skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then do it insecurely and warn the user. 'We can't figure out how to do this securely' is their BS excuse for every bad design decision or unimplemented feature.

You might say 'but they don't want to make people less secure, people will get the wrong idea!' But they do this already, in ways that are much worse than allowing the user to make a security decision for themselves.

You can change a setting to prevent screenshots inside the Signal phone app, so you can't take screenshots. Your conversations are now secure, right? Nobody can take pictures of your disappearing messages! WRONG. You can turn on that feature and I can still take screenshots all day, including disappearing messages that you send to me.

Likewise, Signal can't tell if you're downloading pictures or copying text I send to you. You could be backing up everything - my only 'assurance' is that you probably aren't doing it because it's inconvenient.

You can change disappearing messages timer to anything you want! Great! But the change of timer is itself a message. So if we are arrested and police get into one person's Signal, they can see when disappearing messages were turned on and when the timer was lengthened or shortened. Sure, the messages disappeared, but what were you doing on August 23rd at 7:39pm that made you change the timer to 10 minute4s for 3 hours? We know where you were because of your phone's IMEI, I guess we will tell the court that you were trying to cover something up during those 3 hours and charge you with obstruction of justice.

I have asked them to change the latter behavior repeatedly, explaining why it could be a problem for users, and all I ever hear is 'good point, we'll look into it' even though there's no reason that information should be stored.
I suspect crosswords will be easier to generate than novels, because novels have much more of a 'voice' than crosswords do. Of course if you mean filler genre novels then I suppose that's a bit easier than more complex work.

But perhaps I am wrong.
>while kind of a PITA for non-technical people to get into,

In other words, it has a bad UX. Which was the original point about encrypted group chats.
Everything is a trade degree, if you lack the confidence that you will figure out things somehow.

Middle-class life is quite comfortable in most first-world countries. If you have the social capital from growing up in a middle-class family, it's often easy to remain in the middle class, even if you fail a couple of times. Upper middle class is another story, because it's characterized by playing the game and winning rather than social capital. If you are trying to remain in the upper middle class, you can't afford some of the luxuries a middle-class kid could.
Can anyone explain how a serialization anomaly as described in PG docs can result in a double withdrawal?

Seems to me that REPEATABLE READ mode should be sufficient, but I'm not sure.
The linked article wasn’t about defense. It was about state and local police invading privacy.
Stephen King is not known for his Tweets. He is known for his books.

He tweeted yesterday: "I don’t care what you do with the blue check as long as you VOTE blue."

Sounds like he needs a Twitter account to promote his politics, his dislike of republicans, dislike of Twitter, re-tweets of Biden, and personal jabs such as "It’s amazing how much Kayleigh McEnany looks like a Barbie doll.".... Wow, he should stick to far-fetched fiction.

> "...after you already bought it, did hey?"

Who already bought what now? Nobody bought anything! That's the point. That's why Twitter is losing money. King didn't buy anything ever.

Nothing wrong with finding revenue opportunities. Think of it as a price increase from zero to a new amount. No different to any other price increase we see from one amount to another.

It's amazing the breakdown of reason and logic when people are politically motivated in their replies.
Well, he is writing in Lisp: Racket is a batteries included Scheme and language laboratory (for writing experimental languages). I prefer Common Lisp myself since I have used the language since 1982 but Racket is very nice. I once took a medium length Common Lisp program I wrote (KnowledgeGraph Navigator) and reimplemented it in Racket and that was a pleasant experience.
RCS has been around since 2013 and the only alternative client to Google Messages was your device maker's app that was allowed to tie into Google Messages via a device vendor only API (but essentially these were just a skin for Google Messages).

Google has not provided any public API for RCS, and they control the ecosystem fully. If Google wanted other clients to use RCS as a platform, there would be public APIs that Signal, iMessage, Textra, Facebook Messenger and other SMS clients could integrate with.
> Over the long term, though, it moves left. Opinions in 1800 were far further right than far-right of today.

1800 is a weird baseline to pick, but even so I’m skeptical.
No this is not irrational. When it comes to things like this they are only able to justify that price because information asymmetry. It's not irrational to not want to get gouged or overpay. That extra money if it was not wasted because information asymmetry would provide value elsewhere in someones life or business dealings on other things.

Like some companies have ridiculous things like MAP when comes to retailers selling their products.

