skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By using end-to-end encryption, user messages are stored only on their devices, not on Signal’s servers or anywhere else.

How do we know with certainty that the messages are not stored anywhere else? Don't they go through servers to get to the end user?
Working in technology you should plan to reinvent yourself several times during your career. I used to be a Novell Netware engineer, fast forward forty years and I have to explain what that was to people.
Still easy, don't remoan just do it
I haven't seen that any modern HOA contracts.
Yes, good points. I would make a distinction between military weapons that target troops in the field versus weapons that target civilian populations, although that is probably not the reality of the world today. Biological weapons have a lot of undesirable properties for military use such as long incubation periods, although the Soviet Union invested heavily in microtoxins as an alternative that addressed some of these shortcomings.
You can instead feel free to not form an opinion, accept your ignorance and remain open to future information. That's what most of us should do on most topics most of the time.
I have an undergraduate business degree. My favorite classes were:

- accounting. Seems like double entry accounting is posted here from time to time as something that would interest the readership here.

- linear programming - didn’t actually get this as part of my CS curriculum.

- game theory and Bayesian statistics - staples of HN readership

- entrepreneurship - taught how to fundraise and manage a startup. Probably like a theoretical YC

- marketing - an evergreen class that comes in handy no matter what I’m doing; selling yourself and your work is a life skill

- operations management and logistics - dovetails with linear programming

In all, I’m more than happy with the school I went to. It definitely fleshed out my more technical education in CS. I know not all programs are the same, and maybe many aren’t like the one I attended, but I wouldn’t write off all “business types” based on the (in many cases earned) stereotypes.
"and Discord servers"

vomits in my mouth a bit
Probably almost all of them right?
There are places that do many of those things, but in a community format.

My SO and still think back to how great it was to have an apartment with a park next door where we could let our dogs run. They had more space there than our current home.

I've never seen a public wood fired pizza oven but community bbq's were pretty standard at our apartments in the past.

We have a community projects place that gives us the opportunity to do all kinds of woodworking (my personal hobby) without spending tons on equipment. Plus there's always people there more competent that I can learn from. We have a seed-sharing repository in our local library and the ag school has plenty of gardening resources.

I think what you're talking about is certainly possible, but it takes a concerted approach to meet the needs of a community. I tend to think people in the US prefer housing because there is a much more individualistic mindset combined with relative affluence that gives people the option to eschew many community approaches.
I've never heard of Baby shark, and watching the video can't recall ever hearing the tune. You may be living in a bubble, or we all are.
Reolink is one of few brands that don't force you to use "the cloud". They allow you to store the data/stream where ever you want. Yet they have all the advantages of the other brands, for example a free Android app, and most importantly Relink has a web interface aswell - built into the camera.
Robert Anton Wilson, renowned pot philosopher, proposed a revision to the english language: to remove the word "is". The problem with "is true" can be that you get affixed to the assertion, i.e. that it becomes something you're unwilling to question in future if new facts come to light. If you can think more in terms of "probably true", "plausible", etc then you can maintain more plasticity in your worldview.
If someone calls your idiom of choice stupid and this makes you feel any type of way at all it might be time for a breather.
Because you're doing the same thing over and over and don't have a lot of latitude to experiment.

Mind you, there can be some value in repetition starting out especially if you make regular minor adjustments. But for someone already at a high skill level, just doing the same old activity probably won't help their skills much.
AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing
I guess I don't see a lot of difference between the practical results of loudly proclaiming empathy vs. loudly proclaiming cynicism.
The questions that are broadly acceptable to the corporate media - i.e. that are the subjects of written or spoken debate - are generally not the important or interesting questions. They're mostly click-bait fluff intended to up the 'engagement' factor.

The only one in that list that's of much interest is about the origins of the Covid pandemic, and even there the real question is whether or not to implement a global ban on gain-of-function research with infectious viruses and microbes. As far as the details on the origins of Covid and links to the Ecohealth-Alliance-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology, well, read a book (Viral by Chan & Ridley, 2021).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58647975-viral

Here's an alternative list of questions that I'd argue really matter, but which are typically avoided by corporate media:

1. Is the US economy overly controlled by finance, and does this have serious negative repercussions for the long-term health of the economy? Is finance really capable of long-term planning and basic infrastructure development?

2. Is the US military budget out of control? The (inflation-adjusted) size of that budget over the past few decades has certainly increased. Are those wasted resources? (A related question has to do with our military entanglements around the planet, such as with Saudi Arabia, Israel, NATO, etc.)

