skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am 99% sure Meta/Facebook have secretly broken WhatsApp e2e encryption by adding a second key to all users.

I have security code change notifications enabled, and around November 4, 2021 a large number of my unrelated contacts suddenly had security code changes. There wasn’t any media reporting at the time, but I remember some others mentioning it on Reddit[0] (would love if anyone here can scroll back in their message history and look for security code changes around the same time - maybe we can finally shine some light on this).

Since then I have assumed they are flat out lying about the fact that “not even WhatsApp can read your messages” (direct quote from the iOS app).

Also note that both iMessage and WhatsApp strongly encourage you to enable iCloud backups, which are not e2e encrypted and readable by Apple (Apple only claim backups are “encrypted” and that messages are “e2e” encrypted):

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/what...

At least Apple are not flat out lying like Meta, but they are still being incredibly deceptive with their marketing.

Use Signal if you care about e2e encryption. Everything else is a marketing slight of hand.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsapp/comments/qm2ufw/security_c...
Show HN: Transactional memory in JavaScript
it would be easier if twitter just ported itself to Secure Scuttlebutt or the myriad other p2p/dweb projects.
Japan's 'Zero Waste' Village
>We're doing it wrong, according to a new Stanford study

Wrong according to what metric? Cost? Raw efficiency? A lot of people are more than willing to give up efficiency so that they don't have to actually worry about finding a station during the day. To say that something is just outright "wrong" based on their personal preference of priorities comes off as unhelpful to me.

The solution is simple. Make electricity cheaper when it's more available, and people will use it. You don't need any complex "AI" like people in this thread are saying, you just use natural market forces and the problem fixes itself. Too much energy being used at night - price increases. It's not complicated, and it's what we're doing already. People don't need a Stanford study to convince them to get their energy for cheaper.
Lay-by by Tennyson complements the simulation quite well

https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=3FfOsXr9rvw
I emailed them last week about Apple Silicon and they told me to watch for today's blog post. I interpret that to mean that, yes - this means they can more easily do that.
There are transaction fees based on how fast you need your money. The wire fee is $25. ACH is free but can take 3-5 business days according to their web site. There are also limits on transaction amounts.

Bottom line: The business case for using USDC over fiat banking is virtually nil in my opinion --- more gimmick than function. Decent credit unions have been providing similar service for years --- including debit card --- minus the crypto experience.
> The only pluses are that it looks pretty and is roughly 2/3 the DBA when running.

Well, the HEPA will remove a lot more particles than just a carbon air filter.
If there are no differences between linux distros, why does anyone need a custom distro?
KPMG got fined $US450k for this kind of behaviour [0]. If I recall correctly, employees kept the answers to the mandatory compliance training tests in a document on a shared drive.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/15/us-wa...
Well that's lame. There was 0 increase in electricity here, neither did the salaries. They could have use this fact to be more competitive.
In the US, patents don't just "run out", the patent owner has to actively not bother tweaking something trivial, filing for a new patent on top of their own while it's still active, and then start arguing that even though the old patent runs out, folks who act on that are now in violation of the new patent.
I would be curious about a study done for the Texas market.

From what I understand, you'd definitely want to charge at night due to the vast amounts of wind power available and the otherwise low demand.

Even better would be to plug the car in at all times when parked either at work or home and it just charges when the rate is cheapest. You don't need to charge every day to refill that 20 or 30 miles.
U.N. experts find that war crimes have been committed in Ukraine
Just going to leave this gem of a video[0] here. Whilst I agree the web has been walled gardened into various silos like social media, and people think Facebook and Twitter are the Internet, it's still read/write. The blogosphere is still ticking along nicely and last time I checked it's thriving.

Yes, people have gamified Google and search to get traffic and the blogosphere of old has largely been co-opted by profiteering gluttons, but there's still hope. Surf Hackernews enough and you'll find little gem posts that don't have an ulterior motive and are not 'monetizing' their content and sprinkling it with affiliate links and ADs. They just want to vent, exchange techne, and share knowledge.

Then there's Wikipedia which has remained AD-free for as long as I can remember (apart from their donation banners which I don't mind). Wikipedia is the coolest thing ever and my IQ has probably gone up a few notches over the years because of it. It is the closest thing to getting home-schooled without going through formal education, and you can verify all the claims made in its entries by going to the footer section and reading various citations usually written by esteemed scholars.

The web is in a sorry state due to the commercialization and walled garden silos, and also because of the proliferation of smartphones which are mere consumption devices IMHO and not designed for producing any meaningful or substantial content, apart from maybe uploading photos/videos to Instagram or writing tweets etc I can't write a blogpost on a phone because I have bad dexterity, and I typically have to have 100+ tabs open to verify claims, provide sources, do cross-referencing, find relevant images etc...all something done best on a workstation PC or laptop.

