skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa!

In Signal, Contacts’ multiple phone numbers are strictly computed each into its hashed value before only hashes of contacts being store on Signal. You can always turn that off via “Settings->Chat->Share Contact with iOS/Android” option (and it is recommended but it puts the onus of adding contacts on you, which is fine for OpSec mode). Failure to turn that off and you also get that “surprise” User just joined Signal message.

Metadata of you being stored on Signal server can be just a single user ID and heavily-ratchet encrypted before sent over network. But you would have to clear/omit your primary self contact info at OS level also.

Avatar Photo of you is problematic. Easiest not to use it in the first place. Turn off “Settings->Chat->Use System Contact Photos” option as well.

once settings are done, relevancy of PIN is reduced to (rubber-hose) OpSec and remaining forensic footprint (outside of User ID) to just within your Phone and others’ phone (and not the server, much less over network).

Turn everything off under “Settings->Privacy->Advanced” except “Circumvention” and only this one under extreme Internet duress.

What is painfully clear is while the cleartext content of your message is never stored on Signal server in any form at most states and never has your key to these content (a good thing), the association with other User ID remains forensically extractable, which is why burner phones are most helpful there there. This is where “timer” for deleting message can protect you even further (less the phone falls into the hand of an adversary within that period before timed message deletion).

If you do not mind the obtuse associativity with others, this app is excellent in keeping the actual content of your conservation off of and away from servers, network, and nation-states outside of said phones involved. Which is just fine for me and my family and close friends.

If you are striving for absolute anonymous in the area of association with others, I weakly recommended Telegram but the message is plain as day and can be read by nation-state simply because Telegram holds the encryption keys of yours.

In short, you have only one choice:

- near-absolute anonymity of message content

- near-absolute anonymity of association

It remains a hard problem.
Maybe it was Fabi!
Almost everything has improved by at least some important measures (quality, safety, availability, or inflation-adjusted price) since the 1980s.
If you have so much free space as US or Romania, maybe. There are much smaller states without enough sunshine though, and people hate having wind turbines visible near their houses (also, if you care about ecology then the blades are a big problem). Both wouldn't be nearly enough to replace fossil fuels anyways - only nuclear allows us to ditch natural gas and benzin/diesel entirely.
Since all EOS R series camera's can charge their battery perfectly fine when connected to a USB-C PD charger the only thing that adapter 'fixes' is the software lock Canon placed on the camera which causes it to stop charging from USB when turned on. Smells like a software-defined business model to me...
So much effort to be able to claim that you do targeted advertising, that is yet to be proven to be effective.
It's not wrong, but the same truth from 40 years ago is still relevant, you need to know where to go for a good cup of coffee. Just because a place is expensive or gourmet has no real significance. The best coffee near me is at a mediocre diner that mostly serves overnight prison guards. Next best is a gas station.
Yes of course Go has fewer orthogonal features than Rust. It has fewer features period. Go is a very simple and not a very expressive language.
Life in Bangladesh has completely transformed even since I lived there in the mid 1980s. My dad laments that it’s too crowded and kids in his village don’t know what it’s like to take a boat to school anymore during monsoon, but progress has happened rapidly.

Energy is the critical thing. We don’t have space for wind mills and solar panels. I’d love to see Pan-Asian cooperation on nuclear. Regrettably, I think all that will have to happen through alignment with China. The west is captured by Malthusian thinking, and their solution is “less brown people,” not “more energy, more infrastructure, more production.”
On similar note:
Despite faster hardware every year, laptops don't perform any better, running applications.

Usage experience with typical specs of 2022 (500G SSD and 16G RAM) is as good or bad as ones from 20 years back (say, 20G HDD and 128M RAM).
I live in India, but grew up in the U.S, and am a coffee aficionado. I love Indian food, but it's coffee culture bugs me.

