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> This is the very sector that has only achieved its current status by automating away the menial tasks that you claim will overwhelm them. If humans can figure out how to make two rockets land autonomously and concurrently, I don't really see us getting tripped up on this one.

Guess you didn't read my first comment, did you? Facebook and Google will be fine, as they are big enough to automate this. Smaller companies, especially local ones, won't.
“That little ISP who has no real use of it”

I would say “that giant ISP corporation who had enough power to lobby the government into changing laws so they can get access to your browsing history to sell”

Which is a little more worrying
You know what I've never seen? An article that teaches how to do effective research like you suggest. Maybe that's what people who want a more reasoned and informed discussion should be pushing, the very resources that would help others become reasoned and informed.
How do you feel about the budget players in your space, which have practically grown to apparently $50,000 monthly revenue, but have missed client files, gotten plenty of negative reviews on producthunt and churned out designs nothing like what they state on their site. Manypixels.co
This won't be the last of such a case. Have faith that reason will be restored.
So Google will look at any nude or sexy images someone stores as backup, in order to make a determination to delete?

Walking a tight rope of PR disaster if they get too strict, and the news they scan and manually check is just the kind of outrage the public is expecting.
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I applied solo. Going to build it one way or the other. It would be faster with funding though, and with the amount of work that will take it would be nice to have help.
Nothing is Unimpeachable #MarchForOurLives
Is it really so hard for scammers / spammers to create fake Google / Facebook accounts? What is so hard about creating any number of "non fake emails"? I assume a non-fake email (address) is just one that can accept incoming messages.
> The very common complaint on Ada user groups and forums is the licensing model. Most companies avoid GPL like the plague.

What's wrong with the GPL?
> Latency and throughput

It's not as bad as you're making it seem.
As a gun owner I have a lot of conflicting feelings about them. On the one hand, I am enamored with the mechanical engineering. On the other, I'm proud to be able to own them, as a strange rite of practice as an American. The very essence of our democracy is so well represented in an armed citizenry. That said.. I agree we need stronger laws. Longer waiting times. Mandatory mental health evaluations and training. Limits in the number that can be purchased at one time, in one year. One per year would be fine with me. Between pride of this right and fascinating with the engineering and physics behind it, I am conflicted.
Shazam pivots into a copyright troll due to this ruling. This is worse than anying ever dealt to sampling.
I've actually been playing around with designing one, but lack the free time to do so. I have a couple of Fusion360 models set up with commercially available parts, but I don't have a physical prototype yet.

I'm planning on setting one up this summer.

I know of nothing available commercially at a reasonable price and size.
two reasons: speed and security. Speed is self explanatory, security may not be obvious. I don’t believe Firefox to be on par with Chrome. It was years behind getting a sandbox, and doesn’t appear to have the engineering or QA focus on security that Edge/Chrome do.
I've been at this cross roads, and it is about "EQ".

It's about building relationship and trust, and I feel it is less draconian as "kiss the ring".
The author is determined to submit this every day:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=I%20quit%20my%20job%2C%20booke...
OK, I think an example is in order. Let's say you want to not live in a neighborhood with a bunch of weirdo dicks. The kinds of weirdo dicks that will paint their house bright neon purple and erect a large statue of a dick in the front yard.

But you don't want to do the actual work of coming up with a set of rules for everyone to live by. For the very good reason that that crap is hard and thankless and nobody's going to agree with every rule.

So you empower a homeowner's association to do it for you. This is a form of governance empowered to set rules that the neighborhood has to follow. Residents just have to pay the dues in order to ensure that their wishes are followed.

Self-management in this case is calling the cops and hoping they can sort your neighbor out.

You call it governance when you have to impose rules on others. It's annoying and ugly but someone's gotta do the job of exercising the will of the many onto the few that don't feel like they should follow the rules.

If you don't want to live under an HOA, you don't buy into a community that has one.
I also worked on a quasi-popular facebook app in a similar time period and you got a lot of data but the specifics would change from month to month so it was sometimes more and sometimes less.

The worst, for me, was posting on behalf of other people and getting replies to your app like "I'm so glad to hear from my favorite grandson after so long!".
Why can Google even see the plaintext of users' Google Drive? This is an obvious architectural issue.
>I share this same same sentiment with the parent comment where I feel like Google "has my back" and I know for certain there products do make my life easier.

I've never understood how people can have such a religious-like faith in a corporation they have never seen the inside of and in which they know not a single person who works there. Gullibility perhaps?

>This guilty until proven innocent attitude that many people hold is getting kinda old.

