skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The list of your contacts bit is patently false,

You are wrong and your blog post from 2014 doesn't take into account their new data collection practices. See: https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

If this is the first time you're hearing about the data collection, that should tell you everything you need to know about how trustworthy Signal is.

> Signal has always kept your name/pic/etc on their servers I believe

Wrong again I'm afraid. There really was a time when Signal didn't collect and store any user data on their servers. They've repeatedly bragged about times when governments have come around asking them for data and they were able to turn the feds away because that data was never collected in the first place. That changed with the update which added pins. Today, Signal now collects that very same data.
> Which is of course exactly the wrong thing because registers got much faster than RAM.

Why not cache the top N words then?

Stacks are local to a CPU, so you don't have to deal with coherence.
But its not being argued on that angle, its being argued on a 4th amendment angle. If it were being argued on that angle, why not also scrutinize the state fingerprinting labs on that same argument? They don't get that scrutiny though. It's just mainly a fear of DNA technology owing to privacy concerns, not really due to concerns that the sample could be crosscontaminated or that the labs aren't qualified to perform the work. Neither were mentioned in the article anyhow, just the 4th amendment angle.
Babies cannot consent to anything, including blood screenings which, according to the article, "have been highly successful at reducing death and disability among children".
I have a lot of TP-Link networking hardware equipment. Works flawlessly. Never had to reboot anything. Just works.
I'm having a difficult time understanding your arguments.

https://talkbusiness.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Wind-Far...

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/07/19/world/windfarms-w...

Just what about these turbines makes farming / ranching more difficult?
Regulation just pushed the largest mortgage lender out of the market : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-14/wells-far...
It still can't come from solar or wind. Even if we waved a magic wand and had infinite and free energy storage, scaling solar and wind for sustained base load support is still a pipe dream. We are struggling to recycle the minuscule waste stream for solar and wind right now. Heck for wind turbine blades we aren't even really doing anything meaningful - meanwhile they are stacking up.

Without nuclear we are not getting off of fossil fuels - period.
Norway Kills Freya, a 1,300-Pound Walrus Who Delighted Onlookers
forums are really just a webinterface for something that works like email. email. newsgroups and forums are different interfaces for the same thing.

hackernews is definitely asynchronous, because i don't even know if i get any replies unless i search for them which i don't do all the time.
How would other people contact you?
That was Itanium, and it failed for a variety of reasons; one of which was a compatibility layer that sucked. You can't get rid of x86's backwards compatibility. Intel and AMD have done their best by using vector prefixes (like VEX and EVEX)[a] that massively simplify decoding, but there's only so much that can be done.

People get caught up in the variable length issue that x86 has, and then claim that M1 beats x86 because of that. Sure, decoding ARM instructions is easier than x86, but the variable length aspect is handled in the predecode/cache stage, not the actual decoder. The decoder, when it reaches an instruction, already knows various bits of info are.

The RISC vs CISC debate is useless today. M1's big advantage comes from the memory ordering model (and other things)[0], not the instruction format. Apple actually had to create a special mode for the M1 (for Rosetta 2) that enforces the x86 ordering model (TSO with load forwarding), and native performance is slightly worse when doing so.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1331735383193903104

[a]: There's also others that predate AVX (VEX) such as the 0F38 prefix group consisting only of opcodes that have a ModR/M byte and no immediate, and the 0F3A prefix being the same, but with an 8 bit immediate.
I'll just have water, thanks.

IMO, this will either be vaporware or a glorified soda stream.
Nobody is comparing outlet locations to a building plan at the time of sale.
Well, the money bin is filled with coins (some notes as filler as well), most of which have never been minted out of gold :D
I'm not sure there is such a direct relation between GDP and amount of money in circulation. The same $1 can be spent many times in a year and add to GDP each time.

(I also wish we would stop thinking in terms of GDP, or that it's better to have a higher one)
> Windows 10, OSX, iOS, you can search battery and go into the battery menu... my galaxy doesn't do that.

You have a malfunctioning Samsung device then.

I go to settings, search battery, and choose the first result which takes me to the battery menu.
> We used to have a tech-debt ticket every couple of sprints to review and update various packages in order to take care of any potential vulnerabilities.

We should probably start doing that.

We have a pretty thorough set of tests, so we do catch breaking changes from Dependabot in the CI pipeline.
Re: your EDIT:

Yes, it will take some time. If we stop doing oneoffs and start thinking of them as products to be massproduced it will go faster and cheaper (but still take at least maybe 15 years).
Maybe if we take into account the packing coefficient of coins and other miscellaneous booty it works out.
Is it safe to presume most bio-fuels come from corn? If so, given the impact of climate (read: drought) on production, what happens when there's a conflict between corn for food (humans or livestock) and corn for biofuels?