Just because a lot people are getting gouged and don't realize it does not mean they are not being gouged on price. Ideally other competition would help balance out this information asymmetry. In the ideal sense that a competitors costs to produce the same product/good would be roughly the same or in at least similar ball park that if one company is pricing something insanely high it would stand out. Although there hosts of reasons this does not work out in practice ranging from limited or no competition. Other issues such as that most goods are not identical ect...
Elon Musk has discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall
Giving cataclysmic predictions that don't happen, and quietly ignoring them when the year comes to replace it with the next cataclysmic prediction, is much like how some religious people say we're always either in or about to be in the End of Days. And is treated the same.
Especially when malincentives like regulators lining their pockets are involved ("Carbon credits" can be like a type of religious indulgence).

More measured approaches on shorter timescales -- actually going after the big fish and not ignoring their excess because they are more "important" than the little people -- is taken more seriously.
Indeed, the difference is dramatic without eyes close.
FDE with someone "in the cloud" having the key is defeating the purpose of FDE.
Windows used to offer printing a very long key on paper.
> Russia has nuclear weapons.

Nukes aren’t the trump cards you seem to think they are. In fact I would go so far as to say that nukes are essentially useless outside of deterring being destroyed by nukes or otherwise imminently existentially threatened. Even then they’re no guarantee as no one knows if MAD would actually be triggered in the event of a devastating attack. Regardless, salami tactics and other less-than-total-defeat strategies are likely to be quite effective at avoiding anything too grave to provoke a nuclear response because they can be conducted in such a way that suicide by MAD remains irrational.

> NATO has "been on the doorstep" for awhile

Not very long by European standards. It is obviously an ongoing concern for Russia having an enemy military alliance next door and that is also not a controversial statement. What country wouldn’t be gravely concerned by that? However, this is a long term strategy regardless of NATO and they have been executing it systematically for decades by gradually capturing the defensive geographies around Russia. They see it as existentially necessary to do this and that’s why they have to be stopped in Ukraine.
How much of this has to do with credit expansion and how much from cash purchases of those properties?

(Though I suppose an urban software developer is a good credit risk)
Ok... there were 3 months (dec 1998 - feb 199) that Elon owned a Zip2 which was advertiser-focused. He then sold the company and went and did something else.

I don't feel like this massively weakens my argument.
I think typed-arena fills this role.
Massive opportunity cost. And you don't learn all that much.
This is so true and still the case. I've seen so many highly skilled immigrants passed over for politics and image reasons... Academia is ruthless but for the wrong reasons.
It's 60K in the US so far this year.
To add to your comment, quaternions predate rotational matrix operators by a considerable amount (1843 vs not exactly clear, ~1900 with Peano or ~1920 with Weyl), despite quaternions being much more challenging to manipulate. There are definitely simpler ways to view the same things.

There was a cottage industry of exotic hypercomplex numbers that disappeared when linear algebra matured to eclipse them.

In fact, Maxwell's Equations were originally derived with quaternions.
That is the pitch, but not the reality.

C ABIs (of which there are many because the C standard doesn’t cover ABI) are full of legacy cruft, because they need to be stable and backwards-compatible more than they need to be sensible or efficient.

The C ABI can even vary depending on compiler flags, e.g. availability of AVX affects calling conventions. It’s not easy to be interoperable with this, especially when ABI-affecting compiler flags and macros may be set by an arbitrary build system, not even the C source code.
I'm sorry, but that's just not true. Stickers are widely used in the group chats I am in. I myself have created multiple sticker packs since the sticker feature launched. Before that, several people mentioned they thought Signal looked like a shitty app because it "didn't even have stickers."

Ultimately there was no shortage of boring, cryptographically-secure apps. Signal is filling demand for an app that is both secure and fun to use.
No, no M365, only O365. And again, no group policies.

And M365 is not a requirement because the Designer function clearly works on my machine.
I have never had any problem distinguishing between encrypted and unencrypted communication sin signal because they put a giant padlock icon next to the name of the contact. Now I have to use 2 different apps to handle messaging and set up a different color scheme or something to provide a visual cue about which is which if I respond to a notification in a hurry.
YXRKP next I think
A company isn't an authority on any subject. Employees though... I'd bet the survivors have stories the rest of us just wouldn't believe, straight from the trenches. World class experts on how to not do things.
College is about networking and getting sorted into the right groups more than it is about learning anything.
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Even people supporting themselves off grad school are usually not making “about the same as peers who went straight to work”
The thread ran that-away >>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33514804
It's bullshit. Please stop retconning.
> the first example splits it across multiple lines in a way which maximally preserves the other aspects of the notation.

Once you’re splitting it across lines I don’t think that is a desirable attribute. Better to use a format that suits multiple lines than attempt to match as closely as possible to a format intended for one line. Like those “flying cars” that try to look like the “canonical” car.

From my perspective this is a UI problem (though not a serious one).
> They're a good way to give life status updates to a lot of friends at once, and provides a good conversation starter.

