skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I know, the project actually got canned. Jack genuinely didn’t like it.

> I don’t know if this mindset will hold true with the new owner of Twitter though. I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data.

When has Elon been against user privacy? Also, isn't Elon good friends with Jack? I feel like they would see eye to eye with this. In fact Elon seems like the type that would try to champion emerging fads like crypto, differential privacy, and zero knowledge proofs. Harvesting data is boring and easy.
I am really baffled by this claim, since I've been observing the Global Hunger Index for a while, where India has consistently fared worse than even DPRK (North Korea), and is almost the same level as Afghanistan, a country that has been at war for 20 years. https://www.globalhungerindex.org/

I am not sure if these 2 reports are contradictory, or whether they are in agreement with each other (since the GHI score for India has been trending downwards). Does anyone who is more knowledgeable on this please explain?
What the Suzuki Method Taught
This line of reasoning needs to be stopped. If you haven't lived or grown up through India's pre-capitalist era you have no idea what you're talking about. Ask any Indian about it and I think they'll tell you that urban pollution is a small price to pay for the distance they've come in terms of overall quality of life and wealth.
Archived: https://archive.ph/I898t
I'm not the grandparent poster, but maybe the answer is "there are 44 billion reasons and 1 impulsive guy at the helm"...
Memory errors are always logic errors in C. Freeing something that was already freed or accessing a buffer out of bounds and so on are pure logic errors.
Every time you are on a camera you have to consider that the other party might be recording you. People judge everything. Every gesture, key press, backgrounds and background noise. Your job is now a reality TV show.
I had this years later from The Simpsons of all things. In "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part 2)" Tito Puente has a musical number "Señor Burns"[0] where the singer calls Burns "el diablo con dinero" which I remembered the sound of but not the meaning until I learned some Spanish like 10 years later.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kdDet7G14
In case you haven't seen the technical motivation for removing SMS yet, see https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...

It doesn't look like it has anything to do with Signal's direction in particular, but rather the changing environment they're in. (Specifically Android/Google making things harder.)
You do realize you posted this on HN?
> five 9s

Lololol. Good lord. Tell me you don't work in product without saying you don't work in product.

She gives zero fucks about Five 9's. Maybe her tech team gives like 1/8 of a fuck, but no more beyond that. She only cares about the number of people she reaches with one tweet/toot/whatever, and simply being faster/self-hosted/data owned/reliable/federated has nothing to do with that.
Don't forget the fact that you had to see a command line, no general user should ever see a command line.
Bulb suggestions welcome!
The youngins' have no idea how good they have it. I'm an IE6 veteran and comparing now to then, today's CSS is a dream.

I think most people dislike it nowadays because it requires two skillsets: visual creativity and technical aptitude (most people can only fulfill one of those halves).

It can be easy to project shortcomings in visual creativity onto the language which I don't think is very fair but I tend to see often being at the root of people's dismissals of the language.

If you're just taking designs from someone else and implementing them, the CSS part of front-end is comparatively easy to what it was just a decade and change ago. It's still not perfect (and never will be with competing browser vendors/rendering engines), but the time investment to implement complex designs is substantially less than it was. That's a win.
We hadn't heard of Mastodon before all the Twitter stuff went down. People simply hadn’t been aware of it
Oh, no, we were still on Windows Phone 6.0 at that point. I've still got the device pictured in this article:

https://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobi...

But ignore the device, and notice how the UI looks at lot like a Windows PC desktop of era. Now imagine that against even the earliest of iPhones. Ballmer going on about how the iPhone was going to fail sure aged well.

Later versions of Windows Phone would improve on it in a big way, as you point out, but by then it was way too late. Perhaps if they poured more money into it as you suggest, but Microsoft was already paying devs to port their apps, and there were still big holes in the app lineup.
Not quite. Lifetime annotations prevent you from accidentally using references after the value they refer to has been freed. They track how long things will live, instead of defining how long they will live.

Basically they turn use-after-free errors into compile errors.

(I'm using 'free' here to mean cleaned up in general. Lifetimes can track stack values.)
> It was previously a Twitter norm that you could temporarily change your display name to “impersonate” (satirize) someone, with your handle being the giveaway that it’s not real.

Here is the policy archived from January of this year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220108193314/https://help.twit...

> The account name (note: this is separate from the username, or @handle) should clearly indicate that the user is not affiliated with the subject of the account. Non-affiliation can be indicated by incorporating, for example, words such as (but not limited to) "parody," "fake," "fan," or "commentary.” Non-affiliation should be stated in a way that can be understood by the intended audience.

So the requirement goes beyond your handle, it must be clearly indicated in your display name that it is a parody. Kathy did not do that. She changed it to just "Elon Musk".

