skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the face of it, this is true. Since most people enable iCloud backups of messages, which are not encrypted, you should basically think of iMessage as unencrypted, unless you are very sure both you and the person you are messaging do not have iCloud backups enabled.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how much to trust Zuck's claims of WhatsApp encryption, or if external people have attempted to verify the claims, but it seems like such a big deal to lie about, that it's probably true?

Of course, that's only going to provide you passive protection from things like automated scanning of messages. If you become a target, it seems as though there are always exploits floating around which can be used to hack your phone, and then all bets off.
"visual learner" as it is used in education theory does appear to be mostly bunk. For a variety of reasons, one of which is that most people have both auditory and visual thoughts.

However I would caution not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There is a growing body of evidence that some people are better or worse at visualizing, have a stronger or weaker internal monologue, etc. than others. There are reported neurophysiological differences as well as task behavior differences if you look at people with Aphantasia for example.

As the other article sent to you mentions, someone who is not very visual could potentially benefit even more from visual examples, so these results are not really in conflict with the failures of education theory. It's also not clear how common large disparities in the modalities of thinking are, so perhaps it is not something worthwhile to consider for mass education policy regardless. But I think in a neuroscience context it remains an interesting topic for future research.

I'll also note that the author of the original piece is autistic, and she has clearly demonstrated savant-level abilities on certain visualization tasks. It's not surprising that she would feel this way about "learning styles", because her entire life experience has likely been extremely lopsided towards visual thinking.
How do you know if you should spend time and money to “brand” your business?
Airworthiness directive indicates 51.

https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/2020-06-14.pdf/AD_US-2020-06-...
Kayne isn't being scammed by Parler. He's being scammed by Candace Owens, whose husband owns Parler.
I mean, the Dallas (ex-military) sniper was exactly the right use of this sort of technology. He was actively, explicitly murdering cops, and the police had no reason to believe he was unwilling or unable to kill more of them if they moved to arrest him. I can understand concern that this might be used in more ambiguous circumstances, but I don't understand why anyone would object to its use in that particular case.
> Did you know that car mechanics have to buy their own tools?

A good set of Snap On wrenches are practically family heirlooms. My dad has a set from the 60s that he bought from a family friend, and they’re still going strong.

I personally wouldn’t mind doing BYOD, because I like investing in my own tools for my own purposes as well as employment. All the ceremony and corpware around “company data” is why I use company equipment.
GP is simply offering some context since you said you don't know Kanye at all and have only encountered him recently. It was never intended to be incompatible.
I will go back to the top comment as of now.. you do not learn math by reading. You learn it by solving the problems. Some subjects (maybe some of the softer humanities) are more theory than practice.. Math and programming are not one of those.
BTW back back through the mid 70s it was not extraordinary to add protected mode and pagers to some mainframes and minis yourself. I used several machines that had had locally designed memory management added. So I find this especially nice.
Not if those links are clicked by real people.
Is Airbnb being subsidized like the others?
If a company is willing to pay to train an employee, but not willing to pay a higher salary to retain that [now more valuable] employee, that's a decision totally on the company. It seems silly for a company to invest the large initial cost and then fail to pay the ongoing costs.
They couldn't have chosen a name that wouldn't conflict with Ethernet standards?

We're already up to Cat7 and it's not crazy to think we'll be on Cat9 in a little while.
That situation is pretty distinguishable from what happened in the article. A law degree's benefits mostly fall on Kim, it's not specific training for her job, it's a legal requirement for an attorney role, and it is fully usable in other attorney jobs. Most importantly, it's a truly optional deal to get Kim a promotion--not a requirement to keep the job you were already hired for. And most people pay for the degree themselves.

That's not the same as a company specific trainings for people who are already licensed for the job.

There is definitely some sort of gray area between education and on-the-job training, but Kim's case isn't in that area IMO.
uh, that's a really interesting idea that i've never used before -- like a graveyard for data.

have you done it before? how did you implement it?
Our IT security people give every impression that their preferred solution would be to drop all the computers in the river and lock the doors.

I naively went to them once with a suspected security intrusion event; they threatened to have me arrested. I couldn't convince them that I wasn't the one responsible.
Mark Zuckerberg says his product is more secure than his competitors. I would expect him to say that, regardless of the 'truth'.
Also I have to wonder how much of this "math" hate is societal.

It isn't uncommon for parents to say how much they hate math so of course their kids are going to start to think that.

Or to talk about how much they hate school.