3. Do all of the free trade deals that the USA has pushed for over the past 40 years really help the US economy prosper, or are they the main reason for the huge wealth gap across American society and the destruction of the American manufacturing sector (and the rise of angry populist politics) ?

Now, those are interesting questions and I imagine views vary widely on those issues - but you won't see them addressed in our pathetic media system.
I think you could create a system that's resilient to such issues even with federation (not saying it's easy, though), and Matrix actually has a solution in the works for this – decentralised user accounts [1].

And all of this makes me wonder – maybe it's better to re-implement something like Mastodon on top of Matrix. If Matrix adopts decentralised user accounts, that would seemingly solve such issues automatically. There was a POC Matrix based Twitter clone demonstrating this, actually [2] (but without the decentralised accounts yet).

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/246

[2] https://github.com/hackervera/freebird
The problem with creating a new music theory is the question what do you want the music theory to do? The main value of classical music theory is exactly the historical underpinnings that you want to drop
Sorry that happened to you. I had a similar experience not being approved for being different with my first high school crush. We both liked each other as much as young kids can like each other. What surprised me was when it came time to ask her to date formally, she didn't seem interested. This was surprising to me based on all of our interactions and I found out a couple of months later from her friend that it was because of me being "different" and fear of how her family would react if she dated someone "different". She didn't want to upset me so she never told me, but damn it hurt just as bad to hear it from someone else.

So what's my regret? Well there's a couple but the biggest one is that instead of embracing being different and who I was and where I came from, I instead tried to hide it as best I could. I avoided anything to do with my native culture or language because I think I was so hurt internally that someone who appeared to have feelings for me would put them aside for fear of their family's reaction. I even gave up my interests that I feared were too nerdy and contributed to my being "different", after all I am on hacker news so there's some nerd in me, right?

Ended up going off to college in a big city school where different was normal and got back to my roots and interests and this put me on a wonderful path that lead to great success early in my career, stronger relationships with my family and culture, and a much happier life. It feels good to embrace "you", even if some small-town folk may think it's "different".

My secondary regret is that I never reached back out to her to see if she still had similar feelings or maybe tried to get a relationship going on as more mature adults. I've thought about her a good bit but I think what I've realized is that it's not so much her that I'm interested in, it's that all I wanted was to be accepted by her and that maybe if I were to be accepted, I could prove to myself that I'm really not "different".
This needs a custom build of MAME to play?

That's... ugh.

(edit- it doesn't, just recommended)
Using a dryer costs unnecessary energy, which is something environmentally-conscious people want to save. That should be enough reason. It's also just freedom in action, something which I thought Americans like.
That's correct. It's very popular today to have "affinity groups" on college campuses that only allow people of certain skin colors in. For instance, a PoC affinity group disallows white people from being a part of it. They even have special graduation ceremonies where only people with certain complexions are allowed to participate. There's numerous examples beyond skin color like sexuality and gender.

Freedom of association I guess?
An action towards someone else that you won't regret when you soberly reflect back on it.
When using encrypted chats is it not secure? I thought the biggest problem is that we simply don't know - but your comment seems to suggest it's been proven insecure even when using encrypted chats?
I built an entire product just for doing this.

https://usenotioncms.com

I then used this and built a no-code blogging platform to publish content from Notion

https://feather.so

There is also an open source version for using Notion as CMS.

That can be found at https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x
The Bitfinex hack shows that this is not always the case. I get the impression that the two nitwits did the hack perfectly but just assumed that mixing with alphabay would be enough. Then they transferred BTC into exchange accounts under their real names.
And, from about 1905 onwards, that dirty, dirty crude oil has been fought over relentlessly.
I remember Tipping Point as being mostly OK. But it really triggered Gladwell's schtick of weaving a well-written entertaining narrative whether or not it's really supported by some cherry-picked anecdotes.
And hell, even tech users aren’t inclined to sign up for a sysadmin role for free with absolutely nothing in return except users berating you whenever there’s problems. Which there will be at some point in time.
Source: I ran chat services for friends. I no longer run chat services for friends.
If you really want to know, contact mr. Hurdle via Reuters. I think we can assume that indeed she has not.
I need 500g of flour to make bread. That doesn't mean I can make bread with just 500g of flour.

You are trying to say that someone claiming 500g being necessary to making bread is hogwash because it doesn't also talk about the salt and water (etc).
I actually agree. When people can't abide anti-freedom attitudes, they should part ways. Luckily, that's exactly what my country has done.

Since this is a story about the U.S., I ask that you try to view it through the appropriate cultural lens, rather than imposing your own.
> younger folks won't see this distinction as pronounced

But they will see it as pronounced because it is pronounced, for all the reasons mentioned.

