skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp make no specific claims about who this encryption is keeping you safe from. And they also require you to agree that they can use your information and interactions for their legitimate business needs. I mean, WhatsApp is standing right there when you stuff the message into the box regardless of how safe the package is in transit once it's left your phone. And consider basically every 'enchancement' to security or privacy around Facebook was done under duress for years. Pre-acquisition WhatsApp is a different story, but that story is ancient history.

I didn't agree to the recent WhatApp nor Facebook's TOS so no longer have their product on my devices. I suggest you do the same, or just sit back and enjoy the specialised, relevant, targeted ads, but think twice before each send.
What is "just" radio suppose to mean? Radio is awesome.
this is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A
Thanks for your story, but you should know: comparing Covid authorities to the Nazis could get you in trouble
If 2 is true, then it is not end-to-end encrypted, and I don't think that WhatsApp is lying. They have ways of doing their things without lying, so I don't expect 2 to be true.

I think that 1 is the most plausible, however the original post is about "topics they never talk about", so assuming that WhatsApp is the only channel and they don't leak data in other ways (and there are many other ways to leak data), then 1 becomes unlikely.

3 is the most compatible. All the targeting can be done locally, so no end-to-end unencrypted message leaves the app. The app then sends your topics of interests to Meta.

4 again assuming WhatsApp is the only channel, then there is probably some malware somewhere, and it is unlikely that Meta accepts illegally collected data (they can do it legally, better, and with less potential trouble). There are however a few legitimate apps that can do the above. I am thinking about things like predictive keyboards, accessibility apps (screen readers, ...), backup apps (end-to-end encryption is about transmission, not storage), and the OS itself. I don't think Meta controls any of these, and I don't think they would buy data from them (Google and Apple are competitors after all).

So I would go for an accidental leak (case 1). For example, for the experiment to be meaningful, you shouldn't tell anyone about the test topic before you receive the ads. Or with the WhatsApp app hinting Meta about your topics of interest.
I wonder if problem solving is a teachable skill?

Most people in my industry are fairly good problem solvers, almost to a fault, sometimes when you tell someone about a problem you don't want it solved, you just want a little empathy.

However every one in a while I meet someone who is a terrible problem solver. It is like when they hit something they don't know they just give up. Honestly it is such a foreign way of thinking I have a hard time understanding them.

But the question is, is problem solving a teachable skill(what is the best way to go about teaching someone it?) or is it more like personality you have it or you don't.
> If you took a photo of something you likely already own it.

Tell that to Amazon who never fail to recommend me things I just bought.
That's a fun idea :)
Do you think school is a lottery?
I always wondered how is the business decision between charging a dollar per year for no information sharing vs some information sharing but free made.
Does anyone know of a messaging app that uses such a model?
Correct. The issue was that at the time, simple access to the intranet allowed for such turboing of credentials.
I mean this in a polite way, but if college is the highest stakes one has experienced, then that's a pretty narrow experience of anxiety and difficulties life has to offer.

To me that seems like a very fortunate life experience.
> below /r/coding

What does this mean?
Maybe Meta are not as trustworthy as I imagined.
I wouldn't say the genre evolved, it pretty much peaked back in the early 90s and hasn't seen any serious improvements since. The pie-menus of Curse of Monkey Island were about the last lasting improvement I can think of. Everything else turned out a short lived gimmick, an outright failure (e.g. controls in MI4/Grim) or just a watering down (e.g. casual hidden-object games).

And while narrative have become far more important in other genres, those style of narratives are completely different to what a point&click would offer. Action games are about action, you shoot or slash through things. You kill stuff. Narrative happens in cut-scenes without player control. It's not part of the gameplay. That's what makes point&click games special, as the there is no disconnect, the narrative is driven by the players the actions.

