Obsidian, Trilium, TiddlyWiki, and all the rest (not to mention Notion, Bear, etc.). Outline is the first knowledge base I’ve tried that checks almost every box.

(The only unchecked box is that data is stored in a database instead of markdown files, but I decided to let go of that one.)

Edit: Funny, this thread is discussing two different Outlines. I’m talking about https://www.getoutline.com/.
‘Zoe’ becomes the world’s first named heat wave
I like this idea. Could even bake a warning into VSCode.
...or just set email per repository and leave it empty in the global config?
Why does this dude’s personal blog have more ads than a WSJ article?
Non-Water Floods
Science can't tell you how to structure a society because science does not assume any values beyond truth. Science can only tell you what your values will do, not what values you should have.

For instance, science can't tell you not to enslave people, it can only tell you that there are little to no factual differences between different types of people, but that would not prevent a society from allowing slavery to pay off a debt, as but one example.
Everyone is an NPC, you are the only person on the internet.
It’s fine if it’s on-topic I think? In this case it’s on topic.
Because it requires time and because a large number of people don't apply with real intention companies often can't handle it.
It shouldn't happen at the latest stages of the recruitment.
Dendron's dot.namespaced.hierarchies were an instant "I want that" when I first run across it[^1] but yes, I've become wary of over opinionated tooling for my notes that require specific and idiosyncratic architecture/metadata to function. (and this one's VC backed no less). And this goes for Obsidian extensions as well: if it litters my vault with all kinds of metadata that's not easily accessible or useless when the tool and/or Obsidian finally becomes unusable, no thank you.

1: yes, you can implement this using #forward/slashes/and/tags but you lose some velocity when it's not the core organizational primitive.
Works on my computer (US East)
looks pretty neat, and I'm a big fan of litestream, but I can't help but feel that requiring a 400k loc election mechanism (2 mil if you include deps) for your 180k loc database is slightly excessive.
No, it causes instantaneous shock force whereas the PEM studs require a gradual increase in force to be properly inserted. Hydraulic press is a better option.
A cool add-on to this would be a plugin that automatically redirected /latest to the latest blog post. That way, if the blogger were to publish say once a week every Tuesday, the user could alias the curl for maximum ease of use.
Two years into marriage I was driving down the freeway and had an epiphany that my wife loved me even though she didnt show it. We went from verge of divorce to strongest marriage I know 10 years and 3 kids later.
Impacts of eco-anxiety, eco-depression, and eco-anger on wellbeing
I look at his posts and dream to be that proficient Emacs user one day.

I'd imagine if he records a video of doing his daily work in Emacs, it probably feels like the Matrix.
Yeah it's always been an option to use Instagram this way. Most people don't want to use it that way apparently, using it as a content machine instead of a traditional social network. But I know plenty of people who still do just share photos of themselves/family and only like/comment on culture stuff.
Recession means less money available for a luxury service like delivering your food.

The cost right now is subsidised by VCs to get everyone to switch.

With the incoming recessions VC will spend less money, especially on a business model which doesn't feel novel anymore.
Line is a Japanese company, and as such it is THE messaging app in Japan, it is absolutely everywhere here.
If it helps, I use it on iOS and I have a shortcut to my “inbox” file where I capture quick ideas and todos

It’s open url where the url in my case is -> obsidian://open?vault=GTD&file=Inbox

The shortcut lives on my Home Screen.

Not sure what the android equivalent is but given androids capabilities I assume it’s even more straightforward.

Hope that helps.
This feels like moving the goal posts a bit. Before Signal, literally all the other options were orders of magnitude worse on either the privacy or the usability dimensions. Which is why there was essentially no mainstream E2E messaging app to speak of. After Signal there were multiple. For any system someone creates there will be weaknesses. The question isn't and shouldn't be did they create a system with no weaknesses? The question instead is did they meaningfully improve the privacy of of a large number of mainstream users and the answer there for Signal is Yes.
I've often said that grants should include funding for at least two independent reproductions. Also, journals should prioritize publication of negative results on par with positive results.

Trial pre-registration and open science are good first steps though.
That would only exist in an alternate universe.

One universe of vegan dishes and non-vegan dishes.

Another universe where the tag is generated by meat chefs for vegans— this vegan dish would be great if only you added some meat…or something like that.
Build new things from your old Lego bricks
When I built a quiet computer I was surprised that even at max load it was the HDD that was by far the loudest
Why would you waste time farming likes from the little people when you can swing elections and use your power to elevate certain politicians?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

Naturally Zuckerberg was shocked - shocked! - that this happened.

Meta would - at best - be more of the same: harvesting interests, attention, and orientation and leveraging them for mass behaviour modification.
Hmm, it’s not that hard to get people to use it. It’s got free stickers!
I’ve searched far and wide for the best quick mobile capture tool over the years. The best I’ve found is Braintoss, which lets you record a voice note, then sends the transcription and the recording (in case the transcription was wrong) to your inbox of choice (usually used with a task manager’s unique email address for your list). Pair this with the Apple Watch app and it’s incredible.