Some context: I have professionally blogged for more than five years but due to reasons I won't go into here, I have stopped. I'm thinking of jumping back in, only this time armed with the wisdom of my previous blogging shenanigans. Failure is an opportunity to start again more intelligently!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
I guess it depends on the company culture a bit (do people under you have equity?), and it seems like you want equity as opposed to choosing a higher salary with no skin in the game, so that helps.

But if I found out and I was working for you, I might question how much you care about making the company successful. You've already said the salary is not competitive, so without equity; you can easily pick up and leave as soon as you find a better role. Maybe reading the comments in this thread will even make you realize this; you could be at a new job in less than a month.

I think I can say this isn't just "your" problem - you've stated the situation is demotivating and you are not giving it all as CTO; passing over "great ideas". Being unmotivated at work is a personal problem if it bothers you. Passing over great ideas or changing jobs is a shareholder problem, but that doesn't include you. It would potentially be something to bring up to shareholders especially if you are prepared to leave over it.
What does "not age appropriate" mean? Who gets to pick? Are they likely to pick largely based on if the person talking is gay?
Same story with vegetable oil.
That's just the fan speed rating - not the filter's rating.

It's specs say it covers 1,312 sq ft (2 air changes per hour)
Assuming 10foot ceilings, that comes out to 109CFM
I agree with this 100%. I don't work in the gaming industry, but always used to be the "passionate/caring/agreeable" person in my team, until I realised that being so agreeable made me work more for less.

The place I work is actually nice, but since that realisation, I managed to get an offer from a different place, to make my current company to counter with a massive salary increase.

I know and also share the salary numbers with most of my closer friends in the company, so I know how good I'm doing. If they stop giving me the fair regular salary increases, then I'll leave without any regrets.

Lesson for me that blind loyalty - even in nice places - will give you nothing but frustration and exploitation.
It had good performance, but part of the problem is that Intel way oversold it at the beginning. They said they would be "1000x faster, 1000x more enduring, and 10x more dense than NAND". In the end none of these promises materialized. They released these puny little drives that had a bit better latency than NVMe SSDs, that were locked to Intel systems, that OSs didn't know what to do with them, and that didn't quite fit anywhere in the memory hierarchy.

Yeah, it found a few niche uses, but it was never going to be sustainable.
Excellent vibe. Good art.
I personally think Govt should ban home charging if they are going to ban non-EV vehicles.

How is that rich people with homes charge at home while everyone else has to queue up and waste their time at charging stations.

Doesn't seem fair at all. Its a extra time tax on the poor.
We couldn't introduce a new 'middle' keyword, but could we say 'int' is 32 bit, 'long' is 128 bit and 'short long' is 64 bit..?
To be fair, there are a lot of inflated egos among the rank and file of FAANG laborers.
Could someone elaborate on the right "use cases"?

Just curious about other's people definition, as I imagined Fly.io as a more self-served BaaS (mostly for web applications)
If the US continued to build nuclear plants at the same pace it did in the 1960s and 70s we'd have reached 100% nuclear generation by 2010. The world would be in a much better place.
Because they hit ctrl+h instead of ctrl+v by accident once.
Well, this isn't prima facie unreasonable without more info (or knowledge of the implicit assumptions you are making but not publishing).

- Are cases 1,2,3 named that way, because they are the top priority cases (i.e. the #1, #2, and #3 most important product features that customers care about)? Even if they are, what is the cost of a new architecture? Will it take you 3 years and 20 engineers, to rebuild Y or to make Y.v2, just so you can support X "properly"? By then the market may have moved on, the feature may be worthless, so it may make perfect sense to deliver a bad version of X that relies on Y.

- Or, are cases 1,2,3 legitimately either rare, or low-impact, or do have viable manual workarounds? If so, then it's entirely reasonable to defer/punt on doing new architecture right now, because either you know these cases are unimportant, or at least you don't have positive proof that these cases are important enough to justify new architecture. With more data, or clear customer demand, you can make a better case for rebuilding Y "properly". The real problem comes later: what happens if you do get strong signals of customer demand, you can prove the current solution is not scalable or extensible, and yet the business still decides that Y is good enough to never touch... well that's a business that doesn't want to stay in business.

Agile is about practicality/pragmatism, over adherence to dogma or preconceived notions. Just because Y is the wrong architecture to deliver X, does not mean it is the wrong decision to ship partial feature X. Don't be dogmatic about "correct architecture", if you care about for-profit software engineering as a profession.

Of course, if your goal is different, if SWE is a craft or a hobby or an ivory tower pursuit for you, then feel free to make whatever decisions you want that don't fit your vision of "correctness".
Archived link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220923124045/https://www.nytim...
It's actually very easy to implement if all you want is just shortening and you have the slightest idea about databases. All you need to do is generate a random string (functions that do this for almost any language are available online), save that string and the long URL to the database.

