skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason we "actively seek out partnership with govt/LE" is simply because they are by far the primary customer segment who actually have an clear need for self-hosted interoperable end-to-end encrypted communication and are willing to pay for it. If we don't find organisations who are willing to pay Element for services, then quite simply we can't pay people to work on Matrix and Element as their dayjob, and the whole thing would switch into best-effort volunteer run activity (although I'd presume most of the team would feel pretty burnt if that happened and go spend their freetime on something else). About 80% of Element's revenue comes from public sector, and without it the project simply wouldn't exist.

Hopefully, eventually, the rest of the world will wake up to the fact that sleepwalking into using Teams and Slack (or WhatsApp) is a catastrophe in the making. It's only a matter of time before someone publishes a torrent of every line of Teams scrollback or Slack scrollback for some high-profile organisation; the breach has probably already happened; the breacher is just waiting for the best strategic moment to drop the information bomb.

But until then, Element makes payroll by selling to folks like the French and German Governments, the United Nations, etc. They pick Element because it is high trust, and they can audit it and run it themselves. And there is categorically no way that I or other senior management at Element would destroy the company (let alone Matrix) by breaking that trust by letting someone undermine its privacy.

Which is why we're in the surreal situation of on one hand selling to the UK Government, while also frantically criticising them for the catastrophic idiocy of the Online Safety Bill: https://element.io/blog/the-online-safety-bill-an-attack-on-....

Separately: I'm literally years overdue in publishing Element's internal ethics guidelines publicly, which spells out precisely who we do and don't do business with. For what it's worth, the high level summary is:

* We don't sell to criminals (under UK/US/EU law)

* We don't sell to sanctioned (by UK/US/EU) or abusive govts or organisations

* We don't sell to orgs who explicitly encourage use which goes against our terms of service.

Our definition of abusive governments/orgs are those who commit human rights abuses or, who commit international atrocities (as defined by the UN), or contracts which primarily support the above.

Most western governments (including their police forces) do not fall into this bracket.
It is not ridiculous. An extra modem is an extra data line. Tethering works perfectly.
Yes. This is idiotic theory, Regulation is only about power efficiency
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"BLASTPASS" made me initially think it was the exploit used to breach LastPass.
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/globe-and-mail-media-bi....

Probably not true, if anything its centrist with occasional leanings both ways.
>what do you call it when someone tries to conceal the origin of money?

Maybe just "concealing the origin of money"? Btw, in your scenario you actually left a public, immutable record of the transaction, which is pretty much the opposite of what somebody engaging in this activity (i.e. not LARPing) would want to.

Money laundering has to do with turning so-called "black money" into clean money. In your example, that is not happening anywhere. If A's money is dirty, B will be dirty as a consequence; whereas if A's money is already clean, B should be fine, so, why bother? It's just a regular transfer of money, you just used a fancy technolord mechanism but not different, in essence, than writing a check or using venmo or w/e.

Also, for anyone thinking they could outsmart RICO[1] (or their country's equivalent) with some PNGs of badly drawn apes, that is just so stupid it's actually quite funny. Levine would have a field day with that.

Also also, congrats, all that money you "laundered" with your fancy tokens is worthless now, per TFA. Very smart.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...
I think you're right about renewables. You at least need fossil fuel as a backup or during surges, low wind, cloudy conditions and whatnot. I think nuclear is the only thing that can completely replace fossil unless someone comes up with a better way to store electricity.
spot on!

we actually have a panel discussion on this at coalesce featuring matt housley and others. https://coalesce.getdbt.com/agenda/panel-discussion-fixing-t...

dbt folks actually brought this idea to us because it just makes so much sense -- no translating of sql between dev and prod.

highlights from panel brainstorming from winnie @ dbt:
Local development: should be fast, representative but not comprehensive of prod data, and independent of cloud services if I want that.

The alternative has been that people typically use a schema in their production platform for development, CI workflows, etc. Costly and cloud-dependent.

DuckDB and its role in facilitating the MDS-in-a-box pattern has been a game changer for local data development, which ramped up the ability to share data, modeling work, and analysis the way we share open source tooling, but syntax remained an issue for deployment.
I am actually looking for a wallmount garage door opener right now. While they do have myq-whatever cloud thing, my understanding is that it's optional. It should be possible to connect an ESP32 or the Konnected sensor thing which will pretend to be a wall button from the opener perspective. Could probably even stick it into a Faraday cage to prevent Amazon sidewalk scenario.

Is that not really an option?
> it's hard to tell whether or not this is satire

I don't see anything about it that reads like satire. It sounds pretty smart for a small, sustainable community.
> What are we going to do? Pass a law?

Yes!