In India, there is an obvious lack of care for the quality of coffee (IMO). I found a few vendors to supply me beans, but it take time to find the right ones, mostly from a region called Coorg famous for it's coffee beans. I've been there and went to look at the coffee plantations and processing ( Chikmagalur is the also very common if you know India well). I love my coffee and take it seriously.

In India, coffee is typically packaged with a mix of chicory. Chicory is a root, that is meant to preserve the coffee longer. In the end, it's also way cheaper to make produce chicory, so the production cost is lower. I personally hate chicory with my coffee as it gives a weird "non coffee" taste to it.

What I've found ( anecdotally ), is that an often my conception of "good" or even "ok" coffee doesn't align with a typical India. Nescafe doesn't cut it. Sorry. And how Indians typically enjoy coffee ( with tons of milk and sugar ), always made me put coffee in almost the "dessert" category. When I try to share my coffee with them, it is usually wayyy too bitter for their preference. Of course, I know exceptions that like a good roast.

A few coffee bean shops have popped up to change the culture here: Blue Tokai being one of the more premium and popular coffee places. I live next to a coffee consulting business and visit them regularly. So it is growing. Starbucks is here as well, but WAY too overpriced relative to quality and local shops that do just as good a brew. A good, cup of coffee here at a premium place (Bangalore) is around 140-210 RS (or 2-3 dollars). A normal (Indian) cup of coffee costs 15-30 RS (or $0.20-0.50).

As much as I rag on Indian coffee sometimes with my friends and family (I'm married to an Indian), every once in a while I find myself picking up a cup of "sugar milk with coffee" on the street.Maybe there's something to it....
And yet, nearly every popular podcast does this, so maybe the audience actually enjoys it?

It's a bit like the story at the top of every recipe on the web. It annoys a certain type of people, but it's also the reason most of the people are there.
And service. People are so habitualized to going out, spending money, receiving an inconsistent product, delivered with shambolic service, that they just can't stop, even if they recognize how bad things have gotten.
Yup, it only uses PCI-E5 power connectors.
The GPU is gen4.
Nice if the author gave more specific criticisms. I read it from top to bottom hoping to learn something, anything. But I can't honestly tell if the author has excellent taste, or is just making this up

Anyone have links to what makes truly great coffee? I got a Jura machine for the office and I'm happy with the coffee (the machine seems to make a bigger difference than the beans). I'd like to understand better because I'm probably missing something
I don't agree.

This is like the Eternal September, but for coffee.

Before you know it, the only coffee you can buy is coffee with hazelnut syrups.
Thanks… When I was researching it I found both Pom and saber to be well regarded and I went with Pom but couldn’t remember the name of the other one. So yes, Saber is also well reviewed.
As a slight aside one would think that running a proxy you'd want to install Docker so you're getting the latest bits. Considering compose is now a plugin and base repos are often way behind on Docker versions I always point people to leverage the convenience script that Docker provides [0].

[0] https://get.docker.com
I'm up for it. Experienced traveller to Japan, thinking of Shikoku for the coming trip.
As a kid, I used to love brewing my coffee in milk instead of water. (I did that for tea too!)
Now that's some commitment!
Probably a conflicted opinion.. but I always thought the reason why people buy Starbucks coffee or from any costly brand... is the same reason why people buy iPhone
I figured that it was someone's idea to get above the 1024 mark when all they had was a shell account and people weren't using :8080 yet. It could also be that "virtual hosting by name" wasn't a thing yet so a single computer hosting multiple sites had to break it out by port.
I believe the answer is already in the comment to which you've replied:

> they chose the numbers big enough to result in [...] overflows
I think that’s very fair.

Branded coffee shops strive for consistency in their offerings in order to produce revenue.

