skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situation is more complex than that, I think. It's possible for some domains to diversity while others homogenize (and I think you are overestimating the diversity of views actually in play). American politics is highly polarized rather than diverse. The mass media are owned by a few large corporations while the internet offers the possibility for greater diversity of views. But possibility does not necessarily translate into actuality. Dethroning a king doesn't automatically mean more liberty. Indeed, the removal of an authority creates a vacuum in which powerful players can now even more successfully dominate than before. Information travels very quickly today, but it must happen over a medium and "signal strength" still matters. Indeed, this speed of transmission can be a force multiplier, inviting less reflection and criticism and more thoughtless reaction.

We must view things systemically. The world today isn't the world of 2001 plus some new stuff, like Lego bricks tacked onto an existing edifice that otherwise remains the same. New things shape the world they enter into. Once the internet, social media, etc. entered the picture, they also affected everybody and thus the system as a whole, adapting and changing in response. It is true that the establishment can no longer exercise control over popular thought and sentiment using the exactly same traditional 20th century methods of broadcasting propaganda thought restricted channels, but new methods exist. And it's important to understand that today as well as decades ago, the less powerful often ape the more powerful. Chomsky talks about this in "Manufacturing Consent". There's your trickle down theory of propaganda.

So I'm of the opinion that things are changing, the pot is being stirred and bubbling, but there's a great deal that remains the same under new guises.
I've seen a few cases, but they're rare.

Much more common in the south and the desert where the weather is almost always sunny.
Security/osint is very laid back. Folks coming from a different career usually have some interesting perspectives on problem solving that can be really useful. Just wanted to say, keep going, if I was a hiring manager and you showed technical chops, and a willingness to learn, be wrong, and correct yourself, I would completely hire you.
I'm not interested in researching anything behind your harmful and distorted ideology
I think people would be a lot more compassionate towards homeless people generally if the violent and destructive subset of homeless people were put in prison where they belong. With the awful ones out of the way, the peaceful sympathetic homeless people would become the public face of homelessness and the general public would be much more willing to to address their problems constructively (e.g. provide housing to them.)

But instead the justice system is set up to give effective impunity to the worst sort of homeless people; they're back on the street days after being arrested (if they are even arrested in the first place.) They cause incredible damage and commotion, so they hog all the public attention and give all homeless people a very bad name through association.
I have the opposite situation. I wish I'd spent more money on having fun. Time is a finite resource.
What is Card? Google isn’t turning anything up for me.
I feel like investment regret is a trap as there are so many winning investments we overlook as they are far exceeded in quantity by possible bad investments. Hindsight creates the illusion of perfect information. At least this is what I tell myself to sleep better at night.
Stock == bad. Company == fine.
Well signal is designed for secure communications for most people. Not designed for anonymous communication. So a key piece of that is easy to use, nice on boarding process, and being useful to new users in that first minute or two.

So the reason signal is so useful is because so many people use it, which depends on things like contacts showing up immediately when you join.

Seems like it's a common theme that people want a messaging client with a huge number of users, but don't want the features that made it popular in the first place.
Saved you another click if you also have never heard of this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus
This is exactly it. And if you don't have a verification method on file, Google will just lock the account if it thinks something about your browser or IP address is unusual. Even if you know your password.
There is an objective truth for the physical reality of things, but that truth immediately gets murkier as you step away from physics or into more abstract concepts. It is important to establish that objective truth is out there, but it is not sufficient, as many of these questions (from the article) can't be directly answered by reality:

"Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory." is something that could be answered by reality one way or another, with a hypothetical perfect observer. A single fact could answer this question.

"Climate change demands a radical transformation of modern lifestyles." This question is about the future, rather than the past, so it depends on our ability to assess the truth about predictions of objective reality, rather than merely to analyze objective reality directly. Reality can help us build better predictive models, but it can't decisively say if this statement is true or not. You could say that the future is part of the objective reality, but here we are forbidden from being able to perceive it at all.

Finally, "Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to get elected." This one concerns only past events, it could definitely be resolved with knowledge about some specific fact from objective reality. However, in the absence of such a fact appearing we are forced to make decisions about the intents of people to make a judgement. I have trouble with the idea that this could be mapped directly to objective reality, ie something like collusion is an objective state of the brain that could be perfectly classified in theory. I think that our concept of "collusion" here is the problem-- it is simply not well defined enough to be used in a way that is not fraught with disagreement. Put another way, it is entirely possible that perfect observers of Trump and Putin would not agree with each other on this question, and that is a problem.

