skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in alignment with my past experiences too. After moving to America, I met a friend who told me she would never share a table with someone who voted Republican. I found this super surprising, but the rest of the group agreed. That was a hard rule for them. From what I've been able to gather, most privileged progressive white-collar circles in American cities tend to run almost exclusively Democrat. Has it always been this way? Have Americans always allowed voting habits to dictate their choice of friends?

Back in Canada, of my three closest friends, one voted LPC, another Green, and another CPC. This next election I imagine it will be different. The amount of tribalism Americans associate with their two parties has always been so fascinating to me.
I kind of think the opposite, that people will basically end up at whatever social status they would be regardless of system so he would just have modern day elite views (instead of mainstream modern day elite views of his time).

Just like people today who think they would have resisted the nazis in 1930s Germany but hold all mainstream opinions in the modern day
Where are the facts? This is just made-up drama. No tech involved in this. Ah let's throw Elon Musk in there for some extra points.

I'm sad to see so many people swallow this up.
We've done a lot to develop protections for these systems after the Quebec incident, and we saw multiple providers, including PJM, actively need to use these protections over the weekend.

And this storm was significantly lower in intensity than the Carrington event.

Why would you conclude that, because a far weaker storm than one that has occurred in modern history didn't destroy civilization, that the fear of a far stronger storm is overblown? We don't have to guess what the damage would be from that sort of storm - we know why it caused the damage we did, and we can understand the damage it would do to modern infrastructure if not protected against.

If we continue to harden the grid against these storms, we might well be able to survive a Carrington (or stronger) level storm, but it will be because we took the proper precautions because we understand how big the risk is.
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Well, Franklin helped pull off a massive treason against the Rightful Authority of the crown. He would probably be all for toppling our government, and for insurrection.
The gps thing is even more amazing that what he said in the article because it turns out that the receiver doesn’t need an accurate clock of its own for it to work
I've built a few sales team for early stage startups, and invariably the question comes up: "Inbound sales is working. Will outbound sales work?"

The successful experiments I've seen look like this: hire 2 SDRs at the time, focus them exclusively on outbound, then measure their results to identify the CAC. Then, you can make a call if that CAC is something you want to scale.

The failed experiments look like this: the founder doesn't want to invest too heavily in something that might not pay off, so we hire 1 SDR and they have to commit 50% of their time to following up on low quality Marketing leads.

It's not so much about the number itself, but more about the experiment design that will give you clear results
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Proactive is fine, if you know what is the overall impact.

There's another: proactive idiot is worse than the class enemy[1].

[1] "Class enemy" or "třídní nepřítel" (cz) might be an unknown term in itself - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people#Soviet_Uni...
Who would have thought it's good for the health of children and indeed all humans to be outside and involved with nature
Who WASN'T racist back then? Except it wasn't called being racist, it was just the norm for everyone back then, it was the societal default.

You can meet some old people today who still have very wrong views about minorities and immigrants, let alone people who lived in the 1700's.
It’s gross that people spend so much effort repairing things.

Manufacturers could simply publish this info.

Water got into a medical thermometer I had. Claimed some water resistance protections. Quickly drained the battery. Managed to open it up (with difficulty — pry tab located under label) but inside was corroded. Saw the battery but not easy to get out. Of course peeling the label makes it not stick back properly either.

What should be a cheap and easy battery change was not. And for what should be a cheap battery is over $5 at the local grocery store. Makes buying another $10 thermometer look a good deal.

It shouldn’t be this hard…
Yes. The crew pushing for this is 100% bad faith, it’s pretty contemptible.
In the case of Telegram, MTProto’s implementation leaves a lot to be desired[1][2].

Additionally, home rolled crypto does not usually get the kind of security review from the cryptography community which makes it very likely that bugs of all kinds exist.

[1] https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/
[2] http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...
Ooh, this looks cool! I'm mildly curious given Windows apparently is adding support for eBPF whether you could also get this running on Windows as well.

On the patch, maybe try reposting it on the list, with the pointer to your project to see if that provokes a new review?
Looks interesting.

However, the pricing page with no actual numbers and the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off.

I cannot stand the dance with business people who want to have a bunch of calls and meetings to know how big a company they’re dealing with is before they decide on a good rate to gouge them.

Pricing pages should be straight forward. Have tiers if you want to cover your rear but only at the limit of usage have the ‘Contact Us’ option.

I’m shopping around for a PDF solution and would’ve recommended this to my manager but I’m not willing to do more meetings to get quotes.
As the market endures a historic shift in demand away from big block towers due to remote work and skyrocketing cost of building opex services, The traditional 7 to 10 year lease for office space no longer pencils on all but the most expensive office space. And not by a longshot.