So Musk is enforcing a policy that existed way before this takeover.
I ways wonder what would happen if you were to promise maintenance of those packages and improved doc, and then slap a pricing page for corporate.
Not so much disallows, but it reminds me of a specific additional clause in the reprap license[1]:

"If any part of RepRap covered by the GPL is used to train any AI, then all the products of that AI are derivative works of RepRap and must comply with the parts of the GPL on derivative works."

[1]: https://reprap.org/wiki/RepRapGPLLicence
> I listened to a podcast where the (female) hosts said they had spent hundreds of dollars by clicking on Instagram ads for random products

So, you would agree then that when the content and relevance of an ad surpasses some threshold, the ad is good and that when ads are "useless and irrelevant" they are bad?
Maybe I am missing it, but I don't quite understand what 'fairness' has to do with cross market pricing. Different markets will constitute many variations in variables that will affect pricing. The cost of doing business in France is different than the cost of doing business in South Africa. The brand reputation of a McDonalds is different in China than it is in the US. I can go to almost any European country and buy groceries for cheaper than in the US, I have never thought "this is not fair".
I do not trust this story. Seems way too absurd to happen in the 2010's. Literally just some guy (tm) on Twitter saying it
> with his rise and fall,

Not being daft, but what fall? Sure the non-Right media wants to paint him as a has-been, but that's revisionist history, and wishful thinking.

Key fact: Trump in losing received more votes than Obama in either of BO's victory. Yet Obama is generally painted as popular and love, and Trump a nothing?

I'm not a fan of DT but a false hope in a false narrative is an opportunity for him to exploit.
> Is there anyone that actually gets excited when they see a platform has stories, or is adding them?

I was honestly excited when I saw the headline, not because I have any intention of using stories myself, but because my friends have repeatedly tried to explain to me why they use stories on Whatsapp and Snapchat, and I have some hope this will make Signal more attractive to them.

I feel the same way about stickers and the Giphy proxy, both of which are features I would never have asked for and was initially skeptical of, but that have wound up being widely used by most of my friends who use Signal.
I suggest you to think a bit about the context:

- the location logs would be collected by a simple application, witch imply the phone/phone OS itself can do that;

- they do refuse, Legal teams do not, but nothing state they can't satisfy the request TECHNICALLY.

In other words when people tend to disagree with my consideration of smartphone as macro-spy devices bought and kept up by those who get spied as opposite of classic spying gears should think about not only that, but what they do with their (well, not really their, since they are just formal but powerless owners) phones, things like pay taxes, act on their banks accounts, pre-heat/cool their cars etc.

Because such activities have a FAR bigger impact than mere position logs.
What makes you think that? In contrast to Alexa, my Tesla does not show me any ads. And I’ve also not been followed around by ads targeted based on places I have driven by, eben though that would be a low hanging fruit if Tesla was run by Zuckerberg or Bezos.
Volkswagen and Xanadu establish quantum simulation program for battery materials
Then enforce the laws and start fining them for non compliance.
This is the typical mode of expression for these post-human / trans-human types.

Aggressive ranting language, extreme emotional volatility, narrow collectivist vision, and very deep technical analysis & know-how.

Been this way for decades, at least as long as I’ve been paying attention. It’s a culture.
Is it that weird? The apparent trigger for this policy is Kathy Griffin "impersonating" Musk, and nobody thought her account was his. Her account got suspended, which goes above and beyond this policy; which happened before this policy came out, despite his promise of no major content decisions until he gets his moderation committee together (which hasn't happened yet). He's all "free speech absolutism" but lashes out at people whose speech is critical of him. So yeah. Expect some negativity.
Hey everyone, I've been working on a decentralized solution to the pervasiveness of vegetable oils at restaurants called Seed Oil Scout.

It's an iOS/Android app that let's users quickly contact restaurants and report on their cooking oils.

Download here: http://seedoilscout.com/

Let me know what you think!
crypto does change. Maybe not specifications of specific algorithms, but which of them are supported may change. Do we want to break existing code when one of them will become deprecated or do we want to allow insecure method to be used to make web requests?
> we need to force massive patent reform

Exactly. How will that happen?

My answer: you get some congressman or senator to introduce a bill, and then you apply all the influence you can muster to get it passed. And there will be opposition.
Does Signal have a "classic posts" feature I don't know about?
> tends to be a sub-par product pushed out the door for reasons based in greed

I don't think bad products are immoral, just bad.

> There is nothing fundamentally immoral about accepting payment in exchange for raising awareness of something.

There's a difference between _paying to get something_, and _paying me to do something_. For instance, we can probably agree that paying to receive a stolen television and paying me to build you a television are different even if the buyer-side transaction characteristics are the same.