I've found with experience that whenever you share something, it needs to be deliberate to chosen people, otherwise it deteriorates into popularity seeking and least-common-denominator feel good spam. I much more prefer the "take photo/video or find a meme, send to specific people each time" flow. With snap, it takes a few seconds to choose, because contacts are sorted by recency. This is the only part of snap I'm using, and it existed before stories.

Signal ended up somewhere inbetween, where you have to create a story (an imo unnecessary layer of i direction) and then add people to the story, which is minor from a tech perspective but huge issue for UX. It increases the friction for this flow.
This is interesting, but clearly there was caching going on, because the physical bus can't go as fast as some of these results. Samsung's own comments about their drives:

To reach maximum read/write speeds of up to 1,050/1,000 MB/s, respectively,
the host device and connection cables must support USB 3.2 Gen 2 and the UASP mode must be enabled.

Timing cached reads: 2038 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1020.29 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 874 MB in 3.00 seconds = 291.21 MB/sec

Makes sense.

Timing cached reads: 35130 MB in 2.00 seconds = 17596.74 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 2620 MB in 3.02 seconds = 866.55 MB/sec

17 gigabytes a second? If I had to guess, the test was run more than once without flushing the (computer's memory) cache / being rebooted / being disconnected and reconnected.
It wouldn't, but the prevalent climate change denial strategy is to look for flaws in studies rather than for supporting evidence.
Simh supports the LGP-30.

University of Stuttgart has copies of quite a few LGP-30 paper tapes, including Mel Kaye's blackjack. ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/lgp30/ [edited link]
On iOS, but thanks!
Your twenties are some of the best earnings years of your life.
Well, one if the official reasons/excuses. Tracking in various forms is the main reason MS is so adamant about that…
N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős is a decent enough documentary about a specific mathematician.

Colors of Math breezes across six contemporary mathematicians.
I did a Ph.D. (chemistry) and a M.A. (geology), both at UT-Austin.

I have absolutely no regrets, and knew fully what I was signing up for, unlike many people who are featured in articles like the one referenced here: that is a little puzzling, since you are an adult when you embark on the graduate school journey, and there is no shortage of readily-available information about employability, salary, and so on.

But enough about the bewildered adults who awaken in the middle of their graduate program and wonder what happened and who to blame other than themselves.

Neither graduate degree cost me a dime, as tuition was waived (really, paid by advisor at an in-state rate) and I had combinations of research assistant (RA)/teaching assistant (TA)/fellowship the whole time. There was no assistance at any point from my family. I lived well in Austin in the 1990s, and had a great social life. It was great.

I knocked-out my Master's in just over 2 years, then breezed through my Ph.D. in 4 years. I published 6 first-authored papers by graduation time. My advisers were both nice guys, not overly hands-on with career guidance but I was headed towards a tenure-track position anyway. Research projects were reasonable and that was why I was able to go through smoothly. That and I wasn't walking around asking myself what the hell I was doing in grad school...anyway.

My postdoctoral fellowships - first at UCSF, then at Princeton - were great with the notable exception that the ~$30K/year salaries did not go far in either location.

My tenure-track journey ended with an appointment as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at a small school, and the salary was $52K/9 months. I didn't last long - those deferred student loans from undergrad were due, and the price was steep - but at the rate I was at, if I got a grant with summer salary, I was looking at $70K/year.

Totally great experiences. Low salaries even now, and yes I don't bring in big bucks but I'm not a SWE at a FAANG, but that's not for me.

Highly recommended.
Scott Alexander has an excellent short story on this subject: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
yeah sure doesn't look like a Honda design
You are playing some kind of rhetorical chess and contending you are not being ideological -- strange way to respond to this:

"it would be great to get off of our collective ideological horses and find them instead of blasting rhetoric at each other."
There’s a big difference between preventing ongoing distribution of someone else’s content after a contract has ended, and deleting personal copies of that content. Labeling this as “library recordings” makes it pretty clear that anyone using that feature is expecting it to function like a personal recording. Otherwise why have that feature at all? Why not just rewatch the original episode instead of saving it to your personal library?

If one were to take personal recordings and start selling them, that’s a problem and we already have copyright law that addresses it.
It’s only been a few more decades that everyone was unobjectively convinced that literacy was for them, are you expecting that to revert as well?
Musk announced buying Twitter, immediately liquidated $10B of Tesla stock without deal being even written down

Or he knew Tesla was way overvalued at the time (which turned out to be true) and needed an excuse to liquidate a huge chunk without spooking investors before the price dropped?
Government labs, scientific agencies (NASA et al), or any FFRDC might be a good fit. Also old-hat industrial labs. Defense and defense contractors can also be good, if you don't mind that type of work. They don't care much about vanity metrics like publications at top X conferences, and they don't move at the fast pace of product-oriented groups in tech companies.