I recognize the politics involved, and perhaps that has more to do with this investment than it being practical and sustainable?
> Intel tried launching a non-compatible CPU once, it was Itanium, it didn't go so well for them.

More than once. iAPX432 if anything went worse.
Not the GP but I read that sentence as an anecdote using the AR-15 as a well-known example of a common firearm that is seen by most non-gun-owners to be on the upper end of the scale between .22cal and RPG/50-cal machine gun in terms of power and/or risk of abuse. That is to say that I do not believe that the GP was actively making a point against the AR-15, just that they were using it as an example anecdotally to lace their statement with a touch of irony or euphemism.
I don't think the original configuration of continents is well-understood. The continents have drifted together and apart again several times in the past 3+ billion years. Pangaea was just the most recent supercontinent.
8200+ points but you don't acknowledge the fact VCs are legally bound to invest LPs money for economic returns.
No such thing. Any data that can be saved, will be saved. Deletion is a myth.
>It costs more to operate nukes than renewables

Citation needed.

Also most of the prohibitive costs surrounding nuclear are artificial - bureaucratic overhead vs. real costs governed by implementing the technology.
Access Firefox bookmarks from command-line:

f0() {
echo 'select moz_bookmarks.title || '"'"' = '"'"' || url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where parent = 2;' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite
}
f1() {
firefox `echo 'select url from moz_places, moz_bookmarks on moz_places.id = moz_bookmarks.fk where moz_bookmarks.title = '"'$1'"';' | sqlite3 /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/twht79zd.default/places.sqlite`
}
f$# $1

Execute PostScript programs alone with command-line arguments:

exec gs -P -dBATCH -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS -dNOPAUSE -dNOSAFER -q -- "$@"

Tell the IP address:

curl -s 'http://icanhazip.com/' | cat -v
I ignore Samsung apps. What apps are you unable to avoid, other than the settings and tray?
If I buy a knife at the local shop then I don't explicitly consent to sharing purchase data with law enforcement either. But I don't think it's especially controversial that law enforcement nonetheless obtains this data with the appropriate warrant and such in the process of solving a crime.
But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Pixels aren’t available in my country.
Yeah, you can make HN posts that gets upvoted, or HN posts that gets a lot of responses explaining things to you and where you get downvoted. To me the second case is much more valuable than the first case, people helping me root out my biases and fix my worldview is the main reason I use HN. It is really hard to fix your unknown unknowns, but posting things you think are correct and seeing how people correct you is a really fast and easy way to find them out.

But of course you need to contribute things back or you will get negative score and banned, so I mix in some things I know will get upvoted as well.
Your ticket comes across as very confrontational. This puts the developer(s) into a position where they feel the need to defend themselves instead of acting collaboratively with the user to solve their problem.
It's not like nuclear plants are getting built in a fortnight either. In fact the ridiculous lead time on getting a nuclear plant generating electricity is one of the biggest problems with pitching them as a solution to climate change. We have already dithered far too long on this, we can't wait 20 years to reduce our carbon output, solutions need to be built in the next 5 years or less.
New Jersey has middling rules around accessing this data, some states are far more lax;

https://texaslawreview.org/americas-hidden-national-dna-data...

(See the paragraph around cite 180)
The problem lies deeper. There's only so much work that the humanity legitimately needs done, but the economy is built upon the assumption that everyone can get a job. So we end up creating jobs the society at large doesn't actually benefit from to make sure every person has to do some work to earn money to live. This includes ballooning IT companies about which you can't help but keep asking "where does enough work even come from to occupy all these people, in a product that's essentially finished".

I don't know how to even approach solving this.
Nuclear war between two nations could spark global famine
This was probably the case in the past, but I was surprised by how similar Samsung's Android 12 is to Lineage OS 12 on the Note 10. They've kind of converged.
Good point about the levee issue. Apparently there's a little wikiwar going on with that one already.

I couldn't follow their logic with Fukushima either. The wording was a little strange.

The Year 2000 scenario and covid scenarios are great examples IMO. The problem is that any great example is intrinsically going to be controversial, and that seems to be the paradox itself.
Good luck figuring out a style that isn't "cribbing" off of another artists style. In which case if that becomes legal then the ML will just be used to generate unique styles which are similarly cribbing.