To summarize, objective reality is important, it really exists and can of course be used to find the truth in many ways. But we are stuck with concepts that are not part of objective reality, when those concepts show up in questions, objective reality might not be of much help.
It is a chemical and it is used as a weapon, but according to you it is not a chemical weapon. If lead was being somehow weaponized and dropped on human beings by the military with deadly effects it too would classify as a chemical weapon. I have contempt for abject stupidity, and in an ideal world would never have to interact with anyone like you, but the world is far from ideal.
Residential energy use accounts for roughly 20% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922205117

So it could do something, but it's not everything.
Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes
How comes iTunes movies takes minutes to display a list on Apple TV, feels like minutes all the time?
Sacred Easter Island statues suffer 'irreparable damage' after volcano fire
Orienteers then? They don’t know their destination until they have their next waypoint. It’s not healthy to live in an eternally manic state of having to sprint at work.
These comments are politically rhetorical, nonconstructive, and well below what I'd expect from here.
Unfortunately we have to wait. Generics handle simple cases well, but have issues with more complex edge cases. Every go release is improving Generics. 1.19 has a performance regression that will be fixed in 1.20.

Library authors want to support old go versions, and the library usage of Generics might not work on that older version.

I just started using generics because I wanted a couple release cycles for issues to be shaken out. I would suggest to most library authors to wait until 1.20 is released before using generics, and if you are doing anything slightly sophisticated to make sure you have a CI that builds with older versions of Go.

If you are writing application code, then go ahead and use generics, but generics are usually most useful for libraries.

I was recently able to fork a library for better error handling in Go and make a version similar to the try proposal. This library wouldn't have been possible without generics: https://github.com/gregwebs/try
Merchant Marine Rape Survivor's Account
I'd encourage people to actually read the above link. It is very early days and quite far from definitive, but an encouraging attempt that's of special interest for people who are APOE-4 positive and/or have a family history of Alzheimers.

Setting aside early onset Alzheimers, which is arguably a different disease, Alzheimers has major genetic and (ill specified) lifestyle components, tends to manifest in one's ~70s but the damage is believed to start accumulating several decades earlier, hence this study on people in their 40's is of interest.

I still think regular cardio work has the best evidence behind it but if you are at heightened risk of Alzheimers, be pragmatic and make the best out of fuzzy data.
I've seen this too. Sometimes they seem like they are copied and pasted from whatever the person already happened to be writing when they came across the Wikipedia page.
Why is this guy mad at Google for implementing security (which I guarantee has saved a lot of homeless from account takeovers), when he could be mad at the government program for failing to provide people with a stable phone number? Constantly changing your phone number has a lot of other bad consequences which have nothing to do with Google.

And maybe the government should consider providing an email account too. The cost would be negligible compared to buying people new phones every 12 weeks...
Write a blog post or website with your knowledge, then you can reference that from Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is explicitly not meant to be a primary source (indeed, no encyclopedia is).
Not even in the same city of right.
Data movement has become the number one cost in system builds energy wise.
One thing I find helpful is to inventory your meta-skills. There are a lot of jobs that require meta-skills which can be super useful in completely different domains. Jobs that require you to learn things on the fly, jobs that require you to interact with people and navigate complex situations with multiple stakeholders, etc. You may find that there are a ton of things you are good at which will transfer readily to the new path you want to step out into.

And even if not, it's probably worth a shot anyway if you are interested in it.
Well, this is HN, afterall :p
Weak signals. The receivers can suffer from desense jamming. A broad band high power signal can be made to exceed the strength of the genuine signal and cause the steered array to aim in the wrong direction. I expect this cat/mouse game is ongoing and Starlink is under constant pressure. The US/UK may be able direcionalise the jamming and some of the anti-radar missiles adjusted in what they lock to frequency wise to hit these sites. The Starlink signal ranges broadly. https://www.americantv.com/what-frequency-does-starlink-use....
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When was the last time you read through a copy of Encyclopedia Britannica? Have you done an apples to apples comparison? No encyclopedia is perfect, but as far as I can tell the "standard" encyclopedias are a lot worse.

My grandparents had bought a copy of Britannica decades ago and they had something like 50 years of its yearbooks. I would cite it sometimes and no one at school batted an eye. I remember reading through it and cross-referencing articles against Wikipedia and Wikipedia's accuracy was far superior.

The thing to keep in mind is that not only are all encyclopedias fraught with errors, primary sources are often wrong too! The goal isn't perfection, it's transparency -- and Wikipedia in this department is enormously better than any private encyclopedia you'll ever find.
> How else are people supposed to know that they could send a secure signal message instead of an insecure SMS.