And while there are certainly some RPGs that cross the line, not many do. The mainstream RPG is still obsessed with stats, collecting dozens of the same item and stuff like that. In a point&click almost everything is unique, there are no faceless copy&paste NPCs, no mountains of useless items to collect. If you find an item in a point&click, it's very likely part of the plot in some form.
These were my exact words:

> The issue at hand is whether or not you can spend unlimited amounts of money on that speech via a corporation. Individuals cannot spend unlimited money donating to political campaigns, for instance.

I specifically said individual donations to political campaigns were limited. I think you’re arguing a very pedantic point that I didn’t even make rather than talking about whether or not our society would be better off limiting all forms of political spending.
Please don't pull a Cathy Newman.

Like I said, for the third time: government influence has a negative outcome in most cases. I'm not sure how you got to a different conclusion.

The government should keep social media platforms in check and protect their citizens against censorship (in any form, as long as it is lawful) on large, influential platforms.
She probably gave Instagram access to her photo library (not unreasonable for a photo sharing app). That means the Instagram app can scan her latest pictures in the background when it's opened. I think it's more likely that the data was leaked this way.
Yeah it is one of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to.
Just yesterday my state (in Central EU) has incorporated a company that is going to deploy several SMRs here. One of the US ones got certified just few months ago (they are buying that one too) and we also have our local designs ready to certify and then build - this country is extremely pro-nuclear (over 80% support) and has significant nuclear engineering industry and world-class nuclear regulation authority. I really don't think you're right it's not happening.

And talking about nuclear in general, we are building several standard big reactors too (expanding older power plants), with no sign of insurmountable problems - ever since we stopped letting the greens affect the projects with their FUD and fake "studies" it's going more than well enough, unfortunately they backtracked us for a decade before we were able to change the law otherwise we would have the new reactors running today (the local Green party went from 30% to literally 0 over this, lol).
They are E2E encrypted now in recent versions.
Sounds like buzz word to me. I take it to mean “we have these micro services/applications, go setup dev, qa, prod, etc. environments for us.”
I thought about exactly this when I saw this headline. Extra bandwidth just means we can have video header images rather than a still. Here, have a few more tracking scripts.
A nice blog history and review of the Melbourne House Hobbit https://www.filfre.net/2012/11/the-hobbit/ .

An article about exhibiting it https://www.kinephanos.ca/2014/the-hobbit/ including reference to Wilderland http://veronikamegler.com/WL/wl.htm , a Hobbit ... visualiser? debugger?

It seems that Megler is currently the Principal Data Scientist at Amazon.com Packaging: http://veronikamegler.com/ .

Some other Megler interviews: https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/18/hobbit_author_veronik... https://goodgravy.media/the-hunt-for-the-hobbit-missing-hero... .
Rationing is the primary purpose and effect of prices.
It's not really a wake up call - at any time they could fork and go their own way.

Just right now, they prefer to not have to pay for 1000+ engineers to work on the codebase to keep up with the pace that Google manages.
"WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption is used when you chat with another person using WhatsApp Messenger. End-to-end encryption ensures only you and the person you're communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and nobody in between, not even WhatsApp"

This has always been disingenious.

WhatsApp control the client, the client displays the unencrypted message, ergo WhatsApp can read the message.

It provably does when it interprets links and does a web page preview card.

Also... that is highly likely leaking your advert profile as even if the preview didn't then any visit to the website is outside of WhatsApp and is now tied to your IP, browser cookies, etc.

All of the above can be true without end-to-end encryption being broken or otherwise defeated on the server side.
This is missing one major thing that helps understand actually spoken Japanese: ら抜き(ranuki), the fact that most people drop the ら in られる. So, e.g. たべられる becomes たべれる.

There's an extra る in 降るられた, BTW.
That's assuming that prices stay the same for the materials needed to build the grid. Have you looked into the amount of copper required to build this grid? It is many multiples of the current annual production, this would cause prices to rise enormously.
>If one doesn't start with the premise that Christian beliefs are bogus

I get where you're coming from, and as long as no one is compelling the "victim" I think they should be free to make their own mistakes.