There is no definition of "style" here you can rely on without causing just as much harm to human artists as you would be restricting AI art. Everything is derivative of something/someone else after all.
Synapses as a model: Solid-state memory in neuromorphic circuits
Especially for performance inline with a low-end Android a carrier will give you for free.
US-led coalition forces repel drone attack near base in Syria
DNA can be used to verify a suspect, it is not really valid to compare a crime scene sample to a national database because you WILL get a match with high probability even if the perp is not in the database. DNA is not a unique identifier, at least no the way its used.

In this case it sounds like they used it for verification, since the sought a comparison of a suspect with a specific baby's DNA. From a science perspective this seems quite reasonable. From a privacy PoV IDK.
If I have to provide an address to get a download link, that address will be either postmaster@aol.com or abuse@domain-of-the-company . EMailing the link to the provided address will probably just make me seek out different software. Make software that users want to sign up to hear more about; don't force them to opt in to marketing just to try something. It's the first impression and sets the tone with your company.
That does make sense... Is there any estimation for how much gold _would_ be required to for every country on the planet to have a gold-backed currency?
> police attempt to match it with a fingerprint in their databases that you might have had to submit to get a drivers license

Where is this required? Because I've never heard of such a thing in the US.
facebook is just a forum where you use your real name
As it should. So far, data collection rarely benefits the people the data are collected from. DNA is akin to collecting contact lists of others to create a shadow profile of unknown persons from known ones. No opt-out is possible.
French army leaves Gao base, ending nine-year military mission in Mali
> The 80376 doesn’t do paging.

Wait - what? How is that even possible? Do they simply not have an MMU? That makes it unsuitable for both old OSes and for new OSes. No wonder it was so uncommon.
There are questions as to whether finger prints are unique (https://psmag.com/news/why-fingerprints-arent-proof-47079) so DNA seems better. I am a little conflicted on what I actually think. On the one hand typical police methodology is frightfully subjective and error prone. Having methods that can be validated independently from gov't labs seems more just. On the other hand I can see this having unintended consequences.
Two things stood out to me:

1. So many caveats and excuses before raising some valid criticisms! People in the cryptocurrency space sure seem easily offended.

2. Most of the article deals with how cryptocurrencies have no real applications. I would add that in the areas where applications do exist, they’re way better solvable by non-crypto solutions.
It's very much logical reasoning, and it's not about DNA being scary.

It's about a kind of perfidy. It's the reason you in war don't masquerade as someone who is wounded and to try to get at your enemy, and don't use fake medical stuff in ruses, &c (this of course happened once in Pakistan, but I count it as those responsible lacking in understanding and being short-sighted).

You don't ever do anything that will in any way affect people's trust in the medical system, even indirectly. This has been understood for a long time, and is part of the reason why the Hippocratic oath (i.e. the actual Hippocratic oath) involves swearing to never do any harm.
Hmmm, there's interesting possibilities here to build a kind of application-IDS.

Execute and monitor a program/app while running its full test suite, to generate a model of all the stuff that program normally does.

Then monitor it in prod and if it starts behaving weirdly, kill it (and investigate).

I wonder how well the models will hold up against attacks that merely exercise normal application functions in unusual ways?
Yucca mountain failed due to politics.

Whats even more nuts is we should be burning what we erroneously call "waste", not burying it. Why is it dangerous? Because it's packed full of energy! Energy that could be put to use, instead of burying in the ground. It's beyond idiotic.
Google doesn't think that way at all.

Back when Gerard Salton was writing the first papers on IR he had a set of 60 or so documents and kept his index on a deck of punched cards.

With a small set of documents the main problem you run into is that some of the relevant documents don't use the exact words in the query so you might miss most of the relevant results.

With Google on the other hand you could have millions or billions of relevant document and the challenge is to do so well for the first few results that odds are good (say 70% -- this is limited by the ambiguity of the query) that the first result is a "direct hit".

If you are answering questions like that in a huge distributed system the query process probably looks like a set of funnels that feed answers into funnels that feed answers into funnels. If you want to answer questions quickly at low cost the best you can do is kill low relevance documents as quickly as possible.