That's where advertising breaks down in morality. When party A pays party B to receive party C's attention without party C agreeing to be a part of this transaction at all.

That's why I say "most": sometimes party C is in fact knowingly participating. Maybe they get something in exchange for their attention (access to a costly-to-run website, or a reduced rate on an otherwise costly-to-print magazine). Obviously that line is fuzzy for something like the App Store where the money is going to Apple's margins which are kinda sorta part of the product pricing but clearly the price of the hardware isn't going down but Apple's clearly within their rights to set their own pricing and...? It's fuzzy for sure but I sure didn't knowingly agree to be advertised to on a device that I bought before they started doing this. And consent is hard to talk about in a duopoly environment as well.

Anyway again I'm not here to argue with you about it and I don't care one way or the other if you agree with me. I just wanted to point out that your axioms about "fundamentally immoral" aren't everybody's axioms.
Eh, I guess it really depends on how you define "inherently bad." For example, I'd also call "shooting people" inherently bad, but there are certainly cases where a specific shooting is a net good (self defense, etc). It sounds like your definition is different and may require any possible instance to be bad.
--pid-owner was removed from Linux some time in the 2.4 days IIRC.

That's a really outdated version of the man page. The current one is: https://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables-extensions.man.html

Probably the closest thing these days is to use the cgroup match extension, together with something that makes sure separate apps are moved to their own cgroup. But that cgroup would be under a separate parent cgroup for each user so it's not ideal.

I expect NFQUEUE or some EBPF magic is a better way to do things - you don't want to be constantly adding/removing per-process iptables rules.
Well he is still rich AF. So what did he lose?
> Over here I'd call this borderline obese.

Sorry that we don't all live in towns entirely populated by bulemic supermodels. It's frankly an indictment of you and numerous other commenters that y'all would look at these photos v. the fat people televised for entertainment and decide "yes, these are entirely indistinguishable and therefore warrant the exact same terminology and scorn".

Get a grip.
The presence of competitors selling the same or alternative goods lowers the "max they are willing to pay"
I just recently started looking back at one of the groups I frequently read years ago and found that there was a small community still using it. Even recognized a few of them. The trolls and spammers were gone.
In which case it would also be incomplete not to mention that that same data is stored insecurely and protected by an easy to brute force PIN. ( see https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...)
Elon has a significantly stronger profit motive, given his high purchase price and Twitter’s otherwise tanking advertising sales.
There are solutions, but on some level this is no different from telling Windows users to just tweak some registry keys. It all leads to the same place.
People aren't expecting to get quote sniped so they assume that you have read the previous section where they explain in exacting detail what value they see in the story format.

> In the past years, stories have emerged as a new way to communicate, with their own unique purposes, norms, and idiosyncrasies. Ephemeral, low-stakes, and image-heavy, people use stories to share updates about their lives without the expectation of a response.

> Sometimes you just need a chill way to show your crush that you went to a very cool concert, without having to text them. Stories let you share your life with a select group of people in a way that doesn’t result in a new message notification. They give you a place to tell the kinds of jokes that work better in a sequential image or video format, and to share what you’re doing without the pressure of a conversation.

> Stories have emerged to serve these specific functions and others in the broader communications landscape, and many of us have integrated them as one of the ways that we connect with one another. That’s why they have a natural place in any messaging app, including Signal.

> Stories also happen to be one of the most common feature requests we receive from all over the world. People use them, people want them, so we’re providing a way to do stories privately. And without having to wade through a sea of ads.
Your (U.S.A.) cell network provider sells your location. No need for apps!
In 2013. He pled guilty to wire fraud in 2012. Can FinCEN/IRS retroactively determine something (like tradable skins in a game) is property and prosecute people over it?
Linked article is roughly double the time frame referenced for India. Its in the world's largest democracy. Benevolent dictatorships work for as long ad the dictator(s) remains Benevolent.
> prove

There are different levels of proof. For example, civil court only requires a preponderance of evidence.
Not to forget the TwitterAPIpocalypse of 2012 (?), when Twitter heavily restricted its programming interfaces, which decimated the ecology of companies that were built around it, like Flattr (1.0). I surmise that's not unrelated to Mastodon's release in 2016 ?

For instance :

IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4550625
The Democrats could abandon neoliberalism and put identity politics on the back burner and pass Universal Health Care, Child Care and College, along with a large boost in infrastructure spending in the midwest, and a reduction in certain obvious issues of regulatory capture (importing drugs from Canada and Europe) and tax hikes on the rich. That'd do a lot to fix the average condition of the worker in the United States, and many of these proposals are actually supported by a majority of Republican voters.