Specialty coffee shops strive for a specialized variety of offerings to drive revenue —although regrettably sometimes it’s packaged as exotic or unique and as a non sequitur that it’s therefore better and the consumer is superior to those not in the know.
yeah i just made a ~/.config/gpodderFeeds.opml file and pointed gpodder.desktop to a wrapper that invokes `gpo import ~/.config/gpodderFeeds.opml` before handing off to the real gpodder.

i think this causes the start time to be linear w.r.t. the number of feeds, but it’s working fine for the time being
I agree that many contractors were more or less perm. That in turn seemed to be a consequence of the pay differential, rather than an actual desire to be a contractor.
> my wife sent me a picture of my daughter working on a puzzle.

> her Instagram was showing ads for a store that was selling the same type of puzzle

How did she take the pic ?
I think that the last sentence already answered all the questions you just asked.

"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."

> Would you want that same government to force HN to allow political topics?

If we were talking politics and Dang would censor anyone because of their ideology, yes, the government should set laws in place against that.

> Would it apply to religious organizations that set up a social media platform?

No.

> You said yourself it would be a “negative outcome”.

Yes, stop misinterpreting it, I had expanded on it in the same sentence.

> The state pushing this is the same state that tried to force companies not to speak about diversity

You mean the same law that "prohibits teaching or business practices that contend members of one ethnic group are inherently racist and should feel guilt for past actions committed by others"? The same law that prevents schools and business from reducing a person to just their race to assign labels of privileges regardless of all the nuances that make up an individual?

Good, stop justifying prejudice.
Yup. Normally the left is like “corporations aren’t people!” and “corporations should have less power, not more!”.

Then Florida tells Disney to watch its step and the left come out in defense of a massive corporation - “why won’t you leave poor Disney Corp alone!!”

Really amazing to see.
What you're describing in terms of boilerplate can be done via snippets.

Think of it like parenting.

I can either convince the little tike to clean up his room or do it myself in half the time. Only with babysitting I may take the time to teach them something, with things like autopilot I have no such motivation.

I don't even like autocompleting brackets and the like. It flat isn't consistent enough for me. It's ok-ish when writing fresh code, but completely gets in the way when editing code to the point that it's easier and faster for me to just disable it.
Its a pity google stopped selling their search appliances
Substack seems to have turned everyone into an expert on things they know nothing about. This article is terrible.
I don't know if this is true but I've heard the burning is deliberate in order to maintain a consistent flavor across all of their stores, much like McDonalds wants a Big Mac to taste the same no matter where you are.
> Economies of scale

Synergy is the word. The combined effect being greater than the sum of its parts.
Nice summary on how I felt about adventures without realizing it. I just couldn't bring myself to play any for any significant time anymore. Back when I started with PC in 1993 I enjoyed Kyrandia II, and later Broken Sword, but what makes me tick are simply different sort of games.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, those dodging tax by just operating like a permanent employee but through a Ltd company are on the wrong side of the law. The problem i had is it punishes those operating legitimately.

Lots of laws are like this, for instance the piracy warnings that they used to put at the start of DVD's that only punished lawful users cuz if your pirated it, the warnings would be cut out. Theres many more examples like this.
I have always been more on the pragmatic side of the FOSS movement (open source versus the philosophical/moral stance of the FSF, but still have tremendous respect for the FSF). For pragmatic reasons I reject the Timescale License. It doesn't just prevent Amazon (that alone would be misguided enough, though) but also prevent anyone other than Timescale from hosting the software for me. That means even if Timescales current offerings lined up perfectly with my business, I would be locked into whatever decisions they make in the future which may not align. The chances for a successful community fork are greatly reduced under the restrictions of the Timescale license. It makes it impossible for the community to make contributions on equal footing to Timescale, thus anyone making contributions are just doing free work for a corporation, rather than contributing to a product the community benefits from just as much as the corporation.
This seems like the most obvious answer but social dynamics make it hard to suggest.
I love this separation of aspects and the graphical representation to nudge out overlap.

