skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to be handcuffed for my own security, thanks. An export facility has little bearing on the integrity of my communications since a counterparty could simply have their phone taken over if they forgot to set a PIN or gave the PIN up to law enforcement. A warning that the exported data can no longer be considered secure (just like when I save a file or photo) is sufficient.

Meanwhile if my counterparty and I have communications in Signal that we want to preserve at scale, it's impossible to do so. A simple example would be that I have years' worth of conversations with my wife that I can't easily back up any where. We could export every picture and video by hand and screenshot or copy the text of every message, but that would be extremely time-consuming and tedious.

That's the basic problem. The data is already only semi-secure in that it's subject to exfiltration without consent. It's just inconvenient. And where parties do consent, it's very inconvenient because it's many many hours of work; in the end, it's just more security theater.
Surprised no one has asked. Does this affect the manufacturer's income? That is, is this also a way to escape an otherwise mandatory subscription fee?

If no, I say publish it without further consideration.

If yes, there might be a DMCA claim against you and you'll want to consider that in your decision. Personally I would likely keep it to myself.
Ties and dress shoes will always be more uncomfortable than no tie and sneakers, regardless of how well they fit.
Ignore them. They do not have the valid right to demand that you do anything with your code. (If you're going to do what everyone demands, you're going to be miserable, because there are many people who will demand many things, often contradictory.)

Now, if they have a good argument why, then you might at least consider it. But a bare demand? There's no reason to give it any attention at all.
Because any channel that allows messages/information can be “piggy backed?” - is there a loss of bandwidth at each layer of indirection?
Wait, they can't run uBlock Origin on iOS? But the web without it is just unusable.
> Right, but that is not how the law is applied. In a civil lawsuit, court or the government is not the plaintiff or the defendant, and therefore first amendment protections do not apply.

It absolutely is, which is why thr First Amendment limits the conditions in which civil defamation damages can be awarded, see, e.g., Times v. Sullivan.

EDIT: In fact, Times v. Sullivan rejects this specific argument, saying: “Although this is a civil lawsuit between private parties, the Alabama courts have applied a state rule of law which petitioners claim to impose invalid restrictions on their constitutional freedoms of speech and press. It matters not that that law has been applied in a civil action [...]. The test is not the form in which state power has been applied but, whatever the form, whether such power has in fact been exercised.”

> There are first amendment protections when public officials are involved in the defamation suit. But beyond that, it is well established that first amendment does not protect this kind of speech.

This is completely wrong. Times v. Sullivan, the landmark case applying the 1A to defamation, and subsequent cases elaborating the Constitutional limits of defamation liability established both basic 1A rules for all defamation cases, and additional rules for public figures (not just public officials, but also others who seek public attention), and matters of public concern. Among the rules applicable to all cases, not just public figures and public concern are:

(1) Opinion is Constitutionally protected and cannot be defamation (as it could be in some jurisdictions before),

(2) Falsity is required element of defamation and must be proved by the plaintiff, it cannot be presumed with the truth as a defense (as, again, it was in some jurisdictions)

(3) Fault (at least simple negligence) is a Constitutionally-required required element; defamation cannot be strict liability (as, again, it was in some jurisdictions prior to the Constitutional rule being articulated by the Court),
It must have taken a special effort to miss the point by that much.
These are the legal hot takes of our times; on HN no less.

There aren't laws against defamation and libel because it's super meany. It's because the damages people sustain from having lies spread around town about them.
We were editing at the same time. When I finished editing my comment, I noticed you'd replied, and so I went back and noted that, so it wouldn't look like you'd ignored the last two paragraphs of my comment in your response.
What’s your top goto’s related to vpn/vpn-ancillary concerns?
Fp-ts adds some amazing functional tools. Io-ts, which is built off of it, adds great run time type validation.

I can define types using io-ts, infer a true typescript type from that to put in my d.ts files to get full ts type checking, and also have run time type checks, all from the same single definition.

The initial learning curve is admittedly a little steep, but once you have it down it's a breeze to use, and delightful.
The US Govt regularly robs the tax paying people to give kickbacks to their corporate allies. It's just business as usual
It sorta seems like they won the 'right place at the right time' lotto in getting the links on about us. A competitor might have a huge battle to win that market share.
https://archive.ph/cCjXW
Define "bad". Are dogs good at seeing the future? Are computers?

Humans are bad at it compared to some theoretical standard that some people think we should reach. We're bad at seeing the future compared to hindsight. We're not bad at it compared to any other existing implementation of "seeing the future", though.
I'm a 30 year old who's too old to start a software company.

