skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot. If you need proof to convince you, really look into any revolution that ever happened in human history. It was always the <10%, both on the bad and the good side who did them, while everyone else watched and did nothing - the same people you'd try to convince. The reality is that most people will go wherever life sends them, if their country turns into utopia, they'll think "that's cool I guess", and if it turns into dystopia, they'll only think "that sucks but what can I do anyway", but in neither scenario will they ever do anything themselves.

If nothing more, there's a few words for people who are aware of this and actually do something about it, you can read all about them by looking up news articles containing words like "Terrorist", "Public enemy", "Anarchist". In some cases it is thinly veiled in unrelated words like "Nazi" even though if you really think about it, the problem with "Nazis", whatever that even means today, was fascism, same fascism that you're dealing with right now, but it's totally not fascism however because fascism requires Hitler, and trains, and uh, public shootings or something.
The issue is that they might end up breaking encryption anyways as exited states.
I kinda get it, but it doesn't make sense to blame it on the EU when you own government would likely impose the exact same (if not harsher) rules. Thats at least what I tell myself. I'm under no illusion that my own government is any better.
Last I knew standard notes hid 2FA behind the paywall. Basic security should not be a pay feature. If they're willing to hang non-paying potential customers out to dry what other questionable security choices are they making?

I tried to reason this out with them back when they had a discourse site or forum, I don't recall which it was, and was told, I'm paraphrasing, we're not going to do that and don't ever ask again with no good reasoning given.

Not only a bad look from a security standpoint but also a bad look from a community engagement standpoint. IMO standard Notes is to be avoided.
BTW, I wonder if it'd be possible to abstract away the cloud provider and have "generic" building blocks. If I decide to move my (modest) infra from AWS to Google, if I could run the same definition with a command-line switch and have the same-ish commodity elements (VMs, jump-hosts, buckets, API gateways, HTTP load balancers, all the things every self-respecting cloud provider has).

And, if my cloud provider isn't self-respecting, the deployment could error out with a message like "X doesn't support Y".
> Our team will never read or access your note content, unless we have received your express permission during a customer support interaction

Either naive or dishonest. Can't tell which is worse.

The reason end to end encryption exists is to cover the cases which you can't plan for.

For example a rogue employee reading the notes of their partner.
Isn't it good if people learn not to trust photos and images shared in social media and learn to treat them as entertainment. So much productivity gains :-)
A 12-Year-Old Died on an E-Bike. Is the Manufacturer to Blame?
Carrier drones are the ideal, swallowing cost of transport while not sacrificing amount and speed
Yeah, lidar famously deals well with inclement weather and low visibility conditions. Those infrared lasers just punch right through the fog and snowflakes.

Lmao.
Perhaps Private listening is what you're looking for, assuming it's working as advertised.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/private-listening/
It’s obsessed about in the US so much because we have a federal government that oscillates between parties who want to violate it one way or another. Their whims being unconstitutional is our only defense.
Which part showed intent to “divide and conquer“ or intent to cause internal conflict? I didn’t see any, although I do admit I skimmed (because it was a long read that appeared irrelevant).

And the article surely isn’t corroborating your thesis of mix cultures to force a long-term fail.
A significant portion of Swedes legitimately want more immigration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgsQNNYurWo

Demolition Man called this. How did the police catch criminals before bio-engineered trackers were attached to every citizen? "We worked for a living, this fascist crap makes me want to puke".
Meanwhile if Youtube/Google decide to downrank something into oblivion, nobody will know, and proving it is near-impossible.

A foreign corporation has more control over speech in Pakistan than Pakistan itself.
Considering that significant portion of the pop music produced in the last 30 years is made by a few people like Max Martin, one can assume that there's a formula for writing music that people love. Seems promising for AI to be honest.
I've seen libraries whose functions only accept `*kwargs` and you need to open the documentation (or read the body of the function) to be able to use that function.

If you know how many parameters it's easier.

If parameters have names that you can understand it's even easier.

If parameters even let you know what kind of value they want it's also easier.

When I read python I'm not reading a novel. I want to know how to use a function, and possibly I want to know that without reading the function.

So it might make 1 line harder, but makes me skip reading 50 lines.
I love the fictional idea that I have that some billionaire will create multiple underground caverns around the world in geologically stable places, each containing the knowledge of the world - engraved onto aluminum plates. A vast cavern of tunnels and chambers and catacombs built only to preserve the worlds knowledge.

I imagine in 10,000 years some future explorers making their way into such a cavern and finding all of the knowledge of the present time like some sort of treasure.