Second to that is google keep, which also has that style of capturing, but doesn’t work nearly as smoothly on iOS, and has no way to integrate with another app.

Third up is Drafts for iOS, which is by far the fastest on-the-go mobile note taking app if you’re typing. They have great integrations (but for automation you have to use Shortcuts). The only reason they’re ranked third for me is their voice note story is not good enough.
Find a new book by reading the first pages of random of novels
“not a stunning success at letting you communicate with someone without disclosing a phone number.”

Which it has NEVER claimed to do.

The goalposts moved so fast my neck broke.
Cash flow analysis allows us to sidestep thinking about utility and price by drawing a circle around Bitcoin and calculating cash in minus cash out. The only cash in is new investors and the cash out is miners+old investors selling.

The only way the current crop of investors can make money is by getting even more newer investors (ie greater fools). Eventually such a scheme will fail because of the same reason that ponzi schemes fail.

Compare this to something like apple which has an additional cash in (ie the company's profits). So the apple investors can make money without needing more investors.
Individual delivery is different and it's here to stay

A centralised "we pick your food for you"? Unlikely
Don't try to imagine yourself writing this code. You won't have to. We have preprocessors and they'll always be better than writing plain css. One of these standards will be what preprocessors of the future will need to write. The result will be that your compiled css will be smaller than what is possible with today's standard. So don't choose the option that's easiest for you to write, choose the one that's small.
Maybe one order of magnitude more.
Exactly. People who work at Google can’t be friendly, whether they want to or not.
I mean, I see it the same way, but it's still better than running on centralized Facebook or Telegram infrastructure. What do you recommend to your family instead, or are they all still on WhatsApp / plain text SMS for this reason?

For me, comparing Wire, Signal, Threema as the most mature and stable e2ee messengers that have any kind of network effect (so people will grow the network beyond just talking to this weirdo called Aachen), Signal has by far the largest network effect and by a very small margin the best user experience. My family is on Signal now and I was regretting not going for Wire (which has more features and fewer connectivity problems) until I needed to use Wire on Android again a few weeks ago and the Android user experience turns out to have degraded severely.

The only realistic alternative I'd see to Signal, Wire or Threema (all centralized, though Wire has some enterprise on-prem thing I'm not familiar with) is self hosting something that just uses TLS to the server, but then you're always going to be on call and they won't use it with anyone else, also because you can always read all their messages. A friend has a matrix server (UX on Element is awful and buggy as heck) and every few weeks there's some problem and we temporarily fall back to Wire, and when that doesn't work, back to Signal, and when that doesn't work, calling.
The time thing is the biggest takeaway for me, not only I spend less time overall on Instagram but I also feel way more "productive" (Weird word to use, but you know what I mean) as I actually look at every story from my friends instead of navigating through a bunch of spam from {SPORT} or {CELEBRITY}
My target is not FAANG, but I will check it out.
I think we can all agree it would be better if they issue press releases and advertisements when they want good PR. Fixing bugs is some underhanded stuff.
That’s just acting friendly, which is not what I meant. Maybe I should have written “helpful” instead of “friendly”.
> No inside knowledge here but I figured Justine intends it as a shibboleth.

I would not call it a shibboleth, but vague, generic terms are known to be for most purposes unsearchable, and having a really unique string identifier for your thing could make it more valuable.

It reminds me of this other HN link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241020
Smart use of data in an highly effective visualization. Great.
So you can turn it on for your group then?

Signal has an excellent app these days and supports encrypted group chat. But Whatsapp doesnt require convincing people.
I feel like easy nesting shouldn't be included in CSS. The only few times it's actually useful and harmless to have nesting in Sass is when we want to do stuff like styling anchor's hover and focus styles at the same time. And this is already solved in CSS with :is() and :where().

Most of the time I see nesting used, it ends up either in a stylesheet that is less readable than without it, or in generating css classes that are way more specific than necessary.
I doubt backlash will do anything. Regardless, the EU also mass collected personal data and made this behavior legal retroactively for authorities like Europol. The course for ever increasing surveillance has long been chosen. Government often disavows such decisions but that is exactly their strategy to implement such laws while evading criticism themselves.
>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.

This might get better soon.

@kepano, the developer of Minimal, is working on a new "default theme" for Obsidian. He said it "will follow many of the same design principles as Minimal, particularly in making Obsidian feel native across platforms. It will differ in that it will prioritize accessibility and affordances more than Minimal does. In addition the new default theme will make customization and theme development easier than before."
I had not heard of Meow Wolf, or Matt King, before this.

Sounds mega-cool, and I'd like to visit these installations.

I'm familiar with the type of person that Matt King was. Can be incredibly motivating to be around, but also, the intensity level is so high, it seems unsustainable.

It does seem that the world is a slightly darker place, now.
Younger people have a longer lifetime value than older ones