But if you want to do it, then go for it. Sounds like you already have the experience.
People seemed to have no problem with the idea that Oberlin could have inflicted $36MM against a family. I didn't either! That's how tort damages work.
> > The point is not to never use frameworks, but to isolate them. To call them from a single place. One that we own. That we are responsible for and that we limit very much in what it can touch.

I had the misfortune of working on a project which abstracted a framework. It was awful. It ended up being an ad-hoc component that was half-façade, half-adapter that was inadvertently tightly-coupled with the framework. It added an awful lot of complexity with the only tradeoff being theoretically being able to abstract away the underlying framework.

It was not worth it. It created far more problems than those that it solved.
But I could just screenshot all of it, and you'd never know. There's a setting to prevent screenshots, but no way to tell if other persons have it enabled or when their setting change.

It's like when Signal asks you to put in your PIN, but it's the same PIN you use to unlock your phone. There's a different Signal PIN, but that functions as a check for when you install Signal on a new device. Your regular PIN is just a repeat of your phone PIN, and thus adds exactly zero security.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy, you apply to Mitsubishi or any other company as an immigrant and don't get picked and you tell your friends how hard it is so they don't apply either, and you leave the country instead of starting a family there.
You're asking me to support the claim that Alex Jones would rather try controversies with violence than in a court of law?
Good comment, appreciated.

> In other words, this sounds like a reasonably easily detectable bug that was allowed in to production due to insufficient system verification, the fault for which lies squarely on Airbus and approving regulators.

Indeed - cosmic rays capable of bitflips are expected in aircraft systems so it is disapointing to see a failure to sheild and|or correctly mitigate for the expected.

> It is also worth noting that the ADIRU units are designed to calculate, maintain and report inertial navigation state. Having this state, sensor errors may compound or persist over time.

A very particular bugbear of mine. I've come across several examples where stats accumulators for low frequency error events are poorly implemented .. leading to situations where "this looks like it's working" and being passed over for any closer examination; years later some threshold is crossed and Bam! something bites hard.
I was more thinking to port chats from your phone to the desktop. The desktop client is on the NAS and serves as the "storage" where you can search your full backup. I would guess there would be a more difficult solution where you could hack the phone app to sync all data instead of just when your desktop connects. So that solution might take more than just a Saturday night ;)

I agree that there aren't really any great solutions. But the alternative is that Signal stores your data. I think this would make a lot of users very upset and compromise part of Signal's core mission.
Batch Multivalid Conformal Prediction
Which was the right choice, web standards shouldn't be tied to a single project.
Why the rest of the world has converged on using a free closed source messaging service by a for profit company because of the privacy boggles my mind. I'd rather just stick with SMS if I can't feasibly use signal.
With 0 employees who maintains the site/infra or adds features/datasets? Things aren't adding up in this article.
I agree, It seems risky to not invest in R&D in any company.
No they did it so you knew when it was in and could use the features. There’s no “issue” with SMS.
Genuine question, outside of bragging rights, what advantage does this kind of PR have ?

If you found a niche that no one else has turned into a race to the bottom yet, why would you want the world to know about it ? It's like Warren Buffet telling everyone what stocks he will be picking.

Maybe if the startup was yet to gain traction, this would help get the word out. But from the sounds of it, it is already generating a ton of revenue.
American right-wing authoritarians have a weird relationship with the slippery slope fallacy. On the one hand, holding someone accountable for making claims which they admitted they knew were false, leading to demonstrable harm to the victims' families, then failing even to comply with court procedure or instructions, is such a slippery slope that clearly the entire first amendment (which isn't even relevant in this case) at risk. See also: gun laws. On the other hand, draconian anti-abortion laws supposedly aren't a slippery slope at all, even though they have already resulted in thousands of women being denied life-saving medications for completely unrelated medical conditions. It's almost like the they're picking and choosing when to use these arguments (see also: originalism) based on something other than logic or morality.

What's really abhorrent is that people are invoking "freedom" (in this case of speech) to defend someone who is a major player in the movement toward authoritarian control over literally every part of our lives. If I hadn't lost all respect for such people decades ago, I certainly would now.
The Constitutional right to free speech has been construed to protect your right to criticize the government (generally) and those who hold governmental posts. The Constitution doesn't mention defamation directly, but the doctrine that your rights end where anothers begin means that if you should actually injure someone through your untruthful speech or writing, then you should pay restitution to them and possibly punitive damages. The laws vary depending on the state, of course.

Since Jones is seen to have intentionally caused these plaintiffs emotional distress, the plaintiffs are being awarded compensatory damages nearing $1 billion, however punitive damages will be considered next because of a Connecticut law that bars using false statements to sell products. (A hearing set for Nov. 7 will determine the amount of those damages.)