However, there is real appeal to the value of a professionally managed a+ location high rise with views and a curated tenancy.

We really need a new format of high-rise design that diversifies the ownership and risk on a per-floor basis. high-rise office cownership should look a lot more like a condo association, in the physical building needs to be modified so that some common systems are broken up into per-floor systems (mainly just HVAC; convert a single huge chiller/cooling tower combo to per-floor heat pumps. Suboptimal under peak load but far more flexible, risk tolerant and far lower cost capex)

Smaller bites of ownership dramatically broadens the ownership opportunity and potential market reach of a given 30,000sf block/floor of tower. Similar to the stock market democratizing corporate investment. Big players can still play right along side the small businesses and private investors. It even derisks ownership of a high rise because a 1m sf office tower now has two target customers, a massive reit or a diversified flock of private investors who don’t need to know each other.

“Dont we already have that in X Y Z?” Yes but no, and that’s a large part of why these buildings are selling for cents on the dollar. The customer/payer is too far removed from the risks and benefits of ownership of this asset class, and the fundamental design of the building systems carries too much maintenance risk.

In other words, as a real estate professional, I would like to see diversified, smaller “dumb money” in this office asset class, which can be far more patient an opportunistic (or unwise, tomato tomahto) than a major REIT
Embrace Being Vulnerable: The Strength in Admitting What We Don't Know
If you ask certain people, everybody is still racist right now.
>> rage posting in alt-right forums only accessible on the dark-web.

Nah. True rage posters don't have the attention span for Tor. They want the instant feedback of X. And for all the talk of echo chambers, they want to get people angry. So they want their material to be discoverable by outsiders. So, again, X.
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The man who gave us the blue LED is now chasing nuclear fusion
> that people will basically end up at whatever social status they would be regardless of system

So what determines that intrinsic and inevitable social status?
> which made me furious because I'm a naturally talkative person.

Huh. Every “I’ll just come over” or “can we hop on a quick call?” for something I’m 90% sure can be sorted out within 20 messages makes me want to go take a walk instead. Writing’s great because I can refer back to it. If it’s in a channel with the rest of the team, it keeps them up to speed on what’s happening. Unless we really need to screen share or something (it happens!) turning a few messages into a call or an at-desk conversation drives me nuts.
> You can easily activated it but you aren't burdened by it for 99% of the time when e2e encryption is not needed.

So, in those 1% of the cases when you actually need it, you're instantly flagging yourself as doing something fishy? Because if it ever comes down to it, good luck proving otherwise in a court.

That's like the whole point of why it should be on by default. Not because me making dinner plans is something super-secret that needs to be e2e-encrypted, but because those two scenarios need to be indistinguishable from each other for e2e to be effective.
The database is encrypted, and the password is right next to the database in a json file.
Education in the Netherlands
Probably twitter or truth social or whatever.

He strikes me as a good candidate for Q adjacent stuff also.
It seems like a twitter thread of multiple messages. How can I read the rest of the messages, not just /1? There's no links to them.
> the ad resonated so deeply is that it captured something deep in the gestalt that actually has very little to do with trumpets or guitars or bottles of paint [..] - everything is an app.

I feel like the author -almost- has it here. It's not that everything is an app, it's that all tasks and activities are performed and accessed via a glowing screen of varying sizes. It really does flatten the experience, literally and figuratively.

As an amateur "contractor", I've got a shed-full of tools; each of these tools serves a rather specific purpose. Most of them are (conceptually) old and complete, and their physical form closely reflects their domain. A brute sledge hammer next to a set of mini screw drivers, a sharp Japanese chisel of folded steel, a relentless bulldog of a sawzall with a multi-purpose blade. You hold a tool and it resonates with the type of work you've done with it in the past.

Using these tools, a person feels extended in a physical sense. It's true, Jobs's little big epiphany that "humans are tool makers" - we're very little without the tools we've made. But the tools we made in turn shape us. The old adage "when all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". When all you've got is a smooth screen, everything looks like rainbow puke.

The great flattening robs us of the universality of tool-making and tool-using, in a big part because we've created these universal tools that serve a myriad purposes in their one form. Sure, the markings on the screen are different every time. But look from away, and all you see is a person hunched over a glowing rectangle for endless hours; replace that object with anything else and the scene becomes grotesque and tragic.