The reality is that we've had a divided population ever since the 90s, and this is by the design of both political parties in the United States, because we have two different competing corporate parties now. And the way we've been provoked to fight each other didn't start with the Russians, we were doing it back in the 90s with Limbaugh and Bill Clinton. They may have thrown a little gas on the fire, but we lit it a long time ago.

And trying to shift responsibility onto individuals doesn't really work. That's like trying to solve climate change by having everyone recycle harder and plays into the old individualistic puritan work ethic mythology which it should be obvious by now doesn't fix anything and just gets us yelling at each other and policing each other.

The government is going to have to change, and corporations are going to have to change and billionaires are going to have to recognize that unrestrained plundering of the economy will wind up tearing the country apart.

And I don't see any way out of this where everyone remains civil and nothing fundamentally changes. The fact that the best solution you've got is to just remind people to be civil at all costs suggests to me that we're going to hit some kind of really bad situation.

And the fact that the proposals that I suggest in my first paragraph are likely to catch a lot of flak and a whole lot of pushing for the status quo and expanations of how those ideas are fundamentally unthinkable and politically unreasonable are why I think we're heading for violence. If nothing changes then the pressure cooker just slowly continues to boil without any release and lecturing the people who are getting angry about the situation that they're not being civil isn't going to stop it blowing up eventually.
Public addresses are 160 bits in bitcoin, so it depends on your character encoding. But yes, very long and random.

Pieter Wuille has a very interesting talk on public addresses and some novel work he did to drastically improve address error detection. Worth a watch for some cool computer science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqiN9VFE4CU

Honestly, it's kind of surprising that these kinds of exploits don't happen all the time since base layer bitcoin transactions alone secure $14 trillion in annual transfer volume in recent years. That's a huge honey pot for malicious attackers that seems to mostly go under exploited.
When "selling user data" is the line between losing 44-billion dollars and NOT losing 44-billion dollars, lines get very blurry.
He also started unblocking himself on users' accounts. A few friends of mine have complained today that they started seeing his tweets again, despite having him blocked since 2017, and it seems to be a common occurrence. I wonder what the people that are implementing this stuff are thinking, must hurt undermining the platform you've built - at least I hope they're being paid well.
> Harvesting data is boring and easy.

Boring, easy, yet highly profitable. And sometimes the only boring and easy way to be profitable.
That is interesting, though it seems more of a hack. This seems like something that should be in the bio, not part of the name. Though perhaps Twitter can add user flairs like Reddit
Signals existence was too inconvenient for oppressive governments/law enforcement, so instead they've been subverted.
The reason C is so dominate here is not that C is magic, its that its pretty much the only thing that does care about having a stable ABI. When people design C replacements, they rarely understand why C is so successful. ABI stability is extremely important. (This is one of the reasons Linux on the desktop has never taken off outside of OSS because the distros don't maintain a stable common ABI)

Any other language could do it, just no one does, because its not sexy or fun.
He won the battle (pyrrhic-ly) but not the war. Fine grained location is commonly bought and sold in the USA:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7v34a/fog-reveal-local-cops...
What is obvious?

In the case of flash freezing, hasn't the market shown that the idea of quickly freezing food (to preserve the food without producing large ice crystals) was novel when he invented it? We have been able to freeze food for hundreds of years, and nobody was doing it that way until 1924. That sounds like a non-obvious novel idea to me.
You're kind of reinforcing my point that while there are things that incidentally help men, none of that is done in the name of "gender equity".

For example you mention incarceration and studies show a "sentencing gap" where if a man and woman commit exactly the same crime, the man will on average receive a longer sentence. But there is no call to reduce incarceration for men specifically. There are some calls to reduce incarceration for everyone. There are also bizarrely some calls to reduce it for women specifically in the name of "gender equity" (even though the "sentencing gap" already privileges women).

Basically it's politically incorrect to specifically help men unless you wrap it up in language about how it actually helps the people who matter, i.e. women and children.
Ha. A fellow Zarathustra reader! Nice.
Relative measures are important because it's an indicator of how fairly domestic resources are being allocated. You can be a poor country but have resources fairly allocated among the population, and you can be a rich country and have resources unfairly allocated among the population. It's a good indicator of how well people at the bottom are being taken care of, and the ideal scenario is a rich country with low income inequality, which the Nordic countries are probably the best examples of.

You can use measures that are less country-specific like the Gini coefficient and UN R/P to measure domestic inequality between countries:

The UK has a Gini coefficient of 35.1, a UN R/P 10% of 13.8

India has a Gini coefficient of 35.7, a UN R/P 10% of 8.6

For reference, Norway has a Gini coefficient of 27.7, and a UN R/P 10% of 6.1

(higher = more inequality)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
I think it was just a bluff.