According to the law, all the plaintiffs had to prove was that Jones (1) knowingly made false statements that would cause the claimants emotional distress and (2) such distress and injury could be proved or substantiated. In this case, the government served primarily as a mediator between the private citizens on both sides.
Enums aren't simply strings, though they can be reified as such in JS if you assign string values to them. It's more appropriate to think of them as symbols (from a type perspective)- seeing `Direction.North` is a whole lot more semantically meaningful than the string "north" in code.

More than that, refactoring tooling Just Works with enums. On the other hand, if you're passing strings around everywhere and attempt to refactor a type that is a union of strings, there's plenty of cases where refactoring tooling can't help you, and you get to manually clean up the errors.
True. Many of us work in a similar unionized workforce called Agile. It makes sure people are working at a certain level, bringing otherwise would-be poor performers up to a certain average, but also stunting high performers.
Pixels are very much and in very many cases much more a square than a sample.

Cameras integrate lightfall over an area, and though consumer formats munge that data, they surely do not do so in a way that is best approximated by a zero-width point sample.

Pixels on most modern displays, albeit not those from the era of the famous 1995 paper, have especially at low resolution visible squareness; not as squares precisely per se, but certainly such that a single-pixel diagonal has an overt XY-aligned jaggedness.

GPUs integrate colors over square volumes, to display logical pixels, or rather at least aspire to, with sufficient multisampling or that that approximates it.

And then this especially is so for pixel art, whose modern aesthetic assumed the squareness of pixels not as an unfortunate limitation to be worked around, but as a defining and visually appealing characteristic. Pixel art for CRTs and pixel art for (or reinterpreted through the lens of) scaled display on LCDs are fundamentally different visual targets and assumptions on one need not naively apply to the other.

And even art made for CRTs often does not truly assume point samples, hence why they often look better through CRT reconstruction filters rather than more idealized mathematical ones.
Without a framework whats the alternative? Roll your own everything...?
> Translating ambiguous symbols to meaning and combining them in meaningful ways is a big deal which, apparently, these AI models cannot do.

Plenty of AI models do exactly this. Very clear examples include question answering models and code generation. In both cases novel, meaningful responses are generated.

> They can just parrot things.

That isn't true. While language models can parrot things it is generally special conditions that make them do it. Specifically, the conditional probability of the next character (or BPE or word depending on the model) has to be much higher than anything else which happens when the thing being parroted is unique text.

If you ask most Americans or a language model what word comes next in this: fourscore and seven year.. they'll give the same answer, for the same reason.
So, for real, you’re going to come here and suggest the data I provided might be subject to correlation bias and then immediately say that you couldn’t find any evidence when you searched for it? What’s the value in that?

I will say, the link I provided does say that unions are more prominent in certain industries, but to me that actually isn’t that much of a bias without further data.

What that shows me is that working in an industry with unionization gets you paid more, on average.
Blender uses FFmpeg, and it's one of the most successful FOSS projects ever!
37 of those users are FB employee.
> Have you not seen killed by google ?

How could one not see it, when it's spammed multiple times in any Google product announcement thread on HN? But the thing is, that site doesn't actually tell you much for two reasons.

First, the list is just crap. Here's an exercise: pick 10 random items from that list. Had you ever heard of that product, do you think it had any users? Is "killed by google"'s categorization of something having been discontinued actually legit? Was the thing they're claiming as a product even one in the first place?

Second, it doesn't actually tell us whether this level of discontinued things is actually uncommon. Do the same exercise with the same inclusion criteria on the peer companies like Amazon and Microsoft, and I bet the lists will be comparable.
FWIW, gas stations are basically all environmental disasters, in that after decommissioning they need extensive remediation as the storage tanks have inevitably leaked.
The Oberlin case had damages of $25 million, not $36 million, and that was the combined award to number of individuals plus a company that suffered a significant loss of revenue.

Apples vs Oranges.
Yes, the Epoch Times is an invalid “news” source.

== You are parroting talking points you see on social media without exploring the topics any further. Funny thing is I bet we follow a lot of the same left leaning people on twitter but the things they say have driven me to the right while you agree with them. I think most of the right wing social and traditional media personalities are idiots. My shift to the right has almost entirely been driven by the content of liberal twitter accounts and DEI classes I have had to take.==

I’m not on Twitter or any social media (besides HN). Must be nice to know everything about everyone without even having to bother with asking.

You gave me a whole profile of myself based on your mistaken beliefs. Then try to claim I am the one who judges people. Maybe time to take a break from social media.
my guess: "will Microsoft continue to take AMD as seriously as it does Intel?"
Quoting this tweet[0]:

"Here's a brief glimpse of our INCREDIBLE near future.