That said, it's very well proven that you cannot change your sexual orientation and anyone claiming you can is a fraudster whether they dress as a priest or medical professional or an "accountability partner" or anything else. That very much is a bogus belief.
No lanthanides, no platinum.

Copper, silver traces. Ultra-pure silicon. Aluminum frame, glass cover.
While I agree it's horrific, I would urge you to reconsider whether or not people who supported such policies were monsters.

That's exactly the dehumanizing language that was used about people who were skeptical of lockdowns and other dissidents.

I think they were normal people who were overcome with fear and placed too much trust in authority. Weak-minded, perhaps, but that doesn't make them monsters.
Because we got NFTs instead.
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> True, but a difference is that they could not spread their confidently wrong opinions globally, only locally, and that opinions were tied to their identity.

> If my mom wrote a blog or posted on HN/reddit, she could certainly come off as a doctor, or even lie about being one, and many would believe her.

I don't think your mom (likeable as she no doubt is) could get an audience of millions just by posting her opinion on HN/Reddit/Social media.

I think the situation is pretty much back to what it was: most of the population have a limited reach of influence. Some people have a much greater reach.

The difference is that the people with greater reach used to be trained journalists who held to a code of conduct and were given that reach by institutions. Now there is no such code of conduct, and the assignment of audience reach is more random, and totally uncontrolled by any institution.
>How could someone realistically use the modern Internet and still avoid content that starts them down unwelcome paths? (A secular analogue might be suicide ideation.)

The bottom line is that you have to create a strong break that prevents inattentive browsing or "doom scrolling." I think the lowest impact version of that would look like something where you write out exactly what you're opening your browser for (and then stick to that.) A more severe implementation would be getting rid of your smart phone and only having browsing on a PC in a common space.

Alternatively, you might get mileage out of a system that broke you out of bad patterns early rather than trying to keep you out initially. For example, an AHK script that throws a pop up every 10/20/30 minutes to ask what you're working on.

There's more complexity than just "unwelcome path", and you would have to choose your method to match your particular problem.
Cool, then you can ask them and post their answers.
Back when deep learning was first hitting "mainstream" for object recognition in images, I recall reading that Facebook was using it to look for brand logos and other signs of using a particular product, in your uploaded photos.

Turns out they were also building a database of everyone's face so they could build shadow profiles...
Yeah... relying on Chromium and "don't be evil" Google definitely sounds like fun.

It's sad that Firefox engine is so difficult to embed and we could have seen more projects using it.
I had a fascinating talk with an executive at a power dustrobution company a couple of years ago.

He looked forward to Solar. He said the #1 biggest cost of electricity was 2 fold: 1) running cable everywhere and 2) anticipating demand 10 years away and running cable for that demand

So, putting solar on your roof really helps them with demand "far" from the plant
Ok I thought that might be the case, although not sure why. As a developer I found less irritating than I am currently finding Figma, although that might just have been the project.
If that feels too intrusive, just ask people if they use snopes.com to check if the shocking thing they just read is real.
I thought Rust doesn't have a specification, just a reference? So all of it is undefined behavior?
My guess it figures out who actually wants to read the article, as opposed to accidental clicks, scrapers etc.
When you want to defeat Russia, but should to supply them a reliable software.
There are extremely modern parts of EE that tons of people use like JAX-RS, JPA (hibernate), microprofile, and CDI.
True, but if its being used to stoke fear and ultimately drive misguided policy then that may be a problem. Were the accidents, where the drunk driver wasn't the cause, juicing the stats to justify a ban on drunk driving?
Fabiano Caruana (former number 2 and World Championship contender) is skeptical of Regan's analysis:

> I would take Regan’s analysis with the large grain of salt, and the reason why is not because I have any insight into his algorithm or his methods, but because I know of a case of, a very high profile case, where with absolute certainty I can say that someone was cheating in an important event. And the person was investigated and was also exonerated based on Regan’s analysis. And I am certain that there was cheating. There is no doubt in my mind that this person was cheating and they got away with it.

https://www.chessdom.com/fabiano-caruana-i-would-take-regans...
The story/narrative driven style of podcasting may be suffering from a lull, but interview style episodes on niche topics is flourishing.
This came as a total surprise... I'm impressed they managed to get the game running well on the Switch!