You can also start an LLC and fund it through SBIR/STTR and/or transition-to-practice style grants, but you'll have to hire a professional admin staff and pay them more than you're making if you want the type of life you're describing (and it'll take some years).
I understand and agree :). Cheers wilg
Lenin isn't a good example. He had a stroke while still in power and never effectively regained it. He was reduced to reading the newspaper in his wheelchair and crying about developments, while being unable to effect real change any more. He arguably did not want Stalin as his successor, but was powerless to prevent it by then.
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> If the latter, I’d say education is helping pull these people out of poverty.

Is the school paying them? Its rich Western countries bringing India out of poverty.
> If your lawyer can lose a case over formatting (and they can)...

It's true that there are certain typographical requirements that must be met in certain court filings, but I have also seen lawyers bikeshed in Word by obsessing over things as menial as left vs. justified text alignment (and then even decide how to rephrase language after changing to justified alignment because they don't like the rivers[1] they are now seeing). Unless such requirements are codified in court rules, then it is not something that would win/lose a case, and it is just a billable-hour timesink.

> Why do judges insist on arcane, high level published documents? Judges benefit from repeat players...

You may be giving them too much credit in their cunning. It's just easier and more efficient to navigate a complex system when we're all operating off of the same framework -- no different than programming. I've worked as a law clerk and attorney, and, yes, judges will have their biases as to which attorneys they are more likely to trust than others, but that occurs through building actual rapport in court, not by following formatting rules.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
Is this still about PhD students?
That let's me turn off annoying notifications from other people. Guess what, it doesn't help someone who would prefer not to advertise their adoption of Signal to everyone who ever had their contact details.

Really, is it so hard to think about both sides of this equation?
How to best handle it actually depends on the region. Burying the biomass works great where the necessary microorganisms needed to break it down live in the soil. But that isn't everywhere, for instance where the ground is sodden. Like a peat bog.
Are you sure you’re not only thinking of CS (and STEM and business) salaries for comparison?
It's the https://www.voting.works/ VotingWorks project
Note that the baseline is C not C++ used badly.
I believe you, but the overall story is similar enough that the current one probably doesn't count as significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). HN thrives on differences, and repetition (even if it isn't exact repetition) tends to reduce the interest of a submission.
Biology is not deterministic in the same way as traditional manufacturing is. Given the same input, repeating a biological process does not always produce identical results. When you body makes mistakes, it has other systems and pathways to address them. This isn't anything new, and is already well understood by domain experts. When it comes to making proteins using biological processes, product heterogeneity, especially, is a major concern that hasn't been fully eliminated - (aggregates, fragmentation, post-translation modifications, protein isomers, etc, etc).
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It is much harder now to follow that path you described than it was 30 years ago. That is, fewer portion of people who would like that path successfully get it. (Yeah, the early 90s is 30 years ago. Shocking to me too).

Whether students now "know what they were signing up for" or not (or should somehow be expected to or blamed if they didn't, which is not quite the same question), I couldn't say. None of the survey questions mentioned in the article seem to cover what their expectations were before enrolling, or if they have now changed. I wouldn't assume that they did, or didn't.
It is always a battle of strict taxonomy vs agility in my experience and in nearly every company I've worked for someone somewhere chose agility. And all it takes is one poorly thought out migration/project to undermine the whole activity of taxonomy. Believe me most large businesses with multi-million dollar investments in digital analytics aren't even doing the most basic campaign tracking correctly, let alone worrying about taxonomy.

I always try to align names with internally used terminology but even a simple thing like "log out" can be complicated for self-service reporting. For example is USER_LOGGED_OUT a dimension (fired on all events), fired by an event listener on a button click or fired after a user-session is cleared by the applet. Are the differences between each platform/operating system?

I don't think theres anything better than good documentation (even within the tag management system) and testing tools like Amplitude's event explorer so that analysts can actually verify what has happened. A few analytics vendors have written about this and segment uses the object-action framework like you've suggested. https://segment.com/academy/collecting-data/naming-conventio...
The thing that bugs me most about the PhD is how much of the final years are controlled by your advisor and the committee. You have a bit of leeway in your first few years to do some "blue sky" research, scoped by the grants your advisor has of course, but the last 1-3 years can be a nightmare since you're expected to produce work that is funded by and within the scope of your grant BUT also be innovative and something that your advisor and committee approve and let you graduate with.
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