GPT-3 armed with a Python interpreter can
· do exact math
· make API requests
· answer in unprecedented ways"

[0]https://twitter.com/sergeykarayev/status/1569377881440276481
Who cares? Why is every comment in this thread about how they hate google ventures? Can’t we discuss the idea itself?
Do you have some data to back up that statement? Because I provided government data on the issue.

“In proximity to unions” …do you mean management?
He made money from lying about them. That's what the market paid for the plantiff's reputation. When the market pays a price for something, that's it's value. By lying he was harming their reputation without their consent, they bore the costs of it, while he made the profit. That looks similar to theft. I don't see why the damages shouldn't be for the demonstrable value of the harm.
That's what OP was referring to.

"... those designated as gatekeepers will have to:
allow third parties to inter-operate with their own services, meaning that smaller platforms will be able to request that dominant messaging platforms enable their users to exchange messages, send voice messages or files across messaging apps. ..."
BuiltWith is 16 years old. Their business has been fully commoditized and ripped off so many hundreds of times that most of these "competitors" don't even have names. They're just email addresses in your spam folder. I have literally hundreds of mails that look like this -- "hey, wanna buy a list of every site using your competitors' services, enriched with business info and key employee contacts?".

For example: https://i.imgur.com/V9raPcV.png

The "$14M ARR" appears to be a journalist's guess/estimate of the company's revenue in 2015, which Gary said was an exaggeration, per https://www.ipobase.com/builtwith/

I would bet that BW is long past peak revenue now.
It is possible that your best response would be to read a book on how to become more assertive. Or not.

I hope that didn't come across as a dig or a slight. It is my sincere attempt at the most helpful answer given the facts presented by you.
What bearing does an increase in the overall number of industry workers have on whether or not the manual weavers and spinners were justified in their concerns (with respect to their own livelihood) about automation?

With respect to that increase, there is context missing around the American South exponentially increasing cheap cotton exports around the same time, where coincidentally laborers were not even workers but enslaved peoples.

Even if the takeaway is livelihoods overall improved because of more jobs, then that is at the hidden cost of free (and grossly inhumane) labor elsewhere in the supply chain during the time period.
In my uniformed school, decades ago, money didn't matter as much as size. The big popular guys kept the rich guys around to buy them things.

Edit: power came from physical strenght, attractiveness and sports proficiency. Very much an ancient greek ideal, lol.

Bullying is about power. Bullying can be about money when you don't normalize the population for money. Nowadays you would need uniforms and school provided phones, I suppose. Never in America.
some would call that a feature…
Embrace Gopher, Gemini and IRC/Jabber again.
Gary does that.
With 0 employees, why have the office with all the desks in the background in the picture at the top of the page.

It’s pretty clear there are other people doing something, whether they are called “employees” or not.
Seems too good to be true

They find, first, that unionization throughout one’s career is associated with a $1.3 million mean increase in lifetime earnings, larger than the average gains from completing college.

Some of this data may be skewed by athlete pensions and salaries. Also, the college wage premium was much smaller 30+ years ago. If this study was redone but starting in 2020 instead of 1969, likely unions jobs would pay less.
> Neuroscientists can now explore the “wild west” in our heads

Or in my case, a lone tumbleweed
This jerk SVP sounds like the classic narcissist, using OP and sucking all the knowledge from him so he could prop himself up as a “social media guru” and carve out a higher paying niche for promotion while OP languishes.

Narcissists act like your best friend until they are done using you, learn how to spot them and how to play the game if you are in their crosshairs and they outrank you.
The carriers used to completely own the entire phone experience. That's what really changed with Android and iOS. Walled gardens notwithstanding, you have access to a far less restricted and curated set of applications.
0 employees doesn’t mean 0 contractors or 0 agencies on contract.
Yes, but if you had wifi iMessage was essentially “free”. I always though of it as message went over the internet, vs message went over SMS.

iMessage was released 11 years ago now. Can’t blame Apple for what not considering what the toddlers of the time would eventually do with the technology.
> a software framework is an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. [..] Frameworks have key distinguishing features that separate them from normal libraries:

You mean, whereas you call a library; a framework calls you? :)
No you can't. You can find that info at the OS level, or if you use the beta you could get at it via the Developer tools (since it's just a specialized browser window), but there's no userland option to export your conversation in the application.

That's why I wrote 'within Signal.'

As a simple example of how this could get messy, suppose I wanted to back up all my Signal messages, install a different operating system, install Signal there, and load up my old messages. I do have the IT skills to just find the database file and move it manually, but I'm only confident about that because I know its an SQLite database, where the keys are stored etc.

It's still an IT problem I would prefer not to have, vs the simple option of 'Do you want to export this conversation, with all the security implications Y/N' or 'Import this previously archived conversation?'