It wouldn't burden existing homeowners because such laws almost always grandfather in existing structures.

When they banned lead paint and asbestos, I don't think anyone immediately repainted their walls or replaced their asbestos drywall. It slowly phases out over a number of decades.
Very cool, I hope this gets widespread enough to become the default way to prove identity online. I know a lot of people are very concerned about preserving the right to be anonymous, but it should be equally concerning that it's difficult to not be anonymous without involving a giant corporation.

Would it be too much to ask for a Keybase style app on top of this? One can hope...
If I may comment on this issue in the abstract: don't count on technicalities to get you out of legal trouble. Those are fine if you're very wealthy and have money for the types of lawyers and appeals that can use them. For everyone else, you don't want to be so close to the line that you end up losing because the judge doesn't like your face and woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Use a water filter.
> call your broker

I, and likely the DoJ, would love to see that broker’s KYC file.
No, I haven't been disciplined enough to have good examples for that yet.

One of my goals right now is to put together a solid RAG system based on top of LLM and Datasette that makes it really easy to compare different embedding models, chunking strategies and prompts to figure out what works best - but that's still just an idea in my head at the moment.
Or, you know, open Vercel in a web browser.
No, the theory is that the PM of Canada recognises the electoral benefits of pandering to Khalistani extremists.
Right now there is no autocomplete inside the text editor, but that will be added soon. DuckDB itself provides an extension that adds a table function that can be queried for completions like so:

select * from sql_auto_complete(
'select ra'
)
They also already have a Ghibli Park. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If the money went towards utility scale solar it would install about 666MW of production at the current average rate of $0.75/W installed. This is not much considering that currently coal plants generate about 200,000MW of power in the US. Obviously direct investment on this level will not be enough to achieve the goal of total Coal shutdown.

It's also worth noting that many coal plant "shutdowns" are actually just conversions to natural gas, which from a carbon perspective is more of a sidestep. Better for the environment, but far less so than offsetting the production with renewables.
There’s an image of Europa from Webb in the article.
Interesting article, I did this thing using langchain, it has a Multi Query Retriever which does the same thing, check it out https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/data_connection/re...
wait @tino, maybe we should call our support team the Pro Ducks team.
Who bought the place after disclosing airbourne lead dust in the house?
>any change that would result in less money for the wealthy

The majority of CO2 emissions aren't from wealthy nations but developing nations - this might not be true in per capita terms, but the atmosphere doesn't care about per capita terms.

A molecule is a molecule, and if you want fewer of them in the atmosphere, then you can't blame the wealthy - there simply aren't that many of them. It's the regular people who would need to cut back, and that's especially unfair when it's being asked of people whose economies never fully developed in the first place.
...because then Synapse wouldn't be able to use it?
This comment doesn't make sense, particularly wrt TFA.
If you ever find yourself cleaning the inside of a hot water heater some day, it will disabuse you of that habit.

I'm sure it's mostly harmless, but they accumulate a truly horrific amount of mineral deposits and other weird gunk in there.
Google realistically can't do this. "The SoC vendors" is basically Qualcomm (yes, I know there are others, but if Qualcomm doesn't play ball, none of it matters).

Google has tried to improve the situation, and has made some headway: that's why they were able to get longer support for at least security patches for the Pixel line. Now that they own development of their own SoC, they're able to push that even farther. But consider how that's panned out: they essentially hit a wall with Qualcomm, and had to take ownership of the chipset (based off of Samsung's Exynos chip; they didn't start from scratch) in order to actually get what they want when it comes to long-term support. This should give you an idea of the outsized amount of power Qualcomm has in this situation.

Not many companies have the resources to do what Google is doing here! Even Samsung, who designed their own chipset, still uses Qualcomm for a lot of their products, because building a high-performance SoC with good power consumption numbers is really hard. Good luck to most/all of the smaller Android manufacturers who want more control over their hardware.

(Granted, I'm sure Google didn't decide to build Tensor on their own solely because of the long-term support issues; I bet there were other considerations too.)
I feel like this is a much better use of his money than running for President.
What timeline?
It is 100% greenwashing. He's doing nothing useful, he's just suing companies.

If he actually wanted to help he would simply invest new additional power installation, and sue governments that have zoning that prevents these installations.

But he doesn't want to help, he wants to be seen as helping.
My dad had an old diesel Benz - the generator (that old, didn't have an alternator) went out and for a couple of months we just made sure to park it on a hill and drive during the day. Electricity is overrated!
My guess would be in the app.

Enforcing it at the bridge level would break so many setups, apps, custom integrations that even if they try this, they'll dial it back from the avalanche of outrage.
What's unethical about it
If you always leave and come back at same time, sure. If you dont, fiddling with timer to turn on power just because you got off work early would be a bit of a bother.
As a non-american it's always fascinating to see comments like this downvoted.