At work the other day I joked that an LLM is a "data laundering service" -- and for the most part, that it primarily is. Washing away any licences and attributions, it mostly preserves the coherence of knowledge it's trained on. Ask it something and anything, and it will render it for you. Now we're in the realm of conceptual flattening, now the universality has begun to interface with our minds directly, it has begun to replace and therefore atrophy and rob us of some of the prime abilities that let us construct tools in the first place.

It is a terrifying thought that we are heading into a future where people outsource their reasoning and creativity to tools. We're giving up something inherently human, but we've also (and we have been for at least a century) climbed so high onto the shoulders of giants, we've long ago lost sight of the ground. A vision of a world looms, post-collapse, where worshippers line up to consult oracles; the last vestiges of before-the-fall tech, remaining repositories of knowledge we've given up, still functioning, but now pure magic to those who attend them.
Amazing job by NPR. Made a very dry topic really interesting.
> But great music and books were not scarce for a long time pre-internet.

For some maybe. When I was first learning to program I would drive to the local bookstore and copy down code from books out of their very small tech section. I couldn't afford to buy any of the books at the time (out of the very small selection), and they were too new for the local library to carry. Now, I can learn about almost _anything_ for free within a few clicks.

Music was similarly gated, but more so by lack of money than overall access.
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> With signal, I'm gonna guess it's mainly a; the Play Stores checks and balances are much less invasive than the sort of thing an F-Droid maintainer might check for. (As I understand it, Google Plays checks mostly are anti-exploit and keyword scans.)

It might have been b as well – Signal did keep their server code proprietary for many months to add their custom cryptocurrency to it, and added this cryptocurrency for microtransactions into the app as well. There may be many more features like this planned, some of which F-Droid might oppose.
I think that mad optimism reminds me of the https://aptera.us/ solar car as well, or some of the wackier Dyson products.

It's not about doing things differently for the sake of being different, but going back to first principles and building up from there.

Though in reality the contributions from these sorts of ground-up rethinks often end up being more about rediscovering that there was indeed a good rationale behind the conventions they discarded rather than actually producing a successful product.

Still, my hat is off to anyone who decides to spend their own money giving Chesterton's fence a good shake every now and again, just to be sure.
If you are able, this is a reason why it’s a good idea to have 5+ kids: spread the load among siblings for this kind of thing.
I kinda wish this was a webpage not an app, and that it would require no sign in.

Sure, have a sign in feature if you want to save your checklist for later, but the vast majority of people will use this for just a few minutes/hours and the state can be stored in a cookie.
There have been 3 updates to the zones in the past 50 years. Some of the updates are due to better accuracy after years of collecting data, but the 800-pound gorilla in the room is climate change. Where I live, winters are 4.5 degrees warmer. It has definitely affected my gardening.
> have the "greater good" intentions,

It's getting harder and harder to tell because bot activity has gotten so good, but Matthew Green has been around a while and is a genuine old school crypto dude. There is a group of people who just believes that crypto and privacy are good things and want to promote them.

The reason it gets harder is because you can spin up a handful of "expert" accounts shilling for this or that privacy VPN or bitcoin scam etc. So it's hard to just pull up a list of statements and know whether it has any weight. In this case, Matthew Green has a lot of weight because I've followed him for a while and I know what he's about.
It's hard not to read the quote you give as basically admitting that they _can't_ entertain the idea that there are "wider security implications" because that would be tacitly admitting that the language itself is built on shaky foundations. Something being a "core feature" _increases_ the scope of any security implications, but it also makes it a lot harder to fix without having to change fundamental parts of the language, and it sounds like that would be a non-starter for them.
I think this not wrong but mildly misleading.

Whatsapp started encrypting messages after significant security issues in ~2012

It was purchased by Facebook under initially some administration separation terms in ~2014?

In 2016 it added e2e encryption. If I recall this was controversial because it limits fb ad potential on users.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the timeline seems to me to still be pointing towards <<e2e came from Whatsapp not FB as an initiative, even if FB owned Whatsapp at the time.>>

Again you're not factually wrong, but I hope my restating of the timeline makes it more clear why i I think your reverse order point doesn't tell the same story.
Some of us were.
Good for you, you probably do not live in a country under digital colonialism where the gov allowed facebook et al to force internet providers to tax the pop with absurdly low and expensive data limits and then "not count" things like facebook and whatsapp and one music app.

In most of the global south, 100% of business have a whatsapp. In those places it pretty much replaced telephone and the green whatsapp icon is now what the current young generation recognize as the we did the black telephone outline on a business front next to a number.

and if you own a business, or is self employed, it is even worse: you live by that app.
Keyword being also.
Well, racism and discrimination still exists among genpop today, even if on paper it's outlawed.