People love real spaces, real objects, real venues, smells, and atmosphere. The physical characteristics of friends and strangers, from subtle facial cues to outrageous clowning around. In VR, all that is stifled or non-existent; substituted with digitally representation, crafted by unknown processes. Cold origins. Black boxes.

> enter VR experiences en masse

Really? I wouldn't bet on it. The warmth of remote communication you mentioned, is coming from that which we already have. Phones, screens, coffee next to the laptop, simple face to face chats on the screen of your choice. Show me your new house! Cool, walk around carrying phone. Not a VR headset!

Strapping on a headset and embracing rendered distractions while you communicate? I don't see that happening en masse. You'd need to literally get real before VR takes off. Each headset commanding a tiny 360 drone camera, flying wherever you like without incident. See you at Burning Man! From your couch. In this impossible "RR" (remote reality?) future, a typical music festival or live event would have both real people and a bunch of VR drones - somehow inter-mingling, silent without collision, without any issues. Until then, VR is a device strapped to your head, dishing out pre-renders. Your real cat limits the VR experience, and into the bottom drawer goes your headset, right next to the DJI drone you got for Xmas.
Google+ is a great example of the point that once a community's platform gets shut down, it's often tough to find another place to meet, and some people don't survive the transition.
I do think there is something different that leads Americans to desire homes and consider apartment living a failure.

Some of it is the rhetoric about owning a home being part of the American Dream. Some of it is about the nature of the US housing market being a such an avenue to wealth (Americans have a disproportionate amount of their wealth wrapped up in their home). Some of it may be the individualistic mindset.
Or geocities.
We can talk Epistemology. I'm willing to both assert something is True and be humble I may be wrong about it at the same time.

I think you ask the wrong question. I'd rather ask, is this something that is both meaningful to assert as True and is this something I have some type of primary knowledge (careful statistics, first hand knowledge that is collaborated) of? I may still give something a low certainty (depending on the quality of predicate knowledge) and still assert something as True if that decision is meaningful to my life and others around me.
> I'd find a CD for a band I had never heard of (or had only a passing knowledge of),

I do that, but also for genres: it's a bit like buying games on Stream: I build up a stack, then I consume it piece by piece until I can start appreciating its unique contributions compared to other genres.

Then once I find an artist I really like, I dig deeper into their earlier work and their feats.

Right now, after exploring Reggaeton then french Pop-Urbaine, I'm digging deeper into meditative music and 2000s EDM (well, separately, not both at the same time :)

> give it a listen in my car for a few days

Oh yes, the car trick is great! Old cars have CD players! And that's how I've become a fan of Pop-Urbaine: buying CDs during travel.

> The CD would only be a buck or two, so I figured that if I like even two of the songs then I'm ahead of the iTunes price

It's not just a question of price: for me, it's more about curation.

Besides the entire genres, there are some artists I would never have discovered without this "one weird trick".

Then once digging deeper, even for well-known artists, there are some obscure songs that I end up really liking!
Tim Ferris' thoughts on the 10k rule (https://genius.com/Tim-ferriss-what-about-the-10000-hour-rul...), including "how do you define mastery?" and "are there ways to more efficiently master something?"

How much of what you currently know can you relate and apply to becoming an expert in your new career? There might be more than you expect.

As far as being more efficient, learning from someone who has the experience you seek can make a huge difference. I'm a mainly self-taught guitar player, and I spend a lot of time identifying problems with my technique and inventing little practice routines to work on correcting them. I enjoy this process, but I know I'd save a lot of time if I worked more with people who could easily identify issues with my playing and already know best practice routines to correct 'em.
Earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33116560
This isn't true in general. Very specific ML algorithms that were likely developed with years of blood and sweat and tears may have this kind of resiliency, but I've been in the the numerical weeds enough here that I wouldn't bet on even that without a real expert weighing in on it - and I wonder what the tradeoff is if it's true there. It's very easy to have numerical stability issues absolutely crater ML results; been there, done that.

I have some ~15 year old experience with the math behind some of this, but actually none with day-to-day deep learning applications using any of the now-conventional algorithms, so my perspective here is perhaps not that of the most pragmatic user. The status quo may have improved, at least de facto.
So no one should form an opinion on anything unproven? I dont think OP ever said they were not open to future information, and in fact expressed that they wanted more information.
Look, I'd love to fix homelessness in America! Really, I would! But Google's policies are causing people to get locked out of their accounts now, today.