It's absolutely mostly the poor who go to jail except a few fall guys - it's very apparent.

That's class privilege for you guys, and it has been like this for hundreds of years in most societies but only americans seem to "miss" this or whatever the hell is going on.

Just as here in the EU, fraud in elite circles shuffles billions every day while everyone focuses on petty crime and sensational cases.

Wars have killed millions for resource political gains and entire economies have been fucked over to benefit tiny circles of the richest - and none of these people have ever gone to jail.

The control that the uppermost echelons has over the flow of information in this new social cybernetic system we've all been forced into is so efficient, it's almost unbelievable lol.
He also said to sanitize any data that you intend to use with the unsafe constructors. Taken together, he's pointing out that you decide how much you trust the data and you control which constructor to use. "Problem in chair"

"Should" statements are always relative to what you value. Clearly he thinks this trade-off is fine for him. His other library accommodates your security needs but this one accommodates his convenience needs. Can the man not make something for himself?

I assume it would be costly for him to make and propagate the changes. Maybe money could persuade him.
That's exactly how parliamentary politics work. NDP that has 25 seats in parliament can revoke their support and Trudeau stops being a prime minister.
You would likely experience a lot of second order effects, even if you don't personally use any Google products.
Indeed, except that IQ has not became a thing to optimize for, and even if it was, there are no known ways to increase it.
> Carbon

could you elaborate?
Oh for these silly escapades to only cost $5k.
Yeah; I've come to the point where I don't really want to watch "fresh" content. There's so many great movies in the back catalog, I'll probably never run out of great stuff to watch.

And if there's something great that's come out, I'll check it out after a couple of years when the reviews have settled down and all of the parts (I'm looking at you, Dune) have come out.
AWK for Exploratory Data Analysis of Humanities Data, by BWK
> This is a good example of ideology gone too far.

What does "too far" mean here? What boundary exactly has been crossed? It's not as if he canned the idea - further, it's not as if anyone is actually building it anyway.
> Minneapolis has roughly 200 more annual sunshine hours than Houston.

That's very interesting because what I recall from about 15 years ago is that Minneapolis was slightly behind Houston in that regard. I wonder if it's just variation within the error band or it's been impacted by climate change?

Regardless, here in rural MN I see a lot of new barns/sheds going up with solar panels on the roof whereas 15 years ago they would either have used generators or paid to have AC power run all the way out there.
Right. So the UK elite are not to be trusted.
I'm pretty sure that all those issues will affect sliding sync whether or not it's integrated in Synapse. In fact, some people might actually prefer the fact they can operate it separately and restart/maintain it separately from their homeserver :)
Related. Others?

Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36427267 - June 2023 (115 comments)

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36424256 - June 2023 (89 comments)

More hindsight on Vim, helix and kakoune - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36066347 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Kakoune Code Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29975052 - Jan 2022 (170 comments)

Kakoune, a punk-rock text editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716187 - Oct 2020 (2 comments)

What you could steal from the Kakoune code editor, and get away with - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24685267 - Oct 2020 (94 comments)

Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19313794 - March 2019 (58 comments)

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17781780 - Aug 2018 (45 comments)

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13165919 - Dec 2016 (327 comments)

Kakoune: a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13152499 - Dec 2016 (2 comments)

Kakoune – An experiment for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10484653 - Oct 2015 (34 comments)

Mawww's experiment for a better code editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764028 - June 2015 (15 comments)
That doesn't make Hayao a bad person.

I see him as a concerned father.

"Don't put yourself in the position of being judged in the very competitive field of Japanese animation, because your works are not as great as you think they are"

It's like being the son of Michelangelo.

Of course everyone of us tells kids that their terrible drawings are sooooo goooood, but they are terrible.

Now, Goro was already 40 years old when his first movie came out.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "explicitly designed", but he is in fact spending the money in a way that's ineffective. His motivations I don't know. But the results can be seen - this is a waste of money.
Many countries have them.
my biggest struggle with matrix, is that, at least in element-ios, messages keep transpositioning, i.e. at some random time a message that is 2 days old is pushed all the way down to the new messages. also the aop frequently crashes with some media.

but apart from that I of course love the idea of an „SMTP approach“ to instant messaging :)
And to add to all the answers (that I agree with), when watching with subs I almost always find it fades away. It almost feels like I somehow know Japanese. Sure I'm reading words, but once lost in the story it becomes much less noticeable.
... according to the allegation. "Dark Patterns" are called that because it is not immediately clear they are illegal. The court will decide.
While I agree, and my own business education was very much like this, it is management that is closest to shareholder primacy and the public-market monster that is mandatory, unlimited growth. It is these perverse incentives that fuel rent-seeking fuckery

Primacy needs to be destroyed and the company's obligations divided evenly among all stakeholders: shareholders, employees, and customers
> On the other hand no one will blink an eye at a trade that nets you a few hundred K, and that is still a significant amount of money.