Do you care at all about security? Because that is the fundamental assumption behind taking any security precaution whatsoever in life, whether it's putting a lock on your door or not trusting a faceless corporation with billions of the most detailed psychological profiles in history.
> If you're complaining about seeing ads and are not using the paid GSuite version or non google services for email for example, it means you don't care enough and perhaps should stop whining about a free service you've opted to use.

This and you characterizing people opposing Facebook and Google as “whining” does not contribute to the discussion. If you think not paying for a service revokes your right to complain about it, why are you even comparing Google and Facebook at all? Your comment is neither insightful nor consistent.
Teaching AI-Agents to Play Battlefield
Could you use PiHole and OpenVPN to accomplish what you want at your parents'place? https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/48zp16/pihole_and_v...
Pay for a digital ocean/aws/whatever minimally sized instance and run algo: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Combinatorily autogenerate every song ever, post them all to YouTube and let Google find out who to "monetize".
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As an American, I cannot believe how easily you’re manipulated by your own government. In the US, homicide rates are based on the number of deaths where foul play is evident. In the UK, the reported homicide rate is based on the number of murder convictions. The large number of unsolved murders are ignored and you’ll never see anyone challenge your leaders about it because they control the press as well. Your country just blindly accepts whatever they see on the telly.
Reddit admin's political push has not been even slightly subtle. Bear in mind during the net neutrality nonsense, the entire front page of Reddit was the exact same post, from tons of completely off-topic subreddits. (Why does r/gardening have a net neutrality sticky?)

It made Reddit mostly unusable (beyond it's usual uselessness, mind you) for about a week, and most sub moderators were either unwilling to moderate the net neutrality spam, or quite often, the ones posting it.

But where it really started to grind my gears was when the Reddit admins posted an announcement proud of it, like it was some sort of accomplishment that the entire site had been replaced by spam of a single post, because, of course, it's a political view they're lobbying for.

I have gained a lot of appreciation for HN's ability to allow reasonable debate of all views, and really to keep the site's content enjoyable, interesting, and varied. I can't say remotely the same for where Reddit is right now. If you don't agree with Reddit's political views, you should most likely be looking for alternative websites.
Section 8 of the Draft lists three plausible ways to prevent replay attacks. There isn't a shortage of ways to prevent them, but it takes actual effort by the application software, because you need to store state. How much state do you want to store - and where?

This looks trivial when you are running one Apache httpd on a Raspberry Pi on your desk. Why not just build any of these approaches right into the standard? And then you try to figure out how to make it work for Netflix or Google, who have thousands of clusters of servers - and your brain explodes.

So that's why the standard doesn't specify one solution and require everybody to use it but it does say if you need 0-RTT then you need to figure out what you're going to do about this, including specifying some of the nastier surprises that shuffle message orders and change which servers get which messages.

Example: let's say you think you're clever, you have two servers A and B, load balanced so they usually take distinct clients but can fail into a state where either takes all clients. You might figure you can just track the PSKs in each server, offer 0-RTT and if a client tries to 0-RTT with a PSK from the other server (somehow) it'll just fail to 1-RTT, no big deal.

Er, nope. Bad guys arrange for a client to get the "wrong" server, they capture the 0-RTT from that client, the "wrong" server says "Nope, do 1-RTT", the client tries again and in parallel the bad guys play the 0-RTT packets to the "right" server, which does the exact same thing as the "wrong" one - the replay has succeeded.
I don't think that's how authority works. In a workplace, I don't get to collect secret data on my bosses to see what they want and then say it's so I can better serve them.

If the voters are the bosses, then the politicians should live under surveillance by their voters, while we voters keep everything secret from our subordinate elected officials.
What crypto-currencies should know about storytelling
Well, damn, here I thought UK ISP's denying access to drug-discussing forums is bad. So much information and education just taken away by idiots (or maybe it's on purpose).
Here is an Internet Archive link, since the site seems to be down right now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180324231954/http://titsandsas...
Interesting, I might have to give this another go. For my work mail, I use mbsync to store it locally, but I only have one system doing that. Personal email is a different matter, especially since some systems accessing it (e.g. my phone via K-9) would like to know if a mail has been read on another system (e.g. one storing mails locally). Does offlineimap handle that situation?
Is it your right to have access to purchase services from your water/sewer utility? What about the offices of the NRA, or those of the ACLU, or you're another civil rights org and the water company's ownership doesn't agree with their movement?