They should know only if I ask them to. I don't want to share this sort of information to everybody in my contact list by default. If I think somebody needs to know, I would tell them. If I don't think they need to know, then they shouldn't be told.

Anyway, the consequence of Signal being this way is that I refuse to install Signal at all, and don't recommend it to any of my friends or family. Instead I tell them that everything on phones is insecure and they should never believe or behave otherwise.
Related: Polysemanticity and Capacity in Neural Networks https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01892
I absolutely agree. All I am pointing out is that mentality should be shared by the family and although it is honorable to be selfless, it is difficult to help others when one's mental state is in shambles. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others.
“Everyone in this organization should make it their mission to fall in love with Horizon Worlds. You can’t do that without using it.”

This is brutal exec-speak that is typical in big tech projects. VPs & execs have a tough time understanding what users actually want, because they rarely talk to users.
I will never get over the fact that the Nintendo Switch operated on random character strings to find friends rather than usernames or something more straightforward for normal users. But the fact that they managed it does mean it's not so large a barrier.
I'm a technical person and looking to work with someone serious who wants to build something useful. Hit me up if you're open to it.
> Telegram holds the keys to decrypt the messages and that's all you need to know.

That's an entirely different problem than TFA (an attacker accessing and being able to impersonate an account by subverting a third party 2FA middleman), which Telegram guards against as as soon as you have one device enrolled the code is sent over Telegram, not SMS.

> It's why you are able to just login to your Telegram account on another device and magically get all of your message history.

Being able to log in and get your history to sync is not a telltale sign that history is not encrypted and thus visible server side.

It could be stored encrypted and upon login decrypted locally (how to achieve that is left as an exercise to the reader, see 1password, restic, borg, and many others that store with zero trust yet are accessible by multiple devices, or even multiple parties)

(side note: claims that multi-device messaging can't be done because E2E are incorrect, e.g iMessage does it, by having each message encrypted multiple times, once for each device of the recipient account)

> So while the tech might be solid, the keys are still out there. They can be leaked. They can be subpoenaed

IIRC it was advertised that Telegram keys (presumably for data at rest) are stored split upon two (or more) different servers residing in different jurisdictions so that subpoenas would only get at most half of it or require international cooperation.

But then if you enter that ground, Telegram just as much as Signal could be court-pressured to produce a client that wiretaps data right where it's decrypted and phone home, so E2E only saves you if you audit every client version that this does not happen.

As always in matters of security, first step is to define your threat model, and who you want to secure against, as there's no such thing as perfect security.

> No analysis needed.

I would definitely like to see one done by an unbiased party, because everything I can find are blanket gut-feeling statements without reference.

EDIT: just found this, which is a bit light but still something: https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/t... and this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.03141v1.pdf
Because that's essentially original research. If it's a known proof, it should exist in written form somewhere else, which you can cite. if it's novel, it belongs somewhere other than Wikipedia.
Exactly. That's why the world thinks an "Alan MacMasters" invented the electric toaster. That particular hoax lasted ten years and spread far and wide:

https://wikipediocracy.com/2022/08/11/wikipedias-credibility...

Example from the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1D0xzxYf9ykH9gcYp9...

Several books have the false info too. Wikipedia is useful, but it is never a good idea to rely on Wikipedia blindly.
I think Hossenfelder is underestimating the problem of nuclear waste. Finland opening one "next year" is evidence that we weren't ready to handle it 20 years ago. Maybe nuclear could have been a key part of dealing with climate change if we'd pursued it two decades ago, but people were rightly concerned at the time.

In the meantime, what happened was everything else Hossenfelder discusses. The price of solar and wind went down, and the price of nuclear went up. By the time we could even begin to discuss nuclear, it stopped being a solution.

I concur with Hossenfelder's overall argument, and there's no reason to quibble about that point, except that people tend to paint environmentalists as hypocrites for not being gung ho on nuclear. Carbon isn't the only problem that faces the environment.

If that next generation of nuclear plants can contribute, fantastic. I'll assume that they're well thought out and well planned for, rather than being a massive boondoggle as some nuclear plants have proven to be in the past. But any argument that "nuclear will fix it eventually, so stop building wind and solar" is always going to be fossil fuel industry FUD.
Mastodon and other Fediverse microblogging platforms aren't trying to recreate these abusive systems. They don't show boost/favourite counts, don't offer paid promotion or adverts, don't have the manipulation of the timelines or the other abusive dark patterns used to keep people hooked on the toxic pipes. I feel that being able to show appreciation for a post, or send it to the people who are interested in you, are both important ways to interact and can be implemented without the unhealthy byproducts of the corporate social media orgs.
> How do you find each other?