Leaning should feel rewarding and yet, it feels like it isn't in this country.
> the ability to post obscene content, threats, state secrets, corporate IP, or any other legal restrictions

Free speech opponents always like to point to these examples when the topic of free speech comes up, but I've never seen free speech advocates use an example of any of these as examples of problematic censorship - instead, they (we) point out voluminous examples of unfashionable opinions being removed. In fact, if Kanye or Musk came out and said "free speech except for" and listed your (specific, easily definable) examples, I'd still agree with them that they were advocating for free speech.
I do the same, but thankfully it's unusual that a shop refuses cash. I hope to do my part in keeping it that way.
He's probably right but, based on past experience, there's significant risk of Meta changing this in the future for revenue-generation reasons. Trust is hard to earn and easy to lose.
The Impact Will Be Real
The cost of cleanup (which includes restoring the forrest to its natural state) is really what kept it running for a long time-- basically within the budget horizon it was cheaper to keep it running at limp-along levels (which presumably contributed to the failure) than to shut it down.

I've long assumed that complete restoration being an assumed mandatory consequence of shutdown was itself a successful gambit from parties that wanted to keep the instrument operational. :)
This is a fabulous "Did they actually read the article?" test.
I would hope there's a margin of error baked in and stuff doesn't break on day 52 exactly.
We pay our teachers well in the US compared to our better-performing peers. And who doesn't respect teachers?

More money isn't the solution.
It is trivial, but people who don't even have a trivial level of knowledge of things get themselves in trouble in many domains all the time.
Exactly the opposite here. The recent progress in text/image/sound generation is the first thing that's actually made me interested in ML/AI. If I could restructure market priorities so all of the data scientists working on ad tech and recommendation engines and virtual assistants were working on this stuff instead I'd do it in an instant.

I can also say from experience that extreme negative feelings like "other people are doing things I don't find interesting and it makes me exhausted and miserable" were, for me, a sign of clinical depression.
You need more scare quotes around “reliable” than brain. The airplane requires constant almost daily maintenance by dozens of highly trained professionals and yet none of its chips will survive decades save for a few lucky passive components.

Whereas going decades without seeing a qualified doctor has been the default state since the dawn of homo sapiens with nothing more than a good night’s sleep.
How many flights last for 51 days?
> it violates the basic principle of: "you only kill when your life is in danger"

For police, it's "you only kill when a life is in danger". It doesn't have to be your life.
I was thinking about including the necessary instrumentation to check code coverage during regression tests. Something like coverage.py. The intent is not to get a specific number, but to understand which parts of the code might not be exercised enough by existing test cases.
op made a pun
Not that it makes it better, but Elon also said he suffered from bipolar disorder.
lol. Zuck, you spied on people with Onavo and kicked Acton and Koum out of the company, you have no moral standing whatsoever
The 787 runs on VxWorks though.

https://blogs.windriver.com/wind_river_blog/2011/09/boeing-7...
You're right. Companies have the right to censor things they don't like on their platforms. That's why people should stop using platforms that are frequently censored if they really care about "free speech." Just like how people can't "free loiter" on my personal property if I want them out of it.

I don't care about an arbitrary definition of two strung-together words, whose definitions individually, are absolute. When combined, their definition is just as absolute. The speech must be free. Free is simply defined as free. Not "free, but ..." in which case it is no longer just "free speech."
Hmm, those mini-tubines have exposed blades, so some danger to wildlife and more noise likely, though on the plus side it can turn with the wind.
This is why I recommend friends & family use Signal, and they've actually adopted it due to the really easy on-boarding. It's probably the best iMessage alternative out there.
To be clear, he's saying that it felt like everyone already had their message about Uvalde coordinated before the Uvalde event had fully come out in the news to the point where even The Gap, a store as removed as possible from being a news organization, had a message prepared. That feels different than "people at the Gap knew about Uvalde". Is that still an insane thing to say?
A similar book is „The Sparrow“ by Mary Doria Russell - humanity catches a radio signal of signing from another planet 4 light years anway and, since it’s so close, they send a delegation. The main character is a Jesuit linguist priest and he learns the languages spoken there
I'm gonna be a contrarian here and say I'm genuinely excited to see what Yeezy does with the platform, assuming its not just a passing interest. For all his antics, his work in music and fashion is legit, and those two are a large reason people are on social media today.

If we required artists be 100% free of mental illness, we would not have Van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Kusama Yayoi, Michelangelo, Brian Wilson, etc. Let him be him, enjoy what he creates, and take it all with a grain of salt.
I do struggle with the "you coppers will never track me with my new cryptocoin!" mentality I see around (and on this thread).

I do not subscribe that the view that "innocent have nothing to fear". If our transactions are visible for all to see then huge amounts of privacy issues become salient.

It's just that I don't believe secrecy is the solution.

Firstly, there is no digital secrecy. But mean maybe you have years long perfect opssec, but each of your partner transactions now need to be perfect. It's just not gonna work.