Perhaps with a big engraving of the God Jeff Bezos engraved in the stone wall for eternity.
See: The UK, doggedly pursuing similar legislation
Text emails don't have a limited width either. If your email reader and/or terminal app is not able to deal with long URLs then that is really YOUR problem.
He didn't make $110mn, he set up a company and took investment money?
This excerpt is frightening:

> About half of the company's 500,000 servers run on outdated software that does not support basic security features such as encryption for stored data or regular security updates by vendors
Meanwhile the prime minister is on perma vacation and the replacement candidates are focused on banning on shore renewables and squabbling among each other
It's hilarious how HN is consistently wrong, even on tech-heavy subjects. No bright minds popping up here tbh. You can glean some interesting stuff from this. The hive mind was wrong on dropbox, seemingly wrong on this, and they are likely wrong on blockchain today.
> It's a terrible article. The author misunderstands competition and how much it drives products in this area.

Agree, but the author has one thing right. Snowflake is not transparent about product behavior, which makes it hard to reason about costs and performance.

Open source data warehouses like ClickHouse and Druid don't have this problem. If you want to know how something works, you can look at the code. Or listen to talks from the committers. This transparency is an enduring strength of open source projects.
> You sure you actually know Europe?

Born & living in eastern europe... Well, technically born in USSR... Maybe that makes me unqualified to talk europe and socialism :)

> because it's silly American paranoia, there a lot of socialism in every political platform and State politics, social welfare and labour in most of the EU members.

What silly American paranoia in eastern europe? And social democracy has nothing to do with socialism.

> Yeah like my country is not at the border with the former Yugoslavia or hadn't the stronger communist party in all the west.

There's a massive difference between cosplaying commies in communist party in a free country and living under socialismus-communismus regime. As our own communists learned after being annexed into USSR.
When I read the original post I was getting nervous, a little angry and wanted to make the same post and mark that claim as wild. But now that I've read your comment I thought a little about my experience here in southern germany.

I recently left Berlin after over 30 years. I have been outside, but not for long to get to know "other germans". And yes, you are right, the mindset here in the south is a lot more narrow minded and what people say about refugees/foreigners is just mind blowing. Which is kinda sad. I like it here, but I doubt I can live around these people for much longer.
Google Calendar adds categorization and color labels to Time Insights
Google is rolling out this feature to Google Workspace accounts.
> indigenous population targeted for "diversification"

Oh, come on. That's QAnon conspiranoid bollocks.

> I don't personally know a single person in my social circle, in Australia, who is supportive of racial diversity

Racial diversity exists. Supporting it or opposing it isn't going to change that.
The Paradox of Democracy
Maybe you just hang around with racists?
> there is no constant surveillance in Europe

CCTV? I would also be extremely surprised to learn that European agencies don't have access to the Five Eyes program, or even their own analogue.

Face it, every state wants a hand in the big data gravy train. Especially organisations like the EU that believe their regulation, centralisation and bureaucracy is an unquestionable good.
None of these are singular factors. Usually when people buy a car, it's a multi factored decision.

I did however fall in love with the simple interior of mine, as well as the instant power. I don't use the public charging network at all.
Without encryption, criminals will have even easier time stealing personal information and breaking into accounts. Limiting encryption use may hurt certain types of criminals, but also helps another types of criminals, mainly cyber criminals.
I agree the need to keep things small is a key part of front-end tooling, but it is worth noting that the choice by the ecosystem to effectively statically link everything (vs having a versioned stdlib which could be cached in a privacy-preserving way) does mean that sometimes size is traded off in detrimental-to-user ways (e.g. dropping support for older/unpopular browsers ASAP, worse implementations are chosen over better ones due to file size).

I do wonder what's going to happen with the use of WASM, I doubt it's going to produce libraries any smaller than ELF, so are people going to try and use caching tools like indexeddb to avoid repeated downloads (and is that the next key bit of tooling to arrive), or are we going to burn our mobile data just so people can avoid building native apps?