You don't, because that's something that's fundamentally impossible to do in a privacy-preserving way - no way around it.

> If it's feasible for an end user, say 30 seconds of a phone's CPU, you can be sure that a spammer could generate millions.

You're picking overly conservative numbers for "feasible". Choose parameters such that it takes something like half an hour on a phone. Inconvenient? Yes, but privacy is inconvenient in general.

And yes, a spammer will still be able to generate lots of these fake identities, but now the cost is much higher, while the expected profit is roughly the same - and that's how you defeat spam.
it is a good point to suggest to take more action. But to make significant progress, requires thinking thru the next 5-10 moves and committing to them and putting in consistent effort -- do any books discuss that?

A change shouldn't be just hoping that you "end up at the right place at the right time" this time. That is rare.
I just bought the first one. Can you do more than this?
How do we know you're not just making stuff up?

If you've got a good answer to that question I'm sure they'd love to hear it and to update their policy.

For what it's worth, you can write the information you know in a blog that can be linked back to you personally, and that's an acceptable source to cite.
Yep, Cockroach's dedicated offering was pretty cost prohibitive when I last looked too, and I really didn't want to have to operate my own globally replicated database, so Fauna seemed like the best option at the time.

Really looking forward to Cockroach's serverless options too. More competition in this space is very welcome.
Music / Art - highly paid at the extremes. Probably because music and art are currently infinitely reproducible and so a small number of highly paid, high "talent" content creators can create content for billions of people.

Nursing - highly paid (https://nursinglicensemap.com/resources/nurse-salary/).

Game development - highly paid (https://builtin.com/salaries/dev-engineer/game-developer)

School teaching - low/medium pay - mostly for political reasons (i.e most are state employees).
My personal annoyance with Wikipedia articles on advanced math is that often it's "monoid in the category of endofunctors" on steroids.

A lot of those articles seem to follow a pattern of: "An A is a B that also does C".

If you click on the link to understand what a B is, you get "B is a D in the space of Es with properties F and G".

and so on...

I can understand that this appears logically consistent and very satisfying for people who have already understood the concepts, but it doesn't help at all if you're trying to gain an understanding.

A good textbook has a sense of order in which dependent concepts are introduced. With Wikipedia, the task of discovering that order is outsourced to the reader. Maybe you could develop some kind of path finding algorithm to figure out the optimal reading order for understanding a given concept, but to my knowledge, that doesn't exist yet.

The other problem is that no shortcuts are offered. Even if you figure out the order yourself, Wikipedia gives you no hints how much of B, C, D, E and F you have to understand to get the idea of A. The expectation seems to be to read the entire articles on the dependent concepts, which can be long, rambling and full of obscure special cases.
They also seem to have subtly shifted each time I revisit citation styling rules
Not all who wander are lost.

A hiker or a marathon runner or a club cyclist not currently
at an event have a destination: where they started. But the good stuff happens in the middle, and that’s not necessarily planned out in advance.

Pacing is even more important then because there may be nobody to come bail you out, or it might take hours for them to do so.
Except if you're using e.g. Google Authenticator and you lose that phone, you've now lost your TOTPs. The most unhoused-friendly solution there would be to use something like Authy instead (which is another password to remember, but at least it makes it easy to recover your TOTP keys on a new device without needing the old one); next best would be to use something like andOTP which supports backups (but then you'd need someplace to store those backups, which introduces the same problems as safely keeping a phone on your person).
Yes, for example I have a template for mental models that I update every few months.

This version is a few months out of date, but in case it's helpful:

https://pastebin.com/hvRutW9u

This is used with each new interest or mental model which seems to merit its own separate file. Additionally I have a bunch of snippets in my editor that help me frame out my ideas, theories, or problems in various ways, creating additional structures within this templated structure.

Prior to this over the last 20 years I mostly used Mind Maps, like with Mind Maple, Free plane, FreeMind, Simple Mind, some other concept mapping tools, Inkscape, LO Draw, etc. Plus hierarchical systems like NoteCase Pro for some years.

I still use some of them from time to time but this is now my main.

One of my biggest/favorite discoveries with mental models is that attaching a working log to them is one of the smartest things you can do. And one of the best things you can write in your log is "this isn't going anywhere and I don't like it." I also keep logs on paper with home frameworks I keep in a binder, like what to do in power outages.
Rider 2022.3 EAP 2: New UI, Improved Unit Testing, and More
It’s this I think.

https://carrd.co/

But as far as I know, you can’t make blogs with Carrd. It’s only for small one page websites.
You can't use that leaked code without being sued. It has to be clean room implemented or disassembled AFAIK.