I wonder if that's actually true for a normal person, or if automated analytics would be looking at the relative value of your portfolio rather than just looking for the biggest wins in absolute terms.
As I said:

>Once that reasoning starts getting into hypotheticals about a future totalitarian government... you have already lost people.

You can't start talking about states arresting people for going to a bourbon tasting and have people actual care about your argument. People have way too many more tangible and more pressing concerns than this type of weird hypothetical.

I'm not saying your argument is wrong. It just isn't going to actually motivate anyone to action.
>Bloomberg has successfully helped shut down about 70% of all coal plants in the U.S.

I find that hard to believe. Did he help shut down 70% of coal plants or did he help shut down 70% of the coal plants that were shut down? If the former, where did the replacement energy come from?
But if the money is coming from the company accounts vs his own personal accounts makes a huge difference. What an individual does with their money is up to them as they decide. What a CEO does with the money of a company is very much not theirs alone to make. The board might not like it. Other banking rules come into play. Employees not getting a raise might have something to say.

How you can even try to conflate the two as being the same is just short sighted.
They accumulate gunk that was present in the cold water supply.
this is literally why we rewrote element-ios in rust, in the form of Element X iOS :) https://element.io/labs/element-x
No one size fits all regulatory quality requirement works.

What needs to be done in commercial software, as is done in all other industries and in existing safety-critical software deployments, is segregating use cases by criticality and requiring deployments reach and guarantee the necessary quality level for that criticality class. It is the job and liability of the deployer to guarantee the requirements are met. They may push these requirements down to their suppliers, but it is the deployer that is ultimately responsible.

This is why Home Depot is not required to only sell aircraft-grade rivets. It is the airplane manufacturer’s job to source adequate components, not the job of all component suppliers to guarantee their components are fit for all possible purposes.

Under this model you can release any software you want. It is the manufacturer using the software that bears the burden of proving it is adequate. Or, if the software maker want to voluntarily take on extra burden, the software maker can verify and certify that the product is adequate for whatever purpose they wish to support.

Quality where it is necessary, and flexibility where it is not.
This series is great!

You should seriously think about consolidating them into a book. Something I notice other engineers struggle with is how to properly assess performance, read heap snapshots, or even understand how to read a flamegraph for stack tracing tools. It would be nice to point, or buy, them a resource showing this.

I'd definitely buy a copy.
This is only true in countries where the people had any say in the establishing of power. Before 1776, that was just about nowhere.

Today, there are still many lands and 100s of millions of people who give no consent to be governed, and yet governed they are.
You can spend 2 weeks in Japan during a holiday season where a bunch of stuff is closed and still completely fill your days with stuff to do.

Source: I did just that this past New Year.
> Fill in the details.

If you harbour terrorists who are wanted by your ostensible partners, don't be surprised if they lose patience and decide to take matters into their own hands.

Does that help?
> reinvented the wheel

I hate this meme. It's as if cars, trains, and airplanes all use the same wheels. Or that wheels under my stove, my tiny filing dresser, and my shopping cart are all the same.

Oh yeah, re-inventing the wheel, what a stupid idea and something we obviously don't frequently do and for good reasons.

This meme is almost as bad as the horrible misquoted "premature optimisation is the root of all evil".
* barely any comments and not a single docstring in the entire kiloline file
But why? Are you not interested in our weekly 4GB driver update? Even more ways to blink the lights now.
[stub for sweeping offtopicness under the rug]
So Modi can send his goons in foreign soil to bring justice.

I don’t understand this line of thought.
Yeah I use lead free for some stuff. I have switched back to lead for finer work since it just behaves better. Seems like the sweet spot for lead free is very small - too cold and you get a weak dome connection, too hot and it doesn't want to leave the tip.
Personally I don't think you should have to worry about minor transactions in that way but it's a good point and something we'll take into consideration as we continue to build things out.
The more powerful weapons become, the smaller that group can be.
Thanks for the feedback! The app started as a personal project exactly to solve the problem you mention of the iCloud library exceeding the available disk space. (My personal library is more than 1 TB in size.)

The app doesn't require an account or login and the backups are stored only on your device or chosen drives and not on any external servers.

I need to add a privacy policy to the web page to make the policy clear and I believe Apple also requires a privacy policy before the app can be officially released.