If you want tracking and statistics though, it gets more complicated. The simple version can be a good way to get into web development now that I think about it. You learn about forms, GET/POST, databases, very basic SQL etc.
> Current time-of-use rates encourage consumers to switch electricity use to nighttime whenever possible, like running the dishwasher and charging EVs. This rate structure reflects the time before significant solar and wind power supplies when demand threatened to exceed supply during the day, especially late afternoons in the summer.

So, if you have a grid that doesn't heavily rely on solar then charging at night makes sense.

> Today, California has excess electricity during late mornings and early afternoons, thanks mainly to its solar capacity. If most EVs were to charge during these times, then the cheap power would be used instead of wasted.

How are people going to charge their cars during commutes?
> From my point of view - if someone hires CxO employee - deal is that they have to buy into company with money and company has to sell them shares.

So only wealthy people can become CxO? Or is buying $1 worth of shares enough in your opinion?
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020151638/http://branch.com/

Even the order form is still there, ready for your credit card. There's a link on the order form, "credit card concerns"...

> "...we feel that using a credit card here may be more secure than using it at your local restaurant. We don't know. We haven't had a problem in this area."

I guess "we don't know" covers them just in case things go wrong!
Whether or not you should trust your gut depends on what’s in your head. People that have built up a lifetime of wisdom, muscle memory, well-honed instincts, and institutional knowledge should absolutely put a lot of stock in their hunches and feelings.

Everyone else should be somewhat skeptical of their gut and doublecheck with the people from the first group.
Nightmares are a good predictor of future dementia – new study
Super common for CIA to do PR campaigns, including content for kids. They also actively work with main stream media, including the movie industry, to shape the way they’re presented to the public.

Here’s link to first episode, which is just an interview with current director; didn’t hear anything of interest:

- https://open.spotify.com/episode/6A68ekTmSZY43VE5PwB5OH

One of oddest things I ever heard was a former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence say that CIA’s primary source at one point for daily briefings was the New York Times; if true, pretty telling in my opinion, given the substantial difference in budgets, methods, sources, etc, the two organizations have.
Please don't "equate fun with money" says the executive with the multi-million dollar compensation package.

I don't even disagree, it's just hilarious coming from a CEO of one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world.
In all your scenarios the likely answer , even with great e2e is that WhatsApp would still know who you messaged and they might have googled the words at some point.

Your agent might have searched for latches after you messaged them. Your friend likely searched for cat litter before he messaged you.

In each of those cases, E2E may still be active but you’re compromised by the human equivalent of the age old analog hole.
"Also note that both iMessage and WhatsApp strongly encourage you to enable iCloud backups, which are not e2e encrypted and readable by Apple"

-> That's not completely true (at least for WhatsApp): It is possible to enable a e2e encrypted backup right in the chat-backup menu.
You'd need counterweights in the front. :-)
I expect websites to use IP addresses for their purpose of routing packets back to me, and perhaps some slightly-above-L2 concerns like rate limiting.

And yes, I understand these businesses have fallen for snake oil salesmen telling them things like VPSs are indicators of "nefarious purposes". But the actual reality is why would someone with "nefarious purposes" need or want to use a VPS? Rather someone looking to do credit card fraud is going to be using a proxy service that runs through residential connections via cracked machines.

Commercial VPNs, which I also use for some types of traffic, get hassled just as much by websites. So no, that is not a solution.

Getting my own /29 would defeat the entire purpose of browsing from a rotating data center IP, which is to defeat IP-based tracking.

The only way to solve this dynamic is for enough people to start browsing from VPNs, CGNAT, etc, that the snake oil salesmen have to move on to something else.
The timing of birth does at least slightly influence a child's development through the relative age effect - the oldest kids in each academic year get a few benefits over their peers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect
They say themselves that this increase is because of inflation + energy prices (https://blog.ovhcloud.com/ovhcloud-price-adjustments-in-2022...). Are you saying they are lying about this?

> In 2021 and especially in 2022, the global rates of inflation have changed our daily lives. With an annual rate reaching +8.9% in July 2022 in Europe

> Thanks to the long-term management of our energy costs in 2021, we did not immediately need to change our prices. However, at the end of 2022 and in 2023, part of our energy purchases coverage are coming to an end and we are going to end up buying energy at a higher price
"Expect us to add benefits rather than pare them down over time. We believe it is easy to be penny wise and pound foolish with respect to benefits that can save employees considerable time and improve their health and productivity." -Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2004

It's kind of nice to get a T-Shirt with a Team Logo on it when you join a team. Especially if you see other people on that team already have that T-Shirt.

It's kind of nice to celebrate a major accomplishment with a coffee cup that has some cool art on it.