How do you keep the layers consistent? How do you keep track what update to some layer is not covered in some other layer yet? Is that visible right in your layers? or some outside backlog?
It isn't just "based on" matroska, it literally is matroska. Call it a subset if you want to be pedantic.
Is this something that actually happens (= can anyone prove this by disassembling the app or MITMing the network traffic), or is it just unfounded paranoia?
A gun can protect you in one of two ways: shoot first, or shoot second.
That's an unusual thing to be disappointed to discover is not the case :-)
I've never tried it, but a friend of mine says he uses a hot-air popcorn popper to roast coffee beans.
My usual way of drinking coffee is espresso with warm milk, so, a latte. In the USA, I believe that espresso-with-milk drinks are vastly superior at Peets or Starbucks, than they are at smaller, more "sophisticated" places. I'm not a coffee expert, but it seems to me that the big chains sell espresso that tastes more like espresso traditionally does in, say, Italy. I'm guessing that the smaller boutique / specialty coffee shops in the USA are using specialty beans (lighter, more acidic? more floral?) that they've selected for how they taste when prepared as filter coffee, or americano, i.e. when drunk black, and that these are unfortunately terrible as espresso mixed with milk.
I think if one takes Christianity seriously then they would recognize that sinning takes place in the mind, and that putting a chastity belt on your phone doesn't really change anything, not going down wrong paths is supposed to be a choice, not the product of community phone surveillance. God knows if you want to look at porn.

I don't think there is a non-bogus version of this especially if you are a Christian. An 'accountability partner' sounds like something Scientology or the CCP assigns to you but not a Christian

So if you're looking for the genuinely Christian solution: Have a relaxed attitude towards modern vices, you don't need to partake in them, just close the browser window. Little bit more faith in Christ, maybe switch the denomination, and less of whatever this is

"Brit says she was asked to install the app by her parents after she was caught looking at pornography and that her mother and her pastor were both her designated accountability partners. “I remember I had to sit down and have a conversation with him [her pastor] after I Wikipedia’d an article about atheism,” she says. “I was a kid, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have some kind of right to read what I want to read.””
One could use stable diffusion or another AI to generate new characters.
Found the same thing googling myself.

Posting a link rather than quoting the relevant parts make me think that's all you did, once I called you on it. Should you be held to the same high standard?:

> take on the best existing scholarship on the subject and give references to support their arguments

You essentially put the burden on me to figure out how this document supports your argument - that the majority of white lynching (in some unspecified time period) where racially motivated.

I've also found quite a few that argue white lynching were motivated by support for progressive racial causes, but yet to find concrete statistics/evidence supporting that conclusion either.
I was always told that you're more likely to be stabbed with your own knife than anything else.
Propaganda's a hell of a drug eh?
You should rediscover Pluto
I can't even prevent my pre-coffee self from making a mess in my own kitchen with an Aeropress... god forbid my travel-exhausted self balancing my stuff on a suitcase in an airport lounge!
Yes, for sure. Now I've got a different vacuum cleaner for every room. Never have I felt cleaner before.
We’re all responsible for what’s wrong with today. If not responsible for the cause then responsible for fixing it.

Or not. I don’t think it particularly matters either way.
Most people/customers don't really have a good taste. This is why high quality stuff, even when competitive price-wise, have a hard time in the market.

In Warsaw, one of the best cafes, I mean world class, they make their own tonic for tonic espresso, is a short stroll away from Starbucks[1]. Yet, that Starbucks does just fine.

Same with clothing. Luxury brands clothes are now more expensive than custom tailored, bespoke items. And HHVM is doing great while small tailors are going out of business. People simply can't spot quality.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/np8KbybFpSoo4bqFA
> Vivaldi comes with [...] a built-in Mail and Calendar

Why? Why on earth would anyone want those built into their web browser?
> My theory on good and bad coffee, oddly, can be summed up by something they talk about in Top Gun: Maverick, about how it isn’t the plane but the pilot flying it that matters.