These kind of biases are impossible to remove just with laws.
This tissue was from epileptic patient. So we can not rule out that weird things are related to disease.
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Alright, I hear you about this...I will consider. I will try to keep in mind the "cool minivans" that I saw in HK and that were a status symbol. Good to know haha! :)

I just love trucks so much hahaha! :)
I do this with music, and measure how good a song is by what fraction f of the words I would need to change for me to send it n years back in time to be understood by an older audience.

I have a small community (n=1 or 4?) where I write this up:

https://lemmy.ml/c/howtimeless
People whose day job is security probably have terms for this, but it seems important to distinguish theoretically-vulnerable and practically-vulnerable.

In the sense that for sufficiently complex ecosystems (read: all widely used programming ecosystems) each component may itself be theoretically secure... and yet the ways they are commonly used in practice are insecure.

>> Users should ensure that they only use R code and data from trusted sources and that the privileges of the account running R are appropriately limited.

IMHO, this is a cop-out. Abrogating responsibility for common use patterns in your ecosystems isn't how you make everyone more secure.

Better: 'What are our users actually doing?' -> 'Why are they doing that?' (usually: inconvenient UX around secure alternatives) -> 'How can we make it easier to use secure alternatives?'
Let's see, under Nadella's tenure since April 2014, Microsoft:

- releases Windows 10 (2015)

- releases hololens (2015)

- buys Mohjang (2015)

- launches VSCode (2015)

- buys LinkedIn (2015), integrates it into Exchange

- releases Teams (2016) to compete with Slack

- launches Office 365 to compete with GSuite (2017)

- Azure IoT (2018)

- Acquires Github (2018)

- Acquires Zenimax (2020)

- X Box Seres S/X (2020)

- Chrome-based Edge

- launches Windows 11 (2021)

- Buys Activision/Blizzard (2023)

- OpenAI partnership/investment

I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton of impactful things too. We might not like what Microsoft is doing, but it's acquisitions have been brilliant, it's released a lot of impactful open source stuff like VSCode, and it has embraced linux-derived technologies.
>Given how the posted described the optional `--no-sandbox` flag as "no sandbox on Linux", it's clear that they don't understand anything they're sharing, and they just want to spread FUD.

Could you elaborate as you seem to be more "knowledgeable". This flag is clear at what it does and shouldn't be shipped into production. https://no-sandbox.io/

You can have a look where they specifically chose to force it https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/1ca0d8210...
I agree, the tone of my original statement was having fun with the wording. As cool as ZFS is, its not shipping with the kernel, so its not really acceptable to distributions with a commercial entity behind them.
I was also initially confused. But then I remember that Musk is a jabroni and nothing he says should be taken at face value. Fuck him.
This is a nice improvement although I hope that this results in lighter batteries rather than the same size conformal batteries with more power. The problem was always weight. It sucks to have 30lbs of batteries in addition to the 60lbs of regular gear you had. Not to mention every conformal battery I saw was a decade old and could barely hold a charge but that is a different issue.
What if you're bootstrapped and are just trying to make an honest living instead of playing the VC casino?
you quote verifiable historical facts and sources! you will be downvoted to hell by the extreme-right-who-think-themselves-as-smart-centre. bon voyage my friend.
To add to this: and they may have hired a FSB agent without knowing it.
A similar dataset already exists in mouse cortex. More are underway in the field.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.22.586254v1
It is an organized system, but I would like to see research somewhere that can shed some light about the efficiency of it. I guess that the question on my mind is indeed what is the effect on this system of education in preparing people for the future and creating brilliant minds.
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Or better yet, reduce consumption rate (make do with less/different), revitalize the land (so it doesn't need so much fertilizer added to be viable, and so the biodiversity increases, which confers increased resilience), and generally stop trying to tech our way out- isn't one touted element of "hacking" to be smart and lazy?

Living things grow, so let them do most of the work for us, with some stewardship on our part.
Found the answer to my question in comments here: https://nitter.poast.org/matthew_d_green/status/178968789886...
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>but not the contacts or social graph, neither many other relevant metadata [2].

Assuming you trust them (notice all your links point to signal.org own publications). Most of the privacy people are cautious/paranoid and assume that everything that can be collected is collected. Even assuming a lack of malicious intent, what's stopping NSA from hacking into Signal's infrastructure and logging who's talking to who along with timestamps? That's not to say I don't trust signal (it's the best mainstream solution right now), but it could do better to hide metadata from the protocol.