Secondly, why don't live in a secret world - the people I interact with know what I am doing each day - it's just either not worth their while to exploit me, or they are too polite, or exploiting their knowledge of me is kind of the point (my regular cafe just sees me sit down and the order is in). Yes the digital world made the marginal cost of exploitation much lower so third parties have got in on the act.

Anyway, the point is that it's either not feasible, likely or even desirable to move like a ghost through the world.

Technology will not magically fix our political problems - haters gonna hate, totalitarian governments gonna totalitarian. Our politics need to be solved with politics. I remember when we thought email and the web would create peaceful communities, when facebook would free the Arab world. And realpolitik always came back.

Please - let's not hope that some clever coding will fix deep seated political problems - especially with, of all things, money.

Let's get back to the brass tacks - informed, organised mass democracy. It's hard and dirty and means talking to other human beings. Not HN ideal :-)

Edit: TLDR

Do I want the director of the FBI to track my online spending? No!

Do I want the director of the FBI to track the money laundering by international cartels and criminals? Yes!

What's the difference? Democracy, individual rights, the rule of law, transparent law enforcement, strong institutions and so on.
This was my first thought. Surely there are other systems on the plane that require maintenance or checks that are even more disruptive. Rebooting is a switch, button, or command. Inspecting engines, pipes, or compartments requires somebody to get out of a chair.
Another good point of reference for all this cultural commentary is the Volga Germans. They were moved to the Volga to enrich the culture with their farming methods. Later most left Russia for the US and even today there is long simmering resentment over the indignities of life in Russia.
> I encourage you to look up the word "exigency"

In your haste to snark, you missed the parent's point, which was that the officer doesn't speak on behalf of the department contra the claim.
It's not clickbait. It's called being clever, and something that newspapers have done for centuries before internet griefers came along.
Why Tether has not been collapsing during this bear market ?
The question is whether he still is one or the market has moved past him. No one stays relevant forever.
A.I. Scoring, Stats, and Line Calling for Tennis
As in, literally a fish, called the sarcastic fringehead.

Headline is kind of a pun / clickbate.
People can do that right now; they just choose not to. I don't think you can do simple moralising at the state of things and point the blame at a single cause.
Keystone species...I don't know. But what if they are vital in ways we can't measure right now? Our blindspots. Pest is not enough to go f**ing with it. Mosquitos help humans develop and transfer immunity to each other against many things, I think and I have a really strong sense we shouldn't be wiping them out.
Your example is a business wanting to make things inefficient for its customers in order to increase the business's profits.

That is different from a business making things inefficient for its own workers, which would reduce a business's profits.

The former might even be expected, but the latter is just bad management.
True, the typing of codes in small timespan is pretty anoying
Or, maybe or, they are both closed source and given the USA mass spying and secret tribunal we gotta assume they all have a backdoor. And that this backdoor has been found and exploited by black hats and corrupted employees or politicians.
> where it didn’t have much scientific value

EEEeeee.. don't confuse the weird biases in scientific research from publication incentives as being a true metric of scientific utility.

There is a tremendous bias in favor of "new" instruments because the low hanging discoveries made possible on something new (not even necessarily 'better' just different) haven't been made yet. But much of that research is extremely superficial and doesn't go on to contribute much to the forward body of knowledge -- it just helps churn out papers to support career progression.

Arecibo was thoroughly unmatched in several respects, particular as a radar[1]. It was also the premier instrument for validating observations made on synthetic aperture instruments since as a single aperture it's largely free of the artifacts that synthetic aperture instruments. Validation is scientifically critical but also doesn't tend to produce a lot of high profile papers.

[1] E.g. consider these images of the moon imaged using Arecibo as the transmitter and Green Bank Telescope as the receiver https://sservi.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/craters2l...
As an extreme example of this:

https://kansaspolicy.org/rethinking-taxes-around-remote-work...

> Kansas has policies that could deter remote work and are deterring greater interstate work with our neighbors. Kansas requires employer withholding for people working in the state just for one day, which creates an annoying hurdle for companies trying to operate even in a small capacity in Kansas. In 2020, the Kansas legislature considered a bill that would have extended the withholding requirement period to 30 days, but the proposal died
Paying market wages for those skills and having predictable schedules goes a long way to improving retention.
Be careful with this line of thinking. What has been debunked, as I recall, is a very specific formulation of what is meant by "learning styles". It is not necessarily the case that every colloquial use of that term represents the thing that has been debunked. And as I recall, the possibility that some people simply have a preference for certain learning modalities has not been debunked, and that may be what people who use that term in routine conversation mean. The question then would be whether or not that preference matters at all.
Uh huh. When I see somebody with a locked smartphone, I think criminal with something to hide.
As a counterpoint to part of this article, I just posted an article on HN in which an SRE turned solo dev ditched Kubernetes for Fly after 2 years and rising costs.[1]