This is the first thing I learned on barista course (I am not a barista, I got the course as a birthday present because I care a lot about coffee).

As of now there exists no way to get a great coffee without having somebody with taste and knowledge to actually check the coffee, diagnose the problem and then fix it.

A lot of bad coffee should be understood as coffee shops without a feedback loop that would understand that the coffee is bad and how to fix it. The customers certainly are not good enough, they will just not return and you will be none the wiser about why.

I have been to many coffee shops for coffee to observe what looks like a lot of expensive, good quality equipment and then a barista that definitely don't know or don't care about what they are doing. And nobody in sight to spot and fix the problem.

It seems like the owners' idea of the business was to have upscale coffee place for coffee snobs like me but like many people missed the critical lesson of quality control, constant improvement and the importance of hiring people who care. Which for some reason is a lot of businesses where the owners' first goal is to make as much money as possible.
Meta can still run on-device code to extract meaning from messages and pass on the metadata to the Ads backend.
> Contacts are strictly computed into a hashed value before only hashes of contacts being store on Signal.

Wait, are you saying only a hash is ever sent to signal's servers and stored there? How then are you able to install signal on a totally new device and have your contacts downloaded to it? You seem to think this is about contact discovery, but the data collection was about contact recovery. I've got links in other comments that describe this usage.

Data is uploaded as soon as you set a pin or opt out of setting one. If you do disable "everything" under “Settings->Privacy->Advanced” is all of the data that has been uploaded to the cloud then deleted?
May it become a list of corpses.
I like your style. As someone who isn't particularly invested in finding great coffee, but does appreciate a good cup if it's not out of my way, what qualities do you look for in a fantastic cup of coffee?
As a German, it would have been more relaxing if cars on the left were faster.
Bizarrely, I remember there was more to this dream sequence. After he runs through the hallway towards the camera, shot switches to Rivers running in dark mist saying "I need to find the exam!" The mist evaporates revealing students in stadium seating in an auditorium, and Nick asks if this was the physics exam, and the response is "where have you been all semester?" and someone else asks, "where are your clothes?" before the mist returns to white out, and then Nick wakes up relieved he's only being tortured by Nazis.
AFAIU, the IR35 rules have existed for a long time. The recent change was to shift the responsibility to determine in/out to the employer. This change shifts it back to the employee.
> I don’t coffee but I took it as “you used to be able to go to small shop and pay more and get good coffee, but now everything is better across the board and Dunkin’s has decent coffee and many small shops are no better”.

> Which happens all the time when the (hipster/prosumer/whatever) takes off.

> Same thing with cameras - any standalone camera used to be better than a phone camera, but the phone cameras got better.

I feel like that's only a reasonable complaint if the specialty shops have gotten worse. From talking to friends who do drink coffee, that doesn't seem to be the case. There are all sorts of innovations happening in coffee (particularly espresso) all the time that allow for more and more control over the extraction process.

To use your camera example: sure, phone cameras have gotten better - in fact, they're so good that many people find them sufficient to use instead of a standalone camera. But dedicated cameras continue to get better as well - albeit at a slower pace.

I can understand complaints by working photographers: there are so many pictures out there that it's much more difficult to make a living selling stock photography. But it just seems weird for an amateur to complain that the gap between phones and what the pros use is shrinking as long as both continue to improve.
I French press my grounds at home too, but I bring water to 200F (93C) instead of boiling, as I was taught in my barista days that boiling water makes the coffee too bitter. Are you supposed to use boiling water for Hoffman method? A cursory googling told me 197F was optimum for Hoffman but I have never done it.
The western US is only able to support this level of population due to modern infrastructure. In other words the population density is being subsidized by technology to accommodate beyond its carrying capacity.

So more technology and resource management (diversion) or relocate the population to naturally sustainable areas.
Logseq has rudimentary time tracking, but it’s fiddly and probably too limited to be useful if you have a serious time tracking workflow in org.