At what point does a business/service used by the public actually need to serve the public? If Google has a virtual monopoly on a service, why should they not be regulated as such?
should be able to use any oauth provider, including github (as long as the service hasnt locked it to just g and facebook. i _do_ hate it hen fcebook login is the only option.
What about the f1rst amendment !!1111!!
I built this setup a little while back and am very happy with the results. It took only a few hours on a Saturday and most of it was playing with settings for fun.
Ah interesting coincidence; I've just started experimenting with building a social network using the Signal protocol. Not made much progress so far, but I think it's a sensible avenue to explore.
This 100%

Google build genuinely useful products, and use the knowledge it gains about you to show (generally somewhat useful) ads, and generally stays out of your way.

Facebook on the other hand desperately tries to manipulate you into consuming as much time as possible on their platform at almost any cost, using lowest common denominator tricks.
You've mostly described NYC's approach to concealed carry permits. But it's quite possible for a NYC resident to get permission to legally own a gun, use it at a shooting range, hunt with it, and have it available at home for self defense.
So they should've stayed neutral is what you're saying? One of the biggest resources in the world. Them removing subreddits is exactly the result of agendas such as removing Net Neutrality. For the right cause, everyone needs to be political. It's how it works.
> Have you seen what the new cheap SLA machines can do?

I'll have to admit, I haven't seen what the state of the art is like. I did some googling of the printers you mentioned and the level of detail is pretty impressive (although most reviews were printing pretty figurines instead of engineering applications), so maybe 3D printing watch movement is not that far fetched after-all. That being said I'd still be quite impressed seeing a 3D printed watch movement. Even more so (and this is moving the goalposts) if the movement ran whole day on a single winding, demonstrating good meshing and low friction.
In terms of police response time, is it so different to anywhere else in the world? Police services are underfunded in many countries but this doesn't seem to drive people to think that because they won't be helped in time they need firearms. As you say, people also feel the need to arm themselves because the criminals are armed, which to me has an obvious solution.
Sure, except your ISP probably doesn't have 1 to 2 billion users.
I know I have an unexplainable bias toward seeing google as inherently positive to society, so I’m keen to hear what makes you think google is evil?
Come on. It’s getting kind of ridiculous how many Google employees are showing up in these discussions saying “oh, if you work at Facebook, you’re horrible! but people at Google are really trying to make the world a better place.”

I turned down a job offer from Facebook because after a lot of thought I decided I couldn’t work at such a company. I didn’t even apply to Google because Google’s attitude towards privacy and data collection is just insane. Does the average person with an Android phone really know their location is being uploaded minute by minute to Google? Was asking if they want to “make Android better” really a good faith effort to obtain consent?

> From my perspective, Google's goals are aligned with improving the world by offering information services. Search, Gmail, Maps, Translate, basically all of the Other Bets, etc.--it's easy to imagine that the people behind them are more concerned with impact on the world than on generating profit or consolidating Google's power.
> To me, Facebook has no such world-improving aspirations.

Again, come on. Clearly most Facebook employees and most Google employees are not evil moustache-twirling sociopaths. As grating as it can sound, Facebook’s stated goal of “connecting the world” is at least as valuable as “offering information services,” your idealized version of Google’s goal.

Let’s be realistic. I don’t think people should work at Google or Facebook, but I know that there are lots of factors that can go into choosing where to work, so I am hesitant to publicly say “haha, you couldn’t pay me enough to work at Facebook/Google!”

Seeing Google employees saying exactly that about Facebook is just laughable.
> I don’t believe Firefox to be on par with Chrome.

You need to know that the Tor Browser disables a lot of stuff that Firefox has to lower the attack surface, and you can lock it down further using the Security Settings in the Torbutton.

Also you should look into a Whonix+Qubes OS setup, just because there's a sandbox doesn't mean you can't get hacked.

For speed: It's not really that bad for general browsing.
What is going to cut it? I think the onus is on the censors to detail the full technical extent of their plan, rather than to just keep repeating "not enough".

Because the way I see it, as long as there exist pedophiles who aren't lucky enough to work at the government agencies charged with cataloging child porn, there will be a desire to trade in it. And reducing its availability drives up the price, and thus increases the demand to make more.

My personal solution is to just not look at it, but I understand this may be hard for some in the same way that it's hard for congresscritters to keep to themselves in public bathrooms.
> No Maps

Here Maps or OpenStreetMap

> No Search

I’ve switched to a mix of Qwant and DuckDuckGo, depending on question

> No GMail

I’ve been self-hosting all my mail for 4 years now, works fine thanks to simple solutions such as this tutorial https://workaround.org/ispmail

> No YouTube

This is the largest issue, but most of what I consume is either music or streams, and most of the streams are also on twitch, and the music is also available for sale on CD, or on Spotify.