Will I actually buy it again, just to have it on the Switch?

...yes. Yes, I will.
Related:

Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32825543 - Sept 2022 (359 comments)
Gaming is becoming more popular and less of a "nerdy" niche thing. Marketing is telling people who are new to gaming that better graphics and more resolution is more gaming so they believe they need to play games in 4k at 240hz.
Yes. People can specifically pay towards the principal. There are some dodgy types of loans that penalize completely paying off the loan early but even in those cases one can usually pay more towards the principal and get the interest rates adjusted and then refinance later.
I don't think it's a preference thing. I don't think Vivaldi, or Brave, or any other company whose main product is a browser, can have the income to pay 1000+ engineers to work on the codebase to keep up with the pace of Google.

Maybe it should at the very least be a wake up call to companies which can't afford the engineer-hours it takes to maintain a Chromium fork.
You're guessing at my point of view... correctly.

I'm not exactly a professional, but I've done enough photography that I twitch slightly whenever I see color balance that hasn't been set correctly to neutral grey.

It's like a typesetter that can't handle bad kerning: https://xkcd.com/1015/
Never heard of this particular game (know LOTR of course). Seemed to look like the Monkey Island series. Is this the original?
It's very nice language and not just because of the language features. The tooling is awesome and modern. Compiler errors are top class, cargo is a great package manager, rust-analyzer is a great LSP.

However, I think the way the language has implemented `async` is going to cause a riff in the usage. Because they didn't standardize the executors interface, you're essentially forced to using a single runtime (Tokio) since library developers would have to code for each runtime. Also, because of the async keyword, library developers would also have to make a different sync/async of each function they want to declare.

These are not small issues and will only continue to get worse as people are forced to choose one route, leaving others to use a different language.
What consensus? Im not even sure what your arguing is true or not true.
> Two 3090s plus a 64 core Threadripper pro will get you beyond 1000 watts alone. Don’t forget power for the 512gb of ram (200 watts), the motherboard, the fans and hard drives and accessories

Yes, PEAK instantaneous wattage could easily be well over 1kW for a crazy rig like that, but unless you are specifically torture testing the rig over a long duration, it simply isn’t accurate that you are drawing anywhere near the max continuously under gaming conditions.

> Two 3090s plus a 64 core Threadripper pro will get you beyond 1000 watts alone

3090s are 320/350W each and 64 core Threadripper Pro has a TDP of 280W, just as an FYI.
> Which is hilarious, because where else is your core HTTP fetching DLL, your core HTML parsing DLL, etc, going to go otherwise?

Microsoft insisted that the OS needed the internet explorer executable, not only the rendering engine components. You couldn't even run windows update without it opening IE - in order to load a native ActiveX component that then performed the work. They where desperate to make everything depend on IE without a plan of how to make good use of it, which shouldn't be surprising, back then any complex use of IE would have blue screened the entire system.

> vindicating Microsoft's technical decision.

Imagine a ChromeOS based on IE5 and tell me why I shouldn't break down in hysterical laughter just thinking about it.
> automagical syncing on smartphones

What about the automagical syncing on ipods?
I know a troll when I see one. Go away.
LOL no need for elaborate MITM efforts if both endpoints are completely closed source and totally powned and corrupted.

Of course that reads backwards just as well, no need to implement complicated "end to end encryption" if both endpoints are hopelessly powned.
Glad I deleted my Meta apps and only use online FB when I need to.