I worked on a search engine for patents that had multiple nodes and could get slightly different answers from different nodes because each node had a neural net for semantic indexing of its contents. You might have the system report that there were 15,091 relevant results one time, another time it might be 15,094. Management thought that our customers would lose confidence in our search because of this so we implemented something that made the selection of nodes used for a particular query deterministic, which hurt the scalability of our search.
The 180 fee is a godaddy fee not a government fee. Other companies may charge a premium but many do not.
This is a weird thread. There's a product that does secure messaging with usernames and only requires user/pass. It's called Keybase. If this is the product you want, then go use it. I don't understand why everyone wants Signal to be something it's not. I quite like Signal as they are and this "incident" demonstrates exactly what happens if a carrier gets compromised: nothing. Nothing happens. Signal decides not to trust any phone verifications from the period of compromise and requires affected numbers to reregister. All the important crypto has nothing to do with phone numbers in Signal's domain. And this is exactly why I use Signal. It lets me send secure messages to people using a tried and true UX: text messaging, but with its own secure application layer. It's really difficult to build a useable security product, and Signal has done it successfully.
> … adding support for backtracking to Smalltalk…

And 1986 "Computer World" Aug 25 p75 "Smalltalk/V reportedly features … a built-in Prolog compiler…" ;-)

https://books.google.com/books?id=uVHbRM6mU9gC&lpg=PA75&dq=h...
> the police attempt to match it with a DNA sample in their databases you might have submitted for a health screening.

I know you were attempting to draw a parallel, but the difference is that the DMV is a government organization (part of the DOT), and your medical provider is not. There are different expectations of privacy. Which is close to the heart of the issue.
Tell me what part of HIPAA you think was violated.
It really varies based on the equipment in question and the environment they exist in. At home, my headphones paired to my laptop will give me range almost all around the house. Paired to my desktop in the same room, it starts dropping just outside my office. Paired with my phone, I get somewhere in between. With my laptop and phone in an RF-noisy environment, it might only go 20 or 30 feet. With my motorcycle helmet to my phone, it won't even make it if my phone is on a case on the opposite side of the bike, but I think that's mostly because there's almost no chance of direct line of sight without my body and motorcycle in the way and there's no good reflections when out on the open road.
Law enforcement is using Third Party Doctrine and usage of non LE DNA databases to work around the requirement for probable cause. As I understand it, public health regulations are exacerbating the availability of this data by mandating submittal of DNA for screening, and retaining the data.

There is also the CSI effect to take into account and once again, the bloody fact we don't need to be preserving this data in perpetuity.

This is why Third Party Doctrine is a complete and total deconstruction of the 4th Amendment in practice.
These types of blog posts/articles always make me curious:

How were these people able to transition from founders of a tiny company to successfully running and managing large (people or revenue) companies? Many of them had never done this before so how did they figure out what to do and how to do it?

I often think of Zuckerberg or the Collison brothers as examples.

They hadn't done anything like this before so how did it work out for them?

- Is it survivor bias?

- Were the ideas and the execution so good at the beginning that once the company was up and running it didn't matter if they made mistakes?

- Did they have excellent advisors/mentors? If so, how did they know who to listen to? (I think of the scene in The Social Network where Justin Timberlake advises Jesse Eisenberg to go in wearing pyjamas to a VC meeting)

- First mover advantage? (not the case for FB or Stripe as far as I can tell)

All of the above comes from reading this article: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/andrew-mason-on-grou...

In it, Andrew Mason talks about how Groupon "followed the data" into offering more and more deals to the point that they imploded the company. He, like Zuck and the Collisons, had never done this before and seemed intelligent and was acting in good faith. Yet things went south for him.

Genuinely curious to hear people's responses.
Sure, that wasn't mentioned in the article because it's not specific to DNA tests, but all tests.

The difference with DNA is that the genetic data has a ton of info associated with it, and that in this case it was collected for healthcare purposes. Fingerprints don't carry sensitive health data. The arguments are different.
To a ton of tech people I guess their only understanding of rentals is prefurnished single bedroom "luxury" apartments in tech hubs. And then you get the classic "well I didn't spend meaningful time in my apartment so everybody else must be just like me" problem.
Yes. I've written code that does this for parsing leaked email lists before as part of a normalizing step.
Because its useful to have these data from a scientific perspective. Say for example you have leukemia later in life. A researcher wants to study what it is about your leukemia that makes it different from the rest of your blood. You can't solve that problem by drawing blood from the patient today, all the blood will be contaminated with leukemia. You could try and get DNA from the fingernails, but these are liable to be of poor quality and damaged by environmental factors that fingernails tend to be exposed to. Likewise for most other blood free sources of DNA you could take from a living person.

Now, if you had a blood sample from before the patient had leukemia, that would be invaluable data. You can yield high fidelity genetic material without much blood sample. Because of this, most states have laws saying this newborn screening material is available for various research purposes. The parent or the individual may also request their newborn sample, should new screening methods come out in the future that may not be on that panel when you were born for example.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DGDS/CDPH%20Document%20...
Which animations? Personally, I just think the default transitions are always too slow. I enable debug tools and crank them up to half speed. The phone ends up feeling much faster even though its just animation speed.