> No Photos

I use seafile with automated upload and a custom-built photos UI frontend to provide a photo gallery for me, and to allow me to share photos. I use the tensorflow pre-trained example model for object classification to tag the images, it’s good enough.

For sharing other images, I’m building a custom imgur clone (GPLv3) https://git.kuschku.de/justJanne/imghost and https://git.kuschku.de/justJanne/imghost-frontend, example: https://i.k8r.eu/i/cXqmnQ

For most normal people, living without Google services may be complicated. But this is HN, we’re basically all software engineers capable of building our own solutions, and they don’t have to handle nearly as many edge cases. I don’t need to translate my image host into 108 languages, just english is fine (even if it’s not my native language). For people like us, it’s not that complicated to free ourselves of Google, and, in the long term, even self-host everything.
Can't sell ads targeted with data you can't read. Zero knowledge systems don't work for ad companies.
yeah. and I can't help but think that pretty much any US corporation doing business in China will throw employees and a whole lot more under the bus if they're told to do so in order to retain market access. is this consistent with the meaning of "free and open access"?
Well, actually they sort of do - trash the books that haven't sold.
YouTube suggesting extremist videos to people in order to maximize views is giving you “information”? Can we stop pretending Google is somehow more useful to the average person than Facebook?
Just use MEGA (mega.co.nz). It's 50gb free and end-to-end encrypted, so even MEGA can't see your stuff. Upload your file, right click on it, copy link with key, paste link to whoever.
"The "purpose" clauses of laws and constitutional provisions are explanatory, not limiting."

Cite?
Oh I'm aware -- I just mean that I think, bare minimum, a person could get by on around $200/month worth of food. Buy the cheapest ground meat possible, beans, and the cheapest vegetables available and just eat chili all the time and you can stretch that pretty far. Add rice into the mix and you've almost got some variety!

I was trying to be conservative here because food costs vary so much from person to person. I have a lot of friends who eat out probably at least once per day on average, and friends who never eat out. Friends who buy the nicest cuts of meat and friends who try to keep things as cheap as possible. I'd guess it varies a lot more than rent.
This was posted a few weeks back...

Career Cold Start.

http://boz.com/articles/career-cold-start.html
The problem with Ada isn't that it's niche. The problem is that it has a gazillion features whose purpose is (ostensibly) to make programming errors easy to prevent, identify and correct, but fail miserably at it. There is more to programming than safety, but if safety is going to be one of your programming language's selling points, then the least you can do is get it right. The process for getting it right consists of the following steps:

(0) Identify a concrete class X of programming errors you want to eradicate.

(1) Postulate a mathematical theory of what it means for a program not to have errors of class X.

(2) Develop proof techniques that are powerful enough to establish that “interesting” programs do not have errors of class X.

(3) Design algorithms that use these proof techniques to prove, or at least validate a purported proof, that a program does not have errors of class X. Your algorithm must be able to analyze program fragments (modules, classes, whatever) independently, and combine information obtained from several program fragments without reanalyzing them from scratch.
> that's because in the U.S. police don't have a responsibility to protect individuals

That's also true of the UK, so it seems odd to mention it in a reply to someone from the UK.
Ah, I didn't know that. UW used Ada until the mid-90s, and I hadn't heard of any other colleges that did until now.
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It's funny to see in the same sentences sex trafficking and hate speech.
Because they're slow as shit, difficult to configure correctly, and make you more conspicuous to most three-letter agencies.
Yes and no. Passive eavesdropping where the eavesdroppers has been given the servers' RSA keys no longer works, but that's about it. This was mainly something that banks did for very, very defective reasons.

Other types of MiTM still work, such as an active MiTM through a malicious root certificate.
It stinks that people are allowed to create legislation like this which is almost certainly extreme/careless in how it affects companies/citizens, yet we must be reserved with how we call out the issues.

We have lost footing on this slope.
> If it is less than 50% (and I would be surprised if it isn't) it is Google's fault not individual users.

This misses the second point of my parent comment; if you are in the porn industry, you should know that plenty of services do not want your business, and as such be far more diligent than the average joe in checking ToS for the services you are building your business on.
"I know Google is profiling me and harvesting my data. But it's not using me to harvest my friends information."

Hey Google, text Alice, Bob and Lisa I'll meet them at the cafe at 17:30.