The other day I noticed the yahoo mail app on iOS was reading my clipboard for no reason. I’m going to start blocking photos on most of my apps.
All the websites shown probably implemented way better than most modern ones?
I Work Part-Time (and how I find part-time work)
Show HN: LeanQt – a stripped-down, adaptable Qt easy to build and to integrate
The idea that good and evil are up for grabs, and that Christian faith has no say to define it is bigotry.
I'm familiar with the Chromium codebase, and maintaining the Manifest web request V2 API wouldn't be a tricky patch to maintain.

Even if Google rips it all out and the supporting infrastructure, a full rewrite from scratch wouldn't be too tricky. It's just a bunch of RPC calls to the right extension process from the network stack.

You'd still have the downsides that Google is trying to get rid of (extensions can delay requests making the browser slow, and extensions aren't multithreaded so all web requests have to be funnelled through a single javascript thread in the extension). But we've lived with those downsides for 10+ years - I think we can keep them.
> If you can’t explain you know nothing.

Strongly agree. And I'll raise you: if you can't explain in simple, plain language that a 12-year-old could understand, then you are not enlightened.

I concede that some subjects are intrinsically complex; e.g. the cosmological history of the Universe. But a large part of the reason that topic is complex is because it's not settled; we haven't got to the bottom of it, so there are loads of unanswered questions. How can you explain cosmological inflation in language a 12-year-old could understand? Well, I can't explain it to myself, so I sure as hell can't explain it to a 12-year-old.
Yes, old paper newspapers, which are very thin now, and vanishing.

For web based newspapers, good luck trusting longevity there, just because the library has a free interface to an api...
Was a bit of an old ball format - required specific tapes, and decks were only backwards compatible to play legacy analogue tapes not record onto them. That plus the copy protection limited its adoption I think.
There might be other sleazy/douchy/aggressive/be-ashamed emails you receive but this looks fine. That reads like a relatively friendly email, standard cold-email approach. It targetted and I personally (or rather as a business) would have no issue receiving it.
I love this, but I don’t get to pick the tool where my issues live.

So I’d need this to sync to Jira.
Zooming the page changes the pixelation of the rain, which is a fun detail.
Image contains its own MD5 checksum
Is it ever possible to have a fair game of chess?
Don’t make me tap the sign*

*the sign: https://m.xkcd.com/927/
In the UK, the teachers union was campaigning to keep schools closed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/government-fac...
Oh gawd no.

Podcasting is much, much better than radio ever was.

Radio never had anything like Lex Fridman, Omega Tau, The Internet History Podcast, Gradient Dissent, or Econtalk. Where people with real expertise interview people with real expertise. In Econtalk's case you have interviews with a number of winners of the Economics sort of Nobel.

There was never anything on any radio that was like that. There couldn't be. So much of this kind of thing is too niche for almost all radio.

It's estimated that there are ~500K active podcasts ( https://www.thepodcasthost.com/listening/podcast-industry-st... )

Podcasting wasn't like radio when it started in the 2000s and it's very different now.

Sure, there hasn't been another serial, but instead there is so much great stuff out there.
Or that Rust based renderer they were working on.
Cursive means irony? I visited the website but I have not seen any good use for me in this website.
What? Like Amway but for spycraft?
Same here. Usually in a podcast session of 1h, there is probably around 15 minutes of good content. The rest is just bluff, and with audio is difficult to skip the bluff.
Hey, thanks! I don't know much about antitrust, so this is likely to be a dumb question;

Why is messaging a new/different market for Microsoft regarding O365? Microsoft has been including business-targeted messaging/collab tools in O365 for years. Skype for Business preceded Slack, let alone Office Communicator or Linc, not to mention Outlook.
Ok, so you have the data now. You seem to be a person who cares about privacy, so why do you still have a WhatsApp account?
It's very clear the OP implicit assumption is that the report is verified to be true.