Google could put a toggle in Google Account settings titled something like "Allow anyone who knows my password to log in to my Google account (less secure)." It could sit above a description of the risks involved. It would need to be disabled by default, and it wouldn't help users who don't know about it. It certainly would not fix homelessness in society. But it would do a lot of good for a lot of people!

Would this option lead to some increased number of hacked accounts? Probably, but these would be accounts that explicitly opted in to that risk! I think it's excessively paternalistic to not provide the option. Every life situation is unique, and people know their own lives better than Google does.
They are not wrong. The DMCA is nonsensical.
In the title it's a little subtle due to the wordplay and terminology, but yeah, it is present. Definitely a lot of knee-jerking going on
I wrote a few scripts that power automatingpaperwork.com entirely from a set of Notion pages and it was the best “procrastinate writing by coding” project I’ve ever done.

If anyone wants a copy of the code, feel free to reach out (contact details in profile). It’s not buttoned up into a GitHub-shareable project but should be easily adaptable.

Oriented for multi-chapter ebooks with images, but no table support.
"soon enough" could be a decade relative to the assumption that they'll be around forever.
HN's obsession with RISC-V code density reminds me of the 1980's and the first heyday of RISC architectures (SPARC, MIPS, HP-PA, POWER, and later Alpha).

End users don't care at all about code density. If their application runs faster, that chip is what they'll want. (Compare a DECstation with a MIPS CPU to a VAXstation of the same era to get an idea.)

We don't have high-performance implementations of RISC-V yet, though, so these debates can go on and on. I'm looking forward to seeing actual high performance implementations from Tenstorrent and others, so there's something concrete to discuss.
Not spending more time being young. I never really got the chance. Due to life circumstances I had to begin working basically as young as you can work in America. I've never had a free summer, never rushed a frat, never went to dances, etc. At the time it didn't bother me but now I'm older I've seen the effects. I similarly did nothing but school and work to pay bills in college. This has had such a profound effect on my self esteem the scale I have to measure it in is logarithmic. As a result in many ways I'm maladjusted to "normal" life. The song "Time" by Pink Floyd really resonates with me.

While I've moved on from losing the best years of my life (you're only young and innocent once) I overcompensated for a long time, and still sometimes to this day, by trying to do everything people invite me to do. Paradoxically this made my situation worse because more...stable people have a lot of people-oriented things they like to do and I approach all these things expecting to not keeping to do them. For example, going to the bar or clubs or whatever. These however lead to more regrets, like drinking too much when I was young and not taking better care of my health (thankfully nothing serious happened).

Now, the advantage of getting older is I can look back on this wide body of experience and use it to make calls on things. I know what I like to do. I know that I am not a very social person. Instead of trying to be a caricature of what I imagine a normal person is like I just work with what I have. It's been a long multi-decade process to get here but I am better.
What I’m doing with Feather is this:

I give the users a Notion template to duplicate.
https://bhanuteja.notion.site/Feather-Blog-Template-3fea2715...

I will then ask them to pick a domain, add the cname. That’s it. I will then get all the content from their Notion page and build a complete blog from it, with tags, authors, search, site map, rss feed etc.
I'm almost sure this is the case. Countries that don't lock things down are gonna get badly disrupted (not in the "good" tech-company sense) by other states that do, and take advantage of the others' openness. And not just states, but stronger-than-many-states corporations. I expect democracies to be particularly vulnerable.

I think a wide-open global Internet in anything like its current form will turn out to be one of those things that seems amazing and mostly-great when you look at it from an individual perspective but has very bad consequences at a population scale, far outweighing any benefit. Again, especially for democracies—we thought it would liberalize oppressive states, but I think we got that tragically wrong, and it may in fact be the instrument that unleashes the "chaos" and painful disorder that critics of democracy and liberalism have always predicted.
> Canadian tech leaders who have built apps for large corporate clients have described Ottawa’s $54-million price tag for ArriveCan as outrageous, explaining that in their experience, most apps are built for less than $1-million.

Why did you pay $2 billion for this airport? Most buildings cost less than $1 million!
Their wording seems to imply it's a chore that lasts that long. Maybe they thought they had to watch it dry?
This resonates with me on a deeper level. You have one life. That's it. You have 3 choices:

1- You succeeded trying it.

2- Neutral outcome (still a win).

3- You fail. Failing at something will only teach you how to do it better or at its worst, leave you at the bottom of the barrel. The only thing you have after that is to get up and keep moving forward.

The other side of that would be regret. Regret has to be the worst feeling in the world. The "why I didn't do it" thought will hunt you for the rest of your life.