As a side note, I find the numpy comment quite interesting: I'm guessing the ~30MB is based on the wheel?
It looks to me (based on the size of numpy in Debian) that ~1/2 of that is shared libraries (e.g. BLAS) which isn't part of numpy. There's also things like: f2py (which helps wrap Fortran libs for use in python), which is just over 1MB; tests including test data, which looks to be about ~5MB; and SIMD support which is almost 2MB. I suspect there's other things you could strip out which would make the size smaller to make things more comparable to front-end work (I've noticed on shared systems that the size of people's conda installs is comparable to my container with a full dev environment, both doing similar things with python). I do think you'd struggle to get it under a few MBs though, as for comparison the FFTW shared lib on my system alone is 2.1MB (with the static one sitting at 4.3MB), and I'd be concerned if there was a different FFT codebase which was much smaller than that (as you'd start wondering what's been left out/incorrectly implemented).
How do the scammers get the money if they use someone else's (stolen) identity and bank account?

Also, how do they succeed in keeping this scheme for more than a few days after the identity theft is noticed and reported to the police?

And why would they not just take the very music they just bought and paid for, and publish that as any other artist do? There's no crime in buying the rights from another artist -- that's exactly what all music labels do.
Hello HN.

I am a web developer and rebuilt the apple website menu just for my own improvement and fun. The menu uses JS but also works without JS or CSS and I paid attention to accessibility (like screen readers or keyboard navigation).

The menu has a lot of small details that I realized while building it, like the animations that took me some time.

I didn't include the search with auto-completion and suggestions.

Source on GitHub: https://github.com/bhdzllr/apfel-menu
Implantable “drug factory” beads destroy tumors in mice within days
My preference is mostly greys with, as you say, color accents. Maybe orange curtains, or a blue couch.

Part of the appeal of course of a grey interior is that you can just drop in green upholstered chairs and not have to try and match the walls.
Thomas Kuhn's Black-body theory and the quantum discontinuity, (1894-1912) explores the historical development of this topic in depth.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo362239...
Find some tips & tools you could use to organically improve your visibility in the Google search engine results as a startup.
They are and there's old firewalls out there that report Youtube traffic as a UDP DoS attack.
I like normcore as a trend but this is just someone trying to justify the trend and trying to make it more meaningful than what it actually is.
Ask HN: How to Write a Specification?
I am planning to build a product (web app), and want to write a spec before starting to code. I have never written a spec before. My question is: how to write a specification?
It's probably not advertised enough, but jOOQ also contains a parser that can translate between dialects, and let users work with the expression tree to achieve custom SQL translations. A demo here: https://www.jooq.org/translate
>"Germans do not quite are so obsessive about their constructional rights"

In this case "obsessive" is a very desired quality. People's constitutional rights must be guarded from the sweaty paws of the governments that may treat those as a mere annoyance.
There is a possibility of lawful interception at the endpoints of the end-to-end encryption. Does it mean the problem is solved?
Seems like Twitter loves going through the cycle of getting hacked→hiring good talent and focusing on security→losing people and focus→relaxing their stance→getting hacked :(
FYI, most Teslas have two context sensitive buttons/scrolls/side clickers on the steering wheels, which can adjust many things.
Research has indicated that commuters get way less annoyed when given a reason for delays.

Of course the dutch railways noticed that it doesn't have to be a good reason, and hence you'll now often hear "We're driving at a modified speed due to a red signal" announced on the trains with some frequency.
I've sold a book with a large publishing house a long while back and wanted to give you a bit of perspective on that front, in case you or anyone else may be curious:

Tech books used to pay a much higher royalty than "regular books", like novels. I'd get 14% per book vs. 7% or less on a novel. That can make quite a bit difference. Of course, people will tell you to self-publish and keep next to 100% of your profit, but the gatekeeping function of publishing houses can be beneficial as well. I've had a few instances where I thought I had a fantastic idea, only to go through "the process" and see how it wouldn't have sold much.

That said, and I may get some heat for that, self-publishing only makes sense (if you're not just in it for the fun of typing and researching) — if you have a large-enough platform. I'd even argue that 95% of your success will be having a fantastic platform to launch this from, and 5% will be about the contents of the book (if you're self-publishing).

Pieter Levels could launch a photo book of his favourite cat photos, and still make a 100k off of it. Most people can't do that, because they don't have the platform.

This differs quite a bit with publishing houses. If you can get in, and it tends to be easier in tech writing as those books can be priced much higher, then they'll bring the platform, and you just bring the content. Once launched, you can build from this "borrowed" platform and try to work on your own audience. My unsolicited advice here would be to make as much as you possibly can (executing as quickly as possible) from that initial launch power and build a crowd around it that you can use as a firestarter for future projects.

Depending on which publishing house may offer a deal, this could mean being placed in most universities, being placed in large-chain book stores all around the world, or airports (for novels). Something that can rarely be done by self-publishing.