VMs are good enough for high-traffic sites like HN and Pinboard. I think they can be good enough for most solo devs as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33235042
Hell with KYC a government imposed search of your papers is dictated by law without even a warrant/PC/RAS. Where I live, you can legally carry a concealed gun in a bank without ID but you can't open a damn account and put $20 even with a US passport (without some proof of address).
I read the rules and the Wikipedia page and that's all I can find. What else is there?
We have white traffic lights now in Canada for "transit advance", when buses are allowed to proceed before the rest of traffic.
The article is annoyingly vague about what information the app actually accesses/provides, so we kind of have to guess and assume it's some kind of information that makes the employees' jobs easier.
He's a guy who Murdoch pays to say offensive things to drive engagement on Fox News :)
That is what I would dispute.

A victim who signals victimhood isnt necessary, indeed perhaps often, looking for help. Which is why so many victims arent helped, of course.

If you're punched by a bully, you may just want to run away in shame -- yet, and onlooker may strongly desire to help you.

By seeing help as something a victim intentionally seeks for the sake of their own benefit, we reduce them to selfish actors and eliminate psychology from the picture.

This is often the trap evo-psych falls into: its adhearnts mistake an explanation of how X could evolve, for an explanation of why a given person in a given situation Xs. These are radically different.

Evolution is a blind machine with no intention; if you perform this elimination you will mistakenly assume the same of people.
That PDF is about undocumented Z80 features discovered over the years. That video is not about "The Z80's protected mode discovered after 40 years…" That video instead should have been titled "My janky hack to isolate Z80 IO space" hence its click-bait title. If it had been titled appropriately I would not have wasted time seeking about looking for the recent discovery. Since there have been pretty astounding discoveries over the years I was pretty upset by the video hoping for a new one. I hope he doesn't pull a stunt like this again.
> Anonymity is only a deterrent when you are the odd one out. When the President of the US is the one spouting the insanity you don't have to hide anymore.

The problem with anonymous online echo-chambers is that it lulls those in the community that there are more of them in the real world than there really are, which emboldens people to take their online craziness into the real world. This goes for everything from politics to "The raid on Area 51"
exactly, it could even shoot little bits of confetti that say bang, or all sorts of non lethal things that would 100% stop the fight w/o killing.
Damn, this is fun.
Great to read about. At O(1) Labs[^0] we've had a board that consists only of employees for about a year now. Employees who have been around for at least 1 year can run and vote. It's one-person-one-vote and we use Scottish Single Transferrable Vote[^1].

We also have a biannual meeting we call our General Assembly in which anyone can make proposals, and then we debate and vote on them as a company. For anyone trying to inject more democracy into their company, I think having a structure like that which more explicitly empowers workers to shape company policy is essential.

[^0]: https://o1labs.org/

[^1]: https://www.opavote.com/methods/scottish-stv-rules
>Math has a severe stigma. How many people do you know would readily confess "I'm just not good at reading," almost as a badge of pride? This is common with math.

Perhaps because it is genuinely less important on the pyramid of human skills. Reading, language comprehension, and critical thinking are more universally needed than, say, matrix multiplication or integrals.
Foone also has a few hundred Tweet Twitter rant about why they are using Twitter, so at least they are consistent.
> Filled aperture matters.

Could say the exact opposite... sparse synthetic apertures are more cost-efficient.
I tend to agree with your point, but the focus of the article was on trucking and nursing. Those aren't niche skillsets and would be highly transportable.
Find your niche and exceed at it!

Predators, parasites, mimikry.

There must be some social-ecological equivalent.

Don't be envious, it's natural.
Other sources report the only 'days' delay was between block 0 and block 1 – and thus likely an idiosyncratic effect of the launch. Apparently, also, there were a few more >20hr blocks in the 1st half of 2009, when interest was very, very low.

So while technically true, without further details, your comment implies something that's not really reflective of the system today.

Of course, as a stochastic process, it's possible that the delay reaches any length whatsover. But it becomes vanishingly unlikely, under the rough assumption that hash power stays at the level observed at the last difficulty-adjustment.

By the formula Tadge Dryja shared, a 1-day (1440 minute) delay would be expected once every 6.568×10^57 average Gregorian years, or far far far longer than the age of the universe so far: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%281%2Fe%5E%28-1440%2F1...

(If large amounts of hash power disappear for any reason – war, regulations, sabotage, bugs, massive price drops, etc – then all bets are off.)
Because there hasn't been a run. They're definitely insolvent, but that only causes immediate failure when enough people try to withdraw at once.
I surveyed 500 startup founders about their salaries