It's kind of nice to see what interests other people have by noting the stickers on their laptops.

It's kind of nice to get a surprise nice new backpack when you wouldn't normally bother to take care of yourself by getting one.

It's kind of nice, as a manager, to send some token appreciation to your team when you see them working hard to solve a problem.

It's kind of nice.

Some people kind of like it. If you read the book "Love Languages," you'll see that different people feel appreciated through different ways. Some like token gifts. Some like words of appreciation. It's worth learning how someone else likes to feel appreciated, because it costs you very little to express your appreciation in a way that they particularly enjoy.
Heh, wow! Thanks. Haven't touched it in a good while but I may again at some point.
Google spent a decade throwing every perk imaginable at it's engineers, from swag to massages to free food, etc. Now people are getting upset that they're cutting back despite making more money then ever and they are confused?
> If all Google employees quit on the same day, and refuse to return without getting a seat in the board

You're expecting way too much. I know plenty of people who work at Facebook all the while claiming that "they know it's bad for the world", and guess why? Because those $400,000 a year are still flowing in.
You need to account for corporation tax, dividend tax, expenses of running a company, sick pay & holidays, etc. Once you account for all that, it's not as much.

It's really advantageous if you work on a startup or side-project that requires capital; in this case your company accumulates the money and can spend it without incurring any tax (not to mention claiming back VAT), where as buying that same equipment as an employee means not only did you already pay tax on that money, but you can't even claim back VAT.

If you're just looking for an equivalent to a long-term permanent job but as a contractor (even with a legitimately Outside IR35 contract with no tax-avoidance shenanigans), it's not worth it. A conservative calculation on a 500/day rate assuming 44 weeks worked in a year, 11k/year salary (with the rest as dividends), 6k/year pension contributions and 2k/year expenses suggests that it's equivalent to ~110k permanent salary. In practice, you might actually get a bit less due to downtime in between contracts.
>It feels like we need a word to differentiate IP from HTTP.

We really don't, because technical accuracy isn't relevant to the vast majority of people, who aren't discussing protocols to begin with.

And anyway,I think people stopped referring to "the internet" in general once it became ubiquitous enough that it became more useful to refer to specific sites instead, or genres of services like social media. I think the only time people use "the internet" anymore is in reference to their ISP, eg: "the internet" going down.
> We’re doing it wrong, according to a new Stanford study.

This requires further clarification. What is it that we want to optimize? How do we know we want to optimize that?
I don't think it can be observed because it's likely a bug. It freaks users out. People uninstall the app and start threads like this.

It's sort of like getting mugged once and then setting up a camera in a bunch of alleys to prove that muggers exist. You can even set up a camera of yourself running into dark alleys every night, but the odds of reproducing a mugging is still extremely low.

There's a certain kind of precision that convinces me it's real though. Precision is common. I look at a book on Amazon, and a FB ad for that book appears.

But I get rejected for a loan via WhatsApp and then used car ads appear for that model of car that I applied a loan for? That's a bit on the nose.
Conflating maturity with buy in worryingly resembles a cult. Especially with the jargon designation starting to sound like like Scientology.
Musk does not control power utilities, nor what they charge, nor what power they have access to at a given time, nor the load of the rest of the grid outside of Telsa vehicles.

> Cars will turn into one of our most valuable assets as they help stabalize the grid by being both sinks when energy is plentiful and sources when it's not.

In fantasy land, sure. In reality there are a lot more players with a lot more variables and most of them don't give a shit about some grand unified solution through cars. Just because in theory there is one great universal solution to one problem (demand for power) doesn't mean everyone is going to work together to achieve it. We have more than enough agricultural land around the world to feed the entire planet every day, yet millions of people go hungry every day. Just because a solution is possible doesn't mean it happens.

By the way: if we had fewer cars, we wouldn't have this huge demand for additional power. The simpler solution is to replace cars with public transit and micromobility. Then we would pollute less to make the cars, require fewer chips and rare earth metals, require less power generation and distribution, require fewer people to sink huge amounts of money into car ownership, free up cities for more pedestrian and bike traffic, provide easier access to jobs and education for poor rural areas, and have 30,000 fewer fatalies in the US every year.

But instead let's just buy more cars and build more nuke plants to power them and expand the grid because I want my own zoom-zoom machine!
Raylib vs. SDL – A Comparison
This is nonsensical. You are taking away extremely useful technologies from people who can afford a parking space next to a power outlet, all because it's not fair to people who don't have that.
Assessing the calorific significance of human cannibalism in the Palaeolithic
Is it really that ineffective? Let's say I get 1 million click-throughs and 100k of them click "read more", which I send as conversions to Facebook. Won't Facebook's algorithm start targeting people similar to the 100k that "converted", making the next 1 million clicks contain more people that hit "read more"?