Again, not hating on the self-publishing route, especially when you look at the per-book numbers, where it's 14% or less before taxes vs. close to a 100%, but if you don't have a platform, then you'd probably need to be super ready for spending at least a full year on this to get it up to quality, and then also building a platform to launch it from. Just the title and name doesn't cut it anymore, unless you do get really lucky.

Hope this doesn't offend those who self-publish, if you're doing this successfully, you are the true masters. Finding a publishing house is, in my opinion, actually the easier route.
iMessages are tied to Apple serial numbers, making spamming a lot harder. RCS would bring the spam protection to sms levels, i.e. absolutely non-existant
There are implementations that use the ABS sensors. They don't report the pressure.
Author here! If you 100% need E2EE for your notes then not using Supernotes is actually our recommendation as well. But as I tried to show in the post, it's hard to do and arguably even harder to prove that it has been done correctly. And E2EE not done correctly might as well not be done at all.

And yep, partly it is that don't have the time to dedicate to this. There are so many other features that I think would better serve our users than E2EE, so we're prioritizing those for now (table stakes in the notes game are very high). But if I had infinite time at my disposal, I absolutely would add some form of E2EE – though still not sure I'd make it the default as again, there are some things you can't engineer your way out of when you add E2EE.

The one that is most on my mind probably being irrecoverable data loss. If watching the cryptocurrency space over the last few years has taught me anything, it's that even if you beg people to take good care of secret/recovery keys, frequently they don't. And that's for stuff you can sell for actual money.
I'm very critical of the EU, i do think it is poorly designed and not a desirable project regardless.

That being said, things like this would happen at the national level for sure, the EU has nothing to do with it. It's systemic to "modern democracies ".
No, they will just all be marked "owl:sameAs" (though it's not as smooth as one would think [1]) in semantic web.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws21
This is what comment blocks are for. Putting the return type in the funcfions docstring should be a requirement during linting, and ensuring the correct type is used should be part of PR review. Easy to find, easy to read, no static type checker required.
How do you block all of the stuff?
Or “boundaries users have to stay within”. I’m aware of a lot of edge cases. When you start building with those in mind, it adds complications. Extra steps or more UI or whatever, to ensure the “right” thing happens, assumptions are obvious, etc.

More often than not I’m pushed back in with “that doesn’t happen” or “don’t spend time on that”. “We’re never open past 9, don’t worry about a day” but then they acquire a system in a different time zone and … boom. Things are broken.
The faster Germany remove the dependency on Russian gas/fossils, the faster it can cut a critical source of income for Russia and their war-machine.

A temporary slightly increased cost of living is a cheap price to pay.
Ah, damn, that's enough, I'm ordering a copy of it now.

Thanks!

Edit: I've always considered this historical context most important and we do not stress it enough in teaching physics (same in math and chemistry or in just about every subject that has developed and progressed over the years - 19th C. scholars translating ancient Greek texts for instance).

As far as far as is possible, we need to get inside the heads of these people and try to picture the obstacles and difficulties they were facing at the time. Moreover, it's my experience that if I try to understand where they are coming from then I find that I get a much deeper appreciation (and better understanding) of the subject. Similarly, old scientific and engineering textbooks of the era are very useful in further illuminating this historical thinking; for example, 19th C. postulations about how the sun got its energy before we knew anything about nuclear fusion.

That said, it seems we largely ignore this historical context because it is hard to do well and that most courses are already short of time. Still, if any subject needs it, it's QM and I've said so here on HN and elsewhere on many occasions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31980008. Big warning, here I'm in long-rave mode!

Re: other good reads on the subject, at short notice I'm at a bit of a loss. Your best bet are textbooks on HPS - History and Philosophy of Science (which was one of my subjects decades ago). The trouble is comments on this topic soon time out, so in future when I think of them I won't he able to update you. (Much of my knowledge comes from snippets in individual texts, unfortunately, it's not all collected into one volume.)
The author more or less watched them swap the sensor that had initially been replaced.

(and had the ids of the remaining sensors)
So literally Google unilaterally decided, based on a "suspicion" that any human being would have immediately found to be bogus, to forward _all_ of his private, personal photos to the authorities, and you think that here "the system is working as it should"? What type of expectation of privacy can you have under this system ?
This reads like vanilla trying to convince the world that it's really the edgy one.
The gods intend that you use those annotations with a checker and some IDE that supports autocompletions and highlighting based on those.

They basically lure you into annotating types all over the place so that their products can work better.

When you work in an editor that doesn’t support those fancy things, you’